smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Look well to the time of doing
any thing: there is . time for all
things. Choose the right time for
saying things. If your wife looks
wearied and worn out, be sure it is
not the right time to tell her that the
dinner il not hot, or that the bread
is sour. Comfort her, cheer her up.
Use the ten thousand little strata
gems you were wont TO handle 80
skillfully in the old days, TO bring
out tie smiles around her lips.


If you are annoyed or vexed at
people, just remember it is not the
right time to speak Close your
mouth, shut your teeth together hrm-
", and it will save you many . use
less and unavsiling regret, aad Bit
ter enemy.


If you happen TO feel . little cross
and who among us does not at some
time or other! do not select that
season for reproving ysur noisy
household flock. One word spoken
in passion will make Q scar that Q
summer of smiles can hardly heal
over.


If you are q wife. never tsase your
husband when be comes home weary
from his days business. It il not
the time. Do not ask him for expsn-
sive outlsys when be has been talk
ing Of hard times it ia most sssur-
edly the wrong time.


II he has entered upon any under
taking against your advice, do not
seize the moment Of its failure to say,
II told you so !'' In fact, it 10 never
the right time for those four mono
syllsbles.


If people only know enough.to dis
criminste between the right time and
the wrong, there would be less do
mestic unhsppiness, and has silent
sorrow. and less estrsnsemsns Of
hearts! The greatest eslamitiss
that ever shadow our lives have
sometimes their germ In masters as
apparently slight a. this. II you
pause, reader, before the. singing
taunt or the biting snser. the unkind
scof passes your lips. pause just long
enough to ask yourself, " is it the
right time for me TO speak 7" you
would shut the door sgsinst many Q
heartache.


The world hinges on small thisgs,
and there are not many more trivial
than the right time and the wrong.
-Erchange.
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the New York S5e,
writes TO that journal that the readiest and
most useful remedy for scalds and burns
is an embrocaion of limewater and linseed
oil. These simple agents combined form
a thick, cream-like substance, which effec-
tually excludes the air from the injured
parts, and allays the Inflammation almost
instantly. He mentions case where a
child fell backward into a bath-tub of boil
ing water, and was nearly flayed from her
neck to below her hips. Her agonies were
indescribable; but her clothing being
gently removed, and the lime and oil
preparation thickly spread over the injured
surface, she was sound asleep IN live
minutes. Subsequently the parts were
carefully washed with warm milk and
water three times a day, the oil dressing
renewed. and the little patient rapidly
recovered. Though ALL the scalded skin
came of, she did not have a scar. This
remedy leaves no hard coat to dry on the
sores, but softens the parts, and aids nature
to repair the injury in the readiest and
most expeditions manner. The mixture
may be procured in the drug stores; but
II not thus accessible, Stake 4 lump OF
qucklime in water. and as soon as the
water Is clear mix itwith the oil and shake
Wen. ii the case is urgent. use boiling
water over the hme, and II Will become
clear in five inmates. The preparation
may be kept ready bottled in the house,
and it will be as good when six months
old as When first made.
Year: 1874

SiLLiman's Journal for September gives,
on the authority of the Utah Mining Jour
nat, some very remarkable statements i'll
regard to the level of the Great Salt Lake.
The valley was settled in 1871. The level
of the lake is now twelve or fourteen feet
higher than it was then. From 1917 to
1852 there was no noticeable change.
From 1852 to 1856 there was rise to the
extent of about six feet above the lowest
level of the first mentioned year. From
1856 to 1861 a gradual subsistence took
place. until, in the fall of 1861, the level
was two feet below the lowest mark OF
1852 and the lake was contracted to about
three-tourths of its area in that year. But
from the spring of 1861 to 1865 there went
on a steady rise; the lake extended TO once
and a half its area in 1861, and its surface
stood twelve feet above the earlier level.
Since that time the rise and fall have been
about equal, the tendency on the whole
being to gain, the fluctuation not exceed
ing two feet. As to the prospect for the
future. it is stated that the humidity OF the
atmosphere annually increases as the area
of cultivation become greater, and, as
consequence, the evaporation becomes
less. On the other hand, the mountain
streams are steadily charging. Thou
sands of acres of farming, meadow, and
pasture lands have been submerged along
the eastern and northern shores of the
lake, and many square miles of valuable
lands still occupied by the farmers will be
completely inundated should the waters
rise but a few inches above the level of the
past five years, unless protected by levees.
A monument has been recently placed
near the shore of the lake to indicate the
! f1uetuation of the level. This will be


watched with great interest for the next
! few years.
Year: 1874

There resided in the lower portion OF
this city not long since swain whose
sweetheart dwelt in distant place, ana
in communicating with her her lover was
compelled to call in the aid of third per-
son, as his early education was defective,
perhaps from too frequent indulgence IN
. DIayinp hockey" To guard against
anv temptation for the scribe's falling in
love with his sweetheart, the young fellow
settled upon a married man TO perform the
duties thereof, and so for a time things
worked most harmOniOusly. The scribe
had been there himself, and. proitlng by
his experience, he penned such deliciously-
gushing letters to Mary Ann, in the name
of George, of course, that the little mald
soon surrendered the citadel OF her heart
to George, and promised In due tlme 20
surrender her hand also. NOW nine IN us
flight caused the swain to move 10 neigh-
boring river town to pursue his calling,
and il was necessary to keep up the CORE
spondence with Mary Ann in the same
handwriting, so George got friend in his
new home to write the tender messages
and mail them to the scribe in this city TO
copy and post. The plan succeeded ad-
mirably for time, but on one il-fated DAY
the scribe, after inditing a most loving
epistle TO Mary Ann, ending, oil course
with prayer for a reply by return mall
in fit Of abstraction signed his own IN
stead of Georges name. The return was
a female, and no less a one than May
AIMS own mother, who searched out the


scribe, and laying his last tender eiiusloh


to her daughter before his astoplShed eyes
asked him. in such tones as only an OUT,


ragged mother can command, how dared
he. a married man, with family, Write


such a letter to her innocent lamp Oh
daughter, Then that scribe had 10 rise 10
explain how he had been engaged in an
amicable fraud, and the words must not


be taken as an expression of his own SEN


timents-oh, no, by no means-pst tnose


of George. His explanation, however,
| fully satisfied the matron, and all Is again


serene.-Rosdouft ~. ~ Freeman.
Year: 1874

of the entire party. The sick man made
but few complaints of being Jared by this
method of transportation. The early part
ofthe return trip was over sage brush and
across large streams, and other impedi-
ments spoken of above, yet five miles was
made the first day, fifteen miles the sec
ond, and the latter part of the journey
twenty-five and thirty miles per day. The
party reached Twin Lakes in safety, the
condition of the young man being much
improved, on the 29th of September last;
and the rapidly recovering man, with his
friends, will probably arrive in Denver to-
morrow. The members of the Hayden
party have become much attached to the
young man, ON account of his industry,
energy and amiable character, and it is
with great pleasure to them, as well as to
the anxious parents, that he was safely
brought from the wilderness.
Year: 1874

A MARRIED woman in Mohawk, n. Y.
was prospective mOther-in-law, and she
wanted to find out exactly what kind OF
chap he was who was eOurting her daugh-
ter. So she dressed herself up in male at
tire and went to a ball where she was GER
tain to meet him. During the evening,
disguised as a fashionable young fop, she
managed to get into quarrel with the
young man himself. Lacking masculine
muscle she was worsted IN a ballroom
scrimmage. Her new plug hat was
smashed down over her face, her nose
stopped a well-meant blow, and her NOUS
tache was accidentally pulled of. Then
the young man suddenly recognized his
prospective mother-in-law, and found too
late that he had been fighting with the
wrong man. The woman was sent home
in carriage, and the young man has not
been round courting her daughter since.
Year: 1874

Afler a day of cloud and wind and rain
Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again
And touching all the darksome woods wi
light,
Smiles on the fields. until they laugh and sing,
Then like Il ruby from the horizon s ring
Drops down into the night.


What see now? The night is fair,
The storm Of grief the clouds OF care,
The wind, the rain, have passed away;
The lamps ure lit, the fire burns bright,
The house is full OF life and light
1t is the Golden Wedding day.
The guests come thronging in once more,
Quick footsteps sound along the floor,
The troopng children crowd the stairs,
And in and out and everywhere
Flashes along the corridor


The sunshine of their golden hair.
On the round table in the hall
Another Ariadne's Crown


out of the sky hath fallen down;
More than one Monarch of the Moon
Is drumming with his silver spoon,
The light of love shines over all.
o fortunate, O happy day!


The people sing, the people say. Z.
The ancient bridegroom and the bride,
Serenely smiling in the scene,
Behold well pleased on every side
Their forms and features multiplied,
AS the reflection of a light
Between two FURNISHED mirrors CLEANS,
Or lamps upon a bridge =: night
Stretch on and on before the sight,
TIL the long vista endless seems. .
Year: 1874

And now sit and muse on what may be,
And In my-vision see, or seem to see,
Through floating vapors interfused with light
Shapes indeterninate, that CLEAN and fade,
AS shadows sinking into deeper shade
Sink and elude the sight.


For two alone, there in the hall


Is spread the table round and small;
Upon the polished silver shine .
The evening lamps, but more divine
The light OF love shines over all;


Of love that says not thine and mine.
Ihey want no guests 10 come between
Their tender glances like a screen,


And tell them tales Of land and sea,
AID Whatsoever may betide


The great forgotten world outside;


They want no guests; they needs must be
Each Others own best company.
Year: 1874

APAUPER in the Delaware county, n. :,
almshouse is so averse to being buried al
the cOunty's expense that for several
wears he has been making skewers, which
he sold to the neighboring butchers.
From means derived from this source
alone he has purchased burial lot in a
churchyard and a tombstone, with his
name and other lettering complete, save
and except the date of his death, which is
to be filled in at the proper time.
Year: 1874

q a COLUMBIA Is. c. newspaper describe
new style oftumbler recently introduced
into one of the restaurants in that city, the
rim of which is s. SO prepared as to titillate
the lips and add deliciously cooling and
acceptable flavor to the contents"
Year: 1874

IPencre Ia creadiifere, to hang the crane, Is q
French expression for house-warIning, or th
first party given in a new house,


7.
The lights are out, and gone are all the guests
That ihr0nging came with merriment ana lesA
To celebrate Tie hanging of the crane
In the new house-into the night are gone;
But still the fire upon the hearth burns on,
And alone remain.


O fortunate, o happy dayl


When a new household finds its place
Among the myriad homes Of earth,
Like new star just sprung .ts birth
And rolled on its harmonious way
Into the bonndless realms of earth
SO said the guests in speech and song,
As IN the chimney, burning bright,
We hung the iron crane tonight,
And merry was the feast and long.
Year: 1874

Hon. Daniel Dougherty, in recent
lecture on "Orators ana Oratory," at
Washington, d. c., is reported to have
said


Models of American eloquence are
drawn from speeches made by congress;
and though the republic is yet young,
sIA has produced as splendid parlia-
meeltary speeches as can be found IN
the archives of any government. But
the grand days of oratory are gone for
ever 1t is not improbable that the teem-
ing future may give birth to those whose
Asplendent genius will deservedly rank
Aem among the immortals OF the past.
But in these latter days there has arisen
a power mightier than an army of or
ators a power that has destroyed their
influence, dwarfed their genius, and
lowered them to the level of ordinary
mortals a power that can Danish kings,
destroy dynasties, revolutionlze gov
ernments, embroil nations in triumph
ant or disastrous wars, for good or i'll,
and change the aspect of the civilized
world.


The glory of the orator sank when
the printing press arose. The orator
at best can speak to thousands the
press to hundreds of thousands. The
orator speaks rarely-the press, every
day. The speech dies with the sounds
that give it birth ; the press lives for
ever on the imperishable page. Let us
hope that the press may be faithful and
pure, devoted to- truth, right, justice,
| freedom, and virtue, as the orators have
been. If the press gloat in hcentious-
ness if it stoop to strike the private
man if it expose to the public gaze
the sacred privacy of homes; If it vio-
late all decency in thrusting gentle wo-
men to the gossip of the town; if it
catches an idle rumor or envioas tongue
/ to malign the innocent IF it can be
bribed to suppress the truth or circulate
the false if it shield the public wrong
doer or denounce the faithful public
servant if it pander to the base pre-
iudices and passions of the populace-
then we may grieve that this great en-
| gine should work such mischief In SO
ciety.


