smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

you turned up your nose at the idea Of
living in the country" said Grace, lit
tie pettishly, for in truth she was sorely
disappointed over the bursting Of all
her magnificent air castles.


Alonzo did not reply, nor indeed did
he appear to take any notice Of her
querulous reminders. She was his wife
now, aud it mattered little to him if
she did fret, seeing he had all the ad-
vantage


"How soon do you propose to begin
with the building:" asked Grace, after
a long pause, as they halted upon a
gentle rise, which she finally decided
/ TO choose As a location.


81 can't tell exactly, Oracle dear.
It would be very hard for me to tear
myself away from you for sufficient
length Of time to order the necessary
materials" be avowed, with a melting
smile which Grace was certainly to be
pardoned for enjoying, 80 very bewitch-
I ing wasit.


"Then, dear, let me go with you.
can go wherever you eau"


"But it wouldn't be at all ladylike
for you to seem to take 30 much inter-
est in my affairs, darling. Now that
you are my wife, you must trust me to
manage my own business"


"And am to have no will OF my own
about anything ?"


"Oh, certainly. Ladies always have
q will Of their own, my dear. But
mean that you must not expect to in
terest yourself too much about business
matters. My mother has never known
/ anything at all about my fathers pc
cuniary affairs. II is his delight 10
shield her from every annoyance, and
he keeps her in blissful ignorance Of all
his financial perplexities."


"Then Alonzo, you will pardon me,
dear, but be doesn't do right, either by
I your mother or himself. I'll warrant
he'd not get OF that way if he had ne
for a wife. ] consider it a wife's duty
TO be a helpmate for her husband in
everything. II / ha1 thought to sink
TO the level Of either dollship or drudg-
cry on your hands, / should never have
consented to marry at ALL"


(Which is just the same As saying
that you do not trust me a. a wife
should trust her husband"


Alonzo's air was that Of an aggrieved
and injured man now, and Grace some
how felt that she had been unreasoua-
big self-assertine.


''Be il asyou say, my dear" she said,
with an air Of resignation. Though l
don't feel satisfied. because everything
is turning out so differently from what
I had anticipated. ! can't help feeling
as though you bad caught me through
false appearances. Aud yet, wouldn't
wrong you for my life"
Perhaps il was well for Grace that the
clatter Of her horses hoofs upon the
tlinty road which they had now reached
on their way hons ward, prevented her
husband from hearing this last remark
For certainly trouble was coming "a
them in another shape quite soon
enough, and there was no need of hei
aggravating matters by raising AN incip
lent quarrel over their pecuniary con
Germs.


ITO be continued
Year: 1879

THE EARLY RISING DELUsIoN.-For
farmers and those who live in localities
where people can retire At eight or nine
o'clock in the evening. the old notion
about early rising is still appropriate
But he who is kept up tillten or eleven or
twelve o'clock, and then rises at Ave or
six, because Of the teachings ol some
old ditty about "early to rise," is CON-
mitting a sin against his own SOUL
There is not one man 10 ten thousand
who can afford to do without seven or
eight hours' sleep. All the stuff written
about great men who slept only three
or tour i0Srs d nights apocryphal.--
They have been put upon such small
allow ances occasionally and prospered;
but no man ever yet kept healthy in
body and mind for a number Of years
with less than seven hours sleep. II
you can get TO bed early, then rise ear
ly; il you cannot get 10 bed till late.
then rise late. II may be as proper for
one man te rise at eight as il - for an-
other to rise at FIVE. Let the rousing
bell be rung By at least thirty minutes
before your public appearance. Phys
leans say that sudden jump out Of bed
gives irregular motion TO the pulses
II takes hours TO get over too sudden
rising. II is barbarous TO expect chill
dren TO land on the center Of the floor
al the call of their nurses, the ther-
mometer below zero. GIVE US time af-
ter you call Us. TO roll over, gaze al TIE
world full in the face, aud look before
you leap.
Year: 1879

