smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

! have noticed for some wears that farm
horses have had hard time during the
winter months, not because of work but
of the want OF care. Farm horses wear
out as fast if not iaster than horses that
work during the year. Now there Is a
cause for all this. In the first place
horses that have been in the open air and
sunshine should have these hygienic in
fluenceS all of the time, and horses that
have been in active exercise should still


lie allowed ample room and opportunity
for what exercise nature requires Then
again horses that have been fed high
should by all means have enough feed 10
so recruit them that they will look sleek
and have fat enough 10 keep them warm


Therefore when horses have accom-
plished the work of the season and are 10
rest for some weeks or months 70 come


the first thing 20 be done is 10 have the


shoes taken of, then give them thetr reg


uiar feed for few days at least, that Is,


til they look fresh and their eyes look


bright, and they snow signs OF good rich
blood IN their veins: then drop the noon
feed of grain and % on for time with
two feeds per day, and then leave of the
morning iced ol gram, and nnslly drop
the feed Of grain al night; still l would
never let horse stand and paw or ask
for food at night, for it is loss rather


than gain 10 try and cheat a horse out
OF his honest living


As the noon feed is withdrawn give
I some green food, say potatoes, carrots
or turuips, but | would limit the roots 10
a fourth or a half peck for few days,
I then give once, twice or thrice week as
/ the case may be. By sll means give


plenty Of hay and good, fresh, pure


wster. with salt as they may require.
! Now as 10 exercise. after The horse has
eaten his morning meal turn him loose


N good, large yard and let him remain
! MI noon. after the noon feed turn him
+ out again until night, then put him Up
and feed for the night; Of course stormy
Year: 1875

days should keep him in the stable. If
horses are kept at work part of the time
keep the shoes on and feed according 10
the work. but BY sill means give the yard
exercise whenever he IL let up from
Massachusetts, Pl0UghmaH.
Year: 1875

REMEMBER THIS Woman's


love is likeped to a vine. Perhaps il


is like it, though it Is very strong in


hours of need, as strong az it is ten


der. Yes, surely, we will not deny


that it is our nature to ask for com,


fort and support, and to seek to twine


ourselves about something that can


offer it.


And there is no better reason than
this very trait Of ours why we should
lie careful how we give our hearts,
and make very sure that the man we
choose also has a heart-a strong and
honest one-aud that bis love is of
the kind to be enduring /; and that lie
has ingrained into his nature that
most excellent and manly quality
trustworthiness. He should be an oak
aud not a reed; for though in summer
weather the vine may drape the reed |
very prettily, it will not resist the
tempest. Nor need the vine dread |
the ruggedest oak. Its bark may be
gnarlcd, its branches knotted; but all
the greener and fresher viii be the
foliage that it bears, all the more ton
derly will it shadow that which is
beneath it.


There is sweetness in weakness Il
something very loveable in many a
faint wiled, purposeless and uLen-
during man; bpt two vines cannot
SUPPORT each other. They will ouly
tangle aud fall upon the ground. The
stronger, the braver, the more unlike
, woTan g man is, the better Tor his
wite.-Mary Kyle DM Z.
Year: 1875

IN RETaLIAroA.-The boys have
put a certain quarantine detectives
hat in quarantine, and it surmounts
tall pole, at the depot, with a hiGeous
false face under it, with the yellow
flag flying, and bold inscription
Under Quarantine"


Fully as much sense in this, as in
New Orleans and Mobile keeping US
under the ridiculous restriction.
Year: 1875

WeAll have waking visions-I have mine,
Aud being young, ana fanciful, and counted fair,
sometimes dream of love;
And sitting all alone, and unusing still
l ask myself, If should learn to love,
If my still heart could wake to sfe,
How would love, aud how be loved;
For am weary Of idOlatry.


NV soul is faint within me while I think
OF all the fierce, strong passion
have seen and kuOWu-resistless in its might
As some rOck-cleaving stream
would be loved in csimness
Trusted, and not feared,
He whom love should be my king
And not my slave.


do not ask that be be proud and cold,
But calm, and grave, and very strong;
king, like Saul, among the sons of men,
And kinglier DER himself
He must not trenable at my slightest frewn,
Nor shUdder if another meets my eye;
Nor must he, like a vasssl, crave my smile
Glad in the dust before my feet to lie
For am weary Of servility.


would not rule, nor would yet be ruled
l scOrn the tyTant as scOrn his slave
There is a love Of sweet equality;
The love God gave and smiled upon,
For 1t was very good.


