smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

sponsible to no law. Impossible though
it be to define them in words, the lam
guage of love speaks them more plain
ly than with cornet voice. Hardly any
young man asking young lady to
marry ought to be refused. Ifhe has
all the component elements of sound
good sense, he knows before he asks
the question what its answer will be.
If he is refused, it shows that he is not
quite as smart as he thought he was,
His defeat is mortifying. The girl
may have wanted to marry, but he
was not the man of her choice. She
will leave him to heal at his leisure
the wounds of his suffering heart, while
she takes her chances that some
body else may offer whe-wiiH prove to
be m,re acceptable. The youth gains
wisdom by experience, and after his
first grief Is assuaged, which may pos
sibly be not very long, he seeks per-
manent consolation ia some other di-
rection, this time taking his steps with
such careful caution as to prevent him
from repeating the blunder.


There are girls who start out in life
with an underlined idea that they viii
marry somebody, and then keep look
ing through the matrimonial market
just as they would look through the
stock of silks on the shopman's counter.
Taking down piece after piece they
find the shade of this too dark, OF that
too light, or of the other not exactly
what they think it ought to be. After
putting the salcsmen to much trouble
they say they Will call again, and
leave the place not knowing what they
want. So the girl who wants to mar
ry looks around to see what offers, and
finds that this mans beard is too red
that ones eyes too blue and the other
ones ears to long. She will look lit
tie farther. She examines all that are
in the market and concludes to lool
farther yet. And when, after having
almost unconseiously become a fir
and having broken the hearts of hal
the young men in the neighborhOod
she keeps on looking a little farther.
She finds herself going alone down the
hill on the shady side of the way, still
with an indefinite longing to marry
somebody, and wondering who sill
come along to propose to her.


It would be rash to advise the young
lady to accept the first marrying mar
who offers. 1t is equally rash to ad
wise her to wait, and wait, and keel
on waiting and at last marry nobody
Perhaps it is not necessary that al
should marry. Some of the mobiles
women in the world are what th'
world calls old maids; yet that is ;
lonely way of getting along. If th'
girl wants to marry, the young mel
will find out, and her soul will lool
out of the windows Of her eyes in al
unmistakable manner when the righ
man comes along. And all this with
out any lack of modesty or breach 0
perfect decorum on her part.
Year: 1878

mark at this stage of the. proceedings
that my heart aches for you"


"Maw! Maw!" scream John Henry.


"Your dear nav is far, far away,
my son, and 1 am now ready for busf-
ness. Here Igo."


He went. The sound of a single
striking a boy was heard in the land.
1t was also felt in the land, but from
the first stroke the boy shut his teeth
together hard and refused to utter
sound He had been there before, and
he didn't believe it was going to be much
of a shower.


With steady, even motion,


Like the roll of Mother Ocean,


Ana with no undue commotien,


The spanker fell


81 hate to d, it, but" remarked
Bijah, ,as he worked his elbow with more
zeal, and the silence was broken only
by the deep-toned whacks of the shin
gle. 1t was shingle VS.. boy, and the
boy had bet ten to one that he would
come in head. After two minutes
steady motion BJah let up and kindly
inquired:


MY son, do you now feel as if you
owned this town.


81 feel as I'm a mind tor was the
brief reply.


''What! haven't I got down to your
feelings yit! Jist wait a minuet!"


The lad was adjusted and the Elixir
again applied. The arm rose higher
and came down faster, and the fifth
stroke new stratum of soil was reach
ed At the tenth the boy wasn't sure
which would beat. At the fifteenth he
concluded that he was a goner, but
just then BJah halted and asked


"My son, do you think you run the
house,"


81 kin run half of it, replied the
lad, suddenly taking courage.


cam 1 growing weaker in my old
age?" sighed the janitor, as he reached
for spanker, cor is this an unusual
case?"


