The semi-weekly messenger., 1902-12-02

The Knoxville Journal thinks that IL
the democrats should decide 10 noni-
nate Luke Wright for president, SEN
lator Carmack would find his own
words very unpleasant eating.
Holt Collier the negro who roped the
bear for Teddy the Tur' BILE TO shoot.
lperpetrated the most strenuous bit OF
sarcasm that has adorned the tales Of
recent sporting life.-Charleston tW.
Va) Gazette.
Senator Beveridge has gone out 10
Icapture some pointers as TO whether II
will he safe for the republican TO ad-
init three more states. Meanwhile Ari-
lzona has gone democratic-and that
|queers her case.-Atlanta Constitution.
| We rejoice that the superior court OF
Elizabeth City has estimated the nui-
lsance by the smoking Of a cigarette
lat $3.50. According 10 this decision a
pack OF cigarettes contains about 1886
sf nuisance TO the public and which IS
just about right.-Winston Sentinel
The Charlotte News is disturbing the
public by asking If a man should
marry on $50 a month if he is not IF
strictly temperate habits. II man
admits that he is not strictly temper
ate then most other people are GER
Itainl- calling him decidedly intemper-
iate.-Raleigh Times.
| Cuba is rapidly becoming American
IIZed. The account of the strike riot
in Havana reads as if it might have
come from Chicago. H., or Rochester,
New York And yet some critics of
lCuba and the Cubans win doubtless
take the riot as an indication Of the
ICubans' unfitneSs for Self-govern-
State.
| At meeting of the Arkansas Peni-
Itentiary Board Saturday, Governor
Jefferson Davis was called aiar and
rascal by the attorney general of the
state. but after what he was called
some months ago by the official board
of his church, the governor probably
regards the attorney generals suggeS-
Itions as mild.-Norfolk Landmark.
The death of Septemus Winner, COM
poser Of The Mocking Bird" removes
a man who narrowly escaped being
rich, but he missed the mark because
he did not know the worth of his own
effort. He sold The Mocking Bird for
1895. while the purchaser realized, 1t is
said, 100000 from its sale. 1t is bet
ter to overestimate than to underesti-
mate what one does.-Raleigh Times.
A sensational incident is reported
from the Poplar Springs Baptist
church, near LaurenS. S. c.. as the re-
SUIT of certain statements made by the
pastor. Rev. H. c. Haddock, in his ser
mon Sunday. rejecting on Masonry.
He was promptly called down by one
or two gentlemen in the congregation.
one Of whom, himself Mason, forced
the preacher to admit that he did not
know anything about Masonry. MuCn
confusion followed and the meeting
Iclosed.-Charlotte Observer.
Consul Mason, of Berlin, gives a
paragraph of his report to the state
department to goose fat" which is
iused, he says in Germany by the
working classes in lieu of butter.
IGCose greese is used both at table and
for cooking purposes. Vast numbers
of geese are grown in Germany, but
the local supply is deficient, and last
Iyear 6.431277 live geese were imported
large quantities of goose greese from
ifar ard near. The United States, it IS
suggested, might develop q large trade
with the Fatherland in goose greese.
la single Berlin dealer wants 200 900
pounds a month at 20 cents a pound
baltimore Sun.
South Carolina has taken its liquor
tax case to the United States court
Iof claims at Washington, and if the
state wins 1t will not merely recover
la large amount of revenue money at
1.-THE expense of the United States
Treasury, but will have succeeded in
strengthening materially the position
Iof the state in our governmental sys-
tenn. The notional government imposes
Its internal revenue Iiquor taxes on
lall dealers no matter what may be
their status under state law, and so ii
has been +aXing the state liquor stores
which South Carolina operates on pub
.ic account. The state, however, sets
lup the contention that its liquor stores
iare much exempt from federal tax
alton as its other departments of GOV
p lernment: and that, if the Washington
government can tax those stores it car
tax the state treasury of South Caro-
lima on the basis of its gross receipts
letC. There certainly appears to OF
room for strong argument on the
jstate's side OF the case.-SpringfielG
Republican.