smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Mrs. Minta Barnard Hoffman, of ST..
Louis, aged thirty, married an old
grocer because he was reputed wealthy,
and could support her in the necessaries
of life while she worked for 3 niche in
the temple of fame. In 1877 she pub
lished volume of verse and other
things that showed her to be clever in
the literary line. But recently her hus-
band lost money and health, and she
was forced to abandon her idea of be-
coming ga second Alice Carey" and to
work in the grocery for her husbands
support. In despair she took morphine
and died.
Year: 1879




II there should come time, as well thert


may,


When sudden tribulation smites thine


heart,


And thou dost come to me tor help, and stay
And comtort-how shall I perform lny


part? -r -
How shall make my heart resting place,
A shelter safe for thee when terrors smite!
How shall bring the sunshine to thy face,
And dry thy tears in bitter woes despite
How shall I win the strength to keep my


voice


Steady and hr1n, although hear thy sobs
How shall bid thy iainting soul rejoice,
Nor mar the counsel of mine own heart


throbs?
Love, my love teaches me certain way,
So, if thy dark hour come, I am thy stay.
I must live higher, nearer to the reach
OF angels in their blessed trusttulness,
Learn their unselfshness, ere can teach
Content to thee, whom would greatly


bless.
Ah! what woe were mine if thou shouldst
come,


Troubled, but trusting, unto me for aid,
And I should meet thee powerless and dumb,
Willing to help thee, but confused, afraid!
1t shall not happen thus, for will rise,
God helping me, to higher life, and gain
Courage and strength to give thee counsel


wise,


And deeper love to bless thee in thy pain.
Fear not, dear love, thy trial hour shall be
The dearest bond between my heart and thee.


-.dH the Year Round.
Year: 1879

The world is governed by three
things-wisdom, authority and appear
ances. Wisdom is tor thoughtful peo-
pie, authority for rough people, and
appearances for the great mass Of super
fetal people who can look only at the
outside.


Seek not to please the world. but your
own conscience. The man who has a
feeling within him that he has done his
duty upon every occasion is happier
than he who hangs upon the smiles OF
the great or the still more tickle favors
Of the multitude.


Flatterers are the worst kind of trait
ors, for they will strengthen your i'm
perfections, encourage you in all evils,
correct you in nothing, but so shadow
and paint your follies and vices as you
shall never. by their will, discover good
from evil, or vice from virtue.


Imaginary evils soon become real
ones by indulging our reflections on
them; as he, who in a melancholy fancy
sees something like face on the wall or
wainscot, can, by two or three touches
with laed pencil, make it look visi lie,
and agreeing with what he fancied.
Year: 1879

Among the many superstitions of
which loaf of bread has been the
basis, one of the strangest is that which,
in more than one European country. at-
taches special ill-lusk to the turning of
the loaf upside down. In Scotland this
is accounted for by legend that Sir
Walter Menteith, the betrayer of Wal
lace to the English. made this action
signal of attack, whence the reversing of
q loas in presence Of Menteith was con.
sidered SO deadly an insult as to cause
more than one fatal duel in the old fight
ing days. The same belief in Germany
is explained by the story of Bohemian
king, who, happening to reverse his loaf,
was warned by soothsayer that it pre-
saged the overthrow of his kingdom,
which speedily came to pass. The Rus
slams hold this superstition so firmly
that you have only to turn a loaf upside
down in any native village TO see the
whole company dash at it and reverse
it, explaining that when the fiat side it
exposed the devil comes and seats him
self upon it, and is not to be dislodged
without victim of some kind.
Year: 1879

