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‘ There are two folds upon tlie hill,
And one is lone and very still—
• Only the rustle of a leaf
Gives happy sound of life and stir,
And warbles bubbling bright and brief
Where Or tlie rifling bird skims with fearless whirr,
a bee on his way
The honey from a wild rose spray.
Sometimes a soft and summer shower
Drops Or gentle music hour by hour,
Makes a long melancholy breath of wandering there, air
murmur
And ail is calm and full of peace
There the dead have
—Harriet Prescott Spofford, in Scribner’s Magazine.
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T v HE superintendent of the Kil¬
dee Insane Asylum was, ex
officio, a great personage iu
tlie little town. The simple.
Dome-keeping inhabitants dignified him
iu their minds with the great men of
the Nation, for the institution over
which lie presided was the biggest
thing they knew about, and the official
residence of the superintendent was
looked upon as the type and paragon
of gll domestic excellence.
The new superintendent, however,
had not been content to move majesti¬
cally in tjje beaten path of his prede¬
cessors. The degree of awesome aloof¬
ness which enwrapped him surpassed
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anything ever known m the town, but
he had a knaejc of mingling with the
affairs of the people without abating
an iota of his dignity or laying him¬
self open to the familiarity of his
neighbors. I-Ie hadn’t been in office
six months*before tlie asylum garden,
worked by tlie inmates, began to yield
• extraordinary quantities of kitchen
truck, flowers and fruit, which Superin¬
tendent Triggton, with pompous conde
cension permitted the public to buy at
prices that added heavily to liis already
large income. Then it became known
among certain struggling tradesmen
that Triggton had a certain sum of
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ready money which ho was “willing”
to loan to reputable citizens on “terms
which could lie privately arranged.”
Within a year he “owned” enough
mortgages to make him master of the
destinies of a dozen less fortunate Kil
deenns. He bought lots in town and
acres adjoining the village and guarded
his holdings with a jealous tyranny
that was quite new to the easy going,
friendly people.
Boys caught playing “I spy” in his
orchard w r ere cuffed off the premises.
Stray pigs, cows or horses foraging
along the roadways were promptly im¬
pounded by Triggton and tlie owners
mulcted for their “keep.” Frolicking
dogs which had ventured upon the
Triggton estate had been found mys¬
teriously defunc-t, lying at their own¬
ers’ gates, rullets foraging abroad in
the vicinity of his house had i’aiicd
•To thine own self bo true,and it will follow, as night the day, thou eans’t not then bn f&lm to any n
LINCOLNTON, GA , THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1902.
THE PATHS -OF DEATH,
Within that other place of graves
The wild rains fall, the wild wind rave3—
In every dusky who alley met aching breast
Sad ghosts, beat an
With anguished longing and regret, blest,
Remember that they once -were
The heart gone out of unknown them, the goal. soul
Fled onward to some
For them no glad and further year,
Ashes the rose, and beauty sere,
Without a wish except to fill
Their eyes with dust—the dead who still
With ruined hope and joyless earth! mirth
Go to and fro the
to return to their roosts, and the va
grom peddlers who occasionally in¬
vaded his inhospitable yard wera set
upon by a murderous bulldog which
held the unenvied honor"of being Trigg¬
ton’s only companion, counselor and
friend. A year of this kind of “neigh
boriliness” made Superintendent Trigg¬
ton the most hated and at the same
time the most feared person in .Kildee.
The Widow Denny was the first who
dared to oppose him. One of her pigs
had got away and never returned, and
about the same time Triggton’s porcine
family of ten yearlings was augmented
by tlie presence of a plump boar,
which, from a distance, looked suspic-
iously like the Denny derelict, Tlie
widow demanded her beast, and Trigg¬
ton laughed at her. Then she filed suit
and gave the community a shock of
delight by bringing her son, a young
Chicago lawyer, to help her fight the
superintendent. Everybody hoped and
even expected that the smart young
attorney from tlie city would bring
the hateful Triggton to account, but
when the case came to trial and tlie
evidence was all in, even the tacit tes¬
timony of the squealing pig, the ques¬
tion remained one of veracity between
the woman and the possessor of the
pig. He swore that his sow had lit-
tered eleven pigs, and the widow swore
that the beast in evidence was ber
property. She mentioned the split ear,
the marks, even the kinks in its tall,
recounting- these signs of identification
before tiie debated beast appeared
and pointing out the accuracy of her
statements when the squealer was in¬
troduced. In this quandary, Judge
Tufts, who was mortally afraid of the
superintendent, fell back on the old
sophism, “possession is nine-tenths of
the law,” and awarded the pig to the
triumphant rascal.
