smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

AN ERECT CAN'T gives a woman
queenly appearance, and to men an
air of manliness, integrity and fearless
ness. To bend forward or downward
while walking, indicates debility, or men.
tai trouble, and always aggravates and
promotes disease. Pads and supporters
are all pernicious, and worse than use.
less, because they teach the system to re.
ly upon them, and can not support one
part of the body without causing an un-
natural strain on some other part, and
to some extent, tend to disease that part.


There is always one easily available
and successful method of acquiring an
erect, manly gait, without any material
effort, or feeling of awkwardness. Let
the chin be little above the horizontal
line, which is easily done by keeping the
eye fixed on the top Of some persons hat
or bonnet in front of you.


The habit of this erect carriage NAV
be facilitated by accustoming yourself
when at home, in the garden, or other
places, to walk with the hands behind
you held in one another and the head
thrown up as in smoking cigar or sing
ing a tune.-HaiFs Journal Of Health.
Year: 1874

Norman Henry, of Rutland has for
some years been occasionally troubled by
bunch or swelling of his leg, the cause
of which he had always been unable to
discover. A few days ago be opened his
leg below the knee, aud extracted a piece
of glass, an inch and half in length
and half an inch wide, which had work
ed from his hip down, since fifteen years
ago, when he crawled through window
and received several pieces in bis hip, all
of which, he supposed, had been extract
ed.
Year: 1874

A physician, ON presenting his bill to
the executor of the estate of deceased
patient, asked: do you wish to have
my bill sworn tor" No." replied the
executor The death of the deceased is
enough to prove that you attended him
professionally"
Year: 1874

Arrived at the house, the embalmers
found that the body had already become
greatly swollen and disfgured, and it
was feared that the decomposition had
been 80 rapid that the features might not
be restored, and that cast could not be
taken. AS the process proceeded, how
ever, the color gradually came back, and
it is now anticipated that mourning
nation may be again permitted to look
upon the features of that classic face.
The hair was cut in the usual manner,
and each lock was sacredly preserved.
At midnight the face had regained its
familiar form. Col. French, the Ser
geantat-Arms of the Senate, with de-
tail of Capitol police, guard the house
aud have charge of the body. If it can
possibly be done, Mr. Powers, son of
the celebrated sculptor, will make cast
of the face.
Year: 1874

There is class of persons in this
world. by no means small, whose
prominent popularity is whining.
They whine because they are poor,
or if rich, because they have no
health to enjoy their riches; tney
whine because they shave no luck


and Others prosperity exceeds theirs; !;
they whine because some friends have
died and they are still living; they
whine because they have aches and
pains. and they have aches and pains
because they whine; and they whine,
no one can tell why. Now aJword to
these whining persons. First, stop
whining-it is of no use complaining,
fretting, faultfinding and whining.
Why, you are the most deluded set
of creatures that ever lived! Do you
know that it is a well-settled princi


pie of physiology and common sense
that these habits are more exhausting
to nervous vitality than almost any
other violation of physiological law


And do you know that life is pretty
much as you make it? You can make
it bright and sunshiny, or you car
make it dark and shadowy. Thi.
life is meant only to discipline us-t,
fit us for higher and purer state o
being. Then stop whining and fret
! ting, aud go on your way rejoicing.
Year: 1874

From the West-Coast (Cal.) Signal.


But isn't it strange that the whole
world over, babies never go out of
fashion? Nor am / inclined to be-
lieve they ever cease to remain ba-
bies. From the moment when the
pink mystery of being first animates
the little dry goods package hidden
among the cradle wraps, to the end
of life's brief day, when the cradle
of age is rocked by the skeleton foot
of Time, the baby-heart still longs
for its cradle at every nightfall.
And even in the solitary chambers of
maturer years, isolated, starved and
desolate is the grown up childhood
that finds at dewing time of day no
home-nest warmed by the fires of
sweet, pure affection-nO soft hands
to smooth the pillow for the tired
head-no tender foot to jog the era
die of rest and peace, and no ever
tremulOus voice to Groom a sorrow
forgetting lullaby over the care:ob-
scuring lids of sleep. There are
many little feetless shoes laid away
in the chamber casket of the long
ago; many the little white feet that
have slipped these sandal keepsakes
and climbed up higher, over the star
ry floor; many little trinkets once
caressed by fingers that have forgot
ten their touch; many treasures of
hossy hair mOuldering away in the
old forsaken chests in the garret, and
many empty cradles never to be filed
yet never so sadly hovers the pail
as when it drapes the ghostly fabric
of soul starved life.


