smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Be contented, my son. You need not
be satisfied with what you are; you
don't want to live without ambitions so
long as you live, strive to be something
better and higher and stronger to-mor-
row than you are to-day, but don't Wor-
ry; don't fret. Wear your ready-made
clothes with the air OF Il Prince, until
you can do better; eat your 25-cent din
ner with the manner of man who is
accustomed to fare sumptuously every
day on course dinners, and likes this
sort of thing for a change. Keep the
sunshine in your heart and it will shine
out of your face. The world is always
grateful to a sunny-tempered man, just
because he. is good enough and gracious
enough to live in it. Laugh, my son,
if your stomach is SO empty that you
can not tell whether your paints in your
liver or your backbone; wear your hat
jauntily if it is SO full. holes that you
can't see the grease and weather stains
that cover it speak cheerily, though
you have to wear your tovereoats every
time your shirt goes to the laundry.
1t won't be an easy thing to do,, right
along; the days will come when agood
indulgence in the ssblues'' would seem
like Paradise; there will be hours when
you would rather growl and wall than
look pleasant; there will be times when,
in spite of your strength and manhood
and good resolutions, you will go away
by yourself and groan and bury your
face in your hands and cry like a girl;
l know it, my son But don't make a
habit of it, and don't. let. any one see
you do it. 1t is dangerous luxury, son,
and should only be indulged in at very
long intervals and on rare occasions.
Cultivate contentment; if you have no
gloves, put your hands in your pockets;
If your coat is out at the elbows, back
up against the fence; if you have no hat,
you will never become bald. And when
prosperity comes not if, but when
you will be prouder of your good nature
in the dark days of adversity, my son,
than you can be of all the honors and all
the fame and position that prosperity
and success can bring you: Never wor-
ry, son; don't fret; it will only make
your face thin and your hair turn gray.


Burdette, in the Hdeckeye.
Year: 1879

YOUR wife has been begging you, and you have been promising her for such a long time, but you hardly think you can afford to lay out SO much money as they ask you in those fancy stores, where everything was turning, and their mirrors were so pOlished-where a person would really think that the place was made Of satin and gold. But that's what the mat ter; the customer has got to pay for all this; then why don't you send by express to Uncle Harris; you can afford to buy a watch of him. Send for one Of those s75 fine gold ladies' watches. which he sells for S25- 22l Kearny street, between Bush and Sutter.
Year: 1879

New York Times.]


A writer who has been making a study of
forest trees, their rapid destruction in this
country, and their effect on climate and
health, says that since 1885 the forest trees
of the Western Hemisphere have decreased
at the yearly average rate of I, 600, 900 acres,
or about II 900 square miles, and that this
rate in the United States alone has advanced
from 1000 square miles in 1885 to 1000 in
1866, and 8, 400 in 1876, while the two last
years have scarcely been less exhaustive.
Statistics for 80 years previous to 1885 show
that We have been wasting the supply of
moisture to American soil at the average rate
of per cent for each quarter of country
during the last 1875 years, and that we are now
approaching the limit beyond which any
further decrease will materially influence the
climate of the entire continent. Many east
India and Asia Minor, once possessed of q
fine climate and abundant harvests, are now
often scourged by pestilence and famine, and
it is altogether probable that their misfortunes
began with the disappearance of their native
forests. 1t is quite likely that we shall suffer
in climate, fertility and health before great
while if we continue to destroy our trees as
recklessly as we haye done, and it behooves
us to be warned in time. What has happened
elsewhere may certainly happen here. In
deed, there is great danger of it, for we
know by experience that fertile lands have
grown sterile by loss of trees, and that sterile
lands have in turn become fertile by system
attic planting. A certain proportion of we'll
wooded, as we'll as of arabic and pasture,
is essential to our material prosperity, and
this proportion can never he kept up, unless
regular tree planting be adopted as set-off
to the excessive destruction necessarily going
on. For $50 years we have been telling the
forest; for the next $50 we should try to re-
store what we have taken away.
Year: 1879

