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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
A NOTABLE BANK.
Tho Most Independent One In the World
Is In Norway

IL In Norway.
Probably the most independents and
aristocratic bank in the world is the
Norges or national bank Of Norway. It
seems to be wholly Indifferent. to doing
business Of any kind, and what it does
do it insists upon doing in its own
deliberate way. Socially the bank is of
considerable Importance The directors
| meet twice week, and these friendly
gatherings are said to be most enjoyable
affairs. Loans and discounts form the
! chief subjects of conversation. No loan
or discount can be made without the ap-
prevail Of three of the directors.
Suppose the directors are to hold a
| meeting on Wednesday and you want
to borrow 50, 900 on Monday. You ap-
/ ply to Norges bank and are told that
the matter will be taken under consid.
! GRAFTON at the directors meeting on
Wednesday. and you may look for an
answer to your application by Thurs
day. 1t does not matter in the least that
you want the So, 900 on Monday and
cot Thursday. You simply have to
wait.
The origin Of this institution was as
peculiar as its management is unusual.
Soon after the nominal union of Nor
way and Sweden, in 1914, the latter
country began to feel the need of great
er money facilities to meet the demands
of the rapidly increasing commerce.
The problem Of securing the necessary
capital for great national institution
was a very simple one for the Nor
wegian government.
1t raised stockholders for the bank
just as it raised soldiers for its armies.
Every well to do citizen was compelled
to take SO much stock. He was always at
liberty to take more if he chose, but-al-
ways in amounts Invisible by five
Bookkeeping was made easy on a new
principle, in accordance with which
sums ending in other figures than five
and zero were to be excluded from the
books.
This national bank is also pawn
shop. 1t is authorized by law to lend
money on any nonperisilable goods, pro-
vided they can be deposited in the bank
and kept under lock and key For this
service it charges rather less than the
usual pawnbroker's interest, which
may perhaps account for the rarity OF
private pawnshops in Norway. In the
regular loan department the curious
rule is enforced that loans may not be
made for less than one month nor for
more than six and only for sums Of at
least S12O.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
Buffers ObStinacy.

An English journal tells story to
illustrate the obstinacy of Sir Redvers
Butler. During the last Nile campaign,
when descending through one of the
cataracts on board a river steamer, he
got into a discussion with Lord Charles
Beresford as to the proper channel that
should be taken. Each obstinately de-
Tended his own course, but in the end
that which Butler insisted upon Was
adopted, and the steamer got through
without accident. "You see I was
rightl' cried Sir Redvers. milne was
the proper channel.' 'That was mine,
too,' coolly replied Lord Charles. II
only recommended the other because
knew you would go against whatever
said.''
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
SLOWING AWAY.
A Foeihardy and Dangerous Method Of
Getting m Ocean Voyage.

Getting m Ocean Voyage.
In spite of the fact that the punish
! ment usually melted ont to those who
! try to steal q free passage on ship is
; several weeks hard labor, with the OPP
| tion of a fine, stowaways are even more
common today than they were 30 or 60
years ago.
Big passenger steamers, with their
hundreds Of passengers and their scores
innumerable opportunities for slowing
away.
Three years ago a stowaway was dis
| covered aboard one Of the Allan liners
running between Liverpool and Mont
real. He was stability dressed, but be-
ing big, sturdy looking fellow he was
put to work about the ship. When the
ship anchored below Montreal, waiting
for daylight before entering the harbor,
he, it is presumed, slipped quietly over.
board and swan ashoare. In any case,
when the boat touched at Montreal and
was overrun by detectives looking for a
notorious jewel robber, it was i'm
mediately suspected that the stowaway
was the robber and that he had escaped,
taking the jewels with him. He was
captured some months afterward and
confessed that when he swan ashore he
had more than SIC 1000 worth of jewels
on his person.
The favorite hiding places of stow
Always are the coal bunkers and the mar
row passages left when the vessels are
loaded with bricks, tiles, iron pipes or
other similar cargo These places are
extremely dangerous, and many cases
are recorded where the shifting of the
cargo has resulted in the death of some
unfortunate wretch in hiding.
During the passage of a cargo boat to
this country from England the sailors
were startled the third day out by a
curious scratching, which was imme-
diately attributed to supernatural causes.
The scratching continued for three
days and then grew quiet and ceased.
When the matches were lifted at the end
of the voyage, the emaciated body of
man was found lying on some bags of
cement. The poor starving fellow had
struggled frantically to get out Of the
hold.
AS for Our American liners, it is fol-
II to try slowing away in any Of them.
The United States will not receive pau
per immigrants, and captains are for
hidden to land stowaWays in this coun-
try under penalty of So, 800. A free
passenger" on one Of these ships is
promptly claDped in irons and kent
there until the ship returns to Liver
pool, when he is brought before the
authorities -Cincinnati Enquirer
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
TORTURED BY THE TONGUE
Some Men Who Read This Will Sym
pathize With Poor Junius.

