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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

Judge J.. w. Harris. of Gainesville.
Ga. addresses atwo and a quarter col
umn letter to the Rev. Sam Jones In the
Atlanta Journal. 1t is I'm reply to a vile
personal attack of Jones upon his char
acter. II is well written. very clear
and forceful. and bitingly caussic and
satiricaL 1t puts the Rev. Sam on the
defence, and makes a strong cas-
against him. We mike room for a par
agraph. but the entire letter is person
ally scathing. Judge Harris is a gen.
tleman of a very high character. and a
member Of the church, the Methodist.
Now for the paragraph:
I'm my former letter. his exact words
were quoted. and If they e any
thing they mean as then submitted by
me, that l personally was addicted 10
the use Of liquor-that habit. bent, ap-
petite and taste for liquor with me wa
so strong as to override integrity and
principle, hat I was as he was 81 years
ago, a vagabond and drunkard. and
was of the category of the other drunk
ards TO whom he referred Issue was
joined with him, rather vigorously,
There was cause; there was intense
~provocation. TO any gentleman. My
letter stated that If the public new
Sam Jones as he was known at home,
knew how far to believe him and where
to draw the line; if they knew the facts
that led up to this letter, the facts OF
his recent disreputable conduct as he
knowsI kno them, and for which
was impeiled to apologize in his pres
ence because the thing occurred in my
office, no reply would be necessary
After thinking he concludes not to deny
this, there being witnesses"
Since preparing the above we Learn
that the matter has been adjusted
Jones denying any intention to reflect
upon Judge Harris.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
NORTH CAROLINA

Wilson Times: We regret to learn
that DIR. L. O. Hayes. a prominent
young physician OF Fremont. Is suffer-
ing with appendicitis. He viii De taken
70 Richmond ard placed under DINO
CURES care. We wish for him a speedy
recovery y
Hiisboro Observer: There are about
5000 orphans in North Carolina. ana
only abou 1000 OF them are being car
ed for in asylums or orphans homes
There are SIX ~orphanages I'm the state.
There are two at oxford tone white
and one colored): enc at T~honIasviiie.
one at G~oldsboro. m at Barium
Springs and one at Charlotte. The
seventh liz being built at Raleigh. This
will give the Baptists. M~ethodtsts.
Presbyterians and E~piscopalians all an
orphanage each. Then he Masons
have two and the Odd Fellows one.
Raleigh News and Observer: There
are now about fifty pupils In the Catho~
lie orphanage. The building is half n
mile south Of the Fair grounds and in
plain view. IL is said the Catholics
propose 10 greatly enlarge their church
work here.-work has begun on the
\euse cotton mill. al the falls OF Neuse.
fourteen miles north OF here.-oNtord'
y. -. oct. le.-tSpecial I. Adams
ex-president of the Farmers Alliance
ana former uemoCFatlC itpEtSthAaNNE
from Granville county. has been
brought 10 oxford and put In jail for
threatening TO burn the property and
shooting at the house OF DIR. Cozart. TO
which his wife had fled for protection.
Fayetteville Observer: DIR. John NJ.
Emmett died at Stillmore. Ca. this
/ mosning. aged 40 years. The remains
will reach Hope Mills tomorrow n the
funeral will take place from Rocktish
church at ! in the afternoon, Rev. II.
Tucker Graham conducting the cene-
monies.-The Tolar-Holt mill on Mas
sey's hill is nearly ready 10 receive Its
machinery. the roof being about COM
plete. The roof is OF pitched sheathing'
covered with a layer OF gravel. The
tenement houses are also about COM
pleted and they command one OF the
finest views possible. The Morgan
mill is shortly To have an addition or
$50 looms. which added TO the IS now
in operation. will make nearly 200
looms. The goods these looms turn out
| are finished for the market on the spot.
as this factory has n splendid finishing
plant.r-Mrs. Ellen Hanna Troy. wife
| OF Rev. John G.. Troy, formerly OF his
city. died at her home I'm Jonesboro
last night after a long and painful III
ness. The funeral will take place mt
Jonesboro this afternoon.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
BREVITTES