Better the childless cradle than the
waiflife of the uncradled Up there,
among the angels, they 10 not forget
to love and caress those transports
from our homes and bOsOms. One
by one they slip away as the stars go
out with the mornings haze, while
those their spirits leave behind toss
their wild arms about them, to clasp
only the empty air, or to enfOld upon
their breaking hearts the phantoms
of memory. Really, what the world
wants is more cradles; a just recog-
milton of its big babies, rs well as
its lesser ones.


There! if you believe me, l am
forced to the acceptance of my own
theory or otherwise, for somebody's
baby in earnest across the way has
forgotten the appropriateness of
the midnight hour, and is fairly
drowning my sense of hearing by
food of musical strains. The way
that cheruhim does howl though, is
terrific! The unabridged edition of
that series of night song warbles is
none the less abated by the vigorous
application of palm to that ill-starred
billboard where mothers continuous
", and yet with undue familiarity.
smite their young. r Re
quiescat. Peace reigns; sleep gently
sOnambulates the infant.


ADDIE l.. BALLOU.
Year: 1874

SOME folks don't like the Odor of
Limberger cheese; but there are peO-
pie that can't appreciate the flavor Of
a well-developed p0lecat. One even
ing not very long since, gentleman
had made his preparations to attend
prayer-meeting with his wife. Prior
to starting he came down town to his
place of business, and while there an
acquaintance discovered that he was
about to engage in Wednesday even
ing devotion. Accordingly he put
up a villainous job. Procuring
huge slice of the most fragrant Linn
berger cheese to be had, he watched
his opportunity, and just as the gen
man stepped out of the door to go
home for his wife, slipped it in his
pocket. The parties repaired to the
church and were soon seated side by
side in a comfortable pew near the
stove. Soon the cheese began to
grow loud. The sisters turned their
heads about and looked as if kraut
barrel had exploded. The deacons
elevated their noses and thought of
the third plague of Egypt. The
preacher smelled a great smell, and
the wife of the unconscious odOr
casket nudged the spouse and inquir-
ed if he didn't smell something.
"Mariar, it's awful" he responded;
sit must be in the coal" The more
the assembly speculated the louder
the odor became, and finally all hands
united in hurrying the proceedings to
close. Arrived at home, and while
preparing to retire, the gentleman
discovered the cause of the unpleas-
antness, and removed it on couple
of chips.
Year: 1874

SULPHUR SfkiNGe, OOLOhADO,


December 9Th, 1874.


EDITOR JoURNAL:-Thinking that a
letter from Colorado might prove inter-
esting to some of your readers. | will
try to pen few lines. i have now been
resident of this territory for about one
and half years. Will not go back TO
give description of my Journey across
the plains; will just say that drove cat
tie from Southwest Missouri, and ar
rived in South Park, Colorado. about the
first OF July, 1873, after Journey of two
months.


South Park is situated in the Rocky
Mountains, about fifty miles from
Colorado Springs. The Park is about
thirty miles willie by sixty in length
with the south branch of the, South
Platte River running through it. The
Park is at an elevation of between eight
and nine thousand feet above the level
of the ocean and is surrounded by
mountains ranging from eleven thou
sand to fourteen thousand feet i'm height
which are covered with perpetual snow.
This is nOta agricultural region. The
principal business here is mining and
stock raising. Cattle do well here the
year round without feed. All man
has to do is to brand his stock well and
turn 1t loose. Look after it to keep it
from straying OFF too far and brand his
calves. Dairying also pays well. One
man has made over 81 900 worth of but
ter this year off of thirty very ordinary
cows, besides raising their calves. Our
land has just been surveyed and is now
open for preemption or homestead.
There are some excellent chances for
stock ranches now.


