smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

more worth than the accidents of his
birth or his accumulationS.


Bryant, in his splendid verse. saws:


The hills
Rock ribbed and ancient as the sun; the wales
stretching i'll pensive quietness between:
The venerable wood rivers that move
In majesty. and the complaining brooks,
That make the meadows green and poured round


all


Old oceans gray and melancholy waste
Are but the solemn decorations all
OF the great tomb of man.


And if all the magniticcnce and beau
ty of nature are but the decorations of
mans final resting place, in ii how much
higher sense should man be the central
figure i'll the shapely and well proper
toned State. Then our material pros
perity, the NaStmeSS of our resources,
the Splcndor of Il national fame can ONLY
he valued as they bring back again to
the individual the opportunity and the
liberty for the best development of the
forces which make him master of the
universe. Thus we shall bring man
and the State to their true relations.
and shall look upon the wonderful and
magnificent resources of our country aS
the foundation from which is to spring.
i'll the beauty of il perfect freedom. the
grand arch of humanity, eliminating in
the divinely and supremely developed
man.
Year: 1872

Old bachelors my be interested
to learn that several of the leadinng
Mormons have renounced all thelf
wives but one, and made provisions
for their support. Men in want OF
wives sometimes take other peoples s,
and then get into trouble about it.
but we venture to say they can try
the experiment in Salt Lake, about
this time, without creating any par
ticular disturbance with the husband
part of the firm.
Year: 1872

certainly send him to spend in States
prison what should have been the best
years of his life. And up on that Wiscon-
sin farm his poor father and mother go
about, grieving that he did not die while
yet he was an innocent baby in their
arms, and before he brought this great
sorrow on their hearts and this great sin
upon his soul. Ah, if he had only never
started on that hill down which he st last
went with such dreadful speed


But, as in all other down-hill work, the
bad start was made in his thoughts. The
seed swells, and sprouts, and begins to
grow in the ground before it lifts its leaves
into sight. People always steal in their
hearts before they steal with their hands
Vile thoughts are the beginning of vile
life. When one finds himself thinking OF
doing something that he would be
ashamed or afraid to do, let him look out J
He has started down hill, and he cannot
stop too soon.-Lizls Corporal.
Year: 1872

This key was tried, and unlocked the
cryptogram he was at work on.


Applying it to the one given as an illus
tration at the head of this article, we
have the following result:


Rosalinda:-I arrived at home on the evening of
the second day after / left London. / am quite
well, and have nothing new to report. 80


As this is the only way can communicate with
you, my letters will necessarily he very short.
'''''' Your James


This is an illustration of the character
of the cryptograms mentioned at the
commencement of this paper. They
were all personal notices, intended only
for the information of those Immediately
interested.


Some were written by transposing the
alphabet in still other forms, but the de-
ciphering was as readily accomplished in
one case as another, by the means have
described.


When a cryptogram is only to be writ
ten, and is not intended for the printer,
characters of the writer's own invention
are generally substituted for those of the
usual alphabet. This gives a look of
greater impenetrability to the manu-
script, but, as will be perceived, the secret
is no more safe when written in a cabalis-
tic character than when a transpostion
of the ordinary letters is employed. The
law of proportion operates precisely alike
in either case.


1t would seem unfortunate if there was
no possibility of constructing an undeci-
pherable cryptogram. In many cases i: is
highly desirable and important to make
records or communications which shall
remain dead letters to all but their proper
owners. Particularly in time of war is
cryptography a valuable art. 1t is posi-
BILE that its importance in this respect may
have led to the invention of what the
French term the chifTe indechitra6le-
undecipherable cipher.


This cipher is very troublesome thing
to use, but it compensates for the trouble
by the security it affords.
Year: 1872

1t will also be observed that the definite
article the is frequent-recurring word in
English composition.


