The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-13
STATE PRESS.

The editor OF a paper published al
Dunn was threatened with a boycot'
because he supported Mr.. Carr for the
senate. There are some little men IN
l~politics in this state and they do not all
Ibelong ( the populist n republican
lparties.-Durham Herald
Mckinley and McKinleyism richly
deserved to have been defeated yester-
iday: with another candidate and other
policies opposed to them they Would
have been; but the country felt that
they are at least safe n as IL always
doees, il chose the side OF safety.-Char-
lotte Observer.
The remedy for all existing evils Is
in h peoples hands when they choose
Ito apply it But h trusts. in their
arrogance, are awakening a spirit OF
bitterness. the hostility of the poor to
the rich, which has not heretofore pre-
walled in this country and which 1t
may require many of just gov
Iernment TO allay.-Charlotte News
If Mckinley is elected president he
Twill be elected by h men who oppose
Ihis policy Of imperialism on the one
hand n the men who oppose his
financial policy on n other, not TO
speak OF he men who are opposed to
trusts who will vote for him on ac-
count OF the gold standard. That's a
IL oa& NA1 AL.
senator Hoar. Senator Chandler and
SENATOR Stewart illustrates all three
propositions contained in the state
ment-Raleigh Times
Judge Buxton's father, Rev. Jarvis
buxton, was, until his death, rector Of
st. Johns church in this town, and
his brother, Rev. Jarvis Buxton. Jr..
Irector at Asheville, n C. His wife ana
SISTER Mrs. Thomas Lutterloh) sur
lvivn him Trd0n Tllxtnn yraS in HE
nth yea but was attentive to his bus
illness to the last. 1t was only a few
days ago that he ceased TO be at his
office. He was a good mana man full
lof piety, filled with the love of a Savior
lin whose bosom he now reSts.-Fayette-
willie Observer.
Our observant and thoughtful Nor
lganton correspondent calls attention
TO it in his letter in this mornings pa
per. The destruction of the forests re-
suits in unusually disastrous floods
when rivers in the timber-denuded
section overflow. The Catawba river
in Burke county has lately made a new
high water record by rising two feet
above a new steel bridge near Morgan
ton which had been built five feet above
the old danger point. AT the same time
Icause Of this is believed to be forest
destruction by the lumbermen and the
forest fires.-Charlotte Observer.
1t is folly to give a man a certain
profession simply because he belongs
to a certain class of society. God has
given men special endowments for spe-
Icial work. The purpos of education is
to draw o u this talent and turn it TO
a useful end. Education is in fact a
drawing out-a developing of the nat
ural faculties along the ines indicated
by God when he gave the individual a
tendency or love for certain work. 1t
is not education to pour int the hui
man MIND things for which it has no
ATTRACTION, but which it really repels.
The examining process is a
The drawing out. the expanding, the
cultivation of the Unborn faculties is
what we would call education. Were
this followed more closely we would
have fewer educated tramps and pol
iShed l~oafers. There would be more
lskilled SPECIALISTS Fayetteville Bap-
fist.