The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-29
PINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AND THERE.

The corpaticn commission is = good
thing. but It should not think Il was
organized solely for the purpose of
making trouble for the railroads
Durham Herald
Bennett Haynes. a young man from
Honeapath. was shot and instantly kill
ed last night by a young woman, who
lives in the red light district. Haynes.
with several other young men, were
c~arousing about the woman's house,
which has anything but a good repu.
tation. when they became mixed up
in a row. The young men were drink
ing, the women were in bed and an
other homicide is added 10 the long
list in South Cardinals record.-Due
West. 5. c. Special 10 Observer.
Senator Proctor. OF Vermont as al
who know him will agree. is a very
kind. benevolent and grandfatheriy
SORT of a man. He thinks we'll Of old
school teachers who have been poorly
paid and had the misfortune 70 outhve
their usefulness. To make them COM
Portable the rest OF their days ne has
given them his nous in Rutland. VI.
and with il a purse. of $4,000. The
Senator is very wealthy and can web
afford 20 be MISUNDERSTANDING.
Even if Mark Twain is silent. the
humors of the campaign and the
Roosevelt landslide bubble UP from the
great American public. Says Governor
Bates or Massachusetts: 'All is lost
save the $3.50 shoe" Another defeated
candidate says: There must have
been two R6Osevelts 10 get so many
votes" A dyed-in-the-wooI old time
gentleman "a il was a mistake to
pass over Grover cleveland! The pres
ident has waited in vain al the White
House for dispatches from Watson,
Swallow, Debs, Miles and Scnley. Mr..
Cowherd says "a fire drill is what the
democrats needed" All the women
suffrage states went solid for Roose-
welt. They are against race suicide
Ex-senator Hill wants to know # any
body put a bar of iron into Judge
Parker's life preserver-Durham Sun.
Chauncey Depev describes Douglass
election in Massachusetts as IAN adj
monitiOn and a warning" We know
of nobody who needs warning worse
than the hoary-headed Old Vanderbilt
lobbyist.-Times-Union.
A young woman of Killarney. ireland
writing in the Irish Packer, says she
wants a husband, but he must have
these qualities. He must be as hand
some as Apollo. AS ~urageo as
Michael Dwyer. As subtle as as Mach
tavelli. As patriotic as Emmett. AS
enthusiastic as LoyoIa. AS patient as
4 Inh Pnt 1I-ao fits o,+o1--,- &c t.--
is not sufficient. She says besides all
these, he must smile like a seraph
when the baby blows soap bubbles
through his pipe; he must sweetiy let
his wife sharpen her pencils with his
razor; and he must accept with Joy
the bringing of mother-in-law and six
sisters-in-law To, live with HIM. In
short, his woman wants an chang
Tor a husband. She wants the kind of
a husband she would be miserable with
should she get him.-Atlanta journal.
III secretary of Agriculture Wilson
ana Secretary of State Hay remain in
the cabinet till the close of President
hooseveLts term they will hold the re-
0 on cabinet positions for three
quarters of a century. On March {,
1903, when Roosevelt retires, Mr.. wal
son will nave been caring for the IA
mers for II years, while Mr.. Hay will
have been guiding the ship of state fot
just a little less than 10 years and sis
months. An investigator reports tina,
the only other secretaries to hold Of
flee over eight years were Secretary OF
the Treasury Albert Gallatin, who &C.
copied that Office under Jefferson and
Madison from 1901 to 1914: william
Crawford, under Madison and Monroe
held the same post from 1916 to 1923
and William Writ, Who was attorne,
enerai under Monroe and Adams from
1917 to 1S29.-Columbia state.
The democratic farmers Of southerr
Missouri are so cut up over the stat,
giving its electrical vote to Roosevelt
that they want to be annexed to AR
Observation-Disclosures Constitution.
The Secret Of Success.