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V II! IM . i I 1 M n m B . m I . fl Fi M vmg nil I. i ,,,, . , ii , $l.oo a Year, In Advance. " FOR 000, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Slngla Copy 3 Ce VOL. XVIL PLYMOUTH. N. C. FRIDAY, JUNG 15. 1906 NO.r. 4 THE STREAM O stream descending to Hie sea, Thy mossy banks between, The flow'iets blow, the grasses grow, The leafy trees are jiieen. .In garden plots the children play, The fields the laborer. till, .Anil house-? stand on either hand, And thou descendrst still. O life descending into death, Our vak'msr eyes behold. 'Parent and friend thy lap.'o attend, Companions young and old. iLririxixuriJTJTJxnnJxrTXTJxi The Firsl LiTjrrjxriJruajTJTJTJTjrir -XONCEALMF.NT was Impos Ji sihle. .Subterfuge availed H 2 nothing-. Besides I wanted Jf neither. She had run straight into my arms, i Here in nroad day-lit Regent street. And the place she had inn from was "'The Beauty Shop," as Daniel Wood roffe calls it. In other words, she -emerged (I like "emerged;" properly read it spells -mystery, dark alleys, set-ret doors in panels, furze-fringed com mons, assignation's masks, highway men, romance) she emerged from a narrow passage that led to an office where, with a childlike pretence of knowing nothing at ail about each oth er, six or seven businesses got them selves conducted by one meagre staff. Tho businesses were: I. The Artemis figure improver. 'J. The Sells Tablet (for reducing em bonpoint). .". The Athenian System of Physical Culture. 'i. The Turkish Ilath Cupboard. .". The I forget the others, but l know that one of them was the com pany for helping people not to get -drunk. In less intimate circumstances I should have looked the other way. But when a lady is in your arms it does not much matter to her which way you look. To pretend that I had not seen be; would have boon idle; to protend that I did not recognize her impossible, as well as disingenious, for she had changed, in tiiose six years, almost as little as my thoughts of her. So I said. "You'." And she said, "How yon frightened roe:" Then she began to walk along the pavement, and I walked beside her. "I .have just been to see my dress maker"' she spoke very fast. "The number of times one has to be lilted" She broke off because she saw that the lie was wasted. She was never one to bo extravagant in her mil ruth. "Our old friendship," I said. , . She laughed then. ' Oh, well, our old love." said I. "Your old love,"' she correct"!. "Well, what about itV" "Does it I'm very stupid about these things, you know; I've no experience does it give one the right to ask ques tion sV" "No," she said, decisively, "but you may if you want to. all the same." "Then," said I. "let me ask whether you'll come and have tea with me? I've been -away for nearly six years. I sup pose one still has tea? One used to once upon a time. You remember; and " 'Certainly," she said, sweetly. And we went. After the tea question l -asked no more. "But," she said over the teacups, wben we had said-all we wanted to say, and a good deal wore, about Cen tral Africa and my six years, and Gil bert Chesterton's poems, and Sutro's latest -play, and the unemployed, and Hie Russian revolution--"but didn't yun want to ask me something?'' "Yes." I assented; "but I won't if you'd rather not." Of course she protested that she not mind in the least. I knew she would. "Well," I began, "I should like to ask you whether you've taken to secret drinking?" I wish I could paint, I. or face for you. But that can't bo done with just ink. "But," I persisted, "it really must be that because all the other trades lhat are plied in ihat first can't have anything to do with you. You don't want the Sells Thinning Tablets, or the Athenian Beauty Bestoror, or the Arte mis figure " "Don't," she interrupted; "if you'd be nice instead of being horrid I'd tell you. I'd dearly like io tell some one," she added, musing. "You've long longed to betray the se cret, but you couldn't find the right person to betray it to? Yes? Tell me!" "I have" she spoke very solemnly, and I don't know what I expected her to confess that she had "I have m wrinkle." "It's invisible." "That's because I've got a veil on. And the light in these tea shops was invented on purpose for wrinkled peo ple and people with dyed hair and brand new fancy complexions. Besides, it. doesn't show very much, really. Only j I know it's there." "The case doesn't seem