smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

sOh, you need not hope for any assis-
tance from without. No one can hear
you, even though you shout at the top
of your voice."


"Oh, you cannot intend to murder
me in so cruel manner" cried Precy,
in an imploring tone.


"Don't look for mercy on my part, !"
replied Montbaisson. 'I shall put you
to death exactly as L said. But listen
to me i have something to say to you
first


Precy, wringing his hands in mute
despair, bent forward to catch every
word from his infamous adversary.


"You see, Monsieur de Precy," pro-
ceeded tho latter, 'what am going to
do is perfectly safe for me. When they
ma your eharrAd remains here toner
row, they will think that you yourself
incautiously set the wooden staircase on
fire. Now will tell you what shall
do when you are dead. My lawyer has
told me that I am your next of kin. So,
by your death, the Precy estate will be-
come mine, and, in order to kill all SYM
pathy for you, shall circulate the re-
port that you are not your fathers son
at all but bastard born by your moth
er to valet of your fathers. have had
a docu ment drawn up to that effect.
The world will point its fingers at your
mother, and your memory will be ours
ed. Ah, Monsieur de Precy, your broth
er Veronin one day called my sister
Mathilde voluptuous creature now I
shall make everybody believe that your
own mother is wanton." .


AT first Lucrece was perfectly dazed
as these cruel words fell upon his ears,
but suddenly an idea struck him. He
looked up to the flagstaff that was DIM
ly rising into the air. The top of that
flagstaff was supported by thee strong
wires fastened to blocks of wood in the
ground below.


Knowing full well that Montbaisson
was in dead earnest, he conceived the
perilous plan to climb up the flagstaff
to the top, and then lower himself on
one of the wires supporting it to the
ground. @


But would the flagstaff bear his
weight? a..l.. III.


Would the wire hold him, if he should
succeed in reaching the top Of the flag
staff?


Would not Montbaisson hear him and
mercilessly slaughter him? H


Still, it was the only chance of es-
cape remaining to him, and be had to
risk it.


He succeeded. But, in years long
afterward, he would tremble and turn
pale when thinking of that perilous de-
scent.


When he was out of reach Of the MUIR
derous young sceundrel, Precy shouted
for help and, an hour after, Montbais-
son, who had actually set the staircase
in the tower on fire, was arrested and
taken to the Tours Jail. ..s


The King banished him from the
country, but he returned in 1892, and
professed ultra-democr,tic principles.
This, however, did not save him from
suspicion, and in 1894 he was g1ilIotined
in Paris
Year: 1876

SELF-SACRIFICING.- is q true
story. The happy circumstance occurred
on last Sunday evening. He escorted
her to and from church, and upon arriv-
ing at her home their discussion of the
sermon and the extreme heat suggested
an invitation, readily accepted by Charles,
that they step into the house and par
take of a cooling glass of lemonade.
She led him to the dining room, and
there found naughty brother Ben. about
to squeeze the last lemon in the house
for his own individual benefit. Calling
him aside she induced Ben, by means
of sundry threats and promises, to dis
sect that lemon and make Charlie and
herself glass. A selfsacrifcing
thought struck herl "No, Ben.," said
she, "put the juice of the whole lemon
into Charles glass and bring me glass
of water He wont notice it-there is
no light in the parlor!"


Ben. was making one good strong lem
onade, rs directed, when Charlie quietly
slipped out and remarked: 'I say, Benz
put the juice of the entire lemon in your
sisters glass and bring me some ice wa
ter-there is no light in the parlor and
she won't notice it,"


Ben 3 forte is in obeying orders.


With meryr twinkle in his eye he
drank the lemonade, then carried them
each a glass, of water which they drank
with much apparent relish, asking, each
other between sips, 'tif it was sweet
enough =" And naughty brother Ben.,
with the taste of that lemonade In his
mouth, stood out in the hall and laughed
till his side ached, to hear them assure
each other that it was ''just right SO
refreshing
Year: 1876

