smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

carving. Poor Rubi caught the mer-


chant by the arm, bnt 1t was not bard


to shake off child SO def0rmed.


Then he put both arms around the
merchants legs 80 that he could not


free himself without hurting Rubi.


The merchant looked angry and the


Door boy released his hold and threw


himself fiat upon the grass with such


q sad and pitiful cry that the merchant
stopped to look at him. But 1t SEEM


ed as II the child's heart was broken,
and he did not even offer to pick up


the little copper coins the merchant


threw down before him. It seemed


as IL the last hope Of getting work was
gone, and all his dreams of helping to
support his mother were over. He
must always be the poor, helpless bur-
den that he had been.


The merchant was 30 touched by the
look Of deep distress on the face Of the
boy that be could not leave him, and
before he had made up his mind as to
what he should do, Rubi's mother
came up.


She confirmed what the poor little
cripple had said. Yes, Rubi had In
deed carved the work that was 60
much admired. The mother was 80
proud to hear her poor little cripple
praised that she raised him up tender
| iy In her arms andsaid: I" He will get
work to do like the workmen In the
great cathedral.u


"Oh, no, mother" he cried, nc
one will trust In me, no one believes
| In me only you, mother. I had thought
| to earn something to help you. But ]
shall always be q burden. The gentle
man spurned Ihe everybody hates me
| only you, mother"


He put his thin arms around hel
| neck, and - she held him her tears
mingled with bic, and abe wiped them
away with her rough, coarse hands
| f0r che had known hard work and
much trouble, thls poor Swiss mother,
and she W. the Fsvsrss Of Gay and
Year: 1877

Civilization and hunger are Incompatible.
All the virtues and graces of humanny-
certainly Of male humani,y-ny before an
empty stomach. Ii may be possible for a
man to be hungry and amiable AT the same
time bat it IS not safe for any wife TO presume
upon 80 unlikely an occurrence habtnally-
Ignorance of this physiological truth has been
the ruin of many an otherwise happy houses
mold. And we may set 1t down Eom both
observations and Xperences-preinising that
our experience in this respect has been ex-
cepIionay happy-that prcprandlal discretion
is the severest test of good wife. Just


before dinner is the worst possible time to


bother husband with questions or complaints,
or even with efforts 10 be aggressively agreea-


bic. Then is the time above all others when


social silence should grace the home, and


make it seem TO the tired man The most


delightful and restfu place on earth. Half


an hour of quiet Just then is the best possible


preparation for the social enjoyment Of the
.coming meal, for then the nervous tension and
mental strain of business care and anxieiy
can he gradually relaxed and the entire
system brought into conditions for enjoying
food and the amenities of social lie. let
how frequently does the wife choose that


particular time TO speak of her own trials and
troubles, the misconduct of servants and
| children. the petty requirements % the house
! hold or other things ;rIvai or di>aSreeaDie
! apd then marvel that her husband ; temper
| is not as sweet as il ought TO be! 1he ofiense


is worse even than the Introduction of such


topics at meaitime -Scieaiifc american.
Year: 1877

Viii some O. our Providence irien Is hold
the editor of the Conservative until he cools
off, and thus prevent his doing himself
physical harm! 1t is an exciting thing, we
presume, to have a "wee stranger make It's
appearance in family; but who wonId have
thought it would have suddenly developed a
poet? But just see how the Conservative
man sings:


A lite winsome wee thing


Came sguaIling in the night,


And closed our lrolc of the fourth,


With Joy and heart delight


A welcome little stranger,


To tax our care and love,


A precious priceless treasure,


A cooing little dove.


1t came with hearty welcome,


To greet its mothers gaze,


And for the distant future,


Give hope of happy days.
Year: 1877

A gentleman from Monotony tells a
rather interesting story about pair of
swapping turtles. He is an old plains
man, and a few days ago took his shot
gun ann went over ta Eagle Tail for the
purpose OF getting few ducks. Arrived
at the creek he found no ducks, bnt saw
two Of those great fresh water turtles
met with more frequently in Eastern
ponds than in Colorado, and apparently
weighing about forty ponnds each.
They are very shy bird, their heads
popping into the she'll upon the slightest
alarm, but being a good shot, the hunter
succeeded in binding both OF thcm
and hothering them so that they were
easily caught and dragged out. Snap
pcrs are very active, and unlike sea tur-
tie, being provided with long and strong
legs, can turn themselves after being
placed upon their backs. Their captor
had no way of securing them, and would
get only few steps away in the search
iCr piece Of wood out of which to make
stakes when his captives would he going
at turtle 2;4O gait toward the creek


