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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16
The Cranky Customer.

The easy chair in front OF the furni-
ture emporium on Umpty-third street
looked inviting to the man Who was
stroIIing along and looking into the
shop windows. and he sat down in it,
says The Chicago Tribune.
He wiped the p~erspiration from his
brow. took a pipe from his pocket, filled
it. lighted it, crossed one leg over the
other. and was smoking away in COM
fort when the proprietor of the empor-
;un came out.
Cant you see" said the proprietor,
that this chair was put out here as a
sampler"
don't see Anything to indicate it,
replied the other. removing rs pipe
from his mouth for a moment; but I'll
take your word for it."
We'll, it was. Don't you see the price
tag On it-$4.75? We put it here to sell.
and not TO furnish a Iounging place for
everybody that happens along"
-Four dollars and se~venty-five cents?
That's reasonable enough. I've seen
chairs in Grand Rapids, no better than
this. sold for almost as much, n they
didn't care two straws whether you
bought or not. Those fellows in Grand
Rapids are too blamed independent"
Puff, puff
You heard what I said. didn't yOu?"
About this being a sample? It's for
sale. isn't it,"
Certainly"
Same as everything you've got in
| side?'
of course"
Then it isn't a sample. It's a part
of your stock You shouldn't misrepre-
| sent things" puff. puff
The furniture dealer began to turn
red.
All the same" he said, you'll get
u Of that chair. Or"
Hold on. You said il was for sale.
I'll AXE it. I'd rather buy it than
move. 1 think you said the price was
$40. Here's the money. And nov, if
YOU don't object, I'll sit in it till I fin
ish my pipe"
We'll. of course. YOU know. if Ia
thought-'
Wen not wrangle any more. if you
please" interrupted the man in the
chair. f~rowning. L never lii to be
disturbed by idle talk when I'm smok-
ing" Puff. puff. puff
Fifteen minutes later he knocked the
ashes out of his pipe. rose ~leisurely.
Scrawled his name and address on a
blank card. and stepped inside the store.
You may send this chair TO that new
house over at the corner of Imply
second street and Bingley place." he
said u the dealer. I've got a whole
lot more furniture TO get, but it takes
too much conversation TO buy it here
Good day"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16

East St. Louis. Ill, June 1.-THE
crisis Of the flood situation in this city
has passed. Boa crews which We're &C.
cupied yesterday in rescuing victims
of the flood devoted themselves today
to saving property ana bringing to
higher ground belated refugees who
previously had not been themselves in
immediate danger.
Since the disastrous break in the CEN
trail levee the flood has made no dan
gerous breaks, although a portion of
the Baltimore and Ohio embankment
ave way last night and the flood area
was further increased by eepage to-
day. Water continues to seep through
h Broadway embankment in various
places tonight, flooding the lowland be-
tween that street n Missouri avenue.
the next street north. with from two
to six feet Of water. Some wafer has
also been finding its way into the terri
tory between Missouri avenue anC St.
Louis avenue. People m this district
however, ave not been compelled TO
leave their homes, although they have
to use boats to obtain supplies. With
llc I've SldlIolLdlN dS II Is lDlllSlI DIT
$40 feet the probability of q recession
Of the river level and the proved
strength of the Broadway embark
ment, an extension of the calamity is
not expected. No one could be found
today who could give anything like a
definite idea of the property loss.
Vague mention of millions of dollars"
was the nearest even the best informed
citizens could give. There is a general
disposition to accept the minimum re-
ports of loss of life, rather than the
first exaggerated stories. One promi-
nent undertaken declared that there
had been no loss of life directly due to
drowning in the flood. although there
had been deaths later due indirectly to
the overflow. No bodies We're recov-
ed today.
CARING FOR REFUGEES.
The work today has been and will
continue to be that of caring FOR the
refugees. The supply of food seems
ample, but the refugees tonight lack
bedding. 1t is believed that this will
be supplied by tomorrow night.
During much of the day the city wa
under quasi military rule. though May
or Cook and his chief of police Were
the guiding heads. 1t was found today
tina the condition necessitating the
issuing Of permits to visit the central
portions Of the city and for other pur-
poses were working a hardship on
many citizens and the discipline was
relaxed to allow free communication
between here and the Missouri side.
There has been much confusion"
said Mayor Cook. this evening, but I
believe We have brought out order and
the redemption Of the city will pro-
coed with the system that will result
in the least loss
st. Louis, June 11.-Three thousand
flood refugees from Madison, Venice,
Granite City and East st. Louis are
being sheltered and cared for in st.
Louis. Fully 1000 of these were pro-
vided for by various charitable ascot
ations working in conjunction with the
Merchants exchange relief committee,
while the remainder have found places
in the home of relatives and friends
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16
Wanted to See the Crack.

