smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Till recenfly wefhad buta faint idea of the real boyer of remorse. One day last week we went down the shepaug road with family on the move. Among the movables were two cats in baskets, and very melodious movables they proved to be. The oldest and biggest. in particular. seemed positive that his last day had come. He had 2 boy to carry his basket. and to lift the lid and let him look out on the peaceful scenery of the valley. but nothing would reassure him. Every time the Shepaug gave a lurch he would burst out into vail as if all the the souls of all the editors who have belied that road were confined in tais one beast. We have no- ticed want of confidence in the Shepaug railroad in others, but nothing to equal the want of confidence displayed by that cat. His trip all the. way to Romford, where he was removed to the baggage car out of regard to the nerves of his fellow passengers. was one continuous outpour- ing of Remorse. One could not but know what the old fellows life had been from his voice. which was as the voice of lost soul in torment. Plainly he was an ortho- dox cat. He had no doubt of future of cruel, everlasting punishment for just such cats as he felt himself 10 be. He seemed wicked deacon of strict denom- ination of cats, who had broken all the commandments ke knew, and then lied about it. Now that he felt himself face co face with death his agonized soul gave horrible expression to its remorse. The most awakening appeal of the revivalist Sankey was iog-trot psalm compared with the narrowing agony of that half hours uninterrupted song. Occasionally it would snbside into a moan, as of one grieving over his past life. We could al- most distinguish his promises that if he eyer got out of that car alive he would al. ways leave one young robin alive when he robbed e nest, that the next chipmunk he canght he would kill outright, and not torment itfor an hour. ''So help him Be- elzebub r.. He seemed to VOW reparation to half brother, whose name we couldn't catch and whose ear he had chawed of, all about a female of half their years who did not care a rag ten cent piece for either of them. Then grind of the car wheels. threatening instant death, would draw from his inmost soul such diabolic shriek of torture as would startle the very brakenien at either end of the car, and the remorse would glare out of pair of eyes from under the basket lid. flaming dimly, like two candles with long wicks in the daytime. The other cat was a younger and less demonstrative animal. No doubt she had led less sinful life. Once m while she added sympathetic note to her companions melody, but it lacked the earnestness which gave such force to the exercises of the principal performer.

 We cannot help wondering whether. when the old fellow reached his destina. ton. and found he had escaped alive, his expeience on the Shepaug railroad would really influence his subsequent career. Will he really give up his life of cruelty and hypocrisy as he seemed to promise. stop chawing his brethren of the same denom. ination, and intoning long prayers under strange windows 1? '-'''
Year: 1875

Crick' of the back or neck and lame back are readily cured by bathing freely in with Renne's Pain-killing Magic O1i. It Is clean safe and delicious to use. Be sure and get the genuine. Sold by all druggists.
Year: 1875

The announcement of the death of Miss Laura Collins. of Milton, will carry sad ness to many hearts. The writer of this was her Pastor for . number of years and had frequent and abundant occasion tobe grateful for her kindness. With in- dastry. good judgment, sterling common sense and true benovolence. Miss Collins united an unobtrusive piety that made all who came within her presence respect and leve her. The family circle from, which ahs has been taken and the church xill Mias her greatly. but we verily believe Heaven has gained all that earth has lost.

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Year: 1875

Under this head Church and State
defends Mr.. Beecher for preaching and
proposing to go on preaching in the
future. We quote:


It's thought that as soon as the
charges were preferred against him he
should have left the pull pit. and that
he should certainly leave it if the jury
finds him guilty. But that would be
giving the charges weight which Mr..
Beecher was neither disposed to do,
nor his friends disposed to have him.
1t may have been no case of bravado at
all. 1t may be resolved into plain
refusal not to yield, and to give no show
OF yielding, to what any man has a
right to disregard and spurn who is
consciously innocent. We are not
prejudicing this case at all so far as
hlr. Beecher's guilt or innocence is
concerned, but only considering it from
his point of view and the possibility of
it. And what we say is that if he is
consciously innocent he has done we'll
to retain his place and his conerega-
ton, and he will do well to retain them
as long as 5000 people will go to hear
him.


