smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Without friends what is man? A SOL
itary oak upon sterile rock, symmet-
rical indeed in its form, beautiful and
exquisitely finished, outrivaling the
most laded perfection of art in grace
fulness and grandeur, but over which
decay has shaken her black wing, and
left its leaves blighted; its limbs con -
tract as they die; its roots rottenness
and its bloom death; a scathed lifeless
monument of its prestine, beauty. When
the rebuffs of adversely are rushing us
earthward, when the clouds look black
above, and the muttering thunder of
misfortune growls along the sky-when
our frame is palsied by the skeleton
hand of disease, our senses whirled in
the malstrom chaos of insanity-when
our heart are torn by the recent sepa-
ration of some beloved object. while
our tears are yet flowing upon the
fresh turf of departed innocence-in
that time it is the office of friendship
to shield us from portentous storm,
to quicken the fainting pulses of
our sickly frame, to bring back the
wandering star of mind within the at
traction of sympathetic kindness, the
"oil and balm" of peace into the yet
fostering wound, and deliver the aching
heart from the object of its bleeding
affection.
Year: 1879

now many GkSS OaA . 0oA A"J


There has been so much loose talk
about the total number of eggs hen lie
capable of laying. and her yearly yield
under fairly good treatment. that it is
satisfaction to come across something
beyond guesswork. The foundation OF
science is accurate observation, and
when scientist publishes statement,
it Is presumable that it is based on this
foundation. Its accuracy, too, is con-
firmed if it is quoted with approval by
other men OF wide experience and know
ledge on the subjet involved in it. Now
GIeyelin says. aud Professor Miles in
his excellent work on stock breeding
quotes him with approval: ut has
been ascertained that the ovarium OF


fowl is composed of six bundled ovules
or eggs; therefore a hen during the
whole of her life cannot possibly lay
more eggs than six hundred. which. in
a natural course, are distributed over
nine years in the following proportions:
Year: 1879

We can spare some elaboration of
form, but we eau not safely spare the
substance of refined Difference. If Ro-
meo be permitted to treat Juliet as host
lers are are supposed to treat bars
maids, and as the heroes of Fielding
and smollett treat Abigails upon jours
ney, they will both lose self respect and
mutual respect. 1t is wise father
who said to his son, Beware Of the wo-
man who will allow You To- kiss her,"
The woman who does not require of a
man the form of respect, in invites him to
discard the substance. And there is one
violation of the form which recent and
gross, and might be well cited as a striks
ing illustration of the decay of man.
ners. 1t is the practice of smoking in
the society of ladies in public places.
whenever driving, or walking, or sailing,
or sitting. There are preur cheraliers
who would be honestly amazed if they
we're told they did not behave like gen.
tleman, who, sitting with a lady on a
hotel pizza, or standing on a public
park, whip ont cigarette,
light it, and pnf as TRANQUILITY as if
they were alone in their rooms. Or a
young man comes alone upon the deck
of a steamer, where throngs of ladies
are sitting. and blows clouds of tobac
CO smoke in their faces, without even
remarking that tobacco is disagreeable
to some people. This is not, indeed,
one of nthe seven deadly sins, but
man who unconcernedly sings false be-
trays that he has no ear for music, and
the man who smokes in this way shows
that he is not quite a gentleman.
Year: 1879

No HABIT is more offensive or more


utterly useless than profanity. 1t new


er did any man the least good. No man
is the richer or wiser or happier for it.
It commends no one to society. 1t is


disgusting to the refined; abominabl


to the good; insulting to those with
whom we associate; degrading to the


mind; Improbable, needless, and, In
jurIous to society,
Year: 1879

Or many young man to day. whose
life is irregular, if not fagrantly GRIM
inal, fond friends are saying: "Oh he
is only sowing his wild OATS" Sowing
his wild oats, indeed, but not in the
sense intended, not in the sense OF bur-
rying them; but sowing them as the
terrible seed of a more terrible harvest


It is false, parents that such a youth
has rich promise in it. 1t is false,
young man, that you can transgress
great moral laws and form vicious hab,
its, and on arriving at manhood cast
them off as easily as you can change
your dress. The law is that you viii
reap in manhood what you SOW in
youth; that. and not something else.
Year: 1879

Never reply to father or mother
saucily.


