smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

DoGs.-Dogs are great favorites of
mine. agree with the man who said
there is no friend like dog. Dogs are
so faithful and so forgiving. They
never get in the sulks. They never
want to borrow money, and then forget
to pay. They never go and tell tales
out OF school. They may sometimes
stay out all night, but they never expect
to be furnished with latchkey, nor do
they come stumbling home in the morn
ing, and go to bed with their boots on,
and have a headache all the next day.
They always remember favors, and are
so thankful for them.


A dog will wag his tail and be con-
tented with a bone, and be Just as
grateful to you as though you had
shared the best with him. Dogs are
always ready for frolic, and man OF
woman, boy or girl, who cannot take
real delight in a rough-and-tumble play
with dog, must be very cross grained.


There are some dogs, to be sure, who
are cross and snappish, and would like
nothing better than to bite you. But
then am sure this is the fault OF their
bringing up. They have bad masters,
who are responsible for their bad traits.
Even the worst of dogs always has some
good in him. He will at least be faith
full to his master, and guard his masters
property.
Year: 1873




\ private letter written hy Memphis
gentleman TO a New York friend gives q
more thrilling and sickening picture Of pes
tilential horrors in that city than comes 10
the knowledge Of Northern people through
the public Dispatches. In fact, he says the
Memphis papers have failed to record the
fearful extent Of suffering because they
feared that business might consequently
be driven away. Nevertheless. it has been
driven away, and that Is the most trihlng OF
evil consequences. mole amIlles have
been carried cd by .hc yellow fever, and
their corpscs lic unblriod in houses with
no one to attend 10 them. The poor peO-
pie especially suffer terribly. ard when
taken generally live bat a short time
though rich and poor are now afflicted alike.
The undcrtakcrs are NOT able 20 bury them.
and the dead bodies are carried OF in wsg-
ons. sometimes as many as nine in ore cart.
Even the prisoners at the stetIou-h0Uses are
sent out under a guard Of policemen to lay
out the dead and put them in their collins,
a worse punishment perhaps than their SEN
tences provided The Sisters Of Charity
and members OF tie yarioas benevolent So
cietIes who first afforded relief are now be-
ginning to be afflicted to q considerable ex
tent, and the contributions from outside are
not commensurate with the peoples ex-
tremity where sixty-iiyo or seventy deaths
are daily reported and sOubtlcss more take
place. If there was ever an appeal in this
country in behalf Of humanity, this is one.
and prompt response IS the duty OF every
city and town.
Year: 1873

even more remarkable that he should have
brought out all this from two sittings, and
hit upon the right name for it without ever
knowing that the woman who lent him the
outline of her face let him also tell a story
unwittingly of disposition, of suffering, and
OF wild, irresolute, impetuous struggle that
needed only the time and the place to have
ended rs did that Of the pctrolcum-tlrow-
cfs.


MN CRINKLF.
Year: 1873

who dreams in German and thinks in French,
and when 1t comes to soul-Saving is saver
OF life unto lire-who yet embroiders her
own capes anigownsand those of her friends


What We want is strong minded and large
naturcd women who will not be the slave of
dress, or Of reform, or of any one idea who
viii understand the philosophy and recognize
the beauty and adopt the necessities of dress
without straining is possibilities who will
neither dwarf nor magnify It's importance,
but viii know how to follow fashion with
moderation and discrimination, to lead it
with hcneiieence, and make it in all thingsa
minister Of grace. II the woman Is sahor-
dlunte TO the dress, it is no, the 6alt of the
dress but Of the woman.
Year: 1873

LYlNG Is BEp-it Is often a question
among persons who are acquainted with the
anatomy and physiology Of man. whether
living with the head exalted. or even with
the body. was the most Wholesome Most,
consulting their own case on this point. argue
in favor of what they prefer. Now, although
many delight in bolstering up their heads at
night, and sleep sorndly without injury,
vet we declare it to be dangerous habit.
The vessels through which the blood passes
from the head to the heart, are always less
ened in their cavities, when the head is rest
ing in bed higher than the body, therefore,
in all diseases attended with fever the head
shonld be pretty nearly on a level with the
body and people ought to aeenstom them
selves TO sleep thus to avoid danger. Medi-
cot Journal.
Year: 1873

spends hours in cmbroidering a gown, when
She might have learned language or saved
a soal. True; but there are times when
she does not feel Ike either learning Ian
guagc or saving soul. Then the growth OF
silken leaves AMI buds under the busy fingers
is no task bat q solace. / know woman
who
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, August lit is given
out airesh at the state department that no
appointments to Germany Of a diplomatic
or consular nature will be made of persons
born in that country, and that it is useless
to make application for such offices. This
policy has been adopted at the express re-
quest of Bismarck, who wishes to check
the enormous emigration to this country of
the youth Of the .sFaderland,n and the
spread of republican institutions.
Year: 1873

