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VOL. I.
THE ROAD.
Tray, whither leads the road, fair heart?
Say, whither leads the road?
Across a rill, around a hill,
Beside a dell where rivers start.
Where bending nut-trees sited their load—
Oh, thither leads the road, dear heart,
Oh, thither leads the road.
What matter where the road may lead,
So thou and I together go?
Companionship all is all our need,
Division our woe.
l'he pine-tree tall on yonder hill
For years has watched the passer-by;
When tie is dust we shall be still
Together, th6u and I.
How hushed the afternoon! I date
Not whisper love, but send the thought
In speechless message. All the air •
In Silence’ thrall is caught.
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Oh, these are God-reared trees! How soft
The wind-dreams round their tall heads
The creep. aloft
drowsy leaves that sleep. doze
Stir like a ebiJd in
Young Autumn’s lire begins Winter’s to burn
The brands to hurl at brow;
The sun-wooed leaves sigh low, and turn
To crimson on the bough.
Pray, whither whither leads the road, road? fair heart?
Say, leads the
Across a rill, around a hill,
Beside a deil where rivers start.
Where bending nut-trees shed their load—
Oh. thither lead the road, my heart,
Oh, thither leads the road.
—John Macyin The Chap-Book.
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ay oi je.us r on a uooasnen in an om- 11
fashioned iarmliouse in lynedale in
e north ot England, the story given
eon i» -aven.
William Tarbot was a lawyer at
Hexham, in the north of England.
Having to attend the assizes at Aln¬
wick and probably spend some days
there and Mrs. Tarbot’s parents resid¬
ing eight miles from that place, Mr.
Tarbot arranged that his wife and their
daughter, a girl of 16, should accom¬
pany him and stay with their relatives
until lie was ready to return home.
The family' traveled on horseback, as
was customary among country people
in those days, and reached the abode
of Mr. and Mrs, Norman, the wife’s
parents, after a pleasant ride of a few
hours. Mr. and Mrs. Norman were
plain, old-fashioned people, ownj* g
their own farm and accounted wealthy.
The next morning Mr. Tarbot rode on
to Alnwick and was soon over head
and ears in business.
On the last day of the court one
\yrav of Bamboroiigh poufitls paid over to Mr.
Tarbot 2350 iu bank of Eng¬
land notes in settlement of a suit.
Wrav had the mnnev in n lirnwirtunpr
narcel which he ouened in Tarlmt's
bedroom in the inn where thev were
both stavim? "and The two men counted
the money, Wray wrapped it up
in the same wav in which he bad nro-
duced it and laid the mckao-e savfn"- on the
table at the same time
“Now Tarbot rinlr von shonbl stand *
something so the bell ”
“Why of course ! will with pleas-
ure,” Tarbot said, and thereupon
.Wray playfully turned him toward the
bell pull, which hung ° by the side of
the mantelpiece.
After the men had drunk together
they parted with mutual expressions
of good feelino-, Tarbot putting the
package into his pocket buttoning his
coat over it. ^.n hour later he changed
his coat for a traveling one aud laid
the package on a chair by a window
leaving it there while lie went out
upon the gallery and called the boots
to bring him his saddle ba<*s which
he had been cleaning Having stowed
away his things in the ba^s he put on
his traveling coat, placed the package
in his inside pocket and buttoned^he
coat over his breast. Then he mounted
his horse and started for the dwelling °
of his father-in-law.
It was an unusually hot dav iu Sep-
tember and a thunderstorm was fag-
ing he°might over the Grampians. Fearing that
be hindered by the swelling
.stream if he attempted tq ford it, lie
rode two or three miles out of his way
to cross it by a bridge." It was well
he did so, for, thougn lie rode right
iuto the storm and was wet to the skin,
he got on the safe side of the water,
aud the rest of his road was hnob-
structed. Nevertheless so heavy was
the storm that he took refuge in a
smithy on the outskirts of a hamlet
and waited there until the blast had
spent itself. When he reached Squire
Norman’s dwelling, it was past 9. A
roasting fire soon tried his clothes and
a hearty supper sjieedily put him to
right internally. As he sat by the
hearth smoking the squire said:
“We have a curious visitor here to-
night-—not here exactly either, as you’ll
THE RIBUNE.
