smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Winter is the time for planning, as
the summer is the season for execution.
Winter is the time for thought, as sum
mer is the season for carrying thought
into action. n.-IoWa State Register.
Year: 1879

From the Cleaveland Herald.


The letter from Dakota which We pub
lsn will attract attention, not only for its
graphic style, but for the striking facts it
contains These facts illustrate the won.
tlerful transformation effected in Northern
Minnesota and Dakota by the introduc-
ton Of the railroad, and confirm previous
reports of the extraordinary fertility of
the region which not long ago vas be-
lieved to be utterly worthless for ag,icul
tural purposes. The writer, member of
the Herald staff, was dispatched to that
country for the special purpose Of making
3 truthful report OF the facts concerning
it's value as farming land and Its fitness as
a home for emigrants from the older States
and Europe. The account he gives will
,1ispel any lingering doubts concerning
tue fertility of the region through which
the Northern Pacific railroad runs and its
special adaptation for grain culture. The
details given Of the yield of wheat and
oats on the tarms visited and the prices
obtained show that no one with little
capital aud some knowledge of farming
can fail to do we'll By going up to the
Dakota wheat lands and making home
for himself and family.
Year: 1879

jamestown ALERT:


presume you think we are dead OF
have left the country, but we are still
living and have ennis grated little farther
west. We now hang up at this place,
which is eleven miles west Of Valley City,
and is one Of the incest locations for a
town on the line of the N. p. r. r., and
judging from the appearance Of every
thing it will be pushed along right. All
the buildings here are good substantial
ones, painted and put up in good style
you see no shanties, and there is a good
class Of people settling here. Mr.. Len.
ham is building large store, 20x60, two
stories, and when completed will fill it
with large stock Of goods. He is man
who never does anything by halves, but Il
thorough business man, and one who is a
bsnetit to anv new country.


Land has been taken up very fast IN
this section Of country, but there is still
!. plenty of good Government land to be
had not far from the location Of this place
and parties wishing to come to new
country cannot do better than to come to
this place. They can find good accommo-
dations and conveyance to look over the
country, also men who are thoroughly
acquainted with the land business to show
them around. We expect large emisra.
tion to this part Of Barnes county next
season, as there are many now here who
have friends waiting t. hear how they
like the country and to see what kind OF
crops are raised this aeason.


1t is not necessary to say anything in
regard to crops, as every Dakota paper is
full concerning Tie abundant crops every.
where, and we can boast Of as good soil as
any Of them.


We shall write again soon, CY.
Year: 1879

A real whale was caught in the Ran.
tan Bay, near Port Monmouth. The car
cass of the enormous fish was anchored
near an old fsh-oil factory, where the
lucky fishermen who struck bonanza
in the capture of sperm whale melted
the blubber in large iron pots.


The whale was first seen about sun
rise by u fisherman named Ludlow, on
Port Comfort Shoals, about nine miles
from Sandy Hook. He saw. the large
black object in the water, but thought it
was a wreck of some vessel, and did not
20 near it. George Pope, also fisher
man, went out in a small boat for the
purpose of catching some oysters, and on
nearing the shoals noted the large dark
body in the water. On approaching IL,
he found that it was q large, live 6sh Of
some kind, and, having no other weapon,
he commenced Sticking his oyster knife
into the side of the whale, but, seeing
that it had no effect, he went to the
shore and procured the assistance Of a
fellow fisherman with an axe.


They returned to where the whale was
still lying; the boat was then backed up
to the whales head, when one Of the
men commenced chopping it in the head
with the axe. Fortunately for the boat
men, the whale did not struggle much
until they were some distance away,
when it commenced to founder, and
roll, and in a short time succeeded in
getting off the shoaI and started toward
Sandy Hook. The fishermen, not know
ing the danger they were in, started after
it and tried to catch or drive it toward
the shore by throwing their anchor into
its spout, and at one time, while thus
endeavoring to catch the enormous fish,
it passed under their boat, almost lifting
it out of the water. The whale was fol-
lowed down the bay several miles, and
with the aid of other fishermen, who
were in boats, it was driven ashore.
With scythe borrowed from a neigh
boring farmer, the whale was finally
killed by stabbing in the side. A
schooner then took the carcass in tow and
brought it to the Brays landing.


