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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-30
"A TRAHP'S REVENGE
SHOOTS AN ENG,N. ER FOR PUT.
TING him OFF THE TRAI.

The Governor Offers " K. ward for His Ar
rest-Burgiars In nkAt~ich-Populists No,
willing to Discuss IolItic. = Russo II
Longs To Get Out of Reach Of Newspaper
Men-Mnch sotron Y~t In the fs~Id-.
Merchants Indicted In Rowan for Selling
Cigarettes to Minors
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-30

Hoods Pills act easily and promptly
on the liver and bowels. Cure sick
headache.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-30
All Have Disappeared

''I suffered with rheumatism in my
back and shoulders. My head ached
and I was very weak. I concluded to
take Hoods Sarsaparilla. In a short
time 1 felt better. / have now taken
seven bottles and the headache, rheu-
matism and that tired feeling have all
disappeared" MRS. IDA c. GRIM.
Wadesville, Va.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-30
AGGRESSIVE GERMANY
TO SEND w &RSHIPS TO CHINA
AND TO HAYTI.

Eight Men-of- War and Large Force Gettif
Ready for Descent ON China-Kuss1a ana
Austria Assur~ Her Of Free Swing In the
East - Acknowir dgsment OF American
Friendly Intervention In Hayu-Afr"id
of "a tariff War on America Standard Oh
Company Monopoly
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
Miscellaneous Fodder Crops.

SOFA beans, green and black varieties,
grown at the Vermont station since 1898
have proved satisfactory. No other le-
guminous hoed crop has given better re-
turns in tonnage of green fodder dry
matter or protein. The green variety
yielded at the rate of p tons green and
2 tons dry fodder and nearly quarter
of ton of protein to the acre. Good
growths were made of hairy and spring
vetches, with and without oats, but after
experience with these crops for several
years at the Vermont station they are
considered unequal to peas and oats
Serradella yielded about a ton of dry
matter yer acre and is recommended as
a promising forage crop that is rich in
protein.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05

No. 376.-A Crossword: January
No. 77.-Iranspostions: Linked, Kin
die
No 37S. - Single Acrostc; Initials
Aristides l. Acre. 2 R-omulus 3. Is
land. l. S-alic. 8. Time. &. I-nkermann.
z. Dollar s. E-migrant 9. Sage.
No. 379.-Numerical Enigma: Con-
science. /. Scene. =. Nice. 3. Nine, A.
Cone .. Ice. Il. Seine. 7. Once.
No. $50. Illustrated Diagonal: l. Crab
g. Boat. 8. Boot. 4. Duck. Diagonal
Cook.
No. 3sl.-Anagrams-(British Battles);
/. Barnet. 2. Naseby 3. Bosworth. 4.
Marston Moor. 8. Eyesham. 9, Hastings.
z. Boyne.
No. 8S2.-Charades l. Camel 2. Hor-
net. 8. Jewel A. Rattan.
No. 1888. Divided Cities: l. Arch-angel.
2. Liver pool. 8. Hamburg. 4. Canton.
8. Mysore.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
HE Loves A POSTER Girl

Bhe was a poster, 80 new and so sweet,
And pedestrian.
She sat on enc grass, with six toes on her feet.
Alas for my sorrow beganl
For she ogled at me with crimson leer,
And her nose was so blue, an, yosl
Her dress was transparent, her joints very
queer;
But nh, did 1 love her the less2
All, never, no, never, no more
Shall 1 know of sweet peace, alasi
For my love is girl Of the primary tints,
And she sits the purple grass.
The sky ut her back was magenta and slate,
And the sun a delicate gray;
She was washing herself, am able to state,
With somebody's soap all the day
Her arms were too long, and her nose too short
Her perspective is wrong, confess;
There was mud in her eye from small boy s
sport;
But, ali, did l love her the lessP
All, never, no, never, no more
Will She set my heart in n whirl,
For they've covered her up with Bovril
bill,
My beautiful poster grill
London Figaro.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
Cod Liver Oil as a Food Adjunct.

1t is said that cod liver oil is being
recommended III England in rations for
milk cows, pigs and dogs. 1t is claimed
that it increases the fat content Of the
milk without injuriously affecting the
quality Being an animal fat, it is said
to be more easily digestible than many
vegetable fats used in rations for calves
and is recommended for that purpose
Experiments are suggested on its effect
on the quality of meat, milk and bacon
by station bulletin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
THE MORGAN REGISTER.

