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THK SEMl-WKEKLv MP:SSH;jNGlK: TUK.-DA V, SEPTf MBKK 26. i.k Catered at the Postofflce at Wilming ton, N. C, aa second class mail matter. THE DAILY MESSENGER, by mail, e year, $7.00; six months, $33.50; three nonths, $175; one month, SO cents. THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER two 8 page papers), by mall, one year, CLtO; six months, CO cents, In advance. WlLMlKvITOX. N. C. TUESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1899. Winston Churchill, the author of that -very popular if not great novel, "Rich ard Carvel," was born in St. Louis, where, we believe, "Mark Twain" was born. Churchill's descent Is from New England forbears. He was trained and educated In Missouri, but lives' in New England. He follows Cable example who was born in New Orleans, but who has long lived In New England. Cable, turned enemy against, the people among whom he lived.characatured an slandered them and is despised heartily in the south. Mr. Churchill has not done this as yet, but has written a pop ular romance located mainly in Mary land. He was at the Naval Academy where he was graduated, and he served In the navy for a year when he resign ed to devote himself to literature. He has published two novels neither of which have we read. His first novels "The Celebrities," is regarded favora bly as bright and promising. "Richard Carvel" is considered of high merit and has already passed its 130,000 copies sold although published last June. This is great success in popularity, but it is no aign that it Is excellent, as me utSl novels but rarely reach a sale compar able to books of the calibre and merit of "The Christian" and other books that have been damned incontinently by the safest and truest critics. Mr. 'Churchill is a most careful, conscien tious writer. He prepares with much reading and research and rewrites again and again.lt is stated in New York Saturday Review that "he wrote his story five times before he was sat " isfled with it and allowed it to pass from his hands to those of the printers, and the thrilling chapter on the fight between the Serapis and the Bonhom me Richard was entirely rewritten af ter the story had been put in type." We do not put in claim that he is southern, as Cable and Clements ("Mark Twain") live in New England and have no identification in feeling and sympathy, we may believe, al 4inntri hnrn in the south. That is to say, if Missouri is to be classed as a southern state. It will not be denied lhat these three authors have distin--gtilshed merit and will certainly com - pare with any three New England au thors among the Jiving. All are of New England descent we presume to say. Mr. Churchill will not catch the pre vailing fever for rapid production to i 'bring grit (money) to his literary vxruH. The Saturday Review says that "ifs third novel already begun, "will not be published for at least & year, and perhaps not then certainly not until all bis plans have been fully matured and developed to his own complete satisfac xfon, and in the meantime he will un dertake no other literary work what ever. This young American gifted author "is a tall, athletic-looking young man of twenty-seven, singularly hand some, with very broad shoulders, black hair,' and brown eyes; alive to the -finger tips and manly through and through with neither false pride nor talse modesty, but with a certain grace and a delicacy of perception of which one gradually becomes aware. He is frank , genuine, companionable , and straightforward, more so than most college men: he has much natural dig nity, but not a trace of self-consious-ness, and he is one of the brightest talkers the writer ever met." He talks well and naturally, not striving for ef fect as so many of latter-day men of letters do when conversing with men who are suspected of seeking acquaint ;ance but to report impressions. The Messenger called attention to the merits and interest of Mr. Lion Decle's now verv much read book "Trooper SOS." It throws a great deal of light upon the French army, and prepares one to understand the debauched ras cals among the General French Staff tl destroy Captain Drepfus, a Jewish officer who was innocent. The book is devoured in England. Having been edu cated in England, although of French parentage, having served as journalist on the famous London Pall Mall Ga zette, and having been a soldier in the French army as well as an African ex plorer, he is competent to write well, to report correctly as to what he saw .and of his own personal experiences. Mr. W. L. Alden, London correspon dent of the N. Y. Saturday Review, in his letter of 4th inst. writes of him and his book as follows: "His story of the life of a French "trooper" ought to be read with pleas ure