FOit OOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH" $1.00 a ycarin advance. VOL. VI. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FEIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1894. NO. 24. TV. MetcUerAusbon,Editor and Manager. The Postmaster-General has faraeft an amended regulation concerning postal cards, providing that 'no print ing or. writing other than the address is allowable upon the address side, nor may anything exoept an address label be pasted , or attached to any postal card. . The , address label, however, may be pasted on the message side as well as on the address side oi the card." ! The St. Louis Star -Sayings observes : Builders, especially in the East, are, In view of a probably ooming scarcity of lumber, turning their eyes to a new eouroe of supply, Nova Sootia. Now that lumber is on the free list, it will pay buyers to purchase logs at $6 in Kova Sootia rather than at $10 in Maine or "Wisconsin, especially as the cost of (water) transport is but little. rThe drain on the Nova Scotia forests lhas hitherto not been very great, the principal market being England, to Which country 109,000,000 feet (166 cargoes) , were shipped last year. fThere are still 2,000,000 acres of vir- Igin. timber land in the oolony, of whioh 800,000 acres are owned by farmers, 400,000 by the Government and the balance by individuals and corporations. " The class of '97 of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia have decided to use the metric system in writing their prescriptions when they aie graduated. . "This action," says the Philadelphia Enquirer, "will no doubt be handed - down from class to (lass as it is the first step made in this Country by a medical college. It 18 contended that at the present time all kinds of weights and . measures are used by the druggists and pharmacists, thus leading io confusion between th doctor and the druggist. The United States Pharmacopoeia of 1890, pro nounced it favor of the metric system, yet it is only by conoerted action on the part of the doctors and the phar macists that it will be brought into general use. The colleges of phar macy, have , adopted the metrio system and it is thought that, as it has been brought up in one medical college, others will speedily follow." The Presbyterian records a singular 'experiment made by the "Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church, Cleve land, Ohio. Realizing that mothers are prevented from attending church by the necessity of caring for their babes at home, the church has pro vided a Sunday nursery, which is to b open in connection with both the morning and evening services. The practical object of this nursery is to receive : and properly and lovingly care for the babes and young chil dren while one or both of their par ents are attending divine service in church. The children will be received Just before r service and delivered to the parents just after service, or at any time previous, " as the parent may wish. Such a tvork. faithfully, intelli gently and lovingly done, as it will undoubtedly- be in the present in stance, will enable ; many a mother, who now gats no suoh opportunity from one year's end to another, to at tend the services of the sanctuary. The Director of the United States (Mint has estimated and the Secretary of the Treasury, has proclaimed the value of foreign coins, as required by Section 25 of the act of August 28, 1894. - The changes made are as .follows !- . Value. Value. , Julyl, Oct.l, 1894. 1894. Boliviara of Bolivia 457 .464 Peso of Central American ' Btfttes.... ......... .457 .464 iBhnnghai tael of China....... .676 .685 iHaikwan tnol of Cblna 753 .763 TlAQ-Tsin tael of China . .. ' .727 Che-Foo tael ot China .717 Peso of Colombia. . , .....457 . .464 Sucre of Ecuador....... .... .457 .464 Rupee of India .............. .217 .227 Y Jen of Japan . . . .493 ,600 Dollars of Mexico..... 497 .504 Sol. of Peru............:..... .457 .464 Ruble of Bussla...... ...... .. .866 .871 Mahbub of Tripoli. ... .'-413 .418 The estimate of the value of coins of countries having a single silver standard is made up on the average price of silver for the three months ending September ' 29, 1894, viz: $0.64127. There has been added to the list the Tien-TBin and Che-Foo iaela of China. HONEY, When bees wenfl forth In black eonttnnsrw stream, .