Taking this as starting point, we ex-
anime the cryptogram given above for a
combination of letters that may represent
the word the. We find the cipher ESQ oc-
curing three times. We infer that this
cipher means the, and our supposition is
further strengthened when we learn that
the character occurs more frequently in
the cryptogram than any other; for, by
reference to the table of proportion above,
it will be seen that the character so oc-
curing can safely be taken to mean 9.
If we are correct so far
Year: 1872

ing; but our student solved the enigma in
even an easier way, at least in one in
stance, and that one his first trial After
selecting gso as the representative of the,
he was struck with the fact that the let
ters of the two words were in an alpha
betical procession exactly opposite each
other. Might not the cipher be simply a
regular inversion of the alphabet p
Year: 1872

and we have deciphered three charac-
ters. A thorough analysis of the cryptic
gram, and an application of the law of
proportion, could not fail to discover the
proper equivalents for all, or at least for
enough Of them to show it's meaning.
Year: 1872

A CLERK in the English admiralty Of
flee lately had his pay suspended for
twenty-eight days for addressing TO the
first lord of that august board some sug-
gestions in regard to iron shipbuilding.
These suggestions were admitted toibe val
liable and original, nevertheless clerk
had no business to know more than
Lord
Year: 1872

The largest assortment of Housekeeping
Goods offered in New England may be found
in the spacious department devoted to this use
by JORDAN, MARSH & Co., Boston. A glance
at the advantages offered patrons in their new
rooms will convince purchasers that this house
means to keep the lead they have so fairly
won in the dry goods trade of New England.
Year: 1872

If an icicle forty-five miles in diameter
were thrust towards the sun with the velocity
OF light, say twelve million miles minute, it
could never touch the sun, but would melt
as fast as it came. If this Is true the experi-
ment might as well be abandoned first as
last
Year: 1872

o, Thar 1 WERE BEAUTIFUL is the un-
spoken wish of thousands of women to whom
nature has denied the charm of pure, fresh
transparent complexion. To crafty this wish
HAaASs MAGNOLIA BALM was introduced.
The cosmetics of the day had been pronounced
poisonous by the most distinguished chemists,
and it was also found that their ultimate effect
was to wither the skin as well Jas to paralyze
the external nerves. The ladies hailed with de-
light the advent of healthful, herbal and
floral preparation capable of imparting to their
faces, necks and arms porcelain smoothness
and tinge like that of the finest oriental
pearl. They soon discovered that it was a
new thing under the sun" Incompatible and
unapproachable. Unquestionably the MAG
NoLIA Balm has been the great toilet success
of the present century m13-eod1w&w1t
Year: 1872

Mr.. Warner says the best thing he saw in
Brock, a little Dutch town, was traditional
Ducthman walking on the high bank of
canal, with soft hat, short pipe, and breeches
that came to the armpits above, and a little
below the knees, and were broad enough
about the seat and thighs to carry his no
doubt numerous family. He made a fine fig
ure against the sky.
Year: 1872

Farmers Of Mississippi were never
before subjected to greater hardships
imposed by frightful burdens Of taxa
ton. such are their burdens, and such
the necessity for constant toll, that they
give little attention to the pending po-
litieal contest. Colored voters Of that
State are said to be Jess loyal TO carpet
bag masters than in former years, and a
greater number than ever before viii
vote with the white people. Whites
will not fail to attend at the polls on
election day. The defeat Of Grant in
wolves, OF necessity, the overthrow Of
the power Of local plunderers who have
reduced muititudes to absolute beggary.
There will be a fun vote polled, and Re-
publican adherents Of Greeley and
Brown in many districts Of Mississippi
assure us that the vote Of the State viii
be given to our candidates for the Presi-
dency and Vice-Presideney.
Year: 1872




The Grenada Sentinel gets off the
following "good one": Ever since
the woman in the play boasted Of my
brother the Colonel, a mania seems to
have taken possession of everybody to
be called by q military title. 1t is a
little less than ridiculous to hear a per-
son style an individual General or
Colonel who has perfect disgust of
gunpowder and whose peaceful opera
tioDs during the late war should ever
lastingly entitle the Colonel to the
presidency of an anti-war club. We
have SO many colonies and gene
rails in Grenada that a stranger
coming among US would imagine
our city had furnished officers
for the entire military equipment of the
State. In fact, we believe there are not
a dozen men in the place but have the
military appellation Of Colonel. A
friend Of ours gets off the following good
joke about the Colonies, in which John
Phenix may have had q hand. THE
train was leaving the depot, and every
body was taking leave of friends-all
but our .jokist, who had no friend to
bid him farewell. Ashamed of his lone
illness, rs the cars moved off he called
out in loud voice, Goodbye, Colonelr
and, to his great delight, every man at
the depot took off his hat and shouted,
Colonel, good-byep"
Year: 1872

