smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

DURING the seventeen years contine-
mcnt of this strange prisoner at Sainte
Marguerite, st. Mars, who brought him
To the fortress, was replaced by ,on-
sieur de Bonpart as Governor. The
daughter of the latter, just emerging
from childhood to Nomanhood, grew up
with this mystery around her She had
seen the graceful figure of the masked
prisoner promenading at night upon the
terrace and at worship in the chapel,
where he was forbidden to speak or un
cover his face, the soldiers in attendance
having their pieces always pointed to-
ward him if he should attempt to do
either. She discovered that her father
always treated him with the greatest re-
spect, serving him bare-headed and
standing. His table service was of mas
sive silver, his dress of the richest vel
vet; he wore the finest linen and most
costly lace. She had heard her father
accidentally speak Of him as 1.-THE
Prince" No wonder that his sad fate
occupied her thoughts by day and his
noble figure haunted her dreams by
night She. too was very young and
beautiful, and their eyes occasionally
met in chapel. She sang beautifully and
was a very skillful performer on the
guitar. Ii is said she climbed the rocks
under the castle terrace and sang sweet
songs to the poor captive. Thus a ro-
mantle love sprang Up pUIweru uI,uru,
and as it gained strength, the young girl
dared to purloin the keys from her father
and so obtained access to the pris-
oner. When the Governor discovered his
child's treachery he was struck with dis
may His oath was binding upon him to
put immediately to death anyone who
had spoken to the prisoner. But she
confessed her love for him and pleaded
piteously for her young life. The cap
tive also to whom the Governor was
much attached, joined his prayers to hers
and implored that they might be made
man and wife and then the secret would
be safe. The Governor was not stern
enough TO immediate his child, and per-
haps a CLEAN of ambition may have
flashed across his mind, as in the event
of the death of Louis XIV, the prisoner
would be acknowledged and his daughter
sit on the throne of France However,
their nuptials were performed by the
priest of the castle in the dead of night,
and all were sworn to secrecy. From
this union two children were born. A
whisper of this reaching the ears of the
Minister the Marquis of Louvois, the
prisoner was Immediately removed to
the Bastle for safer keeping; ard the
mother, the priest and Governor Gisap-
peared The children were sent to Cor
sica to be brought up in ohscurity under
the name of their grandfather, Bonpart,
which was corrupted into Buonaparte.
And thus, says the legend, Providence
avenged the wrongs of the twin brother
of Louis XIV. and restored the oldest
branch OF the Bourbon line to the throne
Of France -" Bdzaines Prison." Scribner
for Td1d0ru
Year: 1874

THAT TWO DoLLARs'-HOPE LONG DE-


FERREp


The little woman went into trade. She
sold the old newspapers for SIN cents.
The orange-peel speculation resulted in
failure. Nobody would buy.


Meantime "that two dollars, you
know" was drawn from the bank per-
force, to pay the washerwoman-a poor
old woman who needed the money, on
which Mamma Mullen felt sinking of
the heart, and was obliged to do that
sum about the Idyls," etc, twice over
before she could quite recover her usual
cheerfulness.


Also the dodge" though in splendid
working order, was so continually tripped
up and circumvented by the law" that
its Young inventor might almost as well
have spared the car-horscs the shame Of
their defeat The Christmas-rose will
be very small growth" they told each
other.


One-two-three-fou weeks Such
weeks The hours in them had feet of
lead and were lame besides. Darkest of
all came to be that hour known as the
postmans. No such heart shaking hour
in the year, as, if you are mullen per.
son, or like those who Joined David in
the cave of Adullam. and you are at the
crest of the wave and letter will tide
you over or dash you down into its CULTS,
you very well know. The Hour
quite overshadowed the Mullen family.
When it began, everybody grew nervous
while it endured, everybody started at
each tinkle or the bell and watched sly
ly out of window. When it epded-oh
the miserable blank: worse even than the
torture of suspense! and when the mem
ber from outside-who had been absent
eanwhile-returned there was another
trial. The vague expectation, the quick
glance at the table and into the faces of
the stayers-athome, the pathetic attempt
at Indifference on the part of everybody
and the determination of everybody to
show no anxiety, and to see none!-ah
let it pass! 1t is easig to write than to
witness
Year: 1874

