smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

together in the cool fragrant dewy dark
ness outside and to be together. To be
arm in arm, TO hear each others vo,ces.
that was all they cared for. There was
no other world for them that night
They were separated from our common
earth by such a swiit-Aowing tide of
deep but unspoken delight. Unspoken
because young affection Is too sacred for
words. First love is born dumb, and
learns speech but slowly. Deep down
in each heart was the rapturous con-
sciousness of loving and of being be-
loved by the other, which is worth \
lifetime Of "a love yoa!''


ftbrimmed each heart with asuiI7cins
delight, even rs flower cup is brimmed
with dew. The sun will drink the dew
up by and by, even as the world will
dry up this fountain Of innocent glad
ness. But the dew has been in the
flower cup and in the girls heart. First
love. whose memory never departs.


The wild rose in her hair was with-
cred when she again stood before her
glass, with flushed cheeks end a new
brightness in her eyes. But she laid IL
AS carefully as young mother might
lay her first born in the cradle-between
two pages of Tennyson, upon a poem
that ne had read to her the day before.
Ii rests there still.


To careless observer, what mattcrs
worn copy of Tennyson with a with
erei wild rose pressed between the
leaves.


But to her II is all that is left, NAV be
OF the purest and tendcrest romance of
girls lite; it is the first gift of her first
lover !-Home Journal.
Year: 1876

Others may come afteA him-otherS
|. usually do coTss af.er him, for seldom is


y none doesshe Ever attach that strSs
Intangible interest, sacred with neg
expressed pathos, which attaches to f.,
first sweetheart. Her memory of hiin
is like faint. delicate perfume which
still clings about the first wild rose of
Summer that he gave her during the
first tete-a-tete walk that they ever took
together in the woods. How well she
remembers it all twas the first Sum-
mer after she left school. 1t was lit
tie out-of-the-way Summer resort where
she was staying with party of friends,
and where he chanccd to come, too
, and, after meeting her, fingered.
She was little futtered to find her
self walking alone with him, quite by
accident. of course, and both tried to
keep a lively and natural conversation,
and as consequence II was perfectly
| absurd, somewhat constrained and alto
gether fragmentary.


Then he saw this rose, the only one
upon bush full of buds that grew close
to the moss-grown trunk Of fallen tree
Just over the source of tiny stream of
water that wound, like tangled thread,
in and out among the trees. He gath
cred and gave il to her, with half shy,
half laughing look-so transparency
conscious in its endeavor TO be conscious,
and with remark intendedto TO be spright.
ly. And she took it, between a blush and
a smile, with swift up-look from eyes
that were busily playing hide-and-seek
under the becoming shelter of long
lashes.


She tucked it in at the waisiband of
her dress, just as she would have done
anv other rose, but how careful she was
not bv anv sudden movementto defow-
er it of its simple circlet of pale pink
leaves!


He does not know-he will never
know-that as soon as she was alone in
her room, with the door locked, she
drew it carefully from her belt and
kissed it daintily, though with repressed
passion, before she exalted it to the po-
sition ofhonor in her pet vase, bit of bi-
; jouferie, Just big enough to hold this one
flower fitlv. and in honor Of il filed
carefully with clear cold water by her
own pretty fresh fingers, as rosily tip
ped as those of Aurora in the act Of
drawing aside the curtains of the dawn.
What was the unspoken compact be-
tween them that caused her, standing
before her glass in her simple white
dress that same evening, TO pose the
flower shyly among the Furnished waves
of her hair


Will she ever forget how his eyes
thanked her, Will she ever forget the
night on which she wore it, Was there
ever another nightike that. Willthere
ever be again.


For her: no. For every girl who has
yet to meet her first lover; yes. There
will be just one such for each girl, but
never another.