at Berlin, for it shows in the plain est way the imbecility of the average :F"rench officer. People have wondered, since the Dreyfus exposures, how it - ever became possible for the general staff to consist of men who are either fools or knaves. Mr. Decle unconsci ously, or rather unintentionally, solves the mystery. The General Staff simply represents the average French officer. What the fate of an army led by such men will be in case of war, it is easy to foresee. The rank and file will accuse their officers of betraying them, and we shall have Sedan over again. The French officers In the time of the Sec ond Empire were, as the event proved, painfully incapable, with perhaps the exception of Bazaine, who, like Drey vfus, was accused of treason and thrown to'the wolves. But surely in the worst days of the empire no such story as that which Mr. Decle has to tell could have been truthfully written." G. W. Steevens, the successful author and traveller,, who - visited Wilmipgton two or three years ago, has a book ready (his fourth since he was here), called "The Tragedy of Dreyfus." He was at Rennes during the savage bur lesqued It Is well known to people of literary reading that Dickens and Thackeray often used people they had known as the suggestion or foundation f some of their best character draw ing. The noble old gentleman in that charming novel, "The Newcomes." Colonel Newcome, ' was sketched- for Mayor Carmichael Smyth, who married the great novelist's -mother. We learn from "Saturday Review" that his very gracious, gifted, devoted daughter An nie, herself a clever novelist and writer of other delightful books, (now Mrs. Ritchie) has erected to his memory a memorial brass In the Scottish Episco pal church in' Ayr, Scotland, where Major Smyth is buried. It bears this Inscription: , "Adsum." "And lo her whose heart was that of a little child, answered to his name, and stood in the presence of the Mas ter." (Newcomes. Vol. Ill, Chap. 26.) By the way a new life of Thackeray in two volumes will soon appear. It is by Lewis Melville, an American, and will be in two volumes, Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago, being the pub lishers. Although Thackeray desired no biography of himself, it is probable that many volumes of the kind will ap pear within a few years. His daughter in her admirable, pleasureable intro duction to the latest edition of his nov els gave. a great deal of personal rem iniscence of him, thus putting the world under great obligations for such genuinely fascinating revelations of character and incident. To Cure LaGrl !( In Two Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it falls to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. FOIf "God is a Spirit; and they that wor ship Him must worship Him in spirit and In truth" John iv:24. When every enemy shall disappear, The unbelief, the darkness, and th fear, I shall be satisfied. When every Canity shall pass away, And all be real, all without decay, In that sweet dawning of the cloud less day, I shall be satisfied. Horatius Bonar. Churches seeking preachers are not always wise. Some churches seek "stars" men of the "catching" quali ties men who can draw. The sensa tional preacher may draw, but he may not prove the wisest, safest, most help ful pastor. How many of the best at tracting evangelists who are highly sensational would' be model pastors, the best guides to holy living, the best counsellors in trouble, the surest friends in time of storm and stress? We saw recently an extract from a let ter sent out by a Presbyterian congre gation we believe that is the correct word, as the Presbyterian church is purely democratic and the people rule and select their pastors making in quiries concerning a certain minister. We saw it in The Richmond Central Presbyterian. The questions asked were certainly pointed, direct and very sensible, as you will see, for we give -them: 1. Does he preach from notes? 2. Is he regarded as a strong (forci ble) preacher? 3. How is he liked by the young peo ple? 4. How are his prayer-meeings at tended? 5. Are there any discords in his church? 6. Does he take any active part in the Sabbath school? 7. Does he encourage Young People's Societies? 