smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

was no unfrequent sight TO find him
asleep on the rug before the fire in his
own room, his head on a book, aud his
arms crossed on his breast. When
this torpor from the opium had passed
away, he was ready for company until
about daylight. In order to show him
Off, his friends had to arrange their
supper parties SO that sitting until
three or four in the afternoon, he might
be brought to that point at which in
charm and power of conversation he
was SO truly wonderful.


Burns was not less drunkard than
Coleridge. 1t was the great weakness
of Charles Lamb. And who can re-
member the last days Of Poe without an
irrepressible regret' He was Oh his
way to marry confding woman, stop
ped in Baltimore, and was found by a
gentleman who knew him in state Of
beastly intoxicatiOn, unconscious as a
log, and died that night in tie rawlings
Of delirium tremens!


Douglas Jerrold was a devotee of gin;
as, also, was Byron. Steele, the bril-
liant author of the "Christian Hero"
was beastly drunkard. Men wrote of
him that he would dress himself, kiss
bis wife and children, tell them lie
about his pressing engagements, heel it
over to groggery called the "Store,"
and have revel with his bottle com
panions.


Robin says of Alexander the Great
that the true poison which brought him
to his end was wine.


The Empress Elizabeth of Russia was
completely brutifed by strong liquor
She was often in such state Of baccbic
ecstacy during the day that she could
not be dressed in the morning, and her
maids would loosely attach her robes,
which few clips ofthe scissors would
disengage in the evening.
Year: 1869

This is performed by millions every
day, and yet perhaps not dozen in q ;
million will do it right The common
practice is to take basin of cold water,
catch up a double handful of water,
dash it into the face and rub it vigor4
ously, thus rubbing all the matters from
the soiled hands which have accumu-
ted during the night, into the skin Of
the face. l .1l' '.., ,
tits great luxury to wash the hands
thoroughly and well with soap and
warm water the last thing before going
to bed at night, The cleanliest person
will often find that a teacupful of warm
water will often be soiled by the opera-
ton, and the same will again the Grst
thing in the morning, since in addition
to adventitious causes, there is during
sleep an exudation of an oily substance
through the pores of the skin, and to
this the floating dust of the rooms, fur
niture and clothing will adhere. g 80 q
1t is one of the inestimable blessings
of city life that botlPwarm and, cold
water are at hand at all hours, day and
night Take teacupful Of warm wa
ter, not more, and with soap make "a
lather, with which wash the handa
thoroughly, not forgetting under the
ends of the fnger-nail, and dabble in
the water until every particle of accu-
mutation is removed. This is better d
than to use brush, because the hard
bristles will irritate and harden, the
tender skin under the ends of the fin
ger nails. Scraping out the dust with
pen-knife is an inexcusable violence;
and an indecency too, when done in
company. Next, rinse the hands in an
abundance of water, till all the soap is
thoroughly removed The face may
then be washed in another supply Of
water, warm or cool, according to the
taste of the individual. Warm water
is better, as it dissolyes more readily
any accumulations about the eyes and
ears, and then with an instantaneous
rinsing of the face IN cold water, the
work is done, and then your hands
and face are clean enough to pat the
face and kiss the cheek Of the one you
love best, as a morning salutation.--
Halls Journal r,s
Year: 1869

On the Rampage Again-His Views on Grant


The Country Warned Against His DictatO-


rial Aspirations.


Frank Blair, Jr., in speech before a Democratic
Club New York city, relieved himself OF his views
President Grant in the following edifying style:-


