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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-06-17
LOVELIEST SPOT On EARTH
An Island in the South Atlantic
That is Entirely Isolated.
R11 ffoJo Go,,,.ior

Buffalo Courier.
Anybody who feels an inclina-
ton to lead really quiet life,
should emigrate to Tristan da
Cunha, an island, or, to be quite
accurate, three islands close to-
gether, in the South Atlantic, so
far away from anywhere that
really they are quite out of the
world. The group was discov-
cred and named by the Portu-
guese away back in the time when
Portugal was something more than
a name on the map, but now, OF
course, it belongs to England, hay
ing been appropriated by her in
1916 one day when she didn't t
happen to be busy grabbing stray
bits of land more valuable than
this one. For awhile some SOL
diers were kept there, because of
a vague suspicion that Tristan da
Cunha might be made the base of
operations in the interest of St.
Helena's terrible guest. After
Napoleon's death the whole garri-
son departed, except Corporal
and two companions, who had a
taste for solitude and asked to be
left behind. Slowly the popu.a-
ton grew, at first from wrecks
and afterward in the ordinary
way, and there are ninety-four
people on the island, divided into
sixteen families.
The colony is an abode of COM
plete peace and moderate hap>
piness. The people haYe no
money and no private property.
There are no doctors, lawyers or
clergymen on the island, and yet
health. safety, and piety pres
walls, and such few needs as the
soil does not supply are met by
trafficking with an occasional
whaler. Once a year an English
warship visits the island, distrib~
utlng few newspapers and lets
ters, and goes away again. The
only serious calamity that ever
overlook the islanders was,when,
during our civil war, the Shen-
andoah landed forty Federal
prisoners there and left them to
be fed or starved, as the inhabis
tants saw fit. The sudden de-
mand on their resources came
near destroying both hosts and
guests, but they managed to
struggle through the difficulty.
The islanders are good 20 ship
wrecked mariners, and the only
charge brought against them is
that they sell extremely tough
poultry to Captains calling there
for fresh provisions and try to
get as much cloth for old geese
as for young ones. Peter Green,
aged eighty eight, governs the
island, his claim to authority ap.
parently being based on the fact
that nobody is eighty-nine. His
only duty is to look wise, and he
performs it couscientiously and
we'll.
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Why take Jof1nson's
Chill and Fever Tonic !?
Because it cures the
most stubborn case o
Fever in ONE DAY.
Turkey May Yield.

Constantinople, June II (de
layed in ansmissioc) Since
yesterdays conference between
the Ambassadors of the powers
and Tewfik Pasha. the Turkish
Minister for Foreign Affairs, the
Ottoman officials have been more
conciliatory on the subject OF
Thessaly. and it is now believed
that Turkey will yield on that
point and agree to withdraw her
troops. This change Of front is
said to be due to counsels from
abroad.
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McKINLEY,S PROMISES.
Richmond Dispatch.

| President Mckinley, in his in
augural address. declared that
economy was demanded in every
branch of the government at all
times, especially In periods like
the present of depression in busi-
ness and distress among the people.
s'The severest economy, he added,
''must be observed in all public
expenditures, and extravaganza
stopped wherever it is found and
prevented wherever in the future
it may be developed. If the reve-
nues are to remain as now, the
only relief that can come must be
from decreased expenditures
Yet last week Mr.. Mckinley
signed the sundry civil-service
bill, appropriating $53,0OO;O0O
that his predecessor refused to
sign, for the reason, as he affirmed,
that it was inflated with jobs and
contemplated unnecessary expen-
ditures. And as has been said,
Mr.. Cleveland could justify him
self out of the mouth of the Repub-
lican chairman Of the Appropria-
tion Committee, who confessed
that the appropriations in the
bill were in his judgment in ex-
cess of the legitimate demands of
the public service.
The New York Evening Post,
in commenting on the Presidents
Inconsistency in respect of this
matter, notes that just three
months after delivering his inau-
gural ''the sternly economical
Executive quietly signed a spend
thrift, log-rolled bill, which his
predecessor killed, and which his
own party leaders and press have
denounced as indefensibly extrava-
CANT.
But what else could the Post
expect? In signing the bill in
question Mr.. Mckinley was only
keeping up his record for incon-
sistency. He has been no more
inconsistent on the issue of
economy than has been on the
financial issue, as some Of his past
utterances as to silver will show
AS far as we have been able to
discover, about the only thing
Mckinley has ever been consistent
in is high protection and loyalty
to the interests of the trusts and
the monopolies. In all things
else Mr.. Mckinley is entitled to
exalted rank among those
''That keep the word of promise
to our ear,
And break it to our hope
One of the most recent illus
trations of his propensity in the
direction indicated in the lines
quoted is found in the manner in
which he has been excepting SO
far the Administrations s pledge of
currency reform, as witness the
comments at home and abroad on
his international monetary COM
mission excursion farce. This
subterfuge to avoid keeping the
word of promise to our hope has
become an international joke.
Mr.. Mckinley now promises,
or rather those who profess to
speak by authority for him promise
on his behalf, that as soon as the
tariff is out of the way he will take
up the currency question by
recommending the appointment of
a commission to consider it. It
is earnestly to be hoped that this
promise will be kept, but Judging
the future by the past, we fear
that there is more talk than pu1-
pose in this last pledge. If the
commission, should it be appoint
ed, does not turn out another
subterfuge to delay action on the
currency question, we shall be
most agreeably disappointed.
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OI.D pEOPIE

