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sATURDAY.....ooToBERs 81. 1908
AN INGENIOUS GATE.
1t Is the Invention OF a Missouri Mar
Who Considers 1t the Best Thing
} Ever Devised.

My gate is made of one by four boards
for ends and braces and b, and one by
six for the body of the gate. The ends,
one by four. and braces, are double. or
one on either side of body boards, and
are put together with three-eighths
bolt at each corner, and at each end Of
brace b, as shown by small circle. A
20 spike is driven through the center
Of the ends and brace b and body boards,
except where bolts are used, as brace
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-31
HANDY FRUIT PICKER.
For Occasional Use IL Can he Recon-
mended, But IL Doesn't Do
Hand Work

The cut is engraved partly from a
VIDE model of the hook part. sent us
py correspondent 1t consists of q
pronged wire hook, with small. open
mouthed bag beneath. both attached
TO a long handle or pole Its method
OF use is shown in the cut 1t has long
been in occasional use, and is kept
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-31
"Don,t Chew the R.~,

Do not grumble. If things do not go
to suit you, and all your efforts seem out
OF joint, as they often will seem, accent
the inevitable without complaint and
have another try. A chronic grumb bier
IS a nuisance to himself and all around
him Every one feels like giving a wide
berth to the one who is always complain
ing of hard luck. The man who cannot
meet trouble face to face when it comes.
and conquer it, will find a rough path
but the one who, with a stout heart and
cheerful determination. takes the bad
with the good, and males the best of the
bad and the most Of the good, will find
his pathway smoother for it.-Epitomist
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-31
W. We wa. Alarmed.

wedderly-I say, doctor, wish you
would drop IN and see my wife some
time to-day. I'm afraid she is going 10
have brain trouble.
DR.. Mixem--Why do you think thatF
wedderly-Because upon her return
from church last Sunday she actually
repeated the text, and never said a
word about what the other women had
on.-Cincinnati Fnnuirer.
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TRAVELLING MAIL BOX.
Follow Instructions Here Given and
Your Letters VIII Come from
Road to House.

Request is made for a device for run
ming mail box on wheels. II ground is
level from point of delivery to house
this diagram will send the box to and
from the house. If you want the box
at the road slip the wire up the post
from to A on the wire ABB; when you
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-31

the trap to get these When he catches
nine more and sells their hides to tan
merry ne will have tribe more than the
amount of his fine, 1857, and will be
liberated.
The county jail's front walls are be-
ing torn down and the cells, after all
lights are extinguished for the night. are
pverrun with rats, feeding on the crumbs
dropped from meals Of the prisoners.
A tanner in jail for drunkenness recoe-
hixed the value Of the hides of the big
rats. made trap and will probably again
sntoy his freedom in few days instead
Of serving out a sentence of a month.
The turnkey reported that other pris-
oners are now equally ambitious and are
making traps.
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.HE cases on record in which dogs
have risked their lives to save

he cases on RECORD IN winch dogs
have risked their lives to save
- their fellow creatures are almost
as numerous as the acts of heroism
ehronicled in the annals Of humanity.
The finest medal that was ever struck
would not have been too great reward
Tor the noble act performed by Bulge, a
spaniel, in a recent Hoboken fire. Bulge
lived at ALB Fourteenth street, together
with so carrier pigeons, a dozen fancy
rabbits, and her own four puppies, only
few days old.
Before the building was well alight Mr..
Seins, the landlord and owner Of Bulge.
managed to escape with his family, but
the carrier pigeons, the rabbits and the
puppies were forgotten. Bulge was alb
sent at the time, but returned half an
hour after the fire started.
For a moment she stood aghast at the
flames, and then. realizing that her fam
lily was In dire danger, she dashed
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-31

Of the house dead, with the porcelain nest
egg wedged firmly in its throat, the rep
tile having choked to death on the arti-
fetal egg. Mrs. Osterhage chopped the
body OF the snake in twain and four arti-
fetal nest eggs were disclosed. The snake
measured five feet and four inches in
length and was of the viper species.
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were $57s.75; or an average OF $4S.25
per month. This record is particular
ly remarkable in Missouri, where the
dairy cow has never been given the
chance and encouragement she de-
serves.
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RATS IN JERSEY JAIL.
PRISONER Is After Them to Earn
Enough Money to Pay the Fine
4 Imposed ON Him.

