smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

ONE OF THE SWEETEST EXPERIENCE.


Breathes there q man with soul SO
dcad,' who has never swung on gate
with a pretty girl? If there is such an
unfortunate, pity him from the inner
most recesses of my heart-I pity him
as one who has missed sensation, one
of the best of our imperfect naturesl


have swung that way with great
many girls in my time. I am going to
swing some more if I get the chance
for if 1 do not I shall mourn for u lost
opportunity.


Coming home from church of a
moony" night, and bathed in the
mellow light, little hand clinging con-
fidingly to your manly arm and pref
ty face bewitchingly close to yours;
bright eyes looking an unutterable
sweetness, ripe-red lips moving to en-
chanting small talk-celcstial small talk
to man in love-you reach that we'll
remembered gate. You open the gate
for her to pass in, but before she does
that, something unsaid must be remem-
berod, and she stops to retail that petty
gossip. You are hardly concious of her
words, but you arc in that stage of the
tender passion when her voice is the
soul ofmusic and all you want is to keep
her talking as long as you can.


Tho lamps are out in the house in
front; the old folks have gone to roost
and you have the field all to yourself.


At last she passes in after


A CERTAIN CONCLUSIVE SOUND,


has taken place under her bonnet.
You dream of your first stick of candy,
of maple sugar. of Charlotte Russo, and
all sorts of liquids and solid sweetness,
and You think them stale, flat and UNI
profitable, compared with that kiss.


Is she going to leave you, now that
the gate is closed? Not if I know any
thing of female nature, and 1 have had
something to say to contiding females
of all classes, and they are alike in this
respect, they delight in the company Of
n passable young man by moonlight;
and in that they show their good taste.
I have heard it said that there are fe-
males differently constituted, but new
cr met them, and am glad of it. hope
l never shall.


Something more to tell. She returns
to the gate and leans upon it. Your
lips are rather close to hers, and if you
do not kiss her then I have no respect
for you, unworthy as you are of the
name of man. You talk about the
moon, about Tom Fellows at sea, about
the moon again, about the weather.
about the sermon-not much--the moon
again. Jenny Lees bonnet, that hor-
rid old maid, Miss Virginia, Juno and
her SANDERS; the weather again, the
dance at the Knight Templars, the
moon once more, with slight sprink-
ling of kissing thrown in by the way of
spice. Some ancient persons of either
sex may say this is all very silly. Bah!
You have done the same in your time if
you ever amounted to anything.


Bull all things must have an end, and
partinss must come. The lips cling
together in a long parting kiss, and you
go home through the mellow light, full
of thoughts, as happy as young man
ever is in this world Of duns and debt
ors. Let's have more of it-this swing
ing on the gate.
Year: 1873

around the kelson had been taken;
therefore we could net let the chain by
which the vessel was riding run out.
Unshackle we could not, as the tools
provided for the purpose (nothing of
that kind was neglected. were. mislaid
by those charged with their keeping, or
the men had been killed or wounded,
and besides, we could not have got more
than two or three miles up the river if
we had started, but it was necessary to
try.


Not being able to get the prize away,
it became our duty to burn her. Lieu
tenant Hoge had been directed to make
preparations in this department, and
had all the appliances ready-turpen-
tine, and axes to make kindling wood
out of light. cabin stuff. The prisoners
and killed and wounded were trans
ferrsd to the boats, which were manned
again with all dispatch and reported to
the Captain, who still remained on tne
bridge Of the steamer, as ready to de-
part. The flames were started stimuli
taneously forward and aft, and che feet
showed of. -t .s.tr


After getting clear Of Inc prize, the
Captain became dissatisfied with the
manner in which she had been fired, and
went back with Hoge to complete the
Job. This time it was handsomely done,
for the flames shot up so high aud
blazed so brightly that our whole force
was plainly shown TO the enemy in the
fort, by which we we're compelled to pass.
How he managed to miss us as often as
be did / cannot tell t.t-r


l remarked that when we dashed
alongside the vessel, in making the at
tack, it was a splendid regatta; so il was
But the leaving the vessel, aud getting
away from those hostile missiles, was a
better one, as far as speed was con-
ceTned. Every time one of those in
quiring" rife shells came screaming
along, 1T seemed 10 me that my boat
Jumped forward as though endowed with
life. For about twenty minutes muscle
and white ash did their entire duty.
Luckily heavy rain squall burst upon
Us 4 moment after getting underway the
second time, which hid Us and probably
saved life aud limb.


