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The Al am ange Gleaner. vol: xii. GRAHAM, N. , C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1886. NO. 32. CHEIUIYCOTE ,FAHM. -. "And yon - expect me" to travel over nine mile of muddy roads behind that : IxMtat arid in Uiat rattle-trap?" a gentle- : luan Raid, discontentedly surveying the ..- conveyance provided for him by an obliging countryman residing near the tation of the Virginia railway, where a way-train had recently deposited the . stranger. . , ""Weil, 'tain't as ef thar was much to choose from, mister," was the answer. - "If you're a mind to wait till eveuin', the stago nout happen along.- But, bless yore soul, sah, olo Buck '11 carry you thar ef you only give him time enough. An' I reckon the buggy won't break down i 'tween this and the blacksmith's , at the cross roads. "Thar's string an' rope an' a lot o' nails under tlie buffler-rob", an' httle Posh hem'll manage to mend the , damage ef so it be that thar's a rock to pick up 'long the roadside." - v "May I drive, boss?" was the hesitat ing prayer of little Poss (short for 'pos sum), as the dilapidated vehicle, drawn by a spavined plough-horse, got finally underway. Looking down with amuse ment at his excited petitioner, Barksdale saw a droll little darkey, costumed in meal bags, hatless, and with plaited twigs of wool, who, when the rope reins were relinquished into his bands, as sumed the post of charioteer with dig nity ineffable. Barksdale forgot Pose and everything ' besides, as tho overmastering power of early association took possession of him. Ten years before he had left the ntighbor- 1iood thiuugh whii'h they- mnaunir posi ing, at the outset of tho war between the states, ami during nil that time the his tory of its places and fts people had been nliuost a sealed book to the wanderer in many lands. He had fancied himself weaned .from hissentinientallovo for olc. Virginia; but here he was craning his Heck to look at the ancient landmarks recalling rides ending at this point and jricnius at another, his cheek flashing, nd n lump coming into his throat, like the veriest school-boy home -for the holi days. The country was beautifully preon, and as old Buck plodded jdonghe had nothing to do but resign himself to memory and anticipation, while the spring wind, laden with f ragranco from 1 he blossoming woods, blew over him re freshingly. ., At hist Chorrycoto farm was reached, but before they could enter it little Poss jumped down to. . struggle with an old red gate of such persistent inhospitality that Barksdale himself could only force . it open by half lifting the gate post from the crumbling soil. "Barren acres," lie said with a sigh, glancing over what were once prosper ous fields of grain. Grass grew on the roadway, and a multituda of little blue star flowers were crushed beneath their wheels. - Emerging from a bit of pinq woods, he caught sight of the gables of the old . house. They at least were unchanged,half veiled from night by Virginia creeper and wistaria, jasmine and roses. His old room was that one with the window, over which grew the branch of a mulberry tree, its ftdinge so thick that neither blind nor curtain was required. As Barksdale gazed ho saw, coniing from Uio shrub bery around a turn -in the road, a cava lier bestriding a mule. This was a man seemingly between SQ and 4Q. Tears old, grip in their relations. It was while wandering aimlessly around Europe ten years later that Lancelot made up his mind to return to America, and to visit the homo of bis fathers. The resolu tion once taken was acted upon with almost feverish zeal. Now , that he had again shaken Hal's hand, bad sat isfied himself that the slim lad of 19 was still somewhere lurking behind the veil of adipose' matter enshrouding the man of 29, Barksdale breathed a long sigh of relief. As for the squire, he was one of those guileless natures content to take tilings .is they find him. Barksdale's f or pign airs excited in him wonder not un mixed with amusement He fell to spec ulating over what the women would say to.the coming of this importation of fas tidious elegance into their impoverished household." In old times Cherrycote had never speculated; secure in homely plenty, it had simply flung wide open its doors and bidden the stranger in. "Suppose we wfilk the rest of the way," Barksdale said, springing with alacrity from. his mouse-trap of on equipage. "I have so much to say to you, Hal, I don't know where to begin." "I don't walk much- nowadaysr but still " said the squfre! getting down in jus once clear-cut ' features overgrown with fiw.h, and Wearing a long brown leard of liberal proportions. His frame, albeit, a trifle unwicMly, was ' nv.iscul.tr Iiis eyes were of an honest blue; his seat in the saddle, even though the steed was t rnr"'-'-'- iunn'i ihhi pluas. ble. , His .clothing consisted of a pair of rorduroy breeches tucked into spurred rather a breathless fashion, and leading the mule, followed by Poss and his spav ined steed, along a road carpeted with pine tag's and bordered with wild honey suckles. "I haven't asked you about your wife," Lancelot said, when it appeared that the question could no longer in common courtesy be deferred. "Kitty? Whv, she's splendid." said b squire. li8wrtily"4.nd if ynu'lLbp-Lcayly, Jievo mo, Lance, I ve six young ones, all girls.. The old house is as full as ever, but you'll find