EUROPEAN HOUSE E-There is said to
be a house conducted on the European
plan in the immediate vicinity Of one Of
the newspaper offices Of this city, consist
ing of an ash and an ice box and the
friendly shade Of several outrageous
trees. A number of impecunious parties
nightly roost in these favored spots.
Year: 1873

COLONEL HUGHES has resigned the
Office Of United States attorney for the
western district Of Virginia, with the re-
quest that the vacancy be filled before the
Goth instant. He has thus indicated q
nice sense Of propriety and his entire con-
fidence in the people, to whom alone he
looks for strength in the coming canvass.
Year: 1873

Enormous as these figures appear. they have been
determined both by mathematical calculation ana by
experiment


valued TOO highly in connection with public health We


find that the great plague OF London and Westminster
the 18th century shown by the parish registers OF
the Church OF St Margaret must be attributed 10 the
want Of sufficient drainage and 10 the narrOwness of
the streets and lanes more recent and
convincing proof has been the sickness
of the Prince Of Wales, which was caused by
the insufficient drainage Of LondesborOugh Lodge
Tine inhabItant OF the wretched hOyel BaXter-st.
cngs the inhalation OF impure air with the fer
and love as the owner OF the finest dwelling on
FIfth-ave who carefully shuts pure air under the
prctext Of excluding draughts" and wraps himself up
the poisonous atmosphere as II 10 wcre Of all things
MS best and dearest friend What desire particularly
10 insist upon s that OF the most effective elements
In the spread OF this carbOmc acid intOXicatOn is
the hOtalr furnace. 10 not only mpairs ventilation but
assists in the adulteraOn Of air. To put hOtair fur
mace In your house is Ike furnishing your mkman with
chalk OF your merchant With stryChnue Vitated
air quite injurious and etupefying the worst OF
alcoholic drinks; and the judge aud jury in courtroom
filled with pesticntla air most OF cOurtrOOms
are under the influence Of deadly narcotic
as tine nbaers OF opium The poorer classes of
our large cities probably suffer most from the demOra
lzng breathing OF polluted air. II Is well TO preach tenn
perance but It also wel and OF pretminent iu
portance, 10 preach and procure clear pure air and
healtlful sunlight.
Year: 1873

New YORK, January "a Washing
ton special says there is growing feel
ing among officials for the annexation
of Guatemala 10 the United States, and
that two citizens of the former country,
accompanied by its accredited minister,
assured President Grant of the desire OF
the people for annexation, and their
anxiety to know when such q result
could be reached
Year: 1873

LONDON, June 9.-In the house Of
lords to-day Earl Russell introduced
bill for the better government of Ire
land, which abolishes the Office of lord
lieutenant, and provides that the voice
of eight jurors out of twelve will suffice
for verdict. The object Of the meas
ure is to restrict the power of the priest
hood and secure the conviction of crimi-
Year: 1873

The Boston Journal PROCESSES to
be alarmed ut the amount of illitera-
cy at the South. 1t thinks sit would
be perfectly safe to say that one-halt
of all the voters OF the South are des-
titnte of education" This is lamen-
table, indeed; but the Boston paper
blinks the very surprising fact that
the federal government entrusts the
business of governing the South to
this very half who are destitute OF
education"
Year: 1873

God bless our darling Papa
Wherever he may roam,
Protect him from all danger.
And bring him safely home;
May angel guards be near him
In dark temptations hour,
To rescue him from falling
Within the tempter's power.
When faint with weary tolling
And sad with many care,
Give him new strength and courage
This heavy lord to bear;
Should sickness come or sorrow,
To cloud his life to-day,
God send a bright tomorrow
To drive the cloud away.
His arm is our protection
His smile is our reward,
And may we never forfeit
His kindness and regard;
And as the years roll DER him,
And his bright eyes grow dim,
For his love and goodness
Our care shall comfort him.
The evening meal is waiting,
The lights are all aglow,
The brs sht tea urn is singing
welcome, soft and low;
We hear his steps approaching,
We see him nearer come,
Thank God for bringing papa,
Dear papa, safely home.


