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Eut while l live, be true .

The first lo7e : sdme women is
mysteriously tenacious. It ceases
70 be a passion, and becomes a
principle of life. 1t is never de-
stroyed until life ceases. | may
change into torturc-it may be-
come excited like white hot iron,
barning the heart it binds; or it
may take on lesser fire, aud
change into red hatred, but it never
grows cold-it never loses its power
to ,mmand at thrill the deepest,
motives of her nature. But
rhe change from white heat to
fierce red is not infinite. 1t is a
transition rapidly made. At the
white heat, the woman's love burns
herself; at the red, it burns the
man she loves. A woman's hatred
is only her love on fre.-'Moons
dyne," John Boyle O'Reilly.
**
For fery sin that comes before the light
And leaves an outward blemish on the
soul.
How many, darker, cowec out of sight.
And burrow, blind and silent, like the
mole.
And like the mole to-, with its busy
feet
That dig and dig never-ending.cave
Our hidden sins gnaw through the soul
and meet
And feast upon each other in its grave
A buried sin is like covered sore
That spreads and tester meath a painted
face;
And no mans art can heal it evermore,
But only His-the Surgeons promised
g.ace.
Who hides sin is Ikea hunter who
Once warmed frozen adder with his
breath.
Aud when it placed it near his heart i
flew
With poisoned fangs and stung tha
heart to death.
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to me. 1t very undesirable result to
arrive at. l should like the House
of Commons to stand at the front of
the national moFement-.o lead, and
not to be driven-to guide accord
ing t. its own lights, and not to be
comps lied to go On and show the
way, as peasant sometimes is in an
inyaded country; With his hands fas-
tened to the stirrup>leather of some
hostile commander. 1t seems clear
to me that, after al the reforms, all
the extensions of The suffrage I'VE
have had-ex:ensions in later wears
sanctioned just as well by Conserra-
tives as ty Liberals 's-atter all the
redistribution of seats and recon-
structions of constituencies-after
all the many and heroic efforts to
make the House Of Commons truly
and fully representative, the House
of Commons still remains sadly
lacking in any manner of i'm
itative force. l do not know of
any instance in our modern
times in which the House of Gem
mons has anticipated in any measure
the wants and wishes of the people
in general. | know many men in the
thick of politics who insist that
this is exactly a. Is should be. The
business cf the House of Commons.
they contend, is to follow. and not
to lead public opinion. Until the
men who speak on the platform and
the men who write in the press have
demanded urgency, as the phrase
gots in foreign parliaments, for
some part cular measure, the House
of Commons ought to have nothing7
to do with the matter. l have heard
it argued that the House cf CONS
mons ought 10 be like judge IN one
of the law courts, The iuIge may
have learut something OF private
grievance going on, but until a for
NAL motion is made Ia his court bv
some interested and authorized party
to suit, the judge has nothing to
do with it. l caunot take this idea
of the business, the functions and
the duty of the House of Commons.
AS it is chosen to represent, so ac-
cording to my view it is chosen to
think, and chosen to lead. just
now, it appears to me, that we have
come to another cli isis. The Sover-
eign, as a disturbing power, has
been eliminated. The House of
Lords has been, as Mr.. Bright said
long ago, not abolished, but shunted.
1 sincerely hope that no future his
Uorian of the English Parliament
may have to describe condition of
things under which the House of
Commons, abdlcated its position. as
leader of the nation, and simply con
fined itself to the task of putting
into law what greater and more OBJ
servant and more active minds out.
side Parliament had declared to be
proper subjects for legislation. 1 am
much mistaken if there is not dan
ger that something like this should
come to pass; and l am earnest in
the hope that it may not c,me to
pass"
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THE MODERN HOUSE OF commons.

Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, writing in
the Contemporary Reuieso, says: ''If
I we're to Judge by the present ten
dency of events and influences, !
should be inclined to say that, as
Walepole transferred the power OF
the Sovereign and the Peers to the
House of Commons, SO the tendency
of to-day is to hand over the power
to the platform and the press. and
to make the House of Commons
only.a court of registration for tht
decisions of the public out Of doors
Now / confess that this would seen
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Picked up And Pasted For Passing
PerusaI.

