davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

WHAT BECOMES OF THE Sons OF SUCCESS
Full MEN2-Next to the inquiry, What be-
comes of the pins 2" an interesting question
would be, What becomes of the sons OF sue
cessful men2" A few men and few firms
are in the hands of the founders; but these
are exceptions The old name aud the old
trade generally pass into the hands of others.
The reason is clear. The fathers laid the basis
of business one way and the sons build another.
Men who earned their fortunes by hard work,
by diligence, that know sixteen hours toll by
personal attention; that we're their own book
keepers, statesmen, chashiers and often porters,
are followed by sons who do as little as pos
sibls who delegate to others all the work
they can, and who know more of the road than
OF the ledger. Famous hotel men were gentle
men, men of intelligence, men who were the
equals of the best in the land, aud who never
sunk the gentlemen in their trade. Young men
who fling the example Of their sires to the
winds, find il easier 10 squander q valuable
name, run through fortune quicker than it
was earned, and find themselves, while young,
at the point from which their fathers started.
One thing IL quite marked in New York. 1t
is the fact that the heavy business is getting
into the hands of foreigners. The heavy i'm
porters, the great bankers, and much Of the
trade of value is slipping out of the hands Of
Americans, as the trade OF England got into
the power of the Lombards.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

that they may be trapped into matrimony,
which, BY the way, 10 q most remote contin-
gsncy, their husbands shall only have the sec
ond place in their affections is their declaration.
They care about no one but each other, and
this they render evident by attempting to snub
or treat with supercilious indifference nine out
of every ten people with whom they are
brought in contact. One cannot have q thought
without the other being made acquainted with
it; one cannot get new shawl or a new dress
without the other longing to procure one OF a
precisely similar pattern. Of secrets they pos
sess a countless number, and of each secret
they are C O. posssssors. Traces of these secrets
are ever coming to the surface. You cannot
be in the company of the fair damses for one
hour without being uppleasantly informed that
some people do not think so much of you as
you are in the habit of thinking of yourself,
aud that there are many mysteries in circula-
ton which must be left mysteries SO far as you
are concerned. The love the fair creatures
bear towards each other is often bubblng up,
and a Thousand Ettle endsarments and caresses
are INDUCED in which very quickly enable
people to form an opinion as to the state of
the case. A large portion of the friends"
time is spent In selecting gifts for each other.
The brooches, the charms, the earrings, the
rings, the bracelets they year are ell marks Of
the intense affection in which they are mutu-
ally held. They cannot be separated without
experiencing the keenest pangs and inhicting
an immense amount OF labor Rpon the post
Office officials, for which those fuuctionaries
are, no doubt, sufficiently grateful. All this
would be very beautiful were it not for several
important facts In general was the display
of affection, in its most exuberant develop
ments, is nothing more or less than simple
affectatou 1t is one of the crazss to which
young ladies of sentimental turn of mind
seem to be addicted; and which is invariably
| generated by reading of mawkish books or
some flaw in the system Of education which
has been pursued in reference to them. For
tunately, it does not last long
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14
PRECEPTS.
THOMAS RANDOLPH, lSSs.

THOMAS RANDoLrH, iSSs.
First worship God; he that forRets 10 pray,
Fids net himself good morrow nor good day;
Lat thy arst labor be to purge thy SIN,
And serve HIN arst whence all thiuss did begin
Honor thy parents to prOtOng thine end;
with them, though for truth, do not contend;
whoever makes his fathers heart to bleed.
Shall have q child that shall avenge the deed.
Think that Is tast; 'ds not enough to do,
Unless thy very thou Ehts are upright too.
Defend the truth for that who will not die
A coward is and gives hiEaself the lie
Take we'll whate'er shall chance. though bad 1t be,
Take 1t for geod, aud twill be good to thee
First lhiuk5 Sad h lhy thoughts approve thy wall.
Then speak. and after. that thoa speskeat fuldh.
So live with as II Gsd curious ere
Did everywhers into thine actions prT,
For never yet vas ain 80 void OF sense,
So fully faced with ersxen impudence.
Az that II dsst before mems eyes commit
Their brutal IuatE, lest the should witness IL.
How dare they then olfsnd whea God shall see.
That must Alsae both iudgs and Jury hsf
wouldst thou live lOs&s the 0aaJ means are these
POvs Galens diet or Hippoerates,
Strive to live we'll; tread in the upright ways,
And rather count shine actions than thy days.
Then thou has lived enough amongst US here;
Ror every day we'll spent count year,
Live we'll and then, how saoa soesr thou die.
Thou art OF age TO claim sntsruity;
But he that satliFes Nee or, and appears
To have Dassedths date Of gray Msthusalens ysars,
il his lie to slOth and sin doth give
cay he only was-he did not live
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14
Stick to It.

