The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-04
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE And THERE.

She-'They don't seem happy togeth-
er. H once told me- that his wife was
the light of his life" H~e-"Ah-but the
light was always going out She
Catching the idea)-"And leaving hin
entirely in the dark."-Punch.
Embryo Artist-"What do you think
Of that for a painting? You wouidn'
believe that is the first thing l ever con
pleted. would you?" Careful Critic
might think so, Out 1 wouldn't say SC
for anything."-Boston Transcript.
A. 2. German, Jr., the only son 0.
Senator German, has won a politica
victory, n is to go to the state sen
ate, representing the same district his
illustrious father did thirty years ago
Here's wishing young German a bril-.
liant career.
Our minister gave voice to some
great thoughts in his talk this morn
ing" said the good deacon. Yes re.
piled the village librarian, thoughts
in fact, that have been thought by
some Of our greatest thinkers. Chr
cage Daily News.
Montana has produced this year 81.
500, 900 pounds of wool valued at IL cents
a pound, the whole worth So 900, 900. The
sheep from which this wool was clipped
would produce $3.50, 00O, 900 worth of NUT.
ton. Yet there are many people who
would rather raise dogs than sheep
Durham Sun.
Ascum-'I suppose you took in al
the automobile exhibits while you wer,
abroad?' SkaWcher-'O, Of course.
Ascum-"What's new in the way o
autos over there?" SkaWchar-"Noth.
ing Just the same old pedestrians
pigs, chickens, and things that we hav,
observation-disclosures Press.
Il reckon you Won't believe it, re
marked Farmer Hayrix," but hat oil
rooster what just crowd is more'l
twenty years old" oh, l believe i
all right enough replied the summe
boarder, "and | am also willing to be
lieve that the old hen that We had 70
dinner was his grandmother. '-Chicag,
Daily News
Mrs. Patty-'Do you really him DR.
DCckman IS a skilful physician" Mrs
Giblin (the patient)-"I don't know s.
much about that But he has such
49, = iAiil l. Cdlt
l hope 1 shouldn't be buried alive. h
said he'd look out for that. Wash
that thoughtful of him. ?"-Bosto1
Transcript.
A manufacturer in Providence il nov
building a machine Or loom that vii
produce two webs of cloth at the sam
time. We take it the labor now re
CURED to manage the one-weD loom vii
as easily manage the two-web loon
, This machinery not only lightens labo
but lessons the number OF laborers
Hence a vast deal of the cause of tn
conflict between labor and capital
Raleigh Pest.
Kentucky must be missionary grount
Attorney Powers made a two hour
speech in which he plead earnestly 70
the infliction of the death penalty upo
Caleb Powers for completely in tn
Goebel murder. He showed that NOR
homicides had occurred in kentuck
in the past five years than had bee
recorded in the states of New York an
Ohio combined and that during tn
time the pardoning power had bee
used in a way that was simply dis
graeefuI.-Ralejgh Times.
The New York Tribune's building i
to be raised from ten to eightee
stories. When the Tribune structur
was erected thirty years ago.. it wa
on account of its height, one of tn
sights of New York, but the sky
: scrapers have long since Overshadowe
it.'-COlumbia State. At the perio
spoken of Whitelaw Reid was as nov
the editor of The Tribune. Chas. 4
Dana, editor of The Sun, hated hir
Il was accustomed to speak in deris
ion OF the young editor in the ia
tower. The SUI building was then a
now squatty and painted green. An
other editor, referring to the Warfar
between Reid and Dana and of tn
latter's jealousy of the former, spok
of the young editor in the tall towe
and the green editor in the disar
pointed building '-Charlotte Observes
A very pleasant exhibition of labo
was given in New York re
Gently. There is a bricklayer there VIII
has a wife and eleven children. The
have been driven from pillar to pos
from flat n tenement, by persons VIII
object to the presence of so many lit
boys and girls. The father had save
enough money to buy a suburban IL
and to pay for the necessary bricks an
lumber for a comfortable dwelling, bu
there his financial ende,
Hearing Of this, forty of his fello,
workmen resolved to give their labc
to him in the construction of a hous
and this they did by working holiday
and Saturday afternoons. Some cal
penters aided them in placing the tin
: hers in n0Sirinn The ra-r1r = +ha- =
family will Q o have q home of the
own. No more will it be in the powe
OF landlords and neighbors to oust til
parents n their eleven Children
Times-Dispatch.