smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

When you are carrying several artl-
ces and one of them slips, it is best
not to try to recover it. An Essex
street man named Roberts was helping
his wife prepare the dinner table on
Sunday, as one of the deacons was to
dine With them. Roberts took plate
of steak in one hand and tho coffec-pot
in the other, and had dish of peas on
the arm with the steak. The wind
blew the dining-room door partly to as
he approached 1t, and putting out his
foot to push it back, the arm with the
peas moved ont of plumb, and the dish
commenced to slide. A cold streak
flew up Roberts spine, and his hair be-
gan to raise, and he felt sudden sick
ness at the stomach, but he lodged
ahead to save the peas, partly caught
them, made u wrong move, lost them
again, jabbed at them with the coffee
pot, upset the steak dish, and in spring





ing back to avoid the gravy stepped on
the cat that belonged to the family
down stairs, and came to the floor in a
heap, with the steak and peas and
terribly mad cat under him, and an
overhowing pot Of scalding coffee on top
of him. Then he bounded up, and
stamped on the steak dish, and picked
up the other dish and threw it out OF
the window, and finished that perform
ance in time to hurl the coflee-pot and
the remaining contents after the cat,
which was making the very best time
down the front stairway. The deacon
didn't stay to dinner. Roberts retired
to the bedroom with.a bottle of sweet
oil and roll of cotton batting, and
Mrs. Roberts went over to Eer moth
er's to cry.-DanbuTy Ne,Os.
Year: 1873

In 1868, Fiddletown considered her q
very pretty woman. She had a quantity
Of light chestnut hair, n good figure, a
dazzling complexion, and II certain
languid grace which passed easily for
gentlewomanliness. She always dressed
becomingly, and in what Fiddletown
accepted as the latest fashion. She had
only two blemishes one of her velvety
ewes, when examined closely. had II
slight cast, and her left cheek bore Il
small scar left by a single drop OF
vitriol happily the only drop OF an en-
tire phial thrown upon her by one OF
her own jealous sex that reached the
pretty face it was intended to mar. But
when the observer had studied the eyes
sufficiently to notice this defect he was
generally incapacitated for criticism, and
even the scar on her cheek was thought
by some to add piquancy to her smile.


The youthful editor of the Fiddletown
Avalanche had said privately that 1T was


can exaggerated dimple." Colonel


Starbottle was instantly reminded OF


the beautifying patches OF the days OF


Queen Anne, but more particularly, sir,


of the blankest beautiful woman, that,


blank you, you ever laid your two blank
eyes upon. A creole woman, sir, in
New Orleans. And this woman had a
scar, line extending, blank me, from
her eye to her blank chin. And this
woman, sir, thrilled you, sir, maddened
you, sir, absolutely sent your blank
soul to perdition with her blank fascina
tions. And one day 1 said to her
Celeste, how in blank did you come b.
that beautiful scar, blank you?' Ant
she said to me, Star, there isn't an
other white man that I'd confide in bu


you, but made that scar myself, pur


posely, did, blank me-. These were


her very words, sir, and perhaps you


think it blank lie, sir, but Ill put up
Year: 1873

THE DIFFIcULTY OF EcoNOMIzINd.-


The real objection of living simply and


cheaply is that one cannot afford it. A
few geniuses can strike out new plans
of life. but most men will find that
more trouble is saved by falling in with
the stream than by struggling against 1t.
The man who tries to divide his ale
gience. to remain in the world without
paving the worlds price for it, will gen.
orally have little reward beyond the tri-
fling satisfaction of a good conscience.
In one sense it may almost be said that
saving comes easier to the poor man
than to his richer neighbor. The CHAINS
with which we are bound are riveted
upon us with terrible strength. Our
bondage cannot be broken by a single
good resolution, or q mere change OF
personal habits. Our families, our re-
latives, and our acquaintances, combine
to force us into the regular groove.
Year: 1873

| NtW orleans IlNhA Nl''l n
In the private album of the chief of
police, where all the celebrated w0mens'
pictures, or "mugs of the Molls," at
tachcd to the rogue's gallery are kept,
there are many striking faces, some
fair, beautiful and proud, others soft
and delicate, others pinched and sharp,
while again are those intellectual and
with thestamp ofrehnement and wealth.
Mollie Waterman's picture is none OF
these. 1t is that of plain, cold
woman, just like that of statue would
be- with her black hair folded back and
bound around her head, while her dress
of rich black is caught by the throat
with Il heavy clasp.


