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VOL. VI.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FEIDAY, A
1895.
NO. 36.
SMALL THINGS,
I shape! a marble statue, the Imago. J a
thought '
A thought so pure and perfect, it thrilled me
as I wrought ;
And when I saw my task complete, and joyed
it was bo fair,
Alas ! alas ! when next I looked an ugly rent
.was there. '
In strains of music, then, I told of sweetest
joy and love 5 "
And, out and In, the harmony in rich, soft
chords T wove ;
When, lo ! a wild, weird discord that would
' not die away :
I'll hear it evermore, through life, nnto my
I dying day.
A weary of my failures, I sought theTaunti
of song 5
Essayed to cull sweot flowers wherewith
to charm the listening throng.
Anon a warning voice I heard that stayed
my eager hand ;
"No soul but one by sorrow tried may join
the minstrel band."
I found n wenry traveler, at noontide, by
' the way 5
Ills brow was deeply furrowed, his locks
j were thin and gray,
"Can I do aught for you?" I asked. "I am
athiret," He said.
I gave a cup of water ; He drank and raised
I His head.
A strange and wondrous change I saw, trans
figured was His face,
His form was full of majesty, His eyes oMove
and grace.
"Well have ye done ; well have yo spent that
gift of charity.
Albeit yo know it not," He said, "re did it
nnto Me."
Great works are for great souls; high
1 thoughts for those whose minds can
' soar; .
Sweet music for the oars that catoh the notes
from Heaven's bright shore.
Strong words that move tne multitude ore
nor, my child, for thee
Thine are the hidden ways of love and quiet
charity.
E. H. Kerr, in Good Words.
A MYSTERIOUS 11LNESS,
happened to be at
Ivydene, visiting
my friend Tom
De vo rill, when
J ohn Cantyll's mys
terious illness be
gan, and it was I
who suggested that
they 6houldaskDr.
Macphersonto
come down and
give an opinion on the oas,e.
Canty 11 was a cousin of DeveriU's.
In fact, all the guests at Ivydene,
while I was there, with the exception
of myself, were cousins to one another
and to Tom. Dear old Mrs. Deverill,
his mother, had insisted on gathering
her sister's children together nnder
her hospitable roof, although one at
least of them Tom cordially hated.
.. Ilis cousin Lillith Andrews, to whom
' he became engaged during my visit,
. was as sweet a woman as you could
meet, and I had not noticed anything
objectionable about Cantyll when his
mysterious malady attacked and took
him out of my sight; but Gabriel
Dyne was a decidedly unpleasant per
son. ."; Cantyll began by being found un
conscious one morning when Tom en
tered his room to see why he had not
appeared at breakfast, and from con
sciousness to unconsciousness and
back he had been changing ever sinoe.
The Dererill's ' family doctor owned
himself , perfectly nonplused by tbe
' eympioms. One day he spoke of sun
'stroke and the next of new forms of
'hysteria. He seemed very relieved
when I suggested that Macpherson
might like to take such a puzzling case
in hand. I thought that it j inexplic-
tble nature would tempt the physician
fnto the country, and I was not disap
pointed. Five hours after the tele
- gram which Mrs. Deverill begged me
to send him reached Harley street the
great mind doctor was standing by
John Cantyll's bedside, bending over
. the young man's unconscious figure,
wiih his fingers on his pulse.
Tom Deverill and I both attacked
him eagerly as ho left the sick room.
'"Well, can you tell what it is?" we
both inquired in one breath, and Mac
pherson answered in his sharp, decid
ed, professional manner :
"It is a clear case 0 opium poison
ing, the do30 being repeated, I should
6ay, from jymr account of the patient's
symptoms, in quantities just too small
to cause immediate death."
Tom and I stared at him.
"13nt who on earth can be doing
it?" asked ray friend, aghast.
"That is what we have to find out
to begin with," sail the pbysioian,
briskly. "Is there anybody ia the
IKS j
houso who would profit in any way by
the poor fellow's death?"'
"Yes, I should for one," answered
j-everm. "ab iar as money ib con
cerned we all should Miss Andrews,
Dyne and myself. You see, we are all
grandchildren of Sir Charles Wil
mott, my mother's father, and by his
will the money he left was to be di
vided equally among us. In case one
of us dies unmarried it is provided in
,the will that the share belonging to
him is to be divided up again among
the rest. So, you see, Cantyll's death
would leave each of us richer by
Jtouuu.
"And apart from money," asked
Macpherson, "has anybody in the
house an object in injuring the man?
