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Praeticed what He Preached,

Ft0ettceN " Aut ne FreNcheO.
0other-Did you take that jam,
Tommy?
Tommy-l'm SIRE don't know.
4Other-ThOras, answer me:
Tommy-How can I? You told me
not to let my left hand know what my
tight hand dOeth.-Ncw York Herald.
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Safety ON Water and Land.

The British board of trade has IS
sued a statement of the number of
lives lost by accident in British mer-
chant ships during the past year.
This statemen: shows the average
loss to he about fiye-SiXthS OF / per
cent Of the number Of men employed.
The percentage Of lives lost in sailing
vessels is somewhat larger than that
of steamers.
There were 21S.224 men employed on
British ships registered in the United
Kingdom. OF these 56.O95 were en-
plOyed Oh sailing ships and 162 100 on
steamships. The latter suffered a loss
Of 81; seamen and 81 passengers. max
ing total Of S47. Sailing vessels lost
1,U29 seamen and p passengers.
The British statement is interesting
in connection with the report of the
United States inspector general that 4
person is very much safer jOurneying
ON sea than ON land, whether on bus
mess or pleasure bent.
According to this report. Of 6OO.OOO.-
600 journeys made last year only 221
ended in Il fatal accident. Otherwise
stated. the percentage Of fatalities was
.0OOOOO36. This very small fraction
means that man who has ordinary
luck can make 2,715, 4OS trips on YES
sells propelled by steam before his turn
comes to be drowned or blown up.
Nevertheless, it will proba bly, he long
before people who have read the story
of the fate of the wrecked Sailer and
the 400 -ictims who went down with
her can bring themselves to believe
that ships are, as a whole, safer con-
veyances than those serving on land
Boston Globe.
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Their Peculiar Aversio...

Most people have diversions OF SOME
kind or other, and some very strange
oEes. The sight Of a set of false
teeth made John l.. Sullivan sick ut the
stomach. Napoleon did not like to see
a white dog. AgaSsiZ could not bear
to touch polished steel. The sight of
the rising DON. when it was full, al
ways made Nine. DE Stnel Ill. Bare
footed children made Louis XIV. nerv-
GUS Dean Swift has Sc Id that Boiling
broke would "act like one bereft should
lie cast his eye on a poor. harmless
toade" DisrAeli had an attack of YER
tigO when he saw anybody chewing
gum. Dickens never liked q stir shirt
bosom. and Button would fly into =
rage II anyone put an egg on the din
ing table at which he sat
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Welcome the Coming Speed the Parting Guest.
And now the clock begins the mid.

And now the clock begins the mid
nigh stroke! One. two, three. four.
five, six, seven. eight, nine. ten, eleven.
twelve. All! what WAS that! \ sound
as Of something falling! / rub Iny
eyes and look again. but the closest
scrutiny fails to reveal the old year.
Surely, l saw him fall off the table as
the last stroke rang out. but he has
gOne-gOne with his burdens and sOr-
rOws--his load of broken promises and
false vOws-his broken hearts. his fail
ures and shipwrecked voyages.
l sit alone once mOre-but the room
has grown suddenly cOld-the rosy
light has turned to faint, sickly vel
lOw-and wonder whether have had
n vision or dream: Which would you
think, dear reader:
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-
Among annoyances to which hotels
are subjected Is one which means ma
terial loss at busy times. This Is when
Z person telegraphs or writes for rooms
to be reserved. and upon arriving in
town decides to go to another hotel.
Very frequently rooms which could
have been given to guests are vacant
on account Of this. and the careless
hotel patrons appear TO be unaware
that they have inflicted any injury on
the house. Sometimes. however. when
a clerk calls upon them with a bill for
the rooms that they didn't occupy they
are open to conviction OF wrong doing
and settle the bill. The matter has
rarely been one Of litigation. but the
hotel man has the hest end Of 1t, and
the prcprietOrs' national association in
tends to make it SO understood when
ever it is necessary.-HOtel Gazette.
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A STRANGE NEW YEARS CALLER
By Mary Phillips Tatro.

