smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Its Location and Business.


Elsewhere will be found a very fail
estimate of Bismarck and its advantages
written by representative of the Chi.
cago Times who visited this locality re-
Gently published in the Times of
April 10Th. 1t will be noticed that the
writer does not deal with individual
cases but with the town as a whole and
he fairly estimates its advantages. 1,
is not the fault of Bismarck, of its bust.
ness men or of its location that this city
has not heretofore enjoyed the cream
of the Black Hills trade, and it is surely
not the fault of the TRIBUNE which has
been constant in its efforts to attract
Attention to the advantages now recog-
nized, spending much money in that
direction. The writer in the Times
gives the true reason why Bismarck has
not outstripped all other points in this
Black Hills business, but the dif6culties
mentioned are NO longer in the way.
The situation is understood by those
most deeply interested and capital has
been invested in stages and other things
needed and if we mistake not the points
lost will be regained. But Bismarck
does not depend alone, like Cheyenne,
on Black Hills trade to build it up.
Every business house in the city would
be sustained without it. The river and
military business alone would support
a thriving village but we have in addi.
tion Montana and the Black Hills, and
a productive country surrounding it,
though as yet it is but little developed,
which will in time support thriving
village even if other advantages should
be withdrawn. But they will not be
withdrawn. For all time the Missouri
river, navigable for thirteen hundred
miles above Bismarck, will remain.
The North Pacific will continue its
course westward and is as dxed as the
river itself. No road will ever be built
parallel to it that will in any manner
conflict with Its business but feeders
viii! be built to various points Other
roads will seek connection with it at
Bismarck and in few years, at most,
we shall have the choice of perhaps hall
a.dozen roads leading to the south and
east But our object in this article was
Year: 1877

On an early day in next week (proba-
bly, Tuesday EVENING" ball will be
given in aid of the Pioneer Hook and
Ladder Company Of Bismarck which
hos been recently organized and has up
wards of 40 enrolled members. We
predict = splendid time for all who at
tend, the committee having made ar
rangements which cannot fail to secure
the comfort and convenience Of every
one. Further notice will be given of
the time and place.
Year: 1877

It makes man weary to be compelled
to wind up clothes line over his hand
and elbow. It keeps his arm in a
cramped position for three minutes.
Yet he will 60 into gin mill and un-
weariedly bend his elbow for hours at a
time.
Year: 1877

The preparations now being made
would indicate that the North Pacific
people propose extending their road from
Bismarck west this season. Gen. Ros-
ser says there is no doubt about this.
Year: 1877

In Pontus, SO tradition saith, it was per
missable for man and wife to divorce them.
selves by mutual consent; butbefore so doing
or the divorce ratified by the proper tri-
bunal, they had to live together for the
space Of two weeks in the same room, the
furniture Of which consisted only Of ont
bed, one chair, one dish and one spoon. Il
At the expiration Of two weeks, they still
demanded that separation must take
place, their demand was complied with, but
in the great majority Of cases it was found
out by the paities, after being furnished
with but single convenience Of any kind
for that length Of time, that they could
manage 10 get along together in peace.


If this pan was adopted in this country,
the number of divorce cases would be
greatly diminished.
Year: 1877

From the Baltimore American"


During the trial of the last case yester'
day in the Criminal Court, an incidept oc.
Cured that almost produced a panic. The
courtroom was crowded with spectators,
several of whom were standing on raised
platform near stove with an open CRATE.
One individual go; SO near the Stove that
his coat-tails took fire from the burning
Goals. As soop as he felt the fire in his
rear he gave one look behind, took in the
situation at glance, and made spring
that would have done honor TO an acrobat.
The conseqnenceswas that number of per.
sons were knocked down, while others,
thinking that the floor had given away, OF
some other serious accident had occurred,
made for the door. The confusion was
general for few seconds, but when the
real nature of the occurrence became
known, quiet was restored. The man with
the burning coat never stopped until he
reached the snow-pile in Courthouse lane
into which he plunged. He went in in q
frock coat, but came out with short sack
Year: 1877

