VOL. 2r. no. m.
laurixihjik;, x. c September 19,1907.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
WANDERLUST.
Written for the Kxvhnvgv.
11Y HAY IIDii:.
Far out on tin p:reat plains of
the West a freight train ha
drawn up alongside some tank
cars on a lonely siding, to take
water. On the end of a tie, over
in the shade of yo.i box car, with
coat and hat thrown off, sits a
hobo. Realizing only too well
that there iH an end to every
thing but a woman' tongue and
eternity, he is taking it easy. lie
has played his little game of hid?
and Heek with thy "whacks," and
because he wouldn't, or couldn't,
' 'i'JSUp." has lost out. Jb; knows
that this time he is "ditched,"
for it is dayligiit, and the shacks
are "on to him."
The fireman has taken his wa
ter and the long string of cars,
like a giant Nerpent, and drawn
by a mighty mountain type mo
fcul a sort of "Trojan' hoie"
with sinews of steel, if you please
slowly crawls away. The head
brakeman, apparently to inspect
the trucks as they pass, has
dropped off the engine and is in a
crouching position at a point di-i-ectly
opposite. Mr. Hobo knows
what this means a "stop-over"
for his. The caboose is coming
and tlie shack swings on. Placing
his thumb to his nose, in diabol
ical glee, he shouts to this "pe
rennial tourist" who has miss
ed his train 'Are yer tired,
Uill !" and triumphantly paces
5 over the decks of the cars up to
his engine.
Now, every "long distance" or
globe-trotting tramp knows
what it. spelts to wander away
from the fold of a water tank,
especially on the desert, lint he
has lost nothing hero certainly
Dot his appetite and in this'
place there is no depot, no house,
no nothing save the' cam!, sagel
brush and alkali-weeds. To wait
jmother "rattler" might
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itare and they are always
v-!TTiii! lookout at such places
for the likes of him. Character
istic of his kind, his feet begin to
itch, and he must be going, go
ing, gone ! Surrendering to this
prurient impulse that ever impels
the slave to trampdotn onward,
he throws his coat over his shoul
der, turns his back on this
"oasis" and hiis the trail in the
wake of the "rattler."
lie has taken Horace (Iredy's
advice, and i;- now "going west."
Perhaps a thousand miles be
hind him, sunken out of sight
how, is lie ridge of the Rockies,
where a few days before like Joe
Hooker at Lookout mountain
lie had mingled nnniiz and above
t he cloud-crofts in clomlhiml.
"Here lifts the land of clouds !
The mantled forms made white
with everlasting snow look
down
Through mists of many canons !"
Where, to look out upon this
Kcene of glory, is to invite the
spirit of rejuvenation to take
hold of you, and you feel just
like tossing your hat into the
air, as the small boy is wont to
do, and shouting at the top of
your voice, "Excelsior!" Where,
he remembered, he felt the exult
ant thrill when he heard, at Ha
german's Pass, the melodious
monotone of car wheels clicking
ut an ultitudeof two miles above
the "sad sea waves" that break
upon old ocean "h str.ind.
Around him let us picture a
naze .plain, broken only by an
occasional butte or fretted with
corrugated drift s or shifting sand
t hat today enwraps and possibly
tomorrow unwraps, the wild sage
bushes. He is passing through
a shallow cut now. On either
side are odd -shaped "sand
fenosVv' constructed by the com
pany 'that 1 In action of the wind
dmiugh sand-st rui might car
ry Mie-saiid awav from the track,
and in winter fill the double pur
pose of a -snow fence." Directly
hef.ne him. and st reb-hing away
to t lie north and south in modu
lating hills, rises the tremendous
heights of IheCaMde. Only a
tew" miles awav. it seems, the
pine-clad foothills are upheaved
iiud nilled back in billowy folds
n"-ainst thedark-t imbereiLflanks
oF the mountains behind them.
Emblazoned against the deep
blue of ether, far in the distari'-e
bevond the rampnrts. God built
Uabelslift their peaks to h; aven.
Austere, mnjeitic, eilent, moody
clad in their long, glistening
lobes of eternal snows, woven
rota the mists of th? skie- -tiles e
spect'i al ""sentinels of the conti
nent" stand in defiance of the
rain and the sunshine of centu
ries. Winding, like a thread, we
can follow the turns of the track
over which the train has climbed
until it disappears in a break 'or
portal m the mou- tarn walls far
off to the southwest.