If, on the other hand, its mission
| be to disseminate intelligence and
truth to educate the masses to be
faithful to their country and just tC
| their fellow-man to expose, with al
Rnsparing hand, to public execration
the corrupt legislator or unjust judge
if it be honestly independent, instead
of timidly neutral, in all that concerns
the citv and state; if it lift up modes
and true worth, and hurl down brazel
iffemy if all its aims be the public


bod, the honor of the nation, and th
glory of God-then we may be recon
ciled that the days of oratory are over
Year: 1874




The Popular Science Monthly for
March says: " / assume that there is
no point of view 10 be regarded as be-
longing to the deceased person, and
that no one believes that the dead has
any interest in the matter. We who
live may anxiously hope-as I should
hope, at least-to do no evil to sur
vivors after death. whatever we may
have done of harm to others during life.
But, being deceased, I take it we can
have no wishes or feelings touching
this subject. What is best to be done
with the dead is, then, mainly a ques-
ton for the living, and to them it is
one of extreme importance. When the
globe was thinly peoDled, and when
there were no large bCdies of men liv-
ing in close neighborhtod, the subject
was an ipconsiderable cue and could af-
ford to wait, and might indeed be left
for its solution to smtiment of any
kind. But the rapid Increase of popu-
lation forces it irt0 res ;ce, and especi-
ollres.r inea'e 10 " t4-NNssy9~'in crowded
as the sact Is too pa<Snt, tina ssaS-s -
ent mode of treating the dead, namely,
that by burial beneath the soil, Is full
of danger to the living. Hence intra-
mural ipterment has been recently for
hidden, the first stepin aseries of reforms
which must follow. AT present we who
dwell in towns are able to escape much
evil by selecting a portion of ground
distant-in this year of grace 1873
some five or ten miles from any very
populous neigborhood, and by sending
to be buried there-lsying by poison
nevertheless, it is certain, for QUE
children's children, who viii find
your remains polluting their water
sources, when the now distant plot is
covered, as it will be, more or less
closely, by human dwellings,. For 1t
can be question of time only when
now every waste spot will be utilized
for production or shelter, and
when some other mode of disposing of
the dead than that of burial must be
adopted. If, Therefore, burial IN the
soil be certainly injurious either now
or in the future, has not the time al
ready come to discuss the possibility of
replacing it by better process We
cannot to soon cease to DO evil and
| learn to do well. Is it not indeed q


social sin of no small magnitude to
SOW the seed o. disease and death


broadcast, caring only TO be certain that
| they cannot do much harm to our own
! generation? 1t may be granted, to an


ticipate objection, that it is quite pos


sible that the bodies now buried may


have lost most, if not all, their power


of doing mischief by the time that the


particular soil they inhabit ls turned


up again to the suns rays, although


this is by no means certain but 1t is


beyond dispute that the margin OF


safety as to time grows narrower year
by year, and that pollution of wells


streams which supply the living must


ere long arise wherever I'VE bury oul


dead in this country"
Year: 1874

Recent evidence abont the last allied
war against China shows that at the
taking of the Simmer palace one build
ing was full of silks, the produce OF
tax which requires every manufacturer
to send in the first piece he makes of
each sort. a part of these was used IN
stead of ropes, which were wanted to
picket the French horses Then there
was palace full of drawings, series
of four thousand, illustrating the whole
history of China. The soldiers, lgnor-
ant of their value, trod them under foot
and used them for kindling fires.
Scarcely two hundred were saved. Then
there was the carrisge palace, in which
were found the magnificent coacheS
which were presented to the emperor ~
China by the English embassy in 1878
Since then they had never been used
The iron work was loose, and the leather
had become as hard and brittle as wood.
One palace was full of furs.
Year: 1874

Apropos of the subject of burial, a
very curious tradition is said to exist
among the natives of Abyssinia in re-
gard to the origin of burial They say
that when Adam found the body of the
murdered Abel he carried it upon his
shoulders for twenty days, not knowing
how to dispose of it. The Almighty
took pity on him, and sent forth a crow
with its dead young one on its back;
and the crow flew before Adam until it
came to tract of sandy ground, in
which it dug a hole with its feet and
buried its young one. And when Adam
saw this he dug grave in the sand and
buried his lost boy in it.
Year: 1874

The disastrous flood in the lower
Mississippi is the most serious calamity
that has befallen the country for
long time. It's effects are not merely
local, but will be felt ia the most re-
mote quarters OF the whole nation.
The cotton crop will be diminished,
the sugar crop will also suffer severely
and the impoverishment Of the plant
ers will seriously affect the mauufactu.
rers Of various classes OF goods which
the immediate sufferers by the flood
have been accustomed to buy.


