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fi NIGHT OF SOBBING. MRS.' GALLUP LAMENTS THAT HER TIME ON EARTH 13 SHORT. jBke Heard the Smamwi t Get Aeadr tm Be aa Ansel and Had a Utile Talk With Mr. Gdlltia Aboat Whom Be Should Select For Hie Seeomd Wife. Coprright. 1900. IjCD. Uii , .After eupper Mr. Gallup bad gone oyer to the store for a whetstone and a paper of carpet tacks, and as he went Mrs. Gallup was hashing up the dishes and singing "The nome Over There" with great feeling. lie. returned In half an hour, and as he reached the kitchen door the sound of sobbing met his ears. He looked In to find Mrs. Gallup weaving back and forth on a chair with her check apron at her eyes. Something had happened. He didn't inquire what it was, bnt turned about and sat on the doorstep and in an ab sent way began sharpening a sickle with the stone he had bought. It was fire minutes before Mrs. Gallup volun teered an explanation. When she saw thai he had neither anxiety nor sym pathy, she hitched f her chair into the doorway, used a fresh spot on the apron to wipe her eyes and finally said: i "Samuel when you've got that sickle (sharpened yon might go over to Mrs. jBebee's and tell her that I shall be a (dead woman before tomorrer. Yon "GIT READY TO BE AS ANGEL I" (needn't beat around the bnsb -at all, bat tell her right out. Shell rather be jexpectin the news. She was over here (this afternoon, and she said I was lia ble to git my summons at any time. I've got It all arranged with her about fche funeral." ! Mr. Gallup did not look around- With calm deliberation he spat on the whet stone, and with calm1 deliberation he drew it back and forth across the blade. fYes, Samuel, my time has come!" sobbed Mrs.-Gallup after waiting a reasonable time for him to speak. "A few hours hence and yon will be a widower, and a few days hence you will be wearing a red necktie and can terln around after a second wife. When you started over town,: I was as happy las a lark and hadn't the slightest idea. iof dyln. Ten minutes later when I 'went to carry the butter down cellar there came seven knocks on that' emp jty cider bar'l.. and as I stood there ishakln I heard a whispered voice a-say-jin, 'Hanner Gallup, git ready to be an 'angelf. It was my (summons, and . I've jgo't to! go. Nobody kin hold back ag'In a, "summons. What kind of a second 'wife shall "yon marry, Samuel?" ' Mr. Gallup bad paused in his labors and. was looking absently at a robin Iq a cherry tree. ' "You needn't feel at all delikit about . italkln It over with me," said Mrs. Gal lup as she dabbed at her eyes with the apron. "I've alius"; srpected you'd git married ag'In if I should die, and I shan't bowl and squeal about It Mrs. Bebee says (f her , hrmband - marries s ag'lftsue'U haunt him. but yon needn't ibe, afraid of me I'd ruther: you mar ,ried ag'In. If you didn't, you'd be goln jto circuses and dogfights and, candy .pulls and ; become as - wicked as Silas IJohnsonV'S'pose you've kinder bad your eye out, hev'n't you. Samuel Itljat? you've kinder made up, you mind about what sort of a' woman you'd: marry f? v- ;-! v "' ' 1 '"" ' Mr.; Gallup withdrew his gaie from the robin and returned to his work of sharpening the sickle, and Mrs. Gal-j lap's nose bad grown very red wjtb the 'pulling' when she continued rt'i , .- "There's the -Wlddei "Lapham," Sam uel, and; eterybody wsys .she's wuth $2,000, but I wouldn't want you to mar cher. '.Shi? Vtoy hlty tity for a inan . of youag'NVblle she was swingln, In a liammor fc she'd lot the bread bum Jup Jn the oven... She'd want you to go !ff jo-a picnic every day m the year, anl If' you had any soft soap In the 'house you'd nev to'buy It. And there's jthe Wldder Da via. , She's a good house keeper. Samuels s 111 admit, but they ay she gits streaks on. One day shell be laughln and gl?gl!n all day Ion. and the next day shell be as sulky as a mule.-; Site kin nake a pound of . tea go as fm- I ' Mn. trot she told me Iwith bef own month that she had four (pairs of 6to kIa's List year. Could ton ipst up with slrh fxtravnymnce as that, Samuel ?- ft'enMn't, jw be thinkin of 'how I alius got ajong on two pairs a yearr.- - ,-' - Mr. Gallup whistled softly to himself .as be fo.lt of the edge pf the stekle with fols Jburol The whistle coqvejjed no 6Uret information. 