The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26
PRESS.

Political history should be taught
in our public schools as its knowledge
Is essential TO good citizenship.-wash-
tington Messenger.
The governor. under the new laws
lis given a very great number Of ap-
I~pointments. ALI the authority which
the democrats took away from the re-
publican governor two wears g is re-
STORED to him and now more Is given
Ihim.-Tarboro Southerner.
Tarboro S~outherner: Farm work
has progressed more satisfactorily this
month than either of the. two previous
zones. The contrast between the quail
fly of work lone this year and last
SHOULD be vivid in the minds of all. :,
Winston Sentinel: The three-year-old
lchild of William Hampto. colored, on
Twelfth street. North Wiston. was Sc
Iriously burned Saturday afternoon.
The mother stepped out in the yard.
leaving her two children in the room.
Upon her return she found one of them
wrapped in flames. The attending ply
lsician thinks n child will recover.
In today's paper we publish the new
libel law which was smothcred in the
lconmittee during the asst ses-
sion of the legislature. and has been
tquietly sandbagged at the same place in
this session. and which. but for the
vigorous protest of u few of the pa
pers, who gave the highwaymen who
slugged it some warm remarks, would
never have been resuscitated- 1t
gives the honest. well-meaning press
a chance.-Greensboro Telegram.
Senator McLaurin is not the only
one who holds views contrary TO the
party Of which he IS supposed to be
la member. II Thomas Jefferson had
as many different views a bout dem
Iocracy as there are people who hold
different views, claiming to be Jeffer-
sonian democrats. We would wonder
that Thomas ever knew where he was
at. But strange to say. he knew ex-
where he was at all times, With
the many refractionists to the contrary
Notwithstanding, nevertheless.-Salis-
bury Truth.
The editor Of the Winston Sentinel
who was a member of the lower house,
of the legislature, writes in his paper:
1T seems that the Robinson antitrust
bill, which passed the house Thursday,
got lost in the Shuttle in the senate"
Perhaps few members of the legiSla-
ture felt keen interest in antitrust
Legislation. 1t has not been especially
effective in any state and probably
would not have been here. The only
hope Of effective dealing with the trusts
- III So1SISS otlu lIdl lIOpS ID d Z
mote one.-Charlotte Observer.
The legislature of 1879 proposed an
amendment to the constitution pro-
Ividing that only INDECENT persons should
be treated free of cost at the insane
IasylumS for state hospitals as they
are 10Y called), all persons who are
able being required TO pay for treat
ment. This amendment was adopted
by the people at the general election
~ 1907 I-A "a
and few people knew that such was
the condition of affairs until the Su-
Ipreme court a few days ago decided
the matter. 1t will be difficult to en-
force this provision of the constitution
and do justice.-Statesville Landmark.
If the republican party in the ma
ton thinks it can gain a foothold
in the south by swapping, snarling
and biting at US it will find itself
mistaken. Many prominent men as
well as influential papers are discover
ling that we have a problem down
this way to deal with in the adjust
lment Of our home government if we
are let alon we will work it out. The
man who thinks this means a solid
democratic south forever hereafter is
lcm mis- base. Compare the democratic
majorities in the state election last Au-
gust with those of the presidential cleo
ton in acknowledgements Re
cord.
Kingston Free Press: G. r. Taylor,
of Greene county, had the misfortune
to have a arm broken his morningaS
he was leaving Kinston for his HON
His horse was trying to run away n
Mr.. Taylor finding that he could 10
manage the animal, jumped from his
buggy and fell on his left arm, break
lit a little above The wriSt.-We
learned by telephone from Hookerton
yesterday that a seven-year-old daugh-
tier of Mr.. Thomas r. Tyndall was
burned to death Thursday. About s
O'Clock in the morning the little girl
lstarted down in the field to where her
father vas at work. The child was car
trying some matches TO Mr.. Tyndall to
start a fire with. Whe about $50 yards
from the house her clothing caught fire.
She ran back to the house. but when
she reached it her clothes were burned
!entirely off.
Statesville Landmark: A correspond
lent reports the accidental shooting of
Iyoung Garland Benfield in Shiloh town.
ship, Wednesday afternoon. The vic
tim is a son of Mr.. Lawson BenfieId
and is probably Ii or Is year old He
was hunting Wednesday afternoon and
looming upon an acquaintance in the
woods stopped to help the latter do
Isome work. He stuck the butt of his
gun@a single barrel Shotgun|l a
brush heap, and later. when he had fin
lished the work. caught hold of the gun
by the muzzle to pull it out. The ham,
mer Of the gun caught on the brush
and the weapo was discharged. The
load o effect in the lower par Of the
boys abdomen, passing through and
coming out on the other side. The in
Itestines and bladder were riddled. The
hoy cannot recover, h physicians say,
but he was still alive this morning.
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