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JOHN.CBAHMtun,
Wateh Maker and Jeweler,
Greensboro, N ,
NOTICE
The undersigned .havingbeen appont* itcd
eouuty Examiner for Alaamoe con t v woti.'
*es au teachers of public schools p at he
will attend to the examination of a licaota ■
for teachers certificates, on tbe 2 aTbnra- t
®ay of August and October, as the mended
requires.
A CIIRRIE.
Cjtfoty Examiner. 
OUR DVMIIBR BVAKDBR.
BV EMMA NOirra.
People who have had cxfrtiilencfc
\Vfll «grC6 with mo that there is no
position more trying than that of a
woman that keeps boarders tor a liv
ing, or fur company, as seme ot them
hypocritically declare.
There is the boarder who wants to
sleep on a hard mattrafs, and the ono
whom nothing but a feather bed will
satisfy; and the one who wants his
stoak just warmed through, and the
one who wants his till fried up to
rugs; the one who must have butter
iiistcad of lard in his piecrust, and
who will haye oatmeal inush for his
breakfast, and the one who declares
that -'it does him no more good to eat
it thau to lie on his back and have
the moou shine down his throat."
Tire women who get you to run all
(heir errands, and cut all their patv
terns, who want sponge-cake between
meals, and a lemon before breakfast
for the headache, and who pick at
each other the rest of tlfS time, and
hate each othei cort^Hv.
I had ali these Varieties and more,
at my house at Oakwood, when young
ltpy Ellery came to board with me.
lie cutne in one bright June after*
noon ami left his valise, saying he
would be back to supper. Old Un«»
cle Lubiu Dorn, who wus eating his
luch at a side table, peered at hiin
curiously through his gold eyeglasses;
old Miss Florida Dorn, his daughter,
who had been twenty-five for the
past fifteen years, skewed around to
look at tho udfdresd on his shining
xatcbel, "Itoy Ellery, Editor, N. Y.
City," and Said, What a beautitui
young* maul"
And he was haudsome. Much as I
have disliked hifrt since, there was no
disputing the beauty of that waxlike
face, with its large, Jong lashed eyes,
lliat changed from blue to gray, from
gray to violet—a color coming and
going like a girl's- a sweet, Byronie
mouth, shaded by an elegant amber
mustache, and, «etnnige to sav. his
hair was quite black, wl'iicb, in this
tall, fair youth, presented quite a
striking combination.
lie was the only young man in the
house at that time, and he alit like a
bombshell among our quiet party.
The only eligible single gentleman
hitherto among us was Mr. Geasly,
the widower, a pork-packer, and de
puted to be worth a million and a
halt. He was fifty, bald-lieadcd and
bristling like his own porkers; but
for all that he was considered a great
catch, as Angio Marker, who sat next
to him at table, said*
" \Vhcn you thought now rich he
was, he looked a great deal better to
you/ 1
Angle Was a young widow, pretty
and shallow, yet with a sort of charm
ing sprighMiness about her that made
yort like lier/iif of her nonsense
and t'rippefy.
Tlien there was M*g. Yetherby, a
very fat lady. Willi a very lean income
whose husband traveled most of the
year; and, after yoffgte* acquainted
with her peculiar pomposity, you did:
not wonder he bad a propensity to
journey.
Then there was Uncle Dbru'ff
daughter, Florida, who was gaunt
and spiny, and who etideutly consid
ered herself the one virtuous woman
in the world, as she had a spiteful
word for every oue, especially young
Emily Mills.
It qvef I pitied any one from (be
bottourof my beart, it wafe young
Emily Mills. 1 kept a stylish board*
ins: bouse, but 1 took her to fill up
I oue of the chinks wbere a rich board
er would not go. She slept in the
corner attic,' under the roof, where
the rain souuded so loud and the
wind sung in tlie corners, and kept
books in the cottou factory.
Her lather was worse than none,
and, a* near I could find out,that girl
bad done almost every kind ot work
to keep from starving.
At first I disliked her—she bad
snch a Way oft wis ting aud turning
everything, and making things out of
nothing—but I grew to know there
was not one iu the house so ready to
help every body,or so liberal as she j
was with her limited means.
