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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24


of your world l knew there could be
no danger to you. As for me, l value
your friendship over and beyond any
thing on earth. You will let me keep
that?"
Gossip says your iancee arrives
this afternoon You have barely time
to meet the train"
I'VE are frends?' he persisted.
"Of course" she agreed lightly. He
seemed about to speak. but swung sud
denly on his heel and left her. She
watched his long stride and the
strength of his broad shoulders until
her lips trembied.
NO danger to you she repeated
slowly. How should there be: She
was only a girl. and it is unmaidenly
for woman to give her love before it
is asked. The chatter of life belongs
to women; the important things are
reserved for the men to say
Eve walked restlessly down the
road. The breath of the sound cooled
her cheeks. but she turned inland to-
ward the village
Young lady, am l going right for
the Washington hotel:" The speaker
was a little old woman, with brisk
energy beyond her years She was
laden heavily with a large telescope
bag and a market basket. Ere nod
ded. Eyes. follow the road"
Ii 4
The woman rested her burden on the
sandy path and wiped her brow
You should have taken a carriage;
those things are heavy
"Ah. my dear" the other laughed
cheerily, I'm used to doing for my
self where | come from. There was
pack of men shouting to help, but
l mistrusted I'd ever set eyes on my
belongings again. Now when I've got
them in my hand | know where they
are"
81 am staying at the hotel. Let me
assist you" Eve took the basket. The
woman demurred at first. but finally
accepted assistance as a neighborly
act. and together they reached the
hotel A porter met them. Eve badt
him care for her companion She smil
Ell as she heard her new acquaintance
cautiohing the man. BE careful,
young fellow, with that basket. It's
+ IL hottie cookies and preserves for
my boygi,i John Pierce. Is he here?"
Eve turned and watched her. John
Pierce her son! SO this was the little
motherhe had told her of the mother
who had effaced herself that her son
might have his wish! s. 10
After dinner Eve sat on the porch
alone Soon she Became conscious of
couple pausing nearsf With a throb-
bing heart she recognized Pierces
voice.
"Hilda," be was saying, surely. !
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24

misunderstood you, You are angry
Angry, indeed The answering
voice was well modulated. but there
was "A hardness that robbed it of pleas
! ing. Il persuaded mother to come
here in order to be with you. sacri-
feed week at Newport, and for
what? To be shamed by that wom-
an
"Iildaw Pierce's voice range with
a new quality that compelled Miss
/ Chauncey to pause. Eve ionged to slip
away. but it was impossible without
disclosing her presence Besides. the
others would no doubt resume their
walk. Pierce continued:
when you wrote me of your coming
did not expect my mother. Her APP
pcarance was surprise. I've tried at
times to persuade her to visit me. but
hitherto she has seemed rooted to the
soil. Now that she is here | purpose
giving her the holiday of her life"
What about me-"
"YouE Dear girl, when you know my
mother you will forget her rough man
ner. rs you forgaye mine. and remem-
Der only her true heart | made no Sc
cret of my LIE or antecedents. told
you all. Be kind, She will not trouble
you often. II is the first time in thirty
years that she has left the farm. But
on such occasions my wife must re-
member that She is my mother"
Absurd. John. marry you, not your
family. You have ability. ambition: l.
position and money. can help you.
have aided You already" Eve shrank
farther into the shadow of her chair
and thrust her fingers to her ears. If
they would only 60, Pierce's voice
came to her rs from distance. Let Us
end this unworthy discussion, l offer
YOU the service and the devotion of my
life. Do you accept tie obligations of
my wife,"
NO. no. if ii means lowering myself
to the association of your fam!ly-no."
There is my mothcr-no one else"
~ u have ny answer" Miss Cham-
coy thrust a chair aside and the swish
Of her s.l%en skirts trailed over the
porch There was silence, broken
presently by a mans sigh Of infinite re-
lief. Then came the sharp striking of 4
match. AZ ,,- lis light John Pierce and
Eve locke; into each others face.
Pierce threw away his unlighted cigar
and blocked her path You heard
Yes; am Sogry-she is angry now
tomorrow
Eve. tomorrow holds always the
promise of something new. There is
no going back would not if l could
l must speak
Not now-not here" Eve shrank Il
little from him 1T is late. am leav
ing in the morning.
You are right-not now. | am
brute TO have thought of it. 1t won't
be the same when you are gone. but it
is only for week, Eve l shall come
to you at your home. Give me a word
that may hope
Eve raised her head ana her eyes
Shone.
When you come, say what you will"
And she was gone
Say what l will" repeated Pierce
beneath his breath. And to think |
had SO nearly thrown away the right"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
WHEN
VACATION
ENDED
By ETHEL HARRINGTON

