smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

Gs> Leisure is never so enjoyably as when it
comes unexpectedly, like the visit of a long alb
sent friend. And to be sweet it must be short.
Too much of it pals upon the appetite. Luxu-
rious as warm bath it is also as enervating.-
He who finds himself suddenly possessed of lei
sure in great plenty will do well to dispose of
the bulk oft as soon as possible by setting him
self something to do Systematized activity is one
of the best preservatives against "dull care.''-
Leisure is but sauce oflife, which helps to make
work more palatable and digestable-the one
apart from the other soon becomes disgusting
Men of leisure, as they are called, are most COM
monty restless, fdgety, and unhappy men. The
kindest hing which can be done to them is:
deprive them, if possible, by hook or crook, OF
the greater part of their leisure. At first sight
it does not seem so, but very short experience
will prove that it is so. Much leisure nfers the
absence of a purpose, and life without purpose
is perpetual burden.
Year: 1869

A Hint TO You've WoMEN.-Young woman,
trust not to uncertain riches, but prepare your
self for every emergency in life. Learn to work,
and be aot dependent on servants to make your
bread sweep your own floors, and darn your
own stockings Above ALL do not esteem too
lightly those honorable young men who sustain
themselves and their aged parents by The work
Of their own hands, while you caress and receive
into your company those idle popinjays who
never lift a finger 10 help themselves as long as
they can keep body and soul together and yet
funds sufficient to live in fashion.
Year: 1869

va There are many different ways Of getting
on in the world it does not always mean max
ing great deal of money, or being great man
for the people to look up to with wonder. Leav-
ing off bad habit for good one, is getting on
in the world to be careful and saving instead
of thoughtless and wasteful, is getting on TO be
active and industrious instead of idle and lazy,
is getting on to be kind and forbearing instead
of ill-natured and quarrelsome, is getting on =
to work as diligently in the masters absence as
in his presence, is getting on in short, when
we see any one properly attending to his duties,
persevering through such difficulties to gain such
knowledge as shall be of use to himself and Others
and offering good example to his relatives and
| acquaintances we may be sure that be is getting
on in the world. Money is very useful article
in its way but it is impossible to get on with
small means, for it is mistake to suppose thai


we must wait for a good deal Of money before We
can do anything. Perseverance, is often better
than full purse. There are more helps toward
getting on than is commonly supposed many
| people lag behind or miss the way altogether be-
cause they do not see the abundant and simple
means which surround them on all sides, and 81
it happens that there are aids that cannot b'
bought with money. Those who wish to get OF
| in the world must have stock OF patience, o
hopeful confidence, willingness to learn and
disposition not easily cast down by difiicultie
and disappointments.-Rec Recorder.
Year: 1869

knew the exact direction in which to point my
pistol, as well as if | had seen you. Besides,
could hear you breathing where you stood You
lost your only chance in delaying your fire
You wished to make sure work, and overreached
YOURSELF


More than once the Major looked appealngly
into the speakers face, but in those remoreseless,
sighiless eyes there was no CLEAN of fsympathy.
And as the labored breathing grew fainter and
fainter the old man resumed his listening att-
tude. AT last all was still.


He is Dead he said, and its wonted express
sion OF sober melancholy settled again upon the
old mah's face, as, taking his companion's arm,
be turned and walked leisurely away .-Neso
York Ledqer
Year: 1869

WE FADE AS A LEAF-As the trials of life
ihicken, and the dreams of other days fade, one
BY one, in the deep vista of disappointed hope,
the heart grows weary of the struggle, and we
begin to realize our significance. Those who
have climbed TO the pinnacle of fame, or revel in
luxury and wealth, 60 to the grave at last with
the poor mendicant who begs pennies by the
wayside, and like him are soon forgotten
Generation after generation, says an eloquent
writer, have felt, as we feel, and their fellows
were acting in life as ours are now. They pass
away as a vapor, while nature wore the same as
pect Of beauty as when her creator commanded
her to be. So, likewise shall it be when we are
gone. The heavens will be as bright over our
graves as they are now around our path the
world will have the same attraction for offspring
yet unborn that she had once for ourselves, and
that she has now for her children. Yet little
while and all this will have happened Days
will continue to move on, and laughter and song
will be heard in the very chamber in which we
died and the eye that mourned for US will be
dry and will glisten with joy and even our
children will cease 10 think Of us, and will not
remember to lisp our name.
Year: 1869

