smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

/ hardly know why, but / feel Just
like having a good cry tonight. l have
such hungry longing in my heart for
love-love such as have dreamed of all
my life, and such as / thought was at
one time mine. When my husband and
were married, for while was, OH
so happy, and I thought it would last
Not many years have passed since then,
yet | have long since ceased to expect
any of the old-time tenderness from
him. l know he is not naturally dem
onstrative, but If he loves me now, rs
he led me to believe he did in his WOO
ing, am sure he would tell me so some
times, or at least show some of il in his
actions. He is never unkind, but only
so serenely indifferent that it makes my
heart ache; and when occasionally some
of my loneliness will burst out in words,
l am generally met with a jest or laugh
ing reply. The other day as he was
preparing to start away, to be absent
for day or two, when he kissed our ba-
bies goodbye, as is his custom, asked
him if he would not treat me as well as
the babies. He laughingly asked me
''if was baby" and went out without
even saying goodbye. Perhaps he
thought nothing of it, but it cut me to
the heart, and the ever-ready tears
sprang to my eyes. /, who used to have
such pure and exalted ideas Of marriage,
to have to beg for kiss from my hus-
bands lips-and then be refused!


Do all marriages prove equally unsat-
isfactOry? Is it so with ali the world ?
But If I knew it were so, it would not
make my cup any the less bitter.


am not always so unhappy as | am
tonight, for love my husband, and in
my Iabors for his comfort, and for the
welfare of our children, usually finC
means to keep back the bitter yearn
ings that tonight come uppermost
Still, cannot help thinking if men un
derstood women better; if husband
knew better of what '1ittlesr the live
of their wives were made up; of wha
incalculable value a kind and lovinj
word is to them, and how much the.
prize few words of praise for anythin
well done, or gentle sympathy timel.
offered, there would be fewer sad, life
weary women with their heart-ache
looking out of their eyes, and Oh! s
much greater an amount of happiness


EDNA.
Year: 1873

One gifted and beautiful woman, if
wrongly disposed, can scatter more seeds
of corruption and death than a score of
men with their utmost efforts. Her
capabilities for good in the departments
of morals are equally great, and such in
proportion to her powers, both for good
and evil, must be her condemnation, If
she is false to her stewardship. Society
cannot be destroyed if woman is true,
nor saved if woman is false. Besides,
society shows no unequal discrimination
in regard to this class of offenders. The
rule applies to all. a profane woman,
a drunken woman, a female thief or
murderer excites always a greater horror
and disgust than if the crime had been
committed by man. And this is
right, and it will be an evil day for the
world when woman, in her sin, excites
no more adherence than a man.-.Sdn
Francisco Pioneer.
Year: 1873

The most painful feature OF the fail
ure of the Cookies has just come to
light. That Il great many needy de-
positors suffer loss is matter Of
course that six hundred banks lose
special deposits made Mt Washington
for redemption OF mutilated currency
is light matter to each, though the
aggregate amount thus swallowed up
in the North Pacific speculation IL
large. Neither is it much to he won
Gcred at that, among the other whole
sale plunderings of the District by the
ring Of which the late Governor was
the nominal and the present Governor
the actual head, there should have
been swallowed up in II. ID. Cookies
bank about three quarters of million,
drawn from Government for work
never performed, bnt only fraudulcntIy
commenced.


That is but OF a piece with the, other
transactions which have made tho
Washington ring nearly rs notorious
as Tammany. But the utter destruc-
ton of the funds by which various
charitable institutions were supported
is most painful, us it may cause tho
closing UP of some of them. Ii Mr..
Henry ID. Cooke is the honorable man
he was by the President so recently
supposed to be, he will sacrifice the last
dollar OF his private property before he
Will suffer objects of charity to be rob-
bed by the railroad speculations of w
firm. I-St. Louis Globe.
Year: 1873