The contest between instinct and reason
was kept up more than an hour and A
half, much to the disadvantage of reason,
at The end which time a ranchman living
near by came along and assisted the
hunter in taking the turtles to his home
Here they were Eeptin a shet ppen, hav-
ing a fence about three feet high, and
the men went to the house. A quritar
OF an hour ate ward the hunter went
70 the pen for his gun, and found that
the turtles were gone, As there were
no holes in the fence, as they had not
dug out, the conclusion was irresistible
that they had climbed over. The trail
was found, and about half mile away
they were caught making a bee line for
the creek. Firing off his gun, the ranch
man again came to his assistance, and
the turtles were again put in the pen
and tied to "a stake. They were worth
watching, however, and a few minutes
a'terward it was found that they had
gnawed of the rope and again started Tor
the creek They were only few rods
away this time, however, and were then
tied SO short that they could not reach
the cord, and ultimately arrived at their
'captor's kitchen at Morotony-- DcHrG'
Times
Year: 1877

from which visitors radiated in all direc-
tions. The St. John river in summer i.
one Of the most beautiful in the world
while the sail from Portland down al on
the coast Of Maine and through the bay
of Fundy is unsurpassed. The destruc-
ton of the business portion of the city is
terrible calamity it is like destroying
the lungs on which the body depends for
its vitality. The appeal Of the impoyer-
ished people for assistance is a strong
one, and is enforced, by every considera-
ton of sympathy and humanity. New
Brunswick ought to belong to the United
States, and St John should be the
eastern city OF the union Her interests
are chiefly American anl the kindness
Of our people teward her, in her present
extremity, will strengthen the American
feeling which is already strong in her
people,
Year: 1877

Never write with pen or ink. 1t is al
together too plain, and doesn't hold the
mind of the editors and printers closely
enough to their work.


If YOU are compelled to use ink, never
nse that vulgarity known rs the blotting
pad. If you drop a blot of ink on the
paper, lick it off. The intelligent COM
positor loves nothing so dearly as to read
through the smear this will make across
twenty or thirty words, We have seen
him hang over such piece of copy half
an hour, swearing like a pirate all the
time, he felt that good.


Don't try to write too plainly, 1t is a
sign of plebean origin and public, school
breeding. Poor writing is an indication
of genius. It's about the only indication
OF genius that great many men possess.
Sprawl your articles with your eyes shut,
and make every word as illvgibIe as you
can. We get the same price for it from
the rag.man as though it were covered
with copper-plate sentences.


Avoid all painstaking with proper
names. We know the full name of every
man, woman and child in the United
States and the merest hint of the name
is sufficient. 1t is a great mistake that
proper names should be written plainly.


Always write on both sides of the
paper and, when you have filled both
sides of every page, trail . line up and
down every margin and back to the top
OF the first page, closing your article by
writing the signature just above the date
How we do love to get hold of articles
written in this style! And how we
would like to get hold of the man who
sends them Just for ten minutes I
Alone! In the woods, with cannon in
our hip pocketl-Burlingto@ Ha'ctege.


Nashville, Tenn, according to a
Year: 1877

Great numbers of amusing little
tricks with handkerchiefs were in
vented aud performed by HOudin.-
One of them was very effective. He
spoke of the heat of the evening, and
put his hand in his coat-tail pocket to
get his handkerchief; wiped his fore
head with it, famed himself with it,
and then, slapping ii between his
hands, told 1t to go' 1t went. He
informed his audience it had gone
back to his coat-tail pocket, and, put
ting his hand back there, pulled IL out
again and again, on command, IL
disappeared before the eyes of the au-
dience. TO do this trick in small
room, right within fire of eyes and
opera glasses, required great rapidity
and neatness of hand, A cord being
sewed to the centre of pocket hand
kerchief, was passed up the right
sleeve of his coat and down the left to
his left wrist. around which the other
end of the cord was tied, the handker-
chief being pulled up the right arm
out of sight. The arms extended, the
cord taut, the handkerchief out of
sight. is the first stage of preparation.
Equipped in this way before coming
in sight of the audience, the juggler is
ready to put his hands behind his
back ss il to take his handkerchief out
of his pocket, but in reality to pull it
down from his right sleeve with the
aid OF his left hand. The string being
taut the arms were extended, of course
it is slack when they are helped up by
the breast or the back, and the hand
kerchief easily comes out some dis
lance from the sleeve; but stretching
4 ,t aferlN tinhtana 4 hl
string, and the handkerchief flies up
the arm like lightning. All this with
the hey! presto aud the hand-clap-
ping aud finger er-snappIng which al


ways lend their aid TO the amusing
illusions.