Never speak to mother unkindly.


Never act ugly to brother or sister.


Never correct father or mother when
they are telling anything in public.


Never steal anything, or tell an un-
truth, or speak ugly words or circulate
scandal.


Never seek play when you can be
more usefully employed.


Never say, II can't" or "Let jim. "
or "I don't want to-" when you are told
to do any thing.


Never go to sleep without prayer, as
it may be the last chance you will have.
Year: 1879

not pay for its maintenance, but they are
equally satisfied that it would be folly to at
tempt to maintain steamship lines for COM
mercial purposes at the public expense. AL
though America pays more freights than any
other nation in the world, we have practi-
cally no commerce. This is not due to an
indisposition to patronize home industry
but rather to the fact that we have
had no American ships to patronize
for many years. If such ships
were built and equipped as other
ships are built and equipped, it would soon
be found that they would not lack patronage.
They would, in fact, be remunerative from
the day they were launched, for patriotism
would dictate their maintenance at tho ex-
pense OF vessels of foreign construction. A
commercial marine owned in this country
would be profitable without question, and
the suggestion of subsidizing it is utterly
untenable. What ought to be done by Con,
gress is to remove the restrictions now i'm
posed upon the purchase and building OF
vessels. By SO doing the ship building in
dustry would soon revive, and in less than 8
decade American commerce would be trans.
ported across the ocean in American bot.
toms.
Year: 1879

ScHURz thinks he has achieved a victory
over the whole army in his recent contro-
versy with certain officers of it. In alluding
to the order of the war department. closing
the discussion he said to friend:


This is the only way to get out of it. The
circumstance that my letter appeared in the
papers cannot have disturbed the generals
much, considering the fact that l saw Gen,
Sheridan $ last TWO letters first in the papers
and that the last one was sent to me with a
printed synopsis intended for the newspapers
attached to it. But Gen. Sherman evidently
wants Gen. Sheridan not to write any more
letters.


The truth of the matter is that the public
would never have known that either Schurz
Or Sheridan had written any letters or called
each other hard names had it not been TO,
the newspapers, and it is doubtful if eithe,
of the parties in interest would have heard
of it either. 1t was more from desire tc
see themselves in print that they engaged II
the dispute at all.
Year: 1879

Senator Blaine must be credited with a
few sensible remarks relative to the naval
appropriation bill. He called attention to
the fact that there is in the navy one officer
for each three men. and suggested that the
proper way to reduce the expenses Of The
department would be to reduce the number
Of officers. A navy was only useful as all
aid to commercial marine, and that is
something this country does not possess
He suggested that three or four millions of
dollars might be saved on this appropriation
bill, and devoted to an effert to extend the
commerce OF the nation with South America
or other foreign ports. The first part of his
suggestion is good one; the last part wholly
indefensible. We have no doubt whatever
but large amount of money can be
saved by cutting off useless officers in the
navy and stopping the construction of vessels
that are only destined to rot on tho stocks
Or to be beaten to pieces at wharves and
docks. The fact is that the United States
needs nothing more than nominal navy.
A few vessels for duty in European and Asi-
attic waters may be necessary as matter of
form-to inspire a wholesome fear of our
prowess in the seni-barbarous nations south
of the Mediterranean and on the eastern
Asiatic coast. But for any other purpose a
navy is worse than useless heavy expense
to the nation, without any corresponding
benefits. We cannot impose upon any en-
lightened nation with the pretense that we
have navy, for the pretense is altogether
too thin.


