The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-20
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AND THERE.

; Somebody pointedly suggests that the
pIDllc might have had more conf
dence in Senator kim rebate b IL
had he got some one 'e-se to introduce
it.-Atlanta Journal.
The Montgomery Advertiser charac-
terizes Carter Harr.son's presidential
aspirations as a pipe cream. Why use
slang when that good old A~ng,o-Sax1n
word foolishness is lying handy.-Nir-
ginian Pilot.
: The president is now accused of
having inspired the story that Mr..
Rockefeller sent compromising tee
grams to six United States senate. 8.
This life is bound to tell on
a man.-Florida Times-Unioa.
De Tanque-When 1 d.e-hic-my
d~earsh-Iwant you to-hic-fulfll tlish
wish. Mrs. DeTanque-What is it?
De Tanque-Then a V the-hic-fol-
lowing engraved on my-hic-tomo-
stone: This Is on Me."-Baltimore
! Sun.
Rockingham county also wants bet
ter ~roads-asks for a law perm ting it
to vote on a $500, coo issue Of bonds for
that purpose. And Wake county w II
ask for a bond issue of 5000, coo. 1t will
be money well MISUNDERSTANDING
Citizen.
Doubtless Captain Hobson will en-
deavor to sink something in the chan
mel of Mr.. B~ankhead's congressional
Observation-Disclosures Post. Doubtless.
1t will be Captain Hobson himself if
the C3nt9in is NOT r9rpfn1-Nn f X
j Landmark.
Hiram.-It tells here in this paper
about a German doctor who has dis
covered a cure for consumption. Silas
1t does beat all how slow them for
eigners are, don't it. Why, t1eyve
been sellin' sure cures for consumption
down to the village drug store for the
last twenty years.-Puck
HERE AND THERE
The following paragraph concerning
advertising is recommended to the
careful consideration of our people. 1t
reads thusly: Noah was the first
man to advertise. He advertised the
flood n it came all right. The fell
lows who laughed at the advertising
got drowned, and it served them right.
Ever since Noah's time the advertiser
has been prospecting, while the other
fellow is being swallowed up in the
flood Of disaster."-EXchange.
Rest and peace in Heaven are sweet
to think Of, but probably the average
robust mind considering its own hopes
clearly will prefer to think or a differ
ent longing. 1t will think no. :. a
modified n%irvana, a perpetual h an
endless abiding in one place, BIT of
moving on always, of going fIc-l life
to life, Of being a nomad and sojOurner
with all space and eternity to travel in,
with universes as objective points and
stopping places and illimitable knowl-
edge and power and happiness and
beauty to be gathered along the die
way.-Richmond News-Leader.
A cable from ST. Petersburg to The
New York Sun says: Russian news
papers say that a man in the hospital
at Tomak is eco years old. They say
this statement is supported by docu-
ments. The man has been a widower
for 123 years. He had a son, who died
in 1924, aged 80 years. He remembers
seeing Peter the Great. He is bed
ridden, but mentally sound" The last
sentence gives the. thing away. Who
ever heard of a man over a hundre
who was not hale and hearty" and
of whom it was not said that he cut all
the wood used by his family and walk
ed ten or twelve miles each day for
his mail?-Charlotte Observer.
The Sunny South, the magazine sup
plement to the Sunday Const tuition,
Atlanta, republished last week the
poem, my Wife and Child" and cred
it's it to General "Stonewall" Jackson,
on the authority of the Richmond
Times. Such Grass ignorance is amaz.
ing, especially in a newspaper which
boasts such a literary light on it's staff
as Frank Stanton. Gen. T. J. Jackson
Firginia's illustrious soldier, though
tenderly devoted to his wife and child,
never wrote a line of poetry in his life,
and if he had written verse it would
probably have been after the manner
Of Strenhold and Hopkins, or Rouse's
Version of the Psalms. The author Of
the poem in question-who seems tc
have been forgotten in his own state
was the late Gen. Henry r.. Jackson, OF
Georgia.-News and Courier.