smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

of woman. When you enumerate the
qualities especially needed for these
times, it will appear that they are those
graces and virtues which she especially
posses. Her relations to temperance
and economy, to honesty and integrity,
to labor and capital and social order,
to education and religion are such as to
enable her to give shape to those ele-
ments in society that trouble and dis
turb. 1t is of vast consequence to this
nation that she should exercise her
formative and restraining power here.
She may, if she will, lay her hand on
the children-On the poor and needy
and lOwly, on the ignorant and injured
and embittered-and in a generation
hush the tumult and strife OF the nation
and bring the peace that is by righteous
ness.


We have the lines of fashion drawn
through society, and our habits and
customs are fixed. But how much ill
justice and wrong! What bearing of
needless burdens! What hardness of
pressure upon innocent souls! 1t is
given to woman to read between these
lines of society and custom and social
inequality, and curry sympathy, and
dispense healing, and brstow sweet
comfort and relief, as the sun unlocks
the tetters with which an ice storm
binds the plants and flowers, setting
them free, aud encouraging their bloom.


We have our laws and usages, and
they are many of them good. But love
is greater than law, and human sym
pathy for souls in need is mightier than
cold usage. We shall never scOld, nor
threaten, nor drive the skeptical un-
believing class in this land, who hate
Christianity, into its acceptance. They
will answer back word for word, algu-
ment for argument, blow for blow.


1t is the spirit of Christ in the souls
of men, and in the life of society, of
law, and of business that will save
them. Our times need honesty and
truth, and they need, too, the love and
spirit of helpfulness that led Christ to
taste death for every man. In all this
realm we see pre-eminently the sphere
of Christian woman. She has been
emancipated and educated and endowed
for this work.
Year: 1878

READ Your PoLICY.-It is passing
strange that men will pay for insurance
policies covering, perhaps, all the proper
ty they possess-and containing within
their small compass all, which, in the
event of loss, stands between them and
bankruptcy, and then cody "chuck"
them into the safe without so much as a
single glance as to how they are worded
perfectly contented if the rate is not
too high and the amount insured all they
called for; thus throwing all the respoa-
sibility upon an agent whose greatest in
terest in the contraction may be fifteen
per cent. commission on the premium re-
ceived and yet this is done every day
by business men who wouldn't trust the
amount involved in their policy-were it
in any other shape-to the judgment of
any one but themselves. How many err
rors might be avoided, how many vexed
questions put forever at rest, and how
many lawsuits spared suffering client,
if men in this important particular would
simply use. the common sense they show
in other monetary transactions. How
much better to know what you are buying
and at the time of the contract not only
fully understand what you intend to have
insured, but see yourself that the written
portion of the policy fully corresponds
with the intention. Misunderstanding
as to what your policy does, or does not
cover, are much easier remedied before
fire than afterward. Before the fire, you
can, by the aid of the agent, have your
policies so worded as to fully idemnfy you
in the event of loss, up to the amount
insured. After the fire the adjuster may
not view the circumstances so leniently,
and will be slow in admitting oral testi-
mony to explain a written contract in
which no apparent ambiguity exists
And, what is still stronger, the courts
will sustain him in it. No man can
take advantage of his own neglect" is
an old truism, and the fact that you
thought you had everything covered by
your policy will avail but little, when it
can be plainly shown that you had it in
your power to make the correction or al
teration, and failing TO do so, you slept on
your rights until too late to apply the
remedy.-S. f. Spirit of the Times.
Year: 1878

SUPERSTITION OF SHowMEN.- We'll,


now there is no Snowman on the road who


would think Of letting lady be the first


to pass through his doors when opening


for q performance. / don't know why 1t


is, but there's sort Of feeling among


them that it brings bad luck. | wouldn't


allow one to be the first TO enter ono OF


my entertainments. I'd parley with her


at the door or call her attention to some.


