smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

A Docs FIDELITY,-A gentleman took
a long walk in the neighborhood of South.
ampton recently. accompanied by his dog,
q fine Newfoundlander. In the evening he
missed some letters from his coat pocket
and his dog. The latter did not surpr SO
him, as his dog often wandered from him
in bis walks. The next day the gentleman
felt annoyed and puzzled at the loss of his
letters and he thought it possible hc might
have drawn them ont Of his pocket with
his handkerchief during his previous days
walk He resolved. therefore, to repeat
the walk, for he might have dropped the
letters in an unflequented path. and they
might be there still, About four miles
from the hospital he came suddenly upon
his dog lying on the ground, with the let
ters close by. The dog must have laid by
the side Of the letters for sixteen hours, in
cluding the whole night. The animal has
been rechrstianed " Postmaster General"
and an artist has sketched him guarding
the letters.
Year: 1867

The OH WOMAN. Once she was
Mother and /, was Mother, I'm hun
gry," Mother. mend my jacket,
"Mother, put up my dinner" and Mother,
with her loving hands would spread the
bread and butter. and would stow away
the luncheon, and sew on the great patch,
her bcart blimming with affection for the
imperious little curly pate that made her so
many steps and nearly distracted her with
his boisterous mirth


Now she is "the old woman !" but she
did not think it would ever come to that.
She looked on through the future years and
saw her boy to manhood grown and he
stood transfgured in the light Of her own
beautiful love. Never was there q more
noble son than he-honored Of the world
and the staff OF her declining years.


Aye. he was her support even then, but
she did not know it. She never realized
that it was her little boy that gave her
strength for daily toil--that his slender
form was all that upheld her over the brink
OF a dark despair, She only knew how she
loved the child, and felt that amid the
mists of age his love would bear her gently
through its infrmitles to the dark hall
leading to the life beyond.


But tho son has forgotten the mothers
tender minstrations now. Adrift from the
moorings to home. he is cold, selfish, heart
less, and Mother has no sacred mean
ing to the prodigal. She is "the old wo-
man." wrinkled, gray, lame and blind


Pity her. o Grave and dry those tears
that roll down her furrowed cheeks Have
compassion on her sensitive heart, and Of
fersit thy quiet rest, that it may forget how
much it longed to be " dear mother to the
boy it cherished through q careless child
hood, but in return for all this wealth Of
tenderness has only given back reproach.
Year: 1867

The authorities of Munich for some
years past have required that in all
cases Of children dying in their first
year, the parents should declare
whether or no the infant had been
sucked by the mother. A statistical
table of the last two years shows that
out of one hundred, deceased eighty
eight were not so brought up.
Year: 1867

Let no gentleman ever quarrel with
any man. If you are in trouble with
her, retreat. If she abuses you, be
silent. If she tear your cloak off,
give her your coat. If she box your
ears, bow. If she tear your eyes out,
feel your way to the door-but fly.
Year: 1867

Applicants for premiums on But
ter must deliver to the Awarding
Committee a written statement of the
time when made, kind and number of
COWS from which it was made, kind
and quantity Of salt used, and che
manner of laying down and pressing
the same.
Year: 1867

The progress of crime in Ohio is so
great, that the Cincinnati Times makes
the following suggestions to put a check
upon it:


We can think Of no efectual remedy
except to summon every man who is
without visible occupation to give an ac.
count of himself Let every idler be COM
PEELED to walk up to the captains Office
and settle with the public in respect to
his whereabouts and his whatabouts.
Let certain time be given every idler
to find some occupation, and if after that
he is still idle and within our limits, let
him be set to work-for work he should,
and work he must, or honest people will
have reason to fear him.


