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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27
DIXON AND

Since the Rev. Thomas Dixon enter
ed public life he has developed many
qualities and has shown a capability
for turning his mind into many di-
yerging channels. We believe he has
passed through the initial stages OF
preparation for or short-time practice
IN the various callings Of actor, law
yer. preacher to fashionable congrega-
til at last he develops the natural char
acteristics of singer of biIlingsgate.
It would seem that Mr.. Dixon no
more believes in the theory or princi-
pie of "once a bishop always a bishop"
than he does i'm that of once an actor
always al actor, Or once a lawyer al
way a lawyer. According to his
idea a preacher of the gospel can
turn to a sybarite and a singer of
billingsgate as easily as can a stud
ent for the stage to a lawyer
or q lawyer to a preacher. 1t is all
in the matter of the highest accom-
plishment of human desires, whether
they be the anaas-.ng CT money or
qualification of selfish pleasures.
A few days ago we published several
communications which had passed be-
tween the Rev. Thomas Dixon and
Editor w. E. Gonzales, of the Column
bia State. Since then the Savannah
News has produced the continuation
of this correspondence. We give the
two closing kilograms of this interest
ing correspondence. While we make
no excuse for the harsh language OF
Mr.. Gonzales in his dispatch which
called forth the one from Rev. Mr.. Dix
on sent from Fayetteville, we do not
think its terms were any excuse for
such a reply from a minister OF the
gospel. But perhaps Mr.. Dixon meant
the public to consider that dispatch as
coming, not from Thomas Dixon, tile
divine and the humble follower OF
Him who said if a man smite you on
one cheek urn 10 him the other also,
but from Thomas Dixon the yellow
novel; writer and the sensational
playwright. If This be the case then
those who have read The Leopard's
Spots" THE One Woman" and 1.-The
Clansman,' should o be shocked or
even surprised at the language in the
Fayetteville dispatch to Mr.. Gonzales,
which with it's answer we give below:
Fayetteville. N. c.. October 1910
w. E.. Gonzales. The State. Columbia,
S. C. The editor of The Savannah
News old me that his office received
from you the lying message about the
Columbia kissing Job. I take his
word not yours. The cold lie. which
you SO bravely proclaim. is at your
own door. Will you acknowledge it's
paternity or try to wriggle out Of it?
Brother Robert Ogden will vet invite
you to dinTer with one Of his negro
guests if YOU keep uD your good work.
THOMAS DIXON. JR.
Columbia. October 20.-Thomas
Dixon. Jr.. The Players Club. New
York: I have no wish to handy words
with an INSCRIPTIONS demagogue and
inherent bleckguard. If your opinion
We're of consequence the fact that
since assuming the duties of editor.
nearly three years ago. I have person
ally sent nothing to The Morning
News (another performing that work
under the old signature, "Gonzales.'l
could have been established in the Of
fee of that paper.
w. E. GONZALES.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27
Big Floating Dock { o be Towed to the
Philippines.

Boston, Mass. October 23.-Orders
were today received at the Charleston
navy yard. to install a complete and
powerful towing outfit on board the
supply ship Glacier. now in the New
port News yards and ordering that
ship to be ready to sail about Deem
Der 1st for Sparrows Point. Md. There
she will Join the Golfers Brutus and
Caesar and tow the largest floating
steel dock in the world around to the
Philippine islands. The dock proba-
bly, will be stationed at Manila for the
use of the United States navy. 1t has
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27
Sound

AS a democrat. / believe that that
community is best governed which is
least governed, Snd there where indi-
vidual effort and private enterprise can
accomplish the same result as govern
ment, government has no right to in
terfere.'
Mcclellan. They present tersely ana
forcibly the democratic doctrine. Vol
umes could not make the fine old idea
clearer. Louisville Courier Journal.
This is the law and the prophets and
not another word need be said.-Char
lottte Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27

one you induce to come makes 1t all
the more easy TO persuade another
to follow them. This proposed Scotch
society is an important movement Let
it have the countenance and aid OF
every person interested in the develop
ment cad increased prosperity of our
section Of the state.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27

