smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Many of the burdens of life are hard to
be borne, many of the Affections of our lot
are heart-crushing, and many of the dsap-
polntments we meet are distressingly bitter.
1t is scarcely to be wondered at that, under
some OF these trials, poor human nature
SINKS and becomes wreck. 1t need not,
however, If the soul is stayed in God Faith
has wonderfully sustaining power. To the
Christian nothing can be so dark but that
there Is bright side In God, in Christ, in
the promises, in heaven itself, there is al
ways light and hope and rest We may
cast our burdens upon the Lord. Affections
shall change TO blessings Disappointments
shall lead TO better good. Those who only
look earthward shall walk in the dark /;
but those who look h ,avenward will find
light and JOY and peace. Spurgeon says
" lie who climbs above the cares of the
world and turns his face to his God has
found the sunny side of life. The worlds
side OF the hill is chill and freezing to a
spiritual mind, but the Lords presence
gives warmth of joy which turns winter
into summer" Many persons see a bright
side, where others see nothing but darkness.
Happy are those who have faith-eye and a
hearttrust, and so walk in the light of God.
Every day then of our pilgrimage has some
thing OF sweetness and beauty we see a
divine care in the world about US aud to
the faith-eye heaven grows clearer and more
attractive. An incident illustrates this As
pastor went by the door of one of his hum
BILE church-members in his daily walks, it
was not unusual for him to receive some
cheerful word. She lived near to her Saviour,
aud was always alive to spiritual things
One day, as her pastor was passing, she
hastened to open the window and to his
inquiry, How are you to-day, auntie p
she replied, "Oh, looking over Jordan" BY
faith she could explore the sweet fields be.
yond. Shs had foretastes of the precious
future. She drank of the pure rivers of the
water of life. And such is the privilege OF
all the children of God, but one of which
alas too few avail themselves. To most
people, the heavenly Canaan is a dim and
shadowy land, far away. And so, great
is their loss. 1t might be tn, blessed ex.
perience, as it was of this poor woman,
"rich in faith" that


The hill of Zion yields


A thousand sacred sweets


Before we reach the heavenly fields


Or walk the golden streets"


-Christian Secretary.
Year: 1879




While DIR. Manton was minister at Coyent
Garden he was invited to preach before the
lord mayor and court of aldermen, and the
companies of the city, upon public occa-
sion, at st. Paups. The doctor chose yery
difficult subject, in which he had an oppor.
tunity OF displaying his judgment and learn
ing, and appearing to the best advantage
lie was heard with the admiration and ap-
plause OF the more intelligent part of the
audience; and was invited to dine with my
lord mayor, and received public thanks for
his performance. But upon his return in
the evening to Coyent Garden, poor man
following him gently plucked him by the
sleeve OF his gown, and asked him if he
was the gentleman who had preached that
day before the lord mayor. lie replied, he
was. " Sir" says he, " came with an earnest
desire after the Word Of God, and in hope
OF getting some good to my soul, but was
greatly disappointed, for could not under.
stand great deal OF what you said YOU
were quite above me. The doctor replied,
with tears in his eyes, " Friend, if did not
give you sermon, you have given me one
and by the grace OF God, will never play
the fool by preaching before my lord mayor
III such manner again, ,"--.Selected.
Year: 1879

