smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

In a late issus of tho Augusta Consti-
tutionaist we find the following COM
plimcnt any reference to the Dry Goods
Emporium of v. RICHARDS & Bro, and
take pleasure in transferring the same to
our columns:


IMpRoyEMENTs, ,Up TowN.-We are
glad to notice that improvements are be.
While taking walk near tho Planters
Hotel yesterday, our attention was called
to an addition which has been made to
the already large store of v. Richards &
Bro. By the courtesy Of tho first named
gentleman, we were permitted to take q
walk over the establishment. We found
that q large building, four stories high,
exclusive of the cellar, had been added
to tine original editice, making the depth
Of tho whole, from front to rear, one
hundred and. siXtyfeet. The first floor
is used for a general sales room, in the
rear of which is q neat dressing room,
which is set apart for the convenience Of
ladies'. The second floor Of the new
building is devoted to "notions" and
various small articles. The third we
found filled with domestics, calicoes, g.,
while in the fourth story were piles of
wooden goods and other heavy fabrics.
A large stock of goods, comprising all
the novelties of the season, has been put
into the establishment by the enterpris-
ing proprietors, who are determined to
keep full line of everything in the dry
goods business suitable. for the wants Of
Wholesale and retail buyers. a number
of polite clerks are always ready to wait
on customers as soon as they enter the
store, and everything is conducted so
Systematically and well that visitors can
not help feeling satisfied.


Besides this building, we noticed a
general air of Improvement in the yicin-
ity. The neat iron fronts in several of
the stores impart more business-ike
and moderniZed appearance to that por-
ton of the city, and led US to hope that
they were but the iforerunners OF many
Year: 1871

s@ A summer boarder "a very close
calculator) recently astonished the land
lord by asking him how much he was
going to deduct from lis board because he
had two teeth eXtracted.-Next
Year: 1871

I WISH to call the attention of youths to
the importance of beginning life with
some definite purpose in view. With an
perience of half century, my observation
has led me to the conclusion that the
great mistake of large proportion of men
and women is their not starting Alright
in not duly considering in the beginning
what they are fitted for, or what their aim
should be. Boys are put into an occupa-
ton temporarily, or permanently, as 1t
were, by accident without thought of
their tastes or capacities, or any idea OF
whether the occupation is one of useful
ness to society, or even proper for them
selves.


think that to be of real use should be
the first thought in laying plans Of life,
and the prosperity of the individual will
follow as a natural consequence. l see
too many persons who grow up to man
hood with no trade or regular business,
except such as they may happen to light
upon, depending upon some kind of specu-
lation in what more Industrious persons
produce, instead Of applying themselves to
produce food, or such articles of necessity
as mankind are constantly demanding.
Such persons are the ones loUdest in their
complaints of 'hard times and the difficult
ty of getting along" A word to the wise
is sufficient-Rurdl NeSo Yorker.
Year: 1871

Fer about a week past few rough
looking shaTpes from New York have
been operating in this vicinity, swindling
the farmers by what is known as the cloth
dodge They went around by twos, and
played their game in the following man
ner: One of these two would go to house
and offer for sale piece of cloth at very
low price. If he sold the cloth there his
pal would reach the house soon after he
left it, and ask the inmates whether a man
had sold them any cloth. When the cloth
was shown to the second conner, he would
instantly claim it, saying that it had been
stolen from him, and the purchasers, to
avoid being implicated in any trouble,
would of course surrender the cloth, and
lose what they had paid for it. 1t is said
that these sharpers made Newburg their
headquarters, but carefully RETAINED from
practicing their little game here. Police
Officer Andrews has been watching them,
not liking their looks, but not being able
to bring anything directly against Inem
until to-day. But they left town for New
York last night leaving, it is said,
some unpaid bills behind them. If ex-
changes will refer to the dark ways" of
this gang of New York gentlemen, who
live by their wits, at other peoples ex-
pense, farmers in other sections may be
put on their guard against the swindlers.-
Nesc6urg Journal.
Year: 1871

TRUTH is one of the rarest of gems.
Many youth has been lost in society by
allowing it to tarnish his character, and
foolishly throwing it away. If this gem
still shines in your bOsOms, suffer nothing
to displace or diminish its lustre. Pro-
family is a mark of low breeding. Show
as that man that commands much respect; /;
an oath never trembles on his tongue.
Read the catalogue of crime. Inquire the
character of those who depart from virtue.
With but few exceptions you will ind
them to be profane. Think Of this and
do not let vile word disgrace you.
Year: 1871

of the opinion that the working of the
needle and thread through the system caus-
ed the dizziness with which Mr. Day has
which tells this story, adds that since the
operation Mr.. Day feels greatly relieved
and is improving in health.


A STRIKING instance of progress, or de-
generation, as some view it, is noted in
England. A London paper says twenty
years ago the name of the favorite in the
Derby was household word' in every
English home for weeks before the race
was run Now nine persons out of ten
are ignorant of his name. The turf seems
to be fast following the foot steps of the
prize ring, and will probably at last be
landed in the same slush. It has made so
many peers bankrupts and so many SER
wants thieves that both lords and foOtmen
now are cautious of meddling with it.
What was regarded as "noble pastime,"
Is now no longer "pastime," but q mat
ter of business, conducted by low gam
blers in spirit of gain, and not as trial
of strength, speed and skill between we'll
bred and highly trained animals.


A PORTLAND (AIaine) paper tells how
an expert" identified forged signature
The witness testified that his name as ap-
pearing to one of number of notes was a
forgery, while the ablest experts declared
that they could see no difference in the
signatures. The witness persisted that the
one he designated was forgery. Careful
tests were applied, the notes were shuffied
and dealt to him, but he instantly picked
out the fraudulent paper. The notes were
then overlaid in such manner as to show
only the attested names, and without a
moments hesitation he drew out the same
paper. Every test which the ingenuity of
the lawyers could devise was applied,
with the same result, and the case went to
the jury. After the case was closed, one
of the counsel gave the papers careful
examination, when it was found that the
disowned signature had been punctured
with pin between the letters, but the
mark was so exceedingly small that it had
escaped score of prying eyes; yet to the
witness experienced vision it was as
plain as a pike-staff"
Year: 1871

than has ever been contributed to its stock
by all that have gone before. And he
often reminds Emilia that she has TO thank
him for getting so good husband. If it
hadn't been for him she might have mar
ried that sickly student-Scri5ner,
Year: 1871

Reflect that a sound mind and body are the
mostineccssary requisites to promote cDnnllbini
happiness, Indeed, without these tho journey
through life becomes 81 weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkcns, to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that tho happiness OF
another is bIighted with our own
Year: 1871

. Tho. symptoms of Liver


Complaint are uneasineSs


and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in tho


shoulder, and is mistaken
for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costivo, some
times alternating with lax
1 with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


Of memory, accompanied


with painfulsensation of hay


ing left undone something


which ought to have been


done. Often complaining or


weakness, debility and low
Spirits. Sometimes many or
Year: 1871

Committee be win Immediately give notice for week In
republican daily papers OF the time and piaes OF
meeting Of the delegates TO ,he General Committee at which
meeting Mr. Horace Greeley chairman of the present Ne
publican General Committee, in his absence Mr. William
orton shall preside until the election OF the permanent
chairman.


Carried by q TO 8.


Whenever the General han have been duly or
canzed the function and authority OF this Repu
can General Committee of the city OF New York and the
several Assembly district associations at present organ
lied sha and said committee and associations shall
be osbandod and all authority for conducting the q
The republican, party In the city and county Of New f9rk
shall be vested tho Commiseee ana Assembly DIS
trict associations he einbcfore provided


Adopted by 81 to s.


The Hoa MIR. Lafllin then offered the following
resolution


Resolved That the report Of the subcommittee be and me
hereby accepted and the recommendations adopted
amended by the action OF the Committee and the reenro
mcnt ard reorganization therein provided for Is hereby
directed to be made and that the Executive Commee u
also hereby directed and empowered the same INTO
effect at the earliest practicable moment In accordance win
the of the report OF said 10
amended by his Committee, and In case either HON.
Greeley or hon. w. Oron decline TO serve the sa'a eo
fnittee shall I'LL such vacancy.
Adopted by 20 to 8.
| The meeting then adjourned sfnedse.
Year: 1871

No mind mighty enough to control the
tide Of affairs and grapplc with the demon
Of destruction in unhappy France has yet
arisen. Out Of devastating war with
foreign foe, she hassplunged into fra
tricidal struggle that promises nothing
but human misery and woo-a whirl-
pool Of passion, spending its fury upon
itself The attempt 10 establish . repub.
lic has served only to iuaugurato q war,
the object and end Of which, the leaders
themselves cannot foreseo. It Was hoped
that France might escape this sad fate
that some statesman equal to the cmer'
Gency might arise --some mind thai
could mould the popular will. turn the
attention Of the people from war to their
vineyards once moro, and that though
she might not be as proud as Of yore. Of
Weld such power among her nsighbors
she might at least Be happy.


