smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

ed, he needed all the sleep he could get
The resolve was one to be executed as
promptly as formed and o few minutes
later the cashier had locked the door, fas-
tened the lower windows, and was snugly
in bed.


A gentle tinkle of the door-bell aroused
him again before, as it seemed to him. he
had fairly closed his eyes. "The robbers
at last" he thought and then he rcbuked
himself for the absurdity of supposing
that burglar would announce his coming
by the door-bell. Z" 1t is Bixby, of
course" he said tc himself " come to own
he was fool, the story all nonsense"
But he paused before he turned the key,
and said in his fiercest tone, " Who is
there ?"


'' 1t is only me, Foster" said the sweet,
familiar voice of his wife, without and
when he had admitted her she told him,
in her quick way, that after she had
watched the child an hour or two, pro-
fessional nurse who had been sent for a
week before had arrived unexpectedly, and
that she had been glad to give up her vigil
and come home.


f"sUeI houShtoh Iareiy uiu any thinS
without thinking twice about it, if not
more so it came about that while he bal
anced in his mind the pros and cons as to
revealing to his wife the secret which
Bixby had con6ded to him, and thus Civ
ing her fright in advance for what might
prove to be false alarm after all, the
tired lady went sound asleep; and thus
the scale was turned in favor of reticencc
Perhaps the husbands continued drowsi-
ness contributed to the resolve also; for
his eyelids still dropped with strange OBJ
stinacy, and an influence more powerful
than even the apprehensions of danger
transformed his terrors into dreams again.


TO DE CONTINUED.
Year: 1870

COMPUTING INrEREsr.-A new method
of computing interest on any number of
dollars at six per cent, which appears SIM
pie: Multiply any given number of dol
lars by the number of days interest desir=
ed j.; separate the right hand figure, and d.
vide bv six; the result is the true interest
of such sum for such number of days at
six per cent. this rule is so simple and 50
true according to all business usages, that
every banker, broker, merchant or clerk
should post it up for reference. There
being no such thing as fraction in it,
there is scarcely any liability to error or
mistake. BY no other arithmetical pro-
cess can the desired information be obtain
ed by SO few figures. BY this method it
is assumed that there are only $50 days
in the year.
Year: 1870

The news from Paris was the subject Of the
most intense interest in the city yesterday. In
every prominent place of resort the situation
in France was the principal topic of discus
sion. Will the republic be proclaimed? and
if so, what effects will it produce? were the
queries asked by hundreds Of persons. By
far the greater portion of the people seemed
inclined to the belief that France would be
unable to continue the contest against the
victorious German armies. That Napoleon
and the Napoleonic dynasty was completely
FUSED up" was conceded almost unanimously,
and, indeed, little regret was expressed that
the empire was brought to a close; yet feel
ings were expressed that it had not passed away
with less disastrous consequences to France.
Orphaned children and desolated hearths are
now to be found throughout Germany as well
as France, and this in great measure tine
tured with grief the feeling that otherwise
would have been joyful at the prospects for the
establishment of republic in France. With
a republic in France how long will Spain,
or Italy. or even Germany itself, remain
countries? This and similar
questions found distinct utterance from num-
bers of people in the city yesterday.
Year: 1870

THE Ex-EMPERoR NAPOLEON is on his way
through Belgium to Casse, where he will be
joined by tho Empress and tie Prince I'm
periaI. He ought to be happier now than he
was in his ancient captivity, for he has his
family to comfort him and he has the consol-
ing knowledge that France il better without
him,
Year: 1870

WHAT GENIAL, HOMEIIKE old German
King William is? He writes Immediately to
his frau every circumstance as it occurs, and
enjoys telling her Of it with such zest What
lot of stories he will have to relate and
Jokes to crack before the winter fire when he
gets home
Year: 1870

CARPENTER AND SUMNER.-In
the course of a scat'ling reply to
Summers speech setting forth that
Congress had the right to do about
anything it might please to do
within State, under the tyrant
plea of necessity, Senator Car
penter, of Wisconsin, said that
Summer, "with true puritanic pre-
meditation, was in the habit. of
nursing his WRATH and that Sum-
ner's propensity to reduce every
discussion, no matter what might
be it's subject, to the general head
of slavery-a field in which he
has great experience and won
many laurels-called to mind the
practice Of the. .quack who always
threw his patient into convulsions,
because that was q disease within
his healing power"
Year: 1870