Is there any rivalry in love or any
thing of that sort?"
"If it were a question of love," I
put in,, "it would be my friend Tom
here who would be poisoned. Ho has
won the prize for which Mrs. Deverill
tells me both tho other cousins hive
been'striving the hand of Mis3 An
drews." The doctor made a few more in
quiries, and I have no doubt came to
the conclusion at which both Tom and
I had already arrived that if any
body in tho hoti3o wa polrou'ui,'
Cantyll it must be Gabriel Dyn?. He
was, in fact, the only person it was
possible to suspect, and, although
Macpherson refused to give an opinion
on the subject, both Tcm and I were
perfectly satisfied in our own minds
that it was upon Dyne alone that wo
need keep watch.
Imagino our 6urpise, therefore,
which almost equaled our consterna
tion, when, on the morning following
the physician's arrival, Gabriel Dyne
was found almost dead in his bed.
Just as Cantyll had failed to come
down to breakfast, and had been found
by Tom nnconscious in his room, so
Dyne was found by him. He had
been stabbed near the heart, as it was
found directly Macpherson made an
examination, but there tvas no sign or
trace of tho instrument with which
the crime had been committed.
. I am not a nervous man by any
means, but I will admit that this un
expected tragedy, added to the fact
that another man was being slowly
poisoned to death in the house, terri
fied me, more especially when a closo
examination of the premises proved
almost conclusively that nobody could
have left the house during the night,
unless they had an accomplice inside
to close the doors after them. The
entire failure on our pat to think of
anybody among us whom it was pos
sible for a moment to suspect gave the
two crimes a supernatural appearance,
which added immeasurably to the ter
ror of our position. The servants left
in a body, preferring tho loss of an
excellent situation to the danger of
remaining in a place where such inex
plicable things could occur. I should
have liked to follow their example,
but felt, of course, that I must stand
by Tom. His sweetheart proved her
heroism and devotion by forming a
similar resolve, and Macpherson took
it as a matter of course that he should
remain to watch John Cantyll's illness
and do what he could for Dyne, who
had recovered consciousness, but could
tell us nothing. He had evidently
been stabbed in his sleep. Macpher
son seemed pleased by the exodus of
the servants. "If my patient does "
not recover now we shall find the
circle of those whom we may suspect
considerably narrowed .down," he
said, cheerfully, as the cook and.
housemaid, who were the last to go,
drove away in one cab.
If Lillith Andrews had not remained
we should have had to do our own
cooking, for Deverill ha 1 very prop
erly insisted on his mother accepting
the invitation of a hospitable neigh
bor until the mystery of Dyne's at
tempted murder and Cantyll's illness,
was cleared up.
The day of the discovery and the
next night passed without inoident. , I
do not expect that any of us. slept
much. I know that I 'did 'not close
my eyes, although I shared . Tom's
room, and had the door locked and
bolted and the windows screwed up.
But when in the morniug Die. Mac
pherson announced that CantyJi did
nut appear to have been dosed since
the departure of the servants, If WP'
one, began to feel a little of my clr
age returning. The holding of-nin-formal
police inquiry in the J. jng
room in tho meaning helped to A Ike.
ns feel more matter-of-fact, and we
grew quite cheerful in the evening
over Lillith's first attempt at dinner,
which was very successful. Tom con
stituted himself as butler, and brought
in the dishes and the wine. He bad
decanted a fresh bottle of port, he told
tts, in honor of . his new position, anl
walked round the table to fill Dr.
Macpherson's glass and mine as well
as his own his fiance only took
water.
"Let us drink to tho restoration-ol
Cantyll and' Dyne and the speedy
clearing up of the mystery," said Tom,
when he seated himself, and we were
just raising our glasses to our lips
when the doctor startled us by calling
out with, moro excitement than I have
ever seen him show before or since :
"Put your glasses down ! For heaven'd
sake, do not drink !"
"What is the matter?" asked Tom :
and I, for one, was quite prepared for
the answer. The doctor had quite re
gained his usual calm, now that wo
had put our wine dowii.
"My glass contains plenty of opium
to kill the lot of us," ho said, quietly.
"I fortunately smelt it just as I was
about to drink. I suppose your
glasses aro both poisoned."
Tom DeveriU's face turned as white
ns a sheet.
"That means that tho fiend is still
in the house," he said. "I decanted
that wine this morning, just beforo
the police came."
Macpherson rose from the table.
"l'ben I cannot afford to leave Can
tyll alone for a moment. We ought to
take turns at sitting in his room. We
ought to have done so from the first."
