smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

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day saw you. but I have thought Of
you many time


Bad powder doesn't perish so easi-
"" Swedish proverb) answered Axel-
son sadly. "but sometimes it will 60
anyhow" ~s*


':Do you remember, when we ate
cakes together at the Blue
Cloth:'" continued jaeger, Is I did not
play the farrier so badly either,
though you, you hawk-eye, saw through
the apron-but don't stand there erect,
like an iron bari am not able to car
~ you to the chair"


Thank you, Judge, l can certainly
stand such short time, I will rest so
much the longer afterwards


How is your Anna ? is she married
yet? or are you still lying like span
iel watching at her threshold, you
fox 2"


The harsh, pale face of the Iron-Car-
rier famed into scarlet red at this
word but become Immediately thereon
yellow as wax.


"Are you sick, my friend ?-what is
the matter? I don't know you any
more"


Yes, to be sure; we are changing
with the times-I had request for you
Judge, for although we have not been
very much together, I know you to be
an honorable man.


"To be sure, you come inopportunely,
because I am going away Tomorrow
morning, but if it is so very important
I will willingly sleep an hour less in
the night to be able to serve such an
old acquaintance-you once carried a
wounded face for my sake-believe me,
l have not forgotten it yet"


The Iron-C Carrier took sealed pack
age and laid before jaeger on the writing
table


"This PACKAGE" said he, contains
sum Of money, big enough for such a
one as I amt is the fruit of twenty
years industrious labor have sweat
a good deal for it-ah I did it so will
ingly-this sum I leave in your care"


/" In my care? have not you got
surer place for your money ?-.I am
poor as a church rat-yes: erday l ap-
piled for a loan in the Bank but got a
refusal"


eff you even went around begging,
I would rather leave my money with
you, than With anybody else.


Thank you for your good opinion,
but what shah I do with the money 2"


1T is to be used to support my poor
Anna, who will soon be in need there
off,


{" Your Anna, yes-I asked you a
few minutes ago, how she is, but you
did not answer me- have thought a
great deal Of her also, but I am so oc-
cupied with my own business and troub.
les, that only think, and think, and
there it stops"


"swear by your souls salvation, sir,
that whatever happens,-because much
that you don't know has happened and
shall happen-swear, that you will help
and advise her when am no more"


"You astonish me, Axelson-your
lips tremble-what is that? You have
blood on your clothes"


Blood oh no!-it is rust from
some cold sheet iron, which has been
rejected-sir, swear by the memory Of
your mother, if she was dear to you
and mother is always dear-what is a
father pa father cannot even protect
his own child, though he were as strong
as to carry the globe on his shoulders
swear, that you will protect my
poor, unfortunate child--her, and
perhaps also another, who has less
deserved his misfortune than she."


The Iron Carrier threw himself down
upon the floor and embraced Jager's
Year: 1873

Rev. Robert COllyer recently delivered
a discourse upon the subject of Ameri-
can journalism, in which he evinced a
much more liberal view and far more
correct comprehension of the character
played by a majority of clergymen when
dealing with this subject. While point
ing out with unsparing hand the many
faults and imperfections of American
newspapers, he at the same time declared
that he found in the fearless, independ-
ent press much more of good than of
evil. Nor did he fail to properly distn-
guish between those papers that regulate
their couse by the chart of morality and
deeency, and those which unscrupulously
pander to the baser instincts of human
nature, and which are too frequently ac-
cepted by ministers as representatives of
American journalism.


The great power for good or evil, not
only in America but in Europe, said
Mr.. Collyer, is the newspaper. Rulers
have come to look to the newspaper for
inspiration, as few of them, he feared
ever look to the Lord. The newspaper,
indeed, is the most remarkable out
growth of modern civilization. No one
instrumentality beside has appropriated
so largely the essence of the inventions
and discoveries which have made this
age peerless over all ages preceding. No
one agency besides employs to-day so
much that is best in the power, thought
and life of man. In no sphere does the
steam engine do work so marvellous in
result as that which it accomplishes in
the press-room no message of such i'm
port are flashed along the telegraph
wire as those that are addressed to the
newspaper, and no express train bears
freight so consequential as the latest
edition.


