smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

THE INFLUENCE OF EXAMPLE.-Men'S
lives are pages of history. Those who
read are stimulated to good deeds there


by, or taught to avoid the mistakes


such lives record. There cannot be too
much said, or written, to encourage men
of wealth to devote their leisure and


money towards developing the beautiful
in Nature, recovering and regenerating
waste places, and affording men with
less means and opportunities for the
study of rural art. The influence of an
example of good taste in the adornment
of single place in neighborhood or
town, reaches far into the future and
molds more than most men think, the
external features of that neighborhood
or town, and affects more ultimately the
lives of those whom it influences. If
one man plants tree his neighbor
wants one. If one house wife has a
flower pdrterre, another is not insensible
to the enthusiasm with which the first
exhibits and praises her floral pets. If
one man sees his neighbor clearing out
an old swamp, a ravine, or rough place
of any sort, and converting its rude an
gularities into symmetrical lines of beau
ty, he ever after looks upon the rough
places of his own domain with the pos
sibilities of what it may become in his
minds eye, and realizes, sooner or later,
the ideal beauty which the realization
of his neighbors have established.
Year: 1871

LOST IT'S CHARTER.-The Masonic
RerieW furnishes the following:


The Grand Master of Ohio has ar
rested the charter of a lodge because its
members elected the keeper of a whisky
saloon for their Master. The business
is a pernicious one, and extremely de-
moralizing. 1t is also a violation of
the law, as we are informed, and should
be discouraged by every proper means.
The Grand Master is right in maintain
ing the dignity and respectability of
the craft, and will he sustained in the
position he has taken by every brother
in the State who has any regard for the
moral status and social influence of the
Order. ...
Year: 1871

The Louisville Courier Journal is
making a plucky but hopeless effort to
inoculate the Democratic party of Ken
lucky with brains. 1.-The matter won't
take,' as they say of vaccine virus
sometimes. The c. j. made brave
but Intellectual fight for the modification
of the law of evidence in Kentucky, so
as td remove the senseless restrictions
upon negro testimony. What the law
makers have failed to do, from idiotic
class prejudice, the sensible business
men seem likely to do for themselves
without law, for convenience and from
a sense of right and justice. 1t has re-
Gently become the usage for the parties
to asuit to waive objections, and admit
negro testimony by consent. The mex
orable demands of business and the
laws of common sense are stronger than
heprejudice of class or the chicanery of
thespolitician. In the nature of things
the manifestation of returning sanity
comes first from the cities and business
centres. Rural Kentucky is still three
hundred years behind the age. Among
other disabilities of an educational
NATURE they continue to spell negro
with two g's.-[ Ohio State Journal.
Year: 1871

Having sold my entire entire interest in be
Grocery and Produce business to Jacob earns,
who will continue the business at the old stand
would cheerfully recommend him to oar
former pa irons and the public generally.
j. N. CAIRNS.
Year: 1871

A traveller was crossing a mountain
hight alone over almost untrodden snow.
Warning had been given him that if
slumber pressed down his weary eyelids
they would inevitably be sealed in death.
For a Time he went bravely along his
dreary path, But with the deepening
shade and freezing blast at night there
fell weight upon his brain and eyes
which seemed to be irresistible. In vain
he tried to reason with himself; in vain
he strained his utmost energies to shake
off that fatal heaviness. At this crisis
of his fate his foot struck against a
heap that lay across his path. No stone
was that, although no stone could be
colder or more lifeless. He stopped to
touch it, and found human body half
buried beneath a drift of snow. The
next moment the traveller had taken a
brother in his arms, and was chatting his
hands, and chest, and brow, breathing
upon the stiff, cold lips the warm breath
of living soul pressing the. silent
heart to the beating pulse Of his own
generous bosom The effort to save
another had brought back to himself
life, and warmth, and energy. He was
a man again, instead of a weak creature,
succumbing to 'dispairing helplessness,
dropping down in dreamless sleep to
die. He saved a brother, and was
saved himself. "-Engtisk paper.
Year: 1871

