The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-30

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not be before 1902. the poll taxes viii
have TO be paid by the lst or March IN
the year In which the election Is neio,
that being six months after the tax
is due. IL the amendment had been In
force this year. not one man IN nve VINO
failed TO pay his tax by the lst OF
March. would have failed in paying
his tax by that date. Even as IL was
il is believed that no considerable per-
centase or poll tax was unpaid ey the
LIST of March this year.
The ladies who are sending out the
endless chains TO raise Tor cam
paign literature have received a letter
from one town. saying that the iaoies
will not walt for the endless chain let
ter TO arrive n informs the ladies' IL
they will send them a device which mas
been invented for transmitting through
the mails small sums OF money. tney
will begin at once 10 send In their con-
tributions.
The plans TO get rid OF professional
athletics in the various college teams
in his state are excellent a great deal
OF shameful subterfvge, not to speak or
il as lying. has been resorted TO these
many years to explain the presence on
AtdiAS vi DtlSoAiS ehoth NHt
world knew very we'll were hired men,
Your correspondent recollects very well
when. about 1883, the first base ball
professionals came along and posed
as real members of amateur teams. 1t
did not require many years for this
sort of thing TO kill out the taste the
public had for good amateur ball. IL
may be added that nothing has tended
more in the past to kill out" intercol-
legiate ball games.
One of the most curious books in the
state library is the report OF the Fraud
Commission" The general public now
knows next to nothing about the sub
ject. 1t is said that certain persons
have bought up and destroyed all
these reports on which they could lay
their hands. 1t is ever said that many
years ago several copies were stolen
An observant gentleman from New
York state. talking the other day about
North Carolina, said it was the quiet
est and in a large sense the most fortu-
nate of all the states: that there were
no famines or floods. or grasshopper
pests. or cyclones or race riots. or Ia
Dor riots. or strikes. or great fires. or
blood feuds, or business failures. etc.
He said he had arrived at the conclu-
sion that IL was an ideal place os res
idence for a person who liked n quiet
life.
Quite a good joke of a semi-rellgious
character is told at the expense Of a
number of young ladies of the Episco-
pal church here. During Lent they al
ways deny themselves many things
and work hard to make Easter
money for their church Offering.
Among other things they maxi is
candy and this they have been sending
to schools Of other denominations. Last
week they sent a lot OF il. of their
choicest make, TO one of these schools.
1t was returned with the statement
that the school was observing a week
OF self-denial and wasn't eating any
candy.
Not long ago some one asked the
question which is the most common
family name in North Carolina" No
one could answer. Some OF course. said
Smith, Brown or Jones. But one said
that the most common name in the
cities and towns of which directories
have been r'fc is Moore: this on the
authori-- II Il well known directory
maker.
The democratic state committee. the
earliest ever held, is only eighteen DAYS
away. 1t is understood that IL VIII
meet in the Academy Of Music. I'm
which the last one was held. Decora-
tions and music will no doubt be pro-
vided. as indeed they ought always 10
be on such occasions. Good band music
admirably fills in the frequent pauses
in a convention. 1t is quite significant
that the popular expectation il that
! theodore r. Davidson Will retire from
the held. with his usual tact. grace and
zeal and leave the field entirely clear
10 Charles 3. Aycock. so that the latter
can be nominated by reclamation. The
| latter result is looked on as practically
| certain.
This week a republican O~nicehoidsr
here was heard to make the remark
that he heard 1900 white men in Will
amendment. He vas told in reply to
[ that ne might as well believe that the
white republicans really did not desire
the negroes To- register this year.
1t is significant that the republicans
who lately claimed 1.-THE earth" as
against the amendment, now only claim
the Eighth and Ninth districts with
out peradventure.
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A judge in this state expresses the
oelief that divorce suits have increas-
ed 100 per cent. at least. during the
past nve years. This is something
irlghtful. 1t is asserted that there were
over 400 divorce suits in the state last
i year 1t is known that remarriages
quickly followed quite a number OF the
divorces.