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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09

Summer twilights I used to lie with
my. head in her lap and watch the
seagulls coming in. Only a fool
would have left her to seek a mate
from out the shadow of the sea-
All spoke save Thorold-Thorold
whose eyes were the eyes OF a woman,
whose heart was the heart of king,
whose limbs were the limbs of a
young god. He had been standing
apart, peering out crack in the
door. Now he turned to the fire.
''It is black dark now,'' he an
nounced shortly. 1--WE will start
No one answered him for a mo-
ment. Then Sweyne looked up at
him with dull eyes. There be no
Tryggve echoed close,s I'VE are
weary Of war. It would be sweet
now, to rest ones head on wo-
mans breast
Il told lies,'' Jurgen muttered
hoarsely, with averted face. with
or mermaids, but many other sailors
mad told me or them and-One must
hold his own about the campfire
They lied also, pelike.''
Start growled Sigurd gloomily,
'and where? There are a thousand
jackal islanders ringed about us,
Thoro1d.''l
Rather more than that from
their fres,' Thoro1d returned tran
GULLY. I'VE be six Nofthmen.''
'Evcr so-what is there for US to
do?''
Thorold brough. down his mailed
fist upon his brazen shield What
do" he storned what do :? Cut
through them; steal boats; fare on
Turning, he swung open the door
and strobe out. And they followed
him. but with bent heads and drag
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09

g1ng Steps, for they were spent men.
All thus save witless Nils, who
capered from one to another waving
his sword and babbling loudly his
childish jargon-"Odin and Thor.
Odin, Thor and Freya. They are the
gods"
Too loudly. For before they had
won half the distance to the beach,
the islanders were on them like a
wolf-pack. Sweyne lost his footing
in the rocks, and smothered by the
press that swarmed upon him, never
SO much as cleared his sword. Old
Jurgen and Sigurd stood back to back
like a pair of dog-bayed bears and
cleared little space about them: but
like the bears also went down at last
when weariness had weakened them.
Tryggve indeed gained the darkness
and the shore, but the blood oozed
everywhere from his armor joints,
and he sank down helpless to wa
his death on the wet sands. Only
Thorold the Indomitable and Little
Nils, whom the gods had. cloaked
won clear together, and feeling their
way along the sands in the darkness,
stumbled upon .beached fisher craft
and hastily put forth.
A ragged sail saved them the IA.
Dor of rowing, and letting the wind
have its will, 'Thorold knelt wide
eyed at the rudder, while Little Nils.
after devouring stale fish he had
nosed out from among the tangled
nets, curled up in the bow and slept.
Dawn unveiled an opalescent splen-
dor. Sardinia mere dim blur be-
hind. and, across a mile of foam
hecked water before them, a tiny
1slet vestured in deep verdure. Thor
old held an answering course; de-
tail OF tree and rock and shore-line
was growing clear to him. when sud-
denly, uttering an eager shout, he
dropped the tiller sand leaned for
ward with clenched hands and star
ing eyes. Something more white
than any foam cleaned in the blue
water near the shore, once again
across the strip of beach, and tnen
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09

bard. The blue-green flames turned
his bloodless face to CHASTITY hue.
and when he spoke, his voice rang
hollow and far. ''Ingeborn. Inge-
Dorn." he mused. "She was we'll
enough. used to laugh at her be-
cause in winter she went swaddled
up like an old wife, but for all that
sne was well enough-ier lips were
warm and her hair was soft and she
nad leal heart, too. 1t is like that
sne weeps for me-for me that left
her to steal a fairer bride from out
the Far-Lands."
His voice drifted of into silence.
but Tryggve's followed it almost like
an echo. "And Ragnild," he mur-
INJURED huskily. "You remember Rag
mild? She was a buxom lass now.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09
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<HIAJGA5 wA Tsu1