Not only, observed the speaker, does
the newspaper make tributary to its pur-
pose the highest results of science, but it
captures, as we'll, the finest power OF
current thought Many years ago it was
said by Chalmers that the best thinking
and writing of the day were to be found
in the newspapers. He marveled con,
stantly how its ablest and most pertinent
productions could frequently be evolved
| on the spur of the moment and In the
clash Of the worlds intensent strife
when the questions that came up for dis
cussion and decision were so often sprung
upon the writer. But the average news
paper article of to day, said Mr.. Collyer
is better than the average newspaper ar
ticle of Chalmers day; and the whole i!
the result of consuming energy, fed by
ample means, which searches every
corner of the land for men adapted to tn,
purpose, and each in his place con
tributes to the muliform requirements o
the modern journal. 1t is characterized
by the keenest enterprise. Nothing es
capes its ever-present eye. 1t is the alb
stract and brief chronicle of the time
showing virtue her own features, scorr
her own image, and the very age anC
body of the time his form and presence
No wonder then, said the preacher, tha
the newspaper has come to be the mos
potent power we know of among thing
outward and visible; nor should we fai
to be proud of it when it is held sacrec
to virtue and truth.
Year: 1873

A Florida correspondent of the New
York sun is responsible for this story:


noticed dozen cows standing belly
deep in the river in front of Mrs. Stowe 5
place, with their heads under water.
They were feeding upon water grass. |
have found but one place in East Flori-
da where [ could procure a glass of fresh
milk. That is in the residence of Judge
Paine, in this place. His COWS roam the
savannas and pine wilderness, and eat
stiff wire grass that grows upon the bOr-
ders of the swamps. The cattle are
wild, but are susceptible to the charm of
music. They are only got to the house
by singing to them. Morning and night
young Tom Paine, the Judges son, rides
to the woods on a marsh pony, and rolls
out over the wet prairie the notes Of some
mournful song, like


''Way down the Mississippi floating"
The cows listen, and begin to gather
about the musician. Toms voice is
sweet and powerful. When the kline are
in line he begins to urge them home, but
there are no roads and fences, and he
must keep up his singing, for the instant
he stops the cows break like New York
audience at the close Of an opera. The
cattle appear to have acquired taste for
music, as it requires good singer to
drive them home from the pasture in
lower Florida.
Year: 1873

The young ladies of Vassar College in
clude horseback riding and rowing among


their many other accomplishments. On
the bosom of the little lake at the foot of
the college hill there is quite cluster of
boats, and the fair-browed, saucy-eyed
girls make themselves much at home on
the water. They pull an easy oar, and
in the boats look the pictures of grace
and beauty. There is common sense in
the management of Vassar. In teaching
the girls to take an interest in physical
pastimes, the professors do much to coun-
teract the effects of tight laeing and close
confinc nent in the study room. The
girls who practice rowing will make
stronger, better and purer women than
those who are reared after the fashion of
hOt-house plants.
Year: 1873

The friends of Senator Mitchell. of Ore
gon, say that he admits the fact that he Is
now living under an alias. 1t is not
thought. however, by them that this will
imperil his seat in the Senate. II Is claim
ed that a long time ago the United States
senate made precedent which will apply
TO his case. by refusing TO eXpeE Senator
elected under an assumed name. The
ground taken was that the election could
not be invalidated when there was no mis-
take as to the individual elected by the
I,erislatIlre.
Year: 1873

RoUaHs ON THE RAMPAGE IN THE sTnEErs.


NEW YoRK, March 18.
party of drunken men assaulted the conduc-
tor OF street car last night firing pistols. The
conductor and man passing by the scene were
wounded
Year: 1873

shore where they erected wooden cross 70 marx MS
grave. He had recently returned from northern
sedge expedition which he had attained the
OF so lg He seemed In hs usual health, and had ceu
the into the cabin 10 encourage them with hopes
OF future rewards and stimulate them 10 renewed e1er
ton when he suddenly struck down and e1pired'


TO the great grief Of those around, TO whom ne nad en-
deared himself by his kindness and devotion.