It IS not only a foreigner learning
u language who is confused by the
several meanings attached to one word,
says the Philadelphia Press. The lit
tie learner of our " land also finds
il an additional burden in gaining a
knowledge of the mother tongue.
In a childish alteration in g Ger
mantown nursery recently a small boy
OF three and a half struck his sister.
> years old, a ~ blow on the head
with a tennis croquet. His mother,
after bringing the youthful transgres-
sor TO a sense of his misdeed, asked
him, between his SobS:
Now. Robbie. aren't you sorry you
gave our sister such a crack IN the
head?"
Robbie's sobs instantly subsidized, and,
with his t~ear-stained face full Of eager
ness, he exclaimed:
oh. mamma, let me see the cracki"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16

BETERIDGE WON \ PRIZE.

Senator Beverage was chatting with
some friends at the Waldorf the other
night, says The New York Press, when
a member of the group remarked:
Senator. you may electrify the
country with a few speeches while you
are in the senate, but you will never
surprise the effort by which you won
the Interstate oratOrical prize while
You We're at De PAW University"
Perhaps not" said the senator with
a quiZzical smile.
Did you notice Beveridge's smile
when I spoke Of his college Oratory?"
asked the first speaker after the hoos-
Ter senator had left the party. He
won that prize by a trick that ought
to have made him famous eve if he
had not had ability to back it up.
Among the western colleges the in
ter-state oratorical prize is the greatest
honor hat can fall 10 the lot of the
undergraduate. Students begin train
ing for il by the time they enter as
freshmen. In most colleges juniors
only are eligible, although sophomores
often try for it. The local contest is
held in the spring. Then all the col
leges of the state hat are in the or
ganiZatiOn meet and hold a contest in
the fall. The winner of this is the
state representative to the Interstate.
"Beveridge represented Indiana at
the contest of which I have spoken.
In the drawing of lots for places on
the programme he was seventh. He
knew that both audience and Judges
would be worn out by the flood of elO-
| quence long before he appeared and
he determined that he must do some
thing 10 get attention. \ visit was
paid by a member Of the Indiana dele
cation to the j~aintOr of the opera house
in which the speaking was to take place
The janitor was persuaded to ~ him
self to working out a little scheme.
"One after another the orators spoke
Gradually, SO imperceptibly that il
vas noticed only by the hoosier dele.
| gates in the plot. the lights on the
stage grew weary. BY the time the
sixth speaker had finished the audi
tOrium was in semi-darkness.
Then Beverage was announced
Instantly the lights flashed up with {
bright glare. The young Indianiar
leapeG to the center Of the stage anC
everyone IN the audience sat up anC
took notice. The effect 4 this artifict
was hat Beveridge got closer atten.
ton than any other speaker and HI
Won the prize
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16

This may be the age Of young men
and is-but q good many Of the Old boys
continue TO 90 business in pretty lively |
fashion.
Associate Justice Harlan. OF the Unit
ed States supreme court, celebrated his
seventteth birthday on Monday by put
ting in a hard days work or the bench.
This birthday put the big justice over
the 9 line which permits him to retire
on salary, buc he has no intention Of
taking such a step at his time. and 50
announced. Nor is there any reason
why he should. AS vigorous of body
and Of mind as most men twenty years
younger. he is not merely an ornament
to the highest judicial tribunal of the
land. but one Of its most hard working
and most highly useful members. Chief
Justice Fuller Is another member Of the
bench who might retire to a life Of ease
if he chose - do 50. huI these men
have learned the philosophtc lesson that
for a we'll man about the least thing
the world can offer IS the opportunity
for work.
Mr.. Jpstice Harlan has sat upon the
supreme bench for more han twenty
five years. During hat time he has
| enjoyed good health almost every lay.
| Much Of this IS due TO his love for out
| door exercise. Down this way the ma
| tiVeS would look aSkance al a judge who
| appeared in a goIfing suit with regula-
ton knickerbOCkers, but Justice Harlan
50 arrayed is a daily sight going 10 and
coming from the links at Chevy Chase.
Not many men who know him see him
going out 70 the beautiful grounds
across the Maryland Iine-he is toe
early for them; but he comes back
about the time most early risers living
u hat way are starting for theiI
work.
Long before most Of til members o.
that club are awake Mr.. Justice Har-
Ian is out chasing what the uninitiate6
cOntemptuOusly call that little quienine
pill" At a banquet given him last
winter in celebration of the twenty-fftf
anniversary of his appointment TO tn
bench, one of the speakers summed III
his character by declaring that he "sI5p
with the Bible III nand, the consti.
tuition in the other and his golf stick:
under his pilliW." 1t is recalled h "a
Mr.. Justice Brewer on the same occa.
sion said: Every man has his hobby
and my brother Harlan has as his judi
cial hobby, the constitution. He has be
lieved that the constitution and the fias
are one nov and forever. He has neve
believed that it was q rope of sand or {
cord of rubber"
A southern man. q kentuckian, Judg,
Harlan has been a republican since tn,
civil war. He was colonel OF the Tent
Kentucky regiment in the union army
Jos Obi Atlanta Constitution.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16
4 CiOudDurSt browns Nine.

