smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

A BRUTE.-Don't read the an
nexed extract 70 your wife, young
man, because it is likely to make
her cry.


The girl is generally educated
on novels, and her first disappoint-
ment comes in the quiet iudifer-
ence of the husband after the
honeymoon. "You love me no
longer" said a bride Of a few
months to her better half in gown
and slippers. "Why do you say
that, puss?" he asked, quietly re-
moving cigar from his lips
"You do not caress me and call
me pet names; you no longer
seek so anxiously for my company;
was the fearful answer. "My
DEAR" continued the aggravating
wretch, "did you ever notice a
man running after a car? How
be does run-over stone, through
mud, regardless of everything, till
he reaches the car, and he seizes
hold and swings on. Then be quiet
ly seats himself and reads the pa
per-" "And what does that mean?"
"An illustration, my dear. The car
is as important to the man after
ho gets in as when he is chasing
it, but the manifestation is no
longer called for. I would have
shot any one who would have put
himself in my way when in pur-
suit of you, as I would shoot any
one now who would como between
US, but as proof of my love you
insist on my running after the car.
Learn to'smoke, my dear, and be
philosopher. The two combined
will clear the brain, quiet the
nerves, open the pores and improve
tho Digestion"
Year: 1875

AN ECCENTRIC JUDGE-LAwYERs
SHOULD NOT BE AssEs.-Judge
Underwood. Of Rome, to four
young lawyers who had just pass
ed determination in~his- court:
"Young gentlemen, I want to say
thing or two to you. You have
passed as good an examination as
usual, perhaps better; but you don't
know anything. Like hose
young fellows just back from their
graduation college, you think you
know a great deal. That is a
great mistake. If you ever get to
be Of any account, you will be sur
prised at your present ignorance.
Don't be too big foryour breeches.
Go round to the Justices court.
Try to learn something. Don't be
afraid. Set off upon high key.
You will, no-doubt, speak a great
deal of nonsense, but you will have
one consolation; nobody will know
it. Thegreat mass of mankind take
sound for sense never mind about
your case-pitch in. You are
about as apt to win as lose. Don't
be ashamed of the wise-looking
justice. He don't know a thing.
He is a dead beat on knowledge.
Stand to your rack fodder or no
fodder, and you will see daylight
after awhile. The community gen.
orally supposes that you will be
rascals. There is no absolute ne
cessity thatyou should. You may
be smart without being tricky.
Lawyers ought to be gentlemen.
Some Of them don't come up to
the standard and are a disgrace
to the fraternity. They know more
than any other race generally, and
not much in particular. They don't
know anything about sand stones,
carboniferous periods, and ancient
land animals known as Fossils
Men that make out they know a
great deal on these subjects don't
know much. They are humbugs-
superb humbugs. They are ancient
land animals themselves, and will
Ultimately be fossils. You are dis
missed with the sincere hope Of
the Court that you will not make
asses of yourselves.


.. - 1Courier-Journa2. .
Year: 1875

EGYPTIAN MAx1Ms.-Rev. DR..
J. P. Thompson, in his "Notes on
Egyptology," in the Bibliothica
sacra gives the following maxims
from the ancient Egyptians


Do not take on airs.


Do not maltreat an inferior !;
respect the aged.


Do not save thy life at the ex-
pense of another's.


Do not perVert the heart Of thy
comrade if it is pure.


Do not make sport of those who
are dependent upon thee.


Do not maltreat a woman,
whose strength is less than thine
own; let her find in thee protec-
tor.


If from a humble condition
thou hast become powerful and
the first in the city Of opulence,
let not riches make thee proud,
for the first Author of these good
things is God.


