smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

beauty AND iIEALrH.-Pale and sickly looking
females would do n good thing for themselves by
iudciously trying Speer's standard Wine Bitters"
Thousand have used them who have been strug-
Cling for the mastery with death. and have found
them 90 be the greatest life-giying tonic known:
They will animate the pulse and bring health ana
color back 10 their death-white lips
Year: 1869

a dying man; then sharp, quick call, as
if for help


No, dear, it is the pitiful moan of the
waves dashing among the roots of the
pines. Alas alas my darling how
cruel is it that the winds and the waves
should mock at your agony" and the
oyertasked wife wept bitterly.


Those were days and nights of intense
suffering in that stricken family.


But the end came; and to-day Carl
Lutz lives in the village where his boy
hoods error and mistake was committed.
Ii were better, after all, that he should
fairly face and live down, or live beside it,
in the place where he was best known
But the dead body, or phantom. or skeleton
or whatever name of horror you choose to
call it, will walk beside him to the grave
You can see that in his face now he looks
as if his bleeding heart was turned to
stone, as though he felt despised of all
men.


Faith in God should take all the thorns
out of this heavy crown; but so long as
man is of the earth, earthly, seeing
through glass darkly,' this will not come
to pass. When washed and made white,
and one among the angels, we will see
clearly how short the tether that tied US
down to earth. But by the glimmer of
light that does come, let us look we'll to
the import of our idle words, never speak
ing i'll of any; never lifting the covering
from the skeleton that any one wishes to
keep hidden giving no sorrow needlessly ;
but with tenderness, and charity, and
love, as Christ-like as we can attain to, let
us be true to ourselves, and especially
gracious to those who hide sorrows that
they weep over in lonely hours, unpitied
and unseen by any, but by One who was
Himself man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief
Year: 1869

| Cur THIS OUT AND KEEP IT-Franklin
Dyre, highly respectable and intelligent
farmer of Galena, Kent county, Maryland,
gives the following as a sure cure for the
bite of a mad dog. As will be seen, he
has tested it with The mosJ gratifying ~
suits -


Elecampane is plant well known to
most persons, and it is to be found in many
of our gardens Immediately after being
bitten take one and half ounces of the
root of the plant-the green root is perhaps
preferable, but the dried will answer, and
may be found in our drug stores, and was
used by me-slice or bruise, put it in
pint of fresh milk, boil down to half pint,
strain, and when cold drink it, fasting at
least six hours afterward. The next morn
ing, fasting, repeat the dose, prepared as
the last, and this will be sufficient. 1t is
recommended that after each dose nothing
be eaten for at least six hours.


/ have a son who was bitten by mad
dog eighteen years ago, and four other
children in the neighborhood were also bit
ten they took the above dose. and are alive
and well to this day. And L have known,
a number of others who were bitten an
applied the same remedy.


1t is supposed that the root contains
principle which being taken up by the bloo1
in its circulation, counteracts or neutraliz
the deadly effects of the virus of hydropI
bia.


feel SO much confidence in this sin
remedy that am willing you should
my name in connection with this statemeI
Year: 1869

A MUSCULAR CHRIsTIAN.-Dr. Alfrd
Booth, in his "reminiscences of Springfield
Mass, gives the following account of q
rare man of muscle iu the late century
Deacon John Hitchcock, of South Wilbra-
ham:


He is well remembered by Hon. Oliver
B. Morris as occupying the deaoon's seat
at meetings, his whitened locks giving him
quite venerable appearance. During a
long life he was of wonderful strength, agil-
ity and endurance, and had he lived in the
palmy days of Greece, he would have been


a worthy competitor in the games of those
| DAYS. It is related of him that on one
occasion, a man riding by the field where
he was at work, and boastingsf the speed
of his horse. vas 4hailAnyed
who said he could run to Springfield quick
er on foot than the horse and his rider
could The test resulted in the triumph of
the deacon; distance ten miles time not
stated. He would lift cart load of hay
by getting his shoulders under the axle, in
STOPPING posture, and throw an empty
cart over with one hand by taking hold of
the end of the axle-tree. When loading
grain in a cart he would take bag by the
teeth, and with swing and the aid OF
push from the knee, throw it into the
cart He had double teeth in front, and
would hold tenpenny nail by them and
break it off with his fingers. He used to
say he did not know man he could not
whip or run away from The day he was
seventy years old he remarked to his wife
that when they were first married, he was
won't to amuse her by taking down his hat
with his toes, and added, Il wonder if I
could do it now ?" Thereupon he jumped
from the floor, took off his hat with his
toes, came down on his feet ike a cat,
hung up the hat on the nail, turned to the
table asked blessing, and ate of the re-
past then ready.
Year: 1869