In some families, where the daughter
is attended with every care and solicl-
tude, the boy is often turned off to seek
his own companions and his own amuse-
ments, to run all manner of hair breadth
escapes, moral no less than physical; to
ride on wild engines, to Chamber among
the shipping aJ the wharves. to dodge
loose horses and mad dogs. To be sure,
he learns reliance upon himself and his
resources by this means, while his sister
sits tamely and securely at home, afraid
of her own shadow. While he is diving
off the end of the wharf, struggling with
cramp in the surf, padding his own
canoe amidst rocks or rapids, breaking
through air.holes in the skating-pond,
running with the tire-engines, accumu-
lating strength and knowledge OF the
worlds ways, she, perhaps, is learning
crochet or lace stitch, or to daub with
water-colors. Left to his ow devices
thus, his judgment is cultivated daily IN
his game of stick-knife, in his trade OF
old nails for new coppers with the junk
man, in his wrestling match with unex-
pected dangers and his intercourse with
the bully of the neighborhood. In short,
the boy is only half appreciated. not
withstanding the lack of masculine ele-
ment in the community. A hungry boy
does not awaken the sympathies as read
ily as a hungry girl. One teels that an
orphan boy can shift for himself, but
girl must be provided with proper guild
ance. We have small concern for the
blisters on his hands, for his bare bruised
feet, the shabbiness of his clothes. 1t it
matter OF course that he should rough
it; it is the process that fits him for the
rub and tumble in the great world, and
no one wastes sigh over the affair.
But if there is an errand to run. kitten
to dispose of, caterpillar's nest in the
fruit tree to destroy, a horse to catch, or
any disagreeable thing to do, the boy IS
called into requisition. In the mean
time, while his discomforts are considered
of no consequence, or at least such as
every boy must expect to 90 through on
the way to becoming man, as passport
to that dignity, he grows to disregard
them himself and to reckon it of little
account whether his clothes are wet or
his ears tingle with frost, as that rude
specimen of his kind bore witness who,
being asked if his feet were cold, an
swered: Il dunno; feel of 'em." No
doubt this lack of cosseting and consld-
Grafton hardens him, so that he may
endure the shocks of misfortune with
greater eauanimity on reaching man.
hood and think of other things than Of


his own sensations.-Ha7per's Bazar.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Julius A. Palmer, Jr.. writes to
the Boston Transcript: A few years
ago the banks of the lot opposite the
Brunswick Hotel, this city, were sodded
and the land leveled to its present
grade. As the pick of the work
man broke up the soil, a white
substance ran through every piece:
Starting with large branches, 1t
divided and subdivided like the veins
on the back of the hapd. The smell was
very strong, quickly noticed on the op'
posite side Of LIE way. This subter-
ranean white vein-for it had that ap-
pearance-was nothing but the hidden
part of tile Corpriaus consatus, q mush-
room freely eaten now, although twenty
years ago thought to be poisonous. The
common name Of this substance is
spawn" Just as cutting of the grape
vine placed in conditions favorable to
growth will shootup, put forth branches
and bear fruit, SO part of this C0TpT7n4s
vine transplanted will continue to
ramify and in time show the result in
the form of mushrooms. The whole
earth beneath your feet, on country
walk, is alive with vegetation to great
depth. This vegetation is just rs real,
and the various vines-or, in other
words, thathousand varieties of mush-
room spawn-are just as distinct as the
hopvine and the woodvine, the ivy and
the virgins bower that twine their
tendrils above your head. Just where
grew this year peculiar kind OF toad
stool, there, next year and so on for sue
cessive harvests, will you find the same
plant. There is no more mystery about
its appearance than in the growth ofthe
chestnut on the tree that shades it:
Rapidity ofgrowth IS not near as general
as it is thought to be. The common
mushroom and many others form for
days Just below the soil. A heavy dew
or m evening shower straightens the
stem of the fungas and expands its top.
1t breaks the earth in the night, and the
gatherer is able to find in the mording
the white buttons where he could see
nothing the night before. So, popular
error has made mushroom growth pro-
verbal for superficiality which by the
fungi at least is undeserved. Further,
the various varieties Of toadstools sue
ceed each other in rotation just as the
bloodroot and anemones Of spring are
followed by the roses of summer and
the cardinal or gentian of fall: These
are not theories that are here advanced; !;
they are the results of several years
careful watching Of the growth OF this
order of plants. On the very spot where.
in 1874, I gathered mushrooms, there; in
1879, I find the identical variety, 30 that
the lover OF fungus may have his regular
harvest with all the certainty OF the
farmer who looks for the return OF his
wheat crop or the results ofhis cranberry
culture. With just that degree OF GER
tainty, no more and no less, for, as Ger r
tain years are favorable for the produc'
ton of certain fruits, as the potato crop
sometimes fails and the apple orchard is
barren, 50 the mushroom spawn, usu;
ally producing abundantly its expected
variety, may pass year, or even under IN
difficulties become extinct. The blight
which may visit all life, animal or vege'
table, does not fail to fall ut times upon
my humble friends.
Year: 1879

