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i i , y i J - :. 11 si aav . w ii ..in... v. u -h , h-. - v OL. 8. J 1 GRAHAM, N. C, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1882; I WWBMCn leaner Cjctaittiiiife.: irnhnm, 1J; C.' " ' ' J7d, KEfiNODLE. Proprietor. Terms: .1.50 ; 7o . ..60 L Months fma Months ..... WftrvDereon sending us al club of ten sub- v free, for the lengh of timo for which .the lb is made up. fapers sent i o aincreui oinces Departure jrom the uasn my stem. fcsTAQB tTEPAW AT. Itlia VJIIUB, week mo., it ii ' .if 1 iff. T 2 in. 1 00 1 1 50 125 8 00 1 75 2 50 2 00 8 00 , 8 00 4 50 4 00 6 00 650 1000 10 00 15 00 8 lb. $200 250 5 50 4 50 '6 00 750 12 50 ool $4 00 700 .8 00 9 50 10 50 12 50 15 00 col 1 col $-750 $1200 18 001 20 00 1100 13 50 15 00 17 50 20 00 35 00 48 00 1J 00 18 00 22 00 80 Oo 87 00 45 00 80 00 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, riOR the present he can be found at the Dental omce oi uv. uiiuitu. , Yearly advertisements changed quarterly if iTjicarnotices ten cents a line, first insertion to local lnsenea luricMtuou u,u. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Apr. 3, 6-3ui. 10. W. GKAHAM, HUlsDDro, JS. u. : JAS. A. GRAHAM, Graham, N..C. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice In the State nd Federal Courts. "Special attention paid to collecting. J. D. KEENODLEj Attorney at GRAIIAill, NC. Practices in the State and Federal Courts Wi'.l faithfully and promptly attend, to all busi- beesintruBted to him . ; h atto r ii jb t, i;- 4 - : GRAHAM, N.C. Wffi attend regularly the Superior ; Courts of Alamance, aswell, Forson, Chatham and Ean- rolph, and the Federal courts at Greensboro. .Kusmess entrusted to. nim snau nave tauntui mention, " ;,. - ,:. ,.: ..... .. DENTIST . ORiHAK, - . ; , V . ; u. C, : it fully nrenared to do anv unil nil kinds rtf Iwrk pertaining to the profession. : ' Special attention given to the treatment of leases of the MOUTH.: V: Calls Attended ,is Town ok Coumar. ADVERTISEMENTS I- To THAVE iiflii t i various' kinds, which I will sell flf K okeeP ohand ' An assortment "1 "atchfin and Tal T Repairing done With despatch. : ' 8eotl2.2Rfif ' : C. F . NEES, u 286tv ... ; ; . ; Company 8hops. 186 2. "wanted to grow. PB BI ONBr R EFUNDED.' KDR ENf PRBPAin RV 9IAIL. THEIR SAFE ABHIVAI, . v I GOOD CONDITION : fBABAKTEED, .. . . . wIrlLbe,lt Draft or PostHOfflce UterLf? m cannot be obtained) by nn. 1 Jer'?u mV rs- My seeds are Joo. ctf.and S?d, and will, certainly please raaonTfiVr direafons for dreat ' Please send for it. Ad- V " i JUSEPH HARRIS, Jan q ' ; - - Moreton Farm.- -'"'.W-tl, ; RoOHB8TBIl.jr.T. Ana mroRPHTNC nbi cored inio to 30 day i. Ten yeara tabllabed lflM owed. Wrltetat uSeaa.P. Jaaaw, Qmiucyf Xkb. OPIUM IJoetrg. The ilgbt of Stars. V-'f -t k . , The light is come, but not too Soon : i And sinklug silently, AH silently , the Jittle moon , . I -Props down behind the sky. - There 1b no fi-.ht'in earth oc heaven ut the cold liht of stars : :' - And the first watch of nighi is given" To the red planet .Mars. . , ;' ; V ' " Is it the tended stars, of love ? The star of love and dreams Oh, no I from that blue tent above ,,: A here 's armor gleams. "" - ' '- And earnest thoughts within me rise, Whcu I behold afar, ' Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star. O siar of strength I see thee stand And smile upon ray pain ; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again. - Within my breast there is no light Bat the cold light of stars ; I give the first watch of the night To the red planet Mars.- The star of the unconquered will, - He rises in my breast, Sereue, and resolute, and still, " And calm, and self-possessed, And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not jn a world like this, , And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. . . v, -rLongfeUow. A DUNCE'S WORK. ' II amp See, a dunce I Well, maybe so; but arter I've seed, it 'ud take a stnai tcr schoolmaster than you to make me think bo.' ; o It was old Riley Vanghn who spoke, and although old Riley had . do educa tion, his bard sense aud soand judgment were respected by all the men who sat there in the village post office waiting for the mail,. He had grown prosperous by diut of hard work and good judgment, and his neighbors were' accustomed to ask for and to respect his opinions. 