A practical proof of the infdelity of the times exists in the fact that, accord ing to statistical authorities, suicide is in the most countries on the increase. The percentage of death from this cause has risen in England, and France has lately been suffering from periodical fit of unusual severity. A few weeks ago five suicides occurred in Paris on the same day. A woman aged sixty two threw herself out of window, Prussian hung himself from misery and despair, greatly, probably, to the satis- faction of his Gallic neighbors who may probably have helped to produce these emotions. A young man of nineteen shot himself from the truly Parisian cause of disappointment in love, and two young men of twenty-seven and twenty-four, for the same cause, stifed themselves with charcoal. The variety of modes is curious. At every age man chooses particular methods of commit ting suicide. In youth he has recourse to hanging, which he soon abandons for firearms. In proportion as his vigor declines, he returns to his first mode, and it is most commonly by hang ing that the old man perishes who puts an end to his existence.
Year: 1873

From a paper on the locomotive en- zine, by Joseph Harrison, IT,, read before the members of the Franklin institute in Pennsylvania, is taken the following paragraph:

 "The engineer, noting the curious things in bronze and in copper exhumed at Pompeii and gathered together in the Museo Borhonica at Naples, will finger near a small vessel for heating water, little more than foot high, in which are combined nearly all the prin- ciples involved in the modern vertical steam boiler-fre box, smoke fiue through the top and fire door at the side, all complete and strange to say, this little thing has a water grate made of small tubes crossing the fire box at the bottom, an idea that has been pat ented twenty times over, in one shape or another, within the period of the his tory of the steam engine"
Year: 1873

When the train draws up at Stamford, five minutes for refreshments, says the Danbury NeaUs, it is easy to distinguish the experienced traveller from the rest. He has already got out on the platform, and is either on the bottom step, or close enough to it. Just as soon as the speed of the train becomes less than he can make, he springs off, and dashes madly for the saloon door, through it, and up to the counter, giving his order for coffee while moving, and snatching up the right article the first time. He knows just how much time is required to make five minutes, and when it is ex- pired he is out on the platform picking his teeth, and talking about real estate. Alas for the inexperienced traveller, such is not his record. He is inside the car when it stops, with twenty per sons ahead of him. He jumps down on the platform in time to see the mass surging into the door, and then it sud- denly strikes him that he may be too late, and under this inspiration he throws himself into the struggling gang. He doesn't reach the table. He and the other inexperienced travellers form the outside line, and shout their orders through the openings, and receive what is handed them with Jhankfulness and what dexterity they can muster. Such man will perspire and choke, and paw, and jaw during the entire five minutes, and in that time may get down two thirds of Q sandwich, one-third of Q piece of custard pie, and more or less of coffee, and then get out of the door just in time to catch hold of the car rail, and be pulled on by the brakeman. And when he has reached his seat and is scraping the rest of that pie from his boot, and drawing cold air into his throat to allay the pain of the scald, he will think up things about the keeper of that restaurant that would make the hair on a saw-horse stand straight on end
Year: 1873

TEST FOR PURE WATER.-An exchange recommends the following test for ascer- taining tho purity or impurity of drink ing water, viz.: If half pint of the water be placed in perfectly clean, colorless, glass-stoppered bottle, few grains of the best white sugar added, and the bottle freely exposed to the light in the window of warm room, the solution should remain clear even after ten days exposure, if the water is pure. If the water become turbid, it is open to grave suspicion of contamination with sewage matter"
Year: 1873

aids to the development of the human
mind, is the power of producing articu-
late sounds, or language, of which, as far
as we know, man is the only animal in
possession There is no doubt that
many other species have certain powers
of communication between individuals;
but these are probably very limited, and
of a kind very different from verbal IAN
guage.


