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V OL.. X. ft f PUBLISHED Bi - Hf lk. WH1TAKER, xt ALEIGH IN. a n- one year. ....... i . ; ix months.. ,.1.., -.bgof 1 1 25 75 three months CLUBS? Ten or more names will De taken ...$18 00 aJ '80 each.;..'. (Qw (Brtler. fc . --i.L. ' jTlTH , . .THfffiBAKCfe CHASIT7. BALEIGH, 1ST. C, MONDAY, SEPT- 25, 187G. NORTH CAR0LI1TA. ' FOB THE FRIEJfD. KUTHEKFOED CoiIlEGE, N. O., '.''V-'-'-i Sent. Gth. iS7f? Tcar Bo. Wiiitaker : The "cider fc E Ri L', .ir .on" seems to have set quite a focr'of " grey goofieiquills" in mo quite a storm the '-'devoted an! brought down v;dignalion. upon 'Is" of those of us who were' so un- , 'uate as to Be sent to the last . f the Saprema Council. U :uch afraid some of the , a zeal "not edge' or they would take a cal . 'jiff more rational mei ho. ',tf B96ideP, what ses- I am breth- according to view of be the ac- ashed by condemning the action fSe Supreme Council ? It can't be ;done before the next session at lag's Mountain, where I hope to see ..'Jhese valiant " knights of the quill" Sad and ready for fight, and assure 5m they may expect a long and des perate conflict, before they repeal the jjery wpe ana just action 01 out Leg islative body on the cider question. !ro. IcLaugkIin cornea at ns rath- m this wise 1 " Well, though I Rant p-rdicaraent with oureelves io Wetern Carolina, and that frequent memorials hud failed to bring any re sponse irom the 'powers that be.' And I can point to one lodge tljat threw up its charter, chiefly because it could got no answer from the Grand Lode ou ibis very question. - Per haps' it would be well for on esteemed brolhurs iu Florida to look .a little more closely into the r irregularities thai' have crept into their own order, before they, presume to intimate that a sister order has made any compro mise with the enemy they are striving to dv8tr6y,V'J?wittpromWiWd " CpUcs sharp its takes, I ween, To see what is not to be sees." Instead of a compromise, we have made a very decided advance. We have settled a question which, 'has caused innumerable disputes in jour ranks, and if we adopt the new pledge, we will have laid aside an incubus that has retarded our advance ever since we have had an. existence. Hun dreds of good men ha've become dis gusted at our quarrelling over a ques tion of almost no importance, and have drilted farther and farther away from us, and hundreds of others are standing outside, who would come in, but say, and justly too, that it is no part of wisdom to clog oar wheels j. by attempting to reform that which needs no reform, and paps over ia utter si lence much that absolutely demands it. There is tobacco, twin brother: to rum, ami to the inner man the worse enemy of the two, yet nothing is said by our asectic brethren about it, and I am very much of the opinion that three fourths of chemwrote their arti cles with huge quids in their mouths, and filthy streams of this 'earthly am brosia' flowing in every 1 direction. There are tea and coffee powerful ad juvants of alcohol when used to ex cess, but we. make no crusade - against them. There, too, are other name less vices, too horrible to contemplate, Licit i f" A T . A II - - jjul a must iroc prolan ibn ui to; n - 11 . yviiu us me questioD ia a vital one, and ' we'll fight it ont on this lino, it it takes us all Bummer.'. ... h . Yours" in F. T. and d, J. T. Abernetoy. .The Convection now me-t at,7, p. m. ; P. M. ndjoiiTce I to : i. VmGINIA. 5u again litowiner, Convention composed which; after a few remaita'jbo mo- pi a suboidinate'councils 7er was'nnanimously adou k .2. Mill- Con- busi- , FOB THE FRIEND. Hall of Millbobo Council, No. 17, , I : F. of T;t' Sept. 6th, 1876.. vt The District of delegates frc'm inbefiDj2Qtie& ofkAUegbasfTBh and Rockbridge, met pursuant to adjourn ment in the Hall of Millboro Council, No. 17, at 2, p. m. In the absence of ,the Presidentj Dr. J. Lswis Laitch, the Ex-President, took the chair. Vacant offices were filled by ap pointment aa follows : Conductor, JE. Steers of Goshen council,. No. 78. Sentinel, John T. Pearson, o f boro council, No. 17. After singing and rJrayer the vention was declared rea-Jy for ness. . 1 - 4 Credentials from the various coan- cils in the District were rocjiyed. and the following delegates adswereJ to their naaioa and took their seats : Collierstown Council, No. 5. John A Price, A Unroe, J L Leitch, Z T Lawson Saml Yount, G C Cummings, II W Loitc H B Wilson, W P Laech, Mrs CI Yount. MiUboro Council, No. 17. P L Yarbrougb, E H Bell, John T Pear son, F A Hyde, John R Wood, S C Burger, Sen,.'