smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

The following obituary will be read
with far more than ordinary interest by
our citizens, with whom the dead poet
and musician was a favOrite; and the
regret that he should go down to the
grave in the prime of his manhood will
be widespread and lasting:
Year: 1871

The sky is clouded, the rocks are bare;
The spray of the tempest is white in air;
The winds are out with the waves at play,
And shall not tempt the sea to-day.
The trail is narrow, the wood is dim,
The panther clings to the arching limb;
And the lions wheIps are abroad at play
And shall not join in the chase to-day.
But the ship sailed safely over the sea,
And the hunters came from the chase in glee
Andthe town that was built upon a rock
Was swallowed up in an earthquake shock.
Written for The Ur5dnn Union


WHEN IS THE TIME To DIE:


BY KATE GRIFFITH.
WHEN ev'ry joy that brightend life


In one ruined mass doth lie;
And hope with ruthless hand is crush'd,
Oh is not this the time to die?
When every tie is rent asunder,


And the breaking heart doth lie
Faint and hopeless in the bosom,


Is not this the time to die?
When the spirit crush'd d and broken
Pines for rest beyond the sky;
And the fsinting soul doth languish
Is not this the time TO die?
When hot tear-drOps thicI1ly falling,
From the heavy, sleepless eye,
Leave the heart more scarT'd and CALLING
Is not this the time to die?
When i'll utter desOlatiOn


The soul looks up foraid on high;
And receives no consolation,


Is not this the time to die?
When cen hope is taken from us


And we find no sOlace nigh;
Then my God Oh in Thy mercy.


Why may not mortal die?
DENT, HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO.
Year: 1871

sound healthy complexion eradicate the yellow tinge
from the eye, mpart q bloom to the checks, and
change tine patient from shOrLbrcathed Cmaciated,
weak and nervous invalid. TO fulllaCcd. stout. and
vCu-lus person


Weak and Delicate Children are Made Strong


BY using the Bitters or Tonic


THESE REMEDIES ARE THE


Best Blood Purifiers
known and viii Cure all diseases resulting from
bad blood. Keep your blood pure; keep you liver in
order; keep your digestive organs in sound healthy
condition, by the Of these remedies and dis
case will over asFail you. The best in the cOun-
try recommend them. If yeArs Of honest reputation
go for anything you must try these preparations.


TE6TINT0N
Like the following before offered in behalf
Year: 1871

may not look 10 the people to com


bine to overthrow them In some Other


way. The people have already &C.
cepted them The destruction OF


slavery Is acknowledged and approved


by all, and our eolored population has


voted in every State in the Union at


our local and general elections, again


and again, and without challenge or


mOlestation. These amendments will


stand-suhrage once granted cannot


be recalled and suffrage that has been


praeticed viii not be surrendered.


approve the action of our recent Con-


vention on this subject, and I regret


the unfairness and spirit of domina-


tion in which some of these amend


ments were carried; and this unfair


ness and force should always be con-


demned, lest they become precedent


for the future. regret, also, the ten


dency to encroAchment upon State
sovereignty manifested in these
amendments. But the Stateis not de-
stroyed; We may yet preserve it If we
have the good sense no longer to
waste our strength upon things that
have passed final Judgment.


He thought he should be at home
when he touched the shore, but he
was mistaken. BE was still journey
ing, and did not feel that he had
reached home until he entered the
smaller sovereignty of Ohio. He had
always thought that under the Consti-
tuition a State had no right to change
the Government. Slavery was dead.
with war. The State stood to day
hoforo v.1 rolsaxrod Of ,oooos;o,, -
slavery, and ia this condition he
invoked for it the earnest support
OF intelligence Of the country, and the /
condemnation of the General Gov
eminent, whose tendency was to de-
stroy and weaken the State govern
ments; the exclusive jurisdiction of |
the State over its own domain, and |
sll intrusion upon 1t by the |
General Government; accept them |
In good faith and this Interpretation |
Of them will soon prevail. IT is the |
true Interpretation. These amend |
ments operate to deny the powers of
the State rather than to grant powers
to the Federal Government. Let US
notice them. No State shall abridge
the privileges of citizens or deprive
any person of life, liberty or property
due process of law, or deny
equal protection of its laws or abridge
5he right OF citizen to vote on account
lt race or color. There are, in the
other denials of power
10 the States, and all these denials of
power stand upon the same footing,
and are TO receive q like interpreta-
ion. No State shall make q treaty;
10 State shall coin money or emit
bills OF credit, or make anything but
gold and silver a legal tender, or
PASS any bill of attainder, or impair
he obligation of a contract, or grant
my title of nobility. Suppose State
hould authorize the coinage of money,
n make paper money legal tender,
n impair the obligation of contract?
Jan the Federal Government march
IpOn that State in the first instance
With its armies? Not at all. In a
ase made up the Supreme Court de-
ides the act unconstitutional and so
.nnuls it, and its judgment can be
That has been the practice
Inder these new provisions of the
as where, for instance,


