ir 4tr I 1 VI $1.00 a Year, in Advance. FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." SlnjU Copy 9 Ccata, VOL. y VI. PLYMOUTH, N. C-fFRIDAY, JAArV5.T9067 NO. 41. WHAT I 'I lire for those who tore me. Whose hearts are klu and true, for the heaven that smiles above m And waits my spirit, too: Tor all human ties that bind me. Kor the task by (jocl asslued me. l or the blight hopes left behind ine. And the good that 1 can do. I liv to learn their story, Who've suffered for my sake, To emulate their glory. And follow in their wake: Hards, patriots, martyrs, sages. The noble of all ages. Whose deeds crown history's pa'nV And Time's great volume make. I live to hall that season Ky Rifted minds foretold. When man shall live by reason And not alone by gold ; WHAT MARGARET KNEW. I never believed in ghosts. I never believed in anything much except Mar garet Vane. I didn't even have faith in my own courage. If I had I might have made a winning fight for her against that wild fellow, Tom Brent, whom she ran away with and married. I was such a man as she should have had fcr her husband, while he was such a man as no woman should have mar ried. Yet he possessed that peculiar fascination over good women which seems to be present in every bad man. Margaret' Vane was rich and Tom needed money. So did I, for that mat ter, and I worked with my pen to get it. while Tom got his by any means which nrnmispii nrnflt. I loved Mar garet and told her so many, many tin-,.-?. Clia Invarl Tirvi Ttrpnt and I suppose he told her that he loved her, s I had done, although that was not necessary, for when the woman loves the man he need say little mors than what must be said before the minister of the Gospel to establish the woman's claim upon him. Brent was handsome, unscrupulous and a drunkard, but Margaret over looked the handicaps to happiness and became his wife. God knows I tried my utmost to dissuade her, but I was neither handsome, unscrupulous or a drunkard, and my prayers availed not. For a year Margaret was blindly happy, and Tom was unnaturally good. Then, as if fearful that she might not continue her affection for this reformed creature, he swung back into the old paths and began his old course by go ing 011 a prolonged spree. Margaret suffered much during this defection, but brightened again when he sobered. After this he divided his drunks and had them in less pronounced form, but with, much greater frequency. He also began to gamble and to spend money in the hundreds of ways open to any one who has it to spend. Margaret, of course, was his chief source of reve nue, and she furnished him with what he asked, foolishly . hoping that her kindness would win him to her and hold him fast to better things. For five years this continued, and at last Brent became involved in a dis graceful scandal, in which a man was shot, a family broken up, and several thousands were missing. Brent's con nection was not well defined, but it was enough to compel his absence, and he disappeared. Margaret went down with brain fev er and for weeks her life was despaired of, but she rallied in time, and once more was well. But how changed she was! We had always been good friends, and now she turned to me as the or.e who was nearest. She was an orphan, and no other had a better right to her guardianship than I had, now that her husband had proved unworthy of the trust she had repo.sed in him. Six months after he went away a re port came through the newspapers that he had been lost in a hotel fire in a northern town. Margaret insisted on my going to in vestigate. I found that several un recognizable bodies had been taken fiom the ruins and buried, and among the luggage saved was a trunk con taining effects which conclusively proved that Brent had a room in the hotel on the night of the fire, though lie had registered "under a different name. I claimed the trunk and took it back to Margaret with my story. Her mind appeared to be at rest now, and she began to improve in health and spirits. But the cruel blows had been struck and it was not possible that she could be the same again. As time passed and she began to lean more upon me, I took hope once more and very gently led her back to the paths we had trod in other days. I must be very careful, as I could see, and I was. Margaret did not seem to realize at first that I was her lover still, but af ter many days she did, and when I I asked her to marry me she consented. Knt iovouslv. as one whose heart knew no other, but as one chastened by sor row, who felt the need of a comfort ing presence. We went abroad on our wedding journey and were gone six months. When we came back I went to live in