obvious BeFt1e-HeIlo old chMpa
What d'you knowz Reginald NnshIz<..
by Jese. Not thing. 'pon N, vzu.
Puck
Aunty-Tommy. pxf tArse. rEtE In
here yesterday, and now there is only
one How IL thar Tommy-F1e1r&.
1t was 50 dark 2untE, didn't ZEE nhnh
ones-Paneh
C1evertou twho hnc hired a. fax1-
meter cab to propose inD-Say. '.Fazs--
danlinBe Miss Calumet-Give ME x1u1
to- think Heavens. hut not in here1
Consider the expeuse!~-LIfe
"Verena, is that young man ont I'm
the kitchen you first beau?' 'Fm fho
lands sake, NO. mum! I'm his frsk
sweetheart, though; that's why / End
i'm interestin'. mum Chicago TIl--
bune
An UnfCr rm1zte MIsundersyand dIng-z
p had to leave my last situation s3eA-
cause the missus said they were xpznE-
to lead the sinful life, and they vx,uid-
not want any servants about thu
place Punch
Here's fellow" said the Answer.
to Correspondence editor, who xana2,
to know what musical instrument psxs>
duces fOo9 notes" Tell him q shDas
horn." replied the sporting elitux--
Philadelphia RecoE6
Farmer Greene-Did Josh Meaderr
son learn much at college? TarMsr
Jones-Wa-al, don't like ter say An
know is that he'd no sooner x3n4
back home than he was selected AZ =
juror ON a murder trial-Judge-
In Egypt the priesthood was hel0
responsible for the rise of the Nile..<
Yes, answered Senator Sorghum
we have changed AL that Now The.
leaders OF the people merely taEc cred
1t for prosperity On general prine3-
PIES Star.
Jo1kley-Yes, Samson. Don'f ynn
know samson? That's the little Skys
teHnier my wife has" Coakley-WhaAs
that tiny little purp? Isn't that rather
sillyE JoaE3eJ-Oh. don't know-
You see: he'd be nothing without hin
hair.-Philaoelphia Press.
1--WE just been to see the Gzr1seR..-
said Mrs Lapsling, laying aside her
wraps They're all we'll excepl ME-
Garlick Hes got m awful had kneeA
AS near 4ss can make ont from whM6
the doctor says the poor man is threat
ened with diagnosis of the hone-<ht-
cago Tribune
.Oh, sobbed Nrs- Casey. '1suUe w1n
told me husband, Pat, that he ed hayR
his pants pressed be lettin' tn sfeAxEa
roller Tun over fhim, an Pat fTn61
tn sche1ne- Wen. ply do ye eyz
asked her friend, ATs. GaTrity- Chr
walled the wife. Pat forgot T take IL
pant1 n1 11sts'-JudEe.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09
The Mediterranean.

The evaporation from the surface
Of the Mediterranean is much great
rer than in the Atlantic Ocean, owing
to the heat coming from the African
deserts and the shelter which the
high mountains afford from the
north Winds. It is in consequence Of
this fact that its waters are salter
than those of the Atlantic It is
mistake to suppose that the Medfter-
ranean is tideless. In the Adriatic,
as well as between that sea and the
coast Of Africa, the tide rises from
i've to seven feet.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09

