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Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

Plain-spoken people in denouncing
the newly formed shovel trust will be
likely to call a spade spade.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

Unless a man has will power to burn
he has no business trying to make love
to girl who jars the scales at go.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30
Pigeons Great Flight.

The Belgian pigeon which won the
great race from Burgos, in Spain, to
Brussels, did the 700 miles in fourteen
hours.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

Some people can't keep their mind in
one channel long enough to go crazy,
and are entitled to no credit for being
sane.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

Au American locomotive has badly
beaten an English engine in severe
test in Jamaica What, again?
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

If a man amounts to considerable
people don't mind his being little con
ceited.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

"Gate money" is what the father of
several pretty daughters is called upon
to put up for repairs.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

Every time family moves it should
select smaller house; otherwise it will
not have enough furniture left to ill 1t.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

A man never objects to having his
hair cut at cut rates. but he draws the
line at cut-rate shave.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

The wigmaker is a locksmith that
love never laughs at.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

American money left abroad by tour
lists may have to be sent back for
American wheat.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

Many man who is color blind is
capable of feeling blue.
Holbrook argus., 1901-11-30

If you abuse the sheriff on the testt-
uony of o thief who has been arrested.
you are not honest.
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Hastily repeating the order and tim
ing it he pulled the signal board.
1t lacked but fifty minues until No.
lwould be due and the special had pass
ed the last telegraph station before she
reached E three minutes ago.
Without it was now blowing perfect
gale. The rain fell in torrents and loud
peals of thunder rent the still night air.
Swans Creek bridge was full two
miles away. Could the bridge be made
in the face of such a storm before the
special arrived there?
Telling Peterson, the night switch
man, to see that the switches were all
right and to guard the crossing care
fully, Harry hastily put on his gum coat
started out into the darkness and storm
upon his perilous task.
AS he passed the section house he
thought he saw the outline of a man as
the rays, from his lantern penetrated the
darkness; but no time could be spared
to investigate, so on he sped.
Let us leave him to continue his way
|
the station and see what it is that
caused him to imagine he saw a man
lurking there.
AS Harry passed the section house
the form of man crouched nearer the
little building, as if afraid of being de-
tected, but as Harry's form disappear
ed in the darkness, the man gradually
| QcCIO1nd n r1nriohf r1ncjfinr1 nd aie,
ing his cIinched hand high above his
head. he muttered:
My time of vengeance has come, you
railroad sneak! You think l have for
gotten the whipping you gave me, but
III show you! 1 see the signal board
out for No. s, and I'll turn it back
again! Then see what my revenge isr
Gliding stealthily from the spot, he
fastened toward the depot
In his hurry Harry had neglected to
close the door leading from the waiting
room into his office, and it was but the
woIk Of a moment to steal into the lit.
tie Office and pull the lever which holds
the signal board in place.
A. Jamison passed silently out into
the night once more, after carrying out
the first part of his hendish plot, pail
of dark glittering eyes followed hin
with a suspicious look.
'EWhat can he be doing there at this
time of night?" unused the person of the
dark eyes; surely he is about no good
Why did he slip into the office sc
stealthily and pull the lever? Can il
lie possible he is plotting to wreak some
revenge on Harry? III follow him an(
see;" and the mysterious person came
forward from the shadow and we set
II lady closely enyeloped in a water
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JHarry, the Hero.
10ARRY ZEALAND was the night

