smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

L IOm tQ6 very uTSb, uuQef tUc pOpu-
lar impression probably that the coun-
try was particularly adapted to the
production of silk, special efforts were
made in nearly all the colonies to direct
and divert the attention of the people
to this particular industry; and it is
recorded that the first Assembly that
convened in Virginia under q written
constitution, in 1921, especially occu-
pied itself with considering ''how best
to encourage the silk culture" In 1862
also the Virginia Assembly. with a view
of encouraging manufacturers, offered
prizes for the best specimens of linen
and woolen cloth, and special prize of
fifty pounds of tobacco, for each pound
of wound silk produced in the colony /;
and it was also enjoined that for every
hundred acres of land held in fee, the
proprietor should be required to plant
and fence twelve mulberry-trees. Silk
culture in Georgia also so largely occu-
pied the attention of the first colonists
that public seal was adopted bearing
as a device silk-worms engaged in their
labors; while bounties for the encour-
agement of the same industry were re-
peatedly offered by the colonies of
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
North and South Caroline. 1t is a most
interesting and suggestive circumstance
that this speciality of employment


which from the first settlement of the
country was particularly selected as
worthy of attention, and as such did
receive for nearly two hundred years
from the various colonial and State
authorities an amount of encourge-
ment, through special Legislation,
greater than was bestowed on any other
interest, is the riv one of the great
industries which has never been able to
attain to healthy condition of existence
on the North American continent, and
to-day only exists in the United States
in virtue of a degree of Legislative en-
couragement far in excess of that de-
msnded and received by any other in
dustrial interest.-Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1875

How HORSE HELPED Hrs NEIaHBoR
Not long since, i visited Q friend,
who lives on q fine farm, in q pleasant
town in Southern New Hampshire.
While there. one evening. we rode to
the village to attend q meeting, and on
our way back my friend told me the
following anecdote about the noble
horse he was driving. A few years ago
this horse was kept, during autumn, in
field close by the farm house, and in
an adjoining pasture q flock of sheep
was also kept.


One day while my friend was talking
with Q gentleman by the roadside, the
horse came running toward him from
the lower part of the field, next to the
sheep pasture, and, putting his head
to attract attention.


He took however, no special notice
of this and presently the horse turned
and ran back to the lower side of the
field.


But very soon he was again seen
rapidly approaching, and, on reaching
his master, he again spoke to him, as
horses usually speak.


1t was observed that the horse was
acting in very unusual manner but
still no steps we're taken yet to sscer-
tain the cause of the strange running
back and forth. So the pony again
wheeled and galloped away once more
towards the sheep pasture. And now,
very soon, for the third time, is he
seen swiftly returning.


1t seems that the intelligent creature,
having failed in two attempts to secure
the help he was seeking, determined to
try elsewhere this time and so, instead
of going again to his master, he went to
the farmhouse, that stood near by, and
putting his head through an open win
dow in the kitchen, he again whinnied.


My friends wife, who, it seems, had
noticed the strange restlessness of the
animal, now felt quite sure there must
be some trouble in the field or pasture,
and that the horse was trying to tell
them of this. that they might go to the
rescue.


SO she went ont where the horse was
He seemed pleased that it had attracted
attention at last, and, trctting on be-
fore the lady, he led her down to the
pasture, and, putting his head over the
fence, seemed to say ''Look, look !"
The lady did look, and there she dis
covered that a savage dog had caught a
sheep, and was holding it by the throat,
in spite of all the poor creatures efforts
to escape.


1 hope my young readers will always
try to help those whom they see in
trouble, and that they will be as perse-
vering in their efforts to do good as was
this noble animal.
Year: 1875

The new green, blue, violet and
prune silks are SO dark as to be almost
black, and the new black failles are
coal black, instesd Of blue black.
These, like the colored silks, are of
fine make. They are no longer heavily
corded or repped, and are decidedly
more lustrous than those worn for the
past few years.
Year: 1875

LIVED TT DowN.-An honest black
smith was once grossly insulted and his
character UNANIMOUSLY DETAINED. Friends
advised him to seek redress by means
of law, but to one and all he replied.
''No, will go to my forge and there in
six months will have worked out such
a name as all the judges, law courts and
lawyers in the world could not give me. +"
He was right. 1t is by honest labor,
manly courage, and q conscience void
of offence that we assert our true
dignity and prove our honesty and
respectability.
Year: 1875

