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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10
sAMMY ANp HIs purY.

At the risk of inviting the heaving of some hard and sharp Civil Service Re form bricks in this direction we gently yet firmly say that We are sorry for Sammy. Samuel J. Veil. popularly. and we think justly, known as Sam my" is the unfortunate Clerk of the New Haven Civil Service Board. We lgather from some brief but lucid re- marks concerning him that have been made by distinguished and sure-enough Reformers that he is Clerk in defiance of Good Government, Civil Service Re- form, New Haven's wondrous Charter, and enough other things to fill out the indictment. We also gather from the aforesaid remarks that President Roosevelt has condemned him. We do lnot gather that the Emperor Will Iliam and the Czar of all the Russias have yet been heard from. but their re- marks concerning Sammy are undoubt- ! Iedly on the way, and when they come fit will probably be found that they are down on him too.
 Poor Sammy! Standing as he does in the very center of cyclone of Reform, darkened by the shadow of an investi- gation, oppressed by the charge that he 1 is guilty of the atrocious crime of hav- | ing friends, being the target of the very biggest guns, he is in lonesome and extremely dangerous position. What should he do? We hesitate to advise him, but it Is probably his solemn and painful duty to do the Japanese act. and thus take himself out of the way of the Wheels of Progress which are un- der the golden Chariot-body of Reform. He cannot rightly or safely persist in being a Foe to Progress. He must surely see that until he does this duty of his there can be no Progress. He is now in the center of a local cyclone. If he stays, there will soon be a national cyclone whirling around him, and soon after that there will be an international one. Would not Sammy like to have cut on his silent and yet eloquent tomb stone those noble and significant words He seen his duty and he done it?'' And wouldn't he like to have a high
 toned funeral? While we have no au- thority to say so. we verify believe that there would be at his funeral delega-
 ton from the Civil Service Reform As sociation as a slight token of respect
 for one who sacrificed himself so that the Wheels might roll on. Beautiful death! Beautiful funeral! Do it,
 Sammy, and so get and give peace. :
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10
HANDY BARN FIXTURES.
The Value of cnnveniences-Source of
 Economy.

The Value of Cnnveniences- Source of Economy.
 It makes a great deal of difference in doing work about the barn whether you have things handy or not. If man has a little ingenuity and puts it to good use he may invent some little things that will lessen his labors a great deal. Here are few of the many devices that may be brought into use
 with this end in view:
 A great many farmers have no regu- lar place for giving their cattle salt. Some throw it out on the ground or in some other out-of-thewa place, where the stock cannot get it at all. This is a loose and wasteful way of doing it. If one have basement barn with a shed under which the cattle run there will
 always be ground sill that is exposed under the shed part. Take a strip of board, say six inches wide and an inch thich, and nall 1t along the inside edge of the sill n such a way that the upper edge of the board will come up above the top of the sill at least two inches. This will make trough into which the salt may be put without loss. The cat | tie will not only stand here and lick the salt whenever they have craving for it, but they will often come down from the pasture to get a lick of it along in | the afternoon when it is almost milk ling time. Salt should always be kept | n this narrow trough This will always serve a good purpose when it comes to feeding the sheep grain i'll the winter and spring time. They cannot get nto lit with their feet, and losses are re- duced to minimum.
 A good many barns have been bnrned by upsetting lanterns which have been placed on the floor while the chores are being done With goodfarmers there is an unbroken rule that no lantern shall ever be set on the floor. A handy de- vice in this connection is to take a piece of an old pump chan, or even a bit of wire, fasten it to the ceiling behind the l horses or the cattle, attach an old har- ness snap to the lower end and hang
 the lantern on that. For use in the
 horse stalls. if one wishes to have his l lantern nearer to him than the chain
 or wire will permit, a couple of hooks
 fastened to the partition on either side
 of the stall, high enough up that the
 animal can be no means get against it,
 will serve a good turn when doing
 chores before daylight or after night
 fall, as sometimes must be done. The
 same device of piece of chain with a
 snap attached will answer a good pur-
 pose the COW stable. A nail driven
 into the wall will serve to hold the chadn
 back out of the way when not in use. 1 Many dungforks and shovels are
 broken and destroyed every year by be-
 ing allowed to stand around in the sta-
 ble in the way of the cattle as they
 come in or go out. The first one knows
 they are knocked down on the floor and
 the handle broken or otherwise dam
 aged beyond repair. Sometimes cattle
 have been seriously injured by running
 against the tines of the fork after it has
 fallen. It is wise to hang both stable
 tools up where they will not be thrown
 down. A couple of nails driven into the wall near post will hold the dungfork.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10
HUNTING RIVER PIRATES.
Parisian Police Have Adventuresom
 Times on fhe Seine

