smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

I've travelled about bit in my time,
And Of troubles I've seen a few,
But found it better in every cline
To paddle your own canoe.
My wants are small; care not at all,
If my debts are paid when due;
drive away strife in the ocean of life,
While paddle my own canoe.


CHORUS.
Then love your neighbor as yourself,
AS the world you 60 travelling through,
And never sit down with tear or frown,
But paddle your own canoe.
I have no wife to bother my life,
No lover to prove untrue;
But the whole day long, with laugh


and song,


paddle my own canoe.
rise with the lark, and from daylight


till dark


do what have to do,
I'm careless of wealth, if I've only the


health


To paddle my own canoe.


Then love your neighbor, &c.
It's all very well to depend ON friend'-
That is, if you've proved him true;
But you'll find it better by far in the end
10 paddle your own canoe.
TO borrow is dearer by far than to buy
A maxim though old yet true:
You never will sigh if you will only try
TO paddle your own canoe.


Then love your neighbor, &c.
If hurricane rise in the midday skies,
And the snn is lost to view,
Move steadily by, with steadfast eye,
And paddle your own canoe.
The daisies that grow in the bright green


fields


Are blooming so sweet for you
So never sit down with sigh or frown,
But paddle your own canoe.


Then love your neighbor, &c.
Year: 1875

An exchange defines hlunderbuss as
kissing the wrong girl, just as though #
were possible to be wrong IN kissing any
girl. A blunderbuss is for men to kiss one
and other as Frenchmen do, Or for girls to
kiss one and other for want Of 4 man 20
kiss them.
Year: 1875

'' When the songs gone ont Of your life, you can
start auother while it's a-ringing IN your ear bJ
It's best to have bit Of silence and out o. that ma
be psalmu come bY-and-bY.-Ed,rard Garrett.
When the songs gone Cut of your life,


That you thought would last to the end,
That first sweet song of the heart,


That No sitter days can lend
The song Of the bird to the trees,


The song Of the wind to the flowers,
The song that the heart sings low to itself
When it wakes in LIES morning hours:
Hou can start no other song"


Not even a tremulOus note
Will falt6r forth on the empty ar,


1t Cies in your aching throat.
It is all in vain that you try,


For the spirit Of song has fed
The nightingale sings no more 10 the rose
When the beautiful flower is dead.
So let silence Foftly fal1


On the bruised hearts quivering strings:
Perhaps from the loss Of all you may learn
The song that the scrap. sings;
grand and glorious psalm


That viii tremble, and rise aud thrill,
And your breast With its grateful rest
And Us lonely yearnings still.
Year: 1875

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
seriPtioP is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We wOnld take great pleasure in extend.
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses. aud
We are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


81 We enter no new names ON our
books without the money in adyarce.
Year: 1875

CARLYLE.-A correspondence of the San
Francisco Chronicle, who has been visit
ing Carlyle. writes ''The pictures in our
country of Carlyle are not very good /;
he has not the wrinkled visage and the
thought-weary, almost unhappy, ex-
preston generally seen in them, but
rather the friendly, happy look so apt
to characterize the old age of a we'll
spent life. His thick head of hair is
not entirely whitenCa his blue eve is
form is thin and feeble, and the con-
tinual trembling of his hand must in
terfere greatly, if not entirely, with the
use of his pen. Expecting our visit, his
eyes and whole face lighted up with a
smile of welcome as he entered the
room, extending both hands in greet
ing. His first words, after those of
welcome, were of singular beauty and
appropriateness. They were a quota
tion from his own fa7orite Ossian, in
reply to my companions congratulation
on his apparent good health. Yes,
but age is dark and unlovely.' The
almost solemn sadness of the tone in
which he spoke the words changed to
cheerfuIDess as he Immediately added
But ought not to complain, and the
to vivacity as thought and reminiscenc
followed each otherin uninterrupted flow
1t was quite wonderful to recall how
much he had said in our short visit.
BE knew that we had come 10 see and
hear a great man, and he paid us the
compliment of putting as much of him
self as possible into our half hour with
him."
Year: 1875