thingj down at the heel, I reckon. The same story everywhere hereabout: no- money, poor labor, no re pair; the women struggling with ineffi cient servants, worn-out furniture, worn out clothes. But Kitty's temper don't wear out, tluink God! You've not for gotten what a splendid girl she was, Lance?" - . "I have not forgotten her in tho least," his brother answered, in a tono of slight restraint. . s "You must hare been surprised to hear I married her: When you left, I was fiir gone in the direction of Polly Rivers, of ltivers hall-, you remember. Polly played the devil with me; was engaged to another fellow all the while she wore my ring. I saw her last year at the Old Sweet, nnd, by George, Lance, she's as big round as a barrel, nnd has three chins. Kitty, now, is slight, and has kept her figure wonderfully. I didn't lose much time in courting her after Polly bounced me, did I? She was al-wa3-s the jolliest little thing, was Kitty." Lancelot thought of the time, when ho had last seen Kitty Morris, then a youth ful cousin of Mrs. Barksdale's, on a sum mer visit to Cherrycote. She was stand ing in the deep grass of the old orchard, under the cherry blossoms, in the spring of 'CI. She was a mere slip of a girl thei:,with large, dark eyes, and a weight of dusky hair upon her small, proud head.' He romemliored the gown she wore, a sort of full-bodied, thin white stuff, with a sash of crimson, and the trick she had of interlacing her small, brown south ern fingers when she talked. ; "Never! never!" she had cried out, in an impetuous treble, the sound of which still echoed in bis ears. "What I prora istxTxvas not to an enemy of my coun try. I would rather die than marry non-intercoun. It was not' until she had been his brother's wifo for several years that he heard at all of this marri age, seeming to him so extraordianarily incongruous and unsuitable.. He could not reconcile it with her appearance, her manner.her pretensions,now that be had seen her once again in the splendor of young womanhood. The jovial good-fellowship of the kindly squire offended him. He felt as iMie could not bear to see husband and wife together, to hear Hal's lanky girls claim her as their mother. But Lancelot Barks dale had a noble nature and a strong will. Resolutely he trampled out the fire that had so suddenly been kindled op within him.' Kitty was ho longer it was long indeed since she had ceased to be the soverign of his dreams. " This brief madness at an end, he would be able to take her by the hand like a loyal and honorable gentleman as he was. This reverie was brought to a prosaic ending by the appearance of Hal at his elbow, looking . like an , amiable . young Bacchus, so ruddy were his cheeks, so brood his smile of pride over the beaded goblet he presented to the traveler. ."Drint. this, my dear boy," cried tho Virginian, "and if in,- your travels you have como across a beverage to beat it, may I never compound another julep." Absurd as it seemed to a man of Lancelot's temperate liabits to partake of stimulants at the meridian of an after noon in spring, he tasted, nevertheless, of the amber liquid, wherein strawber ries coquetted with sprigs of mint in a moss of finely-splintered ice. Your brew does you credit, Hal," ho said, ,nrt .now tojjay niy respects to the ladies. You haven't told me what welcome to expect from my step-mother. I'm in her debt for a long list of boun ties hi my bay hood, and -to have beon separated from her all these years through the estrangement of tliat miser able war has been a real pain." At this moment in came Mm. Barks dale the elder to answer for herself. She had been told by tho house-maid of the arrival of a guest, and with the usual cordiality of her kind, hastened in to do the honors. "My dear Lance," she cried, after a momentary survey of extreme astonishment, "I nm glad to welcome you onco more to Cherrycote." "If you knew how much those words convey to me!" returned Barksdale with real feeling, taking her thin, old hands and kissing them. "I am alone In the world since my old aunt died, a year ngo, and the ties of early association seem more potent as we get on in life, I think. At any rate. I have fairly longed 80 MUCH PATIENCE. cavalry boots, and a nondeseriiit shoot-4- lot was Again to meet hor a the. wife of$tunt!a to pick strawljeirieB fojrtoa,, but ing jacket faded by sun and rain, with a broad-brimmed hat of straw showing marks of home manufacture. At the first sight of Barksdale his brows knit ' inquiringly; in a moment be rhnrgr . down Upon the Antique buggy with mill- ' tary dash. "Lance, old fellow!" he cried, : "It isn't .' possible!" 1 ' , "Hal!" exclaimed the other simultane- . ously, in a tone that meant much. Im mediately two bands met in-fervent , friendship. Sinco these hands had , grnsped each other last a river of blood luid flowed between them. Bitter words bad been spoken, hit discussions had raged, party strife Lad'swelled resentful hearts; but now, when the half brothers met again, neither thought ef anything but the early ties of blood and alfection nte companionship. Barksdale, thin, active, and embalmed with the atmos phere of foreign travel, his clothes scrup- ' v.lou.sly well cut, his speech refined to tiicety, appeared at least five years younger than the bluff, suuburnt Virginia Kquire, who was, in reality, considerab'y Jus junior. They were the son.