smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

The merry birds are singing,


And from the fragrant sod
The Spirits of thousand flowers


Go sweetly up to God;
While in his holy temple


We meet to praise and pray
With cheerful voice and grateful lay,


This Summer Sabbath Day
We thank Thee, Lord, for one day


To look Heaven in the facel
The poor have only Sunday;


The sweeter is the grace.
'Tis then they make the music,


That sings their week away.
Oh, there's a sweetness infinite


In the Poor Mans Sabbath Day!
IT'S as burst of sunshine,


A tender fall of rain,
That set the barest life a-bloom;


Make old hearts young again.
The dry and dusty roadside


With smiling flowers is gay;
IT'S open Heaven one day in seven,


The Poor Mans Sabbath Day!
IT'S here the weary Pilgrim


Doth reach his House of Ease ! ri
i Udt DlcSScu aOuSe, Cdllcu DcduIllul,
And that soft Chamber, "Peace."
The River of Life runs through his dream,
And the leaves of Heaven are at play!
He sees the Golden City gleam,


This shining Sabbath Day!
Take heart, ye faint and fearful,


Your cross with courage bear:
So many face now fearful


Shall shine in glory there;
Where all the sorrow is banished,


The tears are wiped away;
And all eternity shall be


An endless Sabbath Day
All there are empty places,


Since last we mingled here;
There will be missing faces


When we meet another year
But heart to heart before we part,


Now altogether pray
That we may meet in Heaven, to spend
The Eternal Sabbath Day!
gazed at the waves of the rising tide
Beating the beach in a measured stroke;
And some were high and some were low,
But ever, on touching the earth, they broke
And so, thought, are our human hopes
Rolling in waves from the day of our birth
Some may be high and some may be low.
But ever they break if they land on the earth
Year: 1871

% Truth will ever be unpalatable to
those who are determined not to relin-
quish error, but can never give offence to
those who are honest and we'll meaning /;
for the plain dealing remonstrances of q
friend differ widely from the rancor Of an
enemy, as the friendly probe of physi-
clan from the dagger Of an assassin.
Year: 1871

The Steubenville Herald
says:--For a number Of years
past a spot Of earth, some five
feet in diameter OH the cold
Dave Jackman farm" located
two miles west of Richmond,
in this county, has attracted
considerable attention by the
noticeable difference of tenn
perature from the surrounding
soil. This singular piece Of
ground is on the brow of a
hill composed Of sand and gray
el, very much exposed to the
rigor Of winter, yet snow melts
off the place almost as fast as
it falls. There is no hole OF
excavation, the ground being
"fush" with the surface. Up
on examination o short time
since, the surface Of this curious
spot was found to be porous, q
number Of holes an inch or
more in diameter running into
the earth. The ground around
was baked hard, no moisture
being perceptible, although the
soil a few feet distant was wet.
No heat canc be felt, although
some inward heat dries the
ground above. A great many
speculations as to the probable
cause Of this geological phe.
nomena are made; yet no salts
factory explanation has been
given. The gentleman who
owns the farm says that several
years ago, q man commenced
an exploration by digging, but
the ridicule of his neighbors
made him desist, Since the
discovery of the lead mines in
the northern partof the comfy,
the interest in this singular
piece Of ground at that place
has been revived.
Year: 1871

THE REASON WHY.-Thc
immediate cause Of premature
fading or blanching Of the hair
is an obstruction of the oil YES.
sells which afford the coloring
matter. The remote causes
may be general i'll health,
trouble Of mind, etc. Hence,
in order to restore its natural
color and beauty the oil ves-
sells must be restored to their
normal condition. 1t is on this
principle that Natures Hair
Restorative is compounded,
and it has proved a complete
success. 1t is not poisonous
dye, consequently the effect is
gradual, and insevele cases two
or three bottles are necessary
to produce the desired result.
Soc advertisement,
Year: 1871

since lived up to this, leaving
the eloquent statesman to occn.
ny his handsome residence a.
lone.


