smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

lively divine his selection.


Two nights afterwards he reached the
Morris door, full of delightful antici-
patton. He was met by old Mr.. Morris,
who, thrusting a note into his hand
explained, with much unnecessary en-
phasis, and total disregard of the
commonest rules of politeness, that if
he ever ventured to present himself at
that house again he would be kicked
down the front steps, mixed up in
complicated relations with the family
bulldog, and committed to the final
care of the police.


He went home maddened with this
very undesirable mystery, and conf
dent that old Morris had been attacked
with delirium tremens, and was an ex-
ceedingly unsafe acquaintance. Once
in his room, he sat down to read the
crumpled letter that had been forced
him. It was his own letter to Mary.
Below the cipher was written Mary's
translation of it. The poor girl had
tried to translate it by using the inner
columns of the book, and with the fol-
lowing unsatisfactory result:


"You liar when almost hate her and
farewell you deceitful never again and
base infamy."


And still further down on the page
was written in Mary's hand, "I can
make out enough of your letter to see
it is cruel, wicked insult, and I shall
tell papa"


1t flashed across Pennington's rem
nant of mind that perhaps Mary had
made mistake in the columns of the
book. He seized the volume and veri-
fed his suspicion. The innocent note
that he had written was actually trans
formed, by the simple process of read
ing it by the wrong column as key,
into the incoherent, but obviously i'm
polite letter, which had wrought such
unhappy consequences.


Pennington sank into his chair utterly
overwhelmed. He called himself all
the choice names that old Morris had
applied to him, together with a large
selection of other epithets. He spent
an hour in this profitable occupation.
At the end of that time he formeda res
olution which he proceeded to put into
immediate execution.


He rose up, and going to his trunk,
took out his secret society emblems and
solemnly threw them in the CRATE. He
next sat down and wrote twelve sepa-
rate designations for twelve different
lodges. Then he wrote a solemn pledge
never, to the day of his death, to med
die with cipher or any other mystery,
and, finally, writing out a full history
of the cipher letter, sent it, together
with the book which he had used as a
key, his pledge to solemnly abstain
from mysteries, and an humble apology
to old Morris.


OF course his explanation was ac-
cepted, and Mary forgave him. Sew
eral years have passed since that event,
but if you want to make Pennington
Smythe blush with wretchedness, all
that is necessary is to ask him if he
knows of any good, trustworthy cipher.
Year: 1874

No cross no crown.


Out of debt out of danger.
Far from court far from care.
Take away fuel take away flame.
Forecast is better than hard work.
Covctousncss brings nothing home.
The masters eye makes the horse fat.
He that goes borrowing goes sorrow
ing.


All are not hunters that blow the
horn.


An obedient wife commands her hus-
band.


The discontented man finds no easy
chair.


Fools build houses and wise men buy
them.


Where the knot is loose, the string
slippeth.


Gold goes in an any gate except
Heavens.


He who handles thorns shall prick
his fingers.


When the fox breaches beware of
your geese.


Less of your courtesy and more of
your puise.


A laugh is worth hundred groans in
any market.


Wherever The speech is corrupted: so
is thc mind.


He who would eat The kernel must
crack the nut.


F,ieudsbip is love, without either
flowers or veil


To those whose god is honor, dis
grace alone is sin.


Diligence is fair fortune and indus
try good estate.


When The tree hath fallen every man
goeth to it with his hatchet.


Many mans vices have at first been
nothing worse than good qualities run
wild.
Year: 1874

Now the book upon which this cipher
was based was printed in double COL
umns. Unfortunately Pennington for
got to explain which Of these columns
he intended to use. However, he de-
cided to use the outer column trusting
that the other heart, which, as he fire.
quently remarked, was one of two
Year: 1874

