smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Lay out the earth in a sheet of snow,
There is nothing at all to harm below,
Where men dream out the world t. gethel
And pansies sleep till pleasant weather.
The safest place in all the land
Is the narrow realm of the folded hand
Then THANKS to God that Il flower will


die


Twas made to time Thanksgiving by:
Breathe as it falls-prophetic thing!-
''There1l be an April in the Spring"
To stand on Glory's diamond stair.
And THANKS again, though l go late,
A mother gone, shall smiling wait,
Shall breathe three names with reverent


tone,


The Child's, the Virgins, and her own,
And lift the latch of Mercy's gate.
Rouse up the fire to costly glow.
Till the maple parts and the rubies show
Swing back the curtains now if ever,
And rich and warm, the slender river
Shall cleave Thanksgiving night in twain
As the mantle parted the old Red Main :
All never fear-shine as it will
Enough is left to cheer us still.
Perhaps some wanderer is going past
Who tried all sorrows but the last,
And wonders why he dares to live,
And thinks he has no thanks to give
May see that glimmer on the ground
His old, dead heart give glad rebound,-
1t looks so like the road of gold
He trod himself, in times of old
Look up and see thanksgiving found!
Bring out the chairs from the empty wall
Where fitful shadows used to fall,
The shapes of father, sister, mother,
OF slender sweetheart, friend and broth


er,


No painted window half so fair
As the old home-room with its shadows


there;


No pictured hall, at Kings desire,
Could match that group before the fire
Who never cast shade beside
But on that wall, and when they diedl
And some went up at break of day,
Some waited longer by the way
Let them who will thank God for light,
Such shadows never made it night.
Come one, come all, there yet is room
Thanks be to God, from heaven to home
Is nothing but flash of light.
Wheel forth the table, laden palm,
Well all give thanks and we'll sing a


psalm


Some song Old-fashioned, of Forever,
That tioated safe across the river,
No note lost out, no cadence gone,
They warbled, died, and sang right on!
The girls shall come in their white and


blue,


AS if they broke Gods azure through,
Played truant to the realms of light
To be with us Thanksgiving night
The boys are thronging through the hall
They've not grown old these years at all
Some marched away to muffled drum
But fling no shadows as they come
Without a sorrow or sin
Fen Death himself would let them in
Oh sweethearts COmfadesl Welcome


homei
Year: 1879

None are overstOcked with patience.


Death has nothing terrible in it but
what life has made so.


Censure is tax man pays the pub
lie for being eminent.


The man lacks moral courage who
treats when he should retreat.


He who shows kindness toward ami
mails will display the same characteristic
toward men.


"Do COME and see usp' sounds very
well; but how much heart is there in it
in many cases?


If you would render your children
helpless, never compel or permit them
to help themselves.


Never reflect on past action which
was done with good motive and the
best judgment at the time.


Feelings come and go, like light
troops following the victory of the
present; but principles, like troops of
the line, are undisturbed and stand fast.
The best means to learn our faults is to
tell others of theirs; they will be too
proud to be alone in their defects, and
viii seek them in us and reveal them to
us.


The water that flows from a spring
does not freeze in the coldest winter.
And those sentiments of true friendship
which flow from the heart cannot BE-
frozen by adversity.


The greater part of all the mischief OF
the world comes from the fact that
men do not sufficiently understand their
own aims. They have undertaken to
build tower, and spend no more labor
on their foundation than would be neceS-
sary to erect hut.


We must patiently suffer the laws Of
our condition; we are born to grow old,
to grow weak. to be sick, in spite OF
physie. This the first lesson the Mexi-
cans teach their children. So soon as
they are born they thus salute them,
Behold, thou art come into the world
to endure, suffer and gay nOthingi"
'Tis injustice to lament that has befallen
any one which may befall every one.
Year: 1879

