smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

{The following lines, corrected by the most anthem
tic records. were first published in Western newspa-
per- some forty years ago, and have occasionally been
rcpubishcd since. Their authorship is unknown. In
point of syllable measure and rythm they are some
what rude but, great moral lesson, sermon
for all time free from the taint Of creed they are i'm
mcasurably superior to any of the one sided and stale
platitudcs dolcd out from the pulpit


Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like tast-hitting meteor, a fast-fying cloud,
A flash of the lightning break OF the wave,
lie passeth from life to his rest III the grave
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,
BE scattered around and together be laid
And the young and the DID, and the low and the high,
Shall mouder to dust, and together shall lie.
The child that mother attended and loved;
The mother that infants affection who proved;
The husband that mother and infant who blest-
Each all, are away to their dwellings OF rest.


The maid on whose cheek. on whose brows, in whose


eye,


Shone beauty and pleasure-her triumphs are by;
And the memory OF those who loved her and praised
Are alike from the minds of the living erased
The hand of the king that the sceptcr hath borne;
The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn;
The eye of the sage, and the heart OF the brave,
Are hidden and lost In the depths OF the grave


The peasant whose lot was to SOW and to reap;
The herdsman who climbed with his goats to the steep
The beggar, who wandered in search Of his bread,
Have faded away like the grass that we tread.


The saint, who enjoyed the communion of heaven;
The sinner, who dared to remain untOrgiven;
The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just,
Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust.
SO the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed,
That Wither away 10 let Others succeed;
SO the multitude comes, even those we behold,
TO repeat every tale that hath often been told.
For we are the same things our fathers have been;
We see the same sights our fathers have seen;
We drink the same stream, and feel the same sun,
And run the same course our fathers have run.
The thoughts thinking fathers would think
From the death shrinking from, they, too,


would shrink;


To the life we are Cnging to- they too would cling
But it speeds from the earth like bird the wing
They loved, but their story we cannot unfold;
They scorned, but the heart OF the naughty is cOG
They grieved, but wall from their slumbers will


come;


They loyed but the voice Of their gladness is dumb
They died-aye! they died; we, things that are now
Who walk on the turf that lies over their brow,
Who make in their dwellings transient abode,
Meet the changes they met their pilgrimage road
Yea. hope and despondence, and pleasure and pain,
Are mingled together, in sunshine and rain;
And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge
St:ll follow each other, like surge upon surge.
'Iis the twink of eye, It's the draught of breath
From the blossom of health to the paeness OF death
From the giided saloon to the bier and the shroud;
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Year: 1875

credulous look into his face, and then fell
fainting upon the deck.


The voyage was long one, and occupied
nineteen days, and before its termination the
young lady was able to go on the deck. She
was, however, but shadow Of her former
self, and her restless, vacant look showed
that her mind did not pass through the fear
full ordeal unscathed.


Together they concluded it was better to
place the ocean between them, and in few
days the unfortunate lady will return to her
native Holland. Her brother has made her a
liberal allowance, which will always keep
her in easy circumstances, and however bit
terly they may regret their unlucky fate, they
cannot but be thankful that their brief ac-
Quaintance ended as it did.
Year: 1875

have not seen bed-bug or flea in
my house for many years. If an army of
them were to be brought in, mercury would
speedily destroy them but [ think clean
illness is the best perhaps the only preven-
tive. The common house fly do not
molest, believeiDg that it more than COM
pensates for its trouble by clearing the at
mosphere of aff1uvia and the animalcules
which always arise from the putrefaction of
decaying substances during warm weather.
So also with the birds, which are quite
numerous here during the summer. In
stead of shooting them or setting up scare
crows to frighten them away, throw out
every possible inducement for them to build
their nests in my fruits trees. The birds
capture large share of the insects in the
larva state, and thus the milers are pre-
vented from depositing eggs for future
worms-As to the loss of fruit by the birds,
the latter are always sure to be on hand in
force in the season of ripe fruit, whether
they come early to take the worms or not.
For the residue of insects which infest my
vegetable garden [ find that the laboratory
of the chemist furnishes materials fatal to
them all, among which white hellebore and
cayenne pepper are of the most utility. The
bug or worm which cannot find vegetation
unfavored with these articles will seek its
breakfast elsewhere and leave green gar
den unmolested. A few drops of carbolic
acid in pint of water will clean house
plants of lice in very short time. limos
quitoes or other blood-suckers infest our
sleeping rooms at night, we uncork a bot
tie of the oil of pennyroyal, and these in
sects leave in great haste, nor will they re-
turn so long as the air in the room is loaded
with the fumes of that aromatic herb. If
rats enter the cellar, little powered pot
ash thrown into their holes, or mixed with
meal and scattered in their runaways, never
fails to drive them away. Cayenne pep
per will keep tie buttery and store-room
free from ants and cockroaches. If mouse
makes an entrance into any part of your
dwelling, saturate rag with cayenne in
solution and stuff it into hole, which can
be repaired with either wood or mortar
No rat or mouse will eat that ragfor the
purpose of opening communication with the
depot of supplies.-Charlcs Thompson an
Scientific american.
Year: 1875

