The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-18
CLIPPINGS FROM OURaEXCHANGES.
HERE AND THERE.

He-"And at last they agreed to
marry" Shelves. and i. was the
last thing they agreed on."-Denver
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She (reproachfully)-"Before We were
married you used TO say you couldn't
live without me- A man never
knows what he car do till he tries
Life.
George we were cleaning out the
hall today and the maid save your
Panama hat to the ragman by mis-
take Thank goodneSS,"-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The public should be resigned to the
loss of Mr. Dooley's philosophy once
dispensed SO genially through the pa
pers. There's a baby at his house now
n he needs it all at home.-Charlotte
News.
Willie-'Pa, when you say a mans
wool gathering,' it he's lazy,
may be gathering the wool off the
lambs in Wall Observation-Disclosures
Ledger.
It's an awful thing to be in church
and discover just as the collection plate
comes around that he is absolutely
penniless." 1t is so, because you
have to drop in a nickel or a dime, Of
course."-Philadelphia Press.
Tommy Figgjam-"Pav. that big
oaks a-standin' with tn long limb
pointing just tn same way it was,
isn't it?" Paw Figgjam-"Nhy, yes,
Tommy; what a foolish question:"
Tommy Figgjam-"W'y ma said that
tn oak trees in here were beginning to
turn.'-Baitimore American.
Rev. Tom Dixon displayed great
shrewdness in the selection of the title
of his new novel, The One Woman"
Women compose probably about three
fourths of the fiction readers and every
woman will make a dive for this book
in the expectation of seeing herself
portrayed in the Observation-Disclosures
News.
has worried himself sick. He needs
a change" Where ought We to go?"
asked the anxious wife. T the city"
replied the doctor promptly, where
he will not live constantly in a har-
rowing atmosphere of suburba trains
and time tables."-Chicago Evening
Post.
Have you ever observed in walking
along the streets of any city how few
legs-masculine. of course-appear to
be strong enough to support the pos
SCISSOR properly for any distance?
Weak legs are the rule among our bus
mess n professional men and any
close observer will. testify as to the
truth of this statement.-Winstor
Journal.
That Charlotte negro who was ar.
rested in New York for asking g
white man for ten cents could not I'M
derstand it, as from his point of view
he had committed no CRIME. TIL;
trouble with the old man is that h,
lived in the south too long, and wha
: is entirely proper for a negro dow
| here does not go in the north.-Dur
< ham Herald
. The finishishing stone had been lai,
on the great pyramid, the derrick an,
things removed, and the workmen PAL,
off and dismissed. The reporters gath
t cred about King Cheops. And t
think" they exclaimed, that you
majesty finished the ~stupendous struc
ture on timei' ION time!" he echoed
with fine scorn. Did you think, gen
S tlemen, this was the Chicago post of
e fice.-Chicago Tribune.
Wilmington, Del, and Belleville hav
not tried to punish their lynchers, blu
e Danville, Ill, is a horse of anothe
color. 1t is arresting and convictin
the men who attacked it's Jail, and al
q ready fourteen have been %convicte
and sentenced to the penitentiary
Bessie Armstrong, that amazonia
o leader of anarchy, is one of the four
teen. The two who were not ~convicte
= turned states evidence. About te
e more cases remain to be tried, but a
e of the other cases will go over to tn
October term Of the court.-Goldsbor
e Argus.
The Rev. J.. D.. S. Hillyer, of Macor
Ga, has declared lynch law a bette
exposition of Gods law as enunciate
by Moses han the present jury sys
tenn. Such an utterance brands hir
as a sensationalist and a notoriet
hunter, who invokeS the authority c
n his position to use grievOus words fo
l. the purpose of stirring UP anger be
O tween the sections. Happily the tim
is at hand when such Incorporate e2
a preSsionS are not accepted by the reI
resentative people of the north as tn
opinion of the representative peopl
of the south.-Charlotte News.
In the next congress there will /
- only thirty confederate veteran
thirteen Of whom will be in the ser
ate and in the house. Ever
southern state except North Carolin
- will be represented by confedera-
Is veterans. Alabama will have fv
Georgia n Virginia each will ha
r four, Tennessee and Mississippi eac
Of two, Kentucky. South Carolina. Mar,
ID land and Louisiana each two, and A
m kansas, Texas and Missouri. EACH or
1t certainly seems strange that Nor
Carolina, whose war record was
glorious and who sent more soldiers
the army than any other southe,
state, should now be the only O
a without a confederate in congress.
e. Chatham Record.
ID --
N A Bows Wild Ride for Life.