But no such guardian spirit hoverl
over that joyless land. Ruin frown'
from not distant future, and the worlt
looks on with pity. From many hear
goes forth the prayer, "God save IN
happy France"
Year: 1871

SMARTNEss.-There is hardly a young
man that goes out into life, who does
not want the reputation of being smart
before he is smart. There is hardly a
single circle in which you see half a
dozen young men, that you do not see
them aping something making believe:
putting on airs" as the saying is.
They wish to have the appearance of
bravery, position, or something else,
which they have not attained. They
are not willing to creep before they walk.
The very beginning of life develops a
tendency in men TO false appearances !;
10 insincerity to an estimation which
is radically unmanly; to desire to have
what does not belong to them what
they have no right to claim by reason of
anything they are, or that they have
been. To be without pretense, to desire
to have only that which you can legit-
imately lay claim to, be it OF praise, of
sympathy, of reputation, of means to
have a manly pride, by which you shall
be the factor of that which is your own
possession-that is thoroughly salutary.
An honest manhood scorns pretense and
appearances. These are the signs of
unripeness, not only, but they are vicious,
bad signs IN child.
Year: 1871

Stove POLISH. But few are aware Of
the great value of polish on stoves. |
have from mulch experience been demon
strating with regard TO whether it is
beneficial or not TO buy stove polish for
stoves. live in village and buy my
wood, hence it is neoessa y that should
be as economical, as is for the best. l
have used my stove without Polish and
then used it with polish. and know that
any person can not expend money to q
better advantage than to keep their
stoves well blacked, it not only takes
much less wood, but radiates more fead'
lily, and makes the stove an Ornament to
a room. None will deny but what .
new stove radiates, throws out more
heat, than an ole! one; all on account OF
being fitted up. Ladies, do not let your
sto, es go unblacked. Gents, supply ysdr
kitchen maids with stove polisb'
Year: 1871


II is ever ceascless striving


That makes life noble thing
striving for the good of Others,
That doth blessings on us bring
IL we feel for those that suffer.
And can sympathize with pain. ....
stronger grows our better nature


To endure and toll again.
AS the mist from OF the ocean
~, comes to earth again in rain,
ohai Natures laws but show us
Ihat her seeming loss Is gain.
30 mat II years are spent in toiling.
Making paths for other feet,
Weary not, for soon or later,


Ihou thy rich reward shall meet
hen while earth is full of sorrow.
And we know the stroke of woe.
ne thIne earnest, calm cndeayor.


kindness. hope and love TO show,
Help to raise the struggling spirit


Bound by want and misery fast
Flll thy life with holy action,


God will crown you at tie last
Year: 1871

SENSIBLE WORDS ABOUT ADVERTISING,
The following is from the financial
article of the Journal of Commerce,
New York:


"People who sit netvUusly In uounting.
houses, or behind their goods, waiting
for customers TO take them by storm,
and making no effort to let the world
know the bargains they have to offer,
will find the s.asOn very unpropitious,
Many of those who have spent large
sums in hiting drummers and paying for
other well known appliances of trade,
have effected larger sales but swallowed
up too large Il share of the receipts in
such enormous attendant expenses.


The best rnmiineratiUn las been found
by those who have returned to more
Legitimate old-tashioned methods OF
pushing their business. We say it, not
simply because we are interested in this
line of expenditure, but as our best ad-
vice to all who wish to be etterprisihS,
and to secure Il larger custom, there is
nothing now so effective as advertising.
A little advertising may be like gentle
touch of the whip to poor Dobbin's
horse, mercy thrown away !" but a
liberal outlay is almost certain to bring
it iu large return, and this will last
even beyond the current season. We
do not believe that any one who has
valuable sefsiue or desirable property TO
offer, can tail OF reariiig rich harvest
by continuous liberal advertising.
Year: 1871

