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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
WILSON NEWS NOTES..
Big business Done by the Oil MIAO
bacco Season About
Sail bac and Hold Cottoh'

ocorrasnondence OF The Messenger
Wilson. ". c., March H.
The Wilson oil Company maze a
Iother larger shipment OF oil To-Day M
is their third shipment during u
week. These three shipments VIII
amount to about a.Ioo gallons or ABOUT
ss ooo. Secretary Lane tells men nat
they have shipped during the s
T.. 600 xallons. They ave contrac'eu
,ba,r oil OUTPUT at s. cents per saa U !
He also tells me that the company 80
Ihapdle six more cars. -
gafIons before the season closes. Ua
a total OF 5000 gallons DURING '"e
season. - hava
.,osaS during this week because they
corId not get enough tobacco - Keep
heir force at work. Nearly all OF tne
cron has been sold and sales r gel
ting smaller daily Many see nov ~
mistake in putting their crop ON ~
market so soon. Tobacco Is wv
more now than at any lane o Sa. msae
tobacco season. Our markes
an enyiable record during TINS seacn;
The total sales up TO this time wiz
reach %. oO0. 900 pounds, a gain over any
nravious season of s.oo0.0 600. h great
Ier part OF this tobacco was raised III
Wilson aud he adjoining counus
There will be some 1ooacco 80
daily until April, but the season can
nc Sonsjderad closed. Not more tina
borf The tobacco working force Is on
Ill ,iD,e now. The stemmers from
and Danville VINO co'IIe "
Wilson In August of each year are sp-
ing home. ra..
cotton firm. paid 10 cents Tor cotton
vesterday. The price on the street dur
ing last week was about ga cents ms
lfrm has made some large
during this week. This cotton went TO
the Virginia mills. There Is IN ,ne
country in this section quite a hI..e
cotton. Farmers who raise both cot
ton and tobacco have held the former
crop and as a result are u the
Ibeneft of high prices. This will in
~lcrease the cotton acreage in this ceun-
lty % per cent. a good many a
growers sold their tobacco at a 10"
lprice. Thes will raise cotton next year.
These will raise cotton next year
lSome think that the present high price
of cotton will materially injure our to-
bacco market for another season.
Hackney Brothers, buggy and car
riage builders. have given out q on
tract for another large brick building
Their place Of business now covers
nearly an entire square in the susi-
mess portion of the town; yet ther rapid
increase in the demand for Hackney
buggies has made this extensive addi-
ton necessary.
The s-Whitehead Tobacco Conn
pany have completed their plant and
will the active making OF
cigarettes April list Their enterprise
will mean much to the tobacco inter-
ests of Wilson.
The democratic county convention
for April End is being We'll advertised
now. There is to be a White Suprem-
acy Club organized here during the
looming week.
DIR. Z. K. Wright, a prominent dem
fist here, vas called to Greensboro yes
lterday by a telegram announcing the
ISerious illness of his mother.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

TAKE the views of two of the ablest
living and most distinguished repubii-
cans as condemnatory of Bill McKin-
ley. Thomas B.. Reed says:
The attempt to make three-quarter
citizens out of the Porto Ricans is GER
tainly original"
Ex-President Benz. Harrison says:
Il regard the bill (the Porto Rican)
as a most serious departure from the
right principles"
The strange thing of all is that Nc
Kinley had the same view and was in
full sympathy with what is now said
in his censure. Here is what he said
to the congress in his message:
Our plain duty is to abolish all Gus
toms tariffs between the United States
and Porto Rico, and give her products
free access to our
But the topper Topped and he has
been singed, scalped, scalded, roasted
and skinned by his ablest party men
and ablest newspaper republican
organs.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
BRENITIE>-

