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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-04
OF DELAGOA BAY.

The truth of the story publish
ed by the Lokal Aneizer, of Ber-
lin, that England and Germany
have concluded a treaty with
Portugal whereby the two first
named nations will permanently
acquire Portuguese East Africa,
is denied by a semi official news
paper at the German capital. In
London, the st. James Gazette,
the official British paper, charac-
terizes it as "mere patch work of
previous reports, some partly
true and some entirely false"
thus indicating that there is a
grain of truth in the report. The
impression in London is that the
Portuguese possessions in Africa,
north and south of the Zambesi,
will perhaps be ultimately leased
to Great Britain and Germany,
respectively and separately, with
out any reference to each other.
An arrangement of this kind
would be of immense value to
England because it would secure
Delagoa Bay, on which is located
Lroenzo Marques, the nearest
port to the Transvaal, and in fact
the most important port on the
East coast of Africa. Delagoa
Bay contains a splendid land
locked harbor, and as a naval rem
devious is not equalled in that
part of the world and one which
England has long desired.
Germany already has possess
ions adjoining she northern part
of Portuguese East Africa and the
advantage which it would expect
to derive from the securing of the
adjacent Portuguese territory would
be Of q commercial rather than
strategic character, but it would
also get the port of Mozambique.
The Berlin story as a whole, is
discredited chiefly because such an
arrangement would disturb the
balance of power IN Africa and
would almost certainly lead to
complications. Besides the inter-
ests of Germany and England
have been so conflicting and rival~
ny between them in the matter of
colonization so keen that it is al
most unreasonable to suppose that
either would care TO enter into
anything like a partnership ar
rangement with the other. The
basis for the report probably lies
In the repeated efforts of England
Ia the past to possess itself of
d lago Bay whenever it is rec
CURED for military purposes.
These cfolts have doubtless been
renewed because of the Transvaal
war, England standing in need Of
tie bay at this time. They may
yet be successful. If England
makes the Transvaal one of it's
e., lonles 1T will doubtless be wills
lug TO pay a handsome price for
Delagoa Bay because it will ind
it Il & :ly necessary in It's business.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-04
Redec ions of O Bachelor

New York Press.
The day before d woman goes
10 stay ali night with another
wnman she scratches out the
punDer on her shoes.
A woman begins to enjoy her
Christmas presents about New
Years. She spends the time in
between wondering what they
cost.
A woman''s mouth, when il is
IN repose, shows her character:
when 1t isn's it is generally show
{, n some other woman's.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-04
Butter and Coffee !

are both higher, yet we can
give you butter at rs, 80 and
35 cts. per pound. Our Frank
lin Creamery is the finest that
money can buy.
# you have never tried Our
Blend Coffee, you SHOULD do
so and see what really fine
coffee is. It has strength and
flavor that we have never
found in any other coffee, and
We do not remember to have
lost a customer who had used
it a short while. Doesn't that
mean something we think so.
Respectfully yours,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-04

5 me meD are SO peculiarly
neat that they dust their DO s
with their pockets handkerchief
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-04
were the only n in
town who carried a
complete stock.

We replied that if she would
keep that fact in mind, it
might save her lots of looking
around in the future. Yes,
she said, but she was in a big
hurry that morning and she
thought in this instance she
would buy at the first place
she found what she wanted.
This lady lives in the eastern
part of the city, but finds that
she has to come to the extreme
west to get what she wants.
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
PORTO RiCO'S GOVERNOR
From the New York Herald

From the New York Herald
 Charles H. Allen, who has accepted the presidents tender of the office of governor of Porto Rico, was born in Lowell, Mass, in 1S4S, and graduated at Amherst He has had in addition to his business experience a great deal of legislative training. First a member of the Lowell school board he entered the lower house of the Massa- chusetts legislature in 1SS-, went into the state senate in 1885, and then became a member of the national house of represen- tatives He served through the Forty ninth and Fiftieth congresses and declined a renomination.
 At the close of his congressional career MT. Allen resume active control of his i'm portant business interests, and, although he became assistant secretary of the navy May 9, 1898, succeeding Theodore Roose- welt, he maintained his business connec- tions, notwithstanding the volume of inn portant duties that fell to his share in the Spanish-American war. At present he is the head of a firm manufacturing wood preservative, president of one bank, di- rector in another and largely interested in the manufacture of paper.
 Great interest is felt in naval circles in the personality of MT. Aliens successor as assistant secretary of the navy. His administratfop of the vast details of the navy department has been extremely popu- lar, and it was fully expected that should Secretary Long decline to continue through another administration in the of- flee of secretary of the navy, in the event of McKinley's reelection. MT Allen gould succeed to that important post.
 It is said, however. that his assignment to the governorship of Porto Rico does not completely remove him from the field IS a secretary of the navy in the future, for the most that is expected of him now is that he shall inaugurate and put on a sound business basis the new government in Porto Rico. He vii return to the United States when that important work is &C., compliShed.
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
Ion. Iohn ". TomIinson.

