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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29
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The trust issue will not down.. The
increase in the price OF nearly all pro-
ducts made by a trust: the shutting
down OF factories bought by trusts: the
closing the doors of opportunity to
young me1-these are some of the ini-
quities perpetrated by the trusts which
have u the people TO destroy
them before they nave forever destroy
ed individual opportunity and monopo-
lized all h ines Of profitable indus
try. The people have cause for alarm.
More trusts have been organized I'm
two years under McKinley's admiuis-
tration than in the previous one hum
dred years Of all his predecessors
Raleigh News-Observer.
The Observer would not be SO unfair
as to confound and identify Christian
Science" so-called, healing
through faith as one and the aaue
thing The former is utterly absurd In
that II begins with the teaching thai
disease has no real existence hut 4.
merely hallucination. On the other
hand there are man good Christtan
people. who. striving 10 be obedient 10
all b Bible teaches, find authoritv For
believing In healing through brave In
the NTH chapter OF the box Of lanes
and elsewhere in the Scriptures They
should not be sneered al for obeying
implicitly the Bible commands Of for
believing that when the Rible saws:
Inc prayer OF faith shall save the
SICK II means what IL saws. But II
seems that these people are going to a
dangerous extreme when they reject all
use OF medicine or the skill OF physi-
sians.-Charlotte Observer.
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Here r two wise sayings we copy.
one by a famous French dramatic poet
the other by a famous New England
orator and preacher:
THE man who pardons easily courts
injury."-Corneflle.
Nothing dies 50 hard or rallies 20
often as tntolerance."-Hemy Ward
Beecher.
Admiral Dewey is wise, true and no.
bic. He says:
Rather than make a war OF con-
quest on this people (F1ipinos) I would
up anchor and sail OUT Of the harbor."
Admiral Dewey. January, 1899.
Rev. DR.. Sprigg. who has through
the decades edited the Richmond, va.)
Churchman with so much of ability
and fidelity VIII retire. His place will
be taken by Rev. William Meade Clark,
rector Of st. James Episcopal church
in that city.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

There is tremendous prosperity
and yet there is now great many strfn-
gency all through the country. Money
Is SO scarce, so tight the great bankers
are planning to meet the scarcity and
to provide-what?-more paper curren-
cy for the country so as to meet de-
mand in general. This Is no bimetal-
lie yarn, but the truth The Washing
ton special to the goIdbug Baltimore
Sur gives this of a late date:
In order TO supply the great demand
for currency, which the bankers seem
unable to meet under prevailing con-
ditions, it has been suggested that ma
tional banks be allowed by law TO issue
notes against all the bonds in their
possession. This suggestion is now at
tracing considerable attention in New
York, and there appears to be<a strong
sentiment there favorable to combined
action to secure such a law. While IL
would be impossible TO estimate the ex-
act amount Of currency which would
thus be obtained, it is believed mil
lions of dollars could be added to the
circulation, which could be used TO tide
over a period of stringency and retired
when business returned to normal con-
ditions."
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~ sEE PEEa~

The legislative investigation commit
tee continues to uncover evidence Of
the cruel Tyranny of the manager Of
the Northampton farm, but the afore-
said manager continues to hold his job.
Why?-Winston Sentinel.
Dockery is not bringing his contest
for a seat in congress for he does not
claim that he was elected. It is a
contest dictated and inspired by re-
publican national politicians who hope
to make the cries of intimidation"
and the like fire the northern heart. 1t
is ~acontest to invent bloody shirt cam
pa1gn thunder in 1900. OF course Dock
cry is glad to make the contest. 1t
gives him prominence and cost him
nothing.-Raleigh News and Observer.
If a few young men in every county
would take a determined position re-
garding the public schools and would
continue the fight until they succeed
ed, the influence would extend to 9TH
ers, and gradually all the young men
in North Carolina (including the poll
tic1ans pure and simplex would be-
come advocates of a public school sys-
tenn supported by taxation. While I
believe that one should do right, no
matter how unpolitic his position may
young man would be guided by policy
alone, there is no doubt that a fearless
advocacy of public schools would be
sustained by the people.-Representa-
tive John H. Sewall.
Many state paper are pointing to
a moral in the fact that the negro who
came near being lynched here was only
sentenced to the p~enitentiary for a
term Of fifteen years. This is all very
good, but there is not much grounds
for congratulation after all. There
xvoro rf~nrrracfonroc aannonfod NTH 49,
cannot particularize, but If the man
was guilty of anything, he deserved
greater punishment than he received
at the hands OF the court.-Durham
Herald.
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BREvITyES

