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VOL. XVII.
PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1906.
NO. 14
a'IIE singer
ITe came to us with dreams to sell
Ah, long ago it seems!
I'rotn regions where enchantments dwell,
He on mo to us wit h dreams to kcII
And we had need of dreams.
Our thought had planned with artful care,
Our patient toil had wrought,
The roomy treasure-houses where
Were heaped the cosily and the rare
But dreams we had not bought:
Xay; we felt we hud no need of these,
Until with dulcet .strain,
Alluring as the melodies
That mock the lonely on the ser.s,
Ite made all else seem vain;
Bringing an aching sense of dearth,
A troubled, vague unreal,
A fear that we, whose care on earth
Had been to garner things of worth,
Had somehow nursed the best.
Then, as had been our wont before
Uritwed in vain to sigh
We turned our treasure o'er ami o'er.
But found in all our vaunted store
No coin that dreams would buy. -
t014m. HE flame in the grate rose
m and feM tilf,llI'- The ,uau
J O leaned forward and spread
& bis palma to catch the
StmtT heat.
"Are you cold?" the girl
asked.
"No," he answered, "not exactly
rold." He looked around r.t her. "My
blood is a bit sluggish, you know. It
needs a little heat to start it running.
That's what I owe to my phlegmatic
Dutch, ancestry."
"Are you going away?"
"Yes. Not willingly, you understand.
This iri a poor climate for weaklings.
Southern California is "he p'ace for
me."
"When do you go?"
"I promised my doctor to get away
before snow flies. That means right
away."
There was a brief silence. lie rubbed
his hands -slowly together.
"I am sorry you have to go, Gra
ham.' "That's good of you, Julia. But
don't be loo sorry I might change my
mind aud'tlefy my medical man."
"But of course yen will come back?"
"I doubt it. I'm ashamed to quote
my learned healer eo often, but he
says when I become acclimated to
the
climate there I mustn't lake such
rious chances as visiting cooler
sc
or inoisler climes would invite."
He sighed softly.
'"We will miss you. Graham."
"Thank you, Julia." He looked
around at her again. "How long have
we ktiovn each other';"
iShe considered for a moment.
"We- were toddlers of something like
six and three, I ihink. We almost
grew up together."
"You grew tu Julia. I merely veg
etated. At ten you were as tall as I
was at thirteen. At sixteen you out
weighed me by twenty ounds."
"I oowldn't help i,. Gratia -a."
"Nor could I. Or rather, I couldn't
prove myself your equal and then I
quit trying."
"Don talk like that. Graham."
"It's the truth." He laughed a little
hoarsely. "You will find our respec
tive heights scratched on the pagoda
down in the lower garden 'Julia, aged
ten,' and 'Graham, aged thirteen.' And
you beat me by ltilly an :neh. I fancy
we are pretty nearly of a he:ght now."
"You are tailor, I think," said the
girl.
"Kind Lear led Julia. There may be
an inch or so hi my favor. But just
conlrar.t yoiv superabundance of vi
tality with my sleepy sluggishness."
She Lcwned down t him as he bent
toward the fire.
"You are not nice to-night." she said.
"You certainly cannot think that I am
interested in hearing you depreciate
yourself."
"I'ti a little blue," he mid, "and per
haps I shouldn't have come here. But
then it's quite likely to be the last
time."
"The bust time. Graham?"
"Yes, I'll be. busy getting ready to
go. And I've half promised to visit
George Selwyn for a day or two. But
1 wanted to see yon to-night."
"Aim I'm very glad you rame."
He turned half away from the flaring
gra te.
"It isn't realiy goi.d for me to be
here," he slowly .-aid. "I' v..; been told
to avoid everything depressing."
"And why depressing, Graham?"
".'crimps becaus" it is to be for the
last lime. You and I have been good
frinds. Julia."
"Yes, Graham, very good friends for
a long, long time."
He laughed suddenly.
- "Ho yo : know I u.td to hope that
we would be something better fhan
friends, Julia. But uf course you never
noticed it?"
"No, Gra! am."
"That's queer. It was very apparent
to me."
