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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, VOL 4 THE GLEANER PUBLISHED WKEKLY BV E. S. PARKER Graham, IV. C, i —♦—* ■ Jiatei oj Subscription. I'ostaye raid : One Ycajr $1.50 Six Months..„, vv 75 Tiirce Month's. 5o Every sending hs a club of ten übseribers with the cash, entitles himself to one copy free, for tlie length of time for which the club is made up. Papers sent to lifferent otiicec. No Departure from the Cash System K ilo* ot t if I v. ' Transient advertisements payable in ad vance; yearly advertisemcts quarterly in advauce |1 m. |2 m, |8 m. | 6 m. I 18"m. r quare 's2 00 ! 00,$ 600 •*lO 00 2 *t I 3 00U 50| 6 00 1 10 00 115 00 Transient advertisements $1 per square for he first, and fifty cents for each subse quent insertion. | r *HIS PAPER IS OK FILE WITH Where AdhrerUetng Contracts c*n be t • if rrV y, '* , r' $ _ JOHN CHAMBERLAIN GREENSBORO, N. C., AK E B JEWELLER DEALER IN FINE ' WATCHES, JEWELRY, Sterling Silver, and Plated- Ware, I 1 \i: gPKCTACI.KSi and everything else in my line. ine and «u#t us represented, and you shall uav no more for it than a fair advance on the wholesale cost, Goods ordered shall be fur nished as low as if ptirchu«;d iu person at my ".UHter r UaveWu.de in the liaausowest manner, • llair CbaiHO. Hair Jewelry. Diamond wud Wedding — •rVlnr Jewelry, »«ld and Silwr Wa'th €«««( etc,, etc. , . My machinery and other appliances for makin" the different parte oi^ Watches, is perhaps tlie most extensive in the State, con- Luuentlv 1 can guarantee tiiat any part ot a watch or clock can bo replaced with the ut- UI S- f that my work will com pare favorably iu efficiency and finish with any lnthe W. CHAMBERLAIN) „ Watch Maker and Jeweler, Greenslioro, N , fiIMSMBII The Dead I deal in American and Italian # Barbie Monuments and Headstones [ would inform the public that I am pre pared to do work as Cheap as any yard in the State, AND GUAKANTEE PFRFECT SATISFACTION. ; ' * * - j Parties living.at a distance will save money by HCLdine to me for PRICE LIST and DRAWINGS. To persons making up a flub of six or Sire, I offer the • " _ . J C Most liberal induce ments, *ud en application will forward designs, &c„ or visit them in pet son. . Any kind of marketable produce taken in exchange for work. 8. C. ROBERT SCTN, GRKENSBORO, N. C. *r-' . , THE NEKUHANTM TEST. The day was yet young, when a traveler loft the train at the little sta tion at lyiorton, and leaving directions about li!s baggage with the station master sauntered leisurely up the dusty road, lie had engaged Sum mer lodgings by letter, and was seek« it.ig his destination. 'Go straight ahead till you come to it. This was (he station master's direc tion, so straight ahead Lucien Gay lord proceeded, till lie paused to look at a tableau vivant, framed in flower* ir.g vines. A girl seated upon a shady porch, shelling poas. Her broad hat was pushed back, leaving a lace pure ly oval, delicate featured, creamy of] complexion, with brown eyes and golden hair simply back in waving bauds,to fall in clustering curls around the slender throat. Most unlike russ tic beauty was the highbred face, the slender white handf, the self-poscss cd pose; but yet the dress was a quiet brown calico, with white apron, with ruffle and cuffs/ While Luoien Gtaylcrd looked at her, she raised her beautiful eyes and saw him, lie raised his hat,asking: 'Can you direct iue to Miss Strong's?' 'lt is here,' was the answer. And opening the gate, Lucien en tered, mentally concluding that tlie silvery sweet voice was as deliciously relincd us the face. " , * 'I am Lucien Gaylord,' he said, by way of introduction. 'My Aunt Maria's new lodger.— You lujd better fest on. the porch bos fore I cail her. Ii is a ny'walk trow the station.' l\i teetly easy, Willi, just sufficient cordiality in tiie tone for welcome, Lucien accepted the invication,watch ing the dainty fingers shelling peas, with a touch that wus light yet firm. .? , Miis Strong appeared presently, and took her new lodger to his room, asking her twice to carry her pan to tlie kitchen. 'For we will give you an early dins ner ifter your long walk/ she said, hospitably, busfjfcg about to."Wring cold water nmldttaUiowe!*, I V 'You sent vcflrtrunk? F wffl it sent up as soon as it comes.'. j. 'May,' she told her ncicc. 'lib is a ' t « gentleman, every inch of him, and handsome as a picture.' •1 Jike his manner,' May aiis swered,washing her peas at the sink 'Shall I make a custard aunty ?' 