davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
National Republican., 1874-04-02
DEAD BUT NOT BuRLED.

When friend dies and Is buried there's an
end of him. We miss him for a space out OF
our daily existence /; we mourn for him by de-
grees that become mercifully less we cling to
the blessed hope that We shall be reunited in
some more perfect sphere; but, SO far as this
earth Is concerned, there's an end of him.
However near and dear he was the time arrives
when he does not form o part of our daily
thought; he ceases to be even an abstraction.
We go no more with flowers and tears into the
quiet cemetery; only the rain and the snow
fakes fall there; we leave it for the fingers of
spring to deck the neglected mound.
But when our friend vanishes unaccountably
in the midst of q crowded city, or goes of on a
sea-voyage and is never heard Of again, his
memory has singular tenacity. He may be
to all intents and purposes dead to US, but we
have not lost him. The ring Of the door-bel
at midnight may be his ring: the approaching
fsotstep may be his footstep: the unexpected
letter with foreign postmsrky may be from his
hand. He haunts us as the dead never can.
The woman whose husband died last night
may marry again within Q lustre Of months.
Do you suppose week passes by when the
woman whose husband disappeared mysteri-
ously ten years ago does not think of him
There are moments when the opening Of door
must startle her.
There is no real absence but death.-Ahantie
Monthly.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
rHE.nnnR or .LosHu4.

NJ Guerin, who has been engaged for the
French government in scientific researches in
Palestine, has recently read paper geograph-
ical congress at Lyons, describing his discovery
of the tomb of Joshua, the son Of Nun. The
tomb, he states, is situated at Tgne, the heri-
tage of Joshua. Iu the hill at this place are
many tombs, and this one hasa yestibule, into
which the light of day penetrates, supported by
two columns, while the place is furnished with
nearly three hundred inches for lamps, and is
soiled evidently from their use. This argues
that some periodical celebrations were held
there. This vestibule gives entrance to two
chambers, one containing fifteen receptacles for
co fins, and the other but one.
In this latter che M. Guerin supposes the
body Of Joshua to have been deposited, and he
thinks he has discovered strong evidence Of this
in the statement that the sharp flint knives
with which Joshua used to -circumcise the
children of Israel at Gilgal were buried in his
tomb. ;On removing the debris which covered
the floor Of the tomb, large number Of flint
knives were found, and on making excavations
at Gilgal, the passage of the Jordan, q number
of similar knives were also discovered. The
pfllars'in the vestibule of the tomb are sur
rounded by o fillet in the style Of Egyptian mo-
numents, and this would argue Q period Of
about the time of Joshua. NJ. Guerin also be-
lieves he has found the tomb of the Maecabees
at Medieh, which, he thinks, corresponds with
the Modin of the Book of Maccabees.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
ALApYs KARDRoRE.

The following is Q curious inventory of the
contents of lady's wardrobe in 1712, with the
price of each article: A smock Of camhric hol-
land, three and one-half els, 20 2s.: Marseilles
quilted peticoat, three yards wide and one yard
long, a3 6s.: q hoop petticoat covered with tab,
a2 15s.; French or italian silk quilted petit
coat, one and one-quarter yards deep and six
yards wide, fl0; manteau and petticoat Of
French brocade, Ell; French point or Flanders
laced head, ruffies, and tucker, ESQ; English
stay, covered with tably, s3; French neck
lace, 81 5s.; Flanders lace handkerchief, a10;
French or Italian flowers for the hair, &c; an
ItaHan fan, a5; English silk stockings, a1; En-
glish shoes, GO TO-; French girdle, 15s.; cam
brick pocket-handkerchief, 10s.; French kid
gloves, Is. 3D.; black French silk Ia mod
hood, 15s.; black French laced hood, e5 S.;
French embroidered knot and bosom knot, a2
2s.; French garters, e1 5s.; pockets of Mar
seilles quilting, e1 S.; muf, e5 S.; sable tip
pet, Els; lining of Italian lute-strings, es;
chread stockings, 10s.; Turkey handkerchief,
e5 S.; a hat Of Leghorn, R1 10s.: beaver and
feather for the foreat, eS; a riding suit with
embroidery of Paris, EAT 10s.; three dresses for
the masquerade, two from Venice, ESQ; dress
from Paris of green velvet, a Ia SzitaHesse, set
with pearls and rubies, 2123 15s.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
AN on USE FoR RANlfERS.

