smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

! will write on the tomb of my vanished past
This is the ''nevermore
Here lies the sunshine too bright to last,
This was the golden shore.
This WAS the land Of the poets song,


This Was the artists dream:
Here were the flowers love dwelt among.
Here was life's fairest CLEAN.
This Was q heaven come down below,


And in it Was left Gods smile;
Yet how must the green grass over it grow,
1t lived such little while
Such little while, like an island bright,


That has risen far out at sea,
Which on some morrow we find the night


Has changed to q memory.
A memory mine. one that sadly thrills;
And oftimes / wearily pray
That it may again, il it be Gods will,


Come back to my life some day.
But it cannot come Oh, my dead, dead past
You are silent forever and still
But the sunset glories that fade so fast


Shall arise DER the top of the hill;
And I'll touch the stone with q gentle hand,
And train DER it flowers fair;
For think, when / wake in that other land
Perhaps you viii meet me there.
Year: 1875

Ii is not at all wholesome to be In
hurry. Locomotives have been reported
to have moved a mile a minute for short
distances. But locomotives have often
come to grief by such great rapidity.
Multitudes i'm their haste to get rich are
ruined every year. The men who do
things maturely, slowly, deliberately,
are the men who oftenest succeed in life;
people who are habitually in hurry
generally have to do things twice over.
The tortoise beat the hare at last. Slow
men seldom knock their brains out
against a post. Foot-races are injurious
TO health, as are all forms sofcompetitiye
exercise; steady labor in the field Is the
best gymnasium i'm the world. Either
labor or exercise. carried to exhaustion
or prostration, or even great tiredness,
expressed by Gagged out, always does
more harm than the previous exercise
has done COED. All running upstairs or
TO catch up with vehicle or ferry boat,
is extremely injurious to every age, sex
and condition of life. 1t ought to be the
most pressing necessity which should
induce person over fifty to run over
twelve or fifteen yards. Those i've
longest who are deliberate, whose actions
are measured, who never embark IN any
enterprise without sleeping over 1t,


and who perform all the everyday acts
with calmness. Quakers are proverDi-
ally calm, quiet people; and they are
thrifty folk, the world over.
Year: 1875

The Portuguese are not q NEWSPAPER
reading people. The lower classes do
not read at ALL. and the middle and
MINER classes make no account of a
daily journal. The ladies rarely take
IN a newspaper of any sort, and the
gentlemen glance over it merely for the
Sake of the home gossip. which is of the
liobtest and most trivial sort, and for
the reports of politicaI affairs abroad.
literature. science. religion. art, find
no place in the Portuguese newspaper,
which deyotes its scanty space 10 foreign
political news, mostly of a vague and
unsubstantial character, and to grimly-
humorous account of current accidents
and OfYenses.n - Domestic affairs of the
highest consequence are passed by with
Year: 1875

Yes do hate children and primary
schools. / have cause to, though my
dislike occurred rather Later in life
than usually happens. l will tell you
why, and then YOU wont wonder at my
deep-roOted dislike. You see, when
lived in Salem l used to meet nearly
every morning the sweetest young
schoOlmarm in all Yankee land, and
that amt saying little. She had such
bright black eyes, splendid complexion,
cherry lips, and wore such killing hats,
perched on masses of dark brown hair,
that fell dead in love with her on
sight. How used to watch for her
every morning as walked through
Blubber Hollow on my way to the
train. could detect her blocks away
in her gray waterproof with the cater
pillar fringe on it. You see l am
minute in my description, old boy, for
the impression made on me was by no
means light. OF course was wild for
an introduction finally it came. l
made my best bow, and she-well she
Just blushed divinely. You may be
sure laid myself out to do the agree
able and went to churches. etc, like
dutiful cavalier. Then | would stop
at the school as it was closing, and see
my charmer home. Once, oh! fatal
day reached theschOOlhouse some ten
minutes before the closing exercises,
and watched with increasing admira-
ton her patience in teaching the little
wretches. Five minutes of two and
the sweet voice gave the order "Put
away your books; fold your arms"
snow James, come forward and l will
punish you.r Poor little Jim, he set
up an awful howl, and moved my pity
to such an extent that interceded for
him and went SO far as to offer to take
his punishment myself in order to save
his youthful hide. Alas | fancied that
the schOOlmarm was as spOOney as my
self, and my self-lOve and innate va
nifty told me she would but tap my palm
with her taper fingers. Well, my me-
diatOry efforts were successful. The
sacrifice was accepted. James was re-
manded to his seat and i, poor fool,
took his place. The children sat with
wide, open eyes, watching this. to
them, wonderful action on my part.
Then came the order, Take down your
Il blushed and put my hands on my
suspender fastenings) feet from on top
of that desk, you Millie Tuba" Then
turning to me my fair enslaver re-
marked, "HOld out your hand, Sir"
held it out, and heard a whistling in
the air, and felt. oh yes, felt band OF
red hOG fire from the tips of my fingers
to my wrist, as a strap some four feet
long and two inches wide left its mark
on my dexter fin. The laughter of these
imps and their teacher rang in my ears
as / tore out of that schOOlhOuse, and
held a piece of ice in my flaming hand,
while with the other raised to Heaven
] swOre eternal enmity to schOOlmarms
and primary schools.
Year: 1875

