smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

A plainly but perfectly dressed lady,


with the best blood of the world in her


veins, and, what is more imposing to


the haberdashing heart, with plenty of


money in her pocket, went, not long


since, into shop to buy napkins. The


potentate of the counter showed her


such napery as he thought suited to her


social position. 'These are rather


coarse" she suggested. "Have you


none finer % go, yes," said the gen


tleman, ''but they are more expensive" !"


1t is ever to be regretted that the lady


turned in silence and left the shop, be-
cause that clerk will never know that it
was his own idiotic effrontery, and not
the expense of the nakins, which lost
him the customer.


A lady who never made any great
figure in the world, and certainly not in
a water proof cloak on a rainy day, was
seeking a parasol. The clerk showed
her some very common, not to say
shabby, specimens, which she declined.
A little further down the counter she
bought whole piece of fine and costly
linen, observing which the knight of
the parasol came down and begged her
to re-examine his assortment, of which
he had contrived to unearth an alto
gether different and better collection.
She, too, fell below the requirements of
the occasion, and bought her parasol
without enlightening him upon her dis
covery of his stupid mistake.


A lady, large and lovely, serene
Quaker goddess, made some benevolent
casual remark to the clerk with whom
she was trafficking, just as she would
hav to1 f1oo Af
who might have run up and shifted at
her gown, and the little whipper-snap-
per clerk followed her to the door and,
winked at her And while she stood
staring at him in her first amazed con-
sciousness of his individual existence,
he winked again Thus vacuous do
furnish it with all the ganglia of life.


Happy those merchants who can Sc
cure the right sort of clerks, for right
sort there is. I bought table-cloth of
him yesterday. I had forgotten to take
the size of the table or pattern of the
color to be matched. Patiently he
evolved my probable needs from my
fragmentary facts, discussed pleasantly
the presumptive evidence, and seemed
as much interest d in the harmonies of
my dining-room as if he had expected
to at there thrice day during the re-
mainder of his natural life. Did he
deceive me? Not bit. I know of
surety that my dining-room was no
more to him than the peanut stand on
the common opposite. Me and it has
he already alike forgotten. None the
less was his momentary and friendly, !
but not familiar, assumption of inter
est in me and mine altogether winning
and encouraging, and doubtless also
was it, for that moment, altogether sim
cere. His sympathetic and refined ma
ture does unquestionably and sponta-
neously alley itself for succor and good |
cheer to all who appeal to him. May
his kind heart, his welcoming face. and |
his engaging manners be a mine of
wealth to himself and all his employers
and dependents.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Joaquin Miller, in bis book enti-
tied Life Among the MOdocs, has given
some picturesque sketches of Indian
life and traditions. Among much other
interesting matter, he tells us that the
idea of the creation of the world as it
was entertained by the Modocs, now
verging ON extinction in accordance
with the demands of modern civiliza-
ton, was this :, The Great Spirit made
Mount Shasta first of all. He pushed
down snow and ice from the skies
through a hole which he made in the
blue heavens by turning a stone round
and round, till he made this great
mountain; then he stepped out of the
clouds on to the mountain top, and de-
scended and planted the trees all around
by putting his finger on the ground.
The sun melted the snow, and the water
ran down and nurtured the trees and
made the rivers. After this he made
the fish for the rivers out of the small
end of his staff He made the birds by
blowing some leaves which he took up
from the ground among the trees. After
that he made the beasts out of the re-
mainder of his stick, but he made the
grizzly bear out of the big end. and
made him master over all the others.
Having done that, the Great Spirit con-
verted Mount Shasta into wigwam, and
its volcanic eruptions are the outcome
of the fire that he lights in the centre of
the mountain. The development of
man was a later occurrence. The
daughter of the Great Spirit, venturing
too far, got astray and fell into the
power of the grizzly bears, and she was
forced to marry one of them, and the
red men were the fruit of the marriage.
These red men were taken under the
protection of the Great Spirit but the
grizzlies were punished by being com
PEELED to walk on four feet, whereas
before they had walked on two. To
this day the grizzly bear is never slain
by the red men, who recognize in him
a sort of kinsman.
Year: 1873

