Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-07-19
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in the head, the British continue to
have trouble with the Mex.
Imperialism may shoot the Con-
stitution full of holes, but they don't
Jet the President out all the same.
George j. Gould is now being
talked of for candidate for Congress
in the Second New Jersey district on
the Republican ticket. Mr.. Gardi-
ner, the present Representative of
the Second district, wants to run for
Governor.
Hector Malot, the French author,
begins the action in of his novels
in New York, where he represents
his hero as sitting on the shore of
the East river and gazing at the
majestic palisades on Staten Is
land,
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff,
of New York, who is at the Cecil,
London, with his wife. has discover
ed that fancy waistcoats are out of
season in m in England, SO he
keeps a trunkful of these articles
that he took over locked up and
slowed away in the luggage room.
Sarah Grand. in a lecture in Lon
don the other day, suggested that
the Beers and Britons now fighting
the South African war be required
to lay down their arms and use their
fists. This is not 8 bad Idea, but
what would the manufacturers of
guns and ammunition and TIER
thousands of employees do for a liv-
ing?
The volatile Parisians, whose chief
Joy in life consists, apparently, in
OVERRIDING everything, have already
tired of Sousa's music. A little while
ago they were going into transports
about it and writing and reading all
sorts of stuff concerning it's merits.
Now they turn from it with scoffing
and describe it as the ''savagely bois-
ferrous tunes of the far West"
Miss Fern Atwood was arrested
in Omaha the other day for kissing
a man "willfully and without his
consent having been first obtained
The kissee was Captain Her, whom
Miss Atwood met on the street. Be
fore he knew what was happening
she had seized him and kissed hin
six times on the lips. Worst of all
it was the ungallant captain himself
who caused the lady's arrest.
Lord Roberts health is said to b.
breaking, and if it give way in time
it may save him from proving agar
the truth of the old saying tina
South Africa is the grave of militar.
regulations. There is serious fric
ton now between the commander
in-chief and Lord Kitchener; tn
transport and supply service ha
failed again and in the expecte'
wrangle over placing the responsible
ity both soldiers are likely to SUITE
a dimming of their present glory.
Lord Roberts has been offere
91OO, 900, or $500, 600, by a Londo
publisher for a history of the Sout
African war, and although the COY
eminent had arranged other and al
sorbing work for the warrior. it
believed be may accept the offer. ]
he waits. however, until the war
over it may be some time craze fC
this sort of literature that a numbe
of stories by Baden-Powell whic
were published in the Babminto
Magazine, T to be republishe
with the defender of Mafeking"
the author"
After an interview of three hou
and forty minutes with the custom
officers J. J. Van Allen, returni1
from Europe, succeeded in landi1
himself and party on terra frma
New York last Saturday. His par
consisted of himself and two daugI
ers, their two maids and his tv
Wallets, and exclusive of the proper
of the four servitors, the bagga
consisted of fifty trunks, fourte'
valises, two hat boxes, three bundl
of merchandise bound up by stral
a bunch of bed Stats, a tin bathtu
a bicycle, a demijohn and a steam
chair. Because he forgot to menti
in his declaration thirty costumes
his daughters Mr.. Van Allen had