He whom love must be my king,
But must he his qaeeR,
And he should yield as my tribute due,
The reverence had earned,
Not only by my womanhood, but by all gentleness
Long suffering, the patient sweetness
ONLY love teach;


For looking on me be should feel and know
That peace and rest should follow after toll
In me his heart should in such safety trust
That he should have no need of spoil.


1 do not claim for him the worlds applause,
The blaze Of heraldy, the pOmp of fame;
His deeds the annals of a nations pride,
His name upon the lips of men,
But must feel his power;
Must know he could be what earths heroes are:
1 could not love him were he not great.
His hand must be both safe and strong;
A hand to shield, to trust to lay my own within;
To stake my life upon.
hand that might have fought with Hercules,
Yet would not harm the worm in his path:
For tho the heart of woman loveJh oft
thing she doth unwillingly despise,
It is pItlful, imperfect love, that hath not
For It's cornerstone the rock Of Faith.
His heart must be most tender aud true:
heart that loves, and pitIes, and befrIends
Earth's suffering children, whether high,
Or yet among the lOwly and the poor,
Ana he must love me perfectly.


If from the first fruits Of my hearts fair wealth
l bring an Offering for lOve-crOwn made,
He must not mock me with pRltry love,
Nor stoOp to cheat my soUl.


# ever should meet such man,
This king only dream Of and never see:
linen could sit most meekly az his feet,
very child before his goodness and his power
And while he stopped to kiss my shining hair,
Or smooth Its clusters from their Ciinging rest
4 sweet UEspOken language in his touch
Would lift my dark eyes to the dark Of his,
And, as in fair Judea, when the world was young
Sarah, with reverence, said to Abraham,
My lips would call him " Lord"
Year: 1875

the disastrous consequence that would
inevitably follow.


g 1t would thus appear that it is not
the peculiar and special action of alcO-
h0l on the nervous system that arouses
the desire, but some changes in the
nutrition of the nerve centers. which
agents other than alcohol can bring
about.


"If we have arrived at the correct
pathology of the affective, its treat
meut need not detain rs long. When
We come to recognize dipsomania as a
disease, and not vice, we are on the
high road to the accomplishment of
good in its rational treatment.


Obviously the first thing TO do is to
remove the causes, and as these may be
various, each case should be made a
subject of special and close study.
OF course the question of inebriate
asYlums comes in here with pertinancy.
The advantages of these are admirably
summed up bv DR.. D. T. Crothers, of
Albany, n. Y. IN an article in the
American Practitioner, for November,
1874, as follows:


They will enable the patient to
isolate himself from all excitement and
allow complete rest of the nervous
system. They remove all care and re-
sponsibility from the patients mind,
except that of recovering his lost health
aud make him a party with the phvsi-
clan to bring about this result. This
of itself is a powerful factor in the
treatment. Hospitals and asylums
give the medical man complete control
over the habits and surroundings of the
patient, and Offer facilities for superior
hygienic and medical treatment.
Year: 1875

IT is definitely settled that his royal
highness, the prince of Wales, will go
to India next winter, country which,
though forming magnificent part of the
British empire, has never been visited
by scion of the royal house.
Year: 1875

Did you ever think how much power
is vested in a word 1t may have
caused but a little eXertiOn on your
part to utter it. Only a single breath
may have been required TO watt il from
your lips to the ears of your listener,
but when once spoken, ii was past re-
call. Ii revealed the secret motives
and brought to light the hidden
thoughts of your heart. All the word
may have been a tbOughtless one spoken
in an unguarded moment; but it left
its impress, and may he remembered
long after yOur voice is hushed, and
you are sleeping the sleep that knows
no waking.


Perhaps the word was an unkind one,
harshly spoken, and accompanied by a
cold, chilling look, which cast a gloomy
shadow DER some loving, sensitive
heart. Perhaps il was one of malice,
envy, or deceit, and enkindled a bitter
feeling of resentment which will live
on and on while memory lasts; or it
may have been cheerful, pleasant,
loving word, proceeding from heart
brImful of the purest kindness, which
fell like sweetest music Oh the listening
ear, touching hidden chord III the
soul, which will ever respond in strains
of love and harmony. Perchance 1t
may have been a word of sympathy or
encouragement. spoken in tenderest
accents, so that very word may have
scattered the clouds, dispelled the
gloom, and dIffused sunshine into the
heart well nigh crushed beneath its
burden of woe.


