smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

Welcome, sweet day Of restw No books to post, no orders to fill, no pro- jects to think over, no politics to dis cuss--none of the thousand wesrying. temper-trying, heart-worrying cares of the everyday world, to-day. One day of quiet and trsnquility--"emblem of eternal rest.''

 How sweetly comes the peace of the Sabbath morning, after the tolls and agitations of the week! Bslmy as odors of orient spicy groves gently as the breath of sleeping infants, or the dying winds of evening; pure as the incense that rises before the throne of God, comes the calm of the holy morn ing, "day of all the week the best" It is the day of the home--home hushed and quiet, home peaceful and full of comfort. To-day the father is at home, and the mother free from week day cares, sits beside him ;and the memo ries of Sabbaths in the by-gone time, when sly love made the day of repose day ofjoy, come back in all their ples- antness.-Father is at home, and the little ones hang at his knee, telling their joys and troubles ofthe past week, and rejoicing that for whole day he will be their company, and lavish upon them uninterrupted, his loving words and smiles.

 Aye, pure, sweet and holy is the day ofrest in the family but all is too brief, transient as the outline of the silvery vapor that floats on the summer sky for the rush and turmoil of the troub- ling world will come back tomorrow Let not that thought mar the gentle joy of this sweet day; remember, rather, there is 'home" whose peace is never interrupted, whose joy is never broken, whose repose dreads no tomorrow and that part of the privileges and hap piness of to-day is to secure place in the family whose circle is united for ever more, in our Fathers homo on high.
Year: 1868




Josh Billings replies to correspondent
in this wise:


"Benvolio: writing for you an
analysis Of the frog, must confess that
copied the whole thing vervatus ad liberia
ting, from the works of celebrated
French writer Of the 10th century.


"The frog is the first place a tadpole,
and body and tail without coming to
head"


she travels in pond holes, by the side Of
the turnpike, and is accelerated by the ac
tivity of bis tale, which wiggles with un-
common limberness and vivacity. By and
by, before long, pretty soon, in Il few days,
his tale is no more and legs begin to en-
erge from the north end Of the animal,
and from the south end, at the same time,
may be seen disposition to head out.
SIN this cautious way the frog is built,
and then for tho first time in his lsfe he
begins to git his head abuv water.
His success is now certain, and soon, in
about 5 days more, he may be seen sitting
down on himself by the side ov the pond
hole, and looking at the dinner baskets of
the children on their way to the district
school.


''As the children cum more nearer with
club or chunk Of brick in his hand to
swott him with, he rares up on his behind
legs and enters the water head first, with
out opening the door.


"Thus the frog does business for q spell
ov time, til he gifts to be q, and then
his life is more ramitied.


Frogs have 2 natures, ground and wa
ter. and is as free from sin as All oyster.


81 never knew frog to hurt any body
who paid his honest dues.


81 don't recollect now whether frog
has any before legs or not, and if he don't
it amt nybody's business but the frogs.


"Their hind legs are used for refresh
ments, but the rest of him won't pay for
eating.


"a frog is the only person who can live
in well and not git tired.


'Thc bull frog is the boss Of the puddle,
and has log to sit on, over on the other
side of the puddle, and talks to the rest of
the frogs, way down in his throat so that
you can't understand more than half what
he ses he is generally a cross amd lazy
old devil, all ever wartz.


This is all there is worth knowing about
the frog, except that they ketch flies in fly
time, and winter by freezing up solid.


p. 81 have endeavored to translate
mi author cloas, but it is tutf to render all
his beauties into our tung, without busting
the sense.
Year: 1868

TEN FoLL1Es.-To think that the more
man eats the fatter and stronger he
will become. TO believe that the more
hours children study at school the faster
they learn. To conclude that if exercise
is good for the health, the more violent
and exhausting it is the more good is done.
TO imagine that every hour taken from
sleep is an hour gained. TO act on the
presumption that tho smallest room in the
house is large enough to sleep in. TO ar
que that whatever remedy causes one to
feel Immediately better is good for the sys-
TEN, without regard to more ulterior Of
fects. To commit an act which is felt in
itself to be prejudicai, hoping that, some
how or other, it may be done in your case
with impunity. To advise another to take
remedy which you have tried yourself
without making inquiry as to whether all
the conditions are alike. To eat without
an appetite, or to continue to eat after it
has been satisfied, merely to crafty the
taste. To eat hearty supper for the
pleasure experienced during the brief time
it is passing down the throat, at the ex-
pense Of whole night of disturbed sleep,
and a weary waking in the morning.
Year: 1868

Are made strong by The use of either Of these reno
dies They will cure every case Of MARASMUS
without fail.