The sky was brilliantly blue. but the
willows threw a comfortable shade
over Eve. She sat looking off into the
distance. not meeting the gaze of the
man lounging at her feet Conversa-
ton. usually so delightful, hung heav-
lily between them.
"Well. what is it?' he inquired.
Il was thinking ! ought to congrat-
ulate you. Why did you not tell me?
Perhaps you thought with so famous a
writer the news must be known of all
the world"
Meaning my-engagement?" John
Pierce brought the words out slowly.
''Who told you? Well, l suppose you
had to know. After the holiday
should have told YOU myself"
MY vacation is ended am leaving
in the morning"
There was no answer.
at would be polite to say you are
sorry" suggested the girl
I'm not in one sense. We can never
recall these past days. Its fitting you
should 90 with them Pierce rose to
his feet. May I sit here: want to
tell you a little about myself
is that necessary" questioned the
girl.
For me it is, and men are selfish. 1t
is not our fault we are created so. You
know the hardshipS of my boyhood.
I've told you OF the farm, Of the mar
rowness Of life out there in Iowa
grew up with one ambition. one aim,
to become a writer. Ny mother. God
bless her, could not understand, but
she never stood in my path. l worked
my way through college like many an
other. Afterwarl. with nothing but
trunk load of manuscripts. l went to
New York. You can guess the strug-
giles, the difficulties. At last l gained
a hearing My first book was a sue
cess. Through that l nett met Hilda
Chauncey. | had never known any one
like her before she realized my am
bition, she touched my Imagination, and
one day we found ourselves engaged.
She helped me in a thousand ways.
When you cane Eve stirred uneas-
lily The power and magnetism of the
man seemed cruel under the existing
circumstances. Pierce continued: "Of
course l appreciate my roughneSs, my
crudeness. | am not. never shall be,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
Love on the
Nancy B.
By COLIN s. COLLINS
Copyright, 1901. bu T. {. Mcclure

The Nancy g.. fresh in the glory
Of new paint and bright brass work,
strained idly at her meetings. From
The wharf her owner regarded her with
pride.
The Nancy 3. was not Il trim yacht.
There We're gaudy pictures upon her
sides, and altogether she looked like
anything but the stanch little river
craft that slid by her in the stream.
Best little theater on the two riv-
erS." declared her owner proudly.
"Why. she can seat 100 and stand up
another 800. Got good company. too;
cleverest little soubrette Why, sayw
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said pleasant voice at his elbow.
Branscome jumped and turned. but
the girl passed on, with a smile that
was pleasant. but not too familiar. She
was the ingenue. Blanche Montague.
There We're 4 dozen in Branscome's
company, good players who preferred
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
IN BAYOU GOULA SWAMP
tcontlnuel from paee four,

wild cries. plunged beneath the sur face. The black water closed over her head and broad ripples spread out over the lake. Though her pursuers waited breathlessly. she did not re- appear.
 Parson, Denton and the others re- turned to the hut. Andy was kneeling at the feet of Colonel Tolton. The old man, deadly pale. was holding to q tree for support
 Forgib me, Marster." Andy was say- ing. Fore Gawd. was skeered ter tell yo. foun' de little Missus rum min wild in de swamp bout CT year Ego. but jest cudn't tell yo bout hit. wuz skeered hit twud be de en' ob yo an de ole Missus. tried ter take keer ob her an focht tings ter eat fum de place two or tree times CT week, but de litI Missus fit me sometimes an druv me erway. I was shorely gwyan ter tell yo when I cud git up mah curridge. Marster. Fo' de Lords sake. doan' look at me dat CT wayr'I
 For answer the Colonel bowed his head.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
well Sam you don t really object

Well Sam you don really object to Landonia, do you?'
 70, mo-" missey," answered that ebon philosopher. T ain't got no jections to de gal. 'cept alters lak ter do my owl courtin. I spect she maik CT purty good wife. I allow she'll fetch in erbout as much vidduls as any ob desc heah fiy-up-de gals. You kin jes' bet I stop dat gal fum all dat courtin' foolishness when I gifts mariaed to her"
 Seeing that July was taking no part in the scene, but that instead he looked worried. and embarrassed she turned to him. and holding out her right hand, which was covered with q riding glove. she asked:
 "Is it true. as Sam says. that you have the mate to this glove"
 Tt fs," replied Landing, 'T found it one day after you had ridden past
 "Of course you wouldn't keep my property without my permission?" she queried, with a touch of reproof in her tonA.
 "Oh. no, certainly not" replied July rather pained by her tone. Let me return 1t to you right now" fumbling desperately In his breast for the inner pocket of his shirt.
 Well" composedly drawled the young woman. "as you have had 1t so long. you may keep 1t. And here. you can have this one also" at the same time placing a soft hand. glove and all in the broad palm of MT. July Landing.
 "Er-ah--did YOU say l could keep that?" he asked indicating the painful.
 She hooded her head.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

