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VOLUME XIX. FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 1904. NUA1BEII 16 SUMMER WOOF, FOR Borne times, when tho north wind is blowing And wo look through the pane at tho snowing At a marble-white world out of doors The heart crloth out for the coming Of blossoms and birdflt for the humming Of noney-wiuged bees in white-clover stores, When violet vapors have hidden The eold. naked hilltops, and bidden The pale eveuing star as their guest, A picture of moon-laden mountains, Or Hashing of fern-laddered fountains, Lietli still as a garden of rest. HASHEESH. J A SHORT STORY, The season was nearly at its end. Ou the terrace of Shepheard's were many groups German, American and Eng lishstopping for a few days in Cairo on their way home. In the street in front of the terrace the hawkers dis played their wares pan pipes, fly whisks, images of the sphinx, picture post cards, matches. One offered for sale an inlaid table that he carried on his head. Another handed up an old flintlock pistol heavily mounted in sil ver for the inspection of a pretty girl from Cincinnati. Every now and then a carriage drove up and a party of tourists passed up the steps, followed by a dragoman laden with kodaks and dust cloaks and bazaar purchases. The bright sunlight flooded a scene of bril liant colors. At one of the tables next to that where the pretty girl from Cincinnati was sipping her tea sat three men of different ages. Mr. Nathaniel Brookes, a man of some GO years and rather distinguished appearance, was discuss ing total prohibitions with Dr. Hen-son-Blake. The doctor was a man of wiry build, with the face of a hawk and that indescribable look which comes only "of strength" ani experi ence. The third man listened and fid geted. Krom babyhood he had been precocious, and preferred to associate with those who were older than he was. In consequence he sometimes had to sit. as now, rather on the out side of the associations. He smoked endless cigarettes and drank Eomethlng which was cold and not good for him out of a long thin glass, In which the ire tinkled pleasantly. Ho was a fair haired young man whom the sun had merely freckled. He wore a single eye-glass, but did not always dare to use It. When you got to the bottom of his failings you found fundamentally by no neans a bad sort of man, by name Pciclval Lake. This was his first yearln Egypt. Both Brookes and JJjgjJortj had known Egypt f&MH Brookes who was speaking. dig," he said, "and it should be made well worth their while to dig." "But they do," said the doctor. "They all of them do it in the summer, and they always have done." "Yes," said Brookes. "Prohibitions which are too strict are always evaded. It's the same thing with hasheesh. But what I mean it that if we succeed In stopping the fellaheen from digging, the working European Egyptologist will find very little. The native will take care of that, and this is a case where the native has knowledge that the European can get only from him." "That's possible," the doctor agreed. "What's that about hasheesh?" the young man asked. "I thought it was the kind of drug that one came across frequently in stories and rarely in chemists' shops, and nowhere else." "Nornihilly," said Brookes, "there is no hasheesh In Egypt. It is not al lowed. It is contraband. I forget how many tons of It were seized last year, and I should be sorry to say how much managed to get through." "Then the natives really use It?" "Of course they do. There Is a com mon type in all races which requires a nerve alterative and will have It. If religion or sentiment or custom -shuts out alcohol, then It will be opium or hasheesh. Egypt goes for hasheesh." "And the prohibition is of no use?" asked Lake. "I wouldn't say that," Brookes re plied grimly. "If a native has a quar rel with his neighbor he can and sometimes does sow cannabis indlca on his neighbor's land and then report him for growing Illegal stuff as Boon as the crop comes up. That Is useful. Speaking seriously, the prohibition may lessen the amount of hasheesh consumed, and undoubtedly has raised Its price considerably vices are the monopoly of the rich. All the same, I had a boy working on my dahabeah last year who was an excellent fel low. This year he was impossible, and I had to sack him. That was has heesh." "And what is the effect of it?" "Asfc the doctor." "If you take enough and smoke it long enough," said Or. Henson-Blake, "The effect is insanity. The given percentage in the asylums is fairly high, and should perhaps be higher. They don't admit it if they can help it, and it cannot