smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

MATTERS FOR THoUGIT.--A man may
know all about the rocks, and his heart re-
main as hard as granite or adamant ; he may
know all about the winds, their courses and
their currents, and be the sport of passions
as turbulent and fierce as they he may know
all about the stars, and his fate be the mete-
or's that blazts for little while, and is tlen
lost, quenched in eternal night he may know
all about the sea, and be a stranger to the
peace of God his soul may resemble its
troubled waters which, lashed by storms, ruff
fed by every breath of wind, cannot rest, but
throw IN mire and dirt /; he may know how
to rule the spirit of the elements, and not
know how to rule his own he may know
how TO turn aside the deadly thunderbolt, but
not the wrath of an angry God; you may
tnow all. in short, that man has discovered r
his skill invented, but, if you do not know
Jesus Christ if your eyes have never been
opened to saving knowledge of the truth,
what win that avail you, when they are fixed
in their sockets, glazed by the hand Of death
Equally by the deathbed of the greatest phi
,osopher as Of the hardest miser that ever
ground the faces of the poor, there is room
and reason for the solemn question: What
shall it profit man. if he shall gain the whole
world-all its learning, its wealth, its pleas
ures and honors--and lose his own soul -
Year: 1873

There Is never q successful riot, that there
is not some leader. You viii never find a mob.
that there is not some respectable man coiled
up behind them, who sets them on. When
the Massachusetts Sixth Regiment went
through Baltimore, at the beginning of the
great rebellion, they were pelted, stoned,
dubbed, until at last patience was exhausted,
and they were ordered to defend themselves.
At the very moment they We're summoned to
fire, tall Yankee who had seen a respectable
looking man bounding the people on, and
keeping himself at what he supposed to be
safe distance, stepped out of the ranks and
fired at him instead of the poor wretches
about him, and down he fell like u shot pi-
geon from his roost Now, that Yankee was
philosopher. He said to himself "These
poor wretches are not responsible. There is
the responsible man. He belongs to the re-
spectacle GLASS; and does not mean to hurt
himself, nor have his name or character in-
volved in this affair. 1t is he that is urging
forward these ignorant, degraded fellows
They are the ones that are throwing the
stones, but he is the one that is to blame
Therefore, | am going to shoot, not them, but
him." 1t was very characteristic thing for
Yankee soldier to do.


And that was not the whole of it. Three
or four years after heard the other side of
the story. l was in Baltimore lecturing. and
was talking over the scenes of the rebellion
in a Methodist family where / was stopping !;
and the master of the house, who was patri-
ot said, in the course of the conversation,
"Our church, at the beginning of the war,
lost very prominent and valuable man.
All! +" said |, how was that? - "TIe wa.
looking on at the passage of the soldiers
through the city, and was standing on ths
side of the crowd, and some stray shot hi
him, and killed him. And thus after three
or four years had elapsed, | got what wa.
lacking to make the fact complete. lie was
man, member of the church, belonging to
respectable society, but violent in his feel
ings. hating the North and sympathizing with
the South and when these soldiers were
marching through the city, instead of going
stood aside, and set them on, and the Yankee
saw him. and when the order came to fire.
he. did fire, and to some purpose You will
never see n riot or mob break out, that
there will not be some magistrate, some re.
spectacle man, some leader, somewhere
bounding the people on. They get all the
blows and bruises, as general thing, and he
shields himself or conveys himself away, and
laughs i'll his sleeves to think how nicely lie
has done it, and how little he has had of the
responsibility of it. 1t is always worth
while to find out who are the real mscreant,,
the leaders, in such cases. Beecher.
Year: 1873

