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The Stanly Enterprise
J. O. BIVIMS. OWNEK ano publisher. .
- ESTABLISHED 1880. ,.00 A YEA. , MOVANCm.
VOL. XV.
ALliEMAItLE, X. C, SKITEMHEIi V.K 1907.
N0.4(.
i CONQUEST
OF CANAAN j
By BOOTH TARKINGTON.
Author of "Ckcrry. "Monsieur Be.. I
eH-e." Etc
('...yriiiht, W,ly Harper A ISnnlur, i
I'.ut before tlie revolver cog!;! in- !i.
cliiirpvl Respectability had In vn ti
rim Mg.i:n, h'ibMIrR on three- 1 -in :in.l
feebly. A h.Jnvy xt me stiuc:;
Iiim on the xlmuliler. ini.l lie tmii.-.I
,n ro-s the street, ninklva; for the ;i
t.. .il Hume rorn -r, where tl. ..yl'itl
('. .; brandished lift pitchfork. i-ina
s. a:.v, he alniOHt touched the pimply
: us he passed, and the rlerk. ul
' rrrly rehearsing In bis llilnil tlie Inn
i.r- which should follow the l.r:ive
m: ' .I.e. raised the tiues above the lin!e
h"ad for the coup de gran''. Th'.y
.11. i . 1 descend, on. I the ikirli'K y ..mil
fried of fame as the Uurel almost eiu-
I. r.i.eil bis brows. A hirkory walkiii
MUk was thrust between his le-s, ami
!i . expecting to strike, rerelve.l a
14 ov iipun the temple sufficient for his
invent miilolnit mill bcdazzleuient
II, . we nt over backward, mid the pitch
1 '.il; in.it the thus to bold p iise.l on
1 1 . : i when one is knocked dmviu loll
mill tlie foree be bud Intem'.eil for lie
..... viability upon bis own shiu.
A train had pul'e.l into the stati.i'i.
I a tired, travel worn yoi'iis man.
i. -emliiiK f r jm n sleep, t, walked rr: j
i.l 'y up the street to learn the occasion
..: what appeared to b.- a r ot. When
l ' as elose enoueli to mid.vst mil il.
ii tiire be dropped his bag nial C-'ine
o;i at t p speeirr sh uitin.; loinlly t j 1 1 1
I. .mere I iiioiiB.'el, who tried with hi
ri'inainiiiK strength to leap toward him
tlir ui'i a cordon of k'ckinn le', while
Iliueiie liantry ni;:ilii called to tlie po-ll.-emaii
to lire.
If he does, d n y.u. I'll kill him"'
saw the revolverTnisVd. an. I then,
i: ii'iie being III bis way. he ran full
till into his stepbrother with all Irs
fon e. sending him to earth, an 1 went
"a literally over him as he lay prone
n;...ii the asphalt, that liciug ti e sh ir;
cm way to Respectability. The uxt
infant the mongrel was In h,-t mas
ter's arms and weakly lickiic' his
li.ia.ls.
lint it was Eskew Arp who had ;
saved the little do, for it was his 1
sti. k which hud tripped the clfrk ami
li s bind which had struck him down. !
All his bxllly utrength bad departed lu ;
t!i;tt effort, but lie staggered out Into '
the street toward Jow. j
".loe Louden!" called the veteran in '
a 1 nut voice. "Joe Louden!" and sud-
il. nly reeled. The colouel anil M.piire
lin.kalew were making their way
t .ard lilm, but Joe. holding the dog i
to his breast with one arm, threw the :
oilier about Eskew. ;
"It's a town It's a town" the old i
fell iv flung himself frea from the siip- i
puling arm "It's n town you couldn't
een trust a yellow dog to!" !
ll. sank back upon Joe's shoulder.
speechless. An open carriage had ,
driven through the crowd, the cdoiel j
driver urged by two ladies upon the !
"Joe Louden I'' cnll&i the veteran in a
loud t'oice.
back neat, and Martin Tike saw It stop
ly the group' in the middle of thu
street where Joe stood, the wounded
dog held to his breast by one arm, the
old man, white and half fainting, sup
ported by the other. Martin Pike saw
this and more. He saw Ariel Tabor
and his own daughter leaning from the
carriage, the ariu of both pityingly
extended to Joe Louden and his two
burdens, while the stuuned and Billy
crowd stood round them staring, clouds
of dust settling down upou them
through the hot air.
