"FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH"
W.'rictcUer Auabon, Editor
VOL. IV.
PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1893.
NO. 48.
Published by Koanoke PublishingOo
THE AL.L-H5ABING,
The wind is riainc. and tha trtm
, Sob their heartfelt sympathies, .
.While my cry is caught and tossed
. By the tempest then is lost
; But the Master who has wrought
I . Musio o His sweetest thought,
Hears the least discordant tone
i So my ory is heard by One.
Flavel Scott Mines, In Harper's Weekly.
MARGERY'S SITUATION,
EE Emersons wen
slaves, bound har
fast to the tyrannj
of custom t h i
boundage of keep
"ing up a fashions
ble appearance with
a inadequate meant
iL to suppori it.
. Upon Mrs. Emer
son and Harry, the only son, tha yoke
did not weigh heavily, but it. sorely
galled Mr. Emerson; and Margery, the
'only daughter, chafed against it with all
'the ineffectual impatience of her seven
teen years. ' '
j Life would be so much easier if "we
could only give up pretending!" she
cried ; but her mother and Harry scoffed
athcr philosophy. The striving and
,pretonding, the staving off one debt aud
;getting into another went on apace.
Lying alone in the hammock in the
fragrant twilight of . a late May day,
i Margery, .was .thinking over things in
general with a noble discontent, when
euddeuly , from i he room beyond she
heard ' the voices of her mother" and
father.Y - Mrs. Emerson's tones were con
ciliatory, as they were to be when she
sought somo new favor; hor husband's
accents were shrill and impatient, as if
his last thread of endurance were
strained. ' , ,
"I thought," Henry7youl'Iike the idea
of Margery taking this trip with the
! "Like it? Yes, immensely, but l
we shall all be called upon to take a trip
to- the poorhouso instead. I came to
that conclusion this morning when three
of Master Harry's bills were fcrwarded
me, each of them four .times' larger than.
if: mirrhf. tt Va ' " .
- "Well, Mt Henry,! you can't expect a
young man to get through Harvard with
out bills." r. rr
The conciliatory tones was dashed
with defiance now, and the sharpness of
the answering voice was increased. -ir
; "I don't expect it. - Considering tha
sort of young man Harry is, I should bo
a fool if I did. And yet I don't blame
him half so much as I blame myself. I
started him wrong. He'd be twice the
man he is now if he had been making
his living for the last two' years, instead
of vying with millionaires sons, acting
as. though my pour little bucket of re
sources were an inexhaustible spring.
J And though it is different with Margery,
the principle is the same. With all that
her private schools have done for hor, I
doubt if she could earn a dollar for her-
'self, and who knows how soon she may
need it P ' ' :
ah this was so "wildly unlike tor much
t enduring, . indulgent father , that for a
moment the unwilling listener on the
' piazza felt inclined to doubt both J his
identity and her own; but her disposi
tion was so like his that she felt an im
patient pity for the feebleness of hor
mother's reply. , '
j "But Henry I Harry will be sure to
repay you some day, and a girl as bright
and pretty as Margery cannot fail to
- marr; well." '
I "Now, May," he answered, with aided
venemence, "thnt i9 just where th ; tot
tenncsss of our system comes in. Harry
will never repay me, for he has not been
brought up to any sense of moral obliga
tion.. If he would put his shoulder to
the wheel, I could manage to get through
. somehow. But I have no hopes ot him.'
"Why, to-day ray friend Sinclair juro
poscd giving 'Harry a place a3 cleric for
' the summer, iu bis cuo'imer hotel in
iMaine. But none of that sort of thing
for my son and heir! ' He is going with
a party to the -Adirondack. "Margery
-bless the child ! would take a cham
bermaid's place, I, believe, if she thought
that by doing so she could save me one
jang. But I doubt if she could do even
xthat. All her chances, ".it seems, 1 are
staked on a wealthy marriage a pretty
poor ambition, it strikes me, for days
like these.'1 ' ; : : -
j Then it was that Margery,' like soma
modern Joan of Arc, heard a voica
--vhich vi Nrwro-l of ; ,c'j;iict loyal
that, leaning over the piazza rail, she
said excitedly to hersalf: ;
" "I will I HI givfi Harry , a chance first,
' for he could save papa more thaa half
this worry. U he refuses to help me,
I'll give him a lewon he will not forget
very soon."
