smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The editor of the Fayetteville
Express has got into trouble. Hear
him:


We've got the elephant and don't
know how to dispose of it. Several
weeks since a young man found a
derringer pistol in the road and
brought it TO this office to be ad-
vertised. We advertised the lost
implement of destruction, expecting
the owner to call for it and pay for
the advertisement. No one has
called, and the thing is left on our
hands. Now, we are in fix. What
shall we do with the pesky thingf
We can't sell it, under the law, to
get our pay we can't give it away,
neither are we allowed to remove
it. How in the name of the great
Delringer we are to rid ourselves OF
the outlawed concern is what both
ers us now. Besides, to add to our
discontinue, the bull dog looking
thing is loaded to the muzzle and
we are not allowed to shoot it of in
town or to carry it outside of the
corporation to empty it. Any law
yer who will satisfactorily advise us
on this matter may receive the con-
tents of the instrument.
Year: 1879

The pencil marks you see around thi
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that You
are requested to pay up at once. Wo
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone viii yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to n strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such n
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


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

If you want to know what to
think of a man, ask him what he
thinks of his neighbors. If he sees
their best side you can trust him;
if he discourses on their bad side
make him pay cash or get his
goods somewhere else.
Year: 1879

Lawyers are not all OF them liars,
but most of them can get such a
small fact and build on it such a
wonderful structure o. logical de-
duction that the man to whom they
are indebted for the fact does not
know it when he sees IT.
Year: 1879

The White House was crowded
with stalwarts all last week, and
Rutherford was nagged to exhaus
tion. He had intimated to some
body that he saw nothing objection
able in the anti-bayonet bill, but
the probability is that the stalwart
bulldozers have brought him around
to their way of thinking again, and
he will veto the measure and again
place himself and party squarely on
the troopsat-the-polls platform.
Hayes has presented a very pltia-
BILE spectacle during the session. A
man who has no mind of his own
and places himself Gin the hands of
his friends is about as poor a
specimen of humanity as can be
raked up Courier-Journal.
Year: 1879

IT is an open secret that II the
new Constitution is adopted Denis
Kearney is to be the first Presi-
dent Of the Board of Railway Com
From that moment
Denis will disappear as an agitator
and will shortly re-appear, no
doubt, as fulI-blown member Of
Year: 1879

The hero of "Robin Adair" was well
known in the London fashionable circles
of the last century by the sobriquet of the


Fortunate Irishman;' but his parentage
and the exact place of his birth are un.
known: He was brought up as surgeon,
but ''his detection in an early amour drove
him precipitately from Dublin" to push
his fortunes in England. Scarcely had he
crossed the Channel when the chain of
lucky events that ultimately led him to
fame and fortune commenced. Near Holy
head, perceiving carriage overturned,
he ran to render assistance. The sole oc-
cupant of the vehicle was a 'lady of fash
ion well known in polite circles" who re-
ceived Adair's attentions with thanks,
and, beings lightly hurt, and hearing that
he was surgeon, requested him to travel
with her in her carriage to London. On
their arrival in the Metropolis she pre-
sented him with fee of 100 guineas, and
gave him a general invitation to her house.
In after life Adair used to say it was not
SO much the amount of this fee, but the
time it was given, that was of service to
him, as he was then almost destitute.
But the invitation to her house was still q
greater service, for there he met the per-
son who decided his fate in life. This was
Lady Caroline Keppel, daughter of the
second Earl of Albemarle and of Lady
Anne Lennox, daughter of the first Duke
Of Richmond. Forgetting her high lin
cage. Lady Caroline, at the first sight Of
the Irish surgeon, fell desperately in love
with him, and her emotions were so sud-
den and so violent as to attract the gener-
al attention of the company. Adair, see
ing his advantage, lost no time in pursu-
ing it; while the Albemarle and Richmond
families were dismayed at the prospect of
such terrible mesalliance. Every means
were tried to induce the young lady to
alter her mind, but without effect Adair's
biographer tells us that 'amusements,"
long journey. an advantageous offer, and
other common modes of shaking off what
proper match, We're already tried, but in
evidently impaired, and the family at last
confessed, with good sense that reflects
honor on their understanding as well 40
their hearts, that it was possible to pre-
vent, but never to dissolve, an
attachment; and that marriage was
the honorable, and, indeed, the
only alternative that could secure


