The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
HERE AND There.

Mr.. Subbubs-Why. what's the mat
ter? Where's the new servant girl?
Mrs. Subbubs-It's all due to a misun-
Outstanding. I told her to dust this
morning, and the first thing 1 knew
she had Observation-Disclosures Press.
Columbia, s. c., has set a good ex-
ample for some other towns that We
might name by ordering that On and
after Friday, March 9Th, all antiquated
"hack-carriages'' and skeleton horses
must be kept off the streets as public
conveyances.-Ashevile Citizen.
She is vedy Intelligent" said the
girl who likes to admire some one.
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne: but
I'm afraid she is a little insincere. She
pretends to take more interest in the
Trojan war than h does in the quar-
rels in her progressive euchre club
Washington Star.
Although the strike commissioners
have made every effort to keep the
findings secret it is understood that the
report will give the miners an increase
of ten per cent. and will also recom-
mend a reduction Of the working
hours, n place blame for the strike
OF the operators.-Durham Sun.
When Uncle Rastus comes obe to
my cabin an I git him by de neck an
back him up agin the wall l kin make
him admit lat lie whale swallowed
Jonah, but de trouble am dat as soon
as he gets out doahs he goes back to
his old arguments an beliefs agin. a
nan convinced wild a club allus coughs
UP de splinters.-Detroit Free Press.
A Massachusetts man who swore he
was a republican in order 70 gain adj
mittance to a caucus of that party and
hen voted the democratic ticket, is now
doing thirty days in Jail. He ought to
realize by this time that a man must
get elected to the United States
senate before he car ignore his political
Observation-Disclosures Post.
The government this year will send
to North Carolina experts Who will
teach our people to grow Sumatra to-
bacco hat is used for cigar stock and
is very valuable. Other states made
arrangements last year and received
governmental aid in this work. This
year Virginia and North Carolina have
banded together to get what they are
entitled to from the general govern
ment along this iine.-Wilson Times.
A very important bill passed the leg
iSlature entitled an act to protect teie-
phone companies. This bill makes it
q IIllSuSlllColloI " SlNe away lSISpAiSliS
message except to the person for whom
they are intended. This is designed
to stop the habit of cutting in at some
places to hear conversation between
persons and it also would put a stop
to divulging private conversations be-
tween persons over the 'phone.-Raleigh
Times. s
The Emperor William is about to
place the great medical men of Ii en-
pire on wheels and put Their where
they will do the most good. Such
world-renowned specialists as Profess
sOrs Lassar, Bergman, and Rumpf will
be fitted out with a great medicine
chest and laboratory and sent into the
country This is so that small country
doctors. who seldom come to town, can
have an opportunity to come to the
nearest city in their province for a
week or two one a year and hear the
leaders in their profession explain the
latest process for treatment or see Gel
ebrated surgeons operate. The govern
eminent will pay all the bills, while the
most difficult cases of surgery IN the
road will be gathered up for practice.
The college on wheels is a good idea.
1t "a be made to serve q good turn in
times of war.-Boston Globe.