The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-18
HERE AND THERE.

pdAy, whose purpose iS To build q Sea-
board connection for Sumter through
Sumter. Lee. Darlington and Chester
field counties to McRee, ON the Sea-
board III Chesterfield county. The
road is to pass through Rishopville.
The capital stock is sec. 900 with the
privilege of increasing TO $500, s0o.-
Charlotte Observer.
We have some things to be thank
full for that other countries have not.
In the list we find one which fills us
with particular pride. Americans are
used 10 being taxed. and they submit
10 IL very becomingly. too. Our pub
lie expenditures on roads. public
buildings. charities, police and SO
forth arc heavy drains but we are
not called upon to put up for some
body's bridal tixn's The daughter
OF the grand duke OF Mecklenburg-
Schwerin is to marry the German
crown prince. The principatity over
which he presides is petty i'm size
but its duke is powerful aristocratic
and possesses the right to make his
subjects foot the bin. Just at this
time the people have n crop failure
tn face and though proud tina they
are to furnish the future empress OF
Germany. they are sending up a jus
tifiable wall of Observation-Disclosures
Sun.
The want of tact is often a deficiency
in a sense of humor. We have heard
or a minister, On his way to his own
wedding. who preached from the
text, Behold the bridegroom cometh."
and never knew why the people smil-
&c. 1t is said that the great Whitfield
preached the funeral sermon of his
own wife from the text. THE creature
was made subject to vanity."-Pres-
byterian Standard.
1t IS not generally known that the
scientific world is indebted to, Japan
for three notable discoveries for the
saving of human life. a japanese
bacteriologist, K~itasato, discovered
the bacillus of lockjaw. which. fact
led to the discovery of antitoxin.
which is regularly used as a proven
tive of the disease. Another Japanese
scientist. Shiga, has isolated the ba-
cliluS OF ~dysentery. 1t is hoped h
this Will result in an antitoxin Which
will be to this disease what ~vaccina-
ton is to smallpox. The third dis
covery is the most remarkable of the
three. 1t seems that there are III the
human body organs called the adrenai
glands A Japanese Chemist. Taxa
mine, extracted from these glonds a
peculiar substance known as adrena-
I'm. now much used in the practice OF
medicine. 1t is the most powerful IF
all chemical agents for arresting hem
orrhages of any kind, 40 matter where
located, and frequently saves lives
where internal bleeding takes place.
which can be reached in no man
ner.-Boston Transcript.
State TreaFurer Ben. Lacy. who is
in Arizona for his health is do:rs
some preaching. An Arizona panar
save he filed the pulpit of the Pres
byteria1 church last Sunday nfcf1t
and pleased a large congregation
Greensboro Record.
Tn Philadelphia, the city of Broth
erly Love, a manufacturer died re-
Gently who was known to be very
rich. Put to the amazement of friends.
he left an estate valued at sixty nil
lion dollars. This enormous FORUM.
was left to one daughter. Not ore
cert did he leave for beneicence. IL
is stated that ignorance as to. the
vastness of his fortune was due large
" to the fact that he had never shar-
ed any part of it with his fellow,nar,.
How poor: how utterly destitute such
a 1ifet-The Orphand Friend.
Our marriage must nave been
made in heaven" But my dress
makers bills are paid on earth. dear"
Life.
Brown--"Has your new fiat all rhe
modern conveniences?" Jones-"YeS
and all the modern inconvenience"
Detroit Free Press.
She-"Did you ever take your at
tomcoile apart to see how it worked?'
He-"Well, not exactly I have taken
it apart to see how it didn't work..
Yonkers Statesman.
You can't convince me-" said I'm
Gle Eben. dat dar ain somerhin'
wrong wifi de patriotism dat is m1s'ly
'stingui:hed by a headache de mex
mo'nin.."-Washington Star.
you must remember. Sam" said
the minister, that chickens come
home to roost." "Ah dunno bout
dat objected Sam; "dey don't git
home no noah eff dey rambles any
wheah neah mah res'dence."-Cleve-
Ian Leader.
The Judge-You plead guilty. then
of running your automobile ar a speed
OF fifty miles an hour and incidentally
running down and severely injuring
an old man." The Prisoner fmeekly)
II do. your Honor" The judge
Il sentence you to thirty days in jail!'
The Prisoner-"But, your Honor. I
own the car-I'm not a chauffeur
The Judge-"Humphi Why idn't you
say so before? Pay five dollars and
| git outi'-Puck
Energy all gone? Headache? Stom-
| ach out If order? Simply a case Of