smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

We extract the following Neither
landish sketch from a late English pa.
per. 1t is q Dutch scene, whose word
painting is quite after the Dutch mans
ner-most minute and faithful. The
quaint, picturesque canal life is admir-
ably described:


Barge life on the Dutch canals is q
curious study. When young couple
marry, and cannot afford house rent
and other expenses Of life ashore, they
take to q life on the sewer wave. They
buy, beg, borrow, or rent barge, and
pass thesr time carrying slow nerchsn-
disc up and down the canals. Brown
earthenware pots, cucumbers, and mel
ons, are favorite sources Of income.
The barge lies close to the street you
can easily step in and out and make
your bargain. When cucumber falls
into the canal the trader will stop bus
iness, and spend twenty minutes
or more to spear it in the filthy
mud and fish it up. This is Dutch
thrift. I wonder who buys these
dropped cucumbersl One end OF the
barge is often tastefully fitted up like q
little house. Painted green and white
outside, the windows hung with clean
white blinds, trimmed sometimes with
q colored ribbon. Inside there are two
or three compartments, a fireplace,
paper on the walls, and a carpet; and
there is many worse place for q
honeymoon than the inside OF snug,
clean and commodious barge. On feast
days the barges are deserted, and every
one goes ashore. 1t is curious how
fond all Dutch people seem to be OF
walking around the streets. We doubt
whether any one is ever run over in
Amsterdam; there is nothing but an
omnibus or two to run over them.
High and low, young and old, towards
evening, especially on Sundays, en-
erge in troops-family troops and so.
cial troops; late at night, alas noisy,
conviviai troops. They 60 to the mar
ket, they 60 back again; they 60 down
one side OF the Roken, and up the other
side. Then they crowd into the streets
full of fashionable shops, and crowd
out again; but the crowd is almost al
ways decorous."
Year: 1873

ST. LOUIS, June IA passenger on
one Of the incoming trains this morn
ing brought word that the horse thief,
Brady. taken from this city by the dep
uty sheriff Of Franklin county on yes
terday, was hung BY vigilance COM
mittee at Pacific City early this morn
ing 1t SCENE that the deputy sheriff
;s Chairman of this same vigilance com.
mittee, and that upon the arrival OF the
train at Pacific City, q number of men
were in waiting. and they took Brady
from the deputy and hung him TO q
tree One OF the horses stolen by Brady
and recovered in this city, belonged to
the the deputy sheriff, and Brady, when he
left the city said, u know you are tax.
ing me where your vigilance committee
csn get at me"
Year: 1873

The address delivered last hiSut py


Rev. l.. B. CARPENTER before the trus-
tees, teachers, and pupils ofthe Wheel
ing Female College, presented, with
that eloquence and force and beauty OF
expression for which the lecturer is
noted, many thoughts which deserve to
be considered BY hundreds whom the
voice of the speaker could not reach.
A prominent idea in the address related
to the character and scope Of the edu
cation that should be given to young
women to fit them for the
duties that have already devolved
upon the sex and for the
probable duties OF the future. An "ac.
complisbed' young lady, in the ordina.
ry acception OF the term, is, as Mr..
CARPENTER says: "a perfect blank IN
this busy, striving, pushing world"
What is needed for women is more
practical educatiou-an education tha,
will fit her to earn her living aud make
her way in the world. Such an educa-
ton as will render a woman indepen'
dent and self-supporting is the demand
of the age.


A wonderful progress has been made
in the matter OF female education even
within the memory OF men who are not
vet old. A dozen of occupations In
which women may now earn an honest
and honorable livelihood are now open
where there was one twenty years ago.
The field and opportunity for remuner.
ative female labor is widening almost
daily, and we believe that the old notion
OF caste which forbade lady from earn
ing the bread she ate or the clothes she
wore, is being rapidly broken down.
The education OF women should ut
them for the severer duties to which
they will ere long be called.


