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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER wOL 4 THE GLEANER POBUSHKD WEEKLY BY E. S. PARKER Or a ham, Ft. C, Koto* of Subscription. Pottaye Paid : >nc Ye»r «•» Six Months .. '•> rjiree Months SO • Every person sending us a club of ten «üb irribers with the cash, entitles himself to one the length of time for which the it in made up. rupees cent to different offices -■'-'J.'ST tike CM Bud*** Transient advertisements payable In advance* yearly advertisement*! quarterly in advance. 1m.12m. 3m. 6m. 1 18 m. 7 aa oo as oo t4 00t 6 ootio oo J ,a s™ 5 oo! 4 sol e 00 10 oo; is oo Transient advertisements tl per sqnare •r be first, and fifty cents for each -subse quent insertion. mir I**"*# ,• New Millinery Store. '•» f. I B»lSbs Mrs. W. B. Moore, of Greensboro, has opened a branch of her extensive business, In this town, at the Hunter Old Stand nnder the manscment of Mrs. B. fr ganter, where she has Just opened s complete as- BSSNETO, HATS, RIBBONS/ FCOWKRS, NATURAL HAIR BRIADS AND COLLARS, ANIT CUFFS, linen and lace CRAYATS, TOILET JSRTB, NOTIONS, and every tliibg for lac ies «.f the very latest styles, and If yoo do not find fat store what you want leave your or- call tke next and your good*. «rCot&peUHoa In styles and prices de fied. T. MOORE A, A. THOMPSON Moore & T Commission Merchants BALiian, rt. c. "• ••• R ■ ' I . Bpedal attention paid to the sale of C«TT*JC. ••■a. VI.SOR, SIITTBB, sceen, powls ac. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED, HIGHEST PRICES OBTAINED. Refer to Citizena National Bank, Raleigh, N. C. ssasss.* **« " 80011 E. S. PARKER, GRAHAM R C., Attorney ~GET SHE BEBI -V M . frf lam now prepared to make to order P aboota, shoes and gailers from the very lowest prieeH— BOOTS FROM #5,00 ■sCT TO »10.00, SHOES I FROM ta.oo, TO •4*oo, GAITERS FROM «3,50 TO 97.00. have a few pairs of good gaiters of my make on hand which I will sell cheap. Graham, N. C. W. N. MURRAY. 7.1878, ly TUB GOLDEN RUl.fi AT MISERY VI.4T. 'Do, Lowizy, git down off that stool, and quit rummaging in that burey draws cr.' lowizy, from her perch on the stool, only turned her sloe-back eyes toward the cot whereon lay the invalid whoso faintly querulous (ones arrested her at tention, Hnd answered: 'Pears like you're crosser'n usual, Man dy. I ain't a rummaging; Fm hunting tor a. piece of that stripped ticking to set a patch in Mike's overalls.' 'Well, do git down and shut that drawer,' persisted the rick woman; 'there ain't a speck of that there ticking left.' _^ 'There the girl, holding up a large scrap, 'and here it is. so, there. And what's more, here's a lot ot new calico. Sakes! where v did you raise so much?-* The woman's eyes brightened and her tones cheered perceptibly as she answer ed hurriedly: 'Well, shut the drawer and git awty from there, and I'll give you one of them pieces for a new dress. Yon can take ydfer choice, the lay lock and* green or the speckled pink. Do git down. Eight there by that window, too, and most timo for Mike to be a copiiiig.' At that moqpnt Mike Idmself entered His not ill natui-ed face cloud, ed over as he observed Lowizy coo If re placing the prints in the drawer, and he stepped hastily forward as if to arrest her farther progeess. A significant glance from bis wile caused him to turn towards the cot instead ot the bureau. •Never mind it,' whispered his wife soothingly, 'she hain't spied ont nothing. She's Ally poking after a bit of stofi to patch your overall a. If you flare np likes ly she'll suspect something. 1 wish in my soul we'd never token a baud in it.' And Mandy buried her face in her pil low and began te cry. *Yon'd better take your quinine, Man dy,' said Lowizy. 