-Idieness is a disease that must be
eombatted but viii not advise a rigid
adherence TO a particular plan of study.
I, myself, have never persisted IN any
plan for two days together. a man
ought to read Just as inclination leads
him, for what he reads as task viii do
him little good.
Year: 1875

IT ID melancholy sign of the univer-
salty with which Americans seem to be
forsaking farm work, that, even in q
period when the dullness of manufac-
lures and trade leaves thousands unem-
ployed, the farmers find it hard to get
sufficient help. The complaint is gen
eral in all parts of the country that
sufficient help cannot be obtained to
handle the crops with.
Year: 1875

THE stockholders of tie Augusta
cotton factory have resolved upon the
issuance of bonds to the extent of
$4,000 As this concern has hitherto
been believed to be the most successful
cotton manufacturing establishment in
the south, the fact that it is compelled
to borrow money on SO large a scale
looks rather discouraging for the imme-
diato future of that industry.
Year: 1875

CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIL
RoAp.-The Chicago Board of Trade has
declined to send representatives to the
Southern Pacific railroad convention, to
meet in ST. Louis on the 25th inst, be-
lieying that in the present and prospec-
tive condition of the credit OF the Unit
I'd States government it is unwise to ask
the government Endorsement or guaran-
tee for work such as is contemplated in
the call. and not wishing to embarras >
the action of the convention or disturb
its harmony.
Year: 1875

shall he off in i moment, said he, IN
i strong, clear voice. as he took his little
wife in his arms. Poor little Maria. .
added he IN cheerful voice. Il do be-
lieve you SIRE crying. You are young
and pretty. You will lind some one to
care for you when your old man is
gone


Here he took his wife's face between
his two trembling hands and kissed her
repeatedly.


1Then he murmured 'adieu." and quick
ly "au reyoir.' rs he gave her L final
kiss


AT ONCE HE BECAME RIGID
and exclaimed in loud voice, Stand
back all! My father before me at Water
loo died with his face to the enemy. |
too will face the great enemy, death "


He raised his head boldly and looked
straight ahead, with the bouyant look of
a man who knows not fear, and with this
noble look of courage upon his face he
passed away.


As class, the physician thinks that
the people of culture meet death more
firmly than the llliterate ones. Those of
higher minds have invariably canyasse d
the subject of death. and it never comes
to them with all the terrors that 1t does
the people of lower grade of intellect.
The exceptions TO this are the cases of
brutes executed for the commission of
some crime.
Year: 1875

Never take Come and see me" as a
phrase meant in earnest unless it is ac-
companied with a date. Such an invita-
ton amounts to nothing at all. If lady
or gentleman desires your company he or
she will appoint a time for your visit.
Call on me when you can make it conYen-
lent" Drop 10 as you are passing"
Make us visit whenever you have an
hour or two to spare" are social ambigui-
ties by which men and women of the world
understand that they are not expected to
do the thing requested. When people
wish to be cheaply polite there is nothing
like this kind of vagueness. The conpli-
mentary small change of society must
always be taken at large discount. 1t is
never worth its face or anything like it.
Yet it is convenient medium Of exchange,
and heavy debts Of gratitude that ought
to be requited in better coin are often
paid with it. People who have more
polish than principle use it lavishly-- plain,
blunt, honest men sparingly or not at ALL
Whoever makes a friendly visit to fash
ionahle house on the strength of a mere
Come and see me-" will very often find
that the family circle he has dropped into
by request is as ungenial as the Arctic
circle, and be will probably leave it with {
chilly feeling that will prevent him from
venturing into the same high latitude
again, But when whole souled man
whom you know to be your friend, grasp:
you vigorously by the hand and says


Come and dine with me to.day-dinne


on the table at o'clock-be sure to com
we shall expect you" you can take it a
certain that your presence is warmly de


sired, 1t is pleasant always to make o


receive visit from a friend, but nod O.
the street is all sufficient from fashions


