smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875




How They WILL SoUEAK.-A
man who draws the prize of
squeaking boots from shoe store
always gets them on Saturday,
and by the next day the full pow
er Of the squeak is developed.
He arrives at church at the open
ing of the long prayer, and is ad-
mitted by the sexton with admon-
itory gestures Of silence. The
first step inside the door is follow
ed by a sound like that Of ripping
a clapboard from the side of a
barn, while all the ladies on the
right side Of the aisle tip their
topknots on one side and squint
from their left eyes, those on the
other side reversing the order.
Balancing painfully on his corn, be
makes more gradual effort, and
is rewarded by hearing the same
harmonic reverberance like linked
sweetness, long drawn out. Then
be tries to navigate on the balls
Of his feet, and wabbles along on
his heels. BE clutches convulsive-
ly at the sides Of the pews to light
en- his weight, knocks down a wo-
mans parasol, and gets all the dea-
cons to raising their bald heads
and the skin across their foreheads,
and scowling as they do the rest
of the week. So be determines to
mind the matter no more, and
trots along fast, jerking out spas
modic shrieks with a regularity
that he never could attain at any
thing else, and reaches his pew
with all his under garments turn
ed to porous plasters, and his face
of a color to match the saint done
in red glass in the principal win
dow.
Year: 1875

Polished manners have often
made scoundrels successful, while
the best of men, by their hardness
and GOODNESS, have done themselves
incalculable injury-the she'll be-
ing so rough that the world could
not believe that there was pre-
cious kernel within it. Had
Raleigh never flung down his cloak
in the mud for proud Elizabeth to
walk on, his career in life would
have hardly been worth recording.
Scores of men have been success
full in life by pleasing manners
alone.
Year: 1875

Two chnms, desiring to make
themselves comfortable, had a
stove put up in their chamber.
One bought the stove and the
other paid a mason to have a hole
cut in the chimney. They broke
up housekeeping the other day
and divided the effects. One
took the stove and the other the
hole.
Year: 1875

A European correspondent of
the Boston Advertiser tells this
touching story in a pleasant
way:


It was a third-class carriage. She
was apleasant-faced young woman,
going, I think, for the first time
after her marriage, to visit her
parents in her old home, to show
them their two fine grandcbil-
dren. At least this was the little
history I built up for her in my
own brain from a word or two
that I heard between her and her
young husband at the station as he
put her into the carriage with an
afectionate farewell. I always
watch with great interest the fare
we'll and greetings of my fellow
travellers, and have a fashion OF
thinking out for myself the whole
story Of their previous lives from
the little hints that l getin this
way. It is to me as if I were per-
mitted to open the second volume
Of an interesting romance, and al
lowed to read only one short scene
in this, and asked to gress as near.
ly as possible from this one scene
the previous course Of the story
and the characters of the actors in
it.


The youngest child was an in
fant of about three or four months
old-very quiet and good; the
other was a pretty, restless little
girl Of three, who could not be
still a single moment, and kept
the careful mother busy by her
questions and wants ard childish
prattle. She was not at all bash
full, and soon talked to US also in
such a natural, coquettish, conde.
scending way that we were quite
in love with the charming little
lassie, and begged her mother not
to check her innocent advances to
US.


When we had been travelling
together for two or three hours,
and began to feel quite like old &C.
quaintances, while the train was
going at full speed, the mother
half rose from her seat to place
the little girl, who had left her
place again, on the opposite seat.
How it happened I havc never un.
derstood, it was one Of those acci-
dents which seem impossible, and,
in fact only happen once in a hun
dred thousand times but just as
she stood half erect, holding her
sleeping babe upon one arm and
her little frolicsome maiden some
what awkwardly on the other,
the little girl made one of her sud
den, quick movements, and in an
instant she was gone from our
eyes.


