davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-22

The great secret Of avoiding
disappointment, is not to expect
too much. Despair follows i'm
moderate hope, as things fall hard
est tc the ground that have been
nearest to the sky.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-22

A pair of white crows frequent
a wood near Greencastle, Pa. I'm
successful attempts have been
made to capture them alive.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-22

The selfish mans heart like a
mans coffin, is just mis- own meas
ure-long enough and broad
enough to hold himself, with room
fo,, IA nnn else
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-22

Good temper is like a sunny day
1t sheds = brightness over every
thing;it is the sweetner oftoil and
the soother Of disquietude.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-22

straps, ana paLTOhlZing Hail d
dozen pretty girls. He nodded
laughingly to Carlyle, and went
on with the sentence which the
new arrival had interrupted.
Leap year, TO be sure it is.
And I may as well state at once
that I'm ready to receive any
propositions you ladies may have
to make"
Nonsense, Gilbert said Mary
Elphinstone, his cousin.
Nonsense, eh? Well, I'm glad
you consider it in that light
don't. | think it's a great shame
the girls don't avail themselves of
their privilege, when we men arc
ready with our blusbes and timid
giances.'
He looked at Harriet Dean as
be spoke, half in earnest, half
jestingIy. John Callyle's eye fol-
lowed the direction Of hisr as by a
sort of fascination and saw the
rose tint mounting to Harrlet's
cheek, and the purple blue eyes
hidden by their white lids. How
long be stood there with a giddy
pain surging through his brain,
and a chill at his heart, IS if a
cold hand was grasping at its
fbers, he did not know; it might
have been FIVE minutes or it might
have been five hours; but he was
aroused by the breaking up Of
the little party, the sound of mer-
ry voices and playful adieux.
Harriet Dean was standing un-
der chandelier, one white hand
resting on the carved back Of a
gothic chair, Gilbert Armour loun-
ging on sofa, where the blue silk
curtains swept over the entrance
to bay window. AS John Car
lyle pressed forward Miss EiphIn-
stone laid her hand on his arm
softly.
tNo-no,' she whispered, arch
ly, don't you see it's an understood
matter with Gilbert and Harriet :?
Give me your arm home, for Gil
bert will never think of me again.
John Carlyle turned silently
away with white lips and clench--
ed teeth. Blind to the wistful
glance that shone through Har-
rie3S's lashes, the uncertain culver
Of her lips.
He was gone, Yos the field was
clear for the newly made lieuten-
ant. He advanced a little nerv-
ously.
Harriet
But to his horror and surprise
she burst into a storm Of passion
ate tears, through which her vio-
lent eyes flashed with ominous
sparkles.
Don't speak to mel! she sobbed !;
don't come near me, Gilbert Ar
mourI I wish you'd 60 home, and
never come near me again"
Harriet !
How dare you call me Harriet,
Lieutenant Armour Not another
| word l don't want to hear what
you are going to say
She held open the door, i'm
perialIy dignifed, although the
tears hung on her lashes, and the
auburn braids, escaping from their
pins, swept her shoulders, and
Lieutenant Armour walked out
crestfallen.
We'll, I've got my Dismissal
quoth he to himself, biting bis long
mustache in impotent wrath
But who would ever have thought
she was such a confounded little
vixen?'
X x x. x >;
You might take off the upper
arm just here: without
whats the use? He won't last
out the day any way, and we
might as we'll let him 90 easily,
even if we had time to waste in
unnecessary operations.'
| I'm not so certain about that
Give the man a chance for his
| life. Where's the ether
You want no ether be is totally
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-22
q
Doetrpp.
VIOLET.

Violet delicate, sweet,
Down in the deep Of the wood,
Hid in thy still retreat,
Far from the sound Of the street,
Man and his merciless mood
Safe from the storm and the heat,
Breathing of beauty and good
Fragrantly under thy hood,
Violet.
Beautiful maid discreet,
Where is the mate that Is meet,
Meet for thee-strive as ke could
Yet will kneel at thy feet,
Fearing another one should.
Violet.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-09-22
( DUE WEST
FEMALE COLLEGE,

More prosperous last year than usual
annually growing in popular favor; twen-
tv-one years under the same administration;
EMPLOYS only the best teachers; depends
upon merit for success; and offers the best
advantages for the least money. $1,000
nays board and tuition for one year. ;
The next College year will open Monday,
the 9Th October.
Send for Circular, to
Rev. J. l. BONNER, President,
Due West, AbbeVille County, S. Z.
Aug. 4, s2-6t.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
"The Mad Poet.''