He is thirsty now, and the re
flection of the early autumn's
sun against the "Saud of Saha
ra" is sweltering a sort of "poco
inferno." Across the plain, pu
haps a mile awav, he discovers
what is ir ! Water? No, no !
a mirage ! nothingness ! Quire
a distancaway in this direction,
over in yon coulee, the conical
teepees of an Indian encampment
are seen.
"That pike through the sand
and alkali dust over there is too
much out of my latitude, .-.ml
those savages are no good for
chewings, anyway," he murmurs
to himself, as he drills along,
foot-sore and weary. Look !
.Just over the barbed wire fence
is n praire dog village. They
are scurrying in every direction,
while the "lookout" is reared up
on his haunches and is "bark
ing" frantically to warn the vil
lagers to beat it for tin ir
mounds. A gopher darts into a
hole he has burrowed for him
self ueneuth a tie; a Chinese
pheasant whirrs by, or a "covey"
of sage hens are seen stalking
about in the low, squatty brush!
The are the only diversions from
the monotonous solitude that
hovers about hira.
Looking ahead far up the
brown volcanic slopes, and coil
ing about among
"Bright hills that wind
In smiling waves away ;
Green valleys melting
Into vapors grey," s
1 sinuous line df green
"UiPSai! nn ingV-walT.
j&TZ, tJOBSSZ
-sJrrKs and brooks,
That by tneir music earn
Fair coin of sweet-briars
And plumes of f rii."
The sun lias gone d wn as he
reaches the spot where the (rack
swings in, seeking for its asc.ju'l,
the descent taken, by this little
rivulet. Panting! as doth the
hart tor the watevbrook, he hies
himself hither. Exhausted and
famished from the Lent and
thiist, we watch him as befalls
flat, on his face, and, grasping an
overhanging limb with one hand
and stretching the other arm out
to brace himself against a boul
der or "shingle" in the stream,
he takes in 'a long draught from
this cold, sparkling, frothing,
impetuous current
"Born where the ice peak
Feels the noon-day's sun,
And rainstorms
On t he glacier burst."
His thirst quenched, he dnb-
I bios for a whi'j his blistered feet
ia the cooling wattrs.
Twilight remains long after
sundown here; but it is getting
dark now, and he seeks, beneath
the leafy bovvers of the cotton
woods that line the b mk, his bi
vouac for the night. The cold,
air is beginning to rush do.vn
off t he mountain slopes towards
the heated plain, and he feels
ill at 'a fio won't be uncomfort
able, and might serve a defense
range before him clothed in
d.Mk, umbrageous forests of sugar-pine,
birch, balsam, fir and
spruce, and in whose avenues
and savannas the elk, Lear, lion,
cougar and the mountain goat
reign standing out in contrast
is the spectral, supernatural,
ethereal ized peaks of Ranier,
Hood or St. Helens, perhaps a
hundred miles beyond, keeping
vigil over I he scenes.
. As in the soft surroundings of
a dream, his aching limbs nr
soothed and he is lost in slum
ber only to be ruthlessly inter
rupted at-intervals by the long
drawn, hi Icons, heart-rending
elps of the coyote where om
Jills the voi I sevoa ought to
or to lie start l.-.l by the roar of ;
passing, west-bound train, whose
two raving engines havegot
swing on 'em" to stampede. like
ii maddened herd of "Bulls of Ra
shan," the long climb to to
summit.
To be Continwd.
lied approval to his effort sMii
is happiness, this is success. This
bouynijt sense of powet .k purs tin
faculties to their fullest develop
meat. It unfolds the mes. tal
moral, and the phytic 1 fou-e-.
and this very growth, the con
sciousness of an expanding u en
tality, and of a broadening hoi i
zon, gives an added satisfactio
nevond the jiower of words to de
scribe. It is a realization of in -ility,
the divinity of the mind.
.recess.
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New Rails to Laurinburg.
At this wilting the force laving
new rails on the Carolina Out ml
branch of the Seaboard is cross-M
in? Main stiver. This work he f
gan some thr.ee months ago, aiif
it would seem that it shou'f
have been completed much f
tlier than it has, and if the w
rial had beenrcromi.tlv furnish
Superintendent Russell, itdc
less would ; yet, considering
wretched run-down oonlitk
the road, a fair degree of sucA
ful progress has been made,!
it has been almost like build
a new road.
