smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

She comes down to the depot in an ex-
press wagon three hours before train time.
She insists on sitting on her trunk out on
the platform to keep it from being stolen.
She picks up her reticule, fan, parasol,
lunch basket, small pot with house plant
in it, shawl, paper of candy, bouquet (she
never travels without one), small tumbler
aud extra vail, and chasas hysterically after
every switch engine that goes by, under the
impression that it is her train.


Her voice trembles as she presents herself
at the restaurant and tries to buy ticket,
and she knocks with the handle of her para
sol at the door of the old disused tool-house,
10 vain hopes that the baggage man will
come out and check her trunk. She asks
everybody in the depot and on the platform
when her train will start, and where it will
stand, and, looking straight at the great
clock, asks: "Whas time Is it now?" She
sees, with terror, the baggage man shy her
trunk into q car where two men are smok-
ing, instead of locking it up by itself in q
large, strong, brown car, with "Bad order,
Shops" chalked on the side, which she has
long ago determined to be the baggage car,
as the only safe one in sight.


Although the first at the depot, she is the
last to get her ticket, and once on the
cars, she sits TO the end of her journey in
an agony of apprehension that she has got
Oh the wrong train, and will be landed at
some strange station, put in q close car
rage, drugged, and murdered, and to
every last male passenger who walks down
the ailse she stands up and presents her
ticket, which she invariably carries in her
hand.


She finally recognizes her waiting friends
on the platform, leaves the car in a burst OF
gratitude, and the train is ten miles away
before she remembers that her reticule
fan, parasol, lunch basket. verbena, shawl
candy, tumbler, vail and bouquet, are on
the seat where she left them, or in the de
pot at Peoria, for the life of her she cam
| tell which.
Year: 1873

In Indiana it has been judicially decided
that the purchase of a rail way ticket is also
q purchase of seat In the car. In this
case the purchaser refused to give up his
ticket until he is furnished with seat. His
request was not needed, and it was in evil
denoe that it could. .noHbeS compiled with In
consequence of the crowded condition of
tho car. The passenger was therefore
elected, bis baggage being thrown after
him, for which Injury hehas now recovered
81 600.
Year: 1873

AUGUSTA Chronicle: ga train of cars
left standing on the track at Port Royal
were during the gale of Friday night week
driven by the wind two hundred yards on
an upgrade. a watchmsn reported TO the
agent that the train had started up the road
without an engine. The rUnaways were
stopped by the car running off the siding"
Year: 1873

LONDON, Oct. 3.-Adyices from tie
Cape Of Good Hope report that sickness
has broken out among the troops on tie
coast, and out of one detachment of one
hundred and four marines, ninety are in
hospital,
Year: 1873

Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil is one
of the best things we know of for clergy
mans sore throat for headache or for sore
ness of the stomach or side, and mixed
with soft water it makes a splendid eye
water for weak or infamed or sore eyes.
Try il and see
Year: 1873

Don't Suffer your hair to fall off when
bottle or two of Natures Hair Restorative
will check it. Splendidlysperfumed and as
clear as crystal All wide awake drug,
gist sell il See advertisement.
Year: 1873

We see by the Chicago papers that
PROCTOR & GAMBLE have reduced the
price of their long established and popular
brand NOTIFIED GERMAN Soar, its pres
ent price and superior quality makes it the
cheapest as well as the best soap for con
sumers. 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

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

DAILY RoUTINE.-To those whose Dai-
" Routine is more or less imperatively
dictated to them by circumstances, it is a
matter of extreme difficulty to secure those
various conditions under which alone the
full amount of nutrition can be got out of
food. And yet such persons form the
overwhelming majority of mankind
What are people to do? They either
must put themselves in training" to bor-
row phrase from the fstic brotherhood
or else, finding this to be utterly Impossi-
bic, they must endeavor to find something
which will act SO far as a substitute, as to
enable the system to appropriate the nour-
ishment which food alone is capable of af-
fording. Such a substitute is DR. GOttlieb
Fisch' Bitters A wine glassful of this,
taken after each meal, will enable man,
in a very short time, to get from his food
the proper nOurishment and will thus
fit him to perform cheerfully, nay, even
joyfully, his Daily Routine