State impaired the obligation of a
Ontract.
Year: 1871

Do not try too hard to be polite.
Never overwhelm your friends by


begging them to make themselves at
home or they will soon wish they


were there. Show by your actions


rather than YOUR words that you are


glad to see them. =


Have enough regard for yourself


to treat your greatest enemy with
quiet pOliteness. All petty Sights
are merely meanesses and hurt your
selfmore than any one else.
Do not talk about yourself or YOUR
family TO the exclusion of other to-


pics. What if you are clever and a
! little more so than other people. it


may be that other folks will not


think so, whatever they ought to do.
1t may be interesting to you to
talk over your ailments, but very
tiresome for others to listen'tO.
Make people think you consider
them clever and agreeable, and they


will be pretty apt to have a pleas
ant impression of yourself.


Treat people just as you would
/ like to have them treat you.
1t is much easier to lose the good
/ opinion.Cf people than 10 regain it,
and when any one does not care for


the good opinion of others he or she
| is not worthy of respect.
Do not excuse your house, furni-


ture, or the table you set before your
guest. 1t is fair to suppose their
visits are to you, not your surround
/ ings.


The whole machinery of social in
| tercouse is very delicate and intri-


cate, and it is our business to keen


all places of possible friction well
supplied with oil of politeness.
Year: 1871

In farming, as In all other practi-
cal operations, it will be found that
those who have got along smoothly,
accumulated property and gained a
good name, have been men who
bent themselves to one single branch
of business-whO brought all their
powers to bear upon one point, and
built on one foundation. 1t must
be so. Go out in the Spring when
the sun is yet far distant, and YOU
can scarcely feel the influence of its
beams scattered as they are over the
wide face of the creation; but COL
lect them to a focus, and they kin
die up flame in an instant. So the
maS-that sqanders his talents and
his strength in many things will fail
to make an impression with any:
but let him draw them to a point
let him strike at single object-let
him concentrate all his power, and
everything will yield before him.
Our Home Journal.
Year: 1871

L know a woman, pale and slight,


With heart in hopeless mood,
Who often tolls throughout the night


To earn her husbands food.
While he in strength OF manhood's power,
some gay saloon will seek,
And spend more money in an hour


Than she earns in a week.
Year: 1871

The editor of the Lacrosse (Wis. J
Leader, who has been an inveterate
stamerer, writes as follows about
the way to cure the habit: "No
stammering person ever found any
difficulty in singing. The reason OF
this is, that by observing the meas
ure of the music-by keeping time
the organs of speech are Kept in
such position that enunciation is
easy. Apply the same rule to read
ing or speech, and the same result
will follow. Let the stamerer take
a sentence, say this one-'Leander
swan the Hellespont'-and pro-
nounce it by syllables, scan it, keep
ing time with his finger if necessary,
letting each syllable occupy the same
time, thus Le-an-der-s swan
the-Hel-les-pOnt, and he will not
stammer. Let him pronounce
slowly at first, then faster. but
still keeping the time; keeping time
with words instead of syllables, and
he will be surprised to find that, by
very little practice he will read
without sCammering, and nearly as
rapidly as persons ordinarily talk or
read. Then practice this in reading
and conversation until the habit is
broken up. Perseverance and at
tention is all that is necessary to
perfect cure"
Year: 1871

| know a father, worn with care,


Who tolls with all his might,
With aching head and silVrTing hair,


FIom early morn till night
His wife and three stout daughter, live
In incidence all the while;
Yet he his waning strength must give
To keep them u '.in STYLE"
Year: 1871