Notwithstanding the increasing popular
ity of cultivated berries, the wild are still


in demand. Those red, pulpy berries, of the
wintergreen, early as the snow-drops, are
the first in the market, and the sweet noun
tain blackberry the last to leave it. Even
Year: 1869

HOW THE PENNSYLVANIA DIAMONDS COME


TO MARKET.


The great strike among the anthracite
coal miners has attracted general atten-
ton; and the deep interest the people
show in the trade by which their fuel is
brought to them, justifes some account of
certain features in it which are not COM
monty understood.


MINING.
1t is well known that anthracite, which
is simply bituminous coal locked" by
Year: 1869

After storm in Missouri man found
his radish bed reversed, the tops being in
the ground and the roots in the air. In
stead of sscribing it to his mischieyous
boys he bruited it as q freak of the storm.
Year: 1869

DR.. Hall. in the February number of
his Journal Of Health. says: Zone of the
very worst economies of time is that ilch-
ed from necessary sleep. The wholesale
but blind commentator of early rising is
as mischievous in practice as it is arrant
in theory 3 rly rising is a crime against
the noblest part of our physical nature,


unless it is preceded by an early retiring.
Multitudes of business men in large cities
count it saving of time if they can make
a journey of hundred or two miles at
night by steamboat or railway. It is a
ruinous mistake. 1t never fails to be fol-
lowed by general unwell feeling for
several days after. if, indeed, the man
does not return home actually sick, or so
near it as to be unfit for full attention
to bis business for a week afterward. =
When man leaves home on business, it
is always important that he should have
his wits about him; that the mind should


be fresh and vigorous. the spirit lively,


buoyant and cheerful. No man can say
that it is thus with him after a night on
the railroad, or on the shelf Of steam
Year: 1869

The dismal December night was closing
with starless gloom over the spires and
chimney tops Of the city-the binding
mist of snow-fakes was wreathing its
white pail over all, and the wind, mur-
mering through the streets, seemed to
have almost a human vail in its moan.


Its an ugly kind Of night" mutter-
ed Mr. Terryn to himself as he buckled
his fur closer around his neck. ''and a
wind fit to cut one in two. Halo! what's
this?"


He had very nearly stumbled over
something that looked like a bundle,
cropching at the foot of fight of steps in
the shadow of ruinous old brick arch
way; but as he checked himself abruptly,
the bundle erected itself into something
human in shape and looked at him through
wild human eyes.
Year: 1869

boat. The first great recipe for sound
connected and refreshing sleep, is physi.
cal exercise Toll is the price of sleep.
We caution parents particularly not to al
low their children to be walked up in the
mornings; let nature wake them up, she
will not do it prematurely, but have a
care that they 60 to bed at an early hour;
let it be earlier and earlier. until it is
found that they wake up of themselves in
full time for breakfast. Being walked up
early, and allowed to engage in difficult
or any studies late and just before retir-
ing, has given many beautiful and pro-
missing child the brain fever, or determin-
ed ordinary ailments to the production Of
water on the brain" +.
Year: 1869

The WAY TO Treat INJURIES. If a
bee stings you, will you 60 to the hive
and destroy it? Would not thousand
come upon you? If you receive trifing
injury, do not 60 about the streets pro-
claiming it. and be anxious to avenge it.
Let it drop. It is wisdom to say little
about the injuries you have received.
Year: 1869

EA devotee of Bacchus thus ad-
dressed his hat which had fallen on the
pavement. "If l pick you, up. I shall
fall. and if I fall you will, not pick me up
then I leave you" aud he staggered
proudly away.
Year: 1869




