smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876




If there has been any doubt in the
mind of any one as to the mutual
Endorsement of Hayes and Grant,
that doubt may be dispelled on the
authority of that enthusiastic Radi-
cal organ, the Philadelphia Press.
1t says:


LET Republicans remember that
President Grant is the firm friend of
Governor Hayes as his successor;
that it is to President Grant we look
for the maintenance of all the laws,
North and South, during the presi-
Dental election, and that if the Con
federate Democracy should attempt
to make head against the national
sentiment, we have a man in the
highest Office of the republic who
understands them. We often fee
inclined ourselves to complain Of
President Grant, but when we thinh
of what he did for the republic
when we recall his quiet and unpre
tending bravery in the darkest hours
of the rebellion, when we remembe
his severe trials and the unconfrm
ed slanders to which he has beer
compelled to submit since he reluct
antly accepted his first presidency
we also remember Mr.. LINCOLN
tribulation, and let the little trouble
of the hour pass into the ocean =
oblivion, content with the consola
tion that the best part Of ULYssE
5. GRAST viii live forever.
Year: 1876

Richmon Whig: Poor Hayes /!
In his desperation he appeals pa
thetically for just one term, and he
promises never to be in the way
again of other aspirants. It is sin
gular that it never occurred to our
amiable friend, who is serving his
third term as Governor, that the un-
charitable might question his SINGER
ity in adding this additional plank
to the platform of his party. What
could have prompted him to such an
act of marnimity? Was it the res
ult of his experience as a third ter
mer, or of desire to quietly wash
his hands Of all suspicion of Gran
tism, or was it simply a notice to
suffering Blaine-help me this time
and your enemies shall never use me
against you again?
Year: 1876

Vicksburg Miss. Herald: We
hear no end of complaints in regard
to the partiality of the clerk of the
weather. Some people complain of
drouth, others of good seasons, and
yet others of too much wetness.
We heard one planter say that he
had fine rain in his front yard,
and not a drop in his back yard,
and his yard is not more than an
acre, either. Another blasphemous
individual from this county said that
on the way to the city a fine rain
fell on his horses tail, while not a
drop fell on the rider.
Year: 1876

There is never a miser who does
not intend to make a handsome ex-
penditure, some day; death comes,
and the intention is carried out by
his heir. This is the history OF
more than one acquaintance.
Year: 1876

Jacksonville (Fla.) Union: If
druggists could only be induced to
tell tales out of school, the public
would be absolutely thunderstruck
upon realizing how extensively the
habit of opium eating prevails all
over the South, especially among
the gentler sex, whose extreme care
in concealing this popularity is GER
tainly remarkable.
Year: 1876

Many are careless in the keeping
of the feet II they wash them once
a week they think they are doing
well. They do not consider that
the largest pores are located in the
bottom of the foot, and that the
most offensive matter is discharged
through the pores. They wear
stockings from the beginning to the
end of the week without change,
which become perfectly saturated
with offensive matter. III health is
! generated by such treatment Of the
feet. The pores are not only repel-
lants but absorbents, and feted mat.
ter, to greater or less extent, Is
taken back into the system. The
feet should be washed every daY
with pure water only, as well as til,
armpits, from which an offensive
odor is also emitted, unless daily
abluton is practiced. Stockings
should not be worn more than ,
day or two at time. They may b
worn one day, and then aired an'
summed and worn another day i
necessary.
Year: 1876

Memphis owes so much that, to
pay the interest on its debt. and the
cost of government for the ensuing
year, the city taxation must be six
per cent. The Mayor advises a
compromise with the creditors.
Year: 1876

There is but one objection to
Governor Tilden as a presidential
candidate, and that is a quite seri-
GUS one--he is bachelor. The
American people have an impress
sion, deep seated and strong, that
the occupant of the White House
should have that which alone can
give to it the great distinguishing
attraction and Characteristic of
American homes-a wife. Objec-
tion is made to him from all quar-
ters on this score, and it may, there
fore, be safely concluded that he
will remedy it in due time. Hold
ing this opinion, the st. Louis Re
publican suggests that he should Sc
lect his wife from the State which
gives him the largest majority in
November This is a good idea.
1t would put every single female in
every State in the Union actively to
work for him, and would, by reason
of the strength Of the party in this
State, ultimately give the honor t.
Kentucky.-HopE Einsville NeiD Era:
Year: 1876

