smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Cosmetics, as a rule, injure the skin
to such an extent that should the mod
ern juliet whose countenance is daily
calcomined, chance to be caught some
early morning by her love-lorn Romeo
before she had put on her '.good COM
plexion," that worthy youth would
stand appalled,, and might well mutter,
''she would have the face to prove that
black is white,'' Late suppers and rich
food have more to do with pimply and
muddy compilations than all the cos
metics in the world can undo. To pre-
vent the greasy look which many faces
wear, wash often in some mild acid,
such as diluted lemon or tomato juice,
aud rub the face several times day
not roughly-with towel. A piece of
flannel is better to wash the face with
than a sponge; the slight roughncss
cleanses the pores of the skin, and pre-
vents those little black specks that so
many complain of, and for which they
try every remedy except the right one
soap, water and towel suasion. To
keep the skin smooth and soft, make a
linen bag large enough to hold a quart
of bran; put il in vessel and pour two
quarts of boiling water on it; let it stand
all day, and on retiring at night, take
out the bag and wash in the bran water.
If this is persisted in, the eoarsest skin
will soon become as soft as velvet. 1t
is well sometimes to apply cold cream
mixed with water, to the hands and
face at night during the winter season,
and in summer to use oat meal water in
stead. For those whose household
cares roughen and chap the hands it is
well always to keepa bottle Of glycerine
on the toilette table and every time you
wash, rub few drops on your hands
while they are yet wet, and then wipe
dry. The less soap such ladies use the
better. A little borax in the dish water
will cleanse the dishes far better than
soap, and save your dishes. If you
would keep a dish of coarse bran in
stead of cake of soap by your wash
bowl, you would find it an excellent
substitute, and almost a sure preventive
of those troublesome and often painful
skin diseases to which many hands are
subject in cold weather.
Year: 1878

Her hands are cold her face is white


No more her pulses come and so
Her ewes are shut to life and light


Fold the white vestures, snow on snow,


and law her where the violets grow
But not beneath g craven stone,


To plead for tears with alien eyes
A slender cross Of wood alone


Shall say tha. here maiden lies


In space beneath the peaceful skies,
And gray old trees of hugest limb.


Shall wheel their circling shadows round.
To make the scorching sunlight dim.


That drinks the greenness from the grouns
And drop their dead leaves on her mound.
And through their leaves the robins call.
And ripening IN the Autumn sun


The acorn and the chestnut fall,


Doubt not that she will heed them all
To her the morning choir shall sing


It's mathis from the branches high,
Aud every minstrel-voice of Spring


That trills beneath the Aprilsky,


Shall greet her with its earliest cry.
When. turning round their dial-trsck,
Eastward the lengthening shadows pass.
Her little mourners clad in black.


The erickets sliding through the grass,
Shall pipe for her an evening mass
At last the rootlets of the trees,


Shall find the prison where she lies,
And bear the buried dust they seize


In leaves and blossoms to the skies.
So may the soul that warmed 1t rise.
II any. born of kindlier blood,


Should ask what maiden lies below,
Say only this A tender bud,
That tr1ed to blossom in the snow,
Lies withered where the violets grow.
Year: 1878

Friday afternoon a man and a boy
while berrying in Mason's woods, at
Deering Maine, saw coat sticking out
out Of ground and pulling on it found
1t contained a body. Digging away
about a foot Of dirt the body of a
man was exposed to view, having been
dead apparently As hours, An exam
ination of the body showed that the
skull was crushed in evidently by a
blow from heavy inatrument. The
neck was broken evidently when bur-
led. The pockets in the pants were
cut and the body wrapped in bed
quilt. The track of wagon led away
from the spot, showing that the body
was conveyed there from some other
place. The body has not been recog.
nized.
Year: 1878

1t was summer time-the bright
season when the flowers wake up and
nod their arch faces right in the face
Of the sun; when the birds begin to
rejoice, and the fragrant, balmy winds
blow back and forth over the earth ;
and when happy little children all
over the land laugh aloud in the sun
shine.


But in striking contrast to the
glowing beauty all around was the
pinched form Of a poor little, bare
footed girl who was walking up the
garden path.


The farm house door WAS open.--
The child gazed in with hungry eyes,
but when Mrs. Halstead looked up
and saw her she turned to so.