Nothing that is not human goes so far to
make any particular house into home as
the plants which grow up in and about it.
I'eople living even in large cities, if they
have any scrap of garden, or only a few
healthy pots of flowers, feel pang at the
thought of leaving them, though it may be
10 visit the native haunts of our brightest
flowers. And yet how easily when we have
to Hit" we can take our flowers with us, or
at least plant new generation of them in
our new home Surely in no other object
upon which human affections can be be-
slowed do we find the proportion of pain to
enjoyment so very small, and the possibil-
ity OF incurring self-reproach SO nearly ex.
cluded. We cannot say entirely excluded,
for the true lovers of flowers know that they
are alive, and can scarcely doubt that they
are conscious, and that at times they suffer
from our neglect. But we may surely hope
that they do so far realize our ideas of par
adise as to rejoice constantly in the air and
sunshine, without fear and toll, and having
bloomed their day to yield up their lives
without struggle. 1t is great thing in
our own checkered lives to be able to enter
into communion with living creatures so alb
solutely pure, so innocently bright and fresh
and so incapable of causing any serious
anxiety. We do enter into relations with
them, when we tend them, as surely as
nurse enters into relations with the chill
dren she brings up 1t is curious, by the
by, to observe how much there is in
common between tending plants and tend
ing children or the sick. The good old
nurse in a family whose nurslings have
grown up and left her hands free seems to
take naturally to window gardening as an
outlet for her habit of cherishing. And how
many hospital wards have fernery or a
few bright pots in which the women whose
days or nights are spent in ministering to
the sick find refreshment and delight in
ministering also to the needs of creatures
which do not themselves suffer, but brighten
aud relieve the sufferers beside them The
same watchful tenderness, the same instinct
i've reading of the signs OF physical condi-
tons and promptness in amending them
which make good nurse, go far to make a
good gardener, and the practice of gardening
might even be in many respects a useful
preparation for tending human PATIENTS
HarpeT's Weekly.
Year: 1879

Judge Wendell went fishing
near Truckee, Cal. The stream
was almost dry, and he could
walk over its rocky bed between
the pools. lie sat down on a
boulder and dropped his line in
TO pool. Suddenly he heard
"a tremendous roar. Looking
up stream, he saw a vast body
of water, eight feet high, rush
ing down upon him. A dam
had broken away. lie ran as
fast as he could, yet not very
swiftly, being fat and short leg
ged. The water quickly over
took him and carried him near
ly a quarter of a mile, finally
throwing him on the bank SO
nearly drowned that he was
thought to be dead.
Year: 1879

s5- Men who have made for
tunes are not those who had five
thousand dollars given them to
start with, but started with a
well-earned dollar or two. Men
who have by their own exertions
acquired fame have not been
thrust into popularity by puffs
begged or paid for, or given in
friendly spirit. They have out
stretched their hand and touched
the public heart. Men who win
love do their own wooing. If
you work for fame, love, money.
or anything else, work with your
hands, heart and brain.
Year: 1879

The way an independent polit-
ical newspaper can best succeed
is as follows: One week it will
publish a we'll written article and
pitch into the Republicans:
whereupon nearly all the Demo-
cratic 'weeklies Throughout the
country will the next week copy
it and make favorable comments.
The next week an able editorial
pitching into the Democrats will
be sure the week following to be
copied by nearly all the Repub-
lican papers. Thus, like a loco
motive, by the alienation of heat
and cold, the thing keeps going
at a lively rate. The New York
Herald and Philadelphia Times
arc run on the alienation prin-
ciplc.
Year: 1879

his FavOrlte Mule.


A Eureka teamstei. is noted


for the affection that he betrays


on one of the mules in his outfit,


the most Estimate and NANCY


looking animal in the string, and


his fondness for Nancy" as he


calls her, has passed into a prov


erb. Upon being rallied upcn


this popularity by chum, he


discoursed as follows: II used to


have a sweetheart back in Injany


that | was awful gone on, and


this yer cussed mule has so many


pints in common that my heart


just yearns over her. She was
as likely a gal as ever run bare
footed in a cornfeld, but she was
focused obstinate to enjoy good
health. You never knew just
how to take her. She'd look you
right smiling in the eye, and
you'd think thar were more su-
gar in her nor a New Orleans
molasses hogshead; but if you
laid your hand ON her unexpected
like, she'd kick the breeching all
to hi in less than a minute.
That's just the way with that
mule: ] reckon she's cost me
nigh onto $500 for harness, to
say nothing about doctors bill
for a broken leg; but you get in
to a place whar the mud's deep,
and the rest of the team ker-
fiummuxed, and call on her for
assistance, and blast my eyes if
she won't pull herself clear out
of her hide to help you out of
your trouble. That was the way
with Nancy. The summer ! en-
igrated l were mighty sick with
the ague, and got the milk fever
on top of that, and l were pretty
nearly ready to cross over Jor-
dan, but she nussed me, helped
her ole dad ali day, and set up
with me nights until she were a
but she pulled me
through, and then she advised
me to emigrate to Californy. /
hated to go away; it were like
persuading a hungry horse to
leave pail of oats; but there was
no use, she were bound to hev
her way, and l came. That war
fifteen years ago, and / hadn't
been in the country a month fore
got the news of her dying.
Poor gal She overdone herself
akin care of my worthless car
eass, and / never seen no woman
since then that were worth
shucks compared to her."