Anybody can see that if Mr.. Beecher
had left his pulpit, it would have been
locked upon by multitudes as a tacit
admission of guilt We do not think
he is called upon to shape his course
at the instance of trial by public opin-
ion. or trial by newspaper, or trial by
jury, or trial by anything else, if be is
conscious to himself that these facts
are one way when they decide another.
If his congregation leaves him, that is
one thing; but if he is consciously
preaching out truthful and pure soul,
there is little likelihood of it's leaving
him or that public opinion will smother
him.


A vast subterranean cave was dis
covered on Sunday, six miles from
Sandusky, Ohio. -Four men explored
it for 400 feet. They found a singu-
lar formation Of quartz, gr ante, etc,
discovered petrifeation alleged to be
man OF immense size, and fossilized
parts OF animals. The rock is lime
stone A subterranean lake Of soft
water was also found The discovery
creates great excitement. A mammoth
cave has also been discovered at Bed
ford Ind. A party recently went
down distance Of seventy feet, and
then al incline of thirty feet, and
found themselves in a chamber eighty
by one hundred and fifty feet in area,
and one hundred feot high. An en-
trance. into another apartment was
blocked up, but thorough exploration
is soon to be made.
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier.J Journal writes from Fort Sully,
Dakota Territory: Indoors was i'm
possible, without an invitation to the
Indian grass dance. The something to
breathe, seemingly beyond the usual in
Dakota deliciousness, called all but the
hardened in laziness to early walks.
Immediately after guard-mounting the
walkers beyond the ravines saw the gay
colors of the after dancers, coming in
twos and threes up the valley, winding
through the ravines and hurrying across
the plain on both sides Of the fort,
wrapped in blankets, with bundles OF
what afterward proved to have been the
lighter coquetries Of sdornment. II was
a spring-like suggestion the number Of
green blankets gave. 1t was about
noon when the whole party had collected
under the windows of the headquarters
Just ontside the stockade. on the sunny
side of the fort. The ladies OF the post
had seats in the windows looking down
on the bright, sunny, changing scene.
There we're thirty dancers and drum.
The sitting circle or the moving group
we're particularly pretty in the variety Of
light colors worn--there was almost too
much grace Of color and too careful ar
rangement of effect TO answer the usual
notion of wild Indians. Whenever one
is looking at a number ofpeople who are
striving tor his entertainment. he singles
out one or two who answer to him for the
greater part of the interest be may 6nd


he bets on one. Swift Wing held the
FIRST place in the admiration of the
white-faced audience. A buck, q
dandy of the first rank, Of the grave
kind. The dandyism was in his colors
and the disposition Of them; the gravity
in his demeanor. Swift Wings legs were
bare but for the bright yellow paint that
covered them; thus far, he seemed gol.
oNen god. He wore less color on his face
than any other dancer, merely rosy illu
mi nation on bis upper face. His tunio
was purple--ia pleasant harmony with
his yellow legs. Ages ago, Mile Anna
Thill,,n wore purple aud yellow. The
arrangement, the variety, and the quality
of the feathers worn by Swift Wing were
in character with his pretensions to the
starship in the morning entertainment
A. neat, ,ligd graceful form, and face that
W, rs remarkable for the beauty of its nose,
AMI singular for tue white.man expression
of c countenance Of looking off-not to see
anyt hing, but because his thoughts we're
far oiy-beyond the time Of his people,
past or future. All that he did was with
q certain air Of Inconsistencies, He
sat more than be danced but when he
danced no one looked at any one else in
the movement. The second in interest
in this Oak ota morning merry making
was to me unnamed, bat he was indefa'
tigahle-at every drum call he was on
his feet, too eager to be esteemed. He
was interesting in his gladiatorially
developed physique; and his legs were
bare, covered by stove blacking, ! think,
his face a mask Of green paint, with a
black stripe across the eyes. He was
eccentric where all was abundantly
arrange" .rI ag
Year: 1875