It was the last night Of the old year.
and was half-lying, half-sitting In q
large easy chair before my bright L.
bFary fire. I had been smoking. but
the retrospective mood into which I
had fallen. proved too much for the
lighted end of my cigar, and it had
lied completely out.
The old year that was dying seemed
like an old friend whose last hours l
had come to fill with things we had
both enjoyed and suffered together, =
last old-time chat before the Ginning
midnight bell should part us forever.
l had been in the habit of writing
very late nights. and even now my
desk and library table were covered
with books Of references. quantities CT
manuscript In almost every stage OF
incompleteness. the latest napers, mag
axines, respectfully declined" pack
ages, intermingled with those Of ac-
ceptance, and many other tribes which
go toward making up q literary mans
den.
I had been very busy finishing arti-
cles, stories. poems, etc, for the holi.
days. and I had determined to have
this last night Of the old year all to
myBelf
half-reclined. with my head resting
against the soft cushion, which, by the
way, gave out subtle but sweet fra
.grance, reminding me Of the girl who
gave 1t to ne year ago. and, strange
to cay. I'm bachelor yet; but that's
neither here nor there regarding my
Gtrange visitor and what he said to
ne.
- I said before, my head Was
brown back in very restful position,
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ExpPesslng His Choice.
IAEdlady-How do you like your oys-
teD, Mr.. Ffply?
New Boarder-NOt more than q dozen
In q dish and well seasoned.
The Globe-republican., 1896-12-31

JinkS-I think those street musicians
are great gamblers.
Dinks-HOw so!
Jinks-They playing for money all
day long.-illustrated Monthly.
The Globe-republican., 1896-12-31

IlTSband-Are you aware. my dear,
that on this grassy spot began a war
that lasted ten years!
Wife-Why. John. it was here that
you proposed to me.
Huslan,l-Exactly. Just ten years
agc.-Spare Moments.
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The Genuine Article.

= Lady (admiTlng gifts at wedding)-
All. these are the souvenir spoons.
Maid Gndignantly)-No.i indeed, mum!
They're solid silver"
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Testimony.

$50 :ou believe that thirteen is an
unlucky numbcr:"
''Ot course: when 4 thing costs 12K
cents the other fellow always gets the
13 cents. doesn't he:"
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An AdditioA to IL

"Ah, old man. you seem to have
something on your mind"
"Yes, my wife jnst gave me 4 piece
Of hers."-DetrOit Journal.
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NO Rene6v
The H1GhePed Girl.

Nurse Girl lost track of the child,
mum. and
GOOD gracious: Why didn't you
speak to a Policeman?
Nurse Girl was spcakin: to wan
Ill the tonne, mum.--Pearscn's Weekly
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-13
Notice Of Sale.

Under and by virtue of a Judgment
of the Superior court, rendered at
January term, 1896 at Wayne Superior
court in the case of w. B. Person VS.
] Cox. Emma E Cox and Julius H.
Raynor, l shall sell for cash at public
auction. at the court house door in
G~oldsboro, N. c., on Monday, Septem-
Der Il, 1896 the lands described in the
complaint and judgment in said action.
bounded and described as follows.
Lying in Grantham's township,
Wayne county, N. c.. and bounded
and described as follows: One moiety
or half interest in the home place of
the said Richard Raynor, the same
being a track of four hundred acres,
known as the W. H. Bizzell, trAct of
the lands divided among the heirs of
w III Bizzell, Jr.. and being the same
purchased by the said Richard Raynor
of Calvin Coor, Sheriff of Wayne
county, about forty years ago at sheriff
sale For further particulars of which
see deed from said Coor to Richard
Rayner and recorded in Wayne coun-
ty, N. c., same being the lands decided
by r. Raynor, and wife to Emma E
Cox, and recorded in said county on
the 9th day of May, 1887, in Book Sc,
page, 442, containing two hundred
(200l acres, more or less
August IL. 1896.
F. A. DANIELS, Com.
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party as an act of bad faith. Is
not the implied agreement just
as binding on themselves?
Let Southern Democrats who
contemplate the support of Nc
Kinley, or of a boiling Demo-
cratic ticket. which could. only
help Mckinley without a chance
Of its success in a single state,
seriously consider the probable
effect of their action. They would
help to restore to full power,
and perhaps to perpetuate in
power, a party agreeing with
them on only one question and
that one attributable to a con-
dition caused by Republican legs
islation. and to disrupt and con
sign to lasting defeat a party
agreeing with them on every
other issue.
Let US, therefore, unite to place
in power the party of l~ong-tested
devotion to the interests of all
the people and the equal rights
Of all classes and sections, and
rely upon it, as we have safely
relied in past emergencies, to
find a solution of present diff
culties and apply preventive Of
threatened evils.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-13

Lazy Lives 81 nc Naavss Of the North
east C0aet.