'lf you will, dear. Oh, dear, to think of Cynthia taking this day of all others to act so. For Cvuthia, the only servant, had been detected in the act of passing spoons from the kitchen window to a villianous looking tramp, and the pair had been bunded over to the village constable. None appearing to replace the thiev ish Cynthia, May was often found in the kitchen, not very efficient bui willing, ajul succeeding, iu many cu> liiiary triumphs, simply by obeying orders. 'l'll make a good cook of you yet,' her aunt often told her, and she laugh ed merrily at her words. ButLacicn Gaylord, enjoying a brief Summer holiday, often wished heartily that he might be permitted to live upon bread and and milk, it by so doing he could keep May out of the kitchen. . Whenever she was free she found him waiting for her, and they sat iu the porch, or walked in shiidy lanes, chatting pleasantly, gradually going beyond surface talk, mutually intcr terosted and pleased to find so much sympathy of thought and feeling that time sped on too swiftly when they were togctlior. lie told her of his boyhood with a wealthy father, who died suddenly, leaving nothing of a once handsome fortune, ot his mother who sank soon after uudcr the pressure of sorrow and poverty! ot his own position as a clerk iu a wholesale bouse, upon a small salary. Not until they were fast friends did he tell her this, and a little later he told her of a new dream, a new hope, a love, death only could de - * stroy. ♦Will yon let mc lake back to my drudgery the hope that if I can cou quer fortune, you wril come to share it?' ho asked. 'Will you be my wife, Joye, in that futnre which I hope to gather about me at least comforts for a home?' He had wooed her In a straight for ward) uianJy fashion, and she was not GRAHAM, N. C-, surprised. She put her hand in his, promising all he asked. He went back to his desk in the autumn, but only a week Inter was oflercd a better position in the count ing house of the merchant, John Bur nctte. 'lt is so strange' he wrote to M.iy, 'Mr Burnette himself seems so inters ested in inc. though 1 am an entire stianger to hitr. He watehss me and promotes me rapidly,, seemingly pleased with all I do. Darling, it this coutinues, our home will be se cure. It aid continue. Nearly two years had passed, when one morning Mr. Burnette called Lu» eien into his private olfiee. closing the door after lii.n. lam about to maico a strange dis closure to you,'*iie said gravely, 'and you-must weigh well wliaf, I say to vcu. Up to to this (iire you have known me only as a business man, to-day I speak to you as friend (o friend, lam a rich man, but I have few friends, Lucien Gaylord. Shall I count yetffas one?' 'You lwnor mo,' he faltered, "overs whclmod with surprise. 'lptn a father,' Mr. Burnette said, •and my only child is a daughter, whose tuturo has been to inc a subject of deep prayerful anxiety. I have feared that when I die, the wealth I leave would make her the wife ot some plausible fortune hunter. 1 have feared that my business would full to ruin in incompetent hands. Often 1 have hoped to meet at some lime an honorable, upright man, to whom I could teach t.ie secret of my success. I have prayed that when 1 die, I might leavo my child under tlie protecting car? of a husband, who had not sought hor for her wealth, a man ot pure heart and firm princi ple, Lucien Gaylord, I have found the man I sought.' To-day you will dine with me, and be introduced to Burnette.' . 'l?' The cry broke from Lucien's lips in such utter amazement, that he thought he must dream, or that his employer was iusaue. 'You!' was the quiet answer. 'But it is all impossible,' Lucien said, slowly regaining his eelf-poss session. 'lmpossible? Why so, if I am willing?' 'You will think mo ungrateful, presumptuous, but I cannot accede to your noble generous plan. Faith ful service,Trne friendship, I can give you gladly but you must seek anollicr heir, auother son-in-law. I am not free.' 'You refuse my daughter?' 'I have given my love and won a hcr.i t that I could never betray.' •May I ask where?' 'My promised wife is no heiresp, but a simple country lovely and gentle. I will not weary you sir with a lover's praise but you will let me say that I have woiked tor two years with the hope of winning some position that will enable me to ofTcr a home to my wile. If you will put me in such a situation, you will win my warmest gratitude, but I must not think again of the daz zling offer you made me.' •You refuse to bo my son-in-law —mv heir?' 