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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30
MORE VICTIMS OF CIGARETTES.

A special from New York to Phila-
deIphia Record of 18th January, tells of
a married man killing himself to escape
the cigarette lend. The terrible habit
made him miserable. His name was
Harry Howell, was married, had four
children and yet he took his own life.
The dispatch tells the dismal story:
But for cigarettes his life would
have beer happy. for he had no other
vices. A week ago he spoke modify of
suicide as a refuge from h habit
which enslaved him. Last night at
midnight his wife awoke to find him
standing by her bed Sadie he said,
L have taken poison. In ten minutes 1
will be dead He fell heavily and lay
upon the floor, moaning writhing in
agony. Help was called and the man
was aiken to the Roosevelt Hospital,
where before sunrise he died"
This is but one of many cigarette sui
cides. A general freight agent of a
great railroad says his of his clerks:
Among the 200 clerks in my office
80 are cigarette E~ighty-five
per cent. of the mistakes occurring in
the office are made by the 80. The
cigarette smokers average two days off
per month while others but one half
day off. The natural conclusion is that
80 Dun men are holding positions de-
served by better men,"
A Chicago man Mr.. G. r. Barrett,
tells the boys that h cigarette habit
however bad and deliterious to health,
never makes the victim aware of its
strength and deceiving influence, but
when it has Slapped the life, how proud
ly it holds the wreckage up to public
gaze, and then snares another that is
sure to fall a victim to it's devilish
plan"
1t is told that a leach applied to ex-
cessive cigarette smokers is killed, but
when applied to pipe smokers the
teaches are not injured. The Acton
Enterprise in a talk to boys says:
You're the kind of soft, pliable, fab
by piece of a boy, all weakness and
moral imbecility which the toughs take
as apprentices and educate in the deep,
dark mysteries of how to be bad. You
are marked as a little fool by every de-
cen man who sees you, and every time
you indulge in the foolish and hurtful
habit you are lessening your opportun-
ity of being respectable"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30

gogic whites who desert their a C for
power and grub.
1t must strike any ordinarily intelli-
gent man of any color or condition,
that experience is a great teacher and
OF much importance in the crisis Of a
state.
As to the difference in qualifications
between the illiterate whites n the
illiterate blacks the advantage is alto
gether with the whites. We copy from
the closing part of Hon w. W. Kitch-
ms excellent communication in the
Washington Post Of Monday:
Between the great mass of unletter-
ed ones, who, or whose ancestors, could
vote prior to 1867, and the great mass Of
the unlettered ones who or whose an
cestors could not then vote, there is a
real and a difference in capacity, in
fitness, in intellectual and moral force,
in information, in love of home and
country. in aspiration, in all that makes
competence for good suffrage. 1t is a
deep, time-proven, unmistakable, I'M
changeable, difference, known to all
men,"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30

We are reading Senator Pritchard's
speech as time allows. We have
read more than a fourth of it.
1t is the first thing we ever read
from the TennesSeean. His dema-
gogy has so Disguised us that
we have Stunned his o~ratorical exploits
heretofore. He is a man of ability. He
a more brains than Russell and But
Ter. Whether he has more principle
than they we will not undertake to ay.
We shall read his entire speech and
see, as the boast already is, if he has
answered Senator Morgan. If Pritch-
ard is right then the democrats must
stir their stumps." But is he right?
We will hear more of it. But. the
Pritchard gun must be spiked.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30

ldirect way: Think Of IL. sixt.. people
TO the square mile over there now n
twenty people TO the square mile herei
When it Is possible for people TO pass
freely from the Philippine islands TO
the United States and from the United
States to the Philippines there will be
more Malays coming to this country
to bring their Oriental habits n to
compete with American labor then
there will be Americans to go ever n
live in the tropics"
He favors for the Filipinos just what
is right-their complete independence.
The republicans are a fine set TO be in
Iterfering with that The able states
man says:
I'VE should treat them as we prom
Used TO treat the Cubans- We told the
that we were fighting for liber-
ity. not land Let us tell h Filipinos
that they are to stand up n be free
of. and let that republic work. out Its
own destiny" In his opinion h war
could be ended at once upon the assur-
lance of independence to the Fflipinos,
land there would be no humiliation TO
the United States in telling them now
THAT they would be given their free
dom"
There is more real horse sense and
true wisdom in one speech of Bryan's
THAN Mckinley could crowd in a year
lin a speech as long as the proceedings
iof a day in the Congressional Record
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30
BREvITIES.