'T remember" says a correspondent of the
Medical and Surgical Journal, ''that when 1
was very young they used to raise blisters
with boiled hammers. Old DR.. Twitchell, of
Keene, (peace to his ashes y once wanted to
blister some one in farm house, fa- from
home. He had nothing with him to do It with.
He asked his wife to find him hammer. The
article was brought out, put in tea-kettle
over the fire, and, after the water steamed and
buobled wen, he lifted It out and gently touched
1t to his patient in half dozen spots over the
seat Of pain, with very positive effect. Boiled
hammers were, for many years, used in that
neighborhood for pleurisy; and every old lady
knew nothing was equal to q hammer; and
there was long dispute whether It should be
Q claH-hammer or not. think the yeas
finally conquered -
National Republican., 1874-04-02
TIE NYSTERY OF THE DAUPHLY.


A certain mystery has always shrouded.the
death Of Louis XYPs miserable son. No chap
ter in the grim annals of the revolution is more
revolving than that which records the slow tor
ment by which the vulgar tyrants of the COM
mittee Of public safety wore the life out of their
Wretehed little prisoner. After being used most
Flely as an instrument Of mortal tortue against
his unhappy mother, the boy was given over to
the shoemaker Simon, and for months '7ies
perishins," says Carlyle, with . rather mis-
placed sarcasm, "amid squalor and darkness,
lamentably, so as none but poor factory children
and the like are wont to perish, and not to be
lamented." In this misery, however, as all the
world believed ct the time, the Dauphin did
die, and the revolutionary government at
tempted to place the fact beyond dispute by
drawing up formal and authenticated docu-
ments certifying his death and burial. The
rights Of the House Of Bour bon then passed to
the brothers of Louis XVI-to the ehfldless
Comte de Provence, afterward Louis XVIII,
and to the Comte d'Arnois, who succeeded his
brother as Charles x, and whose grandson, the
posthumous son Of the Due de Berr, is now the
object of Lcgitimist aspirations.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
PLEA FOR CORSETg

In lecture recently delivered in New York,
Mrs. Walter C. Lyman, while advocating most
Of the views recently advanced BY women ply
sicians on physiology and hygiene, made some
wise notifications. Rnles that VIII apply to
aborigines need exceptions before being adopted
by civilized people. Perverted modes Of living
require, so to speak, perserted styles Oh dress.
While health is largely dependent upon right
diet, It is still more dependent upon right
breathing. A woman's animal spirits and her
endurance are proportioned to her thorough
iLhalations and exhalations. II she be properly
dressed, the ascent Of stairs, as well Of hills,
may be mado conducive to health. God, in
creating particular portions Of the body TO per-
form special functions, did not intend one organ
to perform the work oftwo. Fashion, however,
demands that women crowd the organs Of the
thofax upon those Of the abdomen, compress
instead Of expand the floating ribs, partly dis
place the stomach by the liver, and contract
the space required by the lungs.
But the lungs are to purify the blood. II
National Republican., 1874-04-02
LOKkPHITERS.

