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VOL. 4.
LASKER, KORTHAMPTON COUNTY, C, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1895.
NO. '21.
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GLEANER
Good Temper.
Tl,,.r, not a cheaper thing on earth,
,,r yet one half so dear;
y... wrth more than distinguished birth,
j )r thousands gained a year.
t i.-iids the day a new delight,
- -Tin Virtue's firmest shield; ' ".. .,
.fids more beauty to the light
T.nau all the stars can yield.
It h.'ik'-th Poverty content, ;
T, sorrow whispers peace;
a srit from Heaven sent,
( "or mortals to increase.
;:i.-. ts you with a smile at morn,
it jiills you to repose;
r!. A. r for peer and peasant born, J
An cvt-rlastiug' rose. 'J
Harm to banish gTief away
i , nut h the brow from care; .
T -i a t'-.iKs to smiles, make dullness gay,
H, y t 'tis sweet as summer dew
I nat gems the lily's breast:
, talisman of love as true
A.- cvi-r man possessed.
,V;,. it may this wondrous spirit bo,
Wit h power unheard before
j'i.:- . harm, this bright amenity?
;..od Temper nothing more!
, ! Temper 'tis the choicest gift
That woman homeward brings,
An '. an the poorest peasant lift
j o bliss unknown to kings.
' Selected.
Bread. Where ? How ?
j Hiv "staff" fkom history.
I Tor the Patron and Gleaner.
I read, properly so called, was
Ira us in it ted by the G reeks to the
I tomans; and either the latter or
.the Phuinicians may have intro
duced the cultivation of corn into
Caul. Whilei however, the land
was covered by immense forests,
a .longtime, must' have elapsed
before the practice: of eating1
acorns, chestnuts and beech mast
was abandoned, and even when
corn was regularly grown, 'ripen
ed and harvested, the grains were
merely plucked from the ear and
eaten raw or slightly parched.-
The next stein was to infuse the
tr rain i n hot water for the maki ng
of a seeies of gruel or porridge,
and a long time afterward it may
' haA e occurred to some bright ge
nius to pound the corn in a mor
lar or rub 'it to powder between
two stones. Subsequently came
.the hand-mill; but it was not un
til after the First Crusade that
t ire w ind m ill was introduced from
the East,' whither it had probably
found its way from China.
The tjrst bread was evidently
.baked on the ashes and unleaven
ed; and' the intolerable pangs of
indigestion brought on by a con
tinuar course of "galette" or
"damper"" may have suggested
the use of a fermenting agent,
which, in the first instance, was
; probably, stale bread turned
sour.
Pliny has distinctly told us in
his "Natural History," that the
Hauls leavened their bread with
yeast made from lye of beer, yet,
strangely enough, they abandon
ed the, use of beer yeast, and did
! "t resume it until the middle of
the .seventeenth' century. Its re
vival in France made the fortune
of manv bakers: then the medical
facultv sounded an alarm, declar
iuur the yeast made from beer
was jx isonous. Its employment
was prohibited by law in 16S6,
but the outcry raised by the ba-:-iters
and the public was so vein-meat
that in the following year
t i ie dec ree of prohibition was
canceled with the proviso that the
yeast was to be procured only
from beer freshly brewed in Par
's r i t s i m mediate neigh bou rhood.
uue form of fermented bread,
however, the French had been
fating for sixteen hundred years,
in contradistinction to the gruel
and pulse-eating Italians aud Le
vantines and the purely vegeta
s ian Hindoos.
M. H. Rice.
Tihaska. Pa.
TO UK CONTINUED.
Dr. T. L. Cuyler, uttered a pro
found truth when he said, "What
a young man earns in the day
thin goes into his pocket, but
what he sjK?nds in the evening
pH's'into Ins character."
t Wise men make more opportu
nities than thev find. J '
IN FOREIGN LANDS.
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM
EOYPT MANNERS AND CUS
TOMS OF THE PEOPLE.