An odd commentary on the doctrine


of infallible maternal instinct is offered


by the TiohbOrne case, now before the
English courts, A certain Roger Itch
borne, heir to baronetey, ran off, when
a boy, to Australia, and was lost in the
bush. In 1866 he, or his counterfeit,
appeared With wife and three children,
and claimed his title and estates. His
mother recognized him, and aeknowl-
edged him as her son. The executors
of the Tichborne property refused to
admit his claims, and still refuse, on the
ground that the persons of the real and
feigned Sir Roger are entirely unlike;
and that whereas the boy who disap-
peared was educated and a gentleman,
the present claimant is an ignorant and
vulgar boor, not even able to construct
or spell sentence correctly in his own
language. Every day brings up fresh
evidence for or against his identity with
equal pertinacity, and with feverish
haste, the counsel goading them on
either side, as the plaintiff, whether real
or sham, is in a dying condition, and as
as he is while living, there
will be less chance of identifying him as
a ghost.
Year: 1871

1t was in London, and in 1911. Weber
was in a boat on the river with some
ladies, and beganto perform on the flute,
which he played to great perfection.
But seeing that his boat was closely
followed by another, in which were sew
eral young officers, he put his flute in
his pocket.


\ why do you stop playing29 said one
of the officers TO Weber. W Ah NAG


For the same reason that / began"
replied the composer.


"And that is2'


Becauses it pleases ME


Welr then" said the officer, take
up your flute again. or it will please me
to throw you into the water


The composer, seeing thatthe dialogue
was unpleasant to the ladies he was with.
gave way, and began playing again.
When leaving his boat, however, he ac-
costed the bold son of Mars, and said:
!. vSir, the fear Of annoying the people
who were with me made me brook your
insolence; but to-marrow | will have
entire satisfaction. We can meet in
Hyde Park at 10 clock. If you have
no objection, we will fight with swords;
we need no. seconds; the quarrel is only
between you and me, and it is quite
useless to bring in strangers"


The officer accepted the challenge, He
was at the rendezvous at the appointed
hour, and met Weber as agreed on. He
drew his sword and put himself on guard,
when Weber presented pistol at his
throat.


DO you mean to murder. me2'' said
the officer.


mo" said Weber; "but be kind
enough to put up that sword and dance
a minuet oryou are dead man.


The officer made some objection, but
the authoritative and determined tone of
Weber seemed to influence him, and not
withstanding the arrival Of some people
on the scene of action, he went through
what he was asked or rather told to do.


"Sir," said the musician, "you com
PEELED me yesterday to play against my
wish-I have compelled you now to
dance against yours. Our bond is over.
However, if you should be dissatisfied
still, am quite ready to give you any
satisfaction you may wish for.


The officer held out his hand, and beg
ged his adversary to honor him with his
friendship, From that moment an at
tachment sprang up between them which
lasted till the day the illustrious com
poser died eEt1 usT.lE&
Year: 1871

The Treasury Department has adopted
and rigidly enforces the rule of deduct
ing from the full value ofeach mutilated
currency bill just in proportion as the
paper Of the bill is missing The paper
of thebill of each denomination is d.
vided into twenty parts, and If one-twcn-
tieth of bill is missing from any cause
five per cent. of the face value is de-
Quoted before the Treasury will give a
new bill in exchange for it. Thus, from
a five dollar bill it deducts twenty-five
cents for each twentieth of the note that
is missing; from every twenty dollar note
one dollar for each twentieth; from every
one hundred dollar note five dollars;
from every one thousand dollar note fifty
dollars, and in that proportion for every
twentieth according to the denomination
of the bill. In the enforcement of this
rule is to be found the reason why so
much ragged and mutilated greenback
currency is in circulation, as no holder,
bank or individual, will willingly incur
the loss of this deduction imposed
by the Treasury, and hence, ac-
cording to the rule ever governing,
in currency circulation, the worst and
most deprecated is ever the most per-
sistently kept in use. The banks re-
fuse, as far as possible, all ,mutilated
greenbacks, and this accounts for the
greatly increased amounts in the hands
of the public. The Philadelphia Ledger
regards the rule as arbitrary, says the
depreciation is becoming very onerous
tax, and adds; Where do these clip
pings and deductions go2 What is the
amount thus realized, and where and by
whom is il held2 We read carefully
over the reports of the Treasury Depart
ment as they appear, but never yet have
discovered the accounting of a dollar
that we could possibly oonstrue as com
ing under this head. Answers to the
above inquiries would afford interesting
information. Where it is so apparent
who loses it is important to know who
gains" "AH
Year: 1871

