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New Millinery
Store.
Mr» W S. Moore, of Greensboro, lias
opened, & branch of—ber extensive busiuess t
iu this fipwn, at the
Hunter Old Stand
under the mangeraen of Mrs. R. 8. Hunter,
where she has just opened a, complete as
sortment of,
BONNETS, HATS, RIBBONS,
, Fr.OWEKS, NATURAL HAIR
" BRIADS AND CURLS, LADIES
COLLARS, AND CUFFS, linen
and lace GItAVATS, TOILET
SETS, NOTIOJVS, and everytliihg for lades
-f the very latest styles, and if you do uot
find in store what you waut leave your or
der one day and call the next and get. your
K °«yCompetitlon la styles and prices de
fied. m
T. MOORE A, A. THOMPSON
Moore & Thompson
Commission Merchants
RALEIGH, nr. c.
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flperial attention paid to the sale of
C9TTOK,
CORN,
ri.ooß, —a- . t
OBAIN,
MAY,
BUTTER,
BOOM,
rowxs &c.
©NBIGNMENTS SOLICITED, HIGHEBT
PRICES OBTAINED.
Refer to " " „ _
Citiscns National Bank, Raleigh, N. C.
Knitting Cotton fc Zephyr Wool, at SCOTT
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SfflEBESf
ffs frf. I am now prepared
to make to order
boots,' shoes and
gaiters from the very
best BtoiK and at the.
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«0, GAITERS FROM $3,50 TO *7.00.
A good fit is guaranteed. Mending promptly
*nd cheaply done.
i *9l have a few pairs of good gaiters of my
6Wn make on braua which I wilt sell cheap. 1
Graham, N. C. ' W. N. MURRAY.
May 7.1878, ly 1
. RUTH,
He came from his day's woik feeling
just as he used to "when he was boy after
he had been romping and racing over
every hill withiu a mile of home, until
he had worked himself up into a fearful
state of perspiration, and then had sat
down to rest and get cool. The" next
day he was sure to feel anguish, and a
dull heavy pain would find every partic
ular bone in his body, and all that he
wanted was t'O lie bown on the blight-,
covered lounge .fire, and have
mother sit by him antU give him a drink,
once in awhile, from the cup of myste
rious t*a which he had used to believe
was a dure panacea for all ailments hw
flesh was heir to. Just so he felt now.
His head ached, and his bones ached;
and every little while he went off into a
series of terrific sneezes which seemed
to threaten utter demolition to the top
of lub head, and the poor little plaster
shepherdess on the mantel, for she went
into a jingling paroxysm every time,
probably from some mvsteiious and o&»
cult sympathy which we hardly compre-'
hend.
'Dear me! such a cold as I have got!'
g.towled David Reade, kiudling a fire in
the little stove, while his teeth were fair*
ly chattering. 'lt'll keep ms tied np to
the house for a week, just as like as not,
and I ought to be down to the Store
every dav.'
He got the fire to burning at last, and
pulled up the hard, uncompromising
old chair, which was one of the three of
Tour articles of furuiture the room con
tained, before the feeble biaze and tried
to get his feet warm.
But poor David couldn't get • warm,"
nor feel comfortable* Gold chills crept
up lus back and dOwn his legs, and reg
ularly, every fiftean minutes, as if h«
were run by clock work, and marked off
the quarters, he kept up his sneezes, and
the shepherdess-danced her jigs on thfe
very edge of the mantlepieee to their acv
o npaniment,
'Seems to me I never felt qnite so
miserable before,' groaned David with a
shiver. 'Seems to me, too, that this
room looks a little the worst I over saw;'
and he looked about him with a great
deal of dissatisfaction written on his
faco.
It was a bare little room. There was
no mistake abont that, David Reade.
There was a. bed in one corner, and the
chaif he occupied; a buiean that had
amalgamated with a withstand, and be
came rather a nondescrip article of fur
niture in consequence, and his trunk.
Yep, and there was the stove, and a lit
tle shaby old table that had been so weak
in the legs ever since ho had known any
thing about it, that it had to have the
corner-all to itself in order to have it
stand up at all.
lie was head book-keeper in a great
store down town, and he had saved quite
a sum of monev. Sometimes he thought
he would get a more comfortable room,
and furnish it nicely, and get somo good
out of bis earnings. But he hadn't any
faith in his ability to keep things look
ing orderly and neat, for he abominated
an untidy, Uttered room, and he wouldn't
have the chambermaid putting things to
rights for him on any account. That
would spoil everything, for it wonld
seem like sending out and hiring a home
at so much a week to have some one
who was paid to do it keeping things as
they should be. So he had never oar- 1
ried oat his p'.an, but had continued to
live on in his cheerless bachelor quar-
terii, —-- —, —J
'Dear! dear! how I do ache!' growled
David, getting ap and pacing up and
down the floor. 'A fellow doesn't feel
the need of a home so much when he is
well; but when he's under the weather,
he begins to wish he had somebody to
care for him and nurse hint up.'