"You aiowa v. h' n we were vtry
young? '
-Then and afterwards. But cyery
yoar you grew away 'from me. I
seemed to staud still you raced by.
I clunnr to the idea until I sa: It was
THE INTERVENTION OF
We stood with empty hands: but gay
As though upborne on wings,
He left us; and at set of day
We heard him singing, far away,
The joy of simp.e things!
lie left ns, and with apathy,
We gazed upon our gold;
But to the world's ascendancy
Submissive, soon we came to be
Much as we were of old.
Yet sometimes when the fragrant dawn
In early splendor beams,
And sometimes when, the twilight gone,
The moon o'er-silvers wood and lawn,
An echo of his dreams
Brings to the heart a swift regret
Which is not wholly pain.
And, grieving we would not forget
The vision hallowed to us yet
The hope that seemed so vain.
And then we envy not the throng
That careless passes by,
With no remembrance of the song;
Though we must listen still, and long
To hear it till we die!
-Florence Earle Coates. in The Century.
THE COLONEL
quite impossible." He laughed again.
"I think I gave it up three years ago."
He rubbed his hands before the flame
and hummed a plaintive little air.
"l'ou are not like yourself, Graham.
You are growing morbid."
"No, Julia. Not morbir. I'm grow
ing self-analytical. I'm taking myself
to pieces, but you are not to worry. It
isn't as painful as it looks."
"Don't, Graham." ' :
lie did not heed her word?.
"If we could have ren-p.iuod forever
children it would have beer a blessing
for me. I couldn't appreciate then
your all nround superiority."
"Graham, you distress me."
"But it presently dawned upon my
sluggish mind. And then I. swiftly
realize! it. Th2 contrast was too evi
dent. Here was I with my live-feet
six of slender and even delica i phys
ique. There were you in your splendid
young womanhood, far more than my
equal physically, and - -"
"Slop, Graham. Do you wish to of
fend me?"
He ran hi thin while hand through
his thick dark hair.
"It was a good thing I avok3 when
I did," he said with a little laugh. "I
might have gone ou thiuking that you
could in time learn to care for me
on the theory i perhaps, that like seeks
unlike. I might have thought that you
could even care enough for me to go
with me where I am going. I might
have dreamed that you could find
within me something lovable that was
not indicated by any exterior sign.
But that would have been folly. Yet
I want you to know all this. I want
you to understand that I am not so
blind and unreasoning' i.s to bother
you with any declaration cf a passion
that is so palpably hopeless. That's
creditable, isn't it? At the same time
I can ?o on regarding you as I would
a serene and beautiful and unap
proachable star. For there never will
be any woman to usurp your place in
my regard." He paused and a faint
smile rippled across his serious face.
"There,", he cried, "I'm glad it's said
and I'm glad I said it. It's something
I've wanted you tc know for a long
time." She looked at him wiih a tender
smile.
"We must always be good friends,
Graham."
"Good friends! Of course we will.
Test my triendshU as you may see fit.
You'll find it responds all right. I'll
even dance at your wedding if you
invite me and my doctor says I may."
He laughed a little discordantly. "Here
let me give my prophetic inspiration
free rein and describe your future hus
band to you." She shook her head in a
commanding way, but he did not heed
her. "lie must be tall and rather
dark, and broad of shoulder and keen
of eye. He must be strong and bold
and ready for every emergency. He
must be a man who can do things. A
man who can lead others, who can en
force obedience, and can command re
spect and inspire affection. That's the
sort of mate for you. Julia." He
laughed a little hoarsely. "On the oth
er hand look at me. What have I ever
done, save spend liior.ey my useful and
honored father laid away for me?
Where is my strength and my boldness,
and my winning personalty? Look at
me, Julia, and then choose a man who
is quite the opposite in all things."
lie leaned back in his chair.
"And you came here just to tell me
all this."
"I'm glad I told it." ho hummed the
words as if they were set to music; "I
am glad I told it." He straightened
up. "And having told it." he added,
I'm going to say good-bye. and may
heaven lavish upon you its choicest
blessings all of the same pattern ns
the ones you now enjoy." He arose as
he spoke and drew his slender figure
to its full height. "Not very impres
sive, am I?" he laughed.
