smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

We print, by request, in the proceedings
of the State Senate, the memorial OF the
Committee representing fifteen hundred Broad
way property owners and lessees, who petition
for an underground road from the Battery to
the Central Park
Year: 1867

would be thine!
Oh! not to learn the anguish:
Of being first deity enshrined: ls
Then, when the fever fit is past, to langulsh
Striped of each grace that fancy round me
- Not such the lotI crave.


would be thine!
Not in bright summer weather,
A SUNNY atmosphere of JOY TO breathe -.
But fear and tremble when the storm CLOUDS
gather, ,.,
And shrink life's unrelenting storm beneath
FEE Failing when needed most


would be thine!
In the sole thought Of thee, far dearer one,
To study every look thy will revealing
To make thy voices ever varying tone


The music of my heart.


would be thine.
When sickness doth oppress thee,
With loves unwearied vigilance to watch,
Waking-to soothe. to caress thee;
Sleeping-to list in dread each sound to catch


Thy slumbers that might break.


Iwould be thine
When vexd by worldly crosses,
To cheer thee with affections constant ear
To stay thee meath the burden Of the losses,
By showing thee how deeply thou art dear


Most so in thy distress.


would be thine.
Gently and unreplying
To bear with thee, when chafed and spirit
worn.


The hasty word, the quick reprOach denying;
But by the soft submission which is born


Ofsteadfast love alone.


would be thine!
Not passions wild emotion ''-'
To show thee fitful as the changing wind;
But with still deep, fervent life devotion,
To be to thee the help meet God design'd-


For this would be thine.
Year: 1867

JOHN G. ALLEN, Ticket Agent


col Chestnut Street


SAMUEL II. WALLACE


Ticket Agent at the Depot
The Pennhylvsnik Railroad Company will not assume
any risk for bsggage except for wearing apparel and
limit their responsibility to one hundred doara In value
All oat gage exceeding that value will be al
the rak Of the owner unless taken by special contract


EDWARD H WlBLIAMs
Aug2O General Superintendent, Altoona Pa
Year: 1867

There Is no greater every day virtue than
cheerfulness. This quality IN men, among
men, is like sunshine to the day or gentle,
renewing moisture to paTched hearts. The
light of a cheerful face diffuses itself, and
communicates the happy spirit that inspires
ii. The sourest temper must sweeten in
the atmosphere of continuous good humor


As well might fog and cloud and vapor,
hope to cling tothe sun illumined landscape
as the blues and moroseness to combat io-
vial speech and exhilirating laughter. Be
cheerful always. There is no path easier
travelled, no load but viii be lighter, no
shadow on heart or brain but viii lift sooner
in presence of a determined cheerfulness
1t may at times seem difficult for the hap
piest tempered to keep the countenance of
peace and content but the difficulty viii
vanish when we truly consider that sullen
gloom and passionate despair do nothing but
multiply thorns and thicken sorrows IL
comes to US as providentially as good-and
is as good, if we rightly apply Its lessons ;
why not, then, cheerfully accept the Ill, and
thus blunt its apparent sting? Cheerful
ness ought 10 be the fruit of philosophy and
Christianity What is gained by peevish-
ness and fretfulness-by perEerse sadness
and sullenness If we are Ill, let us be
cheered BY the trust that we shall be In
health if misfortunes befall US, let US be
cheered by hopeful visions Of better fortune;
if death robs US Of the dear little ones, LEI
us be cheered by the thought that they are
only gone before, to the blissful bowers
where we shall meet to part no more foreV-
er. Cultivate cheerfulness, if only for per-
sonal profit. You viii do and bear every
duty and burden better by being cheerful.
II viii be your eonsoler in solitude, your
passport and commendation in society. You
will be more sought after, more trusted ano
esteemed for your steady cheerfulness. The
bad, the vicious, may be boisterously gas
and vulgarly humorous, but seldom or nev-
er truly cheerful. Genuine cheerfulness is
an almost certain index of a happy mind
and pure, good heart.
Year: 1867

