The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-18
HERE AND THERE.

ance at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga
Park, Georgia, for the first time since
the epidemic among the soldiers dur
ing the Spanish-American war. The
troops now stationed at Camp Thomas
are the Seventh cavalry and the Third
battery of field artillery.-News and
Courier.
In a recent interview on Cuba Cen
eral Fitzugh Lee predicts falling away
in trade, caused by lack of confidence
In the new govcln ment, resulting de-
cline of the income of hat government
to the starvation point, internal an
archy and a plea from the Cubans
themselves for Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
A Brooklyn physician says Bad wa
ter, impure milk and long rides on open
trolley cars" are most prolific causes
Of death among children under four
years old. Many physicians have been
interviewed in different cities and they
agree as to the first two causes, but
most Of them think that the danger in
trolley car rides IS want of common
sense on the part OF parents. They
think that taking babies on long car
rides late at night without a wrap
must be productive of colds, but with
prope protection the ride should do
h baby good.-RaIefgh Times.
While the death of the late Earl OF
Arundel and Surrey will be a great
blow to his father, the duke, who was
devotedly attached to Kim, yet it is a
demise which al only be looked upon
in the light of a happy relief, for the
twenty-five year old earl was blind,
deaf dumb, partially crippled, and in
some respects lmhecile. His success
sion TO his IA theirs honors, and espe-
cially 10 the earl marshalship of the
realm which carries with it the presi-
dency of the court of chivalry
and of arms, and the premiership of
The peerage, would have furnished TO
the foes of the system of an hereditary
aristocracy plenty Of material for
scofhnE At the nobility caste.-Mar-
quise de Fontcnoy in Washington
Post.
Lewis VI. Maupt, foz-nerLy a MEMBER
of h Nicaragua and Isthmian Canal
commission, asks, in an article in the
July number of the North American
Review, why Is an Isthmian Canal
not Built" Mr.. Maupsl signed the sup
Elemental report Of the Isthmian Canal
Commission declaring IN. favor of Pan
anna although he thought the Nicara-
qua route the better 1T the two, his
a for doing so CAS-. at his request,
it was recorded iii the minutes of the
commissiOn) being to- avoid throwinf;
an obstacle in the way of the construc-
tim of some waterway between tn,
Atlantic and the Facifa. He states II
length the grounds of. his opinion thu /
the Nicaragua route If preferable to
hat Of Panama: The problem is not
merely concerned withrthe cost of tray-
ersing the iSthmus fr6n sea to sea,
but with the total COST of the move
ment from port 10 port: hence, it is a
deiusfOn to assert that because the
Panama route is out 4e miles long and
the Nicaragua is 1873. the former is the
better, since that Statement omits en-
trely the greater length OF the SEA
route by Panama for. ahout three-quAr-
tiers of the traffic, the presence of se
lake and river whidf compose more
thar half Of the waterway through
I Nicaragua, and the still more impOr-
tant fact that the general directioa OF
| this route lies along the most di.ecI
line while at PanaKua it is almost a
right angles thereto Moreover, there
Is the insuperable meteorological dis
advantage attaching to the Panama
route, due to position. since the south
ern route lies IN the region of equa.
| torial Gains which debar sailing YES
sells from access TO Panama, Rithou'
| great expense for towage. while tn,
| northern location lies in the region o
the trade winds. which also contribut,
greatly to the SaSubrity and comfort o
this transitway.. To meet tna objec
ton due to the doldrums' in Panam:
i bay, it is urged that the sailing vesse
is doomed to be- superseded by steam
ers. The present outlook would no
seem to justify such a conclusion, sine
more than aft o. our registered ton
mage is sail, and the tendency Is strong
" towards larger schooner-rigge'
craft"