The sum paid by the south n the
north for pensioners who fought against
the south or said they did, amounts to
50, 400, 900, which is more than the mon
ey now in circulation, or than the value
of all real estate in the south before
the war.
The new ocean Inner, h Oceanic,
draws 80 feet of water. 1t cannot reacn
either New York or Philadelphia.
The war ended more than thirty
four ago. The number o. pen
sSoners living is 743, 900. but the num-
ber drawing pensions is 991, 900. There
are 143, 600 more ~pensionrs on h north
ern side living now than the south had
in soldiers during the four years. The
War Records show over 2,700.0 900 in the
northern armies exclusive of great
navy. itliG3A4XlA4 +
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On Thursday next the TO
the confederate dead at winchester,
Va, will not be unveiled as was expect
ed. There is no monument to be erect
ed we are sorry to know. A correspon-
dent of the Washington Post. at Win
chester, writes:
"Over two years ago the cornerstone
was laid with great ceremony, In the
presence of am immense crowd All
that time Charles B. Rouss OF New
York, contributed one-half to the cost
of the monument, provided a IKE
amount was raised. After waiting a
year and a half without the monu"
ment being erected, an investigation
elected the fact that the money had
not been raised owing to prevailing
hard times in North Carolina"
When you strike North Carolina for
monument building you strike a stone.
Tt will make history but will MOT
write it, and will pay great court to
public men and distinguished mel
while living, but will not pay much tc
honor their memories when dead.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

The governors and others who met at
st. Louis to discuss the trusts and
how to control them divided in opinion.
but adopted a string Of resolutions.
The idea the predominated way that
Federal and State governments should
take steps to restrain the operations of
trusts and combines. There was no
purpose we believe, to destroy them,
but to restrain and make them just
and honest. The two last resolutions
were as follows:
"Seventh-Recognizing that trusts
are usually composed of corporations,
and hat corporations are but features
of the law and can only exist in the
place of their creation and cannot mi
CRATE to another sovereignty without
the consent of that sovereignty, n
that this consen may be Withheld
when desired, we recommend as the
sense of this conference that each state
pass laws providing that no corpora
ton which is a member of any pool or
trust in that state or elsewhere can do
business in that state.
Resolved, That it is the sense Of thu
conference that all the capital stock of
private corporations should be fully
paid, either, first, in lawful money, or,
second, in property Of the actual cash
value of the amount of the capital
stock, and that in all private corpora
lions with a capital stock issued in ex-
cess Of the amount actually paid up as
above provided the shareholders shall
be liable to the extent of twice the
face value Of the stock held by EACH"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

