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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24
WILMINGTON NC. MARCH "a 1908


ever been rendered our country.
No. great good has ever been ac-
compiished in any times without
some suffering in consequence. but
we now urge you consider with ex-
treme patience the unusual condi-
tions that prevail, and while aban-
doning no expressed principle TO ad-
irst your executive actions 10 the
requirements OF this period OF busi-
ness timidity.
We askd you Mr. President. to In
dictate to the congress the corrective
measures you deem IL necessary 10
take. We believe that the first step
towards resumption of normal busi-
ness conditions can be taken by the
congress in response TO explicit
recommendations by the executive"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24
NORTH CAROLINA IN LIST
Quarantine Announced Against Shi,
mani Of C.asIn L.~a.x. IA

Quarantine Announced Against Ship
ment Of Cattle From II States.
Washington, March 22.-The de-
partment Of agriculture today an
nounced the anual quarantine against
the interstate shipments OF cattle
from the fourteen states In which
splentic southern or Texas fever ex-
lists. The quarantine Is effective April
L. The quarantined area includes
parts OF California. Oklahoma, Texas.
Missouri, Arkansas, louisiana, Mis-
sissippi. Tennessee, Alabama, Virgi-
MIA, North and South Carolina. Geor-
gia AID Florida
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24
RALEIGH PEACE SOCIETY.
Wilmington Convict Escapes From
the State Farm.
(Snecial TO The Mes.

Especial to The MeSSenger)
Raleigh, N c., March 21.-The
Raleigh branch of the Peace Society
meets Monday, Charles Earl John
son, presiding. There will be ad-
dresses by Hayne Davis and others
Marshal Delaney Haywood will tell
his story of the first peace society
organized here S5 years ago.
Charters are granted the ContineA-
tai Chair Manufacturing Company, OF
Nebane, capital stock 800, 900, Cotton
mill mt Kings Mountain. $685. 900 and
the Denham & Murphy Land Com
pany. Charlotte, $5e,Oe0.
The penitentiary authorities an
nounee that Joe Davis, q dark ginger
cake colored negro, about twenty
years old. sentenced from New Han
over In 1908, for twenty years for
burglary I'm the second degree. es-
capped from the state farm For his
recapture IS reward and all necas-
ssFy expenses Win be paid es.rz-.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24
Bank Statemept

New York, March 21.-Ths state
ment OF the clearing house banks for
the week shows that the banks hold
S37 ,424,45 more than the require
ments OF the Is per cent. reserve rule.
TEis Is an increase OF $6,759,375 In
the proporuonate cash reserve "a
compared with last week.
The percentage OF actual reserve of
the clearing house banks at the close
OF business yesterday was 1855.
The statement OF the banks and
trust companies of Greater New York.
rot members Of the clearing house.
shows that these institutions have
aggregate deposits OF $74e. .1S3, 100, to-
tai cash on hand $50 $50 500, and
loans amounting TO SITS ,340,1O
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24
No Lives Were Lost.

st. Louis, March 21.-Forest Park
University, private school for young
women and having an enrolment OF
three hundred students from all
parts of the country, was gutted by
fire today. All persons in the build
ing escaped in safety
The four-story building, construct
ed of stone and wood, was located in
the center of seven acre plot OF
ground Immediately south of Forest
Park in the western limits of the
city.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24
TO REFUND COTTON TAX.
Bill Introduced by senator simmons
OF North Carolina

Washington, March 21.-Senatox
Simmons today introduced bill
pI oviding for the refunding OF tho
government tax collected on raw cot
ton in the years 18e5-s6-S7-ss. the
money TO be paid into tho treasures
OF states Of south where the tax
was collected and TO be held subject
to the establishment OF claims oy the
persons or heirs Of those who paid
the tax II II estimated that the pes
sage Of the bill would mr'-- rsces-
sary an appropriation Of 5.0co.coS
which amount is authorized by IN,
bill
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24

The body OF q colored man was re-
ported to have been picked up I'm the
river OF the Cape Fear Fisheries plant
early yesterday afternoon The body
was towed TO the nsheriee wharf and
vill be kept there awaiting investi-
CATION.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24
Sent Black Hand Letter to I'm

