smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

In Finding Ones Occupation Gone,"
intended apparently to show the impossi.
bility of q man &C ually retiring from all
work, is the following -" The hankering
after old occupations is everywhere to be
met with after the occupations gone"
"Mr. DICKENS, on his homeward
passage from America, had for one of his
fellow passengers an English sailor, q
smart, thorough built man-ofwar's man
from his hat to his shoes, who was on his
way home to see his friends, and who,
when he presented himself to take and
pay for his passage, had been advised to
work it instead and save the money-a
suggestion he secuted with scorn ineffable.
swearing, in sesman's style ofimprecation,
that nothing should hinder his going as
gentleman So they took bis money But
no sooner was he aboard than he slowed
his kit in the forcastle, arranged to mess
with the crew, and the very first time the
hands were turned up, he went aloft like Z
cat before any body. And all through the
passage there he was, first at the braces,
outermost on the yards, perpetually lend
ing hand everywhere, but always with
sober dignity in his manner, and sober
grin on his face, which plainly said, do
it as a gentleman. For my own pleasure,
mind you."
Year: 1871

BY ELIZABETH AKERs ALLEN.
In home nest OF pcsce and Joy,
Bright ard pleasant as home can be,
Lives u merry and sweet faced boy
Under a broad old applc-trec;
Searching wide you will seldom meet
Child so blithsome and fair as he
How can he help being pretty and sweet,
Dwelling under an applc-treel
In the spring when the child goes out,
Glad as a bird that winters past,
Making his fower-beds ali about.
Liking best what he finished last;
Then the tree from each blossomy limb
Heaps its petals about his feet,
And like beni1On over him


Scatters its fragrances, sweet to sweet.
He has only to smile and win
Face more lovely was never kissed
Dear blue eyes and dimpled chin,
Curls that dance in golden mist;
Clrcled ever by tenderest care,
Taught and guided by loves decree,
How can he help being good and fair,
Dwelling under an apple.tree1
In the summer the dear old tree
Spreads above him it's cooling shade,
Keeping the heat from his cheek, while he,
Playing at toll with rake and spade,
Chasing the humming birds gleam and dart,
Wa ching the honey bees drink and dOze,
Gathers in BODY and soul and heart
Beauty and hea tn like an opening rose.
In the autumn, before the leaves
Lose their greenness the apples fall,
Roll on the roof, and bounce from the cave
Pie on the porch and rest on the wall;
Then he heaps on the grassy ground
Rosy pyramids brave to see;
How can he help being ruddy nnd sound,
Dwelling under an apple-tree!
in the winter, when winds are w,..d,
Then st{l1 fAithful. the Atur6Y frea
Keeps it's watch DER the darling child,
Telling him tales of the May to be;
Teaching him faith under stormy skies,
Bidding him trust when he cannot see;
How can be help being happy and wise,
dwelling under an apple-tree:


-0ur P0nnn F0Ik
Year: 1871

the loss of blood and the pain it gave me
to move.


The wolves were once more bowling
around; and l could already hear them
tearing the flesh from the bones Of the
dead antelope The blood was still flow
ing from my arm, and had no means of
preventing it. felt that my time had in
deed come, and mentally raised a prayer
to heaven that it might come before [
should be dev0ureu alive by those horrid
wolves.


Soon they finished their repast, leaving
nothing but bones, and began to approach
the spot where lay. There were but few
of them, however, and these, having
feastcd upon the antelope, were not 80
feroc1ous as those of the night before
though still fvrocinus enough, l knew, to
devour me Instantly. | tndeavOred to
raise myself up once more as they came
very near; seeing signs of life, they drew
back little and seemed to hesitate. l
managed-though not without the most
acute pain-to crawl few feet and place
my back against the bank Of the stream,
where it was four or five feet in perpen-
dicular height; and, grasping my knife in
my right hand, I thus awaited their ap-
proach, determined to sell my life as dearly
as possible.


They began circling around me, occa'
sionally sitting down upon their launches
to watch me as cat would watch
wounded mouse, walking along on the
bank, directly over me, and looking down,
and swapping their teeth within few
inches Of my head, and l expected every
moment they would leap off upon me.


