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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-07
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Fayetteville Observer

The Wilmington Messenger, which
has done SO much to defend and pre-
serve the fame OF North Cardinals
troops in the great war, speak appre-
ciatingly of Major General Harry Heth,
who died a few lays ago. He was, In
deed, q splendid soldier. and he had an
exalted opinion of North Carolina
-rOOpS. He was himself "A NiTginian.
and his division was composed OF two
Virginia ~brigades and two North Car
DINA brigades Cookies and McRae's.)
"On a bright March day in 1865 he
eeviewed the light division OLane,
Scales. MCGOWAN and Thomas) on Il
plain southwest Of Petersburg. a. T..
Hill, commander of the Third corps.
Nas acting as governor Of Petersburg.
and Heth WASH command OF his corps.
II was in this capacity that he rev.
81 the Light division. which was them
commanded by Lane. After the re-
siew, an officer Of Lanes staff invited
Heth and his staff and the other gen
erals 10 his tent TO a X "A glass OF Mel
Williams whiskey. Heth said Here's
to the health of the soldiers OF North
Carolina, the best troops l know" or
words equally as strong. One of his
staff (whose name we observe among
the pallbearers OF his late chief turn
ed to their host and said. "Wha "A
strange thing that "A mere geographical
line should separate men into bodies OF
TDibiflS 81 Al4ltJeIl. lIlAA diMd@E
seemed to us TO be the most complete
of compliments-the speaker IA noble
specimen ola Virginian) did not argue
the question raised by Heth's toast. but
treated ii as an accepted fact, as. in
deed, ii was at that time"
Tin a conversation held in 1876 with
the late Major Joseph a. Engelhard.
OF this city, he told us that sitting one
night in General A. u. Hills tent Ton
whose staff he was) a gallant Virgin
ian n excellent corps commander he
asked him: General, which is the
best brigade in your commando" The
answer came at once: Cookies North
Carolina" Which Is ncxt?" the Ma
jor queried- The reply was prompt:
"Mcltae's North Carolina" He ven
tured to ask: And next?" General
t-!l thought for q few seconds, and
said: 1T lies between Lanes North
Carolina and Mahone's Virginia. %
Messenger
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A STORES COMBINE.
ness i'm the Hands of One Big Com
pany-

Savannah. Ga. November A well
defined runsor in business circles today
has IL that all Of the naval stores COM
panies Of Savannah. and probably ~
Brunswick also. are 20 be brought
into a combination with large CAPT
tai. The promoter Of the enterprise -
understood to be Mr.. j. X. Garnet.
He has been working up the sclseine
several days in company with a Mr..
Barber. an attorney of Boston. ThA
general plain, as il Is understood. IS
for the organization Of one large com
pany with a capacity of $4,000. 900 to
buy up all the large factors and form
one huge company. 1t is stated that
some of n larger houses in Savannah
have given options on their business
already. a number Of naval stores me-,
have given tacit confirmation TO the
rumor that the deal is on foot. II NAV
be consummated during the coming
week Savannah is the leading naval
stores market of the world. A consoI
datfon OF interests here would domI-
maze the markets az home IND abroad.
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never suppose that we have in any de-
gree fulfilled His will, by doing out
wardly what we feel not inwardiy. No,
II is in the heart He requires u obedi-
ence, in the soul, in that which ives
and feels when, the neart has cas-
to beat" God looks within n says
"Son, give me thy heart" True
religion is spiritual. A man must live
his religion. Men look at professors
of religion scrutinizingly. They behold
the life, look to h motives as vel
as the acts, to the intentions as well as
the spoken words, and expect a sim
cere conformity to what they profess.
they are they have no respect for their
profession and know it is vain and I'M
profitable. Men who swear, who are
licentious, who are dissipated, who are
coyetous, and vain and boastful and
false and irritable and revengeful and
untrue and insincere. then they des-
pise their religious profession. Gods
name is blasphemed; His truth is des-
pissed; His promises are di~sregarded:
His Gospel is dishonored. II is as the
apostle a in the 29th verse: Cir
cumcision is that of the heart, in the
spirit and not in the letter; whose
praise is not of men, but of Cod"
This applies to all. 1t is the purifica-
ton within, in the heart, in the soul,
that availeth. Butkitt, an old Church
OF England divine, able and pious,
writes: Learn hence, that although
men are very prone ito rest upon
church privileges and external per-
formances, as evidence of Divine favor,
yet they are no testimonies nor signs
of the truth of grace"
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4 prsGRAcEro THE NATION.
Condition of tic sick soldiers ON h
Transports From auila.

