The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-09
HERE n THERE.

We feel reasonably safe in making
! the prediction that the coal problem
will be settled before the end of the
| resent year-but, then, there will be
he ice problem by that time.-Atlanta
| journal.
The New York News becomes a
morning paper under the management
Of Frank A. Munsay who evidently
likes the publish ng business if we are
10 judge " the numbe: of publications
he controls.-Concord Tribune.
IS it not pitiful that the people now
Capturing the markets OF the world
-houid be unable to command a suppl
NJ one Of the necessaries in which their
OWN country is one ot the richest on
he earth? And yet we are suffe ing
FOR coal-exceDt in the SOUTH. Moral:
n'n south, young man--FlOrids
Times-UniOn.
Much has been said about the earn
"~stneSS, II not emotion that is embod-
id in tn" celebrated handshake of
General Mt w. Ransom. What the
late judge .Armfield of Statesv lie. 4
To say on the subject deserves to live.
General Ransom said he, "can shake
hands with an entire stranger and leave
him in tears."-Charl3tte Obserer.
A novel scheme has recently been
evo.ved by which a train will not only
be lighted by electricity but the power
will be obtained by a rotary fan at
t2ched to Inc front end of the locomo-
tive. Tests have shown that on an or
binary train five cars can be ilIuminat-
ed in a night and that tha battery in
the morning will have nearly its maxi
mum charge of electricity.-Durham
Sun.
The Providence OR. ID Journal wants
come word To suitably describe the ter
ribIe freezing weather New England
has been having for the past week
when the mercury was down to Is and
% below zero in a damp atmosphere
and when folks were found in their
homes frozen dead. We agree that
some otEer word than blizzard is need
ed.-AsheVille Citizen.
1t is said that President Roosevelt
is personally disappointed that he could
not have the Venezuelan arbitration in
his own hands. He is said to have So
expressed himself vigorously within a
day or two.-Washington Dispatch
One year did go. another came.
But years, indeed. are all the same:
One year-one inch upon the sod
That measures off the time of God.
Since tiny years can never be
But inches Of eternity.
John 2. Morris in Charlotte Observer
Il FL" said the new benedict,
dreamIIH, II there is anything warmer
lnan a WoInan'S loVe?" SUE r-pIied
~uIluache: Two women's love L heard
| OF a b4admist once who found that
out.'-PnIl2dCiphia Press.
R. c. Whayne, of Louisville, KY. the
| business Ilan who Was the Otner day
| round dead under circumstances that
suggested suicide in order that his
family mi"ht secure q large sum OF
money, was an insurance crank. He
had an income Of $l4, 500 a year enough
To keep the family i'll comparative lux
ury, yet for years he made them i've on
a trihe more than $40 a week. The an
nual premiums on the policies he car
ried were $l3 379. leaving of LIS income
but s1,121 for the support of himself
| and family. The coroner jury 1Ound
tina the man came to lis death by &C
cidant. Among his insurance was an
accident poicy for $40, 600. The family
will now come into a fortune of $390.OOO.
and can afford to spend a little more
than $40 Il veek.-New York Herald.
A little fellow who goes to the city
schools was in IN office this morning
where there were a number of calen-
dars of all kinds and shapes. He fish
ed around until he found one that had
every hoIldi;y printed In req ngureS. VI
course eary Sundays figures are in red
as we'll. He commence I'd with January
and turned over every month in he
year. When he got through he sighed
a si~h heard all over the room.
What's the matter?" asked someone
sitting by the fire. why every single
holiday in the whole year comes on
either Saturday or Sunday except
Thanksgiving and 1 guess the fool cal
ondar man would ave made IL Satrr-
day if he could. We won have a sin
gle holiday at school the whole year"
laid the little fellow. but I guess I can
nap Or get sick; I'll get even some
way" And he will. You can't head
off the snail boy all the time.-Greens-
borO Record.