We arrived in this cityj yester
day at 3 p. m., the hottest day
since we left home, 89 degrees in
the shade. Nights are cool and
we stand this rainless climate
well. We have finished our twen
ty-one days on the river Nile. It
has been a constantly changing
panorarna of interesting sights
from beginning to end. I may
say there was nothing we could
call a familiar sight, but of weird
interest to us were the Temples
built 3500 years ago, tombs of
rulers who built them with their
hieroglyphics or writings de
scribing the history of their
reigns. The Temples are ruins
now, yet much can be seen which
proves to us they were a very
scientific and skillfnl people.
They knew better how to handle
stone than many artisans of the
present day. We visited the quar
ries at Assuan from which they
took the granite for all obelisks.
The one in the Central Park of
NewT York came from this quarry.
While these? things may be in
teresting, I will not turn you back
two thousand to three thousand
four hundred years, but look at
Egypt as we now find it. There
would be no Egypt were it not
for the Nile. This now fertile
valley wrould be a part of the
ocean of sand which we find on
either side of its walled banks.
These natural ranges are of lime
stone and have an elevation of
from one thousand to two thou
sand five hundred feet The dis
tance between ranges is from
fourteen to thirty: two miles. The
fertile valley is not over nine and
,a one-half miles wide. As rain is
nearly unknown in this region
every thing must be nourished
from the Nile, and for sixteen
hundred miles there is one con
tinuous drain upon this life giv
ing water.
Shadoofs by the thousand are
seen. This irrigating device is
about as old as Egyyt and resem
bles the old fashioned well-sweep
but not so cumbersome. The lift
is from -J2 feet to 16 feet The
buckets are made of raw hide and
hold about five gallons. They are
operated by naked Arabs who
lift on an average ten buckets or
50 gallons per minute. Often the
height to which the water is to be
raised is so great that three Sha-
doofs are required lifting from
one to the other until the land to
be irrigated is reached. One Sha
doof or set of shadoofs will irri
gate one-half acre per day.' The
labor Is very hard consequently
they are the highest paid laborers
in the valley, receiving 2 to 3
piasters xer day. equal in our
money to 10$ to 15$ cents per
day, working twelve hours and
boarding themselves. They are
poor wretches indeed and only
by the most rigid economy do
they exist You will notice that
clothing is an item of small ex
pense here. When not at labor,
however, the men wear a gar
ment which to me looks like the
Mother"" Hubbard worn by our
wives some years ago, and with a
turban on their heads they are
then in full dress, no boots or
socks being used. They live on
bread made of a grain colled dor
ra, a sort of corn, and drink Nile
water. A treat to them is buffalo
cow's or goat's milk. They seem
happy, as they know nothing bet
ter, and their condition is no
Worse than that of their ances
tors.
Barley harvest is now over in
Upper Egypt and the farmers are
preparing; the ground for a crop
of dorra. The methods of har
vesting are vcjry ancient and
quite interesting; witn, a tool
resembling a sickle, called the
mingal only not nearly as large
and instead of having a sharp,
serrated cutting? .edge is provid
ed with coarse tebth not unlike
our hand-saws. The object of
this is to pull the grain up by the
roots, thus saving the stalks for
fodder, fuel or mixing with Nile
clay 'for bricks. The .reapers
bind their ownrain into sheaves
which are carried to some con
venient place, on the backs of
camels to the threshing floor. Af .
'ter the grain is gathered, women
and little girls are permitted to
glean the fields. I found a Ruth,
but no one kind enough to be a
Boaz. J
The threshing:, floor is of Nile
mud made smooth and even in a
circular form around the stack of
sheaves. The sheaves are spread
upon the floor and crushed with a
device called a noreg, similar to a
crude bob-sleigh, with three sets
of rollers', between the runners
and fastened to the first and third
set of rollers are four iron discs,
22 inches in diameter. The cen
ter roller has but three of these
discs and arranged to work be
tween the first and third set
Upon this device there is a seat
for the driver. The motive pow
er is usually two cows which are
changed for others every three
hours.