"H'm!'' murmured Mr.. Junius from
his paper. "A man falls dead while
smoking his pipe, and"--
"Theren' cried Mrs. Junius, raising
her needle and voice with the same GEES
ture. Isn't that what I've always said
And yet you will go on, day after day,
with those horrid old cigars and Inc
shaving my life away doing up lace CUR
tains that mother gave US out Of the
very money she saved up with her own
hands keeping hens, and hard enough,
too, can tell you, with eggs only a
cent each the very moment hens began
laying as they ought to-, and I'd like to
know where you think you'll land,
Julius Junius, if you keep on smoking
your life away? Oh, but it is only q
step-and for PHYS sake I wish you d
fix that one to the front door before
some caller trips over it and breaks the
knob with her homeland you know
I've begged you Oh my Bonded knees tc
leave off before it's too late and not die
suddenly, like this man you're reading
about, with your life insurance run out,
ana bringing everlasting QlsSrace Oh
your wife's family. But what provolx-
ing creature you are, Julius Junius, tc
sit there grinning and refusing to say a
word, and you know want to hear the
rest of the particulars just as we'll as
you do
AS his wife stopped to coal up Mr..
junius laid down the paper.
'The man was SO years DID,: he sale
! softly. Somebody put a cartridge il
his pipe for a joke, and it went off anc
shot him..
And when Mr.. Junius came in from
| the evening club his wife was still flow
! ing on Observation-Disclosures,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE

Two Prominent Legal Names and Thei,
Origin In England.
The houses of York and Lancaster
began and ended with strife within {
decade, Napoleon and Wellington pur
sued mutual carnage for only a few
brief years, bat two belligerents, IA
nous in legal circles, SEEM to have beer
predestined for eternal combat and dis.
sensions.
They are John Doe and Richard Roe.
Twin brothers, creatures of the crea-
tive British legal mind, these two men
of mystery have puzzled the astute
minds Of judges and lawyers and have
caused juries to hang i'll the jury room
while attempting to pour oil on the
troubled waters Of litigation.
Under the reign Of Edward III, when
the patient and Flooding Saxon was
picking his way out Of feudal gloom, a
new form Of legal procedure was enact
ed by parliament for his relief.
John Bulls love Of dominion over
land is only equaled by his desire to
secure dominion over the high seas, and
in the past, as it is now true Of the
present, whenever he got hold, a
leasehold. copyhold Of any kind upon
spot Of earth, great or small, he
would cling to it as though the spot
was halloWed heirloom. To repossess
the Englishman Of his real estate
wrOngfully withheld from him writ
of ejectment was invented.
Hitherto his means of redress lay
through a writ Of right Or writ OF Ell.
try-writs wrapped in q cobweb of maze
and technicalities. This writ of eject
ment was the mother of John Doe and
Richard Roe. These sons, twin boys,
were to her as Punch and Judy are to
wandering mountebanks, and under the
name Of one she gathered all the COM
plants OF the plaintiff and under the
name Of the other all the defenses Of the
defendant, and thus two armies meet
in legal form, while hoodwinked justice.
n wig and gown, shakes the dicebox.
Slowly the power Of monarchy wan
ed and the power Of the people grew in
strength in old England The maternal
colonies left the maternal roof and set
up housekeeping, but both in England
and America these two brothers, John
Doe and Richard Roe, keep up the fam
lily quarrel with fratricidal intent. -
Atlanta Constitution.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
An Alphabetical Advertisement.

The following remarkable alphabet
ical ad. appeared in an issue of the Lon
don Times away back in 1912: etc
Widowers and Single Gentlemen-
Wanted, by lady, situation to super
intend the household and preside at
table. She is agreeable, becoming, care,
full, desirable, English, facetious, gen
erous, honest, Industrious, judicious,
keen, lively, merry, natty, obedient,
philosophic, quiet, rosy faced, sociab]e,
tasteful, useful, vivacious, womanish.
Xantippish, youthful, jealous, etc. -
St. Louis Republic
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
,AuF WIEDERSEHEM.