COMPULSORY iEDUcATIoN.-The
New Hampshire Legislature, by act
approved on the 14th ult., provides
a system '"to compel children to at
tend school," Every parent, or per-
son iR loco PARENTS, is to send his
child being between eight and four
teen TO some public school within
two miles of residence for twelve
weeks each year, six weeks at least
to be consecutive, unless such child
be instructed for tho time mentioned
at home or in some private school
in the branches taught in the public
schools or in more advanced studies.
This requirement is punishable by n
fine of $40 for the first and $40 for
the second and every subsequent
offense; and on notice to the local
school board from any taxpayer
that such offense has been commit
ted, the board is to institute suit
thereon under penalty of $40 for
each neglect.
Year: 1871

What is the difference between a
Democrat of the "New Departure
and Radical? Both Indorse the war
amendments to the Federal Consti-
tuition. We see no difIerence.-Vic-
t0rid AdC0cdte.


The difference is between the ma
tural depravity that would burn a
house down, and the common sense
which would be content to build a
less comfortable one, rather than
stay out of doors for free discussion
of the origin of the fire.-Petersburg
PrO0reSS.
Year: 1871

Redemption by the blood Of Christ
is the ground work of the majestic
triumphant song of praise in heaven,
and disposition TO engage in it our
chief capacity for, and actual happi-
ness, in time and eternity.
Year: 1871

Youth and old age have too little
sympathy for each other. If the
young would remember that they
may be old, and the old would re-
member that they have been young,
they would be happier.
Year: 1871

NEVER FoRsAKE A FRIEND
When enemies gather around, when
the world is dark and cheerless, is
the time to try true friendship
Taey who turn from the scene of
distress betray their hypocrisy and
prove that interest only moves
them. If you have a friend who
loves you, who has studied your in
terest and happiness, be sure to sus-
tain him in adversely. Let him feel
that his former Kindness is appreci-
ated, and that his love was not
thrown away. Real fidelity may be
rare, but it exists-in the heart
They only deny its worth and pow
er who never loved a friend or la
bored TO make friend happy.
Year: 1871

The visits of the Savior are always
designed to humble us; and SO long
as they produce this result he will
continue them, for the high and holy
One who inhabiteth eternity dwells
also with him who is of an humble
and contrite heart.
Year: 1871

If a man would have a woman do
him homage, he must be manly in
every sense; a true gentleman, not
after the Chesterfield school, but po-
lite, because his heart is full of kind
ness to one because she is a woman:
who never condescends TO say silly
things to her; brings her up to his
level if his mind is above hers: who
never yields to temptation, even If
she puts ii in his way; who is ambi-
tious TO make his mark in the world.
whether she encourage him or not;
who is never familiar with her TO
the extent of being An adopted
brother or cousin; who is not over
careful about dress; always pleasant
and cOnsiderate, but always keep
ing his place sa the man, the head,
and never losing it. Such deport-
ment with noble principles, a good
mind, energy and industry, will win
any woman in the world who is
worth winning.
Year: 1871

y GOOD CIsTERN.-Construct
the cistern so it will hold water to
the top if necessary; cover it so no
sweepings or washings can enter,
and provide for good ventilation
If pump be used, run the suction
inches. Keep the cutters clear OF
leaves, otherwise you will have a
filter of rotten leaves instead OF
charcoal. Make the connection from
the gutter TO the cistern so il can be
detached, and never allow the water
to enter until the house roof and
cutters are completely washed of
by the rain. Follow strictly, and
clean out the cistern once a wear.
and you will always have good els
tern water
Year: 1871

The shadows of the mind are like
those of the body. In the morning
of life they lie behind us; at noon
we trample them under our feet; and
in the evening they stretch long and
deepening shadows before us.
Year: 1871

One man in a hundred reads a
book; ninety-nine in hundred read
newspaper. Nearly a century ago,
when the American press, which is
now spreading oak, was in its green
twig, Thos. Jefferson said he would
rather live in a country with news
papers and without government,
than i'll country with government
but without newspapers. The press,
instead of being the fourth, is the
first estate of the Golden
Age.
Year: 1871

