smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

You are the architects Of your
own fortunes. Rely on your own
strength Of body and soul. Select
some speciality for your LIES work.
and adhere to PauPs precept
This thing do" Let your star
be Industry. Self reliance. Faith
aud Honesty, and inscribe on your
banner: sLuck is fool, Pluck lie =
hero" Earnest effort In one di-
rection is the snrest road to wealth
and high position. Don't take too
much advice. Keep at the helm.
steer your own ship, and remember
that the great art o: commanding is
to take upon yourself the largest
share OF the work. Don't practice
too much humility. Think we'll of
yourselfi strike out; assume your
position. 1t is the josthngs and
joltings of life that bring great men
to the surface. Put potatoes in a
cart over rough road, and small
potatoes go to the bottom. Turn
raft of logs down a mill-race and the
large logs come on top. Rise above
the envious and jealous. Fire above
the mark you intend to hit. Energy.
invincible determination. with
right motive are the levers that
move the world. Don't drink.
Don't chew. Don't smoke. Don't
swear. Don't deceive. Don't read
novels. Be in earnest. Be self-re-
liant. Be generous. There are two
sides to every balance, and favors
thrown in on one side of the scales
are sure to be reciprocated in the
other. Be civil. Be gentleman.
1t is foolish man who does not
understand that molasses will catch
more flies than vinegar. Read the
papers. They are the educators OF
the people. Advertise your bust
ness. Keep your own counsels, aud
superintend your own business.
Make money and do good with it.
Love your God and fellow men.
Love truth and virtue. Love your
country and obey the laws
Year: 1877

The Louisville Courier-JoarRal,
upon the subject OF business activi-
ty'' gets off the following:


Don't sit down aud say Damn
the Dutch !" Do like they do. Get
up and 90 to work. Ifthings amt
lively enough put your shoulder to
the wheels or commerce and trade
and aid in getting the road wagon OF
old fogyism out OF the mire. Hitch
the mule or energy in the shafte, take
hewhip of enterprise in your hand,
and make dust fly along the road Of
progress. Get up. dod blast your
lazy hides, advertise your bnsine s,
let people throughout the country
know who you are and what you have
got to sell, and our word for it, you'll
have something else to do and think
about this fall than to sit around and
walt for business TO come to you and
euss the Dutch"
Year: 1877

] N@SA- %4S ANN1NAAS Go5Aose


"Canada BiIr' died of consump


tion in the County Hospital. dis


funeral was probably the strangest


ever seen in the Charles Evans Gem.


etery. for there were neither tears


nor women nor minister about the


grave that now holds the remains OF


a man who died penniIess in a


strange land. but had the name one
time of having won nearly half a mil


lion dollars at three-card monte.


His body was brought to the un-


dertaker's room in this city. and


thence taken to the cemetery, where


dozen or more representatives of


the sporting fraternity of Reading


had congregated about the grave to


do the last honors for the ''old sport


who had won money on nearly every


railroad in the United States east of


the Rocky mountains.


After the hearse approached the


grave and the walnut coffin had been
taken out and placed on a bier, the
question was asked whether the re-
mains were in it. The undertaken
guessed that they were still there,
"Unserew the lid," the master of
ceremonies ordered. "Bill was in
many tight box and he worked him.
self out somehow or other, and it's
no dead sure thing that he amt got
out on the trip to the cemetery"
While they were taking off the lid it
was noticed that the screws were not
solid silver. One of the mourners
remarked that Bills game had not
been one Of the squarest, but he
guessed there were tricks in all trades
as well as the monte players The
corpse was found in the coffin. The
men had made arrangements with
one of their acquaintances to read
prayer or short burial service at
the grave. but he came not. The
wind was raw and chilly, and after
the lid had been again screwed on,
orders were given that the interment
should be made.


Canada Bills proper name was
William Jones. He was an English
gypsy, and came to this country sew
enteen years ago. He was horse
trader, and finally began to play at
three-card monte. He drifted into
Canada, where he got the
name of Canada Bill. He operated
all over the north during the war,
and after the war closed he was on
the Red river and on the Mississippi.
He was always dressed in a very
manner, and cared nothing
for good clothes or jewelry of any
kind. He won thousands of dollars
on the Mississippi, in the disguise of
a planter At one time he had a
livery stable, and kept 200 negroe
at work clearing swamp land, at the
mouth of the Red river. Subsequent
ly he operated at monte on the Kan
sas Pacific and Union Pacific rail-
roads running out from Kansas City
and Omaha. He became infamously
known all over the country. All the
tricks and new points in ''monte"
were invented by Canada Bill" He
always travelled as a countryman.
He is said to have won thousands of
dollars on the trains, and as soon as
he had won it he lost it at playing
faro. His friends say that in Chiea-
go alone, in 1874, he won SIS, 900 in
three months, and yet he died pen
niless. and had to be buried at the
expense of an old friend. He was
about forty years of age.
Year: 1877

