smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Is particularly American in these must noon.
py prominent place. In painting and scunt-
ure tnere IS no reason why we should NOT 10
representedD by the very best specimens of recent
work. IfParis will not send us bronzes can ,,.
not show that We are not altogether deficient
In the cunning conceit.work that has made
France so famous? We have mu,h besides
giant squashes and machinery and model
schoolhouses TO show to the world as eviden-
ces OF our social and political condition, An
these must be brought together aud exhibited
under the brightest aspects. The American
department Of the Philadelphia Exhibition
must tell in language more eloquent than
words the story OF the growth and progress of
both country people in the century that Ia
passed.


All this is giant work, and it must not be
lett altogether to Philadelphia, The whole
country has as much interest in the Centeu-
NAL Exhibition as the Quaker City. Every
part OF the country must assist in the enter
prise. Congress must take the lead and the
State Legislatures follow. A plan should be
matured that will be comprehensive enough
for grand national and international fair
By whom the plan is devised, whether II il
left to Philadelphia or brought forward under
national auspices, makes little difference SO
long as it meets the requirements of the case
and comports with the dignity of the occa-
sion. Tue Vienna Exposition will teach us
many things for the management of our own,
and when the Philadelphia Commission, now
IN Vienna, returns, its return cannot fail to
be to the advantage of the Centennial. As
the latest OF the great expositions the Vienna
Exposition is full of lessons to be learned
both in the way OF merits TO be initiated anu
faults to be avoided. Tue no ding Of great
fairs at which all the nations of the earth
come to exhibit the best of what they have
to show is no easy matter, and the success Of
the Centennial Exhibition makes it desirable
that we should learn all that we can from the
experience of others as well as 90 to work
with universal will to make it worthy of the
American people and the American Republic.
Year: 1873

A NEW JEAN VALJEAN CAsE.-A curl
Gus case was lately brought before one of the
French tribunals. Eighteen years ago a
young man named Eripe was condemned in
continuation to ten years penal seryitude
for forgery and embezzlement committed In
Paris. He had misappropriated some 1000
francs, but he voluntarily confessed his guilt
q few days afterwards, making restitution at
the same time of the sum which still re-
manned in his hands. The manager of the
office IL which he was employed, who enter
tanned u excellent opinion of him, was anx-
ious to hush the matter up, but the police in
sisted upon his prosecution. Eripe avoided
arrest and EN- listed in cavalry regiment un-
der the name OF Lemaitre, a former school
fellow. He ser Sed for three years and bore
the best of char seters. but being offered
clerkship in the Aisne, he deserted. The
real Lemaitre was arrested on TINS eharge,
but he had no difficulty III proving his inn0-
cence, and Erpe was again condemned in
continuation to ten years hard labor for
usurping a name which did not belong to
to him. He, in the meanwhile, had been
gaining the esteem of his employer, at whose
instance he contracted a marriage under the
name of Lemaitre, by which he was still
known. His wife died soon after their mar
riage. but her parents were so much attached





erty, and obtained for him more valuable
appointment IN mandatory at FisInes.


Here he made second marriage, which
also proved to be happy one, and he seemed
on the high road to fortune. One day, while
he was talking with the station master on the
platform, train arrived, the engine driver of
which happened to be the Lemaitre, who recog-
nized Erpe and denounced him to the police.
He was at once arrested, and it is needless to
say that the matter created immense excite
ment in the district. He was arraigned upon
the charge of forgery, but he did not attempt
to deny his identity, and he very wisely based
his defense on the ground that he had lived
honestly since the commission OF his first
iault. eighteen years ago, asserting what was
the literal truth, that he could not have dis
continued the use of the nane under which
ne had enlisted without betraying himself
He moreover begged the court to remember
that in two years time he would have been
able TO plead the statute of limitations, and
his case was strengthened by the presence OF
his second wife and her family, who entreated
the court to take a lenient view of his conduct.
A petition was signed by more than ], 200 in
habitants of Fimses, who bore testimony to
his excellent character, and the jury returned
verdict of acquittal, which was received
with loud and unchecked applause.
Year: 1873

Ask the draft rioters who over 100 strong and who
checkmated by the said Mccarthy, with about
Is and driven from their hcish work that saved
to this city amount Of taxation that could not be
fathomed.