The way some old fellows watched the
old year out at Medway, Mass, was by
opening and drinking a jug Of Medlord
rum, which was sealed up by them twenty
years before. There were thirty-fve of
them then, and their meeting being so
boisterous as to provoke police interference,
the jug was corked up and the meeting
adjourned for twenty years. Only nine
remained to finish the liquor.
Year: 1877

A few days ago, Burlington man, who
had long been fervent disciple Of Dico,t
and Palm, and all the other cremationists,
made his will, i'll which he stipulated that
after his death mis- body should be burned
and his ashes preserved in classic urn.
But yesterday morning he went into the
kitchen to black his boots, and, when he
V ent to sit down on the wood-box he sat
down on stove-plate that Bridget had
Just taken off the roaring stove. And he
tore up the will, and threw away all his
books on cremation, and kicked the agen
of a patent inodorous casket and retort, ,and
says if anybody comes to his funeral witt
even a match in his pocket, he mill rais'
up in his coffin. Oh but he was mad ant
one thing and another.
Year: 1877

Bad us are his habits (the pickerel, }
however, he is not the only nor the worst
enemy of the poor, pestered trout. The
great turtle, the taurup or torper of the
aborigines, the swapping turtle Of more re-
fined dialects, is a deadlier foe, for he takes
the mature fish, not the mere fngerlings,
which satisfy the pickrel.


The taurup is a horrible creature, one
of the antediluvians, cruelty in its eye,
strength in its muscle, imperviousness in
its shell, and neither mercy nor gentleness
in its heart or bowels. With equal indie
pendence it lives on land or in water, with
equal courage it defends itself from man
or beast. One of forty, fifty or even sixty
pounds, to which weight they often attain,
is no mean antagonist; when captured and
drawn into the boat, or cornered, it turns,
and rising on its black and wrinkled legs,
not crawling prone like an ordinary turtle,
but with head extended, little yellow eyes
glittering, and sharp beak ready for the
test, it advances, defiant of all created
things. Then it is no pleasant object, nor
agreeable companion within the narrow
limits of an ordinary boat, and the captor
at such moment wishes he had done
something else, aud been a good way of
instead Of being just in that particular
spot at that moment Of time. remember
one l captured, of quite sixty pounds
weight-dragging him ashore by the tail,
and then chopping his head off with an
axe-which cleared the kitchen quicker
than the "Ole folks, young folks, when
we undertook to put him into the wash
boiler of boiling water with a view to tur-
tie soup; and another which moved its legs
twenty-fOur hours after it was not only
decapitated, but disemboweled. These
fellows are dangerous to deal with, and
must be approached with care; their bite
is terrible, their jaws never relaxing till
the piece seized upon comes out, and they
are possessed of quickness of motion
which no ono would expect from their
heavy, awkward shape. They lay their
eggs in the sand during the warm days of
early June, depositing about thirty or
forty, and scratching out hole about half
the depth of their bodies for that purpose.
The eggs are round, nearly an inch in d.
ameter and of delicate orange color, the
shell being thin, like transparent paper,
and they are left to hatch of themselves
under the heat of the summers sun.
Swapping turtles destroy and devour some
of our finest trout, approaching them for
that purpose from below, rising slowly from
the bottom, and looking more like some
black, rough barked log than a living crea-
ture, till they are near enough to dart out
their long neck and big head The trout
sometimes escapes, but carries with him
thereafter the clear imprint of the two
horny jaws on either side of his abdo-
men.-App'eton's Journal.
Year: 1877

1t has involved a large majority Of our
people in debt, who are no more able to
pay to-day than they were the day they
contracted their Indebtedness. At least
large majority of them may be.so consid-
cred. II makes men extravagant and in
different when they can buy what they
need without paying for it at the time.
They become indifferent about collecting
the money due TO themselves, and there
fore lose n great many accounts which
might have been collected if attended TO
in time, whereas, not being required to
pay cash at the time, they become indif-
ferent as to whether the bills due to them
selves are paid. The consequence is they
lose a great deal by neglect and have event
ually to pay their own bills with interest,
which often takes the profits of many
months and even years of hard toll Then
let our people look to it in the future and
pay cash, or do without many things which
may be considered luxuries and not among
the necessities of life. While this system
cannot be adopted in day where the
credit system has been SO long in vogue,
yet our people will find it greatly to their
advantage 70 begin at once 10 reform the
system Of labor and business, and pay cash
for what they get, and do without many
things for which they could not pay.
When this system is once adopted, there
will be fewer Constables' or Sheriffs sales,
and more independent men among US.
The competition in business is one Of these
evils. 1t causes men to force sales where
there is the least possible show to get
money, in order that their sales may be as
large or larger than their neighbors. The
first thing they know their shelves are clear
of goods and they have no money to buy
more. Then one note after another ma
lures in bank, 50 that their credit is either
gone or they must make sacrifice of some
article Of property in order that they may
keep up their credit or keep out Of the
hands of the Sheriff.