What sort Of chance to escape the
alms.house or prison would that young
man have who came from college with
the mere smsttering of so-called "ac-
mplishmeats' that make up the sum
total OF female education in some OF the
most fashionable seminaries Of the day,
and then relied upon his education to
furnish him the means Of living? II
women are to be considered the equals
Of men in all departments OF industry
and in every sphere OF life, as many OF
them now insist shall be the case, it IS
necessary that they receive the same
education, and in the same departm ents
OF study, that is considered prerequisite
to the graduation OF Young
man st any OF the leading colleges OF
the country. Then, just as young IN en-
DO, they will find that their Intellectual
training has fitted them for many em-
ployments that they never thought OF
while at school, and in which the
technical knowledge acquired from
their Textbooks is OF little avail.


Alter all, the whole end and aim OF
the educatiops impaired by the schools,
whether male or female, should be
simply to give to pupils that mental
discipline which will enable them 10
throw away the textbooks and apply
the knowledge they have gained.
Year: 1873

TuRy ABOUT Is FAIR PIAZZA friend
suggests that as the Governor has been
for some time trying to take charge Of
:he Peuitentiary or Asylum, that Row
they take charge OF him for awhile; but
the trouble arises which institution is
entitled to the honor.-Wsston Dcmo-
erdf
Year: 1873

Oxs Of the most touching cases OF
generosity with which we are familiar,
was that of our friend Crumm, OF lndi-
ana. His wife secured divorce from
him, and announced her intention Of
marrying again. About six weeks
before the wedding Crumm accidentally
shot himself in the leg, and the doctors
were compelled 10 amputate the limb to
save his life. As soon as Crumm got
around again he extracted the bone
from the excised member, and hsd it
worked up into handles for q dozen
fine table knives which be gave to the
late Mrs. Crumm foI bridal present,
and the remainder was turned into two
gross double eyed suspender buttons,
which were inclosed with congrstula-
tory note to the groom. These instsn-
ees OF unselfish devotion are as rare as
they are beautiful.
Year: 1873

not hereafter ho enacted to enrich Tho few 1t the a.
panAe Of tho many.


WORK OF THE GENITAL COMMITTEE,
Tho Central Committee bud hold three meetings
within tho year and tho work Ut thu officers had 1ee
Year: 1873

to return soon, and then a silence and a
neglect.


Since then they had not heard from the
recreant lover, if Iecreant he was. 1t was
not 50 great a fault to leave them, but TO
give no word, to give no recognition OF
that hospitality and cordiality which had
been awarded him when he was guest at
their home-this was not true gentle
mans course, and both the father and the
daughter felt it to be beyond their compre-
hensiou.


"You are weary with waiting, are you
not T. queried the Colonel, as he heard his
daughter sigh, weariedly. Perhaps we
had better enter in doors.


''Oh, no The night is so beautiful, and
our guest must surely be here in a short
time. She is to arrive by the earl eve
ming train at Belletown, and We may ex-
pect her soon"


HAS the carri age been sent after her T.
queried Colonel Adams.


eyes, some two hours ago"


Miss Durand will be an accession to the
guests whom we expect. 1t is not uni
pleasant to make friends this early upon
our return to Virginia"


shade of doubt crossed the features
of the young girl as she witnessed the evi-
dent anticipatory pleasure which her father
experienced in his allusion to their ex-
pected guest. She knew that he was the
very soul Of honor, and man who would
be easily impressed by the wiles Of those
with whom he was brought in contact. She
did not care to allow him to bestow upon
others the love which she 50 desired.


''We shall be very gay for season and a
bright time will be expected.


There is the carriage T. said the Colo
mel. as the carriage wound gracefully up
the road to the door in the pale moon
light. ''lt is our guest.


Their guest, indeed, who with a smile
and kiss for Myrtle, came before them as
beautiful and bright as ever. Beatrice,
the peerless adventures, who, as she saw
the Colonel and bestowed upon him her
hand, in clasp which sent the blood thrill
ing through his whole being, passed on to
her room, a triumphant glad smile upon
her fair face, and the murmured words


II come to conquer come to be
queen. 1t is the crowning opportunity Of
my life, and | will improve it to advan-
tage -


(TO Re CONTINUED
Year: 1873

which to her was enjoyment after the
tragedy at Acton as before, had not changed
\ in these three years. She was as magnif-
Gently beautiful as ever,-ss lovely and Al
false. The loss of her husband, endowing
her with quite a sum Of money, had moi
left any impress upon feature or mind. In
I a giddy whirl Of excitement she had given
herself over to pleasure and enjoyment.
Foreign countries had been visited, and
her companion and tool, Vane Evelyn, had
I accompanied her in her wanderings in the
search of enjoyment and oblivion. She
had now returned to America again, with
her means all expended, and her name
among the members Of fashionable society
mentioned only as that Of woman too
dangerous to patronage, and too beautiful
to associate with. She had no intention
Of again fraterniz.ng with those who had
known her in years agone, however but
had determined to seek new society only
among those who were ignorant of her past
career.