What a great genius Ottmer Mergen-
thaler was. Look as he was dying what
a marvellous change he caused in bas-
lket making. Where 300 baskets were
made in a day, 10! 1000 are made.
Columbia, S. c., has five big cotton
mills that consume between them $4,000
bales of cotton.
William Munro, a distinguished and
very reputable lawyer of South Caro-
lima, is dead. He served with gallantry
in the great war as lieutenant of ar
tillery and afterwards adjutant of the
Eighteenth regiment. The heroes are
passing away one by one.
On February Goth the Tri-State Med
lean Association meets in Charleston.
1t met first at Charlotte last year. The
News and Courier y
The association now has 156 mem
bers, of whom sixty-one are from
North Carolina, twenty-nine frnp-
South Carolina and sixty-six from Vr-
ginia. There are only six members of
the association from Charleston"
Mr.. E. G. Dunnell writes to the New
York Times that during the year end
ing August 81, 1899, South Carolina
manufactured 444, 900 bales of cotton. or
$4,000 more bales than during the year
preceding. The increase in North Car
lolina was about so, 900 bales: that in
Alabama 1000 bales; that in Georgia
IL, 1000 bales. The whole south manufac-
tured 1899, 399 bales, in increase of 170.-
I079 bales.
~tr1bution to a public library in New
Jersey. This makes a great many such
gifts from him.
DR.. James Martineau, the most learn
ed and distinguished of all Unitarian
preachers who ever lived, is dead in his
Is2nd year. He was a very able man.
and oelieved in Unitarianism while not
lafiliating kindly with that denomina-
ton.
Six of the Colson brothers in Ken
lucky have slain their men. And not
one was ever hanged.
The New York Herald referring to
Mr. Cages New York bank incident,
says:
The most unpleasant feature of the
investigation of the question of depos-
l~itories is the low moral tone disclosed.
From a moral point of view this sort
lof thing is reprehensible."
Father O'Brien, of Good Shepherd
ichurch, Toledo, Ohio, declares that
"soldiers in an unjust war are in a state
of mortal sim" If this is true then woe
tbe unto Buffers and Otis's armies.
Reports from Manila of 21st January,
SAY that Fflipinos are longing for lib
lerty" and are nowhere loyal to the
American cause." But say the war
lgang at Washington, the war is over"
Senator Hale Of New Hampshire.
thinks hat nine-tenths of the Ameri-
can people are in sympathy with the
Beers in their gallant struggle for lib
Ierty against one OF the greatest powers
in the world"
George w. Stevens, the very distin-
guished war correspondent of London
Mail, author of several brilliant books.
and who visited Wilmington in 1896, Is
dead in Ladysmith, Of fever. He had
made a really remarkable name as a
Iyoung author. He was born December
10th, 1853. and was educated at Oxford.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30
The Wessenger.