1t is true that many men have made
fortunes from small beginnings, and often
those small beginnings we're borrowed cap
ital, but where one man has risen to emi-
nence or to fortune in that way, thousands
have amassed wealth by paying cash for
everything they bought. They were care
full not to extend their business faster
than their knowledge to control and man
age it was acquired, and this is just as i'm
portant as the means themselves, and may
with as much propriety be called cash
capital, for without such skill it is utterly
impossible to succeed at any business.
Year: 1877

A correspondent Of the TarE, Field and
Farm thus tells how to break gun-shy
dogs OF the gun-shy setter dog spoken
OF in your last number, l would say
The trouble with the dog probably origi.
mated in his faulty rearing, If pistol shots
are fired over young pups when feeding
them they will not only become accus.
toned to, but grow to like the report of
the gun, and be not afraid of Il. If the
dog In question is good worker and re-
trlever 1t will be an easy matter to cure
him of his shyness. The owner should
take him out to where there is cherry or
mulberry tree, or any other on which fruit
grows that attracts robins or birds of like.
size. The tree should stand on bare
grodnd, that is, be isolated, so when birds
are shot at from it the dog can see them,
both in falling and when on the ground.
Drive a stake into the ground within
shooting distance, chain the dog to it and
SIT down close beside him. Load the gun
for the first few charges very light, but be
sure to kill the bird shot at. After every
discharge Of your gun caress and speak
gently to the dog. As soon as it is evil
dent that his first fear is overcome, com
menee increasing the charge until you
reach full quantity, and Keep shooting
until he watches you rising your gun to
fire without showing any signs Of trepida.
ton. Then take him from the stake and
lead him BY the chain among the dead
birds; permit him to pick them up and
give them to you, returning caresses each
time, but keeping your gun always in your
hand to let him see and smell it. Next set
him free, and then shoot another bird, but,
instead Of letting him drop to charge, tell
him to go out and fetch.
Year: 1877

HOME BEAUTY.-A tasteful woman can
make garret beautiful and homelike. and
at little cost; for the beauty of home de.
pends more on educated and refined taste


than upon mere wealth. If there is no
artist in the house it matters little that
there is a large balance ut the bank.
There is usually no better excuse for a
barren home than ignorance or careless
ness. A little mechanical skin can make
brackets and shelves for the walls. A
thoughtful walk in the woods can gather
leaves and lichens and ferns for adjoining
the unpictured rooms. A triHe saved from
the daily expenses can now and again put
new book upon the table or shelf. tn,
expenditure Of few shilliugs can convert
the plain window into a conservatory. Ii
these and fifty other ways can plain, bar,
room be converted into scene Of beauty
Year: 1877

ENvY.-The moment man achieves
success there's always somebody at hand
to tell how poor, how obscure, how enc
account" he used to be, and to express
wonder and astonishment that he should
ever have amounted to anything" The
fact that he has amounted to something,
that he has proved himself a success, seems
to make some of his acquaintances feel
that they have been robbed in a manner,
and that by so much as he has risen above
them in position or influence, by SO much
they are dwarfed. Men who have groped
blindly to find fitting place for the ex-
ercise of their talents, find it, and with it
come naturally appreciation, money, inhu-
ence, prosperity. Can their good fortune
cause anything but rel joicing in q magnan-
imous and noble mind? There are very
few men of note before the public who
have not fought their way up through
poverty, obscurity, disaster and countless
oppositions Of adverse circumstances. In
fact, almost everybody 'that is ANYBODY"
has had to fight for his crown, and when
he gets it, shouldn't everybody rejoice
with him2 Doubtless there's many and
many a rough diamond that is never pol.
ished and set, but lies buried in mountain
gulches covered with mud; many a ''mute,
inglorious Milton" sleeps in quiet country
churchyards; but the world is flashing with
light from diamonds that are set, ringing
with melody from Millions that are not
mute. One thing is certain; the man or
the woman who is occupied in picking to
pieces the crown lawfully won by sue
cessful neighbor is not likely ever to wear
one; for the time thus spent is worse than
wasted, and the disposition that can find
pleasure in employment so ignominious
and degrading can never find those aspi-
rations, labors and tolls congenial which
bring deserved reputation and honor and
success.
Year: 1877