IS. BOuTH
Year: 1873

The attempt of the New York Herald
and other Democratic sheets to get up
political scare over the imaginary danger
of Grants candidacy for third term and
his possible assumption thereafter of
dictatorial powers, has not been success
ful. The people do not scare worth a
cent. The Democratic papers have
sounded the alarm vigorously; have
dwelt patheticaIly upon the dangers
impending and have warned the public
with an urgency that would be commend
able, if the whole thing were not so
ridiculcss But everything goes on as
before, undisturbed the people eat.
drink and are merry and are given in
marriage, just as has been the case for
hundred years past. 1t is very evident
they do rot believe there is any danger
-Pitsb,rg Commercial.


The colored people of the South are
giving evidence of more practical good
sense than their best friends gave them
credit for possessing. Their treatment,
during the long years of their ensiave-
ment, was we'll calculated to stupefy
their minds and blunt their feelings, but
they are showing full appreciation
of their position and acting with discere-
ton which must command the respct
and secure the confidence of ALL AL
though they are more numerous than
the whites at many points in the South,
there has been no evidence of a DISPOSE
sion on their part, in a singiei instance,
to use their power Improperly, They
have shown patience aud fortearsnce
which entities them to the greatest credit.
Many supposed, and with good reason,
that the colored people, who had endured
hardsSips and crueltits of slavery, would
when given their freedom, feel disposed
to retaliate upon their oppressors anc
seek revenge for past grievances bu
nothing of the kind has occurred. Ontht
contrary. the colored people have fel
F, disposed to forget and forgive the past
They know the prejudices which exis
agains. them. and they have evidently de
termined to show themselves worthy o
respect and of equal rights.-1olea,
Blade


The Independent editors, who desert
ed their offices to nominate Mr., Greeley
at Cincinnati, year ago, have got thei
followers into curious dilemma. TIL


Cincinnati Commercial declares that tn
opposition in Ohio must nominate SON


one who had never been heard of befor


in politics" OF they cannot elect him
, 1be Chicap Tribune hipks that TO
Year: 1873

''adrice it good and timely, but the diff
entity seems to be in finding such cand
date. And this is what the amateur
reformers have come to- They must gel
rid of the hacks, and when they have
done that there is no one left.-Nat
York Times


A Democratic organ in Alabs ma. called
the Limestone News, feels compelled to
say that if it can do any better, it fights
no more under the Democratic flag" Il
further adds: There is not scrap Of
the old Democratic banner left big enough
to darn hole in the seat of pair OF
breeches, and furthermore lone had as
well sing hymns to dead mule as under
take to reconcile the animosities engen
dered by last years !olly,'
Year: 1873

baby COZ with drepery.white
Gided by glory of sunset light
Two dark eyes smiling in baby glee
Two small hands struggling for papa's knee
A baby mouth with its kisses sweet
This is what papa wont to greet.
A tiny box draped with daintiest care,
white bud gathered to slumher there,
Two waxen hands baby breast
Two dark eyes closed for her angel resi-,
A cold, cold mouth and marble brow
Is all that is left for papa now.
Oh precious Julia! our angel onoi
Thy pure young life was scarce began!
Oh angel Julia when life throls low
And We turn with a sigh from things below
viii you meet ms, love. the other shore
Where your baby footsteps have gone before


PRIEND.
Year: 1873

The youthful mind is observant and in
quiring, but it lacks experience. Young
Tomkins borrowed gun to 60 sparrow
shooting, and not understanding the breech-
loading system began to ram down the car
fridge. He has since frequently observed
how lucky it was that in an idle hour he
leaned to write with his left hand
Year: 1873

Theodore Hook was once asked for con-
tribution to the treasury of the Society for
the Conversion of the Jews. He said he was
quite unable to give any money, but if the So
ciety would send him Jew, he would do his
best to convert him.
Year: 1873

1t is said that necessity is the mother OF
invention" but go to the Patent Office, in
Washington, and they will tell you that in
vention is the mother of necessity. Nine in
ventors out of ten die poor; the other tenth
die mad
Year: 1873