her happiness and life. When Lady Car
oline was taken by her friends from Lon
don to Bath, that she might be separated
from her lover. she wrote, it is said, the
song of "Robert Adair'' and set it in .
plaintive Irish tune that she had heard
him sing. Whether written by Lady Car
oline or not, the song is simply expressive
of her feelings at the time, and as it COM
pletely corroborates the circumstances
just related, which were the town talk Of
the period though now little more than
family tradition, there can be no doubt
that they were the origin of the song
NeWcdstle C0urant.
Year: 1879

When the Republican party took the
reins of the government we were the
derision of the world. We had but one
friend-little Switzerland. Not a ma
tion but hoped and prayed that the gov
ernment might be overthrown. Not
nation poor enough to do you reverence.
We fought the battle through. We
raised the national dignity and the ma
tional honor, power and strength. until
to-day, after eighteen years of Republi-
can rule, there is no nation on the earth
strong enough not to do you reverence.
Your credit stands higher than that of
any other nation on the face of the earth.
We saved the national life and the ma
tional honor. Notwithstanding all this,
there are persons who say that the mis-
sion of the Republican party is ended,
and that it ought to die. If there ever
was political organization on the face
of the earth, so far as future state OF
rewards and punishment is concerned
which is prepared to die, it is that old
Republican party. But we amt going
to do it. We have made other arrange
ments. The Republican party Is the
only party that ever existed that hae
not one single, solitary. untitled pledg'
left. / defy its worst enemy to nam'
single pledge it ever gave to the peo
pie that created it which is not to-day
fulfilled and established fact. 1t W


should die to-day or tomorrow, ou
children's children to the twentieth gen
Grafton would boast that their ancestor


belonged to the old Republican part
! that saved nation and wiped SLAYER.
from its escutcheon.
Year: 1879

The suit which has made Boynton
famous consists of tunic and trousers,
with a rubber coat inside the tunic, and
lighter rubber trousers inside the suit
In the tunic are three air chambers
one in the chest, one in the back and one
behind the head, from the neck upward,
which raises the head and tightly inclos-
es the head-piece around the face. The
chambers are between the lining and the
outer rubber, and are inflated easily by
means Of rubber tubes, through which
air is blown. The trousers contain four
compartments, with air chambers extend
ing from the hips to the ankles, and each
leg of the trousers has chamber front
and rear. There is also stout leather
lapel over the ridge of the metallic band
on the waist of the trousers to prevent
the breaking of the band when coming
in contact with rocks. The lower part





of the tunic is so constructed as to tit,
or to be mortised into ridges in the
metallic waist of the trousers, and a
heavy rubber belt is then drawn over all
to keep the tunic and trousers together
and render them perfectly water-tight
The suit is used largely in the life-saving
service. The captain was born in Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania, but for twenty-five
years has been roaming over the world


and he claims no more definite home to
day than this country, whose flag h


floats whenever he is giving an exhibl


ton in foreign lands.
Year: 1879

THINK OF Your WIFE.-Yes, think
what life of labor your wife has to
lead, and try and tighten her cares by
all means in your power. You come IN
at noon time, tired with you mornings
work, and expect the dinner always to
be ready on time. After you have sat
isfed your hunger. you take your ''noon-
ing" of a half hour or more, while she
goes right to work again, and takes no
incoming at all. except to continue her
never ceasing round of arduous duties.
After supper you take your rest. and
she keeps on with some kind of work
until bedtime. And so on, from day to
day, year in and year out; and is it any
wonder that the bloom of youth SO soon
fades from your once fair young bride,
Year: 1879

and that she soon becomes worn out In
the struggle for a competency, most
young farmers do not think how impor-
tant part the wife plays in making
success assured, and that she, often,
really contributes more than half to-
wards success. Give her more recrea-
tion, more help in the house, if you can
possibly afford it; and give her chance
to ride out, on occasional evenings, to
forget for while her cares and trials,
and it will do both you and your wife
much good.
Year: 1879

