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The Danbury REPORTER AND POST
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well.— Daily Workman.
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with pardonable pride refers to its suc
cess, which it doserves.— \tws and Ob
server.
The Danbury REPORTER AND POST
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and should be well patronised by the
people of Stokes. It oertainly deserves
it.- Salem Press.
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REPORTER AND POST has been roughing
it, and still manages to ride the waves
of tbe journalistic sea. We hope that
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The Danbury REPORTER AND POST
has just passed its 12th anniversary and
under the effioiont management of broth
er Duggins oannot fail to increase in
popularity with the people of Stokes and
adjoining counties.— Winston Sjtnlinel
The editorials on political topics aro
timely and to.the point, and thegteneral
make up of every page shows plainly
tbe exercise of much oare and pains
taking. J/ong may it live and flourish
under the present management.—Moun
tain Voice.
The Danbury REPORTER AND POST
has entered the thirteenth year of its ex
istence, and we congratulate it upon the
prosperity that is maoifestod through its
oolumns. To us it ia more than an ac
quaintance, and we regard it almost as a
kinsman.— Leaksville Gazette.
The Danbury REPORTER AND POST
last week celebrated its twelfth anniver
sary. It is a strong and reliable paper
editorially, it is a good local and gener
al newspaper and in all rospects a credit
to its town and section. It ought to bo
well patronised.— Statesville landmark.
The Danbory REPORTER AND POST
has just entered its 13th year. Wewero
one of the crew that launched tho RE
PORTER, and feel a djep interest in its
welfare, and hope that she may drift on
ward with a clear sky and a smooth sur
face for as many moro years.— Caswell
News.
Tbe Danbory REPORTER AND POST
has celebrated its 12th anniversary. The
paper la sound in policy *nd poUSes,
and deserves the hearty support of the
people of Stokes. It is au excellent
weekly and we hope to see it flourish in
tho futuro as never before.— Winston
Leader.
The Danbury REPORTIR AND POST
came out last week with a long editorial,
entitled, "Our Twelth Anniversary"
and reviews its past history in a very
entertaining way. Go op ltro. Pepper
in your good work; joy get up one yf If
not the best country paper to North
Carolina.— Kmm&iwUe Jtavi. .
That valued exchange, published In
Danbwy, N. C., the REPORTER abd
POST, has entered upon iu 12th anni
versary. Long may it live to call the
attention of the outside world to a coun
ty whioh is as rich, we supnow, m min
erals as any in tho Bfkt'e of North Car
olina, and to battle for oorrect pclitical
measure*. -Danville Tims*.
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"NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCQESS,"
DANBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY i>, 1885.
Deacon Cray's Lesson.
Deacon Gray was assisted carefully
into his thair, then his wife mounted
besulo him. Things were reversed
sino4 his lwg sickness—she took tho
driMj-'j seal \and then tlia reins. As
faithful old family horse,
ho" was alow-going beast at best,
such a hurso as old ladies like to drive,
and the Deacon's wife was verging on
sixty.
'Mother's hair was really beginning
to tan JaO#, Ibe eldest daugh
ter 8 aid, Jj3olm»gray hairs herself)
and so it was; but mother, blessed
good woman, don't care. She had
lived a spotless life, and the peace or
her »oul had given to her face a sweet
ness of expression that was far better
than beauty.
'Deacon, ore you warm enough '' Mrs.
Gray always called her husbanl 'Dea
con,' Uut now there was a peculiar into
nation of tenderness in her voice, ncvor
very musical.
'Oh, yes, I'm comfortable. Dear,
dear, how sweet the olovur smells. 1
didn't know as the soent would ever
come to me again, when [ luy there
in the south chamber eboking for
breath."
'Never mind, Deacon, we won't talk
of the past aow. See Uncle Biah's
moddor, don't it look splendid 1 and
the oom over there, why it's growed a
sight dince ybstehlay. La! do seo Dr.
Baird's apple trees, don't they look
beautiful!'
'Everything looks beautiful. Mur
thy,' said the Deacon —a light breaking
over his rugged and somewhat bard
face..
'So it does,' and tho good woman's
eyes were lifted to • the sky, across
which the softest, whitest clouds were
floating, with a motiou so airy that
they soemed like spirits of the upper
ether taking forms of grace and beau
7-
'Don't ciro about stopping anywhere,
jfcv. t-thcr '' ajfctJ the Duncau'-
wife, as the old horse jagged along.
'Well, yos, guess wo might as well
got out at the lane.'
'Old Joe!' exclaimed Mrs. Gray,
aghast; 'aren't you afraid he'll woiry
you, now you'ro BO weak, Deacon I'
'Well, do, I guess not, Marthy, he's
a poor critter, and—and you know I •
feel different now about such things.
