. , . ; . . . . - . - $ I. oo a Year, In Advance. FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH.' Single Copy, 5 Cents. VOL. XIII. ; ' PLYMOUTH, N. C.FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1902. NO. 4. CLEAR In boyhood days we used to go. When winter winds blew chill, With ruddy cheeks and nimble feet, . To coast down Martin's Hill. And from each speeding single sled , Or double-runner's load, ' The frosty air was rent in twain "s With shouting "Clear the road!" ' Like arrows from a bow of steel, Teeth set and eyes aglow, We sped the length of Martin's HO Across the glist'ning snow. There was no halting on the way. No one steered out or "slowed;" ,We sped like mad down Martin's Kill, Arid shouted "Clear the road!" wowah j?isroses BY HATTIE HORNER LOUTHAN. f am SPSS II AT are you going to do about .Mignon, Er nest?" asked Guy Ed gertou, glancing across the breakfast table to where bis half brother sat inimersed In the cotton reports of the Picayune. jl arnsworin nrtea ms uarii, quesuon ing eyes, but reached for his coffee cup. in silence. "Yes, what Co you intend doing about her?" persisted the other, petu lantly. "Mr. Durande thinks It any thing but wise to bring an unsophisti cated girl here, now that mother is dead and we fellows arealone. School closed last week, you know, and I won dered what you had concluded to do." "Durande be hanged!" returned his companion, irreverently. "What has he to do with our affairs? Oh', you and Mignon! I wonder you dare breathe without the parson's sanction!" And he went back to his market reports. The younger man finished his break fast In silence, then he arose, found his hat, and made another attempt,' his hand on the door knob. "I say. Ernest, will you pry your mln1 onror vm rttfMi anrl cti rvo 1 1 rr op enough to answer my question? It's deuced cold-blooded, the way ru'vo shut the little one up in that old con vent and forgotten her existence, and she feels cut up about it, too. Now Pierre is going to take me back into the city, and I could bring her back if Mr. Durande- " 4 "There are neither 'ifs' nor Mr. Du randes at Farnsworth Hall under the present -administration." broke in the elder brother, decidedly. "Certainly bring her, for come she shall. Why not? ... Am I not her legal guardian? Is she not a mere child yet? Have we not a housekeeper? And are we not gentlemen, the sons of our mother? You might confide to the ' reverend gentleman that either one of us un aided is capable of protecting an unso phisticated girl from all men " "Except ourselves!" end Guy, laugh ingly. 1 Farnsworth looked up quickly, a shade of annoyance deepening his fine eyes. ' "Except no one," he returned, sharp ly, 'and see that you understand me, sir, uun , in iub ,uegiuuiuj;. ' The boy Nourished Ws hat gaily. "Avaunt, croaker!" he cried. . "Back to your cotton and sugar! If you im agine Guy Edgton, aged twenty and just out of military jackets, intends 'driving all the way from the city, within the radiance of . those violet' eyes, without stealing a kiss or two from that baby mouth " lie laughed merrily, then, banging the door, wont whistling o2 toward the stables. . Ernest Farnsworth pushed back his unfinished breakfast, dashed down his paper and began walking the floor. Cotton and sugar, indeed! was the boy blind? Ah, those violet eyes, that baby mouth how many, many times they had risen between him and the printed page, between him and "sleep, between him and the memory of his mother's still, white face! Now that she was coming to the Hall, could he continue to blind his brother, the friends, the girl herself? Perhaps the . clergyman was right. Perhapa it was unwise sp nave her there. V Mignon came to Farnsworth Hall to remain until school should reopen in the fall. The younger brother was her escort upon, all occasions, under chaperonage, of course. Her vacation was rapidly passing, and Farnsworth had kept rigorously away from her "W THE ROADI Then one by one we put away The much-beloved sled, And journeyed forth into the world, Ambition s paths to tread. We bade good-bye to Martin's Hill And youthhood'a sweet abode, And shouted in an undertone . . For men to "Clear the road!" We found along the paths of trade rJ-Rther Martin's Hill; vith men at break-neck pace acoast, With voices loud and shrill Who never halted on their way Where fortune's fancies elowed. Who shouted loud from morn till night That. warning, "Clear the road! Joe Cone, an the New York Sun. and tois duties in field or library, or at the militia barracks, for he was a soldier. She was secure under this arrange ment, ho kept telling himself, and ap peared happy. But she seemed half afraid of him since becoming his charge. For so young a man he was unapproachable, decisive, even stern upon occasion. It was necessary he should be in the management of so large a plantation. . Yes, Farnsworth had a fancy that his little ward had, grown