-.. And steadily return unto the hive, When all tbe air with humming is nlivs From pearly dawn to ' day's last goldon gleam , Then It behooves to work and not to drenm ! Up I If your honey store you want to thrive, (Ere hungry drones with robber bees con nive,) , That you may gather all the blossom-cream. Yet let me pause a moment on the brink Between' yon flower-calyx and Its spoil What labor interreneth ! Only think, What you deem play, to bees and me 'tis toll, Tot labor, perspiration, many a st in;?, . So I've the honey cheerfully I slog ! .. The Academy. THE YOUNGEST CLERK BY. HELEN FOBHEST GRAVES. S it a beggar, Jane?" said Mrs. Troop. "Ob, don't send the poor creature away! Give him a glass of milk and a bit of the cold beef." "Please, ma'am," said Jane, "there ain't so much as a drop of milk left, and you gave the last of the cold beef to old Gideon Gallup. And besides, ma'am, I don't think it is a tramp at all. It's quite a respectable young man, in a brown linen duster, and a carpet bag." "Oh!" said Mrs. Troop. "A new boarder, eh?" "Well, ma'am, I ain't quite sure," said Jane, discreetly. "Folks is so different." "Jane," said Mrs. Troop, mysteri ously, "I see it all now. It's the youngest clerk." "Ma'am?" said Jane, in a bewildered way. "Oh, don't be so stupid?" cried Mrs. Troop, who was one of those nervous women who are perpetually instinct with electricity, and who saw and comprehended things by flashes. 'Call Barbara, and make haste about it 1" Barbara came into the green gloom of the little pantry, whose window was thickly shaded with . morning-glory vines a tall, slim lassie, with solemn blue-gray eyes, brown hair, and a slow graoe of manner whioh she must have inherited from the birches on the mountain 6ide and the reeds in the swamp, for other teachers she had none. "What is it, mother?" said she. "1 was just emptying the feathers out of the old pillow-ticks." "Barbara," said Mrs. Troop, "don't bother about pillow-ticks. It's the youngest clerk! He's waiting just over there on the porch, with his bag. Can we accommodate him, do you think?" ."Mother," said Barbara, "what on earth do you mean ?" "Why," cried Mrs. Troop, with an impatient gesture, "don't you remejc' ber old Mr. Fanshawe. the boc keeper; in Browne, Brownson & Browne's, telling us about the youngest clerk there who had the weak lungs and the small salary? And he said he'd recommend him here for his vaca tion, and he hoped we'd take him cheap and do what we oonld for him." "Oh!" said Barbara, arching .bar pretty eyebrows. "Yes, it seems to me now that I do remember something about it But, mother, where can we put him? Every room is full even to the two sloping-roofed chambers in the garret." "But a poor young man," said Mrs. Troop, in a distressed voice, "with hereditary consumption and almost no salary! Barbara, we never can turn him away." "No, of course not," said Barbara, reflecting. "Mother, I can manage it. Don't fret any more. Tell him he may come." "And high time, too," said Mrs. Troop, nervously, "with him waiting there on the porch and wondering, no doubt, what all this delay means." She bustled out, with kindly hospi tality. There, in the purple twilight, , apparently listening to the song of 1 the whip-poor-wills on the mountain side, sat a slender man, dressed in cool, brown linen, with a valise rest ing on'" the floor beside him. How was Mrs. Troop to know that he had heard every word of the brief col loquy? "Madam," ho said, lifting the straw hat from his curly head, "i " "Oh, yes, yes I" said Mrs. Troop ; 1 know all about it. Tour name is Browne with Browne, Brownson & Browne. Mr. Fanshawe told me all about you. You are the youngest clerk .there." A "Madam, I" "It isn't necessary to explain," kindly interrupted Mrs. Troop. "We'll give you a room aid board for two dollars a week. I can't promise you the dainties they have at the Cho coma House, but everything shall be clean and wholesome. Mr. Fanshawe told us that your means were, limited. Mr. Fanshawe knew I would be inter ested in you, because I had lost a son of about your age." 4 Indeed, Mrs. Troop, I am very mush obliged to you, but " "Here comes my daughter Bar bara," said Mrs. Troop, evidently de sirous to abbreviate the new-comer's thanks. "Barbara, this h the young est clerk. His name, I believe, is Browne." Barbara let her soft, blue-gray eyes rest upon his tired face for a, second, with the most angelic sympathy. "Is your cough very bad?" she asked. "Ob, I hope the mountains will do you good ! How long a vaca tion have you two weeks?" He smiled. . , "You are very kind," he said. "The firm will allow me to be gone as long as I like." 'And your salary will go on just the same?" ."And my salary will continue just the same." 