Jacksonville (Fla.) Union; Many
persons at the North have heard
and read exaggerated accounts of
the ease and cheapness of living in
this climate, and are coming here
without any means of support be-
yond their daily earnings. Such
ought to be advised that they had
better remain where they are unless
certain of situations beforehand.
Year: 1876

New York Herald: A large force
of regular troops is doing duty in
the North and South, guarding forts
that no one threatens, and posts in
the interior that could be as well
occupied by local militia. With the
exception of the points along the
Rio Grande and the scattered forts
in the Southern Indian Territory,
the troops should be withdrawn
from every station east of the Mis-
sissippi and south Of the Arkansas
river. The place for these men is
in the Yellowstone Valley, where
they could be directed in strong and
mobile columns against the hostile
Sioux until that tribe and its allies
are subdued or exterminated. Let
Sheridan take command in person
and send these merciless savages
''whirling up the valley" wherever
he meets them. Let US have none
but rifemen in our cavalry and in
fantry regiments. With such W,
can face any enemy, be he civilized
OF savage.
Year: 1876

Richmond (Va. Dispatch: Our
advices from most of the counties
around the city represent the most
severe drought experienced for
wears, and its long continuance is
creating apprehension in the minds
of many of serious loss of crops.
The pasture fields IN many places
are looking as if fire had swept over
them; the corn is small, and the
blades twisted and dry, and the to
bacco is not only not growing, but
a great deal of it dying for lack Oi
moisture.
Year: 1876

A young man sent twenty 1lve
cents in answer to an advertisement
of .'How to write without pen, ink
or paper" In about a week he re-
ceived the reply, "write on ashingle
with a pencil" Another, who sent
half a dollar to find out the best way
to get rid of flies, was advised to
eput a little molasses on his tongue
and stick it out until the flies should
light on it and then draw it in and
shut his mouth" They have both
stopped answering advertisements.
Year: 1876

Charlotte IN. c Observer: People
from Kings mountain tell an almost
incredible story of an animal which
was born over there about ten days
ago. A COW gave birth to some
thing which is neither a calf nor a
human being, but both. The first
half of the body is human; the ami
NAL has arms, and they are those OF
human; the head, face and shoul


ders are human, and the head is GOV
cred with wool like that of negro
Year: 1876

Washington special TO the Baltimore Gazette.


Grant last night was in such a
morose condition that he refused to
sign regular Congressional bills.
1t has been reporte / that the stranger
ness of the Presidents conduct for
the past few weeks has at length
found vent in the unquestionable
fact that he has become insane, and
his mind has become so clouded
that he refuses to sign any bill pre-
sented to him for his signature by
Congress, leaving them to become
legalized by the expiration of the
limited time. The report has made
quite a sensation. A matter of-fact
friend explains it by saying, 1T is
the same old attack of neuralgia"
Year: 1876

A WoRD TO THE GRLs.-Girls, TO
you the boys look for clean houses,
bright furniture and neat toilets.
When a country boy starts out to
hunt him a wife the first thing
he does when he goes in is to look
what the girl is doing, if she is sew
ing, knitting patching or darning,
he is satisfied with her home industry;
if he finds her at the wash tub he is
satisfied that if he has clothes at all he
will have clean ones. The next thing
he does is to look around to see what
condition the house is in, to see if the
beds have clean quilts and pillow cases
on them. how the chair IRE arranged
The next ching is TO stay for dinner
and see if she will get dinner or let
her mother do it; if she gets it, while
he is eating he is noticing how the
biscuits are baked, whether the pud-
ding is good or not, how the butter is
dressed, etc. If she is tasty in all these
things he stays as long as manners
will allow him, then goes away re-
loicing that he has found a girl that
suits him, with full determination of a
speedy return.-Er.
Year: 1876

BREAKING HgARTs.-Do not laugh
ut the drunken man reeliDg through
the street, however ludicrous :he sight
may be; just stop to think. He is 60
ing home TO some tender heart that
will throb with intense agony, some
doting mother, perhaps, who Will
grieve over the downfall of her once
sinless boy; or it may be a foad wife,
whose heart will ALMOST burst with
grief as she views the destruction of
her idol, or it may be loving sister
who will shed bitter tears over the
degradation of her brother, shorn of
manliness and Self-respeet. Rather
drop a tear IN silent sympathy for
those hearts so keenly sensitive and
tender, yet SO proud and loyal that
they cannot accept sympathy tender.
ed them either in word, look or act,
although It may fall upon their crush>
ed and wounded hearts as refreshing
as the summer dew upon the withe--
ing plant.
Year: 1876

