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THE DANBURY REPORTER. VOLUME 111. THE REPORTER. PUBLIBHKI) WEEKLY BY PEPPER & SONS, PBOI'HIKTOBS. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. OM Year, payable in advance, - $lO Six Months, - - - 100 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square (ten lines or lees) 1 time, $1 00 For each additional insertion, - B0 Contracts for longer time or more space can be made in proportion to the above rates. Transient advertisers will be expected to remit according to these rates at the time they •end their favors. Local Notices will be charged 50 per cent, higher than above rates. Business Cards will be inserted at Ten Dol -1 are per annum. J. W.RANDOLPH k EHGLIBJ, BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERY, AND BLANK-BOOK MANUFACTERERB. 1318 Main rtreet, Richmond. A Large Stock of LA W BOOKS alwayt on nel-6m hand. O. F. DAY, ALBERT JONES. DAY & JONES, Manufacturers of SADDLERY, HARNESS, COLLARS, TRUNKS, .fro. No. 336 W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. noi-ly W. k. TUOKBR, H. C. SMITH 8. B. BPRAGINB. TUCKER, SMITH & CO., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS; SHOES; HATS AND CAPS. 250 Baltimore street Baltimore, Md. 01-ly. WILLIAM DIVRIW, WILLIAM R. DIVRItS, CHRISTIAN DKVRISB, Ot S., SOLOMON KIMMBLL. WILLIAM DEVRIKS & CO., Importers aod Jobbers of Pireifi tad Domestic Dry floods art Notions, *l2 West Baltimore Btreet, (between Howard and Liberty,) BALTIMORE. B. FTKINO WITH JOHNSON, SUTTON & C 9., DRY GOODS. Nos. 324 and 328 Baltimore street; N. E. cor ner Howard, • BALTIMORE MD. T. ur JOHNSON, R- SUTTON, J. a. R. CRABBE, a. J. JOHNSON, nol-ly. JNO. W. HOLLAND with T. A. BRYAN i CO., anufacturers of FRENCH and AMERICAN CANDIES, in every variety, and wholesale dealers in FRUITS, NOTS, CANNED GOODS, CI GARS, Tc. KD j 341 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md. tm- Orders from Merchants solicited. '♦X ELHABT, WITZ k «©., mporters and Wholesale Dealers in NOTIONS, HOSIERY: GLOVES; WHITE AND FANCY GOODS No. 5 Hanover street; Baltimore, Md. 4«-ly H. H. MARTINDALE, with WM. J. C. DULANY & CO., Malioaers' aid Booksellers' Ware house. SCHOOL BOOKS A SPECIALTY. Ptationery of all kinds. Wrapping Paper, Twiaes, Bonnet Boards, Paper Blinds. 331 W. BALTIMORE ST., BALTIMORE, MD. * M.B.ROBERTBON, WITH Watkins & Cottrell, Importers and Jobbers of HARDWARE, CUTLERY, J-0., SADDLSRY GOODS, BOLTING CLOTH, GUM PACKING AND BELTING, 180 V Main Street, Richmond, Va E. M. WILSON, OF N. C., WITH R. W. POWERS k CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, dealers in Paints, Oils, Dyes, Varnishes, French Window Glass, *c., XT*. 1805 Main St., Richmond, Va. Proprietori Aromatic Peruvian Bitten £ P°"- pound Syrup Tolu and Wild Cherry. ' B. J. 4 R- E. BEST, WITH ■ENRV SQNNEBORN k CO., WHOLESALE. CLOTHIERS. 2* Hanover Btreet, (between German and Lombard Streets,) BALTIMORE, MO. H.BOMKMON, B. SLIMLINE. «T-ly WILSON, BURNS k CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS AND COMMIS SION MERCHANTS. So 8 Howard street, corner of Lombard; BALTIMORE. We keep constantly on hand a large and well assorted stock of Groceries—suitable for Southern and Western trade. We solicit coa •igaateuta of Country Prod no©—such as Cot ton; Feathers; Ginseng; Beeswax; Wool: Dried Frail; fan; Skins, etc. Our facilities for do- IM Imsiassssrajiiirh as to warrant quick sales and prompt returos. All orders will bave onr proeapt aiteation. 43-ly. (BRATES'S WAREHOUSE, DANVILLE, VA., For the Bale of Leaf Tobaooo. OUR ACCOMMODATIONS an unsurpass ed. Business promptly and accurately transacted. Guarantee the BIOHSST market priea W. P. GRAVES. March 11-tf LAUCHHEIMER, MAMN k CO., Wholesale Clothiers, No. 311 West Baltimore street, MD. June It—6m DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1878. BUTH'B LEGACY When Rodney Craig came borne from the army with an empty sleeve, some people wondered if Roth Oerrish would marry him. A man with one arm gone, and that hia right one, they argued, was only part of a man, and Rath waa a girl who ooald have her ehoioe among the yoaog men of her acquaintance; there fore—and what conclusion these people arrived at you know well enough, I am sure, for you have seen similar persons. Thoy live in every neighborhood. But those who knew Ruth best, never doubt ed what she would do for a moment. "Of oourse she'll marry him," they said. "She wouldn't let the loss of an arm keep her from doing as she prom ised. She loves him, and that settles the question." When Rodney Craig told her that he would give ber back her promise, she came and stood before him, aod looking into his face, with her earnest eyes, she said: "Do you love me, Rodney ?" "God knows I do, Ruth I" he an swered, and then she put her hand in bis, and made reply : "Then never mention this matter again. I told you I