smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

/. Remember that In teaching, as well as
in any other business, you must have a
good deal of capital invested to obtain
large proceeds.


2. Remember that your capital is your
health, your education, your library, your de-
termination to brighten and improve your
self, and your power to teach others.


8. Remember that every good business
man seeks to enlarge his business each year,
by constantly investing more capital


A. Remember that good business men
watch the market; they mark what others
are doing, note how they do it, and take pa
pers and journals that give specific informa-
ton. You will be very short-sighted if you
do not initiate their example


D. Business men often meet and consult.
They have exchanges, boards of trade, hold
fairs, etc. Teachers who do not pursue a
similar line of conduct have themselves to
blame when they fail


q. Remember that your work is bust.
ness in many respects, and must be con-
Quoted on business principles that it does
not consist in keeping your pupils still, and
getting replies to questions, many of which
you could not answer yourself.


Z. Remember that your work, If done
Alright, will make you a competent man or
woman it will, like any business, give you
better Judgment more information, and
wider range OF thought.


8. Remember that you ought TO be more
deeply interested in it every day, as every
business man Is in his business. York
School Journal.
Year: 1879

When servants feel that the mistress re.
cognizes their true value as human beings,
they are ready enough to yield only too
much respect to her ladyhood A "real
lady " is their most emphatic expression OF
appreciation. 1t means one who has no
need to take thought for her dignity, who
is incapable, if only for her own sake,
OF being otherwise than gentle. The better
such one is known to her servants, the
more irresistible will be her influence over
them, and the more cordially recognized her
authority. With all these cautions we may,
| believe, safely venture to lay aside, by de.
grees, that part of a barrier of reserve which
Is artificial and voluntary, knowing that it
is not help but hindrance to the born
ruler, as well as to the kind-hearted. Bar.
riers OF reserve and coldness may be broken
down or thawed in thousand ways, which
II Is not necessary to suggest in detail
Women know well enough the little arts by
which acquaintance is made and carried on
towards friendship. A little free play OF
natural impulses is all that is wanted. Out
spoken praise or blame of our servants work
instead of a chill silence upon which all
their service falls fiat a little wholesome
gossip, or If the word sounds better, let us
say chat, about anything in the world that
comes in naturally; little occasional ap
peal for sympathy on ones own behalf, es
pecially if one remembers to tell the bright
as well as the dark side of ones own exper
fences; a little service done or asked out OF
the regular routine; all these things are
what Friends" call "very uniting and
they are certainly are very easy except to
the slaves of shyness. Shyness has much tc
answer for, but / do not believe that il
would alone suffice to hold froslbound the
natural stream of sympathy and good will
If we could once get rid of the idea thai
there is some danger either to our authority
or to our delicacy, in allowing freer inter
change OF ideas with our servants.-Niae
teenM CenfIrn
Year: 1879

The educational department of news
paper is one which is or should be of great
interest to parents and educators of the
young. The highest usefulness and enjoy
meut of mature years depends SO much upon
the proper development of the faculties of
the mind that it becomes aquestion of great
Importance how this result can be best Sc
cured with the means at hand. A great
number of the youth of Vermont depend
mainly, many entirely, upon the district
school as a means of education, certainly
until they arrive at the age of fifteen years,
for no judcious parent would wish to send
child from home at an earlier age Now
the question arises whether the plan which
has been generally adopted for the past few
years of excluding all studies except the
very common English branches such as the
law requires teachers to be competent to
teach, is conducive to the best interests of
the greatest number. 1t has been argued
that the younger scholars are neglected when
the higher branches are introduced into the
schools. Too much time is given to the
older ones. Is there more danger of that,
than that the older ones will become listless
and lose their ambition by remaining too
long upon a level? The law of education is
to climb, and nothing is more important than
to know when to take step higher as well
as farther on. Do not interested and anima.
ted scholars require less of the teachers
time than those who have been rendered
dull by too great monotony of study?
Year: 1879