One evening not long ago there WAS a
curious fight between dog and horse
on North G street, in Virginia City,
New. The horse was running loose in
the street, when q bulldog, belonging to
Henry Matthews, rushed out and began
to worry it. Matthews encouraged the
dog, which made several attempts to
fasten itself on the horse, but at the
same time fought shy of the spirited
animals heels. Finally the dog came
in front of the horse and sprang straight
for it's throat. The horse struck the
dog on the shoulder with its right fore
foot, and the dog, bowling with pain,
rolled convulsively upon the ground.
The horse then trampled savagely upon
it and killed it.
Year: 1879

There has been great deal of advice
running through the press lately AS 10
the best and most comfortable way to
peel onions. One says, put lump Of
bread on the end Of kniie;" another,
"do it under water" The first would
seem u little risky and the second rather
inconvenient. A good way to peel an
onion is to use knife about mile
long; but the very best way is to stand
off ten or fifteen miles with good tele-
scope and see somebody else do it.-Ho-
tel Gazette.
Year: 1879

The world is looking-glass. and
gives back to every man the reflection of
his own face. Frown at it. and it wi il
turn and look surly upon you: laugh
at it and with it, and it is z pleasant.
kind companion.
Year: 1879

IT was very generally predict ed, and is still asserted by those who think such talk sounds well, that the building Of the railroad through this County would entail upon it great expense for the sup pression and punishment of crime; that railroad construction would attract here many mem- bers of the criminal class. This latter opinion was probably based
Year: 1879

TIE TRIUMPH of the civil regime over military supremacy, and by nobody assert ed more reckleSsly-though not unpatri otically-than by General Sheridan, is ren- dered final and complete by the discipline administered that Hotspur oi the service by Secretry Schurz. The disadvantage at which military officer, even military hero, places himself in undertaking to in terfe-a unwarrantably in civil affairs has been usefully shown, and the incident will make clear some lines and landmarks that were trampled out during war times. Sheridan's spanking is for his OWE good and that of the whole country.

 Carl Schurz is rather a hard man to beat upon ary question relating to the opera ton of his department. This arises from the fact that he has been attending closely to the business of his office and mastered all of its details. The secretary of the in t9rior conclusively shows that, under the present management of the Indian service dishonest and incompetent agents are held to account and dismissed without mercy, and the thieves are at last on their way to the penitentiary. He does General Sheridan the justice to say that if he had better informed himself he would have preferred not to stand in his present at titude respecting the conduct of Indian affairs.
Year: 1879

It is patent to all observing. mer that the attempt of a reformation of the Civil Service at Washing 1 ton is a failure.

 AS long as political influences prevail in the appointment of our civil servants tbe stream of puh- llc life will be polluted.

 It is preposterous that a Presi- dent and Cabinet in Washingt0n should exercise the appointing power for more than a hundred thousand civil servants, of whose qualifications and fitness for these various offices these six men in Washington cannot possibly be well informed.

 We must either curtail or eX- tend the right of suffrage under our democratic system of govern nent. To curtail it is impossible, unless the form of government is changed. Its extension is the only safety for the perpetuity of Our republican institutions.

 There is great danger to the Republic in the tenacity with which these hundred thousand office holders, their relatives and friends, seek to maintain their hold upon the government of the Nation, and the sooner this great incubus is shaken off the sooner shall we be really a free people. The responsibility of choosing these officers should be placed where it really belongs-in the hands of the people. It would be a mercy to the President and his Cabinet to be speedily relieved of the importunities of ofice-seek- CTS, and the people should volun- tarily assume the duties of choOs- ing their own servants. The Executive would then be left with more ample time to con- slider the interests of the Nation, and a prolific and dangerous source of national corruption would be withdrawn.

