smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The above deaths, as near as we can esti-
mate, cover about all that have occurred,
and represent population, for the time
mentioned, of about 10000.


Some interments of paupers were mad
IN the country graveyard and few in
other places, but the above is as near the
exact figures as is possible.


We have then for three years, but three
and quarter per cent of the population
dying, or small fraction over olSe per cent.
per gear OF deaths out Of ten thousand
population. We have now, including our
suburbs, population of twelve thousand,
but making the estimate for three years
we take the above average.


We doubt whether any city can show a
more healthful record than the above and
we invite the attention of our Northern
readers 10 the figures given, as well Of
Knoxville as of East Tennessee.
Year: 1873

All say'st thou, love, that have changed,
And that my moods are sad or worse;
My darling thinks l am estranged,


And even calls my ways perverse.
All, no, thy fancy wild hath ranged,
And in its travel found a curse.
When first 1 loved thee, all absorbed
l knew no life untitled by thee;
In thee my being was full-orbed,


And bound, as strong shore binds the sea
My thought, my feeling, all absorbed,
My heart, my soul, were only thee.
Dear love, we were sweet spendthrifts then
OF hours that ne'er will greet us more:
Oh, blame not me as cold, if when


In daily battles deafening roar
With all my struggling fellOw-men


L do not live them oer and DER.
show my love now in my work,


Which, all for thee, is what you see
Lays on my brow its shadow murk,
And leaves me scarce a moment free;
Yet in each fibre strained will lurk


The pulses that still beat for thee.
So patient bear my absent look


Nor quarrel with my silence deep,
Nor jealous fight my student book,


Nor blame me if drop to sleep;
"Tis not neglect that thou must brook,
But that now must harvest reap.
l thrust my sickle in the grain


Where years ago sowed and plowed;
My granaries harvest shall contain,
And then I'll leave the rushing crowd
Before dull care OF daily strain


Hath all my strength and courage cowed.
Bear with me, love, and meanwhile be
Content to lift thy womans load;
The faces gathered at thy knee


Will che ar thee on thy lonely road,
And by-snd-by we both shall see


That our two lives together flowed.
Year: 1873

A poor Turkish slater of Constantinople,
being at work upon the roof of house, lost
his footing and fell into the narrow street
upon man. The pedestrian was killed by
the conclusion, while the slater ESCAPED
without material injury. A son of the de-
ceased caused the slater to be arrested. The
cadi listened attentively, and in the end
asked the slater what he had to say in his
defense. Dispenser of justice" answered
the accused, it is even as this man says !;
but God forbid that there should be evil in
my heart. am poor man and know not
how to make amends" The son of the man
who had been killed thereupon demanded
that coDdign punishment should be inflicted
upon the accused. The cadi meditated a
few moments, and finally said 1t shall be
So" Then to the slater he said: Thou
shalt stand in the street where the father of
this young man stood when thou ddst fall
on him." And to the accuser he added:
Z" Thou shalt, if it please thee, go upon the
roof and fall upon the culplit, even as he
fell upon thy father. Allah be praised"
Year: 1873

Can't think of anything good to say
of woman you don't like: Nonsense.
Take the case of house or horse
which you have to sell because you
don't like it, and how much may be
truthfully said in its favor in an adver-
tisementi
Year: 1873

A BoY-HERo.-A boy-hero has been de-
veloped in Macy Brezna, an obscure Hunga-
rian village, lately visited by the plague.
Among the victims was poor peasant wo-
man, who left behind son, aged fifteen, but
no property. In consequence Of this latter
circumstance the parish priest and the rest
of the villagers were in no haste to make
arrangements for her interment, and in spite
of the prayers and tears of the poor lad, the
body remained in the hut. Two days later
peasant woman of property also died, and
grave was Immediately dug, to be ready
for the funeral next day. When, however,
the body was carried to the grave yard, it
was found that her grave was already filled
in. The superstitious villagers fell on their
knees and crossed themselves, but the
priest guessing how the matter stood, sent
two of the peasants to the hut of his poor
parishioner, to see whether the corpse was
there. They returned, having foand that
the body had been removed, and bringing
the boy with them. On being asked where
the body Of his mother now was, he pointed
sobbing to the newly-made grave. saying
that by exerting all his strength he had
dragged the corpse to the graveyard placed
it in the grave and shoveled in the earth
Year: 1873

