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whatever you may buy of me shall be genu
me and *u*t as represented, and you shall
pay no more for it than a fair advance ou the
wholesale cost, Goods ordered shall be fur
nished as low as If purch*«*d in person at my
counter. I have made in the handsomest
v banner,
ChalM. Bair Jewelrr. Diamond
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My macWntry and other appliances for
yaking the different parts of Watches, is
perhaps tbe most extensive in the State, con
sequently I can guarantee that any part of a
watcb or clock can be replaced with the ut
most faculty,
1 guarantee that my work wiU com
pare favorably in efficiency and finish with
any in the land.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN,
Watch Maker and Jeweler,
NOTICE.
The undersigned .havingbeen appon t inted.
county Examiner for Alapwce cou th y noti
flea all teachers of public schools at he
will attend to the examination of aPPlicant*
fi>r teachers certificates, on the 2nd Thurs
day of August and October, aa the amended
law requires.
A CURRIE:
County Examiner.
Poetry.
HOWARD* LATEST;
To the Adjutant General
I write with feelings sadly mixed;
My men are full of pluck.
But since I started after Joe
I've had tht, devil's luck.
I've done my very level b®st
His traveling to retard.
Ytt every time that I hit him,
He hits me twice as hard. . •
Ufr
He won't stay still in any gjiot;
He cannot b^keguilfid,
And has a way Sf (jobbing round
That drives itte nearly wild.
If lie against a fox we e match'd
I For cunning tricks and low,
Against a weasel's sleeplessness,
j I think I'd bet on Joe.
*
| Therefore I feel no great desire
I This eU&rge I have to keep,
I And, if you can my place supply,
I I'll let the job out cheap.
Xew York Sun. (
m r ,
It Wds a griind and stately looking
i mansion; "fftrtrotinded Ijy extensive
! grounds: So rhtieh could bo seen in
the niodiilight; But the entire front
of the House was dark At the back,
only two winddWß in the upper part;
Jeside Hie bitseirient; silo Wed a light.
The foom withiii' was large and
luxurious. All ample grate at one
side held a bed ofglowi'-g coals, and
u pun a low coiicli near it an old man
lay. By the gray pallor of his still
handsome tace, his sunken eyes, his
stillness, he wastdryilL perhaps dvs
ing.
A womiu siis the otfty dtlief occu
pant ot the room, and she was young
Jtnd Very beautiful,
She was ii! lull evening i'ie§s, a
violet velvet, made low aud richly
trimmed, and on her white neck and
arms were jewels.
The eyes of the sick man w&tched
herds she slowly paced the i-ooiri, ber
velvet dr;t>s trailing the carpet, a look
in her face that he could not road.
It was a strange "Bight—the woman
in her gala attire, brilliant with beau
ty, glittering With gems; the man
with his pinched and sunken face, on
Which death's grtfy shadow seemed
already set, watching her.
Sho never looked tit him, and, in
spite cf her j outh and loveliness,there
was something harsh and forbidding
in her count' nance.
The sick man moved iiupmJly on
his co:ich.
"It is very slfuiige, Virginia, ihal
James docs not return;" h» said, "I
ajn suih he has been long enough to
g«> to tewn and back twice."
'il shQUld think so," the woman
answered,still whhout looking at him;
"but perhaps he did not liiul e'ith
er of Lie lawyers at thtir office, and
he ihay be waiting to see Mr. Judd."
In a moment tfforc some one knock
ed s6'ftly u'pott th 6 floor of the sick
rooriY.
"II it is j'atAcs I want to see hlin,"
said the man on the couch.
James came in,"a low browed, sul
ieir lOokifrg fellow, and stood crum
pling irfs hat in his hand.
you find Mr. Judd?" his mas
ter asked.
' No; sli ;" but I left wofd."
"Why didn't yon go for Mr.
Leeds?"
"I did; bti't h'e wasn't At home neith
er. Mr. Judd 'H be b'acßf to night.
They was expecting hirrfevery rains
ute> I tokl 'em to send him' as soon
as he come, cause you* didn't know as
you'd live till morning."
Virginia Aubrey glided forward.
