smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

The following is extracted from the New
York Herald of April 4: Yesterday Thomas
Richardson, volunteer visitor, found at No.


20 Baxter street (second floof) Mrs. Locke,
midde-aged woman, who was weeping Bit
terly. Being interrogated in regard to the
cause, she went to little pallet of straw,
and drawing down piece of carpet, she ex-
posed to view a little bony skeleton of a
child. 1t could not have been more than
four years old, yet it bore every mark of de-
Cay that old age is wont to impress upon the
human body. There were wrinkles where
there ought to have been round and bloom
ing cheeks; sunken. hollow, ack-lustre eyes,
where there ought to have been happy, smil-
ing orbs Every bone and muscle of the
little spectral child stood out sharply and
clearly defined, and in Il language stronger
:han words told a story Of starvation and
death. The little rag carpet fragment was
the only covering of the sufferer. The mother
knclt aboyc the waif thrown off from her
life and wept bitterly. In broken accents
she told of her husbands fruitless search for
work and her own sickness and her child's.
Then followed the brief recapitulation of
the steps down which she had descended
slowly to utter destitution, when there was no
bread in the house. no coal in the CRATE and
no credit for them in the wide. wide world.
Year: 1874

Looking at the complicated mechanism of
our bodies from popular standpoint, we
should say, perhaps, that the brain is the most
important part of us; but that would be a
mistake; not only the brain, but the stomach
and kidneys are less necessary to life than our
skin. Reflect upon this matter for moments
you can 60 without food for several days and
not suffer serious injury; your liver may cease
to act for week, and you can attend to your
business as usual; the brain may be paraly-
zed for months, and life goes on; but if the
functions of the skin are suspended for two
hours, death follows. Take dog or cat, and
dip the animal into melted paraffinc or talow,
so that the skin execretions and sccrctions
are suspended, and the animal will die almost
as quickly as if ten grains of strychnine had
been administered. The skin is most i'm
portant auxiliary to the lungs in the process
of &rati0n of the blood, and so intimate the
connection, or so similar and important are
its functions, that when death ensues from
skin 0bstructions, all the conditions resemble
those occasioned by cutting off air from the
lungs. More deaths from consumption are caus-
ed primarily by skin distractions than from
any original weakness or disease in the lungs
Thelungs are the first of the important organs
to be influenced by arrangements of the skin,
and they often become congested or disorgan-
lied through secondary causes.-Journal IF
Chemistry.
Year: 1874

CARBoLlC acid turns out to he deadly
poison to snakes, few drops being sufficient
to cause the almost instant death of the much
dreaded cobra. 1t has been proposed to sup
ply the inhabitants of India with large
amounts of carbolic soap; tho idea being
that as soon as the soap gets into general
use the cobra will find It almost certain
death to bite anyone, and it will soon come to
regard that amusement in the light OF suicide
and consequently will seek some other little
game with which to while away his leisure
hours
Year: 1874

There are no diseases so debiltating in their ef
fects upon the constitution the above, and none
more difficult by the usual modes of practice.
The FEVER AND AGUE POWDERS will effect o
cure in cases of the longest standing well as
prove preventive in the forming stages of the dis
ease. Being purely Vegetable, they act with GER
tanty on the disease, totally eradicatng it from the
system, and prevent return at any future period.


Why waste your money and health in trying every
medicine you hear Of when THoMPSON'S FEVER
AND AGUE POWDERS have never failed to cure
the CHILLS in any cases
Year: 1874

IT Runs LIKE A PRAIRIE FIRE DIR,
WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs runs like a
prairie fire. The fame of the Temperance
Tonic is, however, but poorly exemplifed
by this figure of speech for prairie fire
runs only in one direction, whereas the
reputation of the Bitters spreads toward
all points of the compass. There is not
square mile of inhabited territory in the
United States where this meritorious
preparation is not appreciated. If any
theoretical gentleman thinks he is prepar-
ed to show that there is nothing in it. !"
we advise him to go to the Prairie States,
IN the Mississippi Valley, to the deltas of
the Southern rivers, to New England, in
fact anywhere within the limits of ''Uncle
Sans real estate, and ventilate his views.
By so doing he can raise heartier and
more general laugh than has ever vet
shaken the sides of an intelligent people.
Persons who have been cured can't help
laughing at other people who tell them
that the medicine which saved their lives
is failure.
Year: 1874

