The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-22
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AND THERE.

DO you think politics Is being ele-
vated?" Il don't know whether. pol
itics is being elevated or not" an
swered Senator Sorghum. But votes
are getting higher every year
Washington Star.
brick" said the neighbor. Yes"
answered Farmer corntosseI. wei.
that's some luck Our boy didn't
have even that much to show fur his
money when he got back from town."
washington Star.
Says our excellent contemporary.
The Cleveland Star: The indications
are that Congressman Willie Hearst's
presidential boom has been p~unctured
by Judge Parker's ascending star"
And o they. are trying to make out
that Judge Parker himself is q Cleve-
land Star.-Charlotte News.
Mr.. Jas. T. Moore, of McFarlan,
raised a laugh in the court house
Tuesday while being examined by Mr..
john L. Bennett as to his ability to
read writing. The old gentleman.
after being energetically pressed for
some time, finally admitted that he
could not decipher h writing of law
yers. but that he could make out to
read that OF other people.-Wadas-
boro Observation-Disclosures.
Judge J.. NJ. Hill, a son Of the late
General d. H. Hill, has been nomi-
mated by the democrats Of Arkansas
for chief justice of the supreme court
OF that state. This Judge Hill is
Joseph Morrison Hill, of Charlotte
He was one Of the youngest children
OF General Hill, h intrepid warrior
and the post bellum editor of The
Land We Love-" He is a resident Of
fort Smith. Arkansas, and about thir-
ty-seven years old.-Lumberton Ar
gus.
There is a bright side even to sor-
rows that are real, unless, indeed, our
folly convinces us that hope has fled
the world. The troubles and misfor-
tunes that do not chasten are ever
and always he children of folly.
Whatever is Christening is for our
good, and we'll for us if it should lead
to humility. The world is very bright
to those beautiful souls tina go
through 1t without pride or vain-glory.
Poverty, illness, afHiction, the mis-
fortunes that swarm about us, h
failures that invest us, the losses that
come to US now and again, lose all
their keenness if we keep in view the
duties We owe to others. To the
mind rightly tuned to the vexatious
affairs of this world, even sorrow
moulds itself into a form of happi-
ness-Exchange.
The incorrect use of shall and will
in the ~phrasing of many of us who
write much and rapidly is o avoided
easily INC invariably. The trite illus
help me" for Il shall drown and
no one will help me" is much in
mind, n yet we see the scholarly
often go aStray- 1t is very easy to
say what We do not mean any way.
Many errors that greet the eye are
funny enough to provoke enough
laughter to d decidedly TO the
length of life A few of them we
have found under our eyes recently.
wash, iron and milk two cows" A
dentist puts in his advertisement:
Teeth extracted with great pains"
An application to q. hotelist for "a
oom for a young man 10x12." An
undertaken writes: NO person ever
having tried one of these air tight
collins Of our will ever use any
other" This fertile imaginative gen
Jus told the truth beyond a doubt
P. R.. Law, in The Robesonian.
A glowing tribute to the newspapers
I'll lIlS SoolIlIy q pdlO 1StSIllly ny
Rev. DR.. William II. Fishburn in a
sermon on Our Trees of knowledge"
at the First Presbyterian church,
Camden, says The Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger. The sermon was the sixth
in a series OF Our Own Country"
He said: II am stirred to admiration
often when I at the asst work
that is done in newspaper offices
with the knowledge that it is only for
one day: when I o at the real gent
us that goes into the editorial col
umns. much Of it as keen and of a
class as high as h Junius letters.
A bundle of letters equal to Junius
letters is Dor every day in our news
paper Offices, and goeS to the dust
bin every night, and yet the tireless
brains of journalists go right on pro-
ducing brilliant articles day after day
and yea after e Our country
owes much Of fits eminence to h
newspapers. We kno no such thing
as leee majestic here. A muzZled
press is the one large insolence that
America will not tolerate. No gag
was yer manufactured that would
fit American lips. There are, per-
haps, American newspapers that man.
ufacture news, out the number is
small. Seven daily newspapers come
TO my table, and / am able to say
that these seven are clean and trust
worthy, and there is not one Of them
but would scorn to print an item.
knowing 1t to be false"
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