IN Sweden bride has her pockets
filed with bread. 1t is supposed that
every piece she gives to the poor on her
way to church ayerts some misfortune.
In Norway, the bride herself hands
around strong drinks, that all the COM
pany may drink long life to her; the
wedding feast lasts some days and the
guests have no wish to let their modera-
tiOn be known. In Liburnia, it is the
custom for the bride to retire from the
table before the end of the dinner and to
throw over the bridegroom's house a
hard cake made of coarse flour; the
higher she throws it the happier she
will be. In Circassia, there are always
set upon the carpets in one of the rooms
in the bridegroom's house vessel of
wine and a plate of dough; and the first
thing the bride does, on entering, is to
kick over the wine and scatter the
dough with her hands about the room.
In some parts of Russia, the bride and
bridegroom, during the banquet which
alw ays takes place on the evening of
the wedding day, are separated by a cur
tain. The parents of the couple exchange


ings, and basket of cheese and small
.,;,yes is blessed by the priest.
Year: 1879

There has been no great people with
out professions, and the man who thinks
himself too wise to be moved by them to
anything but contempt is like the puddle
that was proud of standing alone while
the river rushed by.
Year: 1879

The San Francisco News Letter sets
abroad a report that General Grant
shows signs of insanity. Itappears that
many people who have met General
Grant since his arrival in San Francisco
have noticed an occasional wild,
strange look in his eye" Probably it
will be found on investigation that the
"many persons" were small-bore pOliti-
clans, anxious to faSten their fortunes
to the Grant boom. The rumOr recalls
the remark of President Lincoln, when
he was told that General Gcant was con-
stantly under the influence of liquor. He
wished he could get some of that whisky
for his other Generals. A good many
public men would benefit by touch of
the kind of insanity General Grant has.
Year: 1879

A DISPOSITION is being shown by the


Postoffice Department to make things
warm for those engaged in the lottery
business in this country by cutting off
their mail facilities. Postmasters have
been instructed from headquarters to
retain all letters addressed to persons
known to be engaged in lottery or gift
distribution schemes. 1t has also been
ordered that the payment of money or
ders to these chaps be refused. Regis
tered letters come in the same category.
All money sent to such concerns is Or
dered returned to the sender. Ordinary
letters go to the Dead Letter Office, where
a consuming fire win soon reduce them to
ashes. The Department is of the opin-
ion that lotteries are swindles and that
its action is in the interest of the people.
Year: 1879

Rev. Mr.. Berkley, who baptized Henry
Clay, in letter about the christianity
of the great statesman. gives the fol.
lowing "reminiscences: cannot help rela-
ting an incident which occurred early in
my ministry. He was more effected by
any tender and pathetic utterance than
any listener L ever had before me. The
incident l allude to was my having
preached on Sunday morning with
more of myself in the sermon than
Christ q was young man them.
dined with him and his family next
day. After dinner we were walking
through the beautiful grounds of Ash
land, and he alluded to the sermon of
the day before, complimenting my style
and delivery as mere public speech,
but added: "When l go to church l like
to hear something in the sermon that
will guide a sinner to his Savior" How
the times have changed! Without express
sing my modification at the just rebuke,
when l had foollshly used my Office In
the attempt, as l supposed, to please a
great man and great orator, deter
mined, from that day, to preach nothing
but Christ and Him crucified, and 1
have mainly kept my purpose.


His faith in the divine authenticity of
christianity, and the atonement made
by the Lord Jesus Christ for the sin of
the world, was as simple as that of a
child. 1t was enough for him to know,
as he more than once said to me in sub
stance, that "God so loved the world as
to give His only begotten Son. that who
soever believeth in-Him should not per-
ish, but have everlasting life"
Year: 1879

FEuln the heorgetown Courier.


II is profitable that na business in the
world has so many terms in common use
that are misapied, or used to express the
same meaning, rs the business Of mining;
and ss the use Of these terms often convey a
meaning different from what is intended,
any reform in that direction will he vel
comed. To illustrate our meaning. the words
'.vein and " lode are used as synouimous,
bat by some miners these terms are used to
denote the filing Of the whole assure. by
others to denote the ore vein, and by others
to denote that part of the filling OF the ere
vice either containing the ore vein OF g
gorge or quartz streak likely to contain ore.
We saw astTiking illustration Of this ut the
term Of the District Court year ago when
one OF our lawyers was cross examining MT
ner IN regard to lode" The lawyers
idea Of the meaning of the term was evident
Year: 1879

