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Till! VOMV OF IIAIID LABOR 111 TIIK CAIMIKU. Few farmers who read this heading but will rsk u Where is the folly?" " How is it to be avoided:" The folly consists in substituting hard muscular effort for intelligent forecast and -sys tem. There must be a general on the farm as there is to control an army some one to plan campaigns and direct the-movement of the forces engaged in the production and furnishing of am munition and supplies J" He is very rarely the best farmer who performs the greatest amount of manual labor any more than lie is the most successful merchant who personally measures out the most dry goods in a day to custo mers.. The most successful merchant rarely waits on customers. His tune is too valuable. For a few dollars per week he hires a dapper young,clerk to do the counter-jumping, while he looks to the cost of his goods, forecasts the probable demand, and matures plans for profit. So there arc few intelligent farmers, wc take it, that woujd be will ing to hire out by the day or month 011 a farm to do the work of labors, beside whom many farmers daily work in the field. If tnese men's hired labor yield a profit to the farmer, why does he not extend his operations and invest in the management of the farm more brains, more calculation, perfect a better sys tem, and work out the problem of profiting by other people's labor upon his manufactury of farm produce. It is one man's business, if properly at tended to, 011 a farm of say 100 acres, to plan and direct the labor and the buying and selling. It is not infrequent for the farmer to lose half the profits that ought to accrue to him as the re suit, of the season's labor by ignorance of markets, of the laws of supply and demand, by tailing to study the,.condi tion of trade, and to comprehend what is likely to cause a rise or fall in the price of his products. Why? lie has been too busy in the field all the season to watch these matters. When the day closed, his exhausting field labor had unfitted him to investigate such sub jects, and with the hallucination thai " early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,', he rushes to his bed aud is up at day-dawn bonding in to work again, lie remains about as ignorant of what is ?oiiig on in the commercial' world as the beast lie drives before his plough or the ignorant laborer by whose side he toils. lie do pends upon hearsay and upon the rep. rescn ..live honesty of buyers for his in munition a.id guidance in selling his crops. lie holds his butter until it has become tainted" and unsalable because he is not offered as much for it as his neighbor got for his by taking it to ma - ket iu its perfection. He sella his woo' When he should have held it, and lei hiir potatoes rot when ho should ha\c sold them. His neighbor who doesnoi work half as hard apparently, accom plishes a great deal more, because lie invests in the best implements, cacu- Jates how he may save labor, and makes more money in the time spent in such calculations than dig "working" furinei docs iu the field during the same period. Ho keeps posted in improved method-, new processes, the most approved mar-, ket varieties of grains, vegetables and Iruits, the best form in which to pr - pare thorn for market, the cheapest and best packages in which to ship, flic cheapest lines of transportation by which markets are reached, knows wha I are the right men to whom to consign his products and the right timo to for. ward them. All these things do not come to the farmer by instinct while lie drudges in the field. They are the result of investigation involves both time anP labor—frequently hard, painstaking mental labor at that. lint it pays, bc t uisc il enables n u j reap i ! ic !V Iruit of the capital invested in his farm and in the labor of those who work it. "When we Epeakof " the folly of hard labor bv the farmer," we do not u can to be understood that it is tolly for tho farmer to labor, and labor hard; but that it consists in substituting hard F manual labor for intelligent calcula tions; in laboring hard with the hands to fill up the purse, while Hie leaks and outgoes resulting from mental indo lence or neglect exceed all that the hands earn. It is, in other words, fo)V to try to fill a hogshead by hard pump ing through a half-inch pipe, while a two-inch bung-hole is open on the lon - or side of the hogshead. The manna* labor farmer is very much in this po '- tion. * Go away! Leave ma with ray dead! Let me fling myself on his cofin and " dio there? That was in Nebraska six months ago, and now the wid» w has won auouler trusting sonl, and No. l's portrait is in the attic, face to tho wall. Above all things, learn your child to be honest and industrious: if these two things don't enable him to make a figure in the world, he i 9 only a cypher, and never was intended for a figure.—Josh Billings. : " - ~ A note when opened was found to read: 'This is a little ruse of mino to get mother out of tho house. Before . she ciin get back I will be on tho pars with dear Lorenzo, and before night will be married.' QUITE COOL.