smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

Oh. could there in the world be found Srme little spot of happy ground Where village p 'easures A,ight go round, Without the village tattling How donbly blest that place would be, Where all might dwell in liberty, Free from the bitter misery

 0t gossips' endless prattling. If such spot were really known, Dame Peace might claim it as her own; And in it she might fix her throne,

 For ever and forever, There ko n queen might reign and live, While every one would sron forgive The little slights they might recciv

 And be offended never, ''ris mischief makers that remove Far from our hearts the warmth of love, And lead us all to disapprnve

 What gives another pleasure. They seem to take one's part-blt when They've heard oiir csires- Inkindly then They soon retail them out again.

 Mix'd with their poisonous measure. And then they ve such cunning way Of telling their ill meant tales they say Don't mention what said. 1 pray.

 l would nut tell another ;'' straight to your neighooi mouse they go Na,rating e.ery,hlng they kn"w; And break the peace of high and low,

 Wife, husband, friend and brother Oh that the mischief making crew Were all reduced to one or two, And they were painted red or blue,

 That evefy one might know them! Then would our villagers forget To rage and qualr,l, fume and fret. And tall into an angry pet.

 With things so much below them. For 'tis q sad degrading part To make another, bosom smart, And plant a dagger in the heart

 We ought io love and cherish Then kt Ills everlnore bs found In quietness with all around. While friendship. j"y a.d peace abound,

 And angry feelings perish
Year: 1865

VITAL IxPoRTAxcE.-The people Of this
city who entertain proper regard for the
prosperity Of our excellent common schools
in this city, should attend at the Court
House this evening, and see that good nom-
nations are made for members Of the School
Board, to be elected on Monday. It is the
most important business you can attend to
this evening.
Year: 1865

No MlsrAKE.-The people will go to Sam
Perry's, opposite the Post Office for their
clothing. Sam has the most extensive IA
cilities for turning out the most fashionable
and most durable suits at remarkably low
figure. Call and examine his extensive and
rapidly increasing stock before purchasing
elsewhere.
Year: 1865

day what it is which constitutes beauty in
the hand. They differed in opinion as much
as the shape of the beautiful member they
we're discussing. A gentleman friend drop
ping in. the question was referred 20 him.
Ii was delicate matter. Glancing from
one to the other ofthe beautiful white hands
presented for his examination, he replied at
last, II give it up--the question is too hard
for me !; but ask the poor, and they will tell
y,u that the most beautiful hand in the
world is the hand that gives,
Year: 1865

ARTEMUs WARD, says of the Mornons,
that in consequence of their peculiar hab.
its more Of their people are in arms than
can be found among the same amount of
population any where else in the country
Year: 1865

We take: this instructive article from
late number Of FaUs Journal Of Health:


All know that the less we exercise the
less health we have, and the more certain
we are to die before our time But compar-
atively few persons are able to explain how
exercise promotes health. Both beast and
bird in a state of nature are exempt from
disease, except in rare cases it is because
the unappeasable instinct Of searching for
their necessary food, impels them to cease
less activities Children, when left to them
selves, eat great deal and have excellent
health, because they will be doing some
thing all the time, until they become so
tired that they fall asleep and as soon as
they wake, they begin right away to run
about again thus their whole existence IS
spent in alternate eating and sleeping, and
exercise, which is interesting and pleasur-
able. The health of childhood would be
enjoyed by those of maturer years, if, like
children, they would eat only when they
are hungry stop VIII n they have done ;
take rest in sleep as soon as they are tired;
and, when not eating or resting, would
spend the time diligently in such muscular
activities as would be interesting, agreeable
and profitable Exercise, without mental
elasticity, without an enlivement Of the
feelings and the mind, is of comparatively
little value


l. Exercise is health-producing, because
it works off and out of the system itsowaste
dead and effete matters these are all con-
verted into liquid form, called by some
" humors," which have exit from the body
through the "pores" of the skin in the shape
of perspiration, which all have seen, and
which all know is the result of exercise,
when the body is in a state of health. Thus
it is. that persons who do not perspire, who
have dry skin, are always either feverish
or chilly, and are never wei, and never can
be as long as that condition exists. So ex-
ercise, by working out of the system its
waste, decayed and useless matter, keeps
the human machine 'free :" otherwise it
it would soon clog up, and the wheels Of
life would stop forever


