smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Ifyou wish to be always thirsty,
be a drunkard; the offener you drink,
the oftener you will want to. fyou
think you are strong, be drunk
ard, and you will soon find yourself
subdued by so powerful an enemy.
Ifyou would destroy your body, le
a drunkard, as drunkenness is the
mother of disease. If you wish to
ruin the soul, be a drunkard, that
you may be kept out Of heaven.
Year: 1875

five see little boy with a cigar
in his mouth, we are almost sure we
shall sec him lowering round a grog-
sbop or tavern bar. He will not be
contented with cold water. So, lit
tie fellows, you are safe if you let
smoking alone.
Year: 1875

with the ninety-6ve millions for
gars and tobacco, and the one -


and four hundred and eighty-tt


millions for drinks How do 20.
like the compariso0s Great Lavish
ment for the world; great niggardl
ness for God. =.


My friends. let us set ourselves In
battle array against this God defy
ing extravaganza. Buy not th e
things which are frivolous, when ; on
may after a while be in lack of the
necessities. Buy not books you wii
never read, nor pictures you W
never study. Put not a Who'll
months wages into one trinkets


KEEP YOUR CREDIT G0oD.


by seldom or never asking for anv
Pay. Starve not whole year So
TO be able to afford one Belshazz.
carnival. do not buy coat OF ma
ny colors, and then in six months B..
out at the elbows. Do not pay
much for muffler for the neck, an
be almost bare footed. Flour.sf
not, as some I know of, in elegant
hotels with drawing-room apar;
ments, and then vanish in the nigls.
not even your compliments for the
landlord.


In the great day of fire, we will
have to give an account not only for
how we made our money, but fo-
how we spent it. On this cold day
when so many are suffering, and
there is want before us and want be
hind us and want on either side Of
us, let us quit our waste. Men and
women of God, I call upon you to
set Christian example.-1dLnsage
Year: 1875




with no more sugar until they pay
up. Then they suddenly find out
that the neighborh0od is unhealthy,
and they hire cartman, whom they
never pay. to take them to a part of
the city where all the druggists and
butchers and bakers and grocers will
be glad to see them come in, and
send to them the best rounds of
beef and the best coffee, and the
best of everything, until the slight
suspicion comes into their brain that
all the pay they will ever get from
their customer is the honor of his
society. There are about five thous-
and such thieves in Brooklyn. You
see | call it by plain name, because
when man buys thing tnat he
does not expect to pay for


HE is A THIEF.


There are circumstances where
men can not meet their obligations.
1t is as honest for some men to fail
as it is for o.her men to succeed.
They do their best, and through the
misfortunes Of life they are thrown,
and they cannot pay their debts.
That is one thing; but when you go
and purchase an article for which
you know there is no probability of
your ever making recompense, you
are a villain! Why don't you save
the time of the merchant and the ex-
pense of an accountant for him?
Why don't you go down some day
to his store, and when no one is
looking, shoulder the ham and the
spare-rib, and in modest silence take
them along with you? That would
be lesser crime; for now you get
not only the merchants goods, but
you get his time, and You rouse up
his expectations. If you must steal,
steal SO it will be the least possible
damage to the trader. u


This wicked extravagance shown
itself no more forcibly than.


ON THE FUNERAL DAY.


No one else seems willing to speak |
oft. There has been many a man
who has died solvent, but has been
insolvent before he got under ground
One would think that the two debts
most sacred would be debts to the
physician and the undertaken, since
they are the last two professions are
swindled more frequently than any
other. A man dies in our neighbor-
ing city ofNew York. He has lived
a fictitious life, moved amidst splen-
dor, and died leaving his family not
a dollar: but they, poor thingsl
must keep up the same magnificence
and SO they resolve upon a great
funeral. The obsequies shall be
splendid l give you no imaginary
case. l give you the funeral of
man in uptown New York life, the
facts authenticated, and in my pock-
ct. The undertaken was not to
blame; he only sold them what they
asked for. The only blame was for
those who bought when they knew
they could not pay.


