THE HEADLIGHT PUBLISHED EVEHY THURSDAY. SUIVSCnil'TION $1.00 PER YEAH. A. KOSl'OWEIt, Editor and Proprietor. G..I.1.SHOR.,, X. C, Feb. 21, 1901. CONGRESSIONAL EXTRAVAGANCE. The fact th.it the expenses of the Government at Washington are now s00, 000,000 11 yefiri against 70,000,000 at the beginning of the McKinley administration, four years ago, cannot but shock the pa triotic citizen, who sees that the extravagance initiated by the war upon Spain extends now to depart ments of the Government not con nected with the army or navy. The enormous appropriation for rivers and harbors, just made, illustrates the demoralization of Congress, which seems, to have repudiated the old-fashioned idea that econo my is a virtue. The money of the people is wasted without scruple, as if tax -paying were their favor ite amusement. To make bad worse, the example of Congress is followed by State and municipal bodies, so that taxes are every where on the increase. All this extravagance hastens, of course, the day of reckoning. The burdens now being gayly laid on the backs of the people will be borne with increasing dilliculty. At present we have a sort of spec ulative 'boom. Kvery industry is stimulated to the .utmost and the hard times of 1S'.5 are forgotten. ut taxes easy to bear when times are good become oppressive when reaction sets in, business slackens and incomes decrease. It will be little comfort to the struggling householder, when embarrassed by high prices all round, together with tariff and internal taxes, to be informed by the spread-eagle ora tor that "this is a billion-dollar country" and can afford to waste a thousand millions yearly. If, in stead of being mostly thrown away it were all spent wisely in such ways that it came back equitably in valued benefits to each citizen, the case Mould not be so had, but when it is known that millions are wasted on pen-ions, other millions on the .subjugation of the Filipinos, hundreds of millions on an increased army and navy and millions more in needless expenditures on the pets of the administration, the fu tility of the whole thing will be keenly felt. Naturally such a re action of feeling, accompanying business depression, will have poli tical results. Senator Hale, of Maine, made a vigorous protest Thursday against the extravagance of the present Congress. Air. Hale is a loyal lie publican, but he fears that his par ty will be discredited by the va rious schemes to loot the Treasury which are now linding favor in Washington. ''The tremendous expenditure constantly before our eyes, he said, "are so demoraliz ing to our minds that we are inca pable of understanding and appre ciating them. When the people once realize the situation, those who are responsible for the expen ditures will call upon the rocks and mountains to hide them from the people's wrath. When wc get to the end of this Congress and figure up the appropriations they will be found to be very much larger than have ever been made by an Ameri can Congress." Mr. Hale's warn ing is timely, but it is not proba ble it will be heeded. A Congress which proposes to give away 270, (00,000 of the people's money in ship subsidies, which is preparing to appropriate 80,000,000 for river and harbor improvements anil votes 145,000,000 for pen sions, will not be open to admoni tion or appeal until the Treasury is empty. Mr. Hale's intentions are good, but if he expects his party to be economical he is doomed to dis appointment. It has never failed to make the most of its opportu nities when there was a surplus. Thk action of the Kussian Gov ernment in imposing retaliatory du ties on iron and steel manufac tures imported into Russia from the United States is not influenced mainly by the importance of the sugar exports to this country, but by the fact that the Russian Gov ernment has explicitly denied the payment of bounty on sugar ex ports against which the counter vailing duties are levied. A ques tion of honor is raised, and as a consequence the Russian Minister of Finance has lost no time in striking back. As the Russian buy far more from us than they sell to us, they would have decidedly the whip hand in a commercial war fare. " Oxk of the most remarkable cases noted recently is that of Miss An nie Fuqua, of Reidsville, who sued the Southern Railway for 2,000 damages. She didn't get a cent. The prosecuting attorney must not have made plain to the jury that the suit was against a