2 Exercise improves the health, because
every step man takes tends to impart mo-
ton to the bowels proper amount OF ex-
ercise keeps them acting once in every
twenty-four hours; if they have not mo-
ton enough, there is constipation, which
brings on very many fatal diseases hence
exercise, especially that of walking, wards
off innumerable diseases, when it is kept up
to an extent equal to inducing one motion
Of the bowels daily.


g. Exercise is healthful because the more
we exercise the faster we breathe. If we
breathe faster we take that much more air
into the lungs but it is the air we breathe
which puriiies the blood, and the more air
we take in, the more perfectly is that pro-
cess performed the purer the blood and
as everybody knows, the better health must
be. Hence, when PERSONS lungs are i'm
paired he does not take in enough air for
the wants Of the system; that being the
case the air he does breathe should be TIE
purest possible which is outdoor air. Hence,
the more consumptivc stays in the house,
the more certain and more speedy is his
death
Year: 1865

This is the epitaph which might truth
fully be written on many good wOman's
tombstone Mrs Stowe, in her last Chin
ney Corner paper in the Atlantic treats Of
this evil in connection with the domestic
fault of exactingness-tha impatient quail
ity which stimulates IA certain class of per-
sons to he ever striving to reach a high
standard of excellence which they can
never attain, and which results in an over
doing of domestic work destructive to all
happiness in the family H'r remarks On
the subject are so pertinent, and so well
worthy of the serious consideration of the
mothers OF our land that we cannot refrain
from reprinting them here


What if the whole care Of expensive
table luxuries, like cake and preserves, be
thrown out of housckeeper's budget, in
order that the essential articles of cooking
may be better prepared? What if rutliing,
embroidery, and the entire department OF
kindred fine arts be thrown out OF her cal
culations, in providing for the clothing of a
family? Many a feeble woman has died Of
too much rutflmg, as she patiently sat up
night after night sewing the thread of a
precious, invaluable life into elaborate ar
ticles which her children were none the
healthier or more virtucus, for wearing.


Ideality is constantly ramifying and
extending the department Of the toilette
and the needle into a wo!ld of work and
worry, wherein distracted women wander
up and down, seeing no end anywhere. The
sewing-machine was announced as a relief
to these tolls but has it proved 50? We
trow not. 1t only amounts to this, that
now there can be seventy-tw" tucks on
each little petticoat, instead of fifteen, as
before and that twice as many garments
are made and held 10 be necessary as for
merly The women still sew to the limit Of
human endurance and still the old pro-
verb holds good, that womau's work is
never done


In the matter of dress, much wear and
tear Of spirit and nerves may be saved by
not beginning to go IN certain directions,
we'll knowing that they will take lis beyond
our resource of time, strength, and money.


There is one word of fear in the vocab-
ulary of the women of our time winch must
be pondered advisedly- TRIMMING. IN old
times good garment was enough nova
davs a garment is nothing without trim
ming. Everything, from the first article
that the baby wears up To the elaborate
dress OF the BRIDE, must be trimmed az Il
rate that makes the trimming more than
the original article. \ dress can be made
in day but it cannot be trimmed under
two ar three days Let faithful, consci-
entious woman make mp her mind how
much of all this burden of life she will as
sumo, remembering wisely that there is no
end to ideality in anything and that the
only way to deal with many perplexing
parts of life is TO leave them out altogeth-
err
Year: 1865

WAGER OF BATTLE This method of de-
termining the guilt or innocence Of an &C


cused person was recognized by the COM
mon law of England for many centuries
When legal tribunal failed to convict the
accused, the nearest of kin was allowed to
challenge him to wager of battle, upon the
belief that God would there defend the
right. If the accused We're killed, it was
held to be proof Of his guilt !; if other
wise, it was proof that he was innocent.
a case of this kind occurred in 1871, which
caused the Parliament to put an end to it.
A young woman was murdered by man
in wood. He was tried at the Old Bailey
and acquitted. Her brother challenged the
murderer to battle with swords They
were to fight until the first star appeared,
and he who should first "craven" was held
to be execrable. The man was kept In
Newgate until Parliament altered the law.
Year: 1865

