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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

We once were asked by q half-drunk-
en- fellow on the cars as TO who was
Gains wife. he saying that it was Civ
ing him very great trouble We lately
saw a story OF the now famous Scotch
preacher. Rev. John Mcneil, that is
funny. He was at Cardiff. "One night
while receiving and answering difficult
ties connected with the Bible n relig-
ious life. he read out before a crowded
audience the following note from q
young man: Dear Mr.. McNeill-H You
are seeking to help young men, kindly
tell me who was Gains wife" The at
tention OF the audience was almost op-
pressive as Mr.. Mcneil proceeded to
answer. I love young men-specially
young inquirers for Highland I would
give this young man a word Of advice.
1t is this don't lose your souls saliva
ton looking after other peoples
wives"
Rev. A. A James at a Forest
Presbyterian church, South Carolina,
recently preached his fiftieth anniver-
sary People were present from
three counties. We learn hat the
church was first built Of big logs in the
days when there were many Indians in
that region-1751. In 1919 a brick edi-
flee was erected.
The learned and eminent Bishop Yves
colt, so distinguished for scholarship
and as being one of the two who per
fected the Greek text of the New Tes-
%o-,an% Elbow a O1-aaf MANY vparG If
toll and devotion to the task, who late
ly passed away, was a faithful divine,
and preacher of the Word of Life. One
Of his last testimonies Of the value of
Christian living was given to h Eng
lish miners to whom he was preaching.
He told them that the love Of Christ is
the prevailing motive for right endeav-
or and obedience to Christ he secret
of a noble life. That is the kind of tes-
timony that men are willing to seal
with the life-blood itself.
We notice a new work of some 5A
octave pages is out Upon theology. 1t
is an attempt by several writer's to set
forth what really is the present status
of Theology" From the fact that a
gifted Po%sitivist, Frederick Harrison,
the noted n excellent British critic
and ~biographer, is one Of h contribu-
tors we would suppose it to be a book
to be let alone severely. 1t may have,
however much that is valuable n
sound. Upon principle we never fol
with poison when we can get sound,
healthful food. We do not judge the
work as we nave not so much as seen
it. If it is sound and pure it would
not be wrong to read it. 1t is not sound
however as we see one critic says
."both sides are represented"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES,

Reports from the counties IN North
Carolina are favorable and. therefore,
encouraging as to education. There is
a boom" so to speak. The people are
getting awake and education becomes
popular and a necessity. The Univer-
sity of North Carolina has $40 students,
the largest enrolment ever made before.
Last year it was 521, we believe. Think
Of it now and in the forties when the at
tendance was from 14O to 165. Wake
Forest College has some 255, and ex-
poets more during the collegiate year.
We record with pleasure that at David
son College no hazing is permitted. 1t
is sc also as The Messenger has al
ready stated, at Wake Forest. 1t is
simply barbarism to ill-treat the new
students. The most noticeable novelty
in our state is the attention now given
to libraries for the schools. In the
north rich people delight to give of their
vast abundance to endow institutions of
learning and to erect libraries. Mr..
Carnegie greatly surpasses all records
as to the latter. B~enefactions when
given from right motives to educate the
people are to be highly praised. Train
the mind and give 1T freedom. 1t is
a wise movement on the part of the
state which it undertakes, as a con-
to appropriate money to help start and
support free libraries in the counties.
At present the state library at Raleigh
has reached a point of magnitude and
variety to make it important to the
people. The library at the University
has, we think. reached 1000 volumes,
which is a very significant addition.
No system of education whether high
or low can be regarded as efficient
where the libraries are left put of the
DUN Blessed is the boy and girl
when they take to books in their early
years and love them above price. A
habit of reading is essential to devel-
opment, to being properly educated, to
accommodating knowledge which a. a
resource can be commanded throughout
life. Many a boy who did not love to
study text books has been saved from
stupidity and ignorance by either an
Unborn love of books or an assiduously
cultivated habit of reading. The elder
Pliny, who was lost at the destruction
of Pompeii, said "he picked something
put Of everything he read" A great
Englishman. Francis Bacon. Lord Veru-
lam, said that one should read not to
contradict or confute. nor to believe and
take for granted. nor to find talk n
discourse, but to weigh and consider"
That imparts a point we'll worthy of
attention and observance. DR.. Sam
Johnson held that it is all necessary to
read with inclination. and in that case
the impression made is stronger. He
said that eff we read without inclina-
ton, half the mind is employed in fixing
the attention." which is true as most
people have found out for themselves.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
book and that it is a viriIe. impressive
production.