Margaret's handsome house, and thgro. I established a "den" ia which I LIVE FOR. When man to man united. And every wrong thing righted. The whole world shall be lighted As Kden was of old. I live to hold communion ' With all that Is divine. To feel that there Is union 'Twixt nature's heart and mine, To profit by affliction. Real (ruths from fields of fiction. Grow wiser from conviction I'liltllllng Hod's design. I live for those who love me, for those who know me true. Kor the heaven that smiles above m And waits my spirit, too: For the cause that lacks assistance. Kor the wrongs that need assistance, I'or the future In the distance, ' And the s?ood that I can do. -(.. Linnaeus Hanks, In New York Weekly. worked often far into the night. Jiu t off this den I had my sleeping room, and Margaret had a suite of chambers across the hall. There were many times when she wished to be alone, and I respected her wishes and did not disturb her. Our lives moved serenely, with lit tle joy or sorrow in them, of our own making, and t was content to be near Margaret always, and to be her friend if I could not be quite all she wanted as a lover. Vane Hall, as the old house was called, had Its own ghost story, as nearly all old houses have, but it was so vague as to be scarcely worth con sidering. It never disturbed me in the slightest, and, thought I was natural ly timid, I never thought of ghosts haunting the place, no matter how late I worked. One night, however, I was made to think about the stories I had heard. It was very late, and I was absorbed in a tale I was writing, I had heard no sound to disturb me, but I felt a draught as if a door were opened. My window was down from the top, and I fancied the wind had changed. I closed it and sat down at my desk again. Presently I heard what seemed to be soft footsteps. They were passing; down the hall. I thought of burglars and hesitated about going to ses. 1 turned my light out and sat still. There was a faint light in the hall. All be came quiet and I peered out. There was nothing in sight, and I slipped down to the further end. Noth ing there but a door leading to a small balcony overlooking the garden. Noth ing had been taken, and there was no sign of midnight marauders. I tried the door" and it was locked. I went back to my den, and a few minutes lat er I retired. At breakfast I casually spoke to Margaret of ghosts. She laughed ner vously and said they had been seen in the house and had been heard, but not for two generations. I asked her if she was afraid. She said she didn't know, but that she might be if the ghost came to her. Otherwise she was not inclined to give the matter any thought. For two or three nights after this. Margaret and I were at the theatre, and if the ghost roamed then I was not there to hear. But it came again dur ing the following week. This time its soft tread moved up towards Mar garet's room. My first thought was of her, and as soon as I could gather my strength, but I confess that I was so frightened that I could not pull my self together at once, I hurried up the hall to her door. I called to her softly, once or twice, and went in. She was not fully awake, and she asked what was the matter. I told her I had heard the ghost again, and it had come to her door. She laughed then, and became my com forter. Margaret, you know, was al ways stronger than I, and had really more physical courage than I had. She sent me back to my room with the promise that she would lock her door, and the ghost could not get in. I went away, and as I did so I heard the key turn in the lock. Then I searched the hall and found nothing, as be fore. The next morning at breakfast Mar garet teased me so about my ghost that I was ashamed of myself and resolved not to speak of it agatn. Several weeks passed, and at inter vals I would hear the footsteps of the mysterious visitor, but. I had become accustomed to his ghostship and gave no heed. Now and again, after I had heard it moving along the hall towards Mar garet's room, I would go there just be fore going to bed to see if her door was locked. It was always secure, and I smiled at my fears and went my way. But as I became careless of the ghost I began to notice that Margarel was becoming nervous and was losing color and spirits. I thoughtlessly char ted her as she had teased me, but she showed such unmistakable signs that it was no trifling matter, that I re solved to see for myself what this ghost might be. . I said nothing to her of my purpose, for I knew it would not improve matters for her to think I was disturbed. The next night I had attended a din ner at the club and did not get in un til midnight, or perhaps