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VUL. XV. PLYMOUTH. N. C. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1904. NO. 25.
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BALLAD
Forever a-dream and adrift with doubt the peace of the past forgot:
And "He loves thee, heart he loves thee;" and "Heart, he loves thee not;"
The exquisite pain that is sweetly vain that leaps at a touch, a sound;
And "He loves thee not, dear heart," she saith, with the arms of love around!
Forever a-dream and adrift with doubt! She is there, at the garden gate.
And she weeps good-bye 'neath a fancied sky that burns with the stars of fate!
And lie whispers: 'Dear, I love thee, lie the pain and the grief forgot."
But she heareth only an echo that answers: "He loves thee not!"
Oh, tyrant-love that tortures a life with thorns and fears
Her beautiful eyes contending forever with smiles and tears!
He hath given her life's sweet roses the lilies shall be her lot;
But she winnows the thorn from the rose-leaf and weeps that he luv:.- not!
And so they twain go sighing sighing the world along,
Where faith is a flower undying and love is a deathless song!
The exquisite pain that is sweetly vain still ihrobs at a touch a sound:
And "lie loves thee not, dear heart," she saith, with the arms of love around!
Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Constitution.
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A Lazy Lover
By Hat tie Whitney.
QX4 HEY were out on the lake,
O HP Q Lane, paddling about
among the water lilies. He
"5TT' Iia( 3ust come as near pro
posing to her, and she to refusing him,
as it was possible to do and miss, this
being their customary daily diversion.
Now lit was watching her lazily. That
was what irritated her so his inordi
nate laziness.
He was large and blond, with placid
blue eyea like a sleepy baby's. She
was little and trim as waxwork, and
'her gray eyes were clear and keen. The
exciting point of the day's program
over, Roy iiad settled down to his usual
comfortable nonchalance.
"I don't know what kind of a fellow
you want," he grumbled, amiably, with
an indolent movement of one oar, and
somehow his laziest motion seemed to
accomplish a good deal.
"I know," said Ruby, positively.
"Let's hettr about him," Hoy pro
posed. "lie's brisk," Ruby replied, "and en
ergetic." "Think I've got him fn my mind's
eye." Roy gave the other oar an easy
touch. "Small and bustling and chip
pery, like the little cock sparrow who
sat on a tree."
"He isn't like that in the least," Ruby
sat up prim and stiff, and rosy with in
dignation; "Oh, isn't he? Beg his pardon.
Where is he now?"
"At work," Ruby replied, promptly,
he? tone implying a comparison be
tween a man thus profitably employed
and oue who idled his time away at a
summer hotel..
'Terhaps he has an object in view,"
Roy insinuated.
"Perhaps," Ruby admitted, demurely.
"And uni is the object to be at
tained soon?"
Ruby let her eyes droop toward, the
top ruffle of her blue organdie.
"I don't know exactly; not before
next spring." She was dabbling her
hand in the lake, her eyelashes still
slanting downward.
"Ah! Congratulate him, and every
thing. Shall we row over to that bunch
of willows, or down to the little cove?"
For an instant Ruby wished she
might tip the boat over, just to see if
his exasperating equanimity .would be
disturbed even by such an emergency.
"I don't believe it would," she de
cided, in disgust. "He'd get us out if
he could conveniently, and if he eouki
not he'd drown with that contented
smile on his face, as serenely as if he
were a wooden Shem out of a floy
Noah'tJ ark.'-'
Mrs. Albert Loyd was peace fully cro
cheting a pair of bedroom slippers for
Mr. Albert Loyd, chanting such incan
tation as: "Chain two; double in sec
ond double; turn; five singles in loop;
chain two," when her . sister Ruby
whirled in upon her, cast herself into
a rocking chair, and rocked tempestu
ously for three minutes. Mrs. Albert
viewed her quietly, suspending her
crochet hook for a moment.
"Three singles in loop; chain two
been fencing with Mr. Adams again?"
she queried, mildly.
"Yes," Ruby answered, "but I hardly
thliik he'll care about fencing any
. more.
"No? Why not? Turn; five singles."
"I practically told him I was en
gaged." . ' ' -; - - - --------
OF DOUBT.
"Dear me! chain five and to whom?
Turn."
"A person I invented."
"You unprincipled little wretch!
What did you do it for?"
"Just to see what effect it would
have."
"Two singles and what effect did
it?"
"None at all. You couldn't stir him
up to move an eyelash, whatever you
did; he's too sublimely lazy even to
lose his temper."
