smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The Howard Association has always been
au houored cne in our city bus this years re-
cord will add to it aa imperish able renown,
while each of its noble members has won for
himself need Of praise and gratitude i'm
mortal in the hearts of our people. What
tongue can tell all their heroic deeds what
pen can write all the help they have brought
to breaking hearts and desolated homes! The
enumeration of their labors is left to Gods
angels, who will unfold the glorious record on
the last accounting day.


We intend only to give one instance of their
beautiful philanthropy, aud to show in the
same picture the scenes which they brighten
and the generous spirit which auimates their
lAbors.


Among the fever sufferers this year was a
family from AlRbama-from a home as pleas.
| ant aud lovely as nature and art could
make it, little earthly Eden where life was
as beautiful as the surroundings, and every
breath of existence was drawn amid SOD gs Of
birds and scent of flowers.


10 an evil day they chose Louisiana for their
futare home, ard came lSss winter to the city
to select from this central point some pleasant
country property where they could build up
again . little Paradise like the one left behind
! them.
Year: 1878

A TRAMP BAKED TO DEATH-A tramp
known at the Western police station where he
mas often applied for lodging by the name of
Ben Clark, was found dead yesterday morning
by, Police Oficer kinSella on the top of lime
Kiln in Baltimore county, beyond Fayette
street extended His face could be recognized
easily, but all of his body and limbs were SO
changed by the extreme heat that they did
not look like human beings at aIl-[Ba


american 18th.
Year: 1878

In the Country. Their Stock of fine goods will be
unusually large, and we understand they intend to
reduce largely, in order to increase their loans
tt eir enterprise and faithful care for legitimate
business should be encouraged. my6-tf
Year: 1878

The writer has often tested the intelli-
gence and perseverance of the geo.
metrical spider by the following-it must
be admitted, aggravating-experlment:
Taking q piece of paper and rolling it
between his fingers, he has thrown 1t
into the web, taking care that 1t is not
heavier than the weight of fly. The
spider runs along with alacrity toward
his supposed prey, and soon discovering
its anpalatable nature, carefully Olsen"
tangles it and drops it clear of the web
to the ground, by stretching out his first
pair of legs, Just as human being
might reach out his arm. He then
returns to his place in the center, and In
o moment or so a piece of paper is
thrown into another part of the web.
The spider acts as before, and will do
SO, without much variation, few times.
The fifth or sixth time he rushes at the
paper with an evidence of anger, or runs
an inch or two along the strands as If
enraged, and then briskly back again,
pauses moment or so, as if to recover
his equanimity, and then again carefully
disentangles the parer. All these move
ments, from the evident feeling and
intellig gence shown, are full of interestto
the observer of nature, and they are
sufficiently varied in individuals to make
the experiment worth trying any number
of times. Occasionally, for example. the
spider, after he has been deceived few
times. will stretch out all his feet upon
the strands, without moving from his
place, and shake his web angrlly; or he
will jerk the paper out much as one
might FLIP it away from between the
finger and thumb, with derisive sharp
ness, very significant of passion. After
while the spider will give up attacking
his supposed prey.


Throw in dozen or twenty bits of
paper, and he will remain passive but
give up your sport and retire for five or
ten minutes, and you viii again see him
busily at work going from piece to piece
until the entire web ia free, ~ The Nat
| urdHss
Year: 1878

To be dumb for the remainder of life
is better than to speak falsely.


1t is only when one is thoroughly
true that there can be purity and free
dom. Falsehood always Furnishes itself.


The seat of knowledge is in the head;
wisdom, in the heart. We are sure TO
Judge wrong if we do not feel right,


There is this good in real evils-they
deliver us, while they last, from the
petty despotism of all that were imagin.
ary.


Make but few explanations; the char
acter that cannot otherwise defend itself
is not worth vindicating.


People generally are what they are
made by education and company be-
tween the ages of fifteen aud twenty
five.


What are the aims which are at the
same time duties? They are, the per-
fecting OF ourselves, the happiness of
others.


Often the grand meaning of faces, as
we'll as written words, may be chiefly ia
the impressions of those who look on
them.


SO much of our time is preparation,
so much routine. and SO much retrospect,
that the pith of each mans genius con-
tracts itself to very few hours.