At present there are but six families
in the township. We have no fear of
Indians. Never see any except the
Utes and they are harmless. Have been
very friendly to the whites for years.
Our winters are cold, but so dry that we
do not feel the cold as we did in the
States. The summers are very pleasant.
A man will not sweat much i'm South
Park. This is one of the most health
ful countries in the world. | believe
it is II certain cure for asthma and many
other ills to which human flesh is heir.
| have never known Il cOnsumptive here
unless il was those that had 1t before
they came here, and many of them are
benefited greatly by our climate. l
could spin this out to great length but
will not tax you and your readers with
more at present. | will gladly answer
any questions from any one desiring in
in regard to this country.
My address is Sulphur Springs, Park
Colorado.


JOHN WEED.
Year: 1874

From the Oillo otdUo "i 'J


The friends of Governor Allen
have been forced by the wicked
Commercial into declaring that he
is ..in the hands of his friends" for
the Presidency, and that he "will not
suffer himself to be made cats paw
in the interest of any other man.
The diabolical. Commercial has been
goading the Allen men to frenzy by
pretending to believe that Uncle
William was really in favor OF Thur
man for President, and would at the
proper time transfer his strength to
Thurman. But Governor Allen does
not regard himself with such lndif-
ence. His nearest friends know that
he looks upon the Ross county farmer
as one of the most remarkable men
of our country, sir.
Year: 1874

The following eloquent tribute was
paid to the Kentucky statesman by
Ton. MARSHALL, during the lifetime
of the Great Commoner:


81 have seen him in his contests
with other men, when all the stormy
passions of his tempestuous soul were
lashed by disappointment and oppo-
sition, in the foaming rage of the
ocean, when all the winds are un-
changed and sweep in full career over
the free and bounding bosom of the
deep. He owes less of his greatness
to education or to art than any man
living. He owes less of his COM
manding influence to other men, than
any great leader I have ever known,
or of whom | have ever read. He
wears natures patent of nobility for
ever on his brow He stalks among
men with an unanswerable and never
doubling air of command. His sweep
ing and imperial pride, his indomita-
Bile will, his unequalling courage, chal-
lenge from all submission or combat.
With him there can be no neutrality.
Death, tribute, or the koran, is his
motto. Great in speech, great in ac-
ton, his greatness is all his own. He
is independent alike of history or
the schools; he knows little of either
and despises both. His ambition,
his spirit, and his eloquence are all
great, natural, and entirely his own.
Ii he is like anybody he does not
know it. He has never studied mod
els, and, if he had his pride would
have rescued him from the fault of
imitation. He stands among men in
towering and barbaric grandeur, in
all the hardihood and rudeness of
perfect originality, Independent of
the polish and beyond the reach of
art. His vast outline and grand but
wild and underlined proportions liken
him to a huge mass of granite torn in
some cOnvulsion of nature from Il
mountains side, which any effort of
the chisel would only distigure, and
which no instrument in the sculptOr's
studio could grasp or comprehend"
Year: 1874

The world was not made in IA day, Meth
er is our stock of goods all sold out bul
they are going at a lively rate, and it can
only be that we are having such a lively
trade from the fact Of keeping the fines,
stock of goods in this section and at prices
that cannot be equalled


WADsWORrH 4 PARSONS.
Year: 1874

We present our patrons in this issue
Of the STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT with
Holiday Number which we trust will fill
the.bill, both in variety and interest, 1t
is a triple sheet in dimensions and fall of
matter worthy of perusal.


The wonderful narration by the distin-
guished English author Charles Reade,
entitled "THE HERO AND MARTYR" is con-
cluded in this issue of the DEMOCRAT. The
ether tales and variety will also be found
Ofinterest; and we trust the original ar
ticles, including the poetry, will be ac-
Oeptable.


In this number of the DEMOCRAT we
greet one and all with a HAPPY AND
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Year: 1874

A new pest has put in an appearance
in this city, in the form Of new carpet
bug, which operates on carpet in a way
similar to the working Of the moth. They
avoid seams, and eat only in the breadths,
to the destruction of the carpet. This is
a new pest, and the first instance we
know Of their being found this far west
they have been known for some time in
the east. Wesaw piece of Brussels car
pet on which they had operated, and it
was totally destroyed, great holes having
been eaten through the body oftheg goods.
Tobacco doesn't even make them sneeze,
and strychnine isa luxury on which they
grow fat. VIII scientists examine and
submit some preparation to exterminate
them?
Year: 1874

THE RATE OF INTEREST FOR MONEY Is always an
important subject to both borrower and lender Al
able and suggestive essay on this topic by Proi r..
b. Elliott of the Treasury Department. read at the
Portland Scientific Meeting is reported fully IN
TRIBUNE LECTURE EXTRA No. 10. Price 10 cents.


