smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

ropes were washed away was unable 60 swim was
the last who left the wreck alive; IL was In my
opinion impossible have launched the boat spoken OF
by Mr.. Allan; ~ carried aw0y about daylight;
have had twentysevon years experience at sea with


great many masters, and l found Capt. Williams all
that could be expected OF one in his position, have
been shpmaster myself largely In the Ipdia trade
made TO keep the steerage passengers be-
low tho c0mpanionways were open: ]. cam
not give any opinion 10 the quantity of coal she had
whether 10 enough or not Joined the steamer In
the morning. and left few hours later person might
be told that there 300 tuns OF coal board out
that would not provo IT. too often short quantity OF
coal is put In ships; considered there not the
slightest risk when went to bed at Ia In the morning
the intended 10 take about five miles east
OF Sanibro Ii ght; the point nj which she struck IT,


learn, miles west OF the light; can account for
the disaster In other way than there strong set
10 tho northwest which we did not know of; the log
was hove regularly every two hours on two or three
days during the passage, when had no observations


deadreekOning found correct the chief steward
bad reported short supply of provisions that might be
because we took more passengers than we expected


The Court then adjourned until 10 o'clock on Monday
Year: 1873




Ia.


At her Majestys drAwing-room on the 18th inst,
the hair appeared to be dressed higher than ever
on tho top OF the head, and almost all the young
ladies had it turned from the face over cush-
ion the feathers and flowers were worn more
on the top OF the head than Of old. Tho young
girls who were presented patronized snowdrops
good deal, one of them particularly having
them most gracefully arranged on one side OF
the hAir, ,as though they were growing there.
little vail covered with pearl beads, was rather .
novelty, and oolored ribbons round the neck
with a bow In front and diamonds in the center'
were much worn.


One lady had ribbon collar at tho throat
trimmed with lace quite in the Louis XIV style
indeed, the bellies Of the present draWing-ro room
looked more like the pictures OF our ancestors
than over. More false hair seemed to be worn
more costly lace, and the trimmings were more
elaborate than ever. 1t would be really difficult
to attempt TO describe the pufhngs, plAitingsi
and ruchings Of which the tulle petticoats were
composed. One dress had the lace hounee
brought up in a great plat at the side, which
was filled out with blue tulle and bows OF rib
| bon, and had very novel effect; black corded
silk train, with deep bias folds Of blue silk, wal
worn with it, dotted over with primroses.
Year: 1873

Sir William Napier was one day taking
long country walk, when he met a
little girl about FIVE years old sobbing
over a broken bowl. She had dropped
and broken it, in bringing it back from
the field to which she had taken her
fathers dinner. and said she would be
beaten on her return home for having
broken IL. As she said this, sudden
gieam of hope seemed to cheer her.
She inpocently looked up into Sir Will
liam's face and said But you can
mend it, can't yoG?" He explained
that he could not mend the bowl, but
the trouble he could overcome by the
gift of a sixpence to buy another.
However, on opening his purse it was
empty OF silver, and he promised to
meet his little friend on the same spot
st the same hour next day, and to bring
sixpeace with him; bidding her mean
while tell her mother she had seen q
gentleman who would bring her the
fz.oney for bowl next day. The child,
entirely trusting him, went on her way
comfGrted On his return home he
found an invitation awaiting him to
dine in Bath the following evening to
meet some one whom he especially
wished to see. He hesitated for some
iittle time, trying to calculate the possi-
bility of giving tine meeting to his little
friend of the broken bowl and still being
in time for the dinner party in Bath,
but finding this could not be, he wrote
TO decline accepting the invitation, on
the plea of "a previous engagement. }"
saying, 81 cannot disappoint her; she
trusted me-"
Year: 1873

Commenting upon the fact that not
one woman was saved on the fated At
lantic. although many had the same
chance of life as the men, an exchange
says THE strength of women at the
crises of their life depends on their
physical culture while children. Let
parents be no more ashamed of their
girls brown faces and fists than Of their
boys. Let them train and clOthe them
so that they can run and climb and
care for and protect themselves. Let
them take them with their brothers into
the harvest field. A boy is not ashamed
of work no more should be girl.
The refinement that shuts girl out of
Gods sunshine, and allows her no
rougher work indoors than to embroi-
der worsteds, or tap ivory keys, or dust
marble mantel, is refining her off of
the face of the earth to give place to
the daughters of the servants OF the
kitchen"
Year: 1873

