smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

him, thus greatly reducing his loss
and assuring his heart OF the more
durable riches of brotherly love
and neighborly good will. None
can compute in money the value OF
one such example of liberality in
the community, especially in its In
fiuence on the young. And when
this spirit prevails there Is sure TO
be progress in place, even IL all
the improvements are in their in
fancy. People will come and settle
in place that bears such name.
Now, if you desire TO see your place
grow in popularity, do all you can
to show yourself a good neighbor,
especially to those who need little
extra help. If man starts tin
shop or a blacksmith shop in your
place don't harness up and drive of
| FIVE or six miles TO buy your pans
and get your horse shod just be-
cause you have been in the habit Of
doing it. Patronize the new conner
when you want anything In his hne.
LSpeak encouragingly 70 him ano


well of him ~ your ueighbors. LII.


tie words of approval or censure go


long way; when once you have


spoken them you cannot recall


them. Help the sick, especially


when they are poor. for poverty


and illness are indeed heavy bur
den. Perform all acts Of loving


charity which fall day by day in
your path, remembering who it was
who said, aye shall In no wise los,


your reward"
Year: 1879

Show us the young man who can
quit the society OF the young and
take pleasure in listening TO the
kindly voice Of the aged show as a
man who is ever ready 10 pity and
help the deformed; show US a man
who covers the faults Of others
with a mantle Of charity; show US a
man who bows as politely and gives
the street as freely 20 The poor sew
ing girl as 10 the millionaire; who
values virtue, not clothes; who
shuns the company OF such &C
gather at public places TO gaze at
the fair sex, or make unkind re-
marks Of the passing girl; show us
a man who abors a libertine, who
scorns the ridicule Of mothers
sex, and the exposure Of womanly
reputation; show us a man who
never forgets for an instant the del
icacy due woman, as a woman In
any condition or class--and you
showsus a true gentleman.
Year: 1879

An exchange asks: What is the
cure for gossip? Simply culture.
There is a great deal of gossip that
has no malignity in it. Good peo
pie talk about their neighbors be-
cause they have nothing else to
tol4s about. There comes to us the
picture of a family OF young ladies.
We have~seen them at home, we
have met them at the galleries of
art, we have caught glimpses of
them going from a bookstore or Ii
brary with a fresh volume in their
hands. When we meet them they
are full of what they have seen and
read. They are brimming with
questions. One topic of converse
tion is dropped only to give place
to another in which they are inter
ested. We have left them, after a
delightful hour, stimulated and re-
freshed, and during the whole hour
not neighbours garment was soiled
by so much as a touch. They had
something to talk about. They
knew something and wanted to
know more. They could listen as
well as they could talk. To speak
freely of a neighbours doings and
belongings would have seemed an
impertinence to them, and of course
an impropriety. They had no
temptations to gossip, because the
doings OF their neighbors formed a
subject much less interesting than
those which grew out of their
knowledge and their culture.


And this tells the whole story.
The confirmed gossip is always
either malicious or Ignorant The
one variety needs a change of heart,
and the other change of pasture.
Gossip is always personal profes
sion, either of malice or imbecility,
and the young should not only shun
it, but by the most thorough cul-
ture relieve themselves from all
temptation to indulge in it. 1t is
low, frivolous and too often dirty
pastime. There are country neigh
borhoods where it RACES like a pest.
Churches are split IN pieces by it.
By it neighbors are made enemies
for life. In many persons it degen-
crates into a chronic disease which
is practically incurable. Let the
young cure it while they may.
Year: 1879

At %sociables" at Storm Lake,
Iowa, permission to hug any one
between the ages of fifteen and six
teen can be bought for ten cents ;
from twenty to thirty for five cents
but it costs a dollar to hug another
mans wife. Old maids are two for
a nickel, while female lecturers not
only are free, but a chrome is
thrown in. The newspaper busi-
ness is so poor at Storm Lake that
the editors are obliged to content
themselves with the "two for five"
variety.
Year: 1879