BILE acquaintance.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON. Oct. 2S.-Joseph Will
Jams, president of the board of fire COM
missioners, was reported as saying at the
fire engineers convention in New York,
that when he ran with the machine if a
party refused to contribute to the support
of the fire department they spotted his
house and when a fire came they saved
adjoining property and permitted his to
burn. The commissioners of the District
informed Williams that he must make an
absolute denial of the report or resign and
he chose to resign.
Year: 1875

KANSAS CRY, No., Oct. pa colored
girl named Ann Holland, died at the city
hospital, in this city, on Sunday last, un-
der circumstances which lead large num-
ber of people to think all was not right
So much was said about the matter that
the remains of the girl were taken from
the dissecting room, and to-day a post
mortem examination re7ealed that a ne
tarious operation had been committed and
that the direct cause of the girls death
was the performing of said operation.
The city is greatly excited and the author
tiles are determined that the guilty
party shall be brought to justice.
Year: 1875

TRY TIE ENAMELLED PIPE, IT WILL NOT
| Rust or crack and costs only tribe more than
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. haYe the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS.


Store in Star Block.
Year: 1875

SERIOUS ACCIDENT While discharg-
ing caago of goods at Port Townsend.
ON Friday night, the third mate of the
}steamship Los Angeles was struck by d
heavy case which slipped from the
slings, sustained serious injuries to one
of his legs, one side Of which was strip
ped off from the thigh to the ancle.-
The poor fellow. who suffered intense
agony, was taken on to San Francisco
by the steamer
Year: 1875

n II you want anything in Jamie-
sons line, there is no better place to get
what. you bargain for than his. His
large business has been built up by
keeping good articles and dong his
verk we'll. Sec advertisement.
Year: 1875

EScoUKAGING.-Are recent letter from
G. u. Wright, Vice President of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
and President of the Tacoma Land
Company. to gentlemen in this city,
states it to be the intention Of the rail
road company to complete the Pacific
Division of their road from Kalama to
Portland; to build section Of the rail-
road out of Tacoma to the coal mines,
at least; and to continue the eastern
division of the road through to the
heart of Montana-a distance of 4OC
miles or more. If this is done, or even
commenced, 1t will be all that We can
ask and more than we can expect, and
We will have abundant cause for being
thankful. Mr.. Wright's promise was
no doubt based upon the anticipated
favorable action of the bondholders at
their meeting in the city of New York
on the 10Th ult.-Idc0md Tribune.
Year: 1875

How A MAN FOOLED Els WIFE.-He
was an awful mean man. He carried o
$50 counterfeit bill to make . show Of
it sometimes when lingering for single
drink or Wheeling stogy. His poor
hard-working wife had been begging
him for q nice gold chain she had seen
in shop window down town. One day
he felt in merry mood, gave her the
counterfeit bill and told her to buy the
chain. Then he left home laughing so
haru that he had to 60 and take drink
to wet it down. He may have taken
several drinks.


He went home feeling full Of jokes.
1t appeared to be the happiest day Of
his life. He made fool of the old wo-
man. But the old woman wore that
gold chain at the dinner table and called
the brute Her dear old darling" This
put another face upon the whols affair.
1t had ceased to be joke for him. The
jeweller called before dinner, and hand
ing him the base note told him to shell
out fifty dollars if he wished to escape
annoyance. He shelled out, and has
never been able to sse the point of his
own joke. But the poor woman enjoy
cd it.
Year: 1875

The census of 1876 evidently stands in
the way of the Democracy, and they have
determined to prepare for its notification.
1t is now alleged that the work has been
carelessly done
In come instances il is believed that the
| returns are false. fraudulent and inten-
tionally garbled for particular purpose.
On the usual principle Of Democratic
| reasoning, one sentence having suggested
that thing is intended, the next assumes
that it has been done Thus we see it
suggested:


census as to deprive Democratic parish OF
its fractional constituency by an underes-
timate, and to give Radical parish an
extra member by an overcOunt.