Was il the earth she trod on: How
beautiful everything was' As If the
world was just new-made The lights.
the music, the gay chatter, brigh, smiles,
ringing laughter And when she danced
with him she seemed to have wings to
her feet. Then at last they were alone
Year: 1876

The President has in sufficiently polite
phrase told the House to mind its own busi-
ness, and the Country applauds the rebuker.
1t was piece of gross impertinence on the
part of the House to interfere as it did in a
matter solely concerning coordinate branch
of the government, impertinence that called
for much harsher rebuff than it got. The
resolution of inquiry was made solely for par
tisan effect, and has proved to be, like many
other recent Democratic inquiries, of the ma
ture of a boomerang. If precedent can be
any justification President Grant certainly
has justification enough in the conduct of his
predecessors. With two exceptions, Harr-
son and Lincoln, all the Presidents have been
absent from the Capital more or less during
their terms Of office. So long as no Injury to
the public service results it is not clear on
what grounds objection can be made to the
practice. That injury has resulted is an ac-
cusation that even this House cannot bring
itself to put into form, and one which has
no foundation whatever. When it is re-
membered that Washington's proclamation
in regard to the Whisky Insurrection vas
made from Mt. Vernon, that Monticello was
the residence of Jefferson during more than
quarter of his term of Office, that Jackson
signed while in Boston the famous order for
the removal of the deposits, it cannot be
brought as a reproach against Grant that he
passes portion of the hot summer months
by the sea shore, from which ride of few
hours will carry him to the capital.


The House will do well to rebuke some OF
its own notorious absentees before it again
attempts to regulate the discharged the func-
tions of distinct and equal branch of the gov
ernment. Some of the members of
the majority even do not hesitate to
condemn its impudent course and ap-
prove the response of the President.
Reagan of Texas, thinks the message a
proper and dignified reply to an improper in
qiury and valuable as historical paper. Ex-
Gov. Thomas of Maryland, thinks the Demo-
cratic side deserves the rebuke so ad-
mirably administered for permitting the
inquiry to be made. The thoughts of
Blackburn of Kentucky have not yet
been made public. Outside Of the House
the Democracy are divided in sentiment.
The Connecticut Democrats are about to
show their opinion of absentism by sending
to the Senate Mr.. Barnum, the champion
absentee of the country. In Maine the
Democrats have no opportunity to send any
body anywhere, and so can afford to be very
strict in profession. They condemn the
President.
Year: 1876

SOUTH CAROLINA always did lead the
Democracy. 1t does to-day, as witness
this: "South Carolina Democratic papers
urge that the party should not commit itself
to any definite State policy until later in the
campaign, when the Republicans have shown
their hands," This is what the Democrats
all over the country are going TO do, apply
the expectant treatment to the national poll
Year: 1876

JIMMY BLANCHARD appears before the
public once more. This time he does not
personate Charley Ross but horse-thief, and
the Characterization is far more successful
He left Milford suddenly the other day, TAX
ing his departure in team which belonged
TO some one else,
Year: 1876

Taking into consideration the character OF its
vouchers, the history of its cures and the immense
increasing demand, VEGETINE may be fairly en-
titled the leading medicine of the age.


For scrotula in the blood, VEGETINE is an in
tallible remedy, and no person need suffer from
humors, ulcers, and all diseases arising from impure
blood, if VEGETINE is used according to directions.
There is not case Of scrofula in existence that
VEGFTINE will not cure, provided, however, the
vital functions have not lost their power of action,
all that may be SAID to the contrary notwithstanding
fuence and absolute in its action on disease as the
following unquestionable evidence will show.
Year: 1876

The newspaper humorists, bearing in mind
that laughter is akin to tears, have betaken
themselves to writing pathetic sketches"
The result is dreadful, for their pathos is
even worse than their pleasantly.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

ure VI youth, and turned City. Nor is
this all. As his digestion fails him, he
cannot soiaee himself with the delights
Of the table. As strength fsils ham he
cannot keep up his courage in defiance
Of the world's opinion. Often at the
last he has no alternative but to marry
a woman, who IL no sooner his wife,
than she wishes him dead; in order that
she may have his money, or else to sur
round himself with a crowd of hungry
nephews and nices, who almost frora
the day Of their birth, have been taught
10 regard him as their law full prey
On the whole, young men will do well
not to initiate the gallant bachelor. II
they lose. let them marry: II they do
M icse-well, let them hope that they
may Be 50 fortunate a. % d5 50 In good
time. r.- -f
Year: 1876

CHANGED HIS MINp.-A Detroit boy,
alter finishing the last chapter of book
called The Pleasures Of the Deep"
pleaded with his father to let him ship
aboard lake schooner. The old man
smiled grim smile, took the case into
consideration, and in a few days the
boy was on the rolling deep, having
shipped as greenhorn on a vessel in
the lumber trade.


