smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

IAN 0Ah00AAs DADA
Pale and weary, strangely old.
Wan with hunger pinched with cold,
Clothed In rags around II rolled,


Was this poor beggar baby.
Careless travellers going by,
Walked around, lest coming nigh.
They might hear the hungry cry


Of this poor beggar baby.
Rich men passed, and thought within,
''Twere well that life had Lever been"
As though misfortune were sin


For a poor beggar baby.
Only the pauper mother smiled,
Only the mother blessed the child.
And murInured love in accents mild


To that poor beggar baby.
But by and by that baby died,
And they buried 1t Con tile pauper side
Of the yard )-Only the mother cried


For that poor beggar babyi
Who used to cling to her lonely breast,
Aud kiss her cheek ere 1t sunk to rest,
Like little bird In happy nest


Poor little beggar baby,
But 10 beyond the pauper tomb,
A wondrous light stole through the gloom
And voices sang, I'm heaven there's room


For that poor beggar baby"
And then In garments white and new,
Upward the rank OF angels through,
The radiant, ransomed spirit flew


OF that poor beggar baby.
Year: 1868

BORROWING TooLs.-Of all nuisance
attached to a neighborhood. there is none
more annoying than that OF borrower
| happen to live where | have two OF
moro Of the agrceablcs, and this morning
wanting my hedgc.shears to prunc little
piece of hedge, on looking for them where
they ought to have been, they were not
there. On asking my good wife if she
knew aught of the missing property, she
replied:


Why, yes; Mr.. G. came the other
day when you were gone, and could not
refuse him. although told him you did
not like to lend, because every day almost
you want them TO use; but he said he
guessed he'd take them, and whom he
got through with them, perhaps he'd
bring them back"


Another day | wanted my little plow
to plow out few rods of currants, but
looking in the shed for it, | found nc
pillow.


"Ohw says my man, captain -'i
man came here yesterday while you were
gone, and although told him you gave
me orders not to lend, he said he was
told to get it any how, for they wanted il
to use. ."-RGrM New Yorker.
Year: 1868

NEGROES EXEMPT FROM Poll
TAX IN TENNESSEE The editor Of
She Paris Intelligencer has seen a
letter from the Comptroller Of the
State, in reply to an inquiry as sto
whether colored persons are liable to
nav poll tax for 1867 The Comp
troller says they are not, and all
moneys collected on this account
should be returned if called for.
Year: 1868

worthy of their origin, so inconsistent
with their duty, so degrading to their no.
bleness, so destructive Of their happiness,
and so dishonoring as well as so offensive
to their Creator.


May you, dear F., be preserved
from such a life And ye Christian
youth, both male and female, may you
listen to the plea, which the whole crea
ton is ever urging, and see that your
lives are directed to some end, and devo-
ted to the accomplishment of some praise
worthy object. Your friend as ever.


VERITAs.
Year: 1868

FORM OF BEQUEsT.


Form of gift by Will, adopted by the
Trustees of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Churchin the United States;


give, devise, and bequeath to "the
Trustees of the General Assembly OF
the Presbyterian Church in the United
States, there insert the estate devised
and bequeathed) for the use and bene-
fit of said Church.


In case the testator desires to give
special direction to his devise or be-
quest, omit the words, "for the use and
benefit of said Church. and add, "for
the use and benefit Of the Committee of
Sustentation of said Church." or "for
the use and benefit of the Committee of
Foreign Missions of said Church" or
"for the use and benefit of the Commit
tee of Publication of said Church, or
"for the use and benefit of the Commit
tee of Education of said Church"


[The Report of the Board of Trustees was
published in the Central Presbyterian few weeks
since
Year: 1868

IT IS just with God to destroy that
health with disease, which he sees we
would cast away in sloth and idleness.
Think with thyself, had such soul as
Timothy's or Gaius's, been blest with
such body as thine, so strong and Wig
orous, SO apt and able for service, they
would have honored God more in it in
day, than perhaps you do in year. We
are generally more solicitous to live long,
than to live usefully and serviceably; and
it may be, our health had been more
precious in the eyes of God, if it had
been less precious in our own eyes.
Year: 1868