The cold-blooded reply of Mckinley
the Beers provokes complaint. How
could a fellow engaged in the same
work of aggression have any sympathy
with the oppressed and wronged?
Many young Irishmen have joined the
Beers. A dispatch from Dublin says
many are leaving Erin to fight for the
Beers. They want to strike a blow
against their old enemy.
A story in the newspapers is that DR..
Charles Smith, of Atlantic City, N. j.,
is 122 years old, as he says He is
probably in his dotage. In proof he
has just married a woman of As.
The Peabody Fund has long been a
blessing to the south. The appro-
spriation for the current year was $S4,-
1888. George Peabody should be held
in precious remembrance by the peo-
pie of the south.
New York state democrats are for
Bryan. Dave Hill came out of his hole
and fought against it in vain. He has
returned ana pulleu the mole III alter
him.
The Philadelphia Times '@pretends
to independent democracy. But it did
all it could in 1896 to elect that fraud
Mckinley. 1t is now eulogizing the
little fellow while disparaging Bryan.
And that passes in the north for "inde-
pendent democracy"
The Commercial Congress of Civiliz-
ed Nations is in session in Philadel-
phia. The purpose is to develop COM
merce. Then wipe out the Chinese
Wall tariff barrier and trust feeder.
A German official and HIS men were
ambushed n all killed in southwest
Africa by the natives.
The cry is hat spot holders of cot
ton have the advantage and can die
tate prices. Wait and see. One in
| the hand is worth two in the bush.
The Mckinley telegraph censorship
has ended, but in disgrace.
AS England and the United States
have both aggressive, expansive, inn
perialistic wars on their hands they
will be drawn together in sympathy
quite as much as they were when China
talk was up Birds of a feather, etc.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
BRENITIES'
EM1g -

Emperor William sent to Jail an edi-
tor for daring to criticize his acts. That
reminds us that an editor in North Car
Dina is in great danger of like punish
ment if he presumes to m upon
the doings of a radical. judge.
According to British reports the Beers
are being thrashed right along. Are
they "doctored" like Manila reports?
Yale a adopted a cheering sec
ton to go with the football kickers to
Whoop them up. Intellectual progress!
A nephew of Dom" Paul Kruger has
just been graduated at the University
of Edinburgh winning the Syme surgi-
cal scholarship. Blood will tell if it is
Dutch.
Grover Cleveland has written a let
ter, opposing expansion, and says it is
really the purpose of the war in the
Philippines.
Edison, the greatest of inventors, has
recently purchased for SO, 900, 900 some
gold mines in Mexico. He will apply
his new electrical process upon the ores.
"A o10SSol ol IoEoDt SoIl
tends that the first born is more apt to
be a genius than any others. In fact
he makes the false contention that all
men of genius were the first born.
The sole surviving brother of the late
Lord Tennyson, Horatio, is dead. He
was the fourth son. Several of the
brothers lived to old age. Three were
poets.
The Ohio campaign is sufficiently
doubtful to bring fear to the Mckinley
crowd. 1t will be glorious if the inca
pables and t~reacherous are defeated.
In 1881, the Beers licked the British
at Majuba Hill. Sir George Galley, In
an attempt to relieve Standliton, seized
the hill with 600 men. The Beers
charged straight up the incline, killed
| Galley and 80 of his men, and wounded
134. Only one Boer was killed.
Duelling has broken out in France
Several mortal combats occurred las
week n bigger ones are ahead. An
| other relic of barbarism.
The Mckinley gang are very shy O
Dewey now and are watching hin
closely. He could defeat the littl,
major if he agrees to run
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
GOSSIP.

The life of Thackeray by Louis Mel
vile, an Englishman, is disappointing.
it is the opinion of critics, but two vol
umes contain nevertheless a large
amount of interesting reading, gossip,
criticism, ETC., in an undigested and ILL
arranged way. 1t is in two volumes.
Els highly gifted and loving daughter
Anne, (Mrs. Ritchie) in her delightful
introductions to the recent edition Of
her fathers works has put the lovers
of Thackerayian literature under great
obligations for they are replete with
charming and memorable incidents
and bits of personal history. OF her
fathers mother she wrote:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
AN ESTIM ATE OF INGER>oLL.. THU
BLASPHEMER@