railroad? A Sermon Ou Woman. "Woman," said the old Codger, during one of his meditative spells, 'Ms a perpetual paradox, a chronic conundrum without an answer, an unknown quantity possessed of un expected possibilities, a perennial prize package of peculiar potentiali ties,' a conventicle of characteristic contradictions and an amaranthine aggregation of other attributes which are not alliterative. "She is man's greatest earthly blessing, and the cause of most of his misery. She is his chief inspira tion to the achievement of all that is good, grand and glorious in this world, and at the same time a labor saving device to help him make a fool of himself. She soothes his tired nerves with the coo of her gentle voice, but she always has the last word in every controversy with him and, incidentally, about 97 per cent, of the preceding conversation. She brings him into the world, and a few years later talks him to death. " "Most of man's trouble is caused by woman, but so deftly does she pile the load on him that whenever his burden of trouble is lifted he wanders uneasily about hunting for more otherwise, there would be very few second wives. She wiH cheerfully go to the stake for the truth's sake, and lie about her age without even being asked. She will grow weary of an indulgent, husband, will cleave unto death to the man who beats her regularly. She will break her heart because a man does what she don't want him to, and love him all the better for, so doing. "She scorns all advice in the selec tion of a husband, but takes two other women along to help her pick out a hat. The less actual comfort to be obtained from a thing,' the more enjoyment a woman gets out of its possession. At 16 she is a wo man; at 2o, if still unmarried, she is a girl. She will face the grim spec ter of death without a tremor, and swoon at the sight of a mouse. The only time she ever does what you ex pect her to do is when you expect her to do what you don't expect her to do. The sole reason why she does anything is simply because she don't know why she does it. She jumps m conclusions and always lands on them squarely, for the sim ple reason that when the conclusion skips to one side, thinking to avoid her, it gets exactly in her way. She is the dearest thing in all the world, and the most aggravating. She is as she is, and that's all there is to do about it. The only man who ever fully un derstands a woman is the man who understands that he don't understand her, and has got sense enough to let it go at that." CJutta Percha ami Cables. An obstacle to the construction of a Pacific cable from San Francisco to Manila at present is found in the very limited supply of gutta percha. Xo good submarine cable can be made, it is said, without this par ticular gum as a means of insulation. "The reasons for its general use," says the Philadelphia Manufacturer, "are several, chief among them be iug its ductile nature which makes it possible to apply it to cables with out seams, and the fact that salt water has no appreciable deteriorat ing effect upon it. This latter qual ity is illustrated by the fact that guttapercha used in steel-bound ca bles in actual service shows no sign of either physical or chemical change after twenty years submersion. Rubber, which is used for insulating small cables which may be easily ta ken up and repaired, lacks the im permeability which is an absolute essential in a cable designed to cover long distances and to work without interruption or repair for a quarter of a century at a time." A nautical mile of cable requires from 3o0 to 400 pounds of gutta percha, so that some 1,200 tons would be required for the San Francisco-Manila cable. The supply of gutta percha ob tained from the East Indies is said to be decreasing, owing to the slight care by the natives of the limited number of trees that furnish it. At the same time there is an increased demand. The use of it in making yearly 2,000,000 golf balls is said to add to its price, which is now over $2 a pouud. Competition among manufacturers of submarine cables is, however, at -present the chief cause of the exceptional price. The project of laying a cable between Canada and Australia is now about ripe for execution, and the world's supply of the gum has been bought up for two or three years by the manufacturers of submarine cables who expect to bid for the contract. In view of the scarcity and high price of gutta percha our Pacific cable cannot belaid, it is said for $10,(100,000, as expected, but -will cost some three or four millions more than that. Because a number of them tried to conceal a fugitive, all negroes have been ordered to leave Hillsboro, Pa., under penalty of death. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with local implications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, -ami in order to cure it vou must take inter nal remedies. Hall s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts dreetly on the blood and mucous surfaces. lfalls Catarrh Cure is not a quack jnedieine. It was prescribed by one of the best phy sicians in this country for years, and "is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. 'He That Any Good Voiild Win Should have good hcalih. 'Pure, rich Mood is the first requisite. Hood' s Sarsa parilla, by giving good llood arid good hcalih, has helped mar.y a man to success, besides giving strength and courage to -j)omen ivho, before taking it, could not even rce any good in life to urin. Heading Rooms For Womeiu Women's organizations in Auburn, N. Y., find afield for effort among the working women of that busy manufacturing. .city. The Woman's Union has established and maintain ed free reading-rooms and library for working women. It conducts classes for the same girls in domestic service, sewing, cooking, bookkeep ing, etc., and sales, at which their handiwork is disposed of for them. A registry for servants is also kept. The appreciation of the working wo men for these rooms is shown by the attendance there every evening, often taxing, as it does, the capacity of the home-like quartersj Auburn streets are not kept quite as the women would like to see them. For this reason, some time ago, the local chapter Daughters of the Am erican Revolution took up some vil lage improvement work and planned to establish receptacles for rubbish at various points in the city. The street superintendent became greatly interested, and approved the scheme, agreeing to work with the chapter in caring for these receptacles. To the surprise of both him and the chapter, however, the Common Council rejected the offer on the ground that there was a city ordi nance forbidding obstructions on the sidewalks. Earned G8,000,000 in One Year. The Standard Oil Company has de clared a dividend of 20 per cent, pay able March 15th. This is at the rate of 03 per cent, since March 1st, 1900. The Standard Oil will thus have distributed among its ' stockholders 08,000,000 withiu the space of one year and 13 days. Of this sum John B. Rockefeller will have received 21,080,000, more than $j3,000 a day, or about $40 a minute. Mr. Rocke feller's wealth has piled up so aston ishingly that even the great money kings of Wall street are marveling. His available cash has become such a factor in Wall street that according to one of the best judges of the mar ket, all chance has been entirely eli minated from transactions ou the stock exchange. Mr. Rockefeller can put up stocks or put them down as he chooses. Xo combination is strong enough in Wall street to defeat his plans. The Mirror Of a Town. The newspapers of a town are its looking glasses. It is here you see yourselves as others see you. You smile on them and they smile on you, you frown on them and you ase repaid in kindness. They are the re flex of the town. If the town is do ing business, the newspaper will show it in its advertising colums. If the merchants are spiritless, shift less fellows, whose stores are jumbles of junk and jam, the newspapers will show it by the lack of space they take. If you want the world to know you have a live town, you can only let it be known through the news paper. " Three persons were killed and sev eral injured in the wreck of a pas senger train at 'Mills City, New, Tuesday. The greatest danger from colds and la grippe, is their resulting in pneu monia. If reasonable care is used, how ever, and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy taken, all danger will be avoided. It will cure a cold or an attack of la grippe in less time than any other treatment. It.is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by 11. E. Robinson & Uro., J.F. Millers Drug Store, Goldsboro: J. R. Smith, Mt. Olive. GOLUSltOIiO MARKET REPORT. Cotton Bulk Meat. . Salt Lard S.75 7.8.") 