smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

There are higher things to gain in this
world than wealth that perishes. Riches Of
princcly value ever reward the true merchant,
who trades for wisdom buying it with the
silver Of truth aud the gold Of love. lie dies
rich who can take his treasure with him to
the new land where he is to abide forever,
and he who has to leave all behind on which
he has placed affection dies poor, indeed
Our friend Edmonson died richer than a Gi.
rard or an Astor his monument is built of
good deeds and noble examples 1t will
abide forever"
Year: 1869




This infamous crime of drunkenness Ia
not solitary in its character; it REQUIRES
two men to commit it. The law has
been furnishing one party who perpe-
trates this crime under temptations the
like of which no other man Is subject to.
for he will sacrifice health, reputation
wife, children, and life itself, to commit
it. There is another party to this crime.
and his temptation is to make three
cents out of it. It is possible for every
man to reform, but know that men
won't reform, and therefore, for the pur-
pose of this argument. say that ali the
world knows it ia impossible, idle and
cruel to punish men in that way. when
it has no effect for good. The ether
party to the crime is more guilty, for he
perpetrates it under the influence of a
temptation so pitiful that pickpocket
would be ashamed of it. Put the pen-
atty upon him, and see how it will
work. If this law were put in operation.
you would witness different spectacle
In the police court from the one already
described. The drunkard would be
brought up, and the judge would saw to
him, Tom, where did YOU get your
liquor" "At the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
your HONOR Policeman, 20 for Mr..
Fifth Avenue.n He comes down with
his ruf1es, his jewels, and his gold
chain, and he is brought face to face
with Tom, who swears that he got the
liquor at mis- place. Fifth Avenue is
very sorry, but the judge tells the clerk
to MT him out for sixty days to Black
weifs Island. How many drunkards do
you think would come from the Fifth
Avenue on the next Monday morning,
or from the Astor, METROPOLITAN, or 81
Nicholas? Sixty days jaiI would cure
the whole concern. And we are going
to do it. There was a little touch Of
Maine law before it was thought Of A
frlgate sailed from Boston at the time
when liquor rations were given to the
sailors. 1t was arranged In such q way
that sailors could exchange LIQUOR
rations among each other. Some did
not care much about liquor, and others
cared great deal for it, so that some of
the sailors would get drunk and were
punished by fogging, which has since
been abolished. The instrument used
was whip with short handle having
ten or twelve strands of small cord,
which made the blood and skin fiy. The
whole crew mustered, as at Ioll-call, to
witness the punishment, and when all
was ready, the offender was stripped
down to the waist and his arms tied ND
~ 'no gang "oyi anu tuo captain, In UNI
form, come out to see how it was done.
One day Tom was brought up to be pun
ished and the captain, seeing that his
back was bloody from a preceding fog
ging, could not fog him at that time,
and asked him where he got his LIQUOR.
He said he got it from Jack. BY the
captains order Jack was brought and
tied up. He was one of the best seilors
on board ship, and did not care much
for liquor. They gave Jack a dozen
blows, and all the sailors stared in
amazement, for ne was never drunk;
but the captain said: ''Men, I will not
have drunkenness, and every case Of the
kind that have will fog the man
that lets the other have the liquor.n
There never was q case of drunkenness
on board that ship afterward.-INeal
Dow. -. q; go ~ So
Year: 1869

Young folks should be mannerly.-
How to be is the question. Many q
good boy and girl feel that they can not
behave to suit themselves in the pres
ence of company. They feel timid,
bashful, and self-distrustful the moment
they are addressed by stranger, or ap-
pear in company. There Is but one way
to get over this feeling and acquire
graceful and easy manners, that is to do
the best they can all the time at home,
as well as abroad. Good manners are
not learned from arbitrary teachings so
much as acquired from habit. They
grow upon US by use. We must be
courteous, agreeable, civil, kind, gentle
manly aud womanly at home, and then