A correspondents OF the Cincinnati ERg,a-
reT writes: Horseback riding, with shooting,
rowing, walking, base ball, cricket ETC., is
ranked by physicians and writers ON by
gienne, as one of the best modes of taking
exercise. This pleasant recreation can be
modified in violence aud quantity, according
to the condition Of health and strength of
the partaker of it. If person is an invalid
the motion of the horse can be used gently,
and for a person in robust condition Of body,
the action can be made more violent and
more prolonged. Riding is considered to
produce a very beneficial effect upon the
liver and digestive organs, highly promoting
their healthy movements. The passing
through the air either slowly or rapidly pre-
vents the inhalation again Of the expired
breath, consequently every particle of air
that is drawn into the lungs must be of the
purest kind, if the rides are taken outside
the impurities of cities. The atmosphere,
too. is always the best the higher it is from
the ground IN salubrious localities. Then
the elevation itself, although only a few feet
tends to enliven the spirits, giving the rider
a sense of commanding objects, and | may
add here, ''the rest of mankind who are on
foot.


A quick pace is very exhilarating to the
mind and has strong tendency to dissipate
any 'blue devils" who may be lurking
around it. The great Pitt when he had
the oppressive cares of the British empire
weighing so heavily on bis shoulders, would
order his carriage and four, and direct the
postillions to drive at the rate of ten or
twelve miles an hour, as some sort of relief
for his burdened and care worn intellect.
The circulation Of the blood is quickened by
the motion of the saddle, and the muscles of
the legs and thighs and the trunk are
strengthened, particularly the limbs by
closely clasping, as they should, the horse S
fanks


1t is a pity our people do not ride more.
The climate is sometimes made an excuse,
but nobody wFo owns flyer" ever thinks
it too cold to drive, and driving is much
colder work than riding. If the summer
mid dav is too warm, the morning and
evenings are delicious As | said before,
there is nothing like riding for the liver,
the part of the human frame most usually
out Of order in America. have received
the greatest benefit in this respect. 1t has
changed morbid liver passages to active
ones, ride about four to six hours day,
and am very much improved in health and
spirits. | say this to encourage others, but
the horse exercise must be constant and Of
an active kind.
Year: 1867

Labor is not only useful, but necessary
and honorable. 1t makes the framework Of
society, and is the basis of civilization. In
what consists the chief difference between
the civilized man and the savage? The
former labors IN one way or another :; the
latter is idle. Our daily food, all the arts
and refnements and luxurious Indulgenees
of life are the products Of labor, from the
first tiIIing of the soil and raising a primi-
tive hut, up TO the construction Of stately
mansions, palaces and churches, with ali
their interior decorations. Not less neces-
sary is labor in its infinite variety Of diver
sions for personal comfort and adornment,
whether it be in manufacture Of the coarse
wooden for protection against cold, or OF
those rich silks and brocade and laces, the
wearers of which, in parlor or drawing
room, in court receptions or in the ball
room, too often forget the many dextcrous
hands that labored to crafty their desire for
such rich display.


We know not how far the heaven Of aris-
tocracy may be fermenting in the minds OF
those American citizens who, by wealth and
station, may now be uppermost In society.
They can hardly forget that most of them
have been elevated by labor-if not of their
own hands, at any rate by the labor of 9TH
ers, who have plowed, sowed and reaped,
spun and wove, piled the hammer on the
anvil, and kept furnace and forge a-going to
swell their incomes, and give them leisure,
ease and enjoyment.
Year: 1867

Like the leaf life has its fading. We
speak and think of it with sadness, lust as
we think of she autumn season. But there
should be no sadness at the fading Of a life
that has done well its work. five rejoice
at the advent of new life; if we welcome
the coming of new pilgrim to the uncer-
tainty of this world s why, why should there
be so much gloom wheE all the uncertain
ties are past, and life at its warning wears
the glory of a complete task? Beautiful as
childhood is in its freshness and innocence,
its beauty is that Of untried life 1t is the
beauty Of promise, of spring, of the bud. A
holier and rarer beauty is the beauty which
the waning life of faith and duty wears.


