The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-20
AS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE \ THERE.


The mNlionaires of Pittsburg have
established a new Office rule since the
Chadwick revelation Now no vel.
office of n OF b kings Of finaace.
no matter how pressing may be Ter
business. She must do all her worS
through a second person. Saturday az
ternoon two well known Pittsburg
women sought an audience with II. e.
Frick to ask him a small donation for
a public bath house in a min DISTRICT.
Mr.. FTick sent word hat he would Re
unable to see them, but a~ccompanie /
1t with a check for $5.ooo-Pittsburs
Dispatch
The total vote for president was 3D.
$50, 61S and Roosevelts plurality was
2.546.6ss or 1.ss7. "a greater han Nc
Kinly's Plurality over Bryan in 1900
Charlotte Chronicle.
During the campaign Secretary Shaw
didn't know there was a deficit in the
treasury. II now turns put tnat there
was q deficit of s42, 7T0,5T2 on the 3Oth
of June. Then ii was "a democratic
lie' and now il is a part of the official
~repmt-News and Observer.
The fellows are about to rob Crdm-
packer of his thunder. II such jeal-
! ousy arises as 10 cause them to fall
out among themselves the rest OF US
will n G no ea-s--Greenville Refec-
tor.
Senator Latimer has given up hone
OF the passage OF his good roads bill
at the present session of congress. 1t
has been announced that is
to be the slogan of the session and in
every effort made to obtain support for
the measure the question of legislative
extravaganza has been raiSed.-Sta res-
vile Landmark.
The year 1904 will write itself in his
| tory as a period of International arbi-
traton. Beginning with the noteworthy
treaty between Great Britain and
france. many similar treaties have
been signed, and are now pending. The
InterparHamentary Union, held in ST.
Louis in September. was composed Of
more than two thousand members, anc
out of this grew the call for the second
Hague Conference.-Presbyterian STAN
dard.
please beg people who are holding
their cotton to keep it in a dry place"
said MIR. E. C. Winchester, a well
known cotton man, to The Journal this
morning. IF left exposed cotton will
rot before you know it," he continued.
and the man who old cotton and
Ai "a ~ lollCl IiOAl SpI lILS WIFI
be In a bad fix indeed."-Monroe Jour-
nal.
Prayers have recently been offered IN
some Kentucky churches for rain. The
weather got SO uniformly clear
with varying Winds" as the up
to date f~orecaster puts it, that
not a drop of water fell TO,
months and some distilleries had tc
find water and was obliged to drink
ington upon a Preaching tour. couldr',
whiskey. or go thirsty. Naturally he
too, began to pray for rain. 1t will b,
hard times if one has to dam the Ohio
river and resort TO irrigation for the
relief of the blue grass regiOn.-Ex.
change.
The congressional committee of four
teen has returned from Panama t,
Washington and it's spokesman Senate
k~ittridge, says that they favor a tide
water canal. This will Involve a cos
of additional millions but will great,
facilitate the passage of ships and ma,
be more economical in the LONG run
or sail.-Durham Sun.
Thomas Lawson has made quite
stir with his .frenzied finance" 1t /
now in order for some to write on fas
chatting finances Mime. Humbert. :,
Paris, and Mrs. Chadwick, in America
49, Ink DiotS, diu S4ESIl the WCt.i
startling sensations in dipping finan
cifrs.-Exchange.
If Mr.. Smoot is now denied a saa
In the senate the democrats will al
ways believe they understand why
was not done before.-Durham Sun.
Colonel William Jennings Bryan .
reported to have purchased recently
massive white marble punch bowl tina
once rested on the s~ideboard of Thoma
Jefferson, the third president of tn
United States. Possibly when Colone
Bryan has brewed a brew in this bow
and partaken thereof plentifully. hi
writings will be more Jeffersonian tina
ever before.-Savannah News.