Sl.oo a Year, la Advance.
FG K(, t-UR COUNTRY, AND f'OS TRUTH."
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PLYMOUTH. N, 0., FRIDAY, M ARCH 21. iflflo.
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OFF TO THE FISHING GROUND.
ET Ih M.
There s a piping wind from a sunrise shore
Blowing over a iilver eca. ,
There a a. joyous voice in the lapsing tide'
That calls enticinalv
"The mist of dawn has taken .flight
To ifio dim horizon's bound,
'And with wide 5ail.s sel and eager hearts
We're off to the lashing ground.
Ho, ooniT'cidcs mine, how that brave 'wind
Like. ft ?rcat era-harp afar!
Ve whistle its wild notes back to it
. As avv- cross the harbor bar.
Ttehind uk there are homes we love
And hearts that are fond and true.
And bciore beckons a strong yourr;
day . . . . .
On leagues 0? glorious blue. .f
-f.y- t.tj ire
iOJ-V HAD just arrived in Eng-1
v l 'U(1 after ten years' serv
O I O -See' abroad, and was now
? speeding by train to iry
t.04 old home in Kent, a day,
too, before I v.-as expected, in order to
'-spy out the laud and take my cousin
Kate unawares, and the reason for this
yras to be found in "a letter I had that
day received from niy father 1 took it
out of my pocket and read it again for
the twentieth time. T There was ho mis
taking its import, , and that was dis
quieting enough. .
'My dear Jack," it said, "I have re
frained till now to broach a subject
rcpon which I have set niyheart. Siuee
your mother'3 death I have led a Jone
Jy life, and it is. now iny wish that you
should cut the service, take to yourself
wife and settle down here as my
nearest neighbor on as fine an estate
no ih.iy la in thai ,-whrlrf rmntv of
Kent. I will come to the point at once.
Your cousin, Kate Fielding, upon her
Attaining her majority last month came'1
into the entire Selcombe property and
:H5,000 a year. Now, I do not know:
-what your predilections may be in the
matter, or, indeed, whether you are
still heart whole or not. But Kate is a
Apnt. irood. sensible, level headed girl
a wild sort of a creature once, as you
may remember, hut sedate enough now
and if you could bring yourself to,
liking her and persuade her, if per
suasion he necessary, to like you, and
make a. match.' of it, I should be the
happiest of men, feeling it to he an ad
equate recompense for your' long ab
sence, and a guarantee , that I should
nevt-r' lose sight of you again for lou.
I am sending this letter to your agents
ao as to give you twenty-four hours of.
reflection . pforo your arrival, here osi.
Thursday. Yours affectionately, John
Hamilton." r. ' ,
"Just so," I said, thrusting the letter
once more into my pocket. ."The dear
old governor is in dead earnest, but he-
, Is the worst matchmaker outside, of
-petticoats in the three kingdoms. What!
Many that harum-scarum, tree-ciimb-1ns.
bareback riding " tomboy. Kate
Fielding! ' Not if I know it. Idon't
-ivant to offend the old boy, but he
must bo a bit reasonable in this matter-"
We must argue it out ' together.
Why, if I remember -aright, she had.
Ted hair and a squint, and no girl can
ever recover from red hair and a
.squint. Sedate enough row, is she?
he must have changed, indeed. Why,
I remember her once fighting a boy
twice her. size for ill treating a three-;year-old
little maid. Ged! that was
tine. I did like that. Why, hello!
.What Is this? Here already ?"
I jumped out upon the platform. The
old station, master touched his cap.
"Artily glad to see you hack again,
Capt'ri. Are you .expecting the car
riage dowu? " . .
t?6, Briggs. Glad to'see yoif looking
younger than ever. Send up my dress
ing case to the butler, and let the rest
jf the luggage follow to-morrow.' '
"Right, sir. -Then you dcn'tWish.a
yv" ' :.
"No; I hall take a short cut afoot
across Ihe meadows'
- And with that I strolled down the fa-s-miliar
villsge-street until I came to the
hedgerows, and, mounting a stile,
-?au.eht a glimpse of the old home. Ite
.yond some two miles of intervening
meadows lay a broad belt of woodland,
nm above it a square church tower,
ith gables and clustered chimney
tops, russet colored in the slant rays of
ihe setting. sun. It wanted anhour
imd a half to dinnpr time, as ! ascer
tained -7 tuy. watch, and leaping from
ffce utile I proceeded down the footway,
'.between Ike high hedgerows, leisurely
I CUUS1M .KATE,' I
HONTGOVHBT.
