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VOL. XIV. , PLYMOUTH, N. C. FRIDAY. MARCH 27, 1903. ; NO. 2.
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Mn. Susan
" Two shall be born the whole wide world apart.
And speak in different tongues, and have no nought
Each of the other's beings and no heed;
And these, o'er unknown seas to unknown lands
Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death, -
'And all unconsciously fih ape every act,
And bend each wandering step to this one end
That, one day, out of darkness they shall meet
(-And read life s meaning in each other's eyes.
And two shall walk some narrow way of life
So nearly side by side, that should one turn
Ever so little space to left or right.
They needs must stand acknowledged face to face.
And yet, with wistful eyes that never meet,
With groping hands that never clasp, and hps
Calling in vain to ears that never hear,
They seek each- other all their weary days,
And died unsatisfied and this is Fate!
HERITAGE REGAINED.
A Story of a Birthright and a Marriage.
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SIR JOSEPH JUDSON, of Arnley
Hall, sat in bis library, ab
sorbed and strangely moved by
1, ..1 ,.1, t- rrVin timn
Burnt; gnu luuufeuu j-hc
.."was .long ago, and night exactly 11
hj the clock in the corner, which had
' just finished chiming. -
"Fifteen years ' t6-night," he mut
tered. "Fifteen years of torture, ter
rible dreams,- dreadful -whisperings
from the past. I wonder what became
yJof Ilocklin." ,
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r : . as 11 in answer to tne worus a puuti
( behind him slid back, and a man
stepped, out of the cavity thus revealed,
lie was short and thin. A broken nose
told of conflict and a heavy fist.
He carefully closed the opening from
-which he had emerged, and crept .to
ward the drooping figure by the table;
then touched him on the shoulder.
Wheeling sharply around the baronet
sprang to his feet, ghastly and quiv
5 riiig.
"Horror!" he exclaimed. "You
Ilocklin alive!"
"I am afraid so," returned'the other.
"'What do you want?" '
"You, or money," said Ilocklin, grin
ning. "Not a penny not a cent shall you
' have,; unless to choke yourself with!"
iiniL' in taiiipii ills Mi nis. si;ill-tl
struignt ueroue mm, gnuueu muaun
and more sardonically but said never
a word.
He sank limply into his seat, nerve
, less and over wrpught, covering his
face with both hands, and- shivering as
At sight of a spectre.
"Now, listen, my noble braggart!
Five, ten, fifteen years since, there
lived a rich old man and his grand
laughter. She was an only child, and
an orphan weak and delicate, yet
strong enough to come between her
cousin and the fine estate, of Arnley.
This cousin did not desire either of
them to live. Why shouldhe?- The
grandfather had already one foot in
the grave, - and a. little management
-would soon help the other there with
out exciting suspicion. -It did; and he
was buried. That alone is wortn a
noose; or. to keep it from a tender
nerk. 500. But there is more.
"Heart-broken and distracted at her
loss, the girl, a maid of ten, pined and
faMed rapidly, which was the very
thing she was wanted to'do. Then
the doctors interfered.' Fresh air, new
scenes, constant travel, might save her,
they said; and had to be obeyed. So
a kindly, harmless gentleman was
found to take her abroad, and lose her,
Iown a hole.in the sea, over a cliff,
anywhoreso-sho did not return. Ac
cordingly "they went away together,
With a blessing and foud wishes. Pres
ently .the benevolent gentleman came
Jbacirin mourning, with a funeral card,
and to report n painless end. The
cousin wept joyfully, planned a row of
laisies, entered upon the property, now
tls,' and' enjoyed it to the full. Which,
I venture to think, is w-orth at least
. another 500, without expenses."
"By all th'6 fiends,. no! It is a mon
strous lie, devised to-ruin me. Where
are your proofs? Froduce them if you
can. The old man died naturally in
his bed, and the giri-the girl "
4Ay, what about the .girl?", insinu
ated Hocklin, as Sir Joseph paused and
besitated. "Supposing the story I have
just told to be false, how is it you rec
u5zed dear Mr. Ilocklin the blame
Mary Spalding;.
less, simple gentleman, who was blind
with both eyes open, and too great a
fool to know murder when he saw it?
And why did the worthy physician re
quire to be' drunk with wine and the
prospect of a big fee before he would
give a certificate for a natural death?
Believe me, I am most anxious to
learn."
"Does any one know where you are,
or what is the object of your Visit?"
"Not a soul besides ourselves," re
sponded the other coolly.
