smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

How oft am i'd the sordid strife


OF worldly wisdom have l turned
To memory's scenes of early life,


And DER my joyous boyhood mo urned;
How oft have wish'd mid care and pain
To be that buoyant boy again
To sleep beneath the slanting roof


And hear the pattering raindrops fall,
Or listen to the lively proof


Of vagrants round my airy hall;
Yet rise at morn with wonted glee
To wade the brook or climb the tree.
To join the sturdy reapers' train,


What time the lark her matin strings
When mounting with impaSsion'd strain,


She bathes in light her glittering wings,
And, poised in air, is scarcely seen,
So high amid the dazzling sheen.
Twas mine to trap beside the stream,


Or angle meath the alder's shade,
To tend the plow. or drive the team,


Or seek the herd in distant glade,
Where oft from clustering thickets shrill
Rang out the notes of the whipporwill.
Those trembling notes, so long, so wild,


Were music to my boyish ear;
Thought backward flies and as child


Fen now methinks the sound l hear,
While fancy spreads before my eye
The dewy glade and moonlit sky.
The Glowing herd" now vending slow


Along the wood their homeward way;
The winding streams dark CLASSY flow,


The lillied vale, the woodland gay,
Still float in visions bland and bright,
As on that balmy summers night.
Then standing on the distant hill,


With boyROrn fancies wand d'ring tree,
saw no specter'd form ofil


Rise in the bright futurity;
But all, instead, was joyous, clear,
Buoyant with hope, untouched with fear.
o, these were boyhood's cloudless hours,
And sweet on wings unsullied flew,
But pride soon dream ID of loftier bowers,
And wealth her golden luster threw
Ger tempting scenes, as false as fair,
And bade my spirit seek her there.
And have sought her-nor in vain,


1 might have piled her treasures high,
But that 1 scorned her sordid reign


And turned me from her SoulleSS eye,
l could not delve her dirty mine,
And could not worship at her shrine.
would not stoop to f1atter power,


For any vile or selfish end;
l would not change with every hour


My faith, my feelings, or my friend,
And least of all would intrust
My hopes to the ac cursed dust.
The God that reared the woodland heights,
And spread the fow'ry valleys wide,
And walked within my mind delights
And spurn the lures of human pride,
And stern forbade in accents known,
To worship aught beneath His throne.
Year: 1879

A good colored man once said, in a
class meeting Brethren, when l was a
boy, l took a hatchet and went into de
woods. When l found tree dat wa
straight, big, and solid, didn't touch dat
tree; but when l found one leaning a
little and hollow inside, l soon had him
down. So when de debbil goes after
Christians. he don't touch them dat stand
straight and true; but dem dat lean q
little and are hollow inside"
Year: 1879

A young lady said to her lover, Char
ley, how far is it around the world p
About twenty-four inches, my darling,
replied he, as his arm encircled her waist
She was all the world to him.
Year: 1879

One word one unkind word


Half earnest-half in jest.
had no thought that through such long, long
years
That word should bear its bitter fruit of tears.
That all my heart should sad and weary grow
With longing for peace it could not know.
That this one word should rob my soul of rest,


All! This did not know.
Year: 1879

One word one careless word


And said at parting, too!
And now-through all these years, as then
see
In mute reproach the sad eyes gaze on me.
The pale sweet face-the face in memory set
With tender grieving lips-I ne'er forget.
In waking and in dreams that face, know


Will ever bring regret.
Year: 1879

Do not betray the confidence Of.
any one.


Never laugh at the misfortaaes
Of others.


Never give promise that yoa
do not intend to fulfill.


Never give a present hoping
for one in return.


Never fail 10 be punctuaI at the
time appointed.


Never make yourself the hero
of your own story.


Never pick the teeth or clean
the nails in company.


Never fail to give polite aIl-
swcr to civil question.


Never question servant or
child about family matters.
Never present. a gift saying it is
of no use to yourself.
| Mover read letters which you
may find addressed to others.


Never call attention to the fea-
lures or form of any one present.


Never refer to gift you hare
made or a favor you have render
ed.


Never associate with bad com
pany. Have good company or
| none.


Never appear to notice a scar,
deformity or defect of any one
present.


Never look over the shouldes
OF another who is reading or writ-
ing.


Never call new acquaintance
by the first name, unless request
ed to do so.
Never answer questions in gem
eral company, but have them put
to others.


Never pass between two per-
sons who are talking together
without an apology.
Never lend an article you have
borrowed, unless you have psr-
mission to do so.
Never fail to tell the truth. If
trutbful,you get you reward. You
will get your punishment if you
deceive,
Never enter the room noisily s;
never fail to close the door after
you, and never slam it.
Never enter d room filed with
people without a slight bow to
the general company when first
entering.