Words may seem but little things to
us, but they possess a power beyond
calculation. They swiftly lily from us
to others, and though we scarcely give
them a passing thought, their spirit
lives. Though they are as fieeting as
the breath that bore them, their iDtiu-
ence is as enduring as the heart they
reach. All well may we guard our
lips, so that none grieve in silence over
words that we may have carelessly
dropped. Well may we strive to scat
ter loving, cheering, encouraging words
to soOthe the weary, and awaken the
nobler, finer feelings of those with
whom we daily come in contact. Well
may we endeavor 10 use right words,
for they are indeed precious. How they
endear each TO the other Though they
cost the speaker nothing. they are more
valuable than diamonds, and shed a
brighter lustre on all around.
Year: 1875

''In Paris, lit is quite common to
see mother dragging her almost infant
child by the hand, weary and fretful,
and carrying dog in her arms, which
she will occasionally stop to kiss, or
dispose of SO as TO make it more com
Portable. This trait is peculiar to no
one class, but all seem to have a strong
affection for the dog. To see lady at
her door or window without a lap-dog
is almost a novelty, whilst many OF
them carry in their arms or lead them
by a ribbon in the streets. The corners
are posted with handbills of hospitals
for dogs, where the best medical at
tendance can be had, and dog medicines
and dog soaps are placarded in all di-
rections. On the boulevards, at night,
the dealers in dogs are constantly per-
ambulating with two or three pups in
their arms, and ladies VIII stop and
bargain for them on the public thor
oughfare. They teach them all manner
of tricks, and they are valued according
to the education they have received
and the intelligence they display.
When they travel they take a nurse
with them to attend to the wants and
comfort of the dog, and these nurses
can be seen in the public square airing
and exercising the dogs, and leading
them by ribbons. Some idea of the ex-
tent of this dog mania may be judged
from the fact that the dog tax pad into
the city treasury last year was 420, 900
francs, or nearly 800, 900. The men,
also, have their dogs, but not to such a
great extent as fenales. They are
mostly beautiful little animals, as white
as snow, and are kept scrupulously
clean, more care being evidently be-
slowed on them In this respect than
many of the children receive from their
mothers.
Year: 1875

THE following is translation from an an
ReUierc is surpassed by nothing with which We
are acquainted in the Spanish language except
the 'Ode OF Louis de Leon.
oh. let the soul its slumbers break
Arouse its senses, and awake


To see how soon
Life, in its glories, glides away.
And the stern footsteps Of decay


Come stealing on.
And while We view the rolling tide,
Down which our flowing minutes glide


Away so fast
Let us the present hour employ
And deem each future dream joy


Already past.
Let no vain hope deceive the mind,
Ne happier let us hope to find


Tomorrow than to-day;
Our golden dreams Of yore were bright,
Like them the present shall delight


Like them decay.
Our lives like lasting streams must be
That into the engulfing sea


Are doomed to fall
The sea Of death, whose waves roll on,
Ger king and kingdom, crown and throne,


And swallow all.
Alike the rivers lordly tide,
Alike the rivulet's humble glide


To that sad wavei
Death levels poverty and pride,
The rich and poor sleep side by side,


Within the grave
Our birth is but a starting place;
Life is but the running OF the race.


And death the goal
There all our glittering toys are bought,
The path alone, Of all unsought,


Is found of all.
See, then, how poor and little worth
Are all those glittering toys of Garth,


That lure us here
Dreams of sleep that death must break;
Alas before If bids us awake,


We disappear.
Long ere the damp earth can blight
The checks pure glow of red and white,


He passed away;
Youth smiled, and all was heavenly fair
Age came and laid his finger there


And where are they!
Where is the strength that spurned decay,
The steps that roved 80 light and gay,


The hearts blithe tone?
The strength is gone, the step is slow,
And joy grows wearisome and woe,