very desper ate," I said, eating mufiiu discreetly. "Ah! but it's only the beginning. Don't you see; It means that I'm -vowing olV "You've got a long way to go," 1 quoted. "Don't be vulgar. I know I'm not old yet, but I'm getting old. And I'm I afraid, afraid." OF LIFE. Strong purpose our mind possess, Our hearts affections till; We toil and earn, we seek and learn, . And thou deseende.st still. O end to which our currents tend, Inevitable sea To which we How, what do wc know, What shall wc guess of thee? A roar we hear upon thy shore. As we our course fulfill ; Scarce we divine a nun will shine And be above us stiil. Arthur Hugh dough. Wrinkl "You've nothing to be afraid of, Old ago is dignified, beautiful." "I know all that! Do you think women want to be dignified and beau tiful just dignified and beautiful with nothing else?" "I should have thought so," I said. "I confess I looked forward to seeing ruy wife old, and dignified, and beauti ful, and beloved " "Oh. you're married?" she cried, and paused on a falling inflection. She spoke again, though, almost at once. "Oh," she repeated, in quite another key. "I'm so glad. Now I can talk to you. And you won't think And you won't tell your wife, loved!' That's just it that's women want not any of the Be what other things." "Well, and aren't you?" "I den't mean that I want it now. At least No but really, I'm a little sick of it, too. One's always being beloved by the wrong people. But I don't want to get into the cold old world the world where nobody loves anybody." "But even If you have "00 wrinkles," I answered, "you'll still have the fine brain, the tender heart that people love other people for, that I loved you for once." "And much good they'll do mo! Don't I know? So long as you're young and good to look at your biain and your heart are able to se faire valoir. And when you're old you may be St. Te resa and Plato rolled into one, and who cares?" "I care," said I. "Oh! you," she said. "What is your wife like? Is she fair?" "She's dark." said I; "as dark as you are. But we weren't talking about wives. We were talking about love." "No about youth and beauty," she contradicted. "Don't you see that youth and beauty are like the magic lantern screen? Without Ihem you can't show the world any little bits of cleverness or niceness you may happen to have." "And you want to show the little bits of niceness and cleverness?" "Well one wants to be liked, you know." "You mean," said I, "that unless a man is a little bit in love with you he can't see your good points?" "No, I don't," she said crossly; "but if you're nice to look at people trouble to liud out whether your're nice in other ways. And then you get friends. But when you're old Look at Mrs. Basingstoke. She's cleverer thau I am cleverer than you are and as good as gold, and people turn from her to " "To yonder girl that fords the burn. Y'es. By people you mean men, 1 suppose." She hesitated a moment her elbows on the table, and her eyes through her veil shining. Then a little defiantly: "Yes," she said, "I do. You know quite well that men are hotter friends than women. They understand things better, and they chatter less." "Yet," said I. "some of my dearest friends have been women." "Isn't that exactly what I am say ing? There's something about the friendship between men and women that makes it quite different from other friendships makes it more alive, more real." "Of course there is." I acquiesced; "and that something is Danger." "Danger V" she scoffed; "oh. well, of course, people do fall in love with you sometimes, even if they're your friends. But that's not what I mean. I've been friends with people that F couldn't think of as lovers without a shudder people I wouldn't touch with u pair of tongs." "I don't believe you." I said: "you shake hands with your friends, don't you?" "You know what I meai.--l mean people one couldn't marry if one were the last woman in the world, and they were the last man. H.nger, indeed. No. it's not that "' "But," I persisted, "if you have and you know you have such heaps of friends, and many of them people you wouldu't touch with a pair of tongs because its pleasanter aud simpler to touch their hands with yours why worry? You've won youv friends by your beauty. Y'ou'll keep them by all your other gifts." "Oh. no I shan't," she said: "don't you believe it! Some girl will come along, and then all my other gifts won't be worth one cf her silly smiles. Don't I know? Look at Mrs. Sim mon?." "I don't want to iool. at any one but you," I eaid, and I leanec my arms on the mble. ' Mrs. BasingMoke ought te be contented with the love of her hu band and her children." 