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VOL. XIII. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1902. NO. 36.
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THE RICHEST MAN.
The weal tliierft man of all I know
Does not :posscss much gold,
Isnv does lio own a large estate,
Nor jewelry untold.
No great invention has ho nnnle,
Nov glory gained, nor fame
By deeds heroic and lie wear
No handle In his name.
Nor yet enjoys that precious gift,
The. very best of health.
2'or thai i:y disappear with years-
itcrr.al his wealth.
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AN INGENIOUS
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GENTLEMAN catted to
see you this afternoon,
Mr. Norton," said my
housekeeper 011 ray arrival
home from the office on evening.
"I gave him your city address, but he
said he preferred to see you here, and
would call again at S o'clock this even
ing. When I told him you never trans
acted business here he replied that you
would make his case an exception."
I awaited the arrival of my visitor
with a certain amount of curiosity. I
know he must have obtained my pri
vate address from one of four persons,
and that none of the four would have
given it to him unless his business
proved of the utmost importance.
On the stroke of 8 Mrs. Batty an
nounced his arrival, and a moment af
terward ushered him into my presence.
I locked at him curiously. He was a
keen-eyed, elderly man, with gray hair
and mustache, and a forehead deeply
scored with lines of care.
"I am Baron Kaluto, the special rep
resentative in England of the Barema
Government. From the papers you
will have gathered that there have
been, and still are, in progress impor
tant negotiations between your coun
try and my own."
"Yes." I interjected.
"It was not our intention to publish
fne terms of those negotiations, but
ihey had been betrayed, and no other
course remained open to us."
He paused for a moment; then, as I
remained silent, continued:
''You boast of the freedom of your
press, Mr. Norton, and rightly so.
Taken as a whole, your editors are
men of high purpose and lofty ideal
nun who appreciate the responsibility
of their position. and use their power
for the good of the nation. But there
are exceptions, and the editor of the
Early Bugle is one of them. In order
10 increase the circulation of his paper
he would turn every public servant
into a Judas, and But pardon me,
Mr. Norton, I did not come here to lec
ture en the evils of a free press."
He spoke in a toiie of great bitterness
and his eyes flashed ominously.
"You will understand why I feel so
deeply on the subject when I tell you
that the items of information concern
ing the negotiations which have lately
appeared in the Early Bugle have been
secured by its editor from some treach
erous official.
"Wo have tried in vain to discover
the traitor. So, acting upon the advice
of a friend, I determined to take you'
.into my confidence and ask you to un
dertake the inquiry:"
I assured him that I should be
plcr.sed to do so, and he went on:
"There have been leakages in several
departments 'lately, and your authori
ties think the traitor Is on their side. I
am positive that he Is not."
"Why?"
"Because the Information is not
laktn from official documents, but is
a clever summary of conversations be
tween myself and your representa
tive. And the leakage never occurs
when I" have- visited your Foreign
office; but invariably follows the visit
of your .representative to onr Lega
tion. "You have taker a great load off my
mind by consenting to undertake the
inquiry, for. from what I know of vou.
I am certain if the mystery : is to be
sipivod you are the man to do it "
1 bowed my acknowledgment of the
compliment. Then we discussed the
matter in all its bearings, and arranged
that 1 should go and stay at the Lega
tion during my inquiry.
The day following I entered the Le
gation as his honored guest. I was
soon on excellent terms with everybody
c r.nected. Willi .the establishment. I
"A
No thief can steal his valued prize,
It lies within the man;
A great discovery he has made,
The greatest mortal can.
He sees two sides to everything,
But casta the dark aAvay,
And looks upon the brighter side
That shines as clear as day.
For all through life the bright exists,
If only we will see.
Is not his wealth who finds this out,
The greatest that can be?
-Edna Bovden, in the New York Sun.
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wandered about the house unmolested,
poked into odd corners, talked with tho
servants, and, in fact, with every one,
but never did I come upon a clue which
promised to lead to the solution of the
mystery.
A week passed and I was no nearer
the solution than on the first day of
my entrance. Nothing suspicious had
happened, and yet an important con
versation had been betrayed.
In less than an hour a summary of
the conversation appeared in a special
edition of the Early Bugle.