The sun had fully risen, when one moe
bold than the rest sprang upon the dead
panther and commenced tearing out the
flesh. I felt my blood curdle in my veins
as saw his horrid teeth setting into the
dead animal, knowing how soon was to
undergo the same operation.


The time had come. One of the largest
and most ferocious looking of the pack
could stand it no longer; and growing and
showing his chattering teeth In hOrrid
grin, he squatted with the intention of
springing upon me. made an attempt to
raise my knife to defend myself, and l
closed my eyes to meet my fate, when the
sharp crack of rifle rang out upon the
morning air, and the savage brute rolled
over in the agonies of death, while the rest
took to their heels. l was saved!


1t was one of my companions, John Ga
ver who arrived Just in time to save me
from horrible death. He, too, had been
out hunting the day before, and had camped
short distance below me. III his rough
way he dressed my wo1nds and was kind
ly cared for; but it was three weeks before
I could walk. My arm healed, but never
fully recovered the use Of it ; and its SCARED
appearance will always remind me OF
that terrible encounter with the Rocky


Mountain lion.
Year: 1871

Many imagine they must relinquish al
hope of gratifying their tastes, or the In
herent love of the beautiful, if they do
not rank among the rich. This is an en-
tirely false idea There are houses upon
which thousands of dollars have been ex-
pended that would be quite intolerable to
people of real refinement as permanent
residence. The whole arrangement and
furniture are so stiff and formal-so heavy
and oppressive with superAuous ornament,
that simple curiosity to see what strange
vayaries can enter into the heads OF the
rich, and in what absurd manner they
study to spend their abundant wealth,
would seem to be the only motive which
could tempt sensible person to enter.


. On the other hand, we find small modest
cottages, which bear unmistakable evi-
dence of necessity for close economy, that
have more of real comfort and convenience
about them than those splendid mansions;
and, at the same time, they are gems, bear
ing in every part the stamp of true elegance
and refinement. They are SO beautified
by the genuine taste and ingenuity Of the
occupants, that it is real pleasure to pass
from one room to another or sit quietly
and enjoy the sweet enchantment-yet
money had little to do toward securing
such attractions. 1t is the fitness of things
the harmonious blending OF shape and
color, the adoption of the furniture to the
wants of each apartment, that make the
whole combination SO peculiarly de-
lightful. And yet, how and from
what was all this tasteful furnishing
constructed? If some of those persons
hung with the costly dsmask, and their
furniture carved and upholstered by the
most skil]ful and fashionable workmen,
should by chance find themselves in one of
these pleasant homes, they could not help
being captivated by the spirit of the place,
in the absence of style and fashion. The
elegant, airy, graceful parlors, the rest, tho
peace and comfort which pervade the
whole atmosphere, would be to them new
experience, and what would be their as
tonishment to learn with how little ex-
pense all this, which they acknowledge to
be so refreshing, has been secured.


No matter if the purse is not very heavy,
young people, with good health and fair
share of taste and ingenuity, have great
pleasure in store for themselves when they
undertake to furnish and beautify house,
which is to be their first joint home.
There are 80 many small conveniences, 80
manv little contrivances that q carpenter
never thinks of, because he has never had
a weman's work to do, and therefore can
not see how important these little things
are A woman knows just where an hours
work, well considered and planned, can be
employed to manufacture some convenient
thing, that will save much time and
strength, and which, however cheaply
and roughly made, she can, in few spare
moments, transform into an object OF real
beauty.-Mrs IT. ~ Beecher.
Year: 1871

"trouble. and went away. Still the ship
came not. Stately clippers swept into the
gate, and merchantmen went by with col
ors flying, and tho welcoming gun Of the
steamer often reyerberated among the
hills. Then the patient face, with the old
resigned expression, but brighter, wist
ful look in the eye, was regularly met on
the decks of the steamer as she disem-
barked her living fre;ghts. He may have
had dimly defined hope that the missing
ones might yet come this way, as only an
other road over that strange, unknown ex-
panse. But he talked with ship.cap,ains
and sailors. and even this last hope seemed
to fail When the care worn face and
bright eyes were presented again at the
observatory, the operator, busily engaged,
could not spare time to answer foolish in
terrogatories, so he went away But, as
night fell, h. was seen sitting on the rocks
with his face turned seaward, and was
seated there all that night


