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VOL. XIII. PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1902. NO. 35.
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IN THE EVENING HUSH.
What witchery dwel!;; in the evening gleam
When the tire burns low and the shadows
voam
Like flitting ghosts where the dim li;ht
'alls
In flickering shapes on the dusky Avails?
What rpirits come v. lien the heart goes
hack, ' ;
Anil moves again o"or the darkened track
Thit walk with me tli rough the long ago
lu the evening hush when the lights are
low?
What shadows over (he dim room creep
To .silent mourn or to pause and weep
And place a wreath on some crumbed
tomb
Kali lost in the dust of the ancient gloor.i?
. Forgotten shapes that in silence come
When the ears are dulled and the lips are
dumb,
And only the dream tides ebb and flow
In the evening hush when the lights are
'O'.V.
day spectres out of the vanished past
Come stealing forth; and all Hying fast,
Tht inystii one.-: from the future greet
Ar.d c'asp white hands as the winding
.4! ecu
"s, quick flooding the haunted room
i the scent of a long dead rose's bloom;
memory's visions come and go
ho evening hush when the lights are
low.
IV.
Wi
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H J H 'AH Ea S J7
1 Beins the True Story of Cuban Anita
I and the East 'Indian Prince.
LL the American residents of
Havana were interested in
the masquerade ball -which
iv'ia vivtn liv Iho . iiirrirn ji
officials to the distinguished Cuban of-Jii-ers
at the close of hostilities and at
which function diplomats of every
cor.ntry "were entertained, when all
hostile feeling were to be laid aside,
.and peace and harmony were to pre
vail. On this account the ball was ex
pected to establish an era of prosperity
a s well as one of returning luxury and
pkndor.
A number of Americans in high offi
riul positions had rented palaces in
Havana from their impoverished own
vrs, and th'.y did not hesitate to con-li.-cnte
for that one occasion the price
less: jewels and laces on which they
hail advanced money to necessitous
-Cubans. Costly raiment, such as princes
iiiunt: possess, attracted and enslaved
ike eye. The barbaric opulence of
-dross was the feature of the evening;
loi!.:noes were not worn, a mask being
the only safeguard of the face, the
gorgeous character costumes prevent
ing identity. Every one present was in
iHisiunie, excepting one, and he was the
most superbly and elaborately robed of
any there.
The exception was a Hindu prince,
wearing the cloth of gold which only
those of the royal, caste may wear, a
chaplet of great p'.uk Oriental pearls at
' is neck, a jeweled sash about his
waist, a turban, the crest a cluster of
Oriental jewels, covering his head. The
Hindu's breast was covered with decor-.-1
i ive orders also blazing with goius.
lie accompanied an impersonation of
ine goudess Aurora, a woman sumptu
ily robed in transparent laces and
white satin overlaid with pearl cm
broidery. A pale tissue of white
floated over the costume like a mist,
-and this was accentuated by rose-red
diamonds of fabulous size and beauty,
i lie jewels forming into a stone for
her slender waist and a tiara for her
hair. As she turned in the undulations
of a mystic, dreamy waltz Aurora at
tracted admiring and ecstatic attention
from all the male dancers, but the
llh;dii prince was her constant escort.
Ti. jewels she wore Hashed in constel
lations of light : ml sent out p:ismatie
rays that seemed alive of their own
volition.
"Who is she? Who is she?" was
sisked with intense curiosiiy. At last
41 masker in the character of Mcphi'slo
pkHes answered:
"Who should she bo in tow of the
Oriental but old Lynde's daughter, the
beautiful Anita, who has some foreign
blood, although born in the neighbor
hood of Sixth avenue. New York. Her
father had some money, but hasn't
much now, and if the girl would save
him from bankruptcy she must marry
her Hindu right soon."
"Bankruptcy, when he can give his
-daughter a dower of diamonds lit for
the Queen of Shcba! I thought it was
.he," and the counterpart of King Solo
mon sighed regretfully.
"The diamonds are new to the fair
Anita," said another of the company,
this time a wotuan, dressed. as Martha
Ah! Always thus in the eerie time
'Twixt night and day, I can hear the chime
From the clock of fate, on either hand
From the curtained past and the unknown
land
I have dreamed about but have never seen;
And 1 hark to both as I sit between,
While the white ones mingling come and go
In the evening hush when the lights are
low?
There are ghosts of Jl reams that I dreamed
when young;
When hope her shimmering bright scarf
flung
All jeweled, streaming adown the sky.
And love's bright chariots thundered by.
Bright dreams they were; but the brightest
now
Are they of the palest and care-lined brow
When the ghosts of the old days come and
In the evening hush when the lights are
low?