If thou art intelligent bring, up
thy son in the love of God. If he
is courageous and active and in
crease thy property, give him a
better recompense. But if the
son whom thou hast begotten is
fool, do not turn thy heart away
from him, for he is thy son.
Year: 1875

The INTENSITY OF DIFFERENT
CoLoRED LIGHTs.-An experiment
recently made at Trieste, to test
the intensity of various colored
lights, is worth recording in these
columns, as it is naturally a mat
ter ofsome interest to photograph
ers. The experiment was a
practical one and designed for
the purpose Of discovering how
far lights of different colors pene-
trate darkness, and whether they
would be Of any value for the Ian
terms of lighthouses. Ofcourse a
white lights seen at a much great
er distance than any colored illumi-
nation, and it is singular, too, as
many Of our readers have, no
doubt, remarked; when viewing a
fountain illuminated by various
colors, that when the white light
is thrown upon the drops these
appear at their best. At first we
may admire the violet; then ru-
by light is thrown upon the falling
water, and we pronounce in favor
Of that; then, perhaps, green, Or
ange, and blue illumination follow,
all securing our admiration in turn,
until, at last the white lights again
turned on, and it's brilliancy and
intensity give at once finer effects
than the others. In the expert
ment at Trieste, half a dozen Ian
terms with carefully selected glass,
and all furnished with oil and
wicks Of a like character, were
set burning on the beach, and then
observations were taken by a par
ty Of sailors in a boat. At half a
league distant the dark blue Ian
tern was invisible, and the deep
blue one almost so, so that there
could be no doubt of their unserVi-
cableness for lighthouses or bea-
cons. Of all the colors the green
was visible for the longest distance
with the exception of the red,
which ranked next to the white in
brilliancy. 1t is only the green
and the red-such, indeed, as our
railways make use of-that are ca
pable of employment, and the
green light the Trieste authorities
only recommend in the vicinity of
white and red lights, as from a
short distance an insulated green
light begins to look like a
| white one.


1.-THE Photographic NeUs.
Year: 1875

Next to sunlight Of heaven is
the sunlight Of cheerful face
There is no mistaking 1.-THE
bright eye: the unclouded brow,
the sunny smile-all tell of that
which dwells within. Who has
not felt It's electrifying influences !?
one glance at this face lifts US at
once out of the mists and shad-
,ows, away from tears and repin-
ings, into the beautiful realms Of
hope. One cheerful face in a
household will keep everything
bright and warm within. Envy,
hatred, malice, selfshness, despon-
dency, and host of evil passions
may lurk around the door, they
may even look within but they
never enter and abide there-the
cheerful face puts them all to
flight.


1t may be a very plain face,
but there is something in it that
we feel we cannot express, and it's
cheerful look sends the blood dan
cling through our veins for very joy.
We turn toward the sun, and it's
warm, genial influence refreshes
and strengthens ourfainting spirits.
All, there is a world Of magic in
the plain cheerfulface! 1t charms
US with spell of eternity and we
would not exchange it for all the
soulless beauty that ever graced
the fairest form.


1t may be a very little one that
we nestle upon our bosom or sing
to sleep in our arms with a low,
sweet melody; but it is such a
bright, CHEEKY face! The scintil-
lations of joyous spirits are fash
ing from every feature. And
what a power it has over the
household, binding each heart to-
gether in tenderness and love and
sympathy! shadows may darken
around us, but somehow this face
ever shines between. And it
shines so brightly that the shadows
cannot remain, and silently they
creep away into the dark corners,
and remain there till the cheerful
face is gone.


1t may be wrinkled face, but
it is all the dearer for that, and
not the less bright. We linger
near it, and gaze tenderly upon it
and say; "God bless the cheerful
face!" We must keepit with US as
long as we can, for home will lose
much brightness when the cheer
full face is gone.


And after it has gone, how the
remembrance of it pariies and
softens our wayward nature |!
When care and sorrow would snap
our heartstrings asunder, this
wrinkled face looks down upo n
US, the painful tension grows light
er, and the way is less heavy. AS
is the spirit, mind and disposition,
so are the features.
Year: 1875

FIVE GERMAN MEN-OF-WAR at kiel have
been ordered TO be in readiness for immedi-
ate service. Their officers and crews are not
allowed TO go ashore. 1t il supposed that
there is any further delay of satisfaction
from Spain for the Gustav outrage. This
movement Will probable force Spain now To
resume active measure against the CaTllSts.
Year: 1875

FROM THE EAR CT a lawyer OF IndanapO-
lis Ind. q few days since. piece OF slate
pencil was extracted which had penetrated
the organ in a boyish frolic at school seven
teen years before and had since been carried
Without serious inconvenience.
Year: 1875