Address THE TRIBUNE. NeS-lors.-
Year: 1874

The slight activity noticed for day or two past
in money, with an advance in rates, IS probably
owing to the continued calls of the Redemption
Bureau for replacement OF the $l7oO6ooo reserve
which had all been used up some time since. The
rates on call to-day ranged from "a to per cent the
preponderance of business having been at 3, which
was the final price. Discounts are without change.


There was limited business in Government
bonds but prices continue steady, holders not Offer


ing any large amounts The following were the
Year: 1874

His affection for her was said to have
been purely platonic, and have never
met any one who was disposed to dis
pute this belief. But, nevertheless, it
was this intimacy which was the fpal
cause of the rupture between Dickens
and his wife. For many years prior to
1859 their mutual relations had been
anything but happy, although l do not
think that Mrs. Dickens had previously
had any we'll grounded cause for jeal-
ousy. A short time after the party re-
turned from Manchester Mrs. Dickens
went into fashionable jewelers. at the
West End, where she was in the habit Of
dealing, and was asked by one of the
firm, who knew her well, how she liked
her new bracelet She said that she did
not understand him, as she had not re-
ceived any such article The gentle
man then explained that it was one Mr..
Dickens had ordered for his wife, with
likeness and some hair in it. This, of
course, opened Mrs. Dickens eyes, and
a separation speedily followed Since
that Mrs. Dickens has lived very quietly
in pretty little house near the Regents
Park, where her children, whose respect
and affection she has always enjoyed,
have ever been frequent visitors"
Year: 1874

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher once deliv-
cred long sermon upon the fate of Mr..
Davis, which is suggestive of the lines:


That mercy 1 to others show,


That mercy show to me.


In conclusion he said:


/ speak with a certain reluctance, and
the thought oftentimes, when it comes,
even touches me with grief, but believe
that Mr.. Davis, for example, will be
hung. Already the scene rises before
me. He is tried; he is convicted; he
stands on the scaffold All nations have
watched the sure process of the law; all
nations have listened to the charges laid
at his door; all nations gather about the
scafold. There are some things to plead
for him. He is a man of distinguished
ability; he has conducted his war with
pertinacity and courage; he was the be.
loved leader of the multitudes of the
South, and even now millions of them
would shield him if they could. He has
wife who loves him, and children who
cannot understand his crime; he is sur
rounded by a mighty, innumerable
North, who, the war being over and its
hot passions cooled, have NO hate and
no malice, and nothing worse than a
chastened, sorrowful indignation toward
him. They would release him if they
could. If they could forget the dead;
if they were not compassed about with a
great cloud of witnesses; if their bells of
victory were not drowned by their bells
of mourning; if they could forget their
country; if they could forget their God,
they could give way to their pity for
brother man in his extremity.
They hear voices from over the
sea- voices of sympathy for him;
voices of pleading, occasional voices of
threatening may be. But nothing
avails; he can't be spared; he would not
consent to peace; he would not be just;
he would be patriot; he must die. And
the ak comes down, and the world shud-
ders, and the great traitor is dead. And
| claim that such scene and spectacle
as that will do more for the stability of
the country and for the cause of public
order than almost any dozen great acts
of these last four years. 1t will take
rank among the sublimities of history.
1t will have moral dignity and weight
which no magnificent battle we have
fought could have. 1t will engage the
attention OF mankind as none OF our
battles have. 1t will be more easily
comprehended by them. 1t will be re-
bellion and slavery epitomized and en-
bodied in the form and person of their
chief man, and then beheaded for their
sins. And the people will understand
that simple, tragic thing. And it will
sink into them; and it will hallow love
in their feeling forever more. Let it
come, then. History waits for it. The
greatest work of modern times-our
loyal war, l mean-waits for its cap
stone Let it be raised. And, in the
words of our great martyr, when he
wrote the decree which has made him
immortal;


"Upon this, our coming solemn act OF
Justice, we invoke the blessing of AL
mighty God and the considerate judg-
ment of mankind" Amen and amen.
Year: 1874

