"FOR OOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
"W. Pletcher Ausbon, Editor
VOL. IV.
PLYMOUTH, :N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1893.
NO. -15.
Published by ltoanoko Publishing Co.
, . la Switzerland very stringent laws
' jSst for the protection of fruit trees froa
mseots and other pests. No tree ownei
v is allowed to treat his trees as he chooses,
but aatnet watch is kept over both
.", aiaateur and professional horticulturists
.The Lond6n"6pectator is "perfectly
Satisfied to see the United States take
the Ilawaiian Islands, as England would
toe able to capture thera without any
trouble in the event of war, and in
(times of peace it would be just as con
venient a port as it was under a native
djousty,'
Says the"NeVYorVPres The Ni
' caracrua Canal will cut oil an on average
about ono-half the distance between this
foort and 500,000.000 -of people with
iwhorn we trade little and Great Britaie
' (trades much. The Suez Canal is in hei
'.'favor now. and we cannot meet her ot
even terms in thoso markets till our amp
can, cross the Isthmus, . .
f The death of General Beauregard
leaves but one of the seven full Generals
of the Souther 1 Army living and none of
the five men on whom the rank was con
ferred at the beginning ot . the war.
These five men were Cooper, Lee, Joseph
22. Johnston, Albert Sydney Johnston
And Beauregard. Bragg and Klrby
Smith were afterward made full Geo
. erals. Kirby Smith alone survives.
The fact that about 400 applications
'for patents were made last year by women
is an indication to the New York Prest
of how thoroughly the gentler sex is en
tenng into y the practical activities of
L . . ' I . ''I. If. . . . I iL a
, Tnouern me. juanyoi mese applications
relate to such industries as textile manu-'
act urea and railway and electrical de
vices. The unselfish spirit of the fair
, Snvcntors is exhibited by the fact ' that
among the products of the'r genius are
improved braces, button hole flower
. holders, self attaching neckties, sleeve
iliuks and trousers SDlash'Dreventers. Mac
til no longer sole lord of creation.
Poverty must indeed be bitter, muses
the Chicago Herald, when its victims
ledge their bodies for . the ' dis
.' section room in order to obtain a few
shilling for food. ' This was one ot the
suggestions acted on at the gatherings of
the unemployed at the east end, London,
recently. It was represented that "sub
jects" . are difficult to obtain and are
. quoted as high as $50. It was proposed
that the hungry men should sell their
- bodies in advance of death to the hos
pitals on condition of the present pay-
L - ' 2RT Ti , , t J 1
that tho market would soon become
overstocked.
urover Cleveland evidently thinks that
type-written letters- are not good form.
This, at least;, the New Orleans Picayune
. Ithinks, is the fair inference to be drawn
Ifrom the following 'incident A politi
cian of National prominence the other
'day, wishing to urge the claims of a cer
tain person for . a cabinet position, dic
tated a letter for Mr. Cleveland to his
' typewriter, signed it and sent it away.
Shortly afterward he received a reply,
written in a somewhat crabbed, but dis
tinct hand, which on elimination
proved to be an autograph of Mr. Cleve-
'- land. The gentleman has put the letter
carefully away, and says that he will
never again be guilty ot sending Mr.
"Cleveland a type-written letter. The
typewriter is very convenient, all the
same, ana a gooi aeat more legioie .nan
most autographs. ,
. A St. Louis man says that "it in
question just how far a silk hat and a1
supreme nerve will carry a man, but our
, people appear to yield readily to such in
fluences. The best instance of this is
Colonel Halo, of nowhere in particular,
but .who' has a habit of blowing in with
the spring breevw and promoting things
generally, much to his own interest.
Colonel Hale blew into a rapidly grow
Ing Western town recently and quickly
grasped the fact that there was no cable
toad. With everything gone but a silk
hat and $125, be spent $10 J for admis
sion into a swell local clnb and proceeded
to exist on the remaining $25. He
gathered about him the leading moneyed
men and laid bare the scheme of mill-
. ions in a cable road. lie agreed to ob
tain the franchise and put it all throuafa
fir $30,000, part of which was to be
v id down as a guarantee of gooi faith.
you bclieve'that that follow dusted
up his silk hat and attacked the alder
laen nest. By dint of promising and
pompon appearance of wealth bo' se
cured an ordinance, iras voted stock,
rtW tc"....!, was coming to Hen and V.y.v
'-iripj ev; r.iz towr"' ?