BY her side, with its head in her lap
and its intelligent eyes looking eagerly
into her face, is a black and tan terrier
dog of medium size and with n plain
collar.


A singular picture to see in q gallery
of thieves, yet probably the most sln9u-
lar pair found in the long lines of faces.


Mollie Waterman never stole herself.
She trained her dog Going into store
she selected various costly laces, jew
eIry, etc, and looking at them placed
them back with particular motion OF
her hand, shortly going out OF the
store. The dog remained, and siezing
the article when the showman's back
was turned, made with it to her room,
where it was received by Mollie and
the dog rewarded.


For years she piled this with success,
until one day the dog was caught there
Unhecding of herself she surrendered
imploring for the life Of her favorite.


The pictures of the two were, how
ever. taken together, and then the dog
was killed, the body being inhumanly
thrown into the cell where the woman
lay.


So the police left them but, when
they returned with the morning, she
was found dead, poisoned by her own
hand, lying with her steadfast friend.
There was a rude inquest, OF course,
coroner and joking crowd; but
when the two were tumbled into their
old box, ont into the potters' field, there
were closed out forever two who might
be an example to many loving friends.
Year: 1873

al officials from all parts OF the State who came here
10 aid in the organization OF the Assembly s remain
On town and II is said they have been instructed from
hadouarers not to leave tin the United States Senator
ship settled.


Tho action OF the Senate this evening. Will pecesstae


reat eongatiOn Of their hotel bills ana they are cor
,espondingy indignant. A prominent Republican mem
her was heard to say this evening, that ne believed If
Judge James would enter the race for United States
senator with ConEung wonld stand fair chance Of
beating him even yet. The Democrats would delight TO
aid In accomplishing such o result
Year: 1873

spEAKING of the Modocs, Fort WAYNE


paper calmly says LET every blade of
grass IN the Northwest be watered with


.ae blood ot these treacherous fiends, and
The rivers as they flow down to the ocean
ralty with them the scarlet tidings of a
nation s vengeance, and may it be min
'slea with the CORY stream that flows in
.le veins OF the vascillating shriekers for
peace 10 whom is principally due the
Preparation Of the late horrible butchery.
Year: 1873

In the name of the prophet, fgs In the


name of the workingmen, gas If people
should take seriously all that was said the
other night at Cooper Institute il would COM
pei the recognition that this land Of the free
and home of the brave, instead Of being the
best Of all known countries for the poor man,
is one of the worst-no better than France as
bad as England, equal to China, perhaps. 1t
is not laughable at oil to know that there are


two hundred thousand men in this city with
out occupation; but it is subject for public
congratulation that these two hundred thousand
men stayed away from Cooper Institute and
had not the least little particle Of faith in the
power of twaddle and rant to improve their
condition. Sound sense of that sort is good
growth, and our workingmen are about the
only ones in the world that have it, and with
them it has been acquired through many
disappointing experiences. They finally un-
derstand that whenever q public meeting is
called in the name of the workingmen and
high wages and little labor. and so on, it
simply has no reference to the condition Of
the workingmen, but only means that some
coterie Of agitators wants to be lifted into
prominence and to get the sweet voices of the
people TO put them into Office AS soon as the
aeitators get their Offices there seems to be
ss1.sa:. .:.1.sprovement in all the aspects Of So
Year: 1873

The increase in the national debt through
alarming to the country, appears to frighten
our national fnanciers, whose hobby has
been to pay off the debt with astonishing
rapidity regardless of any other object. 1t is
the opinion Of large number of intelligent
and thoughtful people that this rapid payment
policy of the administration has not been
altogether wise that it has forced on the
citizens of to-day, who had already made
heavy sacrifices in the war for the Union, an
undue share Of the burden left upon the coun-
try after the war, and that it would have been
polite on the part of the government to have
abolishing such taxation as bears most heavily
on the poorer classes and less in the gratifying
exhibition Of decreasing debt. The contrac-
tion constantly going on in the Treasury Depart
ment prior to the last election, for the purpose
of making good financial exhibit on paper
did much to bring about our recent CONNER
cial embarrassment, and we now see the
error of the administration policy in a back
ward movement in our balances. Still the
people are by no means alarmed, however the
Secretary of the Treasury may tremble, at
small increase of our debt at time when
business has received temporary check,
especially as the falling off Of our customs
receipts at least affords gratifying evidence
that we are incurring less foreign indebted
ness and turning the balance Of trade in our
favor.


