smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Shakesperean readings" "morn-
ipgs with the poets, +" etc, , are the names
given at present to certain informal and
charming entertainments much appre-
ciated by those who have the leisure to
devote to such affairs. Nobody can
doubt that an accomplished reader may
make such opportunities both agreeable
and profitable, for the difference between
written and spoken eloquence is very
great-so great, in fact, that to read
with any pretensions to correctness OF
emphasis, clearness of Interpretation,
and attractive manner, the reader must
have studied long and well. The world
has endured much from public speakers
as well as from professional readers, and
many an instance of wicked hilarity in
church has been provoked by the solemn
occupant of the pulpit. 1t Is said that
the cultivated John Randolph corrected
the pronunciation of the good man who
ministered unto him in his last hours,
but person less sensitive and eccentric
might criticise the clergyman who gave
out hymn as follows:


He takes young children In his arms,
And in his bosom-beGrs.


So much for style of recitation which
at one period of literary cultivation was
called melodious, and which consisted
in =" slowing up" as they say in railroad
parlance, on the last line, and lingering
with kind of painful procrastination
upon the final word. In view of the ter
rible manglings which have taken place,
and the fine productions which have
been actually slaughtered upon that step
which divides the sublime from the
ridiculous, one might say that ga little
reading is a dangerous thing" and
those who can not read well would be
wise to turn their attention to something
which they could execute with less pain
| to an audience.
Year: 1879

A fast man on a fast day took his
horse and went TO the end of the fast
land, and there tied him fast, and as
fast as he could he broke his fast. Then
he rose and took off his hose, and went
with his hoes along the rows, and put
the rose on the end of his hose-which,
as everyone knows, is a sort of nose.
So his hose waters every rose in all the
rows. Now say who knows how for
eign wight could learn very fast the
meaning of hoes and rows or knows
and nose, or to perform any rite right,
or even to write wright right, if his liv.
ing depended on getting some right
which involved the right writing Of
wright, right, write, and riteP-Har
per'S Bazaar.
Year: 1879

es, and I'll name dozen who win by
arguments which even boys can digest.
Name a merchant who buys at random,
as we educate children, and will name
the day of his failure. Name one who
can tell you how to saw out a boot-jack,
build an ice-box, putty in a pane of
glass, mix paint or hang gate, and I'll
show you that he is doing a safe busi-
ness, dictated by observation and COM
mon sense. Last year gentleman with
a fine collegiate education opened a
grocer store on a certain street in this
city, asking no advice as to location,
and making no observations on the
movements of the public. He had got
nicely opened when boot-black called
in one day and bluntly said:


"'Gimme cents worth of peanuts y


"'Peanuts! Boy, 1 don't keep pea
nut stand!' was the indignant reply


"'You won't keep even peanut stand
here two months from now!' chuckled
the lad as he lounged out.''


In five weeks there was a failure, and
the grocer was S3, 900 cash out of pocket
in seven weeks time. The observing
boy knew that store was too far down
town, because he had watched the
movements of the people who bought at
retail. The grocer had been at Yale
College, and he didn't deem it necessary
to known lamp-post from salt barrel
in order to establish trade.


The other day lady who can speak
several languages and who graduated
with high honors at Vassar wanted
some mince pies made and put away
for New Years. Neither of her servant
girls knew how to make them, and sc
the lady went out among her neighbors
She tried to remember what they told
her, but her pies were made without
sugar or salt, and with only one crust
When told why 'they tasted like bass.
wood chips" she burst into tears and
sobbed out:


"They educated me to be an idiot in
stead of a woman! IN. quad, IN De
troit Tree Press.
Year: 1879

He is a good man indeed who does
the good he talks of.


1t is possible for man to know /
own mind and yet know very little.


1t is perfectly safe to have some m
owe you grudge, for they never p
any thing.


It does not follow that blacksm1
has no virtues because he is always
be found at his wise.


1t is a good proverb which says u
every man hath his cricket in his he|
and makes it sing as he pleases.


The vain man is, after all, the b
piest. While the rest of us are tryind
please others he is perfectly satisiied
he only pleases himself.


