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" -J aSIB AWAKENING AS TO MORMON PROSELYTIZING. In Wake county there are six Mor--znona busily at work. A week or 1WO ago the NoTth Carolina Presbyterfan made tan. extraorHoary statement that mnaf aiirnTHj all WhfO ball SeC it. It ttta a very great shock to 113, (although j In 'North 'Carolina the Baptists "have ape bad been watching: anxiously for a ' same 200,000 -White adherents, and the jpenr or two the adverit of the apostles j Episcopal Methodists some 158,000, and C lust, and "had deen their industrious the Presbyterians are strong: and grow rtoselyting journeys among the numer- ng, and ike other Methodist belies raa Ignorant people of this state with number Some 23,000, we suppose. These feara as 'to evil consequences. They large bodies ought to be able to root Save been steadily making converts to txr religion of lust that rivals any- 4 tJtxlng Iri Mohammedan; (history. The taOjEtnent made and reported by The Oharlotte Presbyterian is to the effect Ghafr. there are now more Mormon el--tlers ait work in North Carolina than 2&ere are Presbyterian ministers, and 2m& at the present rate of increase it arfU not be long before the Mormons vrfH have more churches and more com -xnonlca-nts in this state than the Pres byterians, who oonstfttute the third Zorgeat denomination in. the state, the Raptists and iMethddists outnumbering Xljem in 'the order Maimed. To those ufrki may regard the future of 'North Carolina there Is some cause for alarm. Trtnere is a tremendous amount of il literacy in this state, it is standing Z in ne alphabet as to white illiterates, ac- carding to the census of 1890. It is no feUer in 1898. The Mormon false stuff ia well calculated to appeal to igno rance 'and animal lust. The emm'iisa- . ctea talk religion of the old kind, and appear well up in professions Of spiri tual illumination and Bible truth. Among Intelligent educated people thi3 in the kind df strain 'tihey Indulge. They . toJk religion right along and of the gen nine. Biblical kind. When they get lazctnng people of the more ignorant and degraded kind tfhey talk Mormon'ism. JTb Smith'ism Brigham! Youmgism In -sstence. !Wlhat do the proteslanlt denomlima tkms mean to do about this Mormon Invasion? It is too iaitie to talk of re Ilgious persecutions. The whip, the fire and faggot, canmOt ibe resorted to oow, and especially in a commonwealth ssh'ioh of all others has been the most restive and defiant under religious in fiolterence and 'ecclesiastical persecu tions. Read Bancroft and you will .learn sometihing of this. This Invasion of the Mormon prosely bars the "buzzing emissaries" of Sa tan must arouse the genuine protest -oxxts from Currituck to 'Cherokee. They .Iave been indifferent, asleep, torpid, while the agents of the (Mormon de bauchery have been as active as miag jgolB, and have "gaiinied fresh! confi dence," to quote William OOwper, - "from every balrbralined proselyte they :. make." These spies into the intellec tual -and educational suakedneisis of ouir . : state have gathered fresh hope dally. '-They find the receptivity of igno rance arid superstition 'immense, and they have gone on diligently prosiecu fiing their insinuating a"nd deceivinig ' srork "While the religious denom'inaitions .-srere -fallen into a condition of lethargy. Already the Mormons count about 100 . conigreg-ations in this s'bat'e in tlh'e re--lons of "Egyptian darkness." The regular Christians are dfcupi'fied, stunn ed, amazed. They look on 'helpless and wrrowful. They are reported as -'startled," "dumbfounded." They will now begin to try to do something to . countervail all false teaching twill seek a remedy for the new direase, an anti iUcfte to the Insidious, killing po'ision. It Is, late, for the enemy "has has "entered In." The Charleston News 'and Cour ier Is amused and say3 'witlh severity, . not without some aspects of justice: ""The 'funny aspects of tlh'e situation aire too broad to be missed; but there is a Serious -side to it, also. Which is 3resented in the very obvious reflec taon that tlhe 'Prote'stam't' mlLniisters and - churches of North Carolina appear to . Siave rendered such an invasion, with such results, so easily practicable. The . North Carolina ministers and dhurChes : have not emlproyed the-Lr opportunities, xee fear, when th elders from far - TJtah can And materiial"for lalbout a hun dred congregations all about them. The findden activity of the shepherds and - rfiurdhies, moreover, appears to be in spired rather by dislike of -the Mormon ixcfihren than by hfostilility to 'the om toon enemy and a consumimg regard for the salvation of lost souls. It fs vry much to be feared, in sthort, tlhat Zytft for the invasion of the ciders the achlousands