When age comes on
Year: 1875

My fishing consisted principally in
sitting on q safe rock near the shore
reading some newspaper items about
the mountain country. q always try
to read ND while on the ground, having
discovered that line on the spot is
worth two volumes away.) | learned,
in the first place, that Buncombe
County, where we then were, was
named from Colonel BuncOmbe, a gal
liant officer of the Revolution over
the door of the family mansion once
stood this legend,


"To Buncombe Hall


Welcome all"


Ii was a Congressional representative
of this mountain neighborhOod who
made himself and his district immortal
by "only talking for Buncombe.r Close
upon this information came the fact
that in 1871 BuncOmbe took the first
premium for tobacco at the Virginia
State Fair, surprising even the cele-
brated yield of the Danville region.
BuncOmbe apples were giants of their
kind, weighing from twenty-five to
thirty ounces. and measuring fourteen
and sixteen inches in circumference.
Q was not surprised at this, having
seen the men who eat them.) The
Catawba grape originated in Buncombe,
on Cane Greek, a branch of the French
Broad. In the surrounding region
there were sixty mountain peaks more
than six thousand feet high, and thirty
nine over five thousand feet.


vent on with the climate, and dis
covered that while in New England two
hundred and fifty out of every thousand
deaths are from consumption. in Min
nesOta and California one hundred and
fifty, and in Florida fifty, here, even
with an almost total lack of luxuries,
the proportion was only thirty in the
thousand.-Hdrper's Magazine.
Year: 1875

A RESPECTFUL BoY.-An old man en-
tered railroad car and was looking
around for a seat, when a boy ten or
twelve years of age rose up and said,
'Take my seat, SIR"


The offer was accepted, and the infirm
old man sat down.


"Why did you give me your seat q
he inquired of the boy.


because you are old, sir, and 1 am
a boyl" was the reply.


A hundred years ago there would
have been little need to record, as re-
markable, similar incident. Among
things that are good or hopeful in the
rising generation, there is one great
change for the worse manifest to every
body,-a declining spirit of reverence
towards age and towards God. "Thou
shalt rise mp before the hoary head.
and honor the face of the old man, and
fear thy God; am the Lord"
Year: 1875

Little brown Acorn swung on q tree.


While the leaves turned yellow and red.
MANY q day have been herr" said he.
''And 50. as I'm tired as tired can be,


think will go to bed"
Little brown Acorn hid under gray


Messed rock on the side of the HILL
l never have heard that he's gone away.
So should you look there this very day,


I'm you Will find him still.
Little brown Acorn under the snow,


When the Winter days come,
While the winds blow high and the winds blow low,
Whiltbhe mornings dawn and the sunsets go,


stays in his chosen home.
Little brown Acorn naught viii befall


Till the stormy months DER;
But when in the oaks the robins shall call,
He viii lift up his head so green and 50 tall,


Little brown Acorn no more.
Year: 1875

"HERBERr, said perplexed mother,
why is it that you're not a better
boy 2" "Well," said the little fellow,
soberly, looking up into her face with
his honest blue eyes, 81 suppose the
real reason is that don't want to be p
We think the child gave the real reason
why all of rs, big as well as little, are
not better than we are.
Year: 1875

the boots, and he wondered whether
the shoemaker would undertake to re-
pair them, although he owed him five
and twenty thalers. He would at all
events make the attempt to inquire, in
spite of its being an unpleasant task
So he went to the man himself, and
with explanations and entreaties tried
to move his heart.


The shoemaker was not hard man !;
he knew well what it was to wish to
pay debt and not to be able to do so,
even with the best intentions, and he
had often asked for payment, as he
wanted the money himself.
When the schOOlmaster showed him
his boots, he bent his gray head
thOughtfnlly aud pitifully; at last he
spoke: Il see that in this case you
must be helped, but when am | to re-
celve my money"


Help me but this once, dear MASTER y
said the teacher; you know that the
king is coming, and want the little
ones to sing before him. In these boots
| neither dare nor can appear therefore
help me in my need! / promise you
that you shall be paid. If God does
not help me in any other way, 1 will
sell my COW and repay you; you know
that l keep my word and my promises
faithfully"


When he had said this the school
master felt a heavy burden on his
heart. "Sell the cOwr Nothing but
the direst need could have wrung that
promise from him. Sell the COW and
then what would become of him and
his children But he had said the
word, and given the promise, and he
was bound as man of honor to fulfill
them.


