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ROANOKE RAPIDS. N. C. a: Its gtOCKIUllurrs mm ""'"7 " , i I untax anil aonnanipion couim iui roved security at tue legal rate 01 e solicited. iiavmK . " , .kal.i.il a mint AMItal Irt fllO THK CHljDRIN LIRE IT , MNJSirH svi&jp COUCH 5TRVr WHAT THE niUTI'KK I'll It 'II IK KlIANIIKK SKHH. On a pleasant spring morning in I now by ihe long drooping lashes the year 1864 the cheery cry of ' as the young man told his fateful 1 a bird called loudly from the top of j news. : a tall oak tree, "Clean up ! clean ! He was hardly more than a boy up! cleanup!" An old colored I but strong and rugged, one of ; woman standing by the vine cov-' those taken by the urgent necessi ered porch of a farm house situa-i ty of the times from the ifarm, or ted in a large grove of the oaks, tossed her head significantly and said to some one on the porch. "Umph, debird says clean up, chillun an' yer better look out and 'pare fer comp'ny." "I wonder if dey will stay ter dinner" she con tinued. "Gord knows dese times is gittin' too tight fer comp'ny, If dis wa doan soon end we will all starve I'm afeard, let lone 'viden' fer comp'ny. But I'm gwine ketch dat ole lyaller hen an' get her ready ter bake, den I can po'ch someaigs an' make er 'lasses pud din' an' dat'll do fer dese times." The last of this was muttered to herself and showed the anxiety she felt that the spirit of hospitality common at the South should be sustained even though it were im possible at this time and place. "All right, Mammy, "answered one of the three girls to whom she had spoken as they entered the house and ran up a narrow stairway to the rooms above. Here laughingly humoring the old woman's superstitious fancy that this peculiar cry of the bird was a homely prediction the ques tion was whose lover would come in fulfillment of the prophecy. "I guess it will be Harry, Kitty, so you get ready to receive him, you know he has only eyes for you and we will not impose our selves on him" said one of Kitty's sisters teasingly and sheblushingly obeyed. A few hours later a youth and maiden sat on the vine-covered porch. The odor of the honey suckle, which clambered up the columns sending graceful tendrils of the pink and white blossoms over and through the lattice, filled the air with its rich perfume, A humming bird fluttered in and out among the leaves gathering sweet ness from the scented cups. The low hum of the bees made music in an undertone to accompany the rich melody of the negroes singing at work in afield nearby. The very air was filled with sunshine and gladness. Not a note of the dreadful horror of war seemed to have reached this quiet home. But there was no longer a smile on Kitty's cheek. The bird's proph ecy was true; her lover had come but alas! these were eventful times and he had brought sad news. The girl sat silent as tie told her of a battle then raging in Virginia and that the Command to which he be longed had been ordered to pre pare at once for active duty. The quiet of the little town of W., had been broken a few months before by the coming of Captain Woodson's Battery of Light Artil lery to a camp in the suburbs of the town. While subject at any time to be called to the front this was a strategic point and it was important that a strong guard" be kept here while at the same time the men could be better prepared for more active warfare. "The boys," as the Captain fondly called them, were not long in making friends among the citi zens of the town and surrounding country, especially among the "girls." Those, whose fathers and brothers many of them had fallen or were then wearing the "Grey" were not loth to do all they could to relieve the tedious ness of caniD life for the soldier boys and many little social gather ings were planned and enjoyed in spite of the clouds of war. At one of these Kitty met the young artil leryman who on this spring morn ing had come to say "goodbye" and who according to Mammy Phylis' superstition held a place in the girl's heart nearer and dearer than a mere passing acquaintance. From their first meeting he had seemed happy only in her pres ence, seeking her companionship on every possible occasion and in many ways leading her to 1 feel that he loved her. l-'rom some cause he had never given or re quired any pledge of this love, though between their frequent meetings would often come from the near by camp closely written pages which breathed of love and had helped to win her girlish heart. She with her sisters had spent all of their young lives in this quiet country home, the darlings of their widowed mother's heart and the special charge of the colored wo man whom they called Mammy and who had been their nurse from the time their baby eyes had opened to the light of the world. Their father had died before they were old enough to understand his loss. Their mother and "Mam my" had shielded them from every care. Until the coming of this young stranger Kitty's heart had been free, she had counted her small number of years by the sum mers only. Fresh, rosy cheeked, with ripples of auburn hair which shecontemptously called "red" as she tried in vain to confine the stray curls with a comb at the back of her head, and which fell in na tural ringlets above her dark brown eyes. Those eyes were veiled BIRD SAID. halls of learning to replenish