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■y * 1 J8j “Upon what does Peakedhead bast his belief in the theory of reincarna tion?’” “On the promise that ‘we shall all pass away as a tale that is told.’ ;You see, the tales that are told dc not pass away at all; they keep coming back to be told over again. That Is the way Peakedhead reasons It out,” —Puck. ' In Coneetlcut the other day a thief asked for an acquittal on the ground that he was temporarily insane when he committed the crime. The Judge sent him to the penitentiary for three years advised him to employ the time In thinking up a better excuse. THAT’S THE WAY. Just a little every day. That's the way! Reeds in darkness swell and grow. Tiny blades push through the snow. Never any flower of May heaps to blossom in a burst. Rlowly—slowly—at the first. That's the way! J ust a little every day. Just a little ever That’s the way Children learn to Bit by bit, and i Never any one, L Leaps to knowlei] Slowly—slowly- That’s the way Just a little ever and write, r mite. find its power. : by hour. —EBVh.eeler Wilcox. THE RUBY HEART, Jt is only when the elements aroaugry that waterspout. That Kwrlastliii; Irritating Itch. That describes Tetter. Eczema and other skin diseases. 60 (.'entsvwlU cure them stop the Itch at once. 50 cents pays for a box of Tettertne at drug stores or postpaid for 50 cents in stamps from J. T. Sbuptrluc, Savannah, Ga. Thu chronic bore makes a big hole in a mt.u's busy day. ft'®o Reduced Kates by Rail. On account of the laying corner stone , cotton mill Coleman Manufacturing Com pany. Concord, N. C.. February sth. the Sea- , board Atr Line will sell tickets from Wil- 1 mington to Concord, N. C., at the rate of $&.V) 1 for the round trip. Tickets will be on wile i February 5th-8th, limited to February 11th, i for the return. On account of Mardi Gras at New Orleans' La., February 23d the Seaboard Air Line will . eeil tickets irom all coupon offices on itsline to New Orleans at the rate of one fare for the round trip. Ticket* will be on sale Feb- | ruary tilth to 21st, inclusive, with March as the final limit for return. Most women prefer unruled letter-paper and well-ruled husbands. Oh, What Splendid Coftee. Mr. Ooodman, Williams Co., 111., writes: “From ono package Salzer’s German Coffee Berry, costing 15c . I grew 600 lbs. of better coffee than I can buy in stores at 30 cents a lb." a. c. 8 A package of this coffee and big seed and plant catalogue Is sent you by John A. Halzer Seed Co., La Cross, Wis., upon re ceipt of 15 cents stamps and this notice. The honest grocer buys and sells by the ' same scales. .There are no two weights about him. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. 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She had been what is vulgarly called a “globe-trotter.” In her day she had col lected many rare and curious and beautiful things; but now she was an old woman, and her time was come to die in the great, silent honse filled with the furniture that had belonged to Aunt Jessica’s for bears many score years ago, and en riched by the spoils of many lands, brought home by the energetic hands of Aunt Jessica herself. There was one treasure' above all that I coveted—my cousin Edith. As for the money, well, I am not more disinterested than most people; but I would rather have had Edith without a penny than all Aunt Jes sica’s money without Edith. William and Bertram and I were sitting in the dining-room. Edith was above, helping poor aunt in the hard work of dying. Three raps came on the floor. We knew they were a signal that we were to go up, and that aunt had asked for us; and np we went. • “I have left everything divided among you four,” she said; “and the ruby heart is to go to whichever of you three hoys can find it.” She spoke slowly and with difficulty. I remembered the jolly old days when she nsed to come and see us at school and tip us, and I wished that death and time could have been more merciful. She went on: “Yon know it has a charm to make you happy in your love. It would have made me happy, but he died, and it hadn’t a chance to do its work; and now my time’s come—it has been weary waiting. ” And with that—the first and last hint we ever had of a romance in my aunt’s life—she turned her wrinkled old face to the pillow with a sigh like a tired child’s, and there were only four of us left in the room. im tnETCTfflffg-trr the will we three men set to work to find the charm. *T shall take the library and aunt’s bedroom first,” said Bertram. As these were the rooms she had most used, I imagine he thonght he had made the best choice. “Yon other fellows