He sailed to Saginaw, came down and
crossed to Toledo, and next day he ap-
peared in Detroit, lame and stiff, his
throat sore, one eye nearly shut, and a
feeling gofhumbIeness running all through
him. az What back again p cried the
old man, as the boy entered the house.
" Yes, father, | want to saw all the
wood for winter, bring in all the coal,
clean out the cellar, and paint the barn,
and You needn't give me but two meals
a day." Don't you like sailing -
" Father, you don't begin to realize any
thing about it. The captain sailed right
along on Sunday, the same as any other
day, and believe he swore even hard
er. He wouldn't give me an umbrella
when il rained, he made me sit up most
all night, and two or three times he
called me up at midnight and made me
haul on ropes and drag old sails around.
There wasn't single night when all OF
US got off to bed at 8 o'clock, and there
wasn't day that he didn't boss US
around and break in on us every time
We got to reading anything good!
like land, father, and l wished you
owned farmr
Year: 1876

We will state for the benefit Of those
persons who are continually growing ut
the style in which this paper has been
run during the past year, that there is
still great deal of vacant government
land in this Territory which needs set
tiers. There is also goodly quantity
over in British Columbia. where home
can be found and the "inilucnce" Of this
journal will never be felt. To those who
do not like the paper on general princi-
pies our gentle voice whispers move
out" and the walking is good this time
Of year-but We cant leave the field of
our usefulness. We have never yet
known a preacher who could deliver a
sermon that would please everybody;
nor have we ever heard Of u school
maam who could give satisfaction to all
her pupils aud their fathers; never knew
of railroad that could be run past every
mans farm and take in all the small
t,wns; never have real OF purely hon.
est government or county official, state
Legislature or congress, nor is it on
record that u nomination for Presi.
dent or any other Office has been made
that would please everybody; doctor,
u lawyer, merchant, tailor, or n mill
ner, that coul,l give satisfaction to all
their patrons. We have never aimed to
make our paper suit anybody, not even
ourselves, and five ever do get out an
issue that gives entire Tor even generaD
satisfaction, We will quit business, and
come to the conclusion we have outlived
our usefulness Now give us another
growl.- Olympia Rcho.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used. ~ -
Year: 1876

The southern people are not able to con-
ceal their enthusiasm over Ben Hills
speech about Andersonvitle. Notwith-
standing all the loud protestations they
have made of loyalty to the Union and
love for the North, their comments show
that they are still unreconstructed in spir-
il, and Hills harangue expressed their
true inwardmess" so perfectly that they
lose sight of all prudential policy, and
throw up their hats with huzzas for Hill
We find the following paragraph IN the
Atlanta letter of the Cincinnati Commercial


Suddenly the Georgians are elated with
Hill. There is nothing like him. The To-
cal press teens with his praise. Even the
remark made some years ago, and which
has weighed him down since, namely, that
he did not intend to be a Democrat" Ii
forgiven, and Hill is the hero OF the hour
That speech will likely make hIm United
States Senator. Norwoods time expires
next wear, and il is more than likely tha
Ben Hill will take his place. He saw hi
opportunity to assure his political future
and he improved II.
Year: 1876

Our Representatives must bear In mind
the fact-when considering the question oil
apportionment-that the census Of Leaven-
worth county, as published in the report OF
the Board of Agriculture for 1875, is utter
ly unreliable. The members of the House
and Senate will all remember that the
worthlessness of this census was demonstra-
ted by the newspapers at the time it was
taken, and that every maf who took the
trouble to look over the lists was able to
name scores Of citizens who had been omit
ted from the enumeration. The actual pop
ulatiou of Leavenworth county, at the time
this partial enumeration was made, was
about thirty-two thousand, while 1t Is
stated in the published report of the Board
at only about twenty-seven thousand.
Year: 1876