Come back, my dear; you look as
if you were hungry


AS it fascinated, the child drew
near to the kind, motherly speaker


Oh, INA am, please say it again T.


Say what ? Do you mean my
dear?


yes, yes that's what the pretty
lady called her little girl when she
came to our house. She said it ever
so often, and oh it sounded SO nice.


Poor child, said Mrs. Halstead,
pitying, did no one ever call you 50
before? Where do you live


I don't live anywhere now; | ran
away from the poor house, and-oh !
here she almost cried as she cast a
longing look toward the bouutful Ia
ble--I'm SO hungry /


The eagerness with which the al
most starved child deyoureo the food
set before her, brought tears to good
Mrs. Halsteads eyes, and quick
thought sprang suddenly into her
mind.


When the little ones had finished
eating,sh drew her TO her, and push
ing the tangled hair back from the
broad forehead, the kind woman said;


What is your name ?


Margaret.


Margaret you are alone and nn-
happy; | have no children would
you like to live with me?


with you' the hazel eyes grew
lustrous with Il glad light. oh, may
Il?


Yes, if you wish. | had little
girl once, but she was taken away,
and the father has always wanted Inc
to adopt one in her p ace. So, if you
Will be a goou cnlld,you snail stay.


Little Margaret nestled close to
Mrs. Halstead and looked up, her
beautiful eyes full of the gratitude
she could not express. When Mar
garet was dressed in the garments her
little girl had worn, Mrs. Halstead
led her to her husband, who was ap-
preaching the house. All was quick
ly explained and the old farmer said
heartily:


Perhaps the Lord has sent her,
wife to make up for little Bessie


And thus it came to pass that the
little waif that came to the farm house
Year: 1878

u We are informed that the conspirators at
Highland, mot South Carolina or Mississippi, re-
member,) who were trying to beat Phil. Kelley
finding that Jim Kennedy was doing effective
work for the straight ticket, went to him, threat
ening that if he did not stop working for Kelley,
they would do all in their power to keep people
from trading at his store. To which Kennedy
replied that they might go to h-ll, and that he
intended to work for the Republican ticket un-
til the polls closed. A few such workers in ev-
cry precinct would neutralize all the sore heads
and grumblers that could be raked up. One
such Republican as Jim Kennedy is worth
steamboat load of the kind that will do all the
talking, and take Appointment part in Republican
Conventions, and then conspire and labor to
defeat the ticket.
Year: 1878

IA BAD TICKET.-We now hear il said that
the Republicans of this County had bad tick
et and one hard to drag through. This might
sound better, if it were not the cry every year.
1t seems that the Republicans always have
poor ticket Snch has been the complaint, for
the past seven or eight years. Three years ago,
the Republicans had good ticket as was
ever nominated in the County, and yet it was
abused worse than has ever been known. The
candidates were charged with everything mean,
from hog stealing on up. Two years ago, the
same cry arose. A year ago, there was good
ticket bnt some of the candidates had to take
an extra amount of abuse. Therefore, when the
tune was set up this Fall, it was set down to
the old score. The fact is, few men in the
party are determined, when they or their friends
cannot have fat take, that they will do their
utmost to defeat the ticket; and, with 700 ma
jority in the Comfy, it is not uncommon to have
o.e or more of the Republican candidates de-
feated. Another element consists of few
church members who seem determined to es-
tablish the same test of fitness in politics that
they do in the church-that is, they require
man to be religious, or he is not worthy of their
support. No party could stand under such
system, for religion and politics will not work
together. The main fight of this character, this
Fall, was made against d. W. Brown. 1t is a
fixed fact in politics, that men belonging to
party cannot work against part of their ticket
without ipjuring the whole of it, aud the great
est loss falls upon candidates for closely contest
ed Offices. We have no doubt that the fght
against Mr.. Brown was the immediate cause of
the defeat of Mr.. Rappelye, the only church
member and practical Christian on the ticket.
We hope it afforded those over-nice gentlemen
much satisfaction in beating good msu in or
der to defeat one who did not fill their idea of
proper candidate.
Year: 1878

q During the past two or three months,
there was large increase of Democratic and
Greenback papers in Kansas. They sprang mp
in every direction. We shall expect soon to sec
them drop off az if the yellow fever had got
among them. They did not accomplis the re-
suit they anticipated
Year: 1878