of 'poor and ignorant people TrouTd h,Te beeo. left in darkness for many years to come. There is more - .anxiety, it eetms, to save them from .3&rmonism (than there has been to save them from heathenism and their ssfins' While Pro'testant ministers have been Tirglng, persuading, begging their peo pie to give much money to send the - Gospel to the heathen in remote coun- v JLtSi&s, here in our own land wi our r'ststte are heathen of the rankest type and in great numerical strength. They - are in every county, in every towm, In every city. This is said tin no opposi ; tioTi o missions, wlhidh are right and proper, a real 'Christian duty and obli- . gation, but lit is protest against neg Licet at your doors. The files of The Messenger will show frequent references to the vile wrk of .Mormon propagandiiSts all through two or tltree years. The KThaxlesitmi paper is not certain as bo tlhe creed of the IMbrmons ibeing wrong, but tft marvels sit Protestant faithlessness. It says the 'elders" of the Brigham Yicung false religion our words, for we despise the thing have ribown thesmselves to "be "almira'bl3 exemplars of fait&fumesss antl zeal hi the blaster's service, as they uiikJersSaind It. The church people In 'North Carolina are Indebted to them for a very forceful atid badly needed lesson." So far from thinking' hetr "zeal" U really for the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe that it is "zeal" in spired by the 'father of and the great deceiver. , out tflxe (Mormon tares and rid the state of a growing nuisance. HELP FOR CUBA. The Cuban relief committee earnestly urges the people of the United States to 0iye quickly to the cause of suffering humanity in Cuba. There is no mis- take ,to the avvf ul condition of tens of thousands of people. They are skel etons and dying for the want of food. General Lee, other American consuls, American citizens and all tell the same very sad and heart-moving story of extreme suffering. The suffering is so wide spread that the committee will load a steamer at once with 2,000 tons of corn meal and 200 tons of bacon. It is a question of life or death. The relief committee says: f'Send us money if you can, Accept food wherever offered; cornmeal, pork, lard, potatoes, rice, condensed milk and other staples, in unlimited quantities. ISout'hern and Pennsylvania railways i will haul free to (New York. Our two steamships will make circuit of Cuba, landing supplies at all ports. The Spanish ministry (has agreed to abate the treasury port charges for steamers and permit the landing of supplies without duties. iNot one day should be wasted. President McKinley. through the state department, urges us to the greatest effors." 'Governor 'Atkinson, of Georgia, ap peals to the people of that state to give to famished and perishing Cubans. He tells his 'people that they they (have "(Never known famine or want and- should show their gratitude by liberal donations to the dying Culbans." What Is North Carolina doing ia this noble Cause that appeals to the merci ful and benevolent and sympathetic trumlpet-tongued? Senator Gallinger who (vMted Cuba recently says the suffering cannot be exaggerated. The correspondent of the) Atlanta Journal (publishes a letter from the senator dated 19th inst., in Which he says: "Think of a district, with population the size of Atlanta, literally starving to death. Little children and old men a;nd women lying in the streets ana along the roads dying by indhes for want of food. Every city in tnis coun try should imiitate the example set by The Journal and add its quota to the relief fund." Help the suffering, the starving, the dying. BREVITIES If the Spanish ambassador to Vienna is not m'teinformed, there will be war befoale any payment of indemnity. Put a pin tlh'ere and wait. Iynam!ite in a mine in Spain killed on m.cm nrnri imfl.Tiv 'were wounded. But ' 258 American seamen were killed by Spanish dynamite at Havana. Mrs. William Belden iNofole, of Wash ington, D. C, has given $20,000 to Har . .. , J 1 f.,o(V.?TV vara university to eraivw . y ; in merniory df her husband, a clergy- j man tint the Protes'tant jpiiscopaa. Churdh and a graduate of the Harvard class of 18S5. Mr. Charles B. 