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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-08
Messenger Bureau

I'm a minute one dose OF Harris Es-
sence of Ginger will rerieve any ordi-
nary case of Collie, Cramps, or Nausea.
An ~unexcelled remedy for Diarrhoea,
Cholera Morbus, Summer complaints
and all internal pains. Sold by ]. c..
Shepard, ]. H. Hardin and H. l.. Fen
treSS.
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tons, painful boils, annoying pim-
piles and other affections, which ap-
pear SO generally 1T this season, make
the use of that grand Spring Medi-
cine, Hoods Sarsapariya, q necessity.
The accumulated impurities in the
blood cause very different symptoms
with some people. The kidneys,
liver and bowels arc o~vcr1natched in
their efforts to relieve the clogged
system. Dizzy headaches, bilious
attacks, failure of appetite, coated
tongue, lame back, indigestion and
that tired feeling are Fl results.
From the same may also come
scrofula, neuralgia, sciatica or rheu-
matism.
All these troubles andnore mag prop
erly be called "Spring Humors,"
and Just as there is one cause, a cure
is found in just, one remedy, and
that is Hoods Sarsaparilla-
Hoods Sarsaparilsa p%urifies the impure
blood, enrichcs, blood WHICH is weak
and thin, vitaliaes- blood which lacks
vitality. Thus il reaches every part
OF the humaa system.
For your Spring Medicine to pre-
vent or cure Spring Humors, take
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-08
NORTH CAROLINA IN so,.,,or Cont.
Pender County.

. = ~4taaaS
vs.. Notice.
A. J. Shine
The defendant above named will take
notice that an action entitled as above
has been commenced in the Superior
Court Of Pende county for divorce from
the bonds OF matriraony. and Defendant
viii further take notice that ne IL re-
CURED TO appear at the next term of the
Superior Court OF said county to be held
on the first Monday in March. isyS. at
the court house Of said county. in Bur
gaw, y. G.. and answer or demuC 10 the
complaint in said action. or the plaintiff
viii apply to the court for tho relief de-
manded in said complaint.
This "A day OF February. 1898.
w. w. X
Clerk OF superior Court,
feb y, semi-w. CIV.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-08

Twice is a monster of so %frightful mien,
AS to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen. too oft. familiar whit her face
We first endure. then pity. then en-
hJann
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
Art of Growing Old.

New York Post.
The sort of mercantile way in which we
regard mental effort after a certain point
in life is passed is really sad mistake even
from that very standpoint 81 intended to
have followed such a subject up, but am
too DID, it win be Of no use to me now"
This generally means that mans activity
in his profession or a woman's in her world
is drawing to a close and there will be no
reward commensurate to the effort. AS well
say we would let our limbs shrivel and grow
weak because we no longer expected to run
races.
for our minds, when need deeper memories
to draw upon, when require larger riches of
knowledge than when our kingdom is mar
rowed to our hreSides and our charm for
those about us shall consist in what we
give to them from within? When shall we
require more for ourselves than when We
household are seeking their diversions apart
from us in summer fields or the gayety of
winter bathrooms?
Every youthful enjoyment laid aside
should be quickly replaced with one suita-
BILE to the transition stage we nave entered
upon; every activity abandoned should have
a new one, within our Limitations, to fill the
gap. Scion said that he grew old Learning
something new every day. and he who does
this is never without certain youthfulneSS
of spirit which binds him to the young.
A gracious dignity beauties the man or
woman who does not dissemble concerning
advancing years, but seeks to develop the
beauty and influence OF the autumn which
may bring gray hairs and wrinkles. but
need not also make lis dull or unlntereSting,
or take away our influence.
1t seems as If it ought to be harder for a
man TO grow old cheerfuiIy than for a
woman, because Of the instructive delight
he takes in physical strength and activity,
but on the whole, men bear their losses in
these matters with composure, end In any
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
A Club Presidents Error.