CH AFTER XX.
NOW. In that blazing noau Cn
naan looked upon a strange
sight an open carriage w hirl
ing through Main street be
hind two galloping bays, upon the back
eat a ghostly white ild man with
closed eyes, supported by two pule la
dies, his head upon the shoulder of the
taller, while beside the driver a young
"an whose coat and hands were
bloody, worked over the hurts of an In
jured dog. Sam Warden's whip sang
across the horses; lather gathered on
their flanks, and Ariel's voice steadily
UI"ged on the pace, "Quicker, Sam. If
yon can." For there was little breath
left in the body of Eskew Arp.
Mamie, almost as white as the old
"n. km silent bat sfce had not besl-
"' her daring now That she had
lar.gM to .hire, she ha.l n ,t
flue t.) .
Ariel's friend and honest
follower for
iioiniiig. and if ww m.i.
who had erl.Hl to Joe 1 i If, i.- .'-.,.
Into the carriage. "V,,,, , :, ,.,,,,
"We v ill ,.,.,, m.U "
And so it came t p:,s ,,. lm,,,,r
eves f Canaan ,.,e 1. .,,. r . iu
Judge Tike's i-arriage at Hie blddiif of
Judge Tike's daughter.
Toward An I's wn house i, .v M.(.,',
'l,h "'" tog.,arian. 'for' be
".Is illnlie ,,1 the world"
would ..,t t;,ke him t.. ih
when. l,e l.ad live 1 for iii inv
himself, a I. leak little h,.,..'.
iml she
co' taw
lears bv
e. a dc:-, :i.-t
tra inle.l f;.r
II a Woole'l
ot tlie "e r!y days" I
left ,
down in the town I
betwei
mill and the water wovks.
men were beginning their
der tli . i,ig trees, hut as s
drew in tlie lathered horse-
The w. irk
'.iniiers iiu
tii Wa-.len
at tli" g He I
I he)
and
s"t down their tin bucket ; hasiily
nm to help ,,ie Jiff , ,, m.,
out. Carefully
house and laid
they dure him into the
him Upon a lied in one
1 of the finished
rooms. H . ,mt
speak or move, and the workmen tin
i covered their heads as they went' out
urn .loe kmcw that they were inislak.
n.
"It s all right. Mr. Arp." he said, as
Ariel knelt by the bed with water and
restoratives. "It's all right. !.,u't
you worry."
Then the veteran's lips twitched, ami.
though his eyes remained closed. Joe
saw tnat T.skew understood, fur hi
gasped feebly, "To i tive-ly -tin five
.scau!"
To Mrs. Louden, sowing at aa up
iairs window, the sight of her step.n.i
descending from Judge Tike's carnage
was sullieieittly staiihirg, hut when siie
iaw Mamie Tike lake Uespeet il.ility
' ' his master's anus and cany him
tenderly indoors, while Joe and Ariel
occupied themselves Willi Mr. A.p. .iiie
i good 1 nly sprang lo her feet as if she
had been stung, regardl-.ssly h...iit..u
her work basket and its e..iie:m ae.it
teriug over the Hour an, I rati down iiie
Stairs three steps at a time.
At the front door h. inel her bus
i band, entering for his dinner, and she
J leaped at him. Had he seen'.- What
i was if; W hat hail happened?
.Mr. Louden nil. bed his chin heard, iu
dulging himself in a pause which was
like to prove fatal to his companion.
: dually vouchsnllng the information that
the doctor's buggy was Just turning the
corner. Eskew Arp had suffered v.
"stroke." it was said. and. in Loudon's
opinion, was a mighty sick man. His
spouse replied in no uncertain terms
that she had seen unite that much for
i herself, urging him to continue, which
! lie did with a deliberation Ui.it caused
her to recall her wedding day with a
gust of passionate self reproach. Pres
ently he managed to interrupt, r. 'mind
ing her that her dining room windows
commanded as comprehensive a view
of tlie next house as did the front step,
and after a lime her housewifely duty
so far prevailed over her indignation at
the man's unwholesome stolidity that
she followed him dow n the hall to pre-j
side over the meal. not. however, to,
partake largely of il herself.
Mr. Louden had no information of
Eugene's mishap, nor had Mrs. Lou
den any-suspicion that all wits not well :
with the young man, ami. hearing him '
enter the front door, she called to
him that his dinner was wailing. En-
gene, however, made no reply and went
upstairs to his own apartment with
out coming into the dining room.