CONVERsATION.-Ihe power of cOnversa-
ton consists in the habit of not thinking
of what is in your mind, Of not cropping and
terreting about in the dull dank vacuities
OF your own soul for any notions which
chance to be found straying there. He
alone can converse with any effect who
cares only to see that which hovers before
the mental eye of his opponent Convcr-
sation is incompatible with vanity 1t is
also the best cure for vanity. For the only
way to get rid of selflovc is not to think of
ones self, but to contemplate what is ex-
ternal to ones self Enter into the minds
Of others, and you will gradually get out
Of yourself The secret of light conversa-
tion is to speak Of that only in which your
partner is Interested to twist about the
thought in his mind. To say that which is
already known is rude. Such conduct will
be resented You will be branded as dull
and insipid. 1t is not rude, on the other
hand, to remain silent Paradoxes are
good because they are not commonplace
generalitieS. Never d, sccnd to common
place, but force persons out of their Ordi-
nary grooves. If any man is talking of a
high subject, and you let slip a common
place, he will not say another word to you
A look, without word, is sufficient to show
that you have entered into his meaning
But if You say what does not require to be
said, it proves that you have not been fol-
lowing him. In sum. the whole art Of con-
versation consists in not travelling out of
your partners thought, but in receiving and
applying it; and he alone naturally con-
verses well who has got rid of vanity and
self-love.
Year: 1865

only have four year. whereas most ladies'
have a dozen"


"a dozen - Iexcaimed ,astonished, "why
that is equal to one a month. 1t is pre-
postorous. Does your milliner have many
such customers 2"


"Oh, yes" Miss Modiste assures me that
there are some Of her purchasers who get
new bonnet every month"


L" | am thankful, my dear" said, that
you are not one but, it appears to me, that
four hats year are more than you can af-
ford to have, especially in such hard times
as these are, when every one should study
economy. Don't you think you can get
along with two a year z"


" really don't see how it would be pos
sible," she replied because every three
months the fashions change, and | would
not, you know, like to be out of the fash
ion"


"Well, the fact is, my DEAR" l replied,
that we must ecOnomize somewhere and
| think we can best dispense with new bon
nets AS for being in the fashion, it is all
nonsense. If there be one thing dislike
more than another, if is seeing you forever
studying fashion plate"


" am not forever studying fashion
plate" my wife answered, with spirit :" it
is rarely, indeed, that | see one. If you
want to economze, why don't you stop
smoking, and leave off drinking wine p
You men are always accusing us of being
extravagant, and spending our time before
a mirror; but in my opinion, and in that of
all the thinking portion of my sex, too, we
are seldom as eXtravagant or as vain as
your sex. You'll spend almost as much for
one dinner, downtown, as would suffice to
feed your whole family well for a week AS
for vanity, have never seen the greatest
cnqnette sta I'd longer before mirror than
| have you when engaged tying an elabor-
ate knot i'll your cravat."


Leaving this pretty quarrel as it stands
Though the intelligent reader WILL of
course surmisc that the lady ultimately has
her own way we close our extracts from
Barry Gray'S charming book with this little
sketch of
Year: 1865

" My wife has gone to visit her mother.


" am happy to be able to state that the
children accompanied her Peace, quiet
ness and felicity reign in my dwelling. |
come and go unqucStioned. | stay ont late
at night without fear of rebuke lie abed
of mornings and no one insists on my get
ting up. My friends pass the evening with
me, and there be none who tell me the next
day that the window curtains are filled with
tobacco smoke, and the parlor has the fra
GRANGE of bar-room. If two OF three
friends come home to dine with me, the
cook never asks why | brought them, nor
complains of headache What is more,
she does not insist upon having a new silk
dress every week, nor burst into tears if l
utter crude and naughty words. The fact
is, if there be one thing like more than
another,itis to have my wife often visit her
mother
Year: 1865