no fear Is it long since you knew him p


inquired the minister Forty years ago,


was the reply. 'It was when / was looking
on at some people partaking of the Lords
Supper and just as the minister lifted the
bread and broke it said, This is my body
broken for you. Do this in remembrance
OF me- got sight of my Saviour which
never had before, and | saw the meaning of
Christ dying for sinners. 1t was then
knew the Lord When you came in just
now | was thinking of that communion
scene, and was repeating the words, DO
this in remembrance of me- The dying
mans voice then fatered and he ceased
speaking Shall | pray with you 2 asked
the minister. The aged saint said he would
be glad, and suggested one of the petitions
which should be offered The minister had
not long engaged in prayer when there was
deep silence in the room. At the close Of
his prayer he looked towards the old man,
and found that his soul had fled. He had
passed through the valley and without fear"
Year: 1879

TIE idea of reforming the Incorporate
by getting up cheap coffee houses in the
neigh borhOod of the rum shops has been
tried with much success in England
so great, in feet, that they have in many
cases compelled the rum dealers near by
to close their shops fer want of custom
which the coffee resorts had drawn away
from them. In Bristol, the rum sellers,
hearing of the proposed trial of the plan
there, hired every available location in
their quarter, and at first it seemed that
the reiormers were thwarted because Of
their inability to secure available rooms,
it being considered necessary to have the
coffee houses in the vicinity of the places
where the laboring people were wont to
resort for their morning and evening
drinks. The coffee men, however, outs
generated the rummies by sending out q
wagon every morning and evening, and
peddliDg the hot coffee and tea for q
penny a mug. The success was so great
that a number of benevolent individuals
have started coffee wagons, and have all
they can do to supply the demands of
the thirsty throngs which morning and
evening besiege the wagons.
Year: 1879

take L oft of the country, seem to the
upsophisticated American and equally
dull Australian to be by no means so
useful to the country as a less Industrious,
less penurious and less home~sick EdBo-
pean, whatever effect their method may
have Upon the wealth OF the world at
large. This, at any rate, is the chic f
reason why men who are worth arguing
with support such movements as those
of the labor party in California; and
writer's who wish to combat their argu.
menta efFectuaIly will have to take q
wider view of the subject than they take
at present
Year: 1879

The following poem represents the feelings of g
and Of British officers, cat of from help and hope
oem is charged 10 the Iull with spirit Of ste-ni
toical defiance:


We meet beneath the sounding rafter,
The wslls around are bare
As they shout TO our peals of laughter
1t seems the dead are there;


but stand to your glasses steady,


We drink 70 our eomrades' eyes;
Quaff cup to the dead already,


And hurrah Ter the next that dies.
Not here are the Roblets cleaning,
Not here is the vintage sweet:
IT'S Geld as our hearts are growing,
And dark as the doom we meet.


But stand to your glasses steady,


And soon shall our pulses rise;
A cup to the dead already,


Hurrah for the next that dies.
Not sigh for the fate that darkles,
not tear tor the friends who sink;
Wen fall mid the wine cups sparkles,
as mute as the wine we drink.


So stand to your glasses steady.


lis that respite buys;


One cup to the dead alrt sdy.


Hurrah for the next that dies,
Time was when we laughed at others;
We thought we were wiser then.
Hal hal let them think of mothers
Who hope to see them again.


No stand to your glasses steady;


The thOughtless are here the wise.
A cup to the dead already


HuIFah for the next thSt dies
There's many hand that's shaking,
There's many cheek that's sunk
But soon though our hearts are breaking,
they'll burn with the wine we've drunk
So stand to your glasses steady;


The thoughtIsss are here the wise
A cup to the dead already


HuTrah for the next that dies!
There's mist on the glass congealing-
lis the hurricanes fiery breath;
And thus does the warmth Of feeling
Turn ice in the grasp of death.


Ho stand to YOUR glasses steady,


For the meHent the Vapor flies;
a cup to the dead already,


And huIIak for the next that dies
Who breads to the dust returning
Who shrinks from the fatal shore
Where the high and naughty YeaTning
Of the soul shall sting no more?


No; stand to your glasses steady,


The world is a world of lies.


4 cup to the dead already


Hurrah for the next that dies
Cut OF from the land that bore US,
Betrayed by the land we find
Where the brightest have gone befUTe US,
And the dullest remain behind.


Stand, stand to your glasses steady,


IT'S all We have left to prize.


A cup to the dead slTeadV-


Hurrah for the next that dies.
Year: 1879

= PROF. WISE seems to be in earnest
in mis- scheme for crossing the Atlantic in
a balloon, and to be setting about his
preparations in very practical manner,
strikingly in contrast to the dare devil
method of the unfortunate Donaldson q
few years ago. His idea is to thoroughly
test the conditions, both Of the natural
air currents and the necessary features
of an air-ship to meet the varying atmos.
pheric conditions, with the purpose o
davising automatic machinery that will
cause the balloon to regulate itself then
to send trial balloon across without an
occupant, and follow up with others, if
necessary, until it shall seem sSie to at
tempt the aerial voyage himself. Three
scientists will accompany him, and many
applications for the privilege have al,
ready been made. Professor Wise's pre-
liminaTy experiments are already being


made ON Manhattan beach.
Year: 1879

The world will never know how much
it owes to science. A scientific man
who has been investigating the coal oil
regions of Pennsylvania has come out
with the alarming theory that the oil
comes from the bearing of the earth's
axis, and that the earth will cease to turn
when the fabrication ceases. Therefore
he holds the opinion that the govern
ment ought 10 interfere at once and put
stop TO this pumping and boring for
this gudgeon-gresse of the universe.
Year: 1879

gold pieces covered and sewed on her
travelling dress for buttons; the more
buttons the better the style in those
days.


And again, there was Mrs. W,
who was passed through the Fortress
Monroe inquisitorial with her deep
mourning costume and heavy veil, to-
gether with the burial-case supposedly
containing the remains of her brother,
but which in reality was packed with
percussion-caps for the use of the South
ern Confederacy.


We broke up that night with an invi-
tation to meet the club in Franklin
Street on the next evening in course,
and partake of some real cofee-real
as far as it went-but Mrs. H in
formed US in advance it would be mix
ed with potato. This substitute for
coffee-sweet potato cut into slices,
dried and parched-was the best evolved
of all our expedients, and when mixed
with the genuine berry, impaired to it
very rich, creamy flavor and consist
ency.


Nothing can be said in mitigation of
our Confederate teas. I never praised
them-dried blackberry leaves-rasp-
berry. They were detestable! I said
it then and l say it now. But I do feel
spiteful at General Wickham, who, on
being helped to piece of Confederate
pudding at q dinner-table at which l al
so sat one Sunday, pronounced it the
best thing with the prefix which he had
ever yet seen.


Blythe way, and apropos of this same
house-it was clearinghouse, genteel
and delightful, but not the most expen-
sive; I had lived there some days, before
we established ourselves at "room-
keeping" to the tune of $25 per diem.


My sister Patty and paid $75 week
for comfortably furnished room, fire
and gas; and there, if we had any thing
to eat, we ate it.


The cook belonging to the house did
our extra work, such as baking bread
for us when we wanted homemade
bread, or cooking a joint of meat when
we were so fortunate as to have one.
We paid her $3.50 per week.


Here's little list of expenses, blythe
way, Just taken at random from book
| Patty kept at the time:
Year: 1879

LAST NoTICE-To HOTEL AND BOARDING
HOUSE KEEPERS. We are requested by the
secretary OF the State Agricultural Society
to saw that he must close his register on the
last day OF this month. The intervening
time before the Fair will be required for
publication and proper circulation. All
persons who have not sent in statements OF
the location Of houses, extent OF accomoda-
ton, price OF board, &C., are requested to
do SO at once. It is not desirable that it
should appear that the city will be deficient
OF accommodations for the largesnumber OF
visitors expected az the Fair.
Year: 1879

PERSONAL PROPERTY EXEMPT BY LAW.
CONTINUATION or THE LIST OF PRoPERTY-owNERs


wHo DECLARE THAT THEY HAVE 40 TAXABLE


Personal POSSESSIONS.


The list of PERSONS assessed upon personal
property, who have shown TO the salts
faction of the Tax Commissioners that
they own nothing properly subject to
assessment under the Personal Tax laws,
is continued herewith. 1t may lie stated
again, and in the most positive terms, that
no odium attaches to the property -owners who
thus "swear off the assessment upon
them, as they are not morally or legally bound
to pay on the possessions that the numerous
provisions of the Tax laws exempt
Year: 1879

Several persons living in Ludlow-st. were
convicted In the General Sessions several months ago Of
arson the first degree and received heavy sentences
JOSEPH Levy was convicted accessory before the
aud the carried appeal 10 the General
The opinion Of the Court handed down yesterday
affirmed the judgment
Year: 1879

II the case of John Hope the Manhattan Bank robber,
who W; convicted tn the General Sessions and sen
fenced TO ten years imprisonment HIS counsel MAIN
tanned that the evidence did not sustain verdict of
robbery In the first The Court nds nothing to
indicate that tho verdict was not Just.
Year: 1879

Officers of the Iron Mountain road in
Missouri give the details of romantic
and rather exciting episode which oc-
CURED recently on that line. At Bel
mont woman of fine personal appear
ance and handsomely dressed purchased
a ticket to go north. After travelling
about a mile, and while the train was
at full speed, she suddenly arose, and
walking quickly to the door, she sprang
out into darkness. She was observed
to 20 to the door, but at the time 10
one supposed she had made so dan
gerous a leap. In due time, however,
she again appeared at Belmont, having
walked back along the track, without
having sustained any injuries. She
then explained that she was from the
south, and went under a marriage en-
gagement, but that her stern grand
father interfered and the only chance
left was to seek some distant place for
the performance of the marriage cere-
monY. A place on the line of the rail
road had been selected, where her lover,
who would be along by the next train,
was to meet her. 1t appeared, how


ever, that the grandfather, close in pur-
suit, was on the same train from Bel
mont with the fugitive, although he was
not aware of her near proximity. She
caught sight of him and without hesi-
tation left the car. as stated. After the
train had run few miles, it was found
that she was missing, the conclusion
being that she had fallen from the car


The grandfather having heard of the
circumstances at once concluded that
the reckless woman was the one for
whom he had been in hot pursuit, asd
he took the first train back to Belmont.
Before he got there the lady had made
known her circumstances, and she had
no trouble in finding her friends. The
old gentleman made inquiries for her
upon his return, but was started off in
the wrong direction, and at the same
time watch was kept for the expected
lover, who was easily recognized from
the description she had given. Soon
after his arrival the two were united
legally and no longer feared pursuit.
Year: 1879

The careful tidy housewife, when she
is giving her house its spring cleaning,
should bear in mind that the dear in
mates of her house are more precious
than houses, and that their systems need
cleansing by purifying the blood, regu-
lating the stomach and bowels to pre-
vent and cure the diseases arising from
spring malaria and miasma, and she
should know that there is nothing that
will do it SO perfectly and surely as Hop
Bitters, the purest and best of all medi-
cines. See other column.
Year: 1879

Boston Post: There have been whis-
perings about among architects and
others for some little time past that the
steepIe of the revered Old South church
has of late 'canted" from its old time
perpendicular and visiblv settled to-
ward the southwest. 1t is said that
none but practiced eye can apprecia-
lively trace this change, while it is as
much serious fact as if people already
held their hands over their heads when
they passed under its shadow.
Year: 1879

The people in the interior of Bolivia
are suffering from famine, and an Oruro
correspondent of the South Pacific
Times says that the people have been
diving Of starvation in large numbers.
Year: 1879

