smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Over the hills and in the valleys of
large extent of country the snow lies be-
tween three and four feet deep. The oc
casional warm days succeeded by freezing
nights which we have had since the great
storm have caused a thin crust to form
upon the snow surface. This crust will
not bear the weight Of a sharp-footed ami
NAL like the deer When the stag attempts
fight through the woods he finds the
effort useless. Cutting through the crust
at every jump, he hopelessly founders in
the soft, yielding drifts. This unusual
state of affairs has compelled the deer to
assemble in yards for selfprotection. They
seek the laurel swamps, and, within a Civ
en- space, trample down the snow in order
that they may find food and resting place
at the same time. In these yards the stag
is defenceless. The hunter can approach
to the edge of the barricades on snow-shoes,
and then shoot the animals down at his
leisure. Or he can set his dogs upon the
deer and worry them to death The long
er the snow remains as it is, the more the
game interests of the country are placed in
jeopardy. No man with the instincts Of
sportsman would shoot at a stag defence
less in yard, but,then scattered over all
the wild lands are pot-hunters, who look
upon the present as a golden opportunity.
These fellows buckle on their snow-shoes
every day, and go forth for a raid upon the
deer yards. The animals are so poor that
their flesh is oflittlc account, but this mat
ters not. The hides are worth something,
and the pot.hunter is contented with hide
when he can get nothing better. In an ex-
traordinary season like this, when the game
interests are imperilled, it is the duty Of
sportsmen in every part of the country to
keep sharp eyes on the scallawags who care
for nothing but slaughter. Large game will
be scarce enough at best next season, owing
to the severe Winter, therefore it is all the
more necessary that We protect what is left
Turf, Field and Farm.
Year: 1873

By far the most conspicuous object as
one sails up the broad and ra river from
the gulf, thirty miles distant, is the great
pagoda of Wat-Chang (Siam) towering 300
feet towards heaven. A mass of tropical
foliage on the rivers bank conceals the base
of the enormous structure, and shades the
smaller buildings of the monastery which
it adorns. 1t is impossible by any descrip-
ton to convey an impression of its striking
and unique beauty. The white walls Of
the temple stand in strong contrast with
the dark green of the banyan and the or
ange, and broad plumes Of the stately palm.
The roofs are covered with glazed tiles, of
green and gold In the midst of all these
lower structures, smaller turrets, lesser pin
nacles, swell the gigantic pyramid, rectan-
gular, hexagonal, and conical in turns, till
at the summit, rounded like cupola, it is
surmounted by final of gilded metal
spreading into graceful branches under the
blue sky. From every branch of this great
spire, from every prominent angle and
projection, hangs little gilded bell, ant
to the tongue of every bell there is attach
ed little fan. So while the shining por
celain of the mighty tower glitters ant
sparkles with its various colors in the sun
light, the least breeze that sweeps over tn,
broad river and makes tremulous the leave
of the dark trees below win set in motion
all these countless tongues on high, anc
make the whole pile musical Memnon'
statue, vocal when the light of morning
smote it, was not more wonderful !
iScribner's for FebrndrD
Year: 1873

A man with several marriageable daugh-
ters, all under % years ofage, having bought
house in a fashionable quarter, writes tobe
informed concerning the best way Of gain
ing entrance into the best families in the
neighborhood. The easiest and most direct
way would seem to be by the door, but he
might tunnel under the sidewalk and come,
up through the cellar.
Year: 1873

An engaged young gentleman got rather
neatly out of little scrape with his intend
ed. She taxed him with having kissed
two ladies at some party at which she was
not present. He owned it, but said that
their united ages only made twenty-one.
The simple-minded girl thought often and
eleven and laughed off her pout He did
not explain that one was nineteen and the
other two years Of age.
Year: 1873

! on tliat day they procured additional


counsel, and armed with aflidavils went


10 court. After an excited discussion


between their counsel and District At


torney, MS honor SET tie trial down for


a week from next Monday. and added
/ that he thought the District Attorney


might well try their principal witness


on The charge Of perjury, so that they


could have the benefit OF his testimony.