'Rouss, of 'New York, j has given $35,000 to the University of VirgiWia. Me as southern born. In the death of ex-United States Sen asbor Blanche K. Bruce the negro race in America loses .its best man yet in public life. He had ability and charac ter. President Booker . T. .Washington is the other foremost negro in this country now. He Is wise ajid candid, and with discernment and integrity. Russia and France are steadily pre paring to partition China and ask nb permission of the people to be injured or of England. Spam gives an intimation that it means war for the United State to in tervene m the Cuban war. But al ready Spain has lost 70,000 of her troops In the fruitless, vain attempt to subdue the patridts din Cuba. Whe iUustriious Gladstone, in his 89Uh year, is returning home to .die. With him goes the 'world's greatest man now living. The fool talk of the Spaniards that they could induce the south '.'to revolt" is pitifully stupid. They do not know a letter in (the book about tribe uh a fetter an itne dook aoout tne south. If the south era whites could have had their way they would have thrashed 'Spa'in long ago and have liberated Cuba and stopped the damning butcheries. There is a fierce war (being waged at this time between Cos to Rica and Ni caragua, and great excitement prevails. -Hell on earth airears 'to toe tlie onln- i ton of northern visitors to Cuba as to the real condition. IDr. Oakling's neNv gun just finished at Cleveland, Ohio., is described as the" largest single gun 5n the world. It is ti be rifled and mounted at the Wash- 1 ington navy yard. The ingenious in ventor -is a native North Carolinian. Representative Tillman recently said of Mr. Bryan, that he "is the only man I ever sa.vr who was 'born great, achieved greatness, and bad greatness thrust upon Mm." His fine saying ia taken (from! ShaJcespeare's TPvrelfth Night," bodily without thanks. In 1837 England consumed 20,000,000 pounds of tea. In 1897 she drank 230, 000,000 pounds, or&& pounds for each iiihabitant. She might be considered a tea drinking country. She guzzles an Immenste amouirt. of ale and beer in addition.- General CFUtzhugh Uee will be pressed by hfv good friends . in Virginia for United States senator in place of Sen ator Martin, a silver advocate. The gold ntfen 'hope Lee's Cuba fanfe will make him so popular he can be elected in spite of his gold bug advocacy. Kedently at "Bellevine, N. J a brutal assault by a negro was made upon a young white woman of character. The inhabitants hunted that darkey all through one night and would "have tor tured and lynched him," they say, if they could have found the villain. ELECTION OP SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE - The election of the United States sena tors?byia direct vote of thepeople Is cer tainly an important and growing ques tion. It has been more and more en gaging each year for a decade. The recent events in Ohio, and the disgrace ful election of the giant corruptionist, Mark Banna, have attracted more at tention to the question of how to elect senators, and' the sentiment deepens that it must (be (by the people. Mary land as another object lesson. The trouble In Ohio and Maryland is that owing to the character of republican candidates there were some members of that party who kicked out and would not support them. That would be a poor reason (in itself for changing the method, and if there was nothing better to urge, most sensible people would favor the continuance of the round about way of electing Iby legislatures. But the real reason for a change, and a most excellent reason it is that the legislatures have become corrupt and purchaseatole. A man like Quay or Hanna can get to the senate by pur dhase. In this iway for thirty years money bags have got to the senate and Without any qualifications for the high and noble (place of senator for a great state. Bad men can buy places, and the literally angers and disgusts all honest, decent people. Political treason may be a catch-phrase, a coin age for the hour. A man who refuses to vote for a corrupt rascal who may be nominated in. any state by a legisla ture is no evidence . of disloyalty to principles, but etm evidence, clear and ringing, of conscience. The republican who would positively ref use to support sulch fellows as Hanna and Quay be cause of 'their known ibad chamacters, should be honored rather than censur ed. (Parties must cease to nominate oorruptidnists and scoundrels for office If they do not desir& to cause a sit or ddfeat. There is more of Indepen dence land Conscience now 'than for merly among many of the most intel ligent and reputable people La the states. If constituents instruct thdir legisla tor to vote for a given man he ought to obey cr resign. But when he ia not instructed but is left free to vote ac cording to the light before him, if he be an honorable, high toned gen'tlexnian he will not vote for a caucus nominee known to be Istalined with, cormption and of low party views as well as prin ciples. There is'a joint resolution now before the congress looking to a change in the way the way of electing senators. It provides for a change in ithe constl- tution to .elect senators by a direct vote of the people. The Philadelphia Re cord is of the opinion that if 'the con gress should adopt the resolution