smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

1t has been ascertained that the very
best remedy for burns and scalds is the
application of common cooking soda or
any other alkali in neutral form, which
will afford instantaneous cessation from
pain. In all cases of superficial burning
this treatment will effect perfect cure in
a few hours, and the severest burns and
scalds soon yield to it. At recent meet
ing of the Massachusetts Dental Society
in Salem, Dr. Waters, of Boston, gave q
practical demonstration of this theory by
a test that required considerable nerve and
more faith in the efficacy of the treatment
to put into operation. The Doctor dipped
a sponge into boiling water and squeezed
it over his wrist, the water flowing around
the arm and encircling it with a severe
scald two inches wide. Not content with
this he dipped the sponge second time
and pressed closely on the under side of
his wrist for half minute, thus making
deep burn. He then applied bi-carbonate
of soda and laid over it wet cloth, and
the intense pain was banished as by magic.
Next day the scalds, with the exception of
the part purposely made so severe, were
practically healed, only light discolora-
ton of the skin showing where the water
had flowed, this, too, without a second ap-
plication of soda.
Year: 1878

Songs in the night-ohl sing to the weary


Who languish and pine for the coming of light;
Tell them of shores where the morn breaks eternal
Whose sands are swept ever by waves of delight.
Sing of love in its tenderness holy


Which foldeth them closely unto its own breast
Quelling all fears and soothing all weariness,


flushing the tired heart sweetly to rest.
Songs in the night-oh sing to the mourners


Who weep over graves and bemoan earthly loss;
Tell them so lovingly how One hath lain there,


Sweetning the bed as He came from the cross
Bid them remember that though sown in anguish


There springeth from earthly bed fadeless and pure
Like flowers immortal, the souls of the ransomed,


Into life that shall ever endure.
Songs in the night-oh! sing to the fallen:


Breathe soft thy tones-there is pain in the air;
Remorse hath kept pace with each hour of darkness
Goading the soul on to gloom and despair.
Tell of Christ's charity-not mans humanity


go thou in peace'-bear His message ofloye:
Tell of the bl ood which flowed free to redeem them
From the soul of Saviour who liveth above
Songs in the night-oh! sing to the pilgrim,


Whose feet even now are approaching the shore
Sing of the crown, triumphantiy telling


To those who have won it, of joy evermore.
With sandals all loosed, and journ eyings ended,


On ears enraptured shall burst "Welcome Homer
Rest shall be sweet in the smile of the Father,


Neer from His presence and blessing to roam.
Year: 1878

WORTH REMEMBERING.-Itis is the pen
ny saved more than the penny earned that
enriches; it is the sheet turned when the
first threads break, that wears the longest;
it is the damper closed when the cooking
is done that stops the dollars from drop
ping in the coal bin; it is the lamp or gas
burned low, when not in use, that gives
you money for the month; it is the
care in making the coffee that makes three
spoonsfuls go as far as teacup ordinarily;
it is the walking one or six blocks, instead
of taking cab or omnibuss. that adds
strength to your body and money to your
purse; 1.-THE careful mending of eachweek' s
wash that gives ease to your conscience
and length of days to your garments; and
last of all, it is the constant care exercised
over every part of your household, and
constant endeayor to improve and apply
your best powers to your work, that alone
gives peace and prosperity to the family.
Year: 1878

Potato AND ONION SoUP-Put four
medium sized peeled potatoes in some cold
water with little salt, and boil them until
well done and mealy, then drain and mash
them smooth, and add gradually a quart
of scalding milk. Strain it through the
colander. to remove all Jumps. While the
potatoes are cooking: put small table,
spoonful of butter in a sauce pan and when
melted, put in three or four sliced onions,
and stir them until they are quite brown,
then draw them to one side and put in half
a teacupful of -four, and stir and mash it
until it begins to brown, when the onions
may be mixed with it, and when the -four
is of the same color add by degrees the
milk and potato; season to taste with pep
per and salt, and let it simmer for fifteen
minutes watching carefully that it does
not burn. Serve hot with dry bread cut
in dice and fried in boiling lard, (croutons)
and little chopped parsley.
Year: 1878