1t is the duty of thing completed; and
as men come together when some great work
is achieved, and see in its concluding moth
ing but gladness, SO ought we to feel when
the setting sun filings back its beams upon a
life that has answered well its purposes.
When the bud-drops are blighted, and there
goes all hope of the harvest. one may well
be sad but when the ripened year sinks
amid the garniture of autumn flowers and
leaves, why should we regret or murmur
And so a life that is ready and waiting to
hear the "well-done" of God, whose latest
virtues are its noblest, should be given back
to God in uncomplaining reverence, We re-
ioicing that earth is capable Of so much glad
ness, and is permitted such virtue.
Year: 1867

more hard woodwork Of the brain-than
that of the mechanic. In no sense can he
be considered an e1emplar of Bunyan' S


'Muckrake. - He must live In order to


work, but he does not work merely that he


may live. He is always striving to mount


the next step on the ladder, and never does


be mount but that be carries with him the


living. moving world Ii is his pride to


eccsg never satisfied with medioerity, but


always striving for superiority. From the


workman 10 the inventor Is but a steps
long step il may be--yet not beyond his pow


ers, If be employs them properly and the


inventor, not a mechanic, Is often depend


ent on the mechanic for the success of his


improvement.


Now, as individual. excellence depends
largely on individual exsrtion, although aid
ed somewhat by the recevded efforts and
failures Of others, it is obvious chat a5soeia-
tions which 'razee" or bring down each in
dividual TO a common level as to compensa-
ton, must retard the improvement N me-
chanieal science and practice so imperative
ly demanded by the increasing wants of the
age. The associations whether under the
name nf trades unious" or labor associa-
tions, have operated TO bring the s5lllful
workmen down to the level of the boteh,
and to elevate the half Informed mechanic
to their level The incentive of money
wages received-has been the mems used to
give these associations power and as the
inferior workmen in all branches of indus
trial business greatly outnamber the iHlsh-
ed mechanics, they, the inferio- class, rule
these societies. The effect is really lower
ing of the status of the meclanic. One
may do more and better wC-k-more in
quantity and better in quality-than anoth-
er, but because the inferior workman Is on
an equality as to standing in the society or
union, either the superior workman must
submit to be underyalued, te his pecuniary
loss and 10 his injury by dep-iving him of
the laudable ambition of receiving a reGog-
milton of his superiority or the employer is
compelled to pay for inferior work the same
amount for which superior work could be
obtained. In either case il is unjust; IN one
case to the conscientious and careful work
man and in the other to the employer.


The basis of these unions is wrong. They
make the amount Of wages, not the skill of
the workmen, the basis of their demands.
The amount of wages paid is not really the
criterion of excellence, and under these
union rules can Bever be made so while II
were contracted with, the indi-
yidual skill would become, as it should, the
basis of compensation, aud the peeunisry
return for services rendered would incite to
superior excellence and tend to the general
ofthe world. Scientific Amer-
icda
Year: 1867

Wicked men sometimes try TO persuade
themselves that there Is no God. The BIZ
bic imputes such thought only to a fool.
The fool hath said in his heart there is no
God He says this, in his hezrt, not in
his head, for reason teaches him different
~ -1Su tfy ~ ueffUyo Nts~eN rSi - fti ae~
eordance With their wishes, rather than the
truth, when the truth is distasteful The
guilty wish that there we're no God, for
they are selEeondemned and so they are
ready TO believe a monstrOus lie. Il is sin
that makes men atheists


Sometimes when the wicked cannot make
themselves believe that there IS no God,
they try to persuade themselves that there
is no he'll unce met with young man OF
fine appearance, good education and gentle
manly behavior, whom | found upon ac-
quaintauce to be a professional gambler,
and a person Of hcentious and dissolute
habits Afterwards, in taking with him, l
found that one of the fundamental articles
of his creed was this there is no hell. He
wished there were no he'll, for he knew that
if there was a hell, he could not escape it.
The christians not troubled, except for 9th
ers who are unprepareG to die, when he
reads in the Scriptures Cf the place of woe
Ii is sin also that makes men inidels


God says to the wicked, BE sure your
sin will find you out Yes the sinner viii
have his wages ''The wages of sin is
death - and perdition tne FIRE that is not
quenched, and the worm that never dies, will
find the sinner out Saday School Times.
Year: 1867