The Kildeeans were sorely disap¬
pointed, though they dared not show it,
and Superintendent Triggton swag¬
gered out of the courtroom with a
sneer at Lawyer Deuny that stung
him all the deeper when he saw the
tears in Ins old mother’s eyes. The
widow aud her son were having a
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rather sad farewell supper that even¬
ing when Hank Lee, who was a sort
of town weigher, came in with the
startling announcement:
“They’s a mover gone and camped in
Triggton’s orchard! Pulled down a
panel o’ the fence and tuk his team
an’ wagon right in an’ squatted on the
clover kerplfink! He’s put up a tent
and his bosses is eatin’ away at their
best lick! Geewhillikens, won't the ole
grizzly holler!” V
“Let’s go see what happens. Hank,”
said Denny.
“I’ll go ye. We kin hide behind the
manure pile.” And off they went in
spite of Mrs. Denny's cautious warn¬
ing to “keep out o’ .Triggton’s road.”
From their lurking place they could
see the mover sitting beside his camp
fire, shuffling a sizzling skillet over the
blaze. He was whistling merrily, ob¬
livious of tlie burly! man standing bolt
upright at the fence staring at the
intruder in livid astonishment. Denny
and Lee nudged each other and
chuckled as they saw Triggton dart
under tlie top rail, rush up to the non
ehalant trespasser and bellow: “Get
off this lot. d’ye hear!” The mover
calmly laid down his frying pan,
stopped whistling and smiled into the
purple face of the enraged Triggton.
“Why, good evenin’,” lie laughed.
“Glad to know you, Triggy! I lieerd
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about you. Aiwa >4 been wantin’ to
meet up with thejjdyr what owns the
whole world!” " 1
“Get out of my orchard, you blamed
fool!” roared the superintendent,
clinching his fist and trembling with
tlie rage that seized him.
“Whoa, Triggy,” quoth the mover,
stepping back as the smile faded from
his brown face; “don’t get sassy, or
I'll have to use force. Come now,
you’d better come along with me up t’
the ’sylum. I been told to fetch you
in. I know you own the whole world,
got it fenced in an’ all that, but ’f
you’ll come along with me I think
nrebbe we kin give you a mortgage on
the moon, too. Come.”
For answer the infuriated Triggron
leaped at tlie throat of the stranger.
Too quid; for his assailant, however,
the vagabo. 1 had grabbed the iron
skillet and with one quick swing
brought it smash upon the head of
Triggton. The men behind the manure
pile saw him waver, stagger and fall.
The mover beut over him for an in¬
stant, said, “Don't git up, Triggy,” and
as the prostrate man jumped up again
struck him full in the eye with his
clinched fist. “Guess that’ll hold ye
fur awhile,” said the stranger, going
into his tent. They watched him come
out with a rope and tie the fallen
tyrant hand and foot. Then, by a
great effort, lie loaded his victim into
the wagon, and Denny and Lee, un¬
willing to remain longer, made off
through the twilight, laughing with
delight. They stopped at the widow’s
house long enough to see the mover
come galloping up the road, his wagon
rattling behind and Triggton sitting
helplessly in tlie rear, his yells and im¬
precations drowned by the clatter of
the jolting vehicle.
Denny ran into tlie house, much to
the wonderment of Hank, but the
mover drew re-ins at the gate and
cried:
“Hi, there, come show me the way to
Jedge Tuftsses’ house. I got the
’scaped lunatic here, Captured him
single-handed down younder in the
orchard. Don’t be skeard o' him. I
got him tied as tight as a yearlin’
bull.”