Thorold the Indomitable had sworn
by the splendor of God with his own
eyes to see the Wonders of the
Word-the mermaids that in a GER
tain sea rise laughing about the gun
wales; the slim, small fishes with
scales of electrum and eyes of true
beryl that leap up through the spray
Of an island beyond Britain; the
river of purple wine that foams down
the hills to the south of the Pillars
Of Hercules. All of these Thorold
would see; and the forty strong men
who rowed with him would each
fetch home wife, buxom lass from
the Far-Lands.
Ihey had thus far pursued an
empty quest-had pulled over the
North Sea swiftly, without even the
ssnt OF whale or berg; had harried
lne frankish coast and found no
spoil at all, but only many and
sKlll1ul bowmen; had Jared on be-
yond the Pillars of Hercules, with
ue'er glimpse OF white-limbed mer-
malo or echo of siren singing, but
oliy the shadow of black rocks in
uafh water and the shrek OF tenn
pest mat had swept the rowers'
0,AcHeS lhree parts empty; had land
~ on many an island in the Mid
A'nu Sea IN search of the tall and
.eu-ilpped weir-women, but had
.Ouna only poisoned provender and
seauly disease and reef that had
s', 'p,i' lhelr ship in sunder. Now the
AZ, a'le tnat was left of them was hud
s'ea s. ABOUT the blue-green flames of
y. a-"."ooo fire in fisherman's hut
vi the Sardinian coast. surrounded
0s m horde OF cowardly islanders
,,al sousht to starye them like
h0,'eS ,o,5 trapped in an empty sheep
,oi" 1,surd ' spoke: where are your
" "ives' .es' Jurgen," he asked slow
to,. v"fllng to the old sailor whose
ha~' VI oVer-sea wonders had led
,nnn enl 'n' There was no bitterness of
hosr- IN his voice, but only the
who : sadness of war-worn man
1nrs. - altogether spent. Tell mo
lsen dals False Word" he nnrsned
tbo b"siiy a.;, almost; tell me. where are
up thna whlte mermaids swimming
vaIasa 'usn The foam along the gun
vits ales Where are the little do1nbIns
emar,1sa 9sales of gold and eyes of
Zen How you lied to us, Jur-
"Av vebSlonately bO n Tryggve broke in.
vhero De s ned' he lied And ask him
listenod1 are the forty strong men who
land ugu taa to his word and left a good
Death 'n empty voyage and a sharp
In; @I Ask him that" 'A"'
Gen bo hsu not" the voice of old .Jur-
Whit VIII Oooned come stolidly from ON ont hi hie
GODS WIZ D5afo' You have vexed the
ny ro WIN u, an impatience and thev 10
his eves =, He spoke manfully. b. {
leave ~ suited and his hand did NOT
"T, T Tie sword-hilt 'O Ao'
Served Ne be no GODS" sweyne oh-
full lenath ealHy from where he Law At
aaswered, |, IN the shadow; and no one
sissIs aasnof of came. ',r broken only by the
legged clo Little Nils, who sat cross
his dpsO. r,ose 20 the fire and snapned
been o,a FONTS. Little Nils b.a
That day S0ener of I'll witless, ever since
Stone Of ruthless battle, when the
Cracked h h.. a Balearic singer had
ne eaekled n.' sAuh. "Odin and Thor,
stern face eu :. with an idiot 1eer at the
NDa Freya nv ~ 'urgen, "Odin, Thor
SHeyne roo Ihey be the gods"
'aFree the Use ss on his elbow anu
A'e with his Gagger-scab-
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09
AN APOSTROPHE
By DAN16T. WEBSTER.

|ftEN little children
w the Son of disciples proposed to send them
away but He said, Suffer come unto
NE unto Me- He did not send them lessons in
to the school of the Pharisees the unbelievng
to read the phyactered
the of the Priesthood He said nothing of
different ceeds clashng doctrines opened at once
TO the youthful mind the everlasting
the only source of eternal to
come unto Me- And that Injunction perpetual oblga-
on 1t addresses itself to-day
the same authority which attended its first
Christian world 1t earth will
reach to the time,
the ears OF men, with emphasis which
weaken and with authority nothing
Suffer little children to
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09
Building Note in 1928.

- In order to- complete the 41Oth
story of the Syndicate building the
contractors will have to raise the
sky three. or four feet.-Harper's
Weekly.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09
Bees Invade Flower Show.

BeeB Invade Flower Show.
4 large swarm Of angry bees TO-
Gently Invaded the annual flower show
at A2ahz1zed and caused somes hing
like = Dzufe
Many Be0Bze were seriously efzE1k
and even he HORSES attacked to fhe
carriages waiting outside were Woe-
ried hy the Msesfss-Allaha2,ad ED-
neeT
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09
THE WONDER
OF-THE WORLD

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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09

John Burns is said. to have the
best working library of any member
OF the English House of Parliament.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09
THE ENCLOSED DoOR.

As she went through the House of Life she o|osed
All doors behind her-al only one
And this she could not though she stroye.
One door that her anguish her shame -X-sss
One door that opened to the wind sun
From that stlll room where she dwet with Love
And To- she died, and in the of Death
Even those doors she closed with her own hand
Held her prisoner. Long day by day
Before the hundred doors Of Faith and Joy
she strove @ H wh PRAYER With pleading with command,
And then came One with pity in His ewes
And SAID: Was there door thou didst not closets
, And she: But one that my shame and sin:
Surely L may not win to Heaven thus?" 80
Then. while she wept, He smiled and rose
AND through that dooTRnfastened led her in!
-Iheodosia Garrison, in Munsey's Maeaziu
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09
sc|EN([|ADlgAues
Steel freight cars are being extern
Dively used in South America.