What the country will object to is the rush
ing back in hot haste to taxation TO meet the
momentary deficiency of the revenues. Mr..
Richardson proposes to restore the duty on
tea and coffee; to raise the tax on
distilled spirits and tobacco: to tax
illuminating gas, and commerce gen.
orally through railroads, steamboats,,
telegraph and insurance companies, the main
hardship of which would be felt by the poorer
classes. There is no necessity for any such
exactions. and CONGRESS will find it by no
Year: 1873

tion Passed by the House.


The House of Representatives, after some
debate in Committee of the Whole, yesterday
passed the bill appropriating four million
dollars for Immediately strengthening the
navy. If the navy is to be properly
strengthened much more than this will
be required; but as it covers the amount
asked for by Secretary Robson, we
may presume that it will be suffi-
cient to put what vessels we at present
possess into condition of seaworthiness and
arm and man them. In spite of all the pro-
tests of the republican members this does not
look very pacific. The unfortunate Mr. Cox,
that New York was at the mercy OF any power
full foreign feet, was raked fore and
aft by the administration guns. Generals of
the late war accused him of bounding people
from the paths OF peace, and other members de-
clared New York impregnable. 1t was mistake
on his part to call the House pusillanimous
except in one sense; for, sooth TO say, the ma
jority would be unit for the most aggressive
war measures if the administration held up
its little finger. They are not afraid of Mr..
Cox, however, and they decided, in series of
speeches, that the President was to be ad-
mired for his policy leading to peace and salts
faction and Mr.. Cox to be derided for what
he had dared to say or not to say on war.
The four million dollars may put the ad-
ministration in position to order a judicious
change of tune, and if the trumpet blast kind
of music be demanded we shall have all the
republican brass in the House practising
buoe calls
Year: 1873

TAMpERING WITH CORRESPONDENCE Nearly
every bad government finds some pretext for
opening letters in the Post Office. In Russia
they open or stop any letter they suspect be-
cause it is their good pleasure, and they do
not need pretext. In Austria, where there
is a glimmering sense Of the rights of the
people, they pretend the necessity Of protect
ing the State. In England they once pre-
tended q police necessity, but it had unfortu-
nate results for the Ministry. From rcsolu-
ton just offered in Congress it would seem that
they pretend in this country that any letter
they may want to peep into is guilty of
smuggling, and on this ground it appears
they may confscate it altogether We hope it
will prove that the stories on this subject are
exaggerated; for we believe il would be better
Year: 1873

SIGNIFICANT ARMY MOVEMENT. have
published accounts, in view of our compiica-
tions with Spain, of the rendezvous at Key
West Of number of our naval vessels We
now learn that an infantry regiment (the Nine
teenth) has been ordered from New Orleans to
the same point, probably with the intention
of garrisoning some of the Florida forts. At
any rate, it is somewhat significant move
ment on the part of the regular infantry. and
may mean something more than appears upon
the surface
Year: 1873

Marshal Bazaine.