A cry of "Wake, massa, wild pig in


the grainv' caused myself and my


worthy and much-esteemed friend to
spring up off our beds one wet October
morning, while staying at an old aban-
dOned estate somewhere in the very
centre of Jamaica A short time before,
a wild boar had had the effrontery to
penetrate, on moonlight morning, into
the very yard surrounding the great
house." and more than that, to poke his
nose into an Outhouse. An early-rising
boy saw the animal steal in, and very
quietly shut the door upon him.
..Busha' (Anglice overseer) was away
at the time, and nobody had gun. So
the negroes crawled in at hole i'm the
roof, angled for time, and succeeding
in noosing the intruder, who was hoisted


D, till he stood on his hind legs, and
then despatched BY means OF crOwbars,


by other negroes who entered at the


Oor. We were not long in getting
ready, and, taking our guns, loaded
with slugs. and accompanied by the
three or four mongrel dogs. which are
generally to be seen about a Jamaica
country house, off we started after our
guide. The path was narrow, zigzag,
and steep. All paths used by negroes
are narrow; for they never walk abreast
of each other, but always in single file.
1t often surprises one, on following a
thin, but well-beaten track in the bush,
to come suddenly upon populous
village of huts. which probably will
have no other outlet. We were led up
the side of a steep limestone hill, covered
with virgin forest, and, therefore, for
tunately free from underwood. On the
ridge were situated the provision grounds
in which unexpected to find our quarry.
And, indeed, the dogs soon gave tongue,
and scampered helter-skelter down the
other side of the hill. sHim gone to de
cotton tree down bottom, said SambO,
and we had to follow. But to do this
was no easy matter; it is simply i'm
possible to make rapid way in a straight
| line down a wooded honeycomb lime
stone mountain. For not only are the
Year: 1875

spend part of the evening in the read
ing-rooms, or run into the cafe, where
she is sure to meet friends ready for a
social chat over an ice-cream or cup of
chocolate. To all these places she may
90 without male escort, for they are a
part Of the palatial home provided by
NJ. Godin for his employees.
Year: 1875

The Schr. Bloom a small vessel
from the Old Basin, New Orleans
bound for Stockton Ala. put in here
on Thursday with part of her crew
sick with fever, aud was about TO
proceed up onr river, when Can't.
Jas. Smith our Harbor Master very
properly stopped her at the mouth
of the river, where she was visited
by Port Physician DR.. Blount who
ordered her to the quarantine
grounds, We decidedly object to
vessels passing between New Or
leans and Mobile with the fever
putting in here, when those cities
cut us off from all communication
by railroad.
Year: 1875

OUR JAIL is doing a flourishing
business, now containing twelve
persons eight negroes and four
white men, the Jatter sailors, of
whom we have something to say
in another place. This is a heavy
burden upon our county, caused al
together by worthless negroes (asthe
sailors are al the expense of their
vessel who do nothing towards
the support Of the county in the
way of paying taxes, and many of
them are perfectly satisfied to lie in
there and be fed. Could they not
be made to work on the public
roads or to do something for the
benefit of the county, to pay for
their living.