His eyes were moist as he clos
ID his affecting reminiscence, and
f any of our readers notice a
nouse-eolored lead-mule that can
Kick fly off her companions
sar with unfailing accuracy or
any pair in the team,
hey will know that the drivers
ife is centered in that animal, and
aspect the tender memories that
cause him to bestow upon her the
Elections that were once the sole
of the departed Nancy
Year: 1879

An old lady was telling her grand
children, about some trouble in Scot
land, in the course of which the chief
of her clan was beheaded. 1T was
nae great thing Of a head to be sure"
said the old lady, but it was 4 sad
loss to him."
Year: 1879

This is a lively week in the politics of
the Old Bay State The republicans held
their State Convention yesterday the dem
ocrats hold theirs to-day; the supporters of
General Butler are to assemble tomorrow
and take what advantage they can of the
blunders OF the two regular parties.


The Republican Convention yesterday
was large and unwieldy body, consisting
of twelve hundred delegates. Deliberation
is impossible in so numerous ON assembly;
but as the members came with their minds
already made up there was no great delay
in reaching q result. AS soon as the
Convention was organized there was
an informal ballot for Governor, and
the result showed that Mr.. Long had
so large majority over Mr.. Pierce that Mr..
Longs nomination was forthwith declared
unanimous. 1t was conceded that Mr..
Pierce would have been the stronger candi-
date in the city of Boston, where he is we'll
known and very popular; but his liberal
views on the liquor question would have
weakened him with the prohibition
party, which is powerful in Massa-
chusetts, while his successful rival
is acceptable to the temperance men.
Mr.. Long is the present Lieutenant Gov
ernor. The speeches and platform are of
the stalwart order which has become the
universal type of republican politics. The
Worcester ticket has nothing to fear from
the democrats who will lead ''forlorn
hope" merely to keep up appear
ances, but General Butler has strength
enough to make the canvass vigorous and
lively, even if the result is not uncertain.
Last year Butler received 100, 435 votes,
against 134, 725 for the republican candi-
date. He expects this year to absorb
larger portion of the democrats and to re-
ceive greater recruits from the republicans.
The real contest will be between Butler and
Long, with chances enough for Butler to
make the republicans anxious
Year: 1879

claims that he has dropped his proceedings


against Mr.. Wheeler by sending to the AL


dermen the name of a proposed successor.


1t is, no doubt, beautiful and instructive
spectacle to see the chief magistrate OF the
city so amenable to judicial exposition OF
the law, and SO ready to confess that his
Jealous action against Mr.. Wheeler was
bIunder. Judge Van Brunt told him that
the only legal method of displacing
an officer whose term has expired
is by the appointment of sue
cessor, and the Mayor, with charming
submissiveness and docility, forthwith
nominates q successor to the Board OF
Aldermen. The Mayor could not have fur
nished more prompt or more emphatic
proof of his profound respect for Judicial
authority. But the public may think 1t
would have been wiser and more dignified
for the Mayor to have taken little more
time to swallow his modification and sub
nit to judicial censure. BY his haste to
nominate Mr.. Hawley he has encountered
a rebuke from the Board of Aldermen rs
signal as the judicial rebuke he had
just received from Judge Van Brunt. Why
need he have been in such hurry to &c
cumulate rebuff upon rebuff, like Pelion
piled upon Ossa in the fabled war OF the
giants ''Would not one suffice?" He
may be excusable for not knowing that his
proceedings against Commissioner Wheeler
were contrary to law, but need he have
been ignorant that such q nomination as
&1,~A L ~ oTc
frmation? A Mayor weakens his authority
and influence by gratuitously attempting
things which he cannot accomplish.
Year: 1879