always be spotted." "And what is the Immediate effect?" "A Beuse of bien etre, of the ab sence of all worry. Sometimes there are delusions. The typical smoker gen erally gets an excessive vanity swelled head and becomes very quar relsome. That Is why Brookes had to sack that boy of his." "All the same," said Lake. "I should ? very much like to try It." - "If I thought you meant that" the . doctor began with the Suspicion of a ' sneer. Lake wis' rather angry. "I can as sure you I am not talking for effect There are some people who don't, you know." "All right," 'said, the doctor, wiper ; turbed, "keep your hair 911. I've got some tobacco prepared with hasheesh up stairs. It Is some that 1 had to cob fiscbto. I'll Rive you a pipeful and you can try It after dinner. Smoke It In your own room, though not dowa-'-, (stairs .'i :-it':&w t 3 : h 'to - ' ''ThMki vsry much," Hid !,nl to WINTER WEAVING. As we sit in the firelight's gleaming, The sprite In the backlog brings dream ing Of the summer's low-voiued mono tone; And we close on- eyes to the dancing Of tir-fleoked figures, entrancing Our souls with the thoughts of days that are flown. go ever the Past doth enamour; The sheen of its exquisite glamour May illumine tho bitterest day: For under the frost there is breathing, And in the dead branches is wreathing Of hawthorn and lilacs for crowning of May. Ella Beardsley, tn Boston Transcript. By BARRY PAIN. the doctor. I'll come up with you now and get it." The three men rose. As they did so the pretty girl from Cincinnati stepped up to the doctor. "Sny, doc tor, listen to me. Am I to give that man five dollars and a half for this?" The doctor took the scarab in his hafld and examined it. "No, Miss Jocelyn," he said. "Why not? I call that a dandy scar ab. White amethyst. Genuine an tique." "It is not white amethyst and I know tbe man who made it the day before yesterday. If you want it for . a toy ten piastres is an outside price. The man will take that." "My!" exclaimed Miss Jocelyn. "Thank you vurry much," and she re turned to her negotiations. The three men passed through into tho hall. II. After dinner Brookes and Dr. Henson-Blake went oft to see a friend at the Savoy. They left with grim, half chaffing injunctions to young Lake to take care of himself. Lake, a little sul ky, settled himself in one corner of the hali to smoke a clgaicUB oeloru his experiment. And suddenly Miss Jocelyn, whom he did not know, came up to him. She was a dark girl, pale skinned and red lipped. She had a little of that jaunty, almost slangy, American air of being able to take care of herself. But she also carried the impression that this air was superficial and un derneath It there might be poetry of a rather volcanic order. She sat down quietly on the other side of the tahle and said, "Do you not know me, Mr. Lake?" Lake said that at any rate he was charmed to have the privilege of mak ing her acquaintance. "But," she went on, "I want you to behave just as if you had know. pretty cute. fer me a clg! for me as if that you b me. Don't look away why I'm Lake and to was con that r cigarette, this to that I fi matter at tented w "I just Henson-Bl 1st boat togl down on yol you Is ordinal make you say a a lot of funny and then he'll say heesh fn it at all and You needn't ask me how it's the truth." "I believe you. The possibility of it had occurred to me. Well, I have on ly to tell him that I got no Bensatlons at all, and that's all over with this little joke." "Yes," said Miss Jocelyn, "but you can get back on him. That's better." "How?" "Spin him a long story. Tell him you smoked it and it gave you visions. Then when he's finished with his laff, give him his tobacco back again to prove that you knew his game all the time." "Excellent" He took from his pock et a little box In which the tobacco was placed, put it in one of the hotel envelopes, and sealed and dated it. "But the triumph must be yours," he said. She leaned forward seriously. "Lis ten to me. You don't want to mention my name, you don't even know It, but I'm Irene Jocelyn. I've put confidence in you. See, he's not got to know that I've had anything to do with it. You promise me that?" "Certainly. But I'm puzzled. Why do you come along to save me from making myself ridiculous? It's very kind of you. I'm very glad you've done It. But why!" She hesitated and blushed slightly. "For myself, perhaps." It seemed promising; be was em boldened. "What a pity I have wasted my time by not meeting you before? Have you been long in Cairo?" "A few days," she said, absent mlnd edly. "My!" she excliamed. "If I don't go back to my Aunt Esmeralda right