Indiana democratic goldbugs declare
they will not vote for Bryan. That is
nothing new as they did not vote for
him in 1896. Will they go Mckinley?
Run Palmer and Buckner again and
see if they can get as many votes as
they did in 1854 handful or so.
Mrs. Burnett. the English novelist,
got a divorce from her Tennessee hus-
band, and has married her secretary,
Stephen Townsend, English you
know" Whether she or the divorced
husband is to be congratulated is prob
lematical, but it might be supposed
that DR.. Burnett is in luck.
Rev. DIR. ScheIl, Of Chicago. charges
conspiracy upon Rev. Charles Park
hurst, of Boston. publisher Of lions
Herald; Rev. 3. c. Jennings, western
agent of the Methodist Book Concern.
and Rev. Joseph Berry, editor of the
Epworth Herald. He lays damages at
SO, 900.
Rudyard Kipling is in South Africa
and finds treason among British Of
ficials, he says: Cape Town is a nest
of d~isloyalty." Kipling is crazy on the
subject of killing Beers.
The gold law is in full force now in
Uncle Sans dominions. Gage is ready
for business at h old stand-perhaps
also at the great bank he favors I'm New
York.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

with the idea Ia they will be dis-
franchised and that the constitutional
amendment is not a judicial unit but
has conflicting statements Of require
ments. There Is really nothing IN tnis'
but the democratic legislature when Ii
meets in June next. will so nix TINS as
TO forever spike that gun or the enemy
The amendment Is to be IKE IN It's
entirety, and IS to be so construed. 50
interpreted. There is really no conflict
any where. but Ii Is a symmetrical and
perfect whole. There is no connlcl
either between this proposed franchise
amendment and the federal constitu-
ton. This has been often argued In the
United States senate and by able
lawyers in the North Carolina legisla-
ture and in the public prints Ex-
Judge Common. speaker OF the house,
set forth eight or nine months 6 In
a most lucid paper, that the rules OF
Interpretation as well as rigidly fixed
custom in considering such documents
demanded that they shall all be inter
preted together. and as a judicial unit.
The Messenger referred at the time to
the excellent and satisfactory paper of
Judge Common. Since then a great deal
has been said upon this same line. In
considering the Importance of he pro-
posed amendment he said:
The amendment is the expression
Of the earnest, patriotic desire OF the
men who framed it, ard those whom
they represent, 20 place our suffrage
law upon a strong, healthy basis re-
moving many n manifest evils now
existing and dangers threatening the
welfare of the state in the future 1t
offers a solution Of the vexed and vex-
ing question consistent with n pro-
motive of the highest interest of the
state n improvement of the people.
If those who fail to to sympathize with
this purpose shall succeed in defeating
it, thus perpetuating those conditions
they will enjoy the satisfaction of hav-
ing done a great injury to the state
without reaping the reward which
prompts them in their work. political
supremacy"
We may have occasion to refer again
TO Judge Connor's paper. 1t is not so
long as many papers but it is good.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
SENT TO
Minister Merry to Investigate Mica
ragua Canal Matters.

Washington. March 11.-Minister
Merry. by direction of the state depart
ment. is now on his way from Costa
lRica to Managua. the capital OF Mica
ragua. His mission is not. as has been
connected with the reported
issue between Nicaragua and Costa
Rica, but relates entirely TO canal
matters. Up to this time there has been
no satisfactory outcome Of the contro-
versy between Nicaragua and the
Maritime Canal Company respecting
the status of the latter's concession.
The Nicaraguan government claims
hat the concession has expired by
failure of the Maritime Company to-
perform the amount of work required
by the concession.
Arbitration has been attempted. but
matters have ecom so involved that
Minister Merry has been ordered to
Managua to make a personal investiga-
ton and do what is prope to protect
the interests of the Maritime Canal
Company.
Managua- Nicaragua. March IL
President Zelay gave Minister Merry
an excursion by railroad and a picnic
y~eSterdav = Catarina and Penotepe
moUr 80 -~>lcaragua's minister of for
'TairS and several other high
officials escorted the United States
minister and did the honors.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

There are many paradoxes, real or
seeming, in the Holy Scriptures, as
there are in science and other fields of
excursion. One of the most curious of
scientific ~paradoxes is that given in
the New York Tribune, as to the pres
ent mode of making ice. 1t is curious
and worth citing. 1t says that max
ing ice by steam is at the same time a
fascinating absurdity and q practical
reality. The chief agent of most arti-
fetal refrigeration, whether by the
compression Inc expansion of ammonia
or by other methods, is burning coal,
placed under the boiler of an engine"
1t mentions also a later paradoxicai
scheme. 1t is by an eminent Swiss
chemist, Raoul Pictel. He proposes to
utilize the extremely low temperature
of liquid air to produce means for pro-
noting combustion! The method is
said to be simple, ingenious and beau
tiful.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