1 CI uSdi
Canada has IA OOU miles of rails
roads. What wafer reservoir
this would be for Wall street.
Pro fesscrs in certain of the Spans
ish colleges are permitted to do the
shabby genteel act on salaries of
5000 a year.
Judging from the burning of
that Texas negro all kinds of criml
ilals there may hereafter play for
fearful stakes.
The King of Greece has a salary
of 100000 and finds it all little
enough when he has to foot the
bills of stud of 200 horses and to
pay the expenses Of his royal posi-
ton.
Entomologists are acquainted
with 100000 species of insects, yet
there is not known expert who
will not perspire and swear when
a tramp June bug happens to get
inside lis collar.
Three kings, two princes nine
dukes, two field msrshals and two
genera S were private soldiers when
they first joined Bonaparte's grand
army and rose from the ranks by
meritorious services.
A respectable family in Denver,
Col, d d not rejoice in the family
name oi'' Mule which they bore
and are asking the courts to have
it changed to "Miles." For the sake
of peace in that family circle it is
to be hoped that there will b, no
difficulty in making those mules 60
miles.
Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon,
is in state of mind. He has nos
tilted the Adjutant General of his
great State that no cannon belong
ing to it shall be used to fire a
salute "over the Inauguration of
Wall street plutocrat as President
of the United States, Mr. Pennoyer
seems to be toying with treason aud
dallying with disloyalty, as it were.
He should take a new twist on
himself, and try and do the decent
thing by Mr.. Cleveland, even if he
isgoiDg to bePresident of the United
States,
The spirit of democratic institu-
tions is not strongly fayorable to
increasing the powers and jurisdic-
tion Of the War Department. But
this country would have saved half
of its expenditures for pensions if
the Pension Bureau had been
part of the War Department,
where it belongs, and administered
by army officers instead of by
political appointees to whom the
charge was assigned as matter of
spoils. A just method Of pension
reform could be instituted now by
the War Department, which a
mere political department would be
afraid to undertake.
The nomination of Howell E.
Jackson, of Tennessee, to the vas
cancy in the Supreme Court of the
United States, ia prudent and
satisfactory. Judge ackson. who
served for some years in the Su~
preme Court OF Tennessee and was
known as one of the foremost
lawyers in the State, made distinct
mark IS a jurist in the United
States Senate, to which he was
elected in 1881 and from which he
resigned when appointed by Press
ident Cleveland to the United
States District Court, He thus
comes now to the highest court
with ripe experience and reputa-
ion, and the Endorsement of Presi.
|, dent Cleveland's selection by Presir
, dent Harrison is likely to secure
the confirmation Of the Senate
without opposition.
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THE VITAL SPARK.
There is a Purpose In all Things,
Though Centuries Roll Between.