FROM a UNION MAN OF THE THIRTEENTH WARD.
Year: 1873

THE LAW RESPECTING BILLS OF LADING.


A suit by Henry b. Collins and others
against John Burnes and many others, was summariy.
though only temporarily closed by Judge Van Worst,
Yesterday the Superior Court The action brought
TO recover the value Of four Of merchandise
signed to the plaiutfs dry goods merchants Broad
way whose firm name was "Collins Plumber Co.," and
sent through the Cunard steamer line. OF the cases.
only two were received The defense that the goods
were received and unOaded the wharf and after
naming longer time than they reasonably ought they
we're delivered 70 somebody who returned q receipt In
the firms name in the usual way The defendants put


in with this part OF the defense the clause in the bill Of
ladlng which stated that the goods should be lost In
any way the Company was not responsible, AS the
facts ON each side substantially conceded, there
was no question Of fact for the jury and Judge Van
Vorst directed verdict for the pantf for $1,000 the
exceptions 10 be the General Term IN the first
Instance Brown, Hall, and Vanderpoe for the plaih
tiff; ID. ID. Lloyd for defendant. . ... ...
Year: 1873

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.


SIR: find by numerous experimental trials
that che done by the nest steam engines, WITH
pound OF coal can dOub ed and half the fuel now
burned IN producing steam power saved, by using the
immense of latent heat that escapes Ia exhaust
steam TO produce power. The exhaust from any
style of engine be taken IN pipe 20 an adjoining
building If desired; ana there USED TO heat boiler and
drive d second engine Whca Will do as much WORK as Is
done frst from which the exhaust Is taken, with
out diminishing the work Of the first engine or re-
qurug any additional fuel 70 itthus using the heat
twice and producing two results instead Of one:


The Haskins Machine Company OF t1tchourg, MASS
have been running their works tins plan for the past
year They the exhaust from an engine that drives
The works OF negbbOr TO heat their boiler and drive
their eugine. and NO fuel whatever Others have
been pursuing similar course for shorter time: Every
establishment using lOOhOrso power and allowing the
exhaust escape into the atmosphere is wasting from
$, 200 tO s. 900 per annUm. ... -.


The process by which these results are obtained Is
very simple and free from danger The second boiler -
filled mainly with the bsuphide OF carbon instead Of
water. TINS fluid bOilS at lower temperature than
water and the heat OF exhaust steam bOls IT and con
Yerts il into yapOr giving pressure OF 90 pounds TO the
inch This vapOr works engine the same as steam,
and after II In the engine is condensed by cool
ing usually with atmospheric condenser and pumped


into boiler again and used continuously without l0ss
except by leakage which Is very small. VIII cheer
fully furuish detailed description OF this process
~ Who desire It and advise OF the fact You're


SpT1fsGfteEd w., May 20 1873. JOEL A. h. ELLLs
Year: 1873

This detention causes much inconvenience
the White Star steamers which, without incentive OF
being mail carriers have fifteen occasions reached
NeWYork in advance of the mail steamer sailing on the
day, on six occasions have arrived two days In
advance and on six occasions over day while the press
weekly acknowledge the favor OF the latest news
furnished by the White Star management


The public are not concerned IN any petty rivalry be-
tween two great companies, which ought TO be above
such feeling, but In the one quest0n-the expedition OF
mail matter The White star line is ready to guarantee
this beyond all reasonable doubt in the future with but
exception 1t can be easily understood that loss or
such magnitude as that of the Atlantic should cause
some embarrassment in a regular service. To change
the mil would serious inconvenience, seeing
petition TO the White Star steamers the City OF Brussels
is laid up for repairs II the mails were 70 De gwen 70
town materially in advance OF the mail which would be
a source OF much dissatisfaction. All merchants have
experienced the annoyance Of the early closing OF the
mails Saturday; the management OF the White Star
on this account from early morning TO an evening
sailing, the tide compelling them to wait inside the bar
until the early tide Sunday morning and is mani
esty unfair to bring up against the line what has been
public benefit.


made to the Department comes from tne laInah ine,
who deprived OF the United States mail nag by the
must not overlooked that the Inman line refused TO
Garry the mail the time when the Department could
only relieved from this predios-
ment by the action Of the Bremen line


