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fail it
Gray Hair.
'The first gray hairl' Others have snug the
theme,
And I.hare smiled in youth's unthinking
- way, -
That the fit st child of age's wintry gleam
Should wake to rhyme a poet growing fray I
Ah! earth was bright about me in those days;
The years by Summors noting time's elapses
•Slow-footed age approached by liugering ways
Down the long ylata of life's future hapsl
But mine are these wan threads so ghostly
white,
Paling the brown locks with their fateful
hue, .
And If I smile to see him here to-night,
'TU with a sigh for life's lost morning, tool
But I am not so very, very old,
Th at tbe grim gray beard thire should set
his seal.
Some nobler cause has paled their dusky gold.
'Thought's central fires' or life's untempered
seal! •
No, no! The vanguard of the conqueror. Time
Notes his approach, aid Youth—a craven
part!—
Fearing the works, unmanned, presumed to
And raise the 'white flag' o'er a guarded
heart!
The traitor fain halh fled that fatal day,
But Love with swift arrest declared his
cilme "* ■' *
Since, prisoned jn the heart he Would betray,
With new-found zeal he wardqth* shocks of
Time.
Beauty may look askance at that palo sign,
But wisdom reads a glorious promise there
Illumined by the light of Love divine,
A fadeless crovru art thou, despised gray
hair! *
TB® MiaoiH mm* '
Indian summer had come in "Ole Vir
glimv." A dreamy haze hung in the
still air; the cardinal flower blazed down
by the river. It leaned far over the
grassy stream, lingering to gaze at its
svfreet" reflection, ere it withered; the
queen of the meadow flashed golden in
the last rays of the setting snn. Erer
and anou it bent graciously to whisper
to the drowsy clover at its feet; the poke*
berry bushes-by the fences were flinging
their red pdrple on stalk and leaf, like an
eager painter. A mist lay on the dis
tant hills, freshed flashed with the
thought ot fall. Nature seemed intoxi
cated with the red wine of pleasnre. All
was slill, save the "tinkling herd" that
grazed lazily in the meadow, when, 10l
the shrill laughter of a party out gipsy
ing rent the air, and four open wagons,
drawn by powerful horses, appeared,
bowliug on the soft Virginia road,
Uucles and auuts, and oounins and
friends, were there, all attired an gipsies,
and plenty ot colored help, \tfth provis
ions and cooking uteasils, in a rear COB»
veyance. Behind all came (barking and
panting) Black-eye, Pinknum and Snort,
three of the smartest and happiest dogs
in all Virginia.
•Now, children,' spoke Aunt Roster,
'it is after sunset—'
'Alas I ray stomach says it is after tea
time,' interrupted Dick Jones, a curly
headed youth, with honest blue eyes.
'lt;is boih,' continued Aunt Hester,
glancing critically at the last ray ot the
retreating orb of aar, 'and"we ought to
■top and eat.'
•Yes, yes!' cried several merry voices,
'stop and eat.'
'After supper we will order up the fall
harvest moon,' said Dick.
'Goosey, there is the moon now, big
as a cart-wheel,' replied his Cousin
Susie. '' - • ; ' U - v
'And yellow as your dress/ answered
Dick.
'lt will be as red as your hair before
we are on the road again,' responded
Susie.
By this time both teams had atopped
and were being auloaded. They had
discovered a beautiful spot nnder a
chestnut treo iu tbo meadow, near the
road, llere they pitched their gipsy env
carapmout aud prepared to kindle a'fire.
On a high rock overlooking the scene r
and commanding a view of the risiag
moon, perched a dark-haired, darkseyed
girl. No sooner bad she flung herself
down tban old, black Aunt (J lee hobbled
to the summit ot tb« rock, whispering
sbrilly: m
'Honey, I'a such news for you t Die
arternoon I'a beard youug Marse Alfred
an' If arse Fred taikin' 'bout yon in de
woods. Dat was when you was ail fish*
in', chile. Dey bofe said bow as dey
bad tried for weeks to see you alone, an'
.dat drefful dragon-fly aunt ob yourn
wouldn't'low it nowbow; an' how aa
dey bad determined to settle dere troubles •
dis yere night by axin' you fa'r and
squar' to marry dem?*
'Did they wish me to marry both, or
GRAHAM, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1881.
only one?' asked the girl, merrily.
