Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-25

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many of the iniquities of yOre, many
a mans inner satisfaction still de-
ponds on the pie rates.
The ''aunties' characterize Bev-
eridge's speech as merely the ''en-
thusiasm of youth" It takes enthu-
siasm to win in this world In every
line of endeavor.
Henry Irving has developed the
Yankee trait of answering one ques
tions by taking another. He vas re-
Gently asked: HAS the theatre any
other mission than to amuse?" Sir
Henry Irving replied: "Has food
any other mission than to please the
palate?"
It of4en requires an acute emer
gency to teach a nation wherein 1t
has been suffering from invisible de-
cay. The lesson is often costly, but
it is eminently wholesome, and Eng
land will be all the greater, strong
er and better in every way when
she meets the demand now made
upon her, al she surely will.
Congressman Lentz's intimation
that some Of the official documents
tending to show that President
Mckinley had knowingly appointed
polygamists to Office in Utah
are mysteriously missing from the
files, is receiving no more attention
than is absolutely necessary from
the other side of the house.
New York as a field for social
study is practically limitless. And
in this respect it's existence may be
said to serve a very useful purpose.
When the ordinary observer finds
that the queer things which happen
in that town do not surprise him he
may feel assured that he has lost
possession of the faculty of wonder.
IF there was any probability that
the Hepburn Nicaragua Canal bill
authorizing the expenditure of $780,
OO0, 900 on the construction of q ship
canal from Greyton, on the CARR
bean Sea. to Brito, on the Pacific
Ocean, would pass during the pres
ent session of Congress the Ameri-
can people would have an immedi-
ate interest In the subject.
In Sassari. Sardinia. 400 people
C1O HOW bOIhS Ul1Co Co
These include land lords. tradesmen
State and municipal officials and
many women There are 1000 wit
nesses, 100 lawyers and 200 large
volumes of documents. A big wood
en- building has been erected for the
trial. This makes the Clark sena-
torial case insignificant.
How closely the world is knit to-
gether commercially IS ~instanced
by the fact that some three hundred
lapidaries in New York alone are
out OF work because of the failure
of the supply of diamonds from
South Africa Since most of these
workmen are married men five OF
six hundred people are affected. In
Amsterdam and Antwerp it is said
four or five thousand men are idle
from the same cause.
Can a man forget his own name?
This is the question b~othering d
criminal court in Chicago, where
James III. Bird, of Chicago, received
endorsed and caused to be casheo
a check for nearly $4,000, intended
for James III. Bird. of New York, ar
entirely different person. When the
New York Bird came along anC
wanted the check that had beer
made out for him and didn't get i
the Chicago Bird was arrested.
The Arena, the monthly magazine
which has been published in Boston
has been purchased by New Workers
and will henceforth be issued from
that city It will be conducted b.
N. O. flaming and a new staff o
regular contributors is to be organ
lied Former contributors have beer
leading students of politics ant
economies, and the publication vii
be devoted to problems of munci
pal government.
Fashionable society in Oak Park
a suburb of Chicago, is stirred III
over an attack in a local paper Of
the dances Of q prominent and
wealthy social organization. The pa
per says the waltz and two-step ar,
performed in such a way at tn
young peoples assemblies at tn
club house that all the church bell
in the neighborhood should rim
out an alarm of fire, and that tn
method the dancers use in holdin
on to each other is clearly the IL
vention of a football crank.
Professor Atwater, Of Wesleya:
University, who declared last yea
after some investigation and exper:
ment that alcohol was a food al
not a poison, has been contradicte
by the findings of a committee al
pointed by the Christian worker
and composed Of eminent scientif
authorities The committees repol
has only just been made public, an