A man seldom finds out that the Il
is not true until he discovers that
course of life is condemned by it. a
that the Bible becomes a book that
not bear the tests of the scientific m
od.-AlbGny argus.
Year: 1879

A week ago young man in this city
smashed one of the street lamps. He
was arrested for disorderly conduct,
and when brought before the police
court he offered a unique explanation of
his conduct. He did not plead previous
good character in extenuation of his Of
tense, and to mitigate the punishment
to which he had exposed himself. On
the contrary, he informed the magis-
istrate that his previous character had
been any thing but good. He had been
guilty of many previous offenses of q
deeper dye. He had even served a
term of imprisonment in the State
prison. All this he related with the ut
most frankness. He did not seem in
back of all his dark and guilt-stained
past. He only added that he had prom
ised his mother, while he was in prison
and she was on her death-bed, that he
would not steal again; and that al
break his promise, he had stuck to it
through the sixty long hours he had ex-
perienced the pangs of hunger, and fin
ly as a step to secure food without steal
ing.


This story, confirmed by extrinsic
evidence, was published. At once pres
ents of money and offers of assistance
began to pour in on the young man. A
thousand hearts warmed in sympathy
toward him.


What does this teachp


1t teaches that even criminals will be
assisted in any attempt at reform as
soon as people believe they are in earn
est.


Of course there is and there should be
reluctance to receive into families OF
workshops persons of whom nothing
is known but that they are convicts
but when one of this unhappy class sue.
ceeds in making it apparent that he
really desires to lead a blameless life in
the future, the hand of assistance will
be quickly extended to him.-N. Y. Sun
Year: 1879

trial justice for an order Of reassign-
ment on the ground that the corn,
fodder, bacon and flour should havo
been set apart to him as exempt
The trial Justice decided against
him, holding that those articles wore
not exempt except when the products
homestead that these articles were
not the yearly products Of defend
ants homestead, because he owned
no real estate, and that they wore
not exempt as personal property
because they are not among the
articles enumerated as exempt in the
constitution. The defendant up"
pealed to the Circuit Court. Judge
Aldrich sustained the appeal, hold
ing that the personal property Of a
debtor of every description to the
amount Of $500t is exempt. We
learn that tho Judgment creditor
proposes to appeal to the Supreme
Court. That Court has already one
or more cases Of ap exactly similar
character before i Its decision is
awaited with ilHorest'-Ne,obcrry
Herald. T.


DEnn1cK.-This was tho name Of
the most famous ,hangman in Eng
lish history in fact, he WAS Il prime
rapscallion ut that ncfarious bust
ness, who succeeded Bull, the carli-
est recorded hangman, in 1893. At
Cadiz, Derrick hung ninety five
men, and was condemned to so
through the performance at the
other end of the rope himself; that
is, to be the chokeo instead of the
chokcr ho made an assault on a
woman, an obstreperous method of
wooing, rendered necessary by the
odious nature Of his profession. The
Eearl of Essex, however, inteTposed
and saved his life ; in roturn for
which kind office Derrick, in 1901,
cut off his presorver's head. Derrick
was lucky, and grew dishonorably
Old and rich, md finally diol dospis-
cd, lamenting pathetically that he
could not live to cut off the royal
head of Charles T. Brandon, his
successor, was not as great or as
fortunate Il man ; he was twice con-
demned for the crime of bigamy.
He began his career by executing
Strattord, and was thought to be the
masked hcadsman who ofliciated at
at the last scene of Charles Is life
The ingenious machine for lifting
takes it's name from the noted litter
of men, and Oil City names pen
driving machine after him.
Year: 1879

Opium is the most dangerous
drug, especially when given to
children in the shape Of a soothing
remedy. DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup is
warranted not to contain opium in
any form and is the most innocent
and ctlicacious remedy for children
teething. Price 25 cents.
Year: 1879

The National Democracy have nothing
now to hope for in Ohio. That State set
tied its political position last Tuesday, and
unless sort of popular tidal wave inter-
venes will be enrolled in the Republican
column in 1880. We attached little, if any
importance to the fact that Foster has only
plurality of the votes cast Ohio is a
pretty good Republican State now, and
will in all probability show a majority for
that party in the Presidential election.
The Greenback vote amounts to bat 5000
now next year it will not go above 5000.
In fact, we are inclined to the belief that
there will not be Greenback party in the
field at all IN 1880. ...


