smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

Don't draw your corset strings quite so
tightly about your eighteen-inch waist, nj
though eighteen inches Is n monstrous
waist-it Is u greater waste to throw away
your health to secure smaller one.


Psrhsps you think tho men admire q
tiny waist that can DO clasped with two
hands. Not bit of It! Men are sensible
enough to know that God never made one
woman without lungs and heart inside her
ribs; and II the place where those organs
should bc Is reduced to quarter part tho
natural size, they are also sensible enough
to know that the lungs and heart must be
somewhere; and II they are squeezed from
their natural position the next question Is,
where are they3


1t is just like this. girls: Thousands Of
you are every day lacing up u nice little
bundle for the angel of death to take away.
1t Is your life that You are drawing the fa-
tai cords about. With your own white
hands you are straining mt the bands which
must hurry you from earth. Every time
you tighten your corset strings beyond the
drawing of free natural breath that will
expand your lungs to the utmost, you are
drawing your own life within the natural
limits. You are killing yourself to follow
q senseless fashion. You laugh at the
foolish negro women who must measure
six feet about the waist to be considered
fit for matrimony, but tell you every
black negro woman Of them Is moro scnsi-
BILE than yourself, who tighten the fatal
strings until there is nothing left Of nat
ural waist but backbone, the tip end OF
two ribs, scrap Of cuticlc, and eight
strips Of whalebonc. Just rs though God
didn't know what he was about when he
cut out the pattern for his Eve! Just rs II
you knew better than your Maker how
many inches your waist ought to measure
When you can manufacture the lungs,
heart and other organs, about which you
draw the corset string, Il will be time
enough To make whalebone basket to
hold them; but while God makes the body
do give Him chance to suit Himself as
to the size Of your waist. II Is Of little
consequence that your father or husband
has thousand dollars to pay the doctor,
every little while.


No matter IL your mother mourns over
your failing health, and anxious friends
sigh and whisper that you are falling into
a decline. No matter IL your life Is cut
short by the habit Of tight lacing. II You
can show to your fashionable friends
waist six inches smaller than the average!
Only think Of It! waist so small that Il
can bc claspcd with two hands! That Is
even better than wearing the smallest bon
net, and having four new ones year,
isn't it?-Glcason's Lierary Companion.
Year: 1869

Could wo but know
Tho land that ends our dark, uncertain travel.
Where lie those happier hills and meadows low
An, II beyond the spirits inmost cavil,
Aught Of that country could wc surely know.


Who would not got
Year: 1869

New CURRENCY All the fractional
currency now in circulation is TO D; calle
in aud new and lffsrcnf series 10 be is
sued and new and improved green.
backs are also to be issued in place of those
now IN circulation 1t is stated that the
quality of the paper is to be changed, and
the new style is now in process of man :
uiacture under government supervision.
1t is thought impossible to counterfeit the
currency that is to succeed that now in use.
New and different presses will be used in
printing, and part Of the work will be
done in some other city than Washing
ton.
Year: 1869

BUILDING-Although times are some
what dull throughout the whole country,
yet We are glad to chronicle the fact that a
large number of new buildings have been
erected this spring, in the southwest part
of the village. On the north side of the
river, the erection of new buildings has
been somewhat slack SO far, but we hear of
q few soon to be commenced.
Year: 1869




4 gentleman ordered suit of clothes
from tailor, and specially enjoined him
that they mnst be made BY the next Tues
day, and that they must be made In the
finest style, and that unless the tailor could
have them ready to certainty, beyond a
pcradventure, TO the day, that he must not
undertake them but Snip promised faith
fully that they should be finished, ad diem
Tuesday came, and DO clothes; the enraged
man few to the cabbage mans house, and
said =


What's the reason my clothes were not
ready, as you promisedi Here you have
kept me in the city at loss Of time and
business only to disappoint me; now, if We
had you IN our part Of the country, tell
you what they would can yoa, they would
say you were perfect squirt


The knight Of the goose explained that
the only competant workman he had, capa-
bic of making the suit, had wife lying at
deaths door, and be could not possibly
leave her. The outraged gentleman was
not able TO smother his disappointment, and
berated the tailor pretty soundly Tor failing
In his positive PROMISE The Dinth fraction
Of the genus homo could not stand this, and
plainly told his customer to go to the caloric
regions Of Paudemoniam.