Steel freight cars are being extern
lively used in South America.
The base of most of the chewing
gum used is by-product Of petro-
ieum, scented and favored according
to the various tastes.
Leprosy is not, in the ordinary
sense, contagious disease. Physf-
clans, nurses and missionaries min
ister to lepers for years without suf-
tering from the exposure.
Bad sight is given as the reason for
men going wrong. Defective vision
has been proved to be the cause of
lack of self-control, alcoholism and
drug taking.
Subject to the action Of liquid air,
lead becomes elastic and can be made
to rebound or serve as spiral spring
during the continuance Of this low
temperature.
In recent campaign of the
French in Madagascar 1900 men
were sent to the front. of whom
twenty-nine were killed in action and
over 1000 perished from preventable
diseases. In the Boer War the Eng
lish losses were ten times greater
from disease than from bullets.
A specially constructed derelict-
destroyer has recently been launched
from Virginia shipyard. The ves-
sci is nominally revenue cutter, but
its work will be the destruction of
derelicts and other accidental OBJ
structions to navigation. For this
purpose the vessel has been designed
with great coal-carrying capacity
and the ability to keep the open sea
in all weather.
A possible vision of the future
when tall towers near great cities
may indicate the location of wireless
telegraph stations, is suggested by a
project now on foot to connect New
York and Philadelphia in that man
ner. Plans have been filed for a
tower 200 feet high, and thirty feet
broad at the base, to be erected on
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, as a
sending and receiving-station for the
aerial messages. A similar tower is
to be built in the environs of New
York. The plan is to distribute mes
sages from the stations by telephone.
Sir Norman Lockyer has recently
announced the discovery of the
strongest spark lines OF sulphur in
the spectrum of the bright star Ri
gel. These lines have not previously
been traced in the spectrum of any
celestial body. Certain sulphur lines
which behave in an abnormal manner
in spark and vacuum tube spectra
are not found in the spectrum of
Rigel, but they do occur in stars of
the type of Bellatrix and Epsilon
Orionis, which represent higher
stages of temperature than do stars
OF the type of Rigel.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09

Leprosy is not, in the ordinary
sense, contagious disease. Physf-
clans, nurses and missionaries min
ister to lepers for years without Suf-
tering from the exposure.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09

Bad sight is given as the reason for
men going wrong, Defective vision
has been proved to be the cause OF
lack Of self-control, alcoholism and
drug taking.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09

The base of most of the chewing
gum used is a by-product Of petro-
leum, scented and favored according
to the various tastes.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-07-09

Subject to the action of LIQUID air,
lead becomes elastic and can be made
to rebound or serve as spiral spring
during the continuance Of this low
temperature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-13
RAILROAD news.
Latest Car Service Report Is
( Some improvement.
Surplus for United States and
Canada Now 3S1, 9G4.
BIG DECREASE SHOWN
Number of Idle Coal and Con-
dOlas Less.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.
BIG DECREASE SHOWN

