smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

What a strange disposition is that which
leads people to say ''hateful'' things for the
mere pleasure of saying them! You are never
safe with such person. When you haze
done your best to please, and are feeling very
kindly and pleasantly, out will come some
underhand stab which you alone can compre-
hend, sneer which is masked, but which is
too we'll aimed to be misunderstood. 1t may
be at your person, your mental failings, your
foolish habits of thought, or some little secret
opinions confessed in moment of genuine
confidence. 1t matters not how sacred it may
be to you, he will have his fling at it; and,
since the wish is to make you suffer, he is all
the happier the nearer he touches you heart.
Just half dozen words, only for the pleasure
of seeing q cheek flush, and an eye lose its
brightness; only spoken because he is afraid
you are too happy or too conceited. Yet they
are worse thar so many blows. How many
sleepless nights have such mean attacks caused
tender-hearted mcrta]s! How after them one
awakens with aching eyes and head, to re-
member that speech before everything-that
bright, sharp, well-aimed needle OF a speech
that probed the very centre of your soul!
Year: 1877

DR.. Baker, secretary of the Michigan State
board of health, says: 'There has come un-
der my notice for several years. but more
particularly during the last two years, kind
of rheumatic condition of the walls of the
chest. The patient complains of a dull,
heavy pain in the chest walls. The disease,
in large majority of cases, is confined to
the left side. The pain is circumscribed, and
limited to space of not more than two inches
in diameter, just below and little to the left
of the left nipple. At times the pain is very
severe, and always constant, day and night,
when the patient is awake. have investiga-
ted the disease to some extent and find it to
be more common among tobacco users, es-
pecially those who use the weed to excess.
Patients suffering from this complaint invari-
bly, come to their physicians with the belief
that they have heart trouble"
Year: 1877

The children of poverty! My heart bleeds
when l think of them; the children simply
covered by rag; tbs children of famine and
of starvation; the children of drunkenness,
and the children of crime, fotsam and JET
sam upon the wild, rude sea of life; the
children in alleys the children that couch in
corners when they hear the unsteady step OF
a drunken brute of father; the children,
little babies with drinking mother; the chill
dren, too, of the rich, that have no liberty
these little children that are crushed, that are
trampled upon, that are frightened. l pity
them all from the bottom OF my heart. What
right have you to tyrannize over child! l
have very little respect for man that cannot
govern child without brute force. Think
of whipping children! Why, they say that
lies. Suppose man who is as much larger
than you as you are larger than five: year
old child, should come at you with pole in
his hand: ''Who broke that plate?" You
would tremble, your knees would knock to-
gether, and you would swear you never saw
the plate, or that it was cracked when you
got it.


Think of member of the Board of Ex-
change whipping one of his children for pre-
varicating. Think Of a lawyer beating his
own flesh and blood because he evaded the
truth. Think of dealer in stocks Furnishing
his child for setting afoat false reports.
What an inconsistency! Think of it! If you
| should hereafter whip your child. l wish you
| could have photograph taken when doing
| so, with brows corrugated with anger, your
| cheeks red with wrath, and the little child
shrinking, trembling, crouching and begging
If the child should happen to die, wouldn't it
be sweet in the autumn, when the maple
| leaves are turning to gold, and when the
scarlet vines run like sad regret out of the
/ esrth-wouldn't it be delightful to 90 and sit
1 on the mound that covered the flesh you had
beaten, and look at the photograph of your.
self in the act of whipping the child F?


| Now, think of it; think of it; and it all
say tonight will save one blow from the ten
der flesh OF infancy, l am more than paid:
| have known men to drive their own chill


dren from their doors, and then get down or
their knees and ask God to watch over them


l will never ask God to do favor for chic
of mine while can do it. Never. Another
thing: There is nothing in this world like
being honest with these children. Do moi


pretend you are perfection; you are not;
and if one of them happens to tell story, dc


not let on as if the whole world was going tc


burst. Tell them honestly you have told
thousands of them.
Year: 1877

A well known officer of the army writes
from Vicksburg: "The Kemper county MUIR
ders show how Mississippi goes. The truth
is, that while Republican in this state who
keeps quiet may be tolerated, if he takes an
active part in politics with fair show OF
success, he must be quelched even if bullet
hole has to be put through his carcass Just
now they are not killing very lively IN the
State, but if Republicans should so far elevate
their heads as to show signs of dangerous life
in political matters you would frequently hear
of unfortunate affrays,' tragedies, and fatal
occurTences,' but never under the corrct des-
ignation of infamous and diabolical murders
The very old devil seems to be in these people
any way"
Year: 1877