Casket, covered with Lyons velvet.


silver moul'lings $3.50
Heavy plated handles sol
Solid silver plate, engraved in Ro-


man letters 70l
Ten linen scarfs $50
Floral decorations 225
Music and quartette choIra the house 40
Twenty carriages, walking to the


cemetery no
Then fifteen other important ex-


penditures, amounting to 336
All the expenditures, added, being $I,s76
for getting one poor mortal to his
last homel There are families that
you know who, in the effort to meet
the ridiculous, outrageous, and wick
ed customs of society in regard to
obsequies, have actually reduced
themselves to penury. They put
their last dollar in the ground. :"
Year: 1875

Was it not marvellous love that
caused God to send Ills son to die
for us lost and undone sinners? II
is so wonderful, that we ought never
to read of it or hear it read without
being moved. We are so familiar
with it that often we sit idle and
bear it told, and never give it a
thought, and yet our hearts ought
always to be touched at the remem-
brance of what our dear Savior has
done tor us. That God should stoop
SO low as to allow His son to come
down to this wicked world at all, is
great wonder. 1t is SO great, that
l cannot with my dull understanding
write much about it, but have for
the first time tried to write few lines
for publication.


HARRIET MERRICK.


Fayetteville,


April 10th.
Year: 1875

from neighborhood to neighborhood,
staying long enough in each one to
exhaust all their capacity to get trus-
ted. They move away because the
druggists will give them no more
medicine, and the butchers will af


ford them no more meat, and the
bakers will give them no more bread
Year: 1875

BLOWN Up BY a GUM BED.-A
Pennsylvania lady engaged berth
in a palace sleeping coach. When
she was ready TO retire she took
from her satchcl a gum bed, which
she inflated and placed in the berth
she was to occupy. 1t happened
that her berth was very close to
the stove, and the heat caused the
gum bed to expand unit! the prs.
sure got 50 great that it collapsed
with a tremendous shock, and the
passengers jumped out Of their
berths in their night clothes
thinking there was 4 colIision.-
The force Of the collapse threw
the lady against the ceiling Of the
berth but did not hurt licr.
Year: 1875

The HABIT OF SWEARING.-Tho
mcancst, most useless and most
contemplate vice that ever grew
rank in the hot-house Of the devil
is profano swearing. We protest
against it not as preachers and
church mem ocrS object 10 sin on
professional grounds, but as men,
bers OF society, as decent men. On
boats, in cars, in places Of business,
on the open street, ut concert
doors and everywhere else rings
the inccsSant oath Of the habitual
swcarcr. Young men just learn
ing to curse appear TO think there
is something manly aad brave
about it; while old swearers in
terlard the commoncst remarks
they make with cold-blooded bias
phcmics and d variety Of diaboIi-
cal curses. No man or woman Of
any refinement or dcccncy at ell
can be otherwise than lacerated
and shocked BY these brutal ard
and Vulgar verbal missiles every
day and 10 fellow who is shame
fully guilty Of projectingthem can
DO otherwise than sink beneath
the contempt Of such men and wo-
men with every vile epithet they
hear him utter. Public profanity
ought to be an indictable otfense
with penalty Of ten days in Jail
for every oath.
Year: 1875

We present below carefully compiled
statement of the operations Of the New
York cattle market for the current year,
together with such comparisons with tn"
business of several years preceding n
will enable the reader to form an accu-
rate estimate of the magnitude and prog
ress of this important branch of our do
mestic trade. But few persons have any
conception Of the vast capital invested in
it, but it is not saying too much that the
total per annum runs up between forty
and fifty millions otdollars.
Year: 1875

The Picay,,ne of Friday morning contains a
paragraph rejecting on the Jet.y Company
and intimating that the work is not progress
ing as it should, and even giving publicity to
a rumor that the company will fail in keeping
the requirements of its contract. We have
made special inquiries in reference to the
matter, and find that the work is going on
very we'll indeed, and that the company have
by no means lost confidence in their ability
to fulfil their contract


