smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

This is the state of the case without the COM
petition of rival roads. Need we wonder then
that the grasp of monopoly on the throat OF
New-Jersey is 40 desperately tenaciousf The
only business which seems substantially pros
nerous ia the legitimate business of its main
line ON Pennsylvania soil. All else are proving
Themselves very cancerous. AS we have all
along said, paralysis will be first felt at the
extremites. This report shows there is a lit
tie numbness now.


And yet-and here is the point which touches
the general weal-with all this warning, the
expansive, exorbitant grasping policy is to be
persisted in. More capital, mere debt We
remember once, when an impoverished Amerl-
can prelate said that in the cause of the
Church he "welcOmed debt" an irreverent
parishOner remarked he might as well say
"welcome burglary" Not so think these rail-
way financiers. The capital and debt of this
Company are now hundred and fifty million
and though the President says he only
wants S25, 900 900 additional, he admits he needs
more than that for immediate use and the
act of Assembly which was passed at his pro-
curement, and which the stockholders at his
bidding accepted, has no limit, and it is per-
fectly understood that another hundred and
fifty million will. if possible, be put aloat


1t is not in the least surprising that on this
exhibit of results, intentions and necessities,
while in the compact audience of a few huDd-
red picked stockholders, there should be, as
the reporters tell us, Enthusiasm and ap-
"plause,n the unsentimental outer world should
take less sanguine and hilarious view The
first effect of the publication of this report
was sharp fall in the price of the stock, and
we do not doubt that, if we could get at the
truth there is more than one thoughtful and
sagacious man even in Philadelphia who thinks,
as We do, that this thing has gone far enough.
Year: 1873

NO EXCUSE FOR Any salary THIEVES.


There are a few men who voted for the In
creased Salary bill who seem to have become
unconsciously affected by the general cOrrup-
ton in such a way that they have temporarily
lost their moral perceptions. Eminent men,
TO whom public service has brought only la
bors and trials without that compensation in
wealth which they think, and perhaps justly
think, would have resulted from the exercise
of the talents and industry in some other field |;
these men seem to have thought for the mo-
ment that they were at liberty to go to the
public Treasury and help themselves to such
an amount as would compensate them at least
in part, for services nadequately paid for.


In taking this single and narrow view, which
has show of justice and propriety they have
forgotten that their way of repairing an
imagined injustice was none the less open
and fragrant robbery. They did bot get their
additional pay by any fair means. They
simply stole it. They believed, on review
of their lives, that the goods of this world
were not fairly distributed. They had not got
their share. They broke open Uncle Sans
strong box and took what would repair their
deficit. This is the highwaymans plea. The
robber is poor, the man to be robbed is rich; /;
it is only fair to restore the equilibrium.


But an honorable mans motive to embark
in public life is not to obtain wealth. 1t is to
gain distinction and renOwn. 1t is to advance
the public interest. 1t is to help create just
public opinion. 1t is to leave an honorable
name 10 his posterity. The man who has been
in affairs long enough to do this, or part OF it, is
not to be allowed at the end of his career to say
he has been unjustly dealt by, because other men
have made more money. If his object was
riches, we have no hesitation in saying he had
no business to enter public life. 1t is only
low man, and q mean man, and despicable
man, who enters public life to make money
And if a man is not ready to sacrifice his
greed at his entrance into it, let him stay
out, and engage in some cOngenal employ
ment that will minister unto that passion.
Year: 1873

Another joke here is on step-mothers-unjs bot
amusing At Mission Sunday-schOol in Hudsops
little pupil was seen crying bitterly Upon inquiry
the teacher learned that he had lost his mother and
remarked to the boys that no one knew, until they
experienced it, how hard TO bear was such loss. A!
this pathetic moment wicked lad cried out: OH
let him wait till he gets step-mother-then you'll
hear hun cryw The wicked Lad did net conclude
with a statement of his personal experience; but
perhaps that was because he was suddenly called 70
order
Year: 1873

Delaware is little State, but it must be a livelj
one for taxpayersthat is if they do not care about
stealing or about being ogged if they do steal for
the small Commonwealth has, we are told. more
money in its Treasury than it knows what to %
with. and upon the present basis of taxation the
embarrassment of riches promises to be greater sad
greater in the future. 1t has been suggested tba
the only way to remedy this evil is to import fes
politicians from Pennsylvania or from Washington;
surplus revenue wouldn't trouble the Delswsr~
much after that
Year: 1873

The Second Edition of THE TRIBUNE AL
aANAC for 1878 has been nearly exhausted, the
sale this year being remarkably large and
prompt. A Third will be ready in time to
supply further orders.
Year: 1873

The proprietor of hotel at DensOn. town q
the southern terminus Of the Missouri Kansas. and
Texas Railway thus makes a new and irreyoreai
edition of the Ten Commandments:


Thou shalt drink and eat at no house but miae lest
thou he called barbarian.


