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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-12-19
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
e.. DIVERS SOURCES. -
News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Culled
From Our Exchanges.

Polo is game much affected by
the AGO, but bolo is preferred in the
Philippines.
Do your duty and don't make a
fuss about it. It's the empty wagon
that rattles.
Mr.. Roosevelt's Hanna has not
yet been evolved from the inner
depths of the trusts.
The Molineaux case is getting
ready to become Lola Bonine's
esteemed successor.
EThe Congressman who bought
their own bouquets are commanding
much attention at present.
Chicago has acquired the sky
scraping habit to such an extent that
it has a comet all it's own.
There is no halfway house be-
tween the two great parties, and
Senator McLaurin cannot establish
one.
The Nicaragua canal is to be built
and Senator Morgan will live to sail
through it. At least, all hope that
he will.
The Sultan of Sulu is SO much of
an American that he desires to add
q few American girls to his collection
of wives.
While the office seekers hang up
their stockings they will keep one
eye on the Presidents dinners and
lunches.
Amos Rusie, once king of baseball
pitchers, is now digging sewers at
ST.. so day. He has come to some
thing useful at last. ..".
Another good argument for max
ing English the universal language
is found in the report that one and
a half per cent. of the children at
ding school in Germany stutter.
There is cat in Pennsylvania
that smokes cigars and drinks beer.
The strange part about tin the
minds of some temperance people,
no doubts that the cat hasn't any
better sense than to do it.
From the absence of those Jokes
which we're once noticeable feature
of the public speech Of Senator
Chauncoy NJ Depew it may be in
ferred that he has already gone into
training for his changed estate.
IF it passes, the bill introduced in
the Reichsrath at the instance of a
society of physicians in Bohemia,
making u medical certificate of ply
sical and mental capacity obligatory
on all applicants for license to marry
will affold fine opportunity for
doctO1s to disagree.
That thousand persons were un-
able to gain admission because Of
the great crowd to Cornelius Van
derbilt's lecture at the institute of
Technology in Boston, shows an in :
terest in locomotive boilers and fire
boxes the suddenness and extent of
which is not to be wholly accounted
for by our new commercial expan-
sion.
Vice President Paul Morton, OF
the Santa Fe Railroad system, pre-
diets and urges the consolidation OF
all the railroad lines in the country
under the control of a single cor
poration, either private or public.
He says this will and should be the
logical result of the legal restric-
tions against pooling and Like de-
vices under which the roads are now
operating.
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TILLMAN AND MCLAURIN.
Small things are oftentimes

Small things are oftentimes
magnifed away from home until
they seem to be real forces of
considerable calibre, and this is
the case with the McLaurin squads
BILE from South Carolina. Re
publican hopes and expectations
Of a fracture in "the solid South"
are raised. and much ado is made
about nothing.
Senator McI.aurIn comes as near
being political nothing as can be
found in at least ten States. He
has no following at home among
white men, and the blacks In his
State are not doing any voting
under the new constitution. He
is a political nonentity at home
dispenser Of a few federal Of
fees in Washington and. from
Washington. He sustains the
Dingley tariff, favors ship suba
sides, sustains the administration
in creating colonial policy, and
hands out pie for the administra-
ticn. If these things do not make
him a Republican, what, pray,
wouldg His attempt to masquer-
ade as Democrat deceives no one
in S ,uth Carolina.
His term in the Senate is about
to expire and he sees the hand
writing on the wall SO plainly, he
is to all intents and purposes an
"out," and he is simply conducts
ing himself as "ou,s' do in the
South. He is dickering with the
administration, and is using fed
eral patronage in order to create
new machine favorable to himself,
AS to Republican policies, he
swallows them whole. Such
course can have bat one ending IN
South Carolina, this State or else
where the men who thus serve
the enemy eventually go over to
them body boots and breeches.
Mr.. McLaurin mentions in de-
fense Samuel j, Rard4ll and D.
B. Hill-the one favored a high
tariff, being a Pennsylvania, aad
the other opposed, for reasons
best known to himself, an income
tax. Mr.. Randall IS dead, but
the man who says he ever sought
for any body Republican pie SLAM
ders him. AS for Mr.. Hill, he
has long been a private citizen,
and be has long service
ahead of a like nature, for the
Democratic party stands pied yed
to bring in as permanent
policy an income tax. But Mr..
Hill never consorted aud intrigu-
ed with pie hunters. He never
supported the whole range Of Re-
p bl n pole es, on the contrary,
he fous ht ,hem VII le he stayed in
the Senate persistently and n
sistentlv.
No one at home is deceived.
Mr.. McLaurin has not entered a
Democratic caucus in two years.
He is not regarded by his Demo
cratic colleagues as Democrat.
He may pose as a Democrat, but
South Carolinians are not deceive
ed by his posing. He stands
completely uncovered, an excel
lent and perfect type of all "outs'
in this section of the country.
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After years of pat ent study, ard
delving into the dusty record of the
past, as we'll Is following modern ex-
periments in the realms of medical sci-
ence, DIR. ames w. Kidd 1856 First
National Bank building, Fort Wayne,
Ind, makes the startling announce
ment that he has surely discovered the
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LDSBORO. N. c.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1901
CHRISTMAS AT CREECH'S.

