smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

4 young German came to California,
nearly thirty years ago, determined 10
get rich. He worked hard. He lived as
cheaply as possible. Every dollar that
he earned or saved he invested in real
estate, or loaned at four per cent.
month on good security. The result was
that he became millionaire. Yet when
his income was nearly a million year,
he lived in shabby apartments, and
boarded at the cheapest restaurants.
His one object in life was the accumula-
ton of property. Everybody regarded
him as a cold-blooded, close-fsted, iron
hearted man.


This successful (?) miser brought dis
ease upon him by overwork, and the
doctors prescribed for him a sea voyage,
So he determined to visit his native
land. He went to a celebrated watering
place hoping to be benefited by its baths.
The village where his parents had lived
and were buried was five miles distant
He thought that he would visit their
graves. But being too penurious to hire
a carriage he walked to the graveyard
Finding at the gate that the sexton de-
manded a small fee from visitors, he said
Ghat he would not 90 in. But DassinQ
around to the rear of the inclosure he
climbed over the wall. He looked at the
graves of his parents, let us hope with
some filial feeling, and then tried to 60
out as he had entered. The sexton,
however, was too sharp for him. He
caught him and took him before the
burgomaster. There the millionaire de-
MED that he had been in the graveyard
at all. The sexton stOutly averred that
he had seen him climb the wall. The
fatigue of his long walk, and the excite
ment of his alteration brought on a
paroxysm of heart disease, and he fell
down dead in the burgomaster's office.


Such was the ''last of earth" in the case
of this successful man. He left his
wealth to relatives with whom he had
scarcely any intercourse during his life;
in whom he felt no special interest, and
who, though glad of course to get the
money, cannot have much respect for
the memory of their misery kinsman.
So the eight millions that this man
gathered did not make him happy in
life or death, and he could take none of
tito invest in the spirit world. He is as
poor there as the poorest beggar who
dies in the almshouse.


Now many of our readers will say,
eff was worth eight millions of dollars
I would get more enjoyment out of it,
and make better use of it p Are you
sure that YOU would? The habits that
one must form in acquiring wealth are
not easily broken. There is nothing
that so shrivels a human soul as getting
money for irs own sake.
Year: 1879

END OF A QUARREL.-One day New
foundIand dog and a mastiH had sharp
quarrel over a bone. They were hghI-
inc ON a bridge. and over they went into
the river. The banks were so high that
they were forced to swim some distance
before they came to landing place. It
was very easy for the Newfoundland
he was as much at home in the water as
a seal. But not so for poor Bruce; he
struggled and did his best to swim, but
made little headway. The Newfound-
land dog quickly reached the land, and
then turned to look at his old enemy.
He saw plainly that his strength was
fast failing, and that he was likely to
drwn. So, what did the NOBLE fellow
do but plunge in, seize him gently Dy
She collar, and, keeping his nose above
the water, tow him safely into port ~
was funny to see these dogs look at eaeh
other as they shook their coats. Their
glances said as plainly as words, wen
never quarrel again"
Year: 1879

There is no funeral so sad to follow as
the funeral of your own youth, which We
have been pampering with fond desires
and ambitious hopes, and all the bright
berries that hang in poisonous clusters
over the path of life.


Here are some exaggerated expires
sions: 'I am tired to deathp So you
have said very often, yet you are still
alive and well. "I had not wink of
sleep all uightp' Yet your bedfellow
heard you snore many times. @I would
not do it for the worldp And yet you
have done many things equally bad for
a penny. "We were up to our knees in
mud p You know very well that the
dirt was not over your shoes.


Clean hands in matters of money
among the young certainly ought to be
the indispensable condition of gentle
manliness. No man who bOrrOws anG
does not pay, and does not care whether
he pays or not, is a gentleman, no mat
ter how witty, or gay, or fine he may be.
To speak in good plain English, the man
who dresses himself at another's ex-
pense, not knowing how to pay, nor car
ing whether he pays, is a genteel scOun-
drel. And yet such things are done by
good-natured folk, by kind-hearted peo-
pie, by persons who never probe them
morally u ascertain what their tendency
is, and what they lead to.


