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VL. XV. PLYMOUTH, N. 0,. FRIDAY. AUGUST 19, 1904. N0.22. j
A HUNDREb YE1K5 FROM NOW.
.When a look ahead show3 you nothing but the thickest sort of gloom,
When you're worried to the centre of your soul, . '
When your plans have all miscarried and proved castles in the air
And you've nothing in your pockets but a hole,
Then'a the time to reason thuswise: "What's the use to make a row?
Who can tell a oit of diff'rence in a hundred years from now?"
When the pathway stretching endwise tow'rd life's slowly setting sun
Shows the lions with their chains all hid from view,
When it seems there's "nothing d oing" in the providential line
And when everything (except t he sky) looks blue,
Then is not the time to falter or turn backward from the plow;
WTill it make a bit of diff'rence in a hundred years from now?
Yet there's one thing will make diff'rence ten long decades further on;
It's the way you bear your troubles day by day;
If you keep your top-lip stiffened and a smile upon your face
As you stride toward the lions i n the way,
Then the worried world will carry fewer wrinkles on its brow,
Aid 'twill reafly make some diff'r ence in a hundred years from now.
S. W. Gillilan, in Los Angeles Herald.
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Jest bidder on the following day. The
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DMUND DOLBY wee average yield of a sample of five
home from the citv thtuousantl niteu in lue eariy part 01
evening by an earlier tra.'tue
than usual, and Mrs. Dol
was out. "Do you kncl
where Mrs. Dolby Is, Martha?"
called to the girl in the kitchen.
f "Tlio mictrfics wont nnt eii nhrl
ten minutes ago, and said she'd J
back in half an hour." j
Edmund returned to the sitting roo.
and lay back in the low armchair j
the fire in gloomy meditation. lie h
Decn uneasy in nis mina an aay. iun
the night before he and Letty . had
quarreled, and it was because this had
been fretting him and he was wistful
of making his peace with her that he
had contrived to get home so much
earlier than usual. And now she was
out.
The fact that this chanced to be his
birthday gave a keener edge to his suf
ferings, and made her absence, when
he came yearning for reconciliation, so
much the more inexcusable. He sat,
hunched in the armchair, brooding un
til he began to see a sinister signifi
cance in her not being there to wel
come him; it became as clear to him
again as if it had been last night that
he had been justified in the complaints
he had made, and that her indignation
had been assumed simply to blind him.
The facts in connection with that
quarrel were, chiefly, these: Edmund's
one particular friend in Watford was
Alfred Hilbert and Letty's one partic
ular was Nelly llilbert, his wife. Once
a week the Dolbys went round the cor
ner and spent an evening with the Hil
berts, and once a week the Hilberts
came round the corner and spent an
evening with the Dolbys. Moreover,
they frequently dropped in on each
other informally; the wives occasion
ally shopped together, the husbands
took Sunday strolls together, arid their
friendliness would have been abso
lutely ideal but for one jarring circum
stance. There had been a time when A'fred
Hilbert was desperately in love . ith
Letty. Twice she had rejected him,
when Edmund made her acquaintance
aud they fell in love with each other
at sight.
Alfred resigned himself to the inevit
able so completely that, a few months
later, being a breezy young man whose
heart was too well seasoned to break
easily, he transferred his affections to
Nelly, who was already Letty's dearest
friend and had remained so ever since.
Edmund knew all about this from
the beginning. Alfred treated it as a
jest. After they were all married he
would speak of his past infatuation
openly at their weekly meetings, and
laugh about it, never seeming to real
ize that nobody enjoyed the joke but
himself.
He was that sort of a man. Instead
of growing inured to his facetious de
scriptions of his extinct passion, Ed
mund more and more resented them,
even rebuking Letty now and then, as
If she were to blame for having been
passively responsible for Alfred's fas
cination. Last night, after the Hilberts were
gone, he had rebuked her with unrea
sonable irritation, for he was of a nat
urally jealous temperament, and had
gradually persuaded himself that Al
fred was much too attentive to his
wife, and that Letty's manner toward
iiira was unnecessarily gracious. He
told her so in no measured terms, mag-
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his jealously could so outrageously be
fool hi ni. lie yearned to be with her
thinking of tender things he would say
to her; he would even ask her to for
give him; and only to imagine how she
would lean her head upon his breast
and cry brought tears to his eyes.
He had pictured it all vividly; he had
hastened home to fulfill his happy im
aginingsand she was out.
