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r? MT. AUIX, N. C.
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Tho Danbury REPORTER AND POST
came out last week with a long editorial,
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Danbury, N. 0., the REPORTER AND
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"IVOTIIIIVO- SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS."
DANBURY, N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST Ti, 1885.
I tttXIM Tit AT IEVEK BtK.
Tne pure, tlie bright, the heautifu,
" 'Hint stirrvil.uiir hearts in youth ;
TU) impulse to a worthless prayer,
The dreams of love ami truth ;
Tlie longing aftor something lout,
The spirit's yearning cry,
TheatrlvjfrK *lk"r ti.ftcr li.ijX'i—
Tfcso thiiuzl can never die.
B
Tlio timid bund stretched forth to *id
A brother in his need ;
The kindly word In griefs dark lionr,
That proves a friend i ndcol—
The plea for mercy, softly breathed,
When Justice threatened high,
The sorrow of a contrite heart—
These things shall never dip.
The memory of a clasping hand,
Tlie pressure of a kiss,
And all the trifles sweet and frail
That make up life's bliss;
If with a linn, unchanging faith,
And holy trust and high, '
Those hands have clasped and lips liliavc
These things shall never die.
Tlie cruel and the hitter word
That wounded as it fell,
Tlio chilling wants of sympathy
We feel but never tell—
The hard repulse that chills the heart
Whose holies were bounding high,
In an unfading r> cord kept—
These things shall never die.
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Must fln.l some work to do ;
I.ose not a clianec to waken love—
lie firm and just and true.
So shalt a light that cannot fade
llcem on thee from on high,
And angel's voices say to tliee,
These things shall never die.
—All the Tear Bound
A DIVORCE WANTED.
Nnorlnc Judicially declared Not lo It.'
UWMI l;niunill fnr tli« Nfirrnr«
of Mnrltnl Kclnlioim - Hard,
Hut Ju»t.
'Judge, I just can't live with my wife
any longer, and 1 must have a dtvoico
if it takes every o«ict I've got.'
'On what grounds ?'
'Eh!'
i 'What's the cause of your complaint!'
'Why, haven't I told you that I can't
stand it, and I won't put up with it any
longer.'
'What has she been doing !'
'Eh >'
'What has tho woman done ?'
'Why, she ain't done nothing, but I
just can't livo with her, and I won't.
How long wilt it take you to make me
out a divorce, and what'U it cost! 1
want to got it on weekly payments if I
can.'
'Well, BCO here, wan. I'vo got to
know all about the ease to begin with.'
'Eh V
'Tell me all about tho trouble '
'There ain't been DO troublo; but
don't I tell you that I can't live with
her, and I won't; and I want the wri
tings to show for it, so that she can't
cnmcontomo if I ever get any pro
perty.'
•What do you want a divorce for V
'So sho can't sue ino nor nothing, as
I've jußt said. They tell mo sho can
got board wages if i leave her without
writings.'
'Ob, fudge! How long have you been
wanting to get a divorce?'
'Most two weeks.'
'How long havo you been married ?'
•About two weeks.'
♦•Well, that beats tho Dutoh. What's
the cause of the trouble V
'Don't 1 tell you there hasn't been
any trouble?'
'Well, then, what the blazes do you
want a divorco for ?'
'So that she can't have any claim
on my property. 1 told you that be
fore.'
'Thunderation, man 1 What did you
come hero for •'
'A divorce.'
'How do you oxpcot to get it ?'
'Ou easy payments, if loaD. If not,
I'll havo to borrow tho money from my
brother.'
•What reason have you for wanting a
diyorce V
'Because I can't live with her, and
want to be on tho safe side.'
'What's the reason you oan't live
with her >'
'Do I havo to tell you that l '
•Certainly; and you'll bavo to tell
it iu court, too.'
'Before all the people ?'
' l'o be sure.'
'Ain't there soma way of getting
around it by paying a little more V
•Of uourse pot. The court must know
all about it.'