"You didn't send any such word as
> that, did yon, Robert?" she said to
her husband. **l think you' are bet
ter to-night. lam sure you will live
weeks yet. I begin to hope you may
get well again, yon are so ranch bet
ter."
The sick man shook his bead.
"I shall neroc. see the morning
again, dear, I am only keeping up on
stimalantß now. t can't bold oat
much longer."
•'Do let me send for the doctor to
come back, Robert."
f - "Doctors can do me no good, you
know that. It is not a doctor that 1
want, but a lawyer. It is Tory strange
they fhould be away. Hare yon told
me tbetruth, James?" be asked tbe
man suddenly.
•'The truth, sir? 1 * questioned tbe
man in a stammering voice, while b6
I
stole a furtive glance at his mißtress.
Virginia' Aubrey put her bands
t behind bfer and shows d bim a roll of
1 notes.
GRAHAM, N- C:, TUESDAY; SEPTEMBER 4 1877
••Wliy don't you answer, James?"
she said impatiently. Uavo jou told
your master tlio truth or not?"
"The truth, of course. Why would
I tell liiin anything else, and liiui
a>»dyiiig?"
"You can go," said Mr. Aubrey.
"Send Kufus here."
As James departed the sick inau
turned to his wife.
"I don't know why be should; but
Jan es lo&kod as if lie was lying. It
can't be that :>iiy One here wants to
keep me from seeing a lawyer 1"
A strange whiteness crossed Viis
ginia Aubrey's beautiful tace.
"I should hope not, dear. What
object could they have?"
The sick man was silent
fifteen minutes passed.
Suddenly Mr. Aubrey spoke again
"Virginia, win doesiPt "Unfits
come?" " S\-
will see,' said liU/wifo
j It was James who answered it )
'Where is liufus?' she asked
him. v
'I duiino. It's like lie forgot. I told
him.'
'Go at oucc and tell him again.'
James departed, aud returned in
about teii riiiudtes.
•Rufns,' no said, 'lnis been drinking
—sa)shewill come whcii ho gels
ready, not afore.'
The 8 ck man groaned.
'Go and seiid Martha here, James,'
said Mrs. Aubrey.
'Slie won't tome either,' moaned
her husband, in ii tailing voice. Ko«
body comes. They have all deserted
mc—oven my daughter Blanche. 1
knew she never liked my mart-age,
but I didn't think she would relusc to
come and see me when I am dying.
Virgithfc, why arc yott dressed so?'
To sec me die?'
Virginia Aubrey turned aside her
Iliad a m6hient. Her eyes gleamed
evilly. Then she came and knelt by
his couch, twining her lovely arm*
about himJ
'Yofl asked the to put on this dress-
Don't you rfemember; dear?' she said.
'Yon told ino to dress just the same as
if you were well. You did not want
to be reminded; of your sickness by
my attire, you said, and told in'e to
put on this very dfess'.
'Yes, yes. 1 rcuicm'ber now- You're
a dear, good girl, Virgie, always hu
moring my whiufs. You've been a
good wile to the old man unselfish
atiddcvuicd. Yon married n-d
for my money, as Iflant-hc said. lain
satisfied uf that now '
'How could you eVef doubt me?'
murmured the lovely kneeler.
*1 don't know but I did. _ And—
and, Virginia, darling, I've something
to confess. You know that 1 made
my will soon after we were married,
and gave you most of my property?'
'Yes, dear; you told me. I thought
it w&s not right then, i had much
rather you had giveu it all to Blanche.
Then she could not think such dread
ful things of me,,
'You are an ango ; but listen to me,
uiy sweet. I was dreadfully jealous'
of yon afterward. I was jealous of
you and Harry Gaines '
Virginia started siightly.
•You never had any reason," she
said.
'Yon loved him once'— *
'Never V cried Virginia.
'Myd&iiin*,, do you bftlieve Mr.
Judd will coireto'-nigtrt? Some one
must go for him' or Leeds again; my
streugth is failing, fam suro I shall
not labt till morning.'
Tbe face of tbe yotrug WiTe Whiten
ed again.
••liobert," she said "what do' yod
want wilil a' lawcr? Do you wish to
alter yonr will? Db yon want to leave
yonr property to yonr daughter
Blanche instead of me?"
