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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-10-19
OUR WEDING ANNIVERSARY

A dozen moons have come and gone,
Since you and became as one;
With heavenly ligh hey seemed to fly
Across our star bespangled sky;
And though with waning light they
passed,
Each left us happier than the last.
In number twelve, in love but one,
Still shines our constant honey moon.
Fierce winters cold and pelting storm
Has left our hearts untouch'd and warm
Inconstant spring has tried in vain,
To quench our love with showers of rain
Nor summers sun with scorching eye
Could drink affections fountain dry;
Still less shall autumn's yellow leaf,
An emblem prove that love is brief.
The changing seasons but portray,
This earthly body's swift decay;
Our souls ascending, then shall fly
To glorious Immortality.
There freed from earth, still clipgine
fast,
Till Time shall end; and when, at last,
The resurrection mcrn shall rise,
And spread its glories through the skies
Well stand before the great white
throne,
In faith, in hope, in love still one.
Charles "A. Re &C
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FAITH
Richadr and Maud are friends mo

Richadr and Maud are friends most
true;
When one is cross the other is, too
"Brother" is seven and '.sister'''s 2'lr,
Come peep with me at the nurse er. or.
That fairy, golden haired dot in white
Is our little Maud-the Yeriest sprite,
Last night, after the prayers were said,
And the children safely tucked in bed.
bade the nurse, that should it rain,
The children must at home remain,
AS left the room 1 heard Maud say,
II hope it will vain, so we can pay"
Next morn bright clouds went gliding
by,
And with each cloud childish sigh,
They wished and longed and wished
again:
They watched the skies, but all in vain
Then Richard cried, in joyous tone,
81 know how we can stay at home;
You stand close to the window pane,
| And I'll pray God to make it rain!n
| Trusting he knelt beside his bed,
And this in solemn voice he said,
"Dear God, please let the raindrops
| come,
So Maud and can stay at home"
A pause, then Maud said, "Try again
And Richard prayed, "Oh, make it rain
Faith shone clear on each childish brow
AS Maud announced, s'It 'pinkles now!'
Katherine Gutter,
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REPEAL OR NOTHING.
That's Still the SHuafior-CieYei1n
and Carlisle Stand Firm.

WASHINGTON, D, c., Oct. 13.-At
this hour the atmosphere is some
what clarified, and in dissipation
of the smoke and mists the lines
are seen as clearly drawn in the
great struggle as ever before.
The information comes straight
from the treasury department that
Mr.. Carlisle stands pat.
The same intelligence comes
from the white house. Mr.. Cleve-
land has not weekend. He is not
disheartened.
From the repeal leaders comes
the same story.
"We are fighting for a principle, -
they say; "why should we compros
mise with a minority, and espez
cially when that minority is fights
ing for self-interest."
Whether it be from this known
state of affairs or the gloominess
occasioned by the steady and cons
tinued downpour of rain here to-.
day, the silver men are much diss
couraged.
They still talk compromise but
not to no end. The southern sill.
yer men can formulate no basis
that will satisfy the western silver
men.
The real repeal senators on the
democratic side will submit to no
sacrifice of the principles in
volved.
While the republicans are pros
Tossing friendship for repeal, they
are praying that the democrats
mayformulate another "makeshift"
to take the onus of the present law
from their party. And so it goes.
The statement that Mr.. Cleve~
land had signified his Willingness
at any time to sign a compromise
is vain imagining. He has said
nothing one way or the other. He
has made his recommendation TO
and there he stops.
Ii by some chance compromise
should be formulated, abandoning
the purpose of the Voorhees, bill,
and pass the senate, it would meet
defeat in the house. If not it would
be vetoed.
No one processes to truthfully
tell the outcome of the situation at
the present time. The situation as
it presents itself to your representa-
tive, is still unconditional repeal or
nothing.
Mr., Stewart is still speaking.
1t is now understood that Mr..
' Voorhees will continue to force
the fighting and compel another
all-night session.-Atlanta Jour-
nj
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RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
ADOPTED BY THE GOLDsBoRo RIFLES ON
THE DEATH OF CORPORAL W. A.
FREEMAN.

