smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

II one had never the full completeness


Of the round year, bu. tarrei half the way,
How should he guess the fair and Aowery sweetness
That cometh with the May
Guess of the bloom and of the rainy sweetness


That come in with the May
Suppose he had but heard the winds a-5lowiny,


And seen the brooks in icy chains fast bound,
How should he guess that waters in their flowing


Could make glad sound
Guess how their silver tongues should be set going
To such tuneful sounds
Suppose he had not seen the biue-bris winging,


Nor the day set, nor the morning rise,
Nor the golden balancing and swinging


Of the gay butterflies
Who could paint April pictures worth the bringing
To notice of his eyes?
Suppose he had not seen the living daisies,


Nor seen the rose. SO glorious and bright,
Were it not better than your far off praises


OF their lovely light,
To give his hands the holding of the daisies,


And of the roses bright
Christian man, deal gently with the sinner


Think what utter wntry waste is his
Whose heart of lore has never been The winner,


To know how sweet tis-
Be pitiful, o Christian, to tbs sinner,


Think what world is his !.
He never heard the lisping an the tire m3lins


OF Edens gracious leaves aboFe his h.ai-
His mrth is nothing but the poor disse milling


OF great soul nt ed
o, bring him where the lea leaves are trembling,
And give him heavenly bread.
As Winter doth her shriveled branches


With greeuness, knowing spring times soft desire,
Even so the soul. knowing Jesus for a lover,


Puts on a new attire
garment fair snow, to NEE. the Lover,


Who bids her come up higher.
Year: 1869

Many good, honest people have been
very much exercised Of late, by what
was supposed to BE q phase in the pho
tographic art, under the assistance Of
spiritual mediums When likeneases
were taken, the faces OF deceased friends
would appear half ,liId in cloud in
one corner The strange recognition of
the features cf lost relatives, by the diff
ferent parties seemed to be conclusive
proof that there could not possibly be
any humbug abont it; and the mystery
was becoming every day more firmly be-
iieved in


A new lesson, however, was in pickle
for creluious people, and one that will
be remembered, perhaps. longer than
they remembered tie real features of
their friends. who would hardly feel
co,nplim if they could see how
readily perfect strangers were mistaken
for themselves. It took no profounder
science than lodges in policeman's head
to resolve the mystery into very small
trick OF n money making adventurer,
and bring the t. icilster with his appli-
ances into the vulgar hands of the law
We hope his former customers will keep
their valuable pictures, the cherished
memorials Of departed friends, and be
thankful that it cost them no more to
learn the lesson, that Spiritualism is
mongrel offspring of insanity and fraud,
but chiefly fraud Church Union.
Year: 1869

Judge Brewster, OF Philadelphia, in
his recent charge to the Grand Jury said,
that sowing to the efforts to thwart jus
tice in capital cases, it has come to pass
that il is more dangerous fer man to
pick pocket than to take life. The
thief is much more certain of being pun
ished than the murderer. This will con
tinue until public opinion undergoes
change
Year: 1869

HOW GHosTLY PICTURES NAY BE MADE.


To tie Editor Of Tie Tribune:


SIR: The curious fact stated below
will probably be new to most photo
graphers, and may furnish a suggestion
as to the method of taking the so called
spiritual photographs: a friend in
Western city informed me that he went
with another friend TO q skillful photo
grapher in that city to have likeness
taken of the latter A metallic plate
was used. The first picture taken was
good one and good likeness, but it
was partially surrounded by what ap
peared TO be, and might be termed the
CHEST Of Il wreath of flowers. On look
at it the photographer remarked how
unfortunate; fused that plate some time
az for taking a wreath of flowers on it;
but I supp osed I had thoroughly re-
moved that impression, and that the
plate was in perfect order. If the
ghost Of wreath OF flowers can be thus
pro luced, OF course the ghost of the hui
snaa lace ana form, could be also. II
glass plates were used, Of course this
could not be done. Yours truly,


INTERROGATION.
Year: 1869

The charter election in Washington
takes place to-day. From all the indi-
cations it wiiIbe hotly contested, The
Radicals are devoting themselves to the
of black supremacy.
Negroes from Maryland and Virginia
are 10 be used to overbear the white
vote and place the Capital of the Uni
ted States under the rule of ignorant
negroes, and white men willing to herd
with the vilest in order so secure power,
place and plunder. Referring to the
bumiliatipg prospect Of throwing the
Washington. city Government into the
hands Of negroes, the National IntelH-
geRCer remarks:


To the people eff Washington the cup
is now presented of choosing between a
white.man and negro for high office
in the city government. 1t is the first
step that costs. As the Radical party
in this city is composed main y OF ne
groes, they will, in another year or two,
prescribe that most, if not all, the can
didates for the hoDOrs of public position
shall be of their own race. Men may
say there is DO danger of this; but it is
TO be remembered that all cooperation
of the best and most intelligent colored
people with the mass of our white citi-


zeus is subject to menaciug and violent


persecution by the Radical leaders.


