The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-07
HERE AND

who was Knocked OF the slate Dy IN
Woodruff. And BIN. the button
man, chuckles when he tells o IL
for he got cash in advance n butt
ton is a beauty. big as a silver dollar.
enameled in Yale blue and bearing
portraits o. Is. b. Odell, who Was nomi-
mated for governor, and Geo. r. Shell
don, who wasn't nominated for lieu
tenant governor, and who has only
2o0,O 600 buttons as a memento IF what
might have been."-NeG Tsrk Is
patch.
A North Side boy. five year of Sge,
who had recently become thC 1t II
of another little boy. was sen, TO ne
grocery the other day TO get some l-If
sugar, says the Chicago Record-Her-
aid. BY mistake the grocer gave him
~granulated, and the boy was sent back
to have il changed. "HJw do you like
your new BROTHER asked Ire grocer,
as he was weighing out the right kind
of sugar. "Oh. 1 don like HIM very
much" the little fellow answered.
He cries all the time" Why don't
you change him then as you do the su-
gar?' We can't change him now,
cause we've used him three days
The appearance Of Russell a. Alger
in the United states senate Is likely
TO produce a new and distinct shiver in
that habitually frigid body. Many dis
tinguished senators had a great deal
of fun with Alger while ne was a ST.
fenced secretary involved in the m
balmed beef difficulties and they had
free tongues on the floor and access TO
all the Now he has the
opportunity to meet them on equal
ground and to use his own tongue. We
may look to see the flavor of cmbalmed
beef saturate many more pages or the
Congressional Record and fof a good
deal of fur to fiy.-Richmond Dispatch.
Imperialism never really existed. 1t
was a nebulous figure, the creature OF
excited imaginations. 1t was a spirit
called up from the vastly deep. impal-
pable, fugacious and which eluded mus
cular grasp. Like the nephelococcygia
of A~ristophanes, it was designated to
brighten the timorous and it vas made
to appear in it's most ~fcarsonest guise
by the master conjurerS thauma-
turgists of the land of elaine; but the
result of the late election shows that
the people looked upon it as an n5ub-
%stantia wrath, a mirage that lures only
to bewilder the simpleminded. What
ever we may think Of the Philippines
and whether it is right or wrong.
wise or unwise io- US to annex and
own them, the question is settled and
should be eliminated from politics.
Memphis Commercial Appeal
London hears that Lord Salisbury
resigned because King Edward would
not let him give Mr.. w. w. Astor a
promised peerage. The story is proba-
bly, untrue. But the King is winning
golden opinions.-New York World.
mo, Johnny" said the father as they
sat at dinner, you can't have a second
piece of pie. One is enough for you"
There it's again." rejoined the little
fellow. You are always sayin' / must
learn to eat pie with a fork, an then
you won't gimme a chance to practice"
Chicago News.
Two men. One mashed his finger,
which set him thinking, as we'll as
swearing, and in a few minute he had
invented a contrivance that brought him
Il fortune. The other worked in soil
tude for twenty-five years on a ma
chine that was to revolutionize things,
and having completed it VIGOROUSLY
applied for a patent. There were mil
lions in ton paper. But he was dis
appointed. A patent had been granted
on a similar machine a dozen years be-
fore. A lifetime waSted!-Philadelphla
Press.
The Lick observatory the
arrival Of a comet, visible to the naked
eye as follows: September %, very
close to the second magnitude star
Alpha C~assiopeia; September %, about
2 degrees south of the second magn
tude star Beta Cassiopeia. 1t h en-
tiers upon the milky way and for sever
al days probably will not be so readily
detected. On the evening Of October 6
it will be about 3 degrees north Of
Alpha Cygni The comet should then
be two or three times as bright as ii
is at the present time. 1t will continue
to move rapidly to the southwest, over
taking the sun early in November.
The Wilmington Messenger finds that
Ii was a ~magnanimouS act on the part
of President Baer to allow the Phila-
delphia public chool authorities TO buy
coal cheaper than the exorbitant mark
ct prices when he learned the schools
We're out Of fuel-and were about tc
import il from Wales" His example
is particularly interesting. Of course, as
illustrating the probable conduct OF
other trust magnateS IL other barriers
to the importation OF products that
would compete with them were emov-
ed, President Baer's "magnanimity"
would quickly prove .:atching IN such
conditions-Charleston News and Cou-
rier.
The quarrel in the democratic party
In Montana beteween the Clark ard
the Heinze factions a resulted in a
split. and the latter, embracing the
populists, the labor party, the socialists
n the Heinze republicans, VIII at once
place a new political organization in the
field. With these elements OF de
mocracy'' eliminated from his following.
Mr.. Clark will be under the necessity
of getting along with only The Bitter
Root middle-of-the-roaders, the Ana
conda Jacksonians, the Clark republi-
cans, the independent laborites, the
ancient order Of communists, the wo-
man s~ufragists, and the original free
silver men. In some respects The
various factions OF the so-called de-
mocracy Of Montana resemble the Gu
rious republican groups which train
under b Addicks banner Il delaware.
The free use Of money to the exclu-
sion Of principle and tradition is likely
to be as fatal to democracy in the one
state as It has been TO r~epublicanism
in the other.-Chicago Chronicle.
The other day a wise New England
mother suddenly came upon her son
and heir, a youth Of tender years, and
~disccyered he was indulging In a ciga-
rette, says an exchange. MY boy" she
said. IF you must smoke, why not be