smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

been looking for you all the morning.
l want to give YOU a small donation in
cash.


He tried his best to look me in tho
face. but he could not. He was con.
fused, ashamed and vexed, even though
he was making money out Of it. As I
released his hand to get my wallet. he
skunk away, and after long search I
found him seated on the wreck Of Q ca.
nal boat eating n decaved orange and
wearing q disconsolate look. Standing
on the bridge I called to him:


Baxter! Baxter! I've collected some
money for YOU to buy another COW
with"


He threw away the orange, muttered
something that sounded like 'kussim,'
and hurried off down the tow path.


As an experiment it was we'll worth
seventy five cents.
Year: 1876

but when she shock hands with him
under the oak, she felt herself trem.
bic.


= We are both alone said he. sLet
us keep each other company Then he
bowed her to the seat FROM which he
bad arisen and sat down beside her.
rs After that the FIRST question be asked
her WAS
Have ron been to the postofice ?
She said Yes
so have l. said he. win you read
my note


He placed it in her hand. It was a
duplicate of the one she had received
These foolish children have been
playing us trick said she; well, We
can laugh at it.


I don't feel much like laughing he
replied. we have been two very fool
ish people. think word on either
side might have mended it years ago
l will say my word now. I love you
yet; will you forgive me and be my
wife 2
| People would laugh So said she.


we will laugh, too said he


Come, Rosa, say yes.'
| When he called her Rosa it sudden.
ly struck her how long it was since she


had been called BY her Christian name
and she began to cry. Then he gave
her his arm; and they walked away
into the shadows; and they are to be
married this evening. and the fair post.
Office and your joke did it, girls.


And they were married, and nobody
laughed but a few sillies, and who
minded them?
Year: 1876

A few days ago, says an exchange, the
"fifteen young ladies problem" was
printed in this column. It is as follows


In school of fifteen girls rule has
been laid down that they shall walk out
every day in each week in rows OF threes,
but that the same two girls shall never
come together twice il the same row.
The rule is supposed to have been car
ried out correctly during the six work
ing days of the week, but when the time
comes for their going to church together
on Sunday it is found to be absolutely
impossible to continue it any further.
Can the rule have been carried out cor
rectly during the six days2 .


A correspondent Whites that twenty
years ago he spent many hours over this
problem, convinced that it must be CO.
pable of solution, but had to "give it
up" He propourded it to several per-
sons and received two solutions of it,
one of which is given below. Our cor
respondent believes there are many solu-
tions to it, for the fifteen young ladies,
while continuing to observe the condi-
tions OF walking once daily for a week
in rows of three without any two per-
sons walking together twice, may, by a
system of weekly exchanges, arrange
themselves 80 that the rows OF three
shall be composed Of different combina-
tions of individuals each succeeding
week for long time. The solution sent
is as follows
Year: 1876

Illustrating the presence Of mind
which peopl proverbi lily possess at
time OF fire, the case may be mentioned
Of lady member of a certain English
opera troupe, who was rudely aroused
from her slumhers the other night in
the Gardner House, Chicago, when the
hotel was in danger of destruction.
Hastily rising from her couch she donned
her velvet cioak, as bcing at once the
most valuable and comfortable article of
apparel at hand. Then she started to
put on her stockings, but missing one of
them she was obliged to leave the task
half finished. Drawing on her slippers,
she fed into the hall and down to the
lower floor, where she waited with the
numerous other shivering females until
the fire was qucnched, when sue returned
to her apartment, her foot that had no
stocking on being sadly chilled. Greatly
to her astonishment she discovered
while leisurely disrobing that the stock
ing which she had supposed to be miss
ing was very carefully and neatly drawn
over its ate. And now the Gardner
House boarders are never tired Of
wondering audibly what has become of
that provoking stocking.
Year: 1876

Christi. But he was unconscious OF all
around him; the sight of my face had
brought the last pang of earth to his
troubled spirit. ! kissed hie brow, and
told him how dear he had been to me.
I craved his pardon for my unfaithful-
ness, and promised him to care for his
widow and his fatherless little ones; but
his only reply, murmured as if in a
troubled dream, was Touch not
mine annointed, and do my prophets no
harm"


I stayed by him all night, and at
daybreak I closed bis eyes.