The public can have no confidence in
any one that lives without earning his
living. The devil enters at once into the
idler as the most susceptible to his in
6uence. The public have the right to
security. The laws are inadequate to
the protection of the people. The mur-
der of one honest and useful citizen is a
greater enormity than the calling up of
ten thousand suspected persons to give
an account Of themselves
Year: 1867

B5- The English letter writers state
that the coming winter in that country is
likely to be hard season for the working
people in many ways. 1t is estimated
that one hundred thousand laboring peo-
pie in England are absolutely without
work, and q million more pinched and
suffering in consequences Of inadequate
wares
Year: 1867

Who have no time to lose, foOlinR with various
mixtures of the day.. and who have no money
10 throw away, could not do better than to
spend One Dollar for the KING or CHILLS
It's taste is pleasant, and It never affect the
HAD nv
Year: 1867

The successful operations of the Bazaar
seem in no wise to have been Interrupted
by the threatening weather Of the last day
or so, nor has its success been at all abatcd.
Among the visitors there on Monday eve.
ming were some of the small folks from Ell
linger & Foote'S company, who attracted a
great deal of attention and created much
Year: 1867

is the only Physician as Special


ist now in Chicago that can be en-
tirely relied upon. Ge to him,
and not suffer that horrible disease
to remain in. your system, disfgur-
ing your face and body, besides
Year: 1867




HIsroRY OF HELENA CITY.-It is much
to be regretted that the precise date Of the
commencement of the town of Helena is
unknown. No town could, with greater
propriety and enthusiasm, Indulge in at
nual celebrations commemorative of the lay
ing OF the first log, than could this same city
Of Helena, which has in three short years
attained to the position of the metropolis of
Montana But the natal day of our town is
unknown. The gold seeker, who, half doubt
ing, laid log upon leg, and thus constructed
the first building in our town, was thinking
only of the chips that flew frcm his axe, and
of the mud he used for "daubing," and did
not see around him the future city of eight
thousand inhabitaHtS-the busiest between
the Missouri and the Pacific, with its granite
buildings and banks, newspapers and telc-
graphs. His memorandum book was, there
fore, devoted exclusively to his private gold
report, which showed him how his little spot
of mining ground was paying; AID when he
finished his cabin he made note Of the fact
Had he foreseen the future he would have
made this entry: To-day, | laid the
foundation Of the largest city in the noun,
tains, the centre of the richest muing dis
trct in America, and the wonder Of the age
on account of its rapid GROWTH But,
although the exact date Of He lena's birth is
in doubt, we know that it took place some
time during the month of ofSeptember, 1864


In the month OF July preceding, a party
of Georgians who had lett Virginia City for
the purpose of prospecting in this section of
the country, stopped for short time in what
is kno&n as Last Chance Guch. They dis.
covered gold here, but as Is generally the
case with miners, hoped for better things
further on, and therefore, went to the head
of Sun river. AZ that point (Which has al
various times proved so disastrous to cur
prospectors.) they met with no success, aud
rctuued to this place in August. r alizins
that it was getting late in the season, and
that they must soon fix themselves some>
where presently for the winter, they deter
mined to commence active mining opera
tlons here, remarking that it was their ''last
chance and thus giving the name Last
Chance, to the gulch, nearly opposite where
Taylor d Thomson store is now situated,
and there was supposed to be no gold above
there. We may remark, at this point, that
this bar gave 10 the FIVE men who worked
upon it, fortune of fifty thousand dollars
each, in the course Of two years. The
prospects being much better than at first,
building commenced, and the first cabin,
consisting of one room, was erected about
the middle Of September, 1864, in the rear
of the st Louis Drug Store, by John S.
Cowan, commonly called Uncle Johnny"
and the first disco1cre of gold in the gulch.
-Helcnd Herald
Year: 1867

New MAIL RoUTE.-The Virginia Post says a
mail route should be established from Virginia
to Deer Lodge city, distance of eighty miles,
connecting there with the Helena and Walla
Walla tTi-weekIy mail. At present there Is not
even an express between the two places and the
mails are carried around treble the distance, III"
curing delay and having to be distributed at
Helena. There are not less ihal 1000 who
would receive mails over that r, u e. The POST
Office Department does not expect new routes
a doubt that this route would leave credit mar
gin at the end or the first year. The people oi
Wala Walla are decidedly interested in the
opening of this route, and hence we trust thai
our Delegate will favo- the m assure.
Year: 1867

GREAT DAMAGE or ATLANTIC CITY.