Lazy Lives "a mo Nax1vss OF the North
east Csast.
Ashore he b the laziet of operatives.
lolling abou1 lie wharves and harbor
coruen with his hands invariably deep
DOWN h his ''huesks" pockets, his
ySkkgne.4 3a1k ueanwhi1e doing most of
eE wo14a6d tok1tng along bent near
doua6te >xkAer their heavy cree1
Beds 1sh- We'll does Jenny, Old
bucks fsrshg wenah, put It: las
sure as he keel O the oeble touches
the sand dell a bit MAR will the lazy
kilt their coats and wade into the surf
to take the fish ashore" Their method
Of batting the lines with a multitude
of hooks is very neat and pretty to
watch, the whole being arranged SO
systematically. In this branch OF
shore labor the men do sometimes take
q share.
Some of the fishing villages along
the north and east seaboard Of Scot
land are singularly quaint and
picturesque. Netherlandish almost In
their details, worthy studies for q
Ruysdael or a Van de Velde. Tho
rows Of little split fish skewered on
sticks or triangular lath frames nailed
along the cottage walls are quite dis.
tinctive features. So also are the cot
tages themselves. with their YER
million, pan-tiled roofs and outlying
stairways; bat these are fast disap-
pearing and giving place to a modern
style OF tenement, which makes one
miss the old world forms. and warm
color. Well were it, however, il
primitive dirt and archaic ~scavenger-
Ing could In many cases make way for
more modern sanitary arrangements.
The asher folk of both sexes are very
commonly of a serious. inscrutable
cast of co~untenance, generated, I sup
pose. by the precarious nature and
constant risks of the seafaring
ton. '1t's no fish we're buying"
quotes the masterful Maggie to the
Monkbarns, "it's mems lives" The men
do, indeed, carry their lives in their
hands, and 1t were strange If this did
not give a certain solemnity and God
fearing set to their characters The
Eyemouth people still speak with
bated breath of the terrible catastrophe
which overlook them in the great
storm or cyclone of some years back
and turned well-nigh every homestead
into a house of mourning. The fisher
man has a long memory for such vista
tions.-Scottish Review.
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Famous Gold Bar Found.
San Diego. Cal. Auo. 10

San Diego, Cal, Aug. 10,
A special to a local paper gives
a sensational sequel to the famous
.gold-bar robbery which occurred
at Ensenada nearly a year and a
half ago, and which caused the
Imprisonment of James E. Bar
rett and Allan Pratt for sixteen
months. After his release Bar
rett came to this city and on the
fifth instant left here forEnsenada.
The Mexicrns we're warned by
detectives who were on the watch.
and this morning, when Barrett,
accompanied by three men, set out
to dig up the bar they were fol-
lowed by a party of guards with
whom vas Governor Sanguinese.
The gold seekers found themsel-
yes surrounded and covered by
rides. Garrett collapsed with fear.
At Governor Sanguinese's demand
he disclosed the spot where the
bar was hidden. The bar is worth
SO, 900.
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A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

An important report from Mr..
Carpenter, commercial agent OF
the Treasury department., con
tains advice to the manufacture
ers in the United States to cult
vate the German market.
MI. Carpenter, who is ir a
position to know, declares that
the Germans are very favorably
disposed toward all kinds OF
American-made goods. The
style and workmanship of our
products please them.
Germany would certainly be a
much larger purchaser of our
agricultural products but for an
almost prohibitory tariff which
she has put upon them. The rates
of duties now levied on these
products by Germany are as fol-
lows:
Wheat. 32.39 cents per bushel;
rye, 1923 cents; corn, 1919 cents.
wheat -four, 50 % per barrel, and
oats, 1882 cents per bushel.
II by some arrangement the
German tariff on these articles
could be abolished or reduced, a
very profitable field would be
opened to our farmers. We put
a heavy tariff on the beet sugar
of Germany and all the textile
fabrics which we import from
that country, and Germany will
probably wait for US to let down
our bars somewhat before she
lowers her own.
Mr.. Carpenter shows that but
for tariff restrictions there would
be q great market for American
furniture in Germany. While
that country admits rough lumber
free of duty the tariff on all forms
of manufactured wood is very
high.
That we are quite as inimical
to German industries as the Ger
man government is to ours is
shown by the fact that last year
our total imports from Germany
aggregated S81. Ola, O65, of which
$65, 083, 397 we're dutiable and
only SIS, $50, 668 free of duty.
The time nay come when both
the United States and Germany
may reach the wise conclusion
that obstructive and even pro>
tective tariffs are wrong in prin-
ciple and expensive in practice.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-13
LET Us SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC
ORGANIZATION.