Forty years of health goes nigh to har
dening a man's heart, Marthy,' and he
sighed as he spoke.
So Dobbin was reined in at the head
of the line, and Mrs. Oray making her
self a cratch for tho Doacon, went to
wards the homely little house, over
whose door, poor atd lowly though
it was, the honeysuckle wandered, lull
of sweets.
'lf I over did ! Here's Doacon Gray
a coming !' cried Joe's maiden sister,
smoothing his hair.
'I don't wan't to see him,' said Joe,
moving uneasily on his bed.
'Good ' morning, and how are you
all t»
It was Marthy's cheerful voice, and
Joe couldn't chooso to turn ; and when
onco his faded eyes caught sight of tho
Deacon's altered faoo tboy staid there,
fastoned by the expression of pallor—of
tendernoss that rested on those weahtcr
bcaten features.
'Joe, I didu't know as wo should ever
meet again,' said the Deacon, holding
out bis hand. 'I have thought of you
every day sinco 1 was laid on my sick
bod. How hard it luust be for you to
stay there month after month.'
Joe's lip trembled a little. Hiese
words coming from a man who had
moro than onoe reproached him with
shiftlessucss and shamming, touohed
his heart.
'Well, yes, it's sort of hard,' ho an
swered, "but 1 s'poso I'll havo to bear
it. There's them that's wuss off, I
guoss.'
."What oan I do for you, Joe?' asked
the Doacon, his voice still soft with
that strange tenderness. 'ls there any
thing you'd like 1 Is the bod soft en
ough 1 Perhaps you could use my sick
chair, it wheels about, and you might
go to the door, or oven outside, in it.
You'ro welcome to it, Joe, only say tho
word. And anything in the way of
jollies, or delicato things that you fancy
to oat, and books or papers if you'd
want them. Don't make a stranger of
me, Joe ; send to me as yo« would to a
brother.'
«B»t you know I ain't a brother—
I ain't one of your kind—Deacon,
I—'
•Never mind,' said Deaoon Gray, as
sedulously advoiding the argument now
as be had before plunged into one—
'never mind what your opinions are
just now tbo Lord seg. and nitty be
he'll bring you my way of
thinking yet. What 1 after uow is
to make tbo body com!%Jablc. And 1
just want to ask your pnrdon foi all
my bard ways and ungenerous words.
1 know I've dune wrong, the Lord for
give me. I couldn't '.ell what a differ
eneo sickness makos in body and mind
then, but Ido now. Come, Marthy,
we'll be going, and Joe, I'll take it bard
if you don't tax mo for loinething. God
bless you, Joe. Good doming.'
The two had vanisiKS s*" 5 *" bui* it seeai
ed, some way, as if the ey.Mt*. sirsam
ed more genially oyer '.ho place they
had left.
"Well, 1 neviSr,' exclaimed Joe's sis
ter.
Joe himself was silent for a long
time.
'What ailed the Deacon V he asked
at last, as his sister can.o back to his
bodsida.
'Diptheria, they said.'
•Putty sick, «ant he ?'
■Thought ho would die ; folks raid
so.'
'Well, it's done him more good than
all—no matter— * and Joe ended his
sentence abruptly.
'To think how be used to fret and
fumo' muttered Joe's sister. "And
what a blessing that chair will be, and
how you wished you eould got one, and
he coming and offering it himself. Well,
I'll nevor say Deacon Gray ain't a
christain agaiu, never !',
Meantime the Deacon's wife was lif
ting the attenuated framo of her husband
into the carriage again, hei vigorous
shoulders his main support. There
were tears in her eje?, but slip bustled
üboot looking this %..}■ and that, tucking
(ho big shawl over t!.a Deacon's knees,
and pressing him soi gly back, as if alio
feared a gust of the strong spring wiud
would blow him awn,'. Oh ! but in her
heart it seemed as if she had never felt
such wealth of ten 'jrness. Tho one
iLiug thai Uur a* »'2io tuiui hfc!
lacked, had now, almost by a miracle it
seemed, been wrought into this being, and
taken its lodgement in bis heart. In
his face, a now, a holier benignity
shone, eyen on the stiongly seamed
forehead, and in the deep lines that toil
and thought had wore in his face. The
■ eyes tho pray eyes, that only on extra
ocoasions had lighted up with a human
boauty, seemed now to have gained an
almost unearthly softness.
•Marthy, Christ knew, didn't hei' ho
aaked, in a tender voice.
'Knew what, dear I* The good wo
man started at her own tenderness—at
the unusual term of affection.