Situated on the east line of Second street, at
the corner of the alley next north of the First
Methodist Church. having a front of GA feet
by depth of 14s16. with alleys on two sides.
This is one of the best localities for residences
in Memphis, an experience of forty years
having demonstrated it to be the most healthy
portion of the city. ''o


The s.lle is absolute, and title perfect
Terms-ha If cash, and balance in six and
twelve months.
Year: 1871

bauches. Sometimes it is brandy; at
other times whisky; then it is cham
payne or gin. During his week rioting
he is the most loathsome of mel, He
does not remove the clothes nor pay any
attention to, personal cleanliness, II
his friends do not find him before his
furlough is out he comes home, cleans
himself up, and is a man again for the
next six months. When he starts on
his tramp his family is nearly dis
trated. He covers his tracks so
that it is difficult to trace him. He is
too good a customer to be interfered
with, and it is difficult to find him,
even when the hotels are visited where
he is. When he returns home the scene
in his house is very extraordinary. Gov
cred with shame, remorse, and in tears,
he throws himself before his sorrowing
wife and VOWS never again to touch the
intoxicating cup. But as the period
rolls round the paroxysm returns, and
he is swept away. One would suppose
that such excesses would ruin his health
or bankrupt him in fortune, or do both;
but he has pursued this course now for
fifteen years, and promises, if he lives as
long, to keep it up fifteen years longer.
Year: 1871

You lie on your back twenty-four hours
with mask plaster of forty hornet power
that blisters your face into remarkable
condition. The second day you are
peeled like banana. j ust imagine thatl
Then in perfect repose, as if in that raw
state perfect repose could be possible,
you must still lie on your back, sup
pressing all emotion, as smile will pro
duce wrinkle. To smile under such
circumstances would certainly be new
wrinkle. Calmly TRANQUILITY, with a
straw in your mouth for the administra-
tion of your cruel, there. you lie for sew
eral days until new skin is formed


Still more days are necessary before the
gentle breezes can blow upon it without
raising waves and burrows upon the un-
CONCEALED surface, and after all these
lacerating operations it is quite uncer-
tain whether the victim comes out beau
tifnl or looking as il she had escaped
with her life from steamboat explosion.
Year: 1871

Burns was born in the year 1859, and
began his sentimental career at the age
of fifteen, when he was the most awkward,
.ungainly boy in the parish, reading
Pope and Shakespeare and Locke, and
Tuil and Dickson on agriculture, and
working hard in the fields. At this time
came number one of his recorded loves
Ia not ungraeeful picture. And here
it may be said tina. his letters and prose
style are very remarkable in their free
and graphic style, especially in the days
Of shlted solemnities of Doctor Moore
and other leading worthless, who were
supposed to be models Of correct taste


You know our country custom of
coupling a man and woman together as
partners in the labors Of harvest. In
nv fifteenth autumn my partner was a
bewitching creature, 4 year younger than
myself Ny scarcity Of English denies
me The power Of doing her justice in


that language; but you know the Scottish
Year: 1871

The LUCh SITIOH Whlch II
makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other presenting the same appear.
ance on both sides of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economical,
requiring oNR.THIRD LESS cotton than
any otI er kind Of stitch. Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
theextremely fine sewing cottonrequired
by those machines which make stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear.
Year: 1871

entered saloon with a huge knife
and revolver and commenced q viO-
lent demonstration against two other
persons present, aud while thus en-
gagged q rifle ball whistled through
the open door and entered his side
and he dropped to the floor dead. 1t
Is not known who fired the shot, but
it is supposed that it was one OF the
vigilance committee raised at Boulder
10 rid the country OF rufilans. There
is general rejoicing over his taking
off
Year: 1871

