smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

GRIEF Sorrow can be told, but grief is
voiceless. We feel it, but cannot speak it.
1t finds no solace in the crowded streets or
halls of fashion. Grief buries itself in
our deepest affections, like the grave of its
object. 1t listens to the moaning night
wind as an echo of its own voice 1t is
always watching for the face it shall never
see. 1t loves the silence of the night
rather than the hustle of the day. 1t is
entranced by the music of the minor key.
How rare the home which knows it not .
The more atfeCtionate the home the deeper
the sorrow. Grief is always the child of
love and its depth is measured by its ST.
lence. Tens of thousands look into the
clear sky every night, and only the angels
see them. They who sing the sweetest in
heaven leave the saddest heart here. Home
has its glory in winter time; and the long
evenings are its crown. Oh, ye whose
eyes have been blinded and whose songs
are hushed, the vacant chair shall make
the long evenings longer, and their pleas
ures less real Strange that we never
hear the sweet voice call now, Strange
that when we almost forget and speak the
dear name, no answer comes! And yet
nv 5IIdll-t. HC uOuSGS vi LlIG uCiu OuI-
number far those of TIE living, and the
mourners shall always crowd our high


ways. The streets Of gold are better than
these streets of snow. The mansions of
God are better than our mansions. The
trees Of heaven never stand with withering
falling leaves. Its river is never frozen.
The harps of the great orchestra are never
broken; the vol es that sing are never
discordant; and God has wi ped away all
tears. Our night is no night to them and
they know no blight Of sin. Love never


aleth. Their love for US hightens their
Joy; and our love for them deepens our
grief. Thus love and grief grow ever on
earth from the same stock, but joy shall
come in the eternal morning; and we shall
then look back, even as our loved ones are
now looking upon US, and almost wonder
why we ever wept at all Selected.
Year: 1879

ARRANGEMENT OF FERNs.-Ihe follow
ing hints, recently published in the Art
Exchange, about tae arrangement of ferns,
may be found useful to those who intend
to adorn their rooms with some of the
different varieties to be found in this vi
cinity:


Ferns, when placed in room, should
always be in groups. They should be
clustered in masses above the pictures or
on the mantles; they should never be
suffered TO look as il tornado had torn
them from the turf and pasted them,
without any order or design, upon chance
spots of the wall. And the way to accom-
pish this grouping is exceedingly simple
all that is necessary is to feel that ferns
may be used, without stint, and that they
can be treated. even when pressed and
dried, very much as though they were
green. To group them in masses above
pictures, first fill all the space between
the cords. and for two inches outside, with
pins stuck in the wall and placed about
three inches apart, and then, commencing
at the top, near the nail, hang the ferns on
the pins, building downwards until the
whole space is filled up. Of course more
or less judgment must be exercised in
order to gracefully fringe out the sides
with good ferns, and to give q luXuriant
effect to the whole. In this way, as in no
other, dried leaves can be used for the
purpose of introducing life and freshness
into otherwise stiff and unattractlve inte-
riOrs.
Year: 1879

In recent interview Gen. Grant said
in regard to Chinese agriculture, that he
was shown piece of land which had been
under cultivation every year for five
thousand years without deterioration of
the fertility of the soil. The result is
effected by returning to the soil everything
taken from it. Fish constitutes large
proportion of the food of the people, and
all the off,AI not consumed for human food
is carefully applied to the soil-and fish is
great fertilizer.
Year: 1879

