smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The attention Of gentleman visiting
the lunatic asylum on Blsekwells Is
land, recently, was drawn to a pretty
fair-haired GIRL about twenty years o.
age, who had not spoken word since
she entered the asylum, over two years
and a half ago. Her name is Lore
Beekman, and her insanity was caused
by disappointment in, love. She was
engaged to be married to q young man
who, shortly before the appointed we'd
ding day, left her and became engaged
to another woman. The keeper and bis
assistants have resorted to many expe.
dients to make herspeak, hut her strange
silence remains unbroken. With her
arms tightly drawn over her breast, she
sits on Che same stool and listlessly
stares at the wall the whole day long,
recognizing nobody and seemingly un-
conscious of the presence Of others.
The most romantic episode in this de-
ranged woman's life is that once a year
a young man comes and places bou-
ouet of flowers in her hands, after
which be Immediately goes away. The
name and residence Of this mysterious
visitor are qAknoYl.
Year: 1873

son for the exemption of these people
was the fact that they invariably ate
their bivalves fresh from the water
Philadelphia, which is renowned for
it's medical schools, has the reputation
of producing more medical experts
than any other part of the globe. The
business is pursued professionally in
this city of furnishing professors who
appear as witnesses in criminal trials
and give suitable illustrations of inf
Intestinal or metaphysical distinctions
such as are not apparent to the vulgar
understanding. Hence, I have great
pleasure in accepting the explanation
which one of these ingenious gentle
man furnised me of the difference be-
tween oysters in the state in which they
usually come to market. The oyster
is a gross feeder, omniverous and vo-
racious. Deprived of water, he begins
to assimilate air. But this induces
quite new activity in the phosphorus
he secretes. A process of slow COM
bustion begins in it, and this increases
with each day the oyster is kept. It is
to this condition of phosphorus, COM
busted in the. stale oyster, that the
learned Professors attributes the origin
of emotional insanity; and am con-
vinced his ingenious theory is the cor
rect one.


But it is impossible to supply any
parts Of the German Empire except
those binding Immediately upon the
coast with fresh oysters. We must
accept stale ones or do without any
But stale oysters make US liable to e.
motional insanity. I therefore re-
speetfully recommend that our oyster
fundum be not planted with bivalves.
Year: 1873

4 There are moments when by some


strange impulse we contradict our past


selves-fatal moments, when a fit of


passion, like lava stream, lays low


the work of half our lives.


Always there is seed being sewn si-


lently and unseen, and everywhere


there come sweet flowers without our.


foresight or labor. We reap what we


SOW, but Nature has love over and a.


boye that justice, and gives us shadow


and blossom and fruit that spring from


no planting of ours.


The golden moments in the stream


of life rush past us, and we see moth
| ing but sand; the angels come to visit


us, and we only know them when they


are gone.


There is power in the direct glance


of a sincere and loving human soul


which will do more to dissipate preju-
dice and kindle charity than the most
elaborate arguments.


Our habitual life is like wall hung
with pictures, which has been shone
on by the suns of many years; take
one of the pictures away, and it leaves
a definite blank space, to which our
eyes can never turn without sensa-
ton of discomfort. Nay, the involun-
tary loss of any familiar object almost
always brings chill as from an evil
omen; it seems to be the first finger
shadow of advancing death.
There is an unspeakable blending of
sadness and sweetness in the smile of q
face sharpened and paled by slow con-
sumption.


In those distant days, as in all 9TH.
er times and places where the mental
atmosphere is changing and men are
Finhailing the stimulus of new ideas,
folly often mistook itself for wisdom,
ignorance gave itself airs of knowledge,
and selfshness, turning it's eyes up
ward, called itself religion.
Worldly faces never look so worldly
as at funeral. They have the same
effect of grating incongruity as the
sound of coarse voice breaking the
solemn silence of night.


Religious ideas have the fate of me-
Flodies, which, once set afoat in the
world, are taken up by all sorts of in
Estruments, some of them wofully coarse,
feeble, or out of tune, until people are
in danger of crying out that the melody
itself is detestable.


