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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-11

"Ben Hur" A flour you can depend
on. For sale by Oluf Jensen.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-11

I Arthur Farquhar, spular
County Supt. ofSchor as in the
Ecity the first of th IL visiting
four cityssehoolss
E. E. Powe' ,S horse and mule
buyer, will osl town Tuesday, the
10Th, rec .c purchase all market.
ables ~ IS in his line.
Fo.1jALE-A span of mares with
foal, and years old. Will be al
Thomas barn Saturday, Feb. 13.
1w ]. H. MCCREAREY, Extra.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

In the tenth congressional district
of Georgia, Mr.. Hardwick, the pres
emit congressman and democratic can
didate for reelection, has a negro
lawyer as his opponent. Mr.. Hard
wick quotes his opponent as making
the following defense of the republi-
can administration in a speech the
other day
The republican party is the party
of the people. The democrats claim
that it has got corrupt, but I defy
them to prove it. No, sir, the repub-
licans have run things in an upright
and honest way, and they haven't
stole a dollar they didn't account for.
Postmaster General Wynne should
feel grateful to this negro politician
from Georgia.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28
LITTLE INTEREST IN POLITICS,
Candidates of Both Parties Making
Specches-New Government Build
ing Almost Completed.
Especial to The Messenger.)

especial 10 Inc Messenger
Goldsboro, y. c.. October 25.-The
Democratic and Republican parties
in Wayne county have their candi-
dates in the field and are making a
separate canvass of the principle vot-
ing precincts. With all the e~loquence
hat both parties can command they
lave failed to rou very great en-
thusiasm. The speakings are attend
ed by moderately sized crowds. From
the best information at hand it seems
hat both sets of candidates are C.
corded a respectful hearing and the
crowds are about the same that greet
each one. The principle figure with
the Republican candidates is ex-Sher-
iff John r.. Smith. who has held that
Office before and is now a candidate
again. He is the best known man in
the crowd and has friends in both
parties. His ready wit and humorous
sayings make him easily the most
popular candidate in the field and he
will no doubt poll a heavy vote. His
LIZ "A ilI%
held the Office for two years and has
made a splendid officer.
The Rowland Improvement Com
pany, the lessees of the A. & n. c. r.
r., have put a new automobile on the
streets for the use of their office
force. The machine is an electric
vehicle and Abeing the first ever in
Goldsboro naturally attracts consider
able attention. The now
has its executive offices in operation
in this city. The next thing to be
done is for the business men Of Colds
boro to make an effort to secure the
shops of the road. 1t is understood
that a barbecue will soon be given at
the country club, to which all the
business men OF the city will be in
vited. The question of securing the
shops will then come W for consid-
GRAFTON and committees appointed to
make an effort in that direction.
The new government building will
soon be completed. The inside work
has been finished and the handsome
new furniture will be placed in posi-
ton at an early date. The contrac-
tors are now at work on the drive
WAYS and sidewalks. which will be
laid with brick and granolithic pave
ments. On the side of the driveways
will be a beautiful grass plot. The
!, building itself will cost a trine over
$4,000 and will be the most substan-
tial ever erected in this city. 1t does
not make the show from the outside
that the new city hall does, but it is
much more substantial and is finish
ed on the inside in a more handsome
| mann er.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28
WHICH WAS 1T?

