smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

fThis poem was written by "Stella" Mrs.
Estelle Anna Lewis., at the age of fourteen,
Poe said it was "the most beautiful ballad
he remarked. amore than twenty times.
and always with increasing ad ioiration."
And on the strength Of this opinion we re-
print it.


1t hath beer said foi all who die
There is a tear;
Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh
Ger every bier.
But in that hour of pain and dread
Who will draw near
Around my humble couch and shed
One farewell tear?
Who'd watch life's departing ray
In deep despair,
And soothe my spirit on its way
With holy prayer?
What mourner round my bier will come,
In weeds of woe,
And follow me to my long home,
Solemn and slow?
When lying on my clayey bed,


In icy sleep,


Who there, by pure affection led,
Will come and weep;
by tne pale moon I'm piant bne rose
Upon my breast,


And bid it cheer my dark repose-


My lowly rest?


Could but know, when am sleeping
Low in the ground,
One faithful heart would there be keeping
Watch all night round,
AS If some gem lay shrined beneath
That sod's cold gloom,
Twould mitigate the pangs Of death
And light the tomb.
Yes! in that hour, if could feel


From halls of glee


And beauty's presence one would steal
In secresy,


And come and sit and weepDy me


In nights deep noon,
Oh! would ask of memory


No other boon. ... -.
But ah! a lonelier fate is mine,


deeper woe; 1.t4


From all love in youths sweet time


I soon must go; .. ...
Drawn round me my pale robes of white
In dark spot


To sleep through deaths long, dream
sf5 less night,


lone and forgot.
Year: 1874

Judge Williams rendered a de-
cision recently in a suit instituted by
the heirs of the late Stephen A.
Douglas for the recovery of certain
property said to have illegally alien
ated from them. The ground OF
action was that the executor Of the
estate had an interest in sale
which was made by him. The
Court awarded the property sold to
Robert and Stehpen Douglas, de-
barring the widow from pariicipa-
ton because she had been guilty OF
laches.
Year: 1874

From The Erle DISPATCH


Tilton has produced none of the
originals of the letters which he
makes public, aud his entire case
would fall to the ground before the
sworn testimony of his wife and Mr.
Beecher We can see no possible
reason for avoiding such simple
and satisfactory solution Of the
difficulty, and if the two persons
mentioned cannot give, on oath,
Just the evidence we mentioned,
Year: 1874

NOT LIKELY TO HAVE MUCH WEIGHT


From the Louisville Courier-J ournal.


Whatever Mr.. Beecher or Mrs.
Tilton may say, unless backed by IN
dubitable evidence, is not likely to
have much weight. Their friends
expect them 20 deny everything for
their own sakes, if not for the sake
of religion. They have all to lose
by taking any other course. They
would never be forgiven if they
were to acknowledge that the
Year: 1874

THE arches of the st. Louis bridge are
of iron. The immense hollow blocks
were cast in Pittsburgh foundry. So
nicely was the work done that every
block fit; but the keystone, which weighs
many tons, had expanded, owing-to the
heat, and was an inch too long for the
vacancy. The solidity of the work was
such that no clipping or cutting would
surmount the difficulty. In this dilemma
the keystone was wrapped in over thirty
tons of ice, where il remained twenty
four hours. When uncovered, IL was
found that the cold had contracted the
keystone to such size that it dropped
to its place in the magnificent arch, ex
actly filling the space required.
Year: 1874

THINK.-Thought engenders thought;
Place an idea upon paper-arother will
follow it, and still another, until you
have written page. You can not
fathom your mind. There is well Of
Thought there which has no bottom.
The more you draw from it the more
fruitful il will be. If you neglect to
think yourself, and use other peoples
thoughts---giving them utterance only
you will never know what you are capa-
pie of.
Year: 1874

REGULAR EATING Half the girls in
the land become dyspeptic before they are
out Of their teens, in consequence of being
about the house and nibbling at every
thing that is good to eat whereas, were
they to cut but three times day at regu-
lar times, and not on atom between meals
they might enjoy perfect health. To di-
gest full meal and pass it out Of tho
stomach requires not less time than five
hours. Ii II person eats between meals,
the process of digestion Of the food already
in the stomach Is arrested until the last
that is eaten is brought into the condition
Of the former meal just as If water was
boiling and ice Is put in, the whole ceases
to boil until the ice has been melted and
brought to the boiling point, and then the
whole bols together. No wonder that
dyspeptics are cross and peevish How
can they bo otherwise, since disordered
stomach is the source Of so many pangs 2
Yet thoy deserve punishment for neglect
ing to obey the laws which nature renders
imperative il health is to bc preserved.
Year: 1874

