smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

the bed. He seemed to know his Owl


utter dissolution, and the paroxysm oi


grief was strangely stilled. Laura re-


mained with him all night and when


the first red lights of the rising sun had


bathed with deep sp1endor the silent


glaciers and the snowy peaks, the young


heart had broken beneath its burden,


and the weary spirit fed away.


Shortly afterwards, at Milan, think
it was, saw copy of the Times, and
in tho second column I saw an adver-
tisement for a man with red mark un-
der his left eye and when returned to
England I learned the whole story.
This man, who had ever borne the high
est character, had got into deep distress,
owning principally to the shameful con-
duct of friend for whom he had be-
come surety and in an evil hour he
had forged a check for considerable
amount, intending, as such unhappy
men always intend, to replace the mo-
ney. He failed in doing this, and be-
ing conscious that his fraud must inevi-
tabIy be discovered, he fed from Eng
land, taking with him his motheriess
child. Whether in a fit of despair he
had thrown himself from the cliffs, or
whether he had simply missed his foot
ing, it is impossible to say. Father and
son rest in one grave in a church-yard on
that mountain height and on every an
of that awful tragedy The
good peasants place wreaths of immor-
telIes upon the simple white cross that
marks the nameless tomb. English !
ElroboY0o
Year: 1873

Don't be afraid of having little fun in
the family. Amerry disposition is God
send home. There's the case of a man no
Nelson street, for instance. Saturday
he went into the kitchen ahead of his
wife, and seeing two huckleberry pies
standing on the table, he hastily con-
cealed them in the ice chest, which stood
open IN the back hall Then he went
down town chuckling to himself, and
ten minutes later the ice cart drove up,
and the ice man brought in fifty-pound
cake and started for the ice chest, fol-
lowed closely by the fond wife expatia-
ting upon the ''muss. He put the
cake upon the edge of the chest and
gave it push over, and when it came
down on those two steaming pies,
huckleberry geiser followed, and the ice
man, with eyes and face full of the dis
charge, tumbled completely over the
woman, and disappeared out of the
door. The wife recovered her balance
as speedily as possible, and catching up,
a broom went after the ice man, but he
escaped her; then she came back and
looked into the ice chest. and down at
the oil-oloth, and up at the ceiling, and
around on the walls. The men at the
store who were let into the joke by the
facetious Nelson street man are anxious
ly wondering how it turned out.





THE coming orange crop in Louisiana
promises we'll. The yield viii be above
the average, and it is expected the quail
ty viii be equal to that of previous
years. The creole orange has reputa-
ton for richness Of flavor, sweetness
sud juiciness not eYeelled by those Of
any other cline.
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested TO pay up at once
We would take great pleasure IN extend
ing credit TO our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay We solicit your favor


q We enter no new names on ou
books without the money IN adrlt ce-
Year: 1873

BRISBANE will soon commence laying
a new pneumatic tube between the
capitol and the government printing
Office at Washington. It viii be en-
closed in an octagonal box to protect 1t
from the pressure OF the earth, which
crushed the first one he put down
Year: 1873

THE best substitute for brains


Money.


4 HoUsEKEEPER writes us, asking how
to dress a lobster. We don't know. We


never dressed lobster. If the lobster


is about seventeen years old maybe it


would look well in a plain waist with


-demi-trained skir G of blue silk and


medium-sized panier, and an organdy


polonaise, with pinkish mauve chile,


six buttoned gloves and a white chip


hat. We say maybe it would; but per-


haps " Housekeeper before dressing


her lobster had better subscribe for


fashionable magazine, which will toll


her all about such things.