-. j. " ,-. rr.,Y""7rivr v-
thp help that comes too Late
'Us a wearisome world, this world of ours
With its tangles small and great.
Its weeds that smother the springing flower?.
And its hapless strifes with fate,
But the darkest day of its desolate days
Sees the help that oornes too late.'
Ah I woe for the word that is never said .
Till the ear is deaf to hear, '
And woe for the lack to the fainting head
Of the ringing shout of cheer;
Ah! wee for the laggard fot that tread
In the mournful wake of the bier.
What booteth help when the heart Is numb
What booteth a broken spar
Of love thrown out when the lips are dumb
And life's barque drifteth far.
Oh I far and fast from the alien past;
) Over the moaning barf
A pitiful thing the gift to-day
That is dross and nothing worth,
Though If it had come but yesterday
- It had brimmed with sweet the earth.
A fading rose In a death-cold hand,
a That perished in want and dearth. t
Who fain would help In this world of ours,
Where sorrowful steps must fall,
Bring help in time to the waning powers
-Ere, the bier is spread with the pall;
Nor send reserves when tho flags are f nrle J.
And the dead beyond your call. ; -
For baffling most hi this draary world,
With its tangles small and great,
Its lonesome nights and its weary days,
and its struggles forlorn with fate,
Is the bitterest grief, too deep for tears,
Of the help that comes too late.
Margaret E. Sangster, in Harper's Bazar
A Drummer's Adventure.
T is many years sine
I first went "on the
road,1' and I believe
my leuow commer
cials now reckon' me
as 'cute as they make
them. But I am not
ashamed to confess
that I was not icadj
made. Expericntii
docet "experienci
does it;" and, like
many others, I tad to pay for my cx
perience, not in money, as it eventually
turned out, but in personal liberty.
It was my first circuit in the employ
ment of Ilinde and Cooper, wholesale
jewelers and silversmiths, of Birming
ham. My round was an extensive one
from Stirling, on the edge of the Scot
tish Highlands, to Inverness, in the
north. I made the round twice a year,
in April and October, traveling with
samples and collecting accounts. , My
turn out consisted of a horse and trap
"machine," they call it in the north
and I made the journey in short sjtages,
and altogether found the work very
pleasant and enjoyable.
I was on my way from Perth to Edin
burgh on my southward journey. My
calls were over with tho exception of one
or two in Stirling and one in Linlithgow
before reaching Edinburgh, my head
quarters.
'Can I see Mr. Macgregor?" I asked n
shopman, as I drew up at the door of an
obviously flourishing establishment in
the High Street of Stirling. -
"Mr. Macgregor's not in him3elf.
Who is it that's asking: for him?"
"Turner, from Hinde and Cooper,
Birmingham."
I entered the shop. A man, half gen
tleman farmer, half jockey, was standing
at the counter making some purchase.
An elderly man came forward to address
me. - - '
"What's came of Sir. Naismith?" be
asked.
Naismith was my predecessor on the
round, but advancing years had rendered
his removal to a less laborious one ex
pedient. I explained as much to my
interrogator. -
"They'll all miss Mr. Naismith on the
road," he said. "I have known him
myself for nearly thirty years. You've
never been this way before, I think?"
"No, this is my first experience in
Scotland, even."
"You'll like it, no doubt. Mr,
Naismith was very fond of it."
I absented. . .
Mr. Macgregor was anxious to sco
you timsalf, I know; but he has had to
go to Edinburgh. He sud I was to go
for young Mr. Macgregor if you called
before his return T
"Oh, very welll"
Young Mr. Macgregor, I made out
was a solicitor, whose offices were almost
next door. He had, as is not. unusual
in Scotland, added to his legal duties
that of bank manager local manager
for pne of the Edinburgh banks.
