smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Accounts from Japan are not very encour-
aging. The new order of things has been SO
feverish in lis progress that an enormous debt
has suddenly been created, and no adequate
provision has been made for its disposition.
The feudal system produced great rev.
enues to the government and nobility
its abolition revolutionized the whole sys-
TEN of finance and in the chaos
which followed, vast expenditures were
incurred by the Government. Perhaps the ad-
vance made in the introduction Of Western
civilization has been too severe tax on the
resources of the Empire. 1t is certain that the
Japanese have not shown themselves masters
of the science of finance; and the result is a
debt of more than $1OO,OOOOOO, which they do
not know what to do with. 1t is quite possible
that some part of this great Indebtedness is the
work of dishonest public servants. At any rate
it is intimated that the failure of the Finance
Ministers to keep the budget within reason
able limits has 80 incensed the Imperial head
of the Government that they may be invited
to commit kari-kiri. In Japan, to invite a
public official to rip himself up is merely Of
fering him q more genteel way Of getting out
of the world than we give to a murderer
when we hang him.
Year: 1873

With all their tractableness and supposed
childlke and bland behavior, the Chinese
have wills of their own. A company OF
workrnen at the cutlery works in Beaver Falls
Penn, who have given great anguish of mind
to the Caucasian inhabitants of the region,
have actually mutinied because they are
denied the comforts of Opium-smoking
and the recreation of gambling. The
Chinaman does not, as rule,
smoke opium to excess, but he likes it mixed
with his tobacco; and this sometimes leads
to an intemperate use of the drug. 1t would
be a little curious if these Objectionable habits
of the Chinese should send them away from
Pennsylvania after the movement against
them shall have failed. For the aggrieved
Cinnamon declare that they will go back to
their native land if their smoking and gam
bling are interfered with.
Year: 1873

"Here is very difficult department
in my establishment, and would pay
almost any price if l could find man
that | could trust


Says the man whom he addressed


81 know an impracticable sort Of a
fellow think might suit you. He
will stick to what he thinks is ri ght at
all hazards. You cannot turn him
from it by any power on earth"


Says the other man.


81 want a lignum- vitae man; send
him to me.


Let it once be known that a man
cannot be cajoled; that he will not
lie, even for himself; that he will not
steal, and has prejudice against steal
ing; let it be known that he has been
tried, and that there is an inward
principle in him, and let us put him
up at auction, and will bid a million
on him.
Year: 1873

She rose from her untroubled sleep,


And put away her soft brown hair,
And, in tone as low and deep


AS loves first whisper, breathed prayer
Her snow-white hands together pressed,


Her blue eyes sheltered in the lid,
The folded linen Oil her breast


Just swelling with the charms it hid
And from her long and flowing dress


Escaped bare and slender foot,
Whose shape upon the earth did press


Like new snowflake, white and mute,
And there from slumber, pure and sweet,


Like young spirit fresh from heaven,
She bowed her slight and graceful form,


And humbly prayer to be forgiven.
0 God, if souls unsoiled as these


Need daily mercy from Thy throne
If she upon her bended kness-


Our loveliest and purest one
She with her face 30 clear and bright
We deem her some stray child of light
If she, with those soft eyes in tears,
Day after day in her first years,
Must kneel and pray for grace from Thee,
What far, far deeper need have We?
How hardly, if she win not heaven,
Will our wild errors be forgotten
Year: 1873

Did you ever see woman under
take to saw wood? 1t is always a
little before dinner, when the pies
won't bake, and the potatoes absolute
ly refuse to come to a boiling point
and the only stick of wood is exactly
three inches too long. After vain at
tempts to prove the elasticity of mat
ter by putting two-foot three-inch
stick into a two-foot stove, she goes
out to the saw,horse, puts her knees
on the refractory stick in the very
way she had seen some men do. But
the edges Of the wood are sharp, and,
she takes it down again with a grow
ing disregard for appearances, puts
her foot Oh instead. Her hair never
fails to come down at this juncture,
and she has to stop and twist it into
a tight knot behind before beginning tc
saw. Here the saw commences a
frantic jumping and skiping on its
own account, and the feminine mind
being concentrated upon keeping up
the foot that is up, and down the foot
that should be down. until, in an un-
lucky moment, the center of gravity is
lost, the stick flies up, launches blow
at her nose just as somebody is going
by. She stops and pretends to be
looking for something, while dark
thoughts of divorce and separation
flash through her mind, and she VOWS
IN her innocent soul that she will nev-
er attempt to saw wood again if there
never is any dinner. But her pride
and her dinner are at stake, and all her
native obstinacy comes to the surface;
she will conquer that stick or die.
Fired by new fury, she succeeds in
saving two-thirds of the way through,
and breaking off the rest of tit is a
rotten rail-she goes into the house
to find the potatoes boiled dry, and
the PIE in a state of sudden uncertain
ty. The children come home from
school, and the husband from his shop,
and find kind of hushed solemnity
in the air and no pie for dinner. The
meridinal meal is eaten in silence and
bitterness of heart, and then the wife
of his bosom inquiries if she is expect


ed to take care of the stable and feed
the pigs, as well as saw wood. The
man says: "Hang it all, forgot" and
the woman drops her sarcasm and
breaks down in the declaration that
she n-v-e-r will do 1T again, new
er; but she will; she will do it to


morrow and the next day, and the
day after, for one of the things that
woman never will learn is that she can
not saw wood. .-DanJury Ne,cs.
Year: 1873

