Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-02-14
AS We GO ALONG.


Snapshots, Witty, Wise and Other
wise.
A good way for one to lose his identity
these days is to be magazine
poet.
In the flower garden of girls all can't
be roses, but the vio1ets are well worth
tyil4g to.
TIE fellow who "ropes i'm wife
with ropes of pearls is glad enough,
sometimes, to get the knot united.
If rich people didn't tear around in
automobiles they would probably be
doing something else great deal
worse.
Gam mbling is an institution Of thirty
years standing in Arizona, and yet it
has just been knocked out by new
territorial law.
Lives ofan great men remind us that
we can never make our lives sublime
by wearing out the seats of our trousers
and killing time.
A Chicago millionaire named Slaugh-
ter has just died and people are wonder
ing how many lambs were led to him,
as he was a broker.
A Philadelphia man has been propos-
ing to build a railroad from that city to
heaven, but it is feared that travel will
not be heavy enough.
Richmond Pearson Hobson is already
beginning to issue Japanese war fore
casts. He sees trouble coming in the
form of a yellow peril.
Since the magazine writers are all
busy reporting murder trials, the news
paper men might try their hand at get
ting out the magazines.
Richsrd Strauss says there are no
morals in art, and he seems to have
acted up to his convictions when he
wrote music fsr ''Saleme.''
Mrs. Hetty Green denies the soft i'm
peachment that she is "easy." No one
who. knows anything about Mrs. Green
would make such an assertion.
Shakespeare's immortal lines are be-
ing paraphrased to advertise meat and
lard. Do you remember what the bard
said about imperious Caesars clay?
Some statistics fiend has discovered
that four million American women are
earning their own living, to say nothing
of the husbands they are support
ing.
The Persian parliament is in good
| working order, but that fact does not
prevent the Shah from chopping Oh
heads in the old established man.
ner.
Ofcourse the president has no business
writing a constitution for Oklahoma,
but he has the right to say that if it is
not well written it shall not pass his
veto.
Guggenheim was introduced tC
1 Money as soon as he entered the Senate
Chamber, but, of course, this was not
the same money that helped him gel
there.
If they prove that Thaw is insane be-
cause he lost his temper in a poker game
it will be time for some folks who think
they are all right to sit up and take
notice.
The retirement of Rear Admiral
Sigsbee will leave in active service only
Dewey and Evans of all the high nava
officers who took part in the war with
|Spain.
i It is four years since Reed Smoo1
/ took his seat in the Senate, and yet q
vote upon his right to that seat is yet te
be taken. It is to be pulled off on Feb
ruary 20.
Senator Booker Washington from
Ohio is an illustration to the other two
senators of the influence they Nigh
have had with the president if they hao
stood by him.
There is one time in a woman's ift
when she wants to appear older thar
she really is. That's when sheis abou
, seven and parades about in one of he
mothers long dresses, on shopping
or s'social duties bent