During the Presidential canvass 1t was my fortune
TO speak OF General Grant in the various addresses
which was required TO make throughout the coun-
try; and said about him what knew OF him-that
he was a capable and courageous man, but ambitious
and unscrupuOus; and whose aim 1t was to fix him
self on the country and make his dictatorship per-
petual. / see in this recommendation which he has
made in regard to Georgia, something which, If
acted on by Congress- is the forerunner of other
measures OF the same character ana In perfect con-
sonance with the character which | sketched for
Gen. Grant in speeches had the honor to make before
the country he Is ambitious and he Is fearless, and
although some Of our Democratic friends in the
habit OF speaking in very disparagin gaway OF him,
all have to say is this, that anybody who thinks
General Grant Is fool Is more likely to be fool
himself. He is man Of stubborn character; he may
not be very broad In his views; he may be narrow
and obstinate; but he is resoute and unhinching,
and the most dangerous man that this country con-
tans at this hour. He has will that knows no
swerving from any plan that he has entered upon
His courage is most determined; and though he may
not have great capacity or very great Intellect yet
when he has once entered upon the pursuit OF an
object, he maintains 1t with invinciole courage and
untiring labor. In my Judgment, so far from being
man at whom we ought TO soon, and whom We may
treat with contempt, he is man who ought TO be
carefully watched-a man OF whom we should fear
the worst things or course 1t is not always the
greatest Intellectual man who achieves the greatest
things in this world A man who has purpose and
who has power to back him very frequently exceeds
in his achievements man OF far larger comprehen-
sive capacity. This man, in my Judgment is one
OF that class of men. l consider him a man OF
sluggish nature he is fond OF pleasure and devoted
to enjoyment; and will occupy himself with those
things to the exclusion OF businessas he has shown
disposition TO do. But when crisis in our affairs
occurs you will find he will apply himself to business
with far more industry than is agreeable to the
country (Appause.) Just such business, | mean,
as this in reference TO Georgia; and which he may
next advise with reference TO some other State.
And it may happen that ne will gam such power,
and be enabled by combinations OF army power and
the negroes In the South To overcome the Northern
| party has any light duty in the coming campaign


You have not pledged yourself to any light duty il
that which you have undertaken; you VIII have sui
You will not perhaps, have to content yourselves
with these resolutions which have been read, bu
| you win have to frame resolutions OF far different
character.


| CincinnatI having now a milk inHDectOr th(
Year: 1869

A BEAUTIFUL PAssAGE.-The following
is from the reTtries of bachelor by Ike
Marvel: a poor man without some kind
of religion is at best but a poor reprobate,
the football Of destiny, with DO tie linking
him to infuty and the wondrous eternity
that is even worse-a fame without heat, Il
rainbow without color, a flower without per-
funle. a man may in some sort tie his hope
and his honor to this shifting ground tack le,
to his business or the world, but a woman
without that anchor called faith, is drift
and wreck A man may be in sort of
moral responsibility out of relation to man
kind but woman, in her comparatively is
olated sphere where affection and not pur-
pose Is the controlling motive, can find no
that of faith. a man may ciaze his tho is
to truStfulneSs, in such poor harborage as
fame and reputation may stretch before him,
but a woman-where can she put her hopes
IN storms if not in heaven? and that sweet
truthfulness-that abiding loye-that en-


during hope mellowing every page and
scene in life-lighting them with radiance,
when the storm breaks like an army with
cannon, Who can bestow its all but holy
soul, tied to what is stranger than army with
cannon? Who has enjoyed the love of a
christian mother, but will echo the thought
with energy ard halow it with tears p
Year: 1869

"Yes. was thinking of it.


''And of what brought me to you2'


Yes


She bends still nearer to me. 1 feel her
fervent kiss-suck one as only young
and lovely vile can give; and hear, as it
were whispered rather by spirit than by
mortal lips


Now, my darling, am yours body and
SOUL"


Thank God that is so.
Year: 1869

A cook in in New York has given notice
to the family in which she is employed that
she has made up her mind to so to New
port this Summer, and if the family will go
there she will stay with them otherwise
she must leave.
Year: 1869

Don't you think my eyes look quite kill
ing this morning?' said dandy TO smart
girl, and he twisted his leaden visionaries in
a most cruel and fascinating manner ''They
remind me, said the damsel, 'of codfsh
dying of toothache
Year: 1869