1t is upon New York that we must base
our hopes of future success. The Empire
State has never since the war disappointed
us IN an emergency, while Ohio has never
vet failed to do 30. New York we believe
to-day to be Democratic State. There is
a square Democratic majority in it of from
25, 600 to $4,000. When the Greenback
party breaks up there, tbs great part of
it's voting strength will return to the Dem
ocratic fold from whence it came, precise
ly as the bulk of the Ohio GreeRback vote
has gone back to the Republican ranks,
from whence IL caEne----,---sy- .5.-..


In the present contest in New York the
true test between the two parties is on the
election of Potter and Hoskins. The fight
between Robinson and Cornell is one be-
tween Tilden and Conkling. both being
backed by the regular organizations of the
of the Democratic aud Republican parties.
We shall feel keenly disappointed if Rob-
inson fails of election next month, but We
shall not be dissatisfied if be IS defeated,
provided that Potter and the rest of the
Democratic State ticket succeed. That
will show that New York is Democratic
and can be relied upon, which means that
we shall elect our Presidential candidate,
no matter who he is. And that the Demo-
cratic State ticket proper will succeed, we
do not at this moment entertain doubt.
We confidently predict for it q majority,
or rather a plurality, of $4,000. Robin
son, if he pulls through, will probably do
80 with plurality of somewhere between
10, 1000 and 5000.


The best energies of the party in New
York need to be devoted to the important
work it has in hand, however, during the
next two weeks if it would insure victory.
And in the prosecution Of this endeavor
the Democrats of New York may rest as
sured that they have the sympathy of their
political brethren throughout the country.
We feel entirely authorised to assure
them that the foolish prejudice Of the party
in certain Western States against New
York, on account of what 10 termed its
mortgage on the Democracy Of the nation,
departed with the PRONUNCIATION OF the re-
suit in Ohio on Tuesday tass


The Democratic party has got to carry
New York this year in order to have it the
next, aud, through its indispensable aid.
secure the Presidency. If we lose it in
November nothing short Of political
miracle can save us in 1880. Let Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike take this ad-
mission and make the most of it.
Year: 1879

EssOlish Esssi0rGnts In Assses.ica.


Many eholts have been made recently
In several directions In England to in
duce skilled artisans to come TO this
country under promise of higher wages.
In view Of the depressed state of a9ri-
culture in great Britain, it is most likely
that agricultural laborers as well as far
mers will begin to look in the same d.
rection. English farmers cannot pay
their rents, landlords cannot live as they
have been accustomed to, and therefore
there Is no prospect of the English agrf-
cultural labOrer getting any better wages
in his native country. At times there
is lack Of labor in this country, but or
diDarily employment at good wages is
not a difficult thing TO get, and an indus
iriOus, steady man can scarcely fail to
become well-to-do. The American far
mer is not bothered by conflicting inter-
ests between tenant and landlord. He
Is free to buy and free to sell land, and
to the extent that he improves the land
1t Is his own improvement. The failure
that has befallen British agriculture ari-
ses from the difference between the rents
on the two sides OF the Atlantic. If the
British farmer had tor the same rent an
equal quantity of land, no doubt he
could produce as much food as the Amer
lean farmer, acre for acre. IL would be
unjust to suppose that the agriculture of
Great Britain has failed it is the landed


system which has failed. That system
is favorable only to the families of own


ers Of the soil and not to its cultivation.


For the family the only question is what
10 the highest rent that can be got out of
the land; for the farmer the question is
how cheap he can hire labor to enable
him to pay that rent and for the labor
or the question is how Is he to live. It
Is a conflict between humanity and vest
ed interests which the Royal Commits.
sion. recently appointed to look into the
matter, may explain but cannot remove.
Year: 1879

New York Times Special.