"A CURIOUS LEGEND.-When
Adam was far advanced in years
and at the point of death. he sent
his son to the angel Michael, who
kept the gates of paradise, to pay
for the oil of mercy, so that he
could be healed. The angel an
swered that it could not be until
ffty-aive hundred years, but he
gave Seth a branch of the tree of
which Adam had eaten, bidding
him plant it on Mount Lebanon,
and that when it bore fruit his
father should be healed. Seth
planted the branch on his fathers
grave; it took root and grew, and
from it were made Aaron's rod
and Moses staff With which he
struck the rock and sweetened the
waters of Marah. 1t also formed
the polo on which the brazen SER
pent was lifted, and the ark of
the testimony. At last it came
into the hands Of Solomon, who
used it in building his palace. but
it continually resisted the efforts
of the builders to adjust it. Now
it was too long, and then again
too short. The builders, being
angry, then threw it into a marsh.
so that it mi ght serve as a bridge.
The queen Of Sheba would not
walk upon it, and told Solomo on
that upon it should be suspended
the man through whose death the
kingdom should be destroyed.
Solomon then had it burned deep
n'the ground, where afterward
the poolof Bethesda was dug, and
from the virtues of this tree heal
ing properties were impaired to
the waters. After it had been
buried three hundred years it rose
to the surface of the water, and
the Jews took it and made it the
cross of our Saviour.-[F From the
May Number of Lippincott's Mag
azine.
Year: 1870

Under the advice of Radical
politicians in Baltimore the ne
groes of that city will not use
the street cars prepared for their
accommodations in accordance
with the decision of Judge Giles.
They will ride with white people,
or not at all. This bringing the
race into collision for selfish pol
itical advancement of party, is
the work of the Radicals, and the
consequence, whatever they may
be, will cling to their skirts.-Phtt-
odclphia 4ge.
Year: 1870

One of the many stories floating
about Paris in connection with
the ravages Of the smallpox, is
that of a lover who had taken the
disease from his lady and had be-
come frightfully pitted in conse-
quence, while she escaped with an
unbroken skin. At their first
meeting, after both had recovered,
he dropped on his knees before
the lady, and, pointing to his face,
thanked her for so many marks of
love
Year: 1870

From the Spenersche Zeitung OF vienna April 10 ]


There was time when Vienna was filed with re-
jocing, and Austria proudly boasted Of being In ad-
vance Of all German States In sincere and genuine
cOnstitutionalism. The Rechstag Of the North Ger
man Confederation was regarded with u somewhat
contemptuous pity, because 1t had not obtained
Parliamentary Ministry and number Of other rights
and powers which the Vienna government granted
without hesitation. But the Joy in Austria over the
liberal legislation in which the Parliamentary
Ministry and the Rechsrath have unQuestiOn-
ably been very fruitful, has long since passed
away. Once more sad experience mas
may be framed without diGculty, but that they are
OF no avail unless the soil has been prepared Tor
national ana political TIE. The new constitution
has done nothing to reconcile the various natOnai
ties which compose the empire; on the contrary
they are now more violently opposed to each other
than ever, and therefore 1t is nOidng to its fall as
each of the long line OF its predecessors did when Its
time was come.
Year: 1870

Father Hyacnthe addressed to the Paris journals
the following letter.


PARIS, April g. 1870
supposed Just in many quarters TO have share
considerable secret In the publication Of the Concord
certain that proceeding will not be attributed to
by those who me well but TO the public
tfadicton Of the supposon Doubtless sympathies
the side Of . work in which brother concerned
which promises bring fresh aid to the OF religion
aud liberty which more than ever my own but there
different mehods of serving IL and am anxious to
in the which my Conscience imposed upon
Year: 1870

THE RINK.-Tne assembly on Sat
urday night was as brilliant as usual.
The improvements in the beautiful
and graceful ars of skating by both
ladies and gen tlemen is marked.
Those who vseBt with fear aud tremb-
ling week ago. now glide gracefully
and fearlessly along The coming
carnival is the great subject under
discussion by skaters. Arrangements
are such that some great curiosities
will be exhibited; among other things
a baby elephant and a mammoth ham,
the latter being represented by gen.
tleman whose sweetness of temper
will wa rraut the assurance that the
ham is sugar cured.
Year: 1870

after an exciting session In the evening, at which
the Minister'S had explained the situation.


