smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

We do not believe that it is either
practicable or desirable that the traffic
in spirituous, malt and vRous liquors
be totally abolished. But it is a traffic
which, if left unrestrained, is liable to
great abuse, and to lead to results detri-
mental to the well being of society, as
we have seen under the practical opera
ton of the present mo license" system
in Ohio. Therefore, under the aspect
in which the question is presented by
the license or no license proposition ac-
companying the new constitution, it
seems to us advisable to allow the Leg
islature to license the traffic, under such
regulations and restrictions as the Leg
islature may see proper to impose.
Whether the license SO granted, or the
restrictions SO imposed, shall be heavy
or light, will always depend on the pop
ular sentiment ON the subject as reflect
ed by the legislative body-and to con-
form as nearly as possible to this will be
as nearly right as we ever expect to see
accomplished by human legislation


Lancaster Gazette.
Year: 1874

The Louisville "Courier-J JournaW has
the follow ing : nsible remarks regard
ing the management Of newspaper:


Some people estimate the ability of q
newspaper and the talent of its editor
by the quantity of original matter. 1t is
comparatively an easy task for a frothy
writer to pour out daily a column of
Yords-words upon any and all subjects.
His ideas may flow in one weak, washy,
everlasting food, and the command of
his language may enable him to string
them together like punches of onions,
and yet his paper may be a meagre and
poor concern. Indeed, the mere writing
part of editing a paper is but small
portion of the work. The care, the time
employed in selecting, is far more inn
portant, and the tact of good editor is
better shown by his selections than any
thing else; and that, we know, is hall
the battle. But, as we have said, an ed
itor ought to be estimated and his labor
understood and appreciated by the gen.
eral conduct of his paper-its tone, its
uniform consistent course, its aims, man
illness, its dignity and its propriety. Tt
preserve these as they should be preserv
ed is enough to occupy fully the tint
and attention of any man. If to thi
be added the general supervision of tn
newspaper establishment, which mos
editors have to encounter, the wonder |
how they find time to write at all.
Year: 1874

Why do not people go to church more?
One thinks it is this, and others think it
is that. You can open church In a
hovel, and let voice go forth that has
the power of touching men, and you
will find it crowded and thronged. You
do not want the cob that used to have
the corn. That which men want is sap
py food, refreshing food. Men are will
ing to be dealt with, to have their con-
sciences aroused, but DO not want to be
handled. They want a preacher that
takes hold of them in some way, and if
he can do more than that; if he can
give to them that which every man con-
scienciously needs-some men have as
pirations, and some more indulge in SUI
perfcial thought-and if we can give
him strength to bear his burden.


Men that are sore in life; men who are
in sorrow; men who don't know how to
bring up their children, and who are
continually having more and more ad-
ded to their hocks; people who want to
know where the next hod of coal is COM
ing from, people who are afraid of the
sheriff, men who are pricked with TO-
600 nettles of human life-they come tc
church TO hear long discussion on the
fall of Adam. Well, that is not inop-
perfume, but still they're so fiat them
selves that they feel as if they would
like to know something that deadens thu
struggle that Is going on within them
they want some one who will take par
with them, minister who brings Goo
down to the side of men, not as the ever
lasting condemer, but one who bring
God down as present help in time o
trouble.
Year: 1874

or steel key would hang from his finger
brought in contact with the north pole
of large horseshoe magnet he felt
quite violent shock, while in the dark
a spark was perceptible when the two
touched


All the while We were in the cave /
felt the aura of which l have spoken; it
felt as if my entire body was enveloped
in cobweGs l was conscious of great
mental and spiritual exaltation, and half
unconsciously solved a problem in tri-
anguIation of which l had been think
ing for several days-solved it, too,
while thinking of other things and OBJ
serving the phenomena of the cave.
The poles of a magnet, when in my
hand, were reve. sed: when placed else
where they returned to their former
condition. Mr.. Forbes possessed the
singular faculty Of directing the needle
TO any point of the compass, merely by
exercising his will, but this he could
not do when another person held the
needle. Passing near large fragment
of rock, Mr.. Stokes, if l remem Der
rightly, was pulled or drawn violently
from the path, as if by spirit hands, and
thrown against the rock, whence we re-
moved him to the outer air, he being al
most powerless. The young sensitive" 4"
naturally a weak person, carried him
bodily for quite a distance. After
leaving the cave we were all exhausted
and lanquid. l do not believed this mag
netic place to be conducive to good
health. OF the facts have given there
can not be the slightest doubt, though
they seem very strange.


