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PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1894.
NO. 9.
I
7
HOPE'S DREAMING
. I know 116 coming, comlnpr,
j But the sails seem faraway,'
My ship sweet ship, of love for me f
I know it's Bpeedlngj swiftly
u To the light of dawning day, !
' My ship sweet ship on life's dark tea.
Soon I'll feel (he pressing -
Of a soft, caressing kiss,
From lips sweet lips of loye for met
Boon I will be resting
In the arms of endless bliss,
With lore sweet love that Is to be. r
The heart that's weeping, weeping, .
' Will sralle through changing tears, v
- When day sweet day of love shall break ,
The soul that's sorrow burdened,
" When the music sweet It hears, " ;
f Will sing will sing for dear love's sake. '
Edward N. Woods, in Atlanta Constitution.
THe Bitch in the System.
HAKLIE NEL-
(i ; thrope was a prig o
the first water. He
looked at all thingt
and discussed all
things from a su
premely priggish
point of view, but no subject displayed
his priggishness to such ; advantage
or shall I 'say disadvantage as the
- subieet of women. On that subiect
he "held himself an indisputable au
thority." ? There was no reason why
he should, for he was young as yet
and had really had no special experi-
V ence ' ne PP0Be sex DU your
-dt full-blown, typioal prig generally
rises superior to such a secondary
consideration as reason. Charlie rose
superior to it and would expound, his
, . views and theories at as great length
' and with as much assurance as if he
had devoted : a long ) life and highly
cultured intellect to the study' of that
particular hieroglyphic which is called
. - woman., .
He was a great believer in what he
jf called "systematic training." That
N is to say, he considered women ought
to be treated according to a oertain
system that he had evolved from his
- inner consciousness. The beauty of
the system in his eyes was the fact
that it required no modifications, but
- . might with safety be rigorously en-
xorcea m every case.' it coum not
. - fail.
! Charlie was the lucky possessor of
an unencumbered estate with a very
' ti. '. i a ' a
nnnniderahls "rt roll, and he intend-
ed to find a woman who loved hfcn fO'
,
what he was, without a though for
what , he had, and who would have
shared a mud hut or a garret with him
just as gladly as she would ' share his
fine old place in Yorkshire. When he
had found her he meant to train her
on his infallible system. That was
" his programme, and it never occurred
to him to distrust his powers of car
rying it out His belief in himself
was absolute, and the infallibility of
J his reasoning and judgment a thing
that, to his mind, did not admit of the
slightest shadow of a doubt.
j Eva Carrington, the bride-elect,
. was a beauty.
; A softly-tinted skin, satin-smooth
,ind veined like the petal of a rose;
fair,- fluffy hair that shone golden
" , bright in the sunlight ; clear smiling
Byes of Heaven's own blue, and inno
sent rosy lips that looked just made
for ' the first kiss of ; love, were all
blended together in a dainty and most
fascinating whole. Her manner was
shildishly fresh and simple, f and men
found her altogether ' ; delightful.
Women had their doubts of her
doubts that were principally due to
the childlike manner aforesaid, and to
a "certain pretty trick ei looking
quickly up and then down with; those
great innocent eyes of hers but
women, of course, are invariably spite
ful and unfair towards their own sex.
Men, as we all kno w, have the mo
nopoly of just and generous judg
- ment. .
Well, Eva's soft blue eyes and
bright little ways wrought dire de-
struction in the ranks of the- stronger
' sex, but she appeared ' quite uncon-
scions of her power, or indifferent to
it. To all intents and purposes she
"was completely wrapped 1 up in. the
man she had promised to marry.' His
will was her law, and to please him the
' chief object of her life. In short, his
programme seemed in a fair way to be
carried out.
I Her total submission delighted him,
Jaid he took every advantage of it. It
tab not in him to show generosity to
twomam, or, indeed,, to anything he
thought weaker than himself. Ha was
the sort of(man who is brutal to his
dogs and horses, and overbearing to
his servants- who, in ' short, tyran
nizes whenever he can do so without
fear of retaliation. His nature as
serted itself in his dealings with the
woman he loved, and he took the
keenest possible' pleasure in trading
on her forbearance, taxing her en
durance to the utmost, and . showing
off her pliant will and obedient tem
per to the world at large. . Ifr was all
a part of the system that could not
fail. ;vi:.i:..' -. a ,
Ninety-nine women out of a hun
dred would have torn the system to
shreds and scattered it to the four
winds of heaven . Eva Carrington
was the hundredth woman. She sub
mitted to everything with the most
remarkable patience, and no word of
complaint or reproach ,ever passed her
llpS. . ' '.