Although there is nothing in mans
present condition which removes him
from the pale of the animal kingdom,
and although his reasoning powers differ,
rather in degree than in Kind from those,
of the inferior animals, he seems distin-
guished by one innate tendency; to
which we have no reason to suppose that
anything analogous exists elsewhere, and
which we might term an instinct, were it
not that this designation is generally ap-
piled to propensities of a much lower
character The tendency here referred
to is that which seems universal in man,
to believe in some unseen Existence.
This may take various forms, but is never
entirely absent from any race or nation,
although (like other innate tendencies)
it may be defective in individuals. For
there is probably no nation of people that
does not possess the idea of some invisi
BILE power external themselves; whose
favor they seek and whose anger they
deprecate. -7


1t requires a higher mental cultivation
than is always to be met with, to con-
eeive of this power as having spiritual
existence; but wherever the idea of spir-
ituality can be defined, it seems connect
ed with it. Closely connected with it,
is the desire to share in this spiritual ex-
istence; which has been implanted by
the Creator in the mind of man; and
which, developed as it is by the mental
cultivation that is almost necessary for
the formation of the idea, has been re-
garded by Philosophers in all ages as one
of the chief natural arguments for the
immortality of the soul. By this immor-
tai soul, the existence of which is thus
guessed by man, but of whose presence
within him he derives the strongest as
suranee from Revelation man is connect
ed with beings Of ahigher order, amongst
whom intelligence exists, unrestrained
in its exercise by the imperfections of
that corporeal mechanism through which
it here operates; and to this state,-a
state of more intimate communion of
mind with mind. and of the creature
with their Creator-he is encouraged to
aspire, as the reward of his Improvement
of the talents. here committed to his
charge
Year: 1873

The subject assigned for the hour is an
important one, but it would be work of
supererrogation for me to-try to elucidate
the best mode of teaching the science of
physiology, for the reason that / have
never seen, much less examined a school
treatise, or a treatise on physiology de-
signed for the use of schools. 1t will be
enough for me to say that perhaps no
branch of education is of more import
ance to the youth of our country, than a
thorough acquaintance with the funda-
mental truths of physiology.


The objects of the science of physiology
is to bring together in systematic form
the phenomena which nomally present
themselves during the existence of liv-
ing beings, and to arrange and classify
these so as to deduce from these the gen.
eral laws or principles according to which
they take place.


Physiology may be said to consist of
the phenomena which present them
selves during continuance of health, or
normal life These phenomena when
they occur in an irregular manner, con-
stitute disease or abnormal life, and then
become the subjects of pathology. Ply
siology and pathology are therefore very
closely related, and equally close is the
relation between physiology and hygiene;
which is the art of preserving the body
in health; and neither can be studied
with the highest prospect of success ex-
cept in connection with the other In
proportion as the science of physiology is
perfected, will the simplicity and certain
ty of it's practical applications increasei
and though we may not reasonably an
ticipate return of patriarchal longevity,
yet the experience of the last century
has shown that every general increase Of
attention to its simple, and universally
acknowledged truths, is attended with
Year: 1873

A man was recentiy-Alessed by an adj
dition to his household. TAe next morn.
ing the happy father took hISsaur-ycar-
old boy to the upper room to see the lit
tie brother, who was quietly enjoying his
first morning nap with his little mouth
open. All were quietly watching the ell
der brother, desirous to catch his first OBJ
servation. With eyes firmly fixed at tho
new conner, and with countenance
showing trouble within, after few mo-
ments of silence, he defantly exclaimed,
II should like to know who pulled out
baby's teeth2"
Year: 1873

A mother was amused the other day 10
hear this bit of argument" from her lit
tie boy Mama, l dou't see how Satan
turned out to be such bad fellow, there
wasn't any devil TO put him up TO it.
Year: 1873

A AQUEER FISH.-The Enterprise says
there is "a kind of fish found in Pyra-
mid Lake and nowhere else in the
world. The fish has an unpronounce..
able Indian name, sounding someA
thing like Qu-ee-Way, and is head
half way to the end of its tail, which
makes it valuable as Il curiosity.