"Ob no, no," he groaned.
"What then?" If it is anything you
tfant altered in it? I Will obey your
wishes, dear, as implicitly at if you
had had a lawyer write them out for
yon."
"Angel! angel l f '
"Blanche never liked me, -but I
will do her justice all tbe same,"
Virginia said.
"Send for Mr. Leeds. I know that
Jndd is not coming," told the liusr
band.
Virginia shuddered.
"You do want to make a new will
then?" she said bitterly.
"I did make one—l was jealous of
yon and Gaines. I thought yon had
made it up between yon to wait untl
1 was dead, and then mairry and ens
joy niy money; so I made a new will
secretly- and gavo everything to
Blanche, I wish 1 hadn't. I want
to alter it now. Send K/r the Imvycis
again. Virginia, do send"—
But Virginia hid already fljwn to
the bell at the intimation of
terrible truth which she never guess
ed.
The ready James, her own tool i
made his apppcarancc once moro. i
Mrs. Aubrey stepped out and put j
her hands upon him.
"Take the fastest horse in the
slablos liiul ride for your life for the
first law yer yoti can find. If you get
hfcre in time \ ou shall huve a hundred
pounds yourself
James stared at hut*,
"IJo you mean it this li me?-'
"I mean I have made an awlul mis
take. I shall be a beggar if the
lawyer doesn't get here in time to
make a will. Fly!"'
•'I will. I'll have him here in
forty minutes by the clock. Th.» old
man won't die that soon." .James said
as lib dashed away.
Virginia Aubrey masked her de
ceitful face in sweetness again, and ,
went back to her dying husband
He seemed sleeping.
She glided into the next room and
swiftly removing her velvet dress,
put on a soft, unrustliug wrapper of
merino.
"It would never do to be seen in a
dress like that at such a time," she
multtercd.
Then she went and sat down whore
she could watch the sick man's livid
face and tlio clock alternately.
An hour went.by, and no .lawyer.
Whyilld »ot James come back?
Jauieß was lying on the roadside
about a mile away with a broken
-leg. -
lie had taken tl)e fiercest horse in
the stable, and not being much ot
a rider had been thrown.
Virginia Aubiev stole out of the
room at last she could endure
suspense no longer—and sent another
man alter Lawyer Judd.
It was nearly morning then, and
day was breaking as. tlio lawver at
■ast rode up to the door oi Aubrey
House. •*• • „
But it wits too hte.
Virginfa going back to her
Imsbaiid after she had dispatched a
second messenger for Mr. Judd, was
slrtfck' by the singular stillne-s of
the loom—that awful stillness which'
we who IIHVC nVer beon in the room
with the dead know Is like no other.
£he went itfidght t« the bedside
and touched the quiet taco on the
pillow with her hand,
lie wa! dead.
The woman shut licr teeth hard to
senmm. and went to
scarehiug the house for that second
will of wtiieh Jie had told her.
She was still searching when the
lawyer uiTfved.
The day ot tho funeral cainc.
liobert Aubrey was buried with
due pom(,' and ceremony,
llis young ar.d levely widow
lovelier than ever in her deep mourn
ing—sat in the library alter all was
over.
The firs! will, which gave her
everything was fn her possession.
She saf prepared lo produce it if
no laMci 1 will appeared.
Blanche A'ubrey came In weeping
and recoiled at sight of her.
"She uover sent me a word when
poor papa lav dying, and sue knew
it days before; and papa died thinks
ing me a cruel wicked girl," Blanche
Mid to Mr. Judd, who' was b&sido
ber.
The lawyer coudUcted Blanche to
a seat, and' bowed to the others in the ;
room."
Then lie proceeded to open a paper
be held fn his hand.
Virginia turned cold.
It was the second will.
It gaVe everything to Blanche.'
In thwarting her husband at first
in bis wiftb to make a will Virginia
Aubrey bad'overreached herself.
Tfie Giled * (Va.y Gazette says
Grayson county is troubled with an
extraordinary cattle plague.' The
cattle are literally covered with
North Carolina blue ticks, and the
disease Las boen ascertained to be tick
fever. Several have died.
