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TIIE ROANOKE NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29. 1892. ' "i ! I! ii i" r f H . I' I'KUlL'iU. A Story of Two Now Years. BY EVA BEST. UY my last paper. lous quaver of the professional mendicant, and moves 'me not a whit. They are all alike with their stock In trade, their whines, their pleas, their art ful endeavors to work tipnn one's sympathies; and I move on through tin- darkening twi light of a bitterly cold New Year's eve, until the sound of a persistent "stump, stump." beside me, and the sight ' a pair of eyes, hollow, yet radiant, light ed suddenly into starry reflectors by the I'oming of their owner Into the glare of an electric lamp, eause ine to itnp ut once. It Is a girl, I perceive; a girl upon crutches. Her rags are manifest, her cloak a farce; a tattered bit of scarlet wool is wound about her head, ami in each naked, red hand is grasped the cross-piece of a rude crutch. "liny my last paper, 'm? All about " but what she says chills me more than the biting night winds. From her blue, childish lips comes a glib enumeration of crimes no child should know crimes from which a seasoned sinner might well recoil intelligence of most Sa tanic nature and yet I feel that her own utterances touch herself no more lor harm than do the foul waters the waxen petals of the lilies they up bear. "Who are you. child?" I ask. "Cmtchy. Won't you buy my last paper?" "Yes; but that's not enough. I I " Hammering, because I feel that I am "WON'T you buy my last papkr?" about to do one of those very foolish. impulsive things imputed me by my little world at large "I should like to buy you." "Me?" "Yes. Are you for:sale, Crutchy?" "Not reg'lerly aerost a counter, 'm," rejoins Crutchy, in quick response to the suspicion of drollery in my mood. "It's iou as 'u'd be sold, 'm, if you was to buy me. I d go dirt cheap, though, and irill.n'." "It's a bargain," I laugh, and down the brilliant street we tramp together. "He'll be glad if I never come back," vouchsafed my new possession. "He hates me. Men alius hates women, doesn't they?" I glance down at Crutchy in surprise. Bu' the surprise vanishes as I note the child is older than I thought a great girl, in fact, but not in stature. "Who is 'he.' Crutchy? The clerk to whom I must render payment for my new purchase?" "He's gran'dad; but he can't sell int. "Sides" and the starry eyes close suffi ciently to twinkle "he'd be too drunk to make change!" I am already glad that I have bar gained for Crutchy. My intuition never fails me, however mad, at times, my Impulses seem. I like my .new littlo bundle of ready responses; but how about Keith? Keith laughs when, at home at last, I tell him what I've done; calls me all sorts of fond, nonsensical names, and, a little later, leaves me with my "odd idea," to go to the club. "You'll not stay long, Keith?" I ask. "Can't promise, dear, really. There are a lot of fellows of the legion to be on hand to-night " "Of the legion, Keith that old Pa risian mob?" "Ha! ha! 'mob'! You're not jealous of the legion, are you, little woman?" I am. But pride will not allow me to be candid. Let him go to his legion am I not his first thought, for all those gay Bohemians? "Cantholi has a new idea" all things, to Keith, arc, in some sort, "ideas" and he means to parade it. "Ulg canvas weird subject 'Ring of Death,' or something of the sort." "I like your stvle so much better. Keith." "What 'The willows green, the peb bles white, the stream a line of glim mering light'?" "For shame, Keith! Where did you find that, you" "On the floor. Dtbri from your desk, I pr?wim. Allow me to continue; 'The low hills wrapped in purple mist; tho mountain tops the sun has kissed' " "Keith! Keithl Qo to your legion are you utterly without heart?" "She asks me that who captured It! Oh, come, little woman, the rhymes are not so bad. I've heard worse." Keith Bleeps so late next morning that I have time to make a pilgrimage to a bazar where ready-made clothing is obtainable, return with divers pack ages, and trick out the flotsam washed to me by destlny'B waves from the ocean of llfe.before my husband makes his ap pearance. As he enters the room I call Crutchy and formally introduce to her iny lord and master. She