smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

is volcano, and put il in all the gcogra-
phics and advertise il all over the world.
Gen. Ochoa who owns this defunct volcano
is very ordinary looking person, and no
one, TO look at him, would think that he
pays his board bills from the income de-
rived from the sale of birthstone, but he
| does. Some of his enemies say that he 81
under contract to supply an unmentionabIe
country with birthstone, but this is hardly
to be credited. There are good many rea-
sons why il is not worth while to climb Po-
pocatapotl. The first and foremost is, sew
eral women have climbed it, and where a
woman can climb ii is no great feat for an
American young man TO go. In the sec
Ond place it is sixty miles from the capital
which in Mexico means two days journey
over bad roads and in uncomfortable stages.
On the upper part of the mountain the at
mosphere is so rare that weak persons have
frequently been attacked with hemorrage of
the lungs, and some have died. The jour
ney is laborious one, and good mile of the
way, straight up hill is through ashes and
cinder foot deep. Last, but not least, the
journey is very expensive for stages, board,
guides and costumes. Postscript pt-The
game is not worth the powder. 1t is
great satisfaction TO see this mountain from
a distance: to sit on the upper piazza of
hotel, with your feet on the railing and
good cigar, thinking, $50 that is PopOcata-
petl, is it? That is the mountain my old
country schoolmaster used TO say was the
highest in America, with pronunciation
eighteen degrees wide of the mark And
now there she is Who'd ever have
thought it in those old days of school house
benches and wandering school atlasesl"
While you are looking at it, if you choose
the right time of day-aftcr the sun goes
down-it disappears before your cigar is
finished. Ii is quite possible that the
reader may have heard that there is no twI
light in the tropics-the sun goes and in
few minutes it is dark. The mountain
grows dim and disappears like the school
day memories of its unpronounced name
There is no fire and birthstone coming out
of the crater, as there ought to beout of any
genuine volcano; there is nothing but dim
spot in the distance to be seen only when
the moon gets behind it and lights up its
outline. Almost any stranger looking at
the mountain from any elevation in the
capital, will estimate that it is four or five
miles away, unless he knows better, for it
is sixty. The air is SO clear there you can
see a long distance. 1t is so clear a Mexi-
can will see n five-cent piece two miles off,
and go for it,
Year: 1879

Two little children were almost stimuli
taneously attacked with canker rash in III
worst form. There had been no cases il
the vicinity for years, and they had beer
kept entirely at home for the whole winter,
so there was no possibility Of their having
taken the disease from any exposure to
contagion. 1t was a mysterious Provi.
dence, the clergyman said, when he was
called to perform the burial service. Af-
terward 1t was ascertained that the mother
had bought feather bed Of peddler q
few weeks before and used it on the trun-
dle-bed Tor her little ones TO make them q
comfortable nest for the cold weather.
Upon further investigation 1t was discov-
cred that the peddler had bought il at a
house some twenty-five miles away, and
that two children had been sick and
died OF scarlatins upon the same bed the
year before. The bed had been laid away
in an open chamber till the family sold out
their place to move away, and they sold
the bed TO travelling peddler for trif1ing
sum, thus distributing sickness and death
through distant town. for the disease
spread in every direction and became a
regular epidemic. Had that bed, immedi-



been washed thoroughly and soaked in wa
ter with either little carbolic acid or spir-
its of ammonia added to it, and then dried In
the sun 1t would have been safe to be used
by any one; but, as it was, it carried
grief and desolation into many households.
or course, il was not premditated wrong:
it was case Of ignorance or carelessness.
Diphtheria has been conveyed by useing
beds in the same manne:, and, if individ-
uals would only consider for minute how
much suffering might be prevented, they
would be more careful. There is never an
elect without a cause, but perhaps the
cause may not be discovered till too late to
prevent the evil. 1t is very little labor to
cleanse pillows and beds, if done in a
proper manner, and common sense will
show that il is advisable to have it done
often, even if no sick person has lain upon
them. days exposure to the hot sun
turning over and shaking them up often
is great benefit, and makes them sweeter
as well as lighter. An occasional washing
is sure purifier. Carbolic acid is a pow
erful disinfectant, and il sweetens beds
which will accumulate disagreeable odor
if not thoroughly cleansed and aired. Pill
lows can be washed without ripping so that
they will be delightfully."- renovated. Use
scalding suds in washtub to soak them
we'll and then pass through rinsing waters
till the water is not colored at all. This is
all that is required unless they really smell
badly. In that case, either carbolic acid
or spirits of ammon' should be added to
rinsing water. Let them drain well and
then hang them where they will get air and
sunshine.
Year: 1879