II offered his widow house to live
in the remainder of her days but like
a heroine, she said 4 freely forgive
you; but my children, who entered
deeply into their fathers anguish, shall
never see me so regardless OF bis memory
as to take anything from those who
caused it. He had left US all with his
covenant God, and He will care for us.


"Well, sir, those dying words sounded
in my ears from that coffin, and from
that grave. When I slept, Christ stood
before my; dream, saying: Touch not
mine annointed, do my prophets no
harm These words followed me till I
fully realized the esteem in which CHRIST
holds those men who have given up al!
for his sake; and I vowed to love them
evermore for his sake, even If they are
not perfect.


''And since that day, sir, I.have talked
less than before, and have supported
my pastor, even if he is not a very e1-
traordinary man. My tongue shall
cleave to the roof of my mouth, and my
right hand forget her cunning, before I
dare to put asunder what God has join
ed together. When ministers work is
done in place, I believe God will show
it to him. I will not join you, sir, in
the scheme that brought you here and,
moreover, if I hear another word of this
from your lips, I shall ask the brethren
to deal with you as with one who causes
divisions.


81 would give all own to recall what
1 did thirty years ago.


"Stop where you are, and pray God if
perchance the thought OF your heart
may be forgiv en- you"


This decided reply put an end to the
newcomers efforts to get a minister who
could make more of q stir. There is
often great power in the little word
"no;" )" but sometimes it requires not a
little courage to speak it so resolutely
as did the silent deacon CAristian
Messenger.
Year: 1876

The perilous adventures which the
early pioneers encountered, and which
even now our Western settlers are
familiar with to some extent, are well
illustrated in the following incident in
the life OF Miss Cooper, sister Of Mis-
souri, settler, recently deceased. This
adventure occurred about the year 1915:


Just at daybreak the settlement was
alarmed by an attack Of Indians, and it
was only by the utmost bravery and
daring that they we're retained in check
long enough to allow the families to rush
inside the fort for safety. Once within
the wall they held thesavages at defiance
for time only.


On consultation it was decided that
the whites could resist but short time
the attack of the Indians and, in order
to secure aid, q courier must be sent to
the Kincaid fort, almost Immediately
opposite, and about ton miles from the
place in which they were surrounded.
There were but few m"n, and it was
too hazardous trip to think Of send
ing q woman. What to do they knew
not.


But delay was dangerous; every mo:
ment was fraught with peril, and had it
not been for the heroism Of Miss emil
lie" Cooper, in all probability thes
would have all perished. She stepped
calmly forward and bade them bring her
q favorite horse belonging to the family,
and with the tears and prayers of her
imperiled friends, rode forth on her no.
BILE mission. As she dashed out OF the
inclosure the murderous Indians let fly
shower of arrows, and with blood
trickling down her horses sides, she
fairly few from danger.


In short time she arrived at the Kin
caid fort and related her story. Re-
enlorcements were sent out immediate;
.ly, and before the dinner hour the ras-
caliy redskins were routed and the set
tiers saved. The noble bravery Of the
young girl won her name that was not
soon forgotten.
Year: 1876




Next to faith in God is faith in labor.


While We are reasoning concerning
life, life is gone.


All men would be masters OF others,
and no man is lord Of himself.


He enjoys much who is thankful for
little. A grateful mind isa great mind.


A guilty conscience is like whirl-
pool, drawing in all to itself which
would otherwise pass by.


Whoever appears to have much cum
ming has in reality very little being de-
ficient in the essential article, which is,
to hide cunning.


It is hard to soy which of the two we
ought most to lament-the unhappy
man who sinks under the sense of dis
honor, or him who survives it.


No man oppresses thee, o free and in,
dependent franchiser But does not
this stupid porter pot oppress thees No
son of Adam can bid thee come or 60
but this absurd pot of heavy wet-this
can and does. Thou art the thrall, not
of Cedric the Saxon, but of thy own
brutal appetites, and this soured dish
of liquor. And thou pratest Of thy
"liberty," thou entire blockhead.
Year: 1876

Three reasons are assigned why many
farmers do not get pay for keeping their
hens. One is the failure to supply a
sufficient amount of suitable food and
water; another may be found in their
neglect to secure the eggs which are
laid and to sell the chickens early in the
season, when they will command good
price; while the third is the general
neglect to provide a suitable place for
the comfort and convenience OF the
hens.
Year: 1876

SoWn on the grasses proper III spring. on
clover in autumn for spring-SoWn wheat is
the very best of2,l fertilizers and the richer
the land the greater the quantity that can
be applied with the prospect OF being profit
able.