Georgia papers speak of tbe Atlan
ta custom house as a superfluous con
cern. It will' take two years more to
finiajvit, and the cost will be $500,-
000.
Bliss WILSOK H LB«. »
[From the New York limes, Aug. 20, si
Twenty-seven years ago Miss
Wilson of Pineville, itf. C. lost her
right leg. She \v:is then young and
pretty, and liud *ho merely mis- t
laid lier {pg every chivalrous
Carolinian in the county would iTavo
joined in the search for it. Unfortu- '
natelv, her loss was an irrevocable
one. IJavlng uninlentionaly inserted
her |eg under the wlicel ot u heavily
loaded wagon", silo found that the
onco shapely limb was so completely
ruined that conscnieud ty have it
cut oil and thrown away, its place
wus in time supplied with a cork leg,
and .Miss Wilson sorrowfully resigned
hcrsclT through a loveless lite into
a solitary grave.
There never has beeu any active
demand for women with a wooden !
leg. A man with a wodcit leg suffers
a certain amount o(incoveniuncc, but
ho looses nothing MI character or
popularity whereas woodon-legged
woman is, whether justly or unjustlyj
under a social ban. In fact, tor ti
woman to lose a leg is ordinarily to
loso nil hope of marriage. A man
who is about 16 marry cannot be*
blamed for prelefring a wholo wilo 1
to one partially made ot cork —e.'«
pecially as tlie former coats no more
than the latter. A superficial thinker 1
might, perhaps, fancy thai a husband
whoso wife had but one original leg
woulk save lilty per cent, in the price
of striped stockings and kid shoes; but 1
a If:tie reflection will show that a
cork-leg requires just as muab clothing
as thfe usual style of l«g, and hence
it is not an economical contrivance, j
Of course it is moan a;ul seltUh in a
man to permit the absence of a mere
trifle of leg to affect his feelings !
toward estimable women;but human 1
nature is weak and ho would bo a
bold man who could calmly look I
forward to mark ing a woman who !
might some morning interrupt him '
while shaving by asking—'Jumes, '
would you mind haftding me my leg? |
I think you'll flnd it behind that
rocking-chair."
It Is alleged by Miss' Wilson's)
neighbors that as she grev older she!
grew hard and cynical. This was,!
perhaps to have been expected, slks I
saw herself ignored by marrying incn, j
while girls with half her beautv, and
whoso sole superiority consisted in a !
larger number of logs, captured !
husbands without any difficulty, i
Gradually she became embittered '
against her bipedal icflow-creaturos,
and the local Baptist minis'er was j
probably right when he characterized
her as a hard-hearted worldly woman.
One day, however Miss Wilson at
tended a camp-meeting. and was
softened by the eloqucnco of the}
preuc!:cr ai d the shoutsot the worship
pers, and soon atter Piuevillo was
surprised and ploased by the
announcement that on next Sunday
Sister Wilson woul be baptized.
Now, the public performance of the
riloof baptism by ltcv. Mr. Waters,
of Piuevillo Eleventh Day Baptist
Church, always drew a lurire audi
ance. Thai powerful and agile preach
er was admitted to be without a rival
as a rapid and effective baptizer. On
one oceasion, when a Presbyterian
minister preaching against baptism
by iuimersfon'showed that St. .John
the Baptist had once baptized a mul
titude of persons at the ratds of two
men aud a half per minute, ami that
hence ho could not have immersed
tlicm, Mr. Waters publicly baptized
twenty-five persons in eight minutes,
thus beating St. John's best time by
two fall miuutes and completely ov
erthrowing the Presbyterian's argu*
ineut. With all his unequal rapidity j
of execution, bo was ntver careless oi
inconsiderate. There was a rival
Baptist minister in the next county,
who Would sometimes become carried
away by his emotions, aud would
sing an entire verse of a long metre
hymn while holding a convert under
the water * and although a stalwart
teamstear who was thus t-tated once
fell froih grace, and ripsetting his min
ister in the w*tei* held him under till
he was nearly drowned, the reverend
enthusiast was r.ot cured of bis care
less habit. When, therefore, Miss
Wilson consented to be baptized by
the Pineville minister, she know that
she would be treated iu a considerate
and skilltul manner; and ihe public:
knew that the spectacle Would bo
wejl worth witnessflig.
ft is very easy to Bay, now that the
affair is over, that Miss Wilson ought
to have left her cork leg at home. In
that case, however, she would have
been compelled either to limp to the
water On crutches, er to be carried
t tliilLei' by self-cacti firing deacons.
