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Ownersiand 11 i L -J We are in a better ' condition than ever Defore to get you the' GHEST MARKET PRICES On Come to see us and wewill send you on your way rejoicing IPf uyiniii For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Ol r Signature of Use For Over Thirty Years Q 1 ! THI OENTAUN UKMIf, NEW VON StTt. O t Proprietors ol OXFORD, N. C. :-:ARE READY FOR: Business. aug.10. 3m Any i Ini At ah V " " 3 SI - nj ran da m Bier wa 4. . tt- &fr 4 44 "i M" 4"i 3fo Master echanic's Story ( DEL AROO ) 4. TV Tt W W &m ft daJ. 0Atf2W 'I 1 1 i 1 1 B A "" . :rn picas swung, tne aemcKs creaK oi, and all day with the heaving and the calling they toiled, but the sun was sinking before they got to the middle of it. Then Benedict Morgan, crawling under the drivers of the hind mogul, partly uncovered, edged out with a set face; he swore he heard breathing. It was alcohol to the veins of the double gang. Neighbor himself went in and heard and stayed to fasten a grapple to pull the engine truck off the roof of a box car that was jammed over and against the mogul stack. The big derrick groaned as the slack drewr, and the truck crashed through a tier of stays and swung whirling into the clear. A giant wrecker dodged the suspended wheels . and raising his ax bit a hole into the jammed roof. Through that they passed a second grapple, and presently it gave sullenly, toppled back with a crash, and the foremost axman peering into the opening saw the heart of the wreck. Bending forward, he picked up some thing struggling in his arms. They thought it was a man, but it was a sheep, alive and uninjured, under all the horror; that.was the breathing they heard. Benedict Morgan threw the man and his burden aside and stepped himself into the gap and through. One started to follow, but the chief of the wreckers waved him back. Close by where the sheep had been freed stood Delaroo. lie stood as if with ear alert, so closely did the counterfeit seem the real. So sure was the impression of life that not until Morgan, speaking to the fireman, put his band on his shoul der did he realize that the Indian stood quite dead just where the shock had caught him in his cab. Stumbling over the wreckage, they passed him in the silence of the sunset Stumbling over the wreckage, they passed him from hand to hand. from hand to hand into the open. A big fellow, pallid and scared, tottered after them, and when they laid the dead man down half fell at his side, It was Maje Sampson. It surprised everybody the way Maje Sampson went to pieces after Delaroo was killed. The Indian was carried back to the Bend and up to Sampson's and laid out in the God forsaken par lor, but Maje wasn't any good fixing things up that time. He usually shone on like occasions. He was the com forter of the afflicted to an extraordi nary degree. He gave the usual mourn er no chance to let up. But now his day was as one that is darkened. When Neighbor went up next night to see about some minor matters connected with Hie funeral and the precedence of the various dozen orders that were to march he found Maje Sampson and Martie alone in the darkness f the parlor with the silent Delaroo. Maje turned to the master mechanic from where Delaroo lay. "Neighbor, you might as well know it now as ary time. Don't you say so, Martie? Mar tie, what do you say?"" Martie burst into tears, but through rhem Neighbor caught the engineer's broken confes sion. "Neighbor, I'm color blind." The master mechanic sat stunned. "Time as God's word. You might as well know it now. - There's the man that stood between me and the loss of my job. It's been coming on me for two years. He knew it. That's why he stayed in my cab. He stayed because I was color blind. He knowed I'd git ketched the minute a new fireman come In, Neighbor. He watched the signals, Delaroo. I'm color blind, God help me." Maje Sampson sat down by the cof fin. Martie hushed her crying. The three sat in the darkness. "It wouldn't worry me so inuch if It wasn't f'r the family, Neighbor. The woman and the boys. I ain't much a-savin': you know that. If you can M 11 s4 .j. -.j, ..-, 44i 4,4, fni 4- 4i !! -- By FRANK H. SPEARMAN TT Copyright, 1900, by S. S. McClure Co. 3 44 frfr 4J JJ XJa ffy bd. dulft a jr; i can get nreaa an' iTunci out of, give it to me. I can't pull n train. My eyes went out with tills ma:i here. I wish to God it was me, and him standing over. A man that's color blind and don't know a thing on God's earth but runnin' an engine is worse "n' dead man." Neighbor went home thinking. They buried Delaroo. But even then they were not through with him. Dela roo had insurance in every order in the Bend, which meant almost every one on earth. There was no end to his benefit certificates and no known bene ficiaries. But when they overhauled his trunk they found every last certificate filed away up to the last paid assess ment and the last quarter's dues. Then came a shock. People found out there was a beneficiary. While the fraters were busy making their passes Delaroo had quietly been directing the right honorable recording secretaries to make the benefits run to Neighbor, and so every dollar of his insurance ran. No body was more, thunderstruck at the discovery than the master mechanic himself. Yet Delaroo meant something by it After Neighbor had studied over it nights the