DoY'r GRoAN.-The man who groans
over his poverty without taking a
step towards lettering his condition,
is justly regarded as a good for, moths
ing Ounce Had ne sense, the more
desperate his fortunes the more ener-
getic would be bis attempts to I'M
prove them. Groaning does not help
the matter; work is what is wanted.
Persistent work will accomplish most
anything. Opportunities are always
waiting for those who are ready 10
seize them. If a young man is poor,
it does no good to complain about it.
Let him go to work and acquire
means to fit himself for business.
When throughly instructed in bust
ness affairs he will find plenty of op-
portunities TO advance himself Busi-
ness men are always glad to get such
talent. They know that any young
man who has had force of character
enough to educate himself will al
ways prove useful, and can be edepend-
ed on Young men, if you are poor,
don't groan but 90 to work.
Year: 1876

Burn OLD Love LETrERs.-If you
wish 10 live tranquil life, and have
no ghosts of the past TO haunt the
present hours and fill them with cha
grin, always burn old love letters.
For many reasons il is better to burn
letters of affection than to hoard them
in this uncertain world. Burn if you
would not have your friend panied by
even an accidental disclosure of kind.
ness. Burn if you would have your
costliest secrets continue undiVulged
Burn for your own sake and for The
sake of others. Give trembling hopes
and gentle assurances, the trsttalter
ing promise, the last welcome asserya
tion, the gold and silver sentences,
The record OF dreams and of doubts
the line traced when all was benight.
ed-giye the sweet and bitter and the
bitter sweet, eafnes,nesS and play
fnllness, deep appeal aud trivial Jest all
alike TO the friendly FIRE.
Year: 1876

WHITEwAsH.-Mix some fresh-sl lck-
ed lime with water till il is of the con
sIstency of cream; dissolve a small
lump of copperas in warm water, when
cold, mix with the lime water. Lay
1t on the walls with large brush,
taking care to stir up the mixture
every time the brush is dipped into it
Year: 1876

Sin is about the only employer who
hasn't reduced the wages OF his en-
ployees. Tight times never embarrass
him in the least He is little slow
about settling up sometimes, but he can
be depended upon. His works are run
ming on full time now, and his hands are
being paid up, one by one, with all his
Old time liberality.
Year: 1876

1t there are any loose straw, chips, sticks,
Old barrels or boxes anywhere within his
reach, and he can get match he will make
what he calls "burnfre," and stand around
it and hold his hands before il until he gets
smoked all over


If there is Il pond or puddle Of muddy wa
ter anywhere about he will take off his shoes
and stockings, roll up his clean white pants
and either wade in or get dirty board or
plank and push himself about until face,
hands and clothes are one uniform dirty col
or from top to toe.


lie will go over any fence or wall or
through any tangled thicket of briars.
thons or brushwood, regardless of the
strength Of his trousers, even when it would
be quite as handy to go around by the pro-
per path.


lie will plunge into any muddy ditch or
swamp after a mud turtle or minnow and
then after carrying it about while, will
throw his prize away.


He will climb any ladder, pole, scafIold or
tree, with no understandable reason except
to get where he knows he ought not to be,
and with sure result Of getting into dan
ger,


WhCn his kite lotgcs in a trce or a tcle-
graph wire he will Try TO get it down hv
throwing stones and sticks at it until the
Kite is broken to pieces, and will spend s,
much time and energy in this vain pursuit
AS would serve to make dozen other kites.


lie will trudge through the snow and slush
in preference to walking on perfectly clear
path or pavement.


lie will spend hours in throwing clubs
and stones to knock candles" from the CA.
taipa tree, to knock Switches" from tile
ailanthus tree and to knock "button-haIls'
from the buttOnwood tree and then when
be has got them and his clothes in disorder,
he will gather up his candles" Switches"
or "button-balls" and Immediately find he
don't want them, and give them away to
some other boy who don't want them eth.
er


lie will make racket and noise without
any possible reason for it except the "iun"of
making a noise.


Finally he will get his clothes dirty, or
his fingers cut, or his shins or head bruised
If there is any show or chance for either
within mile. ....


