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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-10
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Wanted-Line Men

FOR ELECTRICAL WORK Only expe-
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Electric Co., Mechanic St., Southbridge,
Mass. OIL
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BUSINESS NOTICES
BICYCLES

BICYCLES, many good as new: also
ladies' and childrens wheels all fully
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STEAMERS
INTERNATIONAL
STEAMSHIP CO.
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rlaritirne Province Line

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A GENTLEMAN would like to find po-
sition for a trustworthy and temperate
coachman. who is a good driver and
understands the thorough care of horses.
and who also is a useful person to do
chores around the house. Address Post
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Apply to Plymouth ST. st
SITUATIONS WANTED-By farm hands,
cooks. teamsters. hotel help. green men,
etc. Mrs. Jones. 408 Main St., room N.
Telephone 961-4
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general kitchen. table and laundry
girls, housekeepers green girls. Mrs.
Jones. 408 Main St. room 20.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
"REMINISCENCES OF THE SLAYER
OF LINCOLN.

In that clever literary monthly of
Philadelphia "The Era MI. Edward
M. Alfriend, of Richmond, Va, furnish
es a very readable paper on John
Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Abra-
ham Lincoln. He was the son CT the
great English actor Junius Brutus
Booth, n was born in Maryland, and
we'll educated. Like his father and dis
tiguished brother, Edwin, he was an
actor of very high gifts. He was at the
hanging of that cut throat John Brown,
Of O~ssawatimee slaughter in Kansas.
He went with the Richmond Grays, and
did duty as a private soldier. The
theatre managers discharged him for
going to Harper's Ferry and Charles
town, and on this becoming known a
large contingent of the First Virginia
regiment marched to the theatre and
demanded that he be r~einstated. which
the managers did.
Mr.. Alfriend knew Booth personally
and admired his great histrionic gifts.
His recollections Of Booth are really
very entertaining. Writing of Booth
at h hanging of Brown, he says:
Nearly every night before taps
Booth % entertain us with dra-
matte recitations from different plays.
He was very fond Of reciting, which
he did in such a fiery, intense. vigorous
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
University Exhibit at State Fair

Correspondence of the Messenger.)
Chapel Hill. October is.
The university will be represented
among the exhibits at the state fair
this year. 1t is intended thai the uni
versity exhibit shall represent in some
measure. h equipments of the uni
versity, it's growth during the past 100
years Of its history, and the work
which the institution is now doing.
Photographs OF buildings and Iabora-
tories will be put On exhibition for the
purpose of giving some notion OF the
equipment of the institution.
AS indicating the growth Of the uni
versity there will be hart showing the
increase in attendance in all depart
ments since 1876, a map showing to
what extend the different parts of the
state have been represented among the
students or rather, how well the whole
state has been reached by the institu-
ton, and also data indicating the
growth of the faculty during the last
100 years. Records of intercollegiate
debates, a collection Of books and
monographs by professors and students
and other matters Of like character will
represent the present work of the uni
versity.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
OFFICE SEEKERS WEARING THE
PRESIDENT.

President Roosevelt is the observed
ing studied and written about by office
seekers. newspaper men and others.
His manner of address is considered
and commented upon. His way of
meeting the endless opportunities of
oficeseekers is a topic of talk. He is
reported as good natured and even cor
dial, but as not being able to conceal
that he is badly bored, and no wonder,
His jocular remarks attract attention.
He shows wonderful "alertness of
mind" and his suavity is terribly
drawn upon. He is strong but will
grow wearied. One Washington CORE
spondent writes to his New York paper
The Evening Post-that Captain
admits without challenge personages
of recognized Importance, like Cabinet
officers and we'll known senators, is
kept busy swinging open the o o into
the cabinet room. When one considers
the number of presidents callers, and
the diversity of their business, one may
we'll believe, in thinking of his duties,
hat being talked to death must be a
terrible death to die" :
President Mckinley, as was often not
ed, possessed an almost magical facul-
ty for passing people along" and yet
doing it ~graciously. Still the office
wore heavily on him, and left his con-
stitution somewhat Weakened"
There is a. vast mania in this country
for office. There are probably a mil
lion of men who would rather be IAN
official" than to own a gold min or
make a living by some respectable call
ing. The. president is reported as CIV
ing umbrage to some of the pie hunt
ers. He is too loud and does not give
them much opportunity for privacy.
He receives a great many callers in his
large room at one time, listening to
them in groups, or one by one as they
get around to him; in this sort of con
ference. much that he says can be over
find the exalted office no bed of roses
OF down.. May it not be said of him
that uneasy lies the head that wears
the presidential honors and bears it's
responsibilities. The probability is his
W party will not be entirely pleased
with linn. There are signs already in
the political sky that he will be antag-
onized by some republican leaders in
some policy or policies. 1t is generally
believed that he will call no man or
clique master, and while not altogether
being "a law unto himself" he will
be Independent and resolute.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
AT THE SOLDIERS, HOME
The New Dormitory TO be Dedicated
In Decentralization Not Hurt by
Frost-vestibnled Street Cars I'm Use.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. u. @, October lS.