thing else until a man. went in. If a


woman should chance to get in first I'd


expect to have bad show, and so would
almost any other manager that L know
Of Then there are cross- eyed people |;


many veteran ticket-seller of my ac-
quantance loses all heart when one pre-
sents himself at tho window. A cross
eyed patron and u poor house generally
go together. 1t doesn't seem possible,
hardly, but it is so; and cross eyed
performer would be perfect Jonah. BY
the way, there are some people in the
profession who have the reputation of be-
ing Jonahs, and they are not cross-eyed
either. The companies which they 90
into always seem to break up, and after
while they get the reputation OF bring
ing bad luck, and then nobody wants TO
play with them. With circuses there is
superstition that man with yellow
clarionet brings dead bad luck. If the
season goes wrong you'll see them begin
to look the orchestra over, and if they
find yellow clarionet there its all up
with the man who blows it. Among
some people in the profession there is
great dread Of being put into room num-
bered thirteen. | know of one young
English lady who was put into such Ia
room in place where we we're playing,
and as soon as she discovered it sha
bounced out and declared she wouldn't
stay in it if they would give her the whole
town. Well, then, there are supersti-
tious notions about going on the stage
from the wrong side, and beginr ing study
or rehearsal on Friday, and dozens OF
other things. Why, Fanny Davenport
thinks a canary bird in the house is
sure sign of death, and so do |. One day
came home and heard bird, and /
said "What is that; a canary bird 2"
and they said it was; SO l told them to
take it out or there would be death in
the house. Well, the bird went, but
there was death just the same.-Tony
ItfSiOr
Year: 1878

Senator Lamar is sitting there just to
the left of Gordon, looking like sick IL
on. He is short and massive in build
and feature. His hair is thick and long,
as though he could not be patient under
the scissors of a barber. His beard is
much in the same condition, and COM
pletely covers his mou.h--a mouth, how
ever, which you may easily imagine is
Enthusiastically firm, decisive and reti-
cent. Lamar is feeble, aud seldom trusts
himself to continued effort in speech or
labor. His enforced quiet and insction
make him morose and misanthropc in
appearance. He has strong, active, un-
usually clear mind, and the blood which
pulses quick and hot from heart to brain
finds no backing in the sluggish and clog
ging tide that compels his physical ener-
gies to calm. Lamar in full health and
powers would be Boanerges-as he is
he has the hospital gloom and fret upon
him, and the sound of conflict, the sight
of contention in which he would delight
to WELD his battle-ax are aggravating re-
minders of his pulling weakness.


Senator Ben Hill, that blonde, strong
Saxon looking man, is sitting just in from:
Of Coke. Not sitting, either, for when
quiet in his seat Ben Hill is scIouged !"
down into his chair like weary school
boy who has been kept in after hours
When not listening to some other Sena-
tor he is reading the Record, or some
equally interesting book or paper. He
takes, probably, as much interest in the
current proceedings of the Senate as any
of his colleagues, but occasionally you
may catch him in the cloak-room doing
sweetl- on a sofa. When a Senator takes
the floor for a speech Senator Hill listens
with great respect long enough to know
whether no is going to be interested il
not, he slides out TO smoke or chat in the
lobby or cloak-room if he is interested,
he gets as close as possible to the speak
er, and is apparently al. ears. He is a
notable figure in the Senate, promptly
hunted out by visitahts to the galleries -
Nearly every one who gains admission
to tho floor wants an introduction to him.
He is popular among the Senators, and
his powers are more feared than those of
any man or the Southern seats. His or
atory is quick and powerful, his logic not
always invincible but his tongue is
sharp and ready as Damascus blade
Whenever sensation is wanted the
plumbago god and goddess in the report
ers' gallery yearn for Ben Hill to put his
arm out from the shoulder. Ho rover
rises to speak but hush comes over the
Senate, and every ear is turned to catch
his words. He is rapidly gaining that
magical power over the heterogeneous
audiences of the Senate that he has so
long held over his Georgia followers
With another year in the Senate Ben Hill
will claim name and place in its annal.
that no Southern man has ever aspired tc
since the war. Washington Letter to The


SaUannah, ca. NewS.
Year: 1878

WELL RECoMMENDED.- "A gentleman
once advertised for boy to assist him in
his office, and nearly fifty applied for the
place. Out of the whole number he in \
short time chose one and sent the rest
away.


