6 "IT IS NOTHING." Do yfcu remoml'er, long and long ago, When griefs came—weighty griefs that meet a child— An 1 you went into her to sot) your woe. How patiently and soothingl) she smiled? Do you remember how she healed each bruise And stopped the hurt that came from s'.ip or fall? H*w suddenly the little pain you'd lose At: "It isnothing—nothing much, at ail.' I»o * cu remember how, long, long ago, Vou would awaken, trembling in your fright When some fearsome things, which only children know, Wert peering wildly at you from the night? Do you rememlu r how she made you see They were but waving shadows on the wall, And how she wove into a lullaby H> r "It is nothing—nothing much.atall?" And you remember, long and long ago, How every little fret of night or day Before tier talisman, when whispered low, Would vanish, would he driven quite away;. And you remember, too, how each soft word A newer happiness to you would call. As though the joss of jouih came when they heard Her "It Is nothing—nothing much, at all." And cen you iiear it now? Of ail the rest That life has let us keep within our hold, This memorj must be the very best— This precious thing that is not bought or sold. Wl en days are dark and nights are sad tleriCd, now. Out from the shrouding si.ence does there fall. While her cool fingers seem to touch tlie brow. This"it is nothing- nothing much, at ali ?" —W. L' N., ir. Chicago Daiiy Tribune. j IThe Mountaineer's g Dream THI2 air of sleepy quiet which had brooded over the little valley town for a year had changed to a buzz of excitement. Commencement was on again at Watauga college; the town ■was full of enthusiastic alumni and visiting friends from every corner of the surrounding country. It was on a different errand that the two Arvey brothers had come down from their home on Stump House in their white-covered wagon. Only a month before their father had died, leaving his large family depend ent upon the two grown-up sons, and they were at Watauga for tlie purpose of straightening up his small business affairs and making certain arrange ments concerning the management of their little mountain farm. This required only a short time, however, and on Tuesday morning they found themselves drifting with the crowd toward the college, wholly ignorant of the exercises going on there. The scene on the inside was a revelation to both, for never before had an Avery, from Stump House, been within a college building. There, upon the high old rostrum, sat the young men of the graduating class, clothed in their best, the center of at traction to all the vast assembly be low. One by one they stood before the audience, and with fervent, rustic eloquence delivered their graduating speeches, each of which called forth enthusiastic applause, loads of flow ers. and a crash of discordant music from the noisy brass band In the gallery. Then, when the speeches were all over, the gayly be ribboned diplomas were handed to the graduates by the president, after which came more applause and an other rapturous bufrst of music from the gallery. The scene—impressive to those who were most accustomed to Watauga commencements —was one which remained forever fadeless in the memories of the mountaineer brothers. The Arveys' journey homs that aft ernoon was an unusually quiet one. For hour after hour neither spoke; both sat gazing in a kind of trance upon the mountain scenery which had heen familiar to them from childhood. No sound disturbed the stillness ex cept the rumble of the wagon and the hcof-strokes o' the little mules upon the flinty mountain road. It was the older brother who broke the silence. "Tom," he said, "I'm gwine ter stan' on thet same platform some day an' say my speech an' git my paper." "I've sworn the same. Gus," came the laconic reply; "the Arveys liev got ter be heerd frum." It was doubtless fortunate for the brothers that they could not compre hend the obstacles that lay between them and the doors of the college; both had times of discouragement, and it required the strongest deter mination, combined with frequent visits to Watauga for fresh inspira tion. to keep them faithrul. At the end of three years, however, by per sistent labor and with the aid of the teacher at Double Springs, himself a Watauga graduate, they had pre pared themselves for entrance into college. As it was found impossible for both to attend at the same time, the rather delicate situation arose of deciding which one shoitiil first enjoy the coveted privilege. "I s'pose. Gus, bein' the oldest, you ought to be the first togo," Tom suggested, rather reluctantly. But Tom had not proven a very successful farmer, and that was prob ably the reason for the plan proposed by Gus "No, Tom," he explained, "if yon goon now an' graduate you can help me along a sight better. Be side 3, I alw'ys seemed to have a kind o' knack o' runnin' the farm; you must go Urst." Mo It. wa3 decided. On the first day of October Gus carried Tom and his litfle handful of belongings down to Watauga in ihe wagon, and after seeing him properly settled in his new world, turned his own face again toward Stump House. It was dark when the wagon rolled into the yard. After the mules had heen stabled and fed, Gus stood for a few moments looking silently across the mountains as the night slowly fell around them and blotted them from view. In the window of a cabin across on Roundtop a red light flickered, and there came to his ears the sound of a girl's mellow contral to voice singing an old corn-shuck ing song. "Leastways, I'll he near Annie," he said, with almost a sigh. Then he walked slowly across