Parisian Police Have Adventuresome Times on the Seine.
 A black and stormy night--the whole sky Tapping with wind-we hunted the pirate of the Seine. In slim naphtha launch we slipped down from the old bridge of Sevres, past Billaneourt and under the dark mass of the Viaduct. There were five of us in the launch; four were men of the river police. was a mere guest of theirs, welcome for the sake of my company and cigars. We were after theives of all sorts, maraudeurs, wharf robbers, pick ers-up of cables and casks, pirates and poachers. Notably, however, we were hunting the men with the nets.
 It was ? in the morning when we shot the bridge at the Point-du-Jour and crept on toward Meudon. We had just passed the Poplars at Billancourt when the sergeant hushed us down. We car ried no lights and the launch went all most noiselessly through the toss and storm of the night. We heard clearly enough, however, the fall of oars soft but regular. Over near the Isle de hoDinson dark forms lowered on the water. At venture you might have guessed there were two skiffs and six or eight men. One of the boats glided Iout into midstream. There were two men at the oars. A third fellow was standing. Suddenly there came a swish as the net was cast, and then-in track of light the launch drove down on the skiff. So sudden and unexpect- ed was the on-fiare of our light, so un-
 looked for our appearance, that the poachers squealed as though they had seen ghost. One of the oarsmen flung himself overheard and swan for shore. The sergeant's revolver barked- he fired in the air-but the swimmer came not back. The other two poachers
 were mild hammered men. We lowed them to the Break-o'-Day. It was the first stage in their journey to New Gale
 donia, I understand for they were old and sinful.-Outing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10
ENTIRELY REASONABLE.

There are differences between hus-
 bands and wives which do not seem to
 Justify the divorce proceedings to which
 they lead But there can be no doubt
 that Mabel L. Ferbuyt of Chicago has
 reason and justice on her side in her
 effort to get away from Henry J. Fer
 buvt. This is a. part of her plaint: He didn't like my mothers bread, and said he wouldn't eat it and threw it at me-
 I always was good to him except when II had to wake him. He is one of those
 men that sleep so soundly that you |have to pound them and shake them to |get them up. I had to lift him out of
 bed and put him on his feet, and he didn't like that. Before going to bed he would tell me to be sure to wake him up at a certain time I would get him up as many as three times, but he would sass me and go back to bed. It is possible that a man can be de- fended for not daring to eat his wife's mothers bread. but he can't be de- lfended for daring to throw said bread lat his wife. Nor can he be defended for not waking up when he ought to or for ''sassing' his wife when she is try ling to wake him according to his own order. MT. Ferbuyt is evidently not fit to be married and he evidently is fit to
 be cast into the outer darkness of di- vorcc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10
NOT CH EERfNG.

