The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-24
STATE PRESS.

Now, If Mr.. Bryan will just come
out and say, as to Hearst's interview.
me too" we viii begin TO see the
light observation-disclosures Sentinel
That Asheville jury is trying to get
out of il. but the fact that it found a
mar guilty and then signed a petition
asking for his pardon is sufficient
Durham Herald.
There isn't a more comfortable Jail
in the state han the new one in Rob-
con county. 1t has been occu-
pied. If the Lumberton lawyers are
ever to go to jail, they ought to have
taken advantage of going this week,
SO they could "cilristen it."-Negs
and Observer.
Evidently the feeling between Judge
PEBBLES and the Lumberton lawyers is
getting TO be very acute. It's one of
the things TO be regretted, take any
point of view you will of it No good
can possibly come from any such in
v~estigation. but harm continually
! Raleigh Times.
We are unaffectedIy glad thu the
committee appointed to consider the
change of name for the Protestant
Episcopal church has advised the in
definite postponement of such action.
Protestant is a mighty good name to
begin with, and Episcopal accurately
l dC44sltS lIAS III VI IolCSldIII 1iluISl
that it sis.-Presbyterian Standard.
The attempt to have Major Sted-
appear as the candidate Of the
saloon interests ought to have the eff
feet Of increasing his popularity with
thoughtful people, for there is no.
thing in the charge and it should be
seen at once that the Greensboro man
is being made the victim of a cheap
kind of politics that deserves a prompt
4 md nhIT1 nn~A ho
lieve that a charge SO utterly I'M
founded can lose Major Stedman a
single vote.-Greensboro Telegram.
The very best thing an editor can
do is some time during the day to
talk with a brainy, practical man
If it's only ten minutes, it will have
its good effects. It's worth more, by
far, than pumping lin his own dry
wells, or reading through exchanges
much like he had edited them him
self. To hold up some fellow who is
bent on business, with a bright eye,
an elastic step, and get a wore or two
out of him starts up your own sluggish
machinery, and puts you in the no.
|, ton TO work. Contact with the right
sort of people is the finest schooling
any man ever had.-Raleigh Times.
Medical and criminal experts, ac-
cord1ng to a news item, are puzzled
over the case of a ~14-year-old boy,
who was sent to Jail recently at
P~ottsville, Pa. Last winter the boys
skull was fractured in a coasting ac-
cident and a portion of his brain oozed
out. Since his recovery his impulses
have apparently been bad, leading him
to rob his parents. The medical
fraternity will doubtless grasp the
boundleSs opportunity for research
and experiment this incident affords.
If they can but perfect a method for
opening the skull and Kidding it of all
the evil gray matter, the percentage
Of crime will doubtless eventually de-
crease.-Charlotte Observer.
THAI the late Henry NJ. Stanley en-
listed in the Confederate army and
later fought under the Union flag is,
as The Charlotte Observer remarks,
calculated to inspire unpleasant
thoughts in the absence of further
information. But it should be rel
membered that he drifted into New
Orleans at sixteen, a ventureSome
sailor lad. Five years later as a Con-
celebrate soldier he was captured at
Shiloh. His stay in New ORLEANS, |
therefore, was probably not more than
four years. Escaping from the fed
eral prison, he made his way back to
his old home in Wales. Under what
associations he i've while there we
do not know, but it is recorded that
Wnen SC3ntSy returned TO america the
following year, the young sailor en- ;
listed in the United States a That
was Il long time ago. Some things .
unpleasant even twenty-five years ago
ought to be less so now.-Gastonia
Gazette.
Not many days ago The Record,
speaking of the anti-jug law, acct
dertally passed by the last legislature,
remarked that what was needed was
a similar Law passed by congress,
which would prevent the shipment of
liquor into any prohibited territory. |
If any community decides it does not /,
want liquor, it ought to have its way i
about it, but this state anti-jug law is
worse than nothing. OF course, Ii
quor n IN be shipped from Any
point within the state to prohibition
territory. but it can be shipped from
any other state. The result is that
a lot of ssquatters" AVE located at
various points in Virginia and are
shipping it wherever it is wanted.
The worse feature is That they are
actually laying it down at Durham
and other places cheaper thar it could
previously be purchased when liquor
was sold in what is now prohibition
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Record.