You may sing of your dog, your bottom


dog,


Or of any dog that you please,
| 30 for the dog, the wise old dog,


That knowingly takes his ease,
And, wagging his tail outside the ring
Keeping always his bone in sight
Cares not pin in his sound old head
For either dog in the fight.
Not his is the bone they are fighting for,
And why should my dog sail in,
With nothing to gain but certain chance
To lose his own precious skin:
There may be few perhaps who fail
To see 1t in quite this light.
But when the fur flies had rather be
The outside dog in the fight.
| know there are dogs-injudicious dogs
Who think it quite the thing
To take the part OF one of the dogs,


And go yclping into the ring;
But care not 4 pin what all may say


In regard to the wrong or the right
My money goes. as well as my song


For the dog that keeps out ofthe fight
Year: 1868

A writer in the Kansas Farmer SAYS
IF you desire to get large yield OF
rich milk, give your cow three times
day water slightly warm, slightly salt.
ed, in which bran has been stirred at
the rate of one quart to two gallons OF
water You will lind, ifyou have not
found this by daily practice, that your
COW will gain twenty five per cent. i'm.
mediately under the effect of it, and
she will become SO attached to the dict
as TO refuse to drink clear water unless
she be very thirsty, but this mess
she will drink almost any time, and ask
for more. The amount of this drink 10
an ordinary water pail full each time,
morning, noon and nighl. Your ami.
ma! will then do her best at discount.
ing tue lacteal. Four hundred pounds
of butter are often obtained from good
stock, and instances are mentioned
where the yield was even at q higher
figure" a
Year: 1868

! HORSES IN BArTLE.-Mr. Kinglake, in one of the


volumes of ''1he Invasion Of the Crimea of


horses Oh the battlefield:


| The extent to which charger can apprehend the


perils of battlefield may be easily moderated by one


who confines his observations to horses still carving


their riders; for as long a troophorse in action


feels the weight and hand of MASTER his deep trust


in man keeps him seemingly free from great terror,


and he goes through the fight, unless wounded as
though it was feld-day at home but the moment
that death disabling wound deprives him of bis


rider he seems all at to learn what battle is-


to perceive It's real dangers with the ciearness Of hu


being, and to be agonsed with horror of the fate
he may incur for want of hand to guide him. Care


less OF the mere thunders of guns he shows plainly


enough that he or less knows the dread accent


that is used by missiles of whilst cutting their


way through the air. for often as these sounds dis
close to him the passage of bullet or round shot


he shrinks and cringes His eyeballs prorude: wild
with fright, he still does not most commonly gallon
home into camp His instinct seems rather to tell him
that what safety, if any there is for him. must be
found in the ranks and lie rushes at the first SQUAD
ron he can lind urging pteoHsly yet with violence
that he too by right is troop horse that he too is
willing to charge but not be left behind that be must
and he will fall in" Sometimes rideress charger
thus bent on agning himself with his fellows will not
be content to range himself on the flank of the line.
but dart at some pontin the squadron which he seem
ingly judges to be bis rghtfu place. and strive to
force himself in Riding, as it is usual for the COM
mander OF regiment to do, some way in advance of
his regiment, Lord George Paget was especially tor
mented and pressed by the riderless horses which
chose to turn round and align with him. At one time
there were three or four of these horses advancing
close abreast of him one side aud as many as five
on the other lmpeled BY terror, by gregarions in
stinct, and by their habit Of ranging in line they
so "closed" in upon Lord George as to besmear his
overas with blood from the CORY anks of the nearest
and obiige him to use his sword.
Year: 1868

Toothache, according to the Lon
don Lancet, can be cured by the
following preparation of carbolic
acid; To one drachm of collodi-
um add two drachms of Calyert's
carbolic acid. A gelatinous mass
is precipitated, a small portion of


which, inserted in the cavity of


an aching TOOTH. invariably gives
immediate relief.
Year: 1868

A Duchess county dairyman
continued to send milk to New
York for several days after the
Texas epidemic showed itself g..
mong his cows, and even sent it
from some seven OF them on the
days they died. He has been pros
hibited from sending any more
milk to the metropolis. fiih
Year: 1868

The BILL REPEALING THE TAX on CoTroS
came over from the Senate this morning and
was laid before the House ard referred to the
Com OF Ways and Means. at the request
Oh hr. Schenck, Chairman. That Committee
VIII consider the Senate amendments TO the bill
81 Ihelr meeting Tomorrow, and the general
OPINION is that 1t will agree to report against
them. 1t seems probable that the matter will
nave TO be settled finally in a Committee of
Conference
Year: 1868

A year passed away, during which the
lovers never met. Eliza had lost sight
of Quintin, and in answer to her inqui-
ries concerning him, all she had been
able to learn was that shortly after their
last interview he had left the city, and
gone. no one knew whittier.