The piles in the eastern side of the jetty
have been driven to the farthest limit, dis
tance of $4,000 feet, and the willow mattresses
are nearly all in position. The work on the
western side is also progressing rapidly, and
everything that has been done gives entire
satisfaction to the company. Over five hum
dred men are employed, and We learn that
about tive hundred thousand dollars have been
already expended on the work by the COM
ponv
Year: 1875

mada the condition of their employment.
All EN- ployees in Federal and State depart
ments are accustomed to the levyiDg OF
regular discount on their salaries, for the use
of the party in State and national campaigns;
but this service of the Radical party is pure
10Y, while the Democratic service is character
lied as "slavish" by the Inter- Ocean and
journals of that ilk Desperate negroes and
villainous carpet-basgers may and do commit
robberies and other crimes in our parishes dd
kbitun, and little or nothing is said, unless,
failing in obtaining legal redress, the victim
Furnishes the criminal, and then an immense
shout of terror is raised in the Radical ranks,
and the punished criminal is straightway
made q martyr, whose example bis fei-
lows are taught to emulate. Officials
high in station are charged and shown to be
guilty of felonies which should consign them
to the Penitentiary, but are subjected to the
party whitewash and sent away purified and
exalted. If any honest official raises an OBJ
jecting voice, he is soon taught his position
and slavish submission to party will Is re-
quired on pain of immediate official decapi-
tation.


In the approaching campaigns in the South
ern States and the great national election;
waning Radicalism, finding how weak and
worthless is all that can be said in their be-
half, will doubtless adopt the negative plan
of perverting facts and misrepresentIng
circum stances in order to show that
their opponents are no better than themselves
in the hope that by so doing the discontented
in their own party will be kept within the
ranks. Any and all sideissues or any policy
subject to the least misconstruction should
be carefully avoided by the Democracy,
and the one broad principle which In
in the vocabulary of the administration
names them as the "Opposition," should be
the one and the only one under which they
enter the struggle which must lead to
victory.
Year: 1875

Business generally during the past week
has been dull, though in some branches of
the wholesale trade there has been consider
able animation. Especially has this been
observable in dry goods, the sales of which
this season have been Of greater extent than
in any corresponding period since 1867.
Dealers in this class of goods are fully sup
plied with the latest styles, and are prepared
to offer the best of terms to buyers. There
has been but little life in Western produce;
for -four there is small demand for local trade,
but We have heard of sales to arrive to a fair
extent for the Havana market. Sugar has
commenced to come in quite freely, prices
ruling more in favor of buyers.


Cotton has been in ample supply and met
a fair demand for Liverpool, Havre and the
Continent Buyers for the North also have
operated to limited extent The movement,
however, has exhibited fair degree of ami
nation, and within the past two days prices
have ruled more in favor of factors


The receipts proper for the past week show
an increase over last week of 799 bales and
over last year of SSH.


The low water in Red River has had the
effect of curtailing orders from that section OF
country, and our wholesale grocers are not
happy.
Year: 1875

Terrorism is Q feature of the opposition
campaign. Those who can not be persuaded
to vote its ticket are sought to be pressed
into the slavish service by threats. Chicdgo
Inter- Ocean.


By the "Opposition" is meant Of course
the Democratic party, and to them this sam
pie Radical organ attributes terrorism as q
campaign feature. We're this statement pecu-
liar to the Inter- Ocean 1t would hardly be
necessary to file denial, but it is q common
cry with the Radicals that the Democratic
party is the party of intimidation, and that its
service is a slavish one. There never has
been party in the politics of the world whose
platform or whose campaigns were less free
from anything bordering on terrorism. The
only acts that could be tortured even by
Radical Misrepresentation into anything like
force have occurred when after appealing
time and again to the proper authorities for
help or redress, or goaded into anger by the
oppression or taunts of their despotlc rulers,
citizens have been compelled to adopt the
most effective means Of protection at hand {;
and as soon as this was done the throat OF
Radicalism was made hoarse with loud cries OF
Intimidation !" and rebellion I" Every
conceivable means of obtaining votes either
by honest or dishonest means, by per-
suasion or force, have been adopted
by the Radical party, not only in Louisiana,
but throughout the South. Threats, deep
and dire, have always been made to the negro
that unless he remained true to the party,
calamity would surely overtake him, and how
often do We hear Of colored men being beaten
bv others, under instruction, because they
expressed their determination of voting as
they thought proper. Is there city in the
whole broad Union, where Federal patronage
is worth anything at all that it is not made
the instrument through which votes are
coined in lots to suit? The New Orleans
Custom House has been fruitful source OF
supply to the party; for years it has been GUS
tomary to employ numbers Of workmen
lust before the election and discharge them
soon afterwards. Their votes were
Year: 1875

