smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

King Alfonso Is said to have said to
some one recently: "I am not one OF
those who go away. shall die on the
throne, be it of q natural or a violent
death" which recalls the anecdote of
some years ago. When Queen Isabella
and her son first sought an asylum in
France, one day at Biarritz, where the
emperor and empress had gone to well
come them, the prince imperial suddenly
said to his father: Where are they
going?" Who?' p inquired the emperor.
"The Queen of Spain and Ii tie Alton
So" They are going into exile, my
son." "Where is exileH' inquired the
little prince. The emperor paused for a
moment, then smiled and answered in
the way grown people are SO frequently
forced to do when children drive them
into a corner by some weird que tion:
"You shall have exile explained to you
when you are older"
Year: 1878

r. is the silent watches of the night
that render the alarm clocks nsces-
sary.


1t is not polite to bite corn from the
cob in the presence of psop'e who have
false teeth.


st. Evremond said. Anectation is
a greater enemy to the face than the
smallpox"


"A great many men exc out what
they really have with what they pre-
tend to have.


When is mad bull as objection
able as an absent husband?-When it is
getting on toward one.


1t is generally acknowled" ed by
thinking people that the unive al bone
of contention is the jaw bone.


As education goes now young man
cannot hs fitted for college until he has
graduated at rowing academy.
Aio" Ch!ilC Ou w uhSt 7tIii "a ''''i y
nose" asked city dandy of country
boy. $50 that | would not be be pokins
into other peoples business" WAS the
reply.


The notion that you are genius IS
sort of wiil-o'the that will lead
you into bog some time and leave you
there. The only philosophers stone is
the ability and the willingness to work.
"A newly married man, who evident
ly needs discipline, thus discoursaA: GA
woman is handy thing to have about
the house. She does not cost any more
to keep than you'll give her, and she'll
take great interest in you."


The Oil City Derrick notices that,
while many women have killed bears,
not one of them has been known to kill
mouse The trouble is, we suppose,
that the mouse does not jump on the
table where they can get at Kim.
Year: 1878

A large proportion Of the American
people are to-day dying from the effects
OF Dyspepsia or disordered liver. The
result Of these diseases upon the masses
OF intelligent and valuable people Is
most alarming, making life actually a
burden instead of q pleasant existence
of enjoyment and usefulness as IL ought
to be. There Is no good reason for this,
II you will only throw aside prejudice
and skepticism, take the advice OF
Druggists and your friends, and try one
bottle Of Green's August Flower. Your
speedy relief Is certain. Millions Of
bottles of this medicine have been CIV
en- away to try its virtues, with salts
factory results In every oase. You can
buy q sample bottle for 10 cents to try.
Three doses will relieye the worst case.
Positively sold by all Druggists on tho
Western Centincnt.
Year: 1878

To THE EDITORS OF TIE DISPATCH:


l see nothing in your paper
that gives me the sentiment Of
your community on the railroad
question. l am afraid the news
papers in the Wal!amet valley
are subsidized in favor of the
extension of time to the North
ern Pacific Railroad. AS far as
that is concerned it is all right
enough as to time, if they would
make it obligatory on the COM
pany to finish and put in opera
tion a certain amount of road on
this end of the line. 1t is stated
by some that they have trans
portation to this portion of the
country, and that they now own
Sc 7enty-fve per cent. Of the o.
S. N. Co. If that is the case
this will be the last section of
the road that will be finished, if
ever. AS long as the company
can monopolize the carrying
trade by the river the road will
not be finished. Boats cost no.
thing, comparatively, to the cost
of building a railroad. Besides
what do we want to so to Port
land for? 1t is long distance
out of our way, and difficult and
dangerous going to sea; our
sacks are worn, our grain de-
stroyed, our purse depleted for
expenses. The Wallamet peo-
pie are trying to have Portland
the city and supply point of
this section. How absurd! East
ern Oregon above the Dalles of
the Columbia will be so identi-
fed with Washington Territory
that there will be no trouble in
annexing it. Portland and the
Wallamet people are trying to
hold US. But the near future
will solve that problem, as we
shall soon hold the balance of
power. We have paid them tri-
butte long enough, and if we can
cross over the mountains to deep
water we have got them and
they know it. All the publica-
tions are throwing cold water
upon the enterprise. Had we
received the same notice ten
years ago from the press that Is
now given us, our population
would have been four times as
great as it now is. c..