"If she had sent me a telegram ask
ing me to come home it would have
been nothing astonishing," he rnut
tured, bitterly, "but, instead of that,
she isn't even waiting for me when I
do come "
There was a piece of crumpled paper
lying in the fender. He bad noticed it
idly, directly he sat down, and now,
suddenly, seeing there was writing on
it, he picked it up, straightened it out,
and read it:
"Have got the tickets. Be at my
office not later than 7, and we will go.
Till keath and after, Alfred."
He sat stunned, rereading it mechan
ically, as if it meant nothing to him.
Gradually the Avords seemed to burn
into his brain. Here, then, was full
and dreadful confirmation of his worst
suspicions. He had not been mistaken
last night in thinking there was some
secret understanding between them.
Here was their secret flashed bewil
deringly before him.
He started to his feet and snatched
his watch from his pocket. A quarter
past C. There was a bare possibility
that he might even yet be in time to in
tercept them, and he must make the
most of that
As he passed the Hilberts' door a
vaguely forlorn hope tempted him
aside, and he knocked till the servant
opened it.
"Is Mr. Hilbert here?" he demanded.
"No. sir."
"Where is Mrs. Hilbert?" T
"In the drawing room, sir."
"I want to speak to her. Don't
trouble. I will go to her." He stepped
inside and closed the door, and . Nelly
was scared by the pallor and the tense
expression of his face.
"Why-l What's wrong, Edmund?"
she ejaculated.
lie told her, panting and stammering
incoherently.
"Nonsense!" she Interrupted. "There
must be some mistake" '
"There is no mistake!" he cried. "I
have his letter to her."
"Where is it?"
"He says' he was fumbling hastily
in his pockets "he says he has booked
their passage and she is to meet him
at his oflice by 7. . . . Oh, I can't
find it must have left it at home! But
it doesn't matter I've told you what it
says. What am I to do?"
"Oh, dear!" faltered Nelly. "I knew
I-I told Alfred last night that he
was far too attentive to Letty but oh!
I never dreamt"
"The ruffian!" he raged, wildly. "If
I can only lay hands on him ! But
I can't stop. I want to catch the next
train to Euston. It's a fast train and
may get me to his office just in time."
"Oh, please wait let me come with
you!"
They reached the station not a mo
ment too soon. The train stopped no
where until it arrived at Euston. As
it drew up at the platform Edmund
sprang out and assisted Nelly to
alight.
"Here! What's up? Where are you
two off to?" ,
They started round and were face to
face with Alfred Hilbert.
"Where is my wife?" gasped Ed
mund, seizing his arm.
"Don't talk like a fool! Tell me
what's happened."
"You know well enough"
"I tell you I don't; I want to know!
And I want to know, too, what are you
two tearing off together like this for?"
Either he was a hardened and ac
complished hypocrite or he really did
find it hard to realize exactly what he
was charged with, and eventually he
was as baflled as themselves.
"All I can say is," he reiterated, "that
note was not from me."
"But it's in your writing," Edmund
.insisted.
"Can't help that. I've never written
to' Letty in my life not since you've
known her, Ned, anyhow. Where's
the letter?"
"I thought I had it with me" Ed
mund began to search through his
pockets again "I must have left it.
No, here it is."
He pulftd it out, and the other two
read it over his shoulder.
"Yes, that's mine, right enough," Al
fred admitted. Then, all of a sudden
he broke into a roar of laughter. "It
is mine "
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"It's no laughing matter"
"Why, mustn't a man write to his
own wife, then? It's the note I sent to
Nell, here, the day before yesterday."
"It can't be! How can it be?" pro
tested Edmund. "I found it at my
house in the fireplace."
"All right! You ask Nelly."
Nelly glanced at it again eagerly.
"So it is!" she cried, laughing hyster
ically. "We were going to the theatre,
and weren't sure whether we could get
seats, and Alfred was to try and book
them on his way to the city and let me
know, and that's his note."
"And you both thought I"
. "Well, but," Edmund interrupted, re
lieved and mortified at the turn affairs
had taken, "how is it that it was in my
house?"
"Why, I called to see Letty this
morning, and she had a headache," ex
plained Nelly, "so I slipped back home
to fetch her. some tabloids, and this is
the paper I -wrapped them in it hap
pened to be in my pocket. I gave Let.ty
the tabloids and threw the paper in the
fender. If I had thought of it while
you were telling nie-r-and yet how
could I?"
