smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Some people can't help exaggerating.
One of the kind says, a farmer in Ken
lucky was so lazy, that when he went to
hoe corn he worked so slowly that the
shade Of his broad brimmed hat killed
the plants"
Year: 1871

Any amount and every class of Insurance required
an be placed at this Office in the best Companies
ind at as low rates at any agency iu the country


Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1871

There is kind Of greediness in the
complaint that we cannot have all
kinds Of pleasure at once. Some are
utterly incompatible with others. -
Much material good must be resigned,
IL we would enjoy the full happiness
springing from moral excellence,
and many spiritual joys must be re-
linquished, If we determine at all
risks to gain material advantages. -
It Is well for each TO look this truth
fully in the face, and to decide what
shall be the permanent object in life.
Having thus decided, 1t is equally
essential that he courageously accept
his chosen portion, cheerfully resign
ing whatever advantages are incom.
patible with 1t. Many fail from a
lack of just this clear. sightedness
about their aims. They desire
wealth. they wish for good name,
they want friends, and lsisure, aud
ease; they like self-indulgence, yet
they prize health, strength, and
vigor; they also wish for good con-
science. and for the joys which
spring from virtuous and self-deny-
ing life; but they have never delib-
erately made up their minds as to
which of all these they prize the
most, or which they are resolved to
possess at all hazards. When this Is
really done, and the mind fully made
up to sacrifice any or all other advant-
ages that may hinder the attainment
of the one supreme object. life may
be said to be truly begun.
Year: 1871

A nice young girl at Green Bay,
Wisconsin, was being cOurted by
nice young man. He was generously
inclined, and made her presents Of
hair oil, which he purchased from
the store of the father of his adOred.
After giving her SomO twenty bot
ties of this oIeaginous fluid he dis
covered he was working in circle
as fast as be presented them she
returned them to the store, thus du-
tifully making trade for her father!
No cards.
Year: 1871

What was the fret bet ever NADER Tho alphabet.
What age is most agreeable to a man just started
in busines57 Patronage.


Are auctioneers naturally forsidding class ol
men7


How many cods make a wisoacro?


Why is nn umbrella in wet weather like worn
out horsel Because it is used up.


Can You make blind man liable for bis bill if il
is payable at sght'


Docs n COW become laaded property when turned
into q feldf
Year: 1871

$50 you are going to keep a
school ?" said young lady to her
maiden aunt. "Well, for my part,
sooner than do that I would marry
a widower with nine childIen. u
al would prefer that myself" was
the quiet reply shut where's the
widower ?"
Year: 1871

A failure on tie part of the Republi-
can party to nominate President Grant
for reelection would set the Democracy
square on its legs again-and there is
no other probable event which could so
effectuaiIy accomplish that result.
Year: 1871

A good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing.


A man is what his wife makes him.


It's the mother who moulds the char
acrer and destiny of the child.


Never make a remark at the expense
of the other, it is meanness,


Never part without loving words to
think of during your absence. Besides
it may be that you viii not meet again
in life.


"HOw gently glides the married life


away,
When she who rules still seems but tc


obeyp'


Never both manifest anger at once.


Never speak loud to one another un'
less the house is on fire.


Never reflect on a past action which
was done with q good motive and will
the best Judgment at the time.


Let each one strive to yield oftenest tC
the wishes of the other, which is the
mutual cultivation of an absolute unset.
fshness.


Never find fault, unless it is perfectly
certain that a fault has been committed
and even then prelude it with a kiss
and lovingly.


Never allow a request to be repeated
81 forgot" is never an acceptable ex
cuse.