Representatives of the United States in
the Postal Convention at Berne, Switzer-
land, have perfected arrangements by
which a uniform rate of postage will be
established between their country and the
European by the Union IF it refuses to
do so, the mails from the United States
to Europe will be carried exclusively by
German and American vessels. We
should expect some agreement in respect
to mail-services to be reached before the
questions of coinage and warfare and
the fact the first point has been approach
ed at Berne, encourages us to believe that
the time is not far distant when more vi
tai concerns, as between nation and nation,
will be considered and adjusted.
Year: 1874

oe'oer man. Walter Legrand was urged
lnoS' strongly to join the army but his love
Tor his mother restrained him. He set
tied his fathers business and be and h;s
mother returned to England with me
Three years after that he was sent to Par.
lament from his native borough, and no
man can enjoy more thoroughly the conf.
dence and esteem of his fellows than he
does; but 1 know that all the honors which
men can heap upon him can never take that
place in his heart and love which is filled
by the gratitude and trusting confidence OF
his own dear mother.
Year: 1874




To burn, not to burn that is the question;
Whether tbs better in the end to suffer
The woes and trials of contagious humors,
Or to take arms against their potent onslaught,
And by burning check them? To die; to burn;
No more; and by this burning say we check
The smallpox and the thousand other ills
That flesh is heir to, it's a consumation
Deyoutly to be wished. To die: to burn:
TO burn: consume this form-aye, there's the


rub;


For in that funeral fire what pangs may come
To us when gazing on the greedy flames
Must give us pause? There's the respect
That spurs resistance to this rite;
For who would bear the raging thirst of fever,
The small-pox's scars the chills or ague,
The pains of consumption, the measles sway,
The reign of whooping-cough, and the pangs
OF dread in times of pestilence,
When he might free himself of all these ills
BY simply burning? Who would sickness bear,
To groan and curse under doctors bills,
But the dread of burning after death,
The human form divine-form we prize
Exceeding all things else, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those evils dire,
Than TO adopt this strange, unusual rite?
This custom doth make slaves of us all
And thus the wish to better our condition
Is sicklied DER with pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of sanitary nature
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
Year: 1874

WE publish elsewhere the views of
the State Superintendent of Public In
struction, as expressed yesterday to
representative of this paper, concern
ing tfss Extraordinary demands of the
Colored Convention recently In session
here, and the disastrous blow to the ed
ucational interests of Tennessee which
the passage of the civil rights bill,
in its present shape, would inevitably
infict. Col Fleming speaks not as a
mere politician or ofice-hOlder, but as
one with whom our public school sys-
tenn is the subject of anxious, profound
reflection and who appreciates to its
fullest extent the grave nature of the
issue at hand.
Year: 1874

WHETHER Capt. Ead's system of
jetties be the best or not for reopening
the Mississippi to the commerce of the
world, it is at least gratifying that the
Senate Committee has taken some
decided stand on the subject and pro-
posed to urge its consideration upon
Congress. For the great grain-grow-
ing West, as well as a large portion of
the South. a clear channel to the Gulf
is the key to the problem Of cheap
TRANSFORMATION.
Year: 1874

Mr.. GALToN has brought down the
wrath of Englishwomen on his poor head
by sOlemnly affirming that the statistics
show that the mind of woman is opposed
to science, and that her commanding in
fiuence in society is the means of discOUr-
aging young men from deyoting themselves
to science,
Year: 1874

Special to the Louisville COurier-Journal.


WASHINGTON, April 29.-The Senate
Select Committee on Transportation has
agreed to report bill in favor of the jetty
project of Capt. Eads for the mouth of the
Mississippi river, with the object of bring
ing the subject before the Senate. There
is to be a final meeting of the committee
on the subject tomorrow, to be held at the
instance of Senator West, but it is hardly
to be supposed that the bill as agreed on
and printed will be seriously changed or
suppressed. and especially as an elaborate
report has been made by Mr.. West.
Year: 1874

Two young people are in great trouble
A wealthy citizen Of Wisconsin left by hi
viii his large property % be equally divide
between his son and a niece in New forh
ON condition that the son, nov ninetee
years Of age, shall marry the ME 9 Storesai
before attaining his majority. Neither wi
have the other. So tie will S he cor
tested
Year: 1874

ONCE upon a time Kalakama. the new
King of the Sandwich Islands, was an anna
teur editor. and with proper appreciation
Of the craft, as soon as he mounted the
throne, he appointed rival editor Govern :
or of the Island Of Mani. The chances
are that Kalakama Will make good
King.
Year: 1874


r, the Editor:


l have never written to paper before,
but thought would write to your paper.
Our school commences next Monday. We
are to have the same teacher we have had
for three terms before. I like him real
we'll for teacher.
The first flower found was about three
weeks ago, but we have plenty now. l
am going to join the Grange as soon as I
am old enough. Father has Joined and is
Lecturer.