WORMS IN FLOWER pors.-Many
flower lovers are puzzled how to get rid Of
the detestable worms that will infest the
earth in their flower pots. The following
Is recommended to destroy the pests
"Put one ounce Of ammonia into one eal.
Of warm water; and water the plants with
1t once a week; they will be free from
these worms and be beautiful and green
To kill the little bugs that get on the ole
ander, take piece Of lime the size Of ,
hens egg, and dissolve it in about tw,
quarts Of water, and wash the stalk ant
branches Of the tree
Year: 1877

As a fond mother when the day is DER
Leads by the hand her little child to bed
Half willing half reluctant 10 be led,
And leave his broken playthings ON the door
SIN gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassured and oomfOrted
By promises Of Others In their stead
Which though more splendid may not pleas,


him more;
SO Nature deals with us and takes away
our playthngs one by one and by the hand
Leads us 10 rest 10 gently that we go
Scarcely knowing II we wish 10 30 or stay,
Being too full OF sleep 10 understand
How far the unknown transcends the what w


know.
Year: 1877

Oregon is the great fish canning State
Of the Union, and last season the value
of the product of her salmon canning es-
adjustments alone, exceeded that Of the
immense yield of her grain fields. During
the period named no less than 100000
cases of canned salmon were put up and
shipped to all parts of the civilized world
and to fill these fifteen odd millions Of
cans, no less than three million fish were
killed. At this rate Of destruction it
would not be long before the salmon would
become as rare in the waters of the Co.
lumbia river as it is now in the Eastern
States. But the fish Gamers of Oregon,
wise men as they are, do not propose by
unskillful fishing, to ruthlessly extermi-
nate the salmon, and thus, as it were, kill
the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Hence, they have determined to exercise
the greatest care in taking only the largest
fish, and to further keep up the supply by
artificial propagation. With this object in
view, the business men Of Portland and
other centres Of the Oregon fish trade
have subscribed some $4,000 for the
purpose of establishing Matching houses
at various points on the upper waters of
the Columbia. For the sum named, it has
been estimated by pisciculturists on the
Pacific coast that two Matching houses can
be built, and that at an annual expenditure
of about $4,000 they can be maintained in
such a state of efficiency as will secure an
annual outcome of five million young fish.
With this large number thus artifcially
produced in addition to those hatched in
the usual manner along the banks of the
river, it is expected that all danger of a
total exhaustion of the salmon crop of
Oregon can be permanently averted, and
that by these timely precautions fish can
ming can be permanently preserved as one
of the great industries of the State.
Year: 1877

Que of the great mistakes of house.
keepers is keeping the windows tight and
shutters closed The reason this is done
is to save the bleaching Of the carpets by
the sun, but the result which follows, to
wit; vitiated atmosphere in the room, is
much worse than faded carpets. Going
into closed room at this season of the
year we find very unhealthy air, which is
very bad for the system to inhale. Dis
ease of the most virulent character is en-
gendered by the air Of closed rooms, and
the origin Of febrile diseases are directly
traceable to the confined air of rooms.
Keeping the parlor free from flies is very
well, yet the filth of flies is nothing like
az dangerous to health as the poisoned air
in closed room. To overcome the OBJ.
jections to flies, gauze or wire screen tack.
ed to a wooden frame Of the size of the
window keeps the flies out, and at the same
time admits the air and makes the room
healthy. Besides keeping out the flies the
ssseens are good to keep off mosquitoes.
Farmers who are busy from early to late,
by opening the rooms Of their houses and
using wire screens will do much to make
their homes more comfortable and at the
same time make them healthier. A nap
in the middle Of the day is very refreshing
and particularly 80 to the thrifty and in
dustrious tiller Of the soil, but the diff.
Guilty at this season to quiet and undis-
turbed rest is the flies. BY going into a
cool room which is well aired and the
windows screened, the flies are kept out
and the sleep which ensues does much
more good than the ftful maps between
the bites Of flies. During the summer
months every part of the house and barn
should be most thoroughly aired and
cleansed. Ifprecautionary measures are
not taken disease may follow.
Year: 1877