A Low VoIcE IN W0MAN.-Yes, we
agree with that old poet who said that
low, soft voice was an excellent
thing in woman" Indeed, we feel in
clined TO go much farther than he has on
the subject, and call 1t one other crown
ing charms. No matter what other at
fractions she may have; she may be as
fair as the Trojan Helen, and as learned
as the famous Hypatia of ancient
times; she may have all the accom-
plishmenis considered requisite at the
present day. and every advantage that
wealth can procure, and yet if she lacks
a low, sweet voice, she can never be
really fascinating. How often the spell
OF beauty is rudely broken by coarse,
loud talking. How often you are ir-
resistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming
woman, whose soft, silvery tones rem
der her positively attractive. Besides,
we fancy we can Judge of the character
by the voice; the bland, smooth. fawn-
ing tones seem to betoken deceit and
hypocrisy as invariably as the musical,
subdued voice indicates genuine refine
ment. In the social circle how pleas
ant j: is to hear q woman talk in that
low key which always characterizes
the true lady. In the sanctuary at home
how such q voice soothes the fretlul
child and cheers the weary husband.
How sweetly its cadence floats through
the sick chamber and around the dying
bed; with what solemn melody do they
breathe a prayer for the departing soul !!
Ah. YES, a low. SOFT voice is certainly
"an excellent thing in woman"
Year: 1879

How General Grant Had to Take


It I'm 1861.


An Illinois officer says that before
the wsr Grants hardware and saddlery
store was near his own place of busi-
ness in Galena. "Grant never liked to
wait on customers. If one called in
the absence of the clerks, he would tell
him to wait till one of the clerks re-
turned and If he couldn't wait, the
General would go behind the counter
reluctantly and drag down what was
wanted but he hardly ever knew the
price, and generally charged TOO much
or too little. He would rather talk
about the Mexican war than wait on
the best customers in the world. When
the war broke out, told him one day
| was going down to Springfield to see
Governor Yates, who had sent for me.
Grant merely remarked in quiet way !:
"You can say to the Governor, that ii
can be of any use to him in the organi-
zation of these regiments l will be glad
to do what l can" Governor Yates Oh
fered him the Twsnty-frst regiment.
Hs accepted it, and went to camp,
dressed very clumsily in suit of citi-
zsns' clothes, and old coat, worn out at
the elbows, and badly-dinged plug
hat. His men, though ragged and
barefooted themselves, had formed a
high estimate of what a colonel ought
to be ; and when grant walked IN
among them they began making fun Of
him. They cried out in derision'
Look at our colonelp what a colo,
nell Such colonel!' and made all
sorts Of fun of him; but they mighty
soon found ont their mistake"
Year: 1879

saws that he never but once carried a
pistol, and that was in Syria when he
was a young man. chad a pistol, "


he said to correspondent of the "En-
ouirer, "of Cincinnati, that it had been
so long loaded that | thought II
better to shoot it off. At the time we
were quaran tined at little Arab hole


for no earthly reason, as had nothing
to give anybody, and there were NO
travellers coming or going. l saw a
NANCY, starvelipg dog come around
our cooking apparatus, and taking
aim at him suppose | shot him
through the heart, for he leaped sew
eral feet in the air aud fell stone dead
They raised more outcry over that dog
than the pistol was worth, and it COS,
me money and diplomacy oget away
Year: 1879

WELCOME TO GENERAL GRANT.-The PennSyl-
vania assembly Dya party vote has agreed TO
welcome Gen. Grant In the name OF the state
on his return to this country, "prOviding there
Is no expense to the state"
Year: 1879

will he held at Fredericksburg in 1880. at
the same sime in July, and it was resolved
at a meeting OF the Association that any
mcmberwho should engage in betting upon
the races should be heavily fined. This is
>aIutarv, and our aquatic sports bid fair to
prosper.
Year: 1879

1t is a noticeable fact that the people
in the prairie country of Iowa do more
work than any other people in the West.
This is because there is nothing about the
top rail of barbed wire fence that in
vites men to sit on it and talk politics
while the grasshoppers gerin the crops
Burlington Ha,okeye.
Year: 1879

The subject OF the use OF flowers at
Easter in the Episcopal churches has been
discussed so much OF late that the recent
correspondence between the Bishop OF the
Diocese OF Virginia and the rector and YES
try OF Monumental church upon the SUBJ
jcct OF flowers and the change of the cover.
ings OF the communicable at different
seasons will not be lacking in interest to our
Year: 1879

FEEDING THE DEAD.-R. J. Rutherford the pioneer expresSman, thIs morning per. formed the pious duty of taking two of the followers of Conrucius. with lot of roast pig, peaches, grapes and bottle of brandy to Lynx Creek to feed dead countTyman who has lain beneath the cold gravel of that lonely canyon, where he was murdered, q whole year, without morsel of food or a drop of anything to cheer him on his jour- ney to that flowery kingdom where all good chinaman at last bring up.