When he became hopelessly insane, for
that was what the physicians said made
his eyes 80 bright and wistful, he was
cared for by fellow craftsman who had
seen his troubles. He was allowed to in
dulge his fancy of going out to watch for
the ship, in which she land the children"
were, at night when no one else was
watching. He had made up his mind that
the ship would come in at night. This,
and the idea that he would relieve the op-
orator, who would be tired with watching
all day, seemed to please him. So he
went out and relieved the operator every
night.


For two years the ships came and went.
He was there to see the outward bound
clipper, and greet her on her return. He
was known only by few who frequeated
the place. When he was missed at last
from his accustomed spot, day or two
elapsed before any alarm was felt. One
Sunday, party of pleasure-seekers clam
bering over the rocks were attracted by
the barking Of dog that had run before
them. When they came up they found
plainly-dressed man lying there dead
There were few papers in his pocket
chiefly slips cut from different Journals
of old marine memoranda-and his face
was turned toward the distant sea.-Bre'
Harte.
Year: 1871




SIR: The Worlds position is that our mcat-packers
foreign SALT American being shened
preservation and in support Of the position we affirm;


" That American Salt refuses TO form into does tho
saline prou Of the West Indies 1t be the sun be the
may any Of half Of things ,hs. makes The differ
wla do not say but do that the difference
exists


packed ped long transportation packed
in foreign they spoil h.sts work
III Erry barrel ~ pork bf coming York Guy for
sh!pm,at by Inspector Wet India
Let him who thee statements go the deton
arr. neither let him whine, bot go TO ArssrA -"


Though the foregoing has been once printed in THE
TRIBUNE. l reproduce it. that the object of this
communication may be apparent; and feeling that
such assertions, made by so high authority, are a
sufficient justification for again troubling the public
with what appears to me TO be more than thrice
told tale; and dsputing the truth of these allega-
tions, do not feel disposed to 90 TO any importers
of foreign Salt "and ask Them" for the very good
reason that they may be as ignorant of the truth as
is the writer in The World Scientific investigation
is worth something and actual trials are worth still
more-to both appeal.


Prof. George H.. Cook, now OF New-Jersey, is GER
tainly authority as a scientific man. The State OF
New-York once employed him to aid with his scien-
tiic knowledge in perfecting Salt In his report
for 1853 he gave an elaborate analysis of our water
and the Salt made from it, and he also gave an
analysis of the far-famed Turks ISLAND Salt l
place the figures side by side. Chloride Of Sodium
Salt consists of 606S per cent of chlorine, and 1892
of sodium These two substances, combined in
these proportions, standing alone unmiyed with any
other substance constitute PURE SALT but such salt
never is found in any market far as l have been
able to ascertain. Absolute purity can only be ap
proximated Now for the chemical determinations
of Prof Cook (See Salt Supt Report for 1854:
Year: 1871

MEALS AT THE FAIR GRoUNDs.-I. will not
De necessary for any body to bring provisions
along in coming TO the Fair mex. week. The


ladies' Of the Episcopal church have erected a
huge kitchen ard dining hall on the grounds
and have made preparations to feed the whole
crowd. The popularity of their dinners last


year was such as to give abundant assurance
that no one Can 90 amiss Of getting q good
square meal BY calling upon them at any hour.
Year: 1871

The firm Of Alschuler i Co. would announce
to the public that they have determined to wind
up their business and offer their whole stock of
honest Home-Made clothing, Merchant Tailor
ing and gents Furnishing Goods at ia very lib
eral discount for cash, one Of their firm having
removed to Colorado on account of ill health.
Those who are in want of good Clothing are in
vited to call and purchase some CT their we'll
known good goods,-the quicker the better.
These goods must be sold. ALsCHULER s. Co.
Year: 1871