'I did not say precisely lhai; :Mr. Vaughn,' replied Mr. Penriiddock, the schoolmaster. 'I only said my best ef forts to educate the boy were rendered futile and nugatory by reason of hia in explicable inability to grasp and retain bo simple a thing as the accidence of the iatiiiterb.'jjf. " Thal means, in plain English j that ho ain't got no grip on what you teach him, don't it? asked Riley 1 Yes, that is what I mean,' replied the schoolmaster, with something like a shudder at old Riley's English. .'But I will make an honorable exception in the matter of mathematics. Be seems in could say, however, public opinion was against Harap See; It was certain that he was dull at his lessons. He could not keep up with 'Mr. Penruddock's classes; and instead of studying his Latin verba, he was perpetually interrupting the school by asking Mr. Penruddock to exs plain things like thauder and lightning and the presence of shells in ronks on the mountain, and the carious ways plants have of taking ca-e of themselves things which had no relation to the work of the school. " It was agreed that Riley Yanghn could not know anything about educas lion, because be was not himself educas ted. It was even said and this came to Riley's ears that he was prejudiced against education. Even Iiamp's moth er was discouraged. , flamp was always 'pottering,' she said, instead ot attending to his books. . ! " 'Whyshe said, 'he is been fooling with a spring on the hill back of the house the -whole season through. He's ) laid pipes tojbring the water down here, aud now he's turned the wholehouse into a mill.r Then she would show her visitor what.Uainp had done. He had constructed an ingenious water-wheel with which to make the most of the pow er aOorded by the spring, and had set it to a variety of tasks. A stretch of line shafting passed under the floor of the house, and; bands were passed through the floor to the churn and the sewings machine,' and even the sausage chopper could be attached at will. 'I don't deny that it's handy, and saves work,' Bald bis mother. 'And now he's made a sort of a fan in the dining-room, and has set that going, too, sotf)at it keeps the flies ofl the table. If we had a baby in the house, I believe he'd make the water rock the cradle. But it's discouraging about his studies. Mr. Penruddock is in despair, aud says be don't know what is to be made of the boy.' The summer proved to be a very dry one, and the gardens especially suffered for, water. When people began to com plain, Hamp had au idea. He always had an idea when an emergency aroe. He went into his mother's garden aud worked all day, digging a trench down the middle, and making little trenches al right angles to the main one, so that each bed was surrounded by them, and the larger beds crossed as well.. He was very careful to keep all these trenches on one level. When he had finished, he laid a drain from his water-wheel to the main trench, so that the waste water, after turning the wheel, was carried into the garden and emptied into the trench. Little by little the main trench filled; then the water trickled ipto the smaller trenches, and as the spring from which stinctively to grasp arithmetical, princi-. it came was a neyer-failing one, the gsr. pics.' 'Yes,' drawled old Riley ; 'one 'o your boys tole me Hamp conUi. figure out how long it 'ud take for cistern to get fulv ef they was three pipes ?o different sizes a runuin' into it,' an' two others 'o still Jiftereut sizes a runuin' ont,' 'Yes,'he is expert in the practical ap plications of arithmetic; and yet in arith metic his standing is . not good, beeause he seems incapable ef mastering the ex act terms of the formula and rules.' Well, now, look here,' said old Riley rising and striking the couoter with his big fist ; 'it jest comes to this here, the boy ain't got no grip on your wordi an' thiugs; but he's got a good grip on idtes and principles, an' it's my belief that's the inside o' sense, t don't want to be unnecessarily offensive, but you an' all schoolmasters like you ought to teach parrots. They dou't waqt noidees; they just want the. words,-an' that's your no o' learnin.' That's the trouble- o' this here country down here; men learn words au' kin make speeches, but they can't do nothio.' , Now I've seed that hfv HamD See do what nary a man in this county could do. I bought the fnet ruftniir machine as was parts, an wlien it-came it waa.all to pieces an' packed in boxes. I sent one arter another fer all the blacksmiths an' wheelrights an? carpenters hereabout to bet the thlnjr up, an I'm blest f one on 'em coqld make out which end o' the roa rnroniAlt. , JNOl OIIO UU cut I U I L' q ff HO ' could put any two pieces together. That 'ere bey bnog around .all the lime, with bis forred creased up like, an finally be says to me, says he, 'MrvVangbn, let me try.' 