Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 September 1898 — Page 2

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A Romance By Hannah B. McKenzie.

CHAPTER 1. "Going our again, Magnus?" "I Blast, little one. Yc.: loot quite dia&ppcinted, as if you bad expected mo to spend the real if my life over a hrneheon-table." "Xoa-. you're laughing at ir.e. Mag- j BW No; but i nope you are not gong far. You're not going to to Crag Cast:?" Pfeif? Hah row attend the last words hesitatingly, as if not quit- sure ol ! how they might be taken; hut her 1 brother answered readily enough. thruch claae observer Might have ; noticed that hi.s bronzed faee took on a darker tint a. he did so. "Tea, I am going. Day. Von know I have to s:v Lady West ray."' "Is she then so very ill. that you nr.'pt j;o to Sv'e her every day?" asked , Day quickly. Perhaps there was a j faint shade of sarcasm in her question: but if there was. Dr. Magnus tOOil no more notice of it than he had j of her former hesitation. He had been standing by ice mantlepie. e. leaning his elbow upon it. Now he came to the window, in which hi I lister stood, and gently laid his hand on ner shoulders. I MMj (bar little Day, Lady Westray Is Jus; as ill as she imagines herself in other words, she Is a confirmed hypo- j ehondriae. But I must not forget that j shf is one of the tew among my pa- ! tients who are likely to pay me for : my services." The girl C&Ugfct his hand impulsively. "That is not the spirit of my noble. Independent, greathearted Sea-king, who dees his work for love of itself, and for love alone! Nor is it the spirit of our dear old daddy. Magnus, who fave of what he had freely, and was content so long as he had wherewith to eat and drink and be clothed." "Our father was only too generous. Pay. said Magnus slowly. "You knowit is necessary to have a little worldly wisdom and forethought as long as you are in this world. And I have an ambition, as you know, and that is to repair and beautify this ruined home Of the Hah rows. But I must not waste time now. Give me a kiss, 'ittle one, and let mc go." "Take care of yourself, and don't be overtaken by the storm, dear," said the girl. She siood on tiptoe and pressed her fresh young lips to her brother's bearded ones: then suddenly threw an arm a round his neck, whispering. "Safe home, my Sea-king!' She stood by the window until she saw her brother emerge below, leading out his bicycle. The fortunes of the Hale rows were fallen indeed, and long alcee Magnus Halcrow had had to part with his fine chestnut, the less aristocrat i( and less expensive steed serving him equally as well. Day smiled and nodded and waved her handkerchief, as her brother took off his eap, smiling also, mounted his iron steed, axd shooting down the road, soon vanished out of sight. A bicycle is not the best mount for showing off a man's stalwart or handaome figure: but Magnus Halcrow's proportions were so magnificent that nothing could hide them. He was. ai his sister had railed him. a veritable Bea-king a lineal descendant of those golden-haired. blue-eyed. brawny i Northmen whose fame and expio.ts Pcga and Scald have sung. Six feet in height, he was splendidly Bade, with square shoulders and unbent back. His limbs were sinewy and Hi us, ular: his face, burnt to a bronze hue. w;-s the noble, open, generous one of an honorable. God-fearing, clean gOOled you eg man. His blue eyes and abundant .n.burn hair made him like a Fiin-god. The Halerows were true Orcadians, and to them this "land of the midnight sun" was of more importance ; than all 'be great world without, l ui thirty yean Dr. Halcrow, the elder, bad lived at Abbot's Head, wealing out his life in the hard work of a Country doctor, as his father had done before him. Then he had died, and i fc.s son Magnus had taken his place. ministering to the rough ftaherfolk and farmers within twenty miles. And Day lived with him Dav. w hom lier mother, who had died shortly after she was born, had named Daisy; but who. to her father and brother, v. is always Day -Day, the soft -eyed and dark-haired, small and slim of statine, whom everybody loved: Day, the eighteen-year-old, to whom all life as yet was fair and sweet, because she had known none but those who loved her and whom she trusted. When Dr. Magnus was out of sight Day still stood by the window, looking out half-absently on the scene before her. Abbot's Head stood on an eminence overlooking the sea and Day could let her gaze travel over that great pane of water which stretched aw iv to unknown worlds. Today it was as calm as glass, but had a dark hue. such as often preengea storm. The skv above was blue, but thickly veiled with grey, thundery clouds, edged with a tinge ad copper. CHAPTER IX It was a day of excessive heat. No bird chirped, no leaf stirred. All nature seemed exhausted, or preparing lor some terrific outburst.