All soil, are formed from disintcgrated
rocks and organic matter. OF the latter.
soils contain from one to more than seventy
per cent: it is, however, only in bogs or
beds peat chat the amount last named is
ever present. The best wheat lands contain
only from four to six per cent. of organic
matter: oats and rye will grow in soils con-
tanning only one OF two. THE intelligent
farmer should endcavor to ascertain what is
wanting in the soil and supply 1t, remember
ing that he can make no possible mistake
with barn-yard manure; let HIM apply it
where he will, it can only make the soil
richer; lime, however, should ONLY be given
land rich in organic matter, Livery farmer
should understand at least the rudmcnts Of
chemistry; and only a slight acquaintance
Of geology would teach him that the gran
ite rocks and states Indicate that the noun
tains cannot be far, with abundance of pure
water, deep sod, mineral wealth, good stone
and valuabls timber. That a great extent
Of limestone will give fair promise of a fer
tile soif, where the grasses and grain will
flourish, and the orchards will be crowned


with flowers and bend with their weight of
fruit--that the hills Will abound in crystal


waterfalls and the wales in hidden rivers.-
j. AZ. n. in dwcric032 Stock Joauwal.
Year: 1876

TIE WEDDING notice by our
Eastern exchanges that the Metho-
dist ministers of Baltimore have
been agitating the question of pro-
hitting the use of tobacco by young
men who are candidates for the min
istry and those who are already in
the sacred calling. Now, tobacco is
a much maligned and abused plant.
We don't mean to defend it, but we
submit that since its discovery in
American soil and its introduction
into civilized society by Sir Walter
Raleigh, the world has been constant
y growing better in its practices


The world was in former times, and
is still, addicted to much worse habits
than indulging in the soothing effects
OF its fumes. 1t has been a solace
to thousands in their hours of vexa-
ton or despondency, and who knows
what it may have saved them from
by calming their agitation down from
the verge of despair. We know not
whether any important effects u pom
the intellect are to be traced to the
Indian weed. We do know that phi.
losophers like Newton, poets like
Scott and Tennyson, and scholars,
statesmen and soldiers of high re-
nown, have found aid and comfort in
its genial influences. Perhaps its
use is not to be recommended to the
rising or declining generation, and
certain it is that excess in this as in
everything else is to be scrupulousIy
avoided. But we really hope that
no theological or political crusade
will be made against a practice of
which the worst that can be positive
" said is, that it is offensive to many
of those who do n OF indulge in it.
Year: 1876

NAN OUT OF WORK ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.


Charles d. Orton aged twenty years, belonging in
Lswrcnccve, Pa, attempted suicide yesterday by
taking morphine He was found suffering from the
ELECTS by the Church street police and sent to Belle
Hospital. Inability procure work is the cause
assigned by tho would be suicide for the act.
Year: 1876

The disposition of the Governor in re-
gard to the Chief Justice vacancy has be-
come more matter of doubt. There is
a certainty chat he has decided not to make
an appointment at present, and the tend
ency to delay is construed to mean that he
is not convinced of the propriety of ap-
pointing Mi. Comegys. There is, GER
tainly, an earnest opposition TO Mr.. Com
eggs amongst Democrats, especially in the
lower counties, on the ground that he is
not party man, and has not vote since
1868. This they hold to be strong reason
against him, and many of them say that
they would prefer Mr.. Smithers, who is
party man. though Republican, to one
who belongs to neither side. They do not
take the view that a person so free from
party tics is more likely to make an entirely
fair judge The friends OF Judge Wootten,
not to cay the Judge himself, are bitterly
disappointed at the course taken by the
Messrs. Bayard in recommending Mr. Com
eggs. They say Judge Wootten had been,
for many years, the staunch friend Of the
Bayards, representing their political des-
Tres in Sussex when no one else could be
got to do so, and they think this desertion
of him almost without excuse.
Year: 1876

