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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25
NORTH

Monroe Enquirer: Mr.. ". n M
OF Charlotte. was In Marshvilie -
Wingate last Tuesday buying ice eords
OF wood for Charlotte's worthy poor.
The wood. nine car loads OF It. went IN
{ Charlotte yesterday and was turned
over TO the Humane society.
Lumberton R~obesoEian: Professor II.
Shepherd. while here during the week
ted US OF the school building he ts
erecting At Orrum. Ii will be SKIS feet
The upper floor viii be u,ed as an au-
ditortum. while the lover one win be
divided into recitation rooms. The
building will accommodate about TIVE
hundred pupils
Greensboro Patriot: The remains Of
Mr.. George ID. Bennett, Of Goidsboro,
VINO died IN St LOUIS Monday. reached
1his city this afternoon an1 were eon-
Veved to the home Of air. q. r. Van
s DRY. on East Market street. from
which place the funeral will be held to-
morrow morning ut IL o'clock. conduct
ed by Rev. DR.. Smith.
Wadesboro Messenger: Miss Ella
Seeie. OF Rockingham. died ut the state
hospital Sunday of pneumonia, aged
about SIS years. The deceased was q
laughter OF the late Robert L Steele.
OF Rockingaam--Dr. Scipio Herrod.
colored. was arrested by Constable Da-
vfd Crawford Tuesday afternoon, on
the charge OF disposing Of a mule which
is the property OF Mr.. r. B. Huntiey, OF
Gulledge township.
Tarboro Southerner: The Whining
ton Messenger claims that Sheriff Sted-
man OF New Hanover county has beat
en- "all records. having collected as per
rent. OF the states taxes listed" Sher-
IN Harris has settled in full for hia
state taxes and has collected 50 per
cent. OF all taxes listed state. county
and specials. What sheriff has done
better? - The Southern er most re-
specially and earnestly recommends to
Governor Aycock for appointment an
superintendent OF education Frank g.
Wilkinson. OF this place.
Raleigh News and Observer: Green
Vile. N. c., February ao.-Redding Nor
ris. a white man Of this county. COM
mitted suicide this morning by cutting
his throat with a knife. - An old
colored man was found nearly frozen
this morning in the snow near one Of
the tobacco factories. - This after
noon Lee Shellburn and Frank Skinner.
white boys. were huntine when She'll
burn accidentally shot Skinner with q
rifle. The wound is deep but not Sc
rious. - Salisbury. February se.-Thfs
morning Judge Shaw l,assed a sentence
Of II years in the p~enitentiary upon Al
fred d. Folger. the slayer OF Robert
Moore. who was found guilty Of man.
slaughter yesterday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25
Death of Hector Mclean, the Last of
the WorId-Famous Twins.

Yesterdays Fayetteville Observer
says:
Mr.. Hector Mclean, the survivor Of
h famous Mclean twins. who had a
worldwide fame as the Oldest twins
known. oied at his home near Ellington,
Harnett county, Friday night at IL
o'clock. shortly after the big To- be-
gan to fall. His twin brother, Hugh,
died on February 9TH, 1899, just as the
big snow of that year began to fall.
Hector and Hugh Mclean were born
lear Summerville, Harnett county, on
February 10th, 1910. Their parents were
Duncan and Mary McAlister Mclean,
and they were the youngest of six chill
dren. all of whom lived to q good old
age.
The twins came to Fayetteville when
quite young and learned the tailoring
business, and they followed this trade
here for a great number of years.
They had accumulat ted considerable
property. and in their old age they
engaged in farming. They made fire.
quent trips to Fayetteville and always
attracted attention. They dressed eX-
actly alike. looked very much alike, and
when last seen in Fayetteville together
at the ages of SO, they held themselves
erect, and talked vivaciously n with
much intelligence.
Uncle" Hector, as he was Familiarity
called. was here on a visit to his neph-
ew. Rev. d. N. Mclean. only a few
months ago. and was then apparently
in the best of health. He. however,
never recovered from the shock of his
brothers death. They had lived al
thei lives together. and n was never
seen without the other.
We have published a history of these
r. m0nS twins before as have also the
great New York n European papers
which in many instances gave theil
pictures.
Mr.. Hector Mclean will be buried
this afternoon at 8 o'clock, beside HI:
brother. near Summerville.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, February %.

