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THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER: FiUDAr, FEBRUARY 25, 1898 A WISH XIIGKO INSTKUCXOK ."Booker T. Washington, president of "!Tuskc-see Industrial School, In Ala aina, is generally regarded by the prces as about the foremost man of bis race now living-. Unlike Fred Zoula3 he is net "gingercake" in oolor nor one-tfhdrd or more white. He is a negro. He has no little ability and wisdom and Is doing- an excellent 'work for his race In his state. He ia 4oLso showing his breadth of vision as weTl as accuracy of racial study by his utterances from time to tdme. He late ly wrote an article for the New York Independent, the old, famous abolition organ of the past. "What he says is worthy of public attention, and par ticularly of the ignorant north that neither understands the negro question nor the sou-Uhern .Whites. We find the "Washington Post saying (we d not see t.he In-dc-pf ndent) that his article is fmOst interfusing and significant," and that "it is worthy of note that he does Kt find the negro improved after more than thirty years of freedom. On the oontrary, he finds the race, taking it as n whole, less respectable and b?.3 ef ficient than it was und-T slavery. There ar-. casr.:a in whk-h colored men Biave acquired a showy and more or fle.s3 isvful (duration, but thi masses of the colored -p.--:plc have nc.lt advanced in any important rc.-pect." Not having seen th'? original article we are pi eased to copy the following part from tiie Ioat -f the negro president's article: "I would be the last to apologize for -the curse of slavery, but I am sininly stating the facts. iJ.rfore the war if a 60uth( rn whiitc man wanted a house or a bridge built he consulted a negro me chanic about the plan. If he -wanted a suit of clothes cr a pair of shoes, it was to the negro tailor or shoemaker that he talked. J-lvory large slave plan tation in the south was, in a limited sense, an industrial school. On these plantations there wore scores of young colored men and colored women who were constantly being trained, not only as common fanners, but as carpenters, (blacksmiths, wbel wrigb'is, -plasterers, ibrickm.as.on-s, engineers, bridge build ers, cooks, dress-makers, hvuseket.-pers. more in one county 'than now in the whole city of Atlanta." This comes from the educated, ob servant negro man who has come into active life since the war. He is not of the old kind, but in respect to the edu cation and age of tha new. What he .says is certainly correct and yet It is a view no northern man ever took or ever dreamt of. The intelligent white ncn in the south know we'll that the education thus far has done but little Cor the elevation of the negro race, making them more honest, more truth ful, more reliable, more self-reliant, better citizens and of 'higher morals. ; Doubtless some have been uplifted and .made better in many ways. But as the Ist, edited by northern men, says "the negro is not bettered by a shabby .smattering of the classics and 1y just enough knowledge of the higher branches to make him impudent and discontented, die can do nothing with tiis half-way education after he re ceives it." The industrial school at Tuskegee is doing an excellent work in They get a practical education that makes them skilled workman and fits them for fiirt'Iur usefulness and suc cess. J 'resident Washington shows his Independence of mind and wise obser vation in this re-mark: "One of the sadd;st sights I ever saw," lie says, "-was the placing of a $300 rosewood piano in a country school in the south that was situated in the midst of t-h- black b it. Am I arguing against the teaching of instru mental music to the negroes in that community? Not at all. only I should tiave deferred these music lessons about twcnty-five years." The fact is that Mr. -Sambo had the iballot and the offices and the flourishes and trimmings to soon. He needed the experience of freedom, the benefits of discipline, the results of education be fore being so enlarged in h-'.s borders land being made such a dominating po litical factor. The practical and indus trial were too -much lost -Sight of. It was all a fourtfh of July oration with tiim with Christmas fireworks thrown in. Booker Washington ia a safe, ound teacher cf his people. HOME FOLKS. It is quite probable that Liuetenant -Jenkins, lost on the Maine, was a na- ive cf Granville and half brother to Captain R. A. Jenkins, of Salem, and brother of Mrs. Cicero Harris, known in TWilmington. She obtained a place at XAnnapolis for a brother, and the . Unfortunate lieutenant was dobutless vt.be. one who perished in the sinking of J trie Luaine. uranvme iusi aawiiK-i innMr. 