On the entry of young Mr. Macgregor,
as everyone called him, weTidjourned to
a little room behind the shop, separate!
from it by a gks3 partition, the view
iMJ
scured by a number of silver and plated
goods arranged on shelves.
Our business was soon transacted. Mr.
Macgregor handed me a roll of notes of
the British Linen Company's Bank, some
eight 'hundred pounds in all, which I
counted and found correct. The fore
man, who had been attending to the
horsey individual I have already referred
to, banded me a fresh order in hig mas
ter's handwriting. I was pleased to see
it was a large one, and, highly satisfied
with the tmsinejs of the day,' proceeded
to my hotel.
It was the eve of Tryst at Falkirk, not
far frcm Stirling, the great cattle market
of Scctland, frequented by biyers and
sellers from all parts of of the kingdom.
Stirling was crowded with visitors, as
usual on such an occasion ; and so, after
a oriet rest, and baiting my horse, 1 de
termined to drive on as far as Linlithgow,
and pass the night there.
I had a good dinner, and was just on .
the point of retiring to my room when
the noise of wheels rapidly passing the
window attracted my attention.
There was a knock at the outer door,
and a few moments after the waitei
looked in, saying;
"A gentleman to see you. sir."
"Show the gentleman in.'
But he did not require showing in, foi
ho had followed close on the waiter's
heels. . He came hastily forward and
shook me warmly by the hand. He was
an elderly gentleman, whose Ion 2 white
beard ana wmte locks gave mm a very
venerable appearance. An elder of the
Kirk of Scotland at least, I said to my
self. He was travel-stained, and obvi
ously very agitated.
"Mr. Turner, I am glad to have been
able to meet you," he said.
"Yes?" I replied interrogatively, for I
had no idea who he was.
- "My name's Macgregor Macgregor of
Stirling. Your principals know me
well." ;
"I assure you I am glad to see you," 1
replied, now shaking his hand in turn;
"your name , Is a familiar one in our
house; but," observing his emotion, "I
hope there'B nothing wrong!" .
"I hope not, my young friend," he
replied ; "at least, nothing but what can
bo amended, I hope. May I ask you if
you have sent off the notes you got from
my son to-day?"
"No, I shall wait till I reach Edin
burgh," I said. '
"Thank. Heaven I" he fervently ejacu
lated, and then burst into a loud fit of
sobbing, tho tears running down his
cheeks and over his venerable beard.
"Mr. Turner," he said in -a broken
voice, and at intervals between his sobs,
'you see before you an old man who has
lived for over seventy years a blameless
life, respected by everybody, and yet my
gray hairs are to be brought down in
sorrow to the grave. My son, my son!
Thank God his mother's dead!"
I had some difficulty in prevailing
upon the old gentleman to try to restrain
bis agitation, and at last managed to get
from his sad story
It seemed that for some months past a
large number of forged notes, purport
ing to be genuine drafts on the British
Linen Company's Bank, had been in cir
culation, and . peoplo were somewhat
chary about receiving any without the
most careful examination. When I
heard this my band moved instinctively
to my breast pocket. )
"Wuit a moment, Mr. Turner, said
the old gentleman. "My son, who was
as steady and promising a young man as
you'd find in ail the . Lothians and Star
lingshire too, has lately given way to
drink and horse-racing and gambling.
I have been suspecting . for some time
that his money matters were not in tho
best of order, and I don't like the look
of his associates, especially at Tryst
times." '
Here I recalled the individual I had
myself seen in the shop, but had not
noticed any communication between him
and young Macgregor.
"To make a long story short," ro.
sumeel the worthy old man, "my fore
man apprised me as soon as I got home
that my son had duly paid you, but not
with the notes he knew I had left for
that purpose. I left him Bank of Eng.
land notes. It he has paid you in that
money no harm is done, but"
"No, ho has net," I said, becoming
ahu)st as agitated as my old friend him
seif.X ''ih, don't say there are British
Lined!" '
By this time I had my pocket-book
oat, and handed him one oi the rpU of
tsotei us r-'- V son hi 1 '.:!r- r
Macgregor examined it carefully. .