Nothing makes a man so in love with
purity as purity. Many man has been
lifted out Of debasing sins against which
he has vainly struggled by coming to
know and love a pure, sweet woman. 1t
is the sight of embodiment goodness
that makes us want to be good. Many a
mother, by the quiet usefulness of her
life, fills her children with desire to be
like her, that makes them in their turn
unselfsh. There are obscure men and
women who hardly in their lives utter a
word of conscious teaching, who by
their example do more to make people
around them gentle, and truthful and
Christ-like than any preacher can do.
1t is not those who talk about goodness,
but those who are good that are the light
of the world.
Year: 1879




What is called the American colony
in Paris, says correspondent of the
Baltimore american, consists of about
from the south. A great many of them
might be regarded almost as permanent
residents. A goodly number of them
are people of limited means, who find
that they can live so much cheaper here
than in an American city, they have
concluded to stay. One of these re-
marked to me the other day, 81 can live
better in Paris on $1,000 per aEnum than
could in New York on S6,000." He
then proceeded to detail the difference.
In New York he would be regarded as
nobody unless he owned or rented a
brown-stone house from 81 900 to $4,000
per annum. Here he could obtain a
suite of elegant apartments, in a fash
ionable neighborhood, at from $500 to
1000 per annum, and make as good an
appearance as any one else III his sphere.
In New York he would have to pay $40
per week for coachman, whilst here he
could engage landau, with fine pair
of horses, and a liveried fOOtman thrown
in, to be always at the reasonable call of
his family, at from $12 to SIS per week.
Then he said he could clothe himself
and family at one-haf the expense, and
much better, than he could in New
York; that servant hire was not half
the cost and the service better; that
there were always amusements here at
moderate cost, and cab at call 10 take
him and family home at all hours of
the night for two francs; whilst in New
York such luxury would cost S.. Then
there was little or none of the troubles
of housekeeping in Paris, as n family
can be fed cheaper than it can feed itself
if satisfied with French living. But, he
remarked an American can never feel
contented or comfortable in Paris until
he goes to housekeeping and orders his
food, and prescribes the mode of cook
ing it. A Frenehman loves the table
d'hote, but it is all abOmination to an
American. As soon as they get under
their own roofs they all fall back to the
American mode of living, and luxuriate
in grIddle cakes, mullins, hot rolls and
bucE.wheat cakes, all of which a PaEisian
would regard as poison. They exercise
the horrible French patties, roast and
stuff their chickens instead of brOiling
or frying them, serve up their salad
without oil, and let those that love oil,
oil it; they eat their peas and beans and
potatoes with their meat, and mix things
generally just as they did at home.
They know exactly what they are eating,
and no longer shut their eyes and
swallow whatever is given them, with
out knowing very often whether it is
fish, flesh or fowl When cn American
gets under his own roof he is always
happy in Paris, and the ladies especially
become attached to it, In short, he
maintained that an income of $4,000
per annum would enable man to keep
his family in as good a position in polite
society as could be done at cost of
$4,000 in New York there were GER
tain expenses necessary to position there
not required here, and that a fine show
ing can be made off a limited purse.
Year: 1879

Truth FOR YOUNG MEN.-The one great
practical truth that ought to be driven
over and over again into his own mind
by every young man is, that he should
not care button for his likes and
dislikes; but should do what ought to
be done, in spite of any disagreeable-
ness. The lesson of self-denial Is far
beyond any other in importance. 1t
must be repeated a thousand times over
before it is really learnt by heart, but
oh. how worthy the painsl Happy is
he who has learned not to seek for what
is pleasant, not to shrink from what is
painful, but to 90 on doing everything
that he knows to be good, and kind, and
right, in utter disregard of self. How
man might ennOble and invigorate his
life if he would work this principle into
the very grain of his mind, and strenu-
ously act upon it, invariably striving not
after what would be pleasantest but
what would be best. In fact, 1t IS the
very. essence of all that IS good ana
great in human life; and nos only so,
but is the true rcad to happiness.
Year: 1879