KEEPING MoNEY.-Almost everybody
can make money. The difficulty is to
keep 1t after it is made. We would not
insist that it is in the power Of every
body to become wealthy. No two people
can agree on how much man ought to
make before he is entitled to be called a
man of wealth. One man has sense of
solid afhuence when, having paid all his
debts, he has one dollar remaining IN
his pocket. Another feels poor because
he has to pay taxes on large amount
of property. Some men, though they
can earn, are powerless to accumulate.
Money runs away from them as showers
of rain are shed from ducks back.
They start out in the morning with as
much in their pockets as ought to keep
a respectable family for month. AT
night they have to borrow six cents for
the homeward fare in the street car. 1t
has often been said concerning popular
preacher whose income was exceptionally
large, that he would leave home after
breakfast with fifty or a hundred dollars
and return peniless in the evening. in
state of woeful forgetfulness as to what
he had bought or to whom he had len'
his funds. His good wife at last became
his banker and saved him from fnancia
wreck.
Year: 1879

TRUTH IN BRIEF.-Anybody can soil
the reputation of an individual. however
pure and chaste, by uttering a supicion
that his enemies will believe and his
friends never heard Of. A puff of idle
wind can make million of the seeds OF
the thistle and do work of mischief
which the husbandman must labor hard
and long to undo, the floating par
ticles being too fine. to be seen and
too light to be stopped. Such are the
seeds of slander, so easily sown, SO difi-
cult to be gathered up, and yet so per-
nicious are its fruits. They know that
many wind will catch up the plague
and become poisoned by their lnslnua-
tions, without even seeking the antidote.
No reputation can refute sneer, nor
any human skill prevent mischief.
Year: 1879

Here is another utterance of Gen.
Grant on the third term question. 1t
came while he was at Cheyenne, recelv-
ing a Colorado delegation. Some zeal
GUS admirer remarked to him: sd saw
YOU last in the White House, General,
and | don't mean to rest till you get
there again" 81 am now chiefly desir-
GUS of getting into my own house at
Galena, replied the General. sand when
once get there don't think | can be
induced to exchange it for any other
house that know of, white or black.
Year: 1879

One year later, and in one of the
most elegant residences in Boston there
was wedding-the groom was William
Angensen, the bride Julia Huntington.
The night of horror had become the
parent of love stronger than death
more enduring than life, and before
that love the naughty pride of Jullas
mother had melted away like snow be-
fore the sunshine. The noble young
mountaineer, for the sake of that love,
left the hills and valleys he loved, and in
a celebrated university, his mind, al
ready rich in the royal gifts of Nature S
God, became refined in the flames OF
heaven-sent knowledge.


They are very happy now IN their
gorgeous home-that fair young wife
and her noble husband and often dc
they bless the fortune that caused them
to pass that night on the Winnepesaukee
Year: 1879

The St. LOUIS Republican says that
Senator CoDk'ing's speech in Brooklyn
is not giving entire satisfaction to his
party, especially to it's older and cooler
heads. While they generally admit
that the canvass In New York cannot
be confined exclusively to local issues,
they know very well that it should
not and must not be devoted exclu-
sively to issues Ct national charactsr.
There are many matters OF domestic
concern in which the people of the
State are much more deeply interested
than they are in the waving OF the
bloody shirt and stereotyped diatribss
against the sub.
Year: 1879




We do not mean those solemn ut
terances ofdying men whose last words
have become almost like religious
axioms to the race, but the last words
of gossiping visitors and diffuse talk
ers; the last words of an unsettled ar
gument and noisy quarrel; the last
words Of parting friends, of lovers,
whom cruel fate tears asunder for
twelve hours at the least-all Of
which things rank among those cir
cumstances of human lie which do
not mold, but which do undoubtedly
color existence, and which give the
accidents" that eliven, if not the key
note that regulates the grave harmo-
ny of the piece. The last words of
gossiping visitors, what can we say
Of them? How sufficiently character
ize them for the nuisance that they
are, the weariness, the hindrance, the
absurdity and the loss Of time they
occasion? But ifthose last words are
only a continuation Of the petty title
tattle, the undignified gossip, the
purely mindless common-places that
have made up Of the talk all through,
what do you feel then, when, standing
with the door in your hand, you are
conscious that the dinner is ready;
that your husband is waiting for You
down stairs and fuming-for your
after benefit; that you are getting
late for an important appointment
that your work, which must be done
to time, is pressing while you are
wasting your valuable hours, as well
\ as your mental strength. on your con-
scienceless. wearisome visitor, who
goes on like mill stream, as il he
would never stop on this side Of cter
nity-or midnight? But you are pow
crless, for he keeps on saying at ever,
moment: Zone word more;" :"
won't dctain you another instant
al know that you are busy; SO am l.
but just let me tell you this" ETC.,
thus preventing your meditated dis
missal by apparently dismissing him
self at every instant and in all pauses
This we take to be one Of the hardes
trials to which personal good breeding
can be put. and that kind Of a socia
hospitality which consists in sugarinl
a guest to stay in your drawing room
when he is nuisance, and you ar,
iuwardly praying that he would de
part. ".ml'A ehiAift'.
Year: 1879