A REMARKABLE Doc SroRY.-This
story is told by gentleman who says
its truth is vouched for by witnesses of
undoubted veracity: Some years ago,
while Mr.. Hamilton was fishing near
the lower rapids of the Mississippi, Just
above the keokuk, he observed below
him man bailing but a canoe, prepars-
tory to taking himself, wife, and baby
across the river. At the same time Mr..
Hamilton saw that his Newfoundland
dog was watching the proceedings of
the party. Seeming to comprehend
their intention, the dog uttered q pecu-
liar how, and passing rapidly up the
river for some distance, plunged into
the water and swan diagonally down,
landing on large rock standing out of
the water about midway Of the stream.
After shaking the water from his shaggy
coat, he again watched the party, who
in the meantime had embarked in the
canoe. just as the little boat passed
the rock, it was caught In the rapidly
descending current, and instantly cap
sized. The woman, in falling into the
water, loosed her hold on the child,
which hoated down the stream. The
man caught his wife and wsded with
her to the rock. The instant the child
fell into the water, the dog leaped In,
and in short time was seen in the still
water below swimming with the child
in his mouth, which he carried IN safety
to the shore. Friend.
Year: 1875

Is This Alt
Sometimes catch sweet glimpse Of his face,


But that Is all.
Sometimes he looks on me and seems to smile,


But that il all.
Sometimes he speaks parting word of peace,


But that Is all.
Sometimes think hear his loving voice


Upon me call.
And this Is all he meant when thus he spoke,


"Come unto me :"
Is there no deeper, more enduring rest


In him for thee
Is there no steadier light for thee in HIM


o, come and see u
Nay, do not wrong him by the heavy thoughts.


But love his love.
Do thou full justice to his tenderness,


His mercy prove;
Take him for what he Is oh. take him all,


And look above
Then shall thy tossing soul find anchorage


And steadfast peace;
Thy love shall rest on his, thy doubts


Forever cease.
Thy heart shall find in him and his grace


Its rest and bliss
Christ and His love shall be thy blessing all


Forever more
Christ and His peace shall keep thy troubled sou


Forever more
Year: 1875

as she thought, so hard to fill. The
above is from the files of an old
Cincinnati paper, but the sequel,
as told us by one conversant with
the whole facts, is stranger than
what we have already narrated.


When the cholera was raging ia
our city in 1866 the second wife
was taken very i'll with it, and be-
ing informed by the physician that
she could not live but q few hours
at the most, as she was then in
collapsed condition, she asked that
all go out of the room, excepting
her husband and the housekeeper,
when she told how much she dread
ed leaving her child amongst strang-
ers, and as dying wife entreated
them both to marry again. The
proposition was a strange one, but
both promised, and a few months
afterward, when the second wife
had been dead a sufficient length
of time not to cause remarks, the
two were again married, brought
together after a cruel separation of
so many years, and we believe are
now living happily together in a
cosy West End house.
Year: 1875

ing darkness-this caldron of foam
this shrieking gale, born on the
desolate Canada shore and leaping
across the great lake to howl around
us like gaunt wolf on the trail OF
q wounded deerI
Downtown thank God that
she rises


Up-up!-is the gale to lift us
in its arms and bear the ship away


Waiting-life is at the stake!


One point off-one false move
one moment Of weakness, and those
who search the lonely beach will
find a harvest of death.


groaning--struggl-
ing-so till the mad winds tire of
the battle and fall back, and the
great waves sink down to rest and
gather strength for another fight.