it will soon become kind of second ma
ture to be so everywhere. A coarse,
rough manner at home begets habit of
roughness, which we can not lay Off if
we try, when we go among strangers
The most agreeable people we have ever
known in company, are those that are
perfectly agreeable at home. Home is
the school for all the best things, espe-
cially for good manners.-Commoner.
Year: 1869

feIf you wish to succeed in life, if you wish
to find friends, if you wish your relatives
or associates to enjoy your company,
wear cheerful face; everybody dislikes
and shuns sad one, if it is habitually
sad. Everybody but God grows weary
of being reminded of sorrow, and the
heart that is always full of bitter waters
will be left alone. Pretend to be happy
if You can do no more. Coax sunbeains
to your eyes, smiles to your lips. Speak
hopeful, yea merry words as often as
you can make fun, if you never feel it.
get the name of being cheerful, and it
will be as incense to you. Wherever the
glad face goes it is welcome; whatever
the laughing lips ask it is apt to be
granted. If you are starving for want
of either food for body or spirit, it is bet
ter to laugh than to cry as you tell the
tale.


There was one once who, with face
like a tombstone, told and told her
want, and met with repulse from those
whose faces fell at sight of her; but at
last, laughing in strange mirth at her
own misery, she told it once again.
Tears started into the eyes of her hear
ers, and instant relief was gwen. Men
are impatient of tears, and women
weary of them. Don't give way to them,
no matter what the case may be; get
back the smiles as quickly as you can.
Let them be but "hollow smiles" If
that's the best you can do. Keep at
that. By and by you will do better.
Laugh to keep from crying. Never give
up to gloom; it il wreng to those about
you. Sad faces add to the weight of
trouble that life 'ays upon every heart.
WU 10 lis if we cannot look about US and
see brave cheerful faces to encourage our
hearts! Let us be careful that each one
of US has one Of these faces


A man who carries glad face does an
amount Of good in the world impossible
10 compute, even if he be too poor to
give one cent in charity; and man
whose face is generally sad does, every
day of his life, more harm than can be
reckoned. This ia a hard world, full of
all manner of troubles; but every one of
them can, for much of the time, be
wrestled out of sight, and every living
man and woman, rs soon as the first dis
tress is a little past, can, at the very least,
assume cheerfulness. This is decent,
More than this, tits piety, tits duty. No
body has any right to go about, per-
petual dampener of enjoyment. And 10
one has just reason for habitual sadness
until he has lost his soul.
Year: 1869

(; THE Internal Revenue and Custom
receipts for the month, continue to come
in heavily, and the prospect is SO favor
able that the Treasury Department ex-
poets to SLOW q reduction at the end OF
the month in the public debt of ut least
seven or eight millions Of dollars and
Year: 1869

STROKE the back of cat with one
hand, and at the same time touch the top
Of your head with the forefinger of the
other hand, and you will receive an
electric shock equal to that from the
batteries of telegraph ONCE. The ex-
pertinent IL worth trying.
Year: 1869

SPRINGFIELD, August 18.-The
wet weather Of spring and early sum
fher was very hard on the corn, but
for nearly a month we have had al
ternate light showers and hot sun
shine, which is most favorable for
corn. The corn is now growing tall
and strong, and at rapid rate. The
ears are filling out very heavy. In
the absence of the early frost the crop
will be one of the largest ever har-
vested In Central Illinois,
Year: 1869

CLEVELAND, August IS. - The
weather for the past week has been
dry. with the exception Of Monday
night. when considerable rain fell.
The editor Of the Ohio Farmer says
the corn in the Northern part of the
State is very poor, and in many sec
tions will be abandoned.
Year: 1869

Ladies or gentlemen in want of very stylish boot
or shoe, gentlemen in search of prime hat, goods
which combine elegance with durability, would do we'll
to examine the stock of J. B. Lewis No Texas street.
of our CITY,
Year: 1869

Secretary of the Interior toToeuse to be sold such proportion of the bonds held by him in trust for said Indians as may be necessary to comply with said provisions,

 POTTAwAToMIES OF HURON For permanent annuity in money or otherwise, per second article treaty of seventeenth No- vember, eighteen hundred and seven, four hum dred dollars
Year: 1869

The bulletin Of ofjcial appointments may
be expected soon to display the name Of A.
Corbin. He has recently become the broth
erin.law Of the President, not IN time how
ever for a first class appointment
Year: 1869

From the London (CdTlGd0) Prototype.