Mr. Bryan has a proper apprehension
of republican conditions. Hear them
praying to Mark, the leper: "Oh. Han
ma, give us this day our daily bread"
His analysis of Hanna's many speeches
ON trusts was excellent because accu-
rate: First, there are no trusts;
second, they are necessary; third, if
there are any trusts Wen take care of
them"
By the way Bryan's suggested prayer
as offered by the worshippers of Hanna,
brings up Senator Vance's great speech
in Wilmington in 1SSO-the greatest
speech lie probably ever made in his
life on ne hustings. 1t was the great
est of the kind we ver heard. In it
with most amusing effect he represent
ed a still-house prayer-meeting held
in the mountains by a number of the
teat-swiggers in those flush times for
white traitors. Colonel /. K. Young
was there in all of his social and polit-
lea glory and led the meeting in pray
er. Vance leant forward and gave
what Ike said. We recall only the
opening: "Oh, Lord, we a few of Thy
unworthy but thirsty servants have
gathered here for worship. Be pleased
to grant unto US "a good rum" Some
thing of the kind was said. and it
caused a great burst of laughter. The
llrge audience Git was out doors in the
morning on Third street, opposite the
Kidder hOme), enjoyed the fur for it
fully appreciated the type of "piety''
that filled the men who coached the
black and tan party twenty years ago
plenty of pie" and abundance of
good drinks. But hey were a better
class, with all their natural and Guilt
waited ~depravity, than the present gang
of negro deceivers whose principles are
h we'll known five loaves and two
fishes" No man in 1S70-S0 was low
enough, devil enough to play the role
Marion Butler is now essaying. That
political enemy and depraved official
openly strives to so stir up the negroes
To bloody reprisals that North Carolina
shall be turned into a ~Pandemonium,
and blood shall fill the streets and the
homes. a fellow of that type is a
worse enemy to both white and blacks
than the lowest brute hat roams the
forests to indulge his animalism and as
sault and murder his victim, an unpro-
tected, lonely white woman. Such a
butte would thus violate perhaps a half
dozen pure wonderland then die the
death. But Buffers crusade proclama-
tion will cause possibly 100000 to be
slain. We can conceive of nothing
more Internal in it's savagery and in
fanny. There is certainly no improve
ment over the wicked despoilers driven
from power in 1876, under the magnifi-
cent leadership of the peerless Vance,
by the present gang who would ruin
that they may rule. No fellow in 1866
rs, eve dared to use the ~incendiary
language of the little Sampson petit
fogger-tO threaten to drive out the
white men of North Carolina. If he
would only attempt to lead the negroes
in this war of expulsion he would find
no little lively entertainment If he
goes around the state making his in
hanmatory speeches he may do a great
deal of harm to both races.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30
BUTLER,S wHIP.

The Raleigh News and Observer re-
GENTLY printed a clever and spirited
editorial headed Johnny. Get Your
Gun" it being a caustic article on that
Iunmitigated political tramp, BombasteS
IFurioso Butler. We may refer TO i.
lat more length. 1t begins in this wise:
THAT was a blood and thunder
speech that Butler made to the pie
eaters who gathered in Raleigh Thurs
day night to find a way to keep their
Iplaces at the pie counter. They heard
the sentence in November, 1898: Thou
ARE weighed in the balances and found
wanting and they la been ever
since waiting for the Punishment that
will be pronounced against them all in
November. They met hopeless and de-
pressed.
when Butler-looking every inch a
Connecticut avenue dude-came TO
Raleigh he saw that no ordinary har-
Iangue would put faith in his bench
men. He decided on heroic measures.
Here are some of the blood-curdling
he hurled at them:
I'VE have got to fight and we had
Jas we'll make up u minds to it,
Let us join hands with the repub-
IlicanS and whip this ang out of the
And that is Butler in this yea of
grace 1900. What a furious fellow he
is. "Whip the white men out of the
is this contemplate turncoat's
cry. 1t is a fine job. he seeks. What
will the white men do when the
whipping begins? Where, oh. where,
will Bombastes be when the racket be-
gins? What sort of whip will the net
fo--. 80 TT LII .
his fine clothes a whip of scorpions"
A miserable blatherskite is that time
server and fraud
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30

Wilmington can now count two cot
ton mills. One is a large and superb
structure, the Delgado, costing a quar-
ter of a million dollars. And the end
is not yet, for already the enterprising
President, Mr.. Edward G. Holt, and
those interested with him, are planning
for an important enlargement, even
probably to double its capacity. Great
success to this splendid enterprise. Will
Wilmington stop here? Or will it i'm
prove with opportunities, and add other
mills? Charlotte has thirteen, and
Wilmington two. Must that great diff
ference continue? Wilmington is an
excellent point for northern investors.
A half dozen big plants removed to
our town from New England would i'm
part great activity and arouse a deeper
interest in manufacturing. Strike
while the iron is hot.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30