n&hG Eclls of the Zambesi, or Victoria
Falls, as Livingstone calls them, have been
formed by a crack or fissure in the hard,
black, basatic rock at right angles across
the bed of the river. The old bed below
the falls is still plainly indicated, and green
with grass and trees. The chasm which
extends along the entire front of the falls,
and into which the water leaps, is about two
hundred and fifty feet in width at its mar
rowest point, and three hundred and sixty
feet in depth, to the surface of the boiling
and foaming water. The falls, during the
dry season, are nearly mile in extent, their
line broken here and there by rocks and ISL
ands. In the wet season, their length is in
creased half mile or more, and then the
volume OF water which pours over the falls
is immense.


The water on the west side of the falls,
as it descends into the chasm, is collected IN
narrow channel twenty or thirty yards
wide, and flows toward the east at a right
angle with the course Of the stream above
the falls. That on the east side flows
through similar narrow channel toward
the west. These two streams meet and
unite in fearful boiling whirlpool, before
they find an outlet through assure of the
rock at right angles with that of the fall, at
about eleven hundred and seventy yards
from the western end of the chasm, and six
hundred from the eastern end. The Fam
besi, which spreads to such breadth above
the falls, is now compressed in a channel not
more than twenty or thirty yards in width,
and OF no doubt almost inconceivable depth.


The surface of the country is of the same
level below the fall as above it, and the riv-
er continues on its course through deep
canon, continually taking abrupt turns in it's
way-in fact forming a series of connected
and perfectly defined letter SIS. This can
on is not worn or cut by the action of the
water. 1t is split or crack in the rock.
Its walls go sheer down, without any pro-
jecting crag or symptom of stratifcation or
dislocation."


The immense steam-columns which con-
tinually ascend above the falls become con-
densed at an immense height, and descend
in perpetual shower of fine rain, which
beating against the face of the perpendicular
rock, runs down in tiny streams, only to be
swept back again by the upward-rushing va
por before they have reached the bottom
This rain gives life and verdancy to the
evergreen groves, in whose branches, how.
ever, no bird ever sings or builds its nest
Mrs. E. b. Dufey in To-day.
Year: 1873

A young man entered the bar
room of q village tavern and call
ed for = drink. ea


mo" said the landlord, s.You
have had too much already. You
have had the delirum tremens once,
and I cannot sell you any more


He stepped aside to mako room
for two other young men who had
just entered, and the landlord watt
ed on them very politely. M


The other had stood by silent
and sullen, and when they hsd nm
ished, walked up to tho landlord
and thus addressed him.


six yeare ago At their age, I
stood where those young men now
are. I WAS . man with fair pros
poets. Now, at the age Of twenty
eight, I am . wreck, body ard
mind. You led me to drink. In
this room I formed the habit that
has been nv ruin. Now sell me .
few glasses moro and your work
will be done! I shall soon be ont
Of the way; there 10 no hope for
me. but they can be saved; they.
may be men again. Do not sell it
to them-sell it to me and let me
die, and the world will be rid OF
me, bat for Heaven's sake sell no
more to them u 90
The landlord .listened spale and
trembling. Sitting down tho de-
canter, he exclaimed: "God help
me, that 10 the last drop I will ever
cell to any one"


And he kept his word.
Year: 1873

Did it never occur to young niidens, say
from fifteen TO eighteen, and young ladies
from eighteen to tbirty-tor young lady may
certainly reach thirty-tbat men Of the age
from sixty to seventy, or even fr1m fifty D.
sixty, have some claimstp se.tsin the cars IN
preference 90 those who are young 10 year,
and robust n health ? We often sec both old
men aud meu Of iDhrm health standing for a
mile OF more in the cars, while both young
men and young women are enjoying their seats.
The law Of right makes one mans money, and
therefore his legal claims, as good as thnse Of
another. but not 81 the law Of courtesy, which
tells Us u regard age before youth. Polite
ness, too. consists not more in the act done
than in the manner Of doing it, and 50 really
good manners are as often found in the warm
hearted clod-hopper As in the wellbred gen
tleman.
Year: 1873

IT IS refreshing to hear of the heavy and continued rains about Prescott. That is lovely portion of country and the years of drouth just passed have almost discouraged many settlers who are much attached to the locality. But the heavy rains of the latter part of February, with what snow there is in the mountains, lead all to hope for excellent crops and a prosperous season of placer mining this year. With the bright prospects of the Wallapai mines, the Yavapai people ought to have much prosperity this year, and we hope they will.
Year: 1873

| HAVE Just been reading Olive Thorne's
trials with put-offer, and | cannot resist
putting in word on the other side of the
question, and telling something of the
life of hurry-upper.


