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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
DELIGHTFUL OCCASION.
AT THE NEW CITY HALL
LAST NIGHT.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
Received Liberal Returns
For Their Efforts. A
Pleasant Evening
For All.
Daily Argus of Friday.

The City Hall presented a scene,
brilliant in beauty and animated
with surging throng of humanity
last night. The occasion was the old
time dance given by the Daughters
of the Donfederacy. The large crowd
in attendance made the affair the
success that its promoters had wish
ed for.
A special chorus composed for the
most part of elderly gentlemen and
ladies sang war songs and old time
ballads that were applauded right
heartily. The solo, GA Fine Old Irish
Gentleman" by Ex-Judge w. S.
OBJ. Robinson and "My Old Ken
lucky Home," by Mrs. Murray Bor-
den, were among the features of the
music. On the improvised stage
were Capt. D. J. Broadhurst and
Mrs. Broadhurst. Mrs. N. R. Robey,
Mr.. Henry Lee, Mrs. Capt. r. P.
Howell, Mrs. Hattie Gay, Mrs. Muir
ray Borden and Miss Mabel Bor-
den.
While the singing was in progress
the large crowd was scattered in
groups around the spacious hail and
were busily engaged in animated
conversation between the numbers.
The dancing of the clog by Mr.. Fred
Hllker and Mr.. T. H. Hall was one of
the most pleasing features of the
evenings entertainment.
After the musical programme wrs
completed the old time dance was
announced. This was INDUCED in
by people whose heads were white
with the frost of many winters. Capt.
J. w. Lamb and his brother Mr..
John Lamb furnished the music on
fiddles, assisted by some members of
the Goldsboro Orchestra. Mr.. Henry
Lee called the figures and for some
time people who had not been on
the floor for thirty and forty years
were seen answering to the figures
"First four forward and back"
During the dancing the ladies were
busily engaged in serving refresh
ments at the tables on one side of the
hall. This part of the entertainment
was numerously patronized and the
ladies received a handsome sum
| from this source. The entertainment
was given for the purpose of raising
! funds to entertain the State organi-
zation of the Daughters of the Con
federacy when they meet here next
fall.
In the hall were to be seen several
old veterans who seemed to grow
| young again when the music for the
quadrille foated out OH the delicate
ly perfumed zephyrs. Miniature
Confederate flags were worn by botf
old and young. Altogether the en-
tertainment was very enjoyable anl
the public have to thank the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy for such {
pleasant evening.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in POstOfhce, Colds
bOro, Wayne County, N. c.,
April 9, 1904.
MEMS LIST.

MEMS LIST.
A-Jones Aders.
Be S Benson, L G Bass, = d
Bass, Rev Borden, Robt Britt.
E-Wm Emery, Ellis.
D-Joseph Dean.
H-Thomas Hamilton, Wilbur Harl-
son.
M-John Monuford, j S Martin,
Rev o Miller.
P-Ollie Patterson.
S-W III Smith, col.
W-Enie Wilson, F B Winbourne,
Bennie Whitley, Cicero Ward.
Y-George Young, T Marlborough.
LADIES LIST.
A-Jennie Allen.
C-Mary Jane Cobb.
E-Miss Edwards.
H-Ann Hamilton, Bertha Howell.
LrStar Lamb.
M-Frank Minnis.
S-Isaac Smith, Dollie Smith, Lenan
Swinson, VIM Strickland.
W. Eliza Williams, Ester Wadston,
Eliza Wooten, Jennie Wilson.
Persons calling for above letters
will please say advertised. Rules
and regulations require that one cent
| he paid on advertised letters.
]. F. DOBSON,
J Postmaster.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
SIMMONS HEARD AGAIN,
HE SAYS GIVE US TEDDY'S
ANTITHESIS.
Not Wild Rider Over Treaties who
May Bring All Combines To
Trial Within the Next
200 or 800 Years.