Denver, Colo, June IA special to
The News from Phoenix. Ariz.. \
cloud burst mas interviewed to delay the
crisis in the strike situation at MorencI,
Ariz.. where thousands of armed men
are threatening trouble with the civil
authorities. a repOrt has reached here
hat the dOwn-pour has inundated
Morenci and neighbOrIng camps and
drowned nine men. Official adVices state
hat a mob of Italians and MeXicans
charged on the guards who surrounded
the milling plant of the Detroit Copper
Company. disarmIng them and taking
possession of the mill. while another
mob of a thousand Italians is seriously
menacing the whole copper camp.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16
THE "RELIANCE" 4 WINNER.
She Wins "a sharp Race Easily Over
the Constitution and Columbia
With Light Wind and Smooth sea.

New York, June 11.-That she has no
equal in American waters in q smooth
sea and a light wind. the Reliance de-
monstrated again today by another vic
tory over both the Constitution and Co
demonstrate her superiority IL rough
water and strong winds.
After q sharp brush. which continued
for nearly an hour, the Reliance got the
lead owe the Constitution and held it
to the finish. defeating her by five min
utes, fifty-twO seconds. The Columbia
lost five minutes by a shift Of wind
which placed her to IeeWard Of the 9TH
ers. The Reliance beat her by l. min
utes, 81 seconds. The race vas sailed
over the Americas cup course. fifteen
miles from Sandy Hook 20 windward
and return. thirty miles round
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16
Wanted to Even Up.

He had come in from the rural dis
tricts by way of the Mt. Clemens
electric line. says the Detroit Free
Press. and rs he neared the city he
hitched around uneasily. and finally
asked of citizen who had got on 4
few minutes before:
Say. can YOU tell me where l can
get something made in the city,"
''That's according to what it is"
was the reply.
It's a sort of a bell"
'Doorbell or cowbell?"
Neither one. 4 Teller was tellin'
me that h" used to have a bell pinned
on his vest. and he used to ring it
every time anybody sale anything
smart"
on. you mean the old chestnut
bell?'
I don't know bout the chestnuts.
but it was bell and would go ding.
when yOu pressed sOmethln'. l want
to get one made"
Going :" resurrect the old idea, are
yOu?' ~ueried the citizen with a
smile.
4 wan to use it agin my wife, you
know. She's got a tongue on her like
Il w~hiplash. She calls me names about
forty times . ~" and while I pretend
not to notice they hurt me like blazeS.
1t don't do no good to talk back. as
she is five times smarter'n I am and
can talk ten times as fast. " got to
get one OF them bells and sit there
and make it go ding every time she
calls me 4 fool or a liar. n in less'n
! Il week she'll either shut up or be after
a divorce. Can you understand the
situatiOn?"
III other understood. and told him
where he could probably get a bell
| made. and long ere this has sounded
its ding and been thoroughly tested
in The divided household LID the shore.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16
CHRONIC SORES
Signs Of Polluted Blood.

