smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

RUNAwAY-Narro,D Escdpe.-On Sunday
afternoon horse took fright on Sd street at
some object and dashed Off at q break-ucck
speed. Attached to the halter which was


upon his neck there was a heavy block OF


wood. and every step which the animal


took brought hisawkward thing in violent


contact with his legs, which tended to


make him run but the faster. On reaching
Clay street he stumbled and fell, very soon
regaining his feet, however. Starting of
again as fast as before, he made a distance
Of several squares, in his course causing
quite a stampede amongst the petlc strans


! Two Young gentlemen who were crossing
the street. at the time escaped being run
over by jumping behind Il tree as the horse


fell Il second time, injuring himself severely.
Year: 1871

ave return Immediately" she said,
as she babe me good-by, "and leave
here Tomorrow"


So ! shall not sec her again.


The past is evidently dead to her;
she was not girl to pine and die for Il
tickle, faithless lover. She loves her
husband now, and he is wortbier man
than |. And those letters | will
glance over them again; cannot think
the girl who wrote them and the wo-
man ] saw tonight are the same.
Shall | keep them as sourenirsl No,
the past is irrevocable, and they belong
to it. | light them in the gas jet one
by one, and watch them as they float
Off into ashes; the ribbon must 90 too.
Her eyes were Gear, bright sapphires
as she looked into mine tonight; but
20 cool and calm, SO different from the
look she gave me long ago. Do
regret her? She might have been my
wife now, and | not so solitary. But
it is growing chill and gray with the
early morning; and to morrow | shall
wake to find the old romance dead
and vanished with the ashes of the old
letter.
Year: 1871

How TO KEEP A SITUATfoN.-'.'ho
following bit of good advice is from
the Working Alan, and is worthy the
attention of all our readers;


Lay it down as foundation rule.
that you will be "faithful in that which
is least Pick up the loose nails, bits
oftwine, clean wrapping paper, and put
them in their places. Be ready to
throw in an odd half hour or hours
time, when it will be an accommodate
ton, and don't seem to make a merit Of
it. DO it heartily. Though not q
word be said, be sure your employer
will make note Of it. Make yourself
indispensable to him, and he will looe
many of the opposite kind before he
will part with you.


Those young men who watch the time
to see the very second their working
hour is up-who leave, no matter what
state the work may be in, at precisely
the instant-who calculate the extra
amount they can slight their work, and
yet not get reproved- who are lavish
of their employers goods; will always
be the first to receive notice that times
are dull, and their services are no lon.
ger required.
Year: 1871

Coop TEMPER The great moral
lubricator which makes everything in
human life run without friction, is good
temper. As soon as this is exhausted,
the journpls OF the human machine
begin to heat, and wear, and screech,
and the entire mechanism becomes
noisy aud ruinously wasteful Of pow,r.


"The horse that frets, is the horse
that sweats," is an old saying Of horse-
men, and it is just as true of men as
Of horses. The man that allows him.
self to get irritated at every little thing
that goes amiss in bis business, or in
the ordinary affairs of life, is a man
for whom bile and dyspepsia have a
particular fondness, and for whom
children have a particular aversion.
He is a man with a perpetual thorn in
his flesh, which prlcks and wounds at
the slightest movement; a man for
whom life has little pleasure, and the
future small hope.


10 "keep jolly" under all provoca>
tions, is perhaps task which only
Dickens Mark Tapley could perform.
We never have met Mark Taplcy in
our experience of human nature, but
we have seen him closely approXimatcd,
and it would be well if people in general
could approach more nearly that inimi-
table character.


In all the phases, emergencies, and
occupations of human life, good temper
is a commodity for which there is great
demand; but in those which bring an
individual into daily contact with many
others, it is perhaps in greatest demand
and most limited supply.
Year: 1871

An old bachelor editor thus, in his
spite, comments on recent moonlight
night: I'VE left our sanctum at mid
night last night, and on our way homo c
we saw a young lady and gentleman
holding a gate on the hinges. They
were evidently indignant at being kept
out so late, as we saw them bite each
other several times"
Year: 1871

Every seventh person in London is
in receipt of public charity. The cost
of aiding this class has increased dur
ing the past ten years sixty eight per
cent. faster than the growth Of tho
great metropolis.
Year: 1871