Power is not always proportionate to
the will. One should be consulted be-
fore the other; but the generality OF men
begin by willing, and act afterward as
they efn.
Year: 1878


The glories of our birth and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There Is no armor against fate


Scepter and crown


Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Some men with swords may reap the field,
And plant fresh laurels where they kill,
But their strong nerves at last must yield
They tame but one another stu.


Early or late


They stoop to fate,
And must give up their murmuring breath
When they, pale captives, creep to death
The garlands wither on your brow;
Then boast do more your mighty deeds
Upon deaths purple altar now
See'where the victor-victim bleeds


All heads must come


To the cold tomb.
Only the actions Of the just
Smell sweet, and blossom.in the dust.
Year: 1878

The paragraphers are merry making
over the solitary oyster in the church
oyster stew. But We assure thetn, from
actual test. that the oyster dosen't in
jure the stew in the least. 1t would
never be noticed.
Year: 1878

The Pennsylvania Democrats find them
selves decidedly embarrassed on the financial
issue. The Republicans there are conduct
ing the State campaign on an honest money
platform, and are combating the Greenback
heresies will all the vigor they can command.
The Democratic leaders want to conciliate
the Greenback voters, and at the same time
they want to keep in the party traces those
OF their own political faith who are old fash.
ioned enough to believe that gold and silver
are more valuable than irredeemable paper.
In order to accomplish both these objects,
the Democratic speakers take both sides of
the financial issue, and by this impartiality
they hope to attract and retain votes. But
when one speaker at campaign rally takes
the hard money side and the Eext one es-
pouses the greenback side, as was done at
McConnelsburg last week by Mr.. Dill, the
Democratic candidate for governor, and Mr..
Speer, the Democratic committees chairman,
there is likely to remain some confusion in
the minds of their auditors as to the real
party policy. Evidently the Pennsylvania
Democrats can go their Maine brethren one
better. The spectacle Of three or four Demo-
Gratis representing opposite views on the
financial question speaking at the same meet
ing was common enough in the Maine cam
paign, but the hard money orators generally
allowed the soft money orators to have the
discussion of the financial question all to
themselves while they made the ''fraud" and
corruption" talk.
Year: 1878

In marked contrast to the conduct OF the
Democrats in Ward on election day was
that of the Republicans in Ward 8. In this
ward Democrat moved that Democratic
checker be admitted to the desk and the mo-
tion was granted by nearly unanimous vote
of the electors present, the great majority of
whom were Republicans. Evidently no fraud
was contemplated in Ward 3.
Year: 1878

EVIDENTLY some of the Greenbackers who
assembled at fremont Temple Wednesday,
see what they are coming to if they attempt
to put in practice the communistic senti-
ments of their leaders and are preparing for
it. Mr.. McSheely of Boston thought the
convention should say something against the
prison system, alleging that the treatment of
the convicts was so severe that it killed them
and when they came out they were not good
for ANYTHING,
Year: 1878

E. MOODY BoYNToN, the Greenback ora
tor who essayed the role of Christian
statesman before Portland audience, inform
ing them that his first visit to the city was
made as delegate to convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association, was one
of the shining lights in the Greenback con-
vention in Boston Wednesday where prop
esiton to invite clergyman to invoke the
divine blessing was received with shouts of
derisive laughter.
Year: 1878

THE Belfast Age is like the alchemist in
Frankenstein who after he had succeeded in
creating life was Mortified at the monster he
had made. 1t beheld the party which it has
been warming into life for the last two
years at congratulatory meeting the night
after election, and is constrained to say that
lis proceedings were in the highest degree
offensive and only becoming to Communist
Kaarpav
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communj
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
out as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

HERE is another explanation. The Hart
ford Times, not wishing to confess that the
Maine Democrats went over to the Green
hackers in body, attributes the result to dis
satisfaction with the Maine law. That is
richly absurd.
Year: 1878

al character believe in the orthodox
hell. They think they do, and that Is
ALL -


The Rev. C. Fl. Mann. in the
svedenborgian Church in Thirty
ifth street. New York, said -


i s'Fhe teachings the Church has given
her people are so untenable, so cruel 50
horrible, so unmerciful and unjust, it is
no wonder that the modern thinker,
who is al once honest and intelligent,
should utterly refuse to hold them. =
n -


He who has chosen to be devil
cannot be made into an angel Know
ing this fact, the Lord has provided a
home for the wicked, where He pities,
loves, and serves them. He could not
keep them from sin, and hence from
hell and what reason have we to think
that He will save the man who has In
freedom chosen evil.


