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rack canker, the repose of peace was
not for the impetuous nomadic Scot.
l have seen Cumming play cards
great deal, have played whist with
HIM. There was nothing to show
that he cared more for cards than any
other man of the world, that a rubber
of whist was good break ir the
monotony of seafaring, and no more.
He played an ordinary game no
better, no worse than what you may
see in the average rubber at the club.
he never won any money from nj :
On the contrary, l have clear reed
lection of his playing few francs a
my belongings after week at sea
together and various rubbers of whist.
He played whist with patience and
no special skill or avidity, rather as
one somewhat bored with the expert
ence. When l was in partner he al.
ways took my absent minded plays
with good nature, and beyond an
occasional look Of surprise at my
falling in proper lead in the third
hand round and my ability to re-
member what became of certain
deuce of spades. l never incurred
his censure. The art of putting peo-
pie on what call the whist rack be-
cause of that elusive deuce of spades
which ever passed out of my memory,
this the baronet never acquired, a
contrast to more painful experiences
with other players in earlier DAYS.
The play of Sir William whenever l
witnessed or shared it was not that
of a gambler, but the play of a gen.
tleman.
Gordon Cumming was nervous, rest
less and fidgety, and l understand
what his brother in a reported inter
view meant in saying that the baronet
inherited from his mother Saint Vitus's
dance. His twirling and fumbling
with counters, when he was not tear
ing that pale, dropping moustache
would be what would expect at a
card table. But there was certainly
nothing in Gordon Cumming-and I |
saw as much Of him as one man could
see of another for many weeks-to
Justify the suspicion that he would |
cheat at cards or deal in any form of |
On the contrary, the |
qualities of heart and education which
went to form his character, were the |
reverse of what experience teaches US
Is prone to cheating, indiscretion or
my form of regeneration. A high |
tempered, impetuous, brusque, out
spoken, resolute man, with capacity tor
instant anger, sensitive, irritable, ready
With a word or blow, the military tenn
oerament at times unduly developed.
stern with men, infinite in sympathy
or dogs and dumb domestic animals,
could imagine anything of Sir Will
lam Gordon Cumming rather than
lis cheating at cards. A row in the
barracks, at S o'clock in the morning,
duel the cause of high words over a
Midnight brandy and soda, riding
nto battery on canter, bewitched
y pretty woman, heading a steeple-
hase at breakneck speed, fogging a
abman for impertinence, or presid-
ng over boxing match at the Pelican
lub-although among these experien-
es there are some that I have no
lght to attribute to Cwnming-any
ne would be thousand times more
lausible than the ignominious bus
less of cheating at cards. Is
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MORAL DEVELOPMENT.
ITarbOro Southerner. |

We read of the development of tht
State materially and every where thi:
is going on; but evidences of mate
rial growth are no greater or numer
GUS than are the graces which adorr
mankind.
The growth of refinement, gener.
osity and liberality is strikingly seen
in the donations and devises to educa
tional and eleemosynary institutions
We venture the assertion that gifts
of this character have amounted tc
more within the last ten or twelve
years than in the entire previous ex-
istence of the State.
1t is cheering sign that this people
are learning the lesson that it is more
blessed to give than to receive. 1t
portends the recognition of the father
hood of God and the brotherhood OF
man principle upon which rests our
religion and our institutions.
Forty years ago the giving of a few
thousand dollars or even hundreds was
an unusual occrruence and in many
localities an unheard of one. To-day
scarcely week passes without the
chronicling Of the munificence of some
man or woman out of his or her
abundance.
The greatest of the graces is not
found only among the opulent it
abides with and moves all classes and
conditions.
In this quiet unostentatious way
the masses, long before the rich fell
into line, with open hands have re-
lieved the needy and distressed and
sent them on their way rejoicing.
1t was this brotherly feeling of the
people generally which made the en-
downment of the Oxford Asylum pos
sible.
1t is cheering reflection that our
people in their struggle for money and
power have not closed their minds
to the refining and elevating influences
Of Christian graces.
The future Of any country is bright
as long as its morality and material
development keep equal step in the
movement
In both, North Carolina has only
begun.
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A TOUCHING INCIDENT.