Pie is the bane Of the American
household, the lurking devil Of the cup.
board. 1t beguiles childhood by seduct-
i've appeals to the uneducated palate,
and by gradually vitiating the taste it
becomes a cherished weakness of the
adult, in the end, if adhered to, Danish.
ing all the peace and joy Of the head,
heart and stomach. OF mince pie q
close observer has not inaptly said
Moist and indigestible at the bottom
fiaky and indigestible on top, with un.
told horrors between" Other pie has
the excrucisting characteristics of mince,
with difference in degree OF the hor-
rors deftly hidden between the upper and
neither crusts And this concentrated
dyspepsia is carried everywhere. The
poor child is allowed by thoughtless
parents to take pie to school and MUNICH
II SIX times q day, thus darkeniDg its
whois future. Married couples become
sour and morose, aud at last separate.
They pronounce the cause imeompati-
bility of temper. They are wrong; it
is pie. Promising homes are broken
up the young man goes out into
the world in anger and the old man 8
curse follows him. Pie again on both
sides. What an absurdity for a refor-
mer who carries 10 bis shrunken face
the distorting tel-tale marks Of pie to
rave about narcotics and stimulants.
Eradicate the imp of the larder and
there will be one less influence at work
to drive young men to seek the imp
which lies in the bottle. Let Us have a
genuine cookery reform.
Year: 1875

The London Globe says: Professor
TyndalPs laborious address to the British
Association may be readily summed up
by the simple restatement of a very old


argument. An egg contains all the
material pecesSary to form a chick. 1t
holds also, for time at least, the force


requisite to construct the animals out Of
its component elements. The only thing
needed is to set the formative process in
action by the application Of another form
Of force or motion called heat. But this
last must be supplied from without. The
sum Of Professor Tyndall's researches is
precisely analogous. He finds in matter


the promise and potency of every form
and quality of life, Just as the naturalist
and the organic chemist find the organic
materialsof chick, and the promise
and potency to form one, within the egg.
she'll. But neither the philosopher nor
the experimentalist can &c one step
beyond the facts. They are wholly
unable to explain the something from
without, in whose absence neither an
egg full nor world Of life can be called
into palpable existence. This is the
point'at which philosophy again arrives
Year: 1875

the old point at which it has been
arriving by various paths ever since the
first effort to penetrate an inscrutable
mystery. The Egyptians symbolized
the difficulty, and their inability to sur
mount it, by offering the mysterious egg
reverently TO their gods. They laid the
unsolved problem Of the finite at the feet
Of the Infinite. Professor Tyndall and
the British Association might learn wis.
dom, without humiliation, from the an
cient idolators and emulate their not
ignoble submission"
Year: 1875

medium-no matter how much

 you may lnflate-there will always

 be those who will not be troubled

 with ! super-abundance of the

 filthy lucre;" and there will al

 ways be sections of the country

 where improper management and extravagant modes of living will make hard times. The amount of money in circulation has less to do with "hard times" and scarcity of money, than poor man agement and reckless extrava- gance. In the east money is plenty because they manage to draw 1t to that section from all parts of the country. In the west it is scarce because we send it all east for articles which we can and ought to produce and manufacture.

 Imitation is no remedy for this. As to the matter of rag-money currency, it is one of the finest circulating mediums we have ever had. The legal tender bills are lighter, more conveniently hand led, and in all respects preferable to the heavier and more bulky specie, so far as convenience in handling is concerned. The only difficulty is to make it approxi- mate the par value---to make it as good as gold and silver. If there is any chang to be made, and if there is really any deficit in the amount of the circulating medium, let the boarded millions of bonds which are owned by rich men and rich interpretations and which are lying idle and exempt from taxa tion, be called in and green backs be issued in their place. And then let all sections of the country which are complaining of dearth of currency go to work and devel- op their latent capacities for drawing a flow of currency to their regions. If they wilb do this and couple herewith steady habits, industry and frugal living and dress, we predict the com plaint of hard times, and the cry for imitation will soon cease.
Year: 1875

The great boat race which took place at Lake Saratoga on the 18th instant, in which the crews of thirteen colleges participated, has been won by the Cornell crew, of New York.

