smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

suincient testimony to the fact that there


ls something radically wrong. 1t might


seem rather an arbitrary ard offensive de
cree that law should be passed prohibit


ing all marriages within the Jurisdiction


Oh The United States, wherein the parties


could not exhibit from their family pbvsj-
cian, or medical officer regularly appointed


ior the purpose, a certificate of health OF


Dody and soundness Of mind but we have


no hesitation in declaring that those par


ties who enter into the sacred compact of
marriage, knowing themselves to be the
present or hereditary victims of disease. are
guilty. OF crime as great as the son who
turns upon the mother who bore him
whose enormity cannot be measured
IN one generation, but whose sorrow goes
Ioliihg Gown the stream of time, to curse
tie erring soul that gave it birth. Mar
riage in our country has come to he re-
garded as too light a matter. VilIainous
and sensual dreamers have gone abroad.
spreading their venom broadcast through
the land, trying to break down the virtuo1s
customs OF our fathers, who, with their
simple partners, surrounded by stalwart
sons and healthy daughters. passed to a
winter frosty but kindly, " to sleep togeth-
er at the foot" after well-spent life. 1t
IS entered into, in too many Instances. In
haste and repented of at leisure. While
the young and inexperienced are apt to
regard the interference and advice of those
who have their best interests at heart with
disfavor, it were better for their present
and future happiness; for the good of
those whom God shall send them for the
welfare and glory of the State, that this
contract, the most sacred and important
upon earth, should be entered into with
careful and solemn consideration, so that
there may be no after-regrets, no sorrow
and signing. no future generations of. in
eyitable wretchedness.-Chieago Inter-
Ocean.
Year: 1873

and poultry keeper must have the knowl-
edge, skill and patience to conduct his
business so that these instincts are not OBJ
structed, but are led, as it We're, i'm the
ways in which they should go. Other
wise strife occurs and failure is inevitable.
Year: 1873

AT the hearing of breach Of promise
suit in London, recently, the jury were
Obliged to hear read seven hundred and
fort9-four letters which had passed be-
tween the lovers. After hearing t5em all
the promise to marry was admitted and
the jury gave the plaintiff verdict for
f1,000.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, May S.-Secretary Rich
srdson will tomorrow issue an order pay
ing tribute of respect to the memory OF
the late Chief Justice, in which the Secre-
tary will allude to past services of the de-
ceased as head of the Treasury Department.
Secretary Richardson will also direct that
the Department be closed Saturday next,
and that the building be draped in mourn
ino for 30 days
Year: 1873

"BY ORDER OF THE KING. The inde-
cent haste with which President Grant
has recognized Pinchback and the body
declared elected by affidavit as the law
full authority within the State;of Louis
ia1ia, at the time when the matter in
dispute was being argued ih the Su-
preme Court of the United States, is o
direct intimation that the Executive
will shall be superior to the legal decree.-
The Gar of Russia could not have
acted in more autocra..ic manner, but
he would have acted in accordance
with the usages of his Empire, while
President Grant has proved to the
world how ready he is to play the des-
pot on the slightest excuse, and how
eager he is to aid the cause of Radica-
lism when he will not want to inquire
into the merits or dement's of the par
tisan feud. If such practices are to be
permitted with impunity, it may come
that matter Of disputed State election,
which properly belongs to our State
Courts, may be taken in hand by the
President, who may place over us a
Governor and Legislature which the
people have refused to elect, but who
have been declared by Radical partisans,
under the iniquitous Enforcement act,
to have been chosen by affidavit"
Napoleon never committed q worse
crime against free government than that
of which President Grant and his pas.
tisans have just been guilty.
Year: 1873

But about my whims. You don't
care about the sign. l have often
thought that if 1 was II literary man
and was master of Il literary style, if l
had had half so much practice at writ
ing for the papers as have had at put
ting i'll mainsprings, I could make the
history of my whim quite interesting
Bat here am talliin. about my sign
and nj the rest. However, l am not Il
StorV-writcr nor q storytcllcr, hope,
and SO You'll have to let me get at that
story of my whim in my own way. 1t
is as good love story as l ever read.
IN fact l think it is better. SO does
my wife. But then everybody thinks
his own the best, suppose. 1 know
mine is.


had a fancy for carrying a watch
that would keep time. 1 do not mean
Swiss watch that loses five minutes Il
week or II month. Nor do I mean an
English watch that, like Captain Cut
ties needs setting ahead " fifteen min
ntcs afore dinner and fifteen minutes
after dinner nor an Irish watch like
the one that kept 1.-the best time and
the most of it of any watch in town. +"
| got me real machine-made watch-I
don't think I had best tell what make,
1t would be advertising my watches in
a love story; and besides am dealer,
and if l tell which watch I chose, I
should offend the other manufacturers,
1 suppose, which might not be the best
thing in the way of business.