now there's going to be a deal of trou ble. I'll say good night to you, Mr. Lake." He was rather staggered. "Good night," he said. "But I hope this is not the last time " "It depends, Mind that when he's about you don't know me." He watched her as she went up the ball. Her bright smile came off very easily. She looked a little tired and hunted. That bight he could come to no sat isfactory explanation. He could only decide to do exactly as he had beta told and await events. In tbe mean time the girl's face , haunted him, and always as it had been when she did not know that he could see her al ways that tired and hunted look. What had been her story T What -was Inside hof heart and mind? What cards was she playing? Why had she spoken to him; Ths questions were sadists. His i m eat I I I EX interest In her, strangely powerful, kept him for long awake. III. , The little farce was played out with great success next morning. Lake told a beautiful story, and did it better be cause Irene jocelyn, breakfasting alone at the next table, was listening Intently. After smoking the hasheesh he had heard the sphynx talking. Then a black and limitless ocean had broken over it, and out of the ocean a strange white woman had crept and cut her self with a gold handled knife. "Good!" said, the doctor, with dry triumph. "And 'the more interesting because you have never bad any has heesh at all." "No?" said Lake. "I thought that would be it" He tossed the envelope across to the doctor. "You'll And your tobacco Inside. How do you give It that greon color? I think the score- Is with me." The doctor was angry, the more so because Brookes was undisguisedly amused at the failure. But he made one shrewd guess. "If I had mention ed tho thing to a solitary soul I should have been certain that it had been given away to you. As It is, I can't see how you came to think of it for yourself. It's quite unlike you." IV. For the next two days Irene Jocelyn successfully avoided young Lake, and thereby drove him to the verge of madness. It even occurred to bim to play a bold stroke and ask the doctor to Introduce him. But he had the rea sonable conviction that the introduc tion would do him more harm than pood with this strange girl. He grow to hate Henson-Blake; it was evident that while he was there Irene would not speak. He invented excuses to get hlra out of the way. On the third day she came up to him In the hall with hand outstretch ed. "I just want to say goodby to you, Mr. Lake," she said. "We leave this afternoon." "Won't you tell me anything before you go? I can find no reason why you should have interested yourself In my defence. Still lena ntv T find any rea son why you hi T) avoided me ever since." "But I wasn't interested in you. You're not whftt do they say? not on In this act. Didn't I tell you that I was doing it for myself?" "Yes. You are ;lever you found out the doctor's tricl." "I know him. fytold you that I met him on the tourl boat. I knew what he would do." "I am stupid, fir I also knew him, and did not Jnd out I'm not vain enough, bel)eve me, to suppose that you did thlsor love of me." She laughed an Knapped her fingers. "I wish to Go J ou had!" he added and the tone a slmnllc. words Tt Irty convicts from the Nikolosk-t beiia by driving a tuns under the building. The Chinese pen froJ mortal has been a brush soft hair and used to ously formed letters of alpholet. A huge shark was latj i.v tho murines of the Bs Hriront at Port RoVfll. Jai nine young sharks, all alii Ing, were round in stomach. A Kansas editor apolol typographical blunder, him say that a bride "shirt sleeves. We wl sleeves,' " explains the plain as we know how." Deep sorrow for a do shown In Wichita, Kan. It and for years had accoml owner on hunting expedlt animal died, and was bu expensive coffin, with a Si on which to rest its hea,rfl eoflin was covereu wun no- Two detectives at M Minn., were getting shared li shop recently, and when tl had been nicely lathered til man come into the shop w needed badly in their bnstne I ran out of the shop and al the streets with the soap I faces before they 'finally lanf man. a Parliamentary Rull "He said he could not hel" you," whispered the first man's daughter. "He sid sat beside you In the couaerval looked Into your eyes he waj by sn Irresistible Impulse an had to kiss you." - . "Did he?" smiled the sect gressman's daughter, who wai ing with some Interest to the thus belpg made for the boh the handsome cousin of the ot "Tea. Ho said that it was y that woa him. He -'Well, hell hart to come aroii correct tlie minutes Of that tit The eyes won it, hut the nose --Judge. ,.'t ".,. 