'Hut can't I tell him iu a whisper.'
without blurting it right out before j
everybody ?'
'No, that wouldn't iu at all.'
'Hut I don't want U mortify the girl
and spoil her pronpeot-. We ain't had
no uouhle, and I'd ive with her if I
oould ; but 1 tell yu, Judge, 1 just
can't.'
'Well, now, what's the reason you
can't ? I've got to kn iv it if you want
my lwlp; so out with What's tho
drawback ?'
'Kb?'
•What fault v '*»tind with her!'
'Snoring.' » 4
' W hat ' v i
•Judge, she doevanore just awful, if
I must say it, but I 4"n't want to, and ,
thought maybe 1 wouldn't have to. j
TficVc'a no such thing as getting a wink I
of slcop in the same hiuso with her, and
as I havo to work for a living, I'vo got
to do my slumbering at night.'
'But that won't givi you a divorce.'
'Not it I pay for it f
'lVhy, no; you'd be kicked out of
oourt.' .-
•Rut along with her snoring she whis
tlos through her uoso like a tug boat.
She's a little woman, Out good heavens,
Judge, she'd raise the dead !'
•That don't make any difference. The I
law says you must put up with it ami '
make the best of it. To got a divorce
you must have a reasonable cause to
begin with,'
'Well, great Csßgar, Judge' Ain't
having to sleep in the coal shed enough
to begin with, I'd lixe to know l I
thought (he law was mndo to help a body
along. Don't it take no pity on a man
at all l
'Not in a case like that. It presumes
that you married this woman with your
eyes open.'
'So I did, Judge ; and they've been
open ever since. Does tho law say I've
got to go without sloep (ill I drop or
bunk in the bara? Docs tho law give
that woman a right to make a fog-horn
of herself, and shako the whole house
with hei noso as soouas sic shuts her
cyco! fc'-'t 1 ' #.r iu rob-'
bing mo of sleep tho samo thing
as bono and muscle to ine ? Does the
law give her the right to whistle through
her nose and snore fit to make a cow
bawl the livolohg night, aud at tho
same time give her a whack at my pro
perty, if I leave her and take to the
timber to save my life. Does it do all
that, Judge ?'
'Well, yes; it simmers down to about
that.'
•Well, then, I'll never vote again as
long as I live, and 1 won't pay a cent
ot taxes if I hang for it. If the law tries
to bulldoze me that way, it'll have to
puddlo it? own canoe after this, that's
all. 1 fit for tho Governmont once,
but I'll bo blamed if I'll evoi do it
again.'
Morvr.M* none or THE •CITY
IN THI; troooN."
Though not a stick of timber has
been cut at Canioca, except for a saw
mill ; so beautiful is the location, so
grand the scenery around, so many are
its natural advantages, and so popular
and pleasing is everything connected
with it, that alroady a grand mountain
hotel is talked of (capable of accommo
dating 1,000 guests) right in the midst
of what promisas to be one of tho gran
dest mineral water sections of tho Uni
ted States.
This hot§l will probably be built by
the oapita! of the Twin-City ; and tbe
probability n«w U that so many of the
wealthy of the East and South will
eroot summer houses in this "land of
spungs," to which tboir families may
flee from the malarial districts during
the hot season, that a hotel, as above,
will be filled, not for two but for six or
eight months of tho year.
Some will think we aro gautnif when
we uy that it will bo but a few years
when, in tbe place of huudreds as now,
that tbe visitors will be numbered by
tbe thousands; and tbatasoore of springs
which havo never been notioed will be
brought to the knowledge of tho great
! health and pleasure seeking publio ; but
time will recall what wo predict, that
this is the groat health, and summer re
sort of the State, which can boast of one
bundled mineral spriugs with uieilieinal
properties for almost every disease to
whiob flesh is heir.