regulate the bowels and kidneys will
and the true remedy in ElectrieBitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey nor other intoxi-
can't, but acts as tonic and alteratiye.
It acts mildly on the stomach and bow
els, adding strength and giving
tone to the organs, thereby aid
ing nature in the performance of the
functions. Electric Bitters is an ex-
|cellent appetizer and aids digestion
Old People find it just exactly what
they need. Price fifty cents and ST. Trial
bottle free at ]. H. Hi s. Sons drug
store.
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ANGER AND EGGS.
1t is Dangerous to Get Mad When
Eating this Article OF Food

l
st. Louis Republic.
sDid you know it was danger
Gus to eat eggs while you are ans
gry?'' was the strange question
asked by A E. Stewart, Bos-
tonese, who is St Nicholas
guest. ssDon't ask me for the
reason of it, for | can't give it,
but l do know from observation
that people have died ia terrible
agony after eating eggs while their
aroused. You needn't laugh, l
don't mean while the passions of
the eggs were aroused. ] mean
the temper of the victims linen
toned this to an eminent physi-
clan once and he scoffed at it.
That was no less than | expected
him to do. Physicians don't
know much that lies out of the
beaten paths of their science.
They don't even know how to
cure the grip. But take warning
from me and never cat eggs while
you are angry. Then you will
be on the safe side, no matter
what your doctor may tell you
about it.
"My attention was first called
to this strange fact by the>> tragic
and sudden death of a lacy ac-
quaintance in Boston several years
ago. [ accepted her husbands 5
invitation to dine with them. Just
as we were going in to dinner a
servant did something that caused
the lady to fly into terrible rage
She had been irritable from some
minor complaint for several days,
and her husband calmed her ruff
fled feelings sufficiently for the
dinner to be eaten in good temper.
[ noticed that she ate an unusually
large amount of soft scrambled
eggs. Fifteen minutes after we
left the dining room she was
corpse. She died in frightful
convulsions before the nearest
by physician reached the house.
The doctor was unable
to ascribe the cause. A few
months later L was visiting
brother in Connecticut and one OF
his sons died under similar cir
cumstances. Before breakfast one
morning the boy, who was about
Is years old, had fight with
neighbours boy. Before his anger
had subsidized my nephew was
called to breakfast. He ate four
soft-boiled eggs. Had I known
as much then as do now l would
have prevented 1t. In less than a
half hour after breakfast the boy
died with exactly the same symp-
toms that were present when my
friends wife died. This set me
to thinking about the mater,
1T wasn't long after this be
fore a Beacon Hill friendof mine
expired suddenly after a meal
The doctors, as usual, were
divided in opinion on the cause
of death. Some of them contend
ed that it was heart f4iIure,
whatever that is, and others are
still holding out that it was
apoplexy. Inquiry by me devel~
|oped the fact that my FRIEND
was very angry when he Sal
down at table and that he ate five
eggs. With these developments
I searched no further for the
cause CT his death. He was
angry, he ate eggs ard he died.
II these are not links in the chain
of cause and effect the human
intellect is incapable Of Logical
thinking"
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Fifty Years Ago.

This Is the way it was bound to look
When grandfather had his 'picter took"
These were the shadows cast before
The coming of Conjurer Daguerre
And his art; like girl in pinafore
Some day to bloom to goddess fair.
Men certainly were not as black, we know
As they pictured them, so years ago.
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TUFTS Liver Pills

IF Lieutenant Peary insists
upon making another dash to the
pole, he ought to be thoughtful
enough this time to send his re-
lief expedition ahead.
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Take JOHNSONS
CHILL 6 FEVER
TONIC.
Durrant Reprieyed. l..

