smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Dry Canon, Utah, has furnished an
almost unparalleled Instance of Wo-
mans fidelity. About a fortnight
ago it was rumored in the mining
camp that German named Henry
Lewis, had attempted to murder his
wife. Several women visited the
house and found that Lewis had
choked her until her throat was black
and so swollen that she could not
speak. Restoratives were applied,
and on recovery, she told story of
terrible cruelty patiently endured for
the past two years. The miners gath
cred to the number. of seventy-five,
and proceeded to Interview Lewis
with a coil of rope, a bucket of tar,
and q sack of feathers. They searched
for hours, and at last found the wretch
in the top of a pine tree. He cried
and protested, and upon promising to
give up ail his property to his wife,
agree to d bill OF divorce, and leave
the camp before the next night, he
was released. The following alter
noon he was seen vending his way
down the canon, and soon after his
wife, hardly able to walk, took the
same direction. s
Year: 1873

THE Lesson OF THE SEAs0N.-Though
the days are lengthening, and the sun is re-
turning, and the summer JOY afar off is ad-
vancing, still the cold of winter is yet to
come. The great mother OF storms sings
in the north; SHOWS are yet to be piled
and drlfted; bitter days are yet to come !;
the whole weight of winter is due after
the days begin to lengthen; frosts will
gripe the ground, and not let go; but
under the storms, through the SHOWS, be-
meath the cold, under all the winter, is
nevertheless the silent deliverance which
is surely coming. You cannot yet see the
effects; no flower blossoms, no bud swells,
no dew softly speaks to you; yet along the
early and late horizon is a circle OF cres-
cent light girdling the earth, and as sure
as Gods decree it is bringing summer
with it, and every day nearer. Therefore.
let those who mourn in harsh troubles, and
are overwhelmed in storms of adversely,
know that, though winter yet lowers, the
great causes of their trouble may have
changed long ago. Let those who are in
sorrow remember that, as the year goes
on storming and laundering, deliverance
may be coming, though they see it not.
Your days may wear more gold in the
morning, and more at night, though the
midday is full of snow. Nor does relief
come to us at once when we repent and
turn to God God may be gracious,
though he comes to US robed in darkness
and clothed with storms. 1t is journey
of release toward the spring, when winter
is coolest and darkest. Read the year
by faith, and not by sight
Year: 1873

The old adage that SO What is worth doing
At all is worth doing tceI," should be rung
in the ears of many of our postmasters, until
thew attend to the performance of their
duties better than many of them do at pres
ent. A man tried to throw reproach upon
another, for having been in his youth or
boyhood drummer boy. True" was the
reply-and 1t was q noble one" did drum
when was young, but didn't drum rcell? y
The grievance at present in mind, and which
is the occasion OF this present troubling OF
the printer, is the careless. not to say dis
graceful manner in which very large share
of the letters sent through " Uncle Sans "
mail-bags are mailed .or post marked. 1t is
done in such grossly imperfect way, that it
is utterly impossible to tell t0hen they were
sent or from ,rhenee they come. Thanks to
a few faithful officials, some letters are
mailed plainly and legbly, other are post
marked So that if one is good at guessing, the
whereabouts of their starting may be made
out with tolerable degree of certainty
while, as before said, a large portion might
as well not be mailed at all as in the manner
they are.


H., shall this matter be remedied7 No
way suggests itself which promises to be s.
efectual as TO make postmasters responsible
directly to the people whom they serve.


If the holding of the office of postmaster
rested, as it should, in the pleasure and good
will of the people, the grievance of which
we complain would have no existence at
least it would be very short lived, for in that
case they would feel and realize that they
must please or Udcate D. T. A
Year: 1873