A ray of light flashed across the dark,
nes*—for by that time it was night—
and riade a bright spot on' the wall of
his room. went to the witfdftv and
looked across the way: The light shone
from the attic window of a tenement
house. He could see into the room
from Which it shone, and it revealed a'
pretty and pathetic little picture to him.
A woman, sat at a little table, copying.
A great many pages of manuscript lay
beside her elbow, and he knew by the
pile before her that her task would' not
GRAHAM, N O-,
be done for hours yet.
It was a very pretty face that
over the paper. Not a girlish face, but
it had a sweet, grave kind of beiuify • in
it, and the brown hair banded back
t
smoothly from the forehead, *ho#ri •dike
gold in the lamplight fulling 011 it. It
was a pjor little room that she worked
and live'd in, as far as David could make
out from the glimpse afforded by the
window, but it was a wonderfully neat
oue. He knew that, for he had often
watched her sweep and dust it, and put
tiling* deftly in their places. Yes, he
David Reade, bachelor, had been guilty
more times than ho would heve liked to
Cjnfe9f, of watching his neighbor across
Ho stood there to-night and ' watched
her until his fet seemed to be standing
in a puddle, and the cold, shivering sen
sations in his bones warned him that he
had better be trying to warm himself a'
ihe fire than to be watchirg Kuth Doane.
The last look he got of her was more
satisfactory thau auy previous one had
been, for she looked straight toward the
window. David drew back as if he felt
sure she would discover him watching
her; and then the light of her lamp seem
ed to get tangled up in the rose bush in
her window, and he dragged his aching
body back to the stove and sat down.
Sat down to think aud dream.
What he thought about was Ruth
Doane, and what he dreamed was this:
In the little glow which came from the
crack in tho stove door, the whole room
seemed suddenly changed into a -scene of
cou f rt, that to Da* i 1 Ee .de stood for a
type of heaven, because it was home.
There wai a soft, warm carpet on the
floor, and a lounge, whose curving sides
seemed made to embrace somebody and
nothing else in the world, * stood where
the table stood in the room that
sitting and dreaming in to-night. There
were bright, cheery pictures on the wall,
and a bird slept in a cage in the window,
where half a dozen blossoming plants
grew, vigorous and green, and kept sum
mer in tbe toom the whole year round.
There was a little table before the open
grate, where the warm fire leaped and
danced as if it were a sentient thing, and
enjoyed the cosiness of the room, and on
this table there were books and papers.
And he sat before the fire, slippers oh his
feet, and a drssing gawn about him, iun
stead of a clumsy old coverlet; and he
was happy, for close by sat the spirit of
Home—a woman with a sweet and ten
der face, and the face was Ruth Dean's.
It was such a beautiful, beautiful
dream/ He awoke from it with a chilly
groan, and came very much nearer sneez
ing bis head off his shoulders, and tho
sheprhedess off the mantel, than ever be
fore.
"Dear me!" growled David: "what's
the use of working, day in aud day out,
and making money to lay up and take no
good of it. ' ,
After which interogation he sneezed
in a subdued manner, by way of post
script to his other sneezes, and conclud
ed to go to bed and try to sleap off his
cold.
1 When he got up in the morning he
knew he wouldn't get to tho store that
day. He felt worse than ho had when he
went to bed. He built a littlo fire, and
told the boy whose unfortunsto career
in life had so far been among the shoals
and quicksands of errand going and
waiting on every body, to tell Mrs.
Soraggs to send up some tea and toast
for he would not come down to break
fast.
By-and-by Mrs: Scraggs knocked at
the door with tho articles called for, add
acting on the supposition that the posi
tion of the landlady made hor a sort of
a stepmother to her boarders she came
to find out what was tbe matter, and see
what ought to be done. *
1 "You've got pceumon von your langß,'
announced Mrs. Sdrfcggs. "Leastwise,'
an attack of it. It's awful apt to break
out at some season o'f the year. You
want camotAoile tea, hot, and a brick tg
your feet, hot likewise, an' ef you can
git a good BWoat, you will feel better,' I.
guess."
