smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

TO SHAVE SCIENTIFICALLY-As mon con.
tlnue to shave and to be shaved. Ca nractice
which some regard as unnatural and undesira-
Bile, we transfer to our columns the following
brief essay upon shaving, which is from the
pen OF so celebrated an authority as Mr. Mechi :.


Never fail to well wash your beard with
soap and water and to rub it dry immediately
before you appl the lather, of which the more
you use, and the thicker it is, the easier you
will shave
Never use warm water, which makes a
tender face. In cold weather place your closed
razor IN your pocket or under your arm to
warm 1t. The moment you leave your bed
(Or oathl is the best time to shave
Always wipe your razor clean, and strop it
before putting 1t away; and always pat your
shavIng-brush away with the lather on it.
The razor (being only very fine saw
should be moved in sloping or saving direc-
ton, and held nearly fiat to your face. care
beng taken to draw the skin as tight as possi-
bic with the left hand, so as TO present an even
surface, and throw out the beard.


The practice of pressing on the edge of
razor in stropping it soon rounds it the pres
sure should be directed to the back which
should never be raised from the strop. IF YOU
shave from heel to point of the razor. stron il
from point to heel but if you begin with the
point in shaving, then strop it from heel to
point


IF you only once put away your razor with
out stropping it, or otherwise perfectly clean
ing the edge, you must no longer expect to
shave well and easy, the soap and damp so
soon rust the fine teeth and edge.


"A piece OF soft plateleath should always
be Kept with razors to wipe them with"
Year: 1872

There was once an old elder who during a
revival prayed for several consecutive nights
tor the conversion of party of young men
noted for their wild ways, calling each youth
by name. After a time one of them expe-
rlenced religion. This fact the elder forgot
the next night when making his usual petition
for the party, and mentioned his name with the
rest. Noticing it, however, as soon as the
name had passed his lips, he opened his eyes,
your pardon, John Brown; forgot that YOU
had been converted" shut his eyes, and went
on with his prayer as if nothing had hap
pcned.
Year: 1872

No from my long time silence you would win,
And ask me, greetings over how I've been
since those long weary days of vexing doubts,
of,..sopin- weird bewildering "ins and outs"
TN toll Won this: Ny lie flows calmly now.
No LONGER do question when or how,
Or Ubv. or which, but taking every thought
Ard laying them together. all I've brought.
To C,ne who understands them all.
;rto his wisdom have let them TALL,
He'll see to them only go my way
Doing the given task each day
What my hand finds to do, as know how,
Winning all use and sweetness from the Now,
In this content, that il do not find
All that crave-my Father-friend is kind
He gives me what need aud lendeth He
OF happiness all that is good tor me.
Men pride themselves much to go alone
To rule themselves, even like to own
At last they cannot save themselves but l.
am of other mind. would rely
On One who cannot be in doubt or fear
Who when cry for help, to help is near.
want some sure defence, some certain way,
Some wiser guide some other lips to say
That poison is. and that keen pain will bring.
And there is noxOus air, and there a sting
that am weak would grasp certain strength.
And this that long I've sought, I've found at ennth
So take my answer friend and let II he
The key to all the change you find in me.
My tired heart rests at ho ne-its long long quest
For happiness is er. Peace bides, heavenly suest


METHODIST HONE JoURNA
Year: 1872

WHINING.-There is a class of people in this
WORLDLY no means smsll-whose prominent
regularity is whining. They whine because
they are poor; or, if rich, because they have
no health to enjoy, their riches they whine
because 1t IS too shiny; they whine because
they have mo luck, y and others prosperity
exceeds their; they whine because some friends
have, have died and they are still living the whine
6ecaus they have aches and pains, because
they whine, and they whine no one can tell whv
Now we would like to say word to the whin-
ing persons. First, stop whining-it is no use,
this everlasting complaining, fretting, fault
binding and whining Why, you are the most
deluded set of creatures that ever lived Do
you know that it is well-settled principle of
physiology and common sense that these
habits are more exhausting to nervous
vitality than almost any other violation of
physiological law And do you not know that
life is pretty much as you make it? You can
make it bright and sunshiny, or you can make
1t dark and shadowy. This life is only meant
to discipline us-to fit US for higher and purer
state of being. Then stop whining and fret
ting, and go on your way rejoicing.
Year: 1872

