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VOL. X.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1899.
NO. 28.
3
HEY eat together on
a big boulder, in a
daisy field, and the
summer sea
stretched blue and
sparkling in front
of them.
They were a man
and a woman, and
they were making
love to each other,
or they would not
f about. The" love-making was of the
V nnadmitted, under-the-surface sort, so
far.
He broke off one of the big white
flowers and put it into her hand
it
with care, as if she could not manage
her own hands, and he had to open
, and shut them for her.
"Try your fortune' he said; "let's
see if the daisies are to be trusted."
"I hope they can be trusted not to
tell the way you are trying to hold my
hand," said she, but she did not say
it or take her hand away for exactly
seven seconds.
"Try your fortune; let us see
whether to believe in daisies or not."
So she began pulling off the petals.
'He loves me; loves me not; he loves
Vme; loves me not;" and with each
assertion a slim little leaf dropped in
Jxqt lap. It was coming out, "He
loves me," and she played false, and
pulling the last two together made
it "Loves me not," and then sat help
lessly waiting obviously waiting
ior the contradiction she had in
vited. Well, it came, not with any fine
speeches, but with two or three broken
words, and a timid grasp of the little
hand he'd been so bold to gra.'jp about
two minutes before, and then there
was the old touching miracle of a new
ieaven and a new earth.
v That was the way they got them
selves engaged, and very naturally, as
they Were young enough to take
pleasure in sentimental notions, they
. called daisies their flower, and made
f much of the part the one sacrificed
v lad played in their drama.
"It's not what you might call a
Tare blossom," said Phyllis, with an
affectation of the critical, when they
-were sitting again on the same boulder
, . & w w
emblem.
"It's because there is no limit to
them that they suit for my part of the
love in this business," said Dick
"Tyson, with more sincerity than clear
ness or elegance, but Phyllis found
the sentiment " satisfactory. These
particular lovers were not born to
overthrow the tradition that true love
never runs smooth. They quarreled
in a month; of course, they had quar
reled before that, but in a month they
had a row that amounted to some
thing. "Mr. Allison rowed me over to the
point to-day, and we gathered mussels
there for an hour," Phyllis said, one
s lay, as she settled herself in the stern
of Dick's boat, and Dick answered,
ieartily: "Nice fellow, Allison;" and
then, just as Dick was giving his at
tention to getting clear of the landing
ani? into deep water, Phyllis declared
that it seemed to her as if they were
making a great mistake, they were not
meant for each other, and so on, in a
tragic voice, trailing one hand in the
water and fastening her eyes upon it.
.Her heart seemed to faint away in her
Abreast as the moments brought no
denial. At last Dick said, still row
ing: ,
"You mu3t mean something by
what you say! Is it that you think
you have made a mistake?"
-Phyllis controlled her breathing by
an effort as Dick spoke, and then she
said:
"Are you giving me a chance to say
I have? Is that what you want?"
"I want to hear it if it is true,"
aid Dick, leaning on his oars and
setting his teeth.
To him it seemed plain enough that
"he was waiting for his death sen
tence; to Phyllis it seemed that he
was crushing her with, his indiffer
ence. What could that mean but that
le did not love her, was giving her
f the woman's privilege of breaking
if with him?
"Very well, then, if you wish it, it
is true," was all even her pride could
-drive her to say. "If you wish it, it
i3 true." - Surely no man would take
that for a sincere renouncement!
But feeling real emotion makes peo
ple very poor judges of the weight of
, their own words or anybody else's;
and Dick was feeling a great deal.
He did not grasp the exact form of the
sentence. He heard the strange, hard
voice the voice of a woman on the
verge of hysterics; but he did not
know, that and the words "it is true."
He uwed back to the landing, and
without waiting for assistance, as an
older woman certainly would, Phyllis
sprang out and took her way to the
house.
chapter ir.
Phyllis was silting before her easel
in the antique room of the Art Stu
dent's League. She was working on
the worst drawing in the whole room,
and though she had no more talent for
drawing than she had for political
economy, she knew enough to guess
as much. She had been suffering
from an attack of woman with a big
W. She was never going to marry,
never, and she would carve out a ca
reer for herself and be an indepen
dent soul.
Two girls were chattering behind
her.