Who says that the days of romance are
ended needs to read the strange history of
Scottish plOwman who has returned to his
native heath after long exile. Twenty
years ago farmer in Orkney hired Dung
man to do farm work. The plowman touch
ed the fancy of his masters daughter, and
the result was that in runaway fashion, and
in opposition to the will of the patriarchal
farmer, the two became man and wife. The
old gentleman was furious and turned his
back determinedly on his SON. -in-law. The
young plowman kissed his wife, left her in
her fathers arms and sailed for Australia,
whence he soon ceased to write. His wife
became a mother and remained in state of
such wretched suspense that her father began
to repent of the treatment to which he had
subjected her husband. Efforts were then
made to trace the whereabouts of the latter
by means of advertising in the colonial pa
pers and otherwise, but all to no purpose.
The grandson grew up to manhood, and, not
liking farm work, bade adieu to Orkney,
took ship last year to the United States, and
after some knocking about found employ
ment in q mercantile house in Illinois. In
the course of business he discovered that the
gentleman at the head of the firm was ma
tive of Scotland. hailing indeed from the
same district as himself. Occasional meet
ings led to more minute inquiries as to dates,
names of places, persons, and the like in the
old country, and after being six months in
the establishment the youth found-however
wonderful it may appear-that he was actu-
ally serving as clerk with no other than his
own father! The effect of this discovery on
both may be left to the imagination of the
reader. Father and son are now in Scotland.
The man who went away penniless plow-
boy but returns rich. has been welcomed with
much emotion by his venerable father-in-iaw,
who is still hale and hearty, as well as by the
wife whom he left many years ago in her
outh and beauty, but who is now middle
aged matron.
Year: 1879

A highly important piece OF information
was placed III possession OF the Pioneer
Press yesterday, being nothing less than that
Gen. Thomas l.. kOsser, chief engineer OF
the Northern Pacific railroad, has made ar
rangements for transporting five hundred Of
the cOlOred men who are now fleeing from
the South, to Dakota Territory to work upon
the extension OF the Northern Pacific rail-
road west OF the Missouri. Gen. Rosser is a
Southern man himself, and being familiar
with the character and habits OF the cOlored
man, he is satisfied that his labor Can be util-
lied to great advantage in the North. The
General says that they have been greatly
Wronged by those who delight in misrepre-
sening them as being lazy and worthless, for
he knows whereof he atfirms when he says
that the colored men voluntarily work harder
and longer upon the plantations of the South
than they will be asked to do on the Northern
Pacific railroad, and receive far less pay be-
sides. Now, to establish this point, five hum
dred of the poor men who are f1ocking up
the Mississippi in search OF employment will
be carried to the end of the line and put to
work they will be furnished with supplies;
the ruling wages will be paid them; and at
tie close of the season they will, if they de-
sire it, be located on some of the fertile lands
AlOng Tue lut, WutIe tAty may Ue OueIeu Tie
opportunity of making their homes, or they
will be returned to the places from which
they came, with the bulk of their seasons
wages in their pockets


This is an experiment the results of which
will be watched with the greatest interest. If
Gen. Rosser's theory of the capacity Of the
colored man for labor is borne out by prac-
tice, it will work revolution in the life of
the race. If even half of the colored men
who go to the western Territories as laborers
should eventually become farmers, able to
maintain themselves in independence by their
toll, the effect would be beneficial in every
way. 1t has been estimated that every in
dustrious laboring man is worth at least $1,-
900 to the community in which he resides.
The loss to the South, therefore, by the re-
moval of its laborers to the far North and
West, and the gain to the latter by the devel-
opment of lis undeveloped areas, can readily
be figured up In few weeks some of the
negroes that are now being shipped up the
Missouri will have chance to try their hands
in building railroad between the Missouri
and Yellowstone, and if they come out of the
trial in good shape, the problem of their fu-
ture may possibly be solved.
Year: 1879

New York WOrd.]