The District Attorney intimated that he


would do as he pleased. On the same
DAY one OF cases in the United States
Court was called, and OH the second day


Their counsel moved 10 quash the indict-
ment. ThroughAsomc bungling in the
District Attorneys Office the wrong in
, diclnent was produced. and the case is
still pending. Only yesterday morning
she said that she feared she was not to


be treated with fairness by the court,
and that in case Of her conviction she
could not survive. Her physicians told


her that ii would not do TO 20 into court


now, and were urging her 10 insist upon
a postponment OF the cases. She was
anxious TO be tried. she said. and be
done with it, as the anxiety was


KILLING HER.


Some of her bondsmen showed dis
position TO desert her. and this, too. ad-
ded TO her misery. Many who had pro-
fesscd friendship for her, she said. had
repeatedly visited the District Attor-
ney's Office and urged that official TO
make every effort to convict her. She
thought that she was surrounded bv con-
spirators, and said that when persons
asserted that she and her sister wore an
air of Indifference and were brazen thev
little knew how much they really suffer-
ed, and with what difficulty they could
refrain from giving way when brought
to public notice. The treatment she had
received from her own sex troubled her
most. Although she had spent fortune
in the advocacy of women's rights, the
leaders of that movement now had
seemingly forgotten her labors. and
were said to be anxious to have her sent
to State Prison.


She and her sister had worked hard
the past few months TO make up their
losses sustained during their imprison-
ment. but made scarcely more than
enough 10 pay the current expenses of
their office and home. Miss Clafiin said
last night that in the event of her sisters
death she would retire from the broker
age.busincss. She added that she could
never reconcile herself to the loss Of her
sister. 10 whom she has always been so
warmly attached. At late hour last
night Mrs. woodruff was still uncon-
scious. Miss Clailin and Colonel Blood
were with her throughout the night.
Year: 1873

Take the use Of tobacco for instance.
Will not enter into the mooted ques-
tion why is it that tobacco has entered
50 largely into the life as well of the civ
ilized as of the savage races of the world.
| have no question that it is great
luxury. and that in extreme cases it may
be necessary scdative. None the less
is the appetite for tobacco, an appetite
which a man wants under control. lie
wants. therefore, to know if il is his
master or his slave. That is the reason
why he owes il TO his own royalty to
cut off his tobacco at certain regular
periods, rcsolutely and absolutely. TO see
if he can do without it without whim-
pcring or finching. His condition is.
it is true. not unlike that of the French
man at the savings bank. When they
gave him his money he said. .Ah. if
you have got il do not want it. asked
for it because was afraid you had not
got it." ] anticipate the joke, because l
am eager TO say that the bank was all
the better bank because il was liable to
be called on by such people for their
money. If you find. my dear Raleigh,
that your hour after dinner is wretched.
now that you have cut Off your cigars.
that you abuse your ceildren and scold
your wife. il is because you were be-
coming the slave of an appetite. 1t is
certainly high time that you proclaimed
independence. You will never COM
pass what a man has to compass in life
until YOU have mastered this little devil,
your foot on his chest and your sword i'm
his throat. as St. Michael would have
his. If, on the other hand, you 20
through the tobaccoless month with "A
temper unsulied. and life as even as be-
fore, ! see no objection to your taking
up your Manual Amores again, and
playing with him as any other play
thing till the next time Of testing comes.


Il. T.. HALE.
Year: 1873

who thought any body could milk COW
don't think so any more. lie bought a
COW yesterday, and last evening he took
a new tin pail and raisin-box and
started for the stable. lie revolved out
Of the stable through a window in Just
three minutes. At the same time the
tin-pan was heard wandering among the
raftcrs. and the raisin-box came bound
ing out of the door. The hired girl
made reconnaissance in force. snd re-
ported that the COW was standing on
her horns. so to speak. and wigglng
her hind legs (the COW not the girl), for
more worlds to conquer
Year: 1873

Corporal punishment is being Sc


verely attacked in Boston, in conse-
quence of the death of a little boy
recently, whom very cruel whipping
threw into commissions, which term
mated in brain fever and death. The
child did not regain consciousness
after the whipping, and in his dying
agony implored his parents to save
him from the blows of the rattan
with which the teacher had beaten
him, and which, in imagination, he
felt until death ended his misery