This subject continued next week under
Mature Greater than Art
Year: 1873

At last we got way and steamed
out through long slip. the piers on
either side being crowded with founders !;
but never a cheer. A battery of three
guns on the starboard pier doomed q
royal salute, and we swept out to sea,
the Yigilant in the lead we right in
her wake, and the baggage ship in ours.
Within fifteen minutes everybody was
we'll acquainted general joIlifcation
set in, and I was thoroughly glad / had
come over to fetch the shah.
Year: 1873

"Lucile
Had acquired that mstchless, unconscious appeal
To the homage which none but churl would
withheld
That caressing and exquisite grace-lever bold,
Ever present-whlch just few women possess
From heartless repose undisturbed by the stress
OF unquiet emotions her soft cheek had drawn
A freshness pure as the twilight of dawn
Her figure, though slight, had revived every
where
The luxurious proportions of youth; and her
hair
Once shown as Offering to passionate love,
Now hOated or rested redundant above
Her airy pure forehead and throat gathered loose
Under which, by one violet knot, the profuse
Mhk-White folds Of a cocl modest garment re-
posed,
Rippled faint by the breast they half hid, half dis
closed.
But her simple attire thus in al things revealed
The fine art which artfully all things concealed


Some faces show
The last act of tragedy in their regard
Though the first scene be wanting, il vet is not
hard
To divine, more or less, what the plot may have
been,
And what sort of actors have passed DER the
scene.
And whenever gaze on the face of Lucille,
With its pensive and passionless languOr, 1 feel
That some feeling hath burnt there-burnt out,
and burnt up
Health and hope. So you feel when you gaze
down the cup
Of extinguished volcanoes you Judge of the fire
Once there by the ravage you sees the desire,
By the apathy left in its wake, and that sense
OF moral, immOvable, mute innocence"
Year: 1873

We clip the above from Crofut's
Western World. It was correct when
the census was taken, but our readers
must remember the vast number of
Modocs killed in the late war, which
in Oregon will lessen the number of
scalp raisers in that section. However,
there is enough left to cost the govern
ment large amount to furnish them in
rifles and ammunition, and to keep
some of the United States troops in hot
water once in a while.
Year: 1873

felt easy in my mind now, and was
about to go to bed, but something oc-
CURED to me. took cab and drove
down town and routed out that
Herald representative


"Where is Belgium ?" said I.


"Where is Belgium never heard
such a question P'


"That doesn't make any differen ce to
me. If have got to fetch the shah 1
don't wish to go to the wrong place.
Where is Belgium ? Is it a shilling fare
in cab %


He explained that it was in foreign
parts, the first place have heard of
lately which body could not go to in a
cab for a shilling.


I said could not go alone, because I
could not speak foreign languages we'll :;
could not get up in time for the early
train without help, and could not find
my way, I said it was enough to have
the shah on my hands; I did not wish
to have everything piled on me. Mr.
Blank was then ordered to go with me-
/ was not so ignorant as I appeared,
but do like to have somebt dy along to
talk to when / go abroad.
Year: 1873

Mark Twain, who Fis in London, on
the occasion of the visit of the shah OF
Persia, was sent by the Herald represen-
tative to Ostend to accompany his ma
iesty to the shores of Albion. In a let
ter to the Herald he says


Would you like to go over to Bel
gium and help bring the shah to Eng
land ?"


L said I was willing.


every well, then here is an order
from the admiralty which will admit
you on board her maiesty's ship Lively,
now lying at Ostend, and you can re-
turn in her day after tomorrow.