With soldiers promptness and soldiers
generosity also President MacAIahon has dis
charged the difficult task which devolved upon
him in the matter of the Bazaine sentence.
The death penalty has been commuted to
twenty years seclusion; and although degra-
dation will take effect the disgraced General
will be spared the humiliating ceremony.
Bazaines life is spared, but his name is dis
honored; and whatever be the result of the
present political neutrality-suspicious. the
Republic is defnitively established or the
Monarchy restored or the Bonapartes re-
called-he is little likely to make any figure
again in the affairs Of France


AS the sentence did not surprise us so neither
has the communication been disappointment
The sentence was no doubt sincere; but severe
as many considered it, it could not be
pronounced unjust. That Bazaine had
violated the military code was clearly
proved at the trial: and the sentence
which the judges pronounced was the sentence
prescribed by law. The recommendation to
mercy SO promptly made by the judges, after
sentence had been passed, did not reflect
the general sentiment of the French people.
But Bazaine, if lie can do France no
more service, can do her no more hurt
cit is not for US to mind state
affairs, but to keep foreigners from fool
ing us''-such were the words of Admiral
Blake when his subordinate officers expressed
dissatisfaction with the advent of Cromwell to
power. They reveal the spirit of the soldier
and the patriot. If such spirit had animated
Bazaine at Metz France would have been
spared this trial and he his present humilia-
tion and permanent disgrace.
Year: 1873

cid and political life. and the workingmsn
can only wonder where the difference ia, a.
they generally do not see it Nobody. there
fore. must suppose from the sayings at the in
ternational meeting that we are threatened
with proletarian revolt; these sayings only
indicate the extravagant eagerness with which
the agitators are disposed to urge their fitness
to serve the people in good offices, with liberal
salaries
Year: 1873

means a thankful task to pile these new bur-


dens unnecessarily on the backs of its constit-
uencies The country is to-day richer and
more prosperous than ever before. but the
people need encouragement and aid, now that
they are getting on their feet again after a
commercial crisis AS money becomes easier
and as values recover from their unnatural
depression, the revenues Of the government
will increase. Meanwhile, until the return
tide of an active commerce, which has already
begun to flow, has acquired its full force, it is
better that small addition should be made
to our debt than that the people should be sub
jected to annoying and burdensome taxation
Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


viii you allow me to state that in the interview
which had with your courteous reporter did
not use the word "transubstantation' at all.
This is technical word, too much misunderstood
TO warrant its use as an equivalent Tor the
doctrine of the real objective presence OF Christ in
the Eucharist as set forth by the Prayer Book and
other standards OF the Anglican Church.


+. @. EVER.
Year: 1873

| defiant barbarism to which the colonial gov
ernment of that island has been reduced, call
for broader and more comprehensive adjust
ment than the restoration of the virginius and
her surviving passengers and crew. Again,
the President in his late annual Message re-
ferred to the obliteration of party lines in our
recent elections, especially in the agricultu-
raj regions He refers to this new political
organization of the farmers oranges, which,
particularly in the West number their members
by hundreds OF thousands They are organ
lied for self-protection against the grinding
exactions of railway monopolies and for the
cheap transportation of the farmers produce
to market; and they have shown that in the
elections of 1874 for the next Congress they
will hold the balance of power as between the
republican and the democratic parties. Again,
while from causes not necessary here to repro
duce the receipts of the Treasury are falling
of and its expenditures and liabilities are in
creasing. the country, with the continuance of
peace. expects retrenchment, instead of in
creased taxation, though prepared for all the
demands of war in defence of the national
honor and the rights of our flag and our citi-
zens and in the discharge Of our duty to our
republican neighbors under the Monroe doc
trine.


These are the living issues of the day upon
which the people look for practical measures
of relief from the present Congress. The
President has thrown the burden off his
shoulders and has indicated the work required
of the two houses 1t is but natural, and it is
perhaps commendable, that they have held it
to be their first duty to rectify, ''as far as pos
sible under the constitution" the offence and
the blunder of that back pay embezzlement.
But, while we have little hope of a satisfactory
reparation, we fear from the confusion of
opinions and the childish pleadings, accusa-
tions and protestations made on this salary
bill, and from the time wasted to no purpose
in its discussion, that the country in it's ex-
pectations of relief from this session of Con-
gress on any of the important subjects we
have suggested is doomed to a bitter dis
appointment. In short, we expect long and
noisy session of Congress, proftless to the
country, except in its consequences to the
demoralized republican party.
Year: 1873

to let all the smuggling that can possibly be
done in letters go undetected and unpunished
than to get the Post Office authorities in the
habit of looking lightly on their obligations
to respect the sacred character of private
correspondence
Year: 1873

OuR MAP OF HAVANA, on another page Of
the HERALD, will be found to convey to our
readers an accurate idea of the topography Of
the Cuban city which is the stronghold of the
Spanish slaveowners. The Notifications are
clearly marked, and our citizens can satisfy
themselves that the capture of Havana would
require some effort-just sufficient to make
the affair interesting. The towing out of the
virginius may suggest that Havana is safe for
the present from being the scene of well
merited chastisement; but the surrender OF the
vessel by no means ends our case.
Year: 1873

can in deep snow. No road needed but a
foot path, but the ground must be descending
and the sugar house near the lower side.