The principle of corporal punishment


in the public schools is wrong.
Doubtless, the child in question was
a very nervous one, with whom some


other slight punishment would have
effected the desired discipline; and
doubtless, also, hundreds of differ
emily organized children might have
endured the same amount of beating
without similar disastrous results;
nevertheless, no good ever yet result
ed from beating and whipping chill
dren. In dispositions where courage
and resentment predominant, all the
dormant passions of anger and
combativeness are strengthened and
aroused by the infiction of blows,
and in the naturally timid and fear
full, severe illness, if not death, is very
apt to be the consequence, 1t is un-
safe to trust any teacher, male or
female, with the instruction of chill
dren, who cannot enforce discipline
without corporal punishment, and
Year: 1873

It is reported from Madrid that the
Pope has written letter to Senor
Gorilla on the subject of the relations
between Spain and the Holy See, in
which he says that if Spain desires to
be raeoneiled to the mother church,
the principle of religious liberty must
be modified. Tolerance of public
worship the Church will not object
to, hut the Roman Catholic religion
must be restored to its former supre-
macy in the realm, the superintend-
ence of the schools must lie remitted
to the priesthood, and civil marriages
and the register of births must be
abolished 1t is questionable wheth-
er the Pope and his counselors will
ever awake to the fact, that the world
has advanced century while they
have been sitting still One scarcely
knows whether to laugh or pity the
bigotry of the Pope and bis advisers
in asking as a price of reconciliation
that any nation IN this age shall sur


render its dearest and most vital lib
critics. The world has learned that
the good will of no church viii save,
and that its maledictions viii not
damn. Liberty and the favor Of God
are more valuable to a nation than
the blessings and favors of church.
Year: 1873

The following from the Ross Coun-
ty Register is applicable to more To-
calities than one; in fact it has a
general application:


'1t is no uncommon thing to see
school house in the country, with
the weather boarding partly torn off,
the glass of the windows nearly or
wholly gone, by the reason of the
tapping OF the wooden shutters,
whose fastenings have been careless
ly allowed to get out of repair; for
doors to stand open, inviting the en-
trance of rude boys and other marau-
ders who disfgure the walls, break
and cut up the furniture, and fences
being left down, and gates open,
hogs root up the ground around the
house during the night, so that when
the time comes for school to begin
there is a heavy expense neeessitated,
which upon deliberation of the board,
is not allowed in many cases, and the
teacher and children are compelled
to undergo many inconvenience,
Just because the director whose duty
it is to look to such things has neg
lected to lay out a half days work in
mending the fastehings of the shut
ters, locking the doors, and putting
the fence in condition to keep out the
hocs."
Year: 1873

Why we Advocafe Protection.


We have sufficient faith in the
practieal common sense Of our readers,
and in their capacity to understand
and appreciate what really concerns
their own Immediate interests, to be-
heEe they will need no explanation
of our reasons for the prominence we
give the question Of Protection to
American industry. But still It may
not be out of place.to say, that it is
because the welfare Of the working
man of this nation is so absolutely
dependent upon and interviewer with
our msnufactnring industry That
great interest, giving direct employ
ment to two millions of operatives,
and direct support to ten millions
Eve hundred Thousand people, was
breathed into life, and is fed and
sustained, by Protection. That poll
cy, has been, and must continue to
be, the very breath of life of our Ia
boring classes. In advocating it we
are influenced far more by our regard
for the laborer than the Manufacture
er. The capitalist can live without
manufacture the workingman can't
live without labor. @ d -


Our doctrine is, direct Protection
to labor, with, 'incidental ProSec-.
ton" to manufactures; that is, we are
for Protection first, because it is
necessity to the laboring man, and
next, because it builds up a system
of industry that creates a.demand for
labor, insures It a legitimate reward,
and helps to elevate it to the high
and dignifed position it deserves as
the creator of all wealth and the basis
of all enterprise. Demagogues only
assert that Protection is invented for
the sole benefit of the rich and to
keep down the poor. Labor would
have been reduced to the ten cent.
standard once advocated by Mr..
Buchanan, which was then its aver
age reward ''throughout the world,
but for that Protective policy which
has SO diversified, and elevated, and
dignifed it in this country; and our
workingmen would have been on the
same low level as those of Spain


