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rriniwiiwlniiiii jjniu f i' I 4 3 : A I This Argus o'er the people's rights, Doth an eternal vigil keep No soothing strains of Maia'sson, Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep" . - Vol. XVII. GOXiDSBORO. N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1899. NO 121 i i; t , 1 A, I s 1 4 i F i I0RMAL COLLEGE CLOSES. WANTED A BENEVOLENT GERM. ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS AMONG THE STUDENTS, Washington News Letter. WILL RE-OPEN AFTER CHRISTMAS Forty Cases of Sickness at the College Death ot Miss Ca'd well Saturday Night. Jreensboro Telegram, Nov. 20. The State Normal and Indus trial College closes until after Christmas, on account of typhoid fever breaking out among the students. A representative of the Tele gram interviewed President Mc- Iver to-day and learned the facts in the case, about which there have been so many flying reports and wild rumors during the past few days. On last Wednesday morning at the college occurred the death of Miss Toms, of Rutherford ton; on Saturday morning following 4 Miss Deans, of Wilson, died. These deaths following close upon each other gave rise to nu merous false reports, one of which stated thai 200 of the girls were down with typhoid fever. Not until last Saturday morn ing at 11:40 o'clock, Dr. Mclver state?, was he cognizant of the existence of a single case of ty phoid at the Normal. Within au hour afterwards he had called a conference of students and facul ty and a vote was allowed the ; young ladies as to whether they should return home until after Christmas. They voted in the affirmative, and the president, having obtained permission by wire of the executive committee declared the college adjourned until after the holidays. An ad ditional month will be added to the spring term to compensate for the loss in time. The Normal girls are leaving for their homes on every traiu. It is a great pity that a little . iever should have interfered with the most successful year of this grand institution's useful cess. Today a special committee com- I ed on The editor of the Chicago Tri bune has become very much ex ercised over the fact that all the microbes, - bacteria and other scientific nothings which are be ing constantly discovered by the physicians have a tendency to evil and evil only. The truth is that the physicians are manufac turing diseases by the discovery of insect life, and the more they create confidence in the minds of the people for these things, the srreateris the probability of sickness and disease, hence the cry of the Tribune, and we may all well echo the same cry from a material standpoint, is for a benevolent microbe which cas a tendency to create health rather than sicknesss. The Tribune's article is as follows: "It is questionable whether the almost daily scientific an nouncements as to the habitat and habits of bacteria are an un mixed good or addmuchtogaye- ty of mankind. Science, havitig discovered the pestiferous mi crobe, is careful to tell us that the air we breathe, the food we eat. and the water we drinK are filled with them, and they are deleterious. Every one of these wrisrslers is a bad one. It tells us we must look out for them, but suggests no way of doing it We are continually breathing, eatine and drinking them. We are informed they are slow pois on, and vet science is unable to furnish an antidote. Are there no germs which are good and beneficent.and which can be utli ized to counteract the bad ones? Science makes no reply." "Most harmless things have been turned into bugaboos by j science, and recently it has en deavored to disturb the security of the household by making us believe that the home is an all the year-round resort for the microbe. It is in the water that comes through the filterer, eyen ; in the kettle that sings on the stove, in the bread that is mold- the board, in the dust home, are swarming with legions of invisible pests, whose only office it is to remove us from this vale of tears? Is life made any happier for these discoveries of science? How did our grand- athers aud grandmothers man age to get along and live to spchj a sturdy old age? Microbes were as numerous ami active"" ttaou as t-rr . , - t 1 -3 now. was it oecause mey uiu not known it, or were they too tough subjects for them? Igno rance certainly was bliss in their case, we are wiser, due are we happier? Will not science bestir itself, and find a germicide that can be depended upon? Has it not skill enough to find good and friendly germs somwhere in its culture tubes? We have had enough of the gospel of despair which continually comes from its laboratories. LEGISLATION UNDONE THE SUPREME COURT KNOCKS OUT MANY NEW LAWS. THE SOUTHERN HOME MUST MOTE COTTON. Old School Boards Hold. T. B. Parker Addresses tlie Alliance Ad dress by Col. A. C. Dayls to Students. Regular Argus Correspondence. Fremont, Nov. 22. There are several hundred bales of cotton on the yard here and the railroad company has i wv,i.l3lared the legal school officers in eriven notice to the owners that . it must be moved from the im mediate vicinity of the depot. Republicans Retain Western Son licitorship ' Raleigh Post. The Supreme Court undid a great part of the work of the legislature of 1899 yesterday. Opinions were handed down in all the cases involving title to of fice. In addition to declaring Dr. D. H. Abbot a member ; of the Corporation Commission in place Mr. E. C. Beddingfield, as noted elsewhere, other decisions were handed down as follows: The new school law was com pletely upset. The members of the old county school boards of education, all fusionists, elected under