smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

BALKY HoRsEs.-A Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals recommends
the following rules for the treatment Of
balky horses:


|. Pat the horse upon the neck, examine
the harness carefully first on one side then
on the other, speaking encouragingly while
doing SO then jump into the wagon and
give the word go; generally he will obey.


.. A teamster in Maine says he can start
the worst balky horse by taking him out of
the shafts and making him 60 round in
circle. If the first dance Of this kind
doesn't cure him, the second one will be
sure to do it.


8. To cure balky horse, simply place
your hand over the horses nose and shut
off the wind till he wants to 90, and then
let him go.


4. The brains Of horse seem to entertain
but one idea at a time; thus continued
whipping only confirms his stubborn re-
solve; if you can by any means give him a
new subject to think of, you will have no
trouble in starting him. A simple remedy
is to take a couple of turns of stout twine
around the fore.leg, just below the knee
and tie in bow knot. At the first check
he will 60 dancing off, and, after going {
short distance, you can get out and remove
the string to prevent injury to the tendor
in your further drive.
Year: 1879

Coal ASHES AND CURRANT. w oRMs. EARLY
in the spring, that is, before the leaves
start, cut out all old stalks; clean all dirt
and grass from the roots, throw the refuse
away as far as l can with shovel, cover
the roots with fresh dirt, and the dirt with
manure, and the manure with from two to
four inches of coal ashes.


have followed this plan for years, and
when the workmen obey orders am never
troubled with currant.worms. When they
'slight the job get few currant.worms,
otherwise my currants are very fine.
don't mean to advise little pile of coal
ashes close to the bush, but | do advise
that the ashes should be spread all over
the ground as far as the bush will extend.


Every family that uses coal can save
enough ashes for their own bushes, but to
those who have, say, twenty acres of cur.
rants, more or less, l say put on the coal
ashes, if you can get them. Plough under
the old ashes and you kill the eggs. II
may take two or three years to kill all the
eggs, but stick to it and you will conquer
d. X. B,trker, in Rural Ne0 Yorker.
Year: 1879

A gentleman who has had some exper-
fence at embarrassing writes to the Maine
Farmer that he levelled off place twenty
feet square, where COW had been yarded,
and spread on it bushel or more of wood
ashes and mixed them in with hoe and
rake. He planted in rows ten inches
apart, and in hills about one-half that dis
tancs, pressing it hard with board upon
which he stood. When the onions came
up he gave them good supply Of water
that had been made tepid from standing
in the sun, and that was well saturated
with new manure. The result was twenty
bushels of fine onions and no bugs ol
worms. Onions should be planted only.
Year: 1879

PRESERVING EGGS FOR WINTER.-Put the
eggs into large pail and pour boiling hot
water over them, then put a cover over
them and count sixty very slowly. Take
them out, wipe dry with thin towel, and
pack with little end down in buckwheat-
hulls, oats or bran. Put in place where
neither frost nor damp can touch them,
and they will keep for months. The boil
ing water shuts up the pores of the egg
shells, and keeps them fresh, while it does
not cook them. Another way is to rub
each egg over with linseed oil, put on with
a cloth. Lay them on table to dry, and
then pack away tightly. Lime-wat0r and
salt will also keep eggs, but they are moi
so well kept as by these other methods, az
they absorb the salt, and the white loses it,
freshness, and will not beat to froth ol
give lightness to cake.
Year: 1879

Is CLOVER FERTILIzER-The following
may throw some light on the subject,
About twenty years since man obtained
by lease large tract of land for a term Of
years, most of which was worn out and
exhausted rye land. One field of ten acres
was sown with rye when he took it. The
lessee gave it coat of ashes and good
sprinking of clover seed. The rye yielded
six bushels per acre; it was SO thin that
the clover had sufficient room to grow.
The next season the clover covered the
ground completely and was allowed to re-
main on the ground the entire season. In
the spring Of the second year the whole was
plowed in and the field planted with corn,
which yielded forty.seven bushels per acre,
and it has remained fertile field to the
present time and is very valuable land
Ne,0 ENGLAND homestead
Year: 1879

