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"A CONQUEROR,
A castle there is all grim and gray,
Surrounded by high walls,
And many a knight
Waoged bitter fight
To enter its lordly halls,
ut fast and firm the massive
gates
"Clainst
them win,
While the old stone pile
Beemed with scorn to smile
At each failure to enter in
were
«ll who would through
There came a day when a maiden sweet
Crept up and did patiently walt;
No bar could withstand
The touch of her hand,
And wide flew the frowning gate
No more the walls echo with sounds of
the fray,
No more comes the clash of strife:
There's the voice of
For that
Was my heart, and
wife.
Pauline R
CAPTAIN DICK'S SWEETHEART
By Adele
When Captain
last
song
castle strong
the maid is my
Stayner, in Munsey.
Ferguson Knight
Dick came home from
his whaling and settled
down me
his wif
had
main wi
of all ob
tence,
troubled
Dick was a
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Mr
ROOT
uble ti
ick
proposals Ww
of his old
human confid
Poor Capt
ing t
to the family
of June bro
little
a uew
ous day when she was laun
the C ars and Swe
ensconced in the 1 It was not
auite like sailing on the “raging main”
but Captain Dick assured her that all
sailors knew how to row. and Swot
Leart was determined to be a sallor
They named her the “Falcon” after
Captain Dick's old vessel, and the very
nex’ paddie
about with one oar, making queer 1it
tle dabs one moment, then dipping the
Lext stroke so deep that she nearly loat
ber oar. ut perserverance worketh
wonders, and the end of the
week she had promoted to two
oars and by August she was able to
row herself about the quiet waters of
the pond, while the Captain applauded
from the bank, or lay in the grass under
the tress peering out beneath his tilted
hat at the pretty figure swaying about
it the queer barge, back and forth n
the bright sunshine,
Now Old Mill Pond was long and nar-
row, running from the village nearly
to the sea, a small strip of sand the only
barrier between them. On the south
ern bank were meadows where eattle
day Sweetheart began to
before
been
ern shore was lined with reeds and
dwarf bushes,
marsh land behind them,
der of firm soil, however, edged the
morass, terminating at the Outlet near
the village where a rickety bridge per
mitted the more venturesome spirits oc.
ecasional passage. At the seashore end
crabs abounded and one hot afternovn
hunting-ground.
onsiderable damage,
“HI, look there
them bathing-houses! A
Faster don't do much coddling and net
fing, does it?
to the debris of some dozen bathing
their foundations and cast ina heap at
the foot of one of the dunes.
grit when they see one a-coming. Why,
1 remember one voyage when were just
off Hatteras”
nself ~omfortably on a plle of
Sweetheart'sline from among the nets
rapt
finished she heaved a
if T could be
Like that.” she sald, “but I conldn’t
for I am afraid even of mice."
“Now don't think that
Captain Dick said
"CH use just
Sweetheart listened with atten
tion and as he
great sigh. “Oh,
you way,”
encouragingly
the chance and 13}
don't
You get
a belaying pin If show
lke a man,
like a good bit of danger
what a
you
colors There 1a
man's made of, and a
fellow forgets all about himself
out
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i
sounded
waves bhetwe
oiling to do?"
I nial a bot i
sight—-and with a
faced his fate bravely, ©
for
ittle heart vonder must be saved
Te Was no chance him, but
costa, if indeed it were not even
to late, for shold the water ereen
over the low land near the village, enr-
the flimsy bridge,
weetheart's slender chance would he
ist
ying away even
“Never mind me,” he called, “run fo
the Then as she stood there
“Sweetheart, you musi!
village!”
facing him,
Hun! Run!”
She did not move.
hands in his impotence,
He wrung h's
Suddenly a
play together. The water was already
flowing over his feet and half way to
his knees, but he drew himself proudly
erect as he called
“Sailors must obey orders:
mand you to run!”
To his surprise he saw her turn im.
to safety,
glingld have won the day.
