The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-12
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

Senator Bailey, Of Texas. says he
will resign before he will vote for the
canal treaty. He had better hand
over his credentials, for h time has
come when such craftsmanship IS
not at a premium; in TACT never was
worth much and the place for such
men is in the back ground-Pilot
Mountain News
According to a report issued from
the biological department OF the
state board Of health. the look
worm parasite Is getting a good hold
on the children in mill settlements
and in some Of the orphanages. The
report says that ANY child or youth
who without any specific disease
shows great emaciation and intense
anaemia with a bloodless condition
of lips and eyelids nay be suspected
of harboring the. hook-worm- When
the hook-worm has become estab-
lished in the human intestine 1T soon
reduces the red blood corDuscles TO
less than one-fifth the normal num-
Der and ~impoverishes body n mind
to the same extent" The sugges-
ton is made that the superintendent
Of all charitable Institutions where
children are cared for shall require
the physician of every such inStitu-
ton to make a particular examina-
ton of all children showing any of
the above described indications of
uncinariasts, the Scientific name for
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Chron-
ict6-
Rather recently The Observer had
somewhat to say Of Mr.. John G..
Carlisle-among other things that,
lin the strenuous period Of 1893
1897 he stood for the national hon
or; not the bogus national honor
Of which We are hearing so much
now, but the national honor sure
enough" Whereupon The Norfolk
Landmark bristles I'D and demands
to know what is the bogus national
honor" suggesting that 1t is the
benevolent assimilation" kind. We
don't think. 1t is that sentiment
which would seek to bind the United
States to a set of petty h%alf-breed
thieves in South America, with whom
We were trading for a canal strip
n who raised the price when they
thought they had us committed
Charlotte Observer.
The real object of the republicans
left in this state having been accom-
plished by the adoption-unanimous
of course-of the resolutions offered
by MI. Claudius Dockery endorsing
ali lHdl MT. fIOOSGVell mas QOne. OT
may do, there can really be no rea-
son for a convention in May. The
same crowd will constitute the ON
vention and go through the same
performance, which will be the end
Of their work in this state. But Mr.
Dockery got in his work very we'll
and should stand a good chance foT
the next opening.-Raleigh Post.
We learn from a travelling mar
that the farmers are not only buy
ing fertilizers literally FOR the COM
ing crop, but they are paying cash
for a large per cent of what they
are buying. Continuing, he said they
are not only paying cash for fer
t%flizers. but they are doing the same
for stock, wagons, buggies and
farming implements. THE dry goods
man." he said, lis the fellow that's
being left out" The truth IS, nobody
will be left out. People will always
do business when they lave money
The farmers in this section have,
for so many years, bought their
mules, horses. guano and hay on a
credit, hat it seems strange to see
them paying cash for these things
now and buying land to boot.-Ral-
eigh Times