When Bob Ingersoll closed his very
unfortunate and dangerous career on
earth h Messenger took care not TO
discuss him and his sayings 1t had
been long convinced thai but for the
free advertising Of the secular press
that his success would have been small,
and he would have been forced TO en-
gage regularly In a calling that brought
certain bread rather than to rely upon
the ~precarious resource derived from
~lecturing at SO much a head TO small
audiences. But being SO freely adver-
tised and so often written against Bob
fiourished in a wicked life at 81 per cap
ita for those with itching ears and low
moral convictions. We do not purpose
TO discuss the blatant i%gnoramus and
infdel. He knows now upon Just what
kind of foundation he built and what
awaits the sou | out OF Christ when
ushered into the dark domains OF the
invisible beyond from whose bourn
no TRAVELLERS returns" our excuse
for mentioning the retailer Of cheap
blasphemies and very stale objections,
answered a thousand times. is to quote
from a well written article upon him in
the Akron tOhio) Self-Culture. 1t be-
gins in this wise;
The iconolast. Colonel Robert O..
IngersoIl. passes 10 the tomb. we APP
prehend. with few real and genuine re-
grets. The sudden demise OF a man or
his gifts and whilom prominence came.
no doubt. as a shock to many; while
his family and circle of immediate
friends, in his passing from their midst.
must have felt a sense of keen loss and
personal bereavement. His was a ca
reer. however, with an unenviable dis
tinction, as all must feel who respect
the fundamental beliefs of mankind and
regard with becoming reverence the re-
ligiouS foundation on which, rightly or
wrongly, they are built. In Ingersolfs
| opinion, entirely baseless and illusory
were these beliefs, though why they
| were so he did not. and could not with
gertrude, tell us. He was not himself
a scholar and had no training in exc
getics or in the science of criticism: he
even seemed to lack relief in the moral
sense as well as in the spiritual nature
of man, since that must be pon-exis-
tent which rests on no higher basis
than utility and is without the sane
lions of divine authority and con-
/ Soiepoa
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
~PARDONING CRIMINALS.

Russell is not as yet disposed to par
don all the criminals in the state, al
though he Ices active business in tina
line. If he would take a notion some
fine day, in a spirit of active sympathy
and benevolence, to issue a general
pardon for all the negro criminals in
the p~enitentiary, he would SO disgust
and amaze the people as to cause
them to resolve to wipe out that dan
gerous, absurd, undemocratic one-man
pardoning power. That may be the
only way to sweep away the most alb
surd and anomalous feature of govern
ment in a republic. Russell increases
his power as he becomes familiarized
with it's exercise. Like all sin it grows
upon what it feeds. He is clearly the
very dear friend of convicts. Behold
his record. Suppose North Carolina
had to g another four years of this
sort of government! What a mistake
it was to elect a governor for a fou,
years term. The old two. years tern
should be restored. This change works
as badly a. possible, and is a failure
like the change in the Methodist church
from a two years to four years pastor.
ate as they have it. When will the people
learn the danger and corruption an6
sickly sentiment and pulling sympath,
that Turk in the tyranny Of the one-mar
power? Think of a very fallable mar
being clothed with power sufficient tc
undo the work Of the courts and turn
loose scoundrels upon society.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
STATE PRESS.

1t Is very obvious that Colonel Boyd
has either deliberately or carelessly
slandered the living and the dead
Greensboro Telegram
Admiral Dewey's prompt acceptance
Of the home rendered him by the Amer
lean people but serves to illustrate
that all men are not built alike. and
that in setting up fran man as an ideal
we oftines give him credit for many
virtues he does n possess-Durham
IHeraid.
Judge DoSSey Battle of the Eastern
Criminal court is an honor to the
judiciary of North Carolina. He is not
only of h finest gentlemen In
the state personally, but he is one
OF the states best criminal LAWYERS
better suited for the position which
and there is no in his district
he occupies. He IS fair n firm, and
can dispatch business rapidly. Las,
week at Charlotte his cout disposed of
123 5 in tao days-warrenton Cor
rier.
General Carr is right. Ii IL no, O.
much who is to be Senator. as that the
amendment shall become a law Afte-
the disturbing elements OF neeroism are
removed, then the people win demand
primaries. and men with principles in
sympathy with h masses to represeni
them General Carr viii make an abIe
representatIve--Wilson Times.
A man who is in sympathy with what
the constitutional amendment hopes Il
VIE not oppose or vote
against it because he has doubts of n.
constitutionality. When a man urlnc
TINS on you, you can put Il down fha-
ne IS opposed to il for the reason tha-
ne fears 1t VIII holland fulfH its prom.
ises 10 the letter. and to claim that 4
WIZ not stand the test Of the highel
courts Is he only argument ne car
muster against 1t, and this Is no arm
ment at an--Durham Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

