smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1860

HARD TIs1Es GONE AeA1r.-The
following article is SO applicable to this
part OF Wisconsin that we cannot re-
slst the temptation to insert it. Our
readers will fully appreciate it. It was
written BY an attorney in Minnesota in
reply to q letter enclosing a claim for
collection It equals the reply Of "a man
who was dunned for the amount Of a
note he had given, and told that Ssit had
run long time" He replied: Gas the
boy said Of the molasses- slet her
run p"


''Now, I am perfectly astonishel at
you for sending claim out here for
collection in these times. You might
as well east yonr net into the sLake of
fire and Birthstone" expecting to catch
sunfsh, OF into the celebrated Stvc-
ian pool to catch speckled trout, as to
try to collect money here. Money. 7
have faint recollection of having seen
it when small boy. I believe it was
given he By nay uncle to buy candy
With. lThc candy do remember)-
But it has been so long since I have
seen any that almost forgot whether
gold is made Of corn or mustard, or sill
yer of white onions or fsh-scales,-
" by, sir, we live without money
You're behind the times. it is relic
Of hsrbarisn-of ages past. We live
by eating, sir-we do, Hoot man the
millennium is coming. The year Of iu-
bllee has come, and all debts are paid
mere las much as they will beg unless
ey'' IS not in our vocabulary, in the la
test Webster (reyised for the meridian}
it is marked "obSolete-formerly a coin
representing value and used as medi-
um Of commerce. A few small pieces
can be seen in cur Historical Sooiety's
collection, where they are exhibited as
curlosities, along with the skeleton of
the Mastodon, Noah's old boots, and
Adams Apple"
Year: 1860

BUFFALO REPUBLIc's RULES FOR
HEALTH.-(0 la DIR. HALL.)-Impri
22l5.-Neyer go to bed with your feet
sticking out Of the window, particular
ly when it is raining or freezing.


More than three pigs feet and half
mlnce pie eaten at midnight, will not
generally cause the consumer to dream
OF hourls, paradises, accommodating
bankers, and other good things. At
least, they are not apt to do so.


Never stand in the rain barrel all
night. 1t checks perspiration, and
spolls rain water for washing purpos-
es.


Never spank your children with a
hand saw, or box their ears with the
sharp edge Of the hatchet. It's apt to
affect the brain.


Never stand in the hall with the
door open, with nothing but your he
mise or your shemise on, talking to a
friend for more than half an hour at
time.


To enlarge the muscles Of the arms
and legs, climbing up and down the
chimney Especially if the house is a
four storied one) three or four times
before breakfast is a cheap exercise
and gives voracious appetite.


Ear ache. in children is q common
and vexatious complaint To cure it
at once, bore hole in the tympanum
with a gimlet, and pour in oil and
things If the child keeps on crying,
bore it all the way throug gh to the 9TH
er ear.


Corns may easily be cured. The
most torturlng corn can at once be ex-
tirpated as follows: Take d sharp
knife, find the joint Of the toe whereon
the corn resides, insert the knife in the
articulation, pry off the toe, and throw
1t away. 1t will never return again
unless your dog brings it backsto you
again In his mouth. patent applied
for.)


The habit Of drinking -can be cured
by giving the drinkers all the liquors
they want to drink, all the time. We
know Of two in our own experience.
who were cured in three weeks. One
jumped out of the window of a four
story house, and ran "a curbstone into
his head. The other didn't get up one
morning, and has now a universal curb
stone growing out Of his head in the
grave yard.
Year: 1860

We have always regarded Judge Doug
las as II trickster, willing to use his professed
friends for any purpose. We have evil
dence of this fact from what tho Hon. S. S.
Cox stated in a speech made by him at
Harrisburg, in this county a few days ago.
He said he had been blamed by some for
his vote on the English Bill, but he stated
distinctly that he had consulted with Judge
Douglas, and that he advised and approved
of the vote. Judge Douglas himself, when
the bill came to the Senate, voted against
1t, although it was in exactly the shape in
which he advised his friend Cox to vote for
it. Here is testimony against Judge Doug
las, which Mr.. Cox got from his own
mouth, to show that demagogue can play
upon both sides of the same question:
Douglas knew that the vote of Cox Toud
be necessary to carry the bill through the
House, and therefore instructed him how to
vote. When it came to tho Senate he
knew it would pass without his vote, aud
he voted against it, thus playing upon both
sides Of the question. Can any Democrat,
consistently or honestly, vote for man
who, according to the testimony Of S. S.
Cox has been thus double-faced and de-
ccitful Mr.. Cox states it upon the stump
in every township in which he speaks, and
while few Of Judge Douglas friends deny
it, what does their denial amount to in op,
position to Mr.. Cox, who knows exactly the
conversation which took place between
himself and Judge Douglas Cox claims
no merit for this vote except obedience to
the request of Douglas.
Year: 1860