\ Register intended tolnclude all stations OF
merit that trace in direct male line to Justin
dorgan and having at least one sixty-fourth
If his blood. All such stations toaled in or
>efore 1880 are admitted tree. The tee for
clustering stations one year old and over
will be 81 each, and mares, geldings and colts
tnder one year. 81 each.
Any animal in either OF the following two
classes is eligible to registry in the Morgan
Register:
l. Any moritorious stallion or mare that
races in direct male line to the original Jus.
in Morgan Horse, and has at least one sixty
fourth OF his blood
,. The produce OF sire and dam both
egistered in the Morgan Register
The first volume Is now ready tor delivery
yol. II. is largely ready for publication
1t was voted at the meeting OF the National
Morgan Horse Breeders ASSOCIATION in Chica
go, July 30, 1896, that on and after Jan. /,
1897 an animal must, in order to be entitled
to registration in the Morgan Register, trace
by both sire and dam in direct male line to
Justin NJ organ and have at least one thirty
second OF his blood.
This change, it viii be seen, does not AT
feet the second OF the two classes above
mentioned
JOSEPH BATTELL,
MiddleburY, Vt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05

has two curved branches with half
circle at the end of EACH which shut
against two square staples, driven into
the post a little each side of the middle.
The gate opens either way, and when
open rests on one or the other of the
curved branches and its corresponding
staple. When shut, it rests on both.
The latch is simply a straight piece of
iron pivoted at the back end that it may
play up and down, and when the gate
''slams" slide up over the sloping end
of the catch A and drop into the notch
in the middle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
FOR BETTER FARMING.
An Educational Scheme Proposed For New
York state.

An Educational Scheme Proposed For New
York state.
For three years Professor Bailey Of
Cornell university hashad charge of the
work begun under the Nixon bills and
restricted to certain parts of the state of
New York He now announces that the
period of experiment is at an end and
the methods tested are recommended
for enlargement. Professor Bailey, in a
talk with Buffalo Express correspond.
emit, gave a resume of the work done
and the policy he will recommend. To
begin with, four methods of instructinR
farmers to better farming nave been ex-
perimented with. First of these is the
publication and free distribution of bull
letins reporting results of Investigations
causes and means Of prevention CT in
sects, pests, etc. The second method is
that of establishing "model farms" in
different localities. The other two
methods under trial have been forms of
school teaching, one of teaching the
farmers and the other of teaching their
children The last owes its origin to the
Society for the Promotion of Agricul-
ture.
In extending the work begun under
the Nixon bills the first thing necessary
is the preparation Of teachers. In this
Cornell university will take the lead.
Aside from graduates any one interested
/ in agriculture can find free instruction
here in dairy husbandry, veterinary sci
ence and horticulture. Second every
normal school in the state except one has
agreed to add to its required curriculum
course destined to prepare its gradu-
ates to give instruction i'll nature study
to the children in the district schools
Textbooks will be needed, and the ag-
ricultural experiment station at Cornell
will meet the need by "a special series of
bulletins, which, under the franking
privilege. can be placed free of charge
in the hands of every district school
teacher i'll the state.
When the work is extended from %
counties to the entire state and from
horticulture merely, to which the pro-
visions of the Nixon bills have hitherto
been confined, to general agriculture, the
thing gets too big TO be carried on along
with the regular university duties. Pro
fessor Bailey will therefore recommend
the establishment of state bureau OF
correspondence and instruction. Under
this bureau all sections of the state
would be coherently organized. One,
two or three hours weekly of instruction
in nature study in the district school;
is to be provided for by law. Cornell
will come in as an agency for investi
eating Difficult; problems and supplying
clearly written INFORMATION regarding
them in franked bulletins The univer
sity will be ready to send a scientific
expert to the spot wherever new plan
disease shows itself, or there are pecul
lar local conditions There are othe
items to be recommended by Professor
Bailey, such as the preparation of sor
of Chautauqua home reading cours
for farmers and the formation of littl,
library Of standard works on agricultur
al topics in every district schoolhouse
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05