DIR. McGiffert has changed his mind
n says he will not leave the Pres
byterian Church. The members gener-
ally should be very sorry hat he has
concluded to remain and give further
oNb He is not fit to be q minister
in any church built upon Christ. He
rs a dangerous pervert and should
either go or be made to go quickly.
His doctrines are purely destructive
and subversive of the Gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ. He is completely
out of harmony with the facts and
staten ents of the Bible, as he is with
the venerable and Biblical Church he
has promised to faithfully serv What
can be said of a teacher who prOclaims
that Christ never instituted the Lords
Supper-that Luke is not the author of
the Gospel bearing his name and of
the Acts of the ApostleS-that John
did not write the fourth GOspel-that
the d~iscourSeS attributed 10 the Saviour
were forgeries-that faith in Jesus is
not necessary 10 salvation and so on?
This is the McGiffert heresy that is in
teIerable. ST. Pau said he received
from Christ Himself the account of the
institution of the Supper.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
PORTO RICO GOVERNMENT.
Provisions of the Bill of the HouS
subcommittee.

Washington. March 16.-The bill Ell.
ltablishing a civil government i'm Porto
Rico has been practically completed
by the subcommittee of the house
committee on insular affairs.
In addition to the features already
published, the committee has incor-
porated provisions relating to CORPORA
itions- The bill prohibits the issue of
stock or bonds except for cash or the
issue Of stock or bond dividends. II
prohibits the granting Of public fran
lchises by private bills. blu provides for
Ia general franchise law reserving to-
the legislature the power to amend.
alter or repeal franchises at wifi and
also the right to purchase such fran
lchises- 1t prohibits the organization OF
banks % issue and the organization OF
sr1cultura corporations. The latter
provision Is to prevent the ~agricultur-
al lands OF the island falling into the
hands Of a big corporation. Following
n law in this country, it also pro-
,ioes that procuring title to
lands in payment of debts must dis-
pose OF such land within " years.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
TO BE X AS A WHOLE.

Let the white men understand clear
|ly that the constitutional amendment
as presented to the voters OF North
Carolina is a unit and not several dis
ltinct proposition or plans. 1t has been
the disinGenuous dodge of the republi-
Ican tricksters and fellows like Marion
Butler, who love to be ignorant and I'M
fair, to bamboozle the iIlliterate whites
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

The most useful, the most Jealous for
the truth as it is in Jesus, the most
se1f-denying. the most deeply conse-
Grated, the surest and most active light
bearers are not the churches that are
cold and formal. that do not attach the
greatest importance to the revealed
will of God in His Word, that do not
live nearest to God and away from the
world. But it is those churches that
are most Scriptural. that cling with
unbroken tenacity of will and o V of
soul to the teachings of the Holy Bible,
tina strive habitually TO carry out in
life the zeal and purity and essence
and spirit of the tenets of the Christian
religion. The truly spiritual churches
in this land and all others are those
hat cling most persistently to what
God says himself and not to what man
says. Man is very poor authority for
he is neither invaluable nor wise above
what is written.
There is a vast amount of theologi-
cal stuff in the world now. all Of which
is but rot. and will stife s~oul-piety and
fill the churches with the deadest for
malities and ~pretenders. The northern
Christian IntelIigencer has some
heaIthful remarks just on this line.
They are too good to be overlooked
and they are true. We give a part
with reference to what the Biblical
churches hold and do:
Their ministers regard the Bible as
sufficiently prolific of texts and themes
for their ~diScourSes, and, therefore, do
not join company with those who ex-
plore the enticing fields of literature,
and art, and science, and the domains
where all manner of ologieS flourish,
for subjects with which to regale the
itching ears and factidiouS tastes of
their people. We hear much nowadays
and read much about the church adapt
ing herself to the changed conditions,
social. intellectual, theological, and so
forth. that mark this closing century.
: Though social and other GUS
toms of one generation differ from
those of another, human nature In It's
essential features is still n same, AND
needs deliverance from its sin and
guilt. through the obedience and atone
ment of Christ, is in all time past
Therefore, the Gospel can never De-
come obsolete, or be modl1eo 10 sun
conditions that men count new. ou.
must ever be preached and lived IN all
its freshness and fulnesS anu sweet
ness"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
IT SEES WITH OPEN EYES.

