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PLYMOUTH, N. C., FEIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1895.
NO. 30.
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,THE SHIP THAT SAILER , j
White sail upon the oeean's verge,
Just crimsoned by the setting sun, . '
. Xhou hast thy port beyonS the surge, '
Thy happy homeward course to run, ,
' And winded hope, with hear$ of fire,
To gahi the bliss of thy deslrt. '
I watoh thee till the sombre sky ' '
Has darkly veiled the' lucent plain;
My thoughts like homeless spirits fly '
Behind thee o'er the. glimmering main.
Thy prow will kiss a golden Strang
' But they can never come to land. .'
v
v And it they could, the fanes are blaok
Where once I bent the reverent kne
No shrine would send an answer back, ...
No saored altar blnzo for me ;
No holy bell with silver toll,
Declare the ransom ot my soul.
: -vn - ..... . l(m
'Tis equal darkness, hera or there, . .
x '.For nothing that this world can, give
ould now the ravaged past repair,
Or win the precious dead to live.
Life's crumbling ashes quench Its flame.,
, And every place is now the same.
I f ' ' - A
Thou idol of my constant heart, 1
' Thou child of perfect love and Jight,
That sudden from my Bide didst part
And vanish in the sea of night,
Through whatsoever tempests blow,
My weary sout with thine woul.l go.
Say, If thy spirit yet have speech,
v What port lies hid within the pall.
What shore death's gloomy billows roach
Or, it they reach no shoro at all.
One word, one little worJ, to toll
That thou art safe and all is well.
The anchors of my earthly fut t, .
As they were cast so must they clinj,
And naught is now to do but wait
The sweet release that time will bring,
When all these mortal fetters break,
For one last voyage that I must make.
S3y that across the shu lderlag dark
And wlfisper that the hour is, near
Thy hand will guide my shattered birk
Till Mercy's radiant coasts appear ;
That I shall clasp thee to my breast, ,
And know once more the name of rest.
William Winter.
A SISTEELY OFFICE.
rANNAE ARK
wrigbt, darn
ing the family
hose, according
to her Bex nnd
position, envied
her brotherAsa
from the- bot
tom of hei
soul when she
heard him de
clare his inten
tion of "being
a doctor, " ol
takinghis grandmother's Jegaoy from
the bank and using it for his education
and support and all the necessary ex
penses of a medical student's life.
Hannah, handsome, large, strong
minded without knowing it, and near
ly eight and twenty, would have done
well for herself had she been a manj
She would' have entered some profes
sion; suoceeded in it; found a wife to
Buit her taste, courted and married
her. As it was, Miss Arkwright must
git still, do work that any woman
could have done,', and find no mate
Whatever. How she could have loved,
too! f :
"Don't do it," laid the old gentle
man; "don't do it, Asa. Let the
money grow, .and help me farm. It'll
come to 70U in the end the farm
will." .' . ' '
;'Don't go, Asa," said the mother ;
"I shall miss you so."
But Hancab, standing by hei
brother's Bide, said to him :
"Go, Asa. Do what I would do if 1
were a man. Carve out your destiny.
Be somebody and something, if yon
can.
Asa looked at her.
"You know it is as much for Mattie
as for myself. But all this study takes
time. Will sho wait, do you think?"
"If she loves you she can wait or
share poverty with you," said Hannah.
Then bitter feelings swept over her,
as they sometimes did when she
thought of Asa's sweetheart.
And Asa kissed his sister and called
her a "good girl" and thought of
Mattie little Mattie Blame, whe
helped her father keep the school and
who was engaged to Asa.
.Her eyes were dim with tears when
he told her of his resolution, and she
could not speak for many minutes. Ai
last ehe found voice to tell him that
Bho oould bear it if it were best for
him, 3.d that she would wait.
"But you'll forget me in the city,
perhaps' skidded. - "The girls have
a way with iih&n that will charm you.
They ar a aocciiipliehsd, too and dresa
bo. I shall look pkin and shabby to
yon, and you'll " Eat he stopped
Ler mouth with kisoas vowed ha
never, never wosld, uuu. meant it.
Then he gave her a little f orget-me-
not ring; e,nd asked for a look of hsi
hair. And if Ha&n&h Arkwright could
have seen into the girl's . heari she
would have kno-jm thai, "doll baby
though she was, he loved Asa very
dearly ; but as Hannah could not look
into that pure recess, she thought as
before:
s . ' . - - '
She is p'retty, and Asa sees it, and
coxes' for nothing 'morel "' It'isalway
so witn men. "
When Asa went away Hannah never
fancied that Mattie needed comfort
ing in earnest. .