What a moment! The poor mo-
ther stood fixed and rigid in ex-
actly the same attitude, her arms
still bent as though arouL' her
child, gazing with wide open, fix
ed eyes at the place whence she
vanished. She seemed literally,
suddenly turned to stone; with
the rest of US the case was almost
the same. How long this lasted l
Year: 1875

A charming woman, I've heard it said


By other women as light as she;
But all in vain puzzle my head


To find wherein the charm may be.
Her face, indeed, is pretty enough,


And her form is quite as good as the best,
Where nature has given the bony stuff,


And clever milfiner all the rest.
Intelligent? Yes-in certain way,


With the feminine gift Of ready speech,
And knows very we'll what not TO say


When the theme :rauscends her reach;
But turn the topic on things to wear


From an opera cloak to robe de mutt
BATS, h:saues or bonnets-'twill make you


ssare


To see how fluent the lady can be.
Her laugh is hardly thing to please;


For an honest laugh must always start
From gleesome mood, like sudden breeze,
And hers is purely matter Of art
A muscular motion made to show


What lature designed to lie beneath
The finer mouth; bat VIII at can she DO,
If that is ruined to show the teeth?
To her seat in church-a good half mile
When the day is fine she is sure to go,
Arrayed, of, course, in the latest style
La mode de Paris has got to show,
And she puts her hands on the velvet pew
9(Can hands so white have ta!nt Of sin ,
And thinks how her prayer books tint Of


blue


Must harmonic with her milky skin!
Ah! what shall we say Of one who walks
In fields of flowers to choose the weeds?
Reads authors Of whom she never talks,
And talks of authors she never reads?
She's charming woman, I've heard it said
By other women as light as she;
But all IN vain puzzle my head


To find wherein the charm may be.
Year: 1875

r HEREBY NOTIFY ALL PERSONS IN.
i debted to me to call and make an immedi-
ate settlement Of their Indebtedness, otherwise
will be compelled to place the said accounts
in the proper legal hands for collection, and
will do no In a very short time.


CHAs. STEIN,
Lower Main street,
Year: 1875

AYoUNG Chinese gentleman of rank
was sent from his native country to
be educated at Yale College, and now
comes the report that some of the
Yale students, following the hazing
practice, took up the ease of this
young Chinaman as victim, and the
result is that he is minus his cue. This
is a shame. The young men engaged
i'm it are not gentlemen, and it would
not be punishment amiss if they were
publicly horsewhipped. The cue,
however distasteful to us. is never
theless to the Chinese matter of the
first Importance. The loss of ii in
wolves the loss of standing in life. the
loss of rank. and man who is un-
willing to recognize the rights and
S..Ni"Se or oN,ve@ ,a,,tt>r NOW re-
dicnlous they may appear to us in
their peculiarities---llas no just ground
FOR complaint ir nfsprlde be hnmbrri
by being publicly logged, in the good
old fashioned way. The matter has
already been laid before the Chinese
Ambassador 10 this country. and may
become Il matter of national settle
ment.
Year: 1875




Messrs. Dixon and Madison have
been nominated for Repre- sentatives
by the Wapello county Democrats.
They will both be mad soon, for the
prospect of their remaining right in
Wapello county the next two years
was never more encouraging. Nothing
ever disc"aragoe Doinoorat FROM
running for office. We suppose if
there was only one solitary, forlorD,
hopeless Democrat in Iowa, he would
go around the State holding county
conventions and nominating himself
for office, and would fill tho air, as
election drew near, with shrieks that
the people were rising, that the fate of
Radicalism was sealed and that Dem
ocrscy was moving on to victory, and
that success was already assured.
Then after election he would count
the one vote cast for him in the entire
State, and after bowling "frsud fraud
and declaring that the people were
crushed to the ground by the iron heel
Of despotism, would go back into his
hole and retire from politics until the
next campaign. So long as there is a
Democrat above ground there will be
a Democratic ticket in every election,
for the chief end of Democrat is to
run for Office, and the chief use of a
Democrat, for the past fifteen years,
has been TO be beaten. We trust that
the candidates of the Democracy in
Iowa this fall will be put to their
proper use, and laid away on a shelf
so high they cannot be taken down
until the dust of years has settled up
on them.-Hdackeye.
Year: 1875

The State Leader, late State organ
of the Anti-Monopoly party, now the
organ at the capital Of the resurrect-
ed Democracy, heads its editorial
column in its issue of August 31st
with the following:


"Wampus Sam crates in Keokuk
next Thursday evening, but says he
don't propose to talk about salary
grabbing any more"