to fear him. Very good: let it rest at ' that. He would nurse this very safe fancy. Yet once and again throughout the va cation, across the dining room table- about their only meeting- place he had caught occasional fleeting glances from the. violet eyes, wistful, Inquiring glances that cost him sleep, to say nothing of time wasted in day dream ing. For another" fancy was growing upon him, a fancy not quite so safe as the one that she feared him, a fancy that needed no nursing. lie began to wonder if And then he suddenly recollected that the present adminis tration recognized no "ifs." Fate took matters ia her own hands in an unexpected manner. One evening toward the close of va cation Farnsworth' whs passing the parlor when he heard his name called in frightened appeal. Swinging open the door he saw Mignon, pale and in dignant, struggling from his brother's arms. Guy whirled about fiercely at the In terruption, but Farnsworth1 went straight to the sobbing girl. "What has he been saying what in sult has he offered you, petite? Tell me and I will punish him." "Always to be his wife," was all he could catch among her sobs. "And that is no insult," proudly, as serted her youthful suiter., ' "But," she sobbed, turning the im ploring blue eyes from one to the other, "your mother assured me that I need not be any one's wife for years and years yet; that you would both take care of me and be kind to me, and you are not, Guy, for you are always " She clasped her guardian's hand and was silent. "For shame, Edgerton!" ' protested Farnsworth, putting his arm.proteet ingly about her shoulders. "For shame to urge such matters upon this child! Give the little thing her girlhood, can't you? She is so young, a mere school girl yet, a very infant." "A mere coquette, a very deceiver!" cried her lover, hotly. "Why does she accept my escort, and wear the gowns I admire, and kee: my roses and allow me to kiss her hands? She very well knows what such things mean to a man; she is old enough for that! . And why doe3 she look at mc so why will she look so, if she. does not mean " "Be silent, sir!" commanded his brother with stern emphasis, trying at, the same time to soothe the weeping Mignon. "Remember I am absolute master of you both for some time to come, and I shall shut you up in you individual schools the year through if I hear another-word about this marry ing nonsense. There, there, my child," taking his own handkerchief and wip ing away the girl's tears, 4,he will keep his place from how, I promise you. He is just your big brother, as am I, and he will continue to be until -you wish him to become something nearer. Henceforward you have two brothers who will take care of you and be kind to you. Go to your room now, and to sleep, for It is late. Wait, Edgerton, I'll have a further word with you." " After his "word" with his brother Farnsworth went to his library, lighted a cigar' and flung himself down upon a divan. , , ' Fow lovely she was, and how tempt ing! Unconsciously so, doubtless, but tempting . for all that. In his man's heart he could not censure the boy, considering the close companionship of the two all the long summer, and the charming-Innate coquetry of the girl's acts and glances, of course, but construed by his brother into inten tional encouragement. Yet he, the guar"dian, felt unreasoningly angry with both, though neither was to blame certainly not the boy He sprang from the divan and began hurriedly to walk the floor. A shaded lamp burned dimly on his open desk, and this was why, even Jn his walk, he did not at once discover the small figure in the deptji of his great chair before the open window. When he did see her he thought her asleep, and tip toeing softly his desk, sat with shaded eyes and suspended, breath gazing at the picture she made framed' in the dark plush of the chair. Why had she not gone to her room, as he had bidden her, instead of com ing here? ' Had she come to escape Guy's importunities? Did she not know that the boy had gone to the city, gone in a frenzy of rebellion against him, Farnsworth? Sudd'nly she turned toward him, rested her ohin upon her arms, and lifted her glance to some point beyond him. , Her eyes shone like stars, her little curved mouth was re'd as wine. She looked for all the world like one of Raphael's cherubs, dimpled nd winged and innocent. Farnsworth picked up his pen and began writing, rapidly. As he sat thus, his pen dashing along with aimless haste, he could feel his pulses quicken warmly from the sense of , her pres ence, and the rigorous resolutions to which he had clung during the long va cation began to fall away. His steady hold upon himself threatened to fail him. . It occurred to him, however, that he could not sit thus all night. He laid aside his cigar, strode over to the win dow and stood looking down at Mig non. "Did you know that he is gone?" he asked. "Yes, monsieur," she answered, de