The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-29
HERE N THERE.

| Boston papers are Urging canada tn
secede, and The New York Sun is
throwing out strong hints to Panama
TO do the same thing. These papers
have changed wonderfully in their
Judgment as to the ethics or good poll
tics Of secession since forty years ago.
Raleigh Post
"A great big a~ble-bodied man like
you ought to be ashamed to ask a
stranger for money" said the welI-to-
do citizen. Il know I ought" answered
Meandering Mike. But, mister, I'm
jes' naturally too kind-hearted TO tap
i'm on de head and take it away from
him."-Washington Star.
Colonel Watterson says he has moth
ing TO do with the approaching mar
riage of Miss Goelet n the duke of
R~oXbourghe. The colonen is taking a
rest from the eXcitemen1 of chasing the
Four Hundred. In the glowing of the
summer he is watching the apples turn
red and the meadows turn brown.
What is it to this old Kentuckian Of
mellowness if the duke exchanged him.
self for ducats of the ducats are ex-
changed for i duke?-Columbta State.
At the Bronx Zoo a bushmaster, one
of the most deadly of South American
snakes, has arrived from Trinidad. The
reptile is seven feet long, and. strange
to relate, the keepers charge it with
hysteria. They say the slightest cross
it receives will, on account of its great
sensitiveness, throw it into Mysteries.
The keepers are probably mistaken in
the snake sex. More likely it is d
Observation-Disclosures News.
The skull of q huge herbivorous dino
saur of the tertiary period has reached
New York city from a remote corner of
Montana, where it was discovered by
LII Brown, of the American Mu-
scum of Natural History. This skull
Is the largest in the world. 1t weighs
$500 pounds, and with the plaster OF
Paris bandages used. to protect it while
being shipped to New York, its gross
weight was 800 pounds. The. skull
measures I II feet in length and'5 IL
feet in width. A remarkable fact about
this hugeSt of skulls is hat it had not
only two horns, but three. One horn is
III the nature of a SnOut. Unfortunate-
ly the two main horns had been broken
of in past ageS and are missing in the
specimen found by the eXpedition.-At-
lanta Journal.
Progress is an iconoclast and oblit-
crates 'Old landmarks without merck
The Dismal swamp of Virginia is one of
our natural curiositiesz and the Lake of
the Dismal Swamp has been the subject
of song. But the water from the lake
has been largely drawn off for CONNER
cial purposes, and now We are told that
the Ohio capitalists and farmers who
RECENTLY n11rchaca6 81 DHl onrac Of tho
land in the heart of the swamp are
rapidly cutting the timbers away and
draining the lands and putting them in
arabic condition. The Dismal swamp
is doomed 1t will o be many years
before the morass which from time i'm
memorial has been the home of peal
and deer and other wild animals will
be the home of prosperous settlers.
We old fogieS necessarily feel a sense
of sorrow in the passing of the Dismal
swamp. But there is no sentiment in
proSreSs.-Richmond TimeS-Dispatch.
The king of England. has shown spe-
cIal interests in the promotion OF re-
searches as to the causes and the treat
n1ent of cancer, and generous subscrip-
ions have been made Cor thorough in
designations and experiments. Every
say loI NdIu lOT the relle1 or mltlgd-
ton of human sufferings from this
mysterious disease will be welcomed
eagerly. Cancer, advanced ,tuberculo-
sis, leprosy and rheumatism in its
worst forms still battle the skill of the
ablest doctors in the world. 1t is of in
terest to note, however. that Professor
Hutchinson, of England, who has given
many years of exhaustive study to the
origin and development of leprosy. is
low even more positive than yer before
in his conviction hat, the eating of fish
which has become putrid or at least in
part spoiled, is a prolific agency in the
increase of the number of lepers. He
sets forth arguments in support of his
contention which are so plausible. at
Least, that health officials all over the
globe ought to be persuaded to- adopt
the most rigorous measures to prevent
the sale and consumption of SEA, food
which is in the least degree tainted
New York Tribun9..