Raleigh, February Y.
Governor Aycock today declined to
interfere in the case of o Henry
Rose, who will accordingly be hanged
at Wilson next Wednesday,. His crime
was ~waylaying n assassinating a
man
The governor commutes to life i'm
prisonment at lard labor the death SEN
fences of Russell Gates, white. and
Frank Mills, coIored, Two of the -four
men who were convicted of burglary at
Emma post office III GuncomDe county.
Gates and Mills stood guard outside the
building. while the other two men. one
white. one colored, entered ii AMI while
attemp ing to rob the safe attacked the
plucky young postmaster. Samue. Alex
ander. The supreme court held hat all
four were guilty of burglary. a great
nan peti, ions for Tie Communication
of sentence as to Gates and Mills were
received by the governor, as we'll as a
large numbe Of coun!Cr-petitions.
Six executions were set for next We'd
nesday. The other one set is that OF
Andrew Sherman Jackson. at Lincoln
ton. Jackson's crime was one Of the
most horrible Imaginable. He commit
ted burglary at the house Of Mrs. Strout
and attacked her daughter with a razor.
making a score of gasheS on her body.
Her infant porn a few n later,
was marked with the same disfigure-
ments made by the razor on the mother
and was shown to the jury in evidence.
Jackson's wife was a sister of the wo-
man 50 injured, and at the time Of the
burglary Jackson's wife was alive.
The governor will fill the vacancy in
the office of the state superintendent
of public instruction caused by the
death of General Too at the earlist
possible moment next week. The salary
is $1.50e, with $500 expense allowance.
There are a number of aSDiIants for
the position.
The New Orleans papers announce the
engagement of Miss Nichols. daughter
Of the chief justice OF Louisiana, to
5ames Richard Young. insurance COM
missioner of North Carolina. The date
Of the wedding will be late in April.
The physicians report on the cause of
death of General 7. Z. Tooh is that it
was heart disease and that his last ILL
ness was only three-quarters of an hour
In duration. General Toon's last Of
hcial act was the signing of a deed to
1000 acres of state swamp and in Tyr
rell county. Wednesday night. his death
occurring Thursday morning.
T. B. Eldridge. of the Raleigh Morn
ing Post, left here today for Richmond.
upon news of the death Of his father,
William K. Eldridge, at that city this
morning. of y of the throat. Mr..
Eldridge was about 65 years IF age He
went to Richmond q Incntn o. more
ago, for treatment.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25

In conversation the other day about
the peculiar views that commercial men
sometimes entertain about professional
services, says the Philadelphia Times.
DR.. s. Weir Mitchell told the following
story:
"A very wealthy man from the west
came to consult me about an attack OF
vertigo. He said that he had just re-
turned from a trip to Europe. where he
had consulted eminent specialists. but
that they la failed to afford hun any
permanent relief A physician in Lon
don,' he said. asked me why / did not
make an attempt to be cured nearer
home. 1 thought. on my way out west,
I would stop over to see you
HAS any physician you have visited
looked into your ears? / asked.
mo was the reply.
II made an examination OF his ears.
removed some wax and a substance
that appeared to be hardened remnants
Of cotton wool. / n him away then,
and told him to come again In q day or
two. He did Sc.
We'll he exclaimed, L am cured.
How much do I owe your"
About $780, 1 replied.
LAS he drew a check he asked Did
you know when you first examined M
ears that you could cure mc?'
when 1 told him that / had a ver5
fair conviction that I could he said
Well, you are a blanked fool. YOU
should have said to me: 81 think ] car
cure you, and I will do so for $1,000
No cure, no pay You would have go
your money without a murmur.
"Oh,' I said, II you feel that wa
about ii there are several little chart
ties In which I am interested. and
mo, no. he interrupted that IL no
| business. I have my cure and you a
the price you asked- The transaction I
/ closed
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25

