smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

wedding ceremony nova days that
cannot aspire to notice in the newspa.
pers is clearly not what it ought to be.


A woman's happiness depends Sc
much upon what people say of her that
If she cannot be talked about she firmly
resolves there's no use of getting mar
ried.


Since Mrs. Grundy quilted the Gar
den of Eden she has been pacing about
the world making the misery or happi-
ness of millions.


She has not even yet reached her eli
macteric, although she has chained the
world of fashion to her triumph car
and compelled journalism to initiate
her example.


1t is therefore the initial condition of
welded bliss that the bride shall not
blush unseen, or how she looked and
what she wore pass unnoticed.


1t is better to read the statement that
she carried off forty-seven pairs of
stockings on her bridal tour, than to
escape all mention whatsoever.


Brides whose beauty and whose trous-
seaux are not duly gazetted /; can be
easily recognized by the way they
''slosh" things around at the breakfast
table next morning.


The mildest OF blue eyes or the soft
est and tenderest of brown, ones will
"spit fire" under such circumstances
without fear of exhausting the fuel.


There, is likewise the temptation for
a bride thus offended to upset the cof-
fee, set her sleeve in the butter, find
fault with the cooking, wish she were
back home again, threaten to cry a lit
tie, and finally to resent the sympathy
of the bridegroom as an indignity.


Considerations like these must neces-
sarily influence young men about to
marry.


If they have no acquaintance with
newspaper men the sooner they do have
the better it will be for them.


Newspaper men are not to be sub
orned upon a slight acquaintance. even
by the most seductive and subtle of ex-
pectant bridegrooms.


1t takes time to compass the favor OF
a irst-class wedding notice, and as that
is to the honeymoon what sauce is to
the goose, the path of duty is as plain
as the penalty for refusing to follow it
is certain.
Year: 1874

NieopOlis is a small town in the sonth
east of Russia, where the Caucasian
blood mixes with the Russian, and pro
duces very many remarkably fine speci
mems of female beauty.


Among the most beautiful of tn,
beauties of NicOpolis was Ulyana. the
only daughter of a wealthy landowner
Her father was in the habit, every veal
at harvest time, to add to his force BY
engaging people from Russia as they
say, meaning people from the interior
who at this season of the year seek re-
munerative labor in the more cultivated
and wealthier districts of the south.


One of those people, Filyatieff, a
handsome, stalwart young fellow, at
tracted especial attention. He seemed
perfectly Indifferent with regards to
his gains, and was always In the best of
spirits. Ulyana soon became a willing
listener when he was praised, and FLY
atleff, who was not insensible To the
charms of female beauty, soon evinced
marked partiality for her society. 1t
was not long ere their liking for each
other ripened into an affair of the heart,
and become the subjectO of remark. Nor
did the young people attemptt to conceal
what they felt for each other, and FLY
atieff went boldly to the father of his
lady-lOve and asked his blessing. But
the farmer peremptOrily refused: he
was not going to give his daughter to a
strOlling labOrer, he said. And all
Ulyana's tears and entreaties were of
no avail; her father was infiexible,
and, in order to put other thoughts
in her head,n he compelled her to a
betrOthal with a wealthy tOwnsman.
The betrOthal was celebrated with
great pOmp. All were merry but Uly-
ana; her thoughts were with Filyatieff,
who gave her good cause of uneasiness.
He had ceased to work, and now spent
his time in either one pOt-house or
another. He drank to assuage his grief !;
but not long. He soon took An aversion
to schnapps-a rare thing for Russian
to dO-and then drink did not lessen
his grief. He therefore foreswOre the
pOt-hOuse, and determined to go far
away, where, concealed and forgotten,
he could end his unhappy life. In this
romantic frame of mind he bethought
himself of Siberia, and determined to
take the necessary steps to get there as
soon as possible. With this object in
view, he, one evening soon after dark,
went to the principal bazaar of the
toNu ii anu ODt
until he found one he could force. He
entered the well-filled shop, took what
money he found in the till, and looked
about to see if any one came. Then he
made a bundle of some of the goods,
and again looked around to see if no
one came to arrest the burglar. AS he
was still unObserved, he made bright
light in the shop. This was soon seen,
ndpeople came and seized the supposed
robber. On his trial he simply declared
that, owing to his disappointment in
love, he wanted to be sent to Siberia;
that this, and this only, was his object
in breaking into the shop. The jurors
were unanimous in rendering a verdict
of aeQuittal, which was received by
loud reclamation on the part of the
spectators.


