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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05
Shoes.

We sell fine and cheap Shoes. This
line Is a very good paying depart
ment in u large store. Come and
look at our Ladies Shoe We sell at
S1.0o-it is a thing OF beauty and style.
all solid n honest. made OF fine Don
aolg.
Also we have a line OF Mems Shoes,
made OF fine u leather. all sold. nice.
stylish Shoes, in Lace and Congress, at
99c a pair. A mans honest high cut
Creedmore Ties at CSC a pair.
Rubbers-all prices-for small Girls
at loo: for Ladies CSC; Mems 4oc and
soc. We do a large business In Shoes.
both wholesale and retail. We want
your fine trade as well as your cheap
trade. We have a line OF fine Tan n
Black Calf Shoes we sell at $500 a pair.
other stores ask $500 for same Shoes.
We carry cut Soles from 10c. l5c and
25c a pair. The Clinch Shoe Nails at
2 boxes for SC. Cork Inner Soles at l5c
a pair.
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AS TO TEAS

Nearly twenty a g Professor
John w. Diaper, the eminent chemist.
published an article in Sheldon's On. 70
Magazine on tea and it's uses. He
stated hen M nervous person ought
ever to drink tea, and that coffee was
Incomparably healthier than tea, and
lastly very little pure tea eve came to
h United States. He purchased sam
pies of the very finest tea he could
find in the city, and examined them.
MM were poisoned by dyes. and all were
more or less adulterated by the use Of
n plant of shape and color OF the tea
lead with the exception that the edges
while the genuine tea plant had cor
rugated edges, like saw teeth. We
have not read the article since 1t ap-
peared, but distinctly recall the points
above stated. He printed pictures Of
the two plants. He said the way to de
tect the difference was to dampen the
plants and carefully spread them on a
plate. The difference in the edges
would clearly appear. We are sure We
have not drunk in the last thirty years
any tea comparable to the teas import
ed before 1860. We remember to have
paid SIS, in 1866, for three pounds of
green tea hat was very good but very
high. A large tea importer in New
York about 1853 perhaps, told us that
the finest teas were black. Within
two or three years we read a magazine
article that stated that in China the
fine teas were not shipped as they
fetched there from 81 to SO a pound.
Othe teas han Chinese are largely
used in the United States, and more
largely used in England, the great
tea drinking country among the u
tries populated by the white race.
The Japanese is one of the teas much
sought after. The Japanese Tea Guild
a published a recipe for making Jap
snese tea. We copy it, and it Will be
observed that it is to be drunk without
adulteration Of any sort-without ad-
mixture of sugar or cream:
'.First-Use a small, dry and thor
oughly clean porcelain teapot.
~"SecOnd-Put in one teaspoOnful Of
tea leaves for each cup Of tea desired.
"Third-When using Japanese teas
pour on the required quantity of fresh
boiled water, and let stand with closed
did from two to three minutes. Never
boil the leaves. In order to retain the
natural flavor, japanese tea leaves
should be kept in a tight can or jar
free from moisture.
"Note.-To thoroughly enjoy the nat
ural, delicate and sweet flavor Of Jap
anese teas, neither sugar nor cream
should be used"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05
A PICTURE OF HENRY GEORGE
JUST BEFORE DEATH

