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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

VIII soon be ushered In and now trAt
we have finished taking inventory OF
stock and gone through our store from
first to fourth floor: we lind we have
many desirable things to close out On
our first floor and in our Dress Goods
Department we have about loo
pieces Of Dress Goods and Innings. We
have the Rainy-day Skirt GoodsVn
wool and fine quality. worth CSC. now
45c. We have an all-wool Homespun
As inches wide, that we sell Tor Ssc.
We have several pieces Herring Bone
Serge that is worth T5c. now Soc In
all-wool Piaids we have several pat
terms. The regular wholesale price Is
37jsc, now to move these goods
will sell at % cents. We have TOUR
pieces all-wool Botany Worsted. ~
inches wide, good patterns. worth soc.
per yard, my price 33c. Cashmeres in
light shades for evening dresses, So n
SO. in wide at 1sc. 25c. &c. SSc. and soc
a yard. Several pieces Hamilton
Serges. regular price 15c. my price lie.
Yard wide Percales in Remnants for
sc per yard. White and Colored Pipues.
regular 12hc goods. for &c. Heavy
Printed Ducks and Bicycle Suitings,
worth 10c, my price &C per yard 10
pieces very heavy Colored Table Linen,
slightly soiled, in navy blue and white,
pretty patterns. worth Acc per yard.
We are selling at 1sc. The red n
white and green and white. fast colors,
regular soc quality, now going at 25c.
NOTIONS-We have ounce Jars
Vaseline for sc. A 10c bottle of Shoe
Paste for SC. 4 boxes Iarpe ack for
SC. 2 packages Clinch Shoe Nails for &c.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

AS the West Point ~disgraceful cruel
ties have attracted such general dis
gust and censure it is to be hoped that
the congress will stamp out the great
crimes not for four years, blu forever.
The promise of the cadets is but for
four years let the congress see to it that
never again shall great wrongs and
brutalities disgrace b national chool.
Public opinion has been SO sound, SO
united, so vigorous that it has COM
pletely triumphed, unless the congress
fails now in it's duty to all concerned.
The cadets saw the storm and o
shelter in a pledge. but it only reaches
the four classes now attending The
people will have no more of the devil
try or there will be a closing of the
sinkhole and the branding of h guilty
ones. Let the stencil forever cease
Nothing else will satisfy
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

Representative Rountree's antitrust
bill will be considered with interest in
North Carolina. There appears to be
much difficulty in reaching the greedy
oppressors. If his plan can do SO, or
mitigate it. His plan is to fix the prices
of a product n compel all engaged
in it's sale to conform to the law strict
ly. If there are no constitutional or
other objections of weight in way of it's
passage, it should be adopted in the
stead Of a better law, if there be one
possible.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29
~GOLDSBORO GOSSIP.
A Correction as to Former Complaint
Against the AIDE school

Correspondence Of The M-esseuger.)
Goldsboro. January 20
A news gatherer has all kinds of ex-
~periences. He goes forth to reap and
reaps not for the seed sown have not
sprouted. The time for disseminating
arrives. but he has nothing to give
forth. To manufacture wEil not suffice.
for this is wrong. besides, the public
want the ~news-those things that have
real life. things that have happened.
1t will scarcely do TO create and vet
there are times when necessity be-
comes the mother of Invention. He il
hit by a good streak and he praises and
he is a jolly good fellow and he is
patted on The shoulders. He presents
the complaints of citizens or offers a
line of criticism and people whose corns
are touched are indignant. II he be Oh
n alert and catch something that as
on foot and gives it out before some
~neighboring town competitor. why he's
too smart. and this Is the news gath
erers' experience
In yesterdays Messenger / lodged a
complaint Of several against the city
graded school that seems to be er-
roneous in toto and h faculty were
very indignant On the other hand a
large number Of citizens were delighted
that the COMPLAINT a been lodged,
and this morning offered numerous ad-
dztioIai criticisms. I discovered the
statement was in part and
determined 20 make the correction due.
This morning. at the request OF Super
sntendent F0ust and Professor Coker
/ called at the graded school building
and was put into possession OF state
ments that wiz be OF interest to ths
public and establishes the erroneous.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29
HOME FOLKS.

