Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-16

rays.
Sweeter the crust tastes after the fast
Than the sated gourmand's finest repast
The faintest cheer sounds never amis.
To the actor who once heard hiss.
And one who has dwelt with his griet
alone
Hears all the music to friendships tone
So, better and better I comprehend
How sorrow ever would be our friend
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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the Column
Life is something of slippery
pavement itself.
Character reading is not always so
easy as character breaking.
The silver men in Congress seem to
have found the golden opportunity
and to have embraced it.
So far as the slate in Cley Glands
Cabinet has been seen it would seem
that the right spirit is at work.
1t is remarked that money flies, It
frequently takes departing bank
clerk or trusted employe to prove
this.
The faithful assert that when it
comes to obnoxious office-holders the
Fourth of March should mean no
quarter.
The mother who starts to get a
sleepy boy out of bed these morn-
lngs may be said to have rousing
time of it.
Whether it is the right position to
take or not, many a man who
wants to stand on his dignity gets
on his ear.
A good many pensioners must
have had their records badly in
lured in the war, It's point they're
sensitive on to this day.
1t IS not known whether the ma
tive Hawaiians are in favor of an.
nexatlon or not, but the language
they use is said to be something ter
rible.
The fear of hoopsskirt invasion
is dying away. The Princess of
Wales has decided that me will
not wear cage skirt, and, of
course, nobody else will do so,
Twentystwo millions of pounds
Of prunes were imported last year,
and lady presidents of boarding
houses were correspondingly happy
Pass the prunes, please!"
The proposition that the greats
est happiness is the sudden cessa.
ton of pain is exemplifed in the
smiling man whose loDg.staying
nothersin-law hastily packs up her
traps and goes home.
Edison likes to have women
machinists to do all the finer work
Of bis electrical inventions. There
are 200 women in his ensploy, and
ne claims that they are far more
than men would be.
Alex, Kennedy, of Blount county,
Tenn, resides in the house in
which he was born, 90 years ago.
He is the father Of twentyesix
all Of whom grew up to
and eighteen of whom are
now alive.
"More weather" has been the
cry ever since January 6, and it
begins to look as if seven weeks
spell of hard winter on the ice
should satisfy all moderate de-
mands. But the cry still goes forth,
''more weather.
Wilson S. Bissell's acceptance of
the office of Postmaster General will
him to make large personal
sacrifices, but his sense of public
duty is akin to that which has
always characterized Mr.. Cleveland,
and he will be one of the conscien-
tious, energetic and efficient forces
of the next administration,
A monopoly of any kind is for-
elgn to our institutions and obnox-
ious to our people. Trusts are con-
trary to our laws and stand condemn
ed by the courts as we'll as by popular
sentiment. In this country compe-
tition in every field of commercial,
industrial and financial activity is a
public right as it is public neces-
sity.
There are not two score men in
the United States who have any.
thing like an intelligent Judgment
that think we should annex the
Hawaiian Is ands. If Congress
should be asked by the President for
authority in this matter, and give
it, his responsibility would not be
lessened, for he knows that such
action would have no real represen-
tative force. 1t is plain from Mr..
Fosters statement that this wild and
unJustlfiable scheme is in the mind
of the President. We ..,do not be-