Captain Bilson, who is an old whaler,
and has been in the South Indian seas,
stated that this was a very large COW
whale, it being thirty-hVe feet long and
about nine in diameter, and yielding
over thirty barrels Of sperm oil.
Year: 1879

and though l never saw Sir Pa1merin
now, vet think the rumor tells no
that calls him a very valorous knig
1t is no easy matter to make a chO
between three knights of such hi
esteem therefore will leave the de
sion to yourselves. He who shall sol
a problem which 1 will propose to yo
shall have me for his bride; and /
neither of you can give me a correct
answer, will reject you all.


She beckoned little page who fol-
lowed behind her, carrying a willow
basket; and taking the basket from his
hand, she again addressed the rival
knights.


Il have here said she, gin my basket,
a gift of plums for each of you, picked
from my garden. One of you shall have
half and one more, the second shall
again have half and one more, and the
third shall have half and three more.
This will empty my basket. Now tell
me how many plums are in it ~


With a very bland Sountenance, the
Danish knight spoke first.


There are three-score," said he, max
ing a random guess.


"No," replied the lady; "but if there
were as many more, half as many more,
and third as many more as there are
now in the basket, with five more added
to that, the number would by SO much
exceed three-score as it now falls short
of it."


The Russian knight looked very much
bewilderei, as he speculated on forty
five.


Not So" said the princess; "but if
there were a third as many more, and a
sixth as many more as there are now,
there would be in nv basket as many
more than fOrty-five as there are now
under that number"


LADY, the number is thirty" said
Palmerin of England, with quiet smile.


"Rightr' exclaimed the lady; "and
YOU are the first of two score knights
and three that has been able to answer
problem of my offering"


She then counted him out fifteen
plums and one more, and there remained
fourteen. To Sir Waldomar, she gave
seven and one more, and six remained.
To Sir Harold, she gave half of these
and three more; and the basket was
empty.


And so Sir Palmerin of England won
the Princess Isolette for his bride; and
the discarded knights went away with
their heads in whirl, and their mouths
full of DlumS.
Year: 1879

ANYBODY who had ever seen one d
! the genus could tell at first glance thGt
| he was a tramp, and the minute he
walked up to the bar, the barkeeper


Hspotted him" "Say, mister" said he,
"do you believe all they tell about this
here phonograph? p


The practitioner at the bar replied in
an absent sort of way that he had seen
/ a grest deal of the world, and had
/ learned by bitter experience to take
/ nothing on trust and never believe any


thing which was not corrobOrated by the
| evidence of his own senses.


''They say" resumed the tramp, "that
q man can whisper in one Of those phOn-
| ographs, and forty thousand years after
wards they can set the instrument on the
| mantel-piece and throw off the brakes,
/ and it will Just start in and repeat them
very words, with every tone and int1ee-
ton of the voice of the fellow what
spoke them, even to any false notes he
may have talked at the time"


"See here" said the bar-keepeT, when
I saw you coming I knew you wanted
drink, and l thought your chin music
would be something about the Austin
and Battle Mountain Railroad, or the
look of the eagle on the new dollar, or
the Mohett belI-puneh, or some other
popular subject of national importance,
and you might have spared me for 3
drink or something of that kind. But
when a man stands right up in front Of
this bar, and plays me for an Egyptian
mummy, and tells me q clear up-and-
down lie, and tries to stuff me with
something that's Just as impossible as
that needle can enter the Kingdom Of
Heaven, I'd rather empty every drop of
rot-gut in the establishment out in the
street than give you drop Of it, if you
was as dry as a sermon. Spin of on
your ear, and try your funnygraph on
the next house. It's too funny for me-"
= 81 s'pose you don't believe in the tele-
phone" remarked the tramp, in a tone
of sarcasm.