'I refuse any offer that iuakc3 mo a traitoi to a puro heart that trusts mc.' . •I makes it harder for mo to give you up, but if I must, at least accept an invitation to dinner and my friendship.' • - 'Gladly, replied Lu cien Gay lord. 'At six o'clock tbeu, I shall expect you.' Was be awake? Lucien G&vlord asked hiimelf the question more than once as he pore I over bis ledgers, addod long columns ot figures and wrote busiuess lets ters. Had John Burnettc really made bim the magnificent proposals still lingering ill his cars? Were they both insane? ilis head was still whirling as he dressed himself and walked toward the sjjfclgndid mansion the ricb merchont called his home. He was still musing of this when Mr. Burnettc himself crossed the room. 'Have yon thought bolter of your refusal?' he asked. 'I can only repeat it sir. My hcatft my love are no longer at my dis posal.' TUESDAY APRIL 2 1878 There was a ruslle of §ilk upon the rich carpet, a Udy advanced dressed in a shimmering lustrous silk, with juwells in her hair and upon her wrisis. A lady with soft brown eyes and golden curls, who was introdu ed as— 'My daughter Mablc, Mr. Gays lord.' But who was surely. May, his own May, niece of Maria Strung WHO took Summer lodger* iu a, small country villago. Mr. Burnette had disappeared when Lucien moved his wandering eyes upon May's face and only the lady of his true love remained. 'You will, .jforjjive juc, Lucietu' she said, drawing him to a seat beside her upon a sofa it you think !'• hay e deceive ! you when I tell you how ii all happened.' 'My father only spoke the truth this morning when he told you my future was the only anxiety of his lil'c. 1 cannot tell you of his wor shipping love for me.' - 'When I rot limed from Norton I told him of your love for mo—mv promise to you. Knowing you loved me for myself alone with no kuows ledge of iny position and fortune. I begged him to send for you at once and te 11 you the truth. 'But next to his oliild my father loves the business lie has built up up by lits own energy and talent, lie wished to bo sure that it will int be ruined jn the hands ot his son-in-law, and I consented to his lest ot your capacity.' ■lt is no small compliment Lucien, for him to toll me ne is thoroughly satisfied, willing to trust the futuro of both his child and his business to yoii.' . 'But May are you not Mrs, Strongs niece?' 'lam. Sholsmv mothers sister. Every Summer I spend some weeks in Norton. Still 1 havo never per formed any menial woik there, except during your visit, when there was no servant. My aunt has never lolt her homo and I take uo finery to Nortou. goo she does not realize how different my life is here from my life with her.' 'And you. who must see so many suitors, were willing to give mc the treasure of your love?' •All, Lucien, love is a tyrant.— He took us both under hi* rule in those Summer days nt Norton, n hen I was writing to papa of Aunt Maria's lodgei, and lie was hoping and fearing for me. But come now to to tlio library, and tell him you have reconsidered Lis ofler, and will marry that unknown lady so postivcly re fuse.! only this morning.' There arc two rosy children in the grand nursery, and already the fifth auivcrsary of May's wedding day 11116 passed, but there has been uo regret yet in tlio happy home at the result ot •The Merchant's Test.' N. Y. Tribune: Who says that (his is an ungrateful world? Three weeks ago, an old gentleman living in Puris, was so ill that he sent for a lawyer to make a will, and for several frienda to whom he wished to say good-bye before dying. Ono of these was a young tellow who occupied an attic on the sixth floor of the same house. After the will had been signed, every one went to the old man's bedtide to say a word of comfort to him. When the lodger from the attic drew near, the dying man took both bauds say ing: *'l>« you remember when last we met? It was on the first night of 'EK uani.' I was not weiriheu.but I rose from to go and see it once more. IT»UI now paying for my iin' prudence. I had no seat, only a stool at the side. You had a very good one, ■sir.' 'Given to mo by a friend, who could not use it himself,' answered the young man, as if to apologize. '1 know,' 6aid the old man. 