Nane Evelyn, who bound to her in the
ties Of the closest friendship and fidelity,
had been her attendant in all her foreign
wanderings was her companion now at her
return. He was the same reckless. care
less gambler, but the complete tool of his
pensloner She was not a woman to give
him an unfair advantage of her, and it
was not i'll Nane Evelyn's nature to at
tempt to domineer over will so much
stronger than his own.


Touching at Havana, they had sailed
from thence to New York on the steamer
Nereid, and had, in the short trip from
Cuba to the American metropolis, formed
the acquaintance Of some half dozen per
sons, among whom were two who became
oh lects Of the most unremitting endeavors
upon Miss Nernon's part to please from
the first


These parties were a gentlemen and his
daughter who were returning by steamer
from California, and who like many others
tell under the charm Of Miss Vernon's 5
beauty, the gentleman finding in her su-
perb conversation and evident intellect a
congeniality which he manifested by being
very much in her presence, and a friendly
esteem for her.


The young lady, too, found winning
companion III the beautiful woman who
was the object of the admiration of all on
board of the vessel She was pleased with
her many little tokens of regard, and when
the ship landed at the wharf in New York,
Beatrice Vernon was the invited guest of
her newly made friends to their home in
Virginia.


And 50 it was, that few weeks later Be
atrice Vernon, under the new name of
Beatrice Durand, started for Myrtle Villa,
the splendid Virginia residence of the re-
turned miner. Col. Adams, and his daugh-
ter. Myrtle.
Year: 1873

you fail 10 do 60 shall look upon him appointed by
yo since you now have chance TO remove him !" They
proved nothing against him. but kept crying "Croker,
Croker Crokerl They accused him of" going back" on
party and appointing who we're not its friends
When asked il he had appointed men who were unfit or
unworthy, they could only reply: "You don't appoint
our friends" Mr.. Havemeyer said that the war had
probably Just begun. AS pubcpirited citizen and as


Republcan he regretted this but he was not respons'
BILE for IT,


The Mayor was asked II he knew anything OF public
meeting which was said to be under contemplation for
the present week. for the purpose OF sustaining him in
his position He answered that he had only seen an In
cdental auson TO it; he thought it would be prema-
ture it would be better TO allow the Ring TO show its
hand fully before general attack was opened He
thought that before very long there would be lively
times and the would be an open one. He would be
found In the ranks Of the people, contendng for reform
Year: 1873

WHAT THEY NEVER HAD


tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNBl


WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-Gen Buffers salary bill. in ef
feet offers members of Congress bribe Of $1,000 each
70 vote for IT, The increased compensation of the Pres
dent. Cabinet Ministers and Judges of the Supreme
Court Is begin the Ah Of next March, but the SVV
year added 10 the salaries Of Congressman Is inue W
back the beginning of the present Congress- TWO
years ago. The object Of this extraordinary provision
Is 10 secure the votes of the outgoing members
The mover OF the bill makes no eoncealment OF
this There are nearly hundred members who
10 ont Of Office at the expiration OF the present Congress
Why should they vote raise the pay OF Their suCces
sors and of their lucky coeaguesi How easy ior
them To get cheap reputation FOR Vrtnous econ
amy by making a vehement opposition to the bill, II
,hey are not let in share OF the punder With
what a show of Indignation they would denOunce a
measure that pat no money into their pockets. The
Ehrewd members Of the Judiciary Committee under
stood this very wen They knew that their bill would
rot live an hour the House unless the increased pay
was given TO members Of the present Congress. With
this provision they count on securing every one OF the
members who 60 back to private life on the th Of March
Six thousand dollars apiece in greenbacks is no small
temptation TO these gentlemen, who are looking sorrow
fully forward 10 the approach OF the day when hey
are % be cut of from their hold the public treasury
With the solid vote OF these outgoing members the Dill
be passed without the support OF the more tmu OF
% reelected who want TO vote for it, but afraid Of





present salary OF a Congressman is munheent sum-
The increased pay OF the President Wce-President,
Judges and members of the Cabinet aggregates but a
ooluparatiyely small sum- but the proposed addition OF