Never fail to answer an invita-
tion either personally or by letter,
within week after the invitation
is received.


Never accept fayors or hospi-
talities without rendering an ex-
change of civilities when oppor-
tunity offers.


Never borrow money and neg.
lect to pay. If you do you viii
soon be known as o person of no
business integrity.


Never cross the leg or put one
foot over the other in the street
car or places whele it will trouble
others in passing by.


Never refuse to receive an apol-
ogy. You may not receive friend
ship, but courtesy will require,
when an apology is offered yoa
accept it,


Never examine the cards IN the
card basket. While they may be
exposed in the drawing room,
you are not expected to turn
them over unless invited to do
so. ....


Never, when walking arm in
arm with a young lady, be con-
tinually changing and going round
to the other side, because OF
change of corners. It shows too
much attention to- form.
Year: 1879

DECISION FOR THE DENVER CoMfhN1'
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT GRANTS THE


RIGHT OF WAY THROUGH HE GRAND CANON OF


THE ARKANSAS To THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE


RAILROAD-sALIENT POINTS OF TIE DECISION


The United States Supreme Court has rendered
an important decision in the controversy between
the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company and
the Canon City and San Juan Railway Company as TO
the occupancy ard of the Grand Canon OF
the Arkansas. Discoveries of mineral wealth III
Western Colorado have given as the evidence
showed great value to this pass, since the occu-
pancy Of il by one line of railroad would practically
prohibit all other competing companies from using
It for like purposes, except upon the terms the hrst
occupant might dictate. BY this decision the
prior right of the Denver Company to use the
Grand Canon for the purpose of constructing us
road thereon is recognized, and the Canon CITY
Company is enjolned from interference Where
there Is room for only one road-bed III the pass
both roads are to be allowed to use the same track
Wherever the Canon City Company during the
pendency of these proceedings has constructed It's
road-bed in the parts of the pass that will admit oil
only one road-bed the costs of such construction
are to be equitably apportioned between the two
companies. Chief-Justice Waite presents dissent
ing opinion.
Year: 1879

The dentist is said to make almost as
much money per acher as the farmer.


We have never heard of man so
mean that Fly wouldn't become attached
to him.


To think kindly is good, to speak
kindly is better but to act kindly is
best.


Man believes that to be lie which
contradicts the testimony of his own ig-
norance.


The check of lightning rod agent is
the only metal that is affected by the mos
quito bite.


A doad snake can be brought 70 life
with pint of whiskey; you drink the
whiskey and then look at the snake.


Strive to impress upon your children
that the only disgrace attaching TO hon.
est labor is the disgrace Of doing it bad
ly.


What are you trying to read p asked
visitor Of an old gentleman who was
nodding over the evening journal
"Oh /" replied bis wife, that's his snoozc
paper"


A Western paper speaks of the loss Of
a vessel "The captain swan ashore so
did the chambermaid she was valued at
$I5, 900 and was loaded with IRON"


II may be that the supplemented
farmer has no selfish designs IN telling
the tourist that fish will bite only at po-
tato bugs at this season, and in kindly
allowing him to gather as much bait as
he wants out Of the potato patch.


don't take ony foolish chances. If
wuz called upon to weep over dead
mule would stand in front and do my
mournin'.


There Is no man so poor but what he
can afford to keep dog, and have seen
sane 50 poor they could afford TO keep
three.


FIattery is like colone water; TO be
smelled Of and not swallowed. Josh.
BWipgs
Year: 1879

The LATEST man in the United States
is ship carpenter at Belfast, Me-, who
has determined to spend the rest of his
days in an easy chair. When wages we're
reduced he declined to work any longer
and seated himself in rocking chair at


his sitting room window. There he re-
mains all day long, only rising to go to
his meals or to bed. His chair has worn
grooves in the floor, and where he has
drummed the window sill are the prints
of his fingers worn in the wood. He
has a wife, and the couple are supposed
to have some savings on which they live.
Year: 1879

Willie Bowen, aged nine years, is a
slate picker on the peirs of the Delaware
and Hudson canal company at Homes
dale, Pa. Two pondcrOns iron rollers,
one close ov,r the other, ,revove slowly a
few feet above the boys head where he
works. A piece of the slate from the
coal that is carried from screen to screen
on endless canvas belts got between these
rollers yesterday. The boy reached up
from the scaifolding on which he stood
to take the slate out. His hand was
caught by the rollers and drawn slowly
in, until the little fellow was raised from
bis feet and was suspended over the
canal ten feet above it. Nearly half Of
his arm was drawn between the rollers
before his terrible situation was discov-
cred and the machinery stopped. Before
the boy could be removed messenger
had to be dispatched to the machine
shop, some distance away. for machinists
to take the machinery apart. This re-
quired more than fifteen minutes. All
this time the lad hung suspended by the
crushed arm, the flesh being entirely
torn away. exposing the bones and cords.
The little fellow never uttered a cry or
shed tear. His father, an employee
on the peir, was weeping witness Of
the terrible scene, aud tho boy kept say
ing, Don't cry, father; they'll get me
out all right" The lads arm will have
to be amputated at the elbow.
Year: 1879