Such was the name given to McDon-
aid Clarke, a wild, eccentric writer OF
verses, who lived in the city of New
York some thirty years ago.. He had a
talent for improvisation, which he used
to celebrate the charms of those persons
of whom, from time to time, he became
enamored.
A volume of his poems, published by
subscription, contains in the preface
these touching paragraphs:
ST won't poster folks with apologies.
Here's a rough handful of flowers
little dirt about the foots-a tear'n wash
it off!
eff the life of my poetry is whole
some, twill breathe after the wild spirit
that inspired it has been sobered at the
terrible tribunal of eternity, and the
weak hand that tracedit, long wasted to
ashes"
/. In one of these wild moods which
frequently came upon him, when the will
to be sublime was not sustained by the
strength, he wrote these lines on Wash
ington:
"Eternity-give him elbow room;
A spirit like his is large;
Earth-fence with artillery his tomb,
And fire a double charge,
To the memory of Americas greatest man;
Match him, p~osterity, if you can"
He was a regularly attendant on Sun
day church services, and in one of his
lucid moods wrote this tender, simple
tribute to the Sabbath:
81 feel the happier all the week,
Hmy foot has pressed the sacred aisle,
The pillow seems softer to my cheek;
sink to slumber with a smile;
With sinful passions cease to fight,
And sweetly dream on Sunday night"
He died in the lunatic asylum on
Blackwell's Island, and was buried in
Greenwood Cemetery. Speaking of the
arrangements he desired made for his
funeral, he said:
81 hope the children will come. ]
want to be buried by the side of children.
Four things I am sure there will be in
heaven-music, flowers, pure air and
plenty of little children"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
A Good Dor STORY.

A correspondent of the Spectator
writes that this story Of a dogs sagacity
may be relied upon as true: During the
meeting of the British Association at
Glasgow, a friend of mine had occasion
to go one day from that place to Green
ock on business. Hearing, on his ar
rival, that the person he wished to see
was out, but expected shortly to return
home, he determined to take q stroll
about the town, to which he was a
stranger. In the course of his walk he
turned into q bakers shop and bought a
bun. As he stood at the door OF the
shop eating his bun a large dog came up
to him and begged for a share, which he
got and seemed to enjoy, coming back
for piece after piece. "Does the dog be-
long to you?" my friend asked of the
shop woman. frNo," she answered, 'but
he spends most of time here, and begs
ha~lf-pennies from the people who pass"
'"Half-pennies ! What good can they do
him ?" 'fOh, he knows very well what
to do with them; he ONE into the shop
and buys cakes !"
This seemed rather a remarkable IN
stance of cl~everness even for the clever
est of animals; SO, by way of testing its
reality, my friend went out of the shop
into the street, where he was immediate
ly accosted by the dog, who begged for
something with all the eloquence of
which a dog is capable. He offered him
a half-penny and was rather surprised to
see him accept it readily and walk with
the air of q regular customer into the
shop, where he put his fore paws on the
counter and held out the half-penny to-
ward the attendant. The young woman
produced a bun, but that did not suit the
dog, and he held his money fast. "Ah.'
said she, ST know what he wants" and
took down from a shelf a plate of short
bread. This was right; the dog paid his
half-penny, took his short-bread and ate
it with decorous satisfaction. When he
had quite finished he left the shop, ant
my friend, much amused, followed him
and when he again begged, found an
other half-penny for him, and saw the
whole process gone through q second
time.
This dog clearly had learned by some
means the use of money, and not merel.
that it would buy something to eat, bu
that it would buy several things, among
which he could exercise a rightYof choice
What is perhaps most remarkable is tina
his proceedings were entirely independ
emit, and for his own benefit, not that o
any teacher or master.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
The Hoosier Farmer.

