Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-04
value of which is estimated at $780,

If the suggestion now being urged
by some of the Puruvian newspapers
be adopted, that such Beers as are
left unslain and uncaptured be in
7ited to make their homes in Peru
on lands in the interior; and if the
Beers accept we may expect that
some of those South American rev.
olutions that are constantly occurr-
ing will in the future amount to
something.
Mr.. McKinley's apologize history
of the war in the Philippines failed
to present the military statistics of
the operations in this Imperial do
main and official figures are not very
freely communicated Mr.. Schurz,
however, appears to have compiled
some reports that are trustworthy,
and he foots up the number ofAmer-
lean soldiers killed, died of disease
and wounded in the hospitals at
over five thousand men.
] The statement of Mrs. Emma P.
Ewing, of cooking school fame, that
'fthe average American man is a
saint" may be taken with few
| grains of allowance, even when she
| explains that her belief is due to the
patient way in which the man &C
cepts badly cooked food The enthu-
siastic lady probably has the average
man with her when she says she
would have law forbidding mar
riage to any girl who does not know
how to keep house.
An old idea in connection with
rain producing has been given new
application in France in the wine
making district, where the frequent
storms are very destructive to the
grapes. a lot of cannon have been
distributed over the section of coun-
try with artillerymen to work them
at the expense of the government
When an undesirable cloud is seen
approaching the guns are fred on 6
certain plan of operations and thus
far have proved entirely effective in
breaking up the impending storm.
In this day of fierce democrac,
when universal education is running
all the domestic servants many peo
pie are employing Cinnamon, instead
of the Irish or Ethiopian. A China
man comes high but is cheapest il
, the long run. Any sort of China
! man costs dollar a day, but he vii
' be regular Pooh Bah of servant
] He is the cook, chambermaid, house
4 girl, washerwoman, scrub lady
waiter, dumb waiter, and bookkeep
er. He has no nerves and is Willing
to work at all times He belongs t.
no union, will not strike for highe
wages and is as regular as cloc
work.
g A great man lives, acts and dies
: having done many deeds, mad
+ some friends and many enemies
n He is well known in his time, S
a well known that no one takes tn
trouble to tell who and what he Il
It is taken for granted that ever
t one knows him. No one chronicle
: the fact that the sun rose and set o
certain day, and to less extent
= is true of these lesser suns A ma
: is not really dead, says ph1losophe
z until every living person who kne
q him has passed away. Then tt
s people left in the world suddenl
/ wake up to the fact that a great ma
has lived and died and little is know
" of his real thoughts, hopes an
,r fears. Such has been the case wit
v Washington, Cromwell. Burns an
r, others. Then the biographers g
W to work and each writes of the m
ir as they imagine him to be, and IL
n real man as God made him is nev,
te known, and posterity only know
n that this man wrote this, and th,
is one did that. while the things
- thought of doing and did not d
and the things he said but did n,
write, the real thoughts of the ms
of are lost forever.
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,ir Sciatica, Rheumatism, and other pal
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q tie of Whites BlackLiniment at III Il
= Drugstore for Is cents.