smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

jumped into tho room and then
stopped. The old lady Immediate
ly showed it, but it didn't shew.
1t pulled away and tore one foot
from the floor, and set it down to
pull up another, which neccssitated
pulling up the first one again. Then
it tried the experiment over again,
but with the same result. Finally
it lifted one foot and kept it up un-
til the other was lifted. This gave
the animal the appearance of trying
to stand on it's head, but its plain
tive cries indicated that such was
not its purpose. While thus raised
it attempted to lift the third foot;
bu: in SO doing fell over, and came
down on its side in the paint, and
there it stuck, Chewing the air with
its paws, and splitting forth the
most venomous sounds. The old
lady got a board, and laying it to
the cat succeeded with some diff
Guilty in rescuing it. But she could
not understand why that paint
shoald be so moist. In the after
noon she tested the floor again with
her finger, but the paint was still
sticky The next morning it was
the same, and also in the afternoon.
She was astonishcd. When she
touched her finger to the floor this
time she transferred the finger to
her tongue, and then opened her
eyes a little wider and tasted again.
After that she put on her things,
harnessed her horse, and started
for that store. And that evening
that clerk shaved off his mustache,
and buried his pomatum in the soli-
tude of the forest.
Year: 1873

when time and death have forever
dissolved the enchantment. Give
him that, and he will in the strength
OF it, make his own way in the world;
but let his recollections Of home be
repuls.ve, and the fortune you may
leave him will be a poor compensa-
ton for the loss of that tenderness
Ct heart and purity Of life which not
only pleasant home, but the men,
ory OF one, would have secured.
Remember this, too, that, when once
you are under ground, he will 90 to
your green grave and bless your ve-
ry ashes for that sanctuary Of quiet,
comfort and refinement into which
you may, if you possess the means,
transform your home.
Year: 1873

o We fathers and mothers who
have sons and daughters growing
up around you, do you ever think
of your responsibility for keeping


alive the home sentiment in The
hearts of your children? Within
the limits of your means, remember
that the obligation rests Oh you to
make their home the pleasantest
place upon this rolling earth; to
make the word "home" tor them
the synonym for "happiness."
would not have you import the vic.
es of the outside world into your
homes for any purpose; but would
have you 60 TO the utmost verge OF
what is moral, to provide at home
those things which entice young
and growing persons away from
home. Let me assure you that you
had better spend your money in do.
ing this than in ostentation or luxu-
ry, and far, far better spend it thus
than to amass fortune for young


children to squandcr in the future
And not only as regards amusc.
ments, but also comfort and refine
ment, for children have a keen ap.
probation for these things-this
is much the best policy. Don't
send your boy to school in ill-fittine
GARMENTS, collar all awry and chat
ing his neck, buttons missing, and
shoes down at the heel. Dom,
make a warehouse or cloths press
of his bedroom. Don't feed him OF
sour bread, and tough meat, and
burnt coffee. Don't let noise anG
dissension and misrule spoil thu
hours he spends at home. DOM
do any of these things if you car
possibly hep it; especially don't dc
them for the purpose of laying NJ
money for his future use. TIL,
richest legacy you can leave him, il


lifelong inextinguishable and fra
grant recollection Of his home
Year: 1873

When are We growing old? A
sound judgment and strict honesty
are necessary to answer the ques-
ton fairly to ones self. Here is
what the Country Parson' says of
it:


''By growing old l now under
stand reaching point midway be-
tween forty and fifty, not without a
tendency to get nearer the latter
age, once hardly imaginable as a
personal reality. And when one
has in this grave sense grown old,
is there any fact which is more
pressed upon one than this: that
there is such long look back now? ?
The prospect stretches far. Mem
ory is still keen and retentive; the
distant prospect has not faded into
misitness, and as you 60 on, and
now and then turn to look back,
there is just so much added to the
view. Once it was wonderful to
hear a man talk of what he done
twenty years ago; still more, of
what happened thirty years ago; it
seemed a vast stretch of time, posi-.
BILE indeed in,the experience Of 9TH
crs, but inconceivable in ones own.
For every human being is like Sid
ney's shepherd-boy in this, that he
fails to take in that he ever will
grow old. 1t seems yesterday since
the writer, reading for the bar (how
much English law lost in himD dill
igently trequented Westminster
Hall and the Guildhall; and seeing
vigorous barristers roaring away to
common juries, or going on with
cross-examination in which every
question began with the sharp and
minacious Now, sir! listened with
wonder to the assurance that the
vigorous barrister had worn a wig
and gown for five-and-twenty years,
or five.and-thirty. Surely he ought
to be dead long ago. That was the
reflection then. 1t is different now
1t has been discovered that time
passes away to the amount of TWEEN.
ty years or more; but that it is real
ly very short while; and it leaves
human being not SO much changed
still with the old weakness and
J faults; still the same man. Fur
Year: 1873

A turnice in the cellar may be
good to take the chill from the
house, and to heat its halls and pas
sagcs, but it ought not to supersede
the fireplace in parlor and chamber
at once the ventilator Of the room
and its center Of cheer and JOY. No
apparatus of ventilation has yet been
devised equal to the old.fashioned
chimney. Even when no fire is
made iu the aperture, this avenue to
the open air draws its currents and
keeps the atmosphere pure. Where
there is no open fire-p place, no free
flue, there will be sense of asphy-
xla in those stormy nights when
the windows must be fastened close.
Every room in the house which is
used to set in or sleep in ought to
have sufficient opening into the
chimney, larger than the orifice OF
a stove-pipe. No matter if the heat
ed air escapes by it; it is better to
lose halt of the heated air than to be
breathing stagnant air that is al
ready deprived of it's oxygen. In
the spring and autumn the fire. place
with wood on the andirons, gives
all the heat that will be needed,
and gives it more gracefully than
the blasts from any "registers".- -
Herald af Health.
Year: 1873

OUR NEW IMPROVED MACHINE


Stands without rival, and should find its
way into every family. 1t has reached the
highest state OF perfection Of the Sewing Ma
chine yet produced, and its sales are constant
ly increasing throughout the world, GlU-s
Year: 1873

If we knew the woe and heartache


Waiting for us down the road,
If our lips could taste the wormwood,
II our backs could feel the load;
Would we waste to-day in Wishing


For time that ne'er can be;
Would we wait in such impatience


For our ships to como from sea?
If we knew the baby fingers


Pressed against the window pane,
Would be stiff and cold Tomorrow
Never trouble us again:
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frOwn upon our brow?
Would the print of rosy fingers


Fex us slen as they do now?
All. those little ice-cold fingers,


How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions


Strewn along our backward trackl
How those little hand reminds us,


AS in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thOrns-but roses


For our reaping by-and-by!
Strange we never prize the music


Til the sweet voiced bird has flown;
Strange that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem onc-half so fair
AS when Winters snowy piniOnS


Shake their white down in the air!
Lips from which the seal of silence


None but God can roll away,
Never blossoms in such beauty


As adorns the mouth to-day;
And sweet words that freight our memory
With their beautiful perfume,
Come to us in sweeter scents


Through the portals of the tomb.
Let us gather up the sunbeams,
Lying all along the path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,


Casting out the thorns and chaff;
Let MS find the sweetest comfort


In the blessings of to-day:
With patent hand removing


All the briarS from our Way
Year: 1873

PARAGRAPH VS.. ARTICLE. - The st.
Lonis Democrat calls attention to the
notable and desirable chance in Amer
lean journalism, being the substitution
of the paragraph" for the article"
on the editorial page. Commenting on
the change it says: SEA few years ago
nothing less than a column in length
was considered worthy of the pen of an
able editor, and the reader had to face
about three such tnstaIlments every
morning, or else remain in ignorance
of what the paper had to say for itself.
Now oil the leading journals of the
country devote more than half their ed
itcrial space to paragraphing. It is
much more difficult to write o good
paragraph than an average article
just as much more difficult to make O
good proverb than to preach an average
sermon. The late James Gordon Ben
nett had good appreciation of the mat
ter, when, in response to an inquiry as
to what he paid for editorial matter, he
said, 81 pay at the rate Of fifty dollars
for q quarter of column, twenty-five
dollars for half column, and ten dol
lars for whole column Examiner.
Year: 1873