The girl arose and gave him her
hand.
"I don't like to have you leave like
this, Graham," she said.
"It's the only way." he answered.
"I've got rid of my little eonfessiou,
and I can tell you I feel a good deal 1
lighter here," and he tapped the breast
of Ids coat. "Good-bye. Julia."
"Good-bye, Graham."
He held her hand a brief moment,
then turned and was gone.
She looked after him and sighed and
shook her head and went li the man
tel and leaned against it, looking down
at the fitful flames.
"Poor Graham."
Then came a ring of the bell and a
moment later a heavy voice in the hall
drew her attention.
"Come in, Colonel Bruce," she called.
The owner of the heavy voice looked
through the curtains.
"Oh, it's papa's blessed girl," he
cheerily cried, and strode into the
room. lie was a big man with thick
white hair and a heavy white mus
tache. "How are you, Julia?" and he
put out his big hand. "Where's your
daddy?"
"Gone over to Judge Wemple's."
"His rubber of whist, eh?"
"Yes. Won't you sit down?"
- "Guess I will for a minute or two.
Don't often get a chance to exchange
small talk with a handsome girl. I
suppose you are tired of hearing that
you are a very splendid young woman?
Why don't you marry? Hasn't the
right man come along yet?"
"No, colonel."
"He's painfully slow. I only wish I
were thirty years younger. Vain re
gret. Didn't I sea Graham Earl going
away from here."
"Yes, colonel."
"I thought it was Graham. He
seemed iu a hurry. Do you know him
well?"
"I don't think anybody knows him
well. We were children together, but
during the last three or four years I
have seen him but a very few times."
"He's been chasing around trying to
prop up ins health. Not very robust,
you know. Peculiar fellow."
"Yes, colonel."
"And you are right when you say
that nobody knows him very well. You
know how lacking he is in self-appreciation?"
.
"Yes."
"Always ready to stand aside for
somebody else anybody. Morbid about
his deficiencies in health and physique.
Shy to a degree. And yet well, I'll
tell you something about him. Want
to hear it?"
"Yes, colonel. I have told you that
Graham and I are old friends."
"Perhaps you don't know it, but I
was in the upper Peninsular looking
after some rather heavy lumber inter
ests a year or so ago. Bight out in
the wilderness, you know and the wil
derness wasn't any wilder than the
men who people it. Your friend
Graham was up there, too. Somebody
told him that it was the place to build
up a new constitution, and so he was
out there in the woods roughing it. He
had a little shack of his own and used
to wander about like an uneasy spirit.
The boys didn't know what to make of
him, and he didn't make anything cf
himself, as usual. I wasn't there when
he came and the foreman told me some
of these things. It seems that one of
the men. a French - Canadian, had
brought ins little girl, a child of ten
years, with him into the woods. She
was suffering from consumption and
her days were numbered. Well, she
and Graham became great friends, and
in her last hours it was Graham who
nursed her, and told her stories and
held her bnnd as the breath left her
frail little body. And Graham took
charge of the funeral and actually
preached a little sermon beside her
open grave, and the foreman told me it
was the most beautiful and touching
thing he ever heard. Well, after that
there was nothing he couldn't do with
that gang of barbarians. Why, when
'Manitoba Pete' ran amuck through
the camp, shooting and slashing, it was
Graham who walked right out in the
open and took his knife and gun away
from him and led him to his shack and
sobered him up and brought him back
to decency again. Any other man iu
camp would have sooner faced a hun
gry tiger, Yes, and when a clumsy
young Swede cut an artery in his leg.
it was Graham who sat by him and
made a living tourniquet of his bauds
and kept him from bleediug to death
until help came three hours later. And
one thing I saw with my own eyes. A
gang came over from a rival camp, a
particularly bad lot, and every mau of
them half drunk and armed to the
teeth, and they were after some rene
gade of a chap and meant to lynch
him. Well, Graham got the fellow iu
his shack and standing in the doorway
held those human wolves at bay with
a most sublime display of nerve and a
single revolver. And. by Jove, he
talked them out of their purpose. I
saw that myself, Miss Julia. You are
right when you say tnat nobody knows
Graham Earl very well, but I fancy I
know him well enough to recognize in
him one of the gentlest and bravest
spirits that ever tenanted a mortal
frame. But there, I must go. I just
dropped iu to see your daddy for a mo
ment or two. Good night."