Yosemite, Cal, June IL
Governor Badd to>day granted a
reprieve to Theodore Durrant
until July 9 and said he would
grant reprieves as often there's
after as the circums taaces of the
case may necessitate.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-06-17
EYervh0dY Saws So.

Cascarets Candy CathdrGic, the most
wonderful medical discovery of the
age, pleasant and refreshins to the
taste, act gently and positively on
kidneys, liver and bowels. cleansing
the entire system, dispel colds cure
headache, fever. habisnal constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try q
try box OF g. G. G. to-day; 10, 25, 80
cents. Sold and guaranteed to cure by
II druggists.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-06-17

Secretary Long has ordered the
trial by court martial of Com
mander D. w. Mullan, United
States Navy, on a charge of
drunkenness. Commander Null
Ian was in command of the Pen
sacola navy yard at the time the
charges were current and de-
manded a court of inquiry.
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so Years of Cures.
Need Not Die From HiccOughs.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
To the Editor of the Herald:-
In the Herald Of November 16
was an account of the death of a
man IN Trenton, N. j.. from
hiccoughs, It is not necessary
for persons to die from hiccoughs
if the following cure will be OBJ
served:-By pressing very hard
on the cords of the neck with
thumb and forefnger instant re-
lief will follow.
CHARLES F. HARRIS.
Brooklyn. Nov. %, 1896.
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The sugar schedule was
passed over in the Senate. tenn
porarily. but when it comes to
sugar stock, why that's another
Story.
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SCrofula

Is deep-seated blood disease which
all the mineral mixtures in the world
cannot cure. S.S.S. guaranteed bn,eL,
vegeta6ke } is real blood remedy for
blood diseases and has no equal.
Mrs. Y. T. Buck, of Delaney, Ark, had
Serofu1a for twenty-five years and most
OF the time was under the care of the
doctors who could not relieve her
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Ayers SarsaparilIa

began to make new men, Just
as the new pictures of men
began to be made. Thousands
Of people fronted the camera
with skins made clean from
blotch and blemish, because
they had purified the blood
with Ayers Sarsaparilla. It
is as powerful now as then.
It's record proves it. Others
initiate the remedy: they
can't initiate the record:
En Yo2rS 0f eurea
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specialist said he
could cure her, but
he filed her with
arsenic and potash
which almost ruined
her constitution. She
then took nearly
every so-ca11ed blood
medicine and drank
them by the wholesale,
but they did not reach
her trouble. Some
one advised her to try
S.S.S. and she very
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-06-17

The natural loss of hair, either by
disease or the age of the hair itseH,
may be replendished with a heavy
growth by HALLS Hair RaneWar
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Tammany proposes to make it
self rhyme with hsrmony for the
purpose of the Greater New York
elections.
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Ohio is aMaking to the fact
that the crime TO which lynch
law is usually applied ought to
be a capital offence,
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JUS TRY 10 c. box of Cascarets,
the finest liver and bowel regulator
made
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Cascarets stimulate liver kidney
aud bowels Never sicken, weakeno
grippe. 10
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PURELY LITERARY.
But of Varied Tenor, Selected BY the Ed
itor From Manifold Sources to Suit
Many Minds.

itor From Manifold Sources to Suit
Many Minds.
If I knew the box where the smiles
are kept,
No matter how large the key
Or strong the bolt, [ would try SO
hard
'Twould open, I know, for me.
Then over the land and the sea,
broadcast,
I'd scatter the smiles to play,
That the children's $ faces might hold
them fast
For many and many a day
If knew a box that was large
enough
To hold all the frowns I meet.
[ would like to gather them, every
one,
From nursery, school and street;
Then, folding and ho1ping, I'd pack
them in,
And, turning the monster key,
I'd hire a giant to drop the box
In the depths of the deepest, sea-
Boston Transcript.
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soon found that she had real blood
remedy at last. She says: "After TAX
ing one dozen bottles of S.S.S. I am
perfectly we'll, my skin is clear
and healthy and would not be in
my former condition for two thousand
dollars. Instead of drying up the poison
arsenic, S.S.S. drove the disease out
through the skin, and was perma-
nent1y rid of itn
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Jollnsosl's Chill and Ee=
YER Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of fever i'm
"a Hours.
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Did you ever read a sentence
containing more sound truth than
the following? 1t is very i'm
portant for the comfort of home
that harrassipg and depressin G
subjects of conversation should
be excluded. except when it is
absolutely necessary to talk
a>out them; and that habit
should be formed of talking
cheerfully and good humoredly
aud of refraining from what jars
en- other people, such as rude
aess, impatience and faultfind-
ing"
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At Georgetown, (Del., } yester-
day, Jas. M. Gordy was hanged
for the murder of his wife. He
died game, and protested his in
nocence to the last,
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A Real Blood Remedy.

