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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08
ABSTINENCE AND LONGEVITL.

The secretary of the United Kingdom
a1liance Uondon) is seeking to prove
that a total abStainer lives longer uiran
a person who uses alcoholic liquor. In
one of his statements he says: Nearly
a quarter of a century ago DR.. WiliaIn
Farr, who at that tlIne was the medical
assistant ito he registrar general,
wrote as follows:
THE great pending experiment of to-
tai abstinence by thousands of all classes
seems Ito show already that men live in
health without alcoholic liquors.; but
whether their dives are better or worse,
as age creeps on, than THE lives of their
fellow mortalS, the insurance offices will
find out. Abstainers deserve to be watch
ed attentively by the physiological stu
dent
I have been watching them very at
tentively, and have found that ever since
the time when DR.. Farr wrote this pas
sage evidence has been rapidly cumu
Waiting THAT total abstinence produces a
highly beneficial effect ON health and
life.
The following statistics. the substan-
tial accuracy of which is beyond all ra-
tional controversy, are specimens of this
evidence: The Independent Order Of
Rechabites is a teetO,al Workingmen's
benefit society. 1t has an adult member
Shin of 142, 900 and a Juvenile membership
Of 5000. 1t has been i'm existence over
sixty years, and financially is highly
prosperous. It's MORTALITY experience, as
calculated by Mr.. Nelson, the actuary
shows that at is years of age ReGhab.teS
have AN Expectancy of Cife CT sc. 62
years, while, according to the registrar
general, the expectancy of all males of
the community is Al. 80, and according to
the institute of actuarieS' life tables, that
of 'Shea.thy males belonging to the we'll
to-do classes. whose lives are insured.
and are at the age named is 43.6 years.
If the RaChabfte figures are accepted as
true, "a very formidable conclusion will
necessarily be drawn from them. They
Wal be held. and rightly held, to show
that an males i'm the country over Is
years of age who use acOhOl shorten
their lives to rlhe extent, Oh the average,
of something more than seven years
e~dch.-Public Opinion.
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Freight train No. 8 on the Cape Fear
n Yadkin Valley now leaves Whining
ton at 4:45 p. M; arrives at Fayetteville
at 11:15 p. m. Passenger car on this
train.
Connections at Fayetteville with At
lantic Coast Line, at Maxton with the
Carolina Central Railroad, at Red Springs
with the Red Springs and Bowmore Rail-
road. at Sanford with the Seaboard Air
Line, at Gulf with the Durham and Char
lotte Railroad, at Greensboro with the
Southern Railway Company, at Walnut
Cove with the Norfolk and Western
Railway.
J. w. FRY. w. z. KYLE,
Gen'l Manager. Genl Pass. Agent.
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Medical Ex animation for Applicants for
Marriage License

Columbus, O., February 3.-Repre-
sentative Charles w. Parker, of
Cuyahoga county, introduced in the
Legislature today a bill requiring all
persons apply ing TO- ficerses TO marry.
to pass a medical examination. Per
sons having d~ipsomania, any form of
insanity. hereditary tuberculosis or
consumption or syphilis are barred
from marriage by the bill. An examin-
ing hoard of three physicians in each
county will be created by the bill if it
becomes a law.
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IOHN .
Office Of ]. N. McElroy, Druggist.


Office Of J. n. McElroy, Druggist.
Orlando. Fla, April 20. 1891.
Messrs. Lippman Bros, Savannah. Ga.
Dear Sirs:-I sold three bottles Of P.
P. P. large size yesterday. and n bot
tie small size today.
The P. P. P. cured my wife Of rheu-
matism winter before last. 1t came
pack on her the past winter AMI a half
bottle. 81 size. relieved her again. and
she has not had a symptom since.
l sold a bottle of P. p. ?. 10 d friend
of mine. one Of the turkies, a small one,
took sick and his wife gave it q tea
spoonful. that was in the eveniT and
the little fellow turned over like r wa.
dead, but next morning he was hollow
ing and we'll.
Yours respectfully,
j. N. McELROY.
Savannah, Ca, March II, 1891.
Messrs. Lippman Bros, Savannah, Ca
Dear Sirs:-I hav suffered from
rheumatism for a 'ong time and did
not find a cure until found P. P. P,
which completely cured ne.
Yours truly.
ELIZA JONES.
Is Orange ST. Savannah. ia
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and Cow

Having used three bottles IF P. p. P.
for impure blood and general weakness
and having derived great benefit from
the same, having gained IA pounds in
weight in four weeks. I take great
pleasure in recommending it to all un-
fortunate like
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A writer says that brains will tell.
Sometimes they do. and sometimes It
Is brains that keeps L man from tell
Inc.
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CURE A COLD IN ON DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II 1t
fails to cure. 26c. The genuine has L.
d. @. on each tablet.
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ATLANTIC COAST LINE.

