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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

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1t heals Inflammation and liberation and
cures female weakness. There is no
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uMy disease was displacement and liberation
Of the uterus, and / was in a terrible condition
with pain and weakness and had given up all
hopes of ever being well again writes Mrs.
Harry A. Brown, of Orono. Penobscot Co., Me.
uHad doctored with four different doctors with
in four months, and instead Of getting better
was growing weaker all The time. decided to
try your 'Favorite Prescription Golden Med
ica1 Discovery and Pleasant Pellets as I had
heard of the many cures resulting from their
use, bought FIVE bottles and felt so much bet
ter after taking them that I kept on until I am
as well as ever in my life. and to DR.. Pierce all
the praise is due. I cannot say enough in favor
Of his medicines. Before I began taking your
medicines 1 only weighed one hundred and
twenty pounds. I now weigh one hundred and
sixty pounds. I gained forty pounds in six
months. I shall doctor no more with home
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DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets clear the
muddy complexion.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28
GUESSES.

Estimates as to the democratic ma
jority in his state made by persons Of
that party who pretend to know what
they are talking about range from
thirty thousand to one hundred thou
sand. The larger the vote polled the
greater will the majority be. THAT the
vote will be very light can hardly be
doubted unless there was a great i'm
provement in registration on the last
two days. Up to that time it had been
behind the usual number Of democrats
in nearly, if not every county in the
state and in some of them far ehind
Where there is apathy among men as
to registration there will also be indif-
ference regarding voting. Registration
now has closed. No men a vote who
have not already put hen names on
the registration books, and of course
many of those who have registered will
not vote. The efforts of the leaders foe
the next ten days should be devoted to
inducing those who have registered to
come to the polls on election day. Here
is where the trouble is going to be.
And another trouble the democrats are
going to have will be to prevent
scratching. Their danger, in this part of
the state at least, is not going to be so
much in men who were formerly demo-
Gratis going w to the republicans or
independents as in their scratching in
dividual candidates on the ticket. There
is going to be so much of this and So
varied through the whole list of candi-
dates from chief justice to township
constable hat a close estimate of what
the majority will be after the demo-
cratic registration throughout tn
state is known cannot be made. On
account of his great amount o.
scratching which we believe is going TO
be done a large registration will not
indicate a democratic majority in pro-
portion as it would under different cir
c~umstances. The scratching in this
state is going to be the unknown
quantity in our election that the float
ing and purchasable vote is in the
larger cities of the north. Unde these
circumstances estimates of the demo-
cratic majority are guess work.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

ter of a better schedule was taken up
by our business men who took Joint
action on the matter and asked for a
double daily service or the Coast Line
70 the south. They kept hammering on
this until they were given an additional
passenger mail train leaving the city
at 6 o'clock in the morning nj arrfy-
ing at about bed time. They have
our this a great convenience, and the
railway authorities. who put 1t on at
first as an experiment, now find this
train, we understand. one of the most
important on this part of its system.
Now we have a suggestion to make
TO the business men of Wilmington. 1t
is time for them to get UP and hustle
for additional railway facilities and we
believe they will be successful If they
go at the matter in the right way. We
need an earlier train to the northward.
We should have it and the business
men of the city should make efforts to
ecu it. This the Coast Line could
easily give us by extending to our city
h train they now run between Nor
folk and Goldsboro. Let this train
come TO our city, which it could
reach under its present schedule about
bedtime and would leave about 5 o'clock
in the morning to make the latter part
Of its present run. Now is the time tb
strike for it, as the winter schedules
are soon to be made I'D on all the
systems.
If we are to get this train, and we
should nave it. for it would be a very
important one to u city, we must take
h matter UP at once. # we work for
it we can get it. Then let the business
men of the city go at it with a vim and
win another victory for our city.
We urge this matter upon the bust
ness men of our city as one, In our
opinion. of great Importance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

North Carolina is steadily climbing
up the educational column. as h re-
sui of democratic fostering Of the ed
ucational interests Of the people of the
state. A few years back she was at the
foot of the list. Nov there are five
states, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi and South Carolina, and two
territories, Arizona AMI Indian Terri
tory, below her. This is not all. We do
not intend to stop here. We are going
to climb higher and higher; nat is, if
the people realize the importance Of
education and keep in power that party
which has done SO much in their behalf
in this matter and not turn the state
over to that set of men who by their
past record have shown their hostility
to universal education
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28
THE HUCKSTERS' FAIR.
A Continuance Seen i'm the
Streets of New Orleans.