1t is grand-but life is the for
felt M. Quad.
Year: 1875




A man who is very rich now,
was very poor when he was a boy.
When asked how he got his riches
he replied: "My father taught me
never to play until my work was
finished, and never to spend my
money until ! had earned It. II
! had but one hours work In day
! must do that the first thing, and
In an hour, after this / was allowed
to play, and then I could play with
much more pleasure than II had
the thought Of an unfinished task
before my mind, and Il soon be-
came perfectly easy to do 90. II Ia
to this that I owe my prosperity.
Year: 1875

Several small dealers on the Board of
Trade who are on the long side
ofthe wheat market, failed today, owing


to the continued shrinkage in prices in
that cereal. A large firm became EN-
btrrassed owing to the action Of one OF
the banks in not discounting their dra +
us was their custom, but it is believed
that they will continue business to.nor-
Year: 1875

Jenny June gives her sex a good
round scolding in her last fashion let
ter. She says that the epidemic for
striped stockings which has been IA
ging more or less for the past two
years has at last taken form which
will speedily put an end to them
among refined women. Luxury in
hosiery, of course, there is no objec-
ton to; if ladies can afford to pay
ten dollars per pair for cotton hose,
there is no law against it, and no rea-
son why they should not. But there
are reasons cogent with every lady
who possesses delicacy and taste,
why should not dress her limbs in
the attire of ballet dancers; why she
should not set herself to stimulate
and encourage the ribald conduct of
men who watch on hotel steps, on
the street corners and at the church
doors for opportunities to make their
Jokes on women who suggest them.
"A lady may wear, as many do, the
finest Of silk, the most delicate of
thread, she may match the tints of
her dress, and thus harmonize every
portion of her toilet with perfect pro-
priety; but when she wears hosiery
only fit for harlequin, and shortens
her dress in front to vulgar extreme
to show it, there is very little of mod
esty or womanhood left that would
not be sacrificed to vanity and love
Of display. The greatest feature of
the new styles in hosiery is their
cost. For a good but not extra quail
ty of gray or brown hose, with an
absurd and flimsy little clocking on
the sides, sl.5O per par is charged,
when 10 cents would be high price
for them in white or unbleached cot
ton. ''For my part" says Jenny, 81
consider these dingy grays and
browns in hosiery very ugly, and
stripes only fit for children and
clowns of n circus. The quicker we
get back to the fine white or ivory
tinted stockings the better.
Year: 1875

came next day by mail. I repeated
the dose in the Tribune and other
papers. This experience taught me
that if I wanted to move crowd
with big rock I must hurl it at
them, and not throw it out in bits of
pebble and sand. From that day to
this have not been afraid to adver-
tise largely and boldly-the only
limit being the time I could devote
to preparing good, truthful advertise
ments and to selecting good mediums
the latter work Of no little diff
Guilty. My success in business has
been abundantly satisfactory to my
self, and, l trust, to my patrons also.
My rule has been: Find customers
by free advertising, and then keep
them by supplying good articles and
by fair dealing; and whatever of sue
cess l have had has been largely due
to the old Tribune clock, which
stopped so quietly and at the proper
time for me.
Year: 1875

If mosquitoes or other bloodsuck-
ers invest your sleeping rooms at
night, you uncork a bottle of the oil
of pennyroyal, and these animals
leave in great haste, nor will they re-
turn so long as the air in the room
is loaded with the fumes Of that arc
matte herb. If rats enter the eel
lar, u little powdered potash, thrown
in their holes or mixed with meal
and scattered in their runways, never
fails to drive them away. Cayenne
pepper will keep the buttery and
,storeroom free from ants and cockro
aches. If mouse makes an Ell.
trance into any part of your dwell
ings, saturate a rag with cayenne. in
solution and stuff it into the hole
which can then be repaired with
either wood or morter. No rat OIL
mouse will eat that rag for the pur
pose of opening a communication
with a depot Of supplies.
Year: 1875

Don't whisper in the sick-room.


When the doctor comes to see YOU,
remember how many pairs of stairs
he has to climb every day, and GO
down to him if YOU are well enough.


When you are sitting up at night
with patient, be sure to have some.
thing to eat, if you wish to save your
self unnecessary exhaustion.


Remember that sick people are no,
necessarily idiotic or imbecile, and
that it is not always wise to try to
persuade them that their sufferings
are imaginary. They may even at
times know best what they need.


Never deceive adying person unless
by the doctors express orders. 1t is
not only wrong to allow any soul to
go into eternity without preparation,
but how can you tell but that he has
something he ought to tell or do be
fore he goes away?


If you have sick friend to whom
you wish to be of use do not content
yourself with sending her flowers and
jelly, but lend her one of your pic
lures to hang in place of hers, or a
bronze to replace the one ut which
she is so tired of staring.