It was simply an unusual case. The
new spanker started off like a dose Of
buckshot and had only got the regular
motion when the boy gave in. Before
the shingle let go he wos ready to
promise anything. He took the most
solemn VOW to stay in nights, go to
Sunday school, quit fighting and earn
money for his mother, and as proof
of his firm desire to reform, he took a
tablespoon of castor oil without 4
vince


Don't you shudder when you realize
what a narrer escape you've had from
the gallus?" queried BJah, as he wiped
off the spoon on his elbow.


81 do, and L shall always love
you"


''One day longer and you might
turned cut pirate, I tell you, boy, shin
gle of the right size, laid on the right
spot, will put new and better thoughts
into a boys mind as sure's you're born.
You can't mention a single great man
in this country, from Peter Cooper to
Brother Gardner, who didn't get his
regular dose Of the Elixir when a boy.
You can now sit with me down stairs
and learn lesson in history while ]
darn my socks"


When the mother came softly in, q
look of maternal anxiety on her coun-
tenanance, Bijah was pushing a darn
ing-needle threaded with a pink twine
through an 6x10 hole in the heel of q
gky blue woollen sock, and the boy wa;
reading aloud;


'Is the hen on her nest? Yes, the
hen is on her nest. Is the sun up:
! Yes, the sun is up, and no good boy
will laugh at man who is blind ?


The Elixir is a success. All orders
by mail promptly attended to.
Year: 1878

We would ike for some double
storied modern statesman to tell Us
why it is that there are certain seasons
when a politician can see a hoFny-hand-
cd son of toll clear across the street,
and at other seasons cannot see him a
f1ot and half away.
Year: 1878

PLEASURE AND BUSINESS CoMBINED.-This
is heading of important advertisement, occupy
ing iuIl column Of todsys STAR, in which the wide
awake house of E. H. Adams s. Bro. publish some iE-
st1uctive facts and toll of few Of the many beau.
tiful, excellent and seasonable articles that go to
up the splendid stock of dry goods that fills their
large store 5e4 Magazine Read the advertise
ment ref that many of tho most know ing shoppers
purchase their goods regularly at this house and that it
IS prime favorite with all classes Of our people and
then call and make your purchases.
Year: 1878

The great dry goods house of Levy Brothers
ss5 and Magazine street. st. Andrew white
building have made enormous reductions In the prices
of all their stock being anxious to close 1t out
at They have also, in view of TIE hard times,
marked the prices of all their stock of freSh
seasonabe goods down the lowest figures. Anything,
from paper of pins up to the finest Of silk dresses,
be secured At their store and every is always
assured OF polite and full and free chance
to inspect all goods.
Year: 1878

Pore PIUs IX-The Atlantic Art Union of
New York dstin guished for its excellent prod
offer to the public beautiful nfe-size, fine steel
craving of the deceased Ponti the extremely low
Price of IS cents Thih is superior work of art, and
should adOrn the home Of every Catholic household.
Year: 1878

Alaska is wonderful place
fer thieves. A correspondent OF
the San Francisco Chronicle says
one merchant in Sitka hires In
dians to steal for him, and re-
Gently shipped away a ton of
copper that they had taken away
from the flooring and walls of a
Government building for stor-
ing furs. The candlesticks and
other silver articles were long
ago stolen from the church, and
even metal crosses have been ia
ken from graves in the cemete-
ry. There is not a constable or
a justice in the Territory, and
there is no attempt to enforce
any law.
Year: 1878

E- He leaned gracefully against
the counter, looking placidly at the
smoke as it curled upward from a
cigar, with a self-satistied look on
his countenance that was charming
to see. A lady entered; he bowed
pGlitely; she put her hand in her
pocket. drew out pistol, and de-
manded the proprietor. He saw
murder in her eye, and there was no
! On nsa1ul
tween him and the door, and the
windows were bolted. He moved
slowly backward, until he stood in
the shelter of q pillar near the stove.
Madam" he said in a husky
voice, "the proprietor is not in"
Perhaps you will do just as we'll, "
she said, in what he considered an
ironical tone. A 'deathly pallor
overspread his face, o greenish hue
gathered about his mouth, he placed
trembling hand over his heart.
"I-I-madam, what Can I do for
your" he faltered. My boy bought
this pistol this morning, and I want
ed to know if it was a safe thing for
him to carry" she said. His hands
came down in an ins tant; perfectly
seraphic expression stole over bis
countenance. "They are very un-
safe things in the hands of women
or children. For q man like my
self, who knows how to handle them
Twill you please point it the other
way), it does not matter" "I
thought so," said the woman, as she
walked away, holding it very care
fully; but the young man did not
breathe easy until she had got
around the corner.
Year: 1878