Comrades, a song as the fleet goes tut,
A song of the Orient sea! , ,
We. are the heirs of its tingling strife,
Its courace and liberty.
Sing as the white sails cream and fill
And the foam in pur wake is long,
Sing till the headlands black and grim
licho'us back our song I ' , ;
'Oh, 'tis a glad and heartsome thing .
To wake ere the night b done
And steer the. course that our fathers
steered . . 1 ' . -
Tn the path of the rising sun.
The wind and welkin and wave are our3
. Wherever cur bourne is found,
And we envy no landsman his dream and'
sleep
When we're off to the fishing ground! ;
' . Youth's Companiod.
swinging my umbrelja and thinking al
ways of that little hoyden Kate and of
what the immediate future had in store
for me in that direction. 7
Suddenly I, became conscious of an
alarming change in theweather. "The
tops of tlje hedgerows bent all aslant,
and the larger twigs beat, the air like
whips. A great pall of darkness spread
overhead, threaded now and then I by
lines of fire, and at last a loud smack
right overhead brought my. reflections
to a full stop.
"By Jove! said I' I fa m' caught in a
thunderstorm and a mile yet to go.'
Quiekeping my pace and rounding a
sharp turn in the pathway I perceived
barely twenty paces in advance of me
an adorable - little figure; with skirts
fluttering In the Wind and flossy hair
all blown. . wry, who was struggling
wildly with a red payasol that refused
to be closed. Just in front of her' was
a stile; the rain now began to come
down ! hi i great splashes, a -.flurry of
wind, caught her as she; was "nearly
over the stile, and the red parasol
went careering away in midair like a
parachute. ; ' '
, This was, an opportunity, not to be
lost; and before jshe was aware of my
presence 1 had leaped over the stile
and. was handiEg her down on the
other side, with my umbrella unfurled
and ready.' . .-, . J
"Pardon me," I said, in my very best
manner. 'As you appear to be going
my way will you permit me to offer
you the hospitality of my gamp?"
She turned up the loveliest face in all
the wide world, with the rosiest checks
and the prettiest of dimples coming and
going in them, and her white teeth
showed dellciousiy as she laughed and
,sald ; . .-:. '- 'J,' . '','
"Circumstances would, compel me in
any case, and I, thank you vry much,"
and without further ado she put her
head under the umbrella in very near,
proximity to ray own. I never knew
such rain as followed outside of the
tropics. It came down in unbroken
liquid spines as thick as your finger,
and an umbrella, even of the widest
capacity, was a very small providence
indeed under such circumstances. Hap
pily, however before- we had time 'to
exchange a dozen further words a
sharp bend in the path brought us to
an outbuildfng, the door of which stood
invitingly open. At that momep.t the
sky opened ' wide fwitb Same and
belched with thunder and with a com
mon impulse we sought the opportune
shelter. There Was then an awkward
pause and a sense of embarrassment In
which we bad an equal share. At last
I said: . -.. . . . '
"Are you living in, this neighbor-
hoodrv ; . ,.' ;
"For the present, yes," she answered.
Terhaps, then, we shall be neigh
bors. My people live at the Grange."
"You, then, are Captain Ilamiltoa."
I was somewhat surprised at this,
but gave no sign of it, only as I re
moved my hat. "At your service.?
"V' w yur father, and have often
heard him speak of you. I don't think
he expects you to-day, however."
Again I. wondered, but hoping to ob
tain information, and, feeling, some
how, that I had an honest girl to deal
with, I at once blurted out the truth.
"Can I trust you?" I said, quickly
adding, "Indeed, I know I can."
She laughed the merriest of all pos
sible laughs I have never known such
a merry laugh as that girl had, ,
"Yes," she answered, "i think I may
be trusted. But why the question?"
"It is this. I have a. cousin' living
down : . re-her Auamo ' Js:; Kate Ficld-
1
"I kn:,v her very well.'
