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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1902.
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THE PATHS
There are two folds upon the hill,
-.And or.ie is lone and very still
Only the ru.-stle of a leaf
"Gives happy sound of life and stir,
And warbles bubbling bright and brief
Where the bird skims with fearless whirr,
,Or u bee rilling on his way
The honey from a wild rose spray.
Sometimes a soft and summer shower
Drop gentle music hour by hour,
Or a long breath of wandering air
Makes melancholy murmur there,
And all is calm and full of peace
There where the dead have sweet surcease.
Harriet Pr
y HE superintendent of the Kil
dee Insane Asylum was, ex
otficio, a great .personage in
the little town. The -simple.
noino-keeping inhabitants dignified him
in their minds with the great men of
the Nation, for the institution over
which he presided was the biggest
thing they knew about, and. the official
residence of the superintendent was
looked upon as the type and paragon
of all domestic excellence.
The new superintendent, however,
had not been content to move majesti
cally in the beaten path of his prede
cessors. The degree of awesome aloof
ness which enwrapped him surpassed
anything ever known m the town, but
he 'had a knack of mingling with the
affairs of the people without abating
an iota "of his dignity or laying him
self open to the familiarity of his
neighbors. lie hadn't been in office
months before the asylum garden,
worked by the inmates, began to yield
extraordinary quantities of kitchen
truck, flowers and fruit, which ..Superin
tendent Triggton, with pompous conde
cension permitted the public to buy at
prices that added heavily to his already
large income. Then it became known
:imong certain struggling tradesmen
that Triggton had a certain sum -of
ready money which he was "willing"
fo loan to reputable citizens on "terms
which could be privately arranged."
"Within a year he "owned" enough
mortgages to make him master of the
destinies of a dozen less fortunate Kil
dreans. He bought lots in town and
acres adjoining the village and guarded
his holdings with a jealous tyranny
that was quite new to the easy going,
friendly people.
Boys caught playing "I spy" in his
orchard were cuffed off the (premises.
Stray pigs, cows or horses foraging
along the roadways were promptly lm-pound-ed
by Triggton and the owners
mulcted for their "keep." Frolicking
dogs which had ventured upon the
Triggton estate had been found mys
teriously defunct, lying at their own
ers' gates. Pullets foraging abroad in
the vicinity of his house had faiied
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OF DEATH.
Within that other place of graves
The wild rains fall, the wild wind raves
In every dusky alley met
Sad ghosts, who beat an aching breast
With anguished longing and regret,
Remember that they once were blest,
The heart gone out of them, the soul
Fled onward to some unknown goal.
For them no glad and further year,
Ashes the rose, and beauty sere,
Without a wish except to fill
Their eyes with dust the dead who still
With ruined hope and joyless mirth
Go to and fro upon the earth!
escott Spotford, in Scribner's Magazine.
to return to their roosts, and (he va
grom peddlers who occasionally in
vaded his inhospitable yard were set
upon by a murderous bulldog which
he'lil the unenvied honor of being Trigg
ton's only companion, counselor and
friend. A year of this kind of "neigh
boriliness" made Superintendent Trigg
ton the most hated and at the same
time the most feared person in Kildee.
The Widow Denny was the first who
dared to oppose him. One of her pigs
had got away and never returned, and
about the same time Triggtou's porcine
family of ten yearlings .was augmented
by the presence of a plump boar,
which, from a distance, looked suspic-
iously like the Denny derelict. The
widow demanded her beast, and Trigg
ton laughed at her. Then she filed suit
and gave the community a shock of
delight by bringing her son, a young
Chicago lawyer, to help her tight the
superintendent. Everybody hoped and
even expected that the smart young
attorney from the city would bring
the hateful Triggton to account, but
when the case came to trial and the
evidence was all in, even the tacit tes
timony of the squealing pig, the ques
tion remained one of veracity between
the woman and the possessor of the
pig. He swore that his sow had lit-
tered eleven pigs, and the widow swore
that the beast in evidence was her
property. She mentioned the split ear,
the marks, even the kinks in its tail,
recounting these signs of Identification
before the debated beast appeared
and pointing out the accuracy of her
statements when the squealer was in
troduced. In this quandary. Judge
Tufts, who was mortally afraid of the
superintendent, fell back on the old
sophism, "possession is nine-tenths of
the law," and awarded the pig to the
triumphant rascal.
The Kildeeans were sorely disap
pointed, though they dared not show it,
and Superintendent Triggton swag
gered oxit of the courtroom with a
sneer at Lawyer Denay that stung
him all the deeper when he saw the
tears in his old mother's eyes. The
widow and her son were bavins a
rather sad farewell supper that even
ing when Hank Lee, who was a sort
of town weigher, came in with the
startling announcement:
"They's a mover gone and camped in
Triggton's orchard! Pulled down a
panel o' the fence and tuk his team
an' wagon right in an' squatted on the
clover kerplunk! He's put up a tent
and his bosses is eatin' away at their
best lick! Geewhillikens, won't the ole
grizzly holler!"
"Let's go see what happens, Hank,"
said Denny.