Marry into a different blood and tenn
permanent from your own. -
Year: 1871

Last Saturday a difficulty occurred in
this place between some parties living in
tho country, growing out Of the actions
Of one Fult Sutton while in the militia
during the late war. The result was one
or two 6sticuffs. OF this mans record
we know nothing personally; it may be
q very bad one, for during the excitement
of those bloody years wherever on faction
was in tho ascendancy, the minority suf-
fered many injustices but now that the
war is over, it docs seem to US that these
old feuds should be buried aud the law
respected. 1t will not do to keep alive
these dissensiops-n good will come of
it. If good feeling ever prevals-and
without it our country can never hope to
b. much better than Mexico there
must obtain feeling Of magnanimityH or
forgiveness on both sides. In those com.
munities where the Radical element pre-.
dominates, the feeling toward it must be
very bitter if those who differed with
them during the war are subjected to in.
dignites; ana where the other element
predominates, as it does in this county,
the breach is equally widened /; and it is
out of such capital that Ku klux bills are
enacted. We hope for the peace of the
community, aud that spirit Of fraternity
that is slowly taking the place of old
prejudices, that no more such scenes as
wore enacted in this place last Saturday
will occur again.
Year: 1871

Mr.. President. when at the close of
my colleagues remarks l discovered
that the Senator from Vermont rose
simultaneously with me to address the
Senate, an instinct of prudence sug-
Year: 1871

SEASONING OF RooD.-An English
writer states that small pieces of nom
resinous wood can be seasoned per-
fectly by boiling four or five hours
the process ta king the sap out of the
wood which shrinks nearly one-tenth
in the operation. The same writer
states that trees felled in full leaf, in
June or July, and allowed TO lie un-
til every leaf has fallen, will then be
nearly dry, as the leaves will not
drop of themselves until they have
drawn up and exhausted all the sap
of the tree. The time required is
from month to six weeks, according
to the dryness or the wctness of the
weather. The floor of a mill laid
with poplar so treated, and cut up
and put in place in less than a month
after the leaves fell, has never shown
the slightest shrinkage.
Year: 1871

GENERAL GILMORE, i'm his address
at the late reunion of "the army of
the James," made some valuable sug-
gestions concerning our warlike re-
sources as a nation. He expressed tho
belief that in case of a war we could
enlist, arm and equip half million
men in one month. We could furnish
them, moreover, with Sharp, Reming-
ton and Springfield rifles, which are
cOnfessedly the best in the world.
But he thought that the largest army
with the best arms would be of little
value in case of a foreign war, for
the enemy would sail up with IRON
clads and lombard any city ON the
coast. Hence the military problena
for us is to find and organize a sysI-
tenn of efficient coast and harbOr de-
fence. In respect to heavy ordinance
we are behind all the leading Europe
an nations, in consequence of the fact
that we have adhered to smOoth-boTe
gums. Thisshould be corrected by the
substitution of cannon which, retain
ing the immense dimensions already
realized, shall give to their projectiles
the increased velocity and effective
ness which belong to rifled bore.
Year: 1871

GsoD THINGS We clip the following
from the Little Rock Journal:


There are q great many good things to
have. to get and to keep in Arkansas.


A Governorship, with or without the
beliyache, is q good thing.


To be Secretary Of State, with or with
out two years salary had in advance, is
is another good thing.


To be elected to the United States
Senate, with or without money or with
out price, is another very good and &C
ceptable thing.


To be Judge of the Supreme Court
with or without brain of " fine texture, ;"
is another good thing,


To have and to hold two or three good
fat offices, at one and the same time, is a
thing not to be sncezed at.


To have q commission in blank in your
pocket, to be filed up with any office you
choose to select, is something not TO be
thrown away.


To be railroad king, Circuit Judge,
Assessor, Sheriff or Justice OF the Peace,
Is good thing In certain localities. pro-
vided the weather and walking are COED.


To have plenty to eat, drink and wear,
and fine stock to drive are very necessa.
ry essentials but for constant, steady,
reviving, soul inspiring, never-failing
beverage "strait whisky" is just the
thing.


