The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-08

More home made meat has been sold
In stores here this simmer than for
many years past. one merchant at
least has bought enough from farmers
TO. supply his trade-Roanoke Times.
II We are ready to drop the white ele-
plant. why not give Japan twenty mill
lion dollars to take b Philippines? II
would be treating japan to a gold brick
but Spain "gold-bricked" us. and we
would be passing ii on.-News and OBJ
server.
Everything comes to hin who waits,
n n way to wait VIXEN one is hunt
ing for a job is not to TAX any old
thing that may be thrown. at one. That
Is the way Judge Adams worked it and
he did it nicely as every one will admit.
Greensboro Telegram.
In commenting upon tue great amount
of immigration going to the northwest,
southern newspapers generally close
with the query, why ion't the home
seekers come south where land is cheap
n climate conditions are more favora-
bic than in the northwest?
1t is a law in some places that If a
woman is caught out on the streets
after 10 o'clock, she will not be protect
ed by the law. If this law should ap-
ply to some men. we think it would be
Of great benefit to them, especially
married men.-Dunn Banner.
Some of the darkies would be GLAD If
the republicans Would hold primaries
every few days. Some of them ate
fried chicken Sunday that haG not tast-
ed fowl since last election. 1t is said
the price got as high as 81 cash, but
h chickens would get 'em before the
cash would.-Wilkesboro Chronicle.
The Washington Post say the south
controlled the last three democratic
conventions, and can harmonic the dis
cordant elements in the party If it will.
We believe there is much truth in the
above statement, though coming from
the Post, a republican organ, it may be
taken with a pinch Of salt.-Wilson
Times.
OF course everybody expected Bryan
to give Cleveland the hoarse boot over
his speech. There is only one differ
ence between the two men. Both are
back numbers, but only one of them
knows it. Mr.. Bryan will not find it
out for a few years yet, if ever. There
are enough democrats in the party who
will not vote for either to defeat them.
Greensboro Record.
The state convention which meets in
Greensboro, July 16, has a very i'm
portant question to 5etttle-the manner
of choosing a United States senator to
succeed Pritchard. Snail the state con-
vention nominate, shall we a a SEN
atorial primary, or shall We leave it to
the legislature as formerly? This is the
great question and its correct settle
ment will require the judgment and
wisdom of the party-STEithfield Herald.
Speaker Henderson enabled Repre-
sentative Blackburn to make a grand
stand play during the closing hours of
congress, by advancing over hundreds
of other bills the bill to, establish two
annual terms of the federal court at
WilkeSboro, which was passed. This
bill will have to pass the senate before
it becomes a law and there is doubt that
the senate will pass it, as it is we'll
Know that Judge Boyd is opposed to
it.-Winston Sentinel.
In Illinois. the departure of the DEM
ocratic convention from the lost cause
is even more marked than it was in In
DIANA. The Indiana platform had no
mention of Kansas City. In Illinois,
reference to our last national conven-
ton" was deliberately stricken out. In
neither state is there any looking back
ward, and both address themselves
c~ourageously to modern issues, notably
in the declaration against the trust
breed tariff. ship subsidies and the like.
Ledger.
The authorities of Henderson have
refused to grant the Bell telephone peo-
pie a franchise to do business in that
town, holding that one system is suff-
At first blush this would appear
to be a little out of the ordinary and to
have a tendency toward giving the COM
already doing business in the
town a monopoly, but this action of the
authorities mean a great saving to the
business men of that town. If there is
anything worse than two telephone sys-
TENS in a town it is three SYSTEMS
Durham Herald.
Law Notes contains an amusing refer
though not altogether in accord
with the facts, to the suit brought by a
former candidate for lieutenant govern
or for $751; damages because he was
pelted with stale eggs at a railroad sta
ton. Law Notes say THE court will
very likely take Judicial notice of the
fact that a contribution of stale Eggs is
the ordinary and natural result Of a
certain kind of speech-naking n will
refuse to hold the railr DAD responsible
for the direct consequences Of the plain
tiff's own acts."-Raleigh Times.
The pleasure derived from the infor-
nation that the Appalachian park bill
has passed the senate IS modified by
the further information that Speaker
Henderson is opposed to the passage of
the bill this session and will block it in
the house. Enjoying the prestige of
having passed the senate, it may get
through the house during the short ses-
sion, which meets in December, 1t at
all events enjoys the advantage of a
three-month's chance in the house and
of having passed the senate in the first
instead of the second session of a con-
gress. In the latter case it would have
had to run the senate gauntlet again.
There is great encouragement in the
senate vote to hope that this meritori-
Gus measure may yet become a law
Charlotte Observer.
The report of the CENSUS bureau on
the rice crop is of peculiar interest to
the people of eastern North Carolina.
n to the whole state. so far as that
goes. The statistics show that the In
dustry is being gradually transferred
from the south Atlantic states to Lou
isiana III Texas. Further. that when
these latter states solve the problem OF
irr;ootiop the growing of rice will be