People talked about that girl cruel
ly, and I loved her because I pitied
her, and knew her to be as pure as an
angel. --
Sbe had- pretty brown hair, and
large, soft eyes,-and-a oolor in ber
'cheeks like-the heart ofa> May rose,-
and a moutb that made you thiuk
straightway of kisses} bul such an
old, old look in ber face, that I bare
GRAHAM, N-C., TUESDAY* SEPTEMBER 11 18?7
often seen in girU into whose life too
much wo~k has been crowded.
I noticed a marked change in the
toilets at supper on the arrival of
this young Adonis. Angie had don
ned her blonde ficho, frilled profuse
ly with the richest ot creamy lace,
and stuck lull of little blue bows,over
a silver colored silk, that rdStltfd and
shone like starlight. Her husband
had .'eft hern little pt'dperty, which
she privately declared 6he Was going
to work btfr lingers to tlit bone to
save, but should rise it as a means to
get a second husband.
Miss Florida wore a putplo silk,'
with dead whit# bdws, that made her
with lief dark eves and skin, look
like a lemon, and a crazy fringe ot
curls upon her forehead, that irtade
her look lednfef-and more cadaverous
than ever.
Mrs. Tetherby #ore s6a-greon,with
a surplus amount of Jewelry. Emily
Mills who came late, and did not
know of the new arrival, w6ro white
calico, with a sprig in it, and the cot
ton factory not being an overly clean
place, the sleeves were smutty i
satt yotrng Ellery iook at her with
his lovely, dreamy eyes; and wheu I
saw her look up at him, I knew it
was all up with her, and I know as
well as Ido now that she would fall
in love with him, and I did hope 6he
would take a fancy to wy son Watson,
who, taough not a particularly bril
liant boy, is honest and good princi
pled. i knew enough of the world to
know that fine clothes and fine ways
and a city-bred air would attract a
girl where the sober, prudent ways
of my son Watson would make 110
impression.* If ever Lucifer came
down in the form of an angel of light,
it was young Roy Ellery. Whenever
I saw him walking with Emily iu the
shady walks, I shuddered; 1 dreaded
to have her under the charm ot his
magnetic eyes, and hisdazzling ways;
but I dared not say anything, being a
widow and dependent on my board
ers for a living, and Ellery was my
best paying one.
"Beware of inan. though he be yo*V
brother,
Who has hair one color, and (nuit iche of
another."
quoted Miss Florida sharply.
Yet, lor all that, I noticed she did
not take her own warning to heart,'
• for it'ever a woman threw herselt at
a inau's head, it was Miss Florid*
Dor 11.
11l spite ot the lack of so many
front teeth, she smiled in his lace
constantly; did lie try -to flat with
willing Angie Barker, i:i tn« parlor,
she would be sure to bo sitting bolt
upright thei 6,did he attempt to whisper
any sweet things to shy Emily Mills
in some twilight corner, she would
coutrivo to wedge her knilc-like
blade of a figure hetweeu thnui.
So tho Slimmer crept awu>. and he
had likewise crept ipto the beam of
all iny womonkind. Augie had
snubbed poor Mr. 'ieasly, and devoted
herself entirely to Ellery. I knew of
the two, the latter liked Emily the
best,- but I felt sure be would never
marry her;- the youug men of to-day
ore too cool-heurted and two cools
headed* too keenly alive to their own
interests to inarry so poor a girl.
So f watched tier with dismay,
growiugsbyer, and shyer and coloring
Hke an Italian sunset whenever he
spoke to her j- and Mr. Geasly? grow
iug daily more stolid and craboed,
and my sow Wmsou.-sadder andiuore
awkward.
