THE ALAMANCE GLEANER VOL. 6. jjift GLEANER Pl/BUSHED WT.EKLr BY ELDRIDGR & KERNODLE. larfilaniii* N. 4', Kate of Subscription. J'ostaye raid : >ne Year ® l -™ S K Months 75 Three Months ™ Fvcrv person sending ns a club of ten suh -sw« with the cash, entitles himself to one nv free for the lengh of time for which the rlnb U made up. Paper* sent to different oHices Vo Departure from *tlie Cash System Hnteft of Adrertiwiujs Transient advertisements payable in advance: •early advertisements quarterly in advance. 1 in. :!4 ui. 3 m. | 0 in. , 12 in. i «Ti7lre |J~~j3 00 400 6 00, 10 Oft \ ■ j 3 00! 450 6 001 10 00: 15 00 " I'ransieut advertisements «1 per square fur he first, and fifty cents for each subse I aeut insertion. - OOVKKNJIKNT. Officer* of the Federal Government. TIIK KXECUTIVK. Kutherford B. Hayes, ot Ohio, President, of the United States. William A« Wheeler, of New York, Vice- Fresinent of the United States. THE CABINET. William M. Evarts, of New York, Secretary of S'ate o John Sherman, of Ohio, Sec'y. of Treasury. Gecigfe W. M McCrary, Secretary of War. Richard W. Thompson, of Indiana, Secre tary of the Navy. Carl Shuri, of Missouri Sec'y. of the Inlericr. Charles Devens, of Massachusetts, Attorney- General. David M. Key, of Teonnessee, Postmaster- Central. THE JUDIt'l All V. TUB SUPREME COURT OF THK UNITED Morrison R. WOTt, of Oliio, Chief Justice. Nathan Clifford, of Maine, Unah H. Swayn«, of Ohio, Samuel J. Miller, of lowa, David Davis, of Illinois, Stephen J. Field, of California, William M. Strong, of Pennsylvania, Joseph P. Brndl«y, of New Ji-rsny, Waril H«nt, of New York, Associate Justices. OUK STATIC UAVKKNineiVT. EXEECUTIVE DICPAJtTMENT. Thomas J. J&rvis. of Pitt, Governor. Dawes L. Robinson, of Macon, Lieutenant- Governor. W. JL Samders, •of New Hanover, Secretary f State. John M. Worth, of Randolph, Treasurer. Donald W. Bain, of Wake. C!iic f Clerk. ' T C. Worth, of Randolph, Teller. Dr. Samuel L.Love, of Haywood, Auditor. Thos. S. Kenan, of Wilson. \ttorney-General. John C. Scarborough; of Johnston, Superin tendent of Public Instruction. • Johnston Jones, of Burke. Adjutant-General. • J. MeLeod Turner, Keeper ot tin Ctipiiol. Sherwood Haywood, of Wake, State Libra rian. JlinitllAKV, SUPREME COURT. W. N. H. Smith, of Hertford, Chief Justice. John H. Dillard. Thos. S. Ashe. Associates. W. 11. Bagley, of Wake, Clerk of Supreme Con; t. D. A. Wicker, of Wake, Marshal. IIIOFESSIONAL CARDS. JNO. W. GRAHAM. JAS. A. GRAHAM, Hillsoaro, N. C. Graham, N, C. GRAHAM & GRAHAM, ATTOKNKVB AT I.AW, Practice in the Stale and Federal Courts, it attention paid to collecting. J. D. KERNODLE, Attorney at Law, CRAIUn, IV.CI Craeticeg in the State and Federal Courts. »m faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness intrusted to him. E. S. PAKEE3E, ATTORNEY, «KAIUM, IV. C. Ala rcgnbirly the Superior Courts of •).i.'? ance l aswe 'n rereoii, Chatham and Ran b H > aU( I tl'e Federal courts at Greensboro. 'less entrusted to him shall have faithful «t«ution, &-1 80. ly, T. B. Eldridge, ut OR AH AM, N. C. in 40 ,' 10 ? 8 ' n the State and Federal Courts |iromn» l !l e8s to him shall receive m Pt and careful attention. James E.Boyd, ATTORNEY AT LAW. . •H'H'ES AT Graham «& Greensboro* l J ractices in all the Courts. 8t ® ra bam, Mondav, Tuesday and **"l Saturtay A ' Friday Dr. J. W. Griffith DENTIST, GRAHAM, N. C., to d° any and all kinds of gPe'UiQing to the profession. given to the treatment of Mourn. in Towx oa CoiraTitr H. Albright, Dr. J. A. Albright, bHI L t ALBRI9nT & ALBRIGHT, . lMi, ANB AND HUKUKONS. at t> " B h°n>e and the latter at MU1 *. Chatham county, N. C. X* © © ft j? y m 1 "AVE A BY ASAIU, I. I ha\c ft friend whom all can love, And she iu all sincerity, Is iDioccni as any dove Yet hata by fur more modesty. All that is sweet smites iu her face, Her very gale is poetry; •Ynd what she dot Jis dont with grace, Aud glows with fervent charity. 