An old fashioned woman remarks, with
pathetic retroSpectiveness Il can remember
when eight yards of print, and ten or twelve
hours work, without sewing machine, would
make dress, which required only pretty
collar black silk apron and brooch to
arrange it into very neat toilet. But that
was when ladies did hOusework in the fore
noon, dined ia the middle of the day, occupied
themselves in sewing in the afternoon, and had
tea at six O'Clock"
Year: 1872

A lady says engagements are very unsatis-
factory sort of affIirs. for if you are not very
polite and attentive the gentleman thinks YOU
do not care for him, and you are afraid to be
polite for fear the engagement might some
time be broken off, when you would be sorry
to think you had wasted so much sweetness on
some other woman's husband.
Year: 1872

No, ecclesiastical movement of the dav
promises so much of permanent good as does
the, crusade of some leading Roman Catholic
prelates against intemperance. 1t is unoues.
tionably true that there is greater number of
people addicted to the Incorporate use of
liquors in the Roman Catholic Church than in
any other in this country, and it is also true
that there is no other church in which the
clerical influence is so strong, and SO when such
men as the Bishop of Savannah aud the
Bishop Of New York give themselves to the
active advocacy of temperance, the result can
not fail to be good one for their people and
for the community at large.
Year: 1872

The people of Kansas think hanging about
worst use man can be put to, and so both
houses of that States legislature have passed a
bill making imprisonment for life the extreme
penalty of the law. Juries will not be so hard
to secure In that State hereafter, and it will
probably be found, too, that smaller percen.
tage of murderers are insane than has hereto
fore been thought.
Year: 1872

A bill has been reported in Congress. which,
If it should become a law, will seriously
interfere with the business of the counterfeiters.
There are very few people outside of banks and
large business houses who can not be imposed
upon by spurious treasury or national bank
notes; and as the person passing such currency
can not be punished unless it be proved that he
knew the character of the notes, the traffic 10
bogus money has been an unfortunately safe one


The pending bill requires the officers of national
banks to stamp the word counterfeit ON all
spurious or altered notes shown at their coun-
ters, whel lher offered as genuine or only shown
for examination. The effect of this, of course,
will be to make the time during which a
spurious note can be circulated an exceedingly
short one. and it is to be hoped that the bill
viii speedily become law.
Year: 1872

The New York Standard says it is a strange
TACT that IN churches sermons to young men
are chiefly listened to by young women. II
remarks that: A sermon to young men is
notorlously the occasion for examining the
church with young women In this instance
we suppose the prOverb is reversed, and the
angels rush in where the fools are not particu.
!larly anxious to tread. AT any rate, the effect
is that the class for whom such sermons are
especially designed are either ousted into the
outer darkness of the vestibule, or accommo-
dated With camip-stools in the aisle. The good
sheep and the innocent lambs SO crowd fold
that was not intended for them-at least upon
that occasion-that the poor, forlorn black
sheep are left to nibbe desparingly at the door
posts. Every young woman thinks that she is
born with an inalienable right to occupy the
best seat IN church at sermon for young
men.
Year: 1872

The circulation of obscene books and pictures
has increased so alarmingly of late, especially
among the school children of this citv and
Brooklyn, that stringent measures have be-
come absolutely necessary to check the evil


society, we believe, has been recently and
opportunely formed here to this end, and a
descent was made last Saturday upon some of
the most notorious dealers, several of whom
are now in Jail or under bonds awaiting prose.
cutlor. While the authorities, spurred on bv
this society, may be safely left to bring these
offenders to justice, it remains the duty of
parent and every teacher to be continually ON
the alert to thwart the introduction of this
mUal leprOsy among those intrusted to their
guartianShip 1t is starting but too well
established fact that no child who goes to a
school of any kind in this vicinity, or even
passes along the street with other ch llren. is
safe from the sly distributors of these pestilent
publications. In repeated instances of late,
the most careful of parents and instructors
have been shocked to find such books and pic
lures in the possession of children of nine or
ten years, who had received them as gifts
with an injunction to keep them con 'eaed. and
particular information as to where others
might be bOught-Ne,0 York Tribune.
Year: 1872

