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v'. XV. PLYMOUTH, N. C. FRIDAY. JULY 15. 1904. NO. 17.
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'Ani it is fair and very fair
.This maze of blossom and sweet air,
i'hfs drift of orchard snows,
This radiant promise of the rose
,Vherein your young eyes see
Such buds of scented joys to be.
A gnv green garden, softly fanned
liy the Uly the breeze that blows
To sped your iship of dreams to the en
- chanted hud. -"' ' . -
The End of a Dream.
By Maud
-ilOlL It. TRENTHAM sat alone
vr v at his dinner, although
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anomer guest naa ueen ex
pected, lie Lad no appe-
tite, so the dishes were
sent away almost untasted. Looking
.up presently from a reverie into which
he had fallen, he met the servant's
serious gaze, and, with a half smile,
rose, throwing his napkin on the table.
"It's no use, Farrant; I'm too tired
to eat," he said.
. Flunging .Jjoth hands deeply into his
pockets, the doctor fell once more into
his reverie, as he walked away slowly
to the library.
1 Left to his own reflections, - Dr.
Trentham drew from his pocket a let
ter which he read by the light of a
reading lamp. It was from his adopted
son, Dick Eaiie, a rising young lawyer,
between whom and the doctor the
strongest possible affection existed; it
iwas for this young man that the sec
ond place at dinner was always laid,
w. But instead of Dick to-day had
come a letter. "I know," it ran, "you
'.will be surprised to hear that I am
engaged to be married; it has all taken
place in a hurry, because she is un
expectedly going away "
'And then it transpired that "she" was
an actress, Eva Casillis. "I will look
in on you in the morning," the writer
concluded; "and will then tell you
wore."
With a slight frown Dr. Trentham
replaced the letter in his pocket; he
had hoped great things for Dick, who
would marry, of course, some day
but an actress!
For some time the doctor sat mo
tionless, gazing intently at the glowing
logs for there were faces in the fire
to-night," and memories gathered
round him with the dream of bygone
days.
First and foremost the memory of
n woman the only woman he had ever
desired to call wife. The day he had
,wooed her came back, with a quick
heart-beat and a throbbing pulse. She
;was lu the hayfield among the hay
makershe recalled the turn of her
head as she-looked round to greet him
iwith a smile on her lips. His ideal
iwoman then and forever. She had
jworn a pink cotton frock that had just
the color of her cheeks, and a sunbonnet
tying round her neck by the strings;
leaving her head with its curling
brown hair exposed to the sun.
One of the glowing logs fell from the
jfire and the dream changed.
. It was October. She was coming
doVn the lane, treading softly on the
thick carpet of beech leaves, the red
light from the setting sun striking be
Itwc.ea the tall trees and bathing her
in light from head to foot.
It was the day that the letter had
come from the lawyers telling him of
his great-aunt's death, and of his sud
den undreamed-of accession to her
large fortune. His first thought had
;b2ou of the girl he loved. Die was
Irjch; they need wait no longer; happi
ness was theirs. He could see her face
jtiiere, In the hollow of the fire not
full of rejoicing, but of a sudden sharp
Jiairi.
; The lines on his forehead deepened
and the flames sank low.
"A lady tosee you, sir." Farrant's
voice recalled him.
"An urgent case?'
'r ill don't think she is ill, sir; just
drove up In a brougham," replied Far
raut, offering a card on which was in
" scribed, "Mrs. Casillis."
v Casillis! This must be Dick's ac
i tress, although he had said nothing of
!her being a widow. Anyhow, he
r .would see her.
The servant ushered in a tall, ele
gantly dressed woman, who advanced
.with an easy grace into the firelight,
HOPES.
Xesbit.
But I beyond the budding screen
Of green and rod, and white and green,
Behind the radiant show
Of things that cling and grow and glow,
J see the plains where lie
The hopes of days gone by;
Gray breadths of melancholy, crossed
By winds that coldly blow
From that cold sea wherein my argosy is
lost.
Collier's Weekly.
Shields.
saying as she did so with a very
musical accent: "I must apologize for
this late visit, but, to tell you the
truth, I rather fancied you would be
disengaged at this hour, and I wanted
to see you alone."
"I am quite at liberty," replied Dr.
Trentham, as he placed a chair for his
visitor.
"Mr. Earle may have mentioned my
name nay, do not turn the lamp
higher; it is so nice to talk in the
firelight. Won't you sit down again?"
She had thrown back her sable
lined cloak, disclosing an exquisite
gown that seemed a mass of glittering
jet. Some diamonds sparkled on the
bodice, and one superb star flashed
from the coils of her soft brown hair.