H. Thou shalt not make unto thyself any bItten.w
any likeness Of anything that Is spiritual, FOR | am
Jealous man. visiting all sorts OF inlquY upon thoss
who never visit me- but treating kindly those that love
me and keep my commandments


III Thou shalt not take the name of my house In vain
w Six times day shalt thou drink.


" Three times day shalt thou eat


VI Thou shalt use no prOfane language m my h0Is
VII Thou shalt not steal of and eat or drink IA aaJ
house but mine.


Will Honor the best hotel in the city, that thy da
NAV be long in this land.


TX. will not credit.


X Thou shalt not bear false witness against tbs pro
prietor but smile with him aud pay Tor all you yet
Year: 1873

1t was a Massachusetts, legislator, we be-
1ieve, who said that Boston Board of Health
had blocked the wheels of justice. and was
responsible for the graves of 500 of the best
citizens. We have no such sweeping indict-
ment to make against our own Board; but
something is clearly and radically wrong in
such an administration of affairs as that which
permits the accumulation of four acres of
refuse and Offal within the city limits The
picture which is drawn in another column of
THE TRIBUNE of the nuisance near West
Thirty -ninth-st. is not a pleasant one to think
,of, much less to contemplate Meantime,
melting weather and warm days are at hand,
and the seeds of disease are easily terminated
and scattered.
Year: 1873

The respectable platitudes about public integrity
which are pretty profusely uttered at this time
though encouraging in one sense, are hardly so in
another. Affairs cannot be very pure when religious
newspapers (ZiOns Herald, for instance) think it
necessary to tell that if Congress to be purified
it must be by sending to Washington class of men
to whom fraud and falsehOod are impossible" We
should say SO. We have manner of doubt about
it, If you want honesty, you must have honest men.
First catch your hare you know. But to think that.
at this time of day, are exhorted not to send to
Washington Congressman who will lie, eyade, conceal,
prevaricate, who will not be fraudulent corrupt,
and false! 1t is MT exharating to think that such
an admoniton should be necessary. There certain
qualifications of moral sort which public man
should be presumed to possess, and which his con-
situents should make that he possesses before
they delegate to him all their own political power
and authority If the popular wrath were such
terror as it should be to all evdOers in high places,
they would be little more careful Of being found
out. and little less impudent when they found
out. With the brand of shame upon their brows,
they would MT go to tea parties and make speeches
about their injuries.
Year: 1873

Chicago. by way of keeping up its reputation for
wickedness, has lately had couple of sensations,
the story of which may be briefly related. A few
days ago, Miss Kittie H, respectable girl of
81 years of age left her home to go to Twentysecond


st. After doing her errand at the corner of Twenty


second-st and Indiana-ave, she was approached by
two men who alghted from a carriage, INTO which
she was pushed, when it was rapidly driven away.
After drive for about an hour, she was taken from
the carriage by the men into house. up stairway,
into back room in the second story. The door was
locked upon her, and she was left alone until
after dark. when she was visited by
woman in company with one of the men. This
woman looked at her, said No; she is not the
girl aud departed. The prisoner was kept con-
fined all that night and until the afternoon of the
next day, when, finding tho door unlocked, she
walked into the street and home Tho other tale IL
Year: 1873

THURSDAY, March u.
House bill to authorize the county
courts of the several counties of the
state to appoint an internal improvement
commissioner Passed-l1 I tod


A message from the house announced
the passage of the county supervisor bill
with amendments. The amendments
were concurred in by the senate, and the
bill now goes to the governor
Year: 1873