L III 4AOhIy IL AlNOIOs OB6 Vi Jn0
best known agriculturists in
America, when director of the
Maryland Agricultural Expert
ment Station, in letter tells how
he treated this disease.
Dec. 26, 1890.
Dear SirS The following statement of
facts is sent you for what it is worth.
There was certainly an epidemic Of abor-
ton in the herd OF dairy cows here I'M
der my charge. We used your Kow-
kure, and we have apparently got rid of
the abortion. My previous experience
with this trouble has been such that |
don't feel able TO say the powders stop
ped it, but the facts here strongly favor
that assumption.
During the years lSSS and 1889 there
were ten abortions here on the Agricul
tural College farm, and but three calv
were dropped on time and lived.
In January, 1890 at the suggestion
Mr.. ~ |. Hayward, we obtained some of
your kow-kure, and began using it as
Il preventive cf abortion. During this
year we have had eight live calves. and
good ones, and but one case of abortion.
This one case was late in the season,
and a heifer; this animal had refused to
eat her grain when the powders were
mixed in it, and thinking the disease had
disappeared. we made no special effort
to get her to take the medicine. We
have pure bred Ayrshire that aborted
(tirst calf in lSSS, and again in 1889;
she is now carrying her calf well and is
within a few days of the right period of
calving. Very respectfully yours,
HENRY + ALVORD.
Seven years of careful trial have prov
Ell his article to be a success. Thous-
ands of dairymen pronounce it the best
COW medicine made. 1t goes to the seat
of the trouble the blood, as we'll as act
ing directly on the womb.
kow kure is medicine and not food,
and for cows only. 1t was formerly
called Jersey Tonic Powder"
1T cures abortion, barrenness and re-
tanned after birth. 1t makes rich blood
and Increases the flow of milk. Send
twO-cent stamp for our little book, The
Cow"
KOw-kure comes in three-pound cans
and sells for Sl.00 per can. There is
enough medicine IN one can to treat one
COW from five to eight weeks. One can
is often worth $500 to a dairyman. If
your merchant does not keep it send to
DAIRY MEDICINE Co., Lyndonville, Vt.
For sale by Thomas Il Weeks.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05


The first of a long line of kings
Six kingdoms into one he brings,
And so they still continue.
In every fight he leads the front,
Marshals his men and bears the brunt
BY dint of bone and sinew.
In time his grandson fills his place,
The noblest scion of his race,
A king well known in story.
Devotion to his country's cause,
Most wise and necessary laws,
Have crowned his name with glory.
A treasure city in the east
Where Median kings held court and feast
With pomp and osteutation-
"The seven walled town, historians said,
But ruthless wars such havoc made
1t lies in desolation
A sea bird that frequents the rocks,
Sometimes in pairs, sometimes in aocks,
In diving power excelling.
He strews a nest; he rears his young
The bleak and barren cliffs among,
Remote from human dwelling.
A very ancient epic song
Remaining in the Tristan tongue
That formed the English diction.
The hero's deeds, the good he wrought,
Are told with true, poetic thought
In allegoric fiction.
The chosen fair, when many strove
To win the mighty monarch's love
And be his queen instated.
She warned the king Of plots concealed,
And would be- murderers, thus revealed,
Their treason expiated.
A rapid river, rushing down
From mountains that the snow wreath
crown,
The fertile wales commanding.
1t gathers III its downward course,
Increasing speed, increasing force,
Till to a lake expanding.
A harmless creature, much maligned,
Held in adherence by mankind
Ere ignorance was enlightened.
Its shape no sign of beauty shows
And may shudder cause in those
Who, seeing it, are frightened.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
Familiar Comparisons.

AS hot as An oven, as cold as a frog;
As gay as "A lark, as sick a dog;
AS slow a. a tortoise swift As the wind;
As true as the gospel, as false rs mankind;
AS thin IA herring, a. fat rs pig;
As proud as a peacock. as blithe grig;
AS savage as tigers, as mild as "A dove;
AS stiff as a poker limp as a glove;
As blind a bat, as deaf as post;
As cool as il cucumber, as warm as toast.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
Good Front Gate,

Here's a gate for the front yard that
neither the dog nor the hogs can open
nor the boys leave open after them At
least that is the recommendation given
by The Farm Journal, from which this
cut is reproduced:
The upper hinge is simply an ordinary
hook and eye, B is the lower one (en-
larged), which does the shutting. 1t
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
40. 30I.-Anagrams.

useful in the dining room.)
/. Richest pie c.. p Blot wet tears.
8. Bard Rand put stale beet 1. r. ),
Lochs died of her puns. .. p. I. b. man 5
equal. g. Ted learn pins :. \ red scent.
s. Tugs or nags 9. Jack $ peril 10.
Turks even bit
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05

am composed of 20 letters and form the
title of IA well known book.
My :, ,, 10, /, IL, q, is insignificant. My
IL, ID, Il, is sport. My l, 49, 9, II, is
knowledge. My Is, II, 20, is beam. My
3, 8, 3, 10, is related.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
No. 3S1.-TranspOsition.