I had a sßmtoerslitoUfee built tor the
boarders out on the htwu—"it was no
part of tbe plan when k was built that
almost everything tlmt was said iu
that summer bouse could be heard
almost anywhere near. To-night
Angie and Ellery were sitting on the
rustic seat withiu it, and EmHy was
leaning against my garden-wall,
among tbe gosebery bushes. I was
in the woodsbeed looking over »y
citrous wbeu I beard Roy My v *
'•Whatcould have made yo« suppose*
I loved Emily better than von? Why
the girl ie well enough in ber way, bat
what man would wish to marry a girl
who wore a sprigged calico and
worked iu the cotton, taetory 7"
I 1 saw Emily start and pail ber
bouquet ©Tasters to pieces, tbeu 1
saw her tarn suddenly and walk down
to the rivers edge. Sbe stooped and
looked down into tbe green, shady
water-*bow pleasant it wonld be
to- He there the lily-pads
and'rushes for eVer ;• uo ctuel- wortd
to face, mx false lovers to wring one'a
heart.
If it were only i jght to put an end
to one's self When sick of this wo>*ld f
But wo cannot die when we waiij
to,or go off in oblivion, we must take
our flowers or clanking tfiaiifs. itfilie
case may he and step along under our.
burden.' Emily forced herself to turn
from the shadowy water aiH kept on
Wearily; *hj had almost walked into
the arms ot a tall, gaunt woman,
coining toward her. before she had
realized she iuut any one'. Tiie
\vo...aii, who seemed a mixture ot
brusqueness and cheap finery, asked
her iu a coarse toico if that was
the way to Oak wood; "Yes," salu'
startled Einily, »•! board there."
"All right." responded thfi ca
daverous teuiale, "then you mtfst have
seen a man who calls himself Roy
Ellery—a very handsome man with
black hair and blue eyes, and a taking
way with him."
"Is it/fossibie you have met him?'
faltered poor Emily.
"Possible I could Ifavo met him!
mimicked the stranger—"lie married
uie seven years ago, and a pretty lite
he has lett lire; lam no great things
to look at iiow, but I was handsome
then. You marrry a gambler and
let him waste your property for you,
and break your heart and see if in a
tew years you have such a sweet color
in your cheeks aud such pretty flesh
on your bones!"
Poor Emily, blushing furiously,
waited to hear no more, but, turning,
home across the fields without auothcr
word.
The next day Roy Ellery was no
where to he found neither was Mis 9
Florida's diamond brooch nor five
hundred dollars in bank-uotes Angle
Barker kept locked in a burcau-draw«
er.
Old Mr. Dorn said, "bo must have
found his proper level, and betaken
himselt to his Sautanic majesty I" only
be said it iu an abbreviated form.
'•I su-pected he was a married man
all the time," said Miss Florida,
"Sho must have an aflinity tdr
married men, then whispered Mrs.
Yetherby. -*
But, with all our surmises, fore*
thought and searching, the (liumoudß
and bills and Roy, with his false, fair
face, were never found.
Angie having spent most ot licr
ihoney said "Yes," at last, to patient
Mr. (jeash, and reigns over his big
houso graciously, and is a richly
dressed proper society woman.
Miss Florida captured a judge at
last, a man as tall and dark as herself,
lie wanted a housekeeper she wanted
some one to rule over, so they both
tolerate each other, and keep np a
system of mild nagging the year
through.
Emily is with mo yet,' with a
pathetic gleam in her laige eyes aud a
Under droop iu her sweet mouth.
Love goes whei* it is aont, aud sho
does not Itfto my sou Watsou and
will not marry him under the cir
cumstances. Still, I am hopin|
brighter days will coinefof thein both
sometime.
- A l/KSHO.X OV OIMUBHt'B,
There was ouce a German duke
who disguised himself, and during
the night placed a great stone in the
middle ot the road ritfa f his {Alice.
Next morning a sturdy peasant,
named Hans—eitnWf that way with
lrn lo tube ting ox-cart. "Nh, these
lazy people?" said he; "there ia a
big stone right in the middle of the
road, and no one will take the trouble
to put it out of the way." And so
Hans went on his way, scolding
about the laziness of the people.-
Next came a gay soldier along.
