The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-12

II ES6tF SAE 4SAAE AANEAZ. n never TLtk aAE
people who INDUCED so much In re-
| partee.
Mrs. MciapropYou don't saw Why.
/ borrowed some from them the other
day. and it tasted TO me oolong.-
Philadelphia SUM-
Quite LdkeIy-Llttle wflIie-"Pa- who
was IL that said Dead men tell no
| tales?'" Pa-"Some automobile aend
2robably."-Chicago Daily News.
The plutocratic Vanderbilt auto WAS
knocked into smithereens by a COM
mon farm wagon loaded wit. cabbage
the other day. The plain n@o9ie s;iil
run this country-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Mr.. Rothchild. Z Chicago millionaire.
COMMITTEES suicide and President
Schwab on a salary OF g.. 0o0. 900 a year
mas nervous prostration. We have
something TO be thankful for.-Raleigh
Times.
Cheer up, brother" said the parson
10 the departing Billville editor. "A
warm welcome awaits you OH the other
shore. That's just what bothars me-
was the reply. Tn afraid It'll be 40
In the shade,'-Atlanta Constitution.
The arrangements for the army and
navy manoeuvres have been so far
completed a. to enable the public to
discover that Gen. Miles il to be util-
lied as a piece OF obscure background.
Washington Post.
Something should be done to reward
the mothers who are patient with cross
children these hot nights They do
more for the world than the man who
wins a big battle, yet no monuments
are erected for them after DEATH
Atchison Globe.
L As a rIla hnStilsiac a ra ra-,a l., ~
coal field strikes by the foreign ele-
ment, but il should be remembered
that many of these foreigners were
brought to this country by the opera
tors in times past to take tn place OF
( Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Nearly all of Norway and Sweden are
in the same latitude as Alaska. ST.
Petersburg, stockholm and Christiania
are all in a higher latitude than either
| Sltka or juneau. Iceland suStains its
hardy population in a egion similar to
that around Cape Nom and in about
the same latitude.-New Bern Journal.
The thirteen hoodoo held Patrick
Mealey to the last. Three times thir-
teen years old, he died of acute aIco-
holism in cell No. Is in the county
prison yesterday. He lived at $40 North
thirteenth street, and the month was
twice thirteen days old WHEN he died.
and thirteen letters were in Mealey's
name.-New York Herald.
Doing it Proper.'-The reporter was
interviewing the Western millionaire
is 1t true that you are going to endow
a chair in that university?" "Endow 4
chair?" he Numbered; why b'gosh, I
can give a whole set o furniture, and
I'll do 1t too. Say that IN yer paperi
There amt nothin' cheap about me-
Baltimore Herald
A solemn man on the London Daily
News who writes on American subjects
graVely predicts a religious war in New
England etwee the Irish and the Pu-
ritans. He must have Just heard of the
burning of witches and persecution of
Quakers in the seventeenth century
without finding out that it all happened
more than two hundred years ago.
Florida Times-Union.
Not even the White house can display
such a splendor Of tableware as the
British embassy in Washington. The
silver service provided for the ambassa-
doris use is in itself worth $40, 900. 1t
contains 1000 pounds weight Of silver,
and the regal arms of England are
worked upon it with exquisite skill,
with flowers, birds and vines surround
ing them.-Exchange.
Joy Morton. son of the late J. Ster-
ling Morton has decided Arbor Lodge,
at Nebraska City, which he received
by his fathers will, to an association
consisting of himself and his brothers,
h have created a fund sufficient to
maintain it forever as a country home,
which shall be always open to any
member of the Morton family. The
lands are to remain in forest, meadow
and paSture.-E&change.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury
Spalding has issued instructions to the
collector Of customs at New York, d.
recting him to admit free of duty the
box of decorations. etc, recently sent
to the German Ambassador by Emper-
or William for delivery to those who
took an active part m the entertain
ment OF Prince Henry when he was
In the United States.-Washington
Post.
The first husband of the woman
Bishop Potter is about to marry is said
to have left property v~arioGsly esti-
mated at from $4,000, 900, 900 to S25, 000,-
900. With the widows j%oinrure in the
estate, together with the stipend of
$4,000 a year which the good man gets
for being bishop of New York, the cou-
| pie ought to be able to get along very
comfortably for the balance OF their
| liveS.-EXchange.
1 The WIDOW anu CT Charles
Walker brought suit against John
Moser and others who ran a saloon at
Ashland, Nebraska. They alleged that
Walker drank intoxicants to excess at
| Moser'S saloon. and in ecu
was thrown from a buggy and killed.
The United States circuit court holds
that the saloon-kCeper may be held re-
! sponsible for his death. II that should
be affirmed the saloon-keeper's lot
would be made Ear from happy.-News
n Observer.
Miss Nellie Stewart, the Drury a n
favorite, is never seen without a Ger
tain bracelet. 1t is enormously heavy.
made of solid gold, n round 1t is wo-
ven a pretty story. When acting in
Australia some years g i number of
admirers dubbed together and present
ed her with a purse of 125 sovereigns
fresh from the Sidney mint Her man.
ager had the coins melted down and
made into a solid gold bracelet. which
Miss Stewart has worn for the last
fourteen years without once removing
t.-Echange.