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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-08-05
TIME FOR A PLEA OF GUILTY.
State of Iowa Against Him
Old Age Fiction.

An Iowa judge was telling stories In
a hotel lobby, and he related an anus
ing incident that had occurred in his
court when colored man was brought
up for some petty offense. The charge.
was read, and as the statement "the
state of Iowa against John Jones" was
made in loud voice the colored mans
eyes bulged nearly out of their sockets
and he seemed perfectly overcome with
terror and establishment. When he was
asked if he had anything to say he plead
ed guilty or not guilty he gasped out:
well, yo' honoh, eff de whole state o.
Iowa is agin this one pore niger, Use
gwine to give up right now!"
Not once out of a hundred times can
an old colored man tell you his age, and
even if he knew he would be more than
apt to make himself out much older
than he really is. After middle life thew
all seem to feel that it adds dignity and
much increases their merits and value to
be considered extremely old. The abb
surdlty as to statements of length of
years lived never strikes them. In
southern family which always spends
its winters in Washington lives an old
man named JEFF, who has been with
them and the previous generation for
more years than they can remember.
He is certainly pretty old himself, so his
mistress was rather surprised this win
ter when he asked to have few DAYS
off to go" as he put it, "up to de ole state
of New Haven" to see his aunt,
why, JEFF" said the lady, your aunt
must be old, isn't she?"
"Yes'm," he replied. "yes'm, nv aunt.
must be pretty ole now-she's about a
hundred an five years ole now"
"A hundred and five ears" exclaimed.
the lady, why, what on earth is She do
ing up there in New Haven?"
Deed, don't know what's she's do
in, ma'am." rejoined JEFF in all serious.
ness. "She's up dere livin' with her
grandmudder."-Chicago Tribune.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-08-05
ter with the placer" he asked. c

ter with the placer" he asked, GU
riously.
was considerably surprised at this
question. 81 should say not. What
should be the matter with it 2" asked.
"Some folks say it's kind O. queer
like. Some say dead people use the
house at nights for meetings." he re-
piled, sinking his voice down low, and
CHANGING around nervously.
''Is that so? Well. let them. AS
long as the dead ones don't disturb me,
I am sure have no objection. What
part of the house are the spirits sup
posed to frequent?" asked, a thought
of the walled cellar coming to me.
The fellow seemed trifle flustered,
I thought, by my sudden question. He
gave vent to nervous laugh, and at
the same time darted a sharp glance
at me, which, momentary as it was,
nevertheless was so different from his
usual half-wondering stare that was
impressed by it.
ooh, don't know what part of the
house is used by the spirits. How
should know?"
There had been something irritating
to me in the fellow, and, as there was
a hint of insolence in his last words,
1 gave way to my impatience.
'See here; you have given me some
strange hints about my house." l be-
gan sternly; "now, then, you'll please
explain more fully what you mean,
Mr.. Hunter, or perhaps. should say,
Mr.. Skinner"
I do not know what impelled me to
add the name which Sonntag said was
the correct one, but the effect on the
fellow startled me considerably.
His eyes grew staring, and terrified,
hunted expression came over his face.
CHANGING furtively around and draw
ing back step or two, his hand went
to his hip-pocket.
AS the CLINT of shining object
caught my eye, 1 drew suddenly back to
one side of the window, and the next
instant pistol report sounded out.
I stood still moment, dumfounded
by the attack, then dropped on my
hands and knees and crept past the win
dow to the table, in the drawer of which
I had placed my pistol. Hastily grasp
ing the weapon and noting that it was
ready for use, arose and approached
the window, holding the pistol before
me in readiness.
1.-TWO can play at your game, Mr.. -"
where to be seen.
I fastened from the house and ran
around, searching for him, but no trace
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ENCOURAGEMENT.
Hope, the One Great Need OF mA'
Kind, ExempliAed by an
AlleGOFy.

