The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-24
CURRENT COM MENT.

happy, n we they are. IhelrS
is one of the few states in the union
or anywhere else that has no public
debt and is prosperous. The last out
standing Missouri bonds, amounting TO
S4S1 900, were paid on February 2Sth,
and on Thursday these We're burned
with ceremonies and speeches.-Times-
| Dispatch.
The recent report of the British com-
mission Of inquiry as to the charges
| of w~rOngdoing in connection with the
| purchase and shipment of horses to
| South Africa in the Boer war has
| words of praise for the excellent laws
| governing the transport of animals by
rail in the United States and in Ar
| gentina." We are always gratified
when our friends say pleasant things
| about us if, as in this case, we really
J deserve the cOmpliment.-New York
| Tribune.
Senator Spooner's plan to use the
| negro question as q means TO further
his designs on the presidency seems
| to have been the result of his speech
in defense of President Roosevelt's ne
gro policy. That speech won such
favor among the negroes that the SEN
| ator appears to have considered it
worth while to speak for himself in
Sead Of for another. Mr.. Roosevelt'S
recent letter to the editor of the At
| lanta Constitution is interpreted in
some quarters as evidence that b. also
proposes to speak for himself rather
than trust to John" when it comes to
| wooing the dusky "Priscilla."-Courier
Journal
The Fayette (Kansas) Journal say
the ccoun of a recent race trouble in
it's town was grossly eXaggerated.'
1t gives the simple facts without ex-
aggerating them, as follows: The
white people of the town simply tied
four negroes, one man and three wo-
men, to a tree and h~orsewhipped them
till they were bloody and the man
tainted. The women, however, were
handled a little rougher than they
ought to nave been, being dragged
from their beds in their night gowns.
The people of Fayette are peaceable
and quiet and will not. adopt severe
measures unless driven to it.-News
and Courier.
l. is beginning to appear that the
recent manifesto of the Car, concern
ing which some such has appeared in
the public print M which has been
interpreted to mean hat a step had
been taken for the uplifting of the
Russian people and the advancement
of Russia second only to that Of the
liberation of the serfs, does not mean
as much as it was at first thought it
did. 1t is said that there is s%atifac-
ton with the forthcoming "ahnIi-*r
of collective pleasant responsibility and
the letters placed by the commune sys-
tenn on Individual freedom but that
there is bitter disappointment that the
main things for which the people have
been hoping for a long time are with
held.-SaVannah News.
Following the adoption by busy peo-
pie in England of p new and abridged
language, which has been already re-
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press has created and given to the
public the word "OySteria," denOting
the fear of typhoid fever and other
diseases from the eating of oysters.
The word is a suggestive one. Lik
an oyster, it is meaty, and has a
wealth of meaning locked up in its
shell. Londoners have been frighten-
ed by oysters caught in the Thames,
into which river 50 many germ thor
o~ughfareS are said to run. SO great
is this fear that one Billingsgate, mer-
chant, according to The New York
Tribune, actually secured a medical
certificate for his oysters setting forth
that they came from germ proof beds.
Atlanta Journal
DR.. Lorenz, the famous Austrian
bloodleSS surgeon who performed so
many wonderful operations during a
recent visit to this country, stopped in
Berlin on his way home and talked
to the newspaper reporters OF Amer
lea. One Of the most impressive and
agreeable things he said was this: Il
am making every effort in the hope
some day Of seeing German trained
nurses the equal of those in America.
The American trained nurse is certain
" ideal. l am afraid, though, that at
first our people will not believe what
/ say of this body of assistants to
medicine and health. With US a rain
ed nurse is a servant with you she is
a lady. either a woman or girl of most
excellent education. l don't wonder so
many rich gentlemen marry their
nurses after an acquaintance full Of
sunshine, healthfulness and mental
Improvement. We need the American
trained nurse as much as the new big
hospital now in the course of construc-
ton here needs the glorious American
improvements, which l admired in diff
ferent parts Of that country. l shall
work hard to obtain those improve
ments for the institute. I shall work
harder still to get nurses after the
American pattern ."-Richmond News
Leader.
Having a Run on Chalnberla1n'S