smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

was in an idle mood that even
ing. Indeed, it was an evening in
which to be idle. No one could
have felt like work, with the
drowsy tinkle of the sheep bells,
the sight of the cows lazily chew
ing their cuds, the sound of the
birds twittering among the
branches of the trees, and the
broad face of the sun laughing
good night as he slowly went to-
ward his bed. The little village
was sleepy enough at any time,
lying in among the farms and
meadows, but more so than ever it
seemed to me as lazily strolled
along toward my friends house. l
found him seated on O rustic seat
under a large tree in the front yard,
holding his handsome three year
old boy on his knee.


"Good evening"" he said, making
room for me beside him; 81 am
very glad to see you. Tonight is
an anniversary with US"


"Indeed T. / answered, "I was
not aware of the fact. Anniversa-
ry of your marriage, l suppose 9"


"No; of what made us free to
marry. / have been telling the
boy about it, that is, what he could
understand and be interested In.
Look at him, Harry, old fellow"
he said, tossing the boy up and
down on his knee. "Isn't be hand
somel Say you are proud Of your
namesake."


/ answered what had already
been said dozens Of times, and add
ed that should like to hear the
story myself-,be part i could be
interested in and understand.


"As to that, perhaps you would
not be interested in any of It, bu,
wife and ! think IL better, or o.
more interest than any story w
ever heard or read. The boy seeml
to be weary. I think he viii cud
die down and 60 to sleep. Lii
down. Harry boy" he whispered
gently. papa win tell Uncle Harr,
the story"
Year: 1877

Now, | was not in the least re-
lated to the child, but my friends
persisted in calling Inc "Uncle
Harry" and / did not in the least
object, though | must confess l
could not see all in the boy that
his fond parents did, but that, as
every one knows, is not singular
thing. 1 could not help feeling,
however, in my bachelor heart, as
I saw my friend draw his boy up
in his arms preparatory to his nap,
and look down on bis rosy, smiling
face, with the brown curls about it,
that there was something in the
world l had missed some way.


$50 you wantthe story" he said,
pushing back the curls from the
boys eyes. "Well, if it proves dry
to you, it has enough of interest to





me to compensate for it.


"Do you remember to have heard
of flood in Denver City five years
ago-five years to night! No ?
Well, it is not at all strange. In
this time of newspapers, when
everything large and small is re-
ported, it must he great calamity
that can be remembered five years
by the simple reading of new
paper report; but we who were in
it are not likely to forget it.


"Denver was at first built in a
ravine, Cherry Creek, it was called,
though there never had been water
in it from the time the town was
built until the flood, and there has
been none since. had been there
but a short time. / had just be-
gun to practice law then, and had
gone there in hopes of building up
with the town.


can old man called at my Office
one after noon and said he wanted
to see me at his house that evening,
some papers to be made out, oil
something that he wished done
privately, and which needed the
signature of his wife. l was glad
enough to have anybody call for
me, for l was about discouraged,
and at the hour he mentioned
went to his house.


"He was a surly old fellow, no
given to sociability or wasting
words and we at once set abou
business. When the papers were
finishsd he said he would call in hi,
wife, and stepping to a door, open
ed it and called: Susie !!


"That name called up a pictur,
of a sweet-faced girl / bad dream
ed about a year or so before, ant
when she appeared in answer to hi:
call, it was the very same,
wouldn't pretend to tell you how
felt; 1t doesn't do for q married
like me, with n fathers responsi
bility," and he looked proudly dowr
at the boy, now asleep in his arms
"to be spoony over his old low
affairs, but l can tell you l bat
about as hard work to appear un
concerned while being introduced
to her as I ever had to do anything


"There was the very girl I hat
loved, but had been too bashful L
her, and here she was married
TO this sour old curmudgeon. |
she cared for me / could not tel
any more than I could when I hac
known her before. Women ar,
trained to hide these things from
girlhood up, aud thcy do IL till l
comes TO be second nature to them