Iu other words, the blacks are repelled


from having anything like good un-


derstanding in politics with the mass of


white citizens The orders in council


are for uOn-intercourse. There is a
fixed determination to make the blacks
act as a.unit-a solid mass-against the


white people. OF course it is the duty
of the latter to take all proper steps
under the law, to protect themselves
This resort is enforced upon them by
the Vaccinations of their enemies. 1t
does not follow, however, that they shall
initiate their enemies in prOsCriptive


ness; but while they should deal fairly


with black men, they must insist that
they themselves have rights to protect
at the ballot box against the wrongs that
the Radical partisan leaders never cease
TO infict for their own base party pur-
poses,
Year: 1869

EVER since the National Executive
Committee Of the Union League re-
solved to send material aid to their
struggling brethren in Virginia, whisky
has been advancing in price. To the
quantity of spiritual comfort sent by
the Committee for the relief of perish
ing "lOyaity" in the "Old Dominion" is
to be added the enormous supply needed
for electiOnpurposesb by the rival factions
of STOKES and SENTER, in Tennessee.
Such tremendous demands must soon put
the prices at prohibition figures and
solve the temperance problem to the
delight Of the tectotallers.
Year: 1869

BUTLER has invited BINGHAM to Low.
oil to eat clans and make up. Their
little clam-bake will be in heat and
fervor, but as an iceberg compared
with the fritteriag awaiting the pair in
that mysterious realm where each shall
take his rousting like herring.
Year: 1869

The Rochester Chronicle says that a
man in Geuesec, who had lost his son
in the war, found so little satisfaction
in the decoration of the grave, that he
removed the flowers, and threw them
into the street. The Chronicle adds A:
1T was hard for some Of our citizens to
keep thei" hands from him Yet if it
were prejudice or brutality that prompt
ed his act, the father could at least
plead the example of the present Ad-
ministration.
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,


And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them. with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil now life into their veins
restore in a measure the energy and ardOr OF
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness in their
Year: 1869

It is a we'll established fact that fully one.
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, to
use their own expression, never feel well" ="
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite


To this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.
Year: 1869

PRESIDENT GRANT recently said in q
conversation with Mr.. Julian, a men,
ber of Congress from Indiana, that il
the Senate did not repeal the tenure of
Office law, he should not remove any
OF Johnson's Office e-holders except for
such canse as he would be obliged to
take notice of. The fact that they were
Democrats and Johnson men would
not he sufficient cause for removal. In
pursuing this policy we don't see just
now President Grant is going to purify
the revenue service, and without that
how is he going to make good some of
the promises in his inaugural?
Year: 1869

The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue., COLUMBUS DELANo, has decided
that farmers are manufacturers. They
are therefore liable to be taxed upon
what they produce, just as the manu-
facturers of New England are TO be
taxed on what they make. The farmers
are in the worse fix of the two, for they
have no tariff to protect them. The man.
ufacturer collects his tax from the con-
sumer and is unhurt. The farmers can't
add their tax to the price of their grain
for they raise more than the country con-
sumes, and having to work against a
full supply cannot put their figures up at
pleasure. This decision will virtually
rob the agricultural class of every dol
lar of revenue which it compels them to
pay. In this State it will operate with
peculiar severity. The taxation already
tries the farmers to the utmost point
of endurance. An additional burden
especially a heavy one like this,
will render farming operations in West
Virginia entirely protitless. The peo.
pie of our State have gone badly astray
in their worship Of strange gods, but
this bitter penalty will so far toward
opening their eyes. The Enquirer says:


The farmers of the West have been
and are taxed for the benefit of New
England in everything they wear, in
every article with which they can add
to the comforts of their families, in all
by which they can adorn their houses
OF improve their fields. -Four thousand
articles of prime necessity, the majori |
ty of which enter into the consumption |
of every farmers household in the land |
have long been taxed. The iron of which |
the plowshare is made is taxed; the |
saw that fashions the beam is taxed; |
the cotton that clothes the little !
ones is taxed; the coat he wears to
shield him from the weather is taxed; |
the nails that fasten the roof over his
head are taxed; the drugs and medi-
cines with which, in sickness, he en-
deavors to postpone death or allsy the





satisfied with covering the whole man
and his dwelling with taxation, the
vampire must change its nature, and
prey upon the stomach. The farmer is
declared by the Commissioner to be a
manufacturer, and to be taxed
as such for every peck of
wheat he may grow and convert into
flour, to feed even his own hungry chill
dren. They may cry for bread, but the
father must give them half loaf, in
order that by saving the remainder he
may satisfy the craving nav of the
tax gatherer. This is the result of Rad
ical rule-the good Lord only knows
how long the people are to be subject to
it. Grapes are not made of thorns, or
figs of thistles, and it will not be by
means like this that our waste places
will be populated and our deserts cov-
ered with blossom
Year: 1869