The Rev. j. NJ Gray, in the Reform ed
Episcopal Church, Greenpoint, quoted
passages from the New Testament to
show how consonant with the notion OF
an eternal he'll is the spirit of the Scrip
lures. As to the nature of hell, the
wicked are to be sensible of it; they arc
said to weep, wall, and gnash their
teeth. They are in exquisite torture.
A lake of fire and birthstone is their
home
Year: 1878

rougher than wheniL was flesh. aud
wore a somewhat powdered look. IL
was interesting TO witness the care
and tenderness with which the father
guarded that once smiling. but now
petrifed daughter"


There are few men whom we would
credit sooner than we would credi.
William Hicks. We have known him
long and Intimately. and do not
doubt but that he saw, what he and
Others regarded as petriied body !;
but the question in our mind is, was
it petrifaction, or was it the body
itself. having been acted upon by
some chemical power, as those which
change vegetable matter to peat and
csal? OF course we make no asser-
ton, one way or the ether. .gor5
Year: 1878

q I am glad to learn. my dear Pat
sy. that you are employed in things
new and good. Of all the cankers
of human happiness, none corrodes
with SO silent yet SO baleful an in
fuence as Incidence. Exercise and
application produce order in our af-
fairs, health of body and cheerfulness
of mind. If at any moment, my
dear, you catch yeurselfi in idleness.
start from it as you would from the
precipice of a gulf. do not like
your saying that you arc unable to
read Liyy but with the aid of mas
ter. It is part of the American
character to surmount every Difficult
ty by resolution


MY expectations from you are
high, but not. higher than You may
attain. Nobody in this world can
make me so happy or miserable as
you can. Think nothing il insur-
mountable and you will be all that I
wish you to be. a .it3


Affectionately, T.J.'
Year: 1878

Glasgow Times.J a5


There is, perhaps, no feeling more
calculated to awaken all the gener-
GUS and noble impulses of the hu-
man mind and soften and still
every bitter animosity Of life as the
memory of loved ones we have long
since buried. Years may have in
terveAed, and the figures of time
rudely torn the chords of hearts
that were once untouched by care or
sorrow prosperity may shun our ga.
ger grasp and sorrows darken our
pathway; nisanthropy. harshness
and doubt of every mans good in
tentions mingle slowly and surely
with the thread of life, out still
away down deep in almost every
world-encrusted and time hardened,
heart, there is an everlasting font o f
affection for some loved one who has
been lain asleep beneath the sod.
ever whose resting place the flowers
have bloomed and faded many years.
And ever and anon in the struggle
up the sleeps of life and the gradual
descent. in the evening of life, to
the valley of death. memory sweeps
back the curtains of the past and
the phantoms of happy days now
gone, glide before US. The sound
Of voice that is forever hushed
steals softly down the vista Of time !;
the glance of bright eyes long since
closed to this evil world ? strike
down into the depths or our seul.
and the smile of loving lips that
have mouldefed into dust years
ago, come back to US at the magic
touch of the wizards wand The
home of our childhood, which re
sounded with our merry laughter.
may be empty and desolate, and dis
mantIed and half forgotten stand .
mouldering relic OF the past, bat
enc look at the dear old place with
its countless, thronging memories
of those who have passed forever
cut Of its portals will more deeply
stir the silent waters of the heart
than the study of the grandest pal
ace of the old world. The loving
hands that there guided our baby
footsteps may long have been fold
cd across the breast that first pill


lowed our head. and the affection
that, for US, could never be qaench
ed in this life. stifed by the cold
waters of death, but still the sweet
memories OF that great love viii
sometimes break through the fog'
of the past and awaken tie better
impulses of our nature. God heir
that man to whom the world is full
of bitterness and who can recall nc
loving memory of the past to soften
streng then and ennoble him in hi:
battles with the cares of this life.
Year: 1878