Catching rats to pay his fine is the seri-
GUS occupation of a prisoner in the Cam
den county Jail at Camden, N. J. He will
sell their skins for 20 cents each. Ulti-
mately these will be made into gloves
and grace the hands of fair women.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-31
A Practical Dramatf.t.

Friend-Why do you kill off so many
people in every act?
Dramatist-Thec company is small, and
that is the only way can work in all the
characters.-N Y. Weekly.
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A Missouri Dairy woman.

A woman in Butler county, Mo-, is
very proud of the fine 1ncome from
her dairy. which she manages herself.
She sells milk for ten cents a gallon
and butter for 25 cents a pound. Dur
ing the last year she has sold 2.19C
gallons of milk and 1.439 pounds OF
butter. The total receipts for the year
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-31
Encouraging.

Shell an afraid we shall have trouble
with servants after we are married
Ee--I won't mind that. dear, as long as
/. have you--Brookiyn Life.
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The Right Ring.

Clara-How was his voice when he pro-
posed?
Maud-oh. it had the right ring to it.
Town Topics.
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depraved being as a professional cut
throat must have turned various salto-
morales when suddenly, coming from
nowhere, a ghostly voice sang out:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
The Other Side of the Story .

Some weeks ago / read in your paper
a history of the crime of Mrs. Silver.
Of Burke county, said to be the only
white woman ever hung in North Caro-
lima. You will remember that she kill
ed her husband and was burning the
body by piecemeal, when she was de-
tected by the foul smoke issuing from
the chimney. I think it u to the
memory of the culprit that I should
tell your readers what her lawyer, the
distinguished \. w. WOOdfin. related
to me a short time before his death.
Mr.. Woodfin stated that he was al
WAYS nerfectly sure that Mrs. Silver
either acted in self defence or was only
guilty OF manslaughter. There was no
witness of the killing and the law did
not allow her to be a witness Her
statement to him. from which she
never deViated was that her uSban
came home very drunk, began beating
her with a large stick. Nhereupnn she
seized and axe TO defend herself, struck
one blow, not intending to kill, but II
was fatal. She was denSely ignorant,
did not understand that there was any
difference between murder, mauSlaugh-
ter and Self-defence, and concluded
that her only safety lay in destroying
the CORPSE. MI. NOouIIl Sdiu lIAbl IL
she could have told her story to the
Jury she would nave been promptly ac-
Quilted. AS her mouth was closed the
presumption Of law was against her.
After conviction he. at considerable x
pense, being so certain of her limo
cense, rode through the county for sig
natures to a petition for pardon. He
procured many. but the horror excited
by the burning, hardened the heart Of
the governor. as we'll as many Of the
neighbors. Mr.. WoOdfin made strong
impression On my mind and ] wish you
readers to hear the other side"
This case is similar to that of the
killing of DR.. Parker by the Harvard
professor, Webster. Many intelligent
men believe hat if Webster. instead Of
burning the body. had at once confess
ed the killing and claimed that it was
lone in a conflict in heat Of blood,
which he always asserted was the case:
he might lave escaped conviction OF
murder with malice aforethought-
Kemp P. Battle. in Charlotte Observer
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31

five or six miles after material. They
won't be half the nuisance that cats
and dogs and parrots are. It'll be just
like finding money in the road"
Mrs. Bowser spent the next half hour
making figures and advancing argu-
ments. but Mr.. Bowser's enthusiasm
was not to be dampened. There was
$40 clean profit to a hive of bees, and
twenty times forty made $500. He set
tied it that he would take a run out in
to the country next day and investigate
the bee question from a practical point
of view. and Mrs. Bowser was obliged
to be content with that. He was up
bright and early and prepared for his
trip and was more sanguine han ever.
Il said twenty hives and $500 profit
last night" he remarked at the break
fast table, but why not make it forty
hives and $1,000? There is no use
going into any fifteen cent speculation.
# l had q hundred hives l would go
out of all other business and attend to
bees. However, I'll let you know all
about it when 1 return. 1 propose to
thoroughly post myself"
MIS-. Bowser had nothing to say in
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
RANSOM AND THE VICE-PRESI-