'I also know that, bcefug me without a com> fortable seat, so soon as tho act was finished, you compelled me to take Vour stall, while you took my stool. Yon thereby allowed me to spend the last pleasant evening of my lite. You alone, out of all that crowd, pitied my white hair.' When the young lodger roturued on the following day, the old man was dead, lie had left a parting message for bis young friend, with a souvenir ot their last meeting at the opera, iu tho lorin ot a check for $20,000. i ADVICE rOB 99 CBNTH, [From the Concord Patriot. A young mail in Dover, N. H„ saw an advertisement in a New York paptrwhich read thus: "Any one Bending as twenty-five cents will receive in return something which will be oi iinmcncc value to hirn.' lie sent and received in" reply this "Dbu't be wch * fool as to send your money to »« again, but keep it in your pocket." MOTHER AND SOX, 'May 1 FCC my boy, sir?' She was thin and wan, her clathcs wove poor, but neat, and the trouble in her eyes showed that lier heart was very heavy. 'You can,' said Ihe officer kind ly. ' She wen* into the corridor and sat where the shadow covered her face. The tired head went against the wall, and the eves were closed. But be tween the lashes a drop or two forc ed their wey, as if a misery was there that could break the bonds of pride or the courage of patient suffering. The turnkey brought him in,- ami for a moment he stood before her without speaking- lie was tall and fair, with blue eyes, apd in age was full sixteen yeais. At first there wa» a defiant look in his eyes, but when he saw that picture of wounded love and loving suffering before „ him, his lip quivered, and it required all his strength to hold himself iu con. trol. . . , I* 'Mother 1' The word was spoken low, #nd as she heard it i»he started as though called back from a dream that was lull of root and comfort. She looked up, and in a moment more arm* were about his neck, and his head lay 011 that heart which had.beat so true for him through years of his wayward folly. Three years before ho had left her, and in all that time she had not seen him; and now, after fifty miles of hurried travel, she met him iu the hands of the law—a thief on his own confession. The few spectators went out and left them there alone, she with her sorrow, and be, it is hoped- with a repentance that will bear fruit of jov and comfort to her iu the years to come. MTRVaGLI.Vtt AGAINST DEATH, Recently, Mrs. Amic Oakley, of Now York, alter 4 a family difficulty, took an ounce of laudanum, if was some lime before tho fact was known by Iter relatives, and then the trivial cause of tho attempted suicide was dropped, and all bent themselves to save her life. Dr. Kent was sent for. When a person lias taken laudannm. of course the great desire is to go to sleep. If the patient can be kept awake till tho cflccis ot tho uarcotio pass away, there is no further danger, liut sleep is (he sloop ot death, liivain the woman bagged, implored,prayed, eutrealcd them to let her lie down iu rest; but thoy kept her awake with forced walking, shaking, switching her with twigs, and other pun» ishment, and at the same time gave the proper antidotes, chiefly the active principle of belladonna, to couteract the (.'fleet of the narcotic. In spito of all this she continued to sink, until at eleven o'clock her pulse had run down to four or five beats a minute, and it seemed impossible to keep her from the fatal sleep. Doctor Kent toi.t for Drs. Meyers and llurd, to come, auA bring their galvanic batteries, which they did, and all three doctors com menced at the woman, keeping her system stimulated and preventing her from going to sleep by strong contin uous circuits of galvanism that would have made a normal person almost crazy. The minute a battery was re moved the woman appeared to sink, so thev kept iliein going at full s'reugjh, 0110 being loaded up with fresh chemicals wlii'e the other was being used, and this was kept up un remittingly until about three o'clock the next morning, when the effects ot the drugs began to wear »ff, and the pulse showed signs of strengthening. By four o'clock she had entirely recovered and was out of further danger, so that the exhausted doctors could take their leave and seek rest for themselves. They never mure emphatically and literally kept a per son from dyiug in their lives. It was u literal tussel with death tor eight or nine hours, but with a final victo for the M. D's. and their little electric machiucß. r ■ BREVITY. None Valued this important quality iu man or woman more highly than Doctor Abcrncthy. A woman having burnt her baud called at his house. Showing him her hand she sa ! d. 