A Happy Christmas to you, reader! Times
are brighter, the prospect more hopeful. Near
ly one-third of Winter is past, and work for
those who desire it is growing plentier. The
probability Of foreign war Is passed by. We
have much to be thankful for. A happy Christ
mas To YOU
Year: 1873

President Grant stated 'emphatically4 yester-
day that he would not withdraw the nomination
of Attorney General Williams for Chief Justice
and that he had never contemplated" it's with
draWal
Year: 1873

RUSKIN ON MIRACLES.-SOme of us may
no more be able to know genuine miracle
when we it see than others to know genuine
picture; but the ordinary impulse to regard,
therefore, all claim to miraculous power as i'm
posture, or selt-deception. reminds me always
of the speech of French lady to me, whose
husbands collection of old pictures had
brought unexpectedly low prices in the auc-
tion-room,-"How can you be so senseless,"
she said, ''as to attach yourself to the
study of m art in which you see that all ex-
cellence is mere matter of opinion ?" Some
of us have thus come to imagine that the
laws of nature, as well as those of art, may be
matters of opinion; and recollect an ingen-
ious paper by Mr. Frederick Harrison, some
two years ago, on the Subjective Synthesis,"
which, after proving, what DIES not seem to
stand in need of so elaborate proof, that we
can OILY know, of the universe, what we can
see and understand, went on to state that the
laws of nature "were not objective realities,
any more than they were absolute truths"
Which decision, it seems to me, is as if some
modest and ra ional gnat, who had submitted
to the Illuminating conviction that it could
know no more of the world than might be
traversed by flight, or tasted by puncture, yet
in the course of an experiment on a philoso-
pher with its proboscis'' hearing him speak
of the institutes Of Ju- tinian should obs rye,
on its return to the society of gnats, that
the Institutes of Justinian were not obiec


tive realities, any more than they were abso-
lutte truths. And, indeed the careless use of
the word ''Truth'' itself often misleads even
the most accurate thinkers. A law cannot be
SPOKEN of as truth, either absolute or con-
crete. 1t is law of nature, that is to say, of
my own particular nature, that fall asleep
after dinner, and my confession of this fact is
truth; but the bad habit is no more truth
than the statement of it is bad habit Never
theless, in spite of the treachery of our concep-
tions and language, and in just conclusion ev-
en- from our narrow experience, the conviction
is fastened in our hearts that the habits or laws
of nature are more constant than our own.
and sustained by firUier intelligence; so that
without, in the least, claiming the faculty of
recognition of miracle, we may securely define
its essence. The phenomena of the universe
with which we are acquainted are assmed ton
be, under general conditions, constant, but to
be maintained in that constancy by supreme
personal Mind; and it is farther supposed
that, under particular conditions, this ruling
Person interrupts the constancy of the phe-
nomena, in order to establish particular
relation with inferior creatures.
Year: 1873

SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN ArMos-
PHEREs.-ln very lucid paper on the Law
OF storms published in the number of Ma
ture for June rs, a scientific writer adduces a
fact which, though not new to scientific men.
will be news TO the general public, to wit
that there is far less atmosphere in the SOUTH
ern than in the northern hemisphere. Prof.
Verrlll. one OF our most eminent mathema-
tieians, in his work on the ''Motions of Flui
and Solids Relative to the Earth's Surface"
very satisfactorily explains this TACT, which
has long been puzzle to physicists. He
thinks that the difference is occasioned by
the fact that land and water ranges predomi-
nate in the north. The resistances are great
er, and consequently the eastward motion of
the air, upon which the DETECTING force de-
pends, is considerably less. The result is that
the more rapid motions of the southern hemi
sphere cause greater depression there, and
transfer of the greater part of the atmos-
phere to the northern hemisphere. To this
phenomenon is no doubt due the superior
force OF the southeast trade winds. 1t is
very likely, too, that not little of the super
ior force and culture of the northern races Is
due to this cause.
Year: 1873

Two boys lately died at Pueblo. COL. from
the effects Of taking opium pills by mistake
RADIO is said TO be wonderfully healthy place,
but the necessity of regular evening meal of
quinine is attended with the disadvantage
that one may make fatal mistake and take
opium in place of that wholesome and nutriti-
ou, article.
Year: 1873

An old lady residing in the interior of Long
Island has reached her ninetieth year, and
bids fair to be centenarian. She attributes
her longevity and wonderful health to regu-
lar exercise in swing, which she has taken
every day for over eighty years, except Sum
days, when size will net allow her swinger to
work
Year: 1873