Wherein the average American how dic.
fers from the American girl: This "dir
lerentiation' is a problem of the evolution
lists" to solve.
Year: 1876

Dom Piatt, of the Washington Capital,
thus delivers himself concerning our great
national shopkeeper II is to be presumed
that Dom was not recognized in the Will:


A. r. Stewart was man of a hard, sell
fish, tyrannical nature-of little brain ana
less culture who has passed away, with all
his powers for good, without leaving Tor rec
ord one act that can be scored to the service
of humanity. Of what was the world bet
ter that he lived, and wherein has his ac-
cumulated millions benefited his fellow
men?


We do not know that he was called up
on to serve humanity. He had no mission
that we are aware of, and that he filled his
place of shop. keeper in quiet, order'y
way, entitled him to quiet burial. This we
accord him, and only protest against the SICK
ening euloges that now fill the press. Ac-
cumulating properly is not mental pro-
cess at ALL 1t is ordinarily an instinct. AS a
hog gathers to himself bed before the COM
ing of viewless storm, or a wild goose flies
due north thousand miles, so do some
men blindly gather together much property
A brainy, educated man may do the same
desgnedly it is true. He invents the COM
pass and beats the goose, while Old Proba-
bilities, through mental process, tell us,
with more accuracy and further in advance,
the coming storm, than do the instincts of
the hog. But when it comes to money-get-
ting these exceptions are rare. The brainy
men who Is successful in business may be
put down as a casualty. Such Senators as
Sharon and Jones are accidents and proba-
bly, owe more to luck than forethought.


A. 7. Stewart was the son of an Irshman,
of the class known at home as bog-trotters.
When in Belfast, three years since, we were
pressed by a son of Boss Tweed to drive out
some eight miles, if we recollect, and look
at the mud-hovel in which our millionaire
first saw light. We declined. The birth
place OF the rich man is of no more interest
to US than his grave as we had no respect
for him while living, we cannot worship him
""e" ued"' VIC a'e irVt gwen W nianu5
shrines of either end of his earthly existence.
These eulogies of the press speak of A.
L Stewarts father as a landed proprietor
Probably he was to the extent of the real
estate on his person. A. T. was designed
for the priesthood, and got from the church
the education he after perverted to sale of
calicoes. The fact that he was born in the
hovel of bog-trotter is to his credit, but it
is discreditable to the sycophantic pen-dri-
vers that they should attempt to conceal or
deny his origin.
Year: 1876

IN the town of Hopkinton Mass, lived
a certain Deacon Small. Ia his advanced
age he had the misfortune to lose the rib oil
his youth. After doing penance by wear
ing weed on his hat a full year, he was
recommended to a certain Widow Hooper
living in an adjoining town. The deacon
was soon astride of his old brown mare
and on arriving at the widows door be
discovered her in the act of turning the
suds from her washtubs. Said the dea-
con:


as this Widow Hooper,"


eyes, SIR was the reply.


"Well, " continued the deacon, T am
that little bit of an old drled.up Deacon
Small, and have Only one question to pro-
pose to you"


"Please propose, sir"


"Well, madam said the deacon, "have
you any objection to going to Heayen by
way Of Hopkinton?"


"None at all, Deacon" was the reply
"Come IN, deacon"


Suffice it to say that they were married
the next day.
Year: 1876

He is a rich man who has God for his
friend.
lie is the best scholar who has learned
to live well.
Ahandful of mother wit is worth bushel
of learning.


You had better leave your enemy some
thing when you die, than liYe to beg of
your friends.


Enjoy what little You have while the
fool is looking for more.


Saying and doing do not dine togeth-
er.


May you have good luck, my son, and
wit will serve your turn.
Gifts break through stone walls.
Co not to your doctor for every ail, nor
your pitcher for every thirst.


There is no better looking glass than an
DID, true friend.


A wall between two preserves friend,
ship.