— As a Council Bluffs woman waS doing her washing, one of tier children fell into a kettle of water. The mother seized the infant, whose heart-rending cries indicated the terri ble nature of its injuries, and it upon a bed, while sh: ran to a neigh bor's to get hiin to run for a debtor. Before the doctor arrived all the neigh bors had gathered, and among them had undressed the screaming infant very careful!}' —so that tiic scalded skin should not peel off—and sprinkled it with flouu. At length the doctor ar rived, almost at the same moment with the terror-stricken husband, who had been sent for. The doctor made a care ful examination of the infant, and promptly advised tne mother to put a shirt or something OU the child, so it might not freeze to death. The assem bled neighbors felt of the water in the kettle, found it icy cold, and quietly separated. NEW MICROSCOPIC TKLKSCOPB.—Mr. C. D. Boyle recently exhibited before the photographic section of the American Insti tute, in New York, a new optical instrument, which he called the microscopic telescope. Tt consisted of two parallel telescopes, abouft three feet in length and two inches in aper ture, connected with hinges at the ends, and separated to the distance of the eyes by an adjusting serew. In order to produce the effect of the microscope, he places, be fore the object glass, prismatic lenses of about three feet focus, so that, when these lenses are in position, an object three feet in front of the object glass will be seen with both eyes distinctly, and Magni fied according to the power of the eye piece. With this instrument, although but lately completed, he has already made one curious discovery—that no'mattershow long a sponge may have boen used, no matter how long it may have been kept dry, its life is apparently rerfbred when it is wet. The sponge being wet with warm water and placed in a warm room, the extremi ties of the sponge, after a little while, ap pear to be alive, and reach out like so many snakes. The longer they are, the greater the motion. lie had observed that wetting the spongo with salt water seemed to increase the motion. Nearly half of ' All the slender points seemed to come to life, but after they become dry the motion ceases. He has put upon a sponge all sorts of dust, so that they should be under the same circumstances as the pores of the Bponge, but nothing but the pores of the sponge appeared to be in moticn. Under the instrument, the sponge has no longer the appearance -of a sponge; it appears like caverns, rocke, etc. These moving parts, when caught with pliers, would pull out a portion of the sponge. When there is much water in the sponge, they seem to bo satisfied, but it is as the sponge is dry ing gradually that they appear to have life. The power of this instrument was forty two diameters. CURIOSITIES or WBLDINO. There has lately been shown in this country a very interesting specimen of blacksmith ..wj>rk: By means of Sehierloh'a welding compound, it is alleged that, in one example of a bar of Bessemer stoel, ' five different kinds "of iron and steel have been perfectly welded, without changing its Bhape in theqrleast. The bar was rolled into form at Thompson 'a steel wotks, in Jersey City, and is i by 2} inches in the cross section. First, a piece of Bessemer steel, cut from the end of the bar, was welded fast to it again, the heating and welding occupying eight minutes. On the reverse side of the bar a piece of fine cast steel was welded in six minutes. Further along on the bar a pioce of blister steel was welded in eight minutes; This same steel cannot be weld ®,d with borax, as the high temperature needed with the flux makes it as brittle as cost iron under the hammer. Opposite this a piece of wrought iron was welded in six minutes, and further along on the bar a piece of cast iron was welded in three minutes. This was a piece of the mold board of a plow. The bar, with its addi tiuns, was then ground and polished on the edge, so as to show the points at which the welded metals came into contact. No weld was visible on any one of them, and the difference in the metal could only be *"ld by the color after polishing. This solves a gfreat many important problems in iron manufacture, among others the welding at Bessemer scrap. Tn* PBODTJCTIO* OF ARSENIC IH COPPXB MINES.— In 1873 5,4-19 tons of arsenio ware produced in England. More a third of it camo from the Devon Great Consols mine. Sometimes 200 tons a month are aold from this min9, a quantity of white arsenic sufficient to destroy the lives of | more than 600,000,000 of human beings. I Tho Commissioners of Mines saw, stored in the warehouses, of the mine, ready packed for sale, a quantity of white arsenic proba bly suGcient to destroy every living "ii™«i upon the face of the earth. The Commis sioners consider that, in the case of in which arsenic is actually manufactured, it is only reasonable that the manufacture of a poison so virulent should be subject to special state supervision; and they submit that an officer should be empowered to re quire that the best practicable means be taken not only to prevent the poisoning of the air by the volatilisation el the arsenic, but also to hinder the aocess of the p"iyn to running water. TOBACCO AND BAD MANNERS. Jarves, the art writer, pronounces tobac co the active agent in the decline of fine manners in Europe. Whatever the bene | fit