Charleston, S. c., February 22--This
was military day at h exposition state
militia from South Carolina and Geoc-
gia participating in the exercises. The
parade { O the exposition grounds was
led by Governor White. Of West Virgin
Ia. with his stan and Adjutant General
Floyd. of South Carolina. with the stan
Of Governor McSweeney. The Chatham
artillery. of Savannah. with the fam0us
washington guns was In the line
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25

In Justice Shaw's court. a few davn
ago. a boy was put on the witness stand
and to ascertain IL he knew the nature
of an oath h Justice i~ntervfewed him
as follows:
d o know the nature Of an
oath?"
Don't know whether I dc or not"
Well. II You should tell q lie do you
know where you would go when you
dfe7"
Yes SIR"
"Where?"
Well. when we moved here 20 work
IN h cotton mills pap aid n any Of
us ever lied he would take NJ 70 The
woodshed n give us DOWN the coun-
try" and I recon he'll he a. good a.
his word-"-Roanoke News
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25

by McGovern fn the Fffteenth
Round I'm q Hot Fight.

Louisville. KY. February 21-TerYy
McGovern defeated Dave Sullivan to-
night in the arena Of the Southern Ath-
Ietic Club. after fifteen rounds Of a.
desperate fighting as was ever seen In
any ring From the first tap OF the
gong until the end IL was slam bang.
hammer and tongs. nearly every Sec
ond, both men working away with an
the energy they possessed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25

New Raiiread to &c 20 Chariessor.
The general manager Of the Carolina
Northern Railroad. the new line from
Lumberton TO Marion. was In Raleigh
yesterday to make -raneements for
exlending the tine from Marion to
CHARLESTON II Is said that tbersf u no
ionse1 ans doubt but thar the new road
VII oe punt to Charleston and also ex-
tended from Lumbertou 20 Fsye,tevfIle.
TINS VIII give b Seaboard Air Linz q
connecttng line with Charleston.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25

Knoxville. Tenn. February IA
special to The Sentinel from Bristol,
Tenn, say a Virginia and Southwest
ern passenger train was held up by an
known parties this morning near Big
Stone Gap. about six miles northwest
OF Bristol The men took 50 from q
box In the baggage ear.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25

Georgetown. 8. G.. February 1.-THE
Clvde teamer Oneida while proceeding
down Winyah bay In the fog grounded
on the shoal and remains after two AZ
tempts TO pull her of by tugs. Light
ering cargo viii probably float her mex
high tide.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25
FOUR
FOR
&aTHE GOVERNOR COMPUTES THE DEATH
SENTENCE OF TWO OF THE MEN
CONVICTED OF BURGLARY IN
BUNCOMBE COUNT

The other Hanginss to be at Wilson
and LincoInton-The Latter for a
Burglary and Most Atrocious As
sauIt on q woman-YOung-Nichols
Marriage Announcement for a
Day I'm April-The superintendent
of Public instruction to be APP
pointed This Week-Physfcfan's
Report on General Toon's Death.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25

is the only cure for Poison Oak, Poison
Ivy, and all noxious plants. It is COM
posed exclusively Of roots and herbs. Now
is the time to get the poison out OF your
system, as delay makes your condition
worse. Don't experiment longer with
salves, washes and soaps-they never cure.
sfr. $. NJ: Marshall, bookkeeper Of the Atlanta
tGa.) Gas Light Co, was poisoned with Poison
Oak. He took Sulphur, Arsenic and various
other drugs. and applied externally numerous
lotions and saives with no benefit. At times the
swelling and was 50 severe he was
almost blind. For eight years the poison would
break out every season. HIS condition was much
improved after taking one bottle .f S. s s.. and
q few bottles cleared his blood OF the poison, ana
all evidences of the disease disappeared
People are often poisoned without
knowing when or how. Explain your case
fully to our physicians, and they viii
cheerfully give such information and adj
vice as you require, without charge, and
we will send at the same tine an interest.
ing BOOK on Blooi and Ssi.: "e7S
5aS SEs:-y ccEct-:c -. aT.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-25
MAIL CARRIERS
FOR
THE FREE MAIL DELIVERY TO BEGIN
NEXT MISUNDERSTANDING TOTHOSE
PATRONS OF THE OFFICE DE-
STRING SERVICE.

