smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

with the idea of economy, is a Ounce,
for the time spent in hunting up the ak
and such a farmer always has to hunt
up his ak or anything else he wants
and the time spent in going to and from
his other work, to cut wood, and the
delays waiting for meals, because the
wood is green and wet, would go a long
way toward working up a good stock OF
wood; which, being seasoned and
handy, the hard-wOrking hOusekeeper
could use so as to save herself many a
scOlding; and a man who has no wood
pile must be a scOld, and unreasonable
enough to find fault with his wife, when
he alone should be blamed. Pork is the
most expensive food, besides its tenden-
cy to make people gross and vulgar. A
A big pork eater and a man of delicate
sensibilities and feelings are OppOsites.
A pound of chicken can be produced on
farm as eheaply as pound of pork.
The same is true of mutton. Both are
healthier than hog flesh. Then why
not raise chickens and lambs, and eat
poultry and mutton?


A house ON hill with no trees around
it, looks cheerless and unhOmelike.
Have grounds around the dwelling.
Tear away the fences; they cost money
and are useless. 1 mean the fences
shutting the house up as if there was
danger of it running away. Let there be
not less than an acre of door yard-ter
will be better. Make a rich lawn of
this and cut the grass. It can be no
waste, but il will be a thing of beauty,
and "a thing of beauty is a joy forever
There need not be any loss to be tasteful;
nature and beauty are synonyms; good
taste and economy can therefore be
made haudmaids to each other. Set
out fruit trees in this enclosure, and dig
around them with spade each year,
and top dress the whole, and the trees
will grow finely, and the grass will
grow luxuriantly, and the house will
grow beautiful, the children will grow
cOntented, the fathers and mothers as
they grow old will grow happy, the
neighbOrs will grow to emulate and to
excel, the township will grow attractive
and the young men and the young wO-
men will grow up to think and to feel,
that there is no place after all like
home, Sweet HOme.'-F. D. C,gtiSs.
Year: 1871

MY FRIENDS AND FELLOw-CITIzENs
OF GEORGIA.: feel that I have a pecu-
liar claim upon the people of Georgia,
and that the people of this State have,
also peculiar claim upon me. My
father was citizen of Georgia many
lOhg years ago, and to him have often
ed listened in my bOyhoOd as he told
me traditions of the great revolution.
It was to this city Of Augusta-this an
cient old town upon the banks of the
Savannah-that my father, then but a
mere boy came to join the Revolutions
ry forces, and enlisted beneath the
American flag. am proud Of my father
and proud of his State. If it is crime
to feel proud of this sire-the glory in
his devotion to the cause of the right
Year: 1871

BY MRS. JULIA c. r. DORR.


SHE was coming to make us a visit
so said the letter that my husband
Walter Etheridge, of the law firm 0
NIasOns & Etheridge, tossed carelessly
into my lap, after a rapid glance at the
daintily written pages.


She was Miriam Delamater.


And Miriam Delameter was my hus-
bands first love.


Now Walter aud had never. talked
about the matter. How could I tall
about it? I would not. More thar
once, when we were first married, he
had spoken to me of his fathers ward
with whom he had grown up from boy.
hood, and who had been almost as a
sister to him. But my lip, even during
our blissfUl honeymoon, had curled in
credulously as he said this, and 1 had
speedily turned the conversation into a
different channel.


But knew all about it, nevertheless.
I had learned that long before he had
known me his love had bowed at the
shrine of this stately maiden, this peer
less blonde beauty. knew that had
not been his first love, and that this
girl, this Miriam Delamater, had been.


And now she was coming to see us!


I wondered if Walter did not per-
ceive that was troubled, and if he did
not share in some degree, as a mans
nature might, my own unrest? But no.
He sat slipping his coffee and running
his eye over the latest dispatches from
the seat Of war, as placidly as ever.
Presently he rose.


''Metz holds out well, A" he said, "but
the siege cannot last much longer.
When did Miriam say she was coming?'
and he took up the letter.


'TO-mOrrOw-nO, to-day 1 answered,
as we glanced down the page together.
This is the 18th. She will be here on
the evening express


That suit of EngIesby's comes on at
one O'Clock, he said, taking up his hat,
'and 1 fear we shall not be through at
five. But never mind. I will manage
to meet her at the depot somehow.
am glad she is coming Barbara. You
are so lonely sometimes, and she is a
very superior woman. I am sure you
will like her.


He kissed me hastily, and hurried
away to the Office.


Heaven save the mark! If there was
anything on earth that I did not like.
it was superior woman!


But there was little time for thinking
or regretting. A wall from the nursery
Year: 1871

The following beautiful poem which
possesses such rigid simplicity and tear.
full pathOs was composed, by the author
ess when but fourteen years Of age, OF
hearing the physician tell her nurse one
evening, during illness, that she could
not live till morning. No one of real
feeling can peruse it without a strong in,
cIinatiOn to tears. Its irresistible charm
is its absolute truth the unaffected nat
uraIness Of its thought1
II hath been said-for all who die
There is a tear;
Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh
Ger every BIER
But i'm that hour OF pain and dread,
Who will draw near
Around my humble couch and shed
One farewell tear?
Who watch llfc's last departing ray
In deep despair,
And soothe my spirit ON its way
With holy prayer?



In weeds Of woe,
And follow me to my long home
Solemn and slow?
When lying on my clayey bed,
In icy sleep,


Who there Icy pure affection led
VIII come and weep;
By the pale moon implant the rose
Upon my breast,
And bid it cheer my dark repose,
My IOwly rest?
Could but know when am sleeping
Low in the ground,
One faithful heart would there be keeping
Watch all night round,
As if some gem lay shrined beneath
That sOd's cold gloom,
'Twould mitigate the pangs Of death,
And light the tomb.
Yesl in that hour if 1 could feel.
From halls Of glee
And Beauty's presence, one would steal
in secrecy,
And come and sit and weep by me
In nights deep moon
Oh! would ask of memory
NO other boon.
But an! lonlier fate is mine,
deeper woe;
From all 1 love in youths sweet time
soon must go;
Drawn round me my pale robes of white,
In dark spot
To sleep through deaths long dreamles.
night,


Lone and forgot


EsfeV,r g. Js,ris
Year: 1871

Esaw two maids at the kirk,
And both were fair and sweet,
One was in her bridal-rObe,
One in her winding sheet.
The chOristers sang the hymn,
The sacred rites were read
And one for life TO life,


And one TO Death was wed,
They went TO their bridal beds,
In IovIiness and bloom;
One in a merry castle,


One in a silent tomb.
One TO the world Of sleep,
Locked in the arms Of Love;
And one in the arms Of Death,
Passed to the heaven above.
one 10 the morrow woke,
In world Of sin and pain;
But the other was happier far,
And never woke again.


Ric6ard II. StodiarJ
Year: 1871

An Elmira farmer wrote to Horace
Greeley for advice as to the best kind OF
bees to keep, and received an answer to
the effect that 'husking bees were the
best, but in order to make them lay
prOfitably ne must use a clean china
nest egg, and blanket his bees when they
are not on the nest-and feed them bran
and middIings.
Year: 1871




There once lived in one of our
Northern towns an eccentric indi.
vidual by the name of Fogg, whose
name as tory-teller was known
for miles around Here is one:


My home was situated in a glen,
some six miles distant from the
stage road. Between Conway and
where | live was a pond, six miles
in circumference. 1t 30 happened,
one time early IN the spring, that I
had been out late, and in coming
home 1 discovered a flock of geese
as they were just alighting in the
pond. Rising early the next morn
ing, / built my fire, and taking
down the shooting iron, started for
the pond to try my luck. Arri-
wing on the shore, / found to my
sorrow that they were out of gun
shot, and to fire at that distance
would be sheer folly. While 1
stood confemnlating what to do, a
'f5x cafns abwh W FT5 water ) edge
snuffing the air. My first thought
was to shoot him, but on reflection
| concluded to see what he would
do. The fox in the meantime en-
tered the water and was swimming
for the geese, which were huddled
together about half mile from the
shore. After swimming in a few
yards of them he suddenly disap-
peared, and in a few moments
goose was drawn under the water,
then Reynard returned on his home
ward passage, and returning again
brought another until finally be
got the whole flock and when he
landed the last one l shot bin.
When | come to pick up the geese
l found l bad fifty nice ones, which
L rugged home, together with the
fox and my gun. The old woman
had got breakfast quite ready then"
But, Mr.. Fogg, the fox, to get the
geese, had to swim a mile for each
goose; consequently the fox swan
fifty miles, and the geese averaged
SIX pounds apiece, making three
hundred pounds, to say nothing Of
the fox and gun; the thing was
impossible" "ImpossibIe or not,
every word of it is truth, and can
prove it by dozen of my neigh
bors, to each of whom l sold feath-
ers enough to fill bed !"
Year: 1871

A travelling insurance agent had
been explaining to western
pioneer, the advantages of an in
surance policy. Pathfinder mused
a moment in grave silence, and
then said: "See here, mister, I
have lived out in this country now
twenty five years, and have bucked
agin most all the games they've
started, out darn me eff I want to
play a game where you have to die
to beat the bank p
Year: 1871

The Louisville Ledger says that
powerful reaction in favor of the
restoration of Napoleon is said to
have taken place in the French
provinces. It will be strange. in
deed, if the Man of Ham should
again wade through all this slaugh-
ter to the throne. But stranger
things than tina. haYe happened,
and may happen again with the
mercurial Frenchmen.


@ Tt is strange that General
Grant should have determined to
postpone his visit to the Pacific
coast until next fall, for if his Call
ifornia presents come in the shape
of gold, he will have lost six
months interest on the amount.
Year: 1871

A Chicago paper speaks Of q
youth in that city who ordered his
father to get up in the morning and
make a fire, and on the old gentle
mans refusing, attempted to fog
him, but came off second best.
The energetic youth then threaten
ed to call upon the Legislature to
do something for sons, as fathers
are getting SO darned impudent
nowadays that there's no doing
anything with them"
Year: 1871

A German dealer IN Belfast, Me-,
recently sold man pair of boots.
A few days afterwards the man re-
turned with them, and said that he
went out into the barnyard, to
work, where twas a little wet, and
the soles came off. Whereupon
Dutchy exclaimed "Mine Got,
mine friend, you didn't ought to
walk round in dem. Day is cavalry
boots, made to ride nit p
Year: 1871

B9 A North Carolina paper
says: sit is reported that Holden
is about to settle in New Jersey.
If he does, the Governor of that
State should be permitted to sus-
pend the writ of habeas corpus" p"
No, he should simply be permitted
to suspend Holden's corpus.
Year: 1871

R@- The New York Sun says Of
Grant, "Iet him turn out of Office
every man who ever gave him q
present" The Sun is unreasona-
BILE. Suppose Grant were to act
upon its advice-what would be-
come of thousands of poor devils
who would thus be thrown ont of
employment
Year: 1871

sw A young man residing in
Providence, while attending relig-
ious services Sunday before last,
received note from lady to whom
he had been paying attentions, to
the effect that she had no liking
for him other than as an acquain-
tauce. The reading of the note had
such an effect on the young man
that be tainted away during the
sermon, and had to be carried out
and restoratives applied.
Year: 1871

~ This is a Personal taken
from a country journal: GA young
lady takes this method of inform
ing a certain young man that the
next time he desires to gaze upon
her forty FIVE mortal minutes with
out winking his eyes, she will con-
slider herself highly favored if he
will close his mouth, and not sit
there like young robin awaiting
the parent Bird
Year: 1871

I first, the magic needle was used
"a with amusing clumsiness, as we learn
from manuscript dated 1908, in the Roy
al Library in Paris. An ugly, black stone,
called mariniere, we are told, which sailors
valued highly was taken out when nights
were dark, and needle rubbed with it
lightly; the latter was then cunnngly
placed upon straw, and set ahoat in
basin, when the point would indicate the
north.


Another popularity Of the magic needle
was Il cause of much anxiety and peril to
the discover of our continent.