The doctor had been skeptical about
Dick's actress but this woman was a
revelation.
"Dick wrote to me about his engage
ment," he replied, feling almost re
conciled to his adopted son's choice,
but, judging that the lady must be
at least ten years that impatient
lover's senior he was just seven-and-twenty.
"He will have told you that he has
only known my little girl a very short
time."
It was her daughter, then! He
stifled an exclamation just in time.
"He mentioned that the acquaint
ance was a short one."
"It is. So, without a word to anyone,
I though I would come and talk it over
with you. He is your son by adoption,
he tells me."
"Yes; his father poor Earle was
my greatest friend. Dick's mother
died when he was born, and Earle
just twelve years ago, when the lad
was showing himself full of promise,
lie had no relations and I was a
bachelor with no ties, so he came to
me, and we have been constant com
panions ever since."
"He speaks of you with the greatest
affection."
"Dear fellow! He is the bet fellow
living."
"It struck me" Mrs. Casillis leaned
forward slightly "that you might
have some objection" to his marrying
an actress "
The doctor's face flushed quickly.
"And I wanted to know more of the
man to whom I was giving my daugh
terwho is as dear to me as Dick is
to you."
"Exactly."
"I reserved my consent to the en
gagement until I had seen you."
"I could not withhold my consent in
any case Dick is not dependent on
me, you understand. Earle left ample
provision for him he Is his own mas
ter in every way."
"But your wish would influence him,
I am sure if he thought you objected.
I knew you by repute, and I thought
being a woman of the world that you
might look upon his marriage with an
actress as a a mistake likely to in
fluence his future."
"I admit that I think a rising pro
fessional man is better unmarried."
"So you remained single?"
"Precisely."
"For that reason?"
"Not altogether."
"Forgive me, I find I am cross
questioning you somewhat rudely. So
you think Mr. Earle would be better
unmarried?"
"I think Dick is the best judge of his
own happiness. I merely expressed a
general opinion."
"Perhaps you would like to see my
little girl's picture" drawing a small
morocco case from her pocket, which,
on being opened, disclosed the minia
ture of a girl's head.
Dr. Trentham took the case, turning
up the lamp to its full height as he
did so. The miniature represented a
girl with curly brown hair and sweet,
trustful, hazel eyes. A pink sunbonnet
was pushed back so that the curls
fell in a cluster on her white fore
head. His hand trembled, and his
pulses beat quickly. Mrs. Casillis had
risen and was standing beside biiri.
"Does she remind you of anyone?"
At the sound of her voice hp was in
the hay field again a young, eager
lover singing
"And jtm didn't "know me, Willie?
I should have known you if it had
bceh in another world."
"But you have come back I always
know you would my love my love!"
He had taken both her hands in his
and held them tight against his
breast. "I was dreaming of you to
night, Rosie," he went on, "and of that
day we were haymaking you remem
berand now I am an old man!"
She laughed softly, triumphantly, be
cause of the great love in his eyes.
"Old, dear? You have altered less
than I thought. I must have changed
sadly that you did not know me."
"You forget that in the dim light
I hardly saw you and in the old days
it was a pink cotton frock."
She laughed again, she was so very
happy.
"Clothes do alter one, don't they?"
"Yes but it is the same Rosie, the
same voice, too, now."
"Now what of all these years?
What of my ruined lonely life? I have
a right to some explanation after so
many years. Why did you go away
when our happiness was in our own
keeping?"
Still holding her hand, Dr. Tren
tham sat beside her on the sofa.
"I thought as you do, Willie, that a
wife is a mistake to a rising man."
"You were very wrong very
wicked."
"But you said so just now yourself.
Ah, my dear!" very seriously "it was
so hard, it nearly broke my heart."
He drew her gently to him and their
lips met; then, quickly recovering her
self, for the tears were very near her
eyes, she went on:
"I was only a farmer's daughter,
you know."
"And I a country doctor's son."
"I had to look after the house ard
dairy "
"And I had to go about in one old
threadbare suit all the year."
"Until the money came that made
all the difference. I was wiser than
you, because I was a woman, and I
loved Ah, it would have ruined
your career then, Willie, to have mar
ried an ignorant girl, with a limited ed
ucation. So I went away. There in
stead of being a great city doctor, my
dear, with a world-wide reputation,
and godness knows what all why you
might have been only an ordinary
practitioner, wasting your time over
measles and rheumatism. Oh, you've
a great deal to thank me for."
