THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
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Uoc. 12th. 1870.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
GREENSBORO, N. C.,
PRACTICAL A K E B
WATtn AND
JEWELLER
DEALER IN
FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY,
Sterling Silver, and Plated Ware,
rime MPECTACLCN,
and everything else in ray line.
Special attention given to the repairing
and timing of Fine Watche6 aud Regulators.
I offer you every possible guarantee that
whatever you may buy of me shall be genu
ine and .'tut as represented, and yon shall
pay uo more for it than a fair advance on the
wholesale cost, Goofii ordered shall be fur
nished as low as if pureu»c**l in person at my
conuter. I have made In the handsomest
manner.
llair
aad W«Mia« Kin*., all kiada
•ffiar Jewelry, Oeld aad
•fiver IVa'eh Caaea,
el«,, etc.
My machinery and other appliances for
making the different parts of Watches, is
perhaps tbe most extensive in the State, con
sequently I can guarantee that any part of a
watch or clock oan be replaced frith tbe ut
most facility, . *'
1 guarantee that my work will com
pare favorably In efficiency and finish with
any In the tend. •
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN,
Wateh Maker and Jeweler,
Greensboro, N. ,
NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator upon
the estate of Wm. G. Albright; I hereby
notify all persons having claims against
said estate to present them to me, on or
before the Ist day of July 1878,0r this no
tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate pfcyment and save
COSH,
JOHNG. ALBKI BT,
Adms. of Wm. G. Abright.
Graham N. C, June Hth 1577
tub doctors uift,
"Stephen, I wish dear. > you bad
been ii little more civil to undo
Joseph,''
"Nonsense, Maggie, darling, I.
don't like Joseph Hawick and his
ways, and lam not going to pretend
I do."
"Ilis ways are! very good ways.
No.one can say wrong of him Stepli^
eij,''
•'That is just it; they are too good.
I rather think I am old cnohgh to
knowwho 1 1 am doing, and what I
want. I have a good farm, m K I don't
owe a ponny, and J'., nevCr nieau to
■ ask a favdrexcept of you, or of my
j own bauds. If I palavered over
| Joseph Hawick he wonM he the verj '
first to sav we wanted the trifle ot ,
money he may hav« saved."
Maggie sighed, artd then lotfL-ed up
into' Stephen's handsome face and j
smiled.
Stephen, of course, was right; a
eyes a figure ,
jcould love's siglifj.be W&fc
**■ 110 was brave and confident, foo, I
and had that way of assertion which
Only very cool and sensib.'e people j
can resist.
Joseph Hawick loved his neiee with
a wise and tender affection, and she
had not ci.osen the husband that be !
would have chosen for her.
Stephen Gray was indeed "well
to do." and had a fair character but
the keen old mau saw radical desects
in it.
"lie listens to itopne but himself,
and so be hears no advice but a flat"
terer's," Joseph had 6aid; "besides
Maggie, he ia so proud that 1 am
afra d lie's bound 10 have a tum
ble/' °
A "But uncle, .he has a big heart, and i
lie's a good far.uor, and even you can |
see that he is the handsomest man fn
the Dale.",
'•That Is all true, fcirl, but God
does not measure men by inches."
However, in fpite cf all disaffection
Maggie Hawick's, wadding with
en Gray came ofl with great and
wide spread hospitality.
Joseph Hawick had boeu lor forty
years the physician and friend of all
the Dale lamilies, rich and poor, and •
not one of them missed an iuvila-j
lion.
But «II were met ry and full of good
wishes lor the pretty bride and lier
handsome husband.
The number of bridal presents
Mnygie received testified to it.
Stephen's sideboard and bullut would
be bright with silver tokens, and his
presses full of snowy damask and
fine span linen and blankets. ——-
But upon the whole it rather mol
lified him!
He could not feel the loving kinds
nec» that sanctified the gifts, and the
obligation was not pleasant to the
self-sufficient young iuan.
He had assured Joseph llawiek
voluntarily, and with rather unneces
sary pride, that he wanted nothing
with Maygie—neither gold nor gear
and yet for all that be looked rather
anxiously for the old mans offering.