The next evening Harry came home to
spend Sunday. Margery attacked, him
' with all her might and main. Keeping
her own project completely in the back
ground, she appealed to his sense of jus
tice, his sympathy, his manliness, and
every other virtue it might be possible
for him to possess; but there was not a
shadow of care upon Harry's handsome
face as he said .
: "Now, Margery, you were always an
agitator, but I think it's a little unfair to
work on my feelings so near the end of
the year. You'd be eaten up with ro
morse If you got' me so unstrung that I
couldn't pass. And anyway, old girl,
father's all right. This sort of thing
has been going on ever since I remem
ber. There's always more or less of a
racket, but we get there just the same."
And to save him a little of the rack '
et to show him that, after all, he
needn't despair of you you'll not take
this position with Mr. Sinclair, instead
Af coins to the Adirondackst" -
, Harry only laughed. I wftqa't made
for a hotel clerk, Margery. I haven't
diamonds enough; and besides, I prom
ised Fitch and Morrison months ago that
I'd go with them. A gentleman never
breaks his word, you know."
- lie lixhtly tried to kiss her then, but
he scorn in her eyes deterred him, anJ
hi laughter subsided under her reply.
But the gentleman may break his
father's heart one of these days, or tempt
him to try how fast a bullet can take
him out of his troubles." ;
Harry gave a long whistle. "Mar
gery," he cried, "what is a fellow to do
under a tongue like yours!" ,
But Margery knew sadly well that,
thouph he was neither bad at heart nor
vicious, the "fellow" in question' loved
his own pleasure too well to do the thing
she required of him. When he had gone
she whispered to herself ( - '
"I shall have to do itt 'It's just as
heroic treatment for me as for him, but
I don't leel as if I could draw back
now." . ', ; : ' '
i-v . A day or two later, -having 'still fur
ther matured her plans, tshe said to her
mother: "
r "If you don't mind mamma, I should
like go to Boston this week' to visit
Cousin Sally. You know she's been ask
ing me ever sinee I wrote ' her that I
could not go to school on account of mv
eyes. I am sure she will not think it too
much if I go for a few days now, and go :
again for Commencement week." .
' , Now Cousin Sally was a maiden lady, j
with just such radical' proclivities as
were beginning to make themselves: ap
parent in Miss Margery. Mrs. Emerson
hesitated as to giving her consent. Then ,
she saw the other side of the question, j
In both social and financial respects ;
Miss Sally Parkhurst could afford to do ,
as she pleased. Her favor was a thing
to be desired.' Margery did need a ,
change; and last of all, this often un
wise but always loving mother hated to .
refuse her children anything. j
'Very well she said; "but you mu3t
not stay too 'long. We'll ' have your
Class-day dress) made next week, and
you know howiimportant it is that yoti (
should be here to try it on."
"Oh, I know it' very important,"
wily Margery answered, .gravely; add-j
ing then, "I promise I will not stay long
with Gausin Sally." y :
According to the letter of it, she kept .
her word. She only stayed over a'
couple of days in the tall old West End j
house which had 8helter'edseveral1"gen,'J
erations of Farkhursts, but into those
days was crowded much cemfort and .
encouragement. Prom this old house, '
on the afternoon of the third day, a
trembling thought hopeful maiden, bagj
n hand set out for Cambridge, and '
Miss Sally followed her in spirit with
some anxiety and much sympathy.
Margery's scheme was to Cousin Sally's
liking but' handsome' Harry, busy with
his own plans and ambitions, had not s
faintest premonition that Nemesis was
approaching him. . V
. So far as his gay, easy-loving disposi
tion would permit, those days were anx
ious ones even to him. ; But his spirits
did not suffer thereby, and it was with
an appetite wholly unimpaired that he j
walked into his boarding-house in time
for dinner on the evening of the day of
llargcry's ritim? i,o Cambridge, '
just. then, and a somewhat depressing
letter from his father was in his pocket.