The people Of this Valley are alive to
the necessity of the establishment Of rails
road communication with the ocean.
The season, just closing. has demonstra-
ted that with ordinary exertion our farm
ers can have at their command every
year a very large surplus of product to
dispose Of, for which . market must be
sought away from home. To show
plainly to those abroad in what this DEM
onstration consists would in many in
stances subject us to the charge of being
over Jealous to give our chosen home a
character on paper which in reality can
notbe sustained, or Of being the dupe
of others, if not of downright prevar-
ication. for the proofs we would be COM
PEELED to introduce no doubt would ap
pear those who have not been eye wit
nesaes to the facts long way in advance
of the truth. Possibly they might be
treated as irony Of the most caustic
character. But be this as it may; We
say generally, as evidence Of the extra
ordinary fertility Of the soil in the sec
ton of our country of the accounts given
in the papers of the enormous yield Of
grain tho present season, that the halt
has not been told What might be the re-
suit where the certainty of . market
would beget increased exertion can only
be the subject of conjecture. A proper
and sensible conclusion can only be
reached by calculation. If surplus of
100000 bushels of grain is produced
with only dim prospect of 40 cents per
bushel, how much of surplus, think
you, could be produced if there was
certain prospect Of double that remu-
neration?


To bring the point nearer home to
those interested, and having an eye to
the future, we ask this simple question
Would it be better for those who have a
surplus of 6 1000 bushels of grain to do
nate one-half of this quantity to be ap-
piled in the construction of a railroad
and thereby be enabled to obtain a mar
ket for the other half at double rates, or
dispose of it now and hereafter at homo
at bankrupt prices?


In our way of thinking it would be q
money making investment to give the
entire surplus product of the present
season, and certainly better than to fail
to secure the advantages so much need :
ed for the future. The means of reach
ing market is absolutely indispensable.
A market We want market is the cry
on all sides. We can produce, but where
is our market? If there be market,
what avails it since it cannot be reached
to our advantage? What encourage
ment is there to produce or to labor since
the product of labor is met with the
chilling responses of our present sur
rouniings?


From our standpoint these are the
thoughts that occur to our mind. While
We have alluded to only one depart
of industry, the points made will apply
with but little alteration with equal
force to oyery other department in
our midst. We cannot afford to turn a
deaf ear to our Seattle friends, or stretch
out to them an empty hand. Their
Year: 1873

cause is the establishment of q railroad
from Seattle to this place is our cause
We must in this project be Of ono mind
and the same judgment. If it fails it
will be because We neglect our own in
terests. We have the pecuniary ability.
It is Just what We want. 1t will be the
means of obtaining fair remuneration
for our labor. 1t will increase the
industries. wealth, population. and,
more than all else, insure the de-
velepement of our highly favored
Valley. Is this believed by our people?
Let us all think and we shall Lave no
fear of the consequent action of any.
All we lack is inclination. Timidity
and fear may be mistaken for discretion
and sound judgment. Losses and dis
tresses elsewhere growing out Of aid
given to railroad enterprises can only
amount to experience by which We nay
be governed where circumstances are
the same. No man should, under any
circumstance, voluntarily SO place HIM
self as to prevent his successful exertion
for the support of those dependant up
on him. Because this has occurred in
the past in relation to railroad projects,
the alarm is sounded. This Is the sheer
est nonsense. Let every one consult
his present ability; and from absolute
knowlege glue or INCEST at once, and not
depend upon the contingencies and mere
hopes Of the future to cancel his prom
ises and obligations. Thus he is safe.
None need mortgage his future efforts.
When thus viewed and acted upon, the
phantoms that have been by some con-
jured up, will vanish and the way n.ads
clear by which the aid required to push
forward this great enterprise can be
be assured. And when completed, and
we are brought near by this communi-
cation to the Pacific Ocean we can re-
joice in the dawn of an era of great
prosperity for this Eden of the Pacific
coast Real Estate Record.
Year: 1873

INCLUDING the heavy cost Of the
bridge over Wolf river, the average cost
per mile Of thegraduation Of the Raleigh
narrow-gauge road is less than two thou
sand dollars. This sum is trifing when
coutrasted with the cost Of grading most
Year: 1873

Blissful Ignorance in the District Attor-


ney's OEce-Rumor that Woodwa ard is


ReturninE-Inge ers0ll and Harrington


To Go to Sing Sing To-Day.