-) of aVir- ginia gentleman, who, left a widower . with one small boy when ho was hardly out of college, had consigned the little Lancelot to the care of bis mother's rel- '' ntives in the north. Marrying a second time in Virginia, Mr. Barksdale had eet tied down to a jieoceful agricultural ex- . fatenca on tho tr.tato belonging to his bride, "one of tho Carters of Cherrycote farm." as that lady was styled. Hither Lancelot had come to spend many happy hours of irresponsible holi day in (he free and easy life of old-time Virginia. . Here he had learned to feel a f incere affection for his kind step-mother nnd her boy HaL But at the outset of the war his northern training and sym pathies in political faith set a terrible stumbling-block in the path of the fam ily "pleasantness." Unwilling to contest - tlie fervid torrent of talk, he at first kept silent. This li-i to suspicion, and final! v to open warfare on the part - of the generous people who had onoe ex- J canters, calling for Ice aa J mint tended their arms to him. His father ! strawberries, stood battling wit! you. She had faced him bravely, defiantly, two red spots flaming in her ordinarily char, pale cheeks, but there was a trein- bejLyoiceaaif she would liave been going to cry instead of speak inj. Thus they had parted, and now Lance- such a welcome as you and Hal have extended to me heals many a wound of time." "And I am far too old to indulge in rancor," said the old lady, tears coming into her eyes. "Now that our fearful war is over, I can regret tho violence of feeling with which we went into it. Oh, Lance! I am glad your poor dear father was spared seeing his state conquered. I think it would hare killed him. But let by-gones be by-gones. Ve must agree not to talk about the war. It was kind of you to come so far to see us once again, and we will make you comfortable though tilings are not as they were at Cherrycote. I am sure yon ore glad to find Hal married and settled so happily. Poor as we are, his little wife is such a manager I have given up tho housekeep ing entirely into her hands. And those sweet children! Dear-me! Hero I nm for getting that Kate wants you to como out "O dreiry life," we say, "O dr.ary Wei" And still the generations of tbe binls S.ng throngs, our sighing, oud tUs flocks and herds . Serenely live while we are keeping strife With benvan's true purpose on u, as a knife Against which we may strnzgle. .." O thon God of nidi Grant ine some smaller grace tbnn comes to these, ' . . Bnt so much patience as a blade of grans Grows by, contented through heat and cold.. , -( : Eltxibeth Barret Browning. ' Lndwlg's rrlrnts Circus l'orronimnca. Among the follies of Bavaria's late king not generally known was the erec tion of a circus on the first floor of the royal palace at Munich. The ceiling was made to imitate the skies at night time, with the m4on and stars, lit up from be hind by electric lights. On the walls were a series of frescoes, representmg various coun try-scenes, ; including-an Italian capanna, a French auberge, and ft Swiss chalet. Tho monarch and his guests, twenty in number, first went to the theatre. . They then returned to the palace and supped. About 2 in the morn ing the king ordered his favorite charger, and mounting invited his friends to fol low him. Their horses were brought np, and as soon as they were alt in the sad dle, his majesty rode off into the circus. The royal party g-vlloped round the ring several times. The king stopped, de scended, and tapped at the door of the capanna. Suddenly the door opened as if by magio; ann a crowd of persons einergod from it. They woro dressed in the differ ent country costumes of Italy, and bore baskets of fruit, cakes, and wine, of which the guests 'partook. During the repast an- invisible choir sang Italian airs, accompanied by a brass band. His majesty again mounted his charger, and followed by his friends, rode round the circus once more. He now knocked at the door of the aulwrge, and French peasants came out with more wine nnd eatables, which the poor guests, already surfeited, were bound to consumo' rather than offend their eccentric host The musicians here executed favorite French songs. The sanio performance was gone through at the chalet, and then the king,' at 5:!X) in the morning, abruptly with drew, leaving his companions more dead than alive. Pall Mall Gazette. , Several Stones Abdul Somuumtratla'S i Dr. Haycock, the eminent Oxford diine, would often rise from his bed at night, give out his text, and, while sound asleep deliver an excellent sermon upon it. He was frequently watched, but no amount of tugging, pulling or pinching ever succeed in rousing him. Dr. Mac nish, of Edinburgh, gives an account of an Irish gentleman who swam more than servant brought two miles down- a river, got ashore, and . CharUa-DnmQnL Tho name was -not Iji a Paris Gambling ilitue. The croupier, the cashier, the servants who. with silent step and highly respect- to make friends with you all nsain, and f ful demeanor, approach in tlieir sumptu ous liveries to supdy cards, coun'ers or any other accessories in tho worship of Fortune, now arrive. Tno gas is light si, a bogus bank is started by some of the small lxibituos, who are allowed to play with 5 franc chips until a serious bank is opened, and they liave not long to wait. . The confirmed gambler gulps his cup of Moca and with his cigarette between his lips wanders as if he had never seen