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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-27

S&HEIL Is no more RESPONSIBLE position
on earth than that Ct 4 rail-~aG encin-
Ger. On his steady nerves, clear brain.
bright eye and perfect self command, de-
pend the safety Of the train and the lives
CT its passengers. DR.. Niles Ncrvinc and
other remedies are especially adapted to
keeping the nerves steady, the brain clear
and tie mental faculties u~niap@ireG.
? Engineer Z. ". Mccoy. formerly, OF 13c3
Broadway Council Bluffs, but now residing
a. 3411 Humboldt St. Denver, writes that he
suffered for years from constipation, caus-
Ing sick. nervous and bilious headaches and
was fully restored to health by DR.. Miles
Nerve & Liver Pills. HEARTILY recommend
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-27

DIR. Miles Remedies"
DR.. Miles Remedies
are sold by all drug
gists under a positive
guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis
eases Of the heart and
nerves free Address,
DR. MILES MEDICA.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-27

erect houses, and carry on a thousand
enterprises of civilization. That is the
reason we pound YOU" Now, God puts
a soul into the furnace of trial. and then
it is brought out and run through the
crushing machine, and then 1T comes
down on the anvil, and upon 1t; blow al,
ter blow, blow after blow, until the soul
cries out, 'Oh, Lord, what does all this
mean?" God says: Il want to make
something very useful out Of you. You
shall be something to hew with and
something to build with. 1t is a prac-
teal process through which 1 m put
ting you" Yes. my Christian friends. we
want more tools in the church of God,
not more wedges to split with. We have
enough of these. Not more boreS with
which to drill. We have too many bores.
What we really want is keen, sharp, we'll
tempered axes, and if there be any other
way of making them than in the hot
furnace. and on the hard anvil. n UNI
der the heavy hammer 1 do not know
what it is. Remember that If God brings
any kind of chastiSement upon you it is
only to make you useful. Do not sit down
discouraged and say: Il have no more
reason for living. I wish l were dead
Oh. there never was so much reason for
your living as now. BY this ordeal You
have been consecrated a priest of the
most high God. Go out and do your
whole work for the Master.
THE REBELUIOUS HEART.
Again, there is comfort in the thought
that all our troubles are a revelation
Have you ever thought OF 1t in that con-
nectfon? The man who has never been
through chaStisement is ignorant about
a thousand things in his soul he ought
to know. For instance, here IS a man
who prides himself OIL his cheerfulness
of character. He has no patience with
anybody who is depressed in spirits. Oh,
it is easy for him to be cheerful, with
his fine house, his filled wardrobe n
we'll strung instruments OF music and
tapestried parlor and plenty Of money in
the bank waiting for some permanent
investment! 1t is easy for him to be
cheerful. But suppose his fortune goes
to pieces, and his house goes down I'M
der the sheriff's hammer, u the banks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
IndisCreet People
GRAVE EVILS FOLLOW EXCESS
ES IN EATING AND DRINKING.
Those Delicate Organs, the Kidneys,
Suffer and the Symptoms of Dis
tress Should Be Prompt
" Needed.
What causes kidney troubles?

What causes kidney troubles?
The kidneys are the most delicate eX-
cretory organs of the body; and are SO
refined In their structure that any IN
usual strain on any other part of the
body, is apt to produce in them serious
troubles, which, if not attended to at
once lead to grave complications.
Eating too much, drinking TO excess,
irregular habits, heavy lifting, exposure
to bad weather and a thousand excuses
and indiscretions affect the kidneys.
Among the first signs of approaching
trouble are backache, nervousness
headaches and pain in passing urine
Before John Morrow, the celebrated
American chemist. discovered the tab
lets that are called Morrow's Kidneoids,
such symptoms were often neglected or
wrongly treated, but the great value Of
MorroW's discovery lies in checking
kidney disease in the earliest stages
The Kidneoids are small yellow tablets,
which contain all the elements neeoeo
to meet every stage of kidney disease,
even the most severe cases.
The following is what John McCord,
residing at $50 Short Winter street,
Springfield, Ohio, has to say after CIV
kng Morrow's Kidneoias a fair trial:
Il have been suffering from kidney
troubles for number OF years. MY
back would often become so lame and
the pain so intense that 1 could scarce
ly get around at all. The jar expert
enced from driving the wagon was at
tunes unDedTaDle, ana IoI sever al 0e1S =
at a time I was unable to perform the
work at last concluded to give Nor
rows Kidneoids a trial, and to my sur
prise after taking two boxes, the pain
and weakness has entirely left me, and
I am enjoying better health in every
way than for the last twenty years.
MorrOW's Kidneoids are for sale at all
dealers. Price so cents box, or six
boxes for 81. so. If not to be had at your
dealers, they will be sent postpaid upon
receipt of price by John Morrow & Co,
chemist, Bushne44 building, Springfield.
Ohio.
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CURED BY PRAYER.
Woman for Twelve Years a Cripple
Can Now Work.

