T1IK ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, AUGUST G, 1891.
IN PURSUIT.
flow til "l:itrrlil for 1rielv nr
1 uriietl Into onmlv.
A hansom culi from u railway station
drove up to tlio Indies' entrance to a ho
tel, anil out of tin- vehicle stepped a
heavy, dark man, followci'. by a slender
blonde woman wearing a veil. The two
hurried into tin- hotel. Tin- woman
waited by 1 he elevator while the man
went to the desk to register.
He wrote rather deliberately, yet with
an attempt at nonchalant haste as if
the name were not his own the i
wonis.-
"Charles Woodward and wife."
"When does the first fast train start
lor Chicago to-morrow morning?" he
asked the clerk.
The heavy man rejoined his compan
ion anil they entered the elevator, .lust
as the lift began to ascend a thin, fair j
man, who had come into the hotel i
through the front hall-way but a mo- i
ment before, happened to turn his eves I
toward the asceiidiio,' car as it rapidly
flew upward.
The thin mail uttered an ejaculation.
At the same instant came the sound of
a gentle feminine shriek, sudden, but
luilf-reprcssed, from the ladies' entrance
on the other .side of tin; elevator. A
damask-cheeked and plump brunette
stood there, and her eyes, which bore
evidence of recently-shed tears, were
likewise turned upward in the direction
whither the elevator had disappeared.
The thin man walked to the desk
without noticing t ha', the brunette start
ed by a necessarily roundabout way for
tlic same destination.
(inick. tell iin-.'' said the man to the
clerk, "w ho is the gentleman that just
went up in the elevator? The large per
son with a black mustache?''
The clerk pointed to the latest in
scription upon the register. Itefore the
fair man could frame a second inquiry
a new demand was made upon the
clerk's fund of information.
"l'lcase," spoke a trembling but. still
resolute voice, "can you tell me who is
the woman that just went up in the
elevator with with a handsome gen
tleman?" The thiii iri.ui looked quickly fromtlm
register to the. brunette, whose eyes
were fixed appealingly upon the clerk.
"Yliy do you ask','" said the thin man,
before the clerk could begin a reply.
"What is that to you?" said' the
brunette, now observing the man for
the first time.
"A good deal, I fancy. The woman
it my wife. I've followed lnr from
New York and have just caught up w ith
her. And. if you can tell me, I'd he
very glad to know w ho is the man with
her."
"lie's my husband."
The two stared at each other, the
woman looking helpless, the man ap
pearing to be in deep thought. It was
he who eventually broke the silence.
".Madam, allow me to condole with
you and at the same time to beg voir
own sympathy forme. This tl is
elopement had very much excited m ',
and if I hadn't met you 1 might have
(lone something that would have gotten
the affair into the papers. Now that
I've seen you. it occurs to me that we'd
better discuss the situation and sen
w hat is best to be done. We have never
.seen each other before, but under the
circumstances I'm sure you won't
think me presuming if 1 invite you to
dine witli me at some restaurant while
we endeavor totind the easiest solution
of the problem that faces us both. We
shouldn't remain lunger in Ihi-. hotel
for it's desirable at present that neither
of of the two upstairs should know
that were on thcirtr.u k. What do you
say to my proportion ?"
She examined his coti!it"iiam" for a
mom 'ill and then she quietly ac
inic -ccd.
The hotel clerk, who had witnessed
the above narrated meeting ami the ac
companying conversation, did not set
either the fair man or the brunette for
many months thereafter, lie was
transferred to do night duty a few
weeks after thu time of the episode.
A year passed.
The clerk was sitting ratherdrowsily
in the hotel otliee one night, wondering
whether the late train from New York
would bring any arrivals. It did. They
were the thin, fair man and the plump
brunette. The man looked happy; the
woman was blushing radiantly. The
man wrote upon the register:
"Henri' VVilkins and wife."
Then he glanced at the clerk, and
over his face an expression of recogni
tion came. The elerk himself, whatev
er his surmises, wan simply speechless.
"Ah," said the thin, fair man; with a
smile, "this is a coincidence. I To you
remember when you last saw us two?
The circumstances were peculiar,
wern't they? 1 ought to tell you how
things came about. When we had
finished dining on that day, we had
concluded that pcrlmps matters were
better as they were. We went back to
New York and instituted divorce suits,
which were successful, of course. Well,
to make, a long story short, we were
married yesterday, and we're starting
on our wedding trip."
"And the other two?" inquired the
clerk, recovering from his dazed condi
tion. "Oh, they were legally united in mar
riage a month ago. 1 hear indirectly
that they're the happiest couple in the
world."
"Except " ventured the brunette,
smiling.
"To be sure always except"
There can be no doubt ns to the truth
of this narrative. The hotel clerk told
me the, facts himself. Philadelphia
Press.
Kqutllty A inon j smlom.