"I'll go ye. We kin hide behind the
manure pile." And off they went in
spite of Mrs. Denny's cautious warn
ing to "keep out o' Triggton's road."
From their lurking place they could
see the mover sitting beside his camp
fire, shuffling a sizzling skillet over the
blaze. He was whistling merrily, ob
livious of the burly man standing bolt
upright at the fence staring at the
intruder in livid astonishment. Denny
and Lee nudged each other and
chuckled as they saw Triggton dart
under the top rail, rush up to the non
chalant trespasser and bellow: "Get
off this lot, d'ye hear!" The mover
calmly laid down his frying pan.
stopped whistling and smiled into the
purple face of the enraged Triggton.
"Why, good evenin'," he laughed.
"Glad to know you, Triggy! I heerd
about you. Always been wantin' to
meet up with the feller what owns the
whole world!"
"Get out of ray orchard, you blamed
fool!" roared the superintendent,
clinching his fist and trembling with
the rage that seized him.
"Whoa, Triggy," quoth the mover,
stepping back as the smile faded from
his brown face; "don't get sassy, or
I'll have to use force. Come now,
you'd better come along with me up t'
the 'sylum. I been told to fetch you
in. I know you own the whole world,
got it fenced in an' all that, but 'f
3-ou'll come along with me I think
mebbe we kin give you a mortgage on
tfie moon, too. Come."
For answer the infuriated Triggron
leaped at the throat of the stranger.
Too quick for his assailant, however,
the vagabu. 1 had grabbed the iron
skillet and with one quick swing
brought it smash upon the head of
Triggton. The men behind the manure
pile saw him waver, stagger and fall.
The mover, bent over him' for an in
stant, said, "Don't git up, Triggy," and
as the prostrate man jumped up again
struck him full in the eye with his
clinched list. "Guess that'll hold ye
fur awhile," said the stranger, going
into his tent. They watched him come
out with a rope and tie the fallen
tyrant hand and foot. Then, by a
great effort, he loaded his victim into
the wagon, and Denny and Lee, un
willing to remain longer, made off
through the twilight, laughing with
delight. They stopped at the widow's
house long enough to see the mover
come galloping up the road, his wagon
rattling behind and Triggton sitting
helplessly in the rear, his yells and Im
precations drowned by the clatter of
the jolting vehicle.
Denny ran into the house, much to
the wonderment of Hank, but the
mover drew reins at the - gate and
cried:
"Hi, there, come show me the way to
Jedge Tuftsses' house. I got the
'scaped lunatic here. Captured him
single-handed down younder in the
orchard. Don't be skeard o him. I
got him tied as tight as a yearlin'
bull."
Hank, not trusting himself to look
at the prisoner, jumped up on the seat
and away they dashed for Judge Tufts'
house. That grave if not learned per
sonage happened at that moment to be
presiding over a political mass meet
ing in the square of Kildee, surrounded
by a glare of oil torches, and in the
act of intx-oducing the "speaker of the
evening." The thundering arrival of
the wagon with Hank and the mover
on the seat and the raving, disheveled,
dirty captive ia the rear, created an
uproar that put an end to the judge's
speech. He jumped off the stake
wagon, elbowed his way through the
crowd, and catching sight of the woe
begone superintendent, asked: "What
does this mean?"
"That's your escaped lunatic, Jedge,"
explained the mover, while the crowd
roared in irrepressible delight, "that's
him, Triggton. I ketched him single
handed down in the orchard, he jumped
me "
"Whose orchard?" asked the excited
Tufts, fumbling to release the crest
fallen superintendent.
"Why, Denny's. Mr. Denny told me
I could camp in that orchard "
"But this gentleman, Avhat in God's
name did you do to him?"
"Why, he's the 'scaped lunatic,
Triggton. Mr. Denny told me about
him, said he was bug-house about own
in' the whole world, 'scaped from the
'sylum. and that if I ketched him au'
turned him over to Jedge Tufts I'd git
the reeward. He fetched me a wailop,
an' I jest fetched him a couple aside
o' the head, and yonder he is!"
The disgruntled captor of the Kildee
tyrant looked around for Hank Lee
for corroboration, but that worthy was
then running as fast as his legs could
take him to the Widow Denny's cot
tage. "Where's your son, Mrs. Denny?"
he panted, as he bolted into the
kitchen.
"He's gone on that S o'clock train
for Chicago," she said, quietly.
"Do you know what he's done?"
"Yes, Hank. I know. It was the
least he could do, don't you think?"
John II. Rafcery, in the Chicago Record-Herald.
THE LARCESJ WATCH
Built Like the Most Delicate Pocket Time
piece at Cost of Thousands of Dollars.
There has just been finished at the
American Waltham watch factory a
mammoth watch, the largest in the
world. To build this gigantic time
piece cost several thousand dollars
and several weeks' time. Special ma
chinery and tools W'ere required for
its construction. The watch is a model
of the new model sixteen-size maxinius,
three-quarter plate watch, enlarged ten
times, perfect in every detail, and as
highly finished as the finest watch.
