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RUMORS OF MANY BATTLES.
Censor ship Over the News Very
Strict and Movements of
English Troops Are
Kept Secret

Owing to the strict; censorship
maintained over the cable. news
from South Africa arrives slowly
from the seat of war. The centre
of interest in the war situation has
once more moved from the western
border to Natal.
The Transvaal Beers are ad-
yancing from the north on Glen
coe and Dundee, the object being
seemingly 10 make simultaneous
attack from the northeast with the
Free State Beers, who are in the
Tintwas and Van Reenan's Passes.
Bridge-burning by the Beers
has grown alarmingly, and at
present Kimberley has virtually
been cut off from the outside
world. The town has not been
taken according to the latest adj
vices.
Rumors of bsttles amounting to
nothing more than skirmlshes
reach the outside world, and it is
believed that no serious clash has
taken place between the opposing
forces.
All the news from South Africa
received in London up ID mid
night indicates the continuance of
outpost skirmishing. No decisive
engagement is known. 1t is posi-
lively known that the dispatches
which have come by the way of
Cape Town for days past and
which allege that battles have oc-
Cured, with great loss of life re-
sulting, are fgments. The last of
these yarns is to the effect that
800 men are dead on the battle
field of M4fekipg.
BOERS LURED TO DEATH.
London, October 2O.-The
Dairy News Cape Town CORES
pendent says: 1T is rumored that
news has reached De AJAX juno
ton that the Beers attacked Maj
eking in force, but were repulsed.
The defenders, seeing the enemy
retreating, pursued them for some
distance. Then feint was made,
and they commenced to retire on
the town, allowing themselves to
be driven in by the Beers, who,
eager to retrieve their position,
again advanced to the attack and
were drawn over Lyddlte mines
laid for the defense of the town.
1t is reported that 1900 Beers
were killed be the explosions.
sit is reported from Delagoa
Bay that the Swazi King Bunu is
collecting his forces with the OBJ.
ject, presumably, of attacking the
Beers. It is stated that the Portu-
gese forces at Delagoa Bay will
be raised to war strength.
SIT is announced from Pretoria
that an eccentric person, known
as Baron Deginsberg, has been
court-martialed and shot as a spy.
Plans of the localforts were found
in his possession. -
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Take Laxative Bromo. QuininesTable
All druggists refund money II II f&ils
10 cure. Csc. Tie genuine has 4. 81:
9, on each table
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|.EOR. RENT l asnes, a asslTssls Wiah rsssr sssd.
and sewer equipment Good neigh
borhood. For particulars apply at
ARGUS Office.
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Marriage is said to be an equal partner
ship. But the kind of one-sided partner
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-10-26

halye his sorrows. +"
That's what is expected
of. a wife, and the WON
der of the world is that
she comes so closely to
expectation. For as a
rnfe from the time of
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AN EMPEROR'S DEATH.
He Drought 1t On by Rehearsina
His Own Funeral
Ceremony

Emperor Charles V. of Spain brought
about his death by rehearsing his own
funeral. For the last two years of his
life, after resigning the scepter of
Spain and the Netherlands to his son
Philip, in 1856, Charles retired to the
monastery of Yuste, in Estremadura
and there lived cloister life in close
intercourse with the monks, devoting
much time to religious exercises. Dur
ing this period, prompted, it may be, by
the example of Cardinal de la Marck.
who for several years before his death
in 1928 had annually rehearsed his OWL
obsequies. the emperor in the summer
of 1858 formed the resolution to cele.
brate his own funeral before he died.
The priests assured him-what the SUI
perstitious element in his character
readily inclined him to believe-that
the act would surely merit and win
Divine favor. Accordingly, on August
30 of that year the grim farce was
carried out with the most elaborate
ceremonial. The imperial domestics
marched with black tapers in their
hands, and the emperor, clad in sa bic
weeds, himself followed, wearing his
shroud. While the solemn mass for
the dead was being sung before the
high altar in the cathedral Charles
gave up his taper to the priest, typify-
ing thereby his resignation of life, and
was s'olemnly laid in his coffin. The
ceremony closed with sprinkling holy
water on his body; then, all the attend
ants retiring, the doors. were shut, and
Charles rose from his ma rfew bed and
withdrew to his private. apartment.
The damping of the grave cloths in
duced chill, which, aided no doubt
by the mental depression caused by
the grewsome ceremony, induced
fever which ended in his death three
weeks later, on the 2fst of September,
1588.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Louis hesitated an instant, and then
spelled it slowly and distinctly PRO