Said one:
"You know Dick Tyson, don't you?"
and Phyllis drew her charcoal across
her paper in a way that gave a squint
to the Greek deity she was working on.
"He's just back from Europe. He
called on my aunt, where I live, the
other day. I used to know him when
I was a little girl, but he's grown Iocs
THE EASTER FAIRY.
handsomer since then. He's coming
to our house for dinner Easter Sun
day, and he said he was going to our
church that day to see my new hat,
and come home with us afterward,"
and this odious girl giggled self-consciously.
Phyllis was torn with conflicting
emotions. She gratified herself in
more ways than one by having the
accidental misfortune to back into
that very girl's easel and knock it
over; she then, with her apologies,
managed to strike up an acquaintance
with her. The next was Eister Sun
day. What more natural than that
the talk should turn that way, and
that the girl should tell about the
music they were going f'o have at St.
Elizabeth's.
Easter Sunday that year was a day
PHTIiLIS WORE HER CLD BROWN HAT.
that made itself famous. Never was
more weather to the hour. It was
cold, and it blew and stormed a little,
and fleeted some, and rained a good
deal.
Phyllis got up and looked heart
brokenly out of her boardina-houao
wit-, ,
window over a world of wet chimney
pots. On her dressing table was a
bonnet, a bonnet that had absorbed
her attention for days, and that
showed more artistic ability than any
master at the Leagne ever credited
her with. She had made it herself,
partly because she knew exactly what
she wanted better than any milliner
could, and she had very clever fingers
and understood volumes about the be
coming, if she could not dra-v.
The bonnet was made all of daisies
great white, yellow-hearted daisies
and there wa8 a daisy pin to fasten
the strings with. There was no law
against her having a bonnet, was
there? No one need attach any signi
ficance to that, surely.
But it was a .lovely bonnet, ana now
such a Sunday!
"Dare wear it!" said the Dragon of
Respectability, who always fought
with her. "I should think not! No
one will be lunatic enough to wear a
spring bonnet to-day, and. perhaps by
next Sunday you'll have matured
enough to make your bonnet suit your
years."
"Don't you think any one will wear
spring bonnets?" Phyllis asked sotto
voce of the good-natured man at her
elbow. There was such a curious note
in her small, plaintive tone that he
turned and looked down at her with a
little curiosity, and then he said, that
dear perjured man, who knew that ho
did not know a thing of what he was
talking about:
"Of course they will. Many ladies
always do, no matter what the weather;
they look upon it as a sort of religious
duty," and he twinkled at her; but
Phyllis never had much sense of
humor, and now there was no more in
her than in a catechism.
Phyllis had never before regarded a
man's opinion on feminine attire but
but she thought this was a very
sensible man, a man with a peculiar
knowledge of the world and nice taste;
and at the proper hour one solitary
Easter bonnet a daisy bonnet took
its way to St. Elizabeth's under the
protection of an umbrella.
That evening Phyllis went to church
again; a boarding-house parlor is such
a bad place for any private conversa
tion that even the street is better.
The storm had not abated, and Phyllis
wore her old brown hat, and had a beau
for her only adornment.
"Thank God it was such a stormy
day," Diok whispered in her ear, "for
if that blessed bonnet of yours hadn't
been the only light one in church I'm
such a stupid owl I'm afraid I mightn't
have seen it; I might not have seen
you oh, Phyllis, Phyllis darling!"
"I was mortified to death when I
saw no one else had one on," said the
young lady in candid accents. "If
I'd dreamed that youwxe on the con
tinent I suppose I'd have gone home
again rather than have risked your
seeing mo make such such a guy of
myself. But just for my own feelings'
I've loved to wear daisies some way
ever since" She stopped.
"Thank God you didn't know,
then," said Dick fervently and sin
cerely. He was just as big a fool as
ever, but Phyllis did not mind this
time. .
The KabhlU and tlie Eggs.
The little folks believe the rabbits
lay the Easter eggs. With the dawn
the small members of the family are
up and searching for the nests of
multicolored eggs, over which a little
white rabbit sometimes presides. But
a candjr one calls forth equal shrieks
of delight.
An Easter l'rayer-Uook.
