smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

TO be the first to communicate
startling news is an ambition most of
us must confess to. There is fasci-
nation about communicating the in
telligence of a disaster that few of us
can resist We hear that So-and-so is
dead, and we start at once for home.
Everybody we meet we stop to ask
how he does. We say show are you?"
and say it so calmly we are surprised
at ourself He stops too and looks at
us. The salutation is so bare Of those
qualities that 90 to enchain man
that we suddenly feel as if it would
have been much better to have com
municated the intelligence at once
The other party is standing expect
antly and staring curiously at us. In
desperation at the time we are losing,
we give him the news, experience a
thrill of gratitude at the shock it gives
him, and start on again. The nearer
we reacn home the greater our fears
that some one will get ahead of us
after all. How it nerves us ahead
We reach the house all of our eager
ness is gone, We remove our coat
and hat, and while we are hanging
them up, and have our back to the
audience, we say very quietly ''That
was rather sudden death !" "Death !
Who is dead ?" is cried in startled
tone that makes our very finger ends
tingle with joy. "Why, hadn't you
heard Of it 2 in tone of surprise
"So-and-so is dead-iust died"


Sometimes So-and-so is reported dy-
ing-suddenly y stricken with fatal
disease, and we put for home with the
same eagerness and when we have
succeeded in being first with the news
there comes the fear that after all he
may not die. 1t tortures us in spite
of all reasoning, and having set forth
in glowing colors the great danger he
is in, and how sad it is to be for his
family, and so enlarged upon all the
awful features of the coming catas-
trophe that there remains nothing
more to add, we feel in certain sense
responsible for his carrying out the
programme. How eagerly we watch
every intelligence of him, and how
impatiently we wait for his taking off.
AS his symptoms grow more and more
unfavorable we grow louder and more
pathetic in our sympathy should he
commence to mend we feel the SYM
pathy oozing from us, and in its stead
comes the horrible suspicion that he
may possibly y recover in spite of ALL
1t doesn't seem possible that man
who has given out that he is going to
die can have the face to get we'll again.
But there are people who will do it,
although we mention no names. -
DanJWy Neacs.
Year: 1874

There is a sort of indescribed charm
in all that pertains to the exterior view
of farm house, be it situated in the
midst Of shading trees and babbling
brooks, Or standing out boldly with
the sky for u background and the
open, bare country for the coloring
There are always about the same OBJ
iects to attract the attention. The
farming implements, the various
vehicles-ranging from the family
spring wagon to the broken down old
lumber one that stands poised on its
three wheels, q reminder that all
vehicles are not built after the model
of the zone horse shay There are
the patient cattle, the busy chickens,
the mischievous pigs, and the newt
able dog or dogs. Usually in the
back ground is the orchard and the
well, and in the foreground the rows
of pcsies, ranging from "bouncing
Beetles" to tuber-roses. There is not
always this sameness about the in
terror. There may be the same az
ticles of furniture to a great extent,
but no two are arranged the same Or
kept in the same order. The same
may be said in regard to the architec-
tural arrangement. The rooms in a
score of houses may be of the same
size and of the same number, but
scarcely any two are even nearly alike.
But as we have to do with but one,
a view of its interior will be enough.


The house itself stands out bleak,
bare and brown, on the open prairie.
The orthodox orchard lies at the back,
and rows of posies in front, and a few
Lombardy poplars and naples cluster
in various places about the front and
sides of the house; a honeysuckle
climbs up its rude trellis and peeps
boldly in at the front window, diffus-
ing its beauty and fragrance all around.
So much for the exterior. The inter
ior is not beautiful either in design OF
finish. The front door opens into a
room that serves for parlor and sitting
room, and on state occasions for din
ing room, too. 1t is plainly furnished.
A carpet, few plain chairs, a table,
and an old settee are the essentials ;
a winter bouquet, dusty with age, a
painted bunch OF pansies surrounded
by rustic flame, shelf on which
stands clock, a lamp and sickly



looking plant of some kind on the
window sill, are the only ornaments.
AT the back long kitchen, from
which arises stairway leading to the
garret, for this prairie farm house has
garret.