1t is always pleasure to the
ARGUS to note the success of
Goldsboro people at home or
abroad. This time we come to
notice a Goldsboro boy who has
identified himself with the jewelry
business and who has gained for
himself quite an enviable reputa-
tion among the trading public
generally.
Mr.. r. A. Craech, name IA
miliar to the people Of this section
because of it's constant appearances
in the advertising columns of the
ARGUS, entered the jewelry busi-
ness some years ago, and from the
beginning bis career has been one
of marked success. His estab-
lishment is supplied with all the
latest furniture and modern de-
vices for displaying the handsome
wares and novelties that he offers
for sale.
Just at this season, with the
holidays in the near future, his
place of business is particularly
interesting to purchasers of
Christmas gifts. The complete
line of goods which he carries at
all times, together with the great
care with which they are selected.
in measure accounts for the al
most phenomenal success which
he has achieved. And then he is
courteous. polite and obliging,
and altogether man with whom
It is a pleas ure to deal.
Whether you are in search Of
a ring for your sweetheart, a
brooch for your wife, a pendant
for your daughter, or locket
for the baby, the selection of the
gift may be most enjoyably and
satisfactorily made from the
most attractive and complete
holiday display Of jswelry at the
store of Mr.. r. A. Creech.
There is every conceivable or
nament which will add richness
and elegance to the feminine toll
cite. and the long cases in which
the captivating array Of gold.
silver and jeweled beauty is
gathered, abound in appropriate
suggestions for Christmas.
There is a captivating display
of rings, which make ever ap>
propriate and always acceptable
Christmas gifts for maid or ma
tron, son or sire. The hat pins
are whole beauty show in
themselves, not to speak Of the
chains, lockets and watches and
the coin purses which are dis
play in all the choicest and
fashionably correct designs.
The beautiful array OF cut glass,
table cutlery and PICTURES, too,
are Simply superb.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-12-19
Notice Of Dissolution.

Notice is hereby given, that the firm Of Baker
& Eason will dissolve on and after the lst ot
January 1902 by mutual consent. MIR. Baker
Tetires from the firm. Business will be con-
tinued by Eason Son on and Ia after JsaanMnary 3sa
walnut street. Parties indebted to Us, are re-
ouesred to make immediate settlements.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-12-19

Or. Miles. NERVE PLAsrERs cure RHEUMA.
TIsM. WEAK BACKS. At druggists, ooIY 960a
The times., 1901-06-09
NO BUCKET SHOPS OPEN.
At Least None of Them Is Paying
Taxes in New York.