DAILY RoUTINE.-TO those whose Daily
Routine is more or les imperatively dictated
to them by circumstances, it is matter of
extreme difficulty to secure those various
conditions under which alone the full
amount of nutrition can be got out of food.
And yet such persons form the overwhelm
ing majority of mankind What are peo-
pie TO do? They either must put them
selves in training" to borrow phrase from
the fstic brotherhood, or else, finding this
to be utterly impossible, they must en-
deavor to find something which will act so
far as substitute as to enable the system
to appropriate the nourishment which food
alone is capable of affording. Such sub
stitute is DR.. Gottlieb Fisch's Bitters A
wine glassful of this taken after each meal,
will enable man, in very short time. to
get from his food the proper nourishment
and will thus fit him to perform cheer
fully, nay, even joyfully, his DAILY RoU-
TINEl


This subject continued next week under
Mature Greater than Art.
Year: 1874

With all the facilities afforded the peo-
pie for transmitting money with absolute
safety, people will persist in sending money
in the shape of bank notes or greenbacks in
letters. Now, with all the chancesto which
a letter in the ordinary mail is exposed,
it is inconceivable that man would risk
the loss of his money in that way, when
there are three practically safe and secure
ways of remitting it:


l. By bank draft, which if stolen Is ol
no use to the thief, who will very seldom
run the additional risk of forgery anC
being identified. Such draft, however
can only be obtained in towns where banl
is established. .


. Ry a money order. This is absolute
" safe. the government being responsible
for the money. A money order, however
can only be obtained at money order OF
fees, but their number is now so grea
that the most small remittances can b
made in this way.


3. By registered letter. This is also
perfectly safe method Of sending money
valuables through the mails.


This idea we would like to impress upo
every man, woman, and child in the con
munity, Never send money in letter
. the ordinary way" 1t is not safe, and
i, money is lost there is no redress for ii
y sender.


Either buy draft at the bank, or


money order at the post Office, or ha'
. your letter containing the money registere
Year: 1874

Last evening (the 5th) about half past
six o'clock, Policeman Murrin found man
in the lower part of the city with quanti-
ty of harness which he had been trying to
dispose of. Suspecting that he was thief
and the property stolen, he arrested him
and took him to Jail and took possession OF
his plunder. This morning Stewart Dart,
of the firm of Dart & Gregg, identified a
considerable portion of the harness as the
property of that firm, it having been stolen
from their stable. rear Of their store. The
balance of the property is in possession OF
the City Marshal, who requests people who
have lost articles of harness to call
on him and look at it and iden,
tify it if they can. 1t is reported that the
thief had other property of this KIND III
his possession some days ago. which he
NAV have sold. The Marshal cautions peo-
pie against buying anything of strangers
without knowing who owns the property
The arrested mans name is Henry Cation
an Englishman who is recently out OF The
Iowa penitentiary, Hehas wife and tw'
children, who have lived in ttis city fo1
sometime, but they have not lived will
1 him for six years past.


The police of this city are entitled t


credit for vigilance and watchfulness. Yer
few crimes have been committed here dur


ing the last year, and credit is due t


Marshal Kimball and his force for keepin


the criminal classes constantly in check.
Year: 1874

1t is laughable enough to witness how
the Chronic Mudheod founders through a
column of his own figures to prove that
Murdock was a more economical mayor
than Davenport. He, of course, has to
guess at indebtedness-but even with his
guesses he will fail to prove that it is bet
ter to pay big taxes than small taxes.


The city clerk will soon make state
ment to the public, from the books, which
will be reliable He thinks the indebted,
ness on the 1st Of this month was about
the same as when Mr.. Davenport came
into Office, and that on the first Of March
it will be about $4,000 less.