1 1' ' Of the 4,000,fl00' population Icmbls lew thdit I pv ; n A$40-M)PICTURESAVED TRANSFERRED FROM A CRACK ING PANEL TO CANVAS. The Face of the Secretary of State's Botticelli Madonna Imbedded in Tis sue Paper and the Inch Thick Wood en Back Sandpapered Off The Lay er of Paint Then Transferred Unin jured to Canvas. A Botticelli "Madonna," said to be worth $40,000, but not for sale at any price, has been saved to Mr. Hay, the secretary of state, by, a resort to a delicate operation that required per sistent work and the most scrupulous care and watchfulness for a year, writes the Washington correspondent of the New York Sun. Another paint ing belonging to Mr. Hay, less valu able, perhaps, only in that some doubt has been expressed by experts as to whether It was the work of Botticelli or his famous master, Fra Lippo Llppi, the Carmelite, has been saved also through similar efforts. If the cost of this work were added to the worth Ot the two paintings their value would be Increased greatly. Sandra Botticelli, the Florentine painter, died very early in the six teenth century, so tiiat the' $40,000 work which Mr. Hay possesses is at least 400 years old. Lippo Llppi died in 14C8. Both works are panel3, and it was through the cracking of the wood, di.o partly to age and partly to the effects of the extremely variable climate of this part of the country, that the destruction of these magnifi cent products of art, each worth a prince's ransom, was threatened. The panel known to be a Botticelli original ib a Madonna in profile, the figure full length, surrounded by a host ot cherulims. This was a favorite study of Botticelli, and Mr. Hay's gem has all the color which made the Flor entine master stand alone among his cumpetltois. The pauel hung for years upon the wall of the main stair way in Mr. Hay's Washington resi dence, fo Jug the spacious entrance hall. The other panel, a smaller Madonna, developed cracks from the reverse side that threatened to increase and In time break through the painting itself, thus destroying its beauty and making it, from the standpoint of art, at least, a total loss. Slight cracks were ob served, also, in the larger painting, and Mr. Hay, niter carelul iuqulry, re solved, In the hope ot saving both mas terpieces, to resort to the delicate oper ation necessary to insure preservation, which he had been infurniiuW.u'idJ'e done by a ma M essary to secure It to a firm surface before it could be moved. After smear ing It carefully with some adhesive substance, tbe operator laid on a back Ing of heavy stiff linen. canvas, and the picture, matrix and all. was placed away to dry In a room kept at an even temperature. This drying process took a long time. When it was regarded as safe, to move the painting, it was again turned over, the canvas backing being under neath. The removal of the tissue pap er was then begun, an easy task until the small slips adhering to the surface of the painting were reached. The parts of these slips not pasted to the paint were removed without difficulty, but it was a long and tedious operation, re quiring patience and a gentle touch to tak away the rest The painting was found to be un harmed by the operation to which it had been subjected. The colors had been preserved and there was no rub bing away 01 searing of the paint. A coat of varnish was then applied, and when this was thoroughly dried the Botticelli masterpiece was shipped to Mr. Hay in Washington. Iu the dining room of the secretary of state's residence is a great open fire place. The larger Madonna has been imbedded in the wall over this, pro tected by heavy plate glass and with a frame of dull gold that seems to be part of the wall's moulding. It Is there to slay. The smaller painting, now also saved from destruction, has been placed elsewhere in the house. A MILLION A YEAR FOR REGALIA. Vast Sums of Money Spent for Lodge Furnishings. Few persons other than members of secret societies realize how vast Is the sum of money spent yearly for re galia and lodge furnishings. It is to be questioned whether even tho mem bers themselves appreciate the total reached, since llttlo of the money spent represents personal disbursements. Apart from Templar uniforms the Masonic "clothing" is furnished by fhe various bodies. In the blue lodge a simple white apron Is all that Is re quired, but these are of fine linen and cosT ffO0 S6 to $8 a dozen, at least two hundredNlglns required to outfit the Tyler's lroxTljo lodge" Jewels are necessarily of bJJvoTVP1"1 do not represent a value greater'..'""' "aU while tho officers' aprons coi 24 to $75 a set. Probably lodge may be