“Don’t Give XJr> tho Sliip.”
BUCHANAN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 8. 1898.
see. When tli e storm was at its height,
a tall, gaunt man, dressed like a
drover, came here for shelter. We
gave him all he could eat and drink,
am! he is now asleep, I suppose, in
the hayloft. He told us a very strange
story. He said he had been east with
a drove of cattle and was returning
afoot when the rain caught him. He
managed with some difficulty to ford
the stream, and was making his way
along the bank when he heard a cry
for help. It turned out, so far as he
could learn, that a man, in attempting
to cross, had lost his footing and was
clinging desperately to the ‘exposed
roots of a tree, while the rushing
flood was too strong for him to resist
so as to get a hold of the root or any-
thing else with his feet. It was irn-
possible for the drover to reach him,
and he shouted that fact across the
flood. Then the man cried:
‘‘I have a package of money here
which will be washed away il I lose
ai y U if’* ft you 11 take care of it for
me, I 11 share it with you.’
‘“Throw it this way,’ the drover
said ‘I am John Cotter and you can
hear of me at the Green Man at
Carlisle any day.’
ith this the stranger hurled a
package toward the drover, which he
luckily caught,” continued the squire,
“He showed us the package and
opened it before us all. It contained
2350 pounds in England notes.
“Great Lord .’’’exclaimed Mr. Tar hot,
flapping liis hand to his breast. “Can
possible—No. I feel it. The
1)ackageis ‘ a! 1 safe.”
He opened his coat and drew forth
a brown paper package from the inside
pocket.
“I tell you what, squire,” he *said.
“I burst out into a cold sweat all over
when you told me what the drover’s
package contained, for I have a pack-
age of money for a client amounting
precisely to the sum you named.” ,
Why, -the drover's package is the
very picture of yours,’’saidthe squire,
“Outside 2 >erhaps; outside,” said
the lawyer as he opened the package,
Inside there was nothing but a lot
of sheets of worthless paper cut into
the size of Bank of England notes.
Tarbot was for a time struck dumb.
“I’ve been robbed,” he said
savagely, but restraining his voice.
“The package containing my client’s
money has been stolen and this worth-
less jiaekage put in its place. Your
drover, squire, is the thief.”
“Well, it looks like it certainly,”
said the squire. “But what would
induce the man if he were a thief to
come here and show*me the money,
and desire to stay here all night?
Wouldn’t he have got so far away with
i1 *‘ 8 P ossible ami just as quickly as
be eould?”
“It seems so certainly,” Tarbot
answered. “Nevertheless the circm-
stances are so remarkable that I think
steps ought to lie taken at once by
you as a magistrate to secure the
drover if he hasn’t shown a pair of
clean heels already.”
“I agree with you,’’said the squire,
“and I will send for the constable at
once and arrest him.
While a servant was quickly dis-
patched for the officer of the law, the
sfimve and Tarbot, each armed with a
pistol, quitted the house by the rear,
aU(1 > being provided with a lantern,
went to the stable over which was the
hayloft where the drover was supposed
to he. Ascending the ladder without
neise, the lawyer threw the light'of
the lantern across the floor. There,
slu ' e enough, lay the gaunt form of the
‘Rover, with every sign upon it of a
Jeep sleep. Nevertheless when the con-
stable arrived the drover was aroused
and, much to his surprise was informed
that he was a prisoner. After he heard
the explanation of the fact he laughed
heartily and said: .
“Well, now, isn’t this some trick
¥ on are trying to practice upon
me? I vow, it’s clever, but it isn’t
fair to wake a tired man out of his
hrst sleep for the sake of a joke.”
He was assured that it was no joke,
and,being kindly advised by the squire
to go quietly with the constable, he
did so.
