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JOHN CHAMBER. LAIiN
GREENSBORO, N. C.,
Practical m a k e k
WATC H ANO
JEWELLER
DEALER IN
FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY,
Sterling Silver, and Plated- Ware,
VINE SPEGTACIiBS,
and everything else in my line.
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Special attention given to the repali ing
and timing of Fine Watches aud Regulators.
I offer you every possible guarantee that
whatever you may buy of me shall be genu
ine aud ;u*t as represented, aud you shall
pay no more for it than ••• fair advance on the
wholesale cost, Goods Ordered shall be fur
nished as low as if purchased in person at my
CjJUMter. I have made iu the handsomest
manner,
Hair Chain. Hair Jewelry. Dlnmaatl
aad %Ve«l«fiii« Hhiiißw, all Itiarfa
•f Fine Jewelry, ami
Silrer »Va«ch Cases,
ete,, etc.
My machinery and other appliances for
making the different parts oi Watches, is
perhaps the moet extensive in the State, con
sequently I can guarantee that any part of a
watch or clock cau be replaced with the ut
most facility,
1 guarantee that my work will coiu
pare favorably in efficiency aud tiuish with
any in the laud.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN,
Watch Maker and .Jeweler,
Greensboro, N ,
SlMMßifi
The Dead
I deal in American and Italian
Karfele 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.
Parties living at a distance will sare monev
by scl ding to me for PRICK LIST and
DRAWIJfGS. To persons making op a
club of six or more, loffer the
Most liberal induce
ments,
and on application wilt forward designs,
Ac,, or visit them in pei son.
Any kind of marketable produce
taken in exchange for work.
8. C. ROBERTSON,
GREENSBORO, N. 0.
TII K PLKDUE PUKSK
[From the Sunny South.]
BY EMMA GARRISON JONES.
"George, dear," said Mrs. Pres
cott, looking up from* her basket of
mending, hs she and her husband
sat by their fire-side one winter night,
"has it ever occured to you that it is
time our boys were sicuin" the
pledge?"
Mr. Prescott tossed aside his paper
with a laugh,
"There you go, my dear; aud I
really expected it. The wonder is
, you haven't caught th« fever soon-
er "
"What fever, George?"
" Why, this temperance fever that
seems to I>e crazing eyerybody just
now. The'town's full of it; every
second man I meet wears a gay roset.e
in his button-hole, and every church
is converted into a temperance hall;
but the filing won't last— such spas
modic movements never do."
His wife's bright eyes grew wistful,
aud a cloud crossed her pretty, fresh
face. She was a happy little woman,
the mother of three promising boys,
always busy and full of plans for the
comfort of her family.
"It is a good movement, George,"
xbo continued, f'l trust it will be
more lasting than you think ; and it
would," she added, witlr-spirit, "if
the known men of the town, the
strong, reliable men like yourself,
George, would take hold of it."
"SjUich obliged for the compliment,
m.y love," laughed her husband ; "but
1 dou't think I'm in any danger of
becoming a drunkard."
"Nor do I, George, but you are
jwt a temperance man, and there's
Always danger in having to do
«rith sin."
" Why, Lizzie, how much in earn
est you Beem. /You've caugut tlfo
fever without doubt. Yott always
had a weakness for running after
fashions, lint really, child I'm in no
danger. I'm not a total abstinence
man, I'll admit; ever since I can
rememl er I've had my drink or two
a day,'but I never was intoxicated in
my life, and I never expect to
be."
"I trust not, George, but you have
sous, ami there's no tailing into what
errors your example may lead
them." s
"Why, Lizzie, do you mean to
say I set my boys a bad example?"
"No, George, there never was a
better husband and father thau you
are, but you teach your boys to drink
intoxicating liquors. We have wine
on the tablo occasionally, and almost
every morning the boys have their
toddy."-
"And you have always mixed
the beverage, my dear, aud shared it
around to us."
"I. know it, George, but I shal'
never do it again. In the first place,
it is a waste ot money. The liquor
used in this house costs every cent of
a dollar a week."
"That's not much, Lizzie."
"No; but it counts up. And how
much does your private drinking
amount to, do you suppose!"