The day was now arrived when she
was to become wife. Sad to her were
the kind Offices of the bridesmaids who
assisted at her toilet; yet she sustained
smile upon her face, although her soul
was weighed down by grief.


The chapel was thronged by people
anxious to view the ceremony, and as
the bride, richly clad. was led to the
altar by her father, the latter announced
that her hand was to be bestowed on the
artist whose skill was the most undenia-
BILE, to be determined by the merit of the
pictures which stood veiled on either
side of the altar. Van Deg glanced
triumphantly around at this proclama-
ton, and striding to the picture he had
painted, he uncurtained it to their view.


A burst of applause rose from the au-
dience, as he did SO, and well merited
was that cry of appreciation.


The scene of the piece was the chap
ell in which they stood, and the whole
presented to the life. There was the
priest all but breathing, while bride and
groom and their friends appeared as if
in the full flush of joy.


Algini was about to speak in raptures
of the performance; when suddenly the
other curtain was drawn aside, and cry
of horror, burst from the multitude as
they pressed forward to behold. Van
Deg gazed in breathless wonder, and
Alg gini uttered avid shrek of despair
my daughter !" 1t was the delinea-
tion of Quintin's dream each counte-
nance in the picture was easy to recog-
nize, except that of the youth, which
was buried in the bosom of the bride.
But ere, with wondering eyes, they had
fully scanned it all, it was thrust aside
and another appeared in its place, This
represented lovely arbor in which AL
gini was, advanced to old age, dangling
beautiful infant on his knee, which
bore an expression on its face of Eliza,
who sat on an opposite seat with her
head resting on the bosom of a young
man, whose arm encircled her waist.


Every one was charmed and delight
ed beyond measure, and as they beheld
the youth they recognized him in a mo-
ment and every tongue cried


"The blacksmith !"


Blacksmith no more," said Quintin,
stepping from behind the canvas, but
the artist, who demands his reward !"


1t is unnecessary to say more than
that genius was rewarded; and to the
happy husband, Quintin Matsys, the
blacksmith of Antwerp, the world owes
some of its finest relics of art, and among
the rest, the inimitable painting of 1.-THE
Misers," now at Windsor Castle.
Year: 1868

and then threw it down with an expression
of disgust


However, it lucky my head was saved !;
and | could always calculate figures pretty
speedy if couldn't other things so the
man that owned the sign father was paint
ing, he got me a place here. Here's your
boat, ma am, and here's my relief


\ tall stalwart man-such painful con-
trast to this poor creature-walked into
the box, and little Azel came siding and
wheeling out on a crutch Just outside the
bars rosy face in sun-bonnet peeped in,
and seeing the cripple coming, began to
dance up and down with JOY.


''She's my sister, exclaimed Azel; ''she
always comes for me-


And seeing her run along, impatiently
thrusting her arm through every hole in
the CRATE, one after another, till she had
covered herself with all sorts of dirty hi
eroglyphics, he made me queer twisted
motion, that did its best to express bow,
and disappeared up the village street, the
little one clinging to his coat and making
vain efforts to aid his unequal footsteps
Boys and Girls.
Year: 1868

IN EEN. WA>HINGTON GLADDEN.
steady, there


strip the bending topmast bare
Wear the ship the breakers stare
Through the grnning jaws of foam
Pipe them down-the crazy crew.
Give u sober men and true;
Let the ship he manned anew
Quick we felt the shock of doom.
Pipe them down.
shall the ship of old renown
Sink because we fear their frown:
shall her precious freight be lost.
They have turned her from the track;
They are sailing swiftly back
Through the drear and binding rack
Toward the dangers we had crossed.
Now she rightsi


Hoist the canvas turn the lights
She has lived through darker nights;
She was built IN angry seas;
None but shipmen brave could launch her,
But she rode the waves in GRANDEUR
And the storms have made her stancher;
IIai she laughs at gales like these.
Ready about


Bring the broken compass outl
Take the helm, o Pilot stout;
Righteousness thy chart shall be;
Brightly, Freedoms morning star
Beacons through the clouds afar;
That's the headland see, the scar
There's the port of Libertyi
Year: 1868

What with running to Congress to see
the impeachment fight, and to the hotels to
hear public opinion about it, and to an oc-
caslonal reception to endeavor to forget it


all and start fresh again, and meanwhile,
trying to carry on two colds in the head at
the same time (Which cannot be done,) |
have taken about week to write this let
ter. | wish you would put in dates just
wherever you please. Dates are cheap,
and | wish to be reliable. There is moth
ing mean about me when it comes to dates.


