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

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fered a prize some months g for
which there was not one contestant. 1t
was 81, GOO 70 be given to any business
man having an income of so. 900 a year
who would make affidavit to the fact
that he a been absolutely honest and
truthful in his business for a period of
thirty days She concludes that ali
dealers are rascals. Tie honest dealers
did not care for her offer. and the cor
rupt fellows may have feared exposure
IL they sought the prize. There are
9th classes who do business every day
and they are generally rightly est1mat-
ed in the communities in which they
live. The News. takes an
optimistic view and says.
1T would be risking nothing to say
that the great majority of business men
are honest and truthful. tor the very
simple business reason, If no other, that
dishonesty and ntruthfulness consti-
tute the poorest business policy In the
world.
The idea has so grown as TO generally
prevail among educators that education
Is not the thing it has been cracked up
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athletics. Kicking a ball is believed to
be absolutely essential to expanding
the brain. 1t is at least doubtful IL the
greatest men of the world-the GEN.
tenarii hOmines - ever KICKED a ball or
belonged to an athletic club or a trav-
cling company of base balllsts. 1t has
been insisted that the growth. the up
port of educational centers depends
upon the attractions offered in athletic
games. There are signs in the north Of
q change of opinion as to the import
ance of kicking and jumping and so on.
President Eliot. of Harvard University
has no superior among the heads of
colleges and universities. He recently
expressed himself that he is convinced
that the standing Of a university in
athletic sports appears to nave no in
fuence upon it's growth or success as a
creator of purely intellectual influence.
According to the annual report of Har-
wards president, those years during the
last decade when the university has
been most unfortunate in games of
various sorts have proven the periods
of greatest accession in numerical
strength and of increased mental at
tainments among the scolars.
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Colonel A. K. Mcclure, the able,
veteran journalist, continues his long
papers in the Philadelphia Record, un-
der the head of Recollectons
of Half a Century" In a recent n
he states that Lincoln vas opposed to
all ~retributive methods aimed at the
south and opposed universal negro
suffrage. Colonel Mcclure says:
only a month before he had written
TO Governor Hahn, Of Louisiana. con-
graduating him as the first Free State
Governor. and giving his suggestions
as tC the elective franchise to be de-
fined in the new constitution. He said:
L barely suggest for your private con-
slderatlon whether some of the colored
people may not be let in, as, for in
stance. the very intelligent. and es-
pecially those who ave fought gallant
ly in our ranks. They would help in
some trying time to come to keep the
Jewel of liberty in the family of free
DOM The letter to Governor Hahn
was written before the surrender of any
of the confederate armies"
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Up north there are educated people
who are strongly anti-democratic, but
who are much interested in the course
OF the democrats in the congress rela-
tive to the vexed Philippine question.
The democrats are practically united
as to the unwisdom and outrage Of the
government policy and some Of the
speakers are talking out in meeting
In a manly. aggressive way. h able,
scholarly New York evening Post. in
dependent, says:
Fortunately he awakening Of the
democratic opposition in congress to
their great chance 10 be of service TO
the republic by forcing the fighting on
? the Philippine question. gives hope that
what is being lone IN the islands will
soon touch the public conscience. The
spirited debate in the house yesterday
is but the beginning OIL a month OF dis
cussion in which many truths are GER
tain to be aired. The democratic lead
eS and speakers seem to have made