The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-26
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE And THERE.

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Mr.. Henry Lehr has a new parrot
which IS amusing Newport society with
It's prlght sayings and people are Won
derlng from whom he learned them.
Mr.. Lehr's reputation in that respect
puts him above suspicion.-Asheyille
Citizen.
1t has been claimed that the trip of
Judge Parker to the south was ar-
ranged by his political enemies in the
nope that he would hurt his hances
Tor the democratic nomination for the
presidency. However it would seem
n a that foxy" gentleman has no in
tention Of being gold bricked at this
stage OF the game, as he refuses to
discuss political questions Winston
Sentinel.
A rural contemporary says the
sweetest so9nd he ever heard * made
when one OF his subscribers planks
down on the counter a dollar in ad-
Vance Sweet and holy as this sound
may be it is like unto a pug dog play
ing a piano when compared with the
sound made by the subscriber who
pays up five years back dues.-Green-
Vile Reflector.
one gentleman in Greensboro f1und
yesterday when he went before the
tax assessors that he was $25, 900 richer
than he thought he was. Their is
nothing like having warm friends {,
loo out for you. But h his
gentleman may say like DR.. Benbow on
one OCCASION when assured by a man
that he was his best friend. Yes,
answered the doctor: eff l had a few
more like you 1 would soon be in tie
poor house."-Greensbor Record.
Pension Commissioner Ware evident
Fy thinks hat while the american peo-
PIE are being taxed to death to pay h
pensions they may as well have all
the fun out of it they can. He has
published another letter from a pension
claimant, reading: Il got blood poison
By being HIT with a hers eg when l
cam bak from the frunt. The eg was
noG good wen you send my peushun I
want the Deed made sos my wife can't
get hone of it-she throde the eg. She
war a rebel.'-Charlotte News.
In a capital offense the prisoner is
9ntlrled to tWenty-three peremptory
Challenges, and the state TGur and for
anything less han murder III the first
degree each defendant is entitled to
rOur perer2ptOry challenges, and the
state Two. AS Ward was charged with
murder in the first degree he was en-
titled to tU~enty-three premptory chal-
lenges and the other defendants to Iour
eacE,- making in all t~hirty-rine chal-
lenges; whils if the state had persisted
in its first intention of trying the
prisoners for murder in the first degree
all nve would W been entitled to
tWenTy-threG each. or lis altogether
Wilson Times.
A special from New York to The
Philadelphia Record says: when 4
fainE spot of white appeared on the
brown hand of Rufus Hurburt a retail
tob8cconist of No. 165 West Twenty
third street two years ago he gave it
no more than a passing glance. Now
Hurburt is rapidly turning a clear
white. Hurburt is the son of a full
blooded negro from Trinidad and was
born in Saco, Me. He is y years Did.
and is positive hat there is TO white
blood in his veins. His case said DR..
CCdlwell yesterday, is the most re-
markable example of bleaching of the
igmen OF the Skin I know OF. 1t is
simply a failing of the nutrition in the
czticle. aurburt case is the more re-
markable. I think, because although
there is that failure of the nutrition
he is not anaemic. On the cont he
IS in splendid physical condition. He
IS a man of regular habits an" leads
/ strictly temperate life Hurburt
feels no i'll effects save hat his skin
is more susceptible to heat ~ cold
than formerly
Among other stories sent out from
Washington is one to the effect that
Speaker Henderson if Iowa. and the
Speaker-to-be, Cannon, have worked
the free rural delivery service to the
queens taste in the prosecution of their
political campaigns. Speaker Hander-
son, We are told, led the grafters n
spoismen who used this department
for the rewarding of political faVorites,
and Uncle JOe" am in second best:
1t is asserted that it took mora free
delivery routes to placate Speaker Hen
dersOn, who threatened at one time to
break away from the administration.
than there were given the combined
representatives Of the states of Ala
bama, Arkansas. California, Colorado.
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Ken
lucky, Louisiana Maine, Massachusetts,,
Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, North Carolina, North
Dakota Oregon. Rhode island, Texas,
Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wyo-
ming-Asheville Citizen.