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.VOL. IX. PLYMOUTH. N. C. FllfDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1897. ' , . N0: l
BE HAPPY
This life Is not all sunshine
Nor is it yet ell showers,
But storms'and calms alternate, .
As thorns among the flowers j
And while we seek the roses.
The thorns full oft we scan,
Still.let us.though they wound us,
Be happy as we can.
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This life has heavy crosses, .'
As well as joys to share,
And griefs and disappointments
Which you and I must bear ;
let, if misfortune's lava
Entombs hope's dearest plan,
Let us. with what is left us,
. De happy as we can.
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, A mortgage lay upon the Nibson
'wwiictition.ana mere appeared no way
to lift the heavy and smothering
weight. Tal Gibson, had projected, a
great crop of cotton, had rented an ad
joining body of land and had given on
his homestead a mortgage for supplies
to enable him to carry out his design.
In that community a man's respecta
bility, and surely his importance, was
largely measured by his acreage of
cotton, and, therefore, to broaden out
was a duty which the planter owed to
those who might come after him. Gar
ney, proprietor of a villago store,
gladly accepted a' mortgage in exchange
' for supplies. Long ago he had cast a
covetous eye upon the quaint old
house and f the shapely belt of land
that lay along the cut-glass, diamond
rippled river, and he had been heard
' xo remaru mat one uuy im piuiuie
drawn upon the landscape should be
Vbis own.
Jr-Jblighting drought fell upon the
coujjjr'y, - the cotton-stalk withered
undeivthe sun, and Nibson's future de-
pendect' upon the mercy of the man
who held the mortgage. One day Gar
ney met Nibson in the stree't.
"Tal," said .he, with a cool smile,
"step into the store with me. I want
to "see you on business."
Nibson sighed and dragged his feet
as he followed his owner into tne
store. They entered a back room.
"Sit down,. Tal," said Garney.
"No, believe not. Haven't time."
"Oh, I won't keep you long; but it's
cheaper to sit, as the fellew says." He
t -1 1 v; 4-V.Ant on1 ffoi a Tttl.
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nient's pause, continued: "I am very
sorry that you had such bad luck, but
it fell upon us all pretty much alike.
It hit me hard, l Know, l nave a
great deal of paper out, and I am
UliaiU .ixav a iuu w . - "
more tha,n half of it. Hard times, Tal,
when a man can't Realize on more than
' ' half of his paper, and not much of my
-paper is against as good . men as you
are." ; ,. - :
, ' "I should hope not," Nibson re
plied; .
, The merchant coughed drily. "Bad,
. bad all the way, through," he said,
"aud it is now simply a scramble to
save life. Won t you sit down
"No. I k'noAv what you are dri v
' ing at, and you might as well out with
1 it first as last." .- , .
! "Yes ; but' don't you know that I'm
placed ia a very awkward position?'
'.'I'll swap with, you," Nibson griin
. '' ly. replied.
. The .merchant winced, but, pretend
, ing not to hear the remark, he contin
,,ued: "There's nothing so embarrassing
to a sensitive man m to be put in the
light of an oppressor .V'
"A sensitive man,( yes,
' said Nib
son.
"Yes, : Tal, a sensitive man, nd I
am sensitive."
"Bo 1 hear you say. jjux win you
please leave off calling me Tal V You
never did it before, and is it because
' you own me now?"
"Oh, my dear man, I never thought
of such a thing; but now to business.
A The mortgage was due yesterday. I
Ajfiidn't want to bother you about it, so
-waited until today."
"Forbearing, self-denying soul!"
Nibson murmured.
"So I waited till today. I never
like t6 remind one of his bad luck
Once I let a note go nearly two weeks,
simply because the man's wife had
die-
iderful!" said Nibson. .
tt don't know that it was
, replied Garney, "but it
at least, and I don't be-
5any men would have been
(irted. Yes, sir; I let it go
Iveeks."
promising," said Nibson,
can't yon let mine go two
Ion have known me a long
you ought to feel certain
will get every cent of your
il have some interests in
1 and within two weeks I can
Vm. That wiilbe satis-
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AS YOU CAN.
