smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

as the great pioneer Of reform, not in England
alone, but the world they fancied as the
ringing echo of his fervid eloquence reached
them across the sea that the AK was at last
indeed laid at the root of old-time abuses in
the Church and State There was, indeed, no
eloquence more fervid than that of this young
iconocast, he being poet as well as humanita-
rian his righteous wrath was vehement as that
of the ancient prophets; he seemed TO young
men in America modern John the
Baptist crying aloud In the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord. make HIS
"paths straight" The books which followed
"Alton Locke betrayed, one by one. change
in their author. 1t was the poet, the curious
student of geology, Of FOLKLORE, of history,
who wrote them--not the ardent, hopeful
reformer. But there was sincerity and an
intolerance of opposition in the man, which
made even his studies Of the stones OF the
street real, live convictions which carried the
belief of other men with them. lie renamed
a leader still to those who first had followed
him. When he came to this country, they
hoped to meet the "Alton Locke OF their
youth. and to hear from his own lips fresh
and stirring truths which should give them
the new yigor which he had impaired to
them at the beginning of their lives. Ihey
found in Canon Kingsley. as we all KNOW
profound scholar, an acute geologist, with
poetic warmth of language in his lectures on
the antiquarian lore Of Westminster Abbey
ready to debate eagerly concerning the genus
or species of plant, but absolutely unwilling
to discuss the abuses of English politics and
religion. The very sincerity and intolerance
of sham gave him full share Of En-
glish brusqueness, and damped even the
eager welcomes Of his admirers. Tho
result was, we fear, that Americans.
not finding ALTON Locke" scarcely did justice
to Canon Kingsley. 1t is easy enough to see
the difference between the fiery young radical
and the conservative middle-aged man, but 1t
il not easy to estimate the forces brought to
bear on O mans life, especially IN English
mans, which mold the one out of the other
How many valiant Jacks have set out to
yanouish those British giants, Precedent and
Sham, and tired of beating at the stone
walls, have settled in comfortable houses
near by, and spent their DAYS IN
taking care Of their children and neigh
bors accepting a certain good work for an
uncertain attempted one. The best of men are
apt to find wife and children obscure their sight
Of giants Grim and Cormoran. Now that the
author of "Aton Locke" has gone where his
work will be judged by other rules than ours,
it can be said of him here that he never wrote
Inc which was not in the service OF ab3o-
Lutte truth that if his first words were wiser
and higher than his last, the worst blame that
can fall upon him is that age and crcum-
stonca hlinded him TO the real hight OF his
mission. No more sincere and manly man has
ever passed from anon: US into the eternal
silence. -
Year: 1875

Rhode Island viii breathe freer now that
her long labor of electing a United States
Senator is at an end. 1t was natural that the
choice should fall upon her most distinguished
soldier. Although Cen burnside has shown
no particular fitness for Senatorial duties, it
ia doubtful whether better selection could
have boon made from the material before the
Legislature.
Year: 1875

In round numbers. an increase OF ten mil
lion dollars in twelve months AT ak per
cent interest. the addition OF ten millions to
tho city debt makes necessary an annual in
crease of six hundred thousand dollars Ia the
Year: 1875

Best Of all things to US is home. II
hours of ambition and pleasure we may
sometimes forget its exquisite sweetness
but let sickness or sadness come, and
We return to it at once. Let the hollow
hearts that feign friendship which they
do not feel, stand revealed before us
let US know, as we all must at moments
that however important we may be in
our own estimation, our places would
be filled at an hours notice should we
die tomorrow; then we whisper to our.
selves the magic word Home, and are
comforted.


Home, Sweet Home!" 1t does not
matter how humble it is, nor is it less a
home for being palace. 1t is where
those we love dwell-wherever that may
be-where we are valued for ourselves
and are held in esteem because of what
we are in ourselves and not because of
power, or wealth, or what we can do
for other people.