But after a time she grew quieter,
and her bright spirits, seemed to flag.
Her merry girlish laughter was not
nearly so ready as it had been six
months ago, and the corners of her
pretty mouth began to droop with a
wistful expression that was pathetic
enough to touch the hardest of mascu
line hearts.
Charlie's friends all noticed the
change, and commented upon it
among themselves, and applied to him
a . varied selection of opprobrious
epithets. Lord Dolly Dashwood dis
played s surprising amount of
fluency on the subject. , ".Beastly cad.
No idea how to treat a woman.'. Ought
to be horsewhipped, don't. you know.
Shall have to cut him, by Jove! Can'l
stand this sort of thing, you know.
Beyond a joke."
. Thus said his lordship,' and a good
deal more that would not look well on
paper.
Charlie went on giving his petty
arrogance full play, until, as was only
to be expected, things came t a crisis.
The wonder was they had not done so
long before.
On the occasion of Lady -Brown-Jones's
ball he went the length of
forbidding his fiancee to dance round
dances with any one but himself,
and, though she received his com
mands without a murmur, her soul
rose5, in passionate revolt against his
tyranny. '. This last test that he had
devised seemed to her the worst of
all. As a matter of fact, she had sub-
iitted patiently to far harder ones;
but we all know the feminine capacity
for swallowing a camel and straining
at a gnat, and Eva was no less incon
sequent than the rest of her sex. The
gnat stuck in her , throat and ob
stinately refused to be dislodged.
There always , must be a last straw,
and this was it.
When the ball was half over Lord
Dolly put in an appearance, and at
that moment Eva happened to be sit
ting quite "alone, Charlie had, left hei
for a minute or , two to speak to i
friend, and she was looking wistfully
-at the maze of couples that revolved
before her. v Lord Dolly made straight
for bar. ,
; "Not dancing, Miss 'Carrington I
Luck for me, by Jove I Ripping waltz,
this. . Have a turn?" ' -
He stuok out his elbow invitingly,
but. Eva turned away, biting her lip.
"No, thank you !" she answered, in
low tone, "I can't dance with yon,
Lord Dolly." V
"Can't?" echoed- his lordship.
"How's that? What's up? Not ill,
are you? : Not cross with me eh?"
" Eva shook her head.
"No, I am not ill or cross, but but
I have promised Charlie only to waltz
with him. He doesn't like to see me
waltzing with other men."
. Lord Dolly choked down a forcible
but inelegant remark, cleared his
throat violently, and ran his fingers
through his hair. The two latter pro
ceedings were signs of severe mental
disturbance.' ;
. There was a slight pause.
"And he dances so awfully badly,"
Eva went on, with a queer little catch
in her breath. 'He can't waltz a bit
not a little wee bit. , He holds yon
all wrong.".
- Her voice quivered and broke on
the last word, and she looked up at
the man by her side with great tearful
eyes, like forget-me-nots drowned in
dew. .'
That look finished it Lord Dolly
was only a man. "
"Beastly "shame t" he said, hur
riedly. "Come with me. Nice and
quiet out on the veranda. - A fellow
can talk there, don't you know. Come
along!"
And Eva went
-I
Charlie Nelthorpe was bristling with
outraged pride' and wounded self-esteem
when he went to pay his custom
ary visit to Eva on the day following
Lady Brown-Jones's balL The fact
that Eva could forget herself and the
respect that was. due to him so far as
to sit on th veranda with Lord Dolly
for half an hour had been a severe
blow to him, and he had not yet re
covered from the shook. He had re
frained i from commenting upon her
conduct at the time, but now he meant
to take it out of her and reduce her
to the state of abject penitence that
he considered befitting the ocoasion.
She was reading when he went into
the room, but she laid her book aside'
at once.
"Oh, Charlie, is that you?"
Charlie frowned.
"How often have I told you, my dear
Evs, that a self-evident fact requires
no asserting?" he asked in his most
dogmatio tone.
She shrugged her shoulders.
"How often? ; Ob, I don't know. A
hundred times, I dare say. You look
cross, Charlie."
Charlie frowned again. There was
an intangible something in Eva's tone
and manner that was not wont to be
there. Something that he could neith
er define nor understand, though he
felt it instinctively.
"I am not cross, Eva, but I am
grieved grieved beyond measure.