Savannah, Ga, March 21.-Henry
Perry. colored, was arrested today
for sending to Judge Emory Speer
OF the United States court, a black
hand" letter threatening him with
death. The letter read:
THE Hon. Judge Speer: You are
condemned TO die for the good Of
the country April Is, 1903 Your
friend had been named, yet may
God be with you.
(Signed.) LIBERTY JUSTICE"
Perry denies his guilt
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24
MINE DISASTERS
Subject Of Discussion in The
Senate
MEANS To PREVENT THEM
Objections Raised to Government
Investigation

Opponents See in It a nlnyasion Of
State Rights--Senator Simmons
Fayors Federal Investigation
Would be More Thorough Than if
Made by a State-Other Matters
Considered
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24
Governor Guilds Condition.

Boston, Mass, March Ex-Governor
Curtis Guild passed comfortable
day and evening without the lightest
change In his general condition being
detected by his physicians. The last
bulletin OF the night issued by DR..
Iowa
unchanged He is resting eonfor-
tsbly."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24

IL you get your spring hat at ReA-
der's you know Jon have the best
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-24

For the latest styles in millinery ycu
must 20 70 Rehdar'S
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27
VALLEY CITY NORMAL

DR.. Buffum, professor of education,
addressed the Southeastern Educa-
tional Association at Fargo on the
subject of s'The Efficient Teacher"
The basketball match between the
Normal and the jamestown High
School was largely attended. Both
the boys and the girls teams of the
Normal won, the former by score
of 20 to %, and the latter 10 to s.
The prospects for championship teams
are most favorable.
The Students Selr-goyernment or
ganization Is being rejuvenated by the
adoption of several constitutional
amendments. The order in the build
ing is approaching perfection as re-
suit.
A large consignment of books for
the library is expected daily. With
All enrolled for the fall term and
many more students coming next term
expansion in this line is necessary.
The Normal is developing an excep-
tionally fine working library.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27
SCHOOL Land SALES
BIG PRICES PAID FOR SCHOOL
LAND AT RECENT SALES
HELD IN THE STATE.
WILD LAND BRINGS HIGH FIG.
uREs, AND DEMAND FOR ALL
LAND is BRISK.

There was a sale Of school lands In.
Towner county last week at which
$4,000 acres of fine lands were dis.
posed OF to the highest bidder. One
feature OF this sale was, that the
price at which certain lands were
sold was the highest which any
school land IN the state has vet bro't
one reason for this may have been
the belief that in the near future, ptir-
chasers Of schoo. lands will be able,
under amendments TO the constitution
TO pay up for these school lands anu
get clear title before the expiration Of
20 years. The highest price paid In
the above sale was $3.50 per acre
and s62o, 900 was the total amount to
the sale; average per acre SASS.
a Barnes county paper asserts that
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27

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the highest school land price was OBJ
tanned at the recent sale in that coun-
ty and says:
Saturday the sale of Barnes county
school lands by w. "A. Brown of the
state land department at Bismarck,
was the most successful. sale ever
conducted in the state. if the average
price per acre is any index of success.
Mr.. Brown says that the average price
s26.65 per acre, Is $1.25 over the av-
erage price of any similar sale ever
held in the state. The highest price
per acre was s42.50, paid for wild land
by Or. i. s.. Platou OF this city. All
OF the land was wild and the price
per acre is considered phenomenal.
A total Of 10.226.7S acres we're sold
for s272. 2.5S2.75 The cash payment
aggregated s54,51s.55. The contracts
win be received on Jan. /, and at
that time interests must be paid on
all deferred sales from the date OF
sale to Jan. i, 1910. which win be q
snug sum.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27
BOWMAN GO. HISTORY
tREMARKABLE CHANGES THAT
HAVE BEEN BROUGHT ABOUT
BY THE BUILDING OF A RAIL
ROAD. e