BEST TINE EoR PAINTING HOUSES. The


best time for painting the exterior of build
/ ings is late in the autumn or during the win
ter. Paint then applied will endure twice as


long as when applied in early summer, or in
hot weather. In the former it dries slowly


and becomes hard, like a glazed surface, not
easily affected afterward by the weather, or


worn off by the beating of storms. But in
very hot weather the oil in the paint soalSs in
to the wood at once, as into sponge, leaving
the lead nearly dry, and nearly ready to crum-
bic off. This last difficulty, however, might
be guarded against, though at an increased
exI ense, by painting in cold weather. one. an
noyance might certainly be escaped, namely,
the collection Of small flies on the fresh paint.
Year: 1873




Though the negroes have been freed and
enfranchised aud ciyil-righted, they cling TO
the custom of their fofefathers in many re-
spects, and are still a peculiar people. A few
days ago negro woman was seen to go out
upon II bridge leading from the Trcdegar
Works to the island in the river and throw a
keg or box into the stream. and make Off As
infanticde has been lamentably common with
them of late, u boy who saw the act supposed
that another baby had been murdered and
disposed OF, and at once reported to !. police
man what he had seen, and the woman was
arrested. Finding that she was suspected of
grave crime, the woman was forced to tell
the truth and establish her innocence On
Friday her child was taken suddenly i'll and
rapidly grew worse until Monday, when she
accidentally discovered that she had been con-
jured. The old woman went out to sweep the
yard, and was attracted to nail sticking up
in the ground She attempted to draw it out
when it burned her, and her right arm be-
came paralyzed. This satisfied her that the
EVIL One y was at work She laid the
whole matter before solemn conyocation of
her neighbors, and they unanimously agreed
upon sure plan to remove the SPELL SO with
their advice she produced u spade and sue
cccded in unearthing the nail, with several
others. They were crossed upon one another
forming a star, and the "deyil's nail the
one first dscovered--was pointed towards the
house. According to advice, the old woman
made a mixture Of copperas, cayenne pepper,
red onion and fish brine, and poured it upon
the deviish instruments, and then put them
in a key, and went to throw them into swift
running, never-failing stream. The spell was
thus broken, and her daughter instantly go
well. The police authorities, after u thorough
investigation, ascertaiued that the strang
story Of the old woman was true, according Il
her belief, and released her from custody. =
RichmoMd Correspondence.
Year: 1873

PRESENT DUTY.--The way to m; ke cay
times is as clear as daylight.


Let every man or woman who owes money
pay it at once, If it is possible.


Be willing to make sacrifice in order to
meet promptly all your engagements.


Stop grumblng at the faults or mistakes of
others, and attend faithfully to your own
affairs.


Deal fairly, leniently and cheerfully with all
persons who owe you or are in pecuniary
trouble.


If you are out of debt, thank the Lord and
then 60 round among your friends, and
enemies too, If You have them, and render
them all the assistance in your power.


DON'T hoard your money; But loan it OIL
use it to relieve the needy, on the same prin-
ciple as you would give bread to the needy in
a day of famine.


Do what you can in every way to relieve
pecuniary distress, to check the current OF
financial embarrassments and restore public
confidence.


If you are bank officer or director, don't
be cross a minute Smile, as Christian
duty, from morning till night. Give an en-
couraging word, If possible, to all, and by all
means strain every nerve to help all who need
it.--Independent.
Year: 1873

HUSBAND AND WIFE.-Did you ever hear


the word husband, y explainede 1t means


literally the head Of the house, the support


Of it. the person who keeps it together, as a
Band keeps together a shcaf Of coru There
arc many married men who are not hus-
bands /; because they are nos the band of the
house. Truly, in many cases, the wife is the
husband; for often times it is she who, by
her prudence and thrift and economy, keeps
the house together. The married man who,
by his dissolute habits, strips his house of all
comfort is not a husband in legal sense he
is but in no other; for he is not n house
band instead Of keeping things together, he
scatters them among the pawn-brokers.