The Morrillton State in speaking of the success which has crowned the efforts of the managers of tie St. Joseph Colony near that place makes the following statement. It is an example which ought to be followed by other counties. Says the State:

 "1n connection with the growth of this Colony Morrilton cannot go un- mentioned Morrillton one year ago had but three houses on the south side of the railway, and to-day we count thirty one substantial struct ures, besides a good number in course of construction, and when we look upon the north side, where the most of the business houses are, we find now six to one last year. We have also q magnificent brick school edlice in course of erection. This structure is being builded by the very Rev. Father Strub, the founder of the Colony. This reverend gen tleman has in view the opening of Il school that will be classed with the best, and, possibly, the best in the State. 1t will be conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph, who will teach all branches from the lowest to the highest grades. The building will be an ornament to the town, aud will reflect credit, not only to the town but to the State. The archi- tectural design is of the most modern style, and being located in q beauti ful grove, it will be a most attractive building. Our Immigration Society IS worthy of note. Only three months in existence it has accom- plished much. In the western DOT tion of town q house furnished with sleeping accommodations, and cook ing apparatus, very conveniently arranged with five departments and an office for the officers of the Soci ety, stands as q monument of the result of two meetings of the Socl- ety. How does this compare with State Immigration Societies, which have been in existence for two years or more? What has any one of those societies to show2 What can they boast of but strongly framed constitutions together with some re ports of executive committees com plaining of poverty and shortness of finances? Unlike these, the Morril ton society at their first meeting re solved themselves into a committee of the whole, and subscribed and raised the funds at once, for the building of the immigrant home, and in two weeks time the carpenter was at work on the building. We con gratulate ourselves that no local lm- migration societies in any of the Southern States can make such q showing.
Year: 1879

Shrink not from woman of strong scuse; for if she becomes attached to you it is from seeing and viewing the different qualities in yourself; you may trust her for she knows the value of your confidence; you may consult her, for she is able to advise, and does so at once with the firm ness of reason and consideration Of affection; her love Is lasting, and 1t will not have been lightly bestoweds for weak minds arc not capable of the lo(tiest grades of passion.
Year: 1879

The hardest thing in the world for . young woman to do is to look unconcerncd the first timo she comes out in handsome engage ment ring.

 An 1rishman who had on q very ragged coat was asked of what stuff it was made, "Bedad, I don't know ! think the most of it is made of fresh sil
Year: 1879

l deep tEEi asiinG Republican Tn favor of the principles for winch the Dem ocracy are contending, and against those revolutionary tendencies tc which the tenders of his party arc committed, is of more significance tl.an if a thousand disappointed office hunters were to leave the Rad icals for spite, and join the Democ- racy for profit

 Our correspondent is fair repre- sentative of the best class of Repubi licans. He sees that the Democratic party is the only defender of the principles on which the States made the nation, and he looks to the Dem ocracy to successfully defend these principles against the dangerous az. aggressions of the party with which he has hitherto acted. He believes in the supremacy of the National authority, as we do, in the exercise of all it's legitimate powers. He be lieves, as we do. in the supremacy of of the States in all powers not sur rendered or forbidden by the Con stitution. And this leading Repub- l:can is but type of Q large propor- tion of the party with which he has long been identified. The same course of reasoning that has directed his steps will impel them to join with us--provided one obstacle is removed.

 The obstacle is the fear that the Democratic party will do something to unsettle the financial condition ol the country, and send us to sea again--a sea of doubt, of turmoil, oi disaster and ruin. Our opinion on this subject is well known. We have never given an uncertain sound. The position which we have now reached in our National finances has been obtalned at fearful cost, and by the infiction of cruel oppression. We know of few things in history more wicked than the legislation which robbed the millions for the few; which almost doubled the debts of the debtor, and corresponding,y augmented the value of the posses sions of the creditor. And the course pursued by the Secretary of the Treasury, in executing that leg islation, has been dictated by a henrtless desire to serve single in terest regardless of the wreck and ruin that covered the iand.