Then, without another word. the sable coniurer stretched himself flat on the ground. and was asleep in an instant. Armed with his love charm July Landing valiantly paraded the streets
 of the hamlet. and promenaded oeiore the coloneIs gate for several days But if the talisman possessed any ViF- tue, 1t was not visibly apparent. once' indeed. he came face to race With i,ehe' radiant in spring apparel, vut nothing came of the meeting beyond smile ana gracious good morning, MT. Landing, from her. This was indeed a lame and impotent conclusion to the ardent interview JuI%
 had mel tally pictured. In his imaslna- tior he had rushed up to her. ferVently
 declared his love. and she had atI,, naa,1i on his breast. and there sweetly breathed out inc story of her violent affection for him.
 Full of wratl at the failure or the spell, he sought the cabin of Guinea Nigger Sam with the intention or ue- nouncirg him as fraud. But ne found that worthy in state Of great indignation ,ver the pertormahces ol
 Landonia, Irene's maid.
 Dat niggah gal Is been hangin roun my cabin fer CT week. She looks at me sortor soft and trembly
 out ob her eyes, and carries on lak CT dyin' caf. Jes cain't git shet of her. She talk erbout moonshine and mowers. an sweethearts and sich. tell I'm jes' dat sick at my stummik I cain't hardly lib Whats dc mattah wid dat fool
 gal de Lawd only knows. I'm CT gwine right ober ter Miss Irene. and tell on dat tdiit nigger woman, and maik her lem me lone"
 Nothing could move Guinea Nigger I.,., sJaAa HfV1n fntr fn RnT plain to Miss Mallory of the conduct of her maid. and July slowly walked to his own pretty woodland home, with his mind filled with many misgivings | as to the probable disclosures in- evitable in the conversation to occur between the lady and the conjurer. As the shadows of twilight began to steal over the peaceful landscape. July was mortified to see approaching the 1 doorway Miss Irene, Sam and Landonia. | His first impulse was to flee in wild | dismay, but they were at the threshold | before he could put his thought into action The appearance of Miss Irene l the most timid. Her eyes sparklPd 1 with fun, her plump shoulders shook with suppressed laughter. With her | head poised archly on one side she said: i've a great mind to have you pun l ished for witchcraft. Sam tells me you have been experimenting in the black | art"
 1 July stammered out something-he 1 never krew exactly what he said. "Marsc July" interposed Sam. dis
 heah nigger gal done 'fessed dat she
 nebber big you Missey Irene's ribbun.
 It wuz CT ribbun dat longed ter dis | heah very Landony. Oats de reason de 1 chawrn wukked backkuds. It's run | laid holt ob me. and de nigger gal 1t | sholy has"
 1 Miss Irene fairly shrieked with mer- | riment. After a long tri1 of laughter l she calmed down sufhciently to ask:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
was used by Miss Irene in tying up her

was used by Miss Irene in tying up her hair.
 July knew no more of the accessories Of lady's toilet than he did of Chi nese logarithms. so he handled the precious strip of silk as gingerly as glass. never doubting the truth of Lam donia's statement, although that thrift ty maid-servant had substituted dis carded ribbon of her own for the wish ed-for property of her mistress, a goodly exchange. she chuckled to her self for the bright dollar of the young | man.
 Dis heah spell what I'm gwine ter weave" said Sam, busy with his prep arations. "is CT pow'ful charm. It'll fetch like to like, color to color, bug gum to buzzum. If de gals got airy feelin' or quality, or any thought as is kin ter yours, 1t sho' will fetch dem 1 feelin's tergedder. An if dar is any deceivin' in de pusson. or ting used in de spell. it'lI wuk backkuds, Ya-as, 1t sho' will talk de back track"
 The conjurer was entirely nude. ex- l cept for breech-cloth. An iron pot l filled with clear, cold water stood in a clear space in a grove of small sour wood and dog wood trees. Around a | little bank of sand. near the pot stakes were driven exactly resembling q coffin l in shape. Within this staked enclosure | Guinea Nigger Sam lay down at full length, face upward, and began rapid chant, at the same time rapidly drum ming his bare heels on the sandy ground
 70, Obi, Obi, Buckra Man.
 Speak into being Loves Talisman.' | With each repetition of this rude l rhyme, uttered each time with a dif- ferent intonation, Guinea Sam grew
 more and more excited. His body writhed. foam covered his lips, per spiration glittered on his body in the
 moonlight. The bushy tops of the trees around the spot swayed as if q strong gale was blowing. although the air was dreamily still, and not q leaf | stirred ten feet away from the little | grove.
 Within the space of five minutes the water in the pot began to send up va DOT and smoke, and in ten minutes it was furiously boiling.
 l Springing up from his recumbent position. the conjurer seized q shallow | ladle made of a gourd. and circled around the boiling vessel, going in a run, at intervals, without pause, he | skinned the surface of the boiling 1 water. depOsiting the scum on a small pile of weeds and curious-looking plants which were aarefully arranged on a square of dressed iambskin. near the stakes. Suddenly he stopped,
 waved his arms horizontally, and the bubbling of t:ie pot instantly ceased | Then resuming his natural walk and
 manner. he went over to the weeds. stopped over. blowing his breath with q loud "whoof' at each corner of the | aambskin. The whole pile instantly took fire, and biazed up brightly. When it was consumed, Guinea Mig
 ger Sam carefully gathered up the ashes. placing them and the pink rib- bon in q little red morocco bag and hung it around July Landings neck.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