"It seems all right, I am thankful to
say," he remarked; then holding it be
tween him and tho light on the table:
"It's a forgery ; the watermark's wrong 1"
One by one we examined the roll.
Tho watermark in all was identical, and
consequently all were as bad as the first.
Again the old man broke down, and
my own heart was in my mouth,' I can
tell you. At last, to my intense relief,
pulling bis pocket-book from his pocket,
he said:
"Mr. Turner, only you and I know of
the crime my wretched son has com
mitted. - His fate,, and mine, too, I may
say, are in your hands. Will you give
me those notes for genuine ones? I have
them here in my hand. I will sond my
son out of the country. He richly de
serves 'prosecution; but let me beg of
you to have pity, not upon him, but
upon me."
I was really thankful to be able to
oblige old Macgregor, especially as by
doing so 1 saved myself further trouble
in the matter of the forged notes. A
prosecution would mean a loss of time
and money, and what would my employ
ers have thought of my lack of caution?
The old gentlemen took his leave with
every protestation of gratitude, fervent
ly assuring me that he would remember
me that night aud many a night to come
at the throne of grace. '
I drove into Edinburgh next morning.
I left the horse and trap at tho livery
stable Naismith had been in the habit ot
using, and betook myself to an . hotel ii
Princes street. Thence I wrote to my
principals, inclosing the notes that now
seemed doubly precious. I retained one
of ten pounds, as I had still a day or two
to spend in town before my return to
Birmingham I happened, however, to
get through all my business that after
noon, and on the following morning pre
pared to leave. I had not left myself
much time to catch the train, and was
chaling in the dining room at the wait
er's delay with the receipted bill and the
change for ray ten-pound note.
I. was trying to solace myself with the
view of the Wave'rly monument, just in
front of the hotel, when I heard some
one enter the room.- I knew by the step
it was not fhe waiter,. so I did not turn
my head. The party, whoever it was,
however, came up to me, and, touching
me on the shoulder, said
"Will you b9 good enough to come
this way ?"
"No, I can't; I shall Ibe too late for
my train ns it is
"Your train
will have to wait some
time." :
"What do you mean, and who are
you I"
'Dinna craw so cruse"- fco meant
"Don't crow so loudly;" "it means that
I'm a detective, and you must ge witJ
me to the police office." s .
It was useless to -resist.
'Anything you say may be used in
evidence ajrainst yoV ho warned me.
On our way to tho station he told me
that my ten-pound noto was a forgery,
that others of a similar kind had been
in circulation,' and that suspicion pointed
to me as one of the gang uttering them.
My southern accent was, in his eyes,
enough to justify uny suspicions of me,
as the notes were importations from the
other side of the Border. '
I told my story to the chief police
official, the Procurator-Fiscal, but 1
could see I was not believed. , Inquiries
would, however, be male at Birmingham
and . Stirling. The magistrate before
whom I was brought in thecoursof the
morning remanded me for a week. I did
not apply for bail, as I knew no one in
Edinburgh, except one or two customers
of our house, and they had only mj
vord for my identity.
On the fifth day of my incarceration I
was told that some one had called to see
me. in a waiung-room 1 zouna jut.
Hinde,youog Mr. Macgregor,and an old
geatleman whom I did not know. ' He
turned out to bo the young man's real
rather, not the venerable swindler of
Linlithgow.
Mr. Ilinde informed me that I had
sent him nearly eight hundred pounds'
worth of forged notes, and that he had
narrowly escaped arrest himself on seek
ing to get change for one at Warwick,
but fortunately the inquiries from Edin
burgh had helped to explain matters.
He further told me that two men had
been apprehended in Falkirk,' one ot
whom had sou ;Ut to pv one of the
irenuine notts 'of wLUU I had bce:f
Dwindled. ' nn.l navmet;t .f v?liich had
IV-
;i':-n stopped l-y young Macgregor.
and I was allowed out on bail, the two
Macgregors, who were well-known, be
coming responsible for my appearance.
Two days after I again, appeared in
the dock, and to my great satisfaction
there stood in it also the oil gentleman
whose acquaintance I had made at Lln-
I lithgow, and the horsey man I had seen
in M icgregor s shop. My venerable old
friend had dispensed with bis beard and
WJ3 They had served their turn.
I was discharged from custody, and
called upon to give evidence. The whole
of the notes had been recovered, a fact
which caused me no little gratification..
I hnd been the victim of a gang who had
come to . the Tryst to get their notes
placed ; and the conversation overheard
in Mecgregor's shop by the old mm's
companion, and, no doubt, the sight of .
what took place in the back room, hal
suggested their scheme, which my de
parture for Linlithgow had admirably
furthered. v
Along with other two they wero sen
tenced to fourteen years' penal servitude
each. Since then I do not allow senti
ment to come in the way of business.
The Atlantic Sea Bed.
Proceeding westward from the Irish
coast the ocean bed deepens very gradu
ally; in fact for the first 230 miles the
gradient is but six feet to the mile. In
the next twenty miles however, the all
is over 9000 feet, and so precipitous is
the sudden descent that in many places
depths of 1200 to 1600 fathoms are en
countered in very close proximity to the
100 fathom line. With the depth of
1800 to 2000 fathoms the sea bed in this
part of the Atlantic becomes a slightly
undulating plain, whose gradients are so
light that they show but little alteration
of depth for 1200 miles. The extraor
dinary flatness of these submarine prair
ies renders the familiar simile1 of the
basin rather Inappropriate. - The hollow
of the Atlantic is not strictly a basin,
whose depth increases regularly toward
the center; it is rather a saucer or dish
like one, so even is the contour of its
bed. .
The greatest depth in the Atlantic has
been found some 100 miles to the north
ward of the ishnd of St. Thomas, where
soundings of 3575 fathoms were ob
tained. The seas round Great Britain
can hardly be regarded as forming part
of the Atlantic hollow. They are rather
a part of the platform banks of the Euro
pean continent which the ocean has over-,
flowed. An elevation of -the sea bed
100 fathoms would suffice to' lay bare
the greatest part of the North Sea and
join England to Denmark, Holland, Bel-
ium, ana Jfrance. -A deep channel of
water would run down the west coast of
Norway, and with this the majority of
the fiords would be connected. A great
part of tho Bay of Biscay would disap.
pear; but Spain and Portugal are but
little removed from the Atlantic depres
sion. The 100 fathom line approaches
very near the west coast, and soundings
of 1000 fathoms can be made within
twenty miles of Cape St. Vincent, and
much greater depths have been sounded
at distanced but little greater than this
from the western shores of the Iberian
Peninsula.- Nautical Magazine.
A Marvelous Kegien of Giant cedars.
W. E.'Bftines, who, with R. J. Gra
ham and the Spreckels Brothers, is build
ing the C00&1 Bay, Roseburg and Eastern
Railroad, ha arrived here from' Marsh
field, Oregon, the headquarters of the
company.
"There is the greatest forest of pine,
cedar and othei trees on our route ' up
the Coquille River," said Mr. Baines,
"that I know ot on the Pacific Coast.
The trees are prodigious and as thick as
they can stand. Because ot their being
30 thick it is not an easy task to build
the road, but it will pay remarkably
well when completed, became of the log
and other freight.
"We are now as busy as we can be
getting down timber for the five or six
big mills along the river and bay. The
lumber industry was never so thriving
there. They have been at work on the
timber immediately around Marsh field for
thirty years, and the good timber has
been cut out. For this reason there is
plenty for the road to do in bringing
down the superior'timber."
Mr. Baines says the scenery along the
route of the new jroad in the Coast
Mountains is as wild as the fanous Cow
Creek canyon, but the country is not so
roub.. San Francisco Examiner.