Nine persons out of ten ignore the golden
secret OF content; they are constantly striving
after something different from what they enjoy.
We do not deprecate enterprise, but it is the
habit OF constant change that we protest against
the habit OF shifting from one pursuit to
another.
There are thousands of almost penuiless and
disappointed men, picking up q precarious
living at the very extremity of life, because
they have, in the course Of their existence,
tried hundred different things, and aban-
doned all in turn, simply because they did not
succeed at once.
To few men is IL given to do more than two
things WE'LL There 10 scarcely any pursuit
that ii followed out with singleness of pur.
pose. will not yield rich return
Select some useful occupation, stieb TO it,
and success must crown your efforts at last
Choose it now-maks no delay. Don't waste
your time and your strength sad opportunities
by always meaning 10 do something-do iti
Only weakness comes of indecison.
Why, some people have so accustomed them
selves TO this way of dawdling along from one
thing 10 another, that il really seems impossi.
BILE tor them 10 squarely make up their minds
to anything.
They meyer quite know what they mean TO
do next, and thsir only pleasure seams 10 con-
sist IN putting things of as long as possible,
and then Dragging slowly thro Ahem, rather
than begin anything else. 'te
Don't live single hour OF your life without
doing exactly what ia TO be done in il, Qoina
straight through ID from beginning 30 end.
Work. play, study, whatever it is, take hold
at once and finish it up squarely and cleanly
and then do the next thing without letting the
moments drop out between.
1t is wonderful 10 see how many hours these
prompt people contrive to make Of q day: i'll
as IT they picked up the moments that ths
dawdlsrs lost.
And if you ever find yourself where you
hardly know how to begin, let me tell you
secret take hold Of the very first one tha
comes to hand, and you will find the rest al
fall into file and follow after like company o.
we'll drilled soldiers; and though work may b.
hard to meet when it charges in a squad, it il
easily vanquished when brought into line.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

The son (age III ofa welthy manufactures
in Monson, Mass, having stolen his mother s
ring aud given it to woman of bad character,
and, after many other wrong doings, robbed
his fathers safe, the citizens of the town have
held meeting, aud solemnly resolved that the
father should send his boy 10 the State Reform
School, threatening in case Of refusal to put
him into the Penitentiary. II is rather an odd
demand TO make of an affectionate parent; but
perhaps the citizens Of Monson think that they
have right to protect themselves against tho
lads probable depradations.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14
THE DOORSTEP.

The conference meeting through at last,
We boys around the vsstry waited
To see the girls come tripping past,
Like snow. birds willing to be mated.
Net braver he that leaps the WALL
By level muskst Rashes Htten,
Than 1, who stepped before them all,
Who longsd to see me get the mittsn.
But ne. she blushsd and took my arm
welet the old folks have the highway,
And started tsward the Maple farm,
Along kind of lovers by-way,
/ can't remember what we said.
Twas nothing worth a song or story:
Yet that rude path by which we sped.
Seemed all transformed and in glory.
The snow was crisp beneath our feat,
The moon was full, the fields were cleaning,
By hood and tippst sheltered sweet,
Her face with youth and health was beaming.
The little hand outside her muff-
o sculptor, II you could but mould it
So lightly touched my Jacket cuff.
To keep 1t warm had to hold 1t.
To have her with me there alone
Twas love and fear and triumph blended,
At last we reached the foot warm stORe,
Where that delicious journey ended.
The old folks. too. we're almsst home;
Her dlmpled hand the latches fingered.
We heard the voices nearer come,
Yet on the doorstep stir We fingered.
She shook her rinRlets from her hood.
And with THANK you Ned" dissemblod.
But yet knew she understood
With what a daring wish trembled-
A cloud passed kindly overhead,
The moon was slyly pseping through II,
Yet hid its face, as II Il said,
"Come. now or never, do II, do It,"
Ny IIps It'll then had only known
The kiss OF mother and OF sister;
But somshoW upon her own
Sweet rSsy darling mouth-I kissed herJ
Perhaps twas bsyish love, yet still,
Oh. listesS woman. weary lOVerl
To feel once more that fresh. wild thrill.
I'd give-but Who can live youth over.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

A San Francisco church having lost the COB
let used in the communion service, the sexton
applied to one of the ueighbors for the loan of
beaker After the service, a church mem
ber looking closely at the vessel found that it
had been awarded at at county fair for the
best stallion"
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

Everything else is insured-why not fidelity
and trnstworthiness2 In Boston joint stock
company will be established. provided the Leg.
islature grants charter, for the purpose OF
guaranteeing the pecuniary responsibility and
honesty of persons occupying positions Of trust.
Should the enterprise succeed, it will be a great
relief to gentlemen Of property who are bored
to become bondsmen, and who say Yes"
when they should say mo"
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

An Essex street man bought pig Saturday,
says the Danbury Ne,cS "What do you feed
your pig?" asked a neighbor Corn he
said. "Do you feed it in the carp" asked the
friend "Do you think am a fool2" said
the Essex street man, sarcastically.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

A young lady from Georgetown came to the
city the other day to have her picture taken.
When the artist showed her the proof and
asked her how she liked it, she placidly re-
marked that he put too darned much mouth
on it to suit her."
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

"Whsre are you going2 said a young gentle
man to an elderly one in white cravat, whom
he overlook few miles from Little Rock. al
am going 10 heaven, my scn. have been on
the way eighteen years." "Well, good.by,
old fellow, if you have been travelling toward
heaven eighteen years, and got no nearer to it
than Arkansas, I'll take another route"
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

Here is the pleasant holiday heading which
we find above " the teleeraphic" in Western
Newspaper: "Christmas Crime How Peace
on Earth is Observed by Some People Bloody
Doings by Gang of Roushs in Newark A
Bloody Prize Fight in Brooklyn Bar. .Rooom /
Hatchet Murder 10 Boston Pistol Tragedy in
Gotham! Two Suicides in East River Trsg.
edy, on Staten IsIandi" Nice Christmas
reading. ~t ,l
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

A Troy editor took his wife to New York the
other day. The conductor, when he came
along, recognized our Troy brother as entitled
to free passage, bat not knowing the lady,
wSspE'd e him i .s5 i be LADY $G1 t50S tsad
haste, "shs is my wife"
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

Says the Atchison Globe: "Whie the sold
iers were digging up the dead at old Fort Kear-
ley, last week, one coffin was taken up that
was literally filed with snakes. Some wag
that it was plain enough what that
fellow died Of.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

Somebody says, ''tall men like short
women. However true this may be, tall
women seldom like men who are short
financially.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

A fellow, who is nearly as big bore as the
Hoosac tunnel, was telling in our Office the
other day OF song that always carried him
away. Quadrat. looking around, gently in
quirsd if any one present could sing that
song
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

lowing to the absence of the editor, this
weeks issue will be found unusually spicy"
says the Office devil of the Creston Times, who
was left in charge for week
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14
To "Drummers." /"

The "drummers" came down
Like wolves ON the fold:
Their toes were all frosted,
Their noses all cold:
Their weather-peeled bugles
Sooa snOne through the town.
They gobbled the money
And salted 1t down,
Then took few orders
And lit out OF here
With their heads full of business
And skins full OF beer.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

"Owing to John Robinson's circus being ia
town, the regular Thursday evening prayer
meeting has been postponed, said a recent
number of the Enterprise, Dallas Texas
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

A recent ghost was heard singing
"'Twas a cough that carried me off;
Twas coffin they carried me off in"
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

Somebody in Georgia court "applauded,
whereupon, the judge 1--WE quote from the
Griffin Nctos) indignantly remarked, Nov dry
up; | will let you know that this is no camp.
meeting" casa
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

A circus elephant, wintering at Louisville,
is on the watch for the man who tossed him an
apple full Of catarrh snuff.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

A halter in Terre Haute, Wis, has bundle
of old unpaid bills hung up in his store
labelled, The reason why don't give credit"
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

Jones, being told that he looked seedy, and
asked what business he was in, replied, The
hard wear business-look at my wardrobe"
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