1)UJ was ;a whistle -In the abstract; Mrs. Gallup lookHl at 'the back of his neck for a moment and worked up onq choked back a sou ana then 6ald: ' ' , "There's Phoebe Cousins, whom ev erybody likes, but she's an old maid and sot In her ways. She never back bites nor pits mad. but she wants ev erything Jest so. If yon come Into the house and tlirowod your lint down on the floor or pulled your boots off In the parlor In theevenln, she'd raise the awfulest kind' of a row. I guess you'll hev to marry a gal, Samuel. You are old 'null to be the father of any gal around here, but I don't see no other way. Hev you got any pertlckler gal In mind? I was thinkin of Sue Sabtas the pther day. She's 20 years old and a great hand to work, and mebbe you'd be happy with. ber. Her mother says Sue likes to be petted. You've never petted me, but mebbe you'll change .When I am gone. No, Samuel, I can't remember a time in 27 years when you've pulled my ear or patted me on the shoulder or poked me in the ribs. I-I"- The remembrance that there had been no shoulder patting or ear pulling during all those long years brought a fresh outburst of emotion, and for two minutes Mrs. Gallup sobbed bitterly. Mr. Gallup laid down the whetstone and the sickle and picked up the paper of tacks and balanced it on the point of his finger, but he was oblivious of his surroundings. "I I don't complain, Samuel," said Mrs. Gallup when she could control her voice again. "When I saw that you was no hand to pet, I let it go. I'm old and wrinkled and scrawny, and I can't look fur pettin. It will be different with a gal, however. If you don't pull her car at least once a week and call her angel, she'll git sulky and finally run away with -a tin peddler. Mrs. Bebee was sayln that Bertha Williams would make a good gal wife fur you, and Mrs. Williams says that you could i not do better than to marry Mary Hawkins, but I ain't goln to pick out nobody fur you nor find fault with your choice. All I'm goin to do Is to die and become an angel and let you do Jest as you want to. I've got Jest one leetle favor to ask." The lump In her throat and the tears In her eyes checked her speech for half a minute, and during that time Mr. GalluD Dut the tacks down and lifted up the sickle igaln. "It's only this. Samuel. You needn't do no weepln fur me when I'm gone, and you needn't hang over the gate and try to look all broke up over my loss. You kin go right to playin check ers as soon as the funeral is over, but some night. later on,. when you are all alone in the house and the crickets are singln. I want you to remember that I had my good pints as well as my bad. I want you to remember that I used a clothes bler with seven boles in the bottom- far nine years without niendln and that I hain't had a new corset fur 'leven years. Our teakettle Is over 0 years old, and I've made one set of cups- and sassers last us since we was married. That's all. SamueL and now I'll go In and die, and you kin be lookin - around fur; your second wifer " '... She rose up with a sob and retreated Into the house, but Mr. Gallup knew nothing, of It Hq hxng the sickle on a nail near, the door, put the .whetstone and tacks on a shelf iq the wood shed. and then walked down the path and closed the henhouse door and cast a look into the pig pen. When he re turned to the house, Mrs. Gallup veaS looking at her bowl of emptyingrunder the stove and humming the air of "I Want to Be an AngeL" -She had had her lamentation and got over It and K would be three or four days before she would' break out agaln. M. Quad. DR. JAMES M. PARROTT, Physician and Surgeon, ISTON, n. c. "OrSc on Gordon Straet. Oflke toon, 9 to i l am., and 3 to 6, p, mj Sundays, 4 to j p. m. OR. .5L D. HARPER. ,.' I DENTAL, SURGEON, KINSTON, N. C. fcJ-Offica Over Das Quineriy'i Mora, is the Moea terBaflding, eeat to C W. Prdjn ft Co.s store. DR. TH03. H. FAULKMErTI DBHTIST. I Office Hours: 8 a. in. tp 6 p. m. 3 I Rooms over the Bank of Kinston . gRBgH FISH I Fresh Trout, Mullet and Croak r daily at BOYD'S MARKET. jgfEast Street near new depot. ( 1 Just Received! CAR LOAD OF EXTRA - QUALITY HORSES AND MULES. Must be sold quick. We think we can suit you. Come and see. HaROQUE'S LiTery, Sale and Exchange Stables, KINSTON, N. C. COFFINS, CASKET, Trimmings, &c. tWe have a full supply. , BIZZELL & CHESNUTT, Queen St., Near Jesa Stroud's i"On Tuskahos. Heinz' Sweet Pickles, (in Kegs,) Mustards and Sauces, AT...... T. P. ASHFORD'S, On Taokaho. Will give competentjservice to all so unfortunate as to need such service. Just simply give me notice and all de tails will