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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
lcopyvisht. 1900. by c. B. Lewis.l

copyright. 1900. by G. b. Lewis1
s the Bowsers finished break
fast the other morning the
IA cook asked Mrs. Bowser for a
private word and was granted
q dozen of them. The result was that
as Mr.. Bowser was ready to start for
the Office he was asked IL he couldn't
stop somewhere and send q washer
woman up.
"For what reasonr' he bluntly
queried.
For The reason that the cook is now
packing up her things and will be gone
in half an hour. Ii 1 can get some one
TO do the washing I'll manage the other
work till we get a new girl"
"And the cook is going to quit with
ou an hours notice? This is another
specimen of your way of managing
things. Your cold hearted. autocratic
, ways have chilled the poor girls heart
n driven her to desperation. The
chances are nine out Of ten hat she's
going off to jump into the river"
THE chances are that her mother is
very i'll and she has been sent for" said
Mrs. Bowser. There is no specimen
about it, and neither has she complain
ed of my ways. You have heard her
singing every evening and spoken of
her contentment and good spirits. Will
you send up a woman to wash?"
Mrs. BowSer, there IS something
wrong about this house-something rad
ically wrong. When a poor. hardwork-
ing girl leaves us at a moments no.
tice and probably carries a piece of
clothesline with her with which to hang
herself it is my duty as the response
BILE head to look into things"
At that moment 1.-THE poor, hardwork-
ing girl" came down with her bundle
and said to Mrs. Bowser:
I'm sorry. ma'am. as you are n OF
the best Ome l ever worked for, but
you know LJw it is. If mother gets
better I'll come back to you"
Mrs. Bowser couldn't repress q smile
of triumph as she looked at Mr.. Bow
ser, but he was not the man to take a
back seat.
"As ] said" he observed, there is
something radically wrong here, and it
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
Escaped an Awful Fate.

Mr.. H. Haggins of the Melbourne,
Fla. writes. My doctor told me /
had Consumption and nothing could
be lone for me. l was given up to
die The offer of a free trial bottle
of DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, induced me TO try it. Re-
suits were startling. / am now on
the road to recovery and W all to
DR.. Kings New Discovery. 1t surely
saved by life" This great cure is
guaranteed for al throat and lung
diseases by r. r. Bellamy, druggist.
Price so cts and S1.0O. Trial bottles
free.
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RESULT.
Alex Williams, Colored. SeriousI
Stabbed ut Negro Entertainment.

There was a negro entertainment
a. Ruth Hall last night and as usual
il ended in a fight. Elixon Conner
stabbed Alex Williams in the lower
part of the abdomen, f~nficting a dan
gerouS wound The physician who
was called in to dress the wound said
il was an exceedingly dangerous one
and might prove fatal.
Constable Savage arrested Conner
asst night and put him in Jail. Both
OF the negroes were boys.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
Nearly Forfeits His Life.

a runaway almost ending fatally.
started a horrible ulcer on the leg of
j. B. Orner. Franklin Grove, i'll. For
four years it defied all doctors and
all remedies. But Bucklen's Arnica
Salve had no trouble to cure him.
Equally good for Burns, Bruises, Skin
Eruptions and Piles. % cts. at r. r.
Bellamy's drug store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
SENT TO THE PEST HOUSE
BizzelI and Seven Other Negroes Car
ried TO the Pest House Sunday.

The coIored woman BY name or
Bizzell. who worked at the Y NJ e.
A, and who was found to have the
smallpox on last Saturday. was car
ried To the pest house Sunday morn
ing and so were seyen other negroes
VINO were inmates OF the house where
she lived DIR. Harper says the wo-
man has a full developed case OF
smallpox. None OF the other negroes
show any signs of the disease yet
DR.. Harper expects to discharge
Mr.. Hilburn from the pest house the
last OF the week
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
Mysterious Circumstance.

One was pale and sallow and the
other fresh and rosy. Whence the
difference? She who IS blushing
with health uses DR.. Kings New Life
Pills to maintain it. By gently
~arousing the lazy organs they compel
good digestion and head off consti-
patton. Try them. Only 25 cts. at
r. r. Bellamy's, druggist. .
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The president wants the Repubii-
cans to contest every congressional
district in the south. Linney, ouT
Bull Of the Brushes" is with him OF
that.
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German used to play on the Balti-
more champion base hall nine, but it
remains to be seen il he still knows how
to slide to the home plate.-Atlanta
Journal.
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Forty Killed in Explosion.

