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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24
The Breakino Rails.

mat steel rails have broken during
the last three months in unprecedent-
ed numbers no one seems to deny, but
why they are breaking is by no means
clear. The railroads put the blame on
the rail manufacturers and the manu-
f%acturers hold the railroads response
BILE The railroad managers say the
rails are not made with due care, that
there is an excess of phosphorus in the
ion and that the manufacturers are
Indifferent to the specifications on
which contracts are based. The manu-
facturers Assert that the increase
in traffic is the cause of the
breaking. The rails they say are not
heavy enough to stand the high speed
and the heavy rolling stock of the
present day.
The statistics do not prove anything.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

Mr.. J. c. Thompson is exhibiting a
strange bird of the owl family which
no one seems to be able to classify. It
has a large round head, no ears 50
common to owls of this size, brown
and black speckled, with white face
somewhat resembling a monkey. 1t
makes a peculiar blowing sound when
disturbed but does not seem to be
vicious. The bird was caught in a
steel trap but with the exception Of
one injured toe it was not hurt and
eats alright. Mr.. Thompson has had
it about three weeks.-Henderson
Gold Leaf.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

part of the funds the people of each
state had paid into the federal treas
ury in way of taxes. But when the fed
eraI government proposes to supervise
or take a hand in the conduct of the
education of the youth of the land
and attempts to buy that privilege by
appropriation of funds for school pur-
poses from the natiOEa! treasury self
preservation should require every state
to refuse the offer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24
TERRIBLE AFFAIR IN GEORGIA

Two Negroes Lyncfled, One White
Man and Two other Negroes Dead
and Seven Other Persons Injured in
Attempt to Arrest Negro for At
tempted Criminal AssualT.
Caxton, Ga. May 21.-Two negroes
lynched ,sOne white man and two other
negroes dead, and seven other persons
injured is the result of an attempt to
capture a negro who last night at
tempted a criminal assault upon Mrs
Laura Moore, a widow living near
Manassas, Tattnall county.
The dead are: John Hare, white.
farmer; Sam Padgett. a negro, i
daughter OF Padgett, aged 10 years.
Lynched: PadSett's wife and son.
Injured: w. B. Pearson, may die;
James l.. Daniel. may die; DR.. J. l..
Kennedy; a son of Padgett;. Elem Pad
| gett; two daughters Of Sam Padgett.
Fifteen persons early today sur
rounded the house of Sam Padgett, a
negro, whom they suspected of harbor-
ing another negro who had criminally
assaulted Mrs. Moore, and demanded
to be allowed to search the house.
Permission was given, but when with
in thirty feet of the house, those in
side the building opened fire ON the
| posse, instantly killing John Hare and
seriously wounded Barlow Pearson,
James Daniel and DR.. J. E. Kennedy.
The posse returned the fire, killing
Padgett and one of his daughters,
| aged 10, and wounding two other girls.
| aged six and thirteen, respectively, and
two of Padgett's sons, aged 20 and %.
The posse then retile ed for reinforce
ments. The news spread rapidly and
by 10 O'Clock five hundred armed men
were on the scene and started in pur-
suit of the negroes who lad fed. One
Of them was captured M taken before
Mrs. Moore, but she failed to recognize
him. The negro, however, was iden-
titled as the man who shot Hare, and
he was started for the Reidsville Jail
together with Padgett's wife and son.
On the way the officers were met
by about Is men who took the negroes
from them. The woman was told to
run and as she did she was riddled
with bullets. The son was shot to
pieces where he stood.
The negro who assaulted Mrs Moore
has not been captured, but it is report
ed that he is surrounded and that in
all probability he will be killed.
Sheriff Edwards and deputies took
all the prisoners from the Jail at Reds
Vile and left with them to elude the
mob. who it is reported, will attack the
Jail tonight. Great excitement pre-
walls.
Hare was a native OF Monroe N. C.
and leaves a widow and several small
children.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24
NV Rest Friend.

Alexander Benton, Who lives on Ru-
raj Route 1, Fort Edward, N. Y, says:
"Dr. Kings New Discovery is my best
earthly friend. 1t cured me of asthma
six years ago. 1t has also performed
a wonderful cure of incipient con-
sumption for my sons wife. The first
bottle ended the horrible cough. and
this accomplished the other symptoms
left n by one, until she was perfect
ly Well. DR.. Kings New Discovery's
power over coughs and colds is sim
ply marvellous" No other remedy has
ever equaled it. Fully guaranteed by
r. r. Bellamy, druggist so cents and
$1.00 Trial bottle free
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24
UNCLE REMUS' MAGAZINE,