Governor Aycock has already ex-
ercised the pardoning power twice. 1t
has become a necessity, it seems, in
North Carolina in late years, to try to
override findings of the regular courts.
That invites lawlessness, and %lynchings.
Whether a governor always acts wise
ly or otherwise, it is too much power
to entrust with one man, however wise,
able and conscientious he might be.
He is fallible, susceptible and per-
haps easy to be entreated." A board
of pardons hould be created. The gov
ernor has enough to do, if he does it
well, without having to hear and ON
slider so many petitions and entreaties
for pardoning culprits condemned by
the law.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29
RANDOM REFLECTIONS FOR H
TIMES

A sea captain in Connecticut some
$50 or 200 ago was returning from
a three years voyage. He landed and
was walking the street leading to his
home. On the way he met his wife,
and quite becomingly aid naturally
kissed her after the long absence. He
was arrested, fined and put in the pub
lie stocks for two hours. Such was
one of the their popular Blue Laws OF
the ''wooden nutmeg" state. There
were other like laws equally as arbi-
trary, dnwise and foolish. When peo-
pie become fanatial and blind and one
sided and extreme n cut loose from
conservatism and right and wisdom
they drift out immensely far away
from the old safe ~harborage- The peo-
pie of a free country should dread and
oppose all paternalism in government.
But they do not. out favor it. They
should be very guarded in resorting 20
oppressive plans. If there is one bad
precedent set, fifty bad acts may fol-
low. The safe side is the best side.
There is a way that seemeth right unto
a man. according to. the Holy Scrip
lures, but the end thereof is death. The
cry now is, let all parents of 10Th races
be compelled 10 send their children to
school N 10 make the law efficient
and serviceable let us increase the
heavy burden of taxation i'm order to
carry out the law. There is a new
born zeal for education at AL risks
that is not far from the danger point.
Every man of observation knows what
a burden and curse are high taxes;
NAY, taxes of any kind. Money taken
from a man for taxes, low or high, is
clean gone forever" If taken i'm
properly, for subsidy schemes and 9TH
er corresponding outrages, then &C
cording to a we'll known decision of
is robbery" That high court held that
taxes for any purpose whatever other
han for to carry on the gov
eminent was robbery"
Education is excellent. 1t is the duty
of people to educate their children and
to help to educate the children Of the
poor. But ut is not necessary to take
Massachusetts, as a guide or standard.
That state has the richest population
in America, next to Rhode Island. Its
per capita average of wealth is greater
| than that of all the states save the
n named. North Carolina has the
lowest average Of all tn estates. say
President Winston, of the Agricultural
and Mechanical college. What sense is
there in pointing to rich Massachusetts
and saying to poor North Carolina
Behold, feel our unworthiness. Awake
and do as wei; as Massachusetts, or YOU
are eternaNy disgraced." That is about
as sensible and Just as to say to a day
Qaborer in any calling: Why do you
not give like Colonel Julian s. Carr?
You ought to pile up for beneficence
and especially for educational purposes
! like the multi-milEonaires all around
Massachusetts,.
Levy the very best tax that rs pru-
DENT, possible. without oppression, and
according to the known resources and
capabilities OF the taxpayers of the
state for educational purposes. Hay-
ing done what IS possible here. having
made the most generous appropriation:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29
Receiver ola Big COmpauy

Tampa, Fla, January 25.-T. c. Tai
iaferro has been appointed receiver for
the Ybor City land and improvement
company. This is the first result Of
the legal fight between the Ybor and
the Manrara interests. The property is
worth over $500, 600.
Receiver Taliaferro had turned over
to him So, 900 in cash. as well as other
assets of the and the business
will proceed as usual, pending a final
settlement Of questions at issue. Tai
iaferro was required to give a bond of
$40, 900.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29
Revolt of Emigants on -hip-Hoard

Honolulu, January 5, via Victoria,
January 25.-As the steam packet Keau
Hou was leaving Honolulu for one of
the Hawaiian islands, Wednesday
night, one of a number Of Porto Rico
emigrants drew a knife on the master
of the vessel. The vessel signalled for
the police and an effort to take ashore
the captains assailant brought threats
of a general revolt Of the Porto Ricans.
Two police then remained board the
rest Of the trip. The trouble is at
tributed to lack of sufficient food.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