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Mar or the SÄ I I "The storm is :;n:ii.g; 1 can see it," Day siid to herself. "I hope he will reach Crag Castle before it bu;:ts. Why does he go so often? Is it to see Lady Westray. as he says, or to see Lilith Stuart?" Some disagreeable thought swept across the untioubled calm of Day's brow, iike the dark clouds on the Summer sky without. She pressed her hand over it. as if to clear away some unpleasant thought, ano murmured: Ant I unjust. I wonder? Unjust and uncharitable? Dear daddy used to say it was the way of youth to judge hastily and uncharitably; yet 1 can't help it I can't. I cant! 1 don't trust her. and can't compel Myself to like hu. Sometimes I feel as If ai if she were wic ked - really wic ked, like those women one reads about wily Vivien, the "lovely, baleful star " or Cleopatra, who won me n's souls and then ruined t hem. "Dow unkind, how bitter I am!" she cried, beating her little hands together the next moment. "I must do as dear daddy used to say we ought to do when the devil enters into us drive him out by doing something for God or for our neighbors. I'll go and sen poor old Low. I promised to bring him a little treat of my own baking." For Day Halcrow was her brother's right hand in everything, and there was no poor or aged or dying person among his patients whom she did not visit and bring comfort to, either physical or mental. She ran lightly downstairs, packe. 1 her little treat a small cake and one or two other dainties- in a basket, and. putting on a sailor hat in the hall, prepared to go out. Bell, the old servant who had been with her mother, heard her. however, and ran to the door. "Ye'll not be going out just now. Miss Day? The storm is coming up last." "I don't think it will overtake me. I'm only going as far as old Low's; so don't you be anxious, you foolish Bell," said the girl. "Where's Ola' Ola! Ola! are you coming, old boy?" A great tawny collie as large as a St. Bernard came lumbering into the hall from the kitchen regions at her call, and thrust his cold nose into her hand. "Come on, then, old hoy, and take good care of your missis," cried Da gaily. "Good-bye, Bell. I'll be back in half an hour." A long straight road led down from Abbot's Head to the small hamlet of Finstray. where Day's pensioner lived. The village was by the sea, most of the houses being built ini hollow between the road and the shore. The road ran on past the lonely lakes of Harris and Stennis, and the standing stones to the important little town of Kirkwall. The air was still as death and as hot as an oven. The silence and oppression w ere appalling, and even Day, who was a brave little soul if there ever was one, felt awed by it. "Magnus must be near Crag Castle now, so he is all right." she thought. Her anxieties were always for her beloved brother, not for herself. Old Low was both lame and deaf, and a conversation with him was trying. He sat outside his door on a bench, smoking a pipe, his only solace; but he smiled, laid it down, and put a trembling old hand to his hat as Day approached. Day presented her little gifts and sat chatting with the old man for a little. Suddenly she was startled by a vivid flash of lightning, and the next instant a loud roar of thunder burst overhead. "It be a goin' to storm, miss, and no mistake," said the old man. "Vu'd better come indoors till it be past." 'No; I think 1 shall run home be fore it comes on very badly said Day. "Good-bye. Mr. Low. I shall come again in a day or two." "Good-bye. miss, and God bless yu for the comfortable words ye've a' spoken to me this an' many times." said the old man, holding her own lit tie roseleaf of a hand in his own work roughened, aged one. "The Iord be with yu for a sweet young lady. Day picked up her basket, hurried up to the main road, and was soon walking swiftly homewards. But swiftly as she went, the storm moved more quickly still. Flash succeeded flash with startling rapidity; the whole artillery of heaven seemed rumbling across the skies. The sea was no longer calm, but moved and swelled as if in some strange convulsion; and every moment the skv grew blacker. A dreadful oppression filled the air, whicfc vas almost suffocatingly hot. As Day hurried on, half running, she felt her throat dry and parched, and the perspiration stood in beads on her face. No human creature had passed her; there were no houses between Finstray and Abbot's Head. But suddenly, as Day ran on, she heard the sound of a bell ringing behind her, and. turning, she saw a cyclist come flying along the road at terrific speed. For a moment her heart bounded, for she thought it was Magnus. Bicycles were not so common in that far Orcadian land. The next moment she knew it was impossible Magnus had gone in the other direction. The cyclist was on her in a few seconds. He slowed up as he

