Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-12-06


and the Supreme Court will have be-
fore it shortly cases that it is be-
lieved will secure an expression of
it's opinion respecting these suffrage
laws.
The bill submitted by the admin
istration providing for the reorgan-
ization of the army is very remark
able bill. All the charges as to
great standing army are fulfilled in
it. and the President is besides
made Judge of it's size The Presi-
dent is given more power under this
bill than the Emperor of Germany
possesses or any other constitutional
sovereign. The Gear will, if this bill
become law, be the only ruler who
will have more power than President
Mckinley.
The government of Honduras has
finally paid the indemnity demanded
OF it by the United States for the
murder of Frank Pears. This con-
clusion is crafty ing, because for a
long time Honduras persisted in re-
fusing to acknowledge it's liability.
The recognition of the fact of it's IL
ability came rather suddenly about
month ago, and the draft of the
money soon followed. The payment,
it is hoped, will impress other ma
tions with the conviction that the
United States is prepared to protect
its citizens abroad; and if necessary
to exact punishment for their i'll
treatment.
Lord Kitchener has now taken up
Lord Roberts'task Of reporting the
battles with the Beers. It is expect
ed in England that Kitchener will
prosecute the war more relentlessly
than Roberts has done and will al
low no sentimental or other consid-
erations to interfere with an effect
i've s'pacifcation" of South Africa.
It is recalled how he pacifed the
Soudan by wiping out the Mahdi's
followers, and he appears to have
started out similar plan in the
Transvaal, the plan which the ear
ier Britons objected to in their in
vaders: STo carry away, to sieze, to
slaughter is their government, and
where they make solitude, they
cali it peace" And Englishmen pro-
fess surprise that the sympathy of
the world has turned so generously
to the Beers.
The most beautiful girl in the
world is dead. She was but sixteen
years old, and killed herself last
Sunday in New York. She was
model, the delight OF the sculptors.
the sorrow of her husband For she
had run away and married boy but
two years older than herself. He
could not support her as her father
had, so she became a model. The
artists raved over her, and she be-
| came SO famous that she soon was
earning more money than her huss
band. They had a quarrel and she
killed herself. Dressed in her new
est gown, with her hair beautifully
arranged, she lay on her bed and
swallowed morphine. Not even in
death could she bear the thought of
not being beautiful. But in her
death there is the birth of new
Venus The model of her figure will
stand in bronze, eight feet high, on
| the top of the new municipal build
ing in st. Paul, the wonder and the
admiration of the generations to
come, but the body of the poor girl
rests in suicides grave.
| AS the mosquito has no greater
enemy than the fair sex. the fact that
the women Of certain towns are
forming clubs to fight it is news Of
direful import for anopheles quad
rimaculatus. At Richmond Hill, q
suburban town near New York, in
Long Island, they got a scientist to
explain the value of crude petroleum
or kerosene oil, as an exterminatol
, of the young of the mosquitoes
They explored the country around
their town with boys provided with
oil cans, and wherever there was 8
puddle, or ditch, or pond, or marsh
: any standing water-there they
poured oil generously on the sur
, face. A committee of the mosquito
club took the job in hand and saw
it we'll done. The result has been
> we are told. that the residents O.
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