'She hasn't any," she said triumph antly; "she's no more married than I am not so much really." "My dear Lady " "Well, her husband's dead, and when he was alive she never looked at any one else; and she hasn't any children. And she never was fond of him." "And you have been fond of some one? Yes. That gives you the ad vantage. And so you went to the beauty shop to get the wrinkle taken out, so that for a few more years you might sk'nv your wit, and your good ness on the magic-lantern creeu of your beauty." "t do want people to go on liking me," she admitted plaintively. "Wouldn't one person do?" "If he were the right one. of course he would. But when he wants to be he never is. I'm talking nonsense," she said, and rose. "Let's go." "Don't you want a hansom?'' I said, on tho pavement outside. "I don't want anything," she sah8. "Good by." But we took the hansom. One can not talk well in hansoms. We did not speak another twenty words till we were in her drawiug room and she had taken off her hat and fluffed up her hair before the mirror. Then 1 said, "It's six years since " "I know," she said. "I'm nearly thirty. Go home to your wife and bairns, laddie." "I am more than forty," I said; "it's a chill age. And I haven't any bairns." "Then I pity you," said she. "I've been out of England a long time. You haven't changed half as much as you ought to have changed." "That's because I've always had some one to like me." "Show me the wrinkle," I said. She pushed her hair back from her white forehead. "There!"' she said; "now go. I wish I hadn't said all the things I have said. Go noma to your wife and for. get the in." "I haven't any wife." I said. "But you told me " "I only told you that when my wife was old I expected h:v to be dignified and beautiful and beloved. Do you think she will?" "Oh " The pause was long. 1 said something. "Yes, I teliere I do." she' said, "and you have, all the time really ?" "WKh interludes." I owned, "but well yes, all the time." "But it's impossible." she urged, and it was the last defense. "You know so much about me now." "Doiv you think." i sa'.I. "lhat that's rather ..n advantage?" "And the interludes?" she began. "Are mine the only ones;"' I asked, coming nearer. "Ah. don't!" she said; "all that doe?;vt count." 'L'xacily," said I. Westminster Gazette. Tlie KritUlier Who Thinkc. D'.v'know I'm beginning to lind that thinking is quite "a pastime. I've studiously avoided playing the game hitherto. I was brought up in the belief lhat it Avas bad form to think unless necessity or temperament drove one into taking up a useful career. I still think it's bad form, and I only think Avhen I'm utterly alone. Like a secret sin. it's growing into a habit. A man of my age. Avho has never thought about a single hanged thing, lish, ibsh. or good red herring, has got quiie a lot to do. 1 fed just like a man who has looked at French comic papers for years without any knoAvl edge of the language, and Avho sud denly linds that he can read it. Do you follow me? One of the first tilings I've found out is that I've never really known any thing about the men I know. I've al ways known lhat tiicy do their hair properly, put their clot Iks on avcII, and talk i he correct incorrect F.nglisli. But as to whether they were sound or rot ten, nervous or blatant, melancholy or merely huniorou. why. th.'.-e are ques tions I've never slopped to ask myself. But now that I've taken to ihinking it seems to me that it would be a very sound thing to drop nearly nil the men I know. Ixmdou World. A Tliongtit For the Wek. I always believed in life' rather than in books. I suppose every day of earth, with its hundred thousand deaths and something more of births Avilii its loves and hates, it triumphs and defeats, its pangs and blisses, has more of human ity in it than all the hooks that were ever written put together. I believe the flowers growing at this moment send up more fragrance io heaven than was ever exhaled from all the essences ever distilled. From "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," by Oliver Wen dell Holmes. Smoknrft' Cont-t. The Concordia Club in Berlin carried out u novel smoking contest a short time ago. Fifteen competitors took part, a prize being