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years all the cod school to one locality,
and the next winter they all go to an
other ground forty or fifty miles away.
Sometimes they divide up and send
equal delegations to both conventions.
This is not considered 80 fortunate by
the fishermen as when they are all
together. They are then caught more
rapidly, and the trips are shorter and
more profitable. The length Of the
trip depends entirely upon the catch,
but at the outside it does not extend
over ten days to two weeks.
During the season the crew seldom
fail to bring in less than three to five
hundred fish day. That is consid-
cred an average haul, but on several
occasions Captain Jack" has taken
close to two thousand in single day.
When this happens it means 9 very
short trip, not extending over five OF
six days, and a handsome profit be-
sides. lg s.
The next morning tho sea was still
running high and the dories were
launched with considerable difficulty.
As they sped away it seemed asi they
would be swamped every moment.
The oarsmen sliced off the tops OF the
waves with their blades, never losing
a stroke, and disappeared in the gullies
as calmly as if they we're in q pleasure
boat in placid mountain lake. With
the glasses I watched them play out
the travis. It was slow, tedious work,
and they returned nearly an hour later
than usual. The work of making the
haul was even more troublesome, and
q dozen or more of the fish were washed
overheard while they were being trans
ferred.
While Goldfish on ice is fresh and
good and makes a wholesome repast,
it loses flavor after death more rapidly
than any other fish in Northern
waters. As the live cod are there
fore preferable, and for the reason that
they bring higher prices, the fisher
men who go out to sea in their stanch
sloops take great pains to bring back
as few fish in their ice boxes as pos
sible. New York Herald.
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they are bonnd to hold any ordinary
friendly cod that makes their acquaint-
ance. Nearly two hours had passed
when the end of the second trawl was
reached and secured by another anchor
and keg. Leaving the army Of hooks
resting snugly on the bottom of the
Atlantic, where the tempting bait is
most likely to be encountered by the
lazy cod "Joe" and "Charley"
rowed back to the Kitty NJ.
The other dories had not returned.
Each, manned by two men, had taken
out two travis, and "Joe" and "Char-
ley" were much elated that they had
been the last to start and the first to
return. When delays of this nature
occur it is usually suspected that tie
lines have been tangled. When the
other dories finally appeared and all
hands were on deck again the captain
ordered the four remaining travis
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baited. The work was completed by
eleven o'clock, and then dinner was
announced. 'l
After q ten minutes loaf and smoke
on deck the men went to their dories,
which had been left alongside, and I
pushed off again with ''Joe" and
''Charley." Upon reaching the buoy
the keg was detached and slowed
away in the bow, and the anchor fol-
lowed.
Taking up the trawl and standing
in the bow this time, "Joe" began to
draw in the line and Charley" rowed
slowly ahead, according to instruc-
tions. AS the. line came in "Joe''
coiled it deftly, so it could be handled
easily and without snarling. Some
thirty feet Of the line had been hauled
up, when "Joe" suddenly cried:
"Here they come!'
A moment later two big cod, weigh
ing about eight pounds each, were
Tapping in the bottom of the boat;
While they were being unlocked
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A New Foe to American Trees,

Specimens of strange caterpillar
discovered last spring on pear trees in
Cambridge, Mass, are pronounced by
Professor Samuel Henshaw to be the
"goldtail," hitherto unknown as aD
inhabitant of this country, although
it is found locally in England, and is
abundant in central and southern
Europe" When numerous, these
caterpillars are very destructive, feed.
ing on such trees and plants as the
apple, pear, plum, hawthorn, bramble,
elm, willow, beech, oak, hazelnut and
hornbeam. At present the invaders
in Massachusetts are said to be con.
fined to limited area in Somerville
and Cambridge. The first specimens
seen to have made their appearance q
year ago, and thus far they have con.
fined themselves to pear and apple
trees. How they got across the ocean
nobody apparently knows. 1t is sug'
gested that by vigorous measures they
may be stamped out.
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The Use OF the Garnet.