A prayer-book ordered for a popu
lar young woman is of elephant skin,
with silver corners, and the clasp is a
tiny silver rabbit. The elephant skin
is the latest fad and is a dull brown,
which harmonizes excellently with a
smart tan frock.
gOOOCOOOOCOCOOCOOOGOOGOCOa
EASTER AMD g
8 ITS CUSTOMS.
ASTEPv is a mova
ble festival which
is celebrated an
nually throughout
Christendom, in
memory of the
Resurrection of
Christ. The word
Easter is from the
Anglo-Saxon Eas
tre or Eoster, and
the German Os
tern. The Easter
least was in an
cient times devoted toEastre, the God
dess of Spring, and the whole Easter
month was set aside to do her honor.
Socrates attributed the introduction of
the festival of Easter in the church to
the perpetuation of an old usuage.
The observance of Easter dates back
to about the year GS, at which time
there was much contention among the
Eastern and Western churches as to
what day the festival should be ob
served. It was finally ordained at the
Council of Nice in the year 325, that
it must be observed throughout the
Christian world on the same day. This
decision settled that Easter should be
kept upon the Sunday first after tne
fourteenth day of the first Jewish
month, but no general conclusion was
arrived at as to the cycle by which the
festival was to be regulated, and some
churches adopted one rule and some
another. This diversity of usuage was
put an end to, and the Roman rule
making Easter the first Sunday after
the fourteenth day of the calendar
moon was established in England in
669. After nine centuries a discrep
ancy in the keeping of Easter was
caused by the authorities of the Eng
lish Church declining to adopt the re
formation of the Gregorian Calendar
in 1582. The difference was settled
in 1752 by the adoption of the rule
which makes Easter Day always the
first Sunday after the full moon which
happens on or next after the twenty
first day of March. If the full moon
happens upon a Sunday, Easter is the
Sunday after.
Pretty customs which have obtained
in recent years are the decoration of
the churches on lEaster Sunday, and
the sending of gifts of flowers to one's
friends, to invalids, and to the hos
pitals, and the distribution of the pot
ted plants used in the church decora
tion?" among the sick members of the
congregation.
Among all the quaint ceremonies
which characterize Easter Day the
practice of giving presents of eggs is
doubtless the most ancient, as well as
the most universal. Eggs have been
associated with Easter always. The
Jews believed them to be emblematic
of the Passover; the Egyptians held
them as a emblem of the renewal of
the human race after the deluge, and
the Christians as the symbol of the
Resurrection.
In ancient times the eggs would be
boiled hard and dyed, then clergymen
and layman alike would play ball
with them, and after much sport
eat them.
The simplest method of coloring
eggs is to use the aniline dyes, or to
coat them with metallic paint and
frost them with diamond dust, or to
cover them with gilt, silver or colored
paper. To make an Easter egg with
a fancy head, blow the egg hollow
and then rub the shell gently with
benzine to make the color take. Then
give it a complexion wash to suit the
character. Then hold the egg with
the small end down and paint the
face. When this is done glue the egg
into a hole cut in a piece of card
board, placing a tissue-paper hat on
its head. A pen-wiper may be at
tached to the card.
Egg caricature is another popular
idea in Easter-egg decoration. Pre
pare the eggs as before, and paint
upon them a caricature of a man,
woman, child, crying baby cr
Brownie. Spool thread of either
black or yellow may be attached by a
little wax and will serve as hair. The
funnier the faces the more delighted
the children will be.
A simple way by which the little
folks, unaided, may prepare Easier
eggs for themselves aud their little
friends is by tying up each egg sepa
rately in a piece of bright-colored
silk or cotton, having previously
pasted on the surface of the egg some
little design. Have the eggs bciled
slowly for half an hour aud then set
aside to cool. When quite cold untie
the covering aud the eggs will be
found nicely colored and with an im
pression of the design clearly repre
sented. These eggs may be placed in
egg-cups which have been lined with
fringed tissue paper, and placed upon
the breakfast table on Easter morn
ing. There are countless other Easter
conceits, such as nests, birds and
chickens, all of which may be evolved
with a little ingeuiuty, and will bring
joy to the children's hearts on Easter
morning. And children should early
bo taught the significance of the holi
day, and encouraged to remember the
children in the hospitals, to whom a
little nest of Easter eggs will be a re
minder that it is Easter day.!