INro EACH LIFE SoME RAIN MUsr
FALL.-There is something sad in the
, following relative to the life and death
of Charles Sumner. 1t shows how little
we know of the inner lives of those sur
rounding us. How little we know OF
what cares, disappointments, heartaches
and darkened hopes are common to the
world of humanity. How little we know
where the bitter waters fow to sadden
the lives of the greatest and humbest
alike. An Eastern paper thus brings to
light the sad chapter in Senator Summers
life. 1t says:


Can a man pass the age of sixty
without woman steps over his line of
life to bless or to blast 7 The part which
a woman played in the life of Charles
Sumner was sad one. 1t might not be
dragged to view now but for the woman's
own act. Only two or three days before
his death his divorced wife made applica-
ton, through her attorney, to marry
again. The divorce was OF Summers
seeking, and by the Massachusetts law
she could not marry again while the first
husband lived without special permission
of the Courts. Sumner went to his death
cheered by no womanly word, no wiiely
prayers. His pillow was smoothed by
the highest in the land, and the man
whom II country honors stood by and
groaned in spirit us no passed away. And
the woman who had been his wife, who
he put away on account of Incompatible
ity, was at that timo wondering how long
it would be ere the Court would hear and
decide the petition which should give her
to the arms of another man. Can any
body die without making somebody glad1
Year: 1874

NOVEL LIGHT. To obtain light in
stantly without the use of matches and
without the danger OF setting things on
fire, take an obong vial of tho whitest
and clearest glass put into il u piece OF
phOsphorOus about the size of a pea, upon
which pour some olive OIL heated to the
boiling point, filling the vial about one
third full and then seal the vial hermet-
ically. To use it, remove the cork, and
allow the air to enter the vial and then
rccork it. The whole empty space in the
vial will then become luminous, and the
light obtained will be equal to that of "a
lamp. AS soon as the light grows weak
its power can be increased by opening
the vial and allowing fresh supply OF
air to enter. In Winter II is sometimes
necessary to heat the vial between the
hands to increase the fiuidity of the OIL
Thus prepared the vial may be used for
six months. This contrivance Is now
used by the watchmen of Paris in all
magazines where explosive or inhamma-
bic materials are stored.
Year: 1874

WHEN man begins life, heaven is
like a picture on the ceiling of cathe-
dral. He has to bend his neck out Of
shape to see il, and don't like it after ne
has seen it. Before long it seems to him
like good place, in which to get away
from hell, kind of insurance Office
Then it becomes a matter of sentiment.
But at last, when the real toll OF life
comes, and Gods love shows itself in his
discipline, and the yoke is heavy on his
neck, his suffering intorprets heaven for
him, as he never saw it before. What
dry place heaven is to many till father
goes there, or mother, or sister. Then
it becomes populous. To many q man
the gate of heaven is shut till his little
child goes up to open it for him. have
FIVE up there. So we build our own heav-
en- out of our griefs and pleasures, but
we know everything will be lar better
than we have sketchsd .-Beecier.
Year: 1874

REMARkABLE ATTRACTIoH.-AM Mas
sachusetts farmer says; My cattle will
follow me until leave the lot, and on
the way to the barnyard in the evening,
stop and call for Il lock OF hay" Smith
son says there is nothing remarkable in
that. He went into barnyard IN the
country one day last week, where he had
not the slightest acquaintance with the
cattle, and the old bull not only followed
him till he left the lot, but took the gate
of the hinges and raced with him to the
house in the most familiar manner pos
sible. Smithson says he has no doubt
that the old fellow would have called for
something ii he had waited little while,
but he didn't want to keep the folks wait
ing dinner, SO he hung one tail OF his coat
and II piece Of his pants ON the bulls
horns, and went into the house.
Year: 1874

THINGS THAT ENDURE.-Dld you ever
think what it must be to be shut away
from all the activities which are so much
to you-to give up the work that you
love, the plans that you have laid, the
pleasures that you enjoy, to be shut up
with pair and WEAKNESS, left alone with
yourself? Sooner or later this experience
comes to most of us. We find ourselves
with nothing to interpose between us and
our own soul. 1t is a great thing to have
friends about one at such time, but a
still greater to be at peace with ones
self. AS we sit in that solitude, unable
to work, unable to read, unable to con-
verse with friends, how fortunate are we
if memory brings us the record of daya
we'll spent, good deeds done, kind words
spoken. Then, indeed, may the sick
room be the vcstbule of Heaven, its still
ness freighted with the peace of God.