The sum of our enjoyment
Is made of little things,
As oft the broadest rivers
Are formed from smallest springs;
By treasuring small waters
The rivers reach their spnn ;
So we increase our pleasures,
, Enjoying what we can.
There may bo burning deserts . "
Through which our feet must go,
But there are green oases
. Where pleasant palm trees grow ;
And if we may not follow
The path our heart would plan,
Let us make all around us
As happy as wo can.
now that I come to think of it all, Mr.
Garney, you persuaded mo into this
thing. This is an acknowledgment
that I was a fool, bat "
"Why, my dear sir," Garney broke
in, "I simply pointed out the prob
abilities of success. The chances of
failure were surely known to every
body. I didn't say it-would be a sure
thing, and, even if I had said so, your
judgment would have told you that it
wasn't. So I don't see how you can
blaine me." ;
"I don't blame you for my lack of
sense, Mr. Garney; I blame myself
for that. I blame myself for not tell
ing my wife and daughter until it was
too late, but I do blame you for refus
ing to allow me more time. "
"Time! Why, the time was speci
fied 1 granted all the time that a rea
sonable man could ask."
"No; for a reasonable man asks for
two weeks longer not only asks it,
but begs for it." ,
"I am sorry," said the merchant,
"but T am so pressed that I can't grant
if. The law" . ; .
"Stop a moment, -Mr. Garney. The
law is usually on the side of the hard
hearted. The worst scoundrel I ever
knew made it a point to stand within
"I hope, . sir, that-you- 'don't insinuate-"
. -
"I insinuate nothing. I simply say
outright and let you draAV your own
conclusions."
."AH right, and I will draw them,
and this is the result: You must be
out of that house by noon tomorrow,
or the sheriff will call on you. This
is all I have to say. Good morning."
To Nibson the old home had never
appeared so beautiful as it did on the
day when he returned from Garney's
store. The early autumn rains had
brought back the vines and the roses
that the summer's drought had killed;
the woods were green and fresh.
As long as the sun was shining the
planter had not the heart to tell his
wife and daughter that on the follow
ing day the law would set them out in
the middle of the road, but when in
the starlight they sat on the veranda,
amid the incense of sweet shrubs, he
told them that he had appealed to old
Garney's heart and had found it stone.
The wife wept, but the daughter's eyes
were dry. She said nothing that
night, but at morning she declared her
intention to call, on Garney. The
mother protested against this humilia
tion, and the father commanded, but
the girl mounted a horse and rode
to the village.
Garney was standing in his door as
she rode up, and he helped her down
and invited her into the store. His
politeness assured her that he had not
recognized her, , and to save him fur
ther trouble Bhe informed him. He
was surprised.
"Oh, and you are Elizabeth Nibson.
My, how you have grown since I saw
you last! But ip has , been a long
time, and you hafve been off at school.
Did you wish tofsee me on important
business? Just step back here,please.
Not a very inviting place," he added,
as she followed him into the "execu
tive" rjom. "Take this seat."
"No, I thank you," she said. "I
did not come to stay lorlg.for my busi
ness can be transacted I in a very few
moments."
"Yes, and I am very sorry, Miss
Elizabeth, that it cannot be transacted,
more to your advantage, but the fact
is" '
"Pardon me, but I have not come to
beg for mercy."
"Certainly not. Won't you please
sit down?"
"No," she replied, with an emphasis
that made him snap his eyes. She
stepped to the door and looked out;
she returned and thus addressed him:
"My father came home yesterday
evening with a broken heart. It may
be impossible for you to understand
this; you may not have it in your na
ture to feel a very strong attachment.