[Our correspondent labors un-
der mistake when he says he
can see nothing in our paper
which gives the sentiment of
our people on the railroad ques-
ton. The DISPATCH is the only
paper published here which has
defended the interests of the
people against the monopoly of
the Northern Pacific Railroad
and advocated an early con-
nection with Eastern Washing
ton and Oregon by rail.-ED.1
Year: 1878




The great and growing evil of
tramps is attracting much atten-
ten IN the Eastern States, but
no more than the Importance of
the subject demands. Migrants
have multiplied with a rapidity
which is alarming. In parts of
the country where a few years
ago there were only a few doz-
ems there are now hundreds and
thousands. The whole number
in the United States has recent
ly been estimated, although the
figure seem incredible, as high
as a million. On the subject Of
vagrancy generally a good deal
of valuable information may be
derived from the Annual Report
of the Chief Detective of Massa-
chusetts, recently published
Two amateur tramps were sent
out by him last summer to study
by intimate association and CO.
opera tion the ways Of the real
tramp. They spent three weeks
in travelling about the State in
company with vagrants, amount
ing from a single one up as high
as twenty. One day they met a
gang of thirty-three, who in
formed them that as many as
four hundred were concealed in
the woods, in anticipation of an
opportunity to join in strike
on the Boston and Albany Rail-
road. All these tramps subsist-
ed principally and almost Who'll
ly by theft. OF the entire num-
Der encountered by these two
| amateurs in their travels, only
two manifested any desire or
even willingness to gain an hon.
est living by work.


This class of scoundrels infest
every section Of the habitable
globe. Every means devised by
the lawmakers of the various
states have so far failed to check
or even mitigate the evil. There
are three distinct types of the
American tramp II the restless
spirits that keep constantly on
the wing, subsisting by theft
and begging as they go; the
vagabond who dresses well and
lives independently upon the
earnings of depraved women,
and, last, the lowest species of
lazaroni that exist in any other
country, - shocking reflections
upon humanity " who swarm
about squaw brothels and kind
red localities. Seattle has it's
full quota of the latter classes.
There are at least twenty men
in this city who have no visible
means Of support, yet dress we'll
and have more or less money,
procured from the sources men
toned; and the lazaroni who
swarm around the squaw dens
are more numerous still. Car
lyle says there are only three
ways of sustaining life-to work,
beg or steal. And as these fel-
lows will neither work nor beg,
it is reasonable to suppose they
maintain their existence by theft
or graver crimes-at least the
recent murder of Hagerson leads
to that inference. The sorry
spectacle of a street in the heart
of a town of four thousand in
habitants, on which it is unsafe
to travel after 9 o'clock, is here
presented, and yet the authori-
ties seem powerless to check
the evil.


The municipality of Rome
Year: 1878

1t ought to be too late in the season to
require any nudge in regard to putting the
dooryards and home premises in "apple-
pie order" But we have observed that in
many villages and farming communities
this work is never done until the house
wives either do it themselves or press the
men into it. When the weather is such as
we have had this spring, the rakes, hoes,
wheelbarrows, hammers and other utensils
required in "sicking things up" should
leave nothing undone past the middle of
April. There is the dooryard to clear of
leaves and the other debris left by winter (;
the lawn to top-dress or uncover from the
prudent dressing of last fall the stone
walks to straighten up, the plank walks to
mend, or the gravel walks to clean and give
fresh coating; the fences to right up;
the grape-trellises to straighten and repair
the chip-yard to clean up, and the cellar to
empty of all decaying or useless matter
and put in a condition fit for Il Christian
family TO live over.


We have often found that we could tell
the condition of business in village, and
the amount of public spirit that existed
there, by observing the state of the door
yards in spring time. Where the fences are
straight, the walks whole, the little grass
platS clean, the trees and Shrubbery neatly
trimmed the houses well painted, the gates
all hung and no old hats stuck into broken
windows-there we have found thrift, in-
telligence, contentment and prosperity.


The same thing is true of farming com
munity. There is no reason why farm
er's dooryard and household surroundings
should not be as well ordered, cleanly and
attractive as villagers. There isn't a
crop so important to the comfort and health
fitness of his family as his vegetable garden,
and nothing more necessary to the content
ment and pleasure of his wife and daughters
than generous and well-kept flower gar
den, with tasteful and attractive outdoor
surroundings. If you haven't it already,
set out bed of roses, so located that the
summer winds may fill your home with the
sweet odors and give up time enough now
while you can, to carry out any little plan
that your good wife may have for the adorn-
ment OF your homestead.