In one of the families where l visited
recently, was an old man, blind and deaf,
tHu ullilOsI HCiplcso' aseilS IN icN5 u
the room where he sat, looking into the
still face, | tried to picture to myself the
world in which he lived. Does he live
over again, thought |, his tar-away child
hood? Does his mothers face shine in
upon the darkness in which he sits? Do
his youthful days come back to him, aud
were they innocent, unsoltish, such as it
gives him pleasure to recall2 Was he a
good husband and father, and a useful
member OF society? Did the poor find in
him helper, the wronged and oppressed
a friend? Then is the darkness in which
he sits only apparent, not real. All the
past befricnds him and makes populous
his solitude. He has laid up store of the
things that endure they serve him in
the winter of age they procure for him
divine compensations, and abundant en-
trance into life.


We are not half particular enough
about the motives and acts that we admit
into our lives. We are particular about
the people we invite to our houses and
admit into our families t; how is it that
we are SO careless about the thoughts
that come and go in the chambers of the
soul? We can get rid of the unwelcome
guests, we can make little space be-
tween ourselves and the disagreeable
member OF the family; but how shall we
rid oursef of an impure thought, OF the
effect of hate ;hat had in it the spirit Of
murder, from the memory of the unkind-
ness that wrung another's heart, the in
difference that failed to sympathize with
another's distress.


Have you ever stood by the grave OF
one dear to you, and been compelled to
remember how much happier you might
have made that life which has now pass
ed beyond your reach? Has the hasty or
unkind word come back to you, ard re-
peated itself over and over again till you
would gladly have given year OF your
own life to recall it, and make it as if it
had never been? Let us remember that
those who are now living may soon be
dead, and beware of adding to the things
done that ought not to have been DONE
Cetia Burieigh, in Christian Union.
Year: 1874

Then my dear Stone, let mo entreat
you, that whatever you do, don't give
Miss Warren your explanation about the
letters"


" Why shouldn't ?"


Don't you see ? She thought you
didn't send back the letters for senti-
mental reason, because they were so dear
to you that you could not possibly part
with them and so, in point of fact, that
little misunderstanding Of hers led to the
re- establishment of your love affair"


Do you think so ?" he said, musing
ly. But il George has made any mis-
take about the matter, think that am
bound to set her right"


My dear Stone, take my advice for
fear Of accident set her right after the
wedding ceremony, not before"


Whether or not he took my advice
am not aware. He was married in due
course OF time to Miss Warren, and |
know that the lady was heard to declare
that she married the best husband in the
world,
Year: 1874

The other day little boy, while play
ing with his sister, sweet little girl of
five summers, got hold OF his fathers
gun, which had carelessly been left stand
ing in the kitchen by the thoughtless pa
rent, pointed the gun at his playmate, and
saying jokingly, "I'll kill you !" pulled
the trigger. What must have been that
boys feelings when he found that he had
told lie that the gun wasn't loaded.
and that his innocent little sister had
knocked off portion Of his nose with a
stick Of wood.
Year: 1874

a SOLITARY TwIN.-The 1" Fat Con-
tributor" furnishes the Utica O6Selrer
with the following strange story of =" A
Twin"


There is woman out West who gave
birth to one twin-just one, that's all
there was of him. She never had anoth.
er solitary twin SO long MS she lived. lie
was melancholy child from the first,
and wore such lonesome look. He al
ways seemed to be watching and listening
for somebody who never came. He APP
peared to realize that he wasn't altogcth-
er-that he was kind OF human paren-
thesis with one bracket gone-animatcd
dumb bells and one dumb bell missing
II pair that couldn't beat deuces and was
hardly worth drawing to. llo used to
moan in his sleep and paw around on the
pillow for his missing brother. When
that boy grew up he was different from
amy boy | ever knew-that is to say, any
one boy. He seemed more like two boys
at least he was altogether two boys ter