Thousands Of certificates have accumulated in the
hands of the proprietor but space will allow of tho
publication of but few. Those, it will be Observed
Of note and Of such standing that they must
be believed,
Year: 1868

In certain family, not long since, a
pair of twins made their.appcarancc, and
as matter of course, were shown to their
little sister of four years. Now it so hap
pened that whenever rather prolific cat
of the household had kittens, one of them,
of course the prettiest, was saved and the
rest drowned When the twins were
shown the child by their happy father.
little Mary looked at them long and ear
nestly, and at length putting her little
finger tip on the cheek of one of them,
looked up, and said with all the serious
ness possible, Papa, Think ue'U sare
this one!
Year: 1868

was the only marble building on that mag
fixed the character of the street, for now
scarcely any other material is used for the
business houses of Broadway. In 1860
the splendid retail store on the corner of
Tenth Street was built which, with the
addition now being made, will occupy
nearly the entire block, bounded by Broad
way, Tenth Street, Fourth Avenue and
Ninth Street. This is, undoubtedly, the
largest retail dry goods store in the world
and, without question, the most perfect
and systematic in its arrangements. In
fact, the one word, system, may be re-
garded as the key to this wonderful sue
cess. Everything connected with the bus
mess is subjected to the most exact system.
The business itself may be likened to a
huge machine with every cog, wheel, belt
and pulley in its place. There is little or
no freedom of action among the numerous
employees of the establishment. Every
movement is regulated as if by clock work
and whoever cannot conform at once to the
arrangement, is permitted, without any
circumlocution, to form part of some
other machine


Mr.. Stewart has nearly completed the
most costly and elegant private residence
in this country, on the corner ofFfth Av-
enue and Thirty fourth Street.-The exte-
rior being of his favorite material, white
marble, elaborately wrought. The cost of
this palace is variously estimated at from
one to two millions of dollars. 1t GER
tainly should not be considered extravagant
for man to invest the third of one years
earnings in private residence.


Mr. Stewart is public minded citizen,
and contributes literally of his immense
wealth to charitable purposes. There
have been various reports as to his prac-
tical philanthropy, in erecting cheap dwell
lings for the poor, after the manner of Mr..
Peabody's London plan.


In thus hastily reviewing the career Of
these eminent men, one point will be OBJ
servable. Their success has been the re-
suit of unremitting labor in the special di-
rections chosen, and of unbending integ-
rity and promptness in all matters of bust
ness. The leading idea upon which Mr..
Stewards fortune was founded was the
steady persistence in the zone price"
system. Whoever purchases an article at
his counter can be sure that he pays nei-
ther more nor less than does everybody
else. And, more than this, every article
sold is just what it is represented to be.
A clerk cannot commit more positive
offence than to claim for an article quail
tiles which it does not possess. He would
be as soon discharged for such an act, as
for dishonesty towards his employer.
Year: 1868

A young man who carried collecting
plate after the service in church, before
starting put his hand in his pocket, and
put as he supposed, a shilling on the
plate, and then passed it around among
the congregation, which included many
young and pretty girls. The girls, as they
looked at the plate, all seemed astonished
and amused; and the man, taking glance
at the plate found that instead of a shil-
ling, he had put conversation lozenger
ON the plate with the words, "Will you
marry me ?" in red letters, staring every
body in the face.
Year: 1868

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy
growth, for our body must be the seed Of
it; or we may liken it to torch, which
nothing but the last spark of life can light
up; or we may compare it to the trumpet
of the archangel, for it is blown over the
dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of
earth not of heaven, and can neither rouse
nor raise US.
Year: 1868