Sales of new lobaoto aro noted at
many of the markets. Cuttiug goes on
rapidly, and tho results %ro more than
even tho most hopeful imagined. The
facilities for curing are about twice as
groat as lai»t year.
Trjlns Iu Sell a Horse.
'What do you think of that liorscV |
arked a Wall street banker of a fricnu !
ut an up-town boarding-stable after the '
close of business tho other afternoon, as
he pointed to a thin-legged specimen of
hurse-ficsb which a hostler wus hitching
up to a road wagon.
'Looks a trifle aged', replied the friend ]
as lie gazed at the animal with a know
ing look.'
'Whose erowbait is that V inquired ,
another friond, who joined the couple at
that moment.
'What do you think of him V asked
one. .
'What do 1 think of him ? Ho was
a respectable plow horso once. Is ho
yours J'
'Yes.'
'What tiro you going to do with him?*
'Sell him to a street car company ?'
'What's the matter with him ?'
•Oan't you tell,' replied the other
pityingly. I thought you understood
horses. Ho is foundered. Listen to 1
him breathe.'
'What horse arc you talking about?'
asked another acquaintance. "That
bag of bones
I 'Yes,' replied the ownet.
I 'Why don't you finish him ? You've
1 got a good framework thero. All you
need is to put the weather-boarding on,
then send him around to the upholstcr's j
to havo some hair put on.'
'When did you feed him last!' asked
another acquaintance, 'lie looks rath
er shaky.'
'He has wind galls on his hiod legs,'
remarked one of the party. 'I wouldn't
give you five dollars for him.'
•He's forty years old if he's a day,'
said another. 'Why don't you send him
to a museum ?'
'He's got the bots,' said another. 'I
had a horse once that had the bots, and
a horse that's got tho bots ain't worth
shooting.
'What will you give mo for liiin ?'
aslied the owner when the horsemen had
finished expressing their opinions. 'Will
a».y gcr tlencm h' •t» mn SfiOO for
hilu ?'
'Five hundred dollars for a horso
that's got the heaves !' asked one of the
party. 'Why 1 wouldn't give you five
hundred cents."
•Will you give me $250 ?'
'No, sir,' said another. 'That's too
much for a wind-broken, wind-galled
piece of bric-a-brac. Why don't you
have it stufl'ed and varnished ?'
'Will you give me one hundred dol
j lars !' asked the owuer, who began to
j look as if he was sick of his bargain ?'
j 'He isn't worth half that,' said the
| former speaker with dccisioD.
I 'What will you give me, then !'
! 'l'll give you ten cents if you'll throw
in the harness and pay the funeral if he
dies before I can drive him out to the
fertilisers.'
'Well, gentlemen,' replied the owner,
as he stepped into the wagon and started
to drive away.' '1 see 1 can't make a
trade here.'
| 'That's a mighty good horse,' re-
J marked tbe proprietor of tho stable as
I the wagon rattled out of the door
| 'Good ?' replied tho others in deri
sion.
| 'i'cs, rather.'
j ' How old is ho ?' they asked,
j 'Six years old.'
'Yes, but he is all knocked up.'
'Sound as a dollar.'
'ln bad condition, though "
'Never in better. Made a reeord of
last week.'
'The Dickens! Ilow much did be
cost ?'
'Seven thousand, five hundred dol
lars. He's a full brother of Jay-Kye-
See.'
The next timo tbo broker offers his
horse for sale for five hundred dollars he
will probably got a taker.
! Education pays. It |«ys in dollars and
and cents. It pays in knowledge and pow
(•r. It pays in ituisfactlon and happiness.—
jlt pays in position and influence. It pays
lin usefulness and moral good. It pays in
social, mental and mora! culture. It pays
parent*; It pays children ; It pays young
men and women ; It pays Church, State and
' Society.