Are there twenty Eve white men


anywhere in the world who can do


what was done by the handful oil


Cheyennes recently hunted down


and killed by four companies OF


United States troops? Probably


there are not but it is certain that


if white men had done this, If any


squad of heroic pale faces bad
called upon their oppressors IN


this style to ''make way for liber-


ty," and, burdened with their


wives and children, had burst from
prison, gone through the fire of The
guards and, pursued by whole
battalion of trained, disciplined
and we'll armed cavalry, had main
taiued their flight and resistance
for twelve days and only been sub.
dued when the last man was shot
down, the world would have been
clamorous with wonder and ap-
plause over such gaIIantry, such
courage, such adroitness in the
ruses of war, such devotion to free,
dom and such an unconquerable
spirit. But the world will proba
bly, say less of these things done
by the red man than it would have
said if they had been done by the
white man. And vet is not such
heroic conduct more rather than
less remarkable In the savage p
Practically we regard it as com
monplace for the men of race re
puted inferior to do acts that would
have conferred immortal glory on
their paIer brothers How the ages
have chanted in the sweeping lines
of Chevy Chase the achieve
ments of ''the Percy ont of North
umberland )" and yet il either Per
cy or Douglas had encountered
what the Cheyennes were COMPEL
ed to face it would have been so
prosaic a butchery as to have left
Eo stuff for ballad. Even the
comparison with the three hundred
Spartans-the most famous OF all
battles against odds-leaves plenty
of honor for these Western sava
ges, for the Spartans were the most
warlike people of their time and
the best trained aud The best armed
soldiers of the people, while the
Asiatic levies of the great king
dom We're a rabble by comparison.
But the Cheyennes, poorly armed,
owed all their success to their per-
soral qualities, and made q severe
oh ln
that had to be driven up with whips,
but against first class troops. In
whatever way it may be contem-
plated this fight has no parallel
save in other episodes of Indian
history, and the annals of war may
be searched in vain for a more
brilliant display of all the qualities
that ennohle the ever grand struG
gle for freedom.
Year: 1879

Never kiss a young girl if she
don't want yoa to. The main IN
gredlent that makes kissing endur-
able is Willingness on the part of
the female. II it dcepens into anx-
iety, SO much the better. When a
girl claws mans hair and scratches
his facelike fool, drop her at once.
She is destitute of good taste and
natural affection, and the sooner
you make love to her sister the bet,
ter. As long as a girl don't claw
and yell and struggle like panther
it is perfectly safe to continue pros
pecting. Get little behind her.
pass the. right arm around the
waist in front, take the left, and if
you don't know what to 90 next 90
associate with the boys in the first
ward. 1t you are inst beginning to
teach sly Young girl, who has
only been kissed heretofore by her
brother and father, touch your lips
gently to her forehead. She will
take 1t for an exhibition Of pro-
found respect. When that posi-
ton has been gained, working the
way down TO the lips is as natural
and easy as a log sliding down a
wood fume. Never sit down to kiss /:
it looks awkward in case anybody
is looking, and it seems awkward
anyhow. Stand mp, and the closer
you press the girl the higher csti-
mate she will place on your good
taste, common-sense and expert
ence.
Year: 1879




Iu the course Of sermon to children Ia
Westm inster Abbey, Dean Stanley told the
following story of an Edinburgh street arab:
Not long ago, in Edinburgh, two gentlemen
were standing at the door of hotel one
very cold day, when little boy with a thin
blue face, his feet bare and red with the
cold and with nothing TO cover him but
bundle of IA X, came and said "Please,
sir, buy some Matches No, don't want
any the gentleman said. But they are only
a penny box the poor little fellow plead.
ed. Yes, but you see we don't want box
the gentleman said again. Then / will gle
ye two boxes for a penny the boy said at
last, and so to get rid of him, the gentleman
who tells the story, says, 4 bought box;
but then / found / had no change. So 1
said, Il will buy a box to.morrew. oh,
do buy them tonight, if you please, the
boy pleaded again Il will run and get yer
the change, for | am vera hungry SO I
gave him the shilling, and he started away.
| waited for him, but no boy came. Then l
thought had lost my shilling; still there
was that in the boys face l trusted, and
didn't like to think bad of him. Late in the
evening was told boy wanted to see me
when he was brought in found it was
smaller brother of the boy that got my shil-
ling but if possible, still more poor and
ragged and poor and thin He stood mo-
ment diving into his rags as if he was seek
ing something, and then he said, Are you
the gentleman that bought the matches frae
oandie p Yes 'Weel, then, here's four
pence out o. yer shilling Sandie cannot
come; he's very i'll cart ran over him and
knocked him down, and he lost his bonnet
und his matches and your Sc ven-pence and
both his legs are broken, and the doctor says
he'll die, a. Aud then, putting the four
pence on the table, the poor child broke
down into great sobs So l fed the little
man, and | went with him to see Sandie.
found the two little things lived alone, their
father and mother being dead. Poor Sandie
was lying on a bundle of shavings. He
knew me as soon as got in, and said: Il
got the change, sir, and was coming back
and then the horse knocked me down, and
both my legs were broken and oh, Reuby
who will take of you when l am gone
What will ye do, ReubyP Then took his
hand, and said l would always take care of
Reuby. He understood me and had just
the light went out of his blue eyes
Year: 1879

