Facts, Fables
and Fancies.
IDA IMiOLI) MAWTKN.
Kesult t Impression.
In looking over some themes I
have in my possession which I
wrote when doing composition work
in the University I found this little
story that seemed to me perhaps
worthy of being offered for publi
cation: The Mory.
One bright spring morning I
walked out to enjoy the freshness of
the morning air. I had a few little
errands to do up town, the signifi
cance of which would not have
caused me to go but for the desire I
maintained for being out. The
birds were singing .perhaps I
should say, the English Sparrows
were chuttfiing , in all the trees.
For, although the city council had
offered a reward to the boys for every
English Sparrow killed, they con.
tin ued to increase and still chattered
on. However, the sound of them
brought to niethe pleasant sensation
i. f ln-ari:;' atraln an almost forgotten
ii. f! ! v. Tl'cs" : i uy throats hail
i -.- : -1 ; . - j ' i i ir t:i!K'. Winter
will confess that I entertained some
misgivings in regard to being near
that house alone and in the dark.
However, the second thought that
came to me was that to go out of my
way to keep from passing the hoiue
would be yielding decidedly to
groundless fear, aui this I would
I not do. I would compel myself to
pass that house alone and in the
dark. I had to go home and it stood
on the way; I took myself firmly in
hand and started.
After walking a block or two I
drew near the house. I straightened
myself up rigidly, took in a full
breath, shut my lips firmly and set
my eyes straight ahead. I wanted
very much to run, but determined
to pass the house deliberately, and
I was also determined that 1 would
not at least appear to see what I
felt sure was standing '.n the shadowy
doorway. But, try as 1 would, i
could not resist the desire to tee if
there really was a ghost in the door
way. Ami so 1 turned my eyes with
out turning my ilea. I, and il.eiv it
ua.-! I turned (old -.villi ii'Lh:. and
in .rjiite of Div self inv m i '-
The World's Prayer.
O, Almighty Dollar, our acknowl
edged governor, preserver and bene
factor, we desire to approach thee on
this and all occasious with that rev
erence which is the due of superior
excellence, and the regard which
will be cherished for exalted great
ness. Almighty dollar, withoutthee
in the world we can do nothing, but
with thee we can do all things.
When sickness lays its paralyzing
hand upon us, thou canst provide
for us the teuderest nurses the most
skillful physicians, and when the
last struggle of morality is over and
we are being borne to the last rest
ing place of the dead, thou canst
provide a band of music and military
escort to accempany us thither and,
last but not least, erect a magnificent
monument over our grave, with a
living epitaph to perpetuate our
memory. And while here, in the
midst of misfortunes and temptations
of life, we perhaps are accused of
crime and brongt before magistrates,
thou Almighty Dollar, canst secure
us a feed lawyer, a bribed judge, a
packed fury and we go scot free.
He with us, we pray thee, in all thy
decimal parts, for thou art the only
one altogether lovely and the chief
among ten thousand. We feel there
is no condition in life where thy
potent and all powerful charms are
not llr. In thy absence, how
gloom v is iie household and how
il-s-ii.it
tho-i
us. t:o v
the hearthstone, but when
O. Aimightv Polla-, art with
eeful the iieefsleak
iiiiioit, how irenial is the
of joy, Almighty Dollar, thou art
the guide to our footsteps and the
goal of our being. Guided by thy
silvery light we hope to reach the
pearly gafe and triumphantly enter
the golden streets. Almighty Dollat,
thy shining face bespeaks thy
wondrous power. In my pocket
make thy resting place.
I need thee every hour!
And now, Almighty Dollar, in
closing this invocation, we realize
and acknowledge thou wast the g d
of our grandfather, the two fold
god of their children, and the three
fold god of their grandchildren.
Permit us to possess thee iu abund
ance and all thy varied excellence, U
our constant and unwavering prayer.
Ex.
Gh II lord Notes.
A house and lot on Greene street,
near Battle Ground avenue, was sold
Monday at public auction by C. ; .
Brav, mortgagee, to T. J. I'enu for
$1,795 The bidding st rted at $1,
500.
Mrs. Ellen Lewis died at her hni
in the southwestern suburbs of t ti
city Monday night, aged fi years.
The burial will take place todav a1
Lee's chapel, where the body of the
husband of lie deceased was laid t
rest last Thursday.
In the Federal Court live la-'
week nine cases, seven nr-unt t.i"
Soulho'-n and tw :ij n-' the X"'--
folk & We-ren;. Aere
d of,
antlimeitt
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the to
gainst
Vitli'o.:
TKAIXS GOING NUKTH.
No. 142 4:-tl a. m. ,
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TRAIN'S AKKIVKFllOM NOK I'll
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for Good Sound
DOGWOOD.
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$15.00
PER CORD.
LOADED ON THE CARS;
$7.00
PER CORD FOR MAPLE,
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HICKORY,
$10.00 per Cord.
H. B. WORTH. Treas.
Greensboro, i. C.
,lle
1 !
There was j'lM ! -e n fill,
old ll )HSe, w llicll il l.! tile ajl.'.U U1C
of beiuyj.Mipty .vita its bare windows
and broken panes, two policemen
and somj oilier ni3 1 b.virin an ob
ject wrapped ia so:n ire-hued ma
terial resting on a stretcher. The
bvi, I,
I'le
ii it.