5000 year 10 the salaries Of Senators and Representa-
tives Will increase the annual expense Of the Govern
iDent S952,00o


The Committee think that 100000. may be deducted
from this as a saving be effected by substituting Tor
the existing mileage allowance the payment of actual
travelling expenses and by aboshng the stationery and
newspaper perqmsites. That is probably an overest-
mate The principal for the Increased pay is the
abolition Of the franking privilege. Members are
making extravagant estimates OF the amount OF postage
they will have 70 pay their public documents and
correspondence but the most liberal calculations sup
pesiBg that just many documents VII! be
printed as heretofore, do not bring the postage
up TO $1,000 year. The average mileage Is
less than $780, and the stationery andsnewspaper allow
Ances amount 10 $50 year. To compensate for
an increased expense Of about 81 800 year. it is pro-
posed therefore to add 5000 to the salary The propos
non 10 make the so back two years utterly
lndefense The members have had the free use OF the
malls all that time and have drawn their mileage and
rerQnstes To take nearly two millions from the Treas
ury and divide among them account OF privileges
and perqustes to hereafter, would be nothing less
than public robbery
Year: 1873

MAYOR HAvEMEYER IN EARNEST IN OPPOSING


THE NEW RING-THE COMPROMISE WHICH


HE INDIGNANTLY REJECTED.


TRIBUNE reporter questioned Mayor
Havemeyer yesterday In reference TO the rupture
tween himself and the Custom-house Ring. The Mayor
said that he did consider himself indebted TO any
ring for his election had the candidate OF
form, and had been chosen by the people, whose inter
he intended TO protect In working for and wi tn
the people he did consider chat he liable TO the
accusation OF being demagogue, for he had nothing
ask IN return He was asked II the rumOr was
correct that he had been informed by
the Custom house Ring that charter would
be passed giving him full power of appointment II he
would name the OF their choice. He answered that
he had received no such notification In formal way
but had been told that such would be the He had
doubt II he would desert Controller Green, they
would give up everything else. He would not do this
however; he believed that reform meant something be-
yopd name, and that the work Of the last two years
ought be undone by the establishment in power
OF Ring as dangerous as that which had been over
turned Between Tweed and Bliss there choice


There had Ibeen great cry about reform, but they
seemed TO think that it meant the spolls OF Office and
this was all they struggled after Grant, Dix, Have.
meyer-all meant spos certain class OF politicians
who seemed TO that they carried the party their
shoulders- They overestimated their own power and
underestimated that OF the people. They would get
Presdent Grant into trouble before his term closed
Civil Service Reform in their platform, and
Of their campaign cries; and that Gen. Grant
making practical application Of IL In the appointment
OF Benedict to the OF the Port they opposed
him. The politicians thought that they had elected
Grant, and should therefore control him the
trary he had carried them through.


The Mayor said that II was very curious that for IS
years past he had been in fight of some sort all the
time THIS was very dstasteful to him. He didn't like
han ade nm hia mil tn xzha
nght he couldn't help sticking 10 1t at any cost.
Hseer In regard the charter he said had aston
and startled the Ring, but he knew what he was doing
when 10 wrote IT, He thought there we're otheripro-
visions In the charter which needed examination: and
he va, giving them careful study for tho purpose Of
exposing any hidden iniquities there might
be. Tie Ring were troubled about his appoint
OF Croker as one of the city marshsls, and had
brought oil sorts Of vague charges against
him. he had said TO them, only the other day
e" Gentlemen, make your charges specific. and prove
suem Ald he shall not remain In ofaoe three hours n
Year: 1873