Who would be without a home p
Who would take the worlds applause,
and honor in place of the tenderness of
few true hearts and the cosy freside
meetings where the truth may be spo-
ken without disguise, and envious car
pings are unknown In life's battle
even the hero finds many enemies and
much abuse and SANDER and detraction i;
but into home, if is what it ought
to be, these things never find their way.
There, to his wife, the plainest man be-
comes wonderful tbing-a sage, a
man who ought to be President Of the
United States, and would be were his
worth known.
Year: 1875

Two children still and stark on a
snowy slope-the girl raped round in
the coat Of the boy, and both young
faces fixed by frost in the calm repose
of death-was the picture presented to
the eyes Of wearied searchers near
Mount Ayr, Ia, the other day. This
winters cold has taken many life, but
none of the unfortunates we're found
in so touching an attitude as this. 1t
was not in the heat of the conflict that
the boy died; there was no rafting
drum to stir his thickening blood, nor
comrades eyes to mark his heroic fall
nothing to rouse his young enthusiasm.
Bat the little coat folded careful ly about
the girlish form, and his own naked
breast, teld of the quiet courage and
self sacrifice with which he had met the
pitiless blast that blew as cold on him
as her.-Chilsicothe 70 Gazette.
Year: 1875

margin OF Cleveland and Youngstown
prices, The road has paid expenses,
paid interest on the bonded debt and a
large per cent to the stockholders, from
the beginning. 1t carries coal from
Youngstown to Lake Erie at sixty cents
per ton less than any other road. That
is to say it carries at from forty to sixty
cents per ton while other roads charge
from one dollar to one dollar and twenty
cents per ton, and every other article is
carried in the same reduced ratio.


So. effectual has been its success in
competing with other roads, of the com
mon gauge, that all the roads centering
at Y Youngstown have offered this road a
bonus of thirty cents per ton on all coal
that is carried from that point and vi
cinity. This offer, il accepted, would
have given to the owners of this road
fifteen per cent ON the whole cost of the
road above the per cent they are now re-
ceiving on the legitimate work Of the
road. A.
Year: 1875

The fact that notwithstanding the
general depression in business that still
exists through ut the country there
should still be 10 much interest mani.
tested in the bidding of local railroads,
shows that the facilities and advantages
of this means of locomotion and trans
portation are SO well understood and
appreciated by the people generally
that they are willing to make temporary
sacrifices in the way Of subscriptions
and taxes in order to secure them. One
cause of this wide spread feeling. so far
as this region is concerned, is the fa-
vorable showing that has been made on
behalf Of the Narrow Gauge railroads,
which roads by reason of their CON-
parative cheapness in first cost and far
greater economy in actual working ex-
penses, have commended themselves to
universal public favor The late report
to Congress in favor of a line from
Lake Erie to the Missouri river,in which
elaborate comparisons were made be
tween the Narrow Gauge and the Stand
ard tracks, has especially reused public
attention to the fact that local roads can
be built at small cost and run so as to
serve the immediate interests of those
who build them much more satisfacto-
rily than the Standard track.


As to the general advantages Of rail.
ways to the country through which they
pass, the arguments derived from actua
experience are too plain to need amplifi
cation at this late day. We observe
that out on the line of the proposed
Bellaire and Southwestern Narrow
Gauge road they are holding series oi
interesting meetings, several Of which
have been addressed by Col. Sullivan
who certainly presents some facts to
the people calculated to arrest their at
Wheeling Intslligencer.
Year: 1875

There is man under sentence OF
death in Paris France, who cannot he
executed. because there is q technicality
of French law which forbids the carry
ing out of an execution until the real
name of the culprit is known, and this
mans name is secret which the au
thori,ies have thus far been unable tc
find out.
Year: 1875

sNOBBEhr In a IUBLlO OFFICE.


Yesterday there was a seizure that may turn
out to be important as an calculation OF some OF
the Irregularities that have puzzled the honest
customs oficers lately Inspector Ellis found on
the White Star docks goods ostensibiy intended
for the sample room, which, seeming suspicious
to that o11cer, he caused their removal to the
seizure room OF the Custom House. Upon an ex.
animation or two trunks they were found to con-
tain dut1able goods. The strangest part Of the
representative heard from an outside source OF
the seizure and went directly to the Custom
clerks Clerks in the Seizure Bureau, usually truthful
and polite, denied that there had been any
goods brought to the room where such packages
are held. Upon returning to the same place.,