He could not tell us until the sun had
set; the light made his heart falter, so
he told us under cover of the night. "
She stood with her arms folded,
Garney thought that never before had
he seen so graceful and handsome a
picture. In her voice was a deep
music, vibrant and thrilling, and her
eyes were aflame the merchant thought,
as she turned them upon him. Sure
ly she had not como to beg for mercy.
M'o peemed to read his mind.
'S.
Uo said.
may Ujifik " the merchant
lithpnutoff his words with
- f . -",,r 0f her hand.
vto ask," she
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said. "This morning father said that
he did not care to live any longer; to
see tis turned into the road was more
than he could bear. I took a knife
away from him. He declared that he
would kill himself before night. I ar
gued with him, and mother wept over
him"
"But why do you come to tell mo
this?" the merchant interrupted. "I've
got trouble enough of my own. Such
things can't be helped. In this life
we have to scuffle, and the weaker
ones are trod upon. We are compelled
to do this to save our own lives."
"I begged him not to kill himself,'',
she went on. "I told him that you
might" .
"Not another day. I thought you
said that you had not come to plead
for mercy." ' '
"I told him that you might relent,
but now I am glad you don't."
"Why, what do you mean?"
"I told father that he ought not to
kill himself; but I agreed with him
that some one ought to die."
"My dear miss, if vou will ex-plan-"
"Agreed that some one ought to
die and settled it in my own mind
that I would kill yon."
He started to spring from his chair,
or at least she fancied so, but she
snatched a pistol from under her cloak
and, pointing it at his head, she con
tinued : ' 'Now, don't jnove, and don't
make any noise, and please don't beg
for mercy. You were told that I was
off at school,but I wasn't; I was in an
asylum for the insane, and I sometimes
fear that I haven't quite recovered.
Don't look so frightened, man. Is it
so hard to die? And don't pant so.
Beally you annoy me. I told father
that if I came back with the mortgage
ccixered with your blood it would be a
beAutiful thing to frame and hang uy
bes'de the clock, one representing
timttthe other eternity. Of course he
didnt believe I was coming here, but
heretf, am, and, as you don't pray, I
will give' you time to construct a mes
sage for your family. : - What shall it
be? Don't shake" so, man, What
paper is that yon are getting out? Our
mortgage? Why,I don't want it now.
There's no blood on it. But wait.
Ink might , do as well. Just write
across it, 'Extended for two months.'
That's it. Thank you. I will let you
live, you seem to be so afraid of death;
but you must not tell anyone that I
came within one of killing you, for my
humor might require blood instead of
ink if you do. Good by."
Not long afterward a man said to
Garney: "Why, I thought you told
me that you would soon own the Nib
son place. , Didn't you hold a mort
gage against it?" v . -
"Yes; but it seemed to cause the
family such distress that I didn't have
the heart to take the farm. His
daughter, a most - engaging young
woman, called on me, and her manner
was so persuasive that I gave them a
month's time, and since then they
have, paid it off. : How's polit:cs down
your way?" Woman's Home Com
panion. Fleet Clipper Ships. ,
Before the cutting. of the Suez canal
shortened the route to China the bulk
of the tea crop consumed in Great
Britain was carried to London in sail
ing ships by way of the Cape of Good
Hope. The choicest teas were trans
ported overland by caravan and found
a ready market in Bussia, the home
of the connoisseur. To the fastidious
taste of a Muscovite noble a sea voy
age ruins the delicate flavor of the
leaves and renders them unfit' for a.
samovar. The British consumer is by
no means so dainty. The business of
the London tea merchant is to grab
hold of the new crop as soon as pos
sible aud to dump it by the shipload
on an eager and waiting market.