We don't believe a word Of it, but never
theless they say that the reason why Leav-
enworth was made to appear in the Agri-
cultural Report as not much of settle
ment. was that the members of the Board
feared their President would lose caste with
the Changers, If it should oe made to ap-
pear that he lived in city. But they
didn't seem to care what became of their
vice-President and Secretary.
Year: 1876

The August number discusses the Next
Phase OF Cath0cy the United statcs predicting for
it career OF usefulness and glory an influence far
reaching and allpevading on American SOIL Hitherto
uueoualed seven in the most triumphant days OF our
holy and venerable mother" Among the conditions aud
Year: 1876

A HAPPY WOMAN Here is something
for the fair sex. A happy woman is
not she the very sparkle and sunshine of
life A woman who is happy because
she can't hep it-whUse smile even the
coldest sprinkle of misfortune cannot
dampen. Men make Il terrible mistake
when they marry for beauty, for talent
Or for style. The sweetest wives are
those who possess the magic secret Of be-
ing contented under any circumstances.
Rich or poor high or low, it makes no
difference the bright little fountain OF
JOY bubbles up just rs musicOlly in their
hearts.
Year: 1876

A DEADLY PRACrICE.--It is a quite
common custom with those who use ker.
oseac lamps, when the light is not need,
ed, and with the idea of saving oil, to
turn down the wick Sufficiently low to
make it smoke, and not low enough to
put ont the flame. The result is the
room Is filled with smoke and the air
poisoned. A case occurred the other
day, in Cayuga county, New York, in
which this practice was nearly fatal in its
result, young lady having gone to sleep
with her lamp thus arranged AMI becn
nearly sutf'oCated. Either allow the wick
to be high enough to burn clear, or else
extinguish the light.
Year: 1876

COR BEINT Mr. Allen the enter.
pri,ing mill proprietor at Fall CITY,,
started out on u journey from that great
metropolis to Seattle ON foot, one day
last week. He left Squak valley, on
Wednesday afternoon, taking the trail
for the Seattle mines, he struck out ON u


double quick, believing that by dint oi
perseverance. he could reach the mines
before dusk But the thick, dark clouds
began to gather and onrken the heavens,
and finally the rain poulel down in tor.
rents. Nothing mltcrng, Mr.. Allen dash
ed on until the dense dgrkncsS buried
everything in the blackncss Of an Egyp-
tinn night. Shortly after he found him
self off the trail among the brush and
windhlls. Unwilling to endure u cold
night in the woods. he set out with the
resolve TO strike the trail but failing to
do SO, he concluded il WAS best to en-.
scOncc himself in some sheltered spot
and wait for daylight, At this juncture
he luckily hit upon a large hollow tree,
and being drcnched with the rain and
chilled with the cold, he crawled in and
there awaited the dawning OF day. Day
light finally came, and his chagrin may
he imagined when be found that in the
darkness he had crawlei into an old tree
which had been burned out, that he WIS
all covered with SCOT from hi' head to
his feet, and that he had camped within
n few feet Of the road which leads direct
to the Seattle mines.
Year: 1876

30, NO, you don't spend money, but
I spend it all" said Mrs. SwipesIto
her husband; "if that's 50, where did
you get money to play pedro and
come to the bosom of your family
stone. blind drunk? Don't deny it,
Swipes, for you know somebody
blackened your eyeglasses the other
day and you was SO drunk you thought
it was midnight and came home with
a lantern in your hand in the middle
of the day"
Year: 1876