lifts her great. bright eyes, and, it would seem, takes his measure atr s glance. My senses .beinar keex 1 Joel. iostlacUve.lv that MX I "rv:" Keith Uocs not uuprca Iter as 1 have hoped as I have been sure he would. As if to find an answer to my unformed question in his face, I look at Keith. God help me! tho answer is there speaking from the dull, bleared eyes, from the lax, unsteady lips, from the red, bloated checks, from the breath but let what I have named suffice! "Odd little beast comic make good model!" "Ktith!" i Hut the eyes have closed before my cry is ended. With a moan I turn and kneel before Crutchy, her arms around me. my head pillowed upon her hollow little breast From whence came that mysterious influence that brought together two atoms for mutual good Crutchy and me? In the hours, the days, the weeks that pass, no mother could console me as does this crippled child. The hid eousness of inebriety is no new thing to her. Her face is a barometer. I full to reading, and confident am I that hope is near if a smile be in the ascendant. It is smiling often of late, for Keith Is working pretty hard now upon a new picture. Crutchy is his model. When his hands are steady the bright eyes grow in radiance, and all their da.zling beauty is raught upon the canvas: when they tremble and lose their cun ning then l'r'.it,-hy comes to me. and there's nothing I can do but bless my little New Year's gift. My small inheritance is all gone Keith's m.ney nearly so, and shorter commons than those to which we've either one of us been ever used, is quite the order of our present day. Our last domestic takes her leave, and Crutchy and I vie with each other in the culina ry art. "Uice is cheap eat'm", and a slice o' toast. Tea's too excitin' to the nerves "And depressing to the purse, eh, Crutchy?" ' The picture is finished. Keith takes it to the exhibition and comes heme elate. It is accepted and will be "put upon the line." The demon of strong drink had not been seen for weeks. Crutehy's face is aglow with happiness, and I am coming to my old, gay self, much as a storm-blown vessel rights herself upon a calming sea. "Our idea" is the center of attraction in the great art exhibition. Crutehy's pictured eyes go to the heart of a cer tain dealer. Keith, though offered a pretty penny, holds to a fixed price, and one night fetches the great sum home with hira. "My little woman shall have her old servants back again; and Crutchy shall have her wheeled 'chair!" cries Keith, flourishing a fistful of bills. Full of our joy, we women indulge in a little dissipation; steaming coffee, and such chops as Keith affects, are set upon our lately frugal board. "And what color shall be the uphol stering of the wheeled chair, Crutch kins?" asks our hero, helping himself to another juicy chop. "I must sleep on that," says Crutchy, the quaint. "On the eokir of the chair? Ha! ha! Well, little woman, it's not everybody that has so many thousands in the house over night indeed, it isn't the safest thing imaginable to thus entertain this sort of visitor did outsiders but know of it! However, I've been carefully aium, and we're comparatively safe. I'll THaY KKAD TUB JIESSAGK FROM TBS DEAD. put it all save this fiver in the desk upstairs, and to-morrow I'll bank it, bright and early. And now I must leave you. Promised to meet my benevolent patron at the club, and talk over a new idea." "Ke " but I close my lips in time. I should be a criminal to suggest such an awful possibility as has flown like a devil into my brain, "(rood-by, old boy, and don't stay too long away, for Cmtchy and I arc a slim battalion to cope with any burglarizing foe." That long, long night my searching hand touched an empty pillow. Keith does not come home. The morning dawns. Crutchy crawls downstairs, looking white and haggard; evidently she has slept as little as have I. At noon we hear the stopping of a vehicle; my husband is brought home. We pay the men for their services, and turn to face our grief. The money has been too much for him his flattering friends too seductive; we see it all, Crutchy and 1, and sit there, silent In our anguish. Next morning Keith tulls the story that wc, being women, intuitively know. Ho gropes his way upstairs, sober, sad, suffering, and