 Rutherford says there was no throw of about the feed: they left plenty of it, and that which was good. on the grave, and as the two live celestisls returned to town with him, there is no probability of their returning to bring away what they their de- funct friend may have after satisfying his appetite.
Year: 1879

Congress passed what is known as
the Timber Culture act, which is in
tended to encourage the growth f
timber upon prairies. Il provides
that any head Of q family or member
who has arrived at the age Of twenty
one years, who shal! plant, protect,
or keep in healthy, growing con
dition for eight years, ten acres Of
timber trees thereon, not being more
than four feet apart each way, en-
any quarter section of any of the
public lands of the United States, or
five acres on any legal subdivision Of
eighty acres, or two and one half
acres, OF one-eighth part of any frac-
tional subdivision OF land less than
forty acres, shall be entitled to a
patent for the whole Of a quarter
section, or of such legal subdivision
Of eighty or forty acres, or fractional
subdivision Of less than forty acres,
as the case may be, at the expiration
of said eight years, on making proof
of such fact by not less than tive
credible witnesses; provided that not
more than one quarter of any section
shall be thus granted, and that nc
person shall make more that one Ell
try under the provisions of this act
unless fractional subdivisions of less
than forty acres are entered which
IN the aggregate shall not exceed
; one quarter section.
Year: 1879

The Madelia Times reports an ac-
cident in that village which result
ted in the death of a young man
named Iver Olson, who when help
ing to load frozen hog, slipped
and fell and the hog fell upon his
head, the blow causing death in a
short time.
Year: 1879

1t was announced recently that the
ship Tcmplar had arrived in San Fran
ciso with the yellow fever on board.
The details Of the Templar's voyage
make up one of the most wonderful
stories of suffering ut sea ever related.
She left New York in September, 1873,
and was three hundred and twenty days
in reaching San Francisco. Eight days
out from New York the ship encountered
Il two days gale and was seriously dam
aged. On October Ia she was struck by
Il hurricane, lost her ruddcr head and
was set to leaking badly. At Rio the
Tcmplar was repaired. Yellow fever
carried off nine of the crew. Sailing from
Rio, she had been on her voyage but two
days when the captains wife and Il sea-
man died of the fever. In latitude fifty
degrees south sixty-four degrees west
the voyagers came upon heavy weather,
and during the gale lost the iron tank
containing every drop of fresh water on
board. The crew nearly perished from
thirst, but supply Of water being OBJ
tanned, the ship sailed without important
mishap until the Oath of last June, when
the first mate fell overheard and was
drowned. Having recovered from two
severe, attacks of the yellow fever, Cap


tain Anderson again fell i'll with the


disease just before the Templar ended


her years struggle with death and dis
aster in every form but onezzthat of fire.
Year: 1879

Don't you like to meet a talking man
when you travel? The man who talks
necessarily and never says anything. I
have met him on railway trains on al
most every road between Kansas and
Maine. have sat beside him and heard
him fill mile after weary mile with the
dreariest chatter about nothing, until I
was ready to pray far broken rail, o
burned bridge, an open switch, a wild
train, anything in the shape of instant
and painless death, to save me from
lingering torture. You may wonder
that sleep never kindly comes to the re-
lief of the victim of the talking man.
He won't let it. When he sees you be-
gin to look sleepy, he clutches your arm,
he shakes you by the shoulder, he says !;
See? See?" at regular intervals, and
from time to time asks you what do
you think of that" to insure your wake
fulncss. | have often wondered why
this talking machine could not just us
well talk to the stove or panel in the
car. becausc;ls nc intelligence is required
to conduct his conversation. none should
be necessary in listening TO it. But he
won't tux that way. Hcappears to find
his incentive to talk in your suffering.
His cloqurncc is born of. your agony.
You have heard him us l have. You
have wished him dead, you have won


dered why Il mcrciful Providence ever
turned him loose on mankind. expect
Providence itself sometimes wonders the
same thing. when it hears the man when
he has II full head of steam or and some.
body to talk to. o.-Burdctte. IN MtOkeye.
Year: 1879

