City Directory,
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
Mayor, R. R. Ratton
Recorder, E. VV. Madness,
Treasurer, R. K. McHenry
Marshal, Walter Pascoe,
Aldermen, F. C. Hoyt, J. W. Sisk,
C. M. Edwards, A. II. Saylors and
-j. H. llolderby.
•Council meets first Monday night in
Teach month.
CHURCHES
Methodist church, services at 11, a.
m and 7:30 p. m. the second and fourth
Sunday in each month. Ilev. Jas. F.
Jernigan, pastor.
.Baptist church, services at 3 p. m.
‘Saturday before first Sunday, and 11
■ a., m. first Sunday in each month.
Rev. W. P. Jackson, pastor.
Christian church, services first ana
•sthird Sundays in each month at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. J. H. Me Don
sel, Pastur.
FRATERNITIES
T)annelly Chapter R. A. M. meets
■third Saturday night. I. C. Nuckolls,
IE. H. P.; T. H. Bearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. & A. M. No. 248
meets second Saturday night. F. C.
Hoyt, W. M.: J. T. Tharp, Sec.
Newark Camp W.O.W. No. 28S meets
second and fourth Tuesday nights iD
month. E. W. Magness, C. C.; O. F.
•Craig, Clerk.
Newark Grove W. C. No. 87 meets
'first and third Tuesday nights. Mrs.
•C. M. Edwards, Guardian; N. A.
Speed. Clerk.
Newark Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 26t
meets the first and third Wednesday
nights. R. M. Galloway, N. G ; T. M.
IHarrelson, Secretary.
Independence Lodge No. 2379 K. &
L. of H. meets first and tnird Monday
nights in each month. E. M. Edgar,
Protector; Zed Griffith Secretary.
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By DAVID A. PIATT.
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The moment I beheld the man
cowering there in the abandoned
railway tower 1 felt instinctively
that the hours we were destined to
spend together would be fraught
■«’ith unusual happenings. He was
pah; and attenuated, his clothing
was shabby and his hair and beard
were heavy and unkempt. From be
neath shaggy brows his eyes gleamed
like live coals. He had the appear
ance of one with mind dethroned,
yet I felt no fear. Instead, I was
stirred by a feeling of compassion
that I did not fully understand—
until afterward! We readily fell
into conversation as men who have
rubbed against the rough edges of
life will. 1 speedily discovered that
be possessed unusual culture and
refinement. Obviously he was in
‘ended for something better than
Fate bad accorded him. I was be
ginning to think that my first im
pressions regarding his sanity had
been erroneous when he paused in
the midst of a perfectly rational
conversation, his face paling and
his eyes turning fearfully toward a
remote corner where the shadows
were densest.
“They are there! They are
there!” he screamed, his voice vi
brant with fear. “1 cannot escape
them—they follow me like demons
of vengeance dogging me to perdi
tion ! They will sound my death
knell!”
I could neither see nor hear any
thing of an unusual nature, but in
order to relieve his mind 1 made a
detour of the room, pausing in the
very corner whose shadows seemed
to hold so much of horror for him.
“My poor fellow, you are laboring
under a delusion,” I said, soothing
ly. “There is absolutely nothing to
fear. You must calm yourself.”
“They are there*!” he repeated,
wildly. “I hear their accursed pat
ter-patter. Stop them for God's
sake, stop them!”
“Wliat do you mean? There is
nothing here save the mildewed
walls and floor.”
“The raindrops!” he weakly ar
ticulated. “Stop them; they are
driving me mad!”
Then l realized that it was the
weird tic-a-tark, tir-a-tack of rain
drops falling from the ceiling that
had affected him so strangely. I
hastened to muffle the sounds. Im
mediately he appeared relieved. But
that he had received a severe nerv
ous shock was attested by the trem
bling of his limbs, the pallor of his
face and the manner in which he
shrank back into his chair, glaring
in affright at the point whence had
proceeded the, to him, terrifying
noises.
"My friend, you undoubtedly ad
judge me insane,” he finally said,
his voice still unsteady; “my only
wonder is that 1 am not. But those
sounds, trivial as they may seem to
you, are the cause of my being here
a haunted man homeless and friend
less.”