Next morning the body of a
murdered mau was discovered on the
other side of the stream, about a quar-
ter of a mile below the bridge. It
was removed to the village lockup,
and there Mr. Tarbot identified it as
Wray’s. The skull was fractured and
the right arm broken. It was sup-
posed that the arm was broken when
raised to protect the head from a blud-
geon, which was found near the body,
But this was not all. The overseer
of the poor had in his charge in an
outhouse of the village inn a man who
had been found early that morning on
the bank of the stream with a dis-
located arm and some broken ribs,
Here was a nice complication of
things, such, in fact, as had never be¬
fore come under the notice of Squire
Norman or his son-in-law, Tar hot. The
man with the dislocated arm was
soaked and mud stained and had evi-
dentlv been carried away by the over¬
flowiug stream.
Tarbot naturally associated him with
the person who had given the package
to the drover for safe keeping. This
turned out to be all right, for the
drover, being quietly introduced to
the place where the man was, said:
“Well, neighbor, do you want your
package?’’
The man, who had been lying for
some time apparently unconscious,
now bestirred himself and, looking
around and seeing that only the drover
was there, exclaimed:
“What! Are you the man I threw
it _ to?
Ave, it is sale, was the reply,
“When will you be ready to divide?"
“Don’t say a word,” said the man
in a low tone. “.Stay around until I
am able to get away aud then I’ll make
it all right with you.”
After 'this all suspicion was removed
from the drover,aud he was taken into
the counsels of the squire and Tarbot.
In a few days the man was well
enough to talk,aud he was encouraged
to do so by the drover, who assumed
the character of a free rover looking
around for what he could pick up or
knock down. The man admitted that
he had taken the package from a
stranger whom he met on the high-
way. He was confronted with the
club and Wray’s, corpse, but put on a
bold front aud denied all knowledge
°f them. Finally, however, he con-
fessedtothe drover that he had brained
. Wray and stolen the package from
him, afterward taking refuge in a
roadside inn, where he found an op-
I portunity to examine and learn the
nature of the plunder. Then he
grew restless and ventured out in the
storm, and in an attempt to cross the
stream missed bis ford aud thus came
to meet the drover.
There was nothing left to explain
the abstraction from the custody of
Tarbot of the genuine package and
the substitution of the counterfeit
except that W ray himself had designed
scheme and carried it out as he
pushed Mr. Tarbot toward the bell
pull, and that in making his way not
toward home, for that was in a con-
tr ary direction, but to some place
where he intended to conceal the
money, he was met by the ruffian who
murdered and robbed him. Ibis
wretch gave the name of George Bain-
ton and under that he was convicted
ot the murder ot Wray. It was after-
waV( I commonly asserted that Ins real
was lat °* a distinguished
. Emily, and that
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Enough their influence the sentence
^' a8 commuted to transportation, and
that he was allowed to escape punish-
ment altogether on condition of his
Quitting the country. A. Beckwith in
-Brooklyn Citizen.
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The Siamese Girl’s Dance.
Tlie most graceful and intricate
dance of any savage people is said to
be the cup dance of Siam. .The girls
who take part in it range in age
Ave to twenty years, aud their train-
big is begun as soon as they are able
to walk.
In dancing the cup dance a row of
girls take their positions with a tier of
cups on their heads, which they, keep
balanced throughout the dance. They
kneel down with military precision
and bow their, heads till theif fore’-
heads nearly touch the floor, keeping
the cups on their heads meanwhile by
a series of skilful jefks of the Afi'ck.
They also make a series of rapid and
intricate circles, bringing into play al-
most every muscle of the body with-
out disturbing the cups.
Another feature of this dance is for
Ee girls to bend backward and pick
up little pieces of straw with their
eyelids. Throughout the dance the
positions are always easy and graceful,
and the movements are light and airy.
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Paragraphs Got Mixed.
It was an Irish newspaper, accord¬
ing to Macmillan’s Magazine, that
once published this highly defamatory
paragraph: “Dr.F.has been appointed
resident medical officer to the Mater
Misericordia hospital, Orders have
been issued by the cemetery committee
for the immediate extension of Glas-
neviu cemetery. The works are being
executed with the utmost dispatch.”
It is perhaps unnecessary to explain
that two paragraphs about quite differ¬
ent matters had got “mixed.”
TO TEST SILVER CERTIFICATES.
Discovery of it (JuIck-AVittetl Sub-Treasu¬
ry Clerk in New York.