After a substantial colonial breakfast,
consisting OF mutton II various forms,
We went down winding path to the lake,
and found that the chief to whom we had
applied had provided Us with substan-
tai English built boat and a crew of SIN
men, who did no injustice 10 the Maori
fame for stature and strength. We at
once embarked, but it was agood half hour
before we could prevail on our escort to
do the same.


Whenever Maori meets Maori they
must have n talk, and for the next twenty
minutes these fellows kept up such jab-
Der that We expected to see knives and
tomahawks out at every instant. At last
they all took their seats at the oars, and
away we started at great pace, and IN
less than two hours We landed at the
other side. Tie warm stream that flowed
from the hot lake above was too rapid 10
contend against III anything but light ca
noes and having laden two OF the crew
with our luncheon and rugs, we proceed
ed to walk the remailir" mile t. the
White Terrace.


The scenery alieady was pretty enough,
but we were quite unprepared for the
wonderfully beautiful sight which sud
denly burst upon las rs we turned tLe last
corner. A vast marble staircase rose
above US streaming with water. At the
summit cloud Of steam came rolling
up from some gigantic hills. We were
soon at the foot of the hill, and a nearer
inspection only enhanced its beauty
The broad, fiat steps we're wCrn by the
action Of sulphurettcd water into an ex-
act limitation, OF white coral, and on
every PLATFORM rested . basin Of The bluest,
clearsst wate:. As each ot these was
filed from the basin above it overflowed
INTO the basin below, and from being at
boiling point at the top the water became
cold at the bottom.


As we aSccndcd the steam became more
and more dense; We stood on the brink
Of the topmcst boiling pvUi, wet to the
skin, and unable To SCI Il yard IN front of
us until some friendly gust Of wind car
ried the yapcr away. And these ccca-
sional glnapscS revealed the most curious
sight OF all The pool was almost reeu-
larly circular and followed hy nature So
exactly that IL si,!es might compare fav
orshIv with the best paved path III Lon
don. Amass Of blue, clear Tatey writhed
and tumbled within, now rising with L
nurst to the height OF some twenty fc-t,
now sinkin. into a furious whirlpool.
The sight was beautiful and terrible, and
one could no longer doubt that the
Maories had here chosen a fitting habita
ton for their gods indeed, none but
gods could dwell in the spot ST. unnatural,
so unearthly.
Year: 1879

On the Balm Wagon valuable and other For
will have PATENT OIL TUBES with


which wheels the
will fully afr We feel that
TIE market that viii with the BAN
quality and i'll completeness and ncJ workmanship
have all
the timber SELECTED Of thoroughly seasoned All the wheels
inbilns lni OIL before making shrinkase
d"esh his Il
pretenee dong and make the application, all, only
Tie
time every S well Iroportionei
Year: 1879

Whether ftlse ringlets can be
properly described Us "cnrls Of
smoke


Whether row in a rnokery de
serves the definition of "caws and
effect


" neither the sailor who wanted to
know what time it was has gone TO
sea


Whether misnsming baby at a
christening may DO called turning
rite into wrong.


Whether the plainest woman alive,
when she reaches the age Of n, will
DO pretty old one.


Whether it is not preferable to fall
out with your banker than to lose
your. balance with him.