Gus for me. If he had fight it was with
boy twice as big as he was, for he
seemed to feel somehow, as though there
were two of him, or ought to be. He nj
ways managed to get two pieces OF pie ut
the table, just as if one of them was for
the other OF him who wasn't there, and
there was thin pretence of taking care
OF it for him, but he always took care to
eat 1T noticed. He only half learned
his lessons, aud double entry book-kecp-
ing nigh about set him crazy, because, as
| told you, there wasn't but half Of him
there, and he couldn't keep double entry.
He wouldn't sleep with any other boy,
because, he said, it crowded cm. lie
grow up, but he never got married. Once
or twice he attempted to court girl, but
left her when it was half done, rs though
that other twin would be along and court
the other half. don't know what be-
came Of him. | heard that he died from
sheer loneliness, but only believe half
hear about that boy, anyhow. If he's
dead, you can bet he is only half dead.
Year: 1874

The world was not made in a day, neith
er is our stock of goods all sold out, but
they are going at lively rate, and it car
only be that we are having such lively
trade from the fact of keeping the finest
stock of goods 10 this section and at prices
that cannot be equalled


WApswoRrI g. PARSONS.
Year: 1874

shonld prevail It would follow that this provision
or tue Constitution Of Wisconsin had been 1c-
pealed BY mortgage executed BY railroad COM
pany; and that tie mortgage had not only de-
praved the company Of its property and franchise
covered by the mortgage but had stripped the
Legislature. Of power conferred upon it and its
successors forever by the Constitution Of the
otate.


Eut suppose that the Legislature had not only
authoftzod the company to mortgage its proper
" anu franchises, as It did. but had gone furth-
H e. as II d1o not, and had expressly provided
Year: 1874

ST. PETERS CATHEDRAL, SUSDAY.--The


services at this place of worship on Sunday


were of an unusually interesting character.


At the Z O'Clock mass the members of the


St. Peters Catholic Total Abstinence Soci-


ETY. were present in full re9alia and received


holy communion and renewed their annual


pledge of totll abstinence. Bishop Gibbons


officiated at this mass and administered the
pledge In brief address to the members
be exp .eSsed his qualification at seeing that
the Society still flourished, and said it should


be matter OF great consolation as it was the
source of much ediication. He had no
doubt but that those who practiced the holy
virtue of temperance drew down upon
themselves not only great spiritual gifts from
God, but also many worldly blessings. He
regretted to learn that number of the men,
bers ofthe Society had broken the pledge, but
he exhorted the remaining ones to go on
brayely in their noble work and not look back,
and God would bless their labors. He also
exhorted those who had left to return again,
and those who were never members to be-
come 50, and realize the immense benefit they
would derive.
High.mass was celebrated at half.past 10
O'Clock by Rev. j. REILLY, this being his FIRST
celebration of mass after his ordination TO the
priesthood by Archbishop Bailey last Satur-
day in Baltimore. Bishop Gibbons made the
occasion fit one for a discourse ON the du-
ties and responsibilities of the priesthood, IN
the course OF which he addressed himself to
the newly ordained priest in words of advice
and encouragement.
In the afternoon, at vespers, another very
interesting and edifying ceremony took
place-that is, the reception of number OF
children as Children of Mary, and ethers as
aspirants- nearly fifty in all professions


being read by one Of their number respec-
lively. The Bishop on this occasion spoke
very feelingly to the little ones upon the


benefits they would derive from adhering to


the professions they were then making, aud
the great happiness in store for them.
At. the meeting of the fetal Abstinence
Society held at night in Cathedral Hall the
pledge was administered to fourteen new
candidates. st5.F S.s ses
Year: 1874

zrrELLE, corner of Eleventh and Bank streets,
Is ready for the grand anniversary. everything


good, everything inspiring ana entausine may


ha had at his place. All the dellcaces or and
land served In the best style to order.
Year: 1874

The Amerique, which has leaked ever since she was cut in two and lengthened-if report speaks truly-was the fourth steam CT of the French line which has been lost at sea or destroyed in port. Indeed. if the Alexandre Layallee, which was wrecked on the Long Island shore last winter, was, as one of the New York papers alleges, char tered to take the place of the Villa du Havre, the Amerique IS the fifth steamer which the company has lost. In the case of the latter vessel it does not appear that either the officers of the ship or her own CTS are to be blamed. The latter, it is true, caused the ship to be heightened, and there is every reason to believe that this length ening was the real cause of her loss. Still in so doing they only followed the example of the best English steamship lines, and should not be singled out for blame.