The keen competion of the import
ers produced the famous tea clippers
full-rigged ships of 700 or 800 tons
register, with fine yachtlike lines,
heavily sparred and rigged, and capa
ble or fifteen knots an hour under
especially favorable conditions. Every
voyage was a race, and thrillingly ex
citing. A premium was paid to the
ship that arrived first, and heavy
wagers were staked on the speed of
the rivals. There was nothing to com
pare with this emulous contest for
sea supremacy except that which used
to exist between the ships of our own
Califoruian "fleet before the days
of cheaap transcontinental railroad
freights. Harper's Bound Table.
Evils of Guin-Chewlnfj.
Aside from being , an unpleasant
habit and one not approved as good
form, gum-chewing is productive of
facial deformities, which are likely to
increase until they distort the counte
nance and entirely alter the natural
expression. The continued use of one
set of muscles enlarges and strength
ens them, and consequently makes
them more prominent. There have
been several instances where medical
advice has been sought upon the idea
that there was some swelling or en
largement of the muscles or glands,
although no pain had been felt. Gum-
chewers ordinarily ;use but one side of
the mouth, thus throwing an undue
amount of work tijon that side of the
faco. It is well tci distribute this la
bor equally betwJen the muycle3 of
the jaws if the prfLctice must be per
sisted in. LedgtA, t, .
LASSOING THE CONDQB.
A FORTUNE GAINED IN A YEAR IN
THIS UNIQUE TRADE. ,;
Chilean Government raid Five IoIlars
ifor Faeh . Condor's Head -Mammoth
Birds Destroyed Cattle-Twenty Condors
a Frequent Way's Work for an American.
Henry M. . Knowles, who went to
Chile from San Francisco in 1870 with
Henry Meigs of South' American rail
road fame and enormous wealth, came
tip the coast to Los Angeles the other
day, after an absence of fifteen years
from California. He went away a
poor boy from San Erancisco, and ia
now paying taxes on some million dol
lars' Avorth of property in Callao,
Peru, and in Valparaiso and other cit
ies in Chile.
"I got my start toward fortune,",
said he to a Los Angeles correspond
ent of the Philadelphia' Times, when
pressed to tell how he had prospered
in South America-, "by-.-lassoing con
dors. That may seem a very strange
occupation- for money making, but it
was not so'uncomnioh down in Chile
and Peru. You' see I ha I lived as a
boy so1 long' among the plainsmen in
Kansas'-and Nevada-that I became ex
pert with the." lariat' and on a horse.
The Chilean governmentat the sug
gestion of Meigs, gave a bounty of $5
for every condor killed in the repub
lic. You see the birds had .become
such 'a nuisance and -were increasing
so fast -: that they devoured tens 'of
thousands of dollars' worth of food
every', year, and attacked herds of
sheep, and even calves, and colts, in
their ferocity for a carcass to prey
upon. ....
"Well, the Chileans felt so prosper
ous that,. coupled with their natural
indolerce, they did not care to avail
themselves of the . opportunities to
make money by Blaying the condors
for tho vocation .requires hard
and many physical risks, vf liad i
been down in Chile a.jsvek before I
saw a chance tocjake more money
than I hajifbefore dreamed of pos-sessi-ngvjy
lassoing and killing the
mammoth birds. There were three of
us Yankees in Valparaiso, and we de
cided to go into the condor-killing
business. The next day, mounted on
horses that Meigs bought for ii8, and
armed with guns and lariats, Ave start
ed out to hunt condors 'among the
foothills and canyons and crags of the
Andes mountains. We weut over 300
miles, out among the cattlemen and
sheep herders. For. a few days we
had instructions from a -.few Chileans
as to the most experienced methods of
capturing the enormous and savage
birds.
"In a few weeks we Yankees had
learned every detail of hunting con
dors, and our" native ingenuity had
added to the experience of the .Chil
eans. For months I got from ten to
twenty condor'heads every day, and
each one in our party did half as Avell
as that. Everv month during the
years 1871 and, 1872 and 1873 I got
warrants on the Chilean treasury for
from $700 to $800.. One month when
I had.-foi-Avarded 216 dried condor
heads to the controller of Chile and
had sworn that there was no fraud by
me, I got a warrant for $1080.-
"The big birds used to be found in
flocks of seventy or eighty in the graz
ing countries of the loAver Andes in
Central Chile. Like other members
of the vulture family they search ev
erywhere for carcasses upon Avhich to
feed. They have' a wonderfully keen
eye, and I have proved to myself that
a condor can see a dead animal ten and
even fifteen miles away.