The work being done has ac
complished much good for the
traveling public, all of which is
highly appreciate !. There is no
reason why this piece of load
should not be kept in first class
condition. It is perfectly straight,
comparatively leel, and is do
ing a treirtro-idtfufc freight 'and
r
A Reasonable Deduction.
Scvit'.-, breakfast table : Fat he:
"Sallje, who was that vomit:
ilTt'n who called i n you la.-l
n ight ?" No answer onl y a gig
rle.
Father "Sallie, who wns thai
voting man who called on yon
last-night?" No answer. .
W.illie' speaks., up and says :
'I;pa, I know. His naim whc
loliiinie Don't because I bean:
Sal ie callie his name ten l i me.
last, night."
tkJiuSel hIll point-gTyiew."
from Last Week.)
hi see the comet ?
tton makes strenuous
V'This is great weath
Ithes." es are getting as
fir "rentes.
f night is ivn
S
negro
ade musi-
t'-nd nis
ir nusiirvs.
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.1 uttie
tin
61 Hill holds its own as a
ce. i market it s
frcfli all directions.
coming in
The WoodviU- ieople are ha)
py to lujjitvAbss Daniel back as
tei.'.ohery nother tei m. .
Di CM'W vour cotton on
'.if or selling now
lrsuts?
The Snead's Grove people did
a good thing for themselves In
going down in their pocki ts and
employing a good teacher for an
eight months school.
a-wisjfoi:, holdi ii for
John Thompson's Vaudeville.
Those of our people who failed
to avail themselves of the op
port unity to see .John Thomp
son in "The Funny Fellows
of New York," Friday evening,
certainly missed a treat, for his
was the best "om-man" show
that ever came to the town. Hi
depiction of characters was f
only done in the most aitis
st.vle. but proved quite nstrf
tive to the large audience in
tenoeiice. j
Those present got, a v
bird's-eye view of the Ge mV
Iri-h, It ilian. Fnglish, Chines
H brew atnl Yankee character
So well did.. Mr. Thompson por-4
tray these characters that oneVa
wouhl almost forget that a play
.vas going on and imagine him
self in contact with the real arti
cle itself. From i) o'clock till II
o'clock t.hei'3 was one continuous
peal of laughter, the show com
ing to an end all too soon for
the interested audience.
Thompson is a well trained ac
tor and does Iih work wdi. If
the managers of the Opera House
can always assure their patrons,
of as interesting- plays as the
one given by Mr. Thompson,
they, need have in more uneasi
ness about attea deuce.
shops
O'ISrien marliiuo
-an tie in actne ipeiv.iion.
Jingis now covered, part
V'cliinery in place and
i tlie way.
iel Hill neighborhood
and th- hospitable
mm t if tin
fr. ll. iMc.Ai uan us
U'.is enlivened by'sev-
?iut visitors the past
The Kabit of Doing One's Best.
This habit of always doing
against a possible onslaught bv ; one's best enters into the ver
hungry lobo, or timber wolves, j marrow of ohm's heart and char
Strolling around he finds some factor; it affects ouh's beuing,
charred logs of spruce and bal-. one's self-iossession. The man
sain." Hard-by on i.he ground are who does every tuing to a. Mnish
the faded remnants of ctdar has a fueling of serenity ; he is
boughs, lie knows tht soue not easily thrown off his tml
other "trampor'.' has "Hipped" ance ;. he' h is n i tiling to fear,
here not many nights previous, and ca-. look the world in the
Sooa his fuel for the night is face because he feels eo 'scions
garnered; and. before the lam- that he lias not imKstioddv work
bent Hums that leap from the into anything, that he. has h ub
crackling lire "broke, hungry, nothing to do with shams, and
without friends, and a thousand that he has always d urn his k-v 1
miles from home" he lays him best. The sense of eflicie- cy, of
down to sleep, or. ia Bo Latm, being master of one's craft of
i i : " ... i.. : . - i
to "taiie nis suoo.nigs or to oemg ei iai to any emerge. icv ;
til.) consciousness of poss-issiug
the abilits to do with suptrioritv
r;int arotna of sage-brush, whatever one undertakes, will
"pound, h.s ear."-The diill at
mosphere, laden wicu tne ira
rushes around him.
soul satisfaction which, a.
give
Tii quietude is intens-? save bait - h 'arted, -slipshod woike.'
for t lie m. irmur of the rippling 'evr knows.
tream!.-t. or the low, soft sigh- "en a man fe-ls throbbing
in"- of the breeze through the within him the power todo wha,t
nine-tons where he feels h-can " undertakes as wHl as it can
.. l.nf. Iimhi t lie fpni ie Oiesi i ii- " -hm. w, . i. ..-, ,
..t t,a trvi.:vt .Inhovah ! In taculties say "Amen to wh it li
the bright moonlight, the lofty w uoiug, and give, their unquali.
