smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

bills, for we never have been able to pay them
before since little Eddy was born, and reok-
oued the interest, and found to a cent what
we owed them. Then I did the same by the
accounts Of the grocer, the butcher, aud the
milkman. Before | went to bed had cast the
interest on all our little outstanding accounts,
aud to-day have been round as grand as
Caesar paying up. tell you what, mother,
l lid not 90 to sleep very early last night |
wa too glad and happy O mother, dear, |
declare You are too good


Was this not % letter worth having, and
was not proud Of my boy, to think he was
such an honest fellow. willing to wear his
patched shoes and his thrcadbarc coat, and
to let his dear little wife wear her old clothes
awhile longer, anxious first Of all to pay his
just debts, interest as well as principal


Years have gone by My son Is now al.
most forty years old. lr were making up
story. J wonld certainly have had .nch hon.
or, ere this, meet its due reward but life is
not always pretty tale lie is still poor
man, supporting his family on a moderate
salary, and ! am prouder Of his poverty than
! could be Of any wealth got by tricks Of


trade or deccts Of business iIe is the head
clerk in largo banking house. lie signs
The name of the firm many times every day.
Thousands Of thousands 60 through his hands
He secs this money, he counts it, Iii. own


hare is hut q pitiance. The firm roll mp
wealth like cotton and he knows it, aud by
hi. agency it is done he only has mere
living To him 20 nice questions Of finance
Nothing is done in that great house but he is
The doer Of b. Men outside, worth their mil
lions, seek hi, advice and aid in making their
Investments. In the face OF all these temp.
tations- his name is clean, his fingers are un-
.oilcl with another, gold lie lives in n
pretty cottage, owns his garden Of two acres
raises his own peas and potatoes eats his own
strawberries and cream Ills family want
for no real good, hut if he were to fall sick
and be unable to work, they would soon come
to want


| forescc that the day is coming when, if
he lives and keeps his health, he may be a
rich man. iii. financial skill is already we'll
known. Iii. business knowledge and bust.
ness habits will bring their reward. Men are
already inviting him to become partner in
this ard that house Ile profits By his own
/ experience. He looks before he leaps. But.
| if some day the present possibilities become
realities, and he should find himself man
Of wealth. is it too much for me to hope that,
having stood the temptations of adversely, he
may stand even the greater ones of prosperity ?
that having been faithful in that which is


least, be may still be faithful found in that
which /, much 3-AdraRce
Year: 1871

Serious minded, sensible young men look
with suspicion upon the girl who is expensive
ly and showily dressed. They count the cost
of that sort of display. They ask themselves
whether they can afford to clothe and adorn a
wife in an equally costly style. How man
with a salary Of fifteen hundred dollars can
maintain a wife whom it costs thousand dol
lars per year to dress is a problem which they
are not mathematicians enough to solve


They question whether woman who has a
passion for snowy dress and costly jewelry
can have the intelligence the seriousness Of
heart, the interest in common things, the deer
and abiding affection, which fit one for life
companion.
Year: 1871

The hideous and revolving crimes which
have been raked up from the filth of the


lowest dregs of society, by the recent dis
covery of the trunk and its dreadful con-
tents in New York city, are subjects which
the editor, In common with the rest Of
mankind, shudders to contemplate but
cannot ignore. Who was the victim in
the present case? who was the murderer !?
who were the connivers? These are ques-
tions which the telegraph has answered or
will answer, and they are of little COM
parative moment But they serve to call
public attention to the appalling dimen-
sions of business which is the most foul
and unnatural Imaginable, against which
all the laws of God and man, and every
principle of expediency and common sense
are opposed, and which yet supports hun
dreds of INSCRIPTIONS men and-the
greater be their shame-unscrupulo wo-
men, and sends to their dishonored homes
or dishonored graves hundreds of young
and lovely girls. 1t is a sad commentary
upon the effect of this traffic on the traf-
fckers, when it is remembered that one of
the most notorious female practitioners"
his amassed sufficient ill-gotton wealth to
buy palatial residence in New York city
and offer quarter of million to any one
who will marry her daughter; it is a sad
commentary upon its effects on the victims,
when the pride of household, seduced
from the paths of virtue, is liable to have
her life tortued out of her, and her body
bent double in trunk, to be discovered
by truckman or newsboy, exposed to
the gaping gaze of five thousand eyes, and
finally tumbled into an unknown grave
Roo,,.Y.
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the San Francisco
Chronicle. who signs herself -'Tormented
Woman" defines her position thus:


81 am pestered with offers. Now L
never offered to marry a man; never
had the presumption to say to a gentle
man: If you will be my exclusive COM
panion for life. will support you; / will
be mother to your children. Asto con-
geniality, why, I've only seen you in COM
pany dress. but you please me in that, and
I'll take it for granted that in all their in
tricacies and complications our natures
viii come into perfect syspathy and con-
sanguinity with each other. But men
will make such propositions after a six
weeks acquaintance, when in reality they
know no more of the woman whom they
ask to marry them than they do of the
man in the moon. There are men who
will propose marriage to us, whose busi-
ness would keep them two-thirds of the
time in the wilds of the continent. They
seem to imagine that the honor of their
name and alliance would be a sufficient
compensation for life spent two-thirds in
the condition of grass widowhood, or of
one entirely subject to the privations of
the backwoods. There are others, con-
firmed invaliGs, who, because we are
pleasing to them, elect us to the station of
their nurses for life. Others are as poor
as poverty, yet not for moment do they
hesitate to offer us shares in their like
property.


You men are deiuded on this subject
of matrimony. You meet woman at
tractive to you, and forthwith you con-
clude that the be-all and end all of her
existence here is place in your own pri-
vate cage, where she is to sing for your
own exclusive benefit. We propose soon
to take hand in this worlds little game;
we're trying to learn from you how you've
managed so lcng and SO successfully to
stock the cards: we propose to trump our
score of the tricks and see that the hon
crs are more evenly divided: We may
not all vote, or shrek. or officiate as plat
form statuary for Stanton or an Antho-
ny, but things are working; a new deal
all around is being quietly shufHed out.
and in year or two moro some of you
gentlemen who deem all woman's fitness
to be for making your beds, cooking your
food, scrubbing your floors and rocking
your cradles, will be astounded by the
positions held by u.s."
Year: 1871

A couple of residents of Georgetown,
Colorado, started out on hunting expe-
dition about twenty miles east of town..
On arriving at the scene of operations, it
being late. they concluded to camp for tho
night. Early next morning one Of the
party decided to 90 to some convenient
spot and prepare what the hunters call o
s'deer lick" lie started out with an
yeast powder can filled with salt, and an
auger While pushing his way through
the bushes he suddenly came face to face
with big black bear.


Not liking the intrusion, the bear rear
ed up, and prepared to fight. The hunt
er and the bear were so close to each 9TH
er that neither could very well back out,
The only weapons that the hunter had
were the salt and nuger. Believing the
salt the best werpon at hand, he dashed
the can full of salt directly into the bears
eyes, and while bruin was scratching the
salt out of his peppers the hunter pegged
away on his head with the augeE until his
bearship gave up the contest and fed.
Year: 1871

Not many years since an enterprIslng
journalist made the astounding discovery
that there was a deep and long cave un-
der the city, having outlets at the bluff in
the rear of the City Hotel, and short
distance south of the suspension bridge.
Full accounts of the explorations then
made were published, and their truth not
very considerably questioned. Since that
time the bluff apertures to this extensive
cavern have been closed, and nothing fur
ther has been learned of its mysterious
existence. The blasting of stone to make
excavations for the block of buildings to
take the place of the City Hotel, which
has been going on for the past few days,
has suddenly directed the attention of OBJ
serving citizens to the wonderful cavity
within the bowels of the earth beneath the
heart of the city 1t is said by gentle
men who have devoted some attention to
the matter that a person in the central
part of the market-house, or about the
first story of the Court House, at the time
these blasts at the City Hotel site are let
off, feels very perceptible jarring, and
hears a strange, rumbling sound, some
thing like that of reverberating thunder,
or distant artillery practice. We have
ourselves been able to devote but little at
tention to these extraordinary evidences
of the existence of what may in the fu-
ture be known as the great Rock City
Cave, and give above only such informa-
ton as reaches us through equally reliable
sources. From certain information just
received, we feel justified in assuring our
readers that something more definite re-
specting the wonderful emptiness under
the city will soon be known.-NdshOillc
Union and american.
Year: 1871