Within a few months we made refer
ence to Interpretations. some by this
writer. 1t is s. to be deceived by
he memory. An examination OF
Bartlett would reveal to a student Of
literature cores. even hundreds OF
misQuoted lines or stanzas or couplets
from the poets. Byron. a truly great
poet, wrote when young with just
enough of learning to misquote." The
Latins and Greeks, and modern for
eign writer's are so misquoted as 10
make them Indifferent to their own
productions If they could see the
slaughtering. The more familiar it is
made the more it is sinned against
in acts, in thoughts and mis-
quotations. A writer in London Liter
ature gives some interesting examples
Of the abuses Of memory:
Tennyson wrote
For men may come and men may go,
But 1 go on forever" (not rolD.
s(The Brook.)
Wearing all that weight,
OF learning lightly like a flower (not
bearing).
On Memoriam. ConcIusion.)
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

Leslie Stephen is perhaps second to
no living English author in the vitality
and force of his essays, A few months
ago in the English National Review, he
had In elaborate paper on Shakes
peare as a Man." To n who loves
letters this essay is worth the price Of
hat number. The Incompatible poet
is written about in a way out of the
1t is very quotable but we
cannot afford to mutilate the copy.
He contends h a however universal
and impersonal Shakespeare is that still
a close study Of his writings will reveal
the man no little. His reflections on
his head are very entertaining and to
us original. The entire paper is full of
intellectual interest and satisfaction.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

We raised a question in a recent ed
1torial as to whether President Roose-
welt had written a life of Cromwell.
Two lists Of his writings we consulted
did not give this work. We had a de-
cided impression. however, hat he had
written a book of that kind. although
.unacquainted with it. Rev. DR.. Wells
kindly informs US that he has read the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

Some announcements are made as to
forthcoming biographies that will in
terest those who love this kind of en-
gaging literature. Mr.. Stephen is writ
ing a Life Of George Eliot" He had
a close personal acquaintance with
that great writer and misguided wo-
man. Mr.. Graham Balfour's "Biogra-
ply of Robert Louis Stevenson" will
soon issue from the press in two vol
They were cousins.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

Geo. W. Lane. Pewamo, Mich, writes:
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best remedy for indigestion and stom-
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times compelling me to stay in bed and
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pletely cured by Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.
II recommending 1t to friends who suf-
fer from Indigestion / always offer to
pay for 1t If it fails. Thus far I have
never paid" r R. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

Judge Waddill, Of the United States
district court of the district of Virginia
has appointed James Richardson, re-
ceiver for the Consumers Brewing Com
pany, which owns a plant at Roslyn,
Va.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

pJyS
He says that the situation is stronger
than it was two years age but a little
weaker than last year.
Georgia's true, faithful intellectual
woman. Mrs. W. H. FELTON,, a lady of
social rank, but earnest and brave, in
a recent article in The Atlanta Journal.
wrote this, and it shows how one in
tellectual, pure woman regards the in
fernal assaults upon the good women
of the south:
Il am no %apologist for any of the evils
or slavery. but / am the defender of in
nocence n virtue. 1 do contend that
the wrong inflicted on the innocent wo-
man by the black fiend that pursues
her like a canine with rabies deserves
no lighter punishment than such a
maddog would get when overtaken.
u a fiend has no claim to respect
or pity, in my opinion, and when identi-
ned such an unhumanized brute should
not be allowed to infest a civilized con-
munity a minute longer than indignant
and friends could dispatch
him. The spirit of fiendish vio-
lence and the epidemic of list which Is
now become in~tolerable to the citizens
OF America, in the north, east, south
west. has been famed into a blaze
by the smiling, snarling self-righteous
Pecksnifs attending the Ecumenical
council in London. Let them embrace
the rapist. in black if it suits their ma
ture and their understanding, but I
contend that southern Methodists in
good standing at home are now finding
themselves in the wrong pew"
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CLEANING AND COMMENT.

