The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-30
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE And THERE.

The Wilmington Messenger indicates
that it is going to have troubles of It's
own. A murder trial is due down
there before long.-Charlotte News.
OF course the fellows who have IN
stituted damage suits in this county
VIII have to see the matter through.
but it is believed there will not be 50
many in future.-Durham Herald.
Charley is a wonderfully bright
man." said young Mrs. Torkins. IN
deed?" Yes. He can pick out tn ,
horse that ought TO have won the race
every time. And if it didn't win that
isn't Charley's fault."-Exchange.
Secretary Loeb has issued a state
ment that the president Will not make
any speeches while congress is in ses-
SION. 1t is a~ught that the execu-
tive should otNcroach on the legts-
lative Observation-Disclosures Sun.
With rewards OF $4,000 for his muir
derers. S25, 200 for his return alive and
a suitable regard for information
which will lead to the recover of his
body, it looks as if young VENT
should be produced in one form or
other. 1t is seldom that such sum as
iSSt IN onTOIlCle.
That odor of moth-balls in the
street car every morning is a gentle
reminder that Indian summer is On
the wane," says the Augusta Chron-
icle. The moth-ball joke has been
worked by the photographers this sea-
son until 1t is time it was put up in
balls.-Greensboro Record.
F~orty-seven per cent. of the wag.
&C m y~C IN -+-.
compared with IA per cent. in the
United States. These figures show
that a very large majority of Ameri-
can women devote themselves to their
homes and let the men do the hust-
ling.-Winston Journal.
A Toronto paper says that in the
light of the boundary decision "Ameri-
cans are likely to make our frontier
brlstle with boundary issues before
Canada is much Older But this will
depend o how often the Canadian
government will put in a claim fer
United States territory.-New Haven
Leader.
Flies are not altogether bad. One of
the pesky things saved a Minneapolis
man $64S the other day. He had the
money in a wallet in his coat pocket
and was doing in a chair. A fly light
"a vi I'D Muse anu ItluStu 10 Stt OIL.
Maddened by the tormentor. the man
made a vicious pass and struck The
hand of a pickpocket that had just
closed on his wallet. The money vas
saved and not a cent of it will ever b.
invested in sticky fly paper.-SiouS
City Tribune.
Tillman's acQuittal has nerved The
mayor of Hammond, Ind. a place con.
SplcuouS only by reason of its posses
sion of Il large packing house, to write
a threatening letter to the editor Of a
local newspaper which had sharply
criticised his management. M
mayor cites the Tillman case as his
precedent. but while Indiana is not
everything that could be desired in tne
line of the administration of justice,
the South Carolina view of homicide
does not prevail there. and it has a
governor who is not afraid of MODS.
The mayor of the Indiana slaughter
house town will get into trouble if he
shall attempt to follow the Tillman
eXample.-Philadelphia Record.
A German syndicate backed a Ger
man nobleman in his efforts to win
the wealthy daughter of Herr Faber,
the pencil make They advance the
nobleman $50 1000. The fair fraulein
scorned the fortune hunter. SO he came
to America n married the daughter
of a Pennsylvania coal Oil millionaire.
The German syndicate is trying to col
lect the $50, 900 from the nobleman, Du:
he points out that they backed him
only in the German enterprise, which
failed. In the American quest he went
it alone. All of which proves that a
nobleman is not without honor say.
in his own land n that the newly
rich American girl is exceedingly hull
cry for any hook bated with a title
Columbia State.
To the Editor:-I notice in this
mornings paper an extract from the
Charlotte News. headed "A Pardon
that Ought Not to Be Granted" It
appears that Walter Daniel has been
convicted of a MISUNDERSTANDING
and sentenced by Judge Thomas J..
Shaw to six months hard labor on the
chain gang. This means to work by
the side of the felons and wear the
stripes of the prison. The governor is
advised not to pardon this man. Does
the News and Observer think it a just
and proper punishment to sentence
any citizen to the chain gang-tO wear
the stripes of a felOn-whose crime is
Of no greater grade than a mlsdemean-
or? To fine and imprison in jail
n or both. are sometimes necessary
in the due administration of the GRIM
NAL laws. but it is not just o proper
to sentence to the chain gang any
citizen of this state whose crime IS only
a miSdemeanOr. No citizen should be
made to suffer the disgrace of wearing
stripes and working side by side with
men convicted of felonies for the lesser
offenses. No citizen ought ever to he
clad IN stripes-t7e felon's garb-fora
misdemeanOr! Let the lelons wear
the felon's garb, /. for one. hope the
governor will pariOn every citizen who
has been, or who, may be, sentenced to
the chain gang for a miSdemeanOr.-
Jacob A. Long IN News ard Observer.
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