The pencilmarks you SEQ around tut
paragraph lthus) mean that your sub
scription is out OF unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. Wo
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone win yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such
course, and renew your gu scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


tE- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1879

OF course no human woman ever
did such thing, but suppose now,
for the sake of argument, as 1t were,
that woman was to go to church
for the purpose of showing off her
new sacque, would it be sac relig-
ious, so to speak?
Year: 1879

Temperance reformers are coming very gen.
orally to understand that the cause which they
advocate cannot be successfully advanced un-
less something is supplied to the subjects of
the reform to take the place Of the indulgence
which they are asked to abandon. The vice
of intemperance is a social one, and it origi-
mates in perverted social instincts which, be-
ing cheated out of their proper qualification,
are diverted into irregular and harmful chan
nels. A large proportion of the subjects of
the grosser forms of intemperance are men
and women who have no homes or whose
homes are not happy ones To man who,
when his days work is over, has no pleasant
or comfortable place to 60 TO, the saloon, with
its light and music, its opportunity for talk
with his fellows and the fatal excitement of
the stimulants sold over its bar, offers mani
fold temptations. In the case of such man,
it is NOT enough to point out the perls of his
course or to show him how certainly its end
is ruin aud death. He drifts along stolidly
to his doom, with his eyes open, content to
relieve the hardness and barrenness of his life
with some play of the social instincts at what
ever hazard or cost. To bring such q man
out of his debasing habits the effort must be
made not only to supply him with higher mo-
tives, but to fill the vacuum which will be
left in his life when the social light and
warmth of the saloon are withdrawn from it.
hctOtAlllkll luOSt ltlll pcIhutt EtlOInltIhs VINO
labor for permanent results rather than for
transient Impressions, attempt TO satisfy the
social needs of those for whom they work by
providing bright and pleasant places for them
to meet in and innocent forms of recreation.
Holly-tree inns, coffee rooms, reading rooms,
cheap concert and lecture courses, and rooms
for smoking and checker-playing constitute
an excellent antidote for intemperance, and
the work of providing and sustaining them
is one in which all good citizens - even
those who do not concern themselves with the
moral aspects of the matter-should take
share.


In England the necessity of this sort of
work is better appreciated than it is here, and
commands the sanction and cooperation of
many wealthy and influential men. DIR. Guy
Ter, in the Independent gives an account of
the Coffee Tavern" movement or Cocoa
House" enterprise which is being carried on
at present in England on an extensive scale.
The undertaking is 80 prosperous that it main
tains handsome journal, the Coffee and Pub
lie House News the weekly issues Of which
are filled with accounts of the opening of new
coiIee-houses and cocoa-tree inns in London,
Glasgow, Manchester and all the principal
cities in the kingdom. Among the public
men who have given addresses at the opening
of these enterprises are the Lord Chancel-
lor, Mr.. Gladstone Lord LittletOn, Thomas
Hughes, and the Home Secretary, Mr.. Cross.
These cOfee-taverns soon become self-sup-
Year: 1879

the better grades of toilet and table ware. A
little while ago nothing better than or, am col
ored stone china, and blue stone, and stone
porcelain ware was made in Trenton Now
there are establishments that make real china,
and others that manufacture grade Of stone
china that they claim looks as well and wears
better than French china, and is the same in
everything except that it is not translucent
Year: 1879

To think the moro a man eats
the fatter and stronger he will be-
come.


To believe that the more hours
children study the faster they will
learn. sfa


To conclude that If exercise is
good, tho more violent it is, the
more good is done.


To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained.


To act on the presumption that
the smallest room in the house is
large enough 10 sleep in.


To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel Immediately bet
ter, is good for the system, without
regard to ultcrior effects.


To cat without an appetite, or to
continue to eat after it has been
satisfied, merely to crafty the taste.


To cat hearty supper for the
pleasure experienced during the
brief time it is passing down the
throat, at the expense ola whole
night Of disturbed sleep, and u
weary waking in the morning.
Year: 1879

The latest fashion for ladies' is to
wear u white silk stocking on one
anda colorcd stocking on the other.
The fashion was first introduced in
Milwaukee about three weeks ago,
but few adopted it until last week,
Now they are worn in variegated
colors almost exclusively. But II
person gets Il good deal Of sand in
his eyes trying to be Il fashion re-
porter.
Year: 1879

THE RESULT Of the governments be-
ing borrower at so high rate of inter-
est for the past ten years is that all the
money saved has gone into bonds. Every
farmer and mechanic and merchant
who could save something has put it into
bonds instead Of using it to improve his
land and extend industrial operations. II
will be good thing when this process Of
selling one class Of bonds to pay fol
another is through with.
Year: 1879

TIE May term of the Democratic
Court Of New Castle County, will com
mence on next Monday two weeks.-Re-
publican.