Of course the dailies have much to
say Of the death Of Henry George. II.
was too purely intellectual, too I'M
posing and picturesque a figure to pass
away without much discussion and
abundant eulogizing. We briefly re-
ferred to his authorship which was
distinguished. No American political
work was ever read so much abroad
and received so much discussion as his
work on Progress and Poverty" His
political writings generally were quite
sure to be widely read, talked about
and written about. He died in his
mental prime, (fftf-nine) a sad vic
had not sought office he would be alive
today, we doubt not, and in health.
His bright star has vanished forever
from the political sky and henceforth he
will be known through his books, and
: for a long time his name
CT political economy, the author
of extreme theories and a1-
vanced principles. We do not pretend
to know what will be the effect Of his
death upon the political complications
In Greater New York. We were very
unique dramatic, forceful picture tnat
gifted journalist Alfred H. Lewis wrote
of Mr.. George two days before his sub
Ject died, and hat appeared the morn
ing before his death in the New York
Journal. 1t is Of Rambesque coloring
tensity-how spirited and dazzling and
eve grim the portrait, the description.
Lewis wrote:
-"The inner guard returned from
George; he would see me. BY this time
II was not so certain that I was to meet
that Henry George, honest, simple.
thoughtful, with whom for five years I
had been pleasantly and respectfully
acquainted. / had begun to smell a
change. This advance agent business
had brought about a difference.
"'The inner guard opened a door and
silently and in an awe-bitten way
beckoned me to approach. This was
the fifth room, one after the other, into
which / had been carried. I entered
\ the apartment, there 1 found George
alone.
cit is not exaggeration to say 1 was
shocked. I will not go into elaborate
, description. but the Henry George I
found there was not the Henry George
4 had met fewer han two months 81
When / saw him last he was tranquil
quiet, even steady as to nerves. ration
al, sedately contented, talking Of his
books and his tax dreams. Today /
Ynet a man haggared, pinched, with a
face as thin and peaked as a pen. His
e. royed, his hair was tumbled, his face
the theater of disorder. If he was the
picture Of anything it was Unfed Am
aoition made desperate. There was de-
spair, too, in his face, as if in a dim
way he looked into a future black
with disappointment. I tell you it was
shock to see the man"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05
Clothing.

We handle this line very extensive
ly. We sell Odd Pants. Odd Goats and
Suits for Men and Boys. Our Boys
Suits run from 75c to $3.50 n Suit. our
Mems Suits run from $3.50 a Suit To
$4.25, $500, 5000 and $3.50. Fine 20
unc boiled. all wool Worstcd Suits.
regular price $3.50. my special price
is $500. Fine Satin Lined Suits at $40.
Nice Beaver Overcoats at $500: Satin
Lined Overcoats at $3.50. Cheap Over
coats at $500. $2.75 and $3.50. Gents
long waterproof Capes and Mackin-
SIC, $1.0O. s1.25 and up to $3.50. Odd
Coats at s1.50 each. Boys Pants at 25c
Mems Hats for all prices. Soft
Brown and Blue, Fur, Felt. Crush
Hats at Csc. Fine Alpine Hats at SOC.
75c and $1.0O. Caps from 10c TO soc.
Dirby from s35c to S1.50.
Remember we have a very large
| prices, from zoe, 22lsc, Csc. 35c. 4Sc and
55c up to 75c per yard. Mating from
10c to 25c per yard. Carpet Paper Sc
n &c per yard.
Window Shades at 12kc and 25c
| each.
Lace Curtains from 45c up to $500
a pair.
(, DRESS GOODS Of all kinds. and this
large department is a splendid draw
ing card. Look over them and we will
prove that we do the business in Dress
Goods. We are still giving out the
Furniture Cards and Picture cards
free. With $1,000 purchases we enlarge
your picture free. With a $500 pur-
chase we give you a nice Oak Center
Table free. With a $25.0 90 purchase we
give you Il nice fine Oak Arm Rocking
Chair, fine Center Table or a Book
Case free. With a $500 purchase we
give you a splendid Willow Rocker.
Come to W~ilmington's Big Racket
Store, opposite the orion Hotel,
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LARGE SALES N THE millinery BUSINESS.
Also Clothing and Shoes.
Millinery.