He had a bright plume waving from
his helmet, a*d a sword d«ng|; n g
his side, and went singing merrily on
his way. His head was held so far
back that ha didn't notice the stone,-
so he tumbled over it. Tins stopj>ed
his song, aud be began at onto fa
storm al the oountry people, and call
them "boors and blockheads for leav
ipg a huge rock in the road for • gen.
tie mm to fall over," Then he went
Ot»/
Next cafme a SMnpany of
chants, with pack-horses and goods,
on their way to the fair that WHS to
be held at the village near the duke's
palace. When they came to the
stone/ the road Was so narrow that
they had to go off is- single file on
either side, One of them/
/Sertbold/ cried out} "Did anybody
ever see the like of that big stone
lyiug here alljho morning, and no
one stopping to takfe it away?"
It lay there fof thf-ee wfcfekj; and
nobody trifed to tetiiove it. Then the
duke se/lt rottfid wofd to all the jhjo
ple on bin lands; to meet at a deep
cut in the mad, called Doruthou,
neaf where this stone lay/ aft he hitd
something to tell them;
The day came/ and d grffat crowd
gathered fit the tfohithoU. Each
side of the cut was thronged with
|>eople O't&rlooking the road. Old
Hans, the faJmer, was there, and so
was Bertholdj the fnerchant.
And now a winding horn was heard,
and the people all strained their necks
and v-yes toward the castle, as a splen
did cavalcade came galloping up to'
the Dornthou. The duke rOde into
the cut, got down from the horse, and
with a pleasant smile began to speak
to the people thus:
My frien(|s, it was I who put this
stone here three weeks ago. Every
passer-by has left it just where it was,
and has scolded his neighbor for not
taking it out of the way.
When he had spoken th»e words
he stooped down and lifted up the
stone. Directly underneath it was
a round hollow lined with white
las, and in the hollow lay a leathern
bag. The duke held it tip that all
might see what was written on it.
On a piece of paper, fastened to the
bag, weie these words, "For him who
lifts up Uit iton% n
He untied the bag, and turned it
upside down, and out fell a beautiful
gold ring and twenty large blight
golden coins.
Then everybody wirhed that he
had moved the stone, instead of going
round it and only blaming his neigh
bors. They all lost the price because
they had not learned the lesson, or
formed the habit of helpfulnesa. And
we shall miss many a prize, aa we go
on in life,if we don't form this habit.
That bag of money was the duke's
promise of a reward for helpfulpeas.
But that promise was hidden away
under the stone so that no one
sec it. God's promises are not hid
' den in this way. l*uey are written
plainly out in the Bible, so that
way all see them and understand
them.
Dr. Franklin used to say, "What
though you have found no treasure,
and had no legacy left yon: never
mind. Remember that dilligsnoe la
tho mother of good lu#k, Then—
'Plow deep while sluggards Bleep,
And you will have corn to Sell and keep.'
Work while it is called to-day, /or
you know not how much you may be
hindered to-morrow. One to-day is
two to-morrows; and never leave till
to-Mtorrow anything that yon can do
tollay.
[From the Detroit Post]
It ia not strange that Mr. Evarts
doesn't make money otf of his farm.
| Horace Greeley and H. W.- Beecher
failed because they were not content
to let their workmen run the farm,
but must needs put their ownr absurd
ideas in practice. Mr. Evarta fails
because his manager ia unable to un
derstand him, and gets confused just
aa sootf .at ifr. Evarta niaius
his appearance and begins to talk,
last year, tor instance, Mr. Evarta
said to hia manager the very first
morning of the summer vaca*
tion > —
' &
"Patsev,- it beoomes necessary, in
vtow ot the superabundance of foreign
and deleteroua elements among thoae
green and waving uprights/ tor pimoe
the charger in front of the utensil
with the brandling sad numerous sup
porter*/ and bfcve the latter aggitale
the surface of the naturaHy productive
soil/*
Ymtmf said •fcurP'
The astounding density of tarions
species of the human
Mr. Evarttr *fU>* a atari of vexation,
sucoesdMl by a period of profound
thought/ "is a something, I am free
to confess, much beyond my compflsw
hension. I hate combated Lucy
Stone auftgly and alone fur three sue*
cessive lhave even communed
with the stolid and peculiarly hajjv
py idoey ot Gideon Wellea; but I
never saw the lite at ibiß: It is
wor*e than the jury in the Beeolier
trial. By the ghost of William Tell,
the man's a horie!"