the gume before to his place at tho green table. Very often ho holds to one iwir- ticular seat, especially if he is a fetich:ur or believer in fetiches. Then he is mis erable f(g the whole ni ht if ho does not get his usual seat and curses under his breath tho usurper who has supplanted him and the luck that is not his. . The feticheur has a thousand super stitions. Ho will wander for hours through the Qiiartier St. Antoine in hoios of touching three humpbacks on subsequently discovered sleeping by the roadside altogether unconscious of the extraordinary feat he had accom plished. Dr. Pritchard had a patient who was particularly fond of horse exercise, and used to rise at night, find his way to the stable, saddle his horse, enjoy a gal lop, and finally come back knocking at his own door in a somnambulist condi tion. He was cured In a manner suffici ently funny to be worth recording his servants tickled the soles of his feet The memory of sleep-walkers is oc casionally prodigious, under the influence of the dominating impulse that moves them. Moritz gives an instance of a poor and illiterate basket maker, who was unable to read or write; yet in a state of sleepy vigil be would preach fluent sermons, which -were afterward recog nized as having formed xrtions of dis courses he was accustomed to hear in the parish church as a child more than forty years ago. Quite as strange a cose of unconscious memory is referred to ' by the eminent Dr. Ambnrcrombie. A young girl given to sleep-tulking was in the habit of imi tating the violin with her lijis, giving the preliminary tuning and scraping and flourishing with the utmost fidelity. It puzzled, the llhysicinil 8JflLd?a! until he ascertained that when an infant the girl lived in a room adjoining a fiddler, who often played upon this instrument in her hearing. On the other hand, it must be admitted that somnambulists oc casionally do very foolish things and make odd mistakes. A young man of whom Petrns writes used to get up in his sleep, climb on his couth) battlements, seat himself astride them and then spur the wall, under the impression that he was mounted on his steed. London Post. ArtUt' Stmlln of the Olclnn Time. The site of the ancient Egyptian city of Zoan, often spoken of in the Bible, and which Ezekiel prophesied would be destroyed by fire, has leen found and is now undergoing a thorough examination.- Many interesting discoveries have been made which will still further eluci date that Egyptian life and history of TIIK MAUCJ1ITE STUDS. ' I am goto to tell yon it story of real life," said a friend to me in the club the other night a friend who has lived in many countries, and seen very much of tbe world. ' "Many years Ago I was living In a fur nished apartment in Paris. One day my me tbe cara oi air. known to me, but I told him to show the gentleman in. A tall and very good-looking fellow entered. He was extremely well-dressed, and I . noticed particularly tbat he wore three very handsome mala chite stnds, and sleeve-buttons of tbe same material. lie addressed me in frank and hearty manner. ; 'Yon do not know mo,"Mr. ' he said, 'but we ought to be well acquainted, for I am a nephew of your old friend Cob Charles Merritt, of New Orleans, and I have heard hi m speak of yon so often and so warmly ' about you, that I can not re gard you as a stranger.' " . "I was extremely prepossessed by the young fellow's appearance, and delighted to meet a countryman, of good connections and with time on his hands. ,W soon became very intimate, and were much together for some weeks thenceforward. Dnmont . was a very ac complished and agreeable man, and 1 found him most excellent company. "One day, returning from a Journey I re ceived a call from a sargent de vllle. I had no idea what he could want with me, but 1 soon lenrneil. "'Pardon, monsieur,' safd he, 'I am sorry to trouble you, but do you know one M. Charles Dumontr " 'Yes, very weJV said I . " 'May I ask if you . knew bhn well in America?' ' "I was abont to answer thnt I did, when I suddenly recollected that I did not know him well in America. So I said, 'I knew his family and friends there, very well.' " 'I reirret to Inform you, monsieur,' said the officer, 'that he Is hi custody, and that J Ills extradition tor the crime or lorgcry is is demanded by the t'uitcd States. Will yon go with ine and see hlmf ' "Of course I assented, and in a short time, and after elaborate formalities, I was taken to a cell in the prison of St. Pulngle, where I found my new acquaint ance apparently in excellent health and spirits, and jauntily wearing his malachite stude. " 'I am sorry to see you here,' said I, 'How can such a shocking mistake have been madcf " 'It was no mistake at all,' said he, standing erect, and with perfect coolness; 'I am guilty!' , " 'Good heaven. What do you nioanV I cried. " 'I will tell you, said he. 