'Morse. "CaiTain Buck Kitchin, of Halifax - r 7 r t cavtxitw Js out in another letter on the IhTeal':?dtuation. He is clearly de- .isirousj.totjefeat the rascals. The last paragraph, :is this and it is good read ing; ttsylV as truthful. Coming from one:,who:iSv'a's a year or so ago iden tfiar.,wiili, fh,e populists and united jaguirifet the -democrats with the old rad fcir thjng,"'ft ii significant and hope- "Jf. a-a-i4ubUkyin;Yr his principles are fitly be'lYeV'nnw than they were in the davs of reconstruction I have not dis coverrd Hti -.lt:l they: are any better iaftlitied.tti4goerit ithis country now. Cham thqy: wire rioi thepdays of Jeffer som and :Jacksohi,! they have not made St m an If us tU -Mark- Hnnna and com pany,'' Butkr,f iHJussellT and company tia.ve conclusively prbvfcn Iheir incapac ity; ' incompetency- and unfitness to govern- either s-'t'ate-'ori nation." SThe opinion is almost universal among North Carolina democrats that the democratic party must have no of fensive and defensive alliances, but make a square, open, hot fight against all enemies of the state in whatever guise or under whatever combinations they appear, inviting all friends of good government to unite with them in saving North Carolina from injury and in restoring to power the people who love the state and would have it to prosper. All true and patriotic North Carolinians should unite against the vandals. The most disgusting, dis graceful pages of this country are those that record the results of the combine in the last three or four years of legislation in this state. Let the honesty and intelligence of the state get together to put an end to such de pravity and prostitution of power such wrong doing and corruption among officials. EDXXOHIALi KN'TKIES The Messenger gave not long ago a very amusing anecdote concerning Bishop Wilmer, of Alabama, who is gifted with both wit and humor. We see in the New York Times another anecdote that illustrates the Bishop's facility in happy repartee. The Force bill was a very hostile bill to the south. It gave deservedly great olTence to all southern white men who had character and self respect. The story below turns upon the Force bill and the very obnoxious federal officials that meas ure o" repression and oppression in hand. The bishep said: "I was "written to some years ago by an editor of the north, who wished to know the reason for the solidarity of thi south. The weather at the time was cold beyond precedent, and our waters were frozen over. I replied to him in one sentence. 'The solidarity of the south is due to tha same cause that just now makes our "water solid r:r.'fi it-ndiy breeze from the north." Recently the Messenger contended that as a general thing the refined and merciful game of foot ball (as "she is played") was not favorable really (to proficiency of students in colleges and universities. There might be some rare exceptions. One was given but with intimations of doubt on . our part. President Eliot, of Harvard University one of the oldest and largest, with over 2,000 students a distinguished official among such officials, and -with opportunities of large observation of the -workings of the foot ball game, in his last annual report to the overseers I cf the great university, expresses the ! opinion that athletics and high schol arship do not harmonize. The Messen ger for years has discouraged this view. The Chicago Tribune says: "It has taken President Eliot some time to find out -what has long been apparent to outsiders. If he had pur- sued his investigation a little further he might have discovered also that athletics as practiced in colleges and humanity and gentlemanly conduct do not harmonize. This latter view of the situation has become apparent in several -western colleges, which are making a manly effort to humanize slug-ball and other games, but it is not on record yet that -the movement has received any encouragement from eastern colleges, notably from Presi dent Elliott's institution." Stealing other people's money is a great crime on the part of officials whether the sum3 purloined be small or large. They call it "breaches of trust," rascals rogues. How can there be im bezzlements." The true old word stoaMng, correctly describes the acts and puts the; right brand on the rascals re-gues. How can there be im provement in public morals, in the standard of official probity, in even pri vate honesty -when the stealings cf of- ficials are larger year by year. The New York World publishes -the oom pilation of statistics in the ' defalca tion" line as follows: Federal and State $2,176.S32 Municipal 1,418,271 Transportation companies 1.6S1.692 Savings and building and loan associations 879.791 Insurance companies 321,009 Banks 1,593.509 Court trusts 723,993 Commercial corporations and firms 1,478,918 Miscellaneous 653,159 Total $11,154,530 This total is between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 greater than similar stealings for 1S96. And yet in the face of such figures Poankers and ministers of the gospel in New York city say that the "standard of honesty is higher." If that is so it is limited as to number. "TOTE." "The recent controversy over the word 'tote' failed to determine satisfac- torily its origin The general opinion is that it is a southern colloquialism. This is wrong. 'Tote' has been longer in use in the woods of Maine than in any part of the south. Even now, the foresters of the Pine Tree state are dissected with 'tote roads.' These are narrow paths through swamps and over mountains, used by lumbermen for drawing or 'toting' timber to the main I logging roads. The phrase 'tote' has been employed in lumber camps even since the Maine forests were cut over the first time, and it has wandered away to the northwest, to Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Da kota, following the transcontinental rui Are gaining favor rapidly. Business men and travel lers carry them in vest pockets, ladies carry them Pills in purses, housekeepers keep them in medicine closets, friends recommend them to friends. 25c. trend of the lumber business." New York Press. By referring to "Our Living and Our iDead" for 1S75, you will find a brief discussion of thi word "tote" by this writer. We said it was in Chaucer and had the meaning that is given In the colloquial speech of the south. It can found in Chaucer, but not in the sense we stated. Some years ago we became satisfied of ourerror.Websterlong years ago spoke of it as a word used in the south. It is not used in the north cor rectly. We once saw this: A man told the servant to "tote" his horse around to the gate, meaning to lead him there. Tote" is used in the sense "to carry," and "to tote fair," a very common ex pression in the south, means to "carry" your end of the log fairly, or to con duct an argument fairly. We have heard the word used for more than half a century. The old English word was not Uci in the modern sense. TIIE hSUUJlOUS 1'luNSlON'S It is not surprising that foreign newspapers should be amazed at the huge pension outlay of the Unlu-d States. It is so vast, so unheard of, 6o corrupt that public journals every where might well stop to consider the monstrosity of the business. It is in deed most wonderful pension law that can tax the country from $143.0X, 000 to some $1SO,000,000 yearly, and that too thirty-four years after peace, and with an upward tendency in spite of fleeting years. It is the monster of all legislation, and a constant raider upon and robbing of the public treas ury of the people who do not draw a cent of the pensions, but have to pay it. It is the wicked, unprincipled nol- iticians who have this wrong and thus (burdened the tax payers. Think of the pensions aggregating the great sum of $33,077,383 in 1871, six years after peace. That was then regarded by honest men as quite enough. Even Generals Grant and Garfield said emphatically that the pension outlay should never exceed exceed $1, ,000,000. It- began to fall for