smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

~"O mamma, come on" "Il
you don't hush I'll kuock you down!''
These words arrested our attention a
few days ago as we stepped from the
cars at station on the Pennsylvania
Railroad. The contrast in the voices
struck us before we lifted our eyes to
see. When we looked up there stood
before us little boy of perhaps four
summers tugging at his mother
skirts and pleading with her "to come
on with most earnest entreaty. The
hot sun blazed in his dear tender face
without pity. The curls lay on his
neck thick and strong. His forehead
was ample and white. The heat had
burnt his face into redness. The
sweat stood in transparent trembling
beads on his forehead. He carried on
his little arm a bundle too heavy fol
his years. The brave little fellow was
tired. We could see it in his weary
looking face. We could hear it in his
plant. And there he stood and plead
with the eloquence of simple childhood
with his mother to ''come on" His
tired look-the big tears that stood in
his face, his earnest appeal touched
our heart. The mother was a young
woman and handsome. She was en-
gagged in conversation with man.
There was an irritated and worried ex-
preston in her face, her manner indi-
Gated trouble. And we pitied her too,
as we stood looking in her uneasy face
and saw on her arm little babe slum-
bering quietly.


But the rude impatience, the rough
repulse she gave that worn boy filled
us with real sorrow. eff you don't
hush I'll knock you down." And
these rough words were uttered with
an unfeeling emphasis. Doubtless she
was in trouble and suffered the friction
of severe circumstances. Still she was
a mother, and that tired boy, fretted
and fevered by terrible sun, needed
smile and soft patient word. 1t was
her duty to bear her own woe, and
help her worn child to bear his too.
How unmotherly her behavior--how
brutal and cruel: "rll knock you
DOWN." The poor little fellow looked
up in his mothers face, but there was
no light of love in it, no softening pity.
And if the tired little soul cannot see
light and love and pity in mothers
face, where in all this stricken world is
he to look for them? Mothers, do not
kill your children by harsh, hard
words. Bend over them in their sor-
rows and breathe the breath of love in
their faces. Kiss the fever from their
cheeks, and drop tear into the sweat
that tired nature forces into their tenn
pies. And though your own burden
lie on your soul like mountain, still
stoop TO help your stricken child to
carry his. This is true motherhood.
God will bless you with strength to do
it. 1t will get your child's affection
twining around you and instill you in
to all power over him. And when
you grow weary and old he will be
loving and true and strong, going with
you down to the grave like an angel of
God Christian Radical.
Year: 1869

The theory that has for some time
been discussed with regard to the cav
ing in or wearing away of Niagara,
has this season found new fuel to add
to the argument in its favor. Consid-
cradle comment has been going the
rounds of the papers for few weeks
with relation to the changed appear
ance of the Falls from that of last
year. The Horse Shoe, it is stated. has
evidently given way some thirty feet
to that part of the cone where the
'green water" is seen, so that the
horse shoe appearance is metamor-
phosed to that of triangular shape.
1t is thought that about one hundred
and fifty tons of rock must have fallen
in on the Horse Shoe alone, and old
habitues are taking landmarks to no.
tice the recession that may take place
before another year. The American
Falls. also, has evidently given way at
points to considerable extent. There
is no doubt but that the Niagara is
crumbling away and-falling back, but
the present recession is probably the
greatest ever witnessed by any one
generation. The heavy ice fields which
pass over it in the spring. the strong
currents and ceaseless wear and tear
of time, the mighty laundering cata-
ract must inevitably tell upon the
rocky crest of the grand old shrine;
but, of course, It's falling away
must be so slow as not to be observa-
bic to the eye, except when, from time
to time, some of the immense powders
give way.-ROckport " ~ Journal.
Year: 1869

BY some happy fortune | was not
sea-sick. That was a thing to be
proud of. l had not always escaped
before. If there is one thing in the
world that will make man peculiarly
and insufferably self conceited, it is to
have his stomach behave itself, the first
day at sea, when nearly all his com
rades are sea sick. Soon a venerable
fossil, shawled to the chin and ban.
daged like mummy, appeared at the
door of the after deck-house, and the
next lurch of the ship shot him into my
arms. l said:


"Good morning, sir 1t is a fine
day."