To save the present expense of the navy
would be good thing, but to fritter it away
in suhsidizing steamship lines would be as
great mistake as to sink the money in rot
ten hulks, as has been done in the past.
The public are sasia6ed that the navy does
Year: 1879

The standing Legislative committees and
a goodly number of other members, will visit
the prison at Saltwater to-day. Their COM
ing has been heralded in advance and every
thing pnt in as good a shape as possible to
receive the law makers and create the i'm
preston that all is well. OF course the
visitors to-day will not ascertain anything
which is not of rosy hue. There has been
an annual junketing party to the Saltwater
prison ever since the State has had an ex-
istence, and history makes no record of a
single adverse point which any of these
visitors has ever discovered.


So far as the business management Of the
institution is concerned, the standing
committees have never attempted to
inform themselves. Even if they
desired this information they could
not obtain it in the single day devoted to the
trip. So far as the tSeatment of prisoners is
concerned, it is absolutely impossible to OBJ
tain anything tangible on this junketing
tour. Such information as is desirable
cannot be obtained within the prison
walls. No pledges of immunity or pro-
lection can make the. men who are confined
in Saltwater speak. They know that they
are in the power of those placed over them,
and that no matter how strenuously mem
Der Of the Legislature might wish to pro-
tect them, he cannot do so save during the
brief period of the visit. The humbug and
farce Of these visits lies in the uniform re-
ports that all is we'll, that everybody is hon
est and humane, and the interests of the
State are carefully guarded. The farce be-
comes so great as to be almost crime.
Year: 1879

The Democrats of New York have issued
an address complaining that the Republi-
cans, for the purpose of retaining control of
the government, have refused persistently to
reapportion the State, and consequently the
present Legislature is unconstitutional. What
do the Democrats propose to do about it?
Protesting won't do any good. If they had
worked as they ought to have worked during
the last campaign they might now be in &
position to remedy the evil they complain OF
instead of being in hopeless, growing
minority. They deserve the treatment they
arc receiving, and need expect nothing better
until they learn to work harlnoniously and
effectively at the polls.
Year: 1879

OTTAWA, JAN 2s.-In the Dominion board of
trade a resolution was carried after long dis
cussion that this board favors the adoption Of
such a policy will secure the development of
our coal, iron and economic ores, together with
other Industries OF the country. A resolution
was also carried urging the government to nro-
ceed with building the Pacific railway and with
deepening and enlarging the st. Lawrence canal
as rapidly as the circumstances of the country
will permit. The government was also ask ed
to carry out policy which would direct i'm mi
grafton to the settlement of sha unaecupied
land of the poniaion, ~ :,
Year: 1879

Ihe first sensation of excitement yester-
day in the Senate was occasioned by the
introduction of bill by Senator Rice, pro-
vldlng for the entire reorganization of the
State hospitals for the insane, and Senators
who were not aware that such bill was to
be introduced, looked at one another in
blank annazement, as section after section
was read, appointing new board of trus-
tees and making provisions for new deal
all around. The bill is necessarily crude,
and was referred to the committee on insane
asy lum, and after it has been passed upon
1t Will be turned over to the judiciary COM
mittee to be perfected


Senator Thatcher sent up to the clerks
desk and had read long letter from the
president of the Red Wing mills relative to
the use of the s'swindling brass kettle. -
which was principally significant as being
the first recognition by the milling fraternity
OF the fact that the crusade against that
swindling device was anything more than an
clectloneering dodge, and they have persist
emily rldiculed it as such until now. The
thing moves. The history of all reforms is
to be first ridiculed, then discussed with
fairness and candor, and finally adopted.
Let the good work go on.