established for lay of $300. In lyn alone the In the on Is. A SEKM0N FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE Bf THS REV, A B. KINSOLVINC, D. D. Subject! Prcsnmptiinns 81ns The Com monest Sin Among Man lnSaorlflrin; the Interests of the Spiritual and Eter nal to the Carnal and Temporal, Brooklyn-, N. Y. Dr. Arthur B. Kin solving, rector of Christ Church, preached an excellent sermon Sunday morning, on 'Presumptuous , Sins." The two texts were from Matthew, iv: S and u: "Then the, devil taketh him into tho holy city and he .set Him on the pinnacle of tho temple, and saith unto Him, if Thou art the Son ot God cast Thyself down, for it is written, He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee; and on their hands they shall bear T.iee up, lest haply Thou dash Thy font against a stone. Jesus said unto nim, "Again it is written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God;" and Psalms xix: 13: "Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me; then shall I be upright and innocent from the great trans gression." Dr. Kinsolving said: In pursuing our purpose of trying to in terpret the unfolding life of the Lord Je sus and to read its lessons for ourselves, we preached last Sunday the tempted Je sus. We found in the narrative of tl.-1 temptation a record of just a mental and spiritual struggle as we should have ex pected Him to go through at this stage of His career. It is impossible to suppose that He could have decided instantaneous ly and withont long meditation and con flict unon the plan of His life as the "sent of Clod." Clearly He had a plan and ad hered to it throughout life. We remarked upon the deep interest that each one of us has iu the moral strug gle and victory of Jesus, nnd how just in proportion as we are led by the Holy Spirit to lofty and noble ideals of life, we are conscious of these subtle earthly lured which would deflect us from our truest paths. We spoke of the fatalistic non resistance to teniptnt n so much in vogue nowadays as something not worth while, because in a world where the frailty of man is ex posed to such overwhelming allurements nf world, flesh and devil, it is certain be forehand t hat a vnst percentage of men and women will fall. The Maker of men and not the victims of sin is the most re sponsible, so this school teaches, and by such doctrines the person assailed is in duced to yield without a struggle. Jesus' conflict and victory teach us that this is a libel upon flod. Through a putting forth of such strength as Ave have, through a prayerful desire to be and do what is rigid, our vision is cleared and our wills grow trong. and while God can never entirely shelter us from temptation He can anil does defend us in temptation, and with every solicitation to wrongdoing show us the way of escape. Then we tried to learn the lesson of Christ's first temptation. The question which first confronted Him as our repre sentative was the old and ever-pressing fluestion of daily bread. The tempter pro- ens upon cue Assumption that nil man tor his sustenance is food for the al life. You have a right to this, on any terms, and there is nothing e consnloreil by comparison with provision tor yourself and "You are to feed IS " 'If Th, i these tempter appealed to something not leu sacred to the written word of God as the guarantee of truth and action. Ths devil, too, can quote Scripture to his pur pose. "If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down: for it is written, 'He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee,' " etc: First, we must have recourse to the prin ciples of sanity and common tense; find out if what we are tempted to do is in sincere accord with what God has taught us generally in His word and in common sense, and. then decide. For Christ to have cast Himself from tha wing of the temple into the abyss that vawned below would have been to tempt God. "We do not make experiments with those whom we absolutely trust." When a man be gins by a prayer test, or any like thing, to make experiments with God, he shows that he lacks the subtle, spiritual quality called faith which is the only means by which he can reach God. Therefore, it is the habit of trust to calmly abide in God not trifle with or put Him to the test. As long as Jesus remained within the sphere of the revealed will of His Father, He could trust Him. If He should break or contravene that will, then He should no longer feel He had a right to God's care. In other words, Jesus Christ, in His second temptation, flushed with a victory which must have given an impulse to faith in the Father's power and suf