\ jProfessional Card ; ? , _ !_ 'Oil II j T)R JOEL WHITA iCEll Practice limited to di eases of Eye, Ear j Nose and Throat. I > Louiaburg first I Monday in eadh mob !>. > . j ? fill'AUT DAVIS ABouirKirr Louisbur , N. c. Suburban properties laid out for de- , velopment. Level! ig and drainage ? work, (loneral Surve ing. ' j -. i ?)R ARTHUR HY: IES FLEMING" I Surgeon ] nkUt* % Offlre in Konl Bulldinjr, 1 Lain and Na?h treat. Louuburg. n. C. Hours: a to 4:30. Phone lo. 40. H A. NEWELL PHVSH IAN ) Louieburx. N. C. Phone No. 156 * J^KANKLINTON HOTEL FrunkHnto i. K. C. It. A Bpetxl. I roprietor Hood Ltwrv in connection C H. HANK* DENTAL SI ItHEO.N Iv:ni*bartc, N. C. "tfl-ein Hicke Buildii r. Muin Street. p H. COOKE Aiiunncift i Louis burg, N. C. , Over Cooper A Pleasau Store.r Prompt , attention given all legal >usine*s entraHtetP tO DIM # ; DR. J. E. MALON] , Supt. Health Louisbun * N. C. Office in Aycock Dru ; Store, Market Street. Office pra tice, Surgery and consu tation. JJtt. 8. P BIIUT PHYSICIAN uo< SURGEON Louis burg M%C. Office over P. S. A K. K. Allen's Store jjll II. F. YARBOI OUGR PHYril IAN aai 8 L KG EON Louis hp rl.'N. C. Otfl'.v in Yarborough It Bickett buildir.g. Night calls answered flotn T. W. Bickett's residence. phone 74. I ^M. HVYWOOD iCFFIN ^ attorney AT LAW P Lorisbulg. N. C. Will priieiice In all ciurte of Frtkuklin and adjoininir couuties I also in the Supreme Court and .in the Domed States District and Circuit Court. OtBw over First Nationul Bank. f|\ It. WILDER ATTORN JYJATi LAW Louist irg. N. C. Otfiire ou Main stn Bt io Cooper building. gPRUILL A BO D^N ArTOKN YS AT LAW Louisb irg. "N. C. Will atteud the con ts of . panklin. Vance, Granville. Warre.* a id .. counties, also the Supreme Com %rtli Carolina. Prompt attention g ven to collections 'HI * in Sptuill building. T W. Bickett. R.-B. Wliii** Lau sburg. X..C. Fraoklinton. X. ?*. Vfc ll'triCTT JL a.- U TL' b "7 " L WVERSJ Louis urg. N. Th** settlement ot e tutea tor ex^iiton*, A<1mini-'trjitors aod C lardiatis is mail*1 i? speclaity, an*' ^ehom a-required hy law < hii be ^ secured in oe otB< Office in Yarbor tagh & BlokeM building Main street ty Mr PKESO I ATTOR IRY AT I.A A Loai burg. N.O " Practice in all courts Office on Main Street W If. YARBOiolHIK. Jr. attorAry at la w Loaistturg. N. -c?ive promnt attention.! offym in ' Egerton BuiMintt. ,1 A J F. HOWVC ro.NTR\CTOlJ ? ??! BTTILDKK ' frker. Louisbu g, N. C.Will oak* eati latea on any job Work Guarantei 1. Call or write wl 3D in noad o anything in ay ' ? -- ? r"" ""i1 E a drama in EE i r?al_life k How It Wca L'clo'.dcd to the Mao E E : Wbo Tells It ;;, By WILLIS BARKER I Copyright by American Press Asso- E I f elation. ML ' | When the clrll war closed, the south tad for four years been suffering from I depletion of every tiling needful to luman beings. .It occurred to me that ; might turn an honest penny by loadng a wagon with, household articles, nclodlng provisions, drive It through he country and sell to the Inhabitants. I started from Nashville, Tenn., with t two horse team, proposing to drive town to Shelhyvllle. then ascending :he Cumberland plateau and working toward east Tennessee. Not far from Shelbyvllle 1 overtook a man on horsesack whose mount had gone lame. He isked me where 1 was going, and when I told him be said he believed be would leave his horse and proceed on my wagon. To accommodate htm and (or company 1 agreed to take him, and it the next farm we came to we stopped to leave his horse. While he was dickering for the animal's keep we heard the tread of a loping horse up the road, and a girl on Its back came hurrying along. The man who was to loin me on seeing her looked annoyed and went toward her. evidently - with the Intention of meeting her where they would not be nverhesnt In whtl thsv ??M Thav talked for some time, the man apparently trying to persuade her to do or refrain from doing something. He was evidently not making much headway with her, and finally they came toward me. "This Is Nancy Parks," he said. "She would like to Join us, go over the plateau and take a train at Bridgeport for Knoxvllle." "I would be very happy to have her," I replied. The girl dismounted, and the man led her horse away to the barn, where his own had been put, and left him there. Miss Parks was an excellent specimen of the poor white girl of the south. She wore a sunbonnet, a calico dress and coarse cowhide shoes. Nevertheless there was something of wild beauty about ber. Her cheeks were a brown and red, her hair and eyes Jet black, the hair being cut square Just above her shoulders. She climbed up Into the rear of the wagon, mounting by means of the wheel, and settled herself comfortably among some bags of coffee. The man got up beside me. By the time we had reached the foot of the Cumberland