Opposition may become sweet to q
man when he has christened it perse-
cution; self-obstructive, over-hasty
reformer, complacently disclaiming all
merit, while his friends call him a
martyr, has not in reality career the
most arduous to the fleshly mind.
Year: 1873

During the early part of the fight
every precaution is adopted to prevent
leaving heavy trail, or one easily to
be followed; to this end, instead of
moving, as is customary, in single file,
thereby leaving clearly defined path,
each warrior moves Independently of
his fellows, until all danger from pur-
suit is safely passed, when the party
falls into single file, and, with the chief
at the head, moves along in almost I'M
broken silence. IF during an attack
upon the frontier settlements the In
dians should encounter unexpected
and successful resistance, necessitating
a premature withdrawal and fight on
their part, they still resort to stratagem
in order to secure their safety. In ac-
cordance with plan previously form
ed and understood by each member of
the party, and specially provided for
an emergency, the war party finding
themselves about to encounter success
full resistance on the part of the from
tiersmen beat a hasty retreat, but in.
stead of taking their flight'in a single
direction and in one party, thereby
leaving an unmistakable clue for their
lpursuers, the entire party breaks up
into numerous smaller bands, each ap-
parently fleeing in an independent di-
riction, a few of the best mounted usu-
ally falling behind to attract the at


tention of the pursuers and give time
to those of the party who are burden
ed with prisoners and captured stock
to make good their escape. In such an
emergency, as this, a rendezvous for
the entire party has been previously
fixed upon. Its location is usually
upon or near some water course or
prominent landmark, distant perhaps
thirty Or forty miles; thither all small
er parties direct their course, each by
a separate and usually a circuitous
course. Should either of these small
er parties find themselves closely pur-
sued, or their trail being followed and
all efforts to throw the pursuers off
prove unavailing, they relinquish the
plan of uniting with the others at the
established rendezvous as that would
imperil the safety of their comrades,
and select a new route leading neither
in the direction of the rendezvous nor
of the village, in order not only to
elude but to mislead their pursuers.
Then ensues long and tiresome flight,
until, having worn out or outwitted
their pursuers, of whose movements
they keep themselves thoroughly in
formed, they make their way in safety
to the village. At the latter, lookouts
are constantly kept on some prominent
hill to watch the coming of the absent
warriors and give notice of their ap-
proach. A war party returning from
a successful raid into the settlements,
and bringing with them prisoners and
captured stock, is all event of the great
est Importance to every occupant of
the village. Having arrived within a
few miles of the village, and feeling
safe from all danger from pursuit, the
chief in command of the war party
causes a signal smoke to be sent up
from some high point along the line of
march, we'll knowing that watchfrl
eyes near the village are on the alert
and will not fail to observe the signal
and understand its meaning. General
Custer, IN GALAXY for December.
Year: 1873

B@-A little six year old was asked
by his teacher to write composition
on the subject of water, and the follow
ing is the production: "Water is good
to drink, to swim in and to skate on
when frozen. When Twas little baby
the nurse used to bathe me every morn
ing in water. I have been told that
Injuns don't wash themselves but once
in ten years. wish l was an Injunw
Year: 1873

O We fathers and mothers who have
| sons and daughters growing up around
you, do you ever think of your respon-
sibilty in this regard, your responsible
ty for keeping alive the home sentiment
in the hearts of your children? With
in the limits of your means, remember
that the obligation rests on you to make
their home the pleasantest place upon
this rolling earth to make the word
"home" for them the synonym for
"happiness. | would not have yon
import the vices of the outside world
into your homes for any purpose but
| would have you go to the utmost verge
of what is moral, to provide at home
those things which cntice young and
growing persons away from home. Let
me assure You that you had better spend
your money III doing this than in osten-
tation or luxury, and far, far better
spend it thus, than to amaSs fortune
Tor your children to squander in the
future. And not only as regards amuse-
monts, but also comfort and refinement,
for children have keen appreciation of
these things; this is much the best
policy. Don't send your boy to school
in ill-tittting garments, collar all awry
and chaiin his neck, buttons missing,