"Ip ten minutes more she woul'
Year: 1877

A tramp came down the dusty
road and sat down to rest on the
steps of house in a quiet village
street. Through the windows
voices of a man and wife in violent
alteration were heard, and the
tramp listened intently. Angry
words and occasionally sound Of
something thrown came to his ears
and he could hardly sit still. At
last, evidently, the wife had taken
O broom, and the blows fell fast
and furious. Our tramp could
stand it no longer but rushing
round to a side door darted in, and
stepping between the loving pair,
cried in husky voice: "Give us
q clip or two with the broom, old
woman; it seems just like old
times" No matter how much we
wander, the old home feeling will
get us once in a while.
Year: 1877

had caused it. They supposed a
lake had burst its bounds upon the
mountains, and the water rushing
suddenly down the empty bed of
the creek, had swept over all the
town except the houses back on
the bluffs.


"a regiment Of soldiers, station
ed there, were ordered out to search
for the dead with the citizens who
escaped. The work was carried on
for days, but in all the search moth
ing was ever found of the old man,
though the search was kept up
long after the water had disap-
peared."


He had the heart disease, and the
shock had killed him. The doctors
had told him he was liable to die
any moment, and that was why he
had begun to arrange his business
that night when he had called me.
His money being mostly in the bank
and not yet invested, was swept
away as was its owner, and whether
he was washed out into the river
or buried deep in the sand, we
never knew.


"Susie and I were married quiet
ly, after proper time, at the house
of friend who lived up the bluffs
far away enough to escape, and
then we came here. We never
could feel at home in that section
after that. There she is now"


A pretty little woman appeared
Just then at the door a short dis
tance off.


"She is afraid Of the dew, / sup
pose, for Harry takes cold very
easily" looking down at the rosy
checked boy still asleep in his arms.


won't you come in ~


"No, thank you," l answered. I
wasn't aware any other man had
been as big a coward as l, and 1
think l won't wait for the food"


"Good luck to you, old fellow"
said he, with a quick understand
ing of my meaning. "Susie has
had your case under consideration
this long time, but ! told her it
would come out all right"


l wondered then if he had told
me his story to set me to thinking,
and l wonder yet. / walked on
across the village to little cottage
where lived dear girl, Lucy,
I whom l had secretly kept in my
heart for months.
, Never mind what / said or how
said 1t; but there is little woman
with her hand on my shoulder now
: looking out of the window and
begging Husband Henry, pu'
down your pen and look"
/ look, and see my friends Fred:
boy, a handsome little fellow, lead.
ing our toddling little Susie down
, the walk.


"Arn't they cunning9 Was ev-
er anything sweeterl" asks my
wife. "Who knows but they'll
make a match some day 7"
Sure enough, who knows.
|
Year: 1877

We admonish our taxpayers that time is rapidly gliding away, and it will not be much longer until the penalty for non-payment will at- tach. It is therefore well to bear in mind that all those who failed to meet the collector at the different precincts and procure their receipts for the taxes of 1876, can yet have the privilege of paying at the Col lector's office at Dover, any time prior to the twentieth of April, without penalty or costs.

 Do not put this matter off from day to day, but attend to it at once, and be done with it.
Year: 1877

To the Editor of the DEMOCRAT:

 After time has somewhat molli fed the indignation created by the fraudulent counting in a President of the United States, let us see if we cannot find some cause or causes naturally leading to result so much to be deplor

 ed. To the pernicious idea that "all is fair in politics" is all our political troubles to be traced. Within my recollection the time wastaat men were expected to act honorably in politics just as in anything else. And why should it not be so? But that it is entire ly different now is lamentably true. At every stage of the po- litical game, from the call of the primary election till the last vote is counted, deception, trickery, duplicity, fraud, falsehood and double-dealing run riot. In for mer years, before 1 came to this State. I obtained such an insight into the movements and plots of politicians as were never dreamed of 20 or 30 years ago. l took considerable interest in politics, and in view of what l saw in a small way l was not astounded at the unblushing efirontery of the Louisiana Returning Board. I saw the action Of Q Democratic County Central Committee con trolled by. a Republican (the vote being s to ' believe the excuse of the recreant member being that the Republican referred to was q good customer of his, and he did not like to offend him. At primary elections men shameless ly vote twice, and many times oftener, when in truth they had no right to vote at all. Delegates to conventions are often stupefied with liquor and their proxies taken from them and unblushing- ly used by others. Forged prox- ies are not unfrequently used by designing men to force their way into convention, where they hope to accomplish some selfish end. In the battle born state of Nevada-the land of silver bricks "a Democratic paper, owned in part by the Chairman of Dem ocratic State Central Committee