Though we should examine the whole
world, we shall not find one man so
happy as to have nothing left to wish
for; but we see thousands, who by sui
eide, show us they have nothing left to
hope for. In this life, then it appears
that we cannot be entirely blessed, but
yet we may be completely miserable.
Year: 1879

the impulse of the moment, "a farmers
life is the life for me-"


AS the shades of evening gathered
around, and the sunbeams died on the
mountain tops, every sound seemed
hushed in the still evening air. We
then all united with the family in their
pleasant home, in which were children
and grandchildren, and bowed with
them the knee at the family altar, where
one of our number led in consigning all
to the care and keeping of Him whose
works had that day most emphaticalIy
reminded us that "Before the noun
tains were brought forth, or ever thou
hadst formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting
thou art GOdn
Year: 1879

Whistle all you will in solitary places,
son, if it pleases you, whistle in the
night as you go home, if you will, for a
CHEEKY whistle in the dark is pleasant
sound unto the listening soul of the be-


lated passenger, but when you come
into the assemblages and the business
haunts of men, unpucker your musical
lips and shut up your whistle in yonr
heart. And if ever the temptation
comes to you to whistle against the
edge of a card, crush it out, if the effort


kills you. Whistling is not lofty nor
yet useful, although it is a universal
accomplishment. Though you practice
hundred years, and though you whis-
tie never SO whistley, my son, yet the
commonest switch engine that ever
scared a human being deaf, can beat
you at it. The great and good wele
never great whistlers, my son. George
Washington never sat in "a friends office
Year: 1879

with his feet on the window sill, whis-
ting "Grandfather's Clock" against the
edge of card. Strive to emulate
George Washington, and although you
never may be first in war, first in peace,
and first in the hearts of Your country
men, yet fame will not forget you if
they can write upon your tombstone
that You never whistled your country
men into cOnvulsiOns of Incorporate
out fruitless profanity Burlington
HaaUkeye.
Year: 1879

EgT A writer in Chambers Journal
relates the singular story of man
killed by Il dead snake. A cobra crawl
ed INTO ii church, causing great alarm,
out a native managed to cut off the
reptiles head before it attacked anyone.
Alter the service many of the congre-
CATION took look at the dead snake.
One man put his foot on the head, when
he uttered loud cry and dIew his foot
away. By some means or other he had
contrived to set in action the muscular
apparatus attached to the poison -flngs,
which had darted violently forward and
struck him Oh the foot. All remedies
were useless in half an hour the poor
fellow was corpse, proving, with
Vengence, the awful virulence of the
poison of the cobra de capeIlo.
Year: 1879

vate money lender, Is demonstrated
by the Ell Dorado Democrat;


The money-lender may deduct
from his Understanding note the
amount which he says he owes to
residents of this State. The owner
of an unmortgaged farm, or min
ing claim, or house and lot, or stock
Of merchandise, or of horses, or
cattle, or Of any other kind OF
tangible property, Is allowed NO
such offset, no matter how heavily
he may be involved in unsecured
indebtedness. A owns farm on
which he labors early and late to
earn a precarious living, and owes
the merchant, the butcher and doc
tor more than it is worth, but 1t Is
taxed for its full value, with not q
cent of deduction on account of his
Indebtedness. B owns Dote from
which he derives a handsome in
come; 1t Is five times more valua-
BILE and ten times more productive
than AS farm, but all of his alleged
Indebtedness to merchant, butcher
and doctor Is deducted from the
value at which it is assessed for
purposes of taxation. This ine-
quality the new Constitution es-
tablishes as o fixed rule. No such
Inequality IL authorized under the
existing instrument. This is not
the kind of amendments demanded
by those who believe in the Justice
of taxing evidence of Indebtedness,
the source of the largest incomes,
and the safest property in the State.