a-while continued to fall until 1878, at the rate of $1,000,000 annually. Suppose this steady reduction had continued until now, 1898, a period of twelve years, what would be the size now of the pension? The total outlay would not exceed $7,000,000, for in 1878, the expenditure was $26,844,415. But in stead of a trifling $7,000,000 thirty-four years after the war ceased, it is some $144,000,000 appropriated for cur rent year, and it will require not less than $150,000,000, it i3 believed in Wash ington. The able Toronto Globe, seeing and studying this taxation iniquity most intelligently says: "There are now more names on the pension rolls than were ever on the army rolls at one time during the war, and the number threatens to Increase. The chief influence maintaining this ridiculous distribution of public money ds the protective tariff. If the revenues were raised by direct taxation the pens-ion swindle would have -a short and anything but a merry life. But the protective tariff compels the taxpayer to contribute bcith to the revenue and the protected interests, these latter being, consequently desirous cf keep ing taxation 'as high as po-ss'i'Me. To keep taxation is a simple matter. All that is necessary is to waste public money." BIUiVITIES The business part of the country need a general bankrupt law. After years of delay the enactment of one is in a fair way to success. The house has passed a bill that we hope will prove to be best possible. At last the country has begun to awaken to the responsibility of killing men just for fun -in games cf football. That Er.glish judge may have put a force in motion that may so reform the game as to make it tolerable and not more obnoxious and dangerous than Spanish bull-fighting. A man was charged with manslaughter and con victed for killing a player in a game. The morality of Yale. Universi'ty is under public sus-picion or censure. Too much drinking among the students is the charge. Italy expends $54,000,000 on its army. Austria expends $7ft, 000,000; Great Britain $90,000,000; Germany. $120,000, 000; France, $13S,000,000; Russia. $142, 000,000. United States expend on pen sioners alone $150,000,000, or more each year. What fools the Americans are. A Paris mob has again attempted to take the life of Mi. Zola on trial. He made 'a very narrow escape. His case becomes stronger. "A fail trial is what he cannot obtain in "France. The Maine had a deserter. rid he have any hand in the deviltry? He is under arrest in New York for stealing $2,500. While good men are destroyed this -wretch lives. TIIE GREAT FIGURES FOR 1807 The report of the Bureau of Statis tics, published two or three weeks ago, will be examined with interest. It shows a remarkable exhibit for 1S97. 'Altogeth er it is phenominal, the most extraor dinary in the history of the United States. Here are the figures for two years : "Merchandise Exports. 1S?8. domes tic. $9S6,S30,0S0; foreign, $19,007,161. 1S97. domestic, $1,079,S2.CC6; foreign, $19,26.563. Total, 1SS6, $l,0O5J?3:,241; 1S97, $1,9,129,519. "Imports Free of duty, 1S96. $32t,952, 157; dutiable, $355,627,099. 1S97. free of duty, $377,372,792; dutiable. $365,52S,063; Total, 1S96, $6-81,579.556; 1S97, $742,630,853. "Excess of exports 1S96. $324,257.6S5; 1S97. $356.49S,664." It is a big showing whn the exports of our country reaches the great figures of $1,099,129,519. The exports exceeded the imports $35,49S,664. The foreign tra.de of this country is on the upward. grade. Of course. the conditions abroad in Europe as to bread stuffs, has had no little to do with the swell ing of the exports. If the United States had all the trade they might have with the South American countries, and those south of us on this continent, the foreign trade would be greatly enhanc ed. The increase of exports for last year was $33,252,278 over the year 1S26. What was the showing for December last? The present republican robber tariff tax had failed to produce as much revenue as expenditures needed up to December. The robber advocates insist that the new tariff will produce all the revenues needed. That is a falsi pretense. They have already increased the internal tax so as to enlarge the returns. The New York Evening Post gives this as to the December opera tions and a candid consideration will conclude that they are rather omnious for the new drastic tax measure: ' The total imports for that month decreased $7,463,000 from December. 