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JOHN W. SLEHDGKE, vnoi'KiKTOB.
VOL. XXX.
A. UB-WSPAPEB FOR THE PEOPLE
WELDON, N. C, TIlUltSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1895.
TERMS:-' -5 W'R ANNUM IN ADVANCE.
NO. 25.
NEW ADVERTISKMRNT3.
RUN DOWN WITH
DYSPEPSIA
STOMACH
Liver
AND HEART
AVKECTF.D.
Almost in Despair
nut I iimiir
CURED
By Taking
AYER'S PILLS
"For nitron yrirs. I wai a prc:it suf- Oj
fcrcr from ln 1 1 ynt i m in tH worst forma. !
I trftttil tlio skill rtl m;my dortors. but o
grew wmp ami v.orso, until I became O
so weak I couM not walk fifty yards Jj
wiilimitlmvlnta sit ilnwn iimi n st. My o
stomach, liver, ami heart Ikmuiiic ii fleet- o
nl. :iml I tln'imlit 1 would surely die. I 2
t r i il Avar's I'illt ami (hoy licltM-d mo o
r lit away. I c.mtitiuel ttn-lr trio ami JJ
am imw entirety well. 1 ilmi't know of
anylliiiiR that uilt so ((iiifkly relievo o
mill cure llio terrible sufrrilii,! of ilys
popsU as Ayer's I'tlli." John C.
l'HiT HAitn. Iirodie, Warren Co., N. C. Oj
AYER'S PILLS
Received Highest Awards
AT THE WORLD'S FAIR
eoooocooooooooo oooooooo
"LET THE NEGRO CAST JUS
LOT, MA T KIH ALLY, CIVILLY
AND MO RALLY, WITH Till'
SOUTH.
jel3 1y.
Sweet Dreams !
Is she dreaming of oranjr floweret
Is ibo writing a poem on luref
Ii she bulltllim SpanUh lowcr-i.
Id the mldat of silken bower.
The swoct little Innocv.i dcarf
NO. Tliit -Swiit (.'liiKl n dreaming o
llio wonderfully low prices at which tlio
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only much larger limn my weekly or
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the news with touch greater frequency
and promptness. Iu fact it couibini
all the crisp, fresh qualities of a daily
with the attractive special features ol
Weekly.
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PROFESSIONAL CAR US.
JAHUt. MeLLIN,
WALTia I. tinil
Jl J 0 I L I K P1NIIU
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Wtt,!) .s, N. C.
r-trii.,muii!iidiirUaf ILliiKtrmNorllnmpi
t ii.imI In tl:8u)ivuien(l KutlurAl rourU. Uul.
-non. mai m allMiruof Norm (nun.
" tucli nine. .1 U.lllii. N . c. oocd ef err Hon
Hooker T. VVashiiiulun writing to the
New York World a):
"My pr'M feelin is that yesterday
was the brightest, most hopeful day in
the history of llio negro race. It won
the day for which Oairison and Douglasn
and (irady worked and prayed. It has
een uiy privilege to address audiences in
all parts of the North and West. It has
luaincd for (he South, and here in the
heart of the South, where fehcrman and
llood fought, nnd where lived Toombs
aod Urown and Stephens, and our be
loved Grady, to give my words the most
hearty and overwhelming reception in
the history of ray public speaking. I
had no dream iliut any colored man thir
ty years alter slavery could be received
and treated in Atlanta wilh euch distinc-
n and honor.
As I sal on the platform, with the
.ower and culture and beauty of the
oulh on either side, and in front of me
black men who were slaves, and near
theui ix Confederate soldiers, who only
little while ago were the masters of
these slaves and on this very ground
fought to keep enslaved Southern men
and these black men and beautiful and
cultured Southern women wavo their
hats and handkerchiefs and clap their
hands and shout in approval of what I
said, I seemed to have been carried away
in a vision, and it was hard for me to
realize as I spoke that it wa not all a
beautiful dream, but an actual scene,
right here in llio hentt of the South.
A YEAR OF JtrniLIK '0R TUB NEIIIIO.
I care nothing for the personal com-
uienhti jii It i- the race that I speak
r. Tl.i.i is the year of jubilee of the
mgro. It i- the beginuing ot a new era.
The heart of the South is open today to
negro as it has never been before.