can arrange as you like!” William chose the drawing-room and the guest chamber, and they took the whole day searching systemat ically inch by for the ruby heart. I began to look in the dining-room, bat Edith came in. “Do you care so very much for the rubv heart?” said she. •/ * “I confess I should like to find it,” I answered. “Shall I help you to look?” 1 She pulled out a book or two from the shelves in an aimless, desultory way, and then said: “It’s very sunshiny out of doors, don’t you think?” So we went on the river. The next day I began to look for the heart again. Edith sent her duenna- companion (who had once been her governess), to ask me if I did not think it would be nice to drive. Of course. I said I thought it would, and off we went. That evening she asked Bertram and William if they would like to come out next day to see some ruins. “Thanks,” said Bertram, “but I think my first duty to poor aunt’s memory is to find that heart.” “Besides,” said William, who never had much sentiment like Bertram, “it’s worth thonsands of pounds, I believe.” “To say nothing of the charm,” I added. “But you’ll come, Wilfrid?” she said, looking at me with her soft gray feyes. “Of course,” I answered. Bertram and William scowled at me. They would have given their ears, their lives, anything, in short, bat their chances of a ruby heart worth thonsands of pounds for the privilege that was to be mine to-morrow. To be in love with Cousin Edith was a mode, a fashion, among ns. Besides, Edith was now an heiress. “As soon as I have fulfilled dear aunt’s last wishes,” said Bertram—he talked, the silly fool, as if aunt had wished him to find the heart—* r shall be only too glad to accompany my Consin Edith on any excursion she may propose.” “So shall I,” said William. So Edith and I went to the rains alone together. “I hope it does not seem like dis respect to poor aunt’s memory,” she said, as v. l drove snugly back in tho dogcart that eveni like this. But I © in the aid house so kind to me. It’i and I’m sure she it.” I felt that it was f make an effort to fi So next morning I and camo down be e were about. I the drawers of the and looked into the leaped into my monl a hand on my shonh “Still after that she said. “How you “Why? Don’t y find it?” “I don’t know, at mo with her eyes I don’t think you u because Bertram that three times ever eat strawberries^efore breakfast and gather them you So we went into th '“our goiug out bear to stay Iw’aere she was itter to go out, have wished lish of me not to |tho ruby heart, up very early the servants hatlmlled out half ihinese cabinet when my heart at the touch of —Edith’s! retched ruby!” iste your time?” think I shall said, looking ide open; “but find it there, been through ody. Did you ifoi 8lf?” vitehen garden THE QUIET HOUSE. < Oh . mothers, worn and weary With cares that never cease, With never time for pleasure. - With days that have no peace. With little hands to hinder. And toeble steps to guard. With tasks that lie unfinished, Deem not your lot too hard. . I know a house where playthings Are hidden out of sight; No sound of childish footsteps Is heard from morn till night! No tiny hands to litter. That pull things all awry; No baby hurts to pity As the quiei days go by. And she, the sad-eyed mother— What would she give to-day To feel your cares and burdens. To walk your weary way ' Ah! happy she, yen blessed, Could she again but see Thotooms all strewn with playthings And the children round her knee! ,v LIMITED ^TRAIHV DOUBLEDAHY SERVICE To Atlanta, Charlotte, Athens, Wilmington, New Orleans, ChattHnooga and New Yolk, Philadelphia, Washington, Norfolk and Richmond. . Schedule In effect May SO, 1897. HUViOR OF THE DAY. Awkward Miss, (with an umbrella)— “Reg pardon!” Polite Gentleman— “Don’t mention it; I have another eye left.”—New York Weekly. “Why do women always grab up every little baby they see and kiss it?” “Bceanso little babies, you know, arc helpless. ”—Cleveland Leader. Yabsley—“Think you’ll get a chain less wheel?” Mndge—“If I do, it will be at the cost of wearing a watch- Icss chain.”—Indianapolis Journal. “Weyler seems to retain his mili tary tastes.” “What do you mean?” This paper says that he desires noth ing more than a quiet retreat.”— Pack. P. M. A. M. No. 41. No. 403 Lv. Wilmington ...• Lv. Lumberton • • * • Lv. Maxton . 6 12 • • • • Lv. Laurlnburg .. 6 23 • • • « Lv. Humlct .. 7 IS •5 10 Lv. Rockingham .. 7 SO 5 23 Lv. Wadcsboro .. 8 11 Lv. Marshville .. 8 18 6 25 Ar. Monroe .. 9 12 8 43 Lv. Monroe .. 9 35 7 30 Ar. Charlotte ... 