1 'Ouly one, chile; an'doy shook ban's
when dey parted, an' swore to abide—
dat were de word, chile—to abide by
your decision an' be friends evor arter.
' Oh, Miss Bessie, t'iak de matter well
ober, an' lake tbe right man!' said Aunt
Cloe, stroking with loving hands (ho
silky black hair ot the child sho bad
nursed when an infant. 'What you
luughiu' 'bout, baby?' as the girl sud
denly shook with merriment.
'To think, auntie, of (he impertinence
of those pappies I' replied Bessie. 'l'm
not s chiua doll, or a bag of caudy to be
won at a radio/ continued she with
flashing eyes. 'That Is always tbe way,
aun(ie. The men we don't want pursue
us relentlessly, while the oue we love
stands coldly aloof/
'A—what i* asked Aant Cloe, glancing
shrewdly at the girl's, tearlal eyes.
'Aloof I what's dat?*
'Stands at a distance, Aant Cloe, with
bis back turned, thinking about his din*
iter, his hunting, his books—anything
bat tbe girl who loves him/ aaswortd
Bessie, with risiug coler.
'She labs young Mars Gustavo/ mut
tered old Aunt Cloe, as she hobbled
back to her boiling kettle. 'Thore he
stan's now alono, an* iu sight of Miss
Bessie, bis back turned, au' thinking,
Mars Gustavo/ and the old negress
touched bis srm, a moment later, 'let me
read your palm.*
He turned qaickly, smiling, and ex*
jteuded his baudeome, strong white
band.
'I sees a lady. She am yoang an' she
am dark/ said the old crone, glancing
keenly at his lace. 'She am rich an' she
am proad, bat she lottos yon, Mars Gus
tavo. Dis berry night two suitors hab
sworn to «x her ban'. If you labs her,
houev, dere is uo time fo sUn' here
tbinkia'/
And before the astonished gentleman
coulJ reply, old Anat Cloe had hobbled
away.
'Witchcraft!' exclaimed he, 'ls this
a cable dispatch of information and
guidance lor moj direct from—'
.. 'The Devil's Soup Ladle I' shoaled a
voice from the encampment. 'That's the
place.'
'lt is, is it?' replied Gastave, under his
breath- 'Tbea I retara thanks to tbe
Devil's Soup Ladle for tbe iuiormation,
and will act upon it. Cao it be possible
that Bessie loves me? There she sits cn
a rock, with her Cousin Jack and the
dogs, while her two suitors—il I mistake
them not—are drowning their tender
passion in the occupation vulgarly (ermed
'broiling frogs' hiudquarters/ before the
gipsy fire yonder. Philosophers, both
of them. They catch frogs aud forget
(heir troubles iu cooking and eating
them. May (hey experience more diffi
culty in securing and devouring tbe des
sert which tbey propose to (ackle alter
the lrogsl'
And, with this hasty soliloquy upon
the frailty of man, Gustavo Melgille
glauced tenderly at the girt on the rock,
then at the moon, loosened his necktie,
as though to give (reor play to his fancy,
muttered, as he faced lor the encamp*
meat:
-By the blue imps which haunt this
spot, 1 will know my fate to-night I'
Nine o'clock found the party once
more upon (be road. The moon was
high and quite as red, Susie affirmed, as
her Cousin Jack's hair. Tbe soil aud
balmy air was heavy with delicious odors
Irom field &d wood. Crickets chirruped
joyously in the bushes, and
flashed their tluy lanterns in the gloom
of the shadows. Here and there a stray
squirrel sho(, moteor-liko, up the trunk
of a tree, tbe stripes on its back appear
ing distinctly in the moonlight; while
ever aud au on a hoarse grandfather ball
frog .would give a grunt, as though
suddenly awakened from a bad dream
and turning uneasily in his miry bed,
wkile, all, (he joyous bark of the dogs
aud the gay voices of the travelers rang
out clear and sweet.