But Fitch was telling a funny story as
Harry seated himself.
! Catching the point in 'his own quick
way, he laughed as heartily over it as
any. Then he himself told an anecdote
.apropos of the other, and was listening
to a confidence from hjs neighbor on thi
right.: . .
,f "Say, Emerson, Miranda has gone
away. We have a new table girl, and
she's a beauty.'? 4
'. Then behind him the new girl spoke:
"Will you have mulliatawy ox '-mi
broth, sir!"1.
! If he had lost his comnoaure comnlete
'ly; if he had jumped up and denounced
her, or even if he had fainted betore his
mulligatawny oculd reach him, this new
. table girl would hsrdly have been sur
prised. ... But h did neither of these
thing. . , , "
Starting slightly, he turned around
and looked her in the face: but thouzh
nis own ruddy cheek did change color
there was no recognition in his gaze. In
the coolest possible voice ho replied,
"Broth, please 1" - 1
- Then Morrison acros? the table called
out mockingly: "Our friend Emerson's
struck all of a heap with so much youth
and beauty."
' Emerson, quite in his usual manner,
auswered, "I'm all of that, I assure
you,"
But all his sang froid could not pre
vent him from finding that dinner a bit
ter one; and his father's letter in his
pocket seemed to have gained an added
weight. ' - ....
' An hour or two later he retraced his
steps toward the boarding house, rang
the bell, and brought the landlady her
self to the door. '
. "I want to see that new table girl,
Mrs. Coffin,"' he said. ' . "She left my
mother only this week, and I have a
message for her."
" "Oh, it's all right,'.' he added, impa-
liently, as Mrs. Coffia lingered with
lome inquiry in her eyes; "you needn't
be afraid."
..Concluding that even if it were all
wrong she had nothing to fear, the land
lady went out at once and sent the girl
in. ' . v
Margery came with her pretty head
erect, and no fear in her innocent eyes.
But tumult was in her heart, and at first
she could not find voice to answer his
imperious greeting.
"May I ask the meaning of this mas
querading, Miss Emerson t Whatever it
is, you certainly choose a nice way to
disgrace both yourself and me," he said,
till more angrily, after a moment's
pause, and then she flashed upon him
There never was 'any disgrace in
iionest work! It'g'you who ore In much
more' danger of disgracing us all, and
perhaps you will think so yourself if
your selfishness and extravagance kills
papa. ' He is just sick with anxiety now,
and you. could save him from it if you
only would.. I urn sura you could live
on half what you do, and you' have so,
much influence with mamma that she,
would save, too, if you would only talk:
to her. I'm , not clever, I know, but I
could do the "housemaid's work, and I
would, but you will not do anything.
You refused - to take that situation, and
you only laughed at me when I talked to
you the last time you were home. Asd
then I just made up my mind that if you
were too proud to work I'd show you
thatl wasn'tl" ' v...
All through this torrent of words her
brother walked angrily around, affecting .
not to listen. ; But he stood still now,
(looking sternly, and seriously. to.'Jier'
face. . ' .
"And you will stay here and do this'
menial work Just for the sake of shaming
met' ' . " : ;;: . 1 "
Put in this way 'she did not like the
sound of it. but he held her grouud un
flinchingly. , .v . .
I "I not only mean to say it, but I mean
to do it. Oh, you need not look at me
like thatl I don't like it you may be
sure. I could have' sunk into the ground
this evening when those young men
joked about me. But I've begun, and I
am going to go on. I'm nat going to ,
be a sham or a burden one day longer."
Ha walked away from her then, and
leaning against the mantel, remained in
utter silence fully five minutes. To mo3t .
of ua, however ease-loving or however
hardened, there are moments when it is
Wivca us to see a new heaveu and a new
!iirtV, aud to Harry Emerson tUi? flash
the border of shells wherewith Mrs
Coffin had flanked her fireplace.
i Margery watched him with intensv
.anxiety. -,' Under all her pain and disap
pointment she had still such faith in him
that it was not wholly a surprise to her
when, returning to her side, he said,
with all the anger gone from his voice t
: "We must call Mrs. Coffin in and ex
plain to her, Margary. 'Say anything
lyou like -I don't care but I'm going
to take jou into Cousin Sally's this
evening. Your mission is accomplished.
