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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27

Lieutenant Colenbrander's force sur
prised a Boer laager in the Petersburg
district December 22nd nd captured six
ty prisoners.
Andrew Carnegie has offered n. city
o. Akron, Ohio, $4,000 for a free library.
the city to guarantee $1,000 annually to
maintain II. The offer will probably b.
accepted.
Captain Frederick S. Foltz. second
cavalry, has been appointed captain Of
the port OF Havana, relieving Lieuten-
ant Commander Lucien Young. United
States navy.
Southern Industrial Association. an
nounces that the convention of that
society called for Memphis during jar
uary had been postponed.
Lord Kitchener. in d dispatch dated
johannesburg. Monday, December 23rd.
reports the weeks results as being As
Beers killed, 25 wounded. 80 made
prisoners and 80 surrendered.
Captain Francis A. Cook, who is i'll at
the United States naval hospital III
Washington. is Improving slowly His
PHI stefan states that it will D. two
weeks before he will be able to he out.
]. NJ. Cornetzar, general agent of the
passenger department Of the Frisco
system in Atlanta has been appointed
district passenger agent of the same
road with headquarters in Memphis. He
will be succeeded by w. T. Saunders of
st. Louis.
a general order issued bv the navy
department today sets apart as a naval
reservation certain lands on Culebra
island heretofore selected by a naval
commission as a naval reserve. The
island lies to the eastward Of that
island.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
Problem.

In his interesting defence O. IN,
south Carolina ~dispensary system, Sen.
ator Tillman thus sums up the case in
Frank Leslie's Popular month"; foI
January as follows:
What is there about this method q
yelling liquor which makes ii superior
20 prohibition or to the license ssstenI
First Liquor is the only article OF
commerce in general use that 8 on
m at the time and place OF Its pur-
chase 1t is safe to say that three
fourths Of ii is thus disposed Of The
d~.spensary law enforces a d~iferen.
method by requiring the purchaser to
take It away as he would a package vt
shoes or a sack Of -four He must so
somewhere else than to the place vince
he buys il to consume Il.
second. The element Of personal profit
which lies at the roo of the saloon evil
Is destroyed. The dispensers receive
liked salaries proportIonate to the
amount Of work they do. They don't
get q commission on sales and have
no incentive TO push them.
Third. Treating is destroyed and
this does more for sobriety than posi-
bly, any other feature of the system.
The man who has bought a bottle at
the d~ispensary may treat one or a half
dozen Of his friends, to one drink and
that wiz be all. The inducement and OBJ
I-garion to reciprocate which are so
we'll understood do not exist.
Fourth. At sun down the ~dispensary
closes. 1t opens at eight o'clock in the
morning. The legitimate demand for
whiskey IS supplied during daylight,
and the dispenser having closed up his
place OF business, has no incentive to re-
open II TO make a sale. Under no form
or license is this possible. Besides ii is
a misdemeanor to make sales ia any
way or at any time except as the law
provides-Frank Leslie's.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
The Recorder.hip of Deed..

