The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-28

PROFESSOR st george fucker OF wash
ington n Lee University, Va, and Dr..
Robert Frazer. president OF the state
female normal school at Farmville, Va
have resigned to join President c. W.
Dabney. also a Virginian, OF the Uni
versity OF Tennessee, in a movement
in behalf OF the southern education.
started by Mr.. r c. Ogden and other
rich northern men. The Richmond
CVa-) Central Presbyterian says of this
writing OF the three teachers: Just
n plans they havt in view for the
oetterment Of education in the south
and what form Mr.. Ogden's philau-
thropy will take hav not yet been dis
closed. The movement un~questionably
means something substantial for the
cause Of education of white children OF
the south. for the character and stand
ing of the gentlemen enlisted In he
movement is a guarantee of that" We
trust from it the greatest good to the
greatest number will be secured. There
Is a growing willingness in the north
at last to help the white children. Ii
has been said that ]. D.. Rockefeller and
Andrew Carnegie would participate in
a movement to benefit the south.
- e -
A very ridiculous thing occurred late
ly in connection with the White house.
A child of the president was licked and
the awful tidings were sent around the
world. These awful things should not
be. Think how it would shock the ma
tons. You could read his heading in
northern MISUNDERSTANDING from
the White House." In sympathy. fear
ing another child was serious sick you
read:
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.-Archi-
bald Roosevelt was roundly spanked by
his nurse yesterday"
Such n startling event could not pass
unobserved. 1t was sure to arouse the
slumbering muse of some jocose paper
or monthly. So Puck appeared with the
following from Edwin L. Sabin, and it
celebrates the appalling catastrophe in
fitting style:
Fast flew the tidingS in a trice,
Through city, town, and village.
The Northland paused in cutting ice,
The Southland stayed it's tillage,
The eagle screamed a rousing cheer,
The scales of Justice clanked-
What blows. that shock a hemisphere.
When Archibald was Spanked"
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n south in June 1900 had %, 500, 900 |
inhabitantS-increase in twenty years
A per cent. Suppose it a had that
population in 1860. What would have
happened? My! my" We copy some
figures in a condensed form but we be-
lieve they AVE all appeared in the
Messenger in different connections:
value of manufactured products,
1880. $457. 600. 900; 1900. $1,466, 600. 900; in
crease. 220 per cent.
Value of mineral products, 1880, SILL
0OO. 900; 1900. Sis. 0OO. 900; increase, SIC
per cent.
Value of agricultural products, 1880,
s571, OOO. 00e; 1900. 81. 200. 0Oo, 900: Increase
ITO per cent
Total value Of all products, 1880. 81
045, 900. 900; 1900. $2,7S ,OoO, 900; increase.
166 per cent
Wage earners in manufactures, 1880,
$205. 00G, 900; 1900. 1898, O00, 900. increase.
160 per cent.
Total productivity per capita Of pop
ulation. 1880. s64; 1900. s118; increase "a
per cent"
A Partisan Count anu his wife have
been travelling in his countrv and visit
ed the north. south and west. He was
by the New York Tribune.
said:
I'VE sail soon now for Gibraltar.
must confess that I do not find New
York the most beautiful or the most in
-eresting part OF your country Califor-
MIA oaCI1U "a rrioS off fhn nri0a &c fl1
finest section of the United States. 1
have been surprised at the number of
who do not know their own
surprised because so many of
them do know Europe. There are
plenty of Europeans who do not know
the other countries of Europe, but then
do not know America, either.
Americans are good travellers, but they
miss a great deal when they'd do not see
their own country first. I think that
he French, English and Germans are
every year coming more and more to
that they. too, have much TO
earn from the United States and are
coming here in greater numbers"
Think Of a North Carolinian going off
20 Europe to "sight-see-it," and never
saw the grandest scenery on the Amer
can continent outside of the Rockies
he scenery in Western North Carolina.
Know your state first, above all states.
Next know the south from Maryland
% Texas. Then visit the north and
vest. n if your money holds out ard
are not satiated then AXE your
;elf across seas and behold the old
n peoples and sights. But
We wish to say that North Carolina is
God enough for us, and suits us all the
way
Saved Him from TOrture.
There is no more agonizing trouble
han piles. Da WiIr ; Witch Hazel Salve
uI-,.S nile at or,,a ITpoo,aIlod Cor