Bnt was not that old cemetery almost
Year: 1868

The people here are with YOU and ready
almost to i man to sustain you in whatever
may be necessary in upholding the Con-
stitution and resisting Congressional usurp-
alton.


Good again,
Year: 1868

Budding, we need hardly say, is the pro.
cess Of removing a bud from one tree or
plant and inserting-it in another tree Of
allied species.


The object Of budding is the ssme as Of
grating, viz: TO propagate desirable sort
of tree or plant. The only difference be-
tween a bud and scion is that the latter is
development Of the former Fruit can
generally be obtained by gra fling two years
sooner than by budding But when va
riety is very rare, we can by budding get
new limbs from single eyes, whereas, in
grating we have to use three or four eyes.
Some trees, moreover, propagate more
readily by budding than by grating The
stone fruits exude so much gum when
grated, that it is hard to succeed in the
work Then, too. in all kinds of fruit,
where grating has failed, been forgotten
in spring, budding may be resorted to In
summer.


The usual time for budding is from the
first Of July to the middle Of August But
more accurate rule is to be found in the
state of the buds and the bark The shoots
from which the buds are taken must be OF
the current years 5 growth, and must be
mature This maturity will be shown by
the forming of buds at the axis of the
leaves, and Of the terminal buds The best
buds for working will be found along the
middle sf the shoot Plums usually finish
their growth earlier than other trees hence
they should be hudded earliest Next como
cherries and then pears, etc. The bark muss
be in a condition to lift easily from the wood,
and there must be sap enough between the
two TO feed the young bud, and TO help form
a union with it.


The practical operation Of budding Is
simple The method commonly followed Ia
this country, called shield budding, is as fol-
lows: Having cut q scion containing seve-
raj good buds, choose a smooth, young limb
for the operation, and, if possible, let the ln-
sertion be made on the north side OF the
limb. With sharp, thin-baded knife, cut
a slit through the bark about an inch and
half long, and a cross cut at the top OF It.
Then from your scion slice out a good bud,
leaving little Of the bark attaehed Now,
with the other end Of your building knife,
raise the bark Of the stock, and slip the bud
into the slit, and press IL down 20 the bottom
Of it. Finish the work by tying down the
bark and bud with bass mating or woolen
yarn, so as to exclude air and moisturs from
all except the point Of the bud.


Do the work quick. otherwise the bud will
dry and be less likely to grow. minute
is full long enough.


after Treatment -in a fortnight after,
examine the buds TO see whether they have
taken" This may be determined By their
freshness and plumpness As soon as they
have taken the bandagss should be loos-
ened a little, 20 allow for expansion Of both
stock and bud. On the opening Of the fol-
lowing spring, the stock should be cut Of
with a slopinS cut, two or three inches above
the bud. The bud will now grow with greas
vigor-RuraL american


NEGROES PREPARING FOR WAR-We re-
gret to have to chronicle that the negroes Of
Shelby county are drilling nightly at differ.
ent Places and preparing themselves as It
,,~;-r- i,to - l. i wall knovvn thar
Year: 1868

Seymour Is human oyster, full Of
bloodless meat-NashD55le Press and Times.


Better be that than a human butcher, full
of mean whisky Gazette.


That's pretty heavy on Uncertain Step
son Grant,
Year: 1868

usual exercise, being leisurely driven around,
and occasionally put to speed for a short
spirit, when be made quarter down the back
stretch in the almost incredible time of
thirty seconds, or at the rate of one mile in
tro minutes.


