smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

rB- Work is being carried forward on the
new bridge across the Canal il. the upper part
of this city, fdr the use of the Pennington
railroad. Grading is also in progress for the
new track, which passes in the rear of Ar
nett's saw mill and across the west side of the
Cricket Ground
Year: 1873

States If he Capt. Hall would send me
back there as he had hnted. The chief
engineer hearing of this declared
that he, too, would also leave
if DR.. Bissills returned, and the crew
generally were so disposed As soon as
heard of the intended breaking up Of the
expedition, went to Captain Hall and
told him would not oppose his COM
mand, and was ready to fuldll hi. desires
rather than be the cause of dissentons
lie at once agreed, and said If would
only keep his journal ! might a,.cnd to
As much scientific matter as would present
itself to- me. So ended what has been
construed into mutiny. Hall did no,
refer to the matter in the presence of the
crew until the vessel was beyond eiviliza-
tiun.
Year: 1873

The recent discovery that sweet
fern is q more powerful astringent
than hemlock will add greatly to the
wealth Of Michigan. Tens Of thou
sands OF her acres are covered with
this luxuriant vegetable. 1t is said
to yield forty per cent. extract where
hemlock yields but fourteen, and is
superior to the latter for tanning pur-
poses. These vast astringent fern
plantations will tempt another class OF
mechanics to that State, and lumber
men will find tanners their rivals as
exporters.
Year: 1873

ment Of the State and the cruelty it
too often practised upon coiored men
was well known to the administration
fidelity in the Marshal upon the
scene was vital and that fidelity Mr..
Packard had continuously revealed,
and the more carefully for being him
self a professional lawyer. Had any
other citizen in the State-we care not
who-been accredited to his place by
the new administration, we are salts
fed that the entire Republican party
here would have demonstrated ex-
hanstively against such successor.


Mr.. Packard is of large stature,
compactly padded with flesh. He seems
just to have escaped obesity. but ma
ture has distributed his material for
large belly somewhat symmetrically
about his frame. His foot falls with a
tread that betrays both vigor and will,
and we conjecture that a grip of his
broad hand would speedily dispel all
doubt of those traits. In fact, the man
is we'll symbolized in his hand kind
frank hand but capable on demand as
an inconvenient fist. There is some
thing in his eye that notably empha.
sizes this idea-and we believe indeed
that there has as yet been little drain
on his wonderful reserves Of power


despite the memorable efforts he has
projected so successfully in behalf o1
Louisiana. He is the General Geo
H. Thomas of Louisiana politics, and
like that officer has never lost a battle
Year: 1873

These grow on to the tail of the rep
tile; and the popular belief is that
the first joint, which is always of a
darker color than the others, takes two
years to grow, while afterward the
snake has an additional joint each
year. Some observers contest this,
and argue that the reptile forms its
rattle much faster than at this rate.
The wearing of this rattle in the hat
or bonnet is said to be an infallible
specific against the headache and is
frequently worn OIL that account
Harper's Weekly.
Year: 1873

The man who has never failed in busi-
ness cannot possibly know whether he
is honest or not, cannot possibly know
whether he has any "grit' in him, or is
worth button. 1t is the man who fails,
and then rises who is really great in his
way.


Peter Cooper failed in making hats,
failed as q cabinetmaker, locomotive
builder, and grocer but as often as he
failed he tried and tried again." until
he could stand upon his feet alone, then
crowned his victcry by giving a million
dollars to help the poor boys in times to
come.


Horace Greeley tried three OF four
lines of business before he founded the
Tribune, and made it worth million of
dollars


Patrick Henry failed at everything he
undertook, until he made himself the
orator of his age and nation.


The founder of the Herald kept on fail
ing and sinking money for ten years,
and then made one of the most profit
able newspapers ON earth.


Stephen A. Douglas made dinner
tables and bedsteads and bureaus for
many long year before he made him
self giant" on the floor of Congress.