Our Fall Millinery Business has
opened in good earnest.
Our stylish new Hats n low prices
make them move. We are having q
fine run on them. keeping our three
Milliners busy all the time Trimming
orders and Hats for stock.
We have ust received a 20-dozen job
of new Flats and Sailors, in all colors
and red, t o run at the low prices OF
25 and 35c each. We AVE also Fine
French Felt Shapes at 65 and 15c.
\ beautiful line OF Short Back and
Bell Crown Sailors, velvet bound.
trimmed and untrimmed, at soc each.
Fine English Felt Shapes and Flats.
for Children and Ladies, at 35c.
We trim a line OF Hats that are very
pretty to sell for soc, 75c and $1.00 and
up I o $500 each.
We are the leaders in the Millinery
business, and / think to count the num-
bers OF Hats we sell and the amount of
business we do in this line far excells
any other Millinery store in the State.
We. want your Millinery trade.
We have made big preparations to
meet your wants in Fancy and Plain
Ribbon, Flowers, Wings and Plumes
A nice job Of 20 dozen pretty, ful!
Plumes. z inches long. at 23c a piece.
No. 60 Black Satin Ribbon at 25c.
No. 60 Fancy Roman Stripe Ribbon.
for Children's Hats, at 15c.
No. 60 Fancy Ribbon at 10c.
All kins of pretty Ribbon for Hat
Bands Ties and Belts.
Come and see our large Hat Depart
ment and be convinced that We do the
leading Millinery business in the city.
We trim all Hats free of cost to you IL
you buy the Hat and material of US.
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Kings Mountain Reformer: We are
reliably informed that William Barry,
who lives on the Rev. L. A. Boyce place,
near Clover. was bitten on the finger by
a rattlesnake on Sunday a week ago
while picking muscadines. The snake
was killed and was found to carry two
rattles and a button. The strange part
of the story to us is that as soon as he
was bitten, after killing the snake, he
FASTENED to the branch and buried his
hand in the mud, where he held it for
half an hour, then taking it out and
poulticing it with onions, salt, etc, went
about his business, not even becoming
the least sick. The hand swel,ed q good
deal, but that was all.
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If the sufferer will take Swift's
Specific (S.S.S.). instead of mineral
poisons, he will get we'll again, and
stay well. He will find that this
great vegetable Blood Remedy
drives all poison from the system.
It gets into the minutest veins, and
eradicates every vestige of faint in
the blood. 1t is the only Real Blood
Remedy ever discovered. 1t not
only cures Contagious Blood Poison,
but is the only remedy that can reach
Scrofula, Catarrh, Rheumatism,
Cancer, Eczema and all other deep
seated Diseases of the Blood.
rec books on the cure of all Blood Dis
orders will be sem on application to
the SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Atlanta, Ga,
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Blood


A man afflicted with Contagious
Blood Poison, might as well commit
suicio as to take the mercuriai
poisons which are always prescribed
by the doctors. If he takes those
poisons, he might as well make his
will and get ready for the under
taker. Perhaps this is plain talk,
but it is true, and truth is unpleas-
ant sometimes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05
Kid Gloves.

We have just received a big line Of
Kid Gloves for Ladies at 25c, 75c. $1.0O,
SIPS and $3.50 a pair.
Gents Gloves all styles. A Dog Skin
Glovefor soc. Kid Gloves at 75c. Buck
Gloves at 25c.
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Ladies' Capes.

A nice new lot Fur Trimmed, Double
Collar Capes at Sips and s1.50; better
at 1925 nice, plain; very fine Beaver
Capes from 1926 up to $500.
Beautiful Seal Plush Capes at 1925,
IS. 90, $6.25, $6.75 and $500.
Long fine Fur Capes at $500 and
$1,000
Capes We sold for $751; 90, now We Of
fer at $12. SO.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05
THE NON.PRODUCING REvENU
TARIFF

The intelligent reader knows that
publican robber gang against the semi
UrDtection democratic tariff set aside
~KAs that 1t did not produce enough rev.
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Ladies' Skirts.

A big line Of fine samples just re-
ceived from $1.25 to $3.50. All grades,
Cotton, Wool and Silk. Look at them
they are cheaper than you can buy
the materil for, say nothing of max
ing.
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THE MONTHLY MAGAZINES.