The farmer was now compelled to
relent. He broke off the engagement
of his daughter with his wealthy neigh
Dor, and consented to her union with
the romantic Filyatietf. i -[AppletOn's
Journal.
Year: 1874

Among various kinds of trees which
are celebrated for their utility, not the
least valuable are those which yield a
milky Juice that does not solidify, and
may be used as nutritious article of
food. Trees of this kind bear the gen
eral name of cow-trees. OF the differ
ent varieties of these species. the best
known and most useful is the "Brosi-
mum GdlactOdendron." This tree Is
usually more than hundred feet high,
and is found in abundance on the sea-
coast of Venezuela. The milk OF this
tree is obtained from the sugar maple
trees. Its taste very much resembles
that of sweet cream, and it is much
used by the natives as food, being nour-
ishing and wholesome, with but one
unpleasant feature about it, which is,
that it is slightly glutinous.


LIN Venezuela and New Granada Is
also found another tree very similar to
the one above described, and for medi-
cinal purposes, more valuable. This is
the .'CIusia RodactOdendrOl, the
milk of which is considered SPECIFIC
for dysentery. The milk of this tree
contains a resinous and astringent prop
erty. and an aromatic substance. The
natives use the milk of this tree freely,
and by them dysentery is not feared,
though their climate is one calculated
to produce the disease. One OF the Pc
culiarities of this remedy is that it not
only cures the disease, but prevents Its
return. This milk can be kept year
without losing its taste or its valuable
medicinal properties.


Ofthis tree, and of the valuable prop
critics of its milk. Mr.. r. b. White
gives a very interesting account. He
states that out of party of from hve
hundred to seven hundred men who
were employed in building railroad
near Buenaventura in Western New
Granada, where the climate was ex-
tremely unhealthy, large number OF
cases of dyspepsia broke out, not one
of which proved fatal. In some cases,
the milk was given with success, when
other remedies had failed, and when
all hope of effscting cure had been
abandoned. He suggests, with much
show of reason and propriety, that the
milk of this tree should be tried In ca
ses of cholera.
Year: 1874

Ask why love the roses fair,
And whence they come, and whose they were
They come from her, and not alone
They bring her sweetness with their own.
Or ask me why love her so:
! know not, this is all know,
These roses bud, and bloom, and twine
AS she round this fond heart of mine.
And this is why love the flowers:
Once they were hers, they're mine-they're


ours;
l love her, and they soon will die
And now you know the reason why.
Year: 1874

alIlng.


Only waiting till the shadows


Are little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmer


of the days last beam is flown
Til the night of earth is faded


From the heart, once full of day:
Till the stars of Heaven are breaking
Thro' the twilight soft and gray.
Only waiting tall the reapers


Have she last sheaf gathered home:
For the summertime is faded


And the autumn winds have come,
Quickly, reapers gather quickly


The last npe hours of my heart,
For the bloom of life is withered.


And / hasten to depart.
Only waiting till the angels


Open wide the mystic gate
By whose side long have fingered,
Weary, poor and desolate.
Even now i hear their footsteps,
And their voices far away;
If they call me am waiting,


Only waiting to obey.
Only waiting till the shadows


Are little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmer


of the days last beam is flown,
Then from out the gathering darkness
Holy, deathless stars shall rise,
By whose light my soul shall gladly
Tread its pathway to the skies.
Year: 1874

Fuel in this city is getting to be- q
matter of serious Importance. 1t is
almost impossible for man with no
income except from his labor to fur
nish his family with the necessarfes
of life and provide fuel for the Win
ter, and from the present outlook,
there is nothing in sight upon which
to build hopes that there is better
day comi ng. This matter ought to
have the immediate attention of the
property holders of the city. There is
no country that can prosper, where
laboring men cannot lay up some
thing over and above family expenses.
This class of men are now coming to,
this county in great numbers, because
wages are high, bnt as soon as they
learn they cannot lay up dollar for a
rainy day, they will cease to come.
All other family supplies can be OBJ
tanned here at fair prices, and if it
were not for the overwhelming price
of fuel, this would be the best country
we ever saw for laboring men. a


