smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

THE FALL OF THE YEAR.
Coldly and bright draws in the day;
GLOOMY and drear it steals away;
For slowly how comes up the sun,
His Summers ardent labors done;
And low his golden wheel declines
Where Winter shows his starry signs.
No more to earth the fervid beams
Give beauty such as poet dreams;
No more descends the glorious ray,
The rapture of the Summer day.
The sky's deep blue is waxing pale,
The SUMS inspiring fervors fail;
The slanting beam he gives is chill
Within the vale and on the hill;
And now with many jealous fold,
The clouds would ali his cheer withhold,
Nor would on plain or height bestow
The soothing of his waning glow.
The flowers are gone, save those that still,
Like friends who cleave to US through i'll,
Outbrave the bitter wind that blows,
And deck their season to its close.
The leaves that late were only stirred
By gentlest breath, that only heard
The song birds note, round these the blast
Blows keen and fierce, and rude and fast
The rising gale filings far and wide
Their withered bloom and idle pride.
The birds have fled; the wind alone
Makes song in many sullen tone.
But sudden, LnrOuSu tuo uulSCiuS SAy
The sun again comes out on high;
The clouds fall back to yield him way,
And fly before his eager ray;
And gladness fills the breast amaln -
The glimpse of Summer come again!
All! sweet the beam, but like the smile
With which the dying would beguile
The mourning heart-the last sad ray
Love gives to cheer our hearts away.
The ght is gone, the moments bloom
Is sunk again in cold and gloom.
So pass away all things Of earth,
Whate'er we prize of love and worth
The form once dear: the voice that cheered
The friends by many tie endeared;
The dreams the aching heart forgets;
The hopes that fade to cold regrets.
Sweet scenes, dear haunts, that once knew
Nv heart yet fondly turns to you.
Let seasons change and be ye bright
With all the Summer-tide's delight,
Or let the Winters gloom be yours,
Your beauty still for me endures;
For Memory keeps unfaded yet
What Love would have me not forget.


Chambers Journal.
Year: 1877

KINDNESS TO AN1MALs-Van Amburgh
could handle his lions and tigers with impu.
nifty. No animal will fail to respond to kind
ness and uniform good treatment. And es.
pecially will the noble horse respect and con-
fde in and faithfully serve master who deals
gently and kindly with him. We have our
selves taken spirited Morgan mare, which
had been rudely handled and had become en-
tirely unmanageable through harsh treatment,
and, by appealing to her intelligence and re-
specting her needs, in three weeks time made
her entirely safe and reliable for wife and
children, and all who would treat her kindly,
and handle her gently; and we have, after
five years, seen the same mare resume her old
vicious habits when again under the control
of one who resorted to arbitrary or brutal
treatment Always appeal to the better in.
stincts of the horse, the mule, the OK, or cow,
as well as the dog and other domestic animals,
and they will never become vicious or unman-
ageable.-Semi- Tropical.
Year: 1877

When sit in the twilight cleaning,
And the busy streets grow still,
dream of the wide green meadow,
And the old house on the hill.
I can see the roses blooming
About the doorway low,
And again my heart gives greeting
To the friends of long ago


Dear long ago!
can see my mother sitting,
With life's snowfiakes in her hair,
And the smiles above her knitting,
And her face is sanity fair;
And see my father reading
From the Bible on his knee,
And again 1 hear him praying
AS he used to pray for me


So long ago!
see all the dear old faces
OF all the boys and girls at home,
As saw them in the dear old days
Before we had learned to roam.
As I sing the old songs over
With the friends used to know,
My heart forgets its SORROWS
In its dreams Of long ago


Dear long ago!
How widely our feet have wandered
From the old homes tender ties,
Some are beyond the ocean,
And some beyond the skies.
Nv heart grows sad with thinking
Of the friends used to know,
Perhaps I shall meet in heaven
All the loved of long ago


Dear long ago!
Year: 1877

zens. It would be an onerous burden on no
one, for the man who can afford to waste ten,
fifteen or twenty cents on drink, can we'll
afford to give the State two cents every time
he does so. The introduction of the MoAett
bell-punch in South Carolina would, undoubt-
edly, be either wise, just and profitable
measure of craftsmanship, or powerful in
centive to temperance. Probably it would be
both; and no good citizen can object to the
one or the other.-Ne,us and Courier.
Year: 1877