Senator Powers introduced bill to reduce
the salaries of State officers, claiming that
their compensation was fixed at time when
the currency was inflated, and that the re-
duced salaries represent more value than
|darger figures did some years ago. If his


bill should become law it will save many
thousands of dollars to the people of the
State. lie proposes that their remuneration
shall ha as f0llnur
Year: 1879

The State Senate yesterday concurred in
the House joint resolution providing for an
investigation of the affairs Of the State pris-
on at Saltwater with an amendment enlarg-
ing the scope Of the Investigation consider
ably. The House will no doubt concur in
these amendments, and the excellent COM
mittee appointed will be able to proceed
with the Investigation without unnecessary
DELAY.
Year: 1879

dropped in during the day, but soon wearied,
for the proceedings were decidedly dry and
unlnteresting to all save the reporters, who
are supposed to be interested in everything
that interests anybody else.
Year: 1879

The Senate having received formal notice
OF the passage by the House of joint
resolution appointing a special committee
TO investigate the charges of misconduct and
cruelty by the warden and deputy warden of
the State prison, and the general manage
ment OF that concern, spirited discussion
ensued, resulting in o concurrence with the
resolution after amendments had been
adopted enlarging the scope of the inyesti-
cation SO ss to include all matters in anv
way pertaining to that institution.
Year: 1879

An excellent antidote for arsenic is a.
chemical substance called hidrate perox-
ide of iron, freshly prepared, which can
only be obtained Of druggist. But do,
not wait for this. While it is being sept
for, and at the first moment after discev-
erlng that arsenic has been taken, pour
down dose after desc OF water slightly
warmed, promoting vomiting by thrust
ing the finger or feather down the
throat. Keep up this until the stomach
has been literally washed out, at least
dozen times. A friend of ours took
teaspoonful of arsenic in mistake for
cream of tarter, but discovering his error
soon after, he ran to the stove and drank
all he could of lukewarm dish-water,
throwing it up as fast as ne took it, and
ir this way swallowed and vomitcd half
pailtul of water. He recovered with
cut any other remedy. This treatment is
good for most kinds of poison, if adopted
soon enough.
Year: 1879

The Speaker of the House has to keen
a sort of hollow log to which he can re-
treat from the throng of struggling leg
islators before him. An important place
the Speakers room is. Possibly not halt
of those familiar with capitol know where
it is. Not the Speakers room down in
the guide-books- big, eile.foored, we'll
windowed reception room just back OF
the chamber in which the House sits.
That room is currently known as the
Speakers room, but the Speaker never
sees any one there whom he wants to see.
It is too open and accessible bv half. The
conferences which the Speaker has at
which any thing is done are not held in
this marble-walled saloon. 1t is a little
closet in dark entry below the hall. It
is hard-by a private staircase. The glazed
door is screened by green baize. There
is not the sign of name or note on the
door, and it is one of the few doors un,
marked in the capitol. The corridor has
no light, and on cloudy day is quite
dark.


Once inside, you see room partly
covered by a carpet partly ragged. The


"A~NNS"
in some cheap way. There is room for a
Struggling table, one lounge and three
chairs. There is room for nothing else.
IT you know him, you have got in with
out card. If you do not know him,
you have not got in at all. And in such
room you find the third officer of the
government hard at work. It is signif
cant of the publicity of D1blic life whan
it is unfenced by class-rank, that it is
only in some such coal-hole that he can
get time to work. Unless he hides him
self, so many people have a right to see
him that his whole time runs to waste.
1t is in this little hole in the wall that
three Speakers, Colfax, Blaine and
Randall, have done the real work of leg
islation: Speaking guardedly, l fancy
more OF the business of governing is done
in that room than in any other one room
in Washington Washington Cor. Utica
Herald.
Year: 1879

Truth is an immortal flower.
Tears are due to humane misery.


As the heart is, so is love to the heart.


Conversation is the ventilation of the
heart.


A man will confess his faults, but nev-
er his tollies.


The first and worst Of all frauds is to
cheat oneself.


A man may be great scholar, and yet
great sinner.


The solemn thought of the tomb is the
skeleton at every feast.


Countries are we'll cultivated, not as
they are, but as they are free.


Age respects love, but, unlike youth, it
respects little the signs of love.


The measure of choosing we'll is wheth-
er man likes what he has chosen.