the thinned ranks of the slowly dying Confederate army. The chevrons of red upon the sleeves of his grey roundabout showed him to be what was called the ordinance sear gent of the company to which he belonged. I hat he was a trusied officer and one in high regard with his superiors was evident from the many privileges he enjoyed. His head bent low as he said "I am sorry I had to be the bearer of such news Kitty. My heart is sad, too, I know how to feel and would shield you if for you i 1 could, Let us hope that all may yet be well. I felt that I must say good bye to you for God only knows what may be my fate. I hope you will not forget me entirely while I am gone." In the field near by the farm hands were whistling a merry tune as they turned up the mellow earth with the plow. As they came nearer he said, "How I do envy those men the privilege of staying near you Kitty but I must be gone. Heven keep you and yours from all harm." His voice was husky as he spoke and his eyes sought the girl's as if to find courage to speak further, but she with a look he could not understand remained silent, and with a warm clasp of her hands he was gone, not know ing that the fact of his going had sent the blood rushing to her heart from her lips. A few hours later Mammy found her and asked : "What's the matter honey," as she saw her changed look. "Oh ! Mammy, Harry has gone and these are terrible times, when will it all end and how? she re plied. "It's dreff'ul sure nuff honey but don't you look so, he'll come back some er dese days an' ye'll be jes as happy as ever, hit's allers dark- es' des 'fore daybre'k, so doan j giv' up so, fur Mammy'ssake." in this way she sought to com- j fort her nursling sitting at her feet with the lntle hands clasped in her own horny palms by loving en dearments, peculiar to her race, she tried to bring her to think and speak of happier things. Kitty was not one to yield to vain re grets or "to wear her heart upon her sleeve" so after this first out break, with only Mammy Phylis for a witness, she bravely put her grief behind her and continued the duties of her simple life. She re alized that it is a woman's place to suffer and be silent and that hers was not the first heart to feel this pain. The only change was she seemed to have grown older than her years. Thoughtful of her mother, she anticipated her every wish, joining in the pleasures of her sisters when by so doing she could assist in their innocent gaie ties, she lost sight of self and grad ually the pain grew less. In this way the months passed away. With the end of the war came many changes. The loss of much that had assured them a competency, if not wealth, brought loss of health to her mother who soon sank quietly to rest. This left Kitty and her sisters with no protection better than the faithful nurse, who in spite of influence brought to bear by those of her own race, remained true to her charge. When the old home was broken up, and it was found to be best that they seek protection and possible employment in a neighbor ing city, Kitty suggested that per haps she would rather stay among her old associations. "Umph ! what in de worl' you chillun gwine do widout me" she answered with an air of disdain, which plainly showed the impor tance with which she regarded her place in the home. "I'd jes lak to kno'v what's gwine come er you all ef I doan go wid yer. Who's gwine nuss yer when yer gets sick and who s gwine wait on yer r? An' den I'd jes lak to show dem city niggers what good manners is. No, sir ! ef you all goes 1 tn gwine too," and this selllcd it. with a remnant ot wnat naa oeen theirs they made themselves a home in the town of L. True to her word Mammy Phylis went with them taking the brunt of the homemaking on her strong shoul ders. Among her greatest crosses was the degeneration of her race. Often was she almost overwhelmed by the "odasious impudence of dese city niggers." "My mammy was er ole Fer ginny darky" she would exclaim, "she taught me better manners dan to go to white folks front door when I wants anything. Dese col ored ladies comes an' rings de bell at de front door when dey wants er cooks place an' I jes tells 'em we've got er side gate to our yard an'shetsde door in dere face. Cooks ! umph ! My Mammy oner be here to show urn how to cook." Then she would retire to her do main muttering anathemas on "dese aggravations" as she often called them. Kitty and her sisters had been prepared by their mother who was a refined Christian woman to take their place in a circle which wel comed as well as benefitted them. Feeling the need of employment she sought and secured a position as bookkeeper in a large establish ment which brought her a good income. In spite of her busy life she made many friends. Their home was an attractive one. Sui tors came and won both the younger girls, nor did Kitty re main unmarried because no one sought her love. One sister died within a year, the other after a few short happy years was left a widow with two baby girls who were fatherless. These found a loving welcome in the old home. Mammy Phylis renewing her youth in i he care of the litilc ones. As time passed tiiese children be came the joy of the home. Their care and instruction an incentive to greater self denial and effort on the part of my heroine and her faithful ally. When lovers came asking