 But this is all overall beyond re- call. There is no way to right the wrong, no way to restore to its right ful owners what is lost. The only sensible course is to ACCEPT THE SIT LAYTON. It is not pleasant, but it is the only manly, statesmanlike course. We are at the bottom of the hill, IL is of no use to try to make the de scent easier, because it is made be yond recall. Why, then, waste our time on dead issues of finance? Why attempt the impossible2 "Let the dead past bury it's dead," and let the Democratic party devote its best en' ergies to the maintenance and de fence of those great principles fol which the majority in Congress con tended so manfully during the extra session. On these issues the bess clements of the Republican party will gradually unite with us for the preservation of the Union that our fathers made, and the rights of the States as defined in the Constitution.
Year: 1879

Little Rock Democrat: Col Bob Ingersoll has at last severed his con nection with the Republican party. Some two weeks ago he declared at q meeting of Liberals that he felt SO outraged at the persecution of Ben nett that he told John sherman that he would never again vote tine Re publican ticket unless Bennett was released. He said it was hard for him to "give up his preferences for the Republican party as it had al ways been the champion of human rights" But the resolution adopted by the Liberals at Cincinnati yestcr- day make it lear that q new party is born. What is most remarkable is the glank in their platform strongly indorsing the doctrine of State rights. Whatever heresises these Liberals may teach they arc sound on this Fundamental question.

 All things must change. Friend must be torn asunder and swept along in the current of events. to see each other seldom, and, perchance, no more. For ever and ever in the eddies of time and acesdent we whirl away.

 We all love pleasure and abhor sorrow. No one will choose Q cloudy sky and a rough path; but these eviis have their good parts, and those who really long for peace and happiness will try to find out and extract them, instead of hurry ing along reseAtlllly ot 6i.h forced .8ayet5
Year: 1879

Fully purcuaded am that there Is no place oil earth more fortunately situated than Bridgeport in almost every respect, wi, h our charming drives, our Sea Side Park and our surroundings generally. If Il man gets worn down with business and the good wife with housekeeping all you have to do for an agreeable and inexpen- siye change Is to take half hours ride to the high and healthy hills of Newtown engage quarters with Dick and get the best of care and attention and sit down ill the clcanest. prettiest dining room. par take of the most wholesome and best cooked food that can be found anywhere. The beauty of this thing for Bridgeport our city. A business man can leave his place uf business at 5 or 6 o'clock p. m. and with only one-half hours ride over the Housatonic you arrive in time for tea and drive before dark. Breakfast Is ready and Mike always gets you to the train that reaches here at z a m., so that n man can take his family into the country, be with them every night and attend 10 business just as though he was living but two blocks from his office, and the change Is just as good and advan- tageous as though he sent them two hundred miles away. I have often thought that many of our citizens did not realize what charming resort Newtown Is and how easy of access, although q great many have tried the pleasant home at Dicks and will appreciate what have written. MAJ.-Stdnddrd.
Year: 1879

Last week Mrs. Charles Morehouse and on looking Into a measure fin which were some round clans, she noticed that one of them was resting against the side of the measure some distance from the rest of its companions. She stopped to see how the clam had gotten into that strange position and saw that there was tall to the wonderful mystery and that 1t belong ed to a rat who hung head down wards on the outside of the measure, waiting for something to turn up. Mrs. Morehouse thought she would capture the rat, and accordingly folded her apron around her hands to keep the rat from biting; but when ready and just in the act of carrying out her designs, the rat made sudden jump and dragged the clam out of the measure and ran among some boxes and barrels. Mrs. More house related the circumstance to MT. Morehouse. who immediately went in search of rat and clam. In removing the boxes and barrels the rat ard clam availed themselves of the wider field and both darted Into the cellar wall. and are now safe from further molestation from the outside world. The rat found the clam eniosing the quiet of the healthful cellar air and yawning, and Tn playful mood. like many roughes caught steal Ing. Inserted his tail into the cavity t. draw out the life's blood of the clam | when to the rats utter astonishment, the occupant of the house suddenly closed the door. and held him prisoner.