The morning on which our story
begins is lovely one in early spring.
The long, low kitchen has two occu
pants, an elderly woman busy with
some cooking, and an elderly man en-
gagged in mending harness. There
are not the only occupants OF the
house, for floating down through the
fresh morning air came the sweet
notes Of clear soprano voice, filling
Year: 1874

1t does one good to 20 off and revuo, t,o
scenes OF his childhood days, and nothing
makes the eyes get wet as quick as TO stand in
the shadow Of the old school house wherein no
got pounded regularly every day for being be-
hind with his geography lesson. Detroit Free
Press.
Year: 1874

The Shreveport Times concludes Il
long editorial in defense of the killing
of the officials of Red River parish, as
follows:


1t NAV have been, in the language OF
some of our friends, "bad policy" to
kill the men who were engaged i'll Or
panizing ruin and death in Red river
Parish, but we differ with them. Strict
Justice, like truth, is, in times llke
these, the best policy. If the world
condemns the deed, let those who fear
the Judgment of the world tell us what
the world has done to right our wrongs;
let them tell us what humane and gen
lie programme the world has proposed
which will give us relief from the
damnable despotism that is crushing
us in the dust? The sooner the world
finds out that the white people of this
state have been driven to desperation,
aud are determined to protect them
selves to the last extremity and by the
most desperate means, the better. me
ringleaders of the war in Red river
are dead. AS for our part, while we DO
not exult over their death, we have no
tears with which to bedew their graves,
and no censures to bestow upon the
men whose homes, whose lives, whose
wives and children were threatened,
and who struck n fierce blow upon the
apCressors. The eagles have struck
down their foe and swept away. Now
let the buzzards of radicalism squat
unon the carcasses, and scream, and
chatter and fiutter; their noise strikes
terror to not single heart in Louisi-
ana.
Year: 1874

The Courier-Journal, in an editorial
on the recent outrages in Kentucky
and Tennessee, shows what the effect
of these outbreaks will be in the fol-
lowing plain, forcible and truthful
words


No people, no party, could stand un-
der such load as the people OF the
south and the democratic party of the
north are forced to carry. Call 1t what
YOU will-the fruit of reconstruction,
the fault of the party in power, the in
evitable conflict of races, proclpitated
by bad theory of government, eXecu-
ted in vicious practice-the one effect
of the whole mess of violence Is Il con.
tinuance and reinforcement OF the OLD
preteXt by which the country has been
carried along the same baleful, parti-
san rut ever since the war.


There is no use writing, talking,
speaking, argufying, contradicting,
proving, as long as the bloody sum-to-
tai, recorded within the last fortnight,
goes out to the world unchallenged by
adequate redress. The Gibson county
butchery surpasses belief and, though
the governor of Tennessee has done his
full duty, the gallows can alone render
atonement commensurate with the
public expectation. 1t is hardly likely
that anybody is going to be hung. The
result will be renewed legislation, ad-
ditional radical enactments perhaps,
ultimately, martial law.


The fools are not all dead yet. 1t is
well to be plain. AS surely AS the
south begins to get Oh its feet do us
madmen proceed to kick the fat IN the
fire. The radicals only want preteXts.
The south supplies them. a war, or
the appearance of IL war, of races see ms
inevitable and that is itself third
term under prosciptive auspices. Ihat
is the road to the overthrow of the re-
publican government, but chiefly at
the expense of the south.


The New York World, than which
the southern people have no tirmer
friend at the north, suggests to the peo-
pie of the south the great necessity for
calmness and patience on their part.
1t says:


These plots will not have the desired
effect, if the northern and southern
Deople are made to know their real ORR
gin and purpose. The agonized shrieks
of the republican newspapers VIII
elicit laughter and contempt when
their readers become aware that Il
mere party trick is behind them.
While the people of the north are thus
giving the reports OF rebel aggressive
ness the little notice they deserve, it
behooves the southern whites to carry
themselves with all the patience they
can command through their present
trials. 1t will be an unwise course for
them to play into the hands OF the
northern republican politicians. If the
republican party is destroyed i'll the
forthcoming election they will never
be troubled again with the machina-
tions of these plotters. They can af-
ford to exercise self-control now, even
under the most eXasperating circum-
stances, for the sake of the relief that
a democratic victory will bring to them
in the autumn elections. We can safe
ly predict that if radicalism is wrecked
i'm November there will be no more
conferences at Hot Springs between
such desperate political gamblers us
Morton, Clayton and the deposed chiei
| Justice of Arkansas.
Year: 1874