A small crowd, neighboring children. :
servants and negroes, ha.l gathered
nl t Ariel's gale, and Mrs. Louden:
wabhed the workingmeii dispel se this'
assembly, gather up their tools and de '
pari. 'I lieu Mamie came out of the
house mid, bowing sadly to three old
men who were entering the gate as she !
left it, stepped inlo her carriage and ;
drove away. The newcomers. Colonel.
I'literoft, Squire Ituckalew and Peter j
Rradhury, glanced at the doctor's bug- j
gy, shook their heads at one another
and slowly went up to the porch, where
Joe met them. Mrs. Louden uttered a j
sharp exclamation, for the colonel
shook hands with her stepson. j
Perhaps I-'litcroft himself was stir-
prised. He had offered his hand ill-,
most unconsciously, and the greeting J
was embarrassed and pcrfnnelory. but :
his two companions, each in turn,
gravely follow ed his lead, and Joe's
set
face Hushed a nine, u was me
first time ill many
vcars that men of ;
their kind in Canaan had oll'ered him
tills salutation,
ii,. w.nil.ln't let me sen ! for yon,"
he told them, "lie said lie knew
you'd
I... here soon without that.
And he
led the way to Kskew's bedside.
Joe aud the doctor had undressed the
old man and had put him into night-
i gear of Uoger Tabor's taken ironi an
! anticiue chest. It was soft and yellow
i mid much more like color than the face
j above it. for the white hair on the pd
! low was not whiter than that. Yet
I there was a strange youthfuluess In the
I eves of Eskew, an eerie. Inexplicable.
luminous, live look. '1 he tnin coccks
seemed fuller than they mm uee,.
years and. though the heavier lines of
age and sorrow could be seen, they ap
peared to have been half erased lie
lay not In sunshine, but lu clear light.
The windows were open, the curtains
restrained, for he had asked them not
to darken the room.
The doctor was whispering In a doc
tor's way to Ariel at the end of the
room opposite the bed when the bree
old fellows came hi. N-; ot then
spoke immediately, and. though all
three cleared their throats with hat
they meant for casual cheerfulness to
Indicate that the situation was not nt
all extraordinary or depressing. It was
to be seen that the colonel's chin trem
bled under his mustache, aud his com
rades showed similar small and uuwlll
ini? sl"us of emotion.
' Eskew spoke first. "Well, boys?" be
said and smiled. ,.,
That seemed to make it more difficult
for the others. The three white bead.
t;i ii-. I
I.CCil
neat xileiiily over the fourth upon the
v"."". mm Ariel saw waverlugly. for
her eyes suddenly tilled, that the colo
nel laid his unsteady baud upon
Kskew's, which was outside the cover
let. 'it's-it's nt," said the old soldier
gently "it's not on on both sides, is It
Eskew V"
Mr. Arp moved his hand
Sli!
htly lu
answer. "It ain't paralysis." ho saiif
They call it -shock and exhaustion,'
but it's more than that. It's just my
lime. I've heard the call. We've all
been slidin' on thin ice this long time
and it's broke under me"
"Eskew. Eskew!" remonstrated Pe- .
tor liradbury. "You'd oughtn't to talk
that-a-way! Vou only kind of over
done a little-heat o' the day. too.
and"
"Teter," interrupted the sick man,
with feeble asperitv. "did vou ever
manage to fool me in your life?"
"No, Eskew."
"Well, you're? not dolu' it uow!"
Two tears suddenly loosed them
selves from Squire Huckalew's eyelids
despite his hard endeavor to w ink them
away, ami he turned from the bed too
late to conceal what had happened.
"There ain't any call to feel bad," said
Eskew. "It might have happened any
time - in tlie night, maybe at mv
house-and all alone-but here's Alrle
Tabor brought me to her own home
aud takin' care of me. I couldu't ask
auy better way to go, could IV"
"I don't know what we'll do," stam
mered the colonel, "if you you talk
about goin' away from us, Eskew. We
we couldn't get along"
"Well, sir, I'm almost kind of glad
to think." Mr. Arp murmured, between
short struggles for breath, "that It'll
be quieter on the National Mouse
corner."
A moment later he called the doctor
faintly and asked loi a restorative.