 In every city, town and village the people are the most proper judges of the qualifications of a Postmaster-not a Member of Congress, who makes the post office a political nucleus. So also of the Collectors of Revenue-in- ternaI and external. The tax and custom payers have the right to select a proper person to receive and disburse their money. In foreign ports the American mer- chants are the best judges of the qualifications of a Consul, and would not generally select some ignCramuS from the Western States, as a reward for political service. With the use of the tel egraph, Foreign Ministers are useless relics of the past. The Secretaries for Foreign Affairs can correspond with each other with out the intervention of these ob- sOlete ornaments.

 Let Us have Republic in fact as well as in name, and let the people, in their right and duty, come forward and relieve the President of the most onerous and disagre3abLe duty devolving upon his high office, viz: the ap- continent of over one hundred thousand office holders, of whose qualifications he can know noth- ing and for whose conduct he car- not be finally held responsible.

 This is the only practicable re- form for the Civil Service.

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Year: 1879

A DOC coming open-mouthed at ser geant upon march, he ran the spear Of his halbert into his throat and killed him. The owner, coming out, raved extremely that his dog was killed, and asked the sergeant why he could not as well have struck at him with. the blunt end of his halbert. "So I Would," said he, If he had run at me with his tail"
Year: 1879

MEssRs. Lord & Williams are again en- larging their mercantile establishment by removing the partitions in the premises formerly occupied by MT. Davis hardware

 and tin store. They will occupy the front with the Postoffice, which will be much enlarged. The wholesale department will be then in the rear of the Postofice. The apartments now used as the wholesale rooms will bs occupied by the new bank which will be shortly opened. Thus our solid mercantile houses move forward.

 A new discovery has been lately made in the vicinity of Tucson, the exact locality at present being kept secret for obvious reasons, where the combination and density of the various metals for the. mak. ing of bells is in the proportion fixed by art for that purpose. A section of the ore, cut scoOped in the shape of bell, would give that article finished and completes sending forth the finest and most musical sound. We would suggest the waiting of the various church building commit tees on the owner for the purpose of obtain ing block of the ore. Mir. Isaac Goldberg is the fortunate owner of the discovery.

 Tombstone cCmes again to the front; the latest discoveries there are the Head Centre and Yellow Jacket mines owned by pr. Handy, Katz and McCann; if the reports from there are not exaggerated these can be classed among the richest finds in Arizona if not in the world; the vein is reported over thirty feet in width an1 average assays bring the value of the ore found way up near the thousands; samples of the ore shown us are full of horn silver and free gold. This in conrec- tion with the many other rich strikes ill that vicinity stamp that district to be if not the richest, at least as rich a mining camp as any yet discovered We congratulate our friends on their good luck Tucson StGr.
Year: 1879

Whenever any body is arrested in a
Russian city the fact is kept secret and
everybody who calls at the arrested
persons house is also put under arrest.
One of the PERSONS recently arrested
at St. Petersburg was physician in
good practice; and it so happened that
at the time he was captured child was
taken i'll in a family which he was in
the habit of attending. During the
night the child's illness became so
alarming that the father went to fetch
the doctor; but on arriving at the house
he was seized by a police and carried
off, in spite of his protests. The mother
waited one hour or more, and finding
that her husband did not return, went
herself to the physicians house, where
she too was arrested. Meanwhile the
child remained alone in the house,
and on the following morning it was
Idaad
Year: 1879

While gilling for shad on Friday in
the Delaware, off Marcus Hook, several
Philadelphia fishermen captured big
male sea lion. After dragging the
amphibious beast to the surface the men
discovered that in its endeavors to re-
lease itself from the entanglement of
meshes the lion had sadly torn their
net, and their drag Of shad would be
entirely lost unless something was done.
As they were not fishing for sea lions,
and their net was suffering new damage
every minute, the monster was des-
patched with a boat hsok. 1t is thought
that this is the animal that leaped oveI
the fence inclosing the tanks at the
Geological Garden and escaped to the
Schuylkill some time ago.
Year: 1879

