Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-05-30

President Mckinley for sending
''his'' fine cruiser, the Brooklyn, to
Australia to take part in the COM
monwealth celebrations.
The questions what to do with
China and the Philippines will be
definitely settled within the next
| few weeks, as soon as the score is in
from the various college debates.
Papa in law Zimmerman will de-
velop coal mine on the Duke of
Manchester's estate. He also had
better begin to bore for oil if he in
tends to "bank" for that game per-
manently.
Mrs Potter Palmer, of Chicago,
wants to be inspector of streets for
her ward. Most women seem to
have an ambition to act as street
sweepers, to Judge from the length
of their skirts.
The latest combination in re-
straint of trade has just been made
by King Edward, who has consoli-
dated his birthday with that of his
late mother, much to the regret of
the shopkeepers.
If there are any soubrettes who
Lave not had their names in the pa
pers as having made fortunes in
Wall street recently, they can gain
good deal of notoriety by letting
the fact be known.
That baseball game Sunday morn
ing between the Elks and the Pro-
duce Exchange will be worth going
miles to see, says the Toledo Blade
Evidently the Rev. Sam Jones is
needed up about Toledo.
The boys of the Georgia State
press are still trying to figure out
why in thunder the Hon. Tom Cren-
shaw felt called upon to inject him
self into the situation at all if he
isn't after a government job.
New Orleans, with zoe miles of
streets and an average record of 49,
900 arrests a year. has only 800 po-
| iicemen. But then, when man
drinks that New Orleans liquor, he
just naturally goes and looks up a
| policeman.
| Another Pennsylvania lynching
party was thwarted the other night
only by the timely removal of it's in
tended victim, who was negro. 1t
really looks like it will be necessary
after awhile for the South to pass a
few resolutions against these North
ern outrages.
An American girl, writing from Ber-
lin to the New York Tribune, thus ex-
presses her disappointment at the faA
nous "Unter den Linden" street, the
glories of which have SO often been
dilated upon: '"The very name breathes
a romantic old world charm, full Of
suggestions Of a sweet peace beneath
widespread trees. When I actually
saw the gay boulevard, with its shops
| anu uOI0IS anu CdlOS C1iO IWO AOWG
Of chopped off, stunted little trees
down the middle, I should have liked
to use a hatchet on one Of them thai
I might have lugged it off as a SOU
venir Of my disappointment. In one
way, however, this Unter den Linder
is a right royal highway. When the
emperor or his family are here, it ap
: pears to an outsider as if betWeeI
them they spent most Of their time
driving like mad up and down it
! length. 1 early learned that if ont
wanted to get anywhere in season on
shouldn't take a bus whose course Ia!
for any distance along this inde1
street. The first thing you know yo1
are hauled up and switched off into :
side alley, along with every other near
by bus, carriage or truck. The pedes
: trians stop shop gazing and crow
: to the edge Of the sidewalk anC cram
. their short necks up and down tn
avenue. After ten minutes or SO O
this sort of hiatus there sounds sud
e den slashing Of whips, a sharp scurry
ing of wheels and clicking of hoofs
Before you know what is coming
coupe or landau has dashed roun
the corner, giving a running vision Q
the royal, befeathered coachman an
footman on the box, and whether tn
bunch of color inside is a red militar
a Jacket or a scarlet cape one has n
s | time to see. There is no calm prone
. nading by this reigning household
They drive as If they were an emel
gency wagon, fire engine and Me-
v York Central record breaker, all in on
It makes the king1y prerogatfve ths
demands cleared streets a wise prt
70 vision for the saving Of more plsbeia
b lives and lir1bs."
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