A TOTAL is a gift to prize
As much as aught beneath the skies.
The SECOND of faithful ALL
Should never deem the treasure small,
But h Id it dear and faithful be
To thy good ALL as he to thee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
No. aso.-Three Word squares.

A small quadruped a stir. A city cf
Italy. a town of Bohemia.
A measure. An open space Repose. A
fruit
A piece of meat A fish Gumbo. The
sharp end or top Of anything.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
No. 3s4.-Decapitation.

IT'S not in college that the knowledge
Most useful is unfurled,
But in the striving, pushing driving,
OF the usy world.
IT'S toughest rigor that gives vigor
To the unfinching soul.
Amid turmoil and strife and broil,
What's useful most we WHOLE.
So, boy, be brave and LAST and save,
On some high purpose bent.
No knowing what may be your lot.
You may be president.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05

How can n perfect cross md all the other
forms here shown be cut out of a single
piece of paper with ono cut of the scissors?
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05
Abortion (SIinking) in Cows.

Prof. Henry E. Alvord, one of the
best known agriculturists in
America, when director of the
Maryland Agricultural Expert
ment Station, in letter tells how
he treated this disease.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-02-05

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, P. o., Nd,
Dec. 26, 1890.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-02-25

lie house also passed house bill No.
i5e, being an act to secure the employees
Of corporations and trusts the payment
Of their wages in lawful money Of the
United States. The bill applies to all
trusts or corporations that may en-
ploy ten persons.
BY vote Of IS TO 2S the house passed
the fee and salary bill introduced last
week by the house committee Of the
whole. The house passed the bill to
prevent blacklisting by employers; to
exempt the wages Of lsborers under
$50 per month, and providing for the
protection Of birds.
The house committee on educational
institutions decided, by vote Of to
Q, to report adversely on all normal
school bills. A minority report, signed
by Rothweiler and Irwin, favoring the
establishment Of normals at Wichita
and Lacrosse were presented.
There will be no maximum freight
rate legislation at this session of the
legislature. This was fully settled last
night, when the populist members of
the senate. in caucus. by a vote Of Is to
10, knocked out the maximum schedule
in the Harris bill. The senate COM
mittee on revision of the calendar voted
to put the bill to repeal the metropoll-
tan police law 31st on the calendar,
which practically kills the bill.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-02-25
A RADICAL MEASURE.
Kansas Populists Expect to Put Through
Public Utilities Bill.

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 2l.-The popu-
lists expect to pass the public utili-
ties bill at this session, although it
was introduced only this week. 1t is
ian act concerning the purchase or
construction, management and opera
ton of public utilities by cities and
townships, severally or in conjunc-
ton with other cities, or with
BOTH 1t includes everything of pub
lie usefulness, even public gristmills,
public sawmills, public factories, public
exchanges, public mines, public smelt-
ers, public fuel yards, every kind OF
character, plant, system, line, mill,
factory that may be devised to provide
cities or townships with any of th~
necessities of life, but nothing shall
be considered public utility unless it
is open to the enjoyment of all persons
upon equal terms. Provision is made
for the submission to a vote OF the peo-
pie Of propositions for the city to own
and operate any public utility. If it
be not carried at the first election the
same question or some other of a SINH
lar character providing for the owner
ship OF public utilities is to be submit
ted until something has been adopted.
Thereafter at each succeeding city
election other propositions shall
be submitted. Provision is also
made for special elections for the
same purpose. A feature Of the bill is
that any proposition shall be deemed to
have been adopted when majority OF
electors of the city or township voting
at the election shall not have voted
against such proposition--that, tits to
say, the blank or silent voters shall be
counted in the affirmative
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-02-25
IT SlASHES SALARIES.


