smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

o spring-time sweet
Over the hills come thy lovely feet:
The earth's white mantle is cast away;
She clothes herself all in green to-day;
And the little flowers that hid from the cold
Are springing anew from the warm, warm mould.


spring-time sweet!
The whole earth smiles thy coming to greet;
Our hearts to their inmost depths are stirred
BY the first spring flower, and the song of the bird
Our sweet, strange feelings no room can find,
They wander like dreams through heart and mind.


o spring-time sweet
How the old and the new in thy soft hours meet
The dear, dead joys Of the days long past,
The brightness and beauty that could not last
Their fair ghosts rise with the ending of snow
The springs and the summers Of long ago.


o spring-time sweet
How thou once-wert dear and fair and competei
Nor sweetest words nor music could tel
The giadness that once mademy bosom swell;
And thou art not the same as the springs Of yore,
For the beauty and blessings that come no more.


o spring-time sweet
With silent hope thy coming greet;
For all that in winter the bright earth lost
Doth rise, new born, with the ending of frost:
Even so shalt thou bring me at last, at Inst,
An the hope and the joy and the love of the past.


lFrom ''Old and New for May.
Year: 1873

As a matter of course, when clergy
men exchange, they preach old ser
mons. That they may do SO is one
of the reasons for exchanging. II
doesn't follow, however, that they
should not look over the MS. to see
if the local points need alteration.
We read of a Somerville Mass
preacher who went over lately to
Andover to preach. In his discourse
was allusion to the Insane Asylum at
Somerville. And forgetting that he
was in Andover, he said, "Soone1
than child of mine should be sub
iected to such influences I would be
willing to have him confined in yon
der institution" And the good man
pointed directly at the Andover Theo
logical Seminary!
Year: 1873

Why should all sea captains be goOd-natured7
Because it would not be safe to have can't-anchor
us man to command a ship.


What is the difference between a hill and pin7
One is sometimes hard to get up, and the other is
often hard to get down.


What is better than presence of mind in railway
accident? Absence of body.


Of what nativity was Adam, according to Oar
wins theory? A Germ-man.
Year: 1873

Delinquent InN-Payers


Will have to appear before the Board OF
Supervisors at meeting to be held in
Holmesville, on Monday, the third day Of
February, 1873, to pay the taxes due on
the lands assessed to them, or the same will
be sold by the sheriff, according to law,
giving an absolute and indefeasible title TO
the purchaser. AS matter of information
to our readers, we will publish the entire
delinquent list next week.
Year: 1873

IT is rumored that an attempt will be
made to inaugurate McEnery, and other
state officials of Louisiana, on the 9th inst,
and that trouble is anticipated. Trouble
er no trouble, let Justice assert her sway
and the DurelIites will vanish like chaff be
fore the wind, and soon they will be com
PEELED to acknowledge the supremacy Of
Right over Wrong.
Year: 1873

That so few people know beans.


That one can never find any one in.


That so many people want tob Pres
ident.


That money continues to make the
Mayors go.


That boys will smoke and chew and
chuck dies.


That men of smaller caliber should
be such great bores.


That we should have panics in the
season of picnics.


That Chatham street can't have its
nose unlocked.


That, as rule, the more a man reads
the less he knows.


That it is so easy fora man to make
a donkey of himself.


That there should be so many rats
about and 81 few cats.


That young Poets should feel it their
duty to be melancholy.


That there is no process by which You
can make two and two FIVE.


That men will drink gin-cocktails
when they can get ginser-cocktails.


That sold Prob" can't furnish us all
with the kind of weather we wish.


That there SHOULD be so much think
ing in the world and 50 few thoughts.


That men should be born free and
equal and women neither equal nor
free.


That our "gentlemanly hotel clerks"
will not be satisfied with dollar jewell
ry.


