Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-25

phlns, emblematlc OF the sea, and
between etchlngs commemorating
the achievements of the young sailor.
st the request of Mr.. Hobson the
names of his crew were engraved
with his on the cup.
Professor Thatcher, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, admits that he
uses slang in teaching, and defends
his practice by saying that he uses
only up-to-date expressions Il have
a class of ninety two freshmen"
says he, land I could not get up and
teach them dead historyin addison
iap language They would all go to
sleep. I use live talk, and [ find
slang very expressive. I am not the
only professor here who uses it.
Slang, if not vulgar, is usually the
most clear and concise way of ex-
pressing ones self"
A well known young man Of Au-
gusta, Ga, discovered on the eve Of
marriage that his betrothed was
bald d-headed, and so refused to make
her his wife. With the license in his
pocket he called on his fiance. He
caught sight of her hurriedly re-
treating to another room, and made
the discovery that she was nearly
bald. The more he thought of it the
more the conviction grew upon him
that 11e could not be happy with
bald headed woman for a wife. Hav-
ing come to this conclusion he re-
turned to the lady's house and in
formed her mother OF his change of
mind.
The probabilities are that the COM
ing election will be repiete with sur
prises, and will be controlled very
largely, perhaps wholly, by the IN
dertow of political sentiment that
may sweep any or all of the debat-
able States into the Bryan ranks.
Taking the estimates of both the
national committees. the one lesson
TO be learned from them is that the
Democrats should make earnest and
united effort for the States of Mary
land, Delaware, New Jersey and
New York. They may elect Bryan
without the Empire State, but with
New York, they would give him an
overwhelming popular and electoral
majority.
The Anthracite coal miners have
won satisfying victory and they
have won it by deserving it. The
strike has been most creditably con
Quoted, but not even good general
ship would have availed to enforce
demands that were not just. The
miners had public sympathy on their
side, and they scrupulously abstain
ed from any action that would for
felt it. The justice of their cause, the
wise judgment Of their leaders and
their own good conduct thus COM
bined to command for them success.
We are glad that the strike in the
coal regions or Pennsylvania is set
tied, and we are glad that the miners
have secured an increase in wages.
We are glad also that the strike was
attended with so little of disorder.
Some small boy out in Ohio threw
a stone which hit Colonel Roosevelt
on the head during one of those tur.
moils which the registering New
Yorker loves so dearly to be in the
thick of, and afterwards in speaking
| about it the colonel said he had not
been injured at all. Theu he added
''Had I been feeling in low spirits
might have felt the pain from the
blow more than I did" Now how
can Roosevelt possibly know any
thing about this or even guess at it
He has never, for a moment, in al
his life been low spirited, and has
never been able to find the time tc
Investigate such womanish phe
nomenon in others. 1t takes a mar
of much finer feeling than Roosevelt
to feel low spirited, man who il
occasionally conscious, though ever
dimly, of his own limitations. VIII,
ever heard of a toy Jack. .in-the-bo7
being low spirited anyway?
| THAT JOYFUL FEELING
/ With the exhilarating sense of re
newed health and strength and interna