Washington, D. c., April II In
course of some remarks in the Sen
ate this afternoon, Senator Simmons
again declared his belief that the
hope of the Democratic party in the
next campaign lies in the nominal
tion of man who is the antithesis
of the present occupant of the White
House.
81 ventured, in speech last week,
to describe the kind of man that [
hoped and believed that the Demo-
Gratis would nominate for President.
The Senator from Wisconsin (Mr
Spooner) in a speech Saturday, init
mated that my remarks pointed to a
very distinguished citizen who has
been mentioned for the nomination
and he added that what the Demo-
cratic party wanted was a neutral
man.
Without satisfying the curiosity Of
his hearers as to whether or not he
really did mean Judge Parker, as
Mr.. Spooner had suggested, Mr..
Simmons continued: 'I am fora man
of calm judicial temperament. Is
that neutral character? A man of
conservative disposition, a man of
equable and well-poised mind and
character. Are not those qualities
suited to a President? They were
qualities good enough in the days Of
Washington, Jefferson, Madison and
the Adamses. They were qualities
good enough in the days when Pres
idents contented themselves with ex-
ecuting the laws as they found them
and left Congress to pass them.
"But they are hardly qualities
that suit the man who, when the
laws do not suit HIM, has the grit to
change them; who, when he wants
to make treaty with a country and
cannot get that country's consent,
comes boldly forward and declares
he was about to propose to Congress
that he be allowed to proceed, treaty
or no treaty.
Continuing his criticism of Mr..
Roosevelt, Mr.. Simmons referred to
his "trust-busting pretensions, and
asked: "What is the spectacle this
country witnesses to-day? A Presi-
dent held up as genuine trust-bus-
ter, while his Attorney General,
with half million dollars at his
disposal for prosecution of the trusts
claps these self-same trusts on the
back and assures them this admins
tration does not intend to run
amuck,' trust-busting."
Mr.. Simmons SAID that with half s
| million dollars and every possible
! facility at his disposal for prosecut
| ing Of the trusts, Mr.. Roosevelt
Attorney-General had finally sue
ceeded in bringing two trusts t.
trial. "Two in two years, an aver
age of one year," he exclaimed
: cat that rate the two or three hun
dred really big trusts in this countr.
can all be brought to trial by the Re
publican party in the next 200 O
800 years, if no more are born in tn
| meantime.'
"I do hope" he added, "that tn
Democratic party will have the goo
sense to nominate a man who is tn
| .ntithesis of the man now in tn
White House,
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Letter to Borden s. Schwab.
Goldsboro, n. @.


Dear Sir:-Here's paint that's
being sold to bargain-hunters:
10 per cent. lead
so &c sc zinc.
20 &c $ barytes.
20 6 whiting.
Barytes and whiting are sand and
whitewash, not paint.
Some people must likegold bricks.
The name of that paint is
tspure lead-and-zinco The dealer
who sells it says it'sas good as Devoe.
Yours truly,
+. w. DEYoE & Co.
New York.
p. S.-Smith & Yelverton sell our
paint.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
Letter to Goldsboro Ice Co.
Goldsboro, N. G..

Dear Sirs: Some think we take a
good deal of risk in inviting COM
plants of Devoe lead-and-zinc-We
authorize our agent to sell it under
this guarantee:
eff you have any fault to find
with this paint, either now i'll put
ting it on, or hereafter in the wear,
tell your dealer about it.
1--WE authorize him to do what is
right at our expense"
The following story tells how lit
tie the risk is:
J. HI Asher & Co., hardware deal
ers, Rhinebeck, N. Y, have sold
Devoe from '76 to now; have sold
thousands of gallons and have had
Just one complaint in all this time.
Three sides of house were per-
feet; the fourth was as bad as the
three were good.
Explanation-It rained the night
before the fourth side was painted
and the painters didn't wait for the
wood to dry.
What is done in such a case;
Whatever the dealer, who sold the
paint, considers it fair to do. W.
leave it to him. He may not d.
exactly what we should do if w
were there; but we are not there
The best we can do is to leave it t
hil.
Yours truly,
F. w. DEvoE & Co.
P. S.-Smith & Yelverton sell on
paint.
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v. B. TURK DEAD.
DIED IN WASHINGTON SAT-
URDAY OF PNEUMONIA.
Was Head of Passenger Department
of Southern Railway, Having
Begun at Lowest Position in
the Department.

Washington, April 9.-William
Armstrong Turk, Passenger Traffic
Manager of the Southern Railway,
died here tonight of pneumonia,
after an illness of three days. He had
been with the Southern and its af-
fiIiated properties twenty-one years.
He also was On ex-PresIdent of the
American Association of General
Passenger Agents.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
Raleigh News and Observer.