The Atlantic Monthly for November
contains some excellent and most en-
tertaining papers. Already we have
discussed the two most memorable
papers, Mr.. Mabie's- Tennyson and
Mr.. Fiske's Bacon-Shakespeare Folly.
There is an historical paper of interest
on 1.-THE Frigate Constitution" We did
not fully sympathize with Mr.. Tuni-
sons article on 1.-THE Coming Literary
Revival. 1t is speculative and with
some opinions expressed we cannot
agree. Mrs. Wiggin continues her de-
lightful scintillating account Of "Pene-
lope's Progress" There are other fea-
lures of interest, among them Hopkin-
son Smiths story of Caleb West" 1t is
rather out of the common and is fresh
and vivid. The is another instalment
of Swift's unpublished letters, to us
not specially interesting. The price of
The Atlantic is 81 per year or 80 cents
a number. We repeat, it is the best of
all American monthlies. Published at
IL East Seventeenth street, Boston.
Current Literature for November
we'll %sustains its improvement. 1t is
still for the most part a monthly &C.
lectic and is unique in plan and is
without a rival in its chosen field. 1t
is really a valuable and entertaining
monthly, price So a yer or % cents a
number. Published in New York.
Smyrna times., 1897-10-20
PLACE NAMES.

Some Odd and Curious Names of Places
In Massachusetts.
In the Middlesex fells some good old
colonial names are preserved, like jim
glejerry hill and Shillyshally brook.
Spot pond was named by Governor
Winthrop, who discovered it in the win
ter, because Of the many rocks that
showed through the ice and spotted the
surface. Powderhorn hill in Chelsea is
said to have been bought from the In
dians for hornful Of powder.
The fact of misfortune to divers un-
known persons-whether trivial or great
does not appear-finds a record in Bad
Luck brook and swamp in Rehoboth,
Bad Luck mountain in Granville and
Bad Luck pond in Douglas. There may
be some association between Burncoat
brook and pond in Leicester and Spencer
and Burnshirt river, likewise in Worces-
ter county.
Drinkwater river is a felicitOus name
for a stream Of good water. 1t is in
Hanover, and possibly there may have
been a family of that name in the neigh
DOIuOOu. OlIOuB w abCA DAOOA III AOWAo-
bury has quite different associations.
Sought For pond, in Westford, suggests
a long and ba1fled quest for the spot
through the wilderness in the olden
days. One of the least euphonious Of
names is Slzug river in Essex and Mid
dlesex counties. 1t is worthy a place
among such English names as Worm
wood Scrubs, park in London.
The legend about the names Of the
group of islands on the south coast pre-
sents an instance of how fancied resem-
blanoes give rise to stories. 1t is related
that these islands once belonged to a
man with four daughters. To Nancy,
the Oldest, the father gave the first
choice, and the fact that "Nan took it"
is recorded in the name Of Nantucket,
the island she selected. Nantucket, of
course, is in reality an Indian name.
Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth
islands went to Martha and Elizabeth,
respectively, while for the fourth daugh-
ter, whose name has been lost to men,
ory, there was nothing left but the most
remote and undesirable of the group,
which was called No Mans Land, be-
cause its owner was a woman. The
Elizabeth islands, in fact, were named
for Queen Elizabeth by Bartholomew
Gosnold, their discoverer, whose name
has been given to the town that COM
prises them. Boston Transcript.
Smyrna times., 1897-10-20
Proved His Love.