To test a $100 silver certificate, wet
a corner, and if you find it can he
pulled apart in two distinct sheets it
is not a good bill. Or, compare its
length with a $100 bill you know is
genuine, for a counterfeit is a quarter
of an inch shorter.
J. Condit Agens, the only man in
New York who has tints far detected
one 0 f tli e new $100silver certificates
the most dangerous counterfeit, so the
treasury and secret service officials de-
clare, that was ever made, told recent-
ly ‘ just how his discovery was made.
Mr. Agens is 50 years of age. and
f or nin* years has been a clerk in the
United States sub-treasury, on Wall
street. Previous to that he was for
maU y years a c l e rk in a bank. At the
sub-treasury enormous amounts of
money are counted every day. To
Hr. Agens is assigned the counting of
silver certificates, and recently lie
counted over $1,000,000 in bills of va-
rious denominations,
“it was after 3 o’clock,” he said to
a New York reporter, “and the elec-
trie light was turned on over my desk,
[ -was counting packages of $100 silver
certificates, as we had received from
the Hanover National bank that after-
UO on $60,000 in the bills in packages °
Q f 100 bills each.
“j was pretty nearly through with
the third package, and was counting
aH rapidly-as usual, although feeling a
little anxious. A sample of the conn-
forfeits bad been sent from Washing-
ton some davs before, and so I looked
sharply at every hill.
“The counterfeit $100 silver certifi-
cates are a little thicker and softer
tlian the genuine, and this difference
is, of course, perceptible. But if I
were to feel the thickness of bills with
my eyes shut I should be likely to
fancy the genuine bills counterfeit. It
is the eye on which I depend.
“Weil, as I steadily counted those
bills, all at once I gave a sort of jump
and pulled one out of the pile and
waved it over my head. I was ex-
cited and yelled out: ‘I’ve got one,’
all( ] the other clerks came around my *
desk.”
“He was so excited that he didn’t
s i ee p at all that night,” put in his
wife.
“And then one of the qien asked how
I could prove it a counterfeit, aud I
soaked the end and pulled it apart,
showiug two thicknesses. And of
course that settled it. Then, too, I
laid the bill on a genuine one and
showed that the counterfeit was a
quarter of an inch shorter.
“But what I actually saw in that
momentary glance that told me it was
a counterfeit was that the light side of
Monroe’s face was too narrow. If I had
j u .st previously been counting bills of
another denomination I might not
have noticed it so quickly, but, as it
-was, I had just handled so ninny $100
hills that the whole face of tlie bill
was engraved on my mind. „
“The left side of the pair of scales,
or the seal, is too near the square; the
left end of the key is imperfect, and
the ‘A’ in ‘James’ under Monroe’s
picture is of wrong proportions. But
these points I did not notice until af-
ter close examination.
“The numbers on the counterfeits,
rs 1 understand, begin with ‘2345’ or
‘2346,’ with other figures following,
and it is the ‘2345’ that is the more
dangerous. All are of series TV
The bill that i was fortunate enough
to capture had passed through tho
Williamsburg Savings bank before go-
ing to the Hanover bank. ”
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singing the _ ‘
on March.
All the military authorities oi
Europe are now paying great attention
to singing on the march. The French
army has of late permitted its soldiers
to sing while marching. A little book
of soldiers’marching songs was pub-
lished in London, with General Wolse-
ley’s words printed big on the cover
to the effect that men march better
and arrive fresher when they sing
than when they don’t. Curiously
enough.niostofthesesongsareAineri-
can, words and all.
The Real Owner.
“I have called, Mr. Jingle,” said
the tax collector, “to ask you to pay "
this bill for faxes on your bouse.”
“Take it around to the back door
and ask the cook,” said Mr. Jiuglo.
“If you’d lived here twenty-four
hours you’d know, sir, that she owns
the house. I’ve abdicated.”—Har¬ ,
per’s Bazar. j
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Missouri has an annual output of
timber rated at about $7,000,000. j
NO. 18.
FLORIDA’S POCAHONTAS.
