smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

have been East to the Great Father, who treated
very kindly. saw there much country, but never
any that prettier than this Tie pointed with
sweeping gesture at the hills and cliffs enclosing the
valley, with expression of pride and admiration in
his eyes) There is plenty of fine timber in the East
but of it is big and tall the here Every
of the pines here must be worth to the white
$5 or So Another why the Sioux do not live
here is because they want to the cottonwood tim
Der for lodge poles, which would otherwise be burned
by the yearly meadow fires that the red kindle
They come here to get their lodge poles
CONSEQUENTLY you consider this country very
valuable


SPOTTED TAIL-Inyan tonktonka lila terila ga tohan
apewatokte heon ska ri ota ucnpi kite naku can
hasiska The rock here rich; it is worth good deal
Of money. So is the timber the land and the gold
The Sioux have always thought that if they to
keep the country long possible and then sell it it
would make them rich for long time, for the second
and third generations and our people would
be poor


SPOTTED TAIL.


Spotted Tail at this point said that he had spoken all
that he desired unless indeed with diplomatic
smilel he could get something for his trouble. 1
wished ideas from him further and so asked
of Louis what would brbe the condescension of
Lintegaiska He answered, ''Money" and with
humility, because OF the smaness of the gift | prof
fered to Spotted Tail national 'promise pay ten dol
lars to bearer" smile crossed the features of
the Sioux chief as he caressed the crisp note; the
oracle was proptated. But evidently he valued his
words drops OF silver for he closed the interview by
peremptory sentence afterward


CoRREsPoSDESr-I shall repeat the words of Llnte-
galiska in the great paper.


SPOTTED TAn-Wasicu wowapi Kgapi Qhe Great
Paper Mani tanca lie wowap kin mi tonkasila wall ku
KITE wacn ga lie makoce ku kite okujaki kite heon wa
sicu tuwe nakamaa u slotkiye kite. Tuwe wasicu
KHAN wowapi anokatanhan ytaupi yu takun sui "a
ukuje ganayapi l would like for the Great Paper
Man to give Of his papers to the Great Father Tell
him here that he can see for himself that
there miners here that his government in letting
them and stay here is violating the treaty, and
failing 10 keep the promise made TO the Sioux.


CONSEQUENTLY you not think that the Great
Father aud his government now endeavoring to do
promissedY


SPOTTED TAIL-They are trying TO do so now


CoRREsPoNDEST--Aro you willing to sell the
country TO the Great Father for a just priceS


SPOTTED TAIL--Of course, the Sioux going 10 sell
the Black Hills, but they will ask for them big price
(maza skazi oa) they must have what they arc worth
The Great Father amt going get them cheap; but for
big price The Sioux have not lived in this country,
because there is game in it. which they want to keep
for the future, and, If the Great Father wants it. he
must pay big price


CoRRRsPoSDENr-How much will the great chiefs ask
for the hunting groundsH


SPOTTED TAIL don't know how much yet want
to make a treaty with the Great Father for great
many years and 70 receive much money every year
Year: 1875

The Paterson papers tell the following
distressing story: Mrs. Post, wife OF
Thomas Post, residing on the Erie Rail
way, near Ridgewoed, sent her children
to the store about halt a mile distant on
an errand. They were 80 long absent
that she feared they would be late for
school, and accordingly, taking her
youngest-a boy of less than two years
along with her, she started out to look
for them and found them. They not
having gone to the store, or else having
forgotten something, she concluded to
90 herself and send them on to school.
She left the little one behind and started,
not intending to be long gone. Upon
returning, some half an hour later, she
observed, rs she neared the track, eX-
press No. II come laundering along at
the rate of a mile minute, it being two
hours behind time. Size also saw her
child sitting, carelessly tossing up the
sand, directly between the tracks, and
in the way of the incoming train. She
rushed forward, and, wild with fright,
almost precipitated her own body beneath
the iron wheels. SO near was she that
the locomotive struck her hands in pass
ing, as she held them forth in her ago
nized attempt to do something for her
child. The train passed, and the little
one was discovered with its head COM
pletely severed from its bOdy-in fact,
eyewitness aver that the child's head
rolled on one side as the body fell on the
other. The mother is said to have be-
come a maniac.
Year: 1875

Each particle of matter is an immen-
sity, each leaf world, each insect an in
explicable compendium.


The fawning courtier and the surly
squire often mean the same thing-each
his own interest.