The island Of Manhattan, on which
New York city now stands, was bought
by the Dutch from the Indians in 1926
for the trifiing sum of twenty-five dol
lars. The assessed value of wealth on
the island in 1872 is about eight hun
dred million dollars; the real valus is
not less than two billion dollars, and
may be even double this. OF course il
will be said that the Dutch made a
good investment of their twenty-five
dollars, and no doubt they did. But If
that twenty-five dollars had been put
out at interest at ten per cent.
on the first of October, 1925, and the
interest itself annually invested at ten
per cent. also, the product on the first of
October, 1872, would have been twenty
six billion five hundred and sixty
million one hundred and seventy-nine
thousand nine hundred and sixty-two
dollars, or more than twenty-six thou
sand millions. This is three hundred
times as great rs the assessed value of
property in New York, and nearly as
great as the estimated value of all the
property in the United States.
Year: 1872

The Little Rock Journal of1 Satur-
day says: A gentleman who came
over on the Memphis train yesterday
took full and complete vote of the
passengers ON Greeley and Grant. He
found one straightont, three white and
three black Radicals, and fifty-four
Greedy men. That will be very near the
proportion in this State, if the people
will register and vote. Registration in
some counties is foul. Notwithstanding
the attempted frauds, we have no fear
of the result, if those who can register
and vote will act promptly and do their
duty.n
Year: 1872

| A little elbow leans upon your knee,
Your tirei knee that has so much to bear;
A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly
From unoerneath thatch of tangled hair
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch


Ut warm, moist fingers, folding yours SO tight


You almost are too tired to pray tonight.


But it is blessednessl A year ago
j did not see it as do to-day r...l .,-..e
We are so dull and thankless, and too slow
To catch the sushine till it slips away.
Al Ana now seems surprising strange to me,
That, while l wore the badge of motherhood,
did not kiss more oft, and tenderly,
Tho little child that brought me only good.
And if, some night, when you sit down TO rest
ou miss this elbow from your tired knee;
This restless, curling head, from off your breast
This isping tongue that chatters constantly;
If from your own the dimpled hands had slip


ped, @


And meier would nestle in your palm again;
If the white feet into their grave had tripped
could not blame you for your heartache then
wonder so that mothers ever fret
At little children clinging to their gown
Orthat the footprints, when the days are wet,
Are ever black enough to make them frown
If could find little muddy boot,
Or cap or jacket. on my chamber floor
If could kiss rosy, restless foot,
And hear its patter in my home once more;
If could mend broken cart to-day,
Tomorrow make kite, to reach the sky
There is no woman in Gods world could say
She was more bis.fully content than l.
But all the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled by shining head;
My singing birding from its nest is flown;
The little boy used to kiss is dead


as-Frons the ALdine for September
Year: 1872

A Market Square dealer informed US yester-
day he had broken his wagon in delivering goods
for parties who did their trading elsewhere and
he thought it improbable that he woald resume
the business. He expects to deliver the bas-
kets and packages of regular customers, as here
equal promptness. He says the heavy expenses
involved in running delivery wagon knocks
all the profits off and is of the opinion that 9TH
ers will follow suit before great while.
Year: 1872

The undersigned begs leave to inform his
numerous friends and customers that he has this
day sold out his Clothing and Merchant Tailor
ing establishment to George Fuchs and Co., who
will continue the business as heretofore at the
old stand.


He takes this method to return his thanks to
his friends and customers for past favors, and
earnestly recommends the new firm for their
kind patronage.


All those indebted to me will please call and
settle. Respectfully,


S. BIssINGER
Year: 1872

Mr.. Hocket, travelling agent for this remark
| able invention had a complete model on ex-
hibition at the Atkin House yesterday. The
gun is to be tested sometime during this month
at the Brooklyn Navy-yard, and there is no
doubt but that it will stand the test and become
a valuable acquisition to the government.
Year: 1872

4 pious but uneducated Judge
closed a sentence with the following
touching reproach; Prisoner at the
bar. nature has endowed you with a
good education and respectable family
connections. instead of which you go
prowling around the country stealing
ducks.
Year: 1872