united support of the city democrats. This


is constant temptation to the party in the


city to use the power it possesses to control


and coerce the party in the State. The party,


being at its mercy, must either submit to
dictation or consent to defeat. If the demo-
cratic and republican voters were evenly
distributed throughout the city and State
a potent local organization like Tammany
would be impossible in the city. 1t would
be an advantage to both political parties
in New York if there could be o re-
distribution of the strength of each be-
tween city and country, so that all locali-
ties would stand upon the same level. The
approximation to this state of things in
mercial city has preserved them from any
thing resembling our Tammany hydra.
Power always tends to abuse, and when in
any locality there is great excess OF power in
the hands Of one political party such abuses
are pretty certain to reach their extreme
limit Even if Iammany were abolished
and obliterated the immense preponderance
of democratic strength in the city. with the
helplessness of the party in the rural dis
tricts, would lead to new organization OF
substantially the same character. The true
hydra is the local concentration of dem
ocratic strength, and it can never be killed,
but only scotched, until there is more
equal diffusion of political power.
Year: 1879

amount of stakes won and the condition Of tho
tracks at the times Of racing. Will be found among
its contents. The book. compiled. is most vaua-
BILE as work Of reference all who in any way
Interested in horse racing. BY means of the index
special feature OF the book-the performance OF
any animal can be ascertained readily and without
loss OF time in running over the pages. Many
features are promised in subsequent editions.
which. if carried out. will render the Guide stil
moro valuable to the lovers and patrons of the turf
Year: 1879

1t is highly characteristic of British fair


mindedness that the massacre of Major
Cavagnari and his followers should be laid
at the door of their friend, ally and de-


pendent, Yakoob Khan, with the Russians
as mysterious instigators in the back
ground. 1t would be unnatural for Eng
lishmen to admit that they had blundered
in anything. When they took Yakoob as a
farmer takes queen bee and made
honeyed peace with him they imagined
they were hiving the whole Afghan popula-
ton with him under a British protectorate.
But this hardy people did not hive with
one they regarded Us more or less of a
traitor. 1t was absurd to think that they
could be negotiated for by promise of
protection" who were used to pro-
tecting themselves. If Yakoob was to be
protected against the Afghans themselves
that was matter the Afghans would see
about, and their massacre of the Embassy
was simply cynical putting to Yakoob of
the old query, Who will protect the pro-
tectors Yakoob felt his powerlessness,
but was naturally loath to admit it. Yet he
conveyed as clear a warning to Major
Cavagnari as anything short of this admis-
sion would allow, or perhaps as far as his
information went. When the Residency
was attacked the fated envoy appealed
to the Ameer for help, but Yakoob
dared not stir. He was Gagged as well as
they. and his precious lite depended on
his inaction. That he held out hope to
Major Cavagnari as long as he was in COM
munication with him was natural enough.
Men do not tell the sick that they are about
to die, though they are beyond human
help, and Yakoob's message, ''God wiling"
was purely humane evasion. That he
has since been forced into more
decided countenance of the popu-
lar movement is highly possible, but
everything shows SO far that he was faithful
to his masters in India up to the time of
the massacre. Already the London Times
sends out mot dordre against the silly talk
of Russian instigation, but it reserves the
Ameer, whose whole fortune lay with the
British, as a scapegoat for the laundering
OF the government. AS misrule in India
needed Mana Sahib to be held up to
English execration, so, since it is not safe
to parade the eternal Muscovite as the MUIR
derer of Cavagnari, they gratuisously lay the
burden on their ally and tool, Yakoob Khan.
Year: 1879

lyn have been dropped upon heavily by
the Republican General Committee of
the county for the offence of helping
to confirm some of the Mayors democratic
appointees to office. There are republicans,
however, who do not see why national politics
have anything TO do with the internal affairs of
q city, and such of these as live in Brooklyn
will thank the rccreant Aldermen for acting as
they have done.
Year: 1879

Our worthy Mayor has made sur
prisingly prompt submission to the judicial
mandate of Judge Van Brunt, but in such
form as diffuses an air of comedy over
his action. On Monday Judge Van
Brunt puts permanent injunction on
the Mayors attempt to remove Commis-
sioner Wheeler on Tuesday Mayor Cooper
accepts the judicial rebuke and pro-
Year: 1879

THE FALL MEETING of the National Rifle AS
sociation opered in fine style at Creedmoor
yesterday. The weather was perfect--for shoot
ing purposes-thcre being neither sun nor wind,
and the scores particularly in the military
matches. were very GOOD.
Year: 1879