In September 1871 the Polars entered Winter omar
ter aud left August a. 1871 The ice was very heavy
and a southern direction She forced SOUTH
and continued drifting till Capt Tyson and party
driven from her. The sedgo party crossed Kanes
Polar Sea, which they pronounced to be strait about


fifteen miles wide. There appearance Of open
to the north. The rescued party suffered very
much during their dreary drift from hunger and cold
For the last two months they ate seal and polar bear
as they could get IL. When met by che Tgress they
showed evident signs OF their great suferngs but dur
ing the nine days they have been board they have
improved vastly and now in fair health The party
is in charge United States Consul and viii arrive
IN St Johns ON Monday next.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, May 1l.-Prof Spencer F.
Baird Of the Smithsonian Institution thinks that the
news from the Poaris Expedition Is far from disheart
euing The vessel. at the time those rescued by the
Tgress we're separated from her, was In no
worse condition than she had been for long
time and was then IN danger. Enough OF
her crew were left aboard to manage the ship.
Her entire scientific corps remained with all Of their
apparatus, and unless there has been some mistake
In the reports they must have accomplished about all
that for which the expedition sent out They have
sailed further north than any former expedition, and
with sleds have reached the highest latitude ever
attained except by Prof Parry. Prof. Baird THINKS


at II the expedition returns, he greatly hopes
IT WILL it will have added greatly 20 our knowledge OF
the geography OF Arctic Regions ts fauna and dora
and It's geological and meteorological characteristics
and VIII have accomplished much more than the Ger
man expedition. OF which much has been written and
Year: 1873

The above map which has been accurately compiled from
Official resources illustrates that avenue to the Pole
which American uavgatOrs have principally explored


continuous current southwark bearing large heilS VI
ice and ieebergs brought down by the glaciers which


line IFS shores constitutes the principal characteristic OF
this channel The existence OF this current s part OF the
evidence that the upper part Of this channel s con-
nected with an open Polar Cape Union, the FUR
Year: 1873

Physical infrmties the of ALL Millions always
SICK No man. woman or child is uniformly in perfect health


Much however of the sickness and suffering which render life


burden to of fellow beings earelesness
and neglect mighty antdote to the leading of dis
ease has been provided 1t is harmless efficient No
poisonous drug enters into its composition undehled


muan tonic and aperent of which ingredient is veg
table, This unexceptOnabe and restorative med-
cine Is not thing under the SUM- HOstetters Stomach
bters will have been before the world quarter oil
century, and II Is not too much to that thousands aye
tens OF thousands using who would have been IN
their had they not been strengthened and
sustained by wholesome stimuan. The rapidty with
which minor ailments become when neglected obstinate
Diseases is well known This tonic famous for the immed
ate check which breeders oil deadly disorders
The sensation Of the sick headache the nervousness
the ndsposition to exertion, the the confusion
oain the physical debility which intended to premonsh
us oil the approach of serious danger invariably removed
oy lew doses OF the Bers The tame OF the preparation as


genuine specific dyspepsia bilious complaints maarlous
levers rheumatism and chrsnc debility wide the world
and In these days Of infamous when fierce cath
srtcs that rob the invalid Of his strength
are advertised nvgorants o. it indeed blessing to
kind that Hseter Stomach Bters everywhere procur
able, aud everywhere popular.
Year: 1873

LASTING aLoyELIYEssTweny when paint pearl
powder running the and destroy
ing the health of fashion, HAGAEs MAGNOLIA BALM
brought out botanical cosmetic guaranteed TO
bloom beauty the skin From that time the
present has continually rising in public estimation
and unexceptOnabe preparation of its class
Instead producing artificial metallic surface like the
deadly ename whiting the cutce like the poisonous fluids
sold under various names keeps the skin
soft velvet renders 1t as smooth and glossy Satn and i'm
parts that delicate, tnge. which is the BEAU
loveness This exquisite chrOmatic effect
not transient BY applying the BALM daily be proonseC
from youth lady purchased the first bottle


article nineteen that her complex


ion forty pureT clearer brilliant than ii ha
" and she attributes its beauty solely to the oa
use of Hagan's Magnolia Balm.
Year: 1873

preparation widely and tavoraby known Halls Vege
table Scan Hair Renewer needs few words praise
This compound has its the highest favor in the
public mind; and muttudes who have vanly used other
remedies for the of their hair have trying the
Scsn Renewer been made glad by the speedy restoration
their hair its color and the thin locks thcken
ed in the days of early youth 1t also prevents the hail


falling and glossy and is altogether the best
preparation for intended before the pubPts
burg Chronicle.
Year: 1873