Of the quaint sayings of Father
Taylor, many old and some new ones
are finding their way into print. To
a prayer meeting which had just been
told that repentance was never too late,
forasinner blown up in a powder mill
could make his peace with heaven be,
fore he tell to the earth, Father Taylor
said, "Do not trust in such chance,
brethren; don't wait for your dying
hour before you repent; perhaps you
never will be blown up in 4 powder
mill.
Year: 1871

OBSTRUCTION REMovED.-For o mum.
Der Of years there have been many com.
plants made by residents at the lntersec-
tion Of Preston and Fillmore Streets,
about the failure of the sewer at that
point to accomplish the object Of It's con-
structlon. Those complaints became 80
strong and persistent that Council at a
recent meeting ordered an examination of
the sewer TO be made, and the obstruction
to be removed, II any should be found.
Two or three days since, Street Commits
sioner Leonhart went to the place indlca-
ted, in obedience to said order, and pro.
viding himself with the proper appliances,
entered the sewer He had not gone very
far before he met with an obstacle that
prevented further progress.


On examination he found o section OI q
tree, twenty feet long and two feet in di.
ameter, firmly imbedded in the mud, and
held still more securely by its lodgment
against water pipe, crossing the sewer
at right angles The piece Of timber was
taken out by removing the upper half of
the arch, and lifting 1t with d derrick.
Since that has been done the cellars in
that neighborhood have been completely
drained, and everything Is once more
lovely on Fillmore and Preston Streets.


How and when such a huge log could
have found It's way into the sewer, has
been the subject of much theorizing by
the oldest inhabitants in that region. We
believe 1t has been agreed by the parties
last mentioned that It was foated there
by back water from the river during the
freshet In 1869. Since that date, II is said
there has been no flood which would
have carried 1t to that point The besI
received theory goes still one step further
and asserts that the log was carried over
the top OF the water pipe at high tide
and as the water receded, II came in con
tact and was caught by the aforesaid pipe
and its egress arrested We :trust the
publicity thus given to the conclusions
arrived at by those who have made the
subject matter Of great thought, will
be as satisfactory as the removal Of The
obstruction so long complained Of.
Year: 1871

A NOVEL WAGER.-We hear Of a novel
wager that has been made in town not
far distant from Steubenville, upon the
result Of the coming State election, The
loser is to don the habilments Of q ic.
male, in totO, and pull small wagon filled
with brick, the whole distance Of one Of
the principal streets, on both sldcs.-Sen-
hcnpWe HCruR.
Year: 1871

LOWELL, september ".
The Board OF Health is working
earnestly TO prevent the spread Of the
smallpox. A temporary hospital is TO be
constructed and large special police
force appointed to isolate the cases as far
as possible. A red flag by day and red
light by night will be used TO designate
the injected places.
Year: 1871

He planteth an Ash aud the rain doth noursh IT,"


--lsgiaA


The motive which induced such action in that
country and at that day mag not now be approved,
but the action itself was wise The timber was
good and he thought it would be needed and as
it could not be produced Immediately, he must
cultivate it carefully and long, or bye-andbye it
could not be obtained. Why should not Yer
monters do the same Their ash timber is rapid
ly diminishing or has already gone and where are
the young groves that will supply its place Ash
Is now used for fuel, fencing furniture, finishing
for cars, houses, carriages, has been extensively
carried in bent or extension stock to California or
the interior States, is greatly demanded in every
country and for great variety of purposes, and
who cultiyating young growths, or who has
planted an ash that the rain nourishes The
seeds are easily obtained every fall, hang in beau
tiiul clusters, but nobody thinks of gathering or
planting them and meantime the timber rapidly
disappears. The three varieties are almost equally
valuable, and the thought in reference to them is
how shall we be rid of them This should be
reversed 1t need not be planted on the best tillage
land, but on rocky and steep side hills, near old
walls by the way side, almost any where. The
black ask hourishes in swamps, striving to render
healthy impure air and make country, otherwise
unattractiye and uninhabitable, wealthy, popul-
GUS and lourishing. Shall its efforts be second
ed Shall there be raised every year in Vermont
20, 900 trees where now none are grown In so
years what an immense value they would repre-
sent, and whose labor in other respects would be
dimished or whose land be impoverished Let
it be said of many boy and many a young man
in our State that, with an eye to beauty to luxu-
rance of country, and to gain " lie planteth an
ash and the rain doth nourish it,"
Year: 1871