ficiency, declares to us that it is necessary to have a care for ourselves as well as commit ourselves into the keeping of God. Hccnuse we are God's rhildren we may not break the laws of the world to which we lelong end expect Him to miraculously interfere to prevent the consequences. Contempt for nature and practical reason is a wretched policy to begin a religious life with. We live under physical law, under moral law, under spiritual law. To fancy that because we have come to feel the power of the spiritual and even the supernatural, we are at liberty to fly in the face of known physical laws, or sane and widely received moral laws, is fatal error, and for it men are always punished in the end. God is the source of all these laws and we tempt the Lord our God when we break them. We are not to rely, either, "too exclusively or presumptuous ly" upon the care of God. As far as our practical reason serves us, we must also t:ike counsel of that, recognizing that faith and self help, action and patience "meet in equilibrium" and complete each other. If Jesus, the exceptional and pre-eminent object of divine care, had yielded to this "Cast Thyself down." He would first have broken away from us, His brethren, who live under moral and physical law, nnd second, He would have "substituted for a life environed by nature, guarded, piided, fed hy it, participant in its forces, because subject to its laws, a life divorced from nature, hostile to it, refusing to tempt God or to break away from our hu man lot and world, showed us the sanity and strength of a genuine trust in God. ic is not nervous, fanatical or presump tuous. "It neither courts nor shuns death." It is prudent, wary, will not overstep the limits of a sober faith, and yet, when the will of God clearly demands it in the path of duty, it bravely faces death and dares all hell! My friends, the modern sin of presump tion turns up under many forms. Now it appears in the guise of religious pride, 111 the purblind assumption of some ec clesiastical charlatan uttering with great swelling words of vanity some oracular opinion which he claims to be of equal au thority with the teachings of the Son of Cod. You have it in the vaticinations of the "mother" of Christian Science with he system's slavish literalism and prcpos- i-rciauns. ine contempt tor the stem breathes and medicines out ljiiil mo for PER8EVIRANOE1 i There Is a hoy next door to.mft ,'1 Who dearly loves to Plat ' , Upon his new harmonica - He blows the livelong day I He puffs his cheeks until he seems v Almost to burst a vein . And I could never understand How he can stand the strain. , , The whipcord stands out on his brow, ' His face is boiling red , His very ears seem like to burst From his devoted head; 1 His eyes are big as walnuts, and - His neck is swollen fai" ' ' ' And unremitting energy , Almost upheaves his hat I t He plays, as I have said before, ', . 1 From enrly morning light He starts in long before the sun, . ' And never stops till nlgnti - ;--. I'm hoping, if be perseveres As be does now I say, , .f '4 ,t I'm hoping if he keeps it up, v ' . , He'll Dlow it up some day. . u i Baltimore News. I JUST FOR FUN Attorney Why do you look at me Instead of at the Jury? Witness -Ba-cause I left my hat on that table and it's a new one. Chicago Daily News. Rod rick I see some one has Invent ed a musical automobile. Van Albert Indeed! Wonder what tunes it will play. Rodrlck Breakdowns, I guess. Chicago Dally News. "Some men," said the quoter, "are born great, some achieve greatness " "And the great majority," interrupted tho cynic, "believe they come under both of these heads." Philadelphia Ledger. Dr. Ketchum By jove! These cab companies certainly know how to charge. His wife Never mind, dear! It's lucky that the president of the company is a patient of yours. Brook lyn Life. The importunate lover had Just pro posed, "Let your answer be a vowel with a consonant on either side of It,'" he gently begged her. The charming girl smiled. Very well, she alj "Git!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Barnes You are looking unc. monly cheerful this morning, B Howes I have reason to. I have, proud satisfaction of knowing I owe a cent to any man In the worl I have gone through insolvency, you know. Boston Transcript. "I should think," said Mrs. Flighty, "that the criticisms your husband re ceives ol his books would fairly make him smart." Mrs. Wrltealong smiled sadly. "Yes," she replied, "I guess they do, but they don't make him smarter! "Cincinnati Times-Star, . ., Ascum But whyjildDa yon t 1 I dcW ,1
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