Houdin was the inventor Of that
trick by which q box is made 10 bo
either light enough Ia be lifted by .
child, or SO heavy the most robusi
man cannot drug il from it's place
HOudin knew before the Information
became very general that an artificial
magnet can be made Of a piece 0i iron
toy the aid of electricity. As long ~
the electric current circulates around
IL. the iron will retain its power al
attraction but as soon M the electric
current is cut of, the iron loses all ca
pability OF playing the part OF load
stone, In this manner iron mAy Dt
charged TO 10 great Rn extent THAT II
will hold another piece OF iron NJ
strongly that no human power can
Loosen IL. This was the principle OF
Houdin's heavy box, In the centre
of the little platform running down
among his audience, which all jug


yIers use. Houdin had an opening
/ made, in which was placed a powerful
electromagnetic concealed By The ligh'
Year: 1877

An unseen pencil paints the lissom leaf
The blades Of grass grow pale and droop and die !
While earns Of gold from their prote citing sheaf
Lean out to hear the north wind whistle by.
The spring tide music Of the luneful throng
In other climss now wakes the lazy sun
While lettering crows drop down their mocking


song


From NAKED tree-top and from clouds Of dun.
In laughing orchards blushing bou sbs bend low
And bid to teastng on their splendid freight;
And hill-toPs, waiting foi their crown Of snow,
Look flowing down on wales all desolate.
On wings of fame which spring from hearts ablszs,
Care takes his flight when fades tho short lived


day


And sweet contentment with her simple ways
Turns chill November into smiling May.
Year: 1877

currency. Ben Butler is very much
disgusted because he did not get on
the ways and means, Sunset Cox is
raving because he wRs deposed from
the banking and currency. Republic
cans generally are much better satiS>
fed with the committees than the
Democrats, although they charge
that the leading committees are
weak. Much of the criticism tonight
is hasty, and when members have
recovered from their individual dis
appointments they will probably be
surprised that Speaker Randall has
done so well as he has.
Year: 1877

We hrve one subject Of copgratula-
tion in the outcome of the recent can
vass in Dakota county. Our oppo-
nents had a great deal to say about our
vote last winter on the old railroad
bond question, and the speeches we
made last June in favor of the propos-
ed settlement. We stood up boldly in
defence of that vote and those speech
es, not batting hairs breadth of our
position; and the people of the county,
although they had given 400 majori-
ty against the proposed settlement.
returned us to the senate by an in
creased majority.


MORAL: The people do not expect
a representative to agree with them
on every local issue: all they ask is
that he shall he shall be honest in
forming his opinions, and bold in ex.
pressing them.
Year: 1877

Some good people over in Ireland
are astonished that a country like the
United States, which is not only inde-
pendent of foreign rule but is gov
erned by universal suffrage, should
ever experience 'hard times A
correspondent writing from near Cliff
den, Galway, says: 1--WE feel amaz-
ed at and deeply regret the present
state of affairs in your great republic.
We cannot properly comprehend the
precise cause. Can it be possible that
such state of things as we read of in
the Irish World could have been
brought about by your men placed in
power for the purpose of bringing the
Americans to the same degraded con-
dition we are in!"--Irish World.


God has given America all the
blessings that could be possibly crowd
ed into any one land. The curse of
the land is that it is ruled by cunning
selfish men, whose sole object is to
increase their wealth at the expense
of the multitude.
Year: 1877

Our profound gratitude is due to
the people Of Dakota county, who, in
the midst of political revolution,
growing out Of local and personal ques-
tions, have reelected us to the Office
of state senator, by majority about
twice as large as that which we re-
ceived two years ago. This result was
due simply to the fact that the ma
jority of the people believed that we
had been sincerely at work, in the SEN
ate, for their benefit. We shall take
new courage to press forward in the
work of reform.