1t would be an easy matter for a
few men to combine and send for q
schooner load of coal; which could be
laid down in Los Angeles at fifteen
dollars per ton. Twenty dollars is
what we are now paying for ton of
coal, and twenty-four if we take less
than half ton at time. And coal at
these prices is cheaper fuel than the
wood we buy. If small companies
can be formed to send for their own
supplies it will relieve us, but if such
companies cannot de formed then it is
the duty of the cahitalist and proper
ty-holder to take hold of this matter
and reduce the price of fuel. L can
only speak for one. My bill for fuel
per month is about thirty dollars, and
1 am ready to join a party of five or
six persons and send for load of
coal Who will respond?


.i CITIZEN.
Year: 1874

ONE of the wretched lunatics confined In the
Poor House Of Milwaukee lie q telegraph opera
tor, and she spends most Of her time in teIe-
graphing 10 her husband In Ireland, her finger
being worn down to the bone in her constant
tappings against the wall, in her imaginary de-
epatChinR.
Year: 1874

ESCAPE OF NOTED BANK RoBBER.-Fanciz
Carter, alias "Big Frank" who, with three
other burglars, was tried and convicted for at
tempting to rob the National Bank of Delaware
at Wilmington, on the 9Th of December 1873
broke jail at New Castle, Delaware az half-past
one O'Clock on Tuesday morning, thus etfecting
bis second escape. His first escape was made
on February "A, 1874, when he, with several
other prisoners, effected their release. He went
70 Philadelphia, and was recaptured and sent
back the next day. The manner of Big Franks
escape was very ordinary, and gives rise 10
strong suspicious of a cOllusion with some of the
prison officials and the prisoner. One OF the
waTdens states that at the time OF the escape he
was looking out OF the weave roO-l at the lower
END OF the corridor OF the prison, when he heard
noise proceeding from the direction of "Big
Franks" cell, near the other end of the build
ing. Looking around he saw the prisoner run
nirg at rapid rate toward the door Drawing
his revolver the warden fired at the retreatipG
form, but without effect. The prisoner then
unlocked an iron door leading into a passage
way until he reached q door leading into the
street. He unbOlted the door. ana the next
moment was a free man. Frank was then
joined by contederates, who seemed TO be FULLY
posted on the time of the escape, as they b ad a
vehicle in readiness, which after receiving
Fran Oh board, was driven Off at a rapid rate.
In O western direction.
Year: 1874

THE BOARD OF civil service examiners OF the
Iutericr department will in a few days hold a
competitive examination for filling one of the
positions as qualified surgeon in the medical
referees division of the Pension office.
Year: 1874

EXTENSION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE RULES
TIE President has, by an executive order, d.
reCted that the civil service rales be extended
to the several federal Offices at the city and in
the customs district of Boston.
Year: 1874

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCEs IN
PARIs.-The Paris correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press thus speaks
of one phase of crime in the former
city. In several of my previous let
ters 1 have spoken of the numerous
mysterious disappearances which
have taken place in Paris during the
past few moaths, and of which the
denouement is usually the reappear-
ance of the vanished individual at
the Morgue or in the Seine, a CHASTITY
corpse. Some light may be thrown
on the moduS operandi of these ira
gedies by the experience OF young
and wealthy American gentleman
now residing in Paris. He received
one day letter written in delicate
female hand, requesting him to be
at the Cafe Brabant at certain time,
when he would find there carriage
waiting before the door for him.
The letter was signed .'Silence and
Discretion" The young man, not
being given to seeking such adven-
lures, tore the letter up and thought
no more about it. About week
later he was walking late one even
ing on the Champs Elysees, when he
was accosted by we'll dressed and
gentlemanly looking man, who
after asking him some trivial ques-
ton about the streets or the hour,
entered into conversation with him.
After talking little while the
stranger said in frank and jovial
manner, " Young man, like your
looks, and l admire the Americans.
Come home with me to supper. 1
will give you a good bottle of cham
pagne, and i will, moreover, intro
duce you to the handsomest woman
in Paris" For answer the Ameri-
can turned on his heel and left him.
AS the young gentleman in question
is in the habit of wearing constantly
a magnificent set of diamond studs,
that fact may account for his Tempt
er's persistent pursuit of him. Had
he accepted either of the two invi-
tations, he would probably at this
moment be reposing on the slabs of
the Morgue or in the muddy bed of
the Seine, for in precisely such a
manner was a young Frenchman
entrapped, who was never heard of
after, till his body was found float
ing in the river below the Point
| Neuf.
Year: 1874