Abraham Lincoln failed to make both
ends meet by chopping wood, failed to
earn his salt in the galley-slave life OF a
Mississippi fat-boatman he had not
even wit enough to ran a grocery, and
yet he made himself the grandest char
acter of the nineteenth century.


Gen. Grant failed at everything except
smoking cigars /; he learned to tan hides.
but could not sell leather eEough to pur-
chase pair of breeches; a dozen years
ago he brought up on top of q wood
pile, "teaming' it to town for forty dol
lars month and yet he is one of the
great soldiers of the age, and is now the
honored head of a great nation.


The lesson for every young man is
this As long as you have health and
power to do, go ahead if you fail at
enc thing, try another, and a third-a
dozen even. Look at the spider nine
teen times it tried to throw out its web
to place of attachment, and On the
twentieth it succeeded. The young man
who has the "gift of continuance" is
the one whose foot will some day stand
on high ground, and will be able to
breast the angry waters of human dis
enlargement OF Health.
Year: 1873

FELL FRoM ScAFFoLD--On Friday afternoon,
four carpenters, who were working on the new
City Mill. at the Brandywine, were precipitated
to the ground, BY the breaking of q scaffold upon
which they were standing. All four were severely
bruised, but fortunately no bones were broken.
Year: 1873

The history of the Russian Empire
for the past century and a half, and
especially within the past thirty years,
proves that even despotism, under
certain peculiar conditions, is not an
tagonistic to national development, not
only i'm material but in a moral and
intellectual sense as well. The rule of
Alexander H., semi-sacerdotal as it is,
is as absolute, as unquestionable, and
as actively strong as ever; but the Rus
sian serfs have received their freedom,
the people have grown more intelligent
and more enterprising, industries and
great economical projects have been
pursued with indomitable energy, and a
great and obtrusive national spirit has
come into being, and is every day adding
new strength to the power and wealth of
the Empire. The Gear is still looked
upon as half deity; not long ago,
when he appeared in public to celebrate
the anniversary of Peter the Great, the
sober, bronzed, long-bearded populace
which welcomed him evinced the same
deep reverence which the humble Catho-
lie feels in the presence of the Holy
Father, or the toiling husbandman of
Thibet when standing before the Grand
Llama. Still, civilization has crept on
apace, and the nation is now striding
boldly forward. Russia presents the
singular spectacle of an alliance between
IA more than C@saric throne with the
element of progress, against that aristo-
cratic caste which in other lands is the
prop and bulwark of monarchies.
Schools have been established, by I'M
perial ukase, throughout Muscovy;
more than one concession has been
granted to the people in political reform,
and even now the Imperial Cabinet is
considering the expediency-not the ne
cessity, let it be noted, for the Gar is
never driven to an unwelcome policy-of
establishing a representative chamber,
elected by the Russian people. Quite
as striking as its progress in intelligence
and the growth of public opinion is the
material development of Russia. In no
European country has military enter
prise been pushed with more vigor, or
public improvements been executed with
greater rapidity. The commerce and
manufactures of the Empire have grown,
since the Crimean war, to greater ex-
tent than in any Continental State,
excepting, perhaps, France.
ocean.
Year: 1873

1t is poor economy-or, rather, no
economy at ALTO purchase inferior
fabrics because they are cheap. Per-
sons in limited circumstances often
commit this error. If n calico at ten
cents a yard looks about as well as one
at twelve or fifteen cents, the prudent
purchaser will often think it economy to
choose the low-priced goods. As it is
low-priced, she may indulge in n yard
or two more for ruffie or bias folds, fiat
tering herself that cheap ornamentation
is an equivalent for fine quality. This
mistake may be seen permeating the en-
tire wardrobes of many sensible people.
The result is simply this : They never
have anything of really good quality,
are always shabby and always buying.
None but rich people can afford to buy
poor goods. This rule applies to all
sorts of goods-muslins, cloths, carpets
and table linen. We grudge the time
we see women spend in making up mus
Inns of low grade for underclothing.
There are so many stitches in n shirt.
And when it lasts one year instead of
two, as it should, there is Just twice as
much work done as need be. Better
make three shirts of fine quality of
muslin than six of lower grade of mus
lin. Just so in hannels. A fifty-cent
all-wool Shaker flannel will wear two or
three times as long as fimsy cotton and
wool stuff few pennies cheaper. Es-
pecially in family of children, fabrics
should be chosen for service that when
made up they may descend from one
child to another, thus saving the mother
time to stitch into her brain little en-
broidery of thought and culture. A few
rules with regard to shopping itself may
be in place {: First, have list of arti-
cles to be purchased made out in black
and white. BY this means you will be
saved from sudden temptation to buy
what is not really necessary, and forget
nothing that You require. Second, deal
only with merchants in whose business
integrity You can confde. Third, in the
long run one always does better to buy
at one and the same place than to run
about for the purpose of hunting up
bargains. A regular customer can
often get favors denied to an occasional
purchaser. Fourth, never buy what
you don't want simply because it is
cheap.
Year: 1873

