smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

it. Well would you believe it the
girl to whom it was left-a misguided
little wretch, whose life Lovelace's wife
had saved, and who behaved abomina-
bly, afterward, and married some low
attorney-actually sued him for the
back rents, not 1 believe de son chef
but by the advice of her rascally hus-
band, and ousted the poor fellow out
of even the trihe which his father had
left him. Poor Lovelace He had some
experience of poverty during his ia
theirs life, but this second blow was too
much for him. 1t fairly broke his
heart. 1 used to go down and see him
sometimes. And there was he, the
rightful owner of large estate, and a
man who had done all the good in his
power, living in a mean little room in
Covent Garden. You did not know
him as well as I did when he was at
Blsckwood f; but I assure you he was
the best fellow in the world there was
nothing he would not do for you, and
he was always ready to be of service to
any one. do not think I ever knew
such good-natured man.


"Well, of course offered to help
him /; but he would not take it. He
sternly refused all assistance, and SEEM
ed quite broken he would only groan
out wish to be left alone. That was
his continual request, Leave me
alone His wife, of whom he was very
fond, was the only one who had infu-
ence with him; and she, poor thing,
did all she could to keep him up, and
was glad to take whatever I sent her !;
but she was weak and i'll, and, more
over, had her child to look after as well
as her husband. This morning l got a
letter from her, written so that 1 could
scarcely read it, imploring me to come
and see them so went, of course, and
found him lying in his wretched room,
in which you could scarcely turn round,
with no one but his wife and an old
housekeeper the latter was doing her
best for them, but was not of much
use, though believe she meant to be,
poor soul. Lovelace was sinking fast
when I came, and 1 sent in hurry for
Gull. He came, but it was of no use.
There was no strength and poor
George-he was such a good fellow,
Henry-died in my arms about two
hours after had arrived. His poor
little wife-you never saw such scene.
I did all I could to quiet her, but it had
no effect. 1 got Gull to send for his
man, and made him promise to stay in
the house all night but they seem to
think she won't live. Perhaps it is
best she should not. Thank God,
can adopt the child-that's one conso-
lation."
Year: 1874

That was what the schoolboys called
him when he walked by them. He was
white.haired and prematurely old
man, with bent and stopping figure,
trembling and shattered nerves, a STUN
bling gait, pale, sallow complexion,
dim, expressionless eyes, and fiery
red nose. Rum, gin, whisky, and
brandy had done their work, had ruined
him in mind, in body, and in soul, had
clothed him in the filthy rags he wore,
had made him a social outcast and q
burden upon the community.


He lived wretched and lonely life
in a miserable hovel in the outskirts of
the village. He obtained precarious
living by stealing, and saving wood for
some of the villagers, who employed
him out of pity for his miserable condi-
tion. He obtained his liquor in pay
ment for various menial services at the
village tavern, and thus fingered along
year after year. His figure grew more
bent, his steps more unsteady, his head
whittier, and his nose redder, until he
seemed likely to become a permanent
charge upon the town.


The boys hooted at him, ridiculed
his red nose, and laughed at his display
of temper. Nobody had any respect
for old Tobias.


Boys, you will find Old Tobias in
nearly every town, or somebody very
much like him and there are plenty of
intelligent and prepossessing young
men who are fast acquiring incorporate
and vicious habits that will make them
like Old Tobias, unless they break them
off before they obtain dominion over
them. Remember that you are now
laying the foundations of your future
characters, and that your success and
happiness will depend upon your pres
ent acts and endeavors.
Year: 1874

We are not opposed to cremation,
says the Scientific american. Indeed,
there is one aspect of the case in which
it is all but imperative; only let it be
done decently, and with due regard to
sense and sensibility. From a sanitary
point of view, our present mode of dis
posing of our dead is anything but COM
mendable. The ordinary graveyard is
demonstrably dangerous to the living,
and source of possible poison to gen.
erations that are to come. Especially
where the burying is rapid or uuwisely
done, as is too commonly the case, the
air is tainted, and the underground
water courses are polluted double
evil made increasingly noxious by the
tendency of modern society to congre-
gate in cities, and consequently to ac-
cumulate great numbers of dead bodies
within limited areas near centers of
population.