offered to the one who smoked half an ounce of tobacco in a large German pipe in the shortest time. The prize-winner completed uif . task in eighteen minutes. ITevmtn iCtiAt on Tool. Half a pound of vaseline awl one ounce of blue ointment, thoroughly mixed, makes a good, rust preventive for tools. LIVE WITHOUT STOMACHS. Important Orcm i 't Absolutely XereB Hry to Kxitttcnrn. Although the stomach is a valuable orgau, if. is porfoetiy possible to get on along without it. as was set forth re cently by Professor II. .1. I'atersou. F. B. C. S.. in a lecture delivered at the Itoyal College of Surgeons, of Kugland. at London. During the course of his remarks the lecturer discussed the re moval of the whole stomach as a rad ical cure for malignant disease. The lecturer, observed, says The London Standard, that Avhile the value of a good stomach is undoubted, fortunately Nature is able to dispense Avith this organ, as most of its functions can be performed vicariously by other por tions of the alimentary canal. Nature has duplicated three of the four functions performed by the stomach, although the loss of the gas trie secretion cannot altogether be compensated. "Those who have lost it." says one authority, "have one weapon the less in the struggle for ex istence." It has been shown that dogs may gain in weight and remain In perfect health after removal of the entire stomach, while the elaborate observations made on a patient prove that the same holds good of human be ings. These observations record that the absorption of albumen was unaf fected, and no putrefactive changes oc curred in the intestines, which shows that the absence of the gastric juice does not lead to decomposition in the intestines. Until some other cure for cancer is discovered, wide removal is the ideal operation. WORDS OF WISDOM r Inspiration is mi-ihf'i ihan exhorta tion. Faith in God makes some hope for man. Flashy people give the world little lisht. The strong tuai: never ?ru:.hes the ATeak. Big coueei's cften go with small re ceipts. The i:esi offering is thatcf ouv obe dience. Hatred breaks the eart in which it is bom. Religion is more than a iiM-Hch-quick system. Deatli breaks the shell to set the kernel free. A man is not called pig-bended be cause lie i greedy of intellect. You do nt win a front seat in Heav en by taking a back seat in -church. The great objection scr:.e men have to the sun is that it shines on others. U akes more thau I'otherly man ner to make up for a lack of business method i:i a religions work. Many .nci think ihey would obey the Ten Commandments ,i they could just clip oil one or two.- If life is ;i voyage, the cargo aud the port are of much more importance than the ihat may be caught on ;i:s w.i . When the cracked jlioir sings. "O. for the wings of a dove," they can be Mire of the congregat'on jeing with thi in on ihat. -Barn's Horn. A. I.ai-ce Family. McDonald Hall and his wife, of Champaign County, claim the honor of bi'inu- the most notable supporters of Preside-ni Roosevelt's anti-race suicide doctrines. Mrs. Hall has just present ed her proud husband with their thir tieth child. The latest was a girl, and was named Margaret. The parents honored many great characters in lite selection of names for some of the thirty. Among them tire George Washington. Thomas Jeffer son. Patrick Henry, Victoria Regiiui, Abraham Lincoln. Lucrr-tia Borgia, Victor F.mauue!. Susan B. Anthony, I'lysses Grunt. William T. Sherman. Phillip .Sheridan. Cassie Chadwick, liover Cleveland (tho latter subsequent ly changed to Benjamin Harrison for vdlticid reasons!. William McKinlcy, Henry Ward P.?echer and Shield Blaine. The others are only able Io boast of commonplace cognomens. Mr. Ha'.i Is :t laboring man of Champaign Coun ty, and but for llie assistance of hi-? rdilor children might have some dilti cnll.v in feeding the hungry nrmtlig of th:.: -.Viuarkable family. Kitlton Fro'o Frtiatoo. A huge number of buu-uis nor 1n use. purportim' b ' uvu!e out of horn or bone or ivory, r.re in realhy made out of the common potato, which, when treated with certain acids, becomes al most as hard as stone. This quality of the potato adapts it to button mak ing, and n very good grade of button is now made from the well known tu ber. The potato button cannot be dis tinguished from others save; by a care ful examination, and even then only by an expert, since they an? colored t. suit the goods on which they are to bo t-.'