Raleigh. y. c., October IS.
The new dormitory on the main build
ing at the soldiers home will be COM
pleted and dedicated somewhere be-
tween December LIST and 18th. It is the
purpose TO have speeches by Governor
Aycock and State Auditor Dixon, with
music by a band and the holsting OF
h state flag; all in the presence OF
h local camp Of confederate veterans
and the local chapter of Daughters OF
h Confederacy.
The number OF cadets present today
at the Agricultural and Mechanical
college here is $50. OF these thirty do
not take the military training, so the
battalion OF four companies, is 800
strong.
Fisheries Company, of Wilmington,
capital SAC. 600; John w. Harper. II. c..
Mcqueen n James II. Chadbourn
stockholders. 1t will catch menhaden
or fat-backs and make fish oil and fer
tilizer ana sell the same.
The midway" at the state fair here
next week will be twice az large as ever
before. The ostriches have arrived.
One of them is a racing Dir and is
driven 10 a Sulky.
So far there a been but little frost
here. Leaves are coloring slowly. Cot
ton has not been effected, and is OPEN
ing more rapidly. Bolls are very small.
The annual meeting of the States Lit
erary n Historical Society will be
held here next week. At this steps will
be taken for the celebration on Roam
oke island next year. Reports will
also be made on the various branches
OF effort in the work of the society. in
Guiding the collection of objects for the
Hall of History in the state museum.
On the 18th, Both and 31st of October
the annual meeting of the Virginia and
North Carolina Photographers Associ-
alton will be held here.
The vestibuled cars, required by he
new law to be put on all the street
railways in the state, have been put in
use here.
Bank inspector Hackett is heae. after
having visited twenty-eight of the
state banks He says he found all in
excellent condition. He says there is a
sharp demand for money.
The state university will have an ex-
tensive exhibit at the state fair and
Professor Collier Cobb is arranging
this.
A novel feature at the state fair
srounds next week will be the Gospel
tent. The promoters of this strange
scheme wanted leave to put it in the
midway. but were told this could not
be. The tent is therefore a little to one
side.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
MISS STONES SAFETY
eral Dickenson I'm Refusing to Pay the
Ransom

London. October 18.-The Globe today
says 1t fears that the safety OF Miss
Ellen II. Stone is seriously compromised
by the attitude Of Consul General Dick
enson in refusing to pay the ransom and
in demanding that Bulgaria arrest the
leaders OF the Macedonian committee
as the real authors of the. missionary's
abduction. The paper says the sItua-
ton contains all the factors OF q grave.
international complication and threat
ems to assume Importance far beyond
h personality of any individual mis-
sionary.
Vienna, October 1~s.-According to the
Pclitische Correspond, N. Sarato6,
Bulgarian minister Of the interior ad-
dressed a note to Mr.. Dickinson, United
States consul general In ConstantinopIe
a few days ago, in which he strongly
protested against his government being
held responsible for a crime committed
on Turkish territory.
we viii not enter into any negotia-
lions whatever for paying ransom"
said II. Saratoff. las We do not want
presidents established for the many
robbers infesting the neighborhood 10
turn to Bulgaria whenever his seems to
their advantage"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22

Bv the cavinx Of the Rapid Transit
Tunnel In New York.