During the past year | made limited
experiment in the use of grass sods as a
fertilizer. 1t was desired to plant piece
of worn out land in cabbage. Home made
manure was exhausted, and it was doubtful
whether commercial fertilizers would pay
on land so utterely destitute of humus and
all other carbonaceous matter. burrows
were opened four feet apart with one
horse turn plough, which was run twice
each way, opening to depth and width of
about ten inches. The road sides were re-
sorted to four wild grass sods, which were
taken up with a spade, of a width to suit
the burrows, which were then filled full of
loose earth with a hoe. After the first
rain the plants, which were of good size,
were dibbled into the loose earth, the roots
reaching down generally to the sods. The
plants gained rapid growth within few
days, and the result was such a crop of cab
bages as | have never seen produced except
in soil in a high state OF fertility previously,
or made SO for the special crop by very
liberal application of fertilizers The sod
was source of both moisture and fertility,
maintained thriftiness in the plants dur
ing drouth, which seriously affected ad-
joining crops.-P2antation
Year: 1875

About two years ago the ladies of tho
Dorcas Society at our church, made up a
large quantity of shirts, trousers and socks,
and boxed them to a missionary station on
the west coast of Africa A man named
Ridley went out with the boxes and stayed
in Africa several months. When he re-
turned, the Dorcas Society, Of course, was
anxious to hear how its donation was re-
ceived, and Ridley, one evening, met the
members and told them about it in little
speech. He said


"Well, you know, we got the clothes out
there all right, and after while we distrib-
uted them among some of the natives in the
neighborhood We thought may be it
would attract them to the mission, but 1t
didn't, and after some time had elapsed and
not native came to church with those
clothes on, | went out on an exploring
expedition to find out about it, 1t seems
that on the first day after the goods were
distributed one of the chiefs attempted to
mount at shirt He didn't exactly un-
derstand it and he pushed his legs through
the arms and gathered the tail around his
waist. He couldn't make it stay up, how
ever, and they say he went around inquir-
ing in his native tongue what kind of an
idiot it was that constructed a garment
that wouldn't hang on, and swearing some
of the most awful heatben oaths. At last
Year: 1875

he left it dragging, and that night his legs
got tangled in it somehow, and he fell over
precipice and was killed


"Another chief who got one on properly
went padding around in the dark, and the
people imagining that he was ghost sacri-
feed four babies to the idol to keep off the
evil spirit.


"And then, you know, those trousers you
sent out? Well, they fitted one pair on
the idol, and then they stuffed most of the
rest with leaves and set them up as kind
of new tangled idols. and began to worship
them. They say that the services were
very impressive. Some Of the women split
a few pairs in half, and after sewing up the
legs used them to carry yams in, and [
saw one chief with corduroy leg on his
head as kind of helmet.


~ think, though, the socks were most
popular. All fighting men went for them
the first thing. They filled them with
sand and used them as boomerags and war
clubs. 1 learned that they were so much
pleased with the efficiency of those socks
that they made raid on a neighboring
tribe on purpose to try them, and they say
that they knocked about eighty women and
children on the head before they came
home. They asked me if I wouldn't speak
to you and get you to send out few
barrels more, and to make them little
stronger so they would last longer, and [
said / would.


