VOL XXIII.
LOUISBURG, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 52, 1803.
NUMBER K
rum ic school teachers.
Th S-.ip.M-mtfndent of Tublie
;, i )!s of Franklin county will be
A 'PL
t i till i i r. tn i - ,i 'nil m in
;)!" February, April, July, Sep
.;,;.!, October and December, and
i ; : i in for throe days, if necessary,
r i iu' purpose of examining appli
:i to ti'iwli in the Public Schools
I his county. I will also be in
. . ;;.-b'.irir on Saturday of each
:. and all public days, to attend
Im.siness connected with my
II
IE SCARLET
Jill
Li
J. N. Harris, Supt.
I'i'oiessjonal caicls.
M.TOOKE & SON,
ATTORNEYS-A.T-LAW,
L '''ISUl'KS, N. C.
:! tt(.'ii I t'ie courts of Nash. Franklin,
si!'.-, Wiii'iva in i Wak" counties, also the
V utl of North C roliiii, tin the U.
.- -.i! ,:ri i IHatrict'Couit.
J. Ii. ".1 A LONE.
two floors ''low Tliotnas & Aycocke's
t.; :;ij' -ning- lr. O. L. Ellis.
V. H. NICLioLSUN,
1 ' K ACTICIXQ 1' HY S1CIAN,
iri: H;:i!-;, N. c.
. . 7.1 MBEKLAiiB,
AT TO iiX EX- AT T. YAV,
T.'i"I-L' I'.u, ". o.
N "'. sire. t.
1 1.1.
ATTN R NKY- AT-LAAV,
I.-v Isi!VK. n. c.
.tt.-n ! t'v courts of FranViirt, Yano
,rr":i
;:IVI VN(1K enuiiues. lilSO
' l" Jilt V ' '. !'l 1 H 'Oil il V "II I'llUO. X lUJULIl
11 i;i,-,Ml to t-jli.i.-tions, &'"-.
Ul'Ll
AT"
LY.
By NATHATJISL KAWTE0E1TE.
mrsuing a zigzag course across tne
market place the child returned to her
mother and' communicated what the
mariner had said. Hester's strong,
calm, steadfastly end n ring spirit almost
sank at last on beholding this dark and
grim countenance of an inevitable doom,
which at the moment when a passage
seemed to open for the minister and her
self out of their labyrinth of misery
showed itself with an unrelenting smile
right in the midst of their path.
With her mind harassed by the ter
rible perplexity in which the ''shipmas
ter's intelligence involved her, she was
also subjected to another trial There
were many people present, from the
country round about, who had often
heard of the scarlet letter, and to whom
it had been made territic by a hundred
false or exaggerated rumors, but who
had never beheld it with their own
bodily eyes. These, after exhausting
other modes of amusement, now
thronged about Hester Pryuno with
rude and boorish intrusiveness. Un
scrupulous as it was, however, it could
not bring them nearer than a circuit of
several yards. At that distance they
accordingly stood, Ihsed here by .the
centrifugal force of the repugnance
which the mystic symbol inspired. The
; -i-
;r.Y-T LAW,
r vnptiy ftttonJefl to.
b W'iUlLIl,
ATTOI'.NKY-AT-LAW,
LO' I n'.'J'.G, N". ('.
n M .in s'r -.-t. one door helow Eagle
M. I'KKSON,
A TTOPvNK Y- AT- LAW,
I.'iUlsir.'KG, T. C.
s su alt courts. O.Uce in the Court
NOTICE.
)-.'::. : qualified as E xacator of Wil-
; i nil per'ins in lebted to his es-
o i' - j i-'sted to pay the same at
-..oil ail persons holding el aim. -.
t!,e s i id estate will present them
v j. ;' .r LVeeiinber S. 18u4, or this
.. - wii! ! idcadod in bar of their re-
; This December 8. 1S'.'3.
Tr.'js. Oay, Ex r.
I
is o n
JJ.