.'d. and are every whit as good look ing as a button of bono or ivory. S.tn Francisco is s.dd to contain the '. .-'v-i1- families hi the world. It boasts ;' having thirty-nine "L;milies ear-h having more than fourteen children, and sixty-five families with more than eight children each. I'repariiiff Vaarli )i1idt1. If the land is fresh and has just been cleared, it should be cultivated at least two years in cotton or some other crop adapted to the locality. Should this new land be too rich for peaches, the fertility should be reduced by planting corn or some other exhaustive crop for a year. If it is old and worn out, it should be restored to a state of fer tility before setting out the, trees. The land should be broken up to the proper depth with a two-horse ploAV. followed with a subsoiler if necessary. Crim son clover, cowpeas, potatoes or other crops which avIII require fertilization are excellent as cover crops to turn under. After the land has received the proper plowing and subsoiling, I rec ommend broadcasting or drilling in peas In May, using one bushel to the acre; l."0 to "00 pounds good fertilizer per acre Avill materially increase the growth. In February or March I break up the pea vines by running over the ground with a tutuway harrow, then turn under Avitli a good turn-plow. As the depth of the top soil has been in creased, the land can be plowed to a greater depth than at the previous plowing. 1 subsoil again, if necessary, and in November the laud is ready for the orchard. Another excellent mode of prepara tion is to sow crimson clover in Sep tember, first broadcasting with stable manure or applying Sod commercial fertilizer. The clover is plowed under in May and peas sown. All peach lands should be deeply aiid thoroughly plowed, because after the trees are planted and are in growth, they can not be plowed deeply. All places in the orchard where the top soil has been washed away should receive care ful and special attention; such places are de-oid of humus. This must be supplied by a liberal application of stable manure or compost. Peas or clover, Avhich must be plowed under in March, should follow in two years by treating as above mentioned, these depleted parts of the orchard can be made A-ery fertile. The land is checked off at the proper distances with a good two horse turn- plow. At the intersections holes two feet square are dug, the top soil is thrown to one side. I use a liberal amount of Avell-dccomposod stable ma nure In each hole, and have this thor oughly incorporated with the soil. If stable manure is not available, then I use from one to two pounds bone-meal, or the same quantity of a mixture of two parts acid phosphate to one cotton seed meal. When using chemical fer tilizers the best results are obtained by first setting the tree, filling up tho hole one-half its depth, and then applying the fertilizer, but mixing it thoroughly with the soil. The earth must be firmed well about the roots of the tree and leveled of. After the trees have put out a groAvth of one and one-half to two inches. I rub off all but three growths, so dis tributed that tbe tree will be well bal anced. The early rubbing oft' can not be too thoroughly emphasized; a great saving of time is effected by rubbing off before the young growth becomes tough. The trees should be gone over once or twice during the growing sea son to remove all superfluous growth. If these are allowed to attain some length it is then necessary to use the pruning knife, a slow and more expen "ive operation. L. A. Berkmans. Knnifl Itul For Fallpnins: The following rules, published in the Farmer's Home Journal, are good, but do not apply to razor-backs, which pick up their living in the woods. But if you hare an improved breed, it will pay to treat them properly. Mr. Forest Henry, writing on the above subject in the Minnesota Farm er's Institute report, advises the hog breeder to get all the growth possible while warm weather lasts. Feed lib erally while it i gord weather, su.as Mr. Henry, even though it takes lots of corn, but do not let the brood roavk run in with the drove that is being fed for the market, as they et too fat. thus endangering their breeding qualities. While your pen of hogs Is changing so much corn into pork look out for the health of your herd. Thi is the time swine plague and hog cboljra get in their work. I cannot give you a p!iltiv pre ventive for these diseases, but this much is certain: Anything that Avill keep your herd in a healthful condition Is a preventive of that dreadful disease, aud at the same tlmf Avill pay twice its cost in the geiu-ral thrift of your hogs. There are several hundred hogs that died in our neighborhood lust season. I made it a study; took close, observa tion and laid down these rules to guide mo in my own herd, and suecedcd in bringing tliciu through Avit!:o:;t ::r:y loss: 1 1. Breed from mature stovk. 