I -
( the spark I
OF GENIUS
I BY HOWARJ) FIELDING I
I CovrrUbt. IXC, by CLarU W. Hooka f
nVA8 tbe gentleroaa who Las the
back panor." and this la a title
H of distinction at Mrs. McAd-
drew. One feels like Sir Sorae-
bodj. or at least as If on bad the right
to rt a few letter after one's name.
In fact, la a recect communication to
Mr. McAndrew Inclosing tLe amount
f ber week! charge for the tccomoo
datione I stoned myself John Cban-
dicr. a. n. p.
Oar landlady la a widow of middle
ase. a Rood Learted. simple minded wo
man who Urea ever as If In the slgfft
cf tLe late Mr. McAndrew and will die
triad Ij when ber time ceiuea to Join
him. He was a rery superior mansbe
say, and so LlsLIy educated tbat she
could not understand more tLan half of
LU conrersatioii. but she loved every
word. She occupies the roall front par
lor, which la separated from my room
by folding doom with hoary, somber
curtain, and I had uned tbat this
barrier wan Impervious to sound, but
one afternoon when I was dressing for
dinner I beard a woman's voice, loud,
strained and angry, forcing "ita way
through doom and curtains.
"How dare you! How dare your It
cried.
I was Just putting on my coat, and I
, panned with an arm through one of the
alceves. Again that voice was uplift
ed even more strenuously: "How dare
you! How dare your
Now, upon a question of the rights
and safety of such a good woman as
Mm. McAndrew I would fight a man
nine feet hl;h, or two of them If nec
essary. I Hd Into my coat and through
tlie curtain seemingly with a single
B'.ovement. and my hand was upraised
to unite the bavy doom when I beard
our landlady's calm voice very close,
at If within a yard of me.
-I think that was very good," she
said.
"We'll go back," said a masculine
voice wblrh I recognized as that of
Horace Wilton, a young man who lives
on the top floor. -You didn't tell LI
ne? Tou didn't tell tneY
Oh. I'll answer you no more! ex
claimed !orae one wlmm I now knew
not to be Mrs. McAndrew. "Relievo
what you please of me. I want no i
more of your help. Let me go! Let J
me go!"
"Keep It op! Keep It up!" said
Wilton "excitedly. Iorrt drop down.
Let me go! Let me go!" Frantic;
you understand. Now try again."
I let the curtain fall and stepped
back Into the middle of my room.
da"eL Not even the violent scene
which I had uppojed to U In progress
in the huhed and waervd precincts le-j-nd
thnxtt doom wniild have surprised
me nearly so much as the reality. A
theatrical rrfiearatl In my landlady's
parlor!
The leli which rints when dinner la
aI Ctit forth Its kiirmnni I
pCZ'ovt tnto tnenan just in nee to
meet Mrs. McAndrew. Behind Ler I
saw Wilton and a very pretty girl
who sits beside him at the table, ' She
does not ,11tb In our bouse, but comes
here for her meals. I had understood
that Wilton- and Mlaa Lee were en
gaged, bat I bad never given any espe
cial thought to the subject of the
young lady's occupation. She had been
among us only a week or two, and she
was so quiet and modest that r-he suc
ceeded In almost effacing ber.'f. '
spits ber good looks. I found It Lnp-,
Bible to believe that she was an actreaa.
that It waa she whom I had Just heard
declaiming hysterical lines under tbe
direction of Wilton and with the com
plicity, even with the praise, of Mrs.
McAndrew. Such waa the fact, 1 how
ever. Her eyes were still red from the
shedding of emotional tears, and I no
ticed daring dinner time that she would
be shaken now and then by tremors
of excitement.
Wilton Is a thin, tall, intense sort of
fellow, quite handsome in his own pe
culiar way and very much of a gentle
man. After dinner he took occasion to
say that he hoped I had not been dis
turbed, and Miss' Lee added ber own
hope that I hadn't heard anything, be
cause she bad done it so badly. I
tithed up 'some sort of a compliment
which did not seem to impress her, but
when I confessed my surprise at learn
ing what ber profession was she
flashed a sharp glance of Interest upon
me out of ber pretty brown eyes. It
waa the kind of look that goes through
a fellow's bead.
"You'll be more surprised. I think."
said she, lf yon ever learn that I'm a
good one."
The insight and the truth of this re
mark staggered me. It was a fact tha t
I had not been Impressed by the little
that I had beard. It bad sounded
strained and forced. Moreover, Mlsa
Lee was not my notion of an actress.
The morrow waa Sunday, and Mrs.
