The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-12-25
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AND THERE.

CoIonsl Bryan told some folks over
stay in politics for the next % years. |
This ought TO make JOY in the Repub-
lican comprehension Journal.
When a girl lets a young man hang
a large bunch of mtstletoe over t1S |
place he knows she knows he knows l
she likes to sit, the socisty reports:
can get ready to something
Exchange. |
And South Carolina is cutting capers.
She is trying to find out whether Com |
mitteeman Capers was at that pie
bald banquet of the Republican Com
mittee in Washington. Capers is try
ing TO prove an alibi and there are
some who say he was there n mad
u speech.-Charlotte News.
The Henrietta correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer tells Of a farmer
who is Very conscientious. During 4
wood famine in the own he sold sew
eTal cords Of wood at 81 per cor.
Later he reduced the price TO $1.15 per
cord. and went back to every custom
er TO whom he previously sold and re-
tuned % cents on each cord, saying
that $1.15 was as much as it was
worth That is a rare Speciem OF
honesty.-Greenville Reflector
Christmas is almost here. Where
fore let Judah cease from ve1iag
Ephraim n Josiah from TexIng
Josephus. Let us have peace.-Char-
lotte News.
If there was a uniform law making
1t five dollars fine n cost for killing
| a man it would be some better than il
ia now when most of them are turned
loose.-Durham Herald.
A few years ago the Lilly Whites"
in L~ouisiana. numbered over twenty
thousand. The news now comes that
they have almost all returned to the
Democratic party. The hope that
some people entertain of "a aspect
able Republican party in the south is
IAN iridescent dream."-NeWs and
Observer.
Editor Bailey, OF the Biblical Re-
corder. has been picked up rather neat
ly by the Durham Sun. Taking
note Of Mr.. Bailey's speech in tie
Baptist convention here against S IN
day trains and sunday newspapers,
that paper simply remarks: And OF
Sunday morning last, Mr.. Bailey
leieh." The Statesville Landmark
thinks it is up to Editor Bailey to eX-
plain the difference between theory acC
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
Senator Hanna is trying to have tht
naval cadets who We're expelled TO
hazing re-admitted to the naval acad
envy. With Perry S. Heath. Majo
; RathbOne. and the Annapolis hazers
the senator seems to be the champion
of those who nave fallen from grace
the civil, military n naval o~utcasta.-
Durham sun.
: Aside from the negro equality phas
J Of Professor Bassett'S article. that e8
preston. born in the south make
southern people mad. And, why not
I The idea of having to go north to b
/? born in order to be great,-The Anglo
= Saxon
. Residents in the natural gas region
; are becoming alarmed at the decreas
in the supply of gas. but IN View 9
the fact that next year brings a pres
idential campaign, we think they nee
! have no fear-EXchange.
The case Of Mrs. Eliza F. BUST an
/ of her husband Mr.. H. B.. Bulst agains
3 the southern Railroad was compromis
e sd last Friday. the defendant agreein
i to pay the plaintiffs the sum or SS,Ot
G and to become responsible for Il
| court pen that have been IN
: curred.-Yorkville Enquirer.