Now that the president has decided
not to reappoint Henry p. Chatham,
the incumbent recorder OF deeds. II &C.
ours to US to suggest that the present
offers q good opportunity for repudia-
ing a foolish and ~indefensible precedent
set UP by Mr. Cleveland in 1855
We have always regarded rs absurd
and mischievous the proposition that
any office. here or elsewhere. must BE-
considered as an asset OF the negro race
Mr.. Cleveland so considered IL. and
thereby did infinite harm TO Washing
ton in particular and the country in
general. But that IS no reason why
Mr.. Roosevelt should ~perpetuate a prac-
tice essentially pernicious. We a no
objection to the appointment OF negroes
TO office. We fully realize hat under
our form OF government IL Is logical. u
not always wise. TO reward the efficient
party worker with emolumen and
place. But, in our opinion, the negro is
not yet fit for authority and serious re-
sponsibility. 1t is not a question of ed
ucational or intellectual capacity. 1t Is
one OF character. training. and person.
ality. We are free to admit hat Cheat
ham is one OF the best specimens OF his
race He is perhaps better educated
than the average white man. He is GER
tainly endowed with good manner and
an attractive presence. But this Is not
to say that he makes a satisfactory re-
corder Of deeds or that he presents an
alluring figure as one in authority over
white employees OF both sexes. Nor do
we admit that his administration has
reconciled us to the custom OF which he
is the most conspicuous representative.
His office is the arena of all sorts of
1ealousies and feuds. The negro has not
the faculty of command. Nothing but
generalization and resentment. howev-
er stified. follows or can follow in such
a train.
Moreover. we hold. and have always
held. that the district offices, so far as
they relate exclusively to local affairs.
are not proper material for rewarding
campaign service rendered in other
parts Of the country This is especially
true OF the recordership, which has no
conceivable connection with persons or
things outside the district limits. The
Of this place should by every
rule of propriety and common sense. be
a permanent resident Of Washington. 1t
Is little short of an insult to the COM
munity to foist pon it a recorder
whom nobody knows, who is not and
cannot be in intelligent sympathy with
the ~taXpaying element, and who can
never, in the nature of things, become
identified with our interests. To import
into a local office of this character a
stranger of any color or condition is
bad enough. To import a negro is man.
ifestly oppressive and distasteful. But
worse of all is the proposition that this
or any other office under government
belongs by right and must necessarily
be given to a negro.-Washington Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
ROBINSON-FURMAN
Wedding at h Church of the Good
neutrality-suspicious. Court Decisions.
Messenger Bureau.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c.. December "a.
At the Church Of the Good Shepherd
at $50 o'clock this morning Miss Car
RE Dancy Furman and Mr.. Harry S.
Robinson were married. Rev. I. Mex.
Pittinger officiating. The bride was
given away by her father, editor Robert
ID. Furman. Of The Morning Post. Miss
Aartha Philips, of Tarboro. was maid
OF n and Mr.. w. E. Robinson.
brother Of the bride, was best man.
Directly after the widding Mr.. and Mrs.
Robinson left for Blair, the former
home of the groom.
At Auburn, near here, this morning
MISS Matte Johnson, daughter of one of
the most prominent residents Of this
county, was married to Professor Will
liam E. Dodd, of the chair of history. at
Randolph, Macon college. Professor
Edgar A. Thiel. Of Tulane university,
New Orleans. was best man.
"A large delegation from Stanly coun-
~ called on the governor today and
urged him to appoint r. L. Smith of
that county solicitor of he Tenth dis
trict.
The state files it's answer to the petit
ton of the three gold brick swindIers
VINO applied to Judge Purnell, under
haDeas corpus proceedings, to put their
A~o~Ao4 NodAN - H S"ll-
dlers have no case. This fact is well
understood here. They deserve all they
get IN the way of punishment: indeed
much more. Such is the public idea,
fully expressed.
The supreme court decides that the
o men who committed burglary at
the postoffice at Emerson, near Ashe-
Vile and attacked and nearly killed the
plucky young postmaster. must be
hanged.
As yet few negroes have been induced
by immigration agents to leave this
state during the past four or five
months 1t is asserted that there will
De a large movement northward as
soon as spring opens. Some Of those
VINO go will not return, while others
opo to return when cold weather
sets in.
Several officers made a raid before
daylight yesterday morning and after
lying in the woods near an Illicit distil-
lery, rushed it an hOur before day.
Three of the mOonshiners got away, but
the fourth. q negro. was cought and is
in jail here. He gave the Did excuse
that he did not belong there, but saw a
light II stopped to warm his hands.
The state superintendent of public
instruction is in a very dangerous con-
ditiOn- There is an effusion of puss in
the left lung and pleura, which he can
not lift. Tt is stated that his condition
is ven more serious thar at any time
during his Illness.
The fourth volume of the North Caro-
lima RegimentaI Histories is nearly
done Judge Clark says there is enough
matter in hand for a fifth volume.
lin 0Inl1IsES7I lX7u 9ql lqnOp on QoIQM
authorize.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
Prize Money Drawn by Naval Officer

