The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-01
HERE AND THERE.

SHlsulSn IDEA OF things are orig
snal and sornsSimes wonderful. AS
bright and sharp. Master James,
Murch, the bright little . OF Mr.. andI
Mrs j. Scott Murch. was asked BY hisl
mother during the storm yeSherday-I
What Is thunder" To which he rel
piled with remarkable acuTnen: s.DessI
de moon talkin. ID de tars Csts-."). al
bright idea for or SO young-G-eea-i
Vile Reflector. |
The Charlotte News. OF yesterday all
ternoon SKIS "What about that long,
white beard. Brother Harris: Didn't
you wade in too deep that timer" I'll
still adorns the face Of one OF the fnestl
gentleman the state ever produced. andI
Andy Jackson. don't you forget that
Charlotte Chronicle.
Perhaps in the time OF Andy Jack-I
son and those other imznortaIs IL was
true that every Ia right was health
wealth and the pursuit Of happiness
unused Uncle Tom as ne finished a dis
| sertation OF the Standard oil Trust, but
IL appears TO me, he continued, thatl
it's been right MARTY changed nova
days These modern folks have got the
wealth ard the happiness mixed up and
the health part has been cut out as a.
bad egg and now the pursuit OF wealth.
is put in place of the pursuit OF happ!-
ness and the latter has beer ~reiegated
20 another world than this and quite
naturally a lot OF folks are wondering
why they are not happy.-Exchange.
But it has remained For that sanity
person, President Joseph Z. Smith,
the head of the Mormon church, to
defend the mothers-in-law. During an
address in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake
City, last Sunday, President Smith
said; Il want 70 say that the hes.
4 fYiAn4. aS.A- nd UyAr. y,Ss. yS--Io~.
in-law. I loved and hcnored them ana
shall ever hold their memory sacred"
A mai who can handle u half dozen
mothers-in-law and still insist that
marriage is a continuous honeymoon,
has reasons for feeling that he is on a
plane far above those petty husbands
who kick like a Missouri mule when
ever wife" that mother
intends to spend a few weeks with her
darling daughter.-Exchange.
The Webb City correspondent sends
this debated but interesting item" re-
garding a storm which took place near
Neck City a few days ago: Mr..
j. n. Scott was not at home on the
night of the storm last week, having
gone to a neighbours some little dis
lance away, and being prevailed upon
10 stay all Of Thursday night, on &C,
count of the threatening weather.
When he arrived at what should have
been his home next corning he found
that his new two-room house had dis
T, and not a trace OF il was
visible anywhere in the vicinity. His
shaving mug and brush, which wert
in the house at the time CT the storm
have been found in a tree two miles
away. This leads Mr.. Scott to believe
that if he had been in the house at
the time ne would have had a long an6
DAr.1@,,r t,in ~ Nrn- T-tr- TN,,-noI
"He talks a great deal about his fam
lily tree" That may account for the
ale I've heard about his shady past
Philadelphia Press.
After the play.-Jenkirs-'I dIdn'L
care for Holgarth's performance. / be-
lave I could do il as well myself
RObbyns-"Aercy! Wa It as Dad as
that?"-Bostsn Transcript.
Cook-"Shure. num- Ffdo's Just ar
Their bitin' the lig av tn butcher bye!"
Misstress-'tDear, deari How dreadful
! ly %annoyingl 1 do hope he was a clean
boy, Mary."-PickLMe-Up-
Her Experience-Mr- Trotter- In
, England servants are called help >
Mrs. EOner-'It may De al right in
England. but the term, Il applied IN this
country, would be a nisunu1er."- Chi
Cago Daily News.
Mamie, girl, that young ma OF
yours has been coming rGV for Amos
q year" Yes, mother Isn't ii
about time he vas breaking the ice?'
Il don believe he ntends TO break
the ice. He's going to wear it OUT
Puck.
"But 1 hope" said the lady. whom the
photographer was e~aGedyor:cS to ge,
into position Il hope vou wont disp ay
my photo in the window afterwards
"Oh, mol" replied the photographer as
he tried not to look pleasant, I'VE
shouldn't think Of such a thing."-udy.
Field Marshal Harquis Yamagata, Oh
Japan. who has been appointed COM
mander-in-chief Of the forces IL the
field, has made the Japanese army
what it is in spite CT very ~precarious
health. He is nearer 20 han SO years OF
age, and for many years has been
practically an invalid. During the war
with China he was several times
stricken down with an illness which
looked likely to prove fatal.
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Mothers lose their dread for that
terrible second summer when they