'That is what I call real , gener osity," said Barbara. "Oh, I should like to thank Messrs. Browne, Brown son & Browne ! Well, come in. Our little cottage is full of boarders, but my mother and I will contrive to make room for yon somewhere. " , And the pale boarder slept that pight in a rose-soented room, with a ' of bright rag-carpet on the floor, hand-painted china vases on th wooden mantle, and cheap muslin our tains at the window, after a supper of blackoaps and milk, delicious s home made bread, fresh honey and johnny cake. "Two dollars a week for such fare as this, to say nothing of my cunning little corner room I" said Mr. Browne to himself. "I never boarded 'so cheaply before in all my life." At the end of a week he was more than delighted. Mrs. Troop was the kindest and most motherly of hos tesses. Barbara was the impersonation of sweet and gracious refinement. The mountain was full of purple glens, merry voiced cascadas, winding footpaths and breezy heights. Mr. Browne enjoyed himself intensely. He believed that he had come to the right place. "Don't you think," said Barbara to her mother, "that he's very strong for a consumptive ?" "It's that herb tea and the diet of honey and new milk that is building him up," said Mrs. Troop, triumphant ly. "I never knew it to fail yet in lnng diseases. But he's very pleasant, Bar by, isn't he?" "Very !" said Barbara, earnestly. Mr. Browne had not been a month at the little, cottage on the mountain when, overtaken by a sudden shower, he sought refuge in an old, unused barn not far away from the house, where a thicket of blossoming elder berries concealed the rude stone base ment, and a veteran yellow pine tree flung its banner of black green shade over the mossy, shingles of the roof. Unused, 'except to stow sweet hay in and in one corner a little chamber had been finished off long ago with a brick chimney and a tiny paned lattice. The door was half open, and Mr. Browne could discern a little cot bed, draped with white, a dimity covered toilet stand, whose coarse, cheap bowl and pitcher were enriched with purple and crimson autumn leaves in hand painting, and a little needlework rug which lay at the foot of the bed. "Ah," said Mr. Browne to that best of confidants, himself, "I comprehend it all now ! : I have displaced Mad emoiselle Barbara from the little cor ner room in the cottage. Upon my word, I feel like a usurpei ! But how good they are, this mother and daugh ter, whose only income is derived from this precarious occupation of taking boarders ! . How unselfish, how utterly self-sacrificing! There are good Samaritans yet left in the world, thank heaven 1" When September came, with its yellow leaves and its clusters of vivid blue asters on the edges of the woods, Mr. Brown prepared to return to the city. ' '- v ;;; "You are sure you are strong enough to resume work?" said Mrs. Troop, anxiously "Mother," said Barbara, "he isn't at all like an invalid. Either old Mr. Fanshawe was mistaken, or Mr. Browne has made an almost miracu lous discovery." ' Just at this instant Jane came to tell Mrs. Troop that neighbor Jackson was at the door weiting to borrow o drawing of tea. The gentle widow busuS out ; Mr. Browne turned to Barbara. "Yes," said he, "I am going to re turn to New York. But I shall leave something behind me." "We shall be very happy to take charge of anything for you," said Barbara, who was sorting over red checked pears for preserving. "Shall you? But you don't know what it is, Barbara," suddenly lapsing into extreme gravity. "It is my heart. I am driven to confess that I ha,ve lost it and to you !" "You are joking!" cried Barbara, coloring and half-disposed to be in dignant. "I never was more serious in my life, "asseverated Mr. Browne. "I do Jove yon, dear Barbara, trnly and tenderly. Do you think you could dare to trust your future to me? .Poor as I seem, I could yet give you a good home." "Oh, I am not afraid of that!" said Barbara, with rising color and droop ing eyelashes. "I have been brought up to be independent, you know, and I believe I could earn a little money by art work, if I ever had the chance. If if you really care for me " "Mv own darling!" . "Then yes, I do love you!' So Barbara was wooed and won. "Of course, the dear little mother must Ijve with us," said Mr. Browne. "I couldn't do without her !" ; " Mrs. Troop, who had once moro joined the groupf looked worried. "Is it a flat?" said she, wistfully. "No, I occupy a whole house' "But, deat me !" cried the mother-in-law-elect, "isn't that extrava gant?" "I think not," said Mr. Browne, seriously. "But must you really bo married at once?" "1 should like to carry both Bar bara and you back to the city with me," said the lover. "And poor J ane ? Though, of course, it would be out of the question for Barbara to keep a hired girl?" hesi tated Mrs. Troop. "Oh, Jane must come, too!" said Mr. Browne. "Bring her with you, by all means. We can manage it some how. To tell you the truth" "Well?" said Mrs. Troop, eagerly. "I am a fraud and a delusion," con fessed Mr. Browne, , while Barbara raised her soft eyes in amazement. "I am not the youngest clerk in the firm, at all the youngest clerk went out to Bermuda, at the expense of the firm. I hope he is doing well in that cli mate. This man was Ferdinand Brown. I am Augustus Browne, the youngest partner." "But however came you here?" eagerly questioned Mrs. Troop. 