Moreover, kwhenr a month or two had
passed Hannah noticed a certain young
clerk from New Yorltwho was visiting
his aunt at Hopgrove, walking home
from churciiwith Mattie, and though
she did not, as many a sister would,
writeof this to Asa, or oven tell her
mother of it, Hannah's' lip curled
when she thought oi the silly girl, and
she wondered what Asa saw in her.
Late in the fall, when winter was
approaching, Mr. Blume, desiring a
new supply of books, slate pencils,
etc., and finding that the academy
could scarcely spare him, bethought
himself to send Mattie to New York to
purchase theso necessities. Sho had
been there once before nnd could stop
all night with her consin, and he
would direct her to tho express office
and to the booksollor also. And Mat
tie was delighted wtith the proposnJ
and looked happier than she had
looked since Asa went away.
Hannah, looking otit of her window
whioh commanded a - view of the nail
road station, saw tho young clerk, Mr.
Brown, skurrying along with his va
lise in his hand, and saw him also
enter the car in which Mattie had en
sconsed herself.
Mattie was as innocent of any knowl
edge of Mr. Brown's intention of go
ing to the city with her as she was of
Greek or Hebrew. To be sure, it was
not unpleasant to sit beside the kind
ly young fellow who entertained her
with his chatter, nor to be escorted to
her cousin's safely, but her thoughts
were with Asa all the while, for she
was trying to make up her mind
"whether it would do to call on him."
She know where his room was. Could
it be any harm for his betrothed wife
just to stop in five minutes? He
would not think so, she was sure ; she
would do it.
So, having left her littlo bag at
Cousin Smith's,' received kisses, an
swered questions and been directed to
the School Book Repository, she
started out again, and having made
her purchases, turned her feet in the
direction of Asa's abiding place.
A woman was scrubbing , the hall
floor when she arrived, and informed
her that the gentleman sho was in
search of oocupied "the second floor
back," and picking her way, Mattie
climbed the stairs, and stood in a lit
tle passageway, quite dark and com
manding a view of two small rooms,
dusty and grimy.
In one of these, with his head rest
ing on both his hands, after a fashion
of his own, all his black hair rumpled
about by his restless fingers, and a
great book before him, sat Asa. I
presume that ho would not have been
a particularly attractive object to any
one else, for Asa was not beautiful,
and just then was not attired very
freshly or elegantly.
This loving little soul dared not en
ter the room and speak to her be
trothed lover until she had quitedher
heart a little. .
"My poor old Asa and no one to
take care of him 1" she sighed. As
she did so the door of the other room
opened wide, and somebody came out
of it.
It was hard for Mattio to realize
what it was at first. Such a looking
creature she had never seen before. It
was dressed in the latest style, and it
walked directly into Asa's room.
"It is a woman," said Mattie to her
self. ",What an object I What can
she want with Asa?"
And then she saw this object walk
up to Asa, clasp hira about the neck
and kiss hiao.
"Tha bold, bold wretch I" said Mat
tie. Her hands clinched themselves; but
in a moment they grew clammy and
helpless, 'and cha trembled from head
to foot. Asa did not push this crea
ture from him'. Instead, he burst in
to a roar of laughter, caught hold of
his visitor by the shoulders and shook
her in a jovial manner. .
' After a white Mattie found strength
to creep down stairs, and got home to
Cousin Smith's, and told that good
lady that she had "a headache."
The next evening she took the ring
from her finger and wrote :
"Good-by, Asa. I shall never write to
you any more. It must be all over between
us, Don't ask me why; I will never tell
you. I hope you will be happy, but now I
could not make you so. Mattie Blume.
And this note came to Asa one morn
ing and fell upon his heart so terribly
that his friend and chum, Frank
Werter, found him, an hour after,
senseless ' upon the floor, and tele
graphed to his 'sister to come to' him.
' Hannah went . at once. . She found
her brother tossing in a fever. ' She
looked in his vest pocket and found
the note and the ring.
So when her brother's senses re
turned Hannah told him as she now
blamed herself for not having told
him before, , how Mattie had been
"going on" with young Brown.
So it was over the romance of two
lives. That beautif ul thing, first love,
had died the death.
Mattie went on with her school ; Asa
worked hard at his profession ; gained
his diploma ; practiced ; began to make
money not for Mattie, alas! He
heard a funeral bell toll at his heart
when he thought of her.