The cleverest thing I've seen in the
way of a fan" said a nan with a bent
for the novel, lis the little windmill
device which some Of the hucksters of
New Orleans are using on the forepart
of their wagons. OF curse, the fan
will not go when the wagon is not in
motion. 1t works on the windmill
plan, and it takes a breeze to make it
go. The rapidity with which the fan
turns depends upon the wagons rate
of speed. 1t whizzes around rapidly
or slowly according to the horses's
trot. The fan is fastened to the ron
part of the wagon top directly in front
Of the driver and in the center, SO that
it will not interfere with the sight of
the driver. 1t has our or five prongs.
When the wagon starts the fan starts.
Under ordinary circumstances a wagon
rent of air to keep ones brow cool, but
this is not always the case. In any
event, the fan which is fastened on
the top of the huckSter's wagon has
been found of much value for two
reasons. In the first place, it is a sort
of suction arrangement, and concen-
trateS the air currents at a given
place, throwing them back into the
drivers face and through the wagon.
1t gathers the breezes in, combines
them. and gives the man on the wagon
seat the full benefit of the activities
due to the wagons motion. In the
second place, it is a protection against
an invasion of mosquitoes and other
insects which are bold enough to at
tempt to catch a wagon, on the fly.
Really, this fan is a very clever de-
vice, and while all the hucksters Of
New Orleans do not take to it, many
of them use it, and they find it Of
much value to them. They are not
expensive. They cost nothing. Each
man makes his own fan. He simply
tacks it up on the front part of his
wagon cover, and the horse does the
rest."-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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BETTER RAILWAY SCHEDULE
NEEDED.

The Messenger in commenting edito-
rally last Sunday upon the rapid pro-
gress Wilmington had made in the last
few years in it's mercantile and indus
trial DEVELOPMENT used the following
language:
when Wilmington wants anything
in the way Of additional advantages for
developing and extending her mercan-
tile and industrial her citi-
Zens have to take the matter in hand
and hustle to get it. Nothing of the
kind ever comes this way unsought.
The Industrial progress in our city is
the result OF hard and persistent work
of her business men,"
We yet have to hear Of any one who
this statement. Its truth
is universally admitted by all persons
acquainted with the facts and the past
record of our city. 1t was only a short
while g hat the truth of this state
ment was fully proven. Up to a few
months g we had only N passenger
train a day to the southwark. That train
left here in the afternoon and arrived
on the return trip about noon h next
day. This schedule was Of great in
ness men. They lost a great deal of
time both in their correspondence by
mail with their patrons and customers
and also when they found it necessary
to make business trips to the section OF
country to h south Of U.s. This mat
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

Everybody Busy Preparing for Ia
He VIII Carry Rural Districts.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c.. October 25.

haleakn. ~. -. oCAeOSr -
Little else is talked of here except the
state fair. Decorators are busy making
the streets gay. while workmen are
building floats and decorating car
bicycles and automobiles for the
floral division OF the parade on We'd
Inesday.
There will be ten companies OF the
State Guard at the fair. these being
from Winston, Durham. Lumber
bridge. warrenton. Frankiinton. Colds
boro = and Raleigh .. These viii spend
one day here. 1t is certain that the
general interest in the fair was never
greater. Eastern North Carolina was
never so prosperous as at presens and
people want to enjoy themselves.
John w. Atwater. the independent
candidate for congress in this district.
when asked this morning how his can
vass IA progressing replied: The
rural districts are for Atwater. You
can say that. Dunn in Nash county.
where 1 had audiences Of 125 10 20. Ell.
Pou had only 6 and %. and at the place
where there were only six he did not
speak" Atwater when asked IL the re-
publicans had endorsed him yet replied
no. and added that he did not care
whether they did or not.
The military company at Wilson has
been mustered into the State Guard
and its officers commissioned
President George T. Winston. OF the
Agricultural and Mechanical college
says that, by reason of lack OF room he
is daily turning down applications for
admission. He says most OF these ap-
plicants are working boys, who want to
be mechanics.
Twenty-Five barrels OF carefully Sc
lected apples arrived today at the agri-
cultural department for the apple show
at the state fair. These are all from
that wonderful apple region, Yaneey
and Haywood counties. From Hay
wood c. L. McPeeters send 80 varities,
w. b. Ray 40. and from Haywood j. A.
May sends 40, John Farrior 4 and j. Il.
Hall Z.
State Superintendent of Public In
lstruction Joyner says letters from the
county superintendent show that all
of them, except one, will attend the
state convention of superintendents
next month.
Among today's arrivals was E. Is.
Springs, Of Charlotte.
Nothing more Is heard OF the scheme
to effect a merger of the electric pow
er plant at Mflburnie, near here, and
the electric railway and lighting COM
pany of this city. There Is some fear
that the arrangement Will fail and that
there will be no extension OF the sys-
TEN Of railway.
O~hservant gentlemen from Eastern
North Carolina say that, thanks to the
the are in better plight now
than in 40 years; that more mortgages
have been Cancelled and more old debts
paid than ever before.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28
A Husbands Sentiment.