11. While Cupid, on her ropy lips, fc*its coining out iu melody. Her thoughts to words with which he tips, lii.s arrows most barbarously— -1 lieu sends them forth on eveiy sigh, '1 hat rises from her generous breast; Winged with bright glancas frtin cacti eye",' And bids them enter whert they rest! 111. When off th>,y fly at his command, And soon within the bosom's core, They've CL tered and there trembling stand, There to icmain forever more, For she's a Venus though chained in clay. But what shall she hereafter be, W hen death dissolves these bonds awav, And lets her hcaveu-born spirit free? Fancy we may. but none can tell, How she will out rank and shine, All others when she goes to dwell, Where beauty's made still more divine. I'm.sure, should saints there wish a queen, As some few mortalo, here are found, She would there rise o'er all supreme And for her virtues soon be crowned! I.OVtt NUI.DO VI K11.1.M. Br Arvlde Untdwin. The summer was well ailvmccd and the dark green foliage ol the frees de noted maturity. And thus had Elmer Manson and Lelia Dolson believed their love lor each other had matured. With the budding of spring, when they first met, their love had budded, and, as the bright green leaves grew and the two young people wero more together, so did their love appear to grow. And as the height of the growing season was reached it seemed lo them that their love was per fection. Tfley had been together a great deal; they had loved a great deal, and nothing but this fateful journey that EN mer must now take stands between them and happiness. They have met to-day to say a lover's farewell, 'i'licy go out the old familiar road that runs beneath the friendly, overhanging trees that leads past the miniature pond, past the old moss grown house over which they have speculated many a time in their love-rambles, and out past the mill thai is now fast tailing into decay, and over ilie bridge that spans the little mill stream and up on the hill where they hid been so often, do they go and enjoy again as they have enjoyed before the beautiful scenery about tnem with the wonderful spice ol love to fill their cup of bliss. Seating themselves beneath the branch es of a friendly oak that they have ktnwn so well, lhey drink in the wonderful beauties of nature about and wonder it ever mortals were as happy a*> 'bey. O the innocence ol early love! It is sad that the realities of life are antagonistic to unal'oycd happiness. But when the ideal battles with the real it always fights a conquering toe. Our two young Irieuds had yet the hard lesson of lilc to learn. After a time in which neither felt like approaching the distasteful subject, El mer said: | 'Dear Lelin. I wish there was no such thing known as parting from loved ones, but necessity alone makes us part to night. I don't like it. I nui nfraid something may happen to one, or boih ol us before we meet again, lint yet 1 must go.' lie held her hand in Ids as ho s[ oke, and the tear drops on her lovely face as iit was turned towards him told plainei than words the sorrow in her heart, i 'Oh, Elmer,' sho said, -it" cannot be best that you make this journey. I, too, have fears of evil coming from it. Al» though it may be silly iu me to say it, I cannot help it.' 'Dearest, 1 sometimes regret that my faMiersieft me this large legacy. Great wealth brings troubles as well as blessings, but then,'he went on in a jocular strain, 'when I return and make yon my little wife the riches will buy diamonds to gi ace your native beauty W A* flush of sadness overspread her face as he talked, and when bo had finished, she said: 'Elmer. I don't wish diamonds. I shall be satisfied with your love. If I Pave that it will be sufficient happiness for me. 'Many are the times I have told voo, ay loye.ot the great regard I have for you and that without jour love the world will be dark and drearv to me. And I tliank you, dear Leda, tbat yen bav« GRAHAM, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1880. looked upon me with favor, for now i have an object in life bosides spending my wealth. This question of money was a hard thing lor Lelia. Wliiie her lover" was immensely rich she was comparatively poor, except In the wealth oi a beautiful face and a loving heart. Alter a mo iitrv inerinents reflection she said: 'Elmer, I have just been thinking that perhaps it is wrong for me to love you vvlio are possessed ot so much riches, while I am only the daughter of a cou chant. ' 'Please do not talk that way.' E'mer answered, 'for you that I lovo you more than any other being, and