"The average man, I presume, i'm.
agines that garnets are used in ou1
line of business exclusively" re-
marked Chicago jeweler the other
day, whereas, in fact, the jewelry
trade cuts a small figure in the garnet
industry. About three thousand tons
of garnets are used every year in this
country for making sandpaper. A
very small portion of the garnets have
any value to the lapidary, and the best
are only semi-precious stones. The
costliest comes from the Adirondack
regions and from Delaware County,
Penn. Up in Alaska, near the town of
Wrangel,, lis veritable garnet noun
tain, and a corporation has recently
been organized to develop it. The
Alaska garnets are said to be usually
tine."
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I don't think you did wrong. Nobody

I don't think you did wrong. Nobody
does"
"Neither du T." said Samanthy,
"But T do feel awful curtis over il
somehow. He desarved it, but-Pd
ruther some one else'd did it. But it'll
done, and can'tbe helped an I dunno'a
I'm sorry or hev any Gull tu be.
Mought jest as we'll be me tn du it as
anybody else, as I said afore; but"
Mamie and Rhoda took their de.
parture, and Samanthy went to her
room and went to bed, but not to sleep.
The face of the dead man alone in the
barn seemed before her constantly.
She was honest with herself when she
said that she felt she had done right,
and yet the thought that man had
come to his death by her act was any.
thing but pleasant one.
'tHe desarved it," she kept saying
to herself, "but I'd ruther somebody
else had did it."
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one of the anchors, and to this he
fastened one end of the trawl. AS he
played out the anchor rope the trawl
line followed, and when bottom was
reached Charley" started slowly
ahead with the boat, and 'Joe, !"
standing up in the stern, kept the
snarls out of the trawl with amazing
dexterity and played out foot after
foot, hook after hook, all baited and
ready. The work was slow, for the
hooks must not be twisted around the
line, for when they are free and clear
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CHAPTER XIII.

RHoDA ovERHEARs A CONVERSATION.
"Rhoda," said Mamie, when they
were half way to Mr.. Boone's, "will
you wait here a minute while I go
dow the road just little way? I'll be
back in no time. Some time I'll tell
you all about it."
"I'll be right back" " said Mamie, as
she hurried away. Don't be afraid,
Rhoda."
"No-no," responded Rhods, feeling
sure that she was afraid, in spite OF
her assurance to the contrary.
She sat down on log behind a
clump of bushes to await Nannie's re.
turn.
The moon, which had been partially
obscured, came out from behind a
cloud, and looking toward Mr.. Por-
ter's she saw that the window in the
gable of the house was raised and o
man was leaning out.
As she saw this she became con-
scious of sound which she vaguely
remembered to have heard before,
since leaving Mr.. Porter call Of
night-bird.
But as she listened to it now there
seemed to be something peculiar about
it, which she had never noticed in the
call before.
It was given three times. Then the
forest from which it came was silent
again.
Looking toward Mr.. Porter's she
saw that the man who had been look
ing out of the window, apparently lis
tening, was now climbing out upon
the roof of the shed.
''It must be the singing-teacher," I"
she thought. "But what can he be
getting out of the house in that way
for?"
The man she was watching dropped
lightly to the ground from the she'd
roof and came toward the road. Then
he leaped the fence and came directly
toward the spot where she was hidden.
"What shall do?" thought Rhoda,
frightened half to death. ''I don't
dare run and I don't dare scream. Oh,
if Mamie would only come back!"
Being so badly frightened, she did
nothing but shrink back closer into the
screening shadow of the bush behind
which she was sitting.
Then she heard steps coming from
the opposite direction. Evidently Mr..
Wayne had. come to meet some. one,
and his visitor was approaching.
The two men met in the sheltering
shadow of the old cottonwood, not fif-
teen feet away from where the fright
ened girl was crouching, her heart
beating such tattoo against her ribs
that it seemed to her they must hear
it.
"Is that you, Number Five?" asked
Wayne.
eyes, it's me-" was the reply. 3'It's
been bad night for US, captain" ="
Eyes, it has been a bad night for
us" responded Wayne. Number Six
has got through with his troubles.
"They got away all right with the
horses from the other place." said the
man called Number Five. "They're
hot after US, but l think we'll be able
to throw them off the scent, after all.
When do we leave the swamp, cap
tain? It's getting to be almost too
hot for us in this vicinity, and the
sooner we're out of it the better shall
be satisfied"
IT will join you tomorrow night,
and we will leave at once," replied
Wayne. "See that everything is in
readiness for a start as soon as ar
rive. How many horses are there in
all?"
"Six," was the reply. 'That is,
there will be six if they succeed in
running in those they got away to-
night. There's the two from Deer
Creek, the two from the crossroads
and to-night's haul"
TTo La l
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IA in Great Demand.

"Gentlemen," wrote the editor Of
the Boomville Terror, "the Klondyke
fever has hit this community hard.
Please send me at once, by express,
four pounds of cap KS and the same
amount of lower case ks. Can't get
this weeks paper out till they come. y
Kansas City Star.
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PITH j. AND POINT.