McAndrew favored me with a brief
call in the afternoon, and we talked of
Mlsa Lee.
"You'd never think she waa an ac
tress, would youf said she. "It's such
a pity. I asked Mr. Wilton, why he let
her go on the stage. They're engaged, trow
you know." i "I
That's what I say," she interrupted,
tnt they both feel that way. They
aay she must have her career, and he
if
"What did he 'say T I inquired with
considerable curiosity.
"He said that she had genius," re
plied Mrs. McAndrew In a quaintly
reverential tone.
"Now what do this woman know
boat genres T" aald I to myself. "What
can she possibly care about It?"
."Mr. WTJton has 'genius, don't yon
think so 7" she continued. And I waa
pleased to reply heartily that I had
read some of the gentleman's stories
and believed that he was on his way
up toward the top of the literary tree.
"It must be grand when two people
of that kind love each other," she said,
with a sigh. "She can be so much more
to him." ,
I So this was the explanation. Foor
i little commonplace Mrs. McAndrew
was trying to help another woman-to
be what she herself had never been.
KTia ir nwml tt'rn tier n-tmrif
... . .... . ..y. mi
be turned into a dramatic school in the
hojve that Mlsa Lee might develop the
dirlne spark of genius and so be a fit
mate for a man who had It
"He's so nice to her." said she. re
.. rring to Wilton, "and he has such j
crfi'ct confidence. lie never lets her
lespr'.ir. .Sometimes she wants to mar--y
h'm and give up the struggle. ' -
"J.'ut tvhx" I Lesan.
' I KSll'YZl OUT I WTO THE HA LI.
says she snail have it first If he has to
wait ten years for Ler. I think that's
dreadful, to waste your youth like that.
Cut if It's the way to bring ber up to
him I suppose It's right"
Then she came down to the actual
news of the matter. It appeared that
Mlsa Lee had played only small parts
and had had Indifferent success -in
them. She had seemed likely to miss
an engagement altogether lu the cur
rent season and had shed many team
about It but Wilton had kept her eplr
its irn. Suddenly an unhoped for
chance had come to read a leading part
in competition with several other ac
tresses of much greater reputation.
don't think she'll get it" said Mrs.
McAndrew, "but Mr. Wilton says that
that doesn't make auy difference. It's
a question of doing your best, he says."
"There may be something In that." I
admitted.
On the following afternoon I had the
pleasure of hearing Miss Lee again.
The ease with which sound traveled
through those black doors and heavy
curtains was amazing and proved to
me what a mouse for stllhiess my land
lady must have been! I was home rath
er earlier than usual that day, and for
a full hour I heard a most distressful
outcry. When I first came in. Miss Lee
seemed to be pleading that somebody
shouldn't be told of something.
"Don't tell Lionel! Don't tell Lio
nel!" she reiterated.; And Wilton was
nil the time Insisting that she didn't
take It hard enough.
Then they went back to a hysterical
scene, and it ended In a case of genu
ine hysteria, .with Miss Lee weeping
upon our landlady's bosom and declar
ing that she would never, never, never
amount to anything; that she mlght'as
well give up and marry Mr. -Wilton if
he could sllll care for her. And I could
hear Mrs. McAndrew soothing her and
telling her that she spoke her lines
"perfectly lovely," while Wilton paced
tae aoor wren a nji.ti- vv '
morse Iessly called opdnyene poor giri to
brace up and try it agaUi.
For nay own part this fend subsequent
rehearsals convinced m5 that Miss Lee
did not possess what tite late Mr. Mc
Andrew had called nhV spark." By
my way of thinking sh was strained
and unnatural, and Wihjou was all the
time trying .to make bey more so. n
would say constantly "Bulld it op!
Hold It up!-Work! You've got to suf
fer In t:ds part That's what Ifa for.
That's vhat genius Is fr to voice the
I cry of Uhe human soL; I want to
hear year soul sobbing; In agony, and
then I'll be satisfied." if
This f eemed unkind, fom a man who
loved b?r. but tender hlbrtcd Mrs. Mc
Andrew approved the intiuient t-
One day I , venturedto say to our
landlady that I though Miss Lee had
mistaken her vocation. jTbe effect waa
remarkable and unexpected. Mrs. Mc
Andrew looked at-mfe; with a sort of
pitiful- distrust, withi pained but-"
prise, and from that ftline she never
mentioned Miss Lee's Efforts and asp I-,
rations. . -fA
A few days later tfcf agony in the
front parlor seemed toSeulminate, and I
beard no more of it f I Judged that
Miss Lee had had her reading and had
been found wanting. She appeared at
the table always withT a look of -despair,
and there were dark lines under
her pretty eyes. Mrs. McAndrew
never passed her chair without laying
a caressing band upon her shoulder,
and it "&rasori!y at such moments that
the poof girl would sn? lie. ,
As. for Wilton, be wasdarker, thlnf
ner, more "upon edge,!,, as .the phrase
Is, than ever before. Sometimes I was
upon the point of getting him into my
room for a good long talk, but his man
ner was forbidding. ' ; v
And then I got a considerable shock.