F Il REITEW-
Year: 1874

The Melbourne Argus says an old
man was buried there years ago in un-
consecrated ground. When a cemetery
was recently opened, the widow deter
mined to remove the remains to holy
soil. An empty gin case was procured,
the bones carefully collected and put in
it, and the case put in full sized coffin,
and inferred with Church rites. The
friends returned to the widows house to
spend the night in drinking to the mem
cry of the departed. A case of gin had
been purchased for the entertainment,
but when it was opened It was found the
wrong crse had been buried. Twelve
bottles of good gin had been put eight
feet under ground. The night was sad
and sober.
Year: 1874

"It is an exploded theory" says one
who speaks with knowledge, "that wo-
men dress to please the men. They
dress to please or spite each other. ANY
girl of sense and experience knows that
it is as easy to break mans heart IN a
50 muslin, neatly made up, as it is in a
$500 silk costume made by a man dress
maker" 1t is, in fact great deal east
er. The natural charm of young
girl is often destroyed by excessive
dressing. Men like tasteful and not ex-
travagant toilets; and the rivalry in
dress among women is not to catch a
beau, but to mortify an enemy:
Year: 1874

A Louisville doctor does not believe
there is such thing as cholera infan-
tum. 1t is all the effect of baby's imag
ination.


A man was recently found drowned in
the frog pond on Boston Common, the
water in which is only about two feet
deep.


In Bloomville, Ohio, the saloon man
who, few weeks ago. by the light of a
bonfire, standing on the head of liquor
barrel, declared he had sold his last
glass, has just opened "a fresh stock of
beer, wine and liquors"
They have found a Chicago police
man who wouldn't take a bribe, but it
should be added, that he didn't think it
large enough.


To clean a brown porcelain kettle,
boil peeled potatoes in it. The porce-
lain will be rendered nearly as white as
when new.


If women would spend less time in
making ruffles and tucks, and. more in
making flower beds, they would look
handsomer.


To cure erysipelas and all high infiam-
alton of the skin apply simple poul-
tice of cranberries pounded fine, and ap-
piled in a raw state.


Colds are often caught by standing in
an open hallway or doorway during cold


weather. The transition of the cold
and warm currents causes the trouble.
"Just one thing more" said a Mary
} land preacher, as he neared the end O
his sermon, and went on speaking fol
thiry-fve minutes longer.
"a cautious Evansville reporter, il
speaking of a man, both of whose leg
: were cut off by a railroad train, says
l. "He will probably be cripple for life.


There is no better use to make G
!, fne-cut tobacco than to bind it upon


fresh wound, and nothing will stop th
:, flow of blood quicker.
Put on the right glove first, then yo
A have your left hand ungloved to butto
IS your right with. If you put on you
= left glove first you have to button you
/ right glove under double disadvantage
e Simply wetting and rubbing tt
n stained cloth in cold water will remoy
W all traces of grass stains. Fruit stair
It will disappear on application of boilin


bot water. No soap should be used


either case.
Year: 1874

not 10 produce the Christian unanimity which
the apostle taught, Finally brethren, be ye
all of one mind The most contradictory
doctrines upon vital points are preached by
recognized ministers of the same Church .....
One teaches that miraculousness is the charac-
ter of Christianity; another that msraces ARE
vexed question: and therefore doubtful.
One that the Church cannot be kingdom
without dogma; another that creeds and con
fessiOns and one faith are obstacles to love
and progress, one that msdern sceptics have
no faith: another that orthodoxy leads to un-
belief, one that theology is not q fixed science
but must be changed to suit the times; anoth-
er that there can be no new theology under
the Christian dispensation one that all men.
without exception, will be saved another that
multtudes will be lost in unquenchable fire -


What new force is given by description to
the old story of the University official who.
after half century attendance at the Uni
yersity sermons, thanked God that after all


he had heard. he was Chaistian still
Year: 1874

The Centinela Land Company of
Los Angeles give notice that the
hooks for subscription to the capital
stock of their company, are now open
and ready for subscribers at the
Banking House of Temple & Work
man and at the Los Angeles County
Bank. q #t ZU
Year: 1874

