The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-08
HERE AND THERE.

\ fellow in good old Terre Haute
Went out an election to Vaute;
When his party won out
He gave a great shout
And came home as full as 4 gaute.-
Muncie Und.) Star.
1t is said that Charleston has so
many blind tigers" that il will be
necessary. in the next municipal cleo
ton. for the voters TO elect a Super
i~ntendent of the Zoo" - Charlotte
News.
We'll, if there is anything in Wash
ington former Congressman Cheatham
wants We hope he will get it, re-
marks the Durham Herald. Yes. any
thing to get rid Of him.-Greenville
Reflector.
An esteemed contemporary asks us
why we refer to the Smart Set as oscil-
lating between He'll and the Iron
Works" Because it gets it's inspira-
ton from the one, its money from the
charlottesville COurier-JOurnal.
That Berlin custom of Introducing
pet tigers to high society functions is
at least preferable to the New York
fashion of inviting monkeys in to din
ner to lend an air of intellectual depth
to the cOnVerSatiOn.-Durham Sun.
President Roosevelt, at St. Louis.
proved that the Louisiana Purchase
was true blue Jeffersonian expansion,
while eX-President Cleveland demon
strated beyond controversy that it was
a genuine anti-eXpansiOn JeffersonIan
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
The st. Louis people evidently did
not take good care of the
men. Even the representative Of the
Associated Press, that organization
which usually puts a gloss on every
THING Sanf ont n fnr- roonJn ~, LOGS mild
roasts of the arrangements. Column
bia State.
There is a cow on Joel Cooks farm
at NorristOWn, Penn, which refuses to
drink water from a pail, brook or
trough. h is twelve years old
and has always taken the active end of
a pump in her mouth, and had some
one pump water into her. This may
not be a true story.-Springfield Re
publican.
The story is told of a certain Indian
Warrior-Chief Kicking Housewife
paid q visit the other day to a Boston
capitalist. When he his
strange cOgnOmen to the Boston mans
butler, the liveried servan looked puz
Zled for a moment, then retraced his
steps to his masters library, and OPP
ening the door announced, "Chief Re-
calcitrant Equine Quadruped."-Char-
IOtte News.
Even p~ickpockets should have clean
hands. One tried to remOve the val
uables of a Picadilly '~irreproachble"
: as he sauntered to his club the other
morning. The ~irreprOachable seized
the thief by the wrist, gazed at his
filthy paw, and flung it from him with
disgust, saying: For goodness sake,
! my good man, wash your hands before
| you put them in a gentleman's pocket"
London Express.
Dog Adopts a Wolf.-"BilT' Porter, a
MaryvilIe fireman, has a dog which
has adopted a wolf. Three young
! wolves which We're found on q farm
| near Ravenwood were placed with her
own pups, and she Immediately ac-
| cepted them as members of her fam
| lily, and began treating them in the
most motherly fashion. Two of the
! wolves have been stolen. but the dog
is still caring for the third.-kansas
| City Journal.
Algy Was Not Particular-There was
| company at tea, and little AlgernoOn left
that it was an occasion upon which he
might assert himself. Ma" he re-
+, marked. holding up his bread and but
ter in scorn, cant [ have some jam
| on this?" "What?" calculated his
! economical m jam on butter?
No. indeed: certainly not" "Oh,
don't care about it being on the but
ter" said Algy calmly. Put it on the
| other side!"-AnSwer.
Where are the Knippists? The Kay
neippists, l should say. There was
some evidence of following the famous
therapeutist of S~tefansreid in this
country a few years ago. Persons
were caught daily in the act Of creep
ing over the dewy lawns of Central
Park in their bare feet-poor old feet,
buioned. corned, chilblained, cramped,
! squeezed. missnapen, equity, tender
| SOled-feet such as a beast would not
| claim, feet hat would Kill a beast.
Father Kneipp was nearly Oh the right
track. His error was in trying to cure.
| He should have started in to prevent.
If the deluded mortals that became his
| followers had gone b~arefOOted for ten
years. they never would nave needed
the kneipp cure. They tried to fool
mother earth. II they had come in
contact with her in early youth, they
would not have needed her IN old age.
New York PresS.