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'FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.". $1.00 a year in advance. VOL.. VI. PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1895. NO. 50. Roanoke Publishing Oo. , INTERPRETERS.- The lark sings bathed In sunshine- "Oh, Love is Joy and gladness." In shade the nightingale complains, "Oh, Love is pain and sadness." t It takes a nlghtingalo and lark, To tell Love's complex hlst'ry 5 Tot Love is Joy, and Love is pain, . ' " . And therein lies the myst'ry! . '. , - -Pall fIall Budget A BOGUS FORTUNE. AINTS alive! if il ain't getting on to ten' o'clock The mail boy will be here' In no time ! Jim, ' poke up that fire, and have the ket- tie' a boiling!" eiolaimed Miss Prudence Pieper, the postmistress of the village of , in Virginia. And, starting up, she glanced up the road, as the clatter of horse hoofs , reached her ear.' "Ycb, here lie comes ! And I'n not fixed for delivery ! . And the time that t ought to spend in examining the lel terB, I'll have to be ' putting on my things. This all comes of my losing so much time trying .to convince that bard-headed boy what is best for him. After all I've done for him ! Giving him college - education, . and raising him to bo what he is good enough to be the husband of the best girl in the State. And that's just what I'm after him about; but no, he can't see it so. : He wants' to go and throw him self away on a poor teacher with her pale face and fine airs. , A body would think she was a young queen,, instead of a poor school-ma'am. There's Col onel Raymond's daughter, ' the richest girl in . this' State, would have him. but no " ''Here's your mail, Miss Peeper 1" cried the boy, throwing the bag on the porch.;. ; " . : v . ''TJtQo-in'fiamePvo told you often enough now !" '""""N.... "Folks say as how it ought to be !" answered the young scamp, . "Be off with' you, you : raBcal, and take your mail 1bere it is I" ' -"Miss Peeper, don't you wish you . could change your name? , And don't you wish some day a male .would stop here, and take a shine to you? Would you deliver, that male to any other body? Ha! ha! ha! I'm off." And, with this laugh still ringing in her ears, Miss Pieper slammed the v door, closed the window, and pro- r cTee"dttd uh'&Jthe mail-bag. "That boy ' ongat Xo be hanged. What can he mean by; saying 'folks say my name ought to be Peeper ?' Can they suspect . Jim, ' you can run out to play, and when folks come, say the mail is being . assorted. ' 1 can attend to my work better when I'm to myself." ' One after another, letter and paper was scrutinized by .the. postmistress . end put in its plaoe.v , ' "Nothing I care to see this morning same old things. '' Stop I here's v, lffr fni CAavo. TlavmoncL in a man's hand, v If that girl s gone ana got a lover I'll see-V'. And Miss Prudence' held the envelop, close to the ' mouth of t'lekkeitle. 14 moment more and 6Se saeld the letter open in her hand. "Oh, only a bill ! Dear me, what lots of fine things she has been get ting t No one can ever say I broke open a letter without lying under a mistake. There, I'm through. Now . I'm ready for delivery. " . . While Miss Prudence stood befpre the office window her nephew, Charles Osborn, was wSflr Ma-J5osi-ter in the grovi&'by, ; 0 i . He was plealliDS earnestly, but she , shook her hjad, and - in tones de cided, but ftod with sadness, said : ' "No, I caJiot promise to" be yours. Your idikes me, and I will never I of , trouble between you. ply indebted to Her, and to expect you to marry acreeable to her. I way now. The little' - for me. It is near . yOUtalk so calmly of 'up. Ca$ ; yon realJy Jqve ' v Yora the eoift brown eyes Vas 'swer. ' n ad was enough, !, rr'iickly : v '. iue, Ma j. Eut will noih r.r determination?" : but your au'at'5 change of ' My poverty is the only reason for her objection. And unless , some fairy godmother should come and give me riches, Miss Pieper's dislike will never grow less." Charlie longed to clasp her to his heart, and, despite all opposition, to hold her . as his own. The girls were beside them, and he could only say : ' 1 must see you again, j shall leave home in a few days, to be gone a long while. I may come before I go?" I May nodded assent. H A couple of hours after the little girls, Lilly and Rose Hawthorne - was in the music room.: Lilly ran her fingers over the keys and struck a few chords, and then whirled quickly around and said : ' .. "Oh, I can't play. There is no music in my Eearf." OhTTwfeh I was a fairy that I could make dear May happy ! And I wish, more, that I had the power to change that disagreeable Miss Prudence into a pleasant, charit able and considerate woman !" "Oh, yes ; I know what you mean ! I heard what Miss May said, as . we joined her. , How sorry I am for her I I wish she was rich. I'm sure she ought to be. Don't you, Lilly? She