"TAventy-five years ago it was no
uncommon thing to see hundreds of
these freebootecs hoA'ering over the
plains, each one a ravenous and de
termined' dinner robber from the
herds below, to which the shadoAV of
a condor's wing carried as much terror
as the appearance of a hawk does to a
brood of chickens. The condor Avas
the greatest enemy the stock-raisers
in that part of South America had to
contend with, and it Avas . his persist
ent and destruetiA'c raids on grazing
cattle that made him an outlaAv Avith a
price on his hea'd.
"How did we capture these fero
cious birds? Our first job every morn
ing before we had even a peep of sun
light over the mountains was to carry
the carcass of a dead animal, as a
horse or , a coav, out on the plain,
where it could easily be s'een from all
points of the compass. We moved
about every few days from one locality
to another, and never put the body
twice in the same place, because of the
extreme suspiciousness of an average
condor. Generally, Ave would move
three or four miles every twenty-four
hours. Sometimes, when we Avere
not doing so well as we thought we
should do, we would move ten miles
away in another valley.
"After we had placed our bait car
cass Ave set up our tents and the can
vas flies that concealed us and our
horses from Aiew of the . condors.
Breakfast was "no sooner over than we
could see from our peepholes in the
canvas that hid us several condors
coming down through the clouds from
the mountain crests straight toAvard
our bait. We waited patiently until a
dozen or ISore of the birds had eaten
heartily of the meal we had provided
for theiij . and then Ave sprang to our
horses, ivhich stood near, bridled and
In a
hand,
second Ave were off, lariats
after the condors. .
"It should be said here that when
a condor has gorged itself Avith food
it cannot rise for flight unless after a
long distance of running to give itself
a momentum. It can get over ground,
however, a" fast as a dog. Our meth
od was to folloAV the birds for half a
mile or more, and then as they rose
for flight to throAV our lariats over
then- heads. , An expert lassoer could
send his rope over a condor's hea
and so manage it that it Avas slij
down until it touched the sbouldr.
the wings before it Avould be tig
on the bird.
"The condor was then -a
but able to use his poAverfal
breathe freely and lead the
a wild chase across the plai
in all directions in his frai,
but unable to rise hig
length of the lasso. Wl
tired of the sport he wov
horse about and lead tl
self, forcing the unAv
until it tumbled, sper
and Ajas drugged
horse s heels.
"In 1881 the
the condors had
done that the laAv
of $5 for every
pealed. I had,
ness long
ed the $19,00
condor bounjj
erty that m
very first a
a
France,
ened vieAV
for many y
than $1,000
a mileage of
other country
mous area, ha
roadways, " whil
try, has 55,000.
For a considera
tion in the United
roads languished for
haps, that by the Aruerf
subdivided local autlior
everybody s business l
business," and controver
frequent as to the liability of
state or municipal authority
ful expenditures, very little w
The National League for Goocf
was organize! in iavz to aviw.
general interest in the improvenh
of public roads, to determine the bes
methods of building and maintaining
them and conduct and foster such
publications as may serve these pur
poses." At the beginning of the
agitation tho good road3 question did
not make much headway, and it was
not until the popularity of bicycling
grew that the demand for improved
roads became organized, and since
then considerable headway has been
made. A computation which finds
much favor among the advocates of
good roads is this: There are approxi
mately, though the number is steadily
on the decline, 14,000,000 horses in
the United States there Avere 15,000,-000-in
the census of 1890 and there
are about 2,000,000 mules, principally
in the South, the annual cost of fod
der for these animals bein g $1 , 500, 000, -000.