'I havs de ceived you. My name Is not Uumont at all. It Is Ashley. I am the son of an to the garden, Hal. She wishes to con- I the shoulder. He will study tlio num. which already wo have so lull an so- EuglUh gentleman, and lived In Wisconsin count. A curious find is that of the llutii n place was offered me as clerk In a house of an amateur artist of tlie ancient ' commission house In New Orleans. My world, whoso studio has been examined : work was hard and my salary small; and it is found that he was as choice of but I always dreumed of the day It id (tnnluni na n il,.rti dnhl.lnra in I when I would be rich and assume rl. fln nrta nlwnv. ro. Ho l.ful a voir : niy rightful position fine palette of limestone ground perfectly smooth with twel ro little depressions to hold his colon. These he used only in a liquid state. His palette knife was made of silver, highly decorated by engraving, and the little jars to hold his paints were of the finest glazed ware. Specimens of Ids own work were ' found, but they were very poor, while his collection of bric-a-brac, including iu society. In this direction I was. desperately ambi tious. One day the d.'Vll tempted hie. I was sent to the bank with a check for $14. Tho humor seized me to alter It, as a joke, to one for U,Oon. I did this In the presence of the cashier. I assure you I bad not the slightest 4dra hilt that the teller would notice the alteration, and take the thing as I meant It. To my infin ite surprise lie handed me the U,0U0. When the money wan in my hand. It sud denly occurred to mo that my opportunity suit you about her flower beds. Don't tell her Linoe is here, for she has not tho K-n-t idea who it is. The children said it WHS Mr. LMWW fcume tu mv tin about the sheep. They Imvegone with their his half-brother, tbe mother of Hal's six girls. For a moment he felt like turn ing back upon the threshold of his visit, but after poor little vaga bond Poss had been sent to the servants quarters in quest of refresh ment for man and beast, the two walk crs struck into, a well-remembered path across the orchard leading to tho house. The cherry blossoms were xgain in bloom, and there, under a, green arcade of snow-laden boughs, was seen a merry group of ladies and children picking vio lets in the gras. Lancelot caught one glimpse of Kitty, recogniring her instantly. From the girl of 17 she had expanded into n splen did beauty of 27, lithe nnd brown as ever, with a rich coior in her cheeks, not in the least suggesting a matron op pressed by many cares of maternity and lioiise-keeping. Swarming over hr were a numlier of affectionate- small girls, and at a little distance sat Mrs. B.trksdale the elder, looking thin and care-v.-orn, engaged in conversation with a lady whom hu dimly resalleJ at an other cousin of the by-gone days, then a coqtietti.h personage with dimples, and wond?rful plaits of hair worn in a crown around her head. The dimples were still evident, though th cheeks had faded, but the abundant braids were jierce'ptibly thinner. Barksdalo took in all these details, although he wondered at himself for observing them in face of you shall soon see them all. Lance, you must be taken to your room. Uut here comes Hal again with Kate. Dear boy! he is so affectionate, and though you never knew her intimately, I believe, Kate knows yon welKby reputation." At this point, when good Mrs. Barks dale paused for breath in her flow of cordial greeting, Lancelot felt his tem ples throb, and a sort of mist pass before his eyes. Through the ojx-n door of the veranda nul hurried, followed by a lady, and tn a single brief and blissful moment Lancelot became aware of the fact that Hal's Kitty war not his own "bride of old dres'ms, whose spell went with him. still. In plain words, Mrs, burs at tho morgue and calculate insane sequences on the strength of them. Ho will borrow cat's-eyos, moonstones, bits -wvln(insajnihiu2- which history, lngend or Incredulity has consecrated as lucky. Iwteed, he has been known to induce a friend to make love to his wife In order to verify the proverb that those unlucky In love must invariably prove lucky at cards. New York Journal. Causrs of Cramp WUMa swimming. Bather's cramp U made th? sub ject of an article in The Popufar Science News. The conclusion is reached that although the intimate nature of muscu lar cramps and the precise mode In which they are established nro still unknown, sufficient data oh the subject enable us to recognize the chief conditions of their causation, which are as follows: A pe- Barkttdalo cu''nr '"dividual susceptibility, the shock I 1 1 . 1 1 1 i . I II T 1 1 1 1 . I 1(1 Ilia t'.'II I l H BinWH III bronze figures, glazed pottery or various uau C)UI),. A .tenner was to sail for Un makes, and delicate gloss objects of dif- I vnnA , mr , oh that steamer I ferent sorts, was wry fine, lit) owned a plano-convex lens, and he had almost tho only specimen of ancient painted glass yet discovered. In fact, an artist's studio of olden timo seems to have re sembled an artist's studio of the present duy in this at least, that the moe show was made the less work was done. Philadelphia Times. Dynpptlo Iwellr In tbe BuburtM. took my naoMge, baviiisi just lime to reach I'.m wharf, without luugu. From Cuba I went to Kpnln, then cume to' Paris. I have boon here some time. I have stayed too long, and supirase some one bos thus recognized me. No matter, I have enjoyed myself to the full, sud now I must pay the ptpcr. I have only one favor to ni-k of yml. I am a gentleman. Do not let me be Ironed, 1 give my word not to jump ovorbourd or - V Tr -44iva)e In any way. And, by the A very ieiiKIIilB IJIIygimn wliu lltofhij mlU1marTmWfTiWt a fashionable suburb, tolls mo that there la not a man residing In the village and doing business in Chicago who is not a dyspeptic. Tho cause of this, he says, is well known among physicians practicing in the suburban towns of largo cities. It is tlu effect of liaruig to catch