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VOL. XIII.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1902.
NO. r,.
TWO KINDS
"There'a difference in dollars, for some
are so pure t.
And wholesome and big and delightful;
While others which men in their hurry
procure
. Are little and tarnished and frightful.
The good kind bring riches that etand
for success
With honest, iuielligent striving;
The others bring only that sense of dis
tress That comca of unmanly conniving.
ry OMD people do not, believe
the stories they hear of
Jk') ghosts," said the doctor, as
he leaned back In his chair
on the opposite side or the table from
ttho lawyer and his wife, whoso guest
he happened to be for dinner. The
lawyer leaned back, too, but the law
yer's wife could not because the tele
phone was up against tne wall behind
her seat. "But they do believe them
down in the country where I cam?
from," continued the doctor, while
the lawyer's wife crumbed up a crack
er and let the pieces fall in her linger
rw iiissiuucf, a siuiy was cur
rent when I was about fourteen years
old that was realistic enough and had
proof enough to have been so even
u it was not.
"The Pennsylvania Railroad known
then as the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago was building, and the right
of way cut through a sandhill less than
a quarter of a mile from our front
gate. In building the lino there were
several places to be graded, and no
better material could bo found than
the gravel hi this hill. Next to the
ENGINEER WATSON THREW ON THE AIR BRAKES.
-wagon road, which wound away
through the sands of the mil, stood the
red house and barn of Graham Davis.
Some time before this a scourge of
sman .pox nau visneu me couiuiuuuy.
Two of the" Davis children had died
.almost on the same day. Anyway,
.uvy HVif uuntu III in-., naiuc -uiuu
and in the same grave. The graveyard
'was In the orchard, as a great many
graveyards of the eariy settlers were.
'iAs the railroad company pushed in
Itn cMln-r no-jihiat (lio It ill f!rnh:im
Davis found himself short of room, so
In the course of time he sold that cor
'ner of his farm to the company, and
moved from his house and barn, for-
.getting all about what he had in the
orchard. The neighbors remembered,
and it was not long before weird stor
ies of slamming doers and grewsome
noises were told about the country
Bide. Some people went so far as to
declare they had seen the two children,
hand in hand, going through the or
chard to the school, as they had often
been seen in life to do. This happened
only at jnidnight when .the moon was
high and the air clear, co there was
OF DOLLARS.
'Tia the sorriest error to measure our gold
By the number of dollars; 'tis better
To think of their quality; find if they hold
A genuine joy for their getter.
For a coin that in good when we win it
aright,
With conscience and heart in our deal
ing. Is only a counterfeit, pleasureless quite
To him who obtains it by stealing.
Nixon Waterman, in the National Maga
zine. little chance of making a mistake. The
sidetrack made its way farther and
farther into the hill. The crew of this
gravel train consisted of Irish shov
elors, a Yankee conductor and Scotch
engineer. One by one the trees. of the
orchard fell as the gravel was dug
from beneath, and loaded upon the
Hat cars by the red-shirted gang, who
talked and joked and idled away their
time like a flock of geese.
"One day the crew came upon the
box buried in the orchard. A shout
went up from the Irishmen, for they
had found the skeletons of the children.
Down on the siding stood theMong train
of fiat cars, with the engine smoking
away at the end. Robert Watson, fa--miliarly
known as- Bob, was fanning
himself in the window of the"' cab.
Conductor Thompson was somewhere
along the shady side of the box car,
which did duty as the caboose. On
the hill there was a big commotion,
and the sand and gravel came down
faster than it had ever done before,
following the heels of the shovelers.
These Irishmen ranged themselves by
the side of the train, panting and jab-
bering 1 . way few could understand.
Bob Watson stuck his head far out
from the cab window and inquirtfl tll2
cause of the trouble. Conductor
Thompson- went leaping up the hill
like a kangaroo until he got to a box
half covered with sand beneath a tree
in the orchard. Then Thompson went
back faster than he had gone, up, and
sat down on a tie. No color was in
his face, and his hands trembled.
