smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

People seem to have an idea that
it will not do to approve boys. /
once knew Quaker lady who was
the mother OF six as rampageous
specimens Of the genus as could have
been picked out anywhere. Terri
bly, gifted they all were in bursting
off buttons, tearing pantaloons, and
letting daylight through hats; yet
for these things they were never
scolded. "Sweet, thee must look
out for the nails next time;' or "Dcar,
take little more time in undoing
thy buttons" was the extent of re-
proof. "Thee is mothers comfort
was their reward whenever they per-
formed the slightest service for her.
These boys were perfect chevaliers
toward their mother. They could
enter into pillow, fights at boarding
school without compunction, but her
pillows were always respected, and
her carpets, too, for they seldom for
got that their mother loved neatness,
and the door mat was to them sa-
cred institution, from the very fact
that it was never Grossly insisted up
on.


Suppose society, then, should choose
for its representative, instead of Miss
Murdstone, this sweet, quiet Quaker
ess, ard give the irrepressible boy
the appreciation that his nature
Graves. Suppose, instead Of being
constantly snubbed, his rights to
sympathy and appreciation should be
little respected; and suppose that
the services now often bullied out of
him should be politely requested
Who thinks of being polite to boys?
And why are we so irrational as to
expect OF them gentleness of man.
ner which we do not manifest toward
them? Nothing will win a boys
loyalty SO completely as respectful
treatment. In this respect, if in no
other, the boy is father of the man.
And the man seldom forgets any
Sights or insults put upon the boy.
What man living but cherishes a
a secret sense of injury against the
teacher who bullled his conjugations
and declensions into him, and made
his multiplication table nightmare :
And / have known a mans hatred oil
q girl who had snubbed him in boy
hood to be undimished in middle age.
archaeological Journal.
Year: 1876




the Rock Island Arsenal.
: Work on the walls of the building
to be used as rolling mill, the cas-
one of the north row, will be resum
ed tomorrow, for which a good fore,
of stone cutters and settlers have beer
engaged.


More than fifty boys were set tc
work last week, cleaning harness anc
other leather articles which were
made during the war, and have beer
sent here from various arsenals for
the purpose. An officer inspects
them after cleaning and portions which
arc injured are condemned and will be
sold ono Of these days.


The days Of the old knapsack and
haversack are ended, as well as the
era Of the cartridge box so long in
vogue. Thousands of "clo.hins
bags" far more roomy, light and
desirable piece of equipment than
the knapsack, are being manufacture
ed here; made of the best Russia
leather and duck cloth, it has four
compartments and is SO flexible that
it will fit itself to the part of body
which is supporting it. 1t is furnish
ed with straps for overcoat and blan-
ket. The haversack is also great
Improvement on the greasy, big,
black, repulsive thing used by the
United States soldiers from the DAYS,
of the last war with Great Britain
till the present year. 1t is conven-
lent in size, with front of fine Rus
sia leather, and furnished with uten-
sils for food for soldier needs on a
march. One very handy thing is a
combined frying pan and a plate
that is, it folds so that one side is a
pretty nice pan and the cover is a
first rate plate, they are held togeth-
CT in the haversaoh by bright iron
strap. The haversack is furnished
with can for condensed meats with
which the soldiers are furnished when
starting on march.


Then the cartridge box-it isn't
stiff box big enough for forty rounds,
such as we used to carry and be both
cred with during the war, but hex-
ible leather case, each side of which
has cloth strap spaced for ten Of the
nice light metal cartridges used with
the beautiful and awfully effective
riiled breech loading U. 5. musket,
which allows soldier to fire from Il
to 80 charges a minute if he be hard
pressed. A soldier can string his
belt with these handy and flexible
cases, and they will not bother him
half so much as did the stiff old tin
and sole leather forty-round contriv-
ance of the war days. And he does
not have to fool with cap box, eth.
er.


Then again, the old style Of wide
and thick body, waist and shoulder
belt, is displaced by light leather and
braces which hold the clothing bag
and cartridge belt, but relieve the
waist of all oppressive fastcnings and
weight. These are also being turn
ed out by the hundred in the leather
shop.


Large numbers of an improved bel
ly band for horses are being made.