A Vast Diderencc In h Weather
Now and . Week Ago-The snow
all Gone, and With IL the wintry
Observation-Disclosures to her
Normal Winter Condifions-The
Late Geo. ID. Bennett Ministered to
by a Close Friend In His Last Mo-
ments.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-02

in arts ard crafts, and as fine, in it's
way as the handmade books and fur
niture and tapestries that are now so
fashionable. Reedwork, huclSslliD, fine
bead embroidery and laceworlI, wicker,
shell and feather baskets. are all part
OF the arts that Miss Reel wishes TO
preserve.
Miss Reel is seeking to enlarge the
outing system of Carlisle, by which In
dian children are placed in good white
families, for all or a portion of the
year, to go to school and share in the
work and life of the family.
Besides the government boarding
schools. Miss Reel has under her charge
all the pueblo day schools, now con-
Quoted in the villages of the Pueblo In
dams in Arizona and New Mexico. Her
field ranges from South Carolina and
Pennsylvania on the east to the Pacific
coast on the west, and she travels from
one end of it to the other about six
times a year. During her FIRST term OF
office, from 1898 to 1902. she travelled
some $4,000 miles, and a portion of that
distance was put in by stage coach,
horseback, by burro, or on foot. Dur
ing her experiences in the field she has
slept in pueblo and tepees, climbed
precipitous cliffs and crossed alkali
deserts, and eaten prairie dog stew.
And with it all, she is such a handsome
and thoroughly well gowned young
woman that you would never suspect
her at first sight of departing from
the straightest path of cenventionality.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-02

ton by thoughtlessly displaying the
white hand with it's gloomy beautiful
decoration, Lalique and all the otner
designers and jewellers have had Wild
ows' orders without number
widows rings are just coming into
use in America, and while some or
them are made in France, goodly
number of uniquely beautiful ones
have been turned out by our own gold
smiths A single large and perfect
black pearl is considered very chic,
II we may use so frivolous an ex-
preston as a widows ring 1t is sunk
in a rim of what is called furnished sill
yer, and next after this ranks the
cameo ring, showing the dear depart
ed ones likeness in white against
BACKGROUND of black shell. The golden
circlet of such a ring Is covered with
black enamel, and inside the finger
band a consolatory or purely senti-
mental sentiment is, engraved. SUI
perb ring ordered in Paris for the wild
ow of an American millionaire takes
the form of a wondrously cut seal.
The stone is dead black and the cut
ting upon it shows a wounded dove
with a Latin inscription beneath, to
the effect that, though mortally wound
ed the devoted reliet patiently wings
her way through life.
All the mourning rings are large and
heavy and are worn above the gold
wedding band, though some highly
sensitive women have followed the
fashion of having their wedding rings
enameled in dead black and the date
of their loss engraved inside opposite
the date of their wedding.
The jewelers. who cater to a large
custom have noticed an increase of
interest in rings that are not always
so costly as unique, and 1t is curious
enough that women who will readily
wear imitation stones in brooches.
necklets, stickpins and even earrings
draw the line against mock gems in
the matter of rings. Baroque pearls
and the secondary or semi-preeious
stones are all right for finger orna-
mentation, and one dealer in fine jew
els has grown quite accustomed to
having a woman come In, lay a sam
pie of silk, satin or wooden on the show
case and calmly ask TO have her sam
pie matched in a ring or brooch. It
Is usually a ring she wants and then
a visit is made to the case full Of ex-
quislte pink topaz, matrix opals. white
sapphires. etc, where her demand can
be Easily fulfilled.
Debutantes and graduating school
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-02
APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT.
Miss EsteIle Reel of Wyoming Is
the First Woman Given an Omcc
by the President.

