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The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
Pointed Paragraphs.

Before the bud becomes a rose Z
must arise.
Running water often gets it's sta.
from a spring.
The fewer airs some musicians can
play the more they put on.
A pessimist is a person who doesn.
expect the expected to happen.
A man isn't necessarily a coward BE-
cause he runs from vicious COW
1t is a remarkably fact that only sen
Sible persons ever agree with Us.
Some people Seem to think that they
have an inherent inability to max.
mistakes.
No matter how changeable a man
may be he always wants a little more
change.
A thrifty farmers wife made her
husband throw away his pipe and
smoke hams instead
Cinnamon probably consider them
selves superior to other men because
they are not made of common clay
Wise is the man who never trines
with an unloaded gun. a woman's opin-
ion of herself or the business end of a
wasp.
Probably nothing jolts a young man
harder than to go to the theatre aLn..
and see his best girl come in with n
other fellow.-Chicago News.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
CHAMBERLAIN's ASTONISHING
VICTORY.

Mr.. Chamberlain obtained a great
victory over the Liberals by whipping
around in his views and plans. He
was very severely handled by them
one night when he turned about and
on the next night made a speech so
conciliatory and wonderful as to extort
them from the other side. from the
very men who had fiaggelated and
barted him for small honors. He sur
prised them very greatly. And what
did he say. what did he do to work such
a change after so stormy a time of it :?
He introduced a scheme for the
placating of the Dutch Beers and sat
isfying the Liberals. He gave a states
manlike outline of his methods to be
Africa. 1t is to give the two Dutch re-
publics local self-government. A cable
dispatch to the New York Evening
Post gives this account of the plan:
1.-The scheme is based on the funda-
mental fact that the Dutch and English
have to live together TT South Africa,
and it's PRONUNCIATION ia the disaffected
districts probably will do more than all
Lord Kitchener's seventies to close the
war. AS Mr.. Asquith said last night,
speaking for official Liberalism, the
scheme seems to afford modus VI
vendi for the conquered territories,
which may be the precursor of that
fuller, larger, and more complete meas
ure of self-government to which every
party in the state is pledged.
Although Lord Salisbury. the Prem
ier, endorses the outrageous plan Of
Lord Kitchener to burn and destroy,
a most barbaric, informal way of max
ing war on the helpless old men and
women and children, it ought to be
suppressed at once of Chamberlan's
plan of pacification is to be really en-
forced.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
THE REASON WHY.

When the men in the congress talk of
reducing the southern representation
in the house they usually say that the
negro vote is denied or suppressed.
Among the really respectable newspa-
pers that fail to understand the real
situation is the Philadelphia Ledger. 1t
marvels at the disappearance of the
negro vote in Georgia, where there is no
educational test. 1t says:
There were $4,000 negroes registered
in Georgia, but is is computed that only
5000 went to the polls. In a great
many polling places. where there was
a formidable Mckinley vote in 1896,
there was almost no republican vote this
year, and this occurred In the black
districts. Why the negroes should not
care to vote is a matter of puzzled
speculation
The answer is that in Georgia the
negroes did not choose to vote as was
the case IN both the August and No
vember elections in Wilmington. There
was no coercion or intimidation exer-
cised whatever. The Atlanta Constitu-
ton tells the Ledger:
when the people Of the north learn,
as they should from the case of Geor-
Sld, IIdI the negro IS dH lIOl1eTeIpl
voter, they will see at once the cause
of the small vote, as well as its danger
when cast. Thus in Georgia the negro
was as free to vote on last election day
as he was in the city of Boston. The
law requires the payment of a poll tax
of 81 from all citizens. The terms of
residence are six months in the county
and ten days in the precinct. There Is
in Georgia no feeling of hostility to the
negro, and he could have voted with
perfect freedom in the state and ma
tional elections Of this year
The prejudices of the northern repub-
1icans are so deep, so ingram that they
seem Unable to understand or see a
thing that is perfectly plain if it con-
Germs the negro as voter or as a rap
ist Blind, stolid, deaf.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18