Joseph Hawick was believed, In
spite of bis eccentric attentions to
poor patients lo "have money," and
Stephen felt a handsome check would
not be out oi place, for he had been at
some expense in refurnishing the old
' faruo house, and he was very anxious
to try some new scientific experiments
with his wohioat land.
But Maggie said nothing about ber
uiic es present, and Steven was far too
her until ucarly a year
marriage.
But one day lie had a long talk
with old "Squire l'waites about'high
tahntug," and then ibe two men
' drifted into tiie disenssion of some
scheme for the d'.aiuiug oi Dru's
Moss.
Then Stephen, thinking H aR over
as he smoked his pipe, saw untold
wealth ot harvest from the rich allu
vial Soil, and fabulous wheat fields
growing where men now caught
leeclies or shot wild lowi.
It he only bad money.
If he only had a thousand pounds
in cash, Thwaites and be would buy
and drain the Moss.
He sat dreaming over tbe project
and couuted the acre* and buabels
oyer and ove*, until he began to look
upon Dru Moss as the one tiling upon
earth to be desired.
"Maggie,'' he said suddenly to the
little wife sowing beside him, '"Mag
gie, what did uncle give you lor a
wedding present? You never told
me."
"I thought yon would not like it
GRAHAM, N- C., TUESDAY, JULY 24 1877
Stephen"
I "Very likely not, but nevertheless,
, I what WAS it?"
j "A bibte;" 1
"Just like him ; and we bad two
* family ones to begin with, not to
speak of the little ones you have in
; every room.
| "In the same way, Stephen, people
gave us napkins enough for three gen
i erations, and silver mugs enough to
j serve all our friends. Uncle's Bible
| was by no means an Ordinary one."
! "How not?" •
"It has been in the Hawick house*
liould since 1816, and contains the
family register for more than two
; hundred years, lam the last of our
i branch* uncle thought I would like to
I havp it. It is a queer old book, with
j great brass clasps. 1 made uncle two
solemn promises over it."
j "What arc they?"
| "That when every other source of
help and comfort failed I would go to
it—don't look so angry, Stephen."
I "I think I have a good cause to be
! angry; it was like a prophecv of ills
fortune. Why should he forespeak
sorrow for yon? And why sh juld he
[ suppose that you would need help or
I comfort I could not give you? If he
had given you a thousand pounds, it
j would have been more to the pur
pose."
Maggie looked quickly up.
She had never-heard such a senti
ment from Stephen's lips before.
Then sho laughed gaily—
"A thousand pounds, Stephen?
Why, what on earth would yen do
I with so much ironey?"
•'Buy aud diain Dru's Moss; Mag*
gie."
Maggie drew lier eyebrows togeth
er, and looked wonderinglv at Steph
] en, who had risen and was pacing the
floor with rapid, thoughtless stepa.
"Why, love," sho ..said, anxiously,
"whatcan you meani Dru's Moss!
What id It worth?
"A few leeches and wild birds now,
Maggie, but acres and acres of gol>>
den wheat and rich meadow gtaes if
it is drained. I was talking with
Thwaited about it to day, Doth our
ui lands are worn out. The Moss
lies between us. I would give five
years of mv life to own half ot it, and
UiCiiey sufficient to draiu and culti
vate it. ' *
"Ilow much money would do, Ste*
plien?"
"A thousand pounds. 1 could
drain part, and then save the proceeds
to draiu the rest. But where could I
get tho money?"
"I was thinking of uncle. Would
you let tne ask liiin?"
Nothing Is so wonderful as the
growth of a master passion.
In a few hours the desire for this
particular piece of land had strength
ened itself so that Stephen began to
consider whether it might not bo
worth while to let his wife go bor
rowing for hiui.
The longer he talked the more eager
be became, so that at last Maggie felt
hurt to see what a trim he made of
her feelings, and of the risk that
Joseph would run.