Don't have needless conversations
with the doctor outside of the sick
room. Nothing will excite and irri-
tate nervous patient sooner. If you
do have such conversations don't tell
the patient that the doctor said "noth-
ing" He won't believe you, and will
imagine the worst possible.


In lifting the sick do not take them
by the shoulders and drag them up
on to the pillows, but get some one
to help YOU. Let one stand on one
side of the patient, the other opposite,
then join hands under the shoulders
and hips, and lift steadily and prompt
ly together This method is easy for
those who lift, and does not disturb
the one who is lifted.


Do not imagine that your duty is
over when you have nursed your
patient through his illness, and he is
about the house, or perhaps going
out again. Strength does not come
back in a moment, and the days when
little things worry and little efforts
exhaust, when the cares Of business
begin to press, but the feeble brain
and hand refuse to think and execute,
are the most trying to the sick one,
and then comes the need for your
tendcrcst care, your most unobtrusive
watchfulness.-"Home and Society,"
i8 Scribner tor September.
Year: 1875

He thought he recognized me the
moment l entered the door, but l re-
fused to encourage him IN that belief.
1t was strange town to me; all the
people were strangers, and l was so
far from home that l doubted if man,
woman or child IN that locality had
ever met me before.


The barber smiled tenderly as he
pointed to the char, and then led
right off as familiarly as if he had
shaved me every day for month
past. While mixing the lather he
remarked OH the weather, the crops,
the panic, the lost balloonists, and
other matters, and although did no,
Year: 1875

A black man, with sober vlsage
and white cravat, arrived in Boston
the other day, and went straightway
over to Charlestown. Solemnly he
marched to the foot of Bunker Hill
monument, and took off his hat in its
shadow. Then he called out in q
loud voice, civilian Gravesw and
answered himself, "Here!' and then
he said, "But am free man, by the
grace of God and the proclamation
of the martyr President" He used
to be slave of Robert Toombs in
Georgia, and he had come all the way
to Bunker Hill to get off this little
sarcasm on his old masters wild
prophecy.
Year: 1875

We Inst Sunday witnessed the
performance ola daring feat by Miss
Mosshold, Of Lebanon, ono Of tho
most oxquisitely beautiful girls in
this region: The fllso work for the
new bridge across tho Santiam is
just i'll place, and :rises some
forty feet above the water on the
top of this false work is placed a
single row ofboards, reaching across
the river, from pier to pier and
this young lady on banter, actually
walked this little track clear across
the river and back again. The hight
was SO great, the water so turbu-
lent, and the passage so marrow that
it actually made our head swim to
look at it, and yet the young lady
marched across it as firmly and con
lidently Us if she had been wander
ing quietly through some shady
grove, leaning on hor iimson weeds
stalwart arm.-Aldany (OregonD
Democrat.
Year: 1875

A Connecticut girl baby camo into
the world the other day to find her
rclations so mixed up that she will
never get thom straight as long as
She lives. Her great-grandmother
is first cousin to her g>eatgrnnd
father her step-grandfather is
first cousin to her mother hor
uncles md aunts are her second
cousins, and hor mother is her third
cousin, But Of course tho poor
little thing doesn't know it yet.
Year: 1875

President Grant has beon accept
ing the hospitalities Of Brigham
Young, just as though he was not
living in open defiance of the laws Of
the Uuited State. But since no
made that speech at Dos Moines he
con hardly bo considered responsible
for what he does.--P Portlo,91r
Year: 1875

The tendency of late investiga-
tiOns and experiments is to show


not that we have manured toe
much, but too expensively-that we
have been wasting time, money and
fertilizers by putting costly ingre


dients where they have not been
needed, and where, in many cases,
they have done positive harm. We
have not studied hooks too much,
but nature too little. We have not
observed with sufficient care and
thoughtfulness how fields and for


ests not subjected to mans unwise
manipulatiOns, not only retain
but increase their fertility. We
have paid high prices for nitrogen
in our fertilizers, when a crop of
clover, vetch or peas, turned under
or allowed to decay on the surface
Of the soil, would give us, at scarcely
any expense, all the ammonia we
require. So we have bought pot
ash for application to granitic lands,
where it aboun6s, and frequently
withheld it from the pine lands,
where it is generally deficient. We
shall learn, ere long, by the help OF
practical field chemistry, and vege-
table physiolOgy-analysis by plant
growth and the study of growing
plants-hOw to make our lands, to
a large extent, manure themselves
then they will pay US for the seed
and the labor we put upon them
and will grow richer year by year.
Year: 1875

A QUAKER PRINTERS PROVERBS.
Never send an article for publ
cation without giving the editor thy
name, for thy name oftentimes Sc
cures publication to worthless arti-
cles.