There Is a strong protest offered in differ
ent ways and from various sources, against
our long established practice of making poor
floors, with the design of keeping them coy.
cred with carpets stretched and fitted to ev-
cry part, and carefully tackled down. Car
pets in daily use cannot be kept clean except
by very frequent beating, and they do much
toward corrupting the air by retaining inn
pure gases, hiding the finest most penetra-
ting dust in their meshes and underneath
them, and by giving off particles Of fine wool
into the atmosphere, with other dust, as they
are swept or walked upon. There is de-
mand for better floors, not necessarily inlaid
or mosaics, of different kinds of precious
wood, but made double, of strong seasoned
wood that will not shrink or warp (spruce,
however well seasoned, is almost sure to
warp, and then carefully finished, so as to
be durable and easily cleaned. Carpeted
floors seem relief to the housekeeper when
once the carpets are procured and fitted to
the rooms and tackled down, because they
| do not show the dirt as the bare floor does
But oh when they do get full of dust And





must be taken up and shaken and whipped
as they well deserve With warmly made
| floors and large warm rugs, couldn't we do
with out these denominations even in winter
| Certainly our rooms would be cooler and
sweeter without them in summer. But in
that case we must take more pains with our
floors, and we must have something better
than the common unpainted ones. Oiled
floors are better liked than those painted,
even for kitchens. Women find they can
oil their floors Themselves, and many kitch-
en- floor has within few years, been made
comfortable and descent in that way. Boiled


liuseed oil is used, and two or three coats are


put on one after another as fast as they are
dry. Floors of alternate boards of different


kinds of wood are pretty for some rooms,


and sometimes border made in this way,


with diagonal stripes, bordered by straight


board on each side, of wood of two kinds laid


in checks or diamonds, is very satisfactory.
These bordered rooms are.especially.. design


ed for parlors, or rooms where heavy bor-


dered carpet or large rich rug is intended to
merely cover most of the floor, leaving Q


margin of about two feet around the edges
"a carpet which can often be carried out
and shaken free from dust.


Oiled floors do not need hard scrubbing,
; like unpainted floors, but simply good wash
ing with warm mot hot) water, often chang
t ed as you go over it. Strong suds of course
, will gradually remove the oil with which
you have carefully filled the pores Grease
spots do not have the same effect as upon an
unpainted or unoiled floor, which must be
t kept free from grease in order to look we'll,


ever grease gets on it now, that cannot be
, scraped or wiped up, may be thoroughly
3 rubbe d in.-American AgriculturiSt.
Year: 1879

Have you ever been in prison asked p a
lawyer OF witness, whom he was disposed
to badger and bully, as the profession are
apt to do. Yes, SIR When p In 1868, ,
Where ? In Andersonville.' There was
Il momentary pause for breath, and then a
round of applause that shook the court
room, The lawyer felt all the rest Of the
day as if an inch aud half hose attached
to a street hydrant Was playing to the tune
of the 'Rogue's March up and. down his
spinal column.
Year: 1879

1t was bitter cold day and his little sister
hadn't got half way to school before she
commenced crying, Never mind, Sis spoke
up her little brother, as he saw the tears run
ming down her face, you amt freezing now
you're just thawing out.
Year: 1879

If the gun that John Guyer of Westport,
Conn fired in his hen house for thieves had
been aimed little lower. ..or his son had been
little taller, the consequence would have
been more serious than the riddling Of Q
hat.
Year: 1879

We reproduce in another place an article from the Lemars (Iova) Sen tiaeL It shows the true drift of radiealism. The editor of that sheet is inspired by the same hatred of tue south and the same contempt for the old Constitution and the old Union that impels the leaders of the repub- hcan party on and induces them 10 become all the time bolder and bold CT in their schemes for converting this government into s centralized empire where that party can have eternal rule. He is unlike other leading radicals only in the point that he has not discretion and pru- dence enough to keep their purposes to themselves until they get fully ready to enact the full c0asGmma- ton of their desires.