AS for the alleged cheapness of Gre
nation, that is matter altogether
doubtful and of small moment. 1t is
true that couple of dollars worth of
coal, properly burnt, will speedily con-
vert corpse of average weight into o
few pounds of clean ashes and an in
definite amount of invisible and inof-
fensive elementary gases; but funerals
will be burden none the less. Fash
ion will invade the pyre and the urn as
surely as it has the cemetery and the
grave; and it can be as lavish in ex-
penditure in the one case as in the
other. To expect that funeral rites will
be done away with, and the possibilities
of ostentatious grief prevented, by
burning the dead, is to overlook some
of the strongest impulses of human ma
ture. 1t is more likely that burning
would simply add another item to the
expense of funerals, since few eccen-
tries only would have their ashes scat
tered to the winds, while the multitude
would retain their decorated burial
plots, and have their ashes inferred as
formally as now. Indeed, if made harm
less by fire, we are disposed to think
the cemetery, with its shady walks and
well kept shrubbery and flowers would
and should be retained. 1t is we'll to
leave some spots sacred to bereavement
and tender recollections of the dead.
Year: 1874

one side fifty to hundred seals from
the body of the drove, surround them,
causing the seals to huddle up in a
writhing. struggling heap, and strike
them lifeless by well-directed blows
upon the head, crushing in the skull,
the ineligible animals, such as are under
age or in bad condition, being allowed
to escape and in order that these con-
ditions of killing may be fully COM
piled with, the butcher gang is always
under the immediate supervisor of an
overseer, who is always with the men
directing their movements. In this
way the whole number of eligible seals
in the drove is disposed of during the
dav.
Year: 1874

Some Of the old beliefs respecting
bees are curious. Their hatred to an
echo, which was an ancient article of
the bee-master's faith, does not seem to
be confirmed on investigation. Much
modern folk-loreon bees may be picked
up by any one who converses with the
peasantry in almost any part of Eng
land. From some reason or other, bees
are looked upon as peculiarly Gun
canny" creatures. Thus we were told
in Lincolnshire that bees would desert
hive on the occasion of death in the
family, unless some one knocked at
their hive and told them of it. The
same superstition we find to prevail in
Essex, and even Cornwall. Similarly
the belief that after a death hives
ought to be wrapped in Grape or
mourning of some kind is current in
Lincolnshire and East Anglia generally.
1t is even found in Lithuania, and is
probably connected with an ancient
idea that honey was symbol of death.
In Yorkshire there is a custom of invi-
ting bees to the funeral. If wild or
humble bee enter Northamptonshire
cottage, it is deemed a certain sign OF
death; il swarm of bees alight on
dead tree, or the dead branch of q liv-
ing one, there will be a death in the
family within the year. 1t is curious
why the bee should in Europe be so
connected with death, whereas in Hin
doc mythology the bow string of Kama
(the Hindoo Cupid is formed OF bees,
perhaps as symbol of love strong as
death. 1t is worth while mentioning
one or two more bee superstitions.
They will never thrive, it is said, in
quarrelsome family, nor when they
have been stolen. There can be no
greater piece of ill-luck than to pur-
chase aswarm ; it must always be given,
and the then custom is to return some
thing for it in kinda small pipe, say,
or some otherequivalent. Money should
be avoided in the transaction as much
as possible. In Hampshire it is COM
mon saying that bees are idle or unfor-
tunate in their work whenever there are
wars. At the risk of being esteemed
credulous, we may remark that the
martial year (1870) was an unlucky
honey year. East winds and drought
seemed in that year to have repressed
the secretion Of honey in the hectares
of May flowers,
Year: 1874