A minister walked six miles to marry couple
lately He said he felt sort of fee. bill like.
The groom saw it.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

A Georgia convict vas hanged recently for
killing the wrong mao. The right one
witnessed the ceremony.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14

Tn Rochester Dem Cbron. says: "Hard
dimes come again no more.
Smyrna times., 1874-01-14
GOLDEN WORDS FOR THE YOUNG.

rh Tbomas Randolph Who the following preespts
s Wit poet and play wright in the early portion OF tns
and fRvorte with ben Sonssn
n was prolific Sut Is Saost torxSttsn writer
hs ho jsdge that he kesny te the worta s 'ne
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-14
DAYTON.

Held for Trial for Highway Rob.
beTY-..TwentYsTwo Hours from
New YoTk...CemeIefy Dedication
...Republtcan County Convention.
DAYTON, Sept. 12.-Joseph Thomss, the
man arrested in Columbus Thursday,
charged with hishWay robbery, commit
ted in this city on the 3lst ofAugust upon
a man named Daniel Gray, OF Indiana,
waived an examination before tho Mayor
this morning, and was required TO give
bail in $500, for his appearance at the
next term Of Court Of Common Pleas. In
default Of bail he was sent to Jail.
Preparations are being made to run q
mail car from Cleveland to Cincinnati by
the:Short Line, in connection with the
postal train from New York 10 Chicago,
via Cleveland. This will put Dayton
within twenty-five hours OF New York.
Two boats will run between. Logan
street and the Bluffs Sunday afternoon on
the canal. on the occasion OF the dedica-
ton oil Calvsny Cemetery.
The Republican Convention met in
Beckels Opera House to-day, and nom
mated Augustus Kuhns for Treasurer,
W. A. Peulzer for Sheriff, Chss. Crook
for County Commissioner, ]. Z. Kemp
ior Infrmsry Director, and DR.. Swisher
for Coroner. Tho Convention was har-
monious and enthusiastic.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-14
ono OF tho Reglster,s Roorback.,

The prominent Republicans Of this city
and several from different parts Of the
State, including General Goa, held a
secret conclave yesterday, the object be-
ing 10 raise the means to make an active
campaign in this district, but moro es-
pecislly In this county. They propose to
hire ward workers and "hoopers up
from now until the day Of election, and II
Is understood that General God will come
down right handsomely with the ducats,
as he knows there is nosherif 10 be elect
cd this fall and that 1t will be put where
II will do the most good Wheeling Reg,
lister Of Friday. SOC 90
We could take this item 90 0 pretext
Tor fierce, slashing leader, denouncing
any attempts At influencing our sover-
eigns by the weapons Of Satan-money.
AS, however, almost all parties from time
immemotial have resorted to such means,
what use Is II branding that courseG II
will be rGsorted to in spite of the most
bitter and fierce denunciations, to the dis.
grace OF the citizsns Of this Republic
Rlr&erS6urg Times Of Saturday.
For the information oil our Parkcrsburg
contemporary We will say that there Is not
one word Of truth in the item 1t has copied
above from the Register. No such meet.
ing has been held, nor even proposed, so
lar as VIC arc aware. But even il the
contrary was the case, it would, as the
Times well observes, simply be 10 accord,
ance with the prevailing custom in poll.
tics. No one better understands this fact
than the proprietor Of the Register. He
has had, we presume, as much experience
in the financial department Of politics
as any man in the State. Any such
reflections, therefore, come with an i'll
grace from his paper. q. ..
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-14

Harrison county, in common with the
people oil Virginia, had voted by q ire.
mendous majority to reier back to them.
selves any action the convention might
take on the question Of secession, or any
other question before 1t. By more
than one hundred thousand 10 lorty.iVe
thousand the people OF Virginia had or
dered the Convention Of which Colonel
Ban WILSON was 0 member 10 send back
all their acts for final judgment by the peo.
pie. Andyet the people werenot allowed to
vote on the most momentous question that
could be submitted TO them until after the
State had been bound hand and foot, by
Colonel WILSON and others, and placed
irevocably in tho power OF tho rebellion.
Now suppose an emergency was to arise
in Congress, and that our destinies were
in the keeping of such an uncertain guar.
dian as Colonel BEN WILSON, what Sc
curity have the people that he would not
deal with them in the same crafty, calcu-
lating and self seeking manner in which
he dealt with them at Richmond in 1861,
Let no such man be trusted.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-14
The Gibson County prlsoncrn.