1 1' A
irt-j t" a judjeint-nt of the Sa-
r.i-sri "f l'rrn'iiia c.iuiiiv, in tin
J. P. Harris and otuerf
ri. Ifirris a:vl others, 1 shall
' ;';. i ..; s door in the town
. N. on .Monday the Is,
.arv !R'.-S, at public auctioi'
"bidder for cash, that trac1
i'ian's township, said coan-
a . S. llarr:s trnaerly
. . in 4" the lanus ot
re-
J. A. Ba-
l-r a.r.l others, cou.tain
1 a a I ; wo acits, saore oi
1 in" several sinaile)
lasers.
Commissioner.
: pare
'.. Wii.:
whole gang of sailors, likewise, observ
ing the press of spectators and learning
the purport of the scarlet letter, came
and thrust their sunburned and despera
do looking faces into the ring.
Even the Indians were affected by a
sort of cold shadow of the white man's
curiosity, and gliding through the crowd
fastened their enakelike black eyes on
Hester's bosom, conceiving, perhaps,
that the wearer of this brilliantly em
broidered badge must needs be a person
ago of high dignity among her people.
Lastly the inhabitants of the town (their j
own interest in this worn out subject ;
languidly reviving itself by sympathy j
with what they saw others feel) lounged !
idly to the same quarter and tormented I
Hester Pryune, perhaps more than all I
the rest, with their cool, well acquainted
gaze at her familiar shame." Hester saw
and recognized the self same faces of i
that group of matrons who had awaited
her forthcoming from the prison door i
seven years ago, all save one the young- j
est and only compassionate among them i
whose burial robe she had since made.
At the final hour, when she was so soon
to fling aside the burning letter, it had
strangely become the center of more
remark and excitement, and was thus
made to sear her breast more painfully
than at any time since the hrt day she
put it on.
While fl ester ftcrd in that magic
circle ot ignominy, where t.;e cunning
cruelty cf her sentence seemed to have
fted her forever, the admirable preacher
was looking down from the sacred pul
pit upon an audience .
Spirits had yielded to hi-- c:. The
sainted minister in t. r c'u;n h! Tic
woman of the scarlet letter in '-le market
place! What imagination woul 1 have
been irreverent enough to sunid e that
the same scorching stigma was on them
both I
tor an instant at once a shadow and a '
splendor and had shed down a shower
of golden truths upon them.
Thus there had come to the Reverend
Mr. Dimmesdale as to most men in
their various spheres, though seldom
recognized until they see it far behind
them an epoch of life more brilliant
and f nil of triumph than any previous
one or than any which could hereafter
be. He stood at this moment on the
very proudest eminence of superiority
to which the gifts of intellect, rich lore,
prevailing eloquence and a reputation of
whitest sanctity could exalt a clergyman
in New England's earliest days, when
the professional character was of itselt
a lofty pedc-jtal. Such was the posuiou
which the minister occupied as he bowed
hi3 head forward on the cushions of the
pulpit at the close cf his election ser
mon. Meanwhile Hester Prynne was
standing beside tbe scalfo'd of the pi
lory, with the scarlet letter still burning
on her breast.
I Now was heard again the clangor of
I the music, and the measured tramp of
the military escort issuing from the
church Uoor. the procession was to be
marshaled thence to the town hall,
where a solemn banquet would cum
plete the ceremonies of the day.
Once more, therefore, the train of ven
erable and majestic fathers was seen
moving through jfbroad .path way of the
people, who drew back reverently, on
either side, as the governor and magis
trates, the old and wise men, the holy
ministers, and all that were eminent
and renowned, advanced into the midst
of them. When they were fairly in the
market place their presence was greeted
by a shout. This though doubtless it
might acquire additional force and vol
ume from the childlike loyalty which
the age awarded to its rulers was
felt to be an irrepressible outburst
of enthusiasm kindled in the auditors
by that high strain of eloquence w hich
was jet reverberating in their ears.
Each felt the impulse in himself and
in the same breath caught it from his
neighbor. Within the church it had
hardly been kept down, beneath the sky
it pealed upward to the zenith. There
this instant old Koger ChiTUngwortb
thrust himself through the crowd or,
perhaps, so dark, disturbedaud evil was
his look, he rose up oat of ficxae nether
region to ffnatch back his victim from
what he sought to do! Da that as it
might, the old man rushed forward and
caught the minister by the aria.
