smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

irichu. Neu, please mana me the


scissors"


She did not lift her eyes, bu,


shipped her thread silently, and wen,


on sewing, while Ned toyed with the
scissors moodily. Finally, almos,
abruptly, he spoke,


'I'll get out and leave you in
peace, Maggie, if you'll give me one
of your curls to remember you by"


Maggie smiled indulgently, secret
ly thankful at such a cheap release.


"You may have any curl you want,
Ned, and welcome. Only you must
take it as pledge of banishment,
Ned" And now Maggie laid down
her sewing and looked into his moody,
half scornful face. 81 wish for your
sake it had been as you desire. But
as it is not, as | am 50 content, let it
all be forgotten. Which curl will
you have?"


She leaned her head toward him
coquettishly, and he awkwardly,
tremblingly, cut one off close to her
neck, so close the cold steel made
her start. The moment he had sew
cred it he threw down the scissors,
thrust the curl in his pocket in a
wad, and arose from his chair.


81 said I'd go. Good bye, Maggie"


Almost before Maggie could re-
cover from her surprise at his wild
abrupt way, he was off, his footsteps
ringing loud on the frozen ground.
His eyes were brighter than usual,
and his face fairly worked with ex-
ultation as he drew the tangled
black curl from his pocket, and with
it band of black velvet to which
tiny, plain gold cross was attached.


Hittle did my lady know l cut
the velvet with the curl, and only
begged the hair that / might secure
the cross. Little did the lovers
curse 'cm-know | overheard their
gar-candy romance about the token
of the cross; but if George Wayland
don't get this back before rm week
older, It'll be strange. Trust either
of them for an explanation; they're
too plagued proud"


And Maggie went on with her
sewing for another hour in blissful
Inconsistencies of the loss OF her
treasure. Afterward, she and Bessie
had game Of romps before Bessie
went finally to bed; and still later
at half past nine-she and brother
Ben went down to the last mail to
see if there was letter from George.
1t was not until she had retired to
her own room and stood before her
dressing bureau to arrange her hair
for the night, that she missed it, and
then she missed it at the very first
glance in the glass. 1t was down
stairs, of course, on the floor, where
it had fallen when she and Bessie
had their game Of fun; or oh, sup
pose she had lost it on the street on
the way to the post Office! 1t was
very probable, very: and when she
had crept softly down stairs, lamp in
hand, and thoroughly searched the
sitting room in vain, she knew it was
really lost on the streets. What
would George say to her careless.
ness? How could the velvet have
come united? And with little fit
Of crying over her loss, Maggie went
10 bed and dreamed Of wading ankle
1eep in gold crosses.
Year: 1876

The press Of the District are a.
ready discussing ,ha subject of can
didacy for Congress. Manv are stout.
ly for Mr. Tufts denomination, and a
few discourage such action. But, if
Mr.. Tufts has done his duty to the
best of his ability, honestly and con-
sistently-and no one denies tha: he
has--the law of custom should make
him candidate for a second term.
Our policy, argument and reasoning,
are against frequent changes in eth
er branch of Congress. If we have a
good Senator or a good member, keep
him. That is the way the older States
do, and in that way those States, by
an able minority, control, to a great
extent, the larger numbers of new
members, mostly from the West. So
long as we make frequent changes, so
long we waste our influence. The
West is rapidly coming to the front
as the po,cer of the nation. and if we
act wisely this power can be welded
effectively and for the good Of the
nation. So we have duty to per-
form in this district. If Mr.. Tufts is
the man for the emergency, let him
be chosen as our standard bearer. If
it is decided that he is not the man,
he will, we are sure, abide by such
decision in good faith, and help to
elect the man chosen. The District
is close, and our enemy is confident,
SO we must put forward our ablest
man. Mr.. Tufts experience in Con
gress one term gives him an advan-
tage over a new man. Take new
man and it will consume two years to
reach the point now occupied by Mr..
Tufts. Let such matters be duly
weighed.
Year: 1876

Nothing will make woman so mad
on Sunday morning, when she she is
squirting across the street to see that
delayed new bonnet 60 in, as to find
she hasn't been holding the cup un-
der the coffee mill.
Year: 1876

pntrefaetion for year after year. Then
can it be thought as bad to burn the


body, which only takes few hours,
and is purifying process, as to let
it rot away in the grave? The trouble
is that the people do not put their
thoughts on the disgusting process
which the body goes through when it
is put under ground; whereas as long
as it is out of ground, they think OF
it and say how horrible to think of
burning our bodies. Another point
In the social aspect is that the living
can foster their love for the body OF
the dead friend to so much orA---s
ADVANTAGE. How can anybody cher
isn any love for slowly -decomposing,
disgusting animal body? But how
pleasant it is to contemplate, the
quick rendition of the body into
ashes, which can be put up in a neat
little box, and be in good state to
keep; so that our associations with
the dead must be much pleasanter
than when we have to associate our
remembrances of them with a rot
tage. Then when the family wants
to change it's place of residence it
can take the box containing the ashes
of the dead along with them, instead
of having to raise the body from the
cemetery. Now, that concludes my
articles in favor of cremation, which
l think must be very conclusive TO
every intelligent man.
Year: 1876