a train. The stomach is as easily prevented from secreting tho gastric juice as a cow is from giving down her milk. The cow must bo calm and happy or the milk will not conic; and the man must be quiet, have Inst 1,WJU left. YbUWIU find It hidden behind tho pier gl-uu In my opurt ment, where It escaped the vigilance of the police. It will just about sulllcu to pay i he bills' of which I hand you a Hit, and 1 beg you to attend to this matter for mo. . , There was little for mo to say. I promised to do what ho wanted, and I bade bim gond-by. la a aw days he was duly extradited. T'hreo years Inter I was seated in my Jyou s when a gonlleinnn was house In Kt. leisurely and free from anxiety when he j announced; and, to my surprise, in walked dimples-Tals a Kate Morris-whose ' t,,e Jna?",:X:Sti0? givmf name had long ago departed from Lnncelot's recollection of the lady, had he ever thought-of it, indeed. In the confusion of his iikos during the mo ments that followed this discovery he was nborIed with a longing to satisfy himself at once about the Kitty. "The only one worthy of that sweet, old fashioned name," he said, in his joyous lipart, for lovers,, as we know, glorify evesything. even the homely nomenclat urn of ancestral days. She nms in soon to answer for herself, the little girls, as before, twining around her waist and clinging to her skirts. "I wonder, Kitty dear, if you remem- Ixt my oldest son, Lancelot," safd good i 7 made on him by the first view of his sister-in-law. The color bad receded from bis face, leaving him deathly pale. "Wiiat is the matter with you?" aked Hal. innocently. "No doubt our Vir ginia sun has been too murh after such confoundedly long wIk. I any. Lance, if yeu'J care to ' come into the dining- room and let mt mix you a julep before you see tlte ladies'.'' "Capital idea!" Lancrlot found himself answering, with a strong effart at self control. HJ succeeded presently, and while Hal hustled around among the hv and the had died, and the widow, an ardent chost of his rounder self. The trial hid sontliemer, iraroed to look on him with I bren t tlx full as painful aa be haJ ex- ronstraint Even HaL nverrr: hand- ! nrcted. Often as he hbd presented itself the immediate and .powerful imnresai'in t Mrs. Uarksdale, with an accent of pride Lance trod upon, began to quarrel with Jiim. There was nothing for it but re treat. - LsiK'elot relumed to his northern .Jiome, and soon heard the news tliat Hal to bis Imagination, tbe reality of suffer ing was not surpassed. Her face bad shone upon him like a star from Alpine highU, ac-ron wintry seas, in de-wrt reaches; at the opera, in Ids dreams, on i especially In the direction of tho ex- i tn-initie. The disorder is very apt to rise Iii persons of irritable temperameiif, i '.tacks iersons of middlo ago ofteuer j than tho young, men oftcner than i women, and tho robust oftener than thu j weakly, and occurs oftener In hot clim ' a tea than in coll. Its most powurf id and avoidable causa is the immersion of : tho liody while heated in rater of a rela tively low temperature. Exclianga, 3111k MlMblcvsaa aa a Drink Milk is generally considered a pe culiarly nutritive fluid in-Iced, a per fect "fesxl and thrreforo suitable for ' II . i 1a : . I. I persona ui uu ages wnen n agrees wiiu i their stomachs; yet no less an autlwit ity : than Sir Henry Thompson states that in her presentation of the stranger. ) -OT us. who have Jon? ago achieved our I lie evening sunlight slanted through j fu growth and can thrive on solid food. a western window or the old oak-pan-filed dining-room. - Lancelot stood with his back to it, his face in shadow, but the searching radiance brought out every rx preMton of her changeful face more lovely than he remembered it. "You have not done me the honor to name the lady," he said, taking her hand in bia. .SUU Kitty Morris, though a greater belle than ever,'' cried hearty Hal. "It's just occurred to nu. Lance, that yon snd Cousin Kitty used to ba famous friends, tjll you quarreled about Um war. What an idiot I was to forget it." "I have forgotten nothing," said Lan celot, for the second time that day. anj Kitty tmoWatood him. Mrs. Burton Uarriaoa in Harpers Bazar. tons of eats or the descent of food into his stoni ach will produce a very imperfect flow j of gastric juice, and a tendency to fer mentation and irritation instead of diges tion. Now, these follows that live in the su burls, so my medical friend says, always eat breakfast with the time-tuble in their minds and their eyes on the clock. More- ' over, it often happens that they are a I fuw luiputi-s kite, and they make up for j this by taking a good run to catch the train. This violent exercise aggravates . the harm already done, and before the J man is aware of it he has become a . chronic dyspeptic. Cor. Chicago Journal. Mr. Ashley, al'aa UiiiU'int. uent as a lie plu and wearing the m ilocliite slnd. I looked at htm in sperchl.