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read" replied the governor. At an
other time the prisoner again at
tempted to communicate with the out
side world by writing message on his
shirt and throwing itoutof the window.
This fell into the hands Of a friar, who
returned it to the governor, asserting
that he had not read it. But the gov
ernor had his doubts of the mans hon.
esty, and as dead men tell no tales" the
friar was soon dead.
In 1908, after short illness, the
masked man died. Everything used IN
his room was burned; the walls were
rubbed down and whitewashed: even
the tiles were removed, in fear that he
had forced some scrap beneath them.
The respect shown him at all times
marked him as man of distinguished
birth.
When Louis XIV. reached his major
ity, the mystery was explained to him.
but he would not divulge it. The most
ne would say was, that ..yhe mans de-
tenti5n prevented great misfortunes."
There have been many conjectures
as to the identity of the man with the
iron mask. The story to which the
most credence has been given is, that
he was twin brother ofLouis XIV.
For 20 years after the marriage of
Anne at Austria she was childless
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tury an inciter to rebellion, branded
| as traitor, served but short, and
| save for his irons, a mild Imprisonment
The century is nearing its close;
France, the cultured, the refined
STEPPED in the arts and sciences, has
flung law and justice aside and done
| deeds beftting the dark ages to the
person of Alfred Dreyfus.
It was only since his return to France
to receive tardy justice that the full
measure of his prosecutions have be-
come known, and even now i msE not
all have been told. This man, accused
OF selling valuable military secrets to
foreign government, secrets which the
foreign ruler denies having received,
without receiving fair trial to
prove either his guilt or innocence,
was brought before his companions-in-
arms and there degraded from his
rank; his straps torn from his shoul-
ders, his sword broken in pieces, and
sentenced to solitary Imprisonment for
life on barren island under tropical
sun. fifty called lie du Diable.
During the voyage across the Atlantic
he was thrown into the hold as mer-
chandise. with merchandise. At Guiana
he lay for four days in temperature of
113. From there he was removed to a
cell 13 feet square, made of iron bars,
and with one barred window.
That more rigor might be used, the
false story was spread that the
wretched man had tried to escape.
Lebon, who must henceforth bear the
sobriquet of the Man of the Manacles,"
cabled that the prisoner be put in
irons. The irons were forged from old
iron before the prisoners eyes. AS he
pathetically expressed it to his wife:
They put irons on me when was ILL.,"
But there is even worse to tell. The
sharp points and ragged edges of the
irons, forged by unskillful hands, cut
his flesh to the bone, and he endured
two months of this misery, one of them
on bread and water. And now after all
of it France has awakened to realiza-
ton of what she has been guilty, and
has taken steps that viii return to an
injured servant his standing and his
honor. OF all tie famous prisoners of
recent history whose Imprisonment
has made national or world history the
story of Alfred Dreyfus is the saddest.
LYDIA r. GORDON
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it is to-day none will deny.