A story is told of French lady who
exclaimed, as she took glass of water
in her hand, "Oh, if it were only wicked
to drink this, how nice it would ber
That is just human nature. If children
are gratuitously told not to do thing they
are pretty likely to experience an intense
desire to do it which was unfelt before /;
and somehow we never wholly outgrow
this curious inclination.
Year: 1868

There is man in Boston SO absent
minded that, meeting his son on the street
day or two since, he extended his hand
to him and enquired, /" How do you do
when is your father coming home?'
Year: 1868

The praise of the envious is far less Gre
ditable than their censure; they praise
only that which they can surpass, but that
which surpasses them, they censure. See
to it that we discard envy.
Year: 1868

We heartily endorse the following ar
ticle from the Waupaca Criterion. Up
to the present time we have not heard
the faintest wish or suggestion from any
Of the newspapers of the 5th. District
in regard to our next Congressional nomi-
nation, yet we know that many inhuen-
tial parties in the District claim that
Sawyer has already been agreed upon
as the candidate, and that he had con-
sented to be such. Whether this be
true or not, it is time now that this mo-
mentous matter should be discussed by
the press, and something of the real
sentiments of the District made known.


We do not consider the 5th District a
doubtful one by any means, yet we are
willing and anxious to put our best and
strongest man forward for the place, to
make assurance doubly sure And can
thereb adoubtas to who that mans? We
are convinced and candid. enough to say
that it is Philetus Sawyer. The Democ-
racy of the District acknowledge that
with Sawyeras the candidate there would
not be a shadow of hope for them.


There is another important item con-
nected with this matter. IF the Repub-
licans nominate popular men as candi-
dates for County officers and Congress
through the State this fall it will add
volumes of strength to our Presidential
ticket, and if the opposite line of policy
is followed and weak men put up, we will
be as materially weakened. With strong
men or the Republican banners IN Wis
consin for Congress we have dead. sure
thing, and 10000 majority for Grant and
ColGax With unpopular candidates the
hardest kind Of work will be required to
carry the State by half that majority.


Mr. Sawyer has had four years expe-
rience in Congress, during which time he
has gained considerable influence at
Washington, and can probably accom-
plish more than any other member of
the delegation from this State. Besides
being one Of the staunchest radicals he
is one of the hardest workers in Congress
For local business, such as river and har-
Dor improvements, &C.. he is the best
man we can send there, as for the politi-
cal clap-trap that can be attended to by
others


We want a Worker there, and let 1t be
the energetic aud no let up Sawyer
Year: 1868

! An enthusiastic admirer of our State
Capital, sends US the following highly
colored picture:


Madison, located in the southern part
OF this state, is truly beautiful city. 1t
is surrounded by four silvery shining
lakes faithful mirrors of the ever varia
bic heavens. The streets are lined with
trees that in the flush prime Of summer
are garmented with lavish leafiness. In
deed it seems almost like city in for
est. The Capital is very fine building
situated in the centre of a large park,
shaded by lofty trees, and the delicious
notes of the birds are heard through the
''mazes of concerted song" Among the
most notable institutions are the Or
phans Home-a large and handsome
building-the Insane Asylum, and in
very commanding situation. the State
University. There are also many very
fine residences. The inhabitants are
very social and intelligent aud every
stranger is sure to meet with welcome
reception There seems to be a charac-
tcristic atmosphere of light and genial
tv' in the city. The State Journal pub
lished in Madison is high toned sub
stantial paper, and I can not say any
more in its prais, than to say 1t = rap
Idly increasing In circulation.


The scenery round about Madison is
sublime. On one OCCASION L took a ride
in the country with some friends. It was
a lovely morning, the sky was serene and
beautiful Not cloud was to be seen.
Never did the glorious sun shine upon
more "exuberant and vernal YER
dure," than that which adorned that
lovely morning in September After
riding a few miles we drove from the
roadside to an eminence Of ground. We
could see the city with its bright lakes
the glorious sunshine sparkling diamonds
upon their surface skirted by woodlands
and rolling lanScapes, forming III their
combination as sweeta picture.as we could
wish to see. | was entranced; labor
care and trihes all vanished while slowly
with subduiug power pure thoughts crept
into my heart and earth 5 stormy passions
for a time were forgotten,


II seemed as though Nature had she'd DER the scene


Her purest Of crystals and brightestEof green"


Another time | was gliding smoothly
over one of the lakes in light row boat
with two or three others when one OF my
companions suddenly said look at the
Heavens We turned and gazed upwards
The sky was vividly painted with gorge
Gus colors. 1t entranced our eyes and It's
loveliness stole upon our hearts with awe
and alteration. The bright scene faded,
| but it left its impression on our hearts,
never to be forgotten, of the omnipotence
aud glory of Him who governs the
world.