TREATMENT OF Stewardship how
many instances do servants, though liv-
ing under the same roof with us, share
none of our feelings nor we of theirs /;
their presence is felt as restraint we
know nothing about them but that they
perform certain set duties, and, in short,
they may be said to be a kind of live
furniture. There is something very re-
pugnant to Christianity in all this. Sure
ly there might be much more sympathy
between masters and servants without
endangering the good part OF our social
system. At any rate we may be certain
that fastidious reserve toward our fell
low-creatures is not the way in which
true dignity or strength of mind will ev-
er manifest themselves in us.-ArthuT
HELMS
Year: 1873

At the spring of arch in the great north tower,
High up on the wall, is an angels head,
And beneath it is carven a lily flower,


With delicate wings at the side outspread.
They say that the sculptor wrought from the face
OF his youths lost love, Of his promised BRIDE
And when he had added the last sad grace
To the features, he dropped his chisel and died.
And the worshipers throng TO the shrine below,
And the slght-seers come with their curious cyCR,
But deep in the shadow where none may know
its beauty, the gem Of his carving lies.
Yet at early morn on a Iidsummer's day,
When the sun is far to the north, for the space
OF few short minutes, there falls ray
Through an amber pane on an angels face.
II wrought for the eye of God, and II seems
That He blesses the work Of the dead mans hand
With ray of the golden light that streams
On the lost that are found in the deafness land.


London Spectator.
Year: 1873

Dome ONES DUTY.-It is observed
that each person is competent to be
something which no one else can do.
The further we get on in life the more
noticeable does this become in refer
ence to ourselves and others. The
idiosyncracy, the aptitude is felt at first
only as a vague yearning. Inevitably,
in one or more points, our interests will
clash with those of our neighbors, even
when we are carrying out what we
deeply feel to be our appointed life
work. This clashing begets skepticism.
We ask ourselves again and again
whether it can really be our duty to
conflict with and pain others. By and
by we learn from experince that if, in


doing right, we give pain, it is not our
fault. No more our fault than the feel
ing of pain is the fault of him whom
we affect disagreeably. The doctrine of
fatalism has in it much that is incontro-
vertible, and may well be instanced to
this connection. By doing bravely and un-
swervingly what we feel drawn on to do,
we are sure to be doing well, no matter
how great the hue and cry raised against
us. Indeed, a disturbance caused by
any line of action is direct testimony to
the power and efficacy of such action.
The lesson taught by history in this re-
gard is one of the first to be distilled
from dry, isolated facts for the behoof
Of youthful learners. s.-GOLde7l Age.
Year: 1873

The beating of each lash is doubtless
downward. that is, inward the effect
of which is a vacuum above, into which
the water presses through the external
pore. A second result of this down.
ward beating of the ella from a myriad
of cells is, the impulsion of the passing
water through the ramifcations leading
to the oscula. Thus the running of the
waters in the sponge's ancient Runic
rhyme" Every sponge, then, has a
very complete aquiferous system its
conduits, at the entrance of and along
which the busy one-lashed cells occupy
themselves forcing the water along; and
the oscula, which may be likened to the
outlets of sewers. During this circula-
ton of the fluid through the living
mass, the sarcode obtains its nourish-
ment, and the skeleton its growth by a
sort of absorption, or what is known to
the Psychologist as endOsmotic action OF
the cells. We have then mentioned
above three clearly specialized func-
tions, as represented respectively by the
inhalant pores, the exhalant Oscula, and
the uniciliated cells. And it is certainly
a matter of prime Importance that each
cell should have this single lash. In
fact, it raises it to the rank of pasha
with one tail, in community where all
are pashas of this dignity, and each one
a commissioner of the water department.,
and a commissionary of subsistence.
Both the oscula and pores can be
closed at the will of the animal but
the oscuIa are permanent apertures I;
whereas the pores are not constant, but
can be formed afresh whenever and
wherever required. ."-PopulGr Science
MO7lthLU
Year: 1873

The New York World says the
bridegroom of the average Saratoga
wedding finds himself year after mar
riage "the father of miserable little
wretch of an infant, destined, perhaps
some quarter of a century hence, to be
himself the progenitor of an even infe-
rior edition of the race" The World
believes in taking physical vigor into
account when matches are made in
Heaven or at watering place.
Year: 1873