THERE is one reason why We should
regret to have the present troubles with
domestic servants ended. 1t is because
women derive so much pleasure from
discussing the subject. Place two wo-
men together, and it makes no differ
ence whether the conversation starts
from, it will be certain to work around
to the hired girl question before many
have elapsed. we nave seen
on elderly housekeeper, with expert
ence in conducting the talk in the right
direction, break into a discussion of
Pythagoras and the doctrine of the
of souls, and switch OF
the entire debate with such expedition
that an unsophisticated listener would,
for some moments, have an indistinct
impression that the conversation refer
red to the insuficiency of Pythagoras
as a washer and ironer, and to the ten
dency of that heather philosopher to
take two Thursdays out of every week.
And when woman has an unusually
villainous hired girl who burns Hp the
coal, wastes the butter, mixes her hair
in the biscuits and stuffs her relations
with the sugar, If is interesting to OBJ
serve how she glOries IN the superiority
of her sufferings to those of her neigh
bors, and how, as she tells of them, she
gIoats over her misery and feels good
about it. a woman who has a-really
competent servant is always in condi-
ton of abject wretchedness on such Oc-
casions.-HfaE AdeJer.
Year: 1873

IN the instructions which a general
manager of a leading railway has issued
to his subordinates, he says &" Treat
people as If you appreciated and were
willing to acknowledge their custom.
Try to accommodate and please. In
short, act as any good business man
would toward his customers. Don't
treat people as if you were eonferring a
favor on them by letting them ride.
Rather seek to make the line popular,
because its business is depended on the
good will of the people. You need not
be ashamed to let people understand
that yuu acknowledge this,
Year: 1873

CURIoUs.-A tribe in the interior of
Africa have curious religious ceremony.
It's dance i'll which the parties plant
good solid kick ON each other, and they
keep it up for hours. 1t must be very
enjoyable, of course, and well calculated
to develop a feeling of reverent ecstacy
IN the participants; vast improvement
would be made by intoducing a few pairs
OF coppertoed boots to the assemblage
This would tend to exalt the saints, we
Imagine, and vlvidly remind them of
their latter end. Then We should like to
go there, ourselves, as the sole wholesale
agent for some popular liniment. There
Is money in this thing if it is worked up
right.
Year: 1873

A MINER in Wales has recently unsuc-
cessfully applied the steam jet for ventil-
ating mines. Unlike previous attempts,
the Jets have in this instance been placed
on the surface, sidewise to the upcast
smart, the mouth of which is sealed A
number OF plain cast-iron cylinders are
placed In an upright position, with a
steam Jet applied at or near the bottom
OF each steam being supplied by two
p9ilers, one of which is kept in reserve.
Here we have the whole machinery on
the surface, moving parts being entirerly
absent and the danger of an underground
furnace also avoided. This arrangement
mas been largely patronized and is rep
resented as being Highly satisfactory.
Year: 1873

The annual election for members of the Board
ofPublic Educationwill take place on the first Sat
urday of April, which will be the 5th of the month
two weeks from tomorrow. More than half
the whole Board is to be chosen, and the people
ought to give their earnest attention to the Sc
curing Of good members. The success of our
schools depends on the fidelity and capability
of those who have control over them.
Year: 1873

The way to make easy times is rs
clear as daylight.


Let every man or woman who owes
money pay it at once, if possible.


Be willing to make a sacrifice in order
to meet promptly all your engage
ments.


Stop grumbling at the faults or mis-
takes of others, and attend faithfully
to your own affairs.


Deal fairly, leniently, and cheerfully
with all persons who owe you or are III
pecuniary trouble.


If you are out of debt, thank the
Lord and then go round among your
friends, and enemies too, if You have
them, and render them all the assistance
in your power


Don't hoard your money; but loan it
or use it to relieve the needy, on the
same principle as You would give bread
to the needy in the day of famine.


Do what you can in every way to re-
lieve pecuniary distress. to check the
current of financial embarrassments and
restore public confidence.


If you are bank officer or director,
don't be cross minute. Smile, as
Christian duty, from morning till night.
Give an encouraging word, if possible,
to all, and by all means strain every
nerve to help those who need it,-Nea0
York /RdrDERHeRi
Year: 1873

Inthecase ofthe.bite of a dog where the
teeth penetrated the flesh, whether the
dog was known to be mad or not, use
the same precautions. Wash the wound
with warm water, extract all the virus
possible by sucking the wound with the
lips and then cauterize it deeply with the
caustic most readily obtained. The
time in which the effects of the bite of n
mad dog would be seen, varies from two
to three days to as many years but if
no effects are felt after two or three
months, as general thing, the patient
may consider himself safe. Bites made
through clothing are seldom productive
of much harm, rs even if the dog is mad
the clothing absorbs the virus before
the teeth reach the flesh Most of all
the fatal cases are where the person was
bitten on some naked spot.