You can't name anything in the
smokers line which Cohen & Davis
do not keep at the Identical, No. So,
Main street. Their stock is of the best
quality and their prices down to bed
rock
Year: 1874




1t must have been q singular feeling Of
dread and apprehension which the first
conscious people Of our race experienced
as they saw the vast luminary Of the
heavens sink lower aud lower from its
exalted orbit. until, by the 2lst of De-
cember. there appeared no hope fits re-
ascension. The powers Of light and
darkness had struggled long and with
equal vigor, and now the power OF dark.
n s. was seemingly the conGueror; tho
sun stood slill and the heart OF man
throbbed feverishly witt, fears Of the re.
suit. Then, on the 25ih day OF Decem-
bcr, the anxious eye detected slight Gle.
vatlon in the suns orbit, and as each day
confirmed the glorious news Of the victo
tory of light, men prostratcd themselves
before the victorious God. and chanted
hymns in His praise that have been pre-.
served and kept in memory by the pco.
pie OF Asia up to this date.


One generation of man sulliced to pen.
citrate into this mystery Of material light,
but many and many generation had to
perish before the mystery Of mans spir.
itual life could be discovered. From the
day when God first spoke to Adam In
friendly converse in the Garden Of Eden,
the light Of mans soul, after 4 short
struggle, yielded to the power OF dark
ness aud was drawn down from its height
OF spitndor to the darkness Of sin and
misery, till in the days Of tho Roman
Empire all hope Of redemption had died
ont in the hearts Of men Then there
was horn mystcriously, in The village Of
Bethlehem, a man child, and all over the
spiritual world rang the cry Of angels,
GLORY bs to God in the highest. peace
on earth, good will toward mcn!' Aud
the child grew and became teacher, and
from the small beginning OF twelve be-
levers in Palestine, extended His in6u.
ence till thousands came to hear His ser.
mon on the mount, and till now hundreds
OF millions kneel down 10 reverence the
Divine Light that should abide with "
forever more.


Like the sun, this light may appear 10
leave us while generation Of man
may seem to have sunk 80 low a. to DO
beyond the reach Of salvation; but, a.
sure as lhe sun TesuIncS us StIchktu, anu
approaches again nearer to the earth
every 25th OF December, SO the light and
glory Of God and Of His Son Jesus
Christ return to us, though the cycles
last longer. with equal regularity And
it is this certainty Of the re-advent OF
Divine Light that makes us celebrate
Christmas day as OF all the days in tho
year the most comforting AMI eNcourag
ing. We feel once more that we are not
abandoned by Him, in whose hands even
the freedom Of our will is directed to an
ultimate state OF happiness; that His
grace and goodness do not desert us,even
when all the darkness and wickedness OF
ear.h!y !;fo threaten to usurp the rule on
earth and that the everlasting hope OF
man has a sure foundation.
Year: 1874

A married man in Greenfield, whom
we will call Charles, got up one morn
ing and proceeded to put on his shirt,
which his wife had just made for him
after new pattern. As she stood at
the mirror curling her hair, she heard
a suppressed sound, halfway between
Il groan and an oath, and turning
round, said, laughing, "Why, nay
dearw


"Shut up!" he calculated, "you are
born fool. Never let woman at
tempt to fit a shirt; she can't do it; is
one of the impossibilities."


"But, Charles"


"D0n't you talk; let me talk. Do
you think l am going down in this
rig? A pretty disposition you've got;
because l happened to find little
fault last week with your ironing you
must go and make shirt without a
bosom Such malicious conduct, mad
am, is unpardonable."


"Well--"


"Shut up, l say; l won't hear
word when stagched shirt is the
only fnery a man indulges in, is he
not excusable for being particular in
regard to that, l should like to know
And this thing sets like the devil.
Look how baggy it is here in front,
and it feels behind as if there was
board bound across me-" walking up
and look in the glass, hosting up one
shoulder and then the other, after the
indescribable manner of men trying
on a new garment.