II should like to knew" said friend,
"on what ground you selected the boy
He had not a single recommendation. )"


"You are mis- staken, +" said the gentle
man, she had a great many. He wiped
his feet when he came in, and closed the
door after him; showing that he was
orderly and tidy. He gave up his seat
instantly to that lame old man; showing
that he was kind and thoughtful. He
TOOK off his cap when he came in, and
answered my questions promptly and
respectfully; showing that he was polite.
He lifted up the book which | had pur-
posely laid on the floor, and placed it on
the table, while all the rest stepped over
il or thrust it aside, showing that he was
careful. And he waited quietly for his
turn, instead of pushing the others away;
showing that he was modest. When |
talked with him noticed that his clothes
were carefully brushed, his hair in nice
order, and his teeth as white as milk.
When he wrote his name l observed that
his finger nails were clean, instead OF be-
ing tipped with jet, like the handsome
little fellow in the blue jacket. Don't
you call these lettres of accommodation,
| do; and what | can learn about the boy
by using my eyes for ten minutes ia
worth more than all the fine letters he
can bring me-"
Year: 1878

To stop bleeding at the nose, says an
exchange, exercise the jaws as il in the
act of mastication. In the case of
child, give it something to chew-a piece
of paper, for instance. The motion Of
the jaw will soon stop the flow ofblood.
1t is a sure remedy simple as it seems.
Year: 1878

Persons from Colorado are surprised to
find Montana possessed Of such a vast extent
of pastoral lands 1t is also a matter Of Won
der to them to find that bench land, even OF
our most thclly settled villages, show no
signs of having been pastured
Year: 1878

Several loads Of household furniture be-
longing to General Smith, passed through
Diamond for Smith river this week. Mrs.
Smith and family will follow soon. We are
pleased to welcome them to Il permanent
home in our midst.
Year: 1878

Two four yeAr-o old horses, branded b X on left
hip and p X on left shoulder: one gray, the other
brown. When last heard from were on Lower
Smith river. Any information concerning their
whereabouts will be suitably rewarded


Address MARKS q PATTERSON,
Diamond City
Year: 1878

Mr.. Lyons, a prominent wool grower OF
the Dearborn, passed through town this
week on his way over to Smith river to ex-
anime into its advantages as wool growing
section, and to look up and locate a ranch
to which he will remove his flock.
Year: 1878

The petition of the people Of the White
Sulphur springs vicinity fora school district
has been approved by the county school
superintendents and trustees appointed. A
school building will be erected at once and
school opened as soon as ready.
Year: 1878

We publish this week an unbiased account
of the treatment that guests receive at the
White Sulphur Springs by member OF this
office who speaks from experience. This
resort is truly Il home and ASYLUM tor the
sick and afflicted.
Year: 1878

New York, Oct. Tt is understood
an effort is to be made to rearrange the
fixed charges to be paid the Panama rail-
road company by the Pacific mail steam
ship company. 1t is claimed that in add
ton TO the $4,000 agreed to be paid each
month by the steamship company. the
lighterage and other charges in nSeptember
increased the total Indebtedness to the
Panama company for that month to over
100000; to settle this matter the Pacific
mail executive committee propose that q
special committee from each company be
appointed.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON. Oct. 5.-The president and
family will move into the executive man
sion from the soldiers home week after
next The house is being prepared for
their reception.


The clerks living in the western states
employed 10 the executive departments of
the government will be allowed ten days
leave ofabsence to go home to vote,
Year: 1878

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Blacking
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard and their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the oldest In the country and
has the largest trade in its line in the
country. dwtf
Year: 1878

Of the thousands who die annually OF
consumption, how many there are who
could be saved by timely care. The very
best remedy isSLoAN S LACTo PHOSPHATE
OF LIME, IRON Il COP LIVER On.


1t is SO delieateIy favored that even an
infant will take it willingly.