At an Indiana State fair the observer
sees all sorts of curious people. The
daughters of the wealthy farmers are
present. stylishly dressed and self-pos-
sessed in manner, well aware that they
com from the first people of the State.
The tall, broad-shouldered Hoosier far
mers examine everything with keen in
telligence, but with the slow look of
county folk who cannot see objects at O
glance, but look hard at a thing to take
it in. The dark Hoosier wives have a
quiet, unhurried manner, and gentle
voices without the nasal twang, thank
Heaven. Here and there among them Is
the old man who has cut three farms out
of the green woods. He Is a progressive
old fellow, and justly proud of himself.
But most interesting are the poor people
from Dogtown, "The little town of
Tailholt," and from 'the crawfish
lands the wet lands of Indiana. They
are dressed in thick wooden hats and
wooden clothes; the further you go south
the more cordially do the men hate straw
hats and linen coats. They look worn
out, ground out, broken and cracked to
the very marrow on the wheel of priva-
ton, and they are tanned, weather
beaten, bespotted with exposure, yet it
is because they are too lazy to make
| themselves comfortable. At their doors
are all the elements of luxury and wealth
the best brick clay for houses in the
world, and the best walnut for furniture,
the best kaolin for porcelain, the best
flax, and sheep, if their dogs did not de-
vour them, for clothes. They are round
shouldered, lean and uncomfortable with
laziness, in a hot climate as elsewhere
laziness being one of the discomforts OF
life. But they have content. that virtue
of a low capacity; the men who cannot
pillow one hundred acres is content with
one. Had they the energy of the In
habitants of our great northwestern en-
pire they might live in m~agniicence.
City roughs, fashily dressed, hurry
about with characteristic recklessness.
Plenty of negroes besprinkle the crowd.
Occasionally you see a homesick immi.
grant not long from Castle Garden. HI
longs for his native hills and air, anG
finds no comfort in this strange land. As
an offset to the homesick one comes
woodcarYer who has been to his oldhomt
in Switzerland for his health, this sum
mer, and has just got back. He say
the people at home are doing nothing
but living, and he is glad to get bacl
where there is plenty of sky once more
By-and-by the homesick one will shar,
his views, and write to his people a
home to join him In this fair Eldorado.-
Erchnn0e.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
FrankIin,s Maxims.

Plow deep while sluggards sleep, and
you shall have corn to sell and keep.
Pride is as loud as want, and a great
deal more saucy.
Silks and %satins, scarlets and velvets,
put out the kitchen fire.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined
with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Extravaganza and improvidence end
at the prison door.
It is easier to build two chimneys than
to keep one In fuel.
IF you wouldknow the value of money,
go and try to borrow some.
What maintains n vice would bring
up two children. :
He that goes a-borrowing returns sor-
rowing.
Rather go to bed s~upperless than rise
in debt.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than
labor wears.
A life of leisure and q life of ~laziness
are two different things.
Creditors have better memories than
debtors.
The rolling stone gathers no moss.
IF you would have your business done,
go ; if not, send.
It is foolish to lay out money in the
purchase of repentance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
Ministerial Jokes.

The following story is told by the VIC
tim himself, a well known Boston min
lister, a part of whose official duty is to
preach in different pulpits in behalf of a
society for the relief of the poor. This
he does with success, seldom failing to
bring tears from the eyes and money
from the pockets of his hearers by har-
rowing descriptions of destitution and
misery. One Sunday, after he had done
his very best in this line, and was leaving
the Westinghouse, a gentleman ac-
costed him with the remark, evidently
made in all innocence, 81 declare, Mr..
W., those were very sad stories you told,
and I suppose most of them acre true.
OF course there are some of us who are
a trifle bored when compelled to listen
a second time to the same sermon. The
WEAKNESS would be a little alleviated if
~repeaters would bear in mind the remark
of a little girl of twelve years, the daugh-
ter of a clergyman, who was asked,
'Sadie, does papa ever preach the same
sermon twices?" After thinking o mo-
ment, Sadie replied, eyes, 1 think he
does, 6at I think he hol1era in difercnt
places "-Harper's Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
Creeping Things.