Webster City, Iowa. July 25-For II
years Mrs. VIM. Sutherland has been a
cripple unable to walk. She suffered
all the torture Imaginable and had been
treated by the best physicians in the
state without favorable results. Her
husband interested her in the case of
Mrs. Van Syke of Webster City, who
was cured of a like malady by Chicago
faith cure people, and a week ago she
received word from then that they
would pray for her.
Another message came that prayers
would take place for her recovery and
suggesting that she have friends pray
with her at home. News of the case
had spread over town and owing to
Mrs. Van Sykes cure a year ago great
interest was manifested
The house was surrounded at the
hour named While prayers were going
on, and ten minutes after they com
menced shouts inside notified the wait
ing crowd that something had happen
ed. People in the house prayed aloud,
but Mrs. Sutherland remained quiet.
Describing her feeling afterWard she
said that she felt a thrill pass through
her body as soon as the prayers COM
menced, and that it was all she could
her feet long before she did. Mrs. Suth-
erland walked for the first time in u
years. Her children were so impressed
with her walking that they begged her
with tears in their eyes to sit down for
fear she would fall.
She walks easily and says she feels
not the slightest pain. Many do not be-
lieve prayer cured her, but claim it was
the excitement and determination she
had that the cure would be effected but
Mrs. Sutherland insists it was the eff
ficacV of PRAYER,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
SOAPY SMITH BURIED.
All Doubt as to the Uncrowned
"King's" Demise Removed.

Seattle Wn., July 25.-"Soapy'' Smith,
the "uncrowned king of Skaguay,'' and
the greatest gambler Alaska has ever
known, was buried in the little grave
yard on the hill behind the town. His
few saloon friends followed the remains
to the grave, after Rev. J. A. Sim
clair had preached a short sermon from
the text, THE way of the transgressor
is hard"
On the day of Smiths funeral the
sack of gold dust that caused the whole
trouble was discovered in a trunk on
Smiths premises. 1t was returned to
the Klondiker from whom it had been
taken. The trial of the worst men in
Smiths gang was held on the same
wharf on which the gambler met his
death. All were bound over for trial
and taken to Sitka. Bowers, Tripp and
Frazier, the men who stole the sack,
and who were captured with great diff
ficulty in the woods, were placed under
$25, 900 bonds.
City Engineer Reid, who shot Smith
to death, was dying when the steamer
FaraIlon left. The wound inflicted by
Smiths Winchester proved to be a ter
rible one. The doctors had little hope
of saving Reds life. The rest of Smiths
gang would have been lynched had
Reid died while they were confined at
Skaguay.
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W.. F. RRowN DEFEATED.
Maximum Rate Leader Will Not Leg
islate Next Winter.

Pratt, Kan, July 25.-At the Populist
convention of Pratt county W F. Brown
of Pratt failed for denomination as repre-
sentative. B. D. Crawford was the sue
cessfuI candidate.
The following candidates for county Of
ficers were nominated: B. D. Crawford,
representative; L. B. Fuller, district clerk;
r. F. McGrew, county attorney; w. r.
Parcoast probate Judge; R. F Crick, SUI
perintendent of schools.
Mr.. Brown was defeated on the third
ballot by Mr.. Crawford, present county
attorney. Many of the delegates openly
assert that it was by his friends that Mr.
Brown was defea ted. 1t was charged that
J. J. Barnes. who was Browns chairman
when the latter a candidate for
speaker of the house last winter, was using
his influence to have Mr.. Brown renom-
mated, and that rumor was worked for
all it was worth by the anti-Brown men,
and as Mr.. Barnes has many active po-
htical enemies in the county the assertion
carried no little weight.
The usual resolutions were passed. The
Democrats called no convention, and the
probabilities are that they will make no
move regarding the county ticket.
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G. F. Livingston and John Goodwin (sil-
yer Republican,.
OLD STAMPS DON'T GO.
They are Barred by Statute of Limita-
ton.