Lahore, British India. February L.
Forty persons were killed today by all
explosion of ten o Of gun powder at
Fort Bhatinda in the Pungab-
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President Roosevelt doubtless devout-
~ wishes that Senator Hanna would
follow the patriotic example set by Mr.,
Bryan, and fling AVA proffered great
ness.-Atlanta Journal.
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The wa between Russia and Japan
may revive the Balkan inSurrectfon.
For competitions the life of war as well
as of other things.-Atlanta Journal.
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All good %FIlipinos are dead and all
the bad ones soon will be if our troops
continue to eXterminLte them at the
rate of twenty a day.-Atlanta Journal.
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Aldermen Met in Regu-
lar Monthly Session
Last Night
LONG SESSION

The Boar Remained I'm Session Until
a Late Hour-Few Matters OF Inn
portance Were Disposed of-Mr.
Hugh MacRae Made Statement I'm
Regard to City Lights-Matter of
Heating Opera House by Steam
- Several Ordinances
Amended Other Iatters Dis
posed OF.
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Mr.. EefA d. Emerson IS at home from
the Boston Tech to spend q few days.
The Washington times., 1904-07-24
The baby Nurse of the Corps Gives Spe-
cal Attention to the Mothers and
the Little Ones Just Come
Into the World.
Into the World.

from the bottom rolled the black bun
die Of woe
II was a day Of light and shade There
are those who are willing to be taught
and many a life has been gently eased
away by her teaching. There are those
who toss on a sick pillow and bless her.
and then there are the professional
charity spoilers who think she does not
do half for them that she is said TO do.
concluded that unless she could use her
material IN a story she should have at
least 5000 a year for her time instead OF
SEQ a month.
y list Of the women who support the
society reads like a Behind the line
list from the White House at the begin
ming Of a social season. While Miss En-
fly Tucl,erman. daughter Of Mrs. Lucius
Tuckerman; Mary w. c. Bayard. and
Anna a. Wilson are the incOrpOratOrs.
Mrs. Roosevelt. Mrs. Hay, Lady Durand.
Mrs. Cowles, the Presidents sister; Mrs.
L. Z. Letter. Mrs. Robert W. Patterson,
Mrs. Arnold Hague. Mrs. Brooks Adams,
Mrs. G. c. Addison, Mrs. Audenreid.
Mrs. Bates. Miss BOardman. Mrs Hattie
Blaine Reale. Mrs. T. NJ. Davis, Mrs. FL
kins. Miss ". l. Ely, Hon John G. Fos-
ter, Mrs Gardiner Hubbard. Mrs. Eu-
gene Hale. Mrs. Julian James. Mrs
Kean and the Misses Kean. mother and
sisters OF the New Jersey Senator: Mrs.
Lodge, Mrs. Lowndes. Mrs. James Nc
MILAN, Mrs. McKim. Mrs. Wetmore, and
host Of other society women contribute
generously TO the fund for maintaining
the nurses Even the Monday Evening
Dance Club. composed OF the most friv-
olous young people IN Washington, be-
came interested in these ministering an
gels to the unfortunate and contributed
through Mrs Postlethwaite nearly $50
10 the fund last winter.
The Washington times., 1904-07-24

was a sick woman whose family in
crease had kept neck and neck with
that OF -he Basque family Full as
much light came in over the patches
OF soap boxes on the wall. and floor as
through the one dirty window. 1t VAS
human habitation at the end Of a
blind alley upon which the landlord
drew rent and future torture at a heavy
rate. A burn was to be dressed. and
the groans of the negro woman mingled
with the cries of an infant and the
fretful walls OF other children IN all
stages of discomfort, coupled with no
air. less food, and a mere fragile OF
clothing for the whole family added TO
the dreariness Of the scene.
soon daddy Will come" moaned the
sick woman, consolingly. And oddly
did come. Tail, Iank. black. and dirty
beyond conception. but daddy was brave
and daddy was kind. Daddy dug bitches
and had brought a goodly part Of the
bitches home on his clothes. but the
dozen youngsters didn't mind that They
seized his legs. his hands. his feet, and
climbed all over him. AS we dressed
the awful burn on the woman's ma lds,
daddy cut off hunks of bread and hand
ed all around. This was oil on the
troubled waters Just as black-winged
peace was settling on the hull OF a
home. a small urchin slipped through
the broken bottom Of chair. his toe
nails dug his hinky hair, and ear-split-
ing yells rent the air. First daddy tried
TO move him by his head. No success.
Then he laid hold of the heels, with no
better luck He frantically tried both
ends at once. but the chair seemed con-
tracing and the young prisoner eX-
banding at a dreadful rate. The nurse
stepped up lifted the chair, and out
The Washington times., 1904-07-24
Steamships Wait for No Man,
But Often They Are Caught