S.S.S. never fails to cure Scrofu1a,
Eczema, Rheumatism Contagious Blood
Poison, or any disorder of the blood.
Do not rely upon simple tonic to cure
deep-seated blood disease, but take a
real blood remedy
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ssDead Stuck, kills Roac hes, ant
moths and bedbugs. Non-p oisonou
26c,
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He that is ungrateful has no
guilt but one; all other crimes
may pass for virtues in him.
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The bluebird and the blackbird and
the robin and the wren,
With the crocus, come to show us
that the year is born again.
All, the very air is laden with the
redolence of growth
And everywhere is love and life, fol
Springtime nurtures both.
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LOCAL BRIEFS

REV. r B John has returned
from Trenton, where he deliver
ed the address at the close of
Trenton Academy,
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fled above shah charged at discretion oi
the Mayor.
All license herein mentioned shall bc
non-tlansternhlc and for The said fiscal year
if not otherwise provided and no allowance
to he made for any part of said fiscal
wear. hut may le revoked ut any time by
the Mayor and council for cause SatiS-
factory to themselves.
SEC. Ii. Any person persons. company
firm on corporation embraced or mentioned
in any of the foregoing sections OF section
of this ordinance and required therein to
obtain Il license on toray for the perform
ing or calrying on their respective
business. OF for the transactions of the
seine. Nho shall fail. refuse or reglCct To
nav the license or amounts therein Sleci-
iied in advance. and each and every person
firm or corporation giving, showing, or
attempting To give or show amy OF the
performances. shows exhibitions with
out having received and paid for their
license to do -. and amy person or persons
firm or corporation violating amy lEut
or parts of this ordinance shall he subject
To and for alil required To pay Il fine of
not less than one dollar per day for ca, h
and every day 81 offended. az not more
than one hundred dollars per day. o. to
lt imprisoned and made To work on the
streets and public places of the town for
not more than forty days !nr each day
50 offended. and ut the The discretion of
! the Mayor or Town Council.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances
| conflicting with this ordnance is hereby
declared repealed
Done AMI ratified in council assembled
under the hand of the Mayor. and seal
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Consumption Can be
Cured.

Nothing conii he faircr, more phij:u
tir"plc or carry more JOY to the afflicted
Than The offer of Il. \. Slocum. NJ C.
of New York city.
Confident that he has discovered =,
reliable cure for cOnSumption ana
AL bronchial throat and lung diseases
general decline and weakness. loss of
il"HiI and all conditions of wasting. and
I" make It's great merits known, he will
send Tree, three bottles t0 any reader of
me iim"S Wl,o NAY be SulfcrnG.n
.\irCAdN this ''ncW scientific course Gn.,
medicine las permanently cured thol,.n,
sands oi apparently hopeless cases. ~,
Th" Doctor considers il his RELIGIONS =,
duty--a duty which hc owes to humanity !.
I" donate his iniallhlc cure.
lie has proved the dreaded cousumn-
l'"m io he Il durable disease bcyond nnv
doubt. and lias on file his in American n,j
European laboratories testimonials nj
experience from those benefited and
cured. i'll all parts of the world
Don't delay until il is too late Con
sumption uninterrupted, means speedy
and certain death. Address ~
>!ocum, NJ. c.. % Pine street Now
York. and when writing the doctor
give express and poStuilicc address and
p,caSc mention reading this article in
The Times.
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~@B ALE Y-
Furniture and Lumber Go.

The largest Of the kind in this part of the
State Occupies two store buildings with ten thousand
sqaure feet of floor with we'll equipped elevators for
handling the immense quantities of goods that pass through
our warerooms daily We bolt by mill "damsite" but
the hill side and whenever the snaps his
gun we always in the picture Our patrons sit in frames
on the front among fortunes favored Come and see
IT, L, BAILEY. General Manager
j. H. BARTLES, Secretary and Treasurer.
l.. N. RODGER, Manager Furniture Department.
I. j. SCOTT, Manager Lumber Department.
F. c. MILLING, Mgr. of Undertc king and Shop Work.