smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

ship even to reach It, Blank shot were fred to en-
courage tho struggling fires were kept brightly
burning though the wind scattered the fasos and
men and joined constantly in shouting
good cheer, but further they were powerless. The


fe-saving formed into patrols who watched


the beach for five miles 10 the east and west to aid any
who might he washed ashore but except the four named
bodies found up to saturday night Many OF the
women at the the wives and daughters OF the
Indians board aud their pteOus sobbng whenever the
songs Of their doomed husbands could he heard above
the wind brought tears into eyes Of the stoutest
hearted who stood by.
Year: 1877


mission of vagrancy should
be instituted in every large city and
every county in the land and in
stitutions of industry established
for the purpose Of making these
men self-supporting, and of curing
them of their wretched disease. We
have lunatic asylums, not only for
the benefit Of the lunatics, but for
the relief of the community, and
among the dead beats and tramps
we have an enormous number of
men who are just as truly diseased
as the maddest of men in Utica or
at the Boomingdale asylum. Some
thing must be done with them, and
done at once, if we are to have any
comfort by day or safety by night /;
for men who are so demoralized as
to beg from choice and die by pro-
fession, have but to take a single
step to land in ruffianism. Already
they intimidate and rob and MUIR
der, to get the means to support
their useless lives.
Year: 1877

entertain her with their perform
ances, and that now, with her
permission, they would finish
the concert by singing "God Save
the Queen;" Mr.. Campbell also
saying that, as none of his pupils
could see her majesty, who had
so graciously listened to them,
he hoped she would give them
the pleasure of hearing her
speak before they left her presence.


The queen seemed highly pleased
with the suggestion, and in the last
piece rose from her seat and joined
with them in singing it. At the
conclusion, coming forward to them,
she said she could not take the
hands Of all the singers, there were
so many Of them, but if the little
children would come up, of whom
there were sixteen, she should be
glad to shake the hand Of each one.
This they accordingly did, much to
their qualification. And 50 they
we're much pleased with the result
of their concert, while they fondly
entertain the hope, for which there
is some ground, that they may one
day have the queen down to visit
them at Norwood.
Year: 1877

In "Topios of the Times" in
Scribner for January, DR.. Holland
discusses the dead beat: What are
we to do with these people =? How
is this disease to be treated? These
questions demand an early answer,
for the evils to which they relate
are increasing with alarming rap
idity, There is the general feeling
that they will take care of them
selves so soon as prosperous times
shall return; but, as we have already
said, this is a mistake. The dead
beat willneve reform. The tramp
will be q tramp for life, shifting
from country to city as his COM
forts may demand, and ready to be


led into any mischief which will


give him grub and grog. There
ought to be, this very winter, such


laws passed as will restrain the
wanderers, and force them to
self support in D some public
institution, A standing cJm-
Year: 1877

In New York city the subject Of
woman's work is being discussed in
the newspapers and in the follow
ing manner:


To the Editor of the Tribune;


SIR-The letter from GA Wo-
man" in your Saturdays issue
comes evidently from the pen OF
one who has a husband and home,
a household after whose ways it is
her sphere and pleasure to look.
But she seems to forget that there
are thousands and thousands Of us
who have not and cannot, if statis-
tics be correct, expect to have hus-
bands and households of our own,
who must make for ourselves our
own place in the world, who must
work day by day for our daily
bread, and we cannot all be teachers
and seamstresses. These paths are
too crowded already, and what
right has she to say we are leaving
our sphere if we step over into
some less frequented avenue, where
men have heretofore walked? We
grant there are many things which
men do that women cannot and
ought not to do, and they do not
wish to do them; but there are also
many things which women can do
as fitly and as well, and if we may
not do these, what shall we do?


We don't want to "go out of the
sphere in which God has placed
u.s." we want to find what that
sphere is; what it is that God has
giyen us to do. But is that sphere
to be a burden on some man, father,
brother, husband? For those who
are wives and mothers, or only
daughters perhaps, those whose
sphere is evidently at home, GA
Woman" speaks only truth; but
for us who, from necessity or
choice, instead of husband-hnnting
or depending upon father or brother
for support, go out into the world
to find a place and work for our
selves, what right has any one to
say we should do what we can't,
and should not do what we can?


| am not q woman's rights"
woman, as the term is generally
used, but | believe we have the
right to do any honest work that
we are capable of doing, Or can
make ourselves capable of doing.
Those positions for which men are
fitted and women are not will be
filled by men and not by women !
that will regulate itself. But moth
ing can narrow the sphere Of wo-
man to her home when there are 50
many of us who have no homes or
households, and no one has a right
to ignore this great army. 1t is we
who are struggling, it is we who
must fight for ourselves or 60 to
ti,e wall, and it is a shame that
our sisters from the shelter Of their
homes and their husbands protec-
ton should snecr at US and con-
denim us.