8. How about his pastoral work? Does he visit? i "Life of Rev. James Needham, the oldest Methodist Preacher," is the title of a small volume by Rev. J. P. Rodg ers, of Western North Carolina Con ference. It is published at Pilot Moun tain, N. C, by the Surry Printing HouseA Price 25 cents. A fine portrait of the aged preacher serve.3 as a fron tispiece. Considering his extreme age, he looks in it remarkably well pre served. His head is broad and intellec tual, and the face pleasant and attrac tive. The little book has fifty-two pages and it is well worth reading. It is the life of a very pious, consecrated useful minister of the old school Meth odists. He did a vast deal of good in his long life, which began the 26th of May, 1799, and ended the 1st of April, 189P. He lacked but a few weeks of reaching one hundred years of age. We think some years ago a Methodist preacher died in New Jersey who was in his 101st year. Mr. Needham was a preacher for some seventy-five years. He preached a great deal after turning ninety, and on the 12th of March, last, he preached his last sermon at Pilot Mountain, and in twenty days closed his very long ministry, so rich in good results. Thousands of people were con verted under his very effective preach ing. His funeral sermon was preach ed at New Hope Church "to a very large congregation" by Rev. Dr. W S. Creafy, to quite 1,400 people, on the Sunday following his death, April 2nd, Dr. Creasy surviving his aged friend less than four months. In a letter Dr. Creasy wrote to Mr. Rodgers he begins in this wise and it is a good ana wormy trmute to a man among men: "There is no name in Piedmont North Carolina that is more of a house hold one than that of Rev. James Needham, a local elder, familiarly known as Father Needham. The very name has been synonymous with piety, consecration and fidelity to the church ' J . of his choice and the cause of Christ- He doubtless wielded a greater influ ence for Christ in the section where h lived than any man who has ever been among the people. He was a forci ble, instructive and deeply spiritual preacher." Bishop Potter and Dr.'Briggs, in close fellowship and perfect agreement as to the tetter's attacks upon the Holy Bible, will not have it all their- own way in New York city and state. new publication has begun. It is a new Episcopal monthly, and the name of it is "Church Defence." It is to fight the Briggs gang of sappers and miners. Ir is managed by William Wirt Mifu. The name would suggest that Virgin ians may have a hand in it. Its first issue Is yery frank and decided. It shows at the start that the feathers of the "lower critics" may be singed if not plucked by the roots. We give a sample of its leading editorial: "Church Defence comes to 'do its part in the battle with unbelief. The Gospel is first pure, and then peace able. There can be no peace between faith and unbelief, and when the arch enemy of souls comes stalking in sur plice and stole, the call to battle against error becomes more impera tive. Now, unbelief boldly demands admission to the priesthood, and a bishop has been found to lay hanas upon an avowed disciple of error, an impugner 6f God's Holy Word. "This sacrilege was not committed thoughtlessly or unadvisedly, but in the face of serious and earnest pio- tests. It was not an erratic incident. but it was a concerted assault upon the citadel of faith." in another it is said: "The church has one Bible, Dr. Briggs has another, which is a mere collection of extracts from Holy Scrip ture." You Try It If Shiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure, which is sold for the small price of 25 cts., 50 cts. and JLOO, does not cure take the bottle back and we will refund your money. Sold for over fifty years on this guarantee. xrice 25 cts. and ko cts. For sale by R. R. Bellamy. iiomi: FOLK x That mill between Pearson and Mar tin in the Asheville barber shop was highly exciting. But one round was fought with honors for the latter. But Pearson got in another lick through the newspapers with damage to his oppo nent. You hear of government by usurpa tion and government by injunction, but Loge Harris playing in the role of gov ernor in the absence of His Corpulency appears to be government by special favoritism. Whence came the author ity, any how? Four murder cases in one' day at Greenville court, with true bills found, indicates an unmistakable evidence of increase of crime. Life in North Caro lina is becoming as cheap as it is in Illinois or Pennsylvania. So some of our soldier boys will go to New York to help to swell the tri umph of Dewey. Well, he is a genuine man brave, modest, meritorious. The north made itself a fanatical fool over old Abe, it then went daft over Grant, and it is hungry for another prostra tion. " But Dewey is a man of a much higher, nobler type than the others. He will do to honor in a proper, self respecting way. Dan Russell will be the "biggest man" amcng the governors who will see i (he big Dewey show we mean pounds avoidiupois. Mr. Lee Overman, of Salisbury, a leadlinig lawyer of that section and; a democrat, itihinks tin great majority of 1898 will be greatly increased in 1900. He Bays Ma district, tine Seventh, is really strong, for the constitutional amendment, aa it should be, and; every other district. Jeter Pritchard boasts that the very Tittle fellow, Bill McKin ley, who is to be renominated for an office he disgraces, will carry North Carolina. If he does it will be by the money of the plutocrats! under the management of that political Pariah ar.d leper, Mark Hanna. We are mot endowed! with prophetic vision, (but if Bryan does not carry North Carolina by 20,000 it will be because the people have made up their minds to be bought and to wear the collar of the money godis. LETTER TO MRS. UNKHAir NO. 78,465! 