 and edited by ranting Democrat who aspired to the nomination ot Attorney Genera. by the Demo

 cratic State Convention, openly espoused the cause of a Republi

 can of immense means who wa: seeking seat in the United States Senate. The change il the tone of the paper fiom tho most ultra Democracy to the mos

 enthusiastic Republication wal made without any change in edit or or proprietor, but the Chair man of the Central Committed never met with that body after

 wards. and the claims of the Dem

 ocratic editor of Republican paper were never submitted tt the State Convention. Just SC long as men are not held to strict accountability for their con

 duct as politicians will politics b, corrupt. While the idea prevails that "all is fair in politics" W, ! may expect no improvement il the conduct of those entrusted with the management of politica
Year: 1877

SOME of the California papers have been
urging the division OF the state on account of
its extreme length and the inconvenience of
reaching the capital (Sacramento) from the
southern portion. The opponents of the
project claim, however, that as the popula-
tion of the state is less than eight hundred
thousand, three hundred thousand of which
are IN San Francisco, and three hundred
thousand within a radius of two hundred
miles, there is 40 pressing reason for incur
ring the extra expense TO crafty the wishes
of a minority.
Year: 1877

THE Great Eastern steamship is in the Mil
ford docks undergoing repair. She is having
two iron masts placed in her instead of wood
en- ones. The hull of the ship is as good as
when first launched. The offers for the en-
ployment OF the vessel are principally for
bringing cattle from America, for which she
is well adapted. If $4,000 can be raised to
fit her with modern engines and boilers, she
would be able, in the opinion of the directors,
to carry goods across the Atlantic at a lower
price than any vessel afoat. At the annual
meeting of the company owning the vessel
the accounts showed balance of eS,347 to
the credit OF revenue account, but it was not
thought advisable to declare dividend until
the steamer was employed.
Year: 1877

SECRETARY SHERMAN is reported to have
said 10 an ex-representative from one of the
southern states, who called on him in regard
to obtaining an appointment to federal Of
flee, that it would be the policy Of the new
administration to appoint none but native
born southern men to federal offices in the
Year: 1877

FEARS are expressed in some quarters that
the Republican majority in the Senate is be-
coming SO small as to endanger its control.
But they are premature. For the next two
years Republican ascendency is safe. The
result of the election then to take place can
not be foretold. Besides, these calculations
classify as Democrats some men from the
South whose Democracy promises not to be
of the most vrulent type, and who are quite
likely to be liberal in their action. These are
revolutionary times.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communl
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all ca es Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve cOmmu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

fit should become necessary, in your
Judgment, to make reduction in salaries,
you are at liberty to begin with that of the
Mayor, and make it what you consider just
and right. The old officers, holding over,
will, trust, cheerfully submit to diminu-
ton of income in common with the great
majority of their constituents, during these
times of business distress, and the new COM
ers, burning with ardor to serve the city in
various capacities. will, no doubt, be willing
to take the chances of lower rate of COM
pensation than has heretofore prevailed. l
apprehend we shall be able to run the NUM-
cipal machine for the year without the occur
renee OF strike on the part of the operatives
by reason of cutting down the wages.