Edwin Booth made his first appearance
since his accident, on last Monday night. at
the Fifth Avenue Theater, New York. His
reception amounted to almost an ovation, and
although he betrayed some tenderness for his
wounded arm, the critics say he never played
/" Hamlet" near SO well as he did that night
His reading is particularly mentioned as
being even better than ever, and the necessity
of avoiding gesticulation with one OF his
arms only proved the wealth of his power OF
gesticulation. After every act he was recalled,
and at the end of the play made q short
speech of thanks
Year: 1875

A Texas judge is credited with the follow
ing decision: "The fact is, Jones, the Jail is
An old, rickety affair, as cold as an iron
wedge. You applied to this court for release
on bail, giving it as your opinion that you
would freeze to death there. The weather
has not moderated, and to keep you from
freezing l will direct the sheriff to hang you
at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Year: 1875

There is in the moral straits current from
right to wrong. but no refiux from wrong to
right; for which destination we must hoist
our sails and ply our oars necessarily, or
night and the tempest will overtake US, and
we shall sk-iek out in vain from the billows,
and irrecoyerably sink.-Erchdnge.
Year: 1875

When one is in the act of tipping his hat
to lady whom he supposes to be an acquaint-
ance, it requires good deal OF tact to make
believe that he is scratching his head when
he finds she is a stranger.
Year: 1875

Grant sits like nightmare on the bosoms
of Republican organs. They cannot defend
him; they dare not censure him; the third
term haunts them; they fear that they can
not get rid of him, and that without him they
will be defeated -E.
Year: 1875

That people will have diversions for
the leisure hour is truth which legisla.
tors are sometimes too apt to ignore, and
to which many well intentioned persons
wiliully shut their eyes. A coal,miner,
for example, who spends his holidays, as
some do, in perfecting his knowledge of
some musical instrument, or in learning
to take creditable part in the glee club
to which he belongs, is a worthier mem.
Der OF society than if he insisted on
improving the shining hour by patroniz.
ing dog fights and badger batting, beer
and pugilism. The worst of it is that the
needful taste for and instruction 10
mild accomplishment are not always pres
ent, while the rougher and coarser modes
OF enjoyment force themselves but too
readily upon the notice 1t is an error
to suppose that while work requires care
and forethought, pleasure.seeking is IN
art spontaneously acquired No form of
amusement can by possibility be discov-
cred which cannot be abused or pervert-
ed, but OF the great majority of existing
diversions it may confidently be alleged
that the good which they occasion largely
outweighs the incidental evil, anu that
this would be worse as we'll as u
gloomier world could there be an end
put at once and forever to our rocrea.
tions.
Year: 1875

A daily talk between teacher and pr-
pills on some subject of general iniormo-
ton is suggested by the Chicago Teacher.
1t advises that FIVE, ten or fifteen minutes
be given to this tax every day, and
adds: The best time for such an exercise
is at the beginning of the afternoon session.
The scholars are apt to come in at that
time out of breath and excited with hard
play, not in a fit condition to commence
hard study at once. The teacher can take
all sorts OF subjects, or, if he choose, can
have regular series, Occasionally he
can tell or read story, or give the par
tieulars Of some fresh item of important
news that he has just been reading in the
newspapers"
Year: 1875

The scheme for tunnelling the English
Channel is not as chimerical as some peo-
pie may have supposed, Two companies
have been organized to do the work, one
in France and one in England. They
have the necessary capital and the govern
ment privileges they need, and are to be-
gin to bore at both ends. 1t is to be
hoped that they will make both ends meet
The material through which they expect
to bore is said to be, for the most part,
chalk. They thus expect to make their
mark with comparative case. The success
of this great work is only question OF
time, money, patient work, and engineer
ing skill. The tunnel will have to be
over thirty miles long, including the des'
cents at each end, and cannot be complot.
ed in less than dozen years.
Year: 1875

meath a thin coating The lead is as
pure and bright as i, was halfa cen.
tury ago. The results fthe wound
mad. by the bullet were very severe.
the limb was shortened six inches
or more, and below the thigh and
reaching nearly to the knee is thick
" SCARED, where pieces Of the bro
ken bone, over fifty IN all, have from
time to time worked out. The bull
let did not return by its original en-
trance, but came to the surface
about four inches above, and was
taken out by the veteran himself
without the aid N instruments. He
was oyerjoyed to get his eye on he
old enemy who had worried him so
long"
Year: 1875