We had span Of horses that we had
owned for ton years, but COW hooked one
Of them and killed it. I felt real bad for
he was my horse to ride.


Yours, with respect.


NELLIE MORRIS.
Year: 1874

DT7We have devoted this column to our
young in order to interest and improve
them, and we hope that the boys and girls
who write for The GRANGE ADVANCE will
try to see how nicely they can write, and
how much better they can write each time
Remember that the boys and girls of to-
day will soon be the men and women of our
country, and in their hands will be the
farms. the homes, the schools, the interests
and welfare Of the State and Nation.
Year: 1874

and slept little. With morning light
my incredulity returned. I laughed
and ridiculed Mary and the rest of the
family about being scared by the spirits.


The day passed off as usual and night
once more came to put us to a test as to
what sort of stuff we were made Of
John, that was the boys name, aud I
did not leave the kitchen after dark but
kept close by where we could see and
know all that took place. Nothing oc-
Cured till I was busy putting some wood
in the stove, when hearing a noise,
looked to the door, which was bolted as
it was the night before; the latch was
playing up and down as though some
PERSONS hand was on the door handle
and had their thumb on the thumb
piece. Without stopping to think, I
run for the door. The latch stopped
suddenly; unbolted and opened the
door, and run out the whole length of
the walk. could see nothing nor could
l hear anything that could cause the
disturbance.


To say that was frightened would
not convey the meaning of the feelings
that passed over me at that time. I
thought for sure it was spirits OF some
kind. To say that we did not sleep
much that night would be telling the
truth. The next day Mary visited the
Catholic priest, confessed her sins and
received do not know what, but came
home as happy as clam in high water.
I think we all felt very religiously in
clined all day. When evening came
Mary was washing up the supper dish
es and having been kept awake so
much, I was very sleepy and went early
to bed with John. Our bedroom
opened out of the kitchen on the oppo-
site side from the back door tha: was af-
fected by the spirits. We left our door
open and had the rifle we'll loaded
where we could reach it. Mary was
singing merry as cricket, John was
snoring, when the door latch COM
menced again it's double shuttle
on double quick time.- Poor Mary
made straight for our room. She had
just strength enough to get to the bed
and fell across it in swoon.


The old door in the mean time kept
up clatter that nearly Frightened the
wits out Of me, but I pushed Mary one
side as best I could, for she was good
solid girl, got up and walked to the door
with fear and trembling and unbolted
the door very quickly, when the spirits,
in the shape Of large cat, jumped down
from the door handle and ran along the
walk. We had no cat at that time, but
this was a wanderer of that race whose
highness had probably strayed from home
and was seeking the kind charity Of the
world.


Since then I have heard the bullets
whistle and felt their sting but do not
know that ever before or since was so
thoroughly frightened as I was by that
cat.


The laugh that followed after the re-
covery of Mary from her swoon, and
the relation to the rest of the family of
the cause Of all our fears, with the Incl
dents of the last fright, can be better
imagined than told.


From the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch


The New Department in the IS Morning


GlOry.'
Year: 1874

Yesterday afternoon fire was discovered in the
building occupied by the Seventh Regiment
Armory. and 1t was several hours before It could
be extinguished. Fortunately the chief damage
done TO the regimental property was by water.


