smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

ure? What is your Saturday afternoon I?
What thing co you do purely for the pleas
ure it gives, and not as a duty?


Some mothers have their reading,
which leads to late hours When every
gay head in the hive is on its pillow, and
the clock ticks in the still house, then
comes the precious, quiet hour Of reading.
Blessed soul who shall forbid it to her,
but who does not wish she had been able
to take it fresh, and unwearied, out Of her
morning hours?


Some women seem to find real pleas
ure in sewing. 1t soothes their nerves,
and they go on sewing, stitch after stitch,
their griefs and cares passing away as the
work for some loved one grows under
their hands.


There are garments, sacred as the grave
clothes in Christ's sepulchre, that patient
women have wrought, who sent prayer
with every motion of the needle. Sons
and husbands have been thus clothed, who
knew not what they were wearing but a
blessing always goes with all such love
work


Some mothers have learned in early
days pencil-craft, or artistic skill, and laid
it aside in motherly standardization.
Dear mother, keep this gift for yourself
get out your boxes and colors-sharpen
your pencls-sketch-p will do
you good; it will rest your nerves. it will
brighten your thoughts ; it will give spring
elasticity, and cheerfulness to your life :;
and the more yOu are, the more you will
have to give to others.


For ourselves, some little fancy for
flower painting has saved us a world of
weariness 1t has been company in soil
tude; it has soOthed our nerves and given
refreshment and strength Very humble
skill will serve to reproduce leaf or
flower; and the work pays for itself If
only one learns by it the infinite beauty
of nature, and comes nearer to God by
seeing how inimitable are His works, one
gains by it.


Finally, every good husband should try
to make his wife have some resource of
this kind, and every wife should do the
same for her husband. Don't infringe on
each others little Saturday afternoon; /;
reverence each others pet pleasures.


We heard once of thrifty husband
who plowed in his wife's little flower
garden, because he thought it waste of
time. We have seen wife impatient of
the botanic specimens, bugs or butterflies,
that Uttered husband study. We knew
a good, conscientious mother who tumbled
her sons mineralOgic cabinet into dark
garret. None of these people were either
cruel or bad hearted, but they had never
considered the sacred right of every hui
man being to play-spcll.


Let us all see to it that we let every one
have their own Saturday afternoon. Life
is not SO very long at the best, and bit
of pure pleasure is not a thing to be
despised Hearth and Home
Year: 1869

imposed upOn;" the other was alway
willing to do whatever he was called upon
to do. He won his promotion by giving
his whole heart to his trade. DevOt;ng
himself to the business as thoroughly as
though it were his own, he mosle it his
own.


His history reminds us Of the saying Of
an old shepherd to the boy who COM
planned that his companion had left him
to tend the sheep alone "Never mind,
my boy, if you watch the sheep, you'll
win the wool" "Seest thou man dill
gent in his business? He shall stand be-
fore kings, he shall not stand before mean
men," wrote the wise man of Olden time.


Boys, don't be afraid of work, don't
talk too much of your rights, and think
too little of your duties. Whether your
place is on the farm or in the factory, be-
hind the counter or the desk, faithfiIlncss
there will be round in the ladder lifting
you higher-AmericGn iqriculfurlSt.
Year: 1869

Don ever 90 hunting for pleasures
1hcy cannot be found thus. know.
Nor yet fall a-digging for treasures
Unless with the spade and the hoe
The bee has To work for the honey.
The dronc has no right to the food
And he who has not earned his money
VIII get of his money no good.
The ant builds her house with her labor.
The squirrel looks out for his mast.
And he who depends on his neighbor
VIII never have friends, first or last.
In short. It's no better than thicving.
Though hiJ is harsh name to call
Good things to he always receiving,
And never 10 give back at all.
And do not put off till tomorrow,
The thing that you ought to do now,
But first set the share in the furrOw.
And then set your hand TO the plOw.
The time is too short TO be waiting.
The day maketh haste TO the night.
And its just as hard work TO be hating
Your work as 10 do it outright.
Know this too. before You are older.
And all the fresh morning is gone
Who puts to the worlds wheel shoulder
Is he that viii move the world on.
Don't weary ont VIII with delaying.
And when you are crowded don't stop:
Believe me there's truth in the saying
There always is room at the top,
To conscience he true. and to man true
Keep faith, hope and love in your breast,
And when you have done all You can do,
Why, then you may trust for the rest.


