The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-23

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the automobile combines are seeking to
form a merger with the leading trolley
car Observation-Disclosures Enterprise.
Who may register IN Viz
person who has served in time of war
in the army or navy OF the United
States. or Of the Confederate States.
or OF any State A son of any such
person. \ person who owns real or
personal property. upon which. for the
next year preceding that in which he
offers to register. State taxes OF 81 have
been paid. \ person who can under
stand, or give a reasonable exp!ana-
ton OF any section OF the constitution,
either read by him or to him. by the
officers OF the observation-disclosures
Dispatch.
Only last year several or~!c!.yards on
the Hudson We're brought together In n
trust, but the owners have fallen apafS
already. The making of bricks w.,h
or without straw has been LOOKED upon
in modern times as SO substantial an
industry that general surprise VIII De
felt that riffs should appear so speedi-
ly in the walls OF the stronghold OF the
combination. Possibly the mortar
which il was thought would bind to-
| gether this particular trust lacked ad-
hesive strength, or the crevices hetween
the bricks were not properly ce'lented.
New York Tribune.
The plutocratic father hnCs lis
| daughter in tears. How, now ie
asks" Are you not happy with -
noble TO whom YOU were marr'''i
with great eclat and at much expense?
"Oh papa" weeps the beauteous heir
ess, fiinging herself into his arms and
breaking two cigars and the crystal OF
his watch. Or, papa. 1t is terrible!
/ discover that he is a bogus count!
There, there" soothes the father,
with a smile of relief. That's all
Ill $500 AADV nnn- 90 NNrH IN
keep him, and besides, he will not be
above going to work."-Baltimore Am
erican.
The'Grand Duke Boris w@s too much
even for novelty-loving Newport. They
tackled him there at first. and he got
an invite TO a function but got mad
because his hostess helped Harry Lehr
or somebody else's plate before ms,
and walked out Of the dining room In a
royal tantrum. Then a rival set of the
Newporters who were mad at the set
which had so hurt Cousin Boris teel-
ings, asked him over TO feed with them,
and knowing the reason for his anger
took care to serve him first This pam
pered foreign fool that walloWs in the
mire of vice, and then thinks he is too
good to eat with Americans unless he
is first served. is calculated TO make one
somewhat tired.-Charlotte Observer.
There died at Alexandria, Va, a few
days ago a woman. Mrs. Sibbey A.
Padgett, who is referred to as the
Betsy Ross of the C~onfederacy, since
it is claimed she made the first Con-
federate flag. The flag was construct
ed at the request of James Jackson.
who kept a hotel in Washington, and
was the cause of a bloody tragedy. AS
soon as it was completed Mr. jackson
raised the flag over his hotel. Colonel
Elmer Ellsworth climbed the stairs and
hauled it down with his own hands.
AS Ellsworth came down with the flag,
jackson shot him. That, it is said,
was the Confederate fiag's first baptism
of blood.-SaVannah News.
The summer Pasteurized milk depots
maintained in New York by Nathan
Straus closed for the season on sat
urday. The charity has grown steadily
and consistently year by year. In the
season Just closed go. 040 bottles of Pas
teurized milk and milk foods were dis
pensed, and more than 100000 glasses
Of raw and Pasteurized milk were drunk
on the premises. Mr.. Straus has en-
deavored to conduct this philanthropic
work along such lines as will permit
those who will not accept the mix
gratuitously to a one cent a bottle FOR
it. The greater part of the milk DIS
tributed has, however, been to the all
ing children of the squalid east and
west side tenements.-New York sun.
1t Is certainly an dlOnlilyy oil dpSui
dity, that a great people should SEEM
ingly be unable to protect themselves
against that sort of thing. It is clear
to the most casual observer that a gov
eminent is suffering from paralysis OF
one of it's functions, when anthracite
coal operators and miners can lay a tax
Of S6 per ton or consumers OF coal,
while they squabble over differences
the consumer has nothing to do with,
and cares nothing about. The fact OF
the matter is that the moral cowardice
Of our politicians is all mat has pre-
vented the devising Of some means to
protect the interests o. the public in
cases of this sort.-Virginian-Pilot.
Mayor Tom Johnson, Of Cleveland,
Ohio, is now regarded as the leading
candidate for the democratic nomina-
ton for president. The New York
Journal says of him: He is the kind
of reformer that the profiters by abuses
fear and hate most. He is not an earn
est poor man, an outsider, who can be
laughed at as a sentimentalist, a crank
or an enyiouS diSturber. Johnson Is a
millionaire, a born money-maker, whose
business especially compels the respect
OF the monopolies against whom he is
warning. He knows all about them n
their methodts, and they know that he
does. So Johnson is hated by the pred
atory rich as a traitor TO their order,
as every man of wealth is sure to be
L WHO OSCIllcS " lIIHh lldl Dc-duSt lit IL
a millionaire he is freed from the duties
imposed by conscience and patriotism"
News and Courier.
1t is gravely announced that the anti
trust plank in the New York republi-
can platform is to be prepared by this
precious trio. Hon. Thomas Collier
Plat. whose prominence in politics is
due entirely to the fact thar he has act
ed as the representative Of tho big New
York trusts and corporations in secur-
ing favorable legislation at Albany.
Hon. Chauncey Mitchell Depew. whose
one claim to craftsmanship consists in a
long career as attorney for one Of the
greatest and most powerful OF railroad
monopolies. Hon. Serene E. Payne, who
is chairman Of the tariff-making ways
and means committee OF the national
house Of representatives, because the
great protected trusts know their inter-
ests are absolutely safe in mis- hands.
| No Wnnder the trusts make with fear