Howover. next day, she vent to see
the old man, and, as they sat togeth
er over their tea, said:
"Stephen wants to join 'Squire
Thwaites in buying the Dra's Moss,
uncle.
"What for?"
"Why, they talk gt great wheat
fields and meadow*."
"It will need a sight of drainage,
and that means a sight of money. 1
should not th'iiik that Stephen bud
idle cash sufficient."
"lie wants to borrow it."
Joseph's face clouded.
"Wonders never cease. I tbongbt
: Stephen Gray would starve before be
would borrow or owe roonev."
'/Don't cast up the pant, uncle, Bte
-1 pheu thinks if ha could borrow a
thousand pounds, he would make it
ten in a few years; and, uncle, I came
to-day to ask you to lend him if."
"You came a useless journey, Mag
gie; torbye 1 don't like that pride that
makes others stoop for its coocoit."
"Squire Thwaites said you bad
plenty of money in the bank."
"If I had money I'd never treat it
in any bauk; but I make no more
thaa I need now. lam getting au
old man now Maggie."
"Stephen will be sorely disappoint*
ed."
"He has no call to be so. I told
him yon wotrid have no fortune, and
be quite scorned the idee of money
with you; be bad bis clioiee between
you and Kate Croft, with the Croft
manor at her will."
The old man was (juito gloomy af»
ter this talk, and Maggie was almost
glad to escapo ffotn the silent hearth
stone to the bustle of her own
farm and tiic noisy welcome of her
husband.
Stephen took the refusal very
proudly, but the idea had now be
come paramount, and Joseph Haw*
ick's refusal had only made liiin the
more determined to carry out bis pro
ject.
He had a fierce struggle with his
pride and independence, bin the next
day be made fti-rangemen is to raise
the money by a mortgage on the firm
that had been unencumbered for a
hundred years.
In a few weeks all arrangements
had been made, the Moss bad been
bought, surveyed and divided, and
the partners In its drainage went to
work.
It soon proved itself a drainage of
two kinds. After many hundreds of
pounds had been spent to a very little
purpose; more experienced surveyors
had to be sent for, and entirely new
machinery used. Too much bad been
put into the Moss to abandoji the pro
jec:,and yet the constant cry lor money
was fast exhaustiug the patience aud
and purses of both Thwaites and Ste*
pheu Gray. *
The former, more, able to bear bis
loss, became, alter two year's labor
quite indifferent, talked of the affair
as hopeless, and was half angry at
Stephen for persisting.
But something like desperation an
imated the young farmer, for ho had
so tar mortgaged his borne and estate
that their redemption was helploss if
the Moss failed him.
Poor Maggie, witli two little babies
to care for, Btrove to help liitn by tak
ing upon herself labors she was total
ly unfit for, and she rapidly broke
down between the unusual physical
strain, and the constant, anxious wots
rv regarding Stephen.
For all bet* husband's lifo dwindled
down to those damp, black acres of
mud.
Maggie got to hntc the name and
shudder at the sight of Dru's Moss,
and she halt feared it had betwitched
him; for lie worked there long days,
uiiiil he came home too weary to
speak to her or even notice the
children, while ovory pound he could
get was hopelessly suuk in its
treacherous depths.
Jt was pitiful, to see the bare
uplands of the farm that were once
white with sheep, and the great barns
nearly empty, that had once been full.
Rut things got worse and worse,
and in the middle of a dreary winter,
just before the birth of her third child,
Jo4»pl> Hawick died.
Fitly pounds to defray his funeral
expenses was nearly all the money
found, but he left Maggie hi* house
and furniture, and with his last
breulb reminded hor of the okl Bibs
ie.
"You'll be needing it soon. Maggie,
dear I-know; don't forget mo when
you eome to that day."
These were his last ' words and
Maggie pondered over (hem thai
evening as she sat silent beside her
sleeping children.
It was hard to leave (he dear old
home but Stephen would here of
nothing else so the doctors house wect
into market (lie quuint furniture was
scattered, and the money want into
Moss.
It only put off the evil day.
Thwaites abandoned hU improve*
me nt a.
