The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-30

a and good schools should not be
lost sight of. This Is our issue-Con-
Icord Tribune
The Washington Post ps~rceives a
disposition on the part Of the gen
Itlemen who write for the press TO be
Imiral Robley Evans II Is becoming
Unsafe for our great men to write for
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. e Press.
Every now and then we note In the
editorial columns OF esteemed contsm-
ooraries learned discourses under the
title Food for Thou@ht' The beef
trust has been furnishing the food for
most of the thoughts. pubic ard edi-
orial. OF late. The stomach seems 10 be
he seat OF intellect after alL.-Raleigh
Post
1t is said that through an error in
compilation the copy of the Bible for
which J. Pierpont Morgan recently
paid So. 1000 doe not contain this verse
IF the beatitudes: Blessed are the
meek. for they shall inherit the earth"
This is understood TO be the reason
Mr.. Morgan values the volume so
highly-kinston Free Press.
While we are aware tina many demo-
Icrats admire Pritchard. we DO not be-
I;ieve that they will go so far AS to vote
sor a republican memt+r o. the iegis-
I'ature in the hope OF securing his cleo
ton. II senators were elected by direct
vote it might be different, but as IL is
we consider that the democrats have
nothing to fear on this score.-Durham
Herald.
How about Bald Mountain, the North
carolina volcano? Hasn't It a duty to
perform in the present season Of erup-
tion?-Richmond Dispatch. How I'M
Elfrl - nyn Il s.-o
mind Bald Mountain of its duty in the
premises. We viii undertake to guar
antee it immunity from punishment
for neglect. In the meanwhile the Dis
lpatch will please not speak so loud
charlotte News
One of tie most interesting of all the
political races in the congressional dis
~tricts of this state this year will be that
between Congressman Kluttz and
blackburn, assuming that both will be
Irenominated by their respective parties,
both OF them now being IN the new
Seventh district. The district, according
to the vote of two years 90 ought to
be democratic by some 500 majority
lAlamance Cleaner.
The imperial Gilman government I'D
vertises in The Scientific American that
lis wishes to buy 100, 900 ton steel rails.
, 400 tons fish plates, 4S0 tons spikes
land 100 tons bolts and nuts No doubt
1.-THE sultan can be accommodated If he
has the price. The advertisement is of
public interest as showing the demand
leven among the Turks for American
Imcterial for railroad construction. We
lean also furnish for the completed road
1.-THE best equipment in the world.-Kin-
lston Free Press.
1t is recalled that the late DR.. Henry
Morton of the Stevens institute OF
technology at Hoboken, N. j., who died
recently. was the author of the lines.
1.-The hand that rocks the cradle is the
hand that rules the world" They were
contained in a poem dedicated to Mrs.
la. Carnegie IN the birth of a daugh-
ter. Since then the stevens institute
has been the recipient OF gifts amount
ling to s165 900 from Mr.. Carnegie. DR..
Morton vas wont to remark that this
was the largest compensation ever re-
lceived for a single poenl.-Kinston Free
Press.
The Mecklenburg democracy stand
by the oath to accept the results of he
primary Notwithstanding the big kick
made by enemies of the oath. 1t is
rather difficult to see why such an oath
lis necessary, when but few IL any vot-
lers would be likely to go to work to
undo the primary. The oath will prob
ably put a quI5tus for a few elections
on our Independent candidate, but the
Independent man in the Independence
country" will eventually win.-Gas-
tonia News.
The chickens are surely coming home
to roose. When the republican party be-
gan to build it's ton walls OF pfotec-
ltion 1T might have known that retalia-
tory measures would be adopted. AS an
instance Of what may be expected along
this line, Australia has imposed u duty
lof 80 per cent. on boots and shoes and a
fine market is being k away just
as it was built up by American manu-
Ifacturers. The exports of boots and
Ishoes to that country h past nine
months are just one-half, according to
~Ioficial statistics, what they were the
Iprevious nine Month Our production
lis too great for the home market and
I'VE must have foreign markets III which
Ito work off the surplus. When other
foreign markets drop into line with
Australia, what will the shoe manufac-
~lturers do?-Charlotte News.
The Worlds Work for June has mag
inifcent full-page engravings of An
drew Jackson Montague and Charles
lB. Aycock, whom it styles the "educa-
ltional Governors" Of Virginia and
North Carolina, and equally as good
lquarter-page lIkenesses of Drs. Charles
w. Dabney, Charles D. McIver, Ed
win A. Alderman and II. b. Frizzell.
directors of Tie southern education
Hoard. 1t devotes a good deal Of space
to the discussion Of the educational
movement in the south, and says, re-
lferring to the revival in Virginia and
North Carolina, hat their sturdy
rural population is an economic re-
Isource OF greater value than all their
fields and mines and forests and indus
tries This is entirely correct. This
substantial rulal population is these
states most valuable asset it.-Char-
llotte Observer. 4.
When all hostility is ended in the
philippines 1t may De said of the ma
ltives there hat they kept up the con
lfict because they did not know m bet
ter, but what is to be "a of the Boer
Headers who have almost annihilated
their race in South Africa? They cannot
ienter the plea OF ignorance, for their
intelligence has been too often pro-
lclaimed. and yet they sent thousands OF
their followers to death in a struggle
(which they certainly knew could have
lhrrt noa examination ptOhr 0r y-rnnp