The following, which appeared in
a Detroit paper, is one of the most
touching incidents to be met with:
There is family in this city who
are dependent upon a little child for
the present Sunshine of themselves.
A few weeks ago the young wife and
mother was stricken down to die. 1t
was so sudden, SO dreadful, when the
grave family physician called them
together in the parlor, and in his solemn,
professional way intimated the truth
there was no help.
Then came the question among them
who would tell her. Not the doctor /!
1t would be cruel to let the man of
science 60 to their dear one on such
an errand. Not the aged mother who
was to be left childless and alone. Not
the young husband who was walking
the floor with clinched hands and re-
bellious heart. Not-there was only
one other, and at this moment he
looked up from the book he had been
playing with, unnoticed by them all,
and asked gravely, sis mamma goin'
to die ?''
Then without waiting for an answer,
he sped from the room and up stairs
as fast as his little feet would carry
him. Friends and neighbors were
watching by the sick woman. They
wonderingly noticed the pale face of
the child as he climbed on the bed and
laid his small hand on his mothers
pillow.
Mamma" he asked, in a sweet.
caressing tone, sis you fraid to die ?''
The mother looked at him with a
swift intelligence. Perhaps she had
been thinking Of this.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: 90 she
asked family.
doctor, an papa, an gamma-every-
body" he whispered. Mamma. dear.
little mamma, doan be 'fraid to die, III
rou:'
"No. CHARLIE said the young
mother, after one supreme pang of
grief; ''no, mamma won't be afraid -
Jus shut your eyes in 'e dark,
teep hold my kand-'an when
Iou open 'em, mamma, it ill be all
light there
When the family gathered awe
stricken at the bedside, Charlie held
Up his little hand.
''H-u-sh! Ny mamma doin' to
leep. Her won't wake up any morev
And SO it proved. There was no
leart-rendering farewell, no agony Of
PARTING for when the young mother
woke she had passed beyond, and, as
'aby had said
at was all light there |
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ton sits; that strange old woman who
has always one elbow on her knee,
and her chin in her hand, and who
steals light out of the past to shed i,
on the future.
And Life and Love cried out:
"Wise one! tell US: when first we
met, lovely radiant thing belonged
to us-gladness without tear, SUN
shine without shade. Oh how did
we sin that we lost it? Where shall
we 60 that we may find it"
And she, the wise old woman, an
swered:
"To have it back again, will you
give up that which walks beside you
now?"
And in agony Love and Life cried,
"Nol"
"Give up this!' said Life. "When
the thorns have pierced me, who will
suck the posion out? When my head
throbs, who will lay his tiny hands
upon it and still the beating? In the
cold and the dark, who will warm my
freezing hearth"
And Love cried out:
"Better let me die! Without Joy
| can live. Without this can not.
Let me rather die, not lose it!''
And the wise old woman answered.:
go fools and blind! What you once
had is that which you have now.
When Love and Life first meet,
radiant thing is born, without a shade.
When the roads begin to roughen,
when the shades begin to darken,
when the days are hard, and the nights
cold and long-then it begins to
change. Love and Life will not see
it, will not know it'll one day they
start up suddenly, crying, % God! O
God we have lost it Where is it?'
They do not understand that they
could not carry the laughing thing
unchanged into the desert, and frost
and the snow. They do not know
what walks beside them still is the
Joy grown older. The grave, sweet,
tender tblng-warm in the coolest
SHOWS, brave in the dreariest deserts
its name is Sympathy ; it is the Per-
feet Love. ."-"Dreams," BY Oliver
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Booth and few other fellows hired {
room from her, but she was kept com
p!etely ignorant of what was going or
there. Even Payne, who attempted
to assassinate Secretary Seward on the
same night that Lincoln was murdered
admitted a few hours before his exc.
cution, that the woman was innocent
Payne was a Protestant, and up to
the very last declined to make any
statement regarding to tragedy. To
his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Mr..
Keeling, he said short time before
his death: you have been very kind
10 me, Mr.. Keeling, and l am willing
now to answer any questions you may
put to me- In reply to a query touch
ing Mrs. Surratt's connection with the
case, the condemned culprit said a: She
is innocent. The poor woman is in
nocent. She knew nothing about it. >
In spite of these proofs the martyred
woman was actually carried to the scat
fold and died instantaneously I have
waited for the past twenty-five years
until prejudice would disappear and
men listen to sober reason before max
ing public these facts, and yet stand
ing within sight of the threshold OF
the last decade of the nineteenth cen
tury with its untrammeled indepen-
dence and expression of thought, l am
credited with statements which l never
gave expression to, and words bearing
on the Surratt case which I never con-
celved. This the public will readily
perceive when the full text of my
paper is laid before them.'
Is 1T RETRIBUTION?
With the exception of Judge Advo-
cate Genaral Holt, all the men who
figured in or made up the court mar
tial which sentenced Mrs. Surratt to
death have passed away. All of them
died violent and terrible death +;
friendless, penniless and in despair.
Even the surviving Mr.. Holt is a man
whom one would not like to meet in
lonely place on a dark night. He
looks like tramp his clothes are ofI
the most wretched kind, his counte-
nance is haggard, and his whole
appearance indicates a man who has
not partaken of decent meal for
some years. His figure is a familiar
one in Washington ; but Of a man,
remains to him but the name.
The last time | saw him he was trying
to get fifty cents from a poor black
smith whose shop is ornamented with |
pictures of Booth, Payne, and other
celebrities in the Lincoln drama but
do not believe that a man can be
found in Washington willing to lend |
The fellow five cents on the strength of
1is word or reputation.
The old theatre, wherein Mr.. Lin
;oln was assassinated, was purchased by
he Government; so also was the
liquor saloon adjoining, wherein John
Wilkes Booth took the drink which
1erved him up to the desperate act
which he was about to accomplish, and
10th are now connected into Offices and
torerooms for the War Department.
The chair in which the President sat
vhen Booth entered the box on his
:rrand of destruction, is on exhibition
n Libby Prison at Chicago the boots,
pur and clothing worn by Booth on
he fatal night, and the pistol which
ent the bullet crashing into Lincoln's
'rain, are in the safe of the Judge
advocate Generals office in the War
JOSEPH w. GAvAN.
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CARPENTER AND BUILDER.
HENDERSON NJ

