smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Don't stop to tell stories in business
hours.


Ifyou have a place of business, be
found there when wanted.


No man can get rich by sitting around
the stores and saloons.


Never fool i'm business matters.


Have order, system, regularity, and
also prOmptness.


Do not meddle with business you
know nothing of.


Do not kick every one in your path.
More miles can he made in one day
by going steadily than by stopping.


Pay rs you go.


A man of honor respects his word as
he does his bond.


Help others when you can, but never
give what you cannot afford because it
is fashionable.


Learn TO say No. No necessity of
swapping it out dog fashion, but say it
firmly and respectfully.


Use your own brains rather than
those of others.


Learn to think and act for yourself.
Keep ahead rather than behind the
times
Year: 1875

There was a panic in a Paris street
over the conduct of magnificent re-
triever in front of a window of dealer
in picture frames. He jumped, yelled,
barked, tried To throw himself through
the glass and he was mad, of course.
They were about to kill him but phi
losoDher interiered. Ii seemed to him
that all these eceentricities of the dog
had relation toa portrait in the window.
SO it proved. All this was joy at sight
of the portrait of a lady. That lady
lived in Marseilles, and the dog had
been stolen from her many months be-
fore. StraBge chance to find its way
home by the picture placed there casu-
ally to exhibit the frame.
Year: 1875

So then the cat jumped right over the
fence again, and ran into the house to
get her milk. And the white rabbit
came out all of tremble from under
the green currant bush, and ran back
to his hole in the clover bank as fast as
ever he could and the gray rabbit was
reTy glad to see him coming home safe.
This is all of the story about the two
rabbits.
Year: 1875

nation of very alarming character, and
has partially put the Dominion Govern
ment in possession of the leading fea-
lures. 1t appears that the Cree lndians
have been worked upon by outside infu-
ence, and that the half-breeds, being dis
salts fed with the commissioners sent by
the Dominion Government, and fearing
that they were not going to receive fair
play, at once threw their influence in
with other malcontents.


They say that half the arabic lands In
the province are being sorted by railway
SPECTATORS and the Hudson Boy Conn
pany. That whereas, the Cree Indians
and half-breed families were to receive
certain tracts of land, still no equitable
division has been made, and the two
Commissioners sent up to the Northwest
know nothing about their business, and
are only intent on deceiving the people
by policy of delay. Ofcourse the fears
OF those who have taken the law i'll their
own hands are greatly exaggerated, and
have led them to gravely infringe on the
laws OF the country. No really dehnlte
intelligence can be furnished as yet, still
enough is known to warrant the gravest
aDprchenS ion.
Year: 1875

England is a manufacturing country.
No raw material is shipped from her ports.
Nor does she produce the material Co be
worked up in her own factories. She buys
raw material abroad and works It up. She
buys the food of her operatives abroad and
pays the freight on it across the seas. And
yet she is rich. The countries that sell cot
ten, and wool, and breadstuffs to England
are not her creditors, but her debtors.
When they want money to develop mines,
to build railways, they borrow it from En-
gland provided they can show satisfactory
collaterals. How is it that the countries
that prodnce the raw material and sell it to
England have less money than she? It is
because the labor bestowed upon the ma
teriaI by the manufacturer exceeds IN val
the material in its naturiel state. It it be-
cause vastly the largest proportion of what
tho consumers pay for the goods they buy
Is paid for the labor that prepares It for use.
Tt is because. to take q familiar article tor
illustration, of the $40 you pay for q COM
mon coat one dollar goes for the material
in Its natural state. and nineteen for maxi
ing into a coat. The manufacturing coun-
tries will always be the countries TO which
the money will flow. And since the con-
sumption of manufactured goods continual
ly Insreases, the relative advantages in favor
or manufacturing countries must become
greater. This fact lies at the bottom of any
sound system OF political economy. The
first condition of prosperity in any country
Is the building up OF its manufacturing in-
erests.-Oregon
Year: 1875

Tuesday was an unlucky day for New
York burglars. One fell from q balcony
and fractured his skull another, closely
pursued by the owner of the house, sprang
from second story window and broke his
Leg. Moral-B Burglars should stay at home
ON Tuesday.
Year: 1875