The customer, red witt rage. rushed
across the street to a lawyer, and in an ex-
cited and hurried manner said do you
know Snipe, the tailor. across the way?"


Yes. | know him, answered Brief


well, now, want your advice said
the gentleman, Il want to know what you
would do in such case That infamous
stitch louise has not only kept me here in
the city on expense, to the great detriment
Of my business, and disappointed me in a
suit of clothes, but when | went to remon
strate with the fellow about il, what do you
SUPPOSE the impudent rascal told me? He
told me to go to hot place down below. /"
With these words the gentleman laid a ten
dollar bill on the desk, and said, Now what
would you do p


DO you mean this for retainer p asked
Brief.


Il do, was the reply


Then, said brief. quietly folding up the
ten and putting it in his pocket, ''he told
'you to go below. Wei, my opinion and ad-
vice TO you is, don't do it There is, more
over, no statute or local law that can com
pei you to specific performance 1 say
don't you do it
Year: 1869

To KEEP ICE FRoM MELTING.-How to
preserve ice for a considerable length Of
time for domestic purposes and especially
the sick room, Is told by an exchange.
Make two bags Of stout woelen fabric; the
outer bag should be made at least two inches
wider each way than the inner one. After
placing one bag inside the other. r.stuf feath-
ers between the two, and sew the bags to-
gether at the top. Put block Office into a
bag Of this description, and it viii be pre-
served for nearly week, when under e1-
posure, IL will melt In less than an hour.
Year: 1869

We were amused at hearing the story Of
an old lady whose only exclamation on hear
ing of the execution of man who had once
lived IN the neighhorhood. was, We'll. |
know'd he'd come TO the gallows at last, for
the knot Of his handkerchief was always
slipping round under his left ear. -
Year: 1869

a young lady just graduated from an
academy, remarked the other day-'I can
not deceive how the young gentlemen can
drink to such recess when they know it is 50
coDjurious to their institution.
Year: 1869

A writer in the ArgOSy, says: CDR. Nc
Nish happening TO sleep in damp sheets;
dreamed he was dragged through the stream.
Dr. Symonds witnessed in his sleep what he
thought was prolonged storm OF thunder,
which he was afterwards able to trace to the
light of candle brought suddenly into the
dark room where he had fallen asleep. He
relates that person having blister applied
to his head fancied he was scalpcd by party
of Indians. l remember, when boy, sleep
ing in a strange house, in an old fashioned
room, with an oakeH store cupboard over the
bed. | dreamed that | was being murdered,
the assassin struck me on the head, and awoke
with sense of pain in that region. Putting
my hand to my forehead, l found it sticky
with blood. felt almost too i'll to cry for
help, but at length alarmed the household,
and on procuring light it was discovered
that some fermented jam had leaked through
the bottom OF the cupboard, and had fallen
upon my head in small, sluggish stream.


"a few months ago, shortly before going to
bed, friend had been discussing with me the
peculiar instincts of animals, and particularly
their sense OF the coming on of storm. After
this he dreamed that he was Worcester short
horn, grazing on pleasant meadow on the
Hereiordshire side of the Malvern Hills. he
had number of companions-signs of a storm
appeared in the sky-a misty vapOr hung on
the weIl-doRn beacon. He remembered dis
tinctIy, although he was cow watching with
a sense of great delight, the beauty OF the
preliminary tokens of the storm. With the 9TH
er cows quietly he stroled towards the shelter
of an adjacent tree, and waited until the storm
should break. He was chewing the cud and
relishcd its herbaceous favor. He distinctly
remembered waggiDg his tail. Yet all tho
time he had fall reasoning faculties, and
lively sense of the beauties of the scenery.
Year: 1869

