smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Now that another 4th day of July has
passed by, we wish to say a few words
to the young men ina business pOin tot
view:


1t is easier to be good business man
than poor one. Half the energy dis
played in keeping ahead that is rcquir-
ed TO catch up when behind. will save
credit, give more time TO business, and
add to the profit and reputation of your
work. Honor your engagements. II
YOU promise to meet man, or do a
certain thing at certain moment, be
ready at the appointed time. If you go
out or business, attend promptly TO the


maitcr on hand, and then as promptly
go abont your own business. DO not
stop 10 tell stories in business.


Ii you have place Of business, be
found there when wanted. No man can
get rich by sitting around stores and sa-
looms. Never ''fool' OH business matters.
you have to labor for living, rcmem-
ber that one hour IN the morning is better
than two at night. If you employ others.
be on hand to see that they attend to
their duties, and to direct with rcgulari-
~, promptness and liberalty. DO not
mcddle with any business you know
nothing Of Never buy thing simply
because the man who sells will take it
out in trade. Trade is money. Time is
money. A good business is pleasant
and attractive; then stay there to wait
OH customers.


Never use quick words, or allow your
self to make hasty or ungentiemanly
remarks to those in your employ, for to
do SO lessons their respect for YOU and
your influence over them. Help your
self and others will help you. Be faith
ful over interests confided to your keep
ing, and all IN good time your response
biliiics will be increased. Do not build
until you have arranged and laid out
good foundation. DO not-as YOU hope
to work for success spend time in idle
ness. Ii your time is your own, busi-
ness will suffer il you do. Ifit is given
TO another for pay, it belongs to him,
and you have TO steal money. Strive 10
avoid harsh words and personalities.
Do not kick every stone i'm the path
more miles can be made day by going
steadily on, than by stopping to kick.
Pay as you go. A man ofhonor respects
his word as he does his bond. ASK, but
never beg. Help others when you can,
but never give when you cannot
afford to, simply because it is fashiona-
BILE. Learn 10 say NO" No necessity
for swapping il out dog fashion. but say
it firmly and respectfully. Have but
few confidents, and the fewer the better.
Use your own brains rather than those
Of others. Learn to think and act for
yourself. BE vigilant. Keep ahead, raih-
err than behind the times. Young men,
cut this out; and If there is folly in the
let us know.
Year: 1871

AN ACT to create a new land district in the


Territory of Washington.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That all
the public lands in the Territory of Wash
ington lying east and north of the following
boundaries shall constitute new land dis
trict. to be called the Walla-Walla district,
to wit: Beginning ON the boundary line be-
tween the United States and the British
possessions, on the summit of the Cascade
mountains; thence southerly along the line
established by the first section of the act OF
Nav ten, eighteen hundred and sixty, enti-
tied "An act to create an additional land
district in Washington Territory" to the
line dividing townships ten and eleven
north: thence east to the line dividing
ranges nineteen and twenty east; thence
south along said line to the Columbia river.


SEC. 2. That the President be, and he is
hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, or
during the recess thereof, and until the
end of the next session after such appoint
ment, a register and receiver for said dis
trict, who shall be required to reside at the
city of Walla- -Walla until such time as the
President, in his discretion, may remove
the site of said land Office from said city,
be subject to the same laws, and entitled to
the same compensation as is, or may here
after be, provided by law in relation to the
existing land officers in said Territory.


Approved March 3, 1871.
Year: 1871

ment in those regions where SO large a
of the products of labor is
expended in hauling them to n railway
station or to navigation. But even in
our own State there is room for thou
sand of miles of branch. roads which
can be built at $4,000 a mile, and
which will pay better returns than the
most costly ones now in operation.


THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY,
of which Mr.. Marshall O. Roberts is
said to be the controlling spirit, should
promptly adopt the three foot gauge,
and thus facilitate the financial ar
rangements for carrying the work into
early execution. How much easier 1t
will be to raise twelve or fifteen thou
sand dollars a mile than twenty-three
or twenty-four thousand no man can
better appreciate than Mr.. Roberts.


THE NORTHERN PACIFIC


should change it's gauge and realize the
same desirable result. The three foot
gauge will enable both of these lines to
underbid the one already in existence
for the through traffic, and secure the
money for their construction.