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MRS. SURRATT.
THE UNDOUBTED INNOCENCE OF
THE WOMAN.
The Dying Testimony to that Effect
of COnspirat0r Payne---COrrObOr-
ated by the Nemesis Of Re-
tributive Justice.

N ALL THE
annals of Ameri-
can history there
is no blacker
stain recorded on
its pages than
the execution of
Mrs. Surratt, for
a crime that she
had nothing to
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Give the MiCrObG Killer a Trial.

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GORDON-C
AN ESTIMATE OF THE MAN
BY ONE WHO KNOWS
HIM,
John Russell Young Writes
About Sir William From the
Standpoint of an Intimate
Acquaintance.

N ARTICLE IN
the Philadelphia
Evening Star, firm
the pen of John
Russell Young, ex-
Minister to China,
and a veteran news
paper writer, gives
a graphic picture
of Sir William Cor
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ton sits; that strange old woman who
has always one elbow on her knee,
and her chin in her hand, and who
steals light out of the past to shed it
on the future.
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dOn-Cumminp

In view of the result of the recent
trial as the outcomeof the Prince of
Wales little game of baccarat at the
house of the Wilson's, what is said of Sir
William by a disinterested outsider,
will throw a peculiar light upon the
true character of the man. Mr.. Young
SAYS:
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1t is the expected that has happened.
Ever since the report came that tourists
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IONA and New Mexico we have foreseen
1t. Wherever that mischievous, ire
presslble, you press the button sprite
has wandered riot, revolt and rapine
have lifted their horrid heads. That
Chiefs Ring-in-the- End-of- His Nose,
Crow-Bear and Get-on-His-Ear have
streaked themselves with paint, and
with their braves have deserted their
fields and are riding about Arizona
Staying whomsoever they suspect OF as
sociating with kodak is responsible,
OF course, but may it not be pardonable?
Uncle Sam will be called upon to put
his blue coats in the field and shoot
down the savages. But after this is
done shall the amateur photographer
be allowed to wander again into some
other peaceful region to incite the sim
pie inhabitants to frenzy and war;
Chicago Times.
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There is q bright Bohemian in this
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Miss Helena Gladstone, daughter of the
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This is humbling. It does not seem
so here and to US, anyhow. That is
some consolation. Perhaps the efforts
OF some persons to get the earth are the
outcome OF their astronomical studies.
They have found out that 1t is COM
paratively small affair. Well, let such
greedy persons remember that Adam
and Eve once had the whole OF 1t, and
were none the happier after all.-Re-
public.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-07-04

This is very small earth after al.
Now comes NJ. Camille Flammarian,
the famous astronomer Of Invasy, in
France, and reminds us that our planet
is 106 times less in size than the sun.
The earth's surface intercepts but half
a millionth part Of the total effulgence
thrown of into space. Moreover, as
seen from the sun, the earth is but an
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It has been reckoned that II the whole
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5000, 900 square miles with layer one
mile thick,
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