III a oDsFato Fn at T :ns The s1 a's n
~ pOrtant junction point of a rail-
road centering at one of our large west
ern cities.
He was not more than two and TWEEN
ty at the time our story opens, tall and
of commanding figure, with a frank,
open countenance, large, blue eyes, and
light, wavy hair. He was Familiarity
called by all his acquaintance Hand
some Harry"
Mothers held him up as an example
for their rising sons, and he was con-
stantly sought by all those having mar
riageable daughters. He was the very
soul of honor, and no one had dared
whisper scandal to him since one even
ing, some two months previous to the
opening of our story, when he had Sc
verely punished rough character
named JamisOn, for passing light re-
mark about Mary Strand, young lady
of the village.
Jamison took the whipping in sullen
silence, but when Harry let him go he
turned round and shook his fist at Har-
ry, eXclaiming:
''I'll be even with you yet, you rail-
road sneak" and then he skunk away
out of Harry's sight.
''You had better look out for him,
Harry, or he will do you some injury,
| yet" spoke out one of Harry's friends,
who had been an eyewitness to the
fight.
III take care of that, never fear, I"
replied Harry. mo one can insult such
pure, innocent girl as Mary Strand
without recalling it. He's coward at
heart, and would not dare attack other
than the fair name of some defense
less lady. He will keep away from me
in the future"
Two months have passed since the
evening of the fight, and still Jamison
has attempted no revenge; in fact, he
has rather seemed to avoid Harry and
would cross the street when he saw
him coming, rather than face the scorn-
full smile that was ever sure to greet
him.
But there was the lurking demon In
his eye, and the malignant look he
would cast after Harry BODIED no good
1t was like the calm that precedes
the storm and needing but a breath OF
wind to rouse the hidden force and fury
into raging tempest.
Our story opens on the evening OF
July %, 1882. The day had been very
warm and sultry, but as the sun began
to sink toward the west, great banks
of black clouds began to appear, an(
by night the sky was hid from view.
AS the day agent was about to leave
he beckoned Harry aside and told hin
to keep a sharp eye on the movements
of the night switchman, as he had beer
drinking hard all day, and had beer
seen in the company of Jamison anG
another suspicious-looking character
late that afternoon
Promising to watch the switchman
Harry went about his duties as nigh
operator. But the arrival of No. anC
the questions to be answered soon caus
ed the agents warning, for the time, tt
be forgotten.
IS. B., S. B., 10, K. d." was wha
the wire was swiftly clicking, and ever
watchful Harry sprang to the telegraph
key to answer the dispatcher's call ant
take the train order:
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Operator: Hold No. at E. until
special train East has arrived there
Have the switches blocked and crossings
guarded as special is running fifty miles
per hour. Be sure that Swans Greek
bridge is all right.
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sees him start across the bridge, and
starts to follow, but turns back when
she hears the roar of the flood. As she
reaches the bank the bridge parts with
Il crash and she sinks to the ground,
stunned by blow from piece of tim
Der. But the blow was but glancing
lick, and the falling rain soon revived
her.
Springing to her feet she starts to-
ward E. to notify the trainmen of
the washout; but ere she has gone a
hundred feet she hears the roar Of the
approaching train and sees the head
| light as it rounds the curve.
What shall she do to save them? She
has no lantern and but a few matches,
which it would be next to impossible to
light with the rain falling in such tor
| rents. But with a glad cry she sees the
clouds are beginning to break, and in q
| moment the moon peeps from behind q
bank OF clouds and then suddenly
| comes into full view.
Hastily tearing her apron from around
| her she ties it to a stick and applies a
! match. But a sudden gust of wind
blows it out. She attempts 1t again,
| but this time the match breaks off! She
n"ov has but one match left, and the
/ train is speeding toward her, and an
4 other minute and it will be too late
But with a steady hand she shades the
Il match until it is blazing brightly and
then applies the blaze to the torch. Al
the small fame leaps up she swings the
I flaming torch high above her head. She
\ grows faint and sick from exposure
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25
HAZING.