When the Qu-ee-Way starts up the
river to spawn, they swim on the sur
face Of the water, like so many por-
poises, and make such a noise, what


with blowing and what with splash
lng, as to cause all the horses and
cattle grazing on the shore to erect


head and tail and stampede for the
hills. And this rip-roaring hoodlum
cuss of a fish we are willing to swap
even up for starter in white fish"
Year: 1873

A Cows Pluck AND FRIENpsHIP.-
yesterday afternoon, as a COW and


dog belonging to r. n. Graves were


passing along b street together, a big,
buarrelsome hoodlum cur rushed out
from the sidewalk and pounced upon
Rhe canine companion of the cow.
rhe hOOdlum seemed to be getting
fhe best of the fight, when the cow
Probably 4 descendant in a direct


inc of the ''cow with the crumpled


born that tossed the dog that worried
fhe rat seeing how things were 60
(ng with her companion, charged up
fn the strange dog, and at the first
pass elevated him some ten feet in
lhe air. She was on hand again about
lhe time he struck the ground, and
Fharging upon him with arched neck
lnd erect tail, pitched him from the
middle of the street into pile of
baking cases Standing on the edge Of
(he sidewalk. This done. she turned
to her canine friend,
hnd the pair moved on together,
while the discomfited hoodlum
faised his head above the edge Of the
dry goods box in which he had
landed, and looked about to see if the
[ightning had struck any other dog.
This curious affair was witnessed by
butte crowd of amused spectators,
Eho cheered Justify for the victorious
Year: 1873

or horrned at the cruelty OF the MURDERS conn
mitted, can be more determined that Justice shall
be wrenched from the hands OF reluctant power
than the President. In this determination he is
ably seconded by Secretary Fish and the entire
Gahinaf
Year: 1873

tration. The capture OF the Virginus
and the shocking barparties perpetrated
by the Spanish authorities at Santiago
de Cuba formed the subject of serious
consideration, and definite action toward main
tanning the dignity OF the United States in the ex-
listing complications was taken. While all the men,
bers or the Cabinet are extremely reticent as to
the nature of the conclusion reached to-day it may
be said that the administration is thoroughly in
accord with the sentiment OF the people Of the
country, ana the course of the authorities viii be
heartily approved.


wARLIKE WORDS AND MEASURES.


One member Of the Cabinet. when approached on
the subject. replied-"As to the nature OF the
action agreed upon to-day can say nothing; but
you may rest assured the people OF the country
will be satsfed.n


Immediately after the adjournment OF the
Cabinet secretary Robson repaired to the
Navy Department and first had q long
conference with the Chief OF the Bureau
OF Construction and Repairs as to fitting
out for sea several vessels now laid up, and then
with the Chief Of the Bureau OF Equipment and
Recruiting relative to furnishing such vessels
with complement of men, stores, &c. A large
number OF kilograms between tie Secretary and
commandants OF the several navy yards passed
during the day, but affairs about the Department
were conducted with secrecy.


THE PROBABLE DEMANDS OF SPAIN.


Various rumors are circulated tonight as to the
determination of the Cabinet, or which is that
the government VIII demand OF Spain the mme-
diate arrest and punishment OF the parties mainly
instrumental in conducting the outrages Of which
the government so seriously complains, and II the
CASTELAR, government shall be unable to give
the required satisfaction this government
win proceed to extreme measures neces-
sary to obtain IL. Though no Cabinet
oicer admits directly that this is one OF the con-
clusions arrived at during to-day's deliberations
still upon its being presented, there is positive
denial. The fact Is that, owing to the determna-
ton adopted In the Cabinet session not to make
known for the present any portion Of the impor-
Year: 1873

The City Council should not act too hastily in
purchasing the proposed city park. THERE'S avery
strong feeling growing in opposition TO the price
that was named in the report Of the committee
at the last meeting which was as follows On the
Brandywne from Harrison street TO Rattlesnake
run, about u a,ro, ior $50, 600; Ed. Tatnall and
j. Cloud Elliott, about 80 acres at $1,000 per acre.
Joseph Tatnall u acres at $500 per acre J, Cloud
Elliott, 10 acres at $500 per acre; making AZ
acres for So, 900. These look like high prices for
land by the acre and we believe it is enormous
that the land is not worth the money and it is
simply an outrage to buy it at that price Yet
there are others who claim that it will never be
got cheaper-that the owners are able 10 hold IL
and that land further from the city has recently
sold for thousand dollars per acre.