All we ask Of our opponents is,that
they will watch our course closely;an
if we propose or advocate any meas
ure for the public welfare, that they
will give us their assistance in~the,
good work, without regard to1fM
quarrels or prejudices. ''Let tdead
past bury it's dead.'
Year: 1877

Germans:~ Arstop nominating
them for On~. onsistent in
something.


And, above all, try and rise to
higher level than bending all your
mighty energies to the crushing out of
one man,-the editor Of the ANTI
MoNoPoLIsT. In the first place lit
can't be did, and in the second place,
even it it could be, you would feel
ashamed of yourselves the next day!
And moreover it is dangerous to make
the policy OF great party hinge on
natred OF one man. If that man were
to die, or leave the county, your par
ty would have to dissolve. It's anima-
ting principle would have perished.
Think of that and tremblei
Year: 1877

Here lies man woman ruled


The devil ruled the woman.''


The same old story, Always the
blame thrown on the woman. There
haey been thousand women ruined
by men where one man has been ruined
by women. Woman is mans angel.
Whatever is good in human nature is
best in woman. There is no woman,
not Insane, who is incapable of good
ness. Whatever is beastly in woman
is mans work. That great master of
human nature, Shakespeare, when he
painted his worst woman. Lady Mac
beth. did not fail to show her eventu-
ally crazed by the stings of conscience
Year: 1877

Senator Morton is dead. A power
full intellect, vast ambition and inces-
sent industry. He commanded the
admiration of the world; but he laid
no claim upon its affections; he s'to
party gave up what was meant for
mankind" But his great services as
war-governor of Indiana will cast the
veil of a glorious oblivion over all
his shortcomings.
Year: 1877

The greenback ticket was not dls-
tributed in but two or three towns
outside Of Anoka. and yet in these
few towns with only one days work,
nearly one hundred votes were cast.
Judge from that what month s work
would have accomplished!-Ek Rir-
er Necs>


That's it. Give the greenback par
ty a fair chance to be understood by
the people and it will sweep the land.
Year: 1877

sense standard Of dollar. It is a
representative Of it There might
never have been a piece of money Of
the denomination of dollar. There
never was a pound sterling coined till
1915. Yet it
it has been the unit of British curren-
cy for many generations.
Year: 1877

70 THE EDITOR HERALD:-


In your article cheaper milk you have ev.
IDENTIFY been mislnformcd in regard to the price paid
to the farmers During TIE months of November,
December and to the 18th OF January they received
four cents per quart. On that date the price was
forced down three and halt cents per quart which
they receive. l would also state that mono OF
railroads running into New York are engaged In
selling milk. that branch OF the business being con-
Quoted by an unprnciped class Of men known as
spectators, who get skim milk consigned TO them
men below tho cost OF the genuine article Tho
farmers canno. anord TO sell milk Tor less than iour
cents per quart during tho winter months or three
cents per quart during the summer There Is not q
farmer in Orange county to-day who IL not losing
money, aud several OF them have decided to manu-
their milk into butter and cheese rnther than
continue to send IL TO New York at the present prices


NERllAS.
Year: 1877

CHICAGO March II, 1871
One OF the jury in the Sullivan Haniord murder trial.
Swan by name, arrested at the instance of the
State Attorney to-day, charge OF perjury, in swear
ing before accepted that ho had not expressed
or formed an opinion. The evidence against him Is
said TO DO strong.
Year: 1877

The career of the Industrial friendly


inn and Free Evangelist home" of St


Louis, is thus described bv a reporter OF


the Globe Democrat In he coOk-room


handling the pans and DOS, the reporter


found man who mighC appropriately be


called the ''Iau3 hing philosopher" so


merrily did he hum time to himself and


so heartily did he laugh during a con-


versation with ARCHER workman. He
had curious history. He had travelled
the world over. He had crossed the At
lantic sixty sight times and the Pacific
four times. He had been on le expedi-
ton to the north pole, had farmed on the
Nile and raised horses in Arabia. He
was a printer, and had made the first
English print in CoDstantirOple. lie
was telegraph operator, and had sent
the first despatch over The first wire that
went out from Cairo. He bad hunted
tigers in India. He was not only a
printer and telegrapher, but sailor JsOlcier,
preacher, draUghtsman, and teacher. He
had also travelled with a magic 'antern
show, and in a conversation with the re-
porter claimed to have been in London
with Artemus Ward, srd assisted him
in manipulating his ID .ic show. Two
winters ago he arrived in St. Louis, and
since then had learned the trade of
moulder and worked at it six months
age. subsequently he worked in
photograph establishment, and says he
could easily take pictures. Last summer
he worked as porter in dry goods house,
but when winter came his bad luck came
with it, and he could find nothing re-
to do. When the Industrial
Inn was opened he went there, and will
winter it through at this place, after
which he intends to go to India and join
an English regiment with which he
served, and from which he was honOrably
few years ago.
Year: 1877