approaehed, and, touching h'.a cap, asked: "Can you tell me if I am right for Stromness?" "Straight on." Day replied. lie touched his cap again and flew on. Day looked after him, and his figure was lit up b3" a brilliant flash of lightning as she looked. He was a gentleman, she could tell at once slight in figure, dark in complexion, handsome and almost patrican in features. All that Day took in in that bright flash: then he was beyond hr sight, hid by a turn in the road. She hurried on. Suddenly a fiah of forked lightning burst out. quivered for a moment over the landscape, lighting it up with a blue and purple glare, then went out. Almost at the same moment a terrific clash of thunder shook the whole sky; the rattling and pealing above was like the day of doom. Da was courageous, but that awful peal made her start nervously and fly onwards. She was cloöe to the narrow road which turned up to the Head when some object lying on the ground just at the cross-roads drew her attention. Her heart leaped to her mouth. Could it be the cyclist, struck by that fearfal bolt? She ran up to it. hardly touching the ground in her haste. In a few seconds she saw that she had been right In her conjecture. The bicycle lay on the side of the road, with twisted handle-bars; and a few paces from it, in a strange, huddled-up position, motionless, lav the unfortunate rider!

CHAPTER m. Day went on her knees and bent over the prostrate form. "Are you hurt?" she asked in a somewhat shaken little voice. But no answer came. She tried to draw the man's arm from' under him. It was limp and powerless, like that of the dead. "Oh, God, grant that he is not dead!" Day whispered, In an awe-stricken voice. She was young and strong, and the warm blood of youth flowed through her veins. It sent a shudder to her inmost heart to think that tha man whom she had seen a few seconds ago as full of youthful health, and energy as she herself might b lying now cold, supine, without sight or hearTng dead. The lightning was still playing about her head, and the thunder rattling; but Day hardly heeded it. All thoughts of her own danger were banished from her mind. The effort to turn him around, so that the man's face was hidden, for it was turned inwards upon his arm. Day made a violent effort to turn him so she could see his face. She succeeded partially at last; but then the sight that met her eyes terrified her more than ever. Ghastly pale, with closed eyes and mouth, and with apparently no breath coming from between the tightly-set lips, it seemed to Day like the face of a, dead man. In its white, awful pallor she saw it more distinctly now than she had before. The features were fine and delicately cut. and the whole face refined; only the mouth. In its closeset seemed to give indication of a stern nature- too stern for so young a face. "Oh, merciful Father, grant that he may not die!" Day prayed again, hardly knowing what she said, for in her deepest heart she believed he was really dead. "What am I to do?" Then, swift as an arrow it flashed into her mind what she should do. She rose from her knees, called to Ola, who was sniffing about the prostrate figure, and flew up the road which led to Abbot's Head. In three minutes, hot, breathless, panting, she was at the door. Bell was looking out for her, with a scared expression on her face. (To be Continued.) GRANITE CARVED BY NATURE. Peculiar KITects in tle . :i; l 1 1 Structure uf Newfoundland. From the Philadelphia Record: Extraordinary activity has been displayed recently in opening up deposits of coal, iron and copper of Newfoundland, and it is reported that the export of copper from the island during the past twelve months was one-sixth of the total output from all other parts of the world, while the prospects are that in the next twelve months a still larger tonnage will be recorded. There are gome very peculiar local effects observed in the geological structure of the island of Newfoundland. There la a large granite quarry about fifty miles from St. Johns, the capital, where granite has been hewn by some convulsion of nature into rectangular blocks of different sizes, so conveniently assorted thatachooner loads of selected stones have been brought to St. Johns and used In some of the public buildings and the warehouses with little or no hand dressing by masons. The new postoffice and custom house, built after the great fire which practically wiped out all the business part of the town, are partly constructed of these granite stonet hewn by nature. Two View of b Hail Ciwr. Her Father "I am afraid, sir, that my daughter can never be happy with a man who can be engaged to her a month without giving her a ring." The Aspirant- "Sir, I am afraid I can never be happy with a girl whose engagement to me will not induce jewelers to trust me." -The Jewelers' Weekly. In California there were experiments in storing raisins so as to have thera as free from seeds as the ordinary currant. Success has followed, till now, seeded raisins are becoming an important item among the fruit industries of. California.