In the meantime, let the Chronic Mud
head continue his effort to convince tn
people that they ought to elect somebod.
for mayor who will impose heavier taxes OIL
them. That is what he is trying to con
vince them they should do.
Year: 1874

Gradually the Republican press of the
country is coming to the late conclusion
that the Louisiana business is too
heavy a load for the party to carry.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says develop
ments have made it perfectly clear that
Uurell's midnight order was illegal, and
adds: ''The truth is that this business can
not be hushed up or talked down. 1t has
for too long time overloaded the Repub,
lican party The whole country is feeling
the disgrace of it, and every Republican
paper in the country which does not stick a
triaes in defending the Administration de
clares that these Louisiana frauds must b.
unloaded. We think it quite safe to sa.
that no party could long sustain them ant
live but if they are removed, as we hop'
they will be, the country and the RepubE
can party will be better for it.
Year: 1874

Most teachers have noticed an indisposi-


ton on the part of parents to comply with


requirement which is made by the Com


mlssioners in their by laws and which


teachers find very desirable in properlv


conducting their schools, viz: "In case of


absence pupils must bring notes from par
ents explaining the cause of the same.''


After some cogitation and considerable
observation we have arrived at the conclu-
sion that this does not arise so much from
neglect or disregard of the regulations and
wishes Of teachers as from the fact that in
most cases there is no excuse to give or
one which is SO trivial as to be not worth
The task Of "trumping up'
excuses is not pleasant one, and to state
the exact truth would give the teacher
more enlightenment than they deem desir-
able. Imagine an urchin presenting a
note like the following: "Bobbie didn't
want to go to school this morning, and 1
was busy and didn't want to have a fuss
with him and so | let him stay at home"
"a hCIO w iillc IlOlUO 10 go q SDOOI
'f thread" For our own part all we ask
S that parents signify to us their children
we're absent with their knowledge and con-
sent. The excuses, explanations, &C., are
lot interesting to US as they may all be
'esolved into formula something like the
ollowing: GO have a greater regard for
ny own present convenience and the whim
If my children than for their future well
are and happiness" We cannot well ask
more than this as parents in this country
unfortunately, in some instances have
he privilege Of doing with their children
s suits them. The evils of attending
chool irregnlarly are so palpable as to need


o discussion and we will only say that to
How children to habitually neglect the
usiness of their youth is to give them
abts and training that will be more than
kelly to cause them in maturer years to
eglect the business Of their lives.
Year: 1874

Better to wear calico dress without
trimming, if it be paid for, than to owe
the shop-keeper for the most elegant silk,
cut and trimmed in the most bewitching
manner.


Better to live in a log cabin all your own,
than brown stone mansion belonging to
some one else.


Better to sit by pine table for which
you paid three dollars ten years ago, than
send home new extension black walnut
top, and promise to pay for it next week.


Better to use the old cane-seated chairs
and faded two ply carpet, than tremble at
the bills sent home from your upholsterer' S
for the most elegant parlor set ever made.


Better meet your business acquaintance
with free don't-owe- you-a-cent smile,
than to dodge around the corner to escape
a dun.


Better to pay the street organ grinder
two cents for music, if you must have it,
than to owe for grand piano.


Better gaze upon bare walls than pic
lures unpaid for.


Better eat shin soup from earthen ware,
if you owe your butcher nothing, than to
dine off lamb and roast beef, and know
that it is not paid for.
Year: 1874

incSease of the alcoholic disorders must
tion of all which are unaffected by this


agent. man may be saved from pneu-


monia or acute rheumatism, not because


alcohol antagonizes such diseases, but be-
cause it kills him permaturely. He can


die but once. Therefore, though under


alcohol some forms of disease are compare


lively infrequent, we must use much eau


ton in concluding that it has directly


preventive influence. Nevertheless, it may


be laid down as an axiom that any drug


which can do harm can do good. Disease
is most various, and may. or rather must,
represent contrary conditions. 1t may be
positive or negative, Plus or minus. Too
much or too little of any of the shapes of
heat, food, and work may spoil the equi-
poise Of health. If a drug promotes one
change it may prevent its opposite. Alco-
hol certainly gives an asthenic type to
disease; although we cannot as yet say
with certainty that it defibrinates the blood. |
yet it retards adhesion and plastic process
ses. This Influence may be beneticeut if it |
hinder the development of acute inflamma
ton, and obviate the formation of coapula
where, as in acute rheumatism, that action
is harmful. 1t is possible that by some
such antagonism to the asthenic and
tibrous type of disease, we may explain
the remarkable paucity of endocarditis in
the alcoholic series. But, at the best,
The protecting is less certain and less effec-
tive than the deteriorating influence.