THE Weatherford district conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, was held in Fort Worth last
week, and was presided over by the
Rev. Il. w. Hines, presiding elder.
The matter of most general interest
that occupied the attention of the con-
ference was the report of the commit
tee on temperance. 1t is very strong
paper, setting forth in eloquent Ian
guage the fearful consequences OF in-
temperance. 1t concludes as follows


Thus the very men we honor by oul
votes and patronage, the men III whom
we put our trust and confidence, and
whom we eXalt to positions of honor
and trust, become, by the force of theil
example and influence, our more than
mortal enemies by fostering and spread
ing and entailing upon society a habit
more fearfully fatal to life and to all
our higher and better interests, both in
time and eternity, than the deadly 81
rocco is to the marching caravan on
the desert. From the high and respon.
sible Office of president of the United
States down to that of the least con.
stable, as u general rule, the fearful
contaminating influence goes out and
spreads like II raging contagion.


Even judges on their benches, sit.
ting to try and punish crime produced
by this monster, will scruple not to
mix and mingle with the giddy throng
in the dramshops, and give to the fear
ful habit the sanction of their presence
and participation and official position;
therefore,


Resolved, That it is solemn convic-
ton of this body that every christian,
every philanthropist, every lover OF
peace and order, every good citizen in
all the country, should use all the influ-
ence of his character and of his posi-
ton in society, in church and state, tc
arrest the progress of intemperance
everywhere.


Resolved, That it behooyes the
whole people of this country in cast
ing their votes, to look well to the hab
its of all who ask to be trusted, and bt
sure that hereafter official position
shall not be used to tear down and de-
str0y the highest and best interests o
the people, but that its batteries shal
he turned about and used against thi:
! demon of darkness and death that i
now so generally favors and propa
gates.
Year: 1874

THE following is the substance Of
the resolutions reported by the COM
mittee on platform of the sulphur
Springs convention:


The committee reported, indorsing
the Austin state convention platform;
demanding n constitutional conyen-
ton; that the improvement of coast
harbors is of vital Importance to the
entire state, and urge an appropriation
by the general government for that
purpose; that it is the duty of the gem
eral government to give immediate
relief to the frontier, and of the state
government to do so, if relief is denied
by the general government; that the
administration of Governor Coke gives
evidence of high statesmanship and
fearless integrity, and especially com
pliments him on his financial policy;
jndorses Hon. w. 7. McLean's course
in congress, and recommends, finally,
to the state executive committee, the
adoption of the majority rule upon the
ballot being pressed.
Year: 1874

Fx-Secretary McCulloch has address
ed a letter for publication to number
of gentlemen in Cincinnati, the subject
thereof being the national finances.
In consideration of the intimate
knowledge of the subject derived by the
writer from his former official position,
and also in consideration of his very
great reputation as tinancier, the let
ter is deserving of the most careful Pc
rusal, and we regret that our limited
space precludes us from laying it in
full before the readers of the HERALD.


The views suggested by Mr.. McCul-
loch are substantially the same that
were enunciated by him in his official
reports to congress while secretary OF
the treasury. He thinks that it is the
duty of the government to get back to
specie payments at as early a day
as the same can be done, without
disaster to the business interests
of the country. This he proposes to
effect by fixing certain day in the
future when greenbacks shall cease to
be legal tender. In addition TO this
he proposes to retire fifty millions of
greenbacks annually, by the sale OF
bonds or by the use of the surplus
revenue, until they are all withdrawn
from circulation. In order to obviate
tie contraction that would follow this
withdrawal of treasury notes, he would
aRow the national banks to issue their
notes to the same amount. After a
short time he would allow free bank
ing. This, of course, would place the
national banks upon a specie basis, as
only the bills Of those banks that were
p-a pared to redeem their notes in spe.
cie would circulate at par.


