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jllL XXYIL . . LOUISBURG, X. C, FRIDAY, OCTOltKlt -".7lT "" " " " " Sl'illtKR :.7.
d Church Directory.
;v School at 9:30 A. M.
Geo. S. Baker. Supt.
Id rig at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M.
u inlay.
-r meeting Wednesday night.
Gr. F. Smith. Pastor.
pri'cssioiial cards
s. I'. Bl'ltT,
I'll At T ICING PHYSICIAN,
Louisburg, N. C.
, in tin' I'Vml Building, corner Main
i-h st 1 1 ets. Up Btuira froDt.
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ATTOllNEY-AT-LAW,
Louisburg, N. C.
.: act ict in all courtf Office in Ford
corner of Muni and Nusli streets.
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i: MASSK.NBURQ,.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
LUUISBCRS, N. C.
Will practice iii all the Courts of the State
Ollice in Court House.
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Or
M. C 'OKE & SON,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
LOUISBUKe, N. C.
. it ten. 1 iiu- courts of Nash, Franklin,
,,. , Warretiand Wake counties, also the
.ii- Court of North Caroliup, and the U.
i - u,l and District Courts.
THE WHIRLWIND ROAD.
The muses wrapped in mysteries of light
Came in a rush of music on the night,
And I was lifted wildly on quick winga
And borne away into the heart of things.
The dead doors of my being broke apart,
A wind of rapture blew across the heart,
The inward song of worlds rang still and clear,
I felt the mystery the muses fear,
Yet they went swiftening on the ways untrod
And hurled me breathless at the feet of God.
I felt faint touches of the final truth,
Moments of trembling love, moments of youth.
A vision swept away the human wall.
Slowly I saw the meaning of it all
Meaning of life and time and death and birth-
Em; cannot tell it to the men of earth.
I only point the way, and they must go
The whirlwind road of song if they would
know
Charles Edwin Markham in Scribner'a.
A CAPTAIN'S WIDOW.
coarse and vulgar. The servants said
she drank, and her treatment of her
child, a little creature hall the size
it should have been for its age, was
such as shocked everybody.
She never manifested any love for
it. It was said ehe beat it cruelly.
At all events, her manner and the
stories about her made every one of
respectability shun her, and, erven
had ehe been a woman they could
esteem, to settle down in that vil
lage would have eeemed indelicate
enough, the women said.
wretched woman, lashed by her
costly robeH to her own chariot
wheels.
The crowd followed, unable to
give any aid, and Mattie remained.
ONK OF TWO WAYS.
Th b!aH(r vt;i cr-ird for cm par
fx, Djm-ly. rvc-prsrl- fr tt ur;n-.
ltd nui-b 11 i le t hblf I njr f rr..
i-rnnf nivj t bf t rr to mym The
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holding the sobbing boy to her bos-' TT 'V,r"m m'V n ' th-
om. bhe looked into his eyes; she , K..,( lrr,l!)fM , f ,..frr d,.-.
kissed his hps. Mad dreams of Bteal
ing him and hiding herself where'
she might keep him for her own I i. ti 1 1 h v orin fr.m unhealthy kil
filled her inind. n"' " ,hr , !,!"f r,u,u' rf b;d4"'
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A H in lik Mtcabr, waiting
for pouiflhin t I'iru up.
C Ye, and he rewarded
y trday.
A Howo
C He stepj etl or. ib "d of a
arrel Loop. Philadelphia ?'re.
OABTOIUJV.
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and nndresel him and wrapped i rt ,ri t(H) mm b i-. n, : i,.
him in dry clothing ind laid him to
But some who thought only of rest in her own bed, whence he lift-
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K. .. E. MALONii.
,,.:! - twoiloors below Aycocke & Co.'s
lr 1 at'ip', adjoininK Dr. O. L. Ellis.
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W. U. NICHOLSON,
PHACTICINQ PHYSICIAN,
UOUISBUKS, N. C.
nlr'RUlLL,
ATTORNEY-AT-L AW,
LOUISBURG, N. C.
W i.i itilcnd the courts of Franklin, Vance,
irnivill-i. Warren and Wake counties, also
ii- -iisruie Court of North Carolina. Prompt
; i. thin given to collections, ace.
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.iS. B. WILDER,
ATTORNEY-AT-L AW ,
L.OUISBUES, . C.
ou Main street, over Jones & Cooper's
rp W. BICKETT,
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A.1KIRNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
LOUISBURG N. C.