Tour conduct last night cans ad me
acute pain, the more, so as you ex
pressed no regret for it r But I hope
you are in a better frame of mind to
day, and ready to say you are sorry
forwhat you did." Until you have
done so I really don't feel that I can
kiss you."
Charlie fully expected that this stu
pendous threat would reduce Era to
the lowest depths of despair and
bring her, figuratively speaking to her
knees ; but for once he was out in his
calculations. She drew up her slender
figure and pursed up her rosy lips
with an air that m4e him feel vague
ly uneasy. Was it possible, he won
dered, that she intended to defy him?
Yes. Her next words proved that it
was so.
"1 am not sorry," she said, "not a
bit. I am glad. I would do it again. "
Charlie gasped. The situation was
so unlooked for that he could not rise
to it all at once.
"As for kissing me," Eva went on,
with a little disdainful moue, "well,
you win never have the chance of do
ing that again, so you need not excite
yourself." . .
Charlie found his voice then.
"You are talking at random now,
Eva," he said severely, "a bad habit
against whioh I have always warned
you. Will you be kind enough to ex
plain yourself Y
. Eva tilted her small nose in the air,
and a horrible doubt suddenly assailed
him. Was there could .there be a
hitch in the infallible system after all I
The thought appalled him.
"Oh, certainly," Eva answered, "I
can do it in a very few words. Lord
Dolly proposed to me last night, and
I accepted him."
Charlie gasped again.
"But yoa are engaged to me," he
ejaculated. "You must be mad. You
can't seriously contemplate throwing
me over for Dolly Dashwood? The
thing's impossible 1"
She looked at him and smiled.
"Incredible as it may seem to you,
I do contemplate it." ,
"But but but,", stammered Char:
lie, "this is very -er. extraordinary
behavior on your part, Eva. ; Are you
aware that yon propose to treat me in
a most dishonorable way, and and
er in short, very bad!
Her face grew grave.
1 should be sorry to do that," Bhe
said, more gently. "I I don't want
to be dishonorable, or to treat you
badly, Charlie. But I am only human,
and no one but myself knows what I
have ; gone through in the last few
months. You have tried me too hard.
I was very fond of , you at one time,
and if you had treated me fairly J
should have been fond of you stilL
But, you would wear out a saint and
I am only a woman. I don't think
Lord Dolly will be hard on me. He
may not be very brilliant, but at all
events he is a man the sort of man
we call a gentleman -and knows how
to be generous even to such an alto
gether inferior creature a,a a ' mere
woman." '
v She paused and looked critically at
her rejected lover, who now presented
a truly pitiable appearance, with all
the staroh taken out of him and a gen
eral air of limp depression perv,aUng
his b'einir. - ' v" '
"That is all," she went on presently.
"But before yon go there is one thing
that I should like to impress upon you
for future guidance : It is always
worth a man's while to be just and fair
even to a women." 1 , . i
She paused again and contemplated
him her big blue eyes, but ; he said
nothing. He was too bewildered to
speak. It seemed to him that all the
laws of creation were reversed and the
whole scheme of the universe turned
upside down;
There was a hitoh in the system
somewhere. v ..
I had failed ! London Truth.
The Horse's Ancestors.
The horse made its appearance ia
Eocene times. The earliest remains,
states Stephen Bowers in a recent ac
count of the remarkable early animals,
are known as cohippus, or dawn horse.
Then, in the next succeeding age, the
Miocene, we have mesohippus, and
toward its close miohippus. After
this came protohippus and pliohippus,
both in the pliocene period, and equis
in quarternary times. The early forms
were not larger than a fox, and what
is more singular still, they had in front
four perfect toes and three behind.
This was especially true of Orohippus.
In eohippus, or dawn horse, there are
rudiments of a fifth toe. In mesohip
pus the fourth toe is wanting, except
a small splint bone, which is not found
in protohippus. In pUohyppua but
one toe is found, which isslightly split,
and a small splint bone, whioh "; is
found on eaoh side of the leg, as in
the modern horse. Equus, or miohip
pus were about the size of sheep,
and protohippus was about the size of
an ass. The geological records in
eludes the remains of forty species,
some of the latter rivaling the horse
of to-day. Atlanta Journal.
A Boy Starts a Chain of Tragedies.