| it is to-day none will deny. Aside
from the resources which are now
showing such wonderful developments,
there are others which have as yet
hardly been touched. Its agriculture
and its timber offer opportunities for
riches that will in time be the won
der of the world.
While we think of It as a land of cold
and ice, yet the winters in parts of the
territory are mi1der than those Of the
northern states. While it is not an
ideal agricultural district, yet parts of
it offer as many advantages for agri-
culture as are found in northern Scot
land or Norway, and recent expert
ments of the agricultural department
have demonstrated that it is not the
great cold, barren wilderness that it
is supposed to be. Even as far north as
Circle City, Dawson and the towns
along the Yukon river men have found
it profitable to engage in agricultural
pursuits.
Alaska has entered upon an era OF
prosperity. Like the growth Of our
western towns, it started with a boom
from which there was certain amount
of recoil, but the prosperity is there
to stay, and in time this land that was
SO heartily despised only 80 years ago,
will be one of the valuable portions OF
American territory.
RERNuApn ppTGTnr
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Among celebrated prisoners Jeffer
son Davis takes high rank. He hao
done all that man could do to divide
the union and form southern confed.
eracy. lie was able and popular enough
to be chosen it's president, thus making
him a shining mark for vengeance, if
his were a lost cause.
On that memorable morning in April
when telegram from Lee summoned
him from church, warning him to leave
Richmond, as the army had reached the
limit of endurance. all save himself felt
that the end had come. He issued a
proclamation that the confederacy had
entered on a new phase in the strug-
| gle," and still had the advantage.
| Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad" Before April closed
he was fugitive, price upon his head.
He hoped to reach Gen. Kirby Smith
and make defiant stand in the south
west. Camping in Georgia, he was
| aroused by the startling news that the
camp was surrounded by union cavalry,
In partial disguise he tried to escape,
but was recognized and made prisoner.
He was confined as a military prfs-
oner at Fortress Monroe. At the north
there were only kind feelings for Lee,
while for Davis there were the bitterest
execrations. He was held responsible
for every drop of blood shed, as well as
for the misery endured in southern
prisons. At the hands of the northern
populace he would have had short
shrift.
Twice the seasons rolled around and
he was still captive accused of treason.
During his captivity he suffered but
one instance of ignominy. One MORN
ing his keepers and blacksmith with
irons and instruments for riveting
them stood before him. When he saw
them he sprang and caught chair, as
ii single-handed he could spare himself
this shame. The men begged him not
to compel them to use force, but he
vowed he would fight to the death. /
More men were called, and the work
was soon done. For days he lay upon
his cot, stunned and almost bereft of
reason. But the government soon
deemed it such an unnecessary piece of
cruelty that the irons were stricken off.
Davis trial was postponed from time
to time, until finally, on account of his
failing health, it was proposed he
should be released on bail, and Horace
Greeley signed his bond. Two years
later the prosecution was dropped. He
was simply disfranchised. To-day it
is matter of pride to the country that
jefferson Davis was never hanged.
The days when a man wore an iron
mask were the days Of the inquisition.
A scratch of a pen by one OF the Lords
annointed could consign man to a
dungeon or to death. Early in the |
century Napoleon, a mere
commoner, set Europe in blaze, humil- |
lated and dictated TO hereditary SOW
ereigns, yet was subjected to no person
II violence. In the middle}of the CEN
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AMERICAN FIREWORKS.
Ample supply and OF Good
Quality.