1.30 ..10 N. C. Hams N. C. Sides Meal per sack Flour Sugar, granulated . Eggs Beeswax Corn Oats Peas Hay ..10 . .. s 1.15 .4.10 ...Oi ..l-2i ...20 ...40 ...DO 1 1.10 Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don't Know it. How To Find Out. Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or set tling indicates an unhealthy condi tion of the kid neys; if it stains your linen it is evidence of kid ney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it or pain in convincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney re,medy fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-Root Is soon realized. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a samde hoftl r.t thia wunaeriui aiscovery and a book that tells more about it, both sentgOP3riHf absolutely free by mail, aaaress ur. Kilmer ft n o Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men tion reading this generous offer in this paper. Girl Forced By Her Father To Wed. On Monday night of last week, Miss Sarah Hudson, accompanied by her brother, drove up to Mr. M. F. Gainey's residence, at DunD, and the young lady asked permission to re main over for the night and to be allowed to stay for a few days. Her request was granted atid soon after she had gone in the house, she related the sad story of her father attempting to force her to marry a man she did .not love. . She related the story in tears and with a broken heart. Mr. Gainey told her she could spend several days at his home. On last Saturday her father, Holly Hudson, came for her, and finding her at Mr. Gainey's he made her a promise if she would go home with him she might marry, the man she loved. The girl "agreed to go, and they started out. Just as they were passing out of town one of the friends of the man whom her father wanted her to marry drove up in a buggy and suggested to the young lady, who was riding on a cart, that she might ride with him in' the buggy. She agreed to this and soon after she had gotten in the buggy her friend told her he was going to drive her away to marry Cufus Lee, the man of her father's choice. We are told that the girl broke down as if her heart was broken. She was car ried down in Sampson and there married to the man of her father.s choice. The girl's mother is dead and her father lives in Westbrook township, Sampson county. The man she loved was a poor man, and her fa ther thought by marrying Lee she would marry into some property, so it is stated. A Most Brutal Murder. One of the most brutal murders that has ever been committed in Rowan county occurred near Spen cer Saturday night when Dilliard Cox, of Winston, was shot and killed by .Sam Malone, of Davie county, both colored. Malone, not content with shooting his victim twice, dragged him out from under a church where he had crawled to die and stamped him. The shooting oc curred over a game of craps, in which four darkies were engaged. Cox had won the money, and' when Malone attempted to pick It up Cox pointed a pistol at him. Malone wrestled the pistol from Cox and attempted to shoot him, but was restrained. Cox then ran and was pursued from one house to another. Finally Malone caught him attempt ing to enter a front door and shot at him three times, two of the bullets taking effect. Dudley Reflections. Mrs. F. G. Ilines visited relatives in Goldsboro last week. Mr. II. J. O' Kerry spent several days in Raleigh last week. . Mr. J. VY. King, of Goldsboro, vis ited relatives here last Sunday. Mr. A. M. Herring, of Wilmington, visited his family here last week. Miss Dora Kornegay visited rela tives near Mount Olive last week. Mr. J. A. Westbrook, of Mount Olive, was here one day last week. Miss Annie Keethley, of Duplin count', visited relatives here Sun day. Mr. II. W. Lynch tilled his regular appointment near Walter last Sun day. Mr. Frank Southerland,' of Duplin county, visited relatives here last Friday. ' Miss Etta Deal, of Mount Olive, visited her aunt, Mrs. W. B. Bow den, here Saturday. Special Business Locals, WANTED. A young man to learn the watch-repairing business. Will train him reasonably. K. A. Watts, Jr., at T. H. Stanton's. f II. ROBINSON & CO., "Charlotte. J, N. C, can furnish profitable em ployment to hustling people; either sex. Write them. VTOTARY PUBLIC This is to give notice that 1 have been appointed by Governor Aycock a Notary l'ublje for" Wavne county and solicit the patro nage of the public. J. M. Perkins, Fremont, N. C. ITTANTED Capable, reliable person V 'n every county to represent large company of solid financial