The FAR WEsr-ITs SILVER AND Snow.
An interesting and important expedition
has recently been made to the American
Fork and Little Cottonwood silver districts,
Of Utah Territory, by a party headed by
Prof Paul 4. Chadbourne, the well known
scientist of Massachusetts, The party
started from Salt Lake City and proceeded
to the mines in the decidedly overland
way of climbing over the mountains. In
both districts the indications were found to
be Of a very promising character. and aP-
parently went clearly TO show that, not
withstanding its natural tendency to draw
the long bow the West has really a vast
source of wealth in its possessions of the
precious metal All the head Of the Little
Cottonwood canon, the Christina lode,
which was only discovered last year, was
found to be yielding large quantities ofore,
which, when assayed, showed from S40O to
$500 to the tor. Other lodes were OF an
equally satisfactory character. The roads
were nearly ali in good condition team
WAYS for the conveyance of the ore we're
in the course of rapid construction, and on
every hand the utmost confidence and en-
terprise were manifested. Among the ex-
citing experience ef the trip, vas the
passage from American Fork canon over
the divide of Little Cottonwood. The as
cent of the mountain proved to be a task
both slow and difficult. but when the gen.
tlemen came to descend on the other side,
they found that quite different state of
affairs was before them. Snow-capped
hills ard peaks were above and around
them below them was the yawning gorge
of the canon ; under their feet was thirty
feet of snow, hard and slippery. This IN
comfortable pathway was the only one that
was within the range Of possibility, and 1t
extended without break down a steep
declivitv of fifteen hundred feet. To walk
it was necessarily cut Of the question.
Nothing short of chamois coud have
made the attempt. A 'coasting sled would
have been worth q small fortune but it
was not 10 be had. and SO. after some little
hesitation and earnest consultation, the
gallant explorers sat brayely upon the
smooth slope and, with a velocity that al
most took away their breath, shot down the
canon as if sent from q catapult. The SEN
sation, like that of going up in balloon 20
a novice, Is said to have been much more
pleasant in retrospect than in experience.
Year: 1871

How nor TO BE BEAUTIFUL.-A vacant
mind takes all the meaning out Of the fair
est face. A sensual disposition detorms
the handsomest features. \ cold, selfish
heart shrivels and distorts the best looks.
\ mean. groveIing spirit takes all the
character out Of the countenance. A
cherished hatred transforms the most beau
tiful hneaments into an image OF ugliness.


1t Is as impossible to preserve good looks
with brood Of bad passions feeding on
the blood, a set of low loves tramplng
through the heart, and 4 selfish, disdaintul
spirit enthroned in the will, as to preserve
the beauty of an elegant mansion with
litter Of swine at the basement 4 tribe of
cvpsies in the parlor, and owls and vultures
in the upper part Badness and beauty
will no more keep company great while,
than poison will consort with health, Or an
elegant carving survive the furnace fire.
The experiment of putting them together
has been tried successfully for thousands
of years but with one unvarying result.


Stand on one Of the crowded streets, and
note the passers by, and any one can see
how a vacant mind has made vacant eye,
how a thoughtless, aimless mind has robbed
the features of expression; how vanity has
made everything about its victim petty
how frivolity has faded the luster of the
countenance how baby thoughts have
made baby faces how pride has cut dis
dain into the features and made the face
chronic sneer; how selfshness has shriyel-
ed. and wrinkled, and withered up the
personality; how hatred has deformed and
demonized those who yielded to its power
how every bad passion has turned tell-tale
and published It's disgraceful story in the
lines of the face and the look of the eye;
how the old man who has given himselfup
to every sort of wickedness, is branded all
over with deformity and repulsiveness,-
and he will have new idea Of what re-
tribution Is. This may not be all, but it
is terrible-this transformation of face
once full of hope and loveliness, into de-
formity and responsiveness then the rose
blushing on its stalk. now ashes and
brand
Year: 1871