Tlie leaves that give out the sweetest fra
' grance arc those that are the most cruelly
| crushed ; so the hearts of those who liave
I snlftred most, can teel for others' woes.
j Nothing lint frank intercourse with indc
' pendent minds, nothing but discussion o
I equal terms, will keep a thinker Intellectu
ally humble and conscious of fallihllit).
j Miss Emma Harris, of Mootesvillc,
j was passing a fire in the yard of her
i father, her clothing ignited and in half a
minute she was enveloped in flames.
| She will probaly dtc.
Financial Mclmiclsoly.
A few days since a Detroit wife called I
at the office of a prominct physician to
consult liiui regarding her husband's
stato of health, ami being invited to ex
plain the points, she said :
"Well, ho eats enough and he doesn't
shirk work, but he doesn't seeui to have
any ambition to go anywhere. He hasn't
been to church for a year, won't even
go to tho door of an evening when a
. brass band is playing, aud he seems to
havo fallen into a sort of lethargy aud
despondency. I think he will go crazy
yot ovor his melancholy."
The doctor agroed to look into his
se in a day or two, and when he finally
called at tho house he was met by the
wife whose countenance betrayed per
fect satisfaction.
"Is there any chango ?" queried the
physician.
'•Oh ! yos—a great change !" sho re
plied. "A friond came along la:it night
and gave Obadiah a free ticket to the
| negro minstrels' and ho was so anxious
to go that he hardly ato a mouthful of
supper. 1 think the indications are
cheering, doctor, perfectly cheering!"
The I'iltsboro Home says, "an officer
in searching tlie house of Jerry Finch
charged with tbe Finch murder, discov
ered a peculiar littlo buudle of rags
sewed up with a thousand stitches.
I Jerry's wife was excited at the discov
ery and begged earnestly that it be not
opened. Upon being pressed on the
subject, she finally said it was a 'band'
that Jerry carried with biui to prevent
'tricks' and 'spells' being laid on him ;
that there were conjurers about who
could do such things, and this 'hand'
j would destroy their power oyer the one
' who kept it about them. It was opened
' before the jury and found to contain a ;
| dime, a balf dime, a piece of a file, and
a half dozen black peppers wrapped '
compactly, in different colored rugs and
sewed tightly together. Wc had thought
conjurer's art had played jut, oven with
the darkies, but it is not so."
i The Detroit l'r.ce J'ross noios that of
I tho twenty-one Presidents, or Vice
l'rcsideuts who havo become Presidents,
seven, including Oraut, havo died iu
July—three of them, Adams, Jefferson
and Monroe, on the fourth of that month,
while Garfield was shot iu July, four of
them have died in June, thus proving
the debilitating effect of hot weather
upon old and foeble persons ; nearly all
of them being ovor 70 years af age, one
over 90, and three of theui 80 years
and over, l'olk was tho youngest—s4
who died from natural causes ; Lincoln
being 56 and Garfield 50 when they
were both taken off by violence.
A gentleman has investigated the
Ashevillo Advance, from which wo
gather that tlie jailor was not particular
to look the bar that bolted the cage in
wbicb the murderers were confined.
Tho bar bomg unlocked, one of the fel
lons with a small liani, deftly passed
his hand through the cage turned the
bolt and opened the dooi. Hut then
the prisoners could not have escaped
had not the jailor been alone in the cor
ridor ; nor even then had not pistols
and other weapons been passed up
through the grated window from the
street or yard to the prisoners.
The free scholarship law has been
terribly abused. There arc !)0 counties
in the State. The law gave one flee
scholarship to each county. Rut it is
well known that there wore more than
100 students gout to Chapel Hill under
the free scholarship law, and that these
were from a little over 40 counties.
How was that ? Was that not a very
shainctul violation of the law' Not
only this, but uiauy well-to-do men took
advantage of tho law and got free tui
tion for tlieir sons.—Wilmington Star.
Riding Pegasus with a side-saddle ;
Julia W.—We must deolinc to publish
your beautiful poem on the Kwige
Weibliche in Goethe for two reasons.