seems so accustomed . to everthing elegant. And then it must have cost a great deal of money to have edu cated her. She knows everything, I think" "No, she does not. I know one tiling more than Miss May ; and that is, how to deal with that hateful Miss Peeper." "What is it, Lilly?' "You will know all, in good time. Do you think Mr. Osborn is good enough for Miss May ?". That was a. question for grave con sideration, : and the little maidens seemed fully to appreciate it, for their faces grew grave and earnest. , The conference was assuming a very solemn nature, which ' was highly amusing to ft third person, who had en tered unobserved, ; and, ho longer able to restrain his mirtb, broke out in-a"fit of coughing, and both girls exclaimed t?r ' "Oh, Gus ! You here iistefiTSg,?"-; , ' '!Yes, only came in a momeot ago." 1 ' "But you heard-" ; ' "Your last question? ' Yes. And, divining the persons, can answer it. He is a capital fellow. As good as the best. , About the happiness, that will depend much on herself, X think.. But ho has made me happy many times, 1 know. I'd like a chance to give him a return, if I could," said Gus, the sage little maiden's brother. ; " The matter under consideration was entered into with much zeal by Gus ; and after Lilly had given her idea about the way to deal with Miss Prudence, the young ' plotters came to the con clusion that, under their management affairs concerning young Charles Os born and their governess might assume a more favorable light. a Miss Prudence was more than ever determined , on making a match be tween her nephew and Colonel Ray mond's daughter,, after the young lady had called that morning for the mail, and came in and sat a half hour to chat with her. ; "It's no use thinking about any other girl for him. I'm not going to let him throw himself away. It's my duty to do the best I can for him, and I'm going to. That governess has a deal, of pride,; and will never come where she's not wanted. ; So I'll let her see, plain enough, Sunday, after church, v that .1 don't want her con nected with me in any. way. ; . And so she did, an excellent oppor tunity offering. After" the services were over, Miss Prudence was moving majestically down; the churchyard, smiling and bowing to her many ac quaintances, when the merry little Lilly called to her, saying : "Miss Prudence, brother is going io New York to-morrow. Have you any commissions?" ; ; Lilly stood still with her hand clasped in May Bositer's, when Miss Prudence approached. Thanking Lilly for her kindness, and inquiring after the health ' of Mrs. '. Hawthorn, she stood for "several moments by May without noticing her, save by a pass ing glance. And she bade Lilly good by, and sailed on. , The next morning Gus called on his way to the depot, and Miss Prudence could not resist the desire to nnd out what Gus pas going to New York for. So, after raaDy roundabout queV iocs, she drew out the knowlodge she was after. "On Miss Bositer's business t Dear me, it's very kind of you," said Miss Prudence. "Oh, don't imagine that, Miss Piep er. Something more than kindness carries me. . It will pay me well. But Miss Bositer is very quiet about ' her affairs. . Ha, there's the whistle ! I must be oft And he ran off, leaving Miss Prudence's mind very muoh ex eroised. "What can it be? What does he mean by 'pays well,' and 'keeps her affairs quiet?' " 1 Before the end of the week the vil lage postmistress held in her hand a document which she felt quite Bure would throw some light on the sub ject ; a large business-looking envel lopc, directed to Miss Bositer. ." "How lucky for me it ain't done up in that old fashioned way, with seal ing wax. Bah! I tietest that way. Now let us see." . And from the steamed envelope she drew the letter, and proceeded to read a few lines, and an exclamation of surprise escaped her lips. A little more and she gasped for breath re covering sufficiently to proceed with her reading to the end of the first page. , Then she dropped the epistle, exclaiming: , , . . - "Land of liberty I I'm no longer worthy of my name. I might have known it, she holds her head so high. Oh, if I had not put that finishing stroke, Sunday, I might have fixed it up right 1" The letter was picked up, and again Miss Prudence read it, over part of which she groaned forth : "How will . you have your dividends invested, the interest on your bonds amounting to fifteen hundred dollars now? Shall we forward, by Mr. Hawthdrn, or in vest again? Please let us hear im mediately from you on this sabjeot. In regard to the house an Fifth ave nuo, we think it advisable to raise the rent two thousand dollars!" "What a fool I've been ! Charlie said she was worth more than all the Raymonds. That's - what he meant, sure.. But I thought it was his love sick nonsense.' Qh, . I've read of such things before I Wants - oh be Joved for herself. Oh, I'm done for now ! I had the chance of living in thai house. But I've thrown it away. Oh, ImuBt get it back somehow. ; Here comes somebody." V Miss : Prudence quickly closed the enveTope, an soon after opened hei window to deliver the mail. After o little while Lilly Hawthorn came.: A bright thougnt came to Miss Prudence a chance for her to repair the evil she had done. . After giving Lilly the letters and papers all save one, which she ie tained, Miss Prudence said: "You. have a friend visiting you, fefjsa LiUy 2" "No, indeed! We have no com pany. Why did you think so ?." . 