"I'm not a bit grateful. Go on." '
"I couldn't bear the idea of giving
you up altogether so I took up nurs
ing, which seemed in a humble way to
be following in your footsteps. I was
strong and energetic and had no
trouble in getting into St. Peter's Hos
pital as a probationer. I spent some
time there and then went as matron
of a nursing home in Boston."
"And there you married?"
"Yes the doctor who had founded
the home. I knew you were getting
on and and rumor spoke of your
marriage with a millionaire's daughter
whose life you had saved."
"You knew it was not likely to be
true."
"I I couldn't be sure." !
"But this man you married?"
"I can only speak of him with re
spect, Willie! he was many years older
than I a clever, wonderfully good
man. He has been dead some years."
"So, with your child to live for, you
forgot me?"
She smiled, but did not contradict
him.
"By Dr. Casillis' wish she was edu
cated in a Boston seminary. However,
when she left school last year, she
begged me to let her go on the stage
she has a lovely voice and I foolish
ly, perhaps, consented partly because
Mr, Enderwick offered her a part in
the company he was bringing to New
York and I longed to return.
"Then we met Dick it was some
time before I heard from his lips that
ho was your adopted son and a great
longing came over me to see you,
Willie, to know whether you had for
gotten me."
The deep voce of the clock in the hall
beat out the hour eleven.
"Surely not eleven!" she cried, rising.
"I am forgetting everything but you
I was due at Mrs. Aysgarth's at ten
and I promised to send the brougham
back for Eva."
"I siippose Dick will look after her;
I am not going to lose you again.
After waiting all these years for you, I
feel as if I cannot let you out of my
sight."
She laughed merrily.
"I'm afraid I must go. Come and
dine with us to-morrow. Dick is com
ingand a few friends of my little
girl's. We propose having a little
dance and some music, perhaps."
"The music of your voice is all I
shall ever want to hear," he replied,
placing the rich fur cloak around her
shoulders and gazing lovingly into her
eyes.
With such a charming mother-in-law
for Dick, who could object to Dick's
choice, even though she was an ac
tress. New York Weekly.
Gutenberg's Achievement.
In the Century, Augustine Birrell
thus characterizes Gutenberg's epoch
making invention:
The invention of movable types was
the greatest distributive invention that
ever was or probably ever can be
made. It circulated knowledge among
the children of men, and plays much
the same part in human life as does
the transmission of force in the world
of physics. It was marvelous how
quickly thought was circulated even in
the age of manuscripts. A book like
St. Augustine's "City of God" was
soon copied thousands of times, and
traveled through Europe after a
quicker fashion that most printed
books can to-day; but St. Augustine
occupied a unique position, and hand
copying, though a great trade employ
ing thousands of scribes, could never
have fed the New Learning or kept
alive the Reformation. The age of
Gutenberg was an age of ideas, and de
manded books, just as our day is a
day of mechanics, and demands cheap
motion, telegraphy and telephones. Gu
tenberg's first printing office is marked
by a tablet. Go and gaze upon it, and
think of New York Herald, the Lon
don Times and the Bible for two
pence. The power of the press, cou
pled with the name of Johann Glen
fleisch, commonly called Gutenberg,
would be a fine toast, but I dare say
Mr. Choate would respond to it after
dinner in fitter terms than ever could
the old-fashioned printer, who led a
hard life and died dispossessed of his
business and in poverty.
Brittle Finger Kails.
For the people who are troubled
with brittle finger nails there is only
one way to cure them, and that it to
begin at the root of the evil and feed
them. Before retiring rub the nails
freely with sweet oil or vaseline and
wear loose kid gloves. The gloves
should be perforated at the palms and
the middle of the fingers to admit a
free circulation of air. Wear gloves
whenever possible while sweeping and
dusting or doing other coarse work,
for the texture of the skin i thus pre
served and damage to the nails pre
vented. After washing dishes wash
the hacds in clear warm water, rinse
in cold water, anoint the nails with a
little vaseline and wipe away all sur
plus. Keep up this treatment of the
nails daily for a month and you .will
sec a marked improvement.
Deafness Good at Times.
Senator McEnery is afflicted with a
certain degree of deafness. He can
hear less at times than at others, it is
said. At those times when newspaper
men seek to draw information from
him that he is unwilling to give he is
particularly hard of hearing. It was
during one of his deaf periods that he
emerged frcm a recent executive ses
sion and was accosted by a correspond
ent. "Well, Senator, anything doing
on the inside?" asked the newspaper
man. "Yes, the weather is pretty bad
outside," answered the Senator. "It's
pretty hard on us old people." And he
bowed pleasantly and passed on. leav
ing the newspaper man wondering.