In all diseases affecting these organs whether
they secrete too much or too little water: on wheth
they be afflicted with stone or gravel or with
aches and pains setteled in the oins over the reg
Ions OF the kidneys, these Pills should be taken ac-
cording to the printed directions and the Ofnt-
ment should be well rubbed into the small of the
back at bed time. This treatment Will give almost
immediate relief when all other means have failed .
Year: 1877

His Lordship. Bishop Ruque Coo.
CHA, Immediately declared with
trembling voice that those were The
remains Of the immortal Columbus.


This declaration being made. the
bells were tolled. and amid the fir.
ing of the guns from the fortress.
most OF the people there assembled.
through the streets proclaiming the
authenticity Of the discovery.
Year: 1877

The ONLY WAY.-If the peach shippers
who are not satisfied with the railroad tariff
will ship another way or dry their fruit
instead of shipping it at all, as has been
predicted many would do, they will put in
a stronger argument to the railroad officials
than all the conventions and sarcastic re-
solves have ever been able to do The
railroad men can shut their eyes to criticism
and resolutions, but they can't keep them
shut when they find they are losing trade.
Our growers may say, with a sentimental
flourish, and truth, too, what the freight
rate ought to be, but the railroad men tell
them that it is for them to decide that
matter. 1t is for the growers to decide
about the production of the fruit and for
the carriers to decide about the transport
ing of it, but when the growers try to decide
about both they and the carriers cannot
agree-say the railroad men. Peach meet
ings do not effect the railroad interest, or
have not so far, but cutting off shipments
means business, and when business is
struck it commends attention. If this
plan is really carried out it will be the rail.
road mems time to hold meetings, instead
of the peach growers. Touching the corpo-
ration's head is one thing; touching its
pocket is quite another thing
Year: 1877

SPLITTING THEOLOGICAL HAIRS.-Rev. Geo.
R. Kramer, recently Methodist minister,
now belongs to the Household of Faith"
little Church of his own, in Wilmington.
There is nothing very important about this
There is no end to religious creeds, and
there never was a creed started that did
not have its followers, from the most
ridiculous idolater to the most criminal
Mormon. Rev. Mr.. K. differed in matters
of faith from the rest of his old associates,
and all other evangelical Christians, and he
thought more of his faith than he did of
his Church fellowship; yet he thought too
much of his Church associations to misrep-
resent them by preaching as a Methodist a
point of doctrine not at all Methodistic.
So he drew out from the Methodist denomi-
nation that he might represent his own
views without misrepresenting the views of
the Church that sustained him, as was his
right and duty. He violated no rite of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in doing as he
has done, nor is his right questioned.


But it seems that his course has develop
ed kind of pulpit combativeness among
some of the Methodist ministers of that
city, and they are trying to save the people
by theological hair-splitting with Mr..
Kramer. One of our Wilmington exchanges
announces that Revs. Messrs. Mann, Kill
liam and Pegg, all preached sermons on
Sunday in opposition to the theory set
forth in the church of the d" Household of
Faith" by Rev. George R. Kramer"


1t seems that the minister last named
labors from Sunday to Sunday to establish
the point that the second advent of the
Son of God is near at hand, and that when
he comes he will come in flesh and blood.
as at the first coming, bringing Heaven
with him. Whether the Scriptures were
not properly interpreted by theologians
until the Church of the "Household OF
Faith was established or not is not for us
to say, but if ministers want to strengthen
MIR. Kramer's followers let them assail
their creed from Sunday to Sunday. Mr..
K. can afford to close up for a while and
60 to the seaside if he can only manage to
get his creed attacked roundly from Sun.
day to Sunday by the other ministers.
They could strengthen him more than he
can strengthen himself. And the ministers
who are thus so signally aiding the Church
they are trying to oppose, will have the
satisfaction of seeing how their own focks
have Jared whilst they were fighting to kill
off one that didn't concern them.
Year: 1877

The END OF IT-Some of the Western
papers go direct to the gist of the late diff
Guilty, when they say that the final result
will be to drive the surplus population of
cities and towns to farming. No argu-
ments or theories about the relations of
capital and labor can overthrow the bald
facts that the market for one class of labor
is largely overstocked, while the other is
not supplied. The railroad corporation
cannot afford to pay more than 81 or 90
cents day to laborers who are obliged, in
order to work for them, to live in towns
and to pay town rates for rent, provisions
and clothes. Ten thousand men declare
themselves unable to support their families
on these wages, while forty thousand with.
out these wages are waiting to step into
their places. On the other hand, farmers
in Pennsylvania and Ohio are offering 81 so
and $l.75 per day for help, and cannot get
it. One dollar and fifty cents in the coun.
try is worth So in city. It is true that
these are harvest wages and exceptional.
But in the rich farm lands of the Middle
States it is almost impossible to secure the
services of a steady laborer and his family
for the year at the same wages rs that paid
in the city, although house-rent is free and
provisions are one-third of town rates.
Year: 1877