TfNy were two working girls, ant
they happened to meet the other day a
the restaurant where they eat luncheon
The brunette ordered baked beans anC
lemonade, and the blond selected frui
cake and coffee. Tomorrow is pay dav
you know, she said in reply to the
inquiring look of the other.
ooh! Well, have you heard the new,
about Mary? She's resigned. "
81 know, said the blond. "Iwas il
hopes I'd be the first to tell you. She's
going to be married" "
Eyes; in a lovely blue silk. forge
the name of the man she's going t.
marry. He isn't very good looking, they
say, but Mary says he's intellectual.
She says"-
"Oh, pshawI You can't tell from
Mary.
"No; but Sadie's seen his photo
graph, and she says he wears glasses. "
"Does hef Well, Mary's lucky, if SHE
is redheaded. Why, be would Just dc
anything in the world for that girl"
"Humphp' said the brunette. "That's
the way she talks now, but you can't
tell thing about it until after they re
married"
"You can tell it easy enough in this
case. He's proved it already, " said the
blond warmly
"Said he'd die for her, suppose, -
returned the brunette scornfully. "Lots
of 'em talk that way before they have
to pay the butcher. "
"This isn't talk anyhow. He's proved
his love, tell you.
How? Did he save her life, or tell
her that her hair is golden?'
Neither. He sold his bicycle to buy
her an engagement ring Chicago
Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1897-10-20
MARYLAND ITEnS.

The committee of seventy of the
HOnest-Money Democratic League, of
Baltimore, adopted a declaration of
principles urging support of the re-
publican Legislative ticket.
The Courier, published at Federals-
burg, Caroline county, for over twenty
six years as a Democratic paper, or
with proclivities in that direction. has
announced that it has severed its re-
latiOn with the Democratic party, and
has come over to the Republican camp
and placed the entire Republican ticket
at the head of the paper.
The Honest-Money Democratic
League of Maryland, which last year
cast $500 votes for Palmer and Buck
ner, but many more for the Mckinley
and HObert electors, will not support
Senator German in his fight for the
control Of the Legislature, and his re-
election to the Senate, this year. The
League has made public address.
A GAIN OF REPUBLIcANs.- The re-
publican county executive committee
of Baltimore county have reports from
the various districts showing that there
had been relatively large new vote
registered and that more republicans
than democrats had registered in al
most all sections of the county. In
some precincts there have been two re-
publicans registered to one democrat,
and in at least ten of the thirteen dis
tricts, including all the more populous
ones, the republicans have gained.
Smyrna times., 1897-10-20
RESOLUTIONS OF W. IT. U.
Adopted at the Recent Annual State Con
VentiOn.

The following resolutions are part
OF those adopted by the 18th w. G. T.
U. annual convention, recently held in
Georgetown:
Whereas, Acknowledging our depend
ence upon the all-wise Father, who
has been pleased to bless our work, we,
IN this eighteenth annual convention,
do formulate the following resolutions:
Resolved, That we reafirm our al
leglance to the National Women's
Christian Temperance Union, and to
the president thereof, holding our
selves in readiness to labor with them in
all departments of the work, and ask
ing the cooperation of all societies
which have for their object the ad-
vancement of the cause of temperance.
religion and morality.
Resolved, That we believe the evan
gelistic spirit to be the foundation of
all our departments, and we urge each
local union to appoint an evangelistic
superintendent, who shall act upon
our national superintendent RECON-
mendatiOn, in her "Hints and Helps,
in which she plans for systematic work
in the unions, the churches and among
the masses.
Whereas, The new Constitution de-
clares, ''That when a majority of the
General Assembly from any one of the
four election districts, demands that the
question of license or no license, shall
be submitted to the voters Of their dis
tricts then the question shall be so sub
mitted;" therefore,
Resolved, That we urge all voters
to see that a majority of the members
of the General Assembly from their re-
spective election districts are in favor
of submitting the question, and that
we pledge our influence to secure the
election of only such men as are in
favor of submission.
Resolved, That we believe that the
ballot for women to be one of the
surest methods of securing and main
tanning prOhibitory law, and for this
we incorporate that principle in our
platform, and urge all conventions of
the Prohibition party to do the same.
Smyrna times., 1897-10-20
A Partisan niacnrerv