A Western editor anxious to do justice to
the description ofa croquet party he attended
longs for "a pen plucked by the queen Of fair
les from the brightest and most gorgeously
tinted tuft of the bird of Paradise and dipped
in golden ink"
Year: 1873

A Mrs. King had a surprise at Shaw
neetown the other day. It was an accident
that Mrs. King happened to be at Shaw


neetown. She did not intend to- go
there, but the steamboat Jennie Howell,
on which she was travelling, struck q
snag, and sank in the Ohio river. Sew
eral of the passengers were drowned,
and among them some children. Mrs.
King had child on board whom she
mourned as lost, and was taken to Shaw
neetown without her babe. The Jennie
Howell sank deep in the water, and the
next morning men went to the vessel to
recover the bodies of the lost. Soon
after daylight mattress was discovered
floating in the cabin, which was filled
with water nearly to the ceiling. Upon
examination, child, little boy, was
discovered on the mattress sleeping as
peacefully as if nothing unusual had
happened. His bed was not very dry,
for it had sunk good deal from soaking,
but still sustained its living freight. In
due time the child was sent to Shawnee
town, where the other passengers had
been landed the night before. Its com.
ing made an excitement among the
wrecked travellers, for more than one
mother had lost children by the disaster;
1t was touching scene when Mrs. King
recognized the child as her boy whom
she had mourned as lost for nearly
twenty-four hours. The preservation o.


Moses in the bulrushes was not so mir
aculous as the safety of Mrs. King
boy. He had been tossing about OF
the waste of waters in the cabin al
night, and was brought to his mothe
| alive in the hour of her deepest woe.
Year: 1873

The Macon (Ga.) Messenger says that
one of its citizens has well grown toad
in his garden which is disposed to be
quite tame and sociable. Recently he
threw before it stout piece of cooked
ham about half the weight of the ugly
reptile. The creature eyed it wistfully,
then stretching itself at full length on
the ground, began gradually to crawl
(not Jump toward the meat. 1t would
move an inch or two, then wink its eyes
and lick its chops in the most curious
manner, evidently meditating an attack.
When about half foot from the object,
suddenly, quick as thought, it pounced
upon 1T and then 1eaped back as rapidly.
This attack and retreat was repeated
several times, until satisfied that it had
vanquished its inert antagonist, the
frog seized the meat, and with a tre-
mendous effort gulped it down. Other
bits of bacon were laid before it, but the
creature, surfeited with its repast, took
no notice them. The toad is not very
choice as to the quality of its food. The
writer has seen one seize and swallow
buckshot after buckshot as it was rolled
toward it, until, weighed down with the
load it bore, further motion became i'm
possible.
Year: 1873

At first view the empire is very strong.
But it has many elements of weakness.
In the first place, the people, as whole,
seem to be grossly ignorant of their
political privileges, and Indifferent to
them. In Dresden, two university men,
both of age, were unable to tell me
whether the members of the Imperial
Parliament were elected or appointed.
Neither knew the qualifications for vot-
ing. One did not know whether the
Federal States had separate Assemblies
or not. The other was wholly ignorant
of these Assemblies time and places of
meeting, and of their prerogatives.
Both concurred in saying eff you
wish to know about any such things,
you must ask a lawyer nobody else
knows or cares" To infer from the ig-
norance of these two men that of the
whole nation would be painfully like NJ.
Taine's inference of all the views of all
Enghsnmen on all subjects from the
looks and talk of his one fellow traveller
between Liverpool and London. 1t
might even suggest that standard story
of the danger of inductive reasoning
from too few facts, which runs in this
wise A tourist in America entered in
his notebook "Was shaved this morn
ing the barber had red hair. Mem.
All BARRIERS in the States have red hair. -
But many other Germans have since
confirmed what these two men said.
Again and again have I been told that
it was idle to expect anybody but a law
yer to know anything about the struc-
ture of government. And, as far as my
limited experience goes, nobody else
has known. Such apathetic ignorance
has sometimes been relied upon by des-
potisms as their surest support. Wit
ness Napoleon III. and the French peas
antry. But experience and common
sense unite to prove that people who
show such indifference, while they will
not fight to overthrow their government,
will not willingly fight to maintain it
when domestic foes attack it. They are
Indifferent to local changes, so long as
their own throats and purse-strings are
left uncut. t.-COLog7ae Letter.