 Let the Democracy of the United States split up over snch minor issues as greenbscks and throw vic toy to the radicals in 1880 and we msy bid long farewell to ali the old distinctive features of our gov ernmeat which have made this coun- try the land of the free, the hope Of the oppressed in every cline and the greatest nation or the earth.

 Is this any time for men 10 desert g party which is fighting such ideass Is this any time for Us to fall out and forget that only by union and harmony in our ranks c2a we put down the enemyf Let the green packers, if they are nOs in sympathy with the radical party, beware. Let them return to the old Democratic fold.
Year: 1879

The Louisville Courier Journal speaking of the course it will pursue in the next presidential campaign, says:

 IL is in favor of nominating the old ticket. It can see positively solid hope in no other direction. Ev- en more earnestly than in 1875 6. be cause the occasion is more critical, will it urge the nomination of Til den and Hendricks upon it's party. IL is without qualification or reserve on this point. and 1t will give reas- ons in plenty for the faith that is in jt, Treating all men kindly, and all aspirants fairly, it will indorse and defend every act of omission and commission on Mr. Tilden's part, holding itself able to show that. from first to last, he was the only one of our leaders who had the sagacity to see the way and the courage not to run away from it
Year: 1879

democrats make great confessions of devotion to greenback ideas and doctrines, they have never done anything in congress to carry them into etiecs, but have let congress after congress pass by without even attempting to pass any measures of relief Assuming this to be true, they say to such democrats: "See, yoar party has never done anything in the way of financial reform, come and join our party, and when we get in power we vii. do all we promise. ' Many unwary democrats, misled by this specious appeal. forsake their party, where they might accom- plish some good, and wander of into the greenback fold, where for all prsctical purposes, they mlght as well be in the moon.

 The argument is not true, and tue appeal is based on & total perversion of the facts of the case. Although the democratic party has never had control of the government since the war, they have nevertheless done much tc arrest the ruinousr and de ssructiye policy of contraction and extravagance of the republican par ity. Nay, they hase done a great deal more than merely aTresting the rninous policy of the republican ad- ministration; they have actually sue ceeded in having many measures of the most vital importance in relation to the finances passed by congress, prominent among which are, first, the act making greenbacks receiya- ble ID payment of custom dues, which at once pnt them on par with gold; second the act remonetlzing silver and providing for its continued coin age, which took all the sting out of the resumption act, and prevented it from running the country, as it oth- erwise would have done; and last, though not least that great and glorious measure of repeating that clause of the resumption act which provided for the calling in and re- iirement of the greenbacks, which alone saved the very foundation of the greenback policy from utter de stTnctioa.

 To these three great measures which the democrats by the per-a sistent, untiring and devoted efforts succeeded in having passed through congress against the earnest opposl- ton of majority of the republican party, gre directly due all the pros perity we now enjoy and the saliva tion of the country from the ruin that would have inevitably followed the contraction resulting from the retirement of the greenbacks and :he characterization of silver.

 Is it possible that, in the face of these great facts, which are known of all men who are eonversant with the political events Of the past few years, greenbackers will still persist in misleading the minds Of unin- formed democrats, by telling them that their party has done, and at- tempted to do. nothing in the way of congressional legislation for the relief Of the people: We say to our friends that those three acts of the democratic party and especially the two remonetixing silver and pre- venting the retirement of the green backs, have done more substantial good to the people of this country than it is possible for the greenbsck party to accomplish n thousand years.