In political emergencies, as in
other affairs of life, men are
sometimes constrained to make a
"choice between two evils" or
uncongenial situations. Being
unable, after their best efforts,
to order things just as they
would have them, both sound
reason and policy suggest that
they should take this course.
Such an emergency now con.
fronts many Democrats in all
parts of the country. They have
done their best to influence their
party to accept and endorse their
financial policy, and having failed
in the effort. they have now pre-
sented to them the alternative
of continued adherence to the
political party with which they
have long associated, and whose
maintenance they believe to be
needful to protect the country
from badgovernment and pernici-
Gus legislation, or to assist in the
restoration to unchecked power
of the party whose whole record
is marked by acts and policies of
this character.
All of US took part in the choice
of delegates to the Chicago con-
ventlon, with the implied agrees
ment-an agreement sanctioned
by precedent and honor-that we
would abide by the decision OF
the majority of the convention.
That decision was disappointing
and disagreeable to a large por-
ton of the Democratic party, in
its relation to one important
question. Had this portion sue
ceeded, instead of meeting de-
feat, they would have considered
d bolt or antagonism by the other
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-13
GLRANINGS
Items Of interest Clipped
From our State
EXCHANGES.

GREENSBORO RECORD, Mrs. Mel
son, widow of the late Judge J.
N. Nelson, aud mother of Mayor
John J. Nelson, died this morn.
ing at the family residence or
West Sycamore street.
Greenville REFLECTOR: We re-
gret to hear that Mr.. T. M. G.
Ross, of Chicod township, died g
few days ago. Mr.. Ross was
gallant Confederate soldier who
lost one of his arms on the battle
field.
Charlotte News: Farmers in
the city to~day bring confirm
atory reports of the damage tc
the cotton by the dry weather
and excessive heat. What two
weeks ago promised to be an i'm
mense crop of cotton has already
been cut down, and the end is not
yet.
Mr.. Enoch Shore, a farmer and
leading Republican of Yadkin
county, was in Elkin Tuesday
shouting for Bryan and free sill
yer with all his might. He said
he expects to vote that way and
that a third of the Republicans
in Yadkin will do the same thing.
He says he will canvass the
county if necessary.
Wilmington Messenger: News
reached the city last evening that
Mr.. D. L. Cores turpentine dis<
tillery, Harrel's Store, was burn
ed yesterday morning at 10
O'Clock. But for the winds
blowing in an easterly direction
many buildings in the village
would have been burned. The
fire is thought to have been
caused by a leak in the kettle.
Newbern Journal: Mr.. Thos.
G.. Wilkinson, formerly general
secretary of the Y. M. G. A. OF
this city, who resigned about
two years ago, to further prose-
cute his studies, with a view to
teaching, has recently been
elected principal of the High
School of Anderson. S. c., where
they have upwards of 600 pupils
and from 6 to 10 teachers. Mr..
Wilkinson's numerous friends
will be pleased to hear of the
success which is attending him.
Rockingham Index: The pros>
poets for a railroad for upper
Richmond grow brighter and
brighter. Another meeting was
held in the Office of James r.
LeGrand last Monday, and rep
resentatiye citizens of the inter-
ested townships were present.
Mr.. Theo. Garrish, of Boston,
representing a northern syndis
cate. has taken the matter in
hand and will push it for all it is
worth. He has a corps of civil
engineers already at work. It is
now proposed that the road ex~
tend from Rockingham to Cons
cord.
Wilmington Star; Mr.. w. H.
French, of Rocky Point, brought
news yesterday of a murder or
murders last Saturday in Holly
Township, Fender county. The
facts. as told by Mr.. French, are
as follows: Mr.. Frank Powers
and wife left their two children,
lone fourteen months old and the
other two-years old) at Mr.. and
Mrs. Bryant Mills house, with
the latter's three children, while
the old folks went out to pick
dog-tongue. While gone Mr..
Hills ten-year old son beat the
Powers children numerically
because they began crying for
their parents, and said when the
old folks returned and found one
dead and the other at the point
of death, that he did it to keep
them from crying. It was a sad
affair and the entire community
sympathize with the two fami-
lies.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-13
We have one We'll tell you who'll get
on December next. This SUI
perb combination is a