We are glad to see that The Charlotte
Observer endorses the position taken
by The Messenger regarding Senator
Ransom as the democratic candidate
for vice president if that position is to
come south. When Editor CaldWe
approves of anything which is SAID III
The Messenger we feel pretty sure
that we have made TO mistake AFTER
quoting from The Messengers eoi'oiiai
The Observer makes the COLI
ments:
1.-The above is a conservative I'd"
of the qualifications, OF the old
Roman, and while there - ~ 80
inc his ability to ill the of1ce with
80 the fact cited regarding his
non,,laritv with all classes makes him
49, especiaIIy available for a po-
sition on the national ticket. The fact
+ba+ during the many years he SO ably
-anresAnted his state in the senate he
was as popular with northern re-
nJb1icans as with southern demo-
Gratis should operate to strengthen
him as a candidate. Too many demo
Gratis OF Ilc SOuIN, SSpSOAo+-
the Younger set, have apparently De
come convinced that in order to De
lcyaI party men they must make enc
mics of all opponents. Happily, how
ever. this idea is dying out along with
the belief in various other modern no
tons and isms.
1T is hardly to be supposed that the
nomination of a North Carolln1an for
vice president next year is more than
a possibility, but should the demo-
Gratis turn to the south for a candl-
date it is certain they could do no
better than to name ex-senator Ran
some.
Just think Of it! Wouldn't a national
ticket bearing the names Of Cleveland
and Ransom, for instance, be one with
which to raise the latent enthusiasm
OF those of the party who used to guide
its fortunes when it had hope of sue
cess? The nomination of either OF these
able men is of curse hardly to be
seriously considered, but the mention
OF their names is a sign of a return
to reason"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
IN ILLINOIS.

Two men killed, twenty wounded
and the Jail guarded by two hundred
state troops to prevent a l%ynching,
was the news from Danville, Illinois
yesterday, with prospects of an attack
on the Jail last night by a numerous
party of miners from a point a few
miles away. This horrible state of af-
fairs was brought about by a negro
attempting a criminal assault on a
white woman. One of the party at
lacking the jail and who now lies in a
hospital mOrtally wounded was a min
er from Westville and it is to aVenge
him that the miner are threatening
to attack the Jail. The mob. although
they succeeded in getting from the city
officers and lynching h negro who
killed one of their number on the street
was unable to tax from the jail the
rapist, the man they were after when
the killing on the streets took place.
The authorities showed good judg-
ment in not calling into service the
company of negro troops in the town
There is no telling what the results
would have been had these negro sol
diers been called out to protect a ne
gro fend against a mob bent on lynch
ing him for an assault on a white wO-
man
This is a de]plorabIe state of affairs
in this Illinois town. and the indica-
tons at this writing are hat the worst
is not over. We hate to record such
occurrences from any section of our
country: but if they are going TO take
place we are thankful each time that
it is not in a southern state.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31