IL. b. w.
Year: 1871

Comment was freely made yesterday on the


fact that the proclamation forbddng the parade
issued from Police Headquarters instead Of the Mayors
office and the spirit in which supt. Kelso had permitted
himself to be made the mouthpiece Of Tammany was
loudly condemned by those indignant az his uncond-
tional surrender TO the mob before shot had
been fired. 1t was urged by some that the Super
intendent was very willing TO accept the odium at
tachng to the action, for it is calculated Ia mako
popular with the ruling class IN the city, and he
cares nothing for public opinion outside OF the city, The
Tarnmany leaders hoped by avoiding any direct action,
TO escape charge OF being controlled by the Roman
Catholics They naturally dread at this time Of ap
preaching Presidential election to have the charge made
in the rural and the cities OF other states that
Tammany is Catholic party and they hoped 10 avoid
that issue by putting Superintendent Kelso prominently


forward to bear the burden OF odium But proof that
Tammany directed the shameful and unwse
policy OF the superintendent is not wanting
of any application from the Orange Societies for per
mission to parade, and for police while march
ing, while it is clear from Mayor Halls letter to Mr.
Bond Grand Of the Orange Lodges that the Chief
Magistrate knew all about il week ago There
Just strong proof that the Mayor only inspired


but the order signed by "Catspaw Kelso" the
superintendent was yesterday denOmnated by indg.
nant individuals comparison OF many OF the passages
OF the two documents will show that the IDEAS the


same language and the style preyade both. The
following quotations will show very clearly that both
the superntendents order and the Mayors letter pro-
ceeded from the Mayors office, and dictated by
Tammany's interests:
Year: 1871

The shipments are in like proportlonl.
The Tribune says that general business is
nearly Us active rs before the fire, and that
a great proportion of the merchants have
o6ened with good working stocks. Itadds:
HIt was thought that good many OF the
smaller wholesale traders would drop pack; I;
scarcely one Of them nave done SO, ana o
their feet again, though loaded with ineum-
brances.' The abundant supply Of the
sinews of trade, ready money, does not all,
or mainly, tind its way to Chicago in the
shape Of charity, but in obedience to q
simple law of trade, which invites TO every
market that which is supposed to be most
in demand.-Bdltimor Sun.
Year: 1871

BUSINESS AT CHIoAGo.-From sill sources
of information it is Leaf ned that Chicago is
rapidly recovering from its great disaster
by fire. Intelligent gentlemen from there
say the city is all lite, and, what many
would not suppose, that money is most
abundant. Some forty thousand men are
actively at work on the burned district. II
is not only in this department Of industry
that the city is active, but current business
is all hustle, and compares favorably with
what it was in the corresponding time last
wear. The receipts of leading articles for
the forsy-eight hours ending November Sth,
for this year and last, are as follows
Year: 1871

A New CHURCH ESTERPRIsE.-T con-
sregation OF the Centenary Methodist Epls-
copal church in this city have determined
to commence at the earliest practicable
time the erection of a new church edlhce,
for the benefit OF which they propose to
publish during the next week newspaper,
which they designate The NeD Church,
and to hold Fair during that time, to
which they ask the patronage of the citi-
zens of Richmond. The paper will be cir
culated throughout the city and in other
localities for the benefit of advertisers.
While they ask the citizens for their adver-
tisemcnts as means of profit to the church,
yet they hope and believe their liberality
will be rewarded.
Year: 1871

TIVE or three days afterwards, according to
the story. Rudiger went back to the place
and repeated the performance in part One
OF the proprietors of the place was called
out this time to do the weighing. and inn
medIately recognized the crate as one he
had received, paid for, and marked the day


before. Rudiger protested that, this was
not the case, and said that If the proprietor
would wait there moment be would bring
a man to prove bis ownership Of the rags.