One Of the most cogent reasons ever
given why a married man should get
his life insured is that the money would
prove great help TO his wifs's second
husband, and might be the means or
starting him in business,
Year: 1869

Time, indeed, makes havoc of great
names and of illustrious personalities.
1t will not answer for the conserVers
of these to invoke them with a zeal
too petulent, and insistence too absO-
lutte. The everyday world no doubt
Pounds its thought and calculation
upon the labors of men whose names
have lost all familiar connection with
their works. In the world of thought
most of US know not our fathers. We
do not for this pretend to have SUPER
seded them. We only regret that the
lapse of time makes the figures of our
benefactoTs so dim to us. Shall we
court such forgetfulness of the one
among them all best known and most
present to all? Shall we say: "Let
US forget thee, oh Christi Thou vert
but stepping stone, and not thesum-
NIT. Take away thy whole gallery of
pictures-the babe born in the mang-
er, the gracious child in the temple
the minister of joy at the feast of COM
fort, at the bed of sickness-the mas
ter with twenty centuries of glory
budding in his bosOm-the host of the
solemn feast of farewell, the stateliest
symposium of the church, and the
simplest of the heart-the hero of the
cross, the symbolical conqueror of
death and inheritor of a kingdom
without end. Take them all way
we have outgrown thy record and
thee" The proverbial ingratitude of
republics might go as far as this. But
if Christ could take us at our word,
and take away himself remove his
gifts also, l know not how rapidly our
Institutions would shrink and darken.
To take Christianity out of New Eng
land would be even more fatal than
it would have been to leave New Eng
land out of the UniOn.-Jukid Ward
HODe.
Year: 1869

There are many fine brooks of good
water all over the country yet how
few there are that furnish respeeta-
BILE or eatable fish for the table When
the country was comparatively new,
and wooded along the streams, the
fresh or soft waters had an abundance
perished by the sports mans hook,
but by the wOOdman's axe; the sun
has been let in and warmed the waters
too much for them. Now we must
either cultivate this variety-the best
that ever grew-Or give it up. Can it
be successfully done? We say yes,
and that too not only as a benefit to
supply the table with, but an Orna-
ment of permanent nature to the
farm.


If you have a fair brook that never
dries up, ofsoftspring water, that runs
through your pasture or medOw lands,
take one month with team and hand,
any time in the summer, and make a
series of dams on the brook, so that
the outflow of one is a rod or so above
the flow of the other, with an average
depth of from three to four feet. Con-
tinue this system of dams as far as
your land extends; or far enough to
give sufficient water room. When
you have them completed, permanent,
set each side of your stream with su-
gar maple trees. Set them about 10
feet apart in the row, that they may
soon shade the stream. At the end OF
fifteen years every other one should
be taken out to give room to the 9TH
ers. This will in time give a fine su-
gar bush on land that will give the
most and richest sap, furnish a cool
shade for fish and cattle, and just in
the right place, where the cattle come
to drink. This will make rough un-
eouth stream the most beautiful and
productive part of the farm, and will
add to the value of the farm ten times
the cost.


Fish to stock with.-If there are
trout in your stream, you will need no
other kinds; they will run into, and
not much out of your dams. If you
have none in your stream, you should
be very careful to get the genuine
brook trout; there are said to be some
80 varieties of the salmon family
The time to procure them is about the
1st of October; then you can distin-
guish the males from the females
The females will spawn here about
the first of November. They will
stand transportation better in cool
weather. would not advise to mix
other varieties of fish with brook
trout; the sucker would be the least
objectiOnable.-COUHtTy Gentleman.
Year: 1869