‘yess her brave little heart! She
along the shore and the sturdy little
lege fairly fly. Suddenly she stooped
down and began apparently to grope
about for something among the reads
faint with the realization of the preci
ous time she was losing. His voice
could not reach her now and his terror
for her aged him years tm those fow
moments, Then he saw her rise and
vanish behind the drooping branches,
Another second of awful wi iting, nid
for out into the sunlight came Sweat
Leaurt in the old “Faleon” rowing to
ward him bravely and steadily in spite
of the strokes and the panting
hnste, How strange he had not remem
bered the boat in the rushes where
shor
hey
vid moored it only yesterday, while
they the thie
stroke,
searched borders of
swamp for Stroke by
nearer and nearer she came though it
seemed hours to the old heart
walting for her, for already the rapidly
flood had nearly his
shoulders, and he realized with the un
erring certainty born of many vears ox
frogs
stout
reached
rising
perience with Old Ocean, that even to
friends it cruel,
his life depended
its hest could be mud
HOW upon those (wo
stn ll arms and that brave spirit which
He
hig footing
brought
and lost
ing out blindly and wildly, but now
hand
the gallant
H
¥
eYvery moment nearer
sins gored Oonoe
wis close at and he
1 of
with the joy only
theart
=A
nsped the ra “Faleon'
inown to those wh
with
ble exertion to pull him
been face to face death,
terr
have
It was a
self over the rail, but those horny hands
pnd y cord n
1 did not fail now. With
» elimbed the :
i iuscles were
hard tasks an
nal hea
nl over
SAT
» suburbs and
0 be dressed
The
notable
and made
stocks made of this
for the ornaiu nial
wonnl are
knots at intervals,
the truncated and rounded
These are imitated in some other whip
but imitation is n
«HOKE
4 }e Lilod: aes
fegumar Which ar
branches
cpuse of
stocks, the
dogwood stocks
tough and elastic,
cor. parable in elasticity with
The wood is sold for butchers’
wey The are
eXITenme; being
whale
besgiee
skewers, and some philologists conjee
ture that the first syllable of the name
is a corruption of “dag.” meaning a
Dogwood, being par
watchmakers and opticians in cleaning
and lenses. The American
Bitter bark of the
dogwood ig used as a substitute for the
Dogwood
ig potubly of slow growth and in all
thickly peopled regions the tree is
recklessly despoiled for the sake of its
blossoms, =o that the supply of the
Big Words.
Here are nine of the largest words In
the English language: Subeonstitution.
tiveness, honorificibilitudinity, velo?
pedestrianistical.anthropophagenaria a,
disproportionableness, proantitransub.
stantiationistical and transubstantia-
tionableness. ;
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SPARKS,
Chinn has consented to enter the postal
Unlon.
Cune-halfl of Colon
March 23
It Is dented in London that a big steel trust
wis destroyed by fire
has been formed,
A light was reported between
At Cassisiit snd the Dervighes
The
nd #5 000 tr
1 his
tobacco
British government is taking steps to
jp to the Cape of G
od Hope,
Cuban insurgents burned a pumber of
lage of Ail
houses und the vil ZO
Holos,
Not much credence is gl
of the death of Maximo
loader
the
Ciomes, the
ven to report
Cuban
The activity of the authorities in Matabele
and Las dons much to prevent the spread of
the rebailion.
The foreign policy of the Vern
ent was endors
Lies LY A YOUs
K ing
I CZAr Becky
Menelik
i simon
for Haytl, has
vod the late Pres
Another eart!
——
LY DOCKED.
7% 5
hat the
have
last
was thought best
taken piace
a nost any da week fs not
flouted, but it t
A
!