This, however, may be remarked in regard to
salaries of city officers on the whole they are
Year: 1877

of honest trade. When you buy DooLBY's
YEAST POWDER, for sale by all erocers, you
get perfectly full weight, just as marked on
the cans, and beside that an article made of
the very best and purest material, 20 that the
strength can always be trusted.
Year: 1877

do to prove worthy Of the trust conGded
to him. Under present circumstances he
will need and should receive the indul..
gence Of the public until he has a chance
to get things into an improved condition
at Morgantown. This is now the great
necessity laid upon him. After that he
will have better opportunities to show
what he can do a. an educator and disci.


plinarian.
Year: 1877

New York SUM-


The disastrous Brooklyn Theater
and the st. Louis Southern Hotel
fires, which have occasioned the
loss of so many lives, naturally
enough ill the whole people with
dread at the apparent insecurity of
hotels and theaters in case a sudden
conAagration breaks out. The
question arises, can any plan of
escape be adopted whereby this ter
rible loss of life may be ayerted /?
The above mentioned fires origi-
mated in the lower or ground floors
of those buildings, and the people,
of course, sought egrsss down the
stairs (if we except those who
leaped from the windows), which
means of exit were already shut off
by the sheets of fame and dense
smoke which assembled to the upper
floors or galleries Of the building.
The idea has long since suggested
itself to me that in occurrences of
this kind particularly so in the
case Of the hotel which occupied
an entire block), in order to provide
against loss Of life, theaters, hotels
and lecture halls should be provided
with strong iron bridges suspended
across the street to an opposite
building. After the Brooklyn
Theater fire, suggestions were
offered and acted upon with regard
to making places Of amusement
more secure from fire. but no one
suggested any improvement on the
present mode Of escape. If an iron
bridge was constructed from the
upper tier of the Brooklyn Theater
and another from a hall room win
dow Of the Southern Hotel to a
building or platform opposite, how
many hundreds Of valuable lives
would have been saved and as many
homes made happy? ANY of the
present modes of escape are abso-
lutely worthless, because if a rush
takes place and all means of escape
are cut off the victims will have to
suffer death by fire or jump from
the windows. If the proper authori-
ties do not insist on some such
means of escape as above set forth,
then let the people only patronize
those establishments where security
Of life is assured.


THOMAS J. BRosNAN.
Year: 1877

BARRIERS often assert that razors get
tired of shaving, and that they will
perform satisfactorily if permitted to
rest for time. 1t has been found BY
microscopic examination that the tired
razor, from long stroppiog by the same
hand and in the same direction, has
the ultimate fbers Of its surface or
edge all arranged in one direction, like
the edge of a piece of cut velvet; bat
after months rest these fiSers rear
range themselves heterogenously,
crossing each other and presenting a
saw-like edge, each fiber supporting It's
fellow. and hence cutting the beard
instead of forcing it down fat withous
cutting, as when laid by.
Year: 1877

the contract with B at maturity.
Suppose the market declines to 45
cents before A orders the corn to be
resold. In that case the margin is
exhausted, and B calls on A for more
money to protect the trade, because
G will call on B to protect the con-
tract in the same way.


If A thinks corn will decline, he
may order b to sell for delivery in
July. He may order B to either
buy or sell wheat, pork, lard, or oats
iustead of corn, and to make the
transaction for any other month than
July, or for the whole of the current
year, if he wishes. The principle is
the same in all cases. A contract is
made to receive or deliver, at a GER
tain price, certain quantity of a
named article at some time in the
future, and a. sum of money is de-
posted as security that the person
making the trade will perform his
part of the contract within the time
named for its performance.


Another point generally lost sight
of by parties outside the Board is
the fact that prices advance or de-
cline as the number of buyer or sell
lers preponderates. The news that
Russia has determined to make war
on Turkey is flashed over the CON
tinent, and 500 men think simulta.
neously that it is good time tc
buy. Each sends in an order to
purchase, and there are few sellers;
hence the price advances rapidly
Two or three days afterwards, &
dash of peace news is sent over the
wires, and all these men send in or.
ders to sell; the market declines
rapidly under the weight of offer
ings. The commission-merchant
here has nothing to do with the up
ward or downward movement II
prices, except as he is obeying the
instructions of his client. Yet that
client will excitedly berate the Chi
cago Board of trade as pack OF
gamblers, ignoring the fact that ht
is the real gambler, if any there be
and that he has lost his money be
cause too many other men were
similarity affected with himself at
the same instant.