| China sends the United States fire.
crackers worth about $4,000 a year,
| and in this total are included such fire.
| works as are manufactured in China.
The importations Of gunpoWder and
explosives into the composition OF
which gunpow6er enters were worth
$3.50, ,000 in 1893, but their value had de-
creased to 100000 in 1897, and it has.
decreased more since in consequence
of the fact that it is now possible to
manufacture ordinary fireworks in the
United States under conditions quite
as satisfactory as those which govern
the market in China, and, moreover,
the Chinese methods and devices have
been much improved upon and the
risks incident to transportation over
several thousand miles done away
with.
The manufacture of fireworks is, in
deed, by no means SO complicated
matter as it might appear. Every one
has seen blue fire, for instance, the in
gradients of which are IL parts of nitre,
of sulphur, 2 of sulphuret OF anti-
mony and two of lampblack. Green
fer is made of 40 parts of nitrate OF
barytes, s of sulphur, 8 Of chlorate of
potash and Of lanpbiack. White fra
is made of "a parts of nitre, Z of sui
phur, 8 of red arsenic and / of lamp
black. These formulas, of course, are
somewhat varied by the exigencies Of
manufacture, and elaborate set pieces,
as they are called, require the use Of
other ingredients. besides considerable
skill in handling rhe explosives. The
demand for fireworks is not decreas-
ing. but fewer fireworks are set off
by individuals than was formerly the |
case.-N. Z. Sun,
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Big as is this estate, it is tritie COM
pared with the game preserve o. the
late Austin Corbin, on Croydon
mountain, New Hampshire. Here,
also, farm land is going hack in
to forest, and vast herds of deer.
elk and buffalo roam at will. II
is probable that in Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and Vermont there are
fewer acres clear of woodland and
actually cultivated now than was the
case 80 years ago.
The. abandoned farm is only one
side Of big problem. The rich man
from the city who goes back to the
country village of his birth-Corbin
was born in Croydon-and displaces
hundreds of his former neighbors to
make room for deer and buffalo, is a
bigger factor. In the hills OF New
England men and women are being
bought out to make room for animals,
precisely as in the highlands of Scot
land. Only the growth of the towns
prevents sharp decrease of popula-
ton in these states.
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Il
ment house. Mr.. Childs was not very
| wealthy man, though he lived and gave
literally. At his death people were
surprised to find that he only owned
one-third Of the Philadelphia Ledger,
the rest belonging to the Drexel estate.
The Ledger had never been run solely
to make money. Old-fashioned print
ing processes were continued, a paper
mill even was kept going, because Mr..
Childs would not displace any, of his
men by using modern machinery After
his death the Ledger came into the
hands of a young sciof Of the Drexels,
and has been greatly changed. Now
even the Childs house, probably known
to more famous people than any other
In America. will lose its identity.
Another Philadelphia paper,aathe
Times, long edited by Alexander X
Mcclure, is being overhauled by young
er blood. It was founded by the Nc
Laughlin Bros, printers, who made it
the best printed paper in the country.
Death has thrown the management into
the hands of young Frank Mclaughlin,
who has brought over several New York
editors atsalaries which make Philadel-
phia Journalists gasp. Julius Cham
=bers, who was in turn managing editor
of the New York Herald, World and Re-
corder. is in editorial charge.
In Philadelphia, as in Boston, news
paper man who gets s25 a week is
called pretty prosperous. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin had to pay SIS a week to get
a bright New York reporter to go to
Philadelphia as the city editor Of the
Times, and the same to another to act
as Sunday editor.
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up, OUT OF WnlcA
| jumps an extremely young, nattily-
dressed doctor, who helps the driver
| put the suffering man into the wagon.
They whirl away; the little group
watching the scene disperses.
| This happens $4,000 times a year In.
the Greater New York. Ten thousand
times nearly SO times daythe call is
| false alarm, or the ambulance is need
ed merely to transfer a patient. Forty
thousand times-about 11o times day
this scene of the injured man, the po-
liceman, the doctor and the driver is
repeated. The average man, woman
or child would seem to stand one
chance in SO of getting free ride in
an ambulance within the year, in New
York.
In truth, New York is fertile field
for accident, with its crowded streets,
tall buildings and reckless driving. The
hospitals are upon a correspondingly
gigantic scale. A single one - the
Roosevelt-has cost s3,5o0,ooO. The
Sloane, the county hospital, com
paratiyely small one, but perfect and
well equipped. has cost 81. SOC, 900.
New York viii soon have what
must suppose viii be the only ten-story
hospital in the world. Service In a
building of this height is rendered pos
sibie BY elevators big enough to take
up an operating cot with its patient.
doctors, nurses and all, busily at work
still as they are hoisted up in the air.
Almost without exception. the hospi-
tails are upon noisy, crowded streets.
There is not in New York, nor can
there be, much approach to the ideal
hospital Of small scattered buildings,
separate from each other or semi-at-
tached. OWEN LANGDoN.
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/ woman. There was prophecy that
she would bear twins, who would bring
about civil war and convulse the ma
ton. To prevent this Louis XIII. de-
ter1nined that if the world knew of the
younger it should be only matter of
conjecture.
The latest version given is that the
man was an untitled Italian who
sought to betray the French king of
Italy. He was hurried across the
frontier and forced to wear the iron
mask.
The most distinguished of all prison
ers was Napoleon Bonaparte. His un-
bounded ambition worked his ruin
doomed him to year of exile on the
Island of Elba, and six years of inn
prisonment on the barren one of Saint
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contain 20 ordinary Massachusetts,
farms, besides any quantity of noun
tain woodland. There stand the 20
farmhouses, stillvacant or inhabited by
grooms and gamekeepers. Mr.. Whit
nry has bought two farms within the
year. The homes Of probably $50 peo-
pie, counting farmhands and laborers,
know them no more In the entire re-
gion are not as many COWS as single
one OF the farms formerly sustained.
But there are over 80 elk and II buffalo.
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famous house of
George w. Childs.
] n P Philadelphia,
where Grant was
often a guest and
where Longfellow,
Peter Cooper, Til
den, Froude, Tyn-
dali, Sa1a, Dick
ems, Dom Pedro,
Of Brazil, and any
number of dukes
and other lesser
notab I e $ fro m
abroad have been
entertained, is to
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IVY at bACiuOEe-
q vast house whose
| plumbing W ont
| work, and an es-
tate of forest land
Of which Mrs. Van
derbilt is tired al
ready-cost many
millions. T W o M
! bly,, a Vanderbilt
SOM law, has a
So 900, 900 farm"
j n N G W Jersey.
Seward Webb, an
other son-in-law
has a farm of 5000
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t h 70 u g b the
crowd about him.
A big policeman
pushes his way to
the mans 81 d e.
"Give him a little
cir. cant ye?" he
says, and the near
est fall back about
six inches. There
is a rattle Of
whe e ! s, a 10 WI
whisp er: "T b q
ambulance is COM
ing! and q neat
little wagon drives
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X A Z HEN Secretary Seward pro.
WV posed to purchase Alaska he
Alaska Has Bountfally Proven the Of Hs Judgment

