smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

Beyond all question, the most de-
lightful time of the year at Long
Branch, but not the most fashionable,
is the autumn, when there comes upon
the shining face of the sea a soft haze,
which is most agreeable to the eye, and
the air is full of balmy OdOrs. To many
people, the sight of the sea with the
sunlight beating on it in the bright days
of summer is painful and wearisome.
"Oh, can't bear the sea ~ cried poet
of my acquaintance, one day, as we
stood on the bluff; "it puts my eyes
out" On some hot days the great wat
ers will lie almost rippleless, save for a
little surfy dog-day frothing at the
mouth, all the long hours from morn
till dewy eve, glittering like a burn
ished shield, and flashing in the eyes of
the beholder until he is fain to fly.
But in the mellow days of autumn this
is not so. Though the ocean then
grows smoother than even in the hot
test of the og-days-though it will
sometimes lie for days together like a
mirror-it is not mirror which flashes
back dazzling sunbeams, but absorbs
them, and the eye is rested. Then the
tapping waves WOO the shore so gently





Oriental luxury not to be resisted. The
atmosphere is so sweet and pure you
can almost taste it, and the waters,
warmed by the long heats of summer,
are as balmy as the air. When the tide
reaches of shallow bathing ground as
the bathers of the midsummer would
hardly believe possible. On the same
- oh in Tnlr frrI
buffeted strong men in its giant arms
as pigmies, and tossed them, painting
with exhaustion, on the hot sands, now,
in September, they might wade out
half a mile from shore before they
would meet a surf sufficiently strong tC
knock them off their feet. But, in
September, when the surf-bathiDg was
like this, there would be no more than
three or four lonely bathers in the ses
! at the hour when formerly there were 8
hundred. The writer remained at Long
Branch last season until near October
and does not speak from hearsay. The
hotels were utterly deserted; cows pas
| tured on the lawns in front of them
the windows were nailed up will
boards; the bathing huts were torn t
pieces, and lay piled, mere everyday
lumber, in heaps on the grassy bluff
no carriages rolled up and down the av
enue; no lovers strolled upon the sands
yet, the days were simply heavenly
and passed by like dreams of fairy-land
! Long Branch was at its lOveliest, bu
the crowds were gone. Fashion is th
jade who has wrought this grievou
wrong upon our fellow-men.-OLjU
Logan, in Harper'S Magazine for Sep
| feJl1ber
Year: 1876

Believing it to be the duty of every
one to look just as well as possible with
out spending needless time and money
upon personal adornment, we submit
the following hint from a popular au-
thor for the benefit of those whose mir
rors return to them pale blue eyes, often
rendered paler and given a weak ap-
pearance by the dimming effects of
a bright blue dress, tie, or ribbon:


I found out something new the other
day. Professor McWilliams's baby,
about ten months old, has very light
blue eyes; SO pale, indeed, that people
often say there is something not right
about that baby's eyes, that they are
defective, or its mind will be weak.


But why its eyes look pale and ugly
came to me in such a strange way that
| want to tell you about it, because |
believe you girl-readers will find valua-
BILE Information in it.


Tudie wanted a new pink dress to
wear to a picnic, and her mother sent
her six specimens of pink calico that
she might make a selection, then she
would buy the dress and make and send
it to her. We spread out the six pieces
beside each other, and every one of us
said: "None of them are pretty. This
light pink looks dingy, and as if it had
been worn out, almost; this dark looks
bold; this purple pink will not wash;
this delicate shade will wear DINNER
and DINNER; this makes us think of
pokeberry stain; and this striped looks
too positive and glaring."


The child was disappointed, and wrote
home to her mother that none of the
pieces were pretty; but the mother, di-
Vining the reason, selected the delicate
pink with a little not of red in it, made
up the dress and sent it, and it was just
as pretty as pretty could be.