'A burin' 'A ]>oulticc.' quietly returned tho learned doctor. The next day the woman returned and said, •'lJctter." "Continue the poultice." In a week she inado her last call, and her speech was lengths eued t# three monosyllables—"Weil: your fee?" "Nothing," answered the pleased physician; "you are the most sensible woman I ever saw." The Paris Rothschild?, who are all bankers, arc said to work as hard as if 1 tlicy were just beginning | their fortune. They observe their 'office hours as punctually as tho poorest clerk. There is .1 popular Relief that they hope to excute the dream of rc-bnilding the temple of Jerusalem,—JT. T, Tribune. N0.5. . Silfanintjs. 1 A grass widow forty-five years old, is attending school iu Lumpkin. George Eliot is said to have made £40,000 by Daniel Deronda. A Milwaukee girls ear will wear out four pairs of brass ear-rings in a year. Since his marriage, King Alfonso has fcteadily refused to attend bull fights. M. De Lesseps is seventy years of age, and the father of thriving twins. a Sir Peter Coats, the spool thread man, is threading his way through the tiouth. Mrs. A. T. Stewart owns the largest single diamond in the land; value $35,000. . Did yon ever see a woman playing whist when t.he didn't hold "tho worst hand I ever did set;?" Josh Billings says: 'The worst tyrant in this world is a woiran who is superior to her husband and lets everybody know it.' A Maine man, aged 83, offered a young lady sixty years his junior SIO,OOO cash' down to marry him. She took the money and the man. A woman will face a frowning world and cling to the man she loves, through the most bitter adversities, but thtn she does not believe in wearing a hat that is not exactly tho "style." A handsomely -.dressed woman at a rooent performance of "Hamlet" given by Edwin Booth, in the Brook lyn Academy, turned to her compan ion in the inidst of the first act, and asked, audibly, M Which is Shakes** peare?" A petition containing 60,000 rig*- natures has been transmitted to Par liament from Ireland, asking that th«» liquor saloonf be closed on'Hunday in ihat country, showing that public opinion is right, on the temperance question. .■ By the laws of Florida no man who has lost an arm or a leg, no matter how or where, or from what cause, can be taxed for any business ho may enter into, always excepting the liquor business, A pasionate temper renders a man unfit for advice, deprives him of his reason, robs him of all that is great and noble in his nature, makes him unfit for con vernation, i destroys friendship, changes justice into cruel ty, and turns all order into confusion. Mrs Thompson, the lady who created such comment recently in England, by having her horse shod with gold, and who scattered gold coins among tho children at Barce land, Spain, has been placed in a Lunatic Asylum. A woman that was determined to please herself in marrying, was warn ed that bur intonded, although a good kind of a fellow, was rather singular, 'Wei, then,' she replied, 'if he is very much unlike other men, he is much more likely to make a good husband' , "Policeman (stopping a hack driver) —"Look here, now; don't you know there's an ordinance requiring every carriage to havp a lantern at night?" sure, sir, what nade have . I tor a lantern at all, at all? Can you not qee for yursclf, sir, that me horse is bloinJ?" A statesman said yesterday to a | constituent to whom he was showing | Congress, "I assure you that there v are but three great intellects in the whole body." "And who are they?" said'the constituent. "I am one," replied the modest groat man, "and I forget tho names of the other two."— Wash. Capital. After the election of Mr. Wilber force for Hull, his sister promised ' the compliment of a new dress for tho wife of every freeman who had voted for her brother.* At this she was saluted with the cry, "Miss Wilber* force forever!" but she smilingly observed, "Thank you, gentlemen, btft I really cannot agree witlf you; I do not wish to be Miss Wilberforce forever," • ' . Mrs. Jefferson Davis is described as being at present a very stout, very intelligent and very ami&ble-looktng woman. Her face is round, she has a larg« and expressive mouth and black hair steaked with gray. She is kind-hcartoi, and is said by a cors respondent of tho Times of Chicago to bo much liked in Memphis, es« pecinlly by people. Mr. Davis is very thin an 1 looks very old and broken.
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