"That simplifies matters. I have not
seen her for ten years, and I thought I
would run down to-day and have a
peep' at her unawares." " '
"You have a motive in dofhg so, of
course?'? , -; ..' ' '
"Well, yes, but I must not carry my
confidences too far." v ;
"Don't; I have not invited them." .
"Quite so. Well, i, always detested
this cousin of mine," ,
"Indeed! And why? I like her very
miich myself, although, speaking can
didly she has certain'faults." .
"There you are," I answered, trium
phantly; "the chief of which is ugli
ness." v ; ..".''' V:;
"She certainly is.no beauty." v '
"Beauty! I can see her now a red-
headed,' squint-eyed, madcap creature,
climbing trees and fighting boys."
"Fighting boysT How shocking!"
"Yes. I saw her, once lick a boy as
big as two of her;Jhe hadbeen maul
ing liis little baby slsterl But I' liked
her for that,, and took her up in my
arms and kissed her."
"Did she like it?" -; .'
'I think not, for, she simpb', smacked
my face and said, 'How dare you, sifT
That's what th;e little spitfire did. 1
suppose her hair is as red its' ever?" "
"lied! No; it is mouse color,"
"Mouse color! That's odd; I never
knew red hair to go-mouse color." '."
"Oh! It does sometimes." v ,
"What about the squint?" ,
"Her spectacles, hide thai" v '
' ''Spectacles Is You -don't mean to tell
me that " . y-.-f ;,:. ''-'':-"r
: "l do, but, poor thing, that is no fault
of-bers." . . , . ' " ; -'
"Certainly, vnot, ;. but hang it -'all! a
cousin in spectacles. Who-1 ".-- '"''".
"Who what?"i . V'y v-'"'.
"Oh, nothing in particular' She has
come into ajot'pf moueybasn't. she?"
, "Heaps of it. Some girls ; seem to
have ajl the luclt.7. - ' J
J "Pooh said 0 looking her jover ad
miringly, 'What is money wilhout? -"
"Whatr-v :t: -i-:'r.
v "Beauty,"" I answeredVas bold- as
brass "beauty such a s -". : t,
'- She made a sudden bolt for the door;
' "The rain is o-er," she said. "Looki
there is the sun again. .; I must hurry
"away home, or I shall be late."
. ,And then, to the yery gates of the
drenffG'r Jliere was nothing but com
mobf!""? exchanged between us. Not
another "word would she utter about
my -cousin , Kd - At the gates we
parted, and I Washed her until she
disappeared at aAskaitr'bend in the
road, and with a sigh. I sati "No cou
siri Kate how for me. Poor old'gov'
nor we shall haveV bad quarter of an
honr over this." Then I sneaked roun
to the back of the houso and furtively
interviewed Simpson, our old butler,
and soon .after . was dressing for, din
ner. On my way down I once more
encountered Simpson. ' ' . V
"is Miss Fielding in the drawing
room, Simpson?" ! asked. ,
"Yes, sir, and Mr. Dobbins, the cur
ate. He dines here to-night, too, sir."
I thanked him, and girding np my loins
for whatever might befall, entered the
drawing room, where my worst fears
were at once realized. She was sitting
alone at a little table turning over the
leaves of a book.. Mouse colored hair,
spectacles, a straight " up and down
figure clad in black with a triangle of
Honlton lace down the front, and se
dateness 'enough ' in all conscience.
Nothing was lacking in the picture my
imagination' had painted. I can just
remember introducing myself to her,
and being introduced by her in turn to
Mr. Dobbins. All the rest is a disor
dered dream my father making a
great ado over my premature coming;
my taking this dreadful cousin Kate
of mine Into dinner at the very mo
ment the - loveliest apparitious ap
peared upon the threshold, and, with
a glance of withering scorn at me, pla
cidly taking Mr. Dobbins' arm tind be
ing led by him to het seat at the table.