A few days ago a black and-tan-dog
belonging to lady South End resident
died, and its mistress was inconsolable.
The next day the team of one of our
most noted undertakers drove up to the
door, and subsequently, an employee
quickly carried casket into the house,
and soon thereafter the neighbors
found a black-and-tan dog exhibited,
neatly laid out in fine rosewood casket.
Upon this was laid great profussion of
flowers, surrounding plate which bore
the following: LEO Gilman, aged Is
years months 1 day" The next move
of the lady was to obtain burial for
her pet in Mount Auburn Cemetery;
but the officers of the corporation would
not allow burial. The mourner would
not be thwarted, and physician was
induced to make out burial certificate
that Leo Gilman died ofspinal meningi-
tis." This document was taken to the
officials of the Cambridge Cemetery, and
the dog was buried.
Year: 1877




John Cain was a quiet. unobtru
sive citizen. He didn't long for
fame and renown, and he didn' care
FIVE cents whether this great and
glorious country was ruled by a one
horse Republican or a two-horse
Democrat.


He had pew in church, gave
sixteen ounces for a pound, and
when a man looked him square in
the eyes Mr.. Cain never took q
back seat. He was at home at 8
reasonable hour in the evening new
er took part in the discussion, ''Is
lager healthy?'' and many a man
wished that his life rolled on as
evenly and peacefully as John
Gains.
But alas the tempter came. In
an evil hour John Cain allowed the
politicians to get after him and to
surround him. They said he was
the strongest man in the country;
that he could scoop out of his boots
any man set up in opposition; that
his virtues were many and his falts
100000; that it was his duty to
come out and take o nomination
in order that this pure and incor-
ruptible form of government be
maintained pure and incorruptibIe.
All this and much more they told
him, and John Cain became puffed
up.


1t surprised him some to think
that he had held his peaceful way
along for forty odd years, like q
knot-hole in a barn door, without
any one having discovered what a
heap of fellow he was. but he con-
cluded that there was new era in
politics and that it was all right.
The politicians covered John
Cain with soft soap. They told him
that the canvass shouldn't cost him
a red, and that he could still retire
at eight every evening and rest as
sured that his Interests would be
properly cared for 1t was to be a
still hunt in a very quiet election,
and he would hardly know what was
going on. John was an honest, un-
suspecting idiot. and he swallowed
their words as the confiding fish
absorbs the baited hook.


John Cain was duly nominated
and the band came out and serenadsd
him. With the band came out sever
al hundred electors, who filed the |
Cain mansion to overflowing, spit |
tobacco all over the house, ate and
drank all they could find, broke down
the gate and went off with three
cheers for John Cain.


Before the canvass was ten days
Did, half a dozen men called on |
Cain and gently limited to him that
be must come down with the sugar"
He didn't even know what "sugar"
vas until they explained. They want
ed money to raise a pole. to buy
peer, to get slips printed. and to do
lily other things with all for his
particular benefit. and he had to
land out the money. Hla


In the course OF another week
hey drew Cain out to make a speech
It ward meeting He tried to
law of, but they told him that the
candidate would run him
'ut out OF sight il he didn't come
,ut, and be went out. When he
yot through speaking. the crowd
lraak at his expense. and Mr.. Cain
VAS astonished at the way liquor
rent down, and more astonished at
he way the bills footed up. He
lidn't reach home until midnight,


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Year: 1877




SUFFOLK (Va.) Herald: Some time
ago the wife OF Mr.. Alfred Davis
(who drowned with his two sons last
Friday evening in Nonsecond River)
was confined to her room with pro-
tracted sickness, and such was the
poverty Of the poor man that he
was unable to procure the necessary
nourishment for her. Indeed, as
Mrs. Davis related the case, the
wants of the family must have been
of the seyerest and most trying ma
ture, the family subsisting for sew
eral weeks on potatoes and salt al
one. During the sad indisposition
Of Mrs. Davis and her pressing want
or delicate food, common house
cat went into the field and caught
young hare and brought it to the
house. Mr.. Davis took the hare and
made it into soup for his suffering
wife, which caused rapid improve
ment in her condition. The day fol,
lowing the same cat set out on its
mission of charity. and succeeded In
catching a partridge, which was like
wise brought to the house and deliv-
cred as was the hare. And thus it
was. through the instrumentality of
this cat, the life OF this unfortunate
lady was saved from absolute star
vation. The facts OF the above can
be substantiated as correct, and are
given as related by Mr.. Davis in
person. tA.sa
Year: 1877

and for the first time in his life he
was going to bed with his boots on.
His wife wouldn't speak to him. the
hired girl left the house to save her
character, and John Cain wished
that the politicians had let him
Year: 1877