A story is told of a crafty American
skipper who escaped the clutches of a
hostile cruiser by hoisting the yellow
flag, and exhibiting one of his crew over
the bulwarks stitched up in hammock,
as if about to be flung into the sea. AS
his vessel was lying off a port where the
yellow fever was then raging, the priva-
teer took the alarm and shcered off.
Even this, however, was exceeded by an
episode of the Egyptian war of ls39-4o,
when Admiral Napier's squadron was
cruising in the Levant. The lookout
man Of an English frigate one morning
saw an Arab in the water, seemingly in
danger of drowning. A boat was low
cred, and the swimmer picked up; but
he died shortly after being brought on
board, with all the symptoms of the
plague, and was quickly followed by the
captain and a fourth of the crew. 1t was
afterward found that this desperate fa-
natic, finding himself death-stricken,
had deliberately swan off to the ship,
with the intention of carrying the infec-
ton among his enemies!
Year: 1879

The postoffice in Para, the principal
seaport of Brazil, is located in an i'm
mense room; a vestibule is rallied off,
within Which are several tables covered
with letters and papers. How letters
are assorted is described by corres-
pondent of the Boston Journal:


There are no boxes alphabetically AZ
ranged, nor is there any mail delivery as
with US.


EVERYTHING comes by water, and as the
communication from the south is but
once in two weeks, 'and from up the
river once ir nine days, it follows that
the postoffice is for the greater part of the
time deserted except by a few clerks,
who seem to have little to do except to
receive and deliver the few letters trans
iently coming in.


But when, as sometimes happens, the
steamer from the south arrives the same
day as the one from the north, a Euro.
pean steamer day or two before, or just
sailing, and the river mail down about
the same time, then the old postoffice
wakes up into life and activity.


Its gloomy halls are thronged with
merchants and clerks, strangers and citi-
zens, rushing about, seeking and carry
ing off their letters.


Then follow hours of hard work, for
as the American steamer only remains
six hours in port, a world of writing has
to be done in this short time to answer
all the correspondence, and there is no
rest for the merchants or their clerks,
until after the steamer is gone.


Wien the mail arrives at the post
Office it is not sorted in an orderly man.
ner, as with us. but the bags are taken
into large inner room, dimly lighted,
and emptied out upon long table let
tiers and papers all together-and here
the clerical work ceases, and the public
rush in and make their own selection.


Now ensues a scene of confusion which
you must witness to fully appreciate.


AS the table has but four sides, and
these are lined by perhaps fifty or sixty
people, while three or four times as many
more are waiting for a chance behind,
and the table is filled so full that often
the letters and papers slip off on the
floor, and as every letter and package
must 60 through every mans hands be-
fore he is satisfied that he has got all
that belongs to him, you may imagine
that it is work of time and uncertainty
to get ones letters.


In day or two the large table is
pretty well cleared, and what is left is
removed to smaller one near the main
entrance, the papers placed on top, and
the letters in the drawer. Here any one
goes, at any hour the Office is open, and
searches for letters and papers without
let or hinderance.
Year: 1879

As the New York express was nearing
the crossing above Steamers Run, about
nine miles from Baltimore, the en-
gineer observed q country wagon
moving slowly along the road in the
direction of the rails. He blew the
whistle loudly to attract the drivers at
tention, but all to no purpose, the old
nag attached to the vehicle plodding
slowly along toward the crossing.


Seeing that the animal would reach
that point almost simultaneously with
the train, the engineer applied the
brakes, but unfortunately too late. The
train was running at full speed, and pas
sengers who had thrust their heads out
Of the windows to ascertain the cause of
the unusual whistling held their breath
in horror rs they saw the locomotive
dashing with relentless momentum into
the Inflated wagon. The horse was
struck on the head and side, the wagon
smashed to pieces, and the form Of the
man, who Il second before occupied the
drivers seat, was hurled about fifty feet
away from the track rs the train dashed
on past the spot, with the mail Car, which
had jumped the track, hopping over the
ends of the ties.