Accordingly poor David took 'camot
mile tea, hot,' and disposed himself iu
bed> with a brick at bis ieet, and wrap
ped op to his ears; aud sweat ho did.
bnt felt as bad alter taking the treatment
prescribed by Mrs. Dr. Scraggs as bo did
TUESDAY AUGUST 13 1878
before. . . C
Such a long day it was! Ho couldn't
read. Ho couldn't stay in bed and hit
bones ached so that he conldn't sit still
with any degree of comfort notwithstand
ing Mrs. Scraggs *ent up her most
coiniortable rocking chair lor Ills use.
All the comfort ho did luke was iu
watching for glimpses of Ruth Doane,
and thinking of her. lie remembered that
it was just throe months ago that day
that she first applied at the store foi
copying to do. Threo mouths! It seemed
as if he had known her as mauy years
and yi tho hardly knew hernt all. Their
acquaintance liad gone but little further
than a smile and a bow whon they met;
and occasionally a low comcnon place
n ords. But fur all that she didn't seem
at all like a stranger to DaV|d.
Poor David was in love.
It tbe light ofßuthDoane's lovcwonkl
could only shine into his lite, as the light
troin her window did into his room, how
pleasant everything would seem. And
then he dteamed in wide-awake fashion
of the home they would make. The
light on the wall seemed the fire 011
home's hearthstone; its dancing fiame
rnado him warm, and he fell asleep and
dreamed it all over and over.
But he tec! well by any means
wheu morning camo. lie sent word to
the store that he could't come down yot
awhile; andpaitook sparingly of Mrs.
Scraggs tea and toast, bat utterly
repuliated camomile tea and bricks,
wlien Mr. Scraggs iu the role of doctor,
suggested the advisabillity of another
course of treatment similar to yesterday
And he Wouldn't have a doctor he
declared. He'd Jcel hotter to-morrow,
and doctor's staff "Be did belieye in any
way. ** _. .
In (he afternoon. Mrs. Scraggs knock
ed at bis rioor, and said Miss Doane was
in tho parlor. The store had gut her to
do some writing, and the storo had
told her to see him, and he'd tell her all
about it, as ho knew what it ought to be
seein' as he had charge ol it, and the
store didn't. Alter tho delivery of which
message, Mrs* Scraggs wailed for
instructions.
Ruth Doane had come to rco him!
That was the first thing he thought of.
Then he remembered that it was on
business, and that took away something'
of the first pleasure of the thought. Should
he go down or ask her up?
•Would there be anything Impropor
in her coming ap here if yoa came with
her?' he asked.
'I can't see as there would," answered
Mrs. Scraggs, "bein' as you're res
(•portable an' it's business for the store.'
'You may ask her to come up then,'
said David.. 'I dou't lee) like stirring
about much, for fear I'tl tako more cold,
tell her."
Mrs. Scraggs withdrew. David had
an object in view, in asking Miss Doapie
to his room. Lie thought tho sight of it
woald awaken a feeling of pity in her
tender heart, lie knew iu somo
nnexplainable way, thai her heart was
tender. He w4s quite sure of that.
Mrs. Scraggs was back presently, with
Miss Doane. How brlgbj her face made
tbe room, the minnte it passed tbe door!
It made it seem 'so cheerful to David
that be was afraid his design in getting
her there was a failure. She couldn't,
dream of its being bare and cheerless, if
it looked to her as it did to him.
'Mr. Graham told me you were wck,',
she said sitting down -by tho window
"I got somo extra work to do, in con
sequence;" and then, while Mrs Scraggs
busied hef-self in patting things to rights,
she explained what her errand was; and
Davicbinstnnfted her in regard to the
writing to be done; and made ex
planation as elaborate and minute as
possible, in order to keep her there.
Sho began to think she had undertaken
a fearfully responsible and important
task before ho had got through his in
structions.
When|tio was gono, David groaned.
The mean little room seemed more dismal
than it ever had before. But—she had
been there! and thero > was some
mysterious influence left to linger where
she had been, tike the subtle breath of
frag ran 60 the rose leaves behind it, when
it has been borne out of sight.
And that night he watched the lighl
upon tho wall; slnd dteamed more
dreams, and every one was sweet with
thoughts of Ruth, and love and home,
Tho next day he confidently expected
-to lie able to visit the store-,-and 'sec !*
things in his particular depart men t. But
he didn't Re couldn't get rid of the
miseiable feeling of dolltiess and languor
and every time be tiled to exercise much
he felt a chilly seiitoation and snch a rnsh
ingfrsaring sound in his head, thut hi
wus glad to keep still.