THE Doors WE'RE FOUND LOOKED


and an examination evidently going on inside.
Undoubtedly the officers Of the custom House
nave right to conduct secret appraise meni
whenever they see tit 10 do So but YESTERDAY II
happened that reporter Of a certain ne VIZ paper
was found coseteo with Colonel Trlechel-the
gentleman whom the governmeny mas designated
as proper TO be the temporary custodian OF SNUG
ged goods-and receiving information OF a public
character TO the exclusion OF other journals. The
tion with the rumOrs rife OF Custom House wrongs
aud Joboery IL Is suspicious and may lead the pub
lie properly 90 ask,


OF ours who shut the doors In our facesY What are
they aoinR that must be done In the dark fn


The HERALD has been outspoken against the
rings known TO exist In this branch or the govern
ment service, and no head OF any bureau In tho
Custom House Is beyond criticism through these
columns when he becomes amenable to his mas
ters-the public.


On Saturday last inquiry was MADE at this very
once for Information as TO a uemijohn anc cask
OF wine or oil, whicn Is aIterward appeared was
landed from O bark from Castellamare. The re-
ply, in brusque tone from the mead OF the
bureau, was s:-"Hospital stores; we are taking
care OF them" They may as well hold star
Chamber council IN the gloomy clotsiers Of the
Custom House, forever lock the doors OF their
"a
suits them TO thus tribe with tue grave inter-
ests given by their super1ors into their hands.
Year: 1875

A boy borrowed tool from carpen.
ter, promising to return it at night. Be
fore evening he was sent away on an
errand, and did not return until late.
Before he went he was told that his
brother should see the article returned.


After he had come home and gone to
bed, he inquired, and found that the tool
had not been sent to its owner. He was
much distressed to think his promise
had not been kept, but was persuaded to
go to sleep, and rise early and carry it
home the next morning.


By daylight he was up, and nowhere
was the tool to be found. After long
and fruitless search, he set off for his
neighbor's in great distress, to acknowl-
edge his fault. But how great was his
surprise to find the tool on his neighbor's
door stone I! And then it appeared from
the prints of his little bare feet in the
mud, that the lad had got up in his
sleep and carried the tool home, and
gone to bed again, without knowing it.


of course a boy who was prompt in
his sleep was prompt when awake. He
lived respected, had the confidence of
his neighbors, and was placed in many
offices of trust and profit.


If all grown folks felt as this boy did,
there would be good many tracks of
bare feet found some of these bright
mornings and what piles of tools and
books would be found at the owners
doors
Year: 1875

One day, about one hundred and thir-
ty years ago, young Scottish maiden
was busy about her household affairs,
when an aged stranger came to the door
and asked permission to enter and rest,
requesting at the same time something to
eat. The young girl brought him bowl
Of bread and milk, and tried in various
ways to make him comfortable. A piece
of bread happening to fall on the floor,
she pushed it out of the way into a heap
of ashes. Never waste bread cried
the stranger, with much emotion, pick.
ing up the bread and putting it into his
milk. have known the time when ]
would have given gold for handful OF
corn kneaded in a soldiers bonnet" A
quick suspicion crossed the girls mind
and sent her to her invalid mother, who
hastened to the kitchen on hearing the
description of the old man with delicate
hands and clean, coarse linen. In a mo-
ment she knew bim to be the good Scot
tish lord on whose estate they were ten
ants. He had just returned from the
battle of Culloden, where the young
prince, Charles Edward, had been defeat
ed by the royal troops. He and many 9TH
ers were obliged to hide for their lives. AT
ter being driven from one hiding-place to
another, he at last found safe hiding
place on part of his estate where were
large cairns, called the cairns of Pits
ligo." The lady who tells the story says
that every one in the neighborhood knew
of his residence" the very children
would go peep at him as he sat reading,
but would never breathe his name. "Nor,"
she adds, "shall l ever forget the lesson
the poor fugitive taught me never to
waste bread
Year: 1875

PUBLIC EcoNoMy.-In certain town
in Rhode Island the parents of two chill
dren, boy and a girl, died, leaving
them to the cold charities of the world.
A meeting of the local authorities was
held to decide upon some action that
would relieve the town of the expense of
supporting the children. The matter
was discussed freely, and at an adjourn
ed meeting held at a private residence
the children were required to be present,
and this was the way in which the case
was managed. The boy was told to 60
into an adjoining room where he would
find man asleep, in a certain pocket of
whose clothing was five cent piece,
which he was to bring to the committee.
The boy obeyed the order. The girl was
sent to another room where woman
was sleeping, from whose pocket piece
of money or scrip was to be taken. She
also obeyed the instructions given her,
and the children were afterwards arrest
ed upon charge of petty larceny, tried,
found guilty, and sentenced to the state
reformatory school during their minori-
ty.-COr. Providence Journal
Year: 1875