NEW YORK, June according 70 the
books Of Charles E. Treat. Collector of
United States Internal Revenue, there are
no bucket shops in this city. The War
Revenue Reduction act provided that
bucket shops should be required TO pay a
tax OF so per year, and it was expected
that the income derived from such licenses
would be considerable. For the month of
May the collector received just 1884 from
this source. and he won't receive any
more from the firm that paid that, for 1t
closed it's doors soon after paying the tax
and went cut Of business. 1t was the
Stock and Grain Company, 3 concern
which had Offices on New Street, and did
a thriving business. Collector Treat is
not surprised at the working of the
firms should make themselves liable TO
BY complying with a Federal statute that
was difficult 10 enforce and had not yet
been tested in the courts was hard 10 see.
On the other hand, the collector thought
the law had had a good effect in an indi-
rect way by soaring many bucket shop
concerns out of business.
The receipts of the collectors office for
May were 81, ,637, S3.49, as against Sl,2iZ,-
1882 for May. 1900 an increase Of $780,
0lS.57. OF this amount s., 800 S4O.54 was re-
ceived from the sale of documentary
stamps. the largest amount ever received
from that source, and an index of the eX-
traordinary activity of the stock market
during the early part OF the month.
The times., 1901-06-09
his MEMORY HoNoRED.
The Late Lieut.. Col. MfchIer's serv-
ices Reviewed.

Lieutenant General Miles has issued a
general order announcing the death, which
occurred on May 20, of his military secre-
tary, Lieut.. Col Francis Michler. After
narrating the principal events of his mill
tary career, the general order continues:
He was commended in General Orders.
Department of Arizona, in 1872 and 1873
for brilliant services and for successful
expeditions against hostile Apache In
dians and Mojave Indians in Arizona. In
several severe Indian campaigns on the
Western frontier and during the Spanish
American war he rendered most distin-
guished valuable and important services.
He has reflected credit upon and added
renown to the service by his constant and
faithful devotion to its best interests and
by his sterling integrity and high charac-
ter He was a true type of the American
soldier and at all times and under all cir
cumstances maintained the character of
a knightly gentleman. Patiently and un-
compiainingly he endured the various
vicissitudes and privations of most Sc
we're and dangerous service. He was con-
stautly and unoStentatiouSly performing
acts of generosity and kindness, befriend-
ing the triendless. and aiding the most de-
serving. His amiable and gentle disposi-
tion was as conspicuous as his fortitude
and gallantry.
BY his death the army has lost an ex-
emplary officer and our country a patriot
who had devoted his talents and the best
energies of his life to its service, and in
his loss the Lieutenant General realizes
that he has been deprived of most
valued official associate and an esteemed
personal friend.
The officers on duty at Headquarters
of the Army will wear the usual badge
of mourning for thirty days.
The times., 1901-06-09
DAMAGE TO KANSAS WHEAT.
The Hessian Fly and Other Insects
Causing Havoc.

The agricultural Department has recoS-
nized the unusual prevalence of insect
pests in the wheat crop of Kansas and
Oklahoma this year by issuing deserip-
tion of these enemies of the bread supply.
The reports from the West in the wheat
area show that the Hessian fly and the
wheat plant louise have been noticed in
many places where they were formerly
unknown and are present in such num-
bers as to seriously threaten the volume
of wheat yield.
The Hessian fly is one of the principal
enemies of the wheat crop, and the mini
mum annual damage due to it is esti-
mated at about 10 per cent of the product,
which means that II destroys each year
over 100000 bushels of wheat. Some
years it has been known to destroy half
of the yield in certain sections. The fly
is a small dark-colOred gnat about an
eighth of an inch long, which feeds on the
wheat plant. Like nearly everything else
which is of detriment to the farmer, 1t
is a European Importation and was
brought to this country in the straw
which accompanied the Hessian troops
when they came from England to take
part in the war of the Revolution
There has been an extraordinary de-
velopment in this fly during the last three
years, and last year it caused a loss to
the farmers of the Ohio Valley amount
ing probably to S40,0e0,000. The long
drought of the autumn of 1899 prevented
the early Matching of the fly and the mild
autumn and winter following enabled the
insect to continue breeding. A favorable
winter carried them through safely and
the enormous number of flies which
emerged from the spring brood resulted in
an almost total loss of the wheat crop in
many sections. II is noted with consid-
erable alarm that similar conditions
threaten the growing crop of this year,
for there has been an extraordinarily
large area from which they are reported.
There is practically no way to save field
once attacked by the fly, though some
preventative measures are possible earlier
in the season.
The wheat plant louise has appeared this
year in southern Kansas and Oklahoma
with such prevalency as to cause seal
ing of estimates on the wheat yield. This
insect is also of European origin, though
it is so general now that ii has become as
much of a curse as il is in the Old World.
Weather conditions are also responsible
for the presence Of this insect in harmful
numbers and there is no known remedy
for them. The latest reports from the
wheat sections express the hope that the
grain made such vigorous growth during
May that serious loss viii be averted.
The times., 1901-06-09