Boil the empty pods of half peck of
green peas one hour; strain the broth, and
add to it four pounds of lean beef cut in small
pieces, and boil an hour and half; strain
the broth, then add the peas, salt and pepper
to taste, teaspoonful of sugar; few minutes
before serving stir in q half cup of cream.
thickened smoothly with tablespoonful of
flour.
Year: 1877

The Albany Journal. in considering the
effect of the Southern policy on the South,
says: ''The apparent purpose in the South is
not to strengthen the hands of the President.
not to aid him in commencing his course to
the North, not to meet his spirit of peace
with spirit of justice, but to establish and
confirm their own unbridled supremacy.
They care less about helping the President
than about hel ping themselves.
Year: 1877

Hold him close and closer hold him.
(Ah, but this is the time to cryD
Bring his pretty cloak and told him
From the Old Man going by.
What Old Man ?-yOu cannot guess?
Not the Old Man OF the Sea,
Nor the Mountains, confess,
Can be half so cold as he.
Could we only catch and bind him,
To some prison, shutting low,
Where the sun could never find him,
This Old Man should surely 60.
We would steal his scythe away.
Grass should grow about our feet,)
And he should not take to-day


From us while to-day was sweet.
Gypsy ways he has, most surely,


(Gypsy ways are hardly right,(
Wandering stealing. yet securely


Keeping somehow out of sight
From our trees the fruit he shakes;


Silver, lace, or silk we miss
From our houses; this he takes


This, and other things than this.
Here he comes with buds that wither;


Here he comes with birds that fly;
Pretty playihings he brings hither,


Just to take them by-and.by.
He could find you in the night,


Though you should put out the moon
He can see without a light,


He will take the Baby sOOn.
Head with gold enough about it


just to light this whole world through;
All, what shall we do without it?


Children, say, what shall we do?
Tell me, is there any place


We can hide the Baby? Say,
Can we cover up his face
While the Old Man goes this way?
There is one place, one place only,


We can hide him if We must
Very still and low and lonely:


We can cover him with dust
Shut wild rose in his hand;


Set a wild rose at his head;
This Old Man, you understand,


Cannot take from us the dead.
Year: 1877

Dress hard all morning, such is fate,
Then enter the church some minutes late.
All eyes will then be turned on you,
And will observe your bonnet new.
Let humble modesty wreath your face,
And take your seat with faultless grace.
Let all your thoughts be fixed on high,
And rearrangc your cardinal tie.
Think how religions prone to bless,
And criticise your neighbor's dress.
Let all your heart be filled with praise,
And notice Mrs. Maggies lace.
Put from your mind all thoughts of sin,
And readjust your diamond pin.
Think of how good religion proves,
And then smooth out yOnr buttOned gloves.
Catch well the precepts as they fall,
And smooth the wrinkles in your shawl
Think of the sinners fearful fate,
And notice if your bonnet's straight.
Pray for the influence divine
That lady's basque, mark the design.
Let tender peace possess your mind.
And criticise that hat behind.


Reflect on Christian graces dear,
And fix those curls beside your ear.
Let your heart warm with silent PRAYER.
And view that horrid green silk there.
Reflect upon the wickeds ways:
See if your gold chains out Of place.
Think of the peace the good shall find,
And wonder who are sitting behind.
Think of the burdens Christians bear,
And notice those strange ladies there.
The last words hear with contrite heart,
And fix your pull-back when YOU start,
Year: 1877

Dram-sellers, drinkers and sympa-
thisers may wonder why temperance
men interfere with business by
which some citizens get living.


There is no hostility to the men
but to the business. one OF the rea-
sons has Just been given.


The BUSINESS hinders the growth OF
the place. Another is that it greatly
increases our taxes. what reason or
justice is their in compelling those
who never 90 near bar-rooms or sa-
looms to pay taxes for their supports


When dram-sellers pay all the in
crease of taxes caused by their bus
mess they will remove one serious OBJ
lection to its continuance. Until then,
they must expect all good citizens to
labor for its suppression.-.4sbury
Park Journal.
Year: 1877

We would again remind our business
men who appreciate the Importance OF
the completion Of the Tuscarawas Valley
Railroad to this city, that a meeting
with that object in view will take place
at the Grant House parlors
this evening at seven o'clock. The
Chief Engineer and Superintendent OF the
road will be present, ready and willing
to explain TO our business men The nd.
vantages Of the line as through route
Fast and West from Wheeling, and also
AS local feeder to our trade.