1S0C. This decrease happened in the imports free of duty; but in the duti able imports alone the gain over was only $1,248,000. and it will be re membered that in December, 1S90. such importations had fallen to by far the lowest. level in a dozen years. Decem ber was the fifth month since the en actment of the Dingiey tariff; it would appear, therefore, that if the reasoning of the tariff-builders of 1S97 was accu rate, 'anticipatory importations' ought by this time to have been in a reason able degree consumed. Yet here is a wholly insignificant increase during December, supplemented, during the opening fortnight of January, by for eign merchandise receipts at New York city smaller by 20 per cent, than those of the same period in 1SD7." Hints for Smokers Generalarzt Dr. Scholer publishes in the Centralblatt zu Gesundheitspflege a collection of "Hints for Smokers," which are founded, as the Doctor states, upon his professional observa tions for many years of the mouth, teeth, stomach, lungs, heart, and skin of the devotes of tobacco. The first and foremost rule is never to smoke before breakfast, nor, as a rule, when the stomach is empty; this custom is the worst possible foe of digestion. Never smoke during any exertion of great physical energy, as dancing, running, cycling, mountain-climbing, or rowing, and especially if in a con test. Never follow "the bad custom of the French and the Russians" by al lowing the smoke to pass through the nose; never inhale it through the nose. Keep the smoke as far as possible from the eyes and nose; the longer the pipe the better; the use of a short pipe during work is to be avoided. A pipe is the most wholesome form of smoking, a cigar the next, a cigarette thi worst. Always throw away your cigar as soon as you have smoked four-fifths of it; the last end of it is the most hurtful, in cauda venenum, the poison lurks in the tail. All ci garettes are bad, but Eastern cigar ettes the worst, for they are almost al ways compounded with some degree of opium. The smoker ought to rinse out hws mouth, not only before every meal and before going to bed at night, but several times during the day. The best rinse for the smoker is a glass of water in which a teaspoonful of table salt has been dissolved. It should be used as a gargle at night, and care should be taken that every cavity in the teeth is well washed with it. The pipe's p.oper place is in the hand, and only occasionally in the lips or teeth. D FOR ORTURED And rest for tired mothers in a warm bath withCt'TiccnA Soat, and asingle application of Ccticcka (ointment), the great skin cure.. CcnccnA Remedies afford instant relief, and point to a speedy cure of torturing:, dis figuring, humiliating, itching, burning, bleed ing, crusted, scaly skin and scalp humors, with loss of hair, when all else fails. Sold throarfcoat the worM. Form Pr tro Cum.. Corp.. Sole Props.. BoMoa. 7" How to Cure Skin-Tortnre Bbie," free. SKIN. SCALP and Hif Retatineii bf CtTICCRA SOAf. DR. MOTrS KERVERIHE PILLS, The great rrme dy for nervous prostration and all nervous dis eusesor tbe reu Av crative ori'uns vft&of cither sex, such as Iservous f Prostration. Manaood.Impotency.Nightly Emissions. Yor i lui Errors, Mental Worry, excessive use of o baccoorOpiuxn, which leadtoConsumptio- ,nd Insanity. With every $3 order w ;?e r. riv ten guarantee to cure or refund l?e rxr,ej. Sold at $1.00 per box. 6 boxes for DK. JtOIT' tiltJLltAL ""PAv. Ci lQJ. Ohio For Bale fey W. II. Greet A Pleasant Evening gives a delightful finish to tbe day. Noth ing is more agreeable than music when It emanates from the which are the finest home Instruments In this country. Everyone who hai pur chased a Piano from us ls highly r'casc with the result. It's quite impo?-lr!e for in inferior pianc to masquerade as som .hingr better. I has neither qualitj tone aor durabiltiy. The. Stieff Flaia sella oa ts own merits. Standard Organs. Tuning repairing. Accomraatod otimj Terms, CHAULES M. STIEFF. BAIfiMOrE-9 N. Liberty SL vi ASIirNGTON S21 Eleventh SL. N.TVK f'.ORFOLK, VA.