"And no1 one saw you enter?" His
fingers were twitching excitedly near
a pocket.
"I guarded well against that," came
the prompt reply.
"Then," thundered the baronet, whip
ping out a pistol, and levelling it point
blank, "neither shall any one see you
depart alive!"
There was a flash, a deafening report,
a cry of rage and pain, and a crash of
something falling. But it was only the
weapon. As the trigger was pulled, a
terrific blow sent it spinning among the
cinders of the hearth, w-here it raised
a small cloud of dust.
"You unhappy fool!" said Hocklin
calmly, betraying no symptom of anger
or impatience; "had that bullet taken
effect my death would have been, your
doom. Before setting out, I took the
precaution of putting in writing cer
tain details of your history. These I
sealed and gave to a friend. If I fail
to claim them by a certain time, they
will be delivered to the police, with
what result you may imagine. There
fore, as your life depends on mine, let
there be no more nonsense. And now
for the money."
"You can't have it!" snapped Sir
Josepli.
"Indeed!" exclaimed his companion
blandly. "Why??
"Because there is no such sum in
the house." ,
"Precisely what I expected. I came
prepared for that. I have two little
papers here" producing them "which
you will be good enough to sign."
The worthy baronet glared at him,
and clenched his fists; then advanced
a step, a dangerous antagonist. But
there he paused. The threat of the
police awed him.
"What are they?" he asked, sul
lenJy. "One of them contains an interesting
confession of the facts I mentioned to.
you; the other their value an I. O. U.
for 1200, payable. :n a week."
"You Infamous scoundrel!" bellowed
Sir Joseph, "i refuse to be drawn Into
your net! Do you think me so mad
as to barter my life away in that
manner? I defy you to bring evidence!
Defy you to do your worst!"
"Think again!" advised Ilocklin qui
etly. "Half an hour hence my mes
senger will be speeding on his errand.
After that, who knows what may hap
pen or how soon? See, here is a pen,
there the document. Now, your name,
please!" " .
The baronet's eye' ) seemed bursting
from his head He clung wildly to a
fleeting hope,
"The I. O. U. will not be valid," he
said, hoarsely, "unless witnessed by an
independent person."
"I have attended to that," answered
Hocklin, smiling. "It is made out in
my friend's name; I will be the inde
pendent -witness. But jwould sug-
gest haste. Only five-and-twenty min
utes remain, and then " -
The words acted like a magic goad.
In a trice the sheets bore his tremb
ling signature. Then Ilocklin added
his.
"This day week," he said, flushed
with success, "I will await you at the
bend of the stream. Let the amount
be in gold. If you disappoint me, or
attempt any tricks, I promise you the
worst surprise you hava ever had. Re
member my warning. Until then, fare
well." H.
About eight days later a cab drove
swiftly along a norrow street on the
outskirts of the town. Then drew up
abruptly before a detached house,
meagre and unpretentious. The door
of the vehicle burst open, and out
jumped the figure of a man, excited
and active. Darting through the gate,
up the path, and so to the door, he
brayed it lustily witn his umbrella.
"Does Miss Ilocklin live here? Yes?
Thank Heaven! Where is she? In
her room? Which is it? This? Ada,
Ada! Ah, get her, get her!" and, cast
ing aside hat, gloves and umbrella, he
turned the knob and plunged into the
room. The next moment he had a very
startled young lady in his arms,
smothering her with kisses.
"Stop!" he echoed gaily, pausing only
to speak, "not until you tell me why
you went away so hurriedly, without
even a line to disclose where you had
gone."
"It was because father said we must
leave France immediately, and I had
no time to write."
"But you have had since."
"Perhaps I preferred not to," al
though tne glow in her eyes showed
plainly what rogue Cupid had done for
both. "But how did you find out our
address?"
"Heaven knows," replied Edward,
fervently, "except that the' whole world
is too small to hide you in. I searched
and roamed Paris, through and
through, but vainly. Nor could any
one enlighten me at the stations, from
the last of which I was turning hope
lessly away when a porter, saluting,
asked me was the gentleman short,
with a broken nose, and the lady dark,
slim and beautiful; 'The most beauti
ful on earth, said I, giving him a sov
ereign. Well, then, such a couple had
taken train, bound for Hampshire, as
he saw by the labels on their baggage,
but to which part he was not able to
say. Neither was I. Yet a slighter
clue would have been sufficient, and
to spare; and here I am, after endless
trouble "
"Now you are here, however, what
do you propose?" '
"Propose?" he repeated, seriouslj',
"Ada, there Is only one proposal that
has any significance for me. I have
begged and prayed you to nake me
happy; again I beseech you, humbly,
imploringly, to whisper the word I so
crave to hear. It is a very small one,
and easy to say, yet how long always
in coming! Ada darling have pity!"