NEwARK's SUNDAY LAW AGITATION is de-
generating into an ugly quarrel that is more
discreditable to both sides than Sabbath break
ing is likely to he. Our report of the situation
will be read with considerable interest, but no
satisfaction whatever.
Year: 1879

THINK OF BARRIcADEs being necessary in one
Of the thoroughfares of New York Oh account of
the dangerous nature of the pavcments! Such
Is the condition of some of the roadways in
Washington square and the Aldermen voted
yesterday to fence them in until repaired
Year: 1879

PRESIDENT CREWS HOME seems to be as plain
and modest that of almost any American
President, and what n puzzle it must be to the
average Frenchman, who has been in the habit
of estimating his rulers by the style which they
maintained
Year: 1879

SUPERINTENDENT VAN BIoCKLIN may believe
there is no dissatisfaction among elevated rail
road employees over the late reduction or "ad-
justment' of wages, but his men know better,
and the public will agree with the men.
Year: 1879

WALL STREET Observation-Disclosures continued
very active and buoyant. Money loaned up to
2 per cent in the last hour but was easy again
at the close. Governments and railway bonds
were strong and fairly active. Exchange was
marked y cent higher for sterling.
Year: 1879

Eighteen years ago the Democracy went
into minority in Congress. Their last act
was an attempt to dissolve the Union. This
year they are once more in the majority and
apparently minded to take up business where
they dropped it, and their first act is an at
tempt to embarrass the Government, to over
ride the veto power, and withhold appropria-
tions until the President yields to their will.
The work of blocking the wheels of govern
ment is undertaken by the same men who
were engaged in the other attempt to destroy
the government.


The same mischieyous and dangerous
spirit is exhibited now that was displayed at
the outbreak of the Rebellion. The Democ-
racy is determined to rule or ruin. Consti-
tutional provisions are to be ignored, and the
freedom of elections destroyed in order that
the Democratic party may in 1880 get con-
troll of the executive branch of the govern
ment. The attempt now made will fail to-
day as the Rebellion failed. But the people
will learn that the Democratic party has not
been changed by its long and enforced absti-
nence from power. 1t is the same dangerous
organization, unscrupnlous in its means to
bad ends, a foe to popular freedom, and a
menace to the prosperity of the country.
| The enforcement of this lesson is worth the
cost of struggle in Congress. People were
| beginning to forget the nature of the old
organization that first submitted to the slave
power and then sympathized with that
| la Ill -


Union; they were almost persuaded that
adversity had purified the party. and that
it had become new and clean thirg.
That Illusion is dispelled, and the Democ-
racy stands revealed as the same old organ-
cation that the country has repeatedly re-
| jected, having the same vices and follies that


led to its overthrow eighteen years ago.
Year: 1879

THE conclusions regarding the centem-
plated action Of the Democratic Congression-
al majority drawn by an able and conscen-
tiOus Democratic newspaper are elsewhere
set forth in an article copied from the Bel
fast Journal. 1t is good reading for all of US,
and especially good for those Democrats who
have been misled by their leaders into sup
porting a movement to cripple the govern
Year: 1879

SENTIMENTS of the New York Times
Should Congress compel the President to
make a choice between depriving the coun-
try of the protection to free and pure elec.
tions now existing, and throwing on Con-
gress the responsibility of stopping supplies,
it is our conviction that he should accept the
latter alternative.
Year: 1879

We DO not read anonymous letters ana communi.
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

TIE Boston Transcript regards the Lynn
trunk tragedy as due to the war. The
Transcript is of much the same mind as the
Southerner who declared the other day that
the moon doesn't shine as bright as it did be-
fore the war.
Year: 1879

CNCiNNArI, March ll.-Captain Panl
Boyton left Maysville last night, ON his
way down the Ohio. and reached this
city about O'Clock this afternoon. He
narrowly escaped being run down in the
darkness by the steamer Telegraph and
travelled the greater part Of the night IN
a pelting rain and against a strong head
wind. lie was met above the city hy bnIt
had Of people and escorted 10 the mail
line wharf boat. below the suspension
hriicc, WHERE he emerged from the
water. His entry into the city was
witnessed 10y thousands Of people, who
lined the river bank from PculletoH
street to his landing plaCc. The date
for the resumption OF his journey J. not
Vet fNei