Mythology promul2ate5 that
Prometheus was hound to the fabled
rcck and doomed for the vultures to
prey upon his liver because he stole
from heaven and the gods the ''yital
spark that gave Immortality to man.
History nor fiction furni hes no
parallel for the helplessness of poor
Prometheus painting with pain
chained high up on the face of the
rock overlooking the ocean he lone
devotee of the anger of mighty
power, " lille in storm the billows
lash themselves in fury at its base,
and in calm, IS the Greek poet SO
beautifully describes it, on the sun
lit f,ce Of tie waters the "unnum-
bered laug hter'' of the waves mock
him in his agony.
The death of Justice Lunar has
recalled his well. known devotion to
the Confederacv, and his 1--we for
the leader Of the lost cause was pro-
ductive of OF Of the most dramatic
scenes in the history of the Senate.
The Mexican pensions bill was under
consideration and an amendment
pended extending its provisions to
all veterans Irrespective of their
coursa in the war between the States.
tt was never adopted. Congress, 1t
was said. could Test show its desire
to forgive and forget by extending
the benz fits of the measure to those
who had once born arms against the
common country, The amendment
was near adoption when Senator
zach Chandler came to is feet with
short speech in which he said that
while In the main he agreed to the
general t,n,r of the amendment,
vet under it's provisions even Jen
DAVIS would be restored to citizen
shin. "And', he added, 81 am mol
prepared to go so far as that.
Lamar rose. His intense excite
ment Was evident. Between him
and Chandler a strong personal an
tapon:sm existed. An outburst was
expected, and it came.
"Mr. President" said the Missis-
sippian, with outstretched finger
pointing at his foeman, bis tall form
trembling with emotion, but his voice
bell-like in its clearness and without
q opiver in it, "whep Prometheui
Law bound to the rock it was not the
king of beasts who availed himself
of his distress. 1t was not any Other
of the nobler brutes of tie field ol
birds of the air. It was the yclture
the scavanger of the Animal kingdom
gluttoning upon carton, VII c.
proved upon his vitals, knowing tina
in a defenseless man, who eoult
move neither hand nor foot, be hao
one into whose vitals he could -dii
his beak".
He sat down amid stiffness 81
profound that the rustic of pape
sounded harshly. Chandler wa
deadly pale. Lrops Of perspiratio'
stood upon his forehead and h
c1enehed the arms Of his chair un.
til the strained wood cracked. l
was expected that he would reply
Twice be half rose then sank back
He did not reply.
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A Dem :crat Appointed.

The appointment of lge Il we'll
Edmurds jackson, of Tennessee, to
the place on the Supreme Court
made vacant by the death of the
lamented Lamar was an agreeable
surprise to MS and will give great
satisfaction to the South. Judge
Jackson is row a Judge on Circuit
Court of the United States, AID is a
States Rights Democrat.
Some days ago the Republicans
about Knoxville circulated petitions
among the Democrats for his ap-
pointment, and both parties there
urged the appointment. This was
bitterly fought by Representative
Houk, of Tennessee, who remon-
strated violently against the Repub-
licans recommending such States
| Rights Democrat.
The President, however, it is said
found a difficulty in selecting d
Southern Republican, and passed
over Judge Goff of West Virginia
and over Judge Pa-dee, it is said, on
oecount of their age.
Without knowing the causes OF
the selection We are g-atlfed at IT
and hope the appointment will be
confirmed without objecti on.-Rt.
leigh Meas Observer.
Wilmington Star: "a memo,
rial of the First Presbyterian
church Of Wilmington, N. G., pub,
Iished in commemoration cf tht
celebration of the Is anniversary
of the chu ch in Dece mber, 1892
and c ntainiDg the oceedings in
connection iherew1,h, together
with historical sketches, reminis,
Ecehces, sermons. etc. has been pnt,
tlished.
Newbern Journal; Messrs. Hay
wood and Helen HUFF caught 66(
rock and 3 800 white perch Sat
arday night about eight miles be
| .ow Newbern. Both these varie
ties Of fish are now commanding
high prices North and the luck,
! brothers were offered $500 her
for their catch.
i Kinston Free Press: MIR. w. S
| Edmond tells US that while goinj
down Neu1e river Saturday In
canoe he saw big live moccasil
on a bush snnning himself. At tn
came time ice was floating dow
the river. This is remarkable, as
/. is very unnsual for spakes to com
j lout in the winter.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09
SUNDAY READING.
Made Up of Divers clippings

Make me no vows of constancy my friend,
10 love me, though die, the whole life
long,
And love no other till thy days shall end
Nay, it were rash and wrong.
Forget me when | die The violets
Above my rest will blossom just as blue,
Nor miss thy fears--e'en Natures self for
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

Il is a comfort to know that in
a period of unrest the mem bers of
the French Chamber of Deputies
can settle questions of personal
veracity aud honor by firing pistols
at each other or slashing each other
with swords. We don't qaite un~
derstand how it settles anything
but it somehow seems to. And it
relieves the unrest.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