Washington, July 25.-The attention of
collectors of internal revenue has been
called to the fact that the discount of one
per cent allowed by law internal reve-
nue. stamps when purchased in quantities
O. not less than 500 does not apply to
stamps imprinted upon checks, drafts and
other documents, nor to proprietary stamps
imprinted from private dies for the use of
proprietary articles of articles who may
furnish the same under the provisions of
section of the new revenue act.
The particular attention of the public is
also called to the fact that old internal
revenue stamps issued under former acts
of congress, either adhesive or imprinted
on checks and documents, cannot lawfully
be used upon documents, checks, drafts
or notes taxed under the present law.
The use or redemption of these stamps
was barred by the statute of limitations
many year ago.
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Stockton Young Man Sued For
rs Cents Hack Fare.
By Father of Girl He Left at
Picnic.
SHE WAS TOO POPULAR
Accepted Attentions From
Other Young Man
At Which Her SuitOr Became
Enraged and Went Home.

Stockton, July ga very remarkable
lawsuit has been brought in Stockton. On
the Fourth of July pung man took his
best girl to a picnic. There she accepted
so many attentions from another young
man that the first young man became en-
ragged and went home leaving the girl to
get back to her own house as best she
might.
She hired a hack, for which her father
paid rs cents and the old man sent the
bill to the sulky sutton. He refused to
pay, and the old man sued him in a JUS
tice court, alleging that, having taken the
girl to the picnic it became his duty to
see her safely home, and at his own ex-
pense.
Both sides have hired lawyers and the
case will be fought to a finish.
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ANALYSING PAINT ON TOYS
Government Chemists Working Fo1
the Protection of Children.

Washington, July 25.-Chemists of
the department of agricultural are ana
lying the paints and cOlorings on toys
imported into this country to ascertain
whether or not they contain poisonous
ingredients. If such should prove to be
the case, further importation of these
toys will be prohibited on the ground
that they may injuriously affect the
health of children.
Inasmuch as practically all the toys
against which suspicion is directed are
imported from France and Germany
the conclusion is hastily and erroneous
ly jumped to that the move is in retail
alton for the exclusion of American pro-
ducts from these countries. The invest
igation has no such purpose in view. 1t
is entirely for the protection of children
If German or French manufacturers
suffer in consequence it is their fault
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
LITTLE LESS THAN MURDER.

The deaths which have occurred
among the volunteers at Camp Merritt,
California, fall little short of deliberate
murder and somebody should be held
accountable. In almost every instance
death has proceeded from causes which
might have easily been avoided by
those in authority. Chief among these
causes has been exposure, without ad-
equate protection to a climate which
for severity at all seasons can scarcely
be equaled in the United States.
The climate of the California coast is
cold and wet at all times. Nearly every
disease incident to exposure to such a
climate has prevailed at Camp Merritt
meningitis. measles, pneumonia.
The deadly disease generally known
as spotted fever is never known except
where the one attacked has been sur
rounded by conditions similar to those
at Camp Merritt. The treatment of the
men who were sent there is fnexcusa-
HE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
PORTO RICO POLITICS.
Plans For Independent Government
Already Destroyed by Miles.