The greatest problem is DOW with the
negro himself. Will he throw aside his
vagaiiesaiid eote; in and reap the har
vest lhat is right about hitu. It is an
eua!ily of industrial opportunity that
the negro should seek, rather than spend
time over questions of social equality,
which has no existence among any pco
As 1 have received during the last
few hours the hearty handshake of bun
dreJsof Southern men and women, and
a-i they have spoken in my ear the 'lied
bless you" Hnd the "I am with you," 1
can see and ice! tli.tt wo are on li e
threshold of a new life. The South is
the n; gr.i's home. Here he is surrounded
by them that know hitu and by those
shorn he knows. Here the black man
unos tl.e while man work in llio same
Ii- 1J ami on the same house and at the
same bench.
Lot us us a race throw aside complaiula
d usehs' criticism and eater with bsnd
and mind us we have never done before
the ioJu-tii.il field. No one will ecoru
the uegn that h h a half million dollar.'
to lend As a race we must decide
within the next ten years whether we
aio goiuj to hold '.lii place we uow have
in l lie industrial world or whether we are
g'jing to give it up to f. reigners. To
hold our place wc have no time to spend
in fretting and lu-siug over the non
esscutials.
CASTS HIS LIT WITH TIIK sOl TU.
Tho baud as well as the li 'ad of every
h'aek boy and girl in the ,S null should be
trainee to useful occupation. We want
to mike ourselves s i skil'ul lhat wo will
; indisp usable No on ) cares much
r a man with empty Inn I, piK'kct and
head un ill liter what his e .1 r i-.
U -giuuiug I'MII today U the negro
register auoa'll In heav-u that troiu
henceforth he will cut his iot maleiially,
civilly and iu irally with tho iiu.lt, that
In; will cul ivalu the elji.il frieudslnp
wilh th i Southern while im ; that when
he em ho will Vole fir ail with iIm
Southern while mm; tint If will praise
his gwl dieds, ml lint he will
in t digiiili 1 and tnu'iWa manner tub
the white im of hU wrjii (q the ne
fro. And I aiiiiiiireoiiiviuol today
than over that if this oourse Is followed
there will be toon n it only a uow South
but a new negio.
Though we are not yet where wc wis!
to be, yet, thank God, we are not whoro
we used to bg
JjK. T. T. KOSS,
DENTIST
Weldon, N. C.
Wr0(Bco over Emry A Pierce's store.
lO-ltMy.
DF
W. J. WARD.fc-
kip Dentist,
Her First Ocean Bath.
HARD A T TIIK JIKGIXIXG, BUT
SDK LIKE!) IT AT LAST.
At first she would and then she would
not; but, really, aftir all, It would be a
shainn alter coining CDU miles to the sua
n it to g into tho surf. This and the
mirried sister fnui Itrooklyn, and the
mild ridicule of her wicked brother-in-law,
settled it. Hut she shivered as she
noted the i fleets of the hired bathing
suit upon the human form divioe. Some
ofthcui were just too dreadful!
You could mark her shrinking little
figure coming dtiw nthc sands, piloted by
the married sister, to the spot where
waited the wicked brother in law. Her
freckled face was red, but not from the
sun she kept her blue eves on the
near foreground, certain that the 5,000
porsons on the beach nnd pier were look
ing directly at her bare ankles.
"Oh, deail let lis go in quick; I want
to cover up! she said pleadingly.
"Take her other ban 1, George," said
the married sister. "Now, don't be a
fool, Mary. You're not the only one
here, remember," added this old timer,
rather obscurely.
"Come on!" cried the wicked brother
io law, with a grin. And they ran dowu
pit a pit, spit-a spatter, just in time to
ujjet t stiff roller curling in.
"Jump now!" yelled the married sister,
but the wicked brother in law dragged
her down with him, smothering a piercing
shriek ol terror.
When the gentle, freckled faco cumc
up again it was white instead of red, and
shecheked wilh salt water, and the smart
in her eyes made the tears flow. She
looked reproachfully at the wicked broth
cr-iu-law und shooked him off, but be
fore she recovered speech another wave
knocked her over and buried her scieech
and all.
"Keep hold of George!" cried tho mar
lied sister.
"Go 'way, you brute!" gasped the lit
tle one. "Don't you see I'm drowning?
Olil oh! Yeouw!"