No educated woman is fit to bear
children who cannot give them all the
instruction they require up to the age
of ten years. No woman can have any
higher career or nobler exercise for
whatever talent God has given her, and
if the unmarried women who are seek
ing outlet for their unused energies
would qualify them selves for this high
est duty of maternity ,hey would prove
their own frequent assertion, that wo-
men are born for higher uses than to
be household drudges or to bring forth
children. Home training in infancy is
the only absolute universal rule of edu-
cation. After that the parents course
should be modelled by the child's char
acter and temperament.
Year: 1873

A woman, trembling with WEAKNESS,
and nearly discouraged with ill-success,
stands and looks rnefully down on the
shirt she is ironing, when a new train
of thought arrives, and she must heed
its voice ''Why are shirts made with
ruffies and plaits and stitehines and
puffs and why are they starched and
ironed with such infinite trouble? Is
nian any more or less n man, because of
the ornamental shirt front which fashion
dictates? ? Which is the uglier, a plug
hat or d starched shirt? and would not
either of them suit a Feeiee Islander
better than a civilized man? L shall
endeavor to prove the shirt to be a great
promoter of lung disease and cGnsump-
,,on. The ornamental part, which Is
The part to show, is made of linen, and
Just co7srs the vital organs IN front.
Cotton is bad enough, but linen is cruel.
Then the dress, which should be made
to protect the breast. is left open one
third of the front, TO display ornamental
needle work and jewelry, and men go
hacking around with hereditary con-
sumption. Why not say an hereditary
love for display? As Z general thing,
men dress warmly and comfortably on
a cold stormy day, when they go out,
Du. the moment they set foot inside
their homes, about SIX or eight thick
aesses of Noolen goods, and about one
sud one-half or two inches of cotton
xaiding are laid aside. or turned back
10 display the shirt. IL Is not at all
necessary that shirt should be seen,
then how much labor would be saved
10 woman. 1t has never yet been my
fortune to know a woman who could
..Gl her husbands shirt right. Among
she yeyy earliest recollections OF my
ehiidh o0d, arises a ghost of shirt with
ats buttons of, or too far back, or too
Ear front; its collar always too stiff, or
Ioo limp-the one big bugbear of the
wash tub, and the one thing that could
not be put off till another day, In case
If sickness or trouble. Then, whoever
made shirt right? For my part,
have never seen one that proved to be
right. And where Is the need of perfec-
ton in an undergarmeRt, if 1t be clean
enI whole? Men suffer from exposing
kheis persons to display a shirt, and
women suffer from anxiety and fatigue
and unnecessary labor in preparing 1t.
Would not the cause of humanity be
pronoted by wearing plain garment,


without ornament or starch, and devo-
ting the time usually spent on shirts,
10 a careful study of the laws of health ?
Thus one or two OF consumption causes
would be done away.
Year: 1873

ale, which would hold high rank, among


the best of our American country homes,
in architecture while in comfortable


exclusion of cold, We have not country


house, of whatever material. that would


bear rigid comparison with the poor
est of them. Double glazing OF window
sashes--outside and in-the packing of
every window and door frame with moss,
and careful papering of every room,
are some of the means taken to prevent
any circulation of the frosty air. For
winter comfort, combined with the ut
most facility for every conceivable or
commend to me the Nor
wegian log house.-.Scientifc Ameri-
can
Year: 1873

4 Worn To THE BoYs.-Boys the
evenings are growing cooler and longer,
and the time is at hand when you will
have more leiSIre than at any other
period of the year. You shoul. inn
prove these hours. Never allow your
selves to pass an idle moment: improve
every one of them. Read, write do
something that is useful to yourselves
or others. Make it fixed rule to de-
vote at least two hours of each evening
to useful reading. You will be aston
ished, when next spring comes, to find
how much you have learned. Give an
hour day to agricultural and horti-
cultural reading. Make yourselves
familiar with all that relates to your
calling, and you Will realize the advan-
tages of such course when you grow
up to be men.
Year: 1873