The prize was the Underwater.


Our loss was nineteen killed and
wounded, amongst the former the two
officers previously mentioned. That Of
the enemy tWenty-fve-the Captain
killed and several officers wounded.


To fully estimate the degree Of daring
or dash With which this affair vas exc
Year: 1873

In moment, as if by magic, the
storm lulled and the surge subsided,
and, straining his eyes through the
blackness of that Plutonian night in
the direction of which he supposed the
rest of the party were, he discovered
the two Esquimaux, Joe and Hans, each
standing on a small piece Of ice, and
Year: 1873

The Secretary of the Intcror has written a
letter to the Governor Of Texas again request
ing the latter to pardon Santana and Big Tree,
the Indian chiefs OH confined the Texas
Penitentiary. He explained in addition to the
recent published statement on the subject that
the iirstrequest dating 22d OF March was re-
voked on tho 14th of April in consequence of
the excited coalition of public sentiment at
that time growing out of the Modoc difficulties
and because some objected to tho pardon Of
Santana and Big Tree, made by Gen. Sherman.
secretary Delano goes on to say; l cannot
omit to add that in my opinion failure to
effect that release Of Santana and Big Tree
under existing circumstances, will endanger
our present peaceable relations With the
Kiowas and Comanches, and will be likely to
result in hostilities with these and other tribes
residing in Indian Territory. have therefore
respectfully to renew my request for their
pardon, and to express my sincere hope that
your judgment will approve the same.


The Postoffice Department has sus-
pended the printing of postal cards for the
reason that the card board submitted is not
equal to contract requirements The defects
of and delay in the issue Of postal cards are
entirely the fault of the contractors who had
not provided facilities for their manufacture.


Washington is stated positively that
tho Government will sustain Col. McKenzies 3
pursuit and punishment of the Kickapoos upon
Mexican territory, and there is no reason TO
doubt that the recent visit Of the Secretary OF
War to Texas had for its main object the
arrangement and authorization OF this plan
for putting stop to Indian depredations along
the Mexican frontier.


New Orleans-The steamer City OF Men,
pills. which had been on the bar at the mouth
Of the river about month, got of few days
ago and went to sea, but finding her propeller
damaged returned to the city for repairs. Her
large cargo OF bulk corn was returned to the
elevator to enable the steamer to enter the
dock. Tho corn was found in perfect order
throughout. 1t had been on board 36 days.


"A washington special says Postmaster
Cresvell has examined the postal code to see
il il would admit Of the free transmission Of
newspapers exchanges and OF newspapers
published within the county, and has come to
an adverse conclusion.
Year: 1873

compelled to trust their lives and their
possessions to such men as can be hired


by them? 1t ought to be stated, too, in


this connection, that in the English


Australian Steamship service, the cap


tains receive q thousand pounds year


small wages enough, to be sure-but


why is this difference made? Does any


one doubt that the Australians line


absolutely commands by its liberality


the best seamanship in the market?


Why should the lines that convey such


multitudes of Americans in their cabins


and such crowds in their steerage be


subjected to this disadvantage? We


know that there are, in the Anglo-Ameri-
can service, as good captains as there are
in the world, but they are men who are
forced to remain there by circumstances.
How are there places to be made good
when they retire Z? Are their wages such
rs to make their places prize to be
sought by the young men who are lay
ing their plans of life AS rule, these
lines will get just what they pay for
that is, they will get cheap men, and to
these men all Americans who desire to
visit Europe are obliged to trust their
lives and their treasures.


The first officer in the Anglo-American
service gets about ELS, $75 month or
5000 year.-what we pay to an ordinary
clerk The second officer gets $50 u
month, or six hundred dollars year
the third officer $50 month, and the
fourth $25. To men receiving these
latter sums the Atlantic was committed
when she plunged upon the rocks, with
her priceless freight of human life.
These sums correspond closely to what
we pay our walters and men of all work
about the house, while they would not
hire, in New York, first class waiter or
butler. The idea is horrible, but the
facts are rs we state them, or we have
been misinformed by one who has the
best opportunity of knowing them.
What must generally be the class of
men who can be hired at these wages ?
v hen this question is nationally answer
ed, we can form some conception of the
risks we are compelled to run by tho
parsimony of companies whose cabins
we crowd with passengers, and who can
hardly find room for the enormous
freights which we commit to them?