From the Louisville eCourier-JournaI.i


Some packers say that there will be
ten per cent. more hogs this year than
last; Others insist that though the
hog crop will show a large increase in
Indiana and Throughout. the Northwest,
there will be q decrease in Kentucky {;
while one gentleman. q member OF one
Of our leading firms, informed US yes
terday that he expected to get more
hogs, proportionately. from those
localities in which the agents had
reported q falling Of in the crop than
in others where no decrease was
claimed. Last year Louisville got few
er hogs than usual from Indiana, but
this season there is an immense corn
crop, which is selling at very low
prices, and which can be made more
profitable to the farmer by being put
into pork than BY being sent 70
market in any other way. This, it is
claimed, will cause the farmers OF
Indiana to fatten every hog they can
get hold OF and will thus vastly in-
crease the number driven to the
slaughter pens. The same is said o'
the Northwest generally.
Year: 1871

A presiding elder OF the United
Brethern Church. while preaching, was
much annoyed By people talking and
laughing. He paused, looked at the
disturbers and said I'm always afraid
to reprove those who misbehave in
church. In the esrly part OF my minis-
try / made a great mistake. As was
preaching. a young man who sat just
before me was talking. laughing and
making uncouth grimaces. / paused
and administered . severe rebuke.
After the close Of the service, one OF the
official members of the church came
and said to me, you made great mis-
take; that young man whom you re
proved il an IDIOT Since then / have
always been afraid to reprove those who
mi.behaye in church, lest l should re
peat that mistake and reprove another
idiot" During the rest Of that service
at least, there was good order.
Year: 1871

LocIroRr, November s.-The follow
ing are the facts connected with the
detention of the canal boats at this place
and vicinity: The canal boat Fall Creek
No. e, loaded with a cargo OF heavy
grindstones, sunk on Saturday after
noon, when about two miles above the
lock. The water has been drawn of
from the lower lock and the stone is
being unloaded with all possible dis
patch. Hopes are entertained that
navigation on the canal will be resumed
by to, morrow. There are fifty-five boats
on this level bound east and nearly one
hundred and fifty going west, lying here
waiting for passage through the locks.
Two or three of the boats csrgoes, con-
sisting Of grain, are reported az being
partly wet, owing to the water having
been drawn off above the guard lock.
Year: 1871

ANECDOTES OF RICHARD BRINsLEY SHER-
IDAN.-Sheridan was once staying at the
house of an elderly maiden lady in the
country, who wanted more of his company
than he was willing to give. Proposing
one day to take a stroll with him, he ex-
cused himself to her on account of the
weather. Shortly afterward she met him
sneaking out alone. So, Mr.. Sheridan,
said she. it has cleared up Just a
little. ma'am; enough for one, but not
enough for two.


As Sheridan was entering court one day,
carrying his books and briefs in green
bag, according to the custom Of the time,
some OF his brother barristers, thinking to
play Joke on him, urged some boys to
ask him if he had old clothes for sale in
his green bag.


Oh, no. instantly responded Sheridan !;


they are all new suits,


Those people who are in the habit of
telling prodigious stories ought to have
good memories; but, unfortunately, their
memories are usually short. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan dealt with these men
dacious pests in a manner peculiar TO him
self. He would never allow himself to be
outdone by verbal prodigy. Whenever
a monstrous story was told in his presence
he would endavor to outdo it by one of his
own coinage, and consign the narrator to
confusion by a talsehood more glaring than
his own. Once in his hearing sporting
adventure ran thus:


Twas fishing one day, in a certain cold
spring full Of delicious trout, and soon
caught large mess. But what was real
ly surprising, not a foot from the cold
spring there was one of boiling water; so
that when you wanted to cook your f~h,
all YOU had to do, after hooking them from
the cold spring, was to pop them directly
into the boiling"


The company all expressed astonshment
and incredulity at this monstrous assertion,
with the exception of Sheridan.


l know, said he, " of phenomenon
vet more surprising. I was fishing one
day, when | came to place where there
were three springs The first was a cold
one stocked with fish the second boiling
spring; and the third natural fountain
of melted butter and parsley"


Melted butter and parsley r'exclaimed
the first story teller. impossible" Bench
and bar, By L. J. Bigezolo.
Year: 1871

The time is coming when the religious
newspaper Will be among the most gigan-
tie instrumentalities in the hands of God
and the Church for the worlds evangeliza-
ton.