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ail Keg Crowd" organ
Sat tirda v night for the
ii.lliij . ntul .ililtr a ( l : 11 cuui I
tilt, liilroad rate war. Some of
thoMPleas expressed were new and
wi;uld have helped open the eyes
of Speaker Finley, viz.: he should
make one more talk and spdl it
finally.
Special Rates Via Saaiwrd.
Nnslivillf. Tenn. eii'ifB-e' Hnnn'-cni
in-jr Week SepUnil)-r 23.1 to 2Stfi. Oi.e
lirxt-claHin fun. x '2 cei't-: lickels
oIil Sppteinbr 21 xi. t limited to
Stptnilwr yorh.
Ilicliiuond. Va. Tricnmnl OihthI
I'oiTST-ntioii Protestant K p i a c o p a 1
I'hutvh. Ocfcber 2d ti 2:td; one itt
da h f:irt. phis 2. ".(.. nts; t'pket no!.l s,p
tombfr 2i)tti to October "ah; liniiU'd to
October 2."it!i.
Wrtsliineton. I. ('. Iiitoriuitio:;a' Con-
v ntion llrothei'liood of t. Andrew.
Si!pt.t;-iibr 2"r.h to 2'.)tii: mH livi-vAn.
fare. i!uh 2-" cents; ticketx roIiI Septeiii
UfM 21rit to 2 Hli; limited to Seph'inber
fSOth.
Norfolk, Va. taxiestown' Kxp.-mirion.
f0 d-iy tickets; 10 day ticketH noldl.-i-ly;
r..i.wjh Kx MMinn Ticket- nt very
low r.i rex Hold Tuesdays and l'lidavf,
exrm coudiert from. Charlotte.- Kiileis'i
ami Durli tin oil 55i8.nd -l I. 1'iie.
du.y and Critl ayt; PiniuK car service oh
all trains.
A t an ta. Cr. National so(i i.tion of
Cotton Ma-iuf i'tuM h. Oct der 7tli-!th;
on-! ami one-i liid tirtt-cLiK8 lare. plu.s
J." centu; tickets mold October otli to
Srli; limited to Oritur I2i.h.
M:-inpliU, Tenn. Deep Watcr-wvy
Conveiition, (K-tober -4th and .rtlt; one
first-cl a Tire, plus 2" cnts; tickers wold
October 1st to iid limitol October 8'h.
Waxhington, 0. C.--Vafional 8 cia
tion of Cotton Mnnnfact srers, Octob- r
2d 'A Y onnd onp-thir.l lir.tfla fare,
plui 2" cent; ti"ket4 sold Septemtier '10
to Ootiiber 3d; limited t.t Octidier 8tli
V-i.r t'une-table. rates or any informa
tion in r -irard to other sp rial oecanio!n.
address the undersigned.
C. H. (1ATNS.
Trave5ina rHJ, Ageufc, tUloiy;, X. 0
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GLASS WARE
I'lv.s-f'ut, tlio kind f slas.s ware so very near
liko out glass. Imt so much cheaper, can- ,
not he told from cut g;las.s except by
an expert. If von need nice glass
wnrv, buy this and save money
Will make special onbr
for you if fail to have
what you nvd.
CANDV
We w agent h.re for Niinnaily, the candy mak
i r of Atlanta, (Ja. You will have to try our
randy to appreciate a gno.l article, fresh
on hand now. Ours will be the Fruit
Store as heretofore. Fivsh appe
tizing ami always on hand.
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TAKE NOTICE That I will.' be nt the following places,
and dates, and; will ask you to meet me promptly
ami SSTTLtt YOHU TAXKS tor 1907 .
GIBSON Oct. 2.
SPRING HILIv, Oct. 3.
OLD HUNDRED, Octi 7.
rr?jr.T.A.V?T. . Dri. R..
A. M. McKIHNON'S STORE Oct 9. '
T. I.. McNAI-R'S STORE Oct. lO.
JOHN STATION, Oct. 11.
L,AURINBUR, Oct. 1
HILrL, Oct. 14-
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