II man wishes to live happily and conten-
tedly, he should make a determination, under
every circumstance, to live within his income
It is not difficult matter to do when once a
strong will is exercised. Half the wretched-
ness and misery me meet with in this world is
occasioned by neglecting this golden rule of
life. How many anxious days and weary
nights have been passed; how many house
holds have been broken up; how many kind
hearts have been changed how many affec-
tionate dispositions have been soured from
men living beyond their means 1t is an old
8dage that wheE want comes in at the door,
love flies out at the window" and we are sor-
ry to say that it is only, in vast majority of
cases, too true. Human nature is not proof
against the sharp stings of ill-fortune. Too
often it changes the affectionate wife into the
household yirago, and the hurband into the
drunken sot. Economy can always be prac-
ticed without meanness, and man who lives
within his income is making for himself bed
of down for his declining years, and setting an
example to his children which will secure their
happiness and prosperity when he is dead and
gone.
Year: 1860

At a meeting Of the Rockfnrd (ll) Hort
Society last winter, Mr.. Ordway brought q
specimen of tomatoes red and yellow, small
and large, but all perfect, which had been
ripened in his cellar, according to tile follow
ing method:


If any one wishes to know how to keep
them fresh and good all winter, read the fol-
lowing recipe:


PLANT late in the season. and pull up the
vines in the fall, before they are injured by the
frost; fastcn a bag about the stock two inches
above tue root, then hang them up in the eel
lar by chord, tied around the vine above the
bag, and 81 the bag with moist dirt When
the bag is tied over the root, leave small hole
at the top, for the admission of water, which
should be used occasionally TO prevent the
roots becoming dry. The more light in the
cellar, The better. They should be hung clear
from the wall, on every side and where the
sun will strike them from window, if possible
and swing the vines up, with the roots upper
most.
Year: 1860

We are all on our journey. The world
through which we are passing is in some re-
spects like turnpke-all along where vice
and folly have created toll-gates for the accom-
mediation of those who choose to call as they
go-and there are very few of all the hosts of
travellers who do not occasionally stop little
at some one or other of them-and conse-
quently pay more or less, to the toll-gatherers.
Pay more or less, we say, because there is
great variety as well in the amount as in the
kind of toll extracted at these different stop
ping places.


purse-many have become beggars by paying
nj their gates-the ordinary rates they charge
are heavy. and the road that way is none CT
the best.


Pleasure offers a very smooth, delightful
road in the outset she tempts the Traveller
with many fair promises, and wins thousands
but she takes without mercy ike an art
ftii robber, she allures till she gets her victim
lin her power, and then strips him of health
and money, and turns him off miserable OBJ
jcct, into the worst or most rugged read Of
4iiis.a =


Iatemperance plays the part OF sturdy
VILLAIN. fIe ia the very worst toll-gathercr o.s
the read, Tor he not only IS from his CUSTOM
ers their money and their health, but he ro5s
them of their very brains. fho men you
meet on the road. ragged and ruined in frame
and fortune are his visitors.


And so we might go on enumerating many
others that gather toll of the unwary. Acct
dents sometimes happen, it is true, along the
road, but those who do not get through at
least tolerably well you may be sure have been
stopping by the way at some of these places.
The pain, common sense men, who travel
straig ht-forward, get through the journey with
out much difficulty


This being the state Of things, it becomes
every one. in the outset, if he intends to make
comfortable journey, to take care of what
kind of company he keeps in with. We are
NIL apt to do as companions do-stop where
they stop, and pay toll where they pay. Then
the chances arc ten to one that our choice in
this particular decides our fate Having paid
due respect to our choice of companions, the
next impor tant thing is to observe how 9TH
ers manage; to mark the good or evil that is
produced by every course Of life-see how
those do who manage well; by this means you
learn.