Avenue, between Four-and-a-half and
Sixth Streets, that the fifty or sixty mem
bers of the National Volunteers should
repair in 2 body TO the Republican head
quarters. at the corner of Indiana Ave
nue. and Second Street, and wreck the
shanty' There was then large crowd
of Breckenridge men at Browns Hotel,
which united with the National Volun-
teers, making. in all, about three hundred
men. Proceeding to the Republican build
ing they began, when in front of IL, TO fire
pistols and throw stones at the windows,
soon demolishing all IN the second story
of the building. Going around to the Sec
ond Street side, they broke open the door,
which was locked, went up stairs, and
commenced the destruction of the furni-
ture Of the rooms. They also entered the
room above the -wigwam and destroyed
the stands OF type, scattering the ma
terial about the room.
Some half dozen scared Republicans
retreated TO the roof Of the building Soon
several armed men entered and took pos
session of the rooms and made arrests
among those in the building. including
three Republicans and five Volunteers.
An Investigation followed at the Office of
Justice Dom. but no severe punishment
was inflicted -
The times., 1901-06-09
LIFE In THE PHILIPPINES
An Interesting Display at the Pan
American Exposition.
Primitive Implements for TiIling the
Soii-The Palm Leaf Everywhere
I'm Evidence - Embroidery, silk,
and Satin Gowns of Manila Bellies,

BUFFALO. June s-The Philippine
Islands exhibit at the Pan-American Ex-
position excites much curiosity One
large portion of the exhibit consists OF
agricultural implements and products.
There is the primitive piow and rake
used in the rice fields. knives for cutting
rice straw, rice sifters baskets and sieves,
models OF rice mills, and finally tine rice
iself.
Next comes the famous Manila hemp in
huge skeins, like flaxen hair, or made up
into ropes and cables. There are sugar
baskets and bales and native sugar OF
various grades, tobacco, coffee, indigo.
dye stuffs, cocoanut fibre ard oil, and the
beautiful and wonderfully delicate lima
cloth, made from pineapple fibre.
Most abundant of all is the bamboo,
which the Filipino adapts to every con-
ceivabIe use. There are bedsteads OF
bamboo, chairs, tables, brushes, milk
jars. rakes, RATS, and, strangest Of all.
musical instruments. Hardly less i'm
portant is rattan. of which the native
constructs baskets. balls. mats and num-
erOus other household articles.
The palm leaf is everywhere in evil
dence, for roofs, hats, cloaks. fans. bas-
kets. etc. The collection includes all
kinds of fishery apparatus. lines, nets.
RATS, boats. baskets, etc. The tools OF
the various trades are also well repre-
sented. sdch as a complete carpenters
kit. carriage and harness makers tools.
masons' tools, a tinsmiths outfit, far
riers' implements, etc. Visitors find much
to interest them in the household utensils
and appliances, not the least curious OF
which are the little earthenware stoves,
of which no well-appOinted kitchen con-
tains less than half a dozen.
Then there are spoons and bowls of CO.
coanut shells, knives and forks of buffalo
pottery, water bottles, baskets of every
size and description
Quite different side of life in the ISL
ands is shown by the gorgeous embrOid-
cred silk and satin gowns worn by the
bellies of Manila lace mautiias embroid-
necklaces, bracelets. and other jewelry.
Intellectual products have not been for
gotten. There are books on all subjects,
printed in Manila, school books and ex-
animation papers; printed music. includ-
ing a piece dedicated to AguinaldO
Among the art products are shell, horn
and wood carvings.
reminder of the Spanish Government
is to be found in the collection of postage
stamps coins, and paper money, tax re-
ceipts, prOclamatiOns, etc
There are also Spanish guns and other
weapons. Alongside of these are many
curious native weapons captured by our
troops, aTmOr made Of buffalo hide,
spears, knives, and bOlos, bows and ar
rows and most singular of all, cannon
made of wood wound with wire.
The exhibit is supplemented with several
hundred mounted photographs. coIored
pictures of flowers and plants, and a small
collection Of ANIMALS.
The times., 1901-06-09
NO MONEY FOR REPAIRS.
The Government to Abandon IA Build
ing Worth Thousands of Dollars.