In commencing and carrying en-
business two things are absolutely
necessary-mOney and energy. One
is Of very little avail without the
other, and OF the two, energy is the
most productive of results. Com
biued there is little chance for fail
ure, except from those accidental
causes against which no foresight or
calculation is proof. Instances are
frequent where men go into bust
ness with plenty of capital and in q
few years are compelled to suspend;
while on the other hand we see those
who, commencing in very humble
way, soon reach the top Of the lad
der, from which nothing can shake
them, The secret lies simply in the
degree of energy with which the re-
spective business are conducted
The first imagines his capital is to
do all, aud leaves it to work the re-
suits. The second sees that it is the
way in which the capital is handled
that insures success, and works &C
cordingly.
Year: 1872

''The terrors of death have fallen
upon me?" Such are the eXclama-
ton of the Psalmist. And is not
the cry echoed from age to age when
man enters ON the contemplation of
that dread mysterious change which
awaits each soul ere it stands un-
clothed before the Majesty of Hea-
ven? In the joyOusness Of youthful
vigor the evil hour seems distant.
AS the day of life advances the bril-
liancy of its dawn is obscured by
the clouds of sin and sorrow, and
soon the heavens grow blacker.
Where shall q trembling sinner find
hope? Shall it continue thus as long
as life shall last9 Shall the soul 60
down to the grave in darkness? no
hope? no light? o sinner repent;
believe. Precious are the promises,
Trust thy Saviour now, and when
thy feet shall reach the narrow
stream that separates thee from
glad forever, the darkness shall van
fsh, the bank of the Heavenly Ca
na6n shall shine in the evening glow
and thy hope shall meet with its
fruition. who is among you that
feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant. that Walketh in
darkness and hath no light? Let
him trust in the name of the Lord
and upon his God" Comfort ye,
my people, saith your God. Let all
such trust in Him. eat evening
timeit shall be light. ."-As. Ref.
Pros
Year: 1872

Constantinople is the most tenn
perate capital ofits size in the world.
Spending day after day in the open
air, wandering among the common
folk, having at one time several peo-
pie in my employ, even in the biting
air before daylight / never found
any Turk drinking stronger bever-
age than coffee. But that is nothing
to their great annual fast. During
the Ramadan, which lasts whole
month, from sunrise to sunset the
painting boatman, the heavy-laden
porter win touch nothing like food
not even tobacco, and no drink
whatever; and at suDdown will make
up for this abstinence not by a
drunken carouse, but by a large dish
Of pilan and longer smoke of Lata-
kia. To be sure, temperance is q
part of the Turk religion, but it is
not of ours. And the religion-an
imposture as we call it-has some
thing very real in its worship at
four in the morning the year round,
its indifference to "in1idelo gaze,
the heartiness of all its Observances,
the severity of its daily self-denials.
Often have found the shops entire
ly open while the shopman was at
his prayers, and 1 have taken up the
goods to see if anybody would re-
monstrate, and laid them down
again without anybody's interfer-
ence. And how often haYeI 1 watch
ed the thin clad boatman kneeling in
prayer on the wet sand or in the
drizzling rain, "the world forgetting
by the world forgot"
Year: 1872




The great labor OF life, that which
tends TO exhaust men more than all
else, is deciding. Some people will
suffer any other pain readily, but
shrink from the pain of coming TO a
decision. Now this is supposed TO
be wholly an evil and a disadvanta-
geOus thing for the world; but like
most other tendencies of the human


mind, il is avery benificent arrange
ment.-There would be no stability
in the world If the making of decis-
ions were not a very difficult thing.
Wat was decided yesterday would
be upset to-day; and there would be
no long and fair experience of any
thing. Whereas, in the present state
Of human affairs, even If great evil
exists, and many people have recog-
nized the evil, it requires an inn
mense amount of decisiVeness before
The evil can be nprootcd. This
brings into play many high qualities
of human nature, such as long suf-
fering. patience with opponents, and
the exhaustion of reasoning powers
brought to bear upon the evil which
is sought 10 be idestroyed.-ArfhUr
Help.
Year: 1872