DID you ever see him. If so, you saw
a queer old man, with many wrinkles on
his face, many burdens on his shoulders
and a mind which was never free from
trouble. Some folks seem marked as
victims of misfortune. Uncle Jack was
one of them. Had he been less brave
hearted he would have gone to his death
years ago. As il was, he fought poverty
and misfortune like giant driven to the
wall. He had no home for The last
dozen years. After his wife had been
laid away to rest he became street
wanderer, sometimes saving IA little
wood, sometimes in the hospital, but
never having one hours real rest or com
fort. The boys called him Uncle Jack,
and finally. when he crept into the Cen
tral Station to lodge, the police recorded
him by that name. There was some
thin% in his look which made one feel re-
spect for him, even if his gray hairs were
not enough. People sometimes gave him
money but Uncle Jack was not beggar.
He knew that he was old, and poor and
weak, and that charity alone kept starya-
tion away, but when he accepted money
he took il as loan, strangely hoping
that want and woe and misery would
flee away from him some day and for
tune again smile upon him.


For the last three or four wears Uncle
Jack had boarded here and there among
people almost as poor as himself, turn
ing over to them any gifts bestowed
upon him. Last winter was a hard win
ter for him, and once or twice he came
near going to the County House, but he
begged so hard and seemed to feel so
crushed at the prospect that he was al
lowed to remain in the oid track Of life
Age crepi upon him 50 fast last summer
that he became almost blind and bedrid-
den, and the other day fate administered
a last blow. Uncle Jack was brought to
the City Hall and given a ticket to the
County House. He had fought it off for
a quarter OF century, but poverty mad
triumphed at last, and the old man wept
like "a child AS he waited at the depot
for the train a few OF his old friends,
whose shillings had kept him clothed for
tSle last dozen years, gathered around
him and said good-by. His heart was
so full that he could hardly speak. 1t
wasn't right, he said, 10 make pauper
of an old man who had made such
long and such square night
against fate, and he wished that he had
flung himself into the river. It's always
sad enough to see any old man going tC
the poor-house-there were many things
to make Uncle Jacks going yet saddeT.'
The train went at last and the old mar


was crying as he bert his head down OF
| the back Of a seat Some of the passen


gers sympathized witE HIM and spoke
| kind words but he would not raise his
head One would not have looked fol
such sentiment--such sense of honor


IN such man IS Uncle Jack, but it wa


born in the heart and forty years Of
poverty and misfortune had not heater
il out.


Poor old man" sighed the passengers
and they wondered if their old age would
be like his


The train finally halted at the County
House station, and the conductor opene q
the door and said:
Year: 1874

To begin: 1t had happened a month
or two before that they found them
selves in possession of surplus two
dollar note. That is, of a two-dollar
note which need not be paid over at once
to landlord or shoemaker. This note
was deposited by acclamation in the
4" Sixpenny savings as a beginning
toward growing the Christmas rose
Henceforth the family leaned much on
it, and it often came up in conversation
as that two dollars, you know"


Then the three Mulleins had each a
little plan for growing a Christmas rose


Master Mullen invented what he
called the dodge" as this: There are
certain transactions in business so much
a matter of course that you are startled
to reflect on the number of persons who
earn living in these very departments
Who thinks how notes, bills and messages
get about? Yet they certainly don't run
on casters. as young Mullen, with his wal
let chained about his waist, might have
assured you. If you have an eve for
rosy boys, dare say you have seen him !;
and if you have observed him, arms up,
hands clinche d, running on sort of dog
trot, so as always to keep pace with
the car or stage in which you were rid
ing, why then you have seen the
" dodge" There are lines on which a
boy OF determination may keep neck
and-neck with the horses. On such lines
Mullen pocketed the fare and ran the
route. There are lines that defy the best
breathed runners" On these, as a boy
of honor, Mullen rode. He reported
Year: 1874