A YOUNG man applied for situation
on a western paper the other day, stat
Ing that he had had great many
years experience In journalism. As
he had good clothes aud didn't look
hungry enough 70 warrant this asser-
ton. 1t has since transpired that
he has only kept n journal ever since
he was eleven years old" And that
editor says that lie never knew a man
or a boy who could keep diary longer
than three days who was tit for any
thing else under the heaven.
Year: 1873

kF A philosopher remarks that thsrs
is something peculiarly instructive in
standing upon street corner in large
city. and watch the mon all rushing round
trying to make money. and the womea
all floating around trying to spend u
Year: 1873

An hour later, Mr.. Lambert might
have been seen entering Charles Bur
chards lodging. The young man was at
home With surprise he greeted his late
employer. Tho latter was apparently
excited BY the occurrence ofsone recent
event
Year: 1873

l Ipray you very sol,mnly to put that idea
of knowing all thin Is in heaven and earth out
OF your heads. It is very little that we can
ever know, either Of the ways OF Providence
or the laws of existence. But that little
enough and exactly enough.-Ruskin.
Year: 1873

WHAT DID IT?-is no longer the question
since the introduction of Centaur Liniment.
When we meet an old friend who has been
shelved with rheumatism, or see person man.
gled underneath a rail car, and restored to
shape and eomeliness, we now know that 1t Is
the Centaur Liniment that does the work. No
other article did perform such miracles There
is no swelling it will not soften, no pain it viii
not soothe, or lameness 1t will not cure.
Year: 1873

Now they are disputing in Philadelphia
whether certain cottage on the Schuykill
River was occupied by tue poet Moore during
bis visit to this country. We think quite
likely it may have been or that it may
not haze been, but we see no use in quarrel
ing about it. Moore was very decent Irish
man and couldn't have done any particular
harm to the cottage; but peoples prejudices
90 to ridiculous lengths sometimes.
Year: 1873

1t was a tender and touching allusion
made by speaker in the Kansas House of
Representatives to recently deceased mem
Der of the State Legislature, when be re-
marked that "Brother Riggs win not feel the
cold where he has gone"
Year: 1873

New fashioned ear ring, are in the shape of
ashield. from which depends gold fringe. 1t
is the correct thing, we believe, to have a
monogram engraved on the shield in the
most conspicuous style.
Year: 1873

The Boston Transcript makes the timely
suggestion that national bar-rooms and oys-
ter-saloons need not take alarm at the recent
Congressional action about the use of the
word National" The new law only applies
to brokers, bankers and savings institutions.
The phrase a Irrational steap' can still be law
fully applied to the back pay operation of the
cracksmen in the last Congress.
Year: 1873

To soften down somewhat the harsh points
of the unamiable character Of the English
King Richard the Third, recent lecturer
gives him the credit of being temperance
man, and proves it by the fact that on one
occasion he ''stopped King Henry's bier"
Year: 1873

A Portland man Who was caught
fishing for trout on another mans land,
the other day, completely silenced the
owner who demonstrated, with the ma
jestic answer: Who wants to catch
your trout! I'm only trying to drown
this worm
Year: 1873

IT is not often, in our struggling, busy
town life, that we light upon an incident
at once so pathetic and so unobTusive as
this which comes to us from Brooklyn.
There, in front of the park across which
the City Hall looks down upon the chief
square of the city, the passer-by, any day
between the hours of nine and twelve,
will see a man whose forlorn and dismal
figure, and melancholy attitude, can hard
ly escaps his notice. Never absent from
his post, and never sitting down, he takes
his stand where the great face of the city
clock is plainly visible, and with STOPPING
shoulders and bowed head, watches the
slow revolution of the hands. He is well
known to the old hdbttues of the Hall, who
seldom disturb his solitary watch. He
never speaks to any one, and, if addressed,
bends forward in eager scrutiny, glances
nervously at the clock, and then, muttering
unintelligible words, relapses into his
customary interpretive silence When
the ponderous bell at last rings out the
hour of twelve, he starts up with anima-
ton, looks round in all directions, as if
expecting some one, and finally, convinced
that his long waiting has been vain, slips
quietly out of the busy tide which flows
and Gibbs about the square during all the
day The story is that, many years ago,
he lent five hundred dollars-the gradual
savings of his toil-to friend, who was
to return it in the City Hall Park on a
given day, at twelve of the clock The
watch has been well kept, but the friend
has never appeared. 1t is pitful to think
what an agony of waiting he must have
endured before madness came to his re-
lief but his daily watch now is probably
that unconscious and mechanical action
which the brain continues to perform after
its higher functions have abdicated.-Ap-
ptetOn's Journal
Year: 1873