And to drive me further mad was this
awful cousin of mine with the mouse
colored hair nodding gravely to mine,
but never saying a word .'herself be
yond an occasional "yes" or "no" or
"oh! indeed!" while the radiant beluj:
opposite was beaming upon a delightc l
curate, and driving me to the .very
depths of despair. I held my peace, I
remember, with the governorwhen the
ladies had retired, thinking to hate it
out wltk him afterward, and it wjis
with a sense of relief when I entered
the drawing room to find my cousin
Kate at the piano trolling forth a lugu
brious ditty. All this I recall dimly,
but remembrance clears as I see that
radiant vision suddenly advance and
sent itself by my We.
i"Ahr I said, "at last." . '
Captain Hamilton." came the is-
toundlng reply. "I am afraid you are
an iraposter. You told me you came
down here to well to be, at least, po-
lite to your cousin Kate." ' ; T
''Hang it all," J said, somewhat test
ily, "1 am afraid I have done my best
to be-polite, but it has nearly killed me
all the same." i - : - ''
"I don't believe, indeed, I know that
you have, not said one pleasant word to
her this evening."
"Well," I replied, pointing' toward
the piano, "there sheas. ' A6k hei,"
'Ask her! Why should I ask her? I
am not peakius of her, but of your
cousin Kate,',,, , ;
My breatli began to come quick and
fast as I again pointed to the piano.
"Pray," I asked, "who, then, is that
blessed woman?" ' f
"Why, the curate's wife. Mrs. Dobbins.-
of course. - Who else ?"
Then a glorious light suddenly
dawned upon me.
"Oh! you'jittle wretch," I said, "it is
you, then, who climbed . trees ' and
thrashed a boy and smr.cked a rude
man's face for kissing her without per
mission ?" ;;: ' ; 1 ' :
Vlavs! good sir,T must admit the soft
impeachment," and the . peal of merry
laughter that burst from her lips at
that moment; even drowning Mrs.
Dobbins ' lugubrious ditty, I shall
never forget to my dying day.
' , ' ' .
Somejlttle time afterward my father
had his dearest wish. I didlnot think
it wbijth my while after all, to argue
the point out with him. Boston Culti
vator1. - ' - - . ' '
f ,.VIre Fences s Condact or.
The number orcattle killed each year
by lightnhig.has become considerably
larger sinre wire fences have come into
"use in the West.-. The use of wire
fences hasiiecome extensile',, and therrf
is praetically Tittle land - now 'that is
not fenced in. Many ,cattle are killed
in open fields , surrounded by fences,
where fthete Is Aot a tree or anything
else to Vait tract, Ihe lightning. Most of
them;' are' fouud"near the fences, and it
is '-said7' that -the farmers insurance
companies are considering a raise in
their 'fates on Hhls account.' The rem-t
edy has been suggested of running
wires into the ground every few, ya.rds,
and where this has; been tried it seems
to have proved ,quite succefsful. Mil
waukee Sentinek L . ' '
! M, Fnll mnd Kmpty Cotton Sheds. v
' 'As I canie down the Southern to
day," said T. J. Howard, "I saw many
places along the llne.whece cotton was
piled up under roofsr That's a pretty
good indication, if'njy observation is
worth anything. I have-been traveling
the South for a number of" years, and
a long time ago I learned that cotton
on hand meant a planter without debt.
Whenever I see a cotton shed or gin
house empty I talte it Tor granted that
the farmer is behind, and that he has
been forced to sell in brder to pay his
obligations. But when I'sep the cotton
piled up as saw it to-day said .yester
day, 1 take it for granted tlm the
planter is at homeland that he owes
mighty little,; if, anything. Atlanta
Constitution. ' . ' v
. WAGNCR WAS TpO STRENUOy t.
Threatened to Ruin th Only .Piano ir
Faraway Nome. ''
One of the 'aractere in Nome,
Alaska,' was Dick Dawson; jrho had a
saloon, dance hall and gambling hell
combined, and had brought his out
fit, including an automatic piano, down
from Dawson City over an almost, im
passable route. t . . ..
One day when" things 'were rather
quiet in the place, Oscar, the chief and
only musician on the staff, got to work
with the automatic piano and pumped
at the pedals in ambitions style.
He had ground5 out a' lot of old
fashioned home and "mother songs,
when suddenly, without, the least
warning, he "struck, into the "Ride of
tho Valkyries." "; ...
When the crashing opening chords
,first sounded, Dawson, who was stand
ing at the end of the bar started and
looked around, to sea what was the
matter. Then the music took on a
1 bter tone, and as a delightful thrOI
inr rxxv. sounded out in the treble he
scttk-d Lack to enjoy H. '
' Again came a clash ' and thump,
bump, thump, as tlie' bas chords got
.0 work again. Dawson r, tatted over
oward the pinno t . rua,'
"Don't bother 'yourself, Dick. saia a
ystander. "That's all rh'Itt, that
Ic. 'That's Wagner."
