The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-14
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

The New York Herald is demanding
a dog-muzzling law for its city. Can
not the World carry its demand a little
further and insist upon the muzzling
Of the bull dog" pistol and it's toter in
it's state? Society is certainly more
s~candaIized if not injured by the do
ings and developments following the
doings of the latter than of the former.
Raleigh Post
AS the Atlanta bank clerk who got
away with $94,G 600 was "one OF our
best people" and moved in the most
exclusive circles of society,"" it is
presumed that he, too, will go off with
a very light sentence if he is punished
at all. 1t is also fortunate for him that
he made a good "a If he had taken
only a few hundreds he would probably
be severely punished.-Statesville Land
mark
The statement that William J. Bryan
aspires to the craftsmanship of the
democratic national committee is going
the rounds Of the press. The late a n
didate. it is asserted, has confided this
ambition to certain democratic leaders
in Washington. If true, the candi-
date has doubtless concluded that
having twice failed to lead the par
ty to victory, he will try his hand at
the driving process.-Charlotte Obser-
yer.
War is really going out of fashion,
little as we may think so. There is no
good fighting in sight and has been
none for a generation says the Buff
falo News. Yet never in the worlds
history have there been so many men
under arms, or trained in the art of
war. But a real. han to han war
with modern eapon would be so
dreadful a thing that the rulers Of all
nations are cautious about venturing
pOn it.-Asheville Citizen.
DR.. Parkhurst always says something
when he talks. In his sermon last sun
day he said it was we'll for the negroes
! in the south that, not being competent
to be a law for themselves they had
masters that were a law to them. They
ought to be thankful on the whole that
the institution of slavery existed, and
such of them as have not yet been
drawn under any other system of gov
eminent would be better off if that in
stitutiOn existed still.-News and OBJ
server.
The Philadelphia Record says: LAS
a Speech-maker President Harrison
was beyond question the most accom-
plished occupant of the White House.
And yet he was beaten for reelection"
Not only as a speaker but in other
way was Benjamin Harrison a man of
unusua ability. The grandfather hat
! idea as it was popularity applied was
one of the most erroneous notions that
ever existed. for the late President was
an ADLER man than his great-grand-
father.-Charlotte Observer.
That was good news that came from
Norfolk yesterday concerning the ar
rival in that port of the good ship ST.
Bede. There is nothing unusual in the
arrival of a ship at Norfolk; they put
in there every day, but the interest
that attaches to this particular ship
grows out of the fact that her cargo
consisted of cotton goods manufacture
ed in the south and consigned to
China. The striking feature of this an
nOuncement is that this cargo of
the ST. Bede's is the first of it's kind
from the south-the beginning Of a
new era. The New South, awakening to
a realization of her glorious future,
| waves aside the middleman and ships
her own cargoes direct to the great
East. 1t is but a beginning, but other
southern manufacturer will follow
suit. Truly it is a great step forward.
Charlotte News.
There is one thing at least that the
average man will not learn and that is
to take no risks with a moving train.
Horrifying accidents occur and the
sickenIng details are described in the
newspapers and by word of mouth, but
judging from subsequent accidents
there is no let up in the recklessness
! which leads men 70 jeopardize their
lives and the happiness of those close
to them Yesterday at Wilmington q.
} young man familiar with rains sought
to board a moving train, a slowly NOV
ing train at that and a tragic occur
renee was the result. 1t would be a
good thing for every man who goes
I near a train to read carefully the de-
scriptions of deaths On the rail and call
them to mind every time he is tempted
to thrust himself into deadly peril. And
it would be highly desirable if the
railroads would make slower schedules
and not encourage the reckleSSneSS
| among their employees which so often
! results fatally. There is surely too
great a disregard of human life in these
. times.-Greensboro Telegram
Due Notice is Served.