Are at home in the Mammoth Cave, when all


is delusion and a snare-outward show, in


ward emptiness and declining reputation-but


in the White House all is open as the day, and
the better and brighter the eyes the more will
they admire all that is there to be seen,
the owners Of the eyes be fish or men.
Year: 1874

A PERSIAN SToRY.-A terrible
story comes to us from Persia. In
one of the districts laboring man
had been sentenced to be bastin-
| ADDED for some offense, receiving
$50 blows on the soles of his feet.
As he sank down on his knees after
the sentence had been carried out,
and it was believed that his injuries
were of a serious character, he called
the judge to his side, intimating that
he had terrible secret to reveal.
AS he could only speak in whis-
per, the judge placed his ear to the
lips of the fainting man, when the
latter seized it with his teeth, and in
his agony bit it completely off.


In Persia the loss of an ear, no
matter under what circumstances,
is considered lasting disgrace, and
the Judge so felt it. He at once
gave orders to have the prisoner
carefully cared for, assuring the
physicians that if they did not save
his life, their own should pay the
penalty, and they succeeded.


When the prisoner was fully re-
covered, he was sentenced to have
his teeth pulled out one by one, in
presence of the mob, and this, sem
tence was carried out, two days
being exhausted in the work. No
pains were taken with the horrible
job, and the jaws We're broken and
crushed until the whole lower part
of the mans face was a mangled
mass, and his sufierings were so
great that many of the men tainted
in witnessing the operation. Two
days after, the little life in the man
was beaten out of the soles of his
feet, and the judge, having fully
satisfied his thirst for vengeance.
committed suicide.
Year: 1874

we shall in few years be able to sell four
per cent bonds at par. Those who believe
this must of necessity believe that any five
per cent bonds which are now bought for par
will not sink in value. However, we think it
a little premature to agtate the question of
four per cent bonds just now. 1t will be easier
to reduce tho interest one per cent on five
per cent bond than two per cent on six per
cent. We ought to finish up the change of
six per cents into fives, and then, In 1881, we
can put the whole Public Debt, greenbacks
and all, into the shape of four per cent bonds,
provided only market can be found. That
is what we are aiming at, and 1t seems rea-
sonable to suppose we shall get there sooner
by moving than by standing STILL Let the
four per cent men, and above all, the three
sixty-fve per cent capitalists, reconcile them
selves to five per cent interest for a while,
and take hold and relieve Mr.. Bristow of his
1790O0,000.


In the event that subscriptions are not re-
ceived by Thursday noon sufficient to absorb
the whole amount of bonds offered, we hope
Mr.. BristOw will issue his call for the
redemption of fivc-twentes to balance
whatever subscriptions he may have, and
again invite proposals until the middle of Au-
gust. We hear much of this and that Syn
dicate and their power to obstruct the loan,
but we have yet to be convinced that the Sec
rotary of the United States Treasury cannot
do, what any old farmer can-dispose of
marketable commodity at its market price
We want to sec these bonds sold, and sold to
our own people. We believe great majority
of our honkers and conitalists want the same
thing, and will cordially help to bring it about
Year: 1874

According to the testimony of the physicians
who conversed freely with the boys mother upon
the subject, it is very obviously case OF
birth-maik, and it is only upon that theory
that the lads murderous mania can be ac-
counted for The case is also Of interest not only
to the legal and medical professions, but TO
the theologian, to whom it must suggest some
new inouiries regarding the doctrine of moral
rpsnon sibilitV
Year: 1874

only commend the spirit which eeads the
municipality of Philadelphia to realize that
its honor is at stake in this matter, and which
makes every citizen feel that he is private
detective for this occasion. Every parent in
the country will breathe more freely when it
is announced that the perpetrators OF this
crime are safe in Jail, or under ground.
Year: 1874

The political situation in Indiana Is Oh inter
est from the fact that Senator Morton, VINO Is
q possible candidate for the Presidential sue
cession, and ex-senator Hendricks, who holds
in some sense q similar relation TO the candi-
dacy of the Democratic party, are both active
and both more or less potent in the shaping OF
the policies and ordering the campaign. In the
chaotic condition of politics it may be mat
ter of Importance what positions these two
gentlemen lead their respective parties to
take. An Indianapolis letter gives On inter
esting resume of political events thus far
in the campaign in that State, though the can
vass has not yet fully developed.