New York Evening Sun.
The obvious thing about the latest Sorosis
agitation is not the cause of the agitation
nor yet the agitation itself, but the extreme
cleverness of those who thus played upon
the susceptbilities of the club. AS all the
world by this time knows, a Boston firm not
long ago succeeded in inducing the present
Sorosis president, Mrs. Mary Dame Hall, to
indorse a certain article Of its manufacture
in return for which Endorsement the firm
was to supply Mrs. Hall, gratis, with a
stated number of articles yearly. Upon Mrs
Halls acceptance of the offer her letter Of
Endorsement written upon the club paper
and signed with the club name appeared in
all the advertisements of the firm. One por-
ton of the letter read as follows IT, of
course, expected that the Sorosis - would
be all that was f1ttest and finest, but the
article that you have just sent me exceeds
my highest expectations" AS was natural
the publication of this letter almost set the
club crazy The members discussed it col
lectively and personally, in the shadow, of
beats upon the afternoon tea table. The
feeling against Mrs. Hall is naturally very
high. Various have been the suggestions
as to the most deserved way of reprimand-
ing her. That she should bring publicity
upon such modest, retiring organization
was bad enough, but to think of it's being
publicity of such vulgar, commercial sort!
1t was, as a prominent member put it,
like selling ones .birthright for mess of
pottage. But, Writhe and wrangle as they
might, there was but little satisfaction to
be got Public action might punish Mrs
Hall, but it would also advertise the firm to
whose Establishments she had succumbed
AT the special meeting yesterday, which,
according to the card of summons, was for
the express purpose of considering this
question and which, according to most of
those participating. had nothing whatever
to do with 1t, various plans for dealing with
Mrs. Hall were presented. The radicals it
is said, were for impeaching and deposing
her at once, but this the conservatives
would not hear to-. Perhaps the fact that
Mrs Halls illness. which has necesstated
her leaving town just now, had something
was due to a shrewd desire not to give
the offending firm any further gratis adver-
Using However disappointed the radicals
may feel therefore, they cannot be so dis
appointed as the firm, which evidently
counted upon the fuss sure to follow such
an action on the part of the president as its
principal source of publicity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

the water its own compressed air engine Is
started and propels the torpedo at speed
of ten or twelve miles hour at the tar
get. Torpedo boats are small, swift, I'M
armored and with very few guns of heavy
caliber. Their chief weapons, the torpedoes,
are of offense and the boats are designed
to scud up to huge battle ship. send tor
pedo against her side and blow her to pieces.
Destroyers are craft of exactly the same
sort, but larger and swifter. Besides being
sent against large ships, they are designed
to chase and capture or sink torpedo boats.
Did any of the States exempt slaves from
taxes; If so, which ones? 2. Did any States
allow slave owners to vote for their slaves?
If so which States? How many slaves en-
titled man to an extra vote?-L. u.
We think not. In some of the States there
were constitutional provisions regulating
the taxation of slaves but we find none ex-
empting them from taxation. They were
rated personal property. No State al
lowed Shareholders to vote for their slaves.
A provision of the United States Constitu-
ton before the war was to the effect that
representatives in Congress should be APP
portioned among the States according to
their respective numbers, (which shall be
determined by adding to the whole number
of free persons three-fifths of all
other persons" Thus the slave States had
an advantage over the other States because
three-fifths of their slaves were counted
in making up the number of persons who
sent representative to Congress. How this
worked in practice is shown in the case of
South Carolina in 1860; she had white
population of 291 300 and slave population
of 400, 406. three-fifths of which were about
241 500. These slaves. added to the whites,
gave a population of about $4,000 as entitled
to representation. They had six representa-
tives. Each white inhaibtant thus had prac-
tically two votes; the actual shareholders
had more proportionately.
Please give me the correct spelling Of the
name of Father Kneipp, the barefoot-cure
advocate; also some facts concerning his life
and the date of his death. Did he live in
Germany or Switzerland?-H. H.
Father Sebastian Kneipp was born in
Bavaria in 1921; died June II, 1897. The chief
elements of the Kneipp system of water
cure are the application of sunshine fresh
air and water. Though the morning walk,
barefooted in the dew, or even in the snow,
is required of patients, there are other more
important matters insisted on, such as baths
of certain kinds and frequency, the use of
clothing of a sort to admit light and air,
the prohibition of alcohol and the limitation
upon meat diet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
Fruits That Mrs. Rorer Commends.