Mr.. Kline says, the secret of making
good sugar is in having everything about the
manufacture clean and sweet" That is 30,
as far as it goes, but find it necessary to
commence boiling as soon as sap enough can
be collected to fill the pan, and boil soon as
possible after the sap runs As we usually
syrup down at night, we let the syrup stand
and settle until morning when we sugar it off
without any trouble. If we get time about
it we sugar of at the house. have investi-
gated modern evaporators somewhat and will
admit they are ahead of the common pan in
making nice sugar. But this reminds me Of
another question. | wish some one expert,
enced would answer. Will il pay for a small
sugar place, and for man whose sole object
in farming is to make it pay, to be to the
expense of setting up the business with all
the modern improvements to carry on busi-
ness he only works at three or four weeks in
year, and have it all left the other eleven
months in the woods to rot and decay. w.
Year: 1873

when everything seems right for 1t, we get
only small quantity, while other years the
sap will run at times when one would almost
think IL impossible, and those who have given
the weather signs most attention are often
deceived. Sometimes the sap will run for
several days without freeze, aud at other
times seemingly as favorable, the AOw will
last only few hours but there are certain
conditions of the atmosphere which are gen.
orally considered as signs in regard 10 the
flow of sap. A thorough thaw at the CON-
mencement Of sugaring is regarded a. pro-
pitious for good sugar season. A storm
either Of rain or snow during the season,
succeeded by a freeze, is more likely to be
followed by good run Of sap than if the
freeze occurs without storm. A sky some.
what clouded is better generally than when
perfectly clear. A freeze from the north ia
favorable, but south wind snow dries up
the sap. The flow of sap seems 10 be caused
by alternate freezing and thawing. It is not
the thd'oiag of the ground, or the trees sim
ply that causes it, else the sap would contin-
ue to run as long as the weather was warm
enough, till the ground was completely thAw.
ed. This ID the case with the sap Of the
birch to large extent, but not with the
maple.


Timothy Wheeler, ESQ, of Waterbury
Center, VI, in an article in the Neu En-
gland Farmer, Oct. 9, 1869, gave the In.
dian rule for determining in advance what
will be the yield of maple sap which he says
he learned a few years before, and had "care-
fully noticed thus far without q failure"
"lt the maple leaves ripen and turn yellow,
and the buds perfect themselves 70 that the
leaves fall of naturally, without frost,
then there will be good flow of sap the
following spring; but if there is hard frost
that kills the leaves and they fall of prema-
turely before the bud is perfected, then We
may look out for a poor yield of sap. In
other words, the flow of sap will be more or
less abundant in proportion to the ripenesS
Of the tree before the frosts of the previous
autumn.


The true Vermonter never loses his taste
for the sweet of the maple. Although in
after years his home may be in the great
city, or on the prairies of the West; or he
may search for wealth in the mines of the
Pacific slope, or sojourn in a foreign land,
yet year by year, when he knows that it
must be early spring in the old homestead,
his thoughts go back to former days, and he
torgets the WEAKNESS and toll, the bitter part
of his early life, and remembers the sweet
alone. Prompted by such thoughts as these,
many letter comes back to the old homes
and many package of maple in solid or
liquid form finds its way from the Green
Mountain State to other climes, as q token
that dear ones far away have still place in
the heart


In land where friends aud kindred are
often scattered far and wide, and where in
the whirl of business the claims of those
near to the heart but out of sight are apt to
be neglected, every thing that will keep
alive the memory of early ties, and show to
absent ones that they are not forgotten,
should be highly valued.


May it long be the mission of the naples
thus to sweetsn the cup of life.