and shoes down at the heel Don't


make warehouse or clothes-press of


his bedroom. Don't feed him ON sour
bread, and tough meat, and burnt


coffee. Don't let noise and dissension
and misrulc spoil the hours he spends
Mt home. Don't do any of these things
if You can possible avoid it especially
don't do them for the purpose of laying
up money for his future use. The rich
est legacy you can leave him is a life
long, inextinguishable and fragrant re-
collection of his home, when time and
death have forever dissolved the en-.
chantmcnt. Give him that, and he will
in the strength of it, make his own way
in the world but let his rccOllections
of home be repulsive, and the fortune
you may leave him will be poor com
pension for the loss Of that tenderness of
heart and purity of life which not only
n pleasant home, but the memory of
one, would have secured. Remember
this, too, that, while he will never feel


grateful for your money when once you


are under ground, he will go to your
green grave and bless your very ashes
for that sanctuary Of quiet, comfort and
refinement into which you may, if you
possess the means, transform your homo.
Year: 1873

The New York Sun contains the fol-
lowing excellent and timely sugges-
tons


Once the helpless innocents were
made to suffer untold misery of the ex-
perience of their mothers, who clad
their darlings in the dainty cold linen
shirts and Overskirts with linen bands :;
next CANA the low-necked dresses, pret-
ty but thoroughly unhealthy, leaving as
they did the sensitive neck and arms of
the little ones exposed. 1t is difficult
to convince oneself that vanity is the
root Of that terror of mothers, the collie,
and that proper warmth will do more
toward relieving the child, and in truth,
keeping it entirely free from the terri
BILE pain than all the soothing syrups
and paregoric that can be be bought.
Little knit flannel shirts are far better
than linen, for they are warm to the
delicate skin The bands of the tlan-
mel shirts should be Of thin fine flannel
Linen or cotton bands should be used
in other skirts and the slips or robes
should all have long sleeves and be high
in the neck. Fresh air never Injuries II
child if its body is properly protected.
Again if our friends are at all crcdu-
lous, let them try the following exper-
pertinent. If the little one is much
troubled with the COLES, and has not
been accustomed to narcotics let the
mother put flannel next to its skin, and
keep its hands, arms and feet warm for
n few days, or if the babe has been un-
healthy, and flannel that has been worn
next to the body is removed, the cXpcr-
imcnt will cause the unsat isfactoly ne
suit of pain to the child, and anxiety to
the mother. While we advocate warmth,
we do not approve Of too much cover
ing. A sleeping child requires much
less than an adult; if too many blan-
kets are over it, the head is covered with
beads of perspiration, and the child
will become weak and half-sick use
just enough, and the babe will wake up
laughing and happy With simple food,
air, exercise, and warmth, there is no
reason why our little ones may not be
well without the use of medicine.
Year: 1873

No one has yet been able to analyHe
or demonstrate the essential action OF
perfume. Gas can be weighed, but not
scents the smallest known creatures,
the very monads of life, can be caught
by microscopic lens and made to de-
liver up the secrets of their organiza-
tion but what it is that emanates from
the pouch of the musk-deer, that fills
whole space for years and years with its
penetrating odor, IN odor which an
illimitable number of extraneous sub
stances can carry ON without diminish
ing it in size and weight, and what it is
that the warm summer air brings to us
from the flowers, no man yet has been
able to determine. SO fine, 20 subtle,
50 imponderable, it has eluded both our
most delicate weights and measures and
our strongest lenses. If we could come
to the essence of each odor, we should
have made an enormous stride forward,
both in hygiene and in chemistry and
none would profit more than the medi-
cal profession if it could be as conclu-
sively demonstrated that such an odor
proceeded from such and such cause
as we already know Of sulphur, sulphu-
rated hydrogen, ammonia, and the like.
AS it is, no one knows anything; and if
the art of the perfumers forms one of
the chief delights of our civilized
senses, the cause by which he works is
Il mystery solved by none.
Year: 1873