8 The
Was very important
the period of the high apring ti
Mcors thought that it
water as possible for
the first trial of the strurture
mI its
ONE OF THE FAMILY ESCAPED.
to have just as much
Insane Parmer Kills Wife aad Bimeslf and Faselly
Izjures a Child,
A triple tragedy occurred three miles from
Bentonville, Ark. Pulaski Duckworth, a
prominent and highly respected farmer,
killed his wife by striking her on the
head with an ax, the unfortunate woman
dying instantly,
He then attacked his four-year-old child
with the ax, and inflictel injuries that will
prove fatal. The man then threw himseif
across the bed, drew his pocket kpifs, and
slashed his throat from ear to ear, dying
almost instantly. A seven-year-old daugh-
ter escaped slaughter by being at Sabbath-
school. Duckworth was undoubtedly in-
Bano,
Ios,
Mr. Trevor Battye wiil lead an expedition
in Bpitzberger next summer. This Arctic Js
land, though its shores have been accurately
surveyed, has never had its interior explored.
Battys explored the island of Kolguey twe
years ago, and he will make the exploration
of Spitzberger his pariicular work.
ssn is ssi:
The chief Ulimo who first incited the re
voit of the Matabeles has proclaimed him.
self king of Matabuisiand in suceesslon of
Lobengula. The British government will
despatch large reinforcements of troops from
Eagland and India to Cape Town.
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Prof. Byivester, ¥, I, B,, of Oxford,
hinld
rginin
the
mathematician, who earlier professor
ships at the University of §
John Hopkins, has
nether of the 7}
und
Mary Aun Foley is the June Cak
Khe is pr aby
or abandoned as
ard who Lady
Theres ar» mst
get arrested
rae than Mary Ann, | AONE
with more regularity
J. B.
Id and is
Darnell, of O4 is 61 yours
spitting re
)
weslher permit wi
th
vesrs old, which
from Beotiand w
with his well-k
vers old
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North Carolinas
LIVE
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Dackas, por ™
Turkeys, per ib
POULTRY
TORAGOD,
TOBACCO MA. Inler's.. 8
Bound commen o
Middling
Fancy
150
300
£00
100
LITE STOCK,
BEEF Dest Dooves...... 8
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WHEAT --No. 2 Bad
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BUTTER State “ on
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The 500 lithographers who have been on
strike In New York for seven weeks re.
Bishop Potter,
Paderewski's Joke.
The other day when Paderewsk! was
ining at a hotel In Richmond, Va, a
fine nickel-plated banjo was sent iu by
local banjo player, with the request
that
short
skin head
the request,
to which he attached
have not the pleasure of
*ormer on this besutiful instrument
only a plano player Now
player is asking his
tuoso was “Joliyiug
the great planist should wri
wusical seatiment on
Paderewski comp!
and this is
his signature
f
the sen
DOLE @
frieuds |
bin
Clean Btables,
Start into the wi
bles, and keep then
We always hear that stock of al
Hable wu
unter with clean
more
than
dre
winter
many iis tl
may be trad
ventilation
ding make
Sarsaparilla
ef eT $ 2 A rire
doing i
Paliad=iphia, reces
following stalewen
Bipans Taoules i
ae called Nervog
oh | suffered
several Qootors
ent, palent mediol
, everyvibiag toat |
{ mothing Gone n
i aoe RY Nin {Boge
for me only to gra and bes”
one day I was passing a dray
k a! the dis-
store and oppel 1c
play in the window aud { b
rd with “Ris
well
Re 8 wns 1
om it and 1 thougat,
another straw for a drowaing no
y I'll throw some more Money awn
i west io and boughl s box
seems to me, the Sra dose took
fect. | have bean taking then
and they Dave pure yY w
When { lo
van u
aioe rhe l
wonders with me
of the past and §
condition, seems 10 mie §
man. I am en oyiag slegant health
Bew, and I foal that I owe
many
thanks 10 Ripats Tabuiea I have
recommends » several of my
friends aey are wonderiul,
and 1 must say they are 8 (od send
to any one sulleing (rom a disorder
of this nature.”
areg ate, or hy ma’
sts 0 The Kipaas
Raw Yord,
Hipans Tabules sre sold by
H thee pros (8 cenis a oa is
Chamies! Usmpauy, N iv Spruce #
Faungie vial, 0 commis
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