If one is situated where he can take 81
Turkish bath soon after being bitten,
do so by all means The perspiration
will help to carry off the poison that
may lurk in the system. m.-Herald Of
Health.
Year: 1873

on both shoulders drowned one edi-
torial committee and may prove q
source Of annoyance to the present.
Under the guiso of neutrality, Demo-
Gratis were made to feel tho sting of
tho viper they had nourished, and
no,c in the garb Of an "Independent,"
tho Hydra Of Republicanism shows
its many ugly heads.


By way Of conclusion, lot mo as
sure those who fatter themselves up
on tho success of the present scheme
fdg the overthrow of Democratic pow
Grand the prcdominance Of Republi-
can rule in Clearfield county, that
= nocrats may be caught once, but
|notfpi with the same bait. II you
would succeed you must base your
claims upon party issues. Stand upon
the platform Of common justice and
labor for the common good of all, not
to advance the interests of dema.
gogues who are always growing be-
cause they do not get every good bite
and associating yourselves with Q
mongrel crew and embark in a shiI
flying false colors and freightcd with
the plunder of your former rule. Tho
history of your party is well known
to every school boy, and the result oI
your power is known and felt in every
household. JUSTICE.
Year: 1873

A CoOL THxFT.-A gentleman purchased tick
e for the circus last evening, but befure he could
get away from the crowd, bold thief snatched it
from his hand, and ran of. The gentleman was
required to purchase another ticket, while the
thief was enable to get in free.
Year: 1873

An Iowa farmer ,1culcatcd early ris-
ing in little orphan bouqd.boy by setting
him on a hot stove for getting up late.
He commenced to get up early right off,
thcn-to got up off the stove. Even the
farmer said that, for bound boy, and an
orphan at that, he never saw anybody who
seemed so restless aud so anxious to Get
up at once, without even stopping to think,
as that boy was, Youth issthO proper
season to eradicate bad habits.
Year: 1873

An exchange tells of the recent surprise
Of a Sunday School teacher She had
been explaining the story oftho Crucifxion
To her class Of IittIe boys, who seemed to
take great interest in it. When she
thought they fully understood the subject
one Of them suddenly burst out and said:
"By golly, I'll bet you they wouldn't
have done it if Buffalo Billd been thore!w
Year: 1873

A witty man Of leisure says that oue
difference between a doctor and a lawyer is
that, while the one sometimes gains his
object by blistcring, the other often works
his case by clustering.
Year: 1873

The party who did not think it respect
able to bring their children up to work has
recently heard from two soBs-Ono is
bar-kcepor on aatboat, and the other is o
second clerk to q limekiln
Year: 1873

Believing it to be to the interest Of Ma
son county to hold au annual Exposition
Of the products of the soil, manufactured
articles, aud the live stock for which Sho
is so justly celebrated, it has been deemed
advisable to call a meeting Of tho people
at the Court House on


SATURDAY, JULY 18TH, 1873,
to take action on the subject. A cordial
invitation is extended to all citizens of tho
county to attend, and it is hoped that it
may bo cmphalically Mass Meeting Of
Year: 1873

sion; every citizen, with plausible excuse,
should, on the order of any court have power
TO make personal inquiries and examination !
there should be some measure taken by when
the writ of hdbeds corpus can reach these
prisoners without resort to subterfuge on the
part of their friends, 80 that no single relative
can commit supposed lunatic and deny the
rest of his family the privilege of seeing ana
examining him. In short, there are many
precautions necessary in the law to secure not
only the fair treatment of the patients, but to
protect sane persons against conspiracy ana
relieve convalescing and cured patients irOm
too long and cruel confinement.