BE A MAS.-Foolish spending is the
father of poverty. Do not be ashamed
OF work, nor of hard work. Work for
the best salary or wages you can get,
but work for half price, rather than idle.
Be your own master, and do not let So
ciety or fashion swallow up your indi.
viduality-hat, colt and boots. Do not
eat up or wear ont all that you can earn:
Compel your selfish body to spare some
thing for profits saved. BE stingy to
your appetite, INT mer6iful to others.
Help others, and ask no help from 9th.
ers See that you are proud. Let your
pride be of the right kind. Be too proud
to be lazy too proud TO give up with;
out conquerins every difficulty too
proud to wear coat that you cannot
afford to buy too proud to be in com'
pany that you cannot keep up with Ill
expenses too proud to be stingy.
Year: 1871


In the regular evening meeting


That the church holds, every week,
One night listening angel sat


To hear them pray and speak


1t puzzled the soul of the angel


Why some to that gathering came,
But sick and sinful hearts he saw,
- With grief and guilt afame.


They were silent but said to the angel.
While. doubt, with duh, vague, throbbing


stirred through their spirits dim


You could see twas the regular meeting,


And the regular seats were filed,


And all knew who would pray and talk,


Though any one might that willed.
From his place in front near the pulpit,


In his long-accustomed way.
When the Book was read and the hymn was


The Deacon arose to pray
First came the long preamble


If Peter had opened so,


He had been, ere the Lord his prayer had


Full fifty fathoms below


Then volume of information


Poured forth. as if TO the Lord


Concerning His ways and attributes.
~ And the things by Him abhorred.
But not in the list of the latter


Vas mentioned the mockiDg breath
OF the hypocrite prayer that is not prayer,


And the make-belieye life in death. Hss
Then he prayed for the church; and the pas
:. And that g souls might be his hire p
Whatever his stipend otherwise


And the Sunday school; and the choir;
And the swarming hordes of India;
rs5i And the perishing. vile Chinese:


And the millions who bow to the Pope of


Rome; t3ls4'l+2 ~ ~ 7l34la1


And the pagan churches of Greece;
And the outeast remnants of Judah,
q or whose guilt he had much to tell
He prayed. or he told the Lord he prayed,


For everything out of he'll. za
Nowsff all ef that burden had really
Been weighing upon his SOUL


Twould have sunk him through to the China
And raised a hill over the hole.
- gi+ =
/ g Twas the regular evening meeting,


And the regular prayers were made,
That only the silent prayed


NINETY-NINE IN THE SHADE,
oh, for a lodge in garden of cucumbers;
Oh for an iceberg or two at control;
OH for vale which at midday the dew cum
Oh for a pleasure trip up to the Pole
Obi for little one-story thermometer.
With nothing but zeros all ranged in row; {,
OH for a big double -barreled hydroneter, -,
To measure this moisture that rolls from my
49, brow a5s.as5s 1s5s sl.as
OH that this cold world were twenty times
(That's irony red hot it seemeth to me;
Oil for turn of its dreaded cold shoulder;
On! what comforter an ague would be.
Oh for grotto to typify Heaven,
Scooped in the rock under cataract vast;
Oh for a winter of discomfort, even-
OH for wet blankets judiciously cast.
OH for chill that would be perpetual.
(Or at least till the Summer is o'er;)
Then the fever may come in as efectual 5gs.
And last Until Winter is with us no more :,
Year: 1871

A STORY is told of an editor who
died, went to heaven, but was denied
delinquent subscribers, and bad feel
ing be engendered in that peaceful
cline. Having to. go somewhere, the
editor next appeared in the region Of
admittance, as the place was full Of
delinquent subscribers. Wearily the
editor turned back, to the celestial city,
was met by the watchman at the por-
tails with q smile, who said; "I was
mistaken: you can enter there Is not
"a delinquent subscriber in heaven"
Year: 1871

iSHREwD.-America merchants have
a reputation for sagacity, and acute-
ness, but there are few. of them that
can surrass in that respect the gentle
man Of whom good story1is told in
the English papers. b Hens a amerchant
in London, and lately found that q ri


val ablishment was using his brains
for lis own benefit, and at, the same
time forestalling him in the mark ct by
copies of his telegraphic
orders from an operator, by bribery.