platedu be had told me that !)ls name was Barker and that he was a northerner looking for a place In the south on which to settle. This was false, as I afterward learned. He was In quest of something very different from this. As for the girl, he Intended to tell me the truth about her, saying that he had spent a day or two on her father's farm. She had taken a sudden fancy to him, and when he parted with her she had made a great ado at the separation, with the result that she had followed him, He said he didn't know what to do with her, but thought when a favorable opportunity occurred ho would "shake" her. The story about her taking n train at Bridgeport was a blind. I didn't care what either of them did 80 lone 08 I was not mixed op In their affairs. Barker whenever we stopped at a farm or in the road to talk with any one asked a good many questions about the country, the soil and the people, bearing, so far as I could Judge, upon his own settlement among them, lie asked different persons with whom we chatted about a man named Elijah Hanks. No one seemed to be inclined to give any definite Information about Mr. Hanks, some saying they had a very slight acquaintance with him, others that they didn't wish to know him at all. Barker seemed to be trying to get a description of Hanks by which he would recognize him. 1 noticed that when Barker Inquired of one person about Hanks the man gave him a quick, suspicious glance. Meanwhile Nancy Parks sat In the back of the wagon munching some apples she found there and of which 1 Invited her to partake. She seemed to be satisfied In simply being with Barker, and 1 could not see that she took any Interest In wbnt was going on. 8oon after we got up on td the plateau we met o man whom Barker sWtped to ask questions about the country and the people and If he knew of a good farm for sale. The man replied In a deep sonorous voice.1 happened t? turn as he did so toward the back of the wagon and noticed a marked change In Nancy. The voice of the man Barker Was questioning seemed to thrill her. She listened Intently to every word he spoke. This time Barker confined himself to Inquiries about general matters, not seeking Information as to special persona. Elijah Hanks was not mentioned. \?e drove on, and I, turning for another glance at Nancy Parks, saw her eyes fixed Intently upqn the man we Were leaving behind, while his face was turned toward ua with an expression of wonder. Then she pointed In the direction opposite to the one wa were going, indicating th'at he was to go back. The man stood Irresolute for K ' 1 , - ' V v. *' while, then lowly follows a*, much to the girl'* apparent discomfiture. Coming to a little place called Tracy, | Barker said he thought be would leave me. giving as a reason that he had heard of a farm for sale In the locality , and be would look It up. Since lUwaa , evening. I concluded to go no further , that day. and, driving my team Into a ,? wood, t unharnessed my horses, fed j them, made some coffee and prepared , to spend the night there. Barker, who by this time seemed to repose in me a , confidence that 1 didn't care to have, told me that the girl was going to sleep in a house In Tracy, and when the awoke In the morning be would be mlaslng. 1 made no reply to this. I was not especially prejudiced In bis favor, and there was something about the girl that drew me to ber. I confess I bad come to believe that some game was being played between the two. and I l ad sufficient curiosity to be Interested in It. There are so many possible complications in any affair In which a woman Is concerned that I had no filth In any theory I formed with regard to the couple. It appeared, however, that they were deceiving each other. About 9 o'clock Barker and I turned In. The night being pleasant I didn't sleep In the wagon, nor did he. I slept a few boars when something awakened me. Barker was standing near with his back to me. He had something. In his bands, and, although I could not sec what ft was. I knew by a series of cllckg that~tt was a revolver which he was examining, cocking It and lowering the hammer to revolve the chambers. Then he put It In bis hip pocket, and, taking another pistol from his other hip, be examined that In the same way. He next looked at his watch, trying to make out the time of night, then, stepping stealthily, moved away from the bivouac. My curiosity In the little play that was going on so near me Impelled me to get np and follow the man. He took a road leading southward down toward a little town at the foot of the plateau called Jasper. I dared not walk near him lest my steps be heard. I therefore kept about a hundred yards In his rear. /I was In danger of losing him, but I would rather do so than have him know that 1 followed him. I finally did lose him.