an hour later, as one is apt to do after club dinners. Probably I had taken more wine than usual. In any event I felt brave enough to meet any ghost that. walk ed, and I went, into my den to wait, for it, if this should be its night to vis it the haunts of men. .1 waited so long that I dozed, and, waking with a start, I heard the well known footsteps. This time they were going down the hall in the direction I had pursued them the first night I had heard them. Gathering my wits as quickly as I could, I went into the hall, and in the light, so dim that only the merest out lines were visible, I saw a tall figure in a misty gray wrap of the olden time. I started after it, but before I had taken half a dozen steps it stop ped, turned, and waved me back warn ingly. As I have said, I am not a brave man, and I came no nearer. Slowly the ghost turned again, and in its stately fashion passed on to the end of the hall. Instead of following it, I hurried to Margaret's room. She was awake- and very nervous. I told her I had seen the ghost. She laughed and said I had been having too much wine, and it would be better for me to go to bed and let the ghost pursue the even ten or of its way. But I was brave now, seeing that she was safe and inclined to tease me, and I left her, notwith standing she pleaded with me not to go, and went back down the hall. Only a very short time had elapsed since I had seen the ghost, and when I got to the door leading out to the bal cony I found it was open. I ran to the front balcony, and in the garden be low I saw the figure of a man crouched in the shadow. In the road just be yond were two policemen. I called to them to catch the burglar, and as I dashed back into the hall to go out the back way I met Margaret at the door of the balcony. "Go back to your -fefoml' I ex claimed. "The ghost is a burglar," and hurried on downstairs. As I went I heard several pistol shots. When I reached the road the two officers were standing over a man lying on the ground. "He's done for," said one, "but he got two shots at us before he went." "Who it is?" I asked, horrified at the tragedy before me, and turning away so as not to see the dead man. "Why," replied one of the officers, proudly, "it's that Tom Brent that run away. We only heard yesterday that he was in town, and while we were spotting him he slipped in here to rob the house, I suppose. Anyhow, he won't rob any more." "I could scarcely walk, but I man aged somehow to get back into the house and to Margaret's room. She was not there, and I staggered out to the balcony. I found her lying on the floor unconscious. The newspapers told only of ' the burglar caught in the act. They did not know what I knew what Margaret knew. Very soon afterward we went abroad, and there our paths separated for ever. She died a year later, leav ing all her properly to me as "an atonement' according to the wording of her will. W. J. L. in Illustrated Bits. An Improvement on "Lookout." "He's what they call a 'crow. " said a well-informed police witness at Brentford of a certain youth, explain ing that a "crow" is one who stands on guai'd whilevhis associates are busy robbing, to warn them of approach ing police or other undesirablese. The word is thieves' slang of considera ble standing. In 1862, for instance, The Cornhill Magazine mentioned it as '"ie technical term for a woman who kept such a watch for a burglar. An explanation that at once suggests itself is that this confederate is ex pected to "crow" or give some warn ing noise, but the word may well point to some study of natural history in criminal circles. Those familiar "crows" rooks are accustomed to post sentinels to signal the coming of danger. London Chornicle. Mr. Long's Choice. Ex-Secretary of the Navy John D. Long has a conviction that speeches are as much of a bore to the audience as they are to the speechmakers. "I always feel glad when called upon to make a speech, however," he says, "for I am in the position of a certain amateur actor. He was in all the theatricals going in his small town. He played all sorts of parts. Some one asked him one day if he did not get tired of taking part in every pri vate theatrical performance. " 'Yes,' said the young fellow, 'I don't like to act a bit; but I know if I'm not on the stage I'll have to sit in the audience. " Boston Herald. The Family Joke. "That young man who took ?3CO,000 from a New York bank insists that he didn't steal it." "Maybe he is a blood relation of the President." Cleveland Plain Dealer. The London milkman covers his route on foot, pushing a hand cart with three wheels, which carries his cans of milk and his different measures. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS CLEANING INDIA RUBBER GOODS To clean India rub ber goods a piece of clean household ti'annel shouuld be rubbed upon a bar of common yellow soap. When a lather is obtained, apply the flannel to the rubber and pass it briskly over the surface. This will speedily make the article clean. Set to dry in a cool breeze. TO REMOVE INKSTAINS. Chloride of lime and water will re move inkstains from silver if well rubbed on the stains and then washed off at once, the silver being polished as ordinarially. The solution for the purpose is four ounces of chloride of lime to one aud a half pints of water. This may be bottled and kept ready for use. ' USES OF KEROSENE. Instead of using water to wash paint ed walls take a basin of kerosene and the walls will look as if just painted. Kerosene is also good around the sink to keep it clean and to be a menace to the omnipresent Croton bug. Try kerosene on your sewing machine if it clogs nt all. Kerosene by its lubri cating qualities prepares the machine for its special oil. TOMATO PASTE. Tomato paste is a good thing to have in the house, and may be made when tomatoes are plenty. Half a peck of tomatoes, a carrot and an onion may be sliced together, and to them is add ed a good sized bunch of celery cut in pieces, 'leaves as well as stalks. Boll all very slowly until they are a soft paste that can be put through a veg etable press. Return this pulp to the fire with a tablespoonful of salt, a tea spoonful of pepper, and. cook slowly once more until a little, spread to cool Iu a saucer, thickens to a jelly. Spread it out in pie plates in layers about half an inch thick and let it dry in the sun or in a cool oven. When it is dry it must be packed in boxes or wide mouthed jars. To use, cook together a tablespoonful each' of butter, and flour until they bubble, pour on half a pint of water, put In a piece of paste about three inches square, and stir until the sauce is thick and smooth. Harper's Bazar, RECIPES Lemon Jelly and Nut Salad Make a stiff lemon jelly the day before it is to be served. When ready to use cut in dice, add sliced orange and English walnut meats minced, moisten with French dressing and serve in orange cups or on lettuce leaves with a tea spoonful of thick mayonnaise on top of each service. - Canning Corn If the corn is young and juicy it will require no water, but if, on the other hand, it is old and dry, you should add just enough water to make it moist. It should be slowly heated on the back of the stove and stirred often. Be sure it is heated to boiling point before putting in cans. Fill cans full aud screw on tops imme diately. Walnut and Celery Salad Buy the best English walnuts and crack care fully so that the nut meats will come out in perfect halves. From a bunch of celery select the tender white stalks and cut in small pieces. Line a salad bowl with crisp lettuce leaves, mix the nuts and celery together, toss light ly with French dressing, then place on the leaves and cover with mayonnaise. Chicken and Nut Salad Stew until tender a lump, one-year-old chicken, having the broth in which it is cooked well seasoned with salt, pepper and & little celery salt. Let the chicken cool in the broth over night; when ready to use take the breast of the chicken and cut in small pieces, adding an equal quantity of tender celery and a half cup English walnut meats or but ternuts, cut in small pieces; mix well, adding a little more pepper and salt. If needed, and a squeeze of lemon juice and moisten with a little of the broth In which the chicken was cooked. Add hiayonnai.se. to taste and toss ligntly; arrange on tin lettuce leaves nud crown each portion with mayonnaise. Cotton From Fine Wood, Recent experiments have been made In Bavaria in regard to preparing arti ficial cotton from pine wood, and it is said that the new process allows it to be made cheaply enough, so that the artificial cotton may compete with the natural product. The wood, which is first cut into small splinters, is reduced to fibers by steam and acids, then it is washed, bleached and passed through a crusher. The cellulose is formed into jtine threads by a spinning machine. These threads are said to make a very good fabric when woven, and can easi ly bo dyed. It is expected, that they will be manufactured on a large scale and corse into competition with Iui ported cotton, - .J Y - SOUTHERN FARM fOTES. j ft. fp p. 1 -- - - . .... 