One visitor from Africa was
speedily followed by another. While
the needle lay in the docks, telling
its silent tale of the civilization of
Egypt thirty centuries ago, Mr..
Henry M. Stanley was receiving the
congratulations of his friends at the
Charing Cross station en- his safe re-
turn from his wanderings amongst
the uncivilized tribes upon the same
continent. Strange that upon the
same tract of land arts and learning
should flourish as far back as the
times of the Pharaohs, and that to-
day there should be savages roam
ing through its forests aud over its
deserts as brutal and as ignorant
as though the world were but a
thing of yesterday. Mr.. Stanley
and Lieutenant Cameron divide the
distinction of being the most en-
terprising and adventurous of mod
ern travellers who have explored
Africa in the name of geographical
science. DR.. Livingstone did not
sally forth so much in the cause of
geography as Of Christianity; he
was glad enough to make discove-
ries, but his first cause was the
propagation Of the gospel amongst
the heather. Lieutenant Cameron
came back and told us how by the
application of capital the luxuriant
soil of Africa might be made to
produce that which might make up
very material assistance in feeding
the populations of other lands.
Mr.. Stanley has gone through
perilS and hardships which have
made him a gray-haired man at
five aud-thirty, and under which
many Of those who set ont on the
expedition with him were compelled
to succumb. lie has penetrated to
the sources of mighty rivers, mas
tered the mysteries of boundless
lakes, and has returned with a store
Of information respecting an un-
known land which will make his
forthcoming volume the book of
the season, and will cause him to
be welcomed in London as brave
and intrepid man who for several
years, at the risk of his life, has
been clearing the way for the appli-
cation of science and of ciyiliza-
ton.
Year: 1878

The GAME LAw.-One of our
Attorneys an ardent admirer of
the game law, and who let wild
turkeys walk all around him
during the close season last year,
is sadly troubled, in view of a
deer and turkey hunt be expected
to enjoy after the present term of
our Parish Court. at being re-
minded that the close season for
deer begins next week Friday
Feb. lst. The season is too early
to go it alone on turkey, and it
will be too late for turkeys when
the open season tor deer begins
on the first of August.
Year: 1878

CAUTION to HUNTEEs.-The
game law makes the close season
for deer shooting commence next
week Friday Feb. LIST. No animal
OF the deer kind can be lawfully
hunted or killed between the last
day of January and the first day
of August.
Year: 1878

eve have received" says the NAtohez Demo
orGt, "t the following happy little jeG d esprit
from o correspondent st Church Hill, who
states that it was handed to him as the compo-
sition Of an old gentleman long since dead.
"1t Is said, that upon opening and examin-
ing o charity box,' that had hung for long
time in an old church, it was found empty; 1t
was also discovered that spider had woven
her web over the hole through which money
is supposed to be sometimes passed. This cir-
suggested the following lines:


The spider built her lonely home


In lofty nook Of o lofty room


But why did she weep at close Of dAyf
Some hand had swept that homo away.


She wove it then o'er the broken pane


Twas beaten down by wind and rain;


She crept then to the dark old hall.