Down she weut again before a wave
not in -ro than knee high. Tho wicked
brother in law laughed
"I'll never speak to you again!" she
sobbed, shivering all over, and cowering
between the fear of the sea and tbc
mocking orowd on the sands.
"Come in here by tho rope, Mary?"
yelled the married sister. "Ilring her in,
George. What are you standing around
there for?"
"Nevei!" cried the freckled girl, get
ting her voice once mire. "You never
told me it was ico water! Aud lhat it is
nisty-ugh! I've swallowed a bucketful
of it yes; and you ihink it's funny don't
you touch me! I'm going out! Now, you
dare!"
But the wicked George grabbed her
round the slender waist and bore her
kicking, stripling, shrieking, her eyes
flashing fire, out to the npc to bis wil
And there she remaini d in wild fruli
terrors soon all forg tlen, nut il both the
wicked brother in-law and his wil'o had
to j im in ooaalug her tu come out.
New York Herald.
UOOlt MANNKHS.
Don't forget to say "Il tod luimiii
and say it cheerfully, and with t smile;
il will do you good, tind d i youi liienJi
jjuod- There's a kind uf inspiration
every "eiood morning," heartly spok
that helps to make hope fresher and work
lighter. It seems really to make the
morning good, and to be a prophecy of a
good diy to com .' after it. And if this
be true of the "Good inoruiug," it is so
also of kind, hcurttouio greetings; they
ehoer the discuurauud, rest the tired one,
somehow make the wheels or hie run
lure smoothly lie liberal with tbeiu
hen, an I lei n i morning p iss however
I irk and gloomy it may be, lhat you do
4 help ai lea-t to brighten by your
-miles und elus rlul words.
STCII KNIM OI'TIIOCUIIT.
Talked With Tne Deal
0 AIL HAMILTON TELLS
HER SICK-TIME EXPERIENCE.
OK
gone
Miss Abigail Dodgo (Gail Hamilton),
the well-known writer, and biographer of
James G. lilaine, is slowly recovering
from her recent Mckncxs. Time has never
dampened her exuberant enthusiasm, nor
her sickness wholly destroyed her won-
rful energy. Although not much
more than able to sit up, she has written
an interesting paper, which Hev. J. G.
Nichols, of the Hamilton Congregational
church, Huston, her pastor, has ma le
public.
The subject of the paper is "In the
Valley of llio Shadow of Death." It
deals with the thoughts, impressions, and
feelings of those who lire "passing over
the river." She introduces her subject
by writing of the experiences of a clergy
man und several others who had almost
died and were brought back to life, al
most by a miracle, and raid that they
had seen the forms and beard the voices
of relatives and friends who had
before.
Passing on to her own experiences,
she said that she was lakcu ill last spring,
while locked in a room in the lilaine
mansion, at Washington. She felt that
she was failing, and realized that some
thing very serious had seized her. Her
most intense feeling was the shock that
her friends would receive when they
broke open the door nnd found her dead
upon the floor. She felt that the shock
would be lessened to theui if they should
liod her lying in a natural position upon
the sofa, and, so, she made a mighty
effort with her fast ebbing strength, to
cross the room to the sofa. She reached
but stumbled and fell on the floor be
side it.
She realizjd the situation when lit r
friends found her, und could hear llieni
as they spoke, about her, although ap
parently she was unconscious. Then
came a long blank, that lasted how long,
she knew not. At times she would
partially recover coo iciousness, und won
der whether she were dead or not. lit r
brat hers, Stanwood and Drown Dodge,
both of whom arc dead, ono of them
dying less than a year ago, appeared to
her, and conversed with naturalness. She
sometimes felt that she would like to
speak and inquire if she was really in the
other world, but found it impossible to
enunciate syllables. She felt no especial
sorrow in leaving life and laying down
its burdens, but she had a poignant sym
pathy fur hi r relatives and friends, whom
she knew would mourn long and deeply
at her death.
"Do not have a horror of death," wus
her thought; "il is a blesied thing."
tin
A difference in the meaning of words that
might interest di ilecticians was brought
to the notice of a New Yorker who went
i Washington not long ago to help a
friend got kiai ri id. Nobody can marry
Washington without first getting t
marriage license at the city hall. Neither
the man mist interested nor his New
York friend hail ever been married in
Wa-hington, and it Was with simo trep-
lalioii that ihey went alter the license
together. It was agreed that tho New
irker should do the talking. After
veral attempts to exlract a license from
tax clerk, the mayor's privato sec-
lary and two stray deputy sheriffs the
pair got to the right desk and applied for
the license. The clerk asked I lie names
the contracting parlies, their place of
residence and other questions. Then be
aid to the New Yorker:
"Is the groom light or dark?"