In total vote of 140Oo Hon. John w. Tomlinson fails to carry his home county by only a few hundred. This tribute to MT. Tomlinson's worth as citizen and his courage and ability as man is noble in it's significance. Young in years, and never before in politics except to serve his friends and promote the principles which he unselfshly and resolutely espoused' he receives the ardent and practical support of a multitude of his fellow-citzens for the highest honor at their disposal Higher commendation very few men receive at any period of life in any country. The people have rallied around him as they might about a cherished veteran and trusted hero; and the honor they have shown him would fill the measure of most mems ann bitions Nor has the public confidence in MT. Tomlinson been in any degree mis- placed. He is pre-eminently worthy. By his ability he has made himself national figure by his loyalty and devotion to friends and to duty he has achieved an en- yiable place in public esteem and affection.
 MT. Tomlinson is young, able, aggressive. Half of life is before him, and that he will devote it to worthy purposes and bear him self worthily none shall feel any sense of doubt He was strong before the primary election, is strong still, and will remain strong through the years that are to come In him the people have confidence, and when the opportunity affords in future he will be rewarded.
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
General Sheliey'S Victory.

The counting of the votes in Jefferson county has finally been practically finished. General Charles M. Shelley carries the county over his opponent, MT. John w. Tomlinson, by a safe majority. While MT. Tomlinson made splendid race which evi- denced the confidence and respect the great masses of the people have in his ability and worth, General Shelley has longer been be- fore the people in a public way and has always held their thorough esteem Indeed, General Shelley Is one of the foremost of Alabamians, and fully deserves the con- fsdence reposed in him by the people of Alabama.
 General Shelley will go before the state convention with the solid delegation of sev- eral other counties in the state to second his nomination by the Jefferson delegation. Unless some other candidate should go into the convention with enough votes to nomi- nate on the first ballot, General Sheleys chances of being made governor equal those of any other candidate. No man in the contest would make a better governor and none more deserve such a reward for long and able service to his party and his peo- ple,
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlAsAma
Amendments of Primary Law.

Solicitor Charles ". Ferguson has pre- nared and will offer resolution in the county convention asking for several need ful changes in the primary election law. The primary law was intended as starter; no one considered it at the time of its pass age as a comprehensive measure, or per feet bill, or even as a very helpful means to an expression of the popular will It was intended as basis for a better meas- ure. It was to be bill that could be built fled as experience and the plain demands of the voters should require
 MT Ferguson thinks the time has come to incorporate in the law provisions against acts in defeat of the popular will, and he names goodly lot of them, and every one of them is needed. There Is no one who better knows the imperfections and short comings of the law. there is no one who Is better qualified to fill out and fill up the primary law to the point of making it an effective and valuable statute.
 The primary system has come to stay nothing is plainer than that. When in a single county nearly 14,O0O men participate under the primary system in the election of candidates, it is certain that the primary system will never give place to a system that limited the selection of the partys choice to less than one thousand men sometimes to a single boss. There can be TO boss under the primary system It would be too expensive, too difficult, too popu- lar. No sane man believes the primary system will ever be abolished It should therefore be broadened and brought as near perfection as human weakness can bring it. MT. Ferguson is on the right trail He wants better law, and every other good citizen should support him in his ef- forts to better it.
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
Senators by Direct Vote.

By vote of 240 to 15 the house has adopted resolution for submitting a con stitutional proposition in favor of the direct selection of senators by the people; but it is mere piece of wind work It will be pigeon-holed in the senate, as for ner resolutions have been. This is well understood. No one in congress is de- ceived thereat. The senate as at present constituted desires clique selection, and it will not listen to the demands of the people, and the people have not political sense enough to elect senators pledged to popular selection.
 But constitutional selection is not needful- A constitutional amendment was not needed when the absurd electoral col lege scheme was changed into mere for president and vice-president If the state convention orders direct popular vote to be taken in 1902 for an United States sena- tor to fill the seat now worthily held by General Pettus, and declares that who- ever receives a plurality of votes shall be considered the sole candidate of the demo- cratic party, all will have been accom- plished that a constitutional amendment could accomplish. No democratic legisla- tor would violate the expressed will of the democracy any more than a democratic elector would violate the will of the peo- pie of the state as to the presidency or vice-presdency
 The state convention can provide for genuine thorough-going and satisfactory popular selection of a senator in 1902 if it so desires. The want of a constitutional amendment does not at all stand in the way. The senate itself and the cliques and the inside circles can be pushed aside, and the people can hereafter select their United States senators. It rests with the state convention to decide.
The age-herald., 1900-04-18

action is step in political progress that Alabama would welcome, and the state convention representing the democracy of the state. is the body that should pave the way to it. Local action seems very just. but it really is not in state issues and state elections. Uniformity on the best lines is real progress in state ques- tions If a county outside of legislative selections desires clique rule, perhaps it should be permitted to go on until it gets enough, but in state subjects all are in- terested and all therefore have a right to say how a county shall act. The state eonyention's power in this respect cannot be seriously questioned.
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
Population Futures in Jefferson.