Baron Kaluto had not left the Lega
tion. The Foreign Ofliee representative
had been shadowed to his office. He
had not spoken to any one on his way
there. No third person had been pres
ent at the interview, and yet the sum
mary was so concise and accurate that
it must have been communicated by
some one who had listened to the con
versation. No other explanation was
possible. I was puzzled.
The following afternoon a represen
tative of the Foreign Office called at
the Legation and was closeted with
Baron Kaluto. An hour later the name
of the traitor and the method by which
he communicated with the editor were
known to me. But how he gained his
knowledge I could not tell.
The statement, which appeared in the
Early Bugle was made the basis of a
question in Parliament, raid in his re
ply the Under Secretary stated that it
was pure fiction. The members of the
Legation smiled knowingly when they
read his answer. They thought that,
in the interests of his couutry, ho had
trifled with the truth.
They were mistaken; he had spoken
the truth. The representative who
called at the Legation came, not from
the Foreign Office, but from my office.
He was one of my men, so cleverly
made up that they were deceived by
his remarkable likeness to the person
he represented.
The attache upon whom my suspi
cions had fallen, though not likely to
make much headway in the diplomatic
service, was a really clever electrician,
and the Legation was tilled with useful
nad ingenious devices of his invention.
In diplomacy he was a mere waster;
as an electrical engineer he might
have Avon both fame and fortune.
He had fitted one of the spare rooms
at the top of the house as a workshop,
and spent most of his spare time in it,
working in a desultory fashion upon
the many incomplete inventions with
which it was stored. During the inter
views he had been in his room, and, if
my suspicions were well founded, it
was there I must seek the answer to
the question How?
There was a workbench at one end
of the room. Under the bench was a
cupboard, sufficiently large to admit of
my crouching and hiding, myself, in it.
I entered the cupboard anil made my
self as comfortable as possible.
Through a crevice in the door I com
manded a view of the whole room.
Just before 3 o'clock the attache en
tered the workshop, and, after closing
the door, threw a thick curtain across
it. Then he seated himself in an easy
chair and switched on the light of a
single arc lamp, without a globe, placed
on an insulated table, and connected
with an electric generator.
! From my hiding place I gased at the
brilliant light of the lamp, wondering
what connection there could be .be
tween it and the mystery I was trying
to solve.
Suddenly the Baron's voice broke in
upon the silence. The sound was so
clear and so distinct that I was almost
startled into an exclamation of sur
prise. For a moment I was pusrJod as to
where it came from. Then I located It.
The lamp was talking!
On the ground floor of the house the
Baron was engaged in conversation
with the supposed representative of
the Foreign Office, and by sonic strange
phenomenon the burning lamp was
transmitting the sound with svrch pur
ity and distinctness that every word
was as audible as if we had been pres
ent at the interview.
For half an hour the conversation fol
lowed the lines agreed upon between
the Baron and my representative; then
there was a pause, followed by a light,
gossipy conversation.
The attache had listened intently to
the conversation so long as it -dealt
with the matters under concern. As
soon as that part of it ended he began
to arrange his summary. For some
time he wrote and re-wrote. Then lift
rend aloud what he had written. It
satisfied him.
A moment afterward he switched off
the light and left the room.
As soon as the sound of his footsteps
died away I crawled out of my hiding
place and strolled into the attache's
room. He was busy arranging a bou
quet of choice blooms for a smart so
ciety lady of his acquaintance.
"The ladies make great demands
upon our time end attention," he said
with a smile.
Without sneaking I stood and
watched him. The message was not,
as I had suspected, concealed among
the flowers; it was woven into the bou
quet, and was easily readable by
means of the Morse code, colors taking
the place of dot and dash.
His arrangement of the flowers was
strikingly beautiful, and as he attached
his card to the completed bouquet and
instructed one of the servants where
to take it, I did not wonder that the
simplicity of his method had enabled
him to escape suspicion.
The bouquet never reached its desti
nation, and no message appeared in the
Early Bugle that evening. Confronted
with the evidence of his guilt the at
tache made a clean breast of every
thing. He had fallen a victim to the charms
of a smart society lady, and in order
to prove his love for her had consented
to supply her with information, and a
bouquet of flowers had been the means
of communication.
For months past he had openly sent
her a daily gift of flowers, so that the
continuance of the habit occasioned
neither surprise nor suspicion. Upon
receipt of the flowers she telephoned
the coded message to the editor of the
Early Bugle, who had no knowledge
as to the source of her information.