ACCIDENT.-An accident occur red on Main street last Thursday which should be a warning to al boys who are in the habit of run hing after and trying to jump on moving vehicles. AS one of our heaviest freight trains, with trail wagons, was moving down the street, a boy aged about six or seven years, tried to get in be- tween the main wagon and the first trail wagon, to get ride, but missed his hold and fell between the wagons and was run over by the wheels. He was picked up and carried to his home, when Dr. Arnaba was called, who after examination found that no bones were broken, though the Doctor fears there may be some internal injuries. At this writing howev' CT, the boy is getting along well.

 with every prospect of speedy re- covery. It is miraculous that the boy was not instantly crushed to
Year: 1876

SOME of the boys around town seem to feel 8 little sore yet about the result of the horse race that we noticed in our last. That is not the part of philosophy boys. Better luck next time. Never cry over spilled milk. Or better still, keep away from 8 horse race, like we do, and then you can't lose. Do you mind that now?
Year: 1876

Prof. Owen is quoted as saying, before
the Ahthropological Society of London,
that the brain of man is more complex
in its organization than the brain of in
ferior animals; it is more subject TO in
jury, and more liable to experience the
want of perfect development; that in.
stances of idiocy occur among all races
of mankind, and that extreme smallness
of the skull indicates want of intellect
approaching to idiocy. Alluding to the
attempts that have been made to find a
link Of connection between man and apes,
he remarked that IL was possible that an
idiot with an imperfectly developed
brain might wander into some cave, and
die, and in two or three years his bones
might be covered with mud, or imbed-
ded in stalagmite, and, when discovered,
such skull might be adduced as afford
ing the long-looked-for link connecting
man with the inferior animals. He ex-
presses the opinion that the difference in
question is altogether too wide to be
bridged over by the skull Of any crea.
ture yet discovered.
Year: 1876

Special telegram to Inter Ocean: "A
most cewardly and seemingly inexplica-
ble murder was committed four miles
south of this city. Shortly after mid
night Moritze Look, a German, we'll
known, and in good circumstances, was
shot in his bed without the knowledge
of his wife, who was sleeping with him,
or any member of the household. The
testimony is all confined to the family,
which consists of Mrs. Look, two hired
men, and three young children. Mrs.
Look says she was awakened by her
husband throwing his arms violently
about him. Upon lighting lamp she
found the bed saturated with blood
pouring from wound above Looks ear.
He was unable to speak coherently, and
is now failing rapidly, with no chance
of recovery. The bureau drawers were
open, and the contents in state of con-
fusion, and the front door standing
open. Look is said to have quite sum
of money in the house. A mysterious
feature of the affair is, that no person
i'm the house was aroused by the report
of the pistol, and the perpetrator sue
ceeding in committing the deed without
even arousing dog, which was in the
house. The family lived on good terms
with the exception of Look and his
brother, between whom there was hos
tility. Mrs. Look converses upon the
subject without emotion. Altogether
there is a chance for some startling de
velopments. Looks pocket-book, con
tanning a small sum of money, is th'
only property missing.
Year: 1876

Notice what? Notice anything that is
done by others to contribute to your
benefit or happiness. Nothing comes
more ungracious than the passing over,
without remark, and apparently without
thought, the thousand and one little
efforts and attentions which are intended
to sweeten domestic life.


Ingratitude and Indifference sometimes
mar the character of women; but are
far more frequently observable, we think,
in man. A husband returns from his
business at evening. During his absence
and throughout the livelong day, the
wife has been busy, with mind and
with hands, preparing some little sur
prise, some unexpected pleasure, to make
the home more attractive than ever. He
enters seemingly seeing no more Of what
has been done to please him than If he
were blind man, and has nothing more
to say about 1t than If he were dumb.
Many loving wife has borne in her
heart an abiding sorrow, day after day,
from causes like this, until, in process OF
time, the fire and enthusiasm of her
original nature have burned out, and
mutual indifference spreads Its pail over
a household.


