The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30
STATE PRESS.

Like Doctor Gatling's gun, the auto
mobile pillow is destined to make for
peace. 1t will rob the plowmans avo-
cation of profanity and save the mules.
ribs from many a line rap.-Charlotte
News.
The remarks upon the senator's gym
nastlcs by two of the leading gold dem
ocratlc papers, the Baltimore Sun and
Philadelphia Record, indicate that Nc
Laurln is dancing too near the ultra
radical line to suit even those demo
Gratis who are out of harmony with
the party's currency platform, but are
yet democrats in all other essential
points.-Winston Sentinel.
Yes. the advocates of the suffrage
amendment predicted last year that its
adoption would greatly stimulate the
cause of education. And they also
promised that more money should be
appropriated for the public schools, and
that the school terms should be
heightened. This prediction has al
ready been verified and this promise is
already being fulfilled.-Pittsboro Re
cord.
We believe the Outlook has said about
the hardest thing yet about fashionable
gambling. 1t says: The main reason
why gambling has been SO rife in GER
tail extremes of fashionable circles is
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of their mental resources, many men,
bers of those circles are at their wits
ends to know how to amuse them
selves" That is to say our gambling
card parties should announce that no
sensible people need apply.-Charlotte
Presbyterian Standard.
Our Raleigh correspondent in both
yesterdays and today's issues of this
paper has reference to an amazing
"Sna9E HIP Skinned thrn11Oh the leg
islature on the SLY. 1t vas rushed
through no doubt in the closing days of
the session., when the pressure was
great and the members worn out. 1t
was read only by title and the title is
innocent enough: AN Act to Prohibit
Streams in Beaufort" Yet only one
section of the measure applied to this
local matter. 1t is gratifying
to kno that the opinion of able law
yers is hat the courts will not uphold
the bill, the precedents being against
the validity of sneak" legislation. The
member who secured the passage Of
the bill took care to keep it's far-reach-
ing provisions secret until after the
adjourned session of the legislature,
which met to receive the report of the
Impeachment court, was ended, for the
bill would have been killed them
Charlotte Observer.
If gambling g not broken up in in
corporated towns in North Carolina
it will not hereafter be the fault of the
law. but of officers of sue towns.
The late legislature passed a very
stringent law phich provides that the
mayo of every incorporated city or
town in North Carolina shall swear
every policeman on each Monday morn
ing. He shall ask the officer if there
has come to his knowledge during the
week past the fact that any room for
gambling was being conducted in the
town or city of which he was an officer.
If the officer shall answer in the affirm
ative or it shall be proven that he has
known Of such place or places and
shall have failed to report it, such Off
Ger shall be fined and rendered ineligi-
bit to office. The a. also provides
that any one who shall furnish drinks
of any kind to such a place shall be
fined 81, 200 and imprisoned six months.
the double penalty being mandatory
Greensboro Telegram.