Profane swearing is very justly re-
garded by all true gentlemen a most
debasing practice. The utterance of
oaths quickly sinks man in the esti-
nation Of all who entertain proper
notions of true manhood. We have
noticed that the habit is quite too COM
mon among our mechanics; and We
would urge upon them to quit it. If
a man happens to pound bis finger
with hammer, the injury and pain
are made none the least severe by
swearing about 1t. The tongue is an
unruly member and needs constant
watching less it becomes fouled with


moral sediment-ScientySc American.
Year: 1865




New YORK., August IA The Rich.
mond Wing, of Saturday, in leading
article teprecating the position assum-
ed by those ut the North who demand
polical punishment for the treason of
the rebels, claims the punishment of
the South sufficient already. 1t says
the sun does not look upon civilized
people whose lot is so deplorable as
theirs. In the first place. they had to
sustain the shock of disappointment
and humilirtiOn; second, from the
weaithiest people in the world they
became the poorest third, bred to
perfect political liberty, they find them
selves without self government, and
degraded tito legal quality with
their own former slaves. In addition
to these, there is vague but deep 90
licitude growing out OF the new condi.
ton of the race which, while servile,
was protection, but freed and placed
upon an equality by an influence TO
vhich it is now brought, cannot but
be regarded as a danger. To this list
it will not add by saying there is
scarcely household in the South in
which there are not eyes that are dri-
ed for loved ones that are not seen no
more. From the day the President
resolved on giving to the South self
government, the radicals resolved upon
lhwarting his efforts, the pith of all
complaint being that these people claim
the right ofsuffrage 10. the negroes
1t counses the people of the South to
keep their temper, as they have in the
President friend firmly determined
to see that their rights are accorded
them. ....... . I'D,
Year: 1865

/ Let every sensible, refecting man
draw his own deductions. Take things
as they are, not what we would desire
them; and if negro suffrage is a,logical
sequence of negro emancipation, then
let it come and come quickly. a q
Year: 1865

A REMARKABLE PROPHECY.-Not long
ago was found at Toledo, in Spain, in a
monastery, paper containing the following
prophecy the far West, beyond the
ocean will rise nation which will be great
in power and wealth and Satan, in one OF
his walks to and fro in the earth, will OBJ
serve this nation, and determine to destroy
their happiness, will there send two mon
sters, one to the North and the other to the
South, and he will give them strawberries,
and they will eat them; and, after they
have eaten, they will feel great thirst, not
to be quenched with anything else but blood.
They will, therefore, cause the brother to
slay the brother the father to slay the son,
and the son the father, and they will drink
the blood of the slain, ard it will bring la
mentation and wailing throughout the land.


And, when the time is fulfilled, there will
rise a strong man in the North who will take
the monsters and bind them and draw them
into the sea, where it is the deepest, and
peace and happiness will again prevail
throughout. and the people will praise the
Lord.


It is said the monks in said monastery
maintain that this prophecy was written be-
fore the discovery of America by Christie
pher Columbus that Ferdinand and lsa-
bella were. in the main, induced by it to fit
out the ship for Columbus, and that the first
part of it is fulfilled in America, and that
the other part viii soon come to pass.
Year: 1865

A lady in Missouri, writing on the day af-
ter the edict of emancipation, remarks =
Last night was a still, white night The
snow lay over all this Southern land, and
the moonlight on the snow. 1t was meet
adjoining of our beautiful Missouri for the
eve of her bridal with Freedom. We sang
Glorv HaIlnluiah "
Year: 1865

A Missouri postmaster thus expresses his
opinion that his official returns are correct
'f [ hereby certify that the four goin A
Counte is as near Rite as Inow how to make
it if there is any mistake it is not Dun
nurners -
Year: 1865

Farmers who turn their atten-
tion to this crop will find ready
market and high prices.


Some decline to plant largely,
for fear of dull market, in conse-
quente of the closing up of the
war. This we think is mistaken
idea. Even should the war close
by the time the crop is ready for
market, prices must rule high. In
the North we have an immense
population that are consumers onl
ly, not producers If the war
should close, our soldiers must be
added to this number. Then the
South must be fed for one year at
least. Potatoes were largely ship.
ped South before the war, and will
be 80 again. At one dollar per
bushel, we think the farmer can
raise no crop, more proftablY. At
fifty cents he would be we'll paid.