'Through suffering"—and be turned
to his wife.
•How to pity us. Oh, yes ! aud He
took it all on Himself.'
•It was put on me, thank God ! I
wouldn't have it; no, no. Humanity
shrinks from tbo suffering, from the
croM. Forty years of health, Marthy,
is a foarful test. I don't know, looking
at the past as I do now, feeling what I
have lost and what I hmye gained—l
don't know as I had graoe enough to
save ine, Marthy. It didn't seem to
me as if anybody need to be sick.
Many a time I thought folks give up
because they wero weak and laiy. I
don't knovf, but it seemed a sin to mo
to be sickly and ailing. But you see
God knew what 1 needed. Stop Dobbin,
Marthj; there's poor little
lauie boy. I wondor if something can't
bo done for him.'
So Dobbin was stopped and tho poor ,
child, gladdenod with a kind word and ;
a handful of ooppors, that sot his face ;
shiuing. What with delight and sur
prise, tears camo again into tho good
wife's eyes, for children bad rather
advoided the Deacon, sterling man
though he was.
•I'll soe if that boy can't be helped,' ]
the Deacon went on, 'L'jje hoard that
if his father could only afford it, there's
a placo where ho might be cured.
He's a Sne littlo fellow, and it is a
shame to lot hiin go stumping through
life.'
•Shan't we turn round now, Doacoa »'
asked his wife.
•I think I would like t« go to Tom
Blake's—he's another cripple, and more
likely to be worse than better.'
•flu', Deacon, you hadn't heard, I
suppose. The truth is ho was taken to
the poor-house.'
•Marthy, ie that so V cried the Dea
con, the old sternness coming baok to
his fao«.
•It is so. He grew so bad that they
couldn't find ary one willing to be bur
dened with him, «o they just put him
there.'
■l've hesrd him say, maoy'e the time,
he'd rather die than go thcro. Poor
Tom.'
•Yea. it was very hard.'
•We'll drive there, Marthy.'
There was another refolding of the
shawl, aftor the good woman bad turned
Dobbin's dull head in tho direction of
the poor-house. The Deacon went in,
leaning on the arm of his wife, and led
directly to the room of the old man,
Tom Rlake.
Tom looked askance at the Deac6n,
from whom be had taken many a long
seruisn—for Tom was as near an infi
del as that otW godless man, Joe—
tlion at the sight of his palo mild cona
tenanco, tho old man faltered, he put op
bis thin hand, turned aside las ftco and
burst into tears.
•Tom, I'm sorry to see you hero,' said
the Dcioon, placing his withered hand
on the old man's shoulder.
•I'd rather you'd seen me in the grave,
Deacon Gray," sobbed the old man.
'But I won't die here," —a look of de
fiance crossed his feature*—"lt shan't
be said that Tom Blake died a pauper.
No, sir. I'll crawl on my bands and
knees at the last grasp, and I'll find
strength to do it too, out of this pauper
place.'
"Tom, you shan't stay horc,' said the
Deaoon, resolutely.
•The old man looked up. Ills face
was pitiful to sec, all dabbled wi»h
tears.
'No, Tom 1 know how you feel. When
I was choking with that awful sickness,
I thought I'd give worlds for one cany
breath.'
'Yes, and I'm choking in here; every
mouthful i oat chokes uio.'
'l'ou shall come out. If nobody will
take you I'll tako you myself.'
'O, God bless you Deacon Gray '
God bless yon for a true Christian,'
cried the grateful man, teats of jny
falling from lus dim eyes. "I used to
Bay hard thiogs about you Deacon Gray,
because you tried to make me a bettor
HiMn. Uj: Ui* ihiijo,
and it it takes root and ripens, it will
be bccauso I see your faith and your
works go together. You've made a new
man of me. God bless you Deacon
Gray.'
Old Dobbin took a quicker step on
his way homo—oats in prospect. As
for mother Gray, the way she pattod
and tucked that old shawl, looking up
every now and then into tho Deacou's
gray eyes with a love that made her
old faco look angelic, was quite a treat
to sec. And as for tho Deacon, ho
thought to himself that ho had always
held religion as ono would an car of
corn, ignorant of its uso ; but now,
Christ had taught him how to atrip off
tho harsh outside husks and find within
the life giving kernels.