It came from a morning' newspaper,
wherein I beheld a twojcolnmn picture
of Mlsa Lee, with some lines beneath
It to the effect that on the .following
Monday she would replace . a certain
well known actress In a certain newly
famous role. I -recognized that role. I
bad heard it through the black doors a
great many times. .
I took the earliest opportunity to con
gratulate Miss Lee, Mrs. McAndrew
and Mr. Wilton, but they were all in a
trance." . .
It will be guessed that i bad a seat
in a certain theater on. Monday even
ing, and there sat Mrs McAndrew and
Wiltoc Just ahead of me." I -could see
our landlady lay her band upon his
arm in a motherly fashion now and
then before the curtain we"nt up. I had
caught tlie Infection' andj was prayer-5
fully nervous. I had, very little idea
what was said on the. stage until Miss
Le appeared, and then I came to my
self. She loosed very charming. I had
had no idea that her beauty would
"carry" so welh and the surprise was
welcome. , . ' '
When she began to speak, I saw tbat
she had greatly improved; she seefcned
more like a real actres. And when she
won her first, applausf , I glanced loy
ally at Wilton. lie setscaed to be. sink
ing slowly down ' intj; his seat His
head was drawing itset slowly in, like
a turtle'B. and it had nefrly disappeared
by the end of the first tfcet It came out
again during the second .and then slow
ly subsided. . U
In the following Intermission I found
him in the smoking mom. He was
walking back and forth, and he seemed j
to be eating a cigar. I took him by th I
hand, and he stared at me. -, , 1
Ue- shook nis xTeSul
"She u making a bit,' I Insisted.
"They're applauding her all the time." .
"Rlast them r be said with f error.
handkerchief: '' ; r
I was permitted to go around to tha
stage door with them after the snow
Mlsa Lee took WHton'a hanjaud th n
rehnred one tiUick dance. TSen tua
- 'hey've switched ber clean off the I . . f n Mr8 McAndivVa atoul-
U ck. Tliat flmt Durst or applause
ct ifouiKl it! She is thinking of her
t .ces. and It la spoiling ber, killing
tit A"
"Rut surely the encouragements
There are two kinds of encourage
ment" Le Interrupted. "One Is ' thla
sort of thing, and tbe other la the everlasting-
dissatisfaction tbat' she's bad
from me the dissatisfaction, that never
loses confidence, that always shows the j
goal, but never falsely saya that It Is i
atlitincd." . 4 v ;
"How about Mrs. McAndrew'a kind
oT encouragement 7 I asked. ,
The team came into his eyes.
"God bless herr he said. -That Isn't
encouragement and It isn't discourage
ment Ifa Just simply love, and we
need it more than anything else. But
sho doesn't know It She thinks that
she was never of any real use to Mc
Andrew."' :V' ..
And he laughed with an emotional
unsteadiness that did him great credit
The third act was beginning, and we
hurried back to our seats. It la the
great act of the play, and I was afraid
of It At the very outset I detected the
tone in Miss Lee's work that bad im
pressed me in the rehearsals, the nobs
of agonized endeavor. She had forgot
ten success now; she bad even forgot
ten - love: she waa reeling tbe acourse.
der and oWod. "I one so i.ueb to yoa,
v mtU-h to VOUT
rwtf ituiijtir iK'tted her ca the back
in h-old. war -and -told ber very ah-
surdly that she had "doue splendidly.
No Intention of Abdlcrtfng.
Vienna. J'tne 22.- TheiTorklah ani
lissador he.e declares tha: the rumcr
T the shi'vin i l-.t'-tUa tc cb.Icate "it
"rral!ccus invcrcri." -
!f I'F HITS SSlf.
Uxitd Statfs Or Amkrica,
EASThiiN Disc. Voani Casolxxa.