JAMES BATEMAN, good-looking young
Englishman of twenty-siX years, from
London, was with the emigrants, and de
sircs to make statement concerning the
death of his wife on the ship He was
the only passenger who was able to bring
his wife on deck, all of the others being
drowned below stairs. His statement is
as follows:


"On the 1st of April, three O'Clock in the
morning, | was awakened, with my wife
by hearing the ship strike heard them
say it was only the noise of the anchor
and that we were in port in Halifax. |
and my wife ran upstairs, nearly naked
to the door, but the sailors were guarding
it, and said they had orders to keep ali be.
tOlo. | burst open the door against the
men, and my wife and | fell upon the
deck. At this minute they were
firing the last rocket, and Mr..
Ryan, passenger, was trying to launch
IA boat | got into the boat with my
wife, when the sailors came and said
they would split our heads open if we did
not get out naturally preferred to stand
my chances on deck rather than be killed
in the boat, so we obeycd them, and got
into the rigging. My wife and | held on
to the rigging, and just as we got hold fast
the ship kceled over, and we were sus-
pended in the air by our hands. My wife
was twenty-five years of age, strong wo-
man, and | pushed her into the rigging
again. Then the sea swept over us several
times. was dressed in nothing but a
shirt and coat, and my wife had only a
chemise and flannel petticoat so we suf-
fered greatly from cold. My wife was
freezing nine hours in the rigging before
she died The last man saved was the
first mate and l think they could have
saved my wife at that time. Her last words
were, to an officer, "Please give me some
thing, if only handkerchief, to save me
from freezing" but the officer, though
warmly clad himself refused to aid her.


"a Halifax paper gives the statement of
First Officer FIRTH, to the effect that he
staid by my wife until she perished.
This is false. He did nothing for her.
/ think he is the biggest coward God ever
made. A number of other passengers
corroborated this. tried as a last eff
fort to save my wife to cross the deck from
the mizzen rigging to the fore part of the
ship, and while dozens who made the at
tempt were washed overheard, | was sue
cessful. | asked Captain Williams to try
and save my wife. He replied: Fetch
your wife, If you want her saved;' but that
was impossible, as | could not cross the
deck again, A lot of sailors cried Save
the women but none dared try. II was
too late. When last saw my wife she
was frothing at the mouth, and nearly
dead. We were bound for Boston. am
a bricklayer by trade, and have no friends
in the city, ,"-BOStOn Journal
Year: 1873

A YOUNG girl named Lottie Dougherty
recently died at Millville, N. j., from the
effects of wound sustained by her during
successful effort to save the lives of
nearly thousand people. In August
last, according to the Millville Republican,
the deceased, while occupying the post of
telegraph operator at Eagle Station, on the
line of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad,
was placed in position of responsibility
which might have proved too much for
most men. During a fearful thunder
storm, an immense tree was struck by
lighting and thrown across the railroad
track, Almost at the same moment, the
telegraph apparatus was disabled Find
ing it impossible to send message to
warn the approaching train of danger, the
brave girl seized a red lamp and ran up
the line swinging it above her head. The
engineer saw the signal in time to avoid a
fearful disaster. The engine ran against
the tree, however, with sufficient force to
disconnect a heavy branch, which struck
the girl on the shoulder, and inflicted the
injuries that resulted in her death. The
passengers were so grateful for their
escape that an attempt was Immediately
made to reward her; but she firmly de
clined to accept anything for having done
her duty. Such acts of personal heroism
should not be allowed TO go unrewarded,
and the men and women who were on the
train on that August night might have
now an opportunity TO mark their appre-
citation of poor Lottie's bravery by caus-
ing handsome monument to be erected
to her memory.-N. Y. Times,
Year: 1873

