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LOUISBURG, K C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1803.
NUMBER 41
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T0 PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS
The Superintendent of Public
Schools of Franklin county will be
in Louisburg on the second Thurs
day of February, April, July, Sep
tember, October and December, and
rtm;iin for three days, if necessary,
for the purpose of examining appli
cants to teach in the Public Schools
of this county. I will also be in
Louisburg on Saturday of each
Vtvk, aud all public days, tcxattend
to any business connected with, my
office.
J. N. Harris, Supt.
c.
Prafcssional cards.
M. COOKE & SON,
ATTOaNEYS-AT-LAW,
locisbubs, v. c.
Will attend the courts i Nasb, FrchfcKiL,
Oruiivitl-. Warren and Watee counties, also the
uiTt'uie Court of North Carollup, and the U.
I circuit aaJ District Courts.
I"
J. K. MA.LOMB.
orflee two doors below Thomas & AycocKe a
drug store, adjoining Dr. O. L. Ellis.
D
R. W. H. NICHOLSON,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
LOUISBURG, N. C.
1 W. TIXIBERLAKE,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
LOUISBL'RG, N. C
Office on Nash street.
S. 8FRUILL,
ATTORNEY-AT-L AW,
L0U1SBUR8, K. C.
Will attend the courts of Franklin. Vance,
OrAnvUl-. Warren and Wake counties, also
the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Prompt
attention given to collections, &c.
N
T
Y. GULLET.
ATTORNEY-AT-L AW,
F HANK LINTON, K, C.
All legal business promptly attended to.
nOS. Ii. WILDER,
ATTORNEY-AT-L AW,
LOI'ISBURG, N. C.
Olm on Miin street, one loor below Eagle
Hot 1.
W
M. PERSON,
ATTORNEY- AT-L AW,
L')cisb. i;g, n. c.
1 i, i-8 in all courts. Olflce in the Court
NOTICE.
P.y virtue of power contained in
n mortgage deed executed by T. Ii.
S Mitchell and wife, and records:
in Hook !S7, page 187, Register or
I . .- Is olfice in Franklin county, ;
will sell at public auction for cash i.-i
th.' Court House door in Louisburu.
on We nesd.iy, the 21st day of D
ri'inlitr lyOb, a tract of land i-.
Friukiinton township, adjoining
I. wiii of B. H. Tomlinson, et. al., be
i:iLr tract of land bought by said T
U.S. Mitchell of J. "11. Mitchener
containing 82 acres.
E. W. TlMBERLAKE,
Att'y for Mortgagee.
Nov. 22, 1893.
NOTICE.
Having qualified as Executor of Wil
sui (Jay, all persons indebted to his es
tate are requested to pajr the same a
once, and all persons holding ciaimi
against the said estate will present them
on or before December 8. 1S94, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of their re
eovery. This December 8, 1893.
Thos. Gay, Ex'r.
notice!
By virtue of a judgement nf the Su
perior Court of Franklin county, in the
ease of A. J. P. Harris and others
against W. 8. Harris and others, I shall
sell at the Court House door in the town
of Louisburg N. C, on Monday the 1st
day of January 1894, at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, that tract
of land in Dunn's township, said coun
ty, on which W. S. Harris formerly re
sided, adjoining the lands of J. A. Ba
her, J . (J. Fowler and others, contain
ing six hundred and two acres, more or
Fss. It will be sold in several smaller
tracts to suit purchasers.
Thos. H. Wilder, Commissioner.
lec. 1st, 1893.
NOTICE.
By virtue of the power contained in a
moitgage deed executed to me by J. R.
Collins, registered in Franklin county,
Book 72, pages 191 and 192, I shall sell
at the Court House door in Louisburg
. C, on Monday the 8th day of Jan
uary 1894, at public auction for cash, a
certain tract of land in Cedar Rock
township, Franklin county, adjoining
the lands of J. D. Wood, J.J. Murphy,
T. C. Collins and others, containing
lifty-three and three-fourths acres, more
or less.