1 TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER. STOCKMAN AN 0 TRUCK GROWER, What the Tonne Farmer May Do. There are many opportunities for ed ucated agriculturists In the South. There is a chance in almost every town or city for the d-velopment of the dairy industry. The cow is one of the most profitable machines on the farm. Milk can be sold for twenty-five to thirty-five cents per gallon; butter from twenty to thirty-five cents per pound. A cow yielding 5000 pounds per annum; would produce 588 gallons of milk, which at thirty cents per gal lon would be $176. A cow can be kept for from $35 to $50. If this proposi tion were made to a man by a "get rich quick" concern he would lose no time In making the investment. Then there is a chance to produce the seeds of corn and wheat in great quantity through the adaption of the simple principles of selection and plant breeding. Thousands of dollars an nually go out of the State for the pur chase of seeds of these cereals at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2.00 per bushel, whereas, corn ordinarily brings 40 cents and wheat 75 cents. Why not produce more grass and clover seed? Why not produce seed of the vetch which does well here as a winter cover crop, and of the soy. bean, etc.? These are but three or four of the many money making Industries that are open to the progressive agricul turist of the South to-day. There never was a time when there was a better chance to make money from the- intelligent application of business principles to the production of dairy and beef products, to the growing of horses and mules, to the development of the poultry industry, which Is still in its infancy, and to the breeding of seed of high quality for use by South ern farmers. Who will be the first to see these good things and to reap the rich harvest which awaits the in dustrious farmers? As to the future of the farm there can be no question. Look at the con dition which has grown up in Europe because of the ancient systems of land tenure which prevented the aver age citizen from owning a piece of ground, making every tenant a peas ant of some landlord. In America un til the present tims many men have been interested in manufacturing plants, building railroads, steel fur naces, iron furnaces, etc. A period of leisure will come, a time when the output of factories will offset con sumption. Then there will be mil lions to invest in something; will it not be natural for these men to turn to the country and to invest in lands? Will the time not come when there will be many landed estates in Amer ica? Will the farmer who tills the soil who is the most important factor in the welfare of the country give up his land? Surely not, and yet the sign of the times would seem to indicate it, for the wild desire on the part of many seems to be to go to the city and to dispossess themselves of the land. Will it not be better for them to keep close to it and to maintain their independence through living on it, rather than to suffer the pangs and indignities that have come to the peas antry of Europe? The cost of living, as already mentioned, is increasing in America; the demand for all farm products is A-ery great. There never was a time when the intelligent farm er could earn a larger revenue. There never was a time when land could be bought for less in many sections of the South than to-day, and there rPr was a time when a man had a uetter chance to make wealth from the soil. Young men, possess yourselves of the land and the inalienable rights of citizenship. Lima Burnt Tobacco an Fertilizer. R. C, Danville, Va., writes: Please advise me if lime should be applied on the land before I fallow in the peas or if it can be put in as well with the plow? I would also like to know the manurial value of burnt tobacco. It is not so badly burnt but is wet. Answer: Lime should never be plowed under, as it sinks rapidly into the soil under the most favorable con ditions.' Plow under your pea vines and get the land ready for seeding and then scatter the lime over the surface by means of a manure spreader. To keep it from running out too rapidly you can put some straw or other rough material in the bottom of the' spreader. Then harrow it lightly. It is best as a rule to apply lime in the fall, but of course it is also Well to have a crop follow it as it may derive as much ben efit from it as possible and fix the plant food in the soil which the lime may free and prevent its being leached out by the violent winter rains. You might put a light seeding of oats or barley or wheat on the land this fall and seed to grass In the spring and cut whatever ceral you sow for hay In the early dough stage so it will not draw all the water out of the soil and leave it dry end at harvest time. Many stands of grass are destroyed because the rlp- .... enlng crop of grain exhausts the 'soil so completely 01 Doin