The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-03-11
MERE Aao rueaf.

Inc coulnern railway has succeed
90 n establishing a colony Of people
from Fal River. Naas. at Summer
vile. s. c The News end Courier
says that these new settlers have been
Induced to leave their homes and oc-
because OF their belief thai
greater opportunities for future pros
periU are offered them at Summer
vile thar at the scene OF their pres
ent e~ndeavors They are now winding
up their Affairs at Fall River and they
VIII come south next fall ready to en-
ter actively into the establishment Of
their new homes. Three families are
now at the Summervtlle settlement.
Tney have built comfortable homes
and are hard at work clearing and
preparing the lands OF the colony for
future cultivation The Southern rail-
way has dug a drainage canal CON
siderably over a mile in length and in
some places six or eight feet in depth"
through n property; and &c has in
view other extensive projects OF a
similar nature.0Charlotte Chronicle
President Roosevelt calls them
That settles II. Hasn't
a father a right to name his own chill
dren?-Aorganton News-Herald-
The Jap word for "hurrah' is ban
SAL and the Russian equivalent ls
"nnestrovokosof voisky." This &C
count for the easy Jap victories; they
can fire a dozen hurrahS with lead &C
compartments while the BOOSTERS are
betting off one; the difference between
a maxim gun and a smooth bore muZ-
Zle-loader.-Raleigh Post.
One Of the great champions Of the
pending service pension bill is Rep
resentatve Curtis, Of Kansas. He Ia
trying TO get the president to com
NIT himself to b measure. Asked
if the bill wouldn't cost the country
$4,000, 600 a year. he said: 0 course
not No such thing" Quoth he. lie
is an ex~aggeration. Why, it wouldn't
cost but S19,0 00. 900" That being the
case, let her rip. Who cares for a
pittance k $4,000, 900 a year? Let
the service pension bill pass at once
Asheville GaZette-News.
st Princeton university commence
ment this year the usual spectacle
will be seen OF a layman preaching
the b~accalaureate sermon President
Woodrow Wilson has been invited to
preach his sermon and though he
hasn't n Rev. prefixed to his name
he consented to try his and He is
the kind of man to give the gradual
ing class a sermon that they q ar
ford to cdrry home with them
Greensboro Telegram.
The Raleigh News and Observer is
fixing to shove up h price OF rice,
too. by suggesting that it be placed
on the army ration list-Greenvillc
Reflector. =
The black leather medal for being
the only president who ever sat down
TO a table in the White House with Il
negro still adorns the breast OF Mt.
Rooeevelt-Winston Journal.
Captain Hobson Is on the stump y,
the Sixth district in Alabama for
congress. He may find Congress
man Bankhead's popularity more than.
his kissing a overcome.-Exchange.
The elephant and donkey are now
yoked up to pillow the Panama canal.
But they will both die before the work
Is ready to men to prepare to
begin. Remember this predictionL
Exchange.
A person writes to us to inquire II
Rusda haa1't an % a right to China
al England has TO India Not at all.
England committed the robbery 80
long ago hat the crime is justified
perhaps even aanctified. - Durham
Sun.
Although the Slavic-Amertcan Cit
Der 81 New York are for the most
part very poor. they have set about
raising q fund of 100000 to help
Russia in the war against heather
S~b0 1S AOS1llSC lIl1 lIh oUIA
may be shot away through the mouths
Of cannon in a single engagement but
they want TO show their race pride.
The Russians in New York. as a rule.
have no great enthusiasm for the
fatherland in times OF peace, but when
1t comes to a question 81 val they
forget the tyranny which made them
eClee-Exchange.
A hotel keeper who kept a remark
able holstery has at last been run to
earth at Paris He kept a g~ood-siZed
hotel and attracted the attention OF
the police by turning away all guests
on the excuse that his house was full,
The officers searched the place ano
found that tour burglars lived there
and had been stealing travellers bag
gage, which they sent to the hotel
The hotel keeper sold the goods for
they and what could not De sold was
packed away in the different rooms
Over 100000 worth Of stun wal
sefzed-Exchange.