"Light," relumed the young man won
deriog what complexion had to do with
the matter.
"Ladj li-lit also?" asked tho clerk,
writing bu-i y.
"No She's dark," was the reply.
"Dark? 'said the clerk inquiring. "And
the groom light? Is that right?"
"Certainly," replied the New Yorker
with digniiy, wondering still more.
"Marriage between So and-so, white,
and So and so, colored," read tho clerk.
"What's thai?" shouted the groom,
taking a hand in the game. "What the
devil do you mean by calling her colored?"
"Why, this gentleman said so," said
the clerk.
"I didn't," protested the New Yorker.
I said she was dark. She's a burnette."
"Oh, burnette," observed the clerk. "I
see. iou re trout I tie north, arcn t your
Down heic when we say light we mean
white, and dark menus colored. IIcic's
the license. One d illar, please."
' Cheap ciiough, too, with the informa
tion thrown in," siid the New Yorker as
hey took the license nnd went away.
I wonder il they'd call a mulatto
striped?" New York Sun.
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ENFIELD, N. C.
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stion) M tH u 'sap se tss MU1
Wil li til l i h ii dune, w
!io can do
If the in 'ii didn't npptw i tho women
iu their elf'irls to gain llieir rights I lie
women wouMu'l think they hid any
rights to gaiu.
A pretty W mm "h" prettiest thins;
on earth iu the eye.
A wife IM i) n il)' l"ve herself enough
U make her husband unhappy.
The mile a bachelor iltiuks of mat
rimony the less of il he does.
A pair ol tuft brown eyes in a niau'a
heart wakia him blind all over.
Melody Is I he soul uf music, while
harmony is its mind.
Love is the great iucxplicablo, and
mirriagc sometimes makes it mure so.
"I vould rather trait that medicine
than any doctor I know of," sajs Mrs.
Hattie Mas in, of Chilton, Carter county,
Mo., in speaking at Uhaiuucrlaiu s tone,
Cholera and Diarrhoci Remedy.
For sale by J. N. Brown, Halifax, Dr.
A. 0. Harrison, Kuttela.
Ono of tho women attendants out at
the children's sanitarium on the Lincoln
park lake shore, tells a pretty story.
"A woman who was sick enough herself
to be in a hospital came up here wilh her
child. It was a tiny thing, and so weak
that it could hardly cry. The mother
hud to be assisted under the shelter, und
then we gave her a reclining place from
which she could see the lake. Soon after
I here stopped iu front of the building an
imposing eariiage nud team. The oceu
pants were a woman, khoso dress indi
cated riches aud refinement, a pretty and
elaborately dressed baby, and the nurse,
The three came in. The mistress of the
party saw the sick woman and spoke to
her. I did not hear what was said at
first, but a few moments later I heard the
rich woman say;
"Don't be afraid. I will leave you my
child as seeuiiiy." And then the rich
wouiau picked up the lioy child that w a
so weak aud carried it herself to the car
riage and got in and was diiven away.
The uurse and the rich baby remained at
the sanitarium aud entertained the sick
woman, aud when (he other returned the
sick child had on a new dress, and
bunch of sweet peas was fasleuod about
its neck. It Has to quietly d me, an'l so
nretly, too, I just went off aloue aud
cried from joy." Chicago Chroniole.
AMONG THE HEATHEN.
Helen, tged 4, was spending a night
away ftou Louie. At Initio. J ihe kuctt
at her hostess' knees In say her prayers,
expecting the usual prompting.
Finding Mrs I uuable to help her
out, she concluded thus:
"l'lease, uod, tcuso me. leant mem
ber my prayer, and I'm ttayin' wilh
ady that don't know any."
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Defect luocess. It soothes the child
softens the gums, allays all pain, cures
wind colic, and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little
sufferer immediately. 8 .Id by druggists
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battle. Ucsure and ask for "Mrs. Wins-
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Don'tSay Mil W asMmtoi
THAT IS, DON'T SAY IT OK A
LADY IP YOU MEAN MEEK
LY THAT SHE IS A li RU
NE TTE.