orr OLD Department Curiosity Shop,
IN which you will find the following, a small
portion of the contents of our Noah's TX How
ard Street Department. which establishment
surpasses affy establishment of the kind in the
United States, for variety and cheapness Of ar
ticles. No one visiting the city should fail to
call at the "Noah's Ark" or the House that
Jack Built"
Year: 1869

Keep all kinds of Goods suitable ior city and
country wear All we ask is to give us trial,
and we guarantee satisfaction.


We would respectfully call the attention OF
our customers to recent improvement in our
store We have Opened
Year: 1869

PLEASING EvERYBopY.--He that
can please nobody is not so much to
be pitied as he that nobody can
please.


PRAYER IN AFFLICTIoN.--The
spirit of prayer does not necessarily
come with affection. If it be not
poured out upon the man, he will,
like the wounded beast, skulk to his
den and groWl there.-CecH.


IF thy Affections are great. it will
be madness and folly for thee to
make them greater by murmuring.-
Boston.


He that is assured that God is his
portion, will never mutter nor mur-
mur under his greatest burdens
Boston.


1t is impossible to calculate what a
momentum would be given to the
work of God, were all His people
''holy, harmless and undefled. -
Lindsey.


The sOphistry and false reasoning
by which We may delude our own
souls, will not blind the eyes which
are "as a fame of fire. Merritt.


He that forgets his friend is un-
grateful to him; but he that forgets
his Savior, is unmereiful to himself.
Our best use of ourselves is to be
employed for God.
Year: 1869

Free Masons will be interested in
learning that the uoblemau who has
been for twenty-six years at the head
Of their orGer in EnglaGd is now 90
the point of retiring. The Earl Of Zet
land is extremely popular among the
English MasOns, and short time ago
a magnificent testimonial was got "
for him, but when the fact came to
his knowledge he begged that the
money might be devoted to the ehari
table institutions of the brotherhood.
The Earl is now upward of seventy
four years old, and increasing iafs-
mites have led him to resign q pos,
Of which he was always proud.
Year: 1869

SERIOUS MIsTAKE.-A lady went
into one of our Photograph Gale
ries, the other day for the purpose
of procuring picture of her dar-
ling, three years old. While the
artist was In his dark closet, the
fond mama, anxious that hegold-
den ringlets of the child should be
twisted seven times smoother than
usual, appropriated a sponge and
saturated it with what she suppos-
ed to be water, but what proved to
be Cyanide of Potassium, and be-
slowed it with an unsparing hand
upon the child's hair. The child
cried with pain, and the photogra-
pher came and applying water free
ly, relieved the little girl from her
distressing predicament. Fond ma
mas should be careful.-Eremont
Journal.
Year: 1869

A youth of Rochester hanged
himself because his parents compell-
ed him to attend church, and when
his father came to cut him down he
kicked the old gentleman in the
most un6lial manner as he dangled
by his neck
Year: 1869

An artistic reporter on one of our
city contemporaries in recent visit to
the Academy of Design, was fOrcibly
struck by the coincidence of title
in connection with the name of
the Artist in the following cases
Year: 1869

All, this beautiful world Indeed. we
know not what TO think of it. Some


times it is all gladness and sunshine,
aud Heaven itself lies not far Of. And
then it changes suddenly, and is dark
and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out
the sky. In the lives Of the saddest Of
US there are bright days ike this, when
we feel as if we could take the great
world 10 our arms. Then comes the
gloomy hours, when the FIRE will neither
buru 10 our hearts nor on our heartbs,
and all without aud within is dismal.
cold, and dark. Every heart has its
secret sorrows, and oftentimes we call
people cold when they are only sad.