All Paris just now, according to The
Journal, is focking to 2S Rue Ravi-
gnan, Montmartre, where, a few days
ago, most remarkable discovery was
made. In this neighborhood are the
ruins OF the ancient monastery Of the
Benedictines and other old buildings
used by the brothers, most Of which are
also giving way to the ravages Of time.
At 20 Rue Ravignan Mime. Berthelot
Keeps a grocery store. She sleeps in a
small chamber in the rear, that at one
time was probably used as an orator.,
Nine. BerthelOt, noticing that the tihN
on the floor of the chamber gave forth q
hollow sound as she stepped upon them,
and thinking that a cellar there would
be very convenient for her business, sent
for mason and had the tiles removed.
A flight of stone steps was revealed,
leading into a labyrinth of passages.
The authorities have now taken possess
sion Of the place. and systematic in
vestigatiOn is being conducted. Many
relics have been found, and it is believ-
ed that much light is likely to be
thrown upon the history of Paris dur
ing the fourteenth century.
Smyrna times., 1897-10-20
STATE ITEMS.

WEDDING AT MILFoRD.-A notable
wedding took place at Col. NJ. H.
Davis residence on Tuesday, 18th inst.
when his daughter, Miss Louise Tate
Davis, was married to Dr. Walter L.
Day, of Ogdensburg, N. Y. The Rev.
Thomas E. Martindale, d. d. ,officiated,
Frank w. Davis, brother of the bride,
was best man, and Miss Mabel Conner,
of FELTON,, Miss Mary L. Burton, of
Frederick, Miss Bessie Adams Morrow
and Miss Elizabeth Richards, of Mil
ford, and Miss Louisa Cooper, of
Philadelphia, were maids of honor.
The bride was given away by her father.
After the reception, DIR. and Mrs. Day
started on Northern tour.
A PRETTY CHURCH WEDDING
one o'clock in the NJ. E. Church
Thursday, Miss Viola Hinsley, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John P. Hinsely,
of Middletown, and Mr.. William H.
Allen, formerly of Baltimore, dealers
in musical instruments, were married.
Miss Sarah Jolls played the wedding
march. She was attended by Miss
Mamie Stoner, of Camden, n. J. Miss
Laura Barcus, of Cheswold, Del, was
bridesmaid. The bride, leaning ON the
arm of her uncle, Mr.. Robert Gilmore,
who gave her away, was met at the
alter by the groom and his best man,
Prof. Jacob w. Wheatley, of Easton,
Md, and Rev. 1. L. Wood, Phi. D.,
who performed the ceremony. Rev.
William Robert Hyrons, of Dover,
was usher.
Mr.. T. E. Hurn, who for a number
of years has been conducting the tailor
ing business in Middletown, is now
connected with the large clothing
house Snellingburg & Co., of Phila-
delphia and Wilmington, as outside
salesman, with headquarters at the
Wilmington store.
Smyrna times., 1897-10-20
CHIEF CAUSE.

Unhealthy urine from unhealthy
kidneys is the chief cause of bladder
troubles. So the womb, like the blad-
der, was created for one purpose, and
if not doctOred too much is not liable
to weakness or disease, except in rare
cases. 1t is situated back of and very
near to the bladder, therefore any
pain, disease or Inconvenience mani
tested in the kidneys, back, bladder or
urinary passage is often, by mistake,
attributed to female weakness or womb
trouble of some sort The error is
easily made and may be easily avoided.
To find out correctly, set your urine
aside for twenty four hours; a sedi-
ment or settling indicates kidney or
bladder trouble. The mild and extra
ordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kidney, and bladder
remedy is soon realized. If you need
a medicine you should have the best.
At druggists fifty cents and one dollar.
You may have sample bottle and
phamphlet, both sent free by mail.
Mention THE SMYRNA TINES and send
your ADDRESS to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
BinghamtOn, N. Y. The prOprietors
OF this paper guarantee the genuine
ness of this offer.