The girl stood by the mantel staring
down into the lire for a little time.
Then a flush suddenly reddened her
beautiful face and a smile quickly
crossed it.
She turned and stepped to the tele
phone across the room and in clear and
steady tones gave the number she
wanted.
"Graham," she presently said, "do
yon know the voice? What's that?
The one voice in all the world? That
isn't what I asked you. Yes. it's Julia's
voice. Wait, Graham. I've been think
ing thinking very hard and, Graham,
I am quite ready to go with you when
ever and wherever you will." W. R.
Rose, in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
.SCIENCE
AND
NDUSTRY
Dr. Fiorkowski. a German bacteriolo
gist, says he has discovered not only
the microbe of distemper in dogs, but
also an effective serum having curative
as well as preventive qualities.
The director of the Berlin Observa
tory says the Courrieres disaster was
connected with atmospheric conditions,
and that the crust of the earth in the
Eastern Hemisphere is in a dangerous
condition. He predicts other disasters.
"I.usol" is the name of a now hydro
carbon oil a by-product from the man
ufacture of coke which is being used
for illuminating purposes in Paris.
The city authorities are experimenting
with it and it gives a large amount of
light at minimum cost.
The strength of hair has been found
by a German experimenter to vary
greatly with color. A single black hair
supported four ounces; 'one cf very
dark brown three and one-half ounces;
brown, three ounces; but yellow scarce
ly held up two ounces without break
ing. In a hot fire the union of the carbon
of the fuel with the oxygen of the air
produces carbonic acid gas, which sur
rounds the paper and prevents it from
blading, for carbonic acid docs r.ot
blaze. But if you give the paper a
little draft by blowing upon it, you
dissipate the carbonic acid and fan the
paper into flame.
A concern at Baldwinsville. Mass., re
cently had 'to instal new boilers in its
plant and the question, was how to se
cure power while the work was going
on. At length a locomotive was hired
from the railroad, and this being
switched alongside the mill and con
nected up with the engine inside fur
nished all the steam needed.
A novel use of compressed air is
made by some railway companies in
the Southern States of America, says
the Railway News. When the loads
of cotton for export are being taken to
the ccfcst there is always some danger
of such highly inflammable material
becoming damaged through sparks
from the locomotives. To prevent this
the locomotive boilers are tilled with
compressed air. A train load of several
thousand bales of cotton can be hauled
by these locomotives at a rate of
twelve miles an hour, although no lire
whatever is used in working them.
The Dreadnought, the largest and
most powerful battleship of the world's
navies, was launched at Portsmouth,
England, February .10. The vessel is
the first of a new class, in which the
constructors have embodied the lessons
obtained from close observation of
naval operations in the reccnit war in
the Far East. When ready for sea. the
ship will displace IS.ouO tons, and will
have the heaviest armament ever car
ried by a ship. She will lie able to
discharge every minute len projectiles
weighing SoOO pounds, with sufficient
velocity to send them twenty -live miles,
or to penetrate sixteen inches of armor
at a ilistancp cf two miles.
When Colomlm LnntleJ.
According to the Boston Herald,
when the Hon. John B. Alley, of Lynn,
was a member of Congress he. with
others of the New England delegation
in AVashinglon. had given a dinner on
Forefathers' day. Ex-Secretary of
State Evarts was one of the guests. In
the after-dinner exercises Mr. Alley
had taken much time in relating cir
cumstances in which he was the most
conspicuous figure.
Evarts Avas next on the list of speak
ers, and, in beginning his remarks,
said: "I have listened to my friend
Alley with profound interest and re
spect. The manj- events of National
and .State history with which he has
been connected is truly wonderful, but
there is one he has omitted, doubtless
through his well-known modesty. I
refer to that ever memorable morning
when, after the discovery of America,
Columbus turned to him and said:
'John, where had we better laud?'"
