Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-02-21
AS We GO ALONG.
Snapshots, WITTY, wise and Olher'
wise.


The old discussion of what DIR. Osler
really said has been revived. Let it
rest!
Senator Bailey knows no convincing
reason why he should not organize a
little Ananias Club of his own.
man has to be mighty amiable to
laugh at a joke he was going to get off
himself when the chance came.
Now ome a scientist who says that
eating is nothing but a harmful habit.
In his case talking is the same.
The steamship lines have no block
system, but they seem to accomplish
the same results III another way.
If it be true, as reported, that Presi-
dent Castro is doing WE'LL" we mere
ly remark tina it is the first time.
When John d. Rockefeller starts to
giving away money he makes Uncle
Andy Carnegie look like 30 cents.
Standard oil has gone Up. What could
you expect when Mars. Rockefeller
gave away $32, OoO, 900 in one day.
1.-THE world is growing wiser. but
weaker" says John l.. Sullivan.
Philosophy has come to John, along
with years.
"The broad issue is, Did Stanford
White step across the dead line,' says
the Denver Post. Well, it would seem
so. He's dead.
When Mr.. Rockefeller begins to peel
$32. OOO, 900 from his roll at one time,
Mr.. Carnegie may be- haunted by the
fear that he is regarded as a piker.
If everybody was as anxious to get
to heaven as they are to see the
comic supplement of the Sunday papers
this would be a glorious old world.
Sat rest ran the legend on his
Thinking Of the windows weep
friend said: Poor chap! It's the
irst rest he has had in thirty years."
Oklahoma will have to follow the ex-
ample of her southern sisters and bar
the negro by a suffrage amendment af-
ter Teddy has approved the constitu-
ton.
The ST. Paul lumberman is now
shown not to be richer than John D.
Rockefeller, but neither does he seem
to make himself poorer by gifts
10 e1ucation.
"What is the moral of the Thaw
demands a contemporary, as
though the unaided and naked y
could not reveal that there is nothing
moral about it.
And now comes q New York paper
and predicts a war with Canada. Some
times we halfway suspect it was Mars.
and not Puck. who said "What fools
these mortals bet"
Senator Foraker is still attempting to
prove that the white people of Browns
Vile shot up their own town and killed
spite the negroes.
If you will take yourself well in hand
during Lent, and be the master of your
appetites and be the captain of your
soul, you will have full recompense for
any sacrifice that it costs.
Perhaps for concentrated inaccuracy
of statement nothing can surpass the
following sentence, which occurred in
an account of a burglary given a short
less search all the money was recovered,
except one pair of boots"
a scientist has discovered that "a
twenty dollar gold piece has an odor
distinctly it's When the gentleman
brings his Investigations down to the
nickel neighborhood, he will find him
self a little less immune from contradic-
ton.
Judge Fitzgerald has done well to ex-
clude women from the courtroom
during the progress of the Thaw trial.
But why confine his Exclusion act'' tc
women? If the evidence is unfit for
women to hear, it is equally unfit fol-
men to hear. There should not be two
standards of morals and deeency, one
for women and another for men.
Nat G. Goodwin was making stage
love to Edna Goodriche as only Nat
Goodwin can, when there came q rap
ping on the door. look out!'' cried
a deeply engrossed spectator from the
the center of the parquet and everybody
laughed. 1t was a ribute to the actors
art, but nearly spoiled one of the bes1
scenes in stThe Genius"
One more instance of the power o
punctuation. Even a comma may play
the very duce. Not many years ago 8