Announcement was made some time
ago that Joel Chandler Harris would
begin the publication Of a magazine n
Atlanta to be called "Uncle Remus'
Magazine" Every person familiar
with the heart to heart talks Of "Uncle
Remus" with his missus' little boy
will be glad to know that the venture
Of the magazine has been launched,
and that, too, with the brightest pros
poets for success of a typical southern
magazine. Our readers must not up
pose that the periodical will be made
up of folklore stories Of the kin with
which Mr.. Harris has so charmed the
readers Of his book and of his news
paper sketches, entertaining as they
were. His magazine is a work devot-
ed to the development of southern lit
erature. Among his contributors he
has some of the foremost writer's of
the whole country. Thc Georgian, of
Atlanta, speaking Of the first issue
1--WE are sorry to say we have not yet
seen a copy says that it is alive
alert and vibrant with interestingness,
that it is not merely promising of good
things in the future, but is a fulfill
ment of the best hopes that have been
entertained for the venture. We Wish
all success to this new southern liter
airy enterprise. We are told that the
magazine has a plant of it's
own set up in a building erected
especially for the purpose. Uncle
Remus has an able corps of assistants,
all energetic young men 1t looks like
the long-cherished hope of the south
for a representative southern maya
zine is to be realized.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

Princess street in the neighborhood
of Front is in a rather chaotic state
just now. but such condition means
progress. A town which never has its
streets torn up has reached the end OF
it's growth. That town whose streets
are never blocked by debris from torn
down old buildings and piles of mate
rial for modern houses or whose
streets are never torn up for the lay
ing of modern Improvements has
reached the end of its growth and it's
future has no prospect of advancement
over present conditions. We do not
want any dead town down this way.
We want progress and advancement.
The only thing the public asks is that
those tearing up the streets be requir-
ed to put the paving back in as good
condition as it was before.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

e..,. tho The Kind Ytu Have Always Bsugtt
Signature 'ss &zWNzXM
Who Said Tf,iS9

"The public character of a railroad
makes the control of it a public as
we'll as a private trust in every hand
THAT holds it, whether the hand be
chosen by a court or otherwise. The
truth has been too long neglected. and
storm signals are flying. Let it be un-
derstood that there are no favors 60
ing, open or secret. but that it is fare
and fare alike all around. = & + If !
have lost business by this course there
is no evidence of it on our books
Who said this?
The late Mr.. Spencer? No.
The present Mr.. Finley? No.
Mr.. Mellen, of New England? No
Tt was Receiver hudson Hartman,
now in charge of $500 miles of rail
road running through four states and
the province of Ontario. But the fact
that it might easily pass for a quota
ton from any one of numerous recent
railroad speeches indicates that a new
era is dawning in American railroad
Observation-Disclosures Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24
WILMINGTON. NJ. c.
FRIDAY, MAY "a, 1907
NEW IMMIGRATION PLAN.

New Orleans has established a new
plan of immigration. The whole coun-
try will watch it's development with
interest. 1t might be termed infantile
immigration. The plan is to bring
into the state of Louisiana a number OF
waits and orphan children from the
cities of the north and secure for them
homes among the residents Of the ru-
raj districts where they will grow up
as citizens, gradually imbibing the
ways, usages and ideas of the people
among whom they are raised. 1t
strikes us hat the idea is a good one
if the plan a be made to
work practically. At any rate
the people of New Orleans have
faith in their plan and they have
shown their faith by their works, for
they have recently brought to their
state one hundred and fifty-eight chill
d~rengunder seven years of age, secured
from the charitable institutions Of New
York, whom they nave distributed
throughout the rural districts of their
state. The children will grow up as
citizens of the state; they will, without
feeling the transition, engraft them
selves on the new life. When grown
men and women they, will be southern
people, never having to undergo the
wrench of. change of nationality or of
change from one extreme section Of
the country to another, which is almost
as great as the other. And then just
think what a change IN the life of
these poor little foundlings and out
casts from the dens and novels Of a
crowded city to which they are likely
to return after reaching the 6 of dis
missal from the asyluns and other
charitable institutions, to the broad,
health-giving, moral-pIomoting life Of
the Village OF Lue ldIIH Ol Luc SouIA.
For years societies in England have
been carrying on the work Of sending
waits from city slums to the open,
free and invigorating life of Canada.
The results have been most successful
We believe that with proper precau-
tons the same good Work can be done
in this country. 1t is we'll worth the
experiment, and We are glad to know
that it has been undertaken by this
society in New Orleans. The whole
country will watch the development
of the movement with great interest.
This is a question in which we think
religionists as well as political econo-
msts are greatly interested.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24
NATIONAL AID TO EDUCATION