Dill In the Kansas Legislature Which Makes
sweeping Reductions.
TOPEKA KAN, Feb, l9,-When the
house met the motion to appointa COM
mttce to revise the calendar was
called mp A roll call was granted and
the result was - yeas, Il nays, strict
party vote. Hackney, of sumner
introduced bill to abolish the
board OF public works The special
committee appointed by the house to
investigate the charge that Mr. Cubhl-
son, of WyandottA had accepted $500
for his advocacy Of The pcnitentiary
bill made its report, fully generating
him.
In the senate Householder intro
duced a bin to appropriate $1,000 for a
canning factory at the Topeka reform
school, under the direction of the state
board of charities, the proceeds to be
converted into the general fund,
The legislative redistricting appor-
tionment bill was presented in the
house, BY ii western Kansas will lose
several representatives. The number
lost In the west are added to the counties
In the east jackson also loses repre-
sentative, Those counties which gain
one each are Franklin, Montgomery,
Marshall and Butler Finney's Tor
rens abstract bill was killed by the
house Judiciary committee, The Rut'
ledge bill to prohibit the removal
Of improvements from property bid
in by the county at tax sale
was unfavorably reported by the
same committee. as was the
Jaquins bill to authorize county com
missioners in counties lying wes'
of the Goth meridian to compro
mise taxes. A bill to prevent The
discharge Of employees by corpora
tons on spotter evidence was intro
duced in the house by Rothweiler BE
fore n person can be discharged h,
must first be confronted with Tho
charges and by the person making
them. The bill to prevent hypnotisti
from operating on people under 2
years of age was favorably reported.
The senate committee on fees ant
salaries introduced "a bill making
sweeping reductions in the salaries D
nearly all state officers. The onl,
ones who escaped are the governor, at
torney-general, state treasurer ant
ofAcers at the charitable institutions
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-02-25
BRYAN TO kANSANS.


TOPEKA, Kan. Feb 2O.-William j.
Bryan last night talked for an hour to
the Kansas Legislature in joint conven-
ton at representative hall, on the sci
ence of government. 1t was not much
of joint convention, for there was
such jam that the senators and rep
resentatiyes got mixed up with the
visitors, but all the forms were OBJ
served. When Mr.. Bryan appeared on
the platform he was given great ova-
ton. He said he regarded 1t as a
great honor to be invited to address
the legislature Of Kansas. He spoke
of Kansas and Nebraska as sister
states and told how they had
grown and developed. Speaking
of the abuse Of legislation, Mr..
Bryan said that one trouble was that a
few always were present with their de-
mands while many were at home, and
well meaning legislators often were in
huenced to o.that which was not in
the interest Of the public Sand no
man. he added, ''in the history of the
government ever spoke against the
abuse of government who was not
accused of being an anarchist by the
man profting by the abuse" Mr..
Bryan said that one of the great
est evils in all Legislative bodies
was the lobby, and warned the Kan
sas solons that the forces OF reform
could never hope to win nation
al victory until they proved them
selves successful in the states they now
control, in other words, they must
hold themselves aloof from the lobby.
Mr.. Bryan called attention to the
promises Of those who were leaders
In the reform movement last fall.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Bryan's re-
marks, the joint convention was dis
solved. Mr.. Bryan was then driven to
Hamilton hall, where he addressed an
overflow meeting of $500 people. lie
entered into discussion of the silver
question, speaking half an hour. E. G.
Little presided at this meeting.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-02-25
GOV. LEEDY SIGNS BILLS.
He Consents TO the State Printing Appro
priatiOn Under Protest.

He Consents to the State Printing Appro'
priatiOn Under Protest.
TOPEKA, KAN, Feb. 19.-The bill
making deficiency appropriation OF
SIS, 600 for the state printer was signed
by Gov. Leedy yesterday under pro
test" as he put it, and the order of the
secretary Of state to the state
printer to cease all work will be
abrogated. The governor will send
a message to the legislature stat
ing that he signed the bill on ac.
count Of the need Of funds to pay for
printing for the Legislature. lie will
recommend that hereafter all appro
priation bills for state printing set
forth the amount each department OF
the state government shall spend for
printing, 50 that the succeeding lcgis'
lature will not be called upon to make
up an enormous deficiency.
The governor signed the following
general bills: To abolish the Peabody
silk station; fixing the number OF
wards in cities of the second class,
compelling railroad companies to fur
nish free transportation to stock
shippers, authorizing the admission to
the bar of graduates of the law depart
ment of the state university.