'Why, I 6urely saw one with you Sunday," said Miss Prudence. "That was Miss May. Why, did you not know her?" "Lands! no! . Well, I' 11 have to own up, and not try to hide ray failing sight any more. I must get glasses. Well, I expect her summer clothes must have made her look, different. Please explain this to her, Lilly. I have so much respect and regard for Miss May, I would not like her to think me rude." "Ok, I will ( explain, and fix it all right," Lilly said, with a twinkle in. her eyes. An hour after, Charlie came in, and bis aunt held out a letter, saying : "Here is a letter I failed to give Miss Lilly. It may be of great im portance. Will ycJu ride over with it? And I say, Charlie, I'll send Jim to get a basket of those pears.. ' You can give them to Miss May from mo. They have none like them over there. And give my respects and say I sent them." . Charlie grfzed with perfect . amaze ment, but thinking, it advisible to keep quiet, and1 do as was told, started off, feeling happier than for many weeks. ' . ' That was only the beginning of Miss Prudence's kind k actions. What had caused the ' change of leeling, neither May nor Charlie could imagine. Miss Prudence kept her own counsel, secret ly congratulating herself on the clever way she had managed the affair. Things progressed so favorably nn- 1 r. der her management that in the early fall Charlie won his sweetheart. ' After the marriage, when the happy couple were receiving the congratula tions of their friends, - Gus managed to - draw Miss Prudence2 aside and whisper: . r ' ' , ; 'Mies Pieper, have you ever heard of the firm of Dunn, Brown & Com pany?" , . ;:. ' That was the signature to the letter that had had such a magical effect on Miss Prudence. Her face flushed ; but before she could call up an answer Gus said: "Ah! I see you have. Well, Gn Hawthorn, Esq., is the principal, in feet, the whole of that institution, which is for the help of those suffer ing from Cupid's wounds. If you know of any such, who wish "the fa vorable consideration of opposing rel atives, send them to me. I can write a letter that will bring round the most decided opposition to a cordial con sent, with a blessing in the bargain." And with a laugh he joined the com pany. New-York News. ' Duplicate Writing. A double writing apparatus has been constructed by Marquis Louis Fonti, at Borne, who was desirous of obtain ing two hand-written copies, although doing the work but once. " The idea of the invention originated with Alex ander Dumas, who wanted such a double writer, and had a man .by the name of -Levesque , make a . machine with which two identical copies could be written. That apparatus was rath er imperfect; as the lower sheet had to be folded after every two lines of writing, so that the writing on the up per lines might be continued. Fonti has entirely solved this mat ter. . The sheets of paper are no more above eaoh . other, but side by. side, and are held down by the heavy metal base of the apparatus. Thi3 latter consists mainly of three pairs of lev ever movable on a horizontal axis. The penholders are'attached through the little tubes nnd movable on uni versal joints. At the base of the ap paratus two inkstands are attached, in which the two pens ,are simultaneous ly dipped. With this apparatus each at the two" pens does exactly the same . work- The levers and movable parts being jie ixl- aluminum, it Vs not ; very fnoonvonientv tq- , handle, the double writer. Philadelphia- RsWd. An Aged Pensioner. A few days ago a Polish lady, a re fugee, named Mme. Bostowska, said to be 112 years old, appeared at the pre fecture at Lille to receive her pension from the French Government. Her history is extraordinary.; She followed the French army in the Russian cam paign as a canteen woman, and took part in twelve campaigns in all. She was twice wounded, and wears the or der of the Silver Cross. In 1831 she acted as surgeon to the Tenth Polish Line Begiment, in which her husband was captain. For the last twenty years she has lived at Aniche, where she is known for her philanthropy. She brought up fifteen children, though her last surviving son died several ' years ago, aged eighty. London Times. . ''.' '. . : Value of a Brother's Ashes. A novel claim is being made upon one of the great Frenoh