II is stated that after March 4th the Presi-
aeat will issue an order giving notice that the
acceptance Of candidacy for State office,
u S the holding of such Office, especially in a
oIa'e Legislature. will be deemed cause for
removal from Federal Office. Trouble has
arisen 10 some of the Southern States by such
ae!lOn a on the part of Federal Office holders,
sound policy.
Year: 1873

SPIDERS TRAVELLING By BALLooS.-A
correspondent of the Scientific American
relates q singular incident In company
with other persons he was crossing Sene-
ca Lake on the 10th Of October, when
small wake was seen the middle of the
lake, caused by the moving of some in-
sects. Upon investigating the matter it
was found that three spiders wero gliding
over the surface of the water, and attach
ed to them was a single thread, the size
Of knitting needle, extending in the air
to the height of thirty feet at aa angle Of
sixty degrees, and terminating with an
enormous balloon.shaped web. This lat
ter was judged to be eight feet long and
five feet wide, with stays fastened to the
main thread, something similar to those
of balloon, and it was managed, appa-
rently, by an innumerabe number of the
insects stationed at proper intervals. The
party attempted to obtain a. closer view,
but when within few feet of the web It
began to rise, though the last spider,
which proved to be about the sizo of
house ay. was brought back By the stroke
of an oar. The balloon went onward and
upward until lost to sight,


The latest phase of servant girlism was
developed in Cleveland. A lady in that
city advertised for "help," and among
those who applied was one who subjected
the advertiser to severe catechising as
the desirability of the situation offered
The questions were all satisfactorily ar
swored until the young woman inquired
how many times week the man of tbr
house changed his shirt. The lady of the
house was obliged to give it up and the
visitor departed without an engagement
Year: 1873

A murder was committed at Cold water, Miss. Dr. Ritchie, citizen of @ neighboring town, local paper says, was on little spree, and the murder at Coldwater being fresh in his mind, he accused every one he met, in jocular way, of being the man who had com- mitted the murder. Finally he met stranger, and being just tipsy enough not to care whom he accosted or what he said, he addressed the stronger in the same manner "Yes-you-you are the man who murdered Johnson at Coldwater." A look of guilt overspread the mans face, and simultaneously he ran his hand in his bosom as if to draw Q weapon Dr. Ritchie, observing the movement, collared him with his left hand, and with his right drew dirk from his pocket, and holding it threat eningly above him, told him if he at tempted to draw weapon he would plunge that knife to his heart in sec ond. He then commanded the man to withdraw his hand from his bosom, which command was speedily obeyed, when, instead of a weapon, the man drew out the sum of $1, 100, which he dropped on the ground at his feet, and which had been taken from the body of the murdered man. Meanwhile crowd had gathered around the doctor and his prisoner, and the evidence of the mans guilt was by this time so palpable that he was declared to be under arrest and securely tied,
Year: 1873

Since the beginning of the Modoc war interested parties in Oregon have sought to give currency to belief that the Indians of that State and of Wash ington Territory threaten trouble to the whites in those sections. A representa- tive of the San Francisco Chronicle had a conversation with an Indian trader just from Washington Territory, and who claims to be thoroughly acquainted with the condition, character, and pres- ent feeling towards the whites of the Indians concerned. He says that from personal observation and knowledge, at the time of his departure from home on December IT, everything was quiet among the tribes, and that there was not the slightest indication of any hos tile feeling against the whites or of an intended outbreak. Throughout the route on his journey to San Francisco he found the same peaceable disposition manifested. The Indians in Oregon and Washington Territory live by hunting and fishing, and the married men among them cultivate small gar dens. The informant also says that they submit all their internecine dis cords to whites whom they respect, and submit to their decisions. Under these circumstances it would be well to &C., cept all stories of threatened outbreaks among these Indians with grains of allowance,
Year: 1873