-ss astonishment! " 'I thought yon were lu thu pcuitealary.'' said I. " 'Oh, no!' snsd he, 'I was only In Jill, snd I have never been tried. The cashier t the bank did suddenly, and Hi -re was no and behold, h 1M! It was Ashley, alias I)umont, alias Delorme, whom I supposed to be serving bravely with Hemlngsen. then discovered that he was -very intimate with the two young ladles to whom I have referred; had won- the affections of one of them, and bad become engaged to her! "When I explained matters to my Visitor he was terribly enraged, and vowed vea gconce against the man who bad deceived him, I wished to aid him, and persuaded him to promise to use no violence; to be ? aided by me, and to go with me to New ork, where his sisters and my old ac quaintance then were. He did go, and we took rooms near his sisters. I knew very well the one who had become engaged, and With ' the freedom of an old friend 1 told her the truth abont her fiance. She received the Intelligence with surprise and sorrow,- but, womanlike, did not believe me. I learned from my friend that as soon as I left his" sisters Ashley went to them, and persuaded them that I had Blundered him from motives of jealousy. I knew the fellow was still In the house, and I bribed a porter to place In his hands a note from me, telling him that he had better meet me at my rooms at 11 o'clock the next day. I re ceived, in due course, a reply, saying that be would be there; and he came ou the minute. My friend, - the- brother o( the girls (I will call bim Sam), was with mo, but let me do tho talking. - . "Our friend of the many aliases was1 looking very well, nnd; as usual, wore the malachite studs. When I taxed him with his perfidy and duplicity, he broke down and wept bitterly. He acknowledged how wrong he had been in winning the affec tions of an estimable young lady whom he coifld not possibly marry. . - - "Finally .he. agroe4 ta sail for Earopo next morning, and leave her to forgot him. He said $150 would cover his -exiienscs. With that In hand he would solemnly promise to take himself off and make no further trouble. Sain at once handed him double the amount; and I fully thought we had got rid of him forever. "Judgu of my astonishment When, next morning, Sam bunt into my room, bM huir actually, standing on. end, and in- . formed me, amid oaths and lamentations,, that the man had Indeed gone, but having twice as much money as he expected, be hod taken both the sisters with bim) This is a fact. He married one of them-, but she subsequently secured a divorce from him. The other married a famous artist. "In Europe fortune favored him, and he was quite an important man in France -under the empire, and was once sent to London by the emperor on a mission. "Not long ago, if you will believe It, I met this man face to faco on Broadway, lookliigextrcmely well, faultlessly dressed, with tho ribbon of the legion of honor in his button-hole, and still wearing tbe . malnclUto stnds. ; He Insisted upon salut ing me, and was as affable and frank as possible. "You have done ms great services In timo past,' said he, 'when I was down anil you were up. Fortnne is sure to change. -Now I am up and it may be that you are down. If so, believe me that I shall be delighted to reciprocate. Hera is my baud, and I beg you to command me in all ways.' The card was that of a journalist of much note, aud such, I believe, In my remarkable acquaintance to-day. You may suppose that I have been ro mancing a little. On the contrary, while I have suppressed some names and altered others, I have told you only whut actually happened, and I doubt not tliut It wilt be my fortune to meet this remarkable man in some other capacity still lu this world. Should I meet him hi the next I am sura he will stUt be wearing the three studs, even if they lie- asbestos instead of mala chite." Inter Ocean. . A War Danco of the seralnatoa. - My friend Moore also witnessed a war . dance lu which over fifty braves partici pated. Whits' they were forming In a ring, preparatory to commencing the dance, the chief hid himself in the densest portion of the hummock, and no one dared approach him. lu the Meantime the sol emn, measured .minuet began; In deep, chest tones, tlio warrors sang the song of battle, their voices rbring from a low wail in a minor key, tq a roar like that of an BlUgni'.r. . t Riid.li!ll!T. irtltirttJl tlie lai't n at ntnai tim chief came Wnvllii r inui the ring. Te circle widened, lctviiig hbn plenty of room for his wild leaps and i:y rations, ami the yells of the excited savages ruee to the highest pitch. The chief took a stick of sour orange wood, on the end, of which was a carving of a man's head; thrusting this in the ground iu the center of th cir cle, he drew his long, bright buntin j knife, brought It down noon the carved bead, and went throngh ull the motions of scalp ing. Then ruse the desthsong. ' After the scalping was ended, the pasting lirares sil balded, and proceeded to stow away an l!icn!dihli am mm of venison. Wul bl, Clemen in Detr-iit Free Press. ....... Tli Health uf 1'reniilcnt Clevet tirf. Since Mr. Cleveland entered the White IToiie he hss guiu-ul forty pow.ds la wetgat. 11m rapid mcrcon In weight, OMis.ilerlni Ids ulrealy (ire.it physle.il Chill Is Making Mteady rrofraaa. Tlie address of president Santa Maria to the Chilian congress shows that the country is making- steady progress. Ttilrtr-flva bridircs. three. rail wav linen. and sixteen telegraph lines have been I "Mrn. '"! ' vix.?irm. 'oa " it is altogether superfluous, and nx-.