Section X
A. P. JOHNSON, EDITOR ANB? MANAGER
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VOL. XL II.
RIPTION $1.00 P<#%iUE
LOUISBURG, N. C..PRIDAY NOVEMBER 16 1912
NUMBER 40
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A "fiab Story"
By CLARISSA MACKIE
Captain Barnabas Fish was rowing
me out to the breakwater, where. tb?
little bluelleb were running in multl
tudes.
He bent to tbe oars and pulled with
long, even strokes, every exhalation of
his deep breatlu being marked by a
little puff of blue smoke. Suddenly he
looked up at me with twinkling eyes
and spoke between bis clinched teeth.
"I'll bet I know what you're thinking
about, Ulss Telham," he declared. j
"Weill" I Inquired skeptically.
"You was comparing me to a pulling
donkey engine, eh?" he grinned.
1 blushed and evaded the accusation.
"You're not so ?ory little, Captdln Bar
nabas," I said hastily.
"Ho, ho, hoi" he laughed down deep
In bis throat, and I realized that once'
more had tbe captain exercised his al
most uncanny powers of telepathy.
"You shall tell me a good story lu re
turn for that. Captain Bartiabas," 1
said as he brought tbe boat skillfully
around to the most advantageous spot
In tbe fishing ground.
"I got to think up one, then," said he,
plumping the anchor overboard and
-sliding bis oars along tbe thwarts. Big
as he was, the old captain stepped
around the small craft aa agilely as
one of the cats that Infested his cabin
on the bench.
As he arranged the lines and baited
the books I looked contentedly around
at the encircling bluffs, wooded to their
summits and faced with heavy yellow
saud near the pebbly beacb.
"Heady!" called the captain lustily,
and I reached forivnrd and took the
baited line from his hand and tossed it
overlioard. All around us were anchor
ed other small boats whose occupants
were industriously pulling In tbe hun
gry bluefish.
When harbor blues are running all
Quince liaven is redolent of frying fisb
at the dinner hour.
Captain Barnabas dropped bis line
over, and Immediately It stretched taut
and then quivered suggestively. He
besan to pull in with a gratified stnile
creasing his leathery skin. .
"You got a w^iale on there, capt'n."
called a neighboring fisherman.
"Want any help?" sang out another.
"Belay there!" retorted the captain,
his grin changing to a frown as he
yanked Into view a large skate, which,
at the moment of landing, snapped the
line and disappeared beneath the trou
bled watefs.
An echoing laugta ran around at the
captain's expense, and his hearty "Ho,
bo. ho!" was tb^ loudest of alV While
be prepared another line I felt a nib
ble at my own and pulled in' a wrig
Tnns imtle bine, which the captain
promptly removed.
"This la a good time to begin the
story," I Insinuated when we were
comfortably settled once okore.' J
"Lemme see," be mused, pushing the
Straw hat back from his bead and
skillfully refilling bis pipe with oue
band. "Something about that there
ekateflsh I Just caught makes me
think of Ananias Sllne's whale." .',A
?Tni rather sorry It's an Ananias
story, captain." *
??Why?" Again his ejus twinkled
at r.ie. ? ?
"Oh, because!"
He laughed. heartily. ' "Flint's an^lti
slnuatlon against Ansnlna SHno, whn??
name i-s against hino
-He certainly lives up to It, cap
tuln."
"Ho, ho! Of course I've described
Ananias Sllne to you before, and you
linow he was little and mean looking,
with pop eyea and a light bald head.
I mean bla hair was light color, what
there was of it, and, come to think of
It, It wasn't overloaded with common
sense, and be had a most murderous
smite and a hand that was cold and
damp "ke a dead fish.