"Madmaa. hold! what 13 your pur
pose?" whispered he. "Wave back that
woman! Cast oU this child! All shall
be well! Do not blacken your fame and
perish in dishonor! I can yet save you!
Would yon bring infamy on your sacred
profession?"
"Ha. tempter! Methinks thou art too
late!" answered the -minister, encoun
tering his eye fearfully trat finnly
"Thy power is uot what it whs. With
God's help 1 shall escape thee now."
He again extended his h mii to the
woman -of the oca-lev letter.
"Hester Pryune:' cried he, with n
piercing earnestness, "in the name f
him so terrible and eo merciful, who
give.- me grace at this la-t moment to
do what for my own heavy sin and
miserable r.gony 1 withheld myself
from doing seven ycai-s ago, come
hither now ;:nd twine thv sirtULrlh
Specimen Caaea.
S II Clifford, New Casnel. Win., was
troubled with ueurnlgia and rhuica
tism, hiM slortisch was di4ordivd. hi
liver wm atfected to an alarming de
gre ppetite fell away, and he was
terribly redaced in hVsh and fctrenglh
Three bottles of Elect tie BiUrrs cared
bira.
Edward Shepherd. Harrihburg, III .
had a running sore on bin 1-g of eight
years' utandiug. ln'd thrw bottl- of
E!-ctric Bitten and iteiou boxed of
Huckifii's Arnica irake, and his hg is.
Hound and well. John Speaker, Cataw
ba, (., had fbe large fe.er aoron on hit
leg, doc'ors said be was iueurable. One
!xltle Klfctric Bitters .tad ou bi
Piucklea'e Arnica S.ile enred him en
tirely. Sold by Aycoeke k t o. drng-
5U5t8.
HAKPCK'S MAGAZINE.
II.I.rSTRATKn.
Highest of all in Lezvcning Tower. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Nothing keepp a etiny mm A goo-i way to learn to talk
from pteuling but the risk, of tbe j to first larn to lister.
thing. j The man who hes cn.j ?
t him!! ia engitged iu very tu 'i
Now 'I ry 'Ibis.
businesa.
II.iri'T'H M.tpizine for l'S-l wll m Intiln lh
h r.i. t-r Hi it li mill.-it Oi f.r;i
r t'-.l iri ) Hcsl f- r the hone Au.i'd ihv
i -niltd . f .'i.t' riTiru'S un i rt .1 .-n ' y i h-j u
is'n'rs. t h- r v al ii .r '.ur.; ih y r hi
It wiilct-nt yon nuiliinir nrA nr
ly d.-you l-.-mk! if ynhvti-fi cei 1
rany !r nii'.M ;:li, thr a' cii--t - t
'.aucs. Ir. K.nc' New Ii..-rT fo
e n(impfior.. c'jha an i r!d.4 is ti -in".e-d
t cii - r f, or m r.ej- n'end--i.
Sii'Ti r-r-s fr 'ta I j tr:ir f.ur.d
about me! Thv strength, Hester, but : ' t! ir iiuHr.W i. .r .,r. t:.- i ty l e
- ' j ' . .r 1 e-k.s, on th- J ,..u (- s.- i-. v. 1 v ..'
let It be guided by the v. ill which God ; fn- I Pirm'. on tienn ny. i y I'.'u u ..-y l i-
y HI. h i
Pr... . rl
n-- l:3'i
Tr v
..1-
:. .f :!..- -ofiwor contsined in a
' . ', i;t"d to me by J. R.
. - ! in Franklin county.
i -- and 102, I shall sell
r li ie door in Lonisburcr
.M' 'a .'.a y the riih day of Jan
, at jiublic auction for cash, a
:r of land in Cedar Rock
Franklin County, adjoining
of J . D. Wood, J . J. Murphy,
lias and others, containing
and three-fourths acres, more
Mf.5. Josie A. Green,
C. M. Cooke, Attorney.
LAND SALE.