RELIEF FOR BURNING FEET.-To re
lieye burning feet, first discard tight boots;
then take one pint of bran and one ounce
of bi-carbonate of soda, put in pail, and
add one gallon of hot water; when cool
enough soak your feet in this mixture for
fifteen minutes. The relief is instantane-
Gus. This must be repeated every night
for week, or perhaps more. The bran
and bi-carbonate should be made fresh af
terra weeks use. Bi-carbonate of soda can
be purchased for about ten cents a pound
from wholesale druggists The burning
sensation is produced by the pores of the
skin being closed, so that the feet do not
perspire.
Year: 1878

How TO ENTER A RooM-Good breed
ing is demonstrated by little things. The


way in which people enter room shows
whether they have had good training as
plainly as anything else in manners. Open
the door wide enough to walk squarely iD,


without squeezing or edging through, as if
you didn't think enough of yourself to give
your body room to go through without
crowding. Don't rush in, or creep in, but
hold yourself straight, and look directly
at the people in the room. Don't hesitate;
but if you don't know the visitors, wait
quietly until an introduction is given, when


you can open conversation, or respond to
the visitors advances, as the case may be.
Year: 1878

To KEEP GREEN CoRN.-My plan is
this and it never fails Gather the corn
when in good eating state; place the corn,
cob and all in a vessel and pour boiling
water over it; let it remain in the hot wa
ter three to five minutes, then cut the corn
from the cob, put a layer of corn, then a
layer of salt in large stone jars; when full
weight down; keep adding layers as the
corn sinks down in the jar; the salt makes
brine without water; when used soak all
night in clear cold water
Year: 1878

saw the lily pale and perfect grow
Amid its silent sisters in the mead.


Methought within its chilly depths to read
A maidenly severity as though


A cool young life lay slumbering in the snow
Ofits frail substance. In that chalice white
Whose fairy texture shone against the light
An unawakened pulse beat faint and slow.
And remembered, love, the coy disdain,
When thou my love for thee hadst first OWNED;
Thy proud, shy tenderness proud to feign
That willful kindness which is yet not blind.
Then toward the sun thy lily-life turned
With sudden splendor flushed, its chalice burned
Year: 1878

Music and flowers are eyangels of purity
and faith, redolent of God, if we but un-
lock our hearts to their ministry; and the
man or woman who is imperyious to their
subtle, spiritualizing influences may feel
assured that there is something essentially
wrong in his or her organization or habits
of life.
Year: 1878

SALT AND WooDwoRK.-Tt is curious
fact that in the salt mines Of Poland and
Hungary the galleries are supported by
wooden pillars, which are found to last
9nimpaired for ages, in consequence of be-
ing impregnatcd with the salt, while pillars
of brick and stone, used for the same pur-
pose, crumble away in short time by the
decay of mortar 1t is also found that
wooden piles driven into the mud of salt
fats and marshes last for an unlimited time,
and are used for the foundation of brick
and stone edifces; and the practice of dock
ing timber after it has been seasoned by
immersing it for some time in sea-water,
is generally admitted to be promotive of
its durability. There are some experiments
which appear to show that, even after the
dry rot has commenced, immersion in salt
water efectually checks its progress and
preserves the remainder of the timber.
Year: 1878

Professor John Wise, of Philadelphia,
one of the most practical men of the day,
in explanation of the theory by which a
house in that city covered by tin roof
which was struck by lightning on the af-
ternoon of March 14th, but not seriously
damaged, concludes his article as follows


The man that nowadays goes around to
put up finger thick lightning-rods for pro-
lection to buildings is as much of a char
latan as the man that sells amulets, or he
that furnishes old horse shoes to be nailed
over stable and house doors to keep out
witches. The only protecting property of
the rod is in its surface, and that to an
ordinary bolt would be as eficacious as
tin-foil coat of mail to thrust of a lancer's
spear The day is not far distant when
mental l-covered roof will be considered as
indispensable to the protection of a build
ing and its furniture and inmates from
lighting as is the roof itself to the protec-
ton Of the persons and things inside from
the rain


From over forty years observation, can
incontrovertibly say that the thunderbolt
passes from cloud to earth as any other
missile would pass-shot or shell, meteor
ite or hail of iron-in the direction of
least resistance, regardless of all and any
pointers, and that when it meets field of
metal it bounces over it harmlessly, and
goes the way of all things that play out.