"When he was my first mate aboard
the old Indus he used to sit 'aft with
me and tell stores, the greatest yarns
I ever did hear. I never met a man
who liad so many wonderful adven
tures as did Ananias Sllne and could
tell 'em so they sounded more like
truth than 'Action, either. Well, one
night when we was homeward bound
from I.uzon we sat out under the
southern cross and watched the gllm
merlnir phosphorescent waves, and as
a little spicy lireose came along on Its
wnJ from Some little soutb Pacific
Island Ananias folded his arms and
tilted back against the rail.
time I wa? wre??ea hfrc*t?ota. Want
to hear about It r
? 'Yes.' W? L Aod so be begins.
.??It was en my first voyage to tea,
and I ? y?"?* Wk>w and *v?ry
Ujnj, wa* new to me. We #aa on
tor way to China when the ship got
aflro and ?H hands escaped In the
boot*, nil Acept me. I was'?
'"I'll bet you m snooping around
tbe cabin to pee It the captain bad left
any loose money l>ehlnd or something
like that,' I chipped In. but Ananias
only gore me one of them murderoo*
?miles Ud wept- on with his yarn.
*?4 was still manning the Ore hose
and trying to pump water and hold
til* hose at the same time when all of
? sodden I wu alone. There wasn't
4 boat left There wasn't anything
except aomc slush tuba, atul so I put
oa a life preserver and grabbed a bag
of biscuits and a can of fresh water
and went overboard. Just as 1 got out
of danger the ship went down, ,and
there I was In the south Pacific, slt
. ting In a big slosh tub with a piece of
canvas thrown over me and not even
a bit of plank to use as an oar.' I
? " 'Btlll It wasn't so bad, for the sea
was calm, and the tub Just bobbed
along In an oHy kind of way, kind of
whirling around and around till I was
dizzy: Without nothing to get j no
where, I didn't know where I might
fetch up, so while I was thinking
about It I just went off to sleep, 'and
In the morning whfea I woke up there
I was bumping gently against a kind
of steep, ssndy bsnk, while paint trees
rustled overhead and monkeys chat
tered at me from the branches.
" 'Of course I scrambled ashore tend
pulled the tub up on the beach and
took a walk around the island; for
that's what it was. It was only about
fifty feet long and thirty feet wide,
and there were only five palm trees on
It and three monkeys and a bahaua
tree and one that 'bore bread fruit.
The soli was % sandy, but kind of
spongy, or more like" rubber, but there
wasn't a Bign of fresh water, except
some that was gathered In cocoanqt
shells by the monkeys. Did I say
there was a cocoanut tree 7" asked
Ananias hastily.
" 'You did not mention It, but never
mind so long as you brung It in on
time," I says. .
" 'Well,' he scowled at me. "how long
do you think I lived on that Island,
captain ?'
" 'An unlikely length of time, An
anias,' says I coolly.
"'I'm not expecting you to believe
It," says he. getting mad. 'A man that
wasn't ahvays a deep se* sailor, If he
had most of his Mapping fishing down
the bay, I ' guess ain't Been or heard
enough strange adventures to appre
ciate the marvels of? -p?? He looked
around for the propej"W?rd.
" "The marvels invention, An
anias?' I asked styty. Texpect there's
more sailors got -their first knowledge
of the sea selling codfish In a grocery
store than you, Ananias.' I've told
you Ananias used to be a clerk In a
grocery store.
"He stared coldly at me and twisted
his mouth into another horrible smile.
" 'As I was saying,' he went on sour
ly, 'I stayed on that lglajjd three weeks
before the great upheaval came and'?
"'Jonah was hove up in less time
than that,' I chipped in. but he took
no notice of me.
" 'One morning just at daybreak the
island quivered from Btem to stern,
and a mighty wave rushed up and
washed completely over It I would
have been drowned only I clung to the
trunk oft tree, and before another
ware came I was up the tree among
the branches out of danger. Next
thing I saw was the slush tub afloat
and In It was the three monkeys aa
big aa life, and they were cute enough
to take a bunch of bananas along with
'em. They bobbed ont;of eight astern,
and it happened so suddenly I dldu't
realize the altuatlon. Then it dawned
upon me that that Island was racing
along through the water at about ten
knots! The water was washing over
her and sluicing the sand right off.