Be careful of your habits these make the
man. Ahd they require long and careful cul-
sure, ere they grow up to second nature
Good habits. we speak of. Bad habits are
: more easily acquired-they are spontaneous
weeds, that flourish rapidly and rankly with
out care ar culture
Year: 1860

THE STATE FAIR GRoUNDs.-To haye
proper idea of the preparations for the State
Fair, it is necessary to take ride through
the grounds and see the work in progress
The long ranges of stalls, shows that cattle and
horses in large numbers are expected. The
buildings in the course of erection for the exhi-
bition of machinery, give evidence of deter
mnation to afford every facility for the favor
able display Of mechanical skill of the country.


The Horse Ring has been enlarged and the
track widened. The distance around it is
about the third of a mile.


Every where throughout the grounds prep
arations are going forward, which give an ex-
ceedingly lively appearance to the scene, and
show that the State Board and the SaaFerin-
tendent, Mr.. Gregg, are proceeding with due
energy in the work before them.


The additions which have been made to the
Fair Grounds give them very spacious ap-
pearance, and add greatly to the conveniences
for exhihitors--T Dayton journal
Year: 1860

Bottles for Preserving Fruit


The Ruralst, of Springfield, Ohio, says:


The "better half of the editor hereof wishes
the readers Of the Ruralist to try her plan Of
putting up fruit, If they are not posted in it
already, and see if it has not case and safety to
recommend ii. Size lays aside all selfsealing
cans, patent glass gtrs eartheu and fancy stone
ware, OF wiIicn we have such variety in the
market, PreferFing simple plain, glass bottle,
any sortror size of glass bottle that has q
wide mouth. If the best and safest, they are
also the cheapest, as quart bottles may be got.
for dollar q dozen, or a dollar and u half at
most.


Place the bottle on the hearth while the.
fruit is cooking in another vessel. Let them
heat very gradually, and there is no danger Of
breaking. Do not cock the fruit too much
Be careful and have it at the boiling point
when the bottle is fllcd that the steam may
displace ali the air in the bottle, aud leave q
vacuum when it condenses in cooling.
| Then Use no coTks for sealing. If there is
no current Of air to blow from door or window
upon the bottles and break them, you are
ready to proceed. Furnished with circular
pieces Of new cotton drilling, and equal parts,
| Of gam shellac and resin, with very little
beeswax as the bottle is filed spread the
melted wax evenly upon a piece of cloth, and
apply, wax down, to the mouth of the bottle,
bring down the cloth over the rim Of the bot
tie, and tie it firmly with string. Then
spread Il coating OF wax ever the upper sur
face.


As the bottle cools, the pressure of the air
will indent the surface of the cloth, and give
intallible proof that all is safe
BY this method child of ordinary inteIli-
geDce can put up fruit with absolute safety
There can scarcely be simpler method, or
cheaper, and certainly not safer.


We have never lost fruit put up in this way.
The corks are entirely useless, and not al
ways reliably safe


The Germantown Telegraph comments on
the above as follows:


we have no doubt of the truth of the
above, inasmuch as some of our friends in this
region have for years followed the same meth
cd with complete success. The real secret Of
preserving fruit for an indefinite period, in
jars, CANS, bottles &C.. is the perfect exclusion
Of the air. Without this, there is no safety,
whatever may be tie other arrangements
adopted"
Year: 1860

Go it strong in your praise of the absent
some of it will be sure to get around. Go it
strong when taking up contributions for a
charitable purpose 1t viii pay. Go it strong
when you make love to pretty widow. More
people have erred by too little than too much
in this particular. Go it strong when you
make a public speech. Nine people out Of
ten never take any allusion unless it cuts like
a short-handled whip or a cudgel. Go it
strong when you advertise. Business is like
architecture-its bestsupporters is full columns.
Go it strong, and pay the printer.
Year: 1860

Now let me tell you secret-a secret worth
knowing. This looking forward for enjoyment
don't pay. From what know of it would
as soon chase butterflies for living, or bottle
mp moonshine for cloudy nights. The only
: true way to be happy, is to take drops of hap
piness as God gives them to us every day of
our lives. The boy must learn to be happy
while he is plodding over his lessons the ap-
prentice while he is learning his trade the
merchant while he is making his fortune. If
he fails to learn this art he will be sure to miss
his enjoyment when he gains what he sighs
fnr
Year: 1860