In early youth it was the height of
my ambition to be stage-driver. Later
in life, when troubles multiplied upon


me and my consistent and edifying life


made me many enemies, the omnibus


driver became the object of my special


envy. He is perched so serenely on his
elevated box! On summer days, when
the sunshine is little too severe to be
pleasant, he can obtain an enormous
umbrella of some manufacturer anxious
to advertise his goods, by simply de-
posting a dollar, which dollar is re-
turned to him when he brings back the
umbrella. I have never been able to
borrow an umbrella on these terms.
And then if he sees an enemy crossing
the street he can pick him up on his
pole and carry him a block or two; if
he impales him it doesn't matter much,
omnibus-drivers are never hanged,
neither do they marry Nor is it ne
cessary that he wait for his enemy to
attempt to cross the street he can go
for him on the sidewalk, spear him on
balcony, lift him from a third-story
window, if he so choose. His horses
aid him willingly. When you see an
omnibus horse fix his eye on you, be-
Na1S you SI0 IL SOL6 IAtu. 1AO1S 10
no escape from his diabolical intentions,
and if you are particular about little
things, and want your name spelt right
out on the cOffin-plate, see the engraver
at once. Talk of blaek-horse cavalry
I would sooner face whole brigade of
them than stand the charge of a single
omnibus horse of any color whatever.
Think what the Six Hundred would
have done at Balaklava had they been
mounted on six hundred omnibuses
drawn by twelve hundred wall-eyed
horses If ever a charge of this kind
occurs, let me be its Tennyson. But
just now my ambition is to be the jockey
of the winning horse to ride past the
grand stand in streaked and speckled
raiment, with my hand over between
the horses ears, and everybody applaud
ing, ladies and all
Year: 1873

But I don't see how one could get much
further. Her other name is g Reeves, p"
her age is sixteen, her hair is black,


long, and luxuriant, her eyes are like a
fawn's, and her teeth, well, if a man
had such teeth as hers, he could not be


blamed for taking them out at the din
ner-table occasionally, and passing them
around among his friends. Pretty
enough to eat even one who objected
to Johny-cake would not refuse an In
dian meal in such guise. She stands
behind a counter selling the bows who
stand around paying her silly compli-
ments, and 'arrowing up the feelings of
all. Wishing to say something striking
and original to her, / remarked that
she was pretty. From the fact that she
took it very compOsedly, infer that
she knew it before, and that perhaps
something of that kind had been said
to her previously. Withal she is very
well educated, and reads and writes
with graceful fuidity. She has trav-
eled. New York is not unknown to her,


and she has visited Washington. While
in Washington she saw Mrs. Grant, and
dined with her by special invitation. It
is strange how anxious all are to learn
Indian. Young men gather around to
that extent that her levees are longer
and more packed than any along the
Mississippi. Even the ladies are in
love with her, and quarrel as to who
shall adopt her. Lest there be any dis
turbance over the matter, I have con-
cluded to do that myself. Elderkin,


while here, spent all his time at the
encampment trying to make her believe
that he was her younger kin, an own
cousin. But can go to the encamp-
ment no more this personal will un-
doubtedly shut me out. FoI am not
sure that my pan is proof against hicko-
ry bows aud steel-headed arrows. Sa-
rah shoots remarkably we'll Il P09,1
Year: 1873

when you win the faverish-colored
gloves from them. Negotiations are
going on with purpose, and I hope
soon to be a jockey and with the jock
eys stand-the grandest stand of all, to
my thinking. At present my weight is
rather heavy, but I am drinking Ha-
thorn water, and shall either be losing
ghost or a winning jocBy in the end.
Year: 1873

AN ITEM FOR SMOKERS is stated
the opposition of the cigar manufactur-
ers to the adoption of the new cigar
stamp box, which the commissioner of
internal revenue has submitted for ex-
animation, does not rise solely from the
fact that the box is patented. One of
the strongest argument urged against
the box at the time it was examined
here, was that the manufacturers could
not take the cigars out of the box and
put them in another box bearing diff
ferent brand. 1t appears to be one of
most profitable tricks of the trade to sell
the same quality of cigars to custermers
under different brands, and to shift
them from one box to another, according
to the character of the orders and the
condition of the stock. These practices
the adoption of these boxes, it is said,
would abolish, for the reason that the
cigars could not be changed to a differ
ent box after the stamp and brand had
been once affixed.
Year: 1873

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE sEy
Il ehth Judicial District of the State OF Nevada,
in and for the County of Lincoln.