"There." he said in a stronger voice
and with a gleam of satisfaction In the
vindication of his belief that he was
(lying. "I was almost gone then. 1
know!" He lay panting for a moment,
then spoko the mime of Joe Louden
Joe came quickly to the hcilsldo.
"I want you to shake han.rX with the
colonel and Peter and Buckalew."
"We did," answered the colonel, In
finitely surprised and troubled. "We
shook hands outside before we came
in."
"lio it again." said Eskew. "I want
to see you."
And Joe. making shift to smile, was
suddenly blinded, so that he could not
see the wrinkled hands extended to
him and was fain to grope for them.
"Cod knows why we didn't all take
his hand long ago," said Eskew Arp.
"I didn't because I was stubborn. I
hated to admit that the argument was
against me. I acknowledge It now be
fore him and before you and I want
the word of It carried!"
"It's all right, Mr. Arp," began Joe
tremulously. "You mustn't"
"Hark to me." The old man's voice
lifted higher. "If you'd ever whim
pered or give back talk or broke out
the wrong way it would of been dif
ferent, but you never did. I've watch
ed you, and I know. And you've just
gone your own way alone, with the
town against you because you got a
had name as a boy, and once we'd
given you that, everything you did or
didn't do we had to give you t blacker
one. Now it's time some one stood by
you. Airie Tabor 'II do that with all
her soul and body. She told me once
I thought a good deal of you. She
knew. P.nt I want these three old
friends of mine to do it too. 1 was
boys with them, and they'll do It, I
think. They've even stood up fer you
against me sometimes, but mostly fer
the sake of the argument, 1 reckon,
but now they must do it when there's
more to stand against than just my
talk. They saw it all today the mean
est thing I ever knew! I could of
stood It nil except that!" Before they
could prevent him he lyul struggled
half upright In lied, lifting a clinched
fist at tlie town beyond the windows.
"Hut, by Cod, when they got so low
down they tried to kill your dog"
II.. fell. hack, chokiii!;. in Joe's arms.
and the physician bent over him, but
Eskew was not goue, and Ariel, upon
the oilier side of the room, could hear
him whispering again for the restora
tive. She brought it. nnd when he had
taken it went quickly out of doors to
the side yard.
She sat upon a workman's bench un
der the big trees, hidden from the
street shrubbery, and. breathiug deep
ly of the shaded air, began to cry quiet
ly. Through the windows came the
quavering voice of the old man, lifted
again, insistent, a .lt-1" qerulous, but
determined. Itesponscs suiindcd inter
mittently from the colonel, from Peter
and from Hm kalcw, and uow nnd theu
a sorrowful, yet almost humorous pro
test from Joe; and so she made out
that the veteran swore his three com
rades to friendship with Joseph Lou
den, to lend h'm their countenance In
all matters, to stand by him lu weal
aud woe, to speak only good of him
aud defend him lu the towu of Canaan.
Thus did Eskew Arp on the verge of
parting this life render justice.
Tlie gate clicked, and Ariel saw Eu
gene approaching through the shrub
bery. One of his hands was bandaged,
a thin strip of courtplaster crossed his
forehead from his left eyebrow to his
hair aud his fhlu and agitated face
showed several light scratches.
"I saw you come out," he said. "I've
been waiting to speak to you."
The doctor told us to let him have
his way lu whatever he might ask."
Ariel wiped her eyes. "I'm afraid that
means"
"I didn't come to talk about Eskew
Arp," Interrupted Eugene. "I'm not
laboring under auy anxiety about him.
You needn't be afraid; he's too sour to
accept his conge so readily."
Tlease lower your voice," she said,
rising quickly, and moving awaj from
' him toward "the house; but,
as lie fol
lowed, insisting sharply that be must
speak, with her, she walked out of ear
shot of the windows and, stopping,
turned toward him. "Very well," she
said. "Is It a message from Mamie?"
At this he faltered and hung Hre.
"Have you l-en to see her?" she
continual. "I am anxious to know If
'"'r S oodnoss and bravery caused her
any- any discomfort at home."
"You may set your mind at rest about
that." returned Euuene. "I win Hn.ro
when the judge came home to dinner, i
I suppose you fear he may have been j
rough with her for biking my step
brother into the carriage. lie was not.
On tlie contrary, he spoke very quietly
to her and went on out toward the sta
bles. Hut I haven't come to you to
talk of Judge Pike either.".