Had the reasonable time expired
which congress declared the president
should give Colombia for accepting our
proposition as to the building of the
Panama canal or did reasonable time
not enter into the matter at all? There
seems to have been a difference of
opinion between president Roosevelt
and Secretary Hay on this subject, for
their official ~utterances on this ques-
ton are greatly at variance, in fact
directly opposed to each other. When
h president sent to ngr his mes
sage on January 4th of this year he
must have forgotten entirely the in
structions he had given his secretary of
state the year previous in regard to a
certain communication to be made to
the Colombian minister.
On January 21st, 1903 Secretary Hay
addressed a letter to the Colombian
minister which contained this
l am directed by the president to
say to you that in his opinion the
reasonable time" allowed him by the
statute to conclude negotiations with
Colombia for the construction of an
isthmian canal has come to a close and
cannot be extended.
AT that date the president declared
through the official announcement Of
the secretary of state in his opinion
a. -1o-0,ahI1 %;-,a ,1I1r-1l IT, - o--
for negotiating a treaty with Colombia
for building the canal had expired and
he decided that it could not be extended.
Within less than L year, though, the
president had either changed his views
completely as to the reasonable time
or had forgotten all about what he in
structed Mr.. Hay to declare to the Co.
lombian minister, and in a message to
congress on January 4th 1S04 he de-
clared hat the question OF reasonable
time never entered into the matter. He
says in that message:
AS events turned out the question of
reasonable time did not enter into the
mater DIT ali. anu yet lnere Hdu nol
been a lapse of reasonable time such as
would justify the Administration going
to the Nicaragua route.
The two documents fatty contradict
each other. What explanation can the
president give Of his statement TO con-
sress that h question OF reasonable
time had never arisen when less than a
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

The Richmond News-Leader thus
accounts for the conduct of the Bal
tic feet in firing on the British fish
ing boats:
The only explanation that suggests
itself OF the action of he Russian
Baltic fleet is that 1t is in charge of a
lot OF irresponsible young brutes be-
longing to great Russian families and
haif-crazed with liquor and fright Ii
is in~conceivable that sane or expert
enced men could deliberately fire or
~inoffensiye citizens OF a friendly coun-
Try quietly engaged in their own hum
BILE occupation. Certainly il was i'm
possible to- mistake fishing steamers
for torpedo boats or TO uppose that
a japanese fee was lurking alons
the British coast. 1t IL equally Ger.
tain that the fishermen could not have
given offense or reaso for alarm.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

We do not see how Russia can get
out of admitting one Of two things
in regard TO the firing or the British
fishing boats-either h a II was done
deliberately and purposely by the
naval officers of the Baltic. feet as
an insult to Great Britain or that
these officers were so frightened that
they lost their heads entirely and
thought they were being attacked by
a japanese fleet, and ever with the
use OF their searchlights were not
able TO distinguish a fishing boat from
a warshiD. 1t is out OF the question
to suppos that the attack was by
order Of the government or Of the
high officials of the naval department.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

The president calls on Senator and
ex-Attorney General Knox to write
the answer for the republicans to
Judge Parker's recent speech on the
trusts and their protection by the ad-
m~inistration. Every time the demo-
cratice candidate makes a front porch
speech on the issues of the campaign
some republican expert on the sub
ject discussed by him is hurriedly put
TO work on getting up a reply. Judge
Parker has placed Mr.. Roosevelt on
the defensive on every one Of the
political points he has discussed. The
truth is the judge has got the presi-
lent on the run.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

The British officials are not throw
ing any fits over the North Sea affair,
sian government shows that they are
determined TO have satisfaction for
the indignity offered to the Gag and
for the injury to British subjects and
their property. The document was
couched in language conservative, but
at The same time firm and positive.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

Is one Of the constitutional
diseases. it manifests itself
IN local aches and palms,
mfiamed joints and stiff
muscles, but it cannot be
cured by local applications.
st requires constitutional
treatment acting through
the blood, and the best is a
course Of the great medicine
Hoods arsapariua
which has permanently
cured thousands Of cases.
For testimonials Of remarkable cures
send for Book on Rheumatism, No. z.
G. Hood Co, Lowell. Mass.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28
The Swift Specific Company, Att

titled the other party to the pending ne
ratifying the treaty had expired? The
only one, and it is the true one is that
in the mean time Panama had seeded
from Colombia and the way was clear
to the administration of securing the
concession on it's own terms.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

a national election in New York
cost of registration and holding the
election will amount to over eight
hundred thousand dollars. This is
the cost to the city and does not in
clude the campaign expenses of the
committees or of the candidates.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28
Bound Over I'm Three Cases