Washington, July 25.-Members of the
Porto Rican Republican party who
comprise the Porto Rican junta in New
York city, most of whom have been in
this country for over two decades, are
just now perturbed over the prospect
the island by the United States, thus
knocking into cooked hat their pro-
Jects for the formation of an independ-
ent government.
General Miles has refused the request
made by DR.. Julio Henna, president of
the junta, and Senior Roberto Todd, the
secretary, to allow a civil commission
to accompany the American army of in
vasiOn into the islands, to look after
the interests of the proposed republic,
and a telegram was received here an
nOuncing that DR.. Henna, Senior Todd,
and Senior Francisco Eugene Maria
Hostos, a prominent Porto Rican just
arrived in this country, will come to
Washington to hold a conference with
the president and his secretary OF war.
This visit is the result of a meeting
of the junta held July II in New York,
presided over by DR.. Henna and winch
was a stormy one. The majority of the
twenty-eight Porto Ricans present were
in favor of annexation, but the Repub-
Hcan sympathizers made some vehe-
ment speeches, one of them, Senior So
teTO Figueroa, a colOred Porto Rican,
urging that, instead of sending an ex-
petition of men from New York to as
sist the Americans, they should be arm
ed to fight against them and resist the
invasion
General Antonio Mattel L1uveras,
prominent Porto Rican in Washington,
who is in favor of annexation and who
has furnished the war department with
much valuable material to assist in pre-
pairing for the invasion, was also
strongly criticised for his attitude
toward the Republicans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
FREE SAMPLES
Of Proprietary Articles May be Dis
tributed Unstamped.

sion of internal revenue has decided
that samples of medicinal preparations
and perfumery and cosmetics, taxable
under schedule B, of the new revenue
act may be removed from the place of
manufacture for free distribution with
out stamp or payment of tax.
Every sample so removed however,
must have legibly printed thereon the
following notice: This is a, free sam
pie removed from the factory for gratu-
itOus distribution. Any person selling
or exposing for sale this sample at any
time will be liable to all the pains and
penalties of the law against persons
selling or exposing for sale unstamped
articles taxable under schedule B, act
Of June - 1885,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
OPPOSITION MEETINGS.
Colored and White People May Occupy
Same Park.

Wichita, July 25.-The county COM
missioners are now in trouble over the
county park. Some time ago the COM
missioners gave the Holiness assOcia-
ton the privilege of holding their camp
meeting in the park commencing Aug
ust 5, continuing for eight days.
The commissioners forgot about the
date and gave the colored people per-
mission to hold their Chautauqua meet
ing in the park commencing August 4
and lasting for four days. Both parties
have advertised their meeting and Sc
cured low rates on all the railroads.
The commissioners have undertaken
to get out by getting both to share the
park, but the MethOdists claim they will
have great crowd and could not think
of that.
The people who are discussing the
matter generally say that it would add
to the interest of the occasion if the
colored people were allowed to occupy
one side of the park. The colored peo-
pie interested in the meeting are the
church element and their exercises will
be entirely of religious nature and it
der the circumstances to have the park
if it can be arranged so that one meet
ing will not disturb the other.
The MethOdiStS are going to see the
commissioners and the colOred people
are asking if they are going to be put
out of the park because they are ne
grOes.
Not how cheap but how good Is this
way we try to do our work. Peerless
Steam Laundry. 112 ard LII West sth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
ONCE A SOCIAL FAYORITE.
Edward Edbert, Who Refused a For
tune, Dies Pauper in Iowa.

Atlantic, Iowa, July 25.-Ed Edbert, a
pauper, refusing a pension from Uncle
Sam stating he was paid in full when
discharged, died here as a result of a
fall from which he never regained con-
seriousness. He was heir to $4,000 from
his mother, who died of a broken heart
because of his drink habit, but he re-
fused to claim the money.
Wealthy brothers live in New York,
where he learned bookkeeping with H.
B. Clafin & Co. before the war He
was at Springfield, Ill, when he entered
the civil war as a clerk in the quarter
masters department. After the war he
came here to escape his relatives He
was well read and a social favorite in
Jacksonville, Ill, in the '40s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
CENTRALIA AROUSED.
Fight Against Jointists and Bootleg
gers Very Bitter.

Centralia, July 25.-This city is expert
encing quite sensation Occasioned by the
efforts of Mayor Slater and Marshal Nc
Aztec to break up the bootleggfng indus
try.
Two weeks ago John johnson, colored,
and Star Young, well known character
about town, were placed under arrest by
Sheriff Murray on complaint of the mar
shall. Johnson was tried, fined 800 and
costs and given thirty days in jail. Young
was let off by paying 500 and costs. There
is much indignation among the better
class of people over this, as Young is
known to have been the worst of the two
in the business.
The ministers of the town are taking
the matter up and urging the people to
see that the law is upheld and that the
whisky element be held in check
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
Eight Ships Lost in Ice.