New YORK is now trying to raise
the needtul to put up statue to
Blaine, It looks as if Tamrnany-
vile will need to pawn her Grant
Memorial to open the subscription
list.
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THE Young Princess Of Hawaii
is named Victoria Kawckiu Kai-
ulani Lunalilo Kaiauinniahilapal-
api. She uses it to scratch her
back with.
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Down in Tennessee the people
familiarly refer 10 the Governor as
sold Pete Turney."
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TIE Prince of Wales new yacht
will be called the Britannia, but it
does not follow that she will "rule
the waves" if any of the Anne, ican
yachts can get shy at her
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

A man named Lane, who had a
business quarrel with Senator Car>
Isle some years ago, is threatening
now to make public some scandals
Ious matter connected with suit
in which the Senator once figured
in Cincinnati. That little lapse
was condoned long ago, Mr.. Car
Isle has risen to eminence and he
has redeemed himself nobly. The
man who malevolently rakes up
his past will receive no coun :
tenance from the American peos
pie.
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AS YOU LIKE IT.
Life as it is: Its Surface and Tn
der Currents Observed here and There
as we u ney an.

Points Political and Comments that
are sagacious for Present Contem-
plation and Future Guidance.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

That policeman who fired at the
drug store robbers didn't hit either,
but a neighboring clock is said to
have struck one about The time.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

The fact that England, the holds
est and most successful land
snatcher on the globe, is averse to
our annexing Hawaii doesnot settle
the question.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

A hog which was turned loose
by Georgia farmer in 1870 has
been rounded up in swamp near
Thomasville. Twenty-Five years
is a great age for four-legged
hog.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

Professor Briggs says of confes-
sions of faith "Let those who be.
'lieve in them form clubs and So
cietits for their perpetuation, bat
uot divide the Christian church on
their account y. He has just one
step more q take to reach a fnal
truth, that religion is goodness and
goodness religion, no matter with
what speculation associated.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

In the passage of the anti~Optioa
bill the Senate has given it's sancs
ton to one of the most absurd of
all the many vicious excesses of
legislation that have recently found
favor with Congress, The redeem =
ing feature in this bill is that it
will harass business enough to do
some mischief. 1t will be observed
that most of the lawyers in the
Senate opposed it on constitution
al grounds. but the Populists and
their sort were enough to give it a
majority.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

EvERYB oDY, of course, is waiting
TO hear what Grover Cleveland has
to say about the annexation Of
Hawaii. 1t he approves, the mat.
ter may be regarded as settled. Ii
heohjects we'll, just think of the
power that this distinguished privs
ate citiz an WELD
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

ONE thing should be made pere
fectly clear, and that is that trusts
shall not be allowed to- undermine
the business welfare of the country
and prey upon the people with
impunity. They are deadly toes
to Legitimate trade and popular
interests which should be condem.
ned by the voice Of the people and
suppressed by the law OF the
land,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

xTHERepublican press eeems anx<
ious to entangler this country
with the foreign powers about the
nnexation of the Sandwich Islands
and then leave 1t as a sore spot for
Mr.. Cleveland to doctor. 1t may
not be fair, bnt it is party politics.
and the coming man will not shrink
from the responsibility.
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GOLDSBORO. N. c.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY IL, 1893.