I t:
:i!V !io;iie l iiar.-i. i i a
it after in-, and hn.-k
and tried t call sum- im- sank
to the lloor iua heap, stii'-gling
and making vai:i efforts to cry out. ,
There wus eonfusio.i in my brain, :
1 felt numb and strange. I tried to j
riiiie mvlf. strut T ;ivvrL-n A !i T !
meaniLg of such a spectacle did not, wag at h unJ in n)V owc beJ- ;
at first appear to me. But, slowly ; t haJ not bee ao t'own at a!l ;
an awful conviction settled upon me, There haJ been no bo3tg Well i
and subsequently a chill went over ! l was tremenj0usly glad! It was a
me, body and mind, rrom tnat:jfeami j
time l am not notice tne eunsnine i
Coacluslon.
mind, made susceptible by
the shock of a sudden and gruesome
occurrence, had been lead off into
violent and extremely unpleasant ex
perience. This serves to prove that
all the influences at work in the
world are mighty, and that the bad
are quite as powerful as the good.
These influences, various in character
are shaping the souls of men. For,
what is the soul but the subjective
mind, and from what source does
the subjective mind get its bearing?
if not from the objective world
through the rational body? At this
point it is well to be reminded that
we can temper the suggestions ro
ceived by our inner consciousness by
the working of our will. It is ex
pedient to remember also that it is
by the honest and judicial use of all
our persoual gifts of power that we
can come out conquerors m the end.
Ida Ixgold Mbstkx.
Willie wailed and Winnie wbeezwl, wliile
wintry winds whined weirdly. Willie wrig
pled while Winnie wheezed wretchedly.
Wihdoru whispers, winter winds work
wheezes. Wherefore we write "Hoe Ken
nedy's laxative (,'ongh Syrup." Nothing
ele so good. Sold hv Stuud ird Dn'g Co.
and AKhcboro Drug ('o.
or the bri:htntss of the morninsr or
the twitterin? birds. These, as it I The
were, faded from my sight. I saw
only the black-draped object oh the
6tretcher borne along in front of me.
Soon the men bearing the gruesome
burden stopped in front of an un
dertaking establishment; a man
from within hastily pushed open
the screen-door and the procession
passed inside.
The Impression.
I went about the few errands that
I had in mind, with an effort to dis
pel the unpleasant feeling that had
come over me. I learned from a
shop-keeper that tue dead man was
one who had lived an unworthy life.
So bad that he had been deserted by
relatives and friends, even by his
children whom he had used very
wrongly upon their efforts to reform
him. lie had died in the night
friendless and alont in that dark,
desolate, old hull of a house and
had been found by policemen that
morning.
I went home with thoughts in my
mind of sjich a character that they
tainted the sweet breath of the
morning and made the brightness
seem a delusion. I went about my
duties as was my want, but try as I
would, to dismiss it, the knowledge of
the failure of a man to live his life
in profit and respect to himself and
others, and the dismal and woeful
end of that life, laid its bitter hand
npon everything. 1 could not shaka
it off, though I b'dieve now that I
did not know how to gain the mas
tery and did not try as I might have
done. I could think of nothing but
the man that had died alone and
friendless, and who had so conducted
himself as to be bound by the law
of bis owu free will to go perhaps
from darknessjand misery into deep
er darkness and to more awful misery.
The gloom of this unfortunate event
clonded my mental sky for a longer
time than I should like to confess.
It settled over me like a pall.
The Kesalt.
One evening after supper I had to
go out to make some small purchases.
On my way to the business part of
town I did not puss the lonely old ,
house where the man had died . h e v, e make medicines
Perhaps 1 had gone out of my wayljT then:. We tell them all
to walk and talk with some friend sbcut Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
asdaylight wusht'iII showing and the; ;-tscy prescribe it for
t . i i.i.ifi, u j ... i !. -'f's rnlHc hrrmrriif ic rnn
NOTICE l
Havinp qualifle.1 ns Ailniiui.-tmtnf on the
extatc- ol H. C. Presnell, deceased, before w. C.
Hammond, Clerk of the Superior Court of
Randolph county, I .shall Hell at public auction,
to the highest bidder for Cash, ou the ).re:Mlso!i,
on the 24th day of January 1'JOT, the lollowinn
personal property, to-wit: Household und
kitchen furniture, and other u rticles too tedious
to mention.
All persons lmvaiz eiaium oealnst said wt.te
are notified to present them to the nndersismid
ouly verified, on or before the Und iday of Janu
ary WO, or thN notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery; and all persons owing said estate
will come foruant and make immediate eti.-
ni'nt.
This Sn.d day of Junuarv 1007.
M. J. Presnell. Admr.
Overtopping the hills of conscious
self-aba3ement lies the summerland
of life.
tiv j ' ' i not: iu" lh- f.f.-.i-.t- of
P'e th; i..s.,bor and the i-'eal of the
longin ail. Winn an elecli.di is to be
cirri eel, (I, Almighty I ol htr. thou
art the most potent argument of
pulit'iians and demagogues and the
umpire that decides the contest.
Almighty Dollar, thou art wor
shipped the world over; thou hast
no hypocrites in thy temple, no false
hearts at thy altars; kings and cour
tiers bow befoie thee and all nations
adore thee; thou art loved by civilized
and savage? alike with unfaltering
affection; we continue to regard thee
as the hand maid to religion and
the twin sister of charity. O,
Almighty Dollar, be with us, we
beseech thee, attended by an inex
pressible number of thy ministering
angels made in thine own image, even
though they be but silver quarters
and dimes, "whose gladdening light
shall illuminate the vale of penury
and want with heavenly .adiance,
which shall cause the awakening
soul to break forth in acclamations
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un mi-hb- nt. l tarried !
longer in t lie stores tnan i una ex i
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pared ti go home the streets were;'.
quit, dark. I don't know whythejj
strie1. lights were not burning, but!
th're hud liee i some repairs g.mg on m
at'b-lg'if. pl int latdy, probably ;
tha". wniil 1 a c nine fo" tne dark
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