Moreover, her appearance in public
without her customary leg would have
excited a great dual of remark, which
would not only hate shocked her oeiw
sitive Iceliugs but would have de
tracted iroui the solemnity of tie
scene. When, in addition to these
Tacts, wo remember that ilie was it
I--i . ' .
woman residing in a country town,
to which champagne baskets rarely
penetrated, and was hence presumable
ignorant of the scientific tact that cork
,is light aiid bouyant, her ifegluct to
remove her cork leg prior to baptism
seems entirely excusable. 4
So long as ihe water was only two
feet deep, Miss Wilson, who weighed
fully two hundred pounds, managed to
wade toward the minister, butso soon
as the latter took her band and led
her into deeper water the cork assert
etl its bouyar.cy and Miss Wilson was
suddenly icversedi The minister!
with uiucb difficulty, placed her on
her feet again, and rather surlily 're •
questing her liot to do th.n again, bes
gau to mako a brief and formal ad
dress. Before he had spoken tin words
, Aliss Wilson, with a wild shriek, fell
backward, and her cork lug shot
swiftly upon the surface. Perhaps
! this is the j>oiiit where a veil should,
be dropped. To finish the uarrative
.in as few. words as possible, it may
jbe suid that utter half a dozen futile
efforts, the attempt to baptize Mi.-.*
Wilson was abandoned. With all
his skill and strength, the minister
could not counteract the effort of the
cork leg, and c.uild not keep the con
vert risjlit side tip long ei|ough to
baptize her. She bore it with pa.
| ticuce until the minister called lor a
. pound weight with a view
; to bullastiug her, w hen
ly scrambled ashore, liasteued home,
and subsequently joined the Presby*
terians.
We thus learn that there are times
when cork legs conflict with the
| most important The lug
makers should take a hint lroui
I this suggestive incident, and devise a
light tnotalio leg wherewith to Bupply
j the Baptist market.
| NARNKRf,
j Meu succeed iu their professions
, quite as much by complaisance and
kindliness of manner as by talent.
Demot&enes,'in giving his well-knowu
advice to an oraior—that eloquence
consisted in three things, the drat
"action," the seconJ "action," and
the third "action," —ia. B'Jpposed to
liave intended manner only. A tai
ling preacher in his opening remarks
gains the good will of his hearers, and
makes theiu feel both Ui-tt he has
something to say smi can my ii—by
his manner. The successful medical
'man, on entering a sick -room inspire*
into his patients belief in himself, and
that hope which is so favorable to
longevity—by his manner. Consid
ing that jurymen are scarcely person
ifications unmixed with patulous or
prejudice, a barrister cannot afford
to neg!ect in inner if he would bring
twelve men one after another to his
way of thinl ing. Again,has the bus •
ness man any stock in trade that pays
him better ilian a good address? And
jas regards the "survival of the fi *
1 test" in tournaments for a lady's
! hand is it not A "natural selection"
when the old motto "Manners maketh
man" decides the content? At least
Wilke*, the best mannered bnt ngs
liest man in hi* day. thought so.
I"I am" he said, "the ugliest man in
1 three but if you give me u
1 quarter of an hour's start, I will gain
the love of any woman before the
handsomest."
If kindliness of disposition be the
essence of good manners,'our subject
is seen at once to shade off into the
great one of Christianity itself. It ia
the heart that makes both the true
gentleman aiid the great theologian.
The apostle Paul (see speecjj deliv
ered on Mars' Hill), always endeav
| ored to conciliate Iris audience when
he commenced addressing them. And
his letters, as well as' tfcose of bis fel
low a|K>4tles,' are full of sinpathy and
consideration for every one's feeling,'
because he had learned: from Him
, wliose sympathy extending even to the
' greatest of sinners. 1^
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j successtul operation in New York
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