Surrounding him crowded the Irish
men, who made so much noise no one
heard the lightning express as it went
thundering by. Nor would the men go
back to work, as long as the box was
on the hill. . Engineer Bob Watson
called the conductor to him and learned
the situation.
" 'I'll take the things out of tnere,'
as he slipped down the iron steps to
the sand. Up the. hill he went till he
came to the box, when he caught hold
of the protruding end and he gave It
a twist that sent both box and the en
gineer rolling and tumbling with the
bones rattling down the hill. Con
ductor Thompson sent a delegation to
the new home of Graham Davis to tell
him where the bodies of the children
were, and to request aim to carry them
away.
"Then the men went back to work.
When evening came a large Irishman
walked up to the cab of the engine to
where Engineer Bob was lighting his
pipe.
" 'You've got the hant, Bob. Watson,
and if you take my advice, being a man
who's uninterested, you'll get out of
this job and won't pull no train on this
division of the Pittsburg, Fort' Wayne
and Chicago Road.' 4
"Engineer Bob Watson laughed, got
the signal from the switchman and
blew two blasts from the whistle for
off brakes and started toward town
with the water boy trailing along be
hind in an attempt to catch the impro
vised caboose.
"The incident on the hill was for
gotten.almost, perhaps entirely by all
except the Irishmen, who seldom lost
a thing of this kind from their mem
ories. Time wrought, many changes.
Bob Watson was advanced until he
was given charge of a night express
between Chicago and 'the East. Con
ductor Thompson controlled the des
tinies of tli? passengers on this same
train. One night they were coming
into" Chicago, with the moon shining
full and the face of the country almost
as clear a.i at noonday. Off , to the
left was the schoolhouse," and to the
right, coming down the road over the
crossing, were two children, a boy and
a girl, with a tin dinner bucket swing
ing between them. Evidently they did
r ot see the express, and reached the
centre of the track,, at the same instant
the engine struck the crossing. , En
gineer Watson threw on the air brakes,
blew the whistle, andthe whole train
shuddered , to a standstill. Watson
grabbed a flare and sprang past the
wide-eyed fireman out into the night,
From the coaches the white lights of
the brakemen dropped down, and the
blue lantern of the conductor waited
until the yellow llare of the conductor
'came up to it. Then the conductor
and the engineer went back, looking
under every car the full length of the
train, and to the crossing; even on the
crossing there was nothing, no. sign of
an accident, neither to the right nor to
the left. 1 ,
"So the train wen"; on.
"A month later the moon shone
again. Again Robert Watson's train
came to the crossing. Again he saw
the two children, the boy and the girl,
coming" down the ror.d to the right
with their dinner bucket between them.
Again they stepped on the crossing as
the train reached it,, and again that
Hying mo-ster was brought to a stand.
The engineer's flare mingled with the
lighlT of the brakemen, and the con
ductor carried hie bine lantern back
to the crossing. There the men faced
each other.
" 'Look here, Bob Watson, said Con
ductor Thompson, do you remember
what place this is? Do you remember
the orchard that once stood on the hill
over there behind the schgolhonse?
Do you remember what the Irish shov
,cler said to you? I'll tell you you've
hit the bant.
"Together the men walked back to
their posts.
."Once more a month rolled around
and the moon shone on the little school
house and on the crooked trees of the
orchard held in existence by the school
land. Engineer Watsen saw the chil
dren coming down the road long be
fore the train reached the crossing.
He signaled to his fireman for more"
stam and opened the valve wider as
the engine swung up on the crossing.
There was a jar as the wheels passed
over- "
At that instant the telephone bell
ran g as it had never rung before. The
lawyer's wife screamed, sprang up from
her chair and sunk back in it, and yet
the bell rung. Together the lawyer
and the doctor carried her to her room
and the lawyer hurried away to the
drug store on the corner.
