smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

back for it seemed to her that it must be
crying and. sobbing somewhere out in the
wild world.


Presently stray beeze came along in
shore, brisging faint odors of aromatic gums
and spices from islands over sea, mingled
wite freshness of the waves. Then the
little SHELF set up a kind of dumb show
that the wind understood, and said:


"Wind, dear, kind Mr.. Wind, / en-
treat you to restore to me my poor lost
voice.


The wind stopped and looked down upon
this tiny creature, with the kind of comical
pity big parsonage often feels for dis
tressed little one.


"Bless me" said he, '.Mstress Shell |
haven't got any voice but my own, and if /
parted with that, should be in pretty
fix"


lie bowed and passed en- through the
window of an old gray farm house all fes-
tooned with morning glorles, and the little
she'll was left more desolute and remorseful
| than ever.


Presently she bethought her to appeal to
a brooklet that went hurrying, scurrying
| down to the sea,as if its very life depended
on getting it there on agivsn time. The
brooklet was in too great haste to mince
matters. 1t told her that it could not spare
its own voice for love or money.
GA las !" sighed the little shell. ga voice
is the most precious thing in the world, for
it links us, inanimate creatures, to the realm
of soul and must needs lose mine to learn
its worth"


At last, hopelessly, without much faith
in the result, the little shell turned to some
tall green rushes that grew near her, and
plead in a dumb way for their help. The
rushes were laying their crisp edges togeth-
er, and rusting like hundreds of little fairy
files, but they stopped at once, good heart
ed kind rushes that they were, and said,
"You poor little dear! We can't give you
back your voice, but we will do all we can
to assist you out of your trouble"


eff we were in your place we would wait
till the great tides came up to where We lay
and foated US out to deep water. The
mother heart of the sea first taught you,its
little child, to speak; and if you are sorry,
as you are, perhaps it will teach you again
to become vocal, and you will know better
next time, how to cherish your music, and
love it,"


SO the little sad shell did as the rusher
advised, and waited as the brackish pools
wait that lie too high for any but the might
est tides - waited with them growing
thirsty, and dry Tipped all through the hot
summer until, at last, when the birds were
shore. Ihen tue dry pools were filled to
their very hearts brin, md the little mute
shell was swept out into the great life ct
the Intimate, where all soul-music is born.
Golden A9e.
Year: 1875

There Is poor creature at Aosta who
does not know the value of money, and
only cares for eating, drinking, and sleep
ing. He is undoubtedly an idiot but
what is he who does not know the value
of his soul
Year: 1875

Far from the crushed flower of glad
ness on the road of life, sweet perfume
is waited over to the present hours, as
marching armies often sent out from
hearts and fragrance of the tampled
plans.-Richter.
Year: 1875

There is no word or action but what
may be taken with two hands; either
with the RICH thand of charitable
construction, or the sinister interpreta-,
ton of malice and suspicion. Bishop
Hall.
Year: 1875

There is third silent party to all our
bargains. The nature and soul of things
takes on itself the guaranty and fulfill
ment of every contract, so that honest
service cannot come to loss. IF you
serve an ungrateful master, serve him
the more. Put God in your debt.
Every stroke shall be repaid. The
longer the payment is witholden, the
better for you, for compound interest on
compound interest is the arte and usage
of this exchequer er-Emerson
Year: 1875

.-- : a-
then I heard him coming down slowly
and heavily, as if there was no spirit in
him. 7.sts


my heart beat strongly. But !
tried to look bright and smiling. There
was oh SO dreary look in Johns face
as I first saw it in the door. He stood
still just moment with his eyes fixed
on me then the dreary look faded out;
flash Of light passed over it. as he
stepped forward quickly and coming to
where I sat, stopped down and kissed
me. Never before was bis kiss so
sweet to my lips.


L have found my little wife once
more he said softly and tenderly. and
with culver in his voice.


L laid my head back upon bis
bosom. and looking up into his face,
answered: And you shall never lose
her again.


/ And think be will not. The sweet
ness Of that hour. and the lesson. it
taught can never be forgotten by my
friend Maggy.
Year: 1875

Perhaps the most ingenious method
of deceiving the custom house officers
that has come to light lately was the
device of man with . wooden leg.
His name was Earnest Bohruman, aud
he was native Of Saxony. He was
usually dressed very shabbily and trav-
eled as a poor emigrant. He was q
skillful story-teller and betrayed him
self by telling very humorous story .
second time within the hearing of the
same detective who was on board one
of the White Star steamers with him.
The climax was brought out. in such an
inimitable manner in broken English
that the officer Immediately recalled
that the voice and manner Of another
one-legged emigrant in ship of another
line within only about two months be-
fore. as