Many Wilmingtonians will regret to
learn of the extreme illness of Mr..
William S. Ashe, a promising young
man of Raleigh and son of Captain
Samuel A. Ashe, held in high esteem
in North Carolina. He was called on
not many months ago to sorrow over
the death of another dear son Of good
parts, and now another similar vista
ton is threatened. God comfort and
support them all.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

If the solons at Raleigh shall take
spendthrifts in the federal congress as
their standard for rectitude and exem
lars in spending they will pile UP a
great sum in taxes hat will indeed
fairly astonish the natives" Big ap-
preparations are advocated in newspa-
pers, and they may be in touch with
the voting power. Go slow is good adj
vice if well taken in many things.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29
Death OF Colonial McGonnir)e

Nashville, N. c., January 25.-Colonel
Andrew McGonnigle, United States ar
my, died here lastnight. Hewas a distin-
guished officer during the civil war.
He was court-martialed in 1875 on the
charge of conduct unbecoming an Off
Ger and gentleman for cursing and
threatening to cane Captain Charles
P. Eagan, who was afterward made
cOmmiSSary general.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

Mr.. William B.. Walsh. a writer OF
some merit, in 1.-The Literary Era,
says of Marie Corelli. English, who
writes such vile novels that are SO
much devoured:
For the author of The Master
Christian" might inscribe upon ner
banner not only No Popery,' but NO
Grammar No Knowledge. NO Man
ners.' If example means precept then
she is no greater enemy of the hrst
than of all the others"
He says his style is ''turgid, POM
pous, inflated" Mr.. Henry P. Keenan,
in the same monthly says:
There is u one French historian
of the first class who dIstorts incidents
and misreads documents to establish a
theory-Michelet. He owns frankly
however, that he is partial"
Mr.. Owen Wister. the we'll known
Pennsylvania writer and traveller, in a
notice of Stedman's Anthology Of Am
erican Poets,' says:
You will find tina east. and west,
and north and south have written a
wealth of poems Of genuine truth and
lovliness, such as you could never nave
imagined in a community where the
voice of machinery is so lou and the
voice of art so submerged"
That is a more favorable view than
we gave from another source lately:
The ninth b~eatitude'' was written by
Alexander Pope on the 9Th Of October
1927. in q letter to the poet Gay
blessed is he who expects nothing, Tor
he shall never be disappointed
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

est, justest writer upon history that
New England has eve produced His
work on Waterloo" IN one volume. is
an important contribution to the vast
literature or that most famous battle.
The Messenger wrote OF it W or three
years ago at some length and in de-
sayed admiration.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

Dyspepsia is difficult digestion, due to
the absence of natural digestive fluids.
Hoods Sarsaparilla restores the diges-
tive powers
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

Many remarkable books have ap-
reared within three or four years,
books to read and re-read. Mr.. w. L.
Cloves. an English writer. is publish
ing a comprehensive history Of the
British navy. Five volumes have thus
far appeared. The last one gives us
.sTrafalgar'' among other battles. Mr..
Gloves is evidently a truth-seeker
and a truth-teller. He is like another
British author. Mr.. Morris. who can
write fairly, appreciatively, even ad-
miringly of the great Napoleon, the
great genius that all other British
writers had abused.
We refer to Mr.. Cloves for a rather
surprising but dispelling passage that
probable evoked from JOIN Bull a
strong stare. and even a hearty oahh
of denunciation. He writes. and many
will read il with interest:
Most OF our great victories have
been gained by superiority OF num-
bers': + he goes on to say that the
victory OF Trafalgar was due, not TO
superior foresight CT strategy or BRAY
cry, but to the presence with the Brit
ish fleet of a sailor of genius, whose
like England will probably not see
again. The lesson of Trafalgar, thinks
Mr.. Cloves. is (since England cannot
hone to have a Nelson for each hour OF
that Great Britain instead
OF relying upon any supposed superior
ity of her sons, and instead of trusting
to find a Nelson when he is needed
should take care always to have the
bigger battalinos. Ink with officers
bigger battalions. N with officers
and men as good as those of any other
nations. she may count on holding
her own"
The Dial. the best of American criti-
cal Journals, say this by way of COM
ment on the passage given:
..Such sober and practical words as
these are timely at a period OF restless
mijtarism and boundleSs aggression,
when it may be said almost without
challenge that every considerable power
save perhaps two. and certainly one
would regard with satisfaction Eng
lands definitive humiliation n rele-
cation to the second rank"
We note here hat Mr.. Morris. whose
life Of Napoleon appeared some few
years ago, is q thorough and fail
writer. He has recently published 9
large volume on Waterloo" that is
thought TO be unequaled and worthy OF
special consideration. 1t is. we judge
from criticisms upon it. a more impor'
tai t work even than that by the Late
Mr.. John F. Ropes. of Boston, the fair-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29
SALMAGUNDI.