Mr.. Doble says dexter is now in no
trim for extraordinary speed. Nor is be in
any hurry to get him in such trim. But
be says the animal has abilities that have
never been suspected, aud this fall he will
make time that will as much eclipse his late
performance, as that eclipsed his performance
at Buffalo last summer, when he made his
2:i7i az 2alK KaisRiiR5sS,F ihshRiiRs Flora Temples famOu
previously been the best time ever made BY
a trotting horse.-M Y Sun.
Year: 1868

HIGH SrRUNa.-A young woman, meet
ing former fellOw-servant, was asked how
she liked her new place. Very WELL Then
you have nothing to camplain Off Moth
ing; only master and mistress talk such very
bad grammar!
Year: 1868

A REASONABLE CONDITION to
Radical paper, which is reputed to be the
organ of Mr. Ray, of the State Senate, it is
proposed that the Legislature shall choose
presidential electors to avoid the injurious
effect which a popular election will have upon
agricultural labor. This is unquestionsbly a
very weighty consideration. Neither planters
nor freedmen can afford to neglect plantation
work. They would see no positive injustice
in the proposed method of election for the
reason stated, if the Legislature would
pledge itself to represent the well known
wishes of the majority of the people in
choosing the electors. OF course, in that
case, the Seymour and Blair electoral ticket
would be chosen. This is perfectly reason
able condition. Why the carpet-baggers have
been anxious for the Legislature to cast the
vote, is very plain. They despair of the pop
ular election. They give up the contest before
the people on anything like fair trial at the
ballot box. Well if they give it up there, why
not give it up altogether, and agree, for the
sake of saving further trouble, that the Legis-
lature shall cast the vote of the State for Sey-
mour and Blair?
Year: 1868

We understand that the individual-King-
ston by name-who has until recently done
the praying Of the lower house, few days
ago fell from grace, abruptly descended from
the lofty mount or pious excellence on which
in the minds of the members he was exalted,
and, not to put too fine a point upon it, was
detected in fdgrdnte delicto, in swearing like q
trooper. Their delicate sensibilities shocked
by this gross violation of the proprieties, the
House declined to allow the ex-commissary to
do any more praying for them hence the su-
perabundance lately Of other prayers to which
we yesterday alluded. Wepresume that here
after the SIS per diem appropriated by the
House to pay its religious expenses will be di-
yided amongst the many who now take turns
at it.
Year: 1868

DIN On wednesday morning August r. at o'clock,
JULIA REATR T. ony daughter and eldest child Of Chas
Nash and K Ade dunlap, aged 81 years and


We deal around day; al Of ready
give to the proposition that the chill Of the
destroyer laid only each Of
loved but it until has in our
circle it Is not until, with memorable hand sweeping
barriers that love would build around It's ot
almost brushing ourselves with his wings the angel
Laughing to nAught puny endsAvors TO de
tain him. snatchss the form Of love our very
bosoms; is not until look on, pess and behold ons
whose life lie far desrer than Owu from our
into eternity is not until we look upon the very fac.
Of death that thoroughly recognize the omnootence
reentessnesso of his might. And often tn.
old wheat rpened for the harvest gathered into thar
Masters barn by the reaper who seems welcome
sengsr from God; but when behold youth in all s
glorious prime down in it's very flower and Dosm hard 4,
it, hard realize that the beautiful which h., so
delighted here has been transpanted to the eternal Gar.
Of Paradise although that there and he.
only attain its perfect growth In the departure OF
her whose memory would here embalm this hardness to m
size the terrible sctusity Of death well illustrated An
invalid all her % end many timer during term on
the brink OF the yet her not be-
eve but that she might be spared to bless their decnnR
years, and when the Eat Of the Great Father want
forth when the Spirit said oOme" the shock as great
though in bounding health she had fallen by
stroke For bersef long before the physician mef
TO her the fatal dng her hs.r tod her of
the end approaching and during the long days Of suffering
and nights Of pain which preceded her DEATH her soul in
communion with her God sssimiang to thstDi
vine Nature in whose she stand and
when the last hour with loving farewell he dear
with ber hsnd resting Book Of Life and
sweet hopeful smile her lips. she gently gded over the
dark stream into the bright sunlight Of the Jsru
salem leaving behind her her weeping aud brother
the glorious eonsostOn Of strong perfect hope future
reunion. Fsn would inger longer the Of
that Christian deathbed but turn from picture OF faith
to utter the only words of consolation which give to
those left behind There but thing be said theres
bot compensation loss there bat one
sa1 lean upon in this their great sorrow which will not
prove broken reed that LOOKING snward and o
ward with fevent hope which fail perfect faith
which must be realized, and persevsrng tn works
which pave the only path thereto to that thrice happy time


"- When In blest eternity


The loving unto death shall


The loving svermoren O.