A IltMuimtic Story a* Printed l»y Governor
lUoxlmm to tlie Fishermen.
Governor W. B. Bloxham inciden-
tally related the following legend in
j his address welcoming the delegates
of the recent National Fishery society
to Tampa, Fla.
“You meet here upon this historic
ground where the footprints of some
of Spain’s greatest cavaliers and
America’s noblest captains can be
traced. While it is not my intention
to recur to their heroic deeds or to
offer you a cup filled with the am-
| brosia of ancient based story, vet historic there fact, is
one romance, upon
j associated with this very spot that I
; feel you will kindly indulge should
‘ brief reference be made thereto,
“Wherever the history of America
■ E read the story of Pocahontas is
| known. The romance is most capti-
rating, and some of Virginia’s most
honored sons trace back a lineage to
this daughter of the forest. Put the
I historic fact that a similar scene was
enacted on this very spot three-quar-
ters of a century before the name of
! Pocahontas was ever lisped by Eng-
lish lips is unknown to even many
Eloridaus. It was here in 1528, twelve
years before De Soto landed on Tampa
1 Bay. that Juan Ortez, a Spanish youth
of 18, having been captured at Clear
Water, was brought before Hirrihugun,
the stern Indian chief, in whose breast
; was rankling a vengeance born of the
ill treatment of his mother by tlie fol-
lowers of the ill-fated Narvarez. Ortez
, and fair, but the cruel chief
1 was young
, had given the orders, and her6 was
erected a gridiron of poles, and.young
Ortez was bound^and stretched to meet
the demands of a human sacrifice. The
torch was being applied, the crackling
flames began to gather strength for a
human holocaust, when the stern
chief’s daughter threw herself at her
father's feet and interposed in Ortez’s
behalf. Her beauty rivalled that of
the historic dame ‘whose heavenly
charms kept Troy and Greece ten
years in arms.’ The soft language of
her soul flowed from her never silent
eyes as she looked up through her
i tears of sympathy, imploring the life
| of “Those the young tears, Spaniard. the ever-ready t -h*
weapon
j of woman’s weakness, touched the
j heart Ortez of even for the the time savage spared. chief, aud
1 was
.
“But the demon of evil in a few
I months again took possession of Hir-
i rihugua, and his daughter saw that
j even her entreaties would be unavail-
Eg. She was betrothed to Mucoso,
the young chief of a neighboring
tribe. Their love had been plighted,
that God-given love that rules the sav-
age breast.
“Her loving heart told her that
Ortez would be safe in Mucoso’s keej >■
Eg. At the dead hour of night she
accompanied him beyond danger and
placed in his hand such token as
Mucoso would recognize.
“She acted none too soon, As the
sun rose over this spot, its rays fell
upon the maddened chief calling in
V «E for the intended victim of his
vengeance. His rage was such that it
dried up the wellsprings of parental
affection, and he refused the marriage
of A' s daughter unless Ortez was sur-
rendered. But that Indian girl, al-
though it broke the heartstrings of
hope, sacrificed her love to humanity,
and Mucoso, sacrificed his bride upon
the altar of honor,
“Ortez lived to welcome De Soto,
Tell ( me —aye, tell tl^e world—where a
brighter example of nobler virtue was
ever recorded! Where in history do
yon find more genuine and more touch-
ing illustration of ‘love, charity and
forgiveness’—the very trinity of earth-
ly virtues, and the brightest jewels of
the Christian heaven?
“What a captivating theme this
Florida ^ Pocahontas should present to
Ee pen of imagination, picturing this
spot then and today associated with
romance rich in historic love. ”—Savnn-
llf E News.
A Newsboy al Eighty.
The oldest “newsboy” iu the world
has just celebrated his birthday at
Toliet, Ill. His name is Orsanis Page,
and lie is 80 yeara of age. He is a
local character and proud of Ihe fact
Eat after eight decades of life he can
stib g et ll P at daylight to make his
rounds with the morning papers, aud
spend the rest of the day in shouting
the latest editions through the streets
of the city,
It is estimated that over eighty tons
of diamonds have been unearthed iu
the South African fields during the
Est eighteen years. These represent a
total value of $280,000,000.