His wife almost dared not speak, q,
but said "Charles, my dear, you have
the front behind" and bringing a good
sized mirror from the next room, she
held it up behind him for a moment,
and perceiving by his chop-fallen ex-
preston thai he saw the point, and
the front, she ran down stairs to settle
the coffee, and see that Bridget had
set the table gcometrically.


as Charles walked down to his Of
fee that morning, he said to the first
friend he met: 81 tell you Tom, that
little wife of mine is n born genius.
Look at this shirt, now she cut and
made it herself Do you see, it is open
behind-no confounded buttonholes to
bother q fellow. Just send your wife
for the pattern"


And it was by the way of Toms
wife that Lizzie knew Charles was
pleased with his shirts.
Year: 1874

MIR. SMITH has fine machinery for
lNI making all parts of a watch or clock
that may be missing or broken. He war
rants all his work. The patronage of the
citizens of Forest County is most respect
fully solicited, All ho asks is fair trial.


Aft
Year: 1874

A BABY IS very tender thing, people
say; but most of them arc very tar from
knowing how tender. Imagine how ner
vOus you are in certain states-when re-
covering from illness. say. when the fall
of book or the slam Of door makes you
quiver and feel faint. as if some one gave
YOU a blow. That is the way a young
baby feels at its best A puff Of wind
will set il gasping, its little breath blown
quite away. 4 noise makes tt sitiver, q
change of sumne, air makes it turn death
cold. A baby is the most nervous Ut be-
ings, and the iortures it suffers in going
to sleep and being wakened by careless
sounds when just dropping off" are
only comparable to the same experience
of an older person during an acute nesv>
Gus headache. Young babies ought to
pass the first months of iheir lives in the
country, for its stiffness no less than its
fresL air. But where silence is not to be
commanded, baby may be soothed by fold
ing soft napkin, wet in warmish water,
lightly over the top of its head, its eyes
aud ears 1t is the best way to put ner
vous babies to sleep have tried II hun.
dreds of times for child SO irritable that
paregoric and soothing syrup only made
1t wide awake. A fine towel would be
wet and laid over its head, the ends twist
ed little till it made sOrr of skull>cap,
and though baby sometimes fought against
being blindfolded in this way. five m'nutes
usually sent him off into deep and bliss
full slumber,
Year: 1874

FEEDING FOR PROFIT The feeding Of
pig through the winter simply keeps
him alive. There il no growth, or very
little The feed ls therefore no better
thar wastel, and II cannot pay tc Feed
pig over a winter to make an additional
amount of pork. A March pig that wilt
weigh 200 to $50 pounds ut Dane months
old is the most prof able one that can be
fed. And well.bred pig can be made TO
weigh this by constant good feeding. One
of our most experienced farmers says ne
has fed p gs to this weigh, and keep their
mates over to the next year. when the
latter made no more than 500 pounds or
less. If nine months feed Of . young
pig makes 200 pounds of po:k it canno;
pay to feed full.grown pig that needs
twice the food twelve months to make The
same quantity.
Year: 1874

MoNEY FoUND.-A gentleman Of Richmond
Va, who died year or two ago was known
to have been the possessor Of about Ss 600 in
money, but after his burial, when strict search
was Instituted the sum could not be found
His widow prosecuted her search for year
or more, but without avail aud at last was
forced to The unwelcomo conclusion that this
snug fortune was "clcan gone" However, a
few days ago, the officers Of one Of the banks
upon clearing out the vault found a tin box
labeled with the dead gentleman's name aud
containing the amount missing. The deceased
bad placed it in the bank for safe keeping and
had never acquainted Lis wife with the fact
The money has been restored to her and she
is as happy as any one could be under such
exhilerating circumstances.
Year: 1874

4 BAND OF BURGLARs-The arrest last
week in Norfolk Of David Espy, Fred. Be n
and Geo Wood led to the discovery Of a regu-
larly organized band Of burglars numbering
eighteen men, who are all respectfully connect
ed and occupy good social position and there
is no apparent necessity for their adopting a
life Of crime
Year: 1874

ESPECIALLY ASSORTED FOR SCRAP


BOOK ILL JSIRA ATOMS AND DRAW


ING CLASS COPIES.
large collection of pictures of different
Lies and on almost every conceivable sub
ject have been put up in an attractive envel-
ope and are now offered at a price intended to
make them popular in every sense.


