The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-12
HERE n THERE.

When Mr.. Morgan comes home MIR.
Schwab goes abroad" What do you
argue from that?' That it is a wise
provision to prevent either hemisphere
from tipping uD.
The latest claim estimates from both
sources are that the next house Will be
republican by a majority of thirty-four
and democratic by a majority Of thirty
two.-Atlanta Constitution.
Gabbie-I tell you a fellows got to be
mighty brave to be a fireman. Hen
peck-Oh, I don't know, the bravest
man / ever knew was an iceman. Cab
bie-That so? What did he DO? Hen
peck-He sassed my wIfe.-Phiiadelphia
Press.
the wealthy tax dodger, after his third
experience in the SWeat-t.ox OF the
boards of reviewers. Il would actually
save money by just paying my taxes,
the same as The cheap fellows do
Chicago Tribune.
inexpensive Garment-"Yes.' said
the soprano in the choir loft, religion
IS absoltely free and without price"
And yet" grumbled the basso profun-
Go, lit is considered quite the thing to
make a cloak Of that cheap maternal"
Baltimore News.
Poor South Carolina has to have
another primary election next week.
The endurance of the average South
CarOlinian is something wonderful
| Norfolk Landmark" You needn't pes
ter yourself about Poor South Caro-
lin" She likes this sort of thing
Charlotte Obser Fer.
Provisions placed in the international
depot on San Mayeu island, away up to-
l wa Ri Iceland. AOr fha hpnQfit of shin
wrecked mariners, have been found, af-
| ter the lapse of ten years, to be in a
good state of preservation. This ought
to prove encouraging To the boarding.
house keeper.-Atlanta Journal.
In Chicago-Mr. Dearborn Ito Mrs. D..
formerly Mrs. Clark: BY The way,
Helen, l saw your husand today. What
a happy looking man he is. He seems
utterly without care.-Mrs. Dearborn:
| Yes? That reminds me. / saw your
first wife the other day. Never saw her
looking SO cheerful.-Boston Transcript.
A Philadelphia lady was married re-
Gently after a courtship of twenty-one
years. When interviewed by G reporter
she said that they wanted to wait until
the groom was in better financial cir
cumStances, but added, when people
are young they will be romantic and
foolish. OF course our friends are angry
that we married so suddenly, but we
don't OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Free Press.
A New Jersey stock farm has been
ruined after a strange fashion, the mus
QuitoeS hat there live and thrive, side
by side with the trusts, having so badly
bitten the cattle as to destroy their use
fulness and health. If charter granting
to trusts were not such Il profitable bus
mess we might find it possible to SYM
pathize with New Jersey IN the presence
| of this new affiction. Az it is. with the
II nrirIlaQa nf rni1Ein0 Nh fr1rofc rr-hsa6 g.
so extensively used, the state hardly
needs anything so commonplace as
cows.-Savannah News.
The French ''submersible'' Triton
has just been fitted with a complete
wireless telegraphy outfit, which has
been specially devised by Lieut.. Tadie,
of the submarine Algerien, says the
London Chronicle. During some tests
the other day before Admiral Four
nier. the inspector general of the
| french mobile d~efenceS. the Triton
Plunged beneath the waves and both
received messages from and sent mes
| SageS to the vessels on the surface. AS
the submarine When beneath the waves
Is blind. the Importance of wireless
communication between the diving
| hoat and surface craft cannot we'll be
overestimated. II is believed that the
staff of the Ver2on-the torpedo school
of the royal hard at work
deviSing a special wireless biography
outfit for the new British submarine
fiotilla.
One of the most appalling pictures
of drunkenness in an American city
ever drawn is presented in a formal let
|! ter to the police board of Biddeford,
Me, by the president and ffty-three
other mbe Of the Women'S Chris
tan Temperance Union. The story
seems almost impossible of be-. #, aid
yet the specifications are so clear that
1T cannot be disregarded. The women
declare that there are. in open and
defiant operation, many barrooms fit
ted up and appointed as suitably aid
g~orgeously as in any of the large Ii
Cense cities in other states; that more
than twenty are running openly upon
the main street, half a dozen at Smiths
corner. and a number on other speci-
fed streets; that il many places bus
mess is carried on all night, as well as
all day, on Sundays as on week
days: that men. women and children
are constantly entering these places.
little boys and girls going to buy beer
n liquor for their elders, and often
drinking over the bar themselves; and.
finally, that our streets are filled
with runke men. women n chill
cre1, to an extent that makes
he name Of the city a byword." Bid
deford is a place of only about 16,00
people. rs it the prohibitory law-a7d
If not, Vat is ft?-that results in such
conditions as these in so many Maine
cities and towns. for Biddeford is not
a SHINE above all others-New York
J Evening Post.