has not had time to more than cross thu room when may Ilctivun tavc mc from ever t!nn hearing tho sound I now hear there comes a shriek that resembles the cry of a lost souL 1 rush up the stairs, while Crutchy follows slowly. "It's gone! The money's gone! I'm robbed! I'm robbed!" I fall upon a chair, stunned; nor do I seem to awaken from my stupor for hours and hours. Officers of the law, detectives, all who can aid in the search, come and go a baffled lot The money is not to be found, nor any trace of it But the shoek and my apathy arouse my husband. Like one touched by a , powerful battery, he springs into new life, and swears, by all that he holdi holy as4dcM'4 to hare done with strong drink. And I know that he means it 1 Bat Crutchy grows thinner as the jdsys shorten; and when the snn enters BJVra. IJA that .the., frajl tenement n nl iiu.il mi- Uilu lilUe while longer. She feels it, too, and, nestling close, tells me of her gratitude. 'I couldn't il much for you, dearie," thus she pet-names me, "but what I could, I did. And when I die " "0, Cmtchie," I wail. "I want you to promise me to put something in my hand. I hope I'll live till New Year's, dearie, 'cause somehow it 'u'd mean more then. If I die afore, and it ain't too long, keep me till New Years, dearie, if you can." I scarcely hear, so great Is my grief: but recollect, afterward, what I now promise her. "And. then, the last thing, dearie, open my (irimm's Fairy Tales, and you'll find something that I've wrote there." She lives until New Year's eve. I al low no hands but mine to touch the dear, misshapen body, but place it, my self, reverently to rest. With choking sobs I bid Keith fetch the book she loved so well; ami, as he goes to do my bidding, I place the satin bag she asked for in her nerveless hands. Keith civtnes to me, at Inst, and to gether we open tho message from the dead, and read: "PKAH AKRI.B i roM IHTR. 1 Hloloil the Itlun ny. Youl II ml it In the Sullen lui? I toleil you tc putt In my Hand I utok'il It I'liusc I was fruut your hnslwn would kill hisself with no tnuor monny to upend fer drink. 1 was Koan to kept li til new years and then glv It back and make htm promuss to do Rltihl. take it Now and tell htoi new It was. god bless you botho. "from "Crctcht." NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Dyspepsia Few people have suflered more severely from dyspepsia than Mr. E. A. McMahon, a well known grocer of Staunton, Va. He says: " Before 1878 1 was in excellent health, weigh ing over 200 pounds. In that year an ailment developed Into acute dyspepsia, ami soon I was reduced to 1C2 pounds, suffering burning Intense sensations hi tho stomach, palpitation of the, heart, nausea, and Indigestion. I could not sleep, lost all heart in my work, had fits o melancholia, and lor days at a timo I would havo welcomed death. I became morose, sullen and Irritable, and for eight years life was a burden. I tried many physicians and many remedies. One day a workman employed by me suggested that take Suffering Hood' Sarsapa lt had wife of rilla, 11 cured dyspop- sla, I did ao, and before taking the whoto of a bottle I began to feel like a new man. The terrible pains to which I had been subjected, ceased, the palpitation of the heart subsided, my stomach became easier, nausea disap peared, and my entire system began to tone up. With returning strength camo activity of mind and body. Before the fifth bottle was taken Years I had regained my former weight and natural condition. I am today well and I ascribe It to taking Hood's Sarsaparllla." N. B. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsa parllla do not be Induced to buy any other. Hood's Sarsaparilla Soldbyalldruffgiite. fl;ilxfor(S. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowed, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar Keeley Institute AT ftoCKY JoUflT, North Carolina For the convenience of the public there will be opened in Rocky Mount, N. January 1st, 1893, a biancli nf the Keeley Institute of Greensboro, N. 0., for the treatment of tho Liquor. Opium, Chloral, Cocaine, Tobacco habits and Nerve Exhaustion. These ate the only regularly authorized Keeley Institutes in the State All oth ers claiming to be such are fraudulent Koclty Mount is the most accessible point in the State. On W. A W. R 11, and terminus of the N. & C, nf the A & R.. ami Spring Hope reads. 