Thou shouldst not rap at the door
Of a printing office, for he that an
swereth the rap sneereth in his
sleeve and loseth time.


Never do thou loaf about, nor
knock down the type, or the boys
will love thee as they do the shade
trees-when thou leavest.


Thou shouldst never read the cop.
y on the printers case, or the sharp
and hooked container thereof, or he
may knock thee down.


Never inquire of an editor foI
news, for behold it is his business 70
give it to thee at the appointed time
without asking for it..
1t is not right that thou shouldst
ask him who is the author of an ar.
ticle, for it is his duty to keep such
things unto himself.
When thou dost enter his office,
take heed unto thyself that thou
dost not look at what may concern
thee not, for that is not meet in the
sight Of good breeding.


Neither examine thou the proof
sheet, for it is not ready to meet
thine eye thou mayest understand.


Prefer thine own town paper to
any other, and subscribe for it i'm
mediately.


Pay for it in advance, and it shall
be well with thee and thine.
Year: 1875

Every little while (writes a cor
respondent we read in the papers
of some one who has stuck a rusty
nail into his foot. or knee, or hand,
or some other portion of his person,
and that lockjaw has resulted there
from, of which the patient died. If
every person in the world was aware
of a perfect remedy for all such
wounds and apply it, all such reports
must cease. But although we can
give the remedy, we cannot enforce
the application. Some Will not en-
ploy it because they think it too
simple; others have no faith in it
when they read it; while oUhers
often think such a wound of small
account and not worth fussing over,
until it is too late to do any good.
Yet all such wounds can be healed
without such fatal consequences as
follow them. The remedy is simple,
almost always on hand, and can be
applied by any one, and, what is
better, is always infallible. 1t is
simply to smoke such a wound or
bruise that is inflamed with burning
wool orWOolen cloth. Twenty min
utes in the smoke of wool will take
the pain out of the worst wound, and
repeated once or twice, it will allay
the worst case of inflammation arising
from wound we ever saw. People
may sneer at the "old wOman's rem
edy'' as they please, but when they
are afflicted just let them try it. 1t
has saved many lives and much pain,
and is worthy of being printed IN
letters of gold and put in every
home.
Year: 1875

1 have seen a young man sell a
good farm, turn merchant and die
in an insane asylum.


[ have seen a farmer travel about
so much that there was nothing at
home worth looking after.


have seen a man spend more
money in folly than would support
his family in comfort and indepen-
dence,


1 have seen a young girl marry a
young man of dissolute habits and
repent it as long as she lived.


have seen a man depart from
truth where candor and veracity
would have served him to a much
better purpose.


/ have seen the extravaganza and
folly of children bring their parents
to poverty and want, and them
selves TO disgrace.


l have seen a prudent and indus
trious wife retrieve the fortunes of a
family when her husband pulled at
the other end of the rope.


have seen a young man who de-
spised the counsel of the wise, and
advice of the good, and his career
ended in poverty and misery.
Year: 1875

1t is a great mistake in female
education to keep a young lady's
time and attention devoted to fash
iOnable literature ofthe day. Ifyou
would qualify her for conversation
you must give her something to talk
give her education with the actual
world, with it's transpiring event
urge her to read the newspaper, and
become familiar with the present
character and improvements of our
trade. History is of some import
ance. Our thoughts and concerns
should be for the present world-to
know what it is, and to improve
the condition Of it. Let US have an
intelligent opinion, and be able to
sustain a conversation concerning
mental, moral, political and relig-
ious improvements of our times-see
that each others feelings, and
thoughts, and actions are pure and
true; then will our life be such
The wide pastures are but separate
spires of grass, the sheeted bloom OF
the prairies but isolated flowers.