"No." said Ariel; "I don't care par
ticularly to hear of 'him, but of Ma
mie." "Nor of Imr either!" he broke out. "I
want to talk of you!"
There was no mistaking him. no
possibility of misunderstanding the !
real passion that shook him, and her j
startle.1 pve liMtr,ii-u.l l.a. .....ul.nn i
sion
"Yes. I see yon understand!" he cried
bitterly "That's because you've seen
others the same way. God help me."
he went on, strikin
it 0 i i.l
his forehead with
bis open hand, "Unit young fool of
Bradbury told ine you refused him
ouly yesterday! Ho was proud of evea
rejection from youl And there's Nor
bert and half n dozen others, perhaps,
already since you've been here." He
flung out his arms in ludicrous, savage
despair. "And here am I"
"All, yes,'- she cut him off, "it is of
yourself that you want to Rpeak after
all, not of me!"
"I.obk here," be vociferated. "Are
you going to marry that Joe Louden?
I want to know whether you are or
not. He gave me this and this today!"
He touched his bandaged hand and
plastered forehead. "He ran into me
! over me for nothing when I was not
on my guard, struck uie down stamp
4 ed on me"
She turned upon him, cheeks aflame,
eyes sparkling and dry.
"Mr. Bantry," she cried, "he did a
good thing! And now I want you to
go home. I want you to go homo and
try If you can discover anything lu
yourself that is worthy of Mamie aud
of what she showed herself to lie this
morning! If yon can, you will have
found something that I could like!"
She went rapidly toward the house,
and he was senseless enough to follow,
babbling: "What do you think I'm
made uf? You tramplo on me, as he
did: I can't bear everything! 1 tell
you"
But she lifted her hand with such
imperious will that he stopped short.
Then through the window of the slck
rm came clearly the querulous voice:
"I tell you It was. I heard him speak
Just now out there in tlie yard that
no account stepbrother of Joe's! What
if he is a hired hand on the Tocsin?
He'd better give up Ids job and quit
thau do what he's done to help make
the town think hard of Joe. And wlnvt
Is he? Why. he's worse than Cory.
When that Claudine Pear Hrst came
here. Gene Bantry was hangln' around
her himself. Joe knew It, and he'd
never tell, but I will. I saw 'em
buggy ridin' out near Beaver Beach,
and she slapped bis face fer him. It
ought to be told!"
M didn't know that Joe knew that,"
Eugene stammered huskily. "It was
It was a long time ago"
"If vou understood Joe." she said iu
I a low voice, "you would know that be
I fore the-e men leave this house be will
' have their promise never to tell."
i His eyes fell miserably, then lifted
! again, but in her clear and unbearable
gaze there shone such a Ha me of scorn
as he could not endure to look upon.
For the first time in his life he saw a
true light upon himself, and. though
the vision was darkling, the revelation
was complete.
"Heaven pity you!" she whispered.
Eugene found himself alone nnd
stumbled away, his glance not lifted.
He passed bis own home without look
ing up and did not see his mother beck-
oning frantically from a window.
She
ran to the door and called him. He
did not hear her, but went on toward
the Tocsin office with his head still
bent.
CHAPTER XXI.
T
IIEItE was meat for gossip
a-plenty in Canaan that after
noon and evening. There were
rumors that ran from kitchen
to parlor, and rumors that ran from
parlor to kitchen; speculations that de
tained housewives in talk across front
gates, wonderings that held cooks In
converse over shadeless back fences In
spite of the heat nnd canards that
brought Main street clerks running to
the shop doors to stare up and down
the sidewalks.
Out of the confusion of report the
judicious were able by eveufall to ex
tract a fiilr history of this dny of revo
lution. There remained no doubt that
Joe Louden was In attendance at the
deathbed of Eskew Arp, and .some
how It cameto be known that Colonel
Flltcroft, Squire Bnckalew and Peter
Bradbury had shaken hands with Joe
and declared themselves his friends.
There were those, particularly among
the relatives of the hoary trio, who ex
pressed the opinion that the colonel
and his comrades were too old to be
responsible and a commission ought to
git on them. Nevertheless some echoes
of Eskew's last "argument" to the con
clave had sounded In the town and
were not wholly without effect.