Then he explained that part of the
mystery which still puzzled me. The
lamp in the workshop was connected
Avith a wire with a microphone in the
Baron's room. But he could not ac
count for the strange phenomenon
which caused it while burning to
speak. He had stumbled upon the in-A-ention
by accident, and, under stress
of his passion, had kept his discovery
secret and put it to base uses. It was
the old story of ''the Avoman tempted
inc." New York News.
Earth Disturbances.
Mother earth has evidently started
in this year to break all records dur
ing historic times of gigantic destruc
tive disturbances.
For the first half of the year we
have to charge her unusual restless
ness with 4S.900 lives through volcanic
eruptions and earthquakes. Her tor
nadoes have hurled 4(i5 human beings
out of existence, and cyclones have
added 240 more to the list, while
other storms in great numbers, but of
less dignity in name, haA'e pla'ced 720
to the direct account of violent Avinds.
Floods have swept 345 persons from
life, tidaU waves have drowned 110
and waterspouts have destroyed 15.
To all of this we must add 283 lives
charged to the destructive force of
avalanches and snow slides, and we
have a total of 51,078; an astounding
mortality from these fierce agencies
of destruction in one-half of n year.
Something to Cry Over. '
When a Avonian can't find anything
cl.se to Avorry about, she can sit down
and have a good cry because if she
were to die that minute she Avouldn't
have any "suitable clothes to be buried
in. New York Press.
Deuteronomy Is from tAvo Greek
words meaning second and law. The
fifth book of Moses is so called from
its being mainly a repetition of laws
previously enumerated.
No fewer than CS7 languages are
spoken in Europe.
THE COACHMAN'S PASSING
Th
Old Timers Disappeared From the
Earth When Kailrottds Came.
One often Avonders Avhat became of
the old coachman Avhen railways drove
the last cf the mails off the road and
those who had known few pleasures
that were not associated Avith the
movements of lively teams and the
hum of rolling wheels or genial inter
course Avith the traveling world could
enjoy those things no more. There
must be deep pathos in the unwritten
romance of that period. With f eAv ex
ceptions, the drivers of stage coaches
had no aptitude or inclination for other
work, though they Avere masters of
their own. Many a time in boyhood
I have heard amateur whips pay ad
miring tribute to the professionals of
an older generation avIio, for all their
dissolute habits and uncouthness, were
workmen to the core with hands as
geiitlo as a woman's. Bob Pointer,
who taught many Oxford under-grad-uates
hoAA" to handle an awkward team,
AAras one of the hard drinkers, but no
body ever saAV him in "difficulties" to
which his skill was not equal. His
Aviso maxims are still remembered and
worth remembering: "Never let your
horses know you are driving them, or,
like women, they may get restiA"e.
Don't pull and haul and stick your el
1)oavs akimbo; keep your hands as
though you were playing the piano;
let every horse be at work and don't
get flurried; handle their mouths light
ly; do all this, and you might even
drive four young ladies without ever
ruffling their feathers or their tem
pers." From tho "Old Road Coach," by
Henry II. S. Pearse, in Outing.
Sea Voyages.
The advantages of life at sea are the
entire rest and the absolute necessity
of almost liA-iug in the open air that
is forced upon the patients. There is
besides the absence of dust, the equa
bility of temperature, the inhalation
of the saline particles that And their
way into the air, together Avith the elec
trical stimulation of the ozone so plen
tiful at sea. Besides the moist atmos
phere the ocean has that distinctly sed
ative effect that occurs in a moist cli
mate AA'ith a high barometer. An added
benefit is the tonic effect of a complete
change from ordinary life on laud. Isl
and life possesses the sedative tonic
influences of the ocean without the
ennui of a long sailing A'oyage. These
sailing voyages for therapeutic pur
poses should noAV be reserved only for
dipsomaniacs and errant sons. Phila
delphia Record.
The Itlcdil of llouor.
The much coveted medal of honor
bestowed on officers and enlisted men
of the army for exceptional acts of
personal heroism, is a live-pointed star
of bronze, tipped with trefoil, each
point containing a crown of laurel and
oak. In the centre, within a circle
of thirty-four stars. America personi
fied as Minerva, stands with her loft
hand resting on the fasces, Avliile Avith
her right, in which she holds a shield
emblazoned with the American arms,
she repulses discord, represented by
tAvo snakes in each hand. The whole
is suspended by a trophy of two
crossed cannons, balls and a sword
surmounted by tho American eagle
Washington Star.