What must the courts be called In
Philadelphia where the Judges ale all
elected and all Republicans, and the
Juries of the same party? We do not
know that the Republican intends to re-
fleet upon the judiciary by The language
used. They certainly can afford to re-
gard it with contempt. They have SC
far never been considered other than i'm.
partial. Certainly neither Judge Wales
nor Judge Houston, nor Chief Justice
Comegys, were ever considered Demo
Gratis so far as we know. We only wisl
they were; high as they are esteem
ed, we believe they would be ever
more highly esteemed if they wert
as pronounced in their Democratic senti.
ments as Judge Wootten, the only know
Democrat on the bench. AS we said be
fore this slur at the Court and the jur,
by the Republican will not hurt any one
Year: 1879

WE should not wonder that after 1880,
when the Democrats elect President, il
the government should be able to borrow
at 8 per cent, so great has been the in
crease of popularity Of the bonds since
the Democrats have got control Of both
Houses of Congress.
Year: 1879

THE JURIEs for Delaware Courts are
not selected blindly and without care, as
the Republican seems to intimate in the
following extract which we cut from q
long and insOlently false article leveled
at the Levy Court and Clerk of the
Peace and Prothonotary


ave must give the GAZETTE credit
for not denying the partisan aspect of the
juries chosen for the May tenn. 1t sees
it plainly, and we are sure it does not ap-
prove of it; but it puts it a little too
mild when it says that it occurred mere
ly by accident. Our neighbor would
have gained more respect from well.
thinking people if 1t had come out and
condemned the juries and those who pui
their names in the wheel. 1t was no ac.
cident that eight Democrats and one Re
publican were chosen from this city
while the great majority of our LEADING
foremost business men are Republicans
If the Levy Courtman from the country
who chose the juries from Wilmington
had been bllndfolded and started III
Market from Front, with the purpose o
stopping at nine business places, an,
every place he stopped at summoned th
proprietor as a juryman, two-thiIds q
the nine would have been Republican,
unless attracted by the odors of drinkin
saloons he had stopped only in sue
places, then the whole nine would hay
been Democrats"


Of course we are not prepared to ave
how all the Levy Court Commissioner
acted in reference to this matter; but th
only one We have met since we referre
to the matter last has informed us tn,
he put an equal number of names {
each party in the boxes. The extrat
contains slanderous and malicious a
Year: 1879

If THE LEVY CoURT will continue to
pay for such triffling suits as was brought
against Collector Provost yesterday, be-
fore Esquire Brady, of course these things
will continue to tax the county. 1t IS
the duty of the magistracy to aid the col
leetors of both city and county to collect
tho taxes, aud If this is not done the
propeity-holders and taxpayers will be
compelled to form a league TO protect
themselves against the high taxes thai
are accrued because of the refusal of mel
10 pay tax. The tax collectors mus


discharge their duty legally and it is hopet
they will receive some instruction In thi


regard, as this case now goes up to Court
Year: 1879

Hhe views of man of Judge Harris
reputation, which extends to confines
far beyond the State, are always gladly
received, and they rarely ever fail to
take deep root in the minds and hearts
OF the people to whom they ore ad-
dressed. His letter is published below
tho same being written in response to
one written by the officers and gentle
men of the Democratic Club of this
city inviting him to address it last
week. A United National Democratic
party-the ''last to yield in 1860, and
the first to offer itself after the war as
barrier to sectional domination" !" of
which the author speaks III his letter,
is the one main defence against med
itated assault by the North against the
Southland in view of this we do not
see how any well wisher of Mississippi
can be found contentedly in the ranks
of either the Greenback or independent
party at time like this. Judge Harris
never gave utterance to a truer senti-
ment than when he said in the letter
already referred to, that "there is no
other organization which can supply
the place OF the Democratic party"
and let it we say be perpetuated:


JAKsoN Miss, Sept, Doth 1879
The President and gentlemen OF the Democratic


Club of GazOO City


GENTLEMEN; l am SO far from being ill., !
sensible to the compliment conveyed in |
your invitation to address the Democratic .
Club of Yazoo county, that had the invita-
tion been extended earlier in the season, it |
would have been promptly accepted, but |.
am SO hampered now by necessary prepara-
ton for the opening business of my pro-
fession, and especially by engagements ex>
tending through the next two weeks, that l .
must deny myself the pleasure of meeting
the Club and the people of Yazoo.


So far as the present campaign is con-
cerned, l entertain no fears as, to tho COM
DleXion of the next Legislature. The only
which the lll-cemented opposi>
ion party occasions, arises from the fear
hat personal ambition and the bitterness
in the present canvass, may
make an opening for the Radical party in a
ar more important crisis of our affairs
ear hence. From the President down to
he petty leaders of the Republican party,
nd in the Northern press, there is being
preached real sectional crusade against
he Southern people. There is but one de- |
ence against medtated assault by strong i
ection against a weak one-an assault c
Ihich looks to amendments of the Uonsti-
ution or to such a stretch of the powers of 4
be national government, as will enable the {
trong section to govern the weak one, in I
ccordance with tho natural desire of the |
to govern the conquered. That I
efence is united national Democratic t
arty--the last to yield in 1860, and the r
rst to offer itself after the war as a barrier Ii
, sectional domination. There is no other "
arty which can supply its place. Who can p
lswer for the Greenback or Independent b
alty of Maine and the West? There is no t.
that these sections of the Green il
ack organization would defend the State IL
if they had the power, and so IL
+ as appears they have not the power to- tc
am very truly,


Your obedient servant, W


w. P. HARRIS. b
Year: 1879

The Macon Sun has been enlarged. 1t
was a good paper before but it will be a
great deal better now. Nothing pleases us
so well as to nee deserving brother of the
craft sprea ling himself and prOspering. II
is good sign for the country, shows that it
is advancing and the people know how to ap-
preciate a good thing when they have it; it
is also good sign for the conductor, afford
ing a practical proof Of his worth and
energy.
Year: 1879

A hebrew in Salt Lake City was sen


fenced to three months in the chain


gang. After a month was served he got


very tired of it, and thought he would


try and get out. Learning that span


of mules had been stolen, he inquired
about the time of the theft and de
scription of the mules, determined that
he would make Use of this information
in order to regain his liberty. So he
sent for one of the police officers 10
whom he confessed having been guilty
of stealing the mules, and gave such a
plausible account of the story that it
was at once given to the District At
tOrney for use. He says ne thought
that by this means an Indictment would
be found against him, that he would he
from the city prison, that n
trial would prove his innocence, and he
would be discharged. He was RIGHT
about the indictment, but when it came
tu the trial he was convicted and SEN
fenced to six years in the penitentiarv.
The moral of this. we suppose. Is.
Never confess anything especially If You
didn't do it.
Year: 1879

Bob lngorsoll says: Women ara moro
faithful than men--tcn times Us faithful a.
men. never saw a man pursue his wife
into the very ditch and dust of degradation
and take her into his arms. mover saw ii
man stand at the shore where she had been
morally wrecked, waiting for the waves to
bring back even her corpse to his arms
but | have seen women, with her white
arms lift men from the mire of degradation
and hold him to her bosom as though he
were an angel.
Year: 1879

Chicago Inter Ocean London Letter.