And now let us SEQ whether the word
" wife " has not lesson TOO. II literally
means weaver The wife is tile person
who weaves. Before our great cotton and
cloth factories arose, one Of the principal en-
ployments in every house was the fabrica lion
of clothing every family made les own. The
wool was spun into thread by the girls, who
were, therefore, called spinstcis the thread
was woven into cloth by their mother, who
accordingly was called the weaver or wife
and another remnant Of this old truth was
discovered in the word "heirloom,n applied
to any old piece of furniture, which had come
down to us from our ancestors and which,
though 1t may be a chair or bed, shows that
loom was once most important article in
every house. Thus, the word ''wife . means
weaver and as French well remarks, "in the
word itself is wrapped up hint of earnest,
indoor stay-nt-home occupations as being
fitted for her who bears this name.p
Year: 1873

THE POSTAL SAVINGS BANK.-Postmaste
General Creswell is confident that Congress
will approve the Postal Savings Bank scheme
which he will propose III his annual report
1t is an adaptation of the English plan, which
has proved both successful and popular. The
following are some of the details 1t is pro-
posed at first to introduce the system only in
what are called the presidential otlices-tbat
is Post Offices the salaries of which are 81, 900
and over The entire system will be connect
ed with the postal money order office. One
clerk will be detailed to receive and account
for deposits. As each deposit is made certi-
fication of deposit will be entered in a pass
book. The General Office at Washington will
be notified of this deposit, and of the name
of the depositor, after which a certificate Of
deposit will be forwarded from Washington
to the depositor as a further guarantee De-
posits may be withdrawn both from the office
where they were deposited and from any other
within the general district, but no deposit can
be withdrawn until permit has been obtain
ed from the General Office at Washington
This authorization of withdrawal has been
found necessary by Great Britain and Canada
to prevent fraud. One feature of the scheme
is the establishment of several grand divisions,
to which the local offices shall report directly.
All moneys received are deposited within a
stated time at the nearest national depository.
The Postmaster General is informed that the
plan is very generally approved in the West,
and he has recently received a Communication
from prominent Eastern banker, advocating
the plan as very efiicientm means to strengthen
the credit of the Government, and preventing
national panic in time of crisis. The flow
of currency into the Treasury at such times
from savings, would enable the Government
to purchase its own bonds, and thus relieve n
stringeucy by keeping currency in circulation.
I ~.
Year: 1873

PorrsvlLLE, January lO.-At meet
ing OF the Workingmen's Benevolent
Association held this afternoon to fix
a basis, it was resolved that the mini
um should be the base OF 1873, except
ing those OF two months, when it ran
below the basis agreed on with sliding
scale upwards. A resolution Was also
passed that no work should be done,
until this basis was accepted The
Anthracite Board Of Trade will hold a
meeting in few days, to decide upon
this matter, and should it not meet
with their approval the Schuylkill
Region will remain inactive, 1t is
feared, for some time.
Year: 1873

TIE proposed investigation into the
polit cal disturbances in Louisiana and
Arkansas will probably result in q
junketiug excursion of half dozen
Congressman and q whitewashing re-
port. Would it not be about as we'll
ror the unhappy people of those States
to plead guilty TO whatever charges the
negroes see fit to prefer, and thus save
the expense Of pretended investigation
whose conclusion and report might as
we'll be written at oncef
Year: 1873

WHEN Turkish wife forgets to keep
the suspender buttons sewed to her hus-
bands trousers, she is patted on the
back for half an hour with a pine board
an inch thick. An African wife is better
treated. The frown is chased from her
lofty brow with a f1at-iron
Year: 1873

Though il may be granted that the
words of the catechi.m, which require q
man to DO his duty in the station 10 which
il has pleased God to call him, give an
admirable definition of our obligation to
ourselves and to society; yet the ques-
ton remains, How is any given person
10 find out what is the particular station
to which it has pleased God to call him?
A new. born infant does not come into
the world labeled scayenger, shopkeep-
er, bishop or duke One mass Of red
pulp is Just like another, 10 all outward
appearance And il is only by finding
out what his faculties are good for. aud
seeking, nor for the sake of gratifying
paltry vanity, but as the highest duty to
himself and 10 his fellow. men, " put
himself in the position in which they can
attain their full development, that the
man discovers his true station. That
what is to be lamented. ! fancy, IS not
that society should do it its utmost 10
help capacity TO ascend from the lower
strata TO the higher. but that it has no ma
chinery by which to facilitate the des-
cent of incapacity from the higher strata
10 the ower-HErIey.
Year: 1873

to play with. They made all the trouble
in the first place. However, we won't
talk about that he said, gIancing at
mother. 1t turned out for tho best as
far as was concerned