There is nothing 50 repuBive looking and disgusting as an old sOe
You worry over it till the brain grows weary and work with it until the
patienccis exhausted, and the very sghtof the old fostering, sckv looking
place makes You irritable, respondent and desperate.
A chronic soreist the very best evide1ceth your blood ST an unhealthy
and IMPOVERISHED condition, that your constitution is breaking down under
the effects of some serious disorder. The taking of strong medicines, like
mercury or potash, will sometimes S poIute and vitate the blood and i'm
pair the general system that the merests scratch o. bruise resu1tsin obstinate
non-heaing sores of the most offensive character.
Often an inherited faint breaks out in frghtful eaung sores upon the climbs
or face in old age r 1niddlelife. Whenever a sore refuses to heal the blood
is always at fault, and, while antseptc washes, sa1ves, soaps and powders
a do much to keep down the inflammation and cleanse the sore it will
never heal permanently til. the blood itself has been purified and the deadly
germs and posons destroyed, and with S. s. this can be accomp1shed-the
- polluted blood is purified and invigorated, and when
~ rich, pure blood is again circulating freely throughout
~ the body the flesh around the old sore begins to take
S99 on IN a + ns% asc. f 5jo1: the discharge of matter ceases
S S. S. is both a blood purifier and tonic that puts vou blood in order
and at the same time tones up the system and builds up the general health.
If vou have a chronic sore write us. No charge for medical advice.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co., ATLANTA, GA.
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CRISIS OVER
The Flood Conditions at
St. Louis are Much
Improved
RIVER FALLS

The Work le>terda! Was Mainly in
Saving Property and Carin. for
Far Into the iIIionS-Sup of
Food Ample. But ddin Scarce.
Mayor Cook and Chief Of Police in
ControI-NariOuS Charitable Insti-
tutiOnS Assist Relief Committee.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16

London. June Hilary Vardon to-
day won the open golf championship at
P-estwick, Scotland. Vardon again
broke the record. rounding the green in
seventy-two strokes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-16

You Know Wha- You are Taking
When o take Groves Tasteless Chill
Tonic because the + 'rmula is plainly
printed on every bottle showing that
Z : simply iron an Quinine in a
tasteleSs form. No cure no pay SOC
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
viii You Help a Sick Friend?
Got Ny Book For Him Now.
Book / On Dyspepsia 'i
Book 2 on the Heart
Book 3 on the Kidneys.
Book 4 for Women.
Book 8 for Men (sealed).
Look 6 on rheumatism.
send!
se3d me no money.

Send me no money.
Only tell me which book to send.
so You ceTtsiniy know Of some one who 4 slck;
help my book offer.
And that book tells Of q way to help. Tells
OF o way 20 certain that !. as physician, Of
Ter that help on trial. The book tells how for
years In hospitals and at bedsides searched
diseases. Il tells how perfected my prescrip-
tton-Dr. Shoops Restorative. How by scien-
tinc experiments traced out the causes that
bring on chronic diseases.
I found invariably that where there was q
Where there was & lack Of vitality. that the
vital nerves lacked power.
Where weak organs were found, always
found weak nerves.
Not the nerves commonly thought OF, but
the vital organs nerves The inside-the In
visible nerves.
This was a revelation.
Then my real success began.
Then combined ingredients that would
strengthen-that would vitalize these nerves.
Tint PRESCRIPTION called a restorative. It Is
etorative. After that did not fail TO cure
one In each hundred In the extremely 6iT-
ncult cases, my failures for five years were
only one IN each forty treated. 1 found cam
cine.
Then how to get this prescription to the sick
ones everywhere was my thought
must announce II in the public press. But,
thought I. will they realize the real truth OF
my dtscovery-the real power Of Dr.. Sh3op' )
7 viii offer 1t to the sick On trial. raid L.
Then they will know I am sincere"
1 wrote, 6 reliable iruggist In each city and
village In America.
got their agreement to cooperate with NE.
Nov sick one
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
FIVE HUNDRED IN WOLF HUNT.
Disorganized Band Fails to Cap
ture Single Animal.
REPuBLIc srEcrAr

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Kansas City. No.. Dec. es.-Five hundred
men and boys were In wolf hunt yester-
day at Grandview. five miles west of Kan.
sas City. 1t was announced to be wolf
drive, but no wolves came out to be driv-
en-. s.s4s
There were enough men and boys in the
hunt to have hemmed In the wolves IL the
party had been organized to march In or
der But in the lines which covered six
mile square. there were gaps nearly
quarter of a mile wide at the start. Men
we're Instructed 10 come without guns OF
dogs. but they came with both. Some were
on foot. many on horseback, and there
was neither order nor system in the lines.
They marched in groups, hallooing and
shouting. and with dogs thrashing the
brush. There were plenty of chances for
the wolves, IL there were any, to get
through the lines without being seen. sss
In the hunt were men from all over
jackson County. About twenty-five went.
from Kansas City. Some people drove or
rode from ten to twenty miles to get to-
It. Everybody in that part. OF the country
was there. Dozens of wolves have been
seen in the Granfyiew vicinity. Farm
poultry and young stock have. suffered.
The wolves live along the rive- bottom.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
ARGExT1NE's ART DISPLAY.