Procure good seed, plant in good
soil, cultivate well, and trust the
rest to Providence.
Year: 1865

FARMS. Teach them how to raise Q
crop, and how to dispose of it after
wards. You will thus fit them for
the duties of m-anhood, and in the
future, they will often reour with
pleasure to the time when they
first started out as farmers on the
home place. We repeat, give the
bows q chance.
Year: 1865

NEw YORK, August 2l.-A Charleston letter
to the Herald states that military investiga alton
has been ordered into the conduct of General
Hatch, but no one can be found to prefer any
charges against him.


The health of Charleston was never better


Most of the candidates for the State Oonven
tion have withdrawn in favor of new men.
Year: 1865

PARoDoxIcAL though it may seem we have
known persons to become very timber from
the effects of taking a stiff glass of brandy


SOME husbands are driven to take smile
at tavern because they get no smiles at
home.


No one ought to enjoy what is too good
for him he ought to make himself worthy
of it, and rise to its level.


IT is a dangerous thing to treat with
temptation that which ought at first to be
rejected with disdain and adherence.


WHEN a wealthy friend promises to leave
you house and lot, it is not always best
to take the will for the deed


We may do very good action and not
be good man, but we cannot do very i'll
one and not be an i'll man.


WHY is necessity like great many law.
yers ? Because it knows no law,
Year: 1865

A DOCTOR advertises in country paper,
that 'whosoever uses the Vegetable Univer-
sal Anti Purging Aromatic Pills once, will
not have cause to use them again We
rather think they won't
Year: 1865

MuRNuRs OF THE MONEY CHANoERs.-Several
stock jobbcr and stock jobbing journals ap-
pear very sensitive about paying on the
national debt Some call II joke, some q
humbug, some nzzle. The Tribune Is one day
in favor Of IL and the next day against it.
The Times seems TO be changing its r5le, and
announces that the movement Is "nonsensical,
immoral and impertinent." Who ever ex-
pected the stock jobber and stock jobbing
journals to be In favor Of paying of the debt,
A great proportion Of them are not only op-
posed 70 paying IL or but also to the reduc-
tlon In the prices Of living, matter that
affects all classes Of society, and which would
inevitably follow the liquidation of the debt.


The great bulk Of the people are in favor of
paying of the debt as quick as possible,
thereby relieving themselves Of the burdens Of
taxation and bringing about q condition Of
things THAT would more properly accord with
Year: 1865

INFORMATION WANTED.-Before the Hon. Ben
Wood goes off the political stage, we beg to
ask him if the twenty-five thousand dollars he
got more than year ago from Canada did not
come from the Jake Thompson assassination
fund of over half a millioni Why don't tho
military commission at Washington SEND 1or
Ben? He might give some important informa-
ton pending the present State trials. Ben u
wanted in Washington very much.
Year: 1865

QUARTERLY STATEMENT OF THE FIRST Ma
TroNAL BANK.-The First National Bank Of
Davenport has been in operation eighteen
months and has made to the public six
statements of its condition. The careful
and attentive reader will remember that
each succeeding exhibit has been an i'm.
provement on its predecessor, thus showing
clearly that i 10 . progressive Institution,
and from the fact that its deposit aecountis
far in advance Of any other bank in the city,
it must be admitted that it is the most pop
ular. This is the case with most Of the
National Banks throughout the country.


A glance at the assets Of the concern
show most healthy and vigorous condi-
ton. Its assets are "gilt edged all the
way through, besides having pretty hand
some ring of the clear metal hanging about
them. The credit side is none the less en-
couraging. Everything about the institu-
ton seems to be working smoothly and
pro6tably. The First National Of Daven-
port Is now the leading bank Of the State.
Year: 1865

There will be . Mass Meeting of ALL
the citizens of the FIFTH WARD, on
Thursday Eve, January 5th, IS,
At the Pennsylvania House,
for the purpose Of providing moons to take
Ward out Of the Draft.


Let no man stand back and wait to sec
what his neighbor will do-make it-as it
most assuredly is-a personal matter.


Come to the meeting, and bring your
neighbor along-insist upon his coming
with you-and let each and all do according
to his means-and We can thus insure the
Ward against the impending Draft.


By order Of Committee.
Year: 1865

FOURTH WARD LrABLEs, ATTENTION -
Pay particular notice for call for draft
meeting In your ward tomorrow evening
and be on hand every man, and prepare =
clear yourselves from the draft. Appear
every one, and fail not. Every man is ex-
necfed tn d0 his iutv