Wholesale Grsccrs. Wilmington. N.
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pressure undt surrounded MIN, and after
a time. with a broken spirit, he left Eng
fand and went to the colonies. He prac-
ticed law in Melbourne for some time
successfully, but the Old habit came back
on him. and, as he cou,d not resist temp
tation. he buried himself in that sheep
station.
'This was the story ne Old me. and
there was no doubt of its truth.
1T was now getting late. ard the
couch-an Old canvas cot, with a plain
gray Blanket spread upon it. So, as I
was tired, 1 accepted the offer. and lay
down for a nights rest. My companion
stretched his tall figure on the grass out
side. Jack lay between US.
The strangeneSS of the scene, together
with the strong tea, seemed to banish
sleep from me, and I must have been
lying there for an hour, with my eyes
closed. but quite awake, when presently
l heard something stirring. Opening my
eyes l saw the shepherd sitting up in the
doorway with his head resting on his
hand. He seemed uneasy, and began
restlesSly TO pass UP and down in front
of the hut. The dog remained still. but l
felt that he was awake and watching his
master as he walked n~ervouSly backward
aEd forward in the moonlight.
presently THE shepherd stopped in
front of the hut and came with a hest
tating, but irresoute step toward the
door. He entered slowly, and, STOPPING
down upon his hands and knees crawled
~stealthfly to the chair on which my coat
was hanging. He put his hInd in the
breat pocket and drew forth the flask OF
liquor. And row seemed bewildered. as
if some strange emotion had seized upon
him. and then fen upon his knees as II
in prayer.
Suddenly he seemed to rise, and. in
stead of drinking the liquid, placed the
flask untouched back in the pocket OF
the coat. Then, stretching himself on
the floor, with an apparent air of COM
fort ard satisfaction, he went of &c
sleep.
THE whole p roceeding SO fraunted ms
hat it was broad daylight before / clos.
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aMY DEAR DICK 4"

said Dick, firmly. However, I'll show
you the letter; there is nothing at all
private in It,"
ITO be Continued) ~
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The officers were conversing in a
group. No one had as yet spoken the
decisive word. Colonel Knowlton APP
pealed to a French sergeant, an old
soldier Of former wars, and asked him
to volunteer.
mo, no" said he. 81 am ready to
fight the British at any place and
time, but l do not feel willing to go
among them to be hung up like a
dog"
Captain Hale Joined the group Of
officers. He said to Colonel Knowl-
ton:
II will undertake it."
Some of his best friends remonstrat-
ed. One of them, afterwards the fam
GUS Gen. William Hull, then a captain
in Washington's army, has recorded
Hale's reply to his own attempt to dis
suade him.
81 think" said Hale, IT owe to my
country the accomplishment Of an OBJ
ject so important. am fully sensible
of the consequences Of discovery and
capture in such situation. But for a
year l have been attached to the army,
and have not rendered any material
Eervice, while receiving compensation
for which l make no return. wish
to be useful, and every kind of service
necessary for the public good becomes
honorable by being necessary"
He spoke, as General Hull remem-
bered with earnestness and decision,
as one who had considered the matter
well, and had made up his mind.
Having received his instructions, ne
travelled fifty miles along the Sound
as far as Norwalk, in Connecticut. One
who saw him there made very wise
remark upon him, to the effect that he
was too good looking" to go as a spy.
He could not deceive. Some scrub
by fellow ought to have gone" At
Norwalk he assumed the disguise of
a Dutch schoolmaster, putting on a
suit Of plain brown clothes and a round
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quarters at the Beekman, mansion, on
the East River. near the corner Of the
present Fifty-flrst street and First ave-
nue.. 1t is a strange coincidence that
this house to which he was brought to
be tried as a spy was the very one
from which Major Andre departed
when he went to West Point. Tradl-
ton says that Captain Hale was ex-
amined in greenhouse which then
stood in the garden of the Beekman
mansion.
Short was his trial. for he avowed
at once his true character. The Brit
ish general signed an order to his pro-
vost marshal directing him to receive
into his custody the prisoner convicted
as a spy, and to see him hanged by the
neck tomorrow morning at day
break"
Terrible things are reported Of the
manner in which this noble prisoner,
this admirable gentleman and hero,
was treated by his jailor and execu-
toner. There are savages in every
large army, and 1t is possible that this
provost marshal was one of them. It
is said that he refused him writing
materials, and afterwards, when Cap
tain Hale had been furnished them by
others, destroyed before his face his
last letters to his mother and to the
young lady to whom he was engaged to
be married. AS those letters were
never received, this statement may be
true. The other alleged horrors Of
the execution 1t is safe to disregard,
because we know that it was conduct
ed in the usual form and in the pres-
ence of many spectators and con-
siderable body Of troops. One fact
shines out from the distracting confu-
sion of that morning, which will be
cherished to the latest posterity as a
precious ingot Of the moral treasures
Of the American people. When asked
if he had anything to say, Captain Hale
replied:
Il only regret that have but one life
to lose for my country"
The scene of his execution was prob
ably an old graveyard in Chambers
street, which was then called Barrack
street., General Howe formally noti-
fed General Washington of the execu-
ton. In recent years, through the in
dustry of investigators, the pathos and
sublimity of these events have been
in part revealed.
A few years ago bronze statue Of
the young hero was unveiled in the
New York City Hall Park. 1t is
greatly to be regretted that our knowl-
edge Of this noble martyr is so slight;
but we know enough to be sure that
he merits the generation Of his coun.
trymen.
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THE WAIF.
trynnen.