moisture u plant food that the grass does not hav a fair chance. It would oe rather late to sow grass this fall at the time men tioned, though in a favorable season It might do all right. It Is better In my judgment to wait now until next spring. ' t No doubt you refer to the burned leaves of the tobacco plant. "A ton of tobacco contains about 200 pounds of ash, something like fifty pounds of nitrogen, and thirteen to fourteen pounds of phosphoric acid, and eighty one pounds of potash. The burning of the leaves would result in the de struction of practically all the nitro gen, but the phosphoric acid and pot ash will be intact except where injured by leaching with water thrown on the ashes, during the fire. Thl probably would not amount to much, however, if the tobacco was well mois tened, as it doubtless was. Tobacct ashes would thus supply you. with a. cheap source of potash if you caa buy them right, and a small amount of phosphoric acid, but you would ob tain practically no nitrogen from their use. If you can get them reasonably. it should pay you to haul them and scatter them on the land for the sake of the potash you would' get. You should not use more than twenty-five to fifty b'tshels of lime per acre and liui incuci iuau uviu uilcv iv , - years. Fifty bushels is not a "heavy application, and should give you good ' results. Twenty -five bushels, . applied in two applications, with .two y ears Intervening, will probably prove ' riiore effective than a single application off fifty bushels. Professor Soule;'- Hw and When to Seed AXTaifm. R. A. W., Parnassus. writeS?,AWhen is the best time of the year to sow al-- iaiiar win auaira grow m. sun reu clay? ' . . . .. " Answer: Aiiaira snouiu. oe buwb tiAilr ac crtvrt Q C; S C ftAQCima -t-Tk (mt ttlA I n ; rrti . t be broken to a depth of .about eight inches, provided of course that" you ' have broken it at least six incnes- De- fnrA Tr xvnnrl Tint he welL .to .take a. soil that has been worked shallow for , a number of years and break it 'up ' rtoenlTr nil nt mice. Then It would be' v ' j , -- 11 - ..tsll I, Inn1 1 0 1 4- 4a n. liedWIK. - uh ill kii .situ I lit ittiitj. il -it- la a. xma. a r rpri so ir nr n sannv nature sudsoii-; ing it is not necessary. Apply sixteen. not MTit nnin nhnsnhfltp flr Tne rate- JV 1 . with fifty to 100 pounds of muriate. of potash. If the land it; deficient in vegetable matter, make an' application' of about seventy-nve pounas 01 nitrate . of soda to the alfalfa after It has come up and a similar application next . spring. You might also top-dress the'" alfalfa with a good coating of well rot ted farmyard manure. Alfalfa is a del icate plant when first seeded. Fait -seeding is an advantage because IV. gives it a chance to establish itself -before the weeds choke It out as they,-; often do from spring sowing. Alfalfa should bo frequently clipped if it turns yellow and not allowed to go into the winter with too much top or it might- smotner out. sow at iea-t uMCiiij pounds of good, clean seed and it is often advisable to inoculate. This may be accomplished through the use of at-' tificial culture or through the use of soil from an oil field. At least pounds of soil should be mixed with the seed to be sown on each acre of." land. Alfalfa may be put in the grain drills or sown broadcast and cover with' a harrow. You cannot prepare the land too carefully and he'avy fertiliza-; tion is necessary on most of your soils.' Alfalfa is a vigorous feeding plant and must be well supplied with the various forms of plant food or it will not give satisfactory results. It may seem rather a serious undertaking to obtain a stand of it, but if yci succeed with, it you will find it one oi'the most val uable crops you have ever grown on your farm and you will be weH re paid for the labor, effort and money ex pended in securing it. It makes excel lent' hay and can be cut tw,o to four times vear under favorable condi tions. . . ." Alfalfa as a rule does not do well. on. very stili heavy red clay land as it la so tenacious that the roots cannot eas ily establish themselves in the soil, and its power to establish itself in the soil being based on the vigorous de- ' velopment of its roots; it frequently withers away and dies In the course of two or three years in such land. However, if these lands were well sub soiled and underdrained, it would, no doubt frequently grow with,success in the future where it has failed in the past. ' Perplexity of Isaac. -.t. Newton had just discovered why the apple fell. "But," we persisted, "can you teff us what makes a person's face fall in & novel?" Herewith science had to confess it self beaten by ; literature. , ,