smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

AS each climatic year has its weather
changes, so each social year has its fash
ionable phases Little customs alter,
little etiquettes prevail. Sometimes a
good fashion takes the place of an idle
or bad one. Also, for very changes sake,
some worse novelty takes the place of a
good but stale habit. If one could hold
mirror up and catch and reflect these
variations in trifes, one might perhaps
understand how the wind blows. and
where social currents tended, and so see
to what shores we drift


There is great deal of criticism of So
ciety nowadays, much railing, and much
silent discomfort. Nobody seems to
know or strive for anything better, and
yet no thoughtful person is entirely salts
fed with our present social life. Society,
the past winter, had the same spectacu-
lar form that it more and moro assumed
for the last few years. Every one goes
to parties expecting to see pageant, of
which they form part. The flowers,
the dresses, the jewels, the people, the
supper, the decorations are simply to
please the eye or express the material
wealth of their exhibitors The idea is
never entertained for ono moment of
becoming richer, by one thought or feel
ing, from social intercourse. Conversa-
ton is a lost art; and though the sweet
music which discourses constantly, would
be an excellent substitute, if any one
would listen to it, it is an effectual pre-
ventive of talking. People go to look
and to eat, to please their eyes and their
palate, but their food is not of the spir-
itual sort. If any one does not appear as
q decorative part of the assembly, your
five hundred friends, including the host
ess who invited you, would much rather
you would stay away. A Pysche or Juno
in an old gown would be unwelcome, no
matter how much beauty or talent it
might cover. This form of society is be-
coming fixed and hardened into stony
deadness


Let us look at one of the peculiarities
of the winters campaign, now i'll course
of lenten penitence, and see if in any of
its innovations on its predecessors, there
has been bacl1sliding or progression,
There has been one marked feature of.
the dress of the young girls this season
which we are very sorry to notice. These
"Cynthias of the minute" soonest catch
the spirit and manner of the moment
and express it in dress and behavior. In
their dress they have relinquished and
despised and trodden under foot their
adorable youth They have put away
from them the simple dressing that so
becomes them; they have given up the
white muslin, illusion, and tarletan, that
seem so appropriate to their youth, mex
perience, and purity, and hauut in the
satins and laces which should only be-
long to dowagers of fifty. They despise
white muslin as bread and butter, and
crave silks and diamonds, terrarin and
champagne. They ignore their youth
Year: 1873

A little reflection shows that dog ap-
proaches man much more nearly in the
matter of feeling than either of physical
or mental charaoterist tics 1t is o start
ling fact, we'll brought out by Jesse in a
synopsis of the dogs attributes, that
there are very few human passions which
q dog does not share.


dog feels anger precisely as we do,
and after provocation is sonSetimes vim
dictive and sometimes placable, accord
ing to his individual character. He is
susceptible of hatred of the bitterest kind
He is SO excruciatingly jealous, that his
life becomes a burden in the presence of
a favored rival. His eavy continually
leads him to eat what he does not want
lest another animal should take it, and
to illustrate the fable of The Dog in the
ManGer. Gi'tttopy holds out to him
temptations under which even his hon
esty sometimes succumbS; but, on the
other hand, from drunkenness he is nobly
emancipated. A dog mentioned by the
Rev. Thomas jackson having been once
made so drunk with malt heuor that he
WAS unable to walk up stairs, ever after
declined to taste the pernicious beverage,
and growled and snarled at the sight Of
a pewter pot Again, as to Io0G, Don j Juan
was cold and unenterprising character
compared to dog; and as to maternal
affection, tho mother-dog feels it with he
roic passion, starving herself 10 death
rather than forsake her offspring. Grdt-
itudc may be almost said to DO dogs
leading principle supplying first the
Year: 1873

A presiding elder of the United Breth-
rem Church, while preaching was much
annoyed by persons talking and laugh
ing. He paused, looked at the disturbers.
and said: 81 am always afraid to reprove
those who misbehave in church. In tho
early part of my ministry ! made great
mistake. As ! was preaching, a young
man who sat just before me was con-
stantly laughing, talking, and making
uncouth grimaccs. ] paused and admin
istered severe rebuke. After the close
of the service one of the official members
came and said to me; Brother -, you
made a great mistake. That young man
whom you reproved is an idiot" Since
then l have always been afraid to reprove
those who misbehave in church lest 1
should repeat that mistake, and reprove
another idiot" During the rest of that
service at least there was good order.
Year: 1873

There are practices tolerated in relig-
ious congregations, which Christians who
are Jealous for the honor of their Mas
ter's house should utterly condemn. De-
corum is the handmade of devotional
feeling and for this reason the house of
God should never be disturbed by the
slightest approach to irreverence.