"Bless my soul, Lizzie, what lias
come over you? Ten centß some
time, never more than a quarter "
"Each d«y?"
"Yes. You don't grudge me that
trifling amount, do you?"
"I grudge you nothing, George,
that will make you and yocr boys
happy," cried his wife, her eyes
filling with tears; "but I wish you
could see this matter as I do. Let
me giv3 you an illustration. The
Aabford boys were here an evening
or so ago, and they wore their blue
temperance on their jackets.
"Lary, why don't you fellows sign
the pledge! It is so awfully jolly,"
said one of them.
"Our Lawrence laughed, just as you
laughed at me a minute ago, George.
He is his fathers own son,' my hand
some Larry, and it would break my
heart to see him do wrong.
"It's jollier to drink your social
glass, and have your hot toddy when
you feel dull," he replied. "My
father thinks the pledge a humbug,
asd so do I." I
GRAHAM, N. C-,
"♦Did Larry say thai?' asked Mr.
Prestcott.
'Those were his words, George.and
they cut me to the heart. Now, luiss
baud, you have,never denied me any
thing since the day you made me
your happy wife—don't deny me this.
Let's banish all sorts of intoxicating
drink from our house, and dp jou
take your boys by the hand and innke
them sign the pledge. As their lath*
er does they will do willingly.' And
the little woman put by her sewing,
and crossing to her husband's chair,
took his head in her two hands, and
laid her cheek against his lace. 'Now,
George, dear, surely you'll not say no
to me tor the first time, will you?'
There was silence lor a minute,and
then the husband drew the pretty
face down und kissed it.
"1 coulln?tsay no, Lizzie, if I want,
ed,' lie said. 'No man could with l *
stand such a witch as you are.'
On the following day Mr. Prestcott
and his three 6ons signed the pledge,
and the boys pride in their
gay badges.
Intoxicating drinks were banished
from their home, and no 0110 seemed
to be 0118 whit Tho worse for it. If
the boys had a cold their mother ad- j
ministered lie t mullen tea, and she
found the remedy even more efficient
than tho todies used to be. The boys
seemed more speedily relieved, and
had fewer attacks.
• Throe years went by. Times were
hard, and money scarco, and Mr.
Prcscotts business was dull. To make
matters worse, lie had a long spell of
sickness, and a heavy doctor's bill.
'I can't see my way out of it,' he
remarked, sitting in his arm chair,
one evening, his pale face seamed
with lines of care, 'the building asso.
ciation slock will have to go, and I do
hate that tremendously.'
•What is it, George, dear? Maybe I
can help you.'
The sick man smiled at (lie little
wite, ever so ready with her help.
'No, dear, you can't help me in
this; I wish you could,' he said.' ,'lt
is a note, which must be paid before
the tenth.'
And to-day it the eighth. What is
the amount, George?
'Three hundred and fifty dollars,
and I have not fifty to spare. It it
hadn't bocn for this confounded fevs
er—'
'Hush, ray levo. Waitflill I bring
inr pledge purse,' and his wife dart
ed from the room.
Iu two minutes she was back, a
heavy purso iu her hand.
. 'This is my pledge purso, George.'
'Your pledge purse? What do you
mean?'
•vVhy, yon see,' and the little we
man's face tairly glowed as her boys
left their lessons and crowded around
her, eager to hear, 'the day you and
the boys signed the pledge, George, I
made this purse, and called it my
pledge purse. Every day I have' put
iu ten .cents, and every week a dollar,
because that much used to go fornas
ty, intoxicating drink, that did my
boys aud (heir father more harm thau
good. Sometime*, whon I had a lit
tle si are change, I threw (hat iu too.
Larray, my boy, sit down by your
father and couut over the content*. 1
hepe there may be enough to pay that
troublesomo note.'
Larry obeyed with alacrity, bis
father looking on with eaget*eyes as
he assorted the dollar notes and piled
up the quarters and dimes. Wlieu
all was told, tho amount was four
hundred and sixty five dollars.
Mr. Prrccott looked at his wife,
and his eyes filled with ters.
'Why Lizzie—why, little wife,what
can I say?' he began.
She caught his boad to her bos
om.
'Say nothing George. I kept ray
pledge purse for eu hour of {need
aud that hour has come. Pay the
note that troubles you, dear, and
then get well and strong at your leis
ure.