Of. What do you suppose the yearly
profits are on a single hive of bees?"
Three or four dollars, perhaps, but
for goodness sake don't take up that
fad! To keep bees
Fad, fad! Is it a fad to make $40
clean profit in four or five months from
q single hive of bees? You are always
crying fad but 1 never had one in
my life. 1 go in for straight business
and to make money"
But you couldn't keep bees in town,
yoq know"
81 don't see why I couldn't. We
have a back yard large enough for at
least twenty hives. They would re-
turn q clear profit of $500 and take
care Of themselves. BY John, but I'm
going to investigate this matter! If 1
can add $500 a year to my income, why
not do it,"
Don't you see anything but profts?''
protested Mrs. Bowser as she realized
that she ought to have kept still. Each
hive will cost you So to start with.
You may have seen a beehive years and
years ago, but 0 know nothing Of
bees. You don't even know that they
swarm once a year"
"But 1 can learn, can't II" he replied.
perhaps, but it would be all nom
sense. The bees would be an awful
nuisance here, and the police would
Probably interfere. The honey would
not sell for much unless it was clover,
and where would your bees find clover
h.a city?'
"Let 'em go to the country for it.
Right here it says that bees often fly
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
Not An Epidemic.

Red Springs. n. c.. July %, 1903.
To the Editor:
Your paper Of the DIST inst. ha sa spe-
cial communication from Maxton, stat
ing tina there is an epidemic of diph-
liberia in the town Of Red Springs. IT
to this town I wish to deny
the truth of this statement.
Running through a period Of some
weeks We have had five cases. No new
cases for about a week. For a town
the size of MaXton five ase might
possibly be construed as an epidemic:
but not for a growing town Of the size
OF Red Springs.
Respectfully.
r. ". IIVERMORF.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31

We thought it was about time for
another accident on the Southern.
Three trains, a passenger and two
freights, were piled up in n wreck
Sunday morning at a point twelve
miles south of Charlottesville. No lives
were lost, but several passengers were
injured, among them four or five ladies.
All three trains were going in the
same direction. 1t was another case of
trains stopping on the main line and
being run into by a following train.
The passenger train was caught be-
tween the two freightS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31

The Wilmington police department.
would do well to follow the example
of the authorities of the city Of Flor
ence. s. c., in the matter OF running
all Migrants out Of town. The' police
there have begun an active warfare
upon this class Of it's undesirable citi-
zens. A good many nav been arrested
Of late n they are all told by the
mayor either to go to work or seek a
1oafing place elsewhere. This class Of
idlers is worse than the travelling
hobos, and should be carefully attended
TO. They never work, yet they are
able to get food and drln some now.
They either steal it or are feed by ne
gro cooks from the kitchens of their
employers. There are many Idle ne
groes in this city who will not work
when opportunity is offered. The offer
Of high wages for regular WORK is 40
inducement to them. Even ODD jobs
with good are refused. The do
not want to work and will not so long
as they can get whiskey to drink n
a meal out Of some ones kitchen now
and then. The road gang is the proper
place for all C characters. That is
better than making them move on"
for the latter simply infiicts some other
community with the pests. In these
days when labor is IN such demand
~able-bodied men without visible means
of support should not be allowed to
idle about the towns. If they will not
work for self-support they should be
made to work for the benefit of the
public.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
Freddy and the Fire.

In a New York suburb lives a law
yer who has an ei~ght-year-old son,
saws the New York Mail and Express.
Last Saturday there was an alarm
of fire, and the lawyer sent the boy to
find out where it was.
The lad came back in a few minutes,
out OF breath and angry.
Whats the matter. Freddy?" ask
ed his father.
Matter" exclaimed the boy. why
the Episcopal church was on fire and
a lot Of slobs came along and put
It out before the fire department got
there. What's the use of a fire de-
partment if other folks is goin' to in
terfere2"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31

The Kearsarge made a successful
speed trip across the Atlantic, She
reached Bar Harbor at 5:42 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. She left The
Needles on Friday afternoon, July 17th.
She made the trip of $500 miles IN 9
days and Az hours, her average speed
being 1916 knots an hour. A. times
her speed reached IS knots. She was
slowed down three times on the way,
once because Of the vicinity Of an ice
berg and twice because of dense fogs.
She left New York 53 days ago and
since then has visited Norway, Ger
many n England. She in that time
has steamed $500 miles and has spent
"a days at sea and 90 days in port. A
wonderful record for a warship. Cap
tain Hemphill says he can turn back
Immediately and make the trip in less
time. The ship is all right.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
Sign of the Holy Cross.
Nav RerI