'I was a sufferer from female weak ness. Every month regularly as the menses came, I suiTer.-d dreadful pains iii uterus, ovaries PERIODS OF SUFFERS GiVS PLAGE QF JOY were affected and had leueorrhcea. I had my children- verv fast and it left me vejy weak . A year' ago I was taken with Hood- ing- and almost died. The ilr.ctcr even gave ma up and wonders ho v.- I ever lived. " I wroto for Mrs. Pinkham's advice at Lynn, Mass., and took her medicine and began to get well. I took several bottles of the Compound and used the Sanative Wash, and can truly say that I am cured. You would hardly know me, I am feeling" and looking" so well. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound made me what I am." Mrs. J. F. Stretch, 461 Mechaxic St., Camdex, N. J. IIoTr 31 rs. Brown Was Helped. "I must tell you that Lydia E. Pink ham's Veg-etable Compound has done more for me than any doctor. " I -was troubled with irregnlar menstruation. Last summer I began the use of your Vcrretab?e Compound, and after taking- two bottles, I have been regular every month since. I recommend your medicine to all." Mrs. Maggie A. Bsowsr, West Px. Pleasant, N. J. x OF The Messenger has again and again denounced the treatment of the gal lant and highly meritorious son of Ma ryland, Rear Admiral Schley, by the administration. It Is now urged by the looters for the gang that there was no snub Intended In appointing the Admi ral to the South Atlantic squadron that does not so much as exist. It is said Mc Kin ley did it, but was friendly to Schley as he thinks there may be im portant services awaiting the squadron that It is proposed to create. We do not believe this. The Washington Post, friendly to McKinley. has a long edito rial on "Schley's New Assignment." It gives the president's reasons for thus assigning and shows how fallacious, how absurd they are. He said that Schley could not be put in command of an European squadron because there was none to command. The Post says there is' no South Atlantic squadron to command either. Thus falls that rea son. Both must be created if they ever exist. The Post says: "Under the present arrangement, Schley will reach South America in mid-summer. Almost any port which he may enter will, in all probability, be Infected with yellow . fever. The cli matic conditions will be most unfavor able, the health of the officers and men be needlessly jeopardized. It has not been the custom heretofore to main tain a first-class squadron in South American waters during the sickly sea son. The station has never before been regarded as important enough for an officer of flag rank. "In the case of complications requir ing a serious naval demonstration In South Africa, the European Station would be a more convenient base than the South American. Our squadron could reach the objective point in quicker time, in better condition, and at less expense." McKinley said there were naval offi cers who outranked Schley and there fore he could not be appointed to com mand in preference. The Post reminds him that "Sampson has held command of the greatest fleet we ever had and held it all ummer while Farquhar, Howison, Schley, and others who rank him have been kept in obscure and un desirable positions." How flimsy is the McKinley pretence. SYMPATHY WITH rUV, ROF.RM The British are indignant because the Afrikandsra sympathize with the Boers and do not fail officially, to ?ay so. They seriously deprecate war and hope all efforts possible will be exhausted to prevent war, but they are in sincere sympathy with the weaker party in the quarrel. The reply of President Kru ger was in good taste and for peace. President .Steyn in his speech to the volksrnad, "said plainly enough that "there is nothing," declared the pres ident, "that warrants war or an attack upon the Transvaal. Such differences as exist can be solved by arbitration. War would be an insult to religion and civilization." We doubt not that an overwhelming, sentiment like this pre vails among the informed poples of the world outside 'of the British empire. The more we read of the causes the less grounds appear for -the course of the British government. The British do not appear to he ready. If there are realfy 52,000 Brers ready to fight Great Britain will do well to gather a larg-e army before moving. Twice have