DE. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: "Brilliant Bitterness" AttiU the
Han Used as m Horrible Example Ii
He a Tjpe of the Wormwood Men
tioned in Revelation ?
Text: "There fell a great star from
heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it
fell upon the third part of the rivers, and
upon the fountains of waters, and the name
of the star is called Wormwood." Revela
tion x., 11.
Patrick and Lowth, Tbomao Scott, Mat
thew Henry, Albert Barnes and some other
commentators say that the star Wormwood
of my text was a type of Attlla, king of the
Huns. He was so called because be was
brilliant as a star, and, like wormwood, he
imblttered x everything be touched. We
have studied the Star of Bethlehem, and
the Morning Star of Revelation and the
Star of Peace, but my subject calls us to
gaze at the star Wormwood, and my theme
might be called "Brilliant Bitterness."
A more extraordinary character history
does Dot furnish than this man Attlla, the
king of the Huns, The story goes that one
day a wounded helfercame limping along
through the fields, and a herdsman fol
lowed its bloody track on the grass to see
where the belfer was wounded, and went on
back, farther and farther, until he came to
a sword fast in the earth, the point down
ward, as though it had dropped from the
heavens, and against the edges of this
sword the heifer had been cut. The herds
man pulled up that sword and presented it
to Attlla. Attlla said that sword must
have dropped from the heavens from the
grasp of the god Mars, and Its being given
to bim meant that Attlla should conquer
and govern the whole earth. Other mighty
men have been delighted at being called
liberators or the Merciful or the Good, but
Attlla called himself and demanded that
others call him "the Soourgeof God."
At the head of 700,000 troops, mounted
on Cappadoclan horses, he swept every
thing, from the Adriatic to the Black Sea.
He put his iron hee. on Macedonia and
Greece and Thrace. He made Milan and
Pavia and Padua and Verona beg for
mercy, which he bestowed not. The By
zantine castles, to meet his ruinous levy,
put up at auction massive silver tables
and vases of solid gold. When a city was
captured by him, the inhabitants were
brought out and put into three classes.
The first class, those who could bear arms,
must immediately enlist under Attila or
be butchered; the sepond class, the beauti
ful women, were made captives to the
Huns; the third class, the aged men and
women, were robbed of everything and
let go back to the city to pay a heavy tax.
It was a common saying that the grass
never grew where the hoof of Attlla'a horse
had trod. His armies reddened the waters
of the Seine and the Moselle and the Rhine
with carnage and fought on the Catalonian
plains the fiercest battle since the world
stood 300,000 dead left on the field. On
and on until all those who could not op
pose him with arms lay prostrate on their
faces in prayer, then a cloud or dust was
seen in the distance, and a bishop cried,
'It is the aid of God." and all the people
took up the cry. "It is the aid of God."
As the cloud of dust was blown aside the
banners of re-enforcing armies marched in
to help against Attila. "The Scourge of
God." The most.unimportant occurrences
he used as a supernatural resource. After
three months of failure to capture the city
of Aquileia, when his army had given up
the siege, the flight of a stork and her
young from the tower of the city was taken
by him as a sign that he was to capture the
city, and his army, insoired with the same
occurence, resumed the siege and took
the walls at a point from which
the stoik had emerged. So brilliant
was the conqueror in attire that
his enemies could not look at him, but
shaded their eyes or turned their heads.
Slain on the evening of bis marriage by
bis bride, Ildico, who was hired for the as
sassination, his followers bewailed him,
not with tears, but with blood, cutting
themselves with knives and lances. He
was put into three oofflns. the first of iron,
the second of silver and the third of gold.
He was buried by night, and into his
grave was poured the most valuable coins
aad precious stones, amounting to the
wealth of a kingdom. The gravediggers
aod all those who assisted at the burial
were massacred, so that it would never be
known where 30 much wealth was en
tombed. The Roman empire conquered the world,
but Attlla conquered the Roman empire.
He was right in calling himself a scourge,
but instead of being "the scourge of God"
he was the scourge of hell.
Because of his brilliancy and bitterness,
the commentators might well have sup
posed him to be the star Wormwood of the
text. As the regions he devastated were
ports most opuient with fountains and
streams and, rivers, you see how graohic
my text is: "There fell a great star from
heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it
fell upon the third part of the rivers, and
upon the fountains of waters, and the name
of the star is called Wormwood."