When all the world seems nothing worth
And hope and pleasure fade and flee
When all is doubt upon the earth,
And all IS darkness on the sea,


Where should | come but unto Thee,


Oh God. who keepest me?
This burning soul, 50 long repressed,
That longs to pour itself and weep,
And on some kind supporting breast
To sigh and sob itself to sleep
Where should | bring. but unto Thee,


On God, who nearest me
These lettering bonds of toll and care,
Which make the sinking spirit faint ;
This load which seems too much to bear;
This trembling gush Of deep com


plaint-


Where should I bring, but unto Thee,


Oh God who pjtiest me
This heart that mourns its death above,
That aches with hungry emptiness,
That these poor huSk> Of earthly love
Have failed to satisfy OF bless
Where should bring, but unto Thee,


Oh God! who lowest me
O, Friend beyond all other friends
Q, Love beyond all other love-
Thy peace into my heart desccnds
Ily heart beats calmly As q doves,
When all my woes bring to Thee,


On God who healeSt me?
Year: 1871

sequence.


Strictly ornamental wives are out Of
fashion. and men love, honor, and ale
true to those women who bravely put
their hands TO useful employment to
help in bearing the burdens of life.


Those women who work and wait for
years, helping to make and save the
means for surrounding themselves with
luxuries, feel, when they can ride in
their coach and four, that they deserve
TO ride high and fast in pleasant places
Year: 1871

No calamity so swift aud terrible has
visited New York in many years as the
explosion of the ferry boat Westfeld on
Sunday afternoon, July 30th Though
this line of boats had always been man :
aged with seeming disregard for the
comfort of passengers, the very penurieus-
ness Of the company was looked upon as
a guarantee against any such expensive
explosion. What has been true so many
times, however, has again proved true
those who patch up eventually blow up,
and sixty six killed and one hundred and
and fifty wounded testify to some one S
crime. Various explanations are given
for the dire disaster One theory ascribes
it to "patch on the boiler another to a
flaw four feet SIC inches in length, a
third to the ''corrosin aud neglect of the
safety y-valye," fourth ''too great pres
sure of steam, ffth to the absence of
the engineer. a rigid scrutiny may be
required to FIX the responsibility where
it belongs; but when it is ascertained,
some person or persons should be board
ed for few years at Sing Sing at the
States expense
Year: 1871




Radical Journalism in the South is
confined almost exclusively to those
States where the Radical party is in
power, and has public printing to give
out at high price Their chief bust
ness is to print the State laws, do the
official county publishing, and beslab Der
the Governor of the State with praises
In Louisiana they bear at their head
the words 'Official Journal of the
State of Louisiana Although they
have few readers and little circulation,
they manage to thrive on the official
pluckings some Of them grow rich.
They are, all Of them, exotics, hostile to
the people iu whose midst they are pub
lished, and maintained in their artificial
existence by the patronage extorted from
the State and county treasures of the
ruling party for their special benefit
Two years ago Tennessee was alive with
these Radical journals, fed from the
official printing funds which the Brown
low government had set apart for their
support; but the moment a Democratic
Legislature was chosen, in 1869, it re-
pealed the act which designated the forty
or ffty official papers of the State, and
they we're all snuffed out in an instant,
leaving the Radical armament in that
section as dark as midnight There are
now not more than two or three Radical
papers in Tennessee-simply because
there is no official crib to feed at. There
are some in Texas ard Mississippi, few
in Arkansas, aud a good many IN Lou
isiana; but if the Tennessee repeal were
to be enacted in these States their rations
would be cut off, and the last one of
Year: 1871