The fire that we see in the lightning's
play is the combustion defagration
of the matter, diffuse or otherwise through
which the bolt passes. have in my pos
session globules of iron that dripped from
the end of railroad rails along which
thunderbolt travelled. The space be-
tween the rails to allow for expansion and
contraction, not one-eighth to one-quarter
of an inch, being sufficient to obstruct its
Velocity-alr being non-conductor to
degree of fusion of wrought iron, The
atmosphere is full of diffuse matter. In
terstellary space is full of diffuse iron and
nickel. A magnetic storm in the regions
of interplanetary space pours iron hail,
and hence the disposition of meteoric
iron upon our planet when its happens to
be the nearest body to magnetic cyclone.
I have passed through snow and hail
storms in the cloud region the hottest days
of July. 1t often snow two or three thous-
and feet above the earth and the oftenest
in the hottest weather, and we are uncon-
cious of it on the face of the earth, because
it is melted and taken up as vapor in the
grasp of the lower atmosphere.
Year: 1878

Friends will not only live in harmony
bu: in melody.


Nothing so truly makes a thing so, or
so, as thinking it is so.


Reason will be but a pale cloud like
the moon when one ray of divine light
comes to illumine the soul.


How can he expect to perform an ar
duous Journey without interruption who
has no passport to the end? On this
side OF man is the actual, and on the
other the ideal.


BY myself can live and thrive. but in
the society OF Incompatible friends
starye 10 cultivate their society is to
cherish 4 sore which can only be healed
by abandoning them.
They call that northermost sea. thought
to be tree from ice, ''Pnlina.' The cold,
est natures. persevcre with them. 20 tai
enough. are found to have open sea il
the highest latitudes.
Year: 1878

nhe chances Of Col. Tom Majors TO
be seated as q Nebraska Congressman
IL not so hopeless as some may sup
pose IL Ia. The subcommittee IL will
be remembered gave him a favorable
report, and while the full committee
agreed 30 report adversely to him, he
has a strong minority. the vote in
committee being six against five In
favor Of seating him. The commit
tee having the privilege Of submit
ting full minority report as well as a
majority report. From the division of
the committe on the case itseems that
q Democrat or two voted to recognize
Nebrssks's rights, and that 1t is not a
purely partisan matter. In this view
Of the case, with all the arguments on
our side, there Is still room to hope
that justice and right will triumph
by the admission OF Col. Majors. The
second Wednesday In December is
the time fixed for discussion aud the
nnal disposal of the question.


Since the above was put in, type We
receive letter from the Col. which
we lay before our readers, reviewing
the case thoroughly.
Year: 1878

sales of their products during the
year were about as large as those OF
any previous year. He stated that
the income realized by the govern
ment for the year ended June 30th,
1877 was So, ,4S9, ,7S9 and the total
amount realized by the government
since 1868 is 500, $50, 491. Referring
to temperance the speaker said:
1t remains as much as ever a IN matter
of regret that the temperance party of
this country persists in chasing dis
titled and fermented drinks as equally
dangerous to the welfare of SO ciety
and to oppose their manufacture sale,
and consumption with the sam un-
yielding bitterness. We believe that
In the popular consumption of ale
and beer Is found one of the best safe
guards I'm controlling the desire for
stimuIants. and those which are the
best adapted to satisfy the desire for
alcoholic stimulants without danger
OF abuse.
Year: 1878

Our liberty loving patriotic presi-
dent says be will be the head of thiI
government or nobody shall-even If
he has to send the country to HI to
do it.


The above Is another Nebraska City
Ne,os lie. Hayes never said a word
that could be construed into any such
avowal. But the people have said in
effect that Hayes shall serve his full
four years even II they had to thrash
the Democratic party again, or send
it TO hell, where whining around to
have political disabilities removed
will be In vain.
Year: 1878

A Shelbyville lind man who had
been living In gorgeous style was
found to have been attempting the
starvation of his daughter, I'm order
to get her property, by keeping her
confined In a room. A mob of young
men released her, and were about
hanging the father when the City
Marshal prevailed on them to let her
go. and they escorted him to the de.
pot and compelled him to leave the
city. His wife refuses to go to him.
Exchange.