Going to do it never made fortune


built house or won a name. Going to do
it +" has been the bane of more people than
would fill the census of New York. The man
who is always going to do it," rarely, if ever
does it. The only thing he does is to go out
of the world without doing it, If he has d
task that must be done, he at once announces
with deal of boasting and great waste o1
words, time and breath, that he is going to
do it." And while he is thus 'going to do it


somebody else who is not suspected of "going
to do it does it and reaps his reward. The
man who is always going to do it is a friend
of Procrastination. He is ever on the eve OF
doing it when some trivial obstacle interferes


and he gives it up with despair, and puts of
= - " till another time-until
the Co;r,. O.. -..
Year: 1860

turn to you, Republicans of Missouri -
Your countrymen owe you debt of admira


ton and gratitude; to which my poor voice
can give but feeble expression. You have
undertaken the noble task of showing the
people of the North that the slaveholding
States themselves contain the elements of re.
generation and of demonstrating to the
South how that regeneration can he effected


You have inspired the wavering masses with
- ;deos
Year: 1860

Mr. EprToR Some correspondent in o
recent number OF ysur paper very laudsbly
interested in the education of young people
and the morals OF the rising generation, has
seriously called into question the proprioty
OF the rendition Of plays by school girls for
the entertainment Of promiscuons public.
II the public are in need Of theatrical en-
tertainmeuts, it does appear to me that they
can have them without intrenching upon
the time Of young girls and boys, which
should be devoted to sound and sub stantiai
studies, in the labor OF preparing for tablaux,
clap-traps and the apt representation Of
plays containing loose innnendos calculated
to suggest and educe precociiy Of passion,
and render vulgar slang facle TO the tongue.


j do think your correspondent a. Bache-
lor Fl" is on the right side OF the fence, and
am glad that he has been so patriotic as TO
throw out the suggestions contained in his
article Of the 26th. We are rot straight
laced-iar from it /; neither do we think we
are making I" great fuss y about nothing,
as some may suppose, bnt we do protest
against any procedure in the education of
girls that will tend in the most remote de-
gree TO compromise that coy delicacy and
purity which is ever so charmingIy charac-
teristic Of them, when that studisus care has
been taken 10 their education, by which they
are isolated thoroughly aud efIectually from
all that can suggest even uuseemly thoughts.
Everybody, OF course, will have an opinion
about these matters but as for us. We have
no ambition that our daughters should either
be or represent common characters. how
ever much they may amuse the public, by
perfect exhibitions of real life. H.c.
Year: 1860

Are two OF the most common and virulent disorder
prevalent this continent, TO these the Ointmen
is especially antagonistic, its " Hodns operdHdi is
first TO eradicate the venom and then complete
Year: 1860




Another allegation is made against that Sem
ator. intended to affect the Republican organi>
cation. It is now alleged that he has an.
nouneed in his Rochester speech, this mech
sbused and cant phrase of a conflict that
there is aconfiet between slave labor and free
labor all through this government; and that
that conflict has been going on and will 60 on
until one or the other utterly triumphs. That
is the assertion. We acknowledge tive own
up. Sc let us examine it. Why, gentlemen,
I understood thai to be the declaration Of our
fathers in l776. / understood that to be the
openly avoWed sentiment of Washington,
Madison and Jefferson, understood that to be
the declaration of the resolution in Virginia,
for which your candidate for Speaker Of the
Democratic party, Mr. BOcock, voted some
years ago. understood, furthermore, that
that was the declaration of the late South Car
olina Legislature, and above all, have it here,
taken from the Louisville Courier, the leading
organ of the Democracy in Kentucky, made
more than ten years ago. You would like to
read it. Then viii you hh7e the goodness to
turn to the files of that journal and see If / lie
or not. (Cries Of ''read it.'D =.