Alice Cdrey.
Year: 1869

WILD OATs.-A crop that is generally
sown between eighteen and twenty five.
The harvest sets in about ten years alter,
and is commonly found to consist OF q
broken constitution, two weak legs, bad
cough, and large trunk filled with walls
and patent medicines. We can hardly say
that the yield pays for the time and labor
expended in the cultivation.
Year: 1869

On RESTAURANT BUTTER-One day a
young went into Boston restaurant and took


seat at table. As the day happened 10 he slushy,
he wore high topped boots, with his pants tucked
inside the legs. Giving his order. he waited pa
tiently. and soon received what he desired Taking
n slice of bread in his hand, he applied the butter
from dish near by, and took one bite, when blte
was enough for no sooner had he tasted il than his
lower Jaw FELL and dropping the bread ON the table,
he sank back into his chair, apparently bereit o all
his faculties In moment he rallied, and with his
coming senses also returned his presence of mind.
Taking the dish of butter from the table, he pro
ceeded cooy and calmly TO rub the butter on his
boots. from the legs down, which being done in q
highly artistic manner, he deliberately picked up
his check walked to the bar, and settled
Year: 1869

A load of 1000 eggs was re.
Gently smashed in front of the
Post-office at Batavia, New York,
and as they couldn't be picked up
again, a barrel of coal tar was
poured over the street and set on
fire, as the only means of prevent
ing very bad smell ..t
Year: 1869

A lady called recently at the
Office of the Newport r. i. News,
and paid for the paper to be sent
to a neighbor, who had troubled
her SO much by borrowing it that
she took method to get rid of the
nuisance. m asss lseggza
Year: 1869

A nice way of overcoming bashful scruplcs
has been found in North Carolina. 1T recent
wedding, a guest proposed that one man in the
company should be selected as President; that
this President should be duly sworn to keep
entirely secret all the communications that
should be forwarded to him in his official de-


partment that night; that each unmarried
gentleman and lady should write his or her
name on piece of paper, and under it place
the name of the person they wished to marry,
then hand it to the President for inspection,
and, if any lady and gentleman had reciprocal
y chosen each other, the President was to in
form each other Of the result, and the names
choice were to be kept entirely secret. After
the appointment of the President, communica


tions we're accordingly handed up TO the chair.
and it was found that twelve young ladies and
gentlemen had made reciprocal choices, and
eleven of the twelve matches were solcmnized
Year: 1869

THE BEAUTY OF THE FAMILY.-We leave it
to you if the 9 beauty of the family don't in
variably turn out" the worst one in the lot ?
If she don't cultivate the outside of her head
to the total forgetfeness of the inside? If she
is not petted, and fondled, and flattered, and
shown off, till selfshness is written all over
her? If she is not sure to marry some lazy fell
low, or some drunken brute, who will bruise
her body-or her heart to a jelly, and be glad
to come, with her forlorn children, for mOrsel
of bread, to the comfortable home Of that snub-
bed member of the family, who was only " our
John, or Martha, and who never, by any
possibility, was supposed by them capable of
being or doing anything? We leave it to you,
if the beauty of the family" be he a boy,
don grow up an ass? IF he is not sure to dis
gust everybody with his conccit and affectation,
while he fancies he is the admired of all eyes
-even if he don squander all the money he
can lay his hands on, and die in the gutter
We never saw very haIsome child of either
sex, set up on the family pedestal to the excu
sion of the other children that we did not fee


like patting these children on the head anC
saying, thank Providence, my dearS, that yOl
were not born beauties. "-F'tnay Fern.
Year: 1869

HAPPY DAYs.-Kingslcy thus declares
"There is no pleasure like child's md-sum-
mer hoiday-the time, mean, when two OF
three of us used to go away NJ the brook, and
take our dinncrs with Us, and come home at
night tired, dirty, happy, three little trout and
one shoe the other having been used for a
boat till it had gone down with all hands out Of
soundings. Depend upon it, man never ex
periences such pleasure or grief after fourteen
as he does before, unless in some cases in hi,
first love making, when the sensation is new tc
him "
Year: 1869