Now, the reason was, that We had
laid the samples beside each other to
compare them, and the different shades
of pink had-had-I don't know how to
tell it so you will understanding be-
lieve they had injured, or belied, OF
killed eacn other. Any one piece alone
would have been pretty. Tudie's
mother must have thought how we had
been induced to give such a sweeping
judgment against the half-dozen pieces,
From this came the conclusion con-
cerning baby McWilliams's eyes.
thought, and both my hands went UP
in surprise as 1 said "Why, that baby
has always worn little blue sacques, anG
the light blue of its dear little eyes has
suffered condemnation for no other rea'
son."


1 hurried over and told its mother
and she said she had no doubt but thai
was the reason, and ever since theI
haby's blue has been laid aside.


Then l remembered how annoyed
used to be last summer when Mary wore
her hat trimmed in light blue gros- grair
ribbon, and the ribbon about her necE
was another shade of blue, and the blut
of her eyes still another. 1 could no
think what was wrong, I only knew
that / was annoyed whenever she wa
dressed that one way.


have not made this very plain, bu
you women readers will understand i
perhaps better than l do.
Year: 1876

BEECHER's FOURTH OF July ORA
TIoN.-In Mr.. Beecher's Fourth of July
Grafton, delivered at Peekskill, n. Y,
there occur the following paragraphs.
Summing up the growth and gains of
woman during the last hundred years,
he says:


Nor has she done growing. That
power which is latent and directly ap-
piled, is seeking for itself channels that
shall be direct and influential. You
may die too soon to see, as many have
died before they saw the beatific vision,
but you that live long enough will see
woman vote, and, when you see woman
voting, you will see less lying, less
selhshness, less brutality, and more
public spirit and heroism and romance
in public affairs. l do not propose to
discuss the question at any length with
you, but l cannot fail to recognize,
with thanksgiving, that steady advance
which is sure to make woman a voter
in this generation.


Again, showing how, in a hundred
years, suffrage has extended its bound:
until it includes the whole male popu.
iation, he continues:


And now there is but one step more
We permit the lame, the halt, and the
blind to go to the ballot-box; we per
NIT the foreigner and the black man
the slave and the freeman, to partake o
suffrage; there is but one thing left out
and that is the mother that taught US
and the wife who is thought worthy t.
walk side by side with US. 1t is Yomar
that is put lower than the slave-lowel
than the ignorant foreigner. She il
put among the paupers and the insane
whom the law will not allow to vote
But the days are numbered in whicE
! this exclusion can take place.
Year: 1876

A PANCAKE SUPPER.-The- average
Western girl doesn't take dare. She
prides herself on her inventive genius
also. The other day a couple of young
men, "nameless here forever more," ex-
pressed a fOndness for pancakes, and
boasted of the store-room for this kind
of fruit in the bay window of their anat-
omy. This expression was made in the
presence of two young ladies, who re-
solved that they would institute nov
city in the evening entertainments, by
getting up kind of select pancake tea
party. Invitations were issued to these
two aforementioned young men to call
at $40 P. NJ. and test their pancake ca
pacity. We are gratified to state this
morning that the whole business was a
grand success. The mills of the gods
grind slowly, and long years may come
and go, while the frost of age may set
tie in the dark locks, but the remem-
brance of this pancake supper will
dwell in the memory of those young
folks like the many-hued circus poster
as it clingeth lovingly to the board fence.
Year: 1876

The first seeds of matrimonial discord
are usually sown Immediately after go
ing to housekeeping. 1t is not because
the tender wave of harmony no longer
pulsates from soul to soul. 1t is be-
canse she insists on his doing the mar
keting Immediately after breakfast, on
a full stomach, when he doesn't care
whether he has canvas-back duck or q
boiled dish-rag for the next meal.
Year: 1876