President Schneider said-Painful and grave news
was communicated to us during the evening" and
- President OF the House had double duty to
perform towards 1t aud the nation. For the rest,
by an urgent demand on the part Of great number
OF my colleagues, you have been called together In
extraordinary session. ! allow therefore. the moor
to the Minister Of War that he may nnish the state.
ment which he commenced during this mornings
nttlng.


Count Pallkao said:-I have the painful mission TO
inform you what my words before must have fore
shadowed. The news which was only semi-of1cial
has become ofhc!al. After heroic efforts the army
has been rolled back into Sedan and has been en-
compassed there by such superior forces that II has
been obliged 70 capitulate. The Emperor has been
made prisoner. In view OF this news 1t will be
impossible to enter upon serious discussion OF the
consequences which these events may involve when
have been forced to leave my bed to attend this
sitting and my colleagues have had no opportunity
to deliberate.


President Schneider proposed an adjournment un-
til to-day at noon. He said the situation imposed
on him great duties and he would fill them. But the
Ministry not having YET been able to deliberate,
and each one nee ding time 10 think over carefully
the grave resolutions which the occasion required.
he thought 1t would be wise to adjourn.


Jules Favre said-If the Chamber Is OF the opinion
that In the grievous ana grave situation described
by the Minister Of War 1t should adjourn until after
noon Will not oppose It, But we believe 1t to be
our duty to seize the occasion TO lay before the
House proposition which the existing situation
demands We will not add one word to the text
which we now lay before you. We move that the
Chamber adopt the following resolutions
That Louis Napoleon Bonapare and his dynasty


De declared TO have forfeited the powers which the
nation conferred upon them.


That there shall be chosen On executive commit
tee. composed Of members, the number OF whom
shall be fixed by the Chamber, which shall be IN
vested with all the powers necessary to repel lnya-
sion and drive the enemy from the soil.
That General Trochu, Governor OF Paris be


charged exclusively with the defence of the capital
The reading Of these resolutions was listened to
with profound silence. A single voice was raised


1t was that OF NJ. Pinard 1--WE have nor the power
said he, ITO pronounce the decheance.n
President Schneider returned to his proposal TO
adjourn the sitting until noon on account OF the
gravity OF what had happened.


The Corps Legislatif agreed, and the sitting was
adjourned
Year: 1870

Some months ago business led me to
an out-of-the-way place, where by fall
of water, there lived two boys, one eight
and the other ten. They were bright
eyed'inquisitive little chaps, but gener-
ally without either hat or shoes. and
often with pants and Jacket sadly rent.


Busted as | was in the repairs of an
old mill, these boys were handy to send
on errands, bring tools, look after my
horse turned out to bait in the road, and
do numberless little things to save the
steps of those who were older.


One day, on reaching the mill, I saw
the Oldest boy standing on a rock, partly
hidden by the foliage of the surrounding
trees, fishing, and as often as 'he felt a
nibble he would jerk his line out of the
water as though he owed the little fish
some terrible grudge, and wanted to
pay it by twitching their heads off. 1
asked him why he did so, and explain
ed as well as / was able the best modes
of taking such fish az made the little
brook their home.


After hearing me patiently and res
pectfully, he said: Mister, you fish
with hook that has got a beard on it,
and when you hook one he stays. NY
hook hasn't got any beard. It's an old
oiOhOh OAO eAoo aA6CA 0ACCh BafO ACs
Mother wants the pennies you gave me.
L liketo fish like to catch 'em..for mother,
and | have to twitch'em when they
bite, or they will wiggie of, and 1 shall
lose 'em.n


/ like the talk OF that boy. He did
not grumble about his old hook, but did
the best he could with what he had to
do with; and day after day as i saw him
doing it, and taking to his mother the
reward of his toll, which had cost him
so much care, and thought and skill. I
knew that he was laying with the alder
rcd in his hands the foundation of q
grand character.