A WOMAN WITHOUT HOUSEHOLD.


New York, February 6. 1871.
Year: 1877




SIR-I have read a great many
letters from different women, who
write as though all women had
nothing to do but fondle their hus-
bands and children. They Go not
seem to think of those women that
have TO support their husbands and
children. | think fully one-quarter
of those that are married, either
wholly or in part, support their
families. There is a very large class
that have no husbands. What are
they to do? Have they no right to
do whatever they can to get a liy-
ing? / think their place is just
where they can do the best for
themselves. Men do not hesitate
to do womcn's work if they feel
called upon to do so. There are
men dress-makers. Perhaps if your
correspondent from Passale, New
Jersey, had no money or husband
to do for her she would not look
with SO much disgust at other wo-
men whom she thinks want to get
out Of the sphere that God placed
them in. ] don't think God ever
Year: 1877

among the rude and unclVllzed
tribes Of the Northwest coast, the
idea of divinity was very diverse,
and in some cases obscure. The
Tinneh, a great people occupying a
vast expanse Of territory, reaching
from the Arctic Ocean southwark
to the fifty-fifth parallel of latitude,
worship the "man in the moon,"
who, as they supposed, formerly
lived among them as a poor and
ragged boy. This boy once made
50 large a pair Of snow-shoes that
he attracted the attention and ridi-
cule of the entire community where
he resided, and became the object
Of much heartless sport on the part
of the villagers. But soon there
came a time Of great scarcity; the
hunter traversed the forests in vain;
the earth bore no fruitage. Still,
to their surprise, when every hope
of success was exhausted, they were
often led to freshly killed game by
some mysterious Influence. Their
benefactor soon proved to be none
other than the poor boy with the
great snow-shoes-the object of
their ridicule. Though grateful to
him at first, they soon forgot his
benefactions when the time of
plenty returned, so much SO as on
one occasion to refuse him morsel
Of fat meat. The divine person
who had externally manifested
himself to them in the guise of a
ragged boy, now offended, took his
departure to his residence in the
moon. However, in a month he
returned, appearing as a full-grown
man, forgave their ingratitude, told
that his home was in the moon, and
that he would always assist them
in the chase. One punishment,
however, they must suffer, namely,
that henceforward animals should
be lean the entire winter, and only
fat in the summer.


The Nootkas of Columbia have a
tradition of a benefactor and teach
er who appeared to them long ago.
He came to them up the sound in a
canoe of copper. The paddle in
his hand was copper; even his
clothing was of the same metal.
This mysterious, copper-clad old
man Sojourned for awhile among
them, taught them the use of the
metal which made him so conspic-
uous--told them that he came from
the sky, and that some time in the
future, when their land should be
destroyed, they would all die, but,
after death, rise and live with him
above. Enraged at this prophecy
of their destruction, they arose and
killed him, and, in possession them
selves of the canoe, fell heirs to the
benefits which arise from the knowl-
edge of copper. They, however,
repented of their crime when they
realized, at too late an hour, that
the copper-man was the incarna-
ton Of their deity, The Great
Spirit, The Man Above.


In both Of these legends we OBJ
serve the tendency, alluded to
moment ago, Of first personifying
the introduction of civilizing in
huences, aad then of deifying that
persOni6cation. In the boy with
the great snow-shoes, suddenly ele-
yated to the position Of divine pat
ron of the chase, wo see clearly |
some inventive genius, who, ndi,
Opled at first by his fellows, at last
is acknowledged a benefactor Oh
account of his discovery of i'm
proved appliances for hunting,
The copper-man is nothing more
than the introducer Of copper
among the Nootkaa,
Year: 1877

Some five years since, says the Hough-
ton (Mich.) Mining Gazette, Harry
Odgers, miner from Truro, Cornwall,
England, arrived in this locality. Before
leaving home he loved certain lass, the
only daughter of an innkeeper, to whom
he proposed marriage, but was rejected.
Two years ago Harry, who was employ
ed at the Delaware mine, met with an
accident by which he lost his eyesight
The news of his terrible misfortune
didn't reach the ears of his Truro sweet
heart until quite recently. She thought
of the man who once told her he loved
her and her woman's heart softened.
She wrote to friend in Keweenaw
county, and in time got history of his
condition and the sad plight he was in
on the distant shore of Lake Superior.
The other evening quiet little woman
arrived on the stage from L'Anse, and
before many hours she was at the house
where the blind and manned miner was
stopping. She came to take Harry
back to England, without any fuss Or
noise, and, if he'll allow her, she in
tends to care for him as his wife the bal
ance of his days. Mondays stage took
Harry and his old sweetheart on their re-
turn to Cornwall. She doesn't want to
be married until she gets home. If
there is one seat better than another in
Heaven, we know little woman who
will be entitled to it when she leaves
this world.
Year: 1877