'Well try, says I; 'an' et you git her together, I've got a five dollar bill fer you. ' Maybe yoa won't believe it, bat afor noon that very day, that there reaper was a reapin' wheat like a dozen hands. The boy jest seed righUn the thinff. Now I say el he's a dunce, the sooner most people in Ihese parts lose iheir senses an gets to be dunces, the t better 'twill be for all concerned.' Ana Wilb that old Riley t8talkea lnaiguanuy out of the postofflce. - - -Notwili8tandin 1LUiat oW Rl,e? den was supplied with water throughout the dry, hot summer, and such a garden nobody in that region Lad seen that season. People said that Hamp See was cer tainly a handy sort of a boy; but they were sure to add, .'it's a pity he la so dull.' - - - r One day old Riley Vaughn was offer ing extravagant prices for horse, mule, or ox teams to haul stone. He bad taken a contract to supply from bis quarry the stone for the railroad bridge over Bush ran, and now the time for delivery was near at hand, and no teams could be bad. All the horses were at work on the crops, and Ifbefcan to appear that old Riley must either lose money on the contract by hiring horses and mules and team sters at ruinous prices, or forfeit the con tract itself. He tried in every direction to get mules and wagons, offering twice the usual wages, but still be could get very few. He was in real trouble, with a loss of several thousand dollars threat ening bim. 1 . One day Hamp, who , knew wbal trouble Riley was in, went down to the creek, and, catling several twigs, began ever seed in these setting them np at a distance from eaeh nih.i ani niehtin? from one . lo ms other. The few teamsters who' wore at work watched him curiously, bat conld not make out what ho waa doing. He went up the creek with bis slicks, mor ing one of them at a time, and always carefully sighting from one to another, or rather from one over another to a third. In this way he worked up to the ouarry, which was immediately on the creek, nearly, a mile above tbe point where the bridge was to be bnilt. Whn be had done, he walked back, examining the banks as be went; then be presented himself before Riley Vaughn. 'Mr. Vanghn,' he said, fl've an idea that will help you out of your difficulty. 'Will H hire teams to haul ' stone? asked Riley, ; ' v "' " 'No: but it will enable yoa to haul stone without teams.' .' ; II it will . Well, let me hear what it is, said Riley, changing bis purpose while speaking. , -'" :'j I . -i 'Raft the stones down,' said Hamp. . 'Now lock a-here, Hamp See, sa.id old Riley, Tye stood up" fer you,' an' 6aid you wau't to dunce when everybody else said you was'; but this here looks as ef they was right an' I was Wrong.1 How in natnr' kin 1 raft stone down a creek that ain't got more'u six inches o',. water iu it, a-bubbliu' around tbe stones of the bottom? - : 'Well, you see,', said Hamp, 'I've lev eled up-from the quarry aud tbeie's only two feet lall, or a little less, and the banks are nowhere less - than fivo feet high; aud so, as there's a good deal moro water running down in a day than any body woild think, it's my notion to build a temporary dam ju9t below the bridge you've enough timber aud plank hero to do it witn two hours' work of your men building it, say, six feet high, there where the banks are closest togeth er.. Before noon to-morrow' the water will rise to the top of the dam, and run. When it does, you'll have six feet of water here and four feet at the quarry, and your men can push raits down aa fast as they can load them.' 'How do you know there's only ' two foot fall? asked old Riley, eagerly. . 'I've levied it, said Hamp. Thai is, you figgered it but with them sticks?' ... - '," 'Yes.'. ; ; ' -. - . . 'Are you sure you've' got 'the right answer?' asked the old man, wild with eagerness..": j ..', .'