or the harm the use of tobacco may do j the consumer's body, its common tendency | is to render tin mind indifferent to the ' well-being of his neighbors. The supreme ' test of the virtuo of the knight in the | days of chivalry, which was the highest ideal of fine manners, was his self-denial and desire to succor the oppressed. The i severest test of the modern gentleman is his willingness to forego his pipe for the comfort and health of another. It takes a thoroughly well-bred man to withstand this form of self-indulgence when it can only be practiced to the annoyance of an other. Germans are the worst examples of bad manners in this respect, for it neTcr seems to enter into their comprehension, however courteous and willing to oblige in other matters, that what is a sensual hap piness to them may be absolute misery to another." Frenchmen are rapidly losing their proverbial politeness also by this spe cies of self-indulgence. Englishmen and Americans, to a certain extent, invoke the law to protect them, and with both peoples there is more consideration for the rights and welfare of others than obtains in gen eral among civilized nations. But selfish ness of this sort has taken less firm root in Italy than elsewhere, precisely because amenity of manners and consideration of others in public are still the social rule. | Not only do Italians refrain from smoking | where it i 3 prohibited, but I have seen j them voluntarily give it up, when they noticed that it incommoded, where by reg ulation they Were entitled to smoke, and this not only by gentlemen but by peas ants. On the other hand I have known a | German of rank with his daughter get into • a ladies' compartment in a railway carriage and insist on using his pipe, despite the expostulations of the lady occupants, who were compelled to apply to the guard for protection, when he was made to go into the smoking-carriage, the scene occurring itt Italy. As he reluctantly went, his daughter angrily turned .to the ladies, ex claiming, "See what you hare done to my poor papa; you make him leave his pl3.ee to smoke away from me." The tendency of an inordinate use of tobacco to develop boorish manners requires no better illus tration, for it is one which is now-a-days too common not to have been experienced by most persons who travel. ABOUT EATING. "Do not jo to bed when you are hungry." says one physcian, while another counsels an opposite course; but the following ad vice seems reasonable. Eating a hearty meal at the close of the day is like giving a laboring man a full day's work to do just as night sets in although he ha 3 been toil ing all day. The whole body is fatigued when night sets in, the stomach takes its due share, and to eat hearty at supper and then go to bed is giving all tho other por tions and functions of the body repose, while the stomach has thrown upon it four or five hours more of additional work, after having already labored four or five hours to dispose of breakfast, and a still longer time for dinner. This ten or twelve hours of almost incessant work has nearly ex hausted its power; it cannot promptly di .gest another fall labors at it for long an exhausted gal- a newly , imposed task. Had it "strikelacking it, the duty performed. The is that by unnatural length of time which the food is kept in the stomach, the imperfect manner in which the ex hausted organ manages it, it becomes inoro or lqps acid; this generates wind, this distends the stomach, this presses up it self against the more yielding lungs, con fining them to a largely diminished space ; hence every broath taken is insufficient for the wants of the system, the blood becomes foul, black, and thick, refuses to flow, and the man dies, or in delirium or fright leaps from a window, or commits suicide. Let any reader who follows an inactive life for the most part, try the experiment for * a week of eating absolutely nothing after a a one or two o'clock dinner, and see if a sounder sleep and a vigorous appetite foi breakfast and a hearty dinner are not the pleasurable results, to say nothing of the happy deliverance from that disagreeable fullness, weight, oppression, or acidity which attends overeating. The great ren ovating and vivacity which a long, deli cious, and connecting sleep imparts, both to mind and body, will of themselves more than compensate for the certainly short and rather dubious pleasure of eating a sapper with no special relish. AJF IMPORTANT INTENTION. An inventire genius at Minnesota, has patented an apparatus which ha calls a car-shoe, for preventing cars from leaving the track in collisions or by* running upon a broken or dislodged rail. It was given a trial a short time since, in which it did all and more was claimed for it. A rail was taken from one side of the track, and a car with the shoe attached, hacked down at the rate of twenty miles aa hoar. Just before reach ing the break, the engine was detached, and the car flew across the break, the front truck striking the track all right, and the rear track missing it bj a few inches, tho shoe gripping the track and stopping the car without damage about six rods from the break. On the second trial the car ■truck the track all right, and went an a half mile as if nothing had happened. In