Take it for all in all, the new
Constitution is u rare old example
of "shreds and patches" Its adop-
ton would simply lead to an ener-
getic agitation for its repeal, at the
expense of an untold paralysis of
business and of hundreds and thou
sands of dollars, besides.
Year: 1879




For the Repsblican.


MEssRs. ElroRs:-I thought l woaad
step in and See about that red hot meet.
ing that l noticed in your paper on
last Saturday, and thought q good
many people read the REPUBLICAN fer
heard them speak about the piece call
I'd RED hot" and thought they would
come down and see about it and 30 they
did and some of the people went away
we'll pleased. think those who have
this meeting under their control will
meet With success for they have the
Lord on their side and good number
to help them. The little man that runs
that meeting is full of salvation and he
has good hackers and Holly Tree Inn
Railroad meeting will have to go. Come
and help them. This prayer and ex.
psrisnoe msstinS is free to all Sunday
afternoon At q o'clock, and ON Mon.
day evening at n o'clock. s.
Year: 1879

The meeting Of Congress is eagerly looked


forward to in one quarter at least, for it will


bring sense of deep relief to the members


of the Democratic-Greenback combination in


the Maine Legislature. The presence of


Senator Blaine at Augusta frightened and dis


tressed them. They feared that he might sally


out, like the old giant from his cave, and COB.


BILE up dozen or two Representatives for


lunch as they were vending their way to the


State House. No man yet dares 10 go alone.


The trembling ones travel in groups, and


even then they shy and take to the horse


path, as they go by Mr.. Blaine's house. Like


Coleridge's man they walk in fear and dread,


and having once turned round walk on and


turn no more the head, for fear frightful


fend doth close behind them tread.


The impression prevails in Augusta that


there is perfect network of mines under the


city, that torpedoes are placed underground


in all sorts of unexpected places, and that


the coalitionists must tread very carefully or


they will be blown up-as indeed they will be,


by indignant constituents. Some OF the


members, it is said carry glass insulators


about their persons, so as 10 guard against


the passage of electricity. One was discov-


cred in the library the other day asking for


treatise on defense against torpedoes. An
other was seen searching for Violet-le-Duc's
book on fertilization. It is firmly believed
by many that gunpowder is slowed in the
basement of the capitol as it was under the
old Parliament house, and that Mr.. Blaine
stands like Guy Fawkes ready to touch it off.
The line of the underground passage between
great confidence. 1t is thought by those
best-informed, that upon the reassembling Of
the Legislature an appropriation for defen-
sive purposes will be pressed - the
money to be deducted from the school
fund. Adjutant-General Leavitt is ex-
pected to lock sharply after his depart


ment and see that nothing is wanting in case
it is found necessary to call upon the militia.
All ideas of reducing the military appropra-
tion have been abandoned, and the big guns
about the State House will be put in order.
Nor is Mr.. Blaine alone feared. The Re
publican Senate is an object of distrust. 1t
is not believed the Senators will resort to


arms, but their exercise of the peaceful arts


is feared. Every movement they make, ev-
cry vote they pass is suspiciously scrutinized.
If the Senate, having no business to do, and
awaiting the dilatory action OF the House,
adjourns, whispers of dark plot are heard.
If the Senate after the usual custom sets a
day after which petitions shall not be re-
ceived, hints of danger to the republic are
thrown out. If the Senate indicates choice
between newspapers the House suspects that
our liberties are menaced, and goes into long
but not animated debate over the proper
course to pursue. 1t is the fable Of the hares
and the Iustling leaves over again. Mean
while our people are waiting for our Repre-
sentatiVes to gel over their fright and go to
Year: 1879