this account to the Chicago Tribune says that this
peculiar appearance Of the tongue is diagnostic.
lie has observed il in those who have been ad-
dictcd to chloral eating for only few days. The
habit is, moreover, exceedingly hard to break of
and attempts to do so have resulted in symptoms
not unlike those Of delrium hemcns. One case is
reported where a man who took an overdose slept
Tor twenty-iour hours, and on awakening found
his arms and legs parayzed It is to be hoped
that these facts will induce the public generally
to be very cautious about the new drug, and not
to make use Of it at all without the advice Of a
good physician.
Year: 1871

"Don't be afraid Of little fun at home


good people. Don't shut up your houses
lest the sun should fade your carpets and
your hearts, lest hearty laugh should shake
down some Of the musty old cobwebs there


IT, you want to ruin your sous, let them think
that all mirth and social enjoyment must be


loft on the threshold without, when they come
home at night. When once a home is re.
garded as only a place to eat, drink, aud
sleep in, the work is begun that ends in
gambling.houses and reckless degradation.
Young people must have fun and relaxation
somewhere; if they do not find ii at their
own hearth-stones, it will be sought at other
and less profitable places. Therefore, let the
fire burn brightly at night, and make tho
homestead delightful with all those little arts
that parents so perfectly understand Don't
repress the bouyant spirits of your children.
Half an hour Of morriment round the lamp
and freight Of home bots out the remem-
brance Of many care and annoyance during
the day; and the best safeguard they can
take with them into tho world is the unseen
influence Of bright little domestic sanctum."


80 says the editor of the Canada Farmer,
and we not only endorse his beautifully word.
ed sentiments, but pass them to our readers.
Year: 1871

WE know that domestic animals are
often compelled to take long journeys, in
obedience to the will of man; but did you
ever know that whole companies of peo
pie arc sometimes compelled to take long,
wearsomc Journeys because of the migra-
tions Of animals? The reindeer, in those
cold North countries where he is the main
staff and stay of the people, takes his long
journeys at the regular seasons in search of
the reindeer moss and the peculiar lichens
which are its main food. There is no help
for it but the people who depend on it for
food, and clothing, and almost every other
necessary of lie, must follow its wander
ings. Fortunately there is little portable
property to transport; and even the little
children are harder than most men with
u.s. A little thing Of two years was seen
by DR.. Kane to take his knife and cut into
the walrus fat along with the rest Of
the family, consuming quantity so cnOrm-
Gus it seemed almost incredible. They
early learn to take care of themselves 80
that little children are small hiudcrancc to
their parents.


Those frozen regions could not be in
habited except for those hardy creatures.
Their keen scent shows them where the
moss is hidden even beneath six feet of
snow. VncTc every Cnlng else would per
ish of hunger, it finds sufficient food. In
turn it furnishes food for the poor inhabi-
tants, and when domesticated, gives them
milk, butter, and a sort of cheese; while
its skin is put to innumerable uses besides
the common one of furnishing them with
warm clothing.


1t seems wonderful to us that people
can bear to live in such a region, and that
it seems beautiful land to them. No
doubt they would soon tire Of the crnvcn
fences Of our enlightened homes, and
would think the most common customs Of
civilized life very irksomc and disagree
ablc.-kresbuterinn.
Year: 1871