ottawa, Ont, July 25.-Rev. L. O..
Stringer, an Anglican missionary, en-
gagged among the Esquimaux, writes to
a friend here stating that of the eleven
whaling ships that left the Arctic for
the west last fall, only three managed
to get out. The others were caught in
the ice and had to be abandoned. Four
men We're lost in trying to reach land.
We make g speciality of doing up col
ored shirts and waists and guarantee
9ng colors. Peerless Steam Laundry.
Santa Fe Route dining cars are equip
ped with electric fans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
NEWSPAPER MAN A MAJOR.
Lieut.. 81. n. Seeker, of Leavenworth
Receives High Promotion.

Leavenworth, July 25.-Lieutenant H. S.
Seeker of company c, Twentieth Kansas,
now stationed at San Francisco, whom the
dispatches report as having been detach-
ed from his regiment and placed in COM
mand of four companies of Oregon re-
cruits as acting major, by General King,
is a newspaper man whose home is in
Leavenworth, though he is well known in
Kansas City, having been a correspond
ent for the newspapers here. He attain
ed the military proficiency that gives him
the present promotion at Marmaduke Mil
itary academy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
Cadv s. Burt is Dead.

Fort Scott, July 25.-Cady S. Burt, who
as supreme officer of the local council
of United Commercial Travellers, had
charge of the grand council of Kansas
that met here a few weeks ago, died very
Unexpectedly Saturday. He was recover
ing from typhoid fever and had a sudden
and fatal relapse. Mr. Burt travelled in
Kansas and Missouri for Riley, Wilson &
Co., grocers of Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-25
PEoPLE you HEAR OF.

Tom Watson will make one speech in
the Populist campaign in Georgia. 1t
will be delivered in Thomson on the
27th of this month and will be his only
effort in the campaign.
Charles Warren StOddard says that
when he and other white men went to
the Hawaiian islands thirty years ago
the. native girls ran and climbed trees,
looking down upon them in amusement
and aInazement because they thought
the white men had been peeled.
Rev. Samuel Small, the famous evan
gelist, who has been appointed a chap
lain in the volunteer army, has been
DESTROYS of such a position ever since
the war commenced, and it is said that
he hopes to get an appointment in the
regular army after the war is over.
When Sir William Harcourt was a
young man he once paid a visit to Lord
BeacOnSfieId, or, as he was then, Dis
raeh and on Sunday went with his
host to the village high church. MY
friend, the vicar" said DisraeH, in eX-
PLANTATION of that functionary's high
church tendencies, will take what
call a collection and he calls an offer
tory; and afterWard what call plate,
and he calls an almsdish, will be placed
on what call table and he calls an
altar"
Parker Pillsbury, who died last week
at Concord, n. H, was the last OF the
tionists that included Garrison, Phillips
and Gerrit Smith. PilIsbury was born
at Hamilton, Mass, September q, 1909.
He studied theology and was for time
connected with Congregational church
at London, N. H. He left the stated
service of the church to engage in the
agitation against slavery. From the
lecture platform, beginning in 1910, ne
waged war on slavery He also edited
the Herald of Freedom. After the aboll-
ton of slavery he preached to 'hDeraF'
congregations in various sections.
James -Eads How, the millionaire
grandson of James B. Eads, has given
up fixtures and a palace in st. Louis
for plain living and missionary work in
the sIums of the city.
It is declared that every man who
has been closely associated with VIII
liam c. Whitney and has stuck to him
has done well in the world" 1t is not
on record that he has ever personally
scored a failure, and now that he mas
gone in for the turf any number OF
horsey people are prepared to back the
New Workers. luck.
When Lowell was editor of the Allan
tic he received a contribution from
Thomas Bailey A1drich, then Just start
ing in his literary career. He was muca
impressed with the literary merits OF
the article and, in sending the author
a check for the same, inclosed a con-
z-ratulatory note, advising him to con-
tinue writing and to follow literature
as a profession. The kind thOughtIuI-
ness was appreciated and remenpeI5u
nv AIdrich and the note was caretully
preserved. Years after, when Aldrlch
himself was the editor of the AtIantlc'
and lowell sent a contribution, he was
ora tified at receiving a copy OF the note
he himself had written years ago.