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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-19

gun to migrate as the only way to
escape death. Some of these enforced
exiles landed at Los Angeles and
thence started for distant Hawaii. The
New York Worlds correspondent states
these melancholy and suffering exiles
had sailed. and the account is most
pitiable and shocking in h New Zea-
lander. "nick-named the slave ship
Twelve Of the party or 900 had died
since they left San Juan. The death
certificates give h causes Is PERM
cious anaemia,' which is not the medi-
cal equivalent for benevolent assimil-
ation,' but for lack OF blood and want
Of nutriment-' Their railway journey
had been in cars fouler than cattle cars
and more crowded. Their quarters or
the Zealandia are squalid and inhu-
manly cramped. AS the ship was leav-
ing, the mother of one of the youths
who had Just died. begged to be allow
ed to kiss her dead child's face once
more but this was denied to her And
SO the Slave Ship. with the free fiag
of the Republic floating at its mast
head. dropped down to sea with the
walls of this mother borne back upon
the breeze. A disagreeable skeleton
at n imperialistic feast"
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BREVITIES.

Wellman's Polar expedition will sail
this year or next yea The ship, Mag
dalena. is building INF Norway.
David B. Hill declares that "democ-
racy was not born to die" Well, 1t
certainly looks that way, considering
what it has lived through Of late
years.-Atlanta Journal.
1t is a tough party. 1t has stood a
dozen defeats and still lives. The kick
ers tried to finish it in 1896, but failed.
They helped to elect Mckinley, how
ever.
General Alger, late secretary of war,
insists upon reducing the Philippine
army, and not "a keep more than 25, 200
men out there TO shoot patriots.
The Emperor of China is awake o
He issue al edict urging the Chinese
to adopt foreign customs and practices
in order that the Empire may be reha-
bilitated and enter upon an era of pros
perity." If China should awaken too
and learn the drill and get efficient
arms it can give Europe and Uncle
Sam trouble with it's $50, 900, 900 of peo-
pie.
In West Virginia, in Calhoun county.
one Floyd Wilson, schoolmaster, had
been initiated" by a mob. Cause, his
misconduct with young girls who were
his pupils"
Mckinley appointed John G.. Capers,
democrat, to be U. S. district attorney
in South Carolina. 1t is understood TO
be a start for p white mans republi-
can party" VIII it be run by McLau-
rim? Stand of democrats.
Five prominent Cubans have beer
sent to confer with sly Mckinley. He
will pull wool over their eyes if they
are not careful
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DEATH OF COL. THOMAS c. Neil.
KENNY.

This community was much shocked
yesterday at the intelligence that one
of the oldest. best known and most
highly esteemed citizens, Col. Thomas
c. McIlhenny. was found dead in his
room He seems to have passed away
about bed time. as he was we'll and
out at 70 o'clock Tuesday night, He
had lain down across his bed and in
the dress he had worn that day.
He was in his 18th year and had
enjoyed almost uninterrupted good
health all his life. We had known him
for more than thirty years. He had
many noble traits of character that
attached him strongly to his friends.
He a educated at the University Of
North Carolina. was a gentleman of
intelligence and information, was a
worthy citizen, a genuine southron in
his makeup, an unfaltering confed-
crate in his beliefs and principles, a
true friend. a good citizen and a most
worthy son of North Carolina. Peace
to his soul. A great many personal
friends will sorrow at his sudden de-
parture and will hold in memory his
chivalrOus and honorable character.
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LAW-MAKING IN CONNECTICUT.