The only possible teacher for the
pacity of the negroes is experience.
So long as they live"far from the(negro)
madding crowds ignoble sway" and
indulge in fancy heroics and imaginary
ljeremiads over Dinah and Sambo the
regulation, average northern man will
REMAIN as ignorant of the real negro
as Wendell Phillips and Charles Sum-
ner were, n as Hoar and Lodge and
the other blinded fanatics are now,
pronounced to fit-fan-a-tics." When
the north can have practical expert
ence it will begin then to have insight
and knowledge worth something. At
present it is perfervid gush and tender
sentimentality that stir their emo
ltions and arouse their tears when the
negro is named. But when ever Mass
achusetts or any New England state
is troubled at home by a great influx
of negroes the real school-days will be-
gin, and the grown-ups will take their
first lessons in common-sense philan-
thropy as to the negro question. The
Philadelphia Record has this, it is
commended to the consideration of the
writers and spouters up there over
1.-THE south's outrages against the ne
lgroes and so on:
The solution of the race problem
is of greater Importance and no less
difficulty than the task before us in the
West Indies and the Philippines. In
deed, it comes directly home to us in
Philadelphia, where thirty or forty
Thousand negroes, armed with the
rights, but mainly ignorant of the
duties, Of citizenship, complicate and
render more difficult the proper man
Iagement of our municipal affairs"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20

a large harness factory, a new furni-
ture company, and has within a few
days organized a cotton factory to cost
$125, 600. All that is pleasant to know. In
the southeastern part of the town, not
far back of the Baptist college, is a
beautiful lot for a factory. We charge
nothing for the hint, but a word to the
wise is said to be sufficient.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
HOME FOLKS.

1t is the purpose of the state board
of agriculture to cause to be investi-
gated the actual cost of making fer
t~ilizers. A sum of $500 has been appro-
priated to this end. The matter is we'll
worthy of public consideration. 1t is a
tention to making their own manureS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
When You Ride Your Wheel

Always shake into your shoes Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It
keeps your feet cool,prevents sweating
feet, and makes your endurance ten
fold greater. Over one million wheel
people are using Aliens Foot-Ease.
They all praise it. 1t gives rest and
comfort to smarting, hot, swollen, ach-
ing, feet n is a certain cure for in
growing nails. AT all druggists and
shoe stores 4, 25c. Sample FREE by
mail. Address. Allen S. Olmsted. LIE
Roy, n. 7.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY.

For sin shall not have dominion over
you Rom, GA. God resisteth the
proud, but givth grace unto the hum
BILE. James, AS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
And so | know

That day is lost wherein | fail to lenC
A helping hand unto some wayward
friend;
But if it show
A burden lightened by the cheer / sen
Then do l hold the golden hours vel
spent,
And lay me down to rest in sweet con
tent
Edith V. Brandt.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIP TON.

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months, $I75; one month, 81 cents
THR SEMI-wEEKLY MESSENGER
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Your Money!.

me box of TUFTS Pills will save
any dollars in doctors bills
-aeywillsurelycu all diseases
;, the stomach, liver or bowels.
20 Reckless Assertion
Or sick headache, dyspepsia,
"l'aria, constipation and bilio-
ness, a million people endorse
TUTT'S Liver PILLS
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Turn to the first Epistle of Peter
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Edith V. Brandt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-23
VISITS WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
The Queen Carries Flowers TO Herbert Hos
piial Greeted by Crowds.

London. March 22.-Thc Queen, ar-
cumpanied by Princess christian and
attended by a large suite. visited Her
bert hospital. at WoulWich, this after
noon. to see the sick ana wounded sol
diers who are being cared for there.
Immense crowds awaited the arrival
of Her Majesty ut the station in Wool
witch and lined the route TO the hoSpi-
tai. There We're lavish decorations and
unbounded enthusiasm was displayed.
The Queen drove in an open landau
through the arsenal grounds where
20. 900 employees We're drawn up in line
and gave Her Majesty magnificent
reception. The Queen distributed
quantities Of Windsor flowers in the
wards Of the hospital.
on the parade ground Of the garri
son the school children viewed the pro
Cession from military wagons and sang
God Save the QUE, n The original
flag made by some of the ladies of
Pretoria on the occasion of the town 5
first annexation was hoisted over the
artillery barracks in honor of Her
Majesty's visit and the house where
Gen. Gordon was born was effectively
decorated. The Queen spent an hour
in the hospital and spoke to numbers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-23
HASTEN PUERTO RlCAN ACTION.
Resolu ton Adopted by New York Board oil
Trade and transportation.