Say not aGoodby." The sounds have all re-
greet
cannot loose your hand with such word.
Our ways part here, and yet, 0 love, and yet
cannot leave you till my soul has heard
The charm to bring me to your side again
The dear 'sAuf wiedersehen."
Say not 'Adieu., = The word has hidden pain
Within its foreign accents sweet and clear
That haunts my heart with sad and hopeless
strain
And pleads with duty just to finger here.
Smile courage in my eyes, O Love. and then
Whisper ''Auf wiedersehen.'
Say not "Farewell.'' If thou would's st have it
so,
The word, like wan hand, waves apart.
] cannot leave, mein lleb!ing-wlu not 80
Until you whisper, lying Oh my heart,
The golden bridge between now and then.
The sweet 'ALi wiede-sehen.'
Grace DufHe-Boyla,l il American Jewess.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
The Wisdom of Experience.

Aunt Sabina-Berthy don't you have
none of these here firtatious young
fellers that propose as soon as they call
half dozen times. They ain't no kind
Of partners Or life.
Bertha-But some of them are yer!
nice, auntio.
Aunt Sabina-Never mind that, Ber-
thy. I've lived long enough to know
that the ho'lowest and windiest things
Is most liable to pop. Detroit Free
Press.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
COST OF FIRING BIG GUNS.
Some of the Practice Shootin. INDUCED
In Blows Away a Pile of Money.

In Blows Away a Pile of Money.
The days are long past when we Eng
lish sang in free and easy way:
Two jolly Frenchmen and one Portusee,
One jolly English1nan could lick them all three.
We are ready enough now to give our
possible adversaries all credit for pluck
and perhaps for technical skill, and yet,
as regards practice in the use of their
weapons, we still have them at an i'm
measurable disadvantage. This factor
is commonly omitted from newspaper
comparisons, but it would probably have
more weight than any other in deter
mining the issue of an actual struggle.
Two duelists may each have lion hearts
and each the best Damascus blades, but
if one has ten times more practice in the
art Of fencing than the other it is long
odds that he will win. So it is with our
navy. It has q far greater knowledge Of
ships, acquired by actual firing practice,
than any other power. And the reason
of this is precisely because such knowl-
edge is a very expensive thing to &C.
quire, and England is the only nation
that cares to afford it,
It is probable that where France,
the next naval power, spends mil
lion in sea cruising and gun firing, we
spend five. From every gun in our navy
having caliber Of 10 inches and under
there are fired each quarter eight rounds
of ammunition by way of practice and
from all guns heavier than 10 inch four
rounds a quarter, irrespective of the ad
ditional rounds used in the annual
'prize firing.' The heavy expenditure
involved in this item alone may be hint
ed at by observing that every full round
fred from a inch gun costs GIG, from
an inch gun $50, from 10 inch gun
!e129 and from the 16. 25 inch, or 10
ton gun, as much as $500. And these
figures are only small part of the
story, for the life Of very heavy gun
is not a long one, and though inch
gun can fire as many as 500 rounds, 70
or 80 full rounds are the limit of the
10 ton. After firing that amount they
will both require a new inner tube, a
costly matter enough. Chambers Jour-
nal
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
Literary Quacks.

Literature has her quacks no less than
medicine, ard they are divided into two
classes-those who have erudition with
out genius and those who have volubil.
ity without depth. We get secondhand
sense from the one and original non
sense from the other. Cotton.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
Working Days.

The average number Of working days
in year in various countries is as fol-
lows: In Russia, 267; in Britain, 27S:
in Spain, $685. in Austria, 295; in
Italy, 29S; in Bavaria and Belgium
800; in Saxony and France, 500; in
Denmark, Norway and Switzerland,
S03; III Prussia, sos; i'll Holland and
North America 30S, and in Hungary,
912
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
Chose the Less.

MIR. Wickwire-But, my dear, if you
discharge the girl without notice she
may make it cost US $40 or So. You
know there is an agreement about no
tice.
Mrs. Wickwire-Yes, and if I give
her a weeks notice she will manage tc
break $50 or $40 worth of china before
she goes. Indianapolis Journal
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09

THE Armenian era began Tues
day, July 9, A. D. 552, when the coun-
Gil Of the 4 "menians formally separat-
ed from the church of the Greeks, thus
definitely establishing a separate &c
clesiastical organization.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09

The fall of dead branches from a tree
is an excellent sign OF, an approaching
storm. The dead wood. much decayed,
absorbs moisture and loses it's tenacity.
thus causing the branch to fall
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
His Little Joke on Bargain Day.