Here's somethiu' as Mias Doano sent,
over/ said Mra. Scraggs comiug up with"
some gruel. - At firsl David supposed it
wa3 the gruel Mrs. Scraggs referred to
and. began to fancy tho aroma oif that
particularbowltullof the artkle named!
was as delicious as tho fn»grnnw>'
supposed to cmiunte from the 'rose gar
dens of lßphan;' and up to that time he
lnd declared that the gruel was his
particular abomination, and partook ot
it "under protest, he presently
discovered what Miss Doane bad sent
was not gruel, bat a rosc-such a beautiful
great red rose, with a yellow heart, and
it filled the room with a porfeftne that was
delicious enact exogh'to enchant any man
'Ain't it beautijul?' demanded Mrs.
Scraggs, presenting tho gruel in one
ban J and the flawer 1:1 the other. 'l'll
put it in a tumbler, and it'll keep ever so
long. She'a a dear, good soul, I toll you
It's a pity she hain't a home, an' some
one to tako care ot her; though fur's
that concerned, she's capable
of tdkin' care of herself. Bat every
woman needs a home, I
Scraggs watched Datvhf, to see how he
took her view of things, and na»gratified
to 6ee that it interested him.
Tell her I thank her very much/ said
David. 'lt makes' mo think ot mothers
roses telfher that.'
Tho flower made his room almost
beautiful, and his heart seemed full of
dreams, for he did nothing but dream the
rest ot that day, and it mnst liavo been
tbe rose's fragrance that made him do
it.
An other day of confienftenl! Would
ho ever get oat again? He went to tho
window aud watched the sklos. They
were forbiddingly grey. It would raiu
by tomorrow* But while he stood there
tbe sun sooined to bui at lorth, and tho
world was suddenly briggt and gay.
Other people might have tailed to see
any wonderful change;but looking over
the way, 110 saw Rath at her window
watering her rose, aud she saw him and
bowed aud smiled, and that accounted
for tho sinldeu brightening upo/ every*
thjng.
Tho next morning it rained; a slow,
dull, drizzling kind of raiu, that didn't
amouut to much as a rain, bat effectually
preveuted him from going to the store/
as he intendo d to do.
Ruth was at the window, setting her
rose oa the sill to cafch the drops as
they 1011, when ho looked across the way
after breakfast. She nodded and soiled
to him, and the air soemed alive with
rainbows. He threw np his window and
said, "Good morniug," and thoy had
quite a pleasant chat togother. Being up
so high, they could carry on their con
versation without interfering with any- (
body.
He sat at the wiidow and tried to read
that afternoon. But his eyes would keep
wandering irom his paper to the window
oyer the way.
By and by Rath came to take in her
rose. She threw tho window and
reached to get the pot, but by some mfs
hap it slippea from her grasp 1 ajitt went
tumbling down to the ground-, where it
broke into fragments, and the rose was
a poor mangled thiug, with its life crash
ed out of it foi ever.
A cry broke fom Miss. Doan's lips—a
cry full of pain and griof. Iler rose was
liko a friend, almost the only friend she
h%d in the world. And it was gone.
David sprang op. pulled on his coat,
put on his hat, and started for tho old
German florists,- arouud the corner,/that
Badden,"Mrs. Scrags declared, "that site
thought he was took worse',an' Wonder*
ed if he was uot out ot his head."
Pretty soon he came back with a pot
under each arm; ono held a rose-bush,
twico as largo as the one that had met
each a sad fate; fall of. beautiful roses
and scarlet 6uds j and the other a calla,
with two magnificent blossoms gleaming
oat whitely from its broad grceg leaves*
David went straight to Roth Doan's
room m fie never stoppen to think any
thing abont the propriety of the action.
He knocked at the door, and she came to
t„( l.tm In mitk • f... CI.. I 3
been crying over her. poor rose.
'•I saw it," cried David. "I know
how much yon cared for it and I brought
these to take its place
"Oil whnt beautiful things J" sho said
bending over them," while her face was
fairfy radiant. I dont know which pleas*
cd her most, the flowers or the kindness
which prompted the When aho
raised up, Tier eyes wore full of tears.
•'1 cant think ot words to tell you how
thankful ! am-, -' she .-awd.But if von
knew how lew. beautifij lbin, r s my life
has in it. and could only kuow how
ranch like friend*,' ffowcrs are, you
could understand ii.
"1 do understand." he said sofilv.' 'Oh
Kutlt. would loya make your life any
brighter?'
She lokcd up wonderirtgl/. qucstioir
ingly. * *
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"Hove you," he sdicl simply; and his
face was transfigured by tlio holy light
of liia adoption. "I love yon, ltulb. I
want you. May I have yoii?" ,
Hb held put, his hands toward her.