Gus crops, and also to gain wealth by varied
industry, which would enable them in time
Of scanty harvest to buy provisions abroad
Why does it not belongto the missionary
work OF Christendom to eyangelize the ma
,ions by the glad tidings Of science and
art, as well as religion, and teach all them
that sit in darkness the true use of the
eartI as well as the hope Of heaven? We
read the old Bible very much in this way.
aud tho Hebrew law gives the most minute
directions for the farm and the family, as
well as for the temple, whilst the Christian
creed begins with ascribing the earth as
well as the heavens to the creative work
Of one God Let the whole truth then be
spoken to the nations, TO the ignorant and
wretched among our own people, aud to all
who pine IL heather darkness. We believe
that all the good things of Christendom
belong together and should 60 together.
The plow, the reaper, the sewing machine,
the loom, the steamer, the printing press,
the telegraph, the newspaper-all come Of
Cnristian civilization. aud should help the
missionary to spread the gospel through
the w0rld.-Eseaing Post.
Year: 1871

do know what intense growing pains are in
the higher and highest nature. They
know what it is TO be pained in conscience,
when 1t is trying to unshackle itself, and
rise above the low standards of expediency
and mere social tests and measures, when
it IS struggling to tie up its crooked
nature to the strong, straight, unyielding
stake driven down at its side by hand
from heaven. They know what it IS to be
panied in the will, when that will goes forth
to execute the higher law, at the time when
all the senses and the lower sentiments
commanding public opinion in the soul cry
out against the fanatical and visionary
will, and when that will is mobbed and
haunted BY ali the sensuaities of the
lower man.


They know what it is to have pains in
the heart, when the hearts affection grow
ing upon low frames and conditions, lying
fiat upon the earth, they undertake to tear
away those sensitive tenirils, to lift up the
sttfened form of the vine. and command it
to grow upon the frame which leads up
ward, away from the darkness and damps,
into the purer atmosphere and light of
heaven, where it can blossom, send forth
its scent OF praise, and fulfil its conditions
of higher life By producing fruit unto per
fection


There are those who know quite well
that during all this growing season into
higher conditions and higher promises,
there are pains and perturbations, and they
know it is all quite right.


If there were nothing but sweet de-
lights and comfortable experiences on the
way upward, who could know bat that We
were going upward merely for the pleasur-
able sen>ations3Ani who knows but that the
whole experience might prove sham, and
that there would be a mere preteuce of I'M
provement, mere semblance of estab-
blished character? But the growing pains
prevent all this, for no man Will 20 through
them unless he Is really sincere.


In the meanwhile, We rejoice in hope, be-
cause the season of the growing pains Is
short, and after that the unending pleas
ures Of eternal manhood, exercising all
it, powers without let or hindrance, with
nothing to marx, mar, or destroy.
Year: 1871

The man who started the memorable
Sanitary flour sack has lately died in San
Francisco. This most extraordinary sack
well deserves a place in all histories of the
war, if only to show how a trifiDg whim
may have an important place in great
crisis. \ bag of -four which had figured
in an election bet, was sold by auction in
every town in the Pacific States, for the
benefit of the Sanitary Commission, every
purchaser giving it back again to continue
its travels, and rough miners paying hun
dreds of gold dollars for a minutes owner
ship of this sack, who would not have given
q cent to the most eloquent bearer Of
subscription paper. 1t is impossible to
conceive of anything more childish, but
being all children of larger growth the
Californians and Nevadians heaped hun
dreGs of thousands of dollars upon this
silly symbol. When the bag reached St.
Louis, its contents furnished material for
host of little cakes for which the bearded
boys of Missouri paid extravagant prices
in aid of the same great object.
Year: 1871

A young man stumbling home from a
supper party, thought it very strange
how fatally evil communications cor
rupt good manners 1--WE been sur
rounded by tumblers all the evening,
and now I am become a..tumbler my.
self.D
Year: 1871

AS every one ought to make himself use
full in imparting knowledge or experience
to others, will inform the readers of the
hural New Yorker how l relieved myself
from troublesome tooth. You may say,
nave it extracted at once." But when
people have teeth that dentists cannot pull
without breaking them off, they do not
wisn 10 nave another trial; perhaps their
health Is poor and nerves very weak, which


TO such persons will say, if you have
hollow tooth, and the nerve has come in
contact with the air, get some spirits of
niter and mix with alum; saturate little
cotton with it and apply it to the cavity. If
the pain extends upward to the eve, or
takes the form Of neuralgia, procure some
horse radish leaves, take out the stems,
wilt them and apply 1t on the face over the
pain, and think you will get relief. If
you have no radish, try beet leaves; they
may answer the purpose. Rural New
Yorker