The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-20

A preacher is none the worse Tor
having always been a gentleman, SAYS
Charity and Children. This Is true. but
it does not help him to draw a crowd
in these times. After a man is con-
yerted. it would seem that he would
be ashamed Of OF his past meaness, but
such Is not the case, and these modern
~evangelists consider 1t a virtue TO paint
their past records as black as possible
-Thomasville Charity and Children.
We TAX 1t that DR.. kilgo does not
take much stock in the proposed SUI
frage amendment. He says that what
ever you may do n your legislature,
and however You may dispose OF this
problem politically, 1t will not be set
tied by any such process" Entertain
ing this view, it seems TO us the DR..
should have gone on and given his
remedy for the disease, IL it was worth
while at all to discuss the question be-
fore the student body.-Winston Sen
tinel.
The strawberry raisers in the east
are complaining of the small price re-
ceived for the crop and the pru1fte,
made by the middle man. These mid
die men never lose, and IL there is n
loss it falls on the producer, and in one
case mentioned the farmer received for
his berries only a third OF the price
paid for the berries on the market.
This is al important industry among
the farmers OF the east, and having in
vested much money in preparing for II,
they cannot abandon the crop IL it In
possible to make 1T pay.-DurhAm
Herald.
Tho an1nrad naon1n orn fhn ~rAukn~x
preaching people in the world. They
have preaching nearly every night and
seldom ever leave the church before
| midnight The present pastor OF tine
Snow Hill congregation has introduced
a new feature to interest his flock and.
hold them in the church to a late hour.
He calls it the newspaper" After this
preaching every one is asked to hand
in on a slip an item Of news. These
are then read by the preacher. 1t In
said that some OF the items are Of a
racy character. AS the newspaper"
grows in interest, the meetings expand
and the sun climbs higher and higher
in the heavens, day by day before the
cooks and others reach their places of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Enterprise.
There never was a more we'll de6ned
o clearer cut issue fought TO a finish
in a political party In America than
that Of free silver in the ranks Of dern-
ocracy in 1896, and in the history
Of this country was there a revolt 90
formadible as that following the adOp-
ton OF he Platform and the naming
OF the democratic candidates by the
Chicago convention that year. IL o
man W had provocation for becoming
intolerant Bryan was the individual
when he saw nearly IL not quite q ma
jority Of the larger and mor infiuen-
tia1 newspapers Of the south turn
against him. 1t is true that there were
pronouncements in the Chicago plat
I'm that were new to the south, bat
free silver was not n Of them. Ev-
cry state platform in the southern
states for perhaps a decade had declared
for the same thing without exception
so far as our memory goes. Bryan had
a right to expect a solid support here.
yet when he found an opposition for
midable in numbers and strong in its
personnel, we do not cow recall q single
instance, during the whole Of that mos
remarkable wi in the political an
nuals of this or any other country
when Bryan applied epithets or resort
GU W duucc Az idClu6 LIE OPpU8lItOu--
| Asheville Citizen.
Asheville Citizen: A painful aeciden,
befell j. Walter Currier, day clerk a
the Swannanoa, two evenings sfnce
While taking a spin on his bicycl'
he ran over a bit OF crooked stick cz
Patton avenue just opposite the en-
trance to the Battery Park grounds
The front wheel twisted and the mn
chine made a buck jump, throwing Nh
Currier several feet, splitting his n0fh
er lip and bruising his right side se
verely.