Raleigh News and observer.
News reached Raleigh by wire
last night of the death in Washing
ton, D. c., of Mr.. w. A. Turk, Pas
senger Traffic Manager of the South
ern Railway. He passed away at
6:45 O'Clock yesterday evening of
pneumonia, having been ill for only
a few days.
Mr.. Turk was first taken sick in
New York on last Tuesday. He re-
turned to his home in Washington,
but on Wednesday morning went to
his Office as usual, and remained
there at work until about three
o'clock in the afternoon, when he
was compelled to go home. 1t was
soon discovered that he had pneu-
monia, and he sank rapidly until his
death yesterday evening.
He was born fifty-four years ago
in Augusta county, Virginia, near
Staunton, the son of Mr.. Rudolph
Turk. He came to Raleigh about
1876 or 1877, and at first took a posi-
ton as clerk in the Marlborough
House, but soon entered the service
of the Southern Railway as Travel
ing Passenger Agent. From that
position, he was promoted through
all the grades of the passenger de-
partment to the highest of all, Pas
senger Traffic Manager, which he
had held for several years prior to
his death. For number of years
he was General Passenger Agent of
the road.
In 1881 Mr.. Turk married Miss
Mary w. Mordecai, daughter of the
late Mr.. Henry Mordecai. She sur
wives him, with two children, Miss
Margaret Turk and Master Rudolph
Turk, aged about fourteen.
The remains will be brought te
Raleigh, arriving Monday morning
and the funeral will take place a
Christ church on Monday at clever
O'Clock. The funeral party will ge
in on the 1920 train and proceed di
rectly to Christ church, where tht
services will be conducted.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
A WRECK.

Asheville, N. c., April ia
freight wreck on the Southern Rail
way between Asheville and Fletch-
ers this afternoon about 800. Twelve
cars were ditched and the line be-
tween here and Spartanburg will be
blocked for several hours. No one
is reported to have been seriously
injured.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
3RD DISTRICT CONVENTION
Will Meet In This City June q al
O'Clock.

" SlOChs
The executive committee of this,
the Third Congressional District,
met at the Hotel Kennon in this
city Tuesday, with Chairman w. L..
Hill, of Warsaw, presiding, ard sec
retary 7. G. Whitaker, of Jones, at
the desk.
The roll of the counties was called
and each was represented either in
the person of its committeeman Or
by proxy.
The meeting was brief and har-
monious, and the vote Of the COM
mittee was unanimous for GOldsbOro
as the place and June 81, as the date
for the nominating convention.
A cordial welcome awaits the con-
vention here.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
A FAITHFUL SWEETHEART.
SHE DIED BROKEN-HEARTED
FOR HER LOVER.
She Was Miss Alexander Mueller,
the Sweetheart of Jim Younger,
the Famous Bandit.

the Famous Bandit.
minneapolis, April 11.-Miss Alex
ander Mueller, the sweetheart of
Jim Younger, the famous bandit,
died in Oklahoma, Saturday.
Miss Mueller was formerly a st.
Paul newspaper woman and fluent
writer. While engaged in this work
she wrote a book, ennbodying the
histories of the Minneapolis and st.
Paul police departments. She was
an ardent admirer of the Younger
brothers and was largely instru-
mental in securing their pardons.
She had been made the custodian
of more of their past life than any
other confidant of the two outlaws
and book in refutation of the crimes
credited to them was to have been
her life work.
While a loyal friend to Jim
Younger, her debonaire and care free
ideal, her friends say that she died
of broken heart and that her last
years were clouded with the bitter
ness of lost cause.
The law said that although Jim
Younger was free he was still ward
of the government and therefore in
eligible to marriage. Soon after his
pardon he shot himself, feeling that
life was not worth living without
the wifely compsnionship Of his be-
loved Alex. After the tragedy Miss
Mueller, being in poor health left
for Oklahoma, where she had been
ever since trying to recover, but the
deep grIeving for her lostfriend only
fastened the end.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
SHOTS FIRED.

Paris, April ia dispatch to
the Temps from ST. Petersburg to-
day says some further exchanges of
shots have occurred between the
Russian and japanese forces along
the borders of the Yalu river.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14
CURE CATARRH BY BREATH
ING.
J. HI. Hill & Son Offer to Return
Money If Hyomei Treatmet
Fails to Cure Catarrh
Without Stomach - I'm -
Dosing