II think" said Mr.. Beecher yesterday,
THAT in the present state of knowledge it Is
impossible to prove the existence of God
by any scientific test, and that is the testimony
of the most expert scientists. They admit
that there may be, but whether or not there
is not demonstrable proof. They do not take
the right means to discover God. Suppose l
were to 60 off the coast of Maine, where the
water is swarming with fish, and putting a
potato on my hook throw it out. l get no
bite, and day by day throw it out and get
no bite, and l say, There's no fish there. ,
Men stand throwing their lines into the vast
expanse of knowledge; they bait their hook
to catch diety, and fish for years and catch
nothing, but blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God, they bait their hooks
with sensibilites. There are some who fash
ion to themselves conception of God that
has some relation to rewards and punish
ments, and out of that they get God of
fear, but man who has risen only as high
as that has risen only few steps; he is
slave, driven afeld with a whip, not loving
virtue but afraid to do evil. One step higher
comes the God of conscience; vastly higher
comes the God Of eternal right and wrong,
whose conscience is the law of the universe,
and this is about as high as multitudes OF
men ever get. They are simply religious
people; they are not Christians. This, al
though q step in advance, is not the harvest
home. God then comes to many persons as
God of taste, of beauty, grace and joy,
and they add this to the conception as the
God of fear and conscience. Then at last
comes the highest development that has yet
been made, and it is realized by those whose
natures are sufficiently high to reach the
grandest conception-of God of perfect and
universal love. believe we are standing on
the eve of great disclosures, and rejoice at
the spirit of inquiry that is abroad, which
will probably result in higher conception
of God than the world has yet known.
Year: 1879

[Rome Letter to Philadelphia Telegraph


A lady whose age and rank accorded such
freedom of speech complimented the Queen
of Italy on her toilet at the recent Teano ball.
Her Majesty replied: "Yes! it is very beau
tiful. I often wonder if am right to be so
fond of dress, and to admire some of my
jewels as l do; now, for this necklace l have
a real true liking" What woman is there
that will not sympathize heartily with her
Majesty of Italy-especially if she has cher
own fling" as the Scotch say? 1t is so nat
ural for young woman to love pretty clothes,
and jewels, and -gsyety. Henri Quarte
wished every peasant in his kingdom could
have fowl in his pinner pot; wish every
young girl could 90 to as many merry dances
as possible. and haye pretty gowns and jew
els; che will have Al mellower old age if she
has had happy youth.
Year: 1879

She was waiting for the train, and as she
posed in graceful attitude she made quite q
picture. Dressed with elegance, with strik-
ingly handsome face Intellectually high
tened by pair of genuine Boston glasses,
she impressed us as lovely example of cul-
ture and refinement. But the vision faded
The next time we glanced that way she was
eating peanuts and her dainty foot was
swinging in rhythmic time beats to the crack
ing of the shells between her pearly teeth,
and che strewed the floor with the debris as
evenly and artistically as if she was gallery
god.
Year: 1879

condition in life. To-day two men from Missouri
paid Sunday afternoon visit to him at General
Pope's house. They were kindly received and were
appreciation of the administration IN fiatterng
terms. one Of them asked the President TO appoint
HIM TO little post office in his neighborhood: I9e
President informed hlm that he would have to for
ward his papers through the ordinary channels, and
the man failed 10 get the post office notwithstaud-
by his companion, whom he brought along as a sort
of credential.


MIR. Dawes, of the Hannibal and st. Joseph Rail
road, will take charge of the train bearing the party
ber
Year: 1879

The great want of this age IS
men. Men who are not for sale,
Men who are honest-sound
from center to circumference,
true to the hearts core. Men
who will condemn wrong in
friend or foe, and in themselves
as well as others. Men whose
consciences are as steady as the
needle to the pole, Men who
will stand for the right if the
heavens totter and the earth
reels. Men who can tell the
truth, and look the world and
the devil right in the eye. Men
that neither brag nor run, flag
nor finch. Men who can have
courage without shouting to it.
Men in whom the courage of
everlasting life runs still, deep
and strong. Men who do not
cry nor cause their voices to be
heard on the streets, but who
will not fail nor be discouraged
ill Judgment be set in the earth.
Men who know their own busi-
hess. Men who will not lie Men
who are not too lazy to work
nor too proud to be poor, and
Who are willing to eat and wear
Just what they hsye earned.
Year: 1879