You can generally recognize easily
coed literary work when you see il.
That is if you are up" in such things.
We believe that the most entertaining,
the most splendid. the most eloquent of
histories are modern. Gibbon, MacaU-
ley Green, FrOude. Goodwin Smith,
anG perhaps n or two others have
produced histories with a charm and
be-uty and interest o cannot find in
the modern histories before Gibbon.
anC in not one of the ancient and more
famous histories that have come down
to US. Nor can you find them among
the scores of recent histories hat are
simply immense in delving among ar
ohives and records and then are writ
ten in the regular D~ryasdust vein. We
are prompted to write this much be-
cause of a paragraph in the Baltimore
Sun that Is sensible and we'll done that
we think is deserving Of copying, be-
Heving it to be alike just and skillful.
and appropriate. 1t said some weeks
ago:
There is a discussion going on at
present among historians Is to the
relative merits Of ancient historians
and modern historians. 1t is asserted,
for example, that Thucidides n Taci-
tus wrote history better than it is
written now. We have better sources,
more abundant material and advan-
tages of other kinds. We include in
our persent treatment aspects Of his
tory which the ancients neglected.
Evolution and environment are eaten
words that suggest points Of view that
are entirely modern. Nevertheless
Tnucidides and Tacitus excel in sanity,
concfseness and clearness. if not in in
terest. They digested their materials
and compressed their narrative, eH-
Guiding Eysterical and irrevaiant emo
tfonaIism as we'll as excursions into
by-paths of narration
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-29

We record here a few jottfngs. En-
erson said of Charles Sumner that he
bad the whitest soul he ever knew"
Major J. B. Pond in his recent volume.
"Ecentricfties of Genius" says that
Wendell Phillips was the most polish
ed and graceful orator that our u
uy has ever known" He records a
rebuff administered to his father by
Charles summer who was on the train
reading in the drawiRg-room car The
Major, it seems. was n OF the John
Brown Kansas gang. Here is what he
tells:
Father stepped up and said: The
Charles Sumner? L haVe
read all Of your speeches. L feel thai
IL is the duty of every American 10
take you by the hand. h is my son
he has just returned from the Kan
sas conflict Honorable Charles sum
ner did not see father nor his son. but
he saw the porter and said: can you
get me a place where 1 will be undis-
turbed?' Poor father! His heart was
almost broken
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-29
The schIey Prccept.

The splendid tribute cf Vice Admi-
raj CeTvera, paid to the skill and
courage displayed by Admiral Schley
in the Santiago sea fight, and pub
lie criticism of the precept for the
instruction and guidance of the Court
of Enquiry issued by Secretary Long,
have greatly stirred the Navy Depart
ment II its head never appreciated the
fact before. he must now realize that d
bluuder was made in embodyi8g di-
rect charge of characterization against
Admiral SchIey in Article five of the
precept- and in language which not
only indicted him for the alleged Of
fence, but found him guilty of it as
well Such injustice and evidence of
prejudice are not the sort OF things that
American public sentiment is in the
habit of toIerating- It is reported, and
We hope with truth. that Mr.. Long is
considering the propriety of amending
the precept by eliminating the objec-
tionabIe article. He cannot reach an
affirmative decision too soon
He has done well in another respect
connected with the scandal An order
was issued today forbidding discussion
Of or comment on the case by naval Of
fcers- We heartily approve Of that &C
ton. although If the order be obeyed, it
will deprive our. readers of the frequent
and entertaining paTeticisms for which
we have been so regularly indebted TO
the eminent Observation-Disclosures of the
service. Still, FOR its good. we are will
ing to forego the amusement for a
while OF course it may be a question
If Sampson can be muzzled. At Least
We suspect that 1t viii be extremely
hard for him TO box and nail up the
only weapon with which he Is or ever
has been expert. However, MI. Long
course as to this is commendable. If he
Will act with equal discretion and fair
ness in the other, To which his attention
has been pointedly called by the voice
of popular opinion. he will find himself
in receipt Of further favorable mention.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-29
FOUR NEW STEAMSHIP LINES.
The Hamburg Company to
Extend Its Business