High office is like pyramid only two
kinds of animals reach the summit-rep-
tiles and eagles.


Dance as long as you can; we must
travel through life, but why make dead
march of it?


A grain of sand leads to the fall of 4
mountain when the moment has come for
the mountain to fall.


Contempt is kind of gangrene, which,
if it seizes one part of a character, cor
rupts all the rest by degrees.


Life is short day, but is a working
day. Activity may lead to evil, but in
activity cannot lead to good.


A man who loves only himself and his
pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and
wicked even from principle.


Most arts require long study and ap-
plication; but the most useful art of all,
that of pleasing requires only the desire.


It's very natural for 4 young friend
and young lover to think the persons
they love have nothing to do but to
please them.


The selfish man suffers more from his
selfishness than he from whom that sci,
fshness withholds some important bene-
fit.


Railway travelling is not travelling al
all; it is merely being sent to place,
and very little different to becoming a
parcel.
Year: 1875

a good architect says that no man has
a right to build house until he himself
knows what he wants. The tastes of
every family are different, and the houses
should express them. If a household Is
musical and not literary, it is of a good
deal more importance that there should
be a convenient nook for piano than
unlimited space for book shelves. But
why should people who care nothing for
the concord of sweet sounds pay to gen
tility the tribute of music room
Furniture, too, should take its color from
the taste and the necessities of each
household. People who make their liv-
iug-room their sole parlor do not want it
furnished with silk or satin, which must
either be shrouded in unsightly brown
linen, or else soon becomes so marred and
disfgured as to be a torment to the eye.
For such comfortable living -rooms-and
they are the pleasantest rooms in which
any one can ask a guest to sit down
give us good strong woolen reps or even
old fashioned haircloth, rather than
silken dilapidation. Take any good
sized room, and put paper on the walls
of subdued vet cheerful tone; hang up
few good photographs or engravings;
let few flowers bud and blossom in the
sunniest window have plenty of tables,
and plenty of books and papers on them /;
soft chairs and convenient footstoolS, and
the king himself would enjoy passing an
hour there-or else the king is Il person of
poor taste.
Year: 1875

IT has remained for st. Louis artist
todevise ard attempt swindling scheme
which is really admirable for its novelty
and ingenuity, though it chanced to fail
at the first trial, and is of no further
value. The device consisted in bringing
two kilograms and signature book to n
wealthy man for his signature, the page
of the book being 50 cut and underlaid
with a blank check that the signing of
the name twice would give the clever
operator a check both indorsed and
signed. The business man narrowly es-
capped the trap, which failed for lack of 4
little forethought, as the paper beneath,
not being securely fastened, slipped
enough to attract attention as the name
was being signed the second time. This
small circumstance defeated the pretty
plan and saved the discoverer a big deficit
in his bank account.
Year: 1875

From leafy England far away,
His bones are laid:
Not where the lark salutes the day,
Nor where white lambs I'm meadows play,
In the green shade.
lie lies within leaheSs land,
In the cold snow;
Where no kind foot or kindlier hand
Can visit him, or weave a band
To soften woe.
The white drift whirling all around
On sea and shore,
They took him from the ship ice-bOund,
And laid him gently in the ground
For evermOrc.
And though no English larks shall throng
Above his grave,
To sOOthe his Slumber with their song,
He lies secure from mortal wrong
sweet and brave.
The secret of the Polar Sea
Is yet concealed
But TO thy vision, pure and free,
The secret of eternity
Has been revealed,