I'll take the hotel place or do anything
else thatl can to help; and when I fait,
I'll give you leave to go out to servic
again as fast as you please." -
Margery,1 looking up at him through,
her happy tears, felt almost as if sho
were marring the splendor of his surren
der by saying as she did : .
"But, Harry, I must tell you! Cousin
Sally said that if you saw things this
way, she would pay every debt you owe,
and help papa out of the tight place he
is in. She never did help us before, she
said, because we seemed to her so lack
ing in principle."
j But even when Miss Sally had helped
them to such an extent that they soon
sailed past all the breakers of which I
have written, Harry's new manliness
proved seaworthy. So effectutlly, in.
'deed, did he learn ' the lesson which
Margery gave, that his contributions to
the family exchequer saved her from any
need to take a situation. Youth's
iCompanion.; ' '
Civilization Brings Short Sight.
The subject t of shortsightedness.,,
animals was under consideration at a
meeting of the Paris Academy of Medi
cine, when M. Motals, of Augers, main
tained that this defect in vision is one of
the products of civilization. An unex
pected proof of this view was found in
jthe condition ofwild beasts, is tigers,,
jlions, etc. - M. Motals, having examined
j their eyes by means of 4he ophthalmo
scope, discovered that those captured
after the age of six or eight months re
tained the long sight natural to them,
but that those made captives before that
age, and those born in a state of captiv
ity, were short-sighted. ' Some ; time
since a case was published of a horse in
I this country that wears spectacles. . The
farmef who owned him, having cpmo to
the conclusion from various symptoms
that the' horse was shortsighted, got an
oculist to take the- necessary measure
ments, and had a pair of spectacles man
ufactured for him. ' They were made to
fasten firmly into the headstall, so that
they did not shake out of place. At first
the horse appeared startled by this addi
tion to his harness, but he soon got
used to the glasses and liked them.
"If fact," said the owner to a Brook
lyn Eagle man, "when I turned him out
to pasturo he felt uneasy and uncomfort
able without his goggles, and one Sun
day he hung around the barn ' and
whinnied so plaintively that I put the
headstall and goggles on him, and he
was so glad that he rubbed my shoulder
with hjs nose." - It is thought th,t the
vice of shying, which spoils so many
otherwise valuable horses, is induced by
shortsightedness. The animals cannot
see some particular object sufficiently
plainly to feel sure that it is of a harm
less nature, and so shies away from it.
Owners of dogs may. often prove that
their pets suffer from short sight, and it
will often be found that a dog is unable
to recognize people with whose appear
ance it is most intimate when they are a
little way off, while another dog at the
same distance has no difficulty whatever
in recognizing them. . Dogs have been
provided with spectacles in the same
way as the farmer's hone alluded to, and
have been conclusively shown to have
derived great benefit from (hem. -New
Orleans Picayune. ; '
. Dust an Accident; ' : T
The first New York daily newsnjaper
to issue a Sunday edition was the Herald,
and according to Mr. Robert Bonner,
the innovation was duo to an accident.
ne Saturday the Horald galleys, on
which the set up tpye Is held in readi
ness for making up into pages, were
filled with left over matter which had
been crowded out of the Saturday paper,
and Mr. .Bennett said to his loremao,
'Let's get up a Sunday issue. Use the
old' matter, and put in a few fresh .
things." This happened hortly before
the outbreak of the war, and as the pub-,
lication of, a Sunday newspaper was ,at
that timo considered disreputable, tha
other dailies did not follow the Herald's
xaniple until the bcgi&nincj of JhostilU
3 created an f.iao""l,m vod for Uew3
I :a the frcnt (
MARINE. NEWS.
ItFPORTINO INCOMING AND OUT.
GOING VESSELS AT MEW YORK.