BY our special despatch from Pittsburg
it will be learned that DR.. Lemoyne, the
apostle of cremation, has finally proved his
faith by his works, and at least portion of
him has been waited heavenward from the
chimney of his own crematory. His man
tie, however, does not seem to have fallen
upon competent shoulders, for it is re-
ported that the furnace was not hot enough,
and what should have been the almost in
stantaneous incineration described by its
leading advocate was unpleasantly sug-
gestive of q common culinary blunder.
If the ghost of the would-be reformer of
mortuary customs looked through the peep
hole Of the retort, as it certainly did if al
lowed to have its own way, and saw that
the furnace was only cherry red instead of
at white heat, it must have desired to wit
ness just one more case of imperfect and
long protracted cremation (of which SER
mons occasionally give supposititious de-
tails) and to provide the subject therefor.
Imagine, if possible, the sensations of a
lone ghost contemplating the body which
in scientific enthusiasm it had given to be
burned, and seeing that feshly tenement
change its nature in a manner the very re-
verse of that which had been promised to
other people, and all this after the ghost
has lost its amanuensis There is, however.
one hope with which the disembodied
spirit may stay itself-Mr. Kiddle still lives
and may perhaps find room in another COL
lection of manifestations for such criticisms
and explanations as the Doctors shade may
desire to offer.
Year: 1879

tariffs. A party which has such
history will be found to possess
great tenacity of life. Even its cop
perheadism during the war did not
ruin it, but only prostrated it for few
wears and its alliance with infiationists
merely scotches but cannot kill it. With
it's rich inheritance of proud national recol-
lections the democratic party has irrepres-
sible powers of rejuvenation, and only long
persistence in blunders can ever disband it.


It's recent defeat in Ohio will probably
cure it of the initiation insanity, and If
Tammany and Tilden mutually destroy
each other in the New York election the
field will be clear for reorganization of the
party under new leaders who will be faith
full to its principles and make it the
worthy heir of its illustrious history.
Divorced from initiation, purified from Tam
many, and freed from the incubus of it's
Old Man of the Sea and the cipher de-
spatches, the democratic party may, even
next year, present a formidable front to its
political adversaries.
Year: 1879

Why is the English mission Kept vacant
Is it possible that the government cannot
find man whom it is willing to intrust
with the important diplomatic relations
between London and Washington Is the
place kept open for some one2 Is Mr..
Evarts keeping it for himself? We have no
great faith in our system of representation
at foreign courts, but the law provides for
o certain diplomatic force and for the pay
ment of the Ministers, and while it does SO
it ought to be acted upon. We ought to
have Minister, unless it is decided by law
and public policy not to have one. If the
places are to be abolished we shall not OBJ
ject, but while they exist they ought not to
be used as bats or as prizes neither to ex-
cite favor nor to reward it. Is the English
mission held open now with any such un.
worthy object?
Year: 1879

President Seelye, of Amherst College, an
experienced publicist and independent
thinker, discusses the freedom of the ballot
from partisan tyranny in a we'll written
letter to one of the young republicans in
this city who intends to scratch the name of
Mr. Cornell from his ticket and asks
counsel of his former preceptor on the
subject. The tenor of this letter, which
we print elsewhere, is IN encouragement Of
boiling and scratching at large according to
the conscience of the individual voter,
but save by inference it does not answer
the question which his correspondent
appears to have proposed. We perceive no
reason why President Seelye should assume
that it was only disquisition upon gen.
eral principles that was requested from
him. There is no more impropriety in his
giving specific advice to New York repub-
licans concerning the pending nomina-
tions in particular than there is in the
volunteering Of such advice by any other
citizen of Massachusetts General Banks,
for example, who has addressed q repub-
lican ratification meeting here this week at
which the election of Nj Cornell was
recommended as an encouri6 6ement to the
denomination of General Grant for Presi-
dent Of the United States.
Year: 1879