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter gives
some good advice to the men engaged in the
special branch of industry Of which it is the
organ-advice that is quite as applicable to
men in other departments oftrade. 1t says !:
We hope our brethren of the trade will not
be impatient if they do not experience an i'm
mediate or early quickening Of the move
ments of merchandise. Supplies OF every
kind are abundant, and consumers are i'm
bued with sense of wariness, arising from
long practice of frugality, and full apprecia-
ton of the value of money. They are better
off, on the whole, than they ever were be-
fore, and what they buy they will assuredly
pay for. Folks who are wel-to-do are gener-
ally close in driving bargains. The farmers
are obliged to sell everything they raise at
low figures, and they will naturally expect to
purchase everything they use at correspond
ingly moderate rates, A successful business
does not necessarily imply high prices. But
that there will be gradual augmentation oil
traffic, as the natural result of substantial
addition to the popular wealth. would seem
to be reasonable anticipation. Light ex-
penses, small profits, and very inconsderable
losses by the delinquency of debtors, are like
ly to characterize the transactions of prudent
merchants in the year of grace whose advent
we hail.
Year: 1879

THE Boston Advertiser while assuming to
bepar excellence hard money organ has
given some very queer advice to the Republi-
cans of Maine on the question of electing
Governor. Before the election it counselled
the Republican Senators to so divide their
votes as to force the Democratic minority
to choose the Governor, and since the elec-
tion tho Adoertiser regrets that its advice
was not followed. The Advertiser regrets
therefore that the Greenback candidate was
not made Governor of Maine, and regrets
that this result was not brought about by a
cowardly sinking of official responsible
ty by the Republican Senators. 1t would
have been contemplate evasion OF a very
plain constitutional duty on the part of the
Republican majority of the Senate to have
attempted to throw the responsibility oil
choosing the Governor on the Democratic
minority. 1t was known in advance, as il
was shown by the vote in the Senate, that
the Democrats desired the election of Mr..
Smith. And the Maine Republicans are very
sorry that the Boston Advertiser urged Mr
Smiths election. Hard-money doctrines in
the columns of the Advertiser will not here
after have much moral weight with the Re
publicars of Maine.
Year: 1879

THE ghastllness OF the testimony in the
Cobb-Bshop murder trial has been relieved
by gleam OF humor. 1t seems that Bishop
while 10 prison was accustomed to carry a
pan OF food 10 new prisoner, an infirm man
who could not leave his cell. By mistake a
note and conversation lozenge bearing one Of
the usual sweet legends, from Mrs. Cobb to
Bishop, got into the lame prisoners pan.
He could not read, and so tore up the note.
As 1t was his first Friday In jail, he says,
he thought perhaps they always gave
lozenges with fish, and so ate the sweet
meat. He has since learned that they never
give lozepges with one fish-ball.
Year: 1879

THERE is sharp contest for the office of
Insurance Commissioner. 1t is said that
Bangor has candidate which she will put
forward as compromise at the last moment'
and back with the claim that she has not yet
had her share of the spoils. IT ability and
fitness for the place be qualifications that
have weight with the Legislature, Mr.. Tur-
ner of this city will win the coveted prize.
He is an old insurance man, thoroughly un-
derstands the business, and has had much
clerical experience, recommendations that
are not advanced by his competitors. But it
is understood that his name is not on the
Democratic slate, and the Democrats are
running the show.
Year: 1879

PERTINENT inquiries by the Cincinnati
Commercials: Now then, gentlemen Of the
Greenback persuasion, greenbacks are up to
gold. Do you want to reduce their value ?
They are receivable for customs duties. Do
you wish to degrade them so that they shall
not be so receivable? They will pay the ma
tured coupons on the bonds of the United
States. Do you wish to establish one money
for the bondholder and another and inferior
money for the people at large? Now is your
time to disband your ridiculous Greenback
party aud join the nation in its march on the
old specie basis to renewed and solid pros
perity,
Year: 1879

SOME of the line officers OF the army have
discovered that the new army bill does not
offer that chance of promotion at the expense
of the staff they had been led to expect, and
SO have cooled in their enthusiasm for the
bill. As it happens every vacancy made in
the staff BY the bill will ramain a VACANCY
Year: 1879

Ne do not read anonymous letters ana commun
cations. The and address Of the write, are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith,


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncatiors that are not used,
Year: 1879