it it was necessary for mo to secure you I would Icuve all iny property without a claimant.' Elmer said a great deal that it is use less to repeat, but with it all there was something that cut the heart of our little friend. Lelia had loved her companion Irom I lie time she met him at the village party a tew months before, and when he told her of liis lovo she threw the t reat wealtii of her pure young lovj at ids lect. Elmer Mason was n fine looking young man and anybody was justifiable in lov-. ing him. •Come, darling," Elmer says, Svo will now have to go as I have a few prep i rations to make before the trAin arrives. It w»ll not be many months before wc will be enjoying the lovely walks to geihcr as we have in the past.' They walked homeward with mclaus cholv happiness. They were happy to know that fate had thrown them to. gethcr, but were sad that they must part, and Elmer was whirled on toward the city, and Lelia went borrowing to her home Often did the missives of lore come to the hand of Lelia alter Elmer had arrived at his destination, and did she look for them, while many were the loving answers she made him in return. Everything seemed to point toward a happy coiisumation of their courtship, but at the eleventh hour trouble begau for Lelia. News reached her from the city that stiong attractions were there for her lover in the shape of a lovely woman who was just muking her way inio.llie fashionable circles 01 C . and was creating a great and tavorablo im pression upon Elmer Mason, as well as other young men about her. It was in timated that sho was immensely rich, and that site was beautiful no one dc-> nied . She appeared to look with great favor - upon Elmer, and after a time he became so that, when he was with her and under her magnetic influence our heroine was crowded from his mine. Altera few weeks of her acquaintance"! ship he was hopelessly enamored, and before he was lully aware of the mean ness of the act lie was a traitor to Lelia Dolson. Elmer's letters had of lale been coming to Lclia at long intervals, but now they Ceased altogether. Then sho knew that the stories of her faithless lover were true, lier heart wa« sore but she made no complaint, She tried to treat the matter philosoph ically, but it was a hard blow to her leelings as well as her pride. After a time the bitter news cam e that she knew would couie. It catne in the shape ol an extended notice iu the papers of a marriage in high die which was cele brated in the city of C — , February 22, 187 —, between Mr. Elmer Manson and Mi»s Eleanor Tranverse. The blow was terribly heavy, and she (eared she bad not the strength to support her in her great grief, But she came out of her trouble purified as by fire. She buried deep her first and only love, but yet there was a wound to her womanly feel ings that would take time to utterly erase. Time passed on and io two more years the village physician, a young man 01 unexceptional character, who haii ro« sided in the village I ruin childhood, began sbuwiug a tender regard tor the beantk ful little woman of our story, and al though she had no first love to give liiui, she bid always respected bis sterling qualites and manly worth and before she was lully aware of it be had" won ber mature womanly affections. Simon Ori lead bad kuowuoi the engagement oi Lelia ond Elmer, and iras aware of all tbe tacts ill tbe case, and wheu he saw how utterly she had crowded her false lover from ber thoughts, be kuew tbat there was material there yet worth lov ing and capable of loving in return. In due time there was a marriage cele brated in the littlo chu'ch iu the village ot ft and our little Lelia had taken upon herself the duties of wifehood. The people in commenting upon the aflair said. 