I'r mit and painstaking attention given to
it.tv iinLttt-r intrusted to ms nanus.
K' i r-t to Cliief Justice Shepherd, Hon. John
MjKumK, llou. Rolit. V. Winston, Hon. J. L
btiutiii. l'res. First National Bank of Win
hi "ii. lii.im & Manly, Winston, Peoples Bank
ni M.inrue, Chas. E. Taylor, Pres. waae rgr
tit cuii-gi', Hon. E. W. Timberlake.
;f f ice in Court House, opposite Sheriff's.
m. PERSON,
ATTORNEY AT-L AW,
LOUISBUKe, 5. C.
l'rartices in all courts. OtHce li. .lonfs &
l .,. ijif r Building.
Vy- U YARBQROUQH, Jb.
ATI OKNEY AT LA W ,
LOUISBORQ, N. C.
' 'Hi on second floor of Neal building
M l, n Ml'fft.
A.i l.fral liusine-s intrusted to him
.ill receive prompt and careful attention.
j yi. I). T. SM1THW ICK,
DENTIST,
LOUISBURG, N. C.
Office in Ford Building, '2nd floor.
!i;is adminiHtered and teeth extracted
without pain.
J yi. K. F. EARLY,
DENTIST,
LOUISBURG, N. C.
Office in New Hotel building, 2nd
11 a-, (las administered and teeth ex-
tnn-ted without pain.
J R. R. E. KING,
DENTIST,
LOUISBURG, N. C.
1 'i i-'ii i: in Oi'eka House
Building Second Flooh
Willi. 'in experience of twtnty-five years
a MithcKMit Kunrantee of mv work m all
iin-to-diite lines of the profession.
HOTELS.
HOTEL WOODARD,
W. C. WOODAKD, k'TOp.,
Rocky Mount, N. C.
"ree p.ns meets all trains.
$1 jer day.
FKASKLlNTOa HOTEL
FRANKLINTON, N. C.
uil MJL MERRILL, Prp'r.
O )id accomodation for the traveling
public.
('',d Livery Attached.
OSBORN HOUSE,
0. D. OSBORN, Proprietor,
Oxford, N. C.
Good accommodations for the
traveling- public.
MASSENBURG HOTEL
J I1 MaMCubur Propr
HENDERSON, N. C
Wood accommodations. Good far. Fo
When Matilda Hartley was 20
years of age and living not the hap
piest of lives with a crabbed old
aunt, who had brought her up, there
came into the village of Eudleigh,
where she had been born, and which
she had never left since, a dashing
.sea captain of 36 or 38, who spent
his money freely enough to make
an acquisition to the one hotel of
the place, and who was so far from
bashtul that before he had been
there a week every woman in Rud
leigh had either been "stared at" or
"followed quite home, my dear."
The young chambermaids had
each been kissed, the landlord's
daughter had been chucked under
the chin, and the landlady herself,
striving to blush and failing be
cause no red rose could be redder
than she was already, declared that
a little more and she must really
"mention it to Mr. Landlord."
As for Captain Waters, he consid
ered all this the proper thing for a
man of spirit to do and continued
the general admirer of the fair of
Rudleigh until, falling one day in
to the society of Mattie Hartley, he
became at once her particular slave.
He courted her one week, proposed
the next and married her the third.
Ho was well enough to do to retire
from a seafaring life, was owner
and hitherto captain of the Amanda
and was, moreover, a widower, his
first wife having taken advantage of
his absence on a voyage to elope
with a Frenchman, who, so report
ran, had poisoned her.
This he told, with a grave face, to
little Mattie before he popped the
question.
"If I thought womenfolk were all
alike, I'd fight shy of them, I can
tell you," he said. "But I'm sure
you have a heart, and a true one,
Mattie." j
And so Mattie gave him her heart,
and her hand with it.
For a year or two they were hap
py ; then the jolly, red cheeked cap
tain fell ill, and in his illness a baby
that had come to them, a boy of a
few months old, was stolen from a
perambulator, which a careless
nurse had left standing by the road
side while she chatted with a beau.
There had been a band of gypsies
in the neighborhood, and suspicion
naturally fell on them, but they
were followed in vain, and none of
the rewards which were offered
threw pny light on the subject.