+ Lines
Suggested on seeing FREDDIE JANE


taking last leave of the corpse OF hi


Mother:


Father, have found tear
In your eye, how came it there?
More are coming, how they chase
One another down your face.
Now l feel your bosom heave,
What does make you sob and grieye?
Let me wipe your tears away,
Or cannot go to play.
WHY is mother sleeping so?
Let me down and let me go
Let me 90 and let me stand
Near enough to catch her hand.
Why, it feels as stiff and cold
As piece of ice to hold.
Lift me up to kiss her cheek,
When, perchance, she'll wake and speak
Mother, Oh, is it she?
Why, she will not speak to me:
Mother had not cheeks so white,
See, the lips are fastened tight.
Mother always spoke and smiled,
Calling me her darling child;
She would give and ask kiss
When came, but who is this?
If tits mother, is she done
Speaking to her little one?
win she never, never more,
Love me as she did before?
Could she hear what we have said?
Tell me, what is being dead?
Oh. she does not breathe breath:
Father, what's the cause of death?
Year: 1876

About noon yesterday tall, lank
young man, pants in his boot tops
and a tornado of energy in his looks,
entered -Sz-.ns.ii rv+s-;l@t-Are ON Grand
street, called for the proprietor, and
breezily remarked:


"rm from the West locking for n
job-rve come to New York to com
mence low down and climb high up.
l want to clerk it for you"


The proprietor, whose family lives
over the store, and whose wife makes
most of the sales, replied that he
didn't want any more help.


81 don't care what it is," contin
ued the young man. eff you don't
want me to clerk it, I'll saw wood,
sort over potatoes, paint your house
do any work. I'm all enterprise
and 90 ahead, and if can get foot
hold somewhere I'll make this town
howl in less than six months


He was finally given job carrying
a ton of coal up stairs, and the mer-
chant went out for little while. AZ
ter carrying up two loads, the man
from the West informed the wife that
he was struck with her beauty, and
proposed an elopement. She pushed
him down stairs, and her husband
returned just then and went for the
stranger with club. Stranger toed
the mark. and came out A l.


A friend of the family came in
and took part, and he was also piled
in heap. A policeman was called,
and the man from the West slipped
over the rear fence, stole dog from
the next yard, and in ten minutes
sold the canine and returned to the
store and offered the merchant fifty
cents to settle damages. If he eN-
hibits as muck enterprise in evading
a court sentence, it would be well for
the government to hire him as chair
man of some investigating committee.
NJ Y TeIe0J'Hn
Year: 1876

We DO not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases 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: 1876

Curtis Guild, in lecture before the
Boston newspaper men, said What,
then, some one may inquire, are the
requisites for the newspaper business 2
An answer to this suggests itself to my
mini in reply in somewhat powerful
terme, will admit, that I made to a
pale, hollow chested young man of
twenty-five or three who once waited
upon me with an inquiry of similar
nature. He had few thousand dollars,
and had just graduated from college,
and wanted to join with somebody to
" start paper !" Start paper This
is thought by almost every one outside
the business one of the easiest and
pleasantest things in the world to do
and 80 it is if you have plenty of money
to start with; but it is not the starting,
but the keeping of it going at profit,
that calls for brains. recall now the
reply, probably prompted by days Sc.
we're and exhausting work, when, after
listening as patiently as possible to the
young mans crude notions respecting n
business in which he had no experience.
he begged would tell him in as few
words as possible the qualifications
necessary to prosecute the business
successfully. He was somewhat startled
by the assertion that they were as fol-
lows:


brain as Il xtble and elastic as steel.


memory as tena cious as iron,


temper even as that OF saint


digestion equal to that Of an ostrich,


And the endurance of adsmant
Year: 1876

Editorial from Chicago Tribune, Nov. Ill


Notwithstanding the election excitement the hor-
riple act OF vandalism attempted At Springfield has
caused general thrill OF horror II there had
election pending the decd would have reused tho
whole North TO desperate determination that the
yandas should be overtakcn and punished The facts
have been already related in detail in tho Tribune but
may be rcstated generally. Some time since Mr.
Robert Lincoln informed by Anonymous note
that an attempt would be made election night to
break into the chamber OF tho Lincoln monument
containing the remains Of his father and carry them
OF Elmer washburn, who, with his customary
vigilance and promptness, was on the spot At the
time announced, and would have arrested the
them had not OF his assistants prenaturely dis
charged his pistol which mad the effect TO alarm them
while they AZ their work. Before the dotscsives
could reach them they had disappeared IN the woods
near the monument and made good their escape