Horace Greeley has addressed letter
to the Golden Age defining his views on
the woman question, saying that while
he does not deny that persistent fagitious
adultery Of tire husband or wife affords
good ground for divorce, transient in


fidelity to marriage VOWS under the infu-
ence of passions infamed by wine or
other unnatural excitement should not,
if repented, be adequate reason fordiyorce.
The doctrine of remarriage Of those wild
owed by death should be goycrhed by
circumstances. Ia most cases where
couples are happily united it will be bet
ter in higher life if neither were married
a second time on this planet. The main
spring of his hostility to woman suffrage
is due to this conviction of the proper
indissoiubility of the marriage tie. His
conversion to the movement of woman
suffrage is morally impossible. On that
account he has written little Of what has
appeared in the Tribune editorialy upon
this subject for the last ten years, and
concludes by saying, Il believe our eoun-
trymen are indebted to you for having
discoEsred, perhaps l should say invent
ed, me as a possible though most i'm
probable candidate for the Presidency.
Allow me then to thank you, for your
early and frank demonstration. l can
in no contingency be counted on your
side, fer the women suffrage candidate.
As you forcibly and justly say, there is
not even remote possibility of my uiti-
mately adapting myself to this end, My
difference with your crowd are too vital,
too radical, TO permit the most sanguine
dreamer to hope for conversion. am
growing old, my opinions are tolerably
firm, and an advanced female Of the
Laura Fair type, who kills her paramour,
who she claims to be her rightfui affinity
and gives the liein open court to the wife
she has doubly widowed, is my pet aver
sion. But why should any man be the can
didate for President of the woman suffra-
gists? Logically and consistently l feel
the candidate should be woman. She
ought moreover be one thoroughly eman-
cipated from absurdity, folly, uarrowness
and baleful conservatism which am too
old to outgrow. Could you not tipd one
who illustrates in her own personal his
tory what you so felicitously term the
liberal thought Of this enlightened age.
Let her be one who has two husbands
after some sort, lives in the same house
with them both, sharing the couch with
one bat bearing the name of the other,
to indicate her impartiality perhaps, and
the cause aud the candidate uia be so
fitly mated that there will be no occasion,
even under the most liberal, progressive
and enlightened regime to sue for divorce
Could not one of this class be persuaded
to overbear her shrinking modesty and
nominate herself?
Year: 1871

At present it is uncertain what is our
aggregate Democratic majority in this
State, but it is sufficient to stsgger those
sanguine Republicans who anticipated
such immense gains. The Republicans
have made gains in various counties
throughout the State, but we do not think
from the figures that they indicate any
real change. At this election fer the
first time, the negro vote was cast for
State officers, and it will be readily un-
derstoed. that a largely increased Repub-
licau vote was inevitable. The negro
vote in this State was estimated at from
40 to $4,000. 1t is also true that the
white Republicans turned out better than
they had in any previous election, while
the Democrats. over-conident of victo-
~, failed to vote by thousands. It is
clear that in the Presidential election
next year the Democracy can double or
treble its present majority.
Year: 1871

A French auditor of accounts in the seven
teenth century was great practical joker all
his life, and even played trick after he had
lost the power of enjoying it, for be left four
candles to be carried at his funeral which had
not been burning fifteen mi2utes before they
went off as fireworks.


When lady condescends to practical Joke
it is generally very neat one M Boncourt,
the rich tnancler was very stingy to his wife in
the matter of pin-mOney. One day a lady,
closely yelled and very anxious not to be re-
cognized, called upon him and borrowed a
large sum, leaving her diamonds as pledge.
1t was his wife.


The French thieves sometimes used to steal
SO funnily that even their victims were half in
clined to pardon them


The Duke of Fronsac, nephew of Marshal
Rlchilleu, was coming out of the opera one
pearls. when two thieves managed to cut of
his coat-tails He turned into his club, where
everybody laughed at him, and so he found
out what had happened and went home. Ear
y the next morning well dressed man called
at the Dukes hotel and demanded to see him
at once on matter of great importance.


Monster de Fronsac was awakened.


"Monsier," said the visitor, II am officer OF
police. We have learned the accident which
happened to you yesterday on leaving the op-
era, and L have been sent to request you to or
der the coat to be placed in my hands, that we
may convict the offender by comparing it with
the mutilated tails.


The dress was given up and the Duke was
in raptures with the vigilance of the police
but it was new trick of the rogue who had
stolen the tails, by which he possessed himself
of the entire garment.