The agitation did the captain great
harm and probably hastened his
end. He died in a few months, and
poor Mattie, broken hearted and
desolate, prayed to die also. What
good could come to her now that
Frank and baby were both gone? In
vain the old clergyman preached
submission and spoke of "tempting
Providence by rebellion."
Mattie heard none of the stereo
typed phrases that were poured into
her ear heard nothing until one
dav a tall, bold faced woman
walked, unannounced, into her pres
ence and before the old clergyman
himself announced the fact that she
was Captain Waters' widow that
her children and his were at the ho
tel, and that Mattie was a mere
1
usurper.
That roused the widow at last
Her Frank so vile a creature 1 Her
Frank deceive her sol She could
not, would not believe it, and no one
else would. She ordered the woman
out of the house, and the woman
went, but only to a lawyer's hard
by. There she produced proofs that
were conclusive a certificate signed
by a well known clergyman and
letters from the captain, and in a
certain church a register was found,
all that was necessary to establish
her claim.
Mattie asseverated in' vain that the
captain's first wicked wife was dead
that this woman was an impostor
and that she did not believe one
word of all the story. Other people
believed it. No one knew the cap
tain previous to his sudden appear
ance at Rudleigh, -and seafaring
men are not always supposed to be
too glad, especially in quiet inland
towns, to have a dozen wives apiece.
The end of all this was that the
new Mrs. Waters, took possession of
the dwelling and property of the
captain, and, disgraced and wretch
ed, Mattie returned to the maiden
aunt, who,. having been' opposed to
the match, rather triumphed in its
result as what she called a djudg
ment." Mrs. Waters tried to make herself
friends in the village, but, on the
1 whole, failed to do so. fan? was
her money became intimate with (
Mrs. Waters, and dashingly dressed 1
men came down by rail to visit her, j
and she drove with them in her !
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showy carriage past Mattie's humble ,
home and threw upon the sad face, 1
bent over some work at the window,
such looks of scorn as might have j
been Mattie's due had she been a
very wicked creature, but which
under the circumstances were quite
uncalled for.
All this went on for two years at
least, and by that time Mrs. Waters'
boy 5 years old she called him, but
he hardly- looked 3 was running
about the grounds and escaping
from them whenever he could into
the bargain.
Oddly enough, whenever he got
free, he made straight for the strip
of green land that lay between the
house that Mattie dwelt in and the
river. It was the water that tempt
ed him, and his delight was to launch
a tiny boat with paper sails upon it.
- At first Mattie rah away when she
saw him. Then she began to watch
him, thinking how like he was to
the captain, with that head of clus-
termg yellow curls, thinking him
like also to what her boy would
have been had he lived for she
never doubted that he was dead
until her heart softened, and one
day she opened the door and tempt
ed him in with cake as one might a
bird.
After that he used often to come
to her. All Rudleigh was scandal
ized by the fact, and Mrs. Waters,
ignorant of it, until ehe one day
came upon the two at the river's
edge, the boy with his arms around
the woman's neck. She was in her
carriage when she saw them, but
she wras out of it in an instant, peril
ing her life in the jump. And she
struck the child a blow and called
Mattie by an evil name, and no one
who saw her face forgot it as she
drove away again with the scream
ing child.
Mattie went into her poor home,
broken hearted, and her maiden
aunt berated her woefully, and Mat
tie could only weep.
"Where is your pride," 6aid the
spinster, "your decency?"
And Mattie sobbed:
"He is so like Frank so like
Frank, aunt. Don't be angry with
me."
The old nurse was well berated
also, and for awhile the boy was
kept within bounds, but he had a
will of his own, and at last, one
warm autumn day, mamma out for
a drive as usual, and nurse dozing,
the great gate swung behind him,
and he pattered down the green bit
of land and peeped into Mattie's cot
tage door.
She was at an upper window, but
she did not call to him she dared
not and ho wandered away to the
water's edge. There he launched his
boat and paddled in to bring it out
again and splashed and wet himself
and soiled his fine clothes with the
mud and was happy beyond expres
sion. Mattie- yearned for him, but she
sat still and only looked until the
tears filled her eyes, and she hid
them in her apron and fell to weep
ing bitterly. But from this a shrill
cry aroused her. She started to her
feet. The child was no longer on
the bank, but out in the water
gleamed a yellow head and two tiny
arms, and aery of "Mammal" came
to her.
. It was as though her own child
called. She flew from the room and
down the stairs and out toward the
river. Others were rushing that
wav. but she was first. She never
paused to think, but plunged into
the water recklessly.