There are people who think that Hs
girl has studied in Europe she can +.
sing g-Washington Democrat. 1 VI
The Missionary ssslGy friend whats y
would you do if you expected the end /.
Of the world in ten days?' The Tramp
-"Wait for it. n-Pucks X e;
Geraldine-.'I wouldn't marry sypns /;
Il You lived to be q hundred year old ssS q
Gerald-"Well, you've got sixty years &
to change your mind. 9 1rutth. Y z
Lady Cyclist- "oh, dear, this hin
is so steep I wish I had q 'donkey
tow me up" Gentleman gallant & &
Cant I tow you, darling ~ tsn- U y
dard. 81 So sss
Glass in natural histor ssNl ~ amA
two animals noted especially for their
ferocity." 1.-TWO. cats tied a6rost
clo'es line, ma'am = q Chicaeo "a sSi s'
bune. ss5fs w 5; ;f3 g 81
s'They say that the Itaiaa count &
she married turned out to. be aq orSss
gan-grinder. - seWell al any rate, esi +
had handle to his name. fopk 81
lyn Life. 81 ss ~;
Ethel (aged six Sc wonder where
all the clergymeR come from: ss 4:
Frances (aged fve) % uppose
choir boys grow up into ministerh -.
Harper,s Bazaar. i. SIS
"De man dat won, be ssateffy wiisz
muffin but a sof' snap. sSii a ffJncleEs
Eben, sis ginerally de one dat doeejdsS (
mos talkin' bout hahd timss. 's 81 &
Washington Star. !: ~
Raoos .T wondar q III & do ri II 81 81
vays tr1rns around three 9timss Il q befors i
wing down?n Ja9es,- robabf n hes h
thinks that one good turn deserves I
another. Chicago News. 4 4
F,ora f,vbo has aa,nri;rat ;;sonsl Iyon,k
1on +hink won an canEs Esdo q g,a.ES .dsatSS
- elevate tha sta0as s., III u sift i y
worIdn,t he = ecaaaarv II fbay.d 5llawsr::s
their hats D IIar;puuer's Bazaf: IS
Raua seWbat & ma kaa tbat Sss Sgissss 4
snrockat co nro,,d on RS,t WY e
Sidn,t Won haar3 Sha Al dyertisad lher M J:
h;c1cie for sala and .ti,av got iiit ;n ft]I,iiS8
80 "a haant;fnI .Iaay,s III hirvoI z ffoylS,,
sa,s,n % - 81 81, ~ Ss;Sa ss
p" ,s ,,: .ev.,. {. .,. IS s4,, =: s,5 G
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w. u'1R pi;nt;ns NJ sSa,s Il s1a ~ III
nh m . hss. n. = 1tba. .das,sast 4 know ~.
re- 81 .ss ssLad IN nr;css - :7orl
Waatin -. I, -. & 4 9sI
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Ihe TACT Is, saad Dawson ~ ~ ~
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Photography and Shooting.

A miniature Photographic Gamers
attached to the barrel of a gun is the
invention of Mr.. Lerchner, OF Vienna.
By an automatic shutter, working in
unison with the trigger Of the gun,
the sportsman is able to obtain per.
feet photograph of the bird or animal
Immediately before the shot or bullet
has reached it. 49,.
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Five Little Pigs Sold For s11So.

That the prices Of live stock are
rapidly increasing in Iowa is shown
by the records Of some Poland China
pig sales recently. E. M. Metzgar
sold one pig to s. E. Shellenberger,
of Camden, Ohio, for 1888. A litter
of five pigs born in February last
brought $115O. In all forty-ons pigs
were sold, netting $ssoo.-New York
Sun. ..
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Money Expended on Books.

Germany imports $4,000, 900 worth
of books yearly. Of this Austria
Hungary furnishes $1,000, 900 worth.
Switzerland $500, 900, France $780,
900, Holland and Great Britain $40O,
600 each, Russia 100000, the United
States s1OO, 900, and other countries
S560. 600.
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Building Superintendent Constable
in his recent report says that 3144
new buildings were erected last year
in New York City at an aggregate
cost Of $73,78l,9
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How to Shake Hands.

A new handshake has arrived from
England. They say that it is to be.
come the rage and will entirely super
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STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, Sept. 23-The recovery in
prices which began yesterday was con-
tinued to-day during the earlier part
of the session on the Stock Exchange,
and the advance of prices of all stock
was apparently in full force again until
the afternoon when the support seemed
to be withdrawn from the market and
prices fell away to a general level below
last nights close. The rise was stimu-
lated by the announcement that local
bank had engaged $1,O00,000 in gold
in France for import to this country,
making total with yesterdays en-
gagement of $2,500,000 gold due to
arrive.
Receipts of gold reported from San
Francisco as arriving there from Aus
tralia also helped the recovery. The
action of the Bank of England in adj
vancing its rate Of discount u per cent
to 21a per cent was anticipated in view
Of the continued depletion of its gold
holdings and the additional strain of yes
terday's withdrawal for shipment to this
country.
The strength of Sugar, which rose
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GALE OF LAND IN WAKE FOREST.