No Cause For Alarm.
Bev. Brown, a man of loss than me
dium stature, possessed a high, squeaky
voice.
Not long ago he Avas invited to ex
change pulpits with a minister in a
neighboring city. The church in which
he Avas to preach AS'as much more im
posing than the home chapel.
Arriving early lie peered from behind
the pulpit and watched what he cou.
sidered an immense congregation with
trepidation.
As the last notes of the organ voluu
tary died away his little head popped
up from behind the desk, and without
a word of warning he piped out, "It is
I, be not afraid." Lippineott.
Powder Making Abandoned. ,
The manufacture of black powder by
the Government of India has just been
abandoned by the closing of the works
at Ishapore, after having been in oper
ation for more than 100 years. The
site of the factory, it Is said, is to be
occupied by a rifle factory, the first of
its kind in India.
Economical Ore Method.
In the copper regions of the Great
Lakes ore containing one and a half
per cent, is worked Avithout ftopu'.-ia'
loss.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
HE supreme are of
living may be
summed up in giv
giving. This world's sole
hope of salvation
lies in the salvation
of the soul.
Those who expect
great things from
God will do great
hings for Him.
"LTrt Ut rr,f Tin' n
-jf3 T respect who refuses
reverence.-
Life is a man's opportunity for the
realization of his ideals.
When ambition is the child of envy
it will be the mother of sorrows.
Self-surrender is the secret of soul
satisfaction. The tights of the world are not il
luminated by the fires of controversy.
He who has friends only to use them
Avill have them only to lose them.
Goods can never constitute the chief
good.
The good in a man may be known by
the good he sees in men.
There can be, religion without ritual
as we have light without lamps.
Life's pleasures are but spring fresh
ets, God's joy a perennial spring.
The pleasures of a true saint cannot
he augmented by the pains of sin
ners. A good fellow is not always a good
friend.
Inspiration is God's answer to our
aspiration.
It is the bullet that kills and not lha
report.
He is a traitor to man who is not
true to God.
Money creates more wants than it
satisfies.
God's succor comes swifter than
sin's sting.
LABOR WORLD. " " ' - -
Germany has
Ists.
Warren, R. I.,
905,000 trade tmioii
carpenters have or
ganizod.
Toronto (Can.)
lithographers will
form a union,
rians are on foot to
build a labor
temple at Topeka, Kan.
Fleetwood, England, carpenters have
struck against pieceAVork.
Marine engineers on the Great Lakes
have adopted last year's scale of wages
for next year.
There are 225,443 masters and men
employed in the merchant marine of
Great Britain.
In the past twenty years in only one
fifth of the coal strikes have the men
secured their demands.
Messengers of the American Express
Oompr.ny have received a voluntary
increase in salary of ten per cent.
Female factory employes at Flint,
Mich., aA'erage ninety-one cents a day,
and one-half are employed by the piece.
Glass bevelers at New York City
have struck to enforce demand for a
nine-hour day and a new scale of
wages.
Day laborers are in great demand
at St. Louis, Mo., and wages have ad
vanced ten per cent, in tho past two
months.
A movement lias been inaugurated,
among the Northumberland, England,
miners for a general strike as a protest
against the coal tax.
Every member of the Cigarmakers'
Union at Jacksonville, Fla., contributes
twenty-five cents a week toward adver
tising their union label. 1
In Great Britain there are 1,905,000
trade unionists, and but 1,000,000 in
the United States and Canada, for
about twice the population. . ;
There have been nearly 700 strikes la
Great Britain during the past twelve
months, sixty-eight per cent, of which
hve been settled 4 favor of the men.
Every man his own autonToixfle mak
er, is the motto of a St. Loads engin
eer, who has just complete a flve
horse power machine with ft speed of
eighteen miles an hour,, entiwly the
work of his own hands. The fisftor of
construction took six months, because
the engineer was employed in (he day
time, and could only work on his ma
chine during the evenings. It is sir
feet four inches long, and weighs l,30d
pounds. The actual cost of the mater
ial was $250. Since he has been run
ning the machine, about town the en
gineer has experienced not a single
break-down. The pattern of 'Hhe ma
chine is different in detail -from all
others, and yet the general style i
similar, and due regard to sightliness
was given during the period of construction.
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