10 25 8 30 Ar. Mt. Holly 9 10 Ar. Lincointon 10 85 Ar. Cherryvllle 10 48 Ar. Bheluv 11 30 Ar. Ellenboro 12 '24 Ar. Rutberfordton 12 54 I*. M. r. m. fS 40 a. in. Lv. Hamlet Ar. 6 ‘20 p. m. 10 00 a.m. Ar. Cheraw Lv. !>• KASTWXUD, No. 38. No. 402 A. M. 1’. M. Lv, Rutberfordton •4 35 Lv. Ellenboro 5 15 and ate strawberries t for breakfast. Bertr n were getting quite f from the non-success and the little time I annoyed them. “I believe,” said air of gayety, a little Wilfrid thinks he heart is, and that he on it at any moment.’ “I wish I could,” I “So do I,” said Edi same breath. “You wish WilfruJ to find heart!” said William. “Why?” “Oh, no. I don’t mean Wilfrid; I meant—at least Well, we shall all be glad When it’s settled one way or the other, shan’t we?” „ I had never told Edith I loved her, because’ I didn’t know how my aunt intended to leave her money, and if Edith were to be the heiress of the whole—but any one will understand my reasons. the gong rang and William ky and savage their search, d devoted to it I rtram, with an iverdone, “that kfews where the m put his hand lid. », almost in the the Jenkins—“I wonder how it happens that Miss Kidd is always out when I call?” Joues—“Oh! just her luck, I guess.”—Browning, King & Co.’s Monthly. “Ma, is there any pie left in the pantry?” “There is ono piece, but you can’t have it.” “You are mis taken, ma, I’ve had it.”—Cleveland j Plain Dealer. | “Miss Tucker wouldn’t have me, but she evidently appreciated my pro posal.” “Why do yon think so?” “She told fifteen different girls about it.”—Chicago Record, Teacher- “Tommy, what do you know of the sphinx?” Tommy—“The sphinx is a woman with a great head. She hasn't talked for three thousand years.”—Chicago Tribune. Wickwire—“Really, now, you don’t believe the poor are growing poorer?” Madge—“I know they arc. Look at me. I haven’t half the money I had on pay day.”—Indianapolis Journal. “They say Dumlcy’s wife rules him with a rod of iron.’ “Oh, no; that’s an exaggeration. Why, she can make him jump by merely crooking her lit tle finger at him.”-—-Household ■ iAr—- Lv. Shelby « 08 Lv. Cherryvllle 6 3* Lv. Lincointon 7 0C Lv. ML Holly ? M Lv. Charlotte *6 '0 ® 85 Ar. Monroe 6 58 910 Lv. Monroe 6 05 9 40 Lv. Marshville 6 25 Lv. tVadeBboro 7 OX 10 81 Lv. Hookiughanp. «... 7 41 1105 Ar. Hamlet 7 55 11 28 Lv. Hamlet 8 20 .... Lv. Laurlnburg 8 46 .... Lv. Muxton 9 05 .... Lv. Lumberton 9 53 Ar. Wilmington 12 05 P. M. P. ML NOUTMWAKC. Lv. Hamlet *8 16 am •ll‘» pm Ar. Ualeigh 1130 am 2 11am Ar. Portsmouth 5 50 pm 7 26 am Ar. Htchmond *6 50 pm •8 16 am Ar. Washington 1110 pm 12 81 pm Ar. New York 6 53 am 6 23 pm aouTewaan. Lv. Monroe *0 48 am *9 25 pm Ar. Abbeville 1105 am 140 am Ar. Athens 1 16 pm 8 46 am Ar. Atlanta (Cen. time) 2 60 pm 6 20 am where Edith was snipping roses into a basket. r “Fve been fookiflg' for the heart again,” I said, “but*! haven’t found it.” “No,” she answerefl, “and I don’t suppose you will. Would a Gloire de Dijon be any compequa'tion?” She began to stick ohe in my coat as she spoke. Her slender waist, in its back gown, was very^near my left arm where she stood. “I will take the bud,” I said, “but not as compensation ^or the heart.” “Don’t you think,she asked me, that it might be poajflle to live hap- >ily without a charn^te help you?” “No,” I said, “noVwithout a charm ;o help you. But ruby hearts are not the only charms in the vorld.” My arm fell on her wiist. “Let them find their ruby heart! Let them chop it in pitces and divide it between them and hbII the bits,” said I. “And you are conten; with what you have?” she asked. “I am content with vbat I have,” I answered, [and my otoer arm went round her. They never found tint ruby heart, though the poor old hefise was tapped and tested from top <o bottom. At last, wearied out, they took the por tion of goods that fell into them and went, fortunately for i», into a far country. And Edith md I were mar ried. We didn’t go on a w«dding tour, but came straight back t- the dear old honse. On the evening of dr wedding day we walked in the g momlight through the rose garden to'list# to the night ingales. I stopped to told her in my arms on the very epolfwhere I had first kissed her, and tU light shawl she wore round her.hea and shoulders fell back. “What’s that you ha i round your neck?” I said, for si lething dark ened amid the white laces ou her breast. She did not answer. I put up my hand, touched with a rill the white ness of her neck, andlfiDd in my fin gers the ruby heart! “Then she gave it tfyon, “it is yours?" “She gave it into m jteeping, wered Edith, droppin her lips rested on my left it to the man whoiioald find it.” “And I have foand Nesbit, in the Argosy Recollection is the ol which wc cannot be riven U'Y ‘ ; I said; ans- her chin till ,nd; “but she t—here!”