The eagerness with which ceItais class OF people
seek after anything in any way pertaining TO any
celebrated individual has been especially noticeable
throughout the whole tour of the prince. Where he
has stopped to dine, the remnants OF wine and
water have been eagerly drank up and in cases
the glasses themselves have even been taken away.
One servant gave satisfaction TO much larger num-
ber than could otherwise have had IA sip, at one
railway eating saloon, 10y changing the glass and
then re6lling it as often as the credulous maidens
drained it. When the prince had turned the sod of
the new railway all the ladies in the vicinity of the
new earth rushed for 1t and triumphantly exhibited
small bits Of the same wrapped In handkerchefs.


Colonel ElphinstOne very considerably wears nice
new gloves when he travels aud the prince usually
wears a pair Of soiled lavenders The three gentle
men also wear hats exactly alike on all occasions.
When they take of their hats and leave their gloves,
every one thinks that the best gloves must belong to
the prince, and the consequence is that Colonel
ElphinstoHe has lost seven right hand gloves The
princes pocket handkerchief snatched from his
hand at London and every effort recover it proved
inetlectual, but about week afterward 1t seat
TO him through some unknown source. Tue
Governor General too, is sufferer at the hands OF
the relic plunderers. He is accustomed TO wear
white KeTsey hat and during his trip through Ona o
he las lost no less than SIN
Year: 1869

To prove the correctness of the claim of the Pre-
sdents friendship for Dent, the following is given
to the public 1t was written by the President at the
time when the conservatives of Mississippi asked
Judge Dent to become their candidate for the Gov
ernOrship:-


''LoNG BRANCH, Aug. /, 1869 Dear Judge:- am
so thoroughly satisfied in my own mind that the
success OF the so-called conservative Republican
party in Mississippi would result in the defeat Of
what believe to be for the best interest of the State
and country that have determined to say so to you
in writing. OF course, know or believe that your
intentions are good in accepting the nomination
from the conservative party. l would regret to
you run for an Office, and be de-
feated by my act, but as matters now
look, / must throw the weight of my
influence in favor of the party opposed to you. 1
earnestly hope that before the election there will be
such concessions on either side in Mississippi to
unite all true supporters OF reconstruction and OF the
administration together in support of ticket
(IIere follows paragraph OF private nature, and
the letter then concludes as follows II write this
to you solely that you may not be under any wrong
impression Us to what | regard, or may hereafter
regard, as public duty Personally, wish you well,
and would do all in my power proper TO be done to
secure your success but in public matters, personal
Feelings will not influence me- With kindest regards,
yours truly, L. S. GRANT"
Year: 1869

Colonel Edward Monteo, who fell at Las Tunas in
the thirtieh year of his age, was graduate Of Anne
rican and European colleges, and in early manhood
distinguished himself by the advocacy OF gradual
emancipation in Cuba. His views of political and
social economy, which awakened SO much attention
OF labor and wages adopted by him on his fathers
estate which system in the face of difficulties
success. MOntejo was one OF the earliest insurgents
and when Quesada was made Generalissimo became
at once his adjutant. lie was the only brother of
Sonora Mercedes de Sherman, the accomplished
Secretary of the Junta Patriotica in New York
Early in the month Of August last, the Spauiards at
Las Tunas, under Benegasi held the women and
were reported dying daily for want OF food Fired
with indignation, Colonel MontejO begged to be
the relief Of his suffering countrywomen and with
his accustomed bravery he headed the attack which
by a bullet
Year: 1869