A Vicksburg wife informed her
husband that she was working her.
self into the grave for the want of
hired girl, and as he went out she
leaned back and fell to weeping. The
children were making a noise in the
hall as he passed out, and he called
out "You want to stop this racket i!
Your mother won't live a week, and
when you get stermother here next
spring she won't put up with any
such fooling!" When he came homo
to dinner his wife met him with
smile and said ''Isn't ours a cozy
home, Richard, with only our own
little family to look AFTER.
Year: 1875

The Syracuse Journal isn't yet IA
nous all over the land, but it can be
when it wants to. 1t says: Ten
minutes after the arrival of the fast
mail train thi. forenoon a series Of
terrific squeals sailed into the depot,
which had been left ten miles back
by the engineer, where he struck q
bewildered porker who was walking
along the track.
Year: 1875

Ramsey in his Scotch Reminis-
cences," relates this anecdote How
is it, sir, said Scotchman, who had
all the aversion Of his country to tho
sight Of a paper in the pulpit, how
is it that you read instead Of preach
your sermons ?" "1 read them because
| cannot remember them" "And,
sir, if We that make them Gamma mind
them, how do you think that we can p
Year: 1875

Two men were digging a well in
Waterville, N. Y, and had sunk it to
the dept Of thirty feet. They had
drilled hole in the rock at the bot,
tom, filled it with powder, and light
ed the fuse. Then they shouted to a
boy who had been stationed at
windlass to draw them out, but he
had qait his post. The scared men
shouted again and again while the fuse
was steadily shortening, soon burning
into the drill. hole so that they could
not extingn!sh it, They knew that
within two minutes the explosion
would occur, and were frantic with
terror. The boy came, Just before the
fuse was burned out and hurrjedlv
drew them up but they had not
been raised more than half the hight
Of tie well when the explosion came
knocking them out Of the bucket and
letting them fail, nearly killed,
among the broken roaL a, tue bottom.
Year: 1875

They tell Of man in Main who
kicked a can of ntro.glycerine out of
his way The story is a shocking
one, as the story of the vain search
for the scattered fragments Of hui
man being always is.
Year: 1875

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COME AND SEE ME.-Ncver take
come and see me as a rAcn*o meant
in earnest unless it is accompanied
with a date. Such an invitation
amounts to nothing at all. If a lady
or gentleman desires your company
he or she will appoint time for your
visit. Cal on me when you can
make it convenient, "drop in as you
are passing, make US a visit when
ever you have an hour or two to
spare, are social ambigutles by which
men and women of the world under
stand that they are not expected to
do the thing requested. When peo-
pie wish to be cheapIy polite there is
nothing like this kind Of vagueness
The complimentary small change Of
society must always te taken at a
large discount. 1t is never worth its
face or anything like it. Yet it is a
convenient medium Of exchange, and
heavy debts Of gratitude, that ought
to be requitted in better coin, are
often paid with it. People who have
more polish than principle use it Law.
ishly-plain, blunt, honest men spar
ingly or not at all. Whoever makes
a friendly visit to fashionable house
on the strength of mere Come and
see me" will very often find that the
family circle he has dropped into by
request, is as ungenial as the Arctic
circle, and he will probably leave it
with chilly feeling that will prevent
him from venturing into the same lat
itule again. But when a whole
sould man, whom you know to be
your friend, grasps you vigorously by
the hand and says, Come and dine
with me to-day--dinner on the table
at three o'clock sure to come, we
shall expect you,' you can take it as
certain that your presence is warmly
desired. 1t is pleasant always to
make or receive a visit from friend,
but nod on the street is all sufficient
from fashionable acquaintance.
Year: 1875

A youngster being required to write
a composition upon some portion Of
the human body, selected that part
which unites the head to the body,
and expounded as follows: "a throat
is convenient to have, especially to
roosters and ministers. The former
eats corn and crows with it; the lat
ter breaches through hisn and then
ties it up. This is pretty much ell
can thilk Of about nocks.
Year: 1875

The following, from .Scribner's
Monthly, contains some very sugges-
tive thoughts:


81 have no time to read" is the
common complaint, and especially of
women whose occupations are such
as to prevent continuous book peru
sal. They seem to think because
they cannot devote as much attention
to books as they are compelled to de-
vote to their avocations, that they
cannot read anything. But this is a
great mistake. 1t isn't the books we
finish at sitting which always do us
the most good. Those we 1evote to
the odd moments, halt a dozen pages
at time, often give us more satisfac-
ton, and are more thoroughly digest
ed than those we make a particular
effort to read. The men who have
made their mark in the world have
generally been the men who have in
boyhood formed the habit of reading
at every available moment, whether
for five minutes or five hours.