By virtue of authority given in a
) . forage deed to Geo. F. Allen by Dal
hivi:t and wife, dated Arr.l 17th 1891,
,d re.- .rded in book 87, pages 817 and
' .:-;. Register's ofSce of Franklin coun-
", I wid sell at the Court House door
i i b . -lisburg, N. C, on Tuesday, Jan-
i ii v' J. 18; 1. a tract of land described
ia said mortgage, adjoining the lands
' -t K. C. Denton, C. E. Denton and J
. Denton. Terms cash.
Geo. K. Leosard, Exr.,
of Geo. F. Allex, dee'd.
were human beings enough and enough
cf highly wrought and symphonious
feeling to poduco that more impressive
sound than the organ tones of the bla.t,
or the thunder, or the roar of the sea
even that mighty swell of many voices
blended into one great voice by the uni
versal impulse which makes likewise one
vast heart out of the many. Never from
the soil of New England had gone up
such a short! Never on New England
soil had stool the man so honored Ly his
mortal brethren as the preacher!
How fared it with him then? Were
there riot the brilliant pa "t ivies of a halo
in the air about ids lead? tj: et In real
ized by spirit as he was. and so iipuil.e
csized by wr-p.ipiug admirers, did his
foot t:ps m tnv proc . ion really i.:viJ
upon the dust of earth?
!s of uiilitarv men and
tut at Us
v.i
i .-
!.o O
i r
earth
at the
lace so
i v place
."d u:l
A .
t'ae ran
ci ."il fathers move
were turned t - .r i .
minister was s: t
them. The rhcvit i;,
as one portion if i'.:
other obtained a glnr
f-ch
.1 (,u;
all eves
i i
am.
i
Ih
i.
l..o
s f ::
a f. .
i'o;n:
. cf ;
rale lie looiie i ami.s r.ii i.n
triumph! The energy or fay, rather,
the inspiration which had heid him up
until he should have delivered the racred
NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator of N.
H. Murphy, rlecal., all persons owinn his es
t;it are notified to pay the name at onee
hihI nil oprsons holding claims against said
estate must iresent them ou or before No
vember 10, 18!), or this notice will b
'lead in bar of their recovery, This No
vnnber 10. 1H93.
A. S. Tucker, Adm'r.
NOTICE.
Having this day qualified as adminis
tra or on the estate of John W. Ham,
all persons owing said estate are re
quested to settle, and all who have
' iaims against said estate to present
them on or before the 1st day of Decem
ber 1S94, or this notice will be pleaded
iu bar of their recovery.
J . T. Ham, Admr,
W. M. Person, Attorney.
D'-c 1st, 1893.
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CHAPTER XVIIL
THE REVELATION OF THE SCARIXT I.ETTrH. I
The elotjuent voice on -which the souls
of the listening audience had been borne
aloft as on the swelling waves of the
sea at length came to a pause. There
was a momentary silence, profound as '
what should follow the utterance of
oracles. Then ensued a murmur and
half hushed tumult, a3 if the auditors,
released from the high spell that had
transported them into the region of an
other's mind, were returning into them
selves with all their awe and wonde?
still heavy on them. In a moment more
the crowd began to gush forth from the
doors of the church. Now that there
was an end they needed other breath,
more fit to support the gross and earthly
life into which they relapsed than that
atmosphere which the preacher had con
verted into words of flame and had bur
dened with the rich fragrance of his
thought.
In the open air their rapture broke
into speech. The street and the market
place absolutely babbled from side to
side with applauses of the minister. His
hearers could not rest until they had told
one another of what each knew better
than he could tell or hear. According
to their united testimony, never had man
spoken in so wise, so high and so holy a
spirit as he that spake this day, nor had
inspiration ever breathed through mor
tal lips more evidently than it did
through his. Its influence could be seen,
as it were, descending upon him and
possessing him and continually lifting
him out of the written discourse that lay
before him, and filling him with ideas
that must have been as marvelous to
himself as to his audience. His subject,
it appeared, had been the relation be
tween the Deity and the communities of
mankind, with a special reference to the
New England which they were here
planting in the wilderness. And as he
drew toward the - close a spirit as of
prophecy had come trpon him, constrain
ing him to its purpose as mightily as the
old prophets of Israel were constrained;
only with thiB difference, that whereas
the Jewish seers had denounced judg
ments and ruin on their country, it was
his mission to foretell a high and glori
ous destiny for the newly gathered peo
ple of the Lord.