The English papers record recent
cases of the use of the lash in crlpinal
punishment, which were cruel but cfti-
cient. 1t is great mistake to suppose


that the whipping post is obsolete IL


Great Britain. At Manchester a report


er has interviewed a man who vas


whipped for robbery with violence, and


the proceeding was not "A pleasant one,


although calculated to inspire whole


some fear. The man himself is the mar


rator:


"1he first stroke went right across my


shoulders, ami it was something awful.


I'd never felt anything like it before, and


howled out sharp and roared as loud as


| could. Just where the lash went it


seemed to burn right into me, and the


skin felt as if it had swelled up and was


going to burst 1t went through me like,


and if hot iron had scorched me it
wouldn't have been half as sharp. 1t


was slow time, for ! counted thirty


before ! got number two, and that


came as sharp as the first. The doctor
stood close by and pointed out where
every stroke was TO drop, and the screw
| (warder) put it down just where he
! showed He was bad 'un, that doctor,
| for every cut was as bad as the others,
| and the pain was just like dying over and
| over again. The hardest pull was trying
| to make out where the next would drop.
The doctor would point, and waited till
] heard the whip coming and then L
would cry out louder every time. Some
times it would drop on one Of the cuts that


had gone before. | could have sworn


my back was as big again as it should
be, for after the cat was pulled sharp
back the flesh went after it and rose up
till knew | was bleeding, and that the
skin had burst. The blood ran down
into my trousers thick, no cheese (mis-
takel about it. How did it hurt me?
Why every now and then the cat Tapped
round my chest, and that was worst OF
all. 1t knocked me out of wind, my
| breath went as if I'd jumped into cold


water, choking like, and my mouth as
| dry as could be- I'd nothing to
chew, so hung on to the rings with my
/ hands as hard as | could, and this only
| pulled my chest across the wood and


made my back tighter. The last was as
! bad as the first, every bit of it, if not


trifie smarter, but | shouldn't have


minded if they'd laid it on quicker. II
was the slow time that licked me, and II
! I'd had the regulation three dozen L
think it would have done for me. It's
all stupid about not feeling it after the
| first five or six. Your back don't grow
dead numb at all, but only gets tender
as YOU get more Of it. Is there anything
else like lashing? Nothing that know
of I've had most kinds of knocking
/ about, but it licks all; there's no pun
! ishment comes anywhere near it It's as


bad while you're waiting as when you're
getting 1t, and both are smart"
Year: 1874




Hitherto | have introduced these peo-
pie as They" That was from cowardice.
Seldom has writer more Objectionable
personages in hand. The Mulleins were
three: mother, daughter, and son. |
have read recently that women without
money were very nearly in the position
of parasites" also, that "a woman's
business is to amuse and serve man. and
make his life agreeable, and when not
so engaged she is nuisance" The
mother and daughter in question were
without money, and there was no "man'
as an excuse for their existence; and not
even the entireness of love, in which
they lived with the Boy and he with
them, can altogether atone. | assure
you feel it; but then what would you
have? This is not Christmas story
but a story of aggravation.
Year: 1874

THtIH CHhIsINAs-FENEH EH


Now that you comprehend them, you
will not be surprised to hear that these
people, VINO were in want, had resolved
to keep Christmas.