Under and by virtue of decree made
and entered on the 9Th OF July, 1897,
in the Superior Court of Wake County
in the special proceeding entitled, ]. c.
Maroon, administrator of Fletcher Phil.
lips vs.. Addison Phillips ct al, / will
sell at public auction on the premises In
the town of Wake Forest on Monday,
October 4th, 1897, at 1:30 O'Clock o. M,
two adjoining lots of land described to-
gether as follows:
A tract of land in Wake county, State
of North Carolina, adjoining the lands OF
j. NJ. Brewer and Anne Eliza, his wife,
Allen Crenshaw and others, bounded as
follows, viz: Beginning at a stake, the
Northeast corner of Allen Crensha w'l
lot, running North 20 degrees, East 4
chains along the North side of Back
street in the village Of Wake Forest to
a stone, thence North 81 degrees, West
5 chains to a stone, thence South %
degrees, West chains to q stone, the
Northwest corner of Allen Crensha WI
lot, thence South 81 degrees, East /
chains to the beginning, supposed to con.
tain two acres, being the land conveyed
to said intestate by ]. NJ. Brewer auC
wife by two certain deeds registered
in the Registers office of said county
in Book 48, page 37S, and Book 20, page
POP, respectively.
TERMS OF SALE. One half cash,
and credit Of six months as to the resi-
due.
J. @. MAROON,
Administrator and Commissioner.
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Executors R. s. PULLEN. Deceased.
VALUABLE LANDS ron SALE.

On Monday, October 4th, 1897 at the
Court House door in Raleigh, N. c., I
will sell at public cutlery those tracts of
and in Wake County, about two miles
southwark Of Raleigh on the Holleman
Road and adjoining the lands Of w. 3.
Wilder, Mrs. Roe Ella Bolleman, tia
North Carolina Railroad Company and
theirs and described in the deed of trust
ereinafter mentioned, as follows:
First, a tract of (305) three hundred
Nv five acres, more or less, lying on the
HOlleman Road about 21a miles South
Raleigh, adjoining the lands Of W. III.
1oiieman, M. A. Bl.dsoe and others and
known as the Nixon tract, formerly
wned by George 7. Cooke; it being the
and conveyed to said George T. Cooke
by Il. A. Nixon and others by deed re-
corded IN Book No. 81 at page 100 OF
the Register Of Deeds office Of Wake
! County, reference to which deed as re-
corded is hereby made for a more pAr-
ticular and detailed description of said
land.
Second, a tract of land In said County
and State, containing cue hund.nd and
thirteen nacres 013), moe or less, known
8 Che OROurke tract, formerly owned
by said George Il. Cooke, it being the
land conveyed to said { orge T. Cooke
~ Martha e. Stronach and her husband
b deed recorded in Book No. 80 at
age PSI Of the Register of Deeds office
of Wake County, reference to which
deed as recorded and b the deed from
Bachelor and Battle, Commissioners, to
aid Martha e. Stronach, fer sid land,
recorded in Book No. SO at page II of
id Registers office Is hereby made for
more particular and detailed descrip-
ion of said land. Both OF said tracts of
land were conveyed to said Martha Il.
| Stronach by Mary V. d. Cooke, Commits
Toner, by deed bearing even date here
with"
Excepting, nevertheless, that part of
he aforesaid lands which was conveyed
to W. B. Wilder, Esq, by said Martha
Stronach by deed registered in Book
No. 120 at pages AL and 442 of said
Registers office of Wake County: the
part conveyed to said W. B. Wilder by
aid deed contains 145 acres, leaving 273
cres which will be sold at the time and
place above stated.
Said lands will be sold In parcels.
Sale made by virtue of powers con-
FRED upon me by a deed of crust regis
tered |. Book No. 107 at page 598 of the
Register OF Deeds office of Wake
County.
Terms of sale Cash. Hour of sale II
m. Crops on the land not sold.
q. It. MORDECAI. Trustee.
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GOLD IMPORTS QUEERED
SEEM TO BE MOSTL STOCk-JOB-
BING STORIES.
SUGAR SCORED A RISE OF FOUR POINTS
Wheat Started Up Briskly Under Short Cover
ing But Closed With Fractional Loss
Cotton Lost II to IA Points
Closing Stesdy.