Louis hesitated an tant, and then
spelled it slowly and distinctly, pro
p-i-l,o-n.' 40 :.
''Next." said Miss Ware, little sadly.
Cyrusspelled the word correctly, and
Louis sat down with a frown on his
face, and a darker frown was on the
face of his father, who was in the room.
swell, boy; guess you have won the
prize fairly and squarely, and here it is.
I'm little sorry it had to go out of our
own district, but I said I'd give it to
the one that stood up longest, and I'll
keep my word" .-s-s - s<@ga.
''Thank you, sir" replied Cyrus as he
took the money. Then he turned to me
and said: ...'. 7..-..
'tCome, Ted; let's go home. There's
father over by the door. think he's
been to my Aunt Martha's, and stopped
for us to go home with him. Come on. -
He pushed his way through the
crowd, and I followed him. But when
we had reached the open door he
turned suddenly and walked over to
the little platform at one end of the
room. Selling the teachers little bell
on her desk he stood on chair and
rang the bell violently. All eyes were
fixed upon him, and those who had
left the house hurried in again. When
all was silent, Cyrus stood up boldly
and bravely, and his voice rang our
clearly and steadily, as he said:
II want to say something. I did not
tell the truth when I said I spelled the
word 'tessellate' with two Is. Ispelled
it with but one, although I knew as
soon as I had done so that I had made
mistake. But missed the word, and
this gold piece belongs to my cousin
Louis. I want him to come and get it,
and beg his pardon and yours for my
unfairness.''
The dead silence that followed this
manly confession of his fault was
broken by John Drake, Cy's uncle,
stepping on to the platform and taking
Cyrus by the hand, while he said:
"Good for you, Cy! I'm prouder of
you for this than I am of Louis for
winning the prize. You wouldn't be
my brothers son if you had kept what
didn't belong to you. We brakes have
our faults, but we're honest~people and
we tell the truth. I'm proud to have so
brave a nephew, and your father
ought to be proud to have so brave a
son."
II am, John,'' said Mark Drake, Cy's
father, stepping forward and holding
out his hand toward his brother.
For the first time in five years they
clasped hands. and the hands of every.
one in the room clapped approval of
this public reconciliation of the two
brothers. They rode home together.
with Cy and Louis and I ''snuggled up''
in the straw and robes in the bottom of
the sled behind them.
Old Jonas Keightly probably told the
truthswhen he said afterwards:
II guess I never invested 500 to bet,
ter advantage. "-Golden Days.
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A CAPTIVE OF THE MAHDL.
What Cuzzi Says of His imprisonment
of Fifteen Years in the
SOulan.

During my Is years. imprisonment 1
never saw mirror, and gradually all
interest in my personal appearance
faded completely away. When it be-
came sure that an expedition was on
it's way to Omdurman I began to live
again. When at last the cannon began
to thunder and the wild cries. of the
battle penetrated the city I laid my
sword ready, determined, should this
last hope be destroyed. to put an end
to my life. When finally the noise of
the cannon ceased and the victor,
Kitchener, stood before me, congratu-
lating me on my release. thought I
should suffocate with emotion. The
next day I made my toilet in an Off
GERS tent and held in my hand the first
looking-gla,ss l had seen for IS years. !
looked curiously at my reflection in it
and started back. ] had gone out into,
the world young, active, strong man,
and the image which now stared at me
was that Of a sick, hollow-eyed,
wrinkled, broken man Never did all.
that had suffered enter my mind with
such strength as at this moment, and
| wept-.wept. Ikea child --the first
('tears in 15;years! The day after I was
made prisoner I saw my wife die, but
my grief was too great for the relief
Of tears; my child was torn from me
| and died ofsstarvation far away, ana
could not weep; Isuffered:depriyations
and i'll treatment without q sign 81
weakness; but now, before this small
llo5king-glass Twas overwhelmed The
pain Of all that had lost seemed con.
centrated in the grief stricken features
reflected in the mirror Atone glance
l saw the story Of my sufferings.
Egyptian Courier.
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TaE STORY |! ! !, Tflle$
81
"WHEN ANT JERUSHY DIED.