"It is part of my religion, said n
pious old lady when asked why she went
early to church, ut is part of my re-
ligioh not to disturb the religion of
others and we believe if many con-
gregation made it part Of their religion
not to twist their necks almost out of
Joint to witness the entrance of every
person who passes up the aisle during
service, it would be better both for their
necks and their religion.


A gross abuse of religious decorum
sometimes needs harsh medicine as a
remedy. We give that adopted by Henry
Clay Dean, who was one time chaplain
of Congress. The anecdote is from the
Pacific Methodist


Being worried one afternoon by this
turning practice in his congregation, Mr..
Dean stopped in his sermon and said:


NOW, you listen to me, and III tell
you who the people are as each one of
them comes in.


"He then went on with his discourse
until gentleman entered, when he
bawled out like an usher, Deacon A..
who keeps a shop over the way, and
then went on with his sermon. Presently
another man passed up the aisle, and
has name, residence and occupation were
given; so he continued for some time.
At length some one entered the door who
was unknown to Mr.. Dean, when he
cried out, "A little old man, with a drab
coat and an old white hat; don't know
him; look for yourselves, That congre-
CATION was cured"
Year: 1873


The barn was low and dim and old,


Broad on the floor the sunshine slept,
And through the windows and the doors
Swift in and out the swallows swept.
And breezes from the summer sea


Drew through and stirred the fragrant hay
DoWn-dropping from the loft, wherein
a gray old idle fish net lay.
Heaped in q corner, and one loop


Hung loose the dry, sweet grass among,
And hammock-wise to all The winds


1t hoated TO and fro, and swung.
And there one day the children brought
The pet of all the house to play;
A baby boy of three years old,


And sweeter than the dawn of day.
They laid him in the dropping loop,


And softly swung him till at last
Over his beauty baln1y sleep
Its delicate enchantment cast.
And then they ran to call us all;


"Cone, see where little Bob is! Guess"
And brought us where the darling lay,
a heap of lovelineSS.
curIed in the net; the dim old place


He frightened, like star he shone
Graded in air; we stood q once


The shepherds of J udea had done. g..
And while adoring him we gazed,


With eyes that gathered tender dew,
Wrathful upon the gentle scene


His Celtic nurse indignant few.
"Is this fit place for child ?''


And out of his delicious sleep
She clHtched him, muttering, as she went,
Her scorn and wonder low and deep.
His father smiled and drew aside;


A grave, sweet look was in his face,
For One who in q manger lay


1t was not found too poor place.
Year: 1873

gave her rose and gave her ring,
and asked her to marry me then; but
she sent them all back-the insensible
thing-and said she'd no notion of men
l told her ] had oceans of money and
goods-tried to frighten her with a
growl; but she answered she was not
brought up in the woods, 70 be scared by
the screech of an owl called her q
baggage, and everything bad; sighted
succeeded in getting her mad, and sho
ragged like sea in storm And then
in moment ! turned and smiled. and
called her my angel and all she fell in
my arms like wearisoTne child, and ex-
claimed, 1--WE will marry this fall"
Year: 1873