IT for few minutes four times a
day you breathe Hyomei, all ca
tarrhal germs will be destroyed and
the irritated mucous membrane re-
stored to health.
With every Hyomei outfit there is
a neat inhaler which can be carried
in the purse or pocket. Hyomel
breathed through this contains the
same healing balsams that are found
in the air upon the mountains, where
catarrh is unknown.
II destroyes all catarrhal germs in
the air passages of the head, throat
and nose, and makes a positive and
permanent cure of catarrh.
The complete outfit costs but 81,
while extra bottles of Hyomei can
be obtained for 5Oc., making it one
of the most economical of treatments
for catarrh.
J.H. Hill & Son believe SO thor
oughly in the merit of Hyomei, that
they guarantee to return the money
If it fails. This is certainly the
strongest evidence they can give of
their faith in the Hyomei treatment.
1t enables any one to use Hyomei
without risk of spending money for
nothing.
Ask J. III. Hill & Son to show YOU
a Hyomei outfit and explain to you
what simple and easy way it is to
relieve and cure your catarrhal trou-
bles.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-14

S1OO-Dr. e. DetchOn's Anti
Diuretic may be worth to you more
than 800 if you have q child who
soils bedding from incontinence of
water during sleep. Cures old and
young alike. It arrests the trouble
at once. 81. Sold by n. e. Robin.
son 4 Bro. druggists, Goldsboro,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-15

WASHINGTON. April 23.-The efforts
of the Philippine Bureau of Agricul-
ture to introduce American farm prod
ucts into the Philippine have not proved
very satisfactory. The American off,
Gals supposed that the rich earth and
produce all kinds of vegetables and
fruits, but in their calculations they
forgot the insects that swarm over the
islands, devouring vegetation below as
well as above the surface. The locusts
that devastated vast tracts of land last
year were a temporary pest, but the
ant and naealy bug are constant sources
of annoyance and disaster.
To encourage the raising of An1eri-
can vegetables the Philippine officials
followed the custom of the Department
of Agriculture of the United States and
distributed nearly $4,000 packages of
seeds, which went into almost every
province. In all there were 1877 varieties
of American grown field and garden
seeds.
Each package contained instructions
printed in English and Spanish; but the
reports TSCEiNed Sl1OWCQ sh@lb liz = IL
pino would require more careful teach
ing before he could learn to raise water
melons, canataloupes, cucumbers and
tomatoes. In fact, this feature of the
work proved so unsatisfactory that w.
s. Lyon, in charge of the division of
plant industry. has recommended that
there be no more distribution of seed
except to genuine farmers.
He complains that school teachers.
provincial officers, commandments Of
military or constabulary posts and ner-
chants or traders having small lots in
fhe towns have constituted a consider
able portion of the people supplied with
seeds. and he is of the opinion that
they took less interest in the subject OF
agriculture than in the immediate ne
cessity of supplying their table with
fresh vegetables.
| Some satisfactory results are record
ed. In one of the provinces promising
results were secured with imported
| American field corn, but reports receiv-
ed from other parts of the archipelago
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-15
RUSSIAN OPINION
As TO The WAR

/ happened to come across a Russian
friend of mine a day or two ago who
had Just come from St. Petersburg,
and who is-to use the newspaper
phrase-in position. to know what is
going on.
The Siberian railroad, according to
my Russian friend, has worked per-
fectly, and there has been no difficulty
in forwarding troops and munitions of
war. But up to now practically only
the troops that We're already in Siberia
have been sent on. The entire South
ern Russian army is under marching
orders and will soon follow.
The Russians have the greatest con-.
fidence in Gen. Kuropatkin, who was
the Chief of staff of Gen. Skobelen and
has the reputation of not only being
an able commander in the field, but a
great military organizer. All that is
teIegraphed as to his declarations of
his intentions is mythical. for he is
with whom he converses. All that he
really said before leaving for the seat
of war to acquaintance was: Pa
that peace must be signed at Toxic,
it is a pure invention.
Tt is not expected that there win be
any difficulty in feeding the tr9cps il
the Far East. for not only ean he
railway and the An1ur be used for
transport but Manchurfa is fertile and
produces large crops, while the peas
ants have no strong predictions for
or against the Russians and are glad
to get market for their produce
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-15