Now, Ant Jerushy Higinboom was middlin'
we'll ter do,
And of all her near relations was bereft.
30 everybody wondered, when they heard
that she'd got through,
Where the money was a-goin' that she
left. ~
But, sakes alive! she hadn't more'n been
measured fer her shroud
When relatives sprung up from fur and
wide, -
On the cars and on the steamboat they KEEP
comm in a crowd,
And they got here soon as Ant Jerushy
died.
There was her granddaughter silas that had
jest got outer Jail,
There was Hubby Ann, her niece, from
Tennessee;
There was Cousin Job, the parson, and his
sister Abigail,
And her mas hat sisters husband,
Ezry B.;
There was Cap'n Isaac Goober, who lives
some'eres down in Maine
He's cousin on his wife Maria's side
He was goin' ter sail fer Chiny but. instead,
he took the train
Fer these diggin's, soon as Ant Jerushy
died
Well, the fun'ral was big one, and the woe
was deep and grand
When them relatives was weepin' Ger the
dead;
But, although they was heart-broken, they
was every one on hand
In the parlor when the will was bein'
read.
And there they sot and listened, like a pack
of sheepish fools,
And their tears most awful suddenly was
dried,
Fer they found she'd willed her fortune tew
the furrin mission schools,
So they all got left when Ant Jerushy
died.
If yer reckon that that fixed 'em, why, yer
jest don't know their sort
That was only the beginnin' of the mill,
Fer they each one got lawyer and they
rushed right inter court,
And they tried their best at Dustin up the
will.
So they fought it and appealed it, while the
years was slippin' past,
And twas heard and heard, and tried, and
tried and tried;
But the lawyers was the only ones that got
a cent at last,
OF the money left when Amt Jerushy
Joe Lincoln, in L. A. w. Bulletin.
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All Fair in Love.

Miss Beauti-I wonder if Mr.. Nice
fello is going to the reception?
Mr.. .Sharpfello "a rival of Mr.. Nice
fello)-U9-let me see-it's a full
dress affair, isn't it?
"Of course"
Eyes, of course How stupid of me!
If he goes he'll need his dress suit?''
Presumably"
''Then, Miss Beauti, I feel sure you
will meet him there. I saw him come
out Of a pawnbroker's this morning
with a bundle under his arm."-N. Y.
Weekly.
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sMITHERs' RETORT.
lady 1t the Private Family
Boarding House.

Mr.. Smithers is somewhat fastidious
young man who is looking for new board
ing place. Smithers can't abide the regula
ton boarding house, and always tries to live
with a private family. He is now convinced
that an "ad." which solicits boarders for a
mice private family" is often snare for a
stuttiy double fat, inhabited by one small
family and "a boarders.
Smithers called one day last week at a
place with glowing description just on the
flank OF Michigan avenues aristocracy.
Hum, suspiciously like boarding house, y
thought Smithers, as he took in the dimen-
slons. A collarless negro servant who
opened the door confirmed his suspicious,
but he had gone too far then to back out
A sharp-nosed, snippy landlady came in
with top-lofty air.
"Er-ah, believe am mistaken" he be.
gan. II supposed I should find a private
family. By the advertisement-hu-m-
The laughter and the familiar boarding
house hum of IA clerks and ten lady stem.
ographers came up from the dining-room
in~the basement. The mistress of the con.
proudly. You are entirely mistaken n sir. )
she asserted, in a rasping, seven-dollar.a.
week voice, "'this is not boarding house,
u.s."
Smithers shifted the air. There was dis.
tlnct odor of prunes and corned beef.
well, must say" he remarked, as he
turned up his coat collar and fled down the
steps, that it smells like boarding house
adam."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Not NeighbOrly.

