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

JQ0 dill 01I00G Crisis Wlen she MADE
New York her base of Operations.
Aguinaldo is unquestionably as
stubborn as a MULE If otherwise why
does he SO persistently take to his
heels?
Alexander the Great died at 80,
Hannibal was most successful at 81,
Caesar won Pharsalia at 48, NapOl-
con at the highth of his power was
40. Because of intense exhaustion at
Ligny, as claimed, he lost the battle
of Waterloo, which Wellington won
at the age OF 46. Washington was
Commandment ln-Chief at 43, and
Grant was 43, at the the surrender
Of Lee at Appomattox.
Gen. Gatacre, a day or two be-
fore embarking, remarked to military
friends that our forces were not by
any means going to an easy task in
South Africa. 1T was no child's play
in the Soudan," said he, "but it will
be stern work against the Beers,
and L can tell you that I don't ex-
pect to be present at an unbroken
succession of victories. We shall
win eventually by sheer perse-
verance."
The official report of the defeat of
Gen. Butler at Tugela River, sent
by the Boer General in command,
shows very clearly that the cause Of
the British disaster was a hopeless
attempt to assault protected posi-
tons Of the defense. The British
troops were led again and again to
certain slaughter and finally we're
compelled to retire without having
accomplished anything except to
demonstrate anew tn terrible waste
~fulness of such an enterprise.
There are forty to fifty earth
quakes a year in this country, most
of which do no damage; and seismo-
graphs record many earth tremors
that can be detected only by the
delicate instruments invented to
record them. On the whole we have
very little unpleasant excitement due
to earthquakes, though the effects
of occasional great shocks like those
at Charleston in 1886 and the New
Madrid region of the Mississippi
valley in 1881 are felt over wide
! areas.
There seems to be a field for the
application of practical and effective
sanitary measures in Manila. While
there is a wide difference in the esti-
mates of the population of hat city
the total number of deaths, not in
Guiding those in the United States
army, for a year since, the city fell
under American rule, is placed at
1890. If the population is 24O,O 900
this would be a death rate of fifty
eight to the thousand, and if the
population is 100000, the death
rate would still be thirty-nine to the
thousand.
It having been announced that
Mrs. George Dewey would hold her
first public reception New Years
Day at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Washington Mclean, rather than at
the residence presented to the Ad-
miral, no one need be surprised that
| the critics who objected to the trans
fer of the house are now objecting
to this arrangement. The only sur
prising thing about the matter is
that the Admiral should have deem
ed it necessary to explain that the
reception is rendered byMrs. Dewey's
mother and that he and his wife will
be guests.
Chinese Hipbinders are supposed
to be responsible for an explosion
under a Methodist mission church
in Victoria, B c., last Tuesday
while services were n progress. The
seventy odd people who were in the
building escaped without injury, but
the structure was wrecked. The pas
tor of the mission, the Rev. Mr..
Gardner, married a Chinese woman
and learned from his wife's relatives
many of the Hipbinders' secrets.
They r consequently incensed at
Mr.. Gardner and at several women
workers OF the mission who have
rescued Chinese girls from slavery.
The Charleston News and Courier
is at a loss to understand how Chair
man Jones can see any very bright
prospect for the national Democ-
racy in 1900, with free silver as the
issue and the Bryan-Jones-Altgeld
contingent in the lead. And it adds:
The pity of it is there is no way we
can think Of by which the party
management can be taken out of the
hands of the wreckers. The
brains, the money and the po-
%litical integrity Of the party have all
been sent TO the rear, The National
Democratic organization is Popu-
listic to the core. The only possible
chance of it's success in the the next
Presidential struggle is in the reor-
g~anization of the party upon Demo
cratic lines, and the management Of
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