that the states would vote (for its ratifica tion. It says: A'llCIC "There would (be an end then of the scandals have so frequently at- tended the election of United States senators, and also of the anone or less successful attempts of corruption to thwart the popular will.. Under exist ing conditions if a state convention of either party should designate- its choice for United States senator; and if a ma jority of the members of a legislature should be elected under instructions and pledges to vote for such candidate, there is no assurance that the will of the people would not be completely balked. It would still he in the power of a clique, sometimes of" two or three corrupt members, to nullify the choice." A bill was introduced in the Virginia legislature looking to some expression as to the election df senators. We do not know what was its fate. The bill provided that the people express their choice for senators in voting for mem bers of the legislature who were to elect. South Carolina has already tak en action and has provided for the election of senators by the people in stead of the old legislative way. If we are rightly informed the last sen ator chosen, Mr. McLaurin, wh suc ceeded himself, was chosen by popular vote. The movement will steadily gain public favor and in many states we may expect a change of method. There is no fairness or Justice in the present method. You will find a state small like Nevada, with actually less population than it iiad forty years ago,, sending two senators, and with but a beggarly 43,761 people in the so-called state, wOiile New York with over 8.090.- i people has but two senators. The PriwofPle ls wrong. A little state like ( lRIhode island the size of one of the ' (big plantations on Roanoke river, in h3 stiate, prior to the war has two ' senators and yet North Carolina with 1,700,000 and 500 miles across was but GUHuch In Little Is especially true of Hood's Pills, for no medi cine ever contained so great curative power in so small space. They are a whole medicine run chest, always ready, al ways efficient, always sat isfactory; prevent a cold or fever, cure all liver ills. fclck headache, jaundice, constipation, eta. 25c The only Filli to take with Ilooi gryarill Pd Is two. We agree with the Indianopolls, Journal a republican paper, that the senate should not be ended, but it should he mended. It might be mend ed by changing' the constitution so as to make senatorial representation de pend upon population, though with a much larger unit of representation than that of the house. Why should not a Btate have a senator for each half mil lion of population, and all states with less population than that be restricted to representation in the lower house, or at least to one senator?" STATE PRESS. The roan who talks of fU5in or cc-on-eratlon of populists and democrat ia fiinply wasting breath. Pittsooro Citi zen. The populists claiming Danie! Russell. Whoope. boys! Ain't it funny? The pops and rads should not tussle because they call one another honey. Hancock and Dan, and the rest of the clan, on a platform of-eound money: and iha pops sticking up to a man because they call one another honey. There's Orar.T. of Wayne, in a ietter again. Oa fusion he says there is money. Butler and Dan in a caucus again beciuss they call one an other honey. Rockingham Rocket. Chairman Manly does well on the threshold of the campaign in which the shibboleth will be "The White Man and the White Metal" to show that the dem ocratic party has no unkind feelings to the colored man. but is in fact the party to which he owes most for schools and the care of the unfortunate of his race. The deernand for white rule Is not made to Injure the negro. It is necessary to protect the state against corrupt and ignorant government. Raleigh News and Observer. roads in their present condition It costs at least 25 cents a mile to move a ton and that a ton cannot be moved ten miles for less than $2.00. This is 10 cents a bag for peanuts of $1.25 for each bale of cot ton. Have you thought of this? With modern roads this could be reduced o 5 cents per mile for a ton or 50 cents for ten miles. We ask our commissioners to look into this matter which is interest ing the entire country outside of Bertie county. We ask our farmers to figure out the question for themselves and if they find our present system of road making is defective and can be improved upon to urge some other method, r or one-third of the year the roads within anything but a light buggy., and hard even for that. Give us better roils. five miles of Windsor are impassable for Windsor Ledger. A Clever Trick It certainly looks like it, but there is really no trick about it. Anybody can try it who has Lame Back and Weak Kidneys, Malaria