Nature is setting the example of fresh
ness, order and beauty. Let us take pattern
from her, and remember the wise saying,
that We should take thought for the
beautiful, for the useful will take care OF
elt."-Goiien Rule.
Year: 1878

If we could but look down into the hearts
of many people in our city, what sight
would be presented before our eyes how
many hearts dying for one little spark of
sympathy, dying for one kind word spoken,
one act of kindness shown them; but alas
only frown only cold glance which
perces to the very centre of the hear
Many disciple bearing that honored title
"Christian,' is not true disciple, bearing
a cup of cold water "unto the least of
these;" but instead giving cross answer,
showing a selfish disposition, doing an un.
christian act, not needing the Masters words
9" Bear ye one another's burdens" but giving
others many burdens. If every one did well
the part assigned him, what delightful
world would be made out of this now dreary
one. Let us scatter roses where we now
sow thorns, sunshine where we now cast
thick clouds of sorrow and woe, then our
lives will be joyous and standing at the
threshold of brighter and purer world
and looking back over the bright years of
the past, knowing we have done our duty to
our fellow-men in this world, we will be bet
ter prepared to welcome the joys of the next.
-Americdn Wesleyan.
Year: 1878

But perhaps one of the most lamentable,
if not the most marked feature in the decay
of fine manners, is TO be observed in the
change which has come over the manner of
men towards women or let me say, Tor fear
| should be misunderstood, of gentlemen


towards ladies. We will not conjure storm
of remonstrance by presuming to decide
who first began it," But we need not be
afraid to say that, even supposing it was
men who first led the decline down the path
of excessive familiarity, women have SO af-
fably followed their lead, that it has become
exceedingly difficult for man TO preserve
with some women that distance which every
well-bred person feels, and, every thoughtful
person must grant, is Indispensable to the
maintenance in society of the due relations
of the sexes. When a woman playfully tells
you you are "plg' and addresses you
with exquisite humor, "Oh, you beast y 1t
is difficult 10 observe towards her that fine
ness OF manner which you imagined was
her due If she may call you by such aiiec-
tionate names, what may you not so call her III
turn What should you trouble yourself
TO be decorous IN the presence of person
to whom decorum is apparently of so little
moments Why should you not swear, loll


expectorate-if you like, 90 TO sleep? Why
should you hand her chair ii she wants onef
She probably tells you, " eau get it my


self" Why should you not take her at mel
word Why rise when she rises You
are tired, or at any rate you find it inoonve


nient. 1t is a "nuisance 10 have 10 "pui
ones self about so " for women; and Ger


tainly when women cease TO thank you fol
doing so, one Of the motives for suffering in


convenience has passed away. This is nt
/ question of morals. | dare say women ART
Year: 1878

When a church-member commits public
sin, the fact of his membership accompanies
the statement of his crime in every news
paper from Maine to Texas. But when
Christian is found to be a hero, the fact that
he was disciple of Christ is often account
ably forgotten. If the heroic Mr.. Barron,
who recently surrendered his life at Dexter,
Me- rather than swerve from duty, had
stolen the funds of his bank, is there any
been informed that he professed to be a
Christian? As it is, we find but little
prominence given to the fact that he was
the main stay of the Congregational church
in his native town. If the truth were fairly
stated in every such case, would not some
men have more hope for the world than they
now nave ?-Sunddy- y-Schooi Times.
Year: 1878

A MAN in blouse once said, ." have no
more influence than farthing rushlight."
" Well" was the reply, ga farthing rush
light can do good deal. 1t can set a hay
stack on fire it can burn down "a house
yea, more-it will enable poor creature to
read chapter in Gods book. Go your
way, friend, and let your farthing rushlight
so shine before men that others, seeing
your good works, may glorify your Father
who is in heaven"
Year: 1878

O MAN, THINK 10 man, whenever you
are about to lift the glass, think of those at
home Let the face of mother of father, of
wife, of child, of loved one, come between
your eyes and the rising cup. | speak for
those who dare not speak for themselves.
beg of you to drink no more, lest you form
a habit which has in it the sting of death
and the victory OF the grave.--Ssleeted.
Year: 1878

