The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
STATE PRESS.

a colored woman was tried at Green's
bore for the murder of her husband.
was convicted ana got a sentence OF
thirty years in the penitentiary. That
is the kind of sentence some men ought
to be getting. Charlotte, Raleigh and
Wilson should ook TO Greensboro
G~reenville Reflector.
The suggestion for a race with a
change of crews of the contesting
yachts is a good one. It's dollars to
~doughnuts the Shamrock would win.
Fact is We believe it is the skill of the
American sailor over the Briton more
than superiority in construction of the
yachts.-Greenville Reflector.
Secretary Wilson's concern over the
corner in the tobacco crop is painfully
less pronounced than his concern over
the cotton corner. The New Orleans
manipulators he calls gamblers. In re-
sponse to the cry of the farmers
against the corner of tobacco he says
DIVERSITY" diversify."-Greensboro
Telegram.
The Texas cotton boil weevil came
into this country from Mexico a few
years g about the time a certain
statesman of this state visited that
country with a view to transporting its
free silver pest up to these parts. Some
folks can't NEEDLE with things they
know nothing about without making
matters much worse. This is one of
many Observation-Disclosures Post.
After all that has been written and
said concerning the material required
for the construction of good roads, the
thing that is really most needed is
training and a good and widely diffused
quality of brains. Clay, sand, asphalt
and granite do not make good roads
until mixed with a proper amount Of
gray brain matter. 1t is this last nam
ed ingredient hat the country most
sadly lacks.-Greensboro Record.
OF course they are raising a howl in
New England over the appointment of
Governor Wright, a confederate SOL
der n a southern man, to the gov
ernor generalship of the Philippine
Islands They say that no southern
man can act wisely and justly towards
! people of another color than white. But
then, come to think of it, the New Eng
land carpet baggerS did not make such
a bowling success in their dealing with
the negro in reconstruction days.
| Charlotte News.
The superior court judges of the state
are instructing the grand juries to pre-
sent bills of indictment against persons
l known to deal in cotton futures. 1t is
said that $40, 600, 900 have been lost in
this state the past two months by cot
ton future dealers. Just think of the
money this will take from the state
and how we need it. How many men
4 will hnT-o 70 on 10 tho 1-o1T nrI hnu-
many do as Tom Dewey, the bank cash
i should take hold of such adventures and
such NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
1t was exceedingly kind in the sew
era European power to tell Uncle
Sam sc prompetly there was no law
which could interfere with his regulat-
ing the Turk in any manner he might
think fit, only the more vigorous the
regulation the more in accordance with
their wishes. No one of the powers
can reach cut for the Turks tail feath-
ars without falling over the outstretched
arm of another power or others powers.
=, But all want the troublesome bird
piucked and is Uncle Sam could do the
motives all the powers concerned acted
promptly in sicking him on. This is a
great world. How do We love for other
folk to pull out chestnuts out of the
fre.-Raleigh Post.
1T is ever thus" Those simple
minded hotel proprietors at Hamlet are
very weary with explaining Just how it
was t hat the VIII tie guests had o eat in
the writing room while 3. Washington,
colored and a whole train of ebony hued
satellites occupied the main dining
room. The poor, unSophisticated souls
were in a terrible quandary," they
say, when the great black lord of Tus-
kegee was about to call at their hum
bic little inn for dinner. And now they
want the sympathy from the commu-
nifty whose dearest social ideal they
have ruthlessly shattered. They might
have learned a lesson from the heroic
servant girl who refused to make up
Washington's bed in a western hotel,
| or even have heard an echo of the howl
that weAd up over the country because
| of the white house dinner, but the long
ears of the proprietors no doubt shut
! out all sounds but the jingle of the
money paid them by the Alabama
coon" and his party.'-Rocky Mount
Motor.
1 - ASPSNN AAOIi DuZL1 = ooSs
Mr.. Cleveland said, Il go a fishing be-
cause l like it and I hope to continue
doing so to the end of the chapter"
The above is in strict harmony with
the way the eX-president acts in all
| relations of life. Most men feel called
upon to apologize. in some way, for
their sports and ~recreations Under
the impression that mineral water is
! needed, many a a has gone to the
Springs because there he could find
the best game of poker, and the best
| opportunity to express his judgment
upon the fastest horse Most people
shoot birds to relive dyspepsia and go
to the circus for the purpose of carry
ing the little ones. Tie sheriff is a
| sport because he loves it. Once when
| a candidate, his enemies thought they
had him skinned but he remedied the
| situation by putting a new plank in
| the platform let the truth be told"
| The declaration so Jared the machine
| of his opponent, that it was disabled
Il for the balance of the -Ra-