1t is no little tribute to the prominent wis
dom of those distinguished men who framed
the Confederate Constitution. that in that in


strument alone are to be found stern and eff


fectual remedies for the enormous vilanies
that at present crust the best government the
world ever saw from its head to its heels.-
Starting with the principles that the ultimate
power of government should be in the hands
Of virtue and intelligence, aud that the ad-
ministration of government should be at once
efficient, permanent, and honest, the trainers
of the Confederate Constitution, while taking
the old Federal Constitution as the basis of
their handiwork, inserted into that instrument
such wise and salutary provisions as offer the
only hope, in their adoption, of good govern
ment to the North. Yes ! we do not hesitate
to say that only by conforming to the main
provisions of this "rcbel" Constitution as they
call it, the Constitution of the Confederate
States, can the people of the North assure
themselves against bankruptcy, and not only
bankruptcy, but even a worse measure of dcs-
potism than they have metcd out to us. At
this day one of their greatest curses is the
unrestrainc6 exercise of that hoggish rapacty
in their public men which for so many years
was held in check by the stern front presented
in Congress by the Southern delegations
Now it runs riot theft is the order of the
day, and if anything were needed to show
what nests of pilfcrcrs their halls OF council
are, it would appear in the fact that the fac
sinriie of any loil members frank may be OBJ
tanned for three dollars. With personal honesty
at this despcablc cbb, it is not surprising that
the public men of the North are but so many
prairie wolves tugging at the carcass Of the
State, and that if in some way they arc not
flogged off Of their prey there will soon be
nothing left o. "the best Government the
world ever saw" but its whitening bones.


Some of them sec this and are casting about
for remedy, and, so far as there is remedy
for such state of things, they must find it in
the Confederate Constitution, distasteful as
that may be- That instrument was made for
an honest people and to be administered by
honest men and fthis trooly loil North wishes
to save itself from being robbed by its own
chosen representatives, it must bring them up
to the honorable mark of the fundamental law
of the Southern Coufederacy. by that law
no money could be checked out of the Treasury
save on a two thirds vote Of each house Of Con
grcss, so that when the peoples property was
taken it was taken by two-thrds of the people
themselves as represented in their legislative
halls By the Constitution Of the United
Year: 1869

There is no use in Disgusting the fact that
money is decidedly scarce among the farmers
as a general thing. For some years past
many of them have invested their surplus
earnings in Bonds and Stocks of various
kinds, and now they find themselves quite
short of ready cash with which to pay their
taxes and their debts. They do not feel like
selling their grain at present priccs-Whcat
at so and Corn at $l-aud if they did, the
millcrs have no money to pay them the cash,
and they think they may as we'll have their
grain in their barns as their note or due bill
in their pockets. Then again, hundreds of
farmers have no grain to sell. The last rye
crop was failure, and the wheat docs not
thresh near so we'll as many people thought
it would last harvest. The corn crop was
good one, but they need that to feed their
stock. Taking all these causes together,
money is as decidedly scarce amongst the
farmers just now as honesty or patriotism
amongst the thoving Radical politicians at
Washington and Harrisburg When they
como to the banks to borrow few hundred
dollars, they are told that they "havo their
hands full to accommodate their regular GUS
toners" and away they go to borrow from
some private individual, at 10, II and . per
cent. This is the case in our county, and we
suppose the same state of things exists else
where. We have heard farmers say that they
''have not been so poor as they are now, in
ten years" These are not the good times
that we were promised before the election
That's sure. If Seymour had been elected,
all the blame for this would have been put
upon his shoulders. "It's a poor rule that
won't work both WAYS"


GAHeu{o.rn Democrat
Year: 1869

LossoF CHILDREN.-Thosew who have new
er passed through this fiery furnace, which
tries the inmost heart, cannot sympathize with
bereaved parents whose hearts bleed over their
children dead. To describe the anguish
which rends their hearts as they gaze upon
the loved forms on whom their fondest hopes
and aspirations had rested so firmly, now cold
and lifeless in their coffin home, would require
a pen dipped in the very essence of the sub
limest sorrow itself None but the parents
can feel it, and none but those who have
mourned like them, can sympathize with those
who mourn the death of their childaen. The
loss no power on earth can dring back and
place them again beneath their parents loving
gaze and fond care. From earth they have
taken their final departure, never, never to
return. The little chair they occupied, the
little plate and knife and fork they used, will
be to them of service no more-but merely
lonely mementoes of their existence. The
patter OF their little feet upon the floor, and
the music of their sweet voices, will greet the
parents ear never again on earth. All will
be a recurrence of all that is dreary and dis.
NAL. But hope, pIumed by religion, points
to happy meeting in another and better
world.
Year: 1869