He put his hand on his stomach and
said, "Oh, my!" and then staggered
away and fell over the coop of sky
light.


Presently another old gentleman
projected from the same door with
great violence. said:


"Calm yourself, sir-there is no
hurry. 1t is fine day, sir"


He also put his hand on his stomach
and said,


"Oh, myP' and reeled away.


In little while another veteran was
discharged abruptly from the same
door, clawing at the air for saving
support. said:


"Good morning, sir. 1t is fine day
for pleasuring. You were about to
say


"Oh, myr'


1 thought so. l anticipated him,
anyhow. l staid there and was bonn
barded with old gentlemen for an hour,
perhaps, and all got out of them was
"Oh, my!''


1 went away then in thoughtful
mood. 1 said, this is a good pleasure
excursion. l like it. The passengers
arc not garrulous, but still they are So
ciable l like these old people, but
somehow they all seem to have the
"Oh, my" rather bad.


l knew what was the matter with
them. They were sea-sick. And l
was glad of it. We all like to see peo-
pie sea-sick when we are not ourselves.
Playing whist by the cabin lamps when
it is storming outside is pleasant; walk
ing the quarter deck in moonlight is
pleasant; smoking in the breezy foretop
is pleasant, when one is not afraid to
60 up there; but these are all feeble
and commonplace compared with the
joy of seeing people suffering with the
miseries of sea-sickness.


And for moralizing, who will not be
touched by this monody at the tomb of
Adam: a 1"i


The tomb of Adam! How touching
it was, here in land of strangers, far
away from home and friends and all
who cared for me, thus to discover the
grave of blood relation. The uner-
ring instinct of nature thrilled its re-
cognition. The fountain of my fillial
affection was stirred to its profoundest
depths, and gave way to tumultuous
emotion. l leaned upon pillar and
burst into tears. l deemed it no shame
to have wept over the grave of any
poor dead relative. Let him who
would sneer at my emotion close this
volume here, for he will find little to
his taste in my journeyings through the
Holy Land. Noble old mamie did
not live to see me he did not live to
see his child. And IL, alas, I did
not live to see him. Weighed down by
sorrow and disappointment, he died
before 1 was born. But let US try to
hear it with fortitude. Let us trust
that he is better off where he is.
Year: 1869

kissed Aer;-the soul of my sensitive aame,
Whom Virtue and Beauty have reyelled 10 claim,
And the hope which my heart had impatiently


nuRed
Was filed-and that heart knew delight for the


first:
There are feelings to speak but no language to


tell
The glorious thrill Of that magical spell,
For lost did seem in mad loves mad abyss,
As Isipped the rich sweet of that lingering kiss.
kissed her;-what greater delight could seek
Than communion so near to that eloquent cheek
Where the red tint of youth beckons love with


its nush.
As the rose charms the eye with its beautiful


blush;
While a lustre as bright as e'er beamed from on


high.
Stole roauishly forth from soul stirring eye,
And while every joy that day could embrace,
Seemed to center and bless in that quickening


space.
Year: 1869

SENATOR EDMUNDs and his associates ON
the committee to investigate the affairs OF the
Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department.
after eighteen months hard labor and envesti-
eating the history of every dollar in the De
partment since the war, have been able to find
no other evidence OF fraud than gross careless
ness in keeping the books and records Of the
different bureaus This is not half so bad as
many people were prepared to learn.
Year: 1869

REMARKABLE ACCIDENT AT THE PORTLAND
CoMPANY's Works. George Dean and Thorn
as Rowan, engaged in repairing one of the
chimneys at the Portland Company's Works,
between four and five o'clock yesterday after
noon, fell to the bottom of the chimney on the
inside, distance Of seventy feet, in conse-
quence of the breaking of rope. Rowan had
several ribs broken, and Dean was severely
bruised. The escape of the two men from in
slant death was very remarkable. but we un-
derstand that neither of them was seriously
injured. The remarkable character of the ac-
cident may be appreciated when it is stated
that they both fell upon pile of bricks at the
bottom of the chimney.
Year: 1869