We are a great admirer Of all the above
and believe in its wonderful efficiency
and curative properties; but for solid
comfort, give us HAM.
Year: 1871

II We wish to call special attention to the
Card of W. w. JOHNSON eco, Machneists
and Founders, Fort Smith. They have erect
ed a large building and in connection have
= Foundry, Grist Mil, Shingle Machine, etc.
A specimen Of their Shingles they send us,
which beats anything in this line we have
ever seen in this country before, and meets a
want long needed. These gentlemen are all
thorough mechanics and will execute any
work in their line with dispatch. that may be
given them to do. We trust that they will
meet with that success that the enterprise
deserves. A specimen Shingle can be seen at
this offre.
Year: 1871

tF LOYAL CLAIM AGENCY EDWARD
WHEELER, Esq. formerly one of the Direct
ors Of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail-
road Company, has opened. a Claim Agency
Office at Little Rock, for the prosecution OF
claims of all loyal persons who lost property
during the rebellion. Mr.. Wheeler is well
known. and well endorsed at Washington and
will be able to prosecute claims successfully


He will visit Van Buren, during the month
and it will be for the interest of those having
claims against the government to call on him
Year: 1871

H We have for sale, half dozen
large superb Steel Engravings of Gen.
ROBERT E. LEE. tits pronounced to be
the best executed and most perfect like
ness of this distinguished General ever
executed. 1t is a picture that will well
adorn any parlor. Apply at this office.
Year: 1871

EI The Ladies of the Catholic Church
OF Fort Smith, give Grand Ball this
evening, at the ST. Charles Hotel. This,
we predict, will be the Ball Of the season
Capts. May and Lynch represent this
side Of the river We ackno Wedge the
pollte invitation
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, April 4.


The returns in the Office Of the Ecening
Post this afternoon, from the entire State,
give English a plurality of As votes
Should the scattering vote exceed this
number, the election will be by the Leg
islature. Twenty scattering votes were
deposited in New Haven, and it is not un-
likely that enough has been polled to de-
feat an election by the people. The Times
and Democrat make the plurality for
English eight. Should the election go to
the Legislature, there will be no doubt of
JEWELS success, as the Legislature is Re-
publican in both branches.
Year: 1871

Mr. Appleton has written an admirable let


ter in defense Of American publishers in the
international copyright newspaper war now


waging in London, which we give elsewhere,
with the statements of our London corre-
spondeut on the reception it met. A not less
gratifying statement is found in the letter of
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy to The London Echo on
the same subject wherein he pays merited
compliment to American publishers, as class,
for their honorable treatment Of English au-
thors whose works they reprint. There are
"not many examples, probably, in human
affairs he says, of men thus Systematically
paying as trade practice money which no
claw of their country binds them to pay"
Indeed we believe the sentiment of the trade
on this subject is actually in advance Of the
sentiment of the public, and when We get an
honest copyright law, as We doubtless shall in
time. the booksellers win be the leaders of
the reform. A great deal Of the popular dis
Ike-or perhaps it would be more correct to
say apathy-toward the proposed measure,
springs from two misconceptions it is be-
loved, first that international copyright
would raise the price Of books to the same
high standard which prevails in London and
secondly. that the manufacture of books on
this side of the water would be checked and
we should import what we now make. Neither
result would be likely to follow. The royalty to an
author does not senibly enhance the cost of
book TO the purchaser. 1t Is but small
sum on each volume-say ten cents on o
book which sells for dolar-and the pub
Usher can afford to pay that for tho security
which q copyright law gives him. AS the
case now stands, English reprints ore not
cheaper On tho average " our market than
Year: 1871

Mr.. L. BRADFORD PRINCE was last year
chosen to the Assembly from the Ist District
of Queens County by large majority, though
he is Republican and the district is prob
ably Democratic. He was elected because he
was deemed honest as well as capable, and
his course at Albany proved that the voters
made no mistake. He was one of the most
effective and influential men in tho House,
and did all that one man could do to resist
the tide of villainy that began with the ejec-
tion of Twombly and eliminated in the pas
sage of all Tweed's abominable measures by
the vote of the purchased renegade, Winans.