Mrs. Josie A. Green,
C. M. Cooke, Attorney.
Dec 6th 1893.
THE SCARLET LETTER.
By NATHANIEL HAWTHOBNE.
CHAPTER XVL
THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY.
Betimes in the morning of the day on
which the new governor was to receive
his office at the hands of the people,
Hester Prynne and little Pearl came
into the market place. It was already
thronged with the craftsmen and other
plebeian inhabitants of the town in con
siderable numbers, among whom, like
wise, were many rough figures, whose
attire of deerskins marked them as be
longing to some of the forest settlements
whictisnrr6nnded the' little metropolis
of -the colony.
On this public holiday, es on all other
occasions for seven years past, Hester
was clad in a garment of coarse gray
cloth. Not more by its hue than bv
rome indescribable peculiarity in its
fashion, itjiad the effect of making her
fade personally out of sight and outline,
while again the scarlet tetter brought
her back from this twilight indistinct
ness and revealed her under the moral
aspect of its own illumination. Hei
face, so long familiar to the townspeo
ple, showed the marble quietude which
they were accustomed tQ behold there.
It was like a mask, or rather like the
frozen calmness of a dead woman's fea
tures, owing this dreary resemblance to
the fact that Hester was actually dead
in respect to any claim of sympathy
and had departed out of the world
with which she still seemed to mingle.
Pearl was decked out with airy gayety.
It would have been impossible to guesa
that this bright and sunny apparition
owed its existence to the shape of gloomy
gray; or that a fancy, at once so gor
geous and so delicate as must have been
requisite to contrive the child's apparel,
was the .same that had achieved a task
perhaps moro difnculfcMijf, imparting so
distlnga peculiarity, eflTHasters simple
robe. Thxri da-esBo ykper was it to
little Pearl, seethed an effluence, or in
evitable development and outward man
ifestation of her character, no more to
be separated from her than the many
hued brilliancy from a butterfly's wing,
or the painted glory from the leaf of a
bright flower. As with .these, so with
the child; her gai u .i one idea
with her nature. On this eventful day,
moreover, there was a certain singular
inquietude and excitement in her mood,
resembling nothing so much as the shim
mer of a diamond, that sparkles and
flashes with the varied throbbings of the
breast on which it 13 displayed.
. Children have always a sympathy in
the agitations of those connected with
them; always, especially a sense of any
trouble or impending revolution of what
ever kind in domestic circumstances,
andv therefore Pearl, who was the gem
on her mother's unquiet bosom, betrayed
by the very dance of her spirits the emo
tions which none could detect in the
marble passiveness of Hester's brow.
This effervescence made her flit with
a birdliko movement, rather than walk
by her mother's side. She broke con
tinually into shouts of a wild, inarticu
late and sometimes piercing music.
When they reached tho market place she
became still moro restless on perceiving
the stir and bustle that enlivened the
spot, for it was usually more like the
broad anjl lonesome green before a vil
lage meeting house than the center of a
town's business.
"Why, what is this, mother?" cried
6he. "Wherefore have all the people
left their work today? la it a play day
for the whole world? See, there is the
blacksmith 1 He has washed his sooty
face and put on his Sabbath day clothes,
and looks as if he would gladly be merry
if any kind body would only teach him
how! And there is Master Brack ett, the
old jailer, nodding and smiling at me.
Why does he do so, mother?"
"He remembers thee a little babe, my
child," answered Hester.
"He should not nod and smile at me
for all that the black, grim, ugly eyed
old man!" said Pearl. "He may nod at
thee, if he will; for thou art clad in
gray and wearest the scarlet letter. But
see, mother, how many faces of strange
people, and Indians among them, and
sailors! What have they all come toJhT
here in tho market place?"
"They wait to see the procession pass,r
said Hester. "For the governor and the
magistrates are to go by and the minis
ters and all tho great people and good
people, with the irrasic and the soldiers
marching before them.