Ho left tho table as he spoke, and
wo three sat and stared blankly at each
other. This new discovery was terri
ble. For five minutes we did not
speak a word, and then poor Lillith
began 10 cry hysterically. I was sur
prised that 6he had not broken down
before.
Her lover sprang up at once to try
and comfort her, and, thinking ' that
te would be more likely to succeed if
they were left alone together, I went
off to look for Macpherson.
I walked warily, feeling that' at any
moment I might be attacked by the
mysterious miscreant who had chosen
to make this peaceful country resi
dence the ecece of his diabolical
crimes. As I reached the foot of the
stairs, however, leading from the hall,
I changed my step, and hurried up
three stairs at a time, for on the floor
above I could hear Macpherson calling
m name urgently, as if he wera in
need of my help. I ran straight up to
Cantyll's room, from which tho cry
seemed to come ; my steps hastened, if
possible, by the uumiatakablo sounds
of a struggle going on in the sicl;
man's room.
What I expected to see when I
reached it I do not know, but certain
ly it was not the sight that actually
met my eyes when 1 rushed into thd
sick chamber- the sight of Dr. Mao-'
pherson and John Cantyll grappling
together in a life-and-death struggle'
on the bed, the patient with a formid
able knife in his hand, which the
physician was preventing him from
using by holding his wrist in a vice
like grip.
The fight had been a pretty even one,
I believe, till I came on the scene, for
though Cantyll was still half stupid
with the drugs ho had taken be was a
man of much more powerful physique
than his opponent. My arrival de
cided the battle ; in a moment I had
secured the knife, and Cantyll had
given up the hopeless struggle. He
lay back on the bed, glaring at us, his
face transformed into that of a fiend.
Dr. Macpherson drew a long breath
after his exertions, and wiped n drop
of blood from his wrist whero the
point of the knife had cut him
slightly.
"Well! we may congratulate our
selves, I believe, on having cleared up
the mystery that has been bothering
us," he said, quietly, to me. "If you
do not mind calling Deverill from the
top of the stairs, we will get him to
bring some rope and help us tie up
this patient of mine until we have de
cided how to dispose of him."
It was not until we had left John
KCantylUbound hand and foot on the
bed that Macpherson explained to us,
down in the dining room, exactly what
had happened.
: "It occurred to me 'during the in
quiry this morning, " he said "that
Cantyll might be dosing aimself with
opium to remove himself from reacii
of suspicion, while ho killod the two
men who stood between him and the
enjoyment of the whole of his grand
father's fortune and marriage with
Miss Andrews, with whom 1 will do
him the credit of supposing him to be
in love. When I loft the dinner table
I crept up silently to his room r n '
caught him in the uct of preparing
himself another dose of the narcotic.
He must have considerable acquaint
ance with opium to use it so daringly
on himsolf. He seems to have a stock
of bottles hidden between the- mat
tresses of hi? bed, together with tho
knife with which ho tried to kill
Dyne, and which he drew on me when
ho found that I had discovered 1 his
secret."
Lillith sprang up impulsively, threw
her arms round the great physician's
neck, and kissed him.
"You have saved all our lives I" she
cried, gratefully; and Macphersor
miled, well pleased. '
"Well! I think I have done what J
scame down for," lie said, briskly. "J
have cured Cantyll of his mysterioui
illness." Pall Mall Budget.
Excavating With Water Jets.
Within the past ten or twelve years
the uses of hydraulic "monitors" and
"little giants," of California mining
fame, as means of earth excavation
have become pretty well appreciated
among engineers, says Cassier's Maga
zine, and water jets have been suc
cessfully applied to a variety of en
gineering purposes, for which only a
short time previously they would
never have been thought of. Pile
driving with water jets, now so com
mon, is only one modification of the
general method, while the removal o',
heavy earth banks by these aqueous
battering rams is another which is de
servedly working its way into favor.
What has led to these reflections is a
revised version, recently published, of
an account of the removal several
years ago of some river bluff overhang
ing the tracks of one of the railroad
lines in tho Western part of tbe Uni
ted States. This wa3 accotnplshed al
most wholly by the employment of
jstsof water under high pressure,
bringing the cost of excavation down
to the low figure of one and a half
cents per cubic yard. It recalls also a
neat job carried out a few years ago
in the way of filling in a large area of
land just under water and bringing it
up to a level of several feet above the
water line. Large sand hills ranged
along the shore close by these hol
lows. The work got into the hands of
two old California miners, who ap
plied a modified hydralic mining out
fit to its execution. They bought a
couple of large pumps, which deliv
ered water from the bay on the tops of
the sand hills through an iron pipe,
and then, by means of a series of boxes
and sluices, they carried the dirt and
sand which the water washed down
from the hills out to the spot to be
filled. In this way several acres of
land were made at ah expense which
was merely nominal. The pumps and
boiler were practically worth as much
after the work was done as when they
were first purchased ; handling of ma
terial with additional cost there was
none ; and tho whole operation was
completed iu a remarkably short epaoe
of time.