Meanwhile Hannah had returned
home, buxom and fresh and bright,
and went about her work singing. A
new light had dawned upon her life
Frank Werner had fallen in love with
her, and she loved him in return. He
had already proposed and they would
be married in six months' time.
They were exactly of an age ; they
had tastes in common ; they liked
each other's looks ; why should they
not be happy, then.
In due time Mattie heard that Han
nah was married, but they, father and
l-i.iiorht.Ar. reftfiivfld no cards. Hannah
. 0 ,
) had not desired her brother to love or
marry Mattie, but she bore her a
grudge for jilting him all the same.
Asa never went home to visit ; ho
could not breathe the air that Mattie
breathed ; but Frank Werter had no
idea that family relations should be
broken. He often contrived to take
Hannah to see tho "good father and
mother," and ho won their love in
I time, outlandish as they thought him.
It was one Christmas time, and
Frank had brought his wife home,
and Asa"had7as"uYual, remained'in the
city, where he had no friend with
whom to dine, but aie his lonely meal
at-a restaurant, when Mrs. Wilton, the
clergyman's wife, whom ho had but
just brought home to the parsonage,
gave a party to which she invited
everybody. Poor littlo Mattio re
ceived her invitation,' of course", "and
it seemed impossible to refuse it, and
besides, old Mr. Blumo decided to go.
Sho partook of tea and ate cako nnd
played thobe games suitable for i
clergyman's home, and looked and
felt like a martyr through it all.
Dr. Frank Werter felt like a mar
tyr also, and resolved in his own mind
to endure this quiet no longer. "Wait
a little," he cried. "There shall be
very soon a new lady here." And ho
vanishod from the room, and, seizing
upon the astonished help in the pass
age, held a secret conversation with
her, and departed whither no one
guessed. His wife grew a little nerv
ous, for what would people think?
The clergyman's wife whispered to the
deaconess next her that "much was
excusable in a foreigner," and in the
midst of the panic that ensued came a
rapping at the door. It was openod,
and there entered a gigantic girl of
the period, dressed in the help's best
clothes a world too small carrying
a parasol in its hand. It sat down on
the sofa. It bowed and courtesied
grotesquely. It played upon the
piano and sang in a falsetto voice.
Finally it rushed toward the edified
clergyman himself, clasped him in its
arms.
"Frank, I am ashamed of you."
cried his wife.
Bui even the sober folks present
were convulsed with laughter all but
poor Mattie. White as a ghost, she
stared at the awful caricature of wo
manhood, and saw, for the second
time, the being" who had embraced,
Frank in his little New York study.
Sho gave a little scream and fell faint
ing on the floor.
Hannah picked her up. And Han
nah was alone with her when she came
to herself. And there, in the
best bedroom of the parsonage,
Mattie put her arms about Hannah's
neck and told her the truth.
"I thought it was' a dreadful wo
man," sho said. "What else could I
think? And all these years my heart
has been breaking."
"Why didn't you tell me?" said
Hannah. "Poor child! so you did
love him?"
"And I have made him hate me."
"Not quite."
The day that followed was cold and
bleak. The city streets' were white
with snow. Dr- Arkwright sat befojre
his office fire, with his head buried in
his hands. Suddenly a hand touched
his shoulder; he looked up. There
stood Hap nah.
"1 thought you were at home for
Christmas' he said, almost coldly.
And suddenly Hannah burst into a
flood of tears, and flung herself on hei
knees at he brother's feet, and she
told him the story that Mattie had
told her.
"And though she doabted you so
easily, she loves you still, and ill die
if you do not come to her," said Han
nah. "I know you love her, too."
"But I have changed so."
'3he has changed also," said Han
nah. "Asa, you must go."
And Asa went. New York News.
Can Anls Talkr
I was one day standing in my gar
den near the trunk of an old willow
tree, up which a scattered' line of ants
was crawling. After a time I observed
an occasional straggler coming down
in the opposito direction. Here and
there a couple of ants, ascending and
descending, chanced to meet ; but
there was no stoppage and no talk.
Presently at about five feet from the
ground, I smeared a little hollow ia
the trunk with a large spoonful of
thick treacle, to see how long it would
remain undiscovered.
1 then went away for a short time,
and on my return found about a dozen
ants busily feasting on the treasure.
A minute or two later one of the feast
ers crawled slowly down the trunk
with heavy feet, and when near the
ground met a friend, whom he sud
denly arrested on his way up, and with
his antennae, which he plied vigor
ously, held a good talk. What was
said I know not, but the friend knew,
and thereupon marched Bteadily on up
the tree to tho newly-found treasure.