The proprietor waited. and Rudigcr went


after that man and did not come back"
Year: 1871

THE CASE PLAINLY PUT.-Sheriff Wright
this morning reminds taxpayers that in q
few days he will be compelled by law to
pay over to the State Treasurer all Of the
taxes for 1871. He then pointedly re-
marks " Either you or have to pay these
taxes. I am not able to do so, and am
sure you would not expect me to do SO if
I Were." Just So.'
Year: 1871

CALICO BALL.-The ladies' Of the Hebrew
Benevolent Association are making arrange
ments for grand Calico Dress Ball ut Mon
ttcello Hall on the evening of Thanks
giving day, which is November the 30th.
Year: 1871

John Porter a resident Of Jersey City, was ono OF
the men engaged ia driving piles at the Hackensack
crossing OF the Midland Railroad In New Jersey. on
Saturday last he struck the head By Pile
and died within three hours aiterward.
Year: 1871

THE GRAVE OF DOUGLAS TO BE SOLD
FOR TAxEs.-The City Collector, ON last
Monday evening, sent into the Common
Council communication to the effect that
special assessment of 80 200 had been made
upon the grave OF Hon. Stephen A. Douglas,
to pay for certain lamp posts, curbstones and
paving, in the southern portions Of the city,
and the couLts having given judgment upon
the special tax warrant, he should be compel


led TO proceed with the sale, unless the Coun-
Gil directed that the property be not sold.


A proposition was made some time ago, by


the university endowed by Senator Douglas,
to re-interihls remains upon its grounds, and,


we believe, complete the monument; but it


was defeated, we understand, through the in
fuence of that effete organization known as
the Douglas Monument Association, which
will do nothing itself, nor permit any one else
to do anything. We think, however, that il
is high time the propositions were repeated
and the remains OF the illustrious Senator
placed in the control of an association which
will prevent his grave from being hawked fol
sale upon the streets, by the tax collectors
If the Douglas grave is sold for taxes, it will


be the first grave ever sold for taxes in this OF
any other State but then it is the only grave
with which the Douglas Monument Assoca
| ton ever had anything to do, which probably
| accounts for it.-Chicag0 Post, 2Sth.
Year: 1871

"A MOVEMENT has been made in the Leg
islatice Council of New Brunswick with refer
ence to legislative union with the Lower
Provinces, ard the Exeeuaive will doubtless
be directed to open correspondence with
Nova Scotia, Prince Edwards Island and New
Foundand for the purpose OF promoting that
object. In this connection the election to be
held in Nova Scotia on the 10th of this month
is important, being the first general election
since 1867, when the opponents Of the union
with the Dominion were successful by deci
ded majority. The "Confederates" are max
ing an earnest canvass, and assert that they
have largely gained in strength since that e
lection by reason Of the assured success of th,
Confederation. The spirit of the anti Con-
federates is just as strong, and they urge a
continued and unyielding resistance to what
they deem forced union with a dstes'e'
country.
Year: 1871

Too TEUE.-A few friends will fol-
low us to our grave; perhaps atfec-
ton will rear a stone and plant few
flowers over it: in a brief period the
little mound will be smOothed down
the stone will fall and be covered by
the rank grass, and no one will be
concerned to ask which one of the
forgotten millions of the earth was
buried there. Every vestige that We
ever lived upon the earth will have
passed away. All the little memo
rails of our remembrance viii cease
to have the slightest interest to any
living being. These facts are humi-
liating, but true Reese River Re
veille.
Year: 1871

| HOW 1T is TO BE SPENT.


In the current number of F2orS CZavi-
9era an announcement is made by Mr..
Ruskin that he has received the money
for some property which he sold in the
beginning of the year. and that he has
resolved to give 900 to the public


He has requested his man of business to
invest that sum in consols, in the names
of two men of honor. Mr.. Ruskin thus
describes his plan of dealing with this
sum:


~ will tell you little more of what
we are to do with this money as it in.
creases First, let whoever gives us any
be clear in their minds that it is gift.
1t is not an investment. 1t is frank
and simple gift to the British people !;
nothing of it to come back to the giver.
But, also, nothing of it is to be lost. The
money is not to be spent in feeding
Woolwich infants with gunpowder. 1t
is to be spent in dressing the earth and
keeping it, in feeding human lips, in
clothing human bodies, in kindling Lu-
man souls. First of all, say, in dress
ing the earth. AS soon as the fund
reaches any sufficient amount, the trus-
tees shall bay with it any kind of land
offered them at a just price in Britain.
Rock, moor, marsh, or sea shore, it mat
ters not what, so it be English ground,
and secured to us. Then we will ascer-
tain the absolute best that can be made
of every acre. We will first examine
what flowers and herbs it naturally
bears; every wholesome flower that will
grow shall be sown in its wild places,
and every kind of fruit tree that can
prosper; and arabic and pasture land
extended by every expedient of tillage,
with humble and simple cottage dwell
ings under faultless sanitary regulation.
Whatever piece of land we begin work
upon we shall treat thoroughly at once,
putting unlimited manual labor on it,
until we have every foot of it under as
strict care as flower garden; and the
laborers shall be paid sufficient, un-
changing wages; and their children ed
ucated compulsorily in agricultural
schools inland, and naval schools by the
sea, the indispensable first condition
being that the boys learn either to ride
or sail the girls to spin, weave and
sew, and at proper age to cook all or
dinary food exquisitely; the youth of
both sexes to be disciplined daily in the
strictest practice of vocal music; and
for morality, to be taught gentleness to
all brute creatures, finished courtesy to
each other, to speak truth with rigid
care, and to obey orders with the pre-
cision of slaves. Then, as they grow
older, they are to learn the natural his
tory of the place they live into know
Latin, boys and girls both-and the his
tory of five cities-Athens, Rome, Ven.
ice, Florence and London. Now, to
what extent l may be able to carry this
plan into execution | know not; but to
some visible extent, with my own single
hand, [ can, and will, if l live"
Year: 1871

One fine morning in autumn Linval
was taking walk in the Tuileries at
Paris, and found an open billet contain
ing the following lines:


" If the person who finds this paper
is disposed to perform benevolent ac-
ton, he is requested to inquire at No.
$40 Rue Saintonge, for Eugene de
Mirande. Such as may not be inclined
to assist an unfortunate mother are re-
quested at least not to hinder others,
and to throw this billet again where
they find it.''


Linval, the best dancer in Paris, was
just humming a new tune; he picked
up the paper and, after reading it,
whisked it up in the air with his cane
and pursued his walk. The next per-
son who noticed it was an elderly man,
simply dressed, who was hurrying to
the public office in which he had a
place, because he was already late. He
contrived, nevertheless, to spare so
much time as was necessary to read the
billet. However, struggling up MS
shoulders and raising his eyes to heaven,
as much as to say, "That is no concern
of mine,n he carefully replaced it in its
former situation. He was followed by
a farmer-general, one of the moderate
people who are satisfied if they can
clear three thousand livres day; who,
elated by their wealth, give themselves
airs of such consequence, and of whom
La Bruyere says that they chem loud
and spit far


At first he kicked the billet along
with his foot, but, his curiosity being
excited, he took it up, threw his eye
over it with a scornful smile, amused
himself in tearing it in pieces, at the
same time muttering, ian impudent
imposture.h


The next morning similar billet lay
on the same spot. The first person who
Year: 1871

THE HACKNEYED idea that the offspring
of marriages of cousins and other near
blood relations are specially liable to
bodily and mental diseases was brought
forward by Professor Richard Owen, of
the Indiana State University, at the
meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, re-
Gently sitting at Indianapolis. The Pro-
fessor cited no evidence in support of
the doctrine except his own personal
observation. He seems to be ignorant
of the result of late inquiries, which
show by statistics that the blood rela-
tionship of parents, per Sc, has nothing
to do with the health or sickness of the
children; though it is true that where
the father and mother, being both of
the same family, are liable to the same
hereditary disease, that disease will be
likely to show itself in their children.
A perfectly healthy man marrying a
perfectly healthy woman will have
healthy offspring, and a sickly man
marrying a sickly woman will have
sickly offspring, whether near of kin or
not. The relationship is only an accl-
dental circumstance, not moving
cause of deterioration.
Year: 1871