 The time over the course which was three miles long, was 16m. 234s. The Columbia came next, being two lengths behind; while the old crews of Harvard and Yale were respectively third and sixth, the Harvard being two lengths behind the Columbia, and the Yale four lengths behind the Harvard.

 The New York Herald with the same indomitable and pleasing enterprise by which the public was furnished almost an eye-sight of the shooting match at Dolly mount, gives map showing the race course and the position of each boat during the race, and the attitude of each at the close of the contest.

 Next to being an eye witness to the contest the unparalled enter prise of the Herald, by its graph ic description and its illustrations by the science of instantaneous photography, gives it's readers the most precise conception of the race which it is possible to ob- tain.
Year: 1875

From the howl some papers are raising about imitation and rag money currency, we might be led to believe that return to specie payment was the sole panacea for all our ills, and that the land would revel in wealth and luxury with the adoption ofthis measure. Contraction and imitation are now the hobbies of political parties and would-be demagogues. The defeat or success of great parties is now predicted from the attitude they assume on this issue. It is made the issue-unwisely and unnecessarily-on which rival political parties enter campaigns and stake their chances of success. It seems to us that there is too much fuss made about so small a matter. It is all smoke and no fire, and we see no cause to be alarmed. From the best indica- tions we can see the supply of currency is ample to meet the wants of the country. It cannot be from any actual deficit in the aggregate bulk of our circulating medium that causes hard times and apparent poverty in certain sections of the country.

 We opine that no matter how large the bulk of our circulating
Year: 1875

Perseverance is not deserving of blame or praise, as it is merely the continuance of tastes and feel ings which we can neither create nor destroy.

 A man may occasionally kiss the wrong woman by mistake, but when he makes a practice of it, the right woman finds it out, and that's what bothers.

 "Why, Jennie, you look good enough to eat said a loving hus- band to his wife one morning at breakfast. Well, I'm eating as fast as l can, ain't l?'

 It is said that the bite of @ young lady will produce hydro phobia, but the young fellows dangling over the gates O nights are as reckless as ever.

 Dr. Hall says people should not spring out of bed the moment they awaken. And we agree with the doctom In these cases a late spling is always desirable.

 The boy, who ran away from school to "go asidng all alone" and caught himself in the lip, says he's got enough of fishing on, his own hook.
Year: 1875

The National Board of Trade have adopted a resolution by a vote of nearly five to one, calling upon Congress to adopt some practical measures to pave the way for the execution of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments on January lst 1879. It is worthy of note by those who affect to believe that the West is wholly in favor of expansion, and a permanent, ire deemable paper currency, that this resolution was moved by a delegate from Milwaukee. The fact that, while we have named a day for resuming specie payments, we are taking no adequate steps to enable us to do so, strikes the National Board of Trade, as it would any body of sensible busi- ness men, as matter of serious concern, and their recommends. ton that action be taken upon the subject is one that will meet hearty concurrence FIX.
Year: 1875

For many years our people have been so foolish as to neglect their wheat crops and pay heavy freights on their breadstuffs which have been supplied by St. Louis and Chicago. This in one of the best grain countries known, as this years crop fully demonstrates. Not only have they been foolish it this respect but also in the no less important matter of failing to provide their own meat and bacon. Meat is next to bread. These are the two great essentials, and up- on a plentiful supply of them, at a small cost to the consumer, de- ponds to an almost total extent the welfare and happiness of the people. If any people can just be blessed with good, just, econom- ical government, and have plenty of wholesome bread and meat at cheap figures, they will prosper and grow rich, if they try, no mat ter if they have the luxuries of 1 life or not.

 This year our people have been wise and acted sensibly in that they have made an abundant crop of wheat. We also have every reason to expect a fine corn crop.

 Wheat is already made and harvested and few more weeks with shower or two, we will make plenty of corn. We are safe on the score of the most plentiful and the cheapest supply of breadstuff we have ever had. We have been wise in this one thing, and shall we not be wise in another the next in importance, the matter of our meat? Our people are notorious for their meat eat ing capacity. We eat too much meat, but we will eat it, and had we better not commence at once in this matter as we have in the matter of our bread, and make 1t at home? Almost the entire bulk of bacon that is consumed in Ark ansas-and the quantity is enor- mous-is shipped from the St. Louis, Cincinnatti and Chicago markens, and costs on an average sixteen cents per pound. We pay sufficient transportation on our meat to supply our tables with thousand delicacies to which we are almost entire strangers un- der our present system of living. Our county is kept drained of money, and we live after the very hardest manner. This may be one of the great causes of the dearth of currency at the South.