There is scarcely great man or good
man on this side of the Atlantic that
did not have tough time in his boy
hood-did not fish awhile with beard
less hook; and of the boys now in the
country, those only will arrive at emil
nence who do tie best they can with
what they have to do with; never COM
plain, but push cheerfully and resolutely
on the path that leads upward to noble,
and good, and grand manhood.
Year: 1870

The following from the writings OF
Charles Dickens is sadly appropriate
now: "There is nothing-no nothing
beautiful and good that dies and is for
gotten. An infant, a prattling child,
dying in its cradle, will live again in the
better thoughts of those who loved it,
and play its part, though its body be
burned to ashes or buried in the deepest
sea. There is not an angel added to the
hosts of heaven but does its blessed
work on earth in those who loved 1t
here. Dead? Oh, if the good deeds OF
human creatures could be traced to their
source. how beautiful would even death
appear? for how much charity, mercy
and purified affection would be seen to
have their growth il dusty graves"
Year: 1870

A lady writes to an exchange: "Put
cold water to about four quarts Of good
hard wood ashes, and bring to boil,
then add more cold water and let it set
tie: pour this off and add still more cold
water to the ashes; the result should be
about pail of good lye, which strain
and pour into q barrel of water; let
stand over night, when there will be
found deposit in the bottom of the bar
rel which should not be disturbed in
dipbing off the WATER This water will
he found to make suds IS readily as
rain water diff does not. there is not
sufficient lye,) and does not injure the
clothes in the least; il the lye is too
strong. it may make the hands sore.
hut that will be the only evil result"
Year: 1870

1t is estimated that the increase dur
ing the next five years will reach five
thousand miles year. The probability
is that it will exceed this estimate, at
least during the present and succeeding
year. Railroad construction was never
before SO active. Almost every town in
the West and Northwest is taking steps
to complete some missing links, and IN
the South the progress is fully as rapid
as the available resources. and capital of
the respective States will admit u s.
Economist, Jpne IS.
Year: 1870

of what we deem good and lovely in
him.


And so, for fear of fiattery, those
dreadfully sincere people go on, side by
side, with those they love and admire,
giving them, all the time, thc Impres-
sion of utter indifference. Pareh,< are
so afraid of exciting pride and vanity
in their children, by the expression of
their love and appreciation, that a child
goes sometimes sad and discouraged by
their side, and learns, with surprise, in
some chance way, that they are proud
and fond of him. There are times when
an open expression of fathers love
would be worth more than church or
sermon to a boy; and his father cannot
utter twill not show it. The other
thing that represses the utterance of
love in the characteristic shyness of the
Anglo Saxon blood. Oddly enough, a
race born of two demonstrative, out
spoken persons-the German and the
French-haS an habitual reserve that is
like neither. There is powerlessness
of utterance in our blood that we should
fight against and struggle outward to-
ward expression. We can educate our
selves to it, if we know and feel the
necessity; we can make it a Christian
duty not to love, but to be loviDg-not
only to be true friends, but to show our
selves friendly. We can make ourselves
say the kind things that rise in our
hearts and tremble back upon our lips
do the gentle and hopeful deeds which
we long to do and shrink back from ;
and little by little, it will grow easier
the love spoken will bring back the
answer of love-the kind deed will bring
back kind deed in return-till the
hearts in the family circle, instead OF
being so many frozen, icy islands, shall
be full of warm airs and echoing bird
voices answering back and forth with a
constant melody of love.-[H. B. StoaOe
Year: 1870

In the Eighth Congressional District
(Ohioj the Democrats have nominated
James r. Hubbell for Congress The
district is now represented by General
Beatty. Hubbell was formerly a Re-
publican, and tried to represent that
district in Congress, but his extreme
weakness disgusted his constituents,
and he was dropped. Thereupon he
obtained new light, politically, and
this new light carried him into the
Democratic party, where he has since
been standing candidate for office.
Last year he was elected to the State
Senate on the Democratic ticket. Now
he has wider field to roam over and
he will be defeated. Hubbell is very
thin at best, and W hen he attempts to
spread over the Eighth District he will
find himself inadequate to the task.