There Ia an apparent necessity now
existing to come TO some conclusion
touching the completion OF this road, and
the meeting tonight is called for that
purpose.
Year: 1877

Alas how hardly things go right;
'TYs hard to watch, on a summer night
For the sigh will come, and the Kiss VIII stay
And the Summers night is a Winters day.
Alasl how easily things go wrong;
A sigh too much or a kiss too long.
And there comes a mist and weeping ram
And life is never the same again.


And vet how easily things go right -.-,.
If tbe SIGH and the kiss Of the Summer night
Come deep from the soul, in the stronger ray
That is born in the light Of the Winter day.
And things can never go badly wrong


II the heart be true and the love be strong
For the mist if it comes, and the NeSplue IAN
win he changed by the love into sunshine again.
Year: 1877

Dream on, dear one, sweet be thy slnless sIe'p'
While lone | watch beside thy couch of rest,
And fondlv pray that angels bright may keep


All care and sorrow from thy guileless breast;
That life to thee may seem vision fair,


With no dark scenes for thee TO gaze upon;
That sunny smiles thy soul-lit brow may wear,
As in thy sleep--thou lovely one dream on
Year: 1877

A gentleman from our city, visiting
Bay st. Louis few days since, informs
us that he was refused board in one of
the principal hotels of that place simply
because he had, upon former occasion.
dared to assert, in conversation with
several gentlemen from New Orleans.
that there was no comparison between
our Sea- h)re and Bay st. Louis, and
that in his opinion Psscagoula certainly
possessed the most desirable facilities as
a summer resort. In the future we
would advise our citizens when visiting
Bay st. Louis not to proclaim the fact
that they are from Pascagoula, or it may
be a difficult matter for them to procure
accommodations in some of the hotels.
Year: 1877

There is nice little public square which
lies on the water side of Bay street and fronts
the public building, where are the court
houses, house of assembly, Bank, and other
similar places of resort. Whenever we
would go-on pleasant morning, afternoon
or evening-to this square,to sit by the stone
boat-stairs, of to stand on the sea- wall and
view the lovely water with its changing hues
of green, its yachts, its ships, and all its busy
smaller craft. and sniff with delight the cool
salt breeze that blows so gayly over the mar
row back of Hog Island, there would GER
tainly come running to us two, three or a
dozen little black boys with the entreaty
Please, boss, give us small dive" If ]
happened to have any change, and wished
to see some funny work in the water, put
my hand in my pocket, and instantly every
little boy jerked off his shirt 1t is no troubl,
for the negro children to undress in Nassau
The very little ones wear only small shir
| and straw hat. Sometimes there Is not 81
much muslin in this shirt, but they are al
"ayo Paiu0uiai w nave ~ cohio uo"n ioN
enough to cover the breast bone. If fin,
penny, toss it into the water, and instant
ly every darkey boy, clad in nothing but hi
scanty trowsers, plunges in after it, Some
times spry little fellow catches the coin be
fore it reaches the bottom, and it is neve
long before some fellow comes up with tn


money in his mouth. Sometimes when


coin is not readily found, it is curious to loo


down through the clear water and see tn


young rascals moving their legs and arm


about down at the bottom like lot of brow


frogs.--F r., Stockton, in Scri5ner for NJ


vem6er,
Year: 1877

Tired Wen, what OF that7
Didst fancy life was spent on beds OF ease,
Flutterng tho rose leaves scattered by the breeze
Come, rouse thee work while 1t is called today
coward, arise go forth upon thy way


lonely Ana what Of that
Some must be lonely IT'S not given to all
To feel heart responsive rise and fell,
To blend another life into Its own
Work may be done In loneliness. Work on.