One of the first literary men in
the UnGed States said to the writer,
in speaking on the subject of tenn
perance:


There is one thing which, as you
visit different places, wish you to
do everywhere, that Is, to entraat
every mother never TO give a drop
of strong drink to a child. ! have
had to Tight as for my life all my
days TO Keep from dying a drunkard,
because / was fed with spirits
when child. Iacquired 4 taste for
it. Ny brother, poor fellow, died a
drunkard- would not have q child
of mine take a drop of 1t for any
thing. Warn every mother, where
ever you go, never to give drop TO
4 child.
Year: 1872

TRY-No man is likely 10 accom-
plish much who moodily indulges q
responding view of his own capaci-
ties. BY Gods help the weakest of
US may be strong, and 1t is the way
TO become so; 20 resolve never TO
give up a good work till we have
tried our best 70 achieve ii. To
think nothing impossible is the priv
iIege OF faith. We depreciate the
indolent coWardice Of the man who
always felt assured that every new
enterprise would be too much for
him, and therefore declined it; but
we admire the pluck of the plow-
man who, asked on his cross-exam-
ination if he could read Greek, re-
piled he did not know, because he had
never tried. Those Suffolk horses
which will pull at q post till they
drop are worth a thousand times as
much as jibbing animals that run
back as soon as ever the collar be-
gins to press them.
Year: 1872

Some people feel so anxious to
hear everything that will vex and
annoy them, they set about search
ing and finding it out. If all the
petty things said of one by needless
or ill-natured idlers were to be
brought home TO him, he would be-
come a mere walking pincushion,
stuck full of sharp remarks. !
should as soon thank u man for
emptying ON my head u bushel of
nettles, or setting loose Q swarm of
mosquitoes in my chamber, or rails
ing a pungent in my house general
ly, as to bring upon me all the tat
tie OF spiteful people. II you be
happy when among good men, open
your ears; when among bad, shut
them. 1t Is not worth while to hear
what your servants say when they
have slammed the door; what beg
gar says whose petitions you have
rejected; what your neighbors say
about your children; what your RI
walls say about your business or
dress. | have noticed that 8 well
bred woman never hears an imper-
tinent remark. 4 kind of discreet
deafness saves one from not a little
apparent connivance in dishonOra-
BILE conversation.
Year: 1872

Pride has many victims I'm all
ranks Of human society. A cOlOred
woman died few days ago in Al
leghany City, Pennsylvania, from
the effects of white lead, with which
she was in the habit Of painting
herself in an attempt TO abolish the
distinction of her race, She poison
ed herself in the same cause with
the Louisville lady who ruined her
health by having her face enameled.
They were victims to the delusion
that the leopard might change his
spots.
Year: 1872

Dress has a moral effect upon the
conduct of mankind. Let any gen
tleman find himself with dirty
boots, old surtout, soiIed neckclOth,
and a general negligence of dress,
and he will, in all probability, find
a corresponding disposition by neg
ligence Of address.
Year: 1872

HABIr.-The most degraded and
wretched of human beings is he
who has practiced vice so long
that he curses il while he clings to
it; who pursues because he feels
great law Of his nature driving him
on towards it; but reaching it knows
that It will gnaw his heart and make
him roll himself in the dust with
anguish.
Year: 1872

The Chinese opened their kite
flying season by sending up some of
their eoIian or musical kites. These
kites, being strung with catgut,
give out a musical sound,which can
can be heard to a distance of a half
a mile. They have kites resembling
hawks and eagles, cylindrical kites,
kites with and without tails, and in
fact every imaginable kind of kite;
and the amount of comfort they take
in flying them is astonishing to out
side barbarians.' A withered old
man, who would seem to have no
thought but of the amount of filthy
lucre' requisite to keep him alive,
viii sit for hours holding his kite
string and maneuvering his kite, as
happy as a school boy. The Chinese
have passion for flying kites, and
in some cases it becomes q regular
nuisance, as in San Francisco, where
at times so many of the musical kites
are in the air that the noise by them
becomes almostsunendurable. The
Chinaman is content to sit in some
shady nook and watch his kite as il
scars and sings aloft, carrying with
it the written prayer which he gen.
orally sends up to be carried away
by the messengers of the gods.
Year: 1872