II notice a GOODNESS between you and
Mrs. NeXdore. What is the trouble %
"She sent her little boy over yester-
day for stepladder we borrowed OF
her two years ago. The artful woman
let it stay here all that time so she
could send for it some day and make me
feel cheap Tribune.
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Friend-Hullo, old man! What's the
matter?
Gilded Youth-Just proposed to a
girl-been refused. Think I shall blow
my brains out.
Friend-Congrat ulate you, old chap.
Gilded Youth--What do you mean ?
Friend-Diln't know you had any
Punch.
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May Be So..

Tommy-Paw, what does the paper
mean by calling Nj. Bugghausan eight
by-ten Politician s.
Mr.. Figg- Il presume it means he is
not exactly square. - indianapolis
JOOTn0l. . 4 Z. =. EtEH =,
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feel that entirely cured work all day hardly
realize that such wonderful possible Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound is the
Don't wait until Frustrated mysterious
dition known "Change of Life" Get Mrs Pinkhams
vice and learn how other women got through
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One Surprise Too Many

Jack-If had known that you were
going to drop in so unexpectedly, we
should have had more elaborate din
ner: I'D ~.
j Fred (wrest lAg with tough pieceof
steak Don't mention it, old man; but
next time I'll be sure to let you know
Tit-Bits. T.,
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Quickly Traced.

Mr.. Blinkers-Who is that at the
door?
Mrs. Blinkens-I don't know. He is
dressed very well, but he smells-oh
horribly
Mr.. Enthusiastically been riding
in a smoking car-N. Y. Weekly.
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Her Inconsistency.


NO." said the Boston dame, as she glared
wildly, through her double refracting spec
tacles, Il will never lend my aid, nor en-
courage by my silence, the wanton slaugh-
ter of harmless birds. am bitterly opposed
to the killing Of these sprightly sparrows.
Yes, indeed. And have only the most
studied contempt for the selfish wretches-I
mention no names-who lend themselves to-,
or profit by, the cruel killing of birds in
any FORM"
A stided laugh ran around the hall. The
speaker paused and looked about her. Then
she turned to the woman chairman.
what arouses the laughter" she softly
inquired.
Il guess it's your hat" replied the chair
man.
my hail" gasped the orator, and sat
down with dull blush on her faded cheek.
For her hat was adorned with three
plumes, five feathers and large blue wing!
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Educational Item.

Near-Sighted Old Gentleman - Can
you tell me what inscription is on that
board over there?
Irish Rustic-Sure, Dim in the same
boat, SORT! It was moighty little
schoolin' Oh had when Oh was a bhoy
mesilf, sorr!-Tit-Bits.
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His Idea of the Artistic,

II understand that your friend is fit
ting up his room in strictly artistic
manner"
II guess it must be so,'' replied the
heavy young man. Every time I sit
on piece of furniture it goes to
pieces. "'-Washington Star.
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- :. 2
A Reelection;

When outraged Justice lifts her sword.
That wrongs may allrbe righted, r..
/ We find we're oft indicted by {,
The letters we'veaindited.
Brooklyn Fife = :. ss ~
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The Cause of 1t:

II noticed a decided GOODNESS be-.
tween you and Blanche last night"
Eyes; she sat on one side of her
cousin from Boston and / on the other"
Chicago Daily News. r
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He Likes Him No More.

Mrs. imsonbeak-You told me,
once, you liked that fellow Grosser, on
account of his grit.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Yes; but that was
before he took to selling sugar.-Yon.
kers Statesman.
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Both Sides.

We think him blind and stubborn, too,
Who cannot see things as we do;
While, maybe, the 'pig-headed cuss''
Thinks just the 'selfsame thing Of us.
Il, A. w. Bulletin
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One Too Many,

"My wife owns two hats, and so we
are always late to the theater.''
why is that?'
.she can't decide which to wear
Chicago Record.
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Made Her Suspicious.

Alice-What makes you think Mr..
Perkins means business?
;. Bertha-He just asked me why l
didn't attend cooking school.-Cri-
terion:
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write to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass, and get her adj
vice and be cured as I have
BEEN"
MRS. F. H. ALLEN, 4Io Ne
braska Ave-. Toledo, Ohio,
writes:
dear MRS. PINKHAM-
Change Of life was working On
me. My kidneys and bladder
were affected. I had been
confined to the house all SUM-
mer. not able to stand
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HIS Guess.