We most heartily indorse the petition from the leading
bankers and merchants of the City Of Nev-York who
are the most deeply interested in the mail and whose
voice should be heard above the camors OF rivalry sus
tanned is their correspondents on the other side
of the Atlantic; and we trust that the Postmaster
General will ignore their claims. In regard to the
Gaelic and Beltc sister ships, which the line under
shave available as reserve steamers the weekly
line being complete for service the following extract
from Liverpool paper may be interesting:


Yesterday the latest addition to the hne Meet OF the
Oceanic Steam Navigation Company arrived In the Mer
sey Belfast Lough whore she has been built in the
yard of Messrs- Harland & Wolf Tnongh not quite 80
large as her recent predecessors she is built upon
simiiar graceful model with view ~ strength as we'll
as speed She Is 395 feet IN length B OF 2fons regis
ter and her engines, constructed with all the latest ap
pliances aud improvements are OF 400 nominal horse
power. She is named the Gaelic, is four-masted, has


turtle back and all tho distinguishing charaoterst0s OF
a White Star steamer"


the boats, Germanic and Britannia, which are TO
be wonders of marine architecture being RAPIDLY
completed when the line VIII be placed beyond such
unworthy attacks as have lately come to our notice


T-'- ~ IEXpress,
Year: 1873

TIE BOWLEs BROTHERS. FAILURE


Nathan Appleton, the special partner of
Bowes Brothers, brought suit for the dissolution OF
partnership after the failure OF the rm and decree OF
dissolution was obtained and receiver appointed In
the mean time two creditors had begun actions against
the firm and levied attachments against their property
IN this city An order subsequently obtained that
the Sheriff turn over subject to the lien OF the attach
ments the property which he bad seized for the credit
begun, and assignee In bankruptcy been appointed In
Connecticut The parties to the first suit the one TO
dissolve partnership applied to Judge Fancher In Cham
ber yesterday TO have the decree OF dissolution set
aside and the property held by the receiver turned over
brought suit objected 10 this claiming that their rights
ia the attached pro rty ought not ~ be turned
Connecticut receiver, but kept In the hands OF an
officer OF this State, be enforced by It's courts. Do
cisOn reserved.
Year: 1873

In accordance with an act of the Legislature
and their Articles of Incorporation, the Board
Of Directors announce their first


Grand Gift Concert and Distribution by lot
among the ticket holders, of
Year: 1873

HOME CONVERSATION Children
hunger perpetually for new ideas.
They will learn with pleasure from
the lips Of parents what they dee m
it drudgery to study in books; and
even if they have the misfortune to
be deprived Of many educational
advantages, they will grow up in
telligent if they enjoy in childhood
the privilege of listening daily to
the conversation of intelligent peo-
pie. We sometimes see parents
who are the life of every company
which they enter, dull, silent and
uninteresting at home amongst their
children. If they have not mental
activity and mental stores suffi-
GENTLY for both, let them first use
what they have for their own house
hold. A silent houseis dull place
for young people, a place from which
they will escape if they can. How
much useful information, on the
other hand, is often given in pleas
ant family conversation, and what
unconscious but excellent mental
training in lively social argument.
Cultivate to the utmost all the gra-
ces Of home conversation.
Year: 1873

How frightful q sight we have
here. Have you ever seen anything
like itP Some Of you, no doubt,
have. That man lying on the road
side is drunkard. See! he is
tightly holding in his arms aug of
liquor. He cares not for his repu-
tatiOn, for his wife and little ones at
home. If he has enough liquor te
drink he is satisfied. Isn't it a
fearful sight to see men deliberately
ruin themselves? Can nothing be
done to stop itH