But throughout it all and through the
whole discourse there had been a certain
deep, sad undertone of pathos, which
could not be interpreted otherwise than
as the natural regret of one soon to pass
away: -Yes. their minister whom they
bo loved and who so loved them all
that -he' cot Id not depart heavenward
without a sigh bad ' the foreboding of
untimely death upon him and would
soon leave ohem in their tears! This
idea of his transitory Btay on earth gave
the last emphasis'to the effect which the
preacher had produced; it was as if an
angel in his passage to the skies had
shaken his bright wiiurs over tbe people
message that brought ils own strer.gtl
along with it from heaven v.w- vriih
1 v n i- fit-- -i if if li o -1 - - f Irl.fnllA
peitovmc'ci us c-ice. u:c glow, wnicii j
they had just lefore beheld burning on
his cheek, was extinguished like a (lamo j
that sinks down hopelessly among the ;
late-decaying embers. It seemed hardly !
the face of a man alive, with 6uch a
deathlike hue; it was hardly a man ,
with life in him thaftottered on bis ;
path so nervelessly, yet tottered, and
did not fall! . j
One of his clerical brethren it ws ;
the venerable John Wilson observing ;
the state iu which Mr. Dimmesdale was
left by the retiring wave of intellect and i
sensibility, stepped forward hastily to I
offer his support. The minister tremu- 1
lously but decidedly repelled tho old
man s arm. lie still walked onward, ir ,
that movement could be so described,
which rather resembled the wavering
effort of an infant with its mother's
arms in view outstretched to tempt him
forward. A ud now, almost impercepti
ble as were the latter step3 of his prog
ress, he had come opposite the well re
membered and weather darkened scaf
fold, where long since, with all that
dreary lapse cf time between, Hester
Prynne had encountered tho world's ig
ncminous stare. There stood Hester
holding little Pearl by the hand! And
there was the scarlet letter on her
breast! The minister hero made a pause,
although the music still played the
stately and rejoicing march to which
the procession moved. It summoned
him onward onward to the festival
but here he made a pause.
Bellingham for the last few moments
bad kept an anxious eye upon him. He
now left his own place in the procession
and advanced to give assistance, jtidginc
from Mr. Dimniesdale's aspect, that ho
must otherwise inevitably fall. Cut
thera was something in the lawyer's ex
pression that warned back the magis
trate, although a man not readily obey
ing the vague intimations that pass from
one spirit to another. The crowd, mean
while, looked on with awe and wonder.
This earthly faintness was, in their
view, only another phase of the mini
ter's celestial strength, nor would it
have seemed a miracle too high to bo
wrought for one so holy, had he ascended
before their eyes, waxing dimmer and
brighter, and fading at last into the
light of heaven.
He turned toward the Bcalfold and
stretched forth his arms.
"Hester," said he, "come hither! Come,
my little Pearll"
It was a.ghastly look with which he
regarded them, but there was something
at once tender and strangely triumphant
in it The child, with the birdlike mo
tion which was one of her characteristics,
flew to him and clasped her arms about
his knees. Hester Prynne slowly, as if
impelled by inevitable fate and against
her strongest will likewise drew near,
but Daused before she reached him. At
hath granted me! Tins wretihed and
wronged old man is opi,i;i it with all
Lis might with all Ids own might and
the fiend's. Come, lit sU r. o me! blip
port ihe up yonder scaffold!"