That there shouldn't be smoking
pews in church as wei as sleeping
pews. ,
Year: 1873

The new Massilon Rolling mill can
be ready in twenty days for the manu-
facture of bar iron, but the company
will not start their mill until Il better
feeling exists in the iron market.
Year: 1873

SERGEANT AT-ARMs.--W are pleased TO
announce that our friend ard neghbor, W.
NJ. Crutcher, Of Auburn Placer County, il
an aspirant for the position Of Sergeantat
arms Of the Lower House Of the Legislature
Mr.. Crutcher, besides being perfect
gentleman, in the strict sense Of the word
is very able, active and efficient laborer
for the cause he espouses, and is one of the
soundest men on the issues of the recen'
CONTEXT we know Of That Mr.. Crut. her
would bonorably fill the position of Sergeant
alarms is conclusive from the fact that he
stops not short Of success in whatever he
undertakes. Knowing him as we do, and
having the confidence in him that we have,
it is pleasure to us TO recommend him
favorably to the anti monopoly representa-
lives from other counties
Year: 1873




"Touch him where he's tender if you want
him to jump" We touched tender spot Of
the Union last week, when We gave it TO
understand that We thought it was devoted
more to man than to principle. and il,
jumped. 1t acknowledges being welded to
man, but says that is not all. 1t wante
to see reform in lesislation. as we'll as 10
send reformer to the United States Sen
ate. We must remind the Union that
when the people Of Placer County who have
suffered equal with any other county in the
State from the evils which giant monopo-
y had hneultingly hesped vi on them. got
up a reforh, movement TO rid themselves
from these abuses. it took pains TO tell the
people that they would do we'll TO oppose
this move, and advised them to vote for the
same men, or cl ,ss Of men who had been


instruments in tile hands Of the monopoly
for goueing money from the poorer people,
and derriving them Of their just rights.
The U1ion claimed that Booth represented
a principle. Our :eform party pledged
themselves emphatically to that principle;
the others to the man. though it ignored the
very substance Of the issues, viz: local re-
FORM The Union pronounced these prin-
ciples good, Tut when it found, with the re-
form party in Placer they took precedence
to the man, it turned it's back ON the prin-
ciples and stuck to the man. Hence we
accuse the Union of sacrificing principle fo'
the sake of the man; and now that the
election is over, it calls on the very men
whose lection it opposed, and tells them il
they do not stand by it's man they will be
going back on their principle. 1t may be
that they will. If Booth is all the Union
claims Cor him, and if lie is the only man
who does really possess all the essential at
tribut.s which are necessary to enable
man TO faithfully and ably represent the
p ople of California on the present issues,
then should they fail to support him, they
would fail TO support the principles to
which they are pledged But is he !?
Maybe 60. But there is time enough be-
tween this and the meeting e the Leg'fla-
ture to determine all these things. BoolL
is a late acquisition to the Peoples party
Casserly has been fighting the monopoly for
years Booth may have thought the cor
ruptons and tyrannies of the Admnstra-
tion were great evils, but he has never said
so, to our knowledge. We propose to
speak of these two candidates for the SEN
ate, Booth and Casserly, with respect, aud
not do as the Union does, assail the one
that is not our choice and charge him with
being in league with the mo ,opol'sts and
with almost everything that is calculated to
injure him, whether it is true or false. Our
principle is this: The man who can best
represent us in the United States Senate on
the monopoly question and in opposing the
corruplions of Congress, is our man. for we
are emphaticaly and uncompromisngy in
earnest in doing our best to bring about
that reform which the nation in all its de-
parmen's is suffering for, and shall continue
to labor to the extent of our ability, through
the best avenues that may be presen ted,
for that end.
Year: 1873

The Democrats and Liberal Republicans
held their Judicial Conventi n in Sacra-
mento on Wednesday last. The conven-
ton adopted an anti-monopoly, anti back
salary-steal, unti-Coolic platform. and
nonina ed Judge Mckee of Alameda for
Supreme Judge to fill out the unexpired
term of Chief Justice Sprague, deceased,
an authorized the Central Committee to
place another candidite on the ticket to Gil
the place of Judge Crockett, should it be
found that Judge was to be elected for
that purpose. there being some dispute
among lawyers on that point. We know
Judge Mckee, personally. and have talked
with him on the monopoly question. and
can recommend him as one that is sound
on all the issues between them and the
railway corporations. Sam. Bell Mckee
is now the District Judge Of the Judicial
District in which he resides. Though he
is a Democrat, lie has been twice elected
70, that position in his district though it is
strongly Republican. thus showing that he
is extremely popular among all classes of
politicians where lie is best known. Judge
Mckee suits us exactly, and we believe
the Independents all over the State Should
endorse him ana make him their candidate
for Supreme Judge. This county was not
rerresen ed in the convention, as we have
an Independent organic ton, and the
County Central Committee of the Peoples
Independent party will be called together
after all the conventions have been held,
and all the candidates have been placed in
the field, and make choice Of the best
anti monopoly candidate presented, and
recommend the Independents to support
him.
Year: 1873