And you will add almost of yourself,
that these are precisely the sort of peo-
pie who are sure to take the Christmas
fever, and to have it hard, and to whom
its wreaths and tapers and carols are full
of meaning and delicious charm-and
you would be quite right
Year: 1874

Come, old man, you get off herew


The gray head was still on the seat,
face hidden by the wrinkled hands, and
the conductor laid his hand on the old
mans shoulder, shook him gently, and
said:


Come, wake up, old man" One of
the hands fell down, the gray head
moved to one side, and the conductor
started back


He. is dead'' he whispered as the pas.
sengers crowded up


Uncle Jack had gone to the poor house
at last, but only for burial-Dtrott Free
Press
Year: 1874

because in the presence of good mediums he
had seen a well-formed hand, which belonged
to 10 living being, come up from under his
cl Ar and write message on slate which he
held on his lap.
Year: 1874

SOUTHERN INDUsTRI Es.-It is gratifying TO
observe from the reports coming in at the close
IF the present fiscal year, that our southern
industrial Institutions are, comparatively, the
most profitable in the country. The cotton fac
tories established since the war in the south
have proved that the fabric could be worked 10
more pecuniery benefit where il was grown
than in those portions of the country generally
known as the manufacturing districts. This
current of prosperity among cur southern
brethren has been running slowly but surely,
and we are glad to notice that most of the
Industrial corporations that launched out since
the war with small beginnings have declared
wholesome dividends upon last years opera
flows
Year: 1874

THE LoNGsHoRRMEN's SURRKypKR-The
formal surrender OF 'Longshoremens L Union No.
I, TO the steamship companies and the steve
union people in New York. While the conduct
of the men is severely criticized In some qusr-
ters, the more general disposition Is to consider
that they really had no alternative but TO give
up the fight. Nom union HANDS were Offering in
abundance, and persistence in the strike, there
fore, could only sesult in starvation or depend
ence upon charity.
Year: 1874

THB REPUBLICAN MEMBERS of the Senate
net in caucus this afternoon to arrange line
of policy TO be pursued, after the holiday re-
cess, with reference to what legislation is most
desired during the session. The question OF
fnaDce and southern affairs were the prominent
topics under discussion.
Year: 1874

after year. Other qualities Of timber
may be grown as easily and almost as
rapidly as the willow. But our great
and ultimately our chief stock of fuel
is as yet comparatively untouched.
We mean the brea, of which there are
several inexhaustible mines inthe val
ley. The gas works in this city are
using considerable amount of brea,
and few farmers are running engines
with it. Generally speaking, how
ever, the article is not used. In time
all of our steam machinery will be run
with bres, and we predict that it will
supercede coal wherever any consider
able amount of heat is required. In
point of fact, the valley is better sup
piled with fuel than it would be were
there no brea2 deposits and the noun
tain sides covered with timber For
culinary and other domestic purposes
the supply of wood is ample, and will
always equal the demand
Year: 1874

A great deal has been said about
Wilmington harbor-a great deal in
which ignorance, jealousy and disre-
gard OF facts were more conspicuous
than knowledge of the question dis
cussed. A good many people have
decided most emphatically that har-
Dor could not be made at Wilmington.
1t is true that these sapient gentlemen
do not know much about harbors nor
a great deal about anything else, but
they spend their opinions as freely as
if they We're based on thousand years
ofexperienee and million wears of
scientific study. The facts of the case
are very different from the complexion
put upon it by these enemies of Will
mington. Every days labor adds ev-
idence to the mass already accumu-
lated that an excellent harbor will
soon be completed at Wilmington.
The rapidly increasing business at the
port has caused the railroad company
to take steps toward increasing their
facilities for moving the freight which
passes over the wharf. The propriety
and expense of extending their track,
by means of wharf, from its present
terminus to deep water. The PROPOSE
ton was met by General BoscHKE,
who has Government contract for
excavating Wilmington Harbor, with
an offer to dig o channel fifteen feet
deep and of the requisite width from
deep water up to the company's wharf
for one-half the cost of building the
wharf. General BosCHKE further pro-
posed to keep this channel the contract
depth for one-half the expense of keep
ing the wharf in repair. This sort of
an offer from inexperienced engineer,
who Is now engaged in dredging in the
same quality of earth through which
the channel Is to be excavated, demon
strates that the work of dredging Will
mington Harbor is not difficult, and
that once the harbor is completed no
serious difficulty in the way of filling
up need be apprehended.
Year: 1874