The Philadelphia hospitals use il with
great success. Get q bottle Of it. nwi
Year: 1878

THE first case of a Chinaman con-
tracing yellow fever came to the no.
tice Of the authorities in New Orleans
yesterday. His name is All Man. AS
he was destitute he was taken to the
hospital, .tGhd ag r li
Year: 1878

REsIaN1Na office holders in WASH
ington have a neat custom Of fixing the
date of their retirement a convenient
time ahead, SO that they may enjoy the
usual 80 days. leave Of absence, ending
at the time fixed by their resignation.
Year: 1878

VEsUvIUs is getting to work like a
high toned volcano. The crest of the
cone has given way and a new cone is
forming. There are hot times under
as well as on the surface in that direc-
tion
Year: 1878

SEND FOR ONE This paper being
non-partizan, the Managing Editor will
not reprint III it his card III reply to
recent political assaults upon him. But
any one desiring to read the latter can
apply for copy to either the Raleigh
Neocs or Raleigh O5serrer. both of which
have kindly admitted it to their col
umnS.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, Aug. "a morning paper says
that in the race suggested yesterday between
the Columbias, the Shoe-wae-c e-cae-mettes and


the fast Atalantas four, there Is one other team
which ought to enter, namely, the Harvard
" to the interest in the contest. When Har-
ward disposed of Columbia so easily last sea-
son. 1t was well known that the latter was in
no shape for race. Her present four Is un-
uuestionably o faster crew HIS q four than any
she has had The Harvard light this year
was fast. and doubtless four men could be
chosen, who would make an excellent card.
Columbia is said to be eager to meet such
q four. and now that SO many good crews
could without much difficulty be brought To-
gether, It seems too bad to let the chance go
Year: 1878

The largest stock OF GOODS ever offered south or
New York Is now being disposed OF at


COHEN BROTHERS,. G
They are Offering hundreds OF GREAT BARGAINS
that are never mentioned In their advertisement.
Their stock Is composed Of every variety OF goods,
from the cheapest domestic TO the finest goods I'M
ported No article Is m'sreprescnted at their house
and prices are guaranteed against any house In this
city. Every advantage in the purchase Of their
goods IS given 10 their customers.
Year: 1878

Major Robert Stiles spoke for half an
hour. He addressed himself to the intelli-
gence and discrimination of the people, and
demonstrated that all the good things in the
Greenback platform and in Colonel New
mans speech were stolen from the Demo
Gratis. His speech was as good as any made
during the day. The fact that this report
has been so greatly prolonged is the poor
apology for not giving better account OF it.


Colonel Newman attempted reply, but
the crowd was restive and noisy, and he
soon gave up the Job, and the meeting adj
iourne6
Year: 1878

Fanny Richards, now Mrs. Banister,
who, it is charged. was Bishop Nc
Coskry's mistress as we'll as his ward.
recently called on the Detroit NeoOs
and most positively and Indignantly
declared the minister mot guilty of
the great transgression." She said
she never received but four letters
from him, and they were of the most
commonplace character, and the let
ters discovered causing this trouble
must be forgeries. She sent a tele-
gram after the Bishop to New York
demanding that he return at once and
clear her and himself of this "vile
charge" If there should be no Ere
at all connected with all this smoke,
the party who started the smoke
ought to be killed.
Year: 1878

A recent leading editorial of the
Times, referring to the statement In a
dispatch from it's st. Petersburg cor
respondent that Austria is said to be
advancing toward solution on the bas-
is of other powers taking suitable
compensation for the increased inf1u-
ence of Russia, says: 1.-The solution
oftaking suitable compensation means
of course, that Turkey should be fur
ther despoiled to satisfy the territori-
al needs of its neighbors. Thus bat
tie that may tomorrow be fought over
one crippled power may the day after
be fought over three. England may
fight on what it feels is just cause.
yet after spending more than we can
spare of our treasure and blood, we
may find ourselves filling ditch over
which others walk quietly to the COM
mon goal of their aspiration. Europe.
of course. now smiles upon US; cheers
US on and prepares in our eyes a lau-
rel wreath which is to reward our
first success. It twould be more to the
purpose If we were not left alone to
vindicate the treaties and fight the
battles of Europe"
Year: 1878