At Buffalo, N. Y, during an unusually
beautiful and pleasant day in the fall of
1871, dispatch was received from the
Chief Signal Office in Washington BY the
observer, directing him to " Up signals "
The sight of the cautionary signal flag at
such time caused some to smile at what
they were pleased to term the foolishness
of the observer. The sky, they said, was
never more beautiful. Not cloud, except
very small one away over, as it were in
Canada could be seen, and even some of
the old Lake captains were halt inclined
to doubt "Old Probs' preknowledge for
once. Many of them had intended to sail
the same evening, but having learned from
experience that they would do well to
heed the kindly warning, the most of them
concluded to await change In 90 Old
Probs," advice. A few, however, dlsre-
garded the warning, and ventured oIt, but
during the night one of the most terrible
storms ever known passed over the lake,
and not one Of the crews who ventured
from their harbor returned, all had been


lost. That those who rejected the warn


ing were lost, and those who needed 1T
were saved is of itself sufficient proof that
the Slgnal Service reports are of immense
benefit to the whole country.
Year: 1873

this line is and in what it consists, and
while they admit the necessity Of making
home the most attractive place to the
children, argue that games played at home
in childhood tend to gambling in manhood.
This is net so; it is the use of the game
that decides which side of the line it must
be placed. That delight Of every boy,
the game of marbles, is as innocent as any
other childish recreation, and yet many
boys have received their first lessons 10
gambling when playing marbles for gains,
and many parents have allowed their sons
to count over the contents of their marble
bags at night in their presence, who would
have held up their hands in holy horror
at game of Besigue around the evening
lamp. Here is just the line we would
draw. Never countenance any game played
for permanent gain, or in which money
or its equivalent is the object played for.
| That this must be the one and only dis
tinction between Innocent T, creation and
harmful gambling must be seen from the
fact that the simplest recreation or amuse-
ment Of chance or skill may be used for
gambling purpose, anu hence 10 ui'iuinS
line can be drawn between two games
unless, indeed, one of them involves vicious
habits or practices in itself.


But # all games are made simply mat
ters OF amusement. it is not likel y that
those boys who stay at home in the even
ing to play them with their parents and
sisters will be attracted in their manhood
by the temptations of the gaming tables.


On the other hand, boy who had been
encouraged to be proud of his constantly
increasing bag Of marbles, as the reward
Of his shrewdness and skill in playing, will
be apt enough to consider it legitimate il
after years to keep his purse filed in the
same manner, although ivory balls anc
prices of card may be substituted for the
marbles. 1t is matter of satisfaction tt
all who have given the subject thought
that innocent games and home amusements
are fast becoming prominent feature IN
our homes, thereby establishing counter
actions to those of the saloons and haunt:
Of vice that crowd so closely to our doors
not only in the larger cities in every coun
try village in the land.-Scribner's
Year: 1873

A GREAT CHANGE.-Lately, a farmer
living near the city of Lawrence, Kansas.
died. Although in comfortable circum-
stances, he was man of exceedingly dirty
habits those who knew him say that his
hair was never cut or combed since he was
a boy. Neither was he shaved; he never
wore a collar, and seldom changed his
shirt; able to purchase good clothing, he
went about in the habilments of a beggar.
At his death city undertaken was sent
for who dressed the body, cutting the hair,
shaving the chin, and dressing the body in
black superfne. A brother of the deceas-
ed came from neighboring city to attend
the funeral The widow met him at the
front door, ard after mutual condolences
she escorted him to the best room in the
house, where lay the remains of the depart
ed. As the brother bent over the coffin
the widow sobbingly asked: Would you
know him?" Know him ?" shrieked the
brother, you've ruined his eternal pros:
poets, tor his maker won't know him J"
Year: 1873

A QUAKER's TEMPERANCE LECTURE
A few years ago several persons were
crossing the Allegheny mountains in
stage Among them was a Quaker. As
considerable time was in their hands, they
naturally entered into conversation, which
took the direction of temperance and soon
became quite animated. One of the COM
pany did not join with the rest. He was
large, portIy man, well dressed, and of
gentlemanly bearing. There were sharp
thrusts at the liquor business and those
engaged in it. Indeed, the whole subject
was thoroughly canvassed and handled
without gloves. Meanwhile this gentle
man slowed himself away in one corner
and maintained stocal silence. After
enduring it as long as he could. with
pompous and magisterial manner he broke
silence and said Gentlemen, | want
you to understand that l am liquor SELL
er. keep public house tt; but
would have you know that l have license,
and keep decent house. [ don't keep
loafers and loungers about my place, and
when man has enough he can get no
more at my bar. sell to decent people,
and do respectable business" When he
had delivered himself, he seemed to feel
that he had put quietus on the subject,
and that no answer could be given. Not
so, thought our friend, the Quaker, SO he
went for him. SAID he: Friend, that is
the most damning part of thy business.
If thee would only sell to drunkards and
Ioafers, thee would help kill off the race,
and society would be rid of them. But
thee take the young, the pure, the inno'


cent, and the unsuspecting, and it makes
drunkards and loafers of them; and wher
|. their character and money are gone, thee
Year: 1873