We fear there is little hope to re-
form those who are bound hand
and foot by the demon Of intemper-
ance; but we can teach those who
are yet free from his grasp to avoid
the wine-cup. "Touch not, taste
not, handle not" is a good motto
for all Boys and girls, will you en-
list in the temperancecause, and re-
solve to fight against liquor as long
as you live? If any young man is
willing to sacrifice friends, home,-
heath, reputation, and Christ ian
life of usefulness, and become a
reeling, drunken, ruined wreck of a
man, then let him begin by dinkin g
"only occasionally" and soon he
will be in the broad road to drunk
ards grave. aye cannot serve
God an Mammon. is the language of
the Bible; and you cannot drink
liquor without endangering your
hopes for a life of usefulness.
Year: 1873

e IL


1t is usual to attempt the man
agement of children either by cor
poreal punishment, or by rewards
addressed to the senses, and by
words alone. There is one other
means of government, the power
and Importance Of which are sci
dom regarded refer to the hu
man voice. A Mow may be in
flicted on a child, accompanied with
words so uttered as to counteract
entirely its intended effect; or the
parent may use language quite OBJ
jectionable in itself, yet spoken in
tone which more than defeats its
influence. What is it which lulls
the infant to repose ? Is it an ar
ray Of mere words2 There is no
charm to the untaught one, in let
ters, syllables and sentences. 1t is
the sound which strikes its little
ear that sooths and composes it to
sleep. A few notes, however I'M
skillfully arranged, if uttered in
soft tone, are found to possess a





magic influence. Think we that
this influence is confined to the
cradle? No; it is difused over ev-
cry age, and ceases not while the
child remains under the parental
roof Is the boy growing rude in
manner and boistous in speechl 1
know no instrument so sure to con-
troll these tendencies as the gentle
tones Of a mother. She who speaks
to her son harshly does but give to
his conduct the sanction of her own
example She pours oil on the al
ready raging flame. In the pres
ence of duty, we are liable to speak
harshly to children. Perhaps q
threat is expressed in loud and
irritating tone; instead Of allaying
the passions Of the child, it serves
directly to increase them. Every
fretful expression awakens in 1t
the same spirit which produced it,
So does a pleasant voice call up
feelings. Whatever dis
position, therefore, we would en-
courage in a child, the same we
should manifest in the tone in which
we address it.
Year: 1873

The shadows of the mind are
like those of the body. In the
morning of life they all lie behind
us; at noon, we trample them un-
der foot, and in the evening they
stretch long, broad and deepening
before us. Are, not, then, the sor-
rows of childhood as dark as those
ofage2 Are not the morning shad-
ows of life as deep and broad as
those of evening? Yes, but morning
shadows soon fade away, while
those of evening reach forward and
mingle with the coming darkness.
Man is begotten in delight and born
in pain; and in these are the rap
ture and labor of his life foreshad-
owed from the beginning. But the
life Of man upon this fair earth is
made up, for the most part, of little
pains and little pleasures. The
great wonder flowers bloom but
once in life time.-Hgperton.
Year: 1873

A MINNESOTA youth struck his
horse with a gun to make him
go, The horse, three fingers
and the gun went off so quickly
that nobody felt quite compe.
tent to say which started
first.
Year: 1873

Si1 w ~ OoOi y
all about how one kind action
was the starting point Of a truly
noble soul, and you shall also
hear what came of it,


1t was a bleak December
evening, and all on board of the
Dundee" had gone below. The
wind was Wing the spray
upon the sail, where it froze, OF
hung in icicles from the yards
Below all was commotion, for
the immigrant passengers were
talking about the New World to
which they were sailing. But
far in one corner, away from
the busy throng, sat a young
lad weeping as though his lit
tleheart would break.


"Don't cry so Conrad. II
won't do you any good, for it is
all over now and we will soon
be on shore. Don't cry any
more


ooh, but oh Mrs. Denning. "
returned Conrad, "you never
had so much cause to cry"


eyes, Conny, Twas a little girl
when my mother died"


"But then you were at home.
And l haven't got any home
now. Father sold everything
that he might bring all he could
to America. But he lost all he
had left after he had boughtour
passage"


"That is sad indeed" said the
Captain, who had been attracted
by Conrad's eager voice.