1t is to be hoped hat the. efforts and
plottings of envious naval officers to
disgrace the admirable Schley will be
completely foiled. Little by little his
lawyers are unearthing in court the
disgraceful conspiracy to humiliate and
disgrace the southron. 1t is now estab-
ilshed hat Captain Wise Withheld il
formation from Schley-did not tell him
what he should have lone. In fact
some Of Schley's officers did not co-cp-
crate with him as they should have
done. Wise had news of Importance
but he kept it away from the commo-
dore. He was in possession of the ma
Wy departments telegram telling him
to inform Schley that the Spanish ships
SO. And then it is known that Schley's
dispatches were changed as printed by
the navy department., all if which was
mean and rascally.
Hanna is talking now. He says
Roosevelt is a different man now, that
new and unexpected responsibilities
have rounded up his character"
Mark is playing the part Of eulogist
now. At first he was mum, but now
he unlooses tongue and lauds the new
president. But Marks praise hay be
selfish and the president will know how
to measure it. Mark says that he be-
lieves that he will live up to the ex-
pectations of his closest friends. I
know he is sincere in all that he las
said and done since death so suddenly
and cruelty look our beloved president,
William Mckinley, from our midst. =
He merits not only the confidence of
the republicans Of this country, but he
deserves the confidence of the entire
nation. and I believe that he has both"
Mr.. H. G.. Hester, of the New Orleans
Cotton exchange, puts the cotton situa-
ton now as follows. The worlds visi-
BILE supply on the Goth of September
was LAOS, sos. a little less than it was
last year on hat day. The countries
holding this supply are given as fol-
lows:
Great Britain and continent. 645, 900
Egypt 1000
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

ITO Admiral George Dewey. president
court OF inquiry, Navy department.
Barton County democrat., 1901-10-18
Queer Form of Hy.taria.

DR.. Dimopoulos, a medical practi-
toner of the town of Kutahia, in Asia
Minor, sends to a Smyrna journal par
ticulars of an epidemic. among
women of that town, which has prob
ably no parallel in modern expert
ence. About three years ago young
woman became subject to a form
of hiccough like the crow of a cock,
which resisted treatment; soon after
a second began to hiccough like .
cat mewing, and in six months there
were so women in the town affected
with what what may be described
as animal hiccoughs. exceedingly
varied. Braying, barking and sounds
like those made by the fox are in
cluded in the list. DR.. Dimopoulos
says that to be in a room among q
number of these women was like an
experience sof the forest or a me-
nagerie. Some men are affected, but
the victims are mostly women, which
is Ineligible If the doctors theory
is correct, that the disease, for which
he vouches, is a form of initiative
hysteria.-Pan Mall Gazette.
Barton County democrat., 1901-10-18

head of the stairs being utilized as .
dining-room On state occasions, and
it's northward end as the parlor.
Opening from the sides of the salon.
front and rear, were four large,
roomy, eilingedochambers-
Overlooking and partially over
hanging the street and extending the
length OF the house was wide in
closed veranda, well supplied with
tables, lounging chairs. and couches
of bamboo and wicker, its floor COW
cred here and Herewith Indian rugs,
its surrounding waist-high railing
fitted with parallel grooves lin which
slid easily the frames OF the windows
of translucent shells, set in little
four-inch squares, or the. dark-green
blinds that excluded the light and
glare of midday.
With both thrown back there
spread an unobstructed view of the
parade ground even to the edge of
| the distant glacis, and here it was the
household sat to watch the military
ceremonies, to receive their guests.
and to read or doze throughout the
| drowsier hours of the day. ''Campo
de eBagumgayan" was what the natives
called that martial fat in the strange
barbaric tongue that delights in ''igs''
! and "ags.'' in t'ings" and ''angs," even
to repetition and repletion.
And here one soft, sensuous Oc-
tober afternoon, with light breeze
from the bay stempering the heat OF
the slanting sunshine, reclining in a
broad bamboo easy-chair,a sat Maidie
Ray, now quite convalescent, yet not
vet restored. to her old-time vigorous
health
ITO Be Continued
Barton County democrat., 1901-10-18
BRIDGET'S GRIEVANCE.
She Went to Her Mistress Purse and
Found Herself Accused of
Theft.