News comes from California of
great damage to wheat and crops BY
storms. Grain in stacks is damaged
on the top and bottom tiers; that cut
and not threshed can be saved by
careful handling; q portion of the
crop uncut is blown down and likely
TO be entirely lost.
Year: 1875

If all report, are true, there is
m establishment on the south side
OF Superior street nearly in front OF
the old land office, run by couple
of Squaws, that demands the atten.
ton of the police; and it i said that
there are some "nice young men"
around town who would make i'm
portant witnesses.
Year: 1875

The Rocky Mountain locust may be said
TO be almost omniyorous. Scarcely any
thing comes amiss to the ravenous hosts
when lamished. They will feed upon the
dry bark of trees or the dry lint of season.
ed fence planks and upon dry leaves, pa


per, cotton and wooden fabrics. They
have been seen literally covering the backs
of sheep, eating the wool; and whenever
one of their own kind is weak or disabled,
from cause whatsoever, they 60 for him
Year: 1875

Do not tease a sick child with
much dressing, but keep it as easy
and comfortable as possible in loose
ly-ftting garments that subject it to
little or no fatigue in their adjust
ment. Beware, though, Of altogeth-
er dispensing with flannel, even in
hottest weather, seeing how varia-
bic is the American, climate, and if
i change is required, let it be made
with all due caution. Gauze flannel
shirts protect the breast and other
vital parts without incommodins any
child, save one with most except
ionally sensitive skin. Death has
been seen to ensue from no graver
cause than the untimely removal Of
a flannel shirt.


The thoushtless parent who lndul-
ges her child with taste of every
tidbit has often sad cause to rue her
imprudence. Witness the case OF a
young mother who helped her eigh-
teen months old baby to a dinner Of
lamb and two Of the tiniest little
new potatoes-wee things just suited
for pretty baby's palate! That night
baby came near dying of cholera in
fantum, and that mother has never
forgotten so severe lesson, in baby
dictetic. Natures provision ofmoth-
cr's milk is of course the best food
and medicine for infancy, but from
Year: 1875

You can always tell a boy whose


mother cuts his hair. Not because
the edges Of the hair look as thcasn
they had been chewcd off by an abb
sent-minded horse, but YOU tell it by
the way he stops on the street and
wriggles his shoulder. When fond
mother has to cut her boys hair she
is careful to avoid any annoyance
and mess by laying a sheet on the
carpet. 1t has never yet occurred
to her to set him on the floor, and
put the sheet around his neck
Then she draws the front hair over
his eyes, and leaves it there while
she cuts that which is at the back
The hair which lies over his eyes
appears to be on FIRE. She has un-
consciously continued to push his
head forward until his nose presses
his breast, and is too busy to notice
the snuffling sound that is becoming
alarmingly frequent. In the mean
time he is seized with an irresistible
desire to blow his nose, but recollets
that his handkerchief is in the other
room. There is a fly lights on his
nose, auddoes itsounexpectcdly it that


he voluntarily dodgcs, and catches
the points of the shears in his left
ear. At this he commences to cry
and. wish he was q man. But his
Year: 1875

man 10 whom the accusation made broke out with saying
"You are all crazy" words that effect, remember;
remember the adjective "cZy" than anything else ana
away That this young and his frend in whose
house he was talked the matter until late at sh''
and that when the young man returned to his nome
he found that in his absence this psrson whom nc nH
accused had been there and had coeed out Of his "e
who was then SICK a re,racton OF the statement which
husband That that this young man
consulted friend and thst the friend went to the man
who had secured this eracon and told him to return III 'ha'
he compelled him. by argument only; and that receiving 'S
he returned with it to the husband OF TINS au!


whom 1t hac been ooeced think that at about TINS part o
the story the alegorca form was dropped think II was
dropped my suggestion, because dcerned from "ha'
had read in the Woodruff story the drift OF the aego ana
tia, we fell to talking without this aegoea form intervening
between us, upon the story itself.
Year: 1875

Somebody who wanted to know who wrote
a sharp article in the Texas Telegraph has
been answered thus "The man who wrote
that article early in life was hard working
blacksmith, later be was deck hand on a
steamboat, then he was a cowboy on the
frontier, but of late years be has followed
the profession of prize fighter. He only be-
came an editor 70 reduce his flesh by starva-
tion 50 as to become more successful in his
peculiar line." The Telegraph received no
further inquiries.