WhereaS'Tbf Uiltrd Scates Dit. Court
for the Eastern LiL of North Carolina at
the May term ivt, ha ordered the n !.
of certain pr p-riy claimed by '.,
Longi frei-tl and fclxcd under the In.
ternal Rev. Iawsof the United State-..,
Including one certain lot. Or tract of land
hereinafter dM Hbcd. Now, therefore.! a
puruance of tatd order of sale, 1 will
proceed oh the frt Mobvlai H julr, the
same being the fnh day of Mid month,
to sell at - pnhMc auction, at the court
boue door in K K-VinHwm, N. C., f.r
cati, tin-v'i , lot b'l .land dturihtJ
as follow to-n it :-
A tract of land lying and being in
Bearerdam townhip, Coun and
aforesaid. : Beginning at a stake 4 r 1
from the Northwest corner of warehouse,
thence East 60 it to a stakr.'thence South
87 feet to a stake, thence west 60 feet to
stake, thence North 87 feet to the bepin.
ning point, situated in the town of HulT
man. N.C. i to commence at u
o'clock, j Tl. C. DOCKER Y.
y 'I ; U. S,- Marshal.
June and, 1003.
'Lha
TUEHZISin SUnSTTTUTH
ud ri- "Miss Lee is great" sold L
EE BEEilED TO BB SIKKTNO SltOWIiT IXTO
HIS SEAT.
And then suddenly I felt that pain enrj
ter my own breast, and in an Instant
Miss Lee disappeared, and I beheld tha
woman of the play the tortured crea
t are whose secret was being wrenched
from her hewt to 'her own destruction.
In Its proper place I recognized its re
ality. It haa been different in Mrs. Mo
Andrew's parlor. This was what Wil
ton had been whipping out of the wo
man he loved. This was what he had
tolled anfl grown thin for..
At the end of the act, while they
were calling Miss Lee before tbe cur
tain, I looked at Wilton. His head had
come up from between his shoulders.
He was happy,- triumphant t But Mrs.
McAndrew was a total wreck. ..and her
face was buried in her hands and two
II
I
E
OF ID
By virtue of power confered in a cer
tain mortgage deed execoteiLto me on
the 21st day of March 1902 by A, D.
Spivey and wife and duly recorded in
Be ok 1 . T. T. page 44 et r seqin tbe
office of the Register of Deeds of Kich
roond connty. delault hrving been made
in tne pament of tbe same, I will ex
pose to public-sale, to the highest bidder
for cash, at the Court House door in the
town of Rockingham, H. C ; on Monday,
the 6th dav July 1903, at 12 o'clock m.
tbe following described tract of !ani, to
wit; Lying and being in Richmond ounIy;
Slate of North Carolina, in Mineral
Springs township ' adjoining tha lands of
Noah Richardson and! others ana beginn
ing at a 8 take where the Grassy . Island
road crosses the Guilford road and runs
as the Mineral Spring road 26.75 chains to
a stake in the line of. the 160 acre tract a
pine pointer: thence as said line S 70 E
24.75 chains to &lake, its corner: thence
as its other line 8 17 E-18 85 chains to a
stake in the Grassy Island road, small
black jack pointers, thence along said
road N 60 w 9.59 chains to Richardson's
corner, tht-nce as said road to the beginn
ing, containing forty two acres.- more or
less, being tbe same land as conveyed by
Nelson McCaskiH, Commissioner, to A.
h ; Loflin and wife by deed dated Decern-!
ber the 27th 1888, excepting and deduct
ing from the above boundaries, the land
heretofore conveyed by A. L. Loflin and
wife to A. h. Spivev, M, E. Chance.
South, J. T. Hiatt. Dr. K J. Garrett and
A. Auman, aggregating in all about 34
acre?, leaving about 8 acres hereby con
veyed. - - t . . . '
This let day of June 1903.
A. S.DOCKERY,
Mortgagee.
Tt rsasoa Ons Mtnuta Covck Cm rsBrr 1 couek
a om ntnuta, ts bcauM it sets first on tha iruc.xi
cMmbniw rlfht where ths couch troublas tn th
throat or Aaep tod OA th hire, dtstrortrc u
1 ntcrotxrs or couch forms and cUartni tha phtetm.
OooMlnow Couch euro aot only dstror tr "
mm consa, sod cloara out tholr potoon, but It elves
trencta aad elasticity to tho dalicato mmbrn
rhica pfotoct thm throat and lunrs. Opana tha air
passaces and pramotas anobatructad brth rf.
CauMS the blood to racalra its aafuraT supply 1
Ozrtaiv. thus axhilaratinf tho pulmonary ortana .t!i
auch atroocth andvlror that tao lunas and bronchi U
tubus haonms bulwarks aralnat tho tnoaptloa ot
osaa. Asthma. Branch tu a. La Crlppo, Cold on th
Lunrs and alt Pulmonary Complaints that aro curaUe
are utcb7 cersd by the ass oi
iri
COUGU CURE
V K. a OoWTTT 90., Chlcace.