A fine stone building at Perry, Okla.
which has come into the possession of the
Government for the sum of So. is to be
abandoned because there are no funds
available with which TO make $50 worth
of repairs.
When Perry awakened to the need for
a larger postOftice, about five years ago.
il was proposed that the town authorities
should erect q building on a plot of
ground known as the Government acre.
The municipality offered to build the post
Office Of stone. finish and equip it for
special purposes. and rent it TO the Ma
tional Government for 81 a year. II was
conditional also that when the five years
rent had been paid the new stone build
ing should become the property of the
National Government The five years
have just expired. The Government has
been apprised that the building, worth
several thousand dollars, has been con-
veyed 10 the Washington authorities. The
building has been worn a little in the past
five years, and IL is said there is no money
available to repair IL.
The times., 1901-06-09
TUGBoAT TURNS TURTLE.
Doubt as to whether All of the Crew
Were Rescued.

NEW YORK. June S.-While q tugboat,
said to be the John S. Heath. was being
towed through Buttermilk Channel this
morning, on its way from the foot of
Twentieth Street, South Brooklyn, to the
Atlantic Basin, where her boilers were to
be repaired, she capsized and sank, leav-
ing the top of her pilot house above the
water Captain Low and three deck
hands were aboard her at the time but
there seems to be some doubt as to
whether all of them were rescued. One
of the deck hands, William Hines. eiGh-
teen years old. of 31S Twentieth Street
Brooklyn, was thrown against the rail
when the tugboat capsiZed, but managed
TO crawl up on the pilot house, from
which he was rescued by the ferryboat
New York. of the Thirty-ninth Street
line. which lay to a moment after the ac-
cident occurred When Hines was asked
later about the other men he professed
entire ignorance as to what became of
them.
The times., 1901-06-09
Mount vernon EIectric Cnrs

Arlington is a very popular place ON Sunday
afternoons. The grounds are beautiful and cool
ing breczes are always blowing among the great
shade trees. Today the Washington Alexandria
and Mount Vernon Railway Company VIII re-
duce the fare for the round trip, and trains Will
leave the station, Thirteen aud-a-half Street and
Pennsy ylvania Avenue, every thirty minutes. fhese
trains also form the most attractive route TO
hour for seeing the estate the round trip 10
this historic spot De made in three hours A
competent guide accompanies every train. Flee
tric trains leave the station every hour from 20
a. m. TO .. m for Mount Vernon. The grounds
at Mount Vernon are not open Sundays.
The times., 1901-06-09
THE WEST INDIAN MEDALS.
Final Action Not Yet Taken Regard
ing the Design.

Secretary Long has decided to take no
action on the Board of Awards recon-
incubation of a design for the West In
dian battle medal until the return to
Washington next week of Assistant Sec
rotary Hackett, the Chairman of the
board. The medal bears on one side a
profile likeness of Rear Admiral Samp-
son. on the reverse is a representation of
a naval battle with a vessel of the Ore
gon type in the foreground. The board
has not recommended medal for con-
spicuous service during the war performed
other than in battle. but will probably
do So as otherwise some officers who
acted as scouts, riskiug their lives to OBJ
tain Information, would have nothing to
show for their daring.
The times., 1901-06-09
SOME NEW COMMISSIONS.
The President Gives OficiaI Sanction
to Several Appointments

The President yesterday signed commits
sions for the following:
Treasury-Elmer B. Stephenson. to be
Collector of Internal Revenue for the Dis
trict of Nebraska.
Justice-Myron II. McCord. of Arizona.
to be marshal of the United States for
the Territory of Arizona.
War-To be chaplains: William w.
Brander. James J.. Critics. John C. Gran
vile. John NJ. Moose; TO be captain in the
Artillery Corps: Henry II. Whitney; to be
first lieutenants in the Artillery Corps:
lie Vert Coleman. Alfred B. Putnam.
Myron H McCoTd who Is nominated
marshal for the district OF Arizona. was
appointed Governor of the Territory by
President Mckinley shortly after his
first inauguration and was succeeded by
Governor Murphy. the present incumbent.