Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-04-17
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Now Hanna has got another idea
he would like to make public to all
the trusts.
Mark Twain has bought hand
some home in Sleepy Hollow, but he
will not people ii with Huckleberry
Firms.
The silence of Grover Cleveland
leads some to think that he has
again run up thai : 4e..ilio.lttie.l light
ming rod.
Joker Depew has become SANDER
er Depew He has exchanged his
stale jokes for staIer ISLANDERS of this
section Of the country.
Three Connecticut cities have cleo
ted workingmen as their Mayors.
They had become tired Of electing
professional politicians.
Cuban reciprocity is to be well dis
cussed at any rate, and perhaps. JUS
tice and fair play to an island we
freed viii be the outcome.
1t is too dry to do spring plowing
in Wisconsin; and too wet IN Ala
bama. Ihis country IS SO big Gilat it
runs into all sorts of weather.
Mr.. Bryan calls ca his followers to
arm for 1904. Those who have fol-
lowed Mr.. Bryan before viii also
take the precaution to go in well
padded this time.
The Vanderbilt family's agent in
the United States Senate is now raid
ing the South, dealing out more
misstatements TO the inch than any
of his predecessors mad been able to
do so.
Our government has given notice
to the powers that ii the ''open door
is ever shut there VIII De lively
music. We are disposed to even take
the hinges off the open door, as it
were.
The Texas Supreme Court has de-
clared the Texas antitrust law un-
constitutional. It makes a difference
when a state develops a trust Of its
own, as in the case of the Texas oil
octopus.
A 'sgentleman's agreement, ''in the
slang Of Wall street, thinks the De.
troit Free Press, is an understanding
by the terms of which each OF the
pirates concerned promises not to be
come conscience-stricken.
Perhaps we will learn after awhile
that J. Pierpont Morgan has gone to
England for the purpose of forming
a ''com4lua:ty Of interest among
those who own windows along tn,
route Vi the coronation profession.
N7l:e:s e,t+srs saffteet 10 talk low OF
the stage t:a.,y Ito really talk. The.
first >ii>&-il~., theiTSIrake-up and the1
the size CT their house. Other topic
may serve to keep UP the pretens'
of talk, but these tive are the stand
bys.
The bones of a prehistoric rae
have recently been discovered il
California. After reading the adve1
tlsements Of the average Californi
health resort one wonders how thes
prehistoric people. ever managed t
die at all.
"Peace is within measurable dis
tance'' is a pleasant sounding ser
tence of ihe London prophets. w
hope, however, that those who hav
the power of attaining peace will nc
attempt to measure the distance, bu
wilt cross it at once.
The Germans, it seems, are S
proud that they are in danger Of fall
ing over backwards. Cecil Rhodes
bounty, of course, would have bee
more acceptable if he had not plotte
against their cousins, the Beers; bu
there is no more ungracious thin
that they could do than to refuse a
olive branch rendered them, SO |
speak, from the grave.