First assistant Postmaster-General
Hay proposes to put a stop to the prac
tice of Congressmen, who havo influence
at Washington, getting their personal
favorites into fat positions. Replying
to a question on the subjcot, he says
Congressmen havo no rijht to dictato
appointments in their districts, and
therefore l.e proposes to disregard tho
long established custom of the Republi
cans in thoir appointments. He says
that Congressmen are scut to Washing
ton to legislate or make tho laws not
oxecuto them or select subordinates to
execute them ; they should of course
; l>e consulted because of their superior
knowledge of the most suitable persons
! for tho positsons, but their decisions
' should not bo laws from which there can
| be no appeal.
Mr. Ilay is right. Tf there ia an easy
' placo of refuge, give it to tho faithful
man who has stood in tho thickest of
the storm and worked for the party.
| Lot merit, and not favoritism be the
| watchword of promotion.
Dcunis Kearney out quite a liguro in
politics a few years ago, but for tho
past year or so he has been so very
quiet that he had about been forgotten.
He went from the Atlantio to tho Pa
cific speech-nuking. In California ho
1 got into a difficulty whish resulted in
his being cut off from tho publio gnze
for a season. The latest news from him
is that he has entered tho race for tho
Governorship of California. Nsw ho
will air himself again and disgust the
publio.
The Now Orleans Exposition was
open nearly as long as the Philadel
phia Centennial. The whole number of
visitors at tbe former was 1,158,840,
while there were 9,910,900 visitors at
the latter. This tells the tale of the
fluancial failure of the World's New
Orleans Exposition.
CALENDAR
Of Crimhud und Civil Causet for Trial at
Summer Term of the Nuj>erior Court of
Stoke* County, Commencing Monday,
August 1 01/ i, 1&85.
JIMMIUJT lotla, I UMMIII) 11th and WMIHM
day I'ifh for  rtmlnal Trial*
mud XOUOM.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18,1885.
7 Ruffin heirs vs Overby.
13 Tiiley vs Jessup, et al.
14 McCanless vs Flinohom etal (4 cases)
18 Morgan vs Lewis et al.
22 Hall vs Watts.
Y FRIDAY, AUGUST 14,1885.
23 Robinson and wife vs Smith et al.
27 Smith vs Joyce.
28 Merritt vs Hairston.
3-1 llicks vs Lawson.
.30 Smith vs Lewis.
37 Bnyd vs Taylor.
55 Krecgcr vs Kiger.
38 Burrell vs Martin.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15,1885.
39 Nicholson vs Reeves.
42 Nicholson vs Tuttlo.
43 Flynt vs liurton.
4G Bozo vs Sarles.
48 Laslcy vs Fulton.
52 Eaton vs Lambeth.
53 Martiu vs Frailer.
MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1885.
State vs Valentine.
54 George vs Estes.
50 Lash vs Martin.
57 Smith vs Davis.
58 Slate vs Thomas.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1885.
68 Franlis vs McKinney.
00 Carroll vs Pepper.
01 Martin ts Hall.
02 Lash vs East.
03 George vs Tiiley,
64 Gaudlc va Fallen.
05 Dodd vs Lawson.
00 Pepper & Sons vs Alley.
07 I'fibson vs },wn.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19,1885.
08 Simpson vs Simpson.
09 Steele va Priuglc ct al.
70 Lawson va Pringle (4 casoa.)
75 Nelson vs Tiiley.
70 Nelson vs Nelson.
77 Stewart vs Stewart.
78 Wagner vs Dodd.
79 Hill vs Hill.
81 Ruffin heirs vs Bennett.
MOTION DOCKET.
1 Wilson vs McCanless.
2 Ilutoherson vs Martin.
3 Smith adm'r vs McCanless,
4 Francis vs Worth adm'r.
5 King vs King.
6 Ilutchcrson vs Ilutcherson.
8 Griffin vs Uriffin.
9 Martin adm'r vs Ilutoherson.
10 Carter vs l'ooro.
11 Timmons vs Watts.
12 Steele vs Hawkins et al.
19 Harris vs McCanless.
20 Bynum va Mickey.
21 Warner vs Carroll.
24 Smith vs Jackson.
25 King adm'r vs Scales.
20 Tatum vs Ptinglc adm'r.
29 Kiger and others Ex Parte
-30 Chambers vs Bynum.
31 Winston vs Winston.
32 Newsom adm'r vs Newsorn.
83 Moore Ex Parte.
35 Moscr and others vs Boles.
40 Myers vs Golding.
41 Ellington vs Steele et al.
44 Martin va Ricrson et al.
45 Lewson vs George.
47 Smith vs Johnson.
59 Amos vs Martin.
50 Bakor adm'r vs Ilill ex. and Taylor.
41 Pepper guardian Ex Parte.
74 Smith vs Smith.
80 Boyles vs Rutledge.
In the oall, any oaso not reached on
tbe appointed day will be called in or
der on next day, and in precedence of
cases set for the next day.