daism ills very diiicut to ASCERTAIN II nay have
been that these Infamous rers OF the tomb selected
election night rs time when they would be less likely
to be observed, and when their opportunity
would be surest to despol the sarcophagus carry on
the remains 20 some secluded ana mysterious spot
turn, hoping for largo reward In these days
OF ingenlously horrible crimes such theory
desperadoes could abducs the boy Ross ana
hide him away 30 skilfuy and surely even Mhe me-
gotiatlng :or his return II certainly would DO much
less difficult operation to steal the ashes OF Lincoln
and defy detection, and perhaps eventually
large reward without any danger punishment II IL
not impossible, also, that the motive was simply
morbid desire on the part OF the vandals to connect
their names with deed unparalleled for lnfamy and
immorsaiize themselves like the fool who fired the
Ephesan dome aud that other fool who threw him.
self into The crater Of tho volcano. Whatever
may have been the motive the deed was tn
famous and dastardly, and bctrays reckless
ness OF purpose and baseness OF heart dnicuit 10
understand To rife the humbIest grave ID unnatural
and only the work of . monster. To disturb the
sumbers Of the great and good President In his sacred
chamber built by the love and gratitude OF the whole
nation, 10 doubly monstrous II 10 to be hoped the
mscreants who attempted the infamous work may vet
be apprehcndcd, only that they may be punished
but that they may be held up the tho
world The passing excSements OF the election should
not be allowed 10 blunt the vigilance OF the authori-
ties II the perpetrators or this Infamous crime are
to be captured At all can only be effected By imme-
diate effort
Year: 1876

upon digging away the lime he discov- cred they had begun operations.

 However, on further examination, it appeared that they had not even pene-. trated through the bark, but were dead and dying. The borings were nearly dry and some were quite dry. If this is remedy, as MT. Chesley believes it to be, it is very valuable one, as we'll as very simple one~ At all events, it answered his purpose; for there were the borers, of browinsh color, as if burnt by the lime, and quite small. Since that time he has seen no signs of borers, but the trees are in thrifty condition and now in full bloom. The trees that he writes of are from one to four inches through, of different varie- ties of apples. He put the lime four or five inches deep all around the tree and drew the soil around it to keep it in place. His trees are all young, but if he had old trees he would treat them in the same way, first scraping off the old bark and covering it thoroughly with good air-slaked lime, ana then bring ing the soil up around it to keep it there.
Year: 1876

That was sad story of destitution and misery which was told in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. A poor mother, Mary Beuhl, and her four little children were found resting by grave, nearly dead of starvation. When the poor mother was asked what she and her children were doing there, she replied that they had no home, had no food, had no friends, and knew not where to look for assistance. So she brought her children to their father's grave, there to wait until death gave them all relief from hunger and homelessness and misery. For two days they had waited by that lowly grave. 54s
Year: 1876

It would surprise a good many of us, should we find ourselves in possession of 8 few silver bricks, and then not be able to find any one to buy them. Yet such 8 contingency is not among the im- possibilities, for on Saturday last MT. King, of the Nevada Bank, in this city, having an order to sell some silver for a customer, te- legraphed to San Francisco to learn the price that would be paid for it, and received for an answer that they did not want it at any price-that there was no market for it just then. The fact is that at present silver is rather @ drug in the market; more of it is being produced than is needed for coin- age and manufacturing purposes, and as the production is certain to go on at a much greater rate than the present, the supply will rise further and further above the demand, and, unless some channel for increasing it's use be found, the discount will doubtless be more than it now is. At pre- sent, the discount on silver in San Francisco is no less than five per cent. Our merchants here have to submit to some loss on account of this depr eciatiOn of silver, as they have to pay for their goods in gold, while very large proportion of their cash re- ceipts IS paid in silver. But they can doubtless be trusted to adjust the margins of profit so as to avoid any loss to themselves in this matter.
Year: 1876

vote for the bill would be primo fdcie evidence that he was bribed, and we believe that any man who accepts a bribe in his legislative capacity, should suffer death.

