$i.oo a Year, In Advance. "FOR OOP, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." , Sing;!? Copy, 5 Cents. VOL. XIII. PLYMOUTH, N. C FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1902. NO. 13, II J I r THE CIRL WHO LAUGHS, The srirl Trho laughs Gorl bless her ! Thrice blesses herself the while; No music of mirth Has nobler worth Thau that which voices a smile. The Rirl who laughs life needs her; There is never an hour so sad But wakes and thrills To the ripplius? trills Of the laugh of a lass who's glad. Ladies' Home Journal. Ev Barry Pain. "But does it never occur to you," asked the curate as ha poured two teaspoonsful of coffee into his cup, "does it never occur to you to ask yourself what is the good of it all?" "Never," said the millionaire with decision. "You never regret you see, after all money is not everything, is it?" "That . observation is frequently made," said the millionaire, thought fully, "and it is misleading. t Money is not everything, but it is much nearer to being everything than anything else is. There is quite a good deal of cant talked about money. It is comforting cant, of course. One gets the same kind of thing about birth. Personal ly, I always mistrust anything that comforts." "But is it all cant? Take the ques tion of health, for instance. Money cannot give health, and it is better to be well than to be wealthy." "I often wonder why people go on Baying that money cannot give health, when they must see every day that money does give health, and that pov erty causes illness. If work is injuri ous q. me I can afford to give itPjJt I have to winter abroad I can do it easily, without considering the ques tion of expense. If an operation i3 re quired, I can pay the man to do it, and tinder the very best conditions. The poor man can do none of these things. My ordinary way of life is much more healthy than his. The food that I eat is of the best quality and in perfect condition, while he eats adulterated rubbish and stale garbage. His house is ill warmed and insanitary, and mine is perfect in these respects. The poor man dies, and in nine cases out of ten it serves him right." "Isn't that rather a terrible thing to say?" said the curate, nervously, playing with his spoon. "In nine cases out of ten poverty is the result of stupidity. You blame a man for his moral defects, and I blame him for his mental defects; one is just as fair as the other. And both the mental and moral defects are about equally capable of remedy." "Surely not," said the curate, earn estly. "A sinner may be reclaimed, but you cannot give a man an intel lect." "You should use the same word in both cases.' You may reclaim a man's intellect just as you reclaim his mor als. I have dont it. I did it in my own case. I admit that mental re clamation, like moral reclamation, is rare." "It all seems "so dreary and fatalis tic," said the curate. "So it is," the millionaire agreed cordially. "As I told you, I don't like comforting cant. The best fable that ever was written was the fable of the fox and the sour grapes. Everybody's a gentleman who feels like it, and wealth is not everything. Oh, yes! I know these consolatory stories for those who are out of it. But they are only stories, and, as a matter of fact,' wealth is everything, as near as you can get it. What wealth cannot do nothing else can." The curate seemed to reflect for a moment. "Tell me," he said darkly, "do you value the affection of your relatives and friends and those whom you have about you?" "Of course," the millionaire owned. "Perhaps one' values that most of all." "And do you mean to tell me," asked the curate, flushed with triumph, "that that kind of thing can be bought with money?" The millionaire concentrated hi3 at tention on his cigar with the air of a man who can provide a platitude with out troubling to think. "But, of course," he said, "you can buy affection as easily as you can buy a pound of tea, and on almost the same commercial ' principles." The curate stuck to it. Tend of . money. i "Are you sure that it is genuine af fection?" he said. "There," said the millionaire, "I don't trouble myself. I get respect and subservience while I am there, and really I don't care what they say when I am not there. You see, I don't think about these people very much. It would annoy me if they showed hostility to me while I was with them. It would give one all the trouble of having to think of new things to say. But they are perfectly welcome to say what they like behind my back, because they haven't got any money worth mention ing, or any position, and they don't matter. But as a matter of fact, money can generally buy genuine af fection, an affection that is just as real as that where there has been no value received." "Really, this is too cynincal," said the curate. "Not at all," replied the millionaire; "in fact, I am on the whole les cyn ical than you. I still believe in grati tude, and it would appear that you don't. Generosity is an admirable and popular quality. You must admit that And it is very easy for a rich man to be generous; he just plugs in a few present, as? a gardener puts in seeds, and afterwards he gets the fruits quite genuine fruits, too. I sometimes wonder how anybody who is not a millionaire believes in genuine affection; it Is certainly a luxury for the rich." "Well," said the curate, with a sigh, "I must not let you off. . We owe $250 on the Church Restoration at St. Bar nabas. I'll -see if it makes me think more highly of you." "I never subscribe; I either do a thing or I leave it alone. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll wipe out this debt for you altogether if you preach the opin-' ions you have heard from me from the pulpit." The little curate got quite excited.- " "I'd sooner steal the monav and tUen cut my throat," he said. "If I could have all your money at the prico of having your views of life. as well, I wouldn't do it." The millionaire smoked for a mo ment or two in silence. "You're not a bad sort of fool," he said at last. Black and White. The Musical Guninites. The Guamites are a musical people. The well-to-do own pianos, and are fair musicians; others have organs, and many, many more possess accor dions. They enjoy singing and are fond of American popular songs, such as "After the Ball," etc. Their own songs are rather weird and mournful, though always harmonious. At night, the voices rise in sharp, nasal tones, singing the "novena," a term applied to nijie 'days of special worship to some particular saint. Novenas are ever In evidence; for no sooner do they finish with one than it is time for an other to begin; consequently "neigh borhood sings" are frequent. $ The accordions are pleasing to the na tives at their dances and fandangoes or weddings. These latter always occur Thursday mornings at 4 o'clock. The names are cried in the church three times before the wedding: Wednesday evening there is a social gathering of the families and friends of the br!'1' and bridegroom, with dancing and re freshments: guests accompany the happy pair to the church, where the priest unites them. Often there are three or four weddings on the sr.me morning, and happiness reigns su preme. The Independent. Olil Newspapers. Surely there is nothing more dead on the earth than yesterday's newspaper. A walk down the main or branch paths of the mortuary set apart at the British Museum for these mayflies or ephemerae of 'he printing press might invite to funereal reflection on ink slung in vain, on paper misspent. Yet it would seem that a very live industry is connected with the exhumation of old numbsrs and that these must be deposited within easy reach of London. Hence the British Museum is going to spend 18,000 on a new old news paper site. The papers are to be cart ed off to Henden and there deposited not in the lake-, but in a building made expressly for them. The files can be ordered up to one of the reading rooms of the British Museum as required. London is no longer big enough for the newspapers. We believe it is held by one of the great public librarians that there is no such thing as a superfluous book on the earth. And seemingly there are those who do not think there is a newspaper too many. Lon don Saturday Review.' PROHIBITION TERRITORY. One-third of the Population Live Under Anti-Saloon Lnwi. It is estimated that fully 30,000,000 people are living in the United States undei prohibition, either by state law or by local option. This is more than a third of the entire population of the Republic. The following counties have in the various states enacted prohibi tion laws: Alabama In 50 out of 66 counties. Arkansas In 50 out of 75 counties. California In 175 cities and towns. Colorado In 50 cities and towns.- Connecticut In 75 out of 125 towns. Delaware In fully half of the state. . Florida In 30 out of 45 counties. Georgia The whole of the state ex cept 4 cities. Illinois In 650 cities and towns. Indiana In 140 towns. Iowa The whole of the state except 25 cities. Kansas The whole of the state. Kentucky In 90 out of 119 coun ties. Louisiana In 20 out of 59 counties. Maine The whole of the state. Maryland In 15 out of 24 counties. Massachusetts In 263 but of 353 cities and towns. Michigan In 400 cities and towns. Minnesota In 400 cities and towns. Mississippi In 71 out of 75 coun ties. Missouri In 84 out of 115 counties. Montana In a few counties. Nebraska In 250 cities and towns. New Hampshire The whole of the state. New Jersey In 200 cities and towns. New York In 700 cities and towns. North Carolina In 60 out of 90 coun ties. North Dakota The whole of the state. Ohio In 500 cities and towns. Oregon In the great Indian reser vation. -". Pennsylvania In 60 cities and towns, and 20 counties. Rhode Island In 20 cities and towns. South Carolina The whole of the state, except 10 cities. South Dakota The whole of the state, except a few cities. Tennesee In 70 out of 96 counties. Texas In 120 out of 246 counties. Vermont The whole of the state. Virginia In 55 out of 106 counties. Washington In 50 cities and towns. West Virginia In 40 out of 54 coun ties. .f Wisconsin In 300 cities and towns. W Exchange. MONKS AT MAR SABA. A Grim Fortress Monastery on the Dead Sea. The most awesome, most repellant dwelling