The philter of the Greeks was, as its name
implies, a love-potion, and since "all is fair in
love and war;" it was looked on as recognized
weapon not only to be used, but also to be
guarded against. Hence arose the custom OF
applying counter-charms, which, when en-
ployed with the cabalistic songs prescribed for
the occasion, were sure Of success, unless more
powerful one of the order should counteract
the spells of the officiating witch. The ingre-
dents mingled in a love-potion were such that
it may well have tasked all the gallantry of q
reluctant lover to accept the profered cup.
Some of the components most in favor were the
bones of toads and snakes, a portion Of the fore
head of newborn foal, called ''hippomanes," /"
the feathers of q ;night-hawk, the blood of
doves, bones torn from the mouths of famish-
ing dogs, and the strans of the rope with which
q man had hanged himself. Among such q
collection of the materials some
must have had injurious properties. And,
either in qualification of private hate, or to
make good their reputation from time to time
among their votaries, it was in the power, of
the dealers in magic to prepare decoction
which shoZld arrest the reason or even the
flow of life.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
4 LIVELY LETTER FROM GENERAL
SHERMAN

General Sherman has recently written the
following letter to the agent of firm who had
applied to him for the contract to plsee light
ming rods upon the fine mansion which, it was
rumored, he intended to build upon Orange
mountain, New Jersey:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 90, 1874.
If you find the house l am erecting on
Orange mountain please put any quantity of
lightning rods to attract the lightning of
heaven TO demolish it. don't care whether
the rods be round, square or twisted. Any
thing to stop this nonsense. Architects, land
scape gardeners, builders, etc., keep writing to
me about this house, when, in fact, it is much
as can do to make ends meet here-and,
finally, expect to content myself with log
home on the prairies of Kansas or Nebraska
when Congress turns me out to grass. Tell Mr..
Lyon, "who served under me three years, !"
that his experience as soldier should con-
vince him that Uncle Sam is not so generous to
old soldiers as to enable them to have fancy
houses on Orange mountain or elsewhere. I
have q house here, but the city taxes me for It
about as much as Uncle Sam allows me for
rent. How the story got circulated that was
going to build on Orange mountain passes my
understanding, and If you can stop it will re-
gard it as q feat better than protecting me
against lightning. Yours, etc.,
National Republican., 1874-04-02

tasy do not have room TO perform their func-
saon, if the breathingS because Of the wrong
dressing, be light, the blood becomes imper-
fectly purified. Because So many American
women are sedeutary in then habits, the head
is much of the time bent forward, the spine
unduly curved above the shoulder-blades the
organs Of the echest are bent downward. Many
school girls acquire curvature of the spine.
Now If woman cannot be cured Of excess of
inactivity the next best thing to do is to put
them In straight Jacket. Corsets are result
Of modern modes of living. Women, however,
who sit much, or very heshy women, might
better wear them thansufer from diseases that
may result because they lack means of sup
port. A woman who wears corset cannot cit
bent far over. The steels and bones of q corset
distribute the weight which would otherwise
cut into the body from skirts and other bands,
and thus cause q torpid state of abdominal
muscles. Corsets can be so made and so worn
that full and deep respiration can be taken.
1t would be safe to compare halfdozen
women who habitually wear eorsets with q
halfdoZcn who do not.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
4 YOUNG ZERO.

0nsaturday last, says the Norfolk Vireiaian
q gentleman BY the name Of Barnes, living in
the lower part Of Princess Ann county, about
twenty miles below KempsviIle, went to church
with his wife, leaving the house in charge Of
his two little sons, one aged eight and the
other five years. A short time after Mr..
Barnes had left the house o negrol man who
had met him on the road went TO the house
and asked for him. The boys told him that
their father had gone out for'a ride, but would
soon be home He then said that, a there
was nobody ct home but them, he would help
himself to the chickens. He was warned not
TO DO =, hut persisted, and went into the hen
house. The older boy. assisted bv bis brother.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
nfpUnEunH