" ' The passion for" bjird's-nesting has
led to a lamentable and remarkable
trapedy at ArgenteuiL A. lad named
Henri Fouquet, a farmer's son noticed
a blackbird's nest in a tree in a neigh
bor's garden. Getting into the gar
den through i hedge, he climbed the
tree, when the proprietor of the place
challenged him. It was night, and
the young fellow, being afraid to re
veal himself, kept perfectly still,
whereupon hia challenger fired two
shots from'a revolver at him" in rapid
succession. The lad fell . mortally
wounded, and was carried to. a hospi
tal. The 'father, on seeing his dying
son there, was almost mad with grief.
Bushing home, he said to his wife :
"Run to the hospital if you want to
see the youngster alive." The wretched
woman did as she was bidden, and the
son expired in her arms.' On return
ing home another terrible shook
awaited her. Her husband had hanged
himself. She rushed toward the river
with the intention of drowning herself,
but some neighbors ran after her and
restrained her. It is feared that her
reason is gone. London News.
A Spoi in His Pocket.
1 wonder if that potato would
grow?"
, The speaker stood on the postoffice
steps, and was addressing friend.
He held in his hand a round, spongy
substance, not much larger than a
marble, whioh seemed to be withered
by age.
"If it did grow it would raise very
small potatoes. Is that your con
tribution to our beaatiful city charity
of raising food for the unemployed?''
"No; that is my cure for rheuma
tism. I used to ba a suflerer from
that . complaint, and I tried all the
usual remedies, but nothing ever
helped me like this potato. When it
loses its virtue I shall get another one.
I have never had a twinge of rheuma
tism eince I tried the potato cure." -
"The faith cure, you mean," said
his friend as they walked off together.
-P. trclt IVeo Press.
, LADIES' COLUMN
. KODIST TOTO DEATH.
Advices' just received from India
show that the modesty of the Hindoo'
female is as great as that of the hero
ine who figures in the ; delightful
French idyll called "Paul and "Vir
ginia." A house at Pema, a village
near Tikara, caught fire the other day.
Within it were eleven women, one a
newly married bride. The latter, nof
willing to expose herself to the publio
gaze, declined to leave the place, and
the rest resolved to stay with her.
The consequence was that all , were
fearfully scorched before they could
be rescued. Seven of them have since
died, and the others are lying . in a
precarious state. New York Advertiser.
ITSW EMPIOTMENT FOB WOMEN.
A new employment for women has
been opened by the Bank of England,
which has for the first time this year
found work for six Jady clerks
work that their quick fingers and
thorough accuracy enable them , to
perform with great skill. Their duties
are to count and compare the bank
notes which, having been in circula
tion, return to the bank never, to be
reissued. Lady olerks were employed
in Messrs. Barings office four or five
years ago where they were required
to 'count over the dividend warrants
and compare them with the counter
foils issued for interest warrants of
foreign loans paid by the house. New
York Times.
lfOBAIi i DOK'T CTTRXi.
A pretty lady cashier, with hair that
does not like to curl, a pair of curling
tongs, ft spirit lamp, a lace our t ain,
ftnd various artioles of feminine wear
ing apparel, came near causing a dis
astrous fire in the great Auditorium
Hotel in Chicago a day or two since.
Fortunately, the pretty cashier was
possessed of presence of mind, and
pluck, as well as of hair that refuses
to stay in ourl, and instead of soream
Ing fire, and starting a paaio, she
quietly went about extinguishing the
fire, or great deal of damage might
have been done. As it was, only a
few of her clothes were consumed,
and some damage was inflicted on the
furniture of the room where .the re
calcitrant hair was being reduoed to
order. New Orleans Picayune.
THAT SAQOnta DB2S8. . ; ;
Even the plan of using fancy pins
to hold the skirt and belt together at
the back, does not work always satis
factorily. A very pretty woman has a
number of belts that completely over
come he skirt difficulty. The belts
do not always match the skirts by any
means. She usually has a stock and
belt to match, however, The belts
are made either of muslin, linen, silk
or ribbon, nd in thei Wddle of the
back a piece of the , belt ribbon ia
ruffled on to the lower edge of the
belt for ftbout three incheseach side
of the point' exactly marking 'the
centre of the baok of the belt This
can be caught to the skirt at t
nra with a oouole of pins, and
only conceals the entire strip
the skirt sags and shows the dress belt
nnder that of ribbon, but it was rather
ornamental as well, and s the woman
hasn't any patent on the 1 idea which
originated in her own brain. New
York Journal. . v
FASHION KOTSS.
Bonnets are made entirely at? ivy,
with little tufts or rose-pink roses in
front and back.' ' v '
Silk and wool stuffs in dull colors
shot with bright threads and checks
are most 1ft mode for street wear.
