- , . . ,zr a $l.oo a Year, In Advance. " FOR GOP, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy, 5 Cent. VOL. XIV. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1903. .NO. 28 A 0 X 4 1 "A' ) OLD T1MR ALEXANDER BT WILLIAM I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the centre-all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0,f Solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Thn reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach; I mu?t finish my journey alone; Never hear the sweet music of speech; , I start at the sound of my own. - The beasts that roam over the plain My imm with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with men Their tameness is shocking to me. , Societv, friendship and love IJivmeiy bestowed upon man! Oh. had 1 the wings of a dove, How soon would a taste you again! My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion and truth; Mia;ht learn from the wisdom of age And be cheered by the sallies of youth. bankrupted . BY EMMA INETEEN, twenty, twenty one," said the bald-headed man. "Twenty-one' name sakes I've got to look after when birthdays come round. What a coniound- ally inconvdileut' 'thing it is to be popular !" "You bet it Is," said the man with the red mustache.' "I never exfleYionced any inconvenience on. that score my self, but I knq&' other' folks who ha?. I know one fellow who was sent to jail on account of his popularity." The bald-headed man ceased figur ing. "Dear me!" he said',' weakly. "Yes, sir," repeated the man with the red musinche, "he was sent to jail, lie just got out last week. I am ghitl he is out. Joe is-ii mighty good fellow. Good fellows are scarce these days, and it is a shame to keep one of them shut up In jail. I never saw men a popular fellow as Joe used to be. He was one of the kind that peo ple name their babies after, and that is the very top notch of popularity. "His friend, Tom Curtis, began the. business. Tom clerks in a Nassau street bank. lie is no end of a good fellow, and he and Joe often used to take luncheon together. One day, when .Toe wont into the bank at noon time, he found Tom with his face spread out in one solid grin. ' Hello,' said Joe,' 'what's tha racket?' " 'A boy,' said Tom. 'Arrived last night, and just guess, you old scala wag, what we are going to call him?' .Toe wasn't a bit stuck on himself in those days, and he never tumbled to the real situation. 'Can't do it,' said he. -We're going,' said Tom, 'to call him after the bravest, the kindest, the most affable gentleman in the world.' "Joe thought he saw a light. 'Ah!' said be. 'Teddy, eh? Teddy R.?' " 'Not on your life,' said Tom. 'We : are going to call him Joseph Webster.' "Joe was new to that sort of flattery, and it pleased him immensely. He steered. Tom into a more expensive restaurant than they usually patron ized, and then both had more than ..was good for them. While in that surcharged state Joe made the mistake of his life. " 'Tom,' said he, 'I am coming up to see that boy of yours, and I am going to do the handsome thing by him.' "Tom eyed Joe through a mist of real tears. 'I knew you would,' he said, 'and my wife said she knew you would. When I mentioned Joseph Webster to her this morning as a possible handle for the kid she said she was agreed, because you were just the kind to do the square thing by your namesake. It is a pleasure to learn, Joseph, that we were not mistaken In our estimate of your character.' "Joe lived up to his reputation gal lantly. He did more than the square thing by young Curtis. lie gave him a present of $100 on the day of the christening. That was Joe's undoing. Tom's wife had the habit of telling everything she knew; so of course she -told that. In less than a week all . . . . , SELKIRK, COWTEB. Ye winds that have made mo your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a.land 1 shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see! How fleet is the glance of a mind! Compared with the speed of its flight. The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But; alas, recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea fowl is gone to her nest; The beast is laid down in his lair; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought, Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot. by Popularity, M. WISE. Joe's friends as far away as the remotest-edges of Brooklyn and Staten Island knew about that present. With in six months every fellow with whom Joe had ever swapped a cigar or a yarn seemed to have been blessed with a-- new .boy ajid had named him Joseph Webster. The worst of it was, every one of these happy fathers expected a christening offering of $100. The fh'st half dozen got it, but after that Joe had to .cut down expenses. First, he re duced the amount to $."0. then to $20,' and finally to $10. That made- the mothers of the late, copiers