But regulated my watch carefully.
l do think it has good effect on q
man to carry watch that keeps good
time. An inaccurate watch always
seems to me liar, and I do not think
any lover of the truth would carry one.
l regulated my watch until brought
the thing to nice point. It isn't best
to tell you how little it varied in year.
1t would sound like IN exaggeration to
you, and it would make my story have
flavor of the shop, and I hate a man
to bo always talking shop"


My watch went beautifully, and 1 did
boast little abou-it. I told the min
lister about it once, how perfectly that
watch kept time, and he looked up at
me with kindly smile and then said
pleasantly: 81 hope you take pains to
regulate your life as carefully as you do
the%atch." That word did me more
good than. all the sermons he had
preached since I cameto Cattaqua. I
could never look at my dear friend, the
watch, in the face after that, without
seeming to hear the question: edo YOU
regulate your life SO carefuNy?" Well,
l hope my lie does not vory from the
true standard so much as it did; but it
isn't tract Or Sunday School book I
am writing, but love story, if I ever
get to it.


You see when I wrote to father at
the end of the first year, telling him
Year: 1873

directions oxsept warning not to sell
my watch to anybody.


It so happened that i'll returning to
Cattaqua after New Years, I travelled
in the same car and sat in the same seat
with Louise Jones, the young school
teacher, who had been spending the
holidays with her parents at Aurora.
Unsentimental as I am, I liked her more
and more, and / heard several things
about her in the next few days which
raised her greatly in my estimation, but
which can not take time to tell.
Aweek after New Years she brought
in her watch to have it fixed. It was
an old silver English lever of her
fathers. She asked how soon could
fix it, and I told her it would take four
days, on account of the work ahead of
it. She looked disappointed. A time
piece is indispensable to teacher, you
know, SO I offered to lend her a watch.
took down one and put it back three
times. Then went to the showcase,
and with treinulous hand took up my
fine watch; first removing the chain.
She did not know the watch, and SO
let me fasten it to her watch.guard
without suspicion.


Before night the absence of the watch
from the showcase had been observed,
and all the girls set themselves to find
out who Wore it. Sophie Bennett was
accused of having it, and she managed
to deny it in such way as to leave the
impression that she had it.


Early the next morning in came
Louise Jones. "Mr. Irving" she said,
"you have made mistake. I find in
the back of this watch an inscription
which leads me to think that you have
given me what you did not mean to-"


Forseeins that the conversation would
be a delicate one, gave Thomas, my
apprentice, letter to mail, and then
took the watch and read the inscription
in order to gain time. had put on
the inside of the case a sentence I had
heard heard the minister quote: sd
perfect acoman nobly planned"


handed it back to her and said
Miss Jones, I made no mistake. I
lent you that watch on purpose"


But you must see," she said,
strongly, that I cannot wear it on any
account"


II do not see," I said, smiling, and
blushing, fear.


cit would create false impression. I"


If you say the impression it would
create would be false, I must take it
back"


"How could it be otherwise. than
false? ?" she said, little puzzled.


II know of but one way" said
slowly. "You know what the impress
sion made would be. On my part 1
wish that it might be true one. If
you are agreed, it shall be, and you
shall accept the watch and wear it for
ever"


She was silent, holding the watch
and turning it over absently, and grow
ing exceedingly red.


"Take time," said, "Do not show
the inscription to any one. Twill come
and see you about it whenever you say.
Shall it be this evening


She nodded her head and left.