- but soon again caught sight of him or what I supposed was he. What was my surprise, keeping ray eye on the figure before me. upon its passing over a rise. In the ground and showing its silhouette against the sky to see the garments of a woman instead of a man. Had Barker taken on. a disguise? Had I lost hira and fixed my gaze on another? An explanation soon developed. Against the sky I saw two figures. Thvy locked to be side by side, but one was In rear of the other. I could see the legs of one: the other from the waist down was bell shaped like a woman's dress. As 1 looked the man turned to the right and entered a wood. Then I saw the woman do the same. 1 entered the wood at the point as near as I could determine it that they had entered and soon found myself In a ravine. It was dark as pitch in there, and I could not choose my steps. Occasionally I would catch a faint sound as one of the persons I followed dislodged a stone or broke a stick under foot Guided by such indications I pushed on till suddenly- 1 was halted by a sound of another kind. It was the crack of a pistol or rifle. All w^s still for a few minutes. Then I heard some one hurry past me up the declivity, but I could not see who it was. I stood listening till I heard a groan coming from below. Then I went down as rapidly as 1 could in the dark and after going some distance stopped and .listened. Another groan nearer guided me, and, moving toward it, I soon came to an opening in the trees admitting enough starlight to show me a body lying on the, ground. 1 bent over it. at the same time ashing: "Who are you?" "I'm Barker. Is that you?" "Yes, it's I. What's the trouble?" "Tve been shot." "Badly hurt?" "I think I'm done for. I must give you some information at onee. I'm John Archnrct, a United S'ates government detective employed to hunt up these 1111 It mnuutaln whisky stills and bring those who rtui them to justice. I've come here after a man tvho is running a still. Some one who has got on to what 1 was after has followed nnd shot me." ' "Whom do you suspect?" "I'm at a loss to Uo.vv. it may be that Nancy Parks, suspecting that I was intending to 'shake' her, watched and followed me. not knowing anything of my mission and thinking my object to be simply to get rid of her." A very different theory occurred to me. - Judging from what I bad seen, I surmised that In Nancy Parks he had happened on one who loved the man he was after. I reckoned that man to be Elijah Hanks. Clkely the government man had led Nancy to size him np for what he really was and to feel assured that he proposed to arrest' her lover. She had pretended to be Infatuated with Archard and followed him , to keep him in view till she could warn her lover. Having failed to make Hanks understand her. when she saw him from the wagon, she had stpcfc to the man who w is trying to get him, followed him and shot him just before be was about to raid the still. This turned out to be the true version of the story. But 1 kept my knowledge of It a secret, and Nancy Parks was never accused of the shooting. The government man recovered, bnt waa never convinced that Nancy was not infatuated with him. li 'i "1 s ' i^-'" i ** i T . THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE. It I* Quit* OftcA Vary Far Rfim Being Tru* to th* Pol*. "True us the needle to the pole," like many another popular saying, convey* > distinctly erroneous impression. In orderHo keep Itself duly Informed as to tfie*%ofaUbfulnes* of the needle to the pole, or, technically, the "variation of the compass" from the trne north, < our government maintains a division of terrestrial magnetism. Not only does the magnetic needle vary at different places, but the variation changes from year to year and even at different times In the day. On magnetic survey charts those places which at a particular time have the same amount of variation are connected by what Is known as an Isogenic, or equal variation line. Through thsse points on the map In which there Is no variation of the needle from the true north a Une known as the agonic passes. Iron deposits and mountain ranges modify the action of the unknown canses of the periodical variation and cause these lines to become even more crooked than those which mark equal temperatures, known as isothermal lines. _j_I Isogonlc charts may be accurate today and full of small errors In a few years. The famous Mason and Dixon's line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. which was surveyed In the years 17G3 to 1767. was ran by the stars and not by the needle, a great piece of foresight In that day. If it had been surveyed by the compass In 1800 It would have shown a deviation In some places of two miles, and had the Une been run by uncorrected compass a hundred years later. In 1900, the variation