The New York Medical Journal re-
ports this case: "The patient was en-
gsged in machine shop, and while his
hand was upon tie anvil of a trip ham.
mer, the hammer-weighing seven hun
dred pounds-fell. 1t 30 happened that
a file was on the anvil, and in this way
the force of the hammer was arrested
about half an inch before it reached its
bed When the hand was examined, it
was found that the whole palm was
mass of pulp. 1t was, however, placed
in hot water, and kept there for two
or three weeks, and then taken out and
dressed. In three months the patient
was fficiently we'll to leave the hospital,
and now-nine months after the accident
he is able to move the fingers and has
quite a useful hand. Bruises and in
iuries do much better when treated with
hot than cold water. The temperature
should be about one hundred and three
degrees Farenheit. Another case is re-
ported of compound fracture and dis
location of the ankle joint, in which the
proximal end of the first metatarsal bone
protruded from the foot. The dislOca-
tion was reduced and the foot placed
in hot water. At the end of week it
was taken out and dressed in the ordinary
manner. TIE foot is now doing well and
promises good result.
Year: 1877

There is hardly more pathetic sight,
when you think of it, than the little
shops that here and there put out their
modest signs on by-streets. They are
the utmest venture of poor widows, or,
at least, of poor women who have in
vested their trihing capital in the few
laces, buttons and ribbons which are dis
played as temptingly as possible in the
small windows. How few the customers
who enter and ask for these wares ! How
infrequent the jingle of the little bell at
tached TO the door Think Of it, and,
sometimes, instead of going to the great
bazar for everything drop into the lit-
tie shop around the corner" and ouy
your needles and cotton, your pms ana
tape, leaving more thanPence behind you
Year: 1877

forming they at once take up their seal
nets; and it often happens on the Labra-
dor that seals taken in nets sunk Fifty
feet below the surface are found frozen
solid when brought to the surface"
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier cures Syphilis and re-
moves Pimples and Humors on the face


Reasen should teach us that blotchy rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon ar internal
cause, and no outward application ever cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

A long way from here, in the South Sea-


rises narrow ridge out of the fathomless


ocean. Cocoanut trees grow on the ridge,


and little lizards creep here and there. Far
and wide no coast nor land. Who can tell
who built that ridge, and planted those
trees In the boundless oceanp All, It Is a
strange story, as there are so many in Ma
ture's book, Hundreds of years ago little
tiny, industrious insects called corals lived
there. They had many whims and fancies.
They did not like to build in the midst Of
the surge, and they died when exposed. to
sun and air. After they had built some
time they stopped, for they reached the
surface of the water, and were afraid
of sun and air. Then came an earth
quake, of which there are so many
in the South Sea- and the ground ssnk by
degrees, and the corals commenced build
ing again, and went on and on till volcano
convulsed the bottom of the sea, and the
reef was raised over the surface of the
water, and the tiny coral insects died.
The waves broke off bits of the reef,
and the constant friction ground them
into dust and sand A wave carried
stray seed, and it took root in the sand and
grew. Years passed, and one day large
wave washed an old trunk Of tree on
the reef. When 1t had lain there q
few days two little lizards orept out Of
it. They had travelled more than q
thousand mi1es, and had a very long sleep.
They made their homo in the roots Of
the cocoanut trees that had grown, mean.
while. out Of the seed. Soon there were
plenty of cocoanut trees and lizards on the
reef; and this is the story Of tho trees and
the little lizards.
Year: 1877

An old topper, who had lately attended
the Polytechnic, where the learned professor
caused several explosions to take place from
gases produced uuder water, said "You
don't catch me putting much water into my
liquor after this. had no idea before that
water was SO dangerous, though I never
used much Of it.