His Little Joke on Bargain Day.
My husband played me mean trick
yesterday. !"
''What was it?''
He told me folding beds were sell
ing down town at 40 cents each. :
'sWell?''
when I got down there they were
hammocks. Chicago Record.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09

|all on Geo. Dayton and huy new
~ Singer Sewing Machinc-tl,e only
genuine Singer made. Do not be misled
by other dealers, rs there is only one
genuine Singer made and that took 81
wards at the Worlds Fair.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09

Spain has 4,13o, 900 women over the
age of 16.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-09
GsE-vvE CAN CUTE yGu:

NJ innsapuits, u nues0ta. . nc IS 81.
p 4. I .anden, Gear siS; IN answer 20 ) az! tte-
If inquiry Tonld say t;at have y5E lot regu-
;+riy i:.ce get ing It. l. REMAINDER lS, ained
of severe cr:;raDs left DIS, so that was
,te 60 i:;@ little work Ea, D. en- 30 Tor three
,non.:* t'nt II Q; 7seek's use OF Eonr ats was
y pleased .,a7e the cramps ccti e? 3sappe
i t; have not ,ut- r1.6 since at; lcs;t r that
! e:y rally = re- O them. Respectfully,
GEO Il. A1lIOND, sic Fillmore St.ees, 4. E.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-03-05

If we are to have cooperation
upon any line. it is due that the
Populists shall have at least the
committees opinion. subject, of
course to the convention when it
meets.
For as to keep IL mouths
shut as a party organization with
no head to utter a word Of en-
enlargement upon the subject
leaves our friends, the Populists,
uncertain. and others scheming
to trap the rank and file into
other than friendly relations
with us seems to me makes it
imperative that we should act
at the earliest date possible, and
give such encouragement as lies
in the province of a committee
to give.
/ am Of course aware of your
letter as chairman, and I want to
be frank and say that I think
some action would give greater
confidence in our intentions, if il
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-03-05
THE GRAVE.
Cuban officers Refuse to Discuss
the Question.

Washington, March 2.-There
is reluctance on part of the Off
GER of the departments this
morning to discuss the Cuban
situation which has assumed an
unexpected gravity since the ac-
ton Of the Senate. Inquiries for
information are referred only to
those who persisted in declining
to discuss publicly the grave di-
plomacy of the question. The
Spanish Minister DeLome also
refused to comment The de
partment Of state of the Spanish
legation here are feeling anxious
over yesterdays developments in
Spain that cannot be concealed
The relations of the two coun-
tries are under such a strain, that
it is feared that a slight addi-
tional pressure from either side
of the controversy would plunge
the two countries into war. This
is the only topic of discussion to-
day While it is impossible to
obtain the Presidents views, it
is understood that he is not in
sympathy with the action of the
Senate, and does not believe that
the time has yet arrived for the
United States to interfere in the
dispute between Spain and Cuba.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-03-05

No my stery about it. When the
Shakers offered some time ago to give
away a bottle of their nsge.live COR
dial to any n who might call at their
New YORK office, there was a great rush
and a great many people thought they
we're era zy.
Subsequent events prove it to have
been a very clever advertising transac-
tion, for although they gave away
thousands of bottles,it was in the en-
profitable; nearly every one that took
a free bottle came back for more and
paid for il with pleasure, saying they
had derived better results from its use
than from any other medicine they had
ever used.
There is nothing SO unifermly sue
! cessful in the treatment OF stomach
troubles as the shakec Digestive cor
diai, and what is better than all, it re
lieves at Qnce.
Laxol, the new form of Castor Oil t
Sc palatable that children lick the spool
! clean,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-03-05
PikeviIle Letter.