1t is the habit of reading, rather
than the time at our command, that
helps us on the road to learning
Many of the cultivated persons,
whose names have been famous rs
students, have given only two or three
hours day to their books. If we
make use of spare moments in the
midst Of our work, and read little,
it but a page or paragraph, we shall
find our brains qulckened and our
toll lightened by just so much increas-
ed satisfaction as the book gives us.
Nothing helps along the monotonous
daily round so much as fresh and
striking thoughts to be considered
while our hands are busy. A new
idea from a volume is like oil which
reduces the friction of the machinery
of life. What we remember from
brief glimpses into books often serves
as a stimulus to action, and becomes
one OF the most precious deposits in
the treasury of our recollection. All
knowledge is made up of small parts
which would seem insignificant in
themselves, but which, taken togeth-
er, are valuable weapons for the mind
and substantial armor for the SOUL
"Read anything continuously" says
DR.. johnson, "and you will be learn
ed" The odd moments which we
are inclined to waste, if carefully
availed of, will. III the long run, make
golden hours and golden days that
we shall ever be thankful for.
Year: 1875

An amateur sportsman in the Cat
skill regions was understood to have
shot bear the other day, and the
telegraph offices within 100 miles of
the neighborhood were to send the
news to the gentleman's friends in
town. 1t was subsequently ascer-
tanned that the bear was COW.
Year: 1875

DELIcIoUs RoLLs.-Half teacup
of butter, mixed well with one pound
of flour, half teacup of yeast, a little
salt, and enough milk to make good
dough. Let it stand in warm place
for about two hours to- rise. Then
make into rolls aud bake in an oven.
Year: 1875

What is thought to be the third
singing beach" in the world has
been discovered at Plattsburgh, N.
Y, the others being situated on the
shores of the Mediterranean and in
Boston harbor. The popularity of
these beaches is that when the sand
is disturbed it emits musical sound
not unlike that of the .Eolian harp,
which is supposed to arise from the
grating of the particles of sand
against each other.
Year: 1875

\ sharper from New York has
been swindling the citizens of South
bridge, chiefly those of foreign ex-
traction, by selling them five and ten
pound chests Of tea at fifty cents per
pound, but which the victims dis
covered to contain only a thin layer
of tea on top and mass of rubbish
beneath. He was arrested at Brook
field, brought back to meet his howl
ing constituents, and compelled to
disgorge his ill-gotten gains.
Year: 1875

The ladies of the Baptist Church will give
a Strawberry Festival and Supper, for the
benefit of their church, at Angeles Hall, on
Wednesday the 10Th inst. They are making
every arrangement to render it most
e7leasant entertainment, and we doubt not
our citizens will extend a liberal patronage
and encourage the noble efforts Of the ladies
in behalf Of their church. "He who giveth
to the poor lendeth to the Lord" and he
who attendeth this entertainment will enjoy
one of the most pleasant evenings Of his life.
Year: 1875

Our citizens will be pleased to learn that
this talented and accomplished young lady
is to favor jackson with another of her rich
and rare Reading and Recitation Enter
tainments, on next Tuesday evening, 18th
inst. We bespeak for her joyous welcome
on this occasion, and the liberal encourage
ment which her highly cultivated talents so
richly deserves. Admission only so cents.
Year: 1875

terprise OF the second inst, saws
do not come here. This is what
the situation says to every man of
the vast numbers who are daily
coming to this city, allured by the
tame of the big bonanza and the
hope of $4 per day. There is here
neither work nor Accommodations for
either those men or their families
This city is overrnn by workmen
seeking employment where none is
to be had Yesterday over 200
men, some of them destitute Of the
means of daily subsistence, with
families depending upon them for
support, applied fo' work at one
of the principle m e~ in the city,
all Of whom had to be denied. The
company are already employing
more men than they need, out of
pure charity, and because they do
not wish to see them suffer; but
there IL limit 10 even such disin-
tereSted generosity"
Year: 1875