The new edition In ten royal octavos
OF The Writings OF Thomas Jefer-
son." edited by Paul L Ford. Is com
plete. It contains a great deal of mat
ter not hitheto published. Jeffeson was
beyond doubt the greatest American
statesman with the fathest forecast
and the most superlative genius for
politics.
Rev. DR.. Theodore Munger has pub
lished a work on Rev. DR.. Horace Bush
nell. who was indeed a splendid writer
n one OF h greatest Of American
divines. We read one work by him
twice. Mature and the Supernatural
the One System OF God" There are
some $50 or more pages, as we recall il.
devoted TO a discussion of the Christ,
that is by odds the finest thing of the
kind We ever read. II is not surpassed
we do not doubt as a portrayal OF Jesus
Christ. Messrs. Houghton, Mifiin & Co.
are h publishers of DR.. Munger's
work and they say of it:
DIR. Bushnell was for years one CT
the most notable figures in the Ameri-
can pulpit, ilustrious for strength Of
mind, beauty OF character, and intre-
pid devotion to Truth. Dr.. Munger is
peculiarly fitted to interpret him to this
generation and to build an enduring
memorial to him"
DR.. Bushnell lived in Connecticut
N was indeed a very extraordinary
divine. We read one work some years
by DR.. Munger, and he did o i'm
press us as exactly sound, or orthor-
dox.
The same firm has issued a small
volume of Letters and Passages from
Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson" ed
tied by Professor Charles Eliot Norton,
"a most capable writer for that work.
We have read many of h letters,
hitherto published of Emerson, and
they are full of the interest and acute
ness and happy phrasing that marx the
greater part of the eminent authors
productions. His letters are really of
distinguished charm.
Anthony Hope Hawkins has out a
novel he calls 1.-THE Kings Mirror"
His are very vivid, full of
adventure and clever, but have a dis
tinct family likeness. Gilbert Parker's
THE Battle of the Strong has reached
it's 50th thousand. We read over half
of it when it appeared serially, and
failing TO get one or two numbers never
finished it. 1t impressed us as not
without brilliancy and vigor. The
scene and some of the best character
drq win Or - va If ON oir Of nrfr;nol;tx
and the movement was spirited and
actuaiities significant and exciting.
Richard Carvel," by a southern writer,
has reached its 150th Thousand in four
months.
a writer in New York Saturday Re-
view condemns justly S Elmo" one
of the nos ridiculous of novels, full of
sickly sentimenta1ity and the learning
sought in cyclopaedias. THE editor
also sharply p%untures it. 1t was read
all over the country and wept over, but
it is 50 much over-drawn and priggish
and deliberately gushing it is marvel
lous to know that cultured men n
women could ever admire and shed
tears at it's false art and '~prepostrous
pedautries."
An intelligent critic in the same pub
LEGATION gives a crack ait Hewlett's
Forest Lovers and Aliens "A Sum-
mer in Already because of an unhole-
some flavor, a suggestion of indelicacy,
IAN open parade Of animal instincts"
Both are remarkably gifted writers as
to style.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

Only after the civil war did Watson's
predictions cease to come close to the
mark. By 1890 they lac exceeded the
ensus figures by nearly A. 900. 600. His
predictions for 1900 was 100, 235, 9S5,
which is between 20 and 25 per cent.
more than the census count will prob
ably show. 1t is more than likely, how
ever, that if the war had not interven-
ed and checked the operation of the
natural law of increase for several
years, Watson's figures would not be
far from the truth"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

press but help the corporations to reap
them Give partial freedom from <
for a stated term OF years TO an ser
viceable desirable Industries. It Is
wise TO do this for a "corporatfon Is
only a collection OF individuals. and Is
entitled 10 equal consideration tbs
south would be the richer II It had more
corporate capital within ITS borders"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

The population Of the United States
is a matter of speculation and guess
ing. In 1890 it was 1892, 25O. The Bos-
ton Globe guesses it at 74,4S0, $50, for
1900. Many governors have guessed
that it will be n, 1903, 231. Some people
put it at 80, 900, 900. The official statis-
tician at Washington puts it at 1855
900. There was a statistician once in
this country whose name WIS Elkanah
Watson. He made very accurate esti-
mates. The Chicago Tribune says
when it is remembered that Wat
sons figures in the following table
were published some time before 1920,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

The. Anti-Imperialist League is -four
fishing in Washington city. 1t will have
headquarters and begin an active prop
uganda. This too right in sight of the
White House and under the very nose
of His Majesty, the mighty imperial
list. That is a bold move, as it is a city
Of hero-worshippers, presidential sup
plants and teat-suckers. A dispatch
to the N. Y. Evening Post says:
ut has on it's rolls the names of three
prominent republicans who are eighty
years old, or whereabouts. One is Gen.
William Birney, a son of James G. Bir-
ney of a~nti-slavery fame; another is
Col. Charles James, who was a friend
Of Abraham Lincoln and by him was
appointed collector of the port of San
Francisco; ex-senator Fowler OF Ten
nessee~is the third"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

We have a recollection that Hin
ton Rowan Helper-such We recall as
the name-wrot h Impending Cri-
Sis before the great war. He was a
native of this state. 1t was
that the author of that book had died.
but his name appears as Hardie Hagan
Helper How is that?
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s.!y u s't'ESN

Salisbury is to have a sewage sys-
tenn that will cost $3.50 Wilmington
is three or four times greater in popu-
lation but has no city sewrage.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

Cause. II that cause IS not emOVe It's
influence reaches out and o~vershadows a
whole life. The reason Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been SO uni
formly successful for over a quarter of a
century in overcoming the suffering of
women. is that it is thorough and goes
directly to the cause. II is a woman's
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

Last reports from Rev. DR.. w. >.
Lacy were more favorable, 1T is very
nleasant ito learn. May he soon re-
covert
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money il it
fails to cure. E. w. Groves signature
is on each box. Csc.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29
NJ IOMEN do sufer4
w Even so-called healthy women suffer! '
But they are not healthy!