We know of no way to secure n safer
service but by holding the companies
rendering it to strict accountability.
They are accountable for their ships, for
their supplies, and for theircommanders'
If they wish for better captains-nay, if
they wish to secure the best service Of
those they have-let those commanders
hold a place whose wages are prize
worth holding, and make that place so
high that young men OF the best talents
and character will look upon it as worth
seeking. Let it be given to no man
until it can be given as the reward of
eminent character and eminent seaman
ship. As the facts stand to-day, we have
nohesitation in saying that the niggardli-
ness of these Anglo-American lines is
shame to their owners and managers,
and that, until it is corrected, we have
a perfect right to hold them criminally
responsible for all the disasters that
occur to them through the carelessness
or ignorance of their employes.-L g.
Holland.
Year: 1873

The British House Of Commons, have
agreed to an item OF appropriation for the
payment of the Geneva awarda The oppor-
tunity could not be lost, however for debate,
during which Sir Stafford Northcote admitted
that in the negotiation Of the treaty be had
not minutely examined the consequences for
British subjects Of fixing the end Of the war at
Lees surrender. Mr. Gladstone said the ad-
vancement Of the indirect claims by the Ameri-
can Government was a gigantic error. In all
other respects he defended the course the
arbitration had taken.
Year: 1873

The wife of a Steubenville (O.) track
member used the hand-car belonging to
the road to give her family an airing.
The express train came along, and ths
track -mender has no one dependent on
him now
Year: 1873

One Of the most important political con.
ventions that has been held in Virginia
since the war was that which met at
Ly nchburg last week and nominated
Colonel Hughes for Governor. 1t was a
Republican convention. and was disposed
of by the Associated Press agent from
whom we receive or dispatches in three
lines. On the other hand, Democ ratio
convention met in Ohio day before yester-
day and the resolutions were telegraphed
in full, making about a column III the RE-
PUBLICAN. This morning we give in full
the proceedings of the Virginia Democratic
convention, as sent -0 Us over the wires by
the Press agent.


We merely mention thi. incident as 60
ing to show how the :elegraphic wires are
manipulate in the interest Of the Democ-
racy. When we receive dispatches over
the wire. at night which we read in the
New York papers that come in the next
mornings mail, as has been repeatedly the
case, we can only charge it TO the inetfi.
cheney Of the management, but when the
wires are used to discriminate il favor Of
the Democratic party il tie dissemination
Of information. it is So paipab.e wrong as
to call for correctior. which we hope will
come by-and-by.
Year: 1873




Accounts from Maine state that President
Grant is expected in Augusta next week,
but it is not possible to state the day. The
fact Of his coming has been kept very still.
and people outside of the favored circles
had no knowledge of it till it leaked out in
the papers, and then il was at once an
nounced that he was coming on a private
visit with his family, and that no public
demonstration would be made. That this
visit means more than is thus made 20 ap-
pear on the surface may be relied on. Mr..
Baines real purpose in bringing about this
visit is to induce the President 60 appoint
Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, Chief Justice Of the
United State. in order that he (Mr. Blaine)
may be elected himself to tine Senate in
place Of Mr. Morrill, as an advanced posi-.
ton from which to operate for the presi
dency in 1876, and every possible influence
will be brought TO bear on the President to
accomplish this purpose. Mr.. Morrill, will
be opposed at the close OF his term on &C.
count of his voting for the salary grab. and
it is said that he is not averse 10 becoming
the successor of the lamented Chase. He
is undoubtedly as well qualified to perform
the duties of that exalted position as either
Of the senatorial candidates named.
Year: 1873

More than ever this popular resort is
eagerly sought this season by all who are
able to use up few days of recreation
away from the cares and fatigues of the
city. The Bossier takes new guests every
trip, and those so happy as to have the
leisuye to spare make themselves happy in
the midst all the luxuries earth and sea
can furnish Invalids get new lease of
life, children get fat and healthy, and ladies
robust and ruddy. When the genial Gus
Richard, lands his passengers, Margot, the
old patriarch, bids them welcome to his hos
telry-such generous welcome as few wat
e1ing-places afford.