The proposition to pay OF the FIVE


nty bonds in greenbacks is earnest
A. opposed by Mr.. McCullochi Is is
also the present protective tariff BE
faYors q tariff Tor revenue, and thinks
Year: 1874

THE democratic and conservative
state central committee of Louisiana
have published an address to the peo-
pie of toe United States, which, by the
manliness Of its tone, ought to COM
mand candid hearing, and which, by
the force of its statement, ought to
carry conviction to the mind Of even
the most prejudiced partisan. But it
will be like seed sown upon the rocks.
The mass of the people of the north
are obdurately deaf All that is neces-
sary is for their party whippers-in to
cry "kukluX," or "a new rebellion"
and at once their ears are closed as if
with cement against every sound that
is borne to them on the southern
breeze. All that we can do now is to
look with pity and contempt upon the
miserable Misrepresentation of which
we are made the victims, and to look
forward with hope to the day when
the tratl may prevail, and when we
may be seen and judged as we deserve
to be.


The address of the Louisiana COM
mittee concludes in the following man
ly and patriotic words:


In this emergency the people Of Lou
isiana appeal to their fellow-ctizens of
the union for hearing. They ask the
Judgment of an enlightened public
opinion. They assert their fidelity to
I the nation, but they spurn an odious
usurpation gnawing at the vitals of the
state. They respect and chccrlully give
obedience to the general government,
but they discriminate between the well
defined action of the government and
the fraudulent perversion of federal
functions by subordinate officers.


Conscious of the rectitude of their
purposes and the justice of their cause,
they are energetically enlisted in the
work of their political redemption,
and cannot be deferred from reclaiming
their heritage.
Year: 1874

ONE of the most gratifying pieces of
intelligence from the north that we
have had the pleasure of publishing in
many u day is the defeat of Judge Po-
land, of Vermont, for n seat in the
next congress. 1t would be impossible
to combine in one man more sectional
malignity and uns crupulous PARTISAN
ship than his record proves him to
be possessed of. He was the chairman
of the committee that investigated the
Credit Mobilier swindles, and manipu-
lated the testimony SO as to screen Col
fax and all his republican confreres,
except Oakes Ames, while at the same
time he hunted Brooks to his death.
He was the author of the infamous
gag law" passed at the last session of
congress. With intellect and culture
capable of rendering service TO his
country, he has prostituted them to the
service of rascality and oppression.
The Green Mountain boys deserve
credit for putting a stop to his lnia-
nous political career.
Year: 1874




THE Standard reports a rumor in
Fort Worth that the Texas and Pacific
railway company has offered to guar
antee the completion of the railroad
to that point by the first of January
next if the citizens of that place will
take thirty thousand dollars of Harri-
son county bonds at fifty cents on the
dollar.


The company is paying for the work
now being done between here and
Eagle Ford in bonds of Harrison coun-
ty, but the am cunt named by the
Standard is too insignificantly small to
be any inducement for building thirty
miles of road.
Year: 1874

The late DIR. Macadam used to tell of
a tipsy Scotchman making his way
home upon bright Sunday morning,
when tie good people were vending
their way to the kirk. a little, dog
pulled the ribbon from the hand of a
lady who was leading it, and as it ran
away from her she appealed to the
first passer-by, asking him to whistle
for her poodle. "Woman," he retorted,
with solemnity of visage which only
"A drunken man can assume, "woman,
this is 10 day for whistlin' ~
Year: 1874

Within the few past days gentle
man came to Dallas with the intention
of embarlking in his special line of
business. After a vain endeavor to
find a store house, he left for Austin.
His experience here reveals the fact
that of the many store buildings in
course of construction, not a single
one remained unrented. In every
case a lease was already signed at a
high rental figure,-lNorton's lntelli-
gencer.
Year: 1874

THE collector of customs at FL Paso
reported to the bureau of statistics at
Washington, on the 18th of August,
that there had been no rain at the
former place in three hundred and six
ty-five days. Vegetation was all burn
ed up and the cattle were dying of
starvation,
Year: 1874

that II commission might be appointed
by congress that would represent the
di, erse interests of the country, and
which would be able to map out some
schedule of tariff rates that would sat
isfy both the protectionists and the
revenue tariff men.
Year: 1874

No man can be wise on an
empty stomach.
Counter-6ts- -Ready-made
clothing


When a man has no mind
Of his own his wife generally
gives him a piece Of hers.
A Danbury man has brought
out a new vermifuge with the
significant name ofaThe Ear.
ly Bird"


When we read we fancy we
could be martyrs when we
come to act we find we cannot
bear a provoking word.