would bo your wife, God willing; and if we love eaoh other | I see no reason why we should not do as we intended. I would marry you, Rod ney, if there was enough left of you to hold your heart." After that he never spoke of break ing the engagement; but be would not consent to be a burden upon ber, and it was agreed that tbe marriage be post poned until he seoured some employ ' moot. He had made application for a olerkship under the government, but it began to seem as it it was a modern case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyoe. Onoe in a while he got a letter from the depart ment at Washington, saying that it was quite probable that he would securo the position; tbe matter bad been referred to such a bureau, or was now under con sideration by such an offioial, etc. And so tbe weeks lengthened into months, and he waited and hoped, aod heard nothing definite, and the time when he would be in a position to marry Ruth seemed very far off. She would have married him next day if he had been willing. She would bave been glad to work for him, because she loved him, and work for thoae we love is always pleas ant. But he was too proud to eonsent to anything of tuat sort, as I have said. One day Ruth got a letter from Aunt Martha Fielding. Aunt Martha lived in a thriving little village among the Berkshire hills, and all Ruth could re member aboat her wss she alwaya made her think of some of the old mountains to be seek from her windows, because she was so grim in aspect, and seemed so unchangeable in all her ways. There had been some family trouble, and Auot Martha had but very little to do with any of her relatives. Therefore it is not to be wondered at that Rath and her mother were surprised when tbe letter came, asking Ruth to eome up and stop with ber for a month that summer. "Shall I go ?" asked Ruth. "I think you had better," anawered her mother. "Bhe must be lonely there. Poor thing! she's bad a good deal of trouble, off and on, but she's made the most of it herself. Yet I suppose she oonldn't help it; it was her disposition." "I oan't see what she wants me to come for," said Ruth. "I haven't seen her sinoe I was s little bit of a girl. I wonder she didn't send for one of Aunt Luoy's girls." "She's got some plan in her head," said Mrs. Gerrish; "she always has when she invites any of her relatives to visit her. Yes, Rutb, I think you'd better go, and do all you oan to make it pleas ant for ber." So Rutb went. Aunt Martha wel oomed her in her utaal grim fashion. Her kiss mads Rath think of one of ihe old mountains departing from its usual dignity aod saluting one of tbe bills. Rath wasn't long in findiog oat what Aunt Mtrtha had invited her to visit her for. One of her nephews was oom ing nest week—her fafortte nephew, she told Rath, snd the one to whom her property would go when she was done with it, and she had get the idea ihto her head that he oaght to marry Ruth. "I always liked you," she said, in one of her oonfidential moods. "Now, when Lucy's girls were up here, I was com pletely disgusted with 'em. All they thought of was dress and parties. They were willing to see their mother iltft herself to death for 'em, and they wouldn't lift a finger to help her. But I've beard all aboat you, and I know you're a good girl, and I John'll like you. He's sensible, and I hope you are." When Ruth saw how determined ahe waa to make a matoh between her and this expected nephew, she thought it time to tell her how matters stood. "Aunt Martha," she said, with a little frightened catch of her breath, for she was afraid the old lady would be mor tally offended at the failure of her plans, "I'm engaged to be married." And then, the worst being over, she wont on and told her all about it, aod succeeded in making ber lover into a great hero, in her own estimation, if not in Aunt Martha's. "And so you're going to marry a man with obe arm and as poor as poverty, are you 1" said the old lady, grimly. "Yes,{if nothing happens to prevent it," answered Ruth, bravely. "We love each other, and we'll get along some way; and love's better than all the wealth in the world, I think, and so does Rodney " "Humph 1" said Martha, and there the matter dropped. Nephew John came, and Ruth were good friends at,onoe ; but neither of them ever dreamed of loving each other. One day Aunt Martha hinted ber plan to him, and then had a long talk with Rutb, which hadn't the least effect toward ohanging her mind. "I bave promised to marry Rodney," •aid Ruth, firmly. "I shall keep my promise. Not all the wealth in the world would tempt me to break my promise to him, because I love him." That afternoon, when she and John were together, he told her what Auot Martha had said in the morning, and then tbey had a good laugh over the old lady's plans, and before the interview was ended, hu showed hpr the picture of his "girl," and Ruth