 We feel that our task has been finished so far as giving the facts are concerned but dare not close without here saying q word In reference to the great damage done to skieuce, and the loss which men of mathematical ideas have sustnined Supposing his ratship intended to rob the clam and fat himself upon the contents of the clam's dwelling. 1t would be inter ''-.'n1 to know how long It would take the rat To ~-4 the clam out of house and home by simply ins.--ino the poin, of his tail into the opening and withdraw. ing it, taking 1t to his mouth and licking of the juice--as do boys when stealing molasses from the bunghole of barrel We cannot pause for a reply, because the tail cannot be explained unless the ap. pendix can be made to harmonize with undeveloped science, SO we proceed to take up the other horn of the dilemma which is even more bafiing. We know that the clam followed up the bold at. tempt upon its domains, by closing ir with the thief and would-be murderer and judging from tho tenacity of is hold upon the rats tail, we ask how long il will take the clam to chew of the rats tail? These are questions which we feaI can never be answered. And we deeply regret that this golden opportunity o contributing to science a valuable fact was lost in the deep recesses of cellar wall.
Year: 1879

How remarkable it is that when
ever an enthusiast in religion gets
new light, and adopts what he con-
siders advanced views" he almost
invariably begins to tamper with
marriage! In this tampering he al


ways betrays the charlatan, and
sufficiently warns all who are tempt
ed to follow him to beware of him.
There is no better test of a new sys-
tenn of life than its relation to
Christian marriage. If it hampers
with that it is always bad, and can
by no Possibility be good. The
Shakers form a community built on
this rotten foundation. They de-
stroy the family, root and branch.
They have no place for love, and
enter into determined and organ
lied fight with the God of Nature,
who, by the strongest passions and
impulses He has ever implanted in
the human soul, has commanded
them to establish families and
homes. Shakerism is good for no
thing if it is not.good universally
if it ought not to be adopted uni


versally. But universal adoption
would be the suicide of a race, and
race has no more right to commit
suicide than q man. Besides, the
damming of human nature only sets
the water back to cover the banks
it was intended to nourish and to
drain. 1t is too late to talk about
the superior sanctity of the celibate.
We have no faith in it whatever.
The VOW of chastity simply empha-
sizes in the mind the passion it is
intended, for spiritual reasons, to
suppress, and fixes the attention
upon it. The Shaker, in denying
love to himself and all the hallowed
influences that grow out of family
and home, gaine nothing in holiness,
if he do not lose irretrievably. He
is the victim of a shocking mistake,
and he disgraces himself and his
father and mother by his gross
views of an institution before whose
purity and beneticence he and his
whole system stand condemned.


Of course we do not need to al
lude to the Mormon. His views of
marriage-revealed, of course-are
simply beastly. But these new
schemes of life, religion and. phi
losophy are constantly springing
up. 1t is very difficult for any sys
tenn of socialism to establish itself
without tampering with marriage,
and one of the best arguments
against all sorts of communities
and phalansteries and what-nots of
that sort, is that the family, as a
unit, is unmanageable within them.
They can take in and organize
miscellaneous mass of individuals,
and provide some. sort of a dirty
substitute for marriage, hut the
family bothers them. 1t is a gov
ernment within a government, that
they cannot get along with. So
the marriage test is a good one in
all cases OF the kind Scribner.
Year: 1879

The Scranton Republican tells a
touching story of poor old wo-
man who haunts the depot about
the time that the trains arrive, and
gazes at the faces of the incoming
passengers as if expecting some
one. During the war her only son,
a young man upon whom she fairly
dotted, was killed in one of the hot
test engagements, and the news of
his death so preyed upon her mind
as to disturb the poor woman's rea-
son. Ever since then she goes to
the depot once or twice a week to
meet the incoming trains, in the
hope that he will come to her. At
other times and on all other sub
jects she seems entirely sane, but
she sometimes thinks that her son
will come back, and to satisfy the
hope that never dies, and in the
depth of that love which never
fades, the poor mother continues to
go on her sad mission with as
much earnestness as though she
were performing a solemn religious
dutV
Year: 1879