SENATOR SALISBURY got his resolution
asking for information concerning the
negotiation of loans without regard to cost,
through last week, and will in due time, of
course, be properly enlightened. He has
introduced bill in the Senate that is
much more practical in its bearing and
consequently worthy Of more persistent
effort, viz: a bill providing for an ap-
preparation for the removal of distractions
that now cucumber the harbor at the Della
ware Breakwater. The constant accumula-
ton of obstructionsi in the harborin the shape
of sunken wrecks, &C., will, if something is
not done to remedy the evil, soon render
the Breakwater worthless for the purpose
for which it was intended. In one storm
year or more ago about a dozen crafts
went down in the harbor and these sunken
hulks are dangerous when there is wal
among the elements.
Year: 1879

By a LAW of the last Legislature the two
Republican papers of the State are entitled
to the sheriff sales, viz: those of Kent and
%-e a,tle counties, there being no Repub.
.4c4n paper in Sussex. 1t is a question
whether such a law will stand over the
present session. While the law is being
changed-if it should-the interest of both
the debtor and creditor class should be
considered by publishing where it would
do them the most good. AS it is, the
property is frequently in one part of the
county while the paper in which the
sheri6's advertisement is published is in
another. IL the law makers intend to be
fair, in making a change in the statute
they will have one of the advertisement
inserted in the paper published nearest tc
where the property is located. 1t is bat
business at best, bat the poor debtor should
have the advantage Of making as much on
VI bis prep5rsy as possible.
Year: 1879

Matters are represented not to be in a
very orderly condition in portions of the
Ottoman Empire. So infested have the
roads been with people hostile to each other
in Bulgaria and Wallachia, that travellers
life depended in great measure upon his
watchfulness. An American gentleman
was travelling one of these roads alone,
when he espied Turk. At the same
moment almost the Turk espied him and
unslung his rife, the American at the same
time loosening his revolver from the holster.
The Turk drew near with his gun at the
ready. The American drew his revolver
The two men then passed each other, bow
ing salutation over the muZzles of their
weapons, but each keeping sharp watch
on the movements of the other until the
bend of the road separated them. 1t is
stated to be no uncommon thing for twenty
five murders day to occur on some of the
roads.
Year: 1879

IT is about time to look out for new
crop of Aid-de-camps. Gov. Hall is opposed
to militia, but nevertheless there will be
disappointment if there is not at least a
clever sprinkling of "colonels." 1t is
frequently very satisfactory bone to the
hungry and disappointed Office seeker. 1t
somehow has very soothing effect. One
Governor, Burton we think, shook them
down over the State like apples falling
from a we'll shaken tree.
Year: 1879

IT is amusing to the down country editor
to see how the Wilmington ,dailies hash "
up the Peninsular News. They straggle
along in getting our "down country" -"
items one paper after another, covering in
some instances the space of month. The
peripheral course of some Of them is almost
mathematical in regularity. Some three or
four weeks ago an item appeared in Will
mington daily in reference to prominent
citizen in the lower part of the State il
has struggled along through the list and
the remaining daily finally got it in it:
columns yesterday. Delicate sensibilities
do not like to be tortured by being kept sc
long on the rack-especially when from the
lapse of time it looks like a fresh item anc
is republished second time.
Year: 1879

THERE is not so thoroughly reported
Legislature in the Union as is the Delaware
Legislature. Take up any of our Will
mington dailies or county luminaries and
read down the proceedings and you will
find it somewhat after this wise: An act to
enable John Smith 10 vacate certain
road; An act to incorporate Wisdom Lodge
No. -; An act to amend the charter of
Duck Run Ditching Co., &C., &c. Each bill
goes through the same form and is as
formally reported as though it were to i'm
peach delinquent official, or create a new
county. Each bill is announced that it is
going to be announced. Then it is read
three times, giving the title each time, and,
going through the same form in both
houses makes eight times that every act,
however insignificant, is reported for the
papers. You see nothing like it unless
bills of general importance in any other
State of the Union. To find out what is
going on one has to read whole column
to get what could be contained in filbert
| nut shell.
Year: 1879

a WAR on Low THEATREs.-The mayor Of
Philadelphia has declared war on the low
theatres in that city on the ground that
they are disorderly houses. This action
will benefit public morality and serve the
interest of legitimate places of amusement.
Something of the sort would not be out Of
place in Baltimore in regard to places not
exactly called theatres, but having some
pretensions to performances in that line.
Year: 1879