"Oh, I have, I have!" she exclaimed,
with a bitter sob, andrescapiug from
his embrace; "but think of the veil of
mystery surrounding my birth! You
know that the name I bear is not my
own, that the man I call father has no
right to the title. He has ever been
gentle and tender with me, it is true,
and often stinted himself to satisfy
my desires; but he is inflexible as to
who I really am.. Sometimes I seem
to recall a different life in my child
hood; yet'after a certain period my
memory is a blank, and I can never
remember where or how I was situated
before Mr.'IIocklin claimed me as his
daughter."
"I care not a rap what yov. may
be, loving you as I do!" cried Edward,
stoutly. "A lady you are, and always
will be. The name matters nothing.
Mine can soon alter that if you will
but consent, and then let who dare
breathe a syllable against my wife!"
"No," she said sadly, shaking her
head, "it cannot be; for I myself should
know and grieve, and a sorrowing
bride is w?orse than no bride. I can
say no more. You had better go."
. "By all that's precious, not a yard!"
declared Edward emphatically. "But
where is Mr. Hocklin, Ada?"
"He fa here!" announced that gen
tleman, who had been listening on the
mat a considerable while, and who now
quietly faced them. "Am I wanted?"
"Indeed you are, sir," replied Ed
ward, striding forward threateningly.
"I demand to be told the identity of
this lady, af once, and fuily. Should
you decline "
"Ada," Interrupted Hockliii "with
some emotion and completely i&ioiin
Edward, "I have intentionally over
heard much of what has just passed
between you two not from any mo
tive of distrust, or mere curiosity, but
for your own benefit. My poor child,
little did I dream that youimagined
yourself to be without a name. But
that such is happily not the case, these
documents, which can be examined
presently, will clearly demonstrate.
They, establish beyond question or
doubt your birthright. Also how I be
came acquainted with you, and that.
Instead of carrying out the gruesome
orders given to me, I adopted you as
my daughter, because I had learned to
love you deeply, though not, perhaps,
in the way Mr. Edward Farrell does
a very excellent yoimg fellow, by-the-bye,
but with a touchy temper and an
uncivil tongue.
"The paper in the blue envelope is
the. statement of a charming baronet,
acknowledging , and confessing his
manifold sins and wickedness., The
little affair it refers to he did all by
himself before I came on the scene, as
you will . perceive. What he does not
refer to, however, Is that he made an
important appointment with me, which
expired yesterday, and which, for some
unaccountable reason, he failed to
keep. At the time I guaranteed him a
bad surprise if he was not there, and,
as he is a firm believer in ghosts, I
somehow' fancy he wrill be delighted
to meet you, Ada. For which purpose,
I therefore suggest that the three of
lis pay him a visit, which he ought to
enjoy immensely!"
But Sir Joseph Jydson did not receive
them. When they arrived at Arnley
Hall, it was in a state of great com
motion. Alarmed domestics were ask
ing eager questions of each other.
Lights flashed from various windows,
then vanished and reappeared some
where else. Rooms were overhauled,
the grounds explored and lakes
dredged. But the baronet had gone,
as if swallowed up by space, and a
person answering to his description
was afterward discovered in New York
with his brains lying beside him and
an .empty pistol in his hands to show
why.
Yet the journey was not altogether
fruitless. As Ada looked wonderingly
about her, she became unusually dis
turbed. The sight of the hall assisted
to send a flood of hazy reminiscence
surging into her mind. Everything
seemed strangely familiar. Ada Arn
ley Ada Arnley the words danced
mistily before her eyes. What did
they mean? Ah, she knew her mem
ory Avas restored Ada Arnley was her
true name.
And when, in the summer, the church
bells rang out a merry peal in- honor of
her wedding, the best and coolest man
was a short,, thin individual with a
broken nose. New York News.
It Failed in Practice.
In one of our great public schools a
master, known to successive genera
tions of his pupils for fifty years as
"Old Biggus," delighted in surprising
the boys with strange sayings and
duings. On one occasion, desirous of
practically illustrating a question in
the arithmetic lesson, he saif to a
boy:
"I am a tripe merchant and this
platform is my shop. Will you come
here and buy a pound of tripe? Now
begin."
'Tlease, I want a pound of tripe,"
said the boy, sauntering up.