 The effect of the loss of the Europe and the Amerique will be to render the public shy ot heightened steamships. Not only is the process of lengthening, unless per formed with extreme care, 8 sure source of weakness, but the excessive length arrived at is also an element of danger. The Amerlque carried her coal amidships and her cargo in the forward and ait compart- ments. Of course as the coal was con- sumed the strain on the midship region of the ship greatly increased. In all long ships the strain is tremendous, and there is little doubt that both the Europe and the Amerique were in process of breaking in two when they finally sank. 5
Year: 1874

Kent

 Weddings seem quite the fashion in this vicinity. Recently one of our old, st and most persevering Gin the matrimonial way) citizens at the ripe old age of eighty-six took for better or worse widow of seven- ty five. This is the fourth bride MT. Bar ton has lead to the altar. and should give encouragement to all old widowers and bachelors, teaching them that while there's life there's hope. 'Tis reported that we may look for another wedding ere many months have passed; that of an esteemed bachelor of our acquaintance, who has doubtless taken heart at MT. B. s good ex- ample and concluded to go and do like wise......All desirous of having their pie lures taken have had good opportunity, as the car of 8 travelling artist has been sta toned here over week. One young man of calculating turn of mind, amused him. self last Saturday by counting the number of ladies who entered the car, he standing across the way with board and chalk in hand to chalk down. At nightfall he counted up, and reported the number as seventeen hundred This is doing we'll for small place like Kent, especially in a psnicky time. SoL.
Year: 1874



 The enterprising firm of Baker 6 Brins made are enlarging their store by an addi. ton of about seventy feet in length and twenty feet in width. and two stories high, which will give them the room their large and extensive business needs. They also intend to have tin shop and stove store in one end of the new building. They have just erected new barn, and moved their office from the end of the store around on the east side. We are glad to see MT. Baker back again in the store after his absence caused by his sickness. He returned from New York last week with some very nice new goods. @. Harris, the tailor. had quite chase the other day with bis dog. in hunting down a-w-well, shall we say what sort of wild animal it was we saw running along over the hills at such speed, and Harris and his dog in hot pur- suit, only half mile away, and the dog in spite of his masters repeated calls and commands, running in an opposite direc. tion. We'll, it was only poor woodchuck after all. You KNOW HOW IT IS YOURSELF.
Year: 1874

fore us calm but eloquent statement of their wrongs; shows how the farmers are overcharged and robbed of the just reward of their labors, and points out the causes of these evils. It explains how the rail roads impoverish the farmers, and gives a substantial reason for the charge SO often repeated, that high freiehts affect the value of land as we'll as of its products.

 A considerable portion of the work is de. voted to history of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. and it contains an account of it's rise, progress, present condition and future prospects. Each feature of the or der is fully explained, and an amount of information is given concerning this won derful organization that will amply satisfy the most curious.

 It is decidedly the most interesting and useful volume of the day, and as it comes at time when the whole country is suf- fering intensely from the effects of the evils it denounces, cannot fail to hayo a tremendous sale. It is an ably written work, and bold and vigorous plea in be- half of the farmers and all who are op- pressed ard robbed by the grasping mouop- plies which are causing SO much trouble. It is sold by subscription only, and agents are wanted in every county.
Year: 1874

Father of Light, of Life, of Love! Who ruPst the rolling worlds above; The First, the Last, and e'er the same, Forever hallowed be Thy name!

 h glory let Thy kingdom come; - Lead Thou the wandering sinner home And, the glad song ID Heaven begun, Bid earth prolong; Thy will be done! Give us each day our daily bread; Teach us in wisdom's path to tread; And. should we dare Thy wrath provoke In mercy spare the vengeful stroke; Forgive our angry passions strong, AS we forgive each others wrong; Nor let the Tempter's wiles alarm, But shield us from all threatened harm .. Thou gracious God to Thee be given, All power and praise, In earth and heaven