Perhaps there is good reason in
deposing some of the rules of cti-
quettc imposed by fashionable So
ciety. If a man wishes to eat his
mashed potatoes with his knife, or
prefers to pour his hot coffee into a
saucer rather than burn Ills throat,
we are willing he should have his
liberty. But there are some things
that no man has a right to do, and
that no well-bred man will wish to
do. No man will wish to put his
fork into another mans plate, or
drink from another persons cup
If two men sleep in the same bed,
and one cf them crowds the other
one to the rail, then he is called a
hog.


Now, there are certain rules OF
good breeding that apply to the
road as well as at the table or at
the tireside. We are not talking
about any laws of common sense
and good breeding. When two
teams meet, good breeding requires
that each gives halt the road. Yet
we often meet teamsters who refuse
to obey this simple rule, because
they have the advantage at the
time. A man with 4 heavy lumber
wagon has no more right to crowd
a light carriage into the ruts or
bushes, than burly lubber would
have to force his weaker bed-fellow
to sleep on the rail. If some pecu.
liarity in his load requires him to
keep the track, he can stop his team
and politely ask for it, and thank
the other for giving it.


When one teamSter wishes to
pass another on dusty road, he
should ask the privilege of doing
so, especially if there is lady il
the forward wagon. When the
forward man finds that his owl
team travels slower than The
other, he should hold his horses t,
their slowest pace till the Other
passes. "A man has no more right
under these circumstances, to whil
up his slow team just enough tt
keep the other in the rear, than h,
has to build a fence across the road
or do any ill-mannered or vuIga
thing.


We suppose there are statut,
laws to regulate the conduct o
teamsters, but we have not felt i
necessary to refer to them; for W,
think a little attention on the par
of teamsters to the simple rules o
good breeding will do as much t
preven taccidents and secure comfor
and good feeling on the road a
any set of laws that could be en-
acted.
Year: 1873

On drive with some friends over
Pomfret Hills the other day, we
called on singular character, a man
thirty years old, who is deaf and
dumb and blind. He was born deaf
and blind. Whether he would have
been dumb or not if he had been
blessed with the sense of hearing
it is impossible to tell, but his glim.
merings of intellect are evidently
rather feeble. Where all the ave
nues Of communication except the
sense of touch are closed, if intel,
lcct exists, it will manifest itself as
in the case Of julius Bruce. This
man is well developed physically:
is of ordinary height, has a stout
thick neck, and looks strong and
robust. And here comes in an in.
teresting fact for psychologists and
those who make a study of health
in connection with diet. This man
has never eaten anything but milk
has never tasted water, nor a
particle Of any food but milk
Thirty years on clear milk, and
with 4 neck like an OK, and appar
emily muscular system to CORES
pond. Can we say now that milk
is for babies and calves only, and
not for strong men? This man had
full set of strong, double teeth
clear around, and every one of them
had to be pulled ont, as he tore his
clothes to pieces with them. AS he
didn't need them to chew his milk
with, he probably thought he must
make some use of them, as they
were evidently made lor sometl ing.
and his clothes furnished excellent
material on which to try them
Another peculiarity of this strange
being is that through all his life he
has chcwed n rag. From his iufan-
cy his mother has had to place a
rag in his mouth as soon as he had
taken his food. | asked her what
he would do if she omitted it. She
said he would give her no peace
until she put it back. He distin-
guisheS strangers from the neigh
bors, and those who have visited
him before. took hold of his
hand, and he took it in both of his.
then passed his hand up the length
of my arm, and then patted his
head and chest and made sinGu,
lar cultural noise. | asked his
mother what these manifestations
indicated. She said that was his
way Of showing that he was pleased
His principal enjoyment seems to
consist in having his mother get
TIN ough her work and sit down by
his side. He has a swing in the
room, in which he spends good
part of his time swinging. Some.
times, when his mother steps out,
lie will lock the door so that she
cart get back again, which shows
that he has some wit about him, or
trickery at least. He is always very
wakeful at nights, and arouses his
mother out of bed many times du-
ring the night. She says he has
lived thus without 4 good nights
rest for thirty years, with the ex-
ception of Saturday and Sunday
nights. Every Saturday night he
calms down like a lamb, and keeps
that night and all the Sunday after
the strict letter of the old "blue
laws" Of Connecticut. / don't sup
pose he would venture to kiss his
mother on that day. Evidently the
spirit Of Cotton Mather takes pos
session of him, and triumphantly
rules till Monday morning.-Hart-
foyG Times
Year: 1873