Not long ago, says the New York
Times. a small luncheon was planned
by the wife of the Rev. DIR. Mcconnell
Tor a few friends, all ladies. She had
suggested to her husband that possibly
he would enjoy l~unching at the club
that day, which he agreed to do.
But on that day he was so absorb d
In his work that he forgot to lunch at
the club, but came into the house about
l o'clock saying: my dear, Just give
me a bite n let me get back to my
work" This, of course, she did, taking
MIN into the basement and giving him
what she could hastily get together.
AS the ladies were taking their de-
.parture after a delightful luncheon. one
OF them turned n said:
oh, I must not forget my ard with
Its little sentiment"
'Ihere Is no sentiment written on it,
said her hostess.
But / am quite cure 1 saw some
thing" said her friend. and, taking up
her card, read: 81, the master of this
house., am eating scraps In the cellar
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28
A SPELL

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it would be some encourage
ment.
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

Little Is heard through the press OF
General Julian s. Cars candidacy for
the senate. His close friends have an
nounced that he would not decline the
high honor IL rendered him. while at the
same time he will not engage in a
scramble for the place or make an ac-
tive contest" While this Is the way all
men should feel who aspire to office, IL
securing IL these days. The good old
times when the office sought the man
is passed and gone for ev,r- II Gen
eral Carr expects TO wiz he has got TO
scramble with the balance of the
candidates.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

1t Is told of the late Senator Matt
Carpenter that one day while chatting
with friends in a committee room the
conversation turned on the relative
merits Of religious sects, says the New
fork Times. Nearly every member of
the party belonged to some church, and
tnere a been an animated discussion.
senator Carpenter pacing up and
down., listening intently enough, but
saying not a word.
What church do o belong TO, Car
penter?" asked one.
Il don't belong to any"
Why don't you join one?"
Il don't want to. None exactly sui.s
my views"
What n would you join if you
were to feel forced to choice?"
Tn Catholic, by all means"
And why the CathoIic?"
they have a purgatoFy, inc
that's a motion for a new trial"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

A week and two days. and then we
Will know what's what and who's who
unless the peculiar conditions attend
ing election returns in 1872 are re-
peated-
Wonder if Henderson not hug
himself every time he veads about what
a no time Birdsoll is having with Boies
in his Die congressional district and
thanks heaven that he had sense
enough TO decline the nomination.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28
Caution.

This is not a gentle word-but when
you think o liable you are not to
purchase for 75c. the only remedy uni
Iversally known and a remedy tina has
had he largest sale of any medicine in
the world since 1863 for the cure and
treatment of Consumption and Throat
and Lung troubles without losing it's
great popularity all these years, you
viii be thankful We called your at
ltentton to Boschee's German Syrup.
/ mere are so many ordinary cough
remedies made by druggists and Others
that are chep and good for light colds
perhaps, but for severe Coughs, Bnon-
lchitis, Croup-and especially for Com
sumption and coughing during the
nights and mornings, there is nothing
hke German Syrup. Sold by all drug
lglsts in the civilized world.
G. G.. GREEN, Woodbury.. N. J.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

10 smut her eyes
and open her
mouth for medi-
cine and trust to
luck for results.
She doctors
m onth after
month, often
year after year,
in this a m
blind
fashion, and re-
ceives no perma-
nent benefit.
Women take
DIR. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescnp-
ton with their
eyes open to the
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

memory of such men as Roosevelt and
Spooner is ~inconceivable. IL one gives
them credit for keeping posted on the
important affairs of the government
they must stand charged with willful
attempt to deceive. If they plead ig-
norance, then such ignorance should be
considered almost as culpabl i as the
other
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

A correspondent of the Manufacture
ers' Record states that there is in
Northeastern North Carolina an mex
haustible supply of peat that could be
turned into fuel. The Dismal Swamp
canal enters this section anS could be
made a highway for its transportation
To market.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

The independent candidate for the
legislature in Durham county.if elected.
it is said. Will not vote for Pritchard for
senator. This nomination was a bad
slip I'D by the latter. He should look
better to his fences.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

|sher' play US a chune an I'll ASK Prisi-
|dint Eliot to sing Nancy Brown" "
Dye believe In poplar iddyeasion2 -
asked Mr.. Hennessy.
II do" said Mr.. Dooley. but not as
Ia dhrug."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

