The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-06
HERE AND THERE.

MI. r. ID hancock. OF greensboro.
recently bought a splendid old resi-
cenee in California He had a contra--
tor to remodel the house and as the
old{ashioned chimney was being tori
down three bars Of pure gold. valued
at $50. fell out-Chatham Record.
The example we should sch forth as a
word power is summed up in these
words by Judge Parker: The mos
efficent work We can do in uplifting
the people OF other countries is by the
presentation Of a happy. prosperous,
self-governing nation as an ideal TO DC
enuated, a model 10 be followed
Durham Sun.
President Schurmann OF Cornell. VINO
as a member of the Philippine commits
sion ecame cOnversant with the state
of affairs in those islands. says: ANY
decent kind OF government OF Fflipinos
by Fflipinos is better than the best
possible government OF Filipinos by
Americans But the administration
6isssnts and persists hat the best gov
ernEent for the Fflipinos is a govern
meDt administers from Washington,
in Fhich hey have no voice.-Winston
Journal.
Poker phrases are common in this
campaign, but the one has not been
tOlu~u yet HUI u! SApIcSS lie IStA-
ing Of the New York republicans, who.
in tying TO fill a g~ubernatorial hand,
drey for Elihu Root and caught Tim
Neutrality-suspicious..
If the bull spectators are TO be be-
lieved there will not be enough wheat
in tie country this year to furnish crust
for the pies. What has not been winter
killed, drowned out by summer floods
or Gevoured by the chinchbugS, is be-
ing destroyed by the black rust. For
tunstely no one is compelled to believe
all the sensational outgivings of the
bull spectators, which are concocted
solely for stock-jobbing purposes.-Dur-
had Sun.
TIE Real Trouble.-''Do YOU mean 10
say you don't have any trouble in keep
ing your wife dressed in the height OF
fashion, That's what j said. My
trouble comes when | don't keep her
| dressed that OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Press,
The Ministers OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Fighting again? Such a black eye! If
you'd only follow the lead of the min
listers little boy" Tommy-"1 did
try 70, but he led agen wild his right,
| an dat's where he biffed me."-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
YES, our son is to go away to school
soon. His father will go next week to
tax the entrance examinations" His
father" Yes; the school is a very
| select school. you know, and no boy Is
| admitted unless his father is worth al
| least fifteen millions. PUCK.
His Conception of Power.-"The day
| will come when their power will be
wrested from the Trusts Maybe So
| answered Senator Sorghum; but !
don't see how it can be done unless
something is discovered that can beat
a Trust making money.'-Washington
Star.
I wish | was a candidate.
I'd travel .roun de town,
An say .iGood mornin', Mistuh JONES'
An "Howdy, MiStuh Brown"
I'd have roaS' pork an chicken, too,
Instead of common hash.
I'd trade politeness off for votes.
An trade de votes fob cash.
Washington Star.
Let Massachusetts extend the glad
hand to Virginia. A magistrate in thG
last-named state holds that pies are
necessities of life, and exempts from
punishment their vendors, though he
has hown no mercy to the luckless
cigar dealers, saltwater dispensers
and newsboys who have been hailed &c
the bar of justice.-Buffalo Times.
DO you feel rested after your vaca-
tion?' Yes replied the man of ms
anthropic tendencies. After all that
railway ravel and sun burn and rowing
and tennis ordinary work seems like
blissful repose.-Washington Star.
Fame has it's penalties. Rumor mas
it that to avoid reporters and the kodak
iends, Br'er Parker will soon give over
his morning swim in the Hudson. Well,
there's nothing like saving a barrel IT
half and splashing around in a good,
old-fashioned Observation-Disclosures Con-
stitution-
No man would be satisfied wild OWN
de whole wOrl, eZ long eZ de moon Is
too fur off ter fence in.-Atlanta Con-
stitutiol-
A big trust in religion in the state of
Kansas is projected by a preacher o.
that state. A report says: Already
a score of prominent ministers, repre-
senting all denominations, have Joined
in the movement and nave decided
against creed and denomination and in
| favor of a broad and liberal Christian
ity." One of the chief aims of the trust
IS to supply small own with abe
preachers and another is to prevent
the overlapping of the support of two
| church organizations when n will an
swer the purpose. 1t really seems tina
this would be a good sort of a trust
but whether the brethren will dwell
bng together in love and affection re-
| mains to be Seen.-Sayannah News.
| Now good digestion waits. on appe-