2. See that they have dry, chan ; sleeping quarters- SOUTHERN FARM JtOTES. TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER 3. See that they are never oaI and no sudden changes made ii feed. 4. See that they have free ac pure water. 5. See that they have good during warm weather. ', C. See that they are not obli eat their feed in filth and mu Avhat is still worse, in the dust 7. Never feed on an exclusiv diet. 8. Do not inbreed. 9. See that their surroundiu kept clean. In warm weathej fresh lime around any places tlif apt to give off a stench. I keep the following mixtyirtl dry place where they can help selves the year round: One load 100 pounds salt, fifty pounds st twenty pounds copperas, one lime; mix thoroughly. In adda often fed charcoal and soft coal In our opinion some exceedinjj porlant points are touched on Some will take exception to the ment that fattening hogs shou be fed on an exclusive corn diet. e'er, we think that the major successful corn breeders will i Mr. Henry's view. Fattening hogs fed straight ccf tion are very apt to finish up vM making sufficient size. If the fed such by-products as tanka meal or shorls, it is surprising hogs a year old will groAv and same time thicken in flesh. An excellent idea is to feed form of slop at noon if the ho fed their heavy grain rations and morning, although some beli the practice of feeding the slo thing in the morning and nftei allowing the hogs to have a ljbe tion of col'li. A slop composed of corn me shorts, and especially so if to added a little oil meal and ta will contribute to rapid and ec cal gains. Thn Cominx Crop of t'i Sonl The cowpea as a paying ere never been fully realized by thrj mass of the farmers as it sho and as it will be in the future, is plainly obvious to the inte observer who travels among the land farms of the South. This i plainly sIioaa'd by those Avho per planting about all their availabl in cotton: the quickest and suresi to financial ruin that could be p on the farm, and while this c! farmers are ruining themselves are ruining their soil and contri their part to injure all the other planters by overproduction. Tl terioration of the soil is probab worst feature about it. Now h realize the facts take the averag of cotton or corn per acre in the about one-third bale or eight bushels corn per acre. This in speaks louder than AA-ords that-t Is sadly neglected by the , a farmer and the deterioration cOn worse each year." This will calamity on next generation if 'cal change is not made. The great remedy for sure and results for the better is the cd It has all good qualities and r ones; it makes food for your your horses, cattle, hogs, chicken rest for your cotton-sick soil th enable it to produce flfty per more after each crop grown. 1 double your crops after tAvo peas and enhance the value soil 100 per cent. Indeed, it seems strange that s. i thing has been kc commonly mi ed to make a big crop of eott rather to increase the cotton acre Another convincing feature In of the pea crop is it can be plan a second crop after small grain : corn, thus making two good crop! there are thousands of acre should be devoted to peas exciu ft year or two to enable it to m paying crop. If one-half the cotton land i South could have a good grow peas each year Che other half produce in i year or two as niur ton as all do now, to say nothing fine stock that would eonsuin crop. There is nothing that greater returns for the labo: money invested than the rca crop erly planted. To give my id figures I bog to give my expens profit on peas this year. Having failed to make a good of psas last year due to inse bought and planted one-half I peas on each acre, corn at last ing. at a cost or eighty cents fo and cost of sowing; no extra afterwards. Results, benefit to for next crop per acre, at lowes mate, ?.i: peas, per acre, seven an half bo-ii-:.-; S7.o clr:tr of pi t-tai. $1 :MV. Cost of s-.C:l ard si H; n '. ro fir. Si1.no.-W. B, F. L Indiana'c steam roads, in liXv, SJlS.397.Wo.