They ought TO have cut his ears off
anyway, before they started him.
Year: 1878

State Journal. II is generally sup
posed by our people that the emigra-
tion which has been pouring into Ne
braska from the east during the spring
is over for the present year. This is not
so; we have the assurance of one of
the "main guys" in the B &. NJ.
Land Department, that there will be
no let up In the tidal wave, and that
immigrants will continue to pour in
to our State during the summer and
fall. The B. & NJ. Co.. are now at
work on a scheme which will send US
thousands of tillers of the soil, before
next spring.
Year: 1878

The Senate terribly mutilated the
House army bill as soon as 1t reached
that body, and 1t is hoped the loyal
majority In the Senate will remain
firm in its efforts to maintain some
thing approxImating a respectable
army.
Year: 1878

The State press, so far as we have
observed are unanimous in approx
al of the appointment of Gen. Amssa
Cobb to the Supreme bench. From
this we may reasonably conclude that
Judge Cobb will be his own successor
this fall.
Year: 1878

The Democratic Central Committeeman

 say if the office-seeking portion of the De

 mocracy of Yavapai County think that be.

 cause they are Central Committeeman they

 are going to neglect their own business to

 fix up soft places for them, while they sit

 round and talk about the duty of the Com mittee to organize the party, and have not ambition or influence enough themselves to organize chicken-coop, they are ssof- wrong.' They, as Committeeman and pa- triots, started in in goed faith for regular old-fashioned Jacksonian Democratic or ganization, without fee or hope of reward. except such as arises from a consciousness of duty performed; but to their humilia- tion and chagrin they soon found them selves betrayed and forsaken by those for whose benefit they labored, and who ex- pectod to feed upon the result of what the Committee accomplished. This was more than they bargained for. and right then and there the Committee threw up the sponge. and concluded that if the do-nothings want ed office or other fayors from the partv. they might seek them in an individual ca pacity, and upon their own doubtful merits. without the moral or active support of the Committed. or of organized party influence ar effort. Thus it will be seen that the hangers on, who depended upon getting office through party organization cn the strength of the name of Democracy, have without their host aud now learn that man may even be Democratic Cen trsl Committeeman sad yet not surrender his manhood.
Year: 1878

After commenting most lugubriously

 on the failure of his once pet scheme,

 the organization of tho machinery of

 the Democratic party in tine Territory, of

 which he claimed to be both father and

 mother, and for the strangulation of which

 before birth, brother Fay, of the Star, seeks to hold him responsible, the edItor of the Enterprise, in his issue of yesterday, uses the following language, which seems to us about the thinest argument or excuse for political failure that we ever saw in print.

 "Hsd Republicans shown any disposition to organize and run candidates on party principles. the success of Democratic organi- xation would have been assured, but as great many Republicans are in the tolls of carpet-bag officials and those who share with them the spells, the political veil will still be worn and new attempts made to blind the people of the Territory to their true interests

 Because the Republicans showed no dis position to organize, in fact never proposed to organize, therefore the Republicans are responsible for the failure of the Demo cratic attempt and failure to organize, and ought to be ashamed of themselves for thus offending the poor, innocent Democracy and preventing their organization by set ting them the bad example of doing as they pleased about it. The reason ven why the Republicans do not organize is because they s'are in the tolls of carpet-bag officials" The question t"en naturally follows, "Aa9e ioils are the Democrats in, thai they do not organize ln Surely Democrats are not in Republican tolls; they wcnld moi suffer themselves to be led astray by the enemy. Of course not, they know too much for that. But let us read again and see who it is thar has gone sneaking like a fiend into the Democratic Paradise, corrupted the Democratic Adam and Eve, the father and mother of the Enterprise and of orgaui- ration, and compassed the downfall of the 1 whole race of Democratic Cherubs in the | Territory forever. Ah here we find it in | these words

 "We are grieved to think that the seed | sown by demagogues Is still alive and bear | ing its sectional fruit.'