Some interesting history of Bow
man county is brought out in the re-
cent issue of the Bowman County
Magazine, to which reference has
heretofore been made in these col
umns. Bowman county was first Wis
tied by white men and settled on ac-
count OF a gold craze. A prospector
from the Black Hills thiught he had
discovered placer gold in the Grand
river. This was In 1887 and a stam-
pede occurred. but the gold deposits
failed to pan out.
The first rancher to build house
was in 1882 and the typical home
stead shack soon sprang up all over
the prairie. But sod houses of the
early ranches, with the one window
and buffalo horn decorations, are
rapidly being replaced by the neat
and tasty frame dwellings. and good
farm buildings which transformation
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27

has been seen all over western and
central North Dakota in the last few
years. One of the views of the News
is the photograph of yoke of oxen,
wagon, camping outfit, and owner,
which arrived last May at Bowman,
the oxen having been driven 800 miles
from the northern part of North Da-
kota and their picture was taken in
front OF a pool room and barber shop,
"a coal mine in Bowman county,
where the farmers wagon backs up to
the coal deposit, and is loaded with
out cost is one of the unusual features
OF any new country. Stock and grain
raising are beginning to make good
showing, while wool growing is also
an industry that is profitable to the
farmers. The town of Bowman is be-
Ing built up rapidly by an enterpris-
ing people. The photographs are of
recent date, and show how civilization
is changing the useless vacancy OF the
prairie, to farm homes, with the coun-
try dotted with thriving towns, and
this transformation is due almost en-
tirely to the construction OF a rail
road line into the country.
10 h ~ s
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27

The December number Of the Bull
letin is now ready for distribution
Copies may be had on request to the.
Normal management.
The Choral Union, under the di-
rection of Dean Carson, will give
concert December IL.
The basketball teams Of the Normal
will meet the Courtenay High School
teams December 5.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27
Bids Wanted for County offieer's

StdS vGu1So soE SSQfty ohi1St . &s4&
s Bonds.
Sealed bids will be received at the
Office OF County Auditor up to the hour
of IL O'Clock a. m. on Monday, Dec.
21st, 1908 for the furnishing OF Fidel-
ity Bonds for county sficers as fol-
lows:
County Treasurer, amount. 70.00e.-
90; County Auditor, $5.Ooo.oo. Clerk
OF District Court, s5,ooo.oo: Register
Of Deeds. s5.ooo.eo; County Judge.
s2.000.00; States Attorney. s2,o80.00.
and County Superintendent Of Schools
$4,000; sheriffs. $1,000. The board
reserves the right to reject any and
ali bids.
I w. HEALy.
County Auditor. Burieigh Co. N. d.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27

It's q pity someone doesn't invent
q hat that viii cover the bald spot
ON the back Of mans head.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27

Fill that dog and cat box with
clear straw before yon forget It.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27

USE TRIBUNE WANT cnLUMNs.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16

whole force can now put its shoulders
to the wheel and defy the climate,
which ten years ago was death to the
white man.
The high water mark was reached
during February, when a daily aver
age of 122,741 cubic yards of material
was excavated. February had but "a
working days Of eight hours each, but
all records were broken by a total ex-
cavation of 2,945,SS0 cubic yards. For
this work Ga steam shovels were used.
Thirty-five more immense steam
shovels are now being used, or are en-
route for the canal zone. In the
month Of January, 1908, there were ap-
proximately $4,000 employees on the
rolls of the commission and of the
Panama railroad, about 5000 of whom
were Americans.
The real work of excavation began
in 1906, and in the two years ended
since then 21,600,565 cubic yards were
removed. During 1907 the record
went up in bounds from S15,270 cubic
yards in March to 1,S6S,729 IN October,
OuI tNCh lhC IuIltI h6uIt "HICH 81
amazed the American public when re-
ported, has been dwarfed to insignifi-
canoe by the 2,709,290 cubic yards of
January and the 2,945,SS0 cubic yards
Of February, 1908.
With fully so per cent of the entire
plant needed for construction pur-
chased or contracted for, machine
shops erected and organization per
fected, this year will see every record
almost doubly broken and completion
near enough to determine with a fair
amount Of accuracy the date on which
the great American fleet, If desired,
could pass into the Pacific without
such a cruise as has just been accom-
plished.
The illustration shows the amount
OF material eXcavated from the Pan
anna canal in year, as compared with
the amount of material in the pyramid
of Cheops.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
'GAToR ON THE RAMPAGE.
Edifylng Story That Is Vouched for by
the Georgia Ananias.