Ten months in the year the New York Her.
aid derides the President with silly sneers about
Casarism, and other equally unworthy be-
littleing. The other two months are given to
volunteering advice about finance, etc.
The hero, patriot, and statesman, hardly
needs the assistance Of the New York snob.
Now, as heretofore, the President viii do his
duty as he understands it-simply, quietly, con-
scientiously.
The Herald, the World, the Sun, and the
Tribune are quite distrsught at the Indifference
Of the President, who does not appear to be at
sIl cqncerned about New York city.-AR-day
ttv lem. L
National Republican., 1874-04-02
IMPORTANT ORDER IN BANKRUPTCY

IMPORTANT ORDER IN NBANKRUPTCY.
The following order has been made by Judge
Hughes In reference to sales under the bank
rupt law in the Eastern District of Virginia:
]. It is ordered that in sales at public aue-
ton made under orders of this court, where
only the services Of a crier are needed, rea-
sonable customary fee may be paid to such
crier. Auctioneers charging percentage COM
mission are not to be employed except by
special order either of the register or the court.
Q. In all cases wherein 1t is not otherwise
specially ordered sales of real estate made
under the orders of this court shall be made at
the county seats of the counties in which the
estates Lie on county court days of the said
counties.
s. It is ordered that chooses in action of bank
rupts shall be sued upon by assignees in this
or in other proper courts in all cases in which,
if held by prudent individuals in their own
right, suits would probably be brought; and
this class of assets are not in any, event to be
sold at auction until after special report has
been made by the assignee giving reasons for
doing so as to each chose in action proposed to
be sold, and specially approved by the register.
Registers are instructed to discourage lump
ing sales of this class of assets at auction, and
in all cases Of sEch proposed sales, where they
are in doubt, to refer the order of sale to the
court for approval.
4. It is ordered, that advertisements of sales,
published in newspapers by order of this court,
are to be inserted three times week for two
weeks, unless otherwise ordered, and are to be
paid for at rate not exceeding one dollar per
square for each insertion, eight solid lines of
eight words each being eounted as q square.
s. It is ordered, that the registers of this
court do strictly comply with the requirments
of the 4th section Of the bankrupt law, and as
proceedings are had before them forward to
the clerk of the court certified memoranda
thereof within twenty-four honrs in each In
stance after the act has been performed.
Ro. W. HUGHES, District Judge.
RICHMOND, March %, 1874.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
aoop rARLE SAnoR.

Take one gallon Of tomatoes, wash and sim
ner in three quarts Of water until nearlydon
Strain through sieve. Add two tablespoon
fuls of each of these spices, ginger, mace,
black pepper, allspice and salt, and one Of
cayenne pepper. Boil down to one quart. Pour
in one half pint Of best vinegar, and then pass
through hair sieve. Bottle in halfpint bot
ties; cork and seal securely, and keep in q cool
place. 3 fa5s ali ! n 7fEs7J
National Republican., 1874-04-02

took down his father's gun, and finding it
empty, loaded II with powder and two charges
Of shot, when, resting 1t on the back Of q
chair, he aimed at the hen-house door, and
waived until the negro came out. When he
did SO, the boy discharged the gun, severely
woundins the thief, who limped OF, leaving
the chickens behind. He was caught next
day, not having reached home, from the
severity of his injuries. That little boy VIII do
to trust in guarding nropertv
National Republican., 1874-04-02

England VIII be visited the coming summer
BY the Emperor of Morocco At the same
time 1t is announced that firm Of London en-
gineers are negotiating to introduce railways
into Morocco. II Is the story Of the Shah and
Reuter- over again
National Republican., 1874-04-02
SKIP lI.-JoY,

It is Mathilde Eighteen; hair; eyebrows,
waist and things-the idol of Ler parents.
Desolate parentsl They have parted with her
TO him. How shall she forget their first
meetingi 1t was at the altar, the wedding
day. Oh, eiel! He Is not the ideal He is
stout; he is fifty; and his hair-alas I she has
never seen #; she can only caress the curls Of
his wig-but she is the Countess de Sang Froid.
Her heart has not yet beat it expects to. She
win meet rim, that adored ideal, in the whirl
of fashion-at the ball. On, eieI! Oh, rapture
perhaps his arm will clasp her waist; he viii
have eyes; he will look. "0h, mon enfant!
Oh, mon idol tres adore" I can listen to him !.
is 1t not my rightl / am married. am free.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
SKIP III.-RAPTURE.

