The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-12-11
HERE AND THERE.

MISS EIIZdDeln blrQ, OF hdrrlSODl
county. near Paris, Ky, started early
IN life to feather her nest we'll. Her
first venture outside of the home nest
was when she married Bud Martin
When Martin died she married Ed
ward Crow. a prosperous farmer. Later
on she allied herself with VIM. ROB-
bin. and lived happily until the matrI
monial season for Mrs. Robin again
rolled around. Then David Buzzar2,
a widower. appeared. Mrs. Robin be
came Mrs. BuZzard yesterday. Into
the BuzZard eyrie the bride carried
one little Martin. two little Crows ana
one little Robin. One little Buzzard
was already there TO welcome them
Exchange.
Another suit is to be brought against
the United States Ship Building Com
pany n Mr.. J. P. Morgan's part in
the deal Will be explained. Mr.. Nor.
gan's testimony will no doubt be the
most interesting yet given. The grea.
~1nancier on the witness stand always
develops some interesting readlns..
Greensboro Telegram.
The rural free delivery carriers
throughout the country will be inter
ested in the plan of Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Bristow to H.
crease their compensation. One of his
recommendations is that the rural car
rler should be compensated for being
deprived of the chance to make some
money on the side as a general prr-
chasing agent for patrons along his
route. He urges that the maximum
limit of salary should be increased
from $500 a year to $3.50. This wouiI
increase the appropriations by % per
cent. This, it is said, would represent
the payment of 81 $50, 900 as the result
of the policy of f~orbidding carriers to
| do on nvnracc h1,SinaSc D- .@-t
March there will be 22,67S rural car
riers. Mr.. Bristow wants $50, 900, COU
for the rural service in 1904-O5.-Char-
lotte Chronicle.
Farmers Of Georgia, and of the cot
ton producing states. who are using
commercial fertilizers, what say you
to the recent % per cent. advance II
the price Of guanO. Do you realize
that the price Of the manufactured ar
ticle is rapidly advancing and that the
price of the raw material, cotton seai
out Of which the guano is made "a
fallen in value this season 40 per cent
lower than the price one year ago
And his too, in the face of a shorter
cotton crop than was produced in 1902
The most expensive element OF plant
food which goes INTO our complete fer
~tiliZerS is nitrogen, and cotton SenC
meal is the dominant factor Whicf
furnishes that element IN our factories
Shall we be content to sell our cOtto:
seed to the big guanO trust cOmpanic:
at 10 cents per bushel less this yea,
than last. and turn right round anC
pay $500 per ton on their guano? L
is said that John D.. Rockefeller g
control of a majority of the stock o
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Chemical Co. i,
July, and that gives him control G
the most of the oil mills and fertillze1
factories that were merged into tina
corporation a few years Iht
Standard Oil king is IN the bahit c
squeezing both ways; that is both th'
producer and the consumer.-Harvi'
Jordan in News and Observer.
King Peter of Servla has sent an au
tograph letter to President Roosevelt
informing HIM of his accession to tn
throne. Perhaps the manner in wh1ci
the president recognized the revolu
tionists in Panama raised King Peter
hope for similar observation-disclosures
Sun.
Apropos of the Florida ship cara
scheme The Richmond News-Leade
want to know, IF Florida ShoUi
take it into her head to secede in Or
der to secur contamination, who. Il
the light of recent events, could chaI
lenge her right?"
A short illustrated article in tn
December Cosmopolitan shows VIVA
the poorest farmer can accomplis
when driven to the last ditch. HON
made wind mills constructed Of 90
boards, barrel staves. scrap iron an
odds and ends of discarded threshin
machines and farm implements. cost
ing IN cash about 80 cents. have bee
made in the prairie states to irrigat
farms, pump water for thousands @
cattle and sheep. shell corn, and re
lieve the farmer of what used to b
the hardest manual Observation-Disclosures.