The radicals, both in and out Of con-
gress. are talking about what they call
the ''heresy of state rights" This s:m-
ply means that the federal government
should not only execute the powers con-
ferred upon it by the constitution, but all
those reserved to the state by the same
instrument. According to the radical
theory, the states have no rights that
the national authorities should respect.
This Is the central despotism to which
the country is rapidly drifting under
radical rule.
Year: 1879

Ex-Governor Seymour, recently over11
hauled by an interviewer. freely says
that the subject OF military interference
at elections will be the real issue upon
which the next presidential campaign
will be fought. There is deep feeling
on this subject in The north as we'll as
the south, and Governor Seymour knows
what is thought of it in New York.
where he, as the executive OF state, so
earnestly met the attempts OF the gov
ernment to surround the polls with sol-
diers that the scheme was abandoned.
.He,has seen this same thing done since.
and he has seen the majority OF the peo.
pie array themselves against the usa
OF the bayonet to control the elections
by the people.
Year: 1879

The Utica Observer thinks the trick
OF the "negro exodus looks like a
most exasperatlng failure for the repub-
lican performers who have it in hand,
and that the principal part of the plot
was to reduce the congressional repre-.
sentation OF the south by depicting its
population against the next census.
Year: 1879

Professor Tyndall says that very great
Improvements in the electric light must
be regarded as inevitable, but he does
not believe gas will be beaten out Of the
| field by it; there is to much use for gas.
Year: 1879

There is hardly any qu,druped which can
travel faster than the ordinary boy when he
is in the midst OF an afternoons fun, and is
making a home run on the base ball ground.
He could hardly make better time If he Were
q cenliprde. But such Is the dependence OF
human nature on Its moods, that the same
boy. though doing his utmost, can hardly
catch up with an ambitious and plucky snail


| when his grandmother asks him to so out to
the woodpile an. bring in an armfui OF kind.
Year: 1879

1t may be, some one has complained,
terribly monotonous for man and wife TO


live together for thirty years without q
quarrel. but it is an experience in which
very few couples have INDUCED themselves.
Year: 1879

Edison ought to pause long enough IN his
mad career to furnish suffering humanity
with machine that will quietly and unob.
trusiyely annlhilate these fellows who throw
too much enthusiasm into a handshake.
Year: 1879

If the eolored people really desire
to test the quality OF New England's
philanthropy. let eight or nine thousand
negro exodusrers emigrate to that coun-
try. The blacks will never become
good citizens until they have had taste
of New England philanthropy.
Year: 1879

is important. There Is vast amount
OF money wasted in buying new type.


when the real want was new rollers,


clean type and properly dampened


sheets: Don't let your type stand too


long in advertisements. If your ad-


vertising patron does not order u change,


distribute and ceset the advertisements
on your own account, making such
changes IN display lines and headings as
your taste may suggest. This gives
your paper new and fresh appearance.


and will prove a great saving to the
type. Never neglect to cleanse your
type Immediately alter using a form.
Read your standing advertisements
every week, and correct such errors as
are occasloned by making up and hand
ling the forms. Change the position OF
advertisements every week. as this will
add freshness to their appearance. und
to that OF your paper. Another impor,
Year: 1879

Bo prompt in issuing your paper on
time. Never let it miss a mail if pos
sible. Your subscribers are expecting
the paper on a certain day, and if they
fail to receive it their disappointment is
serious. Its regular reception to them
is like hearty meal, and by long habit
becomes almost what We call second
nature.
Year: 1879

The surrender of the women and children
who were carried away from the White
River agency after the cruel slaughter Of its
inmates must be a preliminary to any ncgo-
tiations with the hostile Utes or with Chief
Ouray or any other mediator in their be-
half 1t they have been harmed the surren-
der Of their nssailants should be insisted
upon at the same time. Honor and human
ity demand the rigorous exaction of this
condition. If Chief Ouray possesses the
ascendancy to which he protends in the Ute
nation he should have made haste already
to compel the freedom of the survivors of
the massacre Unhappily wo know what Is
the usual lot of white women and children
in the hands Of hostile savages. If Miss
Year: 1879

former.