 We shall take occasion hereafter and as opportunity may offer, to show more specifically, and in detail, how and wherein these great meas ures have benefited the people and saved the country.
Year: 1879

Conway, by vote Of the quail fed electors Of that place, has just been constituted s single school dis triet under the general school law of this State This Is s wise move on the part of that town, and we wish that the school interests of the place may prosper under the management Of the board Of directors elected.
Year: 1879

What does the publle care about the personal difficulties of an editor Simply nothing at all. Why, there fore, do some editors parade their little sqUabbles before their readers in g three quarters of S column arti- cles
Year: 1879

mass Of ruins, is probably the most
eloquent tribute to attest their use-
fulness. Dotter & Bradley are an
unfortunate firm, so far as relates
to fires. About four years ago
they were burned out in q manner
somewhat similar, their store
being gutted, but the build
ing saved. They then occupied
the store adjoining their present
location, where Dillon &
Kenealy now hold forth. Un-
daunted by their calamity
Dotter & Bradley rented the larger
apartment which they have since
occupied and doubled their stock
of goods to the manifest advantage
OF their business. We suppose
they will arise from their ashes
this time as they are check full of
grit and enterprise. 1t Is the in
tention of the firm, we are in
formed, to rent store room tenn
porarily in which they will place
such of their stock as remains un.
injured, and, keeping their run of
trade as we'll as possible, in time
they will get back to the old quar-
ters.
Year: 1879

Persons who have become thoroughly
chilled from any cause, may have their
circulation at once restored by taking in
to the stomach teaspoonful of Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment, mixed In little cold
water. we'll sweetened.
Year: 1879

pie of the United States have not for
gotten the wisdom of the founders of
this country, and erect upon the ruins
am arbitrary, centralized government.
We do not expect to win this victory
alone, for scattered over this broad land
are thousands of old-time Republicans
who have become alarmed at the CEN
tralizing tendencies of the party leaders,
and in the next election will east their
votes with the party of the people. So,
ON the whole, we are content to let the
Radicals howl about the "Nation," con-
scious that time will vindicate the wis
dom of those noble minds who cemented
the States in an eternal bond of unity
Year: 1879

Especial to the Courier-Journal.l


BEAVER DAM, July 3l.-About an
hour before the noon train arrived at
this point to-daya large crowd, number
ing no less than II thousand, had as
sembled to meet the Hon. Jim McKen-
zic, who came from Hopkinsville this
morning and spoke at Hartford this
evening to large and attentive audi
ence. His argument upon the green
back question ought to convince any
Greenbacker that there is no Use in
forming a new party, and did convince
a great majority of them thus in this
county. The Republican question was
briefly discussed, but not very much
time was devoted to that party, still
they got their dues. His speech lasted
about three hours, and was one among,
if not the best speech ever made in Ohio
county, and will long he remembered
by all of his hearers.
Year: 1879

A GREAT AND SUCCESSFUL REMEDY During the
alarming prevalence OF Catarrh, 1t is gratifying to
note the success and popularity of Sanfords Radi-
cal Cure for Catarrh. From very small begin
ming, this remedy has, in a few brief seasons at
tanned to the height OF popular favor in the extent
OF Its sales and the frequency OF its cures Ger.
talnly, no remedy can boast of better references
from physicians, druggists, and well-known citi-
zens, who have freely given their testimony in it's
iavor. The fact that physicians prescriptions for
1t are TO be found file in many of our best drug
stores must create a warm feeling in it's favor and
pave the way for its universal a standard
remedy for Catarrh.-Boston journal.
Year: 1879

has never known fail in nge instance for which
a Is prescribed when used according directions


times been offered large amounts by interested
parties disclose the formula and mode of Manufacture
In that they might this excellent
and sell excessive cost My personal fortune. nher-


tied from wealthy parents OF the richest provinces Of
France has always been amply sufficient to
from being tempted by such overtures, and have
firmly declined them all. determined 10 preserve
Year: 1879

To effect rapid and thorough in all diseases
Of a cutaneous nature have also prepared


SANDALINE LOTION.
which perfectly safe and pleasant outward application
under all circumstances is the greatest triumph OF
Chemical science known


sANDALINE LOTION.
For general aud Iinnent II Is the best
article made. and for delicious perfume in tho


BATH.
diseases should used according TO prn ted
directions For diseases of the cutice barber Itch falling
out Of the hair aud like symptoms should be used
wash iiniment
Year: 1879

once twice q day, have done FOR years drinking
with IL plenty Of water Ii keeps regular while
tho blood thcnng the kidneys and assist
ing nature In fact like its and Perfume as well
as action the system" offer