A negro of Salisbury wriiss to the
Charlotte Observer that the voters Of
his race in Rowan county arc going to
vote for Congressman Kluttz against
Mr.. Blackburn. They feel, he says. that
in the former they have a better friend
and also that this support is given UNI
solicited
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

A man is detected in attempting to
scale the walls of the Elysee. palace.
The Paris police think his object was
assassination of President Loubet. He
was armed with a poniard and loaded
revolver.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

Motners regard approaching winter
with uneasiness, children axe cold SO
easily. No disease costs more little
Hves than Group. Such cases yield
readily to One Minute Cough Cure. Alb
|soiutely safe. Acts Immediately. Cures
coughs. colds, grip, bronchitis, all throat
and lung trouble.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

yoop 3yOob oDoD yo0P Ao0kA
md - OAa AUok WSU hein9 49,"
The mother smiles at the childish
game, and doesn't realize that il Is a
game b as a woman has perhaps
played for a great many years. .
Many a woman is weak and sick,
nervous and discouraged She suffers
from headache, backache and other ills.
She wants to be well, but all she does Is
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

1t is said the Russian government is
contemplating abandoning Port Arthur
as an arsenal and establishing a new
stronghold at Port Dalny. 1t is not Of
ter that Russia abandons anything
even for something better.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

Ten years ago there were only one
hundred and forty thousand Jews in the
United States. Now there are six hum
dred thousand in New York alone and
more than a million in the whole coun-
try.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

One member of the British house of
commons shakes his first in the face OF
another and the whole nation is horri-
fed. They. should keep posted On the
n~roceeding eff OUR senate.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

1 was troubled with my stomach for
several months. Upon being advised
to use Kodol. I did 80. and wordc can
not ten the good It has lone ne. Geo.
w. Fly Viola, Iowa. Kodol cures all
stomach and bowel troubles. indiees-
ton, dyspepsia. r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

Disorders in Ae French coal mines
where there is a strike are becoming
much more frequent. The matter has
been brought before the house of depu-
ties
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

San Francisco's JeffersoniaH labor
party mayor puts up at the Waldorf
Astoria when he visits New York. He
probably does not expect this news to
get back to his constituents.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

If the Crown Prince of Slams studies
Of American institutions begin with
the highball, who can foresee where
they will fnish?-Boston Globe.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28

Send for Free Sample.
SCOTT s. BOVINE. Chemists. 100 Pearl St. N. Y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-12
In the Bonds of WedIOCk

At high noon last Thursday
occurred the marriage of Mr.. J. Cal
vim Beard to Miss Lillian Cartwright,
at the home of the bride mother,
Rev. VIM. McVettie officiating. The
ceremony was attended by only rela-
tives and few intimate friends of the
contracting parties. These two per-
sons have grown up to manhood and
womanhood in Decorah, and enjoy the
highet esteem and respect of a wide
acquaintance. They are both of splen
did character and it is union which
is commended by all. 1t is the sincere
wish of all their acquaintances that
their path through life may be strewn
with richest blessings.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-12
The New Court House.

The principal topic of conversation
throughout the county the past week
has been the matter of the building
of new court house for Winnesheik
county, which proposition was carried
by such magnificent majority at the
election last week Tuesday. Even
the most sanguine of those who were
laboring for the new court house did
not hope for majority so large. The
splendid vote from all sections of the
county denotes the public sentiment to
be strong in its favor. Dozens have
since said that if they had understood
the proposition better they would
have voted for it, 1t is gratifying
Endorsement of the action of the Board
of Supervisors, who, without solicita-
tion from the citizens of Decorah and
against their expressed wishes, but in
their own judgment, recognizing the
necessity for adequate protection to
public records, and the imminent
danger of the present situation, SUBJ
mitted the proposition and did every
thing in their power to impress upon
the voters the real situation. That
they performed their work we'll is
evidenced by the splendid ratification
accorded their efforts. The member
ship remains intact, the same as it was
when the proposition was proposed
and submitted, and the Board is now
free to 60 ahead with the work accord
ing to original ideas. By their ballots
the voters have expressed thier conf
dence in their Judgment, and the
people are now unit in the desire
that the work shall be pushed forward
to completion as rapidly as possible.
This we understand the Board intends
to do, and the matter will be taken up
by them at once and the preliminary
details attended to. We have talked
with a large number from different
parts of the county the past week, and
all express the hope that building
proportionate to the needs of the
county, and one that will answer all
demands upon it for many years to
come will be erected. We believe
that the Board of Supervisors is COM
posed of men who are competent and
will conscientiously do the work such
as in tLeir Judgment will most nearly
conform to the wishes of the people
and the demands of the situation.