There is a loud clamor from the north
and south for a better postoffice service
and postal service. A Virginia paper
lately bemeaned the bad condition Of
the mail service in Virginia. Now the
complaint comes from the greatest city.
Bad as it is in that city it is but a
sample of what it is reported to be all
through the land. The report OF the
work in the New York office says:
THE counters were piled five and
six feet deep with newspapers and
packages at an hour when they should
have been cleared. The force of clerks
which had come on at o'clock in the
morning was still at work, although it
was $50 o'clock in the afternoon, and
they are supposed to be on duty only
eight hours, one hour being deducted
for luncheon.
clerks were sticking to their posts and
sorting the mail at lightning speed.
Il am as much opposed, Superin
men overtime as any one, but what
ters for city delivery from the Lucania.
which arrived with 100000 letters this
morning. From the Germanic. which
got in yesterday, we had $4,000 city
letters; from the Deutschland, 10 0Go:
from the Kaiser Friedrich der Crosse.
14,o00. All these letters came in on US
within twenty-four hours"
'All is not gold that Glitters.''
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
Ghe Messrl1gfr.
TOWN POPULATION IN NORTH
CAROLINA.

Cisappoiatment has befai-
len many prophets in many North Car
olina towns. Many were confident of
great increase in population. We be-
Heve Raleigh was put at 20.000; Char
lotte at 5000, Durham at 1900. Colds
boro at 5000 and 50 on. The figures
given in yesterdays Messenger tell
how it is. and where the disappoint-
ment comes in Some Of the towns IN
creased more than we counted on. Bur
lington. Greensboro. High Point. Kim
stOn, New Bern and Rocky Mount
were of that number. Wilmington IN
creased some 900 in the decade We
put it's population by anticipation at
21.500. allowing some 1000 or 1900 to
have gone away. We lack but TWEEN
four of 21,000. If all the popula-
tion had been taken there would have
been more than 1000. Wilmington
gets mo increase from the Delgado
mill operatives as 1t is beyond the
city limits. II Wilmington had Char
lOtte's thirteen cotton mills its popula-
ton would be over $4,000. Build more
mills and bther plants. Durham has
6,679, some thousands ress than We had
been led to expect But it is pro-
gresSive.
Our Raleigh letter IN The Messenger
of yesterday told of two great cotton
mills building, two enlarging and other
evidences of prosperity. Already they
are prophecying for 1910. Do not blow
too soon Disappointment often follows
upon high expectations and top-lofty
prophecies. North Carolina is growing
in population. By the end of next year
it will have quite 100000. It's towns
grow fast enough. The urban popula-
tion is large enough now for the rural
population. Agriculture is the sure
base for a state like this
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
DEBATE OF TREATY RIGHTS.

The debate in the senate on THE Hay
Pauncefote treaty brought out some
of the secrets of that body. The drift
of the discussion was to show the eff
fects of the treaty ON the construction
of the Nicaraguan canal. There was
a variety of opinions. and the senator's
appeared to look through a glass
darkly. One side contend for the con-
structfon of the canal. at all hazards.
and without any re gard Ito what Great
Britain may say. think or do. The
other side has more sense and q clean
understanding of what is right and
prpoer. 1t holds that the Clayton
Bulwer treaty is an existing and bind
ing obligation. and has been recognized
to a greater or less extent by every
administration since it's adoption in
1850, and that the canal should not be
built until the provisions of that very
important treaty in regard to it have
been formally abrogated. That is the
true and honest view and jingoism Is
crazy as usual if dit wishes to trample
under the cruel foot of war the bind
Hcan, has gumption and vision enough
to admit that ''the second article of the
Clayton-Bulwer agreement not only
appeared to guarantee the neutrality of
the canal, but to prohibit Notifications
and to stand in the way of either Great
Britain or the United States acquiring
territory in Central America
We find this in the Philadelphia
Times and it will fit here:
If this government should desire to
expend many millions useleSSly in
erecting immense Notifications at the
Atlantic and Pacific ends of the canal.
mounting them with big guns to be
itoppIed over by tropical tornadoes and
filling them with gaTrisons ito perish
of fevers, the English certainly ought
not to make serious objection. 1t is
not their funeral
England will probably stand by her
old treaty rights and thus save the
funeral in Nicaragua If they are IN
creased elsewhere on land and on sea.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
DEBATE ON WAR TAXES.