Weighing "a pounds and worth $50. To
every purchaser OF a cold drink at our
Fountain we will give a check and at
the expiration of the time, December
%, the person that has purchased the
largest number of drinks: that is to say
spent the most money at our fountain
will be entitled to the wheel. This is
a prize that will cost you nothing. You
ought to make all your purchases in
our line from us because you get the
We are the leading druggists of Colds
boru, and carry everything in the
drug line. Moderate prices are u
rule. AT your service.
M. E. ROBINSON & BRO
GOLDSBGRO N. G..
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Sick Stomach means sick mar Tor
woman.)
Why not be we'll?
Sick stomach comes from poor food,
poor nourishment; means poor health.
poor comfort. Shaker Digestive Cor
dial means health and a we'll stomach
If we could examine our stomach we
would understand why it is that SO
little will put it out of order.
But, unless we are doctors, we never
see u stomach. We only feel it. We
would feel it less if we took Shaker Di-
gestive Cordial.
Shaker Digestive Cordial makes
your stomach digest all the nourish-
ing food you a relieves all the symp-
toms of indigestion, acts as a tonic and
soon makes you we'll and strong again.
The more you take, the less you will
feel of your stomach. For sale by drug
CriCfS
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-13

A Union county Republican,
bluffed the whole town of Mays
vile the other day, by Offering
to bet $50 that Bryan and Sewall
would carry that county.
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Wanted:

First-c1ass statesmen on salary or
Commission to sell our goods to the
dard Oil and Compound Co., Cleve-
and, Ohio
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-13

Our experience warrants US in
remarking that men on 1.-THE
shady side of life suffer as much
from the heat as the other fell
loWs-if not more.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-13

Ell. r. Bartine, in the Chicago
Record, asks for a Republican
explanation of the clinical prin-
ciple upon which a man is sent
to the penitentiary for the SIM
pie ofense of raising the figures
on a note or mortgage, while the
advocates of the gold standard,
which produces exactly the same
result. are allowed to run at
large"
This country is now very much
in the position of a man who be-
ing possessed of a wealth of
broad acres, has so plastered
them over with mortgages, that
it requires all the profits of their
tillage to square the annual in>
terest account. This is why we
hear SO much about the national
credit. and why it has become so
difficult to meet the expenses
OF the Government without fur
Their borrowing. The financial
management CT this country
since the war has been such that,
if persisted in a few years longer,
will end in total bankruptcy, re-
pudiation and ruin.
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NORTH CAROLINA,
Wayne county,
FL ank Bizzell,

Zilphia Bizzell,
The defendant Zilphia Bizzell is
hereby notified to appear and answer
or demur to the complaint herein at a
term of the Superior court of Wayne
county, N. c., to be held in Goldsboro
n. c., on Monpay, September 18th,
1895, n b is further notified that
this is an action btocght by plaintiff
to obtain a divorce from the bonds
of matrimony with defendant.
This the 21st day of July, 1896.
6w G. F. Herring, G. S. G.
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N. E. Robinson & Bro.

is worth getting, and our phosphates
are AL every time. There's nothing
better for a Summer drink, and the
price 5 cts. makes them the beverage
for all. We are the peoples drug
house. Our prescription department
commands unstinted praise and gives
universal satisfaction. Nothing is more
to be priced than pure drugs. because
its in drugs that universal satisfaction
does the most harm. It's admitted that
we carry a stock to be found nowhere
else, and that our prices are always
reasonable.
NJ. E. Robinson Bro
West Centre St
GOLDSBOR o NC
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Notice:

Notice:
BY mutual consent the firm of Dea IS
partnership. All Indebtedness will be
settled by J. Ell. Pate. Outstanding
accounts will be collected by either
partyof the firm of Deans, Patio & Co.
DEANS, PATE 4 CO.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-13

Entered at the Post Office at Colds
boro. N. c.. as Second-Class Matter.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-30
Riddles Solved.

Why are hogs the oleverest beggars QUIT
They nose e> eryJl4ing.
WHAT is a convent? A nun-inhabited
house.
Why is dancing at a ball ut a. III. an
anon..ly? BECAUSE IG's So late and yet so
WAlrlJ.
When lie Wis ii Ii = j..
Whats lie difference between Il watch
key and Il nluriLer Oh the lookout 1Or
squalls? Oue wi44dS the watch, ala the
others watches Tie wind
Why is .uLitiy Tie most unsteady or
birds? Because he Wa,)ttleS on his perch.