The lately revived custom Of throwing
shoes after newly welded couple for
luck is a very old one. In the Isle OF
Man, the shoe is thrown after the bride
and bridegroom as they leave their respcc
tive abodes, but the ceremony is generally
performed elsewhere upon the departure
of the hero aud heroine OF the day tor the
honey moon trip In some parts of Kent
shoe. throwing does not take place until
after they have gone, wAvn the single
ladies range themselves in one line, and
the bach' lors range themselves in another.
An old shoe is then thrown rs far rs the
thrower's strength permits, and tue ladies'
race after it, the winner being rewarded
by the assurance that she will be married
before any of her rivals She then throws
the shoe at the gentlemen, the one she hits
laying the same pleasing unction to his
heart. Something like this is practiced,
too, in Yorkshire and Scotland. In Ger
many it used TO be rule for the bride, as
she was being conducted to her chamber,
to take off her shoe and throw it among
the guests, who battled for its possession,
the successful he or she being destined to
be speedily married and settled. In some
places the threshold is kept warm for
another bride by pouring a kettleful of
warm water down tho door steps rs
soon as the bride and bridegroom have
taken their departure; the fancy being
that before the water is dried up another
match will be made up, or " flow on, and
that it will not be very long before another
welded couple passes over the same
ground. In Prussia, the method of in
voking blessings on newly-married pair
used to be the more expensive one of
smashing crockcry against the door Of the
CNUn,bev's .IOurn0L.
Year: 1871

Probably there is not the remotest cor
ncr or little inlet of the minute blood-vcs-
sci of the body that does not feel some
wavelet from the great conyulsion pro-
duced by hearty laughter, shaking the CEN
trail man. The blood moves more lively
probably its chemical, electric or vital
condition is instinctly modtied-it conveys
different expression to all the organs of
the body, as it visits them on that pArticu-
lar mystic journey, wheu the man is laugh
ing, from what it does at other times. And
thus it is that u good laugh lengthens 4
mans life, by conveying distinct and ad-
ditional stimulus to the vital forces. The
time may come when physicians, attending
more closely than they do now to the in
Vulnerable subtle influences which the soul
exerts upon its tenement of clay, shall
prescribe to a torpid patient so many
pcals of laughter" to be undergone at
such and such time,". just as they do
now that far more Objectionable prescrip-
tion-a pill or an electric or galvanic
shock, and shall study the best and most
effective method of producing the required
effect in each patient
Year: 1871

TIE Portland (Mc) Press says: "Tbe
following story, strange as it may appear,
is vouchcd by several witnesses whose
testimony is uninllcachahle. A short time
ago female Newfoundland dog was in
the habit of coming to the house of Il lady
in this city, who would throw it pieces of
cold meat, which the dog would eat, and
having satisfied his hunger, 60 away again.
50 confirmed did this habit become, that
at Il certain hour daily the lady would rx-
pect the dog and the animal would put in
an appearance. A few days ago, before
feeding her, the lady said to her, why
don't you bring ME one Of your puppics?'
repeating the question several times as she
stood at the window, the dog looking at
her in the face with an expression of in.
teligcncc, as if it understood every word
tho ltly said. The next day, to the
lady's astonishmrnt, ut the usual
hour, the dog returned and, 10 and behold !
was accompanied by Il little puppy. The
lady fed both dogs, and then took up the
puppy into the window, when the old dog
scompercd off and did not return for three
days. AT the end OF that time the dog
again appeared, when, alter feeding 1t, the
lady said, Next time bring all your pup.
pies, | want to see them; and yesterday
morning, sure enough, the dog returned
accomlmni Il by three Newfoundland
pups. Several Of the neighbors saw the
whole transaction, and declared that they
considered this one of the most remarka.
bic proofs of the Sagacity Of the dog they
have ever known. Where the dog came
from and to whom it belongs arc not
known, but we have the name of the lady
and also Of those who were eyewitness to
the occurrences as narrated by lis"
Year: 1871

Girls, don't talk slang If it isnecessa.
ry that any one should do that, let it be
yonr big brother, though we wonld advise
him not to adopt pigeon English" when
there is an elegant systemized language he
can just as well use. But don't you do is.
You have no idea how it sounds to ears
unused to or adverse to it, to hear young
LADY, when she is asked to do something
she does not wish to, "can't see it J"


Not long ago we heard young Miss
who is educated and accomplished, say in
speaking of young man that she intended
to 90 for him !'' and when ner sister ask
ed her assistance at some work, she ans-
wered s. Not for Joe."


Now, young ladies of unexceptionable
character and really good education fall
into this habit, thinking it shows smartness
to answer in slang phrases; and they soon
slip fippantly from their tongues with a
saucy pertiness, that is not ladylike or be-
coming. Young men who talk in that way
do not care to hear it from the lips they
love or admire. 1t sounds much coarser
then.