Clayton McLain, the negro who at
tempted to shoot Constable Savage
on Monday night wnen that officer
went to arrest him, was given a pre-
liminary trial before Justice Borne
mann yesterday under three charges,
carrying a concealed weapon. assault
with a deadly weapo and wilful
trespsss. He was bound over to Su-
perior court in each case and in de-
fault of $3.50 bond was committed 20
Jail.
Fred. Davis, colored. will De given
a preliminary trial before Justice
Bornemann this afternoon at 1 o'clock
upon the charge of seduction. He
was committed to jail yesterday I'm de-
fault of 500 bond.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

If Speaker Cannon is at all super
worried by the dropping dead in the
streets of the horse hitched to the
carriage in which he was sight-sec-
ing in New York the other day. If
Uncle Joe" does not look out he will
be "ex-speaker' after March 4th next.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

If Governor-Chairman Odell and
his committee are so sure of carrying
the state of New York by fifty thou
sand majority it is strange that he
should want nearly a million dollars
more for the campaign in that state.
It looks like either a big case of bluff
or a scheme for Doodle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

The New York American declares:
Judge Parker can win by promising
to smash the criminal trusts Then
after his speech of the other day he
is entitled to win.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28
q Love Letter.

Would not interest you if you're look
ing for a guaranteed Salve for Sores,
Burns. or Piles. Otto Dodd. Of Ponder.
Mo-, writes: at suffered with an ugty
sore for a year, but a box Of Bucklen's
Arnica Salve cured me. It's the best
Salve on earth. Csc at r. r.. Rellamy's
Drug Store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

If the republicans have to lose the
presidency or the house of represen-
~tatives, wonder which Speaker Can
non would say let go?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

1t was a pretty cool wave that pass
ed over the state last Sunday. Ashe-
Vile reports the thermometer down to
% degrees and Tarboro at %.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28
DISEASES
AltoOna, Pa, June 20. Ioo3.

Altoona, Pa, June 20, 1908.
Twas afflicted with letter in bad shape
It would appear In blotches as large as my
hand, a yellovish color, and scale off
You an imagine how offensive it was.
For twelve years I was afflicted with this
trouble. At night it was a case Il scratch
and many times no rest at all. Seeing the
good the medicine was doing a friend
who was taking it for Eczema, I conn
menced 1t. and q q result the eruption be-
gan to dry up and disappear. and to-day
I am practically well man. Only two
tiny spots are Let on the elbow and shin,
where once the whole body Yves afacsed.
I have every confidence in the medicine,
and feel sure that In q short time these
two remaining spots will disappear.
s. S. S. is Certainly a great blood puri-
fer, and has done me a world of good.
I am grateful for Iwhst it has accom-.
plished, and trust that what I have said
VIII lead others who are similarly aflict-
ed to take the remedy and obtain the
same good results that I have.
las East Fifth Ave. JOHN F. LEAR
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

Monarch over pain. Burns, cuts.
sprains, stings. Instant relief. DR..
Thomas Eclectic Oil. At any drug
store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

What has become of the ol~d-fashion-
ed skirt that wouldn't blow up on ac-
count of the bird shot IL the hem?-
Atlanta journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

Only three more days in which to
register. Don't put it off. See that
your name is on the right book.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

While washes, soaps, salves and powders
relieve temporarily, they do not reach the
real cause of the disease. The blood must
be pulsed before the cure is permanent.
SIS contains no potash, arsenic or min
eral Of any description, but is guaranteed
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-28

purely vegetable.
Send for our book
on the skiu and its
diseases, which is
mailed free. Our
physicians will
cheerfully advise
without charge
any who write us
about their case.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Good News From Minnesota.

