The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-25
HERE and THERE.

/ D"oA4 IAH4e, unprecedented prosperity
monster crops-and still those undigest-
ed securities continue to give Mr.. Nor
gan dyspepsia.-Durham Herald.
A cloud in the sky makes the opera
tlVes IN the mills on the Broad river and
IN that section flee from the mills and
decorate the hill tops. The memory OF
the Pacolet and Clifton disaster made
this impression. And just mention Tox-
away dam and a race for the hills be-
gins at once.-Gastonia News.
A Winston boy, whose face is some
what d~isfigured, was asked to fell how
he got hurt He replied: Il Just hitch
ed up the wrong goat and a
was the result" The boy owns several
Williams" and by mistake he tried to
2 one that had not Deer trained
Winston Sentinel.
referring to the fact that President
roosevelt recently took a ride in an
automobile, The Kansas City Star saws.
There seems to be nothing that he is
afraid Of" The Star might change IFS
min if it backed a postoffice scandal
up in front of the Oyster Bay mansion.
The Commoner.
When the President was among the
immigrants at the Ellis Island station
the ether day, an old Irishman. who was
waiting to be deported, having been de-
MED entrance to the country, had the
president pointed out to him. He look
ed casually at the chief executive and
well, he amt much" Some
times, strangers catch the point of view
mare correctly than home people,
Charleston Post.
o the good refOGTnerS have dis
covered that kerosene intoXicates and
even lnebriates. Most wonderful, isn't
1t? In the great fight against saloons
1t Is claimed that to remove them is tC
forever deprive the mellow old topper OF
his drop" but as time moves along
ana the good people grow older many
other simple intoXicantS will be discov-
cred. In our young days we have seer
some of the good old worthless Of that
period get UP quite respectable boozes
on metheglin. corn beer and other such
like apparently harmless beverages
New Bern Journal.
Livery mean thing that could be i'm
aglned has been thought and said
about the mosquito. And yet the new
from Wheeling goes to prove once more
that when humanity permits itself tc
be governed and guided by mere ami.
mostly it is quite certain to arrive blind,
ly and lgnorantly at. acc conclu.
SIons. At any rate, the credit of pre-.
venting a horrible tragedy belongs t,
a Wheeling mosquito. A railroad off,
cial named J. M. Crum, of tina place
was entertaining a party of six friend
| from the country. Late on Wednesda,
night he was awakened by the bite of (
mosquito, and as he awoke he smellet
gas. A little later he found his 81,
country friends almost suffocated il
their beds. Each Of them had blown
out the gas in his room. That is t,
say. the six country: friends had in
d~ividually blown out the gas. as tn
six jests were turned on at full force
If the mosquito had not attacked MI
Crum his six country friend would
have been Observation-Disclosures News
New words are continually coming t
the front. and Big Bill" Devery, tn
eX-chief of police of New York. get
the crdit-Or is it a credit-of havin;
added a new word to, the English Ian
guage. 1t is the word 'Chesty." and
is now in t~he7latest edition of the Stan
dard Dictionary. In this dictionary tn
word and its definition are given a
follows: 'Chesty-chesty. pronounce
ches-ti: Slang U. 81; uTanifesting az
gressive se%lf-conceit; b~umptiousness
affected; ~pretentious." In the use t
which it has been put, there is an indi
cation that it is going to stick in tn
language. The origin OF the word date
back to the time when Devery wa
chief of police, when in removing Gee
McClusky from the hsad of the detectiv
bureau. he referred to him as Chest
George" From that start the Sian
sprang into favor in New York cit,
Devery was asked some days ago t
give his definition of "chesty." 81
means,' he said, contraction of til
stomach and expansion OF the head
News n Observer.
When Columbus discovered AmeriC
there stood in a remote mountain gore
in Cherokee county, North Carolina,
tulip poplar tree hat was then A
years old. For four more centuries
grew and f1ourished. and was recent
felled for exhibition at the st. Lou
worfds fair. The tree was thirteen fe,
in diameter at the base when it VIZ
cut. The gorge in which it grew was
inaccessible. being forty miles from
railroad, that it was impracticable
obEain a section near the base. For
feet up, where the tree was a little mo,
than six feet in diameter, a disk W.
III This has been polished and "
occupy a place IN front of the hunter
lodge. On the polished disk have bee
engraved the important historic
events of the Old North State from Il
-ina that Sir> Nlltar p 1aiOh took no
session of the land in his sovereign
name on July 4, 1884, through the col
! NAL days, during the revolution. al
up to the present time. Another Sc
ton of the tree will stand like a mo
ument in rhe forestry exhibit. 1t is t.
1 feet high 4 portion has been dresse