The fact of a poorly dressed man,
making two journeys to America in SO
short time excited his suspicion. He
accordingly reported the circumstances
when the vessel arrived in port, and
unusual diligence was used in searching
his baggage and person. but nothing
was found until his wooden leg was re-
moved. It was an ordinary artificial
leg, fastened to the natural leg at the
knee and armed with aferrulc at the
bottom. When it was taken of it
seemed unusually light, and on careful
examination it was found to be hollow
and to contain about $4,000 worth Of
laces and precious stones. He had
been a diamond broker, but had become
poor and subsequently entered the
Prussian army in the French war as
private or non-commissioned officer.
He lost bis leg in battle. and when he
recovered be thought Of this method Of
retrieving his fallen fortunes. a
Year: 1875

re- NOTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-The NEW YORK
adopted distinguishing Costcn night signal for
board the HERALD steam yacht showing while burn
ing coors red red changing from to the other
IN succession several miles distant Cap
of upon seeing this signal will oblige us by
pairing any they have for the Ship News
Department of the HERALD. a.


1SPersons desirous of communicating with vessels arv-
ing York do by addressing such vessels
Of HERALD yacht pier No East River New Ycfk-
received from ali parts of the world and promptly de-
Lvered Duplicates required
Year: 1875




Among the many good things writ
ten by Mr.. Geo. d. Prentice, appears
the following beautiful thought


'lt cannot be that earth is mans
only abiding place. Else why is it
that the high and glorious aspirations
which leap like angels from the temple
Of our hearts are forever wandering
unsatisfied2 Why is it that the rain
bow and clouds come over us with
beauty that is not of earth, and then
pass off TO leave us TO muse on their
lovlines ? Why is il that the stars
which hold their festival around the
midnight thrones are set above the
grasp of our limited faculties, forever
mocking us with their unapproachablc
glory2 And finally, why is 1t tina.
bright forms Of human beauty are pre-
sented TO our view and taken from u.s.
leaving the Thousand streams of our
affections to flow back like Alpine tor
rents upon the hearth We are born to
a higher destiny than of earth. There
is realm where the rainbow never
fades, where the stars will spread out
before us like the island that slumbers
on the ocean, and where the beautiful.
beings which pass before us like shad.
ows will stay in our presence forever"
Year: 1875

FRUIT FROM BARREN TREgs.-l wish
to describe to you method of max
ing fruit trees bear that | blundered
on. Some fiftecd years ago ] had a
small apple tree that leaned considera-
bly,. l drove stake by it, tied a
string to limb and fastened it to the
stake. The next year that limb bios
somed full and not another blossom
appeared on the tree, and, as Tim
Bunker said, "it sot me thinking
and | came to the roots, consequently
1t formed fruit buds. Having couple
ofpear trees that were large enough to
bear, but never blossomed, / took a
coarse twine and wound il several
times around the tree above the lower
limbs, and tied it as tight as could.
Tho next spring all the top above the
cord blossomed as white as sheet, and
there was not one blossom below
where the cord was tied. A neigh
Dor, seeing my tree loaded with pears
used this method with the same result.
l think II much better way than cut
ting of the roots. In early summer,
say June or July wind a strong twine
several times around the tree, or a
single limb, and tie IL, the tighter the
better, and you will be pleased with
the result the next winter or spring
the cord may be taken of.
Year: 1875

France, as ingcniously adopted TO show


off beauties that more decorous dress


hides, that a large business is done in


the city in not only making these cos


tunes TO send abroad, but in the dress.


ing of dolls in the same picturesque


costume, both for models and for toys.


There is very little beauty among these


people, even the young girls, though


dressed in costume so becoming that


the photograph shops are full Of pic.
lures of fashionable young ladies pho.
tographcd in the same garb, and al
most every French or English belle


who summers in the popular resort
counts among her possessions a full
suit Of the same. The girls who stand
in the market place wear thick, dark
stockings and wooden shoes, that clump
upon the pavement at every step, from
being simply soles with covered bit
to hold the toes, 80 that a stranger
soon learns to recognize fisherwo-
mans approach by the regular taps of
her feet. Their legs and feet are al.
most invariably perfect in shape and
symmetry of proportion. The girls
and women who catch the shrimps dis
pense with shoes and stockings, and
thus it is seen that the limbs which
are so shapely when decently clothed
on Sundays and festivals are coarse
and brawny, and as little pleasant to
the eye as are those of the fishermen
themselves. Exposure to the sun and
wind rob these girls even in childhood
of every womanly charm of feature
and complexion. In early woman
hood they are weathcr-beaten and
masculine looking; in old age they are
so bideous with bronzed visages, parch-
ment skins, and whiskered chins, that
they horrify one wonted to look upon
women as meant to be beautiful as
well as good, like sight of the yelled
prophet.
Year: 1875