place in the world is the grim fortress monastery of Mar Saba, on the Dead Sea, where thousands of monks live in grim and melancholy austerity. These monks are the most rigorous of any in the Greek church. Their lives are passed in penance, with no hope of pleasure this side of the grave, and not one cheerful incident to bright en their existence. Day after day, amid gloomv surroundings, that would drive most men melancholy mad, they go through the same Unvarying rou tine, and yet surrounding them are the lemains of such true romances as only medieval times could produce. Mar Saba is at the end of the bar ren Wady en Nor, or Kedron valley, 'near the Dead Sea, and its very loca tion is enough 'to send a chill down one's spine. It is the only oasis in the wilderness of this region, a de stroyed stronghold of the Crusaders and the tomb of a Nomad chieftain, that of Sheik Messiaf. The wearied traveler is glad to behold the fortress like pile of the ancient monastery way down in the dark valley, even though he experiences a presentiment of some hidden danger lurking in that forbidden place. It is the most ro mantically situated monastery, the old est and undoubtedly the most grue some in the world. It is built on the abrupt terrace of a dizzy gorge, at the bottom of which, G00 feet below, the torrent Cedron seethes in winter. The rock falls away so perpendicularly that huge flying buttresses" had to be con structed in order to afford the very moderate space occupied by the mon astery. In the early part of the fifth cen tury It was inhabited by the Sabaites, an order of monks of whom San Sabas was the superior, and who also built the greater portion of the monastery. San Sabas was born about 439, in Capadocia, and at eight years of age, he entered this monastery, which was originally founded by Euthymius. As the reputation of San-Sabas for sanc tity increased, he was joined by a great number of anchorites, all of whom could not find shelter in his monastery, and it is said that 10,000 of these holy men were living In rock caves in the mountain opposite. Thousands of caves once inhabit ed by these hermits look from the side of the mountain, many having mosaic floors and decorations upon the walls, and the story has every sem blance of truth. About 4000 monks in habited the monastery proper, and in the seventh century the Persian hordes of Chosroes routed them all and plundered the monastery, and for cen turies its wealth attracted marauders of all kinds. The last time it was pillaged was in 1832 and 1834 by Be douins. After the very first attack it was fortified, just as it Is today. Two castle-like towers which serve as battlements, are the first evidence the traveler has of the existence of the living tomb. One of the ponderous towers is of very picturesque lines. The fair Empress Eudoxia built it in order to be close to her ideal of manhood Euthymius. Euthymius was Doted for his sanctity throughout Pal estine, and his learning and great moral endowments attracted the em press. She loved him with great de votion, but Euthymius, true to his trust, refused to see her. When her devotion to him did not cease he fled to the Moabite desert, beyond the Jor dan. The empress watched daily from the tower for his return. After much persuasion he was dragged back to the monastery by his companion. Theoctestus and the empress wept with joy. She remained there a few years longer, during which time she caught only a casual and infrequent glimpse of the object of her love. Finally she left the place with her Now the tower Is used as a""iookoatrJ,( and a watchman is stationed there dav and night, who scans the mountains and valleys far and wide to see wheth er any danger threatens the monas tery. London Telegraph. Snved His Life br K-partee. A Pontiac roofer saved his life re cently by his aptness at repartee. Ho was out on the roof of the insane asy lum at Pontiac, making some repairs, says the Detroit Journal, within a foot of the eaves. Suddenly the noise of his hammer was interrupted by a voice behind him, calmly saying: "Well, come on! Let's jump down together." The roofer turned, and saw a maniac standing behind him. The glitter in the madman's eye made the roofer look with a feeling of dread at the ground below, realizing that there was no escape. The roofer concealed his fright for a moment. He even smiled contemptu ously as he looked into the maniac's face. "Huh!" he remarked, "any blamed fool could jump down. Let's go down and try to jump up." "Say. that's an idea!" exclaimed the insane man. "Come on. Let's go down and try it!" And he led the way to the trapdoor in the roof. Peacock Tails to Order. The Japanese are ruthless in their tampering with nature. If they de cide that they want a bird or an ani rcal of a certain shape or color, they set about manufacturing the article, so to speak, by the exercise of exceed- h'gly clever ingenuity and untiring pa tience. Here, for example, is how the white sparrows are produced: v . They select a pair of grayish birds and keep them in a white 'cage in a white room, where they are attended by a person dressed in white. The