BY rRtE0RAPH TRIBoSz


ATLANTIC CRY, n. j.. March pa terrible storm
prevailed here during the lattor part Of Last week,
commencing Oh Wednesday portion OF the lAght-
house Cottage was inundated. About 10 feet Of
the building also carried away. The sea covered 10
or Is feet OF tho cottage The covered the town on
Atanc-ave as far the United states Hotel aud rail
road depot the water being two feet deep IN the latter
locality. All the cedar trees opposite the lighthouse
carried away, and strewD across the grounds OF
Congress Hall The bank on each side OF the draw.
bridge was considerably washed, and the railroad
tracks In some places lie sideways. Tho trains
caBnot run through until Saturday night the gravel
having been washed away. The lighthouses OF the
United States Hotel and all the other bathouses on the
shore were carried away. The porch and shed or the III
let House were carried away by the surf. NO damage
was done TO the wharf Tho storm ceased on Saturday
afternoon aud yesterday morning there was very little
tide over the mcadows The water has now fallen to its
usual hight The oldest residents say that such storm
has not ragged so furousy in this vicinity for tho last 20
or 30 years Fortunately IL ala not last moro than two
days No shipwIecks are reported. a vessel sup
posed to have been a schooner, appeared IN sight on
Wednesday afternoon, but tackled and got out or
the storm it is hoped In safety. The telegraph lines,
which have been out OF order for the past TWO days wore
repaired yesterday aud are now II order
Year: 1867

A POWERFUL FERTILIZER. Every
farmer has SCOT at command, whose
presence in stovespipe or chymneys
is not unfrequently the case of fires,
occasioning the loss sometimes Of
both propei ty and life. This agent
for evil is one of the most valuable
manures, and nothing but the most
culpable carelesness and indifference
will suffer it to remain a standing
menace to life and property, when it
can be easily removed and turned to
good account in the fields or garden.
Twelve quarts of SCOT in hogshead
of water will improve the growth of
flowers, garden vegetables or root
crops. In either a liquid or solid
state it makes an excellant top-dres-
sing for grass or sereal crops.
Year: 1867

mistakes that we're amusing at first have
become monotonous, when the Interests
ing faces have lost their brightness in
porting over books too deep aud wise for
their little minds, when children that at
first were overanxious to please have with
increased intimacy grown Provokingiy
careless and stupid. they will be ready to
admit that these and iDnumerable other
petty annoyauces require teacher to
possess her soul in patience. Talk about
Jobs patience He never taught school!
True he endured severe ordeal-loss of
friends destruction Of property, treachery,
disease We nerve ourselves to endure
great sorrows; it is the lesser. ills of life
that overflow the cup of bitterness, and
many of these are crowded into each
days experience of the "District school
mistress"


And yet the life has its joys as we'll as
its vexations aud our picture will res
call many little pleasant tries to many a
teachers mind. The picture speaks for
itself The Teachers face tells of SO
much patience, frmness, aud sweetness
that we know the happy, eager children
are in good hands. That tall girl is a
controlling impulse in the school, and
has already womauly air. The long
haired lassie is merry sp7ite with Laughs
ing blue eyes and golden hair, She is
full OF fun, yet good pupil, and evi>
IDENTIFY favorite with her teacher, whose
hand is raised as if to give her gentle
sdmonishing pat on the shoulder. The
round baby face in the centre has just
finished its first day at school, while the
little fellow on the left has au earnest,
serious face, as though he were revolv'
ing in his mind some matter OF grave
Importance. Harper's Weekly,
Year: 1867

THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE.-Some
traveller to the Holy Land informs us that
there is Cor was) at the side Of the prin>
cipal gate cf Jerusalam, small one
which, upon occasions of great urgency,
was opened for the admission of persons
after the great gates were closed for the
night. This gat, from its small size,
was called the Eye of the Needle, and
to get Camel through it at all was no
small task-for a koadea camel to pass
was an utter impossibility.


With the above fact before the mind
one oan sec that the words of our Savior
when speaking of the straight gait" and
the erich man." We're more literally tha n
many suppose. And we see how as the
man passes into the narrow way, the side
and the low top ofthe straight gate scrape
every thing from him to which he had
before trusted. No one can take anything
but himself through. Far easier is it to
strip camel Of its burden than to divest
a rich man of his trust in riches
Year: 1867

the man who believes with Washington
that the security of this Government is
in " tho virtue and intelligence of the
people" will strive to promote that intel
ligence and develop that virtue. Fra
ternal feeling among the citizens is the
surest bulwark of the State. Who en-
courages that feeling? Those who de-
nouuce part of the population as mig
gers" or those who treat all meu as
men Those who would leave the re =
covered States sunk in ignorance, or those
who would set school house at every
cross road
Year: 1867