The marks left by pain are on the young faces of many of our
daughters. Pain that leaves its mark comes from a durable
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PosToFFIcE NOTICE.

WASHINGTON, ID. C., POSTOFFICE NOTICE
Should be read daily, as changes may occur at
any time.
FOREIGN MAILS are forwarded TO the ports of
sailing daily. and the schedule of closings is ar
ranged the presumption of their uninterrupted
overland transit. For the week ending April %
the last connecting closes Will be made from this
Office follows:
len. West Indies, Etc.
FRDAY-(c) At IL :o5 p. m. for LEEwaRD ANB
WINDwARD ISLANDS; also DEMERARA
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for GRENADA AND TRINIDAD must be di-
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(c) At :05 p. IN. for FORTUNE ISLAND
JAMAICA, sAyANILLA, AND CARTHA-
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day
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(Scheduie IN enect April .. 1S99)
All trains arrive and leave Pennsylyania Pas
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Lexington daily, except Sunday.
Ills \. M.-Daily. the UNITED STATES FAST
MAIL, Pullman Sleepers New York and Wash.
ington to Jacksonville. uniting at Sal
isbury with Pullman Sleeper for Ashe-
vile and Hot Springs. \. C.: Knoxville.
c'Iattantoca and Memphis Tenn- and ut Chr.
iotte with PIllman Sleeper for Augusta. Pull.
man Sleeper. New York to New Orleans. uniting
at Charlotte with Pullman Sleeper for Atlanta and
Birmingham. Solid train Washington to New
orleans without change Dining Car service.
sunset personally conducted tourist excursion
sIaeoer on this train every Wednesday and Satur-
day to san Francisco without change.
In p M-Locai for Front Royal Stsasbrry
ond Harrisonburg, daily, except Sunday.
$50 p. M-Daily. local for Charlottesville
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rXPPESs, carries Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars
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nsb and Jacksonville. and TO Augusta. via Co
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FOR sALE-BICYCLEs.
FOR EXCHANGE.

FOR EXCHANGE-Man wheel. in splendid CON
diton; good new; will exchange for Ia
dies wheel in like condition. Address call
after D. m, 1872 18th st. nplo-st-eni
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WALL PAPER

N y uINT-Paperhangin and painting; rooms
nsnered, $l.75 Up; samples brought. l0l2
81. NV.
n0oNs PAPERED. 81 UP. You cannot afford to
nav less than = If you want reliable work;
..-,nics brought; all work protected by legal
'aIartse window shades. Send postal. WM
y MNUoNEY, 6e3 Pa. ave. Sc; llS Pierce st.
Anacostia. 'PIo
poous PAPFRED. 81 up; slruples submitted c.
PHILLIPS, 026 Y. Y. ave NV. apl6-st
NAVE YOU SEEN Us about your spring Painting
yetl It's time YOU were. Warm weather IS
bcre and we IRE ready. Prices for finest work
are way below what You might wei expect TO
pay Rooms papered-with, handsome. S,o & stylish pa,
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OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
AMERICAN LINE.
FAST EXPRESS SERVICE.
NEW OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Calling. st-bound. at Cherbourg-
Sailing Wednesdays at 10 a. m
New York. April 26 ST. Louis. ....... May p
st. Louis. ....... May 3 Paris. May 81
Paris. ris...-.........May 10 St Paul. ...-..-. June
st. Paul. May Il St. Louis. June II
RED STAR LINE.
NEW YoRK-ANTWERP-PARIS
Every Wednesday ut IL noon.
'Kensngton. April 26 Fries'and. May 10
Noordllnd. May 3 ssouthwark...... May IL
-Thesc steamers carry only second cabin and
tlird-class passengers at low rates
INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY,
Piers II and 10, n. X. Office, Bowling Green.
New York.
WASHINGTON OFFICE, 1906 ST. NV,
Or G. W. Moss, Agent. 9al Pa Ave
ap221yr
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WANTED sI.oo per year huys s., ,oOe accident
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