Austria, and Ireland. These are oul
reasons for devoting SO much time tc
Illustrate the benefits of Protection tt
American workingmen.-[New Ma
tional Era. 900
Year: 1873

get into stormy area IN Litchfeld
County. After passing over noun
tain, they arrived atua valley where
all motion of the balloon was sus-
pended, and they were for a time
shrouded in a. dense cloud of mist
and pouring rain; the balloon every
now and then being caught and
shaken by violent gusts of wind.
The adventures were uncertain what
to do. At first they thought they
would wait until the balloon descend
ed sufficiently, and then cut all the
ropes and drop the boat, letting the
bag escape. The storm, however,
soon increased with such violence
that this was given up as impractic-
able, and it was decided to open the
valve, but at this moment lis, the
balloon was 80 go '''''''s- ~ =. Z.


HHf


STRUCK BY A TREMENDOUS sQUALL Z
of wind and rain, and was driven to
an immense. height above the valley,
and then. down again to the earth
with frightful velocity, spinning over
the tops of the trees across a. small
brook and toward bank at the bot
tom of the mountains. Donaldson
then gave the order to prepare to
Jump, and he and Ford scrambled to
the side of the boat, and when the
balloon reached within 80 feet of the
earth sprang simultaneously. They
were very much. stunned, but were
otherwise unharmed. Lunt was I'D.
Il i. NOT QUICK ENOUGH,


and the balloon shot into the air,
carrying him clinging to the ropes.
He was speedily in the storm cloud
again, and being whirled about in the
most alarming manner. The bag
was shaking about above him with
awful force, and he could see nothing,
so thick were the clouds. He seized
the valve cord, and attempted to
open it, but could not, as it was en-
tangled with the neck of the balloon.
Suddenly tree tops appeared above
the fog, and in an instsnt the balloon
was Boz rs.f- ..s -f-ad ~.


wHIRLING THROUGH THE BRANCHES. .l ~


Lunt climbed to a place above the
concentrating ring, and as the balloon
rushed into a thicket, he swung him
self out and dr9pped. He managed
to catch the topmost limb of a tall
tree, but the boat scraped over his
hands, forcing him to let go, and he
fell through the branches to the
ground, fortunately unhurt. A DR..
Adams drove him to New Canaan,
where Donaldson and Ford soon
afterward arrived in o wagon belong
ing to Mr.. Charles Lewis, North
Canaan, on whose farm they landed.
The balloon was captured in a sadly
demoralized condition mile fnrther
ON
Year: 1873

ed bond and security in the sun
of s1,250, to be void on condition thar
that there was no legal objection tc
the proposed marriage. The Profess
or very promptly replied: 'Oh, nevel
mind the bond, Mr.. Clerk; 1 will pay
$1,000 down, and will hand you tn,
balance in a day or two!" Aftel
further explanation by the clerk, the
Professor soon complied with th,
law and obtained his license. ~


At the appointed time the wedding
came off in the best style of the city
and the, company enjoyed the occa
sion with the greatest zest. The
hours few like humming birds. As
the clock struckstwelve the Professor
picked up his hat and started for his
boarding house. His principal at
tendant followed to the front door
andinformed him that matrimonial
etiquette required him to stay and
board and lodge at the house of his
father-in-law, both he and his wife
that he would be furnished with a
room adjacent to Sarah's room, in
order that, if she happened to gel
thirsty, he might be near to get hel
drink of fresh water. 80 ai


In the morning the bride and
groom were greeted with the smiles
of the family, together with those Of
some early callers, and inquiries were
made if they slept well; both respond
ed that they had never slept better
in their lives, he adding with his child
like simplicity, that he was SO happy
to say that Sarah did not call for wa
ter during the whole night. That
last remark was quite riddle to her,
and she looked curious, but said
nothing; no one ventured to ask him
to rise and explain. He did not know
it was a joke played upon him until
the attendant told it as such, to the
company, IN ff.mlLsi