EARLY MARRY1sG.-Morally, mentally,
physically, premature marriage is mis-
take among women; and yet every day we
see this mistake sanctioned by the Offices
of religion, blessed by the consent of
friends. and entered into with all the eclat
which should be reserved for triumph
rather than trial.


Morally" it is mistake, because few
women are fit, at an age when they should
be " under authority to rule household
prudently; since no atmosphere is so dan
gerous for an undeveoped soul as that OF
the almost absolute power which is gener-
ally delegated to the young wife. She
may now do whatever is pleasing in her
own eyes. She has been freed from
parental restraint, and any other has a
circumference so underlined that it is
narrowed and enlarged according to the
will and moral sense of her who draws it.
Angels night fear to walk in such broad
freedom as is given by love and sufferance
to the majority of our young married
women, women by courtesy, children in
the regard of both law and wisdom.


'" Mentally" it is mistake, because
with marriage all mental growth is sus
pended in the large majority of women
Education, being regarded as simply
Year: 1873

attempt to reach those millions. The case
was robbed Of its pith and Importance. as lar
as the plaintiff was concerned, by the d's-
covery of incontestable documentary evidence
shat Madame Jumel held only life interest
IN the property, and had 10 claim or interest
that could be transmitted to her heirs, SO
that, though he had proved himself her son,
he could not thereby claim one penny OF the
estate. For this he may thank the old
Frenchman, Jumel; it is quite probable that
if he did marry with his eyes shut, he died
with them open, and be made his will in
accordance with the facts" The arguments
of the counsel were long, and the case was
presented in its minutest details to the II
much-enduring men who were to decide 1t.
The judge specially charged them, whatever
might be their finding as to Bowen's parent
age, to render the fact stated above, that
Madame Jumel had not the power to
beeueath the estate to her heirs. ibis was
not to interfere with the main issue, however
The jury found as instructed, IN this partlcu-
lar, and returned a verdict In favor OF Chase,
the defendant, which result will be 10 dig
appointment to those who have had the ln-
terest and opportunity to follow the case
through all its complications.


The tria. had several Incidental clrcuW-
stances of interest. 1t is the first case that
has ever been tried IN this country by a
- struck - ju y, the popularity of which is
that, alter AZ persons who are deemed best
qualified to try the matter have been selected =,
the counsel on each side alternately strike
off one name after another till only II remain.
The verdict is a brilliant triumph for % 'Conor,
who has been conversant with the estate IN
question for over 40 years, having been
Aaron Burr's counsel in the divorce suit
brought by Madame Jumel. 1t is believed
he will receive the largest fee ever paid IN
any law case in the world, $500 900 some
| think. At any rate, a man who has just
had his right to six million dollar estate
established, can afford to be generous with
his lawyer.
Year: 1873

means toward an end, is abandoned as
soon as the end is obtained. 1t may be
argued that all education from such
motive is mistake to begin with. True,
but then it is one which keeps the culprlt
in the society of wisdom, and it is just
possible the mind under such influence
might arrive at a juster conception of its
worth and value


physically" it is mistake, because
at the early age at which many marriages
are made, the human form has not arrived
at perfected strength; and duties and re-
sponsibilities are laid upon it for which
nature has made no adequate provision
Vitality is destroyed quicker than it is
generated, and early and rapid decay Of
both mind and body are the results. Then
the woman is said to die by the vista
tion of God" though in nine cases out o


ten it is only the simple and inevitable re
suit of laws of nature pitilessly and per
sistently broken.-Seience Of Health
Year: 1873