Desirous ol learning something of
his past I motioned for him to pro
ceed.
“Several years ago,” he began, his
voice sounding strange and dirge
like, “I was night operator at this
place. Before I had been here a
month I won the love of a girl who
lived nearby. I will not attempt
to describe the dream of bliss in
which I lived for a time; but in the
hell of remorse that followed mem
ories of those days came to me like
dreams of Paradise.”
llis voice broke at this point and
he paused to recover his composure.
Outside the storm had risen to furv.
“One night—just such a one as
this, only less boisterous,” he con
tinued, “I was sitting at this table
about midnight thinking of the dear
little girl down the road, of the
coming wedding, and feeling as hap
py as anv young man with brighten
ing prospects could feel, when word
earn" over the wire that a special
hearing the president and several
other officials of the road was com
ing over tin* main line and ordering
! me to hold the north-bound express
here. It was still tO minutes away
anu, after recording the message, I
relapsed into roseate reveries. I
had been seated but a few moment*
when a clicking at the desk spelled
out the message: 'Special held here.’
Thinking that in my preoccupation
I had missed the call that preceded
the message, l recorded the coun
termanding ordei, wondering what
had occasioned sued a speedy change
if instructions. A moment later the
express passed the block. The roar
light was barely out of siajUfwhen
the tapping was renewcu at the
desk. J saw that the key was not
moving a particle; but the irregular
tapping continued. I even fancied
that I could spell out a word or
two. Upon investigation I discov
ered that raindrops had penetrated
the ceiling over the desk and were
falling upon an empty cigar-box,
producing the sounds that had mis
led me. Uidiculing myself for be
ing thus deceived, I was turning
away when there flashed across mv
mind a horrible, paralyzing fear.
Had the raindrops tapped off the
message 1 had received but a mo
ment before, thereby opening the
vrav to inevitable and terrible disas
ter? So firmly was 1 impressed
with the wild idea that 1 called in
rapid sueession all the stations be
tween the trains in a desperate hope
that some one would hear me in
time to avert disaster. But they
were all day offices and the opera
tors had gone home hours before. I
dropped the key and ran out onto
the tracks. I think 1 had a wild
hope that I could overtake the ex
press. 1 did try to call after it, but
the words seemed to stick in my
throat. With a feeling of utter de
spair I returned to mv seat in tlu
tower; but l could not sit still. The
instrument on the desk seemed to
mock me. Then as the accursed
raindrops resumed their tic-a-tack,
tic-a-tack I ran down onto the
tracks again. Madly I strode to and
fro along the wet crossties, instinc
tively keeping within sound of the
instrument. After what seemed an
age the sounder ticked off what
seemed ^fo me to be mv death sen
tence. ‘Express collided with spe
cial ! President and other officials
killed! Many passengers injured!’
I have not a very clear idea of what
followed. 1 rememebr a burning
desire to flee from the wrath and
punishment that I knew was coin
ing. for common sense told me that
1 would he blamed, and justly, for
the whole affair. What evidence L
could produce in my own favor
would not stand for, a moment in
any intelligent court. So I fled.
The days that followed were but a
succession of horrible nightmares
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to mo. 1 dared not look at the1
I newspapers. 1 knew they were
filled with ghastly details at the dis
aster. a perusal of which 1 felt
would madden me. My mind was a j
rack of perpetual torment. Ever!
and anon my vision would be tor
tured bv a glimpse of some wretcled
victim of the wreck whom death had
spared to a worse fate. But the
worst blow came when by chance 1
learned that my sweetheart had died
heartbroken because of my guilt and
' desertion. 1 do not know how I
lived through the days that fol
lowed. The sound of falling rain
drops—sweet music to your cars
perhaps—possesses a horrible sig
nificance to me. always seeming to
tick out the fatal message that—
made—of—me—an—outcast!"
With the last halting word he
sank limply to the floor. All that I
could do failed to revive him. I
felt that lie woul<4 never speak
again; but just as the wet haggard
dawn smote the skv lie revived. His
pallid lips dropped the one word,
“Daisy/’ and he died. Then in the
awful stillness that followed the
raindrops resumed their demoniacal
“Tic-a-tack, tie-a-tack. tic-a-tack!”
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