murely, and without taking her eyes from the -nnint. beyend his detk. "And that even though he were here he would not annoy you?" "Then why are you " She nestled down in the, chair in a kittenish fashion, interrupting with a little coaxing note in her voice "Let me stay, Ernest, while you write. I I want to!" Farnsworth gasped. She had never before called him by his given name. In the interests of future discipline it would never do to permit such liber ties with him, the iron-hearted soldier, master of Farnsworth Hall, her ap pointed guardian it would never do! "You are a wayward girl," he ob served coldly. "I have set your would be suitor a severe penance, and now I mean to punish you for disobeying niy .explicit order. I am accustomed to unquestioned obedience." , 1 One swift uplift of the sweet eyes before they overflowed and were hid den, but that instant had been long enough for him to read what? The pen-shaft splintered ia his nervous grasp, and his brother's words kept beating upon his brain: "Why does she look at ne so? Why will she look so if she does not mean Ah, but there were no "ifs" in the Farnsworth lexicon! Ho and his broth er were two distinct individuals; she must learn that. "Well, what are you crying about?" he questioned. "I am letting you stay." "But you are cross," she sobbed. "You are ahvays cross." ' "And you are always crying," he re torted, in a tone he knew was any thing but severe. "I suppose crying is natural to infants." Whereupon she sobbed afresh. "I wish I could be cross," he said half tenderly, but turn ing aside that she might not see bis entile. "I sent you to bed once, and you did not obey. Now, for punish ment, I ought " She shrank into the far corner of the chair, clutching at the plush arm as though she feared he. might forcibly remove her. He laughed ia spite of himself. What a very child she was! But she wept the more. lie bent over her. "Are you crying because I have sent Guy away?" , "No,", came faintly from th? covered face. ' - "Is it because you do not want him to be merely a brother to you?" "But I do, I do!" she exclaimed with tremulous eagerness, lifting her head. Those eyes, those lips surely this was no longer the face of a child, but a woman's, wistful, irresistibler'-Ks) was on his knes-before the chair now, his arms creeping .about her.. "Why, then, the tears?" It was a demand, not a question. "Because" a little laugh bubbled up among the sobs-r"you think I need two brothers, when one- " She ended in an incoherent murmur in the folds of his coat, but even when he lifted her face and took her hands from It she did not complete her sen tencefor a most excellent reason. Waverley Magazine. ' .ASYLUM FOR INSANE INDIANS. It Has Just Been Built at Canton, S. D., and Will Ee Opened Soon. ' The National Indian Asylum, the onfy institution of the kind in the world, will soon be opened to the de mented members of the red tribes of America. The necessity of an asylum for the care and treatment of insane Indians exclusively became especially apparent to the citizens of South Da kota, because of their proximity to the reservations. It is well known that feeble minded; demented and insane Indians,, as well as the aged and infirm, receive little care and attention from their relatives or tribesmen. A crazy Indian is uni versally regarded by' his brethren as good as a dead Indian. ' These conditions induced Senator Pettigrew to take up the work of se curing an' appropriation from Con gress to. build an asylum for, the in sane, and in 1S09 a bill was indorsed by Congress ordering the construction of an Indian asylum building at or near Canton, S. D. The appropriation, at first 45,000, was afterward in creased to $C0,000. A site of 100 acres was bought for $3000, and the building contract was awarded to Pelton & Co., of Milwau kee, for. $52,500. The building is a fine one. Pressed brick form -the walls, trimmed with white stone, the whole building roofed with slate. The struc ture is in the form of a Maltese cross, H4 feat long and 144 feet wide in the centre. ' The capacity of the building is cev-enty-five inmates. Many have said that there were not seventy-five insane Indians in the United States, but there is every indication that within a year the Canton asylum will be unable to accommodate all the applicants. Canal lioats In ranila. The easy-going native bargemen of Manila Bay will experience something like surprise when, a few months hence, they see towed into the harbor nineteen Erie Canal boats, sent by the Philippine Transportation , Company. Fcr several years these barges have been in use on the Erie Canal. Now they have been towed over to the Morgan Iron Works, at Ninth street and the East River, where they are being carefully pulled apart prepara tory to shipping them to the Orient. Piece by piece the decks are pulled up, beams and timbers separated and piled up on the pier, ready to be