A child is born bundle of nothing, ex-
cept capacity. He does not know arlth-
metic by nature. He comes to it by the
grace of the slate and good teacher be-
hind it. But do not say that his heart
is naturally opposed to arithmetic because
he does not take it easy. He has the ma
ture that God gave him it is emptiness !;
and it must be filled up. A child is not
paturally polite, nor kind, nor generous
among his companions. He has to be
trained to generosity and kindness and
politeness. But 1 do not say that he is
naturally opposed to these things. lie
had to be trained to use his feet, but do
not say that his feet were naturally op-
posed to motion. A child has to be taught
all things. Everything that he has in him
has to be educated little by little. A
child is not naturally opposed to benevo-
lence because he is self-willed and selfish,
and wants his own way. 1t is true that
we came into the world empty; and the
problem of life is how to fill ourselves up.


do not believe any child in the world
was ever born to grace, nor in grace
but grace may be early developed In
child if you take pains to develop it in
him.-Beechsr.
Year: 1873

A WORD TO THE CHoIR.-We were
hardly home from church one day when
my aunt spoke of the choir. There were
good voices and enough of them. yet the
singing was deplorably bad. The faults
she had detected were given in one or
two sharp sentences, and the first was
this: Do they sing the words at all,
John?' 1t would take good ear to
make out the hymn from the version the
choir gave but for this they were not
all in fault New tunes were introduced,
one or two faithful singers would master
them and lead, while others would follow
on, slurring over the scale. L know one
chorister who would peremptorily say to
such persons, You were not at re
hersal please do not undertake to sing
this tune" Few are thus decided, and
the result is in the medley we sometimes
hear a medley painful even to those
who have little musical culture. A
second remark was still more severe
f" Why they don't sing as if they had any
heart" 1t was too true. The choir did
their work too mechanically and this
fault was not less inexcusable that it grew
out OF the other just named, at least il
part. The hymn is now prayer, now q
pleading of contrition, now a burst oi
grateful praise But there is seldom much
discrimination, aud the result is as un'
happy as when powerful hymn is read
without heart 1t would be better if all
singers were Christians, but if they are
not, they need not be stones. Let then
take heed to the words they sing. Let
then en- deavor to make the words the
longings of their own lips-thus engaging
in sacred song as part of the public wor
ship of God, and there will be little if any
complaint.
Year: 1873

Forks" Fingers were made before
forks" is a truism often uttered, but few
who utter it probably know how true it is.
Two hundred and fifty years ago fork
was great novelty. A traveller in the
days of Queen Elizabeth relates that, in
bargain made with the captain of vessel
to carry him from Venice to Constantin-
ople, it was expressly stipulated that he
should have his glass or cup to drink in
peculiar to himself, with his knife, spoon
and fork" This article was an invention
of the Italians, and was so little known at
that time in England that the aforesaid
traveller thought it necessary to describe
it to his readers and tell its use He says
it was an instrument to hold his meat
while be cuts it for they (the ltalians)
hold it i'll manners that one should touch
the meat with his hands" Previous to
this time our beef-eating forefathers were
content to hold their meat with their ia-
gers, as do the Turks at the present day,
making the conveying it to the mouth a
matter of manual dexterity. And not
withstanding the great convenience and al
most indispensable necessity, to modern
eaters, of the fork, its. use was long ridl-
culed, like that of many other useful
inventions, upon its introduction. In
Germany its use was strenuously resisted;
and so fond were some of the clergy OF
using their fingers instead of forks, that
they preached against its introduction as
an insult upon Providence not to touch
our meat with our fngersr'


We find frequent allusions to the use OF
the fork in all the dramatic writer's be
tween the reign of Queen Bess and the
Protectorate, and they prove that its use
was considered fair subject of ridcult
and contempt. Indeed, the fork did not
work itself into favor with our beef-eating
ancestors, and get into general use among
them, until the latter part of the reign Of
Charles the Second. And then there wa
great diversity of opinion on the subject
among the nations who had adopted it:
use, and the manner of using it was {
national characteristic, if we may believe
an old French writer, who says that al
Englishman may be discovered anywhere
if he be observed at the table, because ht
places his fork upon the lett side of hi
plate Frenchman by his using the for.
alone without the knife German by hi
planting it perpendicularly into his plate


and Russian by his using it as a tooth
pick.-NesO Hampshire Patriot.
Year: 1873

UYpER-GENTILLIrY- We remember
reading of three unfortunate ladies who
we're entertained one summer day at the
house of a country friend, and whose con-
sequent sufferings were SO remarkable that
they will serve to point little moral g.
These ladies were very high-toned, SO to
speak. They were so very genteel and
SO extremely proper in their manners,
that if society conferred degrees they
would have been Mistresses of Social Arts
and Doctresses of Social Laws.