Mrs. Albert shook her head gently.
"You're off the track," she comment
ed, unwinding more scarlet wool; "he
may perhaps be guilty of always keep
ing his temper, and, let me tell you, a
married woman would, consider that a
very good failing, but as for being lazy
Albert's friend, that little Mr. Hig
ginson, who knows him well, says he
works in his office like a galley slave
ten months of the year, and although
he has that lazy way and looks as if
he were letting things go to smash if
they want to, he has his eye on every
thing, and every move he makes
counts. I shouldn't wonder if you've
put your silly foot in it for once with
your invented man. Albert says there
isn't a more whole-souled fellow living
than Roy Adams, but .just because he
doesn't hop around and fuss over
everything like a banty chicken as
you do you must get scornful and
snub him. You've done it all summer,
you know you have, and he's been as
faithful to you as the needle to the hay
stack, or whatever it is a needle is sup
posed to be faithful to. You always
were a fractious, child, and you aren't
a whit better now than when you were
six years " Mrs. Loyd ceased her
lecture as she found herself talking to
a dissolving view of blue organdie ruf
fles and a couple of whisking sash
ends, and returned to her chaining,
doubling and looping.
Roy appeared before Ruby early the
nest day in his usual calm frame of
mind and his boating rig.
"Think he'll object to your going out
on the lake with me just once more?"
he asked. "I'm going away early to
morrow morning."
"What for?" she asked.
"Have to," he responded; "vacation
comes to an end to-night. Can you
go?"
She ran out and slipped her boating
hat on in silence. She was reflecting
dismally that she must either confess
her little romance of yesterday an un
founded one, or bid good-bye forever
to this exasperating man, and she
knew now that the latter was some
thing she could not do and retain any
shred of happiness. She waited, how
ever, until they were out on the blue,
soothing bosom of the lake. Then she
rushed into it.
"He couldn't object, you know," she
said, reverting to his remark of some
time before, "because he's only fiction."
"A dream-man?" he asked. She
nodded, blushing uncomfortably.
He hummed a bar of "When a Dream
Came True," and settled, back easily.
Ruby looked down in silence. She was
waiting for him to say something else
and he was carelessly moving an oar
now and then, and apparently thinking
of nothing at all. She noticed for the
first time how strong his brown hands
looked; they were not tbe hands of a
lazy man.
They drifted along aimlessly.
'It was a silly story to tell," Ruby
said, at last.
"Oh, I don't know," he answered, In
dulgently. "I rather thought you were
fabricating. But you might realize
him yet, you know."
"I don't want to." Her voice was a
little uneven.
"Foor dream-man; sympathize with
him, I'm sure. Like to have that pond
lily?"
"Thank you, I don't care for it; let's
go back."
He agreed amiably. "I ought to get
back early," he said. "I promised
Kingsland to come over and go fishing
this afternoon, so we may not see each
other again. Caesar, isn't this a day
for fishing, though!"
Ruby's cheeks tingled as she walked
silently beside him through the light,
dry grass on the way to the hotel,
while he stalked cheerfully along, mak
ing irritatingly pleasant remarks about
the scenery.
They came to a standstill at the sum
mer house on the lawn. It was empty,
and Ruby did not want to walk into
the crowd of people on the hotel porch.
"I'm tired," she said; "I'll rest a
while, and we can say good-bye here."
He held out his sunburned hand and
clasped hers closely for a minute.
"Good-bye," he said. "If you should
come to terms with the dream-man,
don't forget to let me know."
She watched him going across an ad
joining field, as she fell into the big
willow chair and began to rock. Then
she looked off dismally toward the
misty hals. They were dimmer than
the light summer haze warranted.
"Only a summer flirtation only a
summer flirtation," creaked the chair,
maddeningly.
She turned her eyes to the field again.
She could still see the tall form loiter
ing along. When it should disappear,
the end of things would have come.
He stooped, seeming to pick up some
thing; then he turned slowly and be
gan his easy stride back toward the
summer house. It seemed ages before
he reached the door and looked in,
holding toward her a flower on a stalk,
just a fringe of pale lilac petals un
curling from a tawny golden centre.
"See, I found the first aster, and
came back to bring it to you," he said.
She accepted it silently. He looked
curiously at her eyes. The rims were
decidedly pink. He folded his arms
and leaned against the door casing.
"Sure you aren't going to marry the
dream-man?" he asked, after a casual
survey of the landscape.
"Didn't I tell you there wasn't any?"