The sight of certain creatures Is
enough to give us q Crawling" sensa-
ton. Bare memory of them must be
enough to any person who has travelled
in Australia. Jesse Young, the explorer,
talks very cooly, however, about the
bug and snake creation IN that queer
cline. He says:
The reptiles are really beautiful;
crocodiles In the North, and snakes, liz
ards, scorpions, and centipedes in the
South. / shall not readily forget the
sensation I experienced when n night
a huge black centipede, eight inches
long, crawled upon my neck with his
horrible sixty-four legs, and made his
way to my feet lesiurely, much to my
disgust, and though he was probably
only a few seconds, I thought him slow.
He Is In the museum at Adelaide, with
all the whisky he can drink.
Insects are wonderfully prolinc-mos-
quitoes and flies being particularly
abundant. The native children are
sometimes hardly recognizable, SO COM
pletely are they covered with flies, filing
their eyes, noses and mouth.
When eating, it requires dexterous
maneuvring to get a piece of meat into
ones mouth without It's complement of
flies.
Spiders are very common, as also are
ants, the tarantula being the most
formidable Of the former, and the
bulldog ant the worst species Of
the latter. These ants are an inch OF
more in height, and about two inches
long. They all fghtefercely, and thei,
sting is not at all to be desired. They
catch hold of your skin with their nip
pers, bend the body under like a scor-
pion, and put the sting gently in, leav.
ing the venom, and sometimes the sting
itself. When camping near a nest d
them, we generally thrust a fre-stick m
the hole, which has the effect of keeping
them at home.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
Indian school De.troyed.

The Creek manual labor school building,
known as Tullahassa mission, at Muskogee,
I. T., was burned the past week. 1t was
managed by the Presbyterian Board Of Missions,
and contained one hundred pupils and nine
teachers The building was Of brick, three
stories high, thirty by one hundred feet, md
was totally destroyed. It was built in 1s49,
and has been continuously in the charge of
Rev. W. s. Robertson and wife and q daughter
of Rev. Worcester. of dictionary fame, who was
imprisoned two years in Georgia for teaching
Indians. The loss to the Creek Nation is ten
thousand dollars, and one hundred Indian
children, of both sexes, are left to grope in
mental darkness. The mission Willbe re-estab-
lished, and Q new and moro commodious build
ing erected. It was only partially insured.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30

Sara Bernhardt declares that she has en-
ployed two stenographers to take down the
utterances Of ministers who are in the habit of
~denouncing her-"slandering'' is the term she
uses-and that she proposes to have them
brought into court to prove their charges. She
notably points to Talmage, whom she pro-
nounces a tmountebank. She says: "a COM
parison of the morals of the clerical fraternity
with those Of actors and actresses would be by no
means unfavorable to the latter. A great
many occupants Of pulpits are simply show
men. What, for instance, is the essential diff
ference between the calling of an actress, like
myself, and that of the mountebank Talmage,
always on the scent for the freshest bit of
scandal2 This Jingle and important difference
that I support myself by interpreting to peo-
pie the greatest thoughts of the grandest men
who have ever lived, while he gains his living
by pouring into the public ear his own verbose
nonsense."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
hoy VINO snea,. BLOOD.

Willie Crawford, aged fourteen years, and son
of William Crawford, of Chicago, Captain of a
tugboat, for the past seven years has been
sweating blood at times, and lately has had
some attacks which alarmed his parents. The
infrmity comes on him usually after taking
cold. Great black patches appear on his body,
from which blood drops the size of . pin-head
sxuds- Blood flows from his mouth, nose,
eyes, stomach, and even from the bladder and
Kidneys. No pain accompanies these discharges,
but they make his blood thin and weaken him.
Sudden fright or excitement will temporarily
sheck the flow. he is mentally bright, and his
father, mother, brothers, and sisters are strong
and healthy. The physicians who have taken
m interest in his case propose sending him to
edinburg and London for examination by the
Academy Of Surgeons.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
oFurtherDeIay.

News from Jefferson, Texas; indicates that
the trial Of Abe Rothchild will come to some
definite conclusion. The defense prepared a
motion for a continuance on the ground that
two important witnesses are away, by whom
they propose to prove that Diamond Bessie
was seen alive after Rothchild had left the State.
The Judge overruled the motion, whereupor
the defendant fled his motion TO squash this bill
of Indictment because it charges two offenses.
In the first count it charges the defendant with
the killing Of an unknown woman, and in thu
second with the murder Of Bessie Moore, etc
A lengthy discussion ensued on this motion,
but the Court oyerruled ii, and the case goea
on. 1t is stated that the prisoner is in splendid
health and spirits.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
A Mitigating Circumstance.