In the June Ladies' Home Journal Mrs. S.
T. Rorer writes Of Fruits as Food and
Fruits as Poison" and names the kinds
allowed on her own table. These are fresh
figs, dried ones carefully cooked, guavas
canned without sugar, guava jelly, orange
marmalade made by special home receipt,
dates both raw and cooked with almonds.
persimmons, bananas cooked and oc-
casional dish of prunes with the skins re-
moved, blackberries and dewberries, slight
ly cooked, strained and made into 1ummery.
The objection to the latter fruit, however, y
she says, lis the addition of starch and
sugar, which is prone to fermentat ton. All
fruits, whether cooked or raw, should be
used without sugar 1t must be remembered
that sugar in no way neutraliZes an acid
for this an alkali must be used. Sugar
sprinkled over an acid fruit masks the OBJ
jectionable and severe acid until it slips by
the "guardkeeper,' the palate. Once in the
stomach, however, it regains its own posi-
ton and grants the same to the irritating
acid"
Fruits as foods, are then, peaches, april
cots, nectarines; ripe, mellow apples dates.
figs, fresh and dried; prunes without skins
persimmons, pawpaws; very ripe or cooked
bananas; guavas without seeds-fresh or
canned without sugar; pineappleS, grated
or finely picked, never cut; mangoes,
grapes; sweet plums without skins. sugar
cherries and an occasional cooked pear
Bartlets are excellent when cooked without
sugar.
The fruits which must be used most spar
ingly are lemons, oranges, ShaddockS, cur
rants barberrieS, cranberrieS and straw
berries This applies most emphatically to
those persons who are inclined to uric acid
conditions. The rheumatic and equity should
also most rigidly abstain. The tender lin
ing of the child's stomach cannot, certainly,
bear such fruits any length of time serious
results must follow. The ripe, mellow peach
is really the child's fruit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

mind he'd show that teacher thing or two.
So he kind of started a rumor that there
was going to be another raid OH the orchard
that next night, and then what do you
think he did? Well, he and those other boys
got an empty hogshead and they put Il
next night they hid in another tree ana
watched. Sure enough the teacher came
stealing along and when he spied the hoSs-
head he craWied into 1t so as TO nave
good place to wait for them. Just as soon
as he had got in the boys sneaked up pc
hind the hogshead and started 1t rolling
down the hill. teacher and all, bumpily.,
bump bump. My, by the time II 49, -eIpeu
and the teacher had managed TO get out the
boys were pretty nearly home and he haah
any more idea than the dead who'd done
il. You can just be sure that 1t wasnt tue
teacher that told the story.
"Oh, that George Dewey was funny poy
/ remember about his taking neishpoI
baby out in his little carriage. He WASH
nothing but a little shaver. but you coulan
running the baby buggy up and down the
walk just lickity-split, and the frst tnliiS
no knew he ran il off the walk and splileu
out the whole business. Well, ne Just
grabbed up the baby and the covers ana lhe
pillows and was just dumping them into the
buggy when the baby's mother came rush,
ing out. That boy never blinked lou
have thought he was the lord mayor ol
London. ~
!" L haven't any more time TO give TO the
baby now. Mrs. -. he said, Just as p sslIs
pous as you please, VIII you please ta sa',
her into the hoase?' And he stalked away
as II he had never gone off a walk IN Ms
life No, sir The folks that knew GeoIss
Dewey when he was boy IN Vernon
weren't surprised at his victory. s shsnss
they wouldn't be surprised az any uiiAs
George Dewey did"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
THAT WONDERFUL DEWEY.
People who Knew Him as a Roy NOT
Surprised at Anything He Does.