But Stephen, with a determination
that many thought a kind oi madness,
worked away.
And really, in the fourth year it
looked as it it would succeed.
A portion that bad been finished
produced sach a crop that it made
the larmers open their eyes.
Stephen was jubilant.
What could bo done for two aeres
could be done tor two Imudred.
lie had proved bis position, and
was more enthusiastic than ever over
bia idea.
But Maggie was almost hopeless.
She was beginning to taller - for
very necessities.
iStrange bard men came with
authority about ber borne.
Stephen looked so iilandbagggard,
(bat ' ber enp was full of tor*
row.
One gloomy afternoon, when it
rained «o heavily that work was
impossible,she ventured to try and
reason and comfort the gloomy man,
looking dolefullv across the empty
tarm-yard toward the great, flat,
dreary MOM.
"It will BOOH bo over, my poor
Maggie," he said. "To-morrow 1
am going to get another five hundred
pounds—lf I can— npon the farm
plenishing and the remnant of the
stock. I ain sure, if I get it, to put
the whole Moss ur.der wheat this
year, &ud this will practically save
us. If I don't, 1 bavo lost my estate
and all these yeais labor, and we
shall leave this place beggars. You
know the worst now, Maggie."
The next day, amid the driving
storm, she watched her hu&baaud
wake his last desperate effort.
She turned and looked upon the
pleasant room her three children
playing unconciously about it.
Theu she lied up stairs, and falling
down npoi» her knees, poured out all
her heart in passionate, pleading
prayer.
As she rose with streaming eyes,
her uncles last words flashed across
her mind.
Somehow they hold a new meaning
for her.
She unlocked her, drawer, aud
lifted the old brass-bound book
carefully and tenderly out.
"It has com tor ted my lathers and
mothers for many a generation; "1
will see what it will do lor me."
And she unclasped it with a pray
er.
'•I was brought low and He helped
me."
They were good words, and she
read the whole psalm through and
turned the leaf.
A bank-note for one hundred
pounds fell to her feet.
She lifted it as though it had falleu
from heaven, and commenced to turn
with eager, trembling Angers the
well-worn pageß.
One after another, notes fluttered
into her lap, until from between the
leaves of her uncles Joseph's wedding -
gift she bad taken thousand
eight hundred pounds.
Can any one guess how she prayed
again, snd with what a radient face
she met the cross, wretched man that
half-drowned by the storm, walked
np to the hearthstone?
"Stephen—Btepheu she cried,
joyously, "never look sad agaiu.
Uncle Joseph's wedding gift has saved
us!"
Aud she spread the notes before
him.
Maggie was right the money saved
Sfepheu every way.
lie bought Thwaitcs out, he paid
off all claims on his home, be re
stocked his farm and triumphantly
finished the draining of Dru's Moss.
To-day there is a glorious stretch
of wheat fields and meadow pastures
und many a traveler wonders at the
bright and fruitful oasis in the barren
county; then some countryman will
say—
"lt was once the devil's own acres
sir, aud many a sbecp past counting
lost tlieir lives in its bogs; but Stephen
Gray, with labor and gold, drained
the ill land, and he and his have
grown rich 'on its outcome,
t bong If folk do say he found a crock
of gold there one lucky day."
Maggie's fortune was oddly given,
but the ecceutrlc old man did not
judge tar amisa.
His wedding gift wan blessed as be
intended it should bo,in two ways—for
Maggie and Stephen learutd to love
it, not only for the material help St
bad brought them iu their extremity,
but also for the promise of the far
more exceeding and abuudant riches
which it promises and provides for
Stepbeu. though wealthy, was no
longer proud.
All bis piide and resentment
vani«bed when be gated on tbe work
he nad finished by tbe aid of tbe
Doctor's Gift.