A new educational movement at the
south is for the federal government
to take a hand in public education. We
dc not think the south would ever con-
sent to such Il proposition. This would
be one long and mighty stride beyond
the present Ogden educational move
ment whose tendency is &c throttle pub
could be one thing woIsa than the
training of public sentiment through
education of our rising generation in
the way the money power of the north
wishes it to be bent, it would be that
of supervision of pupnc education by
the federal government through its
control over the reverHes of the public
educational system. We do not be-
lieve the states of the union in any
section would be willing for the gov
eminent at Washington to contrOl the
AANSS~A VI puOIIS cOuNtIAAoh IL
states just because it issued an annual
sum to aid in keeping open the pub
lie schools. Were the federal govern
ment to annually appropriate a certain
sum to be divided among the states en-
some equitable basis and the part al
lotted to each state 10 go into thai
states school fund TO BE expended just
as are the funds raised by state tax
alton and to be entirely under control
of the state authorities, then there
would be no objection to or danger in
the states accepting such appropria-
ton; for it would be no gratuity, but
would he a return 10 the states of
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

Here We have Elder Hemphill. Of
ting in his sanctum. hard by the bat
terry. and almost within sight and
sound of Fort Sumpter, quoting a Gig
arctic kid from Vermont, to the dis
credit of the M~ecklenburg Declaration
of Independence. Well. Well! The
Elder seems to be hard up.-Charlotte
Chronicle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

Press dispatch: Four sons at once.
St. Paul, Oct. 5th, 1906. A special from
Mondovi says, Mrs. inc. Silvecson
gave birth to four boys" She's evil
IDENTIFY a great friend of HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea. So cents, Tea
or Tablets.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

Kidney complaint kills more people
than any other disease. This is due to
the disease being so insidious that IL
gets a good hold on the system before
Il Is recognized. Foley's Kidney Cure
win prevent the development OF fatal
disease If taken in time. Jas. C. Shep-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

Piles get quick and certain relief
from DR.. Shops Magis Ointment.
Please note it is made alone for piles,
and it's action is positive and certain.
Itching, painful, protruding or blind
piles disappear like magic by it's use.
Large nickel-capped glass jars so cents
Sold by Robert r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

A girl who has, fallen heir to n Of
these Rocky Mountain Tea complex
ions is to be envied. Girls whose moth
ers and gradmothers took HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea conveyed a bless
ing on their children. +. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

Blotches, pimples flesh worms, black
heads are unsightly and denote impure
blood. HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea will drive them aw
people clear to the top floor of health
and happiness. So cents, Tea or Tab
lets. r. R. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24
Don't Paw AlimOny,

to be divorced from your appendix.
There will be no occasion for it If
you keep your bowels regular with
Dr.. Kings New Lite Pills. Their ac-
to be divorced from your appendix
never has to make the least
complaint. Guaranteed by r. r. Bel
lay, druggist. % cents. Try them.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

1t looks like all things are not alto
gether lovely for Mr.. Taft in the west,
else why is it considered necessary for
him to begin a stump-speaking tour
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

Governor Cummins, of Iowa, is men
toned for the Vice-Presidency on the
Republican ticket. Platform, the Roose
welt idea--Philadelphia Inquirer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

The richest man got the senatorship
in Wisconsin of course. Pro1ably you
guessed that would be the result
:. IGdelDnia Press.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

The sentence of a New York woman
to sever years imprisonment for kill
ing a man reflects upon the value Of
the man.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

AS Professor Woodrow Wilson says
tobacco chewing may make d man
think. We know what it makes a
woman think.-New York Mail.
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Now Johnnie" asked his teacher,
mer what animals do you see rowing
about?' B~oarders." was the prompt
reply.-Judge.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-05-24

]. Hamilton Lewis says that the de-
mocratic nominee in 1908 will be some
whose name is not now considered
seriously. Next!-Philadelphia North
American.
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s.srs the The KIM feG faa k!TaFs nsAi
ssna.TEs L~~
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-08
Roosevelt Sentiment Over
Whelming.

Gov. Hoch, of Kansas. The Sena-
tor (Long) knows as well as do that
If the nomination were to be made
tomorrow Roosevelt would be select
ed by a practically unanimous vote.
You hear no other name mentioned
In the west. When Mr.. Taft is dis
cussed he is spoken of merely as the
man who most nearly represents the
Roosevelt policies and the Roosevelt
ideas. He merely reflects the Roose-
velt strength, as the Roosevelt repre-
sentative. If it should come to pass
that the president cannot be persuad-
ed TO run again, why feel certain
that Mr.. Taft will be the candidate
selected. But until the president
puts himself emphatically and finally
out of the race it is foolish to talk
about any one else for the republican
nomination. Senator Long will be
the first to agree with me when 1 say,
as did the other day that those who
are against the president would he
run over as by herd of Texas steers
If they made their presence known.
There is an absolutely overwhelming
sentiment for him, and none but
Theodore Roosevelt himself can keep
him out of the White House for an
other term.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-08
Death OF Andrew Nelson.