Her husband was silent, bat the
three boys leaped to their feet, and
shouted, 'Hurrah for the pledge!' un
til the room lang.
FINDING FACLT WITH TH* WORLD.
—There is a class of peeple in the
work! who make it rhe chief business
ot their lives to depreciate existence
and its blessings; who speak -of this
world as a "vale ot tears," au "abode
of sin and sorrow," a "daily croas,"
a "realm ot blighted hopes," an«l so
on through the entire contegoffrof
puch expressions. Iu nine cases out
of ten. oar world is just what we
make it. If we choose to live in a
cellar, the sun will nat, be likely Ito
come down out of the heavens, aud
seek us out iu out obscurity.
TUESDAY APRIL 23 1878
TIIR rOTTSTAIVIf TK tOEOV,
[From the New York Times.]
It is well known that (Jic perpetrator
of any new vs.iiety of crime or
outrage is nearly certain to Jiave
imitators. For example, Master
Jesse Po..;eroy was no soonci found
guilty ol carving sinal! boys with his
penknife than otlie" youthful mon
sters began to put their penknives to
ifoiinilar use. So common is this
tendency to imita'.ien on the part of
criminals that the conscientious
journalist dreads to mention any
unusually atrocious crime, lest he
should thereby awaken among them
a depraved emulation. Some months
ago it became necessary to mention
the infaim us conduct of a man who,in
the diguise ofa woman, and in the
assutn.'d character ot agent for the
patent garters canvassed three coun
ties of Pennsylvania, and with the
aid of "a tape measure collected
statistics the very thought of which
makes one's blood run cold. It was
to be expected that the villain would
find imitators, and, accordingly no
one will be surprised to learn that
tho town of Pottstown, Penn , has
just been mado the scene of a
peculiar atrocious outrage.
Nature is a faultless workman—
or should we say a working woman?
She never makes a mistake. In order
to give woman something wherewith
to occupy their mind and hands, she
gave them long hair. At the same
time foreseeing that cirsuuastauces
might arise iu which tho possession
of long hair would be inconvenient,
she made the back-hair ef woniou
detachable, so that it can bo taken
off and laid aside whouever such a
course seeiiiS desirable. This is one
of those facts of science which the
Darwinians cannot reconcile with
tho hypothesis of development. The
fossils ot whatever strata give no
hint of any progress in the direction
ot dotachablo back-hair, and the
female ape who is supposed to be the
ancestress of woniau has no back
htdr at all. No more bountiful
provision than which permits a
woman to shut one end ot her back
hair iu the beaureuu- Jrawer, aud to
hold the other eud in one hand with
a xitw to brushing it. can be found
iu the whole ccouomy of nature; and
no married Darwinian who is asked
by his wife to take her back-bair to
(he hair-dresser's to be "done ever,"
can help losing faith in his hypothesis
at least to some extent.
Just after tho beginning ef Lent
two young men came to Pettstown
and aimdunced that they were the
sole owners of a new process of
restoring brilliancy and softness to
back-hair, no matter what might be
iU age or condition. They began
their operations by distributing to
every bouse in tho town printed
circulars, setting forth their business
and naming a ridicuonsly lew price
ter their services. Iu this cflFTuTar it
was promised that (lie longest switch
es should be renovated tor ten cents
ouch, while tho charge for renovating
curia and "fronts" was even lower.
The ladies of Pottstown were assured
that the process of renovation should
be conducted with the utmost secrecy
and it would require iu no case more
tliau three days. Copies of alleged
letters sigued by Mrs. Authons, Mrs.
Clara Morris, President Hayes, and
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, certifying
that their back-bair had been rono»
vated to their complete satisfaction,
were annexed to the circular, aud
there was not a woman iu all of
Pottstown who did not fully believe
that she was exceptionally fortunate
iu having the circular brought to her
attention.