Mr.. Prince is now candidate for reelec-
ton, and is making gallant struggle. We
believe he will be reelected, but that requires
every Republican vote. We entreat every
Republican voter in that district to give the
whole of next Tuesday to the election, but at
all events not to leave tho County on that
day before voting.
Year: 1871

There was pitiful spectacle yesterday when
the cases of the poor prisoners of Ludlow-st.
Jail came up by proxy before Judge Barnard.
THE TRIBUNE has constantly and urgently
directed attention to the condition of these
unhappy persons, virtually imprisoned for
debt or held as witnesses against criminals
who go at large. One by one, they were per-
mitted to send up their recitals, and to the
qualification of the merciful, they were nearly
all discharged upon their own recognizance.
This is one of the abuses of the forms of JUS
tice which has grown up unnoticed and un-
checked; it was high time that it was cor
rected Now let us take care that the evil
never again rears its head.
Year: 1871

American books. If English books are dear
it is because English publishers find it for
their advantage to print small editions IN
expensive style and charge high price. Ii
American books are cheap, it is because we
have large community of readers who
prefer inferior type and paper with cor
respondingly reduced price. Copyright or no
copyright, our market would certainly be
supplied with the quality of goods which the
public tasto required.


Neither does international copyright ncces-
sarily imply that the manufacture of reprints
in this country must be stopped. 1t only
provides that when we reprint book we
shall pay for it, and acquire by such payment
o right of property in it, Whether foreign
works designed for circulation in the United
States shall be printed in London and Edin-
burgh, or in New York, Boston, and Phila-
dclphia, does not depend in the least upon
the tenure Of literary property. 1t is an
economical question with which the tariff will
havo o great deal more to do than the copy
right bill.
Year: 1871

To-Day is the last on which any
voter in our City can be registered
for our State and City Election on
Tuesday next. No one not regis
tered when the books are closed
this evening can vote at that cleo
ton unless he shall give to the
Tammany majority Of the Inspect
Ors a reason which will satisfy
them that he could not have reg
iStered.


City reader! we assume that y0u
are registered already-if you are
not, delay not another hour! You
may find a crowd in your way this
evening; you will find none this
morning. Register at once!


So far the Registration has been
fully up to the expectations of the
friends Ofhonest voting. The total
number of Registrations is now
129,O52; but this is yet about 13, 900
less than last year. If that was
fair, and there has been no mate
rial change in the voting popula-
ton of the City, there remain,
therefore, $4,000 voters who have
not yet placed their names on
the Register. Only THIS DAY re-
mains for the discharge of this
duty.


Speak to your neighbors, your
fellow-wOrkmen and all associates,
and urge each one to register at
once for the contest of next
Tuesday!
Year: 1871

Education naturally comes in with freedom,
and now that emancipation has fairly begun
In Brazil there is demand for books. Schools
ior the education of the freed people of Bra
al nave already beer, established, and the ex-
perience which our educators have had in the
South will serve in good stead for the same
useful class in that country. To be sure, the
number OF adults made free. by the Act is
small, but it will grow larger annually as the
emancipation fund auGmeRts. and with an in
Year: 1871

tanned to the position of irst-class Power
which did not develop its Industry to the full
point of independence by tariffs, not for rev.


enue incidentally, but for protection expressly.
Year: 1871

AS general rule it is safe to decline giving money


at least to -askers, whether sturdy beggars or
even fearful women in weeds who inform you that


fire in Chicago and want to get together the price Of
railway tickets to carry them to somo place where
they have scores of friends living in aluence These
impostors have become very numerous. One of them
has been operating in Boston. who was in partner
ship with widow beggared by the confagration
and anxious to reach st. John, n. B. This sort of
thing hos become nuisance which ought to be sup
pressed if only out Of pity for those really afflicted


STILL as 1t would be running little risk to say No."


it is best perhaps to refer such supplants to relief
committees by whom their pretensions may be
scrutinized. Unfortunately, however, the game is
mostly played in the rural districts in which no such
committees exist Even there, however, little
cross-examinatiOn may develop the truth. One
soft-hearted gentleman, who was also the most
credulous of human beings, always gave when he
was asked, because it pleasanter to give than to
refuse. it was the opinion of those who knew him
best that he had relieved not less than five hundred
persons who had been shipwrecked in every sea and
upon every coast while the trusses and wooden legs
for which he had subscribed were innumerable.
People who had been burnt out In Constantinople.
Jerusalem, and Milan people whose fathers had died
in 81. Petersburg or Dublin, leaving them fortunes
which they were too poor to go over and claim;
people who had been blinded in blasting rocks or
manned by the explosion Of boilers, gravitated to-
ward our friend by some inexplcable law presented
their claims and had those claims allowed We
need not trouble ourselves to show that the benevo


lence OF such too cheerful givers is mischievOus;
they ought to be put under some sort OF
Year: 1871

