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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08
No wHANGDOODLEISM FOR HIM

Bestaer Creecy. the venerable and able
edissr Of The Elizabeth City Economist,
is an cut and out advocate Of h rati-
ficatioa Of the Panama canal treaty.
He is a stand patter'' on that sub
jeex. He leaves the moral question If
there be any mora question in it, a.
the door of the president. He sees
greet things for the south in the con-
struc6on Of the isthmian canal. He
predicts that it will make Wilmington
one ef the great cities along the At
lantie seaboard- Here is what he las
to say, taking for his text h word
''whangdoodieism' used by The Rich
moRd News Leader a few days ago
regarding the action Of those demo-
rate senators who oppose ratification
OF the treaty:
We do not know the meaning Of the
ioas word recently introduced into our
vocabulary by The Richmond News
ueader; but it Is too long for this br1~f
and hasty age. The newspaper afore-
said rses it in connection with the
PanaHa treaty, now before the Senate
for ratification.
"Tf It mean that the southern sen
ators who vote against the Panama
treaty are Whangdoodleists, then we are
not q Whandoodleist. because We be-
Hevs that the anama canal is tae
greatest enterprise now in the y Of
Ehe commercial world and that it W
HGo.r-osr -nCfl- n tho hanaft AZ raa
southern states.
glasses. The moral question, if there
be any neral question in il. Les at the
door Of President Roosevelt. If the
treasy was an assumption OF power. he
adone Is responsible for the assump ion.
II he plucked the forbidden fruit from
the treacherous hands Of Colombia. he
did q openly and above board. doubt
less after taking wise counsel Its
opeaness disarms it's felonious aspect
The neral question We leave TO the
presidents conscience. and tax the
golden apple that he offers US.
IF tie presidents action should
arise as a campaign issue. the 5 u n
viii be solid. We do not own a pound
OF lint cotton in the world, but we
would flock with the south We have
a coed deal OF human nature in us that
is embodied IN the phrase-'Our coun-
try in the right. but right or wrong.
our country The Panama canal vii.
exteHf the sale of cotton ard keep u1t
oottea above the IL cent mark 1t viii
rnak. New Orleans the emporium of
the world snd make the southern states
the eersmefcial center of the-uoris.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08

1t win put Norfolk second to New Or
leans In business and popuAt On. It
viii make Wilmington, n c.. n Of
the great cities along the Atlantic bsf-
der. It will make Elizabeth City in ten
years after the completion Of the canal
at Panama, and the inland waterway
via Dismal Swamp canal, a great and
growing inland city Of several hundred
thousand Inhabitants, with all modern
improvements and a population Of hap
py, enterprising and %virtuous people
that will attract the admiration and
intercourse Of the world"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08
l7liLiVeS Lost
Continued from First Page.)

The entire sides Of the car had been
chopped away when the work was
completed. Occasionally the rescuers
would desist upon an alarm beng
raised by the watchers, who declared
that the chcpping away of the coach
was letting the smoker down upon n
victims. So terrible was the force of
the collision that the smoker left the
trucks in it's backward rush, leaving
the trucks still upon the track. Not
a wheel in the entire passenger train
seemed to be off the track.
The freight train Jared differently.
The four cars Immediately behind the
engine were crushed n kindling.
Dead and dying cattle Uttered the right
OF way. while man which had escared
from the cars uninjured ran about
adding to the confusion.
ION the passenger train. in the sleep
er, was a young physician who walk
ed with a crutch as the result OF soma
spinal trouble. He was thrown down
and slightly injured, but was the first
man to emerge from the sleeper and
Immediately began aiding the injured.
He had a portion Of the chair car and
the berths in the sleeper cleared. and
to them the victims were carried. The
physician was without instruments or
medicine. and the only thing he could
do was to bind UP wounds with band
ages which he made by tearing up
sleeper sheets and pillow cases. and
giving the patients whiskey to deadea
the pam.
The young doctor found a fireman
who was injured in the leg. An artery
was broken. and he took it up with II
pen knife and tied it with a thread.
probably preventing the fireman from
bleeding to death. He performed in
Vulnerable acts OF a like nature before
the arrival OF the Topeka physicians"
TIE hero mentioned by Mr. Parsons
vas DR.. Frank nj. Bel of New York
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08