HELP Your WIvEs.-Help your
wives in every way you can, trivial
though 1t may seem to you. For
instance, keep an extra pair of shoes
or slippers in the hall or entry, and
always remember to change your
dirty boots before entering her clean
rooms Then you may be sure of
a smile of welcome, as no dirt will
be left after you for her to clean up.
In the evening comb your hair as
carefully as ever you did in your
counting days, put on a clean coat
or dresslng-gown, and when you
take your paper to read, do not read
to yourself, and leave her to lone
some thought, while sewing or
mending, but remember that she,
too, has been working hard all day,
and is still working Read to her
W hatever interests you, SO that her
interests and opinions may grow
with yours, and that she may com
preheEd something besides love
stories, of which too many have
read more than they should. You
will both be happier, and being a
farmers or a merchants wife will
not be such dreadful tiresome and
lonesome life as many girls have
every reason to think it is.
Year: 1875

From The Madison Democrat


The terrible fate of the Schiller,
and OF her human cargo, like the
loss of every vessel at sea, or the
wreck of a passenger train on a rail-
road, will attract pubic attention
for awhile, and result in few efforts
to make lie more secure, when the
interest, no doubt, will end, and the
whole matter sink back TO await
another catastrophy. These con
tinualIy recurring disasters bring
into startling prominence the gre at
fact, that with all the safeguards of
our best steamers, an ocean voyage
sill continues to be serious risk
of human life.


The New York Tribune, in an
article upon the perIls Of the sea,
calls attention to the difference in
the advance which has been made
IN securing sofety in ocean travel,
a. compared with what has been
done upon the land. Railroad ac-
cldents seem frequent, and in this
country, even upon the best man.
aged roads, they are entirely too
frequent, but for long series OF
years the number OF fatal accident.
as compared with the passengers
carried has been steadily dimen.
ishing.
Year: 1875

Wilt After all, is it u digniGod bust
ness for the press to minister to this
low and unhealthy greedl Is the world
so barren Of great topics that tho press,
perforce, must transform itself into u
heighborhood tnttle and public gossipl
Are valuable opinions nnd intelligence
so scarce that it must send ia prying in.
terviewers out amongthennkso OF private
men, to worm out their secrets, on pain
o, Misrepresentation and abuse, and
spread them before n curious public 7
The American press OF the future will
not do 1t, unless civilization shall retro
grade, and our nation remain a nation Of
children.
Year: 1875

Beaver, Utah, July 14.-John d.
Lee has turned states evidences and
will be a witness for the prosecution
and make n full statement OF all he
knows of the mountain meadow mas
sacre. The cause Is said to be that he
believed he was to be sacrificed to ap-
pease the wrath of the government and
shield more guilty parties, by perjury,
If necessary. There is a strong feeling
in favor of Dame on the part of the
people from Southern Utah who are
here as witnesses, many of whom were
concerned in the massacre, and they
evince great animosity towards Lee.
Bishops Homes and Spicer, counsel
for Lee, have advised him to tell the
entire story, and believe it to be the
only way 70 save their client, as well
as to give to the world the whole par
ticulars of this bloody affair. 1t is said
by those who are most closely connected
with the trial, that there are plenty of
witnesses here to corroborate all OF
Lees statements, which will convict
w. H. Dame and many other high
Mormon authorities, and explain fully
everything connected with the mas
sacre. Among the witnes are some
who actually took part in 1t and some
who attended n meeting of the partici-
pants after their return from the field
of slaughter. The officers have had the
create st difficulty in getting the wit
nesses for Lees defeose. Quite a num-
ber have positively refused, and de6ed
the Marshal, while all those on Danes
behalf are present, which is attributed
to the fact that Dame Is Mormon in
full fellowship and Lee is not.
Year: 1875