Everywhere there was a nipping curi
osity to learn how Judge Pike had
"taken" the strange performance of his
daughter, nnd the eager were much dis
appointed when It was truthfully re
ported that he had done and said very
little. He bad, merely discharged both
Enterprise's First Voting Contest.
j Twenty-five persons were killed
! Sunday in a railroad wreck at White
! River Junction, Va.
OVER $100 WORTH OF VALUABLE; Thediff bet Mr.Adanns
I and Mr. Butler appears to have been
PRIZES TO BE GIVEN AWAY 0NdSSZ
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, imJnlJiJ&.
has resigned his seat, no cause being
assigned.
A-r j -I--J aht 'lxi i' Ex-President Cleveland is under
Young Lady, A Married Lady andi?
Some Old Soldier Will Win these Priz-!M h
es in time for Christmas Enjoyment.--
i -l -r-r-r .i
OOmetniner WOrth Working IOr.
"
On Saturday, December U, 1907, The Enterprise will give away the
iouowing prizes to me tnree successful candidates who secure the largest !
number of votes, viz:
i No. I.
I A handsome lady's Watch, solid 14 K. Gold Case. 15 Jewel Elgin. This
. Watch will he crivon to th vm,no- ladv S. k. b;b J? .,mk.
. , . , , , . . - "
of votes, subject to conditions named
Uow of r. L. htarnes, Jeweler. It is a thing of beauty and value, and j
some pretty young lady in some part of Stanly county will wear the prize, j Mrs. Kthel W. Blair, charged with
r .j " the murder of her husband, a train
conductor, last January was convict
One of those well-known Helena (looking Ranges, size No. 8, with hot 1 ed last week!in Columbia, S. C, of
water reservoir, etc., will be given to the married lady who receives the manslaughter, the jury recommend
greatest number of votes. It will not only be an ornament to the kitchen, ' ing mercy. Motion for a new trial
but an article ofdasting service. And no one is entitled to more consider- j was made.
Ation than tVlA bolliuiu-ifa u'hn nfaci.li nl.ul Ua attira TKta Jnwnnt
...... v ...uo I'.tr. llic oil...;. X 111 CICKailL
Kitchen Range may be seen at The Farmers' Hardware Company.
.
Last, but not least, are the old veterans. We shall give to the old soldier
who receives the highest number of votes, a $30.00 suit of clothes, to be
nttea ana turnished in Morrow Brothers & Heath Company's clothing de -
partment from their celebrated Strouse & Brothers Hitrh Art Clothincr.
The successful veteran may distribute the amount as he may desire. Hen
ry F. Pemberton, the polite and genial young man who attendsto orders in
the clothing department, will give the winner his best personal atten
tion and see that he is properly fitted out.
RULES GOVERNING CONTEST.
1. The contest is open only to subscribers of The Enterprise. Any one
may enter by becoming a subscriber.
2. A coupon good for fen votes will be printed in this paDer each week.
Only one name must be written theron.
contest the ballot is to be voted in.
3 To each new subscriber will be
noiuer to to votes tor everv one dollar Daid. And for each dollar taid on
old subscriptions a coupon will be given that will entitle the holder to 400
votes. In this way it is possible for each contestant to receive a large
number of votes by giving a little time to securing new subscribers and renewals.
! 4. The ballots will be deposited in sealed boxes as they come in, and the
j result announced each week.
5. In every case the money must accompany the order, and be addressed
to "Contest Department," The Enterprise, Albemarle, N. C.
I 6. This paper reserves the riant to withdraw either offer if there is not
more than one active contestant for any one of the prizes.
This contest closes on Saturday, December 14at 12 o'clock.
The Enterprise Voting Contest.
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Address
September 19, 1907.
Indicate by X in which contest you want your votes to be counted.
No. I.
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voted in Kttlays from date.
Sam Warden anil Sam's wife from his
service, the mil l manner of the dis
missal almost unnerving Mr. Warden,
althoimh he was fully prepared for
bird shot, and the couple had found
immediate employment In the service
of Ariel Tabor.