The separating of grain from
chaff is by throwing both into the
air, the wind blowing the lighter
from the heavier. The grain is
then put through a wire hand
sieve and taken to market on the
backs of camels or donkies. No
wheeled vehicles are used farth
er up the Nile than Sioot Plow
ing is done by means of two
crooked sticks; the shorter one is
faced and pointed with iron and
comes in contact with the soil,
and with cordage or some con
traption is fastened to a longer
stick to which bulls or cows are
yoked and with a sharp goad in
the hands of the plowman,
dressed in a Mother Hubbard.
You see the same methods pre
vail now as did four thousand
years ago. vv ltn modern metn
ods of farming, grain, cotton and
sugar could be produced here at
a price that could not be equaled
in any other country known to
me in the world. As I am not
much ' of a farmer I fear my de
scription has not been very full.
I would like to have something
to say about lumber and its uses
but there is very little call for it
here, as Nile mud and limestone
make the buildings. Rude doors,
window frames and sash for these
mud abodes are made here. They
get their lumber from Austria, a
sort of fir, very knotty and made
from small trees.
Fuel is very scarce here and
3tou would be amused to know
the many-things used for this
purpose, rne ncn can ana ao
use coal which "comes from Eng
land and is very dear; limbs of
trees make wood. Both coal and
wood are sold by weight. It
looked strange enough to see a
lot of sticks on one side of a large
balanced scales and weights on
the other. That is their method.
I presume they water the wood.
W. W. Cummer,
Cairo, Egypt Apr. a 1895.
Let it not be forgotten that par
ents who would train up their
hildren in the right way must
themselves walk therein. As the
stream cannot rise higher than
the fountain which feeds itiiowe
cannot expect the young to excel
those from whom they receive
their earliest impressions and in
fluences. If parents indulge in
the daily use of intoxicating
drinks, what can we expect than
that their sons will prove apt
learners and devoted followers?
If parents indulge in the use of
nrofane. abusive, slanderous or
any improper language, may we
not feel assured that their oa-
spring will be faithful imitators?
Is there not a volume oi truui in
the oft repeated maxim: "As are
parents and teachers, so will oe
their children or pupils?"
i : 11 " rr
The Lord's Supper.
And as they did eat Jesus took
bread, and blessed, and brake it
and gave to them, and said, Take,
eat; this is my body.
And he took the cup, and when
he had given thanks, he gave it to
them: and they all drank of it-
Mark 14, 22:23.
In the Lord's supper as an evi
dence of Christianity, there is
presented to an unbelie ving world
a continuous line of testimony
which can be traced backward
through history to the very night
on which Jesus was betrayed.
How simple must this service
have seemed to these men famil
iar with the pomps and splendors
of Judaism! No more great altars
or princely services. All that re
mained of Judaic ceremony was a
little broken bread and a few sips
of wineyea, the whole Gospel in
minature death, life, faith, love,
Heaven.
This last supper represents a
sacrament of life, not of death.
The vivid scarlet thread running
through all the Hebrew history
and Mosaic institutions is that
the blood is the life; and this be
ing sacred to God, the blood even
of animals was forbidden to the
Jews as an article of diet:
The practice of blood friend
ship is very primitive. This is
seen in all early nations from the
most ancient to the Africans of
to-day, among whom Stanley of
ten secured brotherly helps by
the ceremonial interfusion of
bloodfrom the arms of himself
and the savage chief, symbolical
of intercommunion of 1 life and
consequent sacred friendship.
The way in which barbaric
races devour the heart of a par
ticularly valiant foe or a slain lion
shows how instinctively the idea
of gaining spiritual qualities by
this assimilation of the physical
"fountain of. life" is seized upon
by the primitive imagination.
When Jesus said, "Take, eat; this
is my body; this is my Wood,"
did He not mean that He was the
eucharistic peace offering, meat
offering (the only Jewish sacrifice
at which the people ate of the
meat) of the paschal or passover
lamb, whose blood symbol of
life had been sprinkled on the
doorposts as a memorial of tthe
passing over of the angel of death?
The Teacher's Helps.
Lahaska, Pa.