CAMPAIGN SUBSCRIBERS. s.-Ths is the last
paper we shall send TO our campaign sub
scribers, unless by special request they
wish it continued. Therefore we cay TO all
those who have been taking the paper for
the campaign, and would like TO continue
taking it, if they will drop us a note to that
effect, the HERALD will be sent regularly
to their address. So let al who would
like 10 read our p per send in their orders
1T once.
Year: 1873

Ladies ~ delicate health, should
90 TO Colorado. The case Of Mrs.
Prather, of Golden City shows the
wonderful restorative effects of the
climate. She could not sweep her
room when they lived in Ohio but
in less than a year after her arrival
IN tho Territory, she chased her hus-
band a milo and quarter with a
pitcbfvrk.
Year: 1873




Having photograph taken is one
Of the great events in a mans life
The chief desire is to look the very
best and on the success of the picture
hinges in many cases the most inn
portant epoch in life. TO work up
proper appearance time enough is
used which, if devoted to catching
fleas for their phosphorus, would cancel
the entire national debt and establish
a New York daily paper, When you
have completed your toilet you 90 to
the gallery and force yourself into Il
nonchalance Of expression that is too
absurd for anything. Then you take
the chair, spread your legs gracefully,
appropriate calm and indifferent
look, and commence to perspire,-
An attenuated man with pale face,
long hair and soiled nose now comes
out Of a cavern, and adjusts the came
IA. Then he gets back of you and
tells you to sit back as far as you can
in the chair, and that it has been
remarkably backward spring After
getting you back till your spine inter
feres with the chair itself, he shoves
your head into a pair Of ice-tongs,
and dashes at the camera again
Here, with a piece of discolored vel
vet over his head, he bombards you in
this manner: "Your chin out little,
please" The chin is protruded.-
"That's nicely now little more
The chin advances again, and the
pomade commences to melt, and start
for freedom. Then he comes back to
you and slaps one Of your hands on
your legs in such a position as to give
you the appearance Of trying to lift it
over your head. The other is turned
under itself, and has become so sweaty
that you begin to fear that it will
stick there permanently. a new
stream Of pomade finds it's way out,
and starts downward. Then he shakes
your head in the tongs till it settles
right, and says 1t looks like rain, and
puts your chin out again, and punches
ont your chest, and says he doesn't
know what the poor are to next do win
ter unless there is radical change in
affairs, and then takes the top of your
head in one hand and your chin in the
other and gives your neck wrench
that would earn any other man a
prominent position in any hospital
Then he runs his hand through your
hair and scratches your scalp, and
steps back to the camera and the in
jured velvet for another look. BY
this time new sweat and pomade have
started out, The whites of your eyes
show unpleasantly, and your whole
body feels as ifit had been visited by
an enormous cramp, and another and
much bigger one was momentarily
expected. Then he points at some
thing for you to look at tells you to
look cheerful and composed, and
snatches away the velvet, and pulls
out his watch. When he gets tired,
and you feel as if there was but very
little left in this world to live for, he
restores the velvet, says it is an TN
favorable day for picture, but he
hopes for the best, and Immediately
disappears in his den Then you get
up and stretch yourself, slap on your
hat, land Immediately sneak home,
feeling mean, humbled, and altogether
too wretched for description. The
first friend who sees the picture says
he can see enough resemblance to
make certain that it is you, but you
have tried to look too formal to be
natural and graceful-Danb'Uy Nescs.
Year: 1873

was only a clown, painted, grin
ming clown, attached, on small sal
ary, to theatre in the capital of one
of the little duchies into which Ger
many was divided before the genius
and ambition of Bismarck had effect
ed its consolidation into the empire.
My role was popular because every
body likes to laugh, and likes one who
puts them in laughing mood. My
makeup was considered a marvel of
perfection. My songs always took,
and my gestures and grimaces never
failed to elicit the most rapturous ap-
plause. 1t used to be said that my
face must be made of India-rubber, it
could be twisted and distorted into
such strange expressions. But l ha-
ted the life, and my success made it
more and more distastefill.