"Well, that's about all there is 10 tell.
Father gave me q farm next his own,
and built us q nice new house, and the
next spring we were married. But
neither father nor mot her would ever call
my wife Penelope. From The Aldine
Epr lciober.
Year: 1873

six feet wide and eight hundred feet sheer
down, and sang in her pathetic style the
beautiful song Passing under the Rod"


II is said 10 be like descending from tho
desolalion of the Alps into the foliage
and beauty of Italy. A party from Cole
brook are now laying the foundation Tor
a big Hotel near the western entrance.
and will be ready and opened foI COM
pany by July next. Z.
Year: 1873

shall We know" and this is the will of
God that ye believe on him whom he
hath sent;" but while it is true, that
you must become christian before you
can know Christ; it is also true that
knowledge of Christ will help you to
become christian, that is the more
you know of Jesus-the more correct
and complete your ideal Of him, the
more easily you will become like him,
trusting, obeying, loving him.


Let me cali your thought then, to
two or three things which I think
ought ever to be in our minds in regard
to Jesus Christ.


1st. To know him is to know God
to have the true notion of our Father.


End. To know him is to know what
perfect manhood is; what perfect
life is what love is, and honesty, and
truth what justice is, and mercy, and
forgiveness what joy is, and peace !;
what real happiness is !; what the ideal
son, brother, neighbor, workman, citi-
zen is.


3rd We should think of him as our
king our master, to whom we owe by
every obligation the most legal service.


4th. We should think of him as liv-
ing in this world. perfect man, on
purpose to teach us how to live, so that
in every perplexity the question most
natural to us would be, how would Je-
sus do.


My friends; would you become
christians, that is the highest style of
men and women then study Jesus
Christ. How? Read of him and talk
with him.
Year: 1873

OLD as well as new subscribers to the San
Francisco Chronicle can receive map of the
Pacific Coast, which will be supplied some time
in this month, October by leaving their sub
scription with S. w. Willis local agent, for one
wear.
Year: 1873

TIE Commissioner of Indian Affairs denies the truth of the report that supplies of an inferior quality have been forced upon the Indian agents in Arizona by outside pressure and at exorbitant prices. The report prob ably arose from the recent order of the Department to an agent iu that Territory to withdraw an unautholiz- ed and unwarranted advertisement for supplies for which provision had al- ready been made in the usual manner and at the lowest market rates. All supplies that can be had Tn the Terri tory are purchased there. So ssy an eastern dispatch,
Year: 1873

Il was not Gen. Beauregard, but ano-
ther man Of the same name, who claims
to be cousin Of the general, who signed
the recent address to the people Of Louisi-
ana, favoring negro social and political
equality. We never could bring ourselves
to believe that that distinguished soldier
had allowed himself to sink so low, and
VIC rejoice that our convictions we're not
at fault
Year: 1873

a Journal for the People.


Devoted TO the Interests OF Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.


Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical In Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
u the Masses.
Year: 1873

am frank to say that a careful ex- animation has convinced ne that it will be we'll enough for all par ties interested to look carefully into the case, for in my judgment it is not a difficult thing to be mistaken in this business-l mean the boundary muddle; not the legal proposition l have discussed outside Of that. Respectfully,

 ISLAM REAVIS.
Year: 1873

the old disturbing issue of the territorial boundary betweeL Ari- zona and California, and with your permission 1 desire to sub- init a few suggestions on the same subject. To my mind the real difficulty before us is anything but question of political iurisdic- ton. There may come Il day when it will be important to inquire into that matter, but it cannot be done in judicial controversy, between q sovereign state ot the Union and 8 territory that may have ceased to exist before the end of the next Con gress.