| President Baer of the Reading Rail- road company said the other day that I the price of anthracite coal to the con- sumner would not come down. This wasn't very cheering to those who re- member how it wouldn't come down in | that cold and comparatively coalless winter. It is. also not cheering to have President Baer's opinion supported by an expert like Edward F. Parker, of 1 the United States Geological Survey, who was member of President Roose- lvelt's arbitration commission that set tiled the anthracite coal strike in 1902 MT. Parker is in charge of the coal division of the mineral bureau of the Geological Survey, and is an authority on all matters pertaining to the produc- tion and cost of coal, as we'll as the history of the coal industry. However disturbing the news may be to the pub 1 lie, MT. Parker says he is forced to agree Wlll IIeSlueIlL Bd6r L1dt coal prices are to go higher. He says the coal companies will have to crowd the cost as much as the public will stand, ljust as the president of that corpora ton says will be done. The reason for this is simple, and is found in the fact that the stock of anthracite is so low and is deposited in such inaccessible and out-of-the-way beds that the cost
 of production has increased tremen-
 dously. Some of the most important coal veins of the present day were re-
 garded as worthless from commercial
 point of view twenty years ago, when
 vast fields of fuel were uncovered with l in easy reach of the surface.
 Perhaps by the time coal gives out there will be. something just as good to
 burn. If there isn't we shall all have
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10
Consolation Prizes.

The druggist smiled a cheerful smile
 Upon the customer and said, We haven't any camomile.
 But here is something else instead. I quite recommend you to try it: You'll really be glad if you buy it. wouldn't deceive you a bit if could, For it's something that's equally good. The lovely damsel heaved g sigh,
 The youth had said to her: Be mine. T hate to turn you down, but l,
 She said, respectfully decline" And the youth turned away very sadly; He thought that he wanted her badly. But he soon found another engaging
 young belle
 Who suited him equally well On many things our hearts are set;
 Our disappointment is acute To find those things we cannot get,
 But always there's a substitute. It isn't the same thing precisely And yet it will do very nicely. Just make up your mind and the
 thought will console, That it's better, in fact, on the whole. Chicago News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

Turn it bottom upward and slip it over the nails so that the tines will be sup ported by the nails. Have these high enough to be out of the way of cattle coming in or going out. The shovel may be hung by the side of post also, so that the stock will not run against it--Edgar L. Vincent in Prairie Far mer
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10
GOOD LEATHER OUT OF THE SEA

Fish Skins Used in Making Many
 Things.
 A great deal of good leather comes out of the sea-not the kind of leather that comes from the backs of walrus, seal and otter; everybody knows about that. There is queerer leather which comes from the bodies of fish. An extremely fine quality of green leather made in Turkey, is manufactured from the skin of an ugly fish called the angel fish. This is a kind of shark-a shark with
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

The president of a trolley company in the eastern part of Massachusetts in arguing before the railroad commission for a change in the system of fares made the statement that as the result of various methods employed by pass engers to cheat the company the road lost fifteen thousand dollars yearly. Many people seem to think it is not wicked to steal five cents from trolley company.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each insertion. Five Cents Word for a full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch, one insertion, $1.20: each subsequent inser- tion. 40 cents; one week, $S.2O; one month, s10; one year, $40.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, ss FOR SIX MONTHS. s6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES. 2 CENTS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the president of the Southern Confederacy. has declined a gift of $1sO from the Georgia Daughters of the Confederacy, on the ground that she cannot accept gratuities from any source.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

A Philadelphia layman addressing a denominational union announced that accordingto his belief pew rents are es- sentially unscriptural and selfish, add ing that it would be hard to imagine our Lord and Master preaching the Sermon on the Mount only to those who had re- served seats.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

Rev. Reuen Thomas, D. D., of Brook line, Massachusetts, doesn't think much of the late Senator Quay. He says of him: The man whom the people generally need to be delivered from is precisely this kind of man and men of his order They are worse than all im- ported anarchists. It is anarchy in high places. The worst form of an- archy is that which masquerades with the word patriotism faring on it's brow. To vote for man who is a corrupter of other men simply because he be- longs to your own party in politics is treason against the country and against God. Men who betray public trusts, who demoralize and debauch whole communities for their own selfish ends, for these there are nothing fitting but unsparing condemnation and detes- tation. They are guilty of treason to the people. Our duty to God-to love our neighbor as ourselves-demands that we put such men in the pillory and peIt them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