Y In looking over the list of members elec-
ted to the Legislature, the impression comes up
on one that "Old Pom" will not be altogether
friendless In that body, and that he may have
enough influence to make himself seriously felt.
Year: 1878

n The Balletin said that Mr.. Hestlev was
too light in the poop to win the race for County
Attorney. He managed to make it, somehow;
but if be is still deficient in that important
particular, we suggest that he obtain supply
of the editor of the Bslletia, who is so heavy in
that locality that he is water-logged.
Year: 1878

GEx. b. W. PRICK had a seat along with
the Lewis county delegation in the
Moundsville Convention. Some people
thought the General was getting ready to
zine" owing to the nomination OF New
man tho other day. They do say that he
gagged badly over that nomination.
Year: 1878

THE GRIM DESTROYER
Stalking Abroad in the Sunny South.
Thousands Daily Dying From His


Poisonous Sting.
Piteous Appeals for Assistance From


Suffering People.
An Alarming Increase of the Disease


in Memphis.
Three Hundred and Eleven Deaths


for the Past Week.
Over 5000 Cases in New


Orleans.
Year: 1878

This is a new hea measure deriving
its potency from the employment Of the
same wonderful ''carbou" used in the
Edison telephone, and so sensitive that
1t IS capable of detecting the fifly-thou-
san lth part of degree Fahrenheit. L
New Y York Sun reporter who visit ID
him last week MI. Edison said that be
had not yet been able, owing 10 the
pressu,e OF other work, to construct the
instruments necessary to show the full
ability of this new power, but that he
had satisfied himself OF the feasibility OF
SO employing it that it will register heat
influences smaller by thousands of divl-
sions than any that have yet been regis
tered. He prophesied that he would be
able TO draw sufficient heat from stal
to close an ordinary circuit.
Year: 1878

Howard, to the effect that thousand or
more of the Colville and Spokane In
dians are up in arms and training their
ponies for fight in case the government
insists on moving them into agencies.
These are peaceful Indians, and a ma
jorlty of them are well-tc do farmers, so
it cannot be wondered at that they do not
want to be forcibly elected from their
homesteads. But as they are merely
"Tndians," and not civilized "citizens,"
no one can tell what may befall them
under the equisitely bad management of
our Indian affairs. All they ask is to be
left alone, in peaceful possession of their
property, and if this request is not gram
ed, no true man will blame them for TAX
ing up arms to protect their homes and
hearthstones against the innovation and
aggression of white speculators who
think their land can be turned to better
account ALPHA.
Year: 1878

Take life just as though it was-as it
is-an earnest, vital, essential affair.
Take it just as though you personally
were born to the task of performing a
merry part in it--as though the world
had waited for your coming. Take it as
if it was a grand opportunity to do and
achieve, to carry forward great and good
schemes; to help and cheer suffering,
weary, it may be heart-broken brother.
The fact is, life is undervalued by great
majority of mankind. It Is not made
half as much Of as should be the case.
Where is the man or woman who accom-
plishes one 1.-THE of what might be done?
Who cannot look upon opportunities lost,
plans unachieved, thoughts crushed, as
pirations unfullflled, and all caused
from the lack Of the necessary and pos
sible effort9 1t we knew better how to
take and make the most Of life, it would
be far greater than it is. Now and then
man stands aside from the crowd, labors
earnestly, steadfastly, confidently, and
straightway becomes famous for great
ness of some sort. The world wonders
admires, idoEizes; yet it only illustl ates
what each may do if he takes hold of Life
with purpose. If a man but say hf
aoil, and follow it up, he may expect te
accomplish anything reasonable.
Year: 1878

is generally composed of shirred hat of
white linen, which may be taken apart and
washed as easily as a handkerchief


Lingerie seems to be entering on the sensi-
bic road of q Vision of power, already in
augurated by the fashion which at the same
time recognizes the short costume and long
dress Just as there are toilettes for the
morning aud for the evening, there will also
be lingerie plain and simple for short cos
tunes, and rich and ornamental for afternoon
toilettes. We have returned to richly en-
broidered collars, and it is even announced
that they will be worn straight around the
neck without being turned down, Just as
they were worn twenty or thirty years ago.
The sleeves, tight at the wrist, are always
completed by fiat cuffs worn over the sleeves
Embroidered handkerchiefs, SO long abandon
ed, have again become the fashion, and somt.
are made which are admirable in design and
execution. For morning wear fashion die
tates that the collar, cravat, cuffs, and hand
kerchief should be trimmed with the same
embroidery, all white, or sometimes mixed
with colored cotton