81 To clean paper-hangings, the
following is very good method: Cut
into eight headquarters stale loaf of
bread and with one of these pieces, af-
ter having blown off all the dust from
the paper to be cleaned, by means of a
good pair of bellows, begin at the top of
the rooms, holding the crust in the
hand, and wipe lightly downward with
the crumb, about half yard at each
stroke, till the upper part of the hang
ing is completely cleaned ali around;
then go round again with light sweep
ing stroke downward, always commen-
cling each successive stroke little high
er than the upper stroke had extended,
till the bottom be finished. This oper-
alton, if carefully performed, will fre-
quently make old paper look almos-
equal to new. Great caution must be
used, not by any means to rub the pa
per hard, nor to attempt cleaning it
across or horizontally. The dirty part
of the bread must be cut away each
time, and the pieces renewed as soon
as at all necessary.
Year: 1873

GO The new British Merchants
Shipping Act provides that in collis-
ion between two vessels, it shall be the
duty of the master, orperson in charge
of each vessel, in SO far as he can do so
without danger to his own vessel, crew
and passengers, to stay by the other
until he has ascertained that she has no
need of further assistance, and to rem
der to the other vessel, her master, crew
and passengers, if any, such assistance
as may be practicable, and rs may be
necessary in order to save them from
any danger caused by the collision.


A failure to comply with this feature of
the act subjectsa British master to can
cel.nent OF suspension of his certificate.
This is most excellent feature of
marine law, and it should be engrafted
into the code of all commercial nations.
Year: 1873

Let the person whose name you
wish to know inform you in which of
the upright columns the first letters of
his name is contained. If it be found
but in one column, it is the top letter;
if it occurs in more than one column, it


is found by adding the alphabetical
number of the top letters of these col
umns, and the sum will be the num-
ber of the letter sought. By taking one
letter at time in this way, the whole
name may be ascertained. For exam
pie, take the word Jane. is found in
the columns commencing with B and
Ii, which are the second and eighth let
ters down the alphabet; the sum is ten,
and the tenth letter down the alphabet
is j, the letter sought. The next let
ter, A, appears in but one column,
where it stands at the top N is seen
in the columns headed B, d and H;
these are the second, fourth and eighth


letters of the alphabet, which added
gives the fourteenth, or N, and SO on.


The use of this table will excite no lit
tie curiosity among those unacquainted


with the foregoing explanations.
Year: 1873

gY An absent-minded gentleman,
writing letter at the breakfast ia
bic, dipped his pen in his coffee and
continued writing his letter. Noticing
his mistake, he put a lump Of sugar in
the ink, and then to rectify his second
binnder, poured the contents OF the ink
bottle into the coffee pot to set 1t all
right assi fass
Year: 1873

ATTACHMENT FOR NEWSPAPER. - The
strong attachment of subscribers to
we'll conducted newspapers is fully con-
6rmed by publishers. Stop my pa.
per- words of dread to beginners in
business, lose their terrors after a pa
per has been established for term ol
years. So long as paper pursues a
just, honorable and judicious course,
meeting the wants of its customers in
all respects the ties of friendship be-
tween the subscribers end the paper
are as hard to break by an outside
third party rs the links which bind
old friends in business or social life.
Occasional defects and errors in "a
newspaper are overlooked by those who
have been attached to it through its Pc
rusal for years. They sometimes be-
come dissatisfied with on account of
some thing which had slipped into its
columns and may stop taking it, but
the absence of the familiar sheet at
their homes or Offices for few weeks
becomes an unsupportable privation,
and they hasten to take it again, and
may be, apologize for having it stopped.
This we believe to be the common eX-
perience of all established newspapers.
No friendship on earth is more constant
than that contracted by the reader OF
a journal which makes an honest and
earnest effort to merit his continued
support. Hence the newspaper becomes
q favorite in the family.