Andrew Nelson who was living
with his daughter, Mrs. Anna K. Eli
ason, nine miles west of Canton, died
during the night Of October 81, in
his s9th year and was tenderly laid
away in the bosom of mother earth in
Forest Hill last Saturday afternoon.
Some ten years ago Mrs. Eliason
lost her husband through an accident,
the blasting of a rock we believe, and
three years ago she went to Denmark
returning accompanied by her aged
father, Andrew Nelson, who enjoyed
the comforts of good home with his
daughter.
The funeral service was held at the
home of his daughter and was con.
Quoted by Rev. Thompson of the
Worthing Congregational Church
Undertaken Byrnes had charge Of the
funeral arrangements.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-08
City Auditor.
Stole the Wrong sack.

/ s u
Fred Smith who carries mail On
Route 3, farms a little within the
limits OF a good sized garden and
among other things had nice lot Of
potatoes when they were dug. He
sorted them out carefully into three
grades The first and second grades
had all been removed to winter quar-
ters just as supper was announced. !.
One sack full of nubbins, runts and
warts was left until after supper, but
while Fredrick was engaged in the.
supper pleasures some ornery son Of
gun without fear OF law or Fred,s
big fist slipped into the patch and
stole the sack Of warts. Fred in
speaking Of it to LEADER reporter
laughed and laughed over how that
measly thief got fooled. Fred said
he would have given sack Of good
potatoes to have seen the thief and
heard his remarks when he opened
the sack and observed the fruits Of
his sin. Fred says IL the thief will
bring back the sack he will give him
q bushel Of good potatoes, but how
ever much the thief may need pota-
toes we doubt II he is brave enough
to accept Fred's generous offer, but
the LEADER after publishing this
will not vouch for Fred's behavior
after delivering the reward hence we
do not think fhe sack will be return
ed. There are funerals enough as it
fc
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-08
Parcels Post.

Wallaces' Farmer: The postmaster
general has put himself behind the
project of parcels post, and it looks
now as though something would hap
pen, provided he is sustained by con
gress. He will be sustained by con-
gress if farmers give their congress
men to understand that they will be
greatly benefited by a parcels post
system on the lines suggested by the
postmaster general.
1t should be understood that we
now have modified parcels post sys-
tenn in the shape of our fourth-class
mail matter. The postage on this
is one cent an ounce and the parcel is
limited to four pounds. In contrast,
to this it may be stated that it costs
only thirteen cents in Germany to
send a parcel through the mails
weighing eleven pounds. In Switzer-
land a package weighing one hundred
and ten pounds is carried anywhere
within sixty-two miles for sixty cents.
In England the maximum weight is
eleven pounds and costs twenty-five
cents, insuring safe delivery up to
ten pounds; for four cents extra in
suring it up to the value of twenty
five dollars and for thirty-five cents
up to the value of one thousand dol
lars.
What the postmaster general pro-
poses to do in the first place is to cut
down fourth-class mail matter to
twelve cents pound, or three-fourths
Of cent an ounce, and extend the
limit to twelve pounds instead of four.
In the second place he proposes to re-
duce the rate on the line of rural de-
livery to five cents for the first pound,
two cents for each additional pound,
which would make twenty-five cents
for an eleven-pound package on a
rural route as compared with S1.32 for
the same package from anywhere out
side the route.
This is quite in line with the sug-
gestion which Wallaces' Farmer made
a couple of years age, that the best
way to inaugurate this system would
be on the rural routes. This would
spike the guns of the local merchants,
who are in mortal terror lest farmers
should do all their dealing with the
mail order houses and bankrupt the
country store. One can readily see
that parcels post Of the character
proposed would build up the country
towns and would be great induce
ment to farmers who are now sending
off to mail order houses in the great
cities to do their trading as near
home as possible.
We have the rural routes and other
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-08

ommending the purchase OF window
screens for the jail. The report OF
the committee was on motion approy.
ed and the auditor Instructed to order
the necessary screens.
\ Alderman Brenner moved that the
street committee interview property
owners in that line OF blocks west Of
Cedar Street from 7th to 18th street
and ascertain II they will agree to
dedicate to the city an alleyway for
public purposes. providing that the
city vacate strip Of land lying on the
west side OF the said blocks. Motion
seconded by Redfield and carried.
On motion council adjourned to
meet at 8 p. m. November Goth.
w. g. GEnfM1LL,
Attest: Mayor.
G. g. GLENDINNINa,
City Auditor.