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TURKEY BUZZARDS FLOAT IN THE AIR IN CLOUDS. Made llil'u By llnriatloa ltnl NcvcrthdCM MaM tJeefaJ Allies of the Soldiers Who Planted the Standard of Freedom in the Antilles. ( Special Letter.) s FE rURB cf rcSi? ... icilL MUllNUfjIlMia in Cuba which has inspired the soldiers from the north with horror and disgust is the mm Lai . J presence of the TpjjV-, huge turkey buzr rjrVja .,.,rdc nr. the battlew -.vtr saP neia. me uuu is perhaps in appear ance and habits the moat loathsome creature of the air known to this continent. It is, of right, a vulture, stands about two and one-half feet high, and Is of a lustrous brownish black plumage. The hideous part of the bird is its head and neck, naked of plumage and reddish, like raw flesh. Below this is a circular ruff of feathers, which Eeems to accentuate the revolting appearance of the neck. The bill is long and slender, with a powerful curved tip for tearing flesh. Carrion is the food of the turkey buzzard, though it will cat fresh meat, and, when in force, will even kill THE TURKEY BUZZARD, small animals or birds. But American soldiers in Cuba, with their dead lying in the thick underbrush, know too well what the approach of these vultures means, and for them th nauseous birds form the chief horror of the war. Yet there is much to he said on the side of the carrion birds. They are our best allies, and as soon as the battle is over their work of sanitation begins. Tn that hot climate death A FRIEND OF CONSUL Consul-General to Hongkong Rounevelle Wildman, who hae figured conspicuously as a United States government agent in the Philippine question, used to be only consul at that port, and was promoted for the valuable services he rendered his government. Mr. Wildman Is credited with sending the first official dispatch to the state department conveying information about the destruction of the Spanish fleet by Admiral Dewey in Manila Bay on May L Admiral Dewey, who became well acquainted with Mr. Wildman while his fleet remained at Hongkong, remembered the active consul general by sending him the pennant of the Spanish war ship Relna Cristina as a memento of the famous victory. Mr. Wildman was born in New York state, where his father was the president of lurks in the dead and reaches forth for Uie liviug. Close behind death in battle waits death by pestilence, ready to claim more victims than shot and shell. It is here that the vultures perform their part, terrible to think of, but very necessary to the array's weal. After the battle, friend and foe lie dead together in the all but impenetrable chaparral. What the burial parties cannot find in that tangled underwood, the instinct of the vulture discovers. Far away in the sky-distance a black spot appears, grows

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larger and sails along on motionk-s w;ngs. until presently it settles down to earth. Others fellow, gathering from all points of the compass. They seale in little bands of six or eight, or even a dozen, and when they have risen, instead of the intolerable and horrible residue of humanity which lay in the brush, a menace of pestilence, there remains only a skeleton to whiten in the sun and rain.

JULY NOTAELE IN HISTORY. Critical Event i hat Have Happened During Thin Month. From the Syracuse Herald: The battles before .Santiago are not the first important conflicts to be fought in the early days of July, not the first victories that have come to the American arms on the birthday of the republic. The second anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence waä celebrated by General George Rogers Clark, who stormed Kaskaskia on July 4. 1778. and won a victory filled with glory. On July 4 and 5. 1814, General Joseph Brown routed the British forces at Chippewa. On July 4. 1SÖ3. General Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of Vicksburg, and this victory marked the turning point in the great rebellion. If not exactly on the nation's birthday, very close to it were many important feats of arms in this country. On July IG. 1779. under Mad Anthony Wayne, the Americans stormed Stony Point. In July of 1812 General Hull headed an American invasion of Canada. On July 25, 1S12. the American victory of Dundy's Lane was won under General Scott. On July I, 1862, was won the battle of Malvern Hill, under General McClellan. From July 1 to 3. 1SG3. was fought the battle ol Gettysburg, and the splendid union victory, determining the war issue, was w on. On July 11, 1861. the Rich Mountain victory occurred, and on July 21, 1S61, the first Bull Run defeat was sustained. On June 10. lSf.4, the Kearsarge destroyed the Alabama, near Cherbourg. France. From June 26 tc July 1. U2, the eeven days' battles in the McClellan campaign on the Virginia peninsula were fought, and many other important events have transpired within a week or two of the republic's natal day. In other countries th July record is formidable. The threeday revolution in Paris took place on July 27. 28 and 29, 1830. Rome surrendered to the French July 2. 1849. On July 3, 1S;6. the great battle of the Prussians and Austrians. 250.000 men on each i-ide. was fought at Sadowa and the former were victorious. Other prominent events are dated in July, Commodore Perry's expedition reached Japan on July 8. 1858. ana its result was the opening of the empire to civilization. On July 12. 1866, the AtAGUIN ALDO. WILDMAN. the theological seminary. He got his education at the University of Syracuse, and, entering journalism, he removed to Idaho and settled at Boise City. There he was the editor of the Statesman, and when Idaho became a state he was sent to Singapore as American consul. During the world's exposition at Chicago Mr. Wildman represented Borneo and the Straits Settlements. He was later the editor of San Francisco's noted publication, the Overland Monthly, the post he held when President McKinley appointed him consul general at Hongkong. Mr. Wildman is a personal friend of Aguinaldo, the leader of the insurgent Filipinos, and that soldier's recent letter to him, sent to the state department. Is one of the most important documents recently turned up by the war. lantic cable was landed at Cape Breton. Draft riots occurred in New York on July U to 16, ISC'?. Commodore Sloat took possession of California for the United States on July C. 1849. Midsummer thus appears to be a season of important events in the world's history. Cruel. Penelope lo you think the photographer did me justice? Marie -No; I think he showed you more mercy than jufthe.- New York World.