THE suicide mania has again broken
out in San Francisco. The disease is
claiming victims who have money,
and they do not leave notes stating
that it was all for love. The phe-
nomena isspuzzling the savans and
anatomy students. Why men with
money and not in love should kill
themselves is problem that will not
be solved by those sojourning on this
side of the river Jordan. Impecuni-
osity and unrequited affection are
ample reasons for an immediate .shuf-
ding off Of this mortal coil and when
man has either one of them bad, he
may be excused for putting a period
to his existence by putting pistol to
his head; but when men with full
purse and whole heart do those
things, there is something wrong in
San Francisco.
Year: 1874

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The opinion expressed by the HER
AID some weeks ago to the effect that
too great a proportion of the money ap-
proprfated from the Treasury for the
purpose of aiding and assisting the
State Fair was used in making up
purses for horse-racing, is endorsed by
a number of otherinduential journals,
and it is more than probable that no
appropriation of this character will be
made from the peoples pockets by the
next Legislature. The argument that
the masses who contribute the funds
for slow and possibly often unfair
horse-races, derive very little knowl-
edge or amusement from the trials of
speed or the schemes for making the
horse lose on which the uninitiated
have staked their money, cannot be
controverted. Andthe other side ar
gument that a State Fair cannot be
made a success without speed pro-
gramme, is not proven to be true. 1t
is probable that the parties who make
the most noise and assume the control
and management of the State Fair are
more interested in the races than any
other considerable number who attend
the exhibition; but it is very proba-
ble that if this class did not attend at
all, the Fair would be equally success
full and more beneficial to the people
in general. We doubt very much if
the majority of the Taxpayers would,
if the opportunity offered, express q
willingness to be taxed in support of
a horse-race.
Year: 1874

THE Chamber of Commerce last
evening referred the petition of w B.


CALDWELL for an appropriation of
$50 to aid in surveying route for
wagon road between this city and
Panamint, to the consideration of a
special committee. We presume the
appropriation will be made and Mr..
CALDWELL directed to proceed at once
with the survey. From information
already received, it seems almost GER
tain that the route is practicable. Mr..
CALDWELL has been over the country
between here and Panamint a great
many times and he is confident that
he can find shorter and better route
and one on which there will be no
long drives from water to water. He
is man of energy and experience
and if our citizens give him the slight
assistance asked, we predict that he
will locate direct road to Panamint
which will be worth many thousands
of dollars to Los Angeles. S----2'-e
Year: 1874

We cannot endorse the opinion ex-
pressed by a correspondent in the
HERALD of last Sunday morning to
the effect that fuel will become an
item of considerable expense to the
people of Los Angeles valley. 1t is
true that we have no extensive forests
from which to draw, but it is also true
that timber may be grown easily and
rapidly in nearly every portion of the
valley. The willow hedges around
farms furnish large amount of wood
each year, and the stock increases year
Year: 1874

IT is mistake that CHARLIE De-
LONG it not candidate for the
United States Senate from Nevada.
He announces himself in the field and
expresses his determination to remain
there until the battle is over. CHAR
LIE is the ablest man of them all. but
talent has no chance against money in
Navada
Year: 1874

FRIED OYsTERs.-Use for trying the lar
gest and best oysters you can find. Take
them carefully from the liquor, lay them in
rows upon clean cloth. and press another
lightly upon them to absorb tho moisture -
Have ready several beaten eggs. and in an
other dish some crackers crushed fine. In
the frying pan beat enough nice butter 10
cover the oysters entirely Dip each oyster
first IN the egg, then into the cracker. rolling
1t over that it may become completely in
crusted. Drop. them cnrciully in the frying
pan. and fry them quickly 20 light brown.
If the butter is hot enough they will soon bo
ready TO take ont Test it by putting in one
oyster before you risk the rest. Do not let
them lie in the pan an instant after they arc
done. Serve dry, and let the dish be warm.
y chafng dish is best.