I OF the ting continued the chase. not will
ing to lose the amount offered If he suo-
ceeded.
Lost in Fog.
Finally. just OF the Atlantic High
lands, the fog became so bad that ne
was compelled to quit the chase and turn
in to shore. The young man was disap-
pointed. and he asked If there was no
other way of catching the vessel Tbs
captain thought for a moment.
You might go ashore he said, and
get a train down to Atlantic City If the
Yucatan has not passed before you get
there YOU may be able TO get another
tug 10 take YOU out TO her.
As this was the only hope left. the
young man started on again He man
aged to get a train at once. and by go
ing in a roundabout way and making
good connections he landed at Atlantic
City two hours later. The fog had de-
tanned the Yucatan several hours, so
that he managed 10 get aboard OF her
from another hired tug
Il learned later that his having been
twenty minutes late at the pier in New
York had cost him more than the
amount Of his passage money on the
Another miss I recall was that of an
army Officer stationed in Porto Rico
and who IS here on leave or absence;
His time mad run out, and ne booked
on a steamship 10 return TO MS post
He missed her by an hour, 50 ne re-
ported TO a superior at Governors Island
and was told TO be sure 10 get the next
vessel. He also received a reprInand-
"A week later he again appeared at
the Dier-a few minutes after the yes
sci had left. You can imagine how he
felt He tore his hair, and Wen about
muttering something about courts-mar-
tial and damning everything and every
body
.'FinaIlv he got aboard a tug. and az
ter paying the captain SO he was taken
down the bay and caught the vessel as
she was passing out of the Hook. The
tide was very low that day or he Ger
tainly would not have reached her
An Eiopement.
Il have a friend who wanted to marry
girl. but her folks objected They
planned 10 eIope and waited until Satur-
day morning TO do so. in order that they
might catch a Cunard Line steamship
and sail for Liverpool. They were mar
rIed. and everything went we'll with
them until they reached the pier. The
steamship was Just pulling out. The
company agent put them aboard a tug
boat. and several minutes later they
were alongside the vessel Then came
the funny part
ITO get aboard the lovers had TO go
up a ladder from the deck of the tug.
The young man went first and reached
the steamship deck safely. Then the
girl tried il. She was in the middle Of
the ladder when she tripped on her
skirt, slipped over the side of the ladder
and went tumDling into the water. OF
course all was excitement Life pre-
servers were thrown TO her. and the
men on the tug went after her with
boat hooks, while the pale and fright
ened husband stood trembling on deck.
At last she was fished out filled with
salt water ana with her gown ruined.
but still ready 10 complete the elope-
ment."
The Washington times., 1904-07-24