1t is gratifying that the house COM
mittee makes a report favorable to
erecting monuments to two gallant
North Carolinians in the war for indie
pendence in the last century, Generals
Francis Nash and Lee Davidson. 1t is
a long delayed appreciation, but it is
better late than never. 1t is to be
hoped it will ass the la also.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30

1t is almost impossible to keep a cor
rect list of the new cotton mills plan
ned n building in 1900 in North Car
DINA If not mistaken there have been
some seven or eight new ones formed.
A mill is to be erected in Montgomery
county for the Capel Cotton Mill Com
pany. Two large mills are to be built
in CASTOR county and one in Johnston
county at Clayton. Several new wood
factories are to be built at High Point.
A pant factory is also probable.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30
HOME FOLKS.

Hon. w w Kitchin, representative
in the federal house, from the Fourth
district, and a good, useful, efficient
one, has a two column and a quarter
paper in the Washington Post that is
a plea for the ignorant, unlettered
whites in North Carolina. 1t is his
earnest contention hat the proposed
constitutional amendment, will stand
the legal tests beforethe United States
supreme court, as they do not abridge
the right to vote on account of race or
color. He insists that a change is de-
manded to prevent the recurrence of
previous experiences with negro voters.
We shall refer to it more at length
hereafter.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-30

The Raleigh Post got off a hit upon
Buffers soul" and all of the mort
gaging" fellows of the baser sort. We
give q part in the state press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-08
GOT A GOOD THRASHING.
Albert Johnson MauIs "a Man Who
Threw Tacks on Path

Threw Tacks on Path.
"A well dressed young man, who was
throwing tacks on the Seventh avenue
cycle path, Jared hard at the hands of
Albert Johnson, South side cyclist, yes
terday morning. The man was walking
along between Seventh and Eighth
street, and when he thought no one was
looking, deliberately threw a handful of
lacks on the path. johnson was riding
behind the man, and although he noticed
that the man threw something out, did
not at first suppose that the man was
throwing tacks on the path, but he real
lied the fact when he heard the wind
come out of his front tire The pedes-
tTian also heard the, escaping air and
started to run. In second Johnson was
after him on his bicycle At Eighth
street the man turned the corner, and
Johnson continued after him with con-
siderable difficulty, for his tire was fiat
The chase continued to Ninth avenue and
there the man ran into Elliott park
johnson dropped his wheel and chased
the man through the park and caught
him near Tenth avenue and Fifteenth
street. The cyclist was thoroughly en-
ragged, and the other man so scared
when he felt the strong arm of the rider
on him that he begged for mercy. John
son might have had the man arrested,
but in his excitement he only thought of
summary vengeance, and this he at
tanned. He gave him a few kicks slap
ped his face until he cried with pain, and
then allowed him to go.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-08


the piano from curiosity; some easily
learn to pick out tune with one finger:
beyond that only a few really love nu.
SIC well enough to bear its drudgerv
cheerfully. Yet all boys, as we'll as. girls.
should be able to read notes, both for
the voice and for the fingers; and so
nluch, doubtless, they will learn in
school. If possible, thew should Iesrn
70 play more or less, enough eventuallv
10 accompany a singer or read hymn
at sight, But it should be made as easv
as possible; practice time shonld T' by
snort never over half an hour a dsV-
When the child is under twelve. and This
9lVided into two periods The real foam
aatons OF a musical education on any
instrument: the endless routine of scales
anu exercises, should not be insistcd
upon, where there is a genuine hatfrd
Tor Tor them for in the end it will be found
mat mat there is nothing gained by the
trouble taken. By all means cultivate q
talent, only be sure there is a talent to
be cultivated. ~
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-08
NEW TOWN IN AITKIN.
Will Be Laid Out Soon and Called
Hill Lake.