1t is then claimed to be so probable as
to have become positive fact
That the census has been tinkered and
warped with that view is something so en-
tirely in keeping with Radical proclivities
that it does not surprise US in the least.


To fix this theory positively, the censor
OF the census takes the parish of Tangipa-
hoa. The sworn officer affirms diminu-
ton of the population during the last
decade. An anonymous correspondent of
a parish newspaper asserts that he is
mistaken, and the censor concludes


The census of Tangipahoa. pnlpable
fraud, may be taken as a specimen brick of
the whole Radical job.


From this we have to apprehend pro-
test against the census, an armed organi-
zation to resist the apportionment, and a
general resistance to the laws of the land.


The REPUBLICAN explained that the
Democratic killers have scared away the
white people, and the Democratic libel
ers published such accounts of our condi-
ton that no white immigration has ar
rived, while great many white people
have left the city and State. 1t has also
been observed that the White League plant
ers having but one acre in twelve in cul.
tivation and have imported colored labor
ers, according to. one statement, "by the
hundred" The opposition to white I'M mi
grafton and invitation of colored laborers
will naturally change the relation of the
races, but if the Democratic penholders
in this city keep up the same policy of
terror and abuse, few more years will
give the numerical ascendency to the col
ored race,


However, We may look out for resolu-
tions in the next Legislature affirming the
census of 1875 to have been "a palpable
fraud, and either providing for re-
census or discharging the people from all
allegiance to the law, because of the al.
legged defects in the enumeration.
Year: 1875

there or stay there longer than necessity
compelled him? We have said the negro
has been very patient under his burdens
it is fair that he should be treated better
than wild beast. The Republicans are
largely in the majority in Mississippi.
Under such circumstances would it be
very wrong to let the ballot box decide
who is to govern the State? Or shall the
shot-guns of the few overcome the ballots
of tho many in the old, way? If the
White Liners still have no other power
or argument than guns, it must be ex-
pected their opponents will learn the
same trick in time and shoot back when
they are shot at, according to the custom
of the country.
Year: 1875

Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, made
the following remarks in his sermon,
apropos to recent horrible crime per-
petrated in that city: The dreadful
crime of murder of innocents before
birth is q foul blot on the character of
the Christian people of this country. At
the moment of conception an immortal
soul is infused into the creature, and it
reflects the image and likeness of God.
To destroy this is murder, and the blood
of that being cries to Heaven for ven
geance against the assassin. In many of
the American States an ungodly people
are exterminating themselves from the
face of the earth, and chaste and God
fearing people are succeeding to their
inheritance, as the statistics of births
show. This crime of murder in the first
degree, or in the first stage of life, is
also spreading into Canada as a conta-
gion. The answer of the unfortunate
fallen woman to the suggestion of hiding
her shame by abortion is not often heard
now. The crime of bringing child into
the world outside of matrimony is bad
enough without adding to it that OF
murder. Your drugs or your lnstru-
ments will not destroy an innocent one.
The pagan Chinese expose, sell, and too
often drown their offspring when they
become too numerous and too burden
some for their poverty to rear, but to
the shame of those calling themselves