There are in existence two periods
when We shrink from any great vicis-
situdes--early youth and old age. In
the middle Of life, we arc indifferent to
change, for We have discovered that
nothing is, in the end, SO good or SO bad
as it at first appeared We know,
moreover, how to accommodate ourseIf to
circumstances, and enough Of exertion
is still left in us TO cope with the event


Butage is heart-wearied and tempesttorn;
it is the crumbling cencsaph Of fear
and hope! Wherefore shoGld there be
turmoil for the few and evening ho urs
when all they coyet is repose They
see their shadow fall upon the grave,
and need bet to be at rest beneath -
Youth is not less averse from chance,
but that is from cxaggcration of its
consequences, for all seems TO the young
50 important, aud so fatal. They are
timid, because they know not what they
fear ; hopeful, because they know not
what they expect Despite the gaiety
Of confidence, they yet dread the first
plunge into life's unfathomable deep.


G q
Year: 1869

The world grows old. and men grow cold,
To each while seeking treasure,
And what with want a,I6 cares and toll
We scarce have time for pleasure;
But never mind, that Is a loss


Not much to be lamented;
Life rolls on gaily II we will


But smile and be contented.
five are poor, and would be rich,
II will not be by pining;
MOI steady hearts and hopeful minds
Are life's bright silver lining.
There's never man that dared TO hope,
Hath Of his choice repentcd
The happiest souls on earth are those
Who smile and be cOntented.
When grief doth come to rack the heart,
And fortune bids us SORROW,
From hope We may blessing read,


And consolation borrow;
II thorns may rise and roses bloom,


II cannot be prevented
SO make the best OF life you can,


And smile and be contented.
Year: 1869


Strange Nuptials - An Angry Husband


Parts with his Wife at the Altar.
From the New Orleans Picayunel


Sometime since a well known young
gentleman appeared at one of our metro.
politan churches with very beautiful
young lady, and invoking the services Of
the minister, was immediately united to
her in marriage. The lady appeared
deeply agitated. and there was stern
determination visible on the countenance
of the youth-a pale. angry face-evinc-
ing anything but joy in the nuptials
As soon as the ceremony was concluded,
the man turned to the lady with the re.
mark:


Il have kept my promise now-you
are married to me but I'll never look on
your face again"


There was frantic appeal in the girls
actions and tears. She begged, implored
him to recall his words-promised some
wild things better left unpriuted-and
then sank faintisg to the floor The
man turned on his heel and quilted the
apartment.


What did it mean?


The simple relation of facts look like
the coloring of romance, yet are they
true in every particular. When it is fur
ther stated that the parties are of high
social position, have numerous relations,
aud that they were utterly unattended,
the mystery will appear more strange.


Their friends have tried vainly to re.
concile the matter. An obstinate silence
greets every appealin behalf of the lady,
and she, if indeed she can, refuses any
explanation.
Year: 1869

The following is the bill to enforce the
fourteenth amendment:


" Be IL enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives. of the United
States Of America in Congress Assem-
bted, That whenever any person shall
hold Office contrary to the provisions OF
the third section of the fourteenth article
of the amendment of the Constitution of
the United States, it shall be the duty of
the District Attorney of the United
States for the district in which such per-
son shall hold Office, as aforesaid, to pro.
ceed against such person by writ of quo
toarranto, returnable to the Circuit or
District Court of the United States in
such district, which courts are hereby
authorized to take jurisdiction thereof,
and to prosecute the same to the removal
of such person from Office; and any writ
of quo warrGnto so brought as aforesaid
shall take precedence of all other cases
on the docket of the court to which it is
made returnable, and shall not be con-
tinued unless for cause proved to the
satisfaction of the court"
Year: 1869

The other day one Of the numerous
horde Of office-seekers that now infest
the town applied to him for a recon-
mendatiop." II really desire your sue
cess, replied the hero of Fort Fisher,
and therefore cannot comply with your
request. | recommend those / do not
want appointed, which know will un-
doubtedly secure their rejection. will,
however, do you the signal favor
Of streuuously demonstrating against
your appointment at the proper depart
ment. At the same time | will procure
you favorable letters from men esteemed
-5y Grant as his friends par excellence
Their recommendations may do as the
subterfuge, but my remenstrance will
secure you the place" The ignoramus
to whom this sensible proposition was
made failed to perceive the subtlety of
the fHesse, aud foolishly blabbed. The
ruse of Butler in this and other similar
cases being thus exposed, must, there
fore, prove hereafter Intellectual. Such
is modern statesmanship
Year: 1869