Ten o'clock found the little band un
loading for tbe night. At last they had
reached thoir destination, a spot that they
bad traveled twenty long miles to see.
This was a wild and beautiful ravine,
kuown as 'The Devil's Sonpe-Ladle/ It
was noted for its pictaresqe soenery and
for its many tales ot witsheraft and hobs
goblins. Neither money nor parsaasion
oould induce the colored help to remain
ou this haanted ground daring the
night. So after pitching tbe tente, build*
log a cheerful camp-fire and carefally ar
ranging all tor the night, tbey retired to
a neighboring field overlooking tbe un
holy ground aud prepared to offer pray
ers for the souls of their masters, whom
it was their firm conviction daylight
would never agaio behold!
And now the merriment began, Pat
I McCormick, a one-.legged Irishman,
whose chief delight was to discourse
sweot sounds on the fiddle, sealed him*
celt astride a rock and struck «Tbe girl I
led belliud me/ while a gay party took
their place lor a dance.
Aroond the fire stood a group ol chil
dren, intent on watching a huge kettle
ol molasses boil preparatory to a candy
pull, and still auotber kuot of gipsies sat
upon the grass in the moonlight, re
counting the blood curdling tales which
belonged to the haunted ravine.
It was a beautiful picture—the while
tents staudiug iu solitude on the moon
light hillside, while below appeared the
camp fire and suspended kettle, the haps
py children, the musio, the dancing, the
loungers and the story-tellers, the crouch
ing dogs and the unharnessed horses
gracing peacefully beside their wagon*,
and, below all this, the shadow
ravlue, or 'Soap-Ladle,' where
foamed and surged the sparkling stream,
which was said to quench the almost in*
satiable thirst of tbe Evil One duriag his
tempests of fury.
•Tell us tho legend ol the'Soup-Ladle,'
said one of tbe loungers, lighting his
pipe as he Stretched upon the grass.
'Which logend?' asked ills companion,
leauing bis elbow on tbe turf aud puff
ing graceful columns of cigar smoke to»
ward the moon.
'Are there so many?' asked Aunt
Hester, looking up suddenly, while the
moonlight struck her glasses, causing
them momentarily to flash like calcium
lights.
'At least a dozen/ replied the gentle*
man gipsy, who seemed posted iu the
history ot the 'Soup-Ladle.' 'Bat the
most appropriate on this oocasion, I
should think, would bo tbe one they call
'The Moon-.Trial.'
'Tell as tbe legend,' said one and
all. #
'Yes, tell as tbe legend, whatever it
is I' cried a gay, young voice.
And Bessie, leaning on the arm ol
Qustave Melvi!e, joined the groap at
that moment, followed by a merry par*
ty, among whom were the two uubagpy
lovers.
' W-e-1-I,' began the story>teller,
knocking the ashes from his pipe, 'it
isn't much, but it's appropriate to tbe
place and boar. 'That's why 1 tell it.
Behold! tbe barvestsmoon is at its fall,
and'—looking at his watoh—'lt is a
quarter before 19. The little tale runs
thus: Any ereatute, youth or maiden,
who goes alone, by the light of yon har»
vest-moon, at its fall, while the clock
strises 12, to the stream below for a
drink ot water, will meet, on reaching
the bank, the phantom ol his or her
late, who will present them with a cup
oi water. Should (he yoath or the
maiden driok from the eup they thus
pledge themselves to wed the phautom's
earthly counterpart, when fate is pleased
to bring the two together.'
'What rubbish I' exclaimed Aunt
Hester, with her nose in the air, 'What
fcirl ever tried it?'
'One unhappy maiden, so history
tells, did go to the bauk,' said the story
teller, solemnly, stroking his beard.
'Audshe never returned ?* inquired
several anxiously.
'Not that night,' replied the story*
teller, in a sepulchral voice,
'And did no one go after tbe silly
thing?' Asked Aant Hester.
'No one knew *he went,' replied the
story-teller. 'After waiting on the bank
a long time, looking for her fate, and
making at least a dozen mud pies to pass
the time away—this artless country
maiden alterward confessed—she fell
sound asleep, until the hot son next
morning waked and hurried her home
to breakfast wl'h a terrible appetite from
sleeping out all night.'
r; 'That shows thore Is no virtue in tbe
Moon Trial 1' exclaimed Susie, with a
superior air.