Tomorrow Crescent Fire Company No
81, about forty strong, will visit the island,
and on the sixteenth instant Home Hook
and Ladder Company will follow. Sam
Dixon, at No. II Commercial place, is agent
for the hotel and Of the steamer. and will
make arrangements for any parties wishing
to visit the best watering place of the
South, and on the most reasona BILE terms.
Year: 1873

We had visit from book-peddling
female last week. She wished to dis
pose of a book. She was alone in this
world, and had no one to whom she
could turn for sympathy or assistance,
hence we should buy her book. She
was unmarried, and had no manly heart
in which she could pour her sufferings,
therefore we ought to invest in her
book. She had received liberal edu-
cation and could talk French like ma
tive; we could not ln consequence re-
fuse to pay her two dollars for book.
She wanted to take lessons in music
from a learned German professor, conse-
quently We must not decline buying a
book. We had listened attentively. and
here broke in with, .what did you say. :?
We're deaf She started in loud
voice and went through her rigmarole.


When she had finished we went and got
a roll of paper and made it into speak
ing-trumpet. placed one end in our ear,
and then told her to proceed. She near
ly burst blood vessel in her frantic
effort to make herself heard She COM
menced, Il am alone in the world, "lt
doesn't make the slightest difference to
US. We are not alone in fact We are
husband and father. Although this is
leap year, bigamy is not allowed in this
State. We are not eligible to propo-
sals.'' ..Oh what fool this man is. .
she said in low tone then at the top
of her voice, Il don't want to marry
Year: 1873

We are not obliged to tell how the
following funny letter fell into our
hands-all the reader has to do is to
read it and laugh at it. We congratu-
late the new made pa-ri-ent, and hope
he will get over his confusion of ideas
shortly, SO as to be able to tell his baby
from his horse:


DEAR SISTER EMMA: now take my
seat and sit down to take this opportu-
nifty to inform you that I am daddy
at last; that is, 1 suppose L am, for Ad-
die has got nice, fat baby as ever
made up faces. We hope these few
lines may find you enjoying the same
great blessing. Now this is to be strict
ly business letter. Firstly, as I said
before, Addie has got a nice baby.
Nextly, | have swopped away Old John
and think | have got pretty nice
horse, it is a girl and weighs nine
pound-I mean the baby-it is just as
fat as butter, and has good pair of
strong lungs. She is red and has bob
tail-the horse | mean-and white
stripe in her face, and is good driver
she has got blue eyes and a dimple in
her chin-I mean the baby-and just
the prettiest mouth that ever opened to
receive pap; judging from her teeth |
should think she was about six years
old mean the horse now-she is
sound, smooth and kind-I mean the
horse or baby either, now-and the doc
tor says she is the fairest he ever saw,
without any exception-he meant the
baby-I got twenty-five dollars to boot,
not on the baby though, for in its case
the boot is on the other foot and two or
three sizes larger as near as | can find
out am going to harness the horse
now, and 90 after mother, she was born
last night at twenty minutes past nine
i hope you don't think | mean moth.
er or the horse, [ mean the baby. She
is as hearty as pig eat an egg, bis.
cult, and drank three cups of tea
mean Addie-She is getting along nice
ly and if she don't have any bad lucl
she will get along first rate. She il
subject to disorders of the stomach ane
they say that is sign of colic-I meal
the baby-I hope it is, for the nurs


says that colicy babies never die. She


talks about her nose as she takes snui
IL naean- tho nnren-I I'm going to M
it Ediema-I mean the baby. Their


I've been reading this over and Sc
plainly that | amt fit to write. Th
{ amount of it is I'm frustrated; | am
happy daddy, and that accounts for il
so you must excuse me this time.
Year: 1873

HATS OFF.-Dio Fewis accounts for
the badness of men in very simple
way-their habit of keeping the head
constantly covered. He says you never
see man lose hair below where the
hat touches his skull. 1t will take it
off as clean as you can shave it down
to exactly that line, but never hair
below, not if he has been bald fifty
years. The common black stiff hat, as
impervious as sheet iron, retains the
heat and perspiration. The little air.
glands, which bear the same relation to
the hair that the seed wheat does to the
plant above ground, become weak from
the presence of the moisture and heat,
and finally become too weak to sustain
the hair. 1t falls out, and badness ex-
lists. A man with a good head of hair
needs very little protection where the
hair grows. "And yet" he says 1--WE
men wear immensely thick fur caps,
and what amounts to sheet iron hats,
and do not dare step out in chilly at
mosphere moment lest we take cold.
1t is silly. weak, and really a serious
error. The Creator knew what he was
about when he covered mans skull