One by one the palm trees went over
as the soil disappeared, and at last
there was nothing left on the Island
except the banana tree where I was
perched, and the heap of sand and
shells around the roots was growing
smaller every minute.
" 'Where the sand had washed off
the ground was black and hard and
oily looking, and the Island rolled and
wallowed In the sea Jnat Bke a big
whale, and so I wasn't a bit surprised
when all' of a sudden there spouted
Into the air a Jet of water, and I was
certain. Every minute I was afraid
That whale would dive and carry mo
with It to Davy Jones' locker, but then
I think It was waiting for the banana
tree to go. It would be free then.
" 'All at once I heard a shout, and.
looking ahead. I could see that we were
driving straight up on to a sandy Jjencb
?a real one this time, captain? and
men were shouting and leaping back
as the whale advamjed Thee there
was a mighty flop, anil we went out of
the wnter, the whale quivered Hke a
Jelly, and the bnnana tree with me in
it went sliding off to the ground.
"'When I come to tb? wbale was
dead and all the white merf"on this
Island bad patched up a theory about
the whale which my story inly sub
stantiated. Hanging from one of his
teeth was a short length of aaqte
chain newly broken on the lowet<?4>
One of the links had caught In his
tooth, and before the chain was bro
ken I suppose there was a lot more of
It With, maybe, a big anchor on the
bottom. Oh, yon' caj? sniff . eap'c, but
that anchor maybe vis resting oh the
summit of SJolcano or per?ap* oo the
. ? \\K. -rf " -
Tfef 2*?^ What Belief
From Hookworm Disease Me^t
to One Family . ' ,
THB tambiedown abaclr* Is Where
.*&?/< all lived , la misery, not
knowing what waa their trouble.
-/They were Illiterate, for In four
generations not one of their ancestors
had erar. soue to school. There were
tbe father and mother and Ore children.
The mother had never known a wall
Say. Tbe father waa doing about half
.work, the. eldest boy almost none.
The neat two story house la where
mother, their grandfathers and grand
mothers, their great-grandfathers and
gr e#t-grauil mother*. c.
The sturdy, healthy boy at the fence
la one of the lada who are using their
nraOcle and energy to bring the family
Into a prosperity Borer known before.
Ho la lnduatrloua and capable now, bat
be was an Invalid until be waa relieved
of bookworm dlaeaae
Ia.lt any wonder that this family la
doing what It can to prevent the
From squaior and wretchedness to health, comfort and happiness in a few
17* *? . , months. ^
they all lived fifteen months after
they were treated for hookworm dis
ease. They were so restored In health
and rigor that they set to worli to
make enough money to better them
selves In every possible way.
The little white schoolhouso. is
where the children are now going to
school to learn to read and wrft??
things that were beyond the power
and knowledge of their father and
top layer sfaome lslaud mat ?M b
the maldng. Anyway, something hatf
bald that Whale anchored there till the
rhaln parted, All he had to-do was to
open hla month and his food would
awlm right In. Of eonrae the wares
washed up sand till It formed a soil
and then birds brought seeds, and the
trees grew, and' ?
" 'Ijow shoot those monkeys?' 1 Ask
ed 'tartly, because I was mad Ana
nlas should think I was fool eriiragh to
believe his yarns. 'I ?"pose the birds
brought them too!' .
* says Annnlas. eyhJg me
<ercely, 'I ? expect tb'ey was cast n shore
same as I was!'
?"In .a sldsh tub. moat likely.' I said,
getting up and knocking out my pipe
against the rail. That seemed to be the
favorite monkey transportation line.
! Ananias Sllne.' and I went below:"
Captain Barnabas looked down at
the pile of silvery blties that filled the
big basket we had brought and twin
kled an eye at me. "Most time to pipe
all hands to dinner, I guess. Miss Tel
ham!"
"I am willing." said the candldat |
after be bad hit the table a terrible
blow with his Oat, "to trusT ibe peo
ple."