New York, March pa special
meeting of the board Of trade AM
TRANSPORTATION to consider the Puerto
Rican tariff matter was held, today.
Nicholas OyangOren. a merchant OF
san Juan. Puerto Rico, addressed the
board.
Never in the history of the island
Of Puerto Rico" he said. has there
been known such extreme general
misery such want Of credit and abso-
Lutte stagnation. Before the Cuban war
our island was in prosperous condi-
ton and free trade and civil govern
ment is the only means by which To
bring it back to this normal condi-
ton"
resolution was adopted declaring
that the policy of the United states
toward Puerto Rico should b. definite
ly and immeditely determined upon
considerations and conditions which
relate to that island alone, should not
in any particular or degree be affected
by considerations which may be in
volved in the relations of the United
States to cuba or the Philippines and
that due regard for pledges given de-
mand the extension to Puerto Rico of
free commercial intercourse with the
United States and civil form of gov
eminent
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-23
C0aSTNlSE SHIPPING.
Owners and Captains Association Looking A.
ter Its Vessels Interests.

Boston. March 22.-At n special meet
ing Of the Vessel Owners and Captains
National Association held here. today,
il was voted to put into effect coal
changes adopted at the annual meeting
of The association. whereby vessel Of
said association shall have precedence
over an other vessels engaged in the
coaetWisc trade, whether steamers.
sailing vessels Or barges. committee
was appointed Ia determine when this
is to 80 into effect after consultation
with the coal shippers.
II was also voted that the association
bill of lading for discharging would 50
into effect on all charters subsequent
to May l. The bill provides for dis
charging at the rate Of $50 tons per
day up to 1900 tons capacity, 30 tons
per day on all vessels up L. and includ-
ing $500 tons capacity and 300 tons per
day for all vessels over 1900 tons caplc-
ity. otherwise the conditions are the
same as have been in existence for tn"
last II years.
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IN THE SENATE.
Session Deyoied to Conference Report on
Puerto Rican Tariff Bill.

Washington, March 22.-Almost the
entire session of the Senate, today.
was spent in the discussion Of the con-
ference report upon the Puerto Rican
appropriation bill. The Democratic
senators manifested a disposition TO
criticize the restoration Of the House
provision covering future collections OF
revenue, protesting to find in TINS ac-
tion a desire to continue the Dingley
tariff. Speeches We're made on these
lines by Messrs. Bacon, Cockreli'
Jones, Ark, Berry and Allen. The he
publicans met the taunt with propo-
sition to take n vote upon the House
Puerto Rican tariff bill and it looked
at one time as if the unanimous con-
sent would be secured for vote on
the tariff measure, tomorrow. Senator
Proctor objected. however. on behalt
Of the Republican free traders, ana
when he indicated Willingness 70
agree to vote, next week, senator
Pettus put an end to the proceedings
by calling for the regular order OF bus
mess
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-23
EASILY ExPl AIMED.
Sec. Root Backed by Statute Law in Cape
Nome Dredging Licenses.

Washington, March 22.-Secretary
Root made a brief statement to the
press, today, at the war department
in regard to the action of the depart
ment in granting licenses TO prospec-
ors to dredge the water front Of Cape
Nome. Alaska, in their search for goid
He admitted that one or two such
licenses had been issued, but to whom
he did not remember. as it was in the
regular routine of the department.
There are about n dozen more appI-
cations of the kind on file and they
will all be granted. The secretary eX-
planned that his authority in the mat
ter was based upon the statute giving
the war department jurisdiction ove1
the navigable waters. Of the United
States.
Although he did not 80 into details
Sec. Root made it clear that the priv
ieges in question were free to all re-
sponsible persons and no discrimina-
ton had been intended in the cases
that had been acted upon.