A Big Calculation in Water.
The ocean sea and lake surface of
our planet is estimated at iiomething
like 145,090,000 square miiej, with an
average depth of 12,000 feet, and is
calculated to contain not less than
3,270,600 billion tons of water. The
rivers of the earth are estimated to
have a flow sufficient to cover thirty
six onbio miles of the above area each
day. Now, if all the oceans were
suddenly dried nnd the rivers could
keep up their present rate of floTr
(which, of course, they could no
without ocean evaporation), it would
take 35,000 years to refill the basin.
Detroit Free Press.
Va Constitutes a "Young Man."
In a college student, 20 years of age.
In a man recently married, 25 years.
In a city politician, 30 years.
In a successful business man, AO
years.
In a congressman, 45 years.
In & senator, 60 yearr.
In a banboW. any ftse. Chicasro
Eecori ' ;
LADIES' COLUMN
THREE SUCCESSFUL SISTERS.
The Misses Swann are three Louis
ville girls who have made a suocess as
designers and carvers of choice furni
ture. In 1830 Miss Laura Swann
made a cedar chest and sold it for
$35. Miss J oie tried her hand on a
wardrobe which was sold for $40. The
third sister designed and executed a
six -piece suite which was quickly sold
for $215. The father then fitted up a
shop for the girls. They prepare work
only on orders, and seek only the best
trade. No" duplications are permitted.
The designs, the construction, the
carving are nil done by the three sis
ters. Wealthy families in nearly all
the Eastern cities have their work.
Secretary Carlisle and Senator Black
burn, Starin, the Now York boat mag
nate, and many others have specimens
in the shape of tables, chairs, side
boards, bric-a-brao stands, hat racks
and bed and parlor suite?. Atlanta
Journal.
mus. Cleveland's appearaxce. .
I saw Mrs. Cleveland in Washington
the other day, and I have not seen her
looking so well for years. The Presi
dent himself may be troubled with
gout and rheumatism, but his wife is
the picture of health. Her color is
brighter and her step lighter than it
has been for some time. She attrib
utes all this to the fact that she lives
in the White House but very little of
the time. The Executive Mansion has
too many chinks in its venerable
boards through which the wind enters
and gambols to make it in auy seuse a
sanitarium, and it is distinctly un
healthy. It was Mrs. Cleveland's idea
for the Presidential family to do most
of their living in the suburbs of the
city, and it was at her request that
Woodley was purchased and devoted
to this purpose. She is very proud of
the success of her plan, and smilingly
says that she will next try to do away
with the White House altogether.
New York Press.
ELECTRICAL COSMETIC.
Electricity is greater than any cos
metic as a beaut ifier. It also pufjg
more and firmer flesh on the face in a
shorter space of time than any known
tonic. This has been found true late
ly by New York women, with the re
sult that those of the sex who go in
for fine, rosy skins are taking elec
tricity along with athletic aids to
physical culture.
The machinery required is a small,
portable electric battery, with a fara
dic current. Be sure that it is a fara
dic, for its opposite, the galvanic,
burns and blisters, while tho other ia
only, to quote an old darky, "pow'ful
stimerlative." One of small Bize is
the right sort to get. Women who
are adopting them apply the current
to tbe muscles of the face, rubbing
the sponges firmly over cheeks and
foreheads. The same treatment is ap
plied to the throat and shoulders. The
muscles begin to enlarge and harden,
the face fills out, lines disappear and
a line, natural bloom chows under the
skin.
This is what the advocates claim for
it. I know one womau who was very
6lender and she has gained twenty
pounds in three months, since using
her battery. Women who have thin
necks and shoulders are trying elec
tricity to develop the latter into s
condition that will permit of an 1S30
gown this winter at social affairs.
Its eOect is healthier than any oil,
cold cream or the manufacturers' evils
that are in continuous use by slender
women, desirous of the abolishing of
prominent bones and wrinkles. Then
it is less expensive, the batteries cost
ing only $7 and $14. More expensive
ones can be bought, of course, but
those at this price are adequately bmo
ficial. The amount of currant to be
turned on cau be learned from any
physician, and there are not sufficient
volts to cause death. Boston Sunday-Post.
