The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-12-15
HERE AND THERE.

Three years ago a farm located nea'
Raleigh was bought, the price pa,1
being $4,000. The net profits on this
farm in three years was SO, 700. and it
was sold this week for something over
$4,000. adding another $4,000 10 the
profits of the transaction. SiXty-oi I'D
per cent in three years-twenty-cd
each vear-will do very we'll on a farm
land investment and its cultivation
1t shows what can be done in Old
Wake.-Raleigh Post.
The New York World has q seconi
cable from London asserting that Rich
ard Croker is urging Mr. Bryan to be
again a candidate for the democratic
nomination for president. What can
be Mr.. CrOker's object? If he were
we'll informed with respect to pubic
sentiment is the United States Ia
would know that Mr. Bryan has 10
chance of getting the nomination.
Just before the convention Of 1900 l.
was the understanding that Mr.. CrUk-
er wanted Mr.. Bryan nominated 50 rs
to kill him off for good" Was not
Mr.. Bryan killed sufficiently dead in
1900 to please Mr.. Croker?-Savannab
News.
Radium Is becoming cheaper a
London cable says the price quoted in
the newspaper articles = 80, 900 per
the prevailing rate is only e29, 767, 2:
$14S,S35 per ounce. 1t IS true that no
body could purchase an ounce Of the
stuff even at the higher figure named
because nobody has that much Of II to
sell; but it is not right to name a
fancy figure merely because there isn't
SO much of the stuff in the market
Meanwhile the chemists are contlsudily
experimenting and at least one Of them
has found a new source of supply Of
radium. The chemist is connected
with Princeton University and reports
that he has succeeded in extracting 4
small quantity of radium from carno-
lite, an ore found IN Utah. Should
this discovery pan out. it is likely that
the price of the wonderful new element
will be still further reduced. While
all Of this activity in radium circles
is going on. a brand new discovery ia
reported. A French scientist has found
a new substance which he calls actin
ium. 1t belongs to the radium grOun
amount of ii thus far secured IS SO
small that extended Investigations
with it have been impractica!}le. Th@
new substance like radlum is derived
from pitchblende.-Savannah News.
On. John. John. my little boy s
playing with your moving machinet"
He won't hurt it. maam! Don't you
worry. Brooklyn Life.
Visi1or-"My man, what brought you
here?" Convict Insomnia Mum Ga
cop couldn't sleep and so he was pa
trolling his beat."-Puck.
Mrs. Cramford-"Is that an expert
enced girl you have?" Mrs Cra bsndw
why. l should say she is, This is
the ninth place she's had this year. :
Judge.
SOftleigh-"Do you-aw-weally be-
lieve that a woman can make u fool of
any man." Miss Cutting-"Yes, -
nature doesn't get the start Of her
Chicago Daily News.
Yes. I'm a western man, myself"
THAT so? I've never been west, but L ex
pect to go next year to the st. Louis
Fair -Oh! that may be worth see
ing, but it won't be in it with the
''Ah, how are things in Chicago? =
Philadelphia Press.
Literary Cr1tic-''I liked your new
book, all except that last chapter.
see, for making the story end unhap-
ply" Struggling Author-"I did that
for a purpose. When the story IS
dramatized. the stage version will be
made to end happily, and it will get Il
lot Of free advertising, both in the lit
erary and dramatic columns Of the ga
pers. See?"-ChicagO Tribune.
New York city has a tuberculosis IN
firmary on BlackwellS Island which.
with nearly 3 years Of development, Is
now one of the great places Of the hIro
on earth. A new dining room, at a
cost of $4,000. has just been finishcd
it has a seating capacity of $50. More
than half the wall space IS given up
to windows The room can be opened
wide in summer and in winter tran
SONS above the windows admit ar.
About 1,5O0 patients are treated an
nually, and the cures are as remarka-
BILE as the best mountain sanatOriuns
show There are twelve different ma
tionalitles represented among the pa
TENTS and all sorts and conditions OF