Teddy was hurrying across the
snowy field to get the milk on Wash
ington's birthday morning. He hit the
bright tin cans together as he skipped
along, but stopped the clink, clink,
clink when he came to a great high
drift which stood beside the long stone
wall.
This great high drift was a very fun
ny drift indeed, for it had large, deep
hole in one side of it; the side that
was sheltered by the stone wall. Ted
dy stopped to have peep into this hole
and then he said "Oh!" very loud, for
what do you guess he spied carried up
in the corner? A bear? Oh, no, in
deed. Teddy lived in the country, to
be sure, but it wasn't a bear for all Of
that! 1t was only very thin, little,
shaggy brown dog, who opened his
eyes and stretched his cold paws and
jumped up and ran to say, How do you
do?" to the astonished little boy.
Teddy patted him and doggie wagged
his tail and Tapped Teddy's bright red
mittens over and over again, he was
so glad to see him. And then over the
wall and into the barn hurried Teddy
with the little brown dog close at his
heels.
"That dogs been around the village
for most a week." said Mr.. Hines, as
he poured the milk into Teddy's cans.
He's a stray one, reckon. Must
have gone into that hole to get out Of
the wind. Why don't you keep him,
Teddy?"
And that's just exactly what Teddy
did do. He kept him for his very own,
for nobody claimed him when Teddy's
papa advertised, "a dog found" in the
village newspaper.
Teddy named his pet Washington
because he found him on George Wash
ington's birthday. A very long name
for such little dog, isn't 1t? But
doggie seems to like it, and he is as
happy as he can be in his new home.
"You must be very, very good dog,
alwaysw declared Teddy the next
morning, when he gave him his break.
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you are my life-my very soul-ths
light Of my eyes; why, you are myself.
Why, to put my love and care for you
in comparison for one instant with
what feel for all my people together
would be too funny for words, If you
were not distressed about 1t. But
when see you look like that, darling,
1t hurts me so awfully-it cuts me up,
so that I can hardly talk or think SEN
sibly. My dear little dove, there Is
nobody in all the wide world that
could ever put beside you, or ever
shall"
you are sure?" she cried.
II am quite sure" he answered, look
ing at her straight and true in the
eyes. "And now, my dearest, it is hall
past eleven; let me take you out for
turn before lunch time"
He always found 1t an easy matter
to comfort and reassure the little wife
who loved him so dearly, and al
though, by living so much alone and
without proper companionship, she
was apt to brood over the circum-
stances of her life and to conjure up
all sorts of gloomy fancies and dread
shadows which might come to pass at
some future time. these mists always
yielded before the irresistible sunshine
of his love, and they were happier, u
possible, than they had been afore-
time.
In his innermost heart, however,
Dick was not so easy about his ap'
preaching interview with Lord Aylmel
as he made Dorothy believe; and he
knocked at the door of the old savage'i
town house with rather a quaking
heart, and something Of the vague
dread which he had coaxed and soothed
away from his wife's tender heart.
Yes, Lord Aylmer was at home, and
her ladyship also! and the servant
having no special orders about Mr.
Aylmer, at once showed him into the
pretty little room off the smallest oi
the two drawing rooms, and told him
that he would inform her ladyship oil
his presence And in less than three
minutes Lady Aylmer came.
my dear Dick" she said, Il an
most pleased to see you. did moi
know that you were in town. Is II
true that Lord Skevversleigh has made
you his military secretary? quite
thought you had set your face against
India at any price"
Dick Aylmer was so surprised that
he sat staring at his uncle's wife In
speechless wonder. She noticed his
look, and asked with laugh, What
is the matter, Dick? You look as II
you had seen a ghost"
mot ghost, Lady Aylmer," he said,
recovering himself; but certainly ex'
pected to see more of a ghost than
you are at this moment"
why, how do you mean?"
81 had letter from Lord Aylmei
this morning, and he said that you
were ILL.,"
Ill? II" she echoed. Nonsense!
You must have mistaken him. l was
never better in my life"
* couldn't possibly mistake him"
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RUN OVER A scAREcRow.
Engineer of Fast Train Receives =
rr,,.ht Vvt,Icb He CaD,t Forgaf