-ErRing Hours.
Year: 1875

The II. C"tharipes Jo'0noi thus speaks
of the latest excitement AZ the falls


Niagara Falls is great place f0t peril
ous sen-ations and hair breadth escapes


with here and there Il tragedy thrown in
to leaven the general appetite of the SEN
Sation-loving public for the marvellous
and horrible The latest sensation oc-
CURED on Sunday on the American side
of the river, neat the great falls. MANY
persons who have visited Prospect Park
may have noticed small island about
the center of the fall, not more than one
hundred feet from the brink, and about
four hundred feet from the paper mill.
For the past few days II small dog some
how got upon the island and could not
get of again. On Sunday, the water
being low, owing to the action Of the
wind, a daredevil sort of 4 fellow named
Bob Glassford, armed with 4 whisky
bottle, and probably well primed with
the seductive fluid, either volunteered or
was induced to wade from the paper mill
to the island for the purpose of rescuing
the dog. He accomplished tue foolhardy
undertaking successfully, and remained
on the island for some time-long enough
for large crowd to collect to see him
make his return trip. In the meantime,
however. the wind changed, and the
waters rose. After eSsaying several times
to get back he failed. Sometimes he
would stand on a rock up to his waist in
the water, pull out the whisky bottle and
make Il motion rs if he was taking a
drink. Then he would return again.
He made six attempts to return and
failed each time. Finally he decided to
remain all night on the island, and kin
died a fire to make himself comfortable,
as the night was disagreeably cold. The
impression is that there are three or four
parties at the falls who induced the fell
low to 90 over for the purpose of making
sensation and drawing Il crowd, and
that Glassford was foolish enough TO
accede to the proposal. 1t seems, how
ever, queer Sunday amusement for 4
man to place himself in the very jaws Of
death, as it were, for mere brayadO, and
of all days i'm the week to choose Sunday.
Year: 1875

The untiring industry of the Chinese
is strikingly illustrated in what they
term the Garden of China" consisting
of 10000 square miles around Shanghai
under the highest state of cultivation.
This vast tract of tillage, larger than the
whole State of New York, is formed prin-
cipally of meadow land, where myriads
of men and women labor to exact from
nature her utmost resources. As the
secrets of Chinese skill and energy are
gradually revealed to us we discover that
this wonderful people enjoy much more
elevated civilization than the world has
hitherto consented to accord them.
Year: 1875

AN old lady in New York particularly
desired that a certain cushion on which
she sat in church should be buried with
her, and as there was a difficulty about
getting it into her coffin, it was luckily
proposed to cut it, when several thou
sand dollars in greenbacks came TO light.
The old lady was clearly resolved that,
if she did bring nothing into the world,
she would at all events, as near as posi-
bic, take something out of IT.
Year: 1875

A FOND parent who bought COW for
his summer residence, in anticipation OF
the delight that the product would cause
his little daughter, was somewhat
chagrined when Miss Pert, looking upon
a pan of nectar, exclaimed ooh, the
horried yellow scum! 1t ism half 50
good as the nice blue milk We get in
Boston,"
Year: 1875

\ represents a section of a thil, section OF
a pole, c. the coupling eye, and d the coupling
eve connected with a section of the shaft.


To attach and dctach the pole or thlls Of a
buggy all that is necessary to be done is to turn
the thumb screws shown in the cut From one
to two minutes only are required to make the
change, which is accomplished without the aid OF
wrench or taking out of bolts.


A model Of this invention can be seen at Gay
& Porters carriage factory. DR.. C. Hard has one
of these couplings on his buggy and will be
pleased to show 1t to all who call upon him.


Mcssrs. Gay d Porter are now perfectirg ar
rangements to have the couplings manufactur
ed ready for use in Connecticut. State, county
and shop rights for sale.
Year: 1875

The prospectus of this staunch Chicago daily
appears on our 9Th page to-day. The journal
has for over thirty years been the leading-in'
deed model-evening paper of the Northwest
While we have seldom had occasion TO commend
its politics, we can at least aver that it has al
ways supported its party in an honest, manly
way. But aside from its politics, the JOIr"a
has no superior as news or commercial paper
and its weekly is miles ahead of any other Chi
cago publication as a family newspaper
Indeed, like the sewing machine, "no family can
afford 10 be without it,
Year: 1875

THE GYPsIEs--Quite large company OF Gyp.
sizes have taken up their abode anon Z us for the
winter They have rented three houses in the
sixth ward and are there domiciled, with "for-
tunes" horses, bags and baggage. There is
more or less prejudice against Gypsies general
ly, but men in this city who have dealt with
this band say they find them strictly honest and
straightforward in all their transactions.
Year: 1875

Importance is getting to be criminal, and we
should delay NO longer. II the council will do


nothing for us, let us protect ourselves. Let
meetings be held in each ward, and do something
Year: 1875

1t is not in pearl powder, nor in gold
en- hair-dye, nor in jewelry. 1t cannot
be got in bottle or box.


1t is pleasant to be handsome but all
beauty is not in prettiness. There is q
higher beauty, that makes us love peo-
pie tenderly. Eyes, nose, hair, or skin
never did that yet though it is pleas
ing to see fine features. What you are
will make your face over for you in the
end, whether nature has made it plain
or pretty.