ABOUT OYsTERs.-It is a well-knoTn
fact that an oysterman can tell the age
of bivalves to a nicely. This is not
done, however, by looking them in the
mouth, but simply by counting the sue
cessive layers or plates overlapping each
other, of which an oyster shell rs COM
posed. These are technically termed,
s'shoots, ''and each of them marks years
growth. Up to the time of the maturi-
ty of the oyster these shoots are regular
and successive, but after that Tune they
become irregular, and are piled one
over the other so that the shell becomes
more and more thickened and bulky.
Judging from the size and thickness
which some shells attain, this mollusk
is capable of attaining patriarchal
longevity. and an oyster with fifty or
even threescore years upon its back
may by chance be met with. They are
in perfection when from five to seven
years old.
Year: 1871

present this evening, as meagre ex-
preston of the esteem in which you are
held by them among whom you have so
long lived. And may the benign infu.
ences of kind Providence smile upon
you and bless you abundantly hereafter
as heretofore, and may you ever praise His
Holy Name"


To which Mr.. Folger responded as fol-
lows:


Neig7tborS and Friends: wish to say a
few words if can control my feelings
so as to express them. When concluded
to make party I did not do it for the
sake of getting presents, and did not ex.
pect anything of this kind. We have been
married twenty-five years, and [ am
thankful to my Heavenly Father that
our lives have been spared as long as they
have. We have kept the promise that we
made when we were married, and we
have worked and been prospered until we
have secured home for ourselves and
place to which we can invite our friends.
am glad to see SO many of you here to.
night, and | thank you for myself and
my wife for these valuable presents which
you have brought to US.


The articles were then placed upon the
table, and were frat used by the party
who presented them. They are valued at
S93.75. Fl.


March 9th, 1871.
Year: 1871

tB The New York Express says: "Fach
tick Of the clock for the last ten years had
added So IS to our national debt, and every
time the second hand has made a complete
revolution, s496 50 have accumulated to that
already weighty incumbent At every in
hslation, SIC o6 have been put upon the debt
side, and in the little time we take to consume
our dinner at least 1886 have been consum-
ed by the Radical party at Washington"
Year: 1871

--- A man in Kansas was present at
the funeral of neighlor, of whom no
good could honestly be said. Bnt every
body was saying something, and this man
not wishing to appear singular, but being
incapable Of lying eulogy, remarked that
it was "a nice, quiet corpse,
Year: 1871

A MILITARY genius in Michigan has
organized force Of hens 10 exterminate
the potato bug on his farm. lie began
with one biddy at time. placing her at
the end Of a row Of potatoes, and training
her to confne her attention exclusively
to that line Of operations, and deyour ev.
cry vagrant bug that fell in her way.
One by one he got hen in training iorT
every row Of potatoes in his field, and
the result is that the feathered phalanx
goes forth on its march Of determination
every day, and the valuable yegetaoIe
floufishes apace, while the neighboring
fields are biighted as with a pestiIence'
Year: 1871

1t 10 . sweet and pie asant thought.
that when all these days Of pain and
sorrow and work arc ended-these days
of contending and unrest-there will
come the folding Of hands. 1t is sweet,
when sorrow and weariness are our only
companions, to remember that the hour
is not far away when the Father will
hold the tired hands of His child in His,
will seal the aching eve with sleep, and
breathe under its trembling lid the
sweet dream of heaven. Weary not, nor
faint, the Father sees, and though you
know it not, His hand leads you. A
little gain and little labor He metes
you for your good be patient, and when
the night comes He will give you rest.
-F'etlerick Il. Murvin. =
Year: 1871

I There is structure which everybody
is building, young and old, each one for
himself. It is called character, and in
every act Of life is q stone. If day by
day we be careful to build our lives with
sure, noble, upright deeds, at the end it


will stand fair temple, honored by
God and man. But, as one leak will
sink q ship and one flaw break chain,
so one mean, dishonorable, untruthful
act or word will forever leave its i'm
press. Then let the several deeds unite
to form day, and one by one by one
the days grow into to form day, and
one by one the days grow into noble
years, and the years, as they slowly
pass, will raise at last beautiful edifice,
forever to our praise.
Year: 1871

One who is considered as authority in
horse matters, states that perfect horse
is about fifteen aud a half or sixteen
hands high; lengthy, arch neck;
sharp pointed ears large full hazel eyes;
broad between them; not too long a
face, but straight one large open
nostril; strong under jaw to masticate
his food we'll; good round body;
big full chest large around the girth,
denoting plenty of lung power; thin
withers, and an animal standing erect
on fore legs. Such animals it should be
the object Of breeders to produce, and
this requires both judgment and care.