Speaker was interrupted by heavy fall of
rain, which forced him to retire into the rotun-
da Of the state douse'l


Iwillresd the extract which cut with my
own scissors from the Louisville Courier, and by
referring to the files of that paper, you viii find
il in the words which l tonight quote:


81 presume that it will not be denied that free
labor and slave labor are incompatible. The
white man is un willing to labor by the side of
She slave, and the slave is equally aveTse to
labOring by the side of The white man. There
exists mutual Tepuenancy, and it follows, of
course, that the mass Of the labor Of Kentucky
must be wholly the labor Of the white man, or
wholly the labor of the slave"


What think you Of that, coming from this
high Democratic aulhorityi Mark the extent
to which this gentleman carries the idea. Not
only that there is conflict, but he goes further.
He says not only does the white man refuse to
labor with the slave, bat mark him we'll, ne puts
Year: 1860

Next comes the radical abolition party
They say that the idea Of dissolving the Union
is too far removed, they cannot wait fer this
moral influence to exert itself By the wa7,
should mention that the Garrison and Phillips
patty does not vote. They think if they vote
under the Constitution and hold Office uRderit,
they you'd be bound to take the oath Of allepi-
ance, and iRasmuch, as they cannot do that,
they do not vote or hold office; but not SO with
the radical abolitionists; they hold that they
have right not only TO vote but to abolish
Slavery in the States TAey too have a 'high.
or law and say that inasmuch as Shareholders
have proclaimed that Slavery is higher law
they make issue. and say that liberty is above
all constitutions and laws, and that the slave
is allowed entirely the use of his own discretion
as to where and how he may lberate himself
if liberation is within his reach. To that party
belonged John Brown. To that party belonged
Cook, and to that party belonged every man
decidedly and ascertainedly implicated in that
raid Not one belonged to the Republican or
ganization. No Sirs. After all attempts in
every quarter to make capital out of the affair,
there has not been proved to be one single Re
publican standing in alliance with Seward and
myself that they have been able Sto implicate
remotely or directly in this raid of John Brown.


rejoice that those resolutions Of investiga-
ton have been passed in the Senate Of the Uni
ted States, that they may call for me, that
they may call for Gov Seward, that they may
call on any other Republican, North and South,
and bring them before the proper COMMITTEES Of
the Senate of the United States, and there
make them fairly and fully disclose all that
they know upon the subject. tell you, new,
it will result in our viRdicatiOn, and in the NOR
Year: 1860

the slave above the Democ ic white aboreF Of
the commonwealth and tells you the sentiment
OF tho slave. What then is HE coBcusioni
Why that in the coufliot the "nisggf Is to have
precedence, SO that slave labor Becomes entire
y predominant in the Commonwealth What
sort OF Democratic teaching is that! In the
name OF God let us hear no more from the Dem
ocratic party, frem Gov MagOffin. or Vice Presi-
dsnt Breckinbridge, Of this thing about the
higher law or Of this eternal conflict between
free and slave lobnr
Year: 1860

A man never knows what he has read
until he has either talked about it or writ
ten about it. Talking and writing are di.
gestive processes which are absolutely eS-
sentiaI to the mental constitution of the
man who devours many books, But it is
not every man who can talk. Talking i'm
plies, first of all. readiness on the part of
the speaker, and next, a sympathetic listen
er. is therefore as digestive process
the most rapid, in its operation. Writing
is different affair man may take his
time to, and not require a hearcr and can
be his own reader 1t is an easier, although
more formal, process of digestion than talk
ing. 1t is in everybody's power and eve
rybody who reads much makes more or less
use of it, because, ns Bacon says if he does
not write, then he ought to have eXtraor-
dinaGy faculties to compensate for such
neglect 1t is in this view that we are to
understand the complaint of a well.knowh
author that he was ignorant of a certain
subject. and the means by which he was to
dispel his gnorance-namely, by writing
on it. 1t is in this view that the moHito-
rial sytem of Instruction has tits great vail
ue-lO Tue luOulNOlo ~ 10 NlO oNo" olhNA VI
teaching 1t is from the same poiot Of
view that Sir William Hamilton uyed TO


ament the decay of teaching as apart of
the eduaation of students at the Hniyersi-
ties. In the oldeI time 1t was necessary to
the obtaining a degree that the graduate
should give evidence of bis capacity as q
teacher, and IN the very titles of his de
gree, as magister aud doctor, be was desig
mated teacher. A man never knows any
thing, Sir William used to say, until he hai
taught it in some way or other, it may be
orally, it may be by writing d book. 1t i
grand truth and points q fine moral
knowledge is knowledge, say the philoso
piers it is precious for its own sake i
is an end to itself But nature says th
opposite. knowledge is not knowledge un
til we use il it is not ours until we hav'
brought it under the command of the grea


social faculty, speech we exist for society
and knowledge is null until we give It ex
preston, and make it over to the social 10


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