railway com-; panics. A gentleman who came to Paris to have the body of his deceased brother cremated at the crematorium at Pere la Chaise Cemetery, took the ashes away in a handbag, and previous to setting out on his return journey tq his home in the country, deposited the bag at the "oonsigne," or cloakroom of the railway station. - When he came back to clairh it, it had gone. Some one had comeSnd claimed a bag, and it had been givemup, probably in mis take. Inquiries were 'instituted, but the missing bag could noi.be discov ered. ', The gentleman has brought an action to recover damages for the" loss he has sustained, and the Judges wi be called upon to decide what is the money value of a brother's ashes.; London News. ' ' War . Supplies for the Union Army. During the Civil War in this coun try, from 1861 to 1865, the Union Ordnance Department served out to the army .7892 cannons, 4,022,000 rifles, 2,360,000 equipments for foot and horse, 12,000 tons of powder, 42,000 tons of nlol and 1,022,000,000 cartridges. -"--Chicaco TirneHerali. ' RAM'S HORN BLASTS. Warning- Hotel Calling- the Tricked to Be pentaace. ' ' f ir HE man who I fears God also .fears to do wrong. Faith In God gives . men faith in o'le another. , W hen God says, "Come," he al ways means It The man who makes his own god always has a little one.. What we truly pray for we are willing to live and die for. 1 ' While you are true to God nobody can hurt you but yourself. The road to heaven would be crowd ed If it were carpeted with velvet The devil can behave as well as an angW when he finds It to his advantage. The hardest kind of repentance to bring about is repentance for popular Sins. t '- -X ,"; . ' ;v. :: ' Nothing will bring barrenness to the soul like looking at everything through money. 1 . . ; The real preacher Is always preach ing, no matter whether he is in the pul pit or not No Christian has any right to try to make a dollar without asking God to tell him how. ' The man who gives as much as God expects him to, never growls about it afterward. , .' The people who do not believe in a personal devil are strangers to a per sonal Christ r:: .', , No tree can become so great that it can get along without the help of its smallest roots. ' - '; j ; ; Instead of "putting off the old man," some people go in for dressing him up and sending him to college. Every once in a while the devil makes some man believe he can be a Christian without belonging to church. - -. Every man . who loves God with all his heart is trying to do something to mako a heaven of this earth. r " If you don't know from experience that it is more blessed to give thah to receive, you had better try It V , Some people who sit in front seats In church, leave their religion behind them .whenever they go away from home, v r How much God is like a mother. He not only Watches the footsteps of his children but he listens to hear their cry. v The first duty we owe to the world is to tell those who come within our im mediate Influence what Christ is to us. . ' The devil is not throwing very many stones at the man who Is not as rellir- lous in business as he is in prayer meet ing, The man who can pay, his debts and won't do It vwlll some day live in n world where all fJke. him will be locked up. : ,. The farmer who tries to earn hli? bread by -the sweat of a hired man's brow will have to go without pie for breakfast . - If angels hear all the preaching that is being done down here, it must puzzle them to make out what some preachers are aiming at ; v j Some converts take so much pride in telling what awful sinners they have been ' that they forget to tell vis how good the Lord is. , . - . K- ' : ' The "Lament" in Italy. A curious and Impressive custom of Southern Italy is the lament which takes place at the death of a person, and while the body lies awaiting buri al. The corpse is fully dressed, and laid upon the bed with the head and shoulders raised. Lighted candelabra are placed at the sides. A young girt Is generally dressed in - white . and adorned with flowers. The relatives and friends gather, and sit in an irreg ular semi-circle about the foot of the bed. At intervals they join In a weird, monotonous wall that is , distinctly Oriental and resembles nothing Euro pean. Perhaps a near relative will ap proach the bier, and'wlth wild actions, clasping her head and tearing her hair, will describe the illness and sufferings of the departed one, the good qualities, and the dlsconsolateness of those left behind, the mournful cry being finally taken up by the others. One who has lost a parent will sometimes keep up this awful death-cry for over twenty four hours. But though the lamenta tions are so violent the grief of these people seems to be soon assauged, and after a day or two they appear to be fully reconciled to circumstances, and mention the lamented one in quite a