"And will the minister be there?" asked
Pearl. "And will he hold out both his
hands to me, as when thou ledst me to
him from the brookside?"
"He will be there, child," answered
her mother. "But he will not greet
thee today; nor must thou greet him."
"What a strange, sad man is he!"
said the child, as if speaking partly to
herself. "In the dark night time he
calls us to him, and holds thy hand and
mine, as when we stood with him on
the scaffold yonder. And in the deep
forest, where only the old trees can
hear, and the strip of sky see it, he
talks with thee, sitting on a heap of
moss! And he kisses my forehead, too,
so that the little brook would hardly
wash it off! But here, in the sunny day,
and among all the people, he knows us
not: nor must we know him! A strange,
sad man is he, with his hand always
over his heart!"
"Be quiet, Pearll Thou understandest
not these things," said her mother.
"Think not now of the minister, but
look about thee and see how cheery is
everybody's face today. The children
have come from their schools, and the
grown people from their workshops and
iibu emigrants, was yei 'enirveneu Dy f nstruiuent3, pernapa rmpertectry aaapt-
eome diversity of hue. A party of In
dians in their savage finery of curious
ly embroidered deerskin robes, wam
pum belts, red and yellow ocher . and
feathers, and armed with the bow and
arrow and stoneheaded spear stood
apart with countenances of inflexible
gravity beyond what even the Puritan
aspect could attain. Nor, wild as
were these painted barbarians, were
they the wildest feature of the scene
This distinction could more justly be
claimed by some mariners a part of the
crew of the vessel from the Spanish
Main who had come ashore to sec
the humors of election day. They
were rough looking desperadoes, with
sun blackened faces and an im
mensity of beard; their wide, short
trousers were confined about the- waist
by belts, often clasped with a rough
plate of gold, andj sustaining always a
long knife, and in 6ome instances a
sword.
From beneath their broad brimmed
hats of pabu leaf gleamed eyes which,
even in good nature and merriment, had
a kind of animal ferocity. They trans
gressed without fear or scruple the rules
of behavior that were binding on all
others; smoking tobacco under the bea
dle's very nose, although each whiff
would have cost a townsman a shil
ling; and quaffing at their pleasure
drafts of wine or aqua vitte from pocket
flasks, which they freely tendered to the
gaping crowd around them. It remark
ably characterized the incomplete mo
rality of the age, rigid as we call it,
that a license was allowed the seafaring
class, not merely for their freaks on
shore, but for far more desperate deeds
on their proper element.
Thus the Puritan elders in their black
cloaks, 6tarched bands and steeple
crowned hats smiled not unbenignantly
at the clamor and rude deportment of
these jolly seafaring men; and it excited
neither surprise nor animadversion
when so reputable a citizen as old Roger
Chilling worth, the physician, was seen
to enter the market place in close and
familiar talk with the commander of
the questionable vessel.
The latter was by far the most showy
and gallant figure, so far as apparel
went, anywhere to be seen among the
multitude. He wore a profusion of rib
bons on his garment and gold lace on
his hat. which was also encircled by a
fold chain and swuiuuju with a
leather. There was a sword at his side
md a sword cut on his forehead, which,
by the arrangement of his hair, he
icenied anxious rather to display than
lide. A landsman could hardly have
worn this garb and shown this face,
md worn and shown them both with
rach a galliard air without undergoing
rtern question before a magistrate and
probably incurring fine or imprison
ment, or perhaps an exhibition m the
itocks. As regarded the shipmaster,
however, all was looked upon as rer-
ed to one another, and pUyed with no
great skill, but yet attaining the great
object for which the harmony of drum
and clarion addresses itself to the multi
tude that of injpartmg a higher and
more heroic air to the scene of life that
passes before the eye.