An Ohio editor is getting particular
about what he eats. Hear him: The wo-
man who made the butter which we bought
last week, is respectfully requested to exer-
else more judgment in proportiouing the in
gradients. The last batch had too much hair
in for butter, and not quite enough for wa


terfall There is no sense in making your
self bald headed, if butter is 30 cents pound"
Year: 1869

An Irishpau was directed by lady of
large size to secure and pay for two seats in
stage coach, as she wanted comfortable room
in riding. The fellow returned and said, "I
have paid for the two seats you told me to
but as could not get but one for The inside
of the coach, took tother for the outside"
Year: 1869

NAPoLEoN's OPINION OF HIS MoTHER.-
At St Helena, he said 'My mother had a
grand character; force and elevation of soul,
and a noble pride. She watched with a So
licitude unexampled over the first impress
sions. Unworthy sentiments withered in her
presence She instructed her children only
in what was grand and elevated Falsehood
she held in adherence, and every other trait
which indicated base tendencies. She knew
how to punish and how to reward she
watched narrowly over every thing that con-
cerned her children"
Year: 1869

The RADICALS AGAINST CHINESE IMMI-
GRATIoN.-As the Times foretold, Radical
ism is becoming to rebel against the project
to introduce Chinese labor in the South.
One agrarian Radical who runs newspaper
in this city wishes the South divided up
among Yankees and others, and announces
that the Southern people must hoe their own
cotton and raise their own cane.


The trouble is really that Chinese labor


will tend to unsettle Cuffee and SambO, who


are wanted in the South, not to hoe cotton


and sugar cane but to elect Radical candi-


dates to office. The Asiatic, less a thief.


and more industrious and reliable than the
negro, will supplant the latter. The intro
duction of 1O. 900 Cinnamon anywhere in the
South will drive out 1000 or 1000 good Rad


ical voters, who will have to immigrate to


Iowa, where Radicalism is. already sufficient
ly powerful, and where no more niggers are
wanted.


The assertion of the Radical Post that
Southern planters must learn to work with
their own hands ought to be put into the
Reconstruction or military acts of Con-
eress. To do so would be to do something
no more impudent and absurd than has been
done at every step of the passage of the
measures of reconstruction.


[Chicago Times
Year: 1869

ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING A Trade


The advice of Benjamin Franklin to give


every child trade by which he can earn a


living, if necessary. comes of an experience


older than his. In some countries this has


been the law; in others,a common custom.


St. Paul, though educated in the law at the


feet of Gamaliel. also acquired the impor-
tant oriental handicraft of tent maker, by
which he was able to earn his living while


prosecuting. his mission. 1t is a good and
wise thing to do. You may be able to leave
your children fortunes; but ''riches take to


themselves wings.r You may give them
finished educations, aud they may be gifted
with extraordinary genius; but they may be
placed in situations where no education and
no talent may be so available as some hum
BILE, honest trade, by which they can get


their living and be useful to others.
Year: 1869

One of the best mechanics in the rake


factory at Mount Holly. Vermont, is blind


man named Warren. He can adjust the
most complicated machinery, and perform
any kind Of labor required in the establish
Year: 1869

H From various sources. we have
.intimations of swindles, gobbles, jobs.
gouges. and awful appropriations. that
a,e to be got through the Legislature by
some means or other, the cost Of which
the people will have to foot. The query
occurs to us: Where is the Governor:
and what does he propose to do in the
matter: He cannot bat remember the
reputation with which be came before
the psople-how joyfully his nomination
was hailed by the people. because they
believed be was honest. and that his elec.
ton would be the beginning Of better
day for Kansas. We cannot believe thai
be will deceive the people. They loob
to him to put his foot down upon swim
dies of every shape and form that com'
up for his approval.
Year: 1869