-;. .' 'Perfectly sure. You see, i's simple. 1 plant my sticks' ' '". ; r 'Never mind about how you do ' it; I can't understand that ef you explain, it; but look me in the eyes boy. This thing means thousands o dollars to Riley Vaughn ef you've got your answer right I kin i understand that much; au' ef you've worked out thin big sum right for me, I'll choke the next man that says you're a dunce jest 'kase you don't take kindly to old . Penruddock'b cbatterin' sort o' leanviu. I'll do it, or my name ain't Riley Vanghn, au' that's what I've been called for nigh unto, fifty-five years nOW..;' -V;.:'.''. ;. . . . '. , ; '.. '' Old 'RiJey was vividly excited, r He called all bis men to the place selected, and set them at work building the dam, while Hamp looked on, and simply made a suggestion for' simplifying the .work. The dam was finished at three o'clock in the afternoon, and at six o'clock the water had risen two. feet, six Inches, while tbe back water .bad passed 'the quarry. '. . -)' ;.; There I'said Hamp 'that 'proves my work. The water iaJoyel, of course, as far as the back water shows itself, and we have six inches of back water at tbe quarry and two feet aix inches at the dam; so the fall is two feet. i ; 'It looks so,' said Riley, who was also eagerly watching the rise of the water. The workmen bad gone home, all of them convinced that this attempt to' back the water a mile up the creek was tbe wild est loolishness ; but old Riley and Hamp waited and watched. . ; I i '"It doseu't rise so fast now, said Riley. 'That's because it has a larger surface ; but it still rises, and the ' surface - won't increase much more now, as there's a steep : place just above thequarry, and it can't back any further up.' : The two waited and watched. Mid night ' came, and " tbe measurement showed three feet two Inches depth at the dam. Still they waited and watched. At six o'clock in the morning tbe depth was four feel two Inches. Then Riley sent a boy to bis house with orders to bring 'a big breakfast for two. At seven o'clock the breakfast arrived, and the measurement showed four feet three inches and absf. . ' '' 'It's a-risin' faster again, said Riley. Yes; tbe level is climbing straight op tbe bluff banks tvow, and not spreading out as it rises,' said Hamp. ' - At nine o'clock the depth was four foet eight and a half inches, and tbe men al tba quarry bad a rait ready, and were bes ginning to load it. Ten o'clock brought four feet eleven inches of water, and at noon there were five feet and fonr Inches. 'I've missed it a little, said Hamp. . 'I aid the water would run over tbe dam b noon, and it SIR bas eight inches to rise before doing that. , - ' , ' Well, that sort of a miss don't count,' said Riley. Yon'te worked tbe sum out right, anyhow, an' the water's deep enough fer rafilu', an' still a-risin'. It'll go oyer tbe dam in two or three boors more, au' I'll do what I said: I'll ehoke any man fat says John Hamden See's a dunce or anything like J it. An' that ain't all,' said the old. man rising and striking bis fist in the palm of bis band. They've been a-sayin' that ole Riley Vaughn didn't vally education;' now I'll show 'em, JI'm a-goin' to make this dam a permanent institute. I'm a goin' to builc ; Vaijgbn ' & See'8 loundry an' agricultooial ' impliment1 .factory 1 right downthe' creek there,' an'; put' a big lot o' Irriproved machinery in it; an' I'm a goin t0 6end my pardner, John Hamps den See, off next; week to get the,retc, bis education where they sell the .sort 6' education as is good for fiifri not ' a lot o' words, but principles and facts.' '"You tell your mother you're a-goin' to "New York right away,' boy, an' ai Ole Riley Vaughn's a-goin' to foot - all tbe bills outen your interest iu the cqrain' factory.. You'll sludy all sorts o' figgeriu' work an', inachine principles, in .the big school in New, York what's called the school o mines, and Iben you'll all the biar fastories au' Ihinira JTbis scheme was cairled out. Damp spent three years iu study, and returned an accomplished mechanical engineer. He went Into the factory as old Riley's partner, and bis work ban, been to im prove machinery, , audr procesess. . The fit-mown many patents now on things of his invention, and the factory' is the center ot a prosperous region, iu which Hampden See is an especially respected citizen. ';v ''':N6.:9.