The prosecuting witness in a case be-
fore the Galveston Recorder had a lump
over his eye as big as an egg plant, which
was caused by a negro throwing a lump
of coal at him without the slightest prov
ocation.
st don't see that there is a single iti-
eating circumstance" said the Recorder.
"Why, jedge, you has Overlooked one
OBJ the mitigatinest circumstances in de
world. I only hit him wild a lump of
soft coal. Don't yer call that mitigatin',
when I could hab fetched him Jest as
easy wild a lump of hard coal?"-Galves-
ton NeUs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
horrible


A special from Tupedo, Miss, a station on
the Mobile 4 Ohio Railroad, gives the following
account of a most horrible crime committed in
the northern portion of Monroe County, Miss.
The details are as follows: Mr.. Brown Riding,
a young man raised in the neighborhood,
married and built a house near his parents.
His family consisted of his wife, and a daughter,
two years old. Saturday night two men, giving
their names as Miller, called and asked to stay
all night. The evening being 30 disagreeable
they were permitted to remain and occupied a
bed in the same room with the family, it being
the only one where there was a fire place.
About IL o'clock flames from the little cottage
attracted the ~neighbors, who found the house
30 far consumed when they arrive at the
scene that nothing could be done toward
saving it. 1t was the impression that the
family had absented themselves for the
night, but in the debris was found the crisp,
charred remains of the trio. The excited
indignation took full sway and investigation
developed the above, when search was at once
made for the two men. 1t was found they had
separated, one going toward Aberdeen, the
other in the direction of Tupelo. The posse
that went in pursuit of the Aberdeen bound
mar we're successful, finding him hid in q field
six miles from Aberdeen. At night he was
returned to the scene, when he told the follow
ing story: 1--WE wanted money, and were per-
mittedto remain over night. We laid awake
after retiring until tie heavy breathing of the
family satisfied us of their slumber, when we
arose, administered chloroform, riied the
house Of the valuables, consisting Of $27,
watch, a suit of clothes, and a pair of boots,
and then scattered cotton over the floor and on
the bed, saturated it with coal oil, set it on fire,
and left" The horror stricken crowd, COM
posed Of twenty-five resolute men, determined
the devil should be punished with his own
weapon, pinioned him with pine splinters, ar
tistically arranged around him, dispensed with
the chloroferm, and set him ablaze. Diligent
search is being made for the other man, who
doubtless will share his fate il caught.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
uY1th cONeREss-ap SESSION.
SENATE

The House bill authorizing the New York
chambers of to erect . statute OF
George Washington on the front of the Sub
Treasury building was passed A petition was
read from the invaders OF Indian Territory
asking for permission to settle on the lands OF
that Territory and build up homes there. Tn
principal feature of the day was a debate on
the bill to give the States $26, 600. 900 loaned
them by the General Government in 1886. In
gals, of Kansas, and Thurman, Of Ohio, ar
gued in favor of the repayment of the money
BY the States. Conkling and Blaine took OPP
posite ground.
Bills were introduced repeating the tax on
banks and bank checks, and admitting New
Mexico as a State. A bill was passed extending
the sessions of Territorial Legislatures from
forty to sixty days. A joint resolution was in
troduced proposing an amendment to the Con-
s~titution permanently fixing the number Of
Judges of the Supreme Court of the United
States.
Mr.. Morgan made q speech in support of his
resolution declaring that the President Of the
Senate is not constitutionally authorized to de-
termine what Electoral votes shall be received
and counted, and what rejected. The House
bill for the relief of settlers On the restored
railroad lands was passed, together with several
private bills. The Nicaragua Canal bill was
introduced and referred. The Senate adjourned
until the 9Th OF January.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-30
Prayers That Are Answered.

An old darkey who was asked if, in
his experience, prayer was ever an
swered, replied: "WeIl, sab, some
pra'rs is ansud and some isn't-'pends
on wat you axes fo'; just arter de wah,
we'en it was mighty hard scratchin' fo'
de culled breddren, I Deserved dat we'en-
ebber I pway de Lo'd to SEN one O.
Marse Payton's fat turkeys fo' de ole
man, dare was no notice took OBJ de par
tition; but we'en I pway dat he send de
old man TO, de turkey, desmatter vas
tended to befo' sun up mex mornin',
dead sartin."