Inside Workings ol the Observatories
iown the Big Harbor How. the
- Ships' Signals Are Head The
' Observer as a Lite Saver.
TT"THE Western Union Telegraph
I j 1 Company , makes $100,000 a
JL, year reporting the arrivals and
.. departures of vessels via Sandy
Hook and Long Island Sound. It is one
of the most profitable branches of the
ter rice. ' There is a station on the bluff
of the Highlands of Navesink, coast of
New Jersey, from "which stretches a wire
that taps ' stations at Sandy .Hook and
the Qua! an tine grounds on Staten Isl
and on its winding way to this city.
Those three stations report all the ves
eels that enter and leave port by way of
Sandy Hook, .i The stations are called
marine observatories, x Those ot Sandy
Hook and the Highlands of Navesink are
conducted by three men, who take turns
of eight hours: each. Their principal
duty is to sight and signal passing craft,
but, in addition to being marine observ
ers, they are experienced telegraphers.
First of all they sight an incoming craft
in the east offing oi seaward toward the
east or south, and then they read the
four colored flags which she flies. vThese
flags are part of the international code ,
of signals.'.- , -
By means of an international agree
ment every registered ocean vessel has
a certain set of signals to indicate her
name. : No two vessels belonging to the
same company have the same signals.
There are no vowels in the code. After
"reading" the flag's or letters, as they
are nautically. called, the observer goes
to a big book containing the names and
signals of every ocean going craft, and
he picks out the name of the incoming
vessel in a jiffy.
Then he goes to the telegraph key,
and .before the incoming vessel has trav
eled more than a few cables' length the
report that the So-and-So is coming
up" is on the Maritime Exchange and in
shipping circles generally. The opera
tors have a regular code for reporting
the vessels. Hi stands for Highlands,
G for Hook and Rn for Quarantine.
Here's" how the crude. reports read: 8,
Veendam L Rn; 9:04, City of New York
P in Q; 7:40, La Bourgogne clear Q;
10:40 stg S S P iu Q; no sig from east;
11:03, Newport, S of L B, Hi. V
AM of which interpreted means: 8
o'clock, steamer Veendam, leaving Quar
antine; 9:04, sceamcr City of New York,
passing in Sandy Hook; 7:40, steamer
La Bourgogne has - cleared the bar
bound seaward; 10:40, a strange steamer
passing in Hook, showed no signals,
came from the east; and 11:03, steamer
Newport, south of Long Branch, re
ported by the Highlands. That's how
the marine news is dished up. Flags
are used as signals during the day, bat at
nights lights are flared up, sky rockets
and roman candles are discharged by
vessels to inform the observers of. their
names. .
Every1 line has a fixed night signal,
luchas three white lights burned for
ward, amidships and aft, a blue and red
forward and aft, three reds,etct There
are hundreds of different ways of burn
ing these lights and rockets so that the
Oo3i rer may know to what line the ves
sel belongs. He cannot tell-the name of
the vessel by them, but he generally
knows what ship is due in any particu
lar line and his goo d Judgment does the
rest, '
In addition to reporting the . move
ments of shipping, the marine observer
has to maintain an hourly inspection over
an instrument which records the velocity
and direction of the winds. This is doner
for the Government, and for that sev
vice he gets extra pay. Then he has
frequently to give orders to incoming
vessels. This, too, is done by flags.
'You are ordered to Philadelphia," , or
"Go to Charleston to load," ts told by
two flags, but it requires a lot of hard
work' to pick these signals from the code
book, hoist the flags to the peak of the
flagstaff and keep an open eye fcir other,
vessels, and receive private telegraph
"business" at the same time. , :
The disaster signals of incoming craft
are also a source of great trouble to the
marine operator,- The mere presence of
the signal flags JL B., N. M. or N. V.
lx the rigging of an incoming ship would
mean,' nothing to the lAndsman,but to tho
auiine olsirver they iudicitca droahV,
prVlicaia't, the first fciaU teadiar, 't
"I am on fire," and the third, "I am
linking." ,.