The rights of women" have had their advo-
Gates among us for good many years, and
now the rights of children" E" have found an
advocate who, nirabile dicfu, is q sch ool lteacher
At a convention of the schools, held recently
at Worcester, Massachusetts, Superintendent
Marble read paper, IN which he maintained
that every child in school, however young,
has the same right to his opinion, his judg-
ment, his will, and his way, which full grown
man would have if he sat in the same seat.
The fact" said he, "that he il weak and ignor-
ant Foes not alter the cIse. If tho child's
opinion or judgment be at fault, we shonh
correct him in the same rational way as we
would an adult. Ii his will be obstinate, and
his way be productive of harm to himsGf or
others, we should first point him ont the ~ ght
way and if he did not desist from his evil
way, we should enforce both admit and child
in the same manner. The qualities of reason
and intelligence should always be recognized
both in the child and in the adult. The
first right of every child, then, as of every
human being, is to be treated as an equal, and
not as an inferior. 1t seems to be the opinion
of some people that TO teach is to stamp oue's
own image upon the child; that what know
the child must learn that what think he
must be taught. We have no business to do
any such thing. A child is weak, but we have
no right to bully him. He is undeveloped in
tellectually; no moro have we q right to
impose our opinions upon him without his
choice"
Year: 1873

OUR BoYs.-Dio Lewis has written
work for " Our Girls" and numerous
others have criticised the " Girl of the Pc
riod 5" but no one, to my knowledge, has
yet told us what to do with our boys. All
the way from the cradle up to womanhood,
a girl seems to fall naturally into the
place assigned her, and never appears to
fall awkward or in the way. But there is
period in the life of boy, when neither
he, his guardian, nor his friends know
where he belongs, nor how he should be
treated. A girl glides naturally along
from childhood to womanhood and some-
times in this fast age 80 rapidly, that you
almost conclude that the period of girl
hood is left out entirely. With boys it is
very different. There is o tine in a boys
life when he seems to feel that he is out of
place everywhere: And at this very time,
when he needs sympathy the most, as a
general rule he gets the least of it. He is
too big to be petted like a baby, and not
large enough to be treated like a man. He
is too boisterous to be in the parlor; the
cook sends him out of the kitchen, because
he asks too many questions the father ia
too much engrossed in business to notice
him, OF give employment or direction to
his active, enquiring mind the mother ie
go busy preparing dainties for his stom-
acks or flounces for his sisters dress, to
pay much attention to her sons brain OF
heart, and, as o natural consequence, he
goes into the street. The education he re-
ceives there, is soon made manifest
Year: 1873

The Reading Times and Dispatch appeared
yesterday in handsome new dress of type. We
congratulate our brethren of that sound and en-
terprising establishment, and hope that they may
i've long and be happy.
Year: 1873

national gratitude is due for substituting this


grand financial establishment in place Of the


heterogeneous and cheating system which pre-
ceded it.


HI. Chase, however, found the. fitting crown


to his public life in the Office Of Chief Justice


Here be Was peculiarly at home. 4 learned and
able lawyer, with mind always alive to the
claims of Justice, with judgmentfree from par
tisan bias, and personally familiar with the leg
islation he was called upon to e1pound, he held
a higher place in the confidence and respect OF
the people than ho would probably have enjoyed
had he been elected to the Presidency. 1t -
true he would have adorned the Presidential
Office, md given to it higher dignity than 1t
now possesses; but the Office itself cbuld have
added nothing to the esteem and confidence
which the country universally conceded to him
as Senator, Secretary, and Chief Justice Of the
American Republic. In his high Office he was
every inch Judge. He was in8exible In his de-
votion TO Right. With clear mind, honest con-
yictions, and clean hands, he began the race OF
life. To the preservation Of theae he owed his
great auccess The history Of Salmon 2. Chase
teaches that true greatness is not an accident,
nor purchasablo commodity. It teaches that
industry, perseverance,, devotion to principle,
and unswerving integrity shall not DO without
their reward, even in this world, where the op-
poBito qualities too often command an apparent
cnoreaa
Year: 1873

any Intermediate process of 1aw, and for the
purpose Of collecting tax levy Of extortionate
proportions. The Kellogg Government then
proposed that the local Offices throughout tho
State should Likewise be committed to tho hands
Of the Kellogg partisans, regardless OF the re-
suit Of local elections. Hence the resistance re-
ported from various parishes in the State.
Hence the aspect OF war, and the organization
of the Metropolitan Police force Of Now Orleans
to do service as State army to put down the in
surrections throughout the State.