EsMELINE RAYMOND.
Year: 1878

A Boston man has vest that Fanny
Fern made with her own hands. And
we will bet 500 that it never did and
never will fit any man in this wide, wide
world; that they can't tell by its shape
whether it was originally made for fat
woman or lean man, for a man with
sway back. or man with hump on his
hack like camel. Woman, Heaven bless
her is the light of our homes, but when
she tries to make mans vest the angels
weep. And when she makes pair OF
pantaloons for him the immortal gods just
hold their sides and run away out into
the woods and roll on the grass and howl.
-Hasok-Eye.
Year: 1878

1t is really difficult to understand why the
death yesterday of tho soi-disant detective
Molloy by the hand Of the gambler Allen
should have made the impression that it has
upon the public mind. There was nothing
in the life of either of them to give him any
claim upon the attention of any one. except
the police officer, who was, of course, blind
until blindness became an impossibiity.
The notifying thing about the affair
for respectable citizens is that the
alleged murderer of to-day was but yester-
day leading politician who welded con-
siderable influence, whom candidates for
Office, from the lowest to the highest, found
it expedient to consult. 1t was only few
weeks ago that he bore prominent part In
State conventions; was the recognized
leader of considerable portion Of our
voters; loud in his professions of reform and
in denunciation of existing political sys-
TENS. That he should have. held such
position is not, perhaps, strange to those
who know the depth of baseness i'll which
our lower politics are sunk, but 1t Will
be wonder and mystery to the
better portion of the community. The cir
cumstances surrounding the crime are ex-
ceedingly peculiar Allen says that no one
witnessed the deed and that it was an sac
cident." The deceased, he declares, was
his "best friend" which is probably true
1t is the best friends of such men who al
ways suffer. Altogether the case is an in
teresting one for the police and the law
officers, and it is to be hoped every effort
will be made to bring all the facts to light
and if great crime has been committed to
properly punish the perpetrator
Year: 1878

The mystery enshrouding the horrifying
discovery at Staten Island seemed yesterday
in fair way OF being dispelled, but to-day
it appears as great az ever. The peculiar
nature of the evidence volunteered by the
young man who thought he had identified
ehe remains Of the unfortunate woman was
of itself enough to carry conviction
with it, for no man, even when ABB
solutely sure Of the identity Of the
body concerning which he testified, could
easily prevail upon himself to make such q
statement in public, and thus fasten upon
himself notoriety from which even time
itself could never release him; but he now
proves to have been mistaken as TO identity
Ellen Murphy is indeed dead, and the man
ner of her death was such as he anticipated.
The anonymous note received by the
Coroner and published to-day may lead
to the discovery of the dead woman's true
name and antecedents, but these will be the
least important facts OF tho case What
Justice and the public will want
to know is the name and whereabouts
of the being who gave such brutal
vet such careful burial to the unfortunate.
No ordinary murderer or depravcd person
would have thought of surrounding the
body with disinfectants besides. the pecu-
liar condition Of maternity in which tho
woman is proved to have died points un-
erringly toward n class Of persons who, in
spite OF being utterly heartless and vile,
have surgical intelligence of q certain
order which they employ in the work of
removing restraint from immoral practices.
1t is to be hoped that the truth will yet be
discovered and the prison or the gallows
receive its due.
Year: 1878

The large attendance OF riiiemen at the
opening Of the fall meeting on the Creed
moor range yesterday shows how deep
hold the manly and fascinating amuse-
ment of craftsmanship has upon the
present generation. In addition to our
own State and New Jersey, Connecticut,
Massachusetts and Rhode Island were
well represented, and at the contests
which are yet to come the other
sections of the country will appear through
their best rihemen. The only thing to be
regretted in connection with the meeting
yesterday was the failure of the general
public to be present. Their neglect to
attend was of course owing entirely to the
fact that the absence of foreign competitors
this year had, in great N measure,
robbed the event of half it's i'm
portanco and Smade it comparatively
tame and unattractive. This, to say
the least, is not the kind of treatment our
riAemen have the right to expect. Our in
terstate contests, such as took place yester-
day, ought to awaken as keen an interest as
competition between our own countrymen
and those of other nationalities. 1t is only
in this way that the spirit of emulation can
be aroused and that we shall as q people
continue to hold the place we have won as
the first marksmen in the world.
Year: 1878

