The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-17

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this land we love" II is = reliable
well edited and strongly supported
trade journal. and contains a great deal
of very instructive reading. Statisti-
cally it is highly important Its An
nual is a good thing IL OWL very full.
and complete. and contains 20S large
pages.
Marconi, the great Italian and en-
Wed man OF invention. is in New York
He was the guest of the Dominion gov
rnmen while sojourning in Canada
He is to be the guest % honor at the
annual banquet of the American Insti-
lite OF Electrical Engineers to be held
"a. the greatest city today. He is report
Cd as saying: AS soon as / reach the
other side 1 shall start TO get stations
IN readiness for the transmission Of
messages, commercial and otherwise
across the Atlantic. There Will be two
stations on Zach side. those in Europe
being ia Cornwall and Belgium, and
those or the American sid will be in
Nova Scotia and on Cape Cod"
At the banquet of electrical engineers
Signor Marconi is expected to speak OF
mis- recent achievements.
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In England anger against the Ger
man chancellor. Won Buelow, runs high
England is mad because Of his very
free speech in the German Parliament
over England. He nit back and hi
hard. The London Dailies are wrathy
and greatly indignant and call names.
Won Buelow's words cannot fail tc
be hailed throughout Europe as a snub
TO Great Britain" says The Pail Nal
Gazette in an editorial headed The
Retort Discourtcous," i'll which regret is
expressed that the Chancellor, in his
anxiety not to be suspected of being 2
friend of England, has chosen to slim
Elate rather than soothe the anti-Brit-
iSh spirit"
The Chicago Inter-Ocean hits Johr
bull with a timely cartoon. He is sit
ting in his office on d high stool and
looks most distressed. Above him ar
ranged on a shelf are huge volumes
on the Jack "Boer War. 1S99-190O-19O1.' y
and there are other volumes-ledgers
"a I'm CIV ApSIlSSS. Inc NOluiIlS
Tor 190l-December-is open and on one
page is Losses, December %, 400 men.
2 guns, at Observation-Disclosures Kitch-
ener. Underneath is-"And still no end
IN sight" A pitiful tale, and a most
disgusting war. The London Standard
says of DeWet's fighting:
He made his first sally in the direc-
ton of Hebron, and attempted to carr
OIL Colonel Wilson's convoy. Beaten off
he moved to the west of Lindley anC
presently at Langberg founu himse.
III danger of attack from three
ing British columns. General Dartnell
forced him into action. The Beers
charged like cavalry and In the face
Of magazine rifles actually got to with
In l3O yards Of the British front, which
Is a feat that twelve months ago would
have been regarded as impossible. Both
sldes suffered severely. but badly as he
mad been hit, DeWet struck northwar6
without delay. n on Christmas morn.
ing swooped down on the camp OF
TWeefOntein."
The statistical combinations show
that 1873 corporations had capitaI
amounting to 49, S5. 200. sos. Only about
one-third existed prior to 1897. Iron
and steel and other products lead off
in Importance with a capital of s341-
7lO.954. Their porduct is valued at
S5OS. 6.4S2. The 1873 corporations en-
ployed an average of 800. 1872 wage-earn-
ers. receiving $194. 534. us in wages. EN-
ployment also was given to 24.5S5 salar.
led officials. clerks. ETC.. receiving a to-
tai Of s32. 653. 62S in salaries. Miscella-
neous expenses Of these combinations
aggregated s151. S51. OF. The total COST
of material used vas s1.OS5. Os3. S2S. The
gross value of products. less the value
Of material purchased in partly manu-
featured form, gives the net or true val
ue of products of these combinations as
81. O51. 9S1. $50.
Did not the populists go it strong n
few years e in their advocacy of gov
nmen ownership Of railroads., tela-
graph. and steamboats,? We have some
recollection of efforts on the part of The
Messenger to expose the proposition by
argument. ridicule figures, etc. But
how this contention Of the populists was
| denounced bitterly. angrily in the north
and by republican papers. But, presto,
change. 1t is understood that a repub-
lican senator, Mason. will introduce a
bill to purchase the telegraph lines, and
that President Roosevelt will support
the movement. The Norfolk, Va. Vir-
ginian-Pilot says: THE popular suppo-
'sition that the owners of such systems
are averse to their sale to the govern
ment. is likely to suffer a rude shock by
subsequent developments. We have
long been of the opinion that that sup
position was ill-founded ard that the
government can have all the telegraph
and railway systems in the country, IL
il wants them-and Will pay the price.
The willingness or u~nwillingness of tbs
owners of such systems to sell, will de-
pend entirely upon whether theiJ
friends at Washington are doing the
buying"
THE MINERALS OF SOUTHLAND.