Saturdays democratic primary election ferson countys population has almost doubled since the census of 1890. The to- tal vote in the primary approximate ly 14000. It is usual to estimate the vote in a general election at one in every five of the total population, but that is very high estimate and will not hold good in any state. The nearest approach to that ratio was in Indiana in the presidential election of 1892 when the ratio was about one in every five and a half of the total population. In Alabama at the same cleo ton the ratio was about one in ten But passing the estimate on the ratio of one in five, the white population of Jefferson county represented by the democratic vote of last Saturday is approximately 10000. The negroes and the anti-democratic vote of the county represent about two-ffths of the total population, or about 46OOO, which, added to 10000, makes the total population approximately 116,OOO.
 But on the safer estimate of one vote to every seven of population, which is nearer correct than the estimate of one in five, the white population represented by Saturdays vote is about 9S0oO. Two-fifths, which represents the negro and anti-dem- cratic population, is 65, 900, which, added to 9S,00o, makes the total of Jefferson county's population approximately 163,0OO.
 The census of 1890 gave Jefferson county a population of SS,501. Multiply this by two and it gives IT 7,0O2, or 14 900 more than the estimate of 16S,0OO
 It is very probable that the census to be taken in June will show a greater popu- lation for the county than the estimated 1es, ,0oO.
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
State Primary Desirable.

If the state convention would direct the state committee to prepare in 1902 for di- rect votes in all counties on all state off, cers, and members of the legislature. and also for United States senator, it would put an end to much monkey work-much chicanery that angers the people, thus leading to party demoralization. The vot- ing of last Saturday was wonderful vim dication of primaries. Instead of action by inside circles, the people themselves 14,OOO men participated in the work of se- lecting the candidates of the democratic party. The primary, as all know, has come to stay, and if the state convention will adopt the South Carolina plan. Geor- gia has adopted it, or is about to adopt it. Under the South Carolina plan, direct voting is called for. and the vote is con- day. The people at each precinct express their choices for governor United States senator, and the vote is consolidated and the result Is accepted by all democrats in the state.
 Under the heggledy-peggledy county sys- tenn there is a woeful lack of uniformity, but plentiful supply of chicanery: The people are the safest rulers this country will ever know. The masses are honest, and the cliques as a rule dishonest, or at least very selfish. Uniformity in primary
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
TRUE TO HIS WIFE

From the Boston Herald.
 Senator Vests eulogy of the late Rich ard P. Bland contained a touching allus- ion to the circumstances that one of the reasons why MT. Bland was not nominated for preside in 1896. instead of MT. Bryan was the fact that his wife was Roman Catholic and was educating her children in that faith His answer to this charge is calculated to touch the heart of man. hood. "Yes," he said, my wife is Q Ro- man Catholic and I am a Protestant, and shall live and die one; but my great regret is that I am not half such a Christian as the woman who bears my name and is the mother of my children"
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
BELMONT, MILAN AND DEWEY

From the Washington Star.
 The announcement that Perry Belmont dned with Admiral Dewey the other even- ing has attracted wide notice and has clinched in the public mind that belief that the New Yorker is figuring on using the admiral a means of side-tracking Bry- an But it is not the real meat of the sit- uation, the fact that it was at the invita- tion of Admiral Dewey's brother-in-law, MT John R. Mclean, that this meeting occurred? Is there not more significance in revelation of MT. McLean's connec- ton with and interest in the Dewey boom than in a disclosure of MT. Belmont's in- terest in the admiral as a candidate? When the campaign was started, few days ago, the name of the brother-in-law was freely used in the unpublished gossip about the affair and he was accredited with having helped the boom along, if not with being it's chief engineer. Yet the re- lations of MT. Mclean to MT. Bryan, his widely declared allegiance to silver and his own well understood aspirations in connection with the presidency served to modify public comment along this line. When names were mentioned those of Mr. German, MT. Whitney and other gold democrats of the east were used But there was no confident pointing to the Ohio silverite.
 Now here is a formal dinner at which & newly-sprung presidential candidate and a prominent and influential New Yorker, delegate to his state convention, are specially brought together by MT. Mclean. It is impossible to disassociate the politi- cal from the social features of the occa- sion. It is equally impossible to avoid the conclusion that the encounter was plan ned for a purpose beyond the giving of pleasure to two men who desired to meet for purely personal reasons. How does this leave MT. Mclean? Can he remain true to both while fostering the candidacy of a man who has, so far as his utterances and his support thus far indicate, a decid- ed antipathy to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and who has spoken contemptuously of the clowns who are aspiring to the presidency?''
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
- A HINT TO SUItORS

