The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-11

provement. Public apathy II often de
plorable. Taking guns away from boys
some Of them little fellows-is q step
In the right direction. A boy In town
with a parlor rife Is q menace to <h'
citizens-"
Accidents from their use. some fatal.
are reported in the newspapers from
time to time. Let the bloody imple-
ments be banished.
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John Bull totes around" a very stir
back He is bullish always, but in the
matter OF the South African outrage he
is resolved to have II all his own way.
and universal opinion outside OF his do
minions may go as h noise of SO MANI
flies buzzing and flaming. He will al
low nc impertinent outside advice or
suggestion or mediation. He rebuffs the
offer OF friendly intercession of the
Netherlands for the purpose OF inducing
the Beers to make proposals OF peace.
No Intervention will be allowed. and
the Beers must do their su~pplication
through h British Weyler known as
Kitchener.
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The cigarette invasion Of England is
a newspaper theme. The New York
stock Exchange cuts from Its list the
shares Of the big American Tobacco
trust, because the manipulations OF the
fellows in charge threatened loss to
spectators. The New York Journal
has this by way Of deduction and
lesson.
why should not the boys take a leaf
from the book as the Stock Exchange
and prune their lists?
"As the first thing to be cut of We
suggest cigarettes.
1.-The American Tobacco Trust is
making a desperate effort to force its
cigarettes on the English market. Why
not let the English market have them
all. at least as far as boys are concern
ed?
The mere money the cigarette babit
costs absorbs all an ordinary boys
savings. 1t amounts to enough If the
money were put out at interest, to start
him in a trade or profession at twenty
one.
And that is the smallest part of the
evil. The cigarettes sap the brain at its
most impressionable stage. They make
the mind soft and fiabby. They destroy
the will. They weaken the health.
They make their victim nerveless,
feeble, unfit to fight his way through
the world"
The New Woman attracts atten-
ton all around the world now. She is
at the front in many ways and is held
responsible for many things. some not
so good. She figures in novels and her
style and life are o admirable nor to
be commended for imitation. Cardinal
Gibbons. formerly a resident here, and
now of Baltimore, in a recent article in
the Ladies' Home Journal paid his re-
spects to her in clear, full tones. We
give a sample of his we'll directed re-
flections:
"As I aid before. I regard woman's
rights women and leaders in the new
enemies Of the female sex. They teach
that which robs women Of all that is
amiable and gentle. tender n attruc-
tive. and which gives her nothing in
but masculine boldness and
brazen ~effrontery. While protesting to
emanclpdte her from domestic Servi-
tude. they are making her the slave of
her w caprices and passions. She
never feels at home except when abroad
When she is at home. home is irksome
to her. She chafes and frets under the
restraint and responsibility of domestic
life. Her heart rs abroad. 1t is exult-
ing in Imagination, In some social tri-
umph. or reveling i'll some scene of
gayety and dissipation. I speak the
sober truth when I affirm that for the
wrecks of families in our country wo-
man has a large share Of the respon-
sibility."
AS a boy would say that new wo-
man who is parading around is "a bad
old gal"