No Boothing, trains of Maia's sons
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep.
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GOLDSBORO. N. CM THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1905
NO 71
This argus o'er tha people's rig-hie,
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GENERAL STOESSEL TO BE
TIUED BY A COUIiT
MAKT1AL.
9, Dispatcli Says That a Japanese
Cruiser Is Patrolling San
Bernardino Channel.
Garrison at Port
Athur Contain- v
eel a Total of
48,000.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 5. Few inci- j
dents of the whole war have'aroused
more bitter criticism than the blunt
announcement, officially issued by
the General Staff that General Stoes
eel will have to come home and
stands court martial for surrending
the fortress of Port Arthur.
While this is an ancient regula
tion and quite according to law, it is
bitterly resented on all sides that
such an announcement shou'd have
been gratuitously made in the same
bulletin containing General Stoessel'a
appeal te Emperor for "lenient
judgement on a garrison reduced to
shadows, who have done all that
was possible for human beings to up
hold the honor of Russia in the face
of ber enemies."
Paria, Jan. 5. The St. Petersburg
Correspondent of the Paris edition of
the New York Herald telegraphs
that Vice-Admiral Rojestvemky's
flagship, the battleship Kniaz Sou-
varoff has struct a rucii. auu iuvuu
ered. London, Jan. 5. The Japanese
authorites refused to-day to allow
the British cruiser Andromeda to
land near Port Arthur the medical
stores with which she sailed from
Wei-Hai-Wei, fearing she might en
counter some still undiscovered Rus
sian mines. . '""
London, Jan. 5. A dispatch from
Manila says that a Japanese cruiser
is. patrolling Sah Bernardma chan-
DEATH ROLL OF 1004.
No fewer thaa ten ex-Governors
fnel.
' ' died last year, and three of them
.w - nad been Governors of Ohio. Post-
-tnaster General Payne also died, as
au thrift Senators and leaders of
wide reputation. Those Senators
were Marcus A. Hanna, Matthew1
Stanley Quay and George Frisbie
.Hoar. It would be difficult to point
out three Senators who would be so
' greatly missed. Ex-Senators Vest
and Ransom also passed'away in the
old year.
From the ranks of writers were
' taken Lafcadio Hearn, whose cosmo-
innrt W14 P.nflffl in JaDan:
IJKJi K 1. t Ui V v-f 4
Sir Edwin Arnold, whose poems will
lnnp- keeD his memory green; Sir
Henry M. Stanley, the African ex
nlorer: Samuel Smilts, the author of
"Self Help"; Sir Leslie' Stephen,
student of rare acquirements, and
Sir William V3rnon
publicist and leader,
Harcourt,
a
who served
alongside Gladstone.
Other notable dead ol the year in
Cludtd "Oom Paul" Kruger, ex
: president of the Transvaal; Count
,xrnn Waldersee. who stood high in
Germany; Prince von Plehve, min
ister of the interior of "Russia, who
ftll at, the hands of assassins, ana
Isabella II., ex-Queen of Spain.
The year's dead includes no Bis-
mark nor Gladstone, but many men
of great usefulness were stricken
rtnivn. and every country suffered
losses that were deeply mourned.
$100-Dr. E. Detchon's Anti-
Diuretic may be worth to you more
than $100 if you. have a child who
soils bedding from incontinence of
water during sleep Cures old and
ybTJTis alike It arrests the trouble
at once. Sold by M. E. Robm-
scn &ro. drujgiats, Goldsboro.
PORT ARTHUR.
Port Arthur is in the hands of the
Japanese, and there it will stay, un
less indeed the Japanese are willing
to make it a free port, and the rail
road thence to Harbin, a corporation
as much Japanese as Russian, and
more Chinese than either. Such a
settlement of a difficult problem is
possible.
If a settlement of that nature be,
however, impossible then indeed
Port Arthur must remain Japanese
to the end of time, and if France or
Germany, or both, attempt to repro
duce the difficulty of nine years ago
Japan will fight and England, treaty
bound, will be compelled to fight
with and for her.
The fraud of nine years ago has in
fact been rendered impossible by
Japanese valor and Japanese diplo
matic skill, England is her ally.
She stands, too, for the open door,
and thus America becomes her
friend. The better part of the civi
lized world is in open sympathy.
All despise the duplicity of 1896,
and all admire the skill and valor
displayed in these days by the little
yellow men of Japan.