told him all about Rodgey. "It's almost too bad to disappoint her so," he said, laughingly. "But I don't foel quite willing to give up my plans for hers, and I see you don't; so we don't s?em to be able to gratify her by carrying out her pet project." "I think not," answered Ruth. "I like you pretty well, John, but I like Rodney better—in a different way, you know ; and I guess we shall have to run the risk of Aunt Martha's displeasure and take the oonsequences " The matter was never mentioned by Aunt Martha again. When Ruth went borne, she kissed her after the same grim fashion of her weloome, and told ber that she should expeot to see her next summer, if nothing happened. Something did happen. It will hap pen to all of as some time. Aunt Mar tha had not expeeted it so soon, and none of her relativea bad thought of her dy ing for years to oome. But the oall oame for ber suddenly, and she went away ia the darkless ot a winter night, and there was ao coming back from a journey like hers. Ruth and ber mother went to the fu neral. The lawyer invited all the rela tives to tarry to tbe reading of the will. That had been her request. To her dear nephew, John Hunt, she gave the sum of thirty thousand dollars; to her dear *nieoe, Ruth Gerrish, she gave her Bible, with all the papers there in oontained. That was the sum and substanoe of the document. Ruth took her legaoy, whioh waa found in Auut Martha's room, seourely tied up in a thick wrapper, with her name upon it, as the will had stated, and they went back home "I wonder who has the homestesd f" ■aid Mra Gerrish that evening. "All the property willed to John waa in bonds aad notes." Radaey Craig eame in, and Ruth brought out ber legaey to show him 8h reawved tbe wrapper, aad they sat dowa together to loek the well-woro Bi ble over. A paper fluttered to the floor. Rutb piekad it up and read : "MY DBAS Nile* RUTH I believe that tbe woman who is true to tbe man she loves, even if be is poor and hasn't but one arm, is an honor to her sex. If you had been willing to marrv John anf c given up yoar lover, I should have spised you. As it is, I resprot you, and, as a token of my respeot, I give you th'_ old Bible and all von will find in it,aof pray that you will be happy, as you de serye to be. MATBA KIILDISO." Then, of course, Ruth bad to tell Rodney all about it. She had told her mother before. How his eyes shone when he knew the sacrifice she had made for his sake ! And he said some thing about it In a broken voiee ; but she stopped him. "I made no saorifioe at all," she said. "I didn't do it for your sake, either; I did it for love'B sake." The Bible slipped from his knee to the floor, and several documents slipped ont upon the carpet. He pioked them np to replace them. Ruth took them £tm his hand to examine thorn. "Oh, mother!— Rodney !" she cried, exoitedly, "they are deeds !" And sure enough they were I The old homestead in the village, and the farm a ouilo or two away, were left to "my dear nieoe, Ruth Gerrish," and Aunt Martha had had the deeds made out before her death. A slip of paper wrapped about them said that Mr. Jef freys, her lawyer, oould tell Ruth any thing she wanted to know about the property. She could take possession at any time. "Oh, we're rioh !" cried Ruth, with happy eyes. "Dear Aunt Martha ! Iler heart was kinder than any of us thought. I hope she knowß all about it. If she does, I'm sure she isn't sorry for what she's done." "It never rains but it pours." Next day eame a letter to Rodney from the publisher of tbe paper in the village where Aunt Martha's home had been. He wanted some one to take the position of business manager, at a liberal salary, considering the amount of work to be done. Miss Martha Fielding bad ad vised him some time ago to offer the po sition to bim. Would be oome up and talk the matter over ? Rodney went, and so did Ruth and her mother. And they are living there now, much happier, I think, than they wpuld have been if Rodney had taken /tVj clerkship, which appointmeut eame wnen it was no longer needed. And Aunt Martha is not forgotten, yon may be quite sure. They reared a handsome monument to her memory. Howard, tbe Philanthropist. Tbe prominenee of tbe Howard As sociation of tbe yellow fever infected cities has oaused many inquires as to the origin of the name, and it is surprising to witness the general publio ignorance ia regard to it. John Howard, the philanthropist, from whom the Association derives its uame, was born in Hookney, near Loa ion, about 1726. Brom his father, who had been engaged in trade, he inherited a considerable fortune. In 1786, tbe year of the great earthquake at Lisboa, urged by motives of benovolenee, as well aa of cariosity, he set sail for that city. On this voyage his vessel was taken by a French privateer, and he was earned into the interior, where he suffered im prisonment for some