All men in favor of municipal reform will
trust to find Judge Hilton's influence cast with
that Of Messrs. Green and Dillon for olsen
thralling the boulevard men. Will he not
justify the eXpectatiOn7
Year: 1871

= = d


The resolution Of Council exemptipg
the property Of tho Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company within tho city from
all taxation, past, present and future, was
adopted again by the First Branch last
evening, and the measure thus finally
passed Supposing 1t 10 have received .
two-thirds vote in tho Second Branch
The First Branch rejected a proposition
offered by Gov. STANTON requiring the
Railroad company to agree that in future
there should be no more discrimination in
the matter ol way freights against Wheel
ing in favor Of Baltimore, and another
offered by Mr.. BLAIR requiring the action
of the Mayor in making the contract to
be submitted to and ratified by Council
before having any validity. Both these
propositions were so reasonable and prop.
or that VIC think tho members of Council
who voted against them will not find 1t
easy to give their constituents good rea.
sons for doing so, supposing them to bo
legislating for the city and not for the
Railroad company.
Year: 1871

We have very full report this morn.
ing Of yesterdays debate in the Senate on
the issue raised by Mr., TRUAmULL. To
make room for It we are obliged to throw
out large part of our miscellaneous
news reporti but this dObato being Just
now the chief subject Of interest to the
country, we give it the preference, and
hope thereby to accommodate the wishes
Of the largest number ofreaders. VI
Year: 1871

A charmieg way to ring out an old
fashion and ring in q new, was that
adopted by some young ladies of Berlin
with reference to the chignon. The ma.
tional spirit now at white heat in Ger
many is, if anything, more ardent among
the women than the men, as indeed il
always has been and will be the world
over. SO the fair patriots resolve to re-
feet more of the German nationality in
their dress, and abandon and henceforth
ignore French fashions, but more espe-
cially the really odious chignon. Ac-
cordinely the sixty young ladies', daugh-
ters of the wealthiest citizens, who were
selected to welcome the returning army
at the Bradenburg gate, had a meeting
in which the question of their attire was
settled. II was that of Margaret in kaul-
hach's sketch of her first meeting with
Faust which have been thoroughly iden-
tilted with the German maiden in all art,
and especially familiarized Of late by the
Margueritas Of the stage. Two plaits
of their own hair hanging down the back
was to be indispensable, and they were
pledged mutually and to the municipal
authorities on no occasion to use false
hair. These sixty wealthy young ladies
ought certainly to be more than a match
for one Empress, and she not so much
of an Empress rs she was, and they will
receive the congratulations of the entire
world if they carry the day against false
hair,
Year: 1871

A curious story is told respecting the
smallpox hospital at Hampstead by the
Hampstead and Highgate Express. A
woman, it is stated, who had occupied q
bed in one of the wards was reported to
her husband as being dead. The neces-
sary funeral arrangements were accord
ingly being made by the widower, who
himself followed the supposed remains
of his deceased wife to the grave. To
his astonishment, and it is to be hoped
his delight, the lady whose obsequies had
thus been celebrated returned home
about fortnight after her funeral in q
state Of extreme surprise at not having
received any intelligence during that
period from her husband and family
whom she found in deep mourning. The
explanation of this misadventure was
that the woman removed to GONZALES.
cent ward, and another patient who at.
terwards died had been put into the bed
she had originally occupied. The name
of the first patient having been mad
vertently left up at the head of the bed,
caused the mistake that gave rise to SO
much pain and pleasure. If the facts
stated are correct, there would seem to
be room for improvement in the arrange
ments as we'll as the site of the hospital.
Had the disconsolate husband during
the interval which elapsed between the
funeral of his wife and her return to the
domestic circle, embarked in a second
marriage, one of the two ladies would
have Just ground for dissatisfaction.


Pail Mall Gazette