Little Pearl at first clapped her hands,
but then lost for on instant the restless
agitation that had kept her in a contin
ual effervescence throughout the morn
ing. She gazed silently and seemed to
be borne upward, like a floating &ea bird,
m the long heaves and swells of sound
But she was brought back' to her former
mood by the shimmer of the sunshine on
the weapons and brigbt" armor of the
military company which followed after
the music and formed the honorary es
cort of the procession.. - Tl is. body of
soldiery, which etill sustains a corporate
existence and marches -down from past
ages with . an ancient and honorable
fame, was composed of no mercenary
materials. Its ranks were filled with gen
tlemen who felt the stirrings of martial
impulse and sought to establish a kind
of college of arms, where, as in an asso
ciation of Knights Templar, they might
learn the scivnee, and. so far as peaceful
exercise would teach them, the practices
of war.
The high intimation then placed upon
the military character might be seen in
tho lofty port of each individual mem
ber of the company. . Some of them, in
deed, by their services in the low coun
tries and on other Celds of European
warfare, had fairly won their title to
assume the name and pomp of soldier
ship. The entire array, moreover, clad
in burnished steel and with plumage
nodding over their bright morions, had
fc brilliancy of effect which no modern
display can aspire to equal.
And yet the men of civil eminence,
who came imniedititely behind the mili
tary escort, were better wort h a thought
ful observer's eye. Even in outward de
meanor they showed a stamp of majesty
that made the warrior's haughty stride
look vulgar, if not absurd.
to unng MA) wuoie -sermon 10 uvt
in the shape of an indistinct but raried
murmur and flow of the minister's very
peculiar voice.
This vocal organ was in itself a rich
endowment, insomnch that a listener,
comprehending nothing of the language
In wbicn tbe preacher spoke, might still
have been swayed to and fro by the mere
tone and cadence. Like all other musio.
it breath ad passion and pathos and emo
tions high or tender in a tongue native
to the human heart wherever educated
Muffled as the sound was by its passage
through the church walls, Hester Prynne
listened with such intentness, and sym
pathized so intimately, that the sermon
had throughout a moaning for her en
tirely apart from its indisMngni&hable
words. These, perhaps, if more dis
tinctly beard, might have been only a
grosser medium and have clogged the
spiritual eeuso. Now she caught the
low undertone, as of the wind sinking
down to repose itself; then ascended
with it. as it rose through progressive
gradations of sweetness and power, un
til its volume seemed to envelop her
with an atmosphere of awe and solemn
grandeur. And yet, majestic as the
voice sometimes became, there was for
ever in it an essential character of plin
tiveness. A loud or low expression of anguisli
the whisper or the shriek, as it might be
conceived v of suffering humanity, tUst
touched a sensibility in every bosom! At
times this deep strain of pathoe was all
that could bo heard, and scarcely heard,
sighing amid a desolate silence Bnt
even when the minister's voice grew
high and commanding, when it gushed
irrepreKibly upward, when it assnuied
its utmost breadth and power, so over
filling the church as to burnt its way
through tho soUd walls and diffuse it
self in the open air still, if the auditor
listened intently and for the purpoee.
he could detect the same cry of paiu
What was it? The complaint of a human
heart, sorrow laden, jierchance guilty
telling its secret, whether of guilt or
sorrow, to the great heart of mankind.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Go?t Report.
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
STATEMENT.
SrrowiNa res vtjmbv op unmos
HELD BT THB COMMISSIONERS Or
rR.VNKUN COCHTT, 5. C, FROM
DECEMBER OTH, A. D., 1S92, TO
DECEMBER 5tH, A. D. , 1893, AND
THB PER DIEM AND MILEAGE RE
CEIVED BT EACH MEMBER OF THE
BOARD DCBINQ THAT TIME.
The Society of the DangbKn
of the American Revolution are
to plant a liberty tree ax tlr
opnin of the midaioUr - Cali
fornia Fair.
Number of meetings held 16.
T. S. Collie, Chairman,
Attended 15 meetings
at $2.00 per day ?30 00
Traveled 420 miles at
5 cents per mile 21 00
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LAND SALE.