Professor w. LeConte Stevens, acting on the theory that the metric system can only be made popular n this coun- try by adopting it's decimal plan while changing the present names of familiar weights and measures as little as possi- ble, suggests the following changes: Let the yard be made equal to the metre: let the foot be made the fourth instead of the third part of a yard, and let it have ten instead of twelve inches; let the pound be equal to half a kilo- gram; let the quart equal the litre; let the ton be 1000 kilograms; let the pint gallon, peck, and bushel be defined in terms of the quart. Professor Stevens points out that in this way the inch would be shortened less than per cent, but he admits that even this slight change would inconvenience me- chanical engineers and machine manu- facturers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

to do as many had to do in that mem orable and comparatively coalless win ter.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

According to a rough census made by Professor Haman, of Switzerland, there are 100000 Jews in the world. Of these it is figured that the United States has 100000, Europe 10,OOo,0OO and countries outside of Europe s,0O0,- O0e. Professor Haman gives this dis tribution of the Jews in Europe: Rus sia, 5,o0O0o0; Austria Hungary, 1,S60,- OOo; Germany. 5ss,Ooo; Roumania, Soo,- 900; Great Britain. 100000; Turkey, 12o.- o0O Holland, 97OOO; France, 77,OOo; Italy, 5o,OOO; servia, 5000; Switzerland, 1200O; Denmark, 40oO; Belgium, 5000; Spain, 2.500, and Portugal, only 30O
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

One who knew Jokai says that the novelist never troubled to work out his plot in detail beforehand He trusted to his imagination for guidance as to what his characters were to do at a given moment, and often when he had completed a chapter of a feuilleton which half Hungary was waiting to read he would remark to his friepds, as the printers devil rushed away with the copy, T should like to know what those people will find to do and say tomorrow" Jokai started the char acters on their careers, eulogizing them if he liked them or caricaturing them if he meant them to excite amusement or derision, and then let them work out their own destinies across the pages of his manuscript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-10

THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-01
CASE
George Judge Will be Tried This Al
at $3.50.

The case against George Judge, he
young white man arrested Saturday
night upon the charge Of arson, which
was to have been tried before Justice
Fowler yesterday at IL O'Clock, was
continued until this afternoon at $3.50
o'clock. The ase was continued at
the request of attorneys for the de-
Tense.
Judge still maintains that he can
prove an alibi n is having a num-
Der of witnesses summoned for thls
purpose. The prosecution is also at
work securing evidence and it is said
that they have witnesses from each Of
the houses who will testify that they
saw a man leaving the house a short
time before the fire. From the de-
scriptions given the man who was seen
leaving the different houses looked
very much like Judge and was dressed
like him. Mr.. w. J. Bellamy has been
employed by Insurance Commissioners
Young to prosecute the case against
Judge. Judge is represented by Messds
B.. G.. EInpie and Herbert McClammy.
The penalty for a crime of this
nature is death.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-01

Two Marriages Solemnized-An. SOD
Well Entertains-FAlsc AisrD q
Fire.
Especial to The MessenSer.)