The natives of Kamtschatka, when
first discovered by Russian sailors, were
probably the only nation on earth who
drank nothing but water yet, as if to
compensate for this, they enjoyed their
one beverage i'll manner not dreamed
of in civilized countries, carrying their
drinking capacity to an extent which
makes one shudder to think of. They
commenced to drink water even before
eating, taking nearly two quarts before
their first meal so they continued dur
ing the day, and, when night came, their
last labor was to place huge vessel of
water by their bedside, and to fill it
brimful with snow and ice. Next
morning the bucket was empty. The
Lap and the Greenlanders, on the
other hand, prefer it warm. Both ma
tions keep a large copper kettle, or,
where such luxuries are still unknown,
ponderous vessel of wood, adorned
with bone knobs and hoops, constantly
boiling. A large, well-carved spoon is
ever ready, and from morn till night
the thirsty natives are drinking the
nauseous liquid.
Year: 1873

This is certainly very wrong of her.
No doubt she will plead her thousand
and one cares and vexations, but all that
certainly gives her no right to disturb
her lords peace and comfort. Let me
whisper in your ear / think can sug-
gest scheme that will make her
ashamed of this irritability. Try upon
her the tenderness of the honeymoon.
Don't think to make her happy with a
brocade or a new carriage but when
you come home, bring with you her
favorite flower-show her in hundred
ways that she is in all your thoughts.
This is the medicine that will cure her


Try love in large and repeated doses.


1t is specific for many of the worst COM
plants among our wives.-Dio Leyis.
Year: 1873

BY GEoBGE W. BUNGAy.
"I was made In Yankee town,


Where the habits of people are steady
Where only the clocks are run down.,
And 'hand to raise them is ready.
" You listen with ears that are quick,


And think am somewhat crank sir;
Although am going on tick


My face is good at the bank, sir.
" work all night and all day,


without tick OF disliking
ask no increase of my pay,


Although am constantly striking"
"At home and abroad, good hours keep,
Though sometimes a drop I've taken,
And arouse with alarm from sleep,
Those that nothing else could awaken.
"Dont deem mine poor, worthless case
The slave of a turnkey that's rusty;
Though my hands are held to my face
My works are 80 good you can trust me.
Right here, on the old mantel shelf,
MI the fleet moments with labor;
Notwithstanding say IL myself,


Myself run down. not my neighbor.
My ticks, like the talk of a seer,


Should touch our hearts with DEVOTION
Not for a moment, or month, or year,
But long as hearts tick with emotion"
Year: 1873

MILKING Nor "MADE EASY. Says
the Utica Herald, "The man who
thought anybody could milk COW don't
think so any more. He bought a COW
yesterday, and last evening took new
tin pail and raisin box, and started for
the stable. He revolved out OF the
stable through window in just three
minutes. At the same time the tin pail
was heard wandering among the rafters,
and the raisin box came bounding out
of the door. The hired girl made a
reconnaissance in force, and reported that
the COW was standing on her horns, so
to speak, and wiggling her hind legs (the
COW, not the girD for new worlds to
cOnuuer"
Year: 1873

In Meadville, Pennsylvania, it is ct
iquette when the new Mayor Is elect
ed. that he give a champagne supper
10 the Council. The salary of the
Mayor Is 5000. and the expenses Of a
good champagne supper Is fully that
sum, leaving the honors the only per-
quisites of his Honor. The present
Mayor disgusted the Council by an
nouncing that he had given his salary
to the poor fund, and would omit the
usual civilities.
Year: 1873

In Sweden the first time that mar
appears intoxicated in a public place
he is condemned to q fine of about
twelve shillings.