Meanwhile, the bearer of the good tid
ings made his own way quickly back
to the nest, a fewyards off in the grass,
to" which I watched him. He was soon
lost to view, but, beyond all doubt,
soon spread the news of treasuro trove
throughout the colony.
Within half an hour of that time a
long line of hungry ants was marching
direct to the tree, making straight tc
the feast, remaining there for a time,
and then returning to the nest in an
other line on the other side of the
willow. This process of ascending
descending termites went on for some
nours, in fact, until dusk, when the
numbers of advancing guests grew less
nnd less, and finally ceased. Before
it was dark not a single ant was to be
seen, though early the next morning a
fresh band of adventurers set out in
the same fashion, coming and going
all day until every morsel of the
sweets had disappeared.
Here, therefore, clearly some talk
about the . surprising dainty had taken
place between the two ants meeting
on the road ,to it, while tidings had
been carried to the colony, which at
once roused all tho inmates to go forth
direct to the feast, possibly led by the
very guide who had first discovered
it. So much for the general intelli
gence which enlightens and guides the
whole life and work of this wise na
tion of insects. London Quiver.
Mixed Those Babies Up.
A most curious affair recently oc--curred
at Fort Howard. A marriec
woman of that city and her married
.daughter reside in the same house auc
one day last week both gave birth tc
baby boys of about the same complex
ion, weight and size. Several neigh
bors were in soon after, and in passing
the babies around for inspection they
became mixed, and now the mothers
will never know whether they brought
up their own child or not. The
mothers don't care so much, but tho
fathers insist tho dilemma is serious.
Oskoeh (Wis.) North western.
TRAINING TABS.
DAILY LI FTC OV UXCLE SAM'S
NAVAL APPRENTICES.
From Xv O'clock In the Morning
Until Sine ot Night They
Are Busy, One Way
or Another.
ITE o'clock is the hour a!
which Uncle Sam's boys in
blue must be up and doing in
the Apprentice's Training Sta
tion at Newport, B. I. The training
station is situated on an island about
a quarter of a mile from the city of
Newport, and it is there the appren
tices are taught the things which fit
them to becomo able seamen in the
American Navy. At 5 o'clock, winter
and summer, the boys are awakened
by the report of a gun, the blast of
the bugle, the boatswain's pipe and
call of "All hands! Up all hammocks!"
Before the word hammocks has
ceased to echo through the building
tho boys must be upon their feet and
going through the process of dressing.
Then they lash their hammooks and
stow them away in lockers provided
for that purpose. After that hot
chocolate is served to the boys in the
gymnasium. "3crub and wash
clothes!" yells the boats'n, and 500
boys rush .to the sea wall carrying
bundles of clothes to scrub. The
suits that the boys wear all the year
round aro of white duck, and it is
necessary to scrub a suit every morn
ing to keep from figuring to a disad
vantage on the morning's report.
After the clothing is scrubbed and
hung upon the line the boys troop to
the bag room and dress themselves for
the day. Then comes the welcome
bugle call for "mess formation, " which
means "form into maroh to breakfast.
Though all of the exercises at the
training station are done very
promptly, that manoeuvre is executed
with extraordinary speed. Every boy
falls into his company, dresses to the
right, and then stands straight as an
arrow looking to the front.
The officer of the day gives the order.
"Master the crews !" followed imme
diately by the order- "Petty offioers
to the front and centre!" The boy
gun captains then step to the front,
face to the right or left and march to
the centre of the company, in front
of the commanding officer. The cap
tains salute in turn and report their
crews "present and accounted for."
Mess formation is sounded at 7.5G, so
that when tho captains report it is 8
o'clock, the houi set for the hoisting
of the National ensign. As the bugler
plays the first note of "morning
colors," every person in hearing,
facing the flag, uncovers and salutes
with the right hand as the ensign
reaches the peak. The bugle squad
then strikes up a march and the pro
cession marches' to breakfast in the
mess hall, about an eighth of a mile
distant.
After breakfast the sick call is
sounded, and the names of those on
the report for punishment are called
out. The boys on the report are
marched down to the guard house to
stand before the captain and receive
their sentences. The punishment con
sists principally in extra duty, whioh
must be worked off during their Sat
urday holiday.