There were no new developments yesterday rel
ative to the "Ring" cases but 1t is now announced
that the trial Of Harry Genet Is the next in order
and that he will be arrsigned when Judge Davis
again presldes In the Oyer and Terminer Mr.
Genet has not as yet been informed by the District
Attorney officially as to when his case will be
called. However. ne says ne is ready at anv time
and the District Attorney can suit his own con.
venience in fixing the day OF the trial.


IL was rumored during the day that Norton and
Walsh had fed to parts unknown, but the report
turned out to be groundless.


Considerable curiosity is manifested by the
politicians in relation to the expected arrival or
one OF the magrates OF the old Ring from Europe
who, some people say, Will tell a tale OF the days
that are gone that will make many OF the present
reformers, democratic and republican alike, feel
very uncomfortable. 1t Is stated that this in
dividual Is no less person than Woodward, and
that arrangements have been made by which he
will be protected against persecution II he gives
the kind OF information the authorities think he
can. The District Attorney and his assistants
affect to know nothing about this matter; rather,
Ring reguiees Is expected home soon they, refuse
TO make any answer at all. Meanwhile the de-
tectlves in the employ OF the District Attorney
continue to watch the movements OF the indicted
parties in the city, and the witnesses who are ex-
pected TO testify In each case.


Ingers0ll and harrington are to be taken to Sing
Sing to-day, at half-past ten O'Clock.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, Dec. !, 1873.


In No. a of the Supreme Court docket, Lozere
Rocheron al. from the Supreme Court of Louisiana,
the plaintiff in error expelled from New Orleans
after its capture by the military force and not per-
nitted to return. Subsequently proceedings were had
against his property pursuant TO notice by publication to
him appear and defend and in default appearance
a decree OF conhscaton passed Since the
Lozere sued claiming that his property could
not legally be condemned in his absence under such
circumstances; but the state Court sustained
ment was rendered against him. THAT judg-
ment here reversed, the Court holding that il is
contrary to the paines principles of and justice
that any should be condemned to his person
property without opportunity to be heard He could
not return, and published notice 10 him .
idle form which he could not law ully obey He
had no legal right in his absence 10 appoint agent
ceedngs against his property were void and nopera-
tive Mr. Justice Swayne delivered the opinion of the
Court Lozere before the Clerk the
Supreme Court Of the State


In No. los the Manhattan Life Insurance Com
pany Francisco from the Circuit Court for California
the Supreme Court anfrm judgment recovered below
against the company on q contract of insurance the
life of the husband Of the defendant in The in
sured died after the application before the delivery of
the policy ana the defence that he concealed the
fact OF disease when the application made. The
writ maintain that the Court erred in its
rulings the evidence and in the instructions to the
ury that they to determine whether the party
sufierng seated disease when insured or was
ject only to asona indsposiion Mr. Justice Strong
delivered the opinion.
Year: 1873




r A. southmayd VS. Francis O'Keefe.-The defendant
leased Of the plaintiff the basement OF building in West
street. and few weeks before the expiration of the
lease applied to hire the premises another year
Plaintiff alleges that he told defendant then he expected
70 rent the upper part Of the building person
would probably want the cellar, but about two weeks
afterwards, having concluded arrangement the
upper part without the cellar he the defendant
that be could have for another The defendant
said he would keep it and paid for months
der the new lease but after that he removed
ne premises and refused to pay any further rent and
tnts action IS brought 92s3
OF the year The deend tesei the painti
told him be was expecting rent the to aperson
who would also want the basement he engaged another
place. and denies that he subsequently told the plaintiff
ne would Keep the premises another year He did not
get moved into bis quarters until three
after ne expiration Of the year and he then went
paintn and offered 10 pay Tor the time he had occupied
the place but the plaintiff said he should hold him for
years rent The Court charged the Jury that ii they
found, from the evidence. that made
As alleged by Mr.. soufhmayd they would find a verdict
Ior the plaintiff for the full amount clamed but should
they believe the dctendants statement then they would
give the plaintiff such compensation they thought
proper TOR the time TIE defendant actually occupied The
,0r the full amount claimed.
Year: 1873

Two Men Arrested ON Suspicion OF


Completely in the River Piracy Case.