TIE TEENs Pacific RAILROAD BILL
Iht House Committee on Pacific Railroads
this morning agreed 10 fdvOrably report the
Texas Pacific railroad bill To the House. This
was subsequently, done, and the bill was r.
committed 10 the committee. It is pxpectel
the House Will be asked To set aside some
night next week for Its considerations
Year: 1875

Mrs. Lincoln's mind is liable to spells
ofsinking and rising. For weeks it seems
different from ordinary in being better
than the average brain. She is much of
her time witty, sharp and playful, and has
no more business behind bars than we all
have who are allowed the freedom Of the
CITY, But it is also true that times do
come when some strong arm should be
near her by day and night to stand guard
until the intellectual tide should rise again.
There may be few days or weeks in a
year when her present home in Batavia
would be the best possible place for her,
but the rights of liberty and to be treated
as sane human being are so immense
and 50 tender, that release should come
the moment the mind strai ghtcns up again
Mrs. Lincoln's condition last spring was
wholly new, and we think only temporary.
The weakness of the mind revealing itself
at times up to that date had such shape
that one could we'll call it madness If
she kept her window open that angels
might come in, and that heaven mi ght
send her at times q Whit of its rare per-
fumes, this only indicates some harmless
halluclnation, and would suggest the idea
of taking the iron bars also of her win
dows, so that the angels can come in if
they so desire. No doubt upon the return
of her son he will have the devoted moth.
cr removed to the house of some friend
He loves her more than the public does,
and will do what is right as rapidly as
the right shall make itself manifest st-Chi-
cago Alliance.
Year: 1875

L EOH Iuo 10unHt!pnAA EU4u.rcV.


1t is pleasant to narratc little story re.
lating to a young man who had been i'm
prisoncd in this [Easton] pcnitentiary for
u term too short TO have entailcd on him
any very lasting damage by the exclusion
from society,". Having conducted himself
exceptionally well, he won the esteem of
the kind hearted warden, and when the
term of his Imprisonment had expired, re.
qucstcd the loan of small sum of mon.
ey. The warden, having faith in the man
granted the request, giving him the
amount out Of his own private purse
Many years afterward an elegant carriage
drove up to the door of the prison, and
an elegantly dressed gcntlemanly look.
ing man alighted. Seeking and obtain
ing entrance, he began a conversation
with tie. warden, who had quite forgotten
him, but who was pleased to see in his
dress, department and conversation the
evidence Of a thoroughly reformed
life.


The stranger told his story, how he had
begun business on the money the warder
had loaned him, how, by industry, integ
r;ty and frugality he had prospercd, and
how, at last, he had amasscd handsome
fortune. lie was glad the warden was
still living, and came to return the none,
with very considerable addition, whicl
was at first refused but afterwards accept
ed, the stranger insisting that he shoule
receive the surplus also. He had allow
ed year after year to go by, although abl
to re turn it long ago, simply because IL
bad seen his way clear to wealth and an
bition and wanted to bc able to tell til
happy news when he came to cancel til
debt. The warden kept the amount h
had loaned with the equitable interest, AN
the balance he placed in the fund of III
institution.
Year: 1875

A returned Enoch Arden was tearing
around and railing at a Christian COM
Munity that would allow woman to
starve nearly to death in the absence Of:
her husband The truth is he left her in
the days of hoop skirts looking like this
0, and on his return found her pinned
back and looking like this !. TIE. i'm
preston that she had been starved, waS
natural
Year: 1875

person in the same box. We do not see how
these demands can be refused, and if they are
admitted they will suffice to overthrow the
result OF the election as declared BY the
Council, which violated the injunction upon
that body not to count the bogus returns.


Another effort is being made to create par
Hsanship for the charter because MARX sHER-
1DAa has been got out Of Office under its oper-
alton This ought to hive no force whatever.
So far as MARX SHERIDAN is concerned, his
term of Office expires Dec. /, and he would
then go out Of Office anyway, unless the peo-
pie see fit to re-elect him, which they would
have perfect right to do, and which, under
our form Of government, we know of no
means to prevent Nobody should permit
himself to be nis1ed by any Of these side
issues. The charter-contest is all-important
because it includes the whole issue Of the
honesty Of elections. If it holds, all future
city elections in Chicago will be Of the same
fraudulent character as the charter election,
for they will be held in the spring without
registration, and with Judicial notice to
the repeaters and ballot boz suffers that they
may follow their practices with impunity.
Year: 1875

ton, it is not unlikely that IN international
labor league would be- followed by an inter-
national association Of employers. We are
inclined to think that such threatening or
ganization of these two great forces would do
good rather than harm, in the long run, by
bringing SO much study to bear upon the
yexed problem of their proper relations that
a solution Of it would be reached either
through arbitration or cooperation.
Year: 1875

but Judge FARwE11 probably thought there
was something more than mere technicali-
ties" and Is Technical objections TO the man
ner in which the charter had been submitted; !;


if he had not thought so, his decision would
have been Just the REVERSE Of what it was