The angel of the wishes trailed soft
" downward through the blue etner'
his golden-tipped wand in his hand.
He bent over the head of the schooil
boy whose tear-stained face betokened
the struggle which youth encounters
at the entrance to the land of knowl-
edge. Lightly he touched the droop-
ing lids with the golden wand. and left
a smile to fill the place of the sigh thar
was breathed into it.
The yellow harvest moon stole into
the room of the factory girl and brought
into strong relief the youthful face
upon which was already written the
sad story of struggle and deprivation,
and as the angel of the wishes furled
his wings beside her head his smile was
touched with the tender grace of COM
miseration.
Breathe, sad heart" he said, breathe
into this wand of mine the dearest
need of thy life and it shall be car
ried to the throne of the Most High foI
fulfillment."
Upon a couch of unrest tossed the in,
valid. burdened with untold cares.
clutched in the angry grip of pain, long,
to fight the battle for others, and az
the wand touched the pale lips and on
the quivering breath floated out the one
prayer of the sufferer, the angel of the
wishes stole reverently, with bowed
head, from the room.
Beside the bed of the mother he stood
and gazed upon the careworn face be-
fore him. He traced the lines of self
denial, the burrows of thought, the
| ravages of suffering, and whispered
softly through the darkness: 80, thou
martyr to the worlds greatness and
goodness, let thy wand bear the prayer
| of thy heart as the one jewel in the col
| lection!"
The wand touched the lips of the
| lover writhing in the throes of doubt
and misgiving, and caught the sob that
was half a prayer before it had spent
itself upon the midnight air.
Upon the HARDEST lips of the man Of
business it fingered long before it sue
ceeded in bringing into palpable form,
out of the conflict of desire, the one
dear wish of his heart. But the very
intensity with which it came seemed to
mark it as the final summing of all
earthly good.
| The angel of the wishes smiled know
ingly when he bent above the bedsides
of the poet, artist and musician. For
ages" he said to himself with half a.
sigh, 81 have carried this prayer to the
feet of the Eternal. Would that 1 could
touch their dropping lips with the smile
of it's fulfillment."
| Across the eastern rim of the sky the
white arms of day were reaching up
ward when the angel of the wishes laid
his heavily laden wand at the feet of
| the Great Giver.
AS he unrolled it and sent its white
| streamers out upon the peaceful air,
| behold they twined themselves together,
and out of the embrace in letters Of
flame appeared as the com bined result
of the prayers and aspirations the one
| word, Encouragement
"Alas!" sighed the angel of the
| wishes, "the one need of mankind is
Hope!" Birch Arnold, in Chicago
Chronicle.
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CHAPTER X.-CONTINUED


went on expressing amazement, I'M
til 1 discovered that Sonntag did not
seem to hear me, SO intent was he over
the words the voice had uttered.
"Pshawi what's the use bothering
over that, Mr.. Sonntag?" L said. There
isn't much sense to be made out of it,
anyhow"
''Yes, there is, too. 1t is converse
ton, and not a mere tumble of words"
the old lawyer said, with an air of tri-
umph. "Just hear what make out of
it now
Divided up, the following was Som
tags version:
First Party-"Never will you have my
consent under existing circumstances.
You have broken faith with me in every
way. Why was the property removed
from the original placer"
Second Party-"To bring you to
time"
First Party-"What did you do with
it?"
Second Party-'Safely hid, where you
can never find it unless you talk wis
dom. 1 shall go for it this very night
and take it away, and not one dollar
will you ever"
'There, that's pretty sensible talk,
I take it," said my lawyer, when he had
finished.
'Oh, well, perhaps it is sensible
enough, but what good will it do you,
now that you have made conversation
out of it?" I remarked, in some i'm
patience, for Sonntag's satisfaction
seemed to be out of all proportion to the
Importance of few chance remarks
caught in some mysterious fashion
from telephone wire.
The old lawyer smiled in a kind of
plying way, and regarded me with a
whimsical expression.
"Who knows?' I went on, gayly;
perhaps my arrival in Jacksonville may
be the cause of a complete revolution in
matters regarding the telephone.
must send for an electrical expert and
have him investigate the mystery. AL
ready there are visions of an immense
fortune floating through my head"
Suppose we GO to the old school
house from which the stones used in the
two doorways were evidently taken,
Sonntag suggested, breaking in upoI
my lmaS1nlngS.
what possible difference can it max,
if the stones were taken from there? .
I remarked. THAT will not tell us WHY
the job was done"
well, it would be pleasant for you t.
meet an old friend. Horace Jackson
hunting lodge is quite near the school
house. Perhaps we may find him a
his place." my lawyer said, insinuat
ingly.
Yes, know. The fellow Hunter. tn
agent at Sidington, told me jackson
comes up here occasionally to hunt an,
fish. But as for jackson being frien,
of mine, heaven save me from sucl
friends!"
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~An communication for this paper shomd
Ne accompanied by the name OF tho author, NOS
aeccesarily for publication but a. an evloeSee
Of good faith on the part OF the writer. VIM
only on one side Of the paper. Be partcu'ans
careful In giving names and dates 70 nave ~
letters and figures plain and distinct.
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"Then, proud beauty. you refuse my
love?" said he. WELL" said the sum-
mer girl, thoughtfully. II don't know
but that might be willing to take an
ontion on t"--Indianapolis Journal.
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willing to Treat.