The cadets al West Point have heard
something drop, and it was heavy, a
mighty thud. They have also felt
possibly some sharp prickings Of o
science if that article remains among
them. AT any rate they have voted to
abolish hazing. which is an important
first step in the direction Of honest re-
pentance. If haZing were to continue
it would be for a short time for the
school would be closed and the students
with it abolished. Here are one or
two extracts from religious journals.
The northern Presbyterian Banner
says:
Much more also pToved-thatt a dis
graceful state of affairs has e per-
mitted by the officers in charge Of that
public institution. A standard Of man
hood and of morals has been set up by
the young men in that school that is
more akin to the rules OF the prize ring
than to the rules of gentlemanly con-
duct and the principles of righteous
ness. What SORT of education is this
for officers in our army? Has this
some connection with the brutal spirit
that is so often charged upon military
men, and with the umerou intrigues
ClIu OClEO SiS LIN Cyl
ions that SO frequently disgrace their
prOfeSSion?"
The Western Chicago Interior, pres
byterian) says:
ct goes home to every father and
mother and stays with them. They
have sympathy and solicitude for other
boys second only to that which they
have for their own. An act or a Senti-
ment may be right and not popular, or
popular and not right: but a thorough
overhauling and cleaning up at West
Point, and a reconstruction of the in
stitution on lines of Justice and de-
cency, would be right and very popular.
1t is good military tactics also. Those
.~ruffians and hoodlunls are not fit 10
be officers in an American army"
Columns could be easily filled with
citations from leading paper secular
and religious, in determined cersure of
the brutalities practiced at West Ioint.
They are almost equal in cruelty ard
degradation to tho-e now giveE to the
world by two leading Englishmen III
China as practiced ny the se-callrd
Christian soldiers in that deplorab,e
land. Let the congress kill haZirg for
ever at West Poin-. The Baltimore
Herald should name those colleges 1t
SAYS that practice hazing almost as
UNANIMOUSLY as West Point does. Turn
or the light. Let the country see
which are the barbara schools or bar
barrie education.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25
wArrEnsoN PRAISES MRS. STOWE

We hav seen but attempt to be-
little Hopkinson Smiths opinion in tbs.
south, and that is by Henry watterson,
editor Of the Louisville Courier Journal.
He has a great estimate of the genius
Of the Stowe travesty of the south,
and thinks she told the story very cor
rectly. Nothing can be farther from
the mark Mrs. Stowe no doubt report
ed correctly so far as she went. But
take exceptions for the rule and to hold
up the south as composed of people
cruel, merciless and mean. Mr.. Smith
is precisely right when he declares that
the book is vicious and appalling in its
effects. The Charleston News and Cou-
rier discusses the vile book with it's
accustomed force and d~irectness. 1t
here. He is certainly a brilliant but
an cratic writer. The Charleston con-
temporary says:
Mr.. Smith, we think, was very near
the mark in all ne has said in the Her
aid interview, n the writer in the
World makes some very effective points
in his Short letter-especially as TO the
swift evolution of the semi-barbarous
African into "a saint in one genera
ton, under the institution of slavery
in the south, and the fact, which is
usually overlooked, that the despised
and depraved william of Mrs. Stoves
was n of her own people, a
native of New England. For the rest,
what is to be said, really? The book
had it's purpose" and accomplished it
admirably. That it was not a true and
faithful picture of the conditions of At
rican slavery in the south, need not be
asserted"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25
NOT so SWIFT TO CURSE NOW

1t is something amusing 10 see how
many of the northern papers torn down
under the awful examples OF lynching
in h supercilious north ever ready TO
censure the south and read essen on
the barbarism of the white people in
the south. Even the more censorious
religious press is not quite 81 swift to
point to the mote in the southern eye
since it became So apparent that there
northern eye. The Charlotte Standard
gives his in it's last issue concerning
an bile Presbyterian contemporary in
the great north:
1.-THE Interior has never been 50 Sc
we're on Southern ~lynchings since its
editor was asked by a man in Alabama
the pointed question. what would you
do with a negro brute who assaulted
your daughter or sister? L would kill
him if 1 could get at him. was the
prompt response. and the editor a
only this small hole to crawl out by
when ge got home to Chicago, L would
try to kill him, but the neighbors
ought not to let me do it The Int
rior has this to say about the kidnap-
perS of young Cudahy:
HC Ih1OCL vi l11C ~ put
out the eyes of their innocent captive
is a bad setback to our protest against
l%ynching. We can only put special fer
vor upon the petition. deliver us from
temptation
w had thought of advocating
hanging as the legal penalty for kid
mapping, but perhaps it YOU be bet
ter for the whole community to turn
out n hunt the kidnappers and be
allowed by law to shoot them at sight,
Between the burnings, ~hangings,
shootingS and haZings in the big sec
ton the people up there" are now
having full hands. and a great deal of
heavy sweeping to do before their own
filthy doors. Sweep on beloved, for you
need it nightly"
The Messenger all along has been
careful to reply to and expose the ig-
norance and blundering judgments of
northern authors, newspapers, and pull
piteers upon the whole people of the
south. Many men of the south have
hurled back the ISLANDERS and abuse.
Baltimore had a few years ago a high
ly cultured, eloquent. accomplished
and admirable gentleman and lawyer,
Hon. S. T. Wallis. He said this on an
occasion of interest:
"And when they tell us. as they do
those wiser, better brethren of ours
and tell the world to make it history,
that hat old southern civilization was
half barbariSm, we may be pardoned if
we answer: Men do not gather figs
from thorns, nor from a bramble bush
gather they grapes. Behold its pro-
due and its repreSentative-there is
Robert e Show us his fellow!'"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25
At the State University.
Correspondence of the Messenge