One night I went home completely
worn out in body and mind. My lit
tie sister Ada, fifteen years old, and
light and graceful as a sylph, who was
engaged as a danseuse at the same
theatre, also seemed dispirited and
worn. The play had been running
forty nights, and the whole company
was heartily sick of it. But it was not
this alone which exerted q depress-
ing influence on my spirits that even
ing. For many weeks had been loos-
ing my heart to Fraulein Dora, the
principal danseuse Of the theatre, who
was no less lovely in mind and Leart
than in her person. She was the
most beautiful woman | had ever
seen tall, well-formed, graceful with
a step Ikea fairy queen large thought
full eyes; and sweet, winning smile.
What first drew me to her was her
kindness to my sister, whom she took
every opportunity TO befriend and as
sist in her profession. This was the
more surprising, because Ada promis-
ed to become a dangerous rival and,
in the theatrical profession, jealousy
is the rule, and generosity the excep-
ton. SO learned to like Dora, and
then to love her. But so did every
body else. All the gentry of the
place fell in love with her, and raved
about her beauty and her dancing, in
a way that nearly drove me wild with
jealousy. 1 was in love in the old
fashioned way we read of in novels
| am not ashamed to confess it-eager
to kiss the ground on which she trod,
and would not believe that any one
else could love and worship her with
the same devotion. must not omit
to say that Dora, in the midst of all
this adulation, displayed the most dis
Greet and modest behavior She was
always attended, to and from the thea
tire, by her mother; and always re-
turned the rich presents which were
showered upon her.


Among all who paid court to Dora,
feared only one, the young, rich,
handsome, and accomplished Count
Ernest Won Walters, who pressed his
! suit with unremitting ardor. What
Year: 1873

A high-school girl, just graduated,
said in her essay: LET us avoid the
frivolities of life and pursue the mob
lest ends only The next day she
was moved to tears in an agonizing
attempt to deside the proper shade of
blue for her complexion.
Year: 1873

II is very kind in Miss Charlotte Thomp-
son to come all the way down here from her
home in New York TO volunteer her profess
siona! services in the play Of Jane Eyre"
on the occasion OF the benefit Of Mr. Lor-
aine Rogers tomorrow evening. Perhaps
it is the natural offering of a devoted wife
to her equally devoted husband, and per-
haps the knowledge Of that fact may
prompt many of Charlotte Thompson's ad
mirers to Join with her in paying tribute to
the merits Of a worthy man. whose only
weakness is modesty. The friends of Mr..
Rogers have already manifested their az
probation of him by securing seats for this
testimonial benefit. There are, however. a
few more seats left.
Year: 1873

Ihefe Is something cheerful IN this eX-
tract from the Donaldsonville Chief:


The latest news we have concerning our
railroad is that a new set of men have taken
hold Of it and will renew the suspended
work of construction in a week or ten davs
and push the road through to Texas within
the extension Of years time accorded by
the General Assembly at its recent session
The creditors who placed the road and roll
ing stock that are above Bayou Lafourchs
under seizure have been satisfied. and the
deputy United States marshal who was
guarding the seized property has, we are
informed, relinGuished possession and de-
parted whence he came. Orders have been
received by the contractor who is building
this section of the railroad to lay track
over the new bridge and prepare that struc-
ture for immediate use. This important
work will probably be commenced Monday
next, and as soon as it is finished we may
look for the rapid extension of our great
iron thoroughfare toward the Texas border.
Year: 1873

IL the mournful anticipatiOns of his friends
should be realized, even so far as to incapaci-
tate him for further labors, the loss of Prof


Agassiz will be felt as heavy blow to Amer
lean science More than quarter of a century
ago he identified himself with our scientific
progress and became one of our most eminent
citizens 1t was not simply then that we
gained what Europe lost, and that he brought
hither tho laurcls elsewhere won. Had he
lived and died abroad, eminent among eminent
men, Agassiz would have been to us nothing
more than great name identified with certain
important researches and discoveries, but moth
ing more. But from the hour he first set foot
upon our shores Prof. Agassiz recognized his
own true position az the great missionary Of
science to the New World. From city TO city
he travelled, preaching the gospel Of his belief,
and awakening in the breasts of others some-
thing of the ardor Of his own. Under his
direct tuition many of our most prominent
Young naturalsts laid the foundations Of their
knowledge. Our older men of science acknowl-
edged him for leader, and he became con-
nected with our foremost scientific under
takings. And in the enterprises which were
peculiarly his own he was singularly successful
in obtaining material aid from wealthy indi-
viduals. ....