The Special Committee Of the House, of which Judge
Poland IS Chairman, met this morning. and held secret
session Of two hours, during which the evidence was
discussed preparatory to the final report which they
hope 20 lay before the House in week or ten days.
They only await the return OF Mr. Ames to close the
animation OF witnesses and IL was this morning decided
TO send the for him If he Is not heard
from to-day. Two kilograms nave been sent to him, but
no reply to either has yet been received After the
examination OF Mr. Ames. Mr.. Cofax will be allowed to
offer the testimony which he declares will show where
the $500 deposited in the First National Bank came
from: but Committee expect to hear all this evi
dence In one day and will then close the investigation.
Year: 1873

Are we more civil zed in our dress than
in our dweiings7 Not whit. Our guide
and ruler here is that irresponsible tyrant
we call fashion, and neither comfort nor
beauty has a wor to say. To be sure.
men have discarded many absurdities.
though they have retained more. They
hold to their stiff shirt collars which rasp
their necks their wide expanse of linen
front, which the very act Of fastening rum
pies; their meaningless swallow-tais. their
hideous hats. their t,ght-6tting military
uniform, and all the mysteries of seam
and gusset. and band, which are mere SYM
bols OF the art of Gu ting out. and not
necessary to the comfort of shape. But
even with the folies they retain, they eau
move about with ease and uuhampered.


Women, on the contrary, torture them
selves in the name of fashion with touch
ing 6lelity. They would as sson forego
their nationality as their styles, and the
thirty-nine articles are less sacred to them
than their multiplicity of garments hang
ing from the waist. 1t is to keep these
up and lessen their heavy weight. tina t
they put themselves into steel cages, which
destroy all grace of line and all comfort Of
movement save in walking. Tue beauty of
simplicity is thing dead and done with
in their code. Heads are loaded with
false hair stuck about with lace, feathers,
flowers, and colored glass; ears are pierced
that bits of crystalized earth, or immita-
tions thereof, may be hung into the holes !;
health is destroyed, and the tender vital
organs which nature has SO sedulously pro-
tected by the outer casing of ribs are COM
pressed and crushed, that the waistband
may be reduced to seventeen inches; and
the highest eff,rts of millinery gen US are
directed to the most ell ,borate method OF
sewing one bit of stuff on to auothe~ bit
of stuff to the confusion of anything like
Leading line or an intelligible idea.


We laugh at the Chinese golden wa
ter-Iilies," AMI the Papuan head-dress, the
H'ndoo nose-rng. the African lip d.s en-
der; we laugh while We look in the glass
and complacently brush out our fr,l
and congratulate ourselves on lookin
stylish and we'll got up" But our
highest efforts culninate in practical naked
ness in the middle of winter if we are
women. in black broadcoth in the dog days
if we are men-in absurd length of silk
trailing after US as We walk in the one case
IN ridiculous pennon meandering at our
backs in the other; they culminate in
fashion, not in use or beauty or simplicity
but while we do thus dress without per
soma! convenience or artistic meaning. We
have no true civilization in the matter oi
our clothes. Modern millinery is neither
art nor nature 1t is our translation oi
the primitive mans delight in rags and
gaudy colors, aud there is no essential d'f-
ference between the two. What difference
there is consists simply in conventions
acceptance; but the @ 'thetic base of each
is the same.-CorntM Magazine.
Year: 1873

ANOTHER SAD CAsE-The mail carrier
who runs be wten Ilconderoga village and
the cars, wh on his way to the train


tuesday morning, discovered the body of
man lying in the ditch by the roadside, near
the old fort ground, detd. 1t was storming
hard at the time, and the body had damned
the stream made by the storm until it was
entirely submerged, only the head, which
rested on higher ground. being visible. Upon
examination, it proved to be the body OF
| bomas Bradley, an employe of the New
York and C,nada railroad, who has the re-
pu alton OF being a hard working-man and
only induglng in an occasional spree but,
it Is thought, that it is owing to one OF these
that he lost his lie. The deceased leaves a
wife and two small children, who are prob
ably destitute, and adds ano ther to the long
list whose epitaph is " Killed by poor rum"
And how much better than a murderer is he
who dealt out the villanous compound
which sent the poor victim, all unprepared, /,
into the presence of his Maker, and added
three more to the widows and orphans of
our land? -Rutiand Herald.