Correspondence of the Messenger.)
Chapel Hill, N. c., January 10.
The legislature now in session at
Raleigh contains a large number of
university alumni, both in the senate
and house. Of the new state Officials
just ~inaugurated. Governor Aycock
and Secretary Of State Grimes are
university gradutes. Thus, in furnish
ing men and leaders to the state is the
university fulfilling it's highest duty
and is performing we'll the work that
it is intended for. Through all the his
tory of the state many of it's greatest
men n most patriotic citizens have
received their training and formed their
characters at this place, and SO the
state should in some measure recog-
nize this performance of duty well
done, and the legislature should surely
relieve the pressing needs of the col
lege.
The money to be asked for is abso-
1utely necessary. Old buildings must
be improved. The w~aterworks system
is positively necessary for the contin-
ued good health of the students, on
account of the remarkable growth of
the institution, more professors are
needed in several of the departments.
The time has come in this state, when
the university hould be given all it
needs, that it may continue to Work.
1t is a state institution and all parties
and sects and people should rush to
it aid. A more earnest and conscientious
faculty could not be gathered together
and a more loyal student-body does
not exist. But conscientious and 10y
atty does not pay for service or improve
mentS, and SO we must depend on those
in charge of all the states property to
provide for us, for the university is the
states most valued n valuable piece
of property.
The students have about completely
settled down to work after the holi-
days. Lectures began soon and many
new men entered after Christmas.
Thursday night in Gerard hall. DR..
J. William Jones delivered his famous
lecture on Lee the Soldier. A large
audience paid close attention and were
very enthusiastic. Dr.. was an
hibernate friend of the great soldier
and is better able to lecture on him
thai any other living person.
Mr.. Whitehead KlutZ has resigned as
editor-in-chief of The Tar Heel and he
was succeeded by Mr.. B. S. Drane,.
Much genuine sorrow is felt here at
the very untimely death of Mr.. j.. J..
Croswell, Jr., at Fayetteville this week.
Mr.. Croswell was a member of he
class of 'O3 and was in college last year.
He was very popular with the students.
and the news of his death has thrown
a gloom over them
Work is progressing on the new
building now being erected out of funds
~bequeathed to the university. The new
domitory is to be named Mary Ann
Smith Building after h donor. 1t is
in the western part Of the campus be-
tween the New West building and the
residence of Professor Gore.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25