"This societys doing power of good to
those heathens, and I've no doubt if you
keep right along with the work you will in
augurate general war all over the conti-
nent of Africa, and give everybody an idol
of his own. All they want is enough socks
and pants. I'll take them the next time /
go out again.


Then the Dorcas passed resolution de-
claring that it would, perhaps, be better to
let the heather go naked and give the
clothes to the poor at home, and I think
myself that it is more preferable.-Mar
Adeler.
Year: 1875

Don T turn up your nose at cheap metals.
Men have accumulated lage quantities of
gold by starting in life with good stock
of brass.


Don't try to drown your troubles in whis-
key. \ man in this town has used sixteen
barrels, and his trouble "still lives


Don't use the term II fatter myself"
Some impudent bystynder will tell you it is
wrong to fatter fool


Don't kick man when he starts down
hill. 1t is wrong to waste your powers in
unnecessary labor


Don't flatter yourself that you can preach
a better sermon than your pastor. \ brick
mason cannot mend watch


Don't talk man to death. 1t is a hard
way to die.


Don't worry about the crops Plant the
seed in good time and let the Lord have his
way about the harvest


Don't give your coin to blind organ
grinder. 1t is better to spend it for circus
tickets


Don't slip in at the back door and drink
alone. 1t reduces the barkeeper's profits.


Don't imagine that the welfare of the
country can be affected by the conduct Of
town policeman. A tempest in teapot is
not very destructive.


Don't make haste to gain wealth. Better
be comfortably poor than miserably rich


Don't abuse policeman. Some of them
are orphans, and all of them are entitled to
your sympathy.
Year: 1875

Now that the weather is getting fresh
and brisk, we see people coming oct with
great mufflers and comforters around their
neoks. Wrappers for the throat give the
doctors nearly rs much practice on throat
diseases as all the malaria and foul air that
is breathed in the lungs They are breed
ers of disease, aud should not be worn at
all, unless the person is actually suffering
with some disease of the throat Or neck that
needs protection. The throat grows stroS;8
by exposure to the cold air, and no matter
how icy the wind may feel, whatever the
face will bear, the throat stand without any
disagreeable effect being experienced from
it. That is, we mean the throat will stand
exposure if it is Injured to it. If wrappers
are used it becomes weak, and person
must exercise the greatest caution in going
out of doors or he will contract cold or
sore throat. The warmer the comforter
the more apt will the throat and neck be
to sweat, and the more liable will it be to-
take cold. OF course the breast should be
well protected, but we persist in saying that
mufflers around the neck are very danger
Gus kind Of clothing. We have noticed
particularly ladies who wear furs around
their nccks, and those who have none to
Wear. In the one case sore throats from
colds will be a speciality, and in the other
sore throat will hardly be known. The
writer of this article has not worn muffler
around his neck for twenty-five years, ancf
he has had but two cases of sore throat,
each of which was caused by general
arrangement of the system. Discard your
muffiers, your comforters, and especially
your neck furs. What can be more ridi-
culous than to see man with great tower
ing fur around his neck 1t reeks with
sweat, the smell of tobacco, and poor whisky
if he is in the habit of frequenting rum
mills. 1t becomes immeasurably dirty and
fifty after having been worn a few times
and will ruin any mans throat who wears
it.
Year: 1875

FEMALE SoCIETY.-It is better for
you to pass an evening once or twice
in lady's drawing room, even though
the conversation is slow, and you
know the girls song by heart, than
in club, tavern, or pit of thea
tire. All amusoments of youth to
which virtuous women are not admit
ted, rely on it, are deleterious in their
nature. All men who avoid female
society have dull perceptions, and are
stupid, or have gross tastes, and re-
volt against what is pure: Your club
swaggerers, who are sucking the butts
Of billiard-cues all night, call female
society insipid. Poetry is uninspiring
to Jockey; beauty has no charms for
blind man; mnsic does not please a
poor beast who does not know one
tune from another; but as pure epi-
cure is hardly tired OF water-sauces,
and brown bread and butter, | protest
| eau sit Tor whole night talking
with well regulated kindly woman
about her girl Fanny or her boy
Frank, and Ike the evenings enter>
lainment. One Of the great benefits
man may derive from a woman's
society is that he is bound to be re-
spectful to her. The habit is Of great
good to your moral man, depend upon
it. Our education makes US the most
eminently selfish men in the world
Thackeray.
Year: 1875