Copies of the bulletin issued by the
car efficiency bureau of the American
Railway association, giving COMPARE
tive statement of car SURPRISES and
shortages for May q, with compare
tive summary from October 80, Ct last
year, have been received in Topeka
1t shows in the first instance a de-
crease since May 13 of 22,63O cars, of
which 2O,346 were coal and gondolas,
and the remainder flats. Box and mis-
cellaneous cars are about stationary
in the grand total figures.
The total number of surplus cars in
the United States and Canada on the
date was 3S1,904. Reports from a NUM-
Der of the roads indicate that from
40 to so per cent of the decrease in sur
plus is due to an increase in the num-
Der of shop cars. Taken by groups the
Improvement seems quite general
throughout the eastern, central and
southern sections of the country. Prac-
tically no change is indicated in .he
southwestern and Pacific coast states.
The decrease in coal cars is quite mark
ed in central and middle states and the
demand for boxcars seems to have IN
creased in the northwestern and middle
western states, and in Montana.
The statistics in regard to shortages
and SURPRISES do not include cars in
shops awaiting or undergoing repairs,
and this bit of information is an en-
tirely new feature of the associations
bulletin, which has not heretofore re-
ferred in any manner to the fact now
quite generally known, that equipment
'in hospital has been Increasing rap
idly on most of the large roads during
the past few months.
This statement is a direct and official
confirmation of the allega ton repeated
ly heard for some time IL well inform
ed quarters to the effect that l1any
railroads have been redua ing operating
expenses by retiring locomotives ard
cars in need of repairs, without repair
ing them, and substituting others in
good condition, which lack of business
has left standing idle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-13
TRADE GAINS.
They Are in Excess of the
Losses, Says Dun.
Business Is Being Remarkably
Well Maintained.
SOME IRREGULARITY
Due to the Weather Conditions
in Various Sections.
Outlook Is Good for a Heavy
Fall Business.
SOME IRREGULARITY

New York, June 13.-Dun's Weekly
Review of trade says: Gains outnum-
Der losses in reports of commercial
and industrial activity, business being
remarkably well maintained consider
ing the propinquity of political con-
ventions to which was attributed the
dull security market. Unusually good
duplicate orders are still received from
retail dealers who underestimated cur
rent requirements. but wholesale and
jobbing departments are chiefly occu-
pied in making preparations for fall
and winter trade, about which there is
a feeling of confidence. Full returns
for May indicate that building permits
were ony about % per cent less than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-13
STANDARD CONVICTED.
Jury Finds Company Guilty Of Accept
ing Rebates.

Rochester, N. T.. June 13.-Guilty as
charged in the indictment was the YER
dict brought In by the federal court
jury in the Standard Oil company case
here.
Daniel J. Kenefik of Buffalo, who con-
Quoted the defense, moved for a new
trial. and it was arranged to have
Judge Hazel near arguments on the
motion on July Z.
Special Assistant Attorney General
S. Wallace Dempsey, the prosecutor.
gave notice that he would move for
Judgment and sentence on the add
journed date.
The Oil company was placed on trial
June / for an alleged violation of the
interstate commerce law in accepting
a concession from the fled tariff on
shipments of oil from Olean, N. Y. to
Rutland, and Bellows Falls, VT. There
were 40 counts in the Indictment, each
representing action on a car of OIL The
maximum fine on each count is $50 900,
or total for the whole of the ship
ments of 100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-13
ON READING BOARD.
President Oscar G. Murray of Il. & o.
Gets Vacant Seat.

Philadelphia, June 13.-The directors
of the Reading company reorganizei
by re-electing the old officers. The a.
rectors also declared a semiannual div
idend of per cent common stock
and a semiannual dividend of 2 pec
cent on first preferred stock. They also
made provision for semiannual divi-
.dend of 2 per cent on first preferred
stock, payable March 10, 1900. to stock
holders of record February 20, 1900; a
semiannual dividend of per cent on
the second preferred stock, payable
May 10, 1900. to stockholders of record
April %, 1909
The board of directors of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad company
and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron company also met. Oscar q.
Murray, president of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad company, was elected
director in each company to succeed
Chas. Steel resigned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-13
INITIAL DIVIDEND.
Alton Pays One Per Cent on Com
mon and Two on Preferred.

New York, June 13.-The directors
of the Chicago & Alton Railroad COM
pany, which is now controlled by the
Toledo st. Louis & Western, or
Glover Leaf railroad has declared an
initial dividend of / per cent on the
common stock and the usual 2 per
cent semi-annual dividend on the pre-
ferred.
Declaration Of the dividends fur
nished the Toledo, st. Louis & West
ern, which purchased the Alton from
the Rock Island last year, with more
than enough cash to pay the interest
on both classes of the collateral trust
bonds given in exchange for Chicago
& Alton common and preferred stock.
OF series A of these bonds there were
given $6.380,O00 in exchange for a
like amount of preferred stock. Series
A bonds bear per cent interest. In
exchange for $14,42O,0O0 Alton COM
mon there were given S5,047,000 2
per cent series B bonds.