Every fair-minded man who shall so over tho
history Of the Louisiana troubles will find It df-
flcult to regard the outbreaks in that State in
the light OF "a new Rebellion" against the
United States Government. Gen. Grant is per-
sonaly responsible for the embarrassing poai-
ton which the United States Government holds,
by having sustained the unlawful and Infamous
conduct Of the United States Judge who exceed
ed his powers. It is for Gen. Grant to work tho
Government out OF the dilemma In which he has
placed it. There are only two ways in which he
can proceed-either to rocede from tho
false position which ho assumed in tho
frat place, OF to exercise the authority he
possesses to put down an insurrection, after tho
recognized Government Of Louisiana shall have
applied for assistance. Tho latter course would
be to sustain an error Of the Administration,
and IN injury against Louisiana and could only
be justified on the broad principle Of govern
ment usually expressed in tho aphorism, "The
King can do no wrong" In putting down the
Louisiana Instructions, Gen. Grant will prob
ably be forced to call out volunteers. Tho
United States troops located in the South
would not be 'ablo to successfully combat
outbreaks that are distributed throughout
the State, and no troops could be called from
tho Indian frontier at this time with safety.
Whether Gen. Grant will allow Mr.. Kellogg
and Lis bogus Government to struggle alone
with tho popular uprisings against his usurpa-
ton, or wlldthor he will mako call for yolun-
teers to put down rebellion against what
Republican Committee OF tho United States has
declared an unlawful State Government, is d
matter which he will probably decide at his good
leisure
Year: 1873

Gov. Ke1logg's opponents have taken to shoot-
Ing ut llim, and his friends offer no other con-
solAtion than advice that he pack his carpet
bag and leave the State. When, after the at
tempt on his life, day before yesterday, he fed
in helpless terror to an acquaintance and former
supporter, he WIS told that his violation Of
every pledge he Ind given had alienated the re-
gard Of orery white man in tho State; even the
negroes had ceased to trust him. Other ut
tempts, some of them likely to be moro success-
ful, were sure to be mauo to kill him, and his
only hope Of escape lay in at once abandoning
the hopeless attempt to govern people that
hated him.
Year: 1873

. A motion for tile establishment Of reciprocal
trade With the Sandwich Islands has been made
in the Canadian Parliament, in the hope that by
somo such legislation the growing commerce Of
the United States in that quarter may be sub
vnrte3
Year: 1873

EDITOR BuLIETIS-I notice in the pa
pers that the question OF suicide is sgitated
In scientific circles Of Europe, the ques.
tion being the right of any person to COM
init suicide when their life had become a
burden TO them, either through age and
inhrmity, or misfortune and sorrow. This
is a question that would like 10 see dis.
cussed in the columns OF your popular
journal, by professional men of all classes
doctors Of law, physic or divinity. l can
hnd nothing in the bible that forbids tho
laying of of the burden Of lie, when to
live 10 sin, because you cannot "eat, drink
and he merry


When our favorite horse breaks its
leg or becomes incurably diseased we
shoot the poor thing to put it out of its
misery"-take . life that is perhaps ss
sweet 10 the animal in that condition a.
ours can be 10 us Then why has man
not the right to take the life that belongs
to himself when he reasons, and feels, and
knows it would bring . relief that he can
never hope for in this world II has been
proved by experiments and other wise
that mental suffering, either sorrow or
fear, is far greater than physical pain can
produce We frequently read of the hair
growing white in . single night, and
sometimes Of instant death from the for
rner, but never Of the latter Then why
IN the name of humanity, if la pity for =
wounded beast We can Kill and thus end
its misery, why, ask, should man DO com.
pelied BY human law-and, it is claimed,
by divine law also to drag through
Il miserable existence, or bs damned
through all eternity by God aud man, for
according the same mercy TO himself that
he would to his horse IL there 10 u
claimed, q Divine law touching this ques-
.ion, where is it, or wherO is the proof OF
its existence, More anon


CAIRO, August 8, 1878.
Year: 1873

THE "deportment" professor of a
Connecticut female seminary insists
that the public shall not be allowed to
intrude while the young ladies indulge
in their harmless game Of leap-frog.
Year: 1873