her hand in marriaee. to all she gave the decided answer. "Why doan't yer git married honey and stop dis everlasting work" asked Mammy as one by one they received the kind rejec tion which awaited them all. "Why Mammy what would you all do without me" she would cheerfully reply as she turned the tables on the old woman and took up some unfinished task. She had not forgotten her boy ish lover and among her secret treasures were the letters yellowed by time and bearing date of long ago which he had written from the camp near her old home. At last one spring morning she sat by an open window. Her life was not all sunshine and the past few days had been full of care and worry. But now, from a neigh boring tree top came the shrill cry of a bird with the same old voice, "Cleanup! clean up!" For a while she sat lost in memories of the past. Again she heard Mam my's voice as it said "de bird says clean up chillun yer sweetheart's comin' ". Again her soldier lover stood before her as he had done on that morning so long ago. The years that had passed were for- i gotten and notwithstanding daily j tasks which called for her willing ' hands the moments passed neglec j ted by. Still fair she sat with the love light in her beautiful eyes, which had not grown dim save by the moisture gathered by the thoughts of other days, and gazed more closely into the saddened past. The postman's ring aroused her and a letter was placed in her hands. Did her eyes deceive her? Was, this too, only a memory? No ! there was the writing of the olden time in the address. How well she remembered certain pe culiarities of that writing. How like those others cherished so long for the writer's sake. Trembling ly she broke the seal; was she at last to know the cause of his long silence. In all these years not one word had she iheard from her boyish friend. Once she had seen his name in the papers as an ad vocate and strong promoter of a bill to be of great benefit to the farming community and which was then before the Legislature of the Slate, but this was all. Her heart beat tunuiltuously as she read line after line of the closely written pages. The letter bore the post mark of a flourishing town and read as follows : My Peak Kitty: May I call you 'My Dear?' After all these vetirs of silence can 1 at last hope to claim you ns my own? Am I mistaken in thinking that, as you have never mar ried, you did care a little for your boyish soldier lover? I did love you Kitty with my whole heart. How often have I reproached myself that I did not find out from your own lips whether you returned that love in the slightest degree or not. lo you remember that day I bade, you good-bye on the porch? Well, 1 wanted that same morning to tell you that my heart was almost breaking at the thought that I should see you no more. That I loved you better than my life! hut'for your sake I did not. I had heard from what 1 considered good authority that you were be trothed to another and that other then with Lee in Vir ginia, l haa nrougiu you ine news of a terrible battle which had just been fought, and that we had been ordered to the front. Never shall I forget how your face blanched and your lips quivered as I told the fatal news. Awkward, inusn ing boy that I was I could not speak my thoughts and your lover then bearing his breast to the Rtorm of battle as it raged at the Wilderness. I prayed for your sake that he might bo spared; that his name you might not see among the slain. Could I have been mis taken in this? If so, how can I ask your forgiveness when I can never forgive myself. But for this thought 1 should have sought you at the close of the war. Thinking you loved an other I'did not care to return to old scenes. After suffering as all the others did 1 returned to mv home to find many changes. Those who had been rich were poor. Even the lands for want of proper cultivation did not yield the harvest they had done in former years. I have always loved the farm, I have told you many times that I would rather plow than drill. That I wanted the war to end, that I might make a home for some loved one among the vine scented fields of the country. I have made money by farming but have failed in many of my boyish calculations. Perhaps the mistake was in not seeking you again, then I should have known the truth from your own lips. As it was after awhile I married another, one who was a true and loving wife to nie. We culled our little girl by your name. She is the joy of her father's heart. After a few years my wife died. 1 miss her ho much and my child pines for a mother's love. I learned a short while since that you had never married and were living in L . May I go to see you, Kitty? I am no longer young. You would hardly recognize the gawky soldier boy in the mature man that I now am but my heart is as young and as full of love for you as in the dear old days. Perhaps I am too abrupt but I must know the truth at last and pray you to listen to my pleadings. I need you, my little Kitty needs you. May I come ? ours in the same old love, HARRr." As Kitty read she realized the mistake that had so chang ed her whole life. What to her had always been a mystery was now clear. The long silence and apparent faithlessness all made plain. "An enemy hath done this" thought she, and then she remembered an idle tale which had associated her