The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-07-07

or II large class OF proprietary and pat
ent medicines and specific for the hair
and scalp. 1t Is not reasonable to
suppose that this particular board %
health has n animus against the
preparations. and it is fair to assume
that it has been engaged I'm an honest
effort at exposure of frauds on the pub
lie.
This board has subjected to careful
chemical analyses numerous tonics and
bitters, claiming to be non-acholic, and
some of them advertised as temper
ance drinks The results Of the anal
yses are given in 81 of these, all OF
which contain alcohol TO the amount of
from g to 4 7per cent, and one has G5
per cent. of alcohol. Publication Is
also madeo Of the analysis of II cosmet
les and hair %restOrers, in all Of which
there was found acetate of lead.
Yet thousands and thousands will
continue to buy and gulp down these
fraudulent nostrunls, which not only
DO not benefit but positively injure
and largely of that class who groan
over the drinking OF Il bottle of good,
honest wine Or a bottle of wholesome
beer Or ale. Commenting OH this gull
libility Of the public to the detriment
of its health, the Philadelphia Ladies'
Home Journal says:
"A mother who would hold I'D her
Lands in holy horror at the thought of
her child drinking Il glass of beer,
which contains from two to five per
cent. of alcohol, gives to that child
With her OWL hands a patent medicine
that contains from seventeen to forty
four per of alcoholic say moth
ing of opium and cocaine! | have
seen a temperance woman, who ragged
at the thought of whiskey, take bottle
after bottle of some 'bitters.' which
contained five times as much alcohol
II compared to which sherry, port,
claret and champagne were as harm
less as the pink lemonade at Sunday
school picnics."
The vain old man will 90 on, with
hair ~renever' denominations, trying to
re-thatch his silly old poll, that God
and time have made bare: and, with
poisonous dyes, striving to re-color the
gray beard which is Il badge of honor
in the evening OF life. The foolish
woman will continue in the same
course of folly, forgetfui that beauty
is but skin-deep,' and that no manu-
Itt Ild 1tio AItli SpIdS tI1C ICSI
glow Of youth.
20 Lord of hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we fOrget-lest we forget
God bless the women of the South.
They never forget. The flower Of d
splendid chivalry, an ~undaunted valor,
q matchless devotion, planted in the
blood-drenched soil of their native
lane more than forty years ago, they
still water with their tears, hallOW
with their prayers, and c]onsecrate
. with the unwearied service of their
lives.
The press accounts of the recent
veterans reunion at Louisville noted
the alarm felt by the officers of the
son of United Confederate Veterans
over the lack of interest taken in the
organization. Not a report had been
sent in, and few Of the members were
present at the reunion. COMMANDMENTS
Chief n. r. Tisdal said that he had
written five hundred letters to the diff
ferent camps, and had received one re
ply; w. G.. Williams, of Macon, Ga, de-
clared that the Sons Of Veterans, as
an organization, was almost dead.
On the same date the report ofsthe
Monument Association of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy was
published, showing that the association
had in bank $4,000 for ii monument
to Jefferson Davis at Richmond, the
unveiling ceremonies to take place in
1907. In another column of the same
paper were given the proceedings OF
the meeting in Louisville of the Con
federate Southern Memorial Associa-
ton, Mrs. w. j. Bethan, of New Or
leans, president, with a membership i'll
thirteen states; and Miss Mary Asho,
Of Atlanta, the historian, reported the
OF %ganiZatiOn in a f1ourishing condition
with memorial work going on all owe
the country wherever Southern sol
diers are buried.'
The other day Gen. w. r. Cox, one
of the hard-fighting leaders of the Con-
feGerate armies, carried a bride to his
beautiful North Carolina home-a wo-
man Of high degree, richly endowed, a
leader in the cultured circles of Vir-
glnia society, who is president of the
Colonial Danes of America, Of the Co
lonial Danes Of Virginia, and Il mem
Der of the Richmond Chapter of the
United Daughters of the COnfederacy.
Whatever her duties may be, wherever
her sphere in life may be, the South
ern oma is never deaf to the sweet,
solemn voices of the past.
But let it not be accounted a re-
proach to the Sons of Veterans that
not many of them marched in line at
Louisville behind their hOnored eld-
erS, or that the clerks of the camps
We're slow in sending in their reports.
The Old SoT1fh has handed his tools
ever to the New South, and is resting
in the shade. The stalWart young ar
chitect now and then chances affection
ately at the worn toiler, tanning his
heated brow, but the work is urgent
and clamerous, and he must ply axe
and saw, trowel and derrick, that the
stones of the structures may climb to-
wards heaven. The time is coming