' The marine ohssrvers have saved many
s good ship from destruction. They have
handled the letters. J. D. -"You are
itanding into daoger"-thousand of time,
tnd with their aid have warned mariners
who had ventured too far in shore or too
near some dangerous shoal.
At the Quarantine station there are
Tour operators and two news gatherers.
me lacier go aoaaraaume vessels iroin
foreign ports, get their manifests, ab-
ttracts of logs, passenger lists, if they'
have any, and such other papers and in-'
formation as the shipping world may re
quire. One works during the day, the
ather at night. The wire that runs from
he Highlands of Navesink, Sandy Hook '
tnd Quarantine has three connections ini
this city, One is at the Maritime Ex
shange, the second at the Ship 'News '
Office at ' the Battery, and the third 1n
the Western Union main ollice. . There L
i wire to Fire Island,' but this connects ,
with the main office . only. Tuese wires
originally belonged to the Sandy Hook, '
Quarantine and City Island Telegraph
Company, an enterprise of the Maritime
Exchange, which was absorbed by the
Western Union a few years ago. , i
Jibe observatory at Fire Island is
ibout as tall as that of Sandy Hook. The
satter is nine stories high. It is a oar
row, dingy tower, and is braced by ira- j
tnense stays that run crosswise through
tta'interior. There are four portholes on
each story or one on each side. These
portholes are used for the telescopes
with which the vessels are sighted. Out
side the portholes are fan-shaped ledges
with covers to keep the telescopes from
falling when suddenly i abandoned and
also to prevent the rain from falling oa
the glass and obscuring the vision. j
The telegraph company charges II for
reporting an incoming Teesei. , Of lat
years an xtra fee ' of twenty-five cents
has be?n put on by boatmen who want to
know whether their 'boats are coining in
from a cruise "light" or with a tow.
The chief marine observer receives a
monthly salary of $90, and bis two as
sistants $75 and $60 respectively. '
An effort was made to get ono of the
many operators in the main office to take
his berth,, but all refused. "We do not
wish to bo buried alive," they said.
This same De La Motte has been a life
time in the service and it will be bard t?
get a man to fill his shoes. His family
live at Sandy Hook with him. They
. .. a . 93.1. ..t.. . ...
nave a cottage on tne msiue oeacn, near
the life saving station. . '. . 4 j
It takes five hours for a steamer to
reach her pier after being sighted oft
Fire Island; Two hours , of this are al
lowed for the journey between Fire
Island and Sandy Hook, one hour from
' Sandy Hook to Quarantine, an hours'
delay at the boarding station, and an
hour's steaming from Quarantine 'to her
pier. New York Mail andExpresai X.
Solid Silver Statues ff Wtra en. t
' Montana's unique silver exhibit at tha
. World's Fair that much talked of siiror
I statue of Ada . Rehan has been a pro
lifie source of misstatements and inaccu
rate historical comment during the la4
glares that it is the only life-sized statue
that has ever been, made of a precious
Hietal, amd another that it is the most
valuable piece of statuary known in the
' far from the truth as it is possible to geb
them. 'The statue of the Goddess
Athene, made by Phidias, tho Greek
sculptor, In 438 B. C, was made of
solid cold and ivory, the robe of the
statue alone being worth forty-four tal-!
ents of gold, the talent being $13,dU3 !
Here we have it in a nutshell: The dress,
the lightesst part of the ivory and gold
statue of Athene, was - worth-twenty
times as much as that silver statue of
Ada 1?Ahfin ' And this was one of Phi j-
ias'g minor works. His ivory and jrold
statue of Jupiter, Olympus was nc irly
twice as large as Athene ; (the latter be
ing thirty-nine feet and the former sixty
feet in height). . ' .
, Coming down to modern times we
might mention ; that Editor Child?, of
Philadelphia, owns a solid silver statue,
life-sized, and the exact model of a per
feet woman. She stands on a M .xlcan
onynx clock, four feet in heigb:, and
holds the pendulum- of the- cloc'. sus
pended from her right hand. 11. i
statue is five feet 5 inches. u Lwuia
Republic. .
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