From the New York Herald


The character in which the politician
should appear in these days is that Of
"an old and intimate friend of General
Grant that is if he is eager for fat
place, and can prove bis claim to the
character. There probably nev.r was a
man go rich in friends as Grant has be-
come since the idea has spread abroad
that more would be given for personal
than for party considerations. We are
not inclined to regard it as an abuse that
a man should stick to his friends. Old
men will remember the persistenoy with
which General jackson nominated GER
tain Gwin for good office. The Senate
regularly refused to confirm Gwin, and
jackson always sent bis name in again.
Finally, Jackson had his way, and Gwin
had his place. Some one asked the Gen.
eral the meaning of his persistency, and
be said "When my mother and her lit
tie ones, of whom | was one, were strug-
Cling in the wilderness, she found a good
friend in an old Baptist minister named
Gwin. This man is that old Gwin's son,
and, by the Eternal, the administration
shall 20 down rather than that man shall
suffer" he who has not this virtue OF
sticking to his friends generally has no
other; and he who has it, and with it has
Grants discretion, will never let it carry
him into abuses.
Year: 1869

The financial condition of the United
States hos recently been the subject of a
report transmitted by the Secretary of
the British Legation at Washington to
the English foreign etfice. The Secre-
tary of Legation, it is stated, reports
that the resources Of the United States
are so ample, and the character of the
people so energetic and industrious, that
a suspension OF their wonted prosperity
can only be regarded as temporary.
Year: 1869

must take his choice between the two.
Os the one hand is hope, continually
Frightening in the future. On the other
is the inconceivable wretchedness of one
from whom hope has forever Aed.-Nesc
York Weekly.
Year: 1869

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Year: 1869

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Year: 1869

GONG INTO THE Country. Warm wea-
ther is approaching and the denizens of
the cities will soon be upon the wing, hunt
ing for country air, Some will betake
themselves to Cape May, some to Atlantic
City, others to Saratoga, Niagara, Bed
ford, the Virginia Sulphurs, the noun
tains, and numberless other places of sum-
mer resort. But many more will sally out
among their country relatives or acquaint-
ances. And many times these city idlers
are the occasion of great annoyance to the
industrious rural population among whom
they are visiting. Mr.. Samuel R. one of
the Oldest and wealthiest citizens of an ad-
joining county, once said to us :-"I wish
you would say to the city people, to stay
where they are, until after harvest, and
give us chance to get through with work
ing our corn, and saving our grass, our
wheat and our oats. They come among
us early in the season, when we are very
busy, and our young people, our horses,
our carriages, our servants, must be at
their beck and call. My teams were stop
ped in the fields one day to furnish horses
for riding party, and we had to scour
the neighborhood to hunt side-saddles and
riding-habits for the ladies. And all this
seriously interferes with the labor on the
farm. Tell them to stay away, until we
get our work done, and then we shall be
happy to see them, and shall have more
time to devote to them, and shall be able
to make their visits more agreeable" We
did not comply with the old gentleman
request, at the time, but there is much
force in what he said, and we publish il
now, as it may spare some, at least, these
summer hindrances and annoyances, tc
which they are sometimes thoughtlessly
subjected by their city friends
Year: 1869

Great Britain is making fool of her
self if her newspapers fairly represent
her opinions and feelings in regard to
the Alabama case. They are roaring
aud blazing, like so many furnaces, up,
On the subject of Senator SUMMERS
speech. They evidently think that
SUMNER is the United States, and they
talk about nothing but his speech. We
all know that he has never exercised
much influence in this country, that he
has not been leader of his own party,
and yet his speech is treated in England
as ifit,were a message of the President,
a proclamation of Congress: or formal
manifesto of the whole Federal Govern
ment. The exhibition which the Brit
ish are making in this matter is entire
ly ridiculous, and we need not care how
long they keep it up. r
Year: 1869