If you meet 8 sailor on the Jtowery
you can never be sure to what navy he
belongs. To landsmen the dress of till
Jackies is the same, no matter what the
man's nationality, and the United States
navy is made up of recruits drawn from
every quarter of the globe. There is
probably no spot in the world where
race feeling counts for less than on the
deck of a I'uited States man-of-war.
The nc(fro, who makes an uncommonly
fine-looking sailor, seems perfectly at
home aino ig his Caucasian mates, and
apparently is treated qu'.to ai well aa
my one elso. N. Y. Suu.
FORTY-DOLLAR MISTAKE,
To lllililrr fr (),. , M v,,,.,!,,,,
Silc.
All Iowa Ulan, who is a great lover of
horses, and who keeps a grocery store
and a livery -stable, was .Vsimus of
taking a. certain horse wh.cli was to he
disposed of jft a public sale of a gentle
man's estate, lie knew that it would
never do for him to l,i, in person, as the
yv.ctionccr, aware of his weakness for
line animals, would manage by one
means or another to run up the price.
The story is told in the Chicago Herald.
The grocer and livery-keeper ar
ranged to have another man bid off the
horse for him, but whea the hour of the
sale arrived he felt that he must bo
present and see to it that his instruc
tions were carried out
He arrived a little late, and just aa
the hors- was being sold. Yes, there
was his man .Jones, true to his trust, ia
the midst of the crowd that surrounded
the tine animal. Just at that moment
Jones bid one hundred and thirty-flye
dollars.
Some one must have immediately
nodded five better, for in another mo
ment Jones bid one hundred and fifteen.
From some uuseen bidder tlio auction
eer received another advance, of five
dollars. That was us much as the horse was
worth, but Jones had orders to buy it
at almost any price, and he promptly
raised his offer to one hundred and
twenty. So matters went on till Jones'
bid was one hundred and thirty-five dol
lars. At that point the livery-keeper
mounted a box to see what fooi wanted
the horse so badly. On the further
edge of the crowd stoc.d Smith, and just
is he nodded another five, it Hashed
upon the livery-keeper that he had told
inith to do exactly what, in his forget
Xulnesss, he had afterward instructed
Jones to do.
lie lost no time in stopping the fun,
which had already cost him about forty
dollars.
OCEAN CABLES.
t out niul latent of th Sulimarlno Tcl
Kriipll vtem of the World.
According to the latest report of tlio
intermit io-ial bureau of telegraph ad
ministrations, the submarine telegraph
system of the world consists of 120,070
nautical miles of cable. Government
adi'iinistrations, says Scribner, own 12,.
:-M miles, while Iu7,5ii are the proper
ty of private companies. The total cost
of these cables is in the vicinity of
SJilO.IIOIl.niiil. The largest owner of sub
marine cables is the Eastern Telegraph
Company, whose system covers the
ground from Kngland to India, ami
comprises .'l.Siid miles of cable. The
eastern extension, which exploits thu
far east, has i ;,;i."s miles more. Early
in that year the .system of West African
cables, which started from Cadiz only
six years ago, was coir.plet d to Cape
Tow n, so that the dark continent is now
completely encircled by submarine tel
egraph, touching at numerous points
along the coast. More than 1 7,000 miles
of cables have been required to do this,
and several companies, with more or
less aid from the llritish, French, Span
ish and I'orttigeeso governments, have
participated i'l carrying out the work.
The north Atlantic is spanned by no
less than eleven cables, all laid since
lsTIl, though not all are working at the
present time; live companies are en
gaged in forwarding telegrams between
;.ort!i America and Europe, and the to
tal length of t!i.' eablesowned by them,
i:iclu. liter coast connections, is over !(),
(io,i nautical miles.
NORMAN HUMOR.
The .enroll of the "lev lvltl liock of
Noi'ia:i:iilv.
Superstitions about rocks, which were
once popular among the peasant classes
of Europe, are dying out. The familiar
legend is of a rock w hich, moved at a
certain time by some strange witch
craft, revolves or rolls aside and dis
closes treasure hidden beneath, the
time usually being specially inconven
ient for witnesses, as for instance, "on
t'.ie stroke of twelve on Christmas eve."
A peculiar story of this kind is still told
in Normandy. M. Jnlien Tiersot writes
of it in the Ke.vue des Traditions Popu
lates: In the neighborhood of Caudbec-en-Oaux
there is a stone which, the coun
try people say, revolves while the bells
ring the Angelus at noon on Good Fri
day A walk in the country in the
spring at the hour of noon is an agreea
ble diversion, and the sceptical stranger
readily consents to go and see the al
leged magical stone.
The stranger and his escort reach the
stone and wait. Time passes. It is af
ternoon. "Hut the stone has not moved," he
says.