The one is, because in the first stanza
you make Gocth rhyme with "both," in
tho second with "teeth," and still again
iu the third with "tbiity."
A report on tobacco from Ashevillo
says the crop is tho finest possible. The
increase in acreage iu tlie eouutids west
of tbe Rlue Ridge this year is given as
'2O per cent.
The question with the Tarborans is,
whether tlicy shall submit to the exac
tions of tho washerwomen's union or
have a steam laundry. They aro call
' ing on tho almond-eyed Chineso to
j come over and help them.
NO. 10
KM (M. HITUS.
A hired horse— tired never.
Every fool likes liis bauble.
Spots on the sun A boy's freckles.
A mnn that is warned is half armed,
A miserly father mikes a prodigal
son.
Tse a friend to yoursel', and ithcrs
will.
All the summer Resort* are uow well
patronized.
Nothing gives more peace than a
clear conscience.
Justice exacts nothing that may not
be honwtly paid.
Dilligenoe in any calling will pVluoe
satisfactory results.
The number of colleges in the United
States is set down at 370.
Judge .lames Garland, of Lynchburg,
Va., died on lust Saturday.
The weight of an ostrich egg is equal
to twenty-eight hon's egg».
Reason exerts the most powerful in
fluence over all human affairs.
Al.'ow some hours out of every twou
ty-four for rest and recreation.
Strength is given in accordanco with
our needs for every undertaking.
No man can long expect to prosper
who is not guided by legitimate action.
The cause of right will ever triumph
over traud and cunuing and rascality.
To secure the esteem of the wise it
is necessary to show respect unto wis
dom.
Among men he is esteemed tho wi
sest who is the most patient uudei af
fliction.
To grow old in usefulness and honor
is noble, and brings the sweetest reward,
man can claim.
Michigan allows to each farmer who
uses wide tires on his wagon a rebate
OH his taxes.
To reap tlic lull truits of labor, tho
employment of energy, tact and talent
are indispensable.
Mercy is still abroad in the laud,
notwithstanding the heart of man is
closed to her appeals.
l'ridc is never a concomitant of gen
ius, nor is true worth ever wrapped up
in a handsome garb.
The tobacco crop of North Carolina
for the present year is the largest ever
known.
To bo satisfied with little savors of
wisdom, and he who is so constituted is
happier than a king.
He who delights in labor has fuund
the philosopher's stone that ennobles
and purifies everything.
Two wrougs do no', make a right; nor
would a thousand actions of right pur*
| pose constitute a irong.
If we are in health, poaeo and safety
we can not reasonably expect more of a
1 vain and uncertain world.
The day of ruin is near, when unwar
rantable pleasures are pursuod and vi
cious company encouraged.
Sometimes it behooves me to forget
themselves in order to lend assistance to
ther fellow-creatures.
Experiments made in Paris show that
j the corcodile cau bring its jaws togother
: with the force of over 300 pounds.
It is said that the oluotrio lights at
Sactamento can bo seen from the high
land nca-Jackson, Cal., a distance of
sixty miles.
A Chinaman who arrived in Chicago
reeentlv from San Francisco Is afflicted
with a ease of geuuinc leprosy.
A report comes froir. London thai
Spanish refugees havo left that city
sworn to kill King Alfonso aud are n»w
in France.
A tadpole, the larva of a frog, 1 has a
tail and no legs, gills instead of lungs,
a heart precisely like that of a ash, a
horuy beak lor eating vegetable food,
and a spiral intestine to digest i f .
With the approach ofmatutrity the hind
legs appear, then tho front pair; the
j beak falls off, tbo tail and gills wasto
; away; the lungs are created, the di
gest ivo apparatus is changed to suit
tho animal diet; the heart becomes rep
tilian in type by the addition of another
auricle ; in fact, skin, muscles, and
blood-vessels vanish, bciug absorbed
atum by atom, and a new set is substi
tuted.