MEMPHIS, Sept. 12'-The examination
Of the alleged Ku-Klux from Gibson
County, was postponed until Monday.
Among the prisoners are ]. p. Hattie, who
had row with negroes at barbecue
about paying for q shoat he had bought,
and Monroe Morgan and J. F. Warren,
two young men who were fired upon by
negroes near Pickettsville, which led 10
the arrest Of the negroes who were
taken from Trenton Jail. u
An Avalanche reporter had an inter-
view with Dug Jimison, negro who had
escaped from the mob. He admits being
present when Morgan and Warren were
fired on, and that the negroes had assem-
bled Tor the purpose of killing colored
man named Butler and whipping another,
but that he was there in the interest OF
peace. he was reticent in regard 10 his
being taken from jail. he says he es-
capped by jumping into creek, and thai
Nelson MCGee also escaped. s... Of.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-14

care but little. he has his hands fall
and cannot injure me much. He has 3
couple OF daughters with several illegiti-
mate children to maintain. and his neigh.
bors can testify as to
THE NATURE OF THE HOUSE HE KRRPs.
As TO the charge Of annoying parties
buying lands Of me, and Operating upon
them, but little by way Of reply need be
said. am an old man, my hair 10 sill
Vered with tho frosts and SHOWS OF four
score and three years, and l have been
living upon my land until recently almost
alone-my daughter being my solo COM
panion. How man ol my age, inllrm
and feeble, could annoy and wrong people
and Operate" upon them is matter in
tinitelytbeyond my conception"
Again, why should Henry Nolan re-
sort TO devices by which to worry and an.
noy, not his neighbors, but himself. Those
unexplained phenomena occurred at the
house in which he is living, on the ground
occupied by him, and he, with his family
alone, were annoyed thereby-and 10 such
an extent that he has been compelled to
abandon the house, and take shelter In
another. As TO the question whether
those things, (called by many supernatur.
9I), are true or not, no reply Is necessary
lzam not arguing that question. 1t does
not in the slightest degree affect me. l am
simply defending myself against in famous
charges that
UNPRINCIPL,RD yuIIANI
have had published, in what l always
deemed a respectable newspaper.
Through the columns Of that paper, | beg
the privilege Of answering The libelous
matter, in order that the answer may
have the Same publicity, that tho charges
have9 had; as well as TO avoid the
Yexation and expense OF litigation. Here,
IN Wetzel county, Ben Martin, the son. in.
law oi old Lsymaster and the brother-in.
law OF "Btade," can do me no harm, but
the lNTELLIGEEcER has a large circula
ton, and those Of your readers in other
parts OF the country who know neitherof
US, might be deceived by the misrepre.
sentations oil thoae men who are here
looked upon and considered 30 infamous,
in consequence oi their own acts.
It Is true am illiterate, unlearned, and
am compelled to employ another to write
my statement and have him read II to me
carefully ere / authorize him 10 afIlx my
name thereto. l have furnished the ma.
terial to the writer for this letter, and if
any Of the parties herinbeiore mentioned
feel aggrieved, they can appeal TO the
courts. l am responsible for all that Is
herein contained, and II proof is demand.
ed the names OF respectable men in our
county will be promptly furnished. With
these remarks take leave OF the libelerS
and let your readers form theirpWn con-
clusions. WILLIAM NOLAN
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-14
Illinois State Fair.

PEORIA, ILL.,. Sept. 13.-The Illinois
State Fair for 1874, which opens in this
city tomorrow, promises TO be grand
success. The entries are already more
numerous than on the second morning oi
the fair last year. The Secretary says
there will be more Short. Horn cattle on
exhibition than were ever before together
in America. There arc over o hundred
Norman horses and q large number ol
thoroughbreds on the grounds.
The show Of hogs, sheep and poultry Il
also very fine. In the Machinery, Agrl.
cultural, Horticultural and Fine Arts De.
psrtments every foot Of space Is engaged
and will be filled.
The prospects for large attendance oI
visitors arc most excellent. All the rail.
roads leading into the city will run ex,
cursion trains, and passengers will be
landed directly at the grounds.