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

We hear a sanitarium being talked of
for our town This IS something that Is
greatly needed in this community and
will do as much toward building up the
town as any institution that could be
established. We hope hat our citizens
will take hold of ii, and push il through
We a the natural advantages. and
there is not a healthier place in the
state.-Dunn Banner.
Maxton has grown more during the
past ten years under the prohibition
liquor enactment than il did during its
forty a previous. with its three bar
rooms and $500 tax from same. No.
the sale OF liquor does not build up any
town. Two Of the most prosperous old
towns We knew forty years & have
continuously sold liquor all that time.
and are smaller to day n they ever
were.-Scottish Chief.
Although the March courts in Samp-
son and Duplin counties were not held
on account Of smallpox, the recent Nav
courts only lasted two days in Duplin
and five days in Sampson. The recent
spring court in Cumberland also was
recorded as the smallest ever or docket.
Is not prohibition therefore in these
counties having a most beneficial effect
in reducing the court costs in these drS
counties?-Duplin Journal
A large number of New England dem
Gratis have met in Boston and organized
the New England democratic league.
the main object Of which is TO boom
Hon. Richard Olney for the democratic
presidential nomination in 1904. The
Atlanta Constitution commenting On
approvingly of the purposes Of this
New England organization. All OF
which looks as if the democrats were
effectively pulling themselves together
Charlotte Observer
w. B. Ellis, of New York, the man
who tried to prevent the re-appoint-
ment of District Attorney a. f Holton
in the west, has brought libel suit
against Holton for SIS, 900. The alleged
libel is in relation to that matter. Ellis.
it will be remembered. is the man who
wrote Mr.. a. B.. Andrews, Jr., of this
city, a letter saying that he had discov-
cred a scheme for making fortunes II
prompting matrimonial arrangements
and the only trouble he had had thus
far was finding the proper material
among the men.-Raleigh Times.
The story of the barbarity Of our army
in the Philippines grows worse in the
telling. Extracts from the testimony
before the senate committee read lika
pages from the history OF some barba-
rouS, savage nation. If the witnesses
tell the truth, the conduct of our army
In the ~PnllpplneS mas no parallel, unless
it be the record of the nation We SUI
perSeded there. Republicans and demo-
Gratis should make common acuse in an
honest effort to go to the bottom of this
fearful stain on he country's escutch-
con and to punish the guilty. Why
there should be a single voice raised IN
protest against probing the scandal We
cannot even distantly i~magine.-Char-
lOtte News.
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Elizabeth City lawyers are pious. s
lawyer is superintendent of every Sun
day school in that city. Baptist. Mr.. f.
F. Aydlett: Episcopal, Mr.. Edmund
Alexander; Presbyterian, Mr.. E.. F.
Lamb; Methodist. Mr.. ]. y. Leigh
The more credit North Carolina con-
gressmen demand, the more the COM
mittce will down the appropriations for
public buildings. Suppose we defer
credit until the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
gifts of 1000 each to the Methodist
O~rphanage at Raleigh show that it i
near the hearts of North Carolina Meth
odiSm. The three who ave given $1,000
each this month are all bankers-Mr
w. w. Mills, president Of the new Loan
and Trust Company at Raleigh; Cen
eral Julian S. Carr, president OF the
First National bank of Durham, and
Mr.. E. b. Borden, president of the
Bank of Wayne, Goldsboro.-News and
Observer.