light and airy manner. Ilarper's Ba zar. ' . ' S.1 v.' """NJVot Such a Pet as It Seemed. , Many of the British regiments keep pet animals, and the creature that the Second Life Guards take under their patronage Is a" bear. A lad of twelve who used to. fetch and carry for the soldiers supoled himself to be a friend of Bruin's wfongly, as it turned out The bear liveHiu a grass plot fenced In railing, and Jwas tied to a chain eighteen feet lorO; for additional secur Ity. One day the boy squeezed himself between the railis! went up to the bear, which was then mag down, and pat ted it on the ba'-. saying, "Get up, " Tho ' " mv" foiij.' ' - animal ' . -t nave been surly, for It rose at once, felled the lad, and began to gnaw him. Al though the boy struggled bravely with the angry brute, it would have gone ill with him but for the prompt ar rival of a soldier, who beat the bear off, and carried the boy to the nearest hospital, where, his wounds being at tended to, be recovered. 1 Ethel "Have you any very expen sive tastes, Charlie?" Charlie "Well, I don't know I'm very fond of you." Buffalo Ei press. "Blir'Cbok's Brief Career. "Bill" Cook, who has now exchanged' the exciting scenes of outlawry in the West for a long period of monotonous jail life in the Albany Penitentiary, has had only a brief career, but tho penalty of forty-five years' imprison ment is none too small for the crime3 which he crowded into the brief span of a 3hort year, , Ilo is only about twenty-four years oldr with about three-fourths Chero-' kee blood in his veins, and, as usual,! came of poor but honest parents, who' lived on the banks of . Fourteen Mile Creek, not very far from' Tahlequah,! in the Indian Territory. . Unfor-j tunately, this virtue, of the parents was inherited by only one of the five' children, and it was not "Bill." His! sister Lou has achieved a reputation! for deviltry almost as sensational as her brother's. "Bill" began his ac tive life as a cowboy, but - soon tried' to make money by smuggling, whisky among the Indians. He was caught and sent to jail. Just . before thi? his' one romance had crept into his exist-' ence.' He met Martha' Pittman, and' the two fell in love at first eight' The opposition of her father is said to have been the cause of his turning outlaw.1 After leaving prison, he tried an hon est life as a ipeputy Sheriff, but thi did not soften the old' man's heart,! though he gave his ponBent after "Bill had carried into execution his threat of terrorizing the Territory. The out-J law never could enjoy the . benefit of this tardy permission, however ; the! officers of the law were too anxious to catoh him.. 4 ; . "mu LiooK s nrst attempt was a failure He tried, in June, 1834, to, rob Treasurer Starr, of the Cherokee Nation, but was beaten off, losing, as one of the two captives, his brother "Jim.", Cook then gathered around him the remaining members of the notorious Dalton'gang and soon had a' foroe of about twenty reckless des peradoes. , "For six months the terri tory inthe vicinity of Fort Gibson andj Muskogee, about 570 miles from St j Louis, was in a state of terror. . Towns wer raided, banks robbed, and trains plundered, until the , country was! aroused atlJarge rewards offered for J the capture of the?daoious leader.; The last act of the anwaV-tb-, bery,' November 13, 1894, of a train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road, about four miles from Musko gee. The pursuit was kept up so closely after that that. Cook was obliged to ' devote . his. attention W eluding , hia pursuers, - He was cap-J tured, early in' January last, in New: Mexico, by ; Deputy ' Marshal O, C.' Perry, and taken to Fort Smith, Ark., tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison for forty-five years. New YorlJ Times : . . "Hang Ben Bolt," Said Its Author. Thomas Dunn English, author if "Ben Bolt," at the last session of Con gress introduced what he considered a : worthy measure. Objection was insula to it, however, and tt get even Le be came for a short time the leading ob jector-to almost everything ."unani- mous consent" was asked far. This naturally made the other w -ulors angry, and to annoy Mr. Ersgli' :i the wags of the House would ? 5 s i Kcafv him as they dared, ac I i ia "i'sn , Bolt" every time he rose- to ,: . ' 'While in a restaurant ov, s ui: moon a quartet of his tormoEi. Jio i at the next table and made the L listed author furious by ei u-1 :$ "owt-et Alice. Ben Bolt," in di.:;. . '.an, keys. - 1 Jumping up from the t 'bUMr. T.v; lish 'shook his fist at torn.:, it. rs and exclaimed: "Oh, 1 : r 'Ber.V :t.' t I wish I had necr v-ri.rea itl" IiVv (York Herald. A Boston church hss ileeiJedtolic!! services at 8.30 a. m. Jiring tt j E-ira-mer, so that iho corrregati u o.-n spend the rest c C tla cl ly at ' resorts. --- 1 ih I fear
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