Connecticut has long interested us
both as a law-making state and a man
u%facturing state. Its laws in the past
have furnished amusement to imper-
tinent outsiders. while it's laws of lat
ter days are not without an element of
the funny. 1t has recently published
that school children are taught that
tobacco is a poison which no human
being should ever take into his system
in any FORM" That is the law. Some
Of the papers demand it's repeal, but
outside the law is favored as good. The
Boston Transcript says of the law:
Connecticut tobacco has played an
important part in national legislation
within a year. The quantity and quail
ity of her crop are the boast of her
citizens and of her statesmen, and
each party is laying claim to the lions
share of credit in advancing it's inter-
ests. The Poquonock experiment Of
growing the leaf under a cloth has pro-
duced results sc gratifying that the
governor in his inaugural message
urged the continuance Of these expert
ments, because hey meant millions of
dollars to the tobacco of Con-
necticut in the near future. 1t is very
evident that for a governor to officially
advocate the indefinite development,
commercially. of a substance which is
a poison and should never be taken
into h human system in any form,
is a strange position to take"
The legislature viii consider anotner
matter make bids for trusts. 1t wants
to spread out like New Jersey. 1t is
stated:
1.-THE new law will throw open the
doors on a plan arranged closely on
the model of the present law in Deda-
ware. The proposed statue amend
ment will impose a tax three-fourths
of the amount imposed bv New Jer-
sey n an annua franchise tax one
half of the New Jersey rate up to So
o 10000, and three-fifths above that
amount. 1t is understood that the lead
ers Of the legislature are backing the
bill. The income annually will be suffi-
cient to cover the expenses IF good
roads Improvement"
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DECAY FOLLO ED BY EXTRAVA-
CANOE AND SNOBRERY.

A republican government on these
shores has become indeed a most cost
ly, luxurious, burdensome thing. When
one thinks seriously of presen expen-
ditures, of the high grinding. unequal,
selfish, unconstitutional tariff, and the
tremendous trusts. that grow in a
night like mushrooms. it is enough to
excite the profoundest apprehension.
and to dread future years.
Royalty too is a costly thing. 1t may
be a luxury but it is oppressive. 1t is
not at all improbable that there is now
in the United States a very consider
able element of the people who would
be willing to add the trappings of roy
atty, and burden this country with a
court, nobility and enlarged snobbery,
already very large in this so-called re-
public. New York. Boston and other
cities would like this probably. 1.-The
Goldfish" and "green-groceres" nobil-
ity would like the addition of a court"
No people under the sun love tillers
more h the people of this country.
They pay willing court to all officials
and are as great "snobs' IS the immor-
tai Thackeray Whole of in his Book of
Snobs." Look at New York's -Four
Hundred" What a shame. a preten-
ton. The need the cautery OF the il
lustrious English genius. In this coun-
try, called as yet a republic, a man in
powers is immense call him president
and the "SnobS" will offer the incense
Of f1attery and bend the pregnant
hinges of the knee hat thrift may fol-
lowing f~awning." AS president he may
outrage justice, humanity and honesty,
offend the sober convictions of all hon
orable and sincere people. and yet there
are even some Of this better class who
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ways. While doing well enough in cot
ton mills and wooden mills. she has not
done all in that direction, and by "a
great deal. She viii do more n more.
The present outlook for prices may de-
ter to some extent.
But there are other and welcome
fields for widening industries. The his
tory of wood manufacturing at High
Point has been much written about in
the North Carolina papers. The sue
cess there has attracted attention both
to the north and the south. There are
now thirty-three furniture factories
and other kinds in a town on the South
ern railroad with but $500 population
That is quite marvellous truly. Think
of what has been accomplished within
a few years. The beginning of a new
business vas twenty-eight years g
when a Vermont man, w. III. Snow. be
gan to manufacture "spokes, handles
and shuttle blocks" He then branched
out. The Baltimore Manufacturers
Record tells Of the organization of the
first furniture store in 1890. The COM
pany soon enlarged. doubling the ma
chinery. Others quickly followed.
One started in 1890 increased its
capital from ST.. 900 to $780, 900 in a short
period. Another started in 1893, with
SIS, 600 capital. increased it to S24. 900 in
1897, and asst year added a new ware
house and finishing room three stories
high. a two-story cabinet room and "a
commodious show ROOM" Another,
four years old. doubled its capacity in
1900, added improved machinery, and
now has a machinery room go by 140
feet. two stories high, and finishing
rooms and ware GUS 40 by 100 feet,
three stories high" There are other
furniture factories, a lumber plant, and
establishments which make mantels,
tables, chairs, showcases, trunks,
spokes. collins. mattresses, bed springs
and excelsior, in addition to paint
works. machine shops, a tobacco &C
tory, two roller mills and a shirt fac
tory
What a taking story this is of enter
prise and common-sense and success.
1t is a fairy tale of splendid develop
ment on wise lines and we'll directed
energy. What has been done once can
be done again. Live men in a town can
make things hum, and fill the air with
a new music. High Point is a strong
object lesson.
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CATHoIr MISSIONS ~ CHINA
The French Government TO Look After
Their Claims for Indemnity