If the "habit of putting off is frightfully
common" the other extreme is fright
fully dangerous. For while slow, easy
person usually enjoys long life, one of
those go-head drivers will hurry himself
into the grave, and drive his friends there
before him. For the last eight years
have been daily, yes, hourly, prompted
by such precepts as Take time by the
forelock," "Procrastination is the thief of
time" Delays are dangerous" Time is
money" etc, etc, by husband who is a
model in every respect, except that he is
always in a hurry. Some of you may
sigh with envy, perhaps, at the thought
of husband with only one fault; but if
there is anything else so wearing to both
body and soul as being constantly hurried,
| do not know what it is.


Hurry up, hurry up, EN-, it's almost
seven O'Clock, time breakfast was ready"
is often the first greeting | have in the
morning But long ago | learned that
most seven O'Clock" means from five to
ten minutes after six, and David always
keeps our clock half an hour ahead of
the right time, so | gain still another half
hour, and reckon that the real time is
only halfpast five | do protest against
the idea of gaining time by hav-
ing the clock too fast. When our clock
is ahead of time, | am always thinking,
Well, the clock is too fast | need not
hurry so; and 90 a little slower-and
then am too late; when, if the clock had
been right, | would have planned ac-
cOrdingly.


Now, hope no one will think | am one
of the put-offers, for | am not. l never
am late to church, and in my school days
| used to pride myself on my punctuality
would go term after term without get
ting single tardy mark never used to
miss train OF cars, though | never had
to sit an hour on the hard seats in the
depot waiting for a train, as have some
times done since David the hasty became
my guide.


Shall | ever forget the last time we went
to visit grandma: | am certain the hurry
and worry and excitement Of that one trip
must have shortened the span of my earth
" career bs some hours at least.


| was in very happy frame Of mind
that morning, thinking how pleased grand
ma would be to see US, and how she would
admire baby Bennie (her only grandchild),
and whether she would agree with me in
thinking it best not to cut his gums to let
his little teeth through, etc With great
many such things running through my
mind, | was very leisurely getting Bennie
ready for his bath, stopping to admire his
dlmpled shoulders, and give him hug
and kiss, when heard the front door open
and shut hastily. The next moment David
Year: 1873


1T is strange what great deal Of trouble we take
" nat sacrlnce most OF us willingly make,
How the lips will smile though the heart NAV ache
ana we bend to the ways of the world for the sake
of It's poor and scati:y praises.
And time runs Gu with such pitiess flow
That our lives are wasted before we know
hat work TO finish before we 90


10 our long rest under the daisies.
And too often we fall in a useless Aght
For wrong il so much in the place of right,
Ana the end Is so far beyond sight.
j Is az when one starts on chase by night,
An unknown shade pursuing.
Even so do we see when our race IL run,
That Of all we have siryen for little is won
And Of all the work our strength has done,


How little was worth the doing
SO most of us travel with very poor speed.
FaIlng III thought where conquer in deed,
Least brave in the hour of greatest need,
And making riddle that few may read,


of our life's intricate
such labyri of right and wrong
l. it strange that heart once brave and strong
Should falter al last and most earnestly long
For calm sleep under the daisies?
But, If one poor troubled heart can say
His kindness softened my lifes rough way."
And the tears fall over our lifeless clay,
We shall stand up in Heaven in brighter array
Ihanlf all Earth rang with our praises.
For the good we have. done shall never fade.
Though the work be wrought and the wages paid
And the wearied frame of the aborer laid
All peacefully under the daisies.