finad. They called Joe stingy and said they would not have burdened -their babies with such an ugly name as Joseph Webster if. they had known that was all they were going to get out of it. ' . "Joe thought, when he dropped to. the five-dollar mark, that his friends would stop adding Joseph Websters to the City Directory, but they kept up their infernal christening parties till they found he was dead, broke. It "took just two years to break him. When people-' began paying their respects to him in that expensive way he had about $5000 that his grandfather had left him and a nice little business that cleared him an income of more than a thousand a year. His namesakes de voured It all interest and principal alike. Finally, he closed up shop, and with the proceeds derived from a cash sale of, the stock on hand he started a little combination stationery, tobac co, confectionery and delicatessen store up on Sixty-fourth street. When he moved into that store Joe cut loose from all his old associates. His wife went with him, and aside from her he hoped never to see any one whom he had known in his days of affluence. It would have been better if he could have left her behind, too, but that was not convenient. She put bad notions into Joe's head. "'I think,' said she, 'that we shall drum up a pretty fair trade In this neighborhood if you can only make yourself popular.' "For the first time in his life Joe threw hard words at the partner of his joys. 'Popular!' said lie. 'Good heav ens, I don't want to be popular. I've been popular long enough. I want to make people hate me, and if I can devise any way to accomplish that purpose I shall set about doing it at once.' " 'In that case,' said his wife, 'you will not sell anything, and we shall starve to death.' " 'It is no harder,' said Joe, 'to starve through lack of popularity than through excess of it. We have al ready been brought to ruin by the latter means; we may as well try the former for a change.' "The second day after Joe got set tled in his little shop he went to a down-town market and bought five bushels of speckled apples and oranges and seventeen pounds of stale candy. He intended to sell all that truck at regular prices, but in the afternoon when he was out his wife noticed its unsound condition ami gave it away to the children of the neighborhood. With the exception of a few cases of cholera morbus, which the parents at tributed to causes other than the gen erosity of Joe's wife, the youngsters pulled through "without any serious aches and pains, and from that day Joe was solid with the old folks. "A week later several of the men whose pocketbooks had been spared many recent raids for stray pennies on account of the free gorging of their offspring met in the shop under Joe's store and discussed plans for showing Joe how much they thought of him. They finally agreed upon a way. The next morning a committee of three called and told Joe what they proposed doing. " 'As an evidence of our apprecia tion of you,' said the spokesman, 'we have decided that all the boys born in this vicinity during the next two years shall be called Joseph Webster.' "Joe fell over in a heap against the Swiss cheese. 'Good Lord!' he said. "Joe's way of taking their announce ment did not exactly appeal to the committee. 'You do not seem pleased,' they said. " 'Oh, yes, I am,' replied Joe. 'I am overcome with emotion. I appreciate your appreciation very much.' "And then, even though Joe knew he was making a fool of himself, his natural gratitude and generosity got the best of his common sense and he made another rash promise. 'It is very sweet of you to honor me so,' he said. 'Of course I will reciprocate. "I will give to the little Joseph Websters a christening present of $2 a head.' "The committee blessed Joe and went away. The next day they began to import kids. Never had Joe seen boys come to town in such overwhelming numbers. They arrived in shoals. Just as soon as people got wind that the stork was coming round they moved into that neighborhood just to devil Joe. But he stood all the' imposition, and good-naturedly 'gave up a two dollar bill at each christening till some .people down on Amsterdam avenue be gan to ring in girls on him by calling them JosepTia. Then he thought it time to kick. " 'No more of this namesake non sense for me,' he said. 'I am going to put a stop to it.' ' ' "'How?' asked his wife. " 'Never, you. mind,' said Joe. 'I will fix that all right.' "In the afternoon Joe called on a lawyer" named Parks. T want to change my name,' said Joe. '"Parks disapproved, on principle, cf his clients changing their names. Usually he tried to argue them out of the notion.. He tried to argue Joe Webster out of it. " 'Why aren't you satisfied with your name?' he said. 