•Not at all,' answered (he story-teller.
'The Moon Trial was correct. The girl
had no fate to come. She died an old
maid, years ago.'
* Wbi will try it to-nigbt?' asked seme
one.
'Nobody if I eao help it/ exclaimed
Aant Hester, qaickly. 'lt is foolish aud
wicked.'
'Then I am both foolish and wicked/
said Bessie, 'for I will try it/
'Away she darted, like a sprite, toward
tbe ravine, while tho .distant etrokes of a
village clock slowly tolled oat tbe mid*
night hoar. '
A well-worn path through the woods,
which excarsiooists had already ex*
plorod, led dirtetly to the water's edge,
and along this the girl flew like a spirit
in the moonlight. More and more lones
ly grew her path, fainter and more dis
tant the voiees of her companions above;
While nearer and clearer sounded tho
•urging aud tumbling of the water* be
neath. Her heart boat wildly. She
slopped in sadden terror and would fain
have Inrued back, but for the though!
of Auut Hester's triumph over her fail
uro.
On she pressed. The last stroko of
| the clock was dying on the air, as she
resched Iho water's edge, aud stepped
timidly out in the full glow of the moon
On every side lay sleeping forests.
No sound broke the awful stillness
but the sullen roar of the waters, as they
tumbled in ghostly while over the moon*
lit rocks that jutted from the river's bed. j
But what was this pbautom-picture be
fore hor ? Bessie shaded ber eyes, and
peered eagerly forward. Had the too
powerful rays of this glorious harvest
moon indeed turned ber braiu? There
stood seven stalwart gentlemen, phan
toms in line, upon the water's edge each
presonting her, in slleuoe grim, with a
cup.
Suddenly, a succession of piercing
screams souudod in tbe woods above
Like a flush each phantom dropped his
cop and dashed pp the bank. Faint with
terror, Bossis sank npou a rook, and but
for the timely assistance of a pair of arms,
accompanying a mauly form, which
spraug to hor side, would have fallen
iuto the torrent. 
'Foolish child I' exclaimed Gnstave
Melville, sprinkling hor face with water,
' Why did yon come on saoh a goose*
chase? Did you want to meet your
fate, Bessie? May I suggest the name ot
one who would gladly fill the position?'
and he gazed tenderly at th« still white
faco. -Whose cip have von fast drank
from?* and be smiled roguishly. 'Mine,
of oourse,' and he laid his handkerchief
wet from the stream, upon ber forehead.
'Ton wonld not break saoh a promise,
wonld you, Bessie?* * . j
She smiled faintly, while the oolor
stole slowly back to her cheeM.
'What ware those orlss? she exclaim*
ed, opriuging suddenly to ber feet as she
recalled what so frightened her.
" 'Only Mrs., Jones, desr, who slipped
on a stoue in hurrylug down here to see
the amusement?- answered Gustave.
'What amusement ?• cried Bessie.
'And those m«n with caps standing here
—who were they?' she asked, shivering
nervously.
'My dear, I greatly fear, 1 said Gus
tavo, humorously, 'that they wera the
gentlemen who listened with us a few
moments ago to the story of .'Tha Moon
Trial!' All I know is, 1 saw eaoh mau
catch a cup from the wagon near, and
as yon disappeared in the path they took
a short cut tbrongb tbe woods to the
wat«r, followed by Mra. Jonas and a
number ot other ladies. My own dar
liug,' and be tenderly lifted tbe fair
young face to the moonlight, 'would yon
refiiso to listen to one who has loved you
so long and saved you at last
from seven phantoms and a watery
gravefQuick, my dear! 1 hear them
coming. We have but a moment to be
alone. Say, Bessie, will you not be my
> dear little wife?*
'Ob, Gustave, how can yon doubt it?'
she answered, with dszzling eyes.
' 'Then The Moon Trial has proved
trne,' replied ber lover, holding her
close to his heart.
'Too true I' whispered she, . Joyous
ly.
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