QUIET GrRLs.-The quiet girl is gen
orally worth studying, and will frequently
astonish those who pretend to understand
her, BY rising to heights, when she is sum
moned thither, which are unapproachabIet to
her compliment and courted critics. Yet
It may happen that quiet girls of the best
type, may lack the wit, the adaptability to
that which they have no sympathy, ths
glibness, and that unliulited faith III them.
selves which must be possessed BY those
who desire to attract the notice Of the
more shallow patron Of society, who believe
in noisy girls. All quiet girls arc not en-
dowed with genius and the virtues. fot
some are simple fools who would be noisy
enough Il they could find anything to say.
But we protest against the habit which
prevails Of sighting quiet girls and speak
ing IL Of them before they have heen iaifIy
tried, and Of paying siekening homage io
the conceited chatter boxes Of liltie SENSE
and principle While noisy damseIs win
often turn out to be gaudy impossers, many
quiet ones win amply repay the time,
trouble or love which anyone may l.etsow
! upon them.
Year: 1877

No European could enter the gates OF
Teheran for the first time without feel
ing of intense disappointment the city
appears so Insignificant in area aud eleva.


tion. One sees nothing but wide, dusty


spaces, broken occasionally by a mud
wall Of precisely the same color as the
road. Afler riding within the gates across
the country for about mile, through
holes in the walls of dusty Enclosures,
which look as If somebody had at one
time thought them worth mud.wall, and
on second thoughts had arrived at an op-
posite conclusion, we came to something
that had in the uniformity Of its width
the aspect Of street; but like all the
other ways Of Teheran, this was bounded
by apparently interminable walls Of mud


broken only at about every twenty oil
thirty yards by an iron-bound door, tn,
single sign that this erection was the out


or wall Of habitations. At last we arrived
in the Belgravia Of the Persian capital
! tho place Of highest fashion; and ther,
Year: 1877

1t is with more than ordinary degree
of pleasure that we are, this week, priv
LEGGED to announce the fact that this re-


nowned poet-priest will deliver lecture
in our town, tonight. When our peo-
pie remember that the good Father has
been valiant champion Of the South
amid all the multiplicity of difficulties
and disastrous surroundings with which
she has had to contend, we believe they
will have SO strong & desire to hear him,
and see HIM, that a large audience will
greet his first appearance among us. We
give below "The Conquered Banner"
one of the most pIaintively beautiful of
all the poems he has ever written. Read
it, and your curiosity to hear the writer,
will insure your attendance, to night
Year: 1877

While it is fact that cannot be disput-
ed successfully, that an institution simi-
lar to that proposed in the bill which Mr..
Bird has introduced into the House of
Representatives is needed in this State,
it is nevertheless quite evident that such
an undertaking would involve heavy
expense for buildings and machinery land
become a heavy tax upon the people
Whether this tax could be recovered in
the shape of productive labor is altogeth-
er problematical.


AS much as we desire such az institu-
ton we cannot urge the passage of a bill
for it's erection at this time.


We see numerous difficulties in the way
not among the least is the question of its
cite. This will be difficult to agree upon,
1t would cost too much money for trans
portation to have it erected IN either
Kent or Sussex counties-they do not
need it; and it seems that it could only be
maintained, if maintained at all, in the
section where it is most needed.


There is, however, certainly no objec-
ton to the introduction and consideration
of such a measure by the Legislature. On
the contrary it will be wise and proper for
those in authority TO examine the whole
matter and report upon the costs and
compare our present expenses with those
likely to follow under the proposed new
system,