The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-03-22
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
aERE And THERE.

He-"I don't see why you shouldn't
beheve that you are the only girl I
ever loved" She-why: did ali the
other girls believe it?"-Judge.
Many OF the state papers are COM
planning OF the laxity of our divorce
laws but they had as well be demand
ing a tax on dogs-Durham Herald.
Mamma, what is an epidemic7'
AN epidemic, my child is-er-some-
thing everybody has" Then mamma.
Is n $ an epidemic ?"-New Orleans
Times-Democrat
What a 1 do for my little boy ?"
asked mamma. $50 that ne won't want
to eat between mea1s?" Have the
meals flicker together" replied the
greedy young man.-Glasgow Evening
Times.
Tell me-" h asked. after she had
accepted him. am / really your first
II only love ?" "weTIer-no. dear"
replied the drug clerk, but you are
something just as good."-PhiladeI-
phia Press.
We can hardly blame those con-
gressmen for proclaiming their inno-
cence IN connection with the postofice
Scandal Had they waited until the
investigation was over some of them
might have been deprived OF such an
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Free Press.
n proposition to equip the gov
eminent printing Office in Washington
with typesetting is up again.
Meanwhile that institution remains
about the only great printing office in
the country not thus equipped. This
by reason of peanut politics-Boston
Herald.
Perhaps President Roosevelt's fail
ure to appoint any more negroes to
office in the south is due to the fact
that the colored southern vote is not
worth having, now that the United
States supreme court has decided that
southern suffrage laws are constitu-
tional-WinstorP Journal.
President Spencer, of the Southern
railway, says: IF you take the clear
ings of banks the country over you
Will find. perhaps, decreases in other
sections, but in the south the clearings
are greater than ever, and this a sign
OF the times with them" There is no
better sign than that-Winston Sem
tinel.
This roast beef is badly burned"
said the waiter TO hisT employer. 1T
useless to cause trouble by trying TO
serve it," Take it I've to that bridal
couple by the window said the res
taurant proprietor. "TAey Will never
know the difference."-Chicago Daily
News.
Il suppose" said the physician, af-
ter he had sounded the new patient.
that you exercise Judgment in the
matter of smoking? You 90 not in
dulge to foolish excess in it?- NO,
ind3sad," replied the inverera-e indi-
vidual, Il never smoke more than one
cigar at a time."-CincinIati Times
STAR
Il must congratulate: 9Gz On the
noble Indignation with which you ex-
pressed yourself against the Nor
mons-' Yes" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. Il feel perfectly easy in my
conscience about going after the Nor
mons. They don't represent any big
financial interest that is liafass TO get
back at MISREPRESENTATION Star.
And now it is said that Leader Muir
ply of Tammany Hall will surrender
to Senator Hill n consent To an in
structGd Parker delegation going from
New York to the St. Louis conven-
ton. But it must be borne in mind
when considering possibilities from
this view point, hat as a maker of
democratic presidential candidates
Tammany has lever been d lfoNIine
succesg.-Winston Journal
HON. G. w. Koiner, commissioner of
agriculture OF Virginia, 1as,, during his
term in office, sent information about
Virginia throughout thee west and
north vest, and he keeps up a CORE
spondence with prospective settlers. II
is SAID that II is almost an everyday
occurrence for some WesterneC to enter
Mr.. kofner's office, Introduce, himself
as the man with whom the commits
SiOneC 1aS been in correspondence, and
then state that he had TAKEN that Off
GERS advice, and pulled up his stakes
at HIS old home, and was now in Vir-
giniac for the purpose of buEpug a farm
and locating ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Farm Magazine.
News from the east indicates that it
will only De a question of a. very short
time until the Russians abandon Port
Artfrlr altogether to- the Japanese,
concentrating all their forces at Har-
bin.. Hardin is in many respects one
of the most wonderful cities in the
world, springing into being rs it did
with one move OF the Russian govern
ment's official wand. The United States
CONSUL at Niuchwang, China, who is
our authority concerning Hardin, re-
Tnarks that lit is in this city more than
irp all the others combined hat Russia
ia asserting her intentions of becom-
ing an active Industrial force in the
affairs Of the Orient and her people
are already giving-ttse place the title
Of the MoscoW of Asia" The city is
located on the Sungarf river, at the
point where the Marchurian branch
Of the Siberian railway crosses the
stream and where the Chinese eastern
I branch starts south to Dalny and Port
/ Arthur. 1t is about $50 miles west OF
! V~ladivostok and; 900 miles north Of
| Port Arthur. Its. location is the geo
! graphical center of Manchuria- and it
is becoming the, commercial center as
we'll. The city is surrounded o n. all
| sides for hundreds of miles with 4 rich
and productive agricultural country.
! producing corn. wheat, oats, barley.
beans. millet. hemp. tobacco, Vege-