' Embroidery is worn much more in
Paris than lace. . In fact, all the more
expensive robes are embroidered, and
gold and silver effects are popular.
Pique has come into favor with a
rush. A stunning promenade gown of
this fabric has revere, belt and roll
collar entirely covered with gold and
black embroidered spider's web. J
. Soft changeable silks and silks of a
small check with large bunches of
flowers strewn over them are worn,
Perhaps the prettiest in the newer
silks is one that has small dot of the
same color in chenille on it.
. In the new checked taffetas, com
binations of blue and green, brown
and old rose, green and pink, etc.,are
he cor-1
-not
whertt I
seen. . Fine stripes of black, ' blue,
green and brown ftre woven in some
of the checked designs, producing
aovel and charming effect. , '
Every time you see long gloves at a
great bargain get them; that is, if
you ever wear such gloves. The kid
put into long gloves is much better
than that used for short ones, and the
long ones will 'clause and cleanse till
they fall to pieces, and yet not lose .
shape. . . ..' . .. ,J: -'
One of the prettiest and coolest ao'
eessories of summer dresses is a blouse ,
front made of India mull, batiste or
net, banded with lace insertion, u '
perpendicular ; stripes of 1 the thin
fabric and the insertion, if the wearer
is inclined to stoutness, and in Breton
style if slender.' ' ? ,',
The gay . Inverness capes are the
prettiest of all the cool day wraps of
the season. They are almost a neces
sity with the big sleeves, and in deep
red or fawn; brown, with plaid of
peachblow silk linings and the straps
which let them fly without dropping,
are very fetching. j
Very pretty silk , waists are mada
with blouse fronts and trimmed with
diagonal rows of wide white guipure
insertion. The belt of such ft waist is
of ribbon or f nartowly-folded silk,"
snd the collar is of insertion ! and silk
turned down; or, if a stock be pre- ,
ferred, is made of the silk laid plaia
VSk JAA ww
A Chinese BanqueL
"I onco attended a swell Chinese)
banquet, and was not little sur-.
prised at the way in which some of :
the delieacies were served," said Wal
of ' Saoramento. CaL. at .
the Laclede last night "After we
had discussed the more substantial
portion of the repast and dessert was
being served, oranges were placed be
fore each guest, : the skins of whieh
had apparently not been broken, yet
from which the pulp had in some mys
terious manner been removed and
four or five different hinds of jelly
substituted in its place. The guests
exprobjseu a u
M to how such an operation had been
accomplished, but their amazement
was only increased when dish rof
eggs, the shells of whioh appeared to
be perfectly wnoie, wa yiv;o. ,
the table. Examination showed the
contents of the ' eggs had been 're
moved and the shells filled with nnit
and candy. ? Our host smilingly :re
fused to tell us how such wonderful
results had been ftooomplished, and
we left the house completely myati
fled." St Louis GlobeDemocrak ',
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Soar and Sweet en the Same Test.'.
"Upon my place at home is an sp-'
pie tree, the fruit of whioh is sweet on
one side and sour on the other,' said
C E. Harrington, .of Baltimore, at
the Emery. "It has been known for
many years that these' apples existed,
but no one has ever been able to ex
plain the phenomenon. The tree in
my yard is an old one, and I do hot
believe that it was ever grafted. ; . X
think that it is ft peculiar original
kind of fruit One of these apples if
about the size of an ordinary 'limber
hfcwig,' one side being green and the
olher having a alight rosy tinge. The
greVn side is sour enough to put, ft
person's teeth on edge while the
other SI sweeter than is usually liked. .
Except a curiosity the fruit is not
very desirable on that account, but X
have submiM i. .-nMber of
leading horticiturists and have never
yet found one. wfc? M explain
and classify theVn"t''Ciaaatti
Enquirer. . x'mC
Curious Gid Church Kit.
The nave of the church at Green
stead, or Oreenstead Ongar, England,
one of the most anoient churches of
Britain, is ' extremely curious, btinj
composed of the half-trunks of oaks,
set upright and close to one another.
, The trunks, ftbout one r and " one
half feet in diameter, have been' split
through the center ana roughly hewn
at each end to let them into ft . sill t
the bottom and into a plank' tt - tie
top, where they are fastened by wec-J.
en pegs. The nave is twaatf lest
sine inches long by fourteen wide,
and is believed to have been " erected
about 1013 as a shrine for the recep
tion of the body of St. Edmund, kii;j
X, and martyr. Garden ami Pcrc i.