The Charlotte people are going to
get up a thr%ee-cornered fight on the
liquor question. There is a petition
started for an election on the three
propositions of license, ~dispensary
and prohibition. In such an cleo
ton will that issue prevail which re-
ceives a plurality of the votes cast
or must it secure a majority? If
the latter there might be no result.
Can a man vote for tive Of them on
the ground that it is two elections
m between license and prohibition
and between license and dispen-
sary? 1t is a fight of the other two
against license.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08

Miss Hovine Burrus has returned 10
college at Stauntoa, Va
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08

Panama has been In independent
state W months. stIlI we hear Of
ne steps being taken to establish a
be the people down there think an
nexation to the United States is so
soon to come that it Is not worth
h trouble of taking any further
steps in that direction.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08

The theatres in a number of south
ern cities are to be furnished with
asbestos curtains. Would it not be
well for our city authorities to con-
slider the question of having eur
opera house supplied with one Of
these protectors to human life dur-
ing theatrical performances?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08
ESCAPED PRISONER CAPTURED.
Officers After Others OF the Raleigh
Jail Breakers.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh. N. c., January 6.-Len
Spence. one of the nine negro pris-
oners. who broke Jail here yesterday
morning. was r~ecaptured this after
noon at Neuse, six miles from here
officers are after several other Of So
capped men,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08

That Hawaiian delegate in con-
gress had toe high an idea of the
constitutional rights of an Ameri-
can congressman. We have not got
as much liberty on this SIDE of
the Pacific as he thought we had.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08

Before Admiral Schley allows him
self to be doomed for the vice presi-
dency he should AXE a mental sur
vey Of Admiral Dewey's political rise
and fall
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08

What a glorious field for municipal
grafters Is Tammany's resolve that a
rigid investigation shall be made of
all the theatres in Greater New
York.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
Found at Last.

Hensley, Ark, Dec. 26th.- (Specia!)
That sure cure for Backache would
be a priceless boon to the people, and
especially the women of America, is
admitted by all interested in medical
matters, and Mrs. Sue Williams of
this place is certain she has ,ound in
Dodds Kidney Pills the long look ed
for cure.
II am 3S years DID," Mrs. Williams
says, land | have suffered with the
Backache very much for three
or four years. I have been treated
by good physicians and got no relief,
but thanks to God, have found cure
1T last and it is Dodd's Kidney Pills
I have taken only one box and it has
done me more good than all the doc
tors in three or four years. | want
all sufferers from Backache to know
that they can get Dodd's Kidney Pills
and get we'll"
Backache is one of the first symp-
toms of Kidney Disease. Guard against
Bright's Disease or Rheumatism by
curing it with Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
AGRICULTURE
|S g ~ AW'sS''',,:...,s,
NSas5 ams*sss:S&' NyssTVit;s;5
EIAlIuA@llSN e 'ss',,sz ;, ;,',~--- =.
Build Up a Field.