'Didn't Mr. Fanshawe recommend you?" ; " "Not at all. I came to the hotel, but it was full ; and they thought that perhaps I would bo provided for at Mrs. Troop's cottage until there was a vacancy in the Chocoma House. But when the vacancy came I didn't care to claim it." "So you are not poor at all?" sai 3 Barbara, in a low voice. "Not in your sense of the word, perhaps; but I shall be poor indeed, sweet Barbara, if I have forfeited your favor," he uttardd, fervently. "Nor consumption?" "No, nor consumption," he aJ mitted. . "You have been deceiving us all along?" "Yes, I have been deceiving; you all along," said Mr. Browne. "But. un der the circumstances, do you Bee bow I could help it?" "It is very strange," said Barbara. "I ought to ba thoroughly indignant with you; but somehow somehow I love you more dearly than ever." Mrs. Troop could hardly believe her own ears. A palace in Fifth avenue ; a double oarriage driven by two fine gentlemen who wore choicer suits and glossier hats than the parson him self J" double damask napkins, with monograms embroidered on them, at every meal ; egg-shell china ; all the luxuries which she had dreamed of, but had never known ! And all these gifts bestowed by the hand of the poor young clerk whom she had undertaken to board at two dollars a week because he was alone and friendless, and fox whom she had saved the choicest slices of honeycomb and brewed the most invigorating herb-tea ! "One often reads of these things in novels," said she; "but how seldom they come true in real life !" Kind, simple-hearted Mrs. Troop! If she had been a student of the great "novel" of Human Nature, she would have known that we are all of us liv ing romances at one time or another. And why not? Is net the yorld al ways full of Love and Youth. -Satar- day Night. Rgllshed Soap Sandwiche;. "Of all the harnm-scarcnm young sters that ever I came across," said a well-known dry goods merchant re cently, "the worst, I believe, were in my employ until last week. I had to discharge them three office and stock boys at once, in order to restore peace in the establishment. "The ringleader was about seven teen years old, and worked in the stock. His position brought him in contact with the head porter, and be tween the two there was continual warfare. It started, I believe, in a practical joke of the boy's. "One warm day last summer the porter had laid his shirt aside in the cellar. We happened to have there an old stencil, used to mark a cheap bleached muslin for export. The boy 6tols the shirt and stencilled on it 'Mohammed Bleached Muslin. Then he called all the other boys , and they began to jeer the porter, acousing him of stealing samples for his shirts. The porter is as honest as the day is long, but the continual nagging preyed upon him, and at last he came to me, the shirt in one hand and the stencil plate in the other. Of course 1 laughed at the matter. "But the boy didn't rest at that. The porter was in the habit of eating bis lunch in the cellar. . He brought it with him in the morning and stowed it away in a closet until the noon hour. He was very fond of cheese sandwiches. One day the young scapegrace of a boy stole the lunch for a while, and, taking a bar of yel low soap, out generous slices from iL He then removed the cheese and sub stituted the slices of soap. Then he told the other lads, and they all seoreted themselves to watch Tom eat.' ! "My porter must have a strong stomach. He ate the sandwiohes without detecting the soap. Then to the diappointment of the boys, he turned over on the top of a case, put his ooat under his head and prepared to take a nap. This was too much for the boys, and they pelted him with balls of twine, wads of paper and the like. "The man awoko and chased the boys for ten or fifteen minutes. Then Tom became ill, and had to leave for the day. The story came to my ears, and following, as it did, so roauy other pranks, I concluded that it was best to turn the young rascals out." New York Herald. For the Army. Recruiting Sergeant "You won't do for a soldier." . Applicant "Why not?" Recruiting Sergeant "The front fingers are off your right hand, and you can't pull a trigger. " Applicant "Oh, that'll be all right. I'd just a3 lief be an officer and carry a sword. "Washington Star. An Unreasonable Public. Clerk "Mr. Blinks was just in to Bay that yo l hadn't sent a man to fix his pipes." , Flumber-T-"He's about the fortieth man to come in with that story to-day. I wonder if people thinkwe haven't anything to do but sit here and )iten to complaints." Puck. , The Guest Chamber. Tery few housekeepers, no matter how hospitably inclined' they may be, furnish the "spare rojom" so that' when the stranger withija. the gates, is ushered into it a feelingof complete ness takes possession; ef the senses, and chairs, rugs and carpets cry out in welcome. In tod many homes the idea that is carried out is to provide, tha , guest with a suitalie bed, a bureauf in whioh to put the olotbes that he or she has brought . for use -during da visit, one chair and a wasusf and. Soma weary pictures of pastel subjects adorn the walls, and the entire aspect ia drear and commonplace.