We are drifting away on the merciless tide
OF the ocean of life SO deep and so wide.
We are fastening on to the beautiful shore,
Where the tempest and trials Of life are Ger.
We are drifting awav. o'er the bottomless deep
Where the guardian angels their long watch


keep;
May We YES safe reach the harOor. the sEsst port of
Aud anchor at last in the house of the bless'd
We are drifting away-we've the anchor OF


Hope.
And tt 9 cable of Faith with the tempest to cope;
The storms NAV sweep o'er us and DER us IN


vain.
If we have the whole armor our strength to sus-


tain.
We are drifting away from tho shores Of the


world,
May our banner of Love be ever unfurled.
AaN we Join those we love. to part never more.
That have drifted away to the beautiful shore,
Year: 1874

thank you for this largo audience. and not
through mock humility; am n"t man Of
that character. but in all sincerity, 7 think it
is beautiful compliment to pay to the mem.
berS Of the White Leaguc. Applause


And it is not for nothing they wear those
white ros"ttes over the hearts that are the
homes of honor, but it is t" he hoped that the
whi'eness of the rose'te, at last, shall not be
turned into the crimson Of the blood of the
battle. TApplnnsc
Year: 1874

The following interesting obsPrva-
tions on the changes that occur from
hour to hour during the incubation of
the hens egg are from SaturD's Selec-
ton:


The hen has scarcely sat on her eggs
twelve hours before some lineaments
of the head and body of the chicken
appear. The heart may be seen to
beat st the end of the second day; it
has at that time somewhat the form of
o horseshoe, but no blood yet appears.
At the end of two days two vessels of
blood are to be distinguished, the pull
sation of which is visible; one OF these
is the left ventricle, and the other the
root of the great artery. At the df-
tieth hour one auricle of the heart ap-
pears, resembling q moose folded Gown
u Don itself. The beating of the heart
is first observed in the auricle. AT the
end of seventy hours. the wings are dis
tinguishable; and on the head two
bubbles are seen for the brain. one for
the bill. and two for the fore and hind
part of the head. Toward the end OF
Year: 1874

that of small pin-hcad; and most of
it obtained to-day from one painful of
Garth AS we have never remained
longer at Lne camp than one day, il
will be readily understood that there is
no opportunity to make satisfactory
examination in regard to deposits OF
valuable minerals. Veins of lead and
strong indication of the existence of
81 Iver have been found: Until further
ex animation is made regarding the
richness of the gold no opInIon smOu..
be formed. Veins of what the geOlO
gists term gold bearing quarts crop out
on almost every hillside. All existing
geological and geographical maps OF
this region have been found incorrect.
This will not seem surprising when
it is remembered that both have been
compiled by guess work and without
entering the country attempted to be
represented.
Year: 1874

scrap book. They are mostly distinct
counterfeits; and although some Of
the denominations are represented by
q score or more of limitations there
are very few d p! Gates. For instance.
there are eight tens of the first issue
of postage currency. They bear q
face which no more resembles that of
the father of his country than did
the much ridciled stt tue in Il e City
Hallpark. They are all preposterously
bad. for the counterfeiter cannot
afford to waste time on small denum-
nations. Few of these were in cir
cuiation, OF the twenty -fves there
was food of limitations. Indeed.
OF all denominations of the postage
currency there was too great an abun
dance, as much ns thirty dollars
worth of it having been branded as
spurious in a single day. The
spurious fifties were very numerous,
The class of engravers who executed
the work upon them must have been
Inferior. The five faces are ridicu-
lous burlesques in every instace, no
two of them being alike. The gov
ernmcnt paid very dear price for
the exclusive use of green fluid with
which to print the faces OF these notes,
which--the counterfeiters initiated to
a greater degree Of perfection than
any other part of the note. One
specimen is blue, having probably
changed color after printing.
Year: 1874

AS there are scientific parties accom-
panying the expedition who are exam
lining into the mineral resources Of
this region, the result of whose re-
searches will accompany my detailed
report, omit all present reference to
that portion of our explorations until
the return of the expedition. except to
state what will appear in any event in
the public pEjnts-that gold has been
found at several places, and 1t is the
belief of those who are giving their at
ton to this subject that it will be
found in paying quantities. l have
under my table forty or fifty small par
ticies of pure gold, in size ave- aging