The debate In the house upon the re-
duction of war taxes has been both in
terestinS and warm. The republicans
are wary and rather alarmed at the
future and what it may bring forth for
them. They are very fearful Of a large
reduction in the revenues be made that
it might work to their undoing. They
fear that by some unexpected develop
ment some unanticipated depression of
the country's business there should be
loud complaints, a serious reduction OF
revenues, and cause an actual deficit in
the treasury Of Uncle Samuel. Then
there would be the mischief to pay.
The democrats are not content with
$50, ,000, 900 reduction as Secretary Gage
recommends while forecasting some
$50, ,000, 900 of surplus. They are urging
900. They show that according to re-
publican declarations peace should be
restored in the Philippines and in
Cuba in less than two years, and that
as consequence following this, there
ought reasonably and Justly to be a
great reduction Of the now enormous
government expenditures, and of the
now too large system OF revenue collec-
ton. They show farther that taxation
has increased within the last four years
to the vast sum of $3.50. .00O. 900, and that
if this unconsciouable and oppressive
burden is continued business and COM
merce must inevitably. surely suffer
and most seriously.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18

After more than two years and a
quarter of war in the Philippines, and
no peace, no conquest, the question is
seriously asked in the north must the
war out there go on forever? That
venerable, staunch republican paper,
The Philadelphia North American, the
oldest daily in the United States. has
this to say:
I'VE have been mistaken III the Fill
ipino. He is not an ignorant, passion
ate savage who can be either frighten-
ed or whipped into submission while
there remains to him a chance to fight
for his native land. The Filipinos
have been fighting us twice as long as
the Beers have been fighting England,
and England's prospect. of soon finish
ing her task is very much brighter than
ours. The Filipino is a man with
cause for which he is willing to die.
He may be weary of the war, but. he
has made the American people weary
of it, too. AS he has incomparably
more at stake in the struggle than we
have it is to be expected that his
will continue to be dis
heartening to the Jingoes."
Since the 9Th of August 1898, the
American troops have lost by death g.
141, and wounded 2,157-total 565S. Died
Of disease 2034.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18

7 Northern cotton mills have not been
injured after all by the growth of mill
ing in the south. The chief manufac-
turing towns in New England have
grown in ten years. The returns OF
the census show this. The New York
Tribune says that among the cities
which have gained in the last ten years
are Fall River, New Bedford, Hartford,
Worcester, Bridgeport and others in
the New England states. with increases
in population of from 40 to SO per cent.
or more than twice the general rate OF
the whole courty. These figures dis
miss the fear that the development of
one state means the decay Of another,
and suggest strongly that the prosper
ity of one means the good of all.
Prophecies as to both sections failed.
The New England men said the south
could not compete with that section,
that it could not make fine goods. that
it did not have efficient working peo-
pie and so on But the south has COM
peted and made big demands.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
A Thousand Tongues

Could not express the rapture Of
Annie E. Springer, of 1125, Howard ST.,
Philadelphia, Pa, when she found that
DR.. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption had completely cured her of
a hacking cough that for many years
had made life a burden. All other
remedies and doctors could give her
no help, but she says Of this Royal
Cure: 'it soon removed the pain il,
my chest and I can now sleep soundly,
something I can scarcely remember
doing before. I feel like sounding it's
praises throughout the universe" So
will everyone who tries DR.. Kings New
Discovery for any trouble of the
Throat, Chest, or Lungs. Price SOC and
$1.00. Trial bottles free ait r. r. Bel
lamy's drug store; every bottle guar
anteesd.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
800 Reward 500

The readers Of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there Is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all Its stages. ana
that is Catarrh- Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. CatarTh being a
constitutional disease, requires con-
stitutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure Is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
OF the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature In do
ing it's work The proprfetors have 30
much faith in it's curative powers, that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that Ii fails To cure. Send for list
OF testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & Co.. To-
ledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pulls are the bet.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
FIGURING AGAIN OVER TUE LATE
ELECTION.