A lady at Boston, who was about to give a
party to the members of the Protestant Epis-
copal Convention, sent for Mr.. S, caterer,
to assist in the preparations. He sked if she
intended to give dancing party. She replied
that is was to be mainly composed of clergy
men. "In that case, madam, said he, Il
would advise you to provide bountifully. Them
pious people eats dreadful
Year: 1869

A Southern writer, who has just had an in
terview with Mr. George d. Prentice, says he
is not the man he was ten years ago. Indeed,
his genius is gone, and his person is a mere
wreck. His family is broken up-wife dead,
one son killed on the Confederate side, another
settled on a farm down the rivcr--and the old
man, verging on three score and ten, cooks bis
breakfast and dinner in his little room on the
third floor of the Courier building, and lives
only in conversation about the past. This mau
once welded an imperial power with his vii
and his music Now the world has whirleC
past him, and he lies on the shore a mere
stranded wreck.
Year: 1869

Action for Personal Injuries-An Appeal


Case.


Before Judge Thompson.


Brtdget O'Brien us. A. B. Cap,oeu-This was an
action brought to recover damages for an injury
sustained by paintir by the giving way OF the rail-
ing OF the verandah while she was engaged IN hang
ing up clothes In the back yard. Plaintiff was en-
ployed to do washing ior o Mrs. Wade who was de-
fendants tenant at the time the accident occurred.
The case has already been tried, and the
tn. 1t was then appealed and q new trlal
was ordered by the General Term In charging The
jury yesterday the Court said that II the defendant
unsafe condition at the time, and he knew IT, nad
his attention called to 1t and failed to remedy It, and
the injury to the paintin from the dangerous
condition Of the premises continuing from the time
OF the lease to Mrs. Wade to the DAY or the accident
then the defendant Is LIABLE Verdict Tor the plaintiff
In $780,
Year: 1869

Clients


Judge Gilbert issued the following order yestez-
days.


Ordered that the day calendar OF the Circuit Court Of
Kings county called 1t the opening OF the court
When the plaintiff has noticed his and the defendant
mot answer inquest may be taken such call.
When the defendant has noticed his and the plaintiff
does defendant dismiss the complaint
hling proof OF due ice OF notice Of trial.
ID further ordered that be reserved written
placed on the AZ easndas for any day during the creu
which they In their numerical order uniess
otherwise directed by the Court
Year: 1869

wildcat hardly describes the quality
of the vile trash that is being sought TO DC
placed upon the market under the head Oh
W bite Pine mining stock, Pole-Cat would
be the better term. A majority Of those who
chase the phantom under the delusion that
4 is good game, will find their eyes blinded
and themselves suflocated, financially, when
they get it in their clutches An average oil
about five companies day, thirty week or
100 a month, are being incorporated 10 oper-
ate in White Pine. The San Francisco ois-
patches already speak of the wildcat char-
acter of these stocks, and private letters
from White Pine assure US that not one IN
fifty of the locations on which these incorpo-
rations are based will ever pay wages Tor
working. Considering the very wild char
acter of the cat in white Pine, and It's un
paralleled abundance, we propose in order 10
distinguish it from the ordinary wildcat to
christen it Pole-cat.
Year: 1869

The Dalles Mountaineer publishes addi-
tional particulars of the movements OF Her


man Judell. After offering his forged certih


cate Of deposit to Mr.. Sinnot and being re-


fused, he hired horse at livery stable,
professedly to go to Ten Mile Creek, but took
the trail for Portland, got lost, and went TO a
farm house on the river, told the farmer his
name was Wilbur and that his father was on
the way up from the Willamette with drove
Of cattle and that he was trying to meet
them. Becoming tired OF waiting, he in


duced the farmer, Mr. Jossiyn, to advance
him Ten dollars ON the horse and set him on
board the steamer Idaho, which was on her
way down to the Cascades The steamer was
hailed and Judell put on board, but who
should he meet thereon but Deputy Sherlfl
Schultz, with warrant for his arrest. He
was taken back to Dallcs and waits the action
of the Grand Jury in Jail for horse-stealing.
Year: 1869