If rightly conducted, such would be its
moral status even now. The pulpit has
its own appropriate work and mission. The
family has its marked and definite sphere
of working. But the press is differ
ent from both. This is the sibJl,
whose oracular leaves, all luminous with
living truths and wonders, exert potent
influence upon millions of minds and
hearts. This is adapted to penetrate into
every avenue of thought and motive
the mighty power of God, of the nine
teenth century, for the pulling down of the
strongholds of Satan, symbolized by the
prophet as tho time when many shall run
to and fro, and knowledge shall be increas-
ed" Men now literally "read" as they
run" The newspaper is slipped in under
their door. when they are wrapped in their
blankets and their slumbers. 1t salutes
them as they 90 out into the street, as
they enter their counting-rooms, in the
swift vehicle and at the freside, on the
mountain top and in the consecrated vale.
Everywhere it obtrudes itself, a sort of
ubiquitary, whose presence none can evade.
whose power none can resist.


And, despite all We can say or do, in
the formation Of the principles and faith
of our children, the newspaper will and
does exert most powerful agency. From
it, they will derive their religious prin-
ciples, their views Of governmental policy.
their habits Of thought and action, and
By it all these, if not positively controlled.
will yet be largely nodded and biased.
And not only Is the newspaper desidera-
tltna-it is a moral necessity The world
could no more dispense with it now, than
it could dispense with light, or heat, or
air. 1t must and will be-to instruct,
indoctrinate. educate, and fashion, the
minds and hearts and lives of men. How
vast the responsibility, then, thrown upon
the religious newspaper, and how sad the
truth, that many claiming to be religious,
are yet among the most irreligious extant
serving no higher purpose than to de-
fame, abuse, detract, and sow the seeds of
strife and discord and alienation broadcast
over society and the Church, adequately
to meet these responsibilities, and con-
scientiously and faithfully to employ this
instrumentality, Is a work of no mean
magnitude.


God help Us rightly to appreciate, and
properly to discharge, the high trust i'm
posed upol s.-Latheraz OJSerrer.
Year: 1871

The slave trade has shifted quarters
Perhaps there is not at this writing a sin-
gle siaver afioat on the Atlantic on the
Pacific there are plenty of them. Polite
people call them coOlie ships, but we pre-
fer to call them their real name They
are slavers, nothing more nor less. Coolie
labor is slave labor. The contract term
of service covers the average lifetime of
the laborer. The contract wages barely
cover the cost Of food and clothing. The
instances in which coolies are returned to
their native country are very rare. The
vast majority of them are worked to death
by their owners, and slave holders of Peru,
Tahiti, the Chincha group and other South
Pacific islands The worst of this ugly
business is that American ships are mixed
up in it, though they have the grace gen.
orally to fly foreign colors. Isn't it about
time for civilized governments to declare
this new slave piracy, and stamp it ont as
they have stamped out the old one?
Year: 1871

The briefest human biography iu the
Bible is also the most resplendent. 1t is
that of Enoch. He walked with God.
That is all we know of his life. And be
was not, for God took him." That is all
we know of his translation. But that is
enough to give him a place in the apos-
ties record of the glorious company OF
prophets and martyrs whose lives witness
to the power of that faith which overcom.
eth the world.


To rest in God, to fee to God as a
refuge in hours of danger and distress, to
rejoice in God in TRANSPORTATION hours of
strange spiritual exaltation, this is not an
unusual Christian experience. But how
many of US walk with God ? To how
many of us is he a daily, hourly
companion, not in the closet only, but in
the street, the kitchen, the counting room,
the nursery?


o, weary and weak Christian, are you
sorely tempted Do you even lie beaten
and bruised within the precincts of
Doubling Castle ? Do you doubt whether
you ever were a Christian? Have you
called up again and again all your strength
for life's battle, only to find it weakness
Have you again and again, in the morning