ALPINE HAY.-"Wild Hay is the
name given by the Swiss to hay made
from the grass growing on strips of
soil to be found on the Alps, n height
of from 5000 to 5000 feet, in places
so difficult of access that even the
goatherd and his venturesome flock
forbear 10 visit them. This hay is
valuable from its excellent quality and
delicious aroma. The hay-makers are
shod with iron, and secure themselves
with ropes to some sure hold when in
especially dangerous places, but fatal
accidents occur every year. 1t is reck-
oned that one man can make hun.
dred weight of hay daily. This he
either carries home at night in a net
slung over his shoulder or stacks is on
the mountain, from whence IL is re.
moved in a sledgc when the snow
comes. The wild hay is essential to
the maintenance OF the Alpine cattle,
the produce of the valleys being insult
ficient for their winter keeping.
Year: 1875

their deliberations will be, on the
whole, probably uniavorable to a sin
cere or permanent reunion, 1t is u
sad but by no means strange specta-
Gle to see men of learning, piety, and
great practical ability quibbling over
n dogmatic abstraction which might
have been settled in the time OF
Charlemagne, while questions really
affecting the moral and religious life
OF the world are daily pressing for a
solution.-Nep YORK SIN.
Year: 1875

If there is anything particularly an
noying, says the Milwaukee Sentinel, il
is to see an editor walking around
without diamond pin on his shirt
front. For our part, we have never
witnessed so humiliating spectacle,
and we hope the race of editors who
would thus wantonly seek to degrade
the profession is long since extinct.
Year: 1875

BAMBOO PoIsoN.-It has recently
been discovered that the bamboo con-
tains a dangerous poison which the ma
tives of Java extract in the following
manner: The cane is cut at each joint,
and in the cavity is found certain
quantity of small fibrous black matter,
covered with an almost imperceptible
coating of tissue which contains the
poison. If swallowed, the filaments do
not pass in the throat, and produce vic
lent inflammation and ultimately death.
Experiments are to be made with va
rious kinds of bamboo, to test the ex-
istence and nature of this alleged poison.
Year: 1875

NICHOLAS BoRoLAJovAH, a Seryian
nobleman, died in Paris, recently, under
peculiar circumstances. He had been
forced to leave his own country by an
ugly legend which pronounced his fami
ly vampires 1t was said that for three
generations the eldest son in his family
had invariably returned from the grave
TO drink the blood Of its living members.
Strange to say, Prince Nicholas himself
believed the legend, and when he was
first taken ill, five days before his death,
he asked his host of the Hotel de France
ct de Roumante to have his heart taken
from his body as soon as life was extinct
This, he believed, would prevent him
from leaving the tomb. He was man
of power and high culture, and but for
his mania regarding vampires would
have proved an ornament to any rank.
He was buried in Paris


liza man has but one idea, what need
has he of Webster's dictionery contain
ing twenty thousand words.
Year: 1875

He is q boy Of deep thought, and is
much given TO deductions. The coroner
is not his father, but he is lad who
was engaged to mind the Office, shake up
the coal stove and answer inquiries. He
is a good boy, and has learned to synI-
pathiZe with reporters. When there has
been an inquest the boy puts ON a cheer
tul look, and he has the whole case so
that he can rattle it off from beginning
to end.


awful sad case, he says to the re-
porter. ''TheY found the old man hang
ing to beam in the woodshed, stiff and
cold. Splendid chance for you to say
that his wide open eyes seemed to glare
down upon the Coroner, and that he had
one ann stretched out as if to shake
hands with the grim monster of death.
You can say that the body swayed to and
fro in the night breeze, blowing through
broken pane, and that an owl sat ON a
beam oveE the corpse and uttered his
mournful hoo HOOP


And then he rubs his hands, his smile
grows broader, and he continues:


Business has begun to pick up, and
there may be an inquest every day for a
week. hope so, for like to see tGsi-
ness moving, and money coming in. I'm
looking every day foF. case of murder
throat cut rom ear to 'ear-bIood- stains
on the wall-bIood- stained knife on the
foor-marks of a fearful struggle-des-
perate william, and So forth. It you don't
happen to be around, I'll send boy
down"


But there are other days when he is
sad, and he says to the reporter: ''Noth-
ing to-day. 1 am sorry, but you know
we can't push business as grocers do
Advertising wouldn't help us bit, and
the holiday season is no better than any
other season. Twish had a case for
you, end if anything turns up, will
come down myself and give you the
points. There's lots of folks who might
as well commit suicide as not, but they
don't seem to care whether the Coroner
has one case month, or none at ALL
Be patient, and we'll try and tCIn Up
something tomorrow"


Who could help but contract rever-
ence for such a boy7-DetrOitF Free Press
Year: 1875

A rare collection of Revolutionary Letters,
mainly from stores in the hands Of the descend
ants Of Col. Joseph Ward They are full Of inter
est and will be read with rare relish in connee,
ton with the Centennial celebration Of the year.
Year: 1875

An old woman died in lone house on
Croghan street, Monday night. No one
knew II until yesterday, when everything
looked so grim and silent around the
house that the door was burst in and they
found the old woman dead She had
lived there for years and years. People
knew her, yet no one knew her. Some
called her " Old Man," and some called
her witch. She never left her yard
never spoke to any one except to snarf
and growl. and lone sailor drifting about
on the ocean could not have been more
distant from love and sympathy.