kipling tuned his harp and sung a
song of inspiration urging John Bull to
shoot the Beers. Another poet of the
European Continent, Maarten Maar-
tens, as he calls himself in a pen name,
and a Norwegian perhaps. who writes
English we'll and strong verse, publishes
in the London Daily Chronicle a vigor-
Gus poem on the other s~ide-against
war. 1t is headed, England Dost Thou
Forget?" Here it is: .
Greatest of Nations, Chosen strength
of God!
Imperial Servant of divine commands!
Within the tranquil hollows of thy
hands
Repose the sphered seas; the change
full lands
Are thine, and tracts of empire yet un-
trodi
This people, small in number, great in
love
OF all thou lowest, sternly set apart
In self-concentred freedom, as thou
Puritans, pure, as thou, in home and
heart,
Owning no master but your Lord above,
Ere these appeal to Him, our hope is
In thee, for thou, awakening wilt hear
This clink of gold: thy righteous heart
will fear
Unrighteous ruin, slowly drawing
near.
England, dost thou forget?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
MCKINLEYS PLEA FOR EMPIRE.

McKinley's very weak reasoning in
his war speech at Minneapolis excites
naturally comment. His effort to just
ify permanent retention of the Philip
pines after conquest is opposed to what
he has said, is against the traditions
Of the country, is unconstitutional and
~antagonizes positively the Declaration
of Independence. American imperialism
will not be approved of by the sober
minded, liberty loving Americans. 1t is a
very different thing to have added ter
ritory lying contiguous to our country,
and going away eight or ten thousand
miles in search of new possessions to be
taken at the %cannon's mouth from peO-
pie too weak to hold them. All attemps
to get up parallels between the acquisi-
ton of Louisiana and Alaska by pur-
chase and the Selling of the Philippines
by violence, by war are very difficult
things indeed. The Philadelphia Led
ger is a conservative paper, and in dis
cussing the absurd and unfortunate
speech of the president says:
But the Philippine purchase is diff
LII llICI Wy IC C1-ISlSlCS VI
a vigorous rebellion, which is giving us
experience in the normou sacrifice of
life and treasure involved in the pros
ecution of a. foreign~war. When the old
purchases, which the president seems
to find so illustrative in defending the
imperialistic policy, were made a clear
title and ~indisputable, ~peaceable pos
session of the new land was given US.
1t is extremely doubtful whether the
statesmen Of 1903 would have been will
ing to pay SIS, 900, 900 for the Louisiana
purchase plus an indefinite number of
millions required to quell a serious re-
belllion o~bstructing our possession of
the premises. Is there not in the impe-
realistic Philippine policy a trace of the
lust of Unsuitable dominion about
which Sir William Harcourt spoke so
eloquently a few days in deprecating
the T~ranSvaal WARP"
How there can be real glory and true
honor in making war upon a very dis
tant people who never wronged the
United States is beyond us. How a
slaughtering of people every way the
interiors of the Americans can be wise
or just or noble is just what an upright,
brave, intelligent people must fail to
understand. The people will not just
ify the butchery and the wickedness
of the Mckinley gang who caused the
war and plan to fight it to the end fol
land grabbing and sordid motives. The
Houston CTexas) Post says, and it is
well to be reminded at this point OF
what a happened:
THE country a not forgotten the
pledges upon which his war was be
gun, nor the hypocritical cant of the
Washington authorities concerning the
governments assumed mission of hui.
mainly. 1t has not forgotten that We
eolemnly pledged the rescue Of the Fill.
ipino from the cruelty of the Spanish
oppression, nor that the Filipino was
our ally when the Andalusian was driv,
en- from the archipelago. In the fna
hour these facts will come troopins
home and the American conscience
aroused to it's duty. will destroy tht
party responsible for his miserabl.
and inhuman divergence from origina
purpose and mission"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
Bicycle Races.