the square inch than fieas in a peck Of
Georgia sand. They called them the
Basque family. because de ladies what
washes fun mosely gives me desc
sort O sacks" and as she had neither
time nor inclination to make them over.
nor was there material for it, they fur
nished a covering for the upper parts of
the bodies Of this great family of little
cOlOrcd children. Some basques had pos
tillions, some full skirts some plain.
some Zouave effects, some with vests
SCI e with big sleeves. little sleeves. and
no sleeves at all, but one for every
child. When the sleeves were too long
they were rolled up, and when too big
about the body they were Tapped over
and pinned. but basqucs they al wore
until IL seemed that the women for
whom the mother washed had nothing
at all in their wardrobes but old
/ basques in which there was not three
inches OF uncut material to WoI over.
These grctesque garments hung over a
mere handful of dirty rags that formed
the other part OF the chiidren's clothing.
Some places neatness could be taught,
and ii was a part of the free nurses duty
to do il. but with the Basque family
/ it was utterly hopeless, and the nurse
confined her efforts 10 the helpless old
scold whose leg she dressed.
One Was Starving.
Once the nurse found baby starving
to death. She had often. in fact nearly
always, found Them hungry. but this one
was starving TO death in Washington,
and not many blocks from where great
| dinner parties are given every night to
| "a large number of guests.
1t was a negro baby, as most of the
very distressing cases, and in addi-
ton to its hunger, its little body was
| being racked with ChiIls and fever. It's
mother went 10 work every day and
! left it with another mother who had
aus many children as had the Basque
| family" AS in that miserable shanty
| il was one grand race for existence any
way. the stronger children won out, and
the little invalid gave up her few
crLsts of bread with never a word of
complaint
Before we had time to recover from
the real shock of finding che starving
child, whom the nurse made comforta-
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bic as possible on short notice. with
COpious notes Tor what she was 20 do on
the morrow, we were on our way to
the police station for more trouble. In
speaking Of a diet of beef tea and
other nourishing things to be given
the sick child, asked If the other chill
dren would not continue to consume the
sick child's food. Not much" merriIy
responded the nurse you know there
are tricks in all trades. and 1 shall lust
put beef tea and quinine in well propor-
toned doses in a spoon and invite the
little gourmards up TO taste it. One sip
around Will fix them.
Jack of All Trades.
The afternoon brought more sore legs.
more rheumatism. more malaria. moe
dirt. more weIl-deserved poverty. more
wages of crime: but along the way there
We're rare glimpses Of a promise OF
better things That was where the
teachings Of the gentle patient nurse
had taken root. and were springing into
new life. One place a hOrny-handeu
carpenter was taking care of his old
mother nights and morning, and while
all he did was with a womans tender
ness, there was a long interval during
the day when but for the call of the
nurse the dear. patient little old lady
might have suffered for a woman's care.
Most of our patients were i'll from
sleepiess nights occasioned by carous-
ing neighbOrs and the sort of microbes
that love a bed-fellOw. The latter did
not even blush to attack a sick patient
I'm the light of day and before the
nurses eyes, so sometimes she admin
istered a dose 10 the bed and the pa
tient at one and the same time-only.
of course, of a different sort. Once the
nurse nailed a piece of a soap box over
a hole in the wall TO keep the rain off
her patient: twice she resorted to a
nearby store IN haste for food, and once
she carried an old tin bucket around
the corner for coal. This was not eX-
actly the prescribed duty Of the nurse,
but it was In His Name"
Humor and Pathos.
The Washington times., 1904-07-24

pulse for the doctor. ordered a bath. and
made the mother some necessary loans
from the closet.
More Distress.
Three blocks away was another little
typhoid patient, who was so bright and
cheerful that the nurse felt repaid for
all her labOrs. Here she recorded pulse
and temperature, ard made the mother
some loans from that rcsourcefuI cup
board.
Next time she stopped, it was TO call
upon "A little girl twenty months old
who was feverish and fretfuI though
only suffering from some slight childish
irrclularity She relieved her and gave
the mother instructions.
Then she went 20 see mother and
new baby. both Of whom she found doing
well. After that she dressed a bad ulcer
treated q case of tuberculosis, and again
made various loans.
None Of these were so very hcartrcnd-
ing. but her next cali was almost be
yOnd description. She found a patient
who had typhoid fever with serious com
plications who had lain upon a narrow
cot for five weeks \ bed was made
downstairs, and the patient moved and
relieved.
The Basque Family.
The nurse knows her cases as No. !.
No. 2. No. 3. and so on, but each case
writes itself indelibly on her mind, and
she often finds misery and sorrow
enough 10 last her for hours. but there
Is the humorous side, too, and the nurs,
who discovered and relieved the
Basque Family" as she termed them
laughed at the funny picture they pre-
scented. long hours after her trying days
work was done.
The nurses patient in the Basque
Family" was black, poor, old. neglected.
and sick. She looked for the world like
a dried walnut with jet eyes. She had
''powfuI sore on her leg, and though
the nurse decided that It was getting
better, after several dressings. in none
Of which the Old woman would lend a
helping hand, she declared she was no
better. and that the nurse did not know
what she was talking about.
In the Basque family was a mother,
grandmother, and more pickaninnies to
The Washington times., 1904-07-24