Next to being married to the right
person, there is nothing so impor-
tant iii ones life, as to live under
ones roof. There is something
more than poetical charm in the
expression of the wife:


1--WE have our coy house; it is
thrice dear to US because it is our
own. We have bought it with the
savings of our earnings. Many were
the soda water fountains, the con-
fectionery saloons, the necessities
of the market we had to pass; many
q time my noble husband denied
himself the comfort of tobacco, wore
his old clothes and even patched his
boots; and |, 0, me! made my old
bonnet do, wore the plainest clothes,
did the plainest cooking-saving
was the order Of the hour, and to
have "A home of our own had been
our united aim. Now we have it,;
there is no landlord troubling us
with raising the rent, and exacting
this and that. There is no fear har-
bored in our bosom that in sickness
or old age we will be thrown out of
house and home, and the money we
have saved to pay rent is sufficient
to keep us in comfort in the winter
days of life"


What a lesson do the above words
teach, and how well it would be if
hundreds of families would heed
them, and instead of living in rent
ed houses, which take a large share
of their capital to furnish, and a
quarter of their earning to pay the
rent, dress and eat accordingly,
would bravely curtail expenses, and
concentrate their efforts on having
"a home Of their own" Better Il
cottage Of your own than rented
palace.
Year: 1873

The Press AND RELIGION
What the general effect Of the press
upon the religious element of the
people is, may not be clear to many
at present, if bv religion is meant
adhesion simply to the tenets of
sect, and 4 zeal to promote them,
then we do not find it helpful. IT
by it is meant merely a fervor of de-
won't feeling that requires for its
nourishment, strong incidents Of de-
votional exercise, then we cannot
look for special assistance here.
But if it is meant a robustness and
energy of moral character, a life
which, while recognizing its de-
pen dence upon the Supreme being,
strives to put things to the uses that
He designed, and make human ex-
istence nobler and more prosperous
in all its relations, then we say the
press does contribute to this end,
and will doubtless do so more and
more, till the great ends of the race
are accomplished on earsh.--Rer.
II. n. Porers.
Year: 1873

against him. I hope that the matter will
be discussed at the coming State Grange
meeting with good feeling, and those who
so bitterly oppose it now will post them
selves thoroughly in the matter, with view
Of taking such steps and adopting such
measures as will be for the best interest Of
the Order at large.


In relation to the two per cent. commits
sion paid Mr.. Denman, would propose for
the consideration of brothers and sisters
of the Order the plan as adopted in Iowa,
which is-to give the State Agent salary
and furnish him. In this way the amount
of figuring and dissatisfaction might all be
dispensed with, for all could see and know
what he was getting for his work, and they
would get the machinery and goods at the
exact cost to the agent, with freights added
only.


The remarks Of the editor of the Union,
and those in the P. S. of Brother E. R.
Perkins, in relation to recommending your
paper to Patrons, should perhaps both be-
long to me, although the editor gives Mr..
Denman the credit of it, Twill make no re-
ply to them as there is none necessary.
havealways taken pleasure in recommending
your valuable paper to my brother Patrons,
believing it to be worthy of place in ev
cry household in the country, and did
say (and truly that all communications
from the State Agent in relation to its
workings would be found in The GRANGE
ADVANCE. Mr.. Denman has heretofore
sent many communications to the Union,
and for all know intends to do so in the
future, although the editor of that paper
seems to think he has left him.