Have you ever thought how many embit
tered lives there are all about us. misan
thropic, morbid, acrid, saturnine? The
European plant from which wormwood is
extracted, Artemisia absinthium, is a per
ennial plant, and all the year round it is
ready to exude its oil. And in many hu
man lives there is a perennial distillation
of acrid experiences. Yen. there are some
whose whole work is to shed a baleful in
fluence over others. There are Attilas of
the home, Attilas of the social circle, At
tilas of the church, Attilas of the State, and
one-third of the waters of all the world are
poisoned by the falling of the star Worm
wood. It is not complimentary to human
nature that most men, a3 soon as they get
great power, beoome overbearing. The
more power mun have the better, if their
power be used for good. The less power
tien have the better, if they use it for evil.
But are any of you the star Wormwood?
Do you scold and growl from the thrones
paternal or maternal? Are your children
everlastingly pecked at? Are you always
crying f'Hush!" to the merry voices and
swift feet, and to the laughter, which
occasionally trickles through at wrong
times, and is suppressed by them until
they can bold It no longer, and all the
barriers burst into unlimited guffaw and
cachlnnation, as in high weather the
water has trickled through a slight open
ing in the milldam, but afterward makes
wider and wider breach until it carries all
before it with irresistible freshet? Do not
be too much offended at the noise your
children now mate. It wlllb still enough
when ons of them Is dead. Then you would
give your right hand to hear one shout
from the silent voice, or one step from the
still foot. You will not any of you have to
wait very long before your house is stiller
than you want it. Alas that there are so
many homes not known to the Society for
tha Preventicn of Cruelty to Children,
where children are whacked and cuffed and
ear pulled, aud senselessly called to order,
and answered sharply and suppressed, un
til it is a wonder that under such proessses
they do not all turn out Nana Sahibs!
But I will change this and euspoae vou .
are a star of worldly prosperity. Then you
have large opportunity. You can, encour
age that artist by buying his picture. You
can Improve the fields, the stables, the
highway, by introducing higher style of
fowl and horse and cow and sheep. You
can bless tne world with ttomologlcal
achievement in the orchard. You can ad
vance arboriculture and arrest the death
ful destruction of the American forests.
You can put a piece of sculpture Into the
niche of that public academy. You can
endow a college. You can stocking 1000
bare feet from the winter frost. You can
build a church. You can put a missionary
of Christ on that foreign shore. You cau
nelp ransom a world. A rich man with his
heart right can you tell me how much
good a James Lenox or a George Peabody
or a Peter Cooper or a William E. Dodge
did while living or is doing now that he Is
dead. There is not a city, town or neigh
borhood that haB not glorious specimens
of consecrated wealth.
But suppose you grind the face of the
poor. Suppose, when a man's wages are
due, you make bim wait for them because
be cannot help himself. Suppose that, be
cause his family is sick and he has had ex
tra expenses, he should politely ask vou to
raise his wages for this year, and you
roughly tell him if he wants a better place
to go and get it. Suppose, by your man
ner, act as though he were nothing and
you were everything. Suppose you are
selfish and overbearing and arrogant.
Your first name ought to be Attila and
your last name Attila, because you are the
star, Wormwood and you have imblttered
one-third, if not three-thirds of the waters
that roll past your employes and opera
tives and dependents and associates, and
the long line of carriages which the under
taker orders for your funeral in order to
make the occasion respectable will be filled
with twice as many dry, tearless eyes, as
there are persons occupying them. You
will be in the world but a few minutes. As
compared with eternity, the stay of the
longest life on earth Is not more than a
minute. What are we doing with that
minute?
Hundred gated Thebes for all time to be
the study of antiquarian and hieroglyphist.