"Yes, and when we were
only five days out father fell
sick of the fever; then mother
too"


"Don't cry So"


"There is hardly a voyage" "
said the Captain, "that some
thing like this does not happen.
Poor little fellow, when at sun
down we buried both his pa
rents, | could not help thinking
how | ran away from home,
and went to sea | have never
heard from father or mother
since"


"Hark, what's that"


GA Lighthouse p


ga Lighthouse" Gland
America" they all cry as
they crowd up the narrow
gangway, they pour out upon
the deck, Yes, there it is
cleaning through the haze.
Children, have you ever been
walking home at night and sud-
denly seen a light in the win
dow of your home. How quick
your heart beats and how you
quicken your pace, eager to join
the family circle. Oh children
make your home happy; fol
when you start out in life you
never forget the joys of home
Conrad had a pleasant home
among the Highlands of Scot.
land but his father had been
over persuaded to try his ''luck'
lin the New World and. selling
all, set out for New York.
| Conrad was left alone in hit
lgrief, for every one else hat
rushed upon deck, but hi
Thoughts were sweet, thinkinl
Of his mother and her las
words. eBe true and dare to d,
right" He was only twelv,
years old, but he we'll under
stood the meaning of thes'
words. ntmI
Year: 1873

DIR. Hall tells the story of q
Scotchman who sung most piously
the hymn:


"Were the whole realm Of nature mine.


That were present far too small,o
and all through the singing was
fumbling in his pocket to make sure
ofthe smallest piece Of silver for the
contribution box.--zion's Herald
Year: 1873

Every time you go home
drunk, you deepen the grave,
you are digging for your wife,
young man. Every time YOU
taste of ardent spirits, you snaE
another heart string. just as
sure if you were to cut hel
throat, and with greater cruel
ty, you are numbering the wife
you pretend to love. Killing
her by inches; torturing AeI
with more exquisite cruelty,thRn
the "Inquisitors" Of other days
tormented their helpless VIC
tins.


Stay your hand, young man ;
have mercy on your wife. Il
you are determined to get cleA'
OF her, you had better kill her
Fat once, than torture her loving
heart until it breaks. True the
law don't touch you as it is, she
is your slave because she loves
you. You can murder her by
inches; that the license law al
lows-but, oh, have mercy!


Remember, you loved her
once, or said you did. Did you
win her heart; only to break it?
Or did you, even then, when
you were vowing to "love, cher
ish and protect" gloat in your
heart secretly, of how you
would slowly, but surely, kill
her?


Stop, murderer, stop! Spare
her yet longer. she is young
and life is dear to her. Remem-
ber these little children-spare
her to them. Her life will not
be very long-the seeds of di-
sease have been sown by your
cruelty, and sooner or later, will
carry off its victim.


Don't hasten her death by
drinking; spare her to her chill
dren. They love her, and they
need her. have mercy on them!
Let them not be witnesses
against you in that last day.
Give them no cause to be. Re-
member, they owe their life to
you; be not the cause of their
eternal ruin.


EVERY day you continue In
your present course, you deep
en- the grave of your wife. 1t
will not take much more to
make it ready; and you have
nearly prepared her for it.


May God forgive you, young
man, and make you sensible of
your error, ere it is too late.
Remember the vows you made,
to love her, to cherish and pro-
tect. Make the remaining.
years OF her life happier than
the past have ever been.


Show her that you do love
her, even better than you do
the serpent that charms in the
glass. Be a man once more, a
good husband, a tender father,
and when the grave does close
over the form of her, who has
never, even in your worst mo-
ments, ceased to love and care
for you-you will have the
pleasant consciousness of feel
ing, that at last you had been
true to your vows.-ESmd of
Temperance.
Year: 1873

with the ivy Of precedent, and whose halls and
towors are each haunted by its particular goblin.
But the childish imagination that Was once ex-
cited by the ghost stories h.s boen replaced by
the spirit Of inquiry and reason. The listeners
grow restive, and, to hold their attention and
their hearts, it will be necessary either to change
the stories Or present them in 4 new aspect.


Tho act Of turning cut an old pastor whose
intellect is still sound and his strength undin1in
ished, must be justified by something better
than the fact that he adheres to the written
tenets Of his Church, or tho fact TINT he ia not
given te pyrotechnical displayB Of oratory. II
the tenets are not satisfactory, it is as easy to
change them as it was originally to adopt them.
But It is no good argument against tho pastor to
Say that lie holds them moro firmly than his
congregation Nor is it fair to charge that his
style is not ornate, or his delivery rhetorical
Al this was known, il true, thirty years ago.
We had rather take our chances in the next
world on the issue Of dealing fairly with an old
pastor than on any question Of CaIvinism or
rhetorical morit that can be conceived Of


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