GRANT is reported as having conclud-
ed to correct one of his mistakes. 1t
seems that under some maleYolent In
stigation he was moved to appoint a
certain ex-rebel officer to an Assessor
ship in Georgia The President has just
learned that the appointee was not only
bloody traitor, but that be was dis
missed the rebel service for drunken;
ness and gross immortality. These quail
iGcations are only appreciated by the
President when they attach to loyal
men. When practiced by rebels they
become diSqualiicatioRs at once, and so
the President is believed to have order
ed the removal OF the Assessor referred
to. Let it be remembered that in thus
correcting a mistake, ULYSSES deems the
mistake not to have consisted in the ap-
pointment of worthless drunkard, but
in the appointment of 81 worthless
drunkard who was not also "loyal"
man
Year: 1869

The ImpcriGlist thinks that twelve
men like BEN BUTLER would give the
American people an Empire. 1t is hard
to tell what a dozen men like BENJA-
afN might "giye," oosId that number of
his class be found to exist, but a list of
the portable property of the American
people would furnish a fair estimate of
what they would take away.
Year: 1869

A few nights ago enc of the watch
men in the Treasury Department saw a
package lying on table in one of the
side rooms, and examining it found
that it was roll of checks payable to
bearer, and fully signed, amounting to
tlfty-six Thousand dollars. He watched
it carefully till the captain of the watch
came round, by whom it was taken to
Treasurer Spinner, he sleeping in the
building with his bed jammed up against
the door of the principal vault. Since
then little more care has been exercis-
ed in the room in which the package
was found.
Year: 1869

1t is a well established fact that fully one
half Of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment of good health. or. 10
use their own expression, never feel we'll "
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme.
ly nervous, and have no appetite


TO this class Of persons the BTTTERS or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.
Year: 1869

And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon thom, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins,
restore in a measure the energy and ardor of
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness in their
remaining
Year: 1869

Why THE Poor DO NOT GO TO CHuRcH.-
Very serious complaints are lodged against
the poor because Of their seeming unwilling
ness to attend church and yet this is easily
accounted for. We wish to saw in kindness
what Is true, that the poor man despises the
spirit Of invidiousness and caste that faces
him in our fine churches. No longer ago
than last summer, the president elect Of the
United states, while spending Sabbath in
Chicago, walked out in the morning, unat
tended, to find place Of religious worship.
lie CHANGED to drop in among tbr followers OF
John Wesley, and as he was plainly clad,
the usher in attendance took pains to seat the
great captain among the plebciaus near the
door Great was the grief and modification
Of the usher on learning that be bad thus
rudely received an ''angei unawares." 4
C ,uncil was at once called, but it was deem
ed best not to attempt rectifying the mistake
This simple fact we received from the pastor,
and although ofno great moment, it is never
the less significant as indicating the course
commonly pursued, Of making an attempt to
draw dividing lines between high and low in
the churches. And herein lies the trouble in
question.-Amcrican Builder.
Year: 1869

CrRE OF CANCER-A Milwaukee paper states
that the following course Of treatment was tried
with perfect success on a citizen Of that town
for the cure Of "a cancer with which he was
troubled \ piece Of sticking plaster was put over
the cancer, with a circular piece cut out Of the
centre a little larger than the cancer, 50 that the
cancer and a small circular rim OF healthy skin
next to it were exposed. Then plaster made of
chloride Of zinc, blood root, and wheat -four.
was spread on piece Of muslin the size Of this
circular opening and applied to the cancer for
24 hours. On removing it the cancer viii be
found burnt into and appear Of the color and
hardness Of an old shoe sole, and the circular
rim outside Of it viii appear parboiled, as if
scalied by hot water. The wound is now dressed,
and the outside rim soon separates, and the
cancer comes out in a hard lump. and the place
heals up. The plaster kills the cancer, so that
it sloughs out Ike dead flesh, and never grows
again. The remedy was discovered by Dr. Fell
Of London, and has been used by him for six or
eight years, with unfailing success and not
case has been known Of the temperance Of the
cancer when this remedy has been applied.