There is no lesson so effective as the
object lesson. We try to induce the
farmer to drain and fertilize all his
farm, but we will have little Impress
ion on him till we have been able to
place some object lesson before him,
such as inducing the leading farmers
in every locality to take one field and
build it up, as it were, to high state
of fertility. A few farmers have done
this under the instruction of profess
ors of the agricultural colleges, and
more are doing it. Their example Is
being followed by the farmers i'm
mediately around them, who have
been impressed ~ the things that are
shown.
BY the building up of field the
farmer himself will learn about his
land many things that he never knew
before he began that work. 1t is sur
prising how many things there are
about farms that their owners do not
know. There was one man that lived
in a locality where the popular i'm
preston was that the land could not
be drained. They said that the tex
ture of the soil was such that the wat
er simply evaporated from its surface,
but did not pass through 1t. Under
the instruction of the state agricultur-
al college the man put in a series OF
drains, and, behold, they worked to
perfection. The other farmers in that
vicinity came to see his drains and
were moved by what they saw to con-
struct drains of their own.
This man had land that was def
cient in potash. BY draining he low
cred the soil water more than a foot
and lay bare a layer of soil that was
rich in potash. The roots of the plants
went down to it and the owner of the
field was relieved of the necessity of
sending away for potash. He possibly
had never discovered this truth till he
began to build up field.
One field on a farm should be made
to bear the greatest possible crop;
that the value of the farm for crop pro-
duction may be understood. 1t will be
an experimental lot and its value will
depend on the care that is given it
and on the figures that are written
down as to its cost and products.
There are very few fields that cannot
be improved either mechanically, in
fertilizing or in moisture contents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
Pumpkins as Feed.

Results obtained by the Vermont sta
ton show that pumpkins compare fair
ly with silage for feeding dairy cows.
The pumpkins were cut and fed with
the seed. No harm resulted to the
cows and the quantity of the milk was
not affected. The Pennsylvania sta
ton. also reports satisfactory results
from using pumpkins in supplementing
failing pasturage, near the close of
the grazing season. Analyses and
feeding tests made by that station
show that in protein content the pump
kin does not equal the carrot or man.
gel, but in all these products protein
is comparatively insignificant, so that
none of them are much esteemed ex-
cept for succulency. The pumpkins
value for mixing with dry feed in COM
pounding feeding rations is therefore
apparent, and its use does not faint
milk and butter, which nearly always
follows the feeding Of turnips and car.
rota
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
Buckwheat. Rive and Fertility.

The discussion of buckwheat as a
feed reminds us to say that it has even
a greater value as a fertilizer of the
soil, as we demonstrated fully on
sandy land that had been reduced to
the Improbable point by too much
cropping to wheat that was several
years ago, however. Rye was used
in connection with the buckwheat,
but the element most needed was Sc
cured through the buckwheat, the rye
affording some feed during the opera
ton. and helping to put the soil in
good mechanical condition. First,
winter rye was sown in the fall, pas
tured then, late, and early in spring.
Then allowed to grow until in bloom,
when it was plowed under and sown
to buckwheat. That, in turn, was
plowed under and again sown to win
ter rye. The following spring red
clover was sown in the rye, when an
excellent stand resulted and the soil
was again in condition to play it's part
in crop growing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
FLY EATEN BY INDIANS.
Larvae of Insect Make Rich and M.
tritious Food.

According to a writer in the Scien-
tific American, perhaps the most sin.
gular food for human beings is the
larvae of fly which is common in
parts of California. This insect is
folnd in such vast quantities in Lake
Mono that 1t is washed upon the
shores in vast windows and can he
collected by bushels. The water of
Mono is very singular, seemingly
heavy and smooth like oil; so much
so that it resists ordinary wind and
refuses to become RULED. When the
larvae begin to appear Indians gather
from far and near and scrape them
ur. nlace the wormlike creatures on
cloths and racks in the sun and dry
them, when trey are beaten up and
huslSed, looking then like rice. The
Indians call the food "kooh-chah bee"
and many bushels are collected at
this time. That larvae are nutritious
is shown by lie condition of the In
dams, who soon grow fat on the rich
diet.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
MENU ALL IN ENGLISH.
Plain Names at Banquet Given to En-
gIish Lawyers.