By virtue of authority given in a
mortgage deed to Geo. F. Allen by Dal
l'rivitt and wife, dated April 17th 1891,
and recorded in book 87, pages 317 and
318, Register's office of Franklin coun
ty, I will sell at the Court House door
in Louisburg, N. C, on Tuesday, Jan
uary 2, 1804, a tract of land described
in said mortgage, adjoining the lands
f'f E. C. Denton, C. K. Denton and J.
B. Denton. Terms cash.
Geo. K, Leonard, Ext.,
of Geo. F. Allen, dee'd.
NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator of N.
H. Murphy, dee'd., all perwons owing his es
tute are notified to pay the same at once,
'mil all perRona holding claims against said
tHte must present them on or before No-vf-mber
10, 1894, or this notice will bi
lpal in liar of their recovery, This No
vember 10, 1893.
A. S. Tdckeb, Adm'r.
NOTIP.TT.
their fields on purpose to be happy. For
llavine this day nnnlifiert as ftdminia- I tAr, nanT man ia Vtotrinrnncr frt rnl a
trator on the estate of John W. Ham, over theml and so as has been thecus-
q ST Wi?,g 8ai(i eS.te i,ar6i torn of mankind over since a nation was
S!!?110 havt first gathered-they make merry and re-
jaims against said estate to present . . fa A ia
them on or before the 1st day of becem- good and golden year -were
ber 1894. or this notice will be pleaded at length to pass over the poor old
in bar of tneir recovery. world!"
J . T. Ham, Admr, The picture of human life in the mar-
W. M. Person, Attorney. ket place, though its general tint was
Afcv.lKt, 1893. lhesad gray, brown or black of the Eng.
tainiug to the character, as to a fish his i
glistening scale3. j
After parting from the physician, the j
tommander of the Bristol 6hip strolled i
idly through tho market place, until j
happening to approach the spot where i
Hester frynne was standing, ho ap- i
peared to recognize and did not hesitate
jo address her. As was usually tho case
wherever Hester stood, a small vacant
wea a sort of magic circle had formed
itself about "her, into which, though the
people were elbowing ono another at a
little distance, none ventured or felt dis
posed to intrude. It wa3 a forcible tj pe
of the moral solitude in which the scar
let letter enveloped its fated wearer;
partly by her own reserve and partly by
the instinctive, though no longer so un
kindly, withdrawal of her fellow crea
tures. Now, if never before, it answered
a good purpose by enabling Hester and
the seaman to speak together without
risk of being overheard, and so changed
was Hester Prynne's repute before the
public that the matron in town most
eminent for rigid morality could not
have held such intercourse with less re
sult of scandal than herself.
"So, mistress," said the mariner, "1
must bid the steward make ready one
more berth thiin you bargained for! No
fear of 6curvy or ship fever this voyage!
What with the ship's surgeon and this
other doctor, our only danger will be
from drug or pill; more by token, as
there is a lot of apothecary's stuff aboard,
which I traded for with a Spanish ves
sel." "What mean you?" inquired Hester,
startled more than she permitted to ap
pear. "Have you another passenger?"
"Why, know j'ou not," cried the ship
master, "that this physician here Chill
ingworth he calls himself is minded to
try my cabin fare with you? Aye, aye,
you must have known it, for he tells me
he is of your party, and a close friend to
the gentleman you spoke of ho that is
in peril from these sour old Puritan
rulers!"
"They know each other well, indeed,"
replied Hester with a mien of calmness,
though in the utmost consternation.
"They have long dwelt together."
Nothing further passed between the
mariner and Hester Prynne. But at
that instant she beheld old Roger Chill
ingworth himself standing in the re
motest corner of the market place and
smiling on her a smile which across
the wide and bustling square, and
through all the talk and laughter and
various thoughts, moods and interests
of the crowd, conveyed secret and fear
ful meaning.
CHAPTER XVIL
""THE PROCESSION.