Our RECEIPT FOR CURING MEAr.-To
one gallon of water, take II Tbs. Of salt; !
fb. of sugar; ] OF. of saltpetre; OF. of pot.
ash. In this ratio the pickle can be increased
to any quantity desired. Let these be boiled
together until all the dirt from the sugar rises
to the top and is skinned of. Then throw it
into tub to cool, and when cold, pour it over
your beef or pork. The meat must be we'll
covered with pickle, and should not be put
down for at least two days after killing, du.
ring which time it should be slightly sprinkled
with powdered saltpetre, which removes all
the surface-blood, etc., leaving the meat fresh
and clean. Some omit boiling the pickle,
and find it to answer well, though the opera
ton Of boiling puri6es the pickle by throwing
off the dirt always to be found in salt and
sugar. If this receipt is strictly followed, it
will require only single trial to prove its su-
periority over the common way, or most ways
of putting down meat, and will not soon be
abandoned for any other. The meat is un-
surpassed for sweetness, delicacy and freshness
of color.-Grmantown Telegraph.
Year: 1877

LEGEND OF THE JAsMINE.-We are told
that duke of Tuscany was the first possessor
of this pretty shrub in Europe; and he was
so jealously fearful lest others should enjoy
what he alone wished to possess, that strict
iniunctions were given to his gardener not to
give slip, not 80 much as single flower, to
any person. To this command the gardener
would have been faithful, had not love wound
ed him by the sparkling eyes of a fair but
portionless peasant, whose want Of dowry, and
his poverty alone kept them from the hyme.
neal altar. On the birthday of his mistress
he presented her with nosegay, and TO- rem.
der the bouquet more acceptable, ornamented
it with branch of the jasmine. The povera
fgl;a, wishing to preserve the bloom of this
new flower, put it into fresh earth, and the
branch remained green all the year. In the
following spring it grew, and was covered
with flowers. 1t fourished and multiplied 80
much under the fair nymph's cultivation, that
she was able to amass little fortune from the
precious gift which love had made her when
with sprig of jasmine in her breast, she be.
slowed her hand and wealth on the happy
gardener of her heart. And the Tuscan girls,
to this day, preserve the remembrance of this
adventure by invariably wearing nosegay of
jasmine on their wedding day; and they have
proverb which says young girl worthy Of
wearing this nosegay is rich enough to make
the fortune of a good husband.


MATHEMATICS AND MISUNDERSTANDING
other talk to-day it came out that whaleships
carry no doctor. The captain adds the doc
torship to his own duties. He not only gives
medicines, but sets broken limbs after notions
of his own, or saws them off and sears the
stump when amputation seems best. The
captain is provided with a medicine. chest,
with the medicine numbered instead Of named.
A book of directions goes with this 1t des-
cribes diseases and symptoms, and says:
"Give a teaspoonful of No. once an hour," !"
or "Give 10 grains of No. 15 every half
hour" etc. One of our sea captains came
across skipper in the North Pacific who was
in a state of great surprise and perp1exity.
Said he: "there's something rotten about this
medicine chest business One of my men was
sick-nothing much the matter. I looked in
the book ; it said, give him teaspoonful of
No. Is. went to the medicine chest and I
see I was out of No. Is. judge I'd got TO
get up combination somehow that would gil
the bill, 80 I hove into the fellow half tea
spoonful of No. 8 and half teaspoonful of
No. 7, and I'll be hanged if it didn't kill him
in fifteen minutes There is something about
this medicine.chest system that's too many
for me "-Mark Tt0ain in the atlantic Month
ly for November.
Year: 1877

LIVE WITHIN Your MEANs.-Live within
your means. This is good rule for office
holders and business men generally. When
the man with moderate income endeavors to
live as extensively as men with a large in
come, his future can be easily written little
enjoyment, periods of anxiety, burdensome
debts, desperate struggle to keep up ap-
pearances, ultimate bankruptcy and red flag
to notify the neighbors that the sheriff is mas
ter of the situation. One half the dishonesty
of the present age springs from this foolish
practice of initiating the style of others. The
man of thousand a year wants to live equal
to one who receives Eve; he in turn aspires to
make as big a show as the one who receives
ten and the receiver of ten labors to keep
pace with the one who counts bis income
among the fifty thousands. Is it any wonder
that 80 many fail in business, or forfeit by
their misconduct the confidence Of friends
We must come back to our old fashioned way
of living, and this can be done only by obey
ing the Injunction, "Live within your means" /"
Life is altogether too short to destroy its en-
joyments by taxing soul and body to keep up
false appearances. Contentment comes with
moderation mental suffering and keen an
guish with extravaganza. To the young man
just starting in life, we say, live within your
means. To the man of business, pursuing
success, we say, live within your means. To
the Office holder, who hopes, by honorable
conduct to merit promotion and distinction,
we say, live within your means. To all who
labor for honor or profit, we commend the
motto as safe and profitable one, and one
that will pay compound interest in the end.
A faithful adherence to it, by old and young,
rich and poor, would restore confidence in
business and official circles, and gil the land
with happy homes, from which will emanate
a spirit Of purity essential to the maintenance
of public virtue.
Year: 1877

b9r The abuses in bankruptcy have become
80 numerous and so fragrant in character that
it is not surprising that the call for the repeal
of the law is wide and emphatic. The regis.
trar, before the United States Court at New
York few days ago, during the disposal of a
crooked case, said: ut has become com.
mon practice for merchants, knowing them
selves to be insolvent and bankrupt to pur-
chase merchandise to large amount, make
fictitious debts to friends, and then execute a
general assignment to some personal friend,
who takes possession of the effects and con.
tinues the business the assignor remains in
the store and continues to live in style upon
the proceeds. At the expiration of six months
their friends unite and put them into volun-
tary bankruptcy, from which they are dis
charged, and their general creditors do not
receive any dividend whatever. Such state
ofaffairs so discourages creditors that they
give up their claims and let the State assignee
keep the property and pay out any scant pit.
tance he may see 6t,"
Year: 1877

par The large boa constructor in the New
York Aquarium has just given birth to fifty
small boas-an occurrence without prece-
dent in this country. The family is kept in
large glass box. The mother is thirteen feet,


and her young are about two feet in length.
Year: 1877

GONG IN DEBT.-Half the young men in
the country, with many old enough to know
better, would Ego into business" that is, into
debt, tomorrow, if they could. Most poor
men are 80 ignorant as to envy the merchant
and manufacturer, whose life is an incessant
struggle With pecuniary difficulties, who is
driven to constant "shinning," and who, from
month to month, barely evades that insolven-
cy which sooner or later overtakes most men
in business; 80 that it has been computed
that but one in twenty of them achieves a
pecuniary success. For my own part-aDd l
speak from sad experienced would rather
be convict in State prison, a slave in a
rice swamp, than to pass through life under
the harrow of debt. Let no man misjudge
himself unfortunate or truly poor go long as
he has the full use of his limbs and faculties,
and is substantially free from debt. Hunger,
cold, rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion,
unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt
is infinitely worse than them all. repeat,
my young friends, avoid pecuniary obliga-
tions as you would pestilence and famine, If
you have but fifty cents, and can get 20 more
for a week, buy peck of corn, parch it and
live on it. rsthsr than owe any man dollar !!
Of course, know that some men must do
business that involve risks, and must often
give notes and other obligations, and ! do not
consider him really in debt who can lay his
hand directly on the means Of paying, at
some little sacrifice, all he owes. | speak of
real debt, that which involves risk or sacri-
fee on the one side, obligation and depend
ence on the other; and say, from all such
let every youth humbly pray God to preserve
him evermore.-Horace Greeley.
Year: 1877

The WAY IT WAS DoNE.-An old gray
friar who was showing the supposed place in
Palestine where Samson killed one thousand
Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, ex.
planned the modus operandi as follows: "He
took hold of the ass by the tail, and swung
the animal against the Philistines in such
manner that only his head, and of this espe-
cially the jawbone, struck the Philistines,
keeping offin this way the surrounding war
riors. and giving the blow the necessary force
to kill. I affirm that in this manner Samson
could have slain million Philistines, provi.
ded the tail of the ass did not break"
Year: 1877

SEE THAG ALL Is R1eHT.-It is always
bad to start on journey without having
looked to the harness and to the horses shoes
and it often happens that the time saved by
omitting examination turns out to be dead
loss when the traveller has advanced little
on bis journey. Not one minute, but hun
dred minutes may be lost by the want of a
little attention at first Set the morning
watch with care if you would be safe through
the day begin we'll if you would end we'll.
Take care that the helm of the day is put
right, look we'll to the point you want to sail
to, then whether you make much progress or
little, it will be so far in the right direction.
The morning hour is generally the index of
the day.-Spurqeon.
Year: 1877

The Mew York Nail in a long arti.
Gle on dead heads says "Members
of the press" are literally hunted down
by all sorts OF people who have axes
to grind. The managers Of 4 public
meeting who do not find the reporters
at the table, suffer s,ings of disap-
pointment the judge who sonorously
blows his nose before the stenograph-
ers the preacher, who descants upon
some special subject, loses spirit if the
representatives of the press are not
there even the burglar on the way
to the state prison, coyets 4 talk with
the newspaper man." Yet the out
sid barbarian thinks all newspaper
men are dead-heads, and cnvies them
the fine times they have in the way of
free dinners and free tickets to all
manners of shows. There never was
a greater mistake. People do not
seem to realize that, on the part ofthe
journalist, it is merely matter of
business that the editor or reporter
goes to these places, so attractive to
the outsider, much as the horse goes
to the plow-because he must do SO.
We venture to say that four-fifths of
these entertainments are TO journalists
intolerable bores. The press is the
victim of the public's rapacious and
unceasing demands for services with
out pay. Let us have the boot on the
right foot.
Year: 1877

Van Amburgh could handle his
lions and tigers with impunity. No
animal will fail to respond to kind
ness and uniform good treatment.
And especially will the noble horse
respect and coniide in and faithfully
serve master who deals gently and
kindly with him. We have ourselves
taken spirited Morgan mare which
had been rudely handled and became
unmanageab,e through harsh treat
ment, and, by appealing to her intelli
gence and respecting her needs, in
three weeks time made her entirely
safe and reliable for wife and children,
and all would treat her kindly and
handle her gently, and we have after
five years, seen the same mare resume
her old vicious habits when again un.
der the control of one who resorted to
arbitrary Or brutal treatment Always
appeal to the better instincts of the
horse, the mule, the OK, the COW, as
well as the dog and other domestic
animals, and they will never become
vicious or unmanageable - Semi
Tropical.
Year: 1877

AS fond mother, when the day is DER
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to bo LODI
And leave his broken playthings on the floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassurod and comforted
BY promises of others in their stead,
Which, though more splendid, may not please


him more;
SO Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings, one by one, and by the hant
Leads us to rest 80 gently, that we go
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full Of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what


we know


Henry w. LonpfellOw.
Year: 1877

From Claud De IIaven's Legend of Bathurs


A MEMORY.
If he had come i'll the early dawn,
When the sunrise flushed the earth,
would have given him all my heart,
Whatever the heart was worth.
If he had come at the noon-tide hour,
He would not have come too late;
would have given him patient faith,
For then had learned to wait.
Ii he had come in the after glow,
In the peace of the eventide,
would have given him hands and brains
And worked for him till | died.
If he comes now, the sun is SET
And the light has died away,
will not give him broken life,
But will turn and say him "Nay."


-[Court Journal.
Year: 1877

UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE.-As men
are unconscious of how much harm
they do, and how much unhappiness
they unwittingly cause, so they mal
do great deal more good th2S
think they may do a grsA
tending it; but no u
edly but w.
Year: 1877

PENNSYLVANIA, which has great
many remarkable things, has remark
able case of conscience awakening after
a long fit of somnolence. The Allentown
Bulletin tells the story as follows
"Twenty years ago man living in this
city lost wallet containing $50, and
lady living near Catasaueua had the
fortune to find the money, but lacked
the honesty to return it to the owner,
though she knew who he was. Years
passed on, the husband Of
the covetous lady prospered
and grew rich, the man who
lost the pocket-book with the money got
poorer and poorer, till the other day the
lady found him in the city in actual
want. Her conscience pricked her sore,
and going home, she got $50 and took it
to the mans family. The family was
very grateful, but the man, as soon as he
found out who had kept his money so
long, Immediately instituted suit to re-
cover interest"
Year: 1877