Justice Grantham, treasurer of the
Inner Temple, says the London
Graphic, introduced an English menu
at the last Grand Day dinner there in
which it was stated: I'VE call things
by their names in English that you
may know they are no oddments. end
ments or kickshaws disguised under
some foreign or unknown name" The
fish was said to be "a salmon fresh
caught at Christchurch and some lit
tie fishes whitehall from the Thames.
Some of them called devled, but they
also do come from the Thames and
not from the River Styx." Snipe and
OK tongues garnished with Morella
cherries was the next course, followed
by lamb and hams from the ancient
cite of York" The last item was
"fatted quailes from Egypt and then
some sparrowgrass."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because 1t
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in %-pound pack
ages, and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. II your grocer tries to sell you a
1907. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
tiers and figures "16 ozs." Demand
Defiance and save much time and
money and the annoyance of the iron
sticking. Defiance never sticks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
CUSTOMS OF AFRICAN TRIBE.
Traveller Tells of People Low In the
Scale of Humanity.

scale or humanity.
Herr Eberhard Won Schkopp, who
has explored the interior of the Kam-
eruns district in western Africa, gives
an interesting account Of the native
tribe called the Bakollo. They are,
he believes, of Semitic origin, and,
having lived in the Kameruns district
only ABOUT 200 years, are called
strangers by other natives. They gov
ern by means of council of elders"
whose duty it is to judge offenders
guilty or guiltless. If guiltless they
are set free; if guilty they are put
to death. this being the only form OF
punishment known there.
According to the gravity of the
crime, the manner of execution varies.
and may be simple" or "complicat-
ed" Simple" execution means be-
ing thrown to the crocodiles. Com
plicated" execution consists of being
fastened to a tree and left to be eaten
by casual visitors, such as lions and
tigers, or being tortured until death
comes.
Cannibalsm is practiced by the Ba-
kokos, not because they especially
care for the flavor of the meat, but
because they feel that by eating every
particle of an enemy they are subject
ing him to the greatest indignity con-
ceivable.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
FIND CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS.
Science Has Demonstrates That 1t
Can Overcome the Disease.

The sanatoria, better than anything
else, have demonstrated the absolute
durability of tuberculosis. particularly
when treated in the early stages, says
DR.. S. A. Knopf, in the Worlds Work.
Some of them report as many as 20
per cent of cures, the great majority
of which are lasting as careful in
quiry among the discharged patients
constantly proves. Even more re-
markable results are obtained in the
treatment Of scrofulous and tubercu-
lous children in special sanatoria To-
Gated along the sea coast. In Europe,
particularly in France, Holland and
Germany, there are along the sea
coasts numerous splendidly equipped
sanatoria for that purpose. In the
United States we have thus far virtu-
ally none of these class of institu-
tions. am, however, pleased to state
the New York Society of the Poor
contemplates establishing such one.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
Danger of Too Much Fertilizer.

Fertilizer is a good thing, but too
much of it will kill plant growth. This
is fact with which the western
farmer who irrigates his crops oftimes
is brought face to face. Alkali is an
unquestiOned advantage to some crops,
the sugar beet; for instance, yet much
rich land in the irrigated country is
ruined by being alkalied. This is,
however, largely, if not entirely, the
effect of careless irrigation by which
the salts are brought by capillary at
traction to the surface soil where they
burn and kill the feeding roots of vege-
tation. Yet even where land has been
ruined by alkali it has been demon
strated by government experiments
that to restore it to fertility only re-
quires an ordinary system of either
under or open ditch drainage, by which
any excess of irrigation water will
carry off the alkali salts instead of
leaving the soil surcharged with them.
The calamity cry which emanated
from a writer in the New York Sun,
last year, that the entire west must
sooner or later be abandoned to alkali
had no foundation in fact, and was but
one of those picturesque phantasma-
gorias which occasionally embellish
the news sheets of that sober metro
politan journal.-Journal of Agricul-
ture.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
Perfectly Simple.