the Boers defeated its army with ter rific loss in nast fiahts. Even such friends of England as the able New York Evening Post cannot justify Eng land's course. Referring to the man ner tin wldch the Boers are dealt with by the British officials that great paper edited by an Englishman, gives this statement, which is decidedly inform ing: "The reply also asserts that the Transvaal government was "assured by Mr. Chamberlain" that the proposals made would not be considered by him a refusal of his terms. Now, England cannot go to war with such a charge of trickery on the part of her agents un refuted. Whatever the exact truth about this, we have only to revert to the text of Sir Alfred Milners account of the Bloemfontein conference last May, to see that Kruger has since of fered all that was then demanded, and, moreover, that the coupling of a new assertion Of Transvaal independence with the franchise concessions was practically a suggestion of Sir Alfred's. He said to Kruger that change of po licy towards the Outlanders would "strengthen the independence of the re public," and in his own detailed scheme of franchise reform he distinctly speci fied tihat the new citizens were to take oath to "defend the independence of th? country." Yet when this was put by Kruger in his official proposals to the British government, it was declared quite Inadmissible." A new work on "France and Italy" by Imbe'rt de Saint-Armand. mention ing the heavy losses sustained In the battle of Solferino calling it "sar.euf nary," says this: "From an Austrian army comprising not less than 150.003 combaatants, and occupying formidable positions, tlhe French army had taken three flags, thirty cannons, and made 6,000 pris oners. But at the cost of what a slaugh ter! Sixteen hundred killed, 8,500 wounded, 1.500 men missing such was the schedule of Its losses. Generals Dieu, Auger, Ladmirault, Forey. Douay were among the wounded; the first two afterward died in consequence. Seven colonels and nine lieutenant colonels had been killed,' If these losses are compared with the losses sustained by the confederates and fed reals in many battles they will ap pear smalL At Gettysburg which not half the army the Austrians had they lost nearly 16,000 killed and wounded. But the war of the states has many ex amples of losses far greater than the losses at Solfrerino. When Grant charged General Lee's Jines in the sec ond battle of .Ganes's Mill, he lost in killed and wounded in one charge 12, 000 men. He did not repeat -the fight ing aa his great army refused to obey when so ordered, See Sevinton, Yan kee author. 51CKINLKY' TH El 1 Si KNT tCIILtCl' oii rii m 1.1 a ftinton Hogan Helper, author of the bad book, the "Impending Crisis, is dead. He was born in Henderson GoM Leaf: A glorious i revival is now in progress at the Chap el. Henderson Cotton Mills, conducted by Rev. C. X. Riggan. Fifty converts arc reported up to Tuesday night. Dr. W. B. Normest, of Rowland, died Monir nl2rf Early Monday while be was talking over a telephone be was suddesdy eerkJoai and fell lie never recovered from the first attack, but lived until night. Winston Sentinel: The Sentinel not ed a few days ago that the negro j Walter Davis, who was in jail here awaiting trial for shooting a negro near Belo's pond, was an escaped con vict from Rockingham county. The authorities there made a demand upon Sheriff Kapp for the prisoner and ha was carried to Reklsville. Mooresville correspondesK-e Charlotte Observer: Mr. J. D. Trout man. nrho hat been living in Ohio for twenty year?, will move his family to this place in a short while. He has formed a part nership with his brother. B. A. Trout- man, and they will run a ginnery, av mill and planing machine.and will es tablish a furniture factory. Recently Lge Harris, Esq.. came out for Marion Butler for governor in 1900. He was in Asheville last week, and upon his return home says: "The Asheville Rt publican, Gudger, Jim Grant, Lusk and the rest told me they were ready to go for Marion Butler as the fusion nominee for governor if that is the thing todo, as I contended it is. I thought they would be utterly hostile. They said: 'If that's the1 thing to do we will oppose him. Winston Sentinle: The Confession by Thomas Hudson, in the Brinkley case, as told by The Sentinel yesterday afternoon, was expected by thoe who heard his testimony at the preliminary trial. Hudson told Solicitor Gnfflth that after the shooting he and Cobbler went with Reed to the X. & W. trosile, across Forth stheet. where th? litter removed the two blank cartr'dsej from his pistol. One of three was found by Policeman Tihomas and prod ace. 1 at the trial. The murdered man was a mem ber of a good family and it Is said that reltives will employ able counsel to as sist the solicitor in the prosecution, as they are anxious to have tne guilty man punished. Monroe Enquirer: Mr. T. J. J.