The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-01
HERE And THERE.

Look, papa! The Duke has brought
his c~oronet.'' Tell him TO go ahead
and play it. L don mind the noise
Life.
1t looks now az if the race problem
might get overworked. Evidently it is
being used as a sort of spring-board by
some 'Richmonds,' who are waiting to
be hit by political lightning.-Raleigh
Times.
He-"Does your father object to my
making love to you?" She-"Oh. no! He
told ME to have as many innocent and
harmless amusements as possible
Harper's Bazaar.
The Girl-.'Do you know, Mr.. Caporal.
my heart seems to peat in perfect SYM
pathy with yours" Mr.. c.. (much
alarmed)-.Heavensi Have you got a
t~obacco-heart, too?'-Harvard Lam
poon.
you any smOk consumers
in this town." asked the stranger, wip-
ing a chunk of SCOT out of his eye.
Yes, sir" coughed the native. There
are about 1000, 900 of us.'-Chicago
Tribune.
The total money cost of the Trans
a war has oeen figured out to be
100000 pounds or cver d billion dol
lars. And the money cos was the
smallest item 1T the ez pense.-Greens-
boro Telegram.
The governor of Rhode Island says
that republican supremacy in that state
is maintained only by bribing and the
1Gn11 h1inn, .I,n-r'' ~c H. 1900.
"Of course, the governor is right
Durham Sun.
He-'You nus admit there's nothing
Delights a girl so much as the devoted
attention of the man of her choice"
She-'Unless it's the devoted atten-
ton OF the man of some other girls
Observation-Disclosures Press.
Sam Jones has discovered thai a
racetrack is a place where chump4 are
separated from their coin. Now let
him find the place here his class is sep
arated from its breath, and all shall be
forgiven.-Florida Times-Union.
The United States in miniature or a
plat of ground ten acres in extent, is
one of the very interesting exhibits
which the department of agriculture
is preparing to show at the st. Louis
Observation-Disclosures Sun.
How do you Ike your new job p
Why, it's just like his: h pay
would be all right if they did't make
me work, and the work would be al
right if they paid me more. Otherwise
l have TO fault to find with it."-Chi-
cago Evening Post.
Our friend of The Rutherfordton Sur
says with some emphasis The Sun
cares not one straw how the dispen-
sary election goes But we will remind.
The Sun that sc far as our information,
goes, the STRAW doesn't go with a
Observation-Disclosures Post.
1t was very m~agnanimous in Mr..
Tyner to let the dectives search his
house for the papers his wife abstract
ed from a government safe after suf-
ficient time had been taken to make
way with any document whose exis-
ence might prove embarrassing to him..
Raleigh Post.
If the postmaster general is sensitive
about other folks feelings, We suggest
that the inhabitants of the District of
Columbia be requested to move out into
the suburbs and AXE something to
numb their Olfactory nerves While
that official stirs the reeking rottenness
in his Observation-Disclosures News.
Twenty years ago North Carolina be-
gan to form a permanent exhibit of
specimens of the material of
that state and by adding 70 it a little
year after year it is now the proud DOS
SCISSOR of a collection which does credit
10 its fOrethOught and sagacity, and
has proved to be of the very highest
value to it-RiclEnond Tin1es-Dispatch..
Our new possession, Porto Rico, seems
TO have prOfited by Americas mistaken
policy with reference to franchises to
public utilities. In that country no fran
chise is granted except by requiring the
parties taking the franchise to pay the
government a iXed per cent on the
gross receipts. One traction company
! pays into the treasury four per cent Of
it's gross receipts and a telephone COM
pany a Il f-2 per cent. No conces-
sion is granted for longer than forty
years II most Of them run for 4
much shorter Teriod.-Raleigh Post.