Goldsboro. N c., December a.
Christmas week IN Goldsboro has pass
ed OF without the usual LIST of casual
tiles Good cheer Vas evident On an
sides. The poor of the city were hooked
after by those in afiuent circumstances
and everybody seemed TO enjoy the
great feast. The absence OF any suKer-
ing from accidents that usually follow
in the wake OF the holidays makes the
occasion the more enjoyable and leaves
no a impressions to mar the pleas
ures that have beer so hilarfously Gu
yoyed.
A false alarm OF fire was turned In
from box So yesterday afternoon by a
young colored boy named Jim Darden.
The case came up before Mayor Hood
this morning and the boy was sent to
the roads for thirty days. The boy
Claimed that he was paid ore dollar
by some white boys to turn In the
alarm, but he could not prove his state
ment.
A fire which started from a stove
In Mackay's drug store burned all
during the night last night and de-
SlTOyeO the lfOOT drOuid the stoFC- II
Is thought that the absence OF any
5raft in the building prevented ve-y
serious damage from being done.
The marriage OF Mr.. Albert Pickett
to Miss Mary Aaron At the home OF
the brides parents in Mt. Olive last
Wednesday was an event Of much i'm
portance to the society circles OF that
town. The home of the brides parents.
Mr. nnd MrC n Aaron nraz1nrnd
a picture OF rare beauty with its pro-
fuse decorations OF bamboo, holly and
mistletoe. Rev. ]. n. Tolar performed
the ceremony. Mr.. r. ]. Southerlani.
Jr., was best man and Miss Leila Aaron
was the maid of honor. The attendants
were Mr.. Henry Switzerland and Miss
Margaret Aaron.
A most delightful luncheon with oov-
ers for twenty-seven was given at the
Country Club on Christmas eve from
II a. m. 10 1 y. m. by Mrs. Sol. W~il
complimentary to Mrs. Sol Einstetn-
1t is hardly necessary TO say that 1t
was an enjoyable affair in every way
and will be remembered pleasantly by
all whose good fortune II was to be OF
the favored party.
On Christmas eve Mr.. John R Ad-
ans, a prominent farmer Of New Hope
township. led to the hymeniai altar
Miss Annie Boyetta. daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. John A Boyette. Of the same
neighborhood. The took
place In the parlor OF h home OF fhe
brides parents and was witnessed oy q
number OF the relatives and FRIENDS or
the contracting parties. The home was
beautifully decorated and q handsome
supper served after h ceremony.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-01
RArHER SEVERE
Much Comment I'm Regard to Num-
Der q Persons Locked Up Christ
mas.

Much comment has been heard on
the streets In regard TO the large num-
Der OF people locked up Christmas and
the fines imposed upon them. It may
have been that the police were given
very strict orders and that In making
the arrests they were only following
their instructions.
As a general thing considerable lati-
tude is given to people on Christmas
and even IL they do infringe on the
law it is over looked.
Wilmington had far more than her
proportion Of offenders on Christ
mas. Washington City had one
hundred in the Iock UP as a result Of
Christmas celebrating; Wilmington for
ty-four. II all the fines and costs I'M
posed on people tried in the police
court last Saturday were paid the
the amount would exceed three hun
dred dollars. To look at this sum it
would leave the impression that there
must have been some cases of agra
waited form blu there were not, hey
were all Of q very trivial nature, the
~offense in the majority OF cases being
drunk and disorderly. Several of the
Christmas cases, which had been con-
tinued, were tried yesterday and there
are still others that will not he dis
posed OF until Wednesday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-01
FIRST TEST.
Street Cars Fender Scooped First
Victim Yesterday.

But for the fender on a car Mr.. r. w.
Riley msght have met with a serious
accident yesterday afternoon. He was
crossing Front street, between Chest
nut and Grace. when suddenly, and
without the slightest warning. his feet
were knocked from under him by a
street car. Luckily for Mr.. Riley the
fender caught him and he escaped in
jury. The motorman it seems saw Mr..
Riley but not in time to stop the car
before 1t struck him. Mr.. Riley is the
first one to test the efficiency Of the
new Tenders. This shows how impor-
tant it is to have tenders. Here are
two accidents within a few days OF
each other, one happens when a car
is without a fender, the person struck
is knocked under the car and both
legs cut off; the other happens when
tenders are on the cars, the person IS
caught in the fender and is uninjured.
There is quite a difference in the re-
suits.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-01
HEARING AGAINST A. C. L.
Georgia Peach Growers Association
TO Have Hearing Before Interstate
Commerce Commission.

Boston, Mass, December 2e.-
Charles A. Prouty of the Inter state
Commerce Commission gave a hear
ing today in the cases of the Georgia
Peach Growers Association against
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad and
others, in adjournment of a hear
ing held at Atlanta, Ga, a month
ago. Several Boston dealers in Geor-
gia peaches stated that the tang
p%ortation facilities afforded by the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad between Boston and Jersey
City, were inadequate. One witness
declared that rates were exorbitant.
Representatives of the railroad con-
tended hat the unusual nature of the
service required from the road made
1t necessary for it to insist on higher
rates in order to make the business
even fairly profitable. No decision
was announced.