AS soon as the speed of the locomotive,
which had run about a quarter OF a
mile past the crossing. could be checked,
the train hands went back to ascertain
the extent of the damage. The head of
the horse was found wedged under the
truck of the baggage car, and the legs
and cntrais of the poor beast were
scattered all along the track. He had
been mangled almost to atoms. AT the
crossing the wagon was found COM
pletely wrecked. and not many yards
away, lifting himself from the ground
and rubbing his head, was the driver,
whom every one on the train thought
had been killed.


He was apparently not more than
twcnty-four years Of age, and to all ap-
pearances he escaped with but very
slight injuries. In answer to the many
questions put to him he stated that ne
was returning home from market, hav-
ing nothing in his wagon but some gro
ceries and corn which his father had told
him to purchase. At the time of the ac-
cident he was, he says, asleep, and did
not realize what had happened until ne
saw the crowd coming toward him from
the track. He filmed and swore like 4
trooper whc., he saw the remnants OF
his horsc.scattered about the track and
expressed forcible desire that he, in
stead of his horse, had been killed.


When reproved by passenger on the
train for his swearing. the young fellow,
between another voIley of oaths, NUT
tered something about having to face the
ire of the old man, and then proceeded
to pick up what he could of his grocer
les and corn. The train was delayed
nearly an hour py the mishap.
Year: 1879

Cooper, Bailey & Co., proprietors of
the London and international Aus


ralian shows, have sustained Il heavy
loss in the death Of the elephant Romeo,
which took place under peculiarly hor
rible circumstances in Boonville, Mo.
Romeo was one of the ten trained ele-
plants whose performances so far have
been one of the most attractive of the
show, and was valued at $4,000. One
of the appurtenances Of the show is an
immense electric apparatus which is
used in connection with the electric
light that supplies illumination for the
entire canvas of the circus. This ma
chine consists of large magnet and an
immense armature, which is made to re-
volve two hundred and fifty times in a
minute by means of thirty.tive horse
power engine, The apparatus is of in
tense electrical power, a knife blade held
within two feet of it becoming so heavily
charged with the current that it can be
used thereafter rs loadstone Pro-
fessor Sherman was getting his battery
in readiness for the afternoon perform
ance, had :" fired up,". set the machine
in motion, and click, click, went the
lights one after the other, as the elec-
tricity flew along the insulated cables.
When all was in working shape the pro-
fessor sauntered off leisurely, and had
not his attention called to the r. achine
again until he heard an unearthly roar
and crash coming from the direction
of the battery. He was startled, rs was
also the small army of workmen inside
the tents and the Large army of boys and
idlers on the outside. Everybody rushed
to the spot. The roars continued to re-
sound through the canvas, and for a
while the greatest CONSERVATION held the
crowd. On approaching the vicinity OF
the electric machine Romeo was found
in the throes of the death agony. and
with his trunk torn away by the roots
from its base. The poor beast lay there
shorn of its strength, and presenting a
horrible, mutilated appearance. Every
thing was done that it was possible to do
for the dying animal, but its agonies
were terrible, and when at length it
gasped its last there was feeling of re-
lief among those who surrounded its
mountainous corpse. Joseph Kinslow,
the leader of the band, who witnessed
the accident, says that Romeo, who was
roaming around in the tent with his
nine giant companions, shambled up to
the machine and was shifting at the
armature when its trunk was caught in
the revolving apparatus, and the animal
was thrown violently to the ground and
the trunk carried away by the whirling
machinery. Professor Sherman righted
his apparatus in short time, and few
necessary repairs were Immediately
made. Romeo was buried within the
show grounds.-&. Louis Glode-D|mo-
cru{
Year: 1879

A mission school in Philadelphia has
in its basement a large bathing and
swimming department. There are four
great tubs in which the dirty little chill
dren are free to cleanse themselves. and
to take aquatic exercise under prescribed
regulations. Each tub accommodates
nearly two dozen children ut time.
Thesurrounding floors and walls are of
brick and concrete, so that no restriction
is put on splashing. A man with IL small
whip in his hand stands by during the
bathing hours ready to castigate anyof
the young persons who are unruly or vio-
lent. To their credit it must be said that
he is seldom compelled to use it, The
girls bathc and swim on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays. and the boys
on the other days of the week, The rule
is that no child shall be allowed to enter
the baths more than once day. Many
of the boys dodge this rule by exchang-
ing clothes and presenting themselves in
such combinations of costume that the
man with the whip does not recognize
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