ATLANTA, July 21.-There was some
what of sensation in Trinity, the most
fashionable church in the city, yesterday;
Governor Colquitt was to preach and
the church was crowded. The govern
o.'s colored coachman came to the d0ol
and asked for a seat in the gallery. The
gallery was locked and the usher escort
ed him to a front pew in the church
This was the first time colored persor
ever sat there, and the incident created
. sensation in the city, though nobod.
seems to object.
Year: 1879

Before you begin your heavy spring
work after winter of relaxation, your sys-
tenn needs cleansing and strengthening to
prevent an attack of Ague, Bilious or
spring sickness that will unfit you for a
seasons work. You will save time, much
sickness and great expense, if you will, use
one bottle of Hop Bitters in your family
this month. Dent wait See other col
umn.


THE LIVER is more frequently the seat
Of disease than is generally supposed. for
upon its regular action depends, in meas
ure, the power of the stomach, bowels,
brain, and the whole nervous system.
Regulate tha. important organ by taking
Simmons Liver Regulator, and prevent
most of the diseases that flesh is heir to.
~ Legal Blanks, ofall kinds for sale at
| HE ARGUS OFFICE
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, Feb 1.-THE house con-
ference report on the naval appropriation
bill was agreed To; the house then went
into a committee of the whole on the leg
islative appropriation bill
Year: 1879

there, II he was elected to Congress. told him I
would, but to be of it, or We would be like We
were at Topeka-left without anything. was op-
posed to his being in politics and that one
why wanted him to come to Missouri. He had spent
everything we owned in politics. This is the third
home that 1 have tried to help him f1 up.


Just before received his letter, saying he had ap-
piled for divorce, my son was married, and We had
talked the matter over, and said would 60 out
poor since the warm weather. was sick in bed, or
l should have written to him sooner about il Ny
Year: 1879

HOME PoLITENESs, "A boy who is polite
10 bis father and mother is likely to be polite
to every one else. A boy lacking politeness to
his parents may have the SENT blance Of COURTESY
10 society, but is never truly polite 10 spirit,
and is in danger, ~ be becomes familiar, of
betraying his real want of courtesy. We are
ell 10 danger OF living too much for the outside
world, for the impression which We mike in
society, coveting the good opinions Of those
WHO are in senso a part of ourselves. aud
who will continue to sustain aod be Interested
Ia US, notwithstanding these defects of deport-
ment and character. Wo say to every boy and
every girl. cultivate the art Of courtesy and
propriety at home-io the sitting room and
the kitchen as we'll as the paror, and you will
be sure 10 other places to deport yourself 10
booming and attractive maoner. When one
has pleasant smile aud graceful demeauor,
it is a satisfaction to know that these are not
put on but that they belong to the character, and
arc manifest at all times and under all ciroum-
stances.
Year: 1879

u


intelligence Of tho death, from consump-
lion, Of Mr. Richard P. Lott, Of Fairmont,
a valued correspondent Of the ISrELLI.
eScn, and a gentleman Of deserved
promincnce in his section OF the State.
Although an invalid for many years, Mr..
lat neverlost his interest in State and
National affairs. An ardent Republican,
he wrote frequently and well in advocacy
Of the principles OF his party. He was
man Of moro than usual intellect, who
educated himself and worked his way
to position Of influence and usefulness
by his own oxertions, and his removal
from the scene Of his good work will be
deplored by a large circle Of friends.
Year: 1879

THE SUNDAY LIQUOR LAW IN VIRGIN1A.-A
meeting OF citizens who are in favor of liberal
laws in relation to the sale of liquors on the
Sabbath was held in Richmond last night,
about Is persons being present. permanent
organization was effected, with Gen. r. Lind
movement is to secure the repeal or modiflca-
tiOn OF the present laws prohibiting the sale of
liquors on the Sabbath by the next legislature
This issue will be made in the approaching can
this city.
Year: 1879

INTIMIDATION AT FALL kIvER.-ALl the spin
ners In the Fall River print works. eight in
number, quit work yesterday in consequence OF
intimidation. An attack was made on the men
OF the next mill below them, in which two men
was mobbed by strikers in Fall River, Mass,
yesterday, becaused his son Is working with the
sm0h.SttcES
Year: 1879

Especial to tho DomOcrat1


SHREVEPORT Oct. 1A.-The quarantine against
your city will be removed to morrow.