She was pnle now.
'• Aro yod sure you want raeP' she a»L
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'•Quite snrc" lie answer.!, sailing—
surer than I ever w§6 of any thing, else in
mylifo, ,
She put her hands in his. and a sweet
rain of tears broke over the violets ot
her eyes. He foied her to liis breast and
kissed every tear a wiy, whiio ids heart
was Jinking with sudden music. -
"My lJrtthj" ho spftl very softlyj very
tenderly j and kissed ngain. "How
happy I am{ I wonder if ypu know?"
'lthiik 1 whispered, 'because
lam so happy myselK .... ......
tyy»And«by, David, sitling tiyfhe little
table where jjuth had written hoar after'
hour, While bis had watched her light
upon tho waJl,told her of his dream . v
'Such a pleasant home as we will have!'.
he cried, aud the rose biffeh shook all over
in its mysterious glee, and the trumpet
blossoms of the callo, seemed ringing oat
jubilant peals. s >
'Home,' sho repeated, musingly. 'it'%
a word I'vo almost forgotten the mean*
iug of.' _ ; ■" •
4 Wa'li learn wbat It means? he sard. .
And tbey have . The fire on their
hearth ia as bright as any hearth fire in
the laud. Home is,home to them, and
not a place to Jive in.
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lAMNBM WOatAfl BATBINO IW
PlJlil.lt'.
[From the Philadelphia Pioas J
As w« were about to leave, a lady of
elegant attire and shaded by a femalo
servant bearing her toilet apparatus audi
another, with other luxuries of the bath
entered. Our new arrival, after giving
some directions, with the assistance ot.
her inald began to arrange herself for the
bath. With her maid sho neatly folded
and laid away on $ cloth in a clean place
each particle of ber apparel ,as was
removed, f'irst the silken robe, then the
flowing gown like robe o t purple, then the
nether garments ot .white, until we reach*
ed natures own, As gently as a zepbivr
playing upon tho foliage of the trees she
stopped along toward the water. Her
beautifully rounded form and poetry flf
motion would Irave been worthy ot th j
■ mlptors chisel. A beautifully rounded
auklo aud a pretty foot, vaguely visible
benoath the laminated folds of a dozen
skirts would set the whole community
at home while a whole form. uude
as tiature and more l>eautiful thaquan
atisel, would not so much as *Uwh a
passing glance lu Japan. .
A^AB1(V«G1RI„
; Ob, niy 1' stftl the Rev. Mr. Snyder,
of Rochester,lnd. The young clergy *
man was approaching the Yellow river
ford and his exclamation, directed to
Missliena (Jhittister, who was iu the
carriage with him, was brought oat bx
the sight of tour youni women o» the
point of being swept Uqwu stream upon
'sweileu foamiug current. 'Oh, my I!
said he, aud sat still; but Miss Re»a
call led to ?omo laborers in an adjoining
field*. lesped into the river herself, and
leil ibe rescue in a brave hand over*
hand swim.
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1 A NPW-YORK DUEL,— Two boys In
Friendship, N. Y.. quarreled, aud ar-,
ranged for a duel.. The seconds, who
seem to havo soiuo sense, quietly pat
hlauk cartridges iu tho y pistol*. At the
first .fire .one of the duelists sprang bes
hind ajreo, and let his rival's bull, as lie
supposed* go harmlessly by. ; He then
sprang out suddenly,, fireii two shots
quickly at.his adversaryjand threw down
his revolver and ran. In bis hnste l>e
fell iivtoa creek, and came very near be~
ingdrp wncd.
"How nicely this corn fipps/" said a
young man, who was sitting with his
sweetheart before the fire "Yes" aha
responded, demurely, -'it's got over be»
irg green,"
Miss. BecVwithj'who astonished London
some little time since, by swimmii g ton
miles In the Thatoes before sh« wa« 15
years of wge, will shortly «try to swua
twice the distance.
A widow,' seventtytesrs old, obtained
it the Hampshire assizes at Por.Uniutli
the other day $. r >o damages, for breach of
promise of marriage, froia a dockyard
[lousiouer 7 J years of age.
A young widow of Export, JR.I. hav
ing left her chalet for tho season, waa"
asked.what induced her to desert sucli
a charming retreat. Too ranch balcony
and too little-Borneo, was hor reply.
raising broom corn. Irlow much better
than raising a lAiuily iu f«ar of the
broom handle. r , /
In of a baby Indies often rx
i "js" *