Hank, not trusting himself to look
at the prisoner, jumped up on the seat
and away they dashed for Judge Tufts’
house. That grave if not learned per¬
sonage happened at that moment to be
presiding over a political mass meet¬
ing in the square of Kildee, surrounded
by a glare of oil torches, and in the
act of introducing the “speaker of the
evening.” Tire thundering arrival of
the wagon with Hank and the mover
on the seat and the raving, disheveled,
dirty captive ia the rear, created an
uproar that put an end to the judge’s
speech. He jumped off the stake
wagon, elbowed his way through the
crowd, and catching sight of the woe¬
begone superintendent, asked: “What
does this mean?"
“That’s your escaped lunatic, Jedge."
explained the mover, while the crowd
roared in Irrepressible delight, “that’s
him, Triggton. I ketched him single
handed down in the orchard, he jumped
me-”
“Whose orchard?” asked the excited
Tufts, fumbling to release the crest¬
fallen superintendent.
“Why, Denny’s. Mr, Denny told me
I could camp in that-orchard-
“But this gentleman, what .in God's
name did you do to him?”
“Why, he’s the ’scaped lunatic,
Triggton. Mr. Denny told me about
him, said he was bug-house about own¬
in’ the whole world, ’scaped from the
’sylum, and that if I ketched him an’
turned him over to Jedge Tufts I’d git
tile reeward. He fetched me a wallop,
an’ I jest fetched him a couple aside
o’ the head, and yonder he is!”
The disgruntled captor of the Kildee
tyrant looked- around for Hank Lee
for corroboration, but that worthy vya-s
then running as;, fast as his legs could
take him to the Widow Denny’s cot¬
tage.
“Whore's your son. Mrs. Denny?”
he panted, as he bolted into the
kitchen. •
“He’s gone on that 8 o’ciock train
for Chicago,” she said, quietly.
“Do you know what he’s done?”
“Yes, Hank, I know. It was the
least lie could do. don’t you think?”—
John II. Raftery, iu the Chicago Rec¬
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The words “month” and “silver,”
long supposed to have no words to
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NO. 19.
WHOLESALE RESTAURANTS.
Where the Cheap. Eating Houses and
Stands Obtain Cooked Food.
If it were asserted without any ex¬
planation that there were restaurants
in New York which cooked large quan¬
tities of food day and night and yet
which never sold a mouthful to a per¬
son within their doors, it would cer¬
tainly such is arouse the doubt fact. or There ridicule, Yet
are more
than forty establishments of this class
in New York. Their customers are
not hungry men, ‘but restaurants, eat
ing-booths. oyster stands, and free
lunch , counters/- There was a time
when every .place pf this sort owned
and used it’ own kitchen, but the in¬
crease of rents’- the decrease in the
size of store property, and the greater
economy necessitated by keen compe¬
tition have brought the wholesale res¬
taurant Into existence and made it a
financial success.
Most ot these affairs are on the East
Side, and are managed by Germans,
Hebrews, Swiss, and English, their
•numbers being’ In the order named.
They- swffyly -roas£'“beef, lamb, veal,
mutton., ,qpj'ite.ii.bse£L and pork, pot
roasts, *baked and boiled fish, fried
‘Oysters, clams, scallops, eels, fish-balls,
and ..soft-shell".’cribs, boiled potatoes,
cabbage, turnips, and beets.
A few supply a ,larger bill of fare,
but the demand fdi y their goods is com¬
paratively limited, They purchase
good, whplesqme Mj&li paaterial, employ ex
cellent coolis, efficient delivery
wagons, and ruiT. atfhirs upon a good
business basis:
When you pass an oyster-stand, and
see nicely fried oysters and soft-shell
er-abs neatly piled upon a platter, *„.d
decorate.d with little sprigs of pars¬
ley, twice out, "of’'Vfi/ise- ofjthree times you look
at the wares establishments.
.Tire tiny -re8tdui»tfat& in the business
districts, anft those which
cater to clerks and workingmen, de
pend almost entirely upon the whole
safe restaurants’"for their food. Odly
enough,, they ..can. sell their cooked
food to the retail restaurants for less
than what the'latter would *pay for the
raw materials; This comes from buy¬
ing wholesale in very large quantities,
in cooking .on a .large scale, and in
1 all waste.products.—New
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the r.rtillery range to eighteen miles
Ho who plants fruit trees must no*,
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