From all the watering-places this year
there has gone up cry concerning the
lack of eligible young men. Amid all
the allurements of the baths or the noun
tains, beauty has pined for suitable COM
panionship. Croquet has been a melan-
choly delusion. snare simply for unwary
feet; the ride, the drive, the bath, alike
have been found unsatisfactory. Even
the joys of the ''hope" have failed, and
the most undaunted valseuse has given up
before the sad spectacle of young women
dancing together. and trying to think they
are quite as happy as if they had male
partners. From Saratoga to Newport,
from Cape May to Rye Beech, our fashiona-
BILE Summer resorts have been crowded
with pretty girls, but with scarcely cava-
lier to do them reverence.


The young men have avoided the water
ing-places, either because they have had
more attractive diversion and sufficient
recreation in town, or because they found
more profit to mind and body in quieter
rural retreats. Men, driven hard all the
year round, do feel positive need, when
Summer comes, of leisure and rest for
tired brains and overstrained nerves.
Their ambition to exhibit the handiwork
of their tailors, however strong it may be,
is still subordinated to this physical ne
cessity. Idle men, are few in our busy
society, and the lawyer or the merchant
or the clerk, when he gets Hway on his
brief vacation, appreciates it as an idle
man could never do. He tries to make
the most of it, and he seems to be gradual
ly learning that fashionable watering
place does not offer the best field for his
requirements. He seeks rather some quiet
inland village in whose peaceful remote
ness he may forget for while the town
and all its cares. He follows some trout
stream In the mountains as he hides him.
self away from his anxieties, or some
quaint little sea coast fishing town, where
the unfamiliar ways and simple joys of q
primitive people may act as healthful
sedative to his excited nerves Doubt
less in some such way as this the eligible
young man has been spending his last
vacation, regardless of beauty languishing
for his compliments and his arm. If he
is wise he will spend his next vacation also.


The Nc1c York Times.
Year: 1871

Henry Ward Beecher has written this /:


Il never saw any body do anything that
/ did not watch him and see how he did
it, for there is no telling but that some
time / might have to do it myself. Twas
going across a prairie once; my horse be-
gan to limp. Luckily came across a
blacksmith's shop. but the smith was not
at home. I asked the women of the
house if she would allow me to start FIRE
and make shoe. She said 1 might i'll
knew how. So / started a fire and heated
the shoe red hot and turned it to fit my
horses foot. pared the hoof and turned
the points of the nails out cunningly, as
had seen the blacksmith do, so that III
driving into the hoof they should not 60
into the quick, and shod the horse At
the next place l went straight to black
smith and told him to put it on properly.
He looked at the horses foot. and paid
me the greatest compliment l ever receiv-
ed in nv life. He told me if / put on
that shoe, / had better follow the black
smithing all my life. Now | never
should have known how to do this if l
had not looked on and seen others do it,
Year: 1871

"The Right Reverend Father in God.
the Lord Bishop of Litchicld." as his 'ti-
tie runs IN London, is about to start across
the water, and in few Sundays will
preach in Trinity Church, Broadway
Notwithstanding bis high sounding titles.
the Bishop is said to De man OF plain
piety and good common sense. he was
Bishop in New Iceland, and how he is a
very popular Bishop in the StaffUrdshire
Districts of miners and potters. na@
Year: 1871

which never heard before or since-a
low, moaning cry, that sounded like All
alonel all alone = over and over again.
[ can't tell to this day whether really
heard it or only fancied it; but at the
time it gave me such a horror that
nearly went mad.


"The third morning came, and found
me nearly at my last. The gnawing pain
was gone, and instead of it had come a
pleasant drowsiness, like what man
feels when he falls down to sleep in the
snow All the morning lay in a kind
of dream, thinking of nothing, fearing
nothing-as quiet as q child at its
mothers breast; till all at once | saw
something that reused me in good
earnest black, shining thing, like a
long strip of velvet, coming gliding into
the tent. / knew it directly for one of
the deadliest snakes in Australia. The
next moment heard the rustic of its
coils up the tent-pole to which my hamt
mock was slung, and then saw its fiat
head and black, beady eyes hanging
over me, and looking right down into
my face to see if were dead or not. I
suppose it thought | was, for the next
minute it slid down over my face, and
to and fro along the hammock, till at
last it went to the other pole, and there
it glided off, and | saw no more of it,
Any body watching me then would
have called me brave fellow; but /
dare say it's not the first time that a
man has been thought brave because he
couldn't run away!