—E. ly paradise ou! “I hear that the crowd hooted you when you appeared at the Pedlington Theatre Royal.” “False, mo boy, false,”replied the eminent tragedian. “AH false. There was no crowd.”— Household Words. “Gentlemen of the jury,” said the lawyer, impressively; “our defense is insanity. I shall now show that my client once served on a jury and list ened to expert testimony for four months. ”—Puck. Emperor William—“What is the latest from Hayti?” The Imperial Aid—“The Haytiami have submitted, sire.” Emperor William—“Nother victory for me and Providence.”—In dianapolis Journal. “Now,” said Mr. Gragan, as ho read the headlines, “how could there he a double .umrdqr? Oh, I sec,” ho continued, after reading a little. ‘Sure I fought the man was kilt twice.”—Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Skinner (talking about tho stock market) —“I tell yon what, Mr. Starboarder, there’s nothing like leather.” Mr. Starboarder (vainly sawing)—“Oh, yes, there is—this steak, for instance.”—Tit-Bits. “Honest?” he exclaimed. “Honest? Well, rather. He not only wouldn’t steal from an individual, but he actu ally refused to steal from the Govern ment once when he had the oppor tunity.” -Chicago Evening Post. The speaker had done with telling of the wrongs of woman, and had sunk back into her seat. “She makes a mountain out of a mole-hill,” whis pered the personly person in the front pew. “Yes, and such a botch, too!” rejoined the other. —Detroit Journal. “There is one point about your friend Boswell, Johnson,” said Na poleon. “He’s simply doted on you.” “Say, rather,” retorted Johnson, “that he anec-doted on me. Ho re minded me somewhat of yon in your prime, Bonaparte. Ho was a Para site.”—Harper’s Bazar. “An author,” said the practical lit terateur, “ought to know several lan guages.” “Of course he ought," re plied his fellow craftsman. “The field has been so well worked that there is no longer any use of reading old English books in search of original ideas.”—Washington Star. Eittlp three-year-old Sunnylocks hod been told that ho couldn't have a doughnut, because it would make him sick. He sat in high-chair and looked longingly^at the plateful of sugar-coat ed “holes with cake around them.” At last he turned, and, in pleading tones, said; “Mamma, I want to dot sick!”—Cleveland Leader. •Daily. tDabyi exoopt Bunday. Both rums inako immediate oonueotton at Atlanta for Montgomery, Mobile. New Or leans, Texas. California, Mexloo, Chattanoo ga Nashville. Memphis, Macon and Florid*. For Tickets, Bleepers, etc., apply to B. A. Newland, Qen. Agent Pass. Dept., 6 Kim ball Housa, Atlanta. Ga. GEO, McJ P, BATTLE, Tr&r. Pass.Agt, Charlotte, N. C. E. Bt. John, Vloo-Prea. and Gen. Manager H. W. B. Glover, Traffic Manager. OSMial Offices, Portsmouth, Y*. Soufh Carolina nnd Oeorgia Railroad Company- * ‘Th» Charleston Line. ” EAST DAILY. It Augusta 6 20 a ar Aiken 7 08 a ar Kingville 10 10 a ar Columbia 10 65 a ar Charleston 11 00 a wesr DAILY. It Charleston 7 10 a lv Cof mbla 7 00 • It Kingville 7 40 * ar Aiken 1109* ar Augu ta 11 51 a east daily. 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Through sleepers to and from New York. lv Augusta — 3 05 pm lv New York 9 30 pm ar Richmond. 3 40 pm lv Washng’n 3 10 pm »r Washington 7 00 am ly Rlchm'nd 7 31 am ar New York .. 1 23 pm ur Augusta.. 8 10 am Conuectlons at < barleston with New York steamers, also with steamers for Jacksonville- Fla., on sailing dates, and at Augusta with Georgia Road to and from all points West and South; also at Blacksville with the Caro- liua Midland Railroad to and from Barnwell. Connections with Southern Railway at Co lumbia to all points in upper South and North Carolina. E. 8. Bowen, L. A. Emerson, General Manager. Traffic Manager. The Labor Problem. Neophyte—I don’t see why yon Shonld give Wlklow $2 * day and me only $1.60.” Superintendent—Wlklow Is an expe rienced hand. Neophyte—Then the work mast come * good deal easier to him than It does to me, and he oughtn’t to get so much. Instead of getting more.—Boston Trans cript. The remedy for lynching does not He so much in the law as in public opinion and in the criminal courts. When bru tal crimes are promptly punished and enlightened public opinion supports ef ficient courts lynching will cease. Oregon Indians are said to complaha that whereas they are sentenced to spend thirty days in Jail for intoxica tion, a white man guilty of the same offense gets but five days in Jail. Tho Indians have within tbefcr reach a sim ple remedy for this injustice: they can •top getting drunk. . , fr. ■ -iSi '•r-Vf$£wi •: i J . !: I®