Washington, April 1S.-In the dis
cussion of Chinese indemnities, which
is going on at Pekin and also at the
various foreign capitals. it has been
developed that the French government
is DESTROYS of looking after. not only
those claims of distinctly national char
acter, relating to France and French
subjects, but also the extensive class
of claims of Catholic institutions and
missionaries. In making known h Il
desire, the French authorities have
made 1t clear that they look upon the
non-miltary claims quite as worthy of
consideration as those connected with
the equipment of military expeditions.
The extent Of these depredations to
Catholic persons and property in China
Is said to be yer large. owing to the
number Of Catholic missions maintain
ed throughout China 1t is said that
some 10000 persons. directly and indi-
rectly connected with the missions.
many of them native converts, have
been killed or injured during the course
OF the disturbance. Besides this. much
property has been destroyed and
damaged.
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A SUPERB OBJECT LESSON.

! NORTH Carolina can produce as we
said yesterday, a vast deal more than
she produced last year. We copy the
following handy figures from the Ra-
leigh Times:
North Carolina produced %, 790. $50
bushels of corn in 1900, which was
worth SIG, $50, 403. She produced $3.50, COS
bushels of wheat, valued at $4.SS7, S5S.
OF oats 5,O46, LII bushels were produced.
valued at 1920, 753. All. 2S7 bushels OF
rye were produced, worth SS12.57S. OF
Irish potatoes we produced 1854
bushels at S6S1. 25S. Of hay only lie. $50
tons were produced. valued at I,97S.-
S16."
North Carolina will never be indie
pendent until she produces every thing
consumed by her people. 1t is remark
ably adapted to fruit growing, but not
a fftieth is grown that should be. She
has the greatest opportunities for
fisheries and oysters. and yet she uti-
Lies but a small part. Then she has
great possibilities and opportunities for
enlarging manufacturing and in many
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q, Nassau s. New York

The entertainment, a O delightful
one. was given complimentary To- Mrs
A. NJ. Carter. The game OF hearts was
an entertaining feature OF the evening.
Mrs. ]. wayland Jones returned To
Wilmington this morning. having been
called 10 the bedside OF Mr.. Jones VINO
is sick.
Mrs. Harris. Of Spencer. is visiting
the family OF Mr.. l. d.
\ box car of the sout.abound Atlantic
Coast Line freight jumped the track
TO the south Of the city this morning.
causing a few hours delay-damage
very slight.
The rehearsals OF the ameteurs who
VII present a Scrap Of Paper at an
early day for the benefit OF Emergency
hospital ia progressing very satisfac-
torily. It's presentations to our people
by our people is awaited with interest.
Governor Aycock made a flying visit
to his brother. Senator b. +. Aycock
last evening. returning to Raleigh this
morning. Senator Aycock. his friends
will be glad TO know, is now able to
sit up.
Rev. ]. D. Cole. OF Wilmington.
passed through for Rocky Mount to at
tend the funeral OF Mr.. James Marriott.
in the 2sth e Of his age
The Goldsboro Minstrel and Banjo
Club are rehearsing for their sDecial
performance. to De given about April
30th.
Phil. S. Dortch. son Of Mr.. II. p.
Dortch, left this morning for Idaho.
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will condone. and forget all he has
done. and even eulogize his character
at the expense of facts and truth. This
was not so fifty years Ago.. 1t ought
to be so now.
The times hav been out Of joint for
many years n measures and convic-
lions have changed. The moral stand
ard is much lower. Van Buren, was de-
defeated mainly for reelection in 1910,
81, SOC, 600, and had fed the country.
The administration otherwise was clean
and no charge of venality or malifeas-
ance could be brought against any 9TH
err officials. 1t that some were mad
way with now it would be re-
garded as a mere bagatelle and
would be forgotten in a year
or easil explained away. There
is d~ecadence. There is an immeasur-
able fall in the official conscience and
the people are to blame. for they have
lowered their own ideas and standards
so thai all of political tricks
subterfuges, fioppings. u%surpations and
ouI 1850 ~ oAoNA
or are received with applause. Look
at Mckinley, Mark Hanna and the
gang. 1t there were no decay in the
morad tone and character of the people
- the sovereigns as we'll as
among the politicians. they would be
held to very strict accountable
ity in all particulars from the
- - 49, 1z Tv-o- ~ E41-A
charge Of bargain n corruption"
kept Henry Clay from being president,
| so sensitive was the public honor and
so tender the individual conscience.
| The people would not stand any ccusa
/ ton of corruption among the greatest
and most gifted. and so prompt were
they to visit condemnation and rejec-
ton Upon the supposed guilty.
1t the people-the rs. 900. 900 of today
were as liberty-loving and devoted to
right principles as were the brave pa
triots of 1851, who went to war with
a much greater 1--WE rather than pay
/ an unjust tax of four cents a pound on
tea-which but few of them had ever
drunk or tasted-holding that taxation
without representation was tyranny, not
to be borne without protest and resis-
lance to the death-if the people now
were of that high resolute mould and
stuff of the noble men Of revolutionary
days, they would not have borne the
iniquities, the corruptions. the profit
gacy, the expressions. the h~igh-handed
tyranny and usurpations of the last
thirty years. Men in high places were
recreant to duty. corrupt. depraved
and they betrayed the cause of the
people. So far from receiving just, Sc
we're censure and eternal rejection, they
are the subjects of ornate eulogiun
and the Recipients of hozannahs, and
are held up in sycophantic news
papers as models of integrity, virtue
propriety and wisdom. while political
conventions will exhaust all fertility OF
expression and senseless drivel and
unctious slabber much to the disgust
Of men Of an opposite kind who revere
manhood and hold fast to the basic
principles of honor and truth and right
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Government Crop report