HTHE old adage that time and
tide wait for no man viii
i have to be changed to include
steamships" remarked an old seafarer
few days ago. after a young couple
had been placed aboard a tugboat for
a chase down New York harbOr 10
catch a vessel for which they had
bought tickets and which they had
missed.
Every minute counts nowadays with
a stea mship captain. and ne has orders
not 10 hold his ship even for the Presi-
der, of the United States
People are not generally aware or
this rule, and so passengers are ire
quently left on the pier. II they are
lucky they may secure fast tug ana
catch the boat before she has passed
cutaid of Sandy Hook, but more oIten
they have to accommodate themselves
with later passage on another vessel
To the Minute.
when a steamship is scheduled to
sail at 10 o'clock in the morning, II
means that everything must be IN
readiness for her 10 leave promptly al
that time. Her fires must be started IN
time TO have a full head OF steam. and
tugboats are chartered TO help her out
of her pier on the stroke Of the hour.
To hold the ship for a time after she is
ready means great expense TO the COM
pany.
There is the price of coal, which is
not \ small item. and when I'VE or SIX
tugs are chartered at So an hour to
swing the ,vessel out, the extra cost be
SteamsbiD was held for fifteen minutes
sfter her sailing time and you can see
tbat the companies would lose thou
sands of dollars in n year.
"Chasps down the bay after steam
sbins are always exciting. II the steam
shin has not gone too far, If she has not
worked up fun speed. the late passenger
has some chance, but otherwise he
might as well save his money.
Several wears ago coaster, think II
vas The Yucatan. sailed for Havana
and Mexico. There had been floods all
through the Southwest. stating the
treins Tor weeks and a young man who
had very important business TO transact
10 Mexico had raced TO New York with
the hope of reaching Vera Cruz by the
Nucatan-
Chase to Atlantic City.
He appeared at the pier about twenty
minutes after the vessel had sailed. II,
puffed and fumed for a moment. until
some one advised him to try tugboat.
Accepting the suggestion. he rushed to 4,
nearby pier. where several big fellows
were tied up. To the captain Of one OF
them he offered $50 if he caught the
steamship.
The captain accepted and the chase
began. The tug swept down the bay,
giving forth the greatest cloud OF black
smoke and showing the water up in hJge
punches OF spray. so that her upper
works were all wet.
The day was rather nasty. The clouds
hung low. and sea breeze brought M
the fog gradually. The further down
the tug went the thicker became the
weather. At last the steamship disap-
peared in the fog bank, but the captain
The Washington times., 1904-07-24
Humor and Pathos.

And just when we thought the last
patient visited, and t. nurse. footsore
and weary, was ready To turn in her re-
port, there came yet another call This
The Washington times., 1904-07-24

1.-THE old adage that time and
tide wait for no man will
i have TO be changed to include
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-05
GOT AN ELECTRIC SHOCK
Workman on Hillside Telephone
Line Was Injured Tuesday
Evening.

M. L. Garrett, a man working on
the long distance telephone line
south of this city, some eight or ten
miles, was injured Tuesday evening
by falling from 81 telephone pole.
Mr.. Garrett was In the act of eli NIB
ing a pole with a coil Of wire hang
ing on his shoulder. when he re-
ceived an electric shock that daZed
him completely. He fell to the
ground, a distance of some II feet,
and di ;located his knee. 1T is pre-
sumed that the current was turned
OIL at some point along the line and
Garrett received about so volts Of
electricity.
He was brought to the city this
morning about 0:30 O'Clock and TAX
en- to the Evans boarding house. and
DR.. Crane vas called in to reduce
the dislocation He was bruised to
some extent on one limb. Otherwise
Mr. Garrett came out of the acct
dent IN very good shape. Last win
ter he was employed on the local tel.
epllone line when the new cables
were put in.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-05
STREETS TO AVENUES
Council Changes Names OF Streets
Running East and West to
That OF Avenues.

The regular meeting of the city
council was held Monday evening at
the council rooms with Acting May
or Hannett in the chair. The fol-
lowing aldermen were present
Messrs. Perry, Newbury, Kings,
Curtis, Foster, Reeves and Wells.
The reports of the various officers
were made and accepted and placed
on file. Justice Mckinley reported
that he had nine cases before him
during July; that the fines amounted
to $45, of which 81 was paid in cash,
and the court fees amounted to
SILL Weighmaster Mcdonald re-
ported that the receipts of his office
for the month were 1924. "a.
a motion was made and 1T carried
ordering the fire alarm attached to
the whistle at the round house, so
that when an alarm is turned in the
whistle will sound Immediately.
The bills for the month amounted
10 81, S94. %, and warrants were or
dered drawn for their payment.
BY motion Street Commissioner