- -


How LONG SHALL We SLEEp?-The
fact is, that as life becomes concen-
trated, and its pursuits more eager,
short sleep and early rising becomes
impossible. We take more sleep than
our ancestors, and we take more be-
cause we want more. Six hours sleep
will do very we'll for a ploughman or a
brick layer, or any other man who has
no exhaustion but that produced by
manual labor, and the sooner he takes
it after his labor is over, the better.
But for man whose labor is mental
the stress of work is on his brain and
for him who is tired in the evening
with day OF mental application, neith-
er early to bed nor early to risc is
wholesome. lie needs letting down
to the level of repose. The longer the
interval between the active use of the
brain and his retirement to bed, the
better his chance for refreshment and
sleep. To him an hour after midnight
is probably as good rs two hours be-
fore it, and even then his sleep will not
so completely and quickly restore him
as it will his neighbor who is physic-
ally tired. He must not only go to
bed later, but lie longer His best
sleep probably lies in the early morning
hours, when all the nervous excitement
has passed away, and he is in absolute
ret
Year: 1873

The papers of the southwestern portion

 of the State seem more interested than

 those of any other section in the repeal

 of the Usury law. Money has been scarce

 and rates high during the past season; nevertheless, we notice many commit

 nications in those papers which assert that the law has been favorable rather than otherwise to borrowers. Is it not the hard times rather than the law that squeeze the unfortunate who owes money? If an effective usury law were in existence very considerable proportion of our moneyed capital would seek investment further west. Then, many borrowers in- stead of procuring loans on hard terms would find they could not procure them on any terms. .

 Still, very possibly, the passage of a usury law by the next legislature might give the borrower temporary relief; but it would be at the expense of the future of the State. Eastern usury laws have built Western cities. The cap- ital that would naturally seek investment here, if it could, goes West, because it can earn a larger profit. The drain of our most enterprising men from the East is more than equalled by drain of capi- tai that tends to keep property as station ary as population. A large portion of the capital so exiled by usury laws will lind its way back again, and still more that will follow it if persecuted, will re- main at home, if the State will only cease injudicious interference with the natural laws of supply and demand.

 But, more than all, usury laws have no effect upon the most grasping lenders or the most needy borrowers. They always have disrsgarded and always will disre- gard those laws It is the lender of lm- tied means who does not sknow the ropes, and the borrower who can afford to pay what money is really worth, that are affected by usury laws.
Year: 1873

All persons who desire to vote at the coming election, must see that their names are on the register list. Those desiring to vote in any town in which they have never been made electors must present their application to the registrars on, or before, the 18th day of March.
Year: 1873

The Signal Office has just compiled the re-
ports OF the tremendous storm OF August "a,
and it presents truly frightful exhibit. The
report is made up from official data, the most
reliable log books and accurate statistics. It
sums up total of one thousand and thirty
two vessels known to have been DESTROYED
during the oath and 25th Of August in the
Gulf of St Lawrence and around the coasts of
Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Newfoundland.
Ninety additional vessels were overwhelmed
in the same tempest before it reached Nova
Scotia, while six hundred lives were lost and
nine hundred buildings injured or demolished
by its force. The misery and ruin entailed on
thousands of New England and Canadian
fishermen and seamen by this single gale are
almost incalculable, and they afford strong in
ducements for the extension Of the Signal Ser
vice warnings to the Canadian ports. Could the
vast fleets Of merchant vessels that throng the
waters in which the August storm spent its fatal
fury have had premonition of its approach
the majority might have escaped, and many
lives and much Of the shipping have been
saved.