THE White Line press Of South Caro-
lima, which is now making such herculean
efforts to produce a conflict between the
races in that State, is materially aided by a
so-called leading Republican newspaper,
whose columns daily TEEN with misrepre-
sentations as to the situation there. The
editor of the paper in question was one of
the original corruptionists whose misdeeds
brought odium upon the party in South
Carolina. After making all the money he
could as curb stone broker in connection
with ex-Treasurer Parker, he concocted
and carried out a bare-faced swindle upon
the Beaufort branch of the Freedman's
Bank, realizing large amount upon bogus
legislative pay certificates. Commissioner
PurVis is now in Columbia to see if he can
recover any part of the sum so obtained
from the State. At present moral and
financial bankrupt, this editor is perform
ing the part of premier for Governor Cham
berlain. He shapes the policy of the gov
ernment, and his word in and about Co.
lumbis is law among the reform ad-
herents Of the Governor. If Governor
Chamberlain has found himself destitute
of followers, and the entire strength of the
party in South Carolina arrayed against
him, it is because he persists in following
the dictation of this unscrupulous den.a-
gogue. who, after robbing the colored peo-
pie of portion of their savings, now vir-
tually conspires to turn them over to the
Democracy.
Year: 1876

An effort is beng made in influential
quarters to compel the management of the
Centennial Exhibition to close its gates to
the public Sundays, and, strange to say,
this effort is sustained by some members OF
Congress, by ministers, by a portion Of the
press, and one or TWO, it is alleged, high
officers of the Exhibition. The idea, in
our Judgment, is wholly indefensible; and,


if carried out, it would be most pernicious


to all the interests of the Exhibition, and
besides it would level a terrific blow at
morality and religion, the very things, its
supporters say, the idea would protect.
The first consideration in all this matter is
the happiness and convenience of the peo-
pie. 1t is a reasonable presumption that
thousands on thousands of honorable and
industrious people will have no other day
than Sunday convenient for them to visit
the Centennial grounds, but having that
day they would avail themselves of it from
Washington to New York and as far west


st least as Pittsburg, and on all the lines Of
railroad running excursion trains. While
We maintain that the buildings should not
be closed on Sunday, VIC would have on
the Centennial grounds all bars closed and
oil places Of amusement shut up. A
proper respec: for the sacredness of the day
would naturally suggest this much, but no
more. Close the gates on Sunday and
tidal wave Of people would be rolled
back upon the city of Philadelphia, where
Year: 1876

THE debate on the Pinchback case was
begun yesterday, and will probably con-
tinue for several days A noticeable incident
of it was an allusion by Senator Merrinon
to Gov. Pinchback's past record. Coming
from such source, the allusion was in bad
grace. This will at once be admitted when
it is remembered that Merrimon's career
before his election to the Senate was that
Of professional lobbyist, in attendance
upon the North Carolina Legislature. As
the associate and paid attorney of Swepson
and Littlefeld, notorious railroad manipu-
lators-the latter OF whom is now fugitive
from justice-tffs man Merrimon thriYed
for years, receiving, among other things,
as pay for his services the jewelry which
he wears upon his person and the very
homestead in which he resides. These
facts are notorious in North Carolina, and
should be as well known here at time
when, in the interests OF the Louisiana
White Leaguers, he is attempting to pre-
vent the admission of loyal and legally
elected Senator to his seat. But this is not
all. Mr.. Merrimon was elected not by
Democrats alone, but by the aid of few
blundering Republican votes, in return for
which aid he pledged himself to pursue
moderate or truly conservative course. How
far and bow well he has kept that pledge
the world knows, and knows that he has
been as dishonest in keeping it as he was
few years ago in making the charge that
the "carpet-bag" members of the North
Carolina Legislature had ruined the State
10y tho enactment of railroad laws. of which
which he was the acknowledged author.
Year: 1876