Dark Well and what Of that
Didst fondly dream the sun would never set7
Dost fear to lose thy way7 Take courage yet
Learn thou to walk by faith and not by sight,
Thy steps will guided be, and guided right


Hard Well, what of thatf
Didst fancy life one Summer holiday,
with lessons none to learn, and naught but play7
Go, get thee TO thy task Conquer or die
II must be learned Learn It then, patiently,


No help9 Nay, 'tis not SOL
Though human help be far, thy God is nigh,
who feeds the ravens, hears His chidren's cry.
He's near thee. whereso'er thy footsteps roam;
And He viii guide thee, light thee help thee home.


chronological journal.
Year: 1877

Amateur sportsman returns in triumph
from days shooting with splendid hare,
and says to his wife:
"There, you said l couldn't shoot. You
didn't expect to see me bring this home p


"Yes, did; the servant next door saw
you buying it round the corner"
Year: 1877

STORM sIGNs.-Its sign of a storm to
tread on anybodys toes who has corns,


It's sign ofa storm if you wake the baby
on wash day.


It's sign of storm to call a baby ugly
in presence of its mother.


It's sign Of storm to spit ON the parlor
carpet when your wife sees it.


Its sign of a storm to speak i'll of your
wife's relations.
It's sign of storm TO tell your wife she
looks horrid in the last new bSanst
Year: 1877

1t is said by a recent decision of the Re-
publican state committee of Georgia the
Republican party in that state is virtually
dissolved. But few members of the family
are left to attend the funeral.
Year: 1877

1t is dangerous to have paper pasted over
pipe holes in the upper rooms of house
The residence of Mr.. Jas. Bossler, of Bed
ford county, was nearly destroyed by fire one
night recently by this means. A fire had
been started in a stove on the lower floor
and the paper pasted over pipe hole above
took fire and diopping down on bed the
clothes took fire and in very few minute.
the whole room was in blaze.
Year: 1877

According to the London Engineer, new
branch of industry has sprung up and prom
ises considerable advantage. A contractor
has come forward and agreed to purchase at
good price all the old 'cotton waste" a
material which, after being used to clean
machinery, has hitherto been burnt as val
ueless, and it is thought that the plan will
prove of great convenience to the Govern
ment works and other large factories. The
method pursued in this case is. to wash the
waste in some chemical solution, which en-.
tirely cleanses the cotton of grease and 9TH
er impurities, and, when dried, it is again as
fit for use as when it first left the cotton
mills. The grease is clarified with fine oil
and the refuse is sold to the soap makers.
Year: 1877

Electric candles are the sensation in Par
is. They emit no heat or smoke whatever
while in brilliancy they hold the same ratio
to gas and oil lamps as sun to moonlight
and they cost only one-fifteenth as much a.
gas. 1t is hailed as one of the greatest dis
coveries of the century.
Year: 1877

Gov. Hendricks, just returned from Eu-
rope, in speaking of the administration of
President Hayes, said that it was difficult
for him to imagine where that gentlemen
would eventually land his party. He
thought, however, that those who seemed to
suppose that the administration would soap
ture" the Democratic party would find them
selves mistaken. 1t was his opinion howev-
er, that the Democratic party would do by
Mr. Hayes as they did by Andrew johnson
sustain him so far as they thought he was
right The Democratic party, he said, had
been fighting for the principle of local sell
government in the South for years, and in
SO far as the President carried out this doc.
trine they would sustain him, because they
believed it was right.
Year: 1877

the revenue by the imposition of duties, but
afford ample encouragement to all the inter-
ests of the country, injured by the produce
tion of cheap labor of other nations, but
more especially to urge an increase of duties
on coal and iron, in which portion of our
people are deeply interested, &c.
Year: 1877

In conclusion we would say the In
stitute was not what it ought to have
been. Several of our township teach
ers were absent. There is not the life
in the school cause that is requisite to
make 1t flourish.


We hope the Superintendent will be
successful in his attempts to arouse
the teachers yet we fear, unless
something financially be done for the
public schools, the system will fail in
our State. The teachers are now call
ing for help. No money has been
drawn this year, and the teachers are
suffering, and their energy dying -
Let our legislature think of this and
save our mountain mind ere it perish.
Year: 1877

Parents cannot be too careful in
guarding the health OF their Babies


Only good and reliable medicine
should be given to them. DR. BULBS
Baby Syrup is known not to contain
anything Injurious. Price 20 cents.
Year: 1877