We believe II is our duty TO make these state
ments TO our readers who are deeply interested
in the matter. The people seem to desire park,
and they know parks are costly afairs. They
have proved so everywhere. Yet the disposition
10 secnre them for cities increases in the lace Of
the expense they cause, and none Of The cities
which have them are willing to sell them out for
building purposes, although il is said they could
realize handsomely by doing SO; while Other
cities which have neglected TO purchase are fire.
quently lameuting that they did not buy while
they could have done so for less money.


The question wifi come before tho COuucn this
evening, and will doubtless he fully and fairly
discussed


The gentlemen who offer the lands are not
spectators and know what their property is
worth for farming; and doubtless from expert
cncc have found that it did not pay them six per
cent. on 500 per acre yet when they see their
is a prospect by reason Of the building of a
bridge by the city and county, of its growing in
price, they demand what they say it should bring
with these improvements In prospect. 1t now
becomes those who are opposed to purchasing
this land to show that other property equally as
desirable can 10 got cheaper.
Year: 1873

Ar some expense to this office, if not to the public. we shall next week print the the new law governing boards of super visors. The wisdom which enacts laws and puts them in force at once without providing any means whereby the officers or public may know their provisions, is in one respect like the power and goodness of God, which passeth all understanding
Year: 1873

THE fields west of town are quite green with the growing grain, and the cotton woods and willows are putting forth their leaves. The last few days have been very Spring like, and the black birds and other grateful beings seem quite happy.
Year: 1873

WE are informed that orders arc out making headquarters of the Fifth Cavalry at Camp Lowell; that Lieutenant Colonel Carr will come here in command of this post, pending decision of his application for a transfer to the Fifth Cavalry vice Lieutenant Colonel Duncan, retired; also that work on the new post at Rillito will soon begin. This change will bring the regimental band with it, and our citizens can but be charmed at the prospect of now and then hearing excellent music.
Year: 1873




The casket OF the deceased was deco
rated tas,efullv with wreaths of flowers,
and when the persons present had taken
last look at the placid features OF the
departed eight pail hearers, with white
and black Grape on their lett arms, took
charge Of and placed the casket in the
hearse.


As the solemn procession moved down
Main street, an mtutivs knowledge
seemingly pervaded the minds OF persons
along that highway that an angel spirit
had left its mortal tenement for happier
realms, that they looked in silence at the
cavalcade as it passed to escort the earth
y remains to the grave.


At the cemetery, in a conspicuous spot,
not far from the entrance gate, grave
had been dug, and here the procession
halted and placed tile casket within it.
The Rev Mr.. Boggs, Of the Second
Presbyterian church, the read from the
tenth chapter Of Luke's gospel the para
BILE Of the good Samaritan, and closed
the services with few culogistic and af-
fectng remarks.


Every one present was visbly affected
to sadness during the ceremonies, and
many strong hearts shed genuine tears
Of sorrow for the hearted victim
who nobly sacrificed herself in a cause
which will win her crown among the
angels
Year: 1873

We are requested to say that Bishop PIERCE
If the NJ. f. Church South, and probably
other eminent diyines will be in Van Buren,
dnrng the latter part Of the week, on their
vsy from the Indian Conference at Table
oo,h to the Conference at Dardanelle. And
hat our citizens may expect preaching at the
NE Church Notice of the night and hour,
will be given by the ringing of the Church
ii
Year: 1873

If we had keen vision, and feeling of
all ordinary human life, it would be like hear
ing the grass grow and the squirrels heart
beat, and we should die of that roar which lies
on the other side of silence.-GeOrge Eliot.
Year: 1873

In recent al ticle on fair in his locality,
the editor of a Western paper says: A brother
editor took valuable premium, but an un-
kind policeman made him put it right back
where he took it from.
Year: 1873

A new omnibus and horse-car check has
been invented in England, which not only
registers those who enter, but where they
get out. 1t is said to be perfect telltale.
Now if somebody will invent a check upon
bank officers we shall all be happy.