In brief and final enumeration, alcohol
replaces more actively vital materials by
oil and fibrous tissue; it substitutes SUD-
for new growth; it produces case.
ous and earthly change; it helps time to
produce the effects of age; and, in word,
is the genius of deneneration.
Year: 1874

We are in full sympathy with the views


OF CA Protestant as expressed in the


last issue of The Whag We, too, think


there is something wrong where Mission


established in our midst by the church of


Rome, for the purpose of inculcating her


peculiar doctrines and extending her do


main, meets with such marked success.


When the thin disguise of this ancient
enemy to all education, progress and lber-
ty, enables her so readily to gain the conf
dence and support of the community.


We think there are seoeral things wrong,
but the one thing we wish to speak of here
is the want of suitable school buildings.
Our Public School House is a standing dis
grace to the town. If Elkton were town
Of ten or fifteen years growth, standing on
the Western plains, she would have
school building of which, her citizens
might be proud. As it is she has miser-
able eye-sore, inconvenient, uncomfortable
and without facilities, which is filled to
overilowing, while more than half our
cui!uIen are receiving instruction (otten-
times inadequate or injurious) elsewhere.
Many of our citizens have voluntarily ex-
pressed willingness to contribute hand
somely toward the erection of school
building, and we think that our County
School Board, land especially the member
for this district owe it to themselves and
to this community to at once commence a
vigorous agitation of this subject. And
we hope that our citizens Gall of whom are
will meet them half way with
sympathy and assistance SO that hand
some, spacious and comfortable school
building may be assured to us before the
year 1874 has gone the way of his prede-
cessors.
Year: 1874

chestnut ring, scarcely continuous above;
underparts and space Immediately anteri-
greyish brown; speculum greyish tipped
with white.


Female has the black replaced by brown;
sides of the head and chin adjacent to the
bill whitish; white ring around the eye.


Length, IS inches; wing s; stretch Of
WINGS 81.


This is not an exceedingly common duck,
although numbers are shot every year.
They appear to be more plentiful in the
spring, at which time they fly in pairs or
in small punches of from three to five;
they decoy well. The white marking on
the bill fades soon after DEATH
Year: 1874

Poor thrice turned garment with


Thy threadbare air,
Can I thy faded form


Again repair?
Turn yet once more thy we'll


Worn narrow skirt,
Now fringed with specimens


Of city dirt?
Can thy ruffles change


To pleatings wide,
And cover up the stains


On either side;
Give thy close sleeve


Graceful, easy flow,
And piece it so that


Nobody will know?
Thy shabby bodice can l


Then restore,
Aud shape the trimming


A la Pompadour
Thy overskirt loop high


With careless grace,
O.. Yet hide with cunning the


Oft-mended place?
Goddess of Fashion, at whose


Shrine we bow,
Lend me thine aid, sadly 1


Need it now.
Inspire my hand with skill


To turn the stuff,
And make the scanty pattern


Seem enough.
And when l wear il,


Howsoe'er feel,
Grant I may look


Exceedingly genteel.
Nav all the beholders think it


A new gown,
And me the best dressed lady


In the town.


From Demorcst's Monthly
Year: 1874

-One night last winter young Mullen of


New Castle, who feared that the lady he


loved was entertaining another admirer,


determined to climb tree in the yard from


which he could see into the sitting room in


the second story, where the young woman


was supposed to be. Just as he got him


self fixed in a comfortable position COM


manding the window, some one on the in


side pulled the curtain down. Then Null


len made up his mind to descend. 1t was


very dark, but just as he began to slide


down the trunk, Mullen heard dog bark


furiously beneath, and looking down he
saw huge animal capering about ap-
parently very eager to nip Mr.. Mullen's
leg. Then Mullen suddenly climbed up


the tree again, and endeavored to drive
the dog off, but the more he spoke to the