"Gee!" yelled a little man in the sin-!
dlence. "I wish you'd open a grocery."]
?Chicago Record-Herald.
Shopper? Do you keep unground cot
fee beans beret
Clerk? No, ma'am; upstairs. Tbls la
the ground floor.-San Francisco Ex
?bluet1:
A man thought His mum son I
MlRht well Invest somo mon.
A dye shop, son thought.
Would b? by th? ton ?au*ht
A?d ao be tried dyMns ,
Until' ha died )?y)n?.^V ,
^?K'nui cttyeuir
The traditional fool aod hU monpj
Flrat Farmer? How doee joar foil
lege daughter Ilk* life on the farm"?
Second Fanner- We got ? Metal
idee, ai* Wr? charfto' ber jj#t
? nmmt TT
further spread of the disease? Is It
nny wonder that the father has built
a sanitary privy and Is observing
those simple rules of sanitation that
If generally lived up to would com
pletely banish hookworm disease from
the country?
- The other picture shows the family
as It now (s, well and happy and full
of the new cheerfulness of clean and
Industrious llvtnir. * ?"* F ?
Habit Brings Eass.
When ma w ru?#i<xtp?r* for her dull
The,noui?e in awful Will
We don ( get any fancy arub:
WedOn'l Speak to her till
If* ntoaj time If are do nhe'll say:
"Now. t can't think at all
Unless you children run away!
Hop# no one cornea to call!"
The Weekly Journal editor
He looks real pleaaaai when
Folks eall H?* doesn't mind what for. 1
His pencil of hl?s j>en
Keeps on. out he says. unlling. "Wall,
What news? Crop# pretty fair? I
How do you like this rainy spell r
Wife well now? Take a ohatr."
" * " " ' -^TlUlfe
Uncivilised. . I
"Now. Johnny." suid-Mbe teacher_tG
.? sum II pnpii ib the ?iikUMny'cfii ss. ~?fra
roe the name of some wild flower."
"IndlHii meal 1m the ^wildest door I
know of," replied ttfe bright younfl*
iter -St. L*>ui4 P'ist- Pl^Piitrb.
? ? y. ,f . ? 1 1 .1 1
Autumn.
The gentle spirit of the fsill
Will come to glorify the air, i,
And the foot bull player will Hppail
The population with hie hair. ?
The referee wlU vHmto the poles
And aoun<1 hi# shrill official toot, I
And the moths Will drill a few mOfQ
holes
In everybody's 'winter suit.
?St. I.OUIH Post- Dispatch.
Trade indicators. ; J
Customer -Bow** tbc buainena?
MereJiant?ItV varwble. Over there
in the mmfrew aevUon lt<? so quiet
you can bei\r tile bed ticking. but ber*
in tbe towql* wp'rti so biw.v* you can't
hear ibe rnisfi. ^ Fort \\ a.vue Journal. j
rbl~^
SH
Alaa, Poor Vthtta!
The Venus dt Mllu lit p?rfuct. I'm told*
In p(??o? ?nd a tlgur* that clurmi.
But If *he has a l)?*4ri. "(la marble
cold. * - >*' % 'y
And hofcr could ah* hii8~Wlthout>a('i
Grataful. f
"But I'eter, 7011 should h? grataMi
that yon *w raftd from droirniaf
Md nut^Mr Ilk* tbM." .
vfWMl*Wt tkw* cwoe my aunt*. u4
BOW I II D? kluwd all tb? ?rteruoott."
Ww?l? Btotter.
DAMES AND DAUGHTERS.
Un. David Chambers McCan. who
Mi receatly appointed a civil aerrlc-e
romnilsaloacr la I.a* Alleles. la said
to tie tbe inrt mmi In thia canntry
balding auch a pa*itl*n.