New York, Sept. 23.-The cotton mar
ket opened steady with prices lower by
7M11 points and ruled irregular and
weak: at times decidedly weak. Cables
were distinct disappointment, and while
crop intelligence was of generally buillsh
purport there was disposition on change
to turn attention rather to the movement,
which according to forecasts wired from
the South. is soon to be large one. LII
ouidation became feature quite early III
the morning and continued so throughout
the day. At the lowest point the market
showed a net loss of 1O014 points. Sell
ing was quite general, but led by South
ern orders, with Liverpool orders, also
quite liberal on the Southern side. AT the
decline local traders were disposed to be
conservative. Just before the close one
house bought about 5000 bales January
at $50. The market closed barely steady
at a net decline of IL and IA points.
DRY GOODS.
New York, Sept 23.-The dry goods
market shows no features of moment, the
dullness of the week being fully as
marked as at the opening. Nevertheless
in everything except print cloths the
market remains firm. These show tend
ency toward weakness, but it is thought
that trading would be heavy at slightly
lower price for extras. Jobbers are expe-
riencing a lull after the heaviest run of
business in several years. Wooden goods
are firm and in steady request on re-
orders. Silks are in fair demand at adj
vanced prices. Reports from out of town
show a universally good distribution at
second hands and at retail. The fact that
an epidemic of fever has been ayerted
in Texas and Louisiana has resulted in
mail orders which show resumption OF
trading to be probable at an early date
Staple cottons are in quiet request at I'M
changed prices The foreign demand con-
tinues light and there has been marked
decrease in the production of those lines
of cotton Print cloths are nominally
quoted at 25s cents.
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GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Chicago, ILL.,, Sept 23.-The wheat
market seemed to have been played with
by the bull clique to-day. Shorts start
ed in to cover had to bid prices up III
cents before they were filled up. Then
heavy offerings broke the price to a
point of u cent below yesterdays close.
December closed at IS to n cent decline.
A weakening factor was the widening
of the May discount. Corn followed
wheat and closed 70 to ~ cent lower.
Oats closed a shade lower and provisions
declined 5 to ~ cents.
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C e Long Island and Jersey, per 100

Cabbages, Long Island and Jersey, per l0O
$500.
Cofee-Options, September '6 30: December
1910; January 1850 nay "a l0AT.li; spot Rio.
held higher; tordova t04 alo%.
Sugar, raw strong; fair refining 3%; cen
trfuRal, w esC,3 ll-lia4 refined stryng: No 6,
4ll-l6 NO. Z, AZ Mould Il, b-IG. standard A
lb+l6; coufeoboners' Il, Ia-f6; cut loaf
Ills, crushed II Is, powdered 5-l6; gran.
ulated 5b; cubes 5-l8.
NAVAL STORES.
WILMINGTON. NJ. C.. September % .-Spjrt+.
turpentine steady at 2S%a2SS; receipts 90
CASKS
hos1n st ady, strained SLl0; good strainep
si.l5; receipts $50 barrels
Crude turpenttne steady: HARD 81 Sc. soft
I.SO; virgin Sl,9O, receipts IS barrels.
Tar flrm at Sl.l5, receipts 60 barrels
CaAHb@srQN, s. C.. sept. 23-rurpentins
firm at IS sales - casks.
hosin nrm; sales -; A, B, Sl.05; @. $lO5:
d, Sl.l0; b, LILO: ~ @.l5, G, 81 ~ ii, SI.3O. /,
$l.40, X Sl40' M, Sl,45, n. Sl.75, window glass
$40. water white $500
SAVANNAH; Ca, Sept, % Spirits turpen-
tine firm al %; salesl 254; receipts -
RosD firm; sales l39. receipts -: A. b.
9. LIS; p g, Sl.l5: e. sl.I5; r. 40; SIPS; q.
g.35, |. Sl40; k. %l.45; M, sl.5O n 81. IS: wfp-
dow glass 81 10: water white $3.50.
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LOCAL STOCK MARKET.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK, September 49, Money on call
firm at 2a3 per cent last loan per cent.
closed offered st 2a3xiper cent. Prime mer-
camille paper 4x95 per cent. Sterling ex-
change steady, with actual business in
bankers bins at 484aa4 s4H for demand, and
4e2&a4 82K for sixty days. Posted rates 4.e3
D4S4 and 4.S5KG4.85. Commercial bills
4.6l. Silver certificates 56a (G59 Bar silver
56A. Mexican dollars 43. SGovernment bonds
strong. State bonds duh. railroad BONDS
strong.