Of course there is a good deal O
trading on Change that is no bet
ter than gambling; but it is alse
true that no small part of this buy
ing and selling for future is just a
legitimate an operation as is tht
purchase of a barrel Of flour fo
home consumption.-CAi. Zrib.
Year: 1877

His father was preacher who lived in Southwest Texas. As boy he was very quiet, and gave no evidence of the terrible passions which in after life made him thirst for blood. When almost six cen years of age, and while the State was under military rule, q darkey on his fathers plan tation provoked him and he shot him. For this he was arrested and placed under guard of some soldiers, who started for Huntsville with him. AS he was only a boy they did not watch him very closely, and at night lay down to sleep. Hardin arose in the night and killed every one of them. This outlawed him. His next act was the murder of Jack Helm, out of which grew the Sutton and Taylor troubles, Har- din siding with the Taylors. His father and brother got mixed in and were taken out and hung in Western Texas. From this
Year: 1877

THE French Freemasons have long been divided upon the question as 10 whether d belief in "The Grand Architect of the Uni. verse" should be dogma of the order. At the recent Masonic convention of France, the second clause of the constitution which ran thus: " Freemasonry holds to the princi- pie of the existence of God and immortality of the soul, was altered by an immense ma- jority to Freemasonry holds to the p1in- ciple Of an absolute freedom of conscience, and to the brotherhood of mankind It excludes no one on account of his belief
Year: 1877

SEA Snakes have of,en been reported from the Gulf of California by sports, who have ventured out few miles from the mouth of the Colorado river. For some distance out in the salt water are occasion ally found numbers of snakeS-far from land. They are evidently los: or hare been carried out by the river currents On thrusting an oar out to them, they grate- fully wind themselves around it and seem glad to take rest. Drawn aboard they quietly curl themselves up in the apathy of exhaustion. They evidently belong to 10 tl1e land or at least to the waters border ing upon it, and know no more about the sea, than does an average Secretary of the Navy. Some rise in the river washes them out, to sturve or drown when they can no longer keep themselves aflOat
Year: 1877

THE humblest can do something toward making their local paper interesting If yOu cannot run away with another mans wife, or bea defaulting bank clerk, you can at least step on water melon rind and sprain your leg.
Year: 1877

To TAKE RUST OUT OF STEEL.-Place
the article in a bowl containing kerosene
oil, or wrap the steel up in soft cloth
well saturated with kerosene; let it re-
main twenty-four hours or longer; then
scour the rusty spots with brickdust. If
badly rusted, use salt, wet with hot
vinegar. After securing, rinse every
particle of brickdust or salt off with boil
ing hot water; dry thoroughly; then
polish off with clean flannel cloth and
little sweet oil.
Year: 1877

PEACH JELLY.-For a table ornament
nothing is more elegant. Dissolve in
sufficient water one ounce of isinglass 4;
strain it, halve one dozen large peaches
and pare them; make syrup of one
pound of fruit sugar and half a pint of
water. Into this put the peaches and
kernels; boil gently for for fifteen min
utes, then place the fruit on a plate and
cook the syrup ten minutes longer; add
to it the juice of three lemons and the
isinglass. A pyramid mould is very
pretty for this. Fill part full of jelly,
and when set, put in one-quarter of the
the peaches. Place on ice and let it
harden; add more jelly, harden, ETC.,
until full. Let the base of the mound
be Jelly.
Year: 1877

To KEEP TOMATOES FOR WINTER
UsE.-As the tomato season is now here,
1 contribute one way for keeping them
for winter use that may be new to some
of your readers. I ate them in February,
sliced and seasoned with sugar and q
little vinegar, that seemed every way as
nice as tomatoes picked from the vines.
They were preserved in the following
manner: Dissolve teacup Of salt in
gallon OF water. Pick ripe tomatoes,
but not over ripe, leaving little of the
stem on. The tomatoes must be we'll
covered with brine, and they will keep
till spring or over.
Year: 1877

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understand our principles and doctrines, and
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afford out OF mere curiosity to do, would be a
sure method of becoming fully informed con
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