reputation: i'J'M salary per year; payable weekly; $3 per day absolutely sure and all expenses; straight, bona-lide, definite salary, no commission; salary paid each Saturday and expense money advanced each week. Staxiaki House, 3J 1 Dearborn St., Chicago. Have Your Eyes Examined. Dr. II. Mayer, the celebrated oculist from the Imperial and Royal University of Vienna, Austria, has opened an of fice for a short time at the Bridges House, this city, where he examines all defects of the eyes free of charge. I7r Mayer gives consultation in six lan guages. ; The Norfolk Virginian says: "Dr. H. Mayer, the oculist, has during his twelve months' stay in our city success fully treated the eyes of hundreds of our best people, and his practice is contin ually increasing." The Washington (N. C.) Progress says : "Dr. II. Mayer has during his six weeks stay in ous city treated over 150 cases of the eye, and we have not heard of a single case where there is complaint. This is the best record he could leave,'" Standard-Keeper's Notice. All persons using weights and meas ures are by law required to bring the same to the standard-keeper of the county and by said standard-keeper to have all their weights, measures, etc., tested and sealed, as the law directs. For a non-compliance with said law subjects each and every person so of fending to a misdemeanor; and in every such case (of non-compliance) it becomes the duty of the standard-keeper to re turn the same to the court. The law must be respected. J. W. Ham, Standard-keeper Wayne County. BETTER THAN OF DOCTORING. ONLY MINE'S CELERY COMPOUND DID HER . ANY LASTING GOOD. . I can be truthfully said of no other ' remedy in the world what is so often said of Paine's celery compound, that in no single instance has it failed to benefit, and benefit permanently and there's the point that no sufferer should lose sight of. The whole stock-in-trade of the ordinary, plausible-sounding, but wholly irresponsible remedies is to bring about the appearance of health to cover up symptoms and to stave off breakdowns, making the perma nent cure all the more difficult. Other remedies, because they can effect no lasting cure, do harm. The same words that fairly and accurately describe Paiue's celery compound, a remedy that every day proves its worth, are boldly used to exploit concoction that can by no possibility do anything but harm. More brains and ingenuity is ex pended on the label and wrapper than on what is put into the bottles. Persons who try this remedy aud that, in the foolish hope that they i may hit on the right one by chance, ! and at any rate it can do thern no harm, should know that the' are' doing their system incalculable mis chief aud putting off the da' of com plete recovery by such experiment-j mg. Paine's celery compound must not be judged by the standard of any of these superficial medicines. It is a great, responsible, scientific; discov ery, singularly unlike any remedial agent that ever aimed to effect a similar purpose to make people well. It is not an ordinary remedy. The results from its use have been so extraordinary and so gratifyiug that busy men and women have gone out of their way to send letters of thanks and to allow their names to vouch for every statement they have made in praise of it. The following acknowledgment from Mrs. Geo. E. Rouse, of Green Ba', Wis., of the surprising benefit she has received from the use of Paine's celery compound is too val uable to be withheld from the pub lic. Mrs. Rouse's honest opinion of FERTILIZERS ! If you want the best Fertilizer on the market for almost all kinds of crops, come to see us and get the N. C. Alliance Official Guano. With the use of the Alliance Official last season, Mr. B. li. "Williams of Grantham. Township raised over 400.00 worth of tobacco on two acres of land, some of it bringing .7.00 per hundred. We also sell BONE AND PERUVIAN GUANO Which is a little cheaper. Acid Phosphate, Kainit, lione and Pot ash Mixture, Muriate anl Sulphate of Potash, Nitrate of Soda, and Cotton Seed Meal. HOOD &, BRITT, GOLDSBORO, N. C. FROM BEST SEED YOD GET BEST RESULTS' I offer you for this season's planting . 85bbls finest 2nd growth WhiteBIiss potatoes l?n 5?ame Early Rose potatoes ft? Early Goodrich potatoes 1 Peerless potatoes. 600 bushels best' oats, ever planted in Wayne county, Absolutely Rust and Smut Proof. 