 Can 1t be possible that there are dema. gogues in the Democratic. party, and that the fact Aas become so patent that their organ is forced to make the humiliating. apject acknowledgement that they are such9 1t must be so; no seed sown by Republican demagogues would be allowed to spring up and grow in Democratic garden, and it follows that it must be Democratic seed. demagoguic and discordant though it be. It has been said that "a poor excuse is bet ter than none;" but had this been our case. we should have deemed it wise discression to let it pass with the single remark "busted."
Year: 1878

There IS one phase of communism which

 IS generally overlooked, namely, the average

 communist is lazy and thriftless, while

 his jealousy of the industrious and thriving

 arises from pure euvy. He is mad at others

 who become rich through industrious toll and prudent saving; and while he wants

 their money, he is too lazy to toll for it.

 His business Is to denounce such men as theives and robbers, when the only thinp that keeps him from becoming an actual robber IS the fear of the law. They are un- willing to submit to the drudgery of every day labor; they turn tramp, and begin to prey upon honest men. The only class of men m the country who may be den..mina- ted people of leisure are bummers anitramps and communists. No thoroughly honest workingman, be he rich or poor, will have anything to do with such men. Iders are always dangerous in any community dangerous to themselves and to others. The only remedy for them is to seek employ- ment. It will cure all this spirit of oiscon- tent. Itwork cannot be had in cities. if can be had in the rural districts, No man need say. 'I can't fad york; and thus try tn shield himself. He means by "I can't md work" that he can't find it in cities. or just such work as he wants to do. A great many seek work, praying all the time that they may not find it, simply as an excuse. Every man should remember that there is plenty of employment, and labor alone is me secret of success.-lLos Angeles Star
Year: 1878

This being Decoration day as we'll as As tension day. is observed by the nation as holiday and by the church ss feast of ob iigstiou. The following poem from the New Orleans Picayune seems appropriate: God welcomes them all:

 Though in battles array One bore the bright Blae

 And the other the Gray, Though ono fought for Union, The other for State, One angel of mercy

 Guides all to Gods gate. Shall we, the frail worldlings Who yet live and wait Shall we sit in judgment,

 Or cry out in hate, While Father above us

 A Father all wise Calls back his loved children From earth to the skies? Forgive us, forgive us,

 Dear Father above! Bring back to our conscience The heartbeat of love; And while we are weeping Our loved ones to-day, Let us tenderly cherish

 The Blue and the Gray.
Year: 1878

The Oregonian gives us neat
and perfectly legitimate hit for
indulging in a slight display of
egotism in quoting words COM
plimentary to ourself. We own
to full share of that amiable
weakness common to most pub
lie men, especially old editors,
Of being gratified at public COM
mcndation, and we pity that
man who is not, as one lacking
in human sympathy. The end
and aim of all honorable ambi-
ton, all proper endeavor, Is to
win the respect and admiration
of our fellow men. He who does
not respect himself is not re-
spected by others. 1t is arrant
hypocricy in any man Of ordi-
nary sensibility to pretend to
deprecate sentiments of esteem
expressed for himself to which
he knows he is entitled. We al
ways admired the frank and



manly egotism of Col. Benton,
who, when asked by a friend If
he had seen a very flattering no.
tice of one Of his speeches
which had appeared in a news
Year: 1878

Solomon said: "It is better to
meet a bear deprived of her
whelps than a fool in his folly
or words to that effect. The
imbecile OF idiot is not alluded
to in this quotation, but the man
who is wise in his own coneeit.
A man not heretofore distin-
guished for learning or profound
thought, but who was generally
respected and trusted in the
common walks of life," became
suddenly seized with a mania
for writing for the newspapers,
under the insane idea that with
very limited education and no
opportunities for study, he could
controvert the conclusions ofthe
most profound philosophers and
writer's upon the science of po-
litical economy, who have made
that study the speciality of a life
time. The multiplication of his
contributions had become irk-
some to publishers and a matter
of general protest on the part of
their subscribers, not one in ten
Of whom could see any object
in them. Out of the most friend
ly personal regard for the wri-
ter, and only with the view of
saving him from becoming a fur
ther butt of public ridicule, we


made some jocular remarks up
on his idiosyncracy, at the same


time giving him full credit for
all the practical merits which


can be Of any use to him in OBJ


tanning a livelihood. At this he
becomes as "mad as a March


hare" and accuses US through
another paper of a "mean and


scurrilous