X A NHEN Secretary Seward pro-
| WV posed to purchase Alaska he
was met by storm of ridi-
cule not only in this country, but from
all portions of the world. Diplomats,
politicians and the common people felt
that it would be as wise to bury trife
over $7,000,0OO at the north pole as to
great expanse of territory belonging
to Russia in North America was looked
upon as land of icebergs and snow,
of frozen rivers and improbable noun
tain peaks, out of which it would be
impossible to secure any adequate re-
turns for the money invested in its pur-
chase, to say nothing of it's mainte-
nance.
But Secretary Seward thought differ
emily. He realized that this frozen
northland presented great possibilities.
1t is doubtful if he considered the pos
sibility of the territory becoming fac
tor in the production of the worlds
gold, but he did see the advantages it
offered to our fishing, whale and seal
industries, and in these alone Alaska
has fully verified the expectations of
the secretary.
So great was Stewards desire to ac-
quire the territory of Russian America
that when the Russian minister at
Washington announced to him the
willingness of the Russian emperor to
sell, he lost no time in completing his
part of the negotiations. On the even
ing Of March 90, 1867, Secretary Sew
ard was playing whist at his Home in
Washington when the Russian minis
ter called and announced that he had
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We Haxe the Worst nf n.

Englishman-I don't see that you
have much reason to criticise our
hereditary aristocracy while you sub
nit to your political bosses.
Ameriean-Wen, in this country the
people at least select their masters.
True. and they make some remark
ably poor selections. Brooklyn Life,
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gion of Massachu-
setts, is being put
in shape for oceu-
pancy this fall by
Henry r a n e
Whitney and his
young wife, who
was Miss Gertrude
Y a n d e r bilt, Of
New York.
This is only one,
but the largest of
Mr.. W hit n E y 8
landed estate. Its
-, n ncn
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Alaskan fisheries, exclusive of whales
| and seals, are estimated to have turned
out product valued at more than $685..
000,000 since the territory was ceded
to us. OF this amount that of salmon
fisheries have exceeded $50 1000 600,
and are to-day yielding close to s4,0oo,-
600 year, all of which Is going into
American pockets.
What the mineral resources of Alaska
are cannot even be estimated with any
degree of accuracy. Every vessel re-
turning from the Yukon district is
bringing into the western ports thou
sands of dollars worth of the yellow
metal. In 1897 more than $15,0o0,oo0
worth of gold was taken out of the
territory. and again last year half of
this amount was dug out of those
mountains and frozen streams which.
New York congressman would have
had the president pay $7,2oo,0oo to some
European power to take off our hands.
Unlike Secretary Seward, that gentle
man could see nothing of value in the
great territory which Russia sold to
us for mere song.
Since the opening of the Treadwell
mine, one of the largest and most valu-
able gold mines of the world, it has
paid in dividends to it's stockholders
close to $7,o00,0oo, and its owners are
digging out of Alaska 81, 500, 900 a year,
which in itself would pay a good rate
of interest on the purchase price of
the entire territory.
What the next ten years will see in
Alaska is hard to estimate, but that
the territory gives promise of becom-
ing Of much greater Importance than
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Europe. She was
passionately fond
of music, and lived
in a noble house,
where she studied
the art.
She was away
from home four
m o n tbs. When
she returned she
found that h e r.
husband had pre-
pared for her a
surprise. Behind
the great square
mansion he had
= s.7's f5. IsF.
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acres at Sherburne, VT, and the Ne
hasane, park of $4,000 in the Adiron-
dacks. where the nuscared deer poke
their brown muzzles through the wire
fence and gaze with mild disapprovaI at
intruding railroad trains.
Of all these places the most wonder
ful is Nehasane. 1t is nearly 20 miles
from east to west, an irregular triangle
in shape. The railroad runs through
it, but at Nehasane station only Webb's
close friends may stop. Il includes So
navigable lakes and ponds, ranging
from half a mile in length to three
miles, several mountains and 81 sl;s<H
tinct trout brooks. No absentee la PEI
of the highlands has a deer forest FeF. G
compare with this. After August 6 DC
some of the Webb-Vanderbilt eRtour-
age usually run up to Nehasane for the
shooting. For the rest, the big preserve
is as silent as it has always been.
There is one interesting consequences
of the reforesting of the east. Not only
deer, but bears and wolves, are much
more numerous east of Pittsburgh and
north of New York city than they were
ten years ago. Even on Long Island.
within comparatively few miles of New
York, deer are numerous enough to be
q nuisance to farmers. No ordinary
fence can keep them from jumping into
the fields and eating up growing crops.
idle Hour" w. *. Vanderbilt's Long
Island estate, where both the duke and
duchess OF Marlborough and Mr.. and
Mrs. W. 4. Vanderbilt, Jr. passed their
honeymoons, is in the heart of the Oak
dale deer forests.
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VOL. IX.-NO' 46.
MA Y TIL the opening Of the doors
WV of prison for Capt, Alfred