The murder of David Silas, of Stets
son, Maine, by his insane son, James
p. was one of the most revolving crimes
ever committed in the State. The wife
of the murdered man witnessed the
deed from the house, and Immediately
had ler son arrested and put in irons.
He appeared calm and unconcerned,
and told the story of the deed as fol-
lows "Father and were in the yard
cutting wood, when he said, James, l
am getting old, and want you to cut
my head off do it quick. Father laid
his head on the block, and. 1 struck at
him once, but the axe glanced ; the
second blow cut him badly, and the
third time hit HIM his head came
off and rolled away. / had to do it, as
it was my duty, and I am glad per-
formed it. Mother and father had laid
plan to kill me, but was too sharp
for them. The matter don't trouble
me. 1 did right, but feel bad to think
the old man couldn't have lived to do
better" The truth OF the matter is
that he knocked his father down and
dragged him to the block.
Year: 1874

BAxTER.-A special from Little Rock
to the st. Louis Evening Dispatch,
says that in the interview with Baxter,
he says that in the event of the Legis-
ature recognizing him as Governor, of
which he had no doubt, he would ad-
wise President Grant of its action, and
ask that the United States authorities
compel Brooks to vacate the State
House. If the President comply, and
Brooks refuse he would take the build
ing by force, or if the President should
delay, and still permit the troops to in
terfere, he would protect himself.
Year: 1874

You meet him at the most fashionable
resorts, and recognize him at once by
his cool and self-possessed air Of viewing
everything. Catch him manifesting
enthusiasm at the thunder of Niagara,
or staring his travelled eyes at the mag
nitude of the Mammoth Cave.


II the Tower of Babel were to rise sud-
denly before him, just as it reached to-
ward heaven in the days when the con-
fusion of tongues took place, we have no
doubt but he would remove his eye glass,
and blow a whif OF smoke from his
Havana, and quietly remark to his
friends that he had seen the same thing
in Kamschatka four or five years ago.


He never allows himself to be surpris-
ed. That is no part of his policy. Only
vulgar people, who have not seen much
of the world, are surprised.


You begin to tell him of some wonder
full description of Mont Blanc you have
read, and he will listen to you with an
amused sort of smile, and just as you
have reached the climax, he will say
"Ohl an yes, very good Jones and |
saw much the same thing when we made
the ascent last summerl Dused fnel"


If you admire a lady's foot, as Of
course you have right to do, he tells
you of the Circassian beauties. You
think Miss Smith dresses in faultless
taste-he will remind you that you have
never been in Paris, where everybody's
dress is an art study.


If anybody admires the sunset, he
sighs aud refers to the sunsets he has
seen from the Bay of Naples. If the
cold weather is the theme of discussion,
be tells you how it was in Greenland
and Spitzbergen; and if the warm
weather comes in for a share in the con-
yersatson, he viii speak of the climate of
Sumatra, and relate some little remi-
niscences of the warmish breezes of
Lower Guinea.


He bullies the walters and sighs for
the well trained servants of Albion. He
wishes the company could taste the
game which has tickled his palate in
Australia.


Nothing is quite good enengh for him,
though he does not rave about it. He
mildly gives you to understand that q
man who has travelled knows how things
ought to be, but has the spirit of mar
tyrdom sufficiently strong in his breast
not to make his friends uncomfortable
by complaining. his very silence is a
piece of suffering on a par with the dis
tress of John Rogers.


When you come to railway and steam
boat disasters, there he has you. He
has had more hair-breadth escapes by
land and sea than you ever dreamed Of
The disasters which are gotten up nova.
days are second class, altogether.


And the women look upon him as
wonderful creature, and ask him about
Lots wife and the tomb of Abraham;
and the men hate him; and the landlord
and walters are all ready to lend hand
at loading his baggage for the railway
depot and the man who has Travelled
lights his cigar and sails away, SUI
premely Indifferent to the opinion of
every5ody.-Kate Thorn in NeU York
Weekly.
Year: 1874

A Man of wonderful PunctuaIity-


An Interesting sketch of His


Family.


