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f Is - 4 - . . . . . - -mm - aaBl ISMS IbVBbW -W I. WsT - - (J1 Afv "Wk,-, "This Argus o'er the people's rights No soothingstrains of Maia's son (Ji AA 0 Voov P.UV d XfcJcil. Doth an eternal vigil keep ; ShaU lull itshundred eyes to sleep." tpi.UU -L tJdJL VOL. -vTI. GOLDSBOBO, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1907. NC. 26 -- 1 II I - MM, ,, , - II. .1 I I I -" .' l.l.lll. . I H.H I I I. .. . : . " . ; . i i - . .,- - 1 "" " NO CLMPROMISE. The RaiIroadsWill Let the United States Supreme Court Adjudicate Their BigTits. There Will be no Extra Session of the Legislature and Let Us Hope For the End of Controversy and Peanut Politics. (Special to the i.itaut.) Raleigh, Doc. IS. Frosa all that can be learned here to-day through Gov. Qltnn, and otherwiae,all prospeots f a ompromiis and an agreement nd settlement of the nw railway rata Saw 'Contention, in North Carolina, haa n ihd in the air. Certainly for the "most immediate present, end meatlikety lor -all time. The conforanoa bald Wwwm'Qot. Glenn and Preaidan Finley, ot the Southern Railwy,yestecday afternoon.! is believed to bare been the -winding! up of negotiation. Although the Southern and tu-e Seaboard (Got. Glenn himself states) Agreed to ccept th counter proposition submitted bytfhe Governor somo time ago, tbe friends- of those roads here, believe it was ;a mis-' take, because the Legislature- espe-i cially in the House is composed large-: ly of Radical nen, w bo might 'use the extra session to turn down the agree ment recommended by Gov.Glenn and enaet a flat 2 cent rate law 'instead' of the 2 1-4 cent law passed last winter. DEATH OF B. V. HERRING. OccinTed Suddenly la This iSity Yester day Afternson. From Wednesday's Daily- The death of Mr. Bryan Whitfield Herring, of Calypso, Duplin county, and well known in this city, where he was a frequent visitor-, 'occurred here yesterday, shortly after l. o'cloek, at the residence of his biother-in-law.Mr. M. S. Witherington, wtoere he-made his home when in Goldsboro. . He had come up from Duplin on Tuesday night, and yesterday morn ing "he complained to his -sister, Mrs. Witherington, of feeling badly. She required him to summon a physician, and he did so. The physician found his heart seriously aflected.pr-escribed, and called again about 1 o'clock, Mrs. Witherington attending him to her brother's room, where she bad 'been constantly during tb morning, On this visit the doctor found ibis-condition apparently improved, but pre scribed further, and sent the medicine. In the meantimei Mrs. Wifberrngton left the room for a few minutes,, and ou the arrival ot the medicine she re turned to her,brother's room to give il to him and found him dead., having passed away evidently without a struggle. , The deceased was industrious, frugal and companionable, and was a fre-: quent visitor to the Akgus, where he was always cordially welcome, and. we! shall miss him exceedingly. i Mr. Herring was 58 years old and! unmarried. He is survived by three-j 6isters and four brothers. These art Mrs. B. V. Wright, Mrs. E. F. Hicks, Mrs. M. S. Witherington, and Messrs. B. S., Robt. H. and Jas. S. Herring, of Florida, Mississippi and Arkansas, re spectively, and Dr. N. B. Herring of Wilson. , There will be a funeral service at the home this evening at 8 o'clock, and on the early train in the morning the re mains will be taken to Faison, where the funeral will be held tomorrow at 10 o'clock, and tbe Interment made in the lamily plot in the cemetery of that town. DDESNT LOOK RIGHT. New Bern Sun. . . s Wonder why Governor Glenn didn't appoint at least one New Bern man in that delegation to look after rivers and harbors matters. ' Some up country towns where there are no rivers and bar Don, have several men in the dele gation, while there ia not a man from New Bern, and lew from any eastern point, the section most ' directly con cerned. Governor , Glenn may have what is to him a good and satisfactory reason lor it, but it doesn't look righ to the public. GREAT MEN IN NORTH CAROLINA. (PART II.) Ekv. NathanaMi Habbino. Rev. Nathanael Harding is not as extensively known throughout our State pterhaps, as the two men dis cussed in the foregoing installment. He is tiot agreat man, vs the world has it, nevertheless he $s great. I am almost sorry that he 4s a clergyman, for I believe that a layman as nearly perfect as be could -do infinitely more good. He is the greatest man tor do ing out of church What he talks about doing in church that ve overseen. 'Out of dhurch, tfaoi- he is Mr. Hard ing and is no too of an Episcopal minister than Kny other kind of a minister he 'knows how to get about town among 'people, bad and good, 'bieti-roller" and vestryman, and I have never yet seen that man too com mon or low-down for Mr. Harding to stop and talk with. Some ministers are too good to do this. When my father was a stranger in Washington, M. Harding, was the iflrst :mn 'to offer him acquaintance. -;H ((my father) was being shaved in a barber shop, when Mr. Harding came up and after introducing himself, ex tended an invitation to come to church in the morning gave him an invita tion right through tbe lather. Now my1 father was a "shoutin' Methodist" by birth and raisin', but he went to St. Peter's Episcopal church and let Mr. Harding give him a small dose of Apostolic Succession. After that quite a friendship sprung up betweecJiim self and. Mr. Harding a friendship of which my father was always very proud. Mr. Harding is a very fine preacher. I have seen his church packed with members of every denomination in Washington, N. C, and I suppose that there were some infidels there, too. "But atheist or belie veri" everybody in Eastern North Carolina loves Mr. Harding because he's "sure 'nough folks," and he knows how to get about among people, and he is the kind or man which does good. He will smoke a cigar with a fellow; he will talk politics, baseball, crops, any thing decent, but he will not wear a tellow out with religion "out of busi ness hours." He can tell as good a tale about the war as any lay "vet." He was right there when the Yankees were being killed, and he went right there when he was really too young to be there; and he stayed right there until the whole bloody thing had ended, and came out ot it one ot the cleanest men in The Confederacy. No, he has not been a preacher ever since he was born; he has been a "scrapper" and has been tangled up in the worst scrap ttiat the world has ever known. He therefore knows something about those men who are nt clergymen, and he knows that all ot them are not entire ly bad, though they may have theii failings. That is the reason he knows how to do good; that is the reason why he is allowed to do it. Mr. Harding has never lost his love fer things military. Up to a year ago he had been in camp with The Second North Carolina National Guards as regimental chaplain, but although he has in later years donned a United States uniform, no one would ever mis take him in it for anything but the finest type of the The Confederate Soldier. He has-done more good among his own flock and among neighboring flocks than any shepherd I ever knew, and he goes out among his sheep in very nearly the same way, according to my conception, as did "the carpen ter's apprentice." BLYTHE MORRIS. THAT MINE DISASTER. Funerals By Night and Day to Dispose of the Uifortnnates. (By Special Wire to the Akgus.) MonongahK West Va., Dec. 11. Up to eleven o'olock to-day two hundred bodies of the five hundred dead miners have been brought up. It is expected that the other three hundred will be brought up by Satur day night, so the .'mine' can resume work next Monday. i; ; ; ; There be gruesome scenes here. Fun erals by night as well as by day. Four teen of those brought up to-day were burned beyond identification and were buried in an improvised pother's field. , Fifty "grave diggers are at work night and day. THE DAY OF NEWSPAPERS. The "Fourth Estate" Was Never Before Been so Widely Recognized. Every Intelligent and Progressive Community Should Make Its Local Newspaper the Exponent of its Posses sions and Possibilities. The current "Outlook," a montnly, purely literary, publication, and therefore not a newspaper, contains a very comprehensive article on "The Newspaper," and coming from such a source it is the more significant and forceful. The Outlook says; "During the past decade the story of action and achievement in many fields has been of unsurpassed interest; the wh5e race seems to be in motion, and in religion, politics, economies, social organization, science, and business the restlessness and the outgo of energy have been on a colossal scale. "The newspapers of the period have printed a kind of serial story which for pathos, humor, tragedy, dramatic situation, contrast of character, vivid picturing of human conditions lhas made some of the most powerful fiction seem a faint reflection of an almost blinding light. This story, in which many minor plots ihave run together, has been so engrossing, not only in the vast variety of character it has brought to light, but in its connectedness :and its surprises, that a host of men and women look as eagerly for tbe morning newspaper as they once looked for an installment f a fascinating serial story. "To a degree of which we are unaware, the affairs of the whole world are now spread before us at a moment of rapid and dramatic change; scenes are being shifted; old j.tctors pass -off and new actors come On the stage; yesterday the stage setting on the Eussian, today it is Japanese, tomorrow it will be German or French. Nowhere has this story of real life been more dramatic, fuller of surprises, more commanding in its interest, than in this country, where the newspapers are as interesting as the novels, and many of the novels have the timeliness and current interest of the newspaper. ' 'Sooner or later such a tide of vitality will find its way into liter ature; but for the immediate spending of its energy, the newspaper offers the most available channel. Sooner or later the permanent record will take the place of the vivid, partial, inartistic, but vital, report of the comedy arid tragedy of life; but -would it be surprising if it should appear that for the moment men are more interested in fact than in fiction, in the serial story told by the newspaper than in that told by the novelist?" And so the ARGUS in this special edition presents, to the thousands of readers who will peruse its teeming columns of entertaining and in structive reading matter and attractive and profitable advertisements, a forceful object lesson of the development of Goldsboro in recent years, and an impressive epitome of our city's complement of public- spirited business men, who recognize the utility of an intelligent news paper, both as a promoter of progress and a ready and effective medium through which they may reach the reading and discriminating public and thereby reap the profitable returns of judicious advertising. The ARGUS has ever striven to do its full part by the people its home people especially, and maintain itself at all times creditable to the Best Town in the State. We present this issue, therefore, without apology, and as an earnest of the manner of paper we would' like to see published from Goldsboro every day in the week and every week in the year. Our people are fully capable of sustaining such a paper, the commercial importance, the business volume, the industrial op portunities of Goldsboro should be satisfied with nothing on a lesser scale; but the one thing essential to its consummnation is lacking the mutual reconition of community interest and the staying co-operation on the part of our business men, that is so vital to the achievement of Greater Goldsboro. The Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce, with a due appreciation of Goldsboro's unsurpassed passenger and freight facilities, her mercan tile and manufacturing advantages to the general public, and through these our possibilities of buildingnp the city into a great centre of trade and manufacture, of population and prosperity, and realizing that the best medium through which to accomplish these desired ends is the local newspaper, has subscribed to one. thousand additional copies of the WEEKLY AEGUS, to be mailed direct every week, and regularly, to desirable trade patrons of our city, whose names have been duly entered upon our subscription books for a definite period; and this, in conjunction with our already established and self-sustaining circulation, gives to Goldsboro one of the most populously read weekly newspapers in the State, and, therefore, to our merchants and business enterprises, the best advertising medium in the history of the city. It is now up to our business men to do their part in presenting, through the advertising columns of the ARGUS, the trade advantages of Goldsboro and their individual specific wares to the reading public, and thus together we can establish more widely and prove it, that we've got the Best Town in the State. Let us get together and, j together, go forward. ' MR. DOBSON WINS. Fierce Political Fight Fin ished at Last Goldsboro'sf ormer Satisfactory Post master, Wbo Was Temporarily Supplanted, Over tbe Almost Unanimous Endorsement ot Our Citizens, Is Re stored and Confirmed. When the time for the expiration of I Mr. J. F. Dobson's term of office as Postmaster of Goldsboro was approach ing, some two years ago, the people of Goldsboro business men and citizens generally, Including the women of tbe community alufost unanimously gave him their unqualified endorsement ler re-appointment, because ha bad made the best postmaster and the most ac commodating in the history of the office, andjlt was a matter of general surprise when President Roosevelt, without any apparent reason tor set ting at naught tbe so general endorse ment ot the patrons of this office, sent the name of Mr. Louis N. Grant to the Senate tor this office. Mr. Grant tailed of confirmation be fore the Senate not from any cause, however, reflecting on him personally, but simply because Mr. Dobson had the ,pull" withthat body. When the Senate adjourned, Mr. Grant was again appointed by the President, and dur ing the long recess has held the office; and when the Senate again convened the old fight of the politicians was re newed with tbe result that on Monday the President) reversed himself and sent in to the Senate the name ot Mr. Dobson, wbo was promptly confirmed Thursday by that body, and he in now Goldsboro's postmaster for the next lour years. Mr. Dobson's triumph is indeed a great victory and assuredly a great satisfaction and pleasure for him, and he is receiving tbe congratulations of his friends on every hand. He is tak ing his victory in his usual quiet and philosophical manner, without com ment, and is getting his bond ready for an early induction into office. For Cold Rooms Hard to Heat. The coming of the cold weather gives rise to the question of how best to heat those rooms and hallways of the bouse that seldom if ever warm up, no matter how big a fire there may be in tbe furnace or other beating appara tus. The best way out of the difficultly is tbe use of auxiliary stoves and oi these it would be difficult indeed to find anything so bandy and at the same time so clean and economical as the Perfection Oil Heater. To begin with it is absolutely sale. The wick can be turned as high rr as low as possible without danger. But perhaps the most desirable feature of all its convenience. The perlection Oil Heater can be easily carried to any part of the house where more heat is required. It may be a cold bedroom, a chilly hallway, ft sick-room. Or you cap use It to heat tbe bathroom while you take your morning bath then dress by it and then carry it to the dining room and eat yeur breakfast in comfort. The occasions on which it can be called into use are numerous and once you have tried the Perfection Oil Heater you'll wonder why you ever struggled through a cold winter with out one. Another advantage is the smokeless burner, which prevents any oi the unpleasantnesses that perhaps have given you a poor idea of oil heat ers in general. It is very handsome in appearance and is beautifully finished in nickel and japan. Another home comiort for the long winter evenings is the Rayo Lamp, which can be used in any room in the house from parlor to bedroom. It has the latest improved burner, making it unusually sate and clean, and an ideal lamp for all round household use. The Perfection Oil Heater and the Rayo Lamp, combining as they do to make the house warm and cheerful are valuable additions to any home, and. no household should be without them. They are sold at a moderate price by dealers every where. ' DEMOCRATS PRE PARE FOR 1908. The Convention of Next Year Will be the Twentieth National. Assemblage of the Democratic Party. Chicago, St. Louis and Denver are Engaged in an Active Fight far Tbe Honor Of Entertaliiig Tne Delegates and The Crsvd It Sbouters and Visiters Tbat 60 Ta Hake Up a National Political Goc ventlon. (By special wire te Tm Ametrs. ' Washington, Dec. lS.--The assent bling of the members of the Dam era tie national committee in this city today marks tbe beginning of the Demoerati Presidential campaign for 1908, The purpose of the meeting is to decide upon the time and place Jot holding; the national convention that will name tbe candidates lor President and "Vice President. Chicago, St. Louis and. Denver are engaged in an active fight, for the honor of entertaining the dels, gates and the crowd of shouters andt visitors that go to make up a national political convention. Several other cities would like to have the conven tion, among them Cincinnati. Milwau kee, St. Paul and Louisville. The chances of most it not all of the citiea last named are rendered exceedingly small by their inability either to make good with the necessary cashbonus or' to giiarAD tee the hall and hotel aocom-' odations necessary to a gathering of such magnitude. The convention of next year will ba the twentieth national assemblage ot the Democratic party. Among that veteran Democratic leaders in the city today, some as members of the national committee, others holding seats in Con gress, there has naturally been an ex change of recollections in regard to the, conventions tbat have gone by, intei-. mingled with speculation as to the convention to come. Thera are many leaders here who have attended a half dozen of the Democratic national con ventions. Tbe national delegate convention method ot nominating candidates tor President and Vice President did not. come into vogue until 1882. Previous, to that date the nominees were selected; by caucuses of members ot Congress by initiative of State Legislatures or of mass-meetings, or by a sort of tacit consent. The first Democratie national con vention met in Baltimore in 1832, and. concurred in the popular nominations of Jackson for President and nomi nated Martin Van Buren for Vice President. The Maryland metropolis continued to be the chief meeting place for tbe Democratic national conven tions until within a lew years of tha civil war. Though the first conven tion met in 1832, it was not until 1840 that the first national platform was -adopted by the Democratic party. In 1848 tbe convention took steps to ap point the first national committee ever formed. NOTABLE MEDICAL DISCOVERY Of Special Sale of Statuary for next 15 days. A large assortment to select from at one third off regular prices. Every piece marked in plain figures. This is a chance to secure a bargain in this class of goods. Andrews & Waddell Furniture Co. ; Special Value to Many Here in Goldsboro. A notab'e medical discovery ancL one that appeals especially to many people in Goldsboro is the combina tion of stomach remedies in the Mi-6-na treatment. This preparation has worked wondevs incases of in digestion or weak stomach. It acts specifically upon the walls of the stomach and bowels, strength ening and stimulating them so that they readily take care ol the food that is eaten without distress or suffering. So positive are the good efieeta following the use oi M i-o-na that tlx -remedy is Bold by Ji H. Hill A Bori under & absolute guarantee to refund the money ' if it" fails to cure With an offer like this, none can afford to. suffer with indigestion or stomach troubles. A 50-cent box of Mi-o-nav will do more good than, ha-f-a-dozen boxes of ordinary digestive tablets i V te-
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