or nervous troubles. We mean 'he can cure himself right away by taking Electric Bibters. This medicine tones up the whole system, acts as a stimulant to the Liver and Kidneys, fs a blood purifier and nerve tonic. It cures Constipation, Head ache, Fainting Spells, Sleeplessness and Melandnoly. It is purely vegetable a mild laxative, and restores the sys tem to its natural JTigor. Try Electric Bitters and be convinced that they are a miracle worker. Every bottle guar anteed. Only 50c a (bottle at R. R. Bel lamy's drugstore. Produced Bj Spain Many of the necessities of today and the sciences came originally from Spain. Algebra, for one thing, originated there. The first clock which struck in Europe was a present from Haroun-ai-Raschid to Charlemagne. Spain produced the compass as well as gunpowder. It was in Seville that the game of checkers originated It was in the courts of" fft caliphs that the laws of chivalry were formed and spread to the rest of ' Europe and Eng land. From Grenada came the dulcimer; from Cordova the guitar,, and from the people the serenade. Spain produced the Cld, Christopher Columbus and notable travelers, and during xnaedival times in art, science and learning it had first rank: Before the Visigoths overran the country was its time of glory after its decliae set in: Why allow yourself to be slowly tor tured at the stake of disease? Chills and Fever will undermine, and event ually break down the strongest consti tution. "Febri-Cura" (Sweet Chill Tonic with Iron) Is more effective than Quinine, and being combined with Iron is an excellent tonic and Nerve medi cine. It is plexsant- to take, and ig sold under positive-guarantee to cur cr money refunded. Accept no substitute. The "just as good" kind don't effect cures. Sold by J: C. Sliepard, J. H. Hardin and H. L. Fentress Jast for the Fan of It (From the Detroit: Press.) Carey i's a cultured gentleman of Irish decent, and Gran ton is a neigh bor of Scotch ancestry wiho has equal intellectual attainments.. Garey has the nimbler wit, and it is the deWght of ihis soul to make game of Granton who generally goes home out of sorts and thinks of a dozen things that he might have said if uhey had only come lo 'him at the right time. i'Have you read' Ian Maclaren's works?" asked Granton the. other ev ening. "There's a writer (for you." "I have not," was 'the prompt re sponse, "but I am having them trans lated into English and have no doubt I shall enjoy them."" (Granton declined" to prolong his call, and when he closed: the front door the roof on the summer- kifcohen trembled. "It was Piper Flndlater that saved the day there in India," said Garey in an ingratiating tone, a few evenings later. "How's that?'" -asked Granton, as his face beamed with "pride. "It was the noise of the bagpipes that the natives- were running from." iNow Grantor ts racking his braini and will not rest until he can give the Trish a most terrific swipe for the bene-, fit of Garey.. , What pleasure is there in life with a headache, constipation and biilious ness? Thousands experience then): who could become perfectly healthy by uring De Witt's Ldttle '. arly Risers, th famous little pills. R. R. Bellamy. Weldon Notes (05rrespmdence of The Messenger.) Weldon, March 31. 'Dr. E. Green, chairman of the Second district judicial executive com mittee, bais called a irseeting of the commictee at Rocky (Munt rttxt Fri day, the 25rh alt 1 o'cJbck p. m.. for the purpose of sledtyng a time and prace for the judicial, comaution. Dr. Green hopes to meet every member of the committee ther that Viay. Mr. J. W. Moorv anu Hiss ilaggie Wniiams. a . runawayi couple from Prince George ourjty, Virginia,- were osarried here this too rains at 3 o'clock. Mnvdr.fd la the Woods Sylacaugr Lla.. CMarch 21. W. (X Tbompsor, a wtiite farmer, was found murder in the -woods three irtiles from 'afe .home today. He had given testVjTMmy against the illicit dJtMlers f nls section and ft is generally beliv- f.d that they murdered him. as he had been summoned as a .Witney irj other . TOE EMfcflDF MOMR WiV co mvmivi trfrf rrVit of ' r . V, nnnr H WICT values Lex money as IVaoWng ud hu K,mu.l?f to worn lace mnu . i TI. if. K. CMC. (t. Boston. The Worth Successors to Worth & Worth, Wholesale Grocers and'Commission Merchants. EXCELLENT SEED RICE. Fine Rice Straw at Very Low Prices. Seed Oats, Seed Potatoes. General Groceries. The Worth Company. I VWviJS. AX M I WUk tibia. fS Iv5 fl, v p. p. P. (LIPPiVtfrN'S GREAT REMEDV ) UKh ideal medi cine for-woraen. Its use insures, 'he elth and the sub stantial: attractiveness which In ;alh alone can be- . 6tw- the,4RrreaestBle od. Purifier known to medicaLscience, cunnsrul Scrofuloi3,Aftection8, Dyepepsia. 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