The carnival has come and. it has
gone. Thank goodness for the lat
ter. The last time n was allowed to
be held on the downtown streets OF
the city We uttered the same prayer.
We do not hesitate TO relterate it and
reckon a great many OF our citizens say
amen" TO it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27

Swing on to your cotton, farmers,
and hold for better prices. Figures
have jumped u cent "a pound in the
last week and they are still climbing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27

Gasman Addicks is finally down and
out Even the constitutional Dessi-
mist must admit that there are some
things to be thankful for in American
DOliticS.=Durham Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-27

his state along the road Of educational
and material progress. He battered
the one. He pleased and encouraged
the other.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
Voice from Arkansas.

Cleveland, Ark, July 31st.-(Spe-
eiaD-Nearly every newspaper tells
of some wonderful cure of some form
of Kidney Disease by the Great Amer
lean Remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills.
and this part of Arkansas is not with
out its share of evidence that no case
is too deeply rooted for Dodd's Kidney
Pills to cure.
Mr.. A. E. Garlic, well known and
highly respected here, tells of his cure
after nearly quarter of a century's
suffering. Mr.. Garlic says:
Il want to let the public know what
l think of Dodd's Kidney Pills. 1
think they are the best remedy for
sick kidneys ever made.
Il had Kidney Trouble for 23 years
and never found anything that did me
SO much good as Dodd's Kidney Pills.
recommend them to all sufferers"
There is no uncertain sound about
Mr. Carlile's statement He knows
that Dodd's Kidney Pills rescued him
from a life of suffering and he wants
the public to know it. Dodd's Kidney
Pills cure all Kidney ills from Back
ache to Bright's Disease.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Vauxhall Gardens. For half century
this was one of the great pleasure
resorts of the city. The Bowery boy
of those days was more or less of a
dandy, so far as oiled hair, grandilo-
quent manners, and snowy clothes go
to make dandy. He was aggressive,
and always ready for a spree regard
less of consequences. The rough-and.
tough Bowery boy and the Bowery
girl, such as Harrigan and Hart and
Ada Lewis made famous on the stage,
did not put in an appearance until the
middle of the last century, when a new
element claimed the Bowery for their
own, and held it against all corners.
From that time the Bowery became
the gulf which separated the east
from the west side of New York.
At Prince street a modern office
building is going up right alongside
of colonial house that was old at the
time of the civil war. Two or three
families of the tenements still live
under its deep gable roof
There could scarcely be a greater
contrast between the old and the new
order of things. Buildings that were
once the resorts of crooks are now
rescue missions. The lodging houses
get shabbier and fewer in number
each year. The tenants cannot renew
their leases, and do not care to spend
money in repairs. Here and there
the new class of business building is
springing up. The rickety houses that
have outlived their usefulness are com.
ing down. big Vim" Sullivan, called
the Dictator of the Bowery," sat on
bootblack stand outside the Occf
dental hotel, which, from the exterior
view, has deteriorated to a degree OF
shabbiness that would astonish those
who knew it in the days of its
youth.
The Bowery run down at the
heels?" said big Tim" Huh! !
don't see it. There is no other street
in the world to compare with it. II
me or me valet sees anything more
wonderful while we are in Europe IN
tell you all about it when / get
home"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
Along the Great Canal
~E~~.-sa,~-.~~a,--s.-sr-.-
Especial correspondence.)

The Panama canal will be much like
great street or boulevard, $50 feet
wide and brilliantly lighted from one
end to the other by electricity at
night. This watery avenue will be
perfectly straight throughout for more
than half Of it's entire length and will
extend over distance OF about forty
three miles, connecting the Atlantic
with the Pacific ocean.
Already the canal is two-ffths dug.
To complete it will require fifteen
years and an expenditure of s145,OO0,-
900 in money. An army of at least
$4,000 laborers will be employed on
the job.
The first idea of the great French
engineer. De Lesseps, was to dig a
sea level canal across the isthmus,
just as a small boy might cut ditch
between two ponds. But it became APP
parent later on that such a plan would
not be feasible, for two reasons. A
mountain. chain. which is a continual
ton of the great Cordilleran system,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
An African Jill.