Those who humanly felt the Judge's
behavior to lie a trifle flat and uusen
sjitiounl were recompensed bite lu the
afternoon when it became known that
Eugene Bantry had resigned his posi
tion on the Tocsin. His reason for
severing his connection was duui found
ing, lie had written a formal letter
to the judge nnd repeated the gist of It
to his associates iu the office and ac
quaintances upon the street He de
clared that he no longer sympathized
with tlie attitude of the Tocsin toward
his stepbrother aud regretted that he
had previously assisted iu emphasiz
ing the paper's hostility to Joe, par
ticularly In the matter of the approach
ing murder trial. This being the case,
he felt that his effectiveness In the
service of the paper bad ceased, and
he must In Justice to the owner re
sign. "Well, I'm cursed!" was the simple
comment of the elder Louden when his
stepson sought hi i out at the factory
and repeated this statement to him.
"So am I. I think," said Eugene wan
ly. "Goodby. I'ai going uow to see
mother, but I'll be gone before you
cone home."
"Gone where?"
"Just away. I don't know where,"
Eugene answered from the door. "I
couldn't live here any louger. I"
"You've been drinking," said Mr.
Louden, Inspired. "You'd lietter not
let Mamie Tike see you."
Eugene laughed desolately. "I don't
mean to. I shall write to her Good-
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Vf." lie said and was gone lief ore Mr.
Louden could restore enough order out
of the chaos In his mind to stop hint.
Thus Mrs. Louden s long wait at the
window was tragically rewarded, aud
she became au unhappy actor In Ca
naan's drama of that day. Other ladles
attended at other windows or near
their front doors throughout the after
noon tlie families of the three patri
archs awaiting their return as the time
drew on with something akin to fren
zy. Mrs. Flltcroft, a lady of temper,
whose rheumatism confined her to a
chair, had her grandsou wheel her out
upon the porch, aud as the dusk fell
and she finally saw her husband com
ing at a laggard pace, leaning upon
his cane, his chin sunk on his breast,
she frankly told Norbert that although
she had lived with that man fifty-seven
years she would never be able to un
derstand him. She repented this with
genuine symptoms of hysteria wheu
she discovered that the colonel had
not come straight from the Tabor
house, but had stopped two hours at
Peter Bradbury's to "talk It over."
One item of his recital, while sutfl
clently startling to his wife, had a re
markable effect upon his grandson.
This was the Information that Ariel
Tabor's fortune no louger existed.
"What's that?" cried Norbert, start
ing to his feet "What are you talk
lug about?"
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GENERAL NEWS.
G vernor Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
is already mentioned for the Senate.
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A Raleigh dispatch says that the
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oiaie win acuveiy prosecute a case
against the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
j way for running freight trains on
Sunday. The Sundav laws need to
be strictly enforced.
bighty-four million dollars was
j Pt on the Panama Canal up to
i befng the aWt "paidthe
U"3.. Velng lne a.m0.U!?,1. V
i iciiv,u Luunjaiiv. At win uc riKiiivcu
months before maonrv work beo-ins.
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L 0nLe hundred and fifty of the
.Southerns employees at Spencer
j shops have been laid off, and the cut
! see"153 10 be general over the whole
: system. The reduction is said to
i naYe a "earing on uie auverse legis-
lation against railroads.
The Western North Carolina Con
ference meets at Salisbury Novem
ber 13th. Twenty-five Methodist
ministers must be moved on account
of the four-year limit, and this,
means that there will be aconsidera
ble shuffling to make these changes.
Miss Maud Carson, a popular
young lady of Rowan county who
has been doing the work 6i a pro
fessional nurse in a hospital in At
lanta, is to wed James Thornton
Gettman on the 25th instant, a pa
tient whom she nursed through a se
rious illness, in which cupid played
an important part.
Wednesday's Salisbury Post: Dr.
R. Vance Brawley, specialist, was in
the graded school to-day examining
the eyes, ears, nose and throat of the
children in the school. The examin
ation is made for the protection of
such children as may have impaired
organs which if allow to go without
treatment would result seriously.
J. W. Joyner, conductor of a local
freight on the Southern, was killed
at Mooresville last Thursday in a
horrible accident. He was swinging
from the side of a car when he was
struck by a telegraph pole. Just at
the time of his death a story comes
to light, in which he is said to have
won the love of a young lady near
Charlotte, and had set the date for
marriage, having deserted his wife.
A man from Salisbury, N. C , was
arrested in New York the other day
for trying to flirt with a girl whom
he saw in a restaurant. Why a Tar
heel should go to New York for a
flirtation is a puzzle, but the sly old
sport explained to the court that it
was a case of mistaken identity; he
thought the girl was a friend of his,
whom he met in the South. Rich
mond Times-Dispatch.
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