@Yes, know all about the telephone;
it's thing that could set down here in
Austin and converse with the Car of
Russia at Constantinople in seventeen
languages; it can play the sewing
machine and run the piano forte, and
talk barber to sleep; but there's one
thing it can't do. It can't get drink Of
whisky, without q coin equivalent, for
meier q sad-eyed tramp that ever made .
mark on the ground in Austin


And the sad-eyed one started out to
try the next house, remarking in a low,
sweet whisper that he was too scientific
for the surroundings, and must come
down to some subject the people Of this
country were posted on.
Year: 1879

William Cullen Bryant once gave the
following sensible advice to young mar
who had offered him an article for the
EUelling Post:


My young friend, observe that you
have used several French expressions in
your letter. think, if you will study
the English language, that you will find
it capable of expressing all the ideas
that you may have. l have always
found it so, and in all that I have writ
ten l do not recall an instance where
was tempted to use foreign word, but
that, on Searching, I have found a better
one i'll my own language.


Be simple, unaffected; be honest IN
your speaking and writing. Never use
long word when a short one will do as
well.


Call a spade by its name, not well
known oblong instrument of manual
labor let a home be home and not &
residence; place not locality, and so
on of the rest. When a short word will
do, you always lose by long one. You
lose in clearness you lose in honest
expression of meaning; and, in the es-
fImat1on of all men who are capable of
Judging, you lose in reputation for
ability.


The only true way to shine, even in
this false world, is to be modest and un-
assuming. Falsehood may be a thick
crust, but in the course of time truth
will find a place to break through. Ele-
gance of language may not be in the
power of US all, but simplicity and
straightforwardness are.


Write much as you would speak, and
as you think. If with your inferior,
speak no coarser than usual: if with
your superior, speak no finer. Be what
you say, and within the rules of pru-
dence. No one ever was a gamer by
singularity of words or in pronunciation.
The truly wise man will so speak that
no on will observe how he speaks. A
man may show great knowledge of
chemistry by carrying bladders ofstrange
gases to breathe; but one will enjoy bet
ter health, and find more time for busi-
ness, who lives on common air.


Sidney Smith once remarked: "After
you have written an article, take your
pen and strike out half the words, and
you will be surprised to see how much
stronger il is"
Year: 1879

Parents express too little sympathy
for their children; the effect of this is
lamentable.


"How your children love you! I would
give the world to have my children so
devoted to mep said a mother to one
who did not regard the time given to her
children as so much capital wasted. Par
ents are fatally wrong when they grudge
the time necessary for their children's
amusement and instruction, for no in
vestment brings so sure and so rich
returns.


The child's love is holy; and if the
parent does not fix that love on himself
he deserves to lose it, and in after-life to
be wailing his poverty of heart.


The child's heart is full of love, and it
must gush out towards somebody OF
something. If the parent is worthy of it,
and possesses it, he is blest; and the
child Is safe. When the child loves
worthy persons and receives their SYM
pathy, he is less liable to be influenced
by the undeserving; for in his soul are
models Of excellence with which he COM
pares others.


Amy parent can descend from hi chill
ing dignity. and freely answer the child's
questions. talking Familiarity and tenderly
with him; and when the little one
wishes help, the parent should come out
Of his distractions and 2heerfullY helm
Year: 1879

everything this line cheapest
best made We having large trade Genuine All " DOL
thing ladies in delicate health
and Pants good, valued


In MEMS Underwear brag grade, believing
be equal the and goods sold by other dealers


We full lines Scarlet and ScochWOo Underwear which
sell a per less than the usual figures.
Year: 1879

"Why did you disturb me {"


Just at that moment the "tap


tap" was heard again, louder than ever.
Being fully convinced that the noise
came from the inside of the wardrobe, l
very cautiously lifted some of the things
to see what it could possibly be. At the
same time certain stories of spirit
rappings" hoated through my head.


l most cautiously lifted one or two
small boxes, but still could find nothing.
When just about to give up the search,
took up small green box, and to my
great alarm heard, more distinctly than
ever, the 'tap-tap-tap." Yes, what
ever was making the noise was there, in
my hand, but what could it be?


l carefully examined the outside of
the box; then very cautiously lifted the
cover, not knowing exactly what l ex-
pected to see. But there it was, the
cause of all my fright-a beautiful but
terfy, about six inches across the wings,
all black and red, gold and blue; a per-
feet beauty. can assure you l felt as if
a great weight had been lifted from me;
for 1 really had been quite frightened.


Now Just a word about how this
pretty butterfly got into that particular
box. Some little boy or girl may say,
"Why, never saw a live butterfly in
the winter time;" but if they will do as
my little Robbie did, they can see one.