New Bern. =. Q. JOurnaI.)
Mr.. ". H. oliver had on exhibition 4
tomato Of rather freakish formation.
The vegetable was plucked Monday af-
ternoon. and the popularity was dis
covered while preparing it for supper.
The carOlla Of the average tomato
has five to six clefts, while this one
only had four, which formed a most
perfect Maltese cross. as perfect and
complete as could be formed by human
hands. The cross was of a beautiful
pearly White in a brilliant red setting,
looking at a distance exactly like an
ivory Maltese cross on a crimson vel
vet cushion.
Some persons who viewed the slice
Of vegetable. thought that the figure
was significant, in that 1t appeared on
the day of the pOpe's death.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
Cure For Insomnia.

yesterday a friend who had heard
that I sometimes suffer with ;nsomn5,
.oiu iie OF a sure cure. writes Willis
oroohs IN the Brooklyn Eagle. Eat
d pint OF peanuts and drink two or
three glasses of milk before going TO
oeo, SAID ne. and I'll warrant you'u
be asleep within half an hour"
wen, like peanuts and milk 81 T
did as he suggested. save thai ~
the quantity down somewhat. ona
now, for he benefit of others VIII
be addicte with insomnia, 1 feel it TO
be my duty to repor just what han
pened so far as I am able this morn
ing to recall the details.
First, then, let me say, my friend
was right. 1 did go to sleep yery
soon after my retirement. Then. a
man with his head under arm came
along and asked me if 1 wanted to
with him when the dragon on which
l was riding slipped out of his skin
and left me floating in midair. While
1 was considering how l should get
down, a bull with two heads peered
over the edge Of the we'll and said he
"oO4o IlduI Ile up IL i WOulO nISl
climb out and rig a windlaSS for him.
SO. as l was sliding down the noun
tam side the brakeman came in and
L asked him when the train would
reach my station.
W passed your station 400 years
iago,' said he. calmly folding the train
up and slipping il into his vest
pocket.
AT this juncture the clown bounded
nto the ring and pulled the center
pole out of the ground, lifting the tent
AID all the people in it UP. up. up,
Wl1le | stood on the earth below,
watching myself 20 out of sight
among the clouds above.
| While L vas wondering whether 1
should ever meet myself again and
WHITTIER it would be quite polite to
speak to myself without an introduc-
| ton the stage driver tina
his horses had turned to stone; and
| before | had time to ask him what
he vas going to do about it I discov-
cred that my legs a grown to be so
long that l couldn't see my feet with
| out a telescope.
l was seated on a horn of the moon,
shortening my legs by tying bow
knots in them when the young wo-
man came out from behind the candy
| unit and said she had been look
| ing all over creation for me. and now
that she had found me h would
| never, never, never let me go from her
sight again. At hat instant, how
ever. l looked both ways from the
middle of the bridge. where 1 was
| standing, and saw a train coming to-
wards me from each direction. Then
| Just before the trains met. / looked
| over the edge of the basket M saw
| tina the balloon was upside down,
and rushing towards the earth with
| terrible velocity. So I opened the
| cellar down and went down stairs un-
| til I came to the attic. where l sat
/ down on the bank of a broad river
| and knitted a pair of wooden socks fol-
| a rattleSnake.
Then I awoke and found I a beer
l asleep almost ten minutes, all OF
| which assures me that there is much
| potency, not to say versatility. in pea
| nuts and milk taken just before go
| ing to bed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31

That's tough on the university aJh-
letes who went west to show the
Kansas, farmers how to harvest their
wheat crops. Six of them were knock
ed out by the hea the first day, while
the farmer girls, doing the sama kind
of work, We're singing songs Tor their
own amusement. There is much differ
ence between a hundred yard sprint,
throwing the hammer, ETC., and spend
ing the whole day al work in a Kansas
wheat field with the mercury up about
the hundred notch.