would have reached nearly nineteen miles to the south and the rich coal fields of two Maryland counties would have been thrown Into Pennsyl vanla. A. u?7 WOV.V.CJ U1 VlitS UmgDVUC needle's shortcomings Is believed to have been made daring the voyage of Columbus. The disclosure constitutes a high tribute to the scientific perceptions of that day. even though It spread consternation among the ships' crews ?Harper's. PAGANINI HELPED HER. Ths Great Violinist Didn't Play the Miser on This Occasion. . The following story places Paganlnl In a better light than this musical miser was accustomed to appear. And really one Is led to wonder which is the true Pagaulnl?the miser or the kind artist giving his talent to assist a poor servant girl. One morning the maid who waited on him In Paris came to him. weeping, and told how her lover had been conscripted and sent away to the war, and she, of course, was too poor to buy a substitute for him. Paganlnl resolved to aid the girl and took a unique way to do it He. procured a wooden shoe and so fashioned It that It could be strung up and played like u fiddle. Then be advertised that be would give a concert and play five pieces on the violin and five on a wooden shoe. Of course this strange announcement drew a good bouse. The violinist had given the girl tickets to the concert, and after it was over he went to her, and, pouring 20,000 francs into her lap. be told her that she could now purchase a substitute for her sweetheart and with the remainder set up housekeeping. He also gave her the wooden shoe that had brought her such good fortune and told her to sell it Of course this curious Instrument brought her a goodly sum, which she added to the amount which was to bring her domestic hap pines*.?w. Francis Gates In "Aneo dotes of Great Mustclnn3." Wanted Regular Work. A fartn hand had worked In the field from dawn till darkness, doing ti.V' chores by lantern tight. "I'm going to quit," he said to the farmer at tli? end of the month. "You promised mv a steady Job." "Well, hayen't you got one?" was Bb astonished reply. "No." said the mnn: "there ore three or four hours every night that I don'i hove anything to do and fool my time away sleeping."?Success Magazine. A Gentle Hint. "But look here. Snip," said Slowpay. "you haven't put any pockets In these trousers. What's the matter with you ? "Why. Mt. Slowpay," replied the man of clothes, "I was going to suggest that In ease yoa ever had anything to put Into them you send It up to us to keep for you."?Harper's Weekly Not True*to Life. "IIow very few statues there are of real women." "Yes; it's hard to get them to look right" "How so?" d H "A woman remaining still and saying nothing doesn't seem true to life."! ?Boston Transcript His Curiosity. ^ Stranger?I noticed your advertisement In the paper this morning for a man to retail Imported canaries. Proprietor of Bird Store?Yes. sir. Are you looking for the Job? Stranger? Oh. no. I merely had a curiosity to know how the canaries lost their talis! Not Worth Bothering About Customer-Confound you, that's a piece of my ear! Barber?Only a small bit, air; not sufficient to affect the 'earing!?London Opinion? Look net mournfully Into the paat; It comes not back again. Wisely Improve the peasant . i j, I , j&V . ' it'' ^ ' iLtlasted*^- 3 - PROTECT. THE HEALTH OF YOURSELF AND FAMILY. 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INC Pope Building, Washington, D. C. NOTICE. , ^ ? The school committee,of Gold Mine Township will meet atJCentreville, on Saturday, September 28, 1911; at 3 o'clock tor the purpose of electing teachers for the Betdfral schools of said township, Those Applying will send their applications* irr, writing to the Chairman before the above date. D. C. Pearck.n Chairman, Castalia, N. C. R. F. D. No 1, Sale of Valuable Timber. Under the authority con tamed in an order of the Superior Court of Franklin County in tile special proceeding, entitled, Martha A. Moses, Victoria Moses, et als vs. Roger C. Moses, Jas. C. Moses, et als, I will on Monday, the 4th day of September, 1911, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash all the timber 8 inches in diameter at the stump when cut 12 inches from the ground on that certain tract of land situate in franklin County, State of North Carolina, and in Cypress Creek Township, bounded on the North by the lands of Willie Bowden, The Greeniief-Johnson / Lumber Co., and Willis bowden; an the East by the lands of Mrs. .Lam-a Coppedge; on the South by the ipiyls of Mrs. Laura Coppedge and MrsXSpivey; on the West by the lands of JndL Wood and Mrs Sallie HollingsworthVihe entire tract containing about twfc hundred and sixty-live (265) acres, *nd\ being known as The Luther Moses Home Place. The oak takes oa the lot -around the home are n 1 COMPANY | -