San Francisco. November 4-The Ex-
arniner says rhas. the most sensational
report uf a military board Of inquiry
ever sent TO che war department. from
this atty has been forwarded tn wash
ingeon from the headquarters OF VA
jor General Shaftcr. The documenf
consists OF nearly 100 kypewrftten pages
and contains the seyerest kind OF cttt-
icism % h meShods employed oy Of
ficerS in charge Of the sick soldiers VINO
returned from the Philippines on the
transports Tartar aut Newport on DC
tober 10Th
Upon Major Rafuer. she surgeou Of
the Tweusrierh Kansas volunteers. who
came back On the Tartar. n heaviest
censure il laid. Co.cncs Metcalfe or
the same rcgim snt. Who commanded
the Vroopship GeaNrai Funston beng
My a passeuger. ts Indirectly re-
ferred 30.
Many other officers are given q harNf
measure OF criticism. bus kheir names
are being withheld until The war de
parement sees TT tn make known as~
details OF the repUrts
The board of inquiry wi4ch has so
severely arraIgned rhe transport aer-
vice. was appointed by Geucrai Shat
ter two weeks ago. at h suggestion
of Colonel Alfred c. Girard. chief sur
geon i'm the general hospital at h
Preside. Colonel Gtrard's desirc fcr
an investigation was occasioned by the
deplorabIe condition in which he found
the sick men from the transports Tar
tar and Newpoy There were absLs
forty Of chem. and nearly all werc suf-
fering from ~dyscntery. Three men WIN
came on these transports died a lew
days after arrival.
Washington. November A-The re-
port OF the court Of inquiry. referred
TO in the san Francisco Dispatch. has
not been received at the. war depdxA-
ment. although, word has beer reSdv-
cd that Il is on the way.
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Il is mentioned In a North Carolina
was organized in the county Of Union,
not far from Charlotte. The new men,
bership held together until at an I'M
fortunate hour bad luck" led the ell
ders to try the 1.-THE system IN accord
with the law Of the Mormons that ev-
cry member must pay a tenth yearly.
The Statesville Landmark, comment
ing. y This was the rock upon
which they split and the church dis
banded right there. 1t may be that
this requirement of the Mormon church
If 1t Is imperative will retard the
growth Of Mormonism in North Caro-
lima" We do not believe that of the
several hundred thousand members in
North Carolina OF the various Chris
tian bodies composing the church. that
one in a thousand gives 50 much as
a 1.-THE. We are probably not personal
ly acquainted with twenty-five people
who give so much as a tenth. Sup
ose some pastor or elder should at
tempt to collect a tenth Of all his MEM
bers, and his power was sufficient to
make the giving of that sum neces-
sary to constitute membership, would
not the congregation "~disband" at
once? If any branch of the Christian
church should make 1T an imperative
law of membership-shell out your
tenth of all you get each year or get
to CO." as they say in some places,
will the members stand it or will they
depart swiftly without standing upon
1.-The order of their going"
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FROST IN THE SOUTHWEST
Causes yellow Fever Quarantiu~- to
be Raised.

New Orleans. November A-The re-
port Of frost throughout tht country
contiguous To Rev Orleans has prur-
tically wound up the fever situation.
Ice and frost and temperature ss low
as 2S degrees was general along The
railroad n running into this CITY
The Louisville and Nashville line haF
been completely opened along the gulf
and there il also uninterrupted
communication via the two Pacific
roads and the Illinois Central with
Mississippi and Texas points.
The board OF health has been I'm re
ceipt today Of kilograms from various
points OF the interior. lifting the quar-
antine bars and the officials say they
are confident that though they may
be sparodGc. cases in thls city there ~
no danger whatever of the spread uL
the infection as a result or free cpn-
munication with the outside world.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-07