"And you bolted in pursuit of Letty
and me!" chuckled Alfred. "I called
at the paper shop on my way home,
and I reckon you two went by whilst
I was inside. When I reached home I
found the girl half off her head. All
she knew was that Ned, here, had been
shouting, and you had run away with
him, and she had heard one of you say
you must catch the next train to Eus
ton. I didn't know what to make of
it, so I came after you, and just man
aged to scramble into the last carriage
as the train started. I say,
talk about running away with another
fellow's wife, though" he guffawed
again "I think it's me thai; ought to
do the shooting!"
But Edmund was in no mood to make
light of his humiliation, and by de
grees the others sympathetically sub
dued themselves to his humor.
Back again at Watford, they shook
hands and parted, and when Edmund
returned home there was Letty waiting
for him.
She met him In the hall, and. before
he could decide how to greet her she
clasped her arms round his neck. A
tender mist shone in her eyes, and
everything was coming aboutas ideally
as he had pictured it to himself in his
remorseful dreams during the day.
"I did so want you to come home,
dear!" she whispered.
"I I was delayed," he murmured,
awkwardly.
"Martha says you came in and ran
out again almost immediately."
"Yes. You were not here."
"I had gone out to get this for you,
Ned." "This" was a gold pencil with
his initials trrraved on it. She drew
it from her pocket and offered it to
him, shyly. "It was not ready last
night. And I was so so un
kind this morning! I never even
wished you"
He took most of the wishes in kisses.
"And I was. afraid, when you came
home and went out again without see
ing me, that you" her voice faltered
penitently "that you were still angry
with me." .
"No; it wasn't that, sweetheart. It
wasn't that at all."
"I was so afraid that, perhaps"
"No, it was nothing but a
But, I say, Letty, I'm hungry!" he
said, scheming for time to think how
to make the least of it all. "Let us sit
down, and I'll tell you the whole story
over dinner." The Sketch.
HOW ROYALTY TRAVELS.
Magnificent Cava Proided and Extraor
dinary Precautions Taken For Safety.
In Great Britain every prominent
railway has its royal train, and the
king has the right to travel anywhere,
free of cost. The train most general
ly used by the late Queen Victoria is
composed of six carriages, the initial
trip, which Her Majesty made in it,
being from Windsor to London, in
1S07, the occasion of the Jubilee.
When King Edward travels it is with
great magnificence, and such precau
tion is exercised that accident seems
impossible. Special timetables are
supplied to all who are connected in
any way with the workings of the
royal train, stating the moment at
which it will pass or stop at each sta
tion, while fifteen minutes ahead of
it is sent a pilot engine to make sure
that everything is in perfect order.
Nothing can pass level crossings after
this engine has run through, and wait
ing engines must not emit smoke, blow
off steam, nor whistle while the royal
train is passing. Dangerous places
are strictly guarded, and none but of
ficials and servants on duty are per
mitted near the railway on any pre
tense whatever.
The King's car is most beautiful, be
ing finished iu satlnwood with panels
of sycamore, the saloon compartment,
in the centre, having a domed roof,
decorated with lions ard crowns, the
colors green and gold. All metal fit
tings are silver plated, and the carpets
in the royal compartment and vesti
bule are padded with a layer of cork.
For upholstery is used a French white
silk rep; the curtains are of green silk,
while the carpet is heavy chenille, es
pecially manufactured for the Queen's
saloon.
When the lzar of all the liussiaa
takes an outing it.is in regal magnifi
cence. The train is a palace, surpass
ing even the train de luxe owned by
the German Emperor. The hangings
in the different rooms are of silk and
satin, in shades of dainty blue aud del
icate rose, while the dining-room is
upholstered in chamois leather. This
train also contains special accommo
dations for the little daughters of the
Czar, consisting of a playroom and
nursery. Four-Track News.
Food and Feeding;.
Sir Henry Thompson, in his excel
lent work on "Food and Feeding," has
put one aspect of the case as well as
it can be put. "Many a man," he
writes, "might indeed safely pursue a
sedentary career, taking only a small
amount of exercise, and yet maintain
an excellent standard of health, if only
he were- careful that the 'intake' in
the form of diet correspond with the
expenditure which his occupations,
mental and physical, demand. Let
him by all means enjoy his annual
pastime , and profit by it, to rest his
mind and augment his natural forces,
but not for the mere purpose of neu
tralizing the evil effects of habitual
dietic wrong-doing." Century Maga
zine. Oft" Isht8 For tlie Gas Trust.