-tly mischievous us a drink." He also aays ; that the primary object in drinking is to I tatiafy thirst, and that water is morn powerful to this end when employed free from admixture with any solid ma terial. Chocolate, thick cocoa, or even milk, are therefore not so effiVacious in !ia ing f hirst as w iter. "Ho plentiful is nutriment," jw ad'ls, "that the very last constructed within tbe The income from tlie postoflico has been increased (h ir lent., and Its exjiidi t'jre O'i per rout, There are BIO public and C91 private schools, with lil.VM scholars, and these schools do not include those private institutions designed fftr tlie study of special branches. - The army is ' one to prosecute. 1 nc j'tiiar niwi i occan.e ; mo-rti,,,,, W!ien ho beouns tVsi Irut. great lrieu.l.. Ho was a kiiow-notiiing j unA eonslderi:i a!i tiie great memo! rnd a tremendous partisan, aud umcli in- ( B,riu t:,at iiis oftli laV dm necewir.ly tervsted In tint movement. I wrote; kucp bim i,.r, bm U-l to the remark srtlclea ho- him. and Was useful to bim lu j freoaIltiy 0f Lu. tlmt he was iwuniiarly a ninny ways. One day he siid to me, "lh auiijoct of : npopleciic i.liaic iia door of this Jail Is open. V hy do you not .y rc.M,bl ea Mr. Manning in physt walk outr I did so, and here ! am. I havs j pro.rMo-,. barring the dissimilarity no money and want to cam im honest j , t-tV,-j H.U1 Humec M v,,ry short and Uvebho-sl. Will yon help m-j to do so ti.ick, and his l.re-ithi i? U at times la " 'Dnmont,' said I, yoa con n-jt possibly : i,r,.,i 1-1 -n,niri1Llla hire hnauur. stay here, with a crlmo hanging over yo.i w tilKt Mr X;mninS t prosi mtio.i I hat There b. just 0110 thin for you to do. I ; )rwtl u.Ilt atl Ml ., 1(tpfti 8 .jectuf xy, and tlie opinion is common that he ai.iit reLix tlie titration of hlfl you a hitter to a man there who will at, Hive duties he will whhiu another once forward yon to Oen. VUlker In Mo j wmne the victim of eix.Dlexr. Iiltroduc- wMnin;, f- n.nirrt,mriL,J .. Z "'" j-- tne pre w.ll buy yoa some scIoIImm, and p.r yo-ir f npojex railroad fare to New York. 1 will write j nill i past five years. "m loJn'r ,rwJ "7'"". ' "'' . 1 ' ' liltn T irtw rnnw f nnnrt ins mill liit. I Power ef Ilia I octal AVrvlea. A postal cbrk statTd in a recmt l-ctnra t'lat. to lest the powers of the portal aer- vice, a letter was directed ";J3 Lacteal Fluid strjet, the Hub of tho Universe, OH Bay State." The letter arrived sateiy at Its destination. Frank Islle's. nary mint." In this respect, at any rate, S.r II -nry Thompson is at one with Uu vegetarians. VJ the Year liouml. had become a volunteer at M.masas. 1 tlie iges of his books, everywhere. any- After that there was a long and painful ' where, durijg ten Icc years of absolute It is estimated that 1,000.000 paper are manafactnret annually. In the end there ia no revrngri. tw juitice. Jui Tafigan place where we should seek that quality I I ins been reduced fl.OoO.OOU. Frank ia in drink which aTomtunies Hie urh- ' Liniiea. M aklag Vlo ITrum Florida OraaRM. Tlio manufacture of wine from or anges is developing into a very extensive industry in Florida. ,V"me mado from this f nut is said to have formed a large proportion of the slirry" of commerce Mnce tlie. troubles caused by the phyll oxera in France and oilier foreign mine producing rotlntries. Chicago Journal. the service, and yon onht to be an oH;;er j In t .iree months. If they succeed yon will ' be n patriot and a hero.' Ho grasped my hand and thanked me warmly. - I k-pt aiy ' word, and thought 1 hid done tho best ' pomible fling fur bim. J About six months after, whei I wn . on a gooa looting, liaving w.uou men, . was ternht tot Oen. andMra Fremont are hard at work volunteers and regulars, fully pupped ; .'' g,tl"Zn showed some emb. I t.pm the rrcneral's memoirs Je.. (. with the newest styles of arms. The j rneiit In a.ldre-ing rae Finally he told ' nominally her husband's secret.u-y. bit navy is on an equally good footing. The mf thnt . frkml of mine had become -ti- I bears fully half the burden of arrangement iublic debt has been reduced more tluui I nmie In his family, and that he would lixc j of mateiials and composition. y i2,0iX),000, and tlie issue of pajier money I to know something from me aoout hinL I ' , ,, , ,1, n-y, ftT, Vstsre Ocean. Ttielelprataea mi rrtradshlsw . ' ) Kimlly ofli-ea am" Jasib in a anvtll ! city. How much more tinman a place is j a small city tht a Iwjr one! fur af the ; farthest you can not ls very dirfnnt from I your fnenua. Tlie lielpfulnea of friend It is iHip ia easiei in tow es titan in capital, i 1. M. Coen. the brother of two yoans U lies who nf ur-; ff"" "f". w.rd atfcdn -d mncn celebrity In the liter-! rk:hest nobleman In Br.taln.-l.iter ary and dramatic world. I asked Mm the A struiee' dresd of bcl.it thought tame of the person to whom be referred, ! demonstrative, simfls h!f the charm aa I'nrity ht tlie feminine, tuiiie cf hoii.-r- lisis. truth the mas- aiKl be said it was. IXdorme. r asnr.l him that I knew no persoo of that n.uua. " 'Yoa must kno him. S Ud he. 'He talks of you as could none but an intimate friemL'. "We srtmed the matter for some time, both of b being very permiatent. Snd l-oly a wild kira ensned my mind. I asked the grntlenuui tf t:i wan who claimed to bs ia friend wore malachite studs, altd, 1 some uf our best New Krlanl peofel. Wt hTl be perfecily vinnaas when there Ls 110 loucer any fksh an oar bones. Marguerite de Vslois. - It Is estimated Hiat about 'AM pftr-ngrra arrive at Sail Frnueisci daily from the east. - The United Slates; has no torpsJo boat
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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Sept. 16, 1886, edition 1
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