doned for not believing that ours Is the most densely populated State of the Union. Yet such Is the fact. Several | censuses have revealed 1t and the State enumeration just completed gives | 1t new force. For there are fifty thou- sand more people in Rhode Island to- day than there were five years ago, and in the interval since 1900 we have not expanded our borders. Our landed area remanis at 1,0S5 square miles, and on each square mile of this Athenian tract we have assembled no fewer than
 442 human beings. In 1890 the figures of the density were SIS; in 1895, 355; in 1900, 395. By the time the next Federal census is taken there will be on the average more than five hundred
 men. women and children to the square
 mile In the restricted area between the Blackstone and Napatree.
 In West Greenwich there are less
 than ten persons to the square mile, and year by year and decade by de- cade even that scant number seems fat ed to decrease In Providence, on the
 contrary, every square mile contains
 an average of 10.sS7 people. and in
 some of our wards and especially in
 certain portions of these wards the
 density is even greater. Among the
 five cities of the State Central Falls
 ranks easily first in this respect, for
 on its mile and a third of territory
 are quartered nearly twenty thousand
 inhabitants: the square mile figures are
 l4,95s If one were permitted to choose
 between living on the most thickly
 populated block in Central Falls and
 spending his days on the decadent slopes of We3t Greenwich which would
 he select? In these two extremes we see forcibly illustrated the mutual dis towns and diminishing rural commun- ties.
 Figures are provcrbialIy dry, but
 little imagination injected into them sometimes relieves them of excessive aridtty. We can obtain a good idea of the high degree of population density in Rhode Island If we compare its square mile average. 442. with that of the Continents, for instance. These are not based on the latest computa- tions of population indeed, but are new enough to serve the immediate pur- pose. According to Ravenstein. the square mile average In Europe is 107: in Asia it is less than six; in Africa it is eleven: in North America 1t rises to 13.S; in South America it falls to little more than 5: in Australasia 1t drops to 1.4 and in the Polar regions there is only one person for every TOO square miles. The Federal census of 1900 shows that there are 21. .49 persons to the square mile fin the United States. while in Belgium the figures rise to some six hundred. Tn Prussia, thick ly settled country as European coun- tries go, the proportion is 256.2 Thus Rhode Island is much more denseiy populated than Europe as whole and Is exceeded in this regard by those smaller principalities only where large communities have thickiy dwelt for centuries.
 Massachusetts. the next State of the Union in point Of density. lags far be- hind us, while Connecticut Is only one half as denseiy settled as Rhode Island. Our forest area-and 1t is proportion
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ally very large-is witnessing the con- tinuaf draining away of people from the clearings In tine scrub oak woods and the returning underbrush: but the concentration of population in the cities and larger towns Is becoming. constantly more impressive. Of the thirty eight cities aud towns of the State twenty-five have increased in the number of their inhabitants since 1895 and thirteen have lost; or, if we include Johnston, whose decline is due to the annexation Of d large portion of it's area by Providence, among the growing towns. the proportion is twenty-six to twelve. The dozen de- creasing towns are where we might expect to find them. in the remoter interior-and the phrase remote is jus tifled in this sense. even in diminutive Rhode Island-and. in two instcnees, on the ocean. These maritime con mu- mites that have talien away are tuAbu- lent New Shorehsm and stagnaat Charlestown, while North Kingston, on, the shore of the bay was decreased for the first time In several decades.
 In general the losing towns are those where agriculture is discouraged ana social life has ebbed. The twelve de- linquents are West Greenwich. New Shoreham, Faster. GloeaAter, North Snithdeld. Scituate. Charlestovn, Exe- ter, Hopkinson, North Kingston and Richmond.