This is the story of Senator
Summers married experience.
Bow true it may be, | am not
prepared to say, for | am not
acquainted with either party,
and only gather up the gossip
of society for your entertain,
ment.
Year: 1871

SLENDID ENGRAVING
The steel plate likeness of DIR.
j. H. Van Evrie, Editor Of the
New York Day Book, which
is sent to each member of o
club of five to that excellent
journal, at 81 each, is now
ready. 1t is said to be a
splendid work Of art and a
life.like copy of the original,
and the most valuable premium
ever offered by the Day Book
to subscribers. A club to this
paper should be raised in this
county.


We hope the publishers will
not forget us in sending out the
likeness.
Year: 1871




One curiosity Of the Census
is that it exhibits the fact that
the increase Of population for
the last decade has been largely
in the towns, AS for instance,
in Ohio it is shown that the in
crease in population of the ru-
raj districts for ten years was
only 10000, while in the cities
and towns it was 24S,00O.-
The same fact is noticeable in
New England and elsewhere.
Year: 1871

1t is limited in Washington


that a general reconstruction OF
the entire South upon an en-
tirely new plan is shortly to
be undertaken, by which it is
hoped to prevent Radical re-
verses in the future. The only
way we know to accomplish
the desired objcct-is to restrict
the right of franchise wholly
to Radical Office seekers. A
great deal Of disloyal voting
might be prevented in this
Year: 1871

win receive, prepaid by mail or express, one
pound of the very superior and wonderfully
productive


Early Rose Potatoes;
Or, if preferred, package of the popular and


PROLIFIC NORWAY OATS.
Year: 1871

VERY DIFFERENT WITH TIE. CHILDREN
So said the old sexton as he trimmed and I'd


sodded with white clover the little graves.


On being asked why he, dressed theml 30
carefully, be replied reverently, ~ 'Ofsuch is
the kingdom ofHeaven." And, sir Il cannot
make too nice the fine bed covering Of a
little innocent sleeper that is waiting there


till it is Gods time to awakenit and cover it
with white robe and watt it away to glory.
When such grandeur is awaiting it yonder,
it's fit it should be decked out here. think
the Saviour will like to see white clover
spread above it; do you think SO, too, sir%'
dBut the larger graves? The dust of all his
saints is precious" every true, sir; but L
cannot be sure who Dire his Saints, and who
are not. hope there are many of them in
this church yard, but it would be a great
presumption to mark them out There is
some thatI am pretty sure about, and l
keep their graves as neat as | can. plant
a bit of flower here and there as sign OF my
hope, but dare not give them the white
skirt" referring to the white clover: "t
very different, though, with the children
Year: 1871

THE Wing mistakes us. We would not
suppress the publication of book simply be-
cause its pages will prove stupid. Such a
course would make a terrible thinning out OF
libraries, and not only leave a great many
writers out of employment but would ruin
the publishing business. The PRESS advo-
Gated the publication of the report, first, to
allay further excitement on this topic and
further waste of time by future legislatures
second, that those patriotic gentlemen who
devoted themselves to the work of Saving
the sons of Maine" from the "perilous edge
of battle'' by substituting paper men instead,
shall not be robbed of the glory their due,
and that the ''hearty God bless you'' prom
ised them by that portion of their fellow-citi-
zens then in jeopardy, shall not fall upon un-
deserving heads Because book of history
is dull in its details, shall we forever turn our
backs upon the fact that
Year: 1871

The Board of Manufactures have now sta
ted precisely what the city will be asked to DO
to promote the revival of business IN PORT
land Exemption of new manufacturing ell
terprises from taxation for ten years ana the
appropriation of thousand dollars for the
payment of the expenses Of the board which
is to have the immediate charge of the neces-
sary preliminary work-this is the whole pro-
gramme. To the last proposition we hear
some objection; to the first, hardly any. The
time is well chosen to exempt manufactures
from local taxation, because it will be almost
ten years before new State valuation. in
which the exempted property must be en-
braced, will be taken. The State and county
tax levied on this particular kind of property
will not, therefore, have to be paid by other
persons than its owners more than two or
three years before the period of forbearance,
limited by law, has expired. Accordingly IL
may be assumed that the City Council VIII
pass the order embraced in the report OF the
board, and that in consequence the tenth cen
sus will find Portland much larger and
Weather city than the ninth did. 1t is not
likely that the suspicion of unconstitutionality
which hangs over the exemption authorized
by the Legislature will materially affect the
success of the policy, when we see towns ev-
cry year taking the much graver and more
doubtful step of making direct appropriations
from the public funds for the benefit of ipdi-
vidual manufactures-and then persuading
the Legislature to legalize the irregular pro-
ceeding