 Will our people not make the resolution now, and once for all, to be wiser in this respect. We can make our meat for one half of what it costs us to ship it here; and it will be better, cleaner. and sweeter.
Year: 1875

The TeXarkaua Democrat gives the Texas offenders against the law to understand that they cannot escape justice by skipping across the line into Arkansas, as neither the state or municipal of fcers will take coguizance of any captures of such characters made on the Arkansas side of the line. This is right.
Year: 1875

The Ozark Banner urges up- on our next Legislature the i'm portance of passing . "dog law"

 The Banner is right about it; we have too many worthless CUTS, and if people will keep them let them pay for the privilege.
Year: 1875

One who has never travelled upon the
ocean expects to find it somewhat thickly
populated. He thinks of the vast travel
and traffic that goes over the waters, and
he is ready to imagine that the great deep
is alive with this hurrying to aud fro Of
nations. He reads Of lands whose com
merce whitens every sea, and be is ready
to think that the ocean itself is as full Of
sails as the barbor Of some mighty metrop-
oils. But he finds his mistake. As lie
leaves the land, the ships begin to disap
pear us he goes on his way they soon all
vanish, and there is nothing about him but
the blue sea and the bended sky. Some.
times he may meet or overtake solitary
ship through the day; but then, again,
there will be many days when not single
sail will cross the ocean. There are spaces
measured by thousands of miles over which
no ship has ever passed. The idea Of a
nations commerce whitening every sea is
the widest fancy. If all the ships that
ever have been built were brought togeth-
er in single feet, they would fill but a


hands breath Of the ocean. The space,


therefore, that man and his works occupy
on the sea is so small in its extent that
the hold on it by its power is slight and
superficial. Both together are as nothing.
The ocean covers three-fourths of the
surface of the globe; and by far the grea-
ter portion of this vast expanse is, and
ever has been, entirely free from his
presence and visitation.
Year: 1875

Df JAAta H. nifTtNhANNHs
nh mother you talk Of the bright blooming flowers,
Of The sunlight 80 pure fashing over the vale,
Ofthe rainbow, the child OF the soit summer shower
And the snowfall OF blossoms when sure by the


gale.


You tell Of the beauty that Turks In the wildwood,
When clad In its mantle of dark sober green
Ofthe beauty Of orchards when Spring IN her child
Flrst spreads reads her bright smile over winters dull


scene,


You talk OF the gems on the br9w Of the morning,
When the blaze Of Apollo strikes full on the earth;
Of the stars with their brightness the midnight


adorning


Which you say like the beaeons oil Heaven shine


forth.


You tell Of the birds hear all the day singing.
You tell me Of flowers purple, crimson and green,
But naught do you tell 10 my eager mind bringing
one single Idea OF what such words mean.
hear of the mist which hangs over the mountain
When touched by the sun Al the dawning OF day;
OF the moonlight that shines ON the g'ish OF the


fountain.


And the splendor Of nature where catarActs play
l hear Of proud Art and its wondrops reyealings,
Hut what mean the words unto him who Is blind
The minister's high dome and the halls fretted cell


ings.


And the paintings and statues within them confined?
Rich hangings and vases and walls highly painted
In the town where the rich man to fashion con-
How in thinking Of all my poor fancy has fainted
Oh talk 10 me not in such meaningless terms
How the heart ofihe blind boy would leap up with


pleasure


IfGod would but give him an hour to trace
All the beauties he hears of-above all the treasure
He'd find In his dear mothers beautiful face,
q Father Of mercies o Father Of klndneSs
Hear thy poor creature who prays for but this:
Grant me a moments release from my blindness
It were an eternity brimful Of bliss.
FRA Rock, Nay iah, 1915