The wife of clever detective is
said to have powers nearly equal to
those possessed by her husband, says
London Tit-Bits. Not long ago she
began to notice that sixpences and
shillings were daily disappearing as
if by magic from the "change purse"
in which she kept silver for small
purchases. She was inclined to sus-
pect one of her two maids, a sulIen
Irish girl, but was unwilling to ac-
cuse her. After some thought she
wrote on a slip of paper: Neither
Bridget nor Celia must take any
money from this purse" This slip
she put into the purse with some sill
YER and awaited developments.
Two days later Bridget came to her
and gave warning"
what is the matter?" asked her
Mistress Sinnocently.
It'll be going to another place. -
said Bridget, vindictively, "and it's
yourself that knows the rayson.e I'll
not stay in house where I'm ac-
cused of stealing money out of lit
tie ould purse that's nivver had more
than half suyran in it since I took
service heret"
Barton County democrat., 1901-10-18
HuMoR OF PHILLIPS BROOKS.
Little Flashes of Wit That Frequent
Iy Illuminated the Speeches
of the Famous Divine.

It does not lessen the dignity OF
Phillips Brooks memory to learn
from his biographer, Alexander V. G..
Allen, of Cambridge, that he had an
abounding sense of humor-humor
that crops out in fund Of anecdote,
says Youths Companion
To the person who wondered at the
possibility of the whales swallowing
Jonah he said: ''There was no diffi-
Guilty. Jonah was one of the minor
prophets"
Contrasting the ancient church with
the modern, he remarked that the
early devout tried to save their young
men from being thrown to the lions.
"Now," he added, ''we are glad if we
can save them from going to the
dogs"
A clergyman going abroad talked in
jest of bringing back a new religion
with him.
"You might have some trouble in
getting it through the customhouse, -
some one remarked.
"No," observed Bishop Brooks; "sve
may take it for granted that a new
religion would have no duties at
tached."
"A person, for the sake, no doubt, of
argument, once drew attention to the
fact that some men, calling them
selves atheists, seemed to lead moral
lives, and Brooks promptly disposed
of it.
''They have to-" said he. "They have
no God to forgive them if they DON'T
Barton County democrat., 1901-10-18

sticks seemed to get. / got hot, but
that had no effect on the sticks.
Later in life, when began to make
my journeys of exploration in the
wilds of Nevada, California, Arizona
and New Mexico, and I sometimes
needed fire, and didn't have single
match left tried it again; this time
not as an experiment, but as q serious
proposition. I'm considerable of
rubber, these days, but my rubbing
of the two sticks never ayailed me a
particle. I might as well have saved
my strength for saving wood. AT last
I made up my mind / was going to get
to the bottom of this idea of rubbing
| two sticks together. I knew that we
youngsters were often hoodwinked by
| what the books said, for well remem-
Der reading that even the great and
wise Franklin is said to have said that
| in diving into the water one must al
ways keep his eyes open or he will be
| unable to see in the water, the pres
sure of the fluid being so great as to
keep the eyelids closed. And, of
course, being in q book, believed it,
until one day, to my surprise. L acci-
dentally opened my eyes when under
| the water. I was so astonished that
| couldn't believe it, and opened and
| shut them again and again. Still be-
lieved the book and thought there was
something different in my eyes from
those of the eyes of other boys, and I
| asked them to try to open their eyes.
And in spite of their assurances it was
months before I definitely dared to
assert that Franklin was wrong, and
that it was as easy to open your eyes
under water as it was anywhere else
| (that is, of course. if you were not
/ afraid Of the waterj.
So here was another case of books
humbugging one. Why on earth will
men write about things of which
| they don't know, so that it takes
| simple-hearted fellows like myself
who believe everything they read a
long time to unlearn the lies that
have been unloaded upon them? For
Barton County democrat., 1901-10-18