"Like the theatres, we have our bad
nights," said a gas company director.
"Saturday night is the best for the
gas companies, because all the chief
stores keep open late and consume
more gas than during the other six
nights. Notice itand you will observe
that gas on Saturday night is hardly
as good as on other nights. This is
because the companies are taxed to
their utmost. The force is not as great
in individual burners'on that night.
"Our bad nights are holidays and
Sundays, wheu shops, manufactories,
saloons aud other patrons are closed
down."
Canadian Women 'Worker.
Wages of women workers in Canada
have increased in recent years from
twenty-five to fifty per cent, more than
men's, . ..
THE FAMILY HORSE.
He's such a nice and gentle horse
No cut-up tell you that! .
This summer I'm determined he
Shall wear a quaker hat.
I only wish he didn't have
Enlargement of the feet,
When gentle Dobbin's in the shafts,.
The family on the seat.
A vard a minute he ctn go,
Or faster, if he'd try!
It's great to see the field3 o wheat
And fences whirling by!
I'll back a turtle any day
To beat him in a heat,
When gentle Dobbin's in the shafts,
The family on the seat.
O'er country roads we journey whea
The sun begins to drop,
I say "Git ap!" to make him go,
And "Whoa!" to make him stop;
And there are twinkles in th eyes
Of everyone we meet,
When gentle Dobbin's in the shafts.
The Family on the seat.
The hair upon his legs is long
And dallies with the breeze.
The stiffness of his upper lip
Has settled in his knees.
It's certainly a lovely sight
When we go down the street,
With gentle Dobbin in the shafts,
The family on the seat.
Indianapolis Sun,
6m
May me "Why didn't you accept the
engagement ring from George?"
Edythe "Why, he wouldn't give any
trading stamps with it!" Chicago
Daily News. - ;
Young Lawyer "Then the litigation
i? only in a preliminary stage?" Old
Lawyer "That's all. The case hasn't
been before the courts more than two
years." Puck. "
"Johnnie, what do you uean by kill,
lng all those chickens?" 'Taw said
they was money in chickens, an' I
want a ball an' a bat an' a, mitt."
Houston Post.
"Do you think that matrimony, will
add to the duration of human life?"
"Yes. 1 don't see how most of the di
vorce lawyers would live without it.'
Cleveland Pain Dealer.
The book of nature I would read
And get a lesson from eacn tree. .
I always wait, however, till .
Kind autumn turns the leaves for me.
Judge.
"Sometimes," said iTJncle Ebeu, "a
man sits on de do' -Step an thinks he's
smaht enough to run de gov-ment.
When he ain' got judgment enough to
keep de cow oufn de garden." Wash
ington Star.
"How did that prima donna come to
lose her voice?" "Well," answered
the impressario, "some people say she
sang too much, but my personal opin
ion is that she lost it arguing about
salary." Washington Star.
Mrs. Mildmay "Say what yon will
against Mr. Wyckham, you can't deny,
that he thinl.3 the world of his wife."
Mrs. Stinger "And so you think that
is to be charged to his credit? Guess
you don't know Mrs. Wyckham."
"What makes Brown so haughty
these days?" "Why, his secret benevo
lent association has elected him to an
office that has a title seven feet longer
than any title there is in Smith's se
cret society." Chicago Evening Post.
Wills of millionaires remind us,
We can make our deaths exciting;
And. departing, leave behind us,
All our wives' relations fighting. '
Life.
"When the airships reach that stage
of perfection that they will be gener
ally used," remarked the Observer of
Events. aiu. Things, "a neighbor will
only have to leave his scuttle opea
when he wants you to drop in." Yon
kers Statesman.
Mr. yauer (to his wife) "How horrid
of you to be always looking as sour as
a.crabapple! Just look at Mrs. X
over yonder; the very picture of cheer
fulness." Mrs. Saner "You seem to
forget, my dear; Mrs. X is a
Widow." New Yorker.
Meteorological Tipping Hucket.
'A tipping bucket attachment has
been added to the rain gauge of the
Weather Bureau on top of the Custom
House at St. Louis. It accurately tells,
the amount of precipitation. The rain
is drained into a double bncket,' so
poised that it tips on receiving a cer
tain amount of water. Every. move
ment of. this kind is registered by an
electrical connection.