time. The hard ships whioh he there underwent, com bined with the knowledge of prisons and the miseries of prison lift, which be acquired as a county Sheriff in 1773 and afterwards, determined him in devoting himself to prison reform. His life there after is but a ohronicle of his journeys throughout the United Kingdom and the Continent, in whioh he visited the prin oipal priaons and hospitals His chief work is "An Acoount of tbe Lasarettos id Europe, eto, with remarks on the present state of the prisons in Great Britain aod Ireland" (1789). He died January 20, 1790, at Kherson, in tbe south of Russia, from having caught in fection from a fevered patient for whom he had prescribed. Tbe fame of Howard i 6 peculiar. He is remembered not so muoh for his tal ents as for that devotion to his suffering fellow men, ia which he expended his fortune and hia life. Henee the propri ety of namieg associations devoted to benevolent assistance to the sick after him. > Riches are givea to make life pass eomfortably; bat life is not given only to amuse them. The individual who has the power of suoeoas is he who eontrols circumstances, instead of allowing them to oontrol him Nothing oan oonstiture good breediag that has oot good nature for its foanda tioa. Ingratitude is so deadly a poison thst it destroys the very bosom in whioh it is harbored. Conjugal Discords. The weaknesses and lollies of women, ! it a theme on which men, from the sage to the clown, have at all times been eio- ' quent. Her natural ooquetry in dress, , her maternal vanity, ber devotion to the i little elegancies of the heme, to olean ' windows and fresh out tains, are inex- j haustible of masculine merriment and abnse. What housekeeper ever com , plained of an aching back or of nervous i irritatiou without being scolded by her > "lord" for some extra work she has done in beautifying the home F Men never j seem to learn that women, as a rule, cannot find life endurable in the atmos phere of dust and disorder whioh char acterises bachelor housekeeping, and which seldom disturbs the equanimity of the masculine mind in the least. Men and women are BO different in their tastes and ways that there must always be dis cord and unhappiness ia the household until the sexes giveover trying to change or remodel those tastes aod ways, and learn to respeot them. Men must accept as inevitable the fact that women, to be happy, must be artistio, or at least dainty and coiy, in their environments ; and women must learn to preserve their souls in quiet when mon spill their to bacco and ashes over the carpets and tables, for probably no man evor lived who oould fill a pipe, even from a wash tub, without scattering the tobacoo over the premises. That the sexes will give over trying to reform eaoh other does not seem likely to happen very soon. Indeed, one might be pardoned for believing that matrimo ny is specially adapted to develope all the imperfections and meannesses of hu man character; that even those matches that are made ia beaven the devil ar ranges all the snbsequont conditions There IB bardly a pure aid innocent de light that an married women enjoy which they can carry into that blissful world bounded by the marriage ring. One of those delights is that of squsnderiag a I little money, which is merely the equiv- j alent of man's spending it as he likes, without accounting to any one. Faw I wives can do this and not be subjeoted to the humiliation of hearing the hus band say, '*My dear, are yov not a little extravagant 7 Is all the money gone that I gave you last week f" Men and women seem incapacitated, in the very nature of things, from un derstanding eaoh other. While mutu ally enamored, they meet as upon a bridge—a Bridge of Sighs, perhaps; break this, and they are forever separa ted as by an impassable gulf. Leaving aside entirely the enamored stale, do men aa a rale seek the sooiety of women and prefer it to that of men 7 The thriving olabs, the billiard and drinking saloons, and the ether reaorts of mon common all over the civilised world, soem very like a negative anawer to tbo question. In savage life we know that the sexes do not hant or fish or do any work togeth er. In oar modern drawing-rooms most men confess themselves "bored." They long to get away to their clubs or some othor resort of their fellows. When husbands spend their evenings at home, if no one happens te oall it is not com mon for them to enter into long and ex hilarating conversations with their wives. To be sure, wives are too often ignorant of the subjects that interest intelligent men ; still, not more ignorant than be fore marriage, whan the one bridge upon which they could meet was unbroken. Then conversation never flagged ; it was ever new and entrancing. Both talked pure nonsense; while having the crt of "kissing full sense into empty wards." On the other band, it ia, I