In this city, for instance, the effects
ofthe overflow will be felt with no little
severity by the wagon and cart manu-
facturers who have heretofore had a
ready market for their work in the
particular region that is now devastated
by water. The nail and iron trade will
also suffer some diminution, and the
glass business will probably be affected
in the same way and from the .ssne
cause. ~


Contributions for the relief OF the
sufferers are being freely made by the
National Government and by local
organizations in various sections OF the
country. but whether all that is needed
has yet been received We do not know.
Without doubt the people of Wheeling
are ready and willing to con-
tribute. = literally to, the rslief
: of the necessities Of those who have
been driven from their homes by the
flood, and we suggest that the Mayor
ascertain at once whether any further
help is needed and to whom, il needed,
our contributions should be sent.


ftmay be that the continuous rain ef
the past two or three days may swell
still fsrtherfthe volume OF the Missis-
sippi and Increase the number OF those
needing. sesistauceuin
Year: 1874

NnEN SHE WoN'r. SHE NoN'r.-A viva
ci0us writer On Switzerland says "Only
the day before our visit. the Bad Step had
its latest tragedy, with a comic edge to it,.
as most tragedies have In the pouring rain.
a party left the hotel at Chamounix for the
Nler de Glace. and, coming up on the other
side, took the Bad Step first The sweetest
'' little IL ladies' a mere dot Of a woman
with nor doctor of divinity. were among
them, and went on over the slippery rock g,
lnadc doubly dangerous by the rain. because
once started there was no turning back
She dragged the pounds on pounds Of wet
waterproof cloth clingins about her feet to
the little oasis where people rest and gird
up their loinS before crossing the ice Here
she threw herself prone on the ground, and
was still aS an ink-blot. When the others
started. he~ husband tried to rouse her
NO. She said, You may all - on.
want nothing. | will die here = Ii was
the calmness of despair Women often
threaten, in certain contingencies. to give
up but the thing is rare as snow in August
When it happens the family machine stops.
and desperate remedies are applied. This
woman did the thing without the threat
also a rare thing for her sex, and was ever
doctor Of divinity in such plight before =?
lie had lived with her forty years, and she
had the power TO surprise him lie had seen
her endure years of wasting sickness with
ont losing cheeriulneSS he had seen her 20
down into the valley of the shadow of death.
and come back smiling with u baby in her
arms but now, at last, she had given up
lie offered to carry her down the rocks and
across the ice-he who had come abroad for
his health but she answered him only, go
with the rest. | will die here :; like the
refrain of dirge. The doctor must have
scolded at this point. if he were not more
than mortal but it did no good. and finally
he wrapped the mantle of his thoughts
about him, and sat down in the rain to
mediate a new chapter on the woman ques-
ton. The other people went on, and the
two kept solitary watch on the Mer de
Glace, like the two grey-hcaded eagles in
an eyrie. At the end of n silent half hour.
in which the doctor discovered what very
hard-working people those are who only
stand and wait, she rose up. walked over
the ice. mounted her mule and regained the
hotel She had broken the handspring of
hope, and it took Nature just half an hour
to mend it,
Year: 1874

\ good while ago one of Mrs. Bateman's
dramas was awarded prize in San Fran
cisco by Bateman himself, and Frank Soule,
then on the Ala. intimated in his column
that the thing had been previously ar
ranged, and that it was not unnatural that
Year: 1874

CLEVELAND, May 27.-Jaues South
srn. moulder, was found dead at his
house this morning The body was
lying on the bed, face downward, with
the left arm hanging from the bed. A
gssh about an inch long was iound in
the arm ust below the elbow and
large pool OF blood stood beside the bed.
but no traces OF blood could be found
In any ether part OF the room. A razor
with which the deed was committed
was on the mantle piece, with blood on
it corresponding to the sise OF the
wound. Southern's wife died on last
Friday from the effects OF burns re-
ceieved few days previous while in a
state OF intoxicstion, since when he has
been much dishesr,ened and q con-
siderable time under the Influence OF
liquor.