Public Opinion publishes the total
popular vote in 1896 and 1900.
In 1896 Mckinley polled total of l.
104,779 votes and In 1900 a total of T.
263, ,226- In 1896 his plurality was 5o1,
S54 and in 1900 it was 847,S79, an in
crease of 246,025. In 1896 Bryan re-
ceived S7.53S more votes than ne did
in 1900. Mckinley some how increased
and Mr.. Bryan declined. Bryan's vote
in the east was much larger, but in
the south 1T was smaller. The repub
Ican vote was about the same In
1896 Bryan received 1,796.000. and in
1900 but 1,475, 600. So there is a clear
failing off over 100000 votes. The
New York World says that the figures
show that some powerful force has
been attacking the democratic party IN
the south" The World INDUCES in
this figuring and it may be correct. 1t
says:
'If the democratic populist alliance
of 1896 had been a success. the total
Bryan vote of 1896 would certainly
have been at least about equal to the
sum Of the democrat and populiSt vot-
ers at the election OF 1S92-that is
about 2245, 900. But the Bryan vote
of 1896 was only 1.796,776. nearly half
a million under what 1t should have
been. And at the last election it fell
to 1,475.000 three quarters Of a million
under the combined vote Of 1892, actu-
ally less than the democratic vote In
that year. eight years ago."
Bryan failed to carry three border
states, namely Maryland. West Vir-
ginia and Delaware. So it cannot be
said now there is a "solid south" The
shrinking in many southern states OF
Bryan's vote is ominous. 1t was in
Tennessee 40.ss0 less In 1900 than
in 1896. Texas 1913. South Carolina H.
341,. North Carolina 1912. Mississippi
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
BREvTTIEs.

The reapportionment moveDan, =
the house viii hardly come to \ ha,+
The only reasons really urged ara n
personal kind.
Texas is the greatest state in the
union in its area. it's square miles. Il
Is the sixth now in population. and
second in railroad miiease
The Dutch Hollauders went back N
Kruger and viii now become peace
makers. They lean towards EngIans
or are afraid to venture on the ini,ia-
tive.
Parliament admits il will take So
0oo, 600 TO defeat the Beers. Kitchen
needs every man he can get. But only
1000 Beers are fighting.
A professional golf player was kill
ed in Florida by a fall from his pony.
A preacher in South Carolina was
tried for murder. was acquitted ana
preached next day. He killed his man
Like some other latterday parsons h
believes in carnal weapons. even shot
guns.
II Is to be hoped that the congress
viii cause a severe scrutiny - =.
made into the shocking case OF cat--
Booz. Colonel Mills. the superin;er-
dent. at West Point. denies the who.c
story.
Alexandria Va has 1452s inhab.-
tants. Danvisae. 1880. LynchburE Is
SCI. Newport News 1855. Petersh;.s-
2l-s10, Portsmouth. 17.4e!. Roanoke al
495.
The democrats want DO cut th-N-S
ent war tax 10000. 900. That Is right
II Secretary Cages report is correct
They say the surplus in 1902 should be
s109. .OO0. zoo. They wisely favor an in
come tax. They say less revenue i
needed.
The students at the university =
Alabama reyolted. They refused -
comply with military regulations. R4.
boys.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
A HUGE COMBINE.

A new monster trust has just been
formed. It is Of foreign ownership 100
which makes 1t worse. The great gun
makers in England is a firm known as
the vickers Sons and Maxim The hat
ter is the famous maker Of the Maxim
gun, we suppose II so. he is a native
of Maine. but long resident in Eng
land. They have absorbed 90 big Amer
fcan concerns-the Midvale and the
Cramp. paying for both $12, 5oo, 900. The
Baltimore Sun shows why the purchase
It says:
.'Domiciled in England. the firm can
not at present build ships for our navy
or merchant marine, CT make guns TOT
our army and navy. but our tarfn wall
and navigation laws Will have been
fianked when IL owns establishment In
this country. The firm will then be a
beneficiary of the laws that now ex-
clude its products In this respect 1t
viii resembel hundreds of other foreign
firms that operate works in this coun-
try SO as TO escape our tariff laws"
Every movement is 10 circumvent
and get the advantage. In the mean
time the long-suffering people are the
victims of the trusts, great and small
and especially the North Carolina
farmers who are the sufferers from
the great tobacco Duke) trust. and
have been for a half dozen years or
more. This new trust will be. as sug-
gested by the Sun. something of an in
ternatioral trust. There are others.
but none 50 gigantic. The Sun takes
hopeful view as to its limitations and
says:
AT present this firm is perhaps not
in a position to corner the shipbuilding
and gunmaking industries of both the
United States and England. That
would be too large an enterprise to at
tempt, in view Of the existence of such
competitors as Carnegie in this coun-
try and the Armstrong; in England. to
say nothing Of the great steel works
of Germany and France. There are at
present many hostile factors"
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18

General Julian 8. Carr keeps his
watchful eye on the confederate Sol
diers Home, at Raleigh. to which he
has already generously contributed
more than once. He will call a conven-
tion OF the veterans to memoriaiize the
legislature in behalf OF the old necessi-
tous veterans of the great war. He
wants an increase for pensions and the
comfortable maintenance Of the in
mates Of the home. A most worthy
purpose. No doubt the patriotic legis-
lators will be ready to aid in so good a
cause.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
The Erie's New Purchase.