best of a month; after Maje Sampson had tried to take the color test and failed, as he persistently said he would; after he had gone to tinker ing in the roundhouse, and from tinker ing respectably, and by degrees down the hill to wiping at $1.40 a day, with time and a half for overtime, Neighbor bethought himself all of a sudden one day of a paper Delaroo had once given him and asked him to keep. He had put it away in the storekeep er's safe with his own papers and the drawings of his extension front end patent and safely forgotten all about it. It was the day they had to go into the county court about the will that was not, when he recollected Delaroo's paper and pulled it out of its envelope. There was only a half sheet of paper inside, with this writing from Delaroo to Neighbor: R. B. A. What is coming to me on in surance give to Marty Sampson, wife of Maje. Give my trunk to P. McGraw. Rispk., P. DELAROUX. When the master mechanic read that before the probate judge, Maje Samp son took a-trembliug; Martie hid her face in her shawl, crying again. May be a glimmer of what it meant came for the first time in her life over her. Maybe she remembered Delaroo as he used to sit with them under the kero sene lamp while Maje untiringly pounded the money question into him, smoking as he listened, and Martie mended on never ending trousers; looking from Maje Sampson, beated with monologue, to his wife, patiently stitching no comments, just looking as Pierre Delaroux could look. Strange, Neighbor thought it, and yet, maybe, not so strange. It was all there in the paper the torn, worn little book of Delaroo's life. She was the only woman on earth that had ever done him a kindness. Nobody at Medicine Bend quite un derstood it, but nobody at Medicine Bend quite suspected that under all the barrenness up at Maje Sampson's an ambition could have survived; yet one had. Martie had an ambition. Way down under her faded eyes and her faded dress there was an ambition, and that for the least promising subjects in the Rocky mountains the brickbats. Under the unending mending and the poverty and the toil Martie, who never put her nose out of doors, who never attended a church social, never ven tured even to a free public school show, had an ambition for the boys. She wanted the two biggest to go to the state university, wanted them to go and get an education. And they went, and Maje Sampson says them boys, ary one. has forgotten more about the money question than he ever knew. It looks as if after all the brickbats might come out; a bit of money in Martie's bands goes so far. There are a few soldiers buried at the Bend. Decoration day there is an attempt at a turn out. a little speech ing and a little marching. A thin, straggle column of the same warped, bent old fellows in the same faded old blue. Up the hill they go and around to the cemetery to decorate. When they turn at. Maje Sampson's place there's a gate there now Martie and more or less of the boys and Maje kind of join in along and go over with them carrying a basket or so of flow ers and a bucket of water. The boys soon stray over to where the crowd is, around the graves of the heroes, but Martie gets down by a grave somewhat apart and prods the drifting gravel all up loose with an old caseknife. You would think she might be kneading bread there, the way she sways under her sunbonnet and gloves for her little boiled hands are in gloves now. "I don't know how much good it does Delaroo spiking up his grave once a year' Neighbor always winds up. "It may not do him a blamed bit of good; I don't say it does. But I can see them; I see them from the round house; it does me good. Hm!" "Maje?" he will add. "Why, I've got him over there at the house, wiping. I'm going to put him running the sta tionary if old John Boxer ever dies. When will he die? Blame if I know. John :s .. , .viiy i. : y. i. can't kill him, can I? Well then, what's the matter with yon?" ' "No. Maje don't talk as much as he used to; forgetting bis parses more o" less too. Get'li;!? old like some more o' us. He's kind of quit the maney ques tion; claims he don't understand it now as well as the boys do. But he can talk about Delaroo: he under stands Delaroo pretty well now!" Protected. Miss Weill. in The impudent thing tok" me to my face that I was getting ok and wrinkled. Miss Tartun I wouldn't mind It She didn't say it to your face. yov. know. She couldn't see that. Cbicag Tribune. PERSIAN CUSTOM OF BAST. Method of Rinlitinur Wrongs la In ennvf nicnl to legation. In Persia there is the strange custom known as "bast." It simply means that any one having a grievance by taking refuge on the premises of a nobleman may demand that the nobleman take up nis cause as though the bastee were one of ms own household. There seems to be no limit to the cus tom, -for the petty criminal often takes refuge, or bast, in a mosque, where he 19 safe, if his friends are allowed to feed him. If the police want him they must starve him out. There was a man who sat for eight years in one of the legations here pa tiently awaiting a settlement of a small claim that he had against the Persian government. Ministers came and went, but he stayed on. At last his claim was paid, and he died cele brating his victory Few legations would have the cour age to put a man out, as it would bring down no small amount-of opprobrium upon