The condition of the lava of the re- cent eruption is thus described by 8 writer in Nature. At first the whole surface of the lava-streams seems to ex- hale steam and hydrochloric acid, and the atmosphere is filled with disa- greeable odor which makes breathing uncomfortable. But very quickly the exhalations are localized around the little centers of fire, whose activity con- tinues for many months, and emana- tions from which are gradually modi- fled. Thus, as seen from Naples at the appeared to be smoking, and 1t was pos- sible clearly to distinguish the tracks of the whitish vapors which wandered over the surface; but close at hand there was nothing to be seen but the fumaroles, between each of which there is plenty of space. The gas and the hot vapors which the lava emits are charged with numerous substances, and become the source of mineral deposits which fill the tourist with wonder. One of the most curious phenomena observed is the power of the burning lava to retain an enormous quantity of water and salt, which it does not allow to escape until it begins to cool. The formation of salt is shown generally over the whole stretch of lava emitted in 1872. Soon after the surface cools it is covered with light crust of salt, which forms in similar fowery patterns on the beds of cinders that cover the plains, the cin- ders themselves emitting everywhere hydrochloric acid. The first showers of rain caused this deposit to disappear rapidly, and there remained on the 18th of May only scanty traces, except on the lower surface of the blocks, where the rain had not the power to dissolve it. But the salt continued to be deposited in the vents, from which were detached beautiful crystals and graceful concre- tions; it continued also to be formed upon the great deposits of cinders on the cone of Vesuvius, and even on May 18th the summit of the mountain, as seen from the Observatory, appeared, from this cause, as if sprinkled with snow.
Year: 1873

I have known morbid people to spec- ulate as to how they were going to look in their cofins. I have known grown people who were full of imagination about the grave. Death is not only heathenish, but barbarous in their thought.

 never think of dying except with pleasure, as would of translation, To me the mere passing through is noth- ing; 1t may be 0 little longer or little shorter. i have always hoped it would be very short. I may horrify some people by saying it, but I pray God will give me sudden and instantaneous death. l would rather die by being struck by lightning than die with con- sumption. If it be Gods will that I should become old and toftling and grow feebler and feebler before die I am willing that it should be so, but if I were left to my choice should like to break off short and die streng man, in the middle of battle; but that is for God to decide, and not for me.

 Dying to me is not at all the humil- iation of the body. It is the exaltation of the spirit. It is the emergence of the soul from this outward form. It is our development out of this sphereinto higher one. It is not the ushering of men into state of weakness and gloom. It is the inauguration of condition of power and joy. It is the moving of the soul in the direction of amplitude and glory. It is the endowing of the soul with the riches of immortal life in it's highest forms and in it's greatest ben efcences.

 do not know that nightingale sit- ting in the twilight and singing with all it's little soul, has the leastidea that the whole neighborhood is charmed with its song; but I can conceive that a soul may be in such blessed state of expe- rience that it may, like nightingale, charm the wide circles in heaven with inspiring music.

 The Apostle did not care to be un- clothed; he did not care to get rid of his burden, except by overcoming it through divine grace; but he desired to be clothed upon. He desired better manhood-spiritual manhood, heavenly manhood. He did not take @ gloomy view of suffering and death. Some men think of dying. do not think of any thing black or smirching when I think about death. I think of gold and pre- cious stones and flashing wings. Some men think of an iron gate with an ugly, grim jailer, who, with big key, that as not rusty, turns it often. I think of a "pearly gate" as Milton calls it, which turns on golden hinges. Some men think of dying as they think of disease I think of dying as the flight of the bird-higher and higher into the purer ether.

 Now, it seems to me that no thought of death is valid or right which does not leave you stronger, more joyous, hap pier. I am not going to die downward. I am not going to die toward hell. mean, by the grace of God, to die to- ward heaven. And I am going to think of it so as to take some comfort of it beforehand. I am going to shake the tree of life so that if I do not get the golden fruit here, some leaves shall drop down for the healing of my heart. -H ". Beecher.