? Miss Lllllaa D. Wald. bead of tbe
Nurse*' #ettl?aaent flans*. New York,
?ad Uisi. Caralbt. Ransome of the
Metropolitan mnaeuia. New lork. were
among those on whom honorary de
cree* were c*uf?tred by Mouat Hoi
yoke college during tb* recent celebra
Hod of Its sarenty irth birthday
Mrs. Sarah Christopher of New York
la the Brat woman la this canntry to
be appointed an Inspector in a Ore pre
vention bureau. Bar salary la (1.200
a year. She h is been assigned to the
cloak, suit anil aklrt fsctorlaa In tbe
metropolis, wiilch number more than
COO and employ about 100.000 persons,
mostly women.
Miss Elle Sem, tbe only practicing
woman barrister in Norway, qualified
as a lawyer In 1001. Not being con
tent to remain "sakforer," or lawyer,
with right only to pleat) In minor cases,
she has finished the four test cases
necessary to ber admission to the su
preme court and la now a barrister en
titled to appear.
Current Comment.
Football may be all right, but it
can't keep the bulletin board busy.?
New York American.
Tbe new Zeppelin dirigible Is equip
ped with a kitchen, but the average
aviator doesn't need one to cook bis
goose.? Washington Post.
The Gasoline Engineers' Protective
association has been organized to "ele
vate the chauffeurs." Numerous pa
trons would like to organize a dyna
miters' society for the same purpose.?
New York Sun.
Superintendent of Schools Franklin
B. Dyer of Boston aifnounces bis dis
covery that the father is practically
lost in the modern home. But father
emerges from eclipse pretty regularly
along about the first of the month.?
Bostou Traveler-Herald.
Town Topics.
Chicago, will bv tbe solitary mourner
at the passing of New York's last horse
car.? New York Sub.
Street gas lamps were ' first used iu
1807 And some-of tbera haven't been
replaced.? Milwaukee sentinel.
When Des Moines gets around to the
point of purchasing tbe mucb needed
city ambulance it might bp well to
scud a committee to Sioux City, where
a city ambulance long bns been in
commission and where the latest
things in the way of automobile am
bulances ply daily to and from tbe bos
pita Is-? Sioux City Journal.
Facts From France.
France *-*- II47T> 7"" booses and 13?.
676 workshops and factories.
Of tbe total re remit of Prance over
70 per cent Is derived from Indirect
taxes. j
The records sbow that 323 valaablc
pictures hare been parlolned from tbe
Louvre.
Tbe French army needs 70.000
horses, and tbe abei-tage In the coun
try la estimated at orer i!00,000. Thi
cause of It la attributed to the fact
that rapid multiplication of motorcars
led to the neglect of horae breeding.
Scienoe Sittings.
The' density of water Is 770 times
greater than that of air.
Tbe Invention of a flame derlred
from electric energy that wlli not Eire
off heat is claimed by a French scien
tist who Is keeping the details secret;
Evidence of an atmosphere on the
moon to a height of sixty or seventy
miles or more has been reported by
Professor W. Luther of Dusseldorf.
who on two occasions saw one side of j
the planet Mars become darkened on
nearing occupation by the moon.
Pert Personals.
Perhaps Abdul Oamkl will begin to
enjoy his rucntiou now.? New York
Sup.
Andy Carnegie says be always taitgli>
when be is with kings. . And tb?v
laugh too.? Washington Post.
We can understand the silence of.thr
gentle poet laureate, but it's strung**
that In tbcse stirring times nothing i>
lizard from the stormy petrel of Great
Britain? Rudyard Kiplfng.? New York
.Telegram. * '
Woman's Attire.
The young lady who dresses to be
looked at shouldn't get angry when u
fellow takes u good aqua re look at her.
-New Oc&w l'tcayune.
A young girl walked down one or
our main streeu recently without any
makeup and with her hair hanging to
a simple braid. Thousands of people
(axed at this unusual tpecjaele-? Pitts
burgh Post. \
A Plan For
a Break
It Led to Complications
*nd & Fiasco
?