Engineer OF Fast Train Receives =
Fright which He Can't Forget.
(From the Detroit Free Press)
1.-THE nervous strain on the engineer
of a fast train is something enor-
NOUS" said one of them the other day.
"Not only the lives of the passengers
are at stake, but there is constant fear
OF running over someone on the track.
An accident, no matter how innocent
the engineer, is always a kind Of a
hoodoo. What was my first accident?
I shall never forget it. If it had been
traced on my mind with a streak Of
lightning it couldn't have made more
lasting impression. 1t happened one
bright moonlight night in November.
We were spinning over the rails at full
speed across the country where there
were few people passing at that time
OF night. when looked out and saw the
figure Of a man lying across the track
not ten feet in front Of the engine. I
stopped quick as possible, but too late,
Of course. We had run over him and
the lifeless body was under the wheels.
We got out to look for him and found
his hat, a piece of his coat sleeve and
one of his shoes, but the rest seemed
To be further back under the train.
I backed up the engine and got out to
look again. There lay the body. I
nearly tainted when saw its distorted
form. felt like a murderer. Did
I know the man? No, not personally.
He was a scarcrOw from a neighboring
corn field"
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Rally.

A Rally.
Little folks, come marching forth
Little feet, keep time,
In the east and west and north
And the southern cline.
Lay your lesson-books away,
Leave your sums undone,
We must celebrate today
Brave George Washington.
Little yet you understand
All his worth and truth,
Only know he saved the land,
Faithful from his youth.
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CHAPTER XIV.-(Contlnued.l