How marvellous the transformation Of
created things. | thought if Madison
was sublime in the Summer, it was grand
in the Winter. When the lakes were like
a transparent sheet, the smooth surface
of which the sun reflected as on polish
ed mirror; when the earth would be


ieeked with white spangles Of star like
takes, but as soon as the sun appeared
lmelted away; when everything was en-
Year: 1868

The great impeached-tried-and found
guilty president has gone and done it.
That is, he thinks he has He thinks he
has released rebels from the political dis
abilities brought upon them by their trea-
son to the government, but he has proba-
bIy fooled himself. The idea that he can
enfranchise a large class of people whom
the representatives of the people say nave
no right to exercise that privilege, Will
probably prove similar to many other
ideas originating in the same source. Al
though President johnson may hold his
Office in spite of the wishes of the people
ne Is hardly a king whatever view he
himself may take Of the matter.
Year: 1868

The Ripon Represcntatiue which
intimates that it did not get sufficient
pay to keep it in the Republican ranks
evidently placing higher estimate
on its services than its party did-has
gone over to the Democracy, and his inn
ploring utterances to his new found
friends for help are abject in the extreme
All right, Peck, when you sell ont get
the best price the market affords.
Year: 1868

The following is the material portion
Of the amnesty proclamation issued by
President johnson on the Sd inst


Now therefore be it known that I,
Andrew Johnson President of the United
States, do by virtue Of the constitution
and III the name OF the people OF the
Jn;sed States, hereby proclaim and,
declare, unconditionaly and without re-
servation. to all and every person who
directly or indirectly participated IN the
late insurrection or rebellion, except such
persons as may be under presentment or
Indictment in any court OF the United
States, having competent jurisdiction
upon a charge Of treason or other felony
a full pardon and amnesty for the offense
Of treason against the United States Or
OF aahering to their enemies during
the late civil war, with the restoration Of
alirights ofproperty except as to the slaves
and except also as to any property OF
which any person may have been legally,
Invested under the laws OF the United
States


THE IRREpREssIBLE NEGRo.-A dis
patch from New York dated July Sd
says:


Among the Tennessee delegates to the
Democratic Convention is one James q.
Williams, who is regularly accredited and
cannot be refused admittance. Never
theless, the fact that be is black as char
coal excites some doubts among the en-
thusiastic Pendleton men from the rural
districts In the West as to whether this is
or is not white mans party.
Year: 1868

II PROB E:--ManjtOwOc Co., Court
| In the matter Of the Guardianship of the Minor
Heir OF Oliver Ciasson


on reading and filing the petition of Joseph La
Count guardian of said Minor, representing among
other things thai the said ward If seized OF certain
real estate said county and that il is necessary that
the same should be sold, and praying for license to
sell the and it appearing to the court from SAID
petition that is necessary for the said minor to soil
said real estate, il is ordered and directed that the
next kin said ward and all persons interested IN
said estate. appear before me, on Monday, tho 18th
day of june 4. d. 1865, al ten o'clock A NJ at the
Probate Office in said county then and there to show
cause Tif any there bel why license should not be
granted the sale of said real estate, according to
the PRAYER of said petition.


And it is further ordered, that copy of this order
shall be published for four successive weeks prior to
said day hearing in the Maniowoc Tribune weekly
newspaper printed at Manitowoc in the said comfy.


CAT GEO. ". BARKER, County Judge.