The London Examiner, in the course of an article
on Cuba, say or the American Minister in Madrid
''IIe is man schooled by sorrow as few men have
been, ana whose early ambition has been sated with
distinction won in his own country by conspicuous
gallantry and skill in the field. II ever man eX-
plated the commission of one rash act, foreign to
every other of his life, and provoked by the most
eXtenuating of human wrongs, 1t Is he Rho now
AGED before his time, and bearing about him the So
bering though honorable marks OF suffering is the
Envoy of America in Spain. 1t were enough, per-
haps to say that such man could have no motive
for playing the braggaIt and the fOol.n
Year: 1869

Sale q WUOI-bU5tUII
DESPATCH to The E0ening Telegraph


BosToN Oct. 29.--Nearly two million pounds
of wool have been sold in the Boston market
this week.


The Common Council last night recommended
the purchase of sixty-one acres of land in the
Eighteenth ward for site for a new lunatic
hospital
Year: 1869

aging thus far registry law to protect the purity
OF the ballot is recommended. Curiously enough ali
criminals Of the Territory are now transported to
Detroit, Mich, for Imprisonment under contract.
I he Governor advises that penitentlary be built
IN entire code OF laws is to be adopted by this
Year: 1869

A WORD TO YOUNG MEN Wishing and
signing, imagining, and dreaming of greatness,
aid William Writ, will not make you great
But cannot young nan command his ener-
gies? Read Foster on decision Of character. =


Fhis book will tell you what is in your power to
accomplish You must grd up your oins and
go to work with all the indomiable energy Of
Napoleon scaling the Alps Ii is your duty 10
make the most of time, talents and opportuni


ty. Alfred, King of England, though he per


formed more business than any of his subjects,
found time to study Franklin, in the midst of
his labors, had time TO dive into the depths Of
philosophy aud explore an untrodden path Of
science. Frederick the Great, with an empire
at his direction, in the midst of war, and on
the eve of battle found time to revel in the
charms Of philosophy, and feast on the luxury
of science Napoleon, with Europe at his dis
poSal, with kings IN his ante chamber, at the
head of thousands OF men. whose AestlrieS
were suspended on arbitrary pleasure, found
time to converse with books. Aud young men,
who are Confined to labor or business even
twelve hours day, may take an hour aud a
half Of what is left for study, and this will
amount to two months ia the course Of the
year.
Year: 1869

To prevent smut in grain, a correspondent of
the Prairie Farmer directs to spread the grain
thinly ON floor sprinkled with brine strong
enough to bear up apegg. Then add two quarts
Of SACKED lime, and shovel over until tie kernels
are, uniformly coated. THIS should be done the
day before it is sown. 1t viii kill the spores of
smut and quicken the growth OF the seed.
Year: 1869

Oar League have given the foregoing their
attentive consideration, and have appointed
us committee to repudiate the assertion
reiterated in the Dr.'s letter. Il is by this
time clearly understood,or ought to be, that
we war upon both parties alike; but 10 this
instance the gauntlet was first flung at US
by the Democratic party, and we would be
the veriest moral towards indeed, if We
shrunk from the contest, no matter from
whom the missive came.


The Dr., however, declines from amany
motives" We respect bis feelings, and the
course ne has taken, for We presume be has
Year: 1869

STEAM CYLINDERs.-Cylinders are made
Of the toughest cast iron that can be OBJ
tanned. The thickness required for mere
tenacitv, to resist the internal pressure,
might be calculated according to the princi-
pies used for determining the proper thick
ness OF cylindrical boiler, but in order
that the cylinder may possess that stiffness
which is nscessary to enable it to preserve
its figure with great accuracy, it must be
made many times thicker than is necessary
Tor mere strength. The actual factors Of
safety OF the cylinders Of steam Engines, as
they occur in practice, range from so to 40.
The bottom of cylinder is sometimes cast
10 one piece with it, sometimes boIted on
The cylinder cover is bOlted on. Care must
be taken that the bolts have Sufficient
strength to withstand the pressure.
IL Is said that there Is power enough la
the rise and fall Of the tides to drive ali the
machinery that man would ever have Ocea-
sion to use,
Year: 1869

Albert G. Drecker is the bridge tender
at the Passaic river drawbridge, on the
Newark d New York Railroad. On Fri
day afternoon, just previous To the time
for passenger train to reach the bridge,
the draw was open Mr. Drecker knew
that the train was coming. He began to
turn the bridge, so as TO close the draw
before its arrival.