That was all. That was the end of it..
Without stopping to think, had in a
manner taken upon myself to bring the
shah of Persia to England. I could
not otherwise regard the conversation /
had just held with the London repre-
sentative of the New York Herald.
The amount of discomfort I endured
for the next two or three hours can not
be sat down in words. could not eat,
sleep, talk, smoke with any satisfaction.
The more I thought the thing over the
more oppressed felt. What was the
shah to me, that / should go to all this
worry and trouble on his account ?
Where was the least occasion for taking
upon myself such a responsibility If
got him over all right, well. But if
he got drowned? 1t was depressing,
any way 1 looked att. In the end / said
to myself, If get this shah over here
safe and sound I will never take charge
of another one." And yet, at the same
time, I kept thinking "This country
has treated me we'll, stranger as am,
and this foreigner is the cou1try's guest,
that is enough will help him out I
will fetch him over will land him in
London, and say to the British people,
Here is your shah give me a receipt. -
Year: 1873

"A Cincinnati matron wants to know
if something cannot be done to protect
young ladies from being insulted on the
streets at night, and gets this sugges-
tion: ''Just have the girls mother tuck
her into her little bed about s o'clock
in the evening, and lock the door on
her .
Year: 1873

When / got home / sat down and
thought the thing all over. WANTED to
go into this enterprise understandingly.
What was the main thing? That was
the question. A little reflection infor-
med me. For two weeks the London
papers had sung just one continual
tune, and the idea of it all was how to
impress the shah" The papers had told
all about the st. Petersburg splendors
and had said at the end that splendors
would no longer answer that England
could not outdo Russia in that respect,
therefore some other wav of impressing
the shah must be contrived. And these
papers had also told all about the shahs-
tic reception in Prussia, and its attend
ant military pageantry. England could
not imp owe on that sort of thing, she
could not impress the shah with SOL
diers something else must be tried.
And so on. Column after column, page
after page of agony about how to i'm
press the shah" At last they had hit
upon happy idea, grand naval exhi-
bition. That was it A man brought
up in oriental seclusion and simplicity,
man who had never seen anything
but camels and such things, could not
help being surprised and delighted
with the strange novelties of ships,
The distress was at an end. England
heaved great sigh of relief; she knew
at last how to impress the shah.


My course was very plain now, after
that bit of reflection. ALI / had to do
was to go over to Belgium and impress
the shah. failed to form any definite
plan as to the process, but I made up
my mind to manage it somehow. I said
to myself. 81 will impress the shah,
or there shall be funeral that will be
worth contemplating.
Year: 1873

went to bed then, but did not sleep
a great deal, for the responsibilities
were weighing pretty heavily upon me.
At six o'clock in the morning, Mr..
Blank came and turned me out. I was
surprised at this, and not gratifed, for
/ detest early rising. / never like to
say severe things, but I was a good deal
tried this time. / said I did not mind
getting up moderately early, but ha-
ted to be called day before yesterday.
However, as I was acting in a national
capacity and for a country that I liked,
stopped grumbIing and we set out.
A grand naval review is a gocd thing to
impress a shah with, but if he would
try getting up at six o'clock in the
morning but no matter, we started.


THE SUMMER BEAUTY OF ENGLAND.


We took the Dover train and went
whistling along over the housetops
at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and
just as smoothly and pleasantly, too, as
if we were in a sleigh. One never can
have anything but very vague idea of
what speed is until he travels over an
English railway. Our "liohtning" ex-
presses are sleepy and indolent in COM
parison. We looked into the back win
dows of the endless ranks of houses
abreast and below us, and saw many
homelike little family of early birds
sitting at their breakfasts. New views
and new aspects of London were about
me the mighty city seemed to spread
further and wider in the clear morning
air than it had ever done before. There
is something awe-inspiring about the
mere look of the figures that express
the population of London when one
comes to set them down in a good
Year: 1873

Two Washington gentlemen who
lived opposite each other, wishing to
take an early mernlng tram, resorted
to one Of the devices OF their boyhood,
and passed = cord across the street.
each tying an end OF 1t to his big toe.
and solemnly agreeing that he who
first awoke should arouse the other.
But alas! both oversight themselves
and the first downtown car struck the
cord and dragged them from their beds
With lightning rapidity. The window
sashes have been replaced In their
rooms, and when their new boots with
telescope additions are finished, they
will again take their walks abroad.
Year: 1873