We are indebted to the Washington
Post for the complete figures of the
bounty money in the Santiago and Ma
Mia campaigns. AS much misstate-
ment has been made it will be we'll to
give the leading facts here.
Rear Admiral William T. Sampson
has drawn from the government in
prize money $25, 1914 and he expects
about $40, 900 more when the Maria The
reSa case is settled. Rear Admiral
Schley has drawn s149.5 SO, and has been
allowed 1884. which is yet to he paid.
Captain F. Z. Chadwick, who was
with Sampson. has draw S4.026.08.
and has yet coming to him s4.321.50. in
addition to what he expects from the
Maria Theresa. Captain Cook, of the
Brooklyn, and Captain Clark. of the
Oregon. who were In the fight through
out. have yet received nothing. but
Cook will get s. ,190.32 and Clark s.. 9S9.
.O6. Commander Wainwright. one OF
the heroes of the war, will receive only
S4356S. Rear Admiral Watson gets
only S1S.35.
Admiral Dewey for his work at Ma
Mia has received in bounty $3.50. about
one-third as much as Sampson and
about one-half as much as Chadwick
who was not only not in the fight al
Santiago but who himself testified thai
he kept back an expression OF
ulation to Schley.
So here we have Schley. the man who
fought and won the battle. allotted les:
tina ~one-seventh as much as has beer
paid to Sampson and less than one-fftf
as much as the sum allotted To Chad
wick.
If these figures were not Official the,
would seem impossible. Comment 1
s~uperfuous. They constitute the mos
amazing injustice IN The recof ds of thii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Times Ind-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
\ Kentucky Feudist.

The time drew near when Tom
BAKER was to be tried for his man
crimes. Manchester, never quiet tho.
was oubbling with excitement. The
state troops were there to protect the
prisoner and to preserve order. The
town was so full of oeople hat tn
military could not find quarters, 50
tents were pitched IN the real OF the
court house, which were occupi4i nv
the soldiers with Tom Baker in their
midst. Early in the morning of t'le 10 =
set for the trial, while the gray heads
or the surrounding mountains were
swathed in bondages of mist, horscmra
could be seen emerging from dd.k de-
Tiles and sinuous by-paths, which led no
one Knew where. Up to the co~urtyald
encet they rode, with their rifles ac.oss
their saddle-bows. Before CROSSE ne the
portals of the house of justice tnpy
must lay down their arms, and 50 thew
stacked their guns against the wall Of
the building. and went in witn hearts
Of hate or hope. AS the heavy rcg of
morning gradually lifted before IT,. SIN.
Tom Baker stepped nom his tert au.i
stretched his gaunt arms with Il lazy
yaWn. preparatory to washing his face
1t was then that the peaceful AIR was
u with a sharp, whip-like report, and
Tom Bakers soul stood naked before 4
tribunal which canno err. Into the
midst of Governor Bradleys troops,
before laws very face, a feudist arm
was stretched and vengeance gratiied.
From the window of Sheriff Whites
mouse, which stood not twenty yards
away, some pale smoke melted into air,
The house was surrounded and search
ed, but the five men III it, including the
sheriff, knew nothing of the shot. There
was no proof, and Tom Bakers SLAYER
is yet unpunished.-Litsey in Frank
LeSlie'S.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
Almost Bames Imagination.

Marconi's marvellous experiments nat
urally find doubters. for 1t not only
strains the faith. but almost battles the
imagination OF laymen to believe that
from a signal pole in England to a kite
in Newfoundland recognizable signals
passed across eighteen hundred miles of
ocean. That such was the fact. howev-
er. there seems hardly the slightest
ground for doubling. In fact, Mr.. Mar
coni's published interviews on the sub
ject only heighten b confidence which
is felt in him as a mar of science. The
frank acknowledgment that a signal
rather than a verbal message was chos-
CT because the instruments are still too
imperfect for the more difficult test
shows the temper Of the scientist rathe,
than the headlong enthusiasm OF thu
mere inventor.-New York Evening
Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
HANDSOME CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
Mr. Borden Gives His Mill Operatives
an Equivalent of Higher Wages.