But If the objections ara not sustained, and
the issue of llegh voting comes to trial, then


Judge FARwE11's remarks apply, and among
the first questions that will arise is how the
number Of illegal votes is to be determined
in wards where there has been no list Of
voters kept, and no poll-books returned or
in wards where two ballots, presumably on
separate questions, were deposited in one and
the same box, by the same person. Take
the First Ward, for example Some 1850
tickets were found in the ba1ot-box, OF
which 1865 were for the charter. Now there
is the strongest circu1nstantial evidence that
there were at least 1,400 illegal votes among
these. The fact that the total vote OF the
ward at the exciting general election of last
fall Was only half as many as that cast st the
charter election would be sufficient to estab-
lish this. But no list Of voters WAS kept in
this ward How, then, can the number Of
Illegal votes be traced, or the Illegal voters
discovered, unless q poll-list containing the
names of those voting can be produced2 The
demand will be made that, in this ward and
every other ward where there was an evident
purpose to ignore every provision OF the Eleo~
ton law looking to tho Identification of Illegal
votes, the entire rote be thrown out ss
Illegal The same dsmand will probably be
made In regard to thoss wards where two
ballots uana allo9sd 10 b> deposited hy ons
Year: 1875

'sThe story is completed and closed like the


day,


away


Song sinks into silence, the story is told,
The windows are darkened,. the hearth


stone is cold,


Darker and darker the black shadows fall,
Sleep and oblivion reign over ALL" M


There is beautiful song on the
slumberous air, drifting up from the
valley of bliss, which holds in its quaint
melody legend of love-a queenly
rose blooming in the waste of memory
whose perfume speaks of peace, and an
exquisite warbler whose everlasting
lay springs from the we'll Of deep tran
quility-alullaby of love set to divinest
music-a celestial vision gilded and
pure-a banishment of heaxtaches, ills
and grief-a ring and plighted vow
a pledge that withers evil and subdues
regret, silvers each impious heart-throb
making the disciple steadfast and earn
est. There is bond too-a bond
deathless as eternity and waneless as
time-an obligation holy in its solici
tude, sacred in its intensity-a radiant
bow of promise woven with the light OF
two loving hearts.


Willis Waters and Horace Hays are
married. After long weary months IT
exile and separation, they have met to-
part no more; met on the sunny height
ofmutual deservedness, on the grand
plain of perfected alteration. They
had parted under the shadow of sin
and the farewell was darkened by
bitter distrust. They had lived asunder
without one hope of future reunion,
had schooled themselves to indifer-
ence, but the meeting in the moonlight
by the seaside had called these barriers
back to the dead past. They are home
ward bound-returning to the dear
land of their birth. 1t is early morn
ing and the beautiful blue waves are
tipped with the early sunlight. A
fresh, bracing breeze dimples the waters
and wantons with the pearly foam. An
ocean steamer is there CALAMITY plow
ing the blue Atlantic, speeding like a
sea gull over the laughing waves. At
one end, clustered together in the
bright ocean sun-beams, is happy
group. They laugh as they bid adieu
to beautiful Europe and turn them
homeward. Their thoughts are as
sunny as the day and their hopes as
bright. Ludolph Lee and Hagar Bell
are there. He had wooed andwon the
free, careless child of the Old World,
and was taking her to new home in
his adored America. She was as law
lessly independent as of yore, and the
sweet gift of originality was her most
peerless charm but she was silent
and sad this fair, radiant day, and the
eyes that turned wistfnlly toward the
receding shore were blinded by bitter
tears. She stood apart from the others
and leaned over the railing to catch the
last fond glimpse. 1t was her home,
and months, perhaps years, would glide
by her before she would again behold
its familiar face. She loved Ludolph
with true, womanly affection. She
reverenced his slightest wish and fear
ed his displeasure. She loved him,
and for that she would sacrifice home,
kindred and tender ties to follow him
into land of strangers and home of
Year: 1875