On the 10th ofSeptember, 1857, nearly
twenty years ago, one of the most bloody
and treacherous massacres occurred that
has ever disgraced American history.
1t is known and will ever be remembered
as the Mountain Meadows massacre.
The scene of horror was Washington
County, Utah Territory. One hundred
and twenty men, women and children OF
an Arkansas emigrant train were cruelty
put to death by company of Mormons
and Indians acting under the orders OF
the Mormon Church authorities, who,
at the time, ruled the consciences Of
tkeir followers as despotically as ever did
noted hierarchy in the dark ages.
Of the entire company but seventeen
small children, too young to retain vivid
impressions of the scene and actors, and
who were therefore harmless for the
future, were spared. The emigrant
train was plundered, and the bodies Of
the victims rifed, and the spoils pub
licly sold in Cedar City for the benefit
of the church of which Brigham Young
is the priest and prophet. The massa-
ere was conducted under the cover of a
flag of truce, and the bloody wretches
participating in it nerved themselves to
the dreadful work by engaging in prayer.
The story has been often told, and is too
familiar to need repetition. For twenty
years justice has seemed to sleep on the
track of the murderous wretches; but on
March 23d John D. Lee, who acted as
the leader of the Mormon expedition,
expiated his share in the massacre by
being shot to death at the scene of his
crime. Lees last statement is full Of
promise ofstartling revelations. He has
left an autobiography, which will be
published for the benefit of his family,
in which he gives complete history of
the Mormon church from the time of the
Nauvoo massacre up to date. In that he
says facts are given which, if followed
up by the District-Attorney, will suffice
to pull down more than one man high in
the councils of the Latter-day Saints.
There can be no question, there is no
question, thst Brigham Young himself
was cognizant of, connived at, and
profited by the massacre. In the inter
ests of justice it is to be hoped that the
execution of Lee may be but the first OF
a series of trials and punishments which
shall not stop until all the guilty parties
have suffered for their share in the his
torieal horror. The best solution of the
Mormon question would be rigorous
punishment of the Mountain Meadows
murderers under the law which finally
overlook John D. Lee. 1t is a scandal
upon the government of the United
States that its hand has not long ago
been heavily laid upon the colossal
criminal who is the nominal head of this
relic of barbarism.
Year: 1877

NEWS comes for sportsmen that the cap
ture of pigeons for trap shooting has been
prohibited in Michigan, whence most of
the birds are brought to New York.
Coupled, however, with the announce
ment comes the other one that the birds
have considerably flown over into Penn
sylvania, where they may be caught Just
the same as before.
Year: 1877

Doubtless the most fruitful source of de-


ranged health in this city is the furnace
that warns the domicile OF the average
householder. That subterranean evolver Of
noxious gases and excessive heat, which
leaves people cold because it is SO nearly
impossible to distribute it properly, is the
real author Of the myriad headaches, neu-
ralgias and bronchitiscs, and of at least
half the other diseases that are attributed to
our changolul climate, our bad sewerage
and drainage and our water poisoned with
miasm. Our sewerage is bad, our water is
far from first rate and our climate is un-
justly abused, and all these have obtained
bad names because they have been held re-
sponsible for the acts of the great sinner in
the cellar In each house the results arc
Year: 1877

The West, as might have been expected,


is the first to repudiate the darling dollar
of the daddyites for which the silver fanat-
les from that section have been SO long
clamoring, When Eastern journals and
Eastern men, in Congress and out of it, point
out that the attempt to make the silver dol
lar standard of value is gross injustice
who expects a fair days wages for q
fair days work, they are invariably
met with the idiotic answer that they are
the agents and tools OF the money power
aud of the bondholdcrs. as If to own a gov
ernment bond was a crime for which man
should be sent to the State Prison. 1t is, OF


course idle to argue with such persons. To


enter into discussion with q convention Of
lunatics would be just rs sensible as to at
tempt to convince thcm of their folly and
absurdity. What they have failed to see
their constituents, it IS some consolation to
know, are beginning to find out and under
stand for themselves. Under the teaching OF
the silver leaders the dollar of the daddyites
became immensely popular in the West; SO
much so that merchants manufacturers and
others employing large numbers of work.
ingmen began to pay their wages in silver,
to the great qualification OF those who had
been listening to the speeches of some OF
the gentlemen in Congress and voting for
them. This has been pretty profitable
operation for the employer, but as he is
beginning to see, rather hard on tho unior-
tunate workingman. During the past
thirty days the West has got all the
silver it wants. Brokers and bankers