1t is a Catholic tradition that the Apostle
Peter presided over the Christian Church as
Bishop of Rome for full quarter of century.
From that time until the accession of Plus lA
not one of the two hundred and fifty or more
names in the list of pontiffs is accredited with
so long reign, although Plus vi. fell short of
it by only few months; and it came to be
sort of superstition in Italy that ''the years Of
Peter" should never be filled by any of Peter S
successors. But the venerable man who is now
supposed to be closing his eventful career in
the Vatican, surrounded by the Princes of the
Church and guarded by the little Papal army
of half regiment has long passed the allotted
term. The 10th of next June will be the 9th
anniversary of his election. He came to the
throne amid the acclamatOns of all Italy. A
patriot, a retOrmer, a liberal, his accession was
hailed as a new era for the people and the
Church. He was welcomed by Protestant
England and America, and his name gave a
fresh impulse to the revolutionary forces which
then menaced the principal States of the
| Continent. How strangely the positions oI


parties have changed Long ago Pope Piu:
| TX. became in the popular mind the chic


representative Of political and intellectual re


action and though he will always be honoreC


for his private virtues and personal amiabilty


as well as for certain qualities of greatness


which will be better recognized when time ha


assuaged the bitterness of the controversies


that called them forth, it may be said of hin


officially that in his latter years he has been de


serted and friendless


If he die the forty five cardinals will choos


his successor without interference, and will no


be severely perplexed by the rivalries of cand


dates. The dignity has lost its political im


portance, its emouments, and most of it


attractions for worldly ambition. The ponti


has no temporal subjects. He has no territor


except the inclOsure of his palace, and that h
holds by precarious tenure. He has no rev
enue except the voluntary offerings of goo
) Catholics He is a king without kingdom
Y treasury Troubles of every kind are pres
e ing fast uaon him. In few years, in a
$ human probability, he will be fugitive. I'll
e Catholic powers no longer intrigue for IL
: succession, as they did of old 1t is no long
S necessary in the cOnclave to consult the pr
o ferences of France, or to spare the susceptible
r ties of Spain and Austria, The church is
e be congratulated upon the indifference wi
e which the political powers regard this on
e momentous choice Liberal or conservatv
2, patriot or reactionist, it is all one now and t
d cardinals will have no embarrassment in ca
!. ing their suffrages for the man who will b.
t, promote the spiritual interests of the faithf
N N. Y. Tribune
Year: 1873

To-day there is man going about the
streets of this city, ragged, dirty and penniless
subslsting on free lunches, and the charities of
gamblers and has not slept in bed for months,
who during the war, was one of the most dash
ing cavalry officers in the Union army and was
promoted from the rank of First Lieutenant to
full Brgader and Brevet Major General, for
brilliant exploits on the field of battle, and who
for long time had large and important COM
mand. He has been here for two or three
months, under an assumed name, being
ashamed to dim the briliancy of his record in
the service OF his country by an exhibition of
his degradation under his former honored
name. He is generally very reticent, having


little to do with any one or talking but little,
save when engineering for drink, at which


he is remarkably successful. Night before
last, while lying helplessly drunk in the rear


part of Third street saloon, some men thought


to play joke on him by stealing his shirt, and


proceeded to strip him. Underneath his shirt,


and suspended by a string around his neck, was a


small canvas bag which the men opened and
found il to contain his commission as Brevet


Major General, two congratuatory letters, one
from Grant and one from President Lincoln, a


photograph Of little girl and a curl of hair-a


chestnut shadow" that doubtless one day crept


over the brow of some loved one.