Served Him Right.
An incident showing- the value
put upon Masonry by a United
States judge is related in the
Freemason's Chronicle. It seems
a prisoner had been lound guilty
of the crime with which he was
charged, and the judge was hesi
tating as to what sentence he
should pass. The prisoner knew
that the judge was a Freemason,
and being himself a member of
the Order, made a sign to the
court Oh," said the judge,
you are a Freemason I see."
"Yes," said the prisoner, "I once
had the honor of attending the
same Lodge as yourself," and he
hoped the recollection of that time
would impress the judge in his
favor. Oh, I was just wonder
ing,? replied the judge, whether
you fully appreciated your posi
tion when you were attempting
to commit the crime of which you
now stand convicted; in fact,
whether you had been properly
educated to know how much
wrong you were doing at the
time, but your avowal oi Masonic
membership has convinced me
on that poiut As a Mason you
have been taught what was right
in this direction, and ean have no
excuse for the course you adopted-
The sentence of the court
therefore, is that you be impris
oned to the fullest extent allowed
by the law. Masonic Record
A kind word spoken in time is
worth a million of intentions.
A Lady.
At a recent evening party in
this city the question, came up,
"What constitutes a lady?" The
conversation that ensued is worth
repeating, and here it is:
'I shouldnt call her a lady,
said one of the gathering, speak
ing of a certain per son present
'Why not?' There are certain
subtle requisites she does not
possess. She has money, social
position, education and a good
heart What more do you re
quire?' An innate sense of re
finement which should teach her
always to do the proper thing at
the proper time and prevent her
making innocent people uncom
fortable. She lacks all this.
Oh, she does not mean anything,
bluntness springs from thought
lessness. That is precisely the
reason she is not a lady.
No true lady is regardless
of the feelings of others. No
true lady needs a label. Lady
hood penetrates every pore of
her body. It shows itself in her
carriage, which, unfettered by
bands and steels, is free, grace
ful, dignified the result of per
fect health. The voice should be
early cultivated to be harmonious.
Harsh, shrill or nasal tones in
speaking are sure signs" of ill
breeding. A lady is a woman
who never quarrels with her ser
vants.
Dress is no criterian of lady
hood. Among the English nobili
ty, where each persons social
standard is as fixed as the laws,
duchesses and princesses dress
plainly. The higher the position,
the less need of following the
fashions. Repose of manner is
more important than gorgeous
raiment, and a sweet refined
voice, than jewels without num
ber. ' And a knowledge of the
English language, so as to speak
it correctly," said another.
Af ter all, ' said one, it is by
her treatment of those supposed
to be her inferiors that a woman's
claim to the title of a lady is es
tablished. The person who is as
careful of the feelings of a de
pendent as of her own, who make
everybody she employs respect
and love her is, in my eyes a true
lady" Ex.
Our Share of Happiness.
Each human being, from the
moment consciousness awakes
until the day of his death, feels
intinctively that he has a right to
happiness. When he is young he
confidently expects to get it Fur
ther along in life he begins to
have a baffled feeling that he has
somehow-missed it Later his
feeling sinks into a settled dis
pair of ever getting it, or else in
to a furious protest against fate.
that he of all human beings was
appointed to loose his inheritance.
But when we are 3Toung we are
ignorant of the fact and when we
get older we perhaps forget it
that happiness is a spiritual qual
ity, and to be obtained only ac
cording to spiritual 'laws. We
cannot purchase happiness with
money, as we may buy a yard of
cloth or an estate. We cannot
take it by force from another, as
we may steal his coat Nor can
we gain it by wheeling or cheat
ing another man out of his right
ful share, expecting to make it
our own. For happiness is but
the delicate perfume arising from
the sum total of all human de
lights. Each man's share of it is
the same, and can never be great
er than any other man's share
As it cannot be bought so it can
not be paid for. But those who
refuse to add to the general stock
of happiness, while expecting still
to claim their share, will find
themselres outwitted by nature
Their inner senses become dolt
and then closed entirely. They
become incapable of perceiving
happiness. They never obtain it
cot because it is there, but be
cause they no longer see that it is
there! Haqier's Bazar. -
Grange Directory.