Cordelia Power, plaintiff, vs. Daniel Power.
defendant


Action brought in the District Court Of the
Seventh Judicial District of the State of Nevada.
III and for the county Of Lincoln, and the com
plant filed in said county Of Lincoln, in the
office of the Clerk of said District Court


The State Of Nevada sends greeting to Daniel
Power defendant.


You are hereby required to appear in an action
brought against you by the above named
plaintiff, in the District Court of the
Seventh Judicial District of the State OF
Nevada, in and for the county of Lincoln
and answer the complaint filed therein with.
in ten days exclusive Of the day of serycel after
the service on You Of this summons, Il served
in said county; or if served out of said county,
but within said District, within twenty days:
and in All other cases, forty days; or
judgment by default will be taken against
you, according to the prayer of said com.
plant


The said action is brought to obtain decree
OF divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony
now existing between you and said plaintiff on
the grounds OF willful desertion and failure 10
supply the comm on necessaries Of life for more
than two years last past, and that she be per.
mitted to resume her maiden name and for
costs Of action.


And you are hereby notified that II YOU fail
to appear and answer the said complaint, as
above required, the said plaintiff will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded in said
complaint.


49, Given under my hand and the Seal of
ses, the District Court of the Seventh Judi


cial District Of the State Of Nevada, in
49, and for the county Of Lincoln, this 10th
day Of June. in the year Of our Lord one thou.
sand eight hundred and seventy.three.


T. b. MILLER, Clerk.


BISHOP sABIN, plaintiffs attorneys. jel7.lm
Year: 1873

NIXON, the murderer, who was hung in
New York recently, made his will the day
before his execution, beginning it in the
usual way: Being impressed with the
uncertainty of life Most men under
like circumstances would be.
Year: 1873

INTERESTING DECISIONS IN BANK SUlTs.-
The two cases against the State Bank Of Vir-
ginia.-one for deposit claim Of $500, and
the ether for damages claimed for not pay
ing check, in both Of which cases the pub
lie have taken some interest OH account of
the mercantile questions iuvolycd-hayc both
been decided in the Circuit Court of this
city in favor Of the bank.


The first case involved the question how
far the entries on the depostor's pass-book
were open to explanation, and to correction
if found erroneous; and it was decided that
pass. books were open TO correction.


In the second case the failure of n depoSi-
tor to get credit on the books of the bank
for check for so which he thought had
gone to his credit, and which had been put
to his credit on his pass-book, but which for
some reason had not gone to his credit on
the books of the bank, had caused check
drawn by MIN on the deposit to be thrown
out and the question was whether the fail
ure OF the bank, without any wrongful pur-
pose, to pay the latter check entitled the
drawer TO damages upon the legal preSump-
ton that, being a merchant, his credit as such
would necessarily be injured by the transac-
ton, although upon the evidence the jury
might believe as a matter of fact that his
credit was not injured, and whether, indeed,
the bank could be allowed TO show that in
fact his credit was not injured. AS above
stated, this case also was decided in favor Of
the bank.
Year: 1873