4 You've been a gap ing and a stretching all the morning,and now you're bawling. Your ager's com ing on, sure. There's your dinuer, Mike, on the fire. Lift it yoursell, can't you? rwant to dose Mandy and and fix these yer overalls before I eat.' Mike lifted liis dinner and eat it in sis leoee, while Mandy took her dose and | Lowizy 's nimble fingers plied tbe needle upon tbe torn overalls. When Mike had finished his repast she -looked np from her work and said.' 4 I am going over to Bixierville pretty soon to get Miss Naylor to cut out my new calico. You better uot go over tbe slough. Mandy 'il need you round home. There's them late peas to brash. They're sprawlln' terrible. And there's that hanging shelf in tbe kitchen—why don't you tiuker that np? And be sure you don't torglt to bring the dngout ovs er to the shore for ine along about suu down. I'll be there, I reckon, long 'fore you will. Want mo to call tho doctor for Mandy ?' 'Doctoring does small good,' answer ed Mike, gloomily. 'Misery Flat's no place for a man to liye in. If a chap conld ever get a bold of a claim over yonder on tbe hill—but there's no use a trying: fever and ager and hard luck tor ever and ever 'll take the go ont ot any ■an.' 'Oh, you are-blue to day, Mike,' lauglt ed the girl. ( Iduuno what's got you and Mbndy tere lately. After tbe cots ton's baled and aold you'll chirk up. Misery Flat cotton beats tbe hill to noth ing.' 'Yes,' said Mike, a bit more heartily; 'and it we just could get a cabin and a few acres on the hill wbete we could live. I'd work the Flat plantation, and ask no odds of any man. But there's no . nse—' 'A grumbling,' Interrupted the girl cheerily. 'Bymeby you'll restle out of this, and get your home totber side of tbe slough. That is, if you don't fame yourself into the ager again. There, there's yonr overalls. Now £m going. Missouri Flat is one cf the many Is lands that dot the Mississippi river be tween Carlo and New Orleans. River pilots know it by its proper number, its local name, Missouri Flat, being given |o it by the small colony of bumble folk Aun tbe State of Missouri who. in the hope of bettering their condition, had settled on the island which, like many others, was lnxurlsntly feitile, produc ing at small expenditure of labor abund ant cropfrof the finest cotton, as well as gain end vegetables. As usual, where exurberance of vegetable life is found, there also is found malaria, and the un fortunate settlors on tbe Missouri Flat came in time to deem tbe uame flung at their island in the ironical spocch of pass ing beating no misnomer. Mike Flyun, a bright young man of GRAHAM, N. O, TUESDAY #NLY 2 1878 Irish parentage, with his young wife, a rosy. healthful Missouri girl, had come with the smell colony to the i»!aud full of the hopeful enthusiasm ot yonta, and had set about the work ot cultivating the soil and building np au honest home with commendable real. Betoro they had been a twelvemonth on the island they fouud out that wealth could only be gained on Misery Flat at the expense ot health. Over on tha rolling lands of the main shore it was hcatlhfnl. If only they could secure a home there 1 To complish this Mike toiled early and ltd, carefully hoarding every dollar of nM earnings. But sickness and death— baby forms were laid away in th* neighs borhood graveyard on he IMside be yond the sls3gh—had brought conaes qnent expense and loss, and Mike's board increased hut slowly. Mandy's health gave way at last,aud then all things seem ed to go wrong. Mike, by nature, thrifty and saving, grew close, even covetous. It troubled Mandy to witness the growing chango. When they had first come to Misery Flat they had found but one plantation on the island. Its owner was eager to sell out his claim to Mike for a small sum of ready cash. With the plantation he tnrued over to the Flynns a cliild-of about seven jears of age, with but the excuse that she was 'none o' their'u,' and as she had come to them "lliout being sent fer, 60 she moot stay thar 'tliout none of his fotcliin' away. 4 - j Or the child's history be knew noth ing. Only he 'allowed' she'd been lost oft some steamboat. One had burned to the water's edge on the opposite shore ouly the night preceding the day on which the little creature had made her appearance at his cabin door. In his own phrase, 'he'd keep her along till this present, bnt he didn't allow as he'd auy call to tote her round the koutry.' Mike and Mandy, with true, warm hearted hospitality, took the