mental effect on a series of genera tions of birds results in completely white birds. They breed the domes tic cock with enormously long tails after the same principle. They first select a bird with a good tail, giving him a very high perch to stand on; then with weights they drag the tail downward, carrying on the same sys tem with the finest specimens of his descendants till a tail almost as long as a peacock's is produced at last. A Valuable View. A story is told of a man in Massa chusetts who sold a scrubby farm for $12,000 although its value was not more than $1000. "How did you do it?" a friend asked him. "Well," he replied, "I had $1000 worth of farm and $11,000 worth of view." Stealing a watch has caused many fi fellow to wind up in jail. ODDITIES OF THE ARCTICS. Bow the Animals Clinnse Color A Do meatic Tyrant. During the summer months much ot the land becomes free from snow and ice under the joint action of sun and wind, and the snow that resists re moval is darkened by a deposit of rlne dust particles. In this season the ani mals wear their darker clothing, and birds have, by way of change, a less gaudy plumage. The background against which they stand would betray their presence if the white dress of winter were worn now; then, too, it makes it possible for the foxes, ducks, and other animals and birds to gratify a natural vanity by putting on, for a time at least, another coat. In wiater, white is again worn. The background is now snow and ice, and the only chance which the Arctic chicken now has to deceive the fox is to roll up iike a ball, and simulate a lump of ice. The ice-bear is equipped successfully to creep upon the ever watchful seal, because .he looks like the other blocks of white around him. He remembers, however, his black nose, and is said to be sharp enough to cover it with his paw while approach ing his dozing prey. t The seal does not stop his search for food until he has completely satisfied his excellent appetite; then he takes a good nap, lying upon the very edge of the ice, or as close as possible to his breathing hole. The slightest sound will awaken him, and, without waiting to find out the source or direction, he rolls into the water. He can stay un der for only 35 minutes, but where he will come up none can tell. This no one knows better than the bear; and if the bear realizes that it is impossible to steal, upon the leeward side of the seal, having his black nose' covered with "his paw and his bloodshot eyes closed, when the seal has his open and on the watch, he looks about for J3ia,- 'v: der the ice, and if he rightly judges the distance and direction, he comes up at the very spot where the seal had ex pected to go down. The seal's fate is thus settled, and the bear's shrewd ness earns its reward. The beautiful eider-duck has often been cited as an ideal mother, and touching stories are told of her pluck ing the down from her own breast to make the nest in which to hatch her young. It is also said that if the hunters tcJ:e the down, she will despoil herself for the second time, not calling upon the selfish drake until she has literally stripped herself. The drake is de clared to be strict in keeping his mate to her duties, insisting that she shall attend to the work of hatching. If the duck ventures upon a walk, he does not offer to take her place while she goes gadding about, but perhaps know ing she is to fond of idleness, cruelly drives her back to her-household duty. The duck lays only five eggs, and if she feels that her nest is large enough and warm enough to i hold more, she boldly robs her neighbors, carrying the eggs, one at a time, under her wing, until she has seven or eight. However, when the brood is hatched, the drake becomes the teacher to the young. Not in swimming, for that comes naturally, but in diving, which is a means of flight as well as for find ing food. The little duck, coming in- " to life above water, hesitates to risk it by going under, nor will he follow the oft-repeated example of his parents. When it becomes necessary to resort to force, the dake comes quietly near the unwilling pupil, suddenly throws a wing over him, and dives down. The little one is let go under the water, and, coming to the surface unharmed, even if somewhat startled, he is ready to start diving pn his own account. St Nicholas. ' v rainting on Unman Skin. Marcus Lorenzo, an Italian painter who flourished in the last century, one paid 200 francs for a piece of hu man skin no larger than a dinner plate, upon which to execute a landscape in oils. The skin, which was chemi cally prepared to receive the paint, was taken from the back of an aged woman, whose body had been sold to a medical man for dissecting experi ments. The human parchment was drawn tightly over a metal frame, and the artist spent nearly seven months in producing a painting that was after wards exhibited in various salons and ultimately realized 84,000 francs. Leeds Mercury. The Roar of a Waterfall. The roar of a waterfall is produced almost entirely by the bursting of mil ions of air bubbles.

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