fro BE Continued
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-15

was writhing in the sea wounded to
the death. when the little craft alone,
and in froat, had been shot to the heart
and Bernadou had signalled that she was
disabled, Bagley yet stood with his men
amidships at the guns The force of the
boat had been spent; the Hudson was
alongside with her lines. He had not
moved. The line was about to be
thrown. Don't miss it." cried an officer
from the Hudson. Then it was that n
smile came over the boys face, with the
fire of the Spaniard now even more
frightful than ever.
| wonder if that was an answering
smile to one that came TO him alone;
wonder if the thought flashed at that
instant upon him:
"% thy own sweet smile | see
The same that oft in childhood solaccd
me-"
Knowing him as l did, l felt when
read of this that this smile was his last
mute message home.
A man more unsoied in word and
thought l never knew Gentle of voice
and chivalrous in mental tone, he was
free without familiarity, as robust in
spirit as he was joyous in jest. OF ard
one constantly mindful of n reserve
power not seen at once. With discrimi-
mating knowledge of men, his simplicity
was sometimes startlingIy charming. II
he were guarded, he was above all en-
tirely natural, unconscious OF himself,
unsuspicious of others.
And then to die so young and leave
Unfinished what he might achieve.
h,, III
As an immortal youth"
Let us try to think of him as the
Immortal YOUTH" whose death brave
men may envy, and whose life it is
given to few women of this world to
furnish forth for the cause of country
cannot yet feel that l will not see
him again and talk with him and tell
him how all trembled for him as he
stood at the guns. But l forget my
self-he fell. pressing the flag close to
his heart. His manner of death was Il
logical elimination of his manner of life
While the nation is richer by one hero,
and men between these oceans take
glory to America for this Immortal
youth" be it not forgot that in the midst
of the shouts that will yet greet even
the mention of his name, there be one
heart helplessly crying: Give me back
my boyn' But if the boy were sustained
when the supreme test came, how much
more may she, who could bear this man
ncr of man. be sustained even now.
God help her.
His presence haunts this room tonight
A form of mingled mist and light
From that far coast
Welcome. this vacant chair is thine
w. Il. CHRISTIAN.
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A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.
Wilmington starr

\ marriage in which number of vii
lnington people We're interested, and to
which much Of romance attached, was
that of CAPTAIN Richard S. Kerr, OF
West Augusta Guards, Co. X, Second
Virginia Regiment, to Miss Jessie Shep-
herd Mcneil, daughter of Mr.. George
T. Mcneil, formerly of Fayetteville, but
now of Stanton, Va. The marriage
was celebrated in Emanual church
StauntOn, last Wednesday. The wed
ding was to have taken place next De
tober, but Capt. Ker's company having
been called for service Wednesday, the
couple decided to get married at once
The groom spent only half hour Will
his bride before leaving with his com
pany for Richmond. Capt Kcr is u ris
ing young lawyer and his bride is q gen
eral fayorite in society.
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OPPOSED TO FUSION.
Democrats of Scotland Neck Pass Res
olutions to That Effect.

Scotland Neck, ~ c., May 14.-(Spe-
cial. lin the Scotland Neck Democratic
primary yesterday, the following resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Claude Kitchin was
passed with only a small number voting
against it.
I'VE. the Democrats of Scotland Neck
township, in convention assembled, do
declare that we are opposed to fusion,
or cooperation with any other party
holding itself off as a district political
organization, because we believe it would
weaken our own organization and
strengthen such other party, placing it
in position in the future to force us
to accede to the demands of its leaders
or to ally itself with our political adver-
saries, thereby hindering the triumph
and perpetuatiOn of our principles.
"But we do cordially invite, with open
hand and heart, all white men OF this
township, regardless of past party aftilia-
tons, who earnestly and sincerely OPP
pose negroism and RepubIicanism and
favor clean. honest government by clean,
honest white men, to join our ranks and
be of us and with us in a common fight
to redeem the State and country from the
incompetent. spoils-hunting, corrupt and
scandal breeding party now in power
I'VE do hereby make all such white
men in the township regardless of past
party affiliations. delegates TO our cOun-
ty convention, each delegate having the
right to vote his proportionatc part of
the number present to the total number
Of delegates to which this township is
entitled"
1t is>thought by many Democrats here
that if such action could be taken all
over the State it would be effective in
bringing many Of the Populists and the
Democrats together
The sorrow for the death of Ensign
Worth Bagley is shared by every one
here.
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THE STATE C0NvENT ION.