with hair. 1t has very important
function in protecting the brain. Bald
ness is a serious misfortune. 1t will
never occur in any man who will wear
such a hat as do-a common high
silk hat with five hundred holes through
the top, so that there will be more holes
than hat This costs nothing the hat
ter will do it when you purchase your
hat If the nap be combed back the
wrong way, and if after the holes are
made it be combed the right way, no
one will ever observe the peculiarly.
The hat will wear quite as long-the
hatters say considerably longer-because
it is dry instead Of moist; ill brief,
there is not a single objection to it,
while it will certainly prevent badness,
keep the top of the head cool, and pre-
vent much headache
Year: 1873

Tobias Hobson was the first man in
England that let out hackney horses.
When man came for horse, he was
led into the stable, where there was a
great choice, but he obliged him to take
the horse which stood next to the stable
door: so that every customer was alike
we'll served according to his chance,
from which it became a proverb, when
what ought to be your selection was
forced upon you. to say "Hobson's
choice"
Year: 1873

The following true statement Of
of the case we clip from the Waxa-
hatchie Democrat, of the 9th inst,
and endorse most heartily tho SEN
timent it contains. There are scores
of men in this world who would
not be willing, if left to their own
choice, to live in any country where
creator labor than merely living,
was necessary TO support life. We
trust that our cis- Mississippi ex-
chenges will give the black lie to
all such rumors and charge us with
the responsibilities:


Some fellow who is too lazy to work, and
not able to live an honest life without
work, hiss come out here 10 Texas expect
ing Of conrse, to live on the fat Of the
lard, has become disguised, and writes
back 10 brother in Alabama, telling him
that Texas is not the good country that II
is represented 70 be, and great mess Of
other stuff too preposterous and false to
be credited except by those OF his class,
who would End fault with heaven should
they BY some mistake get there. But the
Joke Of il is, the Montgomery Advertiser
publishes the letter, which shows by thi.
very act that il knows no more about Tex
as than the hog does about holiday. Such
letters will not do any harm to Texas
This is the country Southern people car
find good homes and god lands, and il i
the best poor mans country in the world
Year: 1873

Beaut full child by thy mothers knee,
In thy mystic future, what wilt thou be
A demon Of sin or an angel sublime
poison Upas or innocent rhyme
A spirit Of evil flashing down


With the lurid light Of a fiery crown
Or gliding up with shining tract,
Like a morning star that no'er looks back
Daintiest dreamer that ever smiled,
Which wilG thou be, my beautiful child
Beautiful child in my garden bowers,
Friend of the butterfly, birds and flowers
Pure as the sparkling, chrysialne stream,
Jewels oftruth thy fairy arms beam,
Was there ever a whittier soul than thine
Worshipped by love in mortal shrine
My heart th ou has gladdened for two long years
With the rainbow Of hope thro' mists of tears
Mists teyond which thy sunny smile
With Its halo Of glory beams all tho while.
Beautiful child, to thy look is given
Algleam serene, not Of earth, but heaven
With thy tell tale eyes and prattlng tongue,
Would thou could ever thus be young
Like the liquid strains Of the mocking bird
From stair to hall hy voice is heard,
Now oft in the garden hooks. .thourt found
With flowers thy curly head around
And kneeling beside mo with figures so quaint,
Oh who would not dote on my infant stint
Beautiful child, what thy fate shall be
Perchance is wisely hidden from me
A fallen star thou msy'st leave my side,
And Of sorrow and shame become the bride,
Shiyering, quivoring thro' tho cold sireOt,
With a curse behind and before thy feet
Ashamed to live and afraid to die
No home, no friend, and pitiless sky,
Merciful Father-my brain goes Wild
Obi keep from evil my beautiful child!
Beautiful child, may'st thou soar above,
A warbliDg cherub ofjey and love-
A drep on Eternity's scat,


A blossom on LIES immortal tree,
Floating. flowing ever moro
In the blessed light tf the golden shore,
And as 1 gaze on thy sinless bloom
And thy radiant face they dispel my gloom
l feel He will keep the uodefiled,


A nd His love protect my beautiful child.