Pikeville, N. C. Mar. End 1896.
DEAR ARGUS:-Rev A. L. Ors
mond will preach at Mt. Carmel
next Sunpay at II o'clock a. m.
and at this place at 3 oc'clock p.
m.
Rey and Mrs. J. G.. johnson.
of Clinton, we're in town last
week on a visit to the latter's
parents Mr.. Mrs n. J. Smith.
Some of our boys and girls at
tended the closing exercises of
Nj. John i. Edgerston's school
near Pinkney. Friday night, and
they report having had a good
time.
Mr.. r. H. Hosea, who has been
visiting relatives and friends
near Farmerville, returned home
Tuesday.
Miss Carrie Ham. of your city
spent Sunday in town with her
cousins Misses Matte ond Sallie
Ham.
Mrs. A. S. Smith is visiting
relatives near Eureka.
Misses Lula Dees entertained
quite a goodly number Of their
young lady and gentlemen
friends at their pleasant home
near here Sunday night.
This fine weather reminds US
that the time is approaching for
y. M. H." to come out of his
winter quarters.
J.. F.. H.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-03-05
Commissioners Proceedings.
Wayne County, March


The Board met in regular ses>
sion, ali the members present.
Accounts were audited and al
lowed to the amount of sos. 25,
including $117.50 paid to outside
paupers, and $751; for school
purposes.
J. H. Hill was appointed Reg
istrar for the City of Goldshoro
in the May municipal election.
Sheriff Scott ordered to have a
ROAD laid out in Fork Township
from Mrs. B. D. Hooks planta
ton on Tarboro road to Smith
field road near Kennedy's cross
ing.
VIM. Newsome's bond as Con
stable of Saulston township was
read and approved. The follow
ing jurors we're drawn for April
term, beginning Monday, April
18th: Geo F Butts, L D Gulley,
n w Boyd, Jno Fl Thomas, J z
Cox, G Parker, J Overman.
j r Pearson, james Lewis, f Fl
Smith. w f Patrick, Walter E
Blackman. w FL Ivey,. j j Rob
erts, E III Davis, A HI Daily. D A
Grantham, II FL Coor, S N Smith,
j G Rose, w III Daniel, w w
Crawford, L Ell D Westbrook, G
B Miller, J G, Eason, r B South.
erland, N D Minshew. II B Par.
ker, r E Eirole, J B Davis, c
r Rand. D p Cox, M ] Best, M
FL Britt, w P Wrenn.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-03-05

was a coveted joy. A crushed
flower was almost a tragedy in
the garden of God. The white
petals of the lily, fallen and
trampied in the dust, was to her
the overthrow Of a gorgeous tenn
pie, before whose fragrant shrine
the spirits Of the garden had
swung their golden censers in ad,
Grafton of Him who had evolved
1T out of His own thought, and
reared it with His own hand-an
incarnation and expression OF
His own divine idea of beauty.
Such a wreck called only for
tears.
Beautiful, sensitive, loving
child, out of the loom Of life God
has gathered no fEer fabric with
which to fashion d human soul.
L saw her for the last time in
the summer OF 1894. The Ats
iantIc was throbbing at her. feet,
the setting SUI wove an oriole Of
glory about her brow, into her
eyes came the old far away look,
and on her face fell that straLge,
spiritual light of other years.
She gazed out over the restless
waves, listened and dreamed.
Did she hear the waves of an
other e breaking upon the
white sands Of another shore?-
the shore upon which her pill
grim feet were SO soon to stand,
to walk henceforth in the burn
ing path Of the cherubim. Some
day she will tell US.
AS | looked upon her face that
evening, [ was for a moment
startled by the change which
time had wrought. She was no
longer a child. but a woman; but
there was the same purity, the
same spiritual expression, the
same tenderness, the same won
drous love, and eXhaustless sym
pathy Of her beautiful childhood.
Time had wrought no change in
the fiber Of her spiritual being,
and to me she was still Maud,
Oily ttood, SuIlSlCSS, 1ONllS, u1-
selfish, trustful Maud.
In a few months she was led a
bride TO the altar and went forth
to enrich and sanctify the heart
and home Of him who had claimed
her for his queen, but alas. ere
the orange blossoms had faded
on her brow, a voice called to
her in the silence of the night
Watches She knew whence it
came, arose, entered the waiting
chariot Of her Lord, and went
up, lar away beyond the stars,
through the gates into the city
of God, leaving to mother, IA
Their, husband and friends, the
whole world, the infinite dowery
of an unseltsh life, which like
the rose gives forth it's fragrance
unto all, and dies at last amid it's
own perfume.
Farewell, pune, sweet, beauti-
ful spirit. The breath of the
eternal morning has kissed the
fever from your brow. You see
the King in His beauty, and Minis
ister before Him in the white
linen of the saints. We wait the
coming Of the chariot that bore
you home, Some'day we shall
meet again beyond 5he stars.
r. @. B.
Goldsooro, n. c.. March 3, 80.