Her stupendous ruins spread over twenty
seven miles, her sculptures presenting In
figure of warrior and chariot the victories
with which the now forgotten kings of
Egvpt shook the nations; her obelisks and
columns; Earnak and Luxor, the stupend
ous templea of herprldel Who can Imagine
the greatness of Thebes in those days, when
the hippodrome rang with her sports and
foreign royalty bowed at her shrines, and
her avenues roared with the wheels of pro
cessions In the wake of returning conqurorsl
What spirit of destruction spread the lair
of wild beats in her royal sepulchers and
taught the miserable cottagers of to-day
to build huts In the courts of her temples
and sent desolation and ruin skulking be
hind the obelisks, and dodging among the
sarcophagi, and leaning against the col
umns, and stooping among the arches, and
weeping in the waters which go mourn
fully by, as though they were carrying the
tears of all the ages? Let the mummies
break their long silence and come up to
shiver in the desolation and point to fallen
gates and shattered statues and defaced
sculpture, responding: "Thebes built not
one temple to God. Thebes hated right
eousness and loved sin. Thebes was a
star, but she turned to wormwood and has
fallen."
Babylon, with her 250 towers and her
brazen gates and ber embattled walls, the
splendor of the earth gathered within her
gates, her hanging gardens built by Ne
buchadnezzar to please his bride. Amytls,
who had been brought up In a mountain
ous country and could not endure the flat
country around Babylon. These hanging
gardens built terrace above terrace, till at
the height of 403 feet there were woods
waving and fountains playing, the verdure,
the foliage, the glory, looking as if a moun
tain were on the wing. On the tiptop a
king walking with his queen among the
statues, snowy white, looking up at birds
brought from distant lands and drinking
out of tankards of solid gold or looking off
over rivers and lakes npon nations subdued
and tributary, crying, "Is not this great
Babylon which 1 have built?"
From the persecutions of the pilgrim
fathers and the Huguenots in other lands
God set upon these shores a nation. The
council fires of the aborigines went out in
the greater light of a free government. The
sound of the warwhooD was exchanged foi
the thousand wheels or enterprise and pro
gress. The mild winters, the fruitful sum
mers, the healthful skies, charmed from
other lands a race of hardy men, who
loved God and wanted to be free. Before
the woodman's ax forests fell and ros
again into ships' masts and churches
pillars. Cities on the banks of lakes be
gan to rival cities by the sea. The land
quakes with the rush of the rail car, and
the waters are churned white with tha
steamer's wheel. Fabulous bushels of
Western wheat meet on the way fabulous
bushels of Eastern coal. Furs from the
North pass on the rivers fruits from tha
South. And trading in the same market
are Maine lumbermen and South Carolina
rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska
fur dealer. And churches and schools and
asylums scatter light and love and mercy
and salvation upon 70,000,000 of people.
I pray that our nation may not copy tha
crimes of nations that have "perished; that
our cup of blessing turn not to wormwood
and we go down. Iam by nature and by
grace an optimist, and I expect that this
country will continue to advance until the
world shall reach the millenlal era. Out
only safety is in righteousness toward God
and justice toward man. If we forget
the goodness of the Lord to this land
and break his Sabbaths, and improve
not by the dire disasters that have again
and again come to us as a people, and
we learn saving lesson neither from
civil war nor raging epidemic, nor
drought, nor mildew, nor scourge of locust
and grasshopper; if the political corrup
tion which ha poisoned the foundations
of public virtue and beslimed the high
places of authority, making free govern
ment at times a hissing and a byword in
all the earth; if the drunkenness and li
centiousness that stagger and blaspheme
in the streets of fur great cities, as though
they were reaching after the fame of a Cor
inth and a Sodom, are not repented of, we
will yet see the smoke of our nation's ruin.
The pillars of our national and State Capi
tols will fall more disastrously than when
Sampson pulled down the Dragon, and
future historians will record upon the page
bedewed with generous tears thestory that
the free nation of the west arose n
splendor which made the world stare. It
had magnificent possibilities; it forgot
God; it hated justice; it hugged its crimes,
it halted on its high march; it
reeled under the blow of calamity;
it fell, and as it was going down nil the
despotisms of earth from the top of
Moody thrones began to shout: "Ahat
So would wo have it!" while struggling
and oppressed peoples looked out from
dungeon bars, with tears and groans and
cries of untold agony, the scorn of those
and the woe of these, uniting in the ex
clamation: "Look yonder! 'There fell a
great star from heaven burning as it were
a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of
the rivers and upon the fountains of
waters, and the name o! the star is called
Wormwoodl' "