Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-07-19

Some consider the silver queSt1On
in the academic class, and some con-
slider it a living, throbbing issue, and
both schools a consistently stand
on the..Kansas City platform.
Washington, July II. Admiral
Remy cables that he arrived Monday
at Chefoo with two batallions of the
Ninth InfAntry and a battalion of
and will proceed to Tien Tsin. The
| alliedforces at Tien Tsin are engaged
in maintaining their defences.
Pretoria, July 1.-The British
success at Bethlehem has consider
ably improved the prospects for
peace in the whole government. The
collapse of the force of Dewet is ex-
pected daily and when Botha learns
of the defeat of his colleagues. he
will gladly enter conferences looking
to the establishment of peace.
The crucial test of Havana's fit
ness for self-government will come
as soon as the new charter goes into
effect, which will be Immediately af-
ter publication this week. This char
ter gives the mayor and council full
power to grant franchises and 10
cessions and neither the central nor
the provincial government may in
~tervene.
The drowning season has opened
about as usual. with expert swim
mers overcome. in the breakers, with
yachts capsizing on the lakes, with
boating parties crrried over the
dams, and all the customary forms
of summer ACCIDENTS. We read of
these things every year and point
out how easily they could have been
avoided, and the next year. or the
next day. the same story is repeat
ed.
! Comptroller Coler, of New York,
who has already defied Tammany in
the method of conducting his Office,
now declares that IN the new fight
which seems to have arisen between
Hill and Croker he will be actively
, and earnestly with the former. Nj.
: Coler says Mr.. Hill was never so
He greatly admires the former Sena-
tor and will follow his lead in the
campaign
7 Washington, July II The Chi
nese minister brought to the State
, Department this morning a cable
gram received from the Chinese I'm
Z perial government believed to have
g originated in the Chinese war de-
t department. Il disclaimed the re-
sponsibility of the imperial govern
ment for the Boxer troubles and
asserted that the engagement at Tien
Tsin was the direct resalt of the
q bombardment of Taku forts by the
foreigners.
A temperance lecturer. recently
speaking in St. Louis on the topics
"Why I Am a Total Abstainer," a:
an illustration of the growing habit
of drink in that city, mentioned thai
the head of a large factory had told
4 him 1T was not for som.
of his employees to bring bottles o
whisky hidden in their stockings tx
work with them. Of curse one in
70 ference to be drawn from such
~ statement is that whisky in tn
81 stockings is merely an undevelopet
10 stage of snakes in the boots.
It
! Manila reports that sthe insur
: gents are slowly accepting the am
o, nesty proclamation" In Luzon, tn
dispatch relates, zone hundred an,
s. sixty Filipinos were killed durin
the week" In the Antigua PROVING
of Panay "a running fight resulted
in the killing or wounding of seven
or ty of the enemy" This does no
IN seem so slow; but when 1T is remen
bered that the Filipinos are yer
numerous and that killing them
apparently the only way of persuao
It. ing them to accept amnesty, tie us
ay of this term is explained. The onl
n. pacifed Tagalos are the dead.
A late inquiry into the subject
It why women live longer than men o
10 fers a number of reasons not usual
=, taken into consideration when thi
matter is weighed. Among them al
let the less unhealthy occupations fo
i'm lowed by woman; her greater p
lie. tience in trouble o pain, and tt
chief work of her life, that of ii
household, being as a rule in lii
'es with her likes and desires. Strans
OF to say. that sometimes limited caus
Ill. for the sex's greater length of day
oil her needing more time to see til,
her hat is on straight and to 81
goodbye, is not oven mentioned.
re-
nd The position which our Secreta1
~ of State, Mr.. Hay, has taken t
a'e wards the Chinese imbroglio is II
n correct one, and it was wise in hi
lily to notify the other Powers of tt
ok world of that position. He has ha
~ PLY phrased our position in the ci
'io cular he has sent to the other Pow
Lrl, ers in saying 1--WE adhere to II