 By provision of the Judiciary act of I7S9, one State may sue an other in the Supreme Court of the United States; but no provi- sion is made by which 6 State may sue territory, Or territory q State; for the reason, perhaps, that the Consultation has fixed the difference between 3 State and tie common property of a!l the States--the Territories. To sue one of them, state would have to bring its action in rem, which would hardly be sustained.

 The trouble here ought to be of easy solution. Some time ago. the authorities raised the neces- sary funds to enter the land upon which the village stands, and herewith effected an entry at the proper land-office. The entry was reported to the general land office, and by the commissioner suspended; for the reason, as he says, a portion of the land en- tered, had been already sold by the general government to the State of California, she having selected the same for internal i'm prOvement under act of Congress Sept. f, 1S4l, aRd as there is con fusion and uncertainty touching the matter, he declines to proceed further; bat expresses his willing ness to confirm an entry Of the amount of public lands outside of the doubtful territory, to which the inhabitants Of the town of Arizona City (now Yuma) may be entitled to enter under the act of Congress of 1867. The object, as I take it, is to obtain this dispu ted country as public lands for the purposes of a town-site, under the act mentioned, and it is Of no i'm portance, nor does it make the Slightest difference, whether 8 part of the land is in California and part in Arizona, or the whole iD either, so the lands are public, and the property of the general government, subject to disposal in that manner. The commissioner does not seem to regard the whole as public lands, and hence the present difficulty. And it is asserted that the State of California has made disposition of this land to private parties under an act of her legislature enacted for the purpose of dis posing of her internal improve

 ment lands, of which MT. Com missioner Drnmmond certities the land in question to be part.
Year: 1873

A St. Louis paper states that a company of one hundred men is being organized in that city and will start about the first of July to locate an immense tract of rich agricultural and mineral land In Arizona Territory, and to lay offa city on the Gila river, at a point on the line of the Texas and Pa cific Railway.
Year: 1873

There is commercial house in Ham,
burg which is id to be as devoted 10
SC ,ence as to trade. This house employ.
twenty-five ships in the carrying business
the captains of which are instructed to
obtain information OF all kinds rel ,ting to
the geography. ethnology, and Datura
history of the South Sea Islands for a
periodical published by them from time to
time, and 60 collect curiosities for the mu-
scum established in connection with it.
Toe following singular fact was lately re-
corded in the Journal o. the G.defroy
Museum. published by thus 6rm. Al
Z ,g'lshrnau residing in one OF the South
Sea Islands possesses the faculty OF dis.
cerning the approach of vessel day Of
two before it becomes visible, and even OF
describing Its shape. and whether it is q
brig. schooner or bark. He says tha,
1t is possible to discover ships which BY
reason Of the shape of the earth are DO
perceptible by the direct action Of sight
by means of the vapors which collect on
the horizon at certain height above any
solid object. The shape of the little clout
thus formed enables him to determine ths
of the vessel beneath the horizon. Fl,
adds that such observations can only be
relied upon in clear weather and wher
made from high ground.
Year: 1873

Be HosPIrABLE.-Worth more than
many . costly charity or pouderous insti-
tuition. is the gentle Christian hospitality
that will keep open something like home
for the lad beginning life in the wilderness
Of great city Good men and women. do
oot draw your bar against Sabbath st
ors so hard and fast that you shut out
such one IS this. Spare h,m . seat in
Jour pew, and the use of Jour Sunday
book shelf. Make him kindly welcome.
too. now and again of . week night. For
comfort unshared is like meat unsaIted-it
will not keep. Do not disregard the poor
clumsy. half-grown lad-he may prove .
ioe man by-and-by. if he it not trodden
down while be 10 in chrysalis. Do not
make too sure that " he must have some
where better to THAT supposit'on
has left many poor fellow to du sve-
ming or lonely Cnristmas.-Edsoard
Garrett