The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-07
HERE AND THERE.

Always think before you speak. Be-
fore You write. thing a long lime
Somerville Journal.
We've got a dandy college yell.
| now" VIVA is it, We give four
Russian battleships. "a sis-boom-an
and then two japanese generals
Puck.
Clarence am very sorry. old
boy, that / can bet on the boat race,
but my governor forbids me taking
chances on a shell game."-Cornell
Widow.
DE man dat don't live within his
income" said Uncle Eben lis purity
| sho', socner or later. 10 have to try
de experiment Of Twin without it,
Washington Star.
VIVA are you going to do this
summer" Il think I'll go tramp
ing" For your health ?" No. I'm try
ing for a roads scholarship."-Prince-
ton Tiger.
He took his medicine like a man;
which is to say that he left IL lying
right in front Of the clock where his
careful wife had placed il to catca
his eye.-New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
That fellow-townsman Of your"
remarked the New Yorker, hasn't
much idea Of table manners" No"
replied h C~hicagoan, Il noticed that.
Why, the other day I seen him use the
same knife for his pie that he'd used
to eat his peas with."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Mayme-"I think Edyth Rusher's
husband is a regular brute" Gladys
Why SOP" Mayme-"Oh, he's always
pushing himself to the front and keep
ing her in the background. They say
he's gone n got appendicitis before
the poo girl had worn her new
spring suit twice Chicago Daily
News.
Over in Boston. little eight year.
old Jimmy Spry surprised his school
teacher wit hhis outburst Of conf
dence: Teacher, my mother is away;
been away for two weeks; 1 was out
to dinner last night; goin' ont to din
ner to-night-goin' where l please on
Sunday; hain't had a bath for two
weeks."-Life.
There Is more than appears On it's
face in the story of the Nebraska boy
balloonist. To begin with, govern
ment by injunction" has seldom been
presented in a grosser or more tyran-
meal aspect. The writ Of injunction
has its place, and that place, as we
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earth. To enjofa a youthful aeronaut
from making All ascension when his
balloon is already filled and trugging
at it's ropes. comes dangerously near
to an interference with the force of
gravity. Another phas of the case,
too deserves attention. If we are to
acceSt the Times dispatch as authori-
ty, the daring youth had been in the
habit Of making aHoon ~ascensions
"wheTSsver he could escape his par
ents' vigilance for two on three years
What asNrt of parents are they, who
will pes1nit their son to elUde their
v~igilancs- for two or three years at a
time? And where is justice if they
can come in now and blight d pr0mis-
ing caresrs by appeal to, q cessrt of
equity ?-sRpannah News
DO youz think a candidate aSssht
to talk "Oh, yes" answered the
candidate. He ought to talk now Ind
then; but ats the same tintes he stssuld
be careful lot TO say anything
Washington Star
Those peooie who shiveEysdt through
the late winter and spring and puo-
rounced them the coolest ever"
SHOULD read about the without q
summer" as it is known IN. history
In that year, Isle, the corn crop
tSiIed throughout the Country. At
WATERFOWL, Nerx York, on June. L
there was ice three-eighths OF an inch
thick. In Maine~commencinEOn- June
L. snow fell for three days and the
earth was frozen. half an inch, deep.-
E.Se hange.