The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-13
STATE PRESS.

mistake in smelling. What J.. p. is real
ly after is a British pierage.-Kinston
Free Press
As The Post predicted, Senator Hoar
great speech is to be used as a cam
paign document by our national con-
gressional committee. One million
copies have been ordered by the COM
mittee for distribution. Nothing better
could be seiected-Raleigh Post
Some one sad he wanted to buy all
the horses hat did not get scared at
the street cars. He will get his stables
% filled, for yesterday OF the avenue
o dozen animals were on
the first trip and not over two OF them
noticed the c11s. They will soon be-
come accustomed TO the sight.-Greens-
boro Record
speaking of statues to various people
the teachers assembly. which meets at
Morehead this week, might consider the
matter and start a fund for the erection
of a statue to Calvin H Wiley Put 1t
in the capital square at Raleigh. He Is
the father of the public schools system
i'm North Carolina, and his memory
should be thus honored.-Durham SUM-
There will be many Americans in
Paris this summer. The news of the
Humbert bunko game has reacher Chi
cago, New York, Jersey City and Hobo
ken, and Paris is now the MEGA of the
American bunko man. He is naturally
anxious to get next" TO the French
bankers who loaned S12, 600, 900 on a
bogus lawsuit and an empty safe
Kinston Free Press.
Was it poetic justice to SChley or a
love of truth that Roosevelts name
was eliminated from the account OF the
battle of San Juan in the histories used
- a. 1k~~I 80 TUnch; rofnn TirU0--
The gentleman from Raleigh who sues
for divorce in Wake county, upon the
round hat he was an idoC when he
married probably voices the sentiment
of many men of greater endurance
Winston journal
The Tilden Club of New York City
will throw open it's doors to a lot or
guests on the 10Th instant, and the oc-
casion is to be made a notable har-
mony meeting-A lovefeast OF the lights
of democracy. Grover Cleveland Will
hobnob with William Jennings Bryan.
Richard Olney with Governor Stone or
Missouri, Bourke Cochran with Senate
Jones, ex-Mayor Van Wyck with Lewis
Nixon, and so on down the list.-Golds-
boro Argus.
There is only one course in the case
compatible with our national honor,
With cur national interests, and with
tNIdL III CAAAAAAc SNN~
which American plumes themselves.
That is to enact a Straightforward
measure of reciprocity which will open
our ports IN easier terms to the chlef
products of CuLa and will give our mer-
chandise corresponding advantages in
Cuba.-New Bern Journal
Real estate lien say that last month
was a particularly fine one for their
business. Many residences and parcels
of vacant property changed lands he
purchases were mainly outsiders COM
ing here to live. The influx of people
from other sections of the state to
Greensboro is one of the characteristic
features of the Gate City. Greensboro
is in the eyes of the people and they
are coming here in large numbers to
live-Greensboro Telegram.
Whether General Miles Is coming
east to See the authorities at Washing
ton or to attend the Exercises at West
Point the question as 20 where he mas
been the leak in the war department
IS one hat will not down. Newspapers
all over the country are asking: Is 1t
through General Miles that information
accessible to him because Of the official
post he holds, has gone to the senate III
other thar the regular way? If so, the
army and the country ought 10 knoW 1t.
-Asheville Citizen.
Says the Wilmington Messenger: A
puzzle for the baseball cranks to solve
How can a catcher make a triple play
unassisted? Our Greensboro special Of
the game there yesterday says Fisher,
of the Wilmington team, accomplished
this feat. 1t was so remarkable 4
statement that We had the message re-
peated, and the reporter stuck to 1t that
the statement was correct. IhatS the
easiest puzzle We have noted in some
A;-,o Tho ATaSSanp ar'S rannrtpr when
he penned that statement. was hitting
the pipe."-Charlotte News.
And now Mr.. Blackburn comes up
and says he has been working hke a
Turk for Winston'S appropriation. Ell
Their the congressman or the people are
badly balled up about those approprl-
ations, and about the only wGy that
the congressman can set themselves
straight is by securing all that is asked
for.-When the issue was betWeen
gold and free silver we sided with the
latter and would do so again, but we
were never one of those who thought
the country would go &c hell a-gallop-
ing If free silver was not adopted i'm
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald
Unless the navy department shortly
reminds the High Pink Tea admiral
of the navy by cable of the OBJECT Tor
which he left Ills country. the corona
ton will have 10 proceed without the
presence of the American fleet. So far
Crowninshield, The greatest tar that
ever stayed ashore has succeeded in
taking the North Atlantic
only as far as the Bay of Naples, where
he has halted Tor the purpose OF en-
tertaining NeapOl-tan "sassiety. The
press dispatches tell us of a very swell
.'dansant" which the dear admiral gave
on the deck OF his flagship the other
day, which could not have been more
successful.''-Charlotte News
Amos Cummings was IN congress 1or
twenty years and supplemented his sal
airy by writing for the press When he
died a few weeks s his estate was
worth only fifteen unGred dollars. He
had no use for money except to live well
and give to those who were IN need. 1t
was a rare month when he did not give
away half of his salary. His heart was
warm, his impulse generous, and he
,oxror foorna1 tn chilli his natural I'M