After breakfast tho boys may do
what they ohoose until 9.30 o'clock,
when the? fall in for quarters. Quar
ters is an inspection by the command
ing offis The boys are drawn up
in single frwtcis, and the inspecting of
ficer passes between the lines and
makes a close inspection of each boy.
Nothing escapes him, and woe be unto
that boy whose clothes aro not spotlessly
white, or whose shoos do not shine
like a mirror. His name will be found
upon the report of bhe morrow sure.
After quarters the work of the day
commences. The companies are
broken into gun's crews, consisting of
eighteen boys eaob, and marched out
for &tudy. The men who hare the in
structing of the boys are cii.ed school
masters. Iheee men are picked from the
navy for their profleienoy in some
certain branch of duty. Among these
schoolmasters will be found experts in
boxing, fencing wrestling, gunnery,
seamanship, infantry taotics, and one
of them is an expert marksman.
The classes are taken out and in
structed in any one f the things that
u seaman should kqow, ifcejv&re
taught everything in regard to a ship,
making and furling Bail,' knotting and
splicing rope, the use of the Jog and
lead, all about infantry, modern guns,
their charges and uses, and signalling.
Boxing, fenciajt and wrestling are
inoluded in the frtr notions. Besides
these the boys all reoeive a common
sohool education. Tho apprentice
has a period of practice daily in eaoh '
of the studies referred to above. The
day is divided so that the boys study
or drill three-quarters of an hour and ;
rest for fifteen minutes between each, .
period.
The regulations provide that no boy
ohall use tobacco. With that regula
tion enforced strictly, healthy food '
and regular hours, sickly boys are
made strong k and healthy, and it is 0
rare thing that a boy is sick after ho
has been at the station a month.
The drills of the day are finished at
4.15, and then the band which is at
tached to the station plays for the?
boys until 5.15. At C.30 supper coil
is sounded and the formation is made
the same as at breakfast. At sundown
the bugler blows the call for "even
ing colors," and the ceremony of un
covering and saluting the colors as in
the morning is repeated. ;
One of the first things that a naval
apprentice is taught is to always salute
the Nation's flag and to remove his hat
when the "Star Spangled Banner" is'
played, no matter where he may be.
After sundown the boys are mustered
in the gymnasium and must not gd
out after that time. Games, f such &
checkers, chess and the like, and thJ
best magazines and papers are pro-'
vided fbr their entertainment and in
struction in the evening. The hanv
mocks are swung at 8. 45. At 9 o'clock
every boy must bo in his hammock.!
The bugler then plays '"taps" and the!
day is over.
One day is much the same as n-'
other at the training station, except
Fridays and Saturdays. On Friday,
instead of infantry drill, fire quarters'
ere held. That is, a drill to perfect
the bovs in their stations in case of a
fire on the island. Each boy Has 0
station, and goes to it at the first note ,
of thfl .nrle. there is no confusion
-TQ-'I
and in less than a minute the hose is
out and everything ready for action.
On Saturdays tho morning is devoted
to bag and hammock inspection. I'
the day is fine the hammocks and bed
ding are laid out in tho parade
ground. '
The boys get their clothing bags
and lay their clothing out for inspec
tion. The divisional' officers past
down the line, stopping at each bag
to see that every piece of clothing
is folded neatly and marked with the
owner's name. The service regula
tions require that eaoh person shall
have a certain amount of clothing,'
ana oa mese Dnvuruay iuhjjbuuuiw iuo
clothing lists are checked, and each
boy must show a full bag or draw new
clothes from the Paymaster, i
1 11 n a 3 . x; IVn
Saturday afternoon is a holiday for
the boys, and many and vigorous are
the ball games played on that day.
On Sunday moriiing divine . servios is
held by the chaplain. All boys must
attend, irrespective of religious ba
liefs. Occasionally the chaplain lec
tures to the boys and illustrates the
lecture with stereopticon views. New
York Sun.
Winter the Time for Dreaming.
Many persons who are not by habit
dreamers, dream a great deal at the
beginning of winter, and wonder why
they do 60. The answer is simple.
When cold weather sets in suddenly,
and is muoh felt at night, the head,
which is uncovered, has the blood sup
plied to it driven from the surface to
the deeper parts, notably the brain,
the organ of the mind. The results
are light sleep and dreams. Tha ob
vious remedy is to wear a nightcap dr
to wrap the head warmly, at least
while the cold weather lasts. We of
this generation suffer more from brain
troubles than our predecessors be
cause we leave the head exposed at
night, and the blood vessels of oui
cerebral organs are seldom unloaded.
New York Dispatch.
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