The second time a fine of twenty
five shillings.


The third and fourth time the pun.
ishment is much more rigorous :llot
only does the offender pay larger
sum in the shape of fine, but he
loses his right as an eleotor, and on the
Sunday after the offense, he is COM
PEELED to stand in the pillory in front
of his parish church. 3a


The fifth time the punishment is six
months imprisonment with hard la
bor..


The sixth time years imprison-
ment at hard labor =


Amy person accused of having in-
duced another to drink to excess is
fined twelve shillings; or, If the per-
sou so Intoxicated is under age, the
tempter is fined twenty-fve shillings.


A priest or mintsteT of religion
found Ia a state of drunkenness is inl-
mediately deprived of his cure.


In no case is drunkenness admitted
as an excuse for the commission of a
crime, Cos it too frequently is in our
law courts,)


Lastly, man who dies when drunk
is not permitted ia be hurried in con-
secrated ground.
Year: 1873

We do no; know why it is that tenn
perance lecturers stretch the truth out
Of all manner Of shape so often. AS
good cause as temperance ought not
to require story telling that lies outside
the bounds of truth. But the fact is,
that more romaneeS are uttered from
the temperance platform than from
any other place. From the San Fran
cisco Chronicle we cuta extract from
a temperance address delivered in that
city by Or. Gibheay that beats any of
Coughs sstories-and that is saying a
good deal. Here it is. as follows: ~


GAS still further illustration of the
power of depraved appetite, the Doc
tor told story OF a ship carpenter in
Philadelphia who accidently cut his
toe off with an adzer 1t was, too late
to put it ON and make it grow fast
again when he got home, seihe put the
severed extremity in jar of alcohol,
and placed it on the mantlepieee as a
family memento. The doctor advised
the patient to take little whiskey
every day to keep up his strength and
spirits while confined to his bed. The
advise was serupulously followed, and
the patient began to relish the medi-
cine One day his wife went out to
work away from home and neglected
to procure the usual allowance of the
ardent and pined for his potatiOn.-
During the day the appetite grew SC
strong upon him that he could not re-
sist. He hobbled out of bed to the
mantle-piece and smiled at the jarcon'
tanning his picked toe. He didn't
like the idea of drinking the liquor


and went back to bed. But the smell


OF the bottle reused the demon appetite
with ten-fold power, and he soon got
up and drained the bottle. This served
him for time, but the appetite soor
returned and must be appeased, and
to do this he got up, and there being
no more liquor, took his picked toe


back to bed with him and sucked il
dry. 1ut En-. ,-..s.. rt :. l.
Year: 1873

rote OF the penitent, and beguiled her
with fair promises of REFORM. until.
through his entreaty, she WIS finally
induced to renarry him. No sooner
had he been married second time
than he began 10 squander her money.
until finally the whole. amount was
spent. For one year after this last
marriage he. had lived with her, doing
scarcely any work, drinking more
deeply than before, and continuing the
aouse of his wife. In September last
he had left her, and had not since re-
turned. lie had been compelled to al
low her five dollars a week for her own
and the support of her three children,
of whom the little boy was tie oldest.
Every week she had been accustomed
to trldging out for severakmiles to the
farm of her father-in-law, to receive
this miserable pittanee. This was the
object of her journey on that cold Sat-
urday night. Her husbands relatives
are wealthy, but more than paying her
this slight stipend they will havenoth-
ing to do with her. '.--i.-t G- =