The rich man wrongs himself by every
supertluity which he does not share.


Truth is as impossible to be soiled bv
any outward touch as the sunbeam.


No man is the wiser for his learning.
Wit and wisdom are born with man.


Hide not the truth when We know it.,
and clothe not the truth with falsehood.


Our greatest glory consists not in never
falling, but in rising every time we fall.


The way to gam good reputation is
to endeavor to be what you desire to ap-
pear.


Reason is the life of the law; nay, the
common law itself is nothing else but
reason.


There is no man so grta as not to have
some ittleness more predominant than
all his greatness.


Nothing exasperates more than con-
siderate,quiet hearted; passionate heart
ed does so far less.


Make but few explanations; the char
acter that cannot otherwise defend itself
is not worth vindicating.


To write we'll is to think we'll, to feel
we'll and to render well; it is to possess
at once intellect, soul and taste.


A man can do without his own appro-
baton in much society, but must make
great exertions to gain it when be lives
alone.


The reputation of a man is like his
shadow-gigantic when it precedes him,
and pigmy in its proportions when it
follows him.


There is no vice or folly that requires
so much nicety and skill to manage as
vanity; nor any which, by ill-manage-
ment, makes so contemplate figure.


He that is proud eats up himself;
pride In his own glass, his own trumpet,
bis own chronicle; and whatever praises
itself but in the deed, devours the deed
in the praises.


How beautiful is youth; lite moon
shine, few musical water drops, the
strain of song, and the young hearts
experience poetry as it never could be
intrusted to appear.


Will not a tiny speck very close to our
vision blot out the glory of the world
and leave only margin by which we
see the blot2 know to speak so trouble.
some as self.
Year: 1879

her revolver on the desk for future use, if
needed.


The maid, thoroughly frightened at
the noise of the shot, now rushed into
the room and frantically asked for an ex-
planation. This was promptly given,
and for moment there seemed to be
imminent danger of her going into reg
ular fit of Mysteries. But it subsidized
after little while, and the two seated
themselves to act as sentinels through the
few remaining hours of the night.


Day dawn brought home the coach
man and cook, and the former was i'm
mediately dispatched to the nearest
polizei bureau for aid. It arrived, the
crestfallen desperate was quietly taken
into custody, and thus ended the adven-
ture in which the countess acted such a
noble part.
Year: 1879

the number OF beings we love, and TO
the number oil beings that love US, then
certainly the kindest and best nstured
man is likely 10 be the happiest for he
il is, other things being equal, that Is
the most loving and the most beloved.
And surely it is worth while to be get.
ting happiness in so easy way as that
1t pays trying to make people love US,
when it only costs what makes US so
much better, that lie, the being obliging
and kind.


A man that lacks Kindness of feeling
and natural civility or that seldom speaks
of the virtues Of those about him, to
commend, but almost always of their
fsults. TO blame, and who indulges freely
in the sneer aud taunt, or bitter sarcasm
and irony, isa great loser. 1t is a bad
thing and bad sign TO be disliked, ex-
cept by the wicked, or when it is OWN G
to the brave utterance Of unwelcome
truth. And then the mems sibi conscio
recti, the self consciousness of right, will
be sufficient consolation.


"A peaceful conscience and approving
Heaven"


But, alas how many there are, and
these not called bad men, either, who,
deficient in natural civility, will not
take the pains to be lik d, who will not
be kind and civil enough to be loved. 1t
is not in them by nature, and they do
not try to ingrait 1t there, and 80 they
go through life without being loved, and
without receiving or comforting fsvors
except upon their own circle Of family
frieuds.
Year: 1879

You will not be sorry for hearing be.
fore Judgment.


For thinking before speaking.
For holding an angry tongue.
For stopping the ear to a tale-bearer
For disbelieving most of the ill re,
torts.
For being kind to the distressed.
For being patient toward everybody
For doing good to all men.


For asking pardon for all wrongs.
For speaking evil of no one.


For being courteous to all.