1t appears that the gale in question had
originated in much lower latitudes than those
of Nova Scotia and speeding on its way from
the tropics northward overswept the angular
projection of the Continent of which Nova
Scotia, Cape Breton and Newfoundland are
the outlying islands. The premonishing Of
such gales which strike from the Atlantic in
shore, can only be insured by securing the
earliest intelligence from vessels arriving at
the Atlantic ports and using them for pur-
poses Of meteorological predictions. The new
arrangements for connecting the Signal Office
with the lighthouses and lightships of the
coast by tclegraphic cable ought to, and prob
ably will facilitate such forecasts and open
the way for their far greater usefulness and
accuracy. It is with great pleasure we observe
Year: 1873

the people. have been made in the most
radically Roman Catholic countries, such as
Austria, Italy, France, Spain and Mexico, and
since the dissolution of the Ecumenical Council
at Rome. In the face of this great fact how
absurd and preposterous appear all these
alarms and warnings of narrow-sighted states
men, philosophers and prophets touching the
threatened dangers to liberty from the dogma
of papal infallibiity


In behalf of the great cause of popular
liberty and equal rights we see in this
new constitution of Mexico that outlawed
and incapable Of self-government as she
has been widely proclaimed, she stands to-
day among the nations foremost in the front
rank Of modern progress. She declares o
separation of Church and State, and that Con-
gress cannot make laws prohibiting or estab-
fishing any religion. Here she is in happy
accord with the United States and will receive
the hearty congratulations of our people, as
she will in making matrimony civil contract
in dispensing with every shape of religious
test oath, and in securing her people against
peonage and involuntary servitude of every
form. In the provision which denies to
religious institutions the right to hold
property she is long step in advance
of u.s. and it may be a step in the dark;
but the day is visibly approaching here when
the 'irrepressible conflict" between the people
and our grasping railway and other over
shadowing moneyed corporations will surely
terminate in settlement quite as surprising
Meantime the Mexican separation of Church
and State, and this decree prohibiting the
possession of property in Mexico by religious
institutions can hardly fail to make deep i'm
preston upon the popular mind of England,
for example, whose State Church to-day, with
its vast possessions, its princely livings and
luxurious drones, hangs like the Old Man of
the Sea upon the shoulders of every one Of the
laboring millions of the realm.


From her half century Of revolutionary
factions, civil wars and anarchy, is Mexico at
length emerging like gold purified in fre?"
We hope so. We believe that she has reached,
in her difficult case, the solution of the prob
lem of self-government, and that she is near
ing the high road Of law order and prosper
ity. We wish her success in all her wholesome
reforms; and we are confident that while she
maintains her present promising conditions of
internal security and stability she will be sus-
tanned by the most friendly relations from the
United States, and may dismiss all fears
against us Of political conspiracies or schemes
or dreams of annexation.
Year: 1873

Screws.


We learn by cable telegram that the Bank
of England, at special meeting Of the direct
ors yesterday morning, raised the rate of dis
count to six per cent, which is an advance of
one per cent on the rate previously reported.
Our readers generally are aware that this is
the accustomed practice of the Bank whenever
it intends to check the outflow of specie or
overtrading and speculation. The recent
large shipments of gold from England to this
country and the great decline of the premium
here furnished sufficient cause, perhaps, for
this precautionary action, though there has
been, according to late accounts, tendency
to excessive speculation and trading
The effect in this country will not
amount to much, though it may temporarily
arrest the decline of gold. Strange
as it may seem to those unacquainted with
financial matters, il is fact that the Bank of
England--this foreign institution-can regu-
late to considerable extent the price of gold
and values here. When we can emancipate
ourselves from that thraldom, or, in other
words, when we cease to be largely debtor
nation, we may talk of returning to and hold
ing on to specie payments. No doubt por-
ton of the specie coming to this country is on
account Of more favorable state of trade and
the exchanges and this is both gratifying and
promising; but it is said o good deal comes
TO be recoined here for the China market, tho
difference being four per cent in favor Of
American coinage over that of England in
China. Six per cent is very high rate Of
discount at the Bank Of England, and, there
fore, the cause for it is not of an ordinary
character. Still, as we said, our financial
position, arising from the state Of trade, is too
strong to be seriously affected by this action
of the Bank.
Year: 1873

just now making too much of France How
ever this may be, it is difficult TO get over the
idea that Italy has secured the sympathy Of
the three Empires and that the three EN-
pires mean to keep the peace and to protect
Italy from all attacks on the French side.
Year: 1873

that one of the subjects under consideration
in the Vienna Meteorological Congress is how
to connect maritime and land meteorology so
as to enable the landsman to utilize the mari
ners observations at sea and uice versa.