THE DEATH OF CORPORAL W. A.
FREEMAN.
The lament of the prophet who was
King in Jerusalem of old, that "Man gos
eth to his long home and the mourners go
about the Streets" finds an echo in the
heart Of every member of the Goldsboro
Rifles, as gathering in our Armory we
miss the familiar form and congenial
countenance of one endeared to us all by
h.s many amiahle traits of character and
VINO walked with Us, as if but yesterday,
and is not. for God has taken him.
For the first time in the history of this
company, since its reorganization, ,18 years
ago, its members are brought face to face
with the visitation to its ranks of the "fell
sergeant who is strict in his arrest,'
William Arthur freeman, member of
Co. D. 1st Regt, N. G., State Guard, "a
years of age, standing with poised feet on
the very lintels of happy manhood, In
whose life the violets were yet blooming
and the summer smilingsweet with prous
Use across the meadow lands of life's spring.
time, has been summoned by the Great
Orderly from on High, whose judgments
are incomprehensible,w whose ways are una
searchable, whose wisdom rules the unis
verse, and whose mercies abound unto
men.
WHEREAS, it has seemed good to Him
| to remove our lamented young comrade
| from our midst, and
Whereas, his efficiency as a soldier, his
fidelity.to the interests of this company and
the high esteem in which he was held by
his comrades, render it proper that we
should place upon record our appreciation
of his worth, therefore
| RESOLVED, That we deplore the death
of our comrade with deep feelings of res
gret, sottened only by the confident hope
that his spirit is with those who having
'fought the good fight are henceforth at
rest.
RESOLVED, That we extend to the
young wife and bereaved mother, sisters
| and younger brother of our Iamented
comrade our heartfelt sympathy, and
commend them to the One who of all
others can comfort and sustain, holding
out to them the assurance that his exa
emplary Christian life has left behind
of meeting him again at the coming of
that great day to which love and hope
look forward with ardent JOY, where the
tears and woes of this life shall be SUBJ
merged in the healing tide that flows
from the eternal fountains of divine
Truth and Peace.
RESOLVED, That in the death of VIM.
A. Freeman this company has lost one
Of its most public-spirited and efficient
members, the community a faithful and
promising citizen and earnest Christ
ian, and his family loving and de-
| voted hush and, son and brother.
RE SOLVED, That this memorial be spread
| upon the minutes of the company, pub
lished in the city papers, and that copy
be furnished the family of the deceased.
Jos; E, Robinson, }
K. A. CREECH, Committee,
LOUIS COLLINS,
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The Constitution and the Rules.

As the Philadelphia Times says,
Senator VOORHEES,, in entering upor
The 'fcontest of endurance" on We'd.
nesday night, made dignlfed and
dispassionate statement of his atti-
tude in the conduct of the silver de-
bate. If it appeared to the general
reader disappointingly apologize
and lacking in the aggressive spirit
which the exigency demands, it must
be conceded that the man who is
charged with the direction of bat.
tie has a better appreciation of its
difficulties than his critics are likely
to have.
Mr.. Voorhees, speech was in fact
an appeal to the dignity and cour.
tesy that has hitherto prevailed in
the Senate and to the honor and
fairness of the obstru ctionists, He
disclaimed all desire to restrict the
freedom of debate, but he appealed
to them simply to express a Wiling
ness to submit to vote, to intimate
a time, no matter how distant, when
they would agree that vote should
be taken. His opponents were si-
lent. Evidently the appeal to their
honor was vain.
Up to this point there can be no
criticism of Mr.. Voorhees, attitude.
Reliance upon the honor Of his as
sociates is natural to gentleman,
and the Senate is supposed to be
made up Of gentlemen exclusively.
But it will be generally felt that he
errs in giving to the rule of cours
tesy the force OF constitutional law.
He had been urged from outside, he
said, to appeal to the presiding Of
fcer to sustain him Gin a motion not
provided for in the rules and to pro-
ceed to VOTE" but he "would as
soon think of committing open high
treason or private murder as Of COM
mitting such crime as that" Why?
Where is the treason? Where is the
crime?
The Constitution empowers the
Senate to make rules for its own
government, which have the force of
law; but it is no part Of the purpose
Of the Constitution that the Senate,
by its rules or by the absence of
rules, shall vacate the function CONS
mitted to it, that of orderly legisla-
ton. The crime Is committed by
those who prevent the Senate's exer-
else of its powers. Their conduct
is outside the rules, though still
within the Constitution. The au-
thority of the Senate rests in the
majority of its members, and they
have no right, either legal or moral,
to surrender it to the minority. If
there is any "treason" it is there.
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Mr., CLEvELANDoN SILVER