Lakeheld, Mimi, Jan. 4.-Mr. VIII
liam E. Gentry Of this place is one Of
the best-known and most highly re-
Bpected men in Jackson County. For
45 years he has suffered with Kidney
Trouble and now at ~ years Of age he
has found complete cure and is well.
His cure is remarkable because of
the length Of time he had been suffer
ing. Cases of 40 years standing might
be considered incurable, but the rem
edy that cured Mr.. Gentry seems to
know no limit to its curative power
Mr.. Gentry says:
Il have suffered with misery in my
back tor about As years and had all
the troublesome symptoms Of Kidney
and Urinary disease. l tried various
kinds of remedies, but all to no effect
until tried Dodd'S Kidney Pills. Now
have no pain in my back, and feel
quite we'll in every way.
81 am n years Of age and l feel
better than have for the last AZ
years. attribute it all to Dodd's Kid,
new Pills"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Rocky soil Of New Hampshire.

A Maine man writing from the
West to his home paper describing
his trip across the continent, has this
to say: when trayersing the granite
hills Of New Hampshire got the idea
that nature had stuck them in there
about as thiclly as 1t was possible
to do, and that the job had been
rather poorly finished by strewlng
a little sand in between, to make the
valleys. To a man used to the soil
we have in the Aristook, It is a puzzle
how people get a living in such
places"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
The sono of the Hammer,

At the home of a dame devout
Who in mission work always led,
The sewing society sat about
Plying their needles and thread:
And I'm q melodlous key
Without hesitation or stammer,
lnCessantly and relentessly
They sang the song Of the hammer
Knock, knock, knock.
With never a halt or pause;
Knock, knock, knock,
Without propagation or cause.
Characters white as snow
While these righteous, merciful sisters
To cover the heathens back.
Knock, knock, knock,
None whom they know Is spared;
Knock, knock, knock,
How their neighbor's faults are aired!
The absent members, too,
Come in for their share of abuse,
While these worthy danes, with much
Sew shirts for the heathens' use.
Knock knock, knock.
While the hours are dragging slow;
Knock, knock, knock,
TIL they all get up to go.
Their work for the day is DER,
Their duty done with zeSt.
And when each is at home alone once
She'll trim up all the restl
Oh, men with sisters dear,
With wives and sweethearts glad,
Did you ever happen to hear
Them giving their friends the gad?
II not, sneak home some day
And list to the sewing clubs clamor
As they sing that old familiar lay
William f. Kirk in Milwaukee senti-
mel
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Foolish Bother.

A controversy has been started in
England over the statement in a death
notice that Mrs. Spurgeon entered
heaven at $50 this morning." The
vicar of Milton took exceptions to the
declaration and in the course of a
sermon said it was absurd to suppose
that the spirit enters heaven at the
moment of death on earth. This has
brought out letters from many people
who side with the preacher or oppose
his view of the case. No wonder Mr.
Chamberlain is alarmed. How can a
country whose inhabitants become ex-
cited over the mere experiences Of the
soul after quitting this world expect
to retain it's commercial supremacy?
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
BRAIN oHILpREN rRAvEL EAR.
Writings Of Bliss carman That Have
Seen the World.

Seen the World.
Bliss Carman, the poet, at the be-
ginning of his literary career, had
the usual difficulty with boming manu-
scripts. He chalked up nil desperan-
dunn on his desk and kept at work.
One belief which never failed him
was that everything he wrote must
of necessity meet welcome some
where, a conviction which always
caused rejected manuscript to take
another journey. Some came back SO
many times that he became deeply in
terested in them, and gave them
names quite apart from their titles,
such as THE Flying Dutchman," "1he
Wandering Jew" Ulysses" and so
forth. He was rummaging through
some pigeonholes not long ago when
he exclaimed to a friend who hap
pened to be present:
why, hello; here's old Captain
Cook Really, had forgotten the
dear old Captain" and he held up a
faded sheet Of copy.
why do you call It Captain
Cook?" asked the friend, noticing
that the title was widely different.
"Oh, becaure 1t circumnavigated the
globe" answered the poet II sent
it to an Australian periodical. II
went by the way of San Francisco
and came back via the Suez canal and
London. 1 believe I'll send 1t to the
So-and-So," he added. mentioning the
name Of prominently monthly; ''they
asked me for something the other day
OF course, they rejected it before II
went to the Antipodes, but perhaps
they'll think it has improved will
age"
Captain Cook" was printed a month
or two ago, and was much admired
| Philadelphia Post.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Tho Lost Path.