'What a good mutch! lie i* *uch a noble loviug Luabaud, au.t i* deserving of such a treasuro ot a wife.' And ihey lived happily together to all appearancee, and to this day it I am a judge of happy people; and Lclia's heartache has'been a blessing to her later lilo, tor it gaye her judgment iu choosing her lifo compan ion. Only once did she meet hei former lover and that was at a fashionable wa tering-place whither sho had gone with tier h'isbaii t who was called lliero on business. While sitting iti u quiot cor ner in one of the parlors of the large ho*, tel turning the leaves of a richly bound album, she nas surprised to find herself facing the shadowed rcsemblauco of Elhier Manson, She was looking at it [ and wondering how she could ever have loved, or believed she loved tho original of the picture before her. She thought, 'lie is good looking with out a doubt, but ho likes sufficient char acter as 1 have well fournlout. That chin represents but little force. Thd mouth is also deficient, while the nose and fore head have considerable manly beauty, J but tho eyes have a cold, and selfish glit ter that Ido not like to look upon. It is strange how I could ever have loved him.' As she was about fo close her album ! she felt a hand quietly laid upon her I shoulder and turned to face the original lof the picture. For an instant sho could scarcely catch her breaihand was greatly bewildered, but it was only for an instant, lie reached out his hand which sho took as calmly as she would have taken an every day friend's, and her manner of greeting him was calm and courteous. -•Leila,' he said, '1 have been Wanting to see you very badly, and was oil my way from Europe to your village when I acciJently saw you sitting here in my cousin's parlor.' •I suppose yon have your wife with you?' Lelia coldly asked. 'Well, no—l-no—she is—we aro di vorced,' he stammered. 'She married me for my money. The report of her being rich was for tho purpose of ensnaring such a simpleton as I was. I was in* tatuuted and hardly am to be blamed. You will forgive me, won't you Lelia?' 'Why, certainly,'sho answered; 'but then, I have nothing to forgive.' •Thank you, dear, for that. *Oh, I have suffered so much recently from my folly. You receive me coolly, Lelia. Can't you love ine a little?' 'I am sory,' Lelia replied, but I can not, You drove all love for you from pie a long lime since, and now all my love belongs to another. Simon, dear, please come here,' sho continued as the manly form of her husband appeared iu (he doorway. 'My husband, 1 believe is an acquaintance of yours as well as my self, Mr. Mansou.' Elmer stammered through with the greeting of ids former friends as woll as ho could and quietly retired Irom their presence, lie at ouce went away— whero they know not and neither do they J A BVSV PAMfLr, „l)etroli Free PreM.) A case of assault and battery, in which farmers'sons wore plaintiff and defend* ant respectively, was ou trial in Justice Alloy yesterday, ftiid the plaiutiff's law yer was very anxious to make out thai the the defendant's family must have seen the fight which took place outside the kitchen door. The deieudaiu'a moth er being ou the stand, the lawyer be* gan: •Well, where were you when the first blow was etiuck?' 'Down in the cellar ski aiming milk, and tying cloths over my preserve jar?,' she replied. 'Where was your husband.' 'He was in the barn mending harness and greasing the wagou.' 'Where was your daughter, Sarah?' 'Sarah was iu the north eud bedroom changing the pillow cases ou the spare bed?' v 'And where was Jane?* 'Jane? She had ruu over to a neigh bor's to borrow some coffee and a nut* meg.' 'Let's sec! Haven't >ou a sister living with you.' 'Yes. sir. She was sewing carpet rags up stairs.' 'Ab! she was? Yon have a younger son named Charles, haven't you?' 'Yes, sir, and he was salting tbo sheep across the road.' 'Just so. You are a very busy family I see. 1 suppose even the dog was very busy just at Ibis particular moment. •Yes, sir, he was. Old Bose was down at the gate looking towards Detroit lor one torso lawyers!' Tnat closed her testimony and settled him more than a loot. "Love," says the Philadelphia Chron~ ide, "make* many a gocd right arui go tu watbt." DO fcOMKTHINa. There is not a more deplorable condi tion in which a young man can bo placet! than that of idleness —having nothing to do and there is no necessity lor a man to be placed iu this position, for'this is a bnsy world, too busy lor any ono who has tho ability to work to bo idle. And yet how often we see boys hall grown and men congregated on the street engaged in what they call "killing time." Alas! it is murder more foul than wheio blood is spilt. There is something that