II is The fortune of but few men to assist
40 greatly in the progress of the day. Con-
sidcred merely as n scientific student and dis
coycrer, he must bo ranked with the highest.


I,ut the rare faculty of communicating knowl-
edge, aud the yet rarer power Of spreading
love for il, place him among the great teach
ers of the race. The extraordinary impulse
which his individual efforts have given to the
pursuits OF science can scarcely yet be calcu'
lated; they belong " no one department Of
Year: 1873

1t was certainly not fortunate coincidence
that while the Virginus was being towed out
of the harbor of Havana to be delivered to the
United States Navy, and the survivors of those
captured with her were restored to liberty IN
Santiago, the Government should have been
subjected to attack in the House of Repre-
sentatives and at the mass meeting in New
York for the course of action which secured
20 satisfactory "A result. The denunciation OF
the atrocities which have marked the conduct
of the war in Cuba was timely and sufficiently
vigorous. The moral sense of humanity has
been outraged repeatedly since the contest
began, though not without frequent protest by
our Government. Bit the force of the appeals
in behalf of humanity were greatly weakened
by being coupled with demands for proca-
nation according belliGerency to the Cubans.
and libelous abuse of the Secretary of state,
to whom, with President CASTELAR,, is due the
honorable conclusion of this affair
Year: 1873

Our Washington dispatches give picture
OF the present condition of the Treasury,
drawn SO succnctly and clearly that no one can
fail to understand it. The Treasury ia almost
penniless and there is danger that the needed
relief from Congress viii not be given in
time. When, a few months ago, THE TRIBUNE
told the Secretary the condition OF his bal
ances, he adopted the convenient and
courteous expedient of saying THE TRIBUNE
lied. He Is now beginning to see the bottom
of his chest through the rapidly diminish
ing volumes of his so-called reserve
and is applying to Congress for
an immediate increase of taxes to save him
from insolvency. The work which rests upon
the Administration members to rescue the
National credit from the ruinous folly of the
President and the Secretary, is so arduous
that we have no desire to detain them by
recalling their pledges of last year, that the
election of Gen. Grant would result in a
decrease of taxes, rise in tho value OF
securities, and return to a specie basis.
Year: 1873

The unreasonable weather, which pleases
nobody in the city. promises yet to be worth
at least million dollars to our produce
dealers. Dispatches yesterday from Little
Falls announce that the lock on the canal was
breaking, and that boats were at last moving
forward.
Year: 1873

TIE House of Representatives acted judi
ciousy yesterday in accepting Mr.. Dawes's
amendment in the case of Gen. Howard. Mr..
Woods resolution prejudged the case, and this
is not thing to do lightly in matter of such
consequence, involving so high a reputation. Of
course a rigid investigation is required; but
il il only fair TO Gen. Howard to say that
some of the worst of the charges which have
been made against him are connected with
his long continued leniency to Gen B. p.
Runk,e, who was ultimately pronounced a
defauter and dismissed the service. 1t is
A leniency which soldiers will be slow to
Judge harshly. Gen. Runkle was a gallant
officer who had served throughout the war,
and in the very first heavy battle ut the West
that at Pittsburgh Landing, was left on the
field for dead. pierced by no less than
thirteen wounds. HIS friends have sOme-
times been disposed to claim that his
sulTcrings and exposure had led to
mental alienation. In any event, Gen. How


ard will not be harshly censured for being
slow to believe that so gallant an officer could
be thief. Nor should it be forgotten that there
has been bad blood between Gen. Howard
and the War Department for a long time.
Whatever errors he may have committed, and
the case certainly does not bear favorable
look for him, it is only fair to hear both sides
before pronouncng judgment.