Christians we have to say that they muir


der in cold blood their own children,
and in too many cases destroy the


mother thus two lives are forfeited,


The Chinese do not believe IN the saving


truths of Christianity, or in adequate


rewards and punishments, or in


Savior or in doctrine that soul is


made in the image and likeness of God,


or the Immortality of the soul, etc.
Year: 1875

1t has been observed by the ablest
writers in the service of geology that
the power of water rs an agent of denu
dation and subsequent transportation of
matter is, without any doubt, the great
est now in operation. The smallest
streams carry with them proportion of
the soil through which they flow, and
when a union of their waters increases
the volume and velocity and consequent
powers of erosion and transportation of
river the effects on matter through
which the channel is formed will be
very marked. Lyell estimates the
quantity of solid earthly matter brought
down annually by the waters of the
Mississippi to be 3,702, 758, 400 cubic
feet, and this is exclusive of the vast
quantities of floating timber and other
vegetable matter which are continuously
being borne off the uplands by the
tributary streams. A vast quantity of
this alluvium finds its way to the gulf
anu IL uepOSlJeu ou Uuo SuOiu0lB0o
plateau of mud at the outer edge of the
delta, there forming the foundation of
the extension of that great alluvial
plain seaward. But vast quantity also
is deposited in the bed of the great river
itself, and this process of filling up has
for ages assisted in the formation Of
the great alluvial plains or bottom lands
that stretch southwark from st. Louis
for one thousand miles along the river,
and are in width from thirty to eighty
miles, and represent those inexhaustibly
fertile lands of which the London Times
correspondent wrote in 1866 There is
no system. The farmer scratches the
ground and throws in the seed, and his
bountiful harvests come up year after
year without further thought or trouble.
Thousands of centuries have made the
soil for him, and it deies him to make
too heavy demands upon it. 1t gives
him all he asks, and is never known to
disappoint or fail.
Year: 1875

No. mackerel should benot less than
thirteen inches in length from the ex-
tremity of the head to the fork of the
tail, fat, free from rust, taint or drain
age.


No. 2 mackerel should be not less than
eleven inches in length, fat and free from
rust, etc.


No. mackerel should be not less than
ten inches in length.


No. large should be not less than
thirteen inches in length and in quality
are those that remain after the selections
of No. /.


No. mackerel comprise all not in the
above, and should be free from taint or
damage.


The above is the standard established
by law in Massachusetts, and is general
ly accepted by the trade elsewhere.
Year: 1875

A preacher of Cape Ann was holding
forth on certain Sabbath to congre-
CATION of old salts on the necessity of
securing to themselves haven of refuge
against the day of wrath. "Suppos-
ing," he said, "you should get caught
out in the bay, the clouds growing
blacker and blacker, the sea rising, and
the wind threatening a gale, wouldn't
you feel the need of some safe harbor,


and how would you do in such case p
" Put your helm up and bear away for
Squam !" out spoke an old fisherman
from remote corner of the "meetin'
house."
Year: 1875

As A PORTER. An amusing story is
related of Representative-elect Walker,
of New York, who is somewhat noted
for his carelessness in the matter of
apparel. A few days ago he was seated
on porters truck in front of hotel in
Corning, when a lady traveller, mistaking
him for the porter, requested him to
carry her satchel to the depot. He
readily complied, and on reaching the
lady's destination blandly declined to
receive compensation, and with grace
full bow left his companion amazed at
Che disinterested politeness of her
"porter."
Year: 1875

Public School building, to cost over 81 900
is now being erected and will be completed
before the second sale. The percentage of the
last sale devoted to the erection of this build
ing amounted to over $1,000, and the same
percentage 40 per cent. on town property and
30 per cent. on farm property will be given
for the same purpose from the proceeds of the
next sale.
Year: 1875

story. Thus you see how | am in his
power. and why | have made him the
offer you have heard He is unbound
edly avaricious. and there is a possibil-
ity that his greed may overcome his de-
sire for revenge, and that he may accept
my offer IL he does. shall require
him TO sign a written statement of the
case. Then il ever he makes more
threats | can at least prove that he has
been guilty Of compounding felony
| think il he decides to accept. in good
faith, / shall have no trouble in getting
him to sign such paper. he refuses,
| shall consider that an evidence that
he intends to first get the property, and
then break his faith and ruin US. In
that case. we can but take the worst he
can give. and keep the property for you
and your brothers and sisters"


We'll, father, there is one other hope
for you, and that is in the war which
can hardly fail to come. Luckily, Ken
field is with the British. If war comes
we shall win, as did the United States
in their struggle against British oppres-
sion. and if Ken6eld survives he will
not be able to make you much trouble
in an independent Canada. Let us hope
for the best, come what will.


By this time they had reached home
aud the subject was dropped.


CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.