THE brief period of fevered joy vouch-
safed to the ex-Confcderatc majority in
the Democratic House by an inscrutablc
Providence has been illustrated thus far
by ignorant parsimony in the treatment of
the public appropriations and narrow sec
tionalism in the treatment of broad public
questions. This stupid economy is, how
ever. the offspring of transparent dem
agogism. The Lobby understands this
thoroughly, and approaching the character
of the men with whom it has to deal does
not expect to accomplish much "work"
until after the ensuing national campaign
shall have passed. Then the hunger,
which is now internally devouring the
poor fellows who have not had O taste of
the public teat since "beto' the wa, will
render them easy victims to the wiles of
fhc OhhV
Year: 1876

SUNSET Cox, who misrepresents both
Ohio and New York in the ex- Confederate
House of Representatives-being what is
known as a Democratic carpet Dagger
seems welded to the interests of his South
ern brethren. They have formed a sort
Of mutual admiration society, and say all
manner OF pleasant things about each other
If his coat tail was not so near the ground
they would doubtless desire to make a
Presidential candidate of him, or at all
events give him the second place on their
ticket. Verify times have changed within
the past decade. A few years back it was
common to see in Southern newspapers
such cpithets as "the little scoundrel, :"
liar Cox cropped tiger" &c, &c,
spilled 10 the quondam Representative
Indeed, the classic appellation of "Sunset"
is said TO have been conferred upon him by
Bob Toombs, who IN years past was wont
to look at the witty Congressman through
the lotion of tumbler
Year: 1876

TIE bill before the ex- Confederate House
of Representatives to regulate the pay and
allo ganccs Of officers of the army, very
naturally cxcitcs the Indignation of all just
and loyal people. For the defense of the
UnIon against the wicked assaults of
traitors, some of the best men in the country
were called from lucrative pursuits to take
command of the Union armies. For years
they pcriled life and fortune to sustain the
unity of our Government, and, at last, when
when they had throttled secession and
whipped the rebels into obedience to Fed
cral authority, these Union generals, for
the most part, were naturally left in some
position in the regular army. Now, under
the cry of "retrcnchment and reform,
these ex-rcbel generals come up to Wash
ington and propose to reward those who
have been faithful TO the flag by reducing
their pay. Should this be accomplished they
could easily devise other means for Gripping
the efficiency of the army, and alters lit!le
while itwould not be at all surprising to see
them bringing in bill to abolish the army
altogether. Such an event would certainly
assist in the resurrection of the Lost Cause,
Year: 1876

reopened. At the same time it did not fail
to say something kindly Of Mr.. Ben. Hill,
the apologist of the Andersonville muir
derers and the man who charged that the
Northern people were guilty of the most
inhuman treatment of rebel prisoners in
their!hauds.. We submitkthat this Is not
exactly consistent.
Year: 1876

Prior to the late war there was q written
law in most of the Southern States which
made it felony to steach any slave or
slaves how to read or write" The few
humane slave-owners to be found in that
benighted land were thus prohibited from
even teaching their servants how to read
the Word of God. Nor was the condition
of the poor whites much better than that of
the slaves. The schoolmaster was 'tabroad"
in their country, and the aristocratc leaders
had the satisfaction Of seeing "blissful igno-
rance" prevailing all around them. There
was but one class who were literally edu-
Gated, and they were designed to succeed
in authority that narrow minded statesman
ship which had constructed Chinese wall
around the South so broad that horsemen
and chariots could travel upon it abreast.
Such was the condition in which the South
was found at the close Of the war. By
means of that splendid charity which has
ever characterized the North, large sums
were sent there, and school houses thrown
open to the poor of both races. Demo
cratic leaders suddenly became alarmed;
the negroes and poor whites were making
progress in letters, and the first movement
made to impede their progress was e1hib-
tied by the smoke which assembled from
burning school-houscs. In the year 1869
no less than fifty of them were burned in
Georgia, being one half the number which
Northern charity had erected. In South
Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and
other cotton States the incendiary torch
was freely applied to edifices of learning.
With such record, it is not at all surpris-
ing that the ex-C Confederate House of Rep
resentatives should make serious effort to
abolish the National Bureau of Education.