The honey season has now fully
commenced, lhe black sage is prolific


with bloom and the bees have enlisted
for the season and are storing honey


with astonishing rapidity. The white
sage is beginning to unfold its bloom
and yield up its sweets. We have
noticed some in bloom at the Los An
geles Apiary. 1t will be about two
weeks earlier this season than usual,
and will produce vastly more honey.
Every colony should now oe well pre-.
pared for the work by having pro-
life queen, plenty of bees and plenty
of room to work. The instinct of bees
at this season is to rear all the brood


possible. This is peculiar character
istic of the Italian bee. Should the
apiarian wish to work for honey more
than bees, he should not allow the
swarm ng fever to break out in his
apiary, as 1T is no easy matter TO sub.
due it. This may be accomplished by
placing every day or two tor as fast
az filled) one or TWO frames of empty
comb between two brood combs, and
the one taken away placed in the up
per hive, which when full must be
emptied with the extractor and the
empty comb returned, or the hive
placed OH top of one containing empty
comb, closing all entrance except
through the empty comb below. In
this way the hive may be kept full Of
bees the entire season without much
danger of a queen cell being built.
Empty space does not seem to answer
the same purpose at all times. But
should the increase Of stock be the
only object, the top hive should be
left off and the bees confined to one
hive aud plenty of empty brood comb
given the queen as fast as she will ill
it with eggs. Should the workers en-
croach upon her domain by filling up
with honey, the extractor should be
used. AS fast as the hive becomes
filled with bees division should be
made. This should be done in the
middle of the day, when old as well as
young bees are out at work, and In
the manner we have directed in q for
mer article, by taking one or two
frames containing brood and stores
from hive until you have your new
hive half filled or more, filling up the
empty spaces with empty combs or
frames. Then exchange places with
a strong colony and ii possible give
them a queen cell. We might sug-
gest other methods of increasing, but
this We think the best. We have
often heard 1t said by practical apiari-
aus that the use of the extractor alone
would prevent swarming. Our expe-
rieDce teaches us that this is to great
extent incorrect
Year: 1876

Correspondence Pttsburg Leader.


This venerable old lawyer is in Washing
ton, having returned from his European
tour. Reverdy.is SO famiiarly known as q
iurist that somehow or other his name is
associated with all that is legal in our coun-
try. He is the queerest looking old gentle
man one is apt to meet in voyage aronnd
the world in eighty days. He is somewhere
over eighty, short, pudgy, white haired,
and homelier than two year old doll baby.
His nose is hooked, his upper lip long, and
his mouths expression dotingly querulous.


His left eye is out, and the lid hangs
down, disclosing the raw vacancy. This
orb he lost many years ago, when as a
second to friend in duel, in the process
of preparing his friend for the fight by tar
get practice in his rsom, the bullet
rebounded from the wall at one shot and
struck the lawyer in his eye. 1t settled its
business and did the same for the duel,
Year: 1876

A clam while passing through car
penter's shop encountered a hungry
heron, and (for the wind was southerly)
knowing him from the surrounding
handsaws, modestly withdrew into his
shell. The heron commented unfavor-
ably upon his conduct for some time and
proposed a mutual council, but all was
of no avail. Finally thought struck
him, and he denounced the clam before
Heaven as periurer and q horse thief.
The indignant clam thereupon impru.
IDENTIFY abandoned his policy of silence,
but, alas he had hardly opened his
mouth when the heron swallowed him.


MORAL Second thoughts are not al
ways best.
Year: 1876

The Worcester Spy tells this extraor-
dinary story: A Taunton man of forty
six has had checkered career. He has
been shipwrecked once, narrowly es'
capped baking in railroad accident, ha
been run away with times innumerable,
was shot in the neck at Gettysburg, had
taste of Libby prison, fell overheard
from a whaler, and, before being picked
up, left two fingers in the mouth of a
shark, was drafted twice, had the right
arm broken in two places during the
New York riot, stood on barrel with a
halter around his neck from sunrise to
sunset; in 1868 was crushed under
falling building during California
earthquake, and was without food or
drink nearly fifty hours, and, when
homeward bound from the mines of the
White Pine region, narrowly escaped
lynching through mistake in person.
Amid all, he preserves his equanimity,
and refuses to believe that luck is
against him,
Year: 1876

