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♦ jfluntfll. 4 & III * li | t ( VOL. X. ‘ 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. AW(Ml©t / 3 S if IV V w BCi ifejUipf TiiJ /A / i. *9 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 wmm m A «.e3£^ U- V, 5^2 ?(fl ■) // -0 id fv * jn\ / E </ y -> f/ s # 9 ''im 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 rFc V a 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 hj 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 r * «r ¥ 0 s ! oV 1/ / m ( \ / il 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¬ ord-Herald. at 41111111 ‘A, wmm mm #> m R. G. TARVER, Manaser Our One Dollar Brogan is better. Our One Dollar turd Twenty-five Cents Brogan beats the world. Our One Dollar and Fifty Cents Shoe? oa re simply superb. Dollar and Our Two Dollar Vici Kid Shoes a big value. Our Two Fifty Gents Hand-sewed Shoes are the best on the market. We can give von Ladies Shoes at 75c, but the Shoes we want to sell rou are $1.00 and $1.25 Ladies every day Shoes and our $1.25 and $1.50 Ladies Dress Shoes. They are RED HOT BANG AINS.and don’t you forget it. Now our $2.00 Ladies Shoes are as good as anybody’s $3.00 Shoes. . - thie We never forget the Children and Babies and this line of Shoes season is better than ever before. HATS! HATS! HATS! v Our prices in Hats are simply Tornado Swept. We give you Good Boyn Hats 10c, a real good Hat 25c. Men’s Felt Hats’ 05c, Men's Extra Felt Flats $1.00, and so on to the end: ’ ’ We don’t expect any one to come withih a miie'of us this season in Conduced. Price and Quality. When ia the city be snreto Call, aiid Examine * and be GREAT EASTERN SHOE- CO. : 907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. •■i Queer Sounding Words. The words “month” and “silver,” long supposed to have no words to rhyme with them, have now been found to possess one rhyme .each. “Oneth,” a term in mathematics, anil “chilver,” a ewe lamb, supply the for¬ mer deficiency. 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 utilizing the York Post. BID il BIB —h-'M— . ■v.v * j CD i . • ;i Vv Hotter Bargain$/':and Better Shoes than ever was Before-! France has secured the’patent rights of a new nitroglycerin powder which it is contended will send a rifle bullet seven and one-half fffflfes and increase the r.rtillery range to eighteen miles Ho who plants fruit trees must no*, count upon the fruiL ,