l.
by Saloons" you mean drinking sas
looms, and am happy to say THAT the
Civil Rights bill does not give any
right to colored man to GO into
drinking saloon without the leave of
the proprietor, and am very glad that
ii does not. | am willing to con-
code, as friend to the colored man,
that the white race may nave at least
this one superior privilege to the col>
ored man, that they can drink in bar
rooms and saloons, and | never shall
do anything to interfere with the
exercise of ttat high and distinctive
privilege. l would not advocate
bill which would give that right to
the colored man. Ii | were to vote
Tor any bill on this subject at oil, it
would be one to keep the colored
man out of the drinking salOonA; !;
and | hope no barkeeper will eyeA
let a colo-ed man have glass OF
LIQUOR at any bar open for drinking.
Indeed, | should be glad, whenever a
colored man should go into drink.
ing saloon for the purpose of drinks
ing at the bar, il somebody would at
once take him aud put him out, doing
him as little injury as possible. He
could do the colored man no greater
kindness.
Year: 1875

The following poem was writ
fen by EstelIe Anna Lewis, at tn
age of fourteen. 1t is pronounced
one of the most mournfuIly beau
tiful ballads ever written:
1t hath been said, for all who die
There is teaFi
! Some pining. bleeding heart TO sigh
Der every bier.
But in that hour Of pain aud dread


Who will draw near
Around my humble couch and shed
One farewell tear
Who'd watch life's last departing ray
In deep despair,
And soothe my spirit Oh its way


With holy prayer.
What mourner round my bier will come,


In weeds of woe,
And follow ne to my long home,


Solemn and slow
When lying on my clayey bed,


In icy sleep,
Who there, by pare affection led,


Will come and weep;
BY the pale moon implant the rose


Upon my breast,
And bid it cheer my dark repose-


My lowly restl
Could but know. when I am sleeping


Low in the ground,
One faithful heart would there be keeping


Watch all night round
As If some gem lay shrined beneath


That sOd's cold gloom,
'Twould mitigate the pangs of death


And light the tomb
Yes ! in chat hour. ifI could feel


From halls OF glee
And beauty's presence one would steal


In secrecy,
And come and sit and weep by mo


In nights deep noon,
Oh would ask of memory


No other boom.
But ah lOnlier fate is mine,


A deeper woe.
From all love in youths sweet time
soon must go;
Draw round me my pale robes of white,
In dark spot
70 sleep through deaths long dreamless


night,


Lone and forgot.
Year: 1875

Are you about to marry a man
whom YOU do not love; for his
money, or his position, Or for the
sake of a home?


Beware: you are entering the
road which leads to divorce.


Are you going to marry a man
whom you do not love, because
you are urged to it by your pa
rents and your friends?


Beware: you are entering the
road which leads to divOrice.


Are you going to marry one
man while you fOndiy love anoth-
er.


Beware: you are entering the
road which leads to divorce,


Are you going to marry for
spite-just because you haye quar-
relied with your formeS beau, and
to ''come up with him" are will:
ing to unite yourself to another?


Beware: you are entering the
road which leads to divorce.


Are you going to marry a man
with whom you have no senti-
ments in common, and whose
tastes and wishes you intend to
disregard after marriage?


Beware: you are entering the
road which leads to divorce.


In short, when marriage is any
thing but the mingiing of two
hearts in one, it had better not
take place. If this principle were
universally recognized, we should
hear no more Of divorce, because
people Wepid keep out of the road
that leads To it.-M Y. Ledger.
Year: 1875

''Certainly there is no noblel
field for human eff)rt than the
insurance line of busiqeSs-eSpe
cially accident insurance. Ever
since have become a Director in
an accident insurance company Il
have felt that | am a better man.
Life has seemed more precious.
Accident has assumed az kinGiief
aspect. Distressing special prov.
i1ences have lost half their hOr.
ror. I look upon cripple, now,
with affectionate interest-as an
advertisement. | do not seem to
care for poetry any more. l do
not care for politics: even agri.
culture does not excite me. But
TO me now, there is a charm
about a railway collision that is
unspeakable.