The following is from "a Bed Of
Boughs," by Joun Burroughs, in
Scribner's Magazine for November


Not the least of the charm of camp
ing out is your campfire at night
What an artist! What pictures are
boldly thrown or family outlined up
Oh the canvass OF the night Every
object, every attitude Of your compan-
ion is striking and memorable. You
see effects and groups every moment
that you would give money to be able
to carry away with you in enduring
to.nl. How the shadows leap, and
,Aulk, and hover about Light and
darkness are in perpetual tilt and war
fare, with first the one unhorsed, then
the other. The friendly and cheering
fire, what acquaintance we make with
1t! We had almost forgotten there
was such an element, we had so long
known only its dark offspring, heat.
Now we see the wild beauty uncaged
and note its manner and temper. How
surely it creates its own draft and sets
the currents going, as force and en-
thusiasm always will 1t caryes itself
chimney out of the fluid and home,
less air. \ friend, ministering angel
in subsection ; a liend, fury, a mon
ster, ready to devour the world, it un-
governed. BY day it burrows in the
ashes and sleeps /; at night 1t comes
forth and sits upon its throne Of rude
logs, and rules the camp sovereign
queen.


Near camp stood tall, ragged vel
low birch, its partially cast Oft bark
hanging in crisp sheets or dense rolls


That tree needs the barber" sale
Aaron, and shall have a call from hin
tonight"
Year: 1877

Coldly and bright draws in the day
Gloomy and drear it steals away
For slowly now comes up the sun,
His Summers 3 ardent labors done
And low his golden wheel declines
Where Winter shows his starry signs.
No moro 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 suu' 8 inspiring fervors fail
The slanting beam he gives is chill
Within the vale and on the hill
And now, with many a jealous fold,
The clouds would all 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 clcave to us through i'll,
Outbrave the bitter wind that blows,
And deck their season to it's 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 flngs far and wide,
Their widowed bloom and idle pride.
The birds have fled the wind alone
Makes song in many cullen tone.
But sudden through the bursting sky
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 amain-
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 tears away.
The light 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 I kney
My heart yet fondly turns to you.
Let seasons change, and be ye bright
With all the Summer-tide's delight,
Or lot 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

Teach them self-relance teach
them to make fires teach them how
to saw and split wood {; teach them
every day, dry, hard, practical COM
mon sense teach them how to darn
stockings teach them how to eat
what is set before them and be thank
tuI teach them how TO black their
boots and take proper care of their
clothing teach them how to say no,
and mean it, and yes, and stick to it
teach them to wear their working
clothes like kings; teach them that
steady habits are better than riotous
living teach teach them that the
further one goes beyond his income
the nearer he gets to the poor house
teach them not to have anything tC
do with intemperate and dissolutt
young men, or with idle or frivulous
young women.
Year: 1877

So after dark he touched a match
into it and we saw the flames creep
up and wax IFS tdry until the whole
tree and its main bral ches stood wrap
ped in sheet Ut roaring flame. 1t
was a wild and striking spectacle,
and must have advertised our camp
to every nocturnal creature in the Tor.
est.


What does the camper think about
when lounging aroung the fire at
night ? Not much,-of the sport Of
the day, otthe big fish he lost and might
have saved, of the distant settlement,
OF to,morrows plans. An owl boots
off in the mountain and he thinks of
him if a wolf were to howl or a,
panther to scream he would think of
him the rest OF the night. AS it is,
things flicker and hover through his
mind, and he hardly knows whether
it is the past or the preset that posses
ses him. Certain it is he feels the
hush and solitude OF the great forest,
and whether he will or not all his mus
ings are in some way cast upon that
huge back, ground Of the night. Un
less he is an old camper out there will
be an under, current OF dread or half
fear. My companion said he could
not help but feel all the time that
there ought to be sentinel ont there
pacing up and down. One seems to
require less sleep in the woods, as if
the ground and the uutempered air
rested aid refreshed him sooner. The
balsam and the hemlock heal his aches
very quickly. If one is awakened
often during the night, as he invarla
bly is, he does not feel that sediment
Of sleep in his mind next day that be
does when the same interruption &C.
ours al home the boughs have drawn
1t all out cf him.
Year: 1877

Confidence is truly the most beau
tiful of human attributes yet we
never knew woman to read the no.
tice of the birth of a young couples
first child without pausing to ask the
date of their marriage Turner's
Falls Reporter.