We don't believe in repudiatlon.
The best thing to be done in all
cases where it is possible is to pay
debts at one hundred cents on the
dollar. But in the history of States
and municipalities there come
times when bad management, and a
series of disasters, render it impos-
sible to liquidate all obligations on
the above named basis. The hon
est thing for such debtors to do is
Just what an honest business man
does in a similar situation-call on
the creditors to compromise. 1t is
bad all around. 1t Injuries State
and municipal credit. But com
promise is better than trying to do
the impossible and going from bad
to worse. We notice some north
ern States that haven't clean re-
cord in this regard; States that bit
off q good deal more than they
could chew thirty or forty years
ago, and had to get out OF trouble
by compromising with their credi
tors, appear to have forgotten all
those events in their history, and
we find their newspapers fiinging
a good many ugly epithets at
Southern States that are now in the
deep waters of financial affliction.
1t is unkind and uncalled fer.
There is no section that has mo-
nopolized this compromise bust
ness Washington Post.
Year: 1879

not leave a place of such risk? The
reply is that those who become
mastered by the love of stock job
bing are unable to break away from
the scene. They are held by an ir-
resistible spell. and hence Gould
will never leave Wall street until
expelled by disease, bankruptcy or
death. He is under a mania, and
hence, Notwithstanding his wealth,
is (if properly viewed } an object of
pity Gould is now sixty-five, and
hence it is not surprising that he is
considerably shattered. He retains
his former close office habit, is diff
cult of access, and rarely appears in
the street He has but little to say
to any one. and asks nobody to
shake hands or inquire about
health. His mind is absorbed with
busines schemes, and he is carrying
a heavy burden. How long he can
carry it is a question concerning
which there is q variety of predic-
tiOnS.
Year: 1879

From the n. Y. Letter: Another
more important return is that of
Jay Gould, whose reappearance is
one OF the events of the financial
world. Few men have brought
back less from the Old World
than this Wall street king, whose
heart during his entire absence
has been in tee Stock Exchange.
He has, while abroad, negotiated
some important financial schemes.
and this fact will no doubt be soon
more clearly developed. Twenty
years have elapsed since he for
sock the plodding leather trade and
began to operate in stocks. During
this interval he has made a large
sum, but he has become the slave
of speculation and must remain an
habitue of Wall street until the last.
Many predict that he will eventually
meet the gamblers fate. 1t is often
asked why q man of his wealth does
Year: 1879

Suppose a hunter sees n souirrel
or the side of tree, and as he goes
around to get shot at the squirrel,
the squirrel runs around the tree so
as to always keep on the side oppo-
site the hunter. In this wav the
hunter completes a circle around
the tree; has he gone around the
squirrel as well? SCHOOL Boy.


Chicago, Sept. l6.


Reply.-We have been expecting
this question every mail. IL has
come, and we will answer IL for
good. We heard this puzzle wran-
gled over "down in Vermont long
before the frosts of eighty-six win
ters had whitened our head, and we
suppose boys will discuss 1T a hun
dred years to come. The answer
depends entirely on the meaning OF
the word around, in the last sentence.
Webster gives the definition of this
adverb as follows: ain a circle"
"on every side" 1t is obvious that
the second is the definition of the
word as used in the sentence. That
being the case, the answer TO the
question must be no, because tho
hunter has not been on every side
of the squirrel. 1t is not true that
a thing going around circle goes
around e. @, on every side OF IT'D
everything within that circle A
span OF horses may go around a
race track but the outer horse does
not go around the inner one because
he is always on the same side Of
him. To go around him there must
be some point in the circle where
they would be head to tail, but such
is not the case; consequently the
outer horse, being only on one side
Of the inner horse, does not 90
around q. g., on every side Of him.
This reply is hardly worth the
'pace it occupies, but we know the
question must come and be answered
Iooner or later.-[Chicago News.