But what shall say of those miserable,
despicable sprigs Of humanity that live to,
adorn their pocket handkerchief and their
collars? Men that walk through society
with the thought that the chief end of their
life is to engage in the frivulous amusements
of the passing hour, and to spend their time
between those frivolous amusements and
their mirror, thinking of doing nothing and
wanting to do nothing; men a million Of
whom might live in the air and we be no
more conscious Of their existance than of
men a million of whom might die and all be
put IN one graVe-if you only buried their
souls; men that put on airs of gentihty and
niceness and look upon the rude clown, as
they cali the working man, with supreme
contempt, and pity him; men that have no
respect for those that are obliged to get up
early and sweep out the store; men that are
just as certain to die knaves, if they do not
die fools, as there IS law in naturel | can
not express my abhorrance for these strip
hngs of folly. And | declare that, in Cur
time of the world, with our Illumination,
with duties pressing from every side, and
with all the lnculcations, and examples that
have been handed down to us of disciples Of
Christianity, man that finds nothing TO do
and has no disposition to do anything, is
fractional man. He is not even bright
shining fragment. And of all men that are
lawful prey of contempt and the curling Of
the lip, these whittlings of gentility are the
most eminent.
Year: 1867

An Alliance correspondent of the Canton
20. Repository relates the following Some
DAYS ago there was dancing party given
for the benefit of the Fenians on the out
skirts of town, and several of the ladies
present had little babies, whose noisy per-
yersity required too much attention to allow
their ma 5 to enjoy the hop. A number
Of gallant young men volunteered to guard
the infantry while the ladies engaged in the
break down. No sooner had the mothers
left the little cherubs in the hands of the
mischievous wretches, than they stripped
the darlings changed their clothes, giving
the apparel of one to another. The dance
over, the mothers each took, as she thought
her own baby, and hurriedly left the scene
of gaities and started to their homes, sever
al miles apart, being far on the way before
the 'peep-o' day. On the following day
there was a tremendous row in the settle
ment. Mothers discovered that single
night had changed the sex Of their paoles,
and then commenced some of the tallest te-
male pedestrianism Living miles apart II
required two days to unmix the little cher
ubs, and it will require as many weeks to
restore the mothers to their natural sweet
dispositions,
Year: 1867

DivINENEss OF IMAGINATION The
Imagination divinest of mental facul-
ties0is Gods self in the soul All our
other faculties seem to me to have the brown
touch OF earth on them; but this one carries
the very livery ofheaYen. tits God s most
supernal faculty, interpreting to US the
difference between the visible and the invisl--
BE; teaching us how to take material and
visible things and carry them up into the
realm of the invisible and immaterial, and
how to bring down material and visible
things, and embody them IN visible and
material symbols; and so, being Gods mes
senger and prophet, standing between our
soul and Gods
Year: 1867

Walking by the quiet river


Where the slow tide seaward goes,
All the cares Of life fall from US,


All our troubles find reposS.
Nought forgetting, nought regretting,
Lovely ghosts from days no more
Glide with white feet DER the river,
Smiling toward the silent shore.
So we pray in His good pleasure


When this world we've safely trod,
May we walk beside the river


Flowing from the throne of God.
All forgiying, all believing,


Not one lost we loved before,
Looking towards the hills of heaven
Calmly from the eternal shore.
Year: 1867

~You are a coward if afraid to tell the
truth when you should do so. You are a
coward when you insult the weak. You are
a coward if afraid to do right, if you shrink
from defending your opinion, from maintain:
ing that which you know TO be Just and
good and you are especially coward ii you
know certain things of yourself, and dare
not own them to yourself.
Year: 1867


In place Of books, or work or play,
Some ladies spend The liyelong day
In scanning every passer-by,


And many a wonder they descry.
They find among the motley crowd
That some are gay, and some are proud
That some are short and soae are tall
They get their information all,


By peeping through the blinds.
You walk the streets--a common pace
You catch the outline Of a face
The face seems strange, again you look
Dear sirs, she knows you IiSe book
She knows the color Of your hair,
The very style Of clothes you wear;
She knows your business, I'll be bound,
And all your friends the country round,


By peepirg through tae blinds
She knows the Smiths across the way,
And what they dine on every day
And thinks that their Matilda Jane
Is growing very proud and vain,
She knows the Browns at Number four,
just opposite her very door;
Folks quite as poor as they can be,
For don't they sit and sew, while she


Is peeping through the blauds.
Dear ladies, if you don't succeed
In gaining knowledge that you need,
Then at the window take your seat,
And gaze into the busy street
Full soon you Il read your neighbors well,
And can their tastes and habits tell
And knew their habits to a T,
Much better than your own you see


BY peepiug through the blinds.
Year: 1867

Dovu~st Habits and Customs of the Freed.
u,su-Whew He Fears aud Whom He Com
0des Iu-The FYeedmen's BDream--Thc Labor
O,rstIsu at the south. sxrr.