TnE MIATnEn.-thc western depression has
made very little progress eastward during the
last twenty-iour hours, but the area of it's in-
flucnco s gradually extending itself and is now
as far sonth as the Lower Missouri Valley. AS
stated in yesterdays HERALD the probabilities
are very slight that district will be affected
by the depression. because tie high area that
continues on tho Middle Atlantic and New Eng
land coasts tends 10 turn IL TO the northeast.
Its probable path will bo over the lake regions
90 the 1T. Lawrence Valley and thence through
the valley To the Atlantic at Nova Scotia. OF
course during its passage to the north of our
districts coudy weather will generally prevail.
The pressure is high on the Atlantic coast from
Nova Scotia to Florida. II is also relatively
high in the Central Valley and Gulf districts
and the Northwest. There have been light
rains on the eastern margin of the depression,
which il over the eastern section of the
lake regions and on the Gulf coast.
Fair weather generally prevails in all the dis
tricts east of the Mississippi River. Morning
iogs continue in the Ohio Valley and on the
Middle Atlantic coast. The winds have been
brisk in the lake regions, fresh On the Atlantic
coast and elsewhere light. a slight fall In tenn
pcratures has taken place in the lake regions
nnd the Middle Atlantic and New England
States In tho other districts there has been n
general rise The weather in New York and
its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly
cloudy, probably with fresh to brisk winds. To-
morrow 1t promises to be warm and fair, fol-
lowed by increasing cloudncss.
Year: 1878

Jesse Billings, .Jr., if not guilty of the
murder of his wife as charged, is certainly
entangled in net of circumstances as re-
markable as any that ever put mans life
in danger. His past relations to his wife
that show motive; some incidents Of do
mestic life that point to possible former at
tempts in the same direction; the history Of
the weapon found in the we'll; the story of
the rootprints-all these taken together tell
with accumulated force against the likeli-
hood of his innocence. In tho state in
which the ground was at the time it was not
possible for man to reach the
place from which the fatal shot was
fired without leaving the evidence of
his footprints. Footprints arc found
and they answer exactly to the soles of the
boots that Billings had on that night. He
admits that he was that day at the very
place where these prints were found, and
that they are probably his. There should,
then, be other footprints there, but appar-
emily no others ore found No other per-
son impressed the soft earth with the
weight of his foot that night-unlcss it was
some person who wore boots with soles just
like those worn by Billings. Now he wore
indiarubber boots. There is but little in
dividuality in rubber boot. They are
made by hundreds or thousands of u GER
tain pattern and certain size. Given
the size and the style of the fac
tory from which the boot comes, and
any boot Of the number will make
OH impression just like any other. Perhaps
in that neighborhood a hundred men have
got boots from the same shop and of the
same size as those Billings wore. Alone,
therefore, the footprints might not count
up heavily against him; they constitute,
however, but one link in the chain.
Stronger, n great deal, than tho fact of the
footprints are the facts in regard to the gun;
and these are facts of sort to which jury
is likely to be very susceptible. This gun
was in the prisoners hands n few days be-
fore the murder; was missed after the mur-
der and was found in well two days later,
containing n cartridge shell which It's the
heel of the somewhat hattencd bullet found
in the woman's head. 1t would be difficult
to find any reason for putting the gun in
the we'll consistentwith the innocence of the
accused; and if the gun was not used by
him, but by some person who came to do
the crime and whose safety depended upon
speedy fight from the neighborhood, that
person would in all probability have taken
the gun with him. But where was Billings
when the crime was committed? His de-
fence is to be based apparently upon the
attempt to prove that he was at neigh
boris house. This alibi, however, is of tho
same unsatisfactory sort that was pleaded
recently in Camden in the case of Hunter.
Actual experiment shows that it IS possi-
bic to 60 from the scene OF tho murder
to the place where Billings says he was
in such period of time as would have
enabled him to be there some ten minutes