Birmingham, Ala, October Is-Atthe
second nights meet OF the National
Cyclist Association races, Joe BiddIe.
of this city, clipped three seconds Off
the southern record for a mile, crossing
the tape in 1:43 1-5.
nelson, OF chicago, came on later and
lowered this one-fifth Of a second The
one mile open professional. unpaced
was won by Jay Eaton. Time 2:l9.
A ten mile motor paced rratch be-
tween Charles w. Miller and Frank
Waller was won by Miller In, 1912.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20
To cure q Cold I'm One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money IL II
fails to cure. E. w. Groves signature
is on each box IS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

Supposed Case of Yellow Fever at
Miami.
jacksonville, Fla, October flowing
to he discovery OF another suspicious
case Qf yellow6fever at Miami, State
Health Officer Porter has placed that
town under quarantine.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1899-12-05

En- Santa Clara, Cuba, ocurrio ell % del
pasado IN ~violento incendio en- IN estableci
miento de don Ceferino CuG.ara, en- ell que hu
bieron muchos heridos y contusos. Detuvo 81
fuego Ia destruction de vari.s casas inmedis
tae,
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1899-12-05
De Qtihdad general.

Ooioso es sehalar las grandes ~ventaias y
los inmensos benefcios que traen oonsigo las
Was de oomunioaoi6n que no solo acortsn las
distancias J favoreoen los ~intereses de Ia sgri-
%cultura, 81 concrete y Ia industrial, sine que
contribuyen & estrechar las relaciones entire los
pueblos mas apsrtsdos. @f
Cuanto MIS- oivilizado y rico es I'M pats
mayor importancia concede, & la construction
de camincs y carreteras que %faciliten y abara-
ten los trasportes, aumentando Ia rspidez y la
seguridad en- ell traico.
Dssgraeiadamente Puerto Rico siempre
did sehales de lamentab!e atraso en- este punto
de suma trascsndencia para Ell desenvolvimien.
to de gu riquezs: la desidia y ell abandono de
los Gobiernos espafoles no did ell impulse ne.
cesario al ramo de obras pdblioas. asf es que
hoy apenas tenemos medios de comunioa
ci6n.
Exception hecha de la c~arretera central,
que por oierto ha- sufrido mucho desde ell ciol6n
de San Ci1iaco hsstala fechs, nuestros CAN'T
nos, especialmente en- Ia epooa de las ~lluvias, 90
converter en- lodszates ntrankitablee
Penosfsimo y costoso resulta Ell trasporte
de frutos, provisiones y merosncfas desde los
pueblos del interior 4 los del litoral y %vicever'
So.
Ahos hace dieron principle los trabajos del
ferrooarril de circunvslacion, que unirfa con su
apretada red las poblaciones principales de la
AoA~s fSA " NS " SAoOA y ~
los obstkcalos de la direction de obras pd
b!icas, durante la sobsranfa espa6ola, hubo que
p~aralizar aquellos trabajos.
Tenemos, pues, que en- Ia aotualidad solo
hay constructor y en- exploitation cerca de 2l5
Kilometres de canine, estando por oonstruir 81
Kilometres, representados por los trozos 6 ra-
males de Camuy & AgusdilIa, de Maysgiez &
Yauoo, y de Ponce & su Playa.
De aplsudir serfa que Sc ~llevasen adelante
tan importsntes obrss, sin perdida de tempo,
pues aparte de los benedcics que en- general han
de reportar al pats, procurarAn ooupaoi6n q con-
siderable nnmero de braoeros, cuya situaoi6n
no puede ser mas precaria y apgastiosa, dada
la honda crisis eoon6mioa por que ~atravesa-
mos.
Asunto es este que nos prometemos estu-
diar detenidamente, y del que hemos de ocu.
parnos en- numeros sucesivos, con tcdo ell sco.
pic de datos y pormenores que nos sea dable
adquirir.
Por hoy nos limitamos & apuntar la conve
niencia de que la lfnea ferrea Sc extienda entire
las poblaoiones va citadas, en- 10 oual estAn 6
deben de estar interesadas todas las fuerzaa
productoras de Puerto. Rico, asf como los mu.
n%icipios.
Y para el mayor exito en- Ia construction
de las secciones apuntadas serfa en- extreme
provechoso que Ell Gobierno no escat:mara So
apoyo & la Compahfa concesionaria, reconooien'
do sus dereohos, y subvencionandola, al propio
tempo que tome & favor del Tesoro de los Els
tados Unidos 6 de esta isla las obligaciones TO
madss fo~rmalmente por ell Gobierno de Espala
y la isla de Puertc-Rico.
Continuaremos.