Bishop McCoskry denies the scan
dalous charges recently made against
him, and his friends defend. him with
strong emphasis. The aged Bishop
may be innocent of any great wicked
ness with the Richards girl, but it
seems that lie has been very indis-
Greet at least; and by resigning fed
the suspicious and gave a corrooorating
circumstance for scandal mongers to
use to his detriment. Leaving his
high position in the church and leav-
ing the country just as the scandal
became current, is looked upon, and
properly too, as a bad sign.
Year: 1878

Pat the Avenger" was the name
which William Phillips earned for
himself by killing several of the Phil
adelphia militia who went to Pitts
burg to do the people of that city a
service. For several days following
the riots of July last it was the proud
boast of The Avenger" that he had
sent several of the soldiers to their
last account; but, when an indict-
ment for murder was found against
him. his bloody exploits ceased to be
advertised so conspicuOusly. until at
last he came to the cowardly pass of
denying that he murdered even one
soldier, and of claiming that he was
drunk. 1t is said his conviction is
certain.
Year: 1878

There Is occasionally q sensible
Irishmsn who does not like the way
old General Shields was elbowed
aside by the present Democratic Con-
gress, and a relentless rebel preferred
for doorkeeper. But then they will
shout for the "Dimocrat Ticket" just
the same. Those Democratic leaders
knew the nationality well that they
snubbed-that they would soon for
get and forgive the insult.
Year: 1878

An earthquake may have its uses.
One shook up the Yellowstone valley
the other day and opened a large fis-
sure that showed five foot coal vein.
Almost any Nebraskan. would like to
have, one in a remote corner OF his
farm or door yard. If it would turn up
the same sort of inform rmation.-.State
Journal.
Year: 1878

A man at Fairview, Ky.. with a
craving for liquor. after selling every
thing of value where with to buy the
stimulant, took his few mon ths' old
child and traded it over the bar for
a drink of whisky. The bid was
afterward redeemed by the mother on
paying for the liquor.
Year: 1878

Mrs. President HRyes is In disgrace,
in this: The temperance society
bearing her name have dropped her
name because she countenanced the
use of claret punch at a recent excur-
sion dinner during the trip of the
Presidential party.
Year: 1878

A five gallon keg of our artesian
water was sent to an invalid in New
Jersey a few days since. The party
for whom 1t is intended. spent last
summer i'm our city, and thinks he
derived great benefit from drinking
Ii ~
Year: 1878

Young girls who have hardly entered
their teens" should give their undivided
/ attention to self-culture, and not allow
themselves TO have their attention divert
ed nor their time consumed by love mat
tiers. This is subject appropriate ouly
for riper years. They may properly as
sociate with such young boys as are
known to be correct and virtuous in their
lives, at proper times, and may treat them
and be treated by them politely and
kindly; but to receive their attentions as
lovers is entirely out of season and i'm
proper. Such love affairs are disastrous
in many ways. They distract the mind
and divert the attention from study.
There may be leaves and blossoms in this
premature growth of the affections but
the fruit will wither and fall-will never
ripen. Hence waste and sometimes ruin
are the consequences. At mature age,
when the mind has been cultivated and
the character established, when the judg-
ment has gained control over the affec-
tons, and the girl has in every sense, be-
come a young woman, then may she re-
celve the attention of such a suitor as is
approved by her cultivated taste and
sound Judgment. But the suitor whose
character and purposes are questionable,
will be rejected by her. She will never
encourage his attentions. If he has bad
reputation she will beware of him. If
his habits and associates are corrupt, she
will refuse all profers of his love. If he
is destitute of principle, as he must be,
to be destitute of character, she will dis
trust his purposes, and repel him from
her presence. No young lady can afford
to undertake the reform Of a dissolute
and dissipated lover, by receiving his at
tentions and joining herself to him in the
sacred bonds of marriage. Her duty to
herself and the world forbids it. She is
under no obligations to sacrifice herself
upon this altar. She has no right to i'm
peril her future happiness, and subject
herself to all the abuse, and poverty and
shame and wretchedness that are often
found N the drunkard's or profligate,s
home. But such are the results, we be.
lieve, in nine cases out of ten, when young
women allow themselves to be led to. the
altar by corrupt and dissipated young
men. There are but few cases of re Form
and restored affections, where these hab-
its have been formed in early life.