The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-11

There Is q monthly that publishes
stories by the dozen. II Is called The
Smart Set" and 1t Is very handsomely
lgotten up. We have before US a fine
lexample that "a soft answer turnetn
away wrath" It is printed as follows:
Mr.. Editor Che wrote):
You will very kindly note there's q
poem and a stamp enclosed within. IL
the poem stands no show, use the
stamp to let me know-but I'll be a
poet yet. you bet J. FLYNN"
Then the editor wrote back:
Although worth 1t doesn't lack. yet
such maudlin rhymes az yours are
seldom read. Here's 81 for your let
ter. which IL infinitely better than your
poem, which you'll find inclosed.
THE ED"
Just what Mr.. Flynn did or said
when he e the reply. is not known
to an agitated public. He may have
made "cuss words fly around, but
what did he with that 81 inclosed?
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We have called attention to the high
merits Of the accomplished. able gen.
tleman who is the president OF New
Sngland's greatest university. Har-
ward. He has done more tnan n
other official in behalf of university
education and management. He is
lot only able but wise. Every promi-
lent educational institution in this
and is sharing more or less in the
action and wisdom OF this eminent cit
zen and leader. The Review of Re-
views for March, in an article upon
him, says this:
1T is equally tempting and futile to
imagine how different the history of
Harvard University and of higher ed
Ication in the United States might
have been had Charles William Eliot
accepted an offer of a salary Qarge for
the times and for one so young) of
5,OOO a year as treasurer o. & large
cotton manufacturing establishment in
Lowell, Mass, offered to him shortly
'fter his graduation from Harvard in
1853. Thus early in his life a wise
men detected in him latent capacities
as an administrator"
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Some one writes to The Washington
Post Of 1.-The statesmen" in the house
of representatives thirty-one years
The list of these ''s~tatas,nen' is
long and all ar nearly all northen.
Then as in the days of Washington,
Madison, Jefferson and the other great
the south was barren and un-
profitable. But the writer expresses
mis- admiration in his happy way
There could be no lack of moral and
power in a house with
Blaine, Brooks, Cox, Randall, Kelley,
Hoar, voorhees,. Garfield, Banks, Po-
and and Butler among the leaders,"
Considering the facts and evidences
Of history and biography, the intelli-
gent reader will please emphasize the
men Of moral" power named, Blaine,
Brooks. Garfield and Butler. A new
of morality must be hunted
to suit the case. You will see that
no southern men are named. They
were deficient in 1.-The moral power
Illustrated in and possessed by the -four
Great is humbug! People
nave no memories.
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How wisely, sensibly a republican
protection organ can write if the old
corrupt party treads upon its own pre-
serves. How promptly it can see in
Justice in a wrong ax-on that dis
unwisely and hurts it, like
the tax on wood pulp. The Washing
ton Star condemns the Dingley law
for imposing an unfair tax upon the
from which the paper used
by the newspapers Of this country is
made. In consequence of the tariff
manufactured article itself it is i'm
possible in the present state Of the in
1ustry to economically utilize the |
great forest supplies of Canada and
Norway, which, if available for the
American market, would check the
tendency which is today steadily lead
.ng to a material advance in the price
Of the finished article in this market"
is precisely right. But the same |
unconstitutional, greedy, devouring
robs n Expresses other indus
tries and the PEOPLE generally. The
holds the tax on newspapers is
a tax on knowledge. Just so, and the
other bad taxes are taxes on men and
their sacred interests and welfare. The
Dingley tariff is a thief and a robber
md deserves to be strangled.
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Here is the loss of the British that |
kept Jack after the British plan
If suppression of bad news. The war
office publishes at last as follows the
.oss at Vondonop: Killed, 5 officers,
Is men: wounded, 6 officers. 116 men:
captured, 16 officers, 451 men. Total
losses. q officers. 612 men and |
guns. More gold is needed for the |
war. The war secretary has just is
sued the estimate for the army for
year-sa46, $50. 900. He stated that
England never before waged war on
such a scale. He saws that il is feed |
ng 800, 900 men and 243. 900 horses alone |
n South Africa. The cost is S94S, 600
.ach day-a pretty costly business thai
terminating of the brave Dutch
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