i r t t ' ninrnTMPii t UOftGUK MASONIC. PLYMOUTH K I L W I N I N (J L()DJE, Xo, 19, F. and A. M.; meets first and thin! Friday evenings of each month. Daniel McDonald, W. M. lohn CorUnv, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No 9. R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each rronth. L. Southwortfa H. P. J. C.Jilon, Sec. P I . V M C) U TH COMM A N DRY, No 26 K. T.; meets second ai i 9 4 fourth Thursday of each mo th D McDonald E. C.; L.TannerKec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No 26, O. E. S.; meets first and ti I Tuesdays of each month. Mrs Mary L. Thayer V. M.Mrs. G. Aspinall. Sec ODD FELLOWS. AMER1CUS LODGE, No. 91 j meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms or. Michigan st. Ed Campbell N. G. C'i ..s. Shearer Sec KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117 meets every Monday night i.'i Castle Hall. Lou Allman C. C. Chas. S. Price K. of R. and S. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No. araj meets the secood and fourth, 1 -dy evenings f each month, in K. of P. hall. Elmei Wcrnta C. R. Daniel Cramer Sec. HYPERION TEMPLE RATHBONE SISTERS, meets first and third Friday of each month Mrs J. G. Davis, Mrs. Rena Armstrong K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. Dan. Jact 1 y, Com. James Hoffman, Record Keeper. L. O. T. M. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67; meets every Monday night at K. (). T. M. hall on Michigan strett. Mrs. Flora J. Ellis, Commander. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE NO 2S; meets every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs. Maggie Fogle, Co Alma E. Lawrence, Record Keeper. ROYAL ARCANLM. Meets first and third .'Wednesday evenings of each month in Simon's hall. Moses M. Lauer, Regent. Francis McCrory, Sec. W00DHEN OF THE WORL D Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. hall. C. M. Kasper, C. C. Joe Eich, Clerk O. A. R. MILES H. TIBBETS POST, G. A. R; meets every first and third Monday evenings in Simons hail Dwight L, Dickerson Com,. Charlie Wilcox, Adjt. SONS OF VETERANS. Meets every second and fourth Fn day evenings in G. A. R. had J. A. Shunk, Captain. Cc ra B, North, ist Lieut. CHURCHES. F B E S B Y T E Hl AN CHU RC H -Preaching at 1U:3U a. m. and 7 p. m. Sabbath school at noon. Junior Endeavor at 4 p. m. Senior Endeavor at 6 p. m. i'rayer meeting every Thar day evening. Teacher's meeting immediately followiug. He v. Thorn bet ry, I'aBti'r. METHODIST, Chttl meeting every Sunday morning at BJ0 o'clot i; Freaching at 10:.'10 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 12 m. Ep worth league ai ":3u p. m. I'rayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7:0up, m. L. s. Smith, pastor. J. W. Wiltfong, ciase leader. 1). Frank Redd, abbath school superintendent. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL.- St Thomas' church. Key. Wm. Wirt Raymond, rector. Sunday services 10:30 a ib., 7:30 p. m. Sunday service, at noon . Services Wednesday evenings at 7:30. Communion on holy days at 10 a. m. CHURCH OF GOD Garro and Water si a. Regular services 10:30 a. m., each Sunday. Third Sunday in each month preaching ty J. L. Wince; fourth Sunday by IL V. Reed. 10290 Sandal morning and 7:30 Sunday evening. Sunday school at 12 o'clock; Eva Railabeek Snpt Prayer meeting. at 7:30 each Thursday exening. U N I TED BRlSTHERN. Sunday 9:3n a. tn., class meeting. 10:30 a. m., and 7:30 p, in., preaching by the pastor 11 :"U) a. iu., Sunday School, ii-00 p. as. Junior Y. P. ( Ü. meeting. 6:00 p. m Senior Y'. P. C. U. me?ting. A cordial Invitation is extended to the public. CATHOLIC CHURCH Church is held on Sundays as follows: First inas at " 30 a m . second mass at 10 a HB, Yecpirs at II p. m. Week day mass et 7. ir. Father .Moench pastor. ARE YOU ALIVE To the fact that a'.l BoeeaMful tnulm wm iii-n gredtt hrlr . -st' " Mhe-al use of pr.iit- ' lakf V I iKfir experience!

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