/ found It on a summer day
A little footpath gone astray
And rowing where II listed.
1t led me DER a bank OF ferns.
It 40 ssed a brook with oddying turns.
It doubled. elambered. twisted
Past violet buds and alder blooms,
Through shadowy hooks and greenland
glooma
Where Silence fingered dreaming.
Now Fastening under leaf-hid skies
Or beck0ning to the BUTTERFLIES
Alhwart the sunshine streaming
From sunny morn TO twilight palo
followed on its errant tran
Till weary OF its rambies;
It lost itself amidst the grass
Too indolent to seek TO pass
The crowding hawthorn bramblesl
Oh, little wandering path Of mine,
NY fate seems strangely like 20 thine
Mine too the vain endeavori
A thought Of what meant 10 do
a hope--a doubt-a dream or two
ana nov the walls % Noyqfi
David Young Ia Now Qfitane Timca-
Uofutcrnt
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07

An Irishman fighting under the
British flag was caught on the plain
by a party OF Beers. He refused to
surrender and resisted until he was
shot in dozen places and left for
dead. He was found the next day and
carried to a feld hospital. AS soon
as he recovered consciousness a nurse
asked him II he were badly shot
Badly shot?" he replied. Il am so
full Of bullet holes that the man in
the next cot has caught cold from the
draughts through me-"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
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The readers OF this paper will be pleased 10 learn
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Hairs Family pills are the best.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Be Moderate.

There was a Man once who Had a
Bulldog with a forged restraint at
tached to Him, and one Day this Man
went out TO the Bulldogs lowly Resi-
dence and said:
III we're to Unchain you, would
You Appreciate the Favor?"
why" said the Bulldog. II would
fairly eat You Up With JOY"
your Gratitude Is Tribe overex.
pressed said the Man. as he Walked
away and Ordered an Extra Chain to
be hitched to the Dog,
The moral of this is: Don't Waste
Your SupeFlatives; You May Be Mis-
understood. Baltimore News.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Bald Heads In Colombia.

II there are any bald heads in the
machine and land forces that go to
Panama they may succeed in finding
the celebrated cure that gave back to
the late Major Fitz Hugh Edwards his
splendid shock of hair. Edwards was
as bald as the American eagle, says
the New York Press. Somewhere on
the Charges river he met a band of
Indians who laughed him to scorn
when he removed his hat. Having
winning ways, Edwards soon made
himself agreeable, and the chief of
the tribe said in the native tongue,
I'VE will give you cover for your
naked skull" He remained there
nearly a year and came back to New
York with much better hair than he
was born with. AS hair restorers the
Colombians are par excellence, differ
ing entirely from our North American
Indians, who took all the hair they
could scalp.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
10000 Plants Tor I0c.

This is remarkable offer the John
A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis,
makes They win send you their big
plant and seed catalog, together with
enough seed to grow
1000 fine solid Cabbages.
1000 delicious Carrots.
1900 blanching, nutty Celery.
1000 rich, buttery Lettuce.
1000 splendid Onions.
1000 rare, luscious Radishes.
1000 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
This great offer Is made In order to
induce you TO try their warranted seeds
for when you once plant them you
will grow no others, and
ALL FOR BUT 16c POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice.
and II you will send them zoe in post
age, they will add to the above a pack
age of the famous Berliner Cauliaower.
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