The sticky juice ofthe marsh
mallow root mixed in with the
finest chalk forms a cement
for onyx marble, ground glass
or pottery.


Moths may be kept out of
furs and woolens by wrapping
the articles in muslin. They
cannot eat through muslin.


Roman gold is the rage.
The new earrings are sol
id blocks of gold and the in
itials or monograms are stamp
ed on the side.


It is a good thing to hope,
but he who does nothing but
hope is in a very helpless
way.
Year: 1874

How TO Do Up SHIRT BosoMs.-We
have often been requested by lady cor
respondents to state by what process
the gloss on new linen, shirt bosoms,
etc., is produced, and in order to graft
fy them we subjoin the following recipe;
Take two ounces of fine white gum ar
abic powder, put it into pitcher and
pour on pint or more Of boiling water
according to the strength you desire,
and then, having covered it, let it stand
all night. In the morning pour it care
fully from the dregs into clean bottle,
cork and Keep it for use. A tablespoon
full of gum water stirred in a pint OF
starch made in the usual manner. will
give to lawn, either white or printed, a
look of pewness. when nothing else can
restore them after they have been wash
ed.
Year: 1874

1T was only one little word that
She could possibly have taken Of
fence at-only one little word | 40
not sec why she shou'i feel SO hurt. "


So said Kate to her mother, who
was roproying her ter having wound
Cd the feelings Of a schoolmatc BY
the sudden flash Of her dark eye, aud
irahk expression about the mouth,
one could easily conjecture that a
quick temper ana honest heart were
two strong traits OF her character,


The thought OF Intentionally hurt
ing another, either by word or action,
was never harborcl in Kate's mind
for an instant but, too often, led by
her ha,,y temper, she said and did
things that in calm flame OF mind
she would not have believed herself
capable or saying or doing.


! ha.l overheard Hates reply to her
mother, aud il made me think that
thus 1t Is with every one Ne place
so little value upon our words that
we often use them without at all
considering the effect they may pre-.
duce, therefore we fling them about
as we sometimes give food TO child.
rem, merely because they ask for It,
and we do not stop to think il it be
wholesome or not. Friends are ire.
vocable parted ties OF long dura.
ton are broken in a second: and
wounds are made which never, never
heal-al by little word.


Would you know the value Of
WORD !? Watch the poor beggar
child, as he pleads for pity hy the
wistial eyes that are turned up TO
you. lie knows that a word from
you can either give him food or send
him away starving.


See that weary old woman who
comes to!iering toward you she is
clothed warmly, aud you can correct.
ty guess that she Las plenty OF food.
Brt on her brow site sorrow, and her
heart Graves comfort and 81 mpathy.
Oh, speak to her gently; let the
word be soft and low, and let 1t bear
sweet Llam to the feelings OF the
aged mourner. You are not able 10
estimate the comfort a word can
give a sorr"wing hea,t.


Let us go to the courtroom, where
of agitated beings are
eagerly listening to the excited law
ycrs. Mark that little group yonder,
now that lawyers have ceased, and
the judge arises to give the terdict
of the jury see the mingled hope
and fear depicted upoa their faces;
ana especially not that young, manly
form; he is the accused one, caught
in the first violation Of the law
Look how he tries to seem calm, told
ing his arms while his tace--o b! it
betrays the agony Of bis soul. Will
the word be guilty or'not guiIty?'
Will his life end on the gallows, or
will he live to be The Joy Of parents
whose prayers for him have ascend.
ed SO often? It is only a word tnat
can give him lie or death.


Mortal lite alone hangs on that do.
cision, but there is higher court
than this, III which we must all stand
to be judged; and it may be We shall
be condemned for the wicked and
careless words that we have spoken
on earth. We will know the value
Of a word then.


Oh, words are precious things, and
they do not pass from our lips into
oblivion as we are apt to suppose. 1t
matters not whether the word heal
or wound the heart OF hearer, it
goes on, on, on, until, by mighty
wave, it is thrown up on tho great
Year: 1874

Will soon convince you OF its wonderful merits IN
curing this vile disorder; disease which when seat
ed. produces Consumption, from which there is no
escape; one little box of the German Snuff will cure
your Catarrh and then the foul matter will disappear
from your throat, and you will again breathe with
out trouble; in fact you will be cured and then ana
not till then, will you look like the following: