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The life of mak%,
On into the wondrous future^
On over the hiHs of son?.
All bright with the bow of promise,
Still speeding with current strong.
On yet through a land so tender,
Hope-gilded with gleams of splendor,
Where earthly ills make surrender,
Still leadeth mau’s life along.
On into a land of glooming,
On under a sunless sky,
On over the slopes of sadness.
All sullen with shadows nigh;
On over a darksome border.
Where evils crowd in disorder v
And misery’s clouds grow broader,
Still leadeth the lives that fly.
Still on amid scenes uncertain;
Still on through .the shades of doubt,
To the mysteries that are waiting,
The sorrows and sins that flout,
Prom the past to the future streaming,
To the real, so unlike the seeming.
To things far beyond all dreaming
The life of man leadeth out.
On over a changing current,
Till things of the earth are past,
On the wonderful Stream of Ages
All mortals are floating fast;
Onward still, like vain bubbles driven,,
Till the shadowy doubts are riven,
On into the gates of Heaven
Safe leadeth man’s life at last.
—O. E. Young, in Chicago Sun.
A PRINCE OF CRIMINALS.
HE house of
Laird, Wil¬
liamson &
Co., dia¬
mond mer¬
4 chants and
k. Qj whol esale
and retail
jewelers, of
London,em¬
ployed no traveling agents. The near-
est approach to it was what is called “a
specialty man.” In other words, he was
an employe of the house trusted al¬
most as much as one of the partners, but
under bonds so heavy that the house
need not worry about him If he did not
turn up at the hour he was due. It hap¬
pened very often that titled people and
those who bad grown rich in trade could
not make it convenient to come to town
to deal with the house personally for rare
gems, while others were in want of spe¬
cial designs for birthday gifts, souvenirs,
and the like. Such people stated their
desire by letter, and the “specialty man”
was sent to take their order or make a
sale.
I had served the house four years
without loss and scarcely without ad-
Venture, when I was started off for Mor-
peth, a town in the north of England,
The firm had received a letter from a
wealthy and well-known public man
living in the suburbs of that town to the
effect that ms wile had broken a leg and
was not a lie to be about, but wanted
several special things in jewelry as soon
M they could be made for presents to
inends. She would also look at some
gems, particularly a diamond necklace,
„ut nothing common was wanted. The
itory w T as current that this
geutlemau s daughter was soon to be
married, and it was anticipated that
I would receive a very fair order,
lbe value of the jewels packed up
for that trip was something like
*7000. I rom my very first trip I had
always traveled after a certain fashion—
the lashion of a commercial traveler,
Many of the fraternity believed that I
was a genuine member. In my grip I
earned about a dozen 3mall bottles of
dyes, and it was supposed that I was
traveling with that liue. The jewelry
case was placed iu the grip, and I leit
the affair knocking about with such ap-
parent careie-sness that no one could en-
tertnin a suspicion of its value..
Iheie was only one odd thing about
the letter from Morpoth, aud that was
uot commented on until after my adven-
ture. It mentioned day and date and
hour when my arrival would be expected,
wd I left Loudon to hit the exact time,
Had tuis matter been brought up before-
hand we should have said that the gentle-
man was probably going to leave home lat-
ei m the day. It was in the month of Oc-
tober and I was timed to reach town at
ten o clock in the l’orencon. The letter
said that a carriage would be in waiting
for me to drive at once to the manor,
The train was on time to a minute, and
I got off in cempanv with two traveling
salesmen. 1 found the carriage after a
bit. There w ere two men on the box,
and they seemed to question that I was
the right party. Their doubts probably
arose from the fact that t was plainly
dressed and was in the company of the
salesmen. One of them asked if I was
the jewelry man Sir Blank was expect-
ing, and I replied that I wanted to see
the gentleman whether expected or not.
They hesitated about driving off, but as
no one else appeared we finally made a
* Urt ‘
I tell you honestly that I had no soon-
*r entered the carriage than I had queer
feelings. The outfit was too common to
rnn «V S Ud B R| l aD PU iM-£ L b lC y nd a US the f by tWO such meu a
didut didn’t appear at all like servants. I had
"i “* W8S
therefore there W ignorant of the direction we
t: WEastMr ii f t
pattea plenty ofliouses and veuicles
pedestrians, and a* we left the town be¬
hind I looked ahead for Sir Blank’s great
house and well kept grounds. Perhaps
the pair observed my anxiety, for one of
them turned and said:
“It's a bit over live miles to the place,
sir.”
That satisfied me only for a moment,
The more I looked at the men and the
closer I scanned the outfit the stronger
grew my suspicions that something was
amiss. Three miles to the west ot Mor-
peth is a bill from which one can survey
the country for miles around. As we
reached the crest of this hill I saw only
small farms and plain farmhouses before
me. If Sir Blank’s mansion was on that
road it was beyond my vision and still a
good ten miles away. began to
“See here!” I called as we
descend the hill. “I think there is a
mistake. I think I have got Sir Blank
mixed up with Sir Dash. Is it Sir Blank
who is financially interested in a great
cotton factory at Manchester. ?”
“He may be, but 1 dunno.” said the
man who was driving, as he pulled up
his horses.
“If he isn’t it won’t do me any good
to see him. You see (getting out some
of the bottles), I wanted to show him
some of these new dyes for fruits.”
“Is that your line, sir?”
“Yes. Here are ten new colors just
out. I am sorry for my blunder, but I’m
willing—”
“Tnen you travels with dyes, does
you?” gruffly demanded the other.
“As you see.”
“Tnen wot the blazes does you get
into this turnout for?”
“To see Sir Blank, of course, I got it
into my head that—”
“Oh, blow your ’ead and your ’eels,
too! Jim, turn habout hand drive the
bloomin’ bass back to town!”
“I’ll be shot if I does!” replied Jim.
“He can get right hout ’ere hand take
’isself bactc oa ’is howa blasted legs,
blast ’im!”
“Sorry for the mistake, and here’s
something to drink my health,’’ I said,
as I tossed him a coin and descended
from the vehicle and walked hurriedly
away.
When I reached town I went to a ho¬
tel. Inside of fifteen minutes I had
learned that Sir Blank lived north of the
town, and only a mile away. Likewise
that there had beeu no accident to his
wife. Further, that the gentleman and
his wife had been in Scotland for several
weeks. It did not take me long to
figure it out to my perfect satisfaction.
It was a put-up job to rob the house
through me, and it had been put with
the aid of some one at Sir Blank's house.
The letter had his monogram stamped
on the cornei, and the paper must have
been taken from his library. The writ-
ing showed a fair business hand, and had
not attracted remark. The country to
the west of the hill where I had left the
carriage afforded opportunities for des-
perate men to commit robbery, even m
broad daylight, and I had no doubt that
I was being driven to some appointed
spot when their programme was inter¬
fered with. It was a case for the police,
but I was by no means green enough to
take it to them. The hou 93 of Laird,
Williamson & Co. would have stood to
pay a thousand pounds rather than have
the public informed through the press
thai there had been a conspiracy to rob
their “special men.” While I nude many
inquires, I gave nothing away. I ascer-
taiued that the two men with the vehicle
were strangers in Morpeth, and the
whole plot was plain to me.
I had intended to leave on mv return
to London at 5 in the afternoon, but an
accident on the line detained me stormy,’ till 7
The night came on dark and
and there were but few passengers from
Morpeth. Four of us who got on were
ushered into the same compartment,
There were two plain women ticketed to
Durham, and the third was a man about
forty years old, of pleasing address and
genteel appearauce. As soon as we fell
into conversation he gave me to under-
stand that he lived at Beverly, a town
about 100 miles down the line, and from
certain words let fall I gathered that he
was a prominent public official of the
place. I didn’t exactly reply that I was
m the dye line, but he prooably inferred
as much from what I said. 1 was glad
of his company. He was a fur talker,
well posted, and I enjoyed his society,
The women got out at Durham and
left us alone. We passed Darlington
and were still the sole occupants of the
compartment. Mr. Arnold, is he had
given his name, had been sitting the^ op-
posite me for an hour. As train
cleared Darlington he yawned and said:
“I am sleepy, and yet I can never get a
wink of sleep on the train. By the way,
I found a curious coin on the street at
Morpeth to-day. Can you place it?”
He had a coin iu his reached fingers as he
stepped over to me. I out mv
hand to receive it, when he seized me
by the throat with both hands and had
: me on my back in a second. I was no
match for him in strength. Hi <mpped
my throat so fiercely that I had no power
of resistance. Bending over me, with
his knee on ray chest, he finally let up
ou his clutch ami said:
“Don’t be foolish, now! I know you,
and I’m after those diamonds! If lean
get them without killin S right;
if I can’t I’ll slityour weasand good and
dee » ! ”
“You—you mean to rol me?” I
6aspcJ .
| ^ He drew wicked
a looking knife and
held it in his teeth as he used his hands
to tie me with some stout cords taken
from his parcel. He turned me over,
took the pistol from my hip pocket aud
tied my hands behind me. Then he tied
my ankles and rolled me on my side.
Why didn’t I resist? Simply because his
cltch on my throat had almost paralized
me.
“Now for the sparklers,” he said, as
he took down my bag, searched me fo»
the key and opened it.
He laughed as he brought out the bot¬
tles of die and tossed them aside, and ht
laughed again as he held up the jewel
case.
“A deuced fine lay out, ’pon honor!”
he chuckled as he inspected the con¬
tents. The house of Laird, Williamson
& Co., carries only the best. What’s
the cash value, may I ask?”
“But you are a cool onel” I said in
reply. I should
“Only fairly so—only fairly.
say £6000 wouldn’t be far out of the
way. A very pretty haul and no risk
attending it.”
He placed the jewel case in his parcel,
lighted a cigar, and pleasantly remarked:
“Take it easy, my boy. The next
stop is North Allerton. In about tea
minutes I’ll be under the necessity of
gagging you. Five minutes after that
I hope to leave the train. You’ll be
discovered at Leeds, and perhaps sooner.
The house really ought to stand the loss,
as it is no fault of yours. You rather
tumbled to the game at Morpeth, eh?”
I was so mad and my throat hurt me
so that I made no reply, and he was
about to continue his remarks wheu the
train suddenly slackened speed and a
minute later came to a standstill.
We had been ordered to make a special
stop at a small station to let an up train
pass. this
“What in Tophet’s name does
mean?” growled the robber as he looked
from the window. “Special stop, is it?
My friend, I’m about to gag you. Utter
one shout and I’ll do for you with the
knife.”
He’d taken a gag from his parcel when
he got the cords. He was bending over
me with it in his hand waen the guard
unlocked the door to admit two passen¬
gers changing from an overcrowded one.
“He’s a robber! He’s robbed me.
Don’t let him escape!” I shouted the in¬
stant the door opened.
“Out of the way—I’m armed—I’ll do
murder!” yelled the robber, as he made
a break.
He would have gotten off temporarily
but for an accident. As he went through
the door he caught his foot and fell
heavily on the platform, and the three
men had pluck enough to seize and dis¬
arm him. And who do you suppose he
proved to be? No other than that prince
of criminals known to Scotland Yard as
“Duke Golf,'’ and a man then wanted in
half a dozen different cities. He put up
the job. Toe letter paper, as was proved,
was procured for him by a female ser¬
vant in the house of Sir Blank. The two
men with the carriage were ruffians from
Liverpool who had hired the rig at Gates¬
head and driven it to Morpeth, Both
were nabbed, and both “peached" on
the “Duke,” and all three got heavy sen¬
tences in orison.—C. B. Lewis, in New
York Sun.
Man’s Record on the Sea-Floor.
It is a singu’ar, aud perhaps somewhat
humiliating fact, that the most conspicu¬
ous aud indelible record which man is
making in the strata now forming on
the sea-floor is written in the bits of coal
and ash which are cast from our steam¬
ships as they pursue their way over the
ocean. The quantity of this debris is
very great, and unlike the wrecks, it is
very evenly scattered along the paths
followed by our steam marine. It is
likely that already, in the track of our
transatlantic commerce, not a square rod
would fail to give a trace of tnis waste
from our coal-burning engines. As this
material is not attacked by the marine
animals, and is very little affected by the
other agents of decay, it will doubtless
be very perfectly preserved in the strata
which are to bear the records of our
time. In the eventual formation of a
deposit containing a notable quantity of
cinders, it may be that our successors in
the far hereafter will interpret our, per¬
haps otherwise, unrecorded ways of voy¬
aging.—Scribner.
The Curious Black Hare.
The lepus insularis or black hare is an
interesting discovery. It is found only
on the island of Espiritu Santo. It ap¬
pears to have been insulated from the
mainland by some remote geologic
change, and by the process of evolution
has acquired its peculiarities, as it differs
from any varieties found elsewhere. It
is very large and lives among black vol¬
canic rocks, which may have caused its
change iu color to nearly black. There
are many varieties, species and genera
represented in the collection, and several
specimens of each variety are taken to
show variations.—San Francisco Chron¬
icle.
A Curious Egg.
itf *V. S. Miller of this place has a curios-
in the way of an oAis e-g, which his
daughter found in one hens’ nests et?
last week. It is an ashlar™ e-within 12 an
the outer one being as which^had
ego-, bS with a very ’Se thin shell "to
cracked. of was an-
tho
ington (Mo.) Times.
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Atlanta and Florida Railroad
Time Table No. 14, Taking Effect April 21st, 1892.
SOUT HBOU ND. 6A5A. M. i IH'.uf
Freight Thro’g h Fr. Local 1,'iit Passenger No STATIONS. Passe No ng r Local
1 2 Freight
No 7 N 5 Da ly D i y J*o6 N
» M—LV A M—LV P M—LV A M—AT P M-Ar P K-
3 45 ..........Atlanta........... 10 35
930 8 30 400 “ Yard..... 10 20 335
9 47 846 410 ........... ..........Cornell........... 10 12 315 9i
1005 905 4 21 Hansville......... 10 02 2 57 8i
935 ......... 8,
1035 9 45 436 .........Riverdale......... 945 222 n
10 44 955 4 40 ..........Seina............ 940 213 r
1102 10 13 4 49 ..........Blalock.......... 9 31 156 ' vj
1125 10 37 5 01 ........Fayetteville........ 919 131
1153 11 05 5 16 ...........Inman.......... 905 1 03
12 03 am 11 14 5 21 ............Lowry.......... ..........Woolsey.......... 900 12 54 i.
12 20 1132 530 8 5i 12 36 ■:
12 33 1136 5 37 ....Kallulnli Junction.... 844 12 23 i
......SG& N A K R......
12 48 A 12 01 p *5 ...........Zete’la........... cc D 12 08 p B
D 1205m A 12 05 “
m i
109 12 27 tO ........Williamson........ 00 11 41 C
....June G M & G R R.... 1
>- 12 57 coco ..........Zebu Ion.......... 00 1110 i!
*0 1 19 ........Mean* vi lie......... OO 10 48 i
137 .........Piedmont......... -1 10 22 3
158 .....'lopeka Branch JuncMon..... -31 10 00 3
Thomaston C R R
320 0 2 30 o a .1 ..........Yatesville......... 724 D 9 30 V
305 A 9 00
......June M & B Ry......
A. M—Af 3 32 723 .........Culloden.......... 713 833 m a
4 07 7 39 ..........Musella........... 6 57 800 :
438 754 .........Knoxville......... >0 6 42 r 1 7 30
6 27
4 51 7 59 ..........Crawleys......... 6 20 712
5 03 8 04 ........Hammetts......... 6 13 7 00
5 13 8 08 .........Ga liard’s......... 609 6 49
528 814 .......... Paynes .......... 6 03 6 35
538 8 19 .........1ee Pope........ 5 59 6 25
6 10 835 ........Fort Vahey........ 645 555
P m—A r P M- Ar A M—LV A M—LV
tlo. 5 will run Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. No. 6 will run Tuesdays, Tima,
and Saturday*. No. 7 aud 8 will run daily except Sunday. SStop for meals.
R. H. PLANT, Receiver. T- W. GARRET 1, Superintend)
-DEALERS IN-
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Hardware, Tinware, Qi
and Willow ware, Furniture, Harness, Guns and Ammunition. Our »tud
Ladies goods is complete. We have just received a large stock of Gt
Furnishing Goods from the cheapest working suit to a Dude’s outfit.
HATS AND CAPS OF ALL STYLE
Our stock of Furniture has never been equaled in the county. It
braces a beautiful line of
OAK WALNUT AND POPLAR IN SUITS OR PIECi
A car load of MASON & FORDS Celebrated Chairs, direct from
tory. large Consisting Spring of Dining Mattresses. Room, Parlor and Rojkers; Settees and s?
also a lot ot
Guns from the Single Barrel to the best Double Barrel Breech Load?
also ammunition.
FANCY AS WELL AS FAMILY GROCERI
be pleased We extend with what a cordial have invitation show to call and We inspeot will our the good?. highest Youj pi
we to you, pay
for cotton; thereby aiding the farmers. Our motto is Quick Sale?
Small Profits.
Wt SELL AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICE
Every attention will be shown customers. A free delivery in the ^
or in Knoxville of all sales of Dry Goods of ten dollars and upwards.
Respectfully,
WILSON & MATHEW
Roberta, Geo;
If you want to make a bargain You can fool all the people
go to see W. W. Jordan before his of the time, and part of the W
stock is picked over. all the time but you can’t
W. W. Jordan is offering goods of the people all the time.
of all kinds at astonishing low wise, prudent, careful and
prices. cal buy their Dry Goods,
Bargains! Bargains!! Wilson A Shoes » Hats, Notions, etc.
Mathews are offering bargains in all I. Powell. Go to see him, he
kinds of goods. treat you right.