True, nothing better could be ex-
pected from such source, and its
babblings of this kind do NO harm
whatever, among sensible people,
other than writing down the Leader
folk as asses, but because we desire to
give the greatest publicity to just
such conduct on the part of leading
Democratic paper, we reproduce it for
our readers. OF course, once rebels
or rebel sympathizers, don't like the
old war Governor of course it has
come to be a custom so ingrained in
to their natures by the abuse they
gave him during the rebellion, that
they can't leave off their epithets now.
If President Lincoln were alive, and
the Republican party should put him
forward for Office, these same fellows
would renew their old epithets of
tyrant, despoiler of constitutional
liberty, &C., against him. 1t is very
natural for them; just as natural as
the slang Of Five Points, New York,
is to the denizen of that locality.


1t is, however, little singular that
there should be some people who
once opposed these fellows, and who
now look upon them as the salt Of the
earth-the gentlemen from whom re-
form is to come, the purifiers of gov
erllment. Is it not u most clear exhi-
bition of evil assuming the garb OF
honesty to serve the devil in? Old
arrant Coppcrncads now iapef KIRK
wood as a prince of corruption, and
ask that they may be trusted as the
leaders of a grand reform in politics.
Year: 1875

to be added to the Russian territory
in the end, and such result is likely
again to disturb the other great pow
crs lying contiguous to or round about
Russia.


We find in the Washington ChrOn-
icle a table of the people who are
likely to be involcd in the revolt of
the Turkish province of Herzegovi-
ma. should the insurrection spread.
1t may be of interest to our readers.
and is reproduced as follows:


The territory north of the Balkan
range. which sympathizcs with the
revolt in Turkey, is divided into the
following States and provinces:
Year: 1875

IHE burlington UdZettS Is faDlu.
The days of peace havenot improved
it. Governor kirkwood was in that
city on Wednesday, September LIST,
and delivered speech in the even
ing. The issue of the Gazette of that
date is before us. and there are but
few lines of editorial in the paper that
does not have Kirkwood for a SUBJ
ject. The most unblushing falsehoods
are told of him. The Gazette can take
the belt for utter want Of veracity;
its impediment in that direction has
bound hand and foot its knowledge
of truth. The Stiffness of its false
hoods become the sport OF everybody.
1t must be in the last stages of fits, or
il would not publish such emptyings.
Some papers presume SO much upon
the want of intelligence among the
people. that they do not hesitate to
perpetrate any sort of mendacity.
They presume too much upon the
credulity of their readers, and de-
stroy all confidence in themselves.


In the same number of the paper, it
still maintains that Letters speech
was garblcd, and says there was an
addenda to the reporters affidavit,
which the Ha,rkeye suppressed. The
reporter, Stripe, finally replies to the
Gazette as follows:


"The repeated insinuations cast up
on my veracity and common sense by
the Evening Gazette are as unfair and
ungenerOus as they are unfOunded. !
made the affidavit published in the
HAwK-EYE in good faith, of my own
free will, and after mature delibera-
ton. Every word of it is the truth,
and have no explanation to make
concerning ii, because | meant just
what | said, and men do not make ex-
plantations after they make affidavits,
though have been importuned to do
SO by the editor of the Gdzette. | de-
ny in toto the statements he has made,
placing me in a false position, and
claiming to do so on the authority of
conversations had with me. | stand
by my affidavit, and in the only sup
Elementary card every wrote, which
was not attached to the affidavit, but
was written some time afterward,
said 'the continual stammering and
constant repetitions of the speaker
made the reporters task much more
laboriOus than it would have been, had
the speech been smoothly delivered"
But did not suppose the evening pa
per would find much comfort In such
an explanation as that.
Year: 1875

If any of the laity refuse to hear
the church, when it prescribes Catho-
lie education for Catholic children.
they are acting as the heather and the
publican. The church has spoken dog.
nadtically, and there is left neither to
the priest nor ldymdn any choice be-
t,ceen systems Of education.