All the little brass buckles and
snaps that are made for trooper &C.
coutrements, the little and big brass
and iron buckles that are used with
the cavalry and artillery are made
here.
The manufacture ofthese accoutre-
ments under the supervision of its Of
ficers, saves many thousand dollars a
year to the government.
In all, five hundred persons, in
cludiEg a score of young women and
fifty boys, and exclusive Of the sold
iers, are now employed on the Island.
-/I0r. Tazeffe
Year: 1876

from the SUNDAY scnoOl why fnaraon
killed the boy babies and did not
touch the girls. "Cause he wanted
to get rid of the Hebrews, but want
ed to keep the Shebrews," the young
hopeful replied. Jones gave him two
cents for the missionary box.
Trained petticoats are said to be
coming into season. We never saw
one, but presume they will be trained
to pick up apple cores and cigar
stumps off the sidewalk, and to hang
over the back Of chair at night. 1t
does not seem as if you could train
petticoat to climb q tree, still one
may be made to put on good many
frills.


A Louisville chap thought he had
found something nice in the shape of
laughing sunny little witch OF q
girl, and was on the point Of propos.
ing marriage when she scattered his
fond hopes to the winds by remarking
one evening: 'You hug aad kiss mo
more than any gentleman l am &C.
quainted with, except Bill Wallace,
and he is a steamboat clerk, and only
comes here once a month";"


One morning during the recent
cold weather, Miss Lilly refused to
get up and be washed. Her aunt in
vain exhausted her eloquence in de-
scribing the excellencies of purifca-
tionf for the infant logician fairly
confuted he. by this ingenious anti
thesis: "Aunt Mary, you do a you
like and let me do as l like. You
like to be clean and cold, and | like
to be warm and dirty"
Year: 1876

Day and night together were too short
for him. As long as a door was open or
a light burning IN any OF the courts, he
was always in the mood for conversation
and eompaniOnship. They used-thOse
gay young roisterers-tO sup on milk
punch and cold turkey; they drained
floods of tea to keep themselves awake,
and sat over the fire till the bell rang for
morning chapel. In the summer vaea-
tiOns they poured out into the moonlight,
and rambled mile after mile in the e0un-
try, the noise of their talk mingling with
the twittering OF the birds in the hedges.


There was debating club there called
the Cambridge Union, aud Macaulay and
Praed were its foremost orators. They
were frequently opposed to each other,
and recOllectiOns of one contest between
them have come down to Us. Macaulav
took it into his head that he believed that
George the Third, then lately deceased,
was a model king. Who kept England
tranquil, prosperous and secure, when
Europe was desOlate with wary The
Good Old King. Why was it that when
neighbOring capitals were perishing In
flames, our own was Illuminated only for
triumphs: You may find the cause in
the same three wOrds-the Good Old
King WhereupOn Praed replied: "a
good man! If he had been a plain coun-
Try gentleman, with no wider opportu-
mites for mischief, he would at least have
bullied his fOOtman and cheated his stew
ard They said sharp things. but they
were taken in good humOr. The unfOr-
Year: 1876

They were sitting together, he and she,
and he was arduOusly thinking what to
say. Finally he burst out with In this
land Of noble achievements and undy-
ing glory, why is it that women do not
come 10 the front; why is it that they DO
not climb the ladder of fame:" Il sup
pose,' said she, putting her finger in her
mouth, sit is all on account of their pull
backs" And then she signed and he
sighed, side by side,
Year: 1876

The TWO WEBsTERs, When Mr.. Web
ster visited England, after he had attain
ed fame enough to precede him, an En-
glish gentleman took him one day 10 see
Lord BrOugham. That eminent BritOn
received our Daniel with such GOODNESS
that he was glad to get away and back
TO his rooms The friend who had taken
him at once returned TO Lord BrOugham
in haste and anger.