In another moment she was out of
her depth, but she had the boy fast
by his little waist and did her best
to reach shore with him. Men were
near by this time, and the two were
drawn to land together, and in the
midst of the crowd Mattie stood
holding the dripping child to her
breast when the whirl of carriage
wheels emote her ear.
A harsh voice cried, "What's all
this?" and there once more was Mrs.
Waters.
Mattie gave a scream, but held
the child closer. The woman, with
a look of hate which had some ter
ror in it, sprang to her feet.
The horses plunged and reared.
"For heaven's Bake, eit still,
ma'aml" cried the coachman, but
the warning was upheeded.
Mrs. Waters attempted to leap to
the ground. The horses started,
her long train caught in the wheels,
the coachman lost all command
over the animals and was flung to
the earth, and-away over road and
field the mad creatures dragged the
ed up his arms to embrace her.
Later in the evening she sat by
the fire when the latch was lifted
and the old clergyman came in. His
face was very grave. He walked up
to Mattie and took her hand softly.
"You must put on your oonnet
and come with me," he said. "The
woman who was hurt today i dy
ing. She wantfe to speak to you. "
"To me i" said Mattie. " Oh. I can
not go there !' '
But something in her friend's
manner made her alter her mind
and go with him, with a strange,
hopeful feeling at her heart.
She enterel the house where her
married life had been sient and the
chamber that had been her own u:i
falteringly, though her soul sick
ened, and there upon the be 1 sh
saw the bold faced woman In ld and
handsome no more, but quivering
with death agony and tin- terror f
what lay beyond it a helj 'less, dis
figured mass of flesh and bone. But
ehe could speak yet, and she turned
her woeful eyes on Mattie and said
piteously :
"I am going to die. Have merey
on me. Don't be cruel. I'm going
to die, and I want to tell you some
thing. They say I'll die easier if I
do. And I'm sorry. You are a pood
woman as ijood as 1 am bad I 1
never was Captain Yatei' wife
never. My cousin was. She died I
looked like her, and 1 had all her
papers and certificates. I wanted
the money. Another thing -the boy
the child when 1 knew the cap
tain was dying I stole him, for the
proper j, all for that. It would help
me to have a son. It is your boy
I lied about his age. It is your boy
Let mo swear to it. "
And, with her baud tiii-m the Bi
ble, the woman passed into eternity.
Mattie stcxxl silent awestruck,
scarcely comprehending. bewiMered
beyond thought until the old
clergy man came to the bed and took
her hand.
"Forgive her if you can, Mrs. Wa
ters," he said, "even as you would
have God forgive you.''
And with the words and the name
Mattio realized the truth and sank
upon Lev knees, crying, rrank
was true- Frank never deceived
me," and then, "I have always felt
that it was my boy and not hers."
And so it came to pass that Mattie
Waters lived once more in her old
home with no cloud of shame upon
her life happy in her Ikjy and in
the hope of meeting Frank once
more in that land where severed
hearts are reunited and there, is no
more sorrow, neither uny death.
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The Uome Catechlsai In rhlUdrlptiia.
A good many hundreds and even
thousands of long suffering hus
bands can bear sorrowful testimony
to the fact that this is the sort of
catechi sin the wives of their bosoni?
eubject them to every time they put
on their hats to go out in tho even
ing:
"Where are you going?"
"Oh, I'm going outfoi a few min
utes." " Where i"
"Oh, nowhere in particular."
"What fori"
"Oh, nothing."
"Why do you go, then"
"Well, I want to go, that's why."
"Do you have to goi"
"I don't know that I do."
"Why do you go, then"
"Because."
"Because whut ?"
"Well, simply because."
"Going to be gone long?"
"No."
"How long?"
"I don't know."
"Anybody going with you?"
"No."
"Weil, it's strange that you can't
be content to stay at home a few
minutes. Don't be gone long, will
youi"
"No."
"See that you don't
This is one reason why eo many
marriages are a dead flat fizzle and
failure. Philadelphia Times.
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whiskers, "with an awful cnt on
hia head that his wife had given
him. He was hurrying a fast a9
he could to the"
"To the doctor f" interrupted tho
gentleman with the bald wig.
"Naw; to the barber's to havo it
cut right."
The rioto.usnees of the ensuing
business waB perhaps the most re
alistic presented in any place of en
tertainment at the price. Incia-uatiJEncjuirer
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