the yard and entered the house. "Good evening!" "'Evenin', sir!" "Trying to cool off some, are you? Rather warm weather yet—for Octo ber." "Well, no, sir, I wasn't here for that partic'lar purpose; but it is about as cool a place as I've struck, this side 0' the mountains. Just stopped to take a look at the old col lege as I was pass in'." The first speaker was Dr. Black wood, the venerable president of Wa tauga college, dignified but kind hearted. tall and straight .n spite of his years—a perfect picture of the old southern gentleman. While walk ing across the campus toward his home he had come upon the stranger seated on the ground under a magnifi cent water-oak and gazing intently at the college building. In the road a few steps away stood a white-cov ered wagon to which two sturdy look ing little mules were hitched. In the background beyond the college stretched the dim outlines of the Blue Ridge. As the doctor showed no disposi tion to move on, the stranger, with an air of deference, rose to his feet and leaned his long, gaunt form against the water-oak. The doctor contin ued : "You have never seen the build ing before? Or is there something in its architecture that interests you?' "Oh. yes, doctor, Ive seen it a good many times. To tell the truth I king o" love the old place, somehow; used to think I'd come to school here myself, but my dreams never did come true Still, I love to stop here an' watch the boys an' just imagine I'm one of 'em, don't you see?" The doctor's next step was to in quire the stranger's name, for he had become deeply interested in his story. "Arvey," came the answer, and the stranger's rough, brown hand took within its strong grasp the soft, white one of the doctor. "From Stump House?" "Yes, sir." "Related to Tom Arvey that grad uated here in %S?" "Yes, sir, he's my younger brother." "You don't say so!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Why, I am truly glad to know you, Mr. Arvey. How is Tom getting along? The last news I had of him he had gone out west soon after graduating—four years ago it must be?" "Yes," replied Arvey, "Tom went west just four years ago. I never heard from him since he left; don't ! even know if he's alive. He was to j help me through college, but, poor 1 fellow, I don't know what's become of him. It's all right now, anyhow, for I'm too old. Besides, the home was all broken up by deaths and mar riages, and it was powerful lonesome livin' in the old house all by myself —an' 1 c-ouldu't 'a' asked Annie to wait on me any longer. We're mighty happy in our little home up yonder; but I've never quit dreamin' of the college education I expected to have, an' every time I come down this way I set here an' just look at the old place over there. An', somehow, it alw'ys seems to make me feel better —an' I go back to Annie with a light er an' stronger heart. We've got a fine little feller at home, just a year old —named Tom; I'm goin' to send him down here some day to take my place an' live out my dream for me." The mountaineer shaded his eyes with his hand and looked at the sun in the west. From a group of stu dents sprawling on the grass near the college came the strains of an old song:, "Oh, he never cares to wander from , his own fireside" . . . "Now I must get started for home," lie said, "for it's gettin' late; good by, doctor." A moment, later a whip was cracked over the heads of the little mules, and the white-covered wagon was rumbling away toward the mountains. —National Magazine. ANTIQUE CHAIRS TO ORDER. Paris Woodworkers Devise Scheme for Giving Furniture Desired Worm-Eaten Appearance. The vast industry maintained in Paris to pawn off fake curios and antiquities 011 unsuspecting Croesuses has hit upon a new plan. "Ticks," or wood fretters, required to give psuedo-antique furni ture an air of old age. are now "culti vated" in large droves on potatoes. Formerly they were hard to obtain, but now there are millions of the vermin. The fakirs let loose the wood fretters 011 the imitation furniture before it is painted or varnished. They are allowed to "work" for about six weeks —if they worked longer, the chair, sofa, or tabje would fall into dust. After six weeks the worms are killed by a discharge of X rays. Only then the piece of furni ture is painted and upholstered and ready for the antique parlor. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1904. Who is Your Clothier? If it's R. SEGER & CO,, you are getting the right kind of merchandise. There is 110 small or grand decep tion practiced in their store. Sustained success demon strates that there is "growth in truth"in the retailing of NEW AND UP-TO-DATE CLOTHING AT POPULAR PRICES. R. SEGER CO. I aSHSHHHS SHSHSHSH SHSHSHS2 TO | Our Summer Goods j m | Have Arrived. [jj 1 I I am now ready to please the public, having; (jj ui moved my Tailor Shop over the Express nj office, in order to cut down expenses. I can nJ [}! now make clothes much cheaper than they can p] n{ be made any where in this section. I employ jjj ru only first-class workmen and invite the public |n m to call and inspect my stock. K I REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. a jit I J. L. FOBERT. 1 HSaSHS-Hi aSHSHSHS ESHSHSBS aSHSHS2B as HS as aSHSHSHS | jgt mm. mtm m. £%. m*. m. m*k *. fa mj*m * % *Jfc am. *%. m. mt jj C. B. HOWARD & COMPANY J| General Merchandise. JMS II STORE ON THE "RIALTO." 