-rome, of this place, will be a candidate for the attorney general. That he has th qualificationB of a good officer is rec ognized by all who know him. Mr. J.- D. Collins, of Charlotte, has bought the Monroe Cotton Mills Store and will continue the business in the Fitzgerald building. The cotton receipts on this market are much heavier than they were last year. Professor Alexander P. McLean, of laurinburg, has been elected a teacher in the Monroe High School. He is a graduate of th? State University and has experience as a teacher. Red Springs Record: Murdock Smith was shot September ISth, atNeill Smith's by Van Williams, a desperate negro, formerly of Fayetteville. He had some words with Neill Smith last Saturday, and1 went armed to renew the row. iMurdock told him to go away, and sstarted off and when about ten or fifteen steps away the negro fired three shots, the last taking effect above left elbow. Dr. J. L. McMillan probed about three inches but failed to locat the ball. Later the negro was met by W. T. Smith, who he also fired at with his pistol, but Smith shot him with a shotgun, and captured him and deliv ered him to Marshal Henderson, of Maxton. t Asheville Citizen: The "trusty" sys tem observed by the county authori ties in caring for the convicts is respon sible for an act committed last night that" cam4 near resulting in the death of the wife of one of the favored pris oners. "Bud" Payne, a negro, is the "trusty" in question, and he came to town last night evidently bent upon making trouble. He declared his inten tion to kill her and leave. His wife ran into- her sister's room, but Payne forced the doer and with the axe he carried struck his wife in the center of the forehead. The blow was not de livered fairly and the axe was not a sharp one, otherwise the woman must have been killed. As it was the skull was laid bare. Salisbury Sun 19th: The sad news of the death of Mr. W. A. Llpe, of the county, was brought to town tbia mo rac ing and many were the expressions of sorrow. For "Uncle Billy as he was faimiliarly called, was known and loved by a very large number of people throughout tlhe country. His death was such a sad eadinig of a bright and hap py life, for it was caused by au accident which proved fatal in two hours. Yes terday about noon. Mr. Lipe was kicked by a horse. " Before my wife began using Mother's Friend she could hardly get around. I do not think she could get along without it now. used it months a grea. She has 1 4 for two ft U.1U 11 i? nelp to hei h e f She does housework without trouble." Mothers Friend is an external liniment for expectant mothers to use. It' gives them strength to attend to their household duties almost to the hour of confine ment. It is the one and only prepara tion that overcomes morning sickness and nervousness. It is the only remedy that relaxes and relieves the strain. It is the only remedy that makes labor short and delivery easy. It is the only remedy that puts the breasts in condition so that swelling or rising is impossible. Don't take medicines internally. They endanget the lives of both mother and child. Mother's Friend Is sold by druggists for ft. Snd for our free illostrated book. The Bradflcld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. A HUSBAND SAYS: 1 . Hlli'lTfKS Xew Tork Times Saturday Review discussing "The French in Italy." the war of ISSS-has this Just remark that has a wide application and hits McKin ley hard although the Times i a hec toring advocate of foreign conquest: "France poor France. The opinions of a civilised world, that upholds Jus tice, will look askance at the part glory bears In her history as a nation, and we w nothing that can be good in the hectoring spirit of armed men. who trample under foot the dearest rights of man." John Bull ia trying to get the advan tage of Oom Paul by delay and manoe uvre. But the Doer cx may gore that bulL The Massachusetts democrats in con vention in Boston were full of wrangle and fight the police had to be called In. A divided party goes down before con centrated power. But they were loyal to Bryan. , It will be good news if Captain Drey fus and wife should visit Texas. Let him come and find a hospitable home on this side of the great deep. He Is one man we would like to grasp by the hand. May he be long pared to enjoy freedom and health and happiness and then be "gathered Into Abraham's bosom!" Hanna is being Interviewed by re publicans as if he were " lord of all he surveys.