Generation after generation have felt as we
feel. and their fellows were as active in life as
ours are now. They have passed away as a
vapor, while nature wore the same aspect OF
beauty as when her Creator commanded her
to be. And so likewise shall it he when we arc
gone. The heavens will be as bright over our
graves as they now are around our path; the
world will have the same funeral wind on Its
way, and the attraction for offspring that she
has now for her children. A little while and
oil this viii have happened. The throbbing
heart will be stlled, and we shall be at rest
Our prayers will be said, and the grave clods
will be thrown in, and our friends will all re-
turn, and we shall be left behind to darkness
and 20 worms. And it may be for some short
time we shall be spoken of, but the thing Of
life will creep in, and our names will soon be
forgotten. Days will continue to move on,
and laughter will be heard in thevery chamber
in which we died and the eyes will again
gIisten with joy and even our children will
cease to think of us, and viii not remember to
lisp our name
Year: 1869

It's most painful spectacle in certain
families where the mother is the drudge, to see
the daughters, elegantly dressed, reclining at
their fancy work, and their reading, beguiling
themselves Of the lapse Of hours, days and
weeks. and never dreaming Of their response
bilites; but the necessary consequence Of neg
lect Of duty, growing weary Of their useless
lives. laying hold Of every newly invented
s:imulent 10 amuse their dropping energies,
and blaming their fate when they dare not
blame their God for having placed them where
thev are. These individuals viii often tell you
with an air If affected compassion-or WHO
can believe it real that poor, dear mamma
is working herself to death. Yet no sooner DO
you propose they should assist her, than they
declare she is quite in her element in short,
that she never would be happyif she had only
half so much to do.
Year: 1869

A ballet dancer, who turned the heads ofthe
amorous gentlemen of the Russian capital last
winter, is native Of Cracow, and reputed TO
be the illigitimate daughter of Polish Count
She received presents by the score from her ad-
mirers, among whom was very wealthy no
bleman He made her acquaintance, and was
charmed with her He offered a diamond he
wore upon his finger for kiss She accepted,
and he gladly gave her the jewel, believing,
perhaps, with Ovid:


Who gains kiss and gains no more,


Deserves to lose the bliss he got before.


His suit did not prosper, however, as he bad
hoped. At the end of a month he presented
her with a second, and received a second salute,
but beyond that he did not 60.


At the end of the year he had parted with
nearly all of bis diamonds, and was as far as
ever from success. Irritated by her stubborn
ness. he sought an interview and upbraided her
for her resistance.


81 have no more diamonds to give you" he
said.


Then" she replied, "Ihave no more kisses,


"What am to do? Your heart is made Of
ice. Give me some word Of hope"


"I Icant do that, but I'll give you word OF
counsel"


"What is it p


"Never buy your first kiss Of woman. If
you do, though you were the Car himself you
would be bankrupt before you reached her
heart"
Year: 1869

Let us try to be like the sunny member Of
the family, who has the inestimable art Of
making all duty seem pleasant, all self deniaI
and exertion easy and desirable; even disap-
pointmc-t not so blank and crushing; who L.
like a bracing crisp, frosty atmosphere through
out the home, without a suspicion Of the ele-
ment that chils and pnches. You have known
people within whose influence you feel cheer
ful, amiable, hopeful, equal to anything. ! dc
not know more enviabIe gift than the energy
to sway others to good to diiIuse around u
an atmosphere Of cheerfulness, piety, truthful
ness. generosity, magnauimity. 1t is not
matter of great talent; not entirely matter
of great energy; but rather Of earnestness AID
honesty and of that quiet, constant energy
which is like soft rain gently penetrating the
soil. 1t is rather grace than gift; and we
all know where all grace is to be bad freely for
the asking
Year: 1869

QUITE q large number Of immi-
grants have arrived here the past
few days, most of them to engage
in labor about here on farms and
levees. A large number Of famir
lies from Illinois have arrived and
gone up the YazoO by boat, intend
ing to settle In that neighbOrhoOd,
sending their wagons, &C., around
by road. We hope they will meet
with q cordial welcome and every
necessary assistance extended to
them. We must let them feel we
desire them here and others will
soon follow them. This is on i'm.
pOrtant matter to our welfare.
Year: 1869

Bill Perry, one of Ames' ap-
pointecs, in Rankin county, who
had a negro wife there, ran away
the other day. lie bought q lot of
goods fropra merchant there, gave
him an order ON the President Of
the Board Of Registration for the
amount the Government owed him
for service as . Registrar, then
went to jackson, and sold his claim
to another man, and left for parts
unknown.
Year: 1869