little waif into their home, and treated her, if not as their child, at least as their sister, teaching her to road and write and figure respectably, and to perform household duties quite creditably. She learned al so to peddle a skiff and, what was fer more dillicit, to manage a dugout and to swim in tlie river. At fifteen Lowizy was, as Mike phrazed it, a girl worth somebody's while to look after. And truly, somebody ot late had seemed to be looking after tbe unknown in a way that web causing Mike no little concern. Upon the night robe in which the lit* lie wait was clad at the time of her ad* vent upon the Island the planter's wife read the name which tbe child said was her own, Heloise Masson. It had been modified into Lowizy. Of tbe little OH 1 ! simple recital they could make out only that she was on e big boat going to see papa, and that mamma rocked ber to sleep in her lap, and when she woke np she was ail stuck fast in some btuhes, and wet and muddy and hungry; and that while she was looking all areund to find mamma and sister she came npon the cabin and sought its friendly shel ter. After Lowizy,s adoption into the Flynn family the little girl was always men* tioned by Mike in his rare visits to Bix ierville by ber real name,aud Bixierville good folk knew that Flynn's Lowizy who came now and again with ber bright face aud merry, sloe black eyes to fetch tbe doctor, or to do some errand tor Mis ery Flat folks, was really aud truly He* loise Jfason, tbe lost child of some un known persons. One day, a few weeks previous to the opening of vor story, Mike returned from a vistt to Bixlerville with two lets tors, wbieb, in Lowisy's absence be read to bis wile. One waa addressed to the postmaster at Bixlerville, and entreated bim to ascertain, if possible, tbe where- I about* of a youug girl, Helois» Ifasson iby name, woo waa lost off tbe steamer —, in tbe 18—. and supposed to have been drowned, but of whose existence, and in Bixlerville neighborhood, recent droomstaaeee had exited strong hope*. Tbe postmaster, upon seeing Jfike tamed the letter over to also one enclosed, addressed to Jfiss Heloise lfsssna As be did so be said. 'lt's your Lowisy, Mike. I have no doubt of it. Jfayb* there's money in it, if yon manage it sharp. Nothing like looking oat for number on#, you know. Jfore*h likely these Jfaseons 'l pay you for bor keep and so 00. Leastways yoa're her guardian, and as such you've a right to see n bat's in that letter before she does. May be you can make a good thing ont of it. Who knows?* In an evil moment Jfike yieldod to the temptation. The letter to Hek>fee con vinced him that the girl was indeed tbe one sought for by parents who had mourned her as dead through all these j years. Just how to make money out of '"> '-l/ "u. l # be did iA quite clearly see ' They'll take her iway, that's sure, as soon as they find dt etie-s here,' ho said to his wife. 'AnJ>fcow ate we to get on without Lowizv^ ' What wouW you do, Jfike? Keep the letter from h«r? Sure, you've no riyht; and it woutd be far from doing as you'd be done >y' 'Rijpttl' echoed Miice, crossly, ignoring the Alter part of Mandv's argument. f'Vbo's a better right than him tKfct's *|i and clothed her these Beven years |ie! Who'll pay me for her - keep?' •Sure, she's paid as site's gone, Mike. Lowizy has been as much to us as we to \hcr. You can't deny that. Don't do a tean think Mike dear. It isu't like yon id it'll bring no Inck, though you may think so. » But Mike was blinded with lust of lucre, lie hid tho lettors in tlie bureau drawer, and bade Mandy not mention them. He determined withhi hiuiselt to not go soon again to Bixleryille. He grew moody and irritable aud, Mandy seeing the change, only became worse, and cried oflener on ber weary pillow and not even Lowizy's bright wits could account for the chango that had happen* ed to the pair. 'O Mike. Mike, I can't stand it any longer," sohb«d tbe invalid npon the day that Lowisy, witb her pink calico,* had started to Bixierville. 