Soldier on Oxen.
The strangle military body in the
world is a Land of cavalry at Saint de
Moorvi-.y, a province cn the east coast
of Africa, which is under the rule of
the French Governor-General of Mada
gascar. These soldie-3 go about their
military operations ou oxen. The ani
mals are lean creatures, ami it is said
they move with surprising rapidity.
Chicago Journal.
CHILDREN'S.
THE SNAPSHOT.
"Come on; all ready. Stand riht there.
I'll tell you when I'm taking. " Wait
I've got to focus. Now! Prepare!
No,, no the camera'; not straight.
How far is it, do you suppose?
I'm focussing at twenty feet.
No. papa needn't change hU clothes.
And doesn't baby look loo sweet!
"Now! Wait a minute T can't get
You all in somehow. Mamma, please
Move close to papa closer yet;
Or sit, with baby on your knees.
I'll move back, too, a little bit.
Now! Wait you're partly in the shade.
I guess that mamma'll have to sit.
Or else she won't show, I'm afraid.
"And, napa, you sit, too. Let's see
No, that won't do; your feet are out
Of focus; they would look to be
As 1 as ferryboat!-, about!
Turn catty-corner there! Now! No,
That won't do. Wait. I guess we
planned
Best way at first. You seem so low.
Perhaps you all had better stand.
"No! Wait! until the sun is bright.
How mean a cloud should interfere!
You're all three now exactly right!
Just fine! And baby's moved! Oh,
dear!
But there it's coming out! Now, quick!
Here, baby! Look at sister look!
Just look at sis I'm taking!" (Click!)
"There, now! It's over with. You're
'took.' "
Edwin L. Sabin, in St. Nicholas.
"THE PARROT'S RIVAL.
In the house of the consul in Bang
kok is a bird that keeps up an inces
sant chatter that might almost be
dubbed conversation, so clever i? it.
The voice of this bird is very much
like a human voice, far more so than
the parrot.
The bird is called tin Mineur or
Minor. It Icarus much more readily
than the parrot and is as clever at imi
tating as the American mocking-bird.
It whistles in exact imitation of its
master and slugs whole songs through
without making a mistake. When, it
was first purchased it could only talk
in Siamese, but in a short while picked
up many sentences of English.
Tfie master of th.s cunning songster
always summons his servants to him
by calliug "boy." The mineur learned
to do vne same thing, with the result
that the servant was sent on a fool's
errand many times. None could tell
whether the master called "boy" or
the mineur. This greatly annoyed the
servant, whose owner told him that he
need not come unless he heard the call
"boy. boy," repeated twice. In three
days' time the mineur had learned this
trick and was doing the same thing.
Then it was arranged that the master
should strike on the table or clap his
hands as they do in Turkey or Siam.
Tin's was too. much for the mineur,
who found that his fun was over.
Washington Star.
BIRD GUESTS.
One of our greatest pleasures is
'watching and studying the birds who
come to drink and bathe in the water
we provide in pottery saucers of vari
ous sizes, writes Bertha W. Kaan in
Good Housekeeping. We do not put
these on the ground, for fear of the
deadly cat. but set them on stumps,
yc in the crotches of trees. We have
fix of these baths, and it is uo small
iask to keep them replenished, as one
cobin will empty a large saucer. They
are most enthusiastic bathers and in
hot weather will often sit crouching
m the water for several minutes at a
time. Robins never approach the
Faucer directly, they always pretend
(hey are going somewhere else. Black
birds, ou the other hand, dart into
the dish like an arrow from a bow.
nometimes from a long distance. After
the young are hatched, the blackbirds
always 'bring food to the water and
moisten it before taking it to the nest.
Yireos have a peculiar way of bathing
they skim through the water, never
alighting in the saucer or on the edge.
Sometimes they will fly through in this
manner several times in quick succes
sion, but we have never seen them
bathe in any other way. English spar
rows are the daintiest drinkers of all
they seldom bathe and when we see
a company of a dozen of these little
creatures rimming the big dish and
drinking together, we are so interested
that we forget our prejudice against
them. The yellow warblers, always
devoted, bathe together in the small
est dish the prettiest sight our gar
den affords. Aside from the many en
tertaining sights which wo enjoy daily,
we. aiv sun; that the garden is more
free from insect pests since we have
enenu.-.ged "our little brothers of the
air" to have "a cup of cold water'' with
us.