Finally the happy couple went to
housekeeping, and never were man
and wife more heartily congratulated
OF more highly esteemed than they
were. They were the favorites of the
city.-Neyer wife more lovely or hus-
band more kind or devoted, but he
didn't know anything about providing
for the larder, only as Sarah taught
him. One little incident may suffice
TO illustrate. She told him one day
to get some rice. He went immedi-
ately to the store and told the clerk
he wanted to get some rice. Chow
much?" inquired the clerk. "Oh not
much, said the Professor, Il reck-
on three or four bushels will do for
the present" The clerk was very
sorry to say that they had not that
much on hand, but they would soon
have more. The clerk persuaded him
to try and make out for a few days
with some fifteen or twenty pounds.
Sarah and the clerk were not the
only ones who laughed over the in
cident. He never called for three o.
four bushels afterward. s1i


If the Professor and his wife are
still living they must be we'll stricken
in years, and if they see this brie
sketch of their early lives, and fine
any errors in it, they will pardon the
writer. f
Year: 1873

A young gentleman at Kansas
City sent seventy-fve cents to New
York recently, for a method of writ
ing without pen or ink. He received
the following inscription, in large
type on q card: "Write with pen
Gil"
Year: 1873

arrived together at their home in


Rivercliffe shortly before II o'clock,


but were SO frightened that they
were caught with difficulty. The
aeronauts had a pleasant time of it
up to about noon, when they began to
Year: 1873

Before hanging a man in Louisi-
ana they let from fifteen to forty
newspaper reporters interview him
for three weeks. The poor fellow is
then not only willing but anxious to
be hung.
Year: 1873

cheered Justify, the aeronauts cores
ponding ly waving their hats, and
blowing a fog horn. The balloon
went directly north, clearing the
houses on that side of the grounds,
until it had reached an apparent
altitude of-5,000 feet. It then de-
fected sharply to the east, with the
boat pointing constantlyin the direc-
ton of the wind. Eighteen minutes
after the balloon had left the earth its
course was due northeast. From
that time it steadily worked toward
the east, and its course, when last
seen from the Clpitoline grounds,
was nearly northeast by east. At 9;55
it was observed that the balloon was
rapidly rising, and its altitude at 10
o'clock was full one mile. The sur
face current was blowing from the
south. The balloon
Year: 1873

from the Capitoline Grounds about
48 minutes, but from higher points
it was visible for half an hour longer.
At 20 minutes past 10 o'clock the
signal service officer at the Equitable
Building was enabled by the use of
powerful glasses to get the last look
at the balloon, At that time it ap-
peared like dark spot in the clouds,
and Immediately disappeared from
sight. The balloon was heading in a
northeasterly direction, and was
rising higher The officer estimates
that at this time it was about a mile
from the earth, forty miles from the
City Hall, New York. At 10 o'clock
the balloon passed over Rye, West
chester County, going due east at a
good rate Of speed. At IL it was
sighted two miles southeast of Bethel,
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-
arS
Year: 1873

DRowsINEss AFTER EATING-Many
persons feel more or less drowsiness after
eating. A full and hearty, although not
excessive MEALS almost irresistible This
is caused by the stomach and liver attract
ing TO themselves, in order to carry on the
work in hand, an amount of blood which
would otherwise have gone to nOurish the
brain, and to maintain its functions-na-
ture, deciding that the business of diges-
ton, when there is food in the stomach to
digest, is more important for the time be
ing than any other business whatever
Nevertheless for many reasons, the heav-
iness after eating iSinconvenient and unde-
sirable. But it may always be relieved by
the use of pure tonic stimulant, such as
DR.. Gottlieb Fisch's Bitters. This spurs
on the system to do double work, till the
system then repays itself liberally out of
the newly secured fund of nourishment
reaction is thus precluded


This subject continued next week under
" What q good appetite Is Worth
Year: 1873

WE offer for sale the limited amount remaining
unssld Of the FIRST MORTGAGE PEa CENT BoSDs
of the ATLANTA AND RICHMOND AIR LINE RAILWAY
COMPANY and confidently recommend them AZ
cure investment. Price for the present So and ae-
crued interest Further information furnished on
application. ~


No / Exchange-court
Year: 1873

LECTURER undertook to explain to
n village audience the word "phenom-
enon." Maybe you don't know what
a phenomenon is. Well, L VIII tell
YOU. You have seen n COW, no doubt.
Well n COW is not phenomenon. You
have seen an apple tree. Well an apple
tree is not Il phenomenon. But when
YOU see the COW go up the tree taii lore
most and pick the fruit, 1t Is a phenom-
enon.n