4 MY lord, how could you behave with
such unseemly rudeness and discOurtesy
70 so great a lawyer and statesman? It
was insulting to him and has filled me
with rnOrtificasion."


why what on earth have 1 done and
whom have been rude to-


ITO Daniel Webster, Of the Senate Of
the United States


'Great Jupiter, what a blunder, l
thought it was that fellow Webster who
made dictionary and nearly ruined the
English language


Then the great Chancellor quickly
hunted up the American Senator, and
having other tastes in common besides
law and politics, they made a royal night
of it.-EditOr's Drawer, in Harper's
Magazine for June.
Year: 1876

which present no actual ownership IN
the company. 1t is desirable that the
persons giving those proxies of which
We have pretty complete list, should
be requested to revoke them so far a.,
upon inquiry, it shall appear that they
are not LOW holders of the securities
OF the company The election being
over. We determined 10 bring certain
facts tn the attention of the Board of
Directors of the company which in the
course Of our inquiries We had elected.
and demanded immediate action by
them


Although the meeting of stoekhoid-
ers had already reached well into the
evening Immediately after their organ
iZation and election of officers. we went
before the board. 1t is, perhaps, de-
sirable for us to explain here that the
Board of Directors of this company
meets but once year, which is on the
day of the annual election, when they
organize, elect officers, and adjourn
until tine next annual election.


The members of the board residing
West are men of position in the vari-
Gus localities where they reside; bat
having no pecuniary interest in the
company, or, at most, but a merely
nominal one, they have left the affair
to the company entirely, as we be-
lieve, in the hands of two or three who
reside in New York They We're very
much astonished, as We afterward learn
ed from sources which We believe are
entirely reliable, that the information
brought by us to their attention, and
have become considerably awakened
to the position which they occupy as
Trustees for the stockholders of this
company"
Year: 1876

Especial to the Cincinnati Enquirer.l


The real issue in the Colorado uues-
tion was not so much to debar the Rep-
resentative of that State from his scat
as to mnken precedent as to the power
of tho Clerk of tho House. Clerk
Adams fnilcd to call the newly elected
member from that State because he has
had no official notice that Colorado is a
State. True, he had tho certificate Of
the Governor that Belford was elected
Representative, but he had no other
evidence ut hand that Congress would
ratify the constitution of the new State,
and hence could not assume what Con-
sress would or would not do. The Re-
pub,icans were anxious to have the
tame of the Colorado member called,
because II would establish the prece-
dent that the Clerk is bound to place
the name OF every person on his roll
who may present him with tho certiti-
cate of the Governor of Il State. TIL
anticipated that the next House will be
uncomfortably close. 1.-THE carpet-baR
Governors who have been defeated by
the popular expression Of their several
States arc maintained, or If two Cover
nors be set up, the Clerk Of tho House
has the discretion to place on the roll
the namcs of such candidates certified
to be elected to Congress as he may
deem legal and entitled to their seats.
For instance, IL in South Carolina
Chamberlain issues certificates which
may be antagonized by certificate fs-
sued by Hampton until the organiaa-
ton of tho House is completed, the
Clerk has arbitrary discretion to place
on the roll whom he may see fit. II
the point had been sustained to-day
that the Clerk was bound to place the
Colorado member on tho roll, it would
have been equivalent to an order Of tho
| House that he bad no discretionary
power but to place the name of every
| person who presented n certificate on


the roll. The outcome might have


been that duplicate members from the


Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida
districts, under Banks' claim, could


have been sworn fin in the Forty fifth


Congress, participated in the election


of n Speaker, and one set of them


kicked out of the House after they


might have done too much mischief to
repair. To-day's decision of Adams
against Banks is the first victory for the
| Democrats. .n.
Year: 1876

To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:


Were you ever at a surprise par
ty? The question is euperfuous.
To accomplish surprise party is for
certain, group of young folks to
meet at fixed locality, and proceed
in couples to the house of some one
friendly to young people. and then
and there spend the evening with
music, games, dancing, etc.


The first move is notification of
the party to be surprised like the
Irishman, who. after. a voyage, wrote
a letter to his family that he aoas
coming home and for fear that they
mig t not get the letter carried it
himself. This is done by the talk
ing man of the crowd. The next
move is. having selected partners.
for each young fellow to address his
especial duck thusly:
Year: 1876

Is acknowledged and recommended by physicians
and apothecaries to be the purifier and cleanser of
the blood yet discovered, and thousands speak in
its praise who have been restored to health.
Year: 1876

