Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-10-04
TOO MUCH.
When She Said ''Taters,- It Was More Tha n
He Could stand.

When She Said ''Taters," It Was More Than
He Could stand.
Night had come again-gentle, peaceful
night The mocking bird hid his head be-
meath his wing and slept, while the FREELY
got out and began to hustle 10 make up
for lost time, and bugs as big as hunks OF
mud went booming around In search OF
prey. Under the apple trees in full blos-
som was stretched 50 hammock bought
on the installment plan, and in this ham,
mock reclined the aristocratic Evylyn
Throckmorton. She was not alone Be
side her stood the purse proud Carlyle Stan
hope 1t made his tired knees wabble to
be standing around there, but he gave no
sign. He came of race which would per-
ish on the spot, but never crawfish. Be
sides he was there that evening to ask and
receive the answer to a question which had
a tremendous bearing on his future. 1t
was not to ask her hand in marriage.
That he had already done weeks before,
and after ascertaining that he never de
scended to attend such vulgar events at
spelling schools, husking bees and 'lasses
candy pulls she had placed her happiness
IN his keeping.
On the wings of rumor, flying through
the air unseen, had come to him a state
ment that stabbed him like a carving knife
Just sharpened up by grinder. He would
not believe 1t. 1t was too improbable, tot
monstrous, too fiendish for credence. Ant
yet he could not throw it into the waste
basket and go on living as an editor doe
40 rod poem. He could not rest conten
until her own ruby lips had affirmed O
denied the rumor. And so, as he stoot
beside her in the softness of the summe
evening, his knees wabbling to the regula
swing of the hammock, he gently mur
mured
Eva, we love each other, don't we?"
"Certi'' was her curt but tender reply.
IL want to ask you question. 1t !
not about your age. You won't get mad
will you?''
"Of course not. What Is it?''
Eva, darling, suppose you were at th
dinner table. suppose you were very, yer
hungry. Suppose you wanted some NOR
mashed tubers. What would be your forI
of asking for themf"
Carlyle Stanhope, are you toying wit
Q young girls hearth" she flercely demand
ed as she glared at him through the darf
ness.
''Oh, no, mol Heaven forbidr' he fee
ingly exclaimed.
t'Mebbe you think I would commit
fox pass?"
.sNeverl Such base thought never e1
tered my mind. 1t is simply to decide
wager, you know. Forgive me, darling
and we will let the subject drop
mo, we won't!'' she resolutely replit
as she sat up in the hammock and locke
at him in dangerous way. IF / We
eating at table where they had tater
mashed or whole, baked or fried, and
wanted s'more, / think I have sen
enough to ask. Explain your conduc
siri''
''Tatersr' he faltered as his ia
turned as white as snow.
Yes, tatersi You don't suppose I'd a
for Goldfish, do your
A wild, weird shrek leaped out on t
balmy night. It was Carlyle Stanho
who uttered it. The rumor that n
reached his ears had been confirmed. Ay
more than oonfirmedI With his own es
he had heard the naughty Evylyn Throc
morton call 'em ''taters'' and rope,
For a moment after uttering that shrie
which told Of a soul wrecked and lost,
stood and looked at her, with horror p.
trayed on every line of his aristocra
face. Then he turned and staggered aw
-wabbled-lurched and stu
bled, and the darkness swallowed him
forever and foreyer!-Detroit Free Press
breakfast Table Chat.
"I have been reading a very INTEREST,"
article on coffee" said Mrs. Small
Mr.. Hunker passed up his cup for ref
ing.
''Being about beverage, the arti
couldn't be dry" observed Mr.. Hunl
plsyfully, and then added, Three lun
Of sugar, please"
Something like frown passed over
landlady's face at her boarder's rema
but she continued:
THE article was one which deserve
large circulation, think, for the good
the race. 1t was on the injurious effects
coffee drinking. The author said &
we were becoming q nation of col
topers The pernicious effects Of too mi
coffee drinking he set forth In an
ceedingly strong light. Among the 8
Gus results likely to follow he enumera
a sailow skin, shattered nerves, a weak
ing of the eyesight, loss Of will power,
In some cases he thought consumpt
might be traced to the inordinate use
the beverage. The author said that
palling statistics could be produced OF
ravages Of the coffee drinking habit ann
he-American people,"
1t was coffee he was talking about,
it7" asked Mr.. Hunker as he rose to g
'tIt was, Mr.. Hunker.''
stThen ] don't think we need worry {
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