The crowd was in a tumult. Tho men
of rank and dignity who s-teod mere im
mediately around the t h rgvinaii were
so taktn bv surprise and so i: rnlexed as
i to the purport of what they s-'v. unable
j to receive tho explui'atiou w i.ich most
j readily pro-anted it.-elf or to imagine
! any other, that they reinc.ined i!ent and
j inactive spectators of the judgment
! w hich Provi ience seemed al r.t to w ork.
: They beheld the luiui.-ur, I. ir.g on
j Hester's f houl hr and ..: pfirt-'d by I.t
I arm around him, approach the scaffold
aud a.-cer.d its steps, while stil! the little
; hand of the sin horn chi'd was claq oil
in his Old Ib-tr ( 'lr.lhrw. rth f 1
' lowed as one iniimat. ly c.e.iU.i v with
1 the drama c-t guilt an 1 .. '. row in v. 'ua h
; they had all been n.-tors. ..ud vail en-
' titled, therefore, to Le :
closing scene.
j "ILillst ): u F T.gl.t tl'.l
; cwr," said be, loolwin d.
i lergyman, uu -re was
secret no high place
where thou couldst h
! ave on this vr-rv scaffi i-.l"
Thanks le to t.ini v 1: h-.!h t-d
hither!" answered t he nr.!.;-:- r.
j Yet he trcii.l.hd and tui ;o .
j with an c -xpres; n a of h a.bt ;.a . a:;-.
in Lis eyes, rot i ue
trayul teat thre wa
r.po;i his hps.
-'is not thi; ! ' r
' "li- ;n w'.ut vc dr- .i..-.a. cf in t.
est?"
! '! know- md! I ur.,v ra.T' rh.
tie :Ly l 1- "iLu.. Yc,
b-?t:i .:.. , .... . ... ;
US?"
I "Fer t'-.r" r.
order," said t
- merciful! !.
which ho hath ir.r.d
i sight. For, licrt . r. 1
1 So let mo make lau-ic
upon mo!"
: Partly supported b
' holding cr.o ban 1 of
! lieverend Mr. Ijiinmes-i.-.le turn. 1 t-
dignified and venerabi
holy ministers, who v. a re his bretliren,
to the people, whe-e groat heart wa.
thoroughly cppallrd. yet ore! (loci:u
with tearful sympathy, as know-in ; that
some deep life matter whieh, if lull of
sin, was full of anguish and repentance
likewise was now to l-e laid op-en ic
them. The sun, but little past its me
ridian, shone down upon the il'Tgyman
and gave a distinctness to his figure as
he stood out from all the earth to put in
his plea of guilty at tho bar of eternal
justice.
"People of New England!" cried he.
with a voice that rose over them. high,
solemn and majestic yet had always a
tremor through it, ai.d 6omctunts a
shriek, struggling up out of a fathom
less depth of remorse and woe "ye that
have loved me! ye that have deemed
me holy behold me here the one sinneT
of the world! At last at last 1 t-tand
upon the spot where seven years since 1
should. have stood; here with this wom
an, whose arm, more than the little
strength wherewith 1 have crept hither
ward, sustains me at this dreadful mo
ment from groveling down upon my
face! Lo, the Ecarlet letter which Hes
ter wears!
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M A Hl'KH'S WKEK1 Y I "
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New Barber Shop.
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FKANK LINTON I10TLL
V.. M. WAI1I). Pre; r.
Th V.tlnrn f l h" W ' v t cin ut'h
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Tin t iui" Ih Tt.-ti 1 1 i ! ' . 'i 1 ju-rl .t ( n .v '!i !.v
pin wlthth'- N iiiii'i. r i' urrciit ut th.- tlm-' '
r -i-lpt f ,.r".T.
Rivin I Volnm. h rf Hirtvr'H W-- kly 1 r n t
thrl '.v ur l iirk. In nnt -loth hin 'we. 'il'
t H.-nt 1 y m ill. l - ""t v M. nf 1 y -tt r
f r ' nf I'xit -riH.' i i.r- x i I'-l t ti - f n-lrht .lo rt 't
pt'c n) on" iloll.ir P t vjl-.i'.nt'i f.r $7 00 jVr o CClit? ler UQlle
At.
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(i LPRiiF. YlsT IN,
tided 14 m ee tin
per day
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TO.