Good people are never ill-looking.
Whatever their faces may be, an amia-
BILE expression atones for all. If they
can be cheerful also, no one will love
them the less because their features are
not regular, or because they are too fat,
or too thin, too pale or too dark. Cal
tivation of the mind adds another charm
to their faces, and, on the whole, if any
girl is desirous of being liked by the
many and loved by the one, it is more
in her power than she may believe to
accomplish that object.


Cosmetics will not accomplish it, how
ever. Neither will fine dress though
a woman who does not dress becomingly
wrongs herself.


Forced smiles and affected amiability
will be of no avail ; but if she can man.
age to feel kindly to everybody, not to
be jealous, not to be cross, to be happy
if possible, and to encourage content
ment, then something will come into
her face that will outlast youths roses,
and gain her not only husband, but a
lifelong lover.
Year: 1875

A pneumatic subterraneous railroad is
to be constructed in Vienna, not for the
transportation of live freight, but for
the corpses of deceased from the city
to the cemeteries. From the cellars of
centrally located chapels IN the city,
tunnels, two, three, and four miles long,
will run to the different cemeteries out
side the city. The tunnels are to be
only large enough to pass the coffins
lepgthwise, which will be placed on q
small platform-car moving on rails,
while the blast of air sends the corpses
off to the cemetery at rate of velocity
equal to forty or more miles per hour.
This does away with the tedious and
time robbing funeral processions. All
the procession that takes place is in the
city from the house to the chapel; then,
as soon as the funeral service is ended,
the coffin is lowered down in the cellar
by means of an elevator, the friends go
home, while the body is labeled for its
destination, and goes where the grave
is situated. We must confess it takes
much of the poetry of burial, the as
sembling of friends around the grave,
etc, but then the world is progressing,
time is becoming more and more pre-
cious, and we can no longer afford to
lose time with slow funerals ; and if the
living are clamorous for quick trans
portation, why not give this privilege
to the dead also?
Year: 1875

HOW CALIFORNIA MOTHER WHO WOULD


DANCE WAS BADLY SCARED.


A ball was given at Camptonville,
Yuba county, CAL, on New Years Eve,
which was attended by certain lady
who resides some distance from that
place She had baby that could not
be left at home. Arriving at Campton-
vile early in the evening with her
baby, she put up at the Globe hotel,
kept by one Jones. She told Jones she
was desirous of attending the ball if
she could find some one who would
take care of her baby. Jones, being an
accommodating fellow, proposed that
he would "father" the 'young 'un"
ad interim. The lady accepted the
offer with Joy, and putting the baby to
sleep, laid it down gently in Jones'
bed, and then went to the ball. Up to
midnight Jones made frequent visits to
the room, to attend to the wants of his
precious charge. From that hour the
babe, so far as Jones or its mother was
concerned, was left alone, for Jones fell
victim to sleep. 1t happened, how
ever, that stage-driver was asleep in
room nearly opposite to the one &C.
cupied by the babe. About one o'clock
A. NJ. says the North San Juan Times,
the babe began to cry fearfully, and to
appease it the stage driver took it to
his own bed, and kept it quiet the re-
mainder of the night. He was up and
off by daybreak, before the mother had
returned from the ball, and before any
one was stirring in the house, leaving
the babe fast asleep in his own bed.
An hour later the ball broke up, and
the mother returned to the hotel. She
went straight to Jones' room to see her
babe. Lo! and behold! it wasn't there
neither was Jones. Soon the whole
house was in an uprOar, and search was
made for the missing babe, but all in
vain. In the meantime the whole town
was startled by the information that a
child had been stolen and carried away.
Finally, it was remembered that the
stage-driver had slept in the house that
night, and that possibly he might know
something about the missing child. He
was telegraphed to on the subject, to
Downieville, and in the course of few
minutes reply was received from him,
which read as follows: Crank Ramp
pin: You will find the child in my bed
at the hotel" On the reception of the
telegram the mother rushed frant1cally
to the stage drivers room and found
her precious babe lying in his bed fast
asleep. Nearly rybody in Campton-
vile got drunk that day rejoicing over
the event.
Year: 1875




After all, is the world so very absurd
in its love of pretty women? Is woman
SO very ridiculous in her chase after
beauty? A pretty woman is doing a
woman's work in the world, but not
making speeches, nor puddings, but
making life sunny and more beautiful.
Man has foreswOrn the pursuit of beauty
altogether. Does he seek it for himself,
he is guessed to be poetic; there are
whispers that his morals are no better
than they shonld be. In society reso-
lutte to be ugly there is no post for an
Adonis, but that of q model or guards
man. But woman does for mankind


what man has ceased to do. Her aim
from childhood is to be beautiful.