My horse invariably comes home in less
time than he makes the journey out lie
pulls the carriage with hearty good will
when his face is towards home. Should not
| also both suffer and labor the more Joy
ously because my way lies towards heaven,
and ! am on pilgrimage to my Fathers
house, my souls dear home and resting
place y--Spwgeon.
Year: 1878

lT is saddening to watch the dying day,
to see the flickering light fall pulseless be
hind the western hills. 1t is harder still
TO watch for water to boil, over a doubtful
fire. when in hurry for breakfast-Dan-
burn Mems
Year: 1878

Take your choice from the Catalogue send the money
with every order by mail aud always Enclose Ten cents in
Money Siamps Jor Postage on each BOOK yoa order
and will send you by return mail express the book
books you order with the present presents that shah
give with every book sell the books so cheap that can
not afford pay the postage and send elegant present
besdesi be 10 enclose ten cents In stalnps or
money, for postage Direct all orders to


A. W LOWERING,


No. 800 Washington St., Boston.
Year: 1878

The trial of Thomas B. Lewis, accused or
forgery in making receipt for 1882 rs, in the name
Of B. T. Babbitt. nominaly to Frazier Major Co. Tor
taow ended yesterday with conviction of Lewis He
admitted that he embezzled the money, but denied


Judge Davis charged thar H he either did the writing or
directed il to DO done closely connected WIN
its doings to make bin principals party 10 y ne Ws
guilty il IL was done for his advantage. lie tlen
Renewed at length the chain Of evidence showing the
prisoners guilt The Jury out about an hour ana
q half The prisoncr was not sentenced at once, IT Is
said because it is intended TO try him Immediately on
another similar charge
Year: 1878

Judge Flanagan. tried, last October. the suit
o; Charles Monk against Carl stehr. The defendant ap
peaed bat not being able get from Judge Flanagan
return in the ease his counsel obtained from he Court
OF Common Pleas order to show cause why an attach
should Issue against the Judge The order
retuTnabe Yesterday, and Judge Flanagan rot appear
ing Judge Robinson yesterday made the order or a at
fhuaau
Year: 1878

The maddest man in Burlington
lives out on Sixth street. Last Sun
day night he had a club in his
hand and was chasing cat across
the back yard aud never noticed
the pump handle sticking straight
out in front Of him until he was
wrapped aroundit. Then it wastoo
late to do any good, and by the
time he had gathered strength
enough to fall to the ground, the
cat was only a mile and a half this
side Of the North star.
Year: 1878

There is nothing that will tend
to make man forget to ask a
blessing at the breakfast tab o
quicker than to sit on a plate of
soft-boiled eggs that the cook left
on the chair while she tied her
shoes, or 10 take three story swal-
low of baked coffee that he thought
was iced.
Year: 1878

A woman at the south end, eX-
patiating on the generosity of her
husband said he had recently given
her a new pullbacl1, and the heart
less policeman to whom she was
talking replied interrogatively and
sententiously, "By the hair of the
head ?"
Year: 1878

There are two men in the United
States who can lay their hands on
their hearts and say they have read
Stanley Mathews speech. One OF
them is Stanley Mathews, and the
other is the long suffering proof
reader.-Hawkeye.
Year: 1878

Another day has come and gone,
leaving us older and wiser, but as
vet no communications have been
received Indicating that any one
has discovered man who can drink
ont of a spring without getting
the end Of his nose wet.
Year: 1878

Tho manufacture Of paper from
wood has reached the altitude Of
perfection in Canada. The super
intendent of mill up there says
tree is cut down and showed into
one end Of the mill, and five min
ntes later there is neigbbor at the
other end to borrow the paper
-Doa6ury Neaos.
Year: 1878

The saddening intelligence comes
from Louisiana that many of the
Republican members of tho Senate
of that State would refuse to concur
in n pardon of the Returning Board
members. This rathar indicates
that the 'pcrsccution Of Duro and
uncontaminated patriots" is not
altogether conducted by the White
League, which, for tho delight Of
the organs, wc had fondly hoped
was tho case.
Year: 1878