Before Hester Prynne could call to
gether her thoughts and consider what
was practicable to be done in this new
and startling aspect of affairs, the sound
of military music was heard approach
ing along a contiguous street. It t de
noted the advance of .the procession of
magistrates and citizens on its way to
ward the meeting house, where, in com
pliance with a custom thus early estab
lished and ever since observed, the Rev
erend Mr. Dimmesdale was to deliver
on election sermon.
Soon the head of the procession showed
itself, with a slow and stately march,
turning a corner and making its way
across the market place. First came
the music. It comprised a variety of
So far as a demeanor of natural an-.' beseeching its sympathy or forgiveness,
Ihonry was concerned, the mother coun- i
try need not have been ashamed to see j
these foremost men of an actual democ-1
racy adopted into the hous,e of peers or
tuade the privy council of the sovereign.
Next in order tatho magistrates cams
fho young and eunut...,, .. ..i.-ifed
iivine, from who?e lipst'itc religions dis
burse of the anniversary was oxprvted.
His was the profession at that era in
ivhich intellectual ability di-qdayt.il it
jelf far more than in political life, for.
leaving a higher motive out of the ques
tion, it offered inducements powerful
snough in the almost worshiping re
ipect of the community to win the most
ispiring ambition into its Fervire. Even
political power, as in the crPe of In
rrease Mather, wus within grasp of
i successful priest.
It was the obfeervatiDii of those who
beheld him now that never, since Mr.
Dimmesdale first set his foot on the New
England shore, hail he exhibited such
mergy a3 was seen in the gait and air
rrith which he kept hia jace in tho pro
fession. There was no feebleness of
step as at other times; his fra:ne was not
bent, nor did his hand rest ominously
upon his heart.
Hester Prynne, gazing steadfastly at
the clergyman, felt a dreary iuHuence
some over her, but wherefore or whence
ihe knew not, unless that he seemed so
remote from her own sphere and utterly
beyond her reach. One glance of recog
nition, she had imagined, must noeds
pass between them. She thought of the
dim forest, with its little dell of solitude
I and lovo and anguish, and the mossy
tree trnuk, where, sitting hand in hand,
they had mingled their sad and passion
ate talk with the melancholy murmur
of the brook. How deeply had they
known each other then! And was this
the man? She hardly knew him now!
He, moving proudly past, enveloped, as
it were, in the rich music, vith the pro
cession of majestic and venerable fa
thers; he, so unattainable in his worldly
position, and still more so in that far
vista of his nnsympathizing thoughts,
through which she now beheld him!
Her 6pirit sank with the idea that all
must have been a delunion. and that,
vividly as ehe had dreamed it. there
could be no real bond betwixt tho cler-,
gyman and herself. Aud thus much of (
woman was there in Hester that she
could scarcely forgive him least of all
now, when the heavy footstep of their
approaching fate might le heard,
nearer, nearer, nearer for being able so
completely to withdraw himself from
their mutual world, wdiilo she groped
iarkly and stretched forth her cold
hands and found him not. ,
Pearl either 6aw and responded to her 1
mother's feelings, or herself felt tbe re
moteness and intangibility that had fall
en around the minister. While the pro-,
ression passed the child was nueasy, tint-
tering up and down liko a bird on the
point of taking flight. W hen tho whole 1
had gone by she looked up into Hester's
face.
"Mother," said she, "was that the same
minister that kissed me by tho brook?"
"Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!"
whispered her mother. "We must uot
always taDx in tho market place of what
happens to us in the forest.
"I could not be sure that it was he; so 1
strange he looked," continued the child.
"Else 1 would have run to him and bid
him kiss me now, before all the people;
even as he did yonder among the dark
old trees. What would the minister
have said, mother? Would he have
clapped his hand over his heart and
scowled on md and bid me be gone?"
"What 6hould he say. Pearl?" an
swered Hester, "save that it was no
time to kiss, and that kisses are not to
be given in the market place? Well for
thee, foolish child, that thou didst not
speak to him!"