"I thought you might be fibbing
again. If there really isn't "
"Well?"
"Couldn't you reconsider things and
take me. after all?" New York News.
Bathing in the Dead Sea.
"I have bathed in the Dead. Sea and
in Great Salt Lake," said a wealthy
reporter, "and the strangest, oddest
thing about each bath was the towel
ing that followed it.
"Do you want to know exactly what
it is like to towel yourself after a swim
in the lake or the sea? If you do,
cover yourself all over with butter
and then with a dozen towels try to
rub yourself dry and clean.
"That will be an impossible thing to
do, but hardly more impossible than
to rub off the sea's or lake's thick
brine. Really, though, it is an oil
rather than a brine. After a bath in
it you might towel and rub till you
were raw, but your flesh would still
remain slippery and clammy.
"Swimming in these strange waters
is pleasant enough. In the Dead Sea
I found that I could swim with ray
body out. of water to the waist. You
float like a cork, even though you don't
move a muscle.
"Hence you would think no deaths
from drowning ever happened there.
Such deaths do happen, though. Dead
Sea navigators, when their boats cap
size, get entangled in the rigging. They
perish in that way."
Great Turtle.
When Mauritius was ceded to Great
Britain in 3S10 there was a gigantic
turtle in the court at the artillery bar
racks'at Port Louis which is still there,
although almost blind. It weighs 330
pounds and stands two feet high when
walking. Its shell is eight and one
half feet long, and it ea carry two
men ou its back with ease.
Ydtkujfett American O nicer.
First Lieutenant R. E. Sniper, Four
teenth Cavalry, U. S. A., is the young
est officer in the armv. having been
born in 1SS2,
LONGEST WORD IN THE WORLD.
Used by Aristophanes in a Comedy, and
Ha 17? Letters.
"What is the longest word in the
world? I am not rash enough to at
tempt to answer that question," said
a well-known author to the Boston
Journal. "There is a certain Welsh
name of a place which reaches me
every now and then, and which I have
printed more than once, which is suf
ficiently formidable. I believe that the
patient and .serious Germans have
turned out some verbal monsters, and
it may be that the Chinese, the Rus
sians and others with whose literature
I am unacquainted have produced
series of linked letters, long drawn
out, which are called words. So I
carefully abstain from saying which is
the longest word in the world.
"But I think I may venture to sug
gest that there are not many words
longer than one which may be found
in Liddell and Scott's Greek lexicon.
Here is the modest trifle:
"Lepadotemachoselachogaleokraniol-eiplanodrimupotrimmatsilphioparaome-litokatakechumenokichlepikossuphoph-atfoperisteralektruonoptegkphalokigok-lopeleoiolagoosiraiobaletraganopterug-on.
"I hope I have copied it correctly,
but there may be a slip here and there,
and life is not long enough to write it
out twice, and the good printer, in
whom I have the utmost confidence,
may be excused if he stumbles now
and then. In English it ought to have
177 letters there or thereabout.
"In its original Greek form it would
not be quite so numerous, as 'eh,' 'ps,'
and 'ph' are represented by one letter.
The word is used by Aristophanes,
who was a comedian, and who, there
fore, must have his little joke, and
some of his little jokes, by the way, are
not quite nice. As to its meaning, the
learned lexicographers state that it is
'the name of a dish compounded of all
kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, fowl and
sauces.'
"It would look well on a menu, and
I should like well to hear a badgered
waiter trying to shout it down a long
suffering tube or a gentleman who
has already dined fairly well bawling
it out toward the end of the banquet."
Snt For Her "Mammy."
A beautiful young lady, a member
of one of the richest and most aris
tocratic families of Henderson, Ky.,
married a few years ago and went
with her husband to New York City to
live. The affection between her and
her "old black mammy" was very ten
der, and the separation was hard to
bear. After the young wife had settled
in the East she determined to have
"mammy" come on to visit her, and
sent her the money for her ticket.
Imagine the surprise of the prim
New Yorkers when they saw an old
colored woman coming through the
station gate suddenly pounced upon
by an elegantly dressed lady, who
threw her arms around the old
woman's neck and kissed her time and
again. Dropping her bundles, the
old woman seated herself on a truck,
and drawing the lady upon her lap,
tenderly stroked her hair and ex
claimed: "My God, my baby! 1'se so glad to
see you, honey."
To her the fine lady was only the
little girl, whom she had tenderly
nursed in sickness and in 'tealih and
on whom she had lavished all the love
of her simple heart. Louisville Courier-Journal.
