The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-23
STATE PRESS.

| a county primary UlcdHS no iherpes
dent ticket. With the primary there II
! safety-without it there is danger. Why
incur this danger when Ii Is 50 easy to
be avoided--Tarboro Southerner.
Well" said the fellow. Il ten you.
George. since the president OF the coun-
try took dinne with that niger
| Washington I've got so I amt parttc-
| ular who l eat with That's the truth
of it"-Charlotte Observer.
Governor Aycock Issued a couple Of
yardons the other day without making
a map and diagram showing reasons or
taking the country editors into his con-
fdenCe and we presume the usual cTiti-
eel howl will be made.-winston
Journal.
= Eggs may be kept perfectly fresh a
long as n year, by dipping them into a
solution OF two unCeS of gun arabic in
q pint OF cold water and packing them
fdriedl in powdered charCoal.-Ner
Bern Journal.
General Fftz Hugh Lee says tina; he
is in Virginia politics 20 stay. This Is
| news to US for from appearance we
rather thought that he Mas already out
when he became a retired United States
army officer on a salary OF $1,000 4 year.
His political course now will be inter
]. Wiley Shook. WHO sometime Z
went into eruption for me bcnent or the
grand stand and Senator Simmons, Is
10 be eQuclChed. The president has
written the secretary of the treasury
directing hat official To rebuke J.
Wiley. From hencefor.h scientists may
put ]. Wiley down As N extinct crater
there probably won't be- - dow OF
lava from that source an some time TO
come.-Charlotte News.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
Pension Commissioner Evans vas
practically bounded out OF Office for do
ing his duty" True, and President
Roosevelt Joined in the bounding. Had
he sustained Evans administration OF
this important office IS President Me
Kinley did. Evans would have been
there today, defying the pension sharks
and their allies, and Faithfully perform
ing his official duties III the interest Of
the peoplc.-There is more or less OF
a popular error in regard 10 business
locations" Most merchants credited
with having good locations have
made their whole neighborhood good by
an intelligent and industrious effort to
secure trade.-Winston Journal.
The Spaniards are c~crtainly a hospit-
able. courteous people. Either they have
never borne any resentment toward this
country on account OF the Cuban war
or they have belied all the traditions OF
the Latin races in showing that they
know how to forgive. The reception at
! Madrid of DR.. j. l.. NJ. Curry, who went
there last week As the representative of
the United States at the coronation or
the young king. has lacked nothing in
cordiality. He has been the recipient
of distinguished attention and consid-
eration-if Spain has any feeling
| hasn't shown il in his reception. Per
haps she feels grateful to Uncle Sam
for having taken n couple of her col
| onies of her hands: a. all events she
ought ~to.-Charlotte Observer.
We often hear men sneer, as IL re
GREETING having sent their SONS TO col
lege. oh. yes. he's come home KNOWN
| more thai | 10" Well, at the present
average of our culture, that Is general
ly a fact. and there - no need for OF
Tense. Oh, now, if the young jacka-
napes has politely given you to under
stand in words more or less explicitly
| that he is smarter than his daddy, that
is a different matter. That Is not his
college training speaking. That in in
herited Impotence, which you failed to
properly thrash" out OF him when you
were bringing him w; / advise you to
| proceed to eradicate 1t at once In the
| good old-fashioned way.-GaStonia Ga
Zette.
Hon. ]. c. Buxton, If Winston-Saiem.
IN "uS IL NlIt ~ NAs NaN
| good joke on a Surry county man. He
said: Sometime ago while attending
court in Surry l was 1t the table with
the judge and other awyers when a
frowsy-haired, rOugh-whiskered, dirty
looking fellow came In and took n seat.
His coat was drawn about his neck
and he appeared to lie pulling through
the last stages of a back-lol spree. The
man opposite MIN at the able looked
him over and asked: John. amt you
Under shamed to CC.ne to the table
looking like you do, With these gentle
men. the judge and the lawyers I
wouldn't thOught you could have done
it"
1t is the ~veriest nonsense to say that
il is a dishonor for the flag 10 ever be
hauled down. In this case of Cuba.
for instance. ii is to the very glory of
the flag and to the country OF which b.
is the patriotic emblem that it does
come down. 1t ouli be an act Of dis
grace and tyranny. under ali the cir
cumstances. # it stayed up in Cuba.
We believe we have some recollection
OF a great hue and cry that arose when
President Cleveland sent n special com
missioner Bfount to Hawan to see IL
the flag had been entirely honorably
raised there. when the be-whiskered
Dole usurped the little kingdom OF
Lilioukalani. Much was said then OF
the treachery there would be In the act
Of taking down the flag. II took nerve
to maintain that n wrongly hoisteG flag
ought not to be allowed to fiutter. And
the Stars and Stripes over MORO Castle
came down yesterday, and rightly 20.
II was. instead Of being d~iahonorabie.
a keeping OF faith.-Charlotte Observer.