After the fasco at Chautauqua Lake yes
terday Courtney can best astonish the pub
lie by rowing race somewhere, somehow.
without suffering by some serious accident.
Several years ago at Philadelphia, while
he was still an amateur, he had o. boat
ruined just before a race, to the great
disappointment of the public and to
the modification and annoyance of the
hospitable club in whose boathouse the
shell was Another accident was the strik-
ing of his boat and himself, while out for
practice preparatory to race, by another
shell. The accident at Greenwood Lake.
where the sculler's tea was said to have been
drugged, will be recalled by many, and SO
will that other accident in which supposed
wire stretched at or below the surface
-capsized Courtney's boat. The accident OF
Wednesday night was of greater magnitude
than any of these, as an accident should be
when it is to follow so many others. If it
were not SO, the most remarkable incidents
of a remarkable sculler's career would be-
gin to pail by their almost uni
form size, each of them being just
big enough to spoil race. while
the last one gives some promise OF
spelling reputation. There were two or
three accidents in ono at Chautauqua.
One was tho having as guards for the boat
house men who cared so little for their
business that they left the house entirely
unmatched until the mischief was done;
another. and quite serious accident. was
the promptness with which Hanlan and
his friends regarded the ruined boats as
sign that the Courtney party did not mean
business Still another was the accident of
allowing Hanlan, rowing alone over the
course and without the incentive that COM
petition inevitably gives, to make the best
five-mile time on record. In fact, accidents
follow Courtney so closely that if he were
some day to row and win race without
having any trouble beforehand large por-
ton of the public would regard the feat as
an accident of the purest order.
Year: 1879

having been warmed up as it passed east
ward from the Mississippi Valley. The
damage done to grain crops throughout the
country by drought is very great; in fact it
looks as if we were experiencing sort
OF retribution for having emptied all our
water buckets over our European friends
during the past summer. Alderman Nor
rls should certainly produce his time hon
ored dog ordinance and have it again en-
forced during these October dog days for
the better protection of our citizens. 1t is
likely, however, that he takes into consid-
eration the fact that our canine population
are under the delicious influence of nice
Bersh, SO that there is very little danger Of
their getting hydrophobia from the heat.
Year: 1879

The snow storm which has temporarily
obstructed General Merritt's communities
tions with his base of supplies at Rawlins,


on the Union Pacific Railroad, proves that
his resolute advance from Mill Creek to
the White River Agency was made just in
the nick of time. The hostile Utes to be
sure have vanished before his march like
elves or gnomes, SO that the purpose of
punishment is unaccomplished, but they
arc deprived Of the pride of holding possess
sion of the agency farm and buildings.
This alone is n sufficient justification of any
risk General Merritt took in pushing for
ward through the narrow canyon which it
was necessary to traverse in order
to reach the scene OF the Meeker
massacre from that Of Thornburgh's
fall. Pride counts for great deal
in Indian warfare. Extreme exortion
often may be proftably employed and great
peril encountered merely to rob an Indian
foe of trophy. But now that the snowy
season has set in among the mountains the
country must bo patient If further achieve
ments by our soldiers are very slow. The
business in which they are engaged is very
like that of hunting brigands among the
Apennines or the fastnesses of the Spanish


peninsula; only ten times more difficult.


by reason OF their ignorance of the topog-
raphy Of the region, while the savages
Year: 1879

The WEATHER-The two centres of low pres
sure, one of which is moving from the North
west and the other from the Gulf of Mexico, are
nearing each other rapidly, and will probably
Join over the central valley districts this even
ing. They are both developing considerable en-
ergy, and it is likely that they will prove de-
structive while moving toward the Atlantic
coast. The depression that was over the Gulf
of st. Lawrence has passed away TO the east
ward, and il is followed by small area of high
barometer that extends over the lower lake re-
gons, the Middle Atlantic and New England
States. Rain has fallen throughout all the terri
tory east of the Rocky Mountains except in the
Middle Atlantic and lower lake districts,
where the weather was fine. The temperature
has fallen in the Northwest and central valleys,
remained stationary in the lake regions and rose
elsewhere. The winds have been brisk in the
Northwest and on the Gulf coast and fresh
in the other districts. The weather over the
British Islands is fine The weather in New
York and its vicinity to-day will be cooler and
partly cloudy with rain toward night. To-
morrow it will be cloudy and cool, with rain and
possibly increasing winds.
Year: 1879

With the letter from ST. Lawrence Bay,
published in this days HERALD, probably
closes for the present the story of the
American Arctic Expedition. 1t is. of
course, possible that through some Of the
latest departures from the Arctic Ocean we
may before winter get an additional fact or
two of the progress of the Jeanette, but
where she goes now couriers are very few
indeed, and she can carry her own story back
to us rs quickly as send it by any one else.
1t is pleasant, therefore, as the good ship
steers away for the region OF the Polar
night, with the days growing shorter and
shorter and the average of the mercury
falling lower and lower, to be able to get o
picture of the little colony on board. Fur
clad officers and men doing their watch on
deck, the bowling dogs. the Indian dog
guard, the meteorological observers jotting
down wind and weather, the cosey cabins
all these things come out wildly, and we
send the voyagers CHEEKY godspeed.