The Bethany Baptist Sunday School
held their first anniversary last even
ing. The Church was crowded and
many persons being unable to gain ad.
mission remained outside and looked
through the windows. 1t is said that
over two hundred persons were unable
to bs admitted, so great was the crowd.
The exercises consisted of singing reci-
tations, &c. The singing of the school
was very fine. J. H. Muhlhausen pre-
sided at the organ, Rev. 7. W. East
wood, the pastor, delivered an address
and in his opening said that he had
heard famous orator once say that a
speech could be made in 10 minutes,
and if such was the case the audience
would not expect a speech from him as
he did not think he could bind himself
to ten minutes speech.


In speaking to the scholars he hoped
that they would be always eager to
study the catechism and the bible, and
he was anxious that they should exhib-
it the same zeal in the Sunday School
as in their every day walk. He urged
on the teachers to be up and doing in
the work and study the Bible, is like a
pilot who did not know the channel in
the steering boat through. He next
spoke to the parents of the children
and asked their presence, their sympa
thy, prayer and aid.
Year: 1879

The Fame Hose fire company have
received invitations from fire company
in Harrisburg, and one in Reading to
visit those two cities on the Fourth OF
July for the purpose of in the parades,
one of the companies writing that they
would be pleased if the Fame boys
would accept the invitation as they
always make such a fine appearance
on the street. The Fame has declined
both invitations as they feel it their
duty to stay at home and protect the
property OF the city of Wilmington from
4 fra
Year: 1879

Strawberry ice cream can be procured
of Berry in the Third street Market -
Berry knows how to manipulate berries
so as to tickle the palate and call forth
words of ofappreciaton. Give him call
and satisfy yourselves in regard to the
excellence of the berries and cream.
Year: 1879

ed up the bank; found cut piece OF
tobacco and hat whore he had been
struggling; there were signs Of blood
around.


1t being 6 o'clock court adj journed
until 10 o'clock to morrow morning.


There are yet about twenty-five wit
ness subpoenaed by the State; but it is
the impression that the Attorney Cen
eral will not call them and that the
State will close tomorrow. If this be
so the case may go to the jury on Thurs
dav afternoon.
Year: 1879

LONDON, March 25-Strong opposition is
naturally being made by the creditors Of
Egypt to the reduction OF interest >on her
debts, although many OF them would agree
to a temporary reduction to have the crisis
provided for. The loss now suffered could
be made good by new loan In the future,
and the Khedve Is said to be opposed to any
Immediate reduction of interest.
Year: 1879

LONDON, March 25.-In the House Of Lords
this evening the Marquis OF Landsdowne
brought up his resolutions OF inquiry and
censure concerning the conduct Of the civil
and military representatives OF the govern
ment In South Africa. Lord Cranbrock, In
reply, said that her Majesty's government
had no doubt as to the ability and good in
tentions OF Sir Bartle Frere, Governor OF
Natal. They had confidence In him as an able
and Jealous servant Of the Grown, but they
condemned his impetuosity and indiscretion
In commencing war without waiting for the
decision and commands OF the government,
and they should hold him to strict account
ability.


It Is thought that Lord Chelmsford will be
ordered home and may possibly have TO ap-
pear before q courtmartial, and that Str
Bartle Frere will soon be relieved OF his gov
ernOrship.


Public Indignation against both Of these Of
hcals is increasing, and the government,
through Lord Cranbrook, has virtually ad-
mltted that their conduct was deserving Of
censure.
Year: 1879

ST. PETERSBURG, March 25.-Conspiracies
throughout Russia continue rampant. An
attempt was made to assassinate the chief OF
police In this city to-day, but he managed to
get away unhurt. The assassin made good
his escape, but the police are on his track.
Year: 1879

People are dying every day of throat and lung
complaints who mie ht be saved By timely and
perseyering use of the New louisiana Remedy.
That remarkable product Of our swanps In
everywhere winning golden opinions.