MA NITII the opening Of the doors
WV of prison for Capt. Alfred
Dreyfus will end the most
cruel case of persecution known in
modern times. A persecution that has
made Capt. Dreyfus famous, and his
prosecutors despised by the entire
world. The persecution of Dreyfus ap-
pears even greater by comparison with
the treatment accorded other famous
prisoners of practically modern times.
Aside from Dreyfus, the three most
famous prisoners of modern history are
without doubt the .'man with the Iron
Mask" Emperor Napoleon, and the
president of the southern confederacy,
Jefferson Davis.
The first of these, and the most
mysterious of prisoners, was the
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.s'The Ambulance Is Comingy,
The man lying prone on the street
gfoans, and little shudder runs
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Eighteen years ago this summer Mrs.
Joseph F. Knapp, of Brooklyn, went to
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seward webh,. Naha..,,

Al the Vanderbilts have the land
hunger. George Vanderbilt's costly
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George w. Ghilas, Home.

The Knapp mansion is now dancing
school, its music-roonl a ballroom. The
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w1llfam G. whitney,a Estate.

William G. Whitneyg estate on Oc-
tober mountain, i'm the Berkshire re-
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ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
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! TIE HOMES OF The VEAL Thy
Big as is this estate, it is a trihe com

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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09
NOTICE.

IN PURSUANCE OF A DEED OF
trust executed On the 18th day ui
January, 1888, by Charles II. Cooke TO
me as trustee to secure debt t"
Thomas N. Hill, trustee OF the estate
Of N. Ferra;l, will on
the 4,h day Of April, 1899,
sell tor cash to the highest bidder at
public auction in the town OF Scotland
Neck, the land described in said deed
of trust as follows: The following de-
scrlbed real estate lying and BEN. III
said county (Hal:sax) and state (Nortt
Carol:na) 10 sit that portion OF the
farm /, ins on Hoanokc river tormerly
owned by Z. E. Smith, beginning ut
point or Roam Ike river, j. n. Smiths
line thence along his line South 2Si
West 262 poles to X. E. Hancock's line,
thence with his line North 724 West
los poles to ditch, thence North IL
East 20 poles, thence North ~ East
32Opolcs to Roanoke river thence down
Roanoke river to the beginning, con
tanning two hundred and twenty-eight
acres, more or less.
This, Feb. !, 1899.
T, w. FENNER,
2-94t. Trustee.