U As soon as it was understood
that Mayor Ely, of New York City,
intended to display the City Hall flag
at half-mast. in respect to the men-
ory of Plus TX. some narrow mind
ed persons haste2ed to netify him
by mail that such a display would he
offensive to public sentiment" No
right-minded citizen could be offend
ed at such a manifestation of res
peet for an eminent man who was
noted for his goodness and piety.
The flag was diplayed, as it should
have been, despite the protest of the
narrow minded persons.
Year: 1878

II can not be : Hold up the light
ClOser-thc other way
Yes, child, your laughing eyes guess was


My hair Is turning gray.
Among those tresses, long my pride,
y thread of silvery sheen
Has dared audaciously to hide


Their ripping waves between.
a h me when youth and childhood seem


Scarce to have passed away,
'Tis sad 10 startle from ones dream


And find.one's hair is gray.
know the fire buns in my heart


OR flashes from my eye
As fiercely as IL used to start


In days 50 long gone 10y.
know l feel, / love, hate,


As keenly as OF yore
/ had not deemed IL was so ate


Chill age stood at the door.
Life's hours seem more than ever full


And JOY crowns every day,
Net DER their current comes lull-


Ny hair Is turning gray.
You offer comfort, darling say


The silver lies alone
Companionless il will not stay


Ere many months have flown.
Gray hairs you think a eirclet bright


To crown "a regal head;
One used TO praise their raven light


In halcyOn evenings fled.
But an !that voice Is silent now.


That form Is laid away,
The lips are closed that used TO vow


Long ere my hair was gray.
Well, let Il cOme-the silver sign


i live again IN thee;
Thy tresses are as surely mine


And still more fair 10 See,
For mornings gold is glinting back,


And mornings purple lie
Along my darling's sunny track,


Reflected in her eye.
What matter, since her young life grows
More brilliant every day?
Her mother grieYes not. tho she knows
Her hair is turning gray.
All well the clouds have often riffs
Their masses dark between
As suddenly the tOpmOst lifts


a silver ray is seen.
IL may be God draws back the clouds
That bar IL from my view.
And / can hail its path of light
Which marks my upward way,
And so give thanks because this night
My hair is turning gray.
Year: 1878

Stanley Matthews got two votes in. the
Republican caucus last night for Senator
Notwithstanding our generous efforts in
his behalf, he di not ceive a single vote
in the Democratic caucus. After calmly
surveying the whole situation with an
unprejudiced eye, we are led to thc pro
found conclusion that the able Stanley
is about played out He went up like
a rocket, but he dropped like a stick -
Hereafter Mr.. Matthews can devote him
self to the practice OF the legal profession
with the calm assurance that ia that call
ing he is an undoubted success Presi-
dent Hayes influence could make him
Senator, but could not make a statesman
out Of the same mat rial We know il is
rather mean business 10 give a man a
kick when he is down. but then the
whole Stanley Matthews bgsincss was a
fraud upon the Republican .rty and we
can not help freeing our mind about it
columbus Dispatch.
Year: 1878

Reason should teach US that blotchy, rough
or pimpled skin depends entirely upon an in
ternal cause, and no outward application can
ever cure the defect. NEGETINE is the great
blood purifier.
Year: 1878

The little breed of low-salaried puns-
ters who make what is called "humor !"
in decaying newspapers have one unfail-
ing butt-the mother-in-law. As if a
respectable son-in-law did not respect
his wife's mother, though from that
fruitful tree expecting his own increase
If Justice had her due and wit had any
Justice the butt would be the son-in-law,
that root of Adam, the first sneak.
Who but the son-in-law dislikes his
wife's mother because she is the visible
conscience of the household, reminding
him of his selfshness and neglect? As
long as the old lady is present he does
not 90 to the full length of his indifter-
ence and pitilessness Had his wife a
father instead of a mother present he
would not go half as far as he dare do
now, with only this patient old dam
still watching over Ter young. In a
state of really filial society it would be
the highest testimonial to man that
he was chivalrous to her who had borne
his wife, and seen with tender care the
recognition of her love for him in the
maiden child's behavior. How many
are the graves over which angels hover
of wives mothers! And when we know
that all our young wives are yet to be
perhaps, mothers-in-law like these, the
derided, shall we not say to thest
blasphemers of so many venerable ma
irons: "Who did beget ye? In wha
grin of Natures womb were ye ex
pressed ?'
Year: 1878

A trainer of wild animals must be a
man of iron nerve, ard never show the
slightest fear. A trainer, long at the
business, told the following experience
to a reporter:


Of course / have been chewed up
some. Every man in my line of busi-
ness has to make up his mind to that.
See, both my arms and hands are ripped
and SCARED. When 1 was with that
branch show of Meyers circus, in
France, was bitten three times in two
months; pretty badly, too. 1t almost
discouraged me.