THE tenure-of-office quarrel is now finally
settled, as will be seen by our dispatches. The
President after mature consideration, has
signed the modified bill, and it is now law
He will probably have no occasion to regret
this course, though the law is lett in such shape
that it can be used with good effect against a
bad President, if we should ever have another
Year: 1869

The Toronto Globe is putting itself to a
great deal of trouble to prove that the Cana
dians do not want annexation. 1t is SO very
sensitive and nervous on this question that it
compels us to believe that there is a good de-
gree of truth in statement made to us last
summer by one of the largest and wealthiest
merchants of Montreal to the effect that
three quarters of the business men of that
city were at heart annexationists.
Year: 1869

GEN. BUrLER's proposition to amend the
criminal laws of the United States so as to
permit persons accused of crime to testify and
also to permit husbands and wives to be wit
nesses for or against each other is movement
In advance. If it is successful, the general
government will not, however, be in advance
OF Maine, where such testimony has been ad-
mitted for several years
Year: 1869

JOHNSON said in his Knoxville speech, i'm
piously addressing himself to the Almighty,
that he wished the government had not sufi-
cient credit to raise dollar. The ex-Presi-
dent can have the delicious satisfaction of
knowing that nothing was omitted by his ad-
ministration which had direct tendency to
bring about exactly that result
Year: 1869

"THE GREAT AMERICAN CONDENSER. The
New York correspondent of the New Haven
Palladium gives an account of one of the edi-
tors of the Sun who is known among the
brethren of the craft as the Great American
Condenser. He began life as compositor in
this State and afterwards edited weekly pa
per here, where his remarkable powers of "boil-
ing down. were first developed Afterwards
he removed to New York where he was first
a compositor, then proof reader and assistant
local In the latter position his genius for
condensation had fair scope to exhibit ITSELF
He adopted the words 'sBoil Down as his
motto and enforced its observance upon all his
subordinates The following is one of several
amusing instances in which he clipped the
wings of his reporters. One of them was sent
out to report atfre and returned with this:


Fire I'm Greenwich Street.


GREAT EXCITEMENT AMONG THE RESIDENTS.


The denizens of Greenwich street were start
ed at an early heur this morning by the cry of
fire caused by No. 81 being discovered IN
flames. The engines soon appeared at the
scene of conf1agration and succeeded in subdu-
ing the ravages of the devouring element
The greatest CONSERVATION prevailed, but when
it was learned that the ferocious flames had
been extinguished the neighborhood resumed
its wonted quiet and all returned to their beds
from which they had been so suddenly called.
The damage done was estimated at $3.50.
We will publish the full list of the insurances
on the building tomorrow


The city editor took this report and after
reading it carefully and making note or two,
threw it into the waste basket. The next
morning the following line appeared in the
local column:


Fire this morning at 81 Greenwich street
Damage trifing.


The Palladium does not mention the name
of this genius, bnt some of our veteran editors
of Maine may remember the Great American
Condansar
Year: 1869

IT is estimated that seven-tenths of all adult
ailments proceed from diseased and torpid
liver The hillary secretions of the liver over
flowing into the stomach, poison the entire
system, and exhibit the above symptoms Af-
ter long research, we are able to present the
most remarkable cure for these horrid night
mare OF diseases the world has ever produced.
Within one year over six hundred and forty
thousand persons have taken Plantation Bit
ters, and not an instance of complaint has
come to our knowledge. 1t is the most effec-
tual tonic and agreeable stimulant, suited to
all conditions of life. Inquire of your Drug
gist in regard to it.


MAGNOLIA WATER.-Superior to the best
imported German Cologne, and sold at half
the price. apr3eod1 w6w
Year: 1869

While nearly every department OF business ia more
or less aected by the changes incident 10 the birth
of new administration, and values on the Stock
Exchange are subjected to almost wild fluctuations,
there appears to be not the slightest disturbance In
the current OF real estate speculation growing out OF
these new governmental developments. The activity
heretofore noticed in the market has continued to be


s distinguishing feature during the past week, and
is It's promised characteristic for many weeks yet
to come. The extent Of this activity and OF the
transactions for the period mentioned as well a. for
the expired portion Of the year. is shown in the fol-
lowing table OF the gross receipts Of auction sales OF
various descriptions OF property continued from pre-
Year: 1869

BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcT-We take the
following gbcautifule extract from the speech
of ex Governor y. s Brown of Tenn
essee, on the commemorate day:


81 believe in the capacity of the people
for self government. Constitutional gov
ernment is not dead Like Lazarus, il
has only slumbered. 1t will rise again in
all its fullness and all its glory. In the
language of another, Like the last tower
of ruined palace. it still holds It's head
to heaven, while the walls of its splendor
and the bowers of its delight lie in desc.
lation, around'- Its germ is still alive
and vigorous, and will reproduce the
the same venerable tree of liberty beneath
the broad green shadows Of which all these
weary millions, North and South, will
nestle and find protec ion and reposc. To
accomplish all this requires time and pa
tiencc, ami endurance, and charity, aud
justice. There never was a civil war yet
that was not followed by evils and disor-
ders Of greater or less magnitude. Like
the ocean when lashcd by tempest, the
sturdiest art and experience are imp0.
tent to resist, and when the storm is over
the wages still roll and break upon the
beach, but with less and less volume, un-
til at last the humblest bark can ride with
safety and security. This national ocean
of ours has been disturbed by tempest
such as We never before encountered,
brought on by fate, or folly, or crime, OF
passion, or by whatever other cause. And
though Its thunders have ceased to roar,
its elements are still in commotion, but
gradually yielding 70 the mysterious laws
which govern human society-laws Of
interest, of justice and patriotism, and
quite as potent as those which govern ma
ture in her wide domain"
Year: 1869

A company of gentleman in Reno, were
not long since Willing an evening away
by singing songs and relating anecdotes,
when one asked for the song of g Would
were a boy again )" at which "Old Pi-
Ute" John x. Loyejoy) who was pres
ent, broke out as follows 4 boy again!
Who would be boy again if he could?
to have the measles. mumps and itch, to
get licked by bigger boys and scolded by
older brothers, to stub your toes, TO have
the belly ache from swallowing cherry
stones, to have chapped hands and frozen
toes, to slip up on the ice, to do chores,
to get your ears boxed, to get spanked
with slipper, to get whaled by thick
headed school-master, to be made stand
up as Ounce for the amusement Of
the school, to have visitors come to school
aud tell you how miserably weak and
stupid you were when you were born, and
to ask you what would have become of
you at that interesting time in your life
if your parents had not been SO patient
with and kind to you (of course it was all
ones |. .ult that he was born and his pa
rents were in no way concerned or inter-
ested in the matter,) to eat at the second
table when company comes, to set ost
cabbage plants because you are little, and
consequently it won't make your back
ache much, to be made go to school when
you don't want to, to get spelled down in
school. to loose your marbles, to have
yonr sled broken, to get hit in the eye
with frozen apples aud soggy snow balls,
to cut your fuger, to lose your knife. to
have hole in the rear of your only pair
of pants when your pretty cousin from
the city comes to see you, to be called
coward if you won't fight at school, to be
whaled at home if you fight at school, to
be stuck after a little girl and dare not
tell her, to have boz too big for you to
lick tell you your sweetheart squinls, to
have your sweetheart cut you dead and
affiliate with that boy John Smith, whom
you hate particularly because he set your
nose up the week before, to be made to go
bed when you know you amt a bit sleepy,
to have no fre.crackers on the Fourth of
July, no skates on Christmas, to want q
piece of bread and butter with honey,
aud get your ears pulled, to keep from
the circus when it comes to town and


when all the other boys go. to get pounded


for stealing roasting ears, to get run BY


bull dogs for trying TO nip water-melons,
! to have the eanker rash. catechlsm and
stone bruises, to be called up to kiss all