He has comel who but Alphonse. He loves
her-oh joyi He adores her; her heart beats.
Oh, mon Alphonss tres adore. He is on his
knees at her feet; he presses her hand; she is
his angeHParisian angel; never will he rise
until-he comes-whoi The Count he apollo
gizes for intruding; well-bred Countess; she for
gives him; presents monsieur; monsieur is de-
lighted; Count enchanted; both embrace;
eternal friendship; touching; madame weeps-
emotional. To her husband: All, mon ami, how
tenderlv must love vou
National Republican., 1874-04-02
! must love you.

Madame is unhappy. The eeount perceiyes 1t.
He begs her-implores her for the cause; but in
vain. Hs he sees 1t at last tits .Alphonse.
They love each other; and he-he the husband,
is the fatal obstacle. One tender kiss; one en-
brace; he rushes from her presence; yes she
shall be happy; pan of charcoal; the noble
heart is forever still. Anguish of the countess;
she will weep for him. All her good friend;
her husband; martyr to friendship; never will
she cease to lament him. Detested Alphonse.
Her heart beats no longer; it is a mausoleum
that incloses the image Of the: count. All !
how she loved him: never, never, never viii
she cease to love him-her lost idol = her
treasll
National Republican., 1874-04-02
SKIP Y.=REMoRsE.

Despair of Alphonse. She will not see him,
that adored Mathilde. She will not permit him
to mix their tears; no, their tears shall never
mingle; vainly does he write; in vain he paints
the misery of his bleeding heart. He is frantic
he is resigned IT'S another
illusion perEUs. SANITY martyr to love and
friendship, he will respect her sorrow; he will
importune her no more. What shall he do to
bring peace to his own lacerated hearth He
flies to the Bal Mabille; he dances frantically;
tits the dance of broken heart; tits the dance
Of death; madly lie swings his partner; he up
sets their vis-a-vis; a quarrel; "blows to q
French eftizenI" challenge; they fight he
falls; his tomb is in Pere Ia Chaise. Who bends
over 1t in agony and grief That vailed woman
tits she-the desolate Mathilde; she calls him
from the tomb, and Alphonse replies not.
Probably because he is dead. She falls, and
her sweeping skirts cover the touching and
noble elegy chiseled on the cold stone; tits this
"Alphonse-Sebastian-Y Victor Tout Ceur. .-Tie-
tim de PhoRne,fr.
Moral-Dry your tears-it may not be true.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
UPHOLSTERING, ETC.

UPHOLSTERING, ETC. z.
SPRING GOODS
GEO. wILLNER'S
UPHOLSTERING AND PAPERHANGING
.. STORE,
4ss NINTH STREET,
BETWEEN D AND E NORTHWEST.
J .t
PAPERHANGINGS.
The cnoicest seIecuon ever made of all the DIFF
tereub graoes
INTERIOR ADoRNMENT
as cheap as they be bought at any store in this
city.
CURTAIN DECORATIONS.
FINEST SWISS LACE CURTAINS,
NOTTINGHAM LACE AND MUSLIN CUR.
TAINs.
LAMBRE0UINS
made in the latest styles and best manner. I
GILT AND WALNUT coRNIcEs WITH oRNA-
MENTs.
Large assortment ofFine and Beautiful Designs.
Lace Window Shades,
and SHADES in gilt or plain Of all different coler
in, Scotch linen or painted goods.
PICTURE CORD AND TAssELs.
rrrzNrnuSn
LoTz's PATENT sPRING-BED LOUNGE.
SILK AND WOOL REP CHE
TORE IN SATIN,
or plain finish chIntres, English Linen Damasks for
SLIP COVERS
Tapestry. Brussels, Three-Ply, Ingram and Hemp
CARPETS.
Floor, Table and stair
O1lo1ot1as and Linen.
- !. wines. yni's and es's,.a y
MATING, RUGS AND MATS. a
80 \ = q 10. "A Fl
Psrtie. desirous to improve their residences N
yited to call a.
42s Ninth steet N. W.
u.h.O-T, N, aSsv
National Republican., 1874-04-02
REny1SoRgoEs OF BLUcHER.