. J E Withrow, C D LeightoD, J C Jones, J W Smith. Longdale, No. 36. W T McClure, A S Linkswiler. Woodland, No, 35. J H Stewart, J A Stewart, L E McClung, Patrick Omeara. , . 1 Kerr's Creek, No. 82. Wm O Gil- more, Geo W Miller, Anuanias Smith, JP Tribbett. After an interesting session of Jilill- boro council, furticipated in ;, by the members of the Convention, 1 which one associate and two active jmembers k " a 1 1 were jiiiaiea, tne? uon?entuu again proceeded to business. R. H. - Bell . ofFeml - thb xicsorvbtcr xnas the jsecrtfyitiais Convention be instructed to nJjy the State Council of the dereliction IL du ty of the Secretary of the State h Coun cil of Virginia in regard to 'transmit ting the pass word to Longdate coun cil, No. 36. . . The committee on the State of the Order in the District, submitted .the following report, which was adopted : Your committee upon the State of the Order in the counties of Allegha- The claims of the Friend f Tem perance were briefly but earnestly set forth by J. L Leifcb. The following resolutions were of fered and unanimously adopted : -Hesofved, That the thanks ;of t'ais District Convention are -dno and are hereby tendered to the membtrs of Millooro council, No. 17, and the citi zens of MiUboro and vicinity, fur the courtesy and hospitality extended to 11 1 1 1 . t . ... luo memuers ti mis uoay at tills .SCS- pion, real.) I neither spoke, smiled, grew pal, nor sighed. And when father asked me if I felt faint, I said, ' No, sir,' tha samo as if he'd asked me if I'd have more potato at dinutrt The doctor prescribed just as he had been ordered. And father hoped I would be able to take the journey. - I bade them good-night, went to my room, and wrote to Tom, accepting an invi tation to ride in the park the next morning I told hini all about it, and we planned to play shy. 'And so fath- bj instructed to furnish the Friend of Temperance with a copy of . the pro ceedings of this session, and is also re quested to prepare a suitable account 5f this meeting for the Richmond Dis patch, and request its publication tin the Weekly edition. . ' ; Entertaining remarks for the " good of the Order" were participated in bv the members of the various councils, after which the Convention' adjefurned to meet at Goshen on the third Wed- ny, Bath and Rockbridge, bag leave to nesday of March at 2, p. m. Llx nil T7! -11 Jt -r- u..,v, vUMU1uv,uyu ui. iu 1 BBuuitig tue oouxes 01 inousanus 10 me t-ioi i t tt , j..L- 'l-ia --11. I ,.,.,., . . 3Ogg, R V btanard, J Henh r. Lewis S&UJ Vi UUU bUVli OWUAta UU11 UUU XAKJl I -t a voice is raised in warning, na mention 'sweet cider,' and see them ' tare a passion to tatters.' Hear them hint darkly at ruin and disintegration speak vaguely of surrendering char of it, an.d I hope. ' our; State Council tors, and discourteously make sly in nuendoes about 'compromises' and treason. Really, our friends are too abso lute.' They should remembar That honor and policy, like unseemecl friends. In the war, do grow together," ana mat policy demands that we should take every step to make our in stitution popular. Our ability to do good ia co-extensive with our popu larity. Besides, we cannot afford to lose some of our strongest councils m vvestern Carolina and Virginia, as we must, if a strict and rigid construe tion is put upon our pledge. In these councils are man earnest, . zealou3, self-sacrificing laborers, who have lit tle choice but to secede, if such a con struction were adopted. They were admitted to the Order with the under standing that non-intoxicating cider was not among the prohibited articles of diet, and now they will not be offi cially told by a Supreme Council, that for years failed to define its position, that they have been living in continu al violation of the pledge. Other or ders will be more reasonable other orders have gathered in many of our councils, already and will, gather in many more, 11 tne wise aavice 01 our Wetmore and Wellons is' disregarded, and the almost fanatical course of ac tion adumbrated in the recent articles to the Friend is enforced. ' If that be 1 treason, make the most of it.' non-intoxicating cidep would result serious harm, and sweet cider, icily such, is not intdxicatiner. but a LuMlesome article of diet, still I think the recent action pf