Fall River. Mass, December 24.-No-
tees were posted in the iron works
mills here today by NJ. c.. D. Borden,
owner, announcing that h operatives
would receive as a Christmas gift an
amount equivalent to an increase of ten
Per cen in wages for six weeks.
This restores to them the amount lost
in wages since the cut down at the
mills SIX weeks ago, when Mr.. Borden
;ook off the 10 per cent advance in
wages which a been in effect for two
weeks.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
The Pleasures of Childhood.

In a delightful story. in Frank Les
lies Popular Monthly for January, Ma
rion Hill thus describes the start for a
typical picnic.
That final inspection was always a
torturous affair. filled to the full with
cruelties and the unexpected.
Hugh was the first 10 suffer. One OF
the Powers caught him. SKINNED off
his hat. used her forefinger as a comb
TO part his hair on his forehead, then
delicatelv returned the hat to a spot.
which suited her fancy. He was Injured
to this by custom. But now 1t brought
about a discovery which beggared him.
why. what's this2" was her stern
demand.
Hugh expressed amaZement.
What's what'm?"
You know. This?" tapping a tin box
Worms murmured Hugh, sweetly.
with as soft an infection as if the
things were sleeping and he wished not
to awaken them.
We'll. of all the objects! Throw
them away!"
But mayn't we
Throw them away. I told you"
why. how can We"
4 wave Of the and more command
ing than speech. settled the contTover.
sy, and Hugh in one fierce fling ridded
himself of his all. representing hours OF
digging and sweat Of his face in plenty
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
HoETHEoUGD FRAN HAMLET.

passengers from train n, having Sew York AZ
200 p. m: Baltimore ~ 5:A5 o. L. Washington
700 p. m; RicsmorA 1915 p a; Poftsl.Sata
n, arriving at Hamlet at co - u frsn
train 8. eaying Atlanta SEQ o. N: Athsns
II:Z3 D. n; Chester 400 g. n Ckzriotts 80
o. m; Monroe $40 - n: arriving Hanist Ioo
p. m.
From train ee leaving Jacksonville 40 , n;
Savannah HIS .. m: Columbia 3:os - n ar
irving Hamlet 7:05 - m
Thrcsgh Pullman sieepa<S from Hanlstt 70 All
pointa North. South ana Southwest
Fss tickets Pullman reservations. etc. aeeu
10 Thomas d. Meares. General Agent Wiinine-
r. u L BUNCH.
General Panoeneee Ageat.
JAS u. BARR. lst Vice Pre-. and osar nsn-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
Trains I'm Collision

Salisbury, n. c., December 21.-An
eastbound freight ran into a passenger
train at Flats station, thirty-ive miles
east of here on the Richmond and Dan
Vile railway at midnight last night,
shattering the rear of the private car OF
Governor Crane, OF Massachusetts,, at
tached to the passenger train. Only
the fireman on the freight train was
slightly injured.
AZ statesmen busy at h Racket store
you can be waited on. Come.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
An ~EvangeIist's Story.

II suffered for years with a bronchial
trouble and tried various remedies but
did not obtain permanent relief until
1 commenced using One Minute Cough
Cure" writes Rev. James Kirkman,
evangelist of Belle River, III. One Min
ute Cough Cure affords immediate relief
for coughs, colds and all throat and
lung troubles. For Group il is un-
equalled. Absolutely safe Never fails
and a favorite with the children. r. R.
Beilamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
Disappointed.

Intimate Friend-How did you enjoy
your visit to japan?
Congressman Phresh-Oh. there's no
special distinction in a public man trav-
cling through that country. The blam-
ed heathens are so polite that they call
everything honorable" from a h o peg
to a mountain.-Chicdgo Tribune
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
Unreasonable Teachers.

The school teachers of Pittston, Pa,
have struck on account Of non-payment
OF wages due them. AS il is only about
twenty months since they were last
paid, it would seem as il they were un-
reasonably clamorous. II they were to
be paid now, they might ~squander the
money on Christmas presents.-Roches-
ter Union and Advertiser.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27

Under the provisions of the Philippine
tariff passed by a republican majority
IN congress, every vcsIige Of the funda-
mental law is abrogated.-Charlette
News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
Married Yesterday Afternoen.

at the parsonage OF Fifth Street NJ
F.. church yesterday afternoon at 40
o'clock the Pew. John n. Hall united in
matrinony M. Samuel w. Rowan. Jr,
and Miss Cora McLauchlii,. beth o. this
city.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27
The Naval Clique.

Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-27

Close connection 1t Atlanta for kontgone<y.
Mobile, New Orleans and all po1nis In Texaa-
Mexico and California; also for Chattanooga
Chicago. and weste.r and NORTHWESTERN pela0>
IRON EAALET.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-07
AMERICAN SUPERIORITY,

METER CURRAN, delegate of the
British trade unions to the con-
vention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. complains that the
worzmen of this country are too eff
fcient and work too hard. Said Mr..
Curran in addressing a meeting of Ia
boring men;
Your employers ere getting more
work out of the WOrkingmen than are
the employers Of the old country. and
the manner in which you rush in this
country would not be tolerated for a
single moment in England. There is
one thing L want to impress upon your
minds. and that is that your manufac-
turers are dumping their commodities
in our market cheaper than they can
he made over there. That goes TO show
that you are more efficient slaves"
With all due Difference to Mr.. Cur
ran, it goes TO show nothing of the
sort. Efficiency, skill and the interest
in ones work which results in his keep
ing steadily at it without any soldier
ing are not qualities which are found
in the slave. They are qualities found
only in intelligent. independent work
ing men with ambitions to better them
selves. They are the qualities which
have made it possible for the American
workman to secure better wages than
his fellow labOrer in Europe. They are
the qualities which have been and still
are Transforming employees into en-
.loyers and workingmen into manufac-
turers-
Peter has overlooked one important
result of this sans disposition to do a
great deal of work in d very short
time. If this Briton cf dyspeptic mood
viii look over the trade reports of his
country ne win learn that Americans
are building a number of bridges for
Egypt. TO be paid for by British taxes.
He viii discover that the highest bridge
in the world has just been erected in
Burma by an American firm, and Will
be paid for by the British government.
Locomotives and cars by the hun
dreds are going tc Egypt and South
Africa from American workshops, in
spite of protests from British manu-
facturers.
The explanation Of this anomalous
situation may be an answer 10 Mr..
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-07

Currau's indictment of the laborer
here. When the matter came up in
parliament, the government declared
the British manufacturers could not
deliver the goods in the short time al
lowed. neither could they make the
prices as low for the same class OF
work. The government would favor
British contractors when it could be
done. but the disparity between British
and American offers compelled them to
accept the BIDS from this country.
j. may be an industrial crime for the
American labOrer TO do more work in
the same time than does his British
cousin, but this same factor has helped
turn the buyers Of the world from
Britain to America: it has enlarged the
opportunities Of American labor. added
to its earnings and given it control Of
the greatest industries in every inter
national field.
: Mr.. CUrran might consider these
facts with profit to himself and his fell
low tTadesmen. Possibly he would re-
wise his Indictment Of the American
then.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-07

His friend. Francis Wilson, has this to
say concerning this unique life story:
'-ThCU-h written with a smile. this au-
to-analy DIS of Fields comes strikingiy
near the truth
"COnfesSedly careless in dress-matters
of the mind and heart being of greater
Importance to him-Field was rather
meJhodical than otherwise in all other re-
lst:or= Of life.
He had a just appreciation Of the let
terS and of bits of manuscript material
of people who were eminent or who were
E!-cl- to arrive at distinction in the
world, and he constantly impressed upon
friends and acquaintance the Importance
of preserving all such data.
out of this feeling came the Auto
Analysis. II was no unusual vanity that
prompted Field to write it. Mr.. Joseph
JenC-so-- once said to me that all clever
meE knew they were clever Vanity did
not consist in knowing ones cleVeTness.
but in Darading it So Field felt He
En9- that Il the world took an interest
in him, and II unquestionably did. il
would want facts concerning him. and he
determined the world should receive them
at first hand-from himself
This. rs ] believe was the real reason
he issued the 'AutO-Analysis and, be-
side exemplifying Fields forethought and
methOdiCalness, It served his stated pur-
pose to give these facts, confessions and
observations for the informa ton of those
who, for one reason or another, are con-
Stantly applying TO me for biographical
data concerning myself ~