Scranton, Pa. December 13.-TAe
Presidents Thorne and Smith. of he
Pennsylvania Coal Company, to5ay
gave official confirmation of the sal. Z
all the mining property OF the Pennsg F.,
vania Coal Company and other ALI, :
coal producing interests to the T.
railroad, the deal for which has been
pending for some days. The properly
involved includes twenty-five min
workings in the Scranton and PittstoH
fields. producing 2.000.0 900 tons of coal.
and employing $500 men and boys
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18

1t is announced that General Thomas
F. Toon, the mperintendent-elec of
the public schools in North Carolina,
has appointed as his chief clerk a very
worthy and competent gentleman. at
Lumberton He is a teacher Of much
exDerience
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
HOME FOLKS.

In Wake county alone the Baptists
are very strong indeed. Take these
figures and marvel at it. They are re-
ported to have 100 churches and more
than fifty preachers.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
Appointments by the President

Washington, December 13--The pres
ident today sent the following nomiTa-
tions to the senate:
Judson G. Clements. Of Georgia, to
be an Interstate commerce commits
sioner-a re-appointment.
John w. Yerkes, of Kentucky, to be
commissioner of internal revenue-the
nomination OF Mr.. Yerkes to be collec-
tor Of internal revenue for the Eighth
district Of Kentucky Withdrawn.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18
cause.

The exact vote for senator was 1os,
9OS for Simmons and 47.T96 for Carr
majority for Simmons Sc. H.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-12-18

Explorer Baldwin, of q. S. Weather
Bureau. will adopt the Franz Josef
1and route.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-17

Ter were detailed for the duty. Tae negroes.
however. had gotten wind that the police
had been sent for, and when the officers
arrived they had quieted down considera-
bly,. No arrests were made, because the
negroes were now on their good behavior.
About Il o'clock the train was started
again. the excursionists this time behav-
ing pro. erly.
After waiting three days for s5.44, with
which 70 pay costs OF his arrest and buy a
marriage license. john Wallace
yesterday morning received a five
dollar bill from his employer,
and the county giving him the II
cents, he was happily married to Mondy
Taylor, who had him arrested last week
The ceremony was performed in the court
room by Rev. Sunne Binford
William Ross was tried by Squire Lewis
yesterday morning for stealing a watch
from John II. White. OF Barton Heights.
The case was sent on to the grand jury.
which meets the I'd Monday in Septen-
Der.
Constable Cyclone Samuel is visiting
his constituents in Varina District, and. in
order 10 keep himself busy. is handing
around warrants. His friends are all glad
to see him. nevertheless his pressing invi-
tation to some Of them to attend him back
TO the jail
Clerk Waddill yesterday morning issued
marriage licenses to julius S. Hobson and
Jessie S. Potter, both of Henr!co
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-17
THE RETURNING ELKS.
They Arc Pleased With Their Reccp-
ton at Atlantic City.

The rest OF the Richmond Elks have re-
turned from Atlantic City. They report
having had a glorious time.
Had there been a majority vote on the
question OF where the next Grand Lodge
should nret, Richn ond would have won
hands down, but only the past officers Of
the Lodge are privileged TO vote on the
matter. and they took a different view
Although sorry that Richmond failed TO
obtain the conveluon, the Richmond Elks
generously acknowledge that Milwaukee
was euttied to it. having been hard at
work for three years to get it.
The work done by the Richmond dele
CATION was most excellent. They were
everywhere in evidence, and almost every
body thought that Richmond would win.
There is scarcely any doubt but that the
Grand Lodge will come here in 1902
Captain Frank w. Cunningham. the
popular City Tax Collector. was one OF
those who returned. He is high in his
praises of the reception which was &C
corded the Richmond delegation. He spoke
very highly of the courtesies shown them
by Judge John y. Fprmhan, of Saratoga
Springs, y. Y, and many of the north
erners