Only a few days we read the
gold bug papers, that Colonel Bryan
had hurt himself ~prodigiously by his
speeches in Kentucky and had set back
the cause of the democratic nominee
for governor. But the "chune is
changed" The news comes from va
rious prominent democrats that Goebei
will be elected at majority estimated
variously at 10000 to 1000. Mr.. G. a.
Edwards the wide awake and very in
t%elligent Washington correspondent of
the Houston CTexas) Post writes his:
THE politicians who are now in
Washington, regardless of party, are
singing the praises of William Jen-
nings Bryan for his late Kentucky per
formances. The republicans mite in
saying hat he is a brave man and ar
honest one, that he has the courage Of
his convictions n places his princi-
pies above his ambition. =
Bryan has helped the GOebel cause
wonderfully in Kentucky II ii is ihe
general opinion here now that GoeD
will win by 10, 900 plurality. Ii is also
believed that he will help Mclean in
Ohio by committing him SO thoroughly
to the Chicago platform that lots OF
demOcras who were afraid of Mclean
would not support silver and who b.
lieved him to be antagonistic to Bryan
will come back to the support of the
ticket"
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1t is certain that the outward prac-
tice must correspond with the religious
profession, or it is wholly vain. 1t is
the teaching of God tina the outward
practice must proceed from the prin-
.ciple within. 1t is fair and right to
contrast a man practice with his
privileges and opportunities. A mar
who sins openly, deliberately, willingly,
is surely not competent to each others
the way of right, of justice, of no.
illness. In Romans, second chapter.
Paul writes in the 18th verse: And
art confident that thou myself art a
guide of the blind, a light of them
which are in darkness and in the 2ist
verse, continues: Thou therefore
which teacheth another, eacheth thou
not thyself? thou that preachest d
man should not steal, does thou
steal?'' This means to show how futile
and simple and unwise it IS to Try to
teach to others right lessons when your
own practices do not correspond; to set
yourself as a teacher Of morality when
you are immoral in life; to rebuka 9TH
ers for lying and theft when you are
a systematic, deliberate liar and are
dishonest. AS old Burkitt says. THAT
it is much easier to instruct and teach
others, than to be instructed and re-
ceive instruction ourselves. That it is
sinful and shameful to teach others the
right way, and to go in the wrong our
selves" Thou that teachest another,
teachest thou not thyseif""" That is so
very important. 1t is easy TO talk, but
hard ito do, and yet it is the doer who
is approved Of God. A man is an Of
fence TO Goo who dares to undertake.
to impress upon men the great duties
OF right living and Christian LIVING and
is himself a ransgresSor, living i'll sin
and wounding the very name OF God.
A profligate, a profauer, is NJ: the one
to teach purity and fidelity TO God.
How can a man tell others of the great
fundamental doctrine of genuine Chris
tianity-the new birth, the regenera-
ton of the oul by the power of the
Holy Ghost-who has no experimental
knowledge and whose sinful soul has
AIttCA pCCh IOlRSIlCd w ~ Al5 W.
God? And so with the other great bash
principles and doctrines of The religion
of the Lord Jesus Christ. II you are
indeed a stranger to the power Of re-
ligion in the soul, and all that it means
then you are wholly unfit to teach the
foundation principles of the Christian
life. One inconsistent professor is Ca
pable of doing an immense injury by
hardening others in sin by his own evi
example and his hypocrisy. There is 6
great error prevailing now as in ali the
past. that outward rights, ceremonie:
and ordinances were in themselve:
~efficacious in the salvation of the soul
1t is orderly and right to observe duly
certain ordinances, u they can nc
save the soul. 1t is obedience 10 Goo
to so observe but there is no opus ope'
ratum in them. A divine of the Es
tablished Church of England in o h0ol
before us writes sensibly CT obeyins
Gods in the ordinances. He says
THAT which God has ordered, man i:
bound to do, whether 1T be inward il
the spirit or outward in the flesh
Only we nus not mistake the inten.
ton of Gods ordinance. We mus
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Raleigh Post: The coroner of Mar
tin county. DR.. ]. r. Nelson. Of v
efs. went out TO the farm OF Elisha
Everett near town yesterday TO inves-
tlgate the shooting on the previous
evening OF Emma Hines. a negro wo-
man z lived or Mr.. Everett's farm.
He brought with him to town Gus Pur-
WIS, who confessed that he did the
shooting, but claimed that he did ~
know h gun was loaded.
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HOME FOLKS.

