Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-04
GENERAL News.

Switzerland is so confused over
the twentieth century problem that
oven the referendum cannot settle it.
Barbed wire as a battle appliance
has found It's way into Natal. Those
like it best who r not stuck on 1t.
At New Years some boast of the
leaves they r going to turn over
and some blow their own horns in
other ways.
A woman Deputy United States
Marshal has just been wor into
service ut Dalias-the first instance
of the kind i'll Texas.
Evidently the only way some peo-
pie can have any confidence in the
remunerative character of a business
Is to have d trust in it.
It's a mystery why boys will go on
q thin-lced pond; and unfortunately
tLelr way OF getting to the bottom
Ut 1t Is nOI satisfactory.
A bell sounding the curfew signal
to go home smacks as much of ring
rule as q newly married mans not
Icing allowed a latchkey.
Incidentally it may be said the
reason why many cannot carry out
their New Year resolutions is be-
cause they take too big a load.
Perhaps the original idea back of
the New Year mummurs wearing
such fantastic suits is it's being a
good time to put off old habits.
Those domestic cats being sent to
the Philippines are all right. The
thing is to see that as few wild. cat
schemes as possible are located there
Seats in the Senate cost even more
than seats in the New York stock
exchange, although the two are
sometimes in the same line of bust
ness.
England's greatest danger is in
India. 287.ooo.ooo people of that
vast peninsula are watching the
progress of events in South Africa
with the keenest interest. Every
man of them, outside the Office hold
ing class. dreams of the same 1nde-
pendence that the Beers r fight
ing to maintain.
The last year of the nineteenth
century opens with good promise for
the world in general and for our own
country in a marked degree. A ma
ton no more than an individual can
be assured against disaster, that
may come suddenly and unforeseen,
yet always that nation accompeishes
ward in prudence but not in fear
fulness, in confidence and hope.
One of the inevitable things in this
quarrelsome, land-grabbing world
seems to be a war between Japan
and Russia. The most competent OBJ
servers and students regard such a
war as something that must take
place soon or late; and beyond a
doubt both sides are getting ready
for it. Russia is building as rapidly
as she can her line of railroad
through Siberia to Port Arthur, and
Japan is building with all possible
speed more battleships and cruisers.
The Hon. Potato Pingree is using
a good deal of paper in writing mes
sages on equal taxation to the Mich
igan Legislature It seenns to be his
notion of equal taxation that the
railroads should pay $50 per cent.
more Of taxes than they now do
This is much more moderate than
could have been expected. The Gov
errors reforming zeal must be cool
ing. In it's height and heat he would
have insisted that the railroads
should pay all the taxes.
In the general expansion Of Che
American export trade, exports to
Russia have had at Least their share.
In 1898 American exports to Russia
amounted to $2.477, 414; in 1899. to
$1O,O29,7 1913. In machinery, especial
~ agricultural machinery the United
States is far ahead of her competit-
ors. The English Consuls in Russia
are fully aware Of the swift progress
of American trade there, They had
got into the habit of looking upon
Germany as the chief business fdKal
Of Great Britain But Uncle Samuel
has been adding to bis store lately
and he is sending goods out at a
rate that makes the old fogiss stare
and gasp
s me men are SO peculiarly
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