New York sun.
To have known Commodore Dewey %
claim to popularity that doesn't ran IN
these DAYS The man or the woman with
Dewey "reminiscences to tell is always sure
of listener An old lady from Vermont
found this out the other day.
know George Dewey?'' she said wen,
I guess 1 did. My. but he was a mIscniev-
one of his teachers found that out. It was
in the fall of the year, and the apples were
riue on the trees. There was enc orchard
with a particularly fine tree in It and the
boys they did banker after that fruit /
don't know as blame 'em for it, either.
n1At any rate George Dewey he put two
of the other boys up to helping him and
they just pretty near cleaned out all the
apples there were on that tree Mad !
Well. you never saw man as mad as the
owner of the orchard was, and he run right
off to the school teacher to complain. The
teacher thought he'd be real smart. so when hen
the bows were all in their seats ne told
about the apple stealing. and he said:
4 Now. ] want the guilty boys to under
stand that know just who did this and
that they viii be severely punished Il Il
happens again.
George never blinksd, but he made up nis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
SILK Vfsites.
Harper's Bazaar.

Harper's Bazaar
The very newest fad of the season is the
revival of an old fashion-the silk visite
which our grandmothers wore. 1t consists
of a little coat made of taffeta, which can
be worn with any skirt-not only of silk
but of other material as well. The prettiest
model is made with the back in basque
shape; the fronts loose, bur with long tabs
the sleeves very small, with a cap over the
top, and high turned-back collar faced
with some pI1gnt Color; Inc SIX is covered
fantastic a pattern as can be devised. II
is not supposed to be lined, and is to be
worn either over a thin shirt waist or with
a false front. 1t is held in place by a mar
row belt which goes under the front pieces.
lit has not as yet appeared excepting at the
private dressmal1ers but is already be-
Coming a craze. For women who cannot
wear shirt waists there is nothing smarter
or cooler. OF course, it is not a very easy
model to make at home, but 1t is a possible
one and a very good one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
Not Lost, but Gone Before.

When for me the silent oar
Parts the silent river.
And / stand upon the shore
OF the strange forever,
Shall / miss the loved and known?
Shall vainly seek mine own?
Can the bonds that make us here
Know ourselves immortal,
Drop away like foliage sere
At life's inner portaly
What is hottest below
Must forever live and grow.
He who plants within our hearts
All this deep affection,
Giving when the form departs,
Fadeless recollection,
VIII but clasp the unbroken chain
Closer when we meet again.
Therefore dread I not to go
Ger the silent river:
Death, thy Fastening oar I know,
Bear me. thou life-giver.
Through the waters to the shore
Where mine own have gone before.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

tress Of nations that is necessary to make
this mighty change. Too many people read
their Bible superficially and see nothing of
these momentous subjects, but that old
book when radically understood embodies
a thorough account of the temporal and
eternal affairs of the entire human family.
The present wars and rumors of wars are
proven by over hundred passages In Holy
Writ to be as Jesus said. 1.-The beginning of
troubles, the beginning OF the end, and they
are not coming unawares, but to the stu
dent of prophecy on schedule time.
T. II. NELSON, Evangelist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
The Life of n Wheel.
New york Evening Post.

1t has long been a matter Of great surprise
to Wheelmen that SO delicately constructed
a piece of mechanism as the modern bicycle
stands so we'll the rough-and- tumble treat
ment it so frequently receives. 1t is ridden
by hundreds of thousands who have no me-
chanical knowledge, and yet accidents are
comparatively rare. It seems to be little
short of wonderful that wheel weighing
in the neighborhood of twenty-five pounds
should be able to carry from six to eight
times its weight over all sorts of Dads at a
speed running up as high as twenty miles an
hour day in and day out, and have dam
ages come, except in rare instances, from
detective forgings only. 1t is more than
likely however, that most of the protection
Is given by the pneumatic tire, which pre-
vents the wheel from ever getting a really
hard blow the air cushion taking UP most
Of the force Of impact A well-known man
ufacturer is quoted as saying that the life
of bicycle Is, at most, an uncertain guam
tity. and that the treatment II receives at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