Directory of forthanaptoa Count j
mona uraupe ror ISSS.
Officers: A. E. Ffcele, 3L; J. B. Brown,
O.; lie. Jesse Fl.rthe, Qup.; P. D. Mar
pby, Loet.; H. C. Lassiter, S.; J. W.
Johnson, A. S.; K. DarU, Treas.; E. C
Al!ea, Sx; J. W. Griffin, G. K.; Miss U
rena Crowder, !.; Mr. I. U. T. pavU,C.;
MUa Uoxie Browc, F.; Mr. M. E. lr
ker, L. A. .
STANDING COMMITTEES.
EiEcrTiYE-Ker. ..Jesse Fljthe, J. D.
Browm and J. W. Spirey.
Eihxatiox Uov. J. d'.Fkelwoud, Kin
chca Daris and Mr. I. II. T. DaTis.
Fixaxck Columbus Deloatch, II. C.
Lassiter and J. Grifin.
Agrio-ltlhk-J. T. Iarlar, Goo. Smith
and Miss Berta Parkwr.
CM)PERATiox-Xcxzie Davis, R C. Al
len and Mrs. I. U. T. Dari.
Meets quarterly oa Ith Tnesdar In Jan
uary, April, July aod October.
W. W. Pssbles & Son;
ATTORN EYS-AT-L AW,
JACKSON, N. C.
Office No. 1 West of the Howl Burvyn.
One of the firm will be at Rich Square ev
ery second Saturday In each and erery
month, at U oodland every third Saturday,
and at Conway every fourth Saturday, be
tween the hours of 1 a. m. and 4 p. m.
DR. G. M. BROWN,
WOODLAND, N. C.
Teeth extracted without pain.
Attorney at Law,
Jackson, N. C.
2TPractit;es n the Courts of North.
ampton, Halifax, Bertie and adjoining
Counties. ,
NOTICE!
Having qualified as administrator do
bonis non on the estate of Newit Harris,
notice is hereby jrfven to all persons hold
ing claims against said estate to present
them to me for payment on or before April
30th, 1890, or this notice will be pleaded iu
bar of their recovery. Debtors to said es
tate will please make immediate payment.
Tills Apr. ISth, 1S05.
J. A. Bckowtx, Adm'r d. b. n.
By W. W. Peebles & Sjx, Attys.
NOTICE!
Having qualified as administrator do
bonis non with the wQl annexed of Humph
rey Gums, deceased, notice Is hereby given
to all persons holding claims against the
estate of said decedent ta present them to
me for payment on or before April 3uth,
1SM, or this notice will be pleaded In bar
of their recovery. Debtors to said estate
will please make immediate payment. This
April 18th, 1S95.
J. A. Blrowtx, Adm'r d. b. n.c. t. a.
By W. W. Peebles k Son, Attys.
CHEW
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TPDAOCO,
It sweetens the breath and preserves
the teeth. The best 10c plug on the
market. For sale at the leading More.,
Trespassers Take Notice.
All person are hereby forbidden lo
cut, remove or damage, or in any way
injure, any timber or property of any
di&criptlon which we own in Northamp
ton or in any oilier county hi North Car
olina, without our pjwci.il prrniiion,
under pains and penalties prescribed by
law. Tjik Cummek Company.
This Noven ber 20, mi.
Undertaking Department!
We carry at all times a lare
stock and complete assortment
of Burial
Caslxots and Coffin a
in all size and in quality from
very handsome Solid Walnut and
Broad Cloth Caskets to the very
cheapest grade of Coffii ns.
IProrapt attention to tilling
orders at all times.
Duxton Cl Daugham,
5-16-ly Uteh .uare, N. C.
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Do you want a pair of glasses
that will make you see better and
do better work, that will preserve
your eye sight if it is defective,
that will not tire your eyes, then
Mt ie to W. P. .MOOHK & CO..
Jackson, N. C wheHre making a
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