When these things were discovered, even
| Tie -uEuuh6u tlcI WHO IOuuu them IelC


respect for the mans S former greatness, and


pity for his fallen condition, and quietly re
turned the bag and contents to where they
= found them, and replaced the seepers cothe
$ upon him. Yesterday Ne,os reporter tried Il


interview the man and endeavor to learn some
thing of his life in the past few years, but h,
declined to communicate anything. He erie,
like child when told how his right name an
9 former position were ascertained, and with tear
n trickling down his cheeks said:


p "For Gods sake don't publish my degrade
i ton, or my name at least, if you are determine
1t to say something about it. 1t is enough that
r know myself how low l have hecome Wi


you promise that much? 1t will do no gooC
IS but will do my friends a great deal of harm. a
h fortunately, they think that died in Sout
Is America, where | went at the close of th
1f war"


N Intemperance and the gambling table, I
es said, had wrought his ruin.-Kansas Ci
of Ne,Cs.
Year: 1873

Lord Bu'wer wrote some clever letters,
lately published, to Miss Mary Fox of Holland
House. They are full Of ali sorts Of advice to
his beautiful young correspondent One upon
marriaga is significant and alarming when we
consider that ';is man who writes. "Men," "
he says, will not marry a woman SO much
because they admire her, as because they think
she admires them. If you wish to keep well
with your husband, and if you wish to get a
husband, the happy individual must think you
consider no man equal to him. All men will


believe this and think it quite natural" He
tells the fair lady that "it is not necessary she
should adore" the man she marries; it is only
necessary he should think he is adored.
Year: 1873

We read that in one of the prettiest villages
of New Hampshire there resides lady (wife
and mother) who is an accomplished musician,
and has been the organist until recently of one
of the village churches. But she had acquired
an uncomfortable appetite for strong drink-a
passion so strong that the "organist would
leave her seat, retire, and drink" She has
been sent to an incbriate asylum. A case like
this shows what the appetite is. Nobody can
understand why this poor woman should do
such disreputable thing-nobody except her.
self. She knows we'll enough. in the bitterness
and grief Of her heart.-N y Tribune.
Year: 1873

A Cincinnati man who suspected his servant
girl of using kerosene oil to kindIe the FIRE with,
thought he would try her, one night, so he
poured the oil out and filed the can with
water. When he landed ia the dining room
next morning there was no breakfast and no
fire to cook it withholding but a stove full Of
soaked wood and a very foolish looking girl.
Year: 1873

Should the President (male) Of female
Munsell, President of the Illinois Wesleyan
University. has been brought before the
Trustees upon a charge of 'paternally kissing
the young ladies'" The Trustees report that
they regard the course of DIR. Munsell in kiss
ing different young ladies as unwise and
improper" But they say the kissing was
always Tin the presence of third parties, SO
that there could have been no improper
intent" This is mild; but the Doctor is huffy
about the matter, and has resigned the
Presidents chair
Year: 1873

Iowa has fve-legged mule, and its owner
did not know what the fifth foot was for until
the other day, when he attempted to tighten
up the breeching before going down HILL The
doctors who patched him up said they never
saw three pretter line shots in all their army
experience. The mule can stand on his two
fore feet and kick with oil three of his hind
feet; and to see him when he is in motion re-
minds the spectator Of buzssw.
Year: 1873

TALMAGE ON "SALT Rev. DR.. Talmage
held forth recently, taking as his text the
works, Salt is good" from one Of Christ
sermons to his disciples.


Mr.. Talmage compared the grace of God to
salt in its beauty. Salt was beautiful to the
naked eye, but under the glass you saw the
stars and the diamonds and the white tree
branches and the fire as the suns rays fell on
it. 1t would take all the time, with an
Infringement upon eternity, for an angel of
God to tell one-half the glOres in a salt
crystal; So with the grace of God-it is per-
fectly beautiful


Grace is like salt also, in the fact that it is
a necessity Of life. Man and beast perish
without salt. Chemists and physicians tell us
that salt is necessity. So with the grace Of
God; you must have it or die. | have been
told that there is nothing like salt to stop the
bleeding of a wound; and so take the salt Of
Christs Gospel and put it on the wounded soul
1t smarts a little at irst but see the bleeding
stop, and, lol the flesh comes again as the fesf
of little child. salt is good"