crets of the Sanctum" says: The brain
may fairly be likened to the steam en-
CINE of large mill. 1t is the engine of
the body, and the nerves through which
it directs all the movements of the
body are its belts and shafts. When the
steam engine of the mill is doing its le-
gitimate work, disseminating power
through the great building, sending the
belts flying on their endless rounds, and
whirling the heavy shafts and wheels,
its action is normal and healthy, and, if
1 may be allowed to compare it with
living thing, it feels rather better when
night comes in consequence of its exer-
else. But sever its connection with the
ponderous works that ramify through
the building; relieve it of the exertion
necessary to move the hundred piecesof
machinery; leave it alone with only
its fires, its boilers, its cylinders, its
piston rods, and fly wheel, and let it
rush on. 1t is then working all within
itself, while the great body of the es-
tablishment stands still; its fires roar as
usual; the vanishing streams of water
rapidly as ever change into pent up
steam, chatting like Gagged lion to burst
the iron bounds within which it is con-
fined; the piston rods dart back and
forth like bolts of lightning; the heavy
fly wheel huns round, making the walls
and the earth itself tremble and shake;
then that engine is wearing itself away
much faster than if it were running the
vast machinery of the mill, and is in
danger of sudden wreck.


1t is so with the working brain. 1t is
accustomed to running the machinery of
tho whole body, and so dividing and
doing out it's steamlike powers in
steady streams. 1t Directs every move
ment says to the right hand: "Do
this" and to the left "Do that" and
out through the nerves it sends that
strange life-power that enables the
limbs to obey. Now, when the editor
sits down to his work, the whole body,
with the exception of the right hand, is
at rest, and the brain works alone, like
the crushing engine that finds itself freed
from the heavy machinery that kept its
motion moderate and steady. Through
the long day or weary night the brain
rushes Oh, like the detached engine that
whirls it's dizzy fly wheel and it is not
strange that the tenement of the brain
trembles, like the walls of the building
that the brain itself collapses, as when
the engine flies to pieces and that the
whole fabric crumbles and falls before
it's time. The power of the mill is the
steam engine, yet nothing about the
mill requires such careful and delicate
attention; the power of the man is the
brain, and one little overstrain upon it
may do more harm than the mangling of
all the limbs. A man may live, be
physically healthy and mentally bril-
liant after all his limbs have been cut
off but the final burden under which
the brain breaks down brings apoplexy,
then speedy death. OF that disease,
which fortunately is no lingering one,
probably all hard working, certainly all
overworked journalists have felt those
warning symptoms-vertigo, unnatural
drowsiness imaginary black specks
floating before the eyes, q sense of pres
sure and confusion in the head, and q
temporary numbuess apparently of the
brain-sometimes of limb.
Year: 1876

In casual conversation at the central
police station in Montreal, Major Voyer
took up loaded revolver, and in ex-
planning to Capt. Larue how New
York policeman shot himself, placed the
muzzle at his side below the heart. He
had no sooner done this than the revol-
yer went off, the ball penetrating through
his bowels and coming out below tho
right lung. He fingered few hours,
when he died.
Year: 1876

cality, and put up the sign, Helping
Hand for Men, which has been the
guide board for many a poor soul "
Before this time, Jerry had married one
of the girls with whom he had been in
innate during his wicked career, and
now his wife is an efficient assistant in
his work.
Year: 1876

ROASTING A Rata New York officer
arrested man for roasting live rat.
The prisoner caught with trap large
rat. He took the trap into the street
and bail. around it a fire and cooked the
animal to death.
Year: 1876

Now Mr.. Murphy adds duplicity to
dI-ioyaIty by claiming TO have been in
sympathy with the saviors Of the
Union and to rejoice in the achieve
ments Of the party who upheld it
against armed foes In front and Mur-
phys in the rear. l. it possible the
second District Of Iowa wishes TO send
such a man to the assistance of the
Confederate Brigadiers in Congress?
We rather think not
Year: 1876

Now the battle will rage fercely in
Sc- yc-s. .aS al af Tilien's old
tactics will be brought to bear to pile
up such majority in the city as
70 overcome the large Republican
majority in the resi- Of the State II
vii be sad day for the country when
its de-tinie- turn upon the work 10 be
done by Tweed's old associates in that
Democratic city, which exemplifie- in
its enormous debt, and in its un-
Iarallelei corruption what the Nation
would have TO expect under the reign
of Tilien and Reform.
Year: 1876

Bishop Jeremy Taylor as chaplain to
Charles I. had followed his fortunes, and
suffering in the Revolution the consequences
of his loyalty, he passed many years in the
retirement of Welsh village, where he en-
gagged in the humble occupation of school
teaching. 1t was here that he penned the
following cheerful and exquistely beautiful
passage:


"I am fallen into the hands of publicans
and sequestrators; and they have taken all
from me. What now? Let me look about
me. They have left me sun and moon, fire
and water, loving wife, many friends to
pity me, and some to relieve me; and l can
still discourse, and unless | list, they have
not taken away my merry countenance, and
my cheerful spirit, and a good conscience;
they have left me the providence of God, and
all the promises of the Gospel, and my hopes
of heaven, and my charity to them too. l
can walk in my neighbor's pleasant fields,
and see the variety of natural beauties, and
delight in all that in which God delights,
that is, in wisdom and virtue, in the whole
creation, and in God himself. And he that
hath SO many causes of joy, is very much in
love with sorrow and peevishness, if he loses
all these pleasures, and chooses to sit down
on his own little handful of thorns."
Year: 1876

Suppose some glorifed spirit-form Of
departed friend should appear to you, with
the announcement that this year was to be
to you one of special probation and disci-
pline-that no incident of your daily life
was to fall out by accident; but each to be
an indispensable link in bright chain to
draw you upward to the sky. With what
new eyes would you then look on your daily
lot. If you found in it not single change,
the same cares, perplexities, and uninterest-
ing labors, yet with what new meaning would
every incident be invested-with what other
and aublimer spirit would you meet them
Yet if announced by one rising from the
dead. with the visible glory of the spiritual
world, this truth could not be asserted more
clearly and distinctly than Jesus Christ has
stated it already =" Not a sparrow falleth
to the ground without our Father" yea,
"EVen the hairs of your head are all num-
bered"


Not till the belief in this declaration, in
its most literal sense, becomes the calm and
settled belief of the soul, is life redeemed
from drudgery and dreary emptiness, and
made full of interest, meaning, and divine
significance. Not till then do its grovelling
wants, its wearying cares, its singing vexa-
tions become to US ministering spirits, each
one by silent and certain agency fitting US
for higher and perfect sphere.
Year: 1876

highest terms, and others in the lowest; he


fancied the truth must lie between. When


he turned to the first volume, and saw how


he had been blackguarded, he had only to


turn to the last volume for a change-and the


one neutralized the other. 1t was like


game of battledore and sbuttlecock. Some


times man is helped as much by the strokes


of his opponents as by thepraise of his breth-


ren. Last year when he was ill, he amused


himself by glancing over these volumes; and


he could assure them that he was as much
interested in Mr.. Spurgeon as any of them.
In fact, it seemed to be some other individ-
ual than himself that he was reading about.
loud laughter.) He had been blessed in
spite of some adversaries; and he really did
not know that they were worth speaking
about at all.


Mr.. Spurgeon then called upon his son
Tom to speak. He has two boys (twins,)
now little over seventeen, believe, and
they are both engaged in business. Most
carefully has their father refrained on prin-
ciple from all direct attempts TO lead them
to engage in the work of preaching the Cos
pei, for he believes that this is worthless
work, except when it is purely voluntary and
engaged in from the highest impulse. More
than year ago they we're baptized, and
quite recently, of their own accord, they
have opened little mission room in Wands-
worth, where they preach every Sunday to
the poor, the one conducting the morning
and the other the evening service. 1t had
been hoped that both of these young men
would speak after their grandfather at the
but Charles had caughta severe
cold, and was unable to come. Tom, who is
the younger, had therefore to speak for both;
and an equally effective address by one so
young do not remember to have heard
He is gifted with humor, and set of picto-
rial sketches with which he began his remarks
brought down the house. He has an exceed
ingly musical voice, and altogether there is
the making of an orator in him, unless | am
greatly mistaken. l am sure no one listened
to Tom Spurgeon without hoping that they
might often hear him again; and his first
speech was one that must have gladdened his
fathers eart.-LondOn Christian World.
Year: 1876