"Doctor, I wish ' you would, finish
that ghost story," said the lawyer's
wife the next day as she was sitting
up from her siege of hysterics and the
telephone man had come around and
straightened the wires. "What did the
engineer hit?"
"Now, the train did hit something
that night, but when the crew went
back to look all they could find was
Davis' spotted cow, which had been
making her way to the old homo. . The
moonlight made her look odd, and,
after all, there may have been a bit
of superstitious blood in the engineer.
At any rate, he resigned his run when
he goUuto Chicago that night. I saw
hira ' bit ago pulling a freight on the
New York Central. But the 'hant' had
left him." Harry A. Armstrong, in the
Chicago Record-Herald.
Tramps' Directions.
Take the one single incident of di
rection of rendezvous, memoranda, etc.,
on water tanks and in stations.. I have
looked for such with very small suc
cess, considering the bulk of the le
gends about them.though I have found
them. And although very striking
cases of , selection among houses for
begging purposes have come to my
notice, I have neve". yet found a per
fectly authentic instance of designat
ing mark. When, therefore, the resi
dence of my friend, A. L., was visited
regularly, and that of his next door
neighbor, P. B., a lawyer, neglected,
and that of his opposite neighbor,
Sheriff A. M., shunned, I am confident
it is all due to orAl communication.
And it shows what was possible in the
days before the telegraph and news
paper that when my friend Judge S.'s
patience finally broke doAvn, and from
the defender of tramps in court and
their feeder at home, he told one of
them to let it be known from Hartford
to Boston that he "would arrest the
next one who came to his door," inside
of forty-eight hours the plague had
ceased! The Independent
The "llegira" of 1837.
It is almost certain that a record
number of Americans will cross the
Atlantic for the coronation,, and it is
very probable that record time may
be accomplished. But such events will
not attract so much public attention
as the records established in the spring
preceding the coronation of Queen Vic
toria. The Great Western steam packet
caused immense astonishment by mak
ing a maiden trip from Bristol to New
York in fifteen days: On May 7, 1S3S,
she started from New York on her
return voyage with passengers desir
ous of being present in London for the
coronation. Quite 100,000 persons as
sembled to witness her departure, with
bands of music, and a variety of steam
boats attended her to Sandy Hook.
She carried sixty-eight cabin passen
gers, the greatest number that had
ever crossed in one ship, at thirty-five
guineas each. Her arrival at Bristol
on May 22 settled the doubt warmly
discussed by the British Association,
two years previously, as to the possi
bility of steamship communication be
tween England and America. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
"What MaUes a Boob Soil.
Some half-dozen of the New York
booksellers' have been interviewed by
the New York Sun on . this subject.
Some of the answers are characteristic.
One bookseller said:
. "It is odd, but I find that the color
of the cover has a good deal to do
with a decision in favor of a bopk.
I mean as far as the decision can be
affected by a strong first impression.
Red is the most catchy color, If It is
the right shade, and then a nice shade
of green. The gilt and the corner de
signs show up . ."1 on either red or
green. . Let a red or green be standing
erect among a group of other colors,
and most people will pick out the
bright, strong color first."
Then the title makes a big difference
with the undecided buyers, and pic
tures help some.
Story of a Stick.
The reformers who hold up the Ger
man army as a pattern to be admired
will perhaps allow that even its excel
lent ' discipline has some drawbacks.
Among the many regulations of the
military code is one which forbids any
body to present himself before a re
cruiting officer with a cane in his
hand. Some days ago a reservist so
far forgot himself as to enter the office
of a recruiting sergeant-major accom
panied by his walking-stick. For this
heinous offense the unfortunate reserv
ist was promptly court-martialed and
sentenced to ten weeks' imprisonment
for insubordination. To-Day.
Ills Slujesty' Inconvenience.
