smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

There is, says an exchange, a great
deal of needless suffering every year
while the hot days of midsummer last.


People will violate the plainest and


simplest laws of health. The well-to-
do merchant or broker drinks ice-water
at breakfast, and by the time he gets
down town he is hankering for the
refrigerator or Office water-cooler. Per-
haps before lunch time he will meet a
friend and with him take a brandy
smash or mint iulep. When lunch
time comes, if he drinks wine or beer,
he wants them ice-eold. If he drinks
water he wants lump of ice in each
goblet. He will barely have reached
his Office before he will want another
ice-cold drink. And all this time he
feels as if he were ready to melt, not
withstanding the cooling" drinks,


and his thirst is never satisfied. He
goes uptown with his hat in his hand,
perspiring more than ever, and the sight
of the thermometers that hang outside
the druggists doors almost makes him
go mad. In the case of the Iaboring
man matters are, if possible, still worse.
He also has begun by drinking ice.cold
water in the morning, and his craving
for that agreeable but delusive beverage
is nevsr over. Being a comparatively
cheap one, he can indulge his appetite


for it to an extent. Now, in default of


the doctors, we have a word of advice
for both rich and poor. There is no
need for all this perspiration and conse-


quent vexation. Danish ice from the
breakfast table. Drink as much water
as you like, or even as much as you
can before breakfast, and let this be fol-
lowed by light repast, including not
more than one small cup of coffee. Al
ter this the suns rays can be endured
without discomfort until twelve or one
o'clock. Then a moderate lunch with
one or two glasses of wine or beer will
last until the days work is over. AT
the evening meal pure water can be
Gdheu UU CtOtttHJ. DuG curing all Gl1S
time ice should be kept out of sight.
The water may be moderately cooled
with ice, but neither should be taken
ice-cold in summer. It might be a
blessing if the price of ice were
twice as exorbitant as it Is. That COM
modify is great benefit, but it should
be devoted only to its legitimate uses,
such as preserving meats and vegeta-
bles. 1t is customary in the hotels and
restaurants to set goblet of ice-water
before customer as soon as he takes
his seat at the table, as if ice were the
real staff of life. A goblet of water
with lump of ice in it placed before
person who sits down to order his
breakfast ought to be rejected as
promptly as if it were glass of tepid
dish-water. The "ice-cold" drinks
advertised at the various places of re-
freshment during the hot season con.
stitute great danger, and a woman's
crusade against this evil would receive
secret support from all sensible persons.
Year: 1874

The directors of a school district in
Preble county, o., recently discharged
their teacher, in the midst of his term,
for repeating to one of his pupils the
following verse


Over the hills great way off,
The woodchuck died with the whooping coughs
The prettiest girl ever saw
Was sucking cider through straw.


And at the June term of the county
court jury, in q suit brought by the
teacher to recover his salary, decided
that the directors were legally justified
in what they had done.
Year: 1874

This title now justly belongs to 8 physician who has added to the list of medicines new remedy, which appears to include all that is most valuable in the old pharmacopoeia, and not to in clude any of the drawbacks with which the so-called specifies of the faculty are chargeable. The providential man is Dr. Joseph Walker, of California, whose Vinegar Bitters have achieved, in the short space of two years, 8 degree of popularity never before attained by any advertised preparation in this country. We have too much confidence in the shrewdness of the American people to suppose that this sudden and surprising celebrity is the outgrowth of a delusion. Indeed, we have reason to know that it is founded on innumerable and we'll authenticated cures of almost all the bodily ills that flesh is heir to-. Not the least among the merits of the famous tonic and restorative is it's entire freedom from alcohol, as we'll as from all mineral drugs. It is composed exclusively of rare vegetable extracts - Com.
Year: 1874

If You want to trade where YOU can ge,
just what you want, and 4. the very loves,
prices, We honestly and earnestly advise you
to come and see us before you do your buy.
ing, we are determined TO do the leading
business in our town, if such thing is pos
sible and shall try to make such an impress
sion on the hearts as well as pocket books OF
our patrons as will induce them to come
again. ROZtER & JOkESTS.
Year: 1874