on His Ma5esty's Service to the North
ward, which horse not being returned
o u committee submit it to the House
IL the same be allowed Is pounds.
Agreed to by the House. but resolved
that the practice CT impressing horses
by persons sent on expresses Is illegal
and that for the future no claim OF
that sort be allowed by the pubiicA
willis Ellis. of Rowan. was allowed
2 pounds. 3 shiliings n s pence for en-
tertainment of h Indians
in the year 175s and Thomas Allison
pounds. 5 shillings for a steer for the
Catawba indians.
Your committee recommends TO the
House that a proper allowance be made
for the taking OF ten Indian scalps
prepared by Colonel Hugh waddell
and Mr.. John Frohocks. taken by a
party OF Volunteers who went ont at
their own expence 100 dollars. Allow
ed by the House.. To be equally divid-
ed amongst the adventurers { n pro-
portion to the number OF scalps taken
by each respective company.
Mr.. Joseph Waters allowed the
sum OF 60 pounds proc. money, for a
negro man called Tom, condemned
agreeable to an act OF Assembly OF this
Province directing the trial of slaves.
The said negro since reprieved by His
Excellency. The committee are OF
opinion hat the House order him TO be
SHIPPED of by the Treasurer to reimburse
the Public.
Mr.. John Dalrymple was allowed
so pounds proce. money for a negroe
man called Jack which was shot break
ing his Masters House and he being
runaway.
Mr.. John Walker was allowed his
claim of one pound, 10 shillings and 4
pence for burning a negro fellow in
Duplin county.
Mr.. Jacob Lash was allowed 4
pounds for dieting a partie Of scouting
men sent out by him who has not
charged anything for their time.
Captain Alexander Gordon was al
lowed 10 pounds for a scalp not SUNNI
ed up before.
John Roberts vas allowed 60 pounds
for a negroe called Jack who was exc
cuted for felony at New Bern being
the second offence
Richard Spaight, Esquire was al
lowed his claim of so pounds being he
valuation money for a negroe man
slave to him belonging called Cats who
had been outlawed and wounded in ap-
pretending and died of his wounds in
goal.
William Peacock was allowed his
claim Of so pounds being the valuation
money Of a negroe slave called MorroseI
who was burnt for murder in Duplin
county.
THE estate of James Parker was al.
lowed 20 pounds for a negroe ma man,
ed Caesar who was executed for the
murder Of his master
Edward Rasor, sheriff of BERTHE, was
allowed 3 pounds for his trouble in the
trial and execution of the said Caesar.
Mary Ward, admix, of Benjamin
Ward, of Onslow county. decreased,
allowed her claim of so pounds for
a negroe condemned and executed for
poisoning his late master"
F. A. OLDS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25
DIVORCE LAWS.

A memorial is on foot to have the
congress to pass a divorce law for all
the states. to be uniform throughout
There is much need for a we'll drawn,
Christian law to govern for most CT
the states have forgot God and HIS
Bible, and in fact His world. in enact
ing such abominable bills and bids for
lust. Thus far. it is SAID ~thirty-hve
states and territories have appointed
commissioners on Uniform Laws
and even the American Bar Assocla-
ton has taken action and caused 10
have drawn a bill which it proposed
to present to h legislators or the
several states. We hope that Nortn
Carolina will be included. for 1T is now
in very bad need of a wholesome, wise,
Christian law of divorce based on the
Word of Jehovah. The bill or the bar
does not provide we regret to learn,
for the cause or causes of out
simply, the method of procedure 20
North Carolina a rel no help as 10
framing a wise, Biblical law from the
American Bar Association 1t Is d
oraat shame that is upon this country
now divorce laws so low. so numerous
as to the wilful destruction
Of homes and the spread of lust The
charlotte Presbyterian Standard has
this bearing upon point:
ssThe southern states would not De
willing TO give up their comparatively
n,Ire laws regarding divorce TO aoope
the low average which the DAKOTA laws
vaorld bring, but it has p pee an
unspeakable scandal ~ isDs
80. own state by simply moving
for a few days to another. And I'M uhs
mean lime Christian sentiment snemd
dem the re-marriage of diyor(s'
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25
THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
Before the Legislature Begins in Ear
nest Cigarette Makers Not to Fight
the Proposed Law.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., January 81.

Raleigh, N. c., January q.
Governor Aycock today signed the
commission of Congressman E. w.
Pou. The other commissions la near
ly all been signed by Governor Russell.
Representative Carter, of Duplin
county, this morning received news
hat his father was last night para
lyzed.
The battle of the books, before the
legislature, is now beginning. Agents
and attorneys are. numerous and in
creasing.
1t is learned from a prominent attor-
ney here that the cigarette manufac-
lures have decided not to pay any at
under the decisions of the United States
if it become a law.
Some years ago DR.. J. w. Johnson.
served a term in the penitentiary here.
now he is in for another term, as
"Bechter." He contends that he is not
Bechter, but Johnson, and has institut-
ed habeas corpus proceedings. The
case comes up here tomorrow before
Associate Justice Montgomery at cham
bers. 1t is a case of Identification.
A letter comes from Michigan to the
~penitentiary here saying Roberts
alias Lyman r. Blair, of New York, is
wanted there for forgery. Roberts is
the man Governor Russell pardoned at
the request of Governor Odell, of New
York, and then tried to rearrest.