Trave!e-1 4o tnih ?
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rioth rH for I'tr-h vnltirrnv 'iltat.l
Mn-'li'ir. v. Ill x ii.'Tit ty mill, jost n,;, )
, r"'tT't of $1 10 rh
j R.nilf bre" sv"iil ' ! m"'', Ir Rout f"".-
Mrv-Vy Or It it Ir ft . tn a t.i I 1 rh - n.- of
! wprwr hj' not rwiiry thin vort n
nr-nt w'thout Uu- PiprcM or ler of Hp.hf.h k
BlOTHFRS.
: Atllriui: H RFKn ft Brothbrs. New Y'r rk.
1S!I4.
HAMPER'S HAZAR.
ILLLSTRATLl).
II. K. Wn llk,
Attended 1 meeting
at 2.00 per dav
Traveled 14 mile? at
3 cents per mile
2' i 1 1 i
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S 2 0
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II.irrr'i Buifr is a i '. i r n .- 1 for tlo
i home. It eivrH ib- lirt info'nmlr i
j with repnrd l" the KsliioitH. and iu nu
' mcrous illustrations. Pri dfipn, n!
Ye have all shuddered at it! ' pnttrm-xheet mippL m it rf indi-pen-
Wl.ttrorrr her ivulL- LntV Loa-i tt-hf-r- uh e alike to III" home ilrrtJf-i.iarter pnn
ever, so miserablv burdened, she may ! prdt-ii..n.it modi.ir N e pene ..
Z , , I i ti I sbured to make iu nrlittie a inriivcnen
have hoped to lmd repose it hath cast a . of the h;t ordvr !ts bright t..rie.
lurid gleam cf awe and horrible repug- , Unuir. c roiiiidie. h d tboi.Ltful .ivt
nance around about her. But there ! sviit-fv all Listev ai I us ln-t ,i.).'e is i
cr.d on a i-n iha' n-iiltf- r.f vnn nt w h nn , moils hH il bnL'i't nf vit n d liiini.r. In
brand of sin and infamy ye have not
shuddered!"
its w ei kl v ifi'U-s rvertthinx is inrliid.-d
whiih it of in te res t to worn n. The eri.il
f. r isoi Ve trilteu hr U'Jtt r IV.-H-.
It seemed at this pcint as if the min- ant nn( iipiam 15Uck. " Mr ):i,.i,at
'r
Uu'. lire inirnurti i"r m:i'.r..n. -n-ii in i
en North will fcperi.diy uo lrr ifirl. T.
W. II in'i ns -n in "Worn n and Me:' w ill
i. lease h cult: v.ited midience.
otr an assiiti.nco ana steppe'-i passionately
forward a paco before the woman and
& . v. - ----- - juni null in.. mm . ' i v. n . '
ister must leave the remainder of his ill become a rontnb'iior. Mri. n
secret undisclosed. Cut be fought back l.md. Tir.udy Tslkn. Iy In n .d
the bodily weaknes and, still more,
the faintnees of heart that was striv
ing for the masterv with him. He threw
the child.
"It was on himr he contin ued, with a
kind of fierceness. 60 determined was he
to speak out the whole. "God's eye be
held it! Tho angels were forever point
ing at it! The devil knew it well and
fretted it continually with tho touch of
his burning linger! But he hid it cun
ningly from men and walked among you
with the mien of a spirit, mournful be
cause so pure in a sinful world and 6ad
because he missed his heavenly kiDdredl
Now, at the death hour, he stands np
before you! Ho bids you look again at
Hester's 6carlet letter! Ho tells you
that, with all its mysterious horror, it u
but the shadow of what he bears' on his
. own breast, and that even this, his own
red stigma, is no more than the type of
what has seared his inmost heart!
Stand any here that question God's
judgment on a sinner? Behold! Behold I Uakpeb J Broth kos
a rl-roa.lfnl nnerirwua nf it I uddreAA
UAurEH&mtiH limits.
Pro nK co-stuczd New York.