HE
' Notice is hereby given, that we wiil, . p
the first Monday in July, UH)3, the sj
being the 6th day of July, at 12 o'cic V,
m., oner tor sale to toe nir,best bxi itr f r
cash at the court house door in th town
of Rockingham, the following . deacril-(
lands, the same lying anU being in Ki 1-
mond county and in Wolf Pit townuli p.
Beginning at the. bridge over the :tn
of Black Branch on road leading fr in
Mizpah, and runs with said road, tr
general direction of which being B 2Cn K
9,62 chains, and thence 8 32 E 4..'ii c! .
to a stake on Easterly edge of said n i l
near the j fence, thence-N 78 1-2 K
4.94 chs. to a staite, thence N 1 E
chains to a gum in the run of said Ii uk
Branch, thence with tbe run t mi !
branch to the beginning, containing 1 1
acres of land, m ore oriels. i
The above described lands will be
under rower of sale ent.inel in moi (.-..
deed executed to Kobrt S. hel belter i
Dorcas Led better and dateij Novern'
14, 1885, and recorded in the ollioe of 1 ' h
Redater of Deeds of Richmond count v ;i
B.ok PP, paces 7 and 8.
Thi8tbe5thdayof June, 11K)3. ,
II, S. LEDIIKTTKR,
R;S. LEDliEITER.
Executors ot the Ktate of Koli it
S- Ied better, Dcc'd.
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ale of ninatmei1
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Oxfords mid 8
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adies
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hoes
Is still on the move and will continue until
figures,' as hundreds of well
meet with hasty patronage.
our summer orooas are e:one. uur
pleased eostomerfe can testify are right and our sales
Here are our ptices on
SHOES.
Dress Goods,
h a
Wc will continue our shoe sales until all oxfords are gone
All Solid Leather Oxfords worth SIJDOrt&prJce 25c
All SoUdLcather Oxfords worth$125 our price 75c
All Solid Leather Oxfords sold for SI 50. our priced 5 c. j
Alt Solid Oxfords worth S1.75 for SI J00
All Solid Oxfords, SoldforS2X)0 andS225 cur price S1J5 and $1.2 I
All Solid Oxfords sold for$250 anjS300 going now for St. 35 and $150.
Battle Axe Southern Star Ladies S1S0 Shoe for 85c.
Mcdcl Battle Axe Men's 165 Shoe going S1V0.
The gratest Shoe you ever saw worth $125 our price as long as they: last 85c.
Cut Prices in all Men's and Ladies'. Shoes and Oxfords in same proportions as these
quotations. That's selling for cash. !
In fact every Shoe in our store in propotion to these tremendously low prices-
Lots of ladles' Shoes, any size from 3 to 8 worth $1,25
going for 60c, V
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in this department we have added several more fabrics which are beauties.
Our 38 inch half" wool Serge worth 30c still for He ,
Our 42 inch all wool serge worth 85c still for 35, .. x I
Onr36 inch half wool melrose worth 3 5c still for 14c
Our 36 inch all wool melrose worth 75 still for 35. ; -1
Half wool and all wool cashimers for 10c, 12 12c, 15c 20c and 25c-
LOOK OUT.
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CL O THING
Mcn'sChy Worsted Suits worth $5J0O for$l:8s-
Boy's Knee Pants Suits worth S2-00 for 65c..
We have so many lines of clothing that we can't mention them all but our prices
are MORE than right t ! '
We are not selUngat cost, but, "at cost sales" are simply not in it with us-
Here are our 'biggest Bargains.
Any man's straw hat in the house north from 75c to S3-00 for 25c,
Any Lady's straw sailor worth 35c to 95c for 10c and 25c.
Boy's Straw hats worth 25c and 50c for 10c.
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We will offer from how until July 1st any and all fur hats worth from $125 to
$250 for 50c to 75c and slJDO- Only these three lots and only these three prices- No old
stock but right new goods, and up to this time in style- : j
Big lot of boy's and men's wool hats slightly damaged, our prices for these until
July 1st or until stock is gone TEN CBNTS .
New lot men's and boy's shirts, "craclxr jacks," slightly damaged, worth 'Oc to
7 5c for 20c ; - - -----
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All these goods are now in our store and anyone can get them at these prices. That is buying and selling for cash.
WATSON BUILDING
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OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.
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