The diameter of the p'illar plate Is
seventeen inches, and the movement
is two and one-half inches thick. The
balance wheel is six and one-half
inches in diameter, and the breqr.et
spring, which controls its action, is
eight feet long, .OS of a centimetre
thick and .23 of a centimetre wide.
When running the balance makes a
vibration in .7 of a second. The pallet
stones are of sapphire and exquisitely
polished. The actuating, or main
spring, is twenty-three feet long, .17
of a centimetre thick, and 2.9 centi
metres wide.
The mammoth model is as completely
jeweled as a watch of the finest grade.
The plate jewels, which are as large
as the smallest movement made, or
about the size of a nickel five-cent
piece, are fine rubies, about ten lines
in diameter, but bushed with sapphires.
The polish of the wheels, pinions and
other steel work is perfect, and the
damaskeening on the plates is most
beautiful. The pendant and winding
crown are of fine bronze, brilliantly
polished. Every portion is made on
tht; exact scale of the watch it repre
sents. No dial has been made for this
movement, as it is designed to show
not only the action of the train, but the
stem-winding and stem-setting mech
anism as well.
The movement stands on a bronze
pedestal and from its base to the tip
of the winding crown Is twenty-six
inches. Boston Evening Transcript.
The people who are always getting
something for nothing are the ones
who kick about the quality.
Gome people have an idea that to
be brilliant they, must cast reflections
on others.
BIG CAME IN MEXICO.
Stirring Hunting Tales Told by Civil En
pineer of Life in CoaliuIIa.
A civil engineer recently returned
from the haciendo of Jimulco in Coa
huila, an Immense property containing
over 2000 square kilometres, tells some
stirring tales of shooting wild game.
Antelopes abound, but great care is
necessary in approaching these wily
creatures, owing to their habit of al
ways placing one or two on guard
while the rest of the herd is feeding.
The sentinels, faithful -to their duty,
remain with, head erect, peering and
sniffling to the four points of the com
pass, and give a swift alarm the mo
ment an enemy appears in sight.
Not long since a party of young men
were hunting the javali, or, wild hog,
and, coming up with a number, one of
the hunters succeeded in killing on?
and dismounted to secure it. As he
approached his prey a dozen or more
javali that were hiding in the tall grass
attacked him ferociously, and one
fastened his tusks in the hunter's heel,
hanging on like grim death. The
others came to their companion's as
sistance and the brute was killed, but
the tusks were sunk so deep into the
heel that the hog's jaws had to-be
pried apart with a gunbarrel before
the man was freed. Strange as it
may seem, the wound closed quickly
and with no serious results.
On this same hacienda are both
wild dogs and wild burros, the latter
being remarkably swift and hard to
take. Some time ago a pup was caught
and tamed, developing into a fine
watchdog, but though every effort was
made to secure a mate for him it has
not been possible.
It is not generally realized that the
mountain lions of Mexico will attack a
man, but several recent encounters
show them to be as dangerous for men
as for beasts. One of the mozos in a
recent hunting party had but one hand,
the stump of his left arm bearing wit
ness to a terrible struggle with a lion
he had shot and then approached,
thinking the brute was dead. A gentle
man who has hunted in the State of
Sonora tells of a certain spring where
two men have been killed by lions
while camping there for the night.
These brutes follow a man for miles,
like the panther, lured on by the hu
man scent and hopes of finding an op
portunity to spring on the traveler. A
mountain lion was recently killed in
Michoaoan that measured three meters
from tip to tip. Mexican Herald.
The Country-Coin.
Now are the days when the country
born long for a glimpse of the eld
farm. Just once more to sit under
the orchard trees knee deep in clover,
to hear the hum of bees and smell the
fragrant breeze blowing from the west.
To wander about along the raeadow
paths, to. hunt for that minty nook
near the milldam, where we angled foe
iish in the shallow, murmuring brook
that ran from the spring. Or to lia
in the shadow of a haycock and look
up at the mountains of white clouds
sailing and sailing on their mysterious
way through the deep blue sky. One
day like this lifts the soul to purer
air, and a broader view more than a
dozen days of spiritual striving in the
noisy town. Life on the hilltop seems
so simple. It is there we understand
why the saints of old built themselves
high tower, why the hermits retired to
the wilderness. To them religion means
saving themselves. In our day religion
means not only saving ourselves, but
our brothers as well. Chicago Post
Charity Kejfgiog a Business.
Two of the most energetic and suc
cessful young men of Philadelphia fol
low the edd business of petitioning
money for charities.
You. for instance, are interested ii
an orphan asylum that has a deficit
this year it $SOO0. You go to the young
men and tell them you want money.
"Leave us," they make answer, "all
your literature your catalogues, re
ports, announcements everything you
have ever published."
And they master that literature and
then they visit the asylum and inspect
it thoroughly. By this means they ac
quaint themselves with the character
of the institution in question, learn
ing whether or not the benevolent rich
would be likely to help it if its case
were laid before them. According ta
that likelihood they set their price, say
ing they will "beg" for the place if they
.are gjven ten, twenty or thirty per
cent, of all the money they , elicit.
They make, it is estimated. $3300 a
year apiece. Philadelphia Record. .