HYMEN IN A SHOWER BATH
Cora Mowatt, who is writing foreign
letters for the San Francisco Chroni-
Gle, tells story of a bridal pair.
making the tour to Switzerland, who
recently came to a crowded hotel.
aud were informed by the landlord
that there was one unoccupied room
in the house. the bathroom, and
that a couple of beds might be made
in the two baths which it contained.
The youthful couple were well
pleased to secure even this shelter
alter a fatiguing journey, and retired
to rest. An hour or two later the
stiffness of the night was suddenly
broken BY shrieks of distres issuing
from the bath room. The lady wish.
ing to summon a servant, had pulled
what she presumed was a bell,rope
suspended over her head in the bath
when, suddenly, she was inundated
by shower of cold water. The
gentleman, aroused by the cries, and
not quite comprehending the position
pulled supposed bell-rope which
he felt dangling over his bath-bed,
to bring him a domestic, but brought
instead, a shower of hot water over
himself 1t was quite dark, and
neither bride nor bridegroom could
grope their way to the door. By
the time succor came they were up
to their knees in water.
Year: 1869

IT has heretofore been pretty gen>
orally the impression that, while the
citizens of the South might be able
to control the negro vote in the coun-
try, the blacks in and about the
towns and cities would be beyond
their influence. At the late muni-
cipal election in Nashville, however,
the negroes deserted the radicals for
the first time and voted heavily with
the citizens, so that the entire Con-
servative ticket was elected by q
large majority. AS there is no reas'
on why this should not be made to
occur in the other municipalities of
the South, it is not at all impossible
but that we may yet see the negroes
vote as steadily with their old mas,
ters as they once worked for them.
Year: 1869

CAUSE AND ErFEcr.-There is q
favorite field Of speculation for oer-
tain writer's to ask what would have
happened if something had happened
which didn't happen. If Robespier-
res stockings, said one profound
reasoLer, had or had bot been splash-
ed on a certain occasion, the French
Revolution would Dot have happened.


II Caesars boat bad gone down with
all his fortunes, there would have
been no Roman Empire. If Will
liam the Conqueror had met with
bad weather. EngIishmen would have
still been nothing better than beer
swilling Saxons, AlPthese, or some
of these, facts may be true and il is
pleasant to some minds to repeat the
old adage about great events and
trihiug causes, and to reckon up the
wonderfully small events which, if.
they had happened otherwise, would
have changed the whole HISTORY of

the world. l will not say that it is
not so but l think it gives us bet
ter ground for faith in the future, if
we persuade ourselves that the
worlds progress does not depend on
the turn Of a die or the fight of q
bullet; and that, somehow or other,
we shall scramble on in a similar
path, though it may be we shall have
to make few detours, and lose some
valuable time; even if our favorite
idols were converted into frewood,
aud we bad to swear by the great
John Brown instead of the mighty
Thomas Smith. Heroes are excel.
lent things in their way but, to my
mind, the more strings we have to
our bow the more secure we shall
feel and hold that there is gener>
ally a fish or two in sea, besides the
big ones that happen to have come
to the surface -L1oldtry.
Year: 1869

LET you be ever so pure, you
cannot associate with bad compan-
ions without falling into bad order.
Evil company is like tobacco smoke;
you cannot be long in its presence
without carrying away a taint Of it.
Year: 1869

PooR RULE THAT WONT WORK
BOTH WAVs.-The Treasury officials
have been compelled to abandon the
docking system. 1t was too much
to have the democratic press of the
country inquiring why Grant, and
Boutwell,, aud all the others we're
not cut off 10 their salaries for ab
sence from duty, as well as the poor
clerks. 1t was a poor rule that
wouldn't work just as we'll with one
employe of the Government as
another, and it is not to the credit of
those who instigated it that they did
not sooner discover it.
Year: 1869

THE WAY OF THE WoRLD.-So
lately dead so soon forgotten! IT'S
the way of the world Men take us
by the hand, and are. anxious about
the health of our bodies, and laugh
at our Jokes, and we really think,
like the fly on the wheel, that we
have something to do with the turn
ing of the earth. Some day we die
and are buried. The sun does not
stav for our funeral; everything
goes on as usual we are not missed
On the street ; men laugh at jokes
one or two hearts feel the wounds of
affection one or two memories hold
our names and forms; but the-eFowd
moves in the daily circle, and IN
three days the great wave of time
sweeps over our daily steps and
washes out the last vestige of our
lives.
Year: 1869

ments, and so back them up as to
make on inch of truth cover an
acre Of ground. without appearing
to stretch or tear, was . thing that
appalled, even the most unimpres-
sible with its awful grandure.