 But we have strong hope that the bill will pass at the present session. We of Arizona have a deep interest in the construction of the Texas and Pacific Railroad. In addition to it's great importance to the whole nation, there is nOth- ing that could give such an im- petus to the prosperity and deve- lopment of our Territory. Cheap transportation and rapid transit are our great wants, and these the railroad will give us. Let it come, and let not Congress adjourn without granting the reasonable and just proposition of Col. Tom Scott, and then it will come.
Year: 1876

A London custom house officer says that his experience cOnvinces him that women as a rule would rather smuggle their gloves and other nick-nacks, than receive the same as a gift at cost.
Year: 1876

SPECIAL ORDERS Carefully and promptly filled by my San Francisco Branch Office, and entire satisfaction guaranteed both as to selection and price paid. In this my motto is

 EXCELSIOR !"
Year: 1876

GENERAL BANKs is credited with the
assertion that thus far the labors of Con-
''grcss indicate the disintegration Of par
ties, and that from the way in which
They are drifting the signs are that Grant
will be political necessity and again be
nominated. There is mistake some
where about this assertion. Either Gen.
Banks did not give utterance to it, or he
entirely misunderStands the situation. 1t
is true that the exhibitions of disloyalty
and sectionalism in the House which have
lately been so frequent, point to the neces-
Sity of continuing the Presidents policy in
Lhe immediate future administration of the
Government but is it not q doubtful
deduction to assume that President Grant
is the only man in the country who can
successfully carry out that policy:
Year: 1876

NOTWITHSTANDING the adverse criti-
cisms of the so-cilled Great Dailies of New
York city, none of whom had the fairness
to print Senator Morton's speeches on the
Mississippi question, the press of the coun-
try generally accords to him the credit Of
having succeeded, thus far, in proving
what he intended to prove when he began
i. C., the necessity that Congress shall do
something to restore peace and obedience to
the laws in the Southern States. Our ex-
changes furnish ample evidence of the con-
vincing effect of his speeches in this regard,
for they admit that he has taken great pains
in preparing the data for his. arguments,
and that his labor in attempting to give to
the public reliable picture Of the South
ern situation is worthy Of most earnest
commendation. In short. his speeches on
this subject have served to exalt his we'll
established reputation as leader, and at
the same time have furnished large fund
of information which will be incomparably
useful in the pending national campaign.
Year: 1876

There is secret movement on foot among
the Mississippi Bourbons to secure the removal
of JEFF. Davis political disabilities in time to
run him for the Senate. We don't know of
anything that would make a menagerie out of
that distinguished body sooner than such a
measure.
Year: 1876

The proposed abolition of the Bureau of
House is in strict harmony with the antece-
dents of that organization. If they could only
abolish that bureau and then remove the tax
on whisky their highest hopes lwould be fully
realized.
Year: 1876

We will state for the benefit Of GER
tain correspondents that we will not
publish. nor even read. letters and COM
munications unaccompanied by the
names OF the writer's. This is q rule
almost as old az journalism, and yet
day after day we receive anonymous
contributions. They will not be printed
and the writer's had as well not waste
time in writing them.
Year: 1876

Those conditions of the body in which its functions
are not performed with healthfu activity but slug


gshy and rreguary, are in fact the early stages of
disease. They are, moreover, almost invariably the
result OF local or general weakness which can only
be permanently overcome by an efficient tonic There
is no medical fact more clearly established than that
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters are admirably adapted
TO nfuse vgor into the debitated SYSTEM and to re-
store regularity to its interrupted functions As
weakness and irreguarity are sure to develop into
disease, the Bitters, by overcoming them, are the
means OF averting far more serious evils. Debility
most frequently manitests itself in the organs of di


gestion and evacuation, two important offices whose
vigorous performance is insured by the Btters which
aso rectly weakness or irregularty of the bladder
or kidneys, and forify the system against malaria
Year: 1876

Modern chemistry is great power for good in all
departments of industry and art. Nowhere has this
power been used to better purpose than in the drug
gists' laboratory. Through its aid the Forest Tar
Co., of Portland, Me able to present to the med
ical profession and the public, pure tar, in such
forms that the most delicate can take it with pleas
ure and benefit. Ask your druggist about the Forest
Tar preparation.


oct15 sn9m
Year: 1876

FRIDAY, February 25.-The general market is firm
and unchanged. Sugars are quite active although
there is no change to note in quotations. Pork and
lard continue firm and in fair demand. Flour ia
steady and the demand quite active Molasses is
dull,
Year: 1876

HORRIBLE DEArH.-On the evening
Of the 30th ult., as we learn from the
Portland Journal. three men, Thomas
Neal, Mike O'Day and Rodney Morris,
lost their lives by snffocation in the
deadly gas arising from cesspool.
O'Day and Neal had dug oesspool
near an old one, and cut an entrance
to it. They were driven out by the
stencil, but after the greater part Of
the filth was drawn off they again
descended the ladder, and on reaching
the bottom they fell almost senseless
into the filth. A man at the top Of the
shaft gave the alarm. Rodney Morris,
who was the first to arrive, thought
the men were drowning, descended
the shaft, and was also overcame BY
the gas, and fell senscless. Grab
hooks were obtained and the men
taken out. All efforts to restore them
proved unavailable.