Gentlemen, I can't lie about
the horse; he is blind II one
eve" said the auctioneer. The
horse was soon knocked down
to a spectator who had been
great. Y struck by the auction
GERS honesty. After paying for
the horse, he said, You were
honest enough to tell me that
this animal was blind in one
eye-is there any other defect"
Yes, sir, there is; he is also
blind in the other eye"
Year: 1878

mule, Fate slid down to the barn:
Some kindly hand an ear Of corn


Had tossed the hungry beast,
And the critter tried to gulp it down


Without chewing in the least;
The corn it wasn't on the gulp,


And in his throat stuck fast,
And man and wife, and girl and mule


Collected were at last.
Year: 1878

EVER YBoDY's CANoE.-"Try to please
everybody and you will please nobody"
is well known truth, and brings to
mind the following story: ga man in a
forest was building a canoe. along came
traveller and told him he was shaping
the bow altogether wrong, and advised
him how to fix it. The man changed
it, and the traveller passed on. Present.
ly along came another traveller, and
stopped to watch the progress, sug-
gested some other Improvement, which
the man made. Not long after third
came and also rendered his, which was
accepted. The man having finished the
canoe after the wishes of the travellers,
suspended it from tree, and commenced
to make another after his own ideas: SO
when the fourth traveller came along and
asked him why he did this and that, the
man looked up quietly and said. ''See
here stranger, this Is my canoe; there's
everybody's canoe up in that tree"
Year: 1878

The oak in the middle of the forest,
if surrounded on every side by trees that
shelter and shade it, runs up tall and
sickly; put it away from its protectors
and the first blast will overturn it. But
the same tree, growing in the open field,
where it is continually beat upon BY the
tempest, becomes its own protector. So
the man who is compelled to rely upon
his own resources forms an independence
of character which he could not other
wise have attained.
Year: 1878

Many discouraged mother folds in
her tired hands at night, and feels as if
she had, after all done nothing. although
she has not spent an idle moment since
she rose. Is it nothing that your help
less little children have had some one to
come to with all their childish griefs
and joys? Is it nothing that your hus-
band feels ''safe'' when he is away to
his business, because your graceful hand
directs everything at home ? Is it moth
ing when his business is over, that he
has the blessed refuge of home, which
you have done your best to brighten and
refine? Oh weary and faithful moth
er. you little know your power when you
say. have done nothing. There is
book in which a fairer record than this
is written over against your name.
Year: 1878

Fair month of rosesi Who would sing her praise,
One says. should come direct from banqueting
On honey from Hymettus, that he bring
Fit flavor to the strain his lip essays.
AS IT, around these exquisite, rare days.
OF richest June, for him who fain would sing
Her lovliness, did not such sweetness cling
AS Hybia or Hymettus scarce could raise
For all their storied bees


And yet in vain,
Poet your verse; extol her as you will.
One perfect rose her praises shall dstill
More than all song though sappho led the strain.
Forbear, then; since, for any tribute fit,
Her own rare lips alone can utter it.
Year: 1878

FEEDING YoUNG TURKEYs.-Yo Young
turkeys should be fed at least five times
daily, at morning, noon, and night, and
between these times, for their rapid
growth requires that food be given lib
orally and often Of the proper kind. Milk
in its different forms, should constitute
much of the first food of young turkeys.
We usually give for the first few days
bread soaked in new milk, at the same
time giving them milk to drink. Thick
milk can follow this, with an admixture
of scraps of bread, after which cheese
Chick milk with whey drained Off can
be given, with green onion tops chopped
up fine and mixed with it. A small
sprinkling of cayenne pepper is also ben
efcial.


Some breeders recommend using hard
boiled eggs, chopped up fine. for first
feeds, but we do not consider this at all
necessary, though it can be used if de-
sired. When the birds are about two or
Year: 1878

The FIRST STEP.-There is no step SO
long as the first step in any direction,
especially wrong one. Having once
taken it, you are very likely to go far
ther. One who steals a penny will re-
member it when he thinks of stealing
sovereign. If he steals the sovereign
first, when he is tempted by thousands
he will remember he is already a thief.
A perfect innocent person breads the
soil of any sin upon his soul, but after
the slightest smirch he cannot say, 81
am clean " The vulgar proverb, lone
might as well be hung for sheep as for
lamb, means great deal. Often the
lamb was stolen years before, and now
why not take the sheep? An idle word,
half-oath, half-exclamation, leads the
boy to swearing. Once having sworn,
he will swear again. The first step may
not be much itself, but in its relation to
our lives it is a giants stride. 1t is
well to remember it.