Richard Guenther. the United States
Consul General at Frankfort, Germany.
writes TO The State Department that it is
announced upon good authority that four
new steamship lines are TO be established
bT the neutrality-suspicious. Comnans-. The
Consul General describes these lines as
follows:
The .Jebsen' line, between Shanghai
and TsIHtau. This line was subsidized
by the German Government; It is propos-
ed to enlarge the service and extend it to
ChefoO and Tieutsin. the Hamburg-Amer-
lean line wishing to gain part OF the Chi
neSe shore trade.
The share held by the Bremen firm of
Rickmers in a line operated on the
Yangtze by the North German Lloyd. 1t
Is expected that the Yangtze commerce
VIII soon increase greatly. The North
German lloyd and the Hamburg-Ameri-
can Iae in this case work together.
The third project is that of a regular
East Asia and San Francisco route by
which Cusing the overland route between
San Francisco and New York; a more
rapid communication with the East will
he secured than by way of the Suez
Canal
The fourth enterprise is the purchase
OF the British Atlas line. operating be
tween New York, the West Indies, and
South America.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-29
PURE WATER FOR HAVANA.
The Cremation of Garbage AbateE "a
Nuisance of Long Standing


The people of Havana are seeing strange
and unheari Of things in their once no
toriousiy polluted harbor. From time i'm
memorial they have been accustomed 10
think Of the black and Shiny water that
washes their docks and quays as the most
natural and accepted thing. The harbor
is in effect a cesspool. without any 4 the
conditions of publication that most har-
bors enjoy. The tide which rises only
seventeen inches. is unable 20 lift the ac
cumulated filth of drainage from the city
out into the deeper waters of the sea,
and in consequence. all remains there -
corrupt and ferment the mass into a con-
slant source OF danger TO the health Of
the population that must traverse it All
this is as it once was.
HavaTa's circumjacent waters are now
as clean and wholesome as those of New
York. Boston. or Norfolk The result is
the achievement of Capt. Lucien Young.
the naval commandment Of Havana and
the entire coast line IF Cuba. Realizing
that the condition OF the harbor was
largely a matter of control and that the
habituai neglect and ignorance of the
Spanish officials of the port had made
the waters. of the harbor what they were,
Captain Young determined when ne took
change He stopped the dumping of gar
baRe into the harboT. and inaugurated
system Of cremating as much as could be
burned of the city's refuse. The rest he
decided TO tow to sea, to be dumped into
deep water. Every morning four or five
big barges are taken FIVE miles outside
OF the harbor loaded with the mass Of
Nth cleaned out of the city during the
night
strict watch is kept of all vessels in
port and they are not allowed to throw
anything overheard that will poIIute the
water Recently a vessel captain was
fined SIS for throwing the refuse from
the dinner table over the side of his ship
In this way. under the fear of a fine or
Imprisonment, every deck hand sailor.
shipmaster and roustabout around Ha-
ysna is made 70 observe the new order
Of things, and the harbor has been clean
ed Pelicans may now be seen far I'D
inland near Havana watching for fish.
The ColOred boys are enjoying the sport
OF catching FISH at the mouth of Slaughter
House Creek-somethinE that no living
man IN Havana ever saw before until
captain Young came with his castiron
rules Of sanitation Far from being an
unpopular thing. this strict control of the
harboT Is received with q good natureCi
philosophy by the CUbans and they have
not been slow 10 express their thanks TO
Captain Young