They tell me solemn story, but it is not sad


to me,
For in its sweet unfolding my Savior's love l


see;
They say that in any moment the Lord of Life


may come
To lift me from this cloudland into the light


of homo.
They say may have no warning | may not


even hear
The rustling of His garments as He softly draw


eth near
Suddenly, in moment, upon my ear may


fall
Tho summons to leave our homestead, to an


swer the Masters call.
Perhaps He'll come in the noon-tido of some


bright and sunny day,
When with dear ones all around me, my life


seems bright and gay ;
Pleasant may be the pathway, easy tho shining


road,
Up from this DINNER sunlight into the light


of God
Perhaps He'll come in the stiffness of the mild


and quiet night,
When the earth is calmly sleeping meath the


moon-beams silvery light;
When the stars are softly shining DER slum-


bering land and sea
Perhaps in the holy stiffness the Master will


como for me.
l think would rather hear it, that voice so


low and sweet,
Calling me out from the shadows, my blessed


Lord to meet;
Up through the glowing splendors of starry


earthly night,
To see the King in his beauty" in land of


purer light.
Year: 1873

Recently, says the New York Dispatch,
two young ladies from Philadelphia, vis-
iting at n Newark uptown residence,
created quite sensation by a jealous
quarrel, during which they revealed n
pretty secret that for whole week they
had closely kept. The names of the
girls are Henrietta Wilson and Susie
johnson. Mother, may | go out to
swim," has been the prayer of these fair
damsels in their early days, and whether
Mother" consented or not, the incident
to be related proves that more than once
they had chung their clothes on hickory
limb" and learned to buffet the waters
bravey. AS they stroled up and down
Fourth Avenue and caught now and then
glimpse of the lovely Passaic, an intense
longing came to them to lave their 1.-the
limbs in the pellucid waters. One bright
morning about week ago, with their
tights" eflectually concealed by charm
ing redingote and trailing skirt, the girls
HE'D them away to the river shore, and
hung their clothes upon the identical
shollbark sung about in the classic story.


For time they enjoyed undisturbcd
the delicious bath, but at length appeared
suddenly upon the scene young gentle
man rowing in she'll. The gallant
Triton" became confused at the sight
OF the lovely nymphs, and losing his bal
ance fell into sixteen feet of water. As
he could not SWIM, there would have
been coroner's inquest had not the girls,
who were striking out for some bushes,
returned to the rescue on beholdlng his
peril AS the exhausted form of the
young man was sinking, each young lady
seized an arm aud towed him to the shore.
Susie returned to catch the shell. while
Henrietta, hastily donning her con-
venient redingote, gave the "Trton"
some excellent brandy from the flask in
her belt, and then completed the work Of
restoration by rubbing his temples with
her fair white hands. The girls then put
him in his little boat and sent him home
to his mamma, making him promise he
would visit them soon. 1t was the APP
pearancc of his advancing form up the
avenue that caused the jealous fires that
had slumbered in the breasts of those
heroic madens to burst forth into white
heat, for each one claimed him for her
own, and for very spite, betrayed the
pretty secret What that young man will
do is a matter Of considerable speculation.
Heis not clear in his own mind whether
he shall hang himself or marry them both
and remove TO Utah.
Year: 1873

SLURs ON WoMEN.-Of all evils pre-
valent among young men we know Of
none more biighting in its moral effects
than to speak slightly of the virtue Of
women. Nor is there anything in which
young men are so thoroughly mistaken
as the low estimate they form of the in
tegrity of women-not of their own moth
ers and sisters, but Of others, who, they
forget, are somebody else's mothers and
sisters. AS rule, one who surrcnders to
this debasing habit is not to be trusted
with any enterprise requiring integrity of
character. Plain words should be spoken
on this point, for the evil is general one
and deep-rooted. If young men are
sometimes thrown into the society of lewd
or thoughtess women they have no moral
right to measure all other women by what
they see of these, than they would have
respectable citizens by the developments
Of crime in the police courts. Let our
young men remember that their chief
happiness in life depends upon their utter
faith in women. No worldly wisdom, no
misanthropic philosophy, no generation,
can cover or weaken this fundamental
truth. 1t stands like the record of God
itself-for it is nothing less than this
and should put an everlasting seal on the
lips that are wont to speak lightly of
women.
Year: 1873

A MODERN SAINT SIMON STYLITEs.
The Athens Northeast Georgian notes
the prevalence Of u report in that city
that, on a recent Sunday, man living
near Scull's Shoals, about twenty miles
below Athens, went fishing, seating him
self on rock. Not returning home at
night, search was made for him and he
was found seated upon the rock, and upon
the party requesting him to get up and
accompany them home, he told them
that the Almighty had sent Judgment
upon him and he had become part OF
the rock and could not move. His friends
thinking he was only jesting, took hold
Of him and attempted to meve him, when
he commenced screaming at the top of
his voice and asked them, for Gods sake,
not to attempt to lift him up as it would
murder him. He further informed them
that he had been informed, by an unseen
presence, that, as judgment for bis pro-
family and Sabbath breaking, he would
never be severed from his present seat,
but would remain fastened to it all his
days, and that he would be made to
preach his own funeral sermon. 1t Is
said he talks quito freely and is visited
by immenze crowds.