The King observed the other day that
one of the Inconveniences of being a
monarch was that he could no longer
use his clubs. But numbers of his male
frauds are asked to come to Marlbor
ough house, and more than once, when
some very intimate associate of olden
times is writing his name at the lodge,
the liveried servant will say: "I am
desired by II is Majesty to telephone
when you come in. Will you wait until
I see whether it is his pleasure to see
yon?" In this way the King keeps
In the closest touch with social move
ments. Liverpool Post.
MUSIC IN THE PANTRY. '
T!i 're Is music in the pantry, :
x'hi boyj have just come in.
And mother's pies are suifering-
Was ever sucli a din?
.
There is music in the pantry,- :v.
The old tin boiler nqueaks, ' -
The doughnuts go 'way down below.
The cupboard groans and creaks.
There Is .music in the pantry,
For Ned and Tom and Saul,
Are jostling one another
While stealing mother's jam.
There is music in the pantry.
And mother's heard the noise
Good gracioua what a racket!
Ah, listen to those boys!
There is music in the pantry,
'Tis sounding to the skies; . , r
Mother's used the rawhide
But she hasn't saved the piea!
J. G. Mills. 5
"Is your wife musical, Flipper?"
"No. She harps too much on . one
string." Philadelphia Bulletin.
Th? Tragedian "My parents tried
hard to keep me from becoming an ac
tor." The Villain "I congratulate
them on their success." Tit-Bits. i
First Politician "They .want to In
troduce voting machines down in mj
ward." Second Politician "We've had
them walking around in our ward for
years." Baltimore American.
Briggs "I donated n;y brain to my
college, and just got an acknowledg
ment from the President." Griggs
that every little helps." Harp ar's Ba-,
zar. -
Maud "How funny that English
man's clothes look." Jack "Well, yes,
but you know at one time Englishmen'
wore only dresses." Maud "When
was that?" Jack "When they were
infants." Harlem Life.
Hixon "Young Pellets tells me that
he makes a specialty of , doctoring
cats." Dixon "Well, his patients are
fortunate." Hixon "How's that?"
Dixon "They each have nine lives."
Chicago Daily News.
"They tell me that Jim Muggins is
one of the directors in a big city cor
poration now," said the grocer.' "Yes,
I seen him las' time I was down to
town," said Mr. . Meddergrass. "He
directs the envelopes f'r the firm."
Baltimore American.
Towne "You seem to have a little
cash." Browne "Yes; railroad acci
dent." Towne "You don't mean to
say you got damages " Browne
"I mean to say a railroad I took stock,
in years ago has finally paid a divi
dends'Philadelphia Press.
Gerald "I have often thought that I
ought to have studied for the min
istry." Geraldine "You wouldn't have
been a success." Gerald "Why not2"
Geraldine "You couldn't . make the
necessary number of pastoral calls;
you'd stay too long at one place."
Brooklyn Life.
"There"' said Mrs. Cumrox, "I guess
we have at last eclipsed the Van Flams
as entertainers. We are going to haTie
it put in the papers that our recent en
tertainment cost $-10,000." "But the;
Van Flams claim that theirs cost. $60,
000." "Yes. But au affidavit will go
with our figures." Washington Star.
Diaresardinjr Quarantine.
When Queen Wilheiraina was a child,
she was not allowed ordinarily to share
dinner with the older members of the
royal household, but on special occa
sions was permitted to make her ap
pearance at dessert, and place herself
beside some particular favorite.
One day, says the Chicago Record
Ilera'd, she sat by a courtly old Gen
oral. Presently she exclaimed:
"I wonder you're not afraid to sit
next to mel"
Evervhodv in thr rnnm tnrnpd at the
sound of the child's treble.
"On the contrary, I am pleased antt
honored to sit next to my future Queen.
Why should I be afraid?"
Assuming a.woe-begone expression.
the little Queen replied: "Because alt
my dolls have the measles."
Enough timber is destroyed by fire
in the United States every year to sup
ply all the pulp mills, tnough these caa
turn out 2,300,000 tons of paper a year.
Fifty-one of the United States Sen
ators and 20 of the Representative
'in Congress are lawyers.