BRYANT, CARL SCHURz, BULLOCK,
CARLOS WHITE and others of that ilk
propose to make another effort at an
independent organization. Their ac-
ton seems to disprove the old saying
that "a burnt child breads the fire."
One would suppose that the GREELY
experiment was enough to satisfy
these ambitious men. Ambition or
inherent cussedness prompts the
movement. 1t will not avail. Every
member of the clique that proposes
such an organization has been too in
timately allied with the leaders in
the present system of corruption for
the masses to have any faith in them.
The people have learned by this time
that the only remedy for the abuses
that now exist is to trust the manage
ment of national affairs to the Democ-
racy, which has ever been the only
consistent conservative party. The
masses will not be humbugged any
more, nor will the taxpayers. Under
the present state of political affairs
there should be but two parties, and
there can be but two. The Democra-
cy will cordially welcome to its ranks
all who honestly desire to correct the
alarming abuses that now exist. Let
these self-styled reformers come over
to the Democracy if they desire to
show their sincerity.
Year: 1876

Those two Banquos' ghosts which
the Erpress predicted would attend
the Legislative banquet, brought
along their brother and visited the
Common Council on Thursday eve-
ming. Each bore a banner OH which


was inscribed Board of Public
Works." and as they filed into that
large and elegantly appointed hall,
the Council chamber, there was among
the overworked twelve a shifting of
knees, a chattering of teeth and a vol
ley of silent imprecations which would
have done credit to the pantomime
enacted by the Witch of Endor. In a
little time there were motions and
suggestions and resolutions. One
member thought they ought to table
the communication from the Board;
another found voice to say they ought
to pay no attention to it, and the
May man-thought they
ought to go slow. He regarded the
missile as sort of spring-gun infer
nal machine that might, and if oppor-
tunity offered no doubt would, blow
himself and the overworked body over
which he had the honor to preside,
into smithereens. The advice of his
honor prevailed, and the document
was referred to a committee of the
bravest and most cautious members of
the Council, who will during the week
endeavor to carefully examine the
stranger, and if it is pos
sible to do so with safety to them
selves, find out how it works and re-
port all about it at the next meeting
of the overworked body.
Year: 1876

To note the attitude of the two
branches of Congress on nancy mat
ters of import can but produce feel
ing of regret, not to say disquietude
on the part of thinking men. The OBJ
stinate persistence of the Senate on
the one hand and the House on the
other, the former having a Republican
majority, and the latter being strong
ly Democratic, demonstrates that the
Republican Senate is determined,
with the aid of the administration, to
stand firm In its attitude of defence
which its own rottenness compels it
to assume. 1t has long been hoped,
and indeed anticipated, that at last
we had reached a period when the old
time radical lines of party distinction
would be dropped, and that states
manship exhibited in the positive re-
construction that true patriotism
would prompt, would be the animat-
ing spirit of Congress. But such an
ticipations are driven to the winds, If
the signs of the times are not decep-
tive. Had 1t not been for the pres
ence Of 30 large Democratic element
In the two branches Of Congress, the
cankering sores of corruption would
Year: 1876

have, In their secret way of destruc-
tion, eaten out all the sense of politic-
al honor and patriotism that should
characterize the representatives of
the people of this day. But for this
saving influence the exposures of the
last few months would not have been
made for many day, and the veil
would not for years have been lifted
from the hiding place of high official
turpitude. While we may be thank
full that providentially a gleam of
light has been let in upon the sicken-
ing scene, we can but regard the her.
culean as well as the insidious efforts
of the upper branch of our
national Legislature to renew the
old war cry and again establish the
oppressive distinctions of sectional
and party difference as an evidence of
a sense of guilt and almost a confess
sion of malfeasance, to say the least,
that can but be appreciated by all who
possess the power of thought. The
party IN power is now playing the
lions part, but the indications of the
hour show that when there they fail
they will piece out their disgraceful
disguise by the characteristics of the
fox. They imagine that they have
the means whereby either method can
be adopted, and in view of such warn
ings as come by every flash across the
wires, it becomes every voter of what
ever party to ponder the matter well,
and by his vote demonstrate that he
is capable of distinguishing between
honesty and villainy when exhibited
in social life or within the environs of
political position. Never before have
We as people been SO imperatively
called upon to study and learn to ap-
preciate the value of the elective fran
chise as now. By the closest scrutiny
into the conduct of our officials, wheth-
er high or low, and by adopting such
a course of personal investigation we


will discover the real evil and natu-
rally apply the remedy.