Portland is by no means alone in newly
awakened interest in manufactures. A dis
passionate outsider might say without much
exaggeration that Maine has gone wild on
the subject. All our State exchanges discuss
the matter with reference to its bearings on
their local interests. Judging from their dec
larations one would think that every consid-
cradle town from Fort Kent to Calais and to
Kittery expects to be "a great manufacturing
centre" In Washington County the talk is
all of mammoth tanneries. In Knox and
Waldo it is mainly of boot and shoe factories.
In Gardiner it is the same. In Augusta and
Waterville it is cotton and wooden mills.
Ddlu dllu ltNC UOtu NObCu W CA
empt new enterprises Irom taxation. Lew
iston and Auburn have already fair start,
but they are still pushing things as vigorously
as if neither of them had spindle or shoe
shop. Houlton and Presque Isle antagonis-
tic in all else, agree for once in asseverating
that eve must have manufactres."


1t is fitting that the metropolis of Maine
should take conspicuous part in movement
that seems to be general, and that is likely tc
change the destiny of the State. Care should
be taken that an enterprise so vigorously un
dertaken does not evaporate in smoke, leay-
ing its projectors and all whose enthusiasm
they have excited more dispirited and hope
less than at the start. The character of the
men who have taken the thing in hand is
such that we have no fear of such disas
trous result
Year: 1871

Let those who langush under the fatal severity of
our climate through any pulmonary complaint or
even those who arc in decided consumption, by no
means despair There is safe and sure remedy at
hand, and one easily tried. "WILBUR'S CONE
POUND OF COD LIVER OIL AND LIME" with
out possessing the very nauseaing favor of the Oil,
as heretofore used is endowed by the phosphate of
lime with healing property which renders the oil
douby eifieacious Remarkable testimonials of its
efficacy can be exhibited to those who desire to sec
them. For sale by A. B. WILBOR, Chemist, No 1G6
Court St., Boston. sN nov28-Tu-W-Th
Year: 1871

The Boston Journal does not support the
Republican candidate for Mayor in Boston
but Mr. CASTOR the present incumbent and
Democratic nominee. It and the Advertiser
have recognized each other as opponents by
longer notices than are usually found in
papers of the Club"


The Boston Post is bitterly hostile to the
"passive" or "thumb-sucking policy" II
declares that when the Democracy rally to
the support of whoever its opponents choose
to nominate, cit stoops to such cowardly
subserviency it would merit annihilation for
its treachery to every principle that gives it
vitalitu -
Year: 1871

WILL the Argus consult its authority for
the assertions in yesterdays paper attributed
to Chief Justice Chase? Will it not find that
it is Chief Justice Church of the New York
Court of Appeals who made the statements
attributed to Chief Justice Chase? 1t makes
little difference to be sure; but Judge Chase
may object to take the place of Tammany
Tu1oa
Year: 1871

persist in retaining his official position, the
committee on legislation will be instructed to
prepare and present to the Legislature, imme-
diately on its meeting, an act which snali De
sufficient and effectual to remove him at onse


witbn,,t waiting for the completion of the new


aho,tor or other remedial measures.
Year: 1871

ChristadOro's Excelsior Hair Dye
produces shades of color that seem to have been
brought out by nature herself They know, too that
it is free from all injurious matter because they have
used it for years. and thus tested by process
certain than even chemical analysis itself In fact
the daily experience of multudes of both sexes, con-
firms the declaration of the first analytical chemist in
America, that the Excelsior dye contains "nothing
deleterious to health" A good dressing should be
used after the dyeing, and the best is


CHRISTADORO'S HAIR PRESERyATIVE.


noyoq-eod1m w48-50
Year: 1871

oped so suddenly by the prepayment or eight NIL
lions OF the redeemed bonds OF 1882 was strong,
with q light amount OF business, the transactions
after midday being almost nominal in consequence
OF the general departure cf brokers and dealers up
town and out of town In anticipation OF
the Thanksgiving holiday anu festival. The
easier tone OF the money market ana
the actual prepayment OF four millions OF coin
by the Sub bTreasurer assisted the nrmness OF the
market, whose strength was more particularly
illustrated in the OF Lake shore at S9h, New
York Central at 92A and Ohos 427S, and generally
an advance OF nearly y per cent for the leading
speculative stocks. Quite late in the day, just
before the closing Of the Long Room, the "bears"
raided the market lowered prices so that at the
finale OF the business quotations left of as nearly as
might be half way between the extreme figures OF
the day, except for Plttsburg which at this period
suddenly advanced 10 l25b bid.


HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES.


The following table shows the highest ana lowest
olyu Jnr ha 1av
Year: 1871

The Cincinnati Price Current, under the heading of Provision Trade Revolu- tion," gives some interesting information concerning the growth of new industry the ice curing of pork in the summer which it says is making "great breach es," in the old packing trade. Accord ing to this trade journal, it may almost be said that it is not longer necessary to pack and lay aside meat in winter at all, any more than at any other season-there being, however, few weeks in the heat ed term of summer when it is not neces- sary nor desirable to handle or use much meat. Swine are fattened more convent ently and more economically in fall weather, and then transportation can be done twenty per cent cheaper. Fresh ice cured meat is brighter, sweeter, and sells higher for several of the leading qualities than the dry, highly salted win ter cured. Ice houses have been con- structed at many western points where packing continues constantly and safely all summer. The extra cost of cold air from ice is being rapidly reduced, and is already counting less than the expense of holding meat over from winter to sum- mer. This state of affairs has completely upset the old business by which the wealth of the pork packing business has been acquired. And the earticleconcludes with the remark that " the last winters packing stock has lately been selling at a loss of some forty per cent"
Year: 1871

If two persons are to occupy bed room during the night, let them step on a weighing scale as they retire, and then again in the morning, and they will find their actual weight is at least pound less in the morning. Frequently there will be loss of two or more pounds, aud the average loss throughout the year will be a pound of matter, which has gone of from their bodies, partly from the lungs and partly through the pores of the skin. The escaped matter is carbonic acid and decayed animal matter or poisonous ex- halation. This is diffused through the air in part, and part absorbed by the bed-clothes. If single ounce of wood or cotton be burned in room, it will so completely saturate the air with smoke that one can hardly breathe, though there can only be one ounce of foreign matter in the air.

 If an ounce of cotton be burned every half hour during the night, the air will be kept continually saturated with smoke unless there be an open window or door for it to escape. Now the sixteen ounces of smoke thus formed is far less poison ous than the sixteen of exhibitions from the lungs and bodies of two persons who have lost pound in weight during the eight hours of sleeping for while the dry smoke is mainly taken into the lungs the damp odors from the body are absorb ed both into the lungs and into the pores of the whole body. Need more be said to show the importance of having bed rooms we'll ventilated, and of thoroughly airing the sheets, coverlids and mattress es in the morning, before packing them up in the form of neatly-made bed?
Year: 1871

At recent fair in San Francisco, { small space in one of the galleries of the pavilion was devoted to silk, and this was occupied by 8 reel, the office oi which was to unwind the flores from the cocoons. This was of much interest, and while at work was the center of an admiring group of spectators. The cocoons, which look like large peanuts, are put into vessel of boiling water, which stands in 8 small furnace, the furnace itself being set below or rather in front of a small table on level with The action of the hot water in a few minutes loosened the gum, that in their natural condition cements the flores to the cocoon. This done, the girl, taking the brush in one hand, stirred the CO coons about with it until the requisite number of flores were detached at their ends, and clinging to the brush. From this they were quickly brought together to form thread, passed through fixed guide or staple ct the opposite edge of the table, from this through staple on reciprocating bar, and thence to the reel, which was revolved by the hand of small boy. A second thread was form ed in like manner, and in the same way connected with the reel.