you can do and some thing for you to do —something suited to your ability. A mtuifms only to open his eyes and look around, and ho will discover openings to engugo hit muscle and energy a nd time. It any man is without work in this pushing, driving country ol ours, theinj is something radically wrong. There has been a mistake either in training or iu execution. Ityio parents have sadly neglected their tUity, or there has been carelessness in the; performance of the work are exceptional cases, we admit, where mistortune ens ters in and deprives a mail ot his situa tion ot business, but nine times oui of ten these very m'sfortunes are tho result of inattention to business. We have our mind on some young men now and witli whom we have converted recently upon this subject, and their excuses were that they could get nothing* to do. We felt interested and asked why. And upon invesligai tiou we found that one or two of the number had been recreant to the trust confided, but iu ho criminal sense. In otherworda tbey had beeu inattentive to business, and their employers' interests had snflered. Some others could get certain kinds of wgpfc, but it didn't suit their taste; therefore they preferred to remain in idleness. And in almost every case a satisfactory reason could be as signed why tbey were idle. During an active lite of over thirty years, we have never been involuntarily out ot employment but one month, and that was the mouth succeeding General Wilsons occupancy ol Macon. Our rule was to do something. If we could not get that kind of employment which suited, we engagod in that we could get, even if it was not deferable. The next rule was to make our employer's interest our interest. This is the ouly secret in being in constant demand. We have • secret that we would like to whisper to ouryoung friends. Que of the most prosperous business men who ever lived in Macou told us that he knew the conduct and character of everv young man in the city. Ho knew ex actly what salary they received and their every day habits, and could tell when a young man was living beyond his in come. Mo knew every young man who was in the habit of gelling drank, either in the daytime or at night. He bad Hie name of every young man who visited the faro bank or billiard saloon. lie sought this information to protect his own interests. There are otlier mer chants and bnsines men who have and aie gatLering this information, lie care* iul or you will be caught before you know it. Business men have no use for employees who visit faro oanks aud go "on benders.," In conclusion, don't stand around with your hands in your pockets aud say you can't get anything t) do, when the world is lull of activity and opportunities.. Go to woi k. Do something.— Macon Teles graph, and Meucnyer. rOKKOKUSNHIIOn. lie beat liia way down to a boat from Keokuk last Sunday, and was as perfect a specimen of the shabby-gontcel tramp as the country can produce. Many times during (lie day and evening be looked upon the toamiug lager, ai.d when lie awoke the next morning he rubbed bis bleared eyes, and tried to recollect where he wa« and how begot there. lie was the sole occupant of » pine conch iu the station house. When marched up stairs and pcrpen dicularized before the judge he said: 'Judgo what is to be will be.' 'Exactly so. The charge roads 'Drunk on tbo strefet. When the officer came upon you yoo had your coat off, aud your sleeves rolled up, and was tryiug to convince a wooden Indiau in front of a cigar store that Hancock will carry the city of Keokuk by seventeeu milliou ma jority not counting the German vote. When arrested, Judas-like, under the a guise of wishiug to fold the officer iu % brother embrace, you tried to bite his ears off, and on his way down to the ata« tion you kicked in a grocery window and several limes endeavored to balance your self ou yiiir ear on the pavement. What have yuii to say to all this, Mr. l'otcr Ballon.' t. NO. 25. 'As 1 remarked afore, Judge, what In to ho will be. Everything that oceurs in this bully old world ia all mapped out Hforehnnd by Providence, and that'll do to remember. Foreordinafion, Judge; that's the racket I Don't you ffit on? It was foreordained that I should leave my business at Keokuk and come to Quincy just as I did, and that upon the very urgent solicitations ot friends I should drink just one sinaf I pony glass of beer too much. Foreordiuation scooted me into thccallabooße, anil guided my totter* ing footsteps into this law fiictory. 