Nowhere else in all New England
will one see so high an average of fe-
male beauty of figure and hair and
skin, as among the young girls Of one
Of the peninsular towns on Sunday,
and in no place is the change prOduc-
ed by the lapse of years, from twenty
to thirty, so painful and obvious. OF
the rounded, complete matronly beau
ty of the second span of married life,
one may look without seeing a single
instance. The cause of this is not far
off, and suggests itself ct once, to one
who sees the congregations of women
with here and there an old, sick man
among them, and then Skips all the
years of active life down to early child
hood before he finds the male sex
again represented. For it is true that
in the fishing season there are no men
or boys on shore, and if you go among
the group of bright, happy girls who
do not remember the cloud that hang
above them, YOU will find that nine
out of ten of them look forward to
union with one who is now away, and
who expects to spend his life fishing
in the summer, and coasting in the
winter. Now imagine one of them
sitting in her little home, two years
married, with her baby in the cradle,
and the northeaster bowling without.
She knows too well that at that mo-
ment he may be struggling in the
breakers while the Highland light
that she can see glares down pitiless-
ly upon his agony; for she has only to
climb spur of land just behind her
house to see the skeleton of a ship
from which the cruel waves tore the
desperate hand-hold months ago, and
left the husband and father to sink in
sight of his own home, without a
friend to aid. The grave-stOnes in the
ehurchyard will not let her stand be-
tween them, even for moment, for
they tell her how in n single night
sixty-seven women of one little town
were left widowed and desOlate. Ifshe
will stay in her house and shut out the
suggestions of peril, she must still look
out, and sees coming down the street,
one whose lover sailed away years and
years ago, and has since been missing.
His vessel was seen going out by the
Race, bottom up, and when they told
this poor woman all they knew, she
pressed her hands to her forehead, and
east her glance out upon the waters,
over which she has since waited for
his return. When a vessel arrives she
hurries to the landing, and nothing
doubling for the long disappointment,
waits and watches to the end. How
little can we wonder, then, at this
premature decay, when we remember
that to the inevitable sorrows of a
woman's lot, in whatever station,
these others intense and perpetual,
are eadded.-SDriRqtield Republican.
Year: 1869

lFEOLu EuiuAlus AhEaLlue.l


But hark! listen to the bobolink in
yonder meadow Hear them jangling
like a chime of silver bells in the air
All a rare bird is this Enlberizd OT.y-
ziuOrd, this ric-hunting, this reed-bird
the Robert of Lincoln, this joyous roll
licking bobolink Heis our own bird.
You may take him to merry England
or sunny France, If so be that you can
bear him over the foam alive, but
there he will pine for the meadows,
and rice fields of his native and,
changeful cline, sit songless on the
perch, and in q little time drOop his
wing and die. A shrewd bird is Rob-
ert of Lincoln, and he must be more
than passable sportsman, and keep
keen eye open, who would bring him
down-that is, before, on his return
to the South, he gorges and fattens
in the rice fields. ,


This pied coat of black, yellow and
white, he puts on in the spring when
he goes a wooing his quiet, Quaker
ess of wife. All! what gallant lit
tie lover he makes; how he jangles
around and above her in his gayest
garments, and with his sweetest song.
With what volubility he tells his tale
of love. And what a fond and careful
husband he makes, and how merrily
speeds his honeymoon Singing his
cheeriest, he builds beneath the tuft-
ed meadow grass his lowly, secret
nest; and while his modest little wife
broOds over her five white and brown
eggs, he beguiles for her the long and
patient hours, lowering over her in
mid-air with his fantastic plumes and
song. But let the duties of a father
press upon him, and the rollicking
lover, the light-hearted bridegroom
ceases his amorous and deleetable des-
can't, assumes a graver manner and Sc
riOus tone, and exchanges his we'd
ding garments for plain and dusky
brown attire. Never puts he on that
gay attire again, unless to WOO and
win once more. For place him in a
cage, he will not droop while his
pleasant native wales are around him;
he will sing, though the prison bars
shut him out from communion with his
kind ; he first saw the light where
music, like the broad, sweet sunshine
lay about him, and he can not stItie
melody within his heart but he will
dropone by one, those beautiful plumes
and never put them on again, until
love and freedom are once more his
When the autumn comes you will see
the bobolinks gather together their
household bands, to troop for the
South. The elders have lost their
voices, while the youthful have not
vet learned to sing. But every now
and then an old one will try, on how
ering wing, his melody, as if teaching
his young the strain, and after utter
ing a few broken notes, sink down in
seeming sorrow among the assembled
broods. 1t is as if an aged sire, sitting
in the calm sunshine of serene old
age, should try, with feeble voice,
some fond song of his lover days or
some childhood's ditty that falter in
forgetfulness, and drop his head upon
his bosom, "to muse and brood and
live again in memory with those old
faces of his infancy, heaped over with
a mound of grass" A favOrite bird
is the bobolink and from the st.
Lawrence to Terra del FuegO he is a
welcome visitor. Not a child but
halls his coming with delight, and
with some queer jargon or babylOnish
dialect mimics his metallic melody.
Year: 1869