-Tyfy G1Tlr5J
Year: 1873

How on earth do you manager" asked
a gentleman of two inseparable loungers.
You are always together, you never do
and yet you always have plenty
of money" simplest thing in the
world, my dear fellow" was the candid
reply. 1--WE borrow of one another"
Year: 1873

The FLOODS IN N. 1.-The late floods which
were so destructive of property down the State
seemed to extend in the same belt across the
river into Jersey. The people of Salem county
were the worst sufferers and it is estimated that
the damage done in that county alone mostly to
mills ia upwards of $50 900,
Year: 1873

Travel was fully resumed over the Delaware
Railroad to-day. The breach at the canal CROSS
ing has now been filled with treste bridge, and
the first train passed over in safety, this morn
ing. This evening, the regular accommodation
passenger train will resume its trips at 35, and
the peach trains will come north as usual
Year: 1873

Home is the bright realm of which a
wife is the sovereign, and her soyer-
eighty will bring honor and love accord
ing as her rule over the matters commit
ted to her trust is wisely and benefcent-
Iy ordered. The realm, limited as it is,
demands for its government much
greater and more unintermitting effort
of thought than is always given to it;
for when wife, intent upon making the
home of her family all that is possible
to make it, studies daily how best, by
skillful management, she can gratify
preferences, please tastes, anticipate
wishes, keep out of sight little worries,
twine privations with decoration of love,
and lift off for awhile burdens of care,
all of which appeal to her for thoughtful
and graceful Intervention, she seldom
fails of securing the reward which she
most dearly prizes,
Year: 1873

Dipping the Han0 lnCO MOltoH HOus


The thing has been done over and
over again, observed DR.. Carpenter In
recent lecture-that a man has gone and
held his naked hand in such stream of
molten iron, and has done it without the
least injury all that is required beng
to have his hand moist, and if his hand
is dry. he has merely to dip it in water,
and he may hold his hand for a certain
time in that stream of molten iron with


out receiving any injury whatever. Th1s
was exhibited publicly at meeting OF
the British Association at Ipswich, many
wears ago. It is one of the miracles of
science, SO to speak they are perfectly
credible to scientific men, because they
know the principle upon which it hap
pens, and that principle is familiar to
you all, that if you throw drop of water
upon hot iron, the water retains its
spherical form, and does not spread upon
it and wet it. Vapor is brought to that
condition by intense heat, that it forms
a sort of film, or atmosphere, between
the hand and the hot iron, and for
time that atmosphere is not too hot to
be perfectly bearable. There are a
number of these miracles of science,
which we believe, however Incredible at
first sight they may appear, because
! they can be brought to the test OF ex-
perience and can be at any time repro
duced under the necessary conditions.
Houdin, the conjurer, in his very inter
esting autobiography little book !
would really recommend to any OF
you who are interested in the study OF
the workings of the mind. Houdin tells
YOU that he himself tried this expert
ment, after good deal of persuasion
and he says that the sensation of i'm.
mersing his hand in this molten metal
was like handling liquid velvet.
Year: 1873

A PATHETIC incident occurred during
the floods at Binghamton, N. Y. Mrs.
Fox, residing near the cemetery gate,
heard, in the morning, a peculiar
moaning in the direction of the GEM
etery. Going there she found a little
child waist-deep in water and weeping
near a head-stone, which marked a lonely
grave. Upon being questioned she said
that she lived long way off. She had
heard that the graves were covered by
water, and she feared that her mothers
would be washed away. So she went to
keep her poor watch and ward beside it.
She was kindly cared for, and returned
to her motherless home.
Year: 1873

DOES Con ANSWER PRAYER .
There are two striking cases-one in
the Old Testament and the other in


the New-of men beloved of God,
praying perseveriusly and with the ut
most intensity and fervor for some
thing which was denied them. An


answer to prayer is not necessarily an


affirmative answer. 1t pray be an an
swer in the negative--an answer of the


wise love that sees further than we do
and refuses in mercy. Yet there are
some people who talk as though if
prayer was not always and of course
answered in the affirmative, and the
thing we ask given, there Is no use Of
praying. "Who is the Lord, that we
should serve Him, and what profit
shall we have to pray to Him p But


prayers are often answered in the af-


tirmative. The voice Of Christian ex-
perience, through all time, has united
in calling our God "a very present
help in time Of trouble Very pres
ent, either to remove the trouble CT
help US to rise above it. The true


doctrine is, that God our Father is a re-
ality-a living, loving presence-throb-
bing with sympathy, but with plans
and purposes, and knowledge of the
situation infinitely transcendin. ours !;