As a business investment, it will
pay him a hundred times the price of
subscription, because it will keep him
posted in the market quotations, so
chat, as a producer, he may stand on
equal ground With the speculator in
knowing the state of the market. -
he will not then be dependent on
his ncighbOrs for that knowledge
which is money in his pocket. lie
will be also constantly advised Of the
current of events, political and other
wise. lie will know what is going
on in the world, and be in constant
communication with il. II will add
to the intelligence of himself and
his household. II he has a daily
mail, the farmer should by all means
have the Dujig american, which will
cost him $1,000 per year, including
the postage. If he cannot get the
daily regular, then he should take
the Semi. u eeHy diner can, price
SI2O per year, postage included. -
And il he cannot conveniently OBJ
tain either of these editions prompt =
ly, he certainly can get the Weekly
American, which has all the market
quota ions of the week. including
those Of the day of publication, which
will cost him only 81 00a year, pos
tage prepaid by the publishers. Il
is best to have the Daily if you have
the postal facilities but in any event,
you should have the Weekly Am e.
can. If you try it one year, you will
never stop it aud never regret il,
Year: 1877

How ANNA DICKINSON MAKES LovE.-Anna
Dickinson is failure in the love scenes in
her plays. When the experienced actor sidles
up TO her and reaches his arms around her
rigid waist she grabs him by the wrist aud
holds him off at arms length while he says
his piece, and then, when she reaches the
melting moment, and lowers her head to let
it droop upon bis shoulder, the constrained
action is so like the gesture of venerable
William goat in the act of assisting passing
boy over pasture fence that the audience
gleefnlIy look 10 see the unhappy lover but
ted clear over into the orchestra iddles, and
there is a general murmur of disappointment
when he braces bis feet and receives the droop
Of her head with a scarcely audible grunt-
Burlington Harkeye.
Year: 1877

The New York Tribune is authority for the
statement that several statesmen have signi-
fed their willingness to serve on the Louis
lana commission provided the President will
insure them against any invitation to quad
roof ball. On the other hand, it is aRnounc-
ed that the quadroon girls of New Orleans
are looking anxiously with their pink eyes
for the new commission.
Year: 1877

The Georgetown Journal Of last week says ::
William Schofeld, of Lewes, has been miss
ing for some time. He was last seen at Fen
wiek's Island, and it is supposed that be was
murdered and thrown into the river as his
hat was found on the shore the day after his
disappearance. Il is stated that he had dis
agreement with some mao on the Island, and
that the suspected party has disappeared
Scho6eld has been for several years employed
on the pier at Lewes and is well known in
that section.
Year: 1877

In the country, not thousand miles from
Wilmington, lives a wealthy gentleman whose
only daughter is pretty and sweet seventeen.
Her lover is worthy young man but does
not possess the requisite that makes worth al
tractve-his pockets are not gold lined. She
smiled upon him, however, and he, acting on
the presumption that the stern parent would
not favor his suit, said naught to him but
urged the young lady 10 elope. Her father
played the eaves-dropper and overheard the
conversation in which she consented, and
when she asked permission to leave home to
visit some friends it was graeiously granted
According to the programme the two were TO
meet at the depot in Wilmington, on Friday,
and take the train north, and the programme
was carried out up to certain point. They
met and were about to step on the train.
when the young lady's father stepped up TO
her, politely raised his hat and smiiingly Of
fered bis arm, which the young lady accepted,
while her lover looked on in blank amaze
ment and simply calculated, "Well, I'll be
darned.n


The old gentleman was not at all angry,
and is understood 10 have said that if the
young party had acted like man he might
not have had very serious objections, but be
did object 10 his mode of procedure. The cir
cnmstance is related By one who saws be
knows but declines to give the names.-EV.
Evaing.
Year: 1877

The journal says: The rate of county tax
has been placed for the year 1877 al 45 cents,
and the assessment as returned by the Levy
Court is very far below that of 1872. hence
the taxes in this county will be considerably
less. than last year. If nothing Unforeseen
should occur the county debt will be liqui-
dated by March, 1873. and the county will
have q fair balance and be able further to re-
duce the rate of taxation.
Year: 1877

Philadelphia Bulletin As nobody has es-
capped from the Jail in New Castle, Del, for at
least three weeks, the occupants of that phe-
nomenal institution have concluded that its
reputation was 10 jeopardy and determined to
do something to preserve it. Accordingly,
on last Wednesday night week three prison
ers punched half a dozen bricks out of the
wall and calmly walked off The event
caused no excitement There is excitement
only when the prisoners resolve to remain in
the jail Then the feelings of the authorities
are hurt.