The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-12-01
HERE And THERE.

It's nobody's business if we ha~
only known each other 4 week. Say
yes, and We'll be married tomorrow"
But l don't want 10 be accused of
exceeding the speed limit."-Brook-
lyn Life.
"Smithers, that West Baltimore
druggist. tells me he always wears
SO shoes" HIM. That's strange. I
can readily understand that he wears
dollar shoes. but I can't see how he
wears ten of 'em."-Baltimore News.
The only trouble with your maya
zine, remarked the purchaser. is
that you don't publish enough fiction
Great Scott. man." replied the over
worked editor, you evidently don't
read our advertising paper. yes. I've
thought so, too, at times,"-Cincin-
natl Times-Star.
! A PENNSYLVANIA member of con-
gress has introduced a bill imposing
a fine of $4,000 on any railroad THAI
observes any Jim Grow car law in
the south. Which shows tina the
Fool Killer has not included the part
of Pennsylvania from which this man
halls in n of his recent rounds
Concord Times.
The most signal illustration Of the
affection of this administration for
me negro that the American people
have yet seen is about to be given.
This time it is the fourth assistant
postmaster general who is to follow
most closely the lead of Mr.. Roose-
welt IN display of love for the black
brother. John Washington, Booker's
brother. is to nave an office made for
him while he waits. and he won't
have TO wait long. He is to be made
the postmaster at an office which Is
| TO he pSfa 1jchn1 nt Pnnlynr'c r,Inn
at Observation-Disclosures.
Latham. Alexander & Co.. of New
York. have issued an estimate of the
cotton crop under date of the 23rd
instant. They say their efforts to OBJ
tain approximately correct results
have been diligent and thorough and
they figure on a crop of 100000 0
bales. On November 25th of last year
they estimated a crop of 1000. 900
bales-it turned out 10. 1928 600. They
say in this circular letter: LAS a rule
weather conditions throughout the
south for the year have been favor
able for the production of cotton. 8 <
The gathering season has been ex-
cepuOnally fine in ali sections and
the crop thus far has been secured
in good condition and marketed rap
idly."-Charlotte Observer.
Miss Alice Roosevelt has discarded
the side saddle and conventional rid
ing. and now rides in divided skirts.
The announcement that Miss Roose-
! Welt was receiving instructions in the
new style of riding caused = HutteT
mons Neutrality-suspicious.. but the presi-
n daughter and Mrs. Rider. VINO
! has been teaching Miss Alice how to
sit on a horse in the new way, now
pass through the parks mounted
astriGe without causing any more
comment than the presence of the
presidents daughter ordinarily pro-
vokes. Miss ROosevelt's adoption of
the new fashion will doubtless pupu-
larize it i'll Washington. where the
presidents family exert such an in
luence. Her new riding costume is
a modest one of blue cloth and she
has changed to the new style of rid
ing in such an transformations manner
that criticism of her course has been
avoided.-AsheviIle Citizen.
A woman was arraigned for beg
ainS and vagrancy in the Essex Mar
ket police court, in New York. a few
weeks ago who had among her be-
lonSlngS 81 heavy bundle tied in a
large cOlored handkerchief. in which
were found owe $40 in pennies and
other small coin, the whole mass
weighing more than fifteen pounds.
This. according to the woman's own
: BIN IhI Colletleu Ill TWO weeks,
seated on the curb at a certain cor
ner on the BOwery with a plate in
her lap. And still more interesting
was the disclosure made by a hn~
book of a savings bank in Syracuse,
\. Y, in her possession, showing an
account of over 81. 900. It appeared
5 also that the woman had three grown
up children living in Syracuse. who
We're able to care for her. Yet SO
woebegone anu poverty-stricken die
the woman appear when arraigned
in court that not until her hoard1ngs
were disclosed would even a police
court ShySter take her case.-Leslie's
Weekly.