When the great navigator had ventured
about two hundred leagues into the Allan
tic Ocean, on the 14th of September, 1492,
he noticed, for the first time, that the nee
die, at evening dusk, no longer pointed due
north, but deviated several degrees in
northwesterly direction, the next morning
the deviation had increased. Full of ankle
ty and wonder, he watched it carefully
and, to his consternation the farther west
he sailed, the more the needle appeared to
deviate. AT first he kept his discovery to
himself, fearful lest he should alarm his
crew and defeat his purpose; but soon the
man at the helm noticed the change, and were
filled with grievous apprehensions. They
fancied that they had penetrated into
new world, ruled by other laws than those
to which they had been accustomed. If
the magic needle lost its power, what was
to become of them on the boundless ocean?


Never, perhaps, was Columbus greater
than when, sternly suppressing his own
fears, he told them that the magnetic nee
die pointed, not toward the north pole OH
earth, but toward an invisible part of the
heavens, which changed its place, together
with all the heavenly bodies. They believ-
ed the man whose vast knowledge and mar
velOus energy they had learned TO appreci-
ate their minds were calmed, the voyage
continued, and New World discovered.
Henceforth the magic needle achieved tri-
umph after triumph. With such aid, Diaz,
Cabral and Cana could cross vast oceans,
and Magellan and Sebastian Cabot sail
around the whole earth-thus ending for
ever the objections made by superstition
and bigotry, and teaching man the true
form and nature of the globe which he in
habits. While, heretofore, the majority
of vessels, in the Mediterranean even, had
been wrecked, or at least had reached their
desired haven only with small part Of
their cargo, now insurance companies were
formed in all the large seaport towns, and
the premium, even for India voyages, be-
came soon so small as to make insurance
| the rule.
Year: 1871

old spirits and fermenting fruitjuices,
and then her partners arm was round
her waist, her head was ON his shoulder,
and she was plunging at the signal
into the German, whirling TO deli
cious measures, presently clasped in
new embrace, flying from that
mans arms to anothers, growing wild
with the abandon of the figure,
her hair flying, her dress disordered, her
powder caked, her face red, till pausing
one instant for the champagne in ser
wants hands, your girl with face as
pure as pearl, seemed nothing but de-
iirious Bacchante. If you pursued OBJ
servation further, you found that she
went home at daybreak; that still throb-
bing with excitement she could find no
sleep, but that knowing if she did not
sleep she would be unfit for the next
route she dosed herself with a soothing
drug and was soon lost in dreams as
wild as the night had been-a tremen-
dous drug, as yet unknown in all its
powers to its discoverers-which burns
and paralyzes her eyelids, and blinds
her eyes and makes her brain for many
day as useless as her hands, resting
her nerves and weakening them, and
leaving them already, with the next
strain, for foaming and torturing hys-
terics and idiotic epilepsy, and you ac-
knowledged that Lent came none too
early, unless she and all her kin wished
death to take them where they never
see the sun.
Year: 1871

The Journal of Chemistry says: Reg
ular bathing, so far as the people of this
country are concerned, is certainly a
habit of pure modern adoption. The
fathers and mothers, and grandfathers
and grandmothers of those who have
reached middle life, seldom or never
bathed, except in the warm months of
summer. Their dwellings afforded no
conveniences for the act, if they felt the
need of performing it. AS a general
thing the health was unaffected by this
omission. Why was this? Because of
their occupations and methods of living.
They were active workers, they wore but
small amount of clothing, they lived
much in the open air, and their dwellings
were without stove and furnace heat. If
any one in these days will exercise in
the open air, so that each day he will
perspire moderately, and if he will wear
thin undergarments, or none at all, and
sleep in cold room, the functions of
the skin will suffer little or no impedi-
ment if water is withheld for months.


Indeed, bathing is not the only way in
which its healthful action can be main
tanned by those living under the condi-
tons at present existing. Dry friction
over the whole surface of the body
once day or more is often of more
service than the application of water
The reply of the centenarian to the
inquiry, to what habit of life he at
iributed his good health and extreme
longevity, that he believed it due to
rubbing himself all over with a cob
every night, is significant of an impor-
tant truth


Ifinvalids and persons Of low vitality
would use dry friction and DR.. Frank
Inns air-bath every day for consid-
erable period, we are confident they
would often be. greatly benefited. Clean
illness is next to godliness, no doubt and
a proper and judicious use of water is to
be commended; but human beings are
not amphibious. Nature indicates that
the functions of the skin are to be kept
in order mainly by muscular exercise,
by exciting natural perspiration by labor;
and delicious as is the bath, and health
full under proper regulations, it is no
substitute for that exercise of the body,
without which all the functions become
abnormal.
Year: 1871