Often, we think generally, inattention
to little acts of thoughtfulness and con-
sideration result from q mere habit OF
carelessness; but in its effect upon the
happiness of q family, 1t is a most un-
fortunate habit A few words of thanks,
of appreciative recognition, are easily
spoken, and such words are precious TO
the soul that hungers for them. They
are highly prized and not soon forgotten.


Take notice of what Is done for you
Words of merited praise and thanks ex
ert a kindly and beneficial influence up
on both listener and speaker. Graft
tude unexpressed seems TO others to b
\ unfelt.
Year: 1876

followed the sad cortege moved her wo-
manly heart, and the tears of the wife
were shed in pity for the victims of the
husbands fatal plot. On reaching her
hotel the Inspector of Police called upon
her, and from his lips she first heard the
awful story of Thomas crime. For a
while, she says, she was unable to realize
or comprehend what she had heard. In
state of stupor she asked the official to
repeat it again, and in the subsequent
examination to which she was submitted
she had barely strength to answer the
questions put to her. On asking to see
her husband the officials at first de-
INJURED, and afterward agreed to an in
terview only in the presence OF witness
es, and with the understanding that all
conversation should be carried on in
German, with which language, Mrs.
Thomas says, her husband was quite un-
familiar. It was only when he was
speechless, and at the point of death,
that she was permitted to see him. In
large room in the hospital, whittier he
had been taken, Thomas lay. His
breath came hard and labored, and his
whole frame trembled convulsively when
his wife was led up to the bedside. His
eyes fixed upon her face look Of recOg.
milton, and when the doctors inquired If
he knew her he pressed her hand tightly
and strove, but in vain, to speak. For
a few moments Mrs. Thomas was allowed
to remain by the dying man, and soon
after she was led away he breathed his
last. Then began a series Of examina-
tsA,o hxy both ~ Of anH nnrinns
persons of no official standing, coupled
with suggestions from the German press
which the American residents felt called
upon to resent until, wearied by this
kind of persecution, and longing to Sc
cure retirement from the unenviable
publicity into which she had been
brought, Mrs. Thomas came to America.


At present she is residing in New
York with her four children, from whom
she has sedulously concealed the knOwl-
edge of their fathers crime and death.
Left utterly penniless in her widow
hood, it was only by the munifcence of
the American residents in Germany that
she was enabled to pay the expenses OF
the voyage, and she is now without any
resources whatever A lady friend OF
hers, who met her ON the Continent and
keenly appreciates the position of wo-
man of refinement such as Mrs. Thomas
is, exposed to penury after life of afilu-
ence, has suggested tue propriety of max
ing public appeal for sympathy, as the
Americans on the Continent did, in or
der to enable the widow and mother to
support the little ones whom she shrinks
from intrusting to an eleemosynary in.
institution.
Year: 1876

The possibility of this seems to he
shown by Mrs. Kemble, in this extract
from her "reminiscences in the atlantic:


/ habitually read while combing and
brushing my hair at night, and though
made no use of my looking-glass while
thus employed, having my eyes fixed on
my book, sat for purposes OF general
convenience at my toilet table in front
of the mirror. While engrossed in my
book it has frequently happened to me
accidentally to raise my eyes and sud-
denly to fix them on my own image i'm
the glass, when feeling of startled sur
prise, as il / had not known was there
and did not Immediately recognize my
own reflection, would cause me to remain
looking at myself, the intentness with
which / did so increasing as the face ap-
peared to me not my own; and under
this curious fascination my countenance
has altered. becoming gradually so dread
full, so much more dreadful in expression
than any human face ever saw or could
describe, while it was next to impossible
for me to turn my eyes away from the
hideous vision confronting me, that l
have felt more than once that unless by
the strongest effort of will / Immediately
averted my head. ] should certainly be-
come insane. Of course / was myself a
party te this strange fascination of ter.
ror, and must, no doubt, have exercised
some power Of volition in the assump'
tion OF the expression that my face grad
ually presented, and which was in no
sense distortion or grimace, but terri
BILE look suggestive of despair and desper
ate wickedness, the memory of which
even now afiectsme painfully. But though
in some measure voluntary, ] do no
think was conscious at the time tha
the process was SO; and have neve
been able TO determine the precise natur,
of this nervous affection, which, begin
ming thus in startled feeling of suddei
surprise, went on to such climax of fas
ciEated terror.