Our Flowers may be blighted, our pic.
lures destroyed, our ornaments stolen;
but our beautiful thoughts are with us al
ways, under all circumstances of riches
and poverty, health aud sickness, success
or disappointment. They are more safe
ly and surely our own than any jewel we
can possess and what is better still, we
can bring them out and share them with
others without the least fear or grudge-
ing, because neither friend nor enemy
can rob us Of them.
Year: 1867

A BAD TEMPER.-A bad tetaper IS
regular curse to its possessor aud its
influence is most deadly wherever it is
found. 1t is kind of martyrdom TO be
obliged to live with one ofa complaining
temper. To hear a continual round OF
complaints and murmurings, to have ev-
cry pleasant thought scared away by
his evil spirits, is in truth sore trial
1t is like the sting Of scorpion, or
perpetual nettle, destroying Your peace,
and rendering life burden.
Year: 1867

Always regard your present condi-
ton as a state of pilgrimage, never view
it as anything more. This will regulate
your desires and moderate your wishes
for earthly things. This will keep you
from being too much elevated when you
meet with prosperous sense. Hct
Year: 1867

Newer make use of woman's name
in an improper time, or in mixed compa


nv. Never make assertions about her
that you feel she herself would blush
no hear. When yon meet with men who
do not scruple to make use of woman's
name in reckless manner, shun them
for they are lost of every sense Of honor.
Year: 1867

-Selfshness is violation of natural
law. People say it is natural It is
common, it is universal everybody is
selfish, and in that sense men use the
term naturtl but another sense-viz
that which relates to its design, its or
ganic tendeney-sslfshness is violation
of the natu raj law of the mind, and ac>
cording to the structure of the mind it is
punished .-BeecheIs
Year: 1867

TRUTH.-Therc is nothing as pleas
ant as the hearing and spekiug the truth.
For this reason there is no conversation
so agreeable as that of the man Of integ-
rity, who hears without any intention to
betray and speaks without any intention
to deceive.
Year: 1867

The printers dollars, Where are
they A dollar here and a dollar there,
scattered over numerous small towns,
all over the country, miles and miles
apart, how shall they come together Z
The type founder has his hundreds of
dollars against the printer, the paper
maker, the building owner, the journ-
eyman compositor, the tailor, and all
assistants to him carrying on his bus
mess, have their demands, hardly ever
so small as single dollar. But the
mites from here and there must DO
diligently gathered and patiently
boarded, or the wberewith to discharge
the largo bills will never become
bulky.


We imagine the printer will have
to get up address to his widely scat
tered dollars, something like the fol-
lowing:


"Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes,
and all the numerous fractions into
which you are divided, collect your
selves and come homo: Ye are want
ed Combinations of all sorts Of men
that help the printer to become u
proprietor gather in such good reas-
ons for your appearance at his coun.
ter, that nothing less than sight Of
you will appease them. Collect your
selves, for valuable as you are in the
aggregate, single you will not pay tho
cost Of gathering. Come in here, in
silent single file, that the printer may
form you into battalion, and send
you forth again to battle for him and
TO vindicate his feeble credit.


Reader, are you sure you haven't
two or three of the printers dollars
" sticking about your old clothes y
Ifso let them come forth.
Year: 1867

miles of road were completed. In q
Hundred and eighty.two working days
thereafter, two hundred and forty
five additional miles are laid, and put
in prime condition, every rail and tic
and spike having been brought up
from tho rear. Seven saw mills far
nish the ties and lumber. All bridges
are framed, the pieces numbered, and
set up where wanted without the
least delay. The bridge at Loup Fork
is 1900 feet long, and as fine a Howe
truss as can be found in the land.
While our train was running the six
ty miles from North Platte, over q
mile of track had been put down, and
one train passed over it. From one
o'clock till four in the afternoon,
mile and two hundred feet were add
ed to this while the party was looking
on. The progress was astonishing,
and the more 40 because the ground
was wet, and the soil stiff and hard
with alkali.