"Yes," said the fisherman, "the man
had fished all the forenoon, an hadn't
got nibble, so he took another swal-
Ter out the jug, pulled off his boots, an
lay down on the river bank an went
to sleep. AS soon as he went to
snorin' good, a alligator that had been
watchin' him all the mornin' crawled
up an swallered his boots, likewise
the jug, with bout half a gallon in it,
l reckon. The cork came out, and, of
course, the gator got the full benefit
o the whisky, which SO turned it's
head that it lashed the water with it's
tail till the river was a foamin' mass,
after which it crawled up on the bank
agin an made desp'rit efforts to climb
trees an turn double-somersaults, an
do all manner of impossible thiags!"
Why didn't it swallow the fisher
man, instead of his boot?" some one
asked.
Gators, gentlemen" said the story
teller, cant stand everything. They
must draw the line some'rs. ATTAIN
ia Constitution.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
Tr1xfE and
o. HfY

appeal to the Uniformed in every
walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accor-
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses.
swcetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any debilitating
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
1t acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as q laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
A Cold Lunch.

The pupils of a distinguished pro
fessor of zoology, man well known
for his eccentricities, noted one day
two tidy parcels lying on their in.
structor's desk as they passed out at
the noon hour. On their return to
the laboratory for the afternoon lee
ture they saw but one. This the pro-
fessor took carefully up in his hand
as he opened his lecture.
"In the study of vertebrate we have
taken the frog as type. Let us now
examine the gastrocnemius muscle of
this dessected specimen"
So saying the professor united the
string of his neat parcel and disclosed
to view ham sandwich and boiled
egg.
But 1 have eaten my lunch," said
the learned man bewilderedly.-Lip-
pincott's.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
s-zEEx
MIDUSItR!Y{9S66) 2 t!N {96)
sSf1ECHANICS s
WORK AT PANAMA.
Every Working Day the Yankees and
Their Machines Accomplish MarveIs.

Every so working days the toilers
who are digging the Panama canal
are removing an amount of material
equal to the great pyramid of Cheops,
which consumed the labor of 100000
men for 20 years in the building and
the services of the same number for
ten years in constructing the road
connecting the work with the quar-
ries.
Spread in any city OF the union
the earth which was taken from the
canal during a single month would
have buried ten solid city blocks un.
der 40 solid feet of EARTH" says the
Philadelphia North American
Truly, the work accomplished since
the army engineers took charge is stu
pendous and awe-inspiring, but the
forerunners who prepared the way
under overwhelming obstacles and
drove the mosquito and the yellow fe-
yer from the canal zone must not be
forgotten. Because of their work the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
SAFE STEERING ON AUTO.
Much Depends on the Character Of the
Device.

The right or wrong type Of steering
the difference between safety and dis
aster at critical moment, notes a
writer in Motor Age. A slight error
in steering will be increased by one
type until it is fatally wrong and the
car is in the ditch; another type will
tend automatically to correct slight
mistakes. The former the writer calls
"dynamically unstable" the latter,
"dynamically stable" We read:
I'm one of the earliest types of
steering g-mechanism used on motor
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
WIFE WON
Husband Finally Convinced.