Last October, he hunted among some
old logs, and under the railing of our
piazza he found some little things that
looked very much like dead leaves, all
rolled up tight But they were not
leaves; they were the chrysalis out of
which butterflies would come in the
spring time. Robbie had put two or
three of these i'll a box, and for safe
keeping, had put the box into mammals
wardrobe. The room being warm, the
chrysalis had developed faster than if
it had been out doors all winter. So the
butterfly, instead of being born in the
spring time, came to life in January.
Year: 1879

In Black Cashmeres show greater variety be
found whole together and dared before
We call especial attention the quality and 6Oc AT and
beautiful inch 40 inch goods that sold
al IN COlORED CASHMEI2ES show all at
fine awoO shades
These Goods Great Bargains!
Year: 1879

Gloves Kid Le Fleeced Wool Leather The best
so cent TwOButtOn Kid Glove sold at that price


BleaChed and Brown COttOns
Are sold before The Brown
sold per yard Cotton Fnne selling per
less than former prices.
Year: 1879

EFFECTS OF BATHs.-An article of a
very interesting and instructive nature,
on the Physiological action of baths,
was published in a late number of the
London Lancet. Summing up, the writer
notes that warm baths produce an effect
upon the skin directly contrary to that
which is brought about by cold water
The cutaneous vessels dilate immedi-
ately under the influence of the heat,
and although the dilation is followed by
a contraction, this contraction is seldom
excessive, and the ultimate result of a
warm bath is to increase the cutaneous
.irculation. The pulse and respiration
re both quickened in the cold bath.
The warm Eath increases the tempera-
ture of the body, and by lessening the
necessity for the internal production of
heat, it decreases the call which is made
upon certain of the vital processes, and
enables life to be sustained with a less
expenditure of force. While cold bath
causes a certain stiffness of the muscles
if continued too long, a warm bath re-
lieyes stiffness and fatigue. The final
effect of both hot and cold baths, if this
temperature be moderate, is the same,
the difference being, to use the words of
Braun, that cold refreshes by stimula-
ting the functions, heat by physically
facilitating them, and in this lies the
important difference between the cold
water system and the thermal mode of
treatment"
Year: 1879

THE Republicans have nothing TO fear in
the most earnest and searching inquiry into
the Florida affair. As that inquiry now
stands it appears that TnpEN, who has
added to his income-tax thefts, his railroad
wrecking, and his stock jobbing the most
public and revolving crimes of perjury and
blasphemy, has declared that the returning
board was bought. MANToN MARBLE con-
firms (?) this by the assertion that the
board was for sale. Mr. DYKES infamous
and unwarranted offer to buy the board or
sell it to the Tildenites is all the foundation
MARBLE has or had for his statement. This
Cumulation of falsehood serves to aid the
Tildenites in the erection of their claims.
1t all rests upon DYKES unsupported ex-
preston. Call Mr.. DYKE and see if he will
now swear TO that expression or give any
valid reason for his belief DYKES offer
being established as the unwarranted effort
of common plunderer, the structure of
perjury and vile slander will fall to the
ground. There is nothing solid about it.
Year: 1879

posed too much upon the belief that the
colored citizen occupies the same relation
to them that was held by slave before the
war-only that the shaclSles of slavery
have been knocked off--and those of bitter
prejudice and unbrdled cupidity have
taken their place. They have shorn the
freedman of his rights Of citizenship by
force and intimidation, leaving nothing of
his manhood but his bone and muscle and
now that they begin to see that they can
not have the body when it is divested of its
dearest rights they exclaim, What has
caused this commotion-t spirit of
unrest-is problem which the voice of
our fertile but filllow lands cry out to have
solved" The uurenecting men who have
followed party prejudice until it has be-
trayed them into the grave wrong of despoil-
ing citizens Of their rights of opinion and
political action, now begin to apprehend
something of the legitimate consequences
OF that wrong. These men who perform the
labor of that country to enrich the planter
will not consent to surrender their citizen
ship to his behest and work on patiently
ana faithfully to heap up riches at his door
while their own political rights and inter-
ests are sacrificed by the relation, and they
delve ON the same plane they occupied while
slaves. The treatment of the colored citi-
zen by the Democratic planters during the
past few years has been attended by such
wrong and brutality that he cannot aud will
not brook it. The great mass of that class
have become so thoroughly disgusted with
the treatment they have received from the
Democratic whites that they long for new
fields of labor and enterprise, and they will
never be content until they are found and
secured. The process may he slow, but the
end is inevitable. The colored citizen will
not labor under type of slavery when he
can escane 1t
Year: 1879

