Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-09-07
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No wonder Mr.. Takahira ia ill.
From the looks of things at Ports
mouth the Japs have an excuse for
feeling SICK
Mayor Rolla Wells of st. Louis
announces that he is going to New
York to rest. He will probably be
tired sure enough before he gets
back home.
There will be some consolation
for earth bodies when airships be-
come universal in the knowledge
chat the people who ride will be in
ss much danger as the people who
walk.
The statehood constitutional COM
mittee at Muskogee. I. t., has
agreed on "Sequoyah" for the name
of the commonwealth. Imagine the
Ijoys of living in a state with a Min
nehaha name like that!
We suspected that Count Tolstoi
would be unable to keep silent much
| longer. For the first time in a long
period he expresses himself as
| plea led. If Count TolstOi is satisfied
the Russians surely ought to be.
The attitude of some of the Rus
sian newspapers towards the result
of the peace conference suggests the
Russians are so thick-headed they
don't recognize a good thing when
they meet it in the road.
The engineers who are holding
a conference to consider t. e
way to build the Panama cana
lshould conclude that less Jaw aLC
red tape and more work would hell
some.
About the only persons of promj-
hence who did not send message
of congratulation to PRECEDENT Roose-
xelt when the news Ves u ace
at Portsmouth were Johann Ao
and James Hazen Hyde.
Those Russians who are usire
the cession of part of Sakhaliu tc
the Japs as a means TO discount NJ.
| Witte are the same gang who
throagh intrigue and self5hness and
graft did what they could to pull
down Russia.
President Castro is still boast
ling about his plans to whip the
| United States. Some of these days
| President Castro may wake up and
wonder why he didl't find out
that it was loaded before it was tto
late.
After all it seems that the Chinese
couldn'tget along without American
made goods. They found that a boy
colt was biting off their noses t.
spite their faces, and this isn't a bit
profitable.
The boastful attitude adopted by
NJ. Witte after the consummation Of
peace at Portsmouth and the brie1
announcement of Baron Komurs
that he yielded for the sake o:
humanity, compares the two men il
La way that discredits the Russian
.kaenipotentiary. The reported in
Efsrview given out by M. Witte K
the effect that he played a magnifi
cent game of bluff, is to say thu
least of it, in very poor taste.
There are heroes of peace as wei
as a The doctors who r riskins
, their lives SO nobly in New Orlean
land the fever-infected towns O
Louisiana and Mississippi, are dis
lplaying a courage and devotion t
{ humanity that might make tn
boldest soldier quail. There is a di1
3 ference-heroes will tell you SOL
facing a rain of shot and shell on
battle field, or charging breastwerE
Iwherethe example of ones fello v
IcalIs every chivalrous impulse int
play, and in battling with an il
Isidious disease that strikes surel
land brings a horrible death. Fol
doctors have thus far succumbe
lin New Orleans. DIR. Berry was tt
first, and it is a source of congratul
Ition that he recovered. DR.. Ma
Landry, DR.. l.. A. Meraux and d
lJ. 7. Wolfe are now sufferir
u from the discs e. Other doctors a.
!" making heroic efforts to stay
their feet in spite of illness. III
Il Qualities displayed by the physical
Is who are fighting ''yellow jack" g
titles them to the respect al
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