Dated at Manitowoc,the 18th day Of june I'D. 1868
Year: 1868

Between the time Of the raw school girl
and that Of the finished young lady is
short season Of the nymph, when the phy-
steal enjoyment Of life is perhaps at its keen
est, and a girl is not afraid TO use her limbs
as nature meant her to use them. nor
ashamed to take pleasure in her youth and
strength This is the time when sharp
run down a steep hill, with the chance Of a
tumble midway, is an exercise by no means
objected to; when elamhering over gates,
stiles, and even Grabbed stone walls, Is not
refused because Of the undigni6ed display of
ankle which the adventure involves: when
eaping a ditch comes in as one Of the ordi-
nary accidents Of marsh-land walk; and
when the fun of riding is infinitely enhanch-
ed il the horse IS only half broken, or bare
backed.


The nymph, an out-ofdoor, breezy,
healthy girl, more after the pattern Of the
Greek Dread than the amazon, is found only
in The country; and for the most part only
in the remoter districts of the country. In
the town she degenerates into fastness, ae-
corliug to the law which makes evil merely
the misdirection Of force, as dirt is only
matter ia the wrong place. But among the
mountains, in The secluded midland villages,
or out IN ths thinly-populated moorland
tracts, the nymph may be found in the full
perfection Of her nature. And a very beau
tiful kind Of nature it Is; though it IS to be
feared that certain ladies Of the strieter sort
would cali her tom boy, and that those Of
still narrower way Of thought, unable to
distinguish between uneonyentionality and
vulgarity, would hold her to be decidedly
vulgar-which she is not-and would Won
der at her mother for letting her 60 on
so.


You laIl upon the nymph at all hours and
in all seasons. Indeed, she boasts that no
weather ever keeps her indoors, and prefers
a Ettle roughness of the clements to any
thing toe luscious or sentimental. A fresh
wind, sharp frost, binding fall of snow
or a pelting shower ofrain, are al high jinks
to the nymph, to whom it is rare fun to
come in like a waterdog, dripping from
every HdiI, VI sAdhtDS tAS HiiO" III +1i''-7-1N
from her hat and cloak. She prefers this
kind Of thing to the most suggestive beauty
Of the moonlight, or to the fervid heats Of
summer, and thinks long walk in the crisp
sharp frost, with the leaves cracking under
her feet, worth all the nightingales in the
wood. And yet she loves the spring and
summer TOO, for the sake of the flowers and
the birds and the beasts and the insects
they bring forth; for the nymph is almost
always a naturalist of the perceptive and
selftaught kind, and has q marvellous
faculty for finding out nests and rare habitats
and for tracking unusual trails to their hid
den homes.-Fr0m tie London Saturday
Rcue,g
Year: 1868

Men do not care for brains in excess in
women. They like a sympathetic intellect
which can follow them, and seize their
thoughts as quick as they are uttered. but
they DO not much care for any clear or spe-
cial knowledge of facts; and even the most
philosophic among them would rather be set
rightin a classicalquotatioD, an Astronomical
calculation, or the exact bearing of a polite
al question by a lovely being in tarlatine
whom he was graeiously unbending to in
struet Neither do they want anything
stroBg-minded. To most men, indeed, the
feminine strong mindedness that can discuss
immoral problems without bIushing, and
despise religious observances as useful only
to weak souls, is quality as unwomanly as
a we'll developed biceps or a huge fist would
be. 1t IS sympathy, not antagonismi 1t is
companionship, not rivalry, still less su-
pramacy, that they ike in woman; aud
some women with brains as well as learning
understand this, and keep their blue
stockings well covered by their petticoa5s


OIQeFs, enthusiasts ol lAC ltGGGVAh Va
thought and intellectual rights, show theirs
defantly, and meet with their reward. Men
shrink from them. Even clever men, able
10 meet them on their own ground, do not
feel drawn to them, while all but high-class
minds are dwaTfed and humiHated by their
learning and their moral courage. And
this is what no man likes to feel in the pres
ence of woman, and because Of her supe-
riority. But the brains most useful to wo-
man, and most beftting their work in life,
are those which show themselves in com
mon sense, in good judgment, and that kind
of patient courage which enables them to
bear small crosses and great trials alike with
dignity and good temper. Mere intellect
ual culture, however valuable it may be in
itself does not reach to the worth Of this
kind of moral power, for as the true domain
of woman is the home, and her way Of or
dering her domestic life the best Of her fac
ulties, mere intellectual culture does not
help in this. and, in fact, is often hind
rance rather than a help. Saturday re-
rielo