Correspondence London Morning Post.l


The Emperor has the reputation of
being the hardest worked man in Russia.
Every morning, with the regularity of
clockwork, he takes walk in the gar
dens of the Winter Palace for twenty
minutes, accompanied by one OF his
dogs, and on his return to the palace he
works until luncheon, which is served
at twelve o'clock. Immediately after
ward his Majesty resumes work, receiv-
ing his ministers, or giving audiences.
With the exception of half an hours
rest, the Gear is occupied in this man.
ner until two O clock. He then goes out
for couple of hours walking or driving.
As a rule, the imperial family are very
particular in regard to their daily exer-
else. Dinner is served at six p m, after
which the Emperor sets to work again,
and il necessary, does not cease the oc-
cupation upon which be may be engaged
until after midnight, sometimes not un-
til one or two o'clock in the morning.
Usually his Majesty goes out shooting
once week, ana occasionally he visits
the theater, where, however, he seldom
remains more than half an hour. The
Gear is a man of wonderful punctuality
in his habits, while his pleasant manner
endears him to all The Empress is as
amiable as the Car, but does not enjoy
good health, and is thus unable to appear
in public as often as she would under
other circumstances


The Grand Duke Vladimir has great
artistic taste. he is Vice President of
the Academy of Arts, and regularly
attends the meeting of the Senate. Of
which he is a member. Like his father
the Grand Duke is a keen sportsman;
when bear is seen in theneighborhood
Of Gatchina the Emperor is informed Of
it, and preparations are at once made
for a battle. There are generally eight
or ten gentlemen with the Emperor and
the Grand Duke; the beaters drive the
bear as much toward the Gar as pos
sible, and the black game usually falls
to the gun of the Emperor and the Grand
Duke, both Of whom are first rate shots.


The Grand Duke Alexis is, like the
Duke of Edinburg, a sailor, having been
Year: 1874

A New Haven minister has been
preaching on the recent rush among the
Yale students, using the text: And the
whole herd ran violently down a steep
place into the sea, and perished in the
waters
Year: 1874

From the Nashville Banner.


While 1t Is natural the citizens of Ten
nessee sheuid feel deep interest in the Gu,
bernatorial canvass now in progress over
the State, this particular canvass should
not absorb the public attention to the eX-
clnsiOn of the even weightier question,
as to what shall be the character of our
next General Assembly. We have CON
tended from the first, that in view of the
material reforms required in our next
Legislature to a speedier relief of the poo
pie from the expressions of extravagant
government, the selection of representa-
tiyes to the next Assembly overtops and
foreshadows, in real and vital interest,
all other elections in the State at the
present time. The best brains of the
State are needed in the Legislature-will
be of greater service there, just at this
iunctAre, than in the Congress of the
United States. In Davidson county the
people have shown themselves fully alive
to the Importance of local legislation.
They have presented a ticket worthy the
emulation of their fellow-citizens of sis
ter counties. They are not only thus as
sured of its election, but assured that the
affairs of State wiH not he entrusted 10
incapable or corrupt hands. If the other
counties do half as well, they will do
themselves nor their State no greater ser
vice. In the excitement of Gubernato-
rial discussions and Senatorial prognos-
tications, let not the Legislature be for
gotten. It beAOoves the honest yeoman-
ry of the country who feel that they have
grand old commonwealth stiii worth
striving for, to take active part in all po-
litical movements I'm their counties and
districts looking TO the selection of Rep
resentatives. No extraneous Issues, con-
nected with other elections, should be
permitted to interfere with the selection
of the first men of every county and sem
atorial district. We again appeal to our
Democratic and Conservative friends
over the State, to look well TO their rep
resentation in the next General Assem-
81
Year: 1874

We clip the following sensible para
graph from an exchange, and II is true
every word of il;


Now is the time when all should re-
member their subscription. A wise
man will sec that his money is sent on
IN season. 4 good newspaper Is every
thing to ayoung family. Farmers fami-
lies are necessarily much secluded from
society, and the advantage to be obtain
cd is by intercourse with other minds.
A newspaper, In a good measure, sup
plies this want. II tends to brighten
their own minds, and gives them hun.
dreds of new suggestions they would
never have had. 1t cheers many lone
ly hour and keeps them out OF more
mischief than you ever dreamed Of II
Is rest TO the toiling mother to SIT
down and look over the home news
paper, each week, which your thought
iuiness has provided and 1t will save
many q doctor bill in the course of a
a year. There is nothing that Helps 10
promote health of body like cheerful
mind. Look after your newspaper, and
don't lose the face Of an old friend for
want of little attention at the proper
time,
Year: 1874

A Philadelphia officer got up a jury
Of twelve cross.oyed men, aud even the
Judge laughed.