And hung her lines from wall to wall,


The beetle wheeled by with her drowsy song,


Aud bore on her wings those lines along.
" But who art thou with dusky wing


Strange, mysterious, restless thing;


Where dw81feBt thou and what dost search D
"1m bat" it shrieked, land dwell in the church,
Where from morn till dewy eye swing


By this hook on either wing.


heard thy wall and come to tell


WbeI Q thou may'St aye securely dwell,


Where hand nor beetle, wind nor rain


Will ne'er molest thy home again;


it ehaIl stand secure. ne If built on rocks


'7iS uhe hole in the lid Of our. charity boz"
Year: 1878

A cowardly murder was perpetrated
at celebration picnic on the edge of La
fayette county, Mo-. on the Fourth. The
murderer's name was Johnson and the VIC
tim one Charlie Brown, all of Ray county.
The particulars of the affair, as near as can
be ascertalned, are as follows: Two OF the
Johnson brothers and Brown had an old
grudge between them, and on meeting at
the picnic as above stated, the elder John
son and Brown became involved In an alter
cation, during which the younger Johnson
came up in front Of Brown and shot him
with navy revolver in the upper part Of
the forehead, killing him instantly, and after
he fell, shot him twice more, once in the
neck and the other time under the right
arm.
Year: 1878

A BOOK was issued by New York
publisher the other day, which was SO
full of italics that the first edition had
to ba suppressed, and another printed


in which italic letters were tabooed.
Italics are relic of barbarism, at best
Year: 1878

THERE is cure for almost every i'll,
whether physical or moral. Many evils
lead to the discovery of a remedy. The
tramp nuisance is one of these. Since
the lazy vagabonds have commenced
committing depredations upon barns
and agricultural machinery the country
will prove hot place for them.
Year: 1878

THE neighborhood of ttsburgh
seems peculiarly liable to cratic met
eorology. The storm there on the
Fourth seems to have been quite as
sudden and severe, though not as fatal
in its results as the water spout that
created such havoc year or two ago.
Year: 1878

The East ST. Louis political tragedy
is perhaps the most disgraceful affair of
its kind on record. The struggling in
significant village can hardly support q
respectable municipal government, and
yet two factions are fighting over the
petty offices and killing each other
from motives of mere jealousy.
Year: 1878

Some of the monasteries of Italy and
France will send curious inventions to
the Paris Exhibition. A Florentine friar
has constructed watch only a quarter
of an inch in diameter. 1t has not only
a third hand to mark the second, but a
microscopic dial which indicates the
days of the week and month and the
proper dates. 1t also contains an alarm
and on its front cover an ingeniously cut
figure of st. Francis of Assist. On the
back cover two verses of the "Te Deum"
are distinctly cut. A monastery in Brit
tany, France, will contribute plain
looking mahogany table, with an inlaid
draughts OF chess board on the surface.
The inventor sets the pieces for game
of chess, and sits alone at one side of the
board. He plays cautiously, and the
opposite pieces move automatically and
sometimes checkmate him. There is no
mechanism apparent beneath the table
top, which seems to be a solid mahogany
board.
Year: 1878

The cup of human bliss is about as
full as it can ever become without strain
ing the goblet, when the tiny, bright
eyed little toddler bids goodbye to
gowns and sashes and finds himself in
his first pair Of pantaloons.
Year: 1878

We ARE not at all surprised to see that
Hon. Bradley Barlow is the first choice for
Representative Of the Burlington Sentinel,
st. Adams Visitor and North Hero Recorder,
the only Democratic papers published in
the Third District--or perhaps it would be
more correct to say the only Democratic
paper published in the district, as the three
are really but one
Year: 1878

The bill repeating the bankruptcy law,
went back to the Senate from the House
with some amendments, which will require
fresh action on the part of the Senate. This
will probably be taken tomorrow or next
day, and the bill will then 90 to the Presi-
lapt
Year: 1878

SOME GOOD suGGEsIIoNs FOR FARMERS AND


oTHEEs.