Trying to give an idea OF the size of
a molecule, DR.. w. Marshall Watts
SAYS that If drop of water were en-.
larged 10 the dimensions f the earth
its molecules would look like heap Of
8 .556 .OOO, 900 900, 900 OO0,O0O,O0 tennis
balls. If all scientific facts can only
be reduced to sporting terms this way
the general understanding of the woF-
ders of nature will be tremendously
ncreased.-Boston Transcript.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
Boat Made From a Pearl.

A jeweler in Turin has made tiny
boat of a single pearl. The hull is
finely shaped and might serve as a
model for racing sloop; the sail is
of beaten gold, studded with dia
monds, and the pinnacle light is per
feet ruby. An emerald serves as its
rudder, and its stand is slab of
ivory. Its weight is less than one
once, and it is said to have cost S..
900.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
Effect of Color on Plants.

and it shoots up very tall and spindly
Green glass causes similar effect
but not quite so strongly marked
Blue glass, on the other hand, seems
to dwarf vegetable growth.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

They didn't sing Beloved, 1t Is
Morn" at the wedding of certain
Atchison woman, but she has been
told every morning since, though in
different language, that it is time for
her to get up-Atchison (Kan.) Globe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
Tryinu Sprinq Wea.ner.

One of the odd observations of the
medical profession is that of the
deaths in all parts of the country, the
number is larger in March and April
Of each year, and smaller in October
and November
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
A Rare Good Thing,

"Am using ALIENS FOOT-EASE, and
can truly say would rot have been without
it so long, had known the relief it would
give my aching feet. think it a rare good
thing for anyone having sore or tired feet
Mrs Matilda Holtwert, Providence, r. L"
Sold by al Druggists, 25c. ASK today.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
Adds Milk to Water.

An Irish dairyman accused of add
ing water to his milk, vehemently de-
MED the charge. 1t turned out that
he had spoken the truth. He always
put the water in first, and added the
milk to the water.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

$4,000 per NJ. Lewis ''Single Binder"
straight DC cigar, costs the dealer some
more than other &c cigars, but the higher
price enables this factory to use higher
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

The chief difficulty about the ad.
vice against eating meat is that the
more the steak costs the more one
wants it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

The most expensive thing in the
world is to win bet, because you
have to celebrate it,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

A bishop may see the usefulness Of
the saloon, but the saloon never rec
ognizes the need of the bishop.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

Crying is boys way Of bluffing
Sometimes it works and sometimes it
doesn't.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30
All up.to.pate Housekeepers

use Defiance Cold Water Starch, be-
cause it Is better, and OF. more Of 1t
for same money.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

Talk all you please, but good men
have no monopoly of the offices.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalliblo
medicine for coughs and colds.-N. w. SAMUEL,
Ocean Grove n. j., Feb. II, 1900.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

A girl is never seriously i'll until she
loses all interest in romantic novels.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES.
Itching, Blind, Bleeding Protruding Piles. Your
druggist will refund money II PAZ0 OINTMENT
fails to you In TO IA days. 5Oc
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

That wives grow embarrassing be-
cause they have no time for reading
o. society.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

The rain falls alike .on the just and
the unjust, and furthermore, they
both get stuck in the same mud
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

Ambition, enterprise, effort and sue
cess are largely states of mind; happi-
ness is the United States.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

Among men wholesome fear of the
gun often conduces to slow and care
full speech.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-30

No man should be held responsible
for his fool relations.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-07-22
6. NJ. Jones Dead.
Arnour nranch at Rlehmond.

Richmond. Va. Special.-According
70 a telegram from Norfolk. Armour &
Company viii oren a branch slaugh-
tcring house here 70 relieve the meat
situation IN Virginia during the West
ern packing house strike. At the locs,
branch OF Armour & Company. how
ever. nothing had been heard ci such g
contemplated move. The prices OF
meats here have risen very little SO
far. Pork remains at the anti-strike
figure There are various and extensive
slauehtering houses already az this
POINT. and the work there is practically
unaffected by the strike in the West