Washington, April 16.-The weather
bureaus general summary OF crop con-
ditions for the past week is as follows:
Over the greater part Of the country
east Of the Ricky mountains the week
has been abnormally cool n favorable
for termination and growth. Excessive
rains retarded farm work in the states
OF the middle Rocky mountain slope
and lower Missouri valley. while a large
part of the lake region, southern Flor
ida and California need rain. With
the exception of portions of the lake
region, Florida, Texas and California.
there is generally ample moisture in
the soil, and the conditions now most
needed, especially in the central valleys
and middle Atlantic states, are sun
shine n warmth. In Texas. where
it has been very dry. good rains have
fallen over the eastern and central por-
lion of the state.
Slow progress has been made with
com planting, none having yet been
planted north of the Ohio river, or
farther north than southern Missouri to
the westward. Poor stands are gener-
ally reported in the southern states,
where the bulk Of The crop a been
planted, and a portion is under Guilt
walton.
ed in the northern portion of the cot
ton belt and planting is general in the
central and southern districts. the cool
weather has retarded this work and
hat planted is terminating slowly.
In Virginia, the Carolinas. m Ken
lucky tobacco plants are very back
ward. but in Maryland they are in a
more thrifty condition.
While light frosts occurred as far
south as Tennessee and the Carofinas.
no injury to fruit is reported In the
districts east of the Rocky Mountains.
the general fruit outlook continuing
very promising.
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MORE NEWS FROM AND ABOUT
AFRICA.

The private cabIegram received at
London that states tina Gen. French,
the ablest of BBritain's cavalry sol
diers. has been surrounded and cap
tured by the Beers may be true. He
is the man whom brave General Chris
tan DeWet admires and says if he had
to surrender he hopes it would be to
French. A London correspondent Of
the New York Tribune makes this as
tonishing announcement:
The fact thal 1900 British soldiers
nave been beSeiged over three months
without anybody's knowing anything
about it is striking proof of the utter
~inadequacy of news service in south
Africa
What a comment it is on the man
agement of the wal on the part of the
Tory war office. The Philadelphia Rec
ord remarks hat neither the warriors
nor the war correspondents seem to
have known where they were at a
good part of the time since the war
began"
In this connection. wondering at the
tenacity, pluck and vitality of the
Beers. it may be not uninteresting TO
refer to certain ISLANDERS of the Beers
made by one Fitzpatrick in a book
entitled THE Transvaal from Within"
Who is ne anyway? What is his char
acter? Mr.. J.. A. Hobson gives a view
that may enlighten. OF this historian
so relied upon. he a of him and 9TH
ers. and it is enough to show nov
that Fitzpatrick lis a member of the
Eckstein firm. (the local branc of
Wernher, Belt & Coz and was one Of
the leaders of the Johannesburg in
surrection of 1895: Mr.. Lionel Philips,
whose recommendations on settlement
were fully reported in h Times, is a
partner in the same firm; Mr.. Hosken,
another widely-read authority, is an
importer of mining machinery, an ex-
director of the Dynamite Company,
and a director of the Transvaal Lead
er. a newspaper started in the spring of
1899 to bring matters to the test of
battle; while MeSsrs. Rudd. Hayes,
Hammond. Robinson. Farrar, and 9TH
er men, whose voices resound through
h British press. are directors and en-
ployees of those leading Rand Com
panies which have calculated the mill
ions they hope to make from the result
of the war"
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GOLDSBORO GOSSIP,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Court Per
SOnaIS.