From the New York World
 Good evening, MT. Manygirls," said the young man.
 "Evening!' responded MT. Manygirls gruffly. A pile of papers, evidently bills, lay scattered in front of him. Hence his gruffness. The young man smiled. Bills for your seven daughters spring clothes and bonnets, I presume?'' said he.
 Yes" replied the old man. But is it any of your business?"
 'It is. have come to ask you if 1 may not take one of those daughters off your hands. I-'
 The old man rose with a smile.
 Take one.' he exclaimed. Why, boy, you can move to Utah and take the whole seven!"
 The young man had caught him at the right time.
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
WASHINGTON WOMEN
 WORKING FOR CLARK

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Washington, April 15.-WomaE, that sometimes potent factor in Washing's7 politics, has entered the lists in behalf of MT. Clark of Montana It may be this new element in the determination of his case has played some part in inducing the Mon tana millionaire to stick"
 In the face of unanimous report from the committee it would appear to be hope less to resist But, as argued, cases ap- parently quite as hopeless have been worked to a successful conclusion. When Mir Clark sent the telegram to his son that he should return to Montana for win dication" he thought there was fair show for another democratic legislature. Now the prospect in that direction does not look at all bright. The surprising republican gains in the recent town elections put the probabilities for November rather on the republican side. So MT. Clark is inclined to reason that bird in hand, if he can hold on to it, is better
 He has plucked up courage also because of the advent on the field of battle of his fair allies. Women who are the wives of public men, with some rare exceptions, are quite as much of politicians as their hus- bands Very often they are more intense but their politics leans largely to the senti- mental and has much of the personal fla vor. Now, MT. Clark is liked by every one who comes in contact with him. The dem ocratc congressional ladies have taken much interest in his case.
 These ladies have been highly indignant over the recent outrageously partisan ac- ton of the house in turning out two demo- cratic members when the republican con testants had shadow of claim to the seat As the republicans in the house stand together, they think the democrats in the senate should do likewise Some of these ladies have jumped hard on the demo- cratic members of the committee on priv ileges and elections for joining in the re- port against MT. Clark. Their argument is "every one does it, and why should poor MT. Clark be singled out as a victim?'
 Last night at dinner table in the West End, where both sides of politics were well represented, handsome and bright woman said, with the most charming naivete: Suppose MT. Clark did buy his election, was not MT. McKinley's election bought?" She looked around triumphantly, waiting for an answer. No answer came. The re- publicans at the table smiled audibly and said nothing.
 Possibly the women may succeed in stiff fenng up some weak-kneed democrats in the senate should MT. Clark finally decide to make a fight, but there is mighty little prospect of their gaining any republican converts There is too big politics in it. a senator for nearly full term. It is said several republicans will vote to keep MT. Clark in, because of previous understand ing to that effect, and that his fortunes are bound up in some way with those of Mir Quay Nevertheless when the vote is taken it is the common belief that he will go
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
AT THE DOOR
Eugene Field.

Eugene Field.
 l thought myself indeed secure,
 So fast the door, so firm the lock; But, To. he toddling comes to lure
 My parent ear with timorous knock. My heart were stone could 1t withstand The sweetness of my baby's plea That timorous baby knocking and
 Please let me in, it's only me-" I threw aside the unfinished book, Regardless of it's tempting charms, And, opening wide the door, took
 My laughing darling in my arms. Who knocks but in Eternity
 like truant child shall wait The gloriesr of a life to be
 Beyond the Heavenly Fathers gate? And will that Heavenly father heed The truant's supplicating cry, As at the outer door I plead.
 Tis l, O Father! only ITs AsI
The age-herald., 1900-04-18
REFLECTIONs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 A mans heart is generally where his old shoes are.
 A man never accomplishes much till he has got something behind him to be ashamed of.
 A good many husbands get their only view of their wives new Easter bonnets while they are in the jackpot.
 The average woman thinks most about her soul and next about her husband, and which side to part her pompadour on.
 A woman can always get rid of a man by letting him see her kiss her dog, but when man wants to get rid of woman he has to let some other woman, see him kiss some other woman.
The age-herald., 1900-04-18

He is overworlzed, and is much in need ef rest and change of surroundings.
 M Cochran Armour of Chicago is at ths Morris.
 Hon. John B. Knox of Anniston was in Birmingham yesterday.
 F. M Billing, r. B. Fisk and James P. FerralI of Montgomery were in Birming ham yesterday.
 Arthur Leas and Mrs. Leas of Des Moines. Iowa. are at the Morris.