Whether when horse takes his
meals no has them at his tablo


Whether sweepstakes are sootabl6
food for sweeps 7


Whether when you give child
bat it will be likely to give you
bdcl.
Whether o dumb man always
keeps his word,
Year: 1879

BosToN, Dec. 30.-A largely attended
meeting of the Parnell reception commit
tee was held last night to complete ar
for ParnelFs reception. The
committee appointed go to New York and
Parnel to Boston. A public
reception will he given at the Boston
Theatre when Parnel will make an adj
dress. A banquet will also be given in his
Year: 1879

No use Of having the chills, no use of
headache ,or any of the ills that come from
a disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case will
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

Ihave loved flowers that fade,
Within whose magic tents
Rich hues have marriage made
With sweet unmemoried scents,
A JOY Of love at sight
A honeymoon delight,


That ages in an hour,


My song, be like a flowerl
1 have loved al RS that die


Before their charm is writ
Upon the liquid sky


Trembling to welcome its
Notes that with pulse of fire
Proclaim the spirits desire
Then die and are nowhere
My song be like an air.
Die, song, die like a breath,
And wither as a bloom;
Fear not q fiowery death,
Dread not an airy tomb!
Fly with delight, fly hencel
IT'S thine loves tender tense
TO fear, and on thy bier
Beauty shall shed tear.
Year: 1879

This is the season, says an exchange,
when the farmers colt dies, and the simple
minded ruralist empties p charge of buck
shot into the carcass and carries it into the
woods, and then les in wait for the first
tourist who hunts through those woods, and
horrifes that hapless Nihlrod by wanting
him to explain why he shot tho valuable
animal and make restitution. The farmer
must get living somehow.
Year: 1879

The gates at the passenger de
pots which shut off all people not
having tickets for the trains were
yesterday closed at the Union De.
pot against an elderly woman wear
ing spectacles and using an umbrel-
la for a cane.


'Can't pass without a ticket"
said the man at the gate as she
came up,


Il want to see if there's anybody
on that train going to Port Huron"
she answered.
. Cant pass without a ticket,
madame"


'Pve got a darter in Port Huron,
have"


Cant help it, please. My orders
must be strict"


81 tell you 1 want to send word
to my darter r. she exclaimed, ad-
justing her spectacles for a better
view of the official.


"Yes. but we can't help that, you
see. Please show your ticket"


81 want this ERE railroad to un-
derstand that I've got a darter in
Port Huron and she's got a baby
four weeks old. And I'm going to
send her up word in spite of all the
gates in this depot"


please show your ticket, mad.
am"


81 tell you once mOre"-


"Please show your ticket, mad
am"


She gave the old umbrella whirl
and brought it down on his head
with the vim of an old fashioned log
raisin and as he staggered aside she
passed him and said:


There's my ticket, sir, and I've
got more behind itl = Mabbe
one man and gate can stop me
from sending word to my darter tc
grease the baby's nose with mutton
taller if the weather changes cold
but don't believe it r.


And she walked down to the
train. found some one going to Por'
Huron and came back carelessly
humming the melody of "The Three
Blind Mice" Free Press.
Year: 1879

Bright pearls lie deep meath the salt sea waves.
Rich gems are hidden in the darkest caves.
And the wealth untold of virgin gold
The eyes of man win never behold
Yet look on the wild waves shining crest
The seaweed floats in its dark green nest,
And the debris light, with the foam so white,
Mere worthless things, first meet the sight
The violet hides in the lonesome dell.
The nightingale singeth long and wen.
While the worlds asleep in slumber deep,
And the other birds their vigils keep;
Yet the sparrow, lacking numbers sweet,
VIII chirp and scold at your very feet;
And the meanest flower that woos the whoever
Wears gold-bright robes fer the summer hour.
And thus we never can seem to tell
What manner of meat lies in the shell,
Or whether the tree wiz bearer be
Till the nut is cracked or the fruit we see
And thus it is with friends and foes,
For the secret heart heaven only knows,
And the friends who stay with us to-day,
Tomorrow, as foes, may go their way
And thus ii is with all outside show.


The false from the real who may know7
The sorry and sad, from the gay and glad,
Or the angel fair from the demon mad 2
And yet it is better the snake to warm,


Than TO leave the dove to the peltine storm,
For the time may come when we shah ken


The why's and the wherefores that trouble men