in our notions and our actions. Moreover,
we distrust great deal of what this nine
teenth century glOries in. We are an anti
quated people, old-fashioned, old togy, and
slO,O, it may be; certainly not fast. These
new-fangled ways and schemes which our
Northern brethren enjoy so much, and invent
so many of, come on US too thick and plen-
tiful for US to get Immediately clear and
satisfactory idea of them. And it often
happens that before we have come to full
comprehension of the signi6cation and bear
ing of the new thing proposed, so as at length
to give it our consent and approval, the
spirit of the age, of this glorious nineteenth
century, and of this enlightened American
people, (now in the flush of their centennial
pride, when indeed they might well be hang
ing their heads in shame before the nations,
has got quite through with the soon-wOrn-out
toy and cast it aside for another and new
one, so that our acceptance of the old one is
quite gone out of date. What is to become
of US? As things go now, the best use this
age seems to have for such as we are, is just
to hang like weight on the chariot wheels
that seem to be rushing down hill, and so
to render the dangerous descent little less
rapid. We are of small account to the age,
and even amongst the tribes of the Presby-
terian Israel. Let the Pam Presbyterian AL
lance not mind our poor little Church. We
cannot either help it or hurt it much. Let
it go on in its grand undertakings for union,
and for testifying to truth and to order
Meanwhile let US stand in our lot and do the
work set before US in our desolated country
and amongst the heather nations. We wish
the Alliance sll success in every good. All
we ask is not to be compelled to go into what
we do not fully comprehend as yet, and what
does not exactly suit the genius of our peo-
pie and their tastes.


AS ever, most afeetionatelY yours,


JOHN B. ADGER.
Year: 1876

temporal and eternal welfare of these de


pendants? Are we not to remember tha


these servants are also our brethren accord


ing to the flesh, land some of them oul


brethren in the Church. and, as our fellow


men, are entitled to that sympathy, mercy,


and kindness which the good Samaritan


showed to his neighbor in distress? Surely


if God is so thoughtful and kind to the SER


want as to secure his temporal comfort by


guarding it with justice, much more does He


intend that we should regard, and endeavor
to promote the happiness of that nobler and
immortal nature which belongs to the SER
want; Just as the Saviour reasons when He
reminds us of Gods benevolent care of the
birds and the lilies, and argues that much
more will He clothe and feed His higher
and intelligent creatures. And the Scrip
ture says that God not only requires of man
that he should " do justly" but also that he
should "love mercy" And in those broad
commands to preach the gospel "to every
creature, {" do good to al men as We have
and "condescend to men of
low estate, is certainly included the idea
that we are bound as faithful masters, and as
faithful servants to our Mister in heaven, to
have a kind care for the souls Of our servants.
And whatever may be the reluctance of our
inclination or prejudices, get this thought,
''knowing that ye have Master in heaven"
ought to be sufficient to cause US to march
boldly and steadily forward to the full per-
formance of our duty towards our servants.
And to those who have neTer recognized Je-
,us as their Master, this taxi affords the SOL
emn warning, that the day is coming when
Jesus will vindicate his claim to the title OF
Master, and when he willcommand his faith


ul servants to bind hand and foot and cast
nto outer darkness all those who throughout


heir lives persisted in not recognizing his
as Master And then will the
wicked be terribly convinced that Jesus is
Master. s. f. L.
Year: 1876

unmodifed principle of the above preamble,
they will soon put Presbyteries in about the
same position to which the Federal Govern
ment has reduced the States of the Union.


PRESENTER.
Year: 1876

We shall sleep, bat not forever,


There viii be a glorious dawn;
We shall meet to part, no, never


On the resurrection mornl
From the deepest caves of ocean,


From the desert and the plain,
From the valley and the mountain,
Countless throngs shall rise again.
When We see a precious blossom
That we tended with such care,
Rudely taken from our bosom,


How our aching hearts despair
Round its little grave we linger,
TIL the setting sun is low,
Feeling sll our hopes have perished
With the flower we cherished so.
We shall sleep, but not forever,
In the lone and silent grave;
Blessed be the Lord that taketh.
Blessed be the Lord that gave.
In the bright, eternal city


Death can never, never comel
In bis own good time he'll call US
From our rest to Home, sweet Home.
Year: 1876

BISHOP HUNTINGTON hits the nail on the
head when he says: "The grand difficulty
with our popular piety is, that it is still try
ing to find way, in this nineteenth century
of the gospel, and close to the Centennial of
a nation founded in the gospels name, of
serving two gods together"
Year: 1876

But is our duty ended when we have
simply dealt Justly with our servants p
Though the text specifies nothing more, yet
is it not implied that God would have us 60
further and have benevolent regard for the