Not here in the populous town,


In the playhouse or mart,
Not here in the ways gray and brown,
But afar on the green swelling down,


Is the home Of my heart.
There the hillside slopes down to dell
Whence streamlet has start
There are woods and sweet grass on tho swell
And the south winds and west know it well;


'Tis the home of my heart.
There's cottage o'ershadowed by leaves


Growing fairer than art,
Where under the low sloping caves
No false hand tho swallow bereaves,
'Tis the home Of my heart.
And there as you gaze down the lea,
Where tho trees stand apart,
Over grassland and woodland may be
You will catch the faint CLEAN of the sea
From the home of my heart.
And there in the rapturous spring,


When the morning rays dart
Der the plain, and the morning birds sing,
You may see the most beautiful thing
In the home Of my heart;
For there at the easement above,


Where the rose bushes part,
Will blush the fair face of my love;
All, yes it is this that will prove


'Tis the home Of my heart.
Year: 1877

A little girl whose mother keeps q
candy shop in Brooklyn, New York, was


passing the Brooklyn Atheneum one


most inclement day recently, and found
a wallet stuffed with bank bills. She
Immediately concluded it had been
dropped by some one attending the en-
tertainment then going on in the build
ing. Notwithstanding the cold, and
mayhap the temptation, she waited for
the crowd to come out in order to find
the owner. Among the first, two ladies
handsomely dressed came down the
staircase together, and as they passed
SO near the little girl us almost to over
turn her basket, she heard one of them
exclaim "How unfortunate there
were 5000 in my wallet p With flushed
face the little girl stopped her and said :
"I found the money. L have been
waiting to find the owner p While by
ISLANDERS looked ON, the lady serenely re-
marked "That will do. little girl I
am sorry I haven't a penny to give you,
and walked on.


As counterpart of this, with hui
morous complexion, story is told of
a young man in New York who found a
pocketbook containing q considerable
sum of money and advertised it. The
wallet was identified by some one living
a short distance out of the city, and the
young man dispatched it to the owner.
AS his fellow clerks in the office we're nc
quainted with the circumstances there
was an expectant group about the young
man few days later as he was opening
an express package coming from the
place where his correspondent lived.
The general expectation received most
comical shock as the torn wrappings re-
vealed paper box, and the box un-
covered displayed pound Or two of
common candy, which the grateful
owner of the wallet begged the honora-
BILE young man "to accept as a slight"
etc No allusion was made to refunding
the cost of advertising.


Completeness, however, goes in groups
of three SO, as setting for these two
jewels of generosity, we give the expert
ence of boy of fourteen years who is
in the employ of well known dry goods
house in Broadway, New York. One
day not long ago he found diamond
earring in box of ribbons he was in
structed to put in order, and immedi-
ately took it to the Office. As informa-
ton had already been received from a
prominent gentleman in Brooklyn that
his daughter had lost such valuable
jewel while shopping in the city, the boy
himself was dispatched with it to the
owner. The gentleman received him
very kindly, asked various questions
about his family, etc., drew a check for
one hundred dollars and sent him
back to his employers with note re-
questing them to cash it for him. The
gift was most opportune, as the family
have had hard time to keep the wolf
from the door.
Year: 1877

A sad story was recently told at til


Minneapolis police station, and the


parties most interested are from Chicago.


A lady wearing mourning for daughter


who recently died at her home in Chi
cago, appeared at the police station and
asked the assistance of the authorities
in the endeavor to find young girl, her
daughter, who came to Minneapolis a
short time since. A description of the
young woman being obtained, the police
soon ascertained that she was employed
at the concert saloons in the capacity of
pianist and character vocalist, her great
est hit being in appearing on the stage
in the character of fast young man,
and dressed accordingly. Mother and
daughter were allowed to meet each
other in boarding house. The mother
explained to the daughter that she had
came from Chicago for the purpose of
informing her Ghe daughter) that sister
was dead, and she must come to attend
the funeral, which had been postponed
till their arrival. The daughter seemed
willing and an appropriate hat was
ordered from a millinery store. The
next morning the daughter requested
her mother to step over to the millinery
store and ascertain whether or no the
hat was finished. Mrs. Sanderson did as
requested, and upon her return learned
that Miss Anna Bell had fed to parts
unknown. Again she visited the police
headquarters and learned that her
daughter had gone to st. Paul and was
stopping at hotel in that city with a
railroad conductor. The girl is said to
be good looking and an accomplished
musician. In Chicago she officiated as
organist in a leading church. No pains
Or money had been spared in educating
the girl, and music was her special pride.
Being spoiled child, every whim had
to be gratifed. She wished to come to
New York for the purpose of seeing the
country, and it was told at home that
she would have to teach music to pro-
cure funds to meet all expenses She
was determined that her father should
not be out of pocket " by this freak.
She has been on the downward course
ever since leaving home, and it is feared
she has gone so far as to be past redemp
tion. The father has not yet learned of
the life his daughter has chosen.
Year: 1877