She has often told me that she did
the poorest teaching Of her life that
day. 1t does not matter. She has
long since quit teaching. But it took
the sossips long time to find out who
had the watch. She wears it yet-only
her name is not Jones.
Year: 1873

T.. F. KUNKEL 5 BITTER WINE OF Iron
This truly valuable tonic has been so
thoroughly tested by all,classes OF the COM
munity that it is now deemed indispensable
as Tonic medicine. 1t costs but little,
purihes the blood and gives tone to the
stomach, renovates the system and pro
longs life Everybody should have it


For the cure of Weak Stomachs, Gene
raj Debility, Indigestion, Diseases of the
Stomach, and for all cases requiring a
tonic


This wine includes the most agreeable
and efficient Salt of Iron we possess
Citrate of Magnetic Oxide, combined with
the most agreeable OF vegetable tonics-
elbow Peruvian Bark


Do you want something to strengthen
you?


Do you want a good APPETITE?


Do you want to get rid of nervousness.
Do ycu want energyP
DO YOU want to sleep vel? ?
DO you want to build up your constitu
ton.


Do you want to feel well?
DO you want brisk and vigorous feeling
If you do try Kunkel's Bitter Wine OF
Iron.


| only ask a trial of this valuable tonic


Beware of counterfeits, as kunkels Bit
ter Wine of Iron is the only sure and eff
fectual remedy in the known world for the
permanent cure of Dyspepsia and Debility
and as there are a number of limitations of
fered to the public, | would caution the
community to purchase none but the gen
uine article, manufactured by L. T. Kun
kel, and having his stamp on the cork o
every bottle. The very fact that other
are attempting to initiate this valuable
remedy, proves its worth and speaks vol
umes in its favor


Sold only in 81 bottles. Sold by Drug
gists and dealers everywhere, and in Roc
Island by Smith & Bonney and job
Bengston.
Year: 1873

House cleaning is great horror to nine
men out of every ten. When that time
comes the men folks" as a rule, give the
domestic hearth wide berth. Oceans
of suds-the product OF tons of soap-fair-
ly food every part of the house. The
women, from the mistress down, labor as
they never worked before, and what with
the discomfort, the smell of suds and the
dampness, and not unfrequently sickness,
the product of colds and overwork, mat
ters are generally disagreeable The sim
pie use of Sapoio instead of soap does
away with all this discomfort 1t lghtens
the labor a hundred percent. because it
removes dirt, grease, stains and spots,
with hardly any labor, with but little water
and in one tenth the usual time.


2deOd&w2w
Year: 1873

Our readers should be careful to notice
that PRoCToR x CANDLES S STAMP is upon
the bars of their NOTIFIED GERMAN Soar,
as all good articles are initiated, and this
Soap being so popular, other manufactur-
ers have copied their stamp. 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

The value of Renne' Pain Killing Mag
ic Oil is best seen where it is tried faithful
ly in families for acute or In chronic pains
The cures made by its use in headache,
sciatica, rheumatism, ,sprains, &c, are won
dertul, and this is shown by the great de-
mand for it all over the country Try it.
reader
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General Of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time TO
the present are buying this article. This
is a fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

The great cause of so many young peo-
pie being gray headed is on account Of
their having used the vile compounds
which have flooded the market 50 long.
Natures Hair Restorative is a sure rem
edy for this Clear as crystai no poison
perfectly s7ceet, ciean and reliable. Al
druggist sell it, See advertisement
Year: 1873

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Aug. 6.-The State
Board Of Equalization will meet in this
city next Tuesday. All the assessment re-
turns have not yet been received at the
Auditor office but they are expected to
be in by that time They do not show, 50
far as they have been received, that the
assessments have all been made at fair
cash value on the contrary, a number OF
counties are reported at less than they were
under the old rule of one-third cash value.
1t looks now as though the Board of Equal
ization would have a difficult Job before
them to adjust all the differences.
Year: 1873

Yesterday afternoon the superintendent Of the
Jersey City ferry heard that a gross outrage had
been perpetrated on one Of the Desbrosses street
boats about two O'Clock on Friday morning. Thus
far the occurrence Is vouched for by only man,
who AYERS that he was passenger on board at the
time. He says that there were many men in the
ladies' cabin. On one side sat o woman
apparently respectable two OF the men in
suited her, then put out the lights and
outraged her. 1t is strange that neither
the eyewitness nor the woman complained OF the
affair on reaching Jersey City where Ofllcer Barry
Is constantly In attendance to arrest disorderly
passe ngers. The deck hands seem to know nothing
Of such an event. Nevertheless, the very posi-
biity OF the perpetratlon OF SO dastardy crime
justifes an immediate investigation. Captain
Woolsey yesterday ordered an inquisition TO be
made on Monday.
Year: 1873