Startling as they appear, the charges against
Commissioner Davenport will be read by the
people of this city where he is known without
any marked surprise. He has been 80 long
and so unfavOrably5 known in our local poll
tics that this brief record of his arbitrary acts
will scarcely make either his friends or the
public think less of him than they do now.
The revelation of his cOnsOrting and conspir-
ing with ex-Sheriff O'Brien to commit gross
oflenses against the personal liberty of honest
and peaceablc citizens may open the eyes oil
people to one fact We have been content to
look upon Mr.. Davenport as contemplate J;
these charges reveal more clearly than any of
Mr. DavenpOrt's acts that the law he Is ap-
pointed to administer, if perverted as 1t has
been in the past, may make him powerful ior
much mischief.


The attack upon ex-AttOrney- General Clarke
of Manitoba at st. Paul by some Minneapolis
ruflians, headed by Chief of Police Hay
was as disgraceful as it was brutal and cow
arlly. Whatever may have been Clarke'S con-
duct in relation to the prosecution OF these
men for the alleged abduction of Lord Cor
"dOn," there was no excuse for any such muir
derous attack upon him, and the affair ls a
burning shame not only to those concerned In
it but to the city where the outrage was per-
mitted to be perpetrated. Clarke has been
active and prominent in Manitoba politics for
several years, and in the course of some-
what boisterous career has managed to make
a host Of bitter personal enemies, but those
who saw him confront q mob at Fort Garry
on the occasion of the visit of some American
gentlemen to that place in 1871 can testify
that he is no coward. That he should be set
upon and murderously assaulted by an Amer
lean mob headed by chief of municipal
police in an American city is an outrage
which should be visited with the severest
pepalties upon the heads of the offenders.
Year: 1874

; The letters of the parties to the Roddy- Shot
well suit are not to be given to the papers.
A grateful press and relieved public thank
Judge Sutherland for his consideration in SO
ordering.
Year: 1874

The theatrical license or tax enforced by the
State has been virtually declared unconshtu-
tional, on the ground that the Legislature
cannot tax individuals to support private
corporation, such as the Society for the Re


formation of Delinquent Children appears to be.
Year: 1874

The transformation of the Rifle Range at
Creedmoor into bear garden, in which
drunken guardsmen baited each other and
unfortunate spectators, may possibly be
arrested by the action of the various authori-
ties But to be successful the remedies must
be promptly applied, and new rules vigorously
enforced.
Year: 1874

An apt and fitting commentary on Pcnlten-
tary management was the request of an old
offender sentenced in Brooklyn Court to four
years and six months in the Penitentiary, that
the Judge would give him six months more
and make it States Prison. The current re-
ports on our Penitentiary management justify
the mans preference for Slug Sing or Auburn.
And the stories that come from the latter of
the way prisoners fare therein are SO rose
colered as to warrant still further the appeal
for longer term in pleasanter place.
Year: 1874

RAPID NUTRTuoN-It is the opinion OF
medical authorities that the fundamental
distinction between the strong man and
the weak, the energetic ruler of men and
things, and the feeble imbecile,-is simply
this: that the process Of nutrition is ear
ried on with greater ease and rapidity in
the one than in the other. What was it
that enabled Napoleon to undergo those
prodigious privations, without which his
genius would have availed him so little :?
An uncommon faculty Of rapid nutrition.
Now the two great fellow partners in this
work of nutrition are these: FooD, which
furnishes the capital; and STIMULUS,
which invests it,-that is, influences each
part of the body to take up from the
blood so much of the food-nutriment as


it stands in need of i! Outdoor exercise is
| the bestH stimulus :" but multitudes can


not get that. Such persons will find the


used of DR.. Gottleib Fisch's Bitters un-


speakably beneficial


This subject continued next week under


Verdict; Starred.