~ How often do you hear the com.
plant from mother aud father that their
son or daughter is not we'll; that they
have no appetite: that they feel lsnguid
that their head aches: that they are grow
ing thin and feeble. and that they hav'
no life or energy left. That they are low
spirited, and perfectly incspscitsted tc
participate in any pleasures. or perform
any mental or physical duty. And tb'
question is often asked. what shall q
do for them? or. what shall I give them,
Our answer is. let them try Plantation
Bittsrs moderately three times . day. snd
our word for it they will recover.
Year: 1869

x A good deal of discussion is 60
ing on over the revelation that Gen
Banks was ordered to supersede Grant,
during the siege of Vicksburs, but cir
cumstsuces combined to render It mad
visable to do so. although the orders
were peremptory and repeated. All oI
which goes to show that God Almighty
was wiser than the politicians and the
War Department.
Year: 1869

~ From Sol. Miller's White Cloud
Chief We learn that last Tuesday was
Ground Hogs day, end in this section
we know he-the hog. of course-could
not have seen his shadow, and conse-
quently an early spring is pressgsd. The
public are greatly indebted to MIR. Miller
for his pertinacity in this mstter, as fo1
the past twelve years he has not lost sight
Of the meteorological Importance Of the
coming of the aforesaid hog.-Brosrn'
vile Adrertiser.


We have laborsd long and faithfully
to establish the great scientific truths up
on which rests the Ground Hog theory
work in which, We may say. we have
frequently teen retarded by the failure o
the Ground Hog himself to come up te
the scratch. But our lsbors have moi
been in vain. The Chief Justice of Kan
sss is firm believer in ths Ground, Hog
and converts are found throughout th'
length and breadth of the land. w,
contemplate organizing the Ground Hos
Church, and calculate that within brie
period it will knock the Soul Sleeper
endways.
Year: 1869

The fact ia, that as life become, NOR,
concentrated, and It's pursuits more
eager, short sleep and ear Y rising be-
come impossible. We take more -lee,
than our ancestors, aud we take NOR.
because we want more. Six hours
sleep will do well for a plcughman or
bricklayer, or any man who has II,
other exhaustion than that produced
by manual labor, and the sooner he
takes ii after his labor is over the bet
ter; but tor man whose labor is
mental, the stress OF whose work is
ON his brain and nervou, system, and
who is tired in the evening with day
OF mental application, neither early
to bed nor early to rise is wholesome.
lie needs letting down to the level OF
repose. The longer the interval be-
tween the active use of the brain and
his retirement To bed. the better his
chance of sleep and recruitment. 70
him an hour after midnight is proba.
bly, a. good as two hours before it,
and even then his sleep vii! not 50
completely and quickly restore him
as it will his ncighbor who is only
physically tired. He must not only 20
to bed later but lie longer His best
sleep probably lies in the early morn
ing hours when all the nervous excitc-
ment has passed away, and he i. IN
absolute rest
Year: 1869

A curious practical joke was played
in Quebec a few day ago, the victims
being an officer in the 53rd Regiment, n
city merchant, and the Chief of Police
The officer received an anonymous let
ter, purporting to have been written by
the merchant, warning him against
visiting his house during his Absence
The following day it was the mer-
chants turn to receive letter, forged,
of course, purporting to have been writ
ten and signed by the officer, acknow-
lodging the receipt of the merchants
letter, and threatening to break every
bone in his body for bis insolcnce in adj
dressing such All eplstle to him. The
third anonymous letter was written to
the Chief of Police, signed as before a
magistrate, warning lIim to look out for
certain parties SIS thcv intended to fight
duel on the plains of A braham. Early
the following morning the Chief conf
munica:ed his letter to the Judge OF
Sessions, and it was decided to put a
guard on the hill leading to the citadel,
another at the merchants door, anu the
third officer to watch the door of the
doctors residence who was requested
to be in attendance on the field. The
merchant was the first to sniff the
morning air; and as soon as he made
his appearance upon his door step, the
attentive officer stepping over his stand
told him it was all up, that his CEie:
was IN possession OF full particulars of
the intended sangunary contest, and
advised him to return to his home. This
disclosure brought the whole matter to
light, and inquiries followed which
plainly showed that it was a hoax
Montreal Herald.