The members Of the City Police
we observe, are being uniformed
again. The suit selected is one ex-
hibiIing good taste In the selection.
The uniforms have not all reached
here yet, but are coming on daily,
and we therefore anticipate that it
will not be great while before the
entire force will be clothed in the
uniform ordered.
Year: 1869

A popular negro preacher in
Kentucky is losing his audien ces
from the superstition which at
taches to him as an unlucky man.
Once no was blown up by the ex-
plosion of q can Of powder ;
again, his church was struck by
lightning during services; and q
few days ago the floor fell in and
killed several of the audience.
Something wrong, sure" they
say.
Year: 1869

SENsTRL GIRLS.-The Nevada Gazette
boasts of having two girls at work setting
type, who recently graduated at the high
school in that place, and although they
had never before entering the Office seen a
type case, they have set up FIVE ''sticks" of
matter the first day, an achievement that
indicates remarkable aptness, and doubt we
If any boy in the State has ever done as
we'll under like circumstances.


Many of the most ambitious and intelli-
gent girls in the older States are pushing
into spheres of employment heretofore ex-
cluslvely occup pied by the other sex and
type setting is one that is every way suited
to the physical and mental range of wo-
mans ability. Almost the sole employ
ment that our intelligent and tolerably
qualified girls who are obliged to find
means of earning their own bread, regard
as respectable, is that of teaching, and that
employment for this reason, must soon be-
come over crowded and poorly paid. We
ere glad therefore, at least two educated
girls in the State have engaged in voca-
tlon which will afford exercise for their
intelligence as well as their deft fingers, and
will place them beyond the necessity of
taking any sort Of chance that may offer of
doing some mans cooking and Washing
if he prove able to furnish the material
or what may be quite as unsatisfactory,
living useleSsly ana idly upon the money
earned by others.-roatra Costa Gazette.
Year: 1869

The following is from one of DR. Letbs-
oys Canton Lectures before the Society of
Arts, London: "The constant presence
OF common salt in the secretions, and the
necessity for it in due proportion in the
blood, Indicate the Importance of supply
in the food. We perceive this in the in
stinct of animals, and in our owo craving
for it. Animals, in fact, will travel long
distances, and brave the greatest dangers.
to obtain it. Men will barter gold for it
indeed, among the Gallas, and on the
coast of Sierra Leone, brothers will sell
their sisters, husbands their wives, and
parents their children, for salt. In the
district of Accra, on the Gold Coast of
Africa a handful of salt is the most val
liable thing upon earth after gold and will
purchase a slave or two Mungo Park
tells us that with the Mandingoes and
Bambaras the use of salt is such a luxury
that to say OF a man she favors his food
with salt is to imply that he is rich; and
children will suck piece of rock-salt as if
it were sugar.


The experiments of Boussingault have
shown tha animals depraved of salt, other
than that contained naturally in the food,
soon get heavy and dull in their tempera-
ment, and have a rough and staIing coat.
Reulln states that animals which do not
Ind salt In their food or drink, become less
prolific, and the breed rapidly diminishes
In number. This is confirmed by DR.. Lee
Saline, who says, in his prize essay on SALT
that 1t increases the fertility of the male
and the fecundity of the female, and it
doubles the power of nourishing the fetus.
During the period of sucking, also, salt
given to the mother rem lers the milk more
abundent and more nutritious. 1t like
wise accelelates growth, and gives finer
condition to the skim and the flesh of
animals fed with it is better favored and
more easily digested, than that of animals
which do not partake of it. In the ex-
perlence of the French Academicians, flesh
deprived of its saline constituents by being
washed with water, lost its nutritive power,
and animals fed on it soon die of starvation.
Even after few days, with such diet.
the instincts of the animals told them it
was worthless as food Indeed, for all pur-
poses OF nutrition, it was, as Leibig says
no better than the eating of stones, and
the utmost torments of hunger were hard
ly sufficient to induce them to continue
the diet. There was plenty of nitrogen
Gus matter in the food, but there was no
medium for its solution and absorption,
and hence it was useless"
Year: 1869

Humorous "A late number of the
Hearth and Home publishes the following
from the pen of distinguished medical
man:


An intelligent young mother inquired,
some days SINCE how she could best pre-
serve her childs linen clean and sweet
when changed frequently during the day.
directed her never to dry it by the fire,
but in the sun and open air, if the weather
permitted. You thus not only avoid sat
urating the air of your rooms with the
volatile and poisonous gases driven out of
the linen, but the suns rays have powers
of cleansing and disinfecting which artif
cal heat has not, and will purify and pre-
serve linen. She followed my directions,
but as is too often the practice, dried and
aired it in the nursery window. Her fasti-
dious husband demonstrated in vain against
this unseemly exposure. Believing that if
she saw her practice as Others saw it .he
would desist, he so directed their afternoon
walk as to bring the nursery window into
full view from central part of the town.
Stopping abruptly, he pointed to the often
ding linen tapping conspicuously in the
breeze, and asked sarcasticaly: "My
dear, what is displayed from our window
why" she proudly replied, "that is the
flag of our Unionl' Conquered by this
pungent retort, he saluted the flag with a
swing of his hat, and pressing his wife 5
arm closer within hi own, said, as they
walked homeward, "And long may it wave!'
Year: 1869

WAR AND RUMORs OF WAR."-The
developments of the last few days have not
been calculated to insure future harmony in
the ranks of the Democracy 1t is now
charged by the Irish and Northern wing
OF the party that the chivalry wing, num-
bering about one thousand voters, had
been instrumental in the slaughter of Nc
Coppin and is responsible for his defeat
Some of the representatives of the chivalry
admit the fact and claim the credit of the
achievement. On the other hand the
friends of McCoppin are exceedingly sore
and are loud and determined in their
threats TO retaliate. San Francisco Times,
September 4th.
Year: 1869

All of US have ideas more or less correct
in regard to the Law which regulates our
use Of the highway; and at any rate good
sense aud good nature are usually, very safe
guides. A few words on the subject, how
ever, may not be amiss.


1t is commonly said that every one has
right to half the road. This is practically
true, and comes about in this wise. You
and meet upon the road-our legal rights
are exactly equal, and both have right
to go our several ways without objection,
so, popularity, we say l own half and you
own half. The law steps in to facilitate
matters, and rects each to turn to his
right hand. This is true whatever the
load or the team; for if one can drive such
a team that another can pass him but with
difficulty OF at all, then their rights are no
longer equal This point becomes very
important in Winter, for it Is no joke to
turn your horse and all into the deep snow
while your sneighbor goes smoothly along
in the beaten track. No one has right
to so load his team as not to be able to give
up halt to whoever demands it,


A footman may choose the part which
pleases him, or any portion of his right
hand or left of the way, and the oeam must
yield it to him. This is clearly so in Win
ter, and no man is obliged to step into the
snow for one or two horses. This is the
law and the courts award it.


Now for the M nners of the road which
in some instances, vary from the law there
| OF


The first requirement of the road man.
ners is good nature and an accommodating
spirit. Do to others as you would have
them do to you. Always be willing to
yield more than half the space, then you
will be pretty sure to be equally well treat
ed. They who exact inches will have
inches exacted of them. If your neigh
Dor has a heavy load, consult his conven-
fences as far as possible you may some
times be loaded. 1t has become a practical
rule of courtesy to turn for heavy teams
especially in Winter and when the roads
are heavy But remember it was favor,
not your right, and you have reciprocal
duty to perform, and one which, am sorry
to observe, is not always borne in mind.


One word in relation to teams going the
same way, in which case many seem to
think there is neither law nor manners.-
When team comes up behind you, that
team has right to a reasonably space and
opportunity to pass on, in fact to half the
road for that purpose, and your obstructing
him in his lawful desire is both bad man.
ners and bad law. If your load is heavy,
do the best you can. In most cases the
very least that can be asked is that you
sh u stop. This is particularly SO in the
Winter, when it is heavy tax on team
to force it into trot in a deop snow, or
deep mud, or frozen or deep ru.s-made
necessary by your continuing to move on.
Remember the good old aphorsm, which
can be 50 opportunely applied here
wheel grease is "a great lubricator, but
good manners a vastly greater one.-Er-
ctan7e
Year: 1869

WHEN you see young lady so very del
icate that she can't make her own bed, or
put a couple of plates upon the table, aud


yet trots all over town daily. with the speed
Of race horse, to jumdle nonsense with the
Softpates and Jenkinses, just chalk it
down she's piece eof goods you can't invest
single penny or pulsation in. A girl
who hasn't the muscle to lift three feathers
and pillow-case, but can tire locomotive
and whole omnibus line out of breath, is
an institution, that, like prussic acid and
garulous old maids, is to be kept clear Of