- 5 -r The writer knows of one abode where the guest chamber Is" made - the subject of infinite thought, The com fort of the visitor is the watchword that governs the selection of every stick of furniture, and the great, won der is that any one who once enjoys the pleasant atmosphere-of ; that per fectly appointed room ever has moral courage enough to bring the visit to A close. Philadelphia Times." ' "J ' -": r '' ' Chinese Pawnbrokers. - ' rt : Among the Canton housesthere are occasional exceptions to the general -' one-storied or low constructions. Some of these are built like ; square towers four or five stories thigh, with no outside windows BaveAt a consider able distance above the ground, an J , no outside projections by,, ,whic thieves might climb up. These eetab-: lishments are called pawus.hopsr but they appeared to me Lnore io-resemblo our banks where we place Seeds aud other valuables for safety. I amler sWnd it is usual among the Chinese to Ideposit their possessions o 'viwue, when not,m , use, in, thego ejtablish jments. Tho people. sisesttjre there ' j during summer their , win ter Soothing, , and loans may be obta'against the goods stored. To have dealings with a pawnshop is in no way derogatory to a Chfnese gentlemanVdigoi-. V' ' A Peculiar Then. ' . ' ' Thomas Keegan, the proprietor of a . ' marb'e yard in Brooklyn, reported to' the police the other day .tuitt some tbief had during the night stolen a -white marble , tombstone and cross from the yard. New York Post. Miss Francis E. Willord has been re elected president of .the; Women' Christian Temperance "Union, whicl: met at Cleveland, Ohio. . "' V 'A novel 'undertaking. :' A Great Company Furnishes Its Km, ployes Free Medical Attendance. ...j William L. Dou-tfa, """resident' of , the W. L. Douglas Shof) Co., has always had a Kreat personal interest In the hrinyof men and women who Inhabit the grut , fac tory nt Momello, MaH, 1 Hh is a.jrreat be liever in the idea that manufacturers s'toulil have this personal interest in the 'condition of their employes, nnd feels that If the Ilea,' is carried out to the extent that is possible, that it will result ultimately in th breaking down of the barriers whioh have been built up between employers an t those whom they ' employ. s. Mr. Douglas Is satisfied . that a. flcbema V he has originated is a good on, and he has now put it to practical tst. A few days npro he handed to every person in his eaiploy 4 and they form a small army a coed, which entitled the bearer "to lull and fro medical . attendance while employed by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Company. A competent and skilful physician will bo at the private ofUao of the company at 12 m., daily, exoept Sun days and holiday.. If said employe should be detained at home by sickness, the phy Bioian will give full and free medical attend ance there." . Blank spaces are left In the card for tho name and residence of tbe employe,-, and it " is signed by Mr. Douglas, ns President of the V. L. Douglas Shoe Company. The condi tions printed on the card are as follows : "The physician will not make visits outside the city limits. This ticket is not transfer able, and does not apply to the family of tbe . employe, and must be returned , as oon as .' the term of employment ceases. This privi lege is a free gilt of the company and is no part of the contract for wages,'ond may be made void by the company, at Ms owe option, without notice." A doctor has been engaged to attend sick employes, and everything that medical skill can accomplish will be done for them dur ing illness. This is a practical illustration of the plan. It will doubtless be appreciated by the hun dreds who reoeive the cards. Mr. Douglas ' belL'Vos there a."e hundreds of workintnen and workingwomen who fin.1, a doctor's bill a great burden alter n period of enforced idleness, and that if this u lifted from them ' they must feel that their employer ,Js inter ested in them in some ether way than sim ply to get all tho work he can for just as lit tle money an he cttn. Mr. Dought HiiyuaUo . that there are men and women who ket'p at work when it would be belter for their health it they laid off a Mlnv or two and received medical attendance. Then again tlmy will now 11 free io consult the doctor lor slight troubles, which heretofore they would not do because of the cosf. fipaking of theW. L. Douglas Shoe Co., it may be said lurt her t hat in 1 heir factory tho prtuciple of nrM ration is rco;nlzed. Mr. Douirlns is a ilrm Uliever in the priucifdo aud has been fjlnctnliHfi-tabl'Bhmeut or tno State Botird of Arbitiattuu. Th tlrm ot'li-s evry employ to t-iztt nu Rjjrwiiient to mU mit any diMigretMneiii that may arls, :m t which cannot tio "tu.l i- the Intur parties, to tho Starts Board of Artiitratiou, tho decision of tl..t L.jiird to bo tlnai. ' I

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