think, quite a defensible proposition, despite the in ference to the oontrary drawn from the failure of the Women'a Hotel, that wo men enjoy conversation with women more than with men when there ia no possible question of gallantry or flirta tion ; and, finally, that the recognition of the faot that men and women are not by nature in sympathetio aeeord, but only attract through the law of oompen sation or opposite*, will do more than all other things combined to make thein atudy eaeh other's natures and to respect sexual biases and eharaoteristioa, the motive for that study being of oourse, the consumption of the ideal marriage, where man and woman set themaolvea together "like perleot musio unto noble words " ... ii" ■ i ■ ■ Always act as conscienoc directs. NUMBER 18. Absent from School. There are hundreds of walWoMMtinf bat tboughtlcM country people who f» quire their children to work on the farm when they oagbt to be in eeheol, thus robbing them of the inestimable benefit of a good edaoation. Two boye of the same age and ability start for aehool in May. One attends every day, rain or shine, during the term of four or five months, and is supplied with books ao oordiug to his capabilities; the other comes one day and stays away two or three, and then possibly eomes three or four more, ooming and going like an in termittent fever. His excuses are often amusing when we take into considera tion the age and size of the little man. lie has "had to help plant," or "log off a piece for potatoes," or "help ma," or "pick berries." His schooling averages about two days of the week. At tbe close of the term there is an examination. The first-mentioned lad has mado rapid progress in his studies. The foundation stone is laid for au in telligent, useful man. How is it with bis companion ? His advancement is scarcely perceptible. Who is to blame F Not the boy, and certainly not the teacher. Has the little farmer earned enough to pay for his laok of school culture T Emphatically, no ! He bas suffered an incalculable loss. Until a child has well entered his teens, be oan be oi little use on the farm. During ohildhood he should be allowed to attend sohool dar ing ten months of tbe year. At fifteen the boy or girl is strong enough to be of use, while at the same time tbey will be capable of loarning by practioe and ob servation what they have before learned only in theory. And many a lad or lass would lay up a fund of useful knowledge during the evenings and odd days when otherwise unemployed, that would be a perpetual fountain of usefulness during all their lives. Whereas, tbe child who has an ocoasional day, week or month at sohool, even from the time be is five years old until he is twenty-one, will have a vary limited amount of knowledge with whioh to begin a business life. And andoubt edly he will be obliged to knock about the world doing the drudgery of hia former companions; looked upon as a sort of ignoramus incapable of using hi* best energies - ■ i ■■ Don't Judgo. Don't judge a man by the clothes ha wears, for Qod made one, and the tailor the other. Don't judge him by his family con neotioo, for Gain belonged to a very good family. Don't judge a man by his failure in life, for many a man fails because be is too honest to suooeed. Don't judge a man by tbe house he lives in, for the liaiard and the rat often inhabit the grandest structures. Don't judge him for bis activity in churoh, for that is not unfrequently in spired by hypocritical and selfish mo tives. Don't take for granted that because be carries the contribution box be is liberal—he often pays tbe Lord in that way and keeps tbe currency. Catching Him. An exchange vouches for the follow ing ; A gentleman well known on Broadway informed bis wife that his seal in the good cause demanded his atten tion at Ooean Grove, and they parted af fectionately, she wishing him godspeed on bis Christian errand, and enjoiniog him to pray for her and the child. Mr. left that afternoon with a party of jolly dogs, and in due time was in com fortable quarters at Ocean Boaoh. It was announced after dinner that some tableaux were to take plaoe in their hotel that evening, and at the hour fixed tbe jolly dogs adjourned to this representa tion. Tableau after tableau was presen ted, and at length it was announced that the next will be the "Deeerted Mother and Child." The curUin rose upon a lady in graceful posture bending lovingly over her darling. The silenoo «as sud denly broken by a startling exolaoiation from Mr. . The lady in tbe tableau oblivious of ber psrt, turned ber head, aud met her husband's eye. Several of her friends in the seoret burst into a roar. Mr. made for the door, but* was finally detained. Dut all's well that ends well Madame forgave the error this time, and ten minutes later they were whirling in ■ "vails.
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