Coroner Young was yesterday called to the Morgue
to hold an inquest on the body Of Michsel halioy,
IS years OF age, locksmith, who while at
work at the Grand Central Hotel Broadway. on
the 10Th inst, was struck on the mead Dy the
the result
Year: 1873

We shall never forget that evening We
spent at Magrudcr's years ago, We ad-
mlred Miss Magrudcr, and we went
around TO see hcr. Ii was SKINNER time,
and moonlight and sbc sat upon the
piazza, The carpenter had been there that
day, glucing up the rustic chairs on the
porch, SO we took seat on the step, IN
front Of Miss Magrndor, where we could
gaze into her eyes and drink IN her smiles
It seems probable that the carpenter must
have upset his glue,pot ON the spot where
we sat- for after enjoying Miss Magru-
derss remarks for a couple OF hours, aud
drinking several Of her smiles, we tried
to rise for the purpose Of going home,
but found we were imoyeablo fixed 10 the
step. Then Miss Magruder said: Don't
be in a hurry" and we told her we be-
licyed we would't, The conversation had
sadder tone after that, and we sat there
thinking whether Il would be better TO
ask Miss Magruder TO withdraw while we
disrobed and went home IN Highland
costume, or whether we should urge her
to warm up tho poker SO that we could
thaw ourselves out; or whether we
should give terrific wrench and then
ramble down the yard backward. About
midnight Miss Magrudcr yawned and
said she believed sho would 20 TO
bed Then we suddenly asked her If she
thought her father would have any objec-
ton to lending us his front steps for few
days because we wanted TO take them
home for pattern. We think Miss Mag
|1uder must have entertained doubts ofour
sanity, for she rushed in, called hen father
and screamed. Magruder came down
with a double baueled gun. Then we
explained the situation IN a whisper, and
he procured a saw and cut ont the piece
Of the step to which hc were attached
Then we went home wearing the patch,
and before two O'Clock crushed out our
young love for Miss Magruder. We never
called again, and she threw her self away
on a dry-goods man. There is mean-
choly satisfaction in recalling these mem-
ories of youth, and Of rejecting upon the
influence Of glue upon the emotions Of
the human heart.
Year: 1873

The Niagara Falls Gazette thus
notices the destruction of "rerrapIn
Tower" long one of the most conspicu-
Gus objects around the falls: During the
past fifty years millions of people from
every inhaOitable part of the globe have
seen the round, weather-beaten tower,
built upon the narrow ledge of rocks
upon the extreme bank OF the Horse
shoe Fall, and have enjoyed from It's
summit TIE magnificent view which it at-
fJrdeI of the 'umultuous rapids above
AMI the mighty rush of waters below.
They will learn with sincere regret that
the venerable mass of masonry has been
destroyed. The tower was built in 1928,
by Judge Porter, was 45 feet in height
and II feet in diameter ut its base. The
masonry was massive and its hardness
aud durability many have thought TO
have been abundantly demonstrai ed.
But standing in such an extremely ex-
posed position, subject at all times to
The action OF the spray and the fierce,
beating winds, and in the winter months
ice bound and frost-bitten, the wood and
stone have been gradually yielding 10 II Q
elements, and the structure was pro-
nounced unsafe last fall, and has been
closed TO the public ever since. Last
week preparations were made TO remove
the concern, in order to make room for a
new iron tower Large assures were
found to have opened in the masonry
and the mast in The center of the pile
was found to be only shell, the core
having almost disappeared from dry
rot. The first attempt to blow up the
tower was made Saturday noon, but
proved aborIive, the twenty-five pounds
OF powder buried in the base of the
structure only serving to demolish a por-
tion of the southwestern side. The ruins
were subsequently mined and the work
OF demolition completed on Monday. ,
Year: 1873