There was time, says the Pail Mall


Gazette, when old maids were looked
upon with an eye of pity, if not con.


tempt, and it was thought that marriage
alone gave woman any claim to consid.
GRAFTON. Of late years, however, there


has been change of opinion in this re.
spect, and unmarried women not only
rank as high in general estimation as
their married sisters, but bid fair to soon
surpass them. Nor is this to be won
dered at. A very few years ago it was
rare sight to see a married woman
dancing at any hall given in the London
season, whereas wives now dance with
greater pertinacity than their sisters or
daughters, and balls are given expressly
for married ladies.


The character of the British matron
has, in fact, completely changed in
stead of being grave and decorous, she
has become a hopping, skipping! crea-
ture, dellghtlng every one by her grace
and activity, but at the same time losing
in weight, moral as well as physical,
what she gains in enjoyment In the
mean time the spinster is rapidly rising
-scorning Irritation, she leaves vain
pursuits to the wife and mother. The
emperor of China has set good exam
pie in the encouragement of spinsters.
According to Shanghai Journal he has
just decreed that special honors be paid
to two old maids, one of whom lately
died after life of devotion to the men,
ory of her betrothed, while the other,
who is still living, declined in her youth.
ful days to make most tempting match
on the ground that she could not leave
her home Some few old ladies in Eng
land have an equal claim to recognition
of their merits, and it would both ele-
vate and appease them if they were in
q like manner rewarded.
Year: 1875

There is danger from indulging in ar
tificial drinks. Nature distils over in
the stomach by her own chemical proc.
esses separating the water from them,
which is used for legitimate purposes,
but rejects all the rest, throwing it out
of the body through the kidneys and
skin. BY working the inner apparatus
beyond normal guage to carry off of
tending elements, they fall into disease
beyond the resources of medicine This
explains aprodigious advance of Bright's
disease-that is, degeneration and loss
of ability in those organs to do what they
must accomplish for stability in health.
None of the lower animals have kidney
disease, because they never drink to ex-
cess or burden the stomach with com
pound beverages.
Year: 1875

Nervous people would often be very
greatly benefited, if they would put on
their hats or bonnets when they find
themselves in restless condition, and
visit some friend, mile or more away
perchance that same friend may be in
the selfsame condition, but the very
meeting of friends, the exhilaration Of
inquiries and answers, and passing COM
ments, often wake up to newness of life ;
and the very heart that was short time
before almost weighed to the earth,
bounds upwards and is filled with joy
business.


Be assured we are losing much of the
social enjoy yments of fifty years ago. 1t
requires so much of our time nowadays
to keep our houses in order, to sweep,
and dust, and arrange, that by the time
a tidy housekeeper has got through with
her mornings work, it is so late in the
day, or she is so tired, that there's really
not the strength to 60 out and take a
walk, or make a friendly call, let
alone whole evening. Thus it is that
an advanced civilization tends to make
us the greater slaves of form and cere-
mony and fashion. One of the tidiest
housekeepers in a very large city was
taken suddenly i'll and as she lay in
her beautiful chamber and cast her eyes
over the costly furniture, she exclaimed
in tones, oh how mournful, 81 have Gv-
ed useless life T" and died. 1t was
true; a very large part of her whole ex-
istence had been spent in dusting furni-
ture. He who is so busy in keeping the
house in order, that no time is left for
practicing the sociabilities of life, is rob-
bing himself of very much that tends
to make that life happy " ". Hall
Year: 1875

In front of window where worked
last summer was butternut tree. A
humming-bird built her nest on limb
that grew near the window, and we had
an opportunity to watch her closely, as
we could look right into the nest from
the window. One day there was shower
coming up, and we thought we would see
if she covered her young during the
storm but when the first drops fell she
came and took in her bill one of two or
three large leaves growing close to the
nest, and laid this leaf over so it com.
pletely covered the nest then flew away.
On looking at the leaf we found hole
i'll it, and in the side of the nest was
small stick that the leaf was fastened to
or hooked on. After the storm was over
the old bird came back and unlocked
the leaf, and the nest was perfectly dry.
American Sportsman.
Year: 1875