The firelight dies and the night is here;
The flickering shadows disappear
To roam again in the far-off land
And beckon me with a spectral hand.
Ah, well! not long till I, too, shall be
A silent one of the company,
And haunt the gloom and the firelight's
glow
In the evening hush when the lights are
low.
Lowell 0. Reese, in the San Francisco
Bulletin.
,
a ir ur 1 n t t r-
4 0RH fh H S B Pi H Ti
Washington "I presume they are a
betrothal gift from her lover, the
Hindu. Yet I am told she has refused
him twice. His devotion to-night is not
discouraged, however.''
"Perhaps the diamonds are treasure
trove of some Cuban lord who., has
abandoned them. Saw you ever finer
gems or any to compare, indeed?"
"Their brilliancy is unnatural they
hurt the eyes. Can you estimate their
worth?"
"By my faith, no. Mine uncle would
advance several fortunes on them.
Hush! They are coming this way. I
feel dazzled."
"There are representatives of every
nation on earth here to-night. It is a
bit weird. I believe that Hindu is
mumbling his prayers. Did you hear a
strange oracular chant as they
passed?"
What they had heard as Aurora and
her Hindu prince swept by was appar
ently said for the purpose of sustaining
interest in the character impersonated.
It was intoned monotonously, and was
heard but indistinctly through the
crash of music and the clatter of con
versation. But a few caught the
words. They had a sound of forebod
ing. "Death! Death! Forgi.ve, O God of
the Universe! Death to the innocent.
Death! rarameshwar! Forgive the
sin of a Christian."
Aurora's red lipsspalcd as the fateful
words reached her, but she was not
sure she had heard aright. It must be
her conscience that affrighted her.
"Did you speak, Prince Sanyaka?"
she asked in a low voice.
"No, Light of the World. I snake not.
What has disturbed my Pearl of the
Occident
Anita Lynde was playing a desperate
game to save her old father from the
disgrace of a failure in the great tinau
cial scheme of which he was the pro
moter. It was not the prospect of pov
erty that appalled her for herself, but
for her loved ones. It was not true
that she had rejected the Hindu prince
he had not asked her hand in mar
riage, and she feared that her lack of
fortune would remain a barrier be
tween them. And she was perpetrating
a crime for his benefit That should have
sent him back to Indian had he known
it to grovel at the feet of his gods.
Not that she believed it a crime. She
was but following the example of a
lady of high degree who had done the
same thing. Now her one fear was
that her" prince might gain an inkling
of the truth, when her pretty conceit
would in his ej'cs become a deadly
sin.
At the height of the revel the beau
tiful Aurora vanished as suddenly as if
she had been translated. Her Hindu
prince did not acompany her, but at
the moment of her sudden departure
he stood in the centre of the ballroom
waving his jeweled hands in semi
circles in the air, and after a revolu
tion or two like a whirling dervish he
laughed, declaring that he was for
saken by his goddess and joined with
the rest in the further festivities of thy
night.
Aurora's diamonds and the peculiar
actions of the Hindu furnished food
for much speculative gossip after the
ball. The rumor went forth that the
young American girl had beer, followed
on that occasion by armed detectives,
who were present to guard her dia
monds, that they res.Ily were a be
trothal present from the Hindu and
were 'worth a king's ransom. But they
were all wrong. The diamonds were
her own, and 'her scheme had worked
so well that confidence in her father
was restored and she had piloted his
plans to success. And Anita was be
trothed to the Hindu the week succeed
ing the ball.
The aunual American ball which has
just been held in Havana was graced
by the presence of the Princess San
y.ika, more lovely that when as Aurora
she appeared there the preceding year.
Gems of great value and diamonds like
drops of light decorated brow and
bosom, but they had not the subtle
radiance of those of a year ago. The
prince was dressed in the evening
clothes of an American gentleman and
looked especially bright and happy.
Before coming to the ball they had
each made some admissions.
"Light of my Life," Sanyaka had
asked, "why not wear the diamonds
that made 'thee a queen at the last
ball?"
The heart of the-princess throbbed
"violently. "I cannot, my prince. They
they I no longer possess them."
"I Avonld see thy costume, my Anita.
.Send the maid for it, my heart's de
light." The beautiful head of the Princess
Sanyaka drooped. "My sin has found
me out," she said, but she sent for the
dress. When the maid unfolded it
from the tissue paper in which it was
wrapped in careful layers there was
visible only a mildew of tiny black
spots, which covered the whole rose
and white fabric.
'"These were my diamonds," she said,
in a low, broken voice, and then she
took her prince's hand in hers and led
him out on the balcony. The perfect
Cuban night was aglow with millions
of tiny lights corrugating the atmos
phere like hosts of electric sparks.