AS the Atlanta Journal says, the
free silverites denource everybody
who is not willing to risk the expe'
riment of free silver at the present
as a "go,dolater." They are never
tired of abusing President Clevelanc
as can enemy of silver" and as
"gold bug
Senator Vest had the temerity te
decla.e in a speech few days ag6
that the President "in his great
State paper had not one word to say
in regard to bimetalllsm."
This assertion is absolutely cons
trary to the facts, and Senator Vest
put himself in an unenvialle atti>
tude when he said it,
In the message which the Senator
saws cont tains 'snot one word in re-
gard to bimetallism," President
Cleveland attacks the Sherman act
on the ground that its continued op-
Grafton ''would destroy the parity
between the two metals by establish
discrimination in favor of gold"
He goes on to say that if the acl
is not repealed the gold supply in
the treasury will be exhausted and
"gold AID silver must part company,
and the government must fail in its
established policy to maintain the
two metals on a parity with each
other"
Again he says:
If, as many of it's friends claim,
silver ought to occupy larger place
in our currency and the currency of
the world through general interna-
tional cooperation and agreement, 1t
is obvious that the United States
will not be in a position to gain a
hearing in favor Of such an arrange
ment so long as we are willing to
continue our attempt to accomplish
the result single-handed.
In all these utterances the Presl-
dent speaks as the friend of silver
and indicates as the only line of
policy that which will sustain sils
Yer. In lis letter to Governor North
ern he declares:
l am friend of silver, but l be-
lieve its proper place in our cur
rency can only be fixed by reads
iustment Of our currency legislation
and the inav guration of a consistent
and comprehensive financial scheme.
I think such thing can only be
entered upon proftably and hope
fully after the repeal of the law
which is charged With all our inana
cial woes, In the present state of
the public mind this law cannot be
built upon nor patched in such
way as to relieve the situation.
The President is bimetallist. He
is a friend of silver, but he is not in
favor of a silver standard.
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Proner LEGISLATION.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Ocr, 1o.-At a
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Of
this city held tonight, resolutions were
adopting commanding the President
for assembling Congress, commencing
the House fer its prompt action, and
urging upon the Senate that some action
be taken without further delay on the
measure pending before it. Resolutions
say we have faith "in Presid ent Cleves
lands knowledge and understanding OF
this subject and confidence in his ability
to execute plans that will restore pros
perity to the country if proper legisla.
tion is enacted to afford him the oppor.
tun1ty."
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SPECIMEN CASES.

s. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis, was
troubled with Neuralgia and Rheuma-
tism, his Stomach was disordered, his
Liver was affected to an alarming c.
gree, appetite fell away, and he was
terribly reduced in flesh and strength.
Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured
him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, Ill.
had running sore on his leg of eight
years standing. Used three bottles of
Electric Bitters and seven boxes of
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is
sound and well. John Speaker, Cataw-
ba, O., had five large Fever sores on his
leg, doctors said he was incurable. On
bottle Electric Bitters and one box
Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured them en-
tirely. Sold by J. II, Hill s Son.
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GOLDsBORO. N. c.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1888

must be no discrimination against
either metal. To coin gold at its
bullion value and silver at So per
cent. of its bullion value, would be
an enormous discrimination against
gold, such as would drive it out of
circulation. This would annul the
previous declaration in favor of the
use OF both gold and silver as
money. This idea is further ems
phasized by the declaration that
the dollar unit Of coinage must be
of equal intrinsic and exchangeable
value.
Another condition is that the
value Of the two metals must
be adjusted by internation-
al agreement or otherwise, SO
as to maintain the parity of the
two metals, not only for the pays
ment Of debts. but in their purchas.
ing power in the markets-not for
day or month, but sat all times" !"
We may take it for granted that
the language OF this section was
more or lees adapted to the purpose
of reconciling differences of opin-
ion, but, taken as a whole, it has a
| distinct meaning, which can easily
te aecertained. It demands an
immediate discontinuance of the
policy OF purchasing silver bullion
to be stored up in the Treasury
like cord -wood. 1t declares in fas
vor of the use of gold aud silver as
money, which practically everybody
in America favors, the assertions of
| the mine owners to the contrary
not Notwithstanding. But it also de-
clares that the interests of the few
millianaire owners of silver mines
in this country are not to prevail
over the interest of fal mera and La
boring men. We are not going to
silver monometallism, We are not
going to accept the 58seent dollar.
We will have the coinage OF both
gold and silver without charge for
mintage whenever it can be done
without any degradation Of the
standard Of value and not sooner.
The silver lords may rage and
deluded Democrats may amagine
vain things but this is the meaning
OF the Democratic platform, and it
must be carried out if the party
expects to retain the confidence of
the people Of the United States,
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Brute Force in the Senate.