The fourth in the series of pen pictures
of human misery which we print this morn
ing would apply, we very much fear,
equally well to other counties quite as re-
spectacle as Tompkins. From that point
Of view it appears severe to load her people
with inferential charges of heartless indif-
ference. Yet there the facts were found
which are to-day laid before our readers,
and there the responsibility must
rest We leave it to the public,
after it shall have read the letter from
Ithaca, whether or not the case has been
made out, and whether or not our corre-
spondent exercised due diligence and
care in getting at the truth. In no
other part of the world has more money
been expended in providing accommoda-
tions for the weak and helpless than in the
lands of the English tongue. If one can
judge OF The adequacy OF the support of
these establishments by the am cunt of funds
expended it would seem beyond dispute
that oil necessary comforts and medical
care were supplied. Notwithstanding
these statistical evidences of our humani-
tarianism, investigation clearly demon
strates the grave fact that much of this vast
outlay, amounting, as We showed few
days ago, to millions each year in this State
alone, does not serve the purpose in salts
factory manner. One oftwo things is beyond
question-either the expenditure, large as
it is. is inadequate or tho money is diverted
from the real purposes for which it is as
sessed, and consequently misspent. Here
is a chance for some young, ambitious and
eloquent member of the next Legislature
to gain reputation for practical reform
which will last him through life and secure
for him the respect Of every lover of his
race throughout the land. 1t is not often
that such on opportunity occurs. Now TOR
the man.
Year: 1879

The libeller of Mrs. Langtry appeared in


London yesterday in new role, but not
successfully He tried the line ofapology,
and was prepared to make as abject dec
laraton of his own offencs as could be re-
quired even by any one who might wish to
witness an extreme case of humiliation.
This man, it will be remembered, published
the most atrocious scandals against a lady
of good repute. declared in public print
repeatedly that her husband had pc
titioned for divorce because of her
impurity, and facts of that nature.
and boasted of his publications as
great achievements. But, arrested on
the charge Of libel, and imprisoned be-
cause he cannot obtain bail. he grovels and
whines like a pitiful cur to have his bail
put down to point at which he can meet
the demands of justice. This is not q
pleasant spectacle, except in one important
respect. 1t is degrading to see man put
in such straits though even by his own
fault; but it is satisfactory to reflect that
some discipline of this sort is likely to arrest
the mania for libel, and if it does not reduce
the number of papers that have hitherto
lived by 1t at least to change the direction
of their activity.
Year: 1879

trast to the English lines in this particular
respect. Not only are the hours for meals


more nationally distributed, but the food
itself is more carefully and skilfully pre-
pared. The fault of the table service upon
nearly all the lines is, as we have often
before urged, the sacrifice of simplicity
to parade. Instead of having plain
table dh6te dinner, with one soup,
a single kind of fish and one or two
joints with plain vegetable, all we'll
cooked, it is the rule to load the tables
with entrees and fancy dishes, most of
which are unpalatable ms we'll rs indigesti-
BILE. We are glad to hear that this absurd
plan is to be done away with on one or two
of the lines, especially the White Star line,
which proposes to establish the table dh6te
system upon its new vessel, the Majestic.
The line which is first In making this i'm
provement will certainly find the change q
popular as well as profitable one.
Year: 1879

Our cable despatch on the relations of
England with Russia on the subject of
Afghanistan indicates that the great North
ern Power is not disposed to remain q
patient observer of England's westward
extension of her Indian frontier. Count
Schouvaloff, as the despatch reports, saw
Earl Salisbury in order to open the topic Of
q possible understanding between the two
Powers of their respective relations for the
future in the Afghan country, and pre-
sented distinctly the proposition for
division. England to have the eastern
portion. that is, what she already pos
sesses--Cabul, Ghuznee and that region.
and Russia the western, taking Herat
probably as tho central point. Salisbury is
said to have rejected this absolutely and
with some Indignation at Russia's PROPOSE
ton rs "mcddlesome." But 1t is easier to
be indignant in London than il will
be to got rid Of Russia's demands on this
point. Russia is as far committed to one
certain Asiatic policy as England is to an
other, and she cannot yield without dis
credit while the possession OF Herat by
her appears to be o necessary part of that
policy. England fancies that she has now
safely got all she wants and that she has
only to hold on to it and is not under any
obligation, physical or moral, to hold it
under any terms made with Russia. Her
view is founded upon her present aotual
status in that country and upon tho sup
posed troubles OF Russia in Europe. The
German alliance with Austria seems to be
a fact of moment in the course OF events
against Russia and the conquest OF Cabul
all that is needful in the East just now. But
1t will hardly be wise to dciy Russia on
grounds of 80 little moment. Russia can
safely leave her case in Southeastern
Europe to be decided by the next genera.
tion, If needful, and give all her attention
to the Indian drama, which will be game
strictly between her and England, and, If
England has just enough to do in dealing
with the savagcs oil around, what will be