Officer John J. Doyle of the Harbor Police on Sunday
night last arrested young named william Car
roll and William Duggan suspected of being concerned
in the late piraca outrage in the bay They were locked
up in the First precinct station house all night and
broug on board the brig Mattano yesterday morning
The wife Captain Connauton thought she recognized
one Of the men, but was not certain They were
on, the affidavit q Officer Doyle they Were
and the mate OF brig will appear and give their ev
dencc Both the prisoners claim that they know noth
ing the that they able TO prove by
several people that they in the Fourth ward al the
time the robbery committed.
Year: 1873

reporter went the rounds yesterday to inves-
tigate the rumor that the "Boss,m ex-senator
Tweed, had shuffled on this mortal coil. A visit to
the island and an interview with Commissioner
Bowen and superintendent Kellogg disclosed the
TACT that big Sxv still lives, and the very first
expression ne made on leaving his cell yesterday
morning was, Il shall yet live to outride this OPP
pOsitiOn.U
Year: 1873

Before Judge Van Brunt.


The suit OF John Brown against the city for $9337 for
paving regulating curbing and gutterng Tenth
from Manhattan street l55th street. tried yeser
day in Court For the city it claimed that the
Street Commissioner had authority to make a con-
tract except TO pave aud regulate therefore that the
contract was void and the city liable II
tended the other hand that under the 1872
commissioner had been appointed examine into the
contract and had reported the same as having been en-
tered into honestly therefore, that the claim
just A motion made TO dismiss the complaint,
the had been argued at learned length by
Recorder Smith side and Mr.. John 4. Develn
the other, the granted.
Year: 1873

In the life of the good man there
is an Indian summer, more beauti-
full than that of the seasons, richer,
SUMMER, and more sublime than the
most glorious Indian summer which
the world knows-it is the Indian
summer of the soul. When the
glow of youth has departed, when


the warmth of middle age is gone,
and the buds and blossoms Of spring
are changing to sere and yellow
leaf, the mind OF the good man,
still ripe and vigorous, relaxes its
labors, and the memories of well
spent life gush forth from their Sc
cret fountains, enriching, rejoicing,
and fertilizing; then the trustful
resignation Of the Christian sheds
around q sweet and holy warmth
and the soul, assuming heavenly
luster, is no longer restricted to the
narrow confines of business, but
scars far beyond the winter of hoary
age, and dwells peacefully, and hap
PLY upon that spring and summer
which await him within the gates
of Paradise, evermore. Let as
strive for and look trustingly for
ward to an Indian summer like this.
Year: 1873

Did you ever watch two men on
q wood pile, one with an axe and
the other withoutl The man with
the axe selects knotty block to
split. He commences upon it with
great force, while the other stands
quietly by aiding him by gritting
his teeth, making faces, wrinkling
his mouth, and such other ways as
nature inpels him to. Finally, the
man with the axe becomes exhaus-
ted and seats himself on a block Of
wood, and engages in devotional
exercise in the interest Of the faith
er of the "brimstone" kingdom.
The other then picks up the axe
and "goes in" with q vengence ne
cessary to sever as he supposes, the
tenacious parts, while the other re-
turns the aid which he received.
But he, too, grows weary and gives
up the task, but not until he has
appealed to the Ruler Of the uni
verse several times for assistance,
in eternally damning the cause Of
his overworked physic. The other
then sadly resumes the task, and
after an unsuccessful effort to sever
it, concludes that it will make good
wood for the fireplace.
Year: 1873

Bring them up in the way they
should go.


Give them a good substantial,
common school education.


Teach them how to cook a good
meal of victuals.


Teach them how to wash and
iron clothes.


Teach them how to darn stock
ings and sew on buttons.


Teach them to make their own
dresses.


Teach them to make shirts.


Teach them to make bread.


Teach them all the mysteries of
kitchen, the dining-room and the
parlor.


Teach them that dollar is only
a hundred cents.


Teach them the more they live
within their income, the more they
will save.


Teach them that the further
they live beyond their income, the
nearer they get to the poor-house.
Teach them to wear calico dress
es, and do it like queen.


Teach them that a good, round
rosy romp is worth fifty delicate
consumptives.


Teach them to wear thick, warm
shoes.


Teach them to do the marketing
for the family. .- .ttn


Teach them to foot up store bills.
Teach them that God made them
in his own image, and that no
amount of tight lacing will inn
prove the model.


Teach them every day, hard,
practical common sense.


Teach them self-reliance.


Teach them that good, steady,
greasy machanic, without a cent, is
worth a dozen oil-pated loafers in
broadcloth.


Teach them to have nothing to
do with intemperate and dessolute
young men.


Teach them to climb apple-trees,
go fishing, cultivate q garden,
drive road team or farm wagon.


Teach them the accomplishments
music, drawing, painting-il
you have time and money to do il
with.


Teach them not to use paint OF
powder.


Teach them not to wear false
hair.
Year: 1873

Teach them to say no, and mean
it ; or yes and stick to it. -


Teach them to regard the morals,
not the money Of the beaux.


Teach them the essentials Of life
truth, honesty, uprightness-
then at o suitable time let them
marry.


Rely upon it, that upon your
teaching depends in q great mes-
sure the veal or woe Of their after
life.