adoption. "His home should be her
home, and his God her God" In exile
and absence he was still her king, and
in the precincts of his presence she
would find dwelling place. Ralph
Ray and his wife are among the group,
Weary of travel and of life, Ruth had
turned homeward with sigh of relief.
She was childishly impatient to see
Carter and America. She felt to be
home again. and once more installed in
the old life some Of her whilom cor
tentmeut would return and she would
be happy again. Poor. duped woman !;
as if happiness did not fee like a
frightened bird the moment you took
upon your soul false, unreal VOW
She was hourly sinking into fetters
binding and cruel-the fetters of self
accusation. She now saw her error
when it was hopelessly too late,' and
the grim shadow of the future stole
over her heart, leaving it dim, dark,
throbbing. Her life was broken
dream, an unfnlflled mission. Stand
ing on the summit of superb woman
hood she found herself a mocking
sample. Her lips were wreathed in
smiling and her eyes were blue and
beaming as of old. but beneath the
sunny surface there nestled a sigh
lasting and grievous. In some moments
shudder of desolation would steal
over her and she felt herself a walfon
barren isle with surging waves around
her, cold and gray. Her life is wasted.
She need not seek to redeem it, for
nothing this side of heaven can give
back to the heart its lost love.


Together at one end, with their eyes
fastened on the soft tapping of the sea-
waves, stand Willis and Horace. 1t
is they who travel back to America
without one vague regret-they who
are blissfully. supremely happy. Will
lis heart is in repose, and her features
are calm and smiling. She thinks now
in the lull of the storm that the clouds
are forever past. She does not dream
that though out of the shadow" others
can lengthen Ger her yet.


"Oh thou child of many prayers,


Life hath quicksands, life hath snares
Care and age come unawares."


Even in the sunlight we still have
shadows, and 'the eyes that do not
weep are the saddest eyes of ALL" Here
we will leave them on the gallant ship,
homeward bound. and may they not
only reach this earthly home, this
tabernacle of clay, but home beyond
the brooding clouds which endureth
forever-a home in the land of light,
in the land of the ransomed, and the
land of the free.


THE END.
Year: 1875

To put six men in FIVE beds and each
man have bed to 'himself.-An inn
keeper having TO lodge six men. each
man to have a whole bed to himself,
took the six into room having five
beds. Two disputed which was to
have the first bed. Heputthe third man
In the second bed, the fourth in the
third bed, the fifth in the fourth bed
and then went back found the two who
claimed the first bed had settled the
difficulty, and took one and put him in
the fifth bed.
Year: 1875

In making preparation OF beesWaX


rosin and tallow, apply to neWiy-se'


scions, we have repeatedly given full al,
| rections Ours is to use warm in llquld
state, applied with small thin wooden
paddle which can be done rapidly anC
| perfectly: but we see it recommended
| in most horticultural journals, to make ii
the consistency of shoemaker's wax, throw
! it into tub of cold water, work it soft
and apply it with the hands, and in order
that it may not stick to the hands. grease
them! Very pleasant work. We have
ourselves, unassisted, set seventy peal
gratis in two hours, using the wax as we
recommend in a liquid state, and every
one of which grew and became part Of
the tree. The proportions we use are
four parts of the rosin. one part of bees
wax and one part OF beef or mutton tallow
Melt them together in a skillet, (Which is
the best) or lineup, and melt well. 1t
should remain in the vessel and used as
needed Twenty or thirty scions can be
waXed with one heating up. When much
grating is to be done, Il little fire tor
heating the wax, should be made on the
spot. between two brick OF stones


We have seen various preparations for
making gratting-wax and we believe we
have tried all that looked if they would
answer, but prefer our own decidedly.
Applying it warm or hot does no injury to
the graft The object to attain in the pro
portion is that the wax will not crack in
cool, dry weather, OF run in warm
weather. If, however, upon trial, different
proportions be required, the foregoing
can be altered, though after using them in
several ways we have come back to these
Germantown Telegraph.