A dusky damsel of Namqualand jilt-
ed her swain. A wife out there has a
certain financial value, and in a short
time she received a letter from the
youths lawyer threatening an action
for breach of promise. She replied
in the following conclusive terms
"Nababeep, February %, 1905. Mr..
G. w. Mallet, Sir; To answer Just
an few word you on Klaas Cloete
words what he came to Mr.. Mallet for.
of me what can answer on these
words is that the love what l did had
for Klaas Cloete did break of my
heart from him is the only reason |
got to say against Glaas Cloete and
to break the love is God in heaven
and what God done l can't help. so !
don't wants him for an man. am
yours truly.
(sd.). Margaret Ackkers.
Kansas City Journal
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

runs along the middle of the isthmus.
and to cut through it down to the
level of the ocean would be most
laborious and costly task Also, the
Chagres river, which is addicted to
periodic floods, would cause no end of
trouble.
Accordingly, the canal was carried
over the mountain range, through a
convenient pass, and arrangements
were made for locks, in which, by fill
ing them with water, vessels passing
through will be lifted TO the necessary
elevation. 1t was a simple matter
enough, only eight locks in all being
required. If it be understood that the
profile of the great ditch presents in
its middle part high summit, from
which it slopes gradually toward the
sea on either side, with four locks on
each slope, the idea viii be perfectly
clear.
Now, the canal is already practic-
ally finished and navigable for nearly
thirteen miles from the Atlantic end
and for five and half miles from the
Pacific end. Thus one may start in a
boat from Colon, on the east side of
the isthmus, and travel comfortably
by water for more than a dozen miles.
The next fifteen miles are partly dug
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

a certain fellow traded a town lot for
a horse. After closing the deal the
fellow that had acquired the horse
hurriedly took the animal to black
smith shop and asked the blacksmith
to shoe him in hurry. The black
smith seemed in no hurry, however,
and the owner of the horse made two
or three trips outside of the shop,
looking nerv9usly up the road.
Can't you hurry that job?" he said
to the blacksmith. Il never was in
such hurry in my life"
Say, declared the blacksmith. did
you steal this horse?'
No, didn't steal the horse, said
the owner reassuringly. I traded a
lot for the horse. and by mistake
put two lots in the deed instead of
one. Now I'm afraid the other fellow
will discover the mistake and come
back to demand the horse"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
FuII-aIooded Indian priest

Father Albert Negahnquet, said TO
be the only full-blooded- Indian priest
in the United States, has been trans
ferred from Eufaula, l. T., where he
has been for two years. to Anters
AT Antlers his parishioners will be
mostly Italians. Father Negahnquet
was educated in Rome, and the fact
that he speaks Italian fiuently is the
cause of the change.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
EVER TREAT YOU sor
Coffee Acts the Jonah and VIII Come
I'm

Coffee Acts the Jonah and VIII Come
Up.
A clergyman who pursues his noble
calling in country parish in Iowa,
tells of his coffee experience:
MY wife and 1 used coffee regular
ly for breakfast, frequently for dinner
and occasionally for supper-always
the very best quality package coffee
never could find place on our table.
I'm the spring of 1896 my wife was
taken with violent vomiting which we
had great difficulty in stopping.
1T seemed to come from coffee
drinking but we could not decide.
In the following July. however.
she was attacked a second time by
the vomiting. l was away from home
filing an appointment at the time,
and on my return l found her very
low; she had literally vomited herself
almost to death, and it took some days
to quiet the trouble and restore her
stomach.
Il had also experienced the same
trouble, but not so violently, and had
relieved it, each time. by resort to
medicine.
But my wifes second attack salts
fed me that the use of coffee was at
the bottom of our troubles, and so we
stopped it forthwith and took on
Postum Food Coffee. The old symp-
toms of disease disappeared and dur
ing the 9 years that we have been
using Postum instead of coffee we
have never had a recurrence OF the
vomiting We never weary of Postum,
TO which we know we owe our good
health. This is simple statement
of facts" Name given by Postum
Company, Battle Creek. Mich.
Read the little book The Road to
MELVILLE" in each pkg.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
THE WAYS OF STATESMEN
Varying Methods of Lord Palmerstos
and the Great Disraeli. :.