Miss EsteIle Reel of wyoming Is
the First Woman Given an Oaicc
by the President.
Washington, March Miss Estelle
Reel, who has recently been appointed
national superintendent of Indian
schools, is the first woman to be ap-
pointed to an office by President
Roosevelt and the only one to be given
place of Importance. Miss Reel held
this office through the previous admin
istration, and has proved her fitness
for it. She is probably the only wo-
man holding office under the national
government, who carved her way to it
by her own political efforts. She is a
Wyoming woman, and was considered
one of the best politicians in that land
of woman voters. She made her way
up, by the successive steps of teacher.
county superintendent and state
superintendent, to the position she now
occupies. She possesses all the quail
iications which make a person sue
cessful in public life among them be-
ing the genialty and COR
diality of her manners, the
magnetism of her personality.
and her keen memory for names and
faces Miss Reel also understands
perfectly well the value of standing
II" with the press; and while she was
state superintendent of instruction in
Wyoming. her pleasant office was the
headquarters and lounging place in the
state House for the Cheyenne press
gang" and Miss Reel was considered
an adept at giving a good story to the
boys when ever occasion arose. How
ever, she has not attained the highest
nnltfic9I nncifinn H.
American woman without a solid basis
of merit to entitle her TO it, She has
pushed two branches of work in con-
nection with the 300 government schools
maintained for the Indians AT the
n. h. A. at Detroit last summer there
was a display of needlework, mechani-
cal drawing, designing, implements
making, dresses cut and made by the
girls, suits, boot and shoes made by
the boys. and a great variety of forge
work. which compared favorably with
that of any public school in the coun-
try. There was an Indian band of thir-
ty pieces present, fifteen boys and fif-
teen girls, from the Indian school at
Mount Pleasant, Mich, which after
wards went on TO the conference of In
dian educators at the Pan-American.
Miss Reel wants to encourage the
old Indians to preserve the ancient
arts, the basket making and blanket
weaving, which are in danger of dying
out. The constant tendency, as the
Indian comes more and more in contact
with the tourist trade, is to make cheap
things for quick sale. But there Is
still an old squaw here and there who
knows how TO make the fine old things,
baskets that will hold water, and
blankets that are almost waterproof
and Miss Reel wants to place them
in the schools, as Instructors to the
Indian girls. In the first place, this
makes the old Indians feel that they
are of some use still, and that the
whites feel some respect for their IA
tive industries; and in the second, Il
is in line with the latest developments
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-02

girls whose acute attacks of friendships
are slangily described as rushing"
now cultivate the habit of exchanging
rings with their own particular girlish
intimates. AS a rule the choice falls
on really charming posey rings of Mar
cassite. These come in all manner of
quaint bouquet. basket, cornucopia,
love-knot designs elaborated in tiny
but inexpensive true stones set IN
frame work of silver.
To the theater and opera, crowded
ball rooms, etc, it is also a fancy OF
this younger element to wear perfume
rings that are supposed to take the
place of the clumsier vinagrette- A
hollow ball of gold holds d sponge that
is impregnated with perfume, and y
tiny self-closing stopper or button on
the ball prevents leakage, though a
touch upon it emits strong and deli
cious odolg from within. This ball
hangs by a golden thread from circlet
of gold and when a glove is worn 1t
rests comfortably in the palm of the
hand. Sometimes both the finger cir
clet and the ball are set with gems, but
plain geld is considered the most taste
full choice.
Fashionable women do nos yet coun-
tenance the habit of the thumb ring,
but a prejudice against wearing any
thing on the index finger has quite
passed away Something especially
snowy and elaborate is worn now on
the first finger something that extends
almost to the second joint, and at the
teas. and, dances, and dinners, and we'd
dings of this winter both guests and
hostesses have had their white fingers
so loaded with rings that anything like
handshake has almost passed out of
fashion. TO save your hostess or friend
: the most exquisite pain you must mere
ly touch her finger tips in greeting, for
a hearty handclasp will elicit Shrek
and a possible fainting fit that will
make you feel like ruthless murderer.
L N. A.