We respectfully call the attention
Of Justice BIount to this suggestion.
Year: 1875

We much regret that We were nm
able, by reason OF business demands,
to accept Capt. John Fosters kind
invitation 10 accompany the party
in the Rolla to the Regatta at Bill
oxi on Monday.


Thirty to forty ladies and gentle.
mrn made up the party which left
hereat eight o'clock reaching Biloxi
after a delightful trip, in two and
a half hours they reached home at
about eleven at night. All speak in
high praise of the courtesy of Capt.
Foster, and the Rolla is decidedly a
favoriie with the ladies. We hope
she will soon he up again for such
another trip when we viii do our
level best to be Oh hand.
Year: 1875

In a prize essay on the Sabbath,
written by a journeyman printer in
CootIo-I ---,''
language and beauty of expression has
never been surpassed, there occurs the
following passage. Read it, then re.
fleet for a while what a dreary and
desolate page would this life present
if the Sabbath were blotted from our
civilization


"Yoke fellow, think how the alb
straction of the Sabbath would hope
lessly enslave the working classes
with whom we are identified ! Think
oflabor thus going on in one monot-
onous and eternal cycle, limbs bend
ing, the brow forever on the rack, the
fingers forever straining, the brow for
ever plodding, the brain forever
throbbing, the shoulders foreverdroop,
ing, the loius forever aching, the rest.
less mind forever scheming. Think
Of the beauty it would etface, the
merry-heartedness it would extinguish,
of the giant strength it would tame.
of the resources of nature it would
crush, of the sickness it would breed
of the projects it would wreck, of the
groans it would extort, of the lives il
would immediate and of the cherries
graves it would prematurely dig =
See them toiling and moiling, sweat
ing and frctting, grinding and hew
ing, weaving and spinning, sowing
and gathering, moving and reaping
raising and building, digging ant
planting, striving and struggling il
the garden and in the field, in th'
granary and in the barn, in the factory
and in the mill, in the warehouse ant
in the shop, on the mountain and ii
the ditch, on the roadside and in the
wood, in the city and in the country
out at sea and on the shore, in th'
days of brightness and of gloom
What picture would the world pre-
sent if we had no Sabbath T.
Year: 1875

Don't think that yards and yards OF
ribbons, rutfles and lace, will add one
particle to your value. Don't make a
walking milliners shop or jewelers.
store, of yourselves, covering all that
is of true merit within you with that
which will only attract the shallow
Drained. Don't think sensible people
are to be attracted with vain show +,
they look fer beauty of mind and
heart. Don't fatter yourselves that it
is smart to affect ignorance Of manual
labor, Or to be ignorant Of it. Don't
give the subject of matrimony' a
thought while you are in your teens,
except to qualify yourselves for the re-
sponslble position it places you in ;
you need all of that time of your life
to fit yourselves for it. You need to
study books, the laws Of life and
health to be we'll experienced in the
culinary art, as perhaps the happiness
and health of hundreds ane depending
on your knowledge of this. Don't
give your time and talents to the
world, Or to seeking the things of
time and sense that perish with their
using. God has created you for a no
bier purpose, and made you account
able for what he has given you.
Don't sell your birth-right for mess
of pottage.
Year: 1875

We have somehow earned to make
a difference between those obligations
which we owe to one another as men,
and those which we owe to the Gov.
ernment and to corporations These
ideas are not a whit more prevalent
among office-holders and directors
than they are among voters and stock
holders. Men are not materially
changed by being clothed with office
and power, The radically honest
man is just as honest in office as he is
out of 1t. Corrupt men are the off.
spring ofa corrupt society. We all
need Strengthening up, The lines Of
our morality all need to be drawn
tighter. There is not a man who is
willing to smuggle, and to see GUS
tom officers betray their trust while
he does it willing to receive the re-
suits of the sharp practice of directors
of corporations in which he has an in
terest wiling to receive the patron
age of the Government in the eXecu