the old women that visit your mother, to


be scolded because you like Maggie Love


better than your own dear sister, to be


told of what scorching time little boys will


have who tell lies and arc not like George


Washington, to catch your big brother


kissing the pretty school ma am on the
|sly and Wish you was big so you could


kiss her too, and-and-why, d-n being
a boy again. - Crescent
Year: 1869

THE following remarkable accident oc-
Cured at Buenos Ayres on the Oath of
May, at the fete given in commcmoration
u rne anniversary Of the Declaration of
Freedom. An aeronaut named Mons.
Baraile made an ascent in balloon from
the center of the Piazza. It remained
stationary over the city for some time,
there. being no wind, and on descending
fell into the harbor. A number of boats
put off to the rescue of the unfortunate
aeronaut, who was drowned in his car.
By some misfortune the balloon, in roll
ing about, came in contact with the fun
mel of small river steamer, and the gas
getting ignited. exploded with terrible
force, blowing the crew overheard, and also
those in the boats. The steamer was set
on fire, and sustained much damage. The
Buenos Ayres papers stated that eight
persons were fatally injured and twenty
FIVE very much burnt and injured.
Year: 1869

Dny-Dawn
Between the dawning and the day,


Before the rising OF the lark,
The Maysbloom glistened in the dark;
And all the land in shadow lay


Between the dawning and the day
Between the dawning and the day,
The wet wild>fowers in thine hair
Shed soft rain Of honey there;
1 stopped to kiss the drops away


Between the da wning and the day.
Between the dawning and the day


The wind fell, and the thunder ceased
The red light came up from the east,
Az my dear love a-dying lay


Between the dawning and the day
Between the dawning aud the day


knew the silence was not sleep,
But death-and yet could not weep
could not even kneel and pray


Between the dawning and the day
But when the bloom is on the Nav,
And scent from wet wild-howers rare
Comes floating on the twilight air,
All sweetest face and fragrant hair!
My bitter tears dry not away,


Between the dawning and the day


Peoples Magazine
Year: 1869

How TO GET 4 TREE Cur DowN IN
FRANcE.-The story is told by 6
French journal that in provincial
town gentleman's house was render
ed dark and damp by tree which
stood too near his windows He could
not cut it down because it belonged
TO the commune, and he knew an ap
phcation to the authorities would bc
unavailing. Accordingly he sent for
insertion i'll one of the Paris papers
the following paragraph: There is
still IN existence one OF the trees otliber-
ty ct the date of 1893. 1t may be seen
at n, close to the house of NJ. A. B.,
and the passers by reverently uncover
their heads to this venerable witness
Of our grandest struggles and our most
illustrlons victory Three days after
wards an order came from the project
ure IN Paris tor the Mayor of n. to
cause the tree to be cut down-which
was accordingly done forthwith.
Year: 1869

A Dentist in Vienna having deliver
ed artificial teeth to lady of rank
there, who declined to pay Tor them
advertised them to be sold again, and
to be seen in the mouth Of this lady,
naming her. lie got his money by
that means.
Year: 1869

Henry Ward Beecher baptized a
large number of candidates tor mem
bership into his church lately, but he
made the ladies' remove their false
curls AMI cl.ignons before they went
down into the water.
Year: 1869

The person who has never had the
care nor felt the love Of children, who
has not been taught seit-denial by a
sincere desire for their good is far too
imperfect a creature to make a success.
tul teacher or true parent
Year: 1869

great dalles were posting him IA
poltroon; and even venerable arch


bishop had the bad taste to publicly
brand him as morally and physically a
coward,


Whatever may be the facts touch
ing Mr. Greeleys moral or physical
courage, he showed upon this occasion
an intellectual courage that stood him
in good stead, and constituted him in
very deed hero.


There is every evidence that Mr.


Greeley fully realized his danger: that


ne felt that the tral day OF his tic had


come; but no one who saw him during
| those lour dreadful days could doubt


he had calmly and deliberately made
| up his mind to meet the crisis like a


man and a christian If the last had


come to the last, he would have gone


to the lamp-post with as quick a step


and as firm a tread as Latimcr Went


to the stake or John Brown 10 the gal
| lows.


!
Horace Greeley is not perfec,


character. We do not admire HIN


enough to give his name to our mex


born, should it be girl; but we con


fess to sufficient tenderness for him
as well as regard for the truth of his
tory, to add our testimony to Mr.
Parton's faithful recital of the event,
which, more than any others Of his life
prove HIM to be equal to any emer
eency which shall require the exercise
of manly virtues, or an unselfsh devo
ton to the good Of mankind.