"Who the 's Wagner?" was the
nswer. 'Til kill that Oscar for lei
'nS:him spoil tao piauo!" New Yort
jun,
SCIENCE NOTES.
With the progTeca of irrigation
throughout the land of the Nile the
demand for modern ateel windnaills is
steadily increasing. It is reported that
a firm In Alexanuria recently,, placed ;
an order for 22 modern windmills with ,
a German firm. , ' . - '
On immersing In cold distilled water
a rod of one of the four non-crystal
line tin-aluminium alloys, Sn5AI,
Sn3Al, Sn2Al, and SnA13, the surface
of which has been worked with the
file, an abundant evolution of deton
ating gas takes place for two or three
minutes at tie field surface of the
alloy. - 7'
On passing a current of hydrogen
through a. silica tube heated until soft
fx an oxyhydrogen flame, a deposit of
silica, either alone or mixed with
silicon, is formed in the tube, the
silica being reduced by the hydrogen
forming silicon hydride and water va
por, which react together in the re-
temperature. V
by H. Pecheux in Comptes Rendue.
Molten", mixtures5 of aluminium and
lead, containing less than 90 percent
of the, former metal, separate, on cool
ing, into three layers,, the lower one
consisting of lead, the middle one of
an alloy containing 90 to 97 percent of
aluminium while the upper one i
aluminium. Of the alloys obtained tn
this way) those containing respective-?
ly 33, 95, and 98 percent of aluminium
have -the densities 2.745, 2.674, and
2.60O, and have nearly the same color
as aluminium; they are malleable and
are readily cut with the chisel, show
ing a silvery surface, but are not so
hard as aluminium and are easily bent.
Not long ago a French . explorer in
travelling through Siam, observed a
species of small gray ants which were
new to him. These ants were much,
engaged in travelling; they lived in
his surprise, : he noticed among them
from time to time an ant which was
much . larger than the others and
moved at a much swifter pace, and
each of these larger anta, Mr. Meissen
saw, always carried one of the gray
ants on its back7 This di&covery led
him to watch their movemnt3 close
ly. He soon saw that while the main
body of gray ants was always on foot,,
they were accompanied, by Ht least one
of their own sort mounted on one of
these larger ants. He mounted and
detached himself ndwfand then from
the line., rode rapidly, to the head,
came swift'y back to the rear and
seemed to be the commander of th
expedition. . .
A Light That .Will Never Co Out
A thirty-six " candle-power light
which will never- go out has been dis-
Ktr o n invpntnr In ' T jSn rfrvrs .
While experimenting with protograph
ic chemicals some years ago Magrady's
attention was attracted by a glow in
t 6mall globe," caused, by a chemical
ccmpound. Magrady enlarged tho
gloX and perfected the light by plac
ing ft in an airtight glass. He . says
theresllressnoySy w1
not remain brilliant forever, ift
glass is not broken. A company hm
been, formed, to manufacture the light.
rr'--, ' -"-Otherwise. ;.
Praise keeps a woman yotmg and a
man dead broke. t
You never realize what a. small sal
ary you get until the plumber sends
in his bill. ' -
When a man is too old to be made a
fool of by a pretty woman he's cer
tainly in the centenarian class.
A woman's glory is in her hair nn
less you catch her with it done up iu
curl papers. Chicago News. "
;; A lafg deposits of copper haa heoa
discovered in the State of Santa Catha
rina, Brazil.' f Work oa expIoitaUoa
will soon.begittv The coacession'is in
Vhe hands of a CJerman'synCicate.
Cows Paid . Good . Dividends.
X F.: Vam
completed his account wi:'i'two cows
r'or cno year -ts -f oil
:: Amount ri-
r-elvcd.i from . Mctm?;;e3 creamery
?-!0.43. receivpu i;.r milk sold $18.0-!,
wWzi In. addilicn to thia
Mr. Pv-rc Jias used in his fam
ily one quart of milk every day fr
, V 0
.yoar. mo icea xor iRese coui
1 Stl
"icily hay and . grass.