It seems almost incredible that
Russia does not sue for peace. Full
Of distraction at home, and absolute
ly without Jiope on the sea in the far
east, and therefore .without a chance
to regain Port Arthur or the warm
water outlet she needs, there seems
to be nothing for her to do but to
make' peace and await a better' op
portunity. Many believe she must
either do this, or encounter civil
strife at home. The bureaucrats are
considered, rightly considered, the
source and creators of Russia's dis
tressing," condition, and ic will be
strange indeed if the great mass of
Russians do not bring them to justice.
A treaty of peace or a revolution
seems inevitable, and if it be a treaty
of peace Port Arthur and its railroad
must either be left in Japanese bauds,
or else they must' be handed over to
the uses ot the entire world. Korea
in any event will become a part of
Japan.
POST-BELLUM CONSPIR
ACIES. Scarcely had the news of the fall
of Port Arthur been received in
Paris when the French jumping-jack
newspaper writers rushed into print
to declare that the retention of Port
Arthur by the Japanese would en
danger the interests of the Western
nations in the Far East. The hold
ing of it by iiussia was admirable,
but the holding of it by the Japanese
would be something awful. The
Berlin Monarch proposes, it - is said,
to name the term$ of peace. This is
said to be the secret wish of Conti
nental Europe. ; England and the
United 'States should stand firmly J
against auy suun acuuii. xvusaia,
Germany and France made a mess
of it when they dictated the terms of
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settlement between Japan and China.
They really brought on the present
bloody jtwar, and Germany and
France should keep out of the settle
ment that is plainly approaching.
Japan has now twice conquered by
her skill and valor Port Arthur, and
she should hold it as a guarantee of
peace ana control in the Far "East.
The United States and Great Britain
should aid in the diplomacy that- ;s
near at hand. Japan believes in the
Open Door, and that is all we want
in the Far East. England is Japan's
ally. s
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AT, any rate oapau siiuum uegm to
fortify Port Arthur with a view to
the. holding of it to the end of time.
No .combine of land-greed nations
should be' permitted to rob her ol
her conquest. (fche should fight this
time all comers, , for if France or
Germany get into it England must
perforce side with Japan, and the
United States should do likewise if
the Open Door is to become a fact in
the . Far East. There is-no Open
Door, .when France . and Germany
conspire to aid Russia.-- It is ah ill
assorted lot, and this country should
stand against them, and in favor of
the Open Door. ,
IP OF TIE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
The Latest Telegraphic News oi the
Day Boiled Down to a
Focus For Busy
Readers.
Cowardice is a son-of-agun that
carries a pistol, . .'.
The president of Paraguay declares
that his official motto shall -be "Or
der and Labor." We can foresee his
finish in revolution.
Dr. Chadwick's part in the finan
cial operations of his wife is, said to
have Deen only "passive." Workout
the legal significance of this for your
self. . . ' :
i "Are the American people grow
ing shorter?" asks a medical con
temporary. This is a nice, question
to ask.right on the heels of Christ
mas. Chicago's "Bath House John" is a
candidate for mayor of that cosmo
politan metropolis, nothing daunted
by the fate of New York's "Big
Bill" Devery,
A deceased New England heiress
. left her large fortune to a town on
condition that the town change its
name to hers. The longing for im
mortality is by no means confined to
the hereafter.
The Philadelphia Press is jubilant
because Pennsylvania contributed
one-fifth of the great majority Presi
dent Roosevelt received at , the late
election." And Philadelphia but
never mind, there's no use exciting
hard feelings.
Boston is too refined, to say plain
"tunnel" or '"subway." Bostonians,
according to The Chicago Journal,
allude to their new rapid transit
hole in the ground as the "subaque
ous corridor,". since the water of the
bay is over it.
The lynching spirit once aroused
is no respecter of persons. It is an
archy in a very bad form. It knows
no bounds, possesses no reason and
considers not the consequences." It
is one of the worst forms of lawless
ness the world has witnessed in gen
erations, and .its results are deep
seated. The sooner this menace to
progress and a higher standard of
civilization is suppressed by rigid
execution of the laws , the better for
the welfare of all the people.
LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in Postoffice, Golds-
boro, -Wayne C aunty, N. C.
"
Jan. 9, 1904.
MEN'S LIST.
B Ji J Bawhes, HM Baker.
E L Evans. "
G Ellie Graham, Henry Grimes.
L-J L Lane, W T Love & Co.
M James K. Mullord, John Mc-
Lellan, W H Mozingo. ' .
N A W Nodgen.
R C R Rodgers. r
STE Spencer, Willie Smith.
W Robt B Williams, Shepherd
- Williams.
LADIES' LIST.
A Pennie Applewhite.
B Anna Banks, Annie Bell, Fan-
nie Brewington. .
CS J" Carter.
E Lila Everitt. ; . ,
F Lucinda Ford.
G -Martha Gooley.
II Annie Highsmith.
MBasha Lee Manuel, ' . '
S F M Saunders, Win Strictland.
W Narci Wills. 5 : .
Persons sailing for above letters
will please say advertised. Rules
and regulations require that one cent
be paid on advertised letters.
J. F. DOBSON,
Postmaster.
AFTER PORT ARTHUR,
WHAT?
The fall of Port Arthur does not
simply deprive the Baltic fleet of' a
rendezvous. ; There is in fact little
probability that that lot of odds and
ends will ever be sent to the China
sea, or t Vladivostock, or to the
Far Ea . at any other point. Nor
will the prestige thus gained by the
Japanese be material, for they have
plenty of that article on hand. They
have really suffered no defeat in a
year of war..
But there will flow from the fall of
Port Arthur two aids to war that
may prove important and even deci
sive. In the first place Oyama who
is facing Kuropatkin will at once be
reinforced to the extent of 50,000
seasoned troops, and Japan will be
enabled to hurl her entire military
strength against - Kuropatkin. A
clash may . niot occur until spring,
but when it does come Japan will be
ully ready for it, relieved as she is
of the task of maintaining an army
under Nogi at Port Arthur.
But the chief game will be of a
naval nature. Japan has but four
.battleships, and she, may now be
able to double that number by
quickly raising and refitting Russian
ships sunk in the ' shallow water of
the harbor of Port Arthur. If this
be .feasible the war is practically set
tled, for as long as Japan controls
the waters of the Far East Russia
cannot whip her .7,000 miles away
from a real base with no connecting
link except a single-track railroad.
Russia cannot regain then control
of the sea. She should seek peace,
and resume her "proverbial diploma
tic methods. She has nothing to gain
from a eontrsaance of a war that
shows her in a collapsed condition.
There is plenty of sense in such men
as M. Witte, and besides the internal
condition of Russia calls aloud for
peace. The war is unpopular in Rus
sia, and conscription is the military
recourse at present. All these things
point to peace, and that, too, speedi
ly. The fall of Port Arthur means,
let us hope, peace.
TO REDUC
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RAILROAD AC-
DENTS.
(Governor Aycock's Message.)
Railroad accidents have been so
numerous in the past few years as to
challenge the attention of the State
as well as the traveling public. I am
firmly persuaded that many ot these
accidents are due to the physical
condition of. the employees of the
railroad and that this condition is
brought about by too many hours of
em-vino without the opportunity of
rest. If the public were not directly
interested in the matter it would
still be a subject warthy of considera
tion whether any, citizen should be
permitted, even under contract, to
wnrk for so srreat a length of time
withoutrest as to impair his physi
w J
os -And mental powers, but where
the life of people traveling is invol
vori thftre can be no doubt of the
right and duty of the Legislature to
pass such laws as shall render less
frpnnpsnt railroad accidents by re-
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stricting the number of hours of con
tinuous service which can be given
by the employees of the railroads
A law of this sort will work nohara-
Rhinunon arvbody. un ine con
trary by securing better service, ac
cidents will beiessened, human life
will be protected and the destruction
of property prevented. :-
Reliet in Six Hours. .
Distressing Kidney and Bladder
Disease relieved in six nours Dy
"New Gbeat South amekican idnet
Cuke " It is a great surprise on ac
count of its exceeding proraptnes
in relieving pain in bladder, kidney
and back, in male or lemaie. jae
lieves retention of water almost im-
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and cure this is the j-emedy, Sold
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rrhfi old, brisrinal GROVE'S Taste-
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YOUNG
SHARP AND WITTY SAY
INGS OF THE PRESS.
Pickett Up For the Amusement
and Perusal oi jthe
Masses.
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"I haven't any money,
The candid truth to tell."
"Oh," said the girl collector,
"A check will do as well."
"Which state does Senator Dodger
represent?" 1
"I don't know, but I can tell you
which trust."
"Let me sell you this little
work
on 'How to Keep Chickens.' "
"No use. There is a colored settle
ment half a mile below."
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"There goes a.man who has slaugh
tered his thousands."
"Why is he allowed to remain at
large?"
"He is a war correspondent, and
those that he killed never found it
out."
Yes, there's a good time coming
Some day, I rather guees.
But it's' not bearing down upon
The cannon ball express.
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"Do you believe Solomon was the
wisest man?" -
"I suppose he was, but I don't like
to say anything about it, my hus
band is so sensitive."
He came from college
Chock full of knowledge,
But one great point he lacked
He had been prouder
And shouted louder .
Had all his ribs been cracked.
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They were seated so close together
on the parlor sofa that there was no
room between them for an argument,
when she suddenly let loose a large
and soulful sigh.
"What's the matter, darling?" he
asked. -
-Oh," she replied, "I just happen
ed to think that this would be our
last evening together until to-morrow
evening." s
"Her Natal Day
. Yesterday afternoon, between the
hours of a and 5, a the home of Mr.
and Mrs. C. F. Taylor, on Chestnut
street, was the scene of bright faces
and jolly prattle by the "Wee ones,"
the occasion being the 4 th birthday of
their bright and lovely little daugh
ter Serena Fischer Taylor.
The little guests were received by
Grandma Williams with her always
cheerful face and were as follows:
Walter Stilley, Margaret" Brad
shaw, Estelle Powell, Lydia Taylor,
Elizabeth Allen, Virginia Allen and
Robert Bradshaw.
The 4 -little hostess" received many
beautiful remembrances, and each
wish for her many, many happy re
turns of the day. After games and
other amusement, all were taken to
the lovely decorated dining room,
where dainty little" refreshments
were served by Misses Eunice Tay
lor and Katie Corb'ett.
New Hardware Company
The Ideal Hardware and Com
mission Company has been organized
in this city with a capital Of $10,500
paid in. The officers are, W. H.
Huggins, President; Geo. W. Baker,
Vice-President; J. Wash Bizzell,
J Secretary and Treasurer,
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The business will be conducted at
- gtand formerly:occupied by Mr.
W. -CI. XlUgJJlUS. N
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FAMOUS SIEGES.
The fall of Port Arthur, after a
siege of over ten months, recalls other
sieges of modern times, including
that of Vicksburg. Flag Officer Far
ragut first demanded the surrender
of that city on May 18, 1862, but the
bombardment oi" it was not begun
until June 26. It was surrendered "on
July. 4, 1863. The forces engaged
were much alike those that met face
to face at Port Arthur. General
Pemberton surrendered 31,000 men
and 172 guns, after encountering
losses aggregating 10,000 men and 90
guns. General Grant's losses were
about 10.000 men out of a total fnroA
70,000 strong. The fall of Vicksburg
came with the battle of Gettysburg,
and the two marked the turning point
in the civil war. The siege of Peters
burg, lasting nearly eleven months,'
may be said to have ended it.
A few years before the daysofcivij
war France, Great Britain and TuN
key were engaged in fighting Russia;
whose land greed looked at that time
towards Constantinople. ' The scene
of war was in the Crimea, and Seba-
stopol became its local point. That
famous siege lasted eleven months,
and from it Tennyson drew the sub
ject of his immortal poem. The forts
about Sebastopol became household,
words. It-was a siege that will live
in history, but all military experts
agree that Port Arthur outranks it
alike in military skip
picturesqueness. Poi
comparatively the bio.
The siege of Luckn
lasted four months wi
army but their way ti
poys, and another is
was written. T.ie s
lasted 142 day?; Unit
118 days, and that ui
Franco-German war,
Other sieges of mot..
of short duration, i.
reaching importance,
siege of Yorktovn,
twenty days.
The siege of Port Ar
in history with.the tie-
if it lead on to a reor
rejuvenation of China i
the best of them in em
ALL NEXT
The Lyric Stock Ci
Have the Koards o
senger Opera II
ginning Moi
Next week what is e
best popular price atti -road,
both from a st
standpoint and from a
of view, will be at t
Opera House, opening I
The . attraction will
Stock. Company, whict
of some of the most pc
on the road each one
Monday night the
.own
j&ny w
present the latest military dran
"Only a Volunteer," and the mc
brilliant popular price productu
ever seen in this city is promise
The piece is one that deals interes
ingly and powerfully with the pres
ent war and affords ample opportun
ity for handsome costumes and pic
turesque stage settings. For the pro
duction the eompany carries special
scenery, as it would be impossible to
present a scene at Port Arthur with
out such. The plot is one of intense
heart interest and appeals by its re
finement to the cultured and edu
cated. The comedy is of a rich hue
and most unique in nature. It is
guaranteed that the play is not be
ing produced by any other repertoire
company in the South.
Seats for Monday night will be on
sale at Higgins' Drug Store.
Prices 10, 20 and 30 cents.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUIN
INE Tablets. All druggists refund
the money if it fails to cure. E. W.
Grove's signature is on each box. 25c.
LAND POSTED.
All persons are hereby forbidden .
under penalty of law to hunt,(fish or
VfhxrwlaA tr'finnass nn tho farm Iot
1 of the undersigned. Doc, oniith
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