He talks about having let the Re-
publican party at the close of the war,
and gives corruption and prescription
as reason. His record will show that
he left che Republican party at the
time his Republican constituents con-
cluded they had enough of him. He
would still he u Republican, hut for the
fact that he was set backfrom a position
ofleader to that of private. The fact
that thei Democrats nominated him
shows that they do not expect to carry
the district. He is good enough Demo-
crat to lead in ahopeless contest.Il Ctn-
cinnati Gazette.
Year: 1870

1t may be questioned whether the
premature manhood or womanhood so
characteristic of our day, and especially
the United States, is aJudiclous mani
festation of human power. 1t has. no
doubt, the advantage of bringing into
quicker activity the forces of our great
continent, which otherwise might have
had a more light-toned slumber. Men
and women with nimble wits and fIexi-
ble hands were greatly wanted to give
Immediate movements to the torpid re-
sources of the country, and as they could
not be readily obtained, it. became ne
cessary suddenly to turn the boys and
girls into men and women.


1t is bad economy to take the days
which belong to youth and transfer
them to manhood with the view of
saving time. This always proves loss
instead of a gain. There can be no
sound and fruitful age without a full
childhood This is true in regard to all
the conditions of life, physical, moral,
and intellectual. The body needs the
free play of every hour of growth, the
mind all the unlimited range of the
wayward thought of childhood and
the heart the full joyousness ofyouthful
wantoness, in order to acquire the mus
cular strength, the mental vigor, and
moral buoyancy essential to bear the
weighty labors of mature life.


There is perhaps no quality more es-
sential to happiness than elasticity of
spirits, and there is none which fails the
American so soon. He persists in his
work, no doubt with tendency un-
equaled by few, and his enterprise lasts
as long as that of most, but the very
length and persistency of his labors are
proofs of his fixedness and his incapac-
ity to unbend. Old age with us is apt
not only to shrink the body to bones,
but to dry the bones ipto skeleton.
This is mainly owing to the want of that
succulency of animal spirits which can
only be stored up during long and JOY
Gus childhood.
Year: 1870

1t is rumorcd that the Prussian General
Won Moltke, the chief of staff to King
William, is dead, and that his remains were
carried through Toul to Berlin in richly
decorated coffin. Even if tie rumor should
prove true we do not see that it's effect upon
the success Of the Prussian arms would be
very material, and certainly not very disas-
trous. Won Moltke was great military organ
izcr. There is no doubt that his genius
mapped out the campaign, and did it splendidly,
as the whole course of the German armies
from victory to victory proves. But when the
organization of the plan was complete the
organizers work was done. The generals
and the soldiers to whom were committed the
operations on the battle fields completed the
labor which Won Motke had designed His
death just at this juncture would, therefore,
not very seriously affect the cause of Prussia.
Great wars do not depend upon individual
talent nor individual herosm, however con-
spicuous they may be. We remember that at
the outbreak Of our war, when our armies
were fighting in the peninsula, rumors OF the
death of General Mcclellan were repeatedly
circulated; but did any one believe that the
loss Of that officer would have initiated
against the triumph of the North, its govern
ment and its armies over the revolution in the
Southern States? Our war was between two
peoples-the North and the Southland the
loss Of an individual could not have affected
the result. So with the European war to-day
The people of Prussia it was, and not King
William, who made the war in the cause of
Germany. 1t was not the people of France
but the Emperor, who forced on the war In the
cause of a dynasty in which, as the condition
of affairs in France now shows, the French
people had no interest.


Sympathzing as we do with the people
everywhere, our regrets are for the destruc-
ton Of human life, the devastation ofprovinces
once prosperous and beautiful, the desolation
that would follow the spread Of pestlence in
the vast armies Of Prussia: but the loss of
any one man, even though it be the great
organizer OF the campaign, is matter Of
little Importance, which cannot change or
obstruct the great issues to be decided by the
present war.