We are asked to publish an article
that appeared in The Goidsboro Mes
senger on the 9Th of June, 1884. 1t Is
not in our power to do SO. It was a
letter Of Ex-Governor Jarvis favorins
the election OF United States senators
by primaries. go he is q long way
ahead of the present procession In his
advocacy of a popular election.
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Washington.
OhserYar.

Charlotte Observer: Washington,
Nov John CT. Long. a native of
North Carolina, but now resides in
Florida, was today appointed by the
president Diplomatic agent and consul
general OF tie Eaited States at Cairo,
Egypt. to succeed T. s. Harrison,
whose term has expired.
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No Yellow Fever Outside of Key West
and Miami.

Jacksonville, Fla, November 3.-Dr.
Porter, state health officer Of Florida.
gave out the following signed state
ment this afternoon:
Any report Of a case or cases of
yellow fever or Of suspicious sickness
at St. Augustine or in any point in
Florida other than Key West and
Miami is absolutely untrue and with
out the least foundation in fact"
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OF all In thoughts of God that are
Borne inward unto souls afac,
Along the psaImist's music deep,
Now tell me If that any is,
For gift or grace, surprising this
He giveth His beloved Sleep
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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THE HIGHLY MORAL NORTH.

AT Utica, New York, a freshman in
Cornell university named Edward Fair
child Berkeley, was drowned. II was
caused by the cruel horse play" He
was literally killed by a society carry
ing out its savage. absurd rights Of
initiation. The jury exoneratci he So
ciety however. A dispatcn says:
This is the second violent death
charged to the horse play which pre-
cedes Kappa Alpha limitations. a few
years ago a candidate for initiation
into the fraternity was ~accidently
pushed of a precipice in this civ. His
forehead struck against n rSck. He
died within a few minutes. Kappa
Alpha men in this city say they expect
TO see h fraternity expelled by the
authorities of Cornell UNIVERSITY
They should be all tried for their
life. It is most infamous. most bar
barrie.
At Riverside, N. j.. little May Schoe-
pie, aged nine years. died Of concus-
sion of the brain. She was PROBABLY
murdered. A dispatch says
THE child's parents declare Florence
Krepps, thirteen years old. beat May
on the head with her fists. and So
caused her death.
Florence, they "a was riding a
bicycle o nthe sidewalk on Friday
A1AiC oAS III o1AA- 49, NO.
would not get out of the way. Flor
ence, in a rage, sprang from the wheel
seized the younger girl and repeatedly
struck her OIL the head. YesterC ay.
May suffered agonizing pains in the
head, and, despite the best efforts Of
physicians, became unconscious and
died"
These are deplorably sad and bad
examples of the boosted civilization%in
the north. There is yet another exam
pie but not of the murderous kind. but
bad. A dispatch from staid Connections
tells of an episode that occurred in one
of it's towns 1t is about a j.. w. May
nard, a blind singer, whose rendition
of Flee as a Bird Holy City" and
Charming Birds was enthusiasticailv
received everywhere, had disappeared
from the village or town of North
Lyme with the wife of a minister of
that place..
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RELIGIOUS EDITORIAL FOR SUN
DAY.

Thou art weighed in the balances,
an found wanting. Daniel, 5:27.
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Charlotte's deaths in October num-
bered fortylthree, Of which &c were
negroes.
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The distinguished, able, consecrated
and successful Presbyterian mission
AIRY to the Hebrides Islands, Rev. DR..
Patton, who is southern born, we think.
is in this country now. His mis-
sion works in twenty-five islands. The
Bible has been translated and printed
in as many languages for the use of
the various natives. About $4,000 have
professed Christianity and 300 of then
are teachers or evangelists. Between
10000 and $4,000 of the island people
are still savage and tannibal heather.
We suppose that the Chicago Theo-
logical Seminary eve do not know it's
denominatiOnalism) n only ignores
altogether, but Ices not accept as in
spired the writings of st. Paul in the
New Testament. If it did regard and
accept it would not trample ruthlessly
under foot the specific teachings of the
great Apostle of the Gentiles who for
bids women to preach. 1t has been
announced that the Chicago school has
decided to open its doors to women on
equal terms with men at the beginning
Of the new academic year. This school
has for some years permitted women
TO attend lectures, as nave several 9th
er Theological seminaries, but 1t now
abolishes all distinctions as to sex
This is such a departure that all or
thodox Christians should put upon it
the stamp Of censure and reputation.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-25
BOARD OF MISSIONS.