"Where's your money?" demanded
Old Biggus, hoping to put the boy out
of countenance.
"Where's your tripe?" was the ready
retort; but it gained for its unfortunate
author four, hours detention, on the
next holiday. Tit-Bits.
The Great 1'rlme Minister.
Pitt was induced by Sir John Sin
clair to constitute a Board of Agricul
ture toward the end of the eighteenth
een.ury, and make him the President.
Having enjoyed his office for a few
years, Sinclair began to desire promo
tion the t-oeial scale. "Dear Mr.
Pitt," he wrot- to the Prime Minister,
"don't you think the President of the
Board of Agriculture : should be a
peer?"
"Dear Sir John Sinclair," replied
Pitt, "I entirely agree witli you. I
have therefore appointed Lord Somer
ville to succeed you as President of the
Board of Agriculture."
Sir John Sinclair went about wring
ing his hands and exclaiming: "Dear
me, dear me it was such a willful
misunderstanding!" Fortnightly Re
view. Among the birds shot recently neat
Colchester, Ens irJiid, was a stormy
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- WATER LOST IN IRRIGATION.
Ditches Will Be Improved to Insure Fall
Use of the Streams.
The third annual report of the irriga
tion investigations made by the De
partment of Agriculture, recently pub
lished, says that averages of measure
ments embracing nearly all of the arid
States show that during the last three .
years enough water was turned into
the heads of ditches during .the irriga
tion season to cover the land irrigated
to a depth of 4.45 feet, or, stated in an
other way, 4.45 acre feet of water were -taken
from streams for every acre of
land irrigated. ,
A large part of, this water supply
was lost in transit through seepage, the
leakage being especially great where,
canals run through sandy or gravelly
soil. Measurements at the heads of
laterals showed an average loss in the
main canal of eleven per cent. Measure
ments made at the margin of fields on
six large canal systems showed that
only forty-two per cent, of the water
turned in at the headgates was deliv
ered to farmers.
This large loss through seepage is
one of the significant features of these
measurements and shows that better
construction of distributing works is
one of the directions in which great
improvement is possible.
Another table In the report shows the
value of the crops grown for each acre
foot of water used. They vary from
$1.32 an acre foot to $1.22 an acre foot,
water bringing the least return when
used on alfalfa and the largest return
when used in irrigating nursery stock.
It also was shown that crops requiring
irrigation in the last half of the irriga
tion season have a far greater value
than those which require irrigation
during the first half, the average value
per acre of crops which have to be ir
rigated in the last half of the season
being $49.39 an acre, while crops which
require irrigation only in the first half
of the season have an average value of
only $17.83 an acre. These late crops,
however, have to be watered when
streams are low and water scarce. As
a rule, this water supply can be had
only through storage and the cost of
reservoirs has to be charged against
the extra value of the crops.
"Experience shows, however," "the
report says, "that the storage of water
pays farmers and will increase largely
the productive ' value of irrigated
lands." j
Fennns Grafted on HicVory.
The Charleston (S. C.) News and
Courier calls attention to the fact that
in Chester County in its S':ate they are
grafting pecans on hickory sprouts.
Such grafts grow at the rate of five
feet a year, whiie seedlings grow very
slowly. It is believed such grafts will
begin to bear in four years, while
seedling pecans will consume twice
that time in getting to productiveness.
Nor is this all. Seeding pecans are sub
ject to attacks of "borers," while it Is
assumed that hickory stock would be
proof against such attacks. Alabama
is full of hickory sprouts, and if these
sprouts can be turned into pecan trees,
a new source of income will soon be
come available. Two old pecan trees
in Virginia are considered worth $1000
apiece, simply because they each yield
annually the income of that sum.
Birmingham Age-Herald. -i
His Awful Curiosity.
A woman with her little son, a child
of four years of age, inquired of a man
standing in one of our railway sta
tions: "Can you tell me what time tho
next train leaves for Scranton?"
"At t-t-wenty m-m-inutes p-p-past f-f
four." About five minutes later she
again put the same question to the
same man, and, he repeated the sama
answer in the same stuttering way.
When she approached him for the third
time with the same query he said to
her: "W-why do y-y-you a-a-ask ma
s-s-so m-m-many t-t-times? I-I a-a
al-ready t-t-told you t-t-twice?'
"I know you did," replied the woman,
"but my little boy likes to see you
work your mouth." Philadelphia
Ledger. j
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Feople Who Are I?eais;ned.
There are very few people who leara
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