Once lion bit my left arm through
the wrist-making that scar-tore foul
deep gashes in my right arm with his
claws, scored some deep burrows down
my back, and in the. fight tore every
thing off me except part of my trousers


The blood just poured from me: but
1 got heavy iron club passed in to me
and belted that lion until he wa
thoroughly whipped. When I got ou
1 was so weak l could hardly stand; bu
it was the only way.


Go out of cage after an animal ha
bitten you, without giving it a sount
licking, and you can never go in again
without it's trying to bite you. 1t will
remember that it whipped you before.


You must never let your nerv
weaken, and take care that, though the.
muss up your flesh pretty bad, yol
don't give them chance to crunch you
bones. That may put you at thei
mercy; SO keep them from taking hold
They don't bite until they sink thei
claws in, SO look out to break loose quick
no matter how deep they clutch you.
Year: 1878

No man can go down into the dun
geen of his experience, and hold the
torch of truth to all the dark chambers
and hidden cavities, and not come up
with shudder and a chill as he thinks
of the time when he undertook to talk
politics with the deaf old father CT his
first sweetheart while the girl was
present.
Year: 1878

IT seems as though eternal vigilance
ought to win, but it doesn't always. A
corn-dOctOr stood on box at the corner
of Fifth and Race for two hours the other
day, making a speech to a barefoeted
boy, and finally gave up without making
q sale,
Year: 1878

THE man who constantly wears a
tooth-pick in the left-hand corner of his
mouth may have been loved by some
one when very small child, but plenty
of people can be persuaded to take a
solemn oath he never has been since.
Year: 1878

When thou vert darting through fiery path,
Millions Of years ago, with sinuous motion,
Old Earth lay broiling in Turkish bath
And all things wallowed in a sea of wrath


A sulphur0us ocean.
Year: 1878

"Perchance ought to explain why
again make the lecture which was heard


last Sunday evening by "large and res
pectable audience, the subject of reina l.,
and this because of the style OF that y
course and the candid confession of the
speaker that he hui no certain knowledge
upon the topics which he claimed to elu-
cidatc, and especially the Book of Moses
the Pentatcuch sO-caled because written
upon five rolls Of parchment. OF these
ancient records OF which we have s2ti>tac-
tory evidence that they were in possession
of the Jews from the days OF Joshua, the
critic says first, "Moses did not write
them;" second, if lie did write any, lit
did not include the last twelve verses,
which nobody ever claimed he did any
more than Hume wrote the last volumes
of dhe history OF England which bear his
name though written after his death;
third, the critic 'don't care whether Mo-
ses wrote the record or not;" and fourth,
.tor the sake OF all argument he will say
he did, :" that is for the sake OF II chance to
talk he will accept what he says is LIE,
which think is more than probable.
though it Is u mistake to say one thing and
believe another. Yet, how can there be
any defamation about the mistakes OF
Moses if Moses did not write the book
Sixth, the critic "don't care whether the
Mosaic record was inspired or not, it
makes no difference" and seventh, where
we will stop, rs seven is the perfect num-
Der, we must read the book just as it Is,
which certainly Is not a mistake, for not


% read it rs it would be to cheat. But it


= what some critics do who read one por-


ion and omit another. We must read it
ust as it stands which is precisely what
We wish, but the lecturer will not do; and
inally we must read it las we would any
Year: 1878

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 3O.-SeveraI
days ago Gov. Holiday had conference
with the officers of the four State deposit
tories here for the purpose Of securing a
loan of two hundred thousand dollars to
make up the deficit in the public school
fund. The application for this loan up
to this time, however, has met with no
favorable response, and there is little
probability that either of the four banks
applied to will advance the armount.
Should it not be obtained large num-
ber of the public schools throughout the
State will be forced to suspend at least
during portion of the present session.