The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-09
Washington Post Brevities


Perhaps the Spanish officials will
ultimately insult US by going so far as
to say hat they never heard of Roose-
welt.
President Skaters forces have been
blame canot be placed on the men in the
trenches.
There are some reasons for believing
THAT the our of inquiry will develop
the fact that it is dangerous for sail
Tors to write books.
1t may be all right for a naval Off
lcer to fight from his coming tower, but
he makes the public tired when he be-
gins to talk through it.
If the English military stars continue
Ito withdraw, the Beers and the Amer
lican mules will soon be doinG all the
lighting in South Africa.
1t is deucedly nice in the British CON
Isul at Manila to worry over our respor
lsibilities in the Philippines. 1t shows
such a nice, neighborly spirit, you
know.
We fancy the Hon.. Mark Hanna is
altogether too willy to go much out of
ibis way in order to tackle Mr.. Charles
VI. Schwab on a strike proposition in
ian off
In addition to that Australian fortune
lof $40, 600, 900, the Georgia people have
discovered a gold mine. Georgia has
lsome very enterprising newspaper cor
respondents.
Having generated a row over the Sun
lday opening of the midway" shows,
1.-THE managers of the Buffalo exposition
rf~li - ~o-1-l %La;. -L~--
las an unqualified success.
We infer from the sensational trou-
Ible the London Daily Mail announces
it is having with the war office that
Mr.. Harmsworth picked up a few yell
low tricks while he was in this coun-
try.
Those superheated friends of Mr..
Bryan who propose to read the Hon.
lCharles A. Towne out of the demo
erals party have at least succeeded in
Suggesting something new on the
whirligig Of politics.
The Colorado people have been talk
ling Of lynching a Brit1sher We love
the British, but let US not become toe
brotherly. We should endeavor to
make lynching strictly a family affair
and bar all foreigners.
1t is quite evident that the Crownin-
Ishield crowd will not call Admiral Ger
vera or Captain Eulate as witnesses fol
the prosecution. They may be eliminat,
ed by the bureau Of f~abrication's sys-
tenn of absent treatment.
Admiral Cervera says he never me-
Admiral Sampson. Had he been cruis.
ling about in West Indian waters just
Iprior to the war in a vessel that would
I~of n r~o~ ~f win or1 {ho CporirI
admiral would doubtless have had the
honor of forming the acquaintance Of
the valorouS Sampson.
It is very hard to induce politicians
to abstain from the use of Intoxicating
liquors, but it seems that the caSe OF
the Ohio mayor who got drunk the 9TH
Ter day and resigned his office and had
the same accepted before he could sober
up ought to have a decided effect upon
them. Mind, he was an Ohio official.
Somebody has taken the pains to look
up the ancestors of MIR. Edward STAN
ton Maclay, the gentleman who draws
s2.49 per day as Admiral Crownin-
shields history maker. According to
1.-THE records, one of them was a con
Igressman and made a speciality of
abusing George Washington. We Won
der if he worked as cheaply as his de-
lScendantS?
The o James E.. Watson, repre-
sentative in congress from the Sixth
Indiana district has come to the con
iclusion that Admiral Sampson is en-
TITLED to all h credit for the defeat of
admiral Cervera's f1et. 1t will be re-
lcalled hat the administration began
work on the Indiana congressional dele
lgation when it decided to change it's
mind upon the Porto RIcan tariff Ques-
ton. An Indiana congressman must be
walked upon occasionally to be convinc-
ed that he has his party regularity on
straight.