1,000 Bushels White and Mixed Oats OnSTE CR, load you -a Come around and let us talk with you. I. B. FONVIELLE, WEST WALNUT STREET AXD THE "UXUCKY CORNER." YEARS this great remedy cannot be mista ken by any one who reads her letter. Green Bay, Wis., March 3, 1900. Wells, Richardson & Co., Gentlemen : For the past ten years I have been troubled with neu ralgia of the stomach and dizziness in the head. I have doctored with many doctors, but found no relief until a friend of mine recommended to me your Paine's celery compound, and I found it a great cure for my sickness. Yours very truly, Mrs. Geo. E. Rouse. Public opinion in the large cities throughout the country shows the reliance that hard-worked, often overworked men and women have come to place upon Paine's celery coir pound. Nothing demoralizes the health sooner or more completely than even the occasional loss of sleep. Paine's celery compound gets the brain out of this dangerous habit of sleepless ness. It feeds the nervous tissues all over the body, and does not let the nutrition of these delicate parts get low enough to permit of insom nia. One of the earliest evidences of the final success of this great nerve and brain invigorator in cur ing neuralgia, debility, rheumatism, headaches and indigestion due to in sufficient nerve force, is the joyous feeling of returning strength of mind and body, cheerfulness and "well be ing" that takes the place of the old, tired, languid,, morbid, melanchbly condition. If you are "played out,'' to use a forcible street phrase, can't digest, can't sleep, can't work, and Lave lost courage, it is your nervous sys tem that's "played out." Try Paine's celery compound and see how soon you give up brooding over your health and how soon you forget you ever had nerves that could possibly ache. The dismal failures of other remedies must not prevent one from taking the remedy that is always successful. Paine's celery compound has driven sicknesss from thojsancg of homes. GRAND Special Saie CHILDREN'S CLOTHING : The manufacturer from vhoir we always buy our children' clothing decided to go" but of busj ness. He offered his "stock to and we bought it - AT - 25 - PER - CENT - LESi Than it cost him to make. are now offering this lot at prices which do not cover the ACTUAL COST OF PRODUCTION. There are over one thousand ir the lot. WE -:-HAVE-:-PRICED $1.78 suits wprth $2.25 and $2.50 At $2.39 we are "selling $3 anc $3.50 values. At $2.98 we offer suits worir $4 and $4.50. At $3.75 nothing is worth less than $5, and many are worth $5.5: and $6. THIS SALE ENDS PROMPTLY SATO, DAY NIGHT, FEB. k23. Remember the Prlces. H. WEIL & BROS. HONEST MERCHANDISE. ACME MACHINE WORKS GOLDSBORO, N. C. MACHINIST AND FOUNDERS. OF A I FRR IN JEW AUD SECOHD HAND MACHINERY OF EYERY DESCRIPTION Ames"' Engine ami Hoilers, 'Laue'" aud other saw mills. Couplings WE MANUFACTURE A Large Stock of Mill anil numbers Sujiplh" Leather and Rubber ISelting, Packing. Kubber Linen and Cotton Hose. Cant Hooks, Log Chains and Snaking Tongs i lilucksinith To'.. And a great many articles too numerous to mention, llej -:i:rln Satisfaction guaranteed. Your patronage solicited. All our machinery is new and up-to-date, such as boring ni";'.. planer, radial drill, universal milling machine for cutting gear at.'! steam hammer with which we can do heavy forgings. -;'ci ix cart axles, etc. Our shop is new, feet long x 40 feet wide. Our motto is "Fair Dealing aud Promptness." SPECIAL NOTICE TO FARMERS, Have aain received three carloads of tine stock. HORSES AND MULES Which I will sell for cash or on time or will allow vou iL'l't ti: for cotton in payment for stock, payable next fall. I pronto t- s' you from 15 to 20 on every head, lie sure to rivo mo :i purchasing. If necessary 1 will also furnish you'w ith sosm- t-vi-U a' per cent. On STANDARD AND OTHER FERTILIZERS W ill give you specially low figures. Will sell anv v:iv 'i for cotton or money. Have alsu received two carloads of SINGLE AND D0UDLE And buggies which I will sell 10 cheaper than vou ca:i !lv l?: elsewhere, on time or for cash. Just received 300 sets" of Ivavm--1 will sell at reduced prices. JOSEPH EDWARDS, THE CHAMPION OF ILOW PRICES I AM CLOSING OUT 2sLy Entire StocK wWHTTER GOODS To Make Room for My Spring Stod SOON TO ARRIVE. BARGAINS IN EVERY LINE. DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE. . F. B. EDMUNDS0N. Van Wink V i Shaftine, Pulleys. Ha; and Set Collars. m m.i. :. : -. i;-v Engines, lii!er. ( (iris-t Mills and Saw Mil'-.