this age of railroads, such an' appliance as that, if placed upon all cars, would be the means of saving thousands of lives an nually. OFFICE OF THE Alamance Gleaner, t We call the attention of the public to the appearance of - THE GLEANER, 4 , 1 j It will be furnished to subscribers, until further notice, at the low rate of $9.00 Per Annan, I ' ■' " THE PUBLISHEKS PA YIN a ALL POST AGE. Payable in Advance. A • VjJ. Our aim will be to make the GLBANKR A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY PAPER ia •very respect. Itwll. contain all the Local News of the County, State News, the most Important Tele graphic News of the week and Carefully Se eded Miscellaneous Matter. ■ i It will be a paper which no family in Ala mance County can afford to be without. THE GLEANER will also prove of particular interest to former residents in this section, now living in other parts of the coun try, and to ail such it will be ? ' ' Moiled w aay tUrni apw receipt •f aubneriptien price. We would call especial attention to the value of the GLEANER —AI—- , I \, A« ilTtrutiaj Bciiiiv, L rr ■*—-—-r 3 - .« | THIS GLEANER ha* a rapidly growingc cn a.:on in the finest Tobacco tnd {.l ig:owii)j ' i ... SECTION •! TBI STATIC. : >* ' ,- j. A . . ••'. ,J * -J . PUT your money when it wiUao the most good and tuUsribe at once to the GLEANER. - % - * &• ' * . PARKLR * JOHNSON, ADVERTISEMENT. Dr. J. Walker's California Vin egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the na tive lierbs fouud on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The questioh is almost daily asked, ''What is the cause of the unparalleled success of V INEGAR BIT TERS?" Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient re covers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of VINEGAR BITTERS in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of DR. WALKER'S VINEGAR BITTKRS are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-irritant, Sudorific, Altera tive, and Anti-Bilious. Grateful Thousands proclaim VIN EGAR BITTERS the most - nvigorant that ever sustained the sinking system. No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not de stroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond ropair. Bilious, Remittent and Inter mittent Fevers, Which are so preva lent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkan sas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Ro anoke, James, and many others, with thejr vast tributaries, throughout our entire country during the Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during sea sons of unusual heat and dryness, aro invariably accompanied by extensive de rangements of the stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a pow erful influence upon these various or gans, is essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to DR. J. WALKER'S VINEGAR BITTERS, as they will speedily remove the dark colored viscid matter with which tho bowels are loaded, at tho same time stimulating the secretions of tho liver, and generally restoring the healthy functions of the digestive organs. Fortify the body against disease by purifying all its fluids with VINEGAR BITTERS. No epidemic can take hold of a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Head- | ache, rain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of tho Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of tho Stomach, Bad Taste f in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpita tation of tho Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in tho region of tho Kid neys, and a hundred other painful symp toms, are tho offsprings of Dyspepsia. One bottle will prove a better guaranteo of its merits than a lengthy advertise ment. Scrofula, or King's Evil, Whito. Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old Soros, Eruptions of the Skin, Soro Eyes, etc. In these, as in all other constitutional Dis eases, WALKER'S VINEGAR BITTERS have shown their great curative powers iu tho most obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remit tent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.— Persons en gaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers, Type-setters, Gokl-beaters, and Miners, as they advance In life, are subject to paralysis of the Bewels. To guard against this, take adoso of "WALKER'S VIN EGAR BITTERS occasionally. For SKin Diseases, Eruptions, Tet ter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Catbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Sculfs, Discolorations of tho Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are lite'rally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters. „ Pin, Tape, and other Worms, larking in the system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed and remoVed. No •▼stem of medicine, no vermifuges, no an thelminitics will free the system from worms like these Bitters. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of wo manhood, or the turn of life, these Topic Bitters display so decided an influence that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood when ever yon find its impurities bursting through the sKitt in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores: cleanse it when you find it obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul; your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. R. H. HtDOHALD & CO.. DiuggUU and G«n. A gts.. San Francisco. California aad oor. of Washington and Charlton Su.. X. y. told by all UraggUb and Dialers. JUTTING AND MAKING. Robert A. Noell, Offers his services as a Tailor, to the public. His shop U at his residence, in WABAH. W. c. His work warranted, in fit and finish. r * ; feb lft-Iy ADNERTISEMENTS. New Drug Store. DR. J. S. MURPHY Respectfully notifies the public tliat he has opened a complete and well filled DRUG STKOE at Company Shops, where anything kept in a well ordered Drug Store inay be found. The physicians of the county and the public generally, are invited to patronize this new enterprise,. An experienced drusrgist—a regu lar graduate in pharmacy, is in charge, so that physicians and the public may rest assured that all presciptiotis and will be cor rectly and carefully filled. Prices as reasonable as can be afforded, feb 16-2 m New Goods. W.R. ALBRIGHT, {at Bason?s old stand,) GRAHAM, N. C., %calrr in DRV-CJOODS, NOTIONS, HATS SHOES, GROCERIES, HARD-WARE, QUE BIN'S-WARE, Ac. Having bought goods on favorable terms I will sell cheap for cash or barter. Polite and attentive clerks to wait on customers and show goods to AIL, Quick *nlc» nnd Small Profits will make money. Call and examine if you do not buy. It can do no harm. 1 . feb 23-3 in JIWO VALUABLE FARMS For Sale. . ty "* - ** Having a large quantity of. land, I wish to dispose of the following described plantations: First :—The farm known as the R tiffin Quar ter place, situated in Alamance county on the waters of Haw river and Big Alamance, con taining Two Hundred and Seventy Acres, y U one third timber, the balance in a fine state of cultivation Upon this farm, which is conve niently and healthfully located, two miles south of Graham, the county seat, is a fliio young orchard consisting of 1200 young fruit trees, of choice varieties, carefully selected ; * good dweliug-hotase and all necessary out nouses for cropers, tenants, or laborers.—lu every way a desirable farm. Second : —The farm known as the Boon place containing Two Hundred and Seventy- Thi •ee Acres, lying four miles south of Company Shops, on the waters of Big Alamance within a lew hun dred yards of Alamance Factory. Of this farm about one half is cleared, and in a fine state of cultivation, the balance in original growth. Upon it are two hoircstiads, both of which are comfortable and conveniently loca ted. These farm s are adapted to the growth of "rain of all kinds, tobacco, clover aud grasses. Upon each are large meadows, in good condi tion. I also wish to sell a Valuable "Water power on Haw river, attached to which are about forty acres of land ; or as much as may be desired. This valuable property is on both sides of Haw river eight miles from Mebanes viile, on the N. C. Railroad, and is improved to the following extent: There is an excellent dam, recently and sub stantially built, affordfng a head of water, unfailing, and sufficient to run any quautity and quality of machinery. Eligible sites on both sides of the river. Thrc is a grist and saw mill in operation, a good store house, mil ler's house,and some shanties. Terms made easy. For particulars address either myself, or E. S, Parker, attorney at law, Graham P. 0., Alamance county, N, C. W. R. ALBIGHT. If the above described water power is not soon sold I would like a partner, or partners with some capital, to engage in manufactur ing. W. R; A. gCOTT & DONNELL, Graham, N. C. t DEALERS IN Dry-Goods, Groceries, Hardware, ■ NBOIY, STEGt,'SALT; IIOL ASS E OILS, DIE-STUFFS. DRU«B, /''jTl EDI CI IVES,' LARD , BACON, AC., &C. Terms Cash or Barter. feb 16-2 m DISTILLEY FOR SALE. Capaeity eighty gallons per day. Also twenty-five barrels pure Corn Whiskey, made from corn malt. HUTCHISON & CO. Address W. R. ALBRIGHT, fdb23 , Graham, N. C. The undersigned, having closed his Hotel in Gcpham, desires to return his thanks for the liberal patronage he received while landlord. He parts with his guests with pleasant recol lections of past associations, and hopes to meet them often, and to learn of their ever continued welfare ; though his relation to them n»ay never be that of landlord again. He wishes to inform the public that he has opened a . ;'V ' -. ' PRIVATE RQAiRDiNG H.OUSE] in the bnilding formerly used as a hotel at Company Shops, where he will be glad tc sec hie old friends, and where those heretofore in the habit of stopping with him, can find accom modation. At his Boarding house, meals and lodging can be obtained when it suits the pro prietor to furnish them, at terms to be regula ted by special cQntisaet in each case. JOHN H. KLAPP. Pumps! Pumps!! THOMAS S. ROBERTSON", Company Shops, 2f. C., is manufacturing and selling the best and CHEAPEST PUMPS ever offered to the people of this State. These pumps are as durable as wooden pumps can be made. They are easy as any one wanting water could wish. They are sold as cheap as any one who proposes to buy could ask. Pumps delivered anywhere on short notice. Each pump warranted. The manufacturer refers to every pomp of his in use. Not one has ever failed.
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