The death OF "Fightins Joe Hook
er" vii! be universally regretted, not
only by lis old comrades il arms
but by every mar who loves his cou :
try. He was always true 10 tire dag and
whenever his services were needed
they were cheerfully rendered. His
record as a soldier and patriot was
without spot or blemish. Where
the battle ragged the fiercest and
where the shot and she'll and bullets
of the enemy were doing their dead
iiest work, he was always to be found,
encouraging his men by the example
of his own intrepid valor. Whether
at the almost forgotten engagements
of the Peninsula, or at Antietam OF
Charlottesville, or in "the battle
above the clouds" at Lookout Noun
tain, or in Sherman's siege of Ant
lanta, this brave commander, with
his gallant troops, did splendid work
He was model soldier. Whatever
faults he may have had will be for
gotten and his memory will ever b
cherished by a grateful nation.
Year: 1879

1t requires but few words to put
the whole question concerning the
ordinance in relation to the public
debt, as proposed by the late Consti-
tutional Convention, in its proper
light before the people. The matter
stands this way


First, 1t will not do to fail to ratify
the new Constitution, for that would
throw US back where we started from
under the old Constitution of 1868,
viii, all it's numerous evils.


Second, 1t will not do to ratify the
new Constitution aud defeat the debt
ordinance, for that would be straight
out absolute reputation of the whole
debt of the State, since the limit of
taxation under the new Constitution
will not afford any means with which
to pay any portion Of the debt, either
principal or interest. If the Consti-
tuition is ratified and the debt ordi-
nance defeated the whole debt is re-
padiated; and it will not do to have
the fair fame of our State tarnished
with the foul stain of repudiation.
The Constitution must be ratified to
secure the innumerable benefits it
will confer upon the people, and the
debt ordinance must be ratified to
preserve the honor and integrity of
our State. It will not do to accept
the one and reject the other. Both
must be ratified together; that is, if
the voters wish to do that which is
best for their own welfare, and that
which is right in the sight of tod and
man.


There are no real arguments against
the debt ordinance-all said by it's
opponents is mere sophistry-while
the arguments in its favor are the
eternal principles Of honesty, justice,
Eighteouspess and honor. It was the
very beat thing the Convention was
able to do for ns under the existing
circumstances. It cancels about the
amount Of the fraudulent portion Of
the debt without absolute repudia-
ton, and it affords the tax payers the
relief they 50 much needed.
Year: 1879

The Official Documents In Regard to


the Whole ATairs-A Ridiculous


Transaction.


Yesterday afternoon q representative OF
The TINES called on Major General John
Pope, commander of the department Of the
Missouri and after introducing himself
asked for some official information regard
ing the Indian Territory furry. The Gen.
eral remarked that there was nothing in
il" and at once said lie was willing to i'm
Year: 1879

i


Among the legislation that may be passed at
Madison this winter is the passage OF a Law en-


poTering the Common Council OF the city to fix


sa1aric. previous to each election. From talk now


prevalent in certain quarters, it seems that the


prime movers in the scheme arc really aiming at
3 reduction Of the salaries Of the members oil the


police force 1t would require but little effort
to trace the origin OF this movement to spite on
the part of disappointed: seekers after positions
on the force to render the places of
no value to those who hold them. The present
pay Of pstrclmeu is s66 per mouth, or $500
year. When it Is remembered that under the
new regime active work is required OF every
member Of the force not on the sick-list, it must
oeclr to those OF our taxpayers who are able to
toast their shins By warm dresides and retire
early to peaceful slunbers that the salary is
none too much for from twelve to sixteen hours
daily duty. Other cities pay their policemen
even better thaa this, and they do not enjoy
1.-THE OF the freedom from crime aud disorder for
which Milwaukee is becoming justly celebrated
throughout the countr,. Our citizens have req
son to congratulate themselves that this excel
lent branch OF the service is conducted IN such
3 thorough manner BY really small force and
ought to irown down the efforts OF tue mischief
makers looking to ecoDum7 in expenditures
through cutting down salaries in this particular
direction. II they have not vet gained wisdom
by their past experience, it Is high time they did
acquire at least little OF tue modicuu-