1t is disheartening to hear Sena,
tors gravely talking of test OF
physical endurance over the repeal
of the Sherman act, as though I'M
portant measures of public policy
were to be decided by mere brute
force. A contest on these lines is
as barbaric as the old way of deter.
mining public questions by the Or
deal of battle. The vigorous young
Senators from the Silver States do
not propose that their opponents
shall fight it out under the rules of
the ring, but what they do propose
is scarcely less brutal. They mean
that if the majority of the Senate,
many of whom are old men, wish
to pass an act demanded by the
pub bic interest they shall remain in
their seats all day and ali night and
for an indefinite time, while these
obstructionists exhaust all the
manifold devices of delay,
Such proposition carries its
own condemnation. 1t is not
merely unstatesmanlike; it Is uns
manly. brutal, These Senators
have right 10 resort to every legis
innate parliamentary motion to
test the sense of the Senate to the
uttermost, but the whole theory on
which their existing power of de-
lay is based is that the Senate is a
body of intelligent gentlemen, who
have such confidence in the honor
and courtesy of one another that
NO rules are necessary to en- orce
the decencies of Debate. A cons
test OF physical endurance over
throws this theory entirely and abe
solves the Senators from any legal
or moral obligation to maintain
their cour teous rule.
The minority have been allowed
not only all the latitude of debate
than anyone could reasonably des
mand, but more than their conduct
has entitled them to. Their an
nounced purpose to resort to phys
sical force demands of the majority
the exercise of the inherent author
ity of the Senate to bring this uns
seemly contest to an end. Ii Mr..
Voorhees, is the courageous leader
he is believed to be, and it the
ViceePresident has the judicial
irmness and dignity that the occu-
pant of such a position ought to
have, the lawful power is theirs
with the support. of an honest mas
jority, to bring this issue to the
only lawful test, the test of votes.
The country not only will sups
port them; it will be content with
nothing else. IT is not to be en-.
dured that the selfish obstruction
OF few Interested attorneys, dem.
agogues AMI cranks shall drag
down the Senate of the United
Estates to the low standards of a
Coney leland prize fight.-Phila
Times.
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UNKNOWN.

The is sleeping the sleep that the angels
bring,
The absolute calm of unending rest,
And has ceased the battle that was TOO
hard
For the timid. childish breast,
And nobody knew in the hurrylns
world ,.e
That the b. nner of one young life was
turled.
She had fought the fight bravely' but
tie fates were stern;
And life 1or the poor is not the same
AS it is for those that money lifts
To the heights of power and tame'
So the pleading eyes that were never gay
Were closed, and life softly ebbed away
So she, the toiler, whose tired hands
Had striven so hard to be strong,
Whose frail young life had been olo
enough
To kno that it was too long,
Had reached the haven whose lie Is
Had gained the port where wcrk must
cease.
Boston Pilot
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PLATFORM AND SILVER.