This tyranny Of the church is, as
much as any one thing in the world,
responsible for the despotism extant.
As fruitful source Of the devils
works, next to an absolute want of any
education, is a cramped and sectarian
education, at the expense of all free
dom Of thought and investigation.
All church associations which are at
war with public education by the
State, in so far, directly assume to
dictate to the State; to place them-
selves above State authority, and de-
fy its laws. In this country citizens
are responsible to the State for the
observance or non-observance of all
matters which are subjects of statn,
tory law. In this country the people
rule themselves, and are not snbjecl
u priestly dictation. and least of all
to foreign religions dictation.
Year: 1875

4 QUESTION That CfNNOT BE ET4DED


Directly after the Nebraska bill had reopened
the question of Slavery extension, the Rev.
DIR. Bacon declared that the question never
"could he settled until it was settled right"
At this day the remark does not seem as bold
and significant as it did then. Twenty inter-
venng wears have done much to educate pub
lie opinion. They have proved, so that even
the blindest understood it at last, that no
question which involves moral obligation ever
can be finally got ont Of the way until 1t Is
settled in accordance with justice and duty.
When the public conscience has once been
aroused on such question, attempts to COM
promise it are idle and foolish. Wcll-meant
and very earnest efforts to put the question
of Slavery ont of the way by compromise,
though made 10y many very able and influential
men. were found as mpOtent TO arrest the
progress of events toward Just settlement as
the moaning of Autumn winds to stop the rush
of waters over Niagara. We may as well heed
the lesson. The question of currency and
public honor involves moral obligation. 1t
will never he settled until it is settled right.
The public conscience was aroused about it by
the shameless appeals for communism and
rcpudiation made by dcmagOgues in Ohio, and
by Butler, Phillips Brindle, and Democrats in
PENNSYLVANIA. Every attempt to put the ques
ton out of the way 10y compromise will be vain
and fuitess. Sooner or later, justice will
triumph Either the nation will do its duty,
promptly and honoraby, or the demands of
instice will be satisfied not less after terrible
punishment has been inflicted.


Ii is for the people TO say whether the inev-
liable end shall be reach ed only after needless
delay and great suffering. Compromise with
Slavery cost this country a great civil war, a
fearful sacrifice of life, vast expenditure, and
a heavy debt Any attempt to compromise
with national dishOnOr may involve punish
ment not less severe. What form that punish
ment may take we cannot foreScc but, as
surely as moral obligation rules the universe,
it will come. Perhaps prolonged proStratOn
of industry, continuing until the people shall
resolve to meet all national obligations in good
faith may suffice TO avert still greater
calamities perhaps some form OF in
f1ation, with terrible alterations of un-
natural speculation and unnatural panic,
may result from the delay of a just
settlements perhaps general bankruptcy may
bring home the lesson in personal distress or
absolute ruin to millions of households. In
any case the end will be the same. Either
after initiation and bankruptcy, or without
either, we shall have to come back to an
honest currency. We may try to repudiate,
but all civilized nations are our creditors.
Dishonor itself, if permitted 10y other nations
to pass unavenged, would cost us far
more more than honest payment. ScoundrclSm
never pays, even for individuals, hrt
Year: 1875

Hydcrabad as every Alderman knows, is a
large and populous province of India. 1t is
one OF the gems in the dladem of En-
gland Indeed it is matter of court tradition,
which every English nObleman employed in
THE TRIBUNE cOmposlng-roOm will verify,
that His Majesty George III. used to wait with
the kcencSt anxiety on the evening of the first
Tuesday following the first Monday in No
vember for the returns from Hyderabad, and
if they were long in coming it was his royal
habit to characterize the telegraph operator in
that short, sharp, and decisive dialect so
peculiar to the Georges. He believed that rs
Hyderabad went so went Asia. and as Asia
went so went the world. Hence his anxiety


which was often so great that it was with diff


iiculty he kept his feet on the mantelpiece and
preserved his royal equilibrium. The same
interest is evidently felt in this pivotal
province by his descendants, fur the desire Of
Year: 1875

nation cannot wear dsguises, fly from
creditors, or conceal its property. ana
when we have done the worst, in the END we
shall be forced to come back to gold ana
silver as the basis of our currency. Any other
will be abandoned after general bankruptcy,
if not sooner. In the end We shall be forced
70 come back TO payment of debts, with only
so mnch of credit to help us as we may have
earned by our treatment OF our creditors Inc
only question is whether justice shall triumph
after general bankruptcy, attempted repuuia-
ton. and terrible disasters, or more specify
and at less cost.


