Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-03-09
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years old, and admits it. Aliee
Roosevelt is tWenty-one, and makes
no secret of the fact. But between
Susan and Alice are many women
who would rather not tell.
Charlotte, N. c., March 6.-The
safe in the Office of the McAden cot
ton mills at McAdensville was open
ed and robbed of. between 81 ,S0O.a and
81, 900 and a numder of valuable
papers, some time between the clos
ing hour Saturday night and this
morning.
Wilmington, N. c., March g.
The board of aldermen tonight voted
a tax of $4,000 a year on trading
stamp companies, in response to d
petition presented by a number OF
merchants stating that the Southern
Trading Stamp Company had recent
ly opened up here, and asking the
board to tax such business.
The gentleman who murdered his
wife by choking her to death with d
shoe-string will be hanged shortly.
1t would be interesting to know just
why he did the deed with d shoe
string when there are 50 many otEer
more expeditions ways of choking a
person to death. It would be d rItie
brutal to hint that this man is som.-
thing of a joker but he has queer
ideas to say the least.
The cheerfulness with which tn,
House voted Itself d present ol $lsU,
600 to pay for mileage during r,
cess which did not exist seems to be
DIS fne an example vi ''grab" as an,
the country has yet witnessed. How
the heart of the gentleman burglar
must ache when he reflects that he
must hustle for his plunler while
Congress can legislate itself into un-
limited wealth.
A band of 100 Cheyenne Indians
from Seiung, Oklahoma, marched
upon the town Taloga, threatening
to massacre its entire population but
were persuaded to return to camp by
Wllshusan, daughter of Stone Chief
and wife of white scout. This is
not a bit Of colonial history you are
reading or an extract from a
Leather Stocking'' novel. The in
cident happened last Saturday. The
Indian is the same old Indian and
history repeats itself.
Henry q. Davis has just called on
DIR. Osler in Baltimore to inquire if
his theories regarding men 60 years
old applied to him. Of course polite
ness demanded that DIR. Osler reply
in the negative. According to statis-
tics, Mr.. Davis passed the chloro-
form period % years ago. While he
failed to land in the vice presidential
chair, he made a warm race for a
man who is 80 years old, and he. is
still taking nourishment. There are
so many exceptions to the Osler rule
that it is beginning to look foolish.
Tom Watson's magazine has made
its first appearance and is causing
enough talk to warm the heart of its
circulation manager. There is a
bright future before this publication.
1t will probably be "Lawsonized"
by the brilliant Georgian and may
soon be in politics what "Every-
body's" is in the world of finance.
The list of contributors to the first
issue is noteworthy, and If Mr.. Wat
son does not succeed in building up q
fgreat magazine those who know him
will be surprised. He is not a man
to fail at anything save running fol
the Presidency.
| DIR. Osler says he did not mean tha
all men should be choloroformed al
the age of sixty, but sticks to the
rest of his assertion and believes tina
four-score years marks the age of re
tirement. Although he is an emf
nent medical authority, the name o
DR.. Osler was not familiar to the
generality two weeks aso, but it il
now, all because he made a rathe
remarkable statement in the face o
a bulk of proof to the contrary, ant
was contridicted by every newspa
per in the country. DR.. Osler ha
at least been well advertised and hi
coup was accomplished at the age q
Sc.
Il More than one billion pounds O
t coffee was imported into the Unite'
States last year and practically all O
3 it was consumed by the America
t people. Here is suggestion f,
| health crdnks to ponder over. Or
1 billion pounds of coffee means man.
e a cup and still we manage to ge
2 along somehow without an extraor
idinary number of nervous wrecks
without crowding our asylums am
with the larger part of our popula
ton still outside of sanitariums
: Here of late there is disposition
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