mander, and Miss Ray and her now
earnest friend, Miss Porter, were re-
ieved by the desertion of their eld-
est sister, who preempted majors
stateroom on the upper deck.
Butt stirred up a new trouble by
promptly coming to Miss Ray and
bidding her move otit'.of that stuffy
hole below and take Maj. Morton's
( quarters, and bring Miss Porter with
her eff that was agreeable
1t would have been, very, but
''Afiss Rays head was level" as the
purser put it, and despite the snippy
and exasperating conduct of most of
the sisterhood, that wise young wem-
an pointed out 80 the shipma ster
that Nleirs vas 'semi-military or
ganization, and that the senior, Mrs.
DIR. Wells, and one or two veteran
nurses should have choice of quarters.
By this time Miss Porter's vehe-
ment championship. of her charming g
and much misjudged friend had ex-
cited no little rancor against her
self. The more she proved that they
had done Miss Ray injustice, the less
they liked Miss Rays advocate. It
is odd but true that many a woman
for being as wicked as she has de-
clared her to be than for proving her
self entirely innocent.
One thing, anyhow, Miss Porter
couldn't deoy, said the sisterhood-
she was accepting devoted attentions
from Mr.. Stuyvesant, and in her ca
pacity as Red Cross nurse that was
inexcusable.
"Fudgei" said Miss Porter. "If it
were you instead of Miss Ray he was
in love with, how long would you let
your badge keep him at distance?''
b The sun went down on their unap-
peased wrath that second night in
Manila bay, and with the morrow
came added cause for disapprobation.
Before the noon hour a snow-wh1re
launch with coIors flying fore and aft
steamed alongside, and up the stairs,
respleHdent, came Stuyvesant's gen.
eral with a brace of staff officers, all
three precipitating themselves on the
invalid and, after brief converse with
him, all three sending their cards to
Miss Ray, who had taken refuge on
the other deck.
And even while she sat rejecting
general himself followed the, card
bearer, and that distinguished war
rior, with all the honors of his vic
torious entry fresh upon him, in
clined his handsome head and begged
that he might present himself to the
daughter of an old and cherished
friend of cadet days, and seated him
self by her side with hardly glance
at the array of surrounding feminin-
ity, and launched into reminiscence
of "Rilly Ray as he was always
called, and it was some little time
before she could say:
"Will you let me present you to Dr..
Wells, who is practically my com
manding officer?" a request the gen
| eTal was too much of a gentleman
not to accede to at once, yet looked
not too much pleased when he was
Barton County democrat., 1901-10-18
THE WINDOW -wIsHERs.

Window-wishers. window-wishers, every
where we go:
In front of every shop and store they're
standing in row;
Some are old and some are young, sober
and gay,
Drifting III a wishing-drea as every NOR
tai may.
Mothers with their hearts of aove are gaz-
ing at the toys,
Wishing for the gifts to glad their precious
girls and boys;
Women. women, everyw Observation-Disclosures,
sisters, wives
Wishing for the joys they know would lift
their patient lives.
oh. that every empty hand might have its
fill of gold,
And every gift the wishers ask be theirs
to have and hold;
And wreathed with every happy dream an
- answer should be blent
Till all the hungry hearts might breathe
the blessed word content"
'Tis good the hapiess ones of earth who
feel Dame Fortunes frown
May yet a-window- wishing go through all
the streets in town;
For earth still holds its need of gold de-
spite its dark alloy,
So long as we may dreanS of things to fill
the heart with joy.
And life's a window-wishing play, ,ssince all
our feeting years
Were gazing at the great beyond" and
wishing through our tears;
But lover there" each thirSting rose is
kissed with blissful dew.
And every wish will be fulfilled and all
our dreams come true.
Nixon Waterman.sin L. A. w. Bulletin.