Varying Methods of Lord Palmerstoa
and the Great DisraeIi. =.
Queen Victoria once wrote to Lord
Palmerston, then premier of England.
expressing the wish that she coul1
speak from his place in the house Of
commons. Palmerston replied: Wis.
count Palmerston presents his humbls
duties to your majesty and has had
the honor to receive your majesty's
communication OF yesterday, stating
what Jour majesty would have said II
your majesty had been in the house
OF commons. Viscount Palmerston
may, perhaps. be permitted to take
the liberty of saying it is fortunate
for those from whose opinion her maj
esty differs that your majesty is not
In the house of commons, for they
would have to encounter formidable
antagonist in argument; although, on
the other hand, those whose opinions
your majesty approves would have
had the support of a powerful ally in
debate" Disraeh when premier had
more direct way in dealing with
women. One of them once attempted
to get certain piece of information
from him. He listened to what she
had to say and then answered.: "Oh.
you darlingI"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
Needs Of CHICAGO.

The ten needs of Chicago. according
to the Lake View Woman's Club, are:
Q) more woman's clubs, (2) real cul-
ture, (9) less noise and dirt, (4) less
extravaganza in dress and living, (5)
home missionaries for children, (6)
more conscientious appreciation of
the obligation of citizenship, "a more
hospital beds for children, (S) more
homes for old people. 90 social
center for colored people, and QO) a
new charter.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
HOW LAvALETTE WAS SAVED.
English officer Preserved Life of One
lime Foe.

English Offlcer Preserved Life OF One
Time Foe.
On the escape of Napoleon from
Elba one of the generals who rejoined
BIN was the brave Gen. Lavalette, a
soldier Of great distinction. When
Napoleon was defeated Gen. Lava
lette was taken prisoner and barbar
ously sentenced to death as a traitor
And as traitor he would have been
executed were it not for Capt. Hely.
Hutchinson and two other English sol
diers, one of them being Gen. Wilson.
Gen. Lavalette was in prison on the
night before the morning appointed
for the execution, when he was visited
by his wife, daughter and maid.
After an affecting interview In the
cell, the generals wife, apparently.
was led forth by her maid in an al
most fainting condition. But it was
really Lavalette himself. who had dom
ned his wife's clothes. He was taken
hurriedly to the quarters of Hely-
Hutchinson and his chivalrous Cocoon
spirators, and having been dressed in
the uniform of an English officer, he
drove boldly out OF Paris and was
speedily across the frontier.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
Al MORE HEADACHE
r,urRAL WEAKNESS AND FEVER
" DISAPPEAR TOO.
woman Was Freed from Troubles
rhst Had Made Life wretohed for
Many Years.


~ Immediate causes of headaches
- Int most of them come from poor
49, sso;soped blood. In anGmia the blood
loontv or thin the nerves are imper-
III nourished and pain is the way in
&S;cb they express their weakness. In
Ido tbe blood absorbs poison from the
%ncous surfaces, aud the poison irritates
~ nerves and produces pain. In rheu-
at;sm. malaria and the grip, the poison
tbablood produces like discomfort. In
%Sigestion the gases from the impure
after kept in the system affect the
Alood in the same way.
The ordinary headache-cures at best
ive only temporary relief. They deaden
IN main but do not drive the poison out
Il tbe blood. DIR. Williams Pink Pills
n The contrary thoroughly renew the
1lood and the pain disappears perma-
1ently Women in particular have found
fbese pills an unfailing relief in head.
aches caused by an@mia.
Miss Stella Blocker recently said: CDR.
Williams Pink Pills did me a great deal
IL good I'had headache nearly all the
Anne. After / had taken three boxes of
.4hese pills became entirely we'll"
Chow long had you suffered ?" she
WAS asked.
"For several years. I can't tell the
4xact date when my illness began for it
came on by slow degrees. i had been
going down hill for many years"
4 ibid you have any other ailments?"
n "Iwas very weak and sometimes had
lever My liver and kidneys were af,
1ected as well as my head"
"How did you come to take the REM
edy that cured your"
al saw in southern newspaper a
Statement of some person who was cured
pf like trouble by DR.. Williams Pink
Pills. My physician hadn't done me any
good, so bought box of these pills.
After l had taken one box felt SO much
better that kept on until 1 became en-
kirely WELL"
Miss Blocker's home is at Leander,
Louisiana. DR. Williams Pink Pills are
sold by all druggists Besides headache
'they cure neuralgia, sciatica, nervous
'prostration, partial paralysis and rheu-
M1atism
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
Reason of His Fear.