'lt's killing me keeping tbe sinftilsecret. It's stealing aud lying, and cheating all at onee, and aud there'll never be a light heart in mo till the sin Is ofi my conscience. You're uot the lad you were since the day you' brought tbe letters, and it'll come to no good. I was afraid sbe would blonder on to them letters this morning that I gave her tbe crossest and meanest word ever I spoke to her, in my burry to get her away from the drawer—and sbe just tbe mainstay of tho family. It cuts me to the heart. Gjve it up Let us live aud die ou Misery Flat, if God will, but don't lot us blacken our souls with a sin that is sure to cry out against us when we least expect It. Could you be„bappyiMtour home on tbe bluff, if you bad all tbe while you was keeping Lowizy out of home and schooling and mothcr-love and all? Ah Mike, have you clear forgot the motto you said should be ours when first we came to the plantation? You know you said then to the neighbor that we'd all live by tbe Golden Rule at Missouri Flat, and tben tbere'd never come hard feelings. Dear Mike, go and pray to tbe good God to take away tbe evil spirit that troubles you and give yon strength to square your life as it used to be by tbe best*efall rules." She pushed him gontly from ber as she turned away ber bead and ceased from pleading. Mike without a word went out. 'Lowizy, said Mike, about sundown, as the girl balanced herself in the wait ing dugout, 'I want to tell you some* thing. I've been a keeping It back for some time, but it Is your right (o know it. Likely as not you'll be mad that I haven't told you before; for it's good news for you, although it's bad enough for Mandy and me. There's a le'ter from yonr folks in the cabin. Yon'll have to answer it aud then, of course, they'll come aud get you and take yon far enough from Misery Flat and make a lady of yon. Nodoubtina few years you'll be that fine you won't like to re member that the rough ti.zes and the and tlie plain folks ou tbe island. But j Mandy and I'll never forget you or cease to wish you well. Aud 1 want you just to promise toe one thing before we touch the ftbore, and that is that you won't hold spile against us for keeping back your letter. Twas wrong, and I'm sorry. I hated to think of parting with yon, and—and — ; Here Mike's voice grew bosky and be blushed with shame, bot be went ou, though witb a great effort. ♦I couldn't see bow we'd ever get a borne ovor yonder if we let go of you, and I was tempted Lowizy, to do a mean thing and try to get money out of your folks. Mandy wasn't to blame. Sbe frowned upon it all the tiutt. Just say toull forgive Lowizy. Cairt you? •Ob, bush'up, you with great big silly,' laughed tbe girl, ber eyes blazing witb eager joy. 'l've seen 'em all! Father mother, and big sister and little brother that looks precisely like me. They're all over to Bixierville tavern, pretty near crazy, every one of 'em, and all •boot me. Ain't it funny though? My but they're fine folks too. Just thiuk of me belonging to them and going to live with (hem. But dou't you mind.' sbe added hastily as she noticed the look 6n Mikes face. "'l'll go with them; to. But I ain't going to leave yoo and Mandy in no fx. Yoo*ll see. I told them all about j-ou and Mantly, and how you couldn't manage without me aud they 6aid what coald they do for }*ou and l.jnst np and told them. 'Buy him a bit of land over here on tbe healthy shore,' I sayt, 'and then I'll be willing to leave them. Once get Mandy and Mike where they can live, and I'll rink them for getting along without auy girl like me.' You just ought to have heard my folks laugh I They praised me up to the skies for baingso loyal—what's that I wonder? And my father—how fuuuy it does sound—my lather promised fair and flat that he'd buy you land, and lie's gone this miuute to see Lawve r Dixon about it. Now, what do you say.' Mike could not take in tbo overwhelms ing Intelligence. 'How did you fiud them out, Lowizy he sake dazedly. Oh Miss Naylor, she gave the meiest look at my new pink calllco and grabbed bold of my hand and said 'Lowitzy, if 1 don't miss ray gue6B you are iu luck- There's folks fine ones, too over at the tavern hunting for a girl just your age and name. They say they've sent letters but never had any answer, aud they re so shure the girl is soiuewltere in this re gion roundabout and they've just oomo themselves to search the whole country. They've got it all in tbe Bixierville Post and Hetnld and it's plain to my mind ydu are tbe girl.* Sura enough, there I bey were. Miss Naylor marched me straight up to the tavern and sent word to the lbHts. They knew me In a minute by those marks on my foot that Mandy said came trom a scald sometime when I was a baby. 8o they did, my mother said. And then I look just like my father and little brother. You'll see to morrow wheu they all get here. My I but tbey bated to have me leave 'em, but I told 'em I must. Mandy couldn't get supper aud you'd be at tbo dugout and and g» I would. So here 1 am. Hurry up for there's lots to do, and they'll all be over here to see you to-morrow. We must getMaudy up aud flx up tbe cabiu a little slick. What la the name ot sense are you crying about? You're going to get your borne on the hill right off I Good times are coming to Jflsery Flat, Why don't you hooray V Tbe morning came and with It the Jfassons, who clearly proved their right to Lowizy, aud were able to explain the long 6ealed mystery. Jftke was mad* happy by the doed of gift of the choicest bit on tlie hill shore, and Mandy was supplied with tbe means of procuring many a desirable comfort. Lowizy with her new-found friends, quitted tbe old life, and old home nt Misery Flat. Mike aud Jfandy, too found a new home In the neat cabin on the hill, and found there fRI that Misery Flat lucked pure air free bf miasmatic vapor. There they could hope to live and toil and add to the world's products, blessed with health and vigor. Misery Flattplantaliou was not given up, but worked success* tully, and as the years went by and Mike came to be known as the man who ofusnist scut tbe first and finest bale of cotton to the market. Mandy would make auswer to the congratulations of fricntlff in words whose full meaning were only understood by Hike hitn> self. 'Yes, it is prospered we have been, although we have seen dark days. Sure I never got a letter from Miss Masson, our Lowizy that was, and hear ot her good life too, witbont thanking God witb all that we squared our lives by tbe Golden Rule at Misery Flat." WSSTB BIRINBKBUIS, It is the penny saved more than tbe pennv earned that enriches; It is tbe sheet turned when tbe first threads break, that wears the longest; it is the damper closed when the cooking is done that stops tbe dollars dropping in the coal bin; it is the lamp or gas burned law, when not In use, that gives you i4a» money for tbe month; It is tbe care iu making the coffee that makes three spoonstuls go as far as a teacup ordinari ly; il is tlie walkiag one or six blocks, instead of taking a cab or omnibus, that adds strength to your body and money to your purse: it is tbe careful mendiug ot each weeks wash that gives ease to yonr conscience and length of days to your garments; and Isst of all, it is tbe con stant care exoercised over every part ot yonr household, and constant endeavor to improve aud apply you- best powers to your work, that sJone gives peace and prosperity to tbe family. ThetJnlted States Supreme Com t has hehl a railroad compau> liable for inju riaa to a passenger riding on a free pass which specified that the company was not liable. One candidate in Tennessee promises if elected to give one ion rib of his official income to tha public and private schools, while another pledges himself to give tbe entiie proceeds to an orphan asylum. NO,IB Sittaniup. It is a bad religion that makes ns hate the religion of othar people. An Irishman complained to his physician that he staffed him so mncn with drugs that ht was sick a long tine after he got welL The oldest Presbyterian church in America is at Jamaca, L. L It was established la the year 1663. Tom Evans says that with two preabyteri ana on the Supreme Court bench, the lwyers bad better rub up on the shorter catechism and let poetry alone. ° A Sunday School boy, of M%ysville, Ky., was asked by