By this time the preliminary prayer
had been offered in thfmeeting house,
and the accents of the Reverend Mr.
Dimmesdale were heard commencing
his discourse. An irresistible feeling
kept Hester near the spot. As tbe sa
cred edifice was too much thronged to
admit another auditor, she ' took ap her
position close beside the scaffold of tbe
pillory. It was in sufneient proximity
J. R. A LfORD,
Attended 10 meetings
at $2.00 per day
Traveled 390 miles at
5 ceut:? per mile
30 00
st every moment, in each accent and
never in vain! It was this prufuund and
continual undertone that gave the cler
gyman his most appropriate power.
During all this time Hester stood.
statuelike, at the foot of tho scaffold. It
the minister's voice had uot kept her
there, there would nevertheless bavs been
an inevitable magnetism in that spot,
whence she dated the first hour of her
lifo of ignominy. There was a Ecnse
within her too ill defined to be made a
thought, but weighing heavily on her
mind thai her whole orb of life, both
before and after, was connected with
this spot, as with the one point that gave
it unity.
Little Pearl, meanwhile, had quitted
bcr mother's side, and was playing at
her own will about tho market place.
She made the somber crowd cheerful by
her erratic and gft.tening ry; even as a
bird of bright plumage illuminates a
whole tree of dusky foliage by darting
to and fro, half seen and half concealed
amid tho twilight of tho clustering
leaves. She had an undulating, but of
tentimes a sharp and irregular move
ment It indicated the restless vivacity
of her pnirit, which tody was doubly
indefatigable in its tiptoe dance, because :
it was played upon aud vibrated with her ,
mother's disquietude. !
Whenever Pearl saw au"thing to ex-
cite her ever active and wandering curi- ,
osity, she dew thitherward and. aa we
might say, Feizcd ujion that man or
tiling as her own projtcrty, so f;;r ns the
desired it; but without yielding the mi
nutest degree of control over her motions
in requital The Puritans looked on, '
and, if they smiled, were none the less
inclined to pronounce thexhild a demon
offspring, from the indescribable c liana
of beauty and ecix'ntricity tliat 6hone :
through her little figure and sparkled
with its activity. She ran and looked
the wild Indian in the face; and he grew
conscious of a nature wilder than his
own. Thence with native audacity, bit
atill with a reserve as charactenstic, she
Hew into the midst of a group of man
ners tho swarthy cheeked wild men of
the ocean, aa the Indians were of the ,
land; and they gazed wonderingly und ad
miringly at Pearl, as if a flake of the tea
foam had taken tho 6ba;o of a little
maid, and were gifted with a soul cf the
sea fire that flashes beneath the prow in
the night time
One of these seafaring men the ship
master, indeed, who had spoken to le.'
ter Prynne was so s.mitten with Pearl s
aspect that he attempted to lay bands
upon her, with purpose to 6natch a kiss.
Finding it aa impossible to touch her as
to catch a humming bird in the air, be
took from his hat the gold chain that
was twisted about it and threw it to the
child. Pearl immediately twined it
around her neck aud waist with such
happy skill that once seen there it be
came a part of her, and it was difficult
to imagine her without it. "
'Thy mother is yonder woman with
the 6carlet letter," said the seaman
"Wilt thou carry her a message from
me?"
"If the message pleases me I will."
answered Pearl.
Then tell bcr," rejoined he, "that 1
spake again with the black visaged
hump shouldered old doctpr, and he en
gages to bring his friend, tho gentleman
she wots of, aboard with him. So let
thy mother take no thought save for
herself and thee. Wilt thoa tell her
this, tbou witch baby?"