JOEY AND FREDDY.
When I'm big I'm going to be a
soldier,' said little Joey Hunt.
"So am I." t-aid Freddy -Lay ton.
And so they meant 1o be. for they
thoughl there was nothing so nice in
the whole world as soldiers.
Their papas used to drill with the sol
diers, and were tall and straight aud
DEPARTMENT:
strong, and the boys wanted to
just like them when they grew big
Freddy and Joey often went
their papas to the park, where the
diers drilled; and, when they c
home, they made big paper caps,
out their flags and toy drums,
played soldier for ever so long.
Joey and Freddy both liked ca
but their papes said much candy
not good for people; that it would
make them grow strong nor stra
nor good looking.
Well, these two boys went to kir
garten a nice kind of school w
boys go when they are small.
They lived a long way. from the
dergarten, and it was nearly ah
late when they reached home toi
ner, so their mothers let them ta
little lunch with them to eat abou
middle of the forenoon sometim
cooky, sometimes an apple; and f
they were given a cent or two and
to call at the shop on the way and
something for their lunch.
Joey always bought an appl
banana or an orange. Freddy ali
bought chocolate or some other
of candy, and often ate it befoi
reached kindergarten.
He had a grandmother who lived
cute little house on the side of
street, so his mother told him ali
when he had time, to run in and!
good morning to her, aud ask h
she were well. Grandma loved IE
and, to show her love, often gave
pennies. He used these for bv
more candy on the way home.
Well, these two boys grew older!
older and bigger and bigger th
Joey grew much faster than Fred
Joey always seemed to be gc
stronger, too; he soon got so he
lift real heavy things almost as bl
his papa could lift. His eyes
brighter, his cheeks grew redder
legs grow longer, his back
straigbter, and everybody said:
"Why, Joey Hunt is beginning to
just like his father!"
But Freddy his cheeks grew th
and paler; his back did "not gro
straight as it should, nor his legn
arms as strong as they should, an
head used to ache very often. 14
morning he had dark rings. unde
eves and he did not want to eatf
breakfast. His mother, father
teacher could not thiuk what
wrong. .
Well, at last Joey and Freddy
old enough to go to school, and
still wanted to be soldiers.
After while they were old enoir
leave school, and they still want
be soldiers.
At last the day came when they
to go into the army and start 1
soldiers. The man from the
came to measure them and see if
were fit to be soldiers.
He measured Joey first. He i
ured to see how tall he was, ar,
was just right. ,
He measured him to see how I
his shoulders were, and they wen
right.
He measured him to see how fu
chest was, and it was just right
Then the doctor examined him.
lungs were right, his heart was
his blood was good, and he wa
just right'. So the man said he
be a soldier.
Then they measured Freddy.
officer measured him to see hov
he was, and he was not quit:
enough. He measured him to see
broad his shoulders were, and
were not quite broad enough,
measured him to see how full his
was, and it was not full enough.
the doctor examined him. but he
he would often have headache
blood was bad, his muscles wer
strong enough, and he was too
and sickly to be a soldier.
So poor Freddy had to give up
a soldier and all because he at;
much candy when he was a 1
Mother's Magazine.
To the Pacific.
A grand highway, boulevard oi
course, is a probability lietween
York and San Francisco. In a,
line the distance is I'dOO miles. 1
shortest railroad line. 1 believe, is
miles. Locomotives must have ci
well as tunnels and embaukn'
their powers of mounting grades (
extremely limit oil. A fifty per
grade is fun to an auto car. The
Wall of China was built in five :
We could construct this oceau-to-boulrvard
in less time. And w
mperb drive it would be!--New
Press. ,
The largest consignment of
ever expovteit to I'.ngianu. weij
seventy tons, was landed at t-
atnpton from the American liner
York. The metal was iu 07:: ba
closed m Mo boxes, ami its va;
$l,25d,000.