Tbc ucxt day the two young men,
each carrying a large covered basket
called at every house to receive or
ders and back-hair. They had priuted
receipts with them, which they gave
in exchange for hair, and which had
an extremely genuine and business
like apptareuce. Before they visited
oue quarter of the houses their baskets
were full aud tljpy were obliged to
retui% to their hotel and empty them
before taking a Judging
frW the size of a local
scientific perton has. estimated that
they had Collected a ton aud a half
of back hair in the course of two days
There was not—se wo are assured
—a woman iu Pottstown who did
not trust hor hair to those audacious
wretches, with tho exception ot a few
ladies of the African descent; and
each one believed that withiu three
days at tho furthest she would receive
back her cherished locks iu*a greatly
improved condition.
For several days after the back-hair
ol Pottistown had thus been placed
iu the keeping of the pretended hair
renovator no ladies were visible on the
Poltstown streets. Atthosaine time
every lady at whose house any young
man ventured to make a call was
ci'lier "engaged" or "ill," and
declined to reoieve visitor* On the
tilth day the hotel at which the
scoundrels had stopped was visited
by scores ot excited husbands and
brothers, who were horrified to learn
that the two hair renvaters had left
town five days before, carrying with
them seven large and heavy trunks.
Over the scenes which lock place
when this terrible news reached the
ladies ot Pottstown a veil must be
drawn. Much may be forgiven iu a
woman who has been cheated out of
lor back, hair, But it i& impossible to
approve of the want of judgment
which several indignant wives
evinced iu trying to replace their
missing hair by drawing upon the
short and 6canty liair oi their in- i
lioceut husbands.
There will be no parties iu Potts
town for some time to coine, and so
far as the looal young men are
oncerned they will liavo no
female society whatever. The
sudden revival of the back>hair
business iu this city and iu Pbilaaelx
phia, which Western statesmen are
ascribing to the passage of the Silver
bill, is due wholly to the demands ot
the Poltstown ladies. The two
pretended hair renovators have sailed
for Europe wkh their booty, and the
volume ot back*>hair iu this country
will be for some time too small for
tlje demand.
WIIV WOMEN SHOULD RUAD.
Laying aside the thought of our
own rest and cointort, let us look a
little higher. For the children's sake
we must make the most of ourselves.
Many an unselfish mothor has Said,
''Oh, I cannot take all this time, there
are so many things to do for tho.cbils
dren." She does not realize that she
may do more them iu the end by cuU
tivating herself than if she spends all
her time en cletlws and cooking. A
generosity which makes the recipient
weak or selfish is not a blessing but a
curse. Have you uot seen grown •
up sous who snubbed their mother's
opinions in the same breatb with
which they called her to bring their
slibpers? The meek little woman has
"trottod around" to wait on them se
long that they have come to think
that that is all she is good for- Their
sisters keep "Ma" in the backgrounds
because she 'Lusii't a bit of style,' and
is 'so uncultivated,' forgetting that
she has always worn shabby olothes
that they mLSlit wear fine ones; that
that her hands have become horny
with hard work that theirs might be
kept solt and white for the piano, and
that she lias denied herself bovks aud
leizure that they might have «both.
And there are other children, too no
ble for such baso ingratitude, whe
feel a keen though secret senso of loss
aa they kiss the dear withered cheek
and think how much more of a wo
man 'mother' might have been if she
had not shut herself away from the
culture and sweet companionship of
books.— Scribner for April.
AN ACT OF KINDNESS REWARDED.
—lu December, 1873, a young lidy
of Cooperstown, Pa, met on a rails
road train a lady who was ' very ill,
and she kindly ministered onto her,
taking earn of her, and accom|>any*
ing her to her place of destination.
When they parted the rick woman
offered to reward the young lady for
her kindness and attention, but she
would take nothing. The old woman
wrote down the name and address,
nodding familiarly to her, and said:
"You will be paid some day." The
young lady never saw her chance ac
quaintance again, but the sum of
$90,000 has recently been bequeathed
to her. The old woman had no rela»
tires in this country, and left all her
money to the girl who had befriends
ed her.
A little boy had one day done
wrong, and he was sent, after patern
al correction, to ask in secret tho for
iriveness of his Heavenly Father. Ills
offense was passion. Anxious to hear
what lie would say, his mother fol
lowed to the door of his room. In
llspiiifr accents she heard him ask to
be made betier, and theu, with child
like simplicity, he added: 'Lord, innkc
ma's temper better, too.'— Boston
'l'raveWer.