FASHION SOTZS.
Old Roman coins are mounted as
medallions.
White veils have entirely b9ea done
away with aud black ouei are now
woru so thickly dotte I with chenille
us to almost form a mas'.;.
Among conspicuom novelties are
tha long silver chains. Many of there
are punctured here and there with
turquoise an'l pearl ornamcats.
. t Y
Copper buttons and those ot oxi
dized silver, tet with rhinestones, and
buttons of inlaid ivory" and carved
agate are among the season's fads.
Veil pins are something new. . A.
very dainty one ia a silver butterfly
caught by the wings of filigree e?
enamel and poised lightly on the veil.'
A pretty evening dress is made of
white embroidered chiffon over whit
satin, trimmed ou the skirt with three
rows of lime-jrreen velvet ribbon, and
on the simple full waist with pink
roses and green leaves. ,
Long mousquetaire glove3 of An
gora, to be worn ' over the evening
gloves instead ; of . using a muff, are
amoog the most useful novelties this ,
season. -
Evening drosrfes still have ruching
at the hem, but it is the sleeves which
cannot fail to attract attention. They
are gigantic, with puff i : which are '
shaped to the elbow in a mannerHh&t
is altogether inexplicable. -
Black lace over white moire or satin,'
white lace over black, black loco over
Mack, or white over white, are favor-.
ite trimming for black gowns, but
rarely it is that there is seen lace trlm
miogs upon a white costume. ' . , ,
The newest colors are a bine shade
of steel called "Valkyrie," various
shades of red of the American beauty
rose order or color, a pinkish yellow,"
Gismonda purple, tho "bluet" shades
of blue, and shades of emerald green.
First Police Signal on Record.
Thirty-five years ago Captain Man
gan, chief of the police at Yonkers, N.
Y., for his own convenience rigged up
an electrio contrivance, out of which'
grew the elaborate and comprehensive
system of police signals and communi
cation between station houses at pres
ent in U30. Although the perfection
of the veteran captain's suggestion has
yielded a great manufacturing firm a
fortune, net a dollar of it ever came
into the hands of , the real inventor,
says the St. Lcuis Post-Dispatch.
In the early days of the war a rough
gang of men and boya frequently took'
possession of tho Hudson River Bail-
road depot and committed lawless acts. '
The police station was located in tho
town, quite a distance from the depot,'
and before a messenger ; could sum
mon assistance the law breakers would
have disappeared. Captain Mangan
thought the matter over and induced
the depot agent and telegraph opera-'
tor to run a wire from the station to
the police office. At the police enl
a bell and a dial were arranged. Tho
latter had painted on its face two or
three short messages, snob, as "send!
an officer," "Trouble here; send a1
full force," eto The indicator on the
dial was made 16 move by a series of
short jerks, caused by key taps, to thej
desired point on the dial. A practi
cal electrician saw this crude appara
tus at work one day. Six months
later patents were taken out on tUa'
apparatus now in use all over the '
country, which consists of a box with
a dial face upon which are indicated a
number of routine question and ans
wers and tbe letters of the alphabet,
by which any message may bo spelled
out, a crank being used at one end and
the indicator showing at the other.
What Causes the Most Deaths.
The sudden death from heart disease
of a lady while atteading the Berkeley f
Lyceum recently led a prominent j
physician to make this comment. Said I
he : "If I were asked to tell you whai j,
caused the most deaths in this country i
and in these times I would reply ;
'flurry and worry.'" Keferring tj j
the death at the Berkeley Lyceum he f
added": "Here is a lady who had. been f
subject to heart disease, who was over j
sixty years old and who must have
known perfectly well thatoverexertion f
was extremely hazardous, and yet ia-
order not tolose any part of a per- f
formauco she ; hurried frora the depot '
only to fall unconscious when she
reached tho hail. As & rule people t
gain nothing by being in a hurry, cad
they lose everything when they worry, i
for they make themselves and all
about them uncomfortable, undermina :
their health end lay the'foundat'
for some of the most serious du$i - s.
That is why we physicians buq3b
our hypochondriac patients ofF to T. i
rope to drive them from bnsinras n -.1
set their minds on other thinf 3 tl.n.
those which have worried them, Tb?
rest cure ia' a . j?rcat thin j, l.nt is
amounts to nothing if a 'pat-if
lies. " NewY ork JI?ila - d r ; t ; 5 . , '
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