At this moment he saw his little son.
who was only ten years old, and who was
not far from him, fall from the bridge into
the river below. He saw the train coming
swiftly toward the bridge, and knew that
To do his utmost there was barely time to
close the draw. In the water below him
his boy was struggling for life. 4 leap
into the stream at this moment, and he
could save his child. But the train came
laundering down, and he knew if he left
his post for even a single instant, a hun
dred lives might be sacrificed. He staid.
Slowly the bridge was swung into posi-
ton, and the train passed safely over; and
none of the passengers knew what their
safety had cost the poor workman who
sprang into the river only To take from
thence the lifeless body of his bov.


Is there any story of herolsm to surpass
this? Think, if you can, of the terrible
alternatives of duty that were presented
to this man There was no time to delib-
crate. His son was dying He could easi-
ly rescue him by leaping into the river be.
meath. But that leap must have cost many
other precious lives-perhaps hundreds
and had he a right to itnperil theseg The
agony of lifetime of suffering must have
been compressed into that moment OF
doubt. With sublime and heroic fortitude
this noble father resolved to do his highest
duty; and to that duty his son was sacri'
feed. How many of us would have done
the same ?-Neao York Sun.
Year: 1869

ONE day the Duke of Buccleuth, a
Scotch nobleman, bought COW in the
neigborhood of Dalkeith, where he lived.
The cow was To be sent home the next
morning. Early i'm the morning the Duke
was taking walk in very common dress.
As he went along, he saw boy trying in
vain TO drive cow to his residence. The
cow was very unruly, and the poor boy
could not get on with her at all. The boy,
not knowing the Duke, bawled out to him
in broad Scotch accent:


Ale, nun, come here, an gle han wi
this beast"


The Duke went slowly on, not seeming
to notice the boy, who still kept calling
for his help At last, finding he could not
get on with the COW, he cried out in dis
tress,


"Come here, nun, an as sure as ony
thing Pse gle We half get"


The Duke went and lent a helping
hand.


And now," said the Duke, as they
trudged along after the cow, how much
do YOU think YOU will get for the jobg"


81 dinna ken," said the boy, but I'm
sure o something, for the folks at the big
house are guild to "a bodies"


As they came TO a lane near the house
the Duke slipped away from the boy and
entered by a different way Calling the
butler, he put a sovereign into his hand,
saying,


"Give that to the boy who brought the
cow"


He then returned to the end of the lane.
where he had parted from the boy, 50 as to
meet him on his way back.


"Well, how much did you getg" asked
the Duke.


a shilling" said the boy, and there's
half O. it to We"


But surely you had more than shil
ling" said the Duke.


"No," said the boy, +" sure that's a | got;
and dye no think it plentyg'


81 do not" said the Duke: there must
be some mistake and as l am acquainted
with the Duke, if you will return l think
I'll get you more"


They went back The Duke rang the
bell and ordered all the servants TO be as
sembled


Now" said the Duke TO the boy,
"pOint out the person who gave you the
shilling"


"It was that chap there wi the apron
said he, pointing To the butler.


The butler fell on his knees, confessed
his fault, and begged TO he forgiven but
the Duke Indignantly ordered him TO give
the boy the sovereign and quit his service
Immediately.


"You have lost" said the Duke, your
money, your situation, and your character,
by your deceitfulness; learn Tor the future
that honesty is the best policy.


The boy now found out himself who IT
was that helped him TO drive the COW and
the Duke was so pleased with the manli
ness and honesty of the boy that he sen
him to school, and provided for him at his
own expense CiilireR's Friend