The damage TO the building is estimated at
$4,000, but beng city property It was
understood there was no insurance on the
same. The only portion OF the building
burned was the roof and 1t seems rather
remarkable that the fire department. did
not succeed in extinguishing the same long be.
fore they did. Had 1t not been Tor the Insurance
patrol nearly every company would have sus-
tanned heavy loss. The officers room, on the
second story was the worst damaged by water-it
is said to the amount OF $4,000, which is covered
by insurance in the Hanover Insurance Company.
The Seventh company sustained a loss of $1,000,
other companies were more or less dam.
aged by water, which might be safely
estimated at $500 each. It might be proper to
state that, with the exception OF the state Arms,
only one or two companies were insured. The first
member OF the regiment who was on hand at the
breaking out OF the fire, and who, 1t is claimed,
discovered the same, was Sergeant Knight Of the
Sixth company, While Assistant CAPTAIN James OF
the insurance patrol, sent OUT the first
alarm Among the officers OF the reg.
smith, OF the Eighth company; Captain Kipp, OF
the Fourth company; Lieutenants Earle and Parr
oil the Fourth company; Lieutenant Darlington OF
the fifth company, and Captain Barrett, OF the
Fifth company. The armory was finished in 1850
and the Seventh regiment took posse ss,on of the
ing been totally destroyed the loss would have
been not less than $500, 900.
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes In
the temperature for the past twenty-iour hours
In comparison with the corresponding day of last
year rs indicated by the thermometer at Hudnups
Pharmacy. HERALD building
Year: 1874

not in the way Of actual mon.
ley paid to former shareholders,


buhin the development of in
[dqstTies in the South that were


destroyed d by the ware If we


Of the Northern States for gen


erations sustained, approved


and profited by slavery when


it was an institution, should


we not assume some of the ex-


pense and responsibility ofre-


garding it.as a crimea Because


we conquered the South have


we any right to desolate it s


Can there be any form Of DESC


lation more thorough than to


compel the people to bear ali


the burdens Of the war which


they assumed of the abolition


Of slavery which we at one


time guaranteed to them as an
llnstltutlon, as well as of the


debt we contracted ourselves


to suppress the rebellions Can


there be any genuine recon


struction that makes it the OBJ


ject Of the. Southern leaders to


aim to destroy by repudiation
the Union they failed to de-


stroy by secession? These are
grave questions. TO the minds
OF some Of our readers they


may no doubt be novel, and it


may be said that we take a
gloomy or fantastic view Of the


situation in the South. But
there certainly is an evil ID the
South that we have not reach.
ed. We are rapidly drifting
upon chaos, disorder, a war Of.
races, reputation. We have
made our.brothers Of yesterday


our enemies, and not only our
enemies, but we surrender to-
their mercy the credit Of the
nation and the happiness Of
the four millions Of slaves we
emancipated. More than an
wehave given them no motive
for reconstruction; but, on the
contrary, we have, left them
every temptation to war upon


the Union.


Theselare living questions.
It is not for US to decide them !;


but We do not see how there
can be reconstruction until
they are decided. Would it
not be the wisest statesman!
ship, therefore, to call together
a national convention to con-


slider the war, its causes, con-


sequences and results, and
how best the Union can adjust
itself to the new and strange
conditions it has left to us -
Let us have a national conven-
tloH OF peace ana recOnStruc-
ton.
The lnstigators Of The Troubles.
Richmond Enquirer Dem.l


It is the leading aspiration


= - =. L
of the third tern1ers that such d |
state Of anarchy may be pros


duced in the South that it may
appear a public necessity for


Grant to seize the reins of em-|
pire. They are a dead race ofl
politicians, with no hope for
the present or future except
in quasi-revolution. On the
other hand, the old Radicals Of
the Thad.s Stevens followincI
Year: 1874




JRDAY, SEPTEMBE
vagabond, and insolent pre-
! tender that has made republi-
can government at the South a
reproach. to all the civilized
world. With such a gathering
before us we should not have
to search far for the causes of
the present distress, nor should
we be puzzled to suggest a
remedy. To take all these
men, and a few more like them,
by the collar, and lead them
out, would suggest itself to all
of us as the one great reform
necessary to secure the perfect
reconstruction of the South"


Peace and Reconstruction.