Some men are wise enough to try
new foods and beverages and then gen.
eTous enough to give others the bene-
fit of their experience.
A very conservative" Ills. man,
however, let his good wife find out for
herself what a blessing Postum Is to
those who are distressed in many
ways, by drinking coffee. The wife
writes:
mo slave in chains, 1t seemed to
me, was more helpless than /, a coffee
captive. Yet there were innumerabls
warnings-waking from troubled
sleep with a feeling of suffocation, at
times dizzy and ,ut of breath, at.
tacks of palpitation of the heart that
frightened me.
Common sense, reason, and my
better judgment told me that coffee
drinking was the trouble. At last my
nervous system was so disarranged
that my physician ordered no more
coffee
"He knew he was right and he knew
] knew it, too. l capitulated. Prior
to this our family had tried Postum,
but disliked it, because, as we learned
later, it was not made right
Determined this time to give Post.
um a fair trial, l prepared it accord
ing to directions on the pkg.-that is
boiled it Is minutes after boiling COM
menced, obtaining a dark brown liquid
with a rich snappy flavor similar to
coffee. When cream and sugar were
added, it was not only good but de-
licious.
Noting it's beneficial effects in me
the rest of the family adopted it-all
except my husband, who would not adj
NIT that coffee hurt him. Several
weeks elapsed during which l drank
Postum two or three times a day,
when, to my surprise, nry husband
said: 4 have decided to drink Postum.
Your improvement is so apparent-you
have such fine color-that / propose
to give credit where credit is DUE And
now we are coffee-slaves no longer"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
: Creek, Mich. Read 1.-THE Road to Well
ville." in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16

manufacturing buildings. Lifted by a
chain hoist at the side of each door,
the panels or leaves fold upward and
inward, coming close together at the
top opening. In this position the door
is well protected from the weather,
cannot be slammed around by the
wind, and offers no obstruction.
When closed, says Popular Mechan-
les, the glass panels admit the light
freely, and for ventilation purposes
the door can be raised to admit as lit
tie or as much air as may be desired.
By raising the door two inches, four
horizontal openings Of six inches are
made, the door remaining storm proof
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
Rain from Eather,s Head.

A bright little boy of two summers
was unconcernedly playing near his
father, who was laboriously occupied
with a difficult task which caused big
beads OF perspiration to drop from his
forehead. Presently the lad ceased
his play. Looking at his parent doubt
fully moment, he ran swiftly to his
mother and, assuming a panied ex-
preston, pointed to his father, saying
plaintively: 90, mamma, see! Poo
papa head yainin'."
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
Hurt a convict's Pride.

A church missionary had a letter
recently from a convict begging him
10 reform the writer's wife. who was
also in prison.
The convict-who is serving long
term-was very anxious about the
matter, because, as he said 1T was
no credit to him to receive letters
from such place as prison"
Another convict. in the course Of .
letter to his brother, a pauper, re-
marked: well, Jack, thank goodness
l have never sunk so low as the work.
house yet."-London Daily News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16

II wheel be handled by lite lower
most point then It resembles . tiIler
and is dynamicaIly unstable.
vehicles the wheels were controlled
by lever pivoted at point in front
of the driver usually at or near the
center of the dashboard, this type be-
ing commonly known as 'bath-chair,'
or tiller, steering. 1t was in a vehicle
so fitted that M. Levassor of the firm
of Panhard & Levassor lost his life
in an early race"
When the dangers of bath-chair
steering were first realized, the pubs
lie, We are told, rushed to the conclu-
sion that the general principle of lever
or tiller-steering was at fault. This,
the writer assures US, is far from the
truth. 1t is the direction of the steer
ing-motion in the bath-chair type that
Is dangerous. II the direction of the
steering-effort be reversed, the forces
that were previously cause of danger
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
Bells.

Bells are understood to have had
their origin in China, but at so remote
a time that no precise date can be
given. Their first use was to clear the
air of evil spirits and tc drive off the
storms. Old European records tell
how the tolLng of bells kept the
devils from assaulting believers;
hence their connection with churches.
Bells may be traced in Europe back
to the sixth century, but were not
generally introduced into the western
church much before the eighth CEN
tury.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-16
Coming Events.

Let no one say that the mind has
no power over the body. If it can
cause such effects as in the case taken
from Ulk. how much more can it in
fuence the physical conditions of the
now and here?
You look pale and thin. What's got
you?"
Work! From morning till night,
and only a one-hour rest"
How long have you been at it?"
II begin -morrow."-Youth's Com
panion.