'Twant tnc, Judge; it was foreordiuation. but a passive instrument in the hands of Providence, an' there's no use tp buck against a superior power.' •Dues your foreordiuation reveal to you just the faintest glimpse of tbe fus tu re ?' _ r... 'Net a glimpse, Judge; not a reveal. It all comes unawares-like at planned,, an' we can but bow and submit.' 'Make your bow then, Air. Barton, and get your submission in good work* ing order, for it is foreordained, and the clerk will so record it, tbat you are to agiinlc a hammer on the stone pile for thirty days." lie wns escorted below, and as the officer turned the key in the lock of bis cell he beard him alter: 'What it to be will be every rattle, an' durued if we kiu help it!'— Modern Aryo. Gleanings. Atmospherical knowledge is not thor oughly distributed in our schools. A boy beicg asked, "What is mist?" vague* ly replied, "An umbrella." At a ball—match making mai/una to ber marriageable daughter "Virginia, dear, don't lose sight of that gentleman in mourning. He may be a widower." It is said the bottle kills fifty persons where the sun kills one. This is because the bottle has a chance day and night, | while the sun gets its work in only dur ing the day. A young girl who didn't admit* the custom in vogue among her sisterr of writing a letter, and then cross-writing it to illegibility, said she would prefer her epistles "without an overskirt." One even quart of sifted flour is one pound, but when made into bread by A young wife whose mother has always been allowed to do the cooking it seems to weigh about fifteen pounds, says the Philadelphia News. At dinner she had a doctor at either hand, ont of whom remarked that they were ail aerved, rince they bad a dock between ihera. "Yea," alie broke in— her wit ia of tbe sort that ooines in flaahes —"mid I am belweea two quacks." Then alienee foil. "Will you kiss me on the porcli?" she sang aweetly, but the young man who feigned a flame evidently thought aa convenient to deposit the thing on her lips and did 80, unking A noiae equaled only by a cow falliug into a canal.— George Riley, jr. Young men should never lose pteaenoe •of mind in a trying situation. When you take the girl you love to a pic-nio, and you wander away together to coin* iiiuue with nature, aud she suddenly ex claim*, 'Ob, George, there's an ant down mj back!'dou*t stand still with your mouth o|»en; don't faint; don't go for the girl's mother; go for the ant. Every failure is a step to suceas; every detection of what ia false directs toward what ia true; every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so, but scarcely any attempt ia entirely a failure; scarcely any tbeory, the result of a steady thought, ia altogether falac; no tempting form is without aowo latent charm derived from truth. Guixot in a letter, lately published, to one of bin children, tells how, on hit first visit to Windsor, he lost his way and opened a wrong door and beheld for a moment a lady netting her hair brushed. The next day the Queen (for it was she) joked hiiu about it, and he says: "I end ed by asking her leave, if ever I write i my memoirs, liko 'fully or St. Simon, to mentiwu how, at midnight, 1 oponed the door of the Quoen of Eugland.. She gave " permission, laughing merrily." Colorado justice is sometimes rode, yet effective. In impnnnelling a new jury in a Colorado couit recently the judge was called upon to hoar the usual number of exonw* for not serving. Among those who asked to be e*oiif«»d was one Adams, a notorious gambler. "1 am a gambler," said the man claiming exemption from jury duty. "You are a common gambler, are yon J'' remarked the court. "Yes,' sir." "Yon are ex cused," said the judge; but before the satisfied smile of (lie gambler had crept entirely over the face of the festive oiti* sen, the judge added, "Mr. Sheriff take this m*n into custody." Adams was au old offfuder, auJ had giveu *uabili away

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