correspondent OF the y T. Farmer
writes


The ornamcntation of homes is something
which is neglected to a very great extent by
many farmers but. according to my ideas, u
farmer should try to make home as attractive
to himself and family his means will ad-
nit If he cannot eXpend much money for
this Object. he can at least spend little time
in setting ont a few trees and shrubs to orna-
ment the landscape. How much few trees
and shrubs improve the looks of a home
stead. And if one wishes to sell his farm,
they will help sell it. 4 man will buy farm
that is thus oInamentci much more readily
than If II were barren of trees. / would
urge upon every owner of homo the i'm
poTtance of setting few trees and shrubs
every spring The heauiiiul should always
lie associated with the useful. The farmer
esires il in his cattle and stock Of all kinds :;
b ut many, if they are asked about beautify
i ng their homes reply that they have not the
time to spare. Now | say there is no farmer,
or indeed. any one else so driven that he
crnnot, if he chooses, fnd the time TO plant
a few trees every year. And now that beau
tiful season. spring, is with us again, it is
Just the time TO put forth an effort in this
direction Who can have n more pleasant
home than the farmer. If he chosesY Ii does
not always require great wealth to possess a
pretty home. Ii the house is unpainted. q
woodbine or climbing rose trained over the
door or window is a great improvement. But
trees | always thought one of the prettiest
ornaments to a farmers house besides they
are OF other value How refreshing few
sugar naples and elms look near the house
in hot summers day and if a few ever
green's are set on the windward side, they
will afford as much pleasure in the winter
season as deciduous trees do in the summer.
Flowers, too. add great deal to the beauty
of a home, and they should in no wise be
neglected Let the farmer prepare the
ground, and the wife and daughters will be
glad to plant and cultivate them. As gene
raj thing farmers do not like '-posies, and
all the time spent on them is considered
wasted. But 1 say let us have the flowers,
and help the women folks to cultivate them.
too. They cast an influence OF refinement
around ones home. besides reminding us OF
the goddess Of God in giving us such beau
tiful things to cheer us while at our labors
The vegetable garden ought to receive
liberal share of attention. for 1t is a source of
healthful enjoyment to the farmers family.
inasmuch as 1t furnishes the table with luxu-
ries, which could be had in no other way
But this the same AS flowers, is sadly ne
elected 10y many farmers they considering il
something which does not pay But let me
say to all such that. if they will keep an ex-
act account of all labor bestowed on II gar
den, and also Of the products from the same,
they will find that it does pay.
Year: 1878




In the atmosphere experienced here during the
summer months, the lethaIgy produced by the heat
takes away the desire for wholesome food and
frequent perspirations reduce bodily energy, par
ticularly those suffering from the effects of debi-
ting diseases. In order to keep a natural health
ful activity of the system must resort to artlf-
cial means. For this purpose Schenck's Sea Weed
Tonic Is very efectual. few doses will create an
appetite and give fresh vigor to the enervated body
For dyspepsia, it is invaluable. Many eminent
physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be
permanently cured By the drugs which are gener-
ally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed
Tonic N its nature is totally different from such
drugs. 1t contairs corrosive minerals or acids
in fact it assists the regular operations of nature
and supplies her deficiencies. The tonic in its na-
ture much resembles the gastric juice that it is
almost identical with that fluid. The gastric Juice
is the natural solvent which, in healthy condition
of the body causes the food to be digested; and
when this juice Is not exereted in sufficient quanti-
ties, indigestcn with all its distressing symptoms
follow. The Sea Weed Tonic performs the duty
of the gastric juice when the latter is deficient
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic sold by all Druggists.
Year: 1878

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade of
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the oldest in the country and
has the largest trade 10 its line in the
country. dwtf
Year: 1878

Make your orchards your poultry yards.
Fruit-trees and poultry have an affinity
for each other in more ways than one
The busy chickens find every bug, worm
and egg that sooner or later work harm
to the trees, and their droppings enrich
and promote a healthy and vigorous
growth. Clip their wings if they exhibit
a desire to climb for fruit Give your
fowls plenty Of dust or coal ashes as a
bath, also lime, rubbish and gravel, to-
gether with proper food, and you will be
rewarded by healthy fowls and a generous
supply Of eggs. With all other directions
which are given for the prevention of
disease among poultry, none are of more
Importance than that Of having clean,
we'll ventilated houses