brute the more it danced around and bark
cd. Then Mullen came down as low as he
dared, and tried to coax the animal, but
this only made him hop about and howl
more furiously than ever So it became
apparent that Mullen would have to snend
the night in the tree. He fixed himself rs
comfortably as he could in a crotch of the
limbs, and kicked his legs and moved his
arms to keep himself from freezing to
death. Several times when he thought the
dog was asleep he attempted to descend,
but each time the brute awoke and began
to caper about. By the time daylight ar
rived Mullen was so benumbed with cold |
that he could hardly use his hands: but as |
the sky grew brighter he leaned over to
examine his prosecutor, and to his amaze
ment found that it was his own dog, which.
unknown to him, had followed him to the
tree and had barked and capered only to
express its delight at the prospect of Null
en coming down and going home. The
'uddenness with which Mullen reached the
ground is said to have been remarkable.
and the language used by him bad. He
las some Of the rheumatism which he GOT
IN that night in his bones yet.
Year: 1874

- The Country Gentleman gives the
following prescriptions of correspondents
for the relief Of frost bites:


eff II. X. will soak his feet in water as
hot as he can stand, increasing the heat by
adding hot water as long us he can bear it,
he will find relief from the itching and
burning caused by chilblains.''


"If Eros. Bites will take one tablespoon-
full of laudanum to a medium sized tum-
bier of water, wet a cotton rag OF cotton
batting in it, and bind it upon the frosted
spot when going to bed for few nights,
he will be cured. Remove in the morning,
of course. Oiled silk outside the bandage
will keep it moist all night. Warm water
is best, although causing more pain and
swelling at first


" Give the feet thorough rubbing and
drenching with warm salt water, for sew
eral nights previous to going to bed, and |
think it will effect cure-if not, repeat
the trial, and then use the soldiers motto
in regard to his powder-keep the feet drv.
week in and week out, or, if you must wet
them, do it with cold water when you first
get out Of bed in the morning, and wine
them dry. and your feet will be warm
through the day


:" would advise as remedy for FROST
bitten feet, that when they begin to itch
he remove the shoes and stockings and hold
the foot where it itches to the fire. so that
it feels almost hot enough to burn; then
the foot for a few seconds and
expose it again to the heat, until the itch
ing ceases, which will be in the course of
ten minutes; then anoint with salve, in
case the part frost bitten is sore, infamed
or tender''
Year: 1874

Editors would save world of trouble
and vexation if all contributors, or those
who desire to become contributors. under
stood how to prepare manuscript designed
for the press. The following rhyming ad-
vice is so excellent that we quote the whole
of it for the benefit of whomsoever it may
concern:


" Write upon pages Of single size,
Cross all your ts, and neatly dot your is;
On one side only let your lines be seen
Both sides filled up announce a Verdant


Green.


Correct-yes, correct-all that you write,
And let your ink be black, your paper


white;


For spongy foolscap of a muddy blue
Betrays mind of the same dismal hue.
Punctuate carefully, for on this score
Nothing proclaims the practised writer


more.
Then send it Off and. lest its merit lack,
Enclose the postage stamps to send it back:
But first pay all the postage on it too,
For editors look black on six cents DUE
And murmur, as they run the effusion Ger,
A shabby fellow and a wretched bore y
Yet ere it goes, take off a copy clean
Poets should own copying machine:
Little they know the time that's spent and


care
In hunting verses vanished-who knows


where?
Bear this in mind, observe it to the end,
And you shall make the editor your


friend"
Year: 1874

eS No wise teacher will ask or allow a
class to attempt anything in which failure
is almost certain. A single failure estab-
fishes a bad predecedent, the effect upon
pupils is somewhat similar to that produc-
ed upon horses by allowing them to sue
camb to the weight of their load 1t is
apt to make them baulky.
Year: 1874

IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THE BODY OUT
of the doorway of the dwelling before a
portion of the sides of the door frame was
cut away. Some time after taking up
their abode in Mount Airy they purchased
a second plantation about two miles from
he first, and erected dwelling upon it, to
'vhich Eng removed his family, Chang's


mily remaining at the old homestead.


was their custom, and the plan was
yer departed from, of spending
Year: 1874

which was in the centre Of the band, and
it is supposed that there were two unbili-
cal cords branching from this, one extend
ed into each body.


The connecting link was found to be the
ensiform cartilage and was as