An unknown but evidently married
psragraphsr says when . woman combs
her back hair into two ropes, holds one
in her mouth until she winds the other
on her tuck comb. and then she fnds
that she has. Lost her last hairpin, abe
feels that the sex needs two mouths
one to hold the hair in and the other to
make remarks with.
Year: 1879




The Richmond, Va, State, in recent
issue, says: The reported remark of
Mr.. jefferson Davis, at press meeting
in Mississippi, that he had never yet
seen a reconstructed Southern wo-
man, !" has been the cause of a great deal
more discussion than its importance
entitled it to, or the author had the
remotest idea it would call forth when,
in spirit of quiet humor, he gave it
utterance We all know here what the
ex-President of the Confederacy meant,
and how very harmless was the express
sion, properly understood and inter-
preted in its true spirit. But even
constituting it as it has been by our enc
mics at the North, and allowing it the
widest latitude from their standpoint, it
is, after all, but negative.
But, given its most liberal meaning,
what does the remark of the ex-Presi-
dent amount to, and how far was
it correct /? Are there no reconstructed
women in the South We know there
majority of them are thoroughly recon-
structed, and accept as fully the situa-
ton as nine-tenths of the men do; but
not in the sense of being changed in
their sentiments as to the righteousness
of the cause in support of which their
husbands, brothers, sons or fathers
fought, and for which SO many of them
died. The women of the South find no
difficulty in reconciling their duty to
their country now with their devotion to
and loving remem brance of the cause to
which they freely gave their most pre-
cious Jewels, and, while all perhaps
teach their children to honor the memory
of their fathers by npholding the justice
of the quarrel in which they engaged
and by revering the cause for which they
fell, yet they do not consider that in so
instructing they wrong the restored
Union to which they owe and acknowl-=
edge duty and allegiance; and surely that
woman would scarcely be held good
mother among any people who should
impress upon her children that their
duty to their country involved the terri
BILE alternative of cursing the memory of
their fathers. That our Southern women
are very reasonably reconstructed, Mr..
Davis could have found sufficient evi-
dence had he sought it by passing
through the country and mingling pro-
miscuously with the people.
Our Northern friends may restrain their
anger against this terrible army of South
ern women. We can assure them they
are not conspiring to overthrow the
Union, plotting new rebellion, or
raising up children to revenge the
wrongs of the South. Nothing of the
sort; but, like true women, are busying
themselves wholly about the happiness
of their homes, husbands and children,
taking very little part in the discussion
of the political questions of the day."
Year: 1879

circle. The fondness which hallowed the
cradle, the soft compassion which was so
ready in those days. is still in the soul of
the mother, but she is often afraid to give
it expression. l he reserve which gradually
builds ITSELF till it becomes a wall, between
parents and children, is always to be de-
plored. 1t is frequently one of the intan-
gible causes, which keep childref from
coming TO the divine love. A young
man or woman shall be willing to speak
to anyone rather than to mother. of the
things which concern the spiritual life.
Somewhere away back in the earlier years
there was an hour when the first stone of
separation was laid. and the first chill of
misunderstanding crept between the two,
who were mutually SO near and dear.


Baby ways are beautiful. The baby bud
is very fair. But you would not want the
baby to stay in this world, without growth
or development. What sort of man or
woman shall this little one be in the
future? Strong or weak. full or empty
large and liberal, or small and churlish,
friend or an alienP Under Cod the an
swer TO this, rests mainly with fathers and
mothers. There cannot be too much love
and pitience, blent with authority, in the
training of the elder children. Congrega-
HOnGliSt.
Year: 1879

The man of business tolls early and late,
and tries tn vain to figure out profit
from a profitless account. He is discour-
aged; want stares him in the face; he
turns from the unwelcome scene and looks
up, in hopes to see ray of light; but no.
the clouds have gathered. the sky is dark,
and the storm which is injurious to his
business. his prospects and hopes, is surely
coming. 1t comes, and with it he is, as
far rs business is concerned, left a ruiued
man. Such man in such condition
throws up his hands and exclaims, what
am to dop There is but one course left.
You must buckle on the armor and 90 into
the battle again and deposit for your capi.
tal instead of dollars and cents, q large
stock of pluck and perseverance. Sun
shine is sure to come after q severe storm,
and the longer the storm lasts the brighter
the sun when it shines. So it will be in
your case. The longer your trouble lasts,
the more prosperous You will be when
prosperity comes, for your trouble has
taught you q good lesson, and you will
be more careful in the future. Business
is such at the present time, that men are
reduced to their own value, credit is being
done away with. and in such stale Of
things the outlook is improving each day,
as men are doing business on not what
they expect to have tomorrow, but what
they have to-day.
Year: 1879