Than the complexion of a person becomes
who omits to regulate his liver when that i'm
portant gland grows neglcctful Of its secretive
function. Moreover, the stomach under such
circumstances becomes disOrdered, the bowels
are CONSTRUCTED, pains in the side and between
the shoulder blades are felt, the head aches, and
the nervous system shares in the general de
Tangement. This confederation of evils is, how
ever, easily remediablr with that matchless reg
ulating tonic, Hustetters Stomach Bitters
which insures the stcretion and flow of healthy
bile, acts gently but effCctually upon the bowels
and removes every symptom of nervous or di-
gestive trouble. The result is that renewed
tone is given to the entire system the sallow
haggard appearance Of the face to which bilious
ness gives rise is superseded by the glow Of
health, and the frame gains in substance as well
as vigOr.
Year: 1877

Van Amburgh could handle his lions
and tigers with impunity. No animal
will fail to respond to kindness and uni
form good treatment. And especially
will the noble horse respect and contide
in and faithfully serve master who
deals faithfully and kindly with him.
We have ourselves taken a spirited
Morgan mare which had been rudely
handled and become entirely unmanage-
able through harsh treatment, and, by
appealing to her intelligence and re.
specting her needs, IN three weeks
time made her entirely safe and rell-
able for wife and children, and all who
would treat her kindly and handle her
gently, and we, have, after five years,
seen the same mare resume her old vlcl-
ous habits when again under the con
troll of one who resorted to arbitrary
and brutal treatment. Always appeal
TO the better instinct of the horse, the
mule, the OK, the COW, as well as the
dog and other domestic animals, and
thev will never become vicious or un-
manageable Tropical.
Year: 1877

The settled expression of determine
ton that mantles the face of a man who
is Just starting out to have a tooth pulled
is only equalled by the subdued look
that ereeps over his features as he pauses
with his hand on the knob on the dental
room door, turns quickly around, and
tiptoes back through the hallway, out
doors again Fulton Times.
Year: 1877

TIE BLACK RoD.-The Office of the
Black Rod, the incumbent of which
came into prominent notice at the re-
cent opening of the British Parliament,
is so old that its origin is all but lost in
obscurity. The holder was originally a
servant about the court, his emblem
denoting that he was to keep order, and
see that people behaved with decorum
In the House of Lords. From time to
time his status improved and the emolu-
ments increased. His duties are now
mostly confined to summoning the
House of Commons, in the name Of the
sovereign, to attend at the bar of the
House of Lords to hear the opening or
valedictory speech from the throne.
The House of Commons makes itapoint
to shut its doors in the face of the mes
senger, to show that it is quite indie
pendent of the Lords. The Black Rod
has to knock thrice at the door of the
Commons, when the sergeant-at-arms
interviews him through a small aperture
in the door, and keeps him waiting till
the speaker is informed of the messen-
gers presence, and says, admit him. +"
Black Rod then advances gravely alsng
the floor, bowing to the speaker every
three or four PAGES. After delivering
his message he retires backward, as he
came, and makes it great point in that
most awkward process, TO go over the
same line as on entering.
Year: 1877

PAYING FOR Hrs WHIsTLE.-A num-
Der of years ago. when a lofty building
was ON the point of completion, the ma
son who was finishing the highest por-
ton was in the habit Of whistling to the
1aborer who attended him whenever he
wanted fresh supply of lime, and as
the scaffold on which he wrought was
rather small, this occurred very often
during days work. A joiner who was
fitting in a window Immediately under
Meath, noticing that Pat answered du-
tifully to every whistle from the mason,
thought of playing trick on Linn by
initiating the whistle, and thus brought
him up with a hodful of lime when there
was no room for It. The mason told
Pat that he had not whistled, so he had
no other alternative than to trudge back
with his load. This having occurred
for the third time during the day, Pat
thought he would watch to hear where
the whistle came from. He had not
waited long with the hod on his shoul-
der, when he heard the identical whistle
directly underneath where be stood,
and, leaning over, he saw the head Of
the joiner protruding out Of the window
Immediately below. Pat, without more
ado, emptied the hod right over the
whistler's head. The joiner yelled and
spluttered while attempting to clear
himself from the adhesive mass, and in
the midst of his confusion, heard Paddy
above shouting at the top Of his voice:
Whistle when you want more NOR
tarf' .