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M N M N M ** We have about one thousand pat- £<3 ES /&h terns in stock, about one fourth §« § the patterns they cut, and if we fj 1 iKr j do not have the pattern you want, |3 M ) we can get it for you in three or fag / *° ur da >' s - or ders every £ ,H X Q day; xoc and rsc. None higher, pj I it -I M It. Ladies' Fancy Hose Demorest machines m m ii A complete line of Ladies We are agents for the fa- || Fancy Hose. Do not tor- mous Demorest Sewing kg get to look at them while Machines; once used, al- y gj in our store; prices 25c to W ays used. Prices from £2 gj 50c per pair. $19.50 to ,S3O. |j S 5 " " —— £ S It C. B. HOWARD & CO. II bjt«k mi m/t met a%. ass a* mm m am. 4* ax £* * t mat a* afc *% m x* * 1 Good | |Cedar I 1 Shingles j Gj WILL KEEP OUT THE | RAIN. WEHAVETHEM jjj IN ALL GRADES. 1 C. B. HOWARD & CO. 1 In nj 1 34tf j FROM !»••••*••• j Theater of War j RUSSIANS REACHED MUKDEN. Paris, Sept. 8. —The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo De l'aris says: "A great battle Is going on before Mukden. The First and Seventeenth corps are engaged against Gen Kuroki Gen. Kuropatkin with the bulk of his troops is moving towards Tiding." St. Petersburg, Sept. 8. —The bulk of the Russian Manchurian '.vrmy is near Mukden, where, it appears, Gen Kuropatkin has been since Monday. His troops are not entering the city, but are taking up positions around Mukden. While there is no specific in formation on this point, the general staff believes that only a small rear guard is in the neighborhood of Yen tai. The general staff is not displaying great anxiety over the reports that Gen. Kuropatkin is in serious danger of being cut off, but if they had any information from the front Wednes day they have not revealed it. The members also decline to say, even if they knew, whether Kuropatkin pur poses taking his army north of Muk den. Kuropatkin's movements, after all, must depend chiefly on the tactics of the Japanese, with whom lies the initiative. If the Japanese continue to press north in the hope of cutting off the Russians and bringing them to bay, then Kuropatkin will be obliged to move north to circumvent them. LAND MINE EXPLODED. Che Foo, Sept. 9. —A Japanese col. limn, numbering about 700 men, while marching along at night on a road in the valley between Long Hill and Division Hill, near Port Arthur, met a frightful disaster through the explosion of an electric land mine September 1. The mine was carefully laid by the Russians three weeks ago. It covered nearly a mile of available marching space. Near midnight the outposts rushed in and reported that the Japanese were approaching. The Russians withheld their Are for some time. Sud denly they threw a searchlight up the valley. The Japanese opened with a rifle fire. The Russians waited until apparently the whole Japanese col umn was in the danger zone. Then the mine was exploded. The force of the explosion knocked a number of Russians down, and the sight of Japa nese rifles, water bottles, legs and arms hurling through the lighted space made by the searchlight was an awful spectacle. Some rocks landed inside the Russian lines. The best information of the war of fice indicates that Kuropatkin lost about 17,000 men during the ten days' battle at Liao Vang. QUIET REIGNS There is still a lack of specific in formation regarding the exact situa tion in Manchuria. The Russian gen eral staff, lacking details, i*i unable to speak authoritatively, while advices from Japanese sources are significant ly lacking. It is established that the Russian army is safely at Mukden and that the retreat was accomplished In good order, in spite of the harras sing Japanese, sodden roads, and the fact that Kuropatkin was hampered by more than 12,000 wounded. There is nothing yet to indicate the exact whereabouts of the three Japa nese armies. When last heard from Kuroki's forces were on the Russian left flank and steadily pushing north word, but Viceroy Alexieff reports that railway and telegraph communi cation between Mukden and Harbin Is uninterrupted. Gen. Sakharoff reports that there was no fighting during Thursday aud while the outposts are still in contact they are not even ex changing shots. It seems to be estab lished that Oyama's troops practically abandoned on Wednesday the attempt to head off Kuropatkin, and that the last determined effort to bring Hie Russian commander to bay was made on Tuesday. The last news from Mukden came in a dispatch filed Friday night. It tells of a great downpour of rain, ac companied by thunder and lightning, which, the correspondent says, is con sidered advantageous, as it has check ed the movements of the Japanese eastern and southern armies. The correspondent adds that quiet reigns over the whole front. St. Petersburg, Sept. 10.—Some de scriptions of the scenes along the line of retreat are almost incredible. They tell how the men laid down in the mud and slept in a drenching rain and without shelter. The work of burying the dead was left to the Japanese, who were forced to attempt the task as a matter of self preservation, but it was almost impossible. The awful rains have handicapped the work of cremation on I which tlie Japanese relied and only shallow trench burials were possible under the circumstances. Not only is this work one of the greatest diffi culty, but it is almost valueless from a sanitary point of view, the storms un doing it soon after it Is accomplished. Hot Spring Stopped Work on Tunnel. Rome, Sept. 10. —Work on the Sim plon tunnel, which it was expected would be completed by the beginning of next month, was suddenly stopped Friday, owing to the exposure of a hot spring flowing 1,500 gallons per minute, while the temperature in the tunnel reached 112 degrees. 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