We see that both branches of the Ohio
Legislature have passed the Visible
Admixture Bill, and it is now a law.
The bill provides that any person not a
white male citizen shall be punished
for voting by Imprisonment in the Peni-
tentiary from one TO tive years. A
white man, being a nonresident, for
voting is punished by imprisonment in
a county Jail for from one to six months.
The bill provides that person procur-
ing q negro to vote shall be punished
by Imprisonment in the Penitentiary
from one to FIVE years. If he procures 3
white man to vote illegally, the punish:
ment is imprisonment in the county
Jail from one to six months. 1t is not
necessary that the negro should know
that he is an illegal voter, or for the
person who induce him to vote to know
that he is an illegal voter.
Year: 1869

A few months ago We were told that
the election of GRANT would settle all
our financial troubles and place business
and industry upon solid footing. One
of the first results was to be the approx
imation of greenbacks to par. Yester-
day gold passed 1856 Times are harder
than in any year since 81. There is de.
preston everywhere, confidence no
where, and the future is dark with the
shadows OF coming distress. Aud of
such is the Kingdom of GRANT.
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BTTTERS or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins
restore in measure the energy and ardor of
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
remaininu
Year: 1869

According to the Shanghae Courier Of March %, the
Burlingame mission is nothing but hoax. The
Courier is on the ground, the seat of govern
ment, and should be well posted; but we should be
sorry TO feel convinced that it is right in its
ton. 1t is by no means improbable however, that it
has stated the truth in the matter. The editor of
that paper says:-


"As a matter of fact, the Chinese authorities
laugh at the innocence OF foreign governments re-
CeVing men OF no rank, aud OF no authority, as if
they were actually entrusted with the confidence
of the Emperor. They may say they make whatever
agreements they please; ana II very favorable to
if otherwise they win be similarly ignored and re-
pudiated. Under such circumstances 1t is not likely
that any permanent good will come out of this
malOus mission The deception will be made clear
some day; and the expose will give foreigners rather
the facility with which they had been imposed upon
will not increase the Chinese respect for the wisdom
OF foreign nations
Year: 1869

RidisTISHs STmSsv WI hy by weSIthS % NIsn1Au In


The Columbus Ohio Journal OF Tuesday last says:
Yesterday we heard Of and read part OF the most SIN
guar VIII on record The maker Of the will is rep
resented 10 be q shrewd, successful business man,
VINO has accumulated quite o large fortune. He ex-


Dlts no other sign OF insanity than may be derived
from the extreme eccentricty OF his will, although
u Is probable the courts WILL in due course be called
upon 10 determine the question whether the testator
was or sound and disposing mind.


The will disnherits all the natural heirs of the
maker OF IT, and devises the entire property in trust
lor the establishment OF an lnhmary for Cats. A
most elaborate architectural plan for the necessary
buildings is attached 10 and made part Of the will


Vt provides areas for that sweet amatory converse 80
dear TO the feline heart and rat-hOles OF the most
ravshing nature, to be kept well stocked. The most
ingenious cOntrvances provided for the securing
TO he rat chance to escape, 80 that the cats may
not lose the pleasure OF the chase by finding their
prey come too easily High walls are to be built,
with gently sloping roofs, for the moonlight prone
made and other nocturnal amusements OF the cats.
The trustees directed to select the grounds for
this novel infrmary i'm the most popuous part OF
some American city, and the devisees to be pro-
tecteu Dy competent force OF nurses from the
ravages of men and dogs. No person of the male
sex is ever to be admitted within the walls, and
female VINO mas children or is under thirty years Old
Ihere are hundreds OF minute directions which we
have no time to note.