ton of schemes not based in absolute
necessity ; willing to take an cxhorbi-
tant price for a piece of property sold
to the Government or to corporation
who is fit to be trusted with Office.
When we have said this, we have
given the explanation Of all our pub.
lie and corporate corruption, and
shown why it is so difficult to get any
trust managed honestly. All this
official corruption is based on popular
corruption-loose ideas of honesty as
they are held by the popular mind
and we can hope for no reform until
we are better based as a people in the
everlasting principles Of equity and
right doing. If we would have the
stream clear, we must cleanse the
Fountain DIR. J. G. Holland E,crih-
ner for November.
Year: 1875

est to many, but none waited with
such breathless anxiety as did Gov
ernor Bradford, for it was to contain
Alice or her letter of refusal, The
whole town crowded to the landing,
and when the vessel reached the
shore many went on board, and the
governor passed from one to another
of the new -comers, telling them how
welcome they were but close OBJ
server would have seen that the rest
less wanderings of his eye were indi-
cations that something was unsatisfy-
ing. She was nowhere to be seen,
and he tried to say calmly, otis Gods
will, and will try and be happy
without her there will at least be a
letter for me-" He turned to ask for
one, when he met coming from the
cabin matronly-lookiug woman.
He seemed to have forgotten that
while time was Fastening him to ma.
turity, that Alice, too, might be
changed ; he had always kept her in
mind as the fair, frail girl of many
years ago, and here she was, the beau.
tiful, stately woman. She, too, pro
badly had her surprise, for the two
stood looking at each other, when
''William y "Allice J. were uttered
simultaneously, and the two, so long
kept asunder, met, never to Ee parted
by mans decree again. They were
married at once. There was no dis
play, but that without which all out
ward show is but as sounding brass
or tlnkliug symbol" the joy OF two
faithful hearts. They lived long and
happily together ; thirty.four years
longer did he prosperously guide the
affairs Of the colony, then died his
wife surviving him several years.
She was well educated, refined, and
much beloved, and did much in as
sisting her husband in the improve
ment OF the rising generation, and
was sincerely lamented when she
died
Year: 1875

Just now, when it seems as if cor
ruption had death clutch on every
city in the land, it is good to be able
to say that Detroit has many honest
men. An Ohio man, feeling that he
was getting drunk, entered Franklin
street saloon yesterday and loudly in
Quired rs there an honest man
here who'd take charge Of sixty.one
dollars for me ?" eyes sir !" came
from seventeen different men in reply,
and it was a place, too where honesty
would not be looked for Detroit
Free Press.
Year: 1875

AFTER.
The various notes that make the perfect song
Have each different length some full and
strong
And reaching up to an impassioned height !;
And others low and sweet, with not less
might
Because the measure is filled out with
silence 50
With life's events; Gods will, worked out,
doth grow
From passages of triumph and of pain
Into the rounded sweetness of the finished
strain.


Boston Trusc1Tpt.
Year: 1875

TO CHILD.
My fairest child, | have no song to give you ;
Nolark would pipe to skies so dull and gray
Yet, ere We part, one lesson can leave you,
For every day
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be
clever,
Do noble things, not dream them, all day
long;
And so make life, death and that vast for
ever
One grand sweet song


Charles Kingsley.
Year: 1875

How GREENBAcK PAPER Is MADE.-Au
the paper for the money issued by the
United States Government Is manufactur-
ed on a xty-two-inch Fondriner machine
at the Glenn Mills, near West Chester,
Pa. Short pieces Of red silk are mixed
with the pulp in the engine, and the
finished stuff is conducted to the wire with
out passing through any screens, which
might retain the invaluable silk threads
BY an arrangement above the wire cloth,
a shower Of short pieces Of the blue silk
thread il dropped in streaks across the pa
per while it is being formed. The upper
side, on which the blue silk is dropped, is
the one used for the face Of the notes, and
from the manner in which the threads are
applied, must show them more distinctly
than the reverted side, slthough they are
imbedded deeply enough to remain fixed.
The mill is guarded night and day, BY Of
icials, to prevent the abstraction Of any
paper Paper Trade Journal.
Year: 1875

At an auction Of household goods on
HaTrisOn-ave. yesterday, when a woman
had made bid on an old bureau worth
about 81, boy slipped around to another
woman and whispered
blue bow on III


Yes"


well, she says that no woman with
red nose can buy anything al this sale Y"


The woman with the red nose pushed
her way into the crowd and run the price
Of the bureau up TO sl2, and An il was
knocked down 70 her she remarked


81 may have red nose, but NJ cross
eyed woman with blue bow on can bluff
me l''-Detr0lt Free Press
Year: 1875

1t was said that few miles away, rich
deposits of gold were reported, and the lit
tie party composed of Ben, Jack, Ray
mond, Werner and Percy, set out on .
journey to the place, in search Of gold, If
there was any to be found there.