name with one whom she had loved as a brother who had long slept in a soldier's grave. She sat lost in thought for a while. The letter fell from her hand. She had nothing with which to re proach herself for hers had been a well spent life. But should she close her heart to these pleadings? Could she hope to find happiness in the ashes of her buried love, jr should she calmly put aside this explanation which had come so late in life and con tinue her lonely way There was no reason why she should do this. Old memories plead for her absent lover. His little motherless girl, her namesake, seemed to call for a place in her empty arms. Her heart re sponded to these calls but still she thought on till the voice of Mammy l'hyllis aroused her. "Why honey, what's de mat ter, doan you see hits nine er clock, an' you'll be late dis niorniir." ''Never mind, Mammy, I am not going to the office today, I shall take a holiday for once."' 'T'ni glad you's comin' to yer senses for you's needed a rest er long time," replied Mammy well pleased that there should be a pause in "de everlastin' work" of her mistress. With a smile for the faithful old soul Kitty picked up her letter. An hour later she had posted the following: My Dkar Friend: Your let ter came to me as an echo from the past. I had not forgotten my old time friend and my heart grows warm when I think that I am remembered by him. But, my dear, I am not the girl vou knew in the long ago. I have had my share of toil and care which left their lines upon my face so that it is no longer as fair as it used to be. I am called "an old maid" but I had rather be an old maid than to give my hand without my heart. This has not been mine to give since it was won by my soldier boy in the years that have gone. If you are sure that it will be your happiness you can come. Yours, Kitty." A few days later the bird sang out again with a shrill clear voice "clean up! clean up! clean upl" "Pars dat bird ergin. 1 wonder whose beau dat is comin' now," said Mam my as she paused in her morn ing duties, "I doan never hear dat bird what I thinks er dat day Mister Harry come ter tell Miss Kitty good -by. 'Pe(r-ter me like ail de life went out er her day, and she's never been the same since. I'd giv' er heap ter know how cum he nev r cum bark, but I declar she's looked pearter and sweet er dese las' two days dan Ise seen her fer years," continued the old woman. "Never mind Mammy you shall toon know all about it," said Kitty, who had overheard her mutterings, as she folded a telegram which said ''1 will reach L. on the 3:30 train to day" and was signed "Harry." It takes a lot of courage to ena ble a woman to admit that she is growing old. Duty is a saddle that wears sores on one's back. If you want a thing well done, hire some one to do it who knows how. A LOVE TRAGEDY. Ruskin's Adoration of the Lovely Rose La Touche. In 1658, when Ruskin was in his fortieth year, he was asked by a friend to give some lessons in drawing to a child named Rose La Touche, whose name, indeed, was French, but whose family were Irish. There sprang up between Ruskin and this young girl a very charming friendship, which, of course, at the time could be noth ing but friendship. They wrote each other letters and exchanged drawings, and then for awhile they did not meet. Ten years passed by before they saw each other. Meanwhile the child, whom he had remembered as a blue eyed, saucy, clever little blond with ripe red lips and hair like fine spun gold, had become a very lovely young woman of nine teen. They resumed their old ac quaintance, but in a very different way. Though Ruskin was now nearly fifty, he gave to Rose La Touche an adoration and a passion such as he had never felt before. On her side she no longer though! of him as "very ugly," but was singularly drawn to him despite the difference in their years. The two met often. They took long strolls together in the pleas ant fields of Surrey, and at last Ruskin begged her to make h.iu happy and to be his wife. OdJiy enough, however, she hesitated, not because he was so much older than herself, but because he hau ceased to be what she regarded as "a true believer." Some of the things that he had written shocked her as being almost atheistic. She was herself, underneath all her gaity of manner, a rigid and un compromising Protestant. She used phrases from the Bible in her ordinary talk, and when she spoke of her marriage with John Ruskin she said that she could not endure to be "yoked with an unbeliever." Yet her heart was torn at the thought of sending him away, and so for several years iheir intimacy continued, he pleading with her and striving hard to make her see that love was everything. She, on the other hand, read over those passages of the Old Testament which seemed to bar all compro mise. At last, in 1 872, when she was twenty-four and he was fifty-three, she gave him her final answer. She would not marry him unless he could believe as she did. His honesty forbade him to deceive her by a pretended conversion, and so they parted, never to see each other again. How deeply she was affected is shown by the fact that she soon fell ill. She grew worse and worse until at last it was quite certain that she could not live. Then Ruskin wrote to her and begged that he might see her. 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