The WORK Of tho convention has given uni
versal satisfaction here. and found such to be
the case all along my route home A. ID. b.
Year: 1879

At o.time in many years have all the
elements in the ranks of the Republican
party in the North been so Thoroughly
ha1mornized as they are at the present
time. Even those who left the party in
1872, under the lead of Greeley, and
known as Liberals, are coming back to
their old party very rapidly They see
that in the Republican party, is the only
safety Of the Republic. The South rules
the Democratic party, and the South is
solid; and this will make solid North.
These old Liberals were never Democrats;
and they now flock back to their old par
ty, with % renewed zeal. Such is especi-
ally the case in the State of New York
All feeling in regard to men is laid aside,
and all the old factions of the party are
uniting upon the Republican ticket with
a will. A prominent Liberal of New
York City, in recent interview, stated
that he knew from personal knowledge,
'that there is large class of old Repub-
licans in the State who shared in the Ii
beral detection They have been in the
habit of showing their disgust by remain
ing away from the polls altogether Or by
tllC OfpOoItIO1I tlChCU Ou
safely state their strength at 10000, and
probably this is too low, since it is only
four men to each district. He thinks
they will be out at the polls, every man
of them, and prepared to vote the Repub-
ican ticket


Hon. B. F. Manierre, of New York city
who went out with Greeley, was recent
ly interviewed, and after stating in sub
stance that all of that class were going to
vote the Republican ticket this year, fol-
lowing question and answer appear in
the interview:


care the Liberals so overhowing with
old Republicanism that they would sup
port General Grant, for instance, for Pre-
sident another year?''


81 believe they would vote for anybody
or anything that represented the right
principles. [ would vote for the bitterest
enemy | have if he were on the ticket.
would vote for anything this fall that was
labelled Republican. [ know of scores of
men you would hardly think would vote
for Mr.. Cornell, after the course they have
pursued the last few years. They are for
the ticket now. Yes, there is John Coch-
rane, he is just as strong in his feeling as
l am. The men who went earnestly into
the Greeley campaign are as interested in
this falls campaign as can be. We have
reached that period when wemust be pat
riots first of all
Year: 1879

When mother disregards the laws OF
health in the treatment of her little one,
no matter from what cause, she suffers in
the care, toll of nursing, and anxiety re-
garding the child in whose system she al
lowed to be laid the foundation of disease.
And it will not after the case that she
did not know the laws she violated, or
did not think OF them, or was 50 placed
that she could not pay to them deserved
respect. Inexorable law is asserted, and
she is punished


When man eats or drinks what does
not conduce to the healthy nourishment
of the body, he suffers for it sooner or
latter. Nor will it avert the penaltier
that he can plead his ignorance of the ef-
fects Of his indulgence. The diseased
brain or disordered stomach vindicates
the dignity of law


When lady deceives her husband in
the matter of expense, obtains goods on
credit when he wishes to buy only with
cash, she endures the secuences when
the bills come at length, III the just dis
pleasure of her husband, in the loss of
his confidence, and perhaps, later, in the
evil influence of her example on her
children. That she has excuses, reason
of their own, and the like, will not avert
these sore evils.


When parents make the one son
plaything, forget their obligations to train
and restrain him, indulge his every whim,
and foster every form Of self in him, in
self-assertion, selfpleasing, selfwill and
self-indulgence, they reap as they sowed
in the young tyrant who rules them be-
fore he is in his teens and breaks their
hearts before he has attained his majority.
That they loved him, or did not think Of
the future, or had but the one, is no bar
rier to the flood of misery. Men can see
this principle in operation on the narrow
field Of individual and family life-but
they are slow to notice it, and still more
slow to lay it to heart, for practical uses
on the broader field of social and national
life.


When we allow an ignorant and vic
ious population to grow up in the COM
munity, we are punished by the example,
the contaminated atmosphere, the in
juries inflicted, the costly defence against
the evil, or the expensive machinery for
detecting and Furnishing the criminals.
The school is cheaper and better than
the Jail; the Sunday school and the
church are better than the police court.
Let us ignore the cheap and needful agen-
cy, and we must, ia tardy selfdefence,
provide the costly and imperfect remedies
for the consequences of this neglect.