'Webster is a great name in history a name to be proud of. Best of all, 'it is easily remem bered, and nobody need ever lose an opportunity to do you a favor on ac count of being unable to recall your name.' "Webster doubled up his fist as if he had half a mind to knock Parks down. It was a formidable fist and the lawyer flinched. Joe forced a pacificatory smile. 'Never mind,' he said. 'You are in no danger. Whon you learn the facts yon will no longer insist that the euphony and the un forgetability of the name of Webster are good things.' "Then Joe gave Parks the facts. EVen though a lawyer, Parks sympa thized. 'What do you want to call yourself?' he asked. " 'Mclancthon Gabrilowithzski,' said Joe. 'I don't think they will get on to that without a good deal of trouble.' "'No,' said Tarks, 'they won't, but I am afraid there are legal difficulties in the way of your adopting. a new name at present. When did your con tract to pay the two-dollar christening bills go into effect?' " 'Eighteen months ago,' said Joe. "'It has still half a year to run,' said Parks. 'You are under obligation to pay the bills for that length of time. If you change your name and try to shirk your responsibility on the ground that your name is not Webster, but Gabrilowitzski they can bring suit against you on the ground of taking a new name while wound up in finan cial entanglements and can put you In jail.' "'Yery well,' said Joe, I will go to jail. Not another cent of christening money will I pay. I have already been mulcted for baptismal offerings to 123 small boys, and I would rather lie in jail than set the rest of them up for life.' "Joe got his name changed and paint ed a new sign on his windows and awning. When he began to stand on his rights the parents of the would-be Joseph Websters went to law. They proved, as Parks had prophesied, that Joe had gained the name of Gabrilo witzski under false representations, and he was sent to jail. Fortunately, his time is up and he is free again. He has started in business under his new name, and I think the admirer who calls his boy by that unmanage able combination of consonants will deserve a present." The bald-headed man looked sad. "I do not wish to go to jail," he said. "I think I shall buy the twenty-one birthday presents." New York Times. Art of Pleasing. The art of pleasing consists In mak ing our daily lives agreeable to others as well as to ourselves, says the Cath olic Mirror. To throw a grain of the Idea and of poetry into our surround ings is to make them less commonplace and more congenial. If a woman has the tact of making others comfortable then she is endowed with the gift of making life happy. The gracious wom an shines through a collection of beau tiful qualities. She not only pleases the eye by her outward air of fresh ness and health,! but she charms the mind by a characteristic worth. The cultivation of the physical or the body, produces the bloom of health; but quite as nece'ssary in making a woman beau tiful is the cultivation of the intellect, wrhich gives her the inimitable attrac tion of knowledge. Then there is the cultivation of the heart, which gives her those gentle graces which are to her what the perfume is to the flower. A certain great bishop struggled through sore difficulties without repin ing or manifesting impatience. A friend inquired how he could be so cheerful under such circumstances. "My secret," replied the old bishop, "consists in nothing more than making a right use of my eyes.:' His friend asked him to explain, and the bishop did so as follows: "In whatever state I am, first of all I look up to Heaven, and remember that my principal busi ness here is to get there; I then look down upon the earth, and call to mind how small a place I shall occupy in it wher I am dead and buried. I then loo1, abroad into the wrorld and ob s&, ve what multitudes there are who are in all respects more happy than myself. Thus I learn where true hap piness is placed, where all cares must end, and what little reason I have to repine or complain." Education in the East. The woman question is agitatlng the far East. A new book by Kasem Ameen, a learned Mohammedan jurist, is the subject of spirited discussion in Mohammedan circles. The author ad vocates giving girls a fair elementary education; he would protect her from being divorced from her husband for slight causes, or no cause at all; he would check polygamy; he would abol ish the veil, not all at once, but grad ually, and would bring women in con tact with the outside world. Ameen's book is violently opposed by the con servative element, which includes the majority of the women themselves. Certain matrons have been reported as declaring that they would commit suicide rather than have the degrada tion of an education thrust upon them, and the few bold spirits among the women who have dared to express themselves in favor of the reforms have been denounced in strongest terms. As for the men, they are able to sit back and