To Be A Model.
SHE WANTED TO LEAVE
HOUSEKEEPING AND POSE
KOIt PICTURES.
Not very long ago, while a prominent
artist was busy at his easel, the brass
kntieker rapped three limes, anil risng he
opened the door. "Who is it?" he said,
not very pleasing at the interruption.
"Do you want t model?" was tho re
sponse. lie looked ut her with the rapid glance
of the man who knows the meaning of
form and color and the value of every
feature. Apparently there was nothing
to recommend her The face was nol
beautiful, the skin and features were
coarse, there was no pomegranate on the
lips, no rose petal on cheek nor shell
tints in the car. The hair was a dusty,
yellow gray, the eyes dull and heavy
tho mouth and j iw thick and hard. All
of (his detail he saw as she passed through
the door uninvited.
"What are your recummcndalions?"
he asked her half sneeiingly.
"I have a good figure," she answered
promptly.
"Arc you a professional model?" was
the next query.
"I have never posed at all," she re
plied. I'm a housemaid. I read some
thing in tho paper about the lots of
money the models, made, and I thought
I'd like it better than being out at ser
vice." The artist looked at the young Irish
woman a moment, and glueing about the
room, wondering what to say to her, his
eyes fell upon his half clad model seated
upon the stand. "Miss B." he said,
"will you tell this young woman about
the life? She wants to ba a model."
Miss B. with an easy, natural move
ment, threw the end of her garnet velvet
toga across her should is and gave the
visitor such a lengthy description of the
trials, hardships and troubles of a model's
life in the studios that when she advised
the artistically inclined housemaid "to
go back to making beds and scrubbing
and waxing floors" the latter concluded
she had better "bear tho ills she knew
than fly to those she knew not of" and
took her departure as abruptly as she bad
come. Philadelphia l'ress.
WHAT HE WANTED.
Sho can make the fortunes of doctors,
lawyers and dry goods merehaots.
She can throw a bull wilh a curvo that
will defeat any catch in the couulry.
She can look like an angel under a
shaded lamp and cheese cloth draperies.
She can endure saore discomfort for a
longer period than an able bodied man,
and remember it longer.
She will go into hysterics over a mouse
and walk under the nose of t prancing
team of horses without gelling hurt.
She can tell to a T just what is coming,
and yet meet it with a baby stare of inno
cence that would do credit to a five year-old.
She has been kuown to deliver a cur
tain lecture that beat all the sermons in
the wuild for teaching aud long-suffer
ing.
She cau swathe her body in woolens
and sealskins and have only a rim of cold
j il on her head, and yet not believe she
she is taking cold in tho bitterest weath-
Shc can accuse a man so confidently
that he makes a clean breast of his
shot (comings, supposing she knows what
she is talking about, when sho is only
guessing
She cau be too smooth and sweet for
anything if let aloue with the woman she
hates, while a man under tho same cir
cumstances would get himself arrested
for assault aud baiter v.
A lady who was shopping noticed t
very small boy who was employed as
"cash" iu the store, and being interested
in him began to ask bim questions:
"Would you like lo live with me and
have everything my little boy has?" she
inquired.
"What docs your little boy have?'1
asked the child, fixing his large, serious
eyes upon her.
"Oh, he has books and tops and a p my,'
and she enumerated a lot of things.
"Has he any papa?" asked the child.
Oh, yes, he has t dear, kind papa'
who gives him all these things,"
"Then I would like to be your little
boy, said the child gravely, "lor my
papa is dead, and I would rather have
him than any of the other tbiogs."
flic lady who had been merely talking
with the child for amusement had hard
work to keep back her tears at this naive
confession. Columbus News
COMl'CI.HOUY CONCLUSION.
He was a flirt, aud ihe girl knew it.
lie had bcou saying lender things and
looking unutterable ones for weeks.
Aud every lime he oiieued his mouth
he put his foot in it.
At last he came to the pilot.
"I have lost my heart," he said to her
in lhat way which every woman kuows
to well the interpretation of.
She looked at him sesrebiogly.
"Science," she responded, "says that
nolhiuii is lost.'
He was about to reply, but ha caught
himself.