Popular actresses with tendency to
fat are already going into training for
fall engagements. Managers nowadays
are a practical lot, and they think
nothing of STIMULATING weight before
signing contract. The 170-pound ac-
tress must agree to meet him t'at the
ringside scaling no more thar $50
pounds Kid Mccoy has few
clients whom he agreed to deliver in
side the limit, and he puts them
through the same course of rigorous
training adopted by prize fighters. Not
all the fat actresses are willing to
stand for this treatment, and they go
through courses of their own. One
very fat and very popular comic opera
singer has a very simple and effective
method. She walks and runs about
twelve miles a day and appeases her
hunger with chocolate This kills the
appetite without putting on weight.
Training is often only temporarily eff
fective. For every five pounds taken
off ten are added in the long run.
Nearly all the retired pugilists become
monstrously fat, and they attribute it
to long years of training.
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trated by the little insects, which i'm
a few hours would get away with the
entire contents of a quart can.
The experimental station workers
say the ants destroyed seed in the
ground before it had time to terminate,
and repeated attempts to start lettuce,
onions and beets in plant beds result
ed in failure on this account
Platforms high above the earth were
erected and the supporting poles COW
cred with poison. Plant boxes were
then placed on the platforms where the
seed could terminate.
In one instance an entire corn field OF
several acres was completely destroyed
by the ants eating the corn off just
beneath the surface of the ground.
In addition to the ants, aphides and
mealy bugs were also troublesome.
They injured lima and string beans,
tomatoes and egg plants.
Cabbage and caulif1ower were a fall
ure, and the officials say that the re-
suits do not justify repeating expert
nlents with rhubarb, spinach or cauli-
flower. Irish potatoes made q, fair
growth, but several paintings of water
melons, cucumbers and muskmelons
resulted in failure.
Squashes and cucumbers made
good growth and bloomed freely, but
set very little fruit. A difficulty with
cabbage was that it would not head
The work of the Bureau of Agricul-
ture is not confined to attempting to
j introduce American articles. Consid-
cradle attention has been given to the
development Of the many native fruits
Great interest is also taken in eff.
forts to produce disease immune cof-
! fee plant and to train the FTlipinos in
better methods of growing tobacco. A.
| stock farm has also been established,
and American horses and cows have
/ been purchased for breeding purposes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-15
ANTS ARE IN THE WAY.
American Vegetables Won't Grow in the
Philippines.
Philippines.

have been disappointing, showing a
tendency in the plant to dwarf and ear
out close to the ground.
In Batangas Province the stalks
reached good size and yielded two or
three large, well formed and we'll filed
ears to each stalk. The production in
shelled grain was one-third more than
was secured from a similar adjoining
area planted in native seed.
Mr.. Lyon, in report to the Philip
pine Commission, says that the use Of
corn is extending into provinces where
formerly it was not cultivated, and that
where it is largely grown it generally
commands a price which prohibits its
use for stock feeding or fattening pur-
poses. He thinks that ultimately the
use of acclimatized American seed will
increase the yield one-fourth or more
over that which can be secured from
native seed.
The failures with American garden
seeds were not confined to the native
and soldier farmers. One Of the ideas
of the Bureau of Agriculture was the
establishment of agricultural expert
mental stations in different parts of the
archipelago, which are conducted by
experienced agriculturfsts.
The reports Of these men are inter-
esting as showing the difficulties in the
way of the Filipino gardener. It is a
matter of comment that nearly all of
the fresh vegetables used in Manila are
| imported from China, where the system
of improving the soil is such as to make
the use of the vegetables undesirable
from a sanitary standpoint. During the
period of the plague in Manila the au-
thorities prohibited the Importation OF
these vegetables, and for time the
people suffered from lack of green
food.
The obstacle in the way of the Fill
pino gardener is the Filipino ant, which
| devouTs anything from the foundation
of house to a postage stamp. The
most valuable libraries in the Philip
pines have been ruined by these insects
which eat their way through paper
pasteboard, leather. wood. and even tin
They cannot affect the bright surface
Of new tinware, but army officers say
| that rusted tinware has been pene-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-15

The membership of the Christian
church of this city count the fortui-
tous advent Of the Evangelists, Messrs.
Hamilton and Wilkinson, an especial
~ fortunate occurrence for the church
just at this time when the matter of
securing a settled pastor is yet un-
settled. They are en- route to New Zea-
land and Australia where they are to
engage in evangelistic work, and mad
no thought of stopping in Honolulu,
but yielded to an appeal from a COM
mittee appointed by the church Off
GERS for the purpose of securing their
services temporarily.
Rev. o. E. Hamilton is an Iowa man
and graduated from Drake University
at Des .Moines in 1902 with the degree
OF p. L. B. This is the school founded
AID largely endowed by the late Ex-
Gov F. NJ. Drake of Iowa. During
his junior year, he found time to add
225 converts to churches within his
reach while at school. In his home
village he held a meeting in which IA
were added to the church, in another
town of 400 in his home county his