Chosen Works of the Best Artists
VIII BE Exhibited.
Eduardo Schiaffino. Commissioner for
the Argentine fine-arts exhibit at the
Worlds Fair, has sailed for the United
States. and is expected here within the
next few days. according to advices from
Commissioner Jose de Olivares, received
at the Administration building yester-
day.
The Argentine Art Department. Mr..
Olivares says. is in splendid shape and
will be a credit to the South American
Republic and to the Exposition. 1t will
include upwards of 1870 selected works of
the best artists of Argentina and its art
colony in Europe.
Mr Olivares states that the Argentina
National Press exhibit will also be great
success. Participation in it by more than
fifty leading publications has been Sc
cured. Most of the publications have al
ready completed their exhibits, while the
balance have their contributions under
preparatfOn.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
@P0INT OF VIEW" CONTEST
RULES ARE ANNOUNCED.
Director of Works Taylor Gives Adj
vice to Those Who Would Select
Prettiest Part of Exposition,

49,
Director of Works Taylor of the WORLDS
Fair yesterday announced the rules which
will govern his contest for naming the
single point in the Exposition grounds
from which the best view can be had.
Mr.. Taylor offers prize of 500 in gold
for the winner
The rules are as follows;
L Selections must be in writing, inclosed
IN an envelope addressed to ..Mr. Walter
B. Stevens, Worlds Fair Grounds, St.
Louis, Mo-" and bearing on its face the
words Point of View" '..e
I = No charge is made for entrance to the
competition, and no qualification as to
color, creed. nationality. age. sex or i,abi.
tation Is exacted of the competitor.
lection ,'. O.s %
=. The. point selected must be on the
ground level. and the view must be in one
stated direction. -. -
5: The point must be fixed so tina. the
judges may locate 1t within ten feet: as,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
Ask Your Druggist for free Peruna Almanac for 1904
OPENS ILLINOIS
CAMPAIGN IN 1904.
Twelfth District Republican Con-
gressional Convention Set at
Date Which Will Favor
the Machine.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Chicago, Ill, Dec. 2s-The first gun for
the campaign of 1904 in Illinois was fired
in Chicago to-day, when the Republican
Congressional Committee Of the Twelfth
District met to set the date of the Con-
gressional Convention.
Senator Hopkins was on hand, as were
Congressman Charles E. Fuller and his
right-hand man, Edward F. Marsh.
The date Of the convention was set for
February at Ottawa AS there will be
few, If any, conventions called in the dis
trict previous to that date. this means
that most of the delegates will be Sc
lected by the machine through the coun-
ty committees.
This is expected to fortify the Fuller
Warner combine, which Will thus have
the national delegates and prestige in the
county conventions
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
TEN REVOLUTIONS
GOING ON AT ONCE
Nobody's Life Is Safe in santo
Domingo, Where Footpads
Are Robbing Even the
Soldiers

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York, Dec 26.-Severa1 passengers
of the Clyde Line steamer New York. who
arrived to-day in that vessel, say that
santo Domingo is in a complete state of
anarchy, and that there are at least ten
independent revolutions
Nobody's life is safe.
Footpads are robbing even the armed
soldiers.
Morales, who lives at Puerto Plata,
found upon his arrival at San Domingo
City that the Jiminez forces had deyel-
oped strong army at his home. some Of
Morales's own soldiers joining Jiminez.
Morales was preparing a gunboat to bonn
bard his own town.
Captain Marmion of the New York said
that the ship had a tough time trying to
collect cargo at the various ports. The
Government officials would not permit the
revolutionists to ship any freight. and the
revolutionists were interfering with the
Government sending stuff away.
Everybody with any money, and not po-
liticaily inclined. was preparing to leave
the island in a hurry.