Now comes Colonel SLOAN, of North Car
olina, and presents himself as n candidate
TO he Sergeant-at-Arms of the next Senate.
His success will serve to break up the con-
test between ex-Representatiyes WADDELL
and SHOBER, both Of whom are candidates
for the Secretaryship of that body And his
success is among the probabilities, for he is
strongly backed by Southern Senators gem
orally, and is worthy man ON general ac.
counts. If he were not II North Carolina
Democrat more that is good might be said
Of him; but his ofIense in that respect is
rank
Year: 1879

SECESSION and Calhounism is again ram
pant in Old Virginia. The Confederates in
the Senate of that State have adopted by Il
unanimous vote, u series of notification
resolutions. They deny the right of the
General Government to protect a citizen in
life, liberty, or property, or the exercise of
rights where the State claims jurisdiction ;
declare the legislation which has grown out
of the constitutional amendments to be null
and void deny the right of the General
Government to enforce the decisions of its
own judiciary where the State interposes its
veto, DC. They are evidently firing the
Virginia heart for another war.
Year: 1879

TILDEN went so far as to declare that
Nephew PELToN's methods were different
from those he himself would employ. If
this declaration were true, PELToN might
boast of it as an endorsement of his per-
sonll honesty; but it is not true. And
T1LDEN is now migrate enough to draw this
distinction between himself and his nephew
for the purpose of screening his own conf
plicity in the crimes, or attempted crimes,
of that blood relative. As we have said
before Nephew PELToN's shoulders are very
broad; but, we add, the people are not
blind. They know that the load carried by
those shoulders does not all belong to the
nephew of his uncle.
Year: 1879

SENATOR BEN HILLS friends boast that
he voted against the WARREN MITCHELL
claim. Well, what of it ? There's no proof
in that conceded fact that he will not vote
for other Southern claims on occasion Let
his friends prove that lie has been consistent
in anything before they begin to cite such
feeble precedents in his behalf
Year: 1879

TILDEN tried to tell straight story and
failed. In other words, he convicted him
self of perjury. He said he knew nothing
Of the attempts to bribe the South Carolina
electors, and swore TO it, He afterward said
ED COOPER told him PELToN was in Balti-
more trying to bribe those same electors,
and swore to that also. But this is not his
first offense in this line.
Year: 1879

LET Editor DYKE be called before the
POTTER Committee to give his reasons for
the belief he has expressed that the Florida
returning board was for sale. The Repub-
hcan members of that committee should
attend TO this at once.
Year: 1879

LET us hear no more about Southern Re-
publican corruption The Gramercy park
conspirators have proved, in their failure to
buy the Presidency for TILDEN, that the
Republicans of the South are as honest and
patriotic as those of any other section of the
country
Year: 1879

to buy the Presidency for him, believing
that Southern Republicans, as a class or as
individuals, were corruptible. They failed
in their efforts to corrupt a single man, and
now they turn about and declare that il was
their own fault that they did not succeed


But they have not as yet established the
fact that single vote was offered to them.
Year: 1879

RULES OF CONDUCT.-Never associate
with bad company. Have good COM
pauv or none.


Never lend a borrowed article unless
you have permission 10 10 So.


Never look over the shoulder OF an
other who is reading or writing.


Never appear TO notice a scar, def0rm-
ity OF defect Of any one present.


Never exhibit anger, impatience or
excitement when an accident happens.


Never answer questions, in general
company, that have been put to others.


Never call a new acquaintance by the
Christian name unless requested to do so.


Never attempt to draw the attention
Of the company constantly upon your
self.


Never arrest the attention Of an ac-
quaintauce by a touch. Speak 10 him.


Never punish your children for fault
to which you are addicted yourself


Never, when travelling abroad, be
over buastful in praise of your own
country.


Never pass between two persons who
are talking together without an excuse.