The best way for q man to acquire n
fine flow Of language is to stub bis toe
against n raise. brick.


An Ohio man has been converted TO
temperance ninety.eigbt times, and he
says he will 90 up 10 hundred or die.
Year: 1874

In every county In the State our De-
mocratie and Conservative friends are
united and solid on their respective leg
islative tickets, We hope McMinn will
not divide and split up, and fritter away
her strength and influence.
Year: 1874

The next Legislature will have more
vital interests to look after than any
similar body that has assembled in the
State for years, and it is of tho utmost
importance that none but good aud re-
liable men should DO elected.
Year: 1874

Cough is symptom by which various
diseased conditions of the throat, bronchial
tubes and lungs manifest themselves. But
it arises from the irritation produced in
the throat and larynx by taking cold, from
an attack of Bronchitis, from incipient
Consumption, or from various other causes.
Nothing will allay it more speedily nor
cure it more permanently than Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. It does not
matter whether it be recent attack, or 9
lingering cough, the Discovery Is in either
case equally well adapted for its relief and
permanent cure. In fact, it will cure 8
cough in one-half the time necessary te
cure it with any other medicine, and il
does it, not by drying it up, but by remov


ing the cause, subduing the irritation, anc
healing the affected parts, No time shoule


be lost in commencing the use of proper
medicine for the relief Of 3 Cough, for ul
Year: 1874

A PLEASANT RENINIsCENCE,- Almost
thirty years ago, the present tocum ten
eas of the JOURNAL was devil" in the
office of the Western Citizen the organ of
tho Liberty" party in the State of Hi
nois. The foreman in the Office was the
oldest apprentice f. w. Brookes, and he
had brother who was achieving success
as a painter. The elder Brookes, having
a number of his pictures on hand, decid-
ed to dispose of them by getting up a lot
terry, and his printer r-brother was request
ed to have the necessary printing done.


In due time the handbills and tickets
were ready, and with minute instructions
where the painters residence was situat-
ed, we were sent to deliver them. We
had no difficulty in finding the house-it
stood back little from the street. the
hall door standing open. We stepped
into tho hall and knocked at side door,
but received no answer. Happening to
look up the stairs we saw three little girls
looking down at us. We asked them if
there were any of the folks at home, but
receiving no answer, laid our package on
the stairs, and first telling the children
whom it was for,) returned to the office.


The foreman inquired who we had seen,
and we related our adventure. He laugh
ed heartily, telling us what we had seen
was only picture his brother had paint
ed and placed at the head of the stairs,
adding that we were not the only one who
had been deceived by the truthfulness to
nature of the picture.


The recollection of this episode of our
apprentice life was recalled to our mind a
few days since by seeing the name of
Samuel Marsden Brookes mentioned in
one of the San Francisco papers. A look
over the Great Register of the city salts
fed us that the person named was the ar
tist, whose work had seemed to us so
life-like.
Year: 1874

A PRoFITLEss GAME Among the bills
signed By the Governor was one locating
the county seat of Solano county at Fair
field. Last year, under the general law
providing for the location of county seats,
an election was held in Solano county, at
which the city of Vallejo polled an inn
mense vote, nearly unanimous for itself.
Without particle of doubt this large
vote was the result of fraud ON grand
scale, there having been five o: six humid
red more votes polled than at any election
ever held in Vallejo. The remainder of
Solano county then petitioncd the Legis-
lature almost unanimously to have Val
lejo set off into a county by itself, and
made such a good showing that the re-
quest was granted. This bill was vetoed
by the Governor, but the veto was
promptly followed by the passage of an
act relocating the county seat at Fair
field. SO the ballot box stuffing by which
Vallejo triumphed over the legal voters
OF the balance Of the county proved 10 be
be proftless game in the long run.