"It is a horse you want, sur?" said
Patsy, a Ifsfipy light dawnihg ujtoii
hiuf.
"The eiacfc purpose of the creation
of such being*," pursued Mr. Evarta;
heedless of the interruption, "ia d
something which wiflj jierhaps, bo
revealed at some timt ih the far dia-
Unt future. I should lite to tratf
the tfaeoty of Darwin iu this creature.
I should like to compare him with
the lower sped#*,- if, happily, there
are any lower. I wish I had an
ourangotitafig here.'*
"We bjtfeo't one on th 6 farrunu
sur," aaid Patsey, with some haste.
s 'They—they were sold by iniatake,'
sur, last winter along wid the pota«?
tys. w
"Ceate; barbarian 1" said Mr. EVW
arts, with towering scorn, evidently
provoked boyond endurauce. "Uport
,my soul, you havdgfc* little knowl
edge of farm work aa the Hon. Ben*
jatnin Buttler has af politics."
Mr. Efsrts fushei Wildly into the
houtt;
"I think," said Patsey, ityfef wast
ing another previous half-hour irf
profound thought; "I thiirit Mnathef
Evarta wants me to harness the oxirf
to the carriage and ptft the colta US
the A*y #afcO&"
And all in the world that Mr:
Evarta wanted was that Patsey
Should cultivate the corn/
A Rhode Island Judge beiug tflfal*
lenged by k General iu ibe State mU
liactia the folic wing Ohffoguo ensued *
'DM you receive my uote iir?'
'Yes, sir,' replied the judge.
' tVell, do yotf intend to fight rae?'
'No', sir.'
'Then. sir, I consider you a pitiful
co waul.'
'ltighr, sir; you knew that very
well or you never would bare chat-'
longed me/ answered' the jud£e.
An affidavit recently submitted in
a Brooklyn court reads thus: "And
deponent fm*Mr says that the de
fendant drew a pistol and threatened
deponent tbat, If be did rt»t at auee
leare the premise*, be,- the said de*
fondant / Would blow bin? to bell/
wblbh ■fb'pohent verily bolieveth said
detendant would bare done bad be/
the And deponent,- not doue as be was
coiniftfeirttofi
In the Auburn Cemetery,
Boston/ is a lot containing fire stone*/
one at careh cofnef tfirtf (fne in tbs
centre. Th* latter is ltMHfaed •'Our
Husband/' and tfatfotbeW Respective
ly bear ' My I Wife," "My il Wife,"
"My *II WfW/'and '-Jdfy IV tfife. '
Two Fr*nctamtf m6et-=oue dlscovv
ers a peculiaf odojr. Sapristi— lt What
is thai T' Supers! hiouf friends, with
penchant for Ah I 1 am
going tcfSt. Sebastian, ataftam taking
a dead rat iu my poeket.- Tbey tell
me there far notbfug brings look like*
tbat.
Lyons llepuUtcam We arr* not
yet so (fardened in editorial shi as US
tell a 9tff lie (even though Rbe about
a camp-meeting) for a Aty cent adv
mission ticket.
St. Louis Tiw/eiv It is ptopOttedhY
Indiana to change the marriage w
take this woman?'' And the bride*
groom shall-answer,- "1 dare."
Greater resonance h obtaftifcd fronf
nollow than from solid tbiuga. Mu~
siviaus sliould remember this and Mot
eat anything for several days before
playing iu public.— Oil CUy Calf.
Havrkeye: Stfipedf ftodtfog* srA
going out of style and the Sunday
School picnic will no more be electri
zed by a brilliant display of the north*
em Mjghts every time a girl tails out
ot the swing.
"I have a little poem bare/'
The visitor observed/
"Ou Beuutugtou,,'—a Shot f- a-
A dying groan 1-=* stream ofblood;
I Ilia fete watftreli-deserved.
P.. -i f iiirfn'i 1 -"'
-■•iiOaOlf i/VUvtOrf
'
Si* diflereut colleges ftmifeh thW
waiters for tfet Oleu House, alt the
White Mountains, this summer.
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