On fine stone roads one horse
can haul as much as three horses can
haul over the average dirt road of this
country. It is estimated that it would
be necessary to build about 1,000,000
miles of macadamized roads in the
United States in order to have as good
a system . of public highways as is
found in several European states. At
$4000 a mile this would in
volve an outlay of $4,000,000,000, a
pretty large sum. But if one half of
the . draught animals could be dis
pensed Avith by the building of such
roads, there would be an annual sav
ing of $700,000,000 in .the food bill.
Consequently, if road bonds were is
sued bearing 3 per cent, interest,
6,000,000 miles of macadamized road
could be built without increasing the
annual expenses one dollar. Net
York Sun.
Men an Gastronome.
"I wonder." remarked the Observ
ant Matron, "how men succeeded in
making the Avorld in general believe
they alone kneAv enough to orJer a
decent meal. Long years of experi
ence haye taught me that the average
man's idea of a dinner is a steak cr
roast beef, anything else he may order
being suggested .by the waiter. Of
course, men are never tired of amus
ing themsehes with the idea that a
woman's luncheon usually consists of
pickles and , cream puffs, though the
same meal of the 'Ordinary man -is
enough to make Lucullus turn in his
grave. The other day I heard one or
der a piece of huckleberry pie after
eating three crullers and drinking a
cup of chocolate. And when the wait
ress replied they hadn't any buckle-1
berry, but she could give him cranber
ry pie, he took it." New York Prv
saddled, ready for the chase.
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BEYOND.
Oh. the heart burnings !
And yet we cling to life and fi
One of tne mass of struggling
Borne on the tide of grief ti
Out to the widening sea.
' That sea of death
Beyond ;ts aarlr, 6ad, sileii
we see a rar-eff snore,
A guftening beacn o er
vdrous shells.
Whose names are Joy
Anc. we may gather the
ilivjinr journev theri
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Ah, a
me novw
Little
right to ir
ma Yes, d
Little Teddie-N
on his feet, an'
tlJ
so bow-legged.
Hostess (to our Pi
just spent a happy col "iS
scribing his.works) Goodiujvu!
Ego-Smith. Come again soon. We
promise not to mention your books.
You must be so tired!
An old lady, walking with her two
grown daughters on a moonlight night,
displayed her knowledge of astronomy
by pointing heavenward, and exclaim
ing, "Oh I my dears, do look at them,
beautiful stars, Juniper and March.'.
Stephen But, Uncle John, Avhom
do you mean when you speak of the
"best citizens?" Uncle John Well,
there is myself, for instance, and and
and I presume there are others,
but they do not come to mind just at
this moment.
Refusing a King.
Jiis Majesty tne J.ing oi xonga, a.
nntivp ltinfTflnm fin tlifl asf. tnnat. nfl
Africa, is in search of a wife. For thej
nast two Tears he has been dpsnatc.h-i
ing offers to various eastern princessesj
and it is said that he at one time
pired to the hand of the beautiful
Hawaiian prineesr, but Her Royal
Highness did not even answer His
Majesty's letter. Then he sought the
hand of a lady of high rank in Samoa,
but Avith no success. After this the
disappointed potentate turned his at
tentions to the Fiji Islands for a fitting
mate to Bhare the glories of the Tonga
throne. But the princess of Fiji de
clined the honor. His Majaesty ia
still, therefore, available.
Laughing Is I'seful. .1
An English scientist, Dr. H. Camp
bell, has come to the conclusion that
laughing is one of the most useful of
muscular exercises. It induces people
to expel the most of the air from tha
lungs and.t fill them up again to the
brim, which, under ordinary circum- ,
stance, they seldom do, asfewars
.awavhat'deep breathing is the best
""" 7twnws.
Insurance against accident and pi k
ness is made compulsory upon nil eitU
zens of Switzerland.
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