IXia Thlntr Found in Alaska.
Alaska is a big country and it has big
possibilities. It has the biggest bear,
the biggest moose, the biggest moun
tain sheep and the biggest salmon and
grayling in the world. All of these
are plentiful and can be taken under
United States regulations.
Time was when Alaska and Siberia
were thought of by many as synony
mous, and without an idea of just
what was meant by either name. That
has al1 changed in the last few years,
and now Alaska is not so very far
away from Seattle. Moreover, it has
been found to be anything but an in
habited and uuihabitable country. It
is without doubt the greatest game
country on the globe to-day, because
it is the newest, and the conditions
are right for the maintenance of game
animals and birds.
The biggest mountain on the North
ern American Continent is in Alaska
and is well named Mount McKiuley.
Field and Stream.
. Filipino Dainty.
The Filipinos eat large quantities of
dried grasshoppers, aud also prepare
them in coafcctior.s. . .
INDUSTRY.
To the ajit, said the l ee,
"Have you noticed that we,
Each day without fail,
In fable or tale.
Are held up to youth
To illustrate the truth
That work without 'est
Is of all things the best?"
"Well, yes," the :nt said,
As she nodded her head,
''And it's all very weli;
But if truth I must tell,
i'm tired ot the trick,
And it makes me just sick
To work and to work
,Vith no chance to shirk,
d far rather play
Or do nothing-till day,
Like that pay butterfly."
Said the bee, "So would 1!"
Carolyn Wells, in Life.
Scribbler "Have you read my last
novel?" Cy ulcus "I hope so." Phila
delphia Record.
""The rank injustice of the thing,"
Said the centipede, "makes me sick.
Here I am with a hundred feet
And I can't use one for a kick."
Chicago Tribune.
"De world owes every man a livin',"
said Uncle Ebeu; "but he's got to
hustle to prove de claim." Washing
ton Star.
He "At what time in a girl's life
should she be engaged?" She "Just
before she. is married." Yonkeia
Statesman.
Patience "Does she ever speak of
her family tree?" Patrice "No; I
think it was one of those shady sort of
trees." Yonkers Statesman.
"Did ye hear that Casey were in an
accident?" "Phwat! Did he git mar
ried?" "Whist, no; not that bad; he
only hed a leg took off." Princeton
Tiger.
Wigg "I am satisfied that retribu
tion will some day overtake the coal
man.4' Wagg "Yes, his scales are now
lying in weight for him." Philadelphia
Record.
"I see they have made a new rule on
the New York street cars." "What's
that?" "They go by you on" the near
instead of the far side." Collier's
Weekly.
"Pedestrians have to travel in twos
now." "Twos?" "Yes; one to look at
automobile numbers and the other one
to get run over." Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
"He boasts that he is a confirmed
bachelor." "Perhaps he makes a vir
tue of necessity." "Perhaps, and yet,
necessity may be its own reward."
Town and Country.
"What did the broker say when old
Tightwad told him he wanted to buy
an interest in a comic paper?" "Oh,
he said he didn't deal in laughing
stocks." Yale Record.
"Are you carrying all the life insur
ance you want?" "No, sir; I am not.
I am a baseball umpire, and I should
like about " But the agent had
slipped out. Chicago Tribune.
Edith "Belle is insanely jealous of
you." Sadie "Do you think so?"
Edith "I am positive. She is telling
it all around that you will never be
able to support Cholly." Town Topics.
A war correspondent named Guido
Was struck by a flying torpedo;
A Red Cross brigade
Which came to his aid
Found only a sleeveless Tuxedo!
Milwaukee Sentinel.
"That man has studied political
economy." "Maybe so." said Senator
Sorghum, " but the injudicious way he
spends his money at an election looks
to me like political extravagance."
Washington Star.
Naggus "They tell me you have
written a problem play. Would you
mind telling me what the problem is?"
Bonis "Just at present the problem is
to find some manager who v, ill stand
for it." Chicago Tribune.
"Mrs. Dunkleton doesn't seem to be
satisfied with her new husband." "No.
She's discovered that he deceived her.
He's one of those iellows that want a
forty-horse-power tonneau sweetheart
to settle down and become a mere run
about wife." Chicago Record-Herald.
Appalling.
Our sufferings were appalling.
For two days food and water had
failed us.
And now the road was become so
rough that at times our touring car,
stanch and powerful though it was,
could not keep ahead of its smell.
We had faced death before, but
never a death like tLi. Puck.