1t is of the utmost Importance that the
State Democratic Convention to assem-
bic here on the Goth instant be large and
enthusiastic. If there be not many nom
nations to be made there is yet a public
policy to be decided upon and public
spirit to be infused into those who go
forth to battle with the enemies of de-
cent State government.
To this end every delegate should be
in his seat at time when the saying
was never more applicable that there is
wisdom in counsel. Only thus may there
be progress toward common mind ano
brotherly cooperation. The convention
should be a rallying of regenerated De
mocracy as fore-shadowed in the Chicago
platform and of united determination
to win back the State to those who
stand for its character before the world
All interests ought to be taxed alike to
bear the burdens of war. The proposition
to place tax of 4 cents bottle ON all
proprietary medicines is to increase the
price of many valuable remedies which
suffering humanity must have. 1t would
be well to decrease this tax and increase
others. What a commentary on favorit
ism that the wealth and accumulations
of the country cannot be taxed, but that
the burden is all to be upon the basi:
of consumption This makes the mar
with u small income pay as much rs
the yanderbilts, RockefeIlers and Goulds
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WAR HORSES SPEAK.
Col. John Wants to Send Goldbugs anC
Pops to Cuba.

Col. John Wants to Send Goldbugs ana
Pops to Cuba.
Littleton, \. c., May 14.-(SpeciaI.)-
At the Democratic primary held here
Mr.. Whit johnson was elected chairman
of the executive committee.
Col. w. A. Johnston, the old War
Horse of 81" and the cveraabiding wan
horse of Democracy. and Col Howard
Aston both made very felicitous extern
poraneous speeches. The former i'll his
ininitable way saying, he advocated a
resolution consigning the Pops and Gold
bugs to the Cuban army of invasion
whilst the unterriied white metal Demo
Gratis to remain mt home and purge the
State of her political distempers.
Col. Aston in a very pleasing manner
promised allegiance to the white metal
Democracy and like the prodigal Of old.
was welcomed to the camp after Il short
stay with the goldbugs. One by one
they are returning.
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BUCKLEN,s ARNICA sALVE.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum'
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped HANDS
Chilblains. Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles. OF no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price % cents per box.
For Sale by All Druggists.
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ALWAYS on TOP.

Three Car Loads of Durham Bull Tobac-
60 Shipped Yesterday--NeXt Week VIII
Witness the Largest Shipment of the
Durham Bull Tobacco Ever Made.
Durham, May 14.-(Special.)-Three
car loads of Bull smoking tobacco left
Durham yesterday for California, three
more leave to-day for Texas, and Mon
day the Bull people will ship 100000
pounds to one customer, requiring five
cars.
1t is ii veritablc beehive at the Bull
factory these days, and next week will
witness the largest shipments of smok-
ing tobacco ever made from Durham.
The Bull always gets there" on top.
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FOREsTyILLE DEMOCRATS.

Wake Forest. n. c.. May 1I.-(Spe-
cial democrats of Forestville precinct,
Wake Forest township, met at Forest
Vile to-day and appointed the following
delegates to the county convention: w.
b. Smith, Geo. Gill, J. G. Harris, w. c.
Brewer, g. w Davis, $. +. Allen, ii. A.
Chappell, w. w. Holding and eight al
ternates
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Welcome. this vacant chair is thine.
w. Il. CHRISTIAN.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-15
NORTHAMPTON PoPULIsTs.
The Two Pritchard Populists Were
Kicked Out.
Patron and GIeaner.)

Patron and GIeaner)
The Populist County Convention for
election of delegates to the State and
District conventions was held in Jackson
last Saturday. Owing to the inclemency
of the weather the Patron and Cleaner
had no representative present, and has
been unable to secure a list of the dele
gates. But we are reliably informed
that the Pritchard or gold bug Popullsts
were not allowed on either Of the delega-
tons. There were only two of that
class in the convention, both of whom
wanted to go as delegates to the Stare
convention, but were not allowed to DO
so. Before any delegates were elected
resolution was adopted endorsing Sen.
ator Butler and pledging the party OF
this county to his support.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-15

The May magazine number of The
Outlook has on its cover a fine portrait
of Commodore Dewey, and nearly TWEEN
ty pages are devoted to Il historical ac-
count of the war and to editorial COM
ment thereon.
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THE FORSYTH PoPULIsTs.
Elect Delegates to State Convention Flu.
sion Only for Principle.

Winston, May 14.-(Special. The
Forsyth Populists met here to-day and
elected delegates to State convention to
be held at Raleigh Resolutions were
adopted reasserting their allegiance to
bimetalism and heartily endorsing tho
course of Senator Butler, ''the recognized
leader of the Populist party in this State
and nation" Majority of Forsyth
Populists say they are opposed to fusion
this year except it be for principle.
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Z Don't forget that machine-made politi
cians seldom become able statesmen.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1898-01-07
Sir 0Enhr.

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