Even as a school girl she notes the
progress of her cbarms-the deepening
color of her hair, the growing symmetry
of her arm, the ripening contour of her
cheek. We watch with silent interest
the mysterious reveries of the maiden ;
she is dreaming of coming beauty and
painting for the glories of eighteen. Iu-
sensibly she becomes an artist her
room is studio, her glass an academy.
The Joy of her toilet is the Joy of
Raphael over his canvas, of Michael
Angelo over his marble. She is creating
beauty in the silence and the loneliness
of her chamber. She grows like any
art creation, the result of patience, of
hope, of a thousand delicate touchings
and retouchings. Woman is never per-
feet, never complete. A re stless night
undoes the beauty of the day sunshine
blurs the evanescent coloring of the
cheek; frost nips the tender outlines of
her face into sudden harshness. Care
plows its lines across her brow; mother
hood destroys the elastic lightness of
her form; the bloom of her cheek, the
quick flash of her eye, fade and vanish
as the years 60 by. But woman is true
to her ideal. She won't know when she
is beaten, and she manages to steal
fresh victories even in her defeat. She
invents new conceptions of womanly
grace; she rallies at forty, and fronts
us with the beauty of womanhood she
makes a last stand at sixty, with the
beauty of her age. She falls, like
Caesar, wrapping her mantle around her
-"buried in wooden 'twould a saint
provoke p' Death listens pitifully to
the longings of a lifetime, and the
wrinkled face smiles with something of
the prettiness of eighteen,
Year: 1875

A


up the blood-stains on the carpet
None of these had I attempted to do.
Above all, the major had been seen to
enter his room, had been seen to come
out of it, and he had been seen no
more. It was clear foul crime had
been committed, and who but could
be the guilty one?


was fully committed to stand my
trial for willful murder, and was being
led away by an officer, when Mr.. De
Bruin, who had attended as a witness,
as the crowd passed the railway, station
which was near at hand, gave a sudden
start.


"Bless my soul - he exclaimed.


GLOW are you ?" said a portly gen.
tleman, advancing to extend his hand.


The other drew back as he might
have done from ghost.


Wh--what !--ain't you dead, major? ?"


Major Mudd, for the newcomer was
no other, warmly repelled the ipsinua-
tion. Old De Bruin was completely
mystifed and it was not till the dis
guise / had worn had been discovered,
and some other circumstances cane to
light, that the truth began to dawn
upon him.


Twas discharged, of course; and, on
my way to take the next departing
train, saw Pet, on the majors arm,
promenading the veranda of the hotel.
She made q mouth at me over her
shoulder as I passed. No woman ever
forgives a man for making her or him.
self ridiculous. Pet would have mar
ried me and made me a good wife, no
doubt, but for the misadventures of
that night. AS it was. she married the
major, and I am still a bachelor.
Year: 1875

Mrs. st. John Eckel, Maria Monks
daughter, gives the following account
of the successful reformation of her
pug nose Gone of the first things
my sister had said, on seeing me, was,
But where is your pug nose? 1T is
gone replied but did not tell her
how it had gone. will here make the
confession to the reader. At night I
would take long string and fasten it
around my face, drawing it so tightly
around the tip of my nose that could
hardly breathe through my nostrils.
During the day I used to pull on the
nose. In two years I succeeded, and
the pug disappeared. How much did I
not suffer for this vanity ?"
Year: 1875

When people name their babies they
sh ould remember their future feelings
AS q general thing, name that has a
pleasant sound, and is neither too COM
mon nor too far-fetched and romantic,
is the pleasantest to have. And it is
always better to have one that, while
admitting of childish diminutive, will
not sound ridiculous if its bearer lives
to be an old man or woman.


At the same time, there is such a
thing as sticking too strictly to the
common place, and it is not considerate
to infict upon innocent babes their
grandfathers' names, or even their
grandmothers', if they are obsolete or
hideous.


1t is due to your baby to give it a
name that will not be torment to it in
its schooI-days-and there is nothing
like queer name for children to make
sport with-and one that will last it if
it lives to be eighty.