A creditor always has a better memory
than the debtor.
Year: 1876

Make Home Bright and Pleasant.
More than building snowy mansions
More than dress and fine array
More than dome and lofty steepes-
More than station, power, and sway
Make your home neat and tasteful,


Bright and pleasant, always fair,
Where each heart shall rest contsntei,
Grateful for each bounty there.
More than lofty swelling titles


More than fortunes Turing glare
More than Mammon's gilded hon0rs-
More than thought can well compare,
See that home is made attractive,


By surroundings pure and bright,
Trees arranged with taste and order:


Flowers in all their sweet delight.
Seek to make your home most lovely,
Let it be a smiling spot,
Where, in sweet coutentment resting;
Care and sorrow are forgot;
Where the flowers and trees are waving,
Birds will sing their sweetest songs;
Where the purest thoughts Will linger,
Confidence and love belong.
Make your home little Eden,


Initiate her smiling bowers,
Let a neat and simple cottage



stand among bright trees and flowers,
Then what fragrance and what brightness
VIII each blooming rose display
Here, simple vne-clad arbor,


Brightness through each summer day
Then each heart with rest contented,
Seldom wishing for roam
Or, il roaming still will cherish


Mem ries of that pleasant home,
Such home makes man the deter,


Pure and LISTING its CONTROL
Home with pure and bright surroundings
Leaves its impress on the soul.
Year: 1876

An Emperor of Germany coming by
chance, on Sunday, into a church,
found there a most misshapen priest in
somuch as the Emperor scorned and
contemned him, But when he heard
him read those words in the service,
"tor it is He that made US, and not we
ourselves" the Emperor checked his
own proud thoughts, and made inquiry
into the condition and quality of the
man: and finding him, on examination,
most earnest and devout. ne made him
Archbishop OF Colen, which place he did
excellently discharge -FuIter's Holy
State.
Year: 1876

To do the simplest work is to save re-
ligion from the most aggravated misan-
thropy. For man to light his last
candle and set it in the window of his
cot, with the hope that it may catch the
eager eye of the struggling mariner, who
would give the world for LIGHT is tn
please God more than to perform the
most stately ceremony, as if the earth
were no longer the abode of suffering
humanity. ty.-Joseph Parker, u. d.
Year: 1876

| will govern my life and my thoughts
as if all the world were to see the one
and to read the other; for what does it
signify to make anything secret to my
neighbor, when to God I'll our privacies
are open!-Seneca.
Year: 1876

''Come, daughter, don't" 1t was won
derful how those stern tones fell into a
sweetneso that was ike mothers. "Papa
will be very kind to his little girl and
make he- very happy and she must not
trouble him by grieying So"


At last the child lifted her head, and
her glance fell upon the portrait of lady
opposite, set in a richly carved frame.


The FACE was still young and the sweet
ness of the azure eyes, the futtering smile
about the lips, and tie soft delcacy of the
whole face, would have won Our whole
heart TO it at once.


Papa, / am glad now that she died be-
fore can remember her.


"My child, what DO you mean?" with
tones full of embarrassment.


''B cause, papa, it would have broken
her heart


| The cid man set down his child, and she
went cut of the library. His stern lips
dill not quiver, nor his iron will ialter in
its purpose, but there rose up before him
a far picture oC that Young face, above
which grass had been growing for eleven
years, as it bent with proud, mOtherly
tenderness over little, brown curly mead
which she was lifting up for its fathers
kiss. And the baby stretched out its hands
and crowed triumphantly, as the fingers
clutched the mans hairs and this baby
was his first born child, and he turned him
forever from his doors. Mary had spoken
the truth It was well that her mother
was dead for it would have broken her
heart.


/ Wm. Reynolds, the banker, was stern,
reS0lute man, honorable in bis dealings
with all men, but sympathetic, pitiful to
none. He had married late in life, wo-
man much younger than himself, one who
combined rare graces Of heart and mind;
and who had Opend all the springs Of ten
darness in his cold undemonstrative nature.
Their son had inherited the warm impulses
OF his mother with the infexible will OF
/ his father, and after the death of the form
er, gradual estrangement developed it
self between the two, and the gentle, heal
ing element of the mother was not there to
reconcile those she loved. Matters grew
worse and worse, until, after having grad
uated from college, the young man fatty
refused to crafty bis fathers darling am
bition Of succeeding him in business, he
having chosen the law for a profession.


A long and severe alteration ensued
between father and son. Harsh, fierce
words passed between them, for both were
equally determined and angry, and the
whole ended in the rich banker turning
his son forever from his threshold.
Year: 1876

Again he went to the widows lone hut,
Her sleepless eyes she had noJ yet shut;
But there she sat in the Old .rm chair
With the same wan features, sane wan all
And, entering in, he poured on the foor
A bushel or more from his goodly store


Of choicest potatoes.