Eating at Night.
Every living bird and beast strives
its utmost to cram itself with food
before retiring for the night, and this
food is digested as the night pro
gresses. The evening feed is the feed
cf the day with the brute creation,
and yet doctors tell us to refrain from
eating heartily at night and even ad
vise us to retire to rest with a more
or less empty stomach. Are we fol
lowing nature when following this ad
vice? Country Gentleman.
The only important independent
States now remaining in. Africa are
Abyssinia and Liberia.
THS WISE CMOME.
Within a deep and darksome wood there
lived a learned gnome,
And in an ancient saucepan he made his
cozy home.
His name was so impressive, it filled every
one with awe
'T was Diomed Diogenes Demosthenes de
Graw.
His fame for wisdom wa3 so crcat that
even passing birds
Would stop and listen eagerly to Diomed'a
wise words.
One day two little jub-jub birds were
walking by that way.
They paused and said: "Oh, Diomed, do
teach us something, pray."
"Ay, ay," the ancient gnome replied;
"now listen well, yon two;
A bit of infei'matlou 1 will gladly give ta
you.
Yon lustrous luminary empyrean queen
of night
Our libratory, vibratory, lunar satellite.
That rotary orb revolving 'round our
sphere terrene,
Is but coagulated curds, tinged chromium,
berylline!"
"T
Although a bit bewildered, the jub-jub
birds said, "Oh
Oh, thank you, dear Diogenes; that's what
we wished to know." '
Carolyn Wells, in St. Nicholas.
"Debts become larger the more they;
are contracted." Princeton Tiger.
Mrs. Ascum "Have you still got that
servant girl you had last week?" Mrs.
Hiram Offen "Which day last week?"
Philadelphia Press. j
Johnny "Maw's always talkin' about
a hygienic diet. What is a hygienic
diet?" Tommy "It's any kind of diet
you don't like." Chicago Tribune. '
Madge "Physical culture is just
splendid. I'm taking beauty exer
cises." Marjorie "You haven't been
taking them long, have you?" Judge.
"Now do your worst!" the hero cried -n
Unto the villain bold. v?
They saw him act, and then they sighed,
"He did as he was told!"
Washington Star. 1
Bacon "All the milkmen in town
use that bank." Egbert "That would
be a good place to look for chalk de
posits, I suppose?" Yonkers States
man. Rawhide Rube "What are these
here magazine guns, anyhow?" Hair
trigger Hank "Oh, I s'pose they art
the weapons them editors have to plug
poets with." Chicago Daily News. ,
He "I understand Softleigh has
been assigned a very difficult role la
your amateur theatricals." She
"Yes, poor fellow! They gave him a
thinking part." Chicago Daily News. ;
Just what the effect of jiu-jitsu
Happens to be when it hitsu
I cannot declare,
But no matter where
It lands, why it certainly gitsu!
-New Orleans Times-Democrafc.
First Commuter "Oh, hang it all!"
Second Commuter "What's the mat
ter?" First Commuter (bitterly) "Let
the conductor punch my fifty-servant
intelligence office ticket instead of my,
commutation." Judge. j
The Heiress "And I've been intro
duced to quite a number of the Euro
pean nobility." Her Friend "Think
ing of marrying any of them?" The
Heiress "Oh, no. I don't intend to
buy a title; I'm merely shopping."
Puck. $
"One-half of the world doesn't knowi
how the other half lives, you know."
"Well," she answered, "it's the ignor
ant half's own fault. Everybody has
a chance to go around and find out
when the 'for rent' signs are put up."
Chicago Record-Herald. j
Private Secretary "There's a Duke
outside waiting to see you, sir."
American Magnate "I can't see him
just now; there's a directors' meeting.";
"If you keep him waiting, he may not
like it." "Well, give him half a mil
lion to keep him quiet." Life.
"A man in your position is subject
ed to many temptations, isn't heT'i
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum.
"Every now and then he feels like let
ting his sympathies get the better of;
him and missing chances to make. But
the only thing to do is to be firm."
Washington Star. ' '
Price on II ends of Pests.
At a meeting of the trustees of the
Lutheran 'Orphans' Home at Reading.
Ta., an itemized bill for $1.30 was sub
mitted by the "Rat and Mice Trust
Company." Reverend Dr. Kuendig ex
plained that he would pay the bill,
is he had agreed privately to pay to
the boys a cent each for all the rats
and mice they caught, to rid the&ome
of the pests.