3 hours from Norfolk; 3 from Petersburg; 3J from Richmond; 3 from Wilmington; 4 from Raleigh; 1 from GoMsHoro; 1 from Wel doD, 3 from Fayetteville, anil 5 hours from Edeoton and E. City over the Nor folk and Carolina R. R, Tuesdays, Thurs day, sod Saturdays. The town is progressive, high, healthy, with good water and hospitable people. Dossey Battle, Manager. Da. G. A Ramsaur, Physician. NOTICE. By virtue of the power vested in the undersigned hy a certain deed of trust dated January 28th. 1890, and duly re corded in thu office of the Register of Deeds for Halifax county, in Book 91, Page 1, executed hy B. F. Whitaker, John R. Whitaker, and Mrs. Nannie W. Whitaker, his wife, to thi undersigned, as Trustee, to secure certain indebtedness therein men tioned, I will sell at public auction for cash to the highest bidder at the Court house door in Halifax, N. C, ou Monday, the 2nd day of Jnnuary, 18;l. the follow ing described tractofland situate in Hali fax county, State of North f'nrolin. lvinir oq the north side nf FishiugCreek, bounded by the lands of F. H. Whitaker, J. H. Parker, li. A. Pittmaa and others, and containing one thousand and thirteen acres more or less. This the 30th day of November 1893. W. E. DANIEL. Trustee. dee 8tds. LAND POSTED. All persons are hereby forbidden to hunt or fish by night or day with or without gun or dog, cutting wood or any other depredations upon my lands adjoining the lands of the Roanoke Navigation Company Mrs. Bass, T. L. Emry, J. T. Gooch, the Ferrall estate and others. The full penalties of the law will be in flicted lor any trespass of the above nature. MRS. H. T. PONTON. ' dec 32 5w. ADVERTISEMENTS. S CXJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant aud refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem eirectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its eflects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. KHJISVIUE, Kt. NEW YORK, H.Y. mar 2G ly OUSTED BOTTLE JOHNSON'S Chill and FEVER hi omc. Cures permanently D"K1 Pi case of ChiMj and Fevkb, Hilious or Ty phoid Fever, Hemorrhagic or Swimip Fever, or money returned. Price 50c. NORTH CAROLINA TESTIMONIALS. Hobgood, X. C. I have used and told 16 bottles of your medicine and it has given satisfaction gen erally. J. F. ELLSWORTH. Cronley, N. C. Johnson's Chill aud Fever Tonic has given perfect satisfaction. 1). HAND. Beaufort, N. C. Send me two dozen Johnson's Tonic. I have sold out and need it I have not had a bottle returned. Ship at once ALLEN DAVIS. Edenton, N. C. Tlease ship nie -I doz. Johnsons Chill and Fever Tonic at once. I think it gives satisfaction. W. I. LEAHY. C'roatan, N. C. Enclosed find check for $7.01) for one case Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic. I think it the best medicine ever introduced into eastern North Carolina. Every bottle has proved a guaranteed to me, so please send out one more case immediate v. B. B. M ALLISON Aurora, N. C. I have sold twenty-two bottles of it and none have been returned. I think I shall get a good trade on it. A. J. McINTYRE, M. D. Ernul, N. C. It is as represented. . Hnve not failed in case of fever when taken according to di rections. J. A. ASK1NS. Marines, N. C. The medicine is giving general satisfac tion. LEWIS MARINES & CO. To merchants or others who have access to commercial reports, please iuvesti gatc and see that the above indorse ments are from business men all rated in Bradst reel's aud easily accessible. If you sell Johnson's Tonic, sellit on a guar antee. For circulars address A. B GIRARDEAU, Savannah, Ga. s ITUATI0N WANTED AS BOOK KEKPER. A man of practice! expert encein book keeping wants a situation in business. Apply to the Roanoke News Office. 