State Legislatour. flio largest
State Senates in tbe Union are, those
of North Carolina and* ludiaM—6o
members each* New York has 82;
Pennsylvania, 83; Massachusetts, 40;
Georgia requires 44 Senators; Vir
ginia, 84;. In sixteen States the
Senate numbers between 80 and
40 mapbers; in nine between 30 and
80; in Ave (Deleware, Mew Hamps
shire, Nevada. Nebraska, Orgoc), less
thau 20. Tbe smallest Senate Is that
of Deleware— ninfe members against
Little Bbody's 46. In the popular
branches. Aew Ham shirs leads off
with 841; Vermont and Connecticut
comes next with 241 apiece; (lien
follow Massachusetts with 240, and
Missouri with 200. In nine Suues
t tbe membership of the Home is more
, than 100 and less than 200; in stf, fc
is an even and symmetrical 100; in
seventeen it is less than 100. Tbe
•mallest House of aH is Delaware's
21.
NEW GOODS—CHEAP GOODS
We wish to Inform the public that our
Mr. Corbett has just returned from the
Northern cities, where he purchased
THE LARGEBT STOCK OK GOODS
ever brought to this section. These eoods
are now
ARRIVING EVERY DAY,
They consist of everything that the wants
of our people demand. YVe sail the best
prints for
8 cents a vard
and everything else *
proportionately cheap
We bought for cash
AT BOTTOM PRICES
and will sell for cash
AT THE SMALLEST PER CENT.
We invite you to inspect our stock
IT
CORBETT & LEA
M.j lit 1877.
NOTICE. ~~
This Is to notify, and forbid any Regis
ter of Deeds from issuing license for the
marriage of my daughter, Nannie; and
also to forbid anv Minister of the Gospel
or any Justice of the Peace from celebratl
ing the marriage of my said daughter,
Nannie, she being under sixteen years
old.
T. P. Bsadsoaw.
Osks, Orange Co, N. C.
June Bth 1877.
———■
J. A. LONG B. F. LONG
rinoeyrtlle „ .Graham
N. C. N. 0.
IMG 4 MM, .*
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, *
Practice In all the State an Federal
courts.
DANL. WORTH.
Company Shops, N. C.,
Thanks hla friends and the public for tL
very liberal patronage he has heretofore en
Joyed} and begs to introduce to their inspect
on toe
UiailTsi4ROlT conpt.l T
B TOOK OF GOODS
evw brought to Alamance County. He has
1. st returned from the Northern cities where
he purchased and has received and and la reS
ceivng hit
His stock consists of DRY-GOODB, fi w
common to the finest ever oflered in tilf
m rket,
HEADY-MADE CLOTHIA %
HATS ARB «
of every description,
of varieties to the beat hand-made.
stock of •
■iMiiraiY flOftoK, nup
CVTI.IBV, QUKKAfn.
VTARR, TRUNK* ami
▼Af.VMKS.TVIV.
WARB, OHIU
ORRIVM BAN,
I
: ** %U lowe,t r " m '
' FAMILY GROCERIES, Ul'l'Eß
AND SOLE LEATHER f
Fertilizers,
I I" » wmi l*® has everything of aaj euany
t .S*VT°? wUI V* to h«Vr and be will 6ny at
l the highest prices all, and anything you
have to selL AH be asks Is for you to call
and see for yourself. If yon dont see what
yon .,T*. nt £>nJosta*k for It, and then
see if It lent found.
"° T ~"" T '
New Drag Store
1 J>K. 8. MURPHY
wqpectfully announces to Ike public ik*
since moving into his New Dnsg Store, he
hasKreatly improve* hisst ckof Drugs, by
> ssria'""*"—
SELL VERY LOW.
! *l»est everything is kept on tail, that
' PbyjWaaa or Ibe pubUe usually call for In
. the Une of drugs, medldaesy chemicals, dye
► will give his
1 attention to p.escriptiona, orders and com
pouodiug medicines.
1 The patronage of the public lamostree
s pectfully solicited. No pains »b»« to soared.
J okeepoa/W/^^tmrsmrtM^!^
[ Omhsj U*|i Aead
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1 For particulars as to botrd, tuition Ac..
, address the Principal for the next nx
weeks at Chapel Hill, after that time at
■ Company Bhope.
JulvSrd ltnT tfd.
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