No one ever called twice on "Old
Nam" for charity. Beggars sometimes
knocked at her humble door. but as soon
rs they saw her witch-like face. bent form.
and menacing look, they hurried away,
marking the house, that they might not
call again. II you had asked any of the
neighbors IL the old woman had heart
could feel love, pity, or tenderness--lf
there was anything which could get dow n
through the crust of disappointment,
avarice, and despair. and touch the ma
turc which God gives every woman, they
would have laughed IN derision. And yet
she had heart, and it was touched.
Death touched it. But she lid not die In
her bed. She might have been i'll for
three or four days, but she did not call
out and ask for assistance Perhaps she
felt that her time had come, and that no
human hand could aid her, and as sheRe4t
the weight of its shadow she was u-o-
man again. There were longings IN her
heart, new feelings in her soul, and no
one can say that she did not weep. She
crept off the bed made her way to an old
chest, and from its depths she pulled up
an old and tattered Testament. Between
its leaves were two cards. On one WIS
pinned Il lock of hair, tied with a faded
ribbon-a brown, curly lock, such as you
might clip from the head of boy Of five.
In quaint old hand was written on the
card the words; MY boy ,amie's hair.7
On the other card was pinned three or
four violets, so old and faded that they
looked like paper.


She sat in 4 chair holding the book In
hrI lap, and l." s'itlening fingers held
those cards ~ her blind ewes Thus
they fount her II card in either hand,
and IN" Holy Book lying open in her lapt
The mcu, women, and children, who had
crowded in with the officer. saw how IL
was, and some of them wept. Old Nan
had heart after all. She must have been
n mother once, and had mothers tender
feeling. No doubt she was loved and
happy when she severed that brown curl
from its mates and wrote on the card,
" My boy Jamie's hair - They removed
the precious relics tenderly, and when
they came to look into the face they saw
that it almost wore a smile, and that the
hard lines had all been rubbed out by the
tenderness which had flowed into her
heart as death WAS laying its hand upon
her,


Who culled those yiolets? Where Is
Jamie7


Truly, the greatest mystery Of life Is
life.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Sherman, Of Ohio, submitted reso-
luton, instructing the Judiciary Committee
TO inquire and report whether there is now
in force any act Of legislation under which
the authorities of the District of Columbia
are empowered to prosecute and suppress
notorious gambling establishments, and if
there is not such legislation to repert bill
to confer such powers. Agreed to.


In presenting the resolution, Sherman
said be knew nothing Of this matter him
self but from what he had seen in the
newspapers, there existed establishments in
this city which were public scandal and
in violation of the laws Of any State


Mr.. Windham. of Minnesota, presented
the preamble and resolution which was
agreed upon by the caucus yesterday, in
structing the Committee on Commerce to
insert in the river and harbor appropria-
tion bill such sums as in their judgment
can be judciously and economically exer-
clsed, to be used during the next fiscal year
upon the improvements named in the pre-
amble published this morning, and WAS or
dcred to be printed and laid on table. lie
gave notice that ut an early day he
would ask the indulgence of the Senate to
consider the same, and to submit some res
marks thereon.


WASHINGTON, Feb 5.


The Senate then took up the concurrent
resolution, submitted by Morton to repeal
the Twenty second Joint Rule of the two
Houses Of Congress in relation TO counting
the electoral vote for President and Vice
President.


Mr.. Morton said the existence Of this
rule subjected the country TO great danger.
After consultation with q number Of Sena-
tors, he had determined TO offer the follow
ing as a substitute for the motion to repeal /;
"No objection to the reception and count
ing Of any electoral vote or votes from any
State shall be valid unless such objection is
sustained by the affirmative votes OF the
two Houses" After discussion the sub
ject was referred to the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections.
Year: 1875

come forward and approve of the acts of the President. Ordinary measures are presented for the consideration of Congress, and when they are acted upon it is the dutybf the president to consider them and to approve or reject them. Neither the Senate nor the congress of the United States can sit in judgment as it were upon his acts with reference to approving or rejecting such measures as he may think proper to act upon. This would be re- versing the whole order of legis- lation, would be reversing the rotine of legislation, would be re- versing the policy and principle upon which the Legislature has acted for 8 number of years, or perhaps from the origin of the government until the present time.

 CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1875

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