One of the most ingenious modes of
winning a husband ever practiced,
was that by which the wife of Frere-
Orban, the Belgian diplomatist who
is engineering his little country thro'
the troublesome railroad difficulties in
France, won him when her father OBJ
jected seriously to his proposals, The
lady was heiress to the house of Or
ban, in which there was unlimited
money. Her father regarded Frere
as an adventurer, as, indeed, he had
at that time only just passed his ex-
animation for the bar. The young
lady invited him to come to the box
at the opera where she and her father
were together, and, when he entered,
she arose and kissed him, in full view
of the whole audience. After that
they never heard her father make
any more objections to their marriage,
and he, taking their family name,
became Frere-Orban.
Year: 1869

You can not do with your life what


you will it is given for a purpose ;


you are accountable. But the uncOn-


verted MAINLAND upon this subject


there are large numbers ofprOfOundly


religious men who are uncOnverted-


unconsciOusly, perhaps, regards life


as right. MY life is my own" he


says. "It has been given to me with


out my asking for it and if am dis


satisfied with it, / certainly have the


right to give it up" Practically, most


men have some hazy notion Of this


kind; though many would shrink


from accepting the stated formula
They are not shocked by the guilt of
man. who, as they hear, has shot him
self to get rid of the hideous tOrtures
of a cruel and irremediable dis.


ease. They say: "HOw could you
insist on that poor wretch drag
ging on day after day through the
keenest pain, with nothing before him


but the prospect of years of slow and
acute suffering" Less sympathy is
expended on the more common form
of suicide, In which a certain man
browns himself because a woman will
notmarry him, or in which q GER
tain woman browns herself be-
cause her husband or lover has be-
come faithless. This blunder is COM
mitted solely through the man or
woman not being able to measure the
proportions of the accidents of life
There never was a man or woman
worth cutting ones throat for, much
as young poets have written of the
delight of dying at the feet of some
perhaps not very intellectual or beau
tiful young person. The man who
STILES himself with charcoal fumes
merely because a certain girl refuses
to be his wife, is merely unable, at a
time of temporary frenzy, to measure
the length of life, and see what, after
all, are the necessary things of exist
ence, the necessary things to make it
bearable and pleasant. You may call
this incapacity, folly, or insanity, as
you please it certainly betokens eth
er immaturity or want of mental Wis
ion. So, also, is he a fool or a mad
man, who, with his disgestion remain
ing, cuts his throat because his money
departs. To put the case on its very
lowest sis,-excluding notions of
moral duty and respOnsibility,-it
may DC s1lu lAAdL VIC Ncln ~ IL yeilAAALC
greatly with the man who flies from
life to escape unbearable physical tor
lures that we sympathiZe less with
one who flies life because he imagines
that a certain woman is the only wo-
man who can possibly make his fu-
ture life worth having; and that we
can scarcely sympathize at all with
the man, who, because he has lost
money, shoots himself, and wantonly
relinquishes the pleasures of friend
ship, love, eating, drinking and sleep
ing. 1t may be answered that he is
disguised because he has been depriv-
ed of the means of obtaining these
pleasures but it is absurd, because
people without farthing in any bank
whatever, do enjoy these pleasures,
and find life a wonderful treasure
throuOh them --LOn0Od RegielD.