them. The other day every shop in the great bazaar in Teheran closed, and be tween 5,000 and (JX00 men merchants, artisans and some priests went into the English legation and informed the acting minister that they were there to remain until the English govern ment took up their case with the Per sian government. Fortunately the grounds are large, but at best great damage must be done to the beautiful gardens by the 5,000 and more men camping on them. A short time ago these people would have gone to the Russian legation, but today it is passed by and forgotten, while the streets surrounding the Brit ish legation are filled with crowds who do not hesitate to say that England can have the country if she wants it. The whole city seems to be on a strike. Only the mails, butcher and baker have not been interfered with. Half a ton of bread daily is required to feed those within the legation com pound. All day long the Koran is read i end Allah is appealed to for help. In dependent. Cortc Fop tnKn?iiner. A new insulating material has re cently been invented by a Portuguese firm of cork merchants. It has for its principal component granulated cork and is called corticite. Its application is unlimited, for it will resist the cold of a Siberian winter and the rays of a tropical sun; also the attacks of in sects, even the white ant being power less against it. As a nonconductor of sound it should be useful in city fiats. On boiler tubes and boilers it is said to reduce the temperature of the boiler room to an agreeable one. It is not inflammable and may be generally adopted for partitions and linings of houses. Bricks and slabs of corticite are made for this purpose and can be sawed and bored like wood. It would seem to possess special advantages for use on warships, taking the place of wood as far as possible. New Orleans Times-Democrat. One I-es-jsred Girl Dancer. In a combination concert garden and dance h?.ll near the entrance to Pros pect pn?k, Brooklyn, may be seen near ly every night a girl with one leg danc ing merrily over the polished floor. Her dexterity with a crutch is almost marvelous, and there Is never a break in her perfect time with the music. Waltzes, twosteps and other round dances are indulged in. and the girl never lacks for partners. In fact, many who have danced with her say she is lighter on her feet than most girls with a full set of limbs. The girl Is pretty and, for that sort of place, very ladylike. In many re spects she is a mystery, as few know her name or history and why she re tains her love for dancing despite her handicap. New York Press. Cotton Paper. Some recent experiments have dem onstrated that all grades of paper can be manufactured from cotton stalks and in addition to this a variety of byproducts, including alcohol, cotton fiber and smokeless powder, can be se cured in commercial quantities. On the estimate that an acre of land pro ducing a field of cotton will also pro duce one ton of stalks, 10.000,000 or 12. 000.000 tons of raw material can be de pended upon annually. 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A registered letter containing- S-5,000 in currency, addressed" to the Fayette ville National Hank, by the Planters' National Bank, of Kichmon'i, Va., ar rived on FiiriXv. and on th-. Monday morning i'ollov ing the letter y.isl'ound missing. There is no clue to die thief. Why Certainly You can afford it! 38 cents per week pays for a TELEPHONE at your RESIDENCE Land for Sale. Ry virtue of the power of s;iU f-c.alncl in a certain rieert in trust exec-utf tfj " f, by .1. S. Tippett and Mrs. .J. '. Parke', or. ''member 2ft, I'M)'), and duly recorded ir iUs r.t a.pe Hook 60, page 21fe, of Granville county, 1 ; 011 MONDAY, NOVEMBEH J006, Bell by public auction to the highe: rdder for cash, at the Court House door ir. -Ox ford, 1 ho following described tract of lar'J. A certain tract of land in Fishing Creek rowr :,'.:p, Gran ville county, N.C, said to contain If" t'f s more or less, same being the land survey'.' for Mis. Kate Clay by Mr. Houghtaling a.' "ryundel as follows: On the west by Mrs. Kt if Clay, on jhe east by Fishing Creek, and for :: r.re acci rate riiscription reference is Riven f- -.ed con veyed by Simeon Tippett and wit ic J C. I'sir ker and J. S. Tippett in Hook r9. f-k( -i5 Jri 'bo office of the Register of J eeds. arc r: f a bovo 18 acres are described in said book 1 r.d of the same tract. Also one sorrel I rna.r. .v-ught of Parham P.i os Co. A prl 1 4th, l'.'fto. '.' - :r e of s-.alo 12 o'clock m. W. H. PA lit' A V, A. A. Hicks, Att'y. Trustee This October 17th P.m. Land for Sale I will fell nt public Hurtlor.ln front f tb court nou" rtonr on MONDAY. NOV. 17t.h. two valuable tracts of land ;r. Vwil- nut Grove townnhlp, bflor.ir.H; to the late S. W. Smith. Flrnr rret The home plac. containing w1-acre. Seconrl Tract ( n Houthnlde poad, adjoining the home tract containing 150 acres. Both trctn ape rented nut to ixnnd tena nt for another yen r. Both tracts are rented out to ood tenants for anorher vear R. T. SMITH, Agent. PARKKRS t3rtfep1 Clearing and iKau.-ff-f t-.e ban f-'M I'rn.mi a laxum. J erowth. fjl&'-Sfi'Sj jj K-Ter Fsile to i:cr.,-" Grey Vhyi, -.'V ti IIair to itB Vo:ii'r. ' I Color. friV iTr 1" ill caip deetei a ii.' fsuiuig. frcJ?frl 1 lir. nd I ' of ." -. v.-t. fci'ai-
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