A CALIFORNIA WoNDER.-The San
Francisco Buiietin says that an import
ant change has taken place recently in
the Geysers. Old residents say that
there is now greater display of heat
steam, and Plutonic fury in them at
present, than has been known since 49,
40. | have been there twice before, but
never saw such general activity as a
present. Whether this is the result
of increased demand for fire in the re-
gion where the antipodes Of happiness
and comfort are supposed to reign /
cannot say. A real geyser is now shot
up from the Witches Cauldron to
height of about forty-two feet above the
surface. 1t would rise much higher but
that the overhanging banks of decom-
posed rocks against which it shoots up
prevent it. A portion of this bank is to
be removed, and as this is to be work
of some danger, owing to the steam from
the terrific heat of the black water in
the cauldron tits temperature is 2O2 de-
grees Fahreheit-that is so degrees
above the boiling point it is proposed
for short time to turn the cold stream
which flows down the Geyser canyon
into the cauldron, with the hope that its
terrific heat may be sufficiently mitiga-
ted so admit of the removal of the bank
of rocks mentioned. The large stream
boat blow bipe the diameter of which
is about equal to that of an ordinary
| fiour-barrel-now emits more dense
volume of steam than ever before, while
the devil steam whistle makes a noise
equally shrill and piercing as that which
Sits the ear when close to locomotive
as the whistle is being sounded. Warm
work is, in short going on all through the
Geyser canyon.
Year: 1873

An American dentist living in Yoko-
hama sends to the Dental Cosmos an
account of the japanese habits in regard
to their teeth. He says that as the
young women have very fine teeth it is
remarkable that they should keep up
the practice of backing them after mar
riage. The japanese as as a race pos
sesses good teeth but they lose them very
early i'll life.


'"rheir tooth brushes consist of tough
wood pounded at one end to loosen the
fibres. They resemble paint brushes,
and owing to their shape it is impossi-
BILE to get one behind the teeth. As
might be expected, there is an accumu-
lation of tartar, which frequently draws
the teeth of old people Their process
of manufacturing false teeth is very
crude. The plates are made of wood,
and the teeth consist of tacks driven up
from the under side. A piece of wax is
heated and pressed into the roof of he
mouth. 1t is then taken out and har-
dened by putting it into cold water
Another piece of heated wax is applied
to the impression, and after being
pressed into shape, is hardened. A
piece of woods Thoroughly cut into
the desired form, and the model, having
been smeared with red paint, it is ap-
piled to it. Where they touch each
other, mark is left by the paint. This
is cut away till they touch evenly all
over. Sharks teeth, bits of ivory or
stone for teeth, and set into the wood
and retained in position by being strung
on thread which is secured on each end
by a peg driven into the hole where the
thread makes its exit from the base.-
Iron or copper tacks are driven into the
ridge, to serve for masticating purposes
the unequal wear of the wood and met
al keeping up the desired roughness.
Their full sets answer admirably for the
mastication of food, but as they do not
improve the looks, they are worn but
little for ornament. The ordinary ser
vice of set of teeth is about five year:
but they frequently last much longer
All full upper sets are retained by at
mospheric pressure. This principle Is
coveal with the art. In Japan, dent
istry exists only rs mechanical trade
and the status of those who practice II
not very high. 1t is in fact, graded
with carpenters-their word hddytkid'
meaning tooth-carpenter.
Year: 1873

A Gallowstone lady recently request
ed her husband to go to the dress maker
and inform her that she (his wife) had
changed her mind, and would have the
watered silk made up instead of the
poplin, and that if "she thinks 1t
would look better with bias flounces
without putting, and box plated beyond
the equator, which should be gathered
in hem stitched gudgeons up and down
the seems with gusset stitch between,
she can make it up that way, instead of
fiuting the bobinet insertion and piec-
ing out with point applique, as I sugges.
ted yesterday" The man is now q n
wing maniac.
Year: 1873

An Ohio Postmaster has received a
letter wherein the writer proffers a Gu
rious request, as follows: If you can d.
will ascertain the names of some rich
old maid or widow, worth from 5 thou
sand to $4,000 or more let me know by
return mail and will pitch in and II l
make it tie the Knot, 1t is ] hundred
dollars in your pocket. Keep this a
profound secret between us two. If it
gets out all is spoiled. l am pour but
want to marry rich" N