"We caught them in nets my maid
and I thousands and thousands of
1 hem the pretty glow-worms that die
in a night, and we tied them in little
bags of rose gauze, and, struggling to
be free, they emitted that wonderful
light, and every fhrsh of my diamonds
cost a life and I know the Hindu doc
trine that souls might be 'in transmi
gration there and, oh. my dear lord,
what shall my punishment be?"
"This. O my beloved." and he kissed
her with the tenderness of renewed
love. "know. O my princess, that I
helped thee do that brief cruelty. My
race has many secrets, and I have
solved them for my own knowledge.
It was I, Light of my Eyes, who ex
aggerated the feeble brilliancy of the
glow-worm into that rare glory of dia
monds. I who made the curious see
what did not exist, and it was I who
held them spellbound, that you might
leave unseen."
"But my Lord of Rajput, how gained
you this strange power?"
"Ask me not, O Splendor of the
Earth. I practice it no more, since in
renouncing my people and my faith I
lose the' power."
"But is it not accounted a sin in
your country, my lord, to destroy life
even the life of an insect?"
"Joy of my Soul, I am no longer in
India, and I believe no more in its tra
ditions, beloved one, since I have
known thee." Chicago Record-Herald.
Kobespierre's Clock.
IJobespierre's "clock, Avhich stood in
the room occupied by him in the house
of the carpenter Duplay, is noAV in the
possession of Mile. Geniat, an artiste
of the Francaise. The clock, aside
from its historical value, is most inter
esting on account of its curious Avorks.
The face is of copper and has only one
hand. At the Chicago exhibition this
clock was an object of much interest.
It is to be placed in the Carnavalet
Museum, by the side of the great clock
of the Tuileries, which struck so many
historical hours from the time of the
Directory until the burning of the Tuil
eries on the evening of May 24, 1ST1.
A Hercules Found,
At Boscoreale, a smail village near
Pompeii, excavators have discovered a
magniifcent bronze statue of Hercu
les reposing, seated 011 a rock, Avith
his club on his shoulder. The Avork is
in a good state of preservation, and is
similar in siylo to the famous Farnese
Hercules lu the Vatican in Home.
A TEXAS DESPERADO.
Career of Ben Thompson, Who Killed
Twenty-nix Men.
"When Ben Thompson was killed
in San Antonio, in 1S8.", the last of the
desperadoes of Texas 'crossed the big
divide,' " said Mr. W. B. Brush, former
postmaster and a leading citizen of
Austin, at the New Willarti.
"I knew Ben Thompson intimately.
He was, when free from the influence
of liquor, as modest and courteous a
gentleman as one would wish to meet.
Drink did not exactly make a demon
of him, but it made him very aggres
sive, and woe to the man who crossed
him at such a time. He was as brave
a man as ever lived, and never took
an unfair advantage.
"His skill with a pistol was some
thing marvelous. He .could operate
a pair of revolvers simultaneously,
and his aim was unerring. He made
one of the best Chiefs of Police that
Austin ever had, and during his admin
istration the town was a model for or
derly behavior. If he went out to
make an arrest, the toughest cowboy
had no thought of resistance.
"Ben was born in England, but came
to Texas when a child, and grew up
during rather a stormy and lawless
period. He was always attired in the
height of fashion, and some of the best
men of the town were his warm per
sonal friends. One day a gentleman
in a bantering way asked him how
many men he had killed.
"Ben paused as if stopping to count
up his victims and then replied: 'Well,
as near as I can remember, I've killed
twenty-six people.' For a moment no
body said a word, and then Ben broke
the silence by exclaiming, "but that
doesn't include Mexicans.' "Washing
ton Post.
Selling; Cemetery Lots.
"It is no wonder that I dress in black,
for my business is the selling of ceme
tery lots. Is there anything in the
world more solemn?"
The speaker, a fat man, fingering his
black tie, resumed:
"I don't believe I'd ever make a sale
if I wore gay, joyous colors. For most
of my patrons are people who have
suddenly lost a near relative couples
that have lost their first child mainly
and their grief is profound as they
conduct this ghastly business of buy
ing graveyard ground, and it is my
place to jar on them as little as possi
ble. Hence I wear black and lock
grave.
"My work is sad, but it is saddest of
all wh-Mi old couples old, childless
couples come to me to buy lots. A
couple are getting on in years. One
will soon be gone. It is necessary to
select Avith care, consulting one anoth
er Avistfully. They consider the vieAV.
It is best, they think, to be on an emi
nence. They consider the subject of
shade. The fertility of the soil, also,
is an important question, for they think
that they Avill like noAvers to grow on
their graves.