Further intelligence is received
from the New York Herald Expedi-
ton in search of DR.. Livingstone.
This information seems to be more
authentic and satisfactory than any
thing yet received, it being a letter
from Stanley himself. We had
been indulging in the hope, that If
the venturesome Stanley really was
on end, and the inquisitive Living
stone alive, the former would bring
the latter out Of the far~off land of
the Arabs, and thus lift from an
anxious world all doubts as to his
fate; but it appears that they togeth-
er have just entered on an exploring
expedition north of Lake Tangony-
ika, wherever that is, that will oc-
cupy the next two years. So the
case may be said to be one of
"hope deferred" indefinitely.
Year: 1872

folly when speaking of spiritual
things. cart thou a master in
Israel and knowost not these
things?" is applicable to the Radi-
Gals.


When I am asked if I am going
to return and live in France, l tell
them, whilst it would be pleasant to
see friends here often, I could not
adapt myself to some of their ways
tho Sabbath particularly. It is
impossible for one to have been u.s.
cd to quiet day of meditation and
rest, and to love the Continental
Sabbath. 1 will say that the Sab
bath in Paris is not kept worse than
in the Provinces. The people are
out promenading, but quietly. I
have not heard a band of music nor
seen procession, as I did in N.
York the Sabbath I was there.
Neither do 1 see any drunkenness
or rowdyism, either on tho Sabbath
or any other day. I think one
would feel as safe at midnight on
the great thoroughfares as at mid
day.


Present my regards to all inquir-
ing friends.
Year: 1872

Ifthere is one position of the N.
Y. Tribune pre-eminently pitiable,
that one may. be said to be its stand
upon the Ku-Klux act. Probably
no moral support from any quarter
was stronger than that given by
the Tribune when the act was first
passed, but it has changed front en-
tirely and denounces such a law as
Ga bill for keeping the south under
military rule for political purposes
and ubiquitous attempt to gag and
fetter a people just beginning to
recover its freedom of speech and
action" How far will self-interest
blind a man? This "freedom of
speech" sounds strangely to those
who remember that in this same
South freedom of speech was first de-
MED and that it brought upon itself
all abridgments of its privileges.
The Liberals and their organs are
forced to take Democratic ground,
and even now they speak of rebels
in the South and Democrats every
where almost as they speak of them
selves.
Year: 1872

The Democrats of Virginia are for
Greeley because, say they, he was
secessionist in 1861. That is good
argument for them, but it is a bad
argument for a Republican or Union
Democrat
Year: 1872

Does anybody dream that Democracy
can accomplish the overthrow of such a
power, single handed and unaided?
The disinterested Northern partisan
leader knows it to be impossible. Yet,
when forced to admit its impossibility,
viii he counsel course which at the
outset repels au1iliaries and prevents
a Republican revolt which a Democrat
ic withdrawal from the field would
surely 7 ,cipit tie and which would op IN
a campaign and rally an organization
that would be equal to the task of over
throwing the military party. This is
the question to which the rank and file
of modern Conservative Democracy
must dispassionately address itself, and
not to seductive fatteries of Northern
partisan failures, to the effect that an
''honest patriotic minority" will exert
its immense power and influence upon
the majority. Let US have done with
minorities.
Year: 1872

Now that this eminent jurist is talked
of as the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency we present tie following
sketch of him:


Physically Judge Davis is picture.
He is very tall and large; his shoulders
are broad, his frame massive, and his
stomach is beautifully rounded like an
inverted balloon, from his throat to his
hips. His stomach is, 1 should say,
artistically considered a trife too large.
but it is very jolly. and his waistcoat
sits over 1t tight and nice IS though 1t
were proud to have such lining. Alto
gether Judge Davis is very conspic-
uous man. His weight must be over
three hundred pounds. and if report
be true, be had million dollars for
every hundred pounds of flesh. His
head. surmounted such massive frame
looks small. but / judge it to be of more
than ordinary size. His hair is brown,
plentifully mixed with gray, and is
closely cut. He wears closely trimmed
beard, also gray, but no mustache. His
eyes are blue, or gray. and very mild,
but his nose was evidently intended for
a man with a larger face. His age Is
fifty-seyen, and he is as young and ac-

tive as any man of his size can be-


Physically and intellectually, he is just
in his prime. being no older in appear
ance than ordinary men at forty-fse,
Year: 1872