1027 5w. pORSALE I A Patent Right for PEANUT, CORN and COTTON SEED PLANTER. Also Machinery for Cleansing and Shelling Peanuts. Apply at the Foundry and Ma chine works of STEEL & ALEXANDER, Petersburg, Va. 12 i: 3t. LAND POSTED. All persons ate hereby forbidden to hunt, .with dog oi gun by day or night, or llsh, orgraze stock or com in it any trespass whatever upon the lauds lielouuiug to the estate of N. M. Long without written per mission. T. N. HILL, ) Executors. M. A. HILL. J dec titf EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Having qualified as execntor of the last will and testament of William O. Harper, deceased, late of the county of Halifax; this to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me for payment on or betore the 15th day of October 1893, or this notice will he plead in bar of their reoovery, and all persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 4th day of October 1892. N.M.HARRISON, W. C Thome, Atty. Executor. 10 8 6t. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. What is SI 'mmf Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for I'arcjroric, Drops, Soothing: Syrups, and Castor Oil. It i ricasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays fcverlshncss. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Dlarrhooa and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething: troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas torla is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. Castoria. " Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chil dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of it good effect upon their children." Pa. O. C. Osooon, Lowell, Xtsa. ' Castoria Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria in stead of the varlousquack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.1' Da. J. F. KmcRzLeu, Conway, Ark. The Centaur Conpany, 77 "1 The Brickhouse Plantation Containing 598 acres located within 1 miles of Halifax. This place has been resting for S'lmetinvj amj with proper cultivation, cil be put in condition to produce large crops of any kind. Also, the islands called "Haynes" and "Crittenden," lying in the Roanoke river, off Northampton county. These islands cuuuiu about 350 as LARGE PRODUCERS of the worked fur the past 2 or 3 years, are in fine condition t make larte crops. For rate of rent and terms apply to Dr. C. J. GEE, Weldon, or address M. A. HAMILTON, ' 21) 8. Frederick street, BALTIMORE, M 1). 1 2 22 tf -JAY GOULD, -Who was worth more than $100,000,000 is dead, and I may have to goto New York on account of it, so I will sell my wholt stock Of CROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, TOBACCO, &C.,C AT COST I don't say it Will be given Away. But I mean to sell Bt prime cost. My stock lore brought to this eouiity, and I will sell them very low, so to give everyuwj a chance to huy something lor the little ones. Kespectl'ully, S. MEYER. Charles Smith, -DEAI.KH IN- Fine Groceries, CANNED GOODS, CANDIES, CONFECTIONS, SMOKINO and CHEWING TOBACCO. FAMILY CROCERIES f all kinds. I will be pleased to receive a share o patrenage, promising goods of excellent quality at lowest living prices. CHAS. SMITH, Corner First street k Washington avenue, ' 37 ly' Weldon, N. C. 1 lilt J 1 I JuIJlAjsIn m Castoria. " C&storla Is so well adapted to children toil I recommend It as superior toany prescripts known to me." H. A. Abcbih, Jf. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. " Our physicians In the children's depart ment have spoken highly of their experi ence In their outside practice with C&storit, and although we only have among our medical supplies what Is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that tb merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon It." Uxited Hospital aud Disrhuxy, Boston, Mast Alum C Smith, Prei., Murray Street, New Tork City. U 1 anil 125 acres respectively are well koo! best quality of CORN and not having M i3 of TOYS this year heats anythioK "n IT ISA DFTY yea eweyeinelf ' Ily le set the best Talae for rer "' KcoiiaoiUe in your foot wrtr kr P"1 , W. h. Iiusl. Shoes, wklck rosreMiiJ best value for (rieea asked, as Ihesawi 111 testily. i VV. L. DOUGLAS. S3 SHOE NfL0fe THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR THE W , OTH Kit SPECIALTIES In footwMTJ,, ttieamme hlRh grade, nd represent a nioa7T ar beyond tne price, ehsrged. Sea insi bw price are gtsmped on bottom of each shoe. TK. .Jin! Wi li. Venfla) Brockton, aie, at"- FOB 8ALE BY W. B. TILLER WELDON, N.C., C. E. McGwigaa ENFIELD. N. C. 10 20 2m. 45.00yf",k43.00 I 3.50( Li 2.50 $ pVI2.00 2.25& HMI.JS, R. y ron it 1 1 in.iiiiii mil r
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