the act of 1897, were de- VICE - PRESIDENT DEAD. The company never made this demand before during all the years that cotton has been piled up around the depot, and the reason for it now is not under stood here. Miss Myra Parker, a teacher in the Academy, in charge of the Primary department, visited her home in Wilson last Sunday. Sheriff B. P. Scott was in town Monday and attended the open ing of a meeting in the Town Hall in the evening, where he introduced Hon. T. B. Parker, State Business Manager of the Farmers' Alliance, who made an address to a small audience in the interest of the reorganization of the Alliance. Col. A. C. Davis, of Goldsboro, delivered the mid-term address to the students of the Fremont Academy, and also to a crowded house, as the public was invited. i posed of Mr. A. W. Shaffer, of specks which float in the par Raleigh, and Dr. Dodson, of Wil- lor, in the flues which convey the c i T)avis' experience and ability .---son, appointed by the state board heat. Recently a German bacter- j render lnm peculiarly well qual- ol healtn, are investigating tne lologist nas discovered mat tne I ified for an occasion of this sort. - sanitary conditions of the college. I refrigerator, which was supposed I He elicited the undivided atten ' The committee is accompanied I to be the dispenser of purity, is I tion of the entire audience from by Prof. W. P. Massey, of Ra-1 a favorite resort for germs, and the outset, while he spoke of the the cooler the refrigerator the I necessity ana dignity 01 laoor. most frisky the. germ. It was Wlse and practical thoughts elo Inn aim decided that fire could quently expressed not burn them, now we are told that ice cannot freeze them The same scientist says that the car pets and furniture are full of them. The housekeeper who uses the broom and dust brush is warned that these implements of cleanliness are the deadliest ene mies of health, and that the more thoroughly the housekeeper uses them, more closely she manaces the family, for they fairly reek with germs. The broom finds them and gathers them up in their innumerable hiding place?, and at every whisk of it she sets free whole cohorts of microbes which might have been innocu ous if left in their retreats. Robert J. Burdettp, poet, jour nalist and lecturer, discusses the Southern home in the Los Ange les Timr-s in a style at once beau tiful aod truthful, paying tribute to ' he charm, serenity and con- ABBOTT " REINSTATED. 'h,e UUUIJ KJJL tUQ UIU JK IKJ LXLOti Oil UUl" tecture which, as the Savannah Press says, is founded on the imperishable Greek mode, and has stood the test of time and the assaults of modern fads and fashions. He says: 'How beautiful, happy, pros perous the new South is. And her warmhearted, loving people the best people on earth. And the sweet old southern homes still stand here and there in the rush and clatter or 'modernity' and progress not as protests against the things that are made new they are too fair and gentle for that but as beautiful memo ries of all that was fairest and sweetest and best in the old South. How beautiful they are, these old Southern homes, with the pleasant dignity ot the old colo nial architecture and the stately grace of their massy, columned verandas. And just the shadow of pathos that rests upon them, tenderly as the sun-kissed hszo of these Indian summer days. 'They temper our modern desire for newness and oddity by their orderly sweetness, they correct our architectural frenzies by their old-fashioned serenity. They make you feel in your so-called Queen Anne' of many gabled deformities and creosote stains much as you would feel if your dear, stately old grandmother, in her silver hair and costly aces, should catch you standing on your head. They are of the old times, of the older. They s tood here before the war. They have known the fiery scourge of battle. They have been deluged with woe. They have been bap tized in sorrows some of which the .Northern homes have never Known, may never -Know, please God. And some of them have been common sorrows tne an guish of bereaved motherhood, the agony of widowhood, . the grief of the orphan. And - the sorrow that is common makes Garret A. Hobart Quietly Passes Away. the counties and not boards of school directors created by the General Assembly of 1900. Theopilus White, Populist, was reinstated as shell fish com missioner, succeeding Chief In spector Hill, Democrat, who was elected by the legislature of 1899. MeCall, Republican, was de clared solicitor of the Western criminal district, save in the counties which the legislature of 1899 added to the district. Judge Clark dissented in the decisions of the courts in the above cases. leigh. Their report will follow ? In a few days. Dr. Mclver states to the Teles :0am that there is only about ten per cent, of sickness among the student body, there being about 40 cases of mumps, malaria. - etc, included in which is the illness of two members of the x faculty. Hiss Daisy Caldwell, of Dav'd '".son College, died Saturday night. iShe was the only daughter of ."Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Caldwell. Tne remains were shipped to her i parents yesterday morning. The report was circulated all over the city yesterday that Miss ,. Aunie Wiley, a member of the - faculty who is sick, died yester- day morning, but this is not true and we are glad to say that Miss ' Wiley is slightly better to-day. The statement that Miss Bridgemon, a student, died this morning is also untrue, though .she is reported seriously ill. and inter spersed with just enough humor and pathos, constituted his sub ject-matter. The address has been highly complimented on all sides, and Col. Davis is assured of a hearty welcome whenever he again favors Fremont with a visit. M. MEN OF THE MAINE. Pointed Paragraphs. The Bodies to be brought Home For Burial in the Ar lington Washington, Nov. 19 General Fitzhugh Lee had an interview with Acting Secretary of the Navy Allen today in regard to the removal to the United States of the bodies of the men who lost their lives in tbe destruction of the battleship Maine. The plot in which they are interred in the cemetery in Havana has not bean kept in good order, and the Navy Department decided that it is advisable to disinter them and give them a last rest ing place in Arlington (Cemetery in Washington. Generalise sag gesteti that an effort be male to recover from tbe wreck of the Mainf men known to be m the vessel. Only about half the bod ies ware recovered and buried ashoie. Engaged people ought to be made to do all of their kissing jover a telephone. All this is depressing and tends to superinduce pessmism. Is there not evil enough in this old world that can be seen and felt, with out having life made still more wretched by the announcement that every breath we draw, every swallow of food and drink, the street, tbe shop, the office, the It may after all appear that Senator Thurston wrote "Beaus tiful Snow." The golden rule o Sam Jones did not work, because Nash did him first. The bogus news that Kaffir runners bring in are now called Kaffirgrams. John tC. MjLna hi decided to become naturalized in Ohio, leaving Washington to hump along by itself. The advance notices of the meteoric shower were overdrawn to tne customary extent or a trifi3 beyond. The Dewey House Again. Washington, Nov. 21. J ohn R. McLean announced to-day that papeis transferring the Dewey home from Mrs. Dewey to the admiral's son, George Goodwin Dewey, had been drawn up and would be placed on record imme diately. It is the general opin ion that this is the result of uni versal criticism of the admiral's action in giving the house to his wife. I This afternoon's papers here are tilled with protests against the transfer of the house to Mrs. Dewey. Bells of the City Toll. Pateeson, N. J., Nov. 21. Vice-President Garret A. Hobart died at his home here at 8.30 o'clock this morning. Members of the family were all at his bed side when the end came. The cause of his death was an affec tion of the heart, diagnosed as dilated right heart, due to myo cardotis. His death was peace ful. Shortly after his death Presi dent McKinley was notified by telephone. As soon as the news became known the bells of tha city hall, churches and schools tolled the sorrowful news, and flags were at half-mast through out the city. His physician states that at the time of his death he was unconscious and free from pain. The news of his death spread quickly, and messages of sym pathy came from all quarters. The President telesranhed to Mrs. Hobart from Washington, and other expressions of condo lence came from Attorney General Griggs, General Greeley, Senator Sewall and others. It was practically decided to hold formal service here Satur day afternoon. The body was embalmed to-day. The interment will be at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, on the outskirts of the citr. It was expected to day that a com mittee representing both houses of Congress would be appointed to attend the funeral. The Vice-President's illness dated back practically to the fall of 1898. IN MEMORIAM. "Leaves have their time to fall. And flowers to wither at the North wind's breath. And stars to set. but all Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O, death!' And so it has ever been since tender the bitterness of the fierce tte world S' a11 the PM" 1 1 i -ii i cruel past, and the kisses that bvPY me ages can avert rained on the face of the dead turn into caresses of consolation for the living." not God s plan : He gives and He takes away again, but we know that He doth all things well and, that "He giveth His beloved sleep." So, we feel, it is with her to whose memory these lines are Yes, indeed, the old Southern homes throughout this God blessed Southland of ours are hallowed with recollections that Will liye for aye, and to us whose penned Georgiana Barfield, th lives hold within them the exper- I beloved wife of A. 15. Grantham, lences that make those recollec- I of Newton Grove, Samson county, tion sweet and sacred they but I who departed this life on the 18th ripening touch," for there have cone forth from these homes to 1 ... H U 1 I 1 J vmuruua uotus nuu uoiuus uari ings and deaths as knightly souls nay knightlier than anv that the world has ever known Deiore, "wnen iLnigntnood was in flower," or will ever know again Ed. Argus. The South African war is thus far only neck-andneck in casual ties with football. Armored trains within the ene my's lines should indulge in a great deal of caution. Senator Thurston pleads au auoi against tne cnarge ot poe- TT 1 MM try. jae says nis oiienses were committed twenty-five years ago. of which for 20 years of married life she had been its light and joy. She died as she had lived, firm in tne laitn of tne Christian church and rejoicing in the prom ises of God, and committing to His care and keeping her devoted husband, whom she loved so dearly and who is heart broken. at her death, and her six children who were her joy and pride, and hoping to meet them all in heaven at last. R. It is either the very young woman or the one who feels youth creeping away from her that treasures clippings of poetry. f i f -i i s - I k t ft r- fe.! I I. ?' t: k b -. if 'Jf' .1 ' I. . ";.r- i t ( r I,. "TTh V r
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