How ROBERT CoLLYER's MoTHEF


BRoUGHT HIM UP.-She never heard 6
lecture or read book about health il


her life that | know of, but she had a
code of traditions and instincts to which
she held always. She whitewashed her
cottage from top to bottom with quick.
lime twice a year; painted all the wood
work. Twice a week she scrubbed and
secured the floors so that they were as
clean as hands could make them and
how many times she swept them besides,
and covered them with white sand, !
should be afraid to say. She also rub
bed the better sort of furniture with
beeswax and turpentine until it shone


like a dusky mirror. We slept on chaff
beds, but she always cleared them out
in the spring, and got new chaff; al
ways had her little stock of linen white
and pure to wear and to sleep in, and
once a week, while we were small, put
us through untold torments with yellow
soap and the most intolerable towels.
Who hath red eyes? Who hath con-
tention Who hath strife ?" The boys
who have to 60 into tub, with wo-
man like my mother to work it. Then
she gave us plenty to eat; oatmeal por-
ridge and blue milk at night, very lit
tie piece of meat at noon with plenty of
soup and potatoes, and on rare days
dumplings, oat-cake-to fill up all the
crevices and wheaton bread about twice
week. Butter we were supposed to
have on Sundays, but we are all agreed
that she scraped more off than she put
on. We knew what tea and coffee was,
but it never hurt our nerves or kept us
awake nights; and every spring, she
make a wonderful specific of birthstone,
molasses, and cream of tartar,-a kind
Of Internal sweetmeat, which, with salts
and SIENNA when we were supposed to
need some-and a pleasant drink in
April made out of new nettles, no doubt
in her faith preserved our practical
lives. Good shoes, and stockings of her
own knitting two suits of clothes warm
and stout, with prophecy in them of
the growth were to attain before
they were worn out-one suit for Sunday,
the other for week days, with no distinc-
ton between summer and winter and
Hobson's choice of the wholesome fare.
That was the way our wise, strong moth
er gathered her brood under her wings,
and bred them into sturdy cheils and
buirdly hizzies.
Year: 1875

The editor of the Hoosick Fails Stan
dard gives the following short essay on
correct grammar, which is very good /;
we may say il is indeed excellent The
logic which he uses to elucidate his the
ory of syntax is somewhat governed by
Rule l. 1t is naughty but it's nice.
Taken as a whole, however, we agree
with brother Livingstone, and hope he
will press the subject closer


"a searcher after truth writes to ask
us which is grammatically correct, to
say the house is building, or the house is
being built, the street is paving, or the
street is being paved? There is a wide
diversity of opinion on this subject but
we incline to favor is being built, for
these reasons Suppose you wish to ex-
press another kind of an idea, would you
say, for instance, Johnny is spanking or
Johnny is being spanked. The differ
ence to you may seem immaterial, but it
is matter of Importance to John; and
it is probable that if any choice were
given him, he would suddenly select the
former alternative. You may say again
the missionary is eating. Certainly this
expresses a very different and much
pleasanter idea than the missionary is
being eaten, and the sensation is very
different for the missionary, too. We
have consulted with several missionaries
about it, and they all seem to think that
the two things are somehow not the same,
no matter what grammarians may say.
But it is to be confessed that there are
occasions whenthe difference in the form
is not so marked, you assert; we say
that Hannah is hugging, which by the
way would by very improper thing for
Hannah to do, it would be positively
scandalous, indeed. Precisely similar
idea is conveyed if you say Hannah is
being hugged, because it is popularity
of the actthat tits hardly ever one sided
there is no selishness about it. And
it is the same with kissing, Jane is kiss
ing, is just exactly as if we should say,
Jane is being kissed, and the sensation
is the same, although none of the gram
mars, by single inadvertance, mention
the fact 1t will not be necessary, how
ever, for our correspondent to attempt
to prove the last named fact by prac-
tice He must take our own word for
them Unless he does so, we shall an
swer no more questions in Syntax for
him or any one else. Our duty is to
conserve the morals of the community,
not to start people to playing private
games of copenhagen