Already many Democratic journals, accepting
the suggestion made by THE TRIBUNE on the
morning after the late elections, urge that ool-
gress, at the approaching session, adopt soiho
measure for early resumption OF specie pay
ments. Some of them, doubtless, realize tha'
il is the only shrewd course from party poiht
of view; Others we gladly believe, ieel that
the honor and welfare of the country demand
that the final settlement of this question shall
not be unnecessarily delayed single day
Many motives, of the highest as well as OF the
lowest character, unite to prompt Democratic
leaders in that direction. To the country
III


the Democratic than that the Republican
party should take the right position on
this question, not merely because the
Democratic party controls the House, but be-
cause it embraces an element more pow
erful than all others by which the
national honor is threatened. Hostility
to the Union has been overcome, but Its
inevitable result, Indifference, if not hostility
to the rights of those who trusted and saved
the Union, will linger until the currency qlies-
ton has been finally settled The Republican
party cannot be made the party OF repudia-
ton; even if it's leaders should take that
course. they would soon be left without con-
siderable following. The remarkable dlScl-
plne of the Democratic party. and the natural
tendencies of many of its members, not only
expose the party to the peril of capture by re-
pudiationsts, but expose the country to peril
if that party should fall into their control.
Hence every shrewd partisan, as well aS every
sincere patriot, must rejoice when Democratic
leaders commit themselves irrevocably to IA
inst solution of the currency question.
Year: 1875

BY the actual lease of the Hippodrome for
definite period, for the revival meetings of
Messrs Moody and Sankey, all doubts as to
the time and place in this city are removed.
The enthusiasm at the meeting to organize this
work, and the presence there of many prom
inent ministers OF different denominations, add
t. the auguriCs Of its success.
Year: 1875

Judge Benedict's suspension of sentence in
the case Of three dealers in counterfeit money,
and his remarks on the case, are at issue with
the representations of the Secret Service
Bureau in this city. The point of difference
is whether the detective officers did OF did not
encourage the crime for which the arrests were
made. While they may relieve themselves
from the stigma in this particular case, it yet
remains the fact that their methods of dealing
with criminals are occasionally liable TO just
this suspicion. To capture the offenders with
whom they deal, perhaps it may be necessary
to take part in the oifenses; but the wisdom
~ well as the morality of a system that does
Year: 1875

Postmaster JEWELS management of his De-
partment on business principles naturally gives
offense 70 political leaders whose friends are
detected in fraudulent mail contracts. RumOrs
have long been rife that an effort would be
made TO secure his removal. Nothing could
be more appropriate than to find Gen. Butler
at the head of such movement. The present
order of affairs in the Post,0hice is exactly
contrary to Gen. Buffers principles But even
with the Endorsement of the recent election,
there are some undertakings not safe for the
Republican party; and among those things
the removal of Postmaster Jewell can as yet
be accounted.
Year: 1875

Despite our large edition of the LIST
of January issue, not single copy re-
mains and the cry is still for more.
In order to accommodate friends, and
the public generally, we will issue, on
or about the 18th inst, another HER
AID pamphlet, containing all the sta
tistical and descriptive Information
contained in the 1st of January review,
with additional facts concerning Los
Angeles county, since collected. The
issue will be tlUo thousand. The
pamphlets will be sold at the cost of
printing, in order to scatter far and
wide full intelligence of city and
county. A few advertisements will
be inserted in this pamphlet at rea-
sonable rates-send in your orders
early if you desire to make avail of
this extraordinary opportunity for
advertising.
Year: 1875

square mile is laid off at an eligible point
on the tract, with lots 25xl4O; avenue 100 feet
and streets so feet wide.


stream of water can be brought in SO as
to supply every lot with crystal, cool, sweet
water.


Provision will be made for a College and
Farm School.


large lot will be set apart for each relig-
ious denomination. A block will also be
different Fraternal, Grange and Temperance
Societies.
Year: 1875

M The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say thel Is no
comparison between the two. 2Ho