A dashing American girl now travel
ing in Europe would probably say
somebody was a "mean old thing"if she
could hear the gossips about her. One
of them says: 81 have actually seen her
blush like n girl, though L know she had
a quarter of an inch of cream empera-
trice and velontine on her face. She can
blush when she pleases-she does it
by drawing in her breath and
holding it so. 1 have watched her. "
she can make tears come into her blue
eye in some similar manner" said an
other, "aud she can hold one diamond
tear for five minutes just poised on the
edge of her lower lid. I've seen her do
it. When she raises tear she is eco
nomical of it, as if it were. a real dia-
mond, and one who wasn't watching her
would naturally believe she had shed
dozens of tears since that one rose.
Year: 1879

SIXTEEN more days and the agony will
be over. The shout of the G.. b, will be
head in the land no more forever and the
RAIDS will be laid on the shelf until they
come to the front again in 1880, when we
suppose it will be necessary to sweep them
np apain.
Year: 1879

A congregation, anxious TO get nd of
their pastor, were considerably perplexed
how to do it without hurting his feelings.
After considerable discussion they con
cluded 10 inform him they were obliged to
reduce his salary. A delegation was appoint
oil to wait on him aud notify him OF the
fact. Brethren, was his reply, Il have been
with You in prosperity and will never de-
sert YOU in adversely.
Year: 1879

j. $. Mason, Jr. son of our gifted and


distinguished contemporary, Mai, j. s..
Mason, of the Polt Gibson Revelle, and
local editor of that paper, we regret to learn
died on Sunday night the 4th inst


The deceased was born on the 2nd day
of March, 184S, and all through his early
life displayed only the characteristics of nm
upright industrious, conscientious boy and
man of integrity, amiable, and truthful, and
useful and unselish in all his intercourse and
walk, whether public or private. In the
summer of 1864, when he had hardly reach
ed the age of lG years, he entered the Con-
federato army and remained there till the
close of the war.


We copy below the concluding para
graphs Of q sad, fearful tribute to his men,
ory-a tribute which is all the more touch>
ing and valuable because it is the outpour-
ing Of heart that feels the full tenderness
of every word, the heart of father upon
the death of a dearly beloved son. We
cannot insult the sanctity of this fathers
great grief by intruding upon it our shallow
but if knowledge of fra
.ernal and sympathetic tear can bring d
palm to the lacerated heart OF him who
ives to suffer, here it is:
Year: 1879

may turn out not to be such a bad
speculation after all. The seal and
other fisheries are excellent, and there
is plenty OF timber and coal on the
mainland, but the population is not
there to take advantage of these natu.
raj sources of wealth. But we have
news that the first installment of Alas
ka Gold has reached the San Francis
co mint for coinage. The existence OF
placer gold in Alaska has been
known for years, and the traders
have occasionally obtained nuggets
from the Indians of the interior. Event
ually it may be found that in buying
this apparently almost worthless terri
tory we have made as good a bargain
as when we annexed California,
of whose value no one dreamed at the
time. Secretary Seward has often been
laughed at for his purchase of Alaska,
but his wisdom may be vindicated if it
turns cut that for several millions Of
dollars the United States has bagged
another gold-bearing field.
Year: 1879

And stimulates the torpid Liver Bowels and Kidneys 10 healthy action, in cleans Ing the blood or all impurities and inn parting new life and vigor to the whole system.

 A single trial will be quite sufficient to convince the most heslt8ting Of it's valu- able remedial qualities.
Year: 1879

Pen Dragon was looking into futurity when he wrote that Washington would Thug it's new iron bridge to it's bosom," for that interesting object dld not make it's appearance in town till Thursday of last week, but it IS now here and being fitted to it's place across the river as rapidly as possible. Isn't P. D. disposed to be
Year: 1879

The New York Bulletin report the
following: The board of managers OF
the cotton exchange have adopted some
changes which will be considered at a
general meeting. The by laws are amen
ded so rs to make the hours OF business
from ten O'Clock in the morning to three
o'c,ock,,in the afternoon, except on Satur-
day, when the exchange is to be close d
at two O'Clock in the afternoon. After
the closing hour, all business. except that
relating to the transfer of notices and
orders, and the delivery OF cotton sold
on contract, is strictly prohibited, and
any member breaking the rule shall be
fned not less than twenty five dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars, or
be may be suspended. Any contract
made alter hours shall be deemed invalid.
A new rnle is added which provides that
six wire bands or ropes, not exceeding
twelve pounds in the aggregate, shall be
considered sufficient for each bale of cot
ton. Anything above that weight is to
be removed before weighing, or a proper
allowance made. The usual side pic ces
are not to be considered unnecessary
bsg2 ing.