Lawyers thrive upon litigation. preachers
upon vice, ship builders upon distance, and
Democratic Congressman upon ignorance.
Year: 1876

THERE is not single colored Repubh-
can in the country whose eyes are not upon
the Senate. watching its action upon
the claims of the ablcst representative of
their race for seat In that body to which
he has bean legally elected.
Year: 1876

AND NOW the Southern agents of the
Associated Press are beginning to puff"
Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina.
If any better proof could be adduced that
he is turn cost and a traitor to the Re-
publican party, we cannot imagine it.
Year: 1876

The Democratic papers of the North are
making as grand a bluster over the Centennial
as possible, in order to hide the infamous out
RACES in Mississippi and the rebel speeches in
Congress.
Year: 1876

NS"SAN'S'


No real, bsng-up economical man will throw
boot jacks and hair-brushes out of the back
window at cats, when a good, fresh dynamite
clock, dropped judiciously on their backs,
would scatter them so they could never get
together again.


Republican defeat in the next Presidential
election would simply consign the Government
into the hands Of the very men who fought four
years to destroy it. The people of the land
are not ready for such a change; they are not
ready to accept such men as Hill, Tucker,
Davis, Toombs and Bcsuregard as law makers
and law executors.


A New Orleans inventor has created gun
which can annihilatc an iron-clad five miles
distant. And right here 1t might be remarked
that England will soon have ready for use
six Sl-ton guns. each of which can destroy
the broadside of a fortress at one discharge.
And besides these wonderful weapons of war,
it is said that German inventor has under
contemplation the construction of q mortar
which will carry a 500-pound bombshell,
filled with missiles sufficient in number and ar
rangement TO destroy an entire regiment Of
men by the explosion. And yet they say the
millennium is not far off,


The New York San, being pressed for scan
dalous material attempted to send an in
famous rumor over the land respecting the
Earl Of Dunraven, who, 1t said, had left his
beautiful and accomplished wife and fed to
parts unknown with a dashing young woman
of Quebec. When the pirate received the
manuscript of the scandalcus article his face
beamed radiantly, and he said to himself,
"Now we'll send thrill of excitement
through our readers" But when he heard
from the readers it turned out TO be q thrill of
disgust and-but then it seemed to please him
all the same.


The nearer we approach the day set aside for
the selection of the Republican candidate the
more clearly do the politicians who are ambt-
tious to be chosen see that dodgers will not be
in demand. The next Republican President
viii be man who is not afraid now to explain
just what his opinions are on all subjects re-
specting the welfare of the country. On
finances he must be explicit, on matters re-
specting the protection of the franchise liber-
ties in the South he must be as firm and posi-
tive as he is explicit on finances. On the
question of the preferment of Union men he
must be decided. These are the virtues which
will have pregnant influence with the people.


Col. Fitch, the ex-Confederate who followed
Toombs in his recent secesh speech at Atlanta,
Ga, made some very interesting remarks to his
auditors, OF which the following is a fair sam
pie: "As there are many members of the Lcgis-
laturc present tonight, win say for the Dene-
fit of the memberhood Of the Legislature that
7 think We have got about the cleanest,
Year: 1876

WAsH1NaToN, Feb. 16.-Mr. Eads denies
the truth of the report telegraphed hence
that lie had come to Washington, to ask
Congress to change the terms OF his grant
for deepening the mouth Of the Mississippi,
because of his financial inability to continue
the work until twenty feet of water shall oe
secured. The latest dispatches from tne
work, he says, continue to bc OF the most
cheering character: and his grant VIII
scarcely be one year old before the channel
over the South Pass bar will be the deepest
outlet Of the Mlssippi, although It was only
half the depth of the rest when he received
permission from the Government to deeper
Il, at the sole rick of himself and ssso-
eiateS.