nal says, it can not have escaped
attention that Senators discussing
the silver question have good
deal to say about the silver plank
of the platform adopted at Chi
cago last year. The friends of re-
peal quote its clear mandate with
reference to the Sherman law, but
recalcitrant Democrats also try to
find in it some excuse for their re-
| fusal to carry out the will of the
people. An analysis of the silver
plank of the platform will show
but little support for the latter
cless. The declaration with refers
ence to gold and silver was as fols
lows:
"We denounce the Republican
legislation known as the Sherman
act of 1890 as a cowardly make
shift, fraught with possibilities of
danger in the future. which should
make all of it's supporters, as well
as its author, anxious for its speedy
repeal. We hold to the use OF
both gold and silver as the stand>
ard money of the country, and the
coinage Of both gold and silver
without discriminating against
either metal, Or charge for mintage,
but the dollar unit of coinage OF
both metals must be of equal in
trinsic and exchangeable value, or
be adjusted through international
agreement, or by such safeguards
of legislation as shall insure the
maintenance of the parity of the
two metals, and the equal power of
every dollar at all times IN the
markets and IN payment of debt;
and we demand that all paper cur
rency shall be kept at par with
and redeemable in coin. We insist
upon this policy as especially nee
essary tor the protection of the
farmers and laboring classes, the
first and most defenseless victims
of unstable money and a 1uctuat~
ing currency"
1t is just as well to note at the
beginning what this declaration
does not contain. There is no snge
gestion in it of toleration of a fiftys
eight-cent dollar. There is not
syllable of appreciation of silver
monometallism. There is no mems
ton Of the ratio of 16 to 1. There
is distinct declaration that farmers
and laboring men are not interested
in dishonest money, but are the
first to suffer from a degradation OF
the currency. The idea Of fiat
money, in whole or in part, is dis
tinctly .repudiated. The following
is fair analysis of what the plat
form demands:
First-The immediate repeal of
the Sherman act. This is in a sem
tence by itself, and is subject to no
conditions. It is, therefore. square
for unconditional res
peal.
Second-The use of both gold
and silver as money. The Wilson
Repeal Bill provides for this. All
the silver dollars already coined,
which are seven times as many as
can be kept in circulation, are to
continue full legal tender.
Third-There is a declaration in
favor of the coinage of both gold
and silver, but this is subject to
various qualifications. 1t is not
condition precedent to the repeal
of the Sherman law. On the con-
trary, it provides for some things
that can not be reached at once. 1t
says that the Democratic party is
In favor Of the coinage of both
gold and silver, "but''-and here
follow the necessary prerequisites
without which it can not safely be
done.
The first condition is that there
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ROSES.
I
sIXTE EN-,

SIXTEEN,
Mark the coy smiles that dimple round
her mouth,
The shy, sweet glances of her violet
eyes,
The dainty head, poised straight nd
ilywise,
The laugh, as soft as zephyrs from the
SOUTH
Ard crown her, friend, with roses
pink as Jnne-
Roses that prophesy the wild birds
tune,
That tell of love songs meath cres-
cent moon
Bring from thy sunny closes
Pink roses!
WOMAN GROWN
Her red mouth curves and smiles with
meaning rare;
Her dark eyes shine with loves in
tensest glow;
Her low laugh 1ipples like the brook
let's flow,
And, she is radiant, friend, beyond
compare!
Kneel at her feet, with roses warm as
Red with the kisses of the suns OF
June,
That breathe of passionate pleadings
for loves boon,
Bring from thy richest posies,
Red roses!
TIE END.
See how the silkan lashes sweep her
cheek!
Upon those features lingereth the
trace
OF beauty more ethereal than earth's
grace,
She left our yearning hearts, o friend
to seek
In realms beyond the silver, smiling
moon,
Beyond the songs and silences of June
A land where every note is in attune
Bring, where her form reposes,
White roses!
Minnie Quinn, in Fetter's Magazine
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FLOWERS TO MATCH,

If heavens a gold city,
With streets all goldun, too,
With nothing for its boundary
Except the sky so blue,
1 think the flowers ought to
Be like the rest in hue.
If was just an angel,
Wits nothing else to do,
I gather golden rods and
Wild asters, white and blue,
And carry them to Heaven,
Around the throne to strew,
The gold to match the city,
So beautiful and fair,
The white to match the dresses
Which all the angels wear,
The blue to match the sky that
Is always blue up there.
Felix Keelanc
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Favorinq Repeal.

NORFOLK, VA. Oct. 10,-The follows
ing telegram was sent to United States
Senators Daniel and Hunton, of Vir-
ginia: "The Norfolk, Va, Chamber Of
Commerce, rejecting the wishes of the
commercial and manufacturing interests
in this city, respectfully ask your vote
and influence in behalf of tie repeal o.
the liver purchasing clause of the Sher
mon bill, noW before the Senate,
(signedl SAMUEL r. BoRUM,
Secretary,