Envelope No. containing so beautiful en-
CRAVINGS is now ready, and will be sent, post
age paid, to any address for ONE DOLLAR.
A liberal discount to agents and teachers.
Year: 1874

rD- A Columbia clergyman, who
while preaching sermon on Sunday
evening, perceived a man and woman
under the gallery in the act of kissing
each other behind a hymn book, did
not lose his temper. No! he remained
calm. He beamed mildly at the Of.
Tenders over his spectacles, and when
the young man kissed her the fifteenth
time, hemerely broke his sermon short
off in the middle Of thirdly" and
offered o feryent prayer in behalf o.
"tLe young man in the pink necktie
and the maiden in the blue bonnet
and gray shawl, who were profanin9
the sanctuary by kissing one another
in pew 49," And the congregation
said amen" Then the woman pulled
her veil down and the young man sa
there and swore softly to himself. HI
does not g. to church as much now c'
be did.
Year: 1874

A WORD TO YOUNG MEN.--Youne
man don't sponge your way through
the world. Don't hang around and
eat up the earnings Of other people,
VIXEN you are able to work for your
own living. 1t is not proper, nor just,
that you should spend your time in
idleness, and live off tho earnings Of
your parents. Popular sentiment
together with reason and revelation
demand of you that you work for your
own living. If you can't get full
wages, work for half wages. A young
man had better work for his victua Ii
and clothes than spend his time il
running the streets and eating W
what other people have worked for
Will you think of this young men
and 20 to work? You have already
spent some of your best and most i'm
por5ant years in idleness. Thess are
hard times, and any one who cal
work ought to get something to do ant
stick to it. Idleness leads to sins
often to want and the prison. Some
times to the gallows. Young meu
beware; the course you are pursuing
! is dangerous one, and it may end
sadly with you.
Year: 1874

would inevitably have been swept away


by the flocd, for their fishing gronnd was
TO have been low island from which no
retreat was possible. and which was swept
almost past recognition by the rcslstless
torrent.


Hugh McGee, lad of 13. with sew.
eral others climbed into an apple tree
from which he was awept off, and carried
nearly half mile, and landed in a wood
en- cove, unharmed, save few slight
bruises. The other occupants Of the tree
persisted, after clinging to particles Of de-
brls for some distance.


To the incidental escapes should be
added the experience of Mrs. Il. g. hub.
bard. She had gone across the street for
some milk, so that when the warning came
she was able to gain the hill in safety,
while her husband and Mrs. Herrick
Wood and daughter of Chlcopee were
lost.


Like oil great caamities, the situation
had its humorous incidents. A carriage
maker, rho had lost every vestige Of his
establishment, save his sign and trukeu
carriage, with grim humor announced
his business over the shattered dash
board.


The more one sees of the scenes the
more desolatc it appears. Nearly every
tree in the course Of the torrent is filled
with shl eds Of clothing which the cruel
branches stripped from the helpless people
whom the flood swept by, and the trees
themselves are stripped by the torren: of
their bark, and from trunk TO twig are left
as naked anu white and scathed as the
corpses of those they have crushed and
bruised. Above Williamsburg were about
ID acres Of the finest meadow land in
Hampshire County, which, before the
flood, were worth 5000 an acre; now.
nothing but the bare granite is left, and
the land could not be given away. There
is hardly bit of meadow on the line Of
the river, from the reservoir to the Flor.
ence, which is not hopelessly ruined.
Twenty-Five bridges in all have been car
ried away by the flood.


Some idea of the vast amount of soil
washed away by the breaking of the res
ervoir may be obtained from the fact that
upward of four inches of solid earth depos-
it was left on the carpets of houses, the
floors of which were flooded by water only
two feet in depth. This amount Of sedi-
ment gathered where the water was in the
rooms scarcely fifteen minutes, probably
half the sediment held in solution being
carried away with the retiring flood. The
huge deposits on the meadows, showing
like desert on every hand, also indicate
the vast amount Of earth and sand swept
from the valley above The farm of John
+. Warner, located abou, midway between
Florence and Leeds, suffered damage by
the flood to the amount Of So. 600.
Year: 1874

had doctored the whole supply with sscorn juice, and the temperance band had all violated their pledges, innocently to be sure, but still undeniably. The worst of 1t: was that no other water could be ob- tained, and that unfortunate crowd were obliged all day either to drink whisky with their water, or drink salt water, or, declin- ing either, to parch with thirst. And so the poison circulated as sparingly as pos sible all day, and now those Good Temp lars want to know whether it is necessary for them all to be reobligated on account of their accidentally fractured pledges.