There is nothing more benefi
cient than accident insurance.
have seen an entire family lifted
out of poverty and into affiuance
by the simple boon of a broken
leg. have had people come to
me eon crutches. with tears in their
eyes, to bless this beneficient ms
titution. In all my experience of
life I've seen nothing so seraphic
as the look that comes into a
freshly mutilated mans face when
he feels in his vest pocket and
finds his accident ticket all right.
And [ have sean nothing so sad
as the look that came into another
splintered customers face when
he found he couldn't collect on a
wooden leg.


[ will repaark here, by way
of an advertisement, that noble
character which we have named
the Hartford Accident Insurance
Company is an institution which
is to be peculiarly depended upon.
A man is bound to prosper who
gives it his custom. No man can
take out a policy in it and not
get crippled before the year is out.
Now there WAS enc indignant
man who had been disappointed
SO often with other companies
that he had grown disheartened,
his appetite left him, he ceased
to spile-said his life was but a
WEAKNESS. Three weeks ago |
got him to insure with us, and
now he is the happiest, brightest
spirit in this land-has a good
steady income and q stylish suit
of bandages every day and travels
round on a Shuttar


1 ana jnformed by MIR. Charles
Wilson, foreman of our patent leg
and crutch factory-hoWever for
further information on that head
will refer you 10 our advertise
mentS


will say in conclusion that my
snare of the welcome to our guest
Is none the less hearty because /
talk SD mach nonsense, and l
can say the same for the rest of
the speakers"
Year: 1875

HIRE is a natural sOlilOquy Of a
siA-year- cid BOY: 81 wonder what
makes papa tell such nice stories
to his visitors about his holding
his masters rattan when he went
to school, and about his running
away from the school mistress,
when she was going 10 whip him,
and then shut me up all day in Il
dark room, because ] tried just
once to be as smart as he has been.
Wonder what made papa say that
wicked word, when Betsey upset
the ink ali over his papers, and
then slapped my ears when | said
the same thing when my kite
string broke.


Wonder why mamma told Brid-
get, the other day, to say she was
not at home when Tommy Days
mother called, and then puts me
to bed without my supper every
time l tell lie. o dear there
are lots of things l want to know.
How L wish l was a man"
Year: 1875

A GHOST, OR WHAT ?--For the past
four or five nights the men working at
the New Caledonia shaft have seen.a fe-
male figure in and around the works,


from l O. clock till 3 O'Clock in the morn
ing Several of the men made attempts
to get near enough to talk to and dis
cover who she was. but could not succeed
in doing so. One man in going home
about 3 O'Clock in the morning, two or
three days ago. passed her at the powder
magazine. a short distance away from the
mine. and was followed by the figure un-
til he came to the old works of the Gale
donia, when it suddenly vanished from
his sight. He is firmly persuaded that
no live woman could have kept as close
to him. at the rate he was going. as the
figure did. 1t will be remembered that a
man met with. a violent death at the shaft
some time ago, and this fact, together
with what is stated above, leads some of
the men to the conclusion that the figure
is not that of material woman. Some
people may scoff at the idea of spirits re-
visiting the earth, but it would be hard to
convince the men at the mine that il was
a live woman who made the unseason-
able visits referred to.-Gold Hill Ne,cs
Year: 1875

FRANCE AT THE CENTENNIAL.-We are
pleased to observe that the French Gov
ernment enters heartily into the Centen-
nial scheme, and is doing all in its power
to encourage O full attendance from that
country at Philadelphia next year. We
hope this interest will be thoroughly ap-
preciated and generally recognized in
our own country. Whatever may have
been the follies and the faults of France,
the American people owe her debt they
can never pay. She was our friend when
we needed friends, and when friendship
for US cost more than it ever has since
It is not too much to say that France
gave US the independence whose birthday
we are about to celebrate. Without her
timely aid we might indeed have ulti-
mately succeeded in breaking the chains
which bound US to England. but our re-
lease could not have come when it did
and as it did, The revolution of 1776
would probably have dwindled into a
mere rebellion. and many weary and
wretched years might have passed before
that failure was compensated by final
triumph.