The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-02
HERE AND THERE,

Miss D. Fyre-"Reverend Doctor
Fourthly has denounced divorce as a
profane act" Miss D. Meenor-'He's
some ones name IL vain.'-Harvar6
Lampoon.
A Natural Question.-"Have you any
two-cent stamps?" inquired the victim
after paying his bill at the Bong Tong
How many do you want?" How much
are they apiece ?'-Philadelphia Press
Remember" said the serious citi-
zen, that wealth has its responsible
ties" Yes" answered Mr.. Cumrox.
$50 long as you are humble and oh
scure you can say I seen it and I
done it. and eat with your knife all
you want to."-Washington Star.
Some Of the persons who are trying
to Torment trouble for the Hon. Jim
Clarkson and incidentally annoy the
administr alton are advising the south
ern negroes to get all the offices they
can before the next republican national
convention. The advice may be gooi,
but why do people delight to make trou-
BILE in this NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Post.
Colonel Jack Chinn, of Kentucky, &C
cording to a Louisville paper, has m
parked in the unique business Of rails
ing foxes and hounds on the same farm.
He has the land separated in two plots
with a wire fence, and on one section
he raises the game and on the other the
dogs to chase it. Before a great while
he will be able to supply fox hunts 20
order.-Savannah News.
Several youngsters OF this town show
ed that they had the stuff of heroes in
49,. urchnx Ifo I'll No ~
derpool, CALAMITY stopped a runaway
on Fifth avenue, and was cheered and
| rewarded by the holiday crowd. Wal
ter Jones', the elevator boy in an apart
ment house on Morningside avenue,
while the building was ablaze made fif-
teen trips through dense smoke and go
all the tenants out. The youth who
| dares to do greatly is not confined TO
the stories of the dime novelists.-NeW
York Sur.
The Calvary Baptist church Of Provi-
dence, R. l., has done a Christmas thing
1t has ~nened it's doors to the shiveririe
| poor who cannot get fuel By putti"'
in cots it can lodge fifty or more Of
them at a time. Its premises will be
! heated day and night and the rar~n
and cooking utensils in the church
kitchen will be at the service OF the
| guests. The congregation has also Vot-
| ed to suppress the usual Christmas Gel
ebration n put the money it would
have cost into food and clothing for the
Observation-Disclosures Courant.
Judge Speer, Of Georgia. has been
telling the Independent Club, Of Buffalo,
hat the negro should vote along with
the white Let's see, isn't Judge
Speer the democrat upon whom Mr..
Roosevelt cast a fat federal Job.-Nor-
folk V~irginian-Pilot. Hon. Emory
Speer served several terms in the lower
house of congress as the representative
of the mountain district of Georgia,
| having been elected as an independent,
though his leanings were markedly re-
publican. n was appointed judge OF
the United States district court for the
southern district of Georgia by Presi-
dent MISUNDERSTANDING observer.
On January 1st New York is going to
put a West Pointer at the head of its
police department., General Francis
Vinton Greene will succeed Colonel
Partridge. The general is a native OF
Rhode Island, is 81 years old, resigned
from the army in 1889 with the rank OF
captain and was for some years preSl-
dent of the Asphalt Trust at a salary
of S25. 900 per annum. He is indepen-
IDENTIFY rich, has a house at Newport and
a steam yacht. His title of general
comes from a commission as b%rigadie1
that he held in the volunteer service
! His present appointment is from Mayor
Seth Low. n he is republican in poll
tics. He thinks New York needs 5000
Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
The names of DR.. Wiley's poison
squad" have at last been made public
1T is a roll of honor" declared DR.
Wiley today, land future generations
will rise up and declare these mer
blessed when the true value of then
services are known" Including among
the official boarders are b. ]. Teasdale
once the famous 100-yard runner d
Yale. The Others are John D. Eldridge
known among his colleagues as the "fat
man." and Big john" E. B. Dudley
| of North Carolina, the thin private;'
Eugene r. Mccarthy, of Pennsylvania;
J. S. Clifford, Of New York; w. J. Jor-
dan, J. l.. Weber, N. Norton, T. E
Smith, c.. Orion and Messers. Freeman
and Observation-Disclosures Special tc
Philadelphia Record.