By JULIA D. EDMONDS
The autumn season when the tourist
heglra Is southerly was- opening:, and
the resorts of the border states were
well stocked with guests. The rock
ing chair brigade? as those ladles who
dally occupy the porch of the Vieude
leau hotel, each .and all plying some
kind of needle as an accompaniment
to their melodious gossiping voices
was Id session. Two ladles sitting
somewhAt apart from the rest were
engaged in earnest conversation in a
low tone.
"I sympathize with yon, Mrs. Har
per," said the one, "but I don't see how
I can help you. My son Is actively en
gaged In business and can't be away
from it at this season more than a few
days at a time. Could he be here with
us, say, for a . fortnight 1 would be
glad to lend him to you for the purpose
of drawing your daughter's attention
from this young Rugglcs, who you
fear will win her. There Is another
course I will suggest A young man
has just arrived who has entered his
name on the hotel register as Edward
Caton. Being the only young fellow
ot prepossessing appearance (Ituggles
excepted) in the hotel, he will soon be
besieged by the girls. Tf you like I
will make his acquaintance, introduce
him to your daughter (telling liim she
Is the belle of the place), and she will
naturally be interested in taking him
away from the others. This will serve
to divert her mind from Kuggles and
make a breach between them. But
why do you object to Ruggles? He is
in id to have an income of $5,000."
"My dear Mrs. Crawford, what would
$5,000. a year be for Gwen?"
"What yon wish I presume Is simply,
to break off her affair with Ituggles,
that she may be- free to marry a for
:une."
"Precisely. If you can accomplish
this break by introducing any one? no
matter who he is? I will consider my
self under' a lasting obligation to you."
The same evening the Introduction
was accomplished. Gwendolen Harper
and Edward Caton were introduced,
and before the guests left the dancing
liall In the evening Mrs. Crawford
said to Mrs. Harper:
"Did yon ever see such a remarkable
ease of love at first sight?"
All the parties to this schetoe were
pleased except 8am Ruggies, who went
off to the far end of the veranda and
?cowled and smoked and smoked and
scowled, keeping by himself Where he
conld not see his rival's success lest he
thould make a scene.
But on the third da y after the break
had been made effective, when Mr.
Ruggies was reading a northern Dews
paper, he saw something that thrilled
him. It was an advertisement of 'Mrs.
Edward L. Caton for information con
cerning her husband, who had deserted
her and their three children. Ruggies
Immediately cnt the ad. ont of the news
paper that be alone of those at the ho
tel might possess this information and
that be might conalder a plan by which
he could set the greatest satisfaction
But of it
The same evening an anonymous let
ter went to the advertiser that a gen
tleman had appeared at the Vieudelean
hotel at : answering to the name
mentioned in the advertisement. Rug
gies, who mailed the letter, could not
refrain from adding that "the fellow
was evidently bent on committing big
imy."
From the time the discarded lover
taw the evidence that his rival was
tailing nnder false colors he changed
his bearing toward Miss Harper.
Where before he bad made his J pal
>tisy evident he now assumed an air of
luperiority mangled with pity. . Mr.
Caton had become aware that his at
tentions to Miss Harper had made Mr.
Ruggies his enemy and had noticed the
?ntagonlsm of tho letter's bearing to
ward him whenever they met. One
evening while Mr. Caton was dancing
with Miss Harper he unintentionally
ran agnlnst Ruggies, who was also
lancing. The look Ruggies gave him
was ominous. I,ater, when both went
nut on the veranda for a whiff at a
cigarette, Caton stepped up to Ruggies
ind apologized for running against him
In the dance.
"One who is Sailing under false col
Irft," was the reply.
"How did yon get onto -that?" asked
Caton with surprising Imperturbability.
'1 saw it In the newspapers." *
"I wish the newsDjpers wouKl let me
tlone." was the cfciv rtfoipfier, and
Hatop went back Into the dancing hall,
s-here Ruggies yoon 'saw' him whirling
with Miss (JMtjffo .
tjfij. the only real nititcjitpeiit In this
(ConUoned on fig* Wow)
-ttarrtaff* mfrfimu Ibrm ooe's
character or rafora It