The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-07

We rarely notes editorial f1ipS based
upon misrepresentation. The StatesEille
Landmark copies from the Raleigh
Post a sentence frSIn The Messenger
to this ~effect-"that for the present
free silver is a dead issue and no man
or set of men can bring it to life"
It then makes what it. probably thought
a penetrating n fair point, as follows:
'animes change. AS late as two years
ago. The Messenger was trying to read
out Of the democratic party every
body who didn't agree that free sill
yer was the stuff"
and vast expenditures, waste and op-
ISSUE" but the liveliest oS political lis
Sues and such was thee case in 1896,
and 1893. IT is not a live issue now.
Politics must be honest aud practical
to win. fights, and command the sup
port and confidence of honorable, dis
cernfng,. conscientious voters. Times
have indeed changed" Now that gold
is enthroned, made so by democratic
desertion and infidelity, h q grand old
party if it shall triumph again, must
stand upon its old fundamentals, and
u cOAAA z "S
pregnant. with results, much IN the pub
lie mind and expectancy. "At. present."
as we. guardedly said, free silver" is
not uppermost- is not to h front, but
McKinleyism.. and robber taniff, and
cruel devourinG trusts, and manopolies
and vast expenditures. waste and OPP
pressions are to the point most might
lily.
State Geologist Holmes gives the peo-
pie in the country good advice as to
road construction. Is it to advise the
railroads to. move back from ttsem in
steady running close to and parallel
vita Them. He says that wagon roads
should not: be located near railroads,
and should cross them only when ne
cessary, and, then to go straignk across.
He writes a paper on the subject for
the Raleigh News and Observer and
begins in this wise:
Or. Blac}fnaIPS statement to the
m0onshiner hat President Cleveland
did not object to his running a free
still but would prefer to have it locat-
ed a little further back from the road,
so it wouldn't disturb the pssple, may
Il VIC CD ~
connection with the locations, Of wagon
roads with reference to the
Iust keep them a little further way SO
the trains won't scare the horses"
The g~eologist belonging 90 the gov
eminent geological survey will continue
5 to survey in North Carolina i'm connec-
ton WITH the work done by the state.
That is right The tate stands first.
DR.. Caswelf Graves. OF Johns Hop
kins university, Baltimore. has been
studying the oyster reefs Of: North Car
DINA, N has published a pamnn
Review. He tells how the reefs are
built near Beaufort Harhor. The Bal
imorea Sun say that he shows that
oysters build up lands in a very pecuF
lar manner. HI oyster reefs extend
out in the stream across the current
and ordinarily at right angles with the
shoges At the shore end of the reef,
as the current becomes sluggish and
eases to bring sufficient food to the
oysters, they die and: the reef at that
end ceases to grow At the other end.
however. the growth IS continual. The
slit settles between the reefs ami the
bottom rises as asst as the youns oys-
tars. grow upon the empty shells OF
those which have. been smothered. This
zoe on until finally the level Of high
tide is reached and grass begins &c
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