THE "divorce mill" at Dover is in full
blast, and from this time on, if we may
judge by the itemized proceedings, Ia large
part of the new bills introduced being for
dvorces), the quantity turned out is
likely to be large. The proper place for
most of these cases to be settled upon is the
courtroom, for which specific laws are
made, but our Legislature seems much
more favorite place of resort because a
much easier mill to grind them through.
Year: 1879

ter, another Republican ex.C Congressman, con.
victed on the same charge, and who is a white
man, it was thought proper that smalls should
not be made an exception of. Attorney-Gen'
eral Youmans, in conversation with your cor
respondent, today, expressed his sentiments
of relief at the termination of these cases.
He was happy to say that everything was
tranquil and serene in South Carolina to-day,
and perfect good feeling existed between the
two races. He thought everything would be
harmonious in the future
Year: 1879

MULLEN AS A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION -.
A correspondent writes as follows to an ex-
change: II have discovered remedy for con.
sumption. It has cured number of cases
after they had commenced bleeding at the
lungs and the hectic flush was already on the
cheek. After trying this remedy to my own
satisfaction, have thought philanthropy re-
quired that should let it be known to the
world. It is common MULLEN stepped strong
ly and sweetened with coffee. sugar and drank
freely. It is much more beneficial if allowed
to become cool before using. A bottle OF the
tea should be carried in the pocket and used
whenever there is desire for drink. Young
or old plants are good, dried in the shade and
kept in clean bags. The medicine must be
continued from three to six months, according
to the nature of the disease. 1t is very good
for the blood-vessels, also. It strengthens and
builds up the system instead Of taking away
the strength it makes good blood, and takes
Inflammation away from the lungs.
Year: 1879

paS A recent decision of the solicitor of the
Postofice Department, holds that the intent
of the law regarding the distinction between
mail matter Of the first and third class, is to
permit partly printed commercial papers, in
ordinary use among business men, to be re-
garded as third class matter. In other words,
papers which are constantly passing in the
commercial community for business purposes,
the blanks of which wien filled do not alter
their character as papers in general use.
Whenever there shall be departure from
this rule, it is held there must necessarily be
departure from third class rate.
Year: 1879

NEATNEss. its essence, and purely for its
own sake, neatness is found in but few. Many
a man is neat for appearance sake; there ls
an instructive feeling that there is power IN
it. When man consults q physician or
lawyer for the first time, or comes to rent a
house, or borrow money, he will come IN his
best dress lady will call in her carriage
A man who means business and honesty, comes
lust as he is, just as you will find him in his
store, his shop, bis counting house. The
most accomplished gamblers dress well; the
most enterprising swindlers are faultlessly
clothed; but countless multitudes are but
whitewashed sepulchres. Too many do not
care, so long as it will not be seen. WASH
ington Alston, the great artist, the accom-.
plished gentlemen, suddenly left bis friend
standing at the door Of splendid Boston
mansion as they were about entering for q
party, because he remembered that he had
hole in his stocking. 1t could not be seen or
known, but the very knowledge Of its exis-
tence made him feel that he was less man
than he ought to be-; gave him feeling Of
inferiority. As persons are less careless OF
personal cleanliness and tidy apparel, they
are infallibly and necessarily more of the an.
gel and less of the animal more under the in.
auence of principle. Said poor servant
girl: "I can't explain what change re.
ligion has had on me, but I look more closely
under the door mat when sweep than |
used to-" Intelligence, culture, elevation,
give purity Of sense and sentiment.


Where you see neat, tidy, cleanly, cheer
full dwelling, there you will find q joyous,
loving, and happy family. But if filth and
squalor, and disregard for the refining deli
cacies Of life prevail in any household, there
will be found in the moral character OF the
inmates much that is low, degrading, un-
principled, vicious and disgusting There
fore, as we grow in years, We ought to watch
eagerly for neglect of cleanliness in person,
and tidiness in dress.