IT is said by those who have taken
pains to inform themselves on the subject,
that there is no country in the world,
civilized or savage, where bad teeth are
so generally the rule, and good ones so
rare an exception, as the United States.
And there is probably no other nation
who so generally swallow tea and coffee,
hot enough to scald the throat, and then
"cool off" by an immediate draught of
ice-water. An Englishman would regard
such habit as absolutely suicidal, and he
is amazed that sensible Americans should
so recklessly jeopardize health and life.
AT English hotels, people can, of course,
have whatever they demand and pay for,
as at pubLic-hOuSeS elsewhere; but i'll pri-
vate families in England, even the wealthy,
the use of ice is only moderate and occa-
sional-not by any means the constant,
everyday, excessive affair it is with us;
and there it is never taken Immediately after
hot drinks, as at breakfast and supper
among Americans, neither do English peo-
pie eat irregularly, and at all hours between
meals, as do SO many of our countrymen
"a practice by which the digestive or
gans must become impaired, and the gen
eral health suffer, even if the teeth did not.
Another deleterious practice, common in
our large cities especially, is the excessive
use of ice-cream and sOda-water Nothing
is more common on summer evenings than
for young men to swallow, at their boarding
houses, cup or two of coffee 60tJing hot,
and as rapidly as if they were drinking
for wager; and then TO rush out for an
ice-cream or glass of soda, "to cool off
with"-the 'tiuitsyrups" of the soda
water often containing fusil oil and other
poisons, apart from the deleterious effects
on the teeth of these extremes of heat and
cold following each other in quick sue
cession.


A distinguished dentist told me recent
ly, that it was difficult TO conceive of any
thing more ABSOLUTELY deStructige to the teeth
than the simultaneous use Of cold and hot
drinks. And he added that he had known
some scores of Europeans who came to the
United States with teeth that, with the
habits of life to which they had been ac-
customed at home, would probably have
lasted to extreme old age-glad, in less
than five years to avail themselves of the
services of dentist to manufacture an
artificial "set"


Surely something may be done to avert
this widespread curse of tooth-ache, and
discolored uncomely teeth, or the only
alternative that remains of wearing those
not "to the manor born;" so that Ameri.
cans of future generations, at least, may
cease to enjoy the unenviable distinction
of belonging to t0OthtesS nGtSon.-,Sctence
of Health.
Year: 1873

The book printers of Pesth are pre-
pairing magnificent memorial volume
for the coming jubilee of printing in
Hungary, II is four hundred years since
the first book was printed there from the
press of Hetai
Year: 1873

THERE was once an old woman who,
in answer to a visiting almoner's inqul-
ries as 10 how she did, said: 80, sir,
the Lord is good to me; I've lost my
husband and my eldest son, and my
youngest daughter, and I'm half blind,
and ] can't sleep or move about for the
rheumatism; but I've got two teeth left
in nv head, and, praise and bless His
holy name, they are opposite each
other P' It has been said that this old
woman was thankful for small mercies.


Oats should be bruised for an old
horse, but not for a Young one, because
the former through age and defective
teeth, cannot chew them properly. The
young horse can do 50, and they arr
thus properly mixed with saliva and
turned into wholesome nUtriment.
Year: 1873

TIE prOpriety Of knowing whom one
lnarTies is verified IN the case Of an aged
couple IN Iowa, who n widow and Wild
over married, and who. II was afterward
proved, were brother and sister, sepa-
rated in childhood.
Year: 1873

Ordinance Of the Board Of Supervisors of Placer


County consolidating the offices of Recorder and


auditor


INACCORDANCEW WITH THE PROVISIONS
l. of Section 4, LOG of the Political Code, 1t is
hereby ordered that the Office of County Recorder
and the office of County Auditor in and fo1
the county of Placer be, and they are hereby
consolidated, and the Recorder of said County
shall be ex-otficio Auditor thereof.
Year: 1873

NEwsPApERs.-The credit wider and
longer, get oftener cheated, suffer more pc
cunary losses, are oftener the victims of
misplaced confidence than any other calling
in the community. People pay printer S
bill with more reluctance than any other.
1t goes harder with them to expend dol
lar on a valuable newspaper than ten on a
gewgaw; yet every body avails himself to
the editors pen and printers ink. How
many professional and political regulations
and fortunes have been made and sustained
by the friendly though unrequited act Of
the editor? How many embryo towns
and cities have been brought into notice
and pufted into prosperity by the press ?
How many railroads in successful operation
would have foundered but for the lever that
moves the world In short, what branch
of industry and activity has not been pro-
NOTED and defended by the press?