be attended to. Caskets of all qualities carried in stock, and by patronizing my establishment yon will get competent services at as low prices as from anyone. I respectfully solicit a continuance of the, patronage of the people in this sec tion. Very truly, GEO. B.WEBB KIKSTON, N. C. Residence Phone No. 63. Shop Phone No. 59. J. E. PHYSIOC Is Here to Stay ! I have nrenared mvself for it. I have iust received a full line of Foreign and )omestic Samples of Woolens ranging from $15.00 up to f 45.00, a suit. I am not trying to compete with ready-made goods .1 promise to give you a first-class Merchant Tailor's Suit as good as you can have made in any first-class Mer cnant i alio ring establishment any where, and tor as little money. Yon will find that I deal straight and fair, and always look to the interest and taste of my customers. r Have lust employed a iim-class coat-maker. J.:E. PHYSIOC. JONES & .WILLIS, . , C t a 7 . . J T t and HQifdreflslng arlot ' Under Hotel Tull. Easy Shaves and Artistic Haircut. Competent Assistants. Clean Towels. Children's Hair Cutting a Specialty. KeTA TRIAL SOLICITED." presh 0YSTBS in any style .AT. T 6. BROWN'S Bestnt, 9 Above the Saloon. WILMII6T0I AID VELDOB RAILE01P. OND5H8BJ SCHCOUta. TBAISS OOXaO bOOTH, or Chil s- ir evers ; ' " ad all MALARIAL DISEASES tale YUCATAN CHILL TONIGMprorei) i :i ..'4-j :X --Superior to all Tasteless Tonics. ... The Dwnile will auioklT reoomiee the laaerlw Qnsllttes of YUCATAN (Imvroved) om th so-llxl Tmtlcu Tonics. They ra nueUabl and th dot U uncertain. Yucatan Chill Tonio (Imprared require bo shaking of the bottle. The medicine ii thoroughly diuolved (each doea contalne the earn proportion of medJciae. rormalaon each oottls. eonttnt of tlUaaH-NK which driTeaont malaria, IUUJM which toneanp the ayitemanil PEPSIN which produce a hearty appetite. Any phyeician or dnijcsrint will tell yon there ie NO B.BTTBB PBESCBXPTIOa for HLJLUAMTA. and iU kindred diseases. Pleaaaat to take; does not lickea or nauseate, ana le acceptam to tne most oenente axomnci. 1- ki;k.)A I'rnts. tor sale oy ail oeaiera. jB7Jae t-i naa-x-jiijj'ju iw til 1 r x-i j. jm ji solk ruonuK-roas, tvanavilia. I na Sold in Kinston by J. E. HOOD. - Tie Qoart Keded Poatlns". A trial was progressing at the City Hall police court when the judge espied in a group of young girls mingling In the large audience a , delinquent wit ness whom ltVas urgent he Interview. ? "Mr. Marshall," his honor exclaimed, "have that young lady step here."-, ; . "Which young lady, your honor?" .fl don't know .her name the one with .the light straw ? ha and dark tklrt," the court added The clew was Insufficient. ; 55 'y-i'--x i'-i?1;: - ; rWhat. kind of waist?" inquired the marshaL i . "V-.V v.-.- -!'t ji- I -fEuffle on- the sleeves and -trimmed wltli--ei-the usual sort of wbat d'you call cm," said the court." .'' - X'-' "I understand. You mean leg of mut ton -sleeves. 'rtth--er-whars nw name attachments," replied the marshal in faint hope of striking , the technical term. ."vf"'-''' " ; "No; not exactly," said the Judge. : : ''Would yon ' recognize an " empire gown IX yon saw one, Mr. Marshal?" v "Upon oath no; I iwonldn't swear to 1L" i; ..j ' ; ; . . .rWelL I know It wasn't an empire gown or a Mother Hubbard. I dont tiinx you understand much about fe male appareL"" ,". t-v- ' 'Unt here the young lady generously stepped forward, while a little boy lacked, and the marshal threatened to send him to the penitentiary for life. . Louis Post-Dispatch. " if mm if. -.' $ VfW Idrertising la the Keyatuu 'v' V? Success. Bakntjm. Gentle Reminder!! I "'uThssb are the days when the man who does a successful business must realize the full scope and significance of the great vero, "hustle." You must hustle it you do any business, Every man who has a dollar wants his money's worth before he lets It go. The man who has bargains to ; offer must , let the . CeCct be known. If you hare anything special : to offer advertise the fact, else the people will never knowjt. As a medltun for. reaching the people the moner-cpendlng classes ; Tes Fssb Fsbss Is the paper par excellent. It reaches the homes of the people throughout Ithis and adjoining counties, and ia read by everybody. An advertisement in its columns will prove a paying investment. . Try it. T" aB.aaaat'sks ' al Al faSh . jfrn ssaaa S as as a tt. DAILY AND SEMI-WEERL J Rates Given On Replication. 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