Madison, Wis. Oct. 24.-The annual
convention of the Woman's Board of
Missions of the Interior began its ses-
sions here today. Delegates are pres
ent from fifteen states, together with q
number Of welI-known workers in the
foreign mission field. Prominent among
the last named are Mrs. D. z. Sheffield,
connected with the work in China;
Miss Caroline E. Chittenden, who has
spent seven years at the Foo Chow
mission, and Miss Martha J. Barrows,
for twenty-three years a missionary in
Japan. During the day reports We're
received from branch secretaries show
ing the work of the year accomplished
by the branch societies in Ohio, In
diana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois,
Iowa and other states.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-25
BEHAVED CALAMITY
Raw Recruits Who Fought fhe
PiIIagerS Praised.

/ Washington, Oct. 24.-The annual re-
port of Brigadier General F. Wade.
commanding the department of Da-
kota, was Thade public by the war de-
partment today. Like most of the
| departmental reports submitted this
/ year, the document is largely devoid
of general interest, owing to the small
number of troops remaining on home
duty. General Wade says that of the
three posts and one camp occupied all
are in very fair condition, with the
exception of Fort Meade, S. D.. which
from long occupation, without timely
repairs, is in a very insanitary con-
dition and has reached a point where
/ it is a question of reconstruction or
abandonment. A great deal of extra
duty has been thrown on the officers
of the department owing to the small
number left on domestic service But
these have cheerfully done much
more than is usually required of them
and have given every assistance in
getting along with the means at hand.
General Wade refers briefly to the
September and October. He gives
short account of the fight with The Pill
lager band of Indians on Bear island,
where Captain Wilkinson and six men
were killed, and says that, in spite of
the fact that the detachment engaged
in this fight was made up of raw re-
cruits, they behaved with commend
able gallantry and reflected credit up
on the gallant regiment, the Third in
fantry, to which they belonged. He
says that as a consequence of this
trouble with these Indians a military
station was formed at Walker, Mimi,
and is still maintained; that the In
dians are still sullen and discontented.
but not openly hostile, ana no active
trouble is apprehended. Their future
conduct depends on the final settle
ment of the questions which led up to
the outbreak.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-25
AS SUMMED UP.

London, Oct. 24.-The parliamentary
secretary of the foreign office, George
Wyndham, in the house of common to-
day announced that Field Marshal
Lord Wolseley, commander in chief of
the English forces, sums up the situa-
ton in Natal today as follows:
General Yule has fallen back to eff
feet a junction with Sir George Stew
art White. He camped yesterday even
ing about sixteen miles south of Dun
dee without seeing anything of the en-
emy during the march and it has since
been reported that all is we'll on the
Waschbank river. General White
fought a successful action with the Or
ange Free State force today on the
road between Ladysnith and Newcas-
tie and should join hands with General
Yule this evening.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-25

lied world. We are immensely proud
of our boys, and it is extremely diff
cult for any one to uphold the propo-
sition that the glory which they
achieved shall be in the slightest de-
gree dimmed by questioning the
righteousness of the cause in which
they were engaged.
Mr. Bryan criticizes the admins
tration for its course in the conduct of
the Philippine war. The people re
member that in the past Mr.. Bryan
made predictions as to the results
which would follow if certain policies
contrary TO his ideas We're adopted.
and events have brought it forcibly
to their minds that he had the fault
of always being mistaken in his pre-
dictions. Our people are prosperous
and cannot be led astray by speeches
and promises or alarmed by predic-
tions of dire disaster.
Undoubtedly the drift OF public
sentiment in Nebraska is to the repub-
lican party. and for the above reasons
L am absolutely confident that we will
carry this state next November