the superintendent if his father was a Christian. •'Tee, sir," he replied, "b«V he ie not working at it much," Horace Gredy said the saddest period in a yonng man's life is when he makee up bia mind there is an easier way of getting money than earneetly earning it. That's what's the ' matter. A demoralized saloon-keeper while bewail ing to a friend the bed State of his business looked toward a new sptro creeping heaven ward, with a wave of the hand said; Ttem's tqe things thats ruinin' the country.' lid'aamu—New curate (who. wishes to know all about his parishioners); "Then do I understand that your aunt is cm your father's aide, or your mothar'af* Country lad:' one and rometlmee the other ceptin' when feytbei wacks 'em both, afrP An old Highland clergyman, who bad re ceived several calls to parishes, asked bia aarvant where he should go. The aervant said, "Go where there is moat sin, sir." The preacher coocladed that wae good adviee, and went where there was most money. Messrs. Blackburn, Stengerand Reed hare been appointed as the sub-committee of the Potter committee to visit Louisiana, and will leave after the adjourment of Gongreea. From present appearances the conqgiittoe will not finish Its labors for at least a month. A boy at a city street crossing having begged something of a gentleman, the latter told him he would do something aa he came back. "Tour honor would be snprieed if yon knew the mooay 1 have loet by giving credit that way." A little girl, when her father's table was honored with esteemed guest, began talkiag vary earaas ly at tbefirst pease la the coo versa turn. Her father cheeked her very sharps, saying: "Why is it that yon always talk so muchf "Tense I've dot aoaseain to aay," was the innocent reply. William Cnllen Bryant never entertained a very high opinion of Henry Ward Beecher. Even when the latter waaat the senith of Us fame and iaflnence the poet regarded him aa * san without poeitive religions convictions over loud of applauae, and at heart thoroughly selfish. He once remarked to a Mead visit ing at Boeylin in the summer of 1868. Mr. Beecher woald make a good actor; hi is oat of bia place ta the paipit. Beli ;ion is the tie that connects man with hia Creator, and holda him to his throne. If t.mt tie ia aoadered or broken ha floata awav a worthless atom la the universe, its proper attraclioaa all gone, its destiny thwarted, and its whole future, nothing but darkness, desola tion and death.—Damn. Wassi is How ro 3save Omca-Bamcmts. —"Yea, •aid Mr. Hayee to the delighted applicant for office, "lami devout Sunday school maa and a follower of the tea cap, an that I cannot my. self in my individual capacity aa a President tell yon alio. I will net promise you aa office, bat I will tarn yon over to one of tha Cabinet who I havs selected for this worldly purpose. Amen."—New Tom ff—«,». The editor of Vanity Fair (London) writes 1 am daily assailed by my friends who,either los their own account or on account of eom«- ! body anr, implore me in the name of friend ship to "keep* each sad sacha thing 'oat of the paper. Being of aa an-iaWe always inclined to indulge them; hot really it most have a limit, tor if it goes on I will either hare to preeeat my readers a handsome blank page, or else I must take the adviee once given to aa editor, to have no friends sad live in s csnsr." A Comm 1 doaaa men were sitting ia a saloon recently, whaa a female voice was beard from aa adjacent doorstep. Well, good moving Mrs. Blaen.* If I had aay thiag on I'd go with you." There was nasad rash fvr the door, aa eager expectant crowd with outstreched necks peering over each other's ahonldcta ia the direction from whence the voice proceeded, and then s return to tha vacated chairs, while one of tha party aaked "What good doea it do for a womaa to Bo la that way any hoar LCOK Attn tAaea, Labor is ever waiting tor something to torn np; labor- with keen eysa and strong wiß. turn up somsthiag. Luck lies is bed aad wishes the post would bring him news of a legacy; labor tarns out at six oclock, and
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