 As the reel revolved, the flores were drawn or unwound from the cocoons, which danced about in the boiling water, united in the two threads, and conduct ed to the reel upon which they were dis tributed by the vibratory movement of the bar previously mentioned The two threads, in passing to the reel, were made to cross each other at an angle of about twenty degrees. This was the dis

 tinguishing characteristic of the new in vention, and the advantage claimed for it is that the two threads, in rubbing upon each other as they pass to the reel, cause the gum to strike the flores more closely together and consequently secure smoother and finer thread. After cer tain lengths of the thread were wound upon the reel its motion was stopped, the threads were severed from it, and the two skeins of raw silk, bright-yellow or lighter colored according to the ori- ginal tinge of the cocoons, were slipped from it's ends. The peculiar skill re- quired from the attendant is shown in keeping the threads continuous as the flores wind off and leave the cocoons, it being necessary to add the fibre from a new cocoon at the instant the fibre from the previous one Is exhausted. The flores are of course too fine to be seen It the distance of more than very few inches, and while the operator was at tending to her work it seemed as if heI fingers were flying in the weaving of an invisible web.
Year: 1871

OPPOSED TO THE MATQH.-The New Albany Qnd. Ledger gives the follow. ing: Some of the papers have good deal to say in reference to a crowd of young folks who went to John Street Church on Wednesday night to witness the marriage of @ party, and were dis appointed. The parties intending to marry were in the church on the even ing mentioned, and the minister had the license in his pocket. When all was ready, the prospective bridegroom went to the other si de of the house, where the intended bride was sitting, but be- fore he reached her she slipped out into the vestibule. The bridegroom followed her, and made an effort to get her to take his arm, and march up to the altar, but she refused, whereupon he attempt ed to induce her by taking hold of her arm. The girl jerked away from her would-be captor, ran out of the church. and up Spring Street as fast as she could go. The matter has not yet been com- promised, and tits not likely to be. Of course, the audience assembled on the occasion went away considerably disap- pointed. sJ
Year: 1871

confess that I haven't the slightest banker. ing in the world for you"

 One whole day Tom Gilbert had remain ed at neighbours house, just for the sake of getting up this bit ot fun, which Nancy Sykes bad almost interrupted.

 A mothers love was first to pierce the disguise, but fathers faith,i the integrity of his child was this time the most power full
Year: 1871

About the year 1000 there lived very
remarkable alchemist, in the person of
one Seton, of whom many strange stories
are told. A late number of Chambers
Journal preserves few of them. One
tells how Seton went into an incredulous
goldsmith's shop, and offered to turn a
piece of lead into gold. The goldsmith
put the lead into the crucible, furtively
slipping along with it at the same time, by
way Of making assurance doubly sure, Il
n small piece of zinc, metal which he
considered would render the best good
gold brittle and incapable of being work
ed. A small quantity of Seton's powder
was projected on the fused metal, and
the .cruciblc was taken from the fire and
found to contain perfectly pure, mallea :
BILE and ductile gold. The goldsmith ac-
knowledged himself convinced, disclosing
the trick of attempting to embarrass Sc
ten by stealthily placing zinc in the cru
cible. The news of the experiments re-
sounded all over Cologne. The frequent
ers of the apothecary's shop ceased to
laugh at the transmutation OF metals, and
popular opinion veered round in favor Of
alchemy. Seton though anxiously sought
for in Cologne, did not venture to show
himself in public again, but he resided
quietly in the house of his friend Borde-
mann.


There was party, however, in Cologne
headed by a skillful surgeon named
George, who were not convinced.
George had written against alchemy, and
was so fully satisfied of its sin and folly
that he would not condescend even to wit
ness an alchemical experiment. To lead
such person to change Of opinion was
a difficult task, but our fervid Scot boldly
attempted it, and was rewarded by fully
succeeding in converting him. Seton
managed, through Bordemann, to be in
troduced to George as one ofhis own pro
fession travelling in pursuit of surgical
knowledge. In the course of converse
ton he inquired how the German surgeons
Year: 1871

have not found her, but | know


That somewhere on the fruitful earth
The Stars of love and JOY have sung
Their welcome TO her happy birth.
] have not found her, yet I know


How year by year the gentle days
Have led her up through light and shade,
The lovely heights of woman's ways.
dream her eyes are softly dark,


But whether dark or heavenly blue,
| know the light within them is


My Morning Star->o bright and true.
| dream her mouth is sweetly proud,
Reticent-since it waits for me;
And round her brow her dark hair lies,
In perfumed wavelets, light and free.
OF voice, and hand and lightsome step,
The blisstul kisses of her mouth,
dream--aS one, who winter bound,


Dreams ever of the radiant South.
| have not found her, yet l shall,


Though fate seems coldiy to defer;
She is my own, and will keep


My life ali pure and true for her.