The reform to be accomplished is not one
which can be secured by mere recommends
ton of the Committee, or the resolution OF the
Assembly. Altogether, the Committee has ap-
preached this matter in an Indifferent splilt,
and the work which should have been wen
done will have to be gone over again. we
are still, in this regard, far behind our neigh
bors, and the enlightened lunacy laws OF I'LL
nois, Wisconsin, and other much younger
Western States, put us to the blush.
Year: 1873

THE LUNATTC ASYLUM INVESTIGATIONS


The full text of the report of the Commits
siOners appointed TO inquire into the Asylum
abuses, lately exposed by this Journal, has not
come to hand but from the brief notices we
have had it is clear that the conclusions
reached are as lame and impOtentn as we
anticipated from the first. As we pointed out
at the time the method of inquiry adopted
was altogether wrong; the composition of
the Committee, embracing as it did only one
physician, was unwise; the means employed
consisting only of visits to the Asylums
after long delay and previous notice had
given time for special preparation, the
holding of secret sessions, and the eXamina-
ton of unknown witnesses all these have led
naturally to a whitewashing report rather than
an exposure of the abuses. The Commissioners
have dealt with opinions rather than facts /;
and have been influenced rather by the state
ments of the experts in charge than by the
actual experiences of the suffering inmates
Nevertheless the fact remains undisputed and
incOntrOvertible that men are committed to
Insane Asyums after inadequate examination
by incompetent physicians and negligent and
unscrupulous judges; that once within the
walls they are classified without further
OF deliberate examination, mere imbe-
Giles being sent to the wards devoted
to violent lunatics, and rice UerSa that
subsequently the briefest medical exam
ination is daily given; that the nursing is
rude the nurses are coarse; the cells repulsive,
cold, and not unfrequently damp and injurious
to health that the food is supplied with
greater consideration TO economy than to the
health of the patient, and that releases and
transfers of patients are as loosely conducted
as the commitments themselves. The testi-
mOny of THE TRIBUNE Reporter as to all these
things is unimpeached and unimpeachable.


The final resort of the Committee in Com
mission of Lunacy, to consist of q single in
dividual with power to inspect the Asylums,
is neither original nor is it calculated to be
effective. If by some chance the Governor
shall select some person who is himself
mOnOmaniac on the subject, whose sympathies
by sad experience or observation have been
specially aroused in favor of this class of suf-
ferers, much good will be effected; if, as is
most likely to be the case. some respectable
and mild-mannered physician, with more
policy than enthusiasm, and more respect for
his profession than love of humanity-one in
fact who is simply physician and not
philanthropist-the Commission of Lunacy.
which this report recommends, will prove
simply additional oppression upon the class of
unfortunates whom we call patients and treat
az criminals. The passage of this bill is "a
step TO be taken not without due c0nsidera-
ton the Commission should not be confined
TO one person or one profession; the nspec-
dons should rot be limited 10 the Commis-
Year: 1873




Warsaw celebrates to-day the four hundredth
anniversary of the birth of one Nicholas CO.
pernicus. The festival is the tribute of mod
ern thought to the greatness of the scientific
discoverer. To his own tOwnsfOlk, COpernicus
was shy priest, absorbed in his office, in the
practice of medicine among the poor, and in
secret and strange studies. His only
legacy to his country was a new plane
tary system, which the Church condemned and
which the world was too ignorant to care for.
A hundred soldiers, kings, and prelates
strutted their brief, conspicuous hour in
Poland, and felt that without their existence
society would have been done for, while the
studious recluse pondered tables in his lonely
tower less significant figure to his time
than the ciphers in his computations. Now a
nation does him honor and the names of his
contemporaries survive on tOmbs and in the
unturned leaves of cyclopedias.


The fifteenth century respected no learning
which did not make smooth the path of man
10 heaven. His existence here was a term of
exile. to be gotten over with what philosophy
was possible. 1t was the business of the priests,
who were the only scholars, to make certain his
final reconciliation with an offended Judge, and
his final reception into the only real existence,
the Blessed Hereafter Naturally, neither
science art, nor literature had any existence
save as they ministered to the Church, mag
nifed the glories of heaven, or blackened the
gloom of hell. There was little intellectual
life. for intellect was not essential to saliva
ton, while salvation was the only explanation
or excuse for existence.