The Spanish are delighted because
the system OF trial by jury is to 90 into
operation throughout the kingdom ON
the lst of December. When they have
found out the degree OF imbecility
which il is possible for jury to attain.
and have had a lew instances of emo
tionai insanity introduced in their
courts. they will sigh Tor the good old
times when killing was crime and
criminals were given short shriit and
"A speedy retribution.-Con, .4dr.
Year: 1872

The prudent farmer will not permit
the manure that is made through the
winter season to 60 to waste, and ii he
is very wise he will not be content with
simply hauling out half dozen loads,
when If it is carefully saved he might
have twenty loads or more to put OH
his land.


Until one tries the experiment, it
seems astonishing that go much manure
could be saved as we have seen hauled
out from one barn during single VIM
ter. The secret ofa large manure heap
consists simply in cleaning out the
stalls, stables, and pens ere,y day, In
stead of once a week or once q month.
BY frequent additions, the value Of the
heap for fertilizing purposes is also
greatly increased. When the manure
has accumulated SO as to be in the way,
the better plan is to haal II at once to
the field.


Practically, every load of manure
hauled to the field, this winter, will add
load ofcorn to the crib. We believe
that the good farmer can just as well
get one hundred bushels of corn to the
acre as to be getting but forty or fifty ;
and we believe this result Is to be OBJ
tanned chiefly by iising manure.


No matter whether the ground has
been in cultivation or not: no matter
if it is the second years ground: a
good coat OF manure will increase the
Weld Of grain. Upon the Agricultural
College Farm, we saG the effect oi
manure on new ground. We saw that
the portion manured was nearly as
high again Tin .Inne), and the stalk.
much larger and stronger, and the col.
or better. than upon an adjoining
place that was not manured. We have
not heard the difference in bushels o.
grain, but we will guarantee that thu
manure counted in the crib In proper
ton to its looks in the field.


We arc satisfied that clover is {
much cheaper fertilizer for our large


Western farms, and our peculiar style
of farming. than is stable manure, or
indeed, any other fertilizer; but this j,
no reason why we should waste thu
manure. Therefore, improve an,
leisure hours by distributing the ma
nure---nOt one or two loads only, bu
twenty, thirty or fifty loads. II viii
pay.--kansas Farmer.
Year: 1872




The thoughtful farmer will remem-
ber that tho. food which he has preserv-
ed for his stock. through much labor
and care, is tMei as wellas food. II he
wishes to economize that fuel, he can
make one half Of it 60 about as far as
the whole would by placing each ami
NAL out of the reach OF storms, and In
comfortable and easy positions in the
barn. 1t Is the hay, the roots, and the
grain that keep up the animal heat, As
the wood does the stove.


December's cold and wind will pen
citrate every Granny in the barn, and
what is worse, finds its way through
every crack in the floor. Stop out the
cold, and you can feed moro stock np-
on the same amount of food. So in .
warm house, withscenvenient arrange
ments for the work, therenwisl be gem
tie words and pleasant faces, where the
graces will find their way.


Because the clouds frown. the winds
blow, and the roads are bad, do not
give up accustomed exercise out OF
doors, agrceble and attractive as the
house may be. Frequent exercise in
the open air is essential 10 health No
matter what the weather is, be il rainy.
blowing, showing or cold, dress ac-
cording to the circumstances, and go
70 with will, filed with cheerful
thoughts and though the jannf be a
brief one, it will kindle y new fame
and produce pure blood. This is for a
person in ordinary health. II it be sll
invalid needing the fresh air, let it be
in carriage, or on foot in mild wealth.
er.


Children usually get plenty of exer-
else in going to aud from school and
those who travel farthest are more like
ly TO he robust and hardy than those
who go only short distances. A per-
sistent habit of going forth in all
weather properly clad will arm us
against the influences of the atmospher-
ic changes which are SO constantly
taking place.


II is we'll to remember that the sum
of what any individual knows is ex-
ceedingly limited. But what Is known
by all of the present age, added to the
recorded requirements Of the past, is
much. Now is the time to read and
reflect, and grasp as much of IL as pos
sible ourselves.