large assembly 1T is the gray heads who
carry on the honcrS. The dignified courtesy
ana fine bearing of cultivated man or
sixty gives him immense advantage over his
son, who yet wears his manhood as gar
ment to which he is unused.
To women the loss of beauty Is so sharp
trial. the change from the grace and slen-
derneSs or gtrlhood so severe a discipline
that there is commonly touch of acrf-
mony in the phrase with which she sets
aside some pet decoration or some fashion
which it would be ridiculous to- assume
Unless she can put all this away and take
in their place the sweet calmness of later
life to render her face lovely and lovable.
and for the rose that has faded on her
cheek can substitute that smile which some
women wear who have conquered and found
peace in their victory, she will lose that
rarest beauty, that charm which no one
can resist, which comes with happy old age
l know no influence more potent, no fas-
cination more irresistible. than that which
emanateS from an old lady full of expert
ences which make her sympathetic and
quick TO understand, warmly alive to the
love affairs of the young, tender of the
sorrows she knows only too we'll how to
comfort, merry with the children, reminis-
the youngsters listen to her tales of times
gone by. how quickly they learn to take her
unselfiSh counsel! When a good and clever
woman has reached that beautiful table
land of life, from which she can look over
the many battles on its plains, and yet feel
sure that life is worth living, and men and
women worth loving, she has nothing 10
envy in those beginning the struggle. 1t is
no paradox to speak of beautiful old age,
while such as these exist
No degree of optimism can make the
ravageS of time upon our bodies pleasant;
impaired vision and hearing are bitter trials.
But these are usually the slow and rarer
evidences of increasing years, at least to
such a degree as to give pain. We talk OF
these too much and concentrate our minds
upon kindred evils to the exclusion of the
diverse side of the picture
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

the hands of the rider is the most important
factor He considers it quite possible for
machine to be strong enough to carry
rider of $50 pounds, and yet give way under
a rider of $50 pounds 1t all depends, he
says, upon the relative strain put upon 1t by
the rider. The really good bicycles, and
there are many, are safe and may be ridden
thousands of miles without any signs of
giving way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29

Philadelphia Record.
A foreigner in Pittsburg accompanied by
his sweetheart, applied for license to
marry her for three years or the war;
Inquiry developed the fact that many aliens
contemplated escape from. military duty by
a temporary voyage on the sea of matri-
nony. Congress has apparently succeeded
I'm disorganizing the volunteer system
whether applied to affairs OF love or war.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-30

showed the chief the little cabin boy, ly-
ing in a hammock under the poop awning
The burly savage came over to him, and
taking Maurices hand in his, placed it
tenderly upon his huge hairy bosom IN
token of gratitude. Then he spoke to the
captain through Tommy Sandwich.
Tell this good captain that I, Baringa.
am for ever the white mans friend. And
tell him, too that all this pearl she'll here
is my gift to him and the boy who helped
my son to escape from captivity. Hall
is for the good captain; half is for the
brave white boy"
Then, after remaining on board till the
ship was many miles away from the land,
the chief and his son babe the wounded
boy farewell, and went back TO the shore.
Maurice soon recovered, and when the
Boadicea arrived an Hong Kong. and
Capt, Williams had sold the pearl shell,
he said to his cabin boy:
Maurice, my lad, I've sold the pearl
shell, and what do you think I've been
paid for it? Well just ss0OO-f1, 600 in
English money. You're quite a rich boy
now, Maurice. It's not every lad that
gets $4,000 for saving a niggers life"
Maurices bright blue eyes filled with
honest tears. "Shure sor, he was a nay
CUR. thrue enough But, thin, yer honor,
he had a foine bould heart to do what
he did for Maurice Kinane."
And, as I have said, this Is true
story, for old Maurice Kinane, who Is
alive now himself told 1t to me.
(The End)