Il bet," or " you bet," is enough be-
tween men who trade horses or lands; but
the contrast is startling and positively
shocking when young man is holding the
hand of his lady love, to hear those words
issue from her lips. They seem at once
to surround her with the rougher associa-
tions of his daily life and bring her down
from the pedestal of purity, whereon he
had placed her, to his own coarse level.


And really, slang does not save time in
the use of language, as an abbreviation
No is shorter and more decided than mot
much ~ and q know" or "Fll bet" :"
More than one promised wedding has been
indefinitely postponed by such means; for
however remiss young men may be them
selves, they look for better things in the
girls of their choice and it does not help
them mend bad habit. to adopt it too.
Besides, two wrongs never make right
We know the bright-eyed girl who reads
this will think the matter over and say we
are right.
Year: 1871

\ gentleman recently travelling from
Philadelphia to New York, fell into a
chance conversation in the smoking car
with stranger having all the outward ap-
pearances of respectability. After some
quarter of an hours talk, the stranger po-
litely asked the gentleman if he would
take cigar, at the same time holding out
two cigars, one looking like a Regalia, the
other smaller, such as is usually called a
London size. The gentleman happened
to take the larger one, being the nearest
to him as presented, the stranger recon-
mended MN to take the smaller one, re-
marking that he thought it was of better
flavor After smoking about quarter to
a third of the cigar. the gentleman discov-
cred that he was suddenly becoming very
dizzy. \ suspicion flashed through his
mind that the cigar was not all right. He
Immediately threw it away; but his gid
diness increased so much that it was with
the greatest difficulty that he preserved
his self possession. In few minutes a
most copious perspiration started from
every pore of his body and the water fair
ly ran off his person.


The stranger meanwhile was apparent
ly sound asleep on the other end of the
seat. On his arrival at New York the
gentleman with great difficulty got ont of
the car and took a carriage for his hotel
where he was soon after violently attacked
with vometing and passed very sick night


He has been for several years resident
of Cuba, a great smoker, and is fully con-
vinced that the cigar was drugged and
that this is a new dodge to entrap the un-
wary for the pur pose of robbery.


He attributes his escape to the fact of
his smoking but little of the cigar, and to
his robust constitution. Our railroad man
ayers will be obliged to issue supple
ment to the ''notice" sometimes seen in
the cars: ''Beware of weil-dressed men
who ask you to play auchre,' cautioning
the public to ''Beware of well-dressed men
who offer you cigar
Year: 1871

Purity of thought. integrity of life, be-
| nightly of manner; and above all, sweet
charity, are the beautiful garments with
which every true Mason is clothed.


Right angles, horizontals and perpen-
diculars are standards in the estimates of
Masons. Square level and perpendicu-
| lar-words full of meaning and instruc-
tions. They should be resorted to fire.
quently, and applied with skill and discre-
ton. Blue is the chosen color of oIr an
cient brethren of the symbolic degrees
1t symbolizes the elevation of our hearts
to the Most High. 1t is the emblem
of universal friendship and benevolence,
and instructs US that in the mind of Ma
son those virtues should be as expansive
as the blue arch of heaven, and as limit
less as the bounds of the universe.


To build up the broken-hearted, to ex-
tricate the industrious from misfortune,
to rescue the helpless and the orphan from
the prospects of want and ruin, to comfort
the widow in affiiction's hour. and to af-
ford peaceful home ON earth to the aged
and deserving in the evening of their days
are objects worthy the regard of every Ma
son who values the delight of others, and
the honor of the Craft, or the appreciation
of God himself.


Charity constitutes the highest dignity
of human nature; it elevates and refnes !;
it calms the storm of passion it causes
men co regard each other with kindness,
and to view no one as a stranger whose
joys we can heighten, wants supply, or sor-
rows soothe. No distinction of rank will
affect its operations; it considers no object
beneath its notice that car promote human
happiness. Where would be the boasted
dignity of reason if employed only to pro-
mote narrow. selfish views? Where the
glory of that knowledge which never of
itself advised or comforted another? And
where the honor of that power which never
promoted intelligent merit or wiped
tear from the mourner's eye? A fend may
possess higher degree of reason. more
knowledge and more power than the wis
est and best of men; but destitute of
Charity. he is more to be dreaded-not
revered.-F'Mg of Our Union.