The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-09
MERE AND THERE.

IL was a pleasure to learn from
Congressman Patterson. himself q
Sunday school superintendent that
the entire North Carolina delegation
} at the capitol are men Of clean lives
I and b brains.-Presbyterian stand
abr
There's one thing you can't give
away. said q gentleman the other
day. You can't give away collins. Z
tried it once. As a joke I went out
and said to every darkey I met. Wei.
boys. you know we all have to die, and
then We'll nee collins. Now, I'm Civ
ing a coffin TO every man who wants
one. and all he has to do Is To pu, IL
away and keep II until he needs IL
Many Of them said that was a good
thing. and that they would take EN-
l said all right, that I'd have them
shipped to them right away. In q few
days every n Of los darkes re-
turned and said. Please don't send me
dat coffin, IL makes me fell too
curus.' Monroe Journal.
The Mrs. Maybrick case Is now as
Stunning the salient feature Of the war
In the far east. They are running nip
and tuck. One day 1t Is war-the next
peace One day Mrs. Maybrick Is OF,
Of prison-the next h isn't. Both are
two far off to make personal investiga-
IIOl 50 liz way the news comes ly
becoming monotonous.-Durham Sun.
And we continue to hear that Eng
land and Germany are In revolt
against American cotton" That's for
publication. And then they jostle each
other to pay sixteen cents a pound for
1T. That's for consumption.-News ard
Observer.
They had an election in Cienfuegos
a dow nr fu-n ~ n~l r. -.
into a riot. Instead of pummelinz
each other. which woul have been
good and proper, they turned in to
throwing mud at the United States
consulate, and a report says that the
escutcheon hanging over the door was
covered with filth. Minister SQulers
has called the attention Of the Cuban
government to the matter and insists
on a fitting punishment" for the Gull
prits, though What he considers a fit
ting punishment he does not say. IF
FftZhugh Lee was there he would
well. he might make the meat mud
Charlotte Chronicle.
After a long and costly war with
President Roosevelt, the white people
on 1ndianola, Miss, nave won their
cause, namely. the appointment of a
white postmaster to receive and deliver
their mail. The president has appoint
GU lliidIl III. NldFliU, d White demo-
crat. to the office made famous by
Minni Cox, the negro woman who
the president tried to retain in Office
in spite of the protest of every Whit.
patron of the office.-Duplin Journal.
The south IS just awakening to the
presence in Cardinals capital of gu
delightful eiocutionist" who is gen
orally with the beautiful and fragrant
flowers Of rhetoric" Newspapers
from Virginia TO Louisiana are com
menting with admiration on the al.
dress of Colonel John T. Sloan to tn:
senators.-Columbfa state.
The Springfield Republican com
mends Mr.. Bryan for telling a New
JERSEY audience that their state wa:
worse than a robbers roost. but Mr.
Bryan can say. and probably has said
some equally appropriate things about
Wall street and perhaps Massachusett.
that The REPUBLICAN, will not endorse
New ersey has been stepping on hel
sisters cornS and The Republican is
not q New Jersey creation.