New York Herald, Inl,f


s,s The men who a few
short years ago were strong
enough by genius and valor to
to rule the councils of the I'm
ion, and subsequently, to con
struct a power in the Southern
Confederacy that required four
years OF war to suppress and
is still a historical power COM
manding the respect and adj
miration of mankind-these
men have not passed away,
We do not see them, but they
Five. The men who fill the
public eye in any country are
always few compared with the
millions unseen who only await
opportunity to act and speak.
Can we really reconstruct the
Southern States without the,aid
Of the real req 50 sons .!9! Of the South ont :
We have tried to doso, depend
ing upon the Ignorant freed
men who yesterday were slaves
and the unscrupulous white
adventurers who yesterday
fled from the North as political
mendicants aud soldiers of for
tune. There is no reconstruc
ton. On the contrary, we see
disturbance, civil outbreaks,
corruption and disorder, and,
worse than all, a war upon the
national creditby means Of re-
pudiayion that will be as dis
astrous to the Union as if the
rebellion had been a success.
1t would certainly be better in
the interests of civilization and
liberty to have two confedera-
cies, governed by statesmen Of
honor and character, who re-
spected credit and sacred obli-
cations, than such a Union a as
we we 8 shall certainly see if Ar
kansas and South Carolina are
permitted to drag these Feder-
al States into the abyss of
bankruptcy. This can be in
no respects a wholesome living
Union, and the end will be a
destruction by reputation
more disastrous than would
have been the destruction by
war. T. X


Have we not imposed too
heavy a fine upon the South |
as the consequence of the warg |
Have we not punished her, al
though a sister commonwealth, |
ten times more severely than
France was punished by the
alien invaders If Germany |
aStOnished the world in eyacf-
Year: 1874

clever a man. He positively thinks that the
fact that several of tho correspondents told
the same story is proof that it was false.


In company with Mr.. Parton's letter We
print another from the Surgeon to whom he
refers as his authority in regard TO the hang
ing. 1t will surprise no one to hear that the
Surgeon, while trying to defend the Sheriff,
positively cOntradicts Mr. Parton, in reference
to the most important point OF his article. 1t
will be remembered that Mr. Parton accused tho
reporters of inventing the story that the rope
was found to be too short on the morning Of
the execution of LusignanI, and that q box
was procured for him to stand upon, so that
the two ends of the rope could be united.
This story Mr.. Parton fatty and totally de-
nies, saying that none Of these statements
chad any resemblance to the truth" He
specaly denies the use of the box. The Sur
geon now admits the essential truth Of tho
story. attempting to explain it, however by
saying that the Sheriff knew the rope was too
short early in the morning, but thought
it might stretch after exposure to
the sun, and in case it did not, ho
had the box all ready. Thus the whole of Mr..
Partons story falls to the ground by the tes-
timOny of his own witness, for this Surgeon
does not corrobOrate his account of the de-
bauch Of the reporters. The case reduces
itself simply to this The Sheriff at Norris
town bunged an execution. The New York
reporters told the truth about it. An anOny-
nous youth in MOristown told Mr.. Parton
that the reporters got drunk and slandered
the Sheriff, and if Mr. Parton lives to be
thousand years old, he can never be made TO
believe that that nameless young man of Nor
ristown crammed him with a pure fiction.


Some men are so made, and we must repeat
that they are not of the best material
for reporters or critics of journalism.
They may be pleasing and graphic essay
lists as Mr.. Parton is; and the columns of
TIE TRIBUNE, and Of most other newspapers,
are always open to him, as he unnecessarily
reminds us, for the treatment OF matters OF
public interest, subject of course to careful
yerificatiOn of his sO-called facts. But this
incident shows how hard it is for him to be-
lieve any story except the first one he hears.
And his denial of what We have said OF his
attitude toward the opponents Of his heroes
is only another proof Of that power Of preJu-
dice in him which makes him unconscious OF
the force of his own words, or Of that care
lessness which makes him forget what he has
actually written.