The indications are decisive that
President-e' ect Cleveland urges the
unconditional repeal Of the Shers
man law He is convinced that
currency reform should have prec
edence over taxation reform and
tariff ref. rm. He has resolved to
make tho stopping of Tre' sary
purchases of silver his policy and
fidelity to that policy test of fidel-
ity to him and his administration.
1t is even strongly intimated that
those who resist the unconditional
repeal of the Sherman law will
when the 4th of March has come
be expected to stand aside and
yield in the distribution of patron
age to those Democrats WHO advo-
cate the repeal.
Have you seen young girl
whose parents are crying their e, es
out because she is appars
antly in love with young
man they cannot approyea
Yee; you have and you have
joined in the hue aad cry against
her. You are astonished that she
could do SO. You cannot imagine
what it is she can find in the cava-
lier to attract. You go on
abusing her until you almost work
yourself into a passion about her.
although it is not your business in
the slightest. Then it happens
some day that Objectionable beau
ceases his visits to the girl. 1t was
the undercurrent, AS soon as it
set in, s'Mr. Lothario" went bounc-
ing over the fence and far away.
7 on don sickly smile, because
your gloomy prophecies were not
fulfilled. You are sorry that the
girl was not borne out te sea and
death by the surface current.
A man goes to bed angry with
his friend-so angry that slight
provocation might produce b!oods
shed. Good men teei that way
just like you who are called wicked,
The sleep that "knits' up the ravs
eled sleeve of care" also turns the
sleeper to the counter current. Be-
fore morning he is not angry with
his friend, but himself. He touches
safely on the shore of peace, and
grasps the hand extended to him
by his brother, who has also came
to shore by the same current. But
for that hidden stream there would
be murder in churches as we'll as
in barrooms.
This deeper nature for that is
what the under>current isis sell
dom shown to the word. There
is sacred reserve in every man
as well as in every woman. Wo-
man has more than man, only in
smaller, conventional things, not
as much in those which move us to
be martyrs to what we believe the
truth. Woman is more reserved
about the shadows of things; man
about the substance. Both, hows
ever, have rccesses which none can
penetrate. Every human being is
conscious of a kind Of greatness
peculiarly his own, of a heroism
under circumstances which would
make his bravest friends fly, of a
charity that can be SO aroused as
to give all. These. are the unders
currents. These are what cause
our neighbor to give US SO many
surprises.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

Ha'f of one month was wasted
on funeral operation in the House
during the Fifty-6rst Congress,
and the only men who would have
been sincerely interested in what
was said were not there to hear it.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

1t is published as al important
fact that the Gar of Russia eats
five meals daily, This is the ad-
advantage of being Gar Most
of his subjects are lucky if they
get two.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

PHILLIPS Brooks first came icto
prominence in New England by a
prayer he delivered at The Harvard
commemoration meeting, Just after
the war, when Lowell pronounced
his great "Comlnemoratior Ole"
After that prayer was uttered be-
fore the most distinguished aus
dience in New England people be-
gan to ask: "Who is Phillips
Brooks?'
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HELLO! A LONDON Journal, the
Daily Telegraph, says impudently
and insolently: "We could not al-
low the United States to annex the
islands even if the established poll
icy at Washington permitted the
idea to be entertained" Hawaii is
the subject under discussion. If we
shall deem it best to annex the is
lands We shall not ask the permits
sion of England to do so.
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Your debtor comes to you after
you have almost forgotten his ex-
istence and counts out that which
he owes. Your eyes grow as big
as saucers and your frame almost
tremb.es, Who could have pres
dicted this? Who would have
thought your debt or capable of
keeping memorandum of
thai debt upon his memory?
Not you? You have been
going with your outer>current SO
long that you believe all men will
fully and deliberately dishonest
who do not pay on the day the note
falls due, whatsoever the circum~
stances. Then you scratch your
head and fall into a brown study,
In your meditation you see the
light. It was the under>current,
the better part Of your debtor,
which at last caught him and
drifted him back to land. It ocs
ours to you that there are some
under~currents in your nature
from which you are yourself travel,
ling at very rapid gate.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

It is strennousIy denied that the
Hawaiians were eve. habitual CAM
nibale; they only practised CAM
nibalism at rare intervals as part
of superstitious rite. Nevertheless
it has been stated that their Ian
guage has two words for pig, short
pig and long pig, and that the lats
ter referred to bake man.. There
was quite enough in that circun,s
stance to make any stout missions
ary uneaay,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-09

AN Astrologer is said to have
predicted, five years ago, that Mr..
Blaine would die before January
%, 1898. If SO, and he will publish
his voucher and card, a big bon
anza awaits him. There are thou-
sands of credulous simpletons who
cannot discriminate between q
chance guess and a studied fore'
cast.