So these three high-toned ladies sat
down to dinner IN the house of their coun-
try friend, and there were peas on the
table. Peas" wrote one of the immac-
uate trio, " such as we never see In the
town-fresh, green, plump, and luscious,
and SO delightfully."- hot and tempting
But as the forks had only two prongs
making it quite useless to try to eat peas
with them, we were obliged to leave the
delicious things on our plates. The fam
lily ate their peas with their knives, but Of
course we could not do that.


Now our opinion may be social heresy
but we certainly believe that true LADY
would have eaten those peas with he
knife. She would have done SO simply
because she would have known that ths
laws of true politeness made it imperatl We
upon her to use her knife in such case
But this genteel trio did not appear tt
understand that politeness requires great
er attention to the feelings of other
than to mere forms that what is very
genteel in one place is often quite boorlst
IN another, and that there is hyper gen


tility and a plu-propriety which is often
sive to the nostrils of true gentleman o
lad V.
Year: 1873

If one should give me dish Of sand,
and tell me there were particles of iron in
it, l might look for them with my clumsy
fingers, and be unable to detect them; but
let me take a magnet and sweep throug gh
it, and how it would draw to itself the
most invisible PARTICLES by the mere power
of attraction The unthankful heart, like
my fingers in the sand, discovers no
mercies, but let the thankful heart sweep
through the day as the magnet finds the
iron, so it will find in every hour some
heavenly blessings; only the iron in Gods
sand is gold.-O. w. Holmes.
Year: 1873

kicks them out and turns them over to
other shops to be finished off; and thee
ensnares others and sends them on in the
same road to ruin Surely, the good
Quaker had the best of the argument, for
he had facts on his side.-Good TempLar.
Year: 1873

1t is not wise to put off until the heats of summer
have commenced the inyigorating process which
would have secured the system, in advance, against
this untoward influence. BY toning the stomach,
liver and bowels In the spring months with Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, and continuing take this
harmless but powerful vegetable invigorant during
the summer it IS quite certain that even persons
who are naturally delicate and deficient in vital force
may escape the fits of indigestion, headache nausea
which, in the absence of such preparation, often
PROSTATE and agonize the more robust. A pure
ic anti-bilious and aperent roots and herbs as an
Invaluable boon to the weak and ang, and this life
sustaining boon in the form of Hostetters Biters is
fortunately within the reach of all.
Year: 1873

HE municipal elections in North Carolina
show decided Republican gains throughout
the State and indicate healthy party organ
ization. The gain in Raleigh OF 800 is an IN
stance of the gratifying result in general.
Year: 1873

THE Bangos Wing in bringing forward the
name OF Judge Kent for Governor says that
1t does so without the knowledge of that
seh'ieman and because it is well known that
lie possesses the requisites for high minded
ana eihcient Chief Magistrate of the State.
Inc Whsg very properly remarks that the
people are getting tired of having gentlemen
press themselves upon the party for nomin-
alton, and hopes that a gentleman will be
elected whom the office seeks and not he the
Office. The latter suggestion is good.
Year: 1873

for meeting the enormous expenditures of the
war against the rebellion, improving the public
credit all the while, entities him to a place in
history as one of the greatest men of the age.


1t is said that he received his name from ms
uncle Salmon. who died suddenly in this city
while pleading a case in court in looo' TWO years
BEFORE the birth of Salmon Portland.
Year: 1873

Miss ANNA L. DICKINSON is such a
strong advocate of the rights of her sex
that She will no doubt enjoy luxury which
we learn is in store lor her, and which has
heret 1tore been the exclusive privilege of
the other gender-suit for breach of pro-
mise. Net that anybody is particularly
grieved over broken marriage vow, but
that the gentle Anna promised TO come to
St. Louis to lecture, and involved certain
rent and printing, the which they propose
TO recover in suit at law, inasmuch as the
said gentle Anna did not come to time as
aforesaid, but played the. gay deceiver, to
he pecuniary loss and detriment of the
aintiffs.-St. Louis Democrat.