The story Of the terrible upas tree,
as told in the books furnished fer the
delectation Of children a quarter or
half century ago, says the Sun, was,
to put it plainly, a pure fiction. But
like thousands of other tabled produc-
tions, the wonderful properties of the
tree disappeared when Investigated by
men who sought truth instead of the
vcrification Of a superstition. The So
called poisonous upas tree of Java has
been cultivated in the conservatories
of Europe since 1874, and, strange to
say, its nearest kin is the cow tree of
South America, the milky juice of
which is as wholesome as that of the
best shorthorn COW. The Juice of the
upas tree may contain some poissnus
properties, but not in such quantities,
or of so virulent character as to make
it dangerous one to have about, even
as a window plant. Our poison sumac
beats this fabled Java production all
hollow in poisonous properties. But
the original story Of the poison upas,
as told by Foersch, surgeon to the
Dutch East India Company in IVA,
was remarkably good one, and
proves the author to have been a man
possessing very fertile brain.
Year: 1875

"Put money in your purse" II you
can, young man deny yourself a few
of those expensive pleasures which
are so evanescent, and which leave a
sting behind. 1t may come hard at
first; few take kindly to self-denial !;
but in the years to come you will
thank yourself for exercising prudence
in youth. Habits are easily formed
and he who does not begin to save
when he commences life for himself,
will rarely begin at all for where not
even the nucleus of modest fortune
has been early acquired, family expen-
ses will, after time, grow a. fast as
the income, and two keep abreast
ever afterward. The saving and keep
ing of the first hundred or the first
thousand dollars is the key to future
success, from the fact that it builds up
business character; it compels the for
nation Of habits of economy, and fixes
them for lie ; it puts the young work
er on the ris sht road; accustoms him
to keeping his financial matters snug,
and builds up a granite determination
to force expenses below income.
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the Toledo
Blade, writing from Hastings, Mich,
says: "About ten miles south of this
place, a farmer, while driving some
COWS through deep forest adjoining
his fields, unexpectedly came upon an


unusually large buck, stretched out
upon the ground, and meaning away
the last hours of his existence. The
animal was evidently very old, and in
a sadly emaciated condition, SO the fact
the farmer Immediately put a bullet
through his head should rather be
looked upon as an act of compassion
than otherwise, just as he was about
to leave he observed lump on the
animals side, which so attracted his
attention that he stopped to examine
it. Quickly discovering that under
the skin was deposited round, hard
body, he used his knife and brought
to light silver bullet such as was
used in olden times for the inclosure
of secret dispatches. He carried this
curiosity to his house, where, after
considerable trouble, he succeeded in
opening it and found, to his great sur
prise, that it contained a message
written in cypher form, upon paper
attenuated to high degree. Other
wise than that the paper was sliShtly
discolored, (nst sufficiently, however.
to obliterate the characters), neither
the bullet nor what was enclosed, bore
any evidence of its late surroundings,
or of the strange vicissitudes through
which it might previously have gone.
Several men of science have carefully
inspected this relic of the past, and are
as much at loss TO decipher the mes
sage as they are to satisfactorily ex-
plain when and how the bullet come
to be lodged inside Of the buck"
Year: 1875

Gen. Frank P. Blair's rescue from
the jaws of death, as it were, by the
simple process of the TRANSMISSION of
blood, suggests unlimited possibilities
for the improvement of the human
race. The doctors report that General
Blair, after each infusion, partook
largely of the nature of the person
from whom the supply of blood was
drawn. For instance, when he re-
ceiyed supply Of the life-fuid from
the arm ofa healthy young man, who,
unknown to the physicians, had been
on a small spree the day before, the
General Immediately became very
drunk. This shows that great care
must be exercised in the selection Of
the blood supply. But with this pre-
caution observed, what vast amount
of good may be accomplished among
eur public men! Take the case of Rev..
Henry Ward Beecher to begin with.
A pious monk should be found in
some secluded cloister, whose repata-
ton for continency is unassailable, and
Mr.. Beecher's veins should be filled
periodically with the cool blood Of the
anchorite. The blood of gentleman
should be infused into the veins OF
Ulysses S. Grant. For Zach Chandler,
a teetotaler, with an undeubted char
acter for sebriety, should be found,
and found right away. For Matt
Carpenter, the same man whe did duty
for Beecher would serve, unless the
stain on him was too great. The blood
of almost any body would make an
Improvement in John A. Logan. A
modest man should be selected for
Murat Halstead, even though it be
necessary to scrape the country with
fine tooth comb to find him. And SO
on to the end of the chapter. The
medical profession and the people at
large will learn that this TRANSMISSION OF
blood is big thing. There's millions
in it. .t.~