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Goldsboro, n. c., AprIi 10.
The nominating convention to select
our next mayor is called TO meet in the
opera house on Monday night. The
convention bids fair to be a very large
one. Friends of the five candidates are
actively at work and it is thought each
candidate will have his full strength
at the convention The candidates are:
George E. Hood. Earle A. Humphrey,
Ex-Mayor d. j. ~Broadhurst, Ex-Mayor
J. II. Hill and Mr.. c. F. Herring. Con-
census of opinion SO far as 1 am able
TO learn is that Hood is in the lead and
will carry the greatest number Of voters
to the convention
The meeting OF the grand lodge Of
Royal Arcanum at New Bern wednes-
day bids fair TO be largely
Quite a large number of delegates pass
ed through today en route.
Special Commissioned. W. G.
Munroe, in the action OF Taylor VS..
HUFF, OF East Bend, Yadkin county. to
recover damages in the sum of $40. OOO
for false Imprisonment, has made his
report, giving Taylor damages 10 the
amount Of $3.50.
IT'S He, the famous laugh produc-
ing farce comedy has the boards of the
opera JUS Wednesday night.
Judge Starb1ck and Solicitor ARMS
tead Jones have a hustle on them and
are making splendid progress. Some
twenty-five cases were disposed of yes
terday and today.
Thomas Ruffin camp Of
veterans asks the state board of edu-
cation to give southern published
books-especially histories and readers.
the preference in state adoption.
Mrs. W. o. Gattis entertained the
Tuesday Afternoon Club his afternoon
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EXILES

1t has been repeatedly published that
the conditions in Porto Rico are abom-
Unable and shameful. The Mckinley
gang made it a part Of the American
Union and then put up high tariff bars
to keep out its products, which was ev-
cry way infamous and stupid. 1t has
been mentioned in the Messenger that
thousands Of the poorer classes were
at the starvation point. and had be-
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HOME FOLKS.

There are many Intelligent. conscien-
tious, instructed me in the south who
do not believe i'm Paul Pryism and pa
ternalism in government. and who
have regard for the rights and privil-
eyes Of freemen. Governor Dockery, Of
Missouri. is doubtless of this number.
He is democrats and vetoed a compulsory
education bill, declaring hat 1.-The act
interfered with the personal rights Of
parents and savored of paternalism on
the part Of the state And SO it does.
It is doubtful If any man is a safe man
in a free state to- be entrusted with
power who favors sue a doctrine. The
trend is to hard laws and usurpation.
Watch! 1t is well that no such bill
passed the democratic legislature.
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The Messenger will never intention
ally lend itself TO an injustice or a mis-
representation. 1t was rather surpris-
ed when Mr.. Frank Winston was made
one of the new judges by Governor Ay-
cock: Nothing we said concerning this
was untrue. But Mr.. Winston has been
an active. very efficient and influential
worker for the democracy for many
years. He belongs to a highly intelli-
gent family and is himself a man of
decided ability and a capital lawyer.
We are assured by one whose admirable
and noble qualities we highly appreciate
and who knows Judge Winston init
mately, that he is a gentleman of fine
spirit and superior character-urbane,
sympathetic and full of tenderness, and
that he will make an almost ideal
judge. All of which we are glad to
learn and to print. We know nothing
of Judge Jones. another recent APP
pointee, but hear the most favorable re-
ports Of him. and that his election for
the bench cannot be improved in the
judicial district in which he resides.
Governor Aycock in his three selections
for the bench is believed to have made
no mistake, but a done admirably.