There is little town up on the
coast that bears the name of Ocosta,"
remarked Jere T. Burke of the South
ern Pacific law department while in
a reminiscent mood yesterday after
noon. 1T lies just back of Gray's
Harbor and is the largest town in that
neighborhood. However, that does not
mean much. visited Ocosta little
while back, and while l was in town
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

they are popularity called, still take
tourists up and down the Bowery, by
night and by day. There is all the
time an army of travellers who are
seeing New York for the first time;
and they insist upon seeing the Bow
cry. But it is very much like seeing
Pompeii One must rely upon the inn
agination and reading to get an idea
Of the real thing. The days of Harry
Hilfs (Which was so near the Bowery
as to be included in it's jovial pre-
clncts), of McGuirk's. of Owney Geog-
hegan's, of Stevenson's and notorious
resorts Of that description are nothing
but history, now.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
No Halo TO Lose.

Why is 1t that. with all the pother
about the beatitude of motherhood, no
one has a good word to say for father
hood? Fatherhood never had any halo
and nobody has missed it. Who ever
heard of a mans Sinking his duty to
the race, and who ever praised him
FOR performing it?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
A Relic of Colonial Times Torn Down
to Make Way for Office Building.

thugs and thieves met at night. under
the noses of the police to swap swag;
the shadow dances, where two or
three persons daring enough to go
sightseeing were sandbagged and rob-
bed every night; the combination sa-
loon and concert hall, where it was
considered a mark of distinction to
rob a stranger of his watch; the pawn
shop and the puller-in clothing dealer;
the thieves fence and the dispenser of
knockout drops. The Bowery was
known all over the civilized world,
then. No visitor TO New York thought
of going away without seeing it, True,
1e "rubber-neck" automobiles, as
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
First Rowery Rowdylsm.

First BoWery RoWdyism.
The first time the Bowery gained a
reputation for rowdyism was during
the negro instruction of 1741. There
were about 10000 inhabitants of this
town then, including 1000 negro
slaves. In a sudden outburst of pas
sion a race war broke out that was
brief but terrible. The mob rushed
the negroes to the woods that Dor
dered the Bowery and burned them
alive at the stake.
At the time of the American revolu-
ton the Bowery had become a we'll
established resort for saloons. There
were. thirteen licensed liquor resorts
between Chatham Square and Grand
street. The order-loving burghers
were in a ferment about the increas-
ing influence o. the saloon element
in politics. Then the British army
of encampment came Historians
trace the trail of the serpent DER the
Bowery from that hour. Drinking
places increased, and low places of
amusement were established to min
lister to the depraVed appetitles of a
soldiery that had little else to give
their time to.
When the war was over, and the
British soldiers gone, the curse they
left behind in the Bowery was too
deep to be eradicated. From that
day on the one-time pleasure drive Of
the city plunged on its road to ruin
which eliminated in such resorts as
McGuirk's Suicide Hall" and Steven
sons "Slide" The respectable ele-
ment hurried away from it never to
return. In rapid succession followed
the establishment of dives where
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
POUNDS chauffeurs, sohool.

A prominent Hartford Comm firm
of automobile builders has found it
necessary to establish ehauffeurs
school in order to get competent men
to drive its various cars.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Mabel, who was visiting in the
country. was sent to the barn where
the hired man was shearing sheep, to
look for her grandpa. She soon re-
turned and said: Him amt Out
there; amt nobody there but a man
peelin' Sleeps"