The Reliable Contra band is no
more! Born Of the war, and me-
cessity Of the war, and of the war
only, he watched its progress. took
notes ofits successes and reverses,
manufactured and recorded the most
thrilling features of its daily
history and then, when it died,
his great mission was fulfilled, bis
occupation gone, and he died like
wise.


No journalist here present can
lay his hand upon bis heart and say
he had not cause to love this faith
full creature, over whose unsentient
form we drop these unavailing tears
for no journalist among US all
can lay his hand upon his heart and
say he ever lied with such pathos,
such junction, such exquisite SYM
metry, such sublimity Of concep-
tion, as when be did it through and
by the inspiration of this really
gifted marvel Of mendacity, the la
Reliable Contraband. Peace
to his ashes


Respectfully, MARX TWAIN.
Year: 1869

There is q class of men in every
community who 60 about with vim
egar faces, growing because they
arc not appreciated as they should
be, and who have o constant quar-
rel With their destiny. These mcu
usually have made grave mistake
in their estimate Of their abilities.
or are unmitigated donkcys, IN
either case they are unfortunate.
Wherever this fault finding with
ones condition or position occurs,
there is always want Of sclf-respect.
If people despise you do not tell it
all over town. If you are capable,
show it. If you are a right down
clever fellow wash the wormwood
off your face, and show your good
will by your deeds. Then, if pco-
pie feel above you, 60 right off and
feel above them. If they sweel
when they pass you in the street.
swell yourself, and if this does not
" fetch them," conclude very good
naturedly that they are unworthy
Of your acquaintance, and pity
them for missing such a capital
chance to get into good society.
Year: 1869

Hill and he said my grandmother


was no gentleman and l said he
derscn't take it up; but he did,
you bet; then got up again and
said he was too much afraid to do
it again, and he tried to, but he
didn't and / grabbed him and
throwed him down on the top of
me like several bricks +; and tell
you it beat all-and 80 did he !;
and my little dog got behind Bill
and bit him and Bill kicked the
dog, and the dog ran, and I ran af-
ter the dog to fetch him back, and
didn't catch him until I got clear
home and I'll whip him more yet.
Is my eye very black ?"
Year: 1869

The good old times have passed away
Blow your horn
The fogies look in blank dismay,
For the quack now rides in grand coupe
And Modesty's gone to the devil, they say!
To achieve success the only way,


Is to blow your horn !!
Moneys the roet Of all evil, you know


Blow your horn !
Men love to see such On evil grow,
But it's hard to get and easy to go;
And to hurry the strt am when II rims too slow,


You must blow your horn
The man who relies on Worth Is fool
e. .-..a Blow your horn {! =.
Brass and Cheek arc tho modern school,,
wins though dull as q mule
For he knows one secret sure to rule,
And makes of the masses plant tool,


When he blows his horn !
Year: 1869

1--WE regard the following clip.
ping from an exchange as one Of


the most correct and comprehensive


answers tc this question that we


have ever read. Every child aud


grown person should commit it to


memory, and daily strive to become


what is described.


A gentleman is not merely q per-


son acquainted with certain forms


and etiquette of life, easy and self
possessed in society, able to speak
and act and move in the world
without awkwardncss, and free from
habits which are vulgar and in bad
taste. A gentleman is something
beyond this; that which lies at the
root Of all his pleasing is the same
spirit which lies at the root Of every
Christian virtue. It is the thought
full desire of doing in every insta
to others as ho would that others
should do unto him. He is con-
stantly thinking, not indeed how he
may give pleasure to others for the
mere sense Of pleasing, but how he
can show respect to others-how
be may avoid hurting their feelings,
When he is in. society, be scrupu-
lously sscertains the position and
relations of every one with whom he
comes in contact, that he may give
to each bis due honor, his proper
position. He studies how be may
avoid touching in conversation up
on any subject which may needless
ly hurt their feelings-how he may
abstain from any allusion which
may call up . disagreeable or Of
fensive association. A gentleman
never alludes to, never even ap-
pears conciods Of any persons de-
feet. bodily deformity, inferiority
of talent, of rank, Of reputation in
the person in whose society he is
placed. He never assumes any
superiority to himself-never ridi-
cules, never sneers, never boasts,
never makes display Of his own
power, or rank, or Advantages
such as is implied in ridiculo, or
or ubuse-as he never in
dulges in habits, or tricks, or in
clinations which may be offensive
to others.