The nineteenth century has outgrown this
faith, which it calls superstition. 1t has most
respect for practical knowledge, the knowledge
which makes smooth the path of man in this
world. Finding him here, it assumes that his
present existence is worth making the most
Of Speculations as to Hereafter must
necessarily, it holds, be vague and unsatis-
factory until his transference thither shall ex-
change supposition for knowledge. Meantime
more than enough work for himself and his
fellows lies ready to his hand, and his man
ner of doing il is the excuse or condemnation
of his existence.


The first theory, which seems purely spiritual,
Year: 1873

In view of the fact that Mr. JOhn l. Davenport is
on the slate for superintendent Of Police under the
new Charter il is of special interest to note that
Section 30 of that instrument makes it the
duty of the superintendent of Police TO prepare a
record of the name, age birthplace, and place of
residence of each inhabtant of each pO-
lice precinct, with such other facts as
the Board of Police may from time to time
drect y that section 4S authorizes the Board of Po


lice to issue subpenas and applies to the of any
witness subpenaed under this section the provisions
of an act to enable the Common Council of New York
to take testimony, passedlSth February, 1855. The
substance of the powers thus conferred by the ap-
plicaton of this act to the Superintendent of Police
is that any witness 80 summoned may be
required to testify about anything on
which the the Superintendent chooses to
examine him, and on refusal it shall be the duty Of
a Justice of the Supreme Court or Judge of Com
mon Pleas to require the witness TO show why
an attachment should not issue against him.


In other words, stripping the of its legal yebi
age the application of the Act of 55 concerning the
Common Council TO the superintendent of Police
under the extended powers conferred, enables him
to extort from any person he may choose
to summon answers to any questions he may choose
To ask. with or without application TO any case be-
fore hum or before any court Louis Napoleon )
Chief Of Police never had more absolute power
Year: 1873

mans heart and thought. The only doubtful
point about the case as there presented is tho
expedieaoy of making quick transit line
City work. If we were not so apprehensive
of Jobs, we might all favor such project. If
capitalists were not afraid of Legislative
" STRIKERS" and municipal cormorants, the road
would be built at once at private cost.
Therefore, we suffer and wait.
Year: 1873

Tomorrow is the day appointed for the con-
sideration by the Assembly in Committee of
the Whole of the instrument which has been
prepared to divest Mayor Havemeyer of the
powers and responsibilities of his Office. Such
is the character of the men who are sent to
the Legislature of late years that anything
like a genuine, sincere, logical discussion Of
the proposed measure is not to be expected
The main purpose of the Charter is to secure
the power and patronage of the city govern
ment for political organization, which, had
it had the courage to run a distinctive candi-
date of its own for Mayor last Fall, could not
have obtained for him one vote i'll five of the
whole number cast. This purpose is carried
out in the bill in the most palpable
manner The people elected a Mayor last
Fall, and at the same time they elected
fifteen Aldermen on a general ticket What
voter supposed that in voting for the Alder
men he was voting for body fifteen times
as potential as the Mayor f-fOr they are made
so by the proposed Charter. We learn that
some of the best Republicans in the Assembly
are opposed to this Charter, and that the able
minority report of the Committee on Cities,
drawn up by Messrs. Opdyke and Blumen-
thai is having an excellent effect. But if the
opponents of the measure have strength
enough to defeat it, they have not yet devel-
Quad II
Year: 1873

1t now appears that the President designs to
extend an examination into the merits of the
persons employed in the Office of the Surveyor
of the Port, so that three shall be selected as
candidates for promotion to the Surveyorshp.
Mr.. J. L. Benedict was in the line of promo
ton, as Chief Deputy; his name was pre-
sented and subsequently Withdrawn. The
extension of the lines of competition so as to
embrace greater number of eligible persons
is a generous construction of the Civil Service
rules which is in cOnsonance with its spirit If
not its letter. If this course is honestly fol-
lowed out, it viii meet with the hearty approval
OF all good citizens.
Year: 1873

The Scannell trial, which is just now the
murder case of the hour, has proceeded so
rapidly that something of the character
of the defense is already fOreshadOwed. The
insanity plea has not been brought into requi-
sition 30 often of late as heretofore; it is pos
sible that this desperate resort will be used
by the defendant in this case.