"I admit," said the agent, "that I
make a good deal of money. People,
you knoAV, are in no mood for driving
bargains Avhen they come to buy their
graves, and I take advantage of that
fact. But my Avork is so sad that it
has to be very lucrative to keep me at
'it." Philadelphia Record.
Things That AVt nt Wrong-.
Mrs. Mahaht Jeuks. an estimable
married Avoman, residing in Neosha
County, Kas., aAvoke from an after
dinner nap one day Avith a loud shriek.
She had dreamed that something ter
rible had just happened, or was about
to happen to her father, a farmer in
Illinois.
So strong Avas the impression upon
her that site looked at the clock and
noted the hour, lirmly convinced that
her dream Avas a reality.
Two days aftonvard Mrs. Jeuks re
ceived a letter from her father, Avrit
ten on the day Avhen she had her
dream, conveying the iicavs that every
body in the family Avas Avell, and he
hoped these feAV lines would find her
enjoying the same great blessing.
Substitution.
I Avant to marry the uaappreciative
man avIio lives across the aAvnue and
who never looks in my direction, but,
being a Avoman, I must accept the ap
preciative man from anjAvhere avIio
finds his Avay up our stoop. New Wrk
Ntnvs.
Movable scenery Avas first used in
Italy in the year 150S. it was the in
vention of an Italian architect named
feruzzi.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
HC God-dependent
are the most in
dependent. A Christian man
Christ's best
nonument.
The serpent of
jln never hisses un
til it is struck.
SHI V.V'V6' The Savior's love
BfcN. cure for sinful love
t The Avolves al
ways applaud Avhen th& shepherd
whips Uis sheep.
A man's thinking powers Avill be in
in'erse ratio to his drinking powers.
When a man lives in God's presence
he will not need to boast of it.
They who will not be their brother's
keepers are Avtlling to be their execu
tors. The delight of heaven may be fash
ioned out of the disappointments of
is easier to be eloquent over the
faults cf ethers than to he penitent
over our own.
The human fly is apt to mistake ad
hesion to, for possession of the fly
paper of marnmon.
The warmth of the winter's reviA-al
does not depend on the frigidity of the
summer church.
One difference between the true
preacher and the talking machine is
that the latter can be purchased.
It is safer to trust your eyes than
your ears when a man argues religion
while his Avife carries in the water.
While there are freights of duty ro
vessel needs ballast of care.
Fashion may hide the scars but it
cannot heal the disease of sin.
When a preacher tries to be pope he
is more dangerous than the priest.
The men who skim the milk of hum
an kindness curdle the cream with,
their hands.
The devil is willing that you shouH
be called the driver so long as he holds
the reins.
ALLIGATOR AND SNAKE SKINS.
Extinction of the Animals Threatened
by the Demand for Their Hides.
A new fashion in a modern city may
mean the decimation or even extinc
tion of an entire species of the lower
animals. The craze for alligator skins
during the past twelve years came
very nearly making that hideous rep
tile as dead as the dodo. Wnen a
large animal brought two dollars in
the open market every lazy darky
doAvn South who lived Avithin ten
miles of a pool or bayou Avas out after
"gater" from dawn to dusky eve. They
killed so many that the market was
flooded after a time and then the
price began to fall. It has gone down
I steadily, and the latest advices from
the Louisiana bayous and the Florida
swamps give fifty cents for the raAV
hide of a saurian of more than ten feet
in length and only tAventy-uve for a
chicken "gater." This hardly pays for
their killing, and the supply is runnwg
down in consequence. The alligator
has now a chance for his life, and
in many districts is increasing in num
bers perceptibly.
On the other hand, the snake ramily
is experiencing great hardship. A
dealer in fine snake skins said: "There
is a steady demand for the more beau
tiful kinds which we are ne'er quite
able to fill. Some varieties are so
popular that they bring ridiculously
high prices. The coral snake of South
America, which, by the way, is not,
as currently believed, a red creature,
but a beautifully mottled scarlet, black,
rose-pink, and broAvn one, has gone
up from ten cents to a dollar for the
raw skin in Brazil, and it is almost
impossible to get it In this city. The
feAV that are caught go to Paris and
St. Petersburg, and now and then some
are shipped to the Far East, where
they enjoy even a larger popularity
than in the Occident.
"The most beautiful enake skin in
American is the marsh diamond-back
rattler of Central and Southern Flor
ida. It is the king of American cphidia.
Its colors are almost metallic in their
lustre, aud they re arranged so as to
form about as brilliant a harmony a3
can be found. The skin tans easily,
and when thoroughly prepared Avill
last almost as Avell as a third-class
leather." NeAv York Post.
If ycu want to force your heirs Into
hankruptcy and clear old scores, make
your ay III open to content. Ealtimoro
News.
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