A beautiful valley greeted their vision
the evening Of the day upon which they
had set out upon their journey, and here
they made their camp with the resolve to
stay few days aed ascertain the prospects
for finding the gold, they believed to be
hidden in the valley, an in the mountain
streams around.
Year: 1875

OUR SUPPLY OF PRECIOUS METALS.


We pay abroad on National and other
securities about one hundred and fifty mil
lions Of dollars in gold annually Seventy
three per cent. Of our foreign trade Ia car
ried in foreign vessels, calling for about
fifty millions Of freight in gold year. As
suming that immigrants bring in as much
gold each year as our countrymen travel
ing or sojourning abroad take from us, we
have yearly debt to pay to Europe, out
Of home resources alone, If two hundred
millions Of gold or its equivalent for in
terest on bonds and freights. In other
words, we start out to trade with the rest
Of the world each year with that balance
against us. We pay it partly in gold and
silver, partly in other commodities, partly
making new debts Our whole product of
gold and silver for five years from 1869 to
1873 was a little less than sixty millions a
year. Our annual exports Of gold and
silver coin and bullion over our imports of
the same commodities are stated by Mr..
Field at an average of sixty millions. Last
year it was over hfty-one millions and 80
far this year it is doubled the rate Of last.
Now deduct from our bullion product
twenty per cent. estimated as consumed
here in the arts, and we have net pro-
duct for export or coinage of but forty
eight millions-so that not wlthstanding
our large product Of the precious metals,
the aggregate of coin and bullion remain
ing IN the country rs steadily diminishing.
This statement Is corrobOrated by the fact,
that the gold ard silver in the United
States is estimated by the Secretary of the
Treasury at one hundred and sixty-six
millions in 1874 against two hundred and
eighty-fve millions estimated by Walker
in his Science If Wealth, in 1860.


We start out then with such debt abroad
as has reduced our gold and silver to one
hundred and sixty-six millions, and carries
away from our shores each year more than
all our product added to all that returns
to us. Bullion bought by the Treasury
abroad to prepare for redemption and
withdrawal of legal tenders may be hoard
ed until the day Of resumptlon-but it
will then pour out and flow where our
growing foreign debt, and the markets
from which it may be extracted, demand
it.


How MUCH CURRENCY WILL OUR GOLD SUP


PORT


Let us see, then, what amount of re-
deemsble currency can be kept aHoat in
the United States with our present supply
of gold and our means of keeping it.


| read from a table showing the total
amount in dollars of the precious metals
in three of the chief commercial Nations
the world, and Of the paper currency they
are able to keep ahoat, prepared by me
from statistics IN Appletons' American
Encyclopedia, Walkers Science Of Wealth
and other authorities. II is to be observed
that the power of the banks to obtain and
keep gold is to a large extent dependent
on the amount ahoat in their respective
Year: 1875

A fter the loud talk that had been
heard at different street corners for
some days past the people naturally
supposed that there would be some en-
phatic talk In the Council chamber on
Thursday evening, and at an early
hour that spacious room, which by the
way, Is about the size of Western
farmers pig pen, was crowded with
spectators who expected to hear Coun-
Gilman after Councilman rise in his
seat and Indignantly deny that he had
been offered a bribe to vote for the
San Pedro street depot ordinance. Ex-
pectation was on tiptoe and expecta-
tion was disappointed. The Mayors
veto was read, the ordinance was pass
ed over the veto by the regular eight
votes and certain proportion of the
crowd cheered with unanimity sug.
gestive of the regularly employed
claqueur. After this part of the pro-
gramme had been carried out to the
letter committee was appointed to
investigate and determine II there was
any truth in the report that attempts
had been made to bribe certain mem-
bers of that honorable body. Then
came the serenade and the virtHous
and incorruptible went home and
slept the sleep of the innocent and the
pure.