New York. October iS-Five men
were killed end two injured this morn
ing when an enormous mass OF rock
caved from the side And roof or n
Rapid Transit tunnel. In u se or con-
struction on Broadway about the hne
OF One Hundred and Sixty-fourth street
In this city
The dead are: Peter OfHara, .
years old: Timothy Kelleher. 50 year
old: John Garonsky. Patrick Madden.
foreman OF the muckers. and Luigi
DANTE. IS years cid.
The section Of the tunnel where tho
cave-in occurred is los feet below the
furface. A shaft leads to the tunnel
and from the shaft headings extend
north and south. each being about sew
enty feet long. The accident occurred
In the south heading OF the tunnel
about $40 feet from the shaft \ gang
of twenty rock drillers was WORKING IN
the extreme south end OF the heading.
and about fifty feet from the emo .
gang made up OF twenty muckers
a foreman were removing the debris
produced by the blasting.
Without warning a mass OF rock.
sixty-three feet long. eleven feet wide
and ten feet high and weighing about
$50 tons, fell with a tremendous crash
directly where the muckers were work.
ing. almost closing the tunnel n Gre
ating a panic among the two or three
hundred men at work in other sections.
Great clouds OF dust filled the whole
excavation. The frightened men. most
OF them Italians. In wild excitement
and finding themselves cut on, as they
thought made wild efforts to escape.
their cries adding TO the confusion and
horror. Before long. however. all made
their way to the street and the work or
rescuing the muckers was commenced
At first IL was supposed that at least
a dozen men had been buried under the
debris. Word OF the accident had been
quickly spread and soon an anxious
crowd gathered around the shaft.
scores Of men n women crying and
wringing their hands, while the res
cuers worked with tremendous energy
10 reach the entombed workmen.
DePedro and an italian
were not buried under The mass OF
rock and were the first found.
When the rescuing party began 10
remove the rock they. found the man
gled bodies of O'Hara. Kelleher and
Goronsky. The bodies OF Madden and
DANTE were buried under masses o.
rock which could not be moved and they
could not be extricated although they
were in plain sight. 1t was the work
- todIS ~ hltiA Nbt Aibito III
them. At 2:45 o'clock in the afternoon
the charges were fired with the result
that the body of Foreman Madden vas
removed. The next blast uncovered n
body of DANTE.
o. V. Powers. senior assistant engi-
neer in charge of the contract, said the
fall of the rock would in no way inter-
fere with the safety of the tunnel.
Tonight il was said tina the fall OF
the mass of rock had been blown 10
pieces and that no more bodies had been
found and il is not believed hat any
more lives were lost.
Owen Bly,. the section boss. who vas
in charge of that portion Of the tunnel.
was placed under arrest. He was. lat
er. taken to the Harlem police court
and remanded TO the coroner's Office,
where Coroner Zuccoa paroled him un-
til tomorrow.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
PALE FACE-wEAK NERVES.

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means much more. it means a starved
nervous system. a debilitated condition
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In addition to iron this time-tried
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1t helps to build I'D nerve and mus
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DR.. Harter's Iron Tonic will build
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This remedy has been endorsed by
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
THEsPANIsH PLANS GIVEN.

Strange testimony as given in the
naval Investigation reveal sttn curious
things that happened. For instance
Lieutenant McCauley read the signals
that passed between the Brooklyn and
the other ships, and yet these very sig
nails the Sampson swift witnesses fail
ed to remember. What facile conve
nient memories these lads had. All
the recent witnesses agree completely
in declaring that Commodore Schley
acted with consummate GOODNESS and
gallantry. And all these were in the
thick of the fight. Captain Victor M.
Concas, of the Spanish fleet, command
ing the Maria Teresa. throws light upon
that loop He tells of the orders of
Cervera, and why the sortie was to be
made at the time ordered. The hour
fixed was 4 o'clock, the End Of July.
But it had to be postponed until next
morning for reasons given. OF the
plan of attack we give a part only:
~"Supposing, therefore. that the Brook
Ign was at her usual station when we
came out, the Maria Teresa was to en-
gage her in battle, endeavoring to ram
her, and while the rest of the enemy's
squadron were graphing with our
flagship the other ships. headed by the
Viscaya, without delaying to succor
the Teresa, were to pass in column be-
tween her and the coast and endeavor
to escape. The destroyers were to place
themselves under the protection of the
larger ships, and as soon as possible,
under forced draft, endeavor to steam
away and take no part in the battle ex-
cept in case a good opportunity should
present itself"
The Washington Post says of the
loop"
"As for the loop Concas tells US
that his orders were to go straight at
the Brooklyn, to engage and, If posi-
BILE, ram her. By a curious coincidence,
several officers on the Brooklyn thought
hat such was the intention. Certain
officers on other ships have testified
hat they saw nothing Of the kind. The
opinion of persons who do o see
things is, however, Of comparatively
little Importance"
'Concas says he had to execute the Or
der and to ram the Brooklyn But
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
R OF SUBSCRIPTION.
LITERARY HoTCH-POTCH.

z.r. George w. Gable, a writer or re-
pute and gifts, who lives in New Eng
land, and whose parents were Of that
section, has another novel out, that is
gushingly praised by the New York
Tribune and other northern organs.
The southern whites have no occasion
to invest money in the brain-products
Of this fictive author. He is no friend
TO his beloved southland, as intelli-
gent readers of ten and twenty years
ago may well remember. There
are plenty Of good books without pat
Tonizing Cable. There are hundreds Of
novels of an excellent quality that Will
meet all demands of all tastes without
reading Cables productions or of men Of
his kind. After you have exhausted all
of the mastery works Of the worlds
creative writer's it will be time enough
to tackle Gable. He should be let "se-
verely alone" by all genuine men and
women of our great section. So at
least one editor thinks.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22

Haxing at the University OF North
Carolina Is a curse and ignominy Of the
past. The president says it is thor
oughly stamped out" Let it continue
so. 1t win disgrace any institution of
learning and is a stigma upon any state
that tolerates. 1t is almost as bad as
foot ball. We see 1t stated-a floating
paragraph-that President venable
says that h first week of the session
there was some, the sophomores. 1t APP
pears. being the perpetrators. but the
made things SO lively for the sopho-
mores that the latter gave up the haz-
ing. Then the student body. of its own
volition. adopted resolutions against
hazing."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22

