The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27

l PRESS
IN an effort to get rid of the mosquito
| pest. New Jersey school children are to
be instructed how they may aid in the
crusade by killing mosquitoes as a past
time. More would have been accom-
| plished in this direction, however, IL II
to kill a mosquito al schooL-Atlanta
Journal.
His majesty King Edward is going TO
learn the polite and fascinating game of
whist The announcement is made that
he has invited a young Bostonian of the
name OF Street to cross the ocean
teach him the intricacies of the game.
Mr.. Street will attend the coronation
ceremonies and remain some time as a
guest of the royal family while its men,
bers are absorbing bridge" The king
knows where to send for people TO teach
him things.-Savannah News.
J There is sincere and widespread SYM
pathy in this country with the people
of Cuba in their delight at having OBJ
tanned at last a flag and government
of their own choice, with such degree
of national independence as has been
allowed to them. The birthday of the
Republic" was clouded, however, by the
shadow of the Plat amendments to its
toHSlilullOH WHICH deprived the meElOr-
able occasion OF its highest n rightful
significance. Independence is absolute,
not relative or conditioned, and the is
land is very far from having attained TO
that estate, in fact, as it's people we'll
understand. Tuesday would have had .
different celebration If it had marked
their freedom and independence in fact,
as well as in name.-News and Courier.
When the list OF the very wealthy
men of the world is published, the name
Of Billy" Clark will not be at the bot
tom. A conservative Montanan who
knows him we'll says that S125, 100000
will not top his pile. Senator Clark
looks like a musty document, deckle-
edged. Twelve years ago the stock of
the United Verde copper mine was SELL
ing at s~eventy-five cents a share. /
ouD if you could buy it today at $500.
The property is worth 500, 000. 900. Re-
sponsible parties offered $50, 100000, and
, were laughed at. 1t is capable of earn
ing $4,000, 900 a year in dividends. Sena-
| tor Clark has a pocketful of similar
wealth producers. He seems to sue
coed in whatever he engages. His great
| ability is called "luck."-New York
Press.
THE support of Mr.. Reds special
mission says the P%ittsburg Dispatch,
entirely overlook one important fact.
He has not under the constitution and
laws of this country any official stand
ing at all. The president has power to
appoint ambassadors by and with the
consent of the senate 10 the embassies,
which hi be established by law But
lacking this legal authority Mr.. Reid is
simply no more than a personal repre-
sentative Of the president, without any
public character whatever" In that
case, We submit. he ought certainly to
go in rawhide leggings and spurs, not in
short plush breeches and long silk
stockings. There is absolutely nothing
strenuous in short Plush breeches.-
Charleston News and Courier.
Never did a movement so loudly her
aided, so pretentiously unertaken, end
in such inconsequence as the march of
John l.. McLaurin's Commercial
Democracy Comparing it to an OBJ
ject familiar to all we may say that
this great enterprise of u junior SEN
ator expended it's strength at the
wrong end-first, the fuse exploded
with a loud defamation and lastly, as
a grand ~c1imacteric, the f~irecracker it
self went off with a meek and pensive
fizzle. The process of "petering out
so signally illustrated, was much ac-
CELEBRATED by the senator's becoming
sole waiter at the table of federal pat
ronage and by the peculiar blending of
y1c0uSneSS and stupidity with Whlch
his most conspicuous de-
pendents served him.-Columbia State.
A cablegram from Paris
that France has ordered thirteen sub
marine boats in addition to the fleet of
diving craft previously contracted for.
1t is.also announced that French inven-
tors have succeeded in providing for
mooring the boats under water, and
have increased to a little less than fifty
feet the depth from which those on the
sunken craft may survey the surface.
France has been almost from the begin
ing a leader in the development of the
submarine boat. However, though the
French got the start, American genius
is not idle, Inc we may expect to get
our full share of submarine service.
The performances of the new model,
the Adder, in the upper Potomac this
week, constitute an advance in that they
have taken place in fresh water, where
greater buoyancy n more delicate
handling are required than in the sea-
New York World.
A momentous issue, the ability worth
lily to discuss it, and that touch of inn
paSSioned earnestnessS without which
no Grafton can be great, combined to
make Senator Hoar'S speech yesterday
upon the Philippine question N of the
most memorable which e has