"Well,n said the shoemaker, 81 will
take you at your word, and mend the
boots"


"Be so good as to do so, and send me
bill with them, that | may know the
extent of my debt to you"


at shall be done,n said the shoe
maker, and seated himself again at his
work.


But the poor schOOlmaster, though
relieved of that care, went away with a
heavy heart. The tears came into his
eyes when he thought of the immediate
future, and wondered what would be-
come of them. He did not wish to go
home with a troubled and carewOrn
face, to cause fresh sorrow to his wife.
He went first into the open fields, and
on to his favOrite place on the noun
tiiD. hcic lit Wcpt Will HIS NHOit
heart, and the streaming tears relieved
him. There he sat still and alone,
watching the heavens prayerfully, and
cOnsOled himself with the verse


soul remember our Lord still lives"
He then washed his face i'm the running
brook, wiped away all traces of tears,
and went home cheerfully. Fortunately
his wife did not ask what the shoe
maker had said. She knew well what
they owed him, and he had evidently
kept the boots; SO it was clear he had
undertaken to repair them-and for the
rest, God would care! And, as she did
not ask, her husband did not tell her of
the promise he had made to the shoe
maker.


On Sunday morning, when the school
master had already dressed for going
to church, the boots arrived, to his and
his wife's great JOY. The bill was sent
with them. 1t was made ont In rather
a grabbed and curious manner, and read
thus:


Item-a pair Of boots repaired asd soled-the
last if this bill is not paid having given hi. word
10 sell the COW, makes -...-..-l4 siiber grosehen


The old debt. ..........2 y thalers-
Year: 1875

BEES IN THE UNITED STATES. There
are two million bee-hives in the United
States. Every hive yields, on an aver
age, a little over twenty pounds of
honey. The average price at which
honey is sold is twenty-five cents a
pound. So that, after paying their
own board, our bees present us with a
revenue of over IS, 500, 900. To reckon
it another way, they make a clear gift
of over a pound of pure honey to every
man, woman, and child in the vast do
main of the United States. Over
twenty-three and one-third million
pounds of wax are made and given to
us by these industrious workers. The
keeping Of bees is one of the most
profitable investments that our people
can make of their money. The profits
arising from the sale of surplus honey
average from fifty to two hundred per
cent. of the capital invested.
Year: 1875

New YORK city is on the point of try
ing a new ystem of underground teIe-
graph wires. The new venture is Great
ing so much enthusiasm that bill has
been introduced by the state assembly
providing that within six months after
its passage all telegraphic wires in
cities of the state containing over 2OO,-
600 inhabitants shall be laid under the
street or sidewalk.
Year: 1875

is the Intelligence Office at which the
great Head of the Church receives applica-
tions for His hirelng ministry? 1t would
be fine sight, indeed, to see the vestries
coming up with their bids and inquiring
for " character


True, the laborer is worthy of his hire;
but whose work does he do, his Masters or
mans? True, God puts the support of
the ministry on the laity: " Let him that
is taught in the Word minister to him that
teacheth in all good things" But do they
minister to him as their own hirelinr, or
as Gods agents TO Gods minister out of
the abundance which God has given them
This matter needs ventilation. The
priesthood are ministers of God to man;
for convenience ard good order each has
his own post, and the congregation then,
as duty TO God, support him. But he is
Gods laborer and of God only lie draws
wages and hire. And he must so order
his labors as shall best suit Gods work.


Our Church Work.
Year: 1875

The reporters who wrote up the trip OF
the first of the fas; mail trains from New
York to Chicago, and some Of the papers
which comment on the same. give great
credit to Mr. Bangs, the General Superinten-
dent Of Railway Mail Service, as the hero Of
the enterprise Mr. Bang needs all the
glory be can get out Of the lightning train
to Offset his share in the postage grab,
which doubled the rates on transient news
papers and books. Senator Hamlin. who
bears the brrnt of popular displeasure for
that piece of business. probably did not
not know What he was about when he intro
duced the bill, though lie said he did.
Postmaster General Jewell, who was on the
door of the senate when it passed, having
been at the head Of the postOfhce Depart
ment but a few months, had not yet discover
ed what third class mail matter i. Mr..
Bangs, it has been said, and We doubt not
truly, in effect drew the bill and secured its
passage. He knew exactly what doubling
the rate- ON third class matter meant. and
hi, part in the performance should not be
forgotten.