1IAKPER3 PERIODICALS,
ninrr.i's Dru f-l on
! Mmrr.' maoaiink 4 O't
j HARPin'K WEKKI.Y tl H) ;
j HAnCKU tJ YOUNG rE.11'1 K f 2 00
The vobinie of the It rr orpiun wi:h
the prht N umber for Jntii y of frii rr. ,
When no time i mcuiionrd, utcriit ion ,
will rv g u with the number curriwl at
time ut reefipt of ordvr. !
Bound Volumes d llrpr' IVir frr
three ycai bek. in neut clo-.h hiiidinf, '
will be sent by luail. postage pid, or by j
express free of expense Iprorided tl e
freieht does not encecd one dullar per
volume), lor J7 00 per year.
(.Moth fr ceh voljme. suiUble
or binding, will be ent btr m4il, put
paid, on receipt of $100 eneh. I
Hemittance "hould be mde by Tesl Of- I
fice Money Order cr Ur:t, to aroiu
chaoce of losi.
NewsntDCrs tre not to cony this sdrer
lisemeiit without the expt order of
CoMMisMONKfi's Orrt' r t
Lo: iMU'w;, N C. , j
In accordance with law, I, W j
K. Martin, C lork of tl.e Hoard of j
Cora tn it-hiotier. of Kraiikiin conn-i
ty. Nortli ('arolii a, do hereby I
certify that the nbetvo js a tru'
stateiueiit fer the yenr ending'
November 10, A. D ', IKlI, of th"
amount of claims per diem and
mileage of the tnetnbor i f th'
Hoarl of ( 'om m ifs:'Mi r of prank -lin
roiintv. North '.'iiroiitia, rv.d
ited bv tli- saiil Ioard of Con,
m ifea ioners.
W. K. Martin,
Register of Ieed and E-of-ficio
Clerk to Hoard.
NOTICE.
Iiv virtue of u mort r.tre d-J
mn.lt' to tk1 ut TnW-e by harl.
Y. At!M'iif iui'! wif Mnry It Ay--cue,
autl .1. 1! T Aex-u nn.l wi'
I.ik v Avf'Ue. for the lneht o! 1
N Egrtn aihI t. S . Konl, tr:i -ing
uh KgTton A Ponl, I will wll i
r .'. mrt House dtHr in liubrir; .
N ( to th- hight bjhlT for-n-i
i.n Saturday. I Wenit-er i.3rd. '.' .
a i'-rt.i:ii trrtu t or rHrcl of land ".
Ha y'f -.lie township, iituatc-l
:b Iuibnrjr and HerdeTMn n .:.
and morv fully lerri-l m -
tntirtcnge dl. which if rw"rd-i
th Curt Hu' in I ji-Lu"c v
(' . in l.wjk 1)2. pc- 1 'IT .ir d l: -
ciint.uiiiiifoin' fmutlMl vni v..
t-ftve air-", more or ! Tt
r;inl tract of bind u wild tut;.t
a prior ir.ortcap ri n bv ..!!
K. Avesrii'' ai'! l!i iifid J K
Avew u" and w if.- to il' Tt...
nngton igmt for l'-n Tl:arnr:h-i'
i on th loth da v rf Janu.iry li:
) f.ir tb um cd tght burdr-! ti- '
! iar-, and intervft at ! ;-r -t.t r
annum, and re irded m ti ' :
1 iloiiAe in Ixa IfiTiT. N ' . :n 1'
i ry
H."). pi jte Zt'Jl .
I J H. Hiiiuif, Tr-us!'-
Nov '22, lh03.
mm,
189-i
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Raleigh Oja Works.
J. T. OLIVE, Trop-r.
- Satixfaetioo g-oamnteKl in rry psr
ttcalar. Orders fre-ta i dis'.aner proenrt
4j filli.
i A-a wsi m m wi k - m. i i. j-m. v
aru.,wa4 A"S
Onera CWcSml Dar
Cr.ti
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nr; b crl lloal wbrrr mil Cl- -
faiM: wm ctraa too ll takro t. t -
OMIL0 H'SCATA R R
aREMED