exclaim triumphantly: "When the majority of women want to learn to read, they will do it. The few have no right to thrust these unheard-of innovations on the repre sentative members of their sex." Has a "Wonderful Timepiece. One of the most wonderful watches in the world is that owned and made by Major Dopping-TIepcnstal, of the Royal Engineers. It is a comparative ly small watch, not much bigger than an ordinary lever, but it performs a variety of services in addition to tell ing the time. It rings an alarm bell in the morning to wake its owner, then it proceeds to light a spirit lamp and boil a kettle of water, and finally pours the boiling water into a small teapot. The Prince of Wales witnessed the wonderful performance of this watch and partook of a cup of tea which it made for his royal highness. Finest of Marine Aquaria. The new physiological laboratory and marine aquarium just completed for Trofessor Jacques Loeb at the Uni versity of California is regarded by experts as the finest of its kind In the world. Rudolph Sprcckles gave $25,- 000 for the building, and no expeuw has been snared in lu eauloment. DEPRESSING. 'Tis wrong to chide the man who makes A tedious display Of language when he vainly tries To say his little say. ; Though turgid words are piled on high With industry intense, Until they build a barricade Which quite conceals the sense, You should not wear a sneering smile ' Nor gaze with scornful eyes; A suirit of true charity Would bid you sympathize. To read the thing is very hard And yet 'tis not the Avorst; Consider what a fate 'twould be To have to think it first! Xesrs Madge "Nellie says she is twenty four." Marjory "Yes; twenty-four marked down from thirty-nine." Judge. "I see Smith takes five minutes for lunch." "Oh, j-es! Smith has been out of active business for some little time, now." Puck. "A street car killed eighteen sheep Sunday." "Yes, but all the end-seat hogs are still alive." Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. We pray for sun or rain, and fret And disapprove the weather's state. Although we know full well we'll get The kind we want if we'll but wait. Washington Star. Little Girl (watching her mother fix ing hatpins through her hat) "When will I be old enough, mummy, to have holes made in my head to keep my hat on?" runch. "Your paw ever whip you?" asked Muggsy. "Sure," replied Swipsey, "but I don't mind it." "Why not?" "He ain't never said: 'My son, this hurts me more than it does you.' "Cincin nati Commercial-Tribune. Indignant Citizen "Say, youngster. If you don't put away that toy pistol I'll report you to the policeman in the next block." The Youngster "Huh! You'll git a punch in de snoot if ye do. He's my dad." Chicago Tribune. There's a girl I'd like to hug her, For she's 'surely "it." She is like the grocer's sugar, Sweet and full of grit! Philadelphia Record. A little girl was asked to write an es say about man. The following was her composition: "Man is a funny animal. He has eyes to see with, hands to feel with, and is split up the middle and walks on the split ends." Glasgow Times. "Do you believe in reincarnation?" said the man with dark glasses. "I don't know," answered Mr. Cumrox uneasily; "you see, when we give a party mother and the girls always look after the floral decorations." Wash ington Star. "You say you favor divorce?" "Well," answered the theatrical mana ger, "I don't exactly say I favor it, but if there were no such thing as divorce what would we do for heroines in so ciety dramas or for actresses to play the parts?" Washington Star. Miss Bragg "And when he gave me the ring he said: 'There Is only one woman in the world worthy to wear... this diamond, and that's you,' I thought? that very flattering." Miss Speitz "Yes, they do say that imitation is the sincerest flattery." Philadelphia Press. "No, Mr. Wooster," said the frijid maid with the imported complexion, "it can never be. I'm satisfied I would not make a good wife for a poor man." 'T guess that's the unadulterated truth," rejointed the young man, "but you will undoubtedly make a poor wife for some good man." Chicago News. "I should like to know," asked the parent, who had a son in need of some further education, "what is the course at your college?" "The usual half-mile course of cinders and all that sort of thing, you know," absent miudedly re plied th president of the great Institu tion. Philadelphia Press. A Itecord in Xuwing. At the village of Montroix. Tiiy-dc-Dome, France, live two old women, mother and daughter, who have nursed 140 babies without losing a single one. The mother was born in 1S0T and the daughter in 1S2S. The local council has supported an application on their behalf for the Motyon prize, which is awarded to candidates who can give proof of having done specially good service to the human race.

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