The body Of foater WAS found in the
river opposite the quarry on the 3ri. 1t had


tho appearance Of having remained in the


waiter for a long time as the flesh was near-
ly eaten from the bones. There was nothing


about him that could afford tho slightest
clue to his identity.
Year: 1874

Or the effort of some ofthe Republican
press to evade the issue ron the temper
ance question, the Cincinnati Commercial
has the following to say:


"There is an attempt on the part of
some of the Republican newspapers in
the State to smooth off the rugged cor
ners of the Columbus resolution on tenn
perance. That is to say, the word pro
hibition' nowhere appears in the Reso-
luton. But how do the Proihbitionists
understand it2 How do they construe
the words of the Resolution? Then pro-
pose TO support The Republican ticket on The
basis of this resolution. WhyP u Il does not
imply what they demand, wherefore rally 10
The, Republican more than he Democratic
standdradg Now, let us have a little man
illness in this canvass. Having made the
issue, stand squarely up to it; give it the
significance which the Prohibitiohists at
tach to it, and fight it out on that line"
Year: 1874

THE usurper Kellogg is a fraud, but
having recognized him as Governor of
Louisiana in 1872, President Grant must
continue to recognize him in 1874. So
say the papers, but why must her If
he made a mistake in 1879, why is he
bound to stick to it and repeatit it in I8741
The President ought to do what is right,
not what he knows to be wrong.
Year: 1874

THE New York Tribune says: There
is not an Administration organ in the
country which is not declaring that the
troubles in Louisiana furnish indubita-
BILE proof that the Republican party
should be kept in power. To the un-
partisan mind the logic Of this reason
ing is ve'y peculiar. The Republican
party thrust upon Louisiana a govern
ment which Republican Congress de-
clared to be usurpation; the citizens of
Louisiana, driven to desperation by rob-
berry, misrule, and oppression, arose in
arms and overthrew the usurpers; a Re-
publican President, for no other reason
than because he had done so before,
put the usurpers back by force of the
United States army and Navy; there
fore, it is necessary for the peace of the
country that the Republican party be
kept in power. 'p.e
Year: 1874

The following incident concerning
a Young betrothed couple is said TO
have occurred at Moscow: The girl
was of great beauty. the lover was
the son of rich parents, and on her
birthday obtained leave to celebrate
it with fetes 10 be given at her IA
theirs house. The first evening at
dinner the young man drank deeply
and became intoxicated, when his
conduct was so violent that the
guests all retired, and he was with
difficulty conveyed to his fathers
house. The next day, however, he
presented him> elf at the ball he had
arranged, and danced with his be-
trothed. When the dance was ended
the young lady requested the band
to play a favorite air, and retired on
the balcony, whence, Immediately
afterward, was heard the sound of
firearms, and the young lady was
found to have shot herself through
the heart with a revolver she had
concealed. A letter found upon her
assigned the discovery of her in
tended husbands brutal nature as
the motive for the act.
Year: 1874

No one (says Won Humboldt) can
fear death less than do, neither am 1
much attached to life; but have never
known the feeling of an anxious longing
for death; and although it be a nobler
one than that of an absolute weariness
of existence it is nevertheless blama-
BILE. Life must first, for as long
period as Providence wills It, be en-
joyed or sutfered-in one word. gone
through. and that with a full submis-
sion, without murmuring, lamenting
or ripening. There is one impor-
tant law of nature which we should
never Use sight of mean that of
ripening for death Death is not
break in existence. it is but an inter
mediate circumstance. transition
from one form Of our final existence TO
another. The moment Of maturity for
death can not be decided by any hu-
man wisdom or inward feeling; and to
attempt to do so would be nothing bet
ter than the vain rashness of human
pride. That decision can only be
made BY Him who can at once look
back through our whole course; and
both reason and duty require that we
should leave the hour to Him, and
never rebel against His DEGREES by a
single important wish the first and
most important thing is, to learn to
master ourselves with peaceful conf
dence on Him who never changes,
looking on every situation, whether
pleasant or otherwise, as source from
which our interior existence and indi-
yidual character may draw increasing
strength; and hence springs that entire
which few attain 10 although
all fancy they feelit.
Year: 1874

A STRANGE CASE OF DUMBNEss.-Dr.
F. May of Glastonbury, England
youches in the Lancet for the following
facts: A man in his neighborhood had
three daughters. Wishing for son,
he made a solemn vow that if his next
should be a girl he would never speak
to her. The next child proved to be a
son, as he wished, but, curiously
enough, he never would speak to bis
father. although he lived thirty-five
years with him. He always talked
freely with his mother and sisters, but
with no one else till after the death of
his father, when he talked readily with
every one. He was called dumb Eli" :"
The occurrence is considered by some
as a judgment. and certainly is Gu


rious instance of mysterious influence.
Year: 1874

FROZEN KINDEEss.-The world is
full of kindness that never was
spoken, and that is not much better
than no kindness at all. The fuel in
the stove makes the room warm, but
there are great piles OF fallen trees
living among the rocks and on the
tops Of the hills where nobody can
get them; these do not make any
body warm. You might freeze to
death for want of wood in plain sight
of all these fallen trees if you had
no means of getting the wood home
and making fire with it. just so in a


family; love Is what makes the pa
rents and children, brothers and
sisters happy; but il they take care
never to say word about tiff they
keep it q profound secret, as If it were
crime, they will not be much hap
pier than if there was not any love
among them; the house will seem
cold even in summer, and if you live
There you envy the dog when any


one calls him "poor fellow.-Dr.
/ Holland.
Year: 1874

The ENGLISH OF 1T.-The Web.
ster City Freeman says some Of the
merchants in that city are discuss
ing the propriety of adopting the
English plan of doing business
That is to sell goods only for ready
pay, or upon the thirty, sixty and
ninety day principle. When man
goes into store and wants to buy
goods on credit, the merchant asks
him if he wants thirty, sixty or nine
ty days-no credit being given over
three months in any case.-1f he
wants to buy on sixty days, for in
stance, the merchant takes his mote
for the amount, bearing interest a
a low rate from date. If not pai(
when due, the interest is increased
and the time extended, two exten
tions are made if requested; but
failure to pay at the expiration o
of the last extension, is followed b.
legal proceedings tc collect the deb
and the credit of the purchaser is a
heavy discount in the community
The plan may be made to worl
in this community after it was onc'
fully inaugurated.
Year: 1874

AT the Congressional conference,
on the transportation question, the
remarks of two Iowa members are
thus recorded:


Mr.. Loughridge, Of Iowa, was
glad TO see so many members here
from the Mississippi Valley. Nc
one question interested their constit
uen,s SO much as cheap transpor
tation. They were too apt to for.
get that there was any other section
than their own. The South at one
time forgot that there was North
and the North that there was q
South. The East was beginning to
find out that there was West
West which has power in Congress,
and now comes with renewed pow.
er. The West had the power to OBJ
tain redress if they would only unite,
He wished to take in the whole coun'
try and obtain such improvements
as would be of national benefit
The cost WIS nothing in this matter
His constituents were farmers and
therefore must have an outlet tol
their surplus produce.


Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, said the
East was as much interested as the
West in such improvements, and he
was satisfied that the Western mem
bers were a unit, and must support
those measures which would bene
fit agricultural interests. The ques
ton was not how much money
should be spent, bat how far Con
gress should go.
Year: 1874

his identity, and informed him Of
all the important facts connected
with his escape, as follows: He ate
very sparingly, feigned sickness,
and finally body was procured
from Portland and inferred as his
remains, and he was furnished with
money and started for New Orleans
where he remained but short time
and left, and since that time has
been travelling almost constantly,
never stopping long in any one
place; and the gentleman referred
to as having met him in the North
ern part of this State gave it as his
positive belief that, from the de-
scription given Of the leader of the
Iowa train robbers, it was no other
than the escaped murderer.
Year: 1874




In the Island of San Domingo were the llrst 70 In
troduce the use Of Balsam Copabia. Never has q
nauseating drug done more injury, for II not only
changes the nature of the disease to more dread
fu state than the original but II ruins the tone OF
the stomach and brings on dyspepsia in its worst
forms, having horrid taste and disgusting smell.
To avoid this drug and its effects the Samartans 8
Gift is within the reach of all, remedy purely veg
etable, and positive cure every time In from two
TO four days, without exposure or trouble. Male
packages, 81; female, 81.


For scrofula and all disease OF impure blood the
Samantans Root and Herb Juices Is the remedy to
be used.


KEEP THE BLOOD IN AHKALTHY CONDITION.


"The blood is the nfe OF the human body There
is no bone, nor muscle, tissue. membrane of
any sort, which Is not kept In healthy state, by the
unceasing action OF the heart pumping out night
hour this wonderful current of life In disease the
heart works faster, the supplies are hurried up to
the failing organism and nature ever true To herself
makes every effort to eXpel disease and preserve
life. Hence we have erupuons and sores because
nature has succeeded In throwing the poison TO the
surface. Shall we then stand and look on that he
roc effort OF nature trying to free herself from the
deadly enemy, or shall we come TO the rescue with
few bottle of the Samaritans Root and Herb Juice,
and hanish from the system that foul tant that has
been slowly but surely eating away the very foun-
tain of life7


Sold by T. Bringhurst L Co., Sixth and Market
L. McInall, Second and Market Wilmington, DEL,
and by druggists generally. je1I-1y
Year: 1874

We begin to think, nowadays, that instead
of good memory, the best thing to be acquired
is powerful habit of forgetting. The horrors
with which the 6Aily press now TEEN and which
overpowering interest forces upon the attention
in spite of responsiveness, are among the things
over which we would rather pass the sponge Of
oblivion as rapidly and completely as possible
The wash of daily events is wearing enough at
all times but at present the chief desire must
be that the unsavory flood shall leave as little
deposit as possible behind it.
Year: 1874

Detroit Free Press: Buffalo says taat De-
troit is sleepy town, but let man stand on
a corner here at midnight and yell out for
somebody to waltz up to him, and in five
minutes he'll think Fourth Of July process
sion is passing.
Year: 1874

Pere Hyacinthe is in hard luck, says
the Chicago Times. he has been turned
out of the Catholic church, and has left
the communion of the Old Catholics,
but still persists in calling himself a
Catholic. He recently applied for a
Catholic church at Geneva in which to
lecture, but it was refused; then he ap-
piled for the use of Protestant church,
and again met with refusal, because of
his profession of Catholicity. Where he
will next turn is hard to tell.
Year: 1874

and st the time be assisted in committing
the foul deed was a member in good
standing of the Methodist church. The
following Sunday after the murder he
organised and conducted Sabbath
school, and with eyes rolled up and
bended form thanked the Great Jehovah
for the blessings conferred upon him,
From the sickening details of this hor-
rid crime he is as vile monster as ever
cut q throat or sogttled ship and, oh |
shame to think of it his prospects for
release are indeed good. The techni-
calities aud legal iugglery Of lame laws
have already thrown open the prison
doors for his accomplice, and point to
tardiness in his punishment if not his
acquittal altogether. This, though, is
not for the want of evidence Of his
guilt, but of the manner in which that
evidence has been aud will be msnipu'
lated. SLIM CONTRIBUTOR.
Year: 1874

The following extract we take from
the New York Independent, and COM
mend it to the careful consideration of
BOYS and young men:


''The first thousand dollars that a
young man, after going into the world
for himself, earns and SdCeS will gener-
ally settle the question of business life
with him. There may be exceptions to
this statement: yet, for a rule, we think
that it will hold true.


The first condition is that the young
man actually earns the thousand dollars
in question. He does not inherit this
sum. 1t does not come to him by a
streak of good luck, as the result of a
fortuneate venture in the purchase and
sale of a hundred shares of stock. 1t is the
fruit of personal industry. He gives the
time and his labor for it. While he is
thus earning and saving it, he must
earn two or three, or perhaps four times
as much to pay his current expenses. he
Is consequently held steralysto the task
of industry for a considerable length of
time. The direct consequence TO hiLl Is
steady. continuous and solid dicipline in
the habits OF industry-in patient, persls-
tent, forecasting and self-denying effort,
breaking up all the tendencies to indo-
Ience and frivolity, and making himself
an earnest and watchful economist of
time. lie not only learns how to work,
but lie also acquires the love for work;
and, moreover, he learns the CdLue of the
sum he has thus saved out of his earn
ings. He has toiled for it; he has OBJ
served its slow increase from time TO
time; and in this estimate it represents so
many months or years of practical labor.
His ideas of life are shaped by his own
experience These natural effects OF
earning the first thousand dollars we
hold TO be very large benefits. They are
just the qualities of mind and body
which are most likely TO secure business
success in after years. They constitute
the best practical education which a man
can have as a lCOTher in this working
world. They are gained in season for
life's purposes, at the opening period,
Just when they are wanted, when foolish
notions are most likely to mislead an in
experienced brain. and when, too, there
is full opportunity for expansion and
developement in latter years. Men have
hut one life to live; and hence, they start
from opening manhood but once. And
the manner in which they start, the
purpose they have in view, and the hab-
its they form, will ordinarily determine
the entire sequel of their career on
earth. To succeed, men must have the
element of success in Themselves. One
great reason why there are so many use
less, inefficient and poverty stricken men
on earth-or, rather, boys seeming to be
men-consists in the fact that they did
not start right A prominent reason
why the children of the rich so frequent
ly amount to nothing may be found in
luxury, ease and Incidence, which
marked the commencement of their
lives 1t is the law of God that we
should be ICOrkerS on earth; and no one
so well consultS the best developement
OF his being as when he conforms his
practice to This law. The workers in
some suitable sphere are the only really
SfrOD0 men in this world
Year: 1874

Olivia, writing u the Philadelphia
Press of MorrisSey's Club House at Sara
tOga, says:


The fascination of the salon eenters in
the queer looking tables which surround
the room on three sides. Here the for
eigner sees the element Of his beloved
tTeHt-et-QUdTrQIt. rouge ef-nOjT and En-
glish hazard, whilst the American can
indulge in his native faro until his purse
is as lean as Pharoah's kline. All ganes
known to the civilized world can be in
dulged in the Duchy of Saratoga, only
the games of the oriental and the bar
barous are left out. That is faro table
at the right; there is an elevation in the
center longer than it is wide, upon which
are painted some cards of each suit
This is done that you can designate your
favorite card without speaking. So at
every table at which cards are played all
is fixed, that the game may move on in
silence. Faro is the American gambling
game, Just as monte is Mexican. The
next table is for English hazard; you
stake your money ON the throw of the
dice. This is a favorite game with col
lege students who declare they have
passed the years of twenty-one, but
whose smooth ehins prove that nature
has been long time performing a very
small amount of work


That holiday table, so brilliant in high
colors, is tTeHte-et-qudTTGnt. And here
is roulette, the table at which women in
Europe go mad There is no intricate
game to be learned; it is chance, appar-
emily all chance. A small ivory ball
rests on a particular point. You set tine
wheel in motion, stake your money on
some figure placed on a red or black
ground, and then wait to see how near
the ball will come to your number.
How desperate are all the odds against
the player. There is no place for skill
or human fOrethought, only blind, blum
dering chance. Where can the fascina-
ton exist in attempting to fight fate2 In
roulette an infant can win Just as much
as the wisest man; all that is required
of body or soul is strength to turn the
wheel. This game is the lowest round
of the gambling ladder, where age can
take the last taste of its mental Opiate
before it expires And yet the ex-United
States Congressman and ex-Confederate
Judge who made explanations, declared
that he had seen thousands of dollars
won at roulette, and that a person who
nad no pracJlcal knOWledSe Oh Jle 'Dusl-
ness had no way by which a correct
opinion could be formed. After the
roulette tables another game is shown
called red and black This game is
made up by taking certain attractive
points from rOuge-et-noir and other Eu-
ropean games. 1t is simple, easily
learned, and finds many vOtaries in the
younger classes of man. 1t bears the
same relation TO most other games that
soda water does to champagne. Many
of the foreign games have been what is
called AmeriedRized, for there is what
is called the foreign table for the same
kind of game"