-v ' siMs9awBsnnsnsMsnpBBWSsiM linpf -.-u 0 cupj;; rsin's Emerson's Tribute to tbe Farmer. The following worthy trlbnte to (he farmer is from the pen ot Ralf Waldo Etnei'8on : a.-. The glory of tbe farmer is that in the division of labor it is his part to create; all trade rests at last on his primitive ac tivity. He stands close, to nature; he obtains from I he earth the bread and meat; the food which was not be causes to be. r-x-yi : : Tlie first farmer was the first npan, and II historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. The farmer's office is precise and important, but you must not try to paint him in rose colors. You cannot make pretty compliments to fate aud gravitation,, whase minister he is. He represents the necessities, It is beauty of the great, economy of tbe world that: makes his comeliness. He bends to the order of the eoasoue, the weather, the soil and Crops, as tbe sails of tbe ship bend to the wind.' He represents eon tiouuous bard labor, year efier year, and smallgaiuSf ,; , , r !" ;, v.-'"' k lie takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. ' Nature never hurries; atom, by atom,; little by, little,, she achieves her. work. The farmer ties himself to nature, and Acquires that live long patience which belongs only to her. Ho must wail for. his crops to grow. . . His entertainments, bis' liberties and bis spending must be on a farmer's -scale i not a merchant's, it were as false lor farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense as 'for states to use minute economy;1 ,.' ;.;,. - ,. , n. He has great trusts . confided to him. In .the great . household of nature' the farmer standait the door of tbe bread room, and weighs each loaf. It is for. bim to say if men shall marry or not. Early marriages and the number of births are indUdOlubly connected with an abun dance of food. Thelarmer is a boarded capital of health, as the farm is of wealth, aud it is from bim that (be health and power, moral and intellect, of the cities come. The city is always recruited from tbe couutry. , The men in cities, who are centers ot energy, the driving-wheel of trade,' and tbe women of beauty .and genius, are tbe children and; grand children of tbe farmer, and are spreading the energies which their fathers' hardy Ulent life accumulated in frosty furrows. He Is a. continuous benefactor. He who digs a well, constructs a stone foun dation, plants an orchard, . builds a durable boose, reclaim) a swamp, , or so much as puts a stone neat by the way side, makes tbe land so tar lovely and desirable, makes a fortune which be can not carry away witb him, but which is useful to his country Ion afterwards. ' Who are the farmer's servants? Geol ogy and chemistry, tbe quarry of tbe air, the water ot tbe brook, tbe lightning of the. cloud! the casting of tbe worms,. tbe plow of the frost. Long before he was born , the sun of ages decomposed (be rock, mellowed his land, soaked it with light and beat, covered it with vegetable film, then witb forests, and accumulated the sphagnum whose 'decays made tbe peat of bis medow. - ' ; What ml? I married a widow wbo bad a growns np daughter. My father visited our bouse often, and fell in love with ber and married ber.' So my father became my son.ioslaw, and my stepdaughter my mother, beint: my father's wife. a - - k AM mm wWa Va1 m sAa be was mv father's brother-in-law ana my ancle, tor be was the brother of step mother. Mv father's wife. ' my ? step danfrhter. also bad a son. ' He was. of course, my brother, and in tbe meantime my grandchild also, for be was tbe son of my daughter. My wife was my grand mother, because she was my mother's mother. I was my wife's bnsband and grandchild at tbe same time; and, as tbe bnsband of a person's srrandmotber js bis erandfather, I was, and.1 alas, still am, my own grandfather! Monet for a. Rainy Dat. 'Fer six years my daughter was sick from kidney and other disorders, We bad used up oor savings on doctors, when our dominie advised os to try Parker's Winger Tonio Four bottles effected a cure, and as a dollar's worth bas kept our family Well over a year, we have been able to lay by moneys for a rainy day.' Poor Man's 'Wf' i.; t. Vfjl -j, ' " . 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