the Supreme Council unnecessary, to say the least will npt adopt the new form of pledge.' That isfwhat I understand his memo rial anc article conjointly to mean. Aow, il.iro. M. cud not want the 'ci der q uestidn' meddled with, whv did he menlorializo the Supreme Council, - 8 . . - 1. . and ".why did he work bo hard to get a similar.memorial sent up from the King's Mountain Dist. Council ? . Now. he talks as it ne only wanted the- Supreme Council to assume a inasterlv inactivitv ( which, heaven : . , ;. . t f t . ' knows, it has held to long enough) aid let the hundreds of those who nave remaineu in Buspeutsy iui jroio, atd who have aanually been expect ing the Supreme Council to declare that thev had been living all the time in violation of the pledge, remain in the same delightful suspense adinfini turn.' Bro. M. surely does not suppose tiat the Supreme Council has given any additional latitade to members of th Ortli-r. Subordinate councils m tir pieted the1 word 'cider' for them if, and councils were organized under t'ie liberal interpretation . It seems to me aU the latitude possule, existed hfcfnrp. and that the UCW pledge JS more definite thau the old.: 1c abso lately forbids the use of anything that will intoxicate, while under the pres lent pledge a man might eal ix quatt of brandy peaches without ; violating its letter, provided he - didn't drink the ITCvidentlv the soirii of the ' tf r ;-r . .f . . pledge is the thing after all, and the oupreme uouncn nas p iueioijf yiou State Councils the. privilege to adniin- ' ister th'ft snirit instead of the letter. But the most refreshing thing the tapis, is the recent Mournful pro tPRf. rlf lhn tixArtntive committee of a A maionty of standard works de fine 'cider as the ' fermented juice of the apple.' Worcester, I think, Cham bers. I know, both better authoritv ' 1 . - i than Webster, give this definition. Webster himself says that the word was formerly applied to juices of other on Leitch, No. 143. Nathan T Pain- ter. ' , 1 The chair announced that the next business in order was thtJ election of officers for the ensuing term. On motion, the Convention dtcided to add to the list of officers that of As- sociate. The following officers were then elected and duly installed into office P. Dr John R Wood of council, No. 17. A, C K Stanard of council, No. 78. Chap WP Tribbett of council, No. 82. ' Sec. A TJhroe of council, No. 5. Con. J H Stewart of council, No. 35. Sen. N T Painter of council, No. 143. v The minutes of-the last session were read by the Secretary and - approved. The President appointed the follow mg committees : On the Extension of the Order. A Unroe, P L Yarbrougb, W T McClure, J H Steward, Wm C Gilmore. on tne uonaitiou 01 tne uraer in the District. J L Leitch, R H Bsli; J E Steers, N T Painter, J E. Withrow. On motion of R. H. Bell, each coun cil was allowed to select two of its delegates to state the condition of their respective councils, and that .five minutes each, be allowed in which to perform the duty. The roll of councils was now called and responded to as follows : ' Collierstown, No. 5 by J L LeitoH, W P Leech. Millboro, No. 17, by R H Bell, P L - Yarorough. . Woodland, No, 35, by Jas H Stew art, P Omjeara. - Longdale, No. 36, by W T McClure. Goshen, No. 78, by J03 E Steers. Kerr's Creek, No. 82, by A Smith, Wm C Gilmore. v Leitch, No. 143, by N T Painter. .Til . The reports, in tne mam, were en- submit the following report Millborn, No. 17, is in a flourishing condition. Has done much goo 3, hot only for alien humanity and the cause of Temperance, but for the : cause- of Christ, and is still trusting ii'God. Goshen, No. 78, firm and zjaloas(; although diminished in numbers, they still have a Spsrtan band who will stick to the last and keep it going. Woodland, No. 35, organized on the 15th of April, 1876, with nine mem bers, has, under trials and obstacles persevered, and have, succeeded in a thin and sparsely settled community. Collierstown, No. 5, stands' steady and true. Have met the foe (a bar room) and have driven it from the country. Kerr's Creek, No. 82, hard at work against 3 ministers and all but one elder is holding it3 own. Leitch, No. 143, holds its own, even under adversity it still lives. . Jjongdaie, JNo. do, increasing ma-'i king good impression. Had Temper ance sermons preached,' whtejhjfiltere productive ot much good. s 1 " J. L. Leitch, . R. H. Bell, . J..E. Steers, N. T. Paesteb, J. E. " Withrow, 1 . Committee. Tho committee on the Extension of the Order submitted the following re port, which was also unanimously adopted : Your committee on . the Extension of the Order would respectfully recom mend, that each council appoint com .'11... ll L 1 m mrtj&ees 10 visit localities where no temperance organizations exists, and by deliveringlectures, and using all other proper means, endeavor to es tablish new councils We would also insist upon each member of the-Order,?in their individ ual capacity, puttirig forth more stren uous efforts in furtherance of the work, as much of the success already attained is due to persistent, individ ual effort. ' A. Unroi, ' P. L. Yabbbough, , W. T. McClure, J, H. Stewart, ' , Wm. X). Gllmore, Committee. The Convention now proceeded to select a place for the next meeting of the body. Goshen and Kerr's Creek were put in nomination. After a very interesting discussion a difference of opinion arising as to John R. Wood, President. A. Unroe, Secretary. Stactr Stovn. , . Heart Disease. ' BY EVE. FIELD. j ' Dear Sue : Here I ami way up here in the country, just ten miles from anywhere, ('pon'honor !) and I, who have always countried at some fashionable watering-place, and won dered what bats, crickpts, lightning bugs and polly woggles were like, have now censed my wonderings, for I know all about them. I have about made up my mind to write a novel, to be brought out about holiday time, chuck full of startling adventures.' S T ft ' T " jcxow, one, x suppose you are dy ing to know what I am doing way up here, and the rest of the family hor ses, carriages, poodle, and all at the United States, .Saratoga A . It's the doctor's orders ahem I If the damask curtains had been ta ken from the library windows one day before they were I should never -have known how ill I was. As it was, was settled between the curtains and the window when father and the doc tor came in. So here's what I heard ' Father coughed, and wheezed, and tapped hia snuff-box, took a pinch, of fered it to the doctor, and then com menced : Doctor, you know my daughter Adeline ? Well, Ad's a good girl a leetie stubborn like her mother, but I lovelier, and want to see her do well. Ads been pretty gay this winter gayer than I thought j but, doc, I ha' my eyes opened yesterday, when Tom Noble came and asked my permission to marry her. Marry my Ad ! Why, doc, just think of it ! Wouldn't they make a pretty pair of cooing doves ? Just about of an age, Ad knows the value of ten cents as well as she docs of a hundred dollars. Either would go for sugar-plums. And Tom 1 why, I doubt his having ten cents. Now, doctor, that girl must bo sick, and sent off yes, sent off clandestinely ! The rest of us are going to Saratoga, and she must think she is going, so that Tom will be misled. Now, doc, can 1 depend upon vou ? ' ' Certainly, certainly I I've notic ed Miss Addie for some time. She as symptoms of heart disease. Per- lug. Won't it be jollj when it . all comes out? I can hardly wait. AU this, Sue, from heart disease and a summer in .die country.' , Happily yours, ?. j, 3 An.'Q A SMILE. ' . .' The darkest and coldest hour ., is just before tho dawn and the graatest the proper mode ot casting the vote of tect rest, cuntrr a,ir, tonics, &cv the dinerent councils, the , following Egad I heart disease 1 You havo it who, in language as sorrowful as in which we couch a tribute of respect to a defunct brother, mourn over our ecent follv.- and hope that, hereafter, ne wilt piKH jyAJ-j' - - - - the enemvLwe are striving to destroy. crnaps ins goou uiowtiicu - ware that the same wpiui xaiity m 1 i ' q use of cider prevails iu many parts their own Order. I tbama the members found-, that in of the Good to the uniermenced juice is quite re cent . Our pledge, which is borrowed verbatim from the old Sons of Temper ance, was adopted at a time when 'ci der' meant an intoxicating drink. The i juice of the applet in any state of fer- mentation, never containing more than from five and a half to nine per cent, of alcohol, very little more than ia found in a loaf of bread, while the nnfermented juice is as free from alco- was offered by W. T. McClure xtesoivea, -j.nat wnere a council is not fully represented, the delegate or delegates present are authorized to cast' the full vote that such council is entitled to. After a lengthy discussion the reso lution was adopted. The previous question (on the place ! of meeting being called and some i confusion existing amongst delegates, cenraging, and in some instances very by whom the resolution fust adopted flattering ;. especially so with regard I was not clearly undei stood, it was, on to the new councils. Councils No. 17, I motion of J.' L. Leitch, 35 and 36, whilst laboring under, ap- Resolved, That the reaolufion offered parently, insurmountable difficulties, by W; T. McClure he Iftid on the ta li ave displayed a. zeal and accomplish- lDle and made the special order of bus- plai lodges we & the saae.plea-1 M as any article of diet in use. ed success worthy of the highest com mendation. Is. - On motion', the selection of a place for the next meeting of this body was made the special grder of business for this evening at 8 o'clock. iness for body. the nest meeting of this a bad case, too. Come up to-night and examine her. Recommend Con gress water for a blind, you know. In the meantime I'll write to my sister Elsie, up among, the mountains, to take her. Doc, have a glass of lemon ade. Heart disease that's iti I Tom Noble aspire to my daughter's hand I Well, doc, now I depend upon you. Addie must be thorough frightened.' Well, Sue, they went out, and the last I heard was ' heart ' disease I bad case !' I could but laugh, and placed my hand over the region of that 'bad case,' and found it ticking as usual. Tno doctor came, thumped and lis tened, and shook his head. Father sat by and sighed hypocritically. And when the doctor's finale was pronoun- ess to cafe, and I verily, believe . made him think in the end I was sick. : ' Aunt Elsie is a dear, ; loving wo man, who nas always Btayed at home, and has a husband -who dreams, (of what, the fates only know) by" the hour, three great unruly boys, who fight one minute and go off gunning the next, and one daughter, a Ioveable sort of a woman in her way, but" who is married to one of those great I-am's so often seen in the country. ' I could writo you just six pages about him and his, small ways for he is the smallest; in stat ure, mind and character of any one hereabouts but where's the use ? In the city he'd make a splendid sneak-thief. 'Auntie and I get along splendidly. The other night, a bat came flying in the room. I screamed like mad, but auntie got a light, and it whopped in to out corner ; and then I put a glass over it, so as to examine it by 'day light : for I remember a school-mate ,elling me once they had a shoe-string 'or a tail, were blind, and their wings were lndia-ruDDer' 1 found, aet i 1 morning, it wasn t bo. 7 ' Auntie is awfully neat, and, do you know ? she believed they brought bed bugs and other insects into the house; and you may believe I'm a favorite when she let it stop over night. ' Father told auntie the story about tho heart disease in earnest, and you ought to have seen how indignant she was when 1 told ner my experience. wrapped in the damask curtains I She eays uuvf .D..iouer is sucn a cneat as that on sacred things, she'll just pour out her minn to him, thi3 fall, when he comes after me. But good-nigbt, Sue 1 I'll write ycu soon again, ior im expecting somethipg more than a shoe-string bat to dawn upon mo before many days!- Yours, Addie. Dear Sue : The 'dawning came in the shape of Tom, the same night I finished my letter, and he is under the same roof with me, and none the wi ser. Instead of Tom D. Noble,' he is Tom N. Dunbar.' He came for a few weeks' hunting and fishing, as he told auntie ; and as it does not tako many days to get protty well acquainted here in the country, auntie was in no way surprised, aftor her formal intro duction, to see us take to each other, especially as wo both camo fiOm the one city. ; ' So Tom and I fish, and row, and botanize, and ruraliza, as city folks aro wont to do, and I, Sue, am having tho happiest summer of my life ! And don't I write encouraging letters to the folks ? how welT I'm getting, and what a splendid housekeeper auntie is making of me. You know I'm so afraid father will come up. Sae, I de- - pend upon you not to betray , me. Haven't I learned deception from father? I must close.. Tom and I are going for a drive to town to get our mail, and I will post this to yoo. Ever thine till married, j . v Addie.' .