This, in brief, is the story which the
woman tells, and which we have been
permitted to publish on condition Of
not disclosing the name of the parties
invoked. Measures will be taken for
her relief by friends whom the recital
of her story has gained for her. Moth
ing, of course, can be done with the
eowardly msn W-ho has deserted her,
and throwri her upon the charity of the
world. She is al present residing in
heupper story of a small tenement
house near the corner of Root and
Bridge streets, on the West Side.
Year: 1873




From the Cleveland Herald s..l


The cold, stormy weather of the Sat
urday night preceding Christmas had
the effect of revealing many case of
poverty which otherwise would have
remained concealed by those who are
so unfortunate as to be compelled to
struggle through the winter with but
scant supplies of food and fuel. A case
of this kind became known to a gentle
man residing on the West Side in the
following manner: -.--''- D. 90 -oi4Ai


Late on that evening a knock WAS
heard at his back door, and, when the
door was opened in response to the
summons, there cafne staggering into
the room thiniy-clad woman, appar-
entity almost overcome by the intense
cold, and having with hera small boy
Of perhaps seven years ofage, who WIS
crying piteously. Assoon as she was
sufficiently warm to be able TO speak,
she said that the fear that her little
bov would freeze had compelled her to
seek the hospitality of a stranger until
they were able to resume their journey
to the house of her Ifather-inlaw,
where she was going for some money.
The kind sympathy shown by the'fap-
iIy induced her to tell her history,
which is one long tale of suffering en-
dured at the hands of brutal husband
made so by drink. s-- ''Hi' i1i"2 '.'@


Long years ago when she and her
husband were yet school-mates togeth-
er, they were betrothed. Nine years
ago they were married, and for the
first few months of their welded life
their union seemed as if it was to be a
happy one. A change had come, how
ever. and her husband had taken to
drinking, and since that time his life
has been one of dissipation. Often she
had been compelled to go to the home
of a sister at nights, when she knew
his return would be followed by cruel
beatings and abuse. Every fewmonths
he would leave her and stay away days
at a time. Too proud to go to her
fathers home, she was compelled to
earn her own living by some menial
employment by which she made but
scanty living. Finally he left her and
stayed away for seven months. During
this time her father, who was an old
and respected citizen of the West Side,
died and left her some seven hundred
dollars, which she was to have only on
condition of her being separated from
her husband either by divorce or hi:
death. She applied for and obtaineds
bill of divorce. l'.H


In some manner her husband dis
coverd that she had received thi:
money, and returning to her acted th'
Year: 1873

a decision has just been made in
Chicago by Judge Drumrnond, of the
United States Circuit Court which
viii have the effect of unsettling the
title to good dead Of property III Hi
nois. The question involved was tee
title Of a wife to real estate Indirectly
acquired from her husband, the latter
having become bankrupt. .37In this case
theo property was conveyed by the
husband t5 a third party, and by the
third party, to- the, wife, the husband
being entirel solvent at the time OF
the conveyance, An Injunction was
applied for by the husbands creditors
to restrain the wife from collecting the
rents of her real estate, and the matter.
was carried to the Circuit Court. The
grounds taken en- behalf of the hus-
bands creditors were, first, that under
the Married Wornan's act of Illinois
the wife could not hold this property
as her separate property, because prop
erty acquired from the husband is
specially exempted from the rrovi-
sions of this act; and second, that at
common law the husband is entitled


to the rents and profits of the wifs's


real estate during connection, unless


the property has been specially limited
to her separate use. Judge Drummond
sustained beth of these points, but also
sustained point made by opposing


counsel that the Court should order a


reference to ascertain whether any pro-
vision has been made for the mainten-
ance of the wife and family, and if not,


that the Court should make such pro-


vision out of the income, on the prin-
Eciple that where a party is seeking
equity he shall first do equity. The
effect of the decision is to invalidate


the ~ife's title to the property; but
reference after adjudication in bank
lruptcy was ordered to ascertain the


value of the income derived from the
real estate question, so that the Court
might make suitable provision for
the wife and family. hGi 1n.iT 40


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