Unless driven off by Indians, which
does not now seem probable, the road
will touch the base of the Rocky
Mountains the coming autumn. The
California end has already reached a
point about hundred miles east, and
is descending tho eastern slope Of the
Sierra Nevadas into the valley Of the
Humboldt 1t lis confidently expect
ed that Salt Lake will be reached next
year, and that 1870 will see the whole
line completed. While the nation has
scarcely heard Of what was being
done, tho work has been near one
third accomplished.
Year: 1867

The Democratic journals are con-
graduating themselves that the next
Congress will not bo two-thirds Repu-
blican. A Washington letter states
that the Republicans will have an ex-
cess of eleven over two-thirds in the
House, and an overwhelming minority
in the Senate. So Congress will be
all right and ready for the fight If tho
President is foolish enough to pro-
woke one.
Year: 1867

Dr. Albert Day, superintendent OF the New
York State Inebriate Asylum, at Binghamton,
publishes letter in relation to the cure Of ioe-
briaes, from which we gather the following
interesting facts:


During the last ten years [ have had under
my care over twenty five hundred cases OF in
ehriety, in all its various forms and conditions.


More than four hundred OF these had dellr-
ium in its various stages.


In the first years OF my connection with the
asylum for the treatment of their cases, EN-.
braccd the common error, that liquor could not
with safety be entirely withdrawn from the ha-
bual drinker. After two or three years Of OBJ
servation [ found this was an error, and that
the pathology Of drunkenness was not well IN
derstood by medical men generally, particular
ly those who had ventured to write books on
the subject 1 found on trial that my patients
did much better by Withdrawing alchohol alto
gether, never allowing even alchohollc tincturcs
of any kind to be given. A man may
habitually drink his quart or more OF liquor
per day, as most habitual drinkers do Con-
fine such man in some place and put him
upon an allowance of one-haf his usual guam
tity, and he will suffer more than he will to cut
him off entirely = Absolute abstl.
nence will cure the incbriate nothing short Of
it will keep him cured after he is raised up
from life of inebriety and degradation.
Year: 1867

GooD HAMs.-After hams have been
smoked, take them down, and thoroughly
rub the flesh part with mOlasses, then i'm


mediately apply ground or powdered pepper
by sprinkling on as much as will stick to the
molasses, when they must be hung up again
to dry. Hams treated in this manner, viii
keep perfectly sweet for two or three years
This must be done before the fly deposits it,
eggs, for after that is done, nothing will stoI
their ravages. The above has been practiced
in our section for twenty years. No soak.
ing is necessary. One pint of molasses and
one and half or two pounds of black pep


per are sufficient for any ordinary family


Try this plan, if you want good sweet hams
Year: 1867

The girl engaged in moulding bread
Shall make some sweetheart futter,
With hope to get that dairy maid


To make his bread and butter.
She may not play the game croquet,
Or French or German stutter,
If we'll she knows the curd from whey,
Aud makes sweet bread and butter.
In meal or cream she's elbow deep,
And cannot stop to putter;
But says ifhe will SOW and reap,


She'll make his bread and butter.
The dairy maid, the farmers wife,


Shall be the toast we utter;
Alone, man leads crusty life,


Without good bread and butter.
Year: 1867

LEADING Republican Congressman have
expressed the opinion that the result OF the
late elections has put an end to the impeach-
ment scheme. So it seems that matter was
TO be decided, not upon its own merits but
upon the ability of the radical revOlutionists
to accomplish it, Independent Of justice.
Year: 1867

THE SICK RoOM-Avod as much as
possible, whispering in a sick room. In many
instances the patients senses are acutely
sensitive, and he will hear every word you
utter; but when this is not the case, he sell
dom avoids perceving all mysterious signs
between those around him, aud they are
sure to irritate and alarm him. Let your
manner to the invalid be kind, frank and
cheerful and whatever private communica-
tion you may have to make to your fellow
nurses, make it when you have left the sick
room.
Year: 1867

CRANBERRY WINE, taken internally and
applied externally, is announced as a cure
for scrofula To make the wine, taken the
ripe berries, mash them in a mortar to a
fine pulp, put into stone jar, add one quar-
of water to two quarts Of berries, stir it we'll
set away and let it stand week then
strain it through cotton, and you have a
beautiful wine, which, with little sugar
makes wholesome drink, at once cooling
and palateable. 1t does not ferment.
Year: 1867

Would any body suppose that brass
knuckles for fighting purposes would be
made for the female band Such is the
fact. We saw some yesterday that were
made expressly for that purpose. An ordin-
ary blow from them would be sufficient to
break a person's law w-Er