One would suppose that in the foregoing provisions
the testator had exhausted all the eccentrictics OF
one man, however unique his nature; but the last
provision Of the will seems more outrageousy bizarre
than any that go before Says the devisor: m have all
my life been taught that everything in and about
was intended to he useful; and that it was mans
duty, as lord OF animals, to protect all the lesser
species, even as God protects and watches him.
For these two combined reasOns-irst, that my body
even after death may continue TO be made useful;
and secondly, that 1t may be made instrumental as
far as possible in furnishing substitute for the pro-
lection OF the bodies of my dear friends The cats, do
hereby devise and bequeath the ntesnes of my body
to be made up into fiddle strings, the proceeds be
devoted to the purchase OF ACCORDION, which shall
be played in the auditorium Of the Cat Infrmary by
one OF the regular nurses to be selected for that pur
pose eXclusyely-the playing to be kept up forever
and ever without cessation day or night, in order



instrument which is the nearest approach TO their
natural voice.
Year: 1869




The numerous instances of finding men
prone upon the most public streets of the
Eastern cities. injured as by q bullet, although
neither the victim nor any other person had
heard the discharge of any hrearm, SO far as
could be ascertained, has caused the suggestion
to be made that air-guns have been brought
into requisition. According to the authorities,
this is q weapon resembling q musket, for the
purpose OF discharging missiles by means of
compressed air. 1t consists of lock. stock, bar
rel, and ramrod The stock Is made hollow,
and provided with proper cocks for filling 1t
with compressed air by means Of force pump.
Each lock is mol hing but q valve wnicn lets
into the barrel portion of the air compressed
in the stock, when the trigger is pulled. The
gun is loaded with waddlng and ball in
The ordinary way. and the air suddenly intro
duced from the stock pfopels II with a velocity
proportional to the square root of the degree of
the compression Of the air." By this weapon a
person may be killed al q distance of sixty or
eighty yards. Later improvements give II q
propelling force almost equal to the old.fash.
ioped musket Its chief ed vantage to criminals
In Its noiseless discharge. The victim may be
singled out in q crowd by person standing
concealed at an upper window, and, If the aim
is accurate perforated by q bullet, without any
chances of del lection, excepting those indicated
by angles and dill ectlon. indeed, the body
might fall in such n manner as to indicate con.
diiions entirely different from those which are
real. Whether or not this theory Is correct It
Is evident that the ingenuity Uf crime keeps
pace with the ingenuity Of the most approved
detectiYe Methods.
Year: 1869

Following close upon the despatch from
Governor Geary denying that he has written
any letter to influence General Grant in the
selection Of his Cabinet, as alleged by Colonel
Mcclure, we are authorized to state that neither
Judge Williams nor Judge Agnew has written
the letters fastened upon them by the same
authority.


Both of them, and Judge Read as well, were
az piled to several days ago by influential
friends of Governor Curtin to commit them
selves in this manner to his support. At
repeated interviews they were urged to take
this action. Judge Read yielded to the pressure,
and wrote letter urging upon General Grant
the appointment of Curtin TO Cabinet position.


But both the other judges declined to accede
to the request from first to last not deeming it
consistent with their positions on the bench.
In conversation Judge Williams said emphat-
caIy:-


"Such thing as doing this never entered
into my thoughts"
Year: 1869

The following amusing and sharp incl
dent is related by a Lansing mich
paper:


Sampson, the colored boy who played
the big instrument in the Reform School
Band last winter, was recently discharged
from the institution, but is again under
arrest for one of the sharpest and most
amusing transactions we have heard of
for a long time. He bought suit of
clothes Of jackson. but not having cent
Of money to pay for them, he proceeded
to a series Of maneuvers to raise the
rhino. Finding COW in stable, he
brought butcher to look at the animal,
who agreed to take it at a stipulated
price, paying part down, and leaving the
animal ill the next day, when she vss to
be delivered Sampson took his money
and applied it on his suit, but as it did
not pay for them the merchant would not
let them 20. BE then got his friend, the
butcher, TO become security for the bal
ance, and took bis clothes and cleared
out. The oddly of the situation is
amusing. He did not steal the COW, nor
did be deliver her to the butcher. He
did not get the goods under false preten-
ses, for the butcher became voluntary
security Coz the payment of the suit OF
clothes, and he didn't DO anything else.
Year: 1869

For you the glory and the trust;
For me the ashes and the dust.
By long years shed.
For you the sunshine on the way;
For me the memory of each day,


Whose Joy is dead.
For you the battle. field of life.
The hope that buoys amid the strife.


And weeps above no loss.
For me the errors Of the past,
With shadows o'er it dim and vast.


Crowned by a weary cross.
Fer you mans premises are true;
Fer ME they are light as summer dew


And fail as soon.
For you fair woman's smile is sweet;
For me it teens with foul deceit


A worthless boon.
For you the future holds crown
For me its leaves are dim and brown.


And almost valueless.
Oh stag-like heart, again with thee
feel nay pulses bounding free.


That beat so Passionless.
/ bid thee speed and watch the race;
God keep thee with his holiest grace,


And succor every need
Experience must her lessons teach;
All vainly her sermons preach


can but say. "God speed" E. D. s