A small English terrier belonging to a
friend has been taught to ring for the
servant. To test if the dog knew why it
rang the bell, he was told to do so while
the girl was in the room The little
fellow looked up in the most intelligent
manner at the person giving the order
(his master or mistress, I forget which),
then at the servant, and refused to obey,


although the order was repeated more
than once. The servant left the room.
and few minutes afterward the dog
rang the bell Immediately on being told
to do so. 1 give the following as told
by my wife, now dead, who personally
witnessed the tranaction on various oc-
casions At her sisters house in Kent
a donkey which, when not employed by
the children, grazed in field with some
cows, was in the regular habit Of acting
as follows: At the usual hour for the
COWS to come home to be MIXED the
donkey lifted the latch of the field
gate, opened and held back the gate
(Which otherwise would have swung close
Year: 1879

that God desired them to offer! her, up as


sacrifice. But here is a case, which exceeds
that tragedy in atrocity. In the one case the
little victim scarce felt the knife which the
fanatical father plunged into her>heart; but
in the present instancel the naples infant is
eoaaomnea 70 3 slow ana hngeflns s, death


thought of parents who thus revel in the
agony of their offspring? And what can be
thoughtof a community which will permit
such outrageous and horrible deeds to, be
Year: 1879

An old farmer once said he would not
have hired man on his farm who did
not habitually whistle. He always hired


whistlers. He never knew whistling
laborer to find fault with his food, his bed,
or complain of any extra work he was
asked to perform. Such a man was gen
orally kind to children and animals in his
care He would whistle chilled lamb
into warmth and life, and would bring
in his hat full of eggs from the barn with
out breaking one of them. He found
such man more careful about closing
gates, putting up bars, and seeing that the
nuts on his plow were all properly, tight
ened before he took it out into the field.
He never knew whistling hired man to
beat or kick COW or drive her on run
Year: 1879

into the stable He had noticed that. file
sheep that he fed in the yard or shed
gathered around him as he whistled
without fear. He had never employed 4
whistler who was mot thoughtful and
economical. ~ -pf -
Year: 1879

was passed from fropt to rear, EACH man
Communicating, with the ecomrade next
Behind him. IWitlin3 ten minutes a ser
gernt rode up to the major and handed
him a package. The major took it to the
prisoner. "Open this he said. There
was the portrait, uninjured, and with it a
bundle of letters, upon which the owner
had written a request that it should be
destroyed unopened in the event of his
death. The seal was unbrpken
Year: 1879

Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,
The flying cloud the frosty light;
The year is dying i'll the night:
Ring out wild bells and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause


And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nObler modes Of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws
Ring out the want the care, the sin,
The faithleSS GOODNESS of the times;
Ring out. ring out my mOurnful rhymes.
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic Slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring i'll the common love of coed.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease:
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold:
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kmdler hand
Ring out the darkness of the land.
Ring i'll the Christ that is to be.


-TennUSOn
Year: 1879

Hear the ringing Of the bell
What world Of misery its harsh sound doth foreteIl,
How it the icy air of



Till all pleasant dreams it scattcrs-wakes US up to
thoughts fOrOml


Though It's far from our desire


We must rise to light and fire


While We ShiVcr-ShiVer-S -Shivcr--


And the stars all seem to quiVcr
And the stars and moon all bright
seem 10 grin at us and qIiver i'll comcal delight.
AS we grulnblc as We stumble and we tumble out of
bed
As we pour forth icecod water and bathe herewith
our head,


While we listen to the ringing


Of the bell-bell- bell


As we listen to the dinging


Of that dreadful get-up bell.
Hear the merry breakfast bell.


Cheerful bell
1t brings us thoughts of good things, and with it
comes the smell
of coffee and of bceftakcs and potatoes smoking hot
For the punctual carly riscTs who are ready on the
spot;
For those who heard the risng-bel and got up in a
hurry,
And did not take another nap and then commence to
skurTy.


But the slothful-ah. the slothfll-


BE they Old or be they youthful


They who half an hour too late


Fear they find an empty plate


How they shuddcr at the bell.
And il seems to them kMeN
AS they listen to its swell
With q grOan!
All! what anguish do they foel they listen to the
peal
OF the ll-Acll-bell-bell-bcn!
As they hear the folks 20 down
Tramp Of boots and rustling gown
Left alone!
Then they view their sloth with sorrow,
Vow they'll rise hetimes Tomorrow
AS they listen to the ringing of the bell
10 the ringing and the dinging Of the bell