ON A PLANTATION, SorrHw~rRs ALABAMA, /


Jan %. 1851. (


In order al anything like correct estimate
~ the value OF the freedman citizen component
NJ the tremendous aggregate which goes make up the
prorress the enterprise the wealth and the strength
the nation--one needs to know him In his home culti
waiting his own patch Of ground managing the sfars of
his family, squatng In the ashes Of his cabin Ore
and sleeping upon its bare floor All iheee conditions u
IA true may be but incidents Of the circumstances BY
which he surrounded; but they incidents, never.
tbeleys which could occur only In the life OF a race
which, groveling by instinct had been made sti more
stupid and shiftless by education speak Of him
End him here. and not Of that modified form Of his
character which 10 seen In the border States


An average OF about ono hundred negroes were en-.
Moved on this plantation last season. Every grown up
hand, whether male or female allowed half
OF land and every man with family full acre to cu
tvate for his and benefit Seed was furnished
them grstuitously and they were permitted TO have
half day each week 10 themselves Out OF the whole
number, between twenty-five and thirty selected their
spatches;r but Of these no more than six made any
kind Of crop and half Of the six were very ndieren
ones Several others went far as TO wholly par
TALLY plant their ground but here their ambition seemed
TO out and as they gave attention thereafter
II came 10 nought The most aggravating feature Of
this business yet 70 be exhibited and that that the
moment the rus Of those few ~he did labor manifested
Year: 1867

an extent has the practice, by immigrants, OF
cutting down and burning the telegraph poles Oh
the plains, been carried, that Gen. Augur has
found It necessary to issue q General Order on
the subject, from which the following is an ex-
tract:-"I 1t il Complained of that persons con-
nected with trains on the plains frequently chip
out from telegraph poles for their fdsl, and often
cut them entirely down for that pdtposs. It is
made the duty Of all officers and soldiers to be
watchful to prevent as far as possible this or any
injury to poles other structures or property Of
the telegraph company on the plains and should
it come to their knowledge that such injuries
have been done. they are to use their best en-
deavors to detect the offender, and if possible to
asrest Kim and hold him in confinement, report
ing Immediately the case in full.''
Year: 1867

DEMOCRACY IN A NUTsHELL.-The Clear Lake
Courier has reduced Democracy to its ultimate
analysis Here it is:


tt The issues Of the past are lost in oblivion.
Democracy claims but the one great party prin-
ciple-' the Union as it was and the Constitution
as it was.' That comprehends every principle
and every policy. of the Democratic party; and
no one who claims the protection Of our govern
ment has the moral right to oppose it."


The lone great party principle" is then, of
course, the Union ,cith slavery, for such the
Union sas, and constitution upholding and au-
thorizing slavery, for such was the constitution.
How many men does the Courier know of, who
expect to live long enough to see either again
They must live to an age to which that of Me-
thuselah wonld be frolicsome boyhood. We
supposed till we read the Courier, that slavery,
as an essential part either of the Union or Con-
stitution, was about as dead as any of the sis
sues of the past" which ara /" lost in oblivion" J."
II it can be made any deader than it is, we
should like to know by what process and the
editor would confer . favor upon the scientific
world, by explaining how he intends to galvan-
ize such corpse into new vitality.
Year: 1867

progressive civilization and development
in this country are radically hostile, and
that the President must be expected to
act after h 5 kind, Is a statesman who
omprehends the crisis Harper's Week
Year: 1867

A crazy man was found at a grindstone
sharpening a large butcher knife, and
every now and then examining the edge to
see if il was keen.


What are you doing here?"


"Don't you see? Sharpening this big
knife" pa 8


Yes, but what are you going to do with
it when sharpened 2"


"Cut old Ben Browns head off to be
sure"


What, you won't kill him, will you 2"


"Oh no I'll only cut his head off and
stick it right on again hind side before,
just to let the old fellow look back upon his
past life 1t would take him all the rest
of his life TO review"


What queer idea the lunaiic had in
his head And what if it were so, that
every man when he reached certain age
had his face turned round, and was obliged
to spend the rest of his days in looking
over his past life Wooldn't there be
strange sights Sunday School Times.