ARCHBISHOP PURCELL of Cincinnati has
warned his flock that the Catholic connect
ing himself with any trade-union or kindred
society that makes use of the oath in its ini-
tiation is ipso facto cut off from the body OF
the faithful and in instant peril of eternal
damnation. Some of the Catholic working
men are quote as saying that their labor un,
ions have nothing to do with religion, that
the oath is perfectly unobjectionable, and
that the archbishop had much better mind
his own business and leave them to mind
theirs,
Year: 1873

DEMOCRATIC papers have found so few
crumbs of political comfort of late that they
grasp at the slightest indications of success. In
pursuance of this policy New Jersey Or
gan of the faithful in its, double-leaded glori-
fication over New Hampshire undertook to
say: "Behold how brightly breaks the MORN
ing' but the compositor put it roughly in
stead of ''brighty" which in the light of full
er information is more correct, as the Repub-
licans have the Governor, Legislature and
two of the three Congressman which is a Re-
publican gain lf two,
Year: 1873

"WEsT" the somewhat sensational Wash
ington correspondence of Boston Traveller
intimates that President Grant had good
reasons for abandoning his proposed Southern
trip, and that he will not again consider the
subject while he is Chief Magistrate. In
short, he hints that the Presidents friends
fear that he would be assassinated should he
visit the South. The correspondent does not
give any authority for his statements.
Year: 1873

A PROPOSITION is before the Illinois legis-
lature to prohibit the election of persons to
the position Of State or county attorney who
have not certificate from the Supreme
Court that they possess at least respectable
qualifications for the Office. This measure
considered from the stand point of the peo-
pies interest is no doubt wise; but what a
havoc it would make among the numbers of
those langrishiug to serve the country in
those positions.
Year: 1873

A NEW YORK despatch announces that
Judge Rice has been elected resident Vice
President of the Pacific Railroad on the Pa
cific Coast. This will probably make it nee
essary for him to relinquish the Presidency
of the Maine Central if not to retire from the
board of directors
Year: 1873

The free high school bill, as finally passed,
does not provide for the payment ffom the
State Treasury of sum equal to that ex-
pended for instruction in such high schools
as towns may establish, but of a sum equal
to halt that so expended. We trust that
towns that are now voting at their annual
meetings to establish high schools are not
la5oring under misapprehersion arising
from the reading of the bill as originally re-
nortad
Year: 1873

THE decision of the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts, that the Boston building loan
of $4,000, 900 is unconstitutional, will prob
ably interfere in the rapid reconstruction of
the burned district.
Year: 1873

NNHE undersigned have taken possession Of this pop
ular establishment for the purpose of carrying on
first class Drug, Prescription and Fancy Goods
business, Particular attention will be paid to the
compounding and dispensing of Prescriptions, of
which department this establishment has for years
made speciality. Among heir stock whico Is one
OF the most select, well of the most extern
sive, in the New England States comprised all
the products of the most celebrated chemical labor
tories of the New World and the Old The new firm
viii endeavor, by promptness, courtesy and a close
the confidence and the continuation of the ayors OF
the patrons Of their predecessors and to make Wait
tiers Drug Store in the future, in the past the
Apothecary Store of the city.


y. E. STURGIS & co.


febl9 eOd1mos
Year: 1873

The Supreme Court of California has
recently decided case Of general Interest
to business men, involing the much
mooted question of double taxtion. In
most of the states it is the custom to tax
not only money. but promissors notes,
mortgages, and other evidences. of wealth
as well. For instance: Jones borrows
LOCO of Smith. and gives his note for
the amount. Neither is he richer or
poorer by the transaction, for the one has
borrowed sum of money aud created
debt for it, while the others has parted
with tie money but holds an evidence of
indebtedness, therefor. Nothing can
be produced and no property brought into
existence. The only property involved is
the $1,000, and, by every principle Of
law and justice, this should only be taxed
once. This was the line of reasoning
adopted by the California court, which
held that the money itself, its equivalea.
being taxed in the hands oc the borrower.
the promissory note or mortgage could
not properly be taxed in the hands of the
lender. The real point is whether the
same property has been twice assessed
for the same tax, for it is obvious then
if the subject matter of the tax is tho
same whether it be money or real estate,
it ought not to be twice assessed for
the same tax