1?V Adicv,J,iti Florida, is without
borders, has not asingto
tl-raa ainrrle barroom In
BiOl
Crantfs Used en a Cattle Range, ;
The cattle all over the West, says I
Fort Worth (Texas) correspondent, are
Identified by brands burnt into the sides,
flanks or shoulders of the cattle end
horses. These brands are . recorded In
county and State offices and with the
various cattle associations. Inspectors
are placed by public and private organ
izations at the principal stock yards and
shipping points ready to seize any ani
mal in any car load for which the ship
per cannot show a clean bill of sale.
Every cattle company and each smil
farmer is obliged to have his recordel
brand if he wishes to own a single head
of stock. '
"Look at this," said Mr. Barne3, pro
ducing an illustration of all the brands
in common use on the Wyoming range.
"This was furnished to all of us as a
guide when we got on the range to assist
us In the work of identifying stolen cat
tle. How many brands do you see there
that could not be altered by a little - in
genuity to resemble some other brand in
the list? Of- course the rustler, when
he changes a brand, must make one
which resembles some other registered
brand, or he could not get rid of the
cattle. -When it is impossible for him
to make such a change ho resorts to the ,
methods of obliterating the old brands
altogether and then burning any new
one he wants. They have invented the
fiat-iron brand, designed to cover over
and burn out any small letters. A ge
nius among them invented the spade
brand, which consisted of heating a
spaae ana slapping it against me ani
mal's side. It did the work. The in
ventor had a sudden attack of diphthe
ria and died before he could get his
boots off, but his. works do survive
him." - '
"Is there no brand incapable o. im
itation or obliteration?"
'I never saw but one. You will fi ad
if. in that nri nt nrl list. It iff on all the
F , -
cattle oi a big horder.named Baird. Tho
letters are both wide and tall and cover
one side of an animal from head to tail.
They look like a circus poster. Mr.
TtairH h rinvpr lixt anv cattle. I told
him he was spoiling his hides. 'I can
afford to throw away the bide3 to keep
the cattle,' said be."
Prevalence of Color Blindness. -
It is impossible to obtain thd execs
knowledge regarding the prevalence of
color blindness. But the figures gath
ered by the investigation of the British
Royal Society seem to show tha't there ex
ists among mankind pretty uniform
rate of color blindness. Out of 50,000
men examined by three authorities of the
highest eminence nearly four per cent,
were found to be affected. Investiga
tions among sailors in the navy and
merchant marine, in many educational
establishments, such as Eaton and
Westminster, and in regiments such as
the Coldstream Guards, showed that the
same, it not a somewhat mgner, per
centage of disease prevailod. Two reg
iments ot Japanese infantry belonging
to the Tokio garrison were examined,'
with the result that sixty-eight out ot
1200 men were found to have weak or
incomplete vision. If these figures are
correct there seems no reason to doubt
that the same" proportion of color blind
ness exists among sailors and employes
of railroads, in whom the disease is, of
both to themselves and the lives of those.
who are in their charge. New York
Times. -
AWanderful Bridge.
A frontier correspondent says that the -,
most wonderful thing on the Gil get
road is the suspension bridge thrown by
Captain Aylmer over the Indus at the site
of the permanen- structure now build
inrr. The SDan is some 350 feet, and '
the materials used are nothing but tele
graph wire, wood and a few crowbars
let into the rock and used to fasten tuo
stays. It is the most startling strut Cur'
to come across in the gorge o luo Indus.
The gallant constructor used to ride over
it, but less enterprising mortals walk and
admire the really extraordinary ingenuity
displayed' in the construction. Seen
from a slight distance it seems to hang
suspended in the air like Mohammed's
coffin, so delicate do the ropes of tele
graph wires which support it seem ; whoa
one is close it looks, with its nunieroui
stays of wire fastened to points up and
down the banks, as if it were a giant
spider's web. Yokohama (Japan) A;
vertiser.
The coast line cf
3100 miles fro: n -:
moK.t 200 ;tLi:
California
tb. to souti
: "i the oc-. .
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and ;u
1 xi V:
throe i
was o
"lOnC'tor w;
red to c r ir fgr
paviTTx lino