--1 - of WhiKi. There are obvious ' reasons for both of these phenomena, and th reasons are no less obviona for tha. deepest commercial depression occurs just at the end of a long continu ed season of unprofitable business. Tha bears go into Winter quarters fo f r I nnma nnl; Ynon in Snrinr having consumed in the meantime all their own fat in feeding the internal combustion: required to keep them alive. In like manner merchants, manufacturers and traders go into a season of panic and depression' with, generally speaking, - considerable ; capital, but it is consumed in losses and expenses, so that many of them barely- come through, whilst many sink into bankruptcy. Now, it must be clear that the longer such a time of depression lasts the weaker must the mercantile community become ; and the last month before the revival of business, just as the. last month of the bears before Spring, must be the worse of all. But when Spring and . Summer and, Autumn come rcund again, the bears get very fat ; and it is jast bo with the business men who survive to reap the fruit3 of tha good time that invariably .succeeds dull trade, - That time an this continent will, we , think, set in this coming Autumn, .-v Is it not, then, worth while, even for the weakness, to strain every nerve to get through a month more ? The pan ic began about the 22d of September, 1873, and will probably terminate by the same time of 187c. We are within one month of that time. and they who do not fail in that month wnrhave; wo think, a fine opportunity to recuperate, especially as many have got th6ir rents down to suit 'the times, and all probably have greatly reduced their own expenses and the expenses to their establishments. A three years panic is a long time, and it appears still longer to those whogothiough it; but, looking at and the continual increase of popula tion and production?, and the gearing out of clothing, implements, carriages, railroads, etc., which has been going on, with very inadequate renewals' for iUnnn '4UifiA Tflna if ia Tirvf. nnrAaaonn. bUCOVl UW.OU JUiO) ..w.mw. ble to expect that, with the good har- r p.Ii in Tnw-fiertain. and con tinually increasing- yield of all kinds will revive with a rush Very soon. Goshen was now chosen as the place iced he actually wiped a tear from the for the next meeting ot the Ccnven- ( end of his nose, (it's a query: with tion, and r the third ' Wednesday in 1 me where he got that tear, unless it March at 2L P. sou aa the time. I was shed because the doctor acted so Dear Sue : Indeed we got letters of importance yesterday. Tom got one, saying hisaunt who brought him up had died suddenly, and I got one, saying father wouid be up on Satur day. So Tom and I put our heads together. He had to go to the. fune ral, and maybe, when father found there had been an odd man here, he would take me away ; so we just rode to the squire's and got married. (They get squires hero as of ten as they have a minister, and then, you know, a cler gym an might have objected) H We are going to keep cool. Tom will inherit about $40,000. Won't it be fun to see father and mother, and all the otb er fathers and mothers, fish for him when they and it out ? , - jsut ! we are never going to tell until next Christ mas. In the meantime, Tom will get bis aunt's house m-perfect order, and we will have a Christmas house-warm FOB TEE SAKE OF CHILDREN. now many pians aie luiuiou, wwm endured, sacrificas made "for the Jsake of the childrenl" Faniilies change their , residences; parents in middle life their - habits; fathers strain their powers, and . mothers deny thems3lves. There is one form in which the most valuable of all services may be rendered to the young ones too often forgotton. Giv them education. They may lose money,, real estate may get out of their hands, fcut a trained mind goeB inrougu me, cau not be stolen, and is not convertible. Buy them books rather than delicacies, sweetmeats and jiostly toys. - Give them good, attractive reading, adapted to memory, taste, and fancy. See that it is pure. Habituate thuui to find- plea sure in reading au-.i talking ot what they read, rather than of persons. 'Make home happy to them in this way, andiettuem cecome lniormea, com panionable, and abundant in resources schools, good books, and general rea ding matter get them these, if they have to do without other things; and, so secure' a right direction to educated minds, give them by word an example good principles. Let them rjcow up with tho idea that it is not needful to be rich, famous, or influential, but that it is essential to do what ia right. 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