stowed away into the holds of huge steamers, there to remain until once more put together in Hong Kong. From there they will be towed across the China Sea, down the Luzon coast and into Manila harbor. Larga steamers cannot approach within, two miles of the shoro in Manila Bay. For this reason, it has always been neces sary to send out cascos, or lighters, in which the cargoes are transported up the Pasig River to the citj. These cascoes arc small and clumsy, and are owned by individual natives, who will not; work until their . supply of cash runs short. The iron "canal boats are capable of holding five or six times more cargo than any casco, and tha nineteen together could put all tho cascoes "of Manila harbor into their holds. New York Tribune. Ecotch Crouse ia lruaia. The acclimatization' of the Scotch grouse in Silesia, on the East Prus sian crown moors, and on the Eiffel has proved so successful that in the last-mentioned district a thousand birds are now seen where thirteen, months ago there was not a-s'ngle one. The experiment is to be repeated ia other Prussian provinces. SAM- kjLO QUESTION. Wien wmtry winds are high and sliri'J nd liortas tunes hi3 Arctiei lyre. Tb't comex the question, vexing still, Who shall et up to light the fire?' In summer's droo'ny, slumbrous days It seemed an id. useless question; But now, alas! no chtruit haze ' Obscures the pertinent suggestion. When hubby in his household bower tlliz Aovra. to smoke and save tho nation.' He nndfc.he cannot speed the hour With delruZjory conversation. His loving wife is very teen To bring the matter to aSfocua, And, with but half an eye, 'iii jeen She's "proof 'gainst any hocus-poc'". .' ' - .;'"x-' Is in a state at least precarious. That chilly floors bring on a wealiTa Of troubles and diseases various. . lie melt3 beneath her cold blue eye, In which he sees the rising ire, . s And that's the same old reason why He will get up to light the fire.. . " Chicago Netty. "She has found her life work at last." "What is it?" "Married a man to reform him." Philadelphia Bulle tin. "George, dear, what did you ever see in me that made you want te marry me?" "I'm blest if I know, darling' Chicago Tribune. Simple Simon went a-fishing For to catch a trout; ; ' lie SDied a sisn. "No Fiahiner Here." And there pulled sixty out! Brooklyn Life. , Tommy "Pop, what are counter charges?" Tommy's Pop "Counter charges; my son, are the results of your mother's shopping . tours." Philadelphia Record. v . Mrs. Growells "My husband is con- tinually quarrelling about trifles." Mrs. Howells "Well, my dear, the less one has to quarrel about the bet ter." Chicago News. This world as it goes moving on With foliy oft seems busy; ' Perhaps it whirls around so fast ? That men have all grown dizzy, v Washington Star. "Why do you call the fast bicycle rider a scorcner?" "Because he goes at a hot pace, makes pedestrians boiling mad, warms up "the police, gets roasted in court and then thinks the whole- thing is a burning shame." Tit-Bits. : ' A: country doctor was once riding; over a wild stretch of down and asked the lonely shephe.rd how he managed to get medical assistance for his wife in the isolated cottage where they lived. "Well, sir," replied the shep herd, in all good faith, "we d wun't ha no doctor; we just dies a n'at'ral death." Tit-Bits. : . r A burglar whoso night entry Into the parsonage awakened the sleepless, pastor, said to his helpless victim: "If you L stir you're a dead man! I'm hunting for money!" "Just let me get up and strike a light," pleasantly re plied the dominie, "and I shall be triad to assist vou ir thp sparrh." . Boston Watchman. "Gracious!" exclaimed Mr. Phamll man to his spouse, "we've had so much, rain lately, I do hope we won't have any more for some time." "I'll tell you how you can make sure of it. pa," said the bright little uoy. ,"Just gimme a quarter to save up for rainy day, and I'll bet there won't be one for a year." Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Query "Isn't she a member of your ciud.' Airs. uauaDoui iot any more. We had to get rid of her, or she would have disorganized us." Mrs. Query "You don't say?" Mrs. Cadabout "Yes. At one of our ses sions we were discussing the servant gii-1 question, and she' said the best way to solve the problem was; for all of us to-stay home and do our own work." Philadelphia Press. A Brutal Sport. It is difficult to conceive of anything; more .shockingly brutal than the slaughter of pigeons as they are hurled in the air by a spring from a trap. Th& pigeon is the embodiment of grace and gentility. It is about the most harmless and inoffensive thing In all the animal creation. There is nothing: manly or sportsmanlike in killing or maiming the trapped flutterers as they attempt to give their wings to the air and seek freedom after imprisonment. Chicago Record-Herald.

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