Occasional storms and tempests may
strengthen and make US hardy and healthy
if we are properly prepared to endure
them; but sunshine and calm are our
daily need. A little necessary leaven of
evil may be we'll enough, but we do not
want an overdose of it. Hills and noun
tains beautify and diversity the landscape,
but there must be beautiful meadows,
broad prairies and fertile fields. and green,
sunny acres of lowland to make the hills
even tolerable. So the philosopher calmly
takes life as he finds it, and makes the
most and the best of all that is, knowing
that it is but the result of all that has
been, and that we must work out our own
good and our own salvation from misery,
amid the environments that surround US
by our own individual efforts. s.-Elmiaa d.
Stenker.
Year: 1879

GLAZED PoTs.-Glazed pots are con-
demned by most writers. The majority
of these writer's are greenhouse men, or
those with but little experience with
growing plants in the dry air of our par
lors and living rooms; and in watering,
those in glazed pots would naturally re-
ceive the same supply as those in COM
mon porous pots alongside. The evapora-
ton from the porus pots would take place
much more rapidly than from the glazed,
and the one would be comparatively dry
while the other would be still wet. The
next watering repeats this process, and
the result is quickly seen. The plant in
the glazed pot pershes at once, or drags
out Il sickly, miserable existence. Glazed
pots can be used with good results in the
parlor or living room. If the drainage is
good, SO that the surplus water can pass
off, there are many plants that will grow
well in them. To this it may be added
that many people are very irregular in
watering house plants. They forget to
attend to it until the dry and parched ap-
pearance of the earth admonishes them OF
their neglect. OF course tho plant in the
unglazed pot suffers worst under this
treatment, for the earth gets dry from top
to bottom. while in the glazed pot the
great bulk of the earth, being protected
from rapid evaporation, may remain com.
paratively moist, though the top is dry
Journal of Chemistry,
Year: 1879

o man or woman, whosoever thou art
young or old. what wilt thou do that thou
mayest inherit eternal life? Not simply
life somewhere when thy mortal days are
ended, but the eternal life which may
begin within thee now by following the
spirit of the Eternal. If thou livest for
nothing-for only such nothing as thyseli
I will not say that thou wilt die. for thou
art dead already; but if thou wilt live as a
true child of the Eternal, if thou wilt keer
His commandments, if thou wilt strive to
be perfect by doing what thou canst-thy
divine parentage will make itself felt
more and more, and thou shalt have eter-
nal life indeed Thomas Sddler.
Year: 1879

REGULATING THE SMALL BoY.-Satur-
days are red-letter days in the lives of
schoolboys, and the amount of live ex-
perience that can be crowded into spring
Saturday is something to think Of |
know boy whose infant feet have pressed
the blossoms of something like fourteen
summers, or thereabouts, who made four
kites and flew them with his mothers
patent thread, tore his pants zigzag trying
to nail a pigeon box to the woodshed,
played trapcze on the clothesline, and
came down in the slop barrel. These
were only casual incidents of an hour.
He coaXed strange rooster into the yard
and raised a revolt in the hennery, upset
pail of whitewash on the clean porch,
and caused the hired girl to leave with u
big ironing on hand; dropped the shears
into the cistern. and broke the small blade
of his knife, besides other and minor
things beyond number. 1t is one of the
impossibilities to regulate the leisure
hours of a boy.-CtncinmGH SATURDAY
Mght.
Year: 1879

He STAYED MESMERIZED Recently q
York street family entertained number
of friends, and among the guests was u
Nicholas street young man with mischief
in his eye, and who has a penchant for
practical joking. There was also in the
party Sussex street merchant, who
boasted during the evening of being able
to put the strongest mind in the room un-
der the influence of mesmerism. 1t oc-
Cured to the Nicholas street young man
at that moment that he could have jolly
time, and his eyes twinkled. and a smile
beamed over his face as he announced
himself ready for the sacrifice. The mer-
chant commenced the operation, and in
less than two minutes concluded that he
had the Nicholas street man under control.
He was allowed to think so, for his sub
iect performed all manner of odd tricks at
his suggestion, much to the amusement Of
the company. Half an hour later the
merchant considered that it was time to
restore the young man to his senses, but
he soon discovered that he was powerless
to perform the act, and, to all appearances,
had lost control of his subject. When he
had been under the influence an hour the
merchant began to get scared, and so did
the company, who looked upon the affair
as genuine transaction. Finally, doc
tor was sent for, but before he arrived the
young man had kissed all the young la
dies in the room and scattered the compa-
ny about in every direction. When the
doctor reached the house he had fully re-
covered, and it was not until few days
ago that the cat was let out Of the bag
OuaUa Ciizen.
Year: 1879

THE DRESS OF CHILDREN IN SUMMER -
This subject is practically and srnsibly
discussed by contributor to the Chicago
Inter- Ocean. She considers that children
dressed wholly in cotton are not sufficient
ly protected against sudden changes of
temperature. Chills and fevers result, and
lurking seeds of disease are developed.
On the other hand, swathing in flannel. in
which the children seethe and swelter,
impairs the vitality and the ability to
repel disease. The writer further says
" Following the advice Of q friend who
had given much attention to the subject


in her own family, did not discard the
flannel swathe across the bowels till after
two summers had passed. This can be
made with shoulder straps, and, if prefer
red, can be cotton across the back. | also
provided shirt and undershirt of summer
flannel. At night every article worn
during the day was removed and n long,
loose night dress of summer flannel put
on. This sometimes seemed too warm at
night hut never in the morning. No
injury resulted from throwing the bed
clothes off during the night. and the
summer complaints and troubles incident
to teething were unknown. OF course,
many other precautions are requisite to
secure good health. Damp feet and ex-
treme heat and excitement of any kind
should be avoided. Pure air, pure water,
simple food we'll cooked, and fed at regu.
lar hours are the chief essentials. If fed
artifcially too much care cannot be given
to the articles containing them to keep
them all sweet and clean, and in any case
be sure and give the child enough to eat
Nature can relieve an over.burdened
stomach-though the extreme should be
guarded against-but has no appeal from
AN empty one, and too little food for ,
child is seed for future disease, being like
u weak spot in tho foundation Of build
ing"
Year: 1879

HONESTY BEFORE ETIQUETTE. There
are those who nurse their tastes up to so
fine point that mora! worth may be at
aay time eclipsed by a badly fitting gar
ment or shoe, or Il violation of grammar,
spelling, or etiquette. This is sheer folly,
as one must needs to take leave of the
world if he would avoid these little I'M
plcasantnesses. If the perpetrator have
been IN upright soul and an honest heart,
we would rather take him or her by the
hand, than thousands whose dress. con-
versation and manners are oracularly
styled faultless. OF course, one prefers
greatheartedness and refinement COM
bined; but if to gain the latter the former
must be dispensed with, it is, in our opin-
ion, too great II sacrifice. We have seen
people whose teeth were quite set on
edge by the chance mispronunciation of a
word to whom an act of downright i'm
morality would be far less dstasteful. 1t
is unnecessary to pronounce a verdict on
such surface people. Let them keep on
skimming life till it be thinned to their
taste.
Year: 1879

are told that the immense numbers Of
zoospores capable of being produced from
single infested plant is almost beyond
calculation. 1t is easy for a million of
conidia to be developed from one such
plant, each producing five to eight ZOO
spores. 1t can scarcely be considered
marvellous that the white rust should be
50 common on plants favorable to its de-
velopment, the marvel being rather that
any escape.
Year: 1879

| Dyspepsia is cured by muscular exer-
else, voluntary or involuntary. and in no
other way can it be cured. because nothing
can creTte or collect the gastric juice
except exercise; it is a product of the


human machine. Nature only Can make it.