In THE SPRING-TIME Sow THY SgED.-
Before the fifth year how many seeds
are sown which future years, and dis
tant ones, mature successfully How
much fondness, how much generosity,
what hosts of other virtues, courage,
constancy, patriotism, spring into the
fathers heart from the cradleof his child.
And does never the fear come over
n man that what is most precious to him
upon earth is left in careless or pertidi
ous, in unsafe or unworthy hands
Does it never occur TO him that he lose.
son in every one of these five years
Lnnner
Year: 1873

Don't be afraid of having little fun in
the family. Amcrry disposition is God
send home. There's the case Of man no
Nelson street, for instance Saturday
he went into the kitchen ahead of his
wife, and seeing two huckleberry pies
standing on the table, he hastily CON
ccalcd them in the ice chest, which stood
open in the back hall. Then he went
down town chIckling to himself, and
ten minutes later the ice cart drove up,
and the ice man brought i'll tiftypound
cake and started for the ice chest, fol-
lowed closely by the fond wife expatia-
ting upon the "muss." He put the
cake upon the edge of the chest and
gave it push over, and when it came
down on those two steamlng pies, a
huckleberry geiser followed, and the ice
man, with eyes and face full of the dis
charge, tumbled completely over the
woman, and disappeared out OF the
door. The wife recovered her balance
as speedily as possible, and catching up
broom went after the ice man, but he
escaped her; then she came back and
looked into the ice chest. and down at
the oil-cloth, and up at the ceiling, and
around on the walls. The men at the
store who were let into the joke by the
facetious Nelson street man are anxious
ly wondering how it turned out.
Year: 1873

BRISBANE will soon commence laying
a new pneumatic tube between the
capitol and the government printing
office at Washington. 1t will be en-
closed in an octagonal box to protect ii
from the pressure of the earth, which
crushed the first one he put down.
Year: 1873

Our city markets that are now held on King
street have caused the Council much trouble at
various times, aud are not now conducted as they
should be. The market people are too closely
packed together on the street. There is neither
to justify this disposition of their
wagons by our country friends. The crowd is
often so dense on the pavement that it is imposs-
BILE to pass or get into the street. Tbs could be
remedied very easily. 1t was the prime cause Tor
moving the market TO King street and the IN
convenience there Is felt by every person who has
marketing to DO for family. .....


The crowd is caused by the wagons being SO
closely backed up together. II every wagon was
required to be four feet apart, the pavement
would be found to be free from the crowd. But
a better way would be TO require tine wagons to
stand with their sides to the pavement; and those
who attend them to stand in their upon boards,
which they could readily bring with them to lay
across the cutters.


In this way the market would be made to eX-
tend as far as TweflA street, and the whole city
would be far more pleasantly accommodated,
while the country people would sell great deal
more than they now do, because great ndmber
of citizens will not 20 into our markets in their
present crowded state.
Year: 1873

The Republican has the audAcity, in the face OF
contrary facts, to assert the following;


Besides, the City hospitar was brought forward
by Democrats, matured by Democrats, and pass.
ed by the aid Of Democratic votes. 1t was not a
patty measure and the Gazette and its friends are
equally accountable for whatever loss may accrue
t. the city through it."


There is no truth in the above, it is a complete
falsicatiOn. The proposition the Democrats made
was simply to secure lot of ground for the VII
mington Hospital Society" They did not pro
pose that the city should have anything to do
with the project further than aid the Society by
presenting it a lot TO buid upon; which would
have cost from FIVE to ten thousand, as to position
while the city had had lots Of its that it could
have given to the Society without any cost; or as
one of the councilman suggested. might have
been built upon by the city itself more ocOnOmi-
cally than buying building, if it chose to under
take to run City hospital which no city had
undertaken before.
Year: 1873

DEcLINEs-JOhn P. Almond was recommend
ed BY the Democrats at their meeting in the
Seventh Ward as a candidate for the President Of
the City Council Mr.. Almond had been pre-
viOusy sOlicitedto stand for the Office aud had
declined in letter to the Executive Committee
lie requests US to tender his thanks and say to
his Democratic friends in the Seventh Ward and
elsewhere that he is deeply sensible Of the honor
that has been done him in soliciting his name
but the many duties that now press upon his
time, render it impossible for him TO accept OF
50 distinguished position were it even possible
or him to secure 1t without so great sacrifice.
Year: 1873

Do not stop to tell stories in business
hours.


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


No man cap get rich by setting round
stores and saloons.


"Never fool' in business matters.
Have order, system, regularity, liberality
and promptness.


Do not NEEDLE with business you know
nothing of.


Never buy an article you do not need,
simply because it is cheap, and the man
who sells it takes it out in trade.


Trado is money.


Strive to avoid hard words and personal
tiles.


Do not kick every stone in the path.
More miles can be made in day by going
steadily on than by stopping.


Pay as you go.


y man of honor respects his word rs his
bond


AID, but never beg.


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


Learn to say "no." No necessity of snap
ping it out dog fashion, but say it firmly
and respectfully.


Have but few confidants, the fewer the
better.


Use your own brains rather than those OF
others.


Learn to think and act for yourself


BE vgilant.


Keep rather ahead than behind the times.
Year: 1873

Don't let your minds get into ruts, boys.
lfyou have ever travelled over country
roads in the spring you know how hard it
is to get the wheels out of tho deep tracks,
when once you have turned into them.
just so it is with your minds. You need
to give them freer range. Have always
on hand some really valuable book quite
outside your ordinary pursuits, and read a
little in it every day. Read ten pages at
tentively, rather than twenty carelessly.
Learn to pick up knowledge everywhere.
a good newspaper will give you many
valuable thoughts, which you may as well
save as not IT, you will but turn them over
time or two in your mind. 1t is reflec-
tion that makes an idea our own.


You are accustomed to think of Charles
Dickens as a wonderful genius. Yet he
says of himself "Myo invention, or i'm
agination would never have served me as
it has, but for the habit of common place,
humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging
attention." If Dickens career would not
have been a success without this habit, YOU
may be quite sure that yours will not. The
principle applies TO every other pursuit as
well as to authorship.


Which will you decide to do,-Go about
with eyes open, or eyes shut? The wide
Year: 1873

awake boy is known and appreciated, and
so is the boy of small attainments and few
ideas, but the difference is far moro mark
ed when they become men.


Who does not know plenty of dull, dozy-
looking men, who will come in and sit by
your fire half an evening and never ad-
vance three ideas. They have none outside
of very limited range of daily drudgery.
They are like snals in their shells, and all
because they have gone through life with
their brows bent down to the ground seeing
nothing above or beyond this little furrow.
Heads up, boys, and eyes open. Learn
something worth knowing every day of
your life, and think it over at night, that
you may imprint it deeply on your MEM
ory.- Working Farmer.
Year: 1873

BI HENIlH MONFOHD
The world dear John, as the old folks told us,
Isa world Of trouble and care;
Many cloud Of grief will enfold us,
And the sunshine Of Joy is but rare.
But there's something yet to be bright and blessed
In,


No matter how humble the lot;
The world still gives us home to rest in
Its holiest, happiest spot.
Sweet home dear homel on the northern heather,
On the sunniest southern plain;
The Lapand hut in its wiptry weather;
The tent Of the Indian main
Be 1t gorgeous wealth that temple is dressed in
Be it poor and of little worth
o home! our home-a home to rest in
Is the dearest thing on earth.
But timc dear John, is using us badly;
Our homes crumble day by day;
And we're laying our dear ones, swiftly and sadly,
In the dust of the valley away.
Taere's q dcath-robc soon for both to be dressed
in


place for us under the sod
BE heaven at last the home we shall rest in
The rest of the people of God.
Year: 1873

That which is called in general way the
"great advarce in prices" is really an ad-
vance in the style of living. When people
say that it costs more TO live now than it
did hundred years ago, the same is true
in tho sense that people have more wants
to bo supplied now than they did then. 1t
is not true in any other sense. People can
live as cheaply, to-day, as they did in
Washington's time, If they were content TO
live in the Same way.