Motions heard according to the oon
venienco of the court.
Witnesses will bo allowed pay for at
tendanco only from the day cases aro
sot for trial, and after that time uutil
the cause is disposed of.
J. F. GRAVES,
Presiding Judge.
Danbury, N. C., June 15th, 1885.
A Pittsburg police offioor arroited a
man who, he thought, was a suspicious
jharaoter beoauso he seemed to be the
wearer of a false beard. At the station
the man took off his beard and showed
that in the wearing of it he was only
exercising good taste. His under jaw
bad years before been entirely taken off
in a railway smash-up.
TMf riWffS
ARTEnili WARD.
Charles Farrar Browne was born ia
this country ia 1836. lie wa# better
known under tho uaiuc of Artemus Ward
which be adopted, and under which be
wrote and lectured. Just a few word*
about Uis history and then we will iee
why bis writiugs place bin among the
"funny men."
Lie began life, liko Mark Tvain, in a
priuting office setting type. Then be
became a newspaper reporter, and the
jokee that found their way from bis pen
were copiod into all tbe leading papers,
and Artemus Ward's name was the sig
nal for souicthfri# funny to He
wtjlft to California and gave a lecture on
"The Babes in tbe Wood," and for an
hour and a half hii audience laughed at
bis jokes and funny sayings. Even tike
reporters declared they could not write
they were so tilled with laughter. There
was very little about The Babe* in the
Wood, but the lecture was bright and
funny aud a great suooe*. Ward trav
eled through tho United States, making
friends everywhere, and then to Eng
land, where he died.
In his lecture on the Mormons, be
says : "Brigham Young is an indulgent
father and a numerous husband ; be has
married two hundred wives ; he loves
not wisely but two hundred well. He
is dreadfully married. When I was np
at Salt Lake City I was introduced to
his nwther-ia-law. I can't exactly tell
you iiow mauy there is of ber, but it's
a good deal "
Ouce, when he was at a loss for some
thing to say during a lecture, he remar
ked : ''Time passed on. It always doee
by the way. You may possibly have
noticed that time passed on. It ia a
kind of way time has."
He had a panorama wbioh he explain
ed as it was exhibted. It was very
[ poorly painted, but Arteinus made the
best of it. Whon anything especially
poor came up he would look admiringly
at it and then with a look of reproach
to the audience, remark : "This picture
is a great work of art ; it is an oil pain
ting done in petroleum. v It is by the
old masters. It was the last they did
buforo dying. They did this and then
they expired. I wish you were Merer
it so you could see it hotter. I wish I
could take it to your residences and let
you see it by daylight- Some of the
greatest artists iu London come here
every morning before daylight, with lan
terns, to look at it. They say tbef
never saw anything like it before and
hope they never will again. Then,
pointing to soma brown splashes of paint,
"these are intended for horses ; I know
they are because tbe artist .told me so.
After two years he came tome and eaid;
"Mr. Ward, I cannot conceal it from
you any longer. TUey are horses "
Another time he said : When I waa
a boy I used to draw wood. 1 drew a
small cart-load of raw material over a
wooden bridge. The people of tbe vil
lage noticed me. I diew their atten
tion ; they said I bad a future before
me; up to that time I had an idea it
was behind mo." And again, speaking
of himself : "I became a intn, 1 bave
always been mixed up with art. I have
an uncle who takes photographs, and I '
have a servant who takes anything he
can get his hands on."
~ Much of Arteuius Ward's humor lay
iu his manner of saying things. People
laughed before he finished telling a joke.
Fivo minutes after he had begun a lec
ture his audience was completely charm
ed, ready to laugh or cry. He waa a
worthy and lovable man, kind, sensitive
aud affectionate. When be died, a
frieud of bit said thore had paMed
away the true spirit of a gentleman.
The original oopy of tbe constitution
for the piovisional government of the
Confederate States of Amorioa is new
owned by Mrs. W. F. de Fontan, of
New York. Two years ago the British
proposed buying it, the price being
SIO,OOO, but the negotiation fell
through. Of tho forty-nine signer*ever
one-half are dead, and of the living,
only one, tbe Hon. John 11. Keagan,«f
"Texas, is in publio life.
The Durham Reporter nays the to
bacco salos at that place for tbe past
two weekß have aggregated more than
one million pounds leaf, and upwards of
$143,000 were distributed among the
farmers of that section t Ire rob}.
It is always a "personal" favor to
mention one man's name ia a UiiHy
per. It is the same thing to leave
another man's oat.
There were 881 applieanis for the
seven professorships filled by the Trus
tees of the University.
NO. 3.