Ills Guess.
IF were man." she fiercely cried,
do you know what would dog"
you'd stop sometimes" the wretch replied
"And thus let me explain my side
With at least word or two"
Chicago Daily News.
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Wrongly Adjectived.

"She is SO lively and volatjle!" said
one of her admirers.
II positively must dissent" said one
who no longer admired, having become
passe, as it were. Anything volatile
quickly dries up."-Indianapois Jour-
nal
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\ LABAST1NE is the original
entirely different from all kali
somines. Ready for use in
white or twelve beautiful tints
- by adding cold water.
AIDES naturally prefer ALA
BASTINE for walls and CELL
ings, because 1t is pure, clean,
durable. Put up in dry pow
dered form, In f1ve-pOund pack
ages, with full directions.
IL kalsomines are cheap. tenn
\ porary preparations made from
whiting, chalks, clays, ETC.,
and stuck on walls with de-
caying animal glue. ALABAS-
- TINE is not a k2Isomine.
n EWARE Of the dealer who
says he can sell you the Same
thing" as ALABASTINE or
"something just as good" He
Is either not posted or is try
y ing to deceive you.
ND IN OFFERING something
he has bought cheap and tries
mands, he may not realize the
kalSOmine on your walls.
1 .ENSIBLE dealers will not buy
a lawsuit. Dealers risk one by
selling and consumers by using
infringement. Alabastine Co.
own right to make wall coat
Ing to mix with cold water.
HE INTERIOR WALLS Of
every schoolhouse should be
coated only with pure, durable
ALARASTINE. It safeguards
health. Hundreds Of tons are
used annually for this work.
N BUYING ALABASTINE, sec
that packages are properly la
beled. Beware of large four
- pound package light kalso-
mine, offered to customers rs
nvc-pound package.
= U1SANCE of wall paper IS oh.
Waited by ALABASTINE. It
can be used on plastered walls.
wood ceilings, brick or can
vas. A child can brush It on.
It does not rub or scale of.
ESTABLISHED IN favor. shun
all limitations. Ask paint dealer
or druggist for tint card. Write
for "Alabastine Era" free. to
ALABASTINE CO., Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
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A Half-Truth.

r "You don't agree with Shakespeare
that the child is the father of the
man."
''Not always She is sometimes the
mother of the woman" - Brooklyn
Life. , -.,- =
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On tie verge.

9 Il told her my.,soul. Twas wrapped up
in her" rs + O.;
What did she sayyI2' = ;s%'%
.=%:...she warned ME M be more careful
or, I'd be making love to her before
long. Philadelphia North American.
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on my feet for any
length of time. Terri
D1e pains when urinat-
ing and an itching that
nearly drove me wild.
l had tried many rene
dies. l told my hus-
band I had great faith
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nREPARE for the turn of life It is critical period
Asndcations of the change appear be your phys
cal condition is good. The experience is wonderful
and under circumstances full of Mrs Pink
ham, of Lynn Mass will give you her advice without charge
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Rand Proxreaa.

Miss Vera de Muir-WelL, here we are
In the conservatory; and I believe that
rosebush has scrat ched my cheek Will
you please look and see? ~ o,
how dare you!
Mr.. Fairleigh Trapt deeply peni-
tent)-Forgive. me, Miss Vera. I
couldn't help it. Let me see,
darling, if there isn't scratch on the
other cheek.-Chtcago Tribune.
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Placing the Responsibility.

II don't see why you aren't good
little girl" said her mother.
oh, now, don't blame me- she re-
Piled. Pm just as good as God made
me."-Chicago Post.
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Natural Born."-He-'I want you to
understand no woman ever made fool of
mel" e-"Indeed! Who did it, them"
-Yonkers Statesman,
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;WhatisyVaG His Crime

snodgrass Did you ever see John
Boyle Ql'Reilly !.
Swivel what had, % REILLY done
thatssJo chm fhbuld boil him Harlem
Llfe. Sc. - - Z.
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OverexertiOn.

Kind Lady-How did you become so
lame?
Tramp Overexertion, mum.
Lady-lndeed! In what way?
Tramp-Movin' on every time q per-
liceman tole me.-N. Y. Weekly.