-416 Main St. CHATUvtte, N. C.-21J N. Tryon St llilE Restored mmmi (AN - x. 5? TORT ESID3 the dangers and dis fiurcn:er.ts cf Eloed Dis eases, the Burning' nd Itch- infj Skin Eruptions arc among thz mcst ccute tortures. The strongest systerr.3 scon collapse under such agonies. P. P. P. (Xippman's Great Remedy) is a safe and certain cure for every Skin Disease, whether torturing-, disfiguring, humiliating, itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, pimply or blotchy in fact, from pimples to the most distressing eczemas and every humor of the blood, whether simple, scrofulous or hereditary. Y T T Purifies the blood, builds up the weak JT. V builds up the weak and debilitated. gives strength to weakened nerves, expels diseases, and in sures health and happiness where sickness and despair once shut out the light of life. Sold by all Druggists. $i a bottle; six bottles, $5. LI PPM AN BROTHERS, 9 5oIe Proprietors, I(uPiiAN Block, SAVANNAH, OA. IRE! or Sale by R..R. BELLAMY. eui ;s ABE Which talk louder and stronger than any other proof. I want to double my 1 tois-iness this year. I am in a frood condition to do u. I am able to buy my goods for the hard cash, save all discounts and buy in large quantities. I will sell you $10.00 worth of goods for cash and have you or any of your fam ily a life-size Portrait made free ofj charge, or will make your family groui! one picture, free, and all other heads for 35c a :head extra. For a $25.00 pur chase I will give you a handsome oak. maple or elm arm rocking chair, with ' cane bottom or plain wood seat. These chairs are worth $2.00 each. These 1 presents we Absolutely give you free i Besides, we give you extra low prices ! and a big stock of goods to s-lec ! from and all the very best goods that j money can buy. j I have nice stock of Matting that I will sell at old prices for a few days longer. A nice lot of heavy samU-ss hemp and cotton work at 20c per yard; it will be in the spring at least L'Tc. I have a big lot of remnants in Mat ting that run from 5 to 16 yards that I will close out cheap, from iM;C to 20c. j In Carpets I will sell, frood 9-wire Nnly j Brussels at 5Sc, 60c and 63c. -Gxxl 1 GEO. O. GAYLORD, Proprietor OF WILMINGTON'S BIG BACEET STORE The Worth Company,. Successors to Worthr&. Worth, Wholssah Grccsrs and1. Commission Merchants. HANDLE Cotton and Naval Stores. General G-roceries, Farm Supplies, Lime Ce ment, Nails, Hay and Grain. Best Terms and Lowest Prices. WILMINGTON, N. C. 3kccxiu.fa.ot"u.x,i3 or Turpentine Stills and nifo Kernes, leis. ccps. inn eu Special attetkra dven to cxk In the for new work.- When la vaat Ql anythAns la our line. A Sight to See IS THE SlTt: WHERE YOtfR HOME WAS LOCATED THAT IS KOw IN r.UIXS. SUCH A SIGHT CAN V.V. ROBBED OF ITS TERRORS, RY HAVIXG AN INSURANCE POLTCY SAFEIYT PLACED IN YOUR POCKET. TOIAKE THE POLK'Y WORTII ITS WEIGHT 1.. GOLD. PLACE IT IN THE CAROLINA IKSOBAirCE CO Fuyplm to rtrtfey Holder $Xsr,7 CZ- 'Ly F IS! Iirussels Carpet att f0c and r.V Stair Carpets, ISo, 2.1a and 35c. Floor Oil Cloth, 1 yard widtr first quality, at L5c per yard. A big drive in line Umbrellas. Just received, from f0c to $1.75. To ee them is to buy thm. "We have also Just received a nice line of line light weight Underwear for gents Shirts and rants, all wool, but light, for spring, at $1.00 each. llent's Suits in fine II lack Clay Worsted at $7.00, $$.00 and $10.00. all wool, fine goodA. A 'big lot of Sprthg Capes, all wxol, at f0c. 75c. $1.00 and' $1.50; some of them are all siik. A beautiful liw- of fine Spring Flow ers, Hats and Ribbons. Spring Percales, 1 yard wide, in short lengths, fine quality, at filAc per yard. Iong pieces we out at 7c per yard. Apron Chek inghn.rns at Zc. Pretty Calico at 4c. Nice double fold Dr'ss Styles Spring Worsted at 15c, 20c, 25c and 30c per yard. Come to sre uu and le convinced that w do an up-to-dab, progressive Dry Coods business and sell g.odK cheap for the oan, at 112 North Front Street, opposite Vh'i Orton Hotel. SB 7 General Metal Workers bohciss. in pcicn copper m m siock. country. Old Stilla taken in exchange ft-Mr?3a us at above named placea. 3a 23, cod iw, and w AG
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