The first little mishap, which ended in a
sian bath, with cigar and Russian tea
thereafter, is told in our correspondents s
letter. The Muscovites were kind enough
to leave their luxury behind them in
Alaska when they took their flag away


How touching, then, the scene of parting
between Alexai, the Indian, and his young
bride! Sitting on deck, with their faces to
the north and their hands joined, we see
how zone touch of nature makes the whole
that she was solaced for the moment with o
cup and saucer. So, laden to the doubling,
the Jeanette heads for the shores of
Wrangel Land, where ''the white man has
not yet put his foot"-and beyond, "trust-
ing," as our correspondent writes, Gin
Gods protection and our good fortune"
Year: 1879

Although old 'Sol" crossed the Equator
some time ago on his southern tour Of in
spection he seems TO have returned to
eight it out on that line" with old Boreas,
and it is evidently going to take him oil
the winter to do SO. Twice since the be-
ginning Of September did the friend OF per-
spring humanity essay to como down
from his northern home only to reach
the extreme northwestern portion OF
our Republic and be compelled to return.
We have had the usual "cold wave" coming
from the West, but II never reached us,
Year: 1879

We are amused at Mr.. Kelly's two papers,
both daily. They are dissatisfied with the
HERALD, annoyed excessively at the way in
which it is conducted, and their friendly
interest in its welfare is manifested by their
desire that it should be less inconsistent


But what's their conception nofconsistency of
1t is, apparently, that we must admire and
praise Mr.. Kelly. Some months ago we did
this. Mr.. Kelly was then ''within the lines


of public respect He acted, as it seemed
to us, with due regard to his relations to
a great party as one of it's leaders, and to
his relations to the public as the holder
of an important Office Of dignity and
trust. He endeavored to exercise legiti-
mate influence upon public opinion, and
his conduct seemed to us praiseworthy
because it was public spirited, and we
praised it accordingly. At that time the
HERALD was, in the opinion of the two
dailies aforesaid, sagacious observer OF
events, well instructed and powerful
organ of public opinion, and several other
good things which our modesty forbids us to
quote. But. behold! Mr.. Kelly has gone off
in quite another style. He indulges in
strange eccentricities. He has lost his
head. He splurges around in the rural
districts and cuts up no end of capers
calculated to demoralize politics, and we
cease to admire and to praise him. There
upon his two dailies find that we are incon-
sistent, inconsequent, absurd and vain..
Evidently, therefore, their idea of consis-
tency is the praise of John Kelly through
thick and thin, right and wrong, on all
occasions and i'll all ways; but our
idea is to be consistent, not in the praise
of any man, but in the support of party
propriety and the public interest. Yet we
are impartial and just. We invite Mr..
Kelly's warmest partisans to study the
reports which we print from our corre-
spondent who accompanies Mr.. Kelly in
his tour, and see if they could do him more
justice themselves. Our correspondent is
evidently an earnest admirer of Mr.. Kelly,
not to say conquest and discovery of that
great man. He is, of course, carried away
by the enthusiasm that prevails in the
encourage, as particle of star dust is swept
up in the train of comet. Or he is, per-
haps, an evidence of the personal mesmer-
ism of the leader. But whatever may be
the explanation it is certain that
he greatly admires him, and that his
reports are eulogies of an extravagant
type. Yet we patiently print them. They
are instructive. They seem to show the
secret of Mr.. Kelly's power and that no
man can come near him and remain uncap-
tured. But we who are far away from Mr.


Kelly scan his operations with calmer
eye and cooler judgment, and we cannot
praise him. Our correspondent, however,
shall do him full honor and gain him great
glory, though we fear that when he is most
faithful to Mr.. Kelly he does him the least
good, as, for instance, when he gives o
literal and exact report of the outspoken
opinions Of that distinguished candidate.