Then he got out of the presence of
that girl, for ho knew in his soul that she
was science, und that iu her opinion his
heart was nothing Detroit Free l'ress
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HEAITY IN WOMEN,
The questiou arises again as lo what
constitutes beau'y in women. This
constantly being resurrected, and always
with hut little success. Some say she
should be petite, blonde and plump: others
lhat she must be tall, dark and willowy
Society journals cull every rich aud fash
ionable woman "beautiful," and, of course
every footlight favorite is thus termed
The chief characteristics of a beautiful
woman, tccoiding to eminent aulhoiiiy,
are "regular features, clear, full ryes,
skin beyond reproach, glus-y hair, a whiti
expressive aud fairly small hand " SI e
must also kuow how lo dress snd how to
do her hair or she loses half her beauty
Kvery Jack, however, considers his own
particular Jill beauiilul, whether the hi
all or none of these ailraciiuna Love
tranaforot defects into beauties that
while he U Jill's lover. After the be
comes Mrs. Jack he discovers that her
nose is a pug, ber eyes aren't qui:
straight and her c tnnlcx!on poor. Hut
at sjuji) pcrio I uf his eiiitinei e
man considers t woman with whom lie it
in love, whether she be so or not, really
beautiful. Tho standard, there, varies,
and always will.
His Wit Saved Him.
d.V INCIDENT IN A LAWYER'S
CAREER THAT WON A CASE.
"A man who has his wits about him,"
remarked a learned judgr, "is grcuhr
than be who eonqin is a city, or words lo
that iffeet, fur he is a'was sure of get
ting there "
"In nwpeet of wlial ?" was the inquiry,
made wilh the ulterior puipose of draw-
thc judge out, fur be knew a good
mail) things worth tho tilling
n many," he went on, in this partic
ular case I refer to an experience I had
when I wai practicing for two or three
-urs and had an idea lhat Coke, Black-
stone ct al. were scarcely iu it wilh me in
the ordinary Imsitic-s of the cum Is,
There were a lot of young fellows ut our
bar, und I :itn free tu confess that we did
uot always inaiutuiu the dignity of ihe
law which is one of its strongest points
Sometimes we even exceeded the limils,
and now and then somebody had a fine
to pay for contempt. We had fun al
linns wilh w.-iting lawyers, and the lust
piaclicul jokir in the lot was always held
in great respect by the rest of us.
"One day an old lawer from the neigh-
boring county seat was defending a
prisoner for stealing a cow, I believe, and
bad the other side and was quite sure
of making my case. The old fellow had
been in our court many times, aod he
was the slowest and longest taker I think
I ever listened to. He didn't seem to
know when to let up. Well, on this
occasion he had been talking until the
young fellows were worn out, and they
thought they would teach him a lesson
aod at the same time help me in downing
him. So they quietly went out to the
telegraph office, got a blank and an cn
velope and fixed up u telegram which
read .- 'Great Ccasar, governor, won't
you ever stop talkiog?'
"Then they got a boy to bring the
message into the court room, and they
sat around the bar to sec the old man
fall dead when he read the dispatch.
The hoy came in all right and the sheriff
promptly deliver, d the message. Of
course everything became quiet when
the point was reached and the lawyer
asked permission of the court to read
his message, he tore it open amid breath
less silence, evciybody watching him, and
those who were in the juke expecting an
explosion as soon as the end bad been
reached. But there was notbiog of the
kit'd. lie read it over slowly once, then
more slowly again, and then he looked
up at the judge and over to the jury.
'May it please tho court,' he said in
tremulous tones, 'I have just received a
message announcing the death oft very
near aod dear relative one, who,' and his
lip quivered, 'it more tomcthan I cau tell,
and I must ask to be excused from speak
ing further.'
"This was an entirely unexpected turn
to the aflair, and of couiso the jokers
were powerless to change the currant,
They simply sat dumfounded, while Ihe
old fellow was asked to finish his speech,
He finished very briefly, but it was to
the point, and when my turn came to end
the bu iness 1 was net in il with the
grief-strieken by my side, and the jury
gavo the case to my opponent without
leaving the room.
"After it was all over the old lawyer
called one of the irowd aside and said
something to bim with a mild sort of a
smile that resulted in bis taking up a
collection among us sufficient to pay fur
a fine dinner fur the entire bar " Wash
ington Star.
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