"Mistress Hibbins says my father ia
the Prince of tbe AirT cried Pearl, with
a naughty smile. "If tbou callest me
that ill name 1 shall tell him of thee.
and be will chase thy ship with a tem
pest!" to be coxtijcced
19 80
$ 51 SO
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J. A. Bl'RT,
Attended 10 meetings
at $2.00 per day
Traveled 4V4 miles at
5 cents per mile
J. II. L'ZZKLL,
Attended 15 meetings
at $2.00 per day
Traveled 160 miles at
5 cents per mile
(iKOH'iK WlNST'tN,
Attended 14 meetings
at $2.00 per day
Traveled 4(1 mil- at
5 ceiits per mile
B. F. Wilder,
Attended 1 meeting
at 2.00 per day
Traveled 14 miles at
5 ceuts per mile
Crcp
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cure is for sl or IburoA- jt
flrp dos, enly Children lote n.
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24 70
55 70
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In accordance with law, 1, Y
K. Martin, Clerk of the Hoard - f
Commissioners of Franklin ci.t;
ty. North Carolina, do h-rel.y
certify that the above i a tru
statement for the yer endin,:
November 30, A. I , lM'.'n , f the
amount of claims per diem and
mileage of the members of the
Board of Commissioner of Frank
lin county, North Carolina, ind
ited by the said Board of Com
missioners. W. K. Martin.
Register of Deeds and Ex-of-ficio
Clerk to Board.
.,nd
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Bv virf
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the t o'.irt H
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Jagson says you nerer know
how empty a man is until he's
full.
To cleanse grease from wood or
cloth, apply the following: Dis
solve two ounces of white castile
soap aud half an ounce of borax iu
a quart of soft water, turn this into
three quarts of cold water, add
four ounces of aqua amouia ad
four ounces of Alcohol.
I (tuaranteed Cure.
I
I We anthorite our adverti-d drojrp'
j to dl Dr. King's w Discovery for
, consumption, cooghs and olds, upon
I this condition. If you are dieted with
! a eooirh. cold or tor Ian, threat nr
' chest trouble, and will n Urn reroedr
, as directed, giin it a fair trial, and
. experience no ben-St. yuu may re-tarn
I the bottle and hae y.ar m nej rrf and
ed. We eoold Dot make this offer did
1 we not know that Dr. Kind's New Di
j coTery could be reli'-d on. It neterdi-
appoints. Trial buttles frre at Ayeneke
A To 's Dmg Store. Large site 5o.
I and $1.00
The beet medicine for self con
' ceit is to be well introduced to
; yourself
A Leader.
Since its first introduction. KWtrie
BiUers has gained rapidly ia popular
faror, until now it U clearly in the lead
among pore medicinal tonie and alter
atlres containing nothing which per
mits Ut ose as a beverage or lntor'eant,
it ia reeognixrd a the beM and pure
medicine for all ailments of stAroaeb.
liver or kidneys, -It will core ick head
ache, indigestion, constipation, and
drive malafria from tbe system. Satis
faction guaranteed with each bottle or
the money will be refunded. Price on
ly 5oe. per bottle. Sold by Aycocka &
Co, EroggisU.
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; A l'nrd. I
i!oor in Louib"r
gh-t bidder fore i
lvicWf 'Jdrd. 1
a certain trtu t or parcel of lar.M
H :i e-vilh towniiip, "ituntr-!
the IyouHburg and Henderson r
and more fully dJH.Tibnl m
mortgage devd. which i ix-ord":
the Court House in Louisburg.
('.. in IUmA 02. pngee 1.17 and 1
containing one hundred and s-
ty-flve acre, more or ler. 1
said tract of land is sold subje '.
a prior mortgac civ-en by Mi: !
E Aypcue and wife, and .1. E
Ayercue and wife to vt'dhs 1!
rington agent for lW-n Thorriiiirt.
on the 10th day of January if1,
for tlie num ol eight hundrei c
lars. and interest at H per cent
annum, ana recorded tn tn i '
House in Louisburg, N. C, in l'
Mo, page 591.
J. II. ILvhrw. Tnii-T-Nov.
L2, 1893.
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rlrai; fcsFw4tbo a ails where ill J
faU-i; wiU ccva tou if taken ta tim. 4
try DroirWU on rurntrL For ' -
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