LABOR By THE HoUR,-The subject Of
hiring farm labor by the hour is attract
ing attention as the best method Of set
Ting the number of hours that shall CO,
stitute days work. 1t makes provi-
sion for paying men for the time they
are actually engaged, and nothing for
rainy days and the time they are stand
ing still. A correspondent of the Rurqt
Ne,c Yorker has tried it. and says: 81
find it pays. ] k three men-usual-
ly one by the month. The men l hire
by the day usually have families to sup
port. When paid them by the day,
without any understanding as to its
length, they arrived late OF early ,as WIS
convenient for them. Now that I pay
by the hour, they generally want 10
work full as many hours as need them;
but if they do not regard my wishes
somewhat, laboring until the work is ac-
complished, they feel very certain that
1 shall hire some one who will stick by
me: and find that men are more will
ing to accomplish all the work, rega1d-
less of the number Of hours, if they are
sure of being paid proportionately, as
they are by the hour system.
Year: 1872

Under this heading the Nashville Ban
ner thus expresses its views:


The Northern partisan Democrat, who
enjoys the distinction of leadership of a
powerless minority, will yield everything
even to latform and candidate in a
Presidential coalition, except the name
and the organization, of which he is
the recognized captain by right of prim-
ogeniture. He insists upon this leader
ship in any contingency, and invites the
South to follow it and none other under
the penalty of accommodation. The
South submits to this partisan fat, yet
all the while sees States admitted to the
Union and still shut out; seeing them
selves taxed and not yet allowed to vote;
subjected to laws they had no hand IN
making, and to rulers in the selection
of whom they had no voice. If they
grow restive under innumerable op-
pressions, waiting for deliverance under
such leadership, here is the thin diet
upon which their systems are to be re-
inyigorated and their failing, sinking
hearts warmed with new courage:
"You are too numerous to be cowardly-
be brave like me; you are too patriotic to
be lukewarm-be red-hot as l am; you
are too sincere to be despondent-take
courage that am still alive, and have
half dozen Presidential terms in me
yet" This comforting stomachic is
washed down with the assurance that
their only safety is in compact, exclu-
sive party organization, which will mo-
nopolize the field of opposition to de-
feat and overthrow the dominant party.
Yes, "defeat and overthrow" party
which has carried nearly every State OF
the North, and now has its iron heel on
all the South "a party that has armed its
leader with martial laws; that controls
a regular army of forty thousand men;
that has the manipulation of debt Of
twenty-three hundred millions; that has
a minute supervision of seventeen hun
dred national banks, with capital Of
three hundred and fifty millions; that
has the disbursement of an annual sum
of three hundred and eighty millions;
that controls an almost arbitrary. irres-
ponsible Internal Revenue Bureau, with
its immense disciplined host of officials
and attaches; that possesses the power
of supervisory interferences in the COM
ing Presidential election, with the right
to count the votes and declare the re-
suit Of that election.
Year: 1872

Do SoMErHISG.-Yes,d do something :
don't fold your hands complacently and
sit in idleness. Don't throw yourself on
that inviting easy lounge, with a novel
in your hand prepared for day of
lounging. Don't sit there before that
blazing fire dreaming of the past. Don't
waste hours, days. weeks and months.
in doing nothing,


Wake up. wake up! have you no am
bition, no hope. no energy, no purpose.
no aims? If you have not. God pity
you for we cannot.


In the name of common humanity We
call upon you to do something. What
if you are rich and can live without
work is it necessary that riches should
make you dawdle away your life in idle
ness and unholy dissipation? If So
then, better be poor. If you wish tho
esteem of your fellowmen, if1you wish
self-reapect, if you do not wish your
life to be failure, 60 to work and do
something. Nothing good or CREST can
be accomplished with folded hands,
Shake of your drowsiness aud resolve
to DO something.
Year: 1872

ScHuRz on THE PREsIDENT.-The Chi
caSo Times of March 1st speaks very
favorably of speech ma lie by Senator
Schurz in that city, lately, and says


Mr.. Schurz says he hopes to have an
opportunity to vote against the re-elec-
ton of the President without voting for
a Democrat, and this is the hope of an
immense number of voters. If they
are not offorded such an opportunity
there can only be one result: the pro.
longation of the present dynasty for an
other term of four years.