"Wait, you have not heard the An
gelus rung yet." is the smiling reply.
and one might wait forever, for on Good
Friday the Angelus is never rung
The (;reen Cloth in Church.
The church naturally took more or
less of the local color in early times,
says the llutte City Miner, and the
anomaly of a professional gambler as a
leading church member might easily
occur. A story goes that there were
several of these men who weru pretty
regular attendants at church in ljuA.
Chance gulch As United States
money was scarce and gold dust was
the ordinary medium of exchange, it
sometimes happened that the knights
of the green baize had no money with
them when the plate went around. On
such occasions they would toss a faro
or poker chip into the dish, and the
deacon would go the next day and have
the dust weighed out in payment. It
was not uncommon for amounts to
range from ten dollars to twenty
dollars It is said the knights are not
so reckless in these days, and that they
are rarely seen ut church. Tin ir tribe
is not extinct, buSbusiness Vtt them ll
fr from bri.
A ym-er t'nl!iloli.
A collision between a ship ami an
omnibus is something rare, but one ia
just reported from Hamburg The tm
was crossing a bridge and the vessol
poked her jibboom into it. but nobody
wu hurt.
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ex Sim
Ddteit June 7th, lS'.U.
Ar Korky Mount ...
at Tarlioro
Leave Tarhoro
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Leave Turin ir
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Daily except Sunhiiy.
Train on Si'otianil Nei'k llrani h Road leaves
Wehlon nt ; 10 p. in. Ilaiif.ix ; .'2. arrive Scotland
efk at I ISp in lin-enviHe f. o2 ri m Kiu.tnT
710p.ni. Iteturninu' leaves Kinstoo 7 on, n. ni.
(ireeiiville s lua in Arrivini! at Halifax' 11 oo)
a. in.. Weldon 1 1 2""i in uiiily exci-iit Suinlay.
Local freight 'rain leaves rt'elilon .Mo'mlays
Wednesdays ami Kri'iay at 7o o a in., anivinp,
atseotlanil Neck luiiiii. in .Kreenviile tKi 2 p. m.
Kinston -12'' p. in Iteiuniin'. leaves Kiustoii
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arriving at (ireeiiville 13 mi non, Scotland Neck
:i 2ii p. m. ru-ldoii n i i p. in.
Train leave Tarlioro N. ('., via Alliemarle and
Itnlei','li K. K. Daily except Sumlav 4 05 p.m.,
Mimlay no p in , arrive Williainston N. c.
n. in.. I 2oii. in. Plymouth 7 ."in p. m., fi jo p. m,
Ki'turniui; leaves I'lynioulh daily except Sunday
2ua. m .Sunday '.Mil a. m. Willininslon. X. (;;,
7 JO a. m. y.'is a. in. arrive Tarlioro lUCju iu,
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Train on Midliunl N. f". Mmnoh leaves (iolds
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Smillilield, N r,:in H, m, 'Jtct iirnititf leaves
Smithlield, N. (J., mil u. in arrive Unldsburn. N
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Train on Nashville llranch leaves Kneky
Mount at " en p. m., arrives at Nashville .'! in p,
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Spriiiit Hope loon a. in., Nashville 10 S.'i a. m.,
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Train mi clinlon liriineh leaves Warsaw for
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11 l.i a. in Ketiirninir leave Clinton at K go a m
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SouUil.ound train on Wilson and Kavettevilla
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train No -J7 S-uth will onlv stop at Itoeky
Mount. W'ilsoii (lohlslioroaud MiiKiiolia.
Train No. 7 makes close coniii i tion at Weldon
forall points North daily. All rail via Richmond
anil daily except Sunday via Hay Line.
Trains niakeselose connection fur h11 points
Norlh via Richmond and Washington.
All trains run S 'lid between Wilmington and
Washington and have Pullman Palace Sleepers
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TO THE PATRONS
-OF THE-
ALUEMARLK STKAM
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QUICKTIME!
On and al'ter Monday. Decemher 17tll,
and until further notice, the Stenmei
CHOWAN, Captain Vithv, will
LKA VK 1'lt ANKLIN 011 Mondavs, Wed
nesdavs and Friday for EDEN TON, KLY-
I MOL111 and Jill iPterinediate jxiinls on
arrival ot mail tram from Portsmouth, nay
10.15 A. M.
HKTUKMNG The "Chowan" will
reach Franklin on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays at 0:15 A. M., in time to
connect with Fast Mail train from Lalcia
to l'ortsmoutti and with Express train for
the South.
Passengers, hy this nrmiRement, taking,
the Steamer Chowan ut a ly point on the
river, will
1JEACH NORFOLK by 11 oclock A. M.,
mid 1 linn have the entire day for the trans
action ol husiiiess in Unit city.
CIVi; THIS UuUTIl A T1IIAL.
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J. H. BOGART
FrunkliD Va., Deo, 15. .1888. Bnpt';