that He is near to us, hears orr pray
er, considers it tcnderly and patiently,


and does for us the very best that is
possible consistently with the best
good of all That it is not always pos
sible for God to grant what we ask is
made certain by the most interesting
and most awful prayer ever left on rec
ord-the prayer offered in extreme an
guish by His only and welI-l elo ed
Son. It was to attain the sympathet.
ic insight of personal experience
that our Lord passed through depths
Year: 1873

so deep that no son or daughter of
Adam ever could sink below Him. In
the awful passage he felt the same
agonized inability to endure that we
feel, and called out as we do for relief );
but with the controlling sense of a no.
bier purpose which He preferred even
to that present relief. And in this
sense every true prayer is answered.
For when we pray truly we always do
in our deepest heart, in our higher and
better nature, so confde in our Heav-
emily Father that we prefer His will
even to the most important clamor of
our own wild desires. Harriet
Beecher Stoue
Year: 1873

The "panic" in financial matters and
consequent depression in prices and in
terruption Of business unfavorably af-
fects farmers, although probably as lit
tie as it does any large class Observ-
ing men have known that something
Of this kind was apparently inevitable,
but they did not know just when nor
how it was to come. So we all know
that the present condition cannot al
ways last ; tina; sometimes business vii!
move along smoothly and with, 1T least,
seeming prosperity; but do not know
just when nor how this condition is -
be brought about. Everywhere there
is uncertainty as to what is best to do.
We suspect many farmers are seriously
pondering whether to sell or hold:


For those in debt Or other prcssin-
need Of money, we believe the geher.l
rule has not been changed. Eve3 with
lower prices than they ankqiptea\ we
believe it best for them to een-belter
certainly than to borrow money now.
No one thing wonld do more to restore
confidence than would an earnest effort
by every one to pay debts, commencing
with the little ones.


Those farmers who are Of easy cir
cunlstances have more reason for hold
ing. 1t would seem certain that before
another harvest prices for grain of al
most all kinds must advance-but how
soon this advance is to come, and how
much it can be none can tell. That
the European wheat crop is light we
know, but there are reasons which make
it seem certain that there will be little
demand for our wheat at very high
prices.


The corn crop Of our country is below
an average, and before another crop is
secured prices undoubtedly will consid-
erably advance in the West. This COM
plicates the question Of when to market
hogs. The probable good price for
corn would Indicate it would be we'll to
sell early. but the fact that in much Of
Illinois and some other States the corn
crop is especially short, will tend to
throw very large number of hogs
from these regions on the market early
and thus tend to keep down prices,
which may afterward advance. 1t now
seems there is less number of hogs in
the West than there was last year.
We do not see reason to expect any
material advance in prices for any lead
ing farm crop for some weeks to come,
and we should not be surprised if they
we're lower for time than now VEST
ern Farmer.
Year: 1873

1t is not at all wonderful that in the
midst of a financial panic the real es-
tate market should experience a marked
improvement. The people are begin-
ming to see that "land is the basis of
all security and the only thing that
can be invested in with a certainty
against loss and of good returns You
don't hear Of run" on real estate =;
it don't suspend worth a cent; it dom t
issue certified checks and charge five
per cent. to cash them; no it is not on
the dead beat, but remains always a
solid Interchangeable wealth, never failing
IN It's yield.-Kansos Advocate.
Year: 1873

deed, does the sPoloe Board depart from
this rule to advance political favorite.


A debt OF gratitude IS due to Colonel
Bad ger. the Superintendent. Equal to any
emergency he stands at the head of the po-
ice. without a asuperior IN the whole history
OF .hat organization.
Year: 1873

A story is told OF Il French gentleman
who, having lost the bulk Of his property
through the rascalities OF friends in
whom he trusted, crowned it all by the
loss of his mental balance, and for the
remainder Of his days found his only
delight in riding in omnibuses and pas
sing fares from passengers to the driver,
taking care when change was returned
to add to it sou or two from his pocket,
and watch the effects on the receiver.
In nine cases oat Of ten, as the story
goes, the passenger, counting over his
change and finding, as he supposed, that
the diver had cheated himself. would
look bewildered for a moment, and then
pocket the change with quiet chuckle.
The special delight of the lunatic was III
satisfying himself in this way, that nine
tenths Of his fellow men were dishonest
if they only had the opportunity.