- Uke party like leader. What a tribe! The smallness, the weakness, the badness of McKinley passes compre hension. He is a fraud of the llrst water. N III IUi!H The democracy has nothing lo fear in the next year campaign, but It h as- much to hope for and much to encour age K to an aggressive, spirited and earnest contest, for conditions were never mere favorable, and with proper effort victory is almost certain. Ox ford Ledger. We still regret that Governor Rus sell did not attend the trust meeting of governors and others now in gession at St. Louis. Had he been there, and thoroughly unbosomed, himself as to the result of his "trust" in a few cer tain gentlemen, he would have added1 gayety to the counsels of th nations assembled. Raleigh Post. We are fighting an unauthorized fish: and are engaged in an unauthorized war. A war of conquest It is pure and simple, for it cannot be in any sense called a defensive war. None of the enemy haa ever been on our soil or at tempted to land on It. The fight with the Filipinos is a war of aggression carried on without any authority. Monroe Knquirer. No matter who stands In the way of It now, or how long selfish or partisan consideration may delay it. It is a cer tain as that there is a God in tho heav ens that the American people will te cure freedom and mdependancd to the Philippine Islands. This republic has been at onco the inspiration and thi hope of lbarty-loving men in all climes for more than a century. Though an administration with a tainted title and honey-combed with scandals, may iost por.e the hour, the drawing of the day v."bfcn the massea of the republic will brirrg it back to its old moorings Is not far distant. Rilegh News-Observer. When the legislature reassembles it should enact a law which will effectu ally put an end to Che sale of the waste or other lands belonging to the state to syndicates or corporations!. That which the prtsenk generation of North .; -linians do not need of this, whetn.-r lor lumber or other purposes, should be saved for coming generations which will need them all the more. This county ha,s gnwn to greatness by leaps and bounds, but it does not follow that our citizens are any the happier therefor. In numerous places the population is dangerously congested. More than it would have been in a hundred years if homestead lands and other inducements had not been offered to attract the peo ple of Europe. Tarboro Southerner. These people and their converts have given trouble in other sections of th? south and they will do f here. If they are objectionable elsewhere, they will be so here. The quiet and law abiding citizens of Johnston county do not de sire this disturbing element introduced into the communities. Something should be done to counteract the work of these missionaries of Brigham Young. We do not advise what mean to employ to drive them away. But we warn our readers that their strength is surely and steadily growing and that, unless strong and effective meas ures are employed to defeat them, cer tain portions of our immediate weotlon of the state will soon be the rankest hotbeds of Mormonism Smithfield Herald. The University at Ciiapel Hill has. opened well more than 400 student enrolled, the Jargnst opening we are told in the history oZ the irvsltutkm. We wish the work cf the University weH. Whatever may be our opinion about state aid to higher education we cannot do otherwise than feel deep Interest in the students at Chapel Hill. A Urge number of the best youcg men of North Carolina are in attendance there and tho impressions they r?celre :ducat!on ally and religiously will go with them through life, and b? felt in Iarg? meas ure in every quarter of the state. There ia much at staka in ?very session of every school. We watch thc-m all ovrr the etate acd It ia our prayer that th very be-?: men and women may, be turned out, well equipped In learning and with a loyalty and steadfastness In religion that wH! dominate jliro for God and the right Fa ye tevilfe N. C. Baptbxt. Dr. Kingsbury, the genial and culti vated Journalist of the Wilmington Messenger, names the following ix notable North Carolinians, born during thep resent half-century, Hannls Tay lor. Walter H. Page, Walter W. Moore. Edwin T. Alderman. George T. Win ston and John 1L Morris.. If th time limit had not prevented no one would have objected to including Dr. Kings bury's name. But the discussion of the Bst in some of the state papers has been interesting. Some by not know ing have "argued themselves un known." The chagrin of one you n t; edi tor at not having been named himlf was as ludicrous as it was evident. We call attention to the fact that at least two on Dr. Kingsbury's list are Pres byterians. Dr. Moore and President Al derman. We do not know to what de nomination Harm is Taylor belongs. Still with the -present denominational distribution in the state it is good tb know that out church can furnish one third of the great men. Charlotte Presbyterian-Standard. .