Herr Blasendorff, who has become known in
Germany as diligent student of all corre-
spondence relating to Bluchsr, publishes In the
last number of the magazine I'm Neuess Reich,
says the Pail Mall Gazette, an original letter Of
the famous marshal, giving bis own hasty i'm
pressions Of the battle of Liepsic to friend in
Pomerania, Just before leaving the city on the
Goth of October, 1913, in pursuit of the French.
"The two great and glorious days have gone
by" writes the marshal; E'the great Colossus
has fallen like the oak In q storm. He, the
great Titan, has barely saved himself, leaving
pieces in our hands. Poniatowsld was wounded
and drowned. The same is believed of Anger
eau" This seems to be the only mistake Of
the writer.] "Regnier and Lauriston are
taken. On the 10Th, at the close of the battle,
Leipsic was carried by storm with severe loss.
They wanted to burn It, hut got opposite the
Russian batteries and they burst not fire their
shells. On my side the Russians got first into
the town, onthe other the brave Pomeranians.
There never4 was such. battle-l00 cannon
were taken in Leipsic.
Our monarchs-thst Is, the Russian and Aus
trian emperors and our own king-embraced
me publicly in the marketplace, Alexander
pressing me to his heart" The letter then
describes briefly the earlier action fought by
Blucher (who, by the way, always signs him.
self In full as Bluecher) on the 18th at Mock
ern, where he had taken forty guns, an eagle,
and 1000 prisoners, and 1t ends by saying:
Farewell; am so tired tremble all over"
It is noteworthy Us to the neglected education
ofthe gallant old warrior that there are scarcely
three words together without misspelling, and
that his attempt to write French names results
in Augerau for Augereau, and Reonie for Reg
nier. But his unselish contempt for personal
reward is not less manifest, since he does not
allude in any way to the brevet field marshal,
which the king had sent him at the close of the
fighting by the hand of one of the Prussian
princes as the fittest acknowledgement of his
splendid services.
National Republican., 1874-04-02
THE 5rioE1o.als
!. trron s me Iopl.,Ills-c. ,esrp.l.1 ]


A FRENCH NOVEL IN FIVE sKIPs.i
SKIP T.-eRIEF. q
It Is Alphonse; elegant form; exquisite man
ners; ditto moustaches, both of whichare waxed.
He haunts places; Bots de Boulogne-Les Trois
Freres-Bal Mabille; dances like an angela
French one; and he has--ha Z" mile francs dc
rsnte." It is riches, too, that cheer Alphonse.
But he is not happy; his tender heart is 6lass /,
it beats no longer. His last <igrande passion''--
eternal-was consumed IN three daysi What
shall he do, the desolate Alphonsei He sips
"eau sucre" on the Boulevard des Itaiiennes.
His slender and emotional legs recline on three
chairs. A starving woman approaches; bread
for herself, for her child. The heart OF Alphonse
is moved. He has bought yiolets for five sous.
he presses the bouquet into her hand, and is
gone. All, monsieur she exclaims. She ap-
preciates the noble and sublime charity 1t is
q ray of sunshine from the past; the emblem of
modesty has fallen upon her soul. She is re-
deemed through the caresses Of these modest
flowers. She falls insensible upon the pave
ment, and her last sigh, mingled with the fra
GRANGE Of violets, asceuds to Heaven. Nozzle
Alphonsel
National Republican., 1874-04-02
PRINTING.
THG

THE