Yours, fraternally,


E. N. WEST,


Sec Winona County Council, P. Of H.


and Clerk for Mr.. Denman,


State Agent.
Year: 1873

01, WHAT TH1 OLD WOMAN SAID 70 HER DAUGHTER
One Summer eve CHANGED to pass near by the cot
An aged woman in the sun sat talking to her mate,
The frost OF age was on her brow It's Guinness III "er
And her ' bent figure to and fro rocked all uncon-


sciously;
The frost of age her brow, yet garrulous her
As she compared the doings now. with those when
When was young young gals we're meek, and looked


round kind of shy,
And when they compelled to speak, they did so


modestly;
They stayed at home and did the work, made Indian


bread and wheaton,
And only went to singing school, and sometimes to
The children we're obedent then, they had no saucy
But minded what their mothers said, and learned to


say their prayers,
But nowadays they know enough, before they know
their letters;
And young ones that can hardly speak will contra
dict their betters.
Young women go flirting round and looking out
for beaus,
And scarcely to ten is found to wash or mend her
Clothes


But then! tell my daughter


Folks don't do as they'd oughter;


They hadn't oughter do as they do,


Why don't they do as they'd oughter!
When was young, if man had failed, he'd shut up
And yenurcd out till night if he ventured out
at all.
And his wife sold all her china plates, and his
came home from college,
And his gals left school and learned to wash and
bake and such like knowledge,
they gave up cake and pumpkin pies and had the
plalnest eating,
And never asked folks home to and scarcely
to meeting.
The that a bankrupt called was kinder
And hardly dared to show his head among his town
folks then.
But nowadays, when merchant fails, they sa, he
makes penny;
His wife don't have gown the less, and his daugh-
ters just as many.
His do smoke their choice cigars and drink their
costly wine,
And she to the opera, and he has folks dine.
He walks the Streets he drives his gig show him
all civilities,
And what in my days were called debts are now call
ed liabilities
They call the man unfortunate who ruins half the
In my day it was his creditors to whom we gave the
pity.


But then I tell my daughter


Folks don't do as they'd oughter


They hadn't oughter do as they do,


Why don't they do as they'd oughter?
When was young, crime crime, it had no other
And when twas proved against man, he had to bear
the blame.


no fine feeling;
What folks call petty larceny, in my days called
stealing.
They did not make reprobate the theme of song
and story,
AS if the boodier his hands the brighter was
the glory.
And when murder had been done, could they the
murderer find,
They hanged him as they would crow. a terror to
mankind
But nowadays it to me, wherever blood is split
The murderer has sympathy proportioned to his guilt
And when the law has proved man to be a second
Cain,
dozen Jurors will be found to bring him in insane
And then petitions will be signed and texts of Scrip
ture twisted,
Until, the who proved to be as bloodthirsty as
Nero,
Will walk abroad like other men, only greater hero


But there! tell my aughter


Folks don't do as they'd oughter;


They hadn't oughter to do as they do,


Why don't they do they'd oughter?
Year: 1873

"Yes, mother, know-but then. you
see, my good feelings only last half iif-
fy," So said my boy to me last evening,
in answer to my appeal.


l know it Henry" said "but how
long does it take to switch off locomotive
on to the wrong track Once started on
to the wrong track, no matter how smooth.
ly aud swiftly it may run, it is running to
destruction. On the other hand, moment
only, and the switch.tender will have put
the locomotive on the right track, and the
cars will 60 on safely So with the heart.
1t takes only a moment to pray sincerely,
Lord save me- 1t takes only moment
to say from the heart, "Lord give me thy
Holy Spirit; make me thy child; do not
leave me let me not leave thee On the
other hand, it takes but a moment to say,
'Pshaw what's the use? | don't care.
1t takes but moment to say, j m not go-
ing to be laughed at for being Chriatian,
| know. 1t takes but moment to drive
the Spirit Of God away, by simply divert.
ing the mind which may be done in many
ways. And so the soul may be switched
on to the right track or on to the wrong
track in moment of time, and either run
safely to the end of life, by Gods grace, or
run swiftly and surely to destruction. =
Morning Light.