Then there was an old gentleman
who walked up and down in front o.
her windows every morning from hail.
past nine to ten o'clock, and again ev-
cry afternoon from half-past two to
three. He looked like an old general,
and Dorothy felt quite friendly toward
him because he belonged to her darl-
ing Dicks profession. But even an
old general can get monotonous in
time, particularly when he does the
same things day after day-and this
one always did. After his early morn
ing constitutional he invariably went
in to his house and was seen no more
until he came out to do his half hour
of regular tramping again at half-past
two. But after his second dose he
always looked at his watch when an
adjacent clock struck the hour, and
then shook himself together and tod
died off as If he were going to town
going to his club, Dorothy thought.
But OH dear, dear, it was all dread
fully slow, and before she had been a
month in her new home Dorothy was
pining, pining for some woman friend
to talk to, to confide in, to be friends
with.
OF course, to set of against this,
there were the gay and glorious times
when Dick came home, sometimes only
between afternoon parade and morning
stables, which meant little dinner
somewhere, a theater after it, and a
wild scramble and rush to catch a
train leaving Liverpool street at some
unearthly hour in the morning. At
other times, however, Dick managed
to squeeze two-days' leave out OF his
colonel, and then Dorothy felt-ay, and
said, poor child-that life was worth
living, and that she would not change
her lot for that Of any other woman in
all the wide world.
So, poor child, her life slipped by
in a continual change from grave to
gay, with bright spots of deepest and
tenderest love set in a large surface OF
unutterable dullness and wearying de-
preston.
Il wonder" she said one day to
Dick, whether, when we are able 70
be always together, you will get tired
of me and if shall bore your"
NO" said Dick, promptly.
You really think not?" eagerly.
81 don't think at ALL" he said, ten
derby, because am sure Of it. What
makes you ask me that, dearest? Have
1 ever looked bored or as If l were
tired of you?"
"Oh, no, Dick, moi" she burst out;
"only you were so good and kind to
me, and it seems so wonderful that you
who have been in the world all your
life, should take so much trouble fol
a little nobody like mel mean that
know nothing; how should l, after liv-
ing all my life at Graveleigh?"
Dick laughed aloud at the earnest
ness Of her face and tone.
my darling" he said, holding her
close to his heart, 81 have been no
more kind and tender to you than you
have been to me. You don't set half
enough value on your dear self, the
most precious self in the world. Be-
lieve me, a man does not care so much
what his wife knows as what she is
and you forget, what l always re-
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broad brimmed hat. He had no diff
Guilty in crossing the Sound, since he
bore an order from General Washing
ton which placed at his disposal all
the vessels belonging to congress. For
several days everything appears to
have gone well with him, and there
Is reason to believe that he passed
through the entire British army with
out detection or even exciting suspl-
clon.
Finding the British had crossed to
New York, he followed them. He made
his way back to Long Island, and
nearly reached the point opposite Nor
walk, whore he had originally landed.
Rendered perhaps, too bold by sue
cess, he went into a we'll known and
popular tavern, entered into conversa-
ton with the guests, and made him
self very agreeable The tradition is
that he made himself too agreeable.
A man present, suspecting or knowing
that he was not the character he had
assumed, quietly left the room, COM
municated his suspicious to the cap
tain Of a British boat anchored near,
who dispatched a boats crew to cap
ture and bring on board the agreeable
stranger. His true character was i'm
nediately revealed. Drawings of some
OF the British works, with notes in
Latin, were found hidden in the soles
OF his shoes. Nor did he attempt TO
deceive his captors, and the English
captain, lamenting, as he said, that $50
fine fellow had fallen into his power"
sent him to New York in one of his
boats, and with him the fatal proofs
that he was a spy.
September 21st was the day on which
he reached New York-the day Of the
great fire which laid one-thlrd Of the
little city in ashes. From the time Of
his departure from General Washing
tons camp to that Of his return to
New York was about fourteen days.
He was takon to General Howe's head
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No Reason 70 Hang Back.

Come and take lunch with me to-
day." said one business man to an
other. Il can't. I've an appointment"
Cant you break it," mo, a man has
promised to come to my Office at noon
and pay me some money" "oh, then,
that's all right. I'll order the lunch
for two. He won't come. Cleveland
Leader. -
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other fellow best, and you didn't"
"The other fellow" Dorothy fall
tered. "You mean David Stevenson.
eyes, I mean David Stevenson"
Dick answered. Many a girl would
have taken him before a poor pauper
devil, who had to ask his wife to live
incog in a poor little hole like this. Do
you know, l went round to have a look
at Stevenson's place, Holroyd, the
other day, and when 1 saw it-shall
1 tell you what 1 did, my sweetheart"
YES" answered Dorothy, in a whls-
per.
81 went round to the churchyard
where she lies, our best friend, and
thanked God and her, II she could hear
me, that my dear little love had given
me her pure love in exchange for mine,
and that Miss Dimsdale's wishes had
never been to part us. Don't hurt me
again by asking me doubling questions,
my darling. Don't, Dorothy; don't,
my dear"
"Dick, Dick" Dorothy cried, 81
never will. l love you, love you, love
you!"
and you will always love me?"
..easingly.
ooh, Dickl" reproachfully.
Even when-?"
Dorothy blushed, but she put her
arm round his neck, and drew. his
mouth down to hers: VI shall always
love you. best Of ALL Dick" she said.
"and however much l may love the