He at once wrote privately to his
agents always to act contrary to his
orders, and then went to work exer-
cising his brains at once for his own
benefit and the injury of the wrong
doer. He mot only got the fun benefit
of his ownaforesight and tact, but was
obtaining a poetical revenge upon his
rival, and in three months had him in
the Court Of bankruptcy, and his own
concern went on prosperOusly. 10
Year: 1871

The Milwaukee Ne3CS says: tsa-, sfd


A lady on the South Side,sswhose
name is, suppressed out of aconsidera-
ton for the feelings of her family,
yesterday met with singular accident.
Her temper was considerably excited !;
she had been glowing" the children,
her neighbors, a hired girl, and every
thing in general, when her husband
entered and interposed in the fury of
her scolding fret by a mild word
This added fuel to her temper, she
opened her for an angry reply,
but q spasm contracted her cheek her
lower jaw fell, and she could neither
speak, nor shut her mouth, but re-
manned in that condition, her tongue
hung out and her eyes nearly started
out of their sockets.soO On examination
being made, it was found chat she. had
dislocated her jaw bone in her violent
effort to speak a stingihg reply to her
husband. teShe presented q pitiable
and yet ludicrous sight till q surgeon
was called, who reduced the ,disloca-
tion, bound up her head, and pre-
scribed a Cruel diet, for the reason that
she will not be able to get anything
else in her mouth for for fortnight or
so. -
Year: 1871

coTEMPoRARY records that nice young girl
at Green Bay, Wis. was being courted by nice
young man He was generously inclined, and
made her presents of hair oil, which be purchased
from the store of the father of his adored. After
giving her some twenty bottles of the oleaginous
mud, be discovered that he was working in a
clrcle-as fast as he presented them she returned
tuem to the store, thus dutifully making trade
for her father.
Year: 1871

WEATHER PRoPHEcTEs.-The Stockton RepuJ-
lican has the annexed good burlesque on the
''wet weather signs which so abound. 1t says
" Here is another wet weather sign: The In-
dams in Kern county say we are going to have a
heavy winter. They arrive at this conclusion
from the fact the bear tracks are deeply indented
in the ground. The reason why the tracks are
deep is because the bear is heavy; the reason
why the bear is heavy is because be is fat, and
the reason why he is fat is because he has made
himself SO in anticipation of the long winter
during which he will have to hole himself up and
live off his own greasiness. 1t is barely possible
cause and wherefore in this story, but its cheap
and favors rain"
Year: 1871

There is beautiful propriety in
the order in which singing birds
fill up the day with their pleasing
harmony. The accordance between
their songs and the aspect Of nature,
at the successive periods Of the day
at which they sing, is so remalka-
bic that one cannot but suppose it
to be the result of benevolent de
sign. First, the rohin-not the
lark, as has been generally i'm
agined-as soon as twilight has
drawn an imperceptible line be-
tween night and day, begins his
artless song. How sweety this
harmonizes with the soft dawning
Of the day! He goes on till the
twinkling sunbeams begin to tell
him that his notes no longer accord
with the rising sun. Up starts the
lark, and with him variety of
sprightly songsters, whose lively
notes are in perfect correspondence
with the gayety of the morning.
The general warbling continues,
with now and then an interruption
by the transient note of the raven,
the scream of the jay, or the pert
chattering of the daw. The night
ingale, unwearied by the vocal ex-
ertions of the night, joins his in
feriors in sound in the general
harmony. The thrush is wisely
placed on the summit of some lofty
tree, that its piercing notes may be
sottened by distance before they
reach the ear; while the mellow
blackbird seeks the lower branches.
Should the sun, having been eclipsed
by cloud, shine forth with fresh
etlulgence, how frequently we see
the goldfinch perch on some bios
somed bough, and hear its song
poured forth in a strain peculiarly
energetic, while the sun, full shin
ing on his beautiful plumes, dis
plays his golden wings and crimson
chest to charming advantage. In
uecu, DufSt OF sunshine III Il
cloudy day, or after heavy shower,
seems always to wake up a new
gladness in the little musicians and
incite them to an answering burst
of minstrelsy. AS evening ad
vances, the performers gradually
retire, and the concert softly dies
away. At sunset the robin sends
up his twilight song, till the still
more serene hour of night sends
him to his bower Of rest. And
now, in unison with the darkened
earth and sky, no sooner is The
voice Of the robin hushed, than the
owl sends forth his slow and solemn
tones, well adapted to the serious
hour.