A special from New Bern TO The Ra-
leigh Post has the following concerning
a minister recently invited to this city:
Rev. T. NJ. N. George, of Christ Epis-
copal church, has received a call from
st. James church, Wilmington, to sue
coed DR.. Robert Strange. The call by
the vestry was unanimous. Mr.. George
has been rector at Christ church for
about ten years and has become one
of the institutions Of the place. His
friends feel that it would undoubtedly
be to his personal advantage to make
the change. Mr.. George is now in VIII
mington and will probably decided the
matter before his return here
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
No Deaths From the Row at Welsh,
w. Va.

Roanoke, Va, October 1S.-News
reached here might from Welsh W. Va,
to the effect that Robert Hufford, who
was SO badly injured in an ARRAY there
Wednesday night was still alive and
nay recover and that no one else was
seriously hurt. Deputy Sheriff John
W. WaIdron. Of Mcdowell, who is al
legged to have done the shooting, has
been indicted by the grand jury and is
out on bond. was in Bluefield today.
Waldron's plea viii be self defense. He
claims Hufford was very drunk when
he attacked him and that he did not
shoot until IL was necessary to defend
himself.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22

There is another book we have not
seen, put to which we would direct the
attention of people who relish fiction Of
the better kind. We are influenced by
something of a concurrence of opinion
among critics we most confide in to
suggest the reading of a very recent
novel by an English woman who is per-
haps endowed with genius, and if not
that, with remarkable talents. She
calls herself Lucy Matel'' but she is
Mrs. Harrison, and is a daughter of a
very distinguished novelist of the past,
and a poet of real gifts, the late Rev.
Charles Kinksley, of the Established
Church Of England. We have told our
readers heretofore that ordinarily the
critic for the New York Tribune was
trustworthy, well equipped, scholarly,
able. Not always do we receive his
critical deliverances as final, nor could
we do that of any other critic, past or
present. Of the novel in hand, called
1.-THE History Of Sir Richard Calmedy',
this critic has a good opinion as to its
ability. 1t is a creepy book and of
''forbidding atmosphere" We select d
few lines separated in his article:
But IN the whole, the tale is strik-
ingly well told. Whether it was worth
telling or not is another question. Lu-
cas- Malet has the sanction of the class
les in her attempt to purge the emo
tions by the eXcitation of pity and ter
ror. But we feel regretfully that We
have here, after all, only an attempt.
= This is an absorbing narrative, so
we'll written that it's great length is
easily forgiven. 3 But they leave
too bad a taste in the mouth. When the
dered it is impossible to escape the con-
pered it is impossible to escap the con-
viction that the great merits of the
book cannot obscure it's essential fault,
which is the fruitless contemplation of
deliberately invented agony"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22

the young. Prof. Lee has excoriated it
has received and he does it on moral
grounds-the best grounds. II it is i'm
pure, II it is nasty, it should b. tabooed.
It is not fit reading for pure minds.
You see he finds great merits with
decided objections. Prof. Lee is a moral
critic remember. He likes the novel
and praises it. He writes, for instance:
Mrs. Harrison has given US a strong
intense, absorbing novel-a novel which
for intrinsic virility in a way could be
equaled by very few Of the male novel
lists of the day. Yet it is p~erceptibly
the work Of a woman's hand, the ex-
preston of a woman's thought. 1t is
one the worse for this, as a whole.
The book is a novel pure and sim
pie, depending for interest entirely upon
the study Of character. and it is a novel
of the highest excellence. But the
wome Of the book are superbly drawn.
The finest picture is hat of Katherine
Calmedy, the mother Of Richard. She
Is one of the most exquisite portraits OF
womanhood that we have ever seen
She is Of the womanhood of the spirit;
and she is brought into noble contrast
with Helen de Vallorbes, who is en-
llrely OF the HeSn- One 10 lHCdiLdle
purity and goodness; the other is incar-
nate desire and evil. Mrs. Harrt-
son is not guiltless Of one or two pieces
of unnecessary realism" of detail. one
being especially reprehensible. This is
the more regrettable and inexplicable in
that the book is full of the nigh and
pure spirit of religion that we should
expect from the daughter Of Charles
Kingsley and the wife of a clergyman
of the Church of England. The work
has faults: but it is a great book"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-22
No Reliable Man

imagines that a neglected cold can be
cured in a day. The uncountable air
cells in the lungs are infiamed and the
throat is as tender as an open sore. But
time and Aliens Lung Balsam viii
overcome h cold and stave off con-
sumption. The cough will cease and
the lungs will be sound as a new dollar.
All druggists sell Aliens Lung Balsam.