One evening whilst riding in the vi
entity of Kanay, my horse evinced some
excitement at a noise which approached
us in the thick jungle, and which con
sisted of repetition of the ejaculation,
urmphl urmphl in hoarse and dissatis-
fed tone. A turn in the forest explained
the mystery, by bringing me face to face
with tame elephant, unaccompanied by
an attendant. He was laboring pain
fully to carry heavy beam of timber,
which he balanced across his tusks; but
the pathway being narrow, he was forced
to bend his head to one side to permit the
load to pass endways; and the exertion
and this inconvenience combined led
him to utter the dissatisfied sounds which
disturbed the composure of my horse.
On seeing us halt the elephant raised his
head, reconnoitred us for a moment,
then flung down the timber, and volun-
tarily forced himself backward among
the brushwood, so as to leave a passage,
of which he expected us to avail our
selves. My horse hesitated; the elephant
observed it, and impatiently thrust him.
self still deeper into the jungle, repeat
ing his cry of urmphl but in voice evil
IDENTIFY meant to encourage us to ad-
vance. Still the horse trembled; and
anxious to observe the instinct of the
two sagacious animals ! laid the rein
upon his neck, and forebore any inter
ference; again the elephant, of his own
accord, wedged himself farther in
amongst the trees, and manifested some
impatienee that we did not pass him.
AT length the horse moved forward; and


when he had fairly passed the elephant
| / looked back and saw the wise creature
stoop and take up his unwieldy burden,
trim and balance it on his tusks, and re-
sumo his route as before, hoarsely snort
ing his discontented remonstranee.
Year: 1871

Are you too fat2 Eat less food, will
a larger proportion Of meat; rise early
in the morning, and exercise much
This will reduce your weight. Even
diminishing the quantity OF food alone
without any other change, will be sure
to do it. 1t is impossible that excessive
fat, either in horse or man, can hold out
against a persistent reduction in the
quantity of food. And if the REDUCTION
be gradual and judicious, the strength is
not lessed, but is steadily increased
until the excess in fat is all gone.


And | viii add that, after two or three
DAYS, there will be no sense Of hunger
until the excess has been removed.


Are you too thin2 Sleep more, by
going to bed earlier; do not overworki
eat freely Of oatmeal porridge, Graham
mush, cracked wheat and hulled corn;
and all with milk and sugar Cultivate
a cheerful, happy temper.
Year: 1871




one:


Perhaps the President was in the
smoking-room, and two or three Of his
Cabinet Ministers we're not far away; the
General of the Army, the Admiral of
the Navy, were sure to be among the
guests. There were the Foreign Minis
ters, whose whole life is in party-going;
there were distinguished strangers and
world-known women, too; but the ball
was given for none of them, not for any
enjoyment of wisdom or learning or wit
these people were but accessories
along the wall 1T was given for the dis
play Of beauty and toilette; it was a
booth in Vanity Fair, as l said, for the
sale Of its wares. Numberless beauti-
full shapes fitted by you-you, bewil-
dered as some Mohammedan just let
loose among the hours Of his heaven.
Your eye rested on one, perhaps, face
pure as a pearl it may have been, yet
lovely only with the lovehness Of youth
its dewy eye, its downy skin, its happy
smile; but the toilette was an allurement
in itself, with its delicately-tinted silk,
its hoarfrost Of lace, its pearls and dia-
monds; the maiden moved so serenely
along, so native to the air, as it were,
that il seemed as if such scenes we're the
only ones in which it was fit she should
be found. But you watched her for a
while, saw her, warm from the dance, as
she took her ice, while her bare white
shoulders were in the draught that
svayed the heavy curtain behind her;
presently she went further into the great
supper-room, eating there-like locust
with the appetite Of youth and dancing;
she ended by swallowing the little bird
nodded Of PATE de toie gras, and nesting
in a jelly so strongly seasoned as 70 drive
the blood to her temples; she sipped a
potation into which nothing entered but