-- «
There are only lawyers in
Missouri, and every one of them is a
candidate for U. S. Senator. — Day
ton Democrat.
fjlmninp.
'The Baby's Got a Tooth' IB the
tittle of the latest comic sung out in
England.
Mayor Ely, of New York, didn't
know he wii- going to be manied un
til he read it in the newspapers. An
other triumph for journalism 1
Spuraeon is solid and has close
cut dark hair and full beard, lie
wears a soft liat drawn over his
face. Uis great voice is as mellow as
ev®r.
It was said of a certain Judge that
he was so reserved in liis nn nier.s
i that one would never suspect that he
; had auy.
"Thou art so near and yet so far,"
as the burglar raid wheu he admired
the valuable watch in the jeweler's
window.
Old Deacon Dobson always boosted
that "he was prepared for the worst,"
and his' neighbors thought he hid
got it when he married his second
wife.
Littltf boy, at the opening of a pro
posed spelling match: "Let's start
fair, grandmother. You take Nebuch
adnszzer and I'll take cat."
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
While one finds company in himself
and his pursuits he cannot grow old,
whatever his years may be.— AlcoU-
The severest punishment of any
injury in the conscience of having
done it; and no one but the guilty
knows the withering pains of repent
ance.—Ballou.
Said a philosopher, "My friend
conducted his future wife to the altar
—and there his leadership came to an
end."
The suicide of Mme. Restell is a
declaration by an expert that a career
even of prosjierous crime is necessari
ly a failure, and that no amount of
upholstery can compensate folr public
detestation*— World.
Longfellw is credited with saying
that if he responded to all the requests
sent him for his autograph and like-*
ness he would spend a third o! his
income in photograph and postage
stamps.
When Lady Rossberry entered
her husband's house in Scotland, the
other day the housekeeper uet her at-,
the do jr, and in accordance with an
old Scotch custom, broke an oatmeal
eake over the bride's head.
TIIE SLEEP OK CHILDREN.— The
Herald, of JleaUh camions patents
not to alhw their children to b«
waked op in the morning. Let nit are
wake them; she will not do it per
maturely. Take care that they go to
bed at aii early hoar—let it lie earlier
and earlier, nntil it is found that
they wake up themsclVbs in full time
to urcss for breakfst.
DECISION AGAINST WOMEN AS
PREACHERS. —'Bishop Andrews, of
the New York Methodist Conference
has decided that the licensing of
women as preachers is against the
doctrines of Wesley. The disappointed
advocates of the new departure have
taken an appeal to the General
Conterence of the Methodist of the
whole country in 1880.
JOURNALISM IN NBM( YORK.— Tho
New York journals appear to beiu a
bad way. Said a ''managing editor"
at a recent meeting of the New York
Press Club: "There is not a man here
that call his soul his own, You are
a pack of hirelings. lam a hireling
You are all hirelings. You represent
the great metropolitan press. There
is not one of you that dares to write
a line of his honest convictions. There
is not oue of vou who dares to write
aliuebe believes, if you Were to
write it,it would not be published.The
soal would bo taken out of it. It
would be suppressed. I would sup
press it if it wero brought to me. I
get a hundred and twenty-five dollars
a week for expressing the truth, for
cutting out the soul orevery seuteuco
which cemes before me."
A NORTH CAROLINA GIANT.— The
Richmond (Va.) Whig of the litis,
inst. save: 4 *lu hi* ramblosabout the
city yesterday a Whig reporter met a
rather remarkable character, no less
than a modern giant—a man who
during his brief stay in the city,
created quite a sensation on,
the streets ag he talked about,
and caused almost every pass
er-by to turn and look back at
him as be passed. Charles Tumley.
tho character refer)ed to, is 8 feet n
height and weighs something over
450 pounds. Tumley arrived from
North Carolina ou his way to New
York in search ot work at" his trade
of plasterer. He is quiet and
unobtrusive man in his manners,
converses pleasantly and modestlv.
Tumley says ho has tljioe brothers
who are neatly as tall as himselt. and
weigh equally as much, although all
of them are voui'ger. This modern
giant said to the writer that be uev r
made use ot a sea fluid to plaster any
ordiuarv room.
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