AITKIN, Mimi, Oct Especial CORE
spondence)- Up in the northwestern part
of Aitkin county, in township 1926, lies
some of the best territory in the state
for diversified farming. Settlers are rap
idly taking note of its advantages, and
several families have already located
there
These people seem to be of the progress
sive sort, too, as they have taken steps
to secure a township organization, a
school district. pastofice etc. and have
subscribed the amount of $500 for
church building, which is to be a union
church. This is a magnificent sum to be
raised by a new community. This COM
munity now has a sawmill. single
mill and a planning mill.
A public road from Grand Rapids to
the place is nearly completed, and at
present about seventy people make up the
populati By spring there will be LOCO
head of cattle in the township The
question of a creamery is being agitated
and will a settled fact in the near
future.
James ]. Hill, of the Great Northern
Railway company, has made a very lib
eral donation to the road and bridge
fund, to be used in improving the road
to Grand Rapids.
A townsite to be named Hill Lake is
to be laid out as soon as the location
is agreed upon, and a railway to touch
the south end of the lake is an assured
Improvement.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-08
NO FRIENDS CLAIM Her
MATILDA NEIZEN WHO SUED cor
PIN ESTATE. A STTICTF,E

NEW YORK, Octa,7.--The body of a
young woman who committed suici4e
Saturday night in the Grand hotel. in this
city lay on the marble slab at the citv
morgue today. Nc. one called at the place
to identify her and give her. burial, nor
did the police expect any one The let
tiers and papers found in her. clothing.
with letters written3 by her on the hotel
stationery before she drank the deadly
acid that caused her death, appear to
prove without doubt she is Matilda Nei-
zen, the young Swedish girl who attained
notoriety in 1896 by suing the estate of
Austin Corbin for $4,000 on the basis of
alleged verbal promises made to her by
MI Corbin. The defense, alleging black
mail, won verdict. Among the papers
found on the body of the woman was
note for 800 paid to her attorney for
conducting the case against the Corbin
estate several letters from lawyers, and
newspaper clippings concerning the trial
Lying on the desk where she had writ
ten her farewells was a sheet of paper
on which two words were scrawled, Be
yond pardon
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-08
FAT AND LEAN

That is, babies: fat, they are
happy and safe; lean, they are
neither happy nor safe.
Apart from being entirely
healthy or not quite well, a fat
one has much reserve of vital
strength to resist any sudden
attack, while the lean one has
little or no reserve.
The way to be fat and well
is SCOTS emulsion of cod-liver
oil. A little: only a little.
Not any, if healthy and plump
already; "let well enough
alone"
Wen send you little to try if you like.
SCOTT & BOVINE, 4oS Pearl street. New York
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-08
BURNED AS A DERELICT.
Fate of the British Ship NOnparen,
Abandoned by Her Grew.

NEW YORK, Oct l. The British
steamer knight Templar, Capt FINS,
which arrived tonight from North
Shields, reports that Oct 1 she sighted
the abandoned British ship Nonpareil, of
London. which left New York Sept. 70
for Sourbaya, Java, and was abandoned
Sept. p Capt. Finis sent a boat to the
Nonpareil and it was thought possible
that she could be towed into port There
was only fourteen inches of water in
ner hold A volunteer crew was called
for. and after putting them aboard a
haWser Was passed to. the vessel. She
was towed from ESQ D. m. until MD
night, when the weather. became very
squaly, with heavy rain. At 2:15 a. M,
Oct 2, the hawser parted. The Knight
Templar stood off until daylight, when
1t was decided to take off the volunteer
crew and scuttle the vessel. She was set
on fire and within a short time was a
mass of flames. 1t was thought that she
would eventually sink as the water was
washing around the matches The Non
pareil was fired directly in the track of
vessels bound to and from Europe and
about 1900 miles from. New York. She
was new ship and was laden with OIL
Her owners were the Standard Oil COM
pany. The crew of the Nonpareil was
taken off by the steamer Glengoyle, which
arrived here Sept. from Beyrout.