Nothing pays better than we'll paved
streets. They are economical az they les.
ssn the wear and tear upon draught ami
mails and carriages, and permit the easy
transportation of great business. WALNUT
,tree, is almost On grade from the railway
dcpot to the Brandywine;it iz also the street
that strikes the eye OF the great number Of
travellers passing through our city. 1t is
important that we should put on our best
appearance for the good times about to open
upon us. In hygenic sense, it will pre-
vent in a great measure, diseases original
inx in miasmatic poison in iu immediate
vicinity. Politics are off for some time
The party incontrol ofthe municipality are
certain Of a fair term Of power, and they
c.p afford to stand some growing from the
"penny wise, and pound foolish" Give
Us good paved streets, and you may rely
upon the support Of public spirited c't''
zens.
Year: 1876

Early on Sunday morning the police
men of Waterbury, hearing hand car
going down the Nsugatuck road at high
rate of speed, informed Superintendent
Roach. who ordered out a locomotive and
cave chase. Seventeen miles below the
locomotive struck and destroyed the hand
car. recovering fifteen pieces Of woolen
goods belonging to the Wolcotville Man
nfacturing Company. The Sheriff's Of
Seymour, Ansonia and Derby were noti-
fed, and a prompt search for the robbers
was organized, resulting so far in the arrest
of three suspected men.
Year: 1876

| sat alone with my conscience


In place where time had ceased,
And we talked of my former living


In the land where the years increased,
And | felt should have to answer


The questions it put 10 me
And to face the answer and question


Throughout an eternity
The ghosts of forgotten actions


Came floating before my sight,
And things that thought were dead things
Were alive win terrible might
And the vision of all my past life


Was an awful sight to face
Alone with my conscience sitting


In that solemnly silent place
And thought of far away warning,
Ut sorrow that was to be mine,
In land that then was the future,


But now is the present time.
And | thought of my former thinking


Of the judment day to be,
But sitting alone with my conscience


Seemed judgment enongh for me.
And | wondered if there was future
To this land beyond the grave;
But no one gave me an answer,


And no one came TO save.
Then felt that the future was present,
And the present would never 60 by.
For it was but the thought of my past life
Grown into eternity.
Then woke from my timely dreaming,
And the vision passed away,
And knew the far away warning


Was a warning of yesterday.
And prayed that might not forget II,
In this land beyond the grave,
That may not cry in the future,


And no one to come to save.
Year: 1876

And so have learnt lesson,
Which ought to have known before,
And which, though learnt in dreaming
hope to forget no more.
So sit alone with my conscience
In the place where the years increase,
And try to remember the future
In the land where time will cease.
And l know of the future judgment,
How dreadful oe'er it be,
That to sit alone with my conscience
Will be judgment enough for me.


Spectator.
Year: 1876

THE friends Of Hereford in the Third
District are making effective use Of his
energy and influence in Congress as a
reason why he should be renominated.
They point TO The fact that as Chairman
OF the Committee on Commerce he has
been able to secure an appropriation Of
100000 for the Kanawha, and other sums
for the Elk and Sandy. he Is the first
member from the District who ever
procured a dollar in the way Of such ap.
propria.ions and therefore he is the man
to be kept in his present position, There
is force in this argument that Walker
and Kenna will have hard work to meet.
Year: 1876

the present mill erected in its place
during the same year.


Up to 1859 the communication
between Alpena and the lower
ports had been by means Of an oc-
casional sail boat or trading schoon-
er, or by means of the upper lake
steamboats,. BY the latter convey
ance a person would be landed on
Thunder Bay island, and then he
would have to engage some fisher
man to take him to Alpena by
means of sail boat. But the bus
mess of Alpena had increased to
such an extent, and so many sup
plies were needed for the support
of the inhabitants, and for mill op-
erations, that the steamer Forest
Queen found it profitable to make
occasional trips to Alpena. The
same cause induced the owners of
the steamer Columbia to place her
on the line between Alpena and
Bay City, making regular trips.
The Columbia being a small boat,
was able to land her passengers
and freight on the dock inside the
river, while the Forest Queen, on
account Of the bar at the mouth of
the river, was compelled to lay out
side, the passengers and freight
being landed by means of lighters,
boats, etc. We have been unable
to ascertain the date of the first
arrival Of the above boats. The
Columbia kept on the line for some
time, when she was replaced by
the steamer Huron, she making
occasional trips.


Mr.. Casey, of the Columbia's
officials, relates the following laugh
able incident, which will show the
value that was attached to the fair
sex by the people "on the shore"
in those days: At one of the ports
between Bay City and Alpena, they
took on board the only pretty girl
in the place-the lady in question
being about to leave. The people
of the town where she had been
staying were so distressed at the
loss of their valuable prize, that
they hung all the flags they pos
sessed at half-mast, in token of
their sorrow Mt the sad event.


CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1876

He was telling her Of Belknap's
disgrace, and casually remarked
that there was a woman at the bot
tom of it, as there always was in
the troubles OF men. But, after
he had crawled out from under the
bed and apologized, he gathered
the children around him, and told
them that a woman was a holy and
beautiful thing. So it is that tri-
fes change our views OF life. A
fiat iron-aye, even the inexpres-
sive rolling pin--may the humble
instrument to teach q man that the
hayloft is good enough place for
him to sleep in.
Year: 1876

Among the miners going to the
Black Hills, u party of ten started
from Cheyenne, not long ago, which


lost one of their number by death


on the road. They couldn't take the
body along, and as they had no
means Of obtaining a coffin, they
buried their comrade without one.
Among the number was an "old-
timer" who was a particular friend
Of the death man, and he mourned
deeply his loss, and cursed and
swore about at a fearful rate be-
cause he had to be buried in that
uncivilized way. Finally he blub-
bered out, 81 know a good prayer,
but if was to get it off some of
you Id fools would laugh at me-"
Year: 1876

He was taken sick in the night,
and in her youthful ignorance she
made two mustard plasters and put
one in front and one behind, and
then with borrid sarcasm she asked
him how be felt. But he was q
well bred man, and merely said he
realized with a tenderness be never
knew before the true position Of q
sandwich in the community.
Year: 1876

As when the friends we dearly love
Go sailing over sea,
For all the joy to which they go,
Our hearts will saddened be-;
So when upon that Sea which rolls
All Earth and Heaven between,
Those whom we love upon the deck
OF deaths great ship arc seen;
For all the joy to which they go,
Though Heaven be c'or so sweet,
And e'er so good and wonderful
Tho folk they go TO meet;
Az with intenscst gaze VIC watch,
And see them fnde from sight
God help us,--but our human hearts
Are anything but light
As when the friends wo dearly love
Have gone beyond the sea,
The far-off lands in which they bido
More real get to be;
So when our loved once once have crossed
Deaths lone and silent acu,
And in country new and strange
llllnoiItthls
The hoavcn'y land in which they bido,
whic" erst did ever seem
An unsubst lntial pageant vast
A drcamer's idle DREAM
Becomes as solid TO my soul
As is the earth trend,
What time walk with revorent feet
The city OF the dead.
Not Europe seems no real to me,
The A,ps not No eterne,
As that dear land for which ut times
Ny heart doth inlv burn.
And not so sure nm that those
The Atlantic's waves divide
Will meet again some happy day,
And lingcr side by side,-
As that the day shall surely come,
When with all l love
Shall meet again, and clasp and kiss,
In that dear land above
Year: 1876

He said the pastry was ever so
much better, made by her dear
hands. This delighted her. But
when she wanted the coal scuttlc st
the other end OF the room, and he
suggested that she should get il, as
the fire would feel 90 much better
if the coal was brought by her dear
hands, she was disgusted. Women
are so changeable I!
Year: 1876

No woman will love o man the bet
ter for being renowned or prominent,
Though he be first among men, she
will be prouder, not fonder; as it is
often the case. she will not even be
proud. But give her love, apprecia-
ton, kindness, and there is no sacri-
fee she would not make for his con-
tent and comfort. The man who loves
her well, is her hero and king. No
less hero to her, though he is not to
any other; no less king, though his
only kingdom is her heart and bone.
1t is a mans own fault if he is unhap-
py with his wife, in nine cases out of
ten. 1t isa very exceptional woman
who will not be agreeable to an atten-
tive husband, and very exceptional
one who will not be very disagreeable
il she find herself willfully neglected.
1t would be easy to hate man, who,
having bound woman to him, made
no effort to make her happy; hard not
to love one who is constant and ten
der, and when a woman loves she al
ways strives to please. The great men
of this world have always been wretch
ed in their domestic relations, while
mean and common men have been ex-
ceedingly happy. The reason is very
plain. Absorbed in themselves those
who desire the worlds applause were
careless of the little world at home,
while those who had none of this ego
tism strove to keep the hearts that
we're their own and were happy in
their tenderness.