~ don't know how long it was after
that-it may have been an hour, or
day, or a week, for all | could tell-that
shadow fell across my face, and | heard
voice calling out, Holloa, mate can
you give us ire-stick? I've let my
fire out With the sound of that voice
all my love of life came back again, and
| gathered up my strength to try and
speak.


"Seeing me lie there so white and
still, the fellow must have thought me
deadi; and for moment-the bitterest
moment | ever had-I thought he was
going to turn and 60 out again; but,
although could not speak, | managed
just to move my eyelids, and he saw it.
He said nothing, but raised my head on
his arm, and took out his flask to pour
some rum into my mouth and then |
knew that l was saved, and with the
shock of the reaction | tainted in right
earnest"


Here my strange companion suddenly
ceased, and, rising from his chair, said
to me, "You've had your story, stran.-
ger, and now I'm going to bid you good
night; for haven't spoke of this busi-
ness since it befell, and it rather upsets
me thinking of it. You tell me you're
off early tomorrow morning, so its
a hundred to one if we ever meet again ;
but, in any case, wish you success in
your travels, and may you end better
than I have done !"


Then, grasping my hand with force
that made it tingle TO the wrist, he de-
parted.


His parting words were true, for we
have never met since that night; but
should these lines ever meet his eye, it
may crafty him to know there is at
least one man in the world who fully be-
lieves his story even though it be las
he styled it) " the strangest adventure
of alln
Year: 1871

SHEEP-TIcKs.-Now is favorable time
for raid on ticks. They have left the
shorn sheep to escape the light, and
will be found gathered in force on the
lambs. Lambs cannot thrive when
tormented by them. The best and sim
plest remedy is tobacco. To make the
dip. take a pound of cheap plug to-
bacco for every twenty lambs, tear it up
and boil in water sufficient to entirely
cover the lamb. Have a water.t tight
box large enough to hold a lamb. Ar
range sloping liquid at the side of the
box which will permit the spare liquid
to run back into it. When the dip is
quite cold, put it in the box, take a
lamb by the fore legs in one hand, with
the other cover up the mouth and nos
trile, let an assistant take the hind
legs, and immerse the lamb entirely,
long enough to allow the dip to pene-
trate the wool. Lay the lamb on the
sloping table and squeeze out the sur
plus liquid, and the operation is com
plete. Do this each year and ticks will
disappear altogether.
Year: 1871

Those who, in the interests of COM
merce, science, or gain, are accustomed
to the dangers of the ocean, will be glad
to know that something in the shape OF
a life preserver, more deserving OF that
name than the almost useless devices
hitherto in vogue for that purpose, has
lately been contrived, and its adapta-
bility tested by satisfactory trials. The
invention is very simple. The casing
for the body, which is made OF India
rubber, is shaped from the arms down
to the feet, inclusive, to correspond with
the form of man, but made large to
permit its being easily put on. The
bolts of the casing have weights firmly
attached thereto, and two glasses are
provided for the purpose of vision. The
apparatus has a cylindrical air recep-
tacle with bell-valve, having a pipe
leading therefrom into the interior OF
the casing. There is complete protec-
ton for the mouth and nose, making 1T
impossible for water to enter. Another
apparatus for this purpose, extremely
simple, is due to French ingenuity. Tne
plan is to cut hole in one side of
barrel or cask large enough to admit
man. Underneath this cask are sus-
pended some bars of iron as ballast.
Around the occupants neck may be
drawn piece of canvas to exclude the
dashing waves. This affair, with a man
in it, dropped from a stranded ship,
will, it is asserted, invariably be washed
ashore, and can tow rope, thus giving
a chance for others to escape. 1t can
be prepared in few minutes by any
carpenter.
Year: 1871

There is no greater sorrow, Dante said


Than to remember happy days in grief.
But to remember? Is this sorrow chief?
Can no more weight upon the heart be laid?
Yea; if from out those pleasures, which upbraid
Our present ills return a withered leaf,
A face. a song-to sense however brief
That thing is more than Memory's whole


parade.


1t is as though a sailor, from the wave
On which he struggles, sees his wreck so by,
An arms length only from his yielding grave
And halls his loss with despairing cry,
Knowing the bark can neither live nor save,
Then tastes his briny death without sigh.
Year: 1871

AN ANrIDoTE FOR POIsoN.-No matter
what kind of poison is taken into the
stomach, it will be neutralize.i and rem
dered harmless by swallowing half a
pint of sweet oil. Of course it should
be taken Immediately, or at the earliest
possible period after swallowing the
poison.
Year: 1871

On Saturday, the 25th ultimo, in the House
of Delegates, A. B. Cochran, Esq, made a
speech upon the subject of the payment of the
Public Debt of Virginia, which was reported
as follows in the editorial columns of the Rich
mond Wig:


Judge Cochran advocated the bill and op-
posed the amendment, saying that he raised
his voice for the last time on the subject
There should be no uncertain voice on this sub
iect of plighted faith. AS representative of
the great county of Augusta, which, under the
new assessment, would pay more taxes than
any county in the State, he wanted it under
stood that her people were for paying the
State debt to the last farthing land the nation
al debt, too, he added in reply to question:
He argued that nothing could be gained by
adopting the amendment of Speaker Turner
The courts of the country would intervene and
enforce payment if the debt was due. Late
action of the Supreme court showed this -
This proposition was reputation without any
of its fruits How can it be ascertained that
we owe two-thirds, and no more? He glanced
at statistics to show we owe more. If we are
going to repudiate, we should secure its bene-
fits He replied to the non-intercourse argu-
ment. Admitting, for the sake of argument,
the fact of non-intercourse, be said that new
bond would take the debt out of the operation
Of that principle, and argued that such a bond
had been given by the action of the Legisla-
ture, He deplored that he who had been ele-
waited to the Speakership Of the House should
! be the first to tarnish the fame of Virginia by
proposition to repudate He spoke of Mis-
sissippi-the effect of reputation upon the
standing and credit of that State, and of the
humiliation that still clings to her people,
The same fate will attend every man who ad-
vocates reputation in Virginia. He may gain
temporary elevation, but disaster and shame
will eventually overtake him. The honor Of
/ Virginia must be protected-it must not be
bartered away for gold. One Esau sold his
birthright for mess of pottage The gentle
man from Rappahannock seemed anxious te
follow his example. The honor of Virgins
was the heritage of every one of her sons, anc
it must not be bartered away. He spoke o.
the widows and orphans of the State who hac
nothing but State bonds. He appealed to the
colored members to go against repudiation =
Should this question be carried into the mex
canvass, he, for one, would choose politica
death rather than advocate it, He would dt
no such dirty work as reputation, even shoul(
he be chosen by the people to do it. Virgini;
must look to her credit and maintain it. HI
regarded reputation as the poorest means O
escaping from obligations. If we would attrac
immigration and capital, we must assume thi
debt and pay to the last farthing."
| Expect nothing from him who promises
great DEAL


Give neither counsel nor salt till you are ask
ed for it.


Have not the cloak to make when it begin
to rain.


He who would catch fish must not mind get
ting wet


A fox should not be on the jury at goose
trial.


A nod from lord is a breakfast for fool.
A small leak will sink great ship.
Avarice increases with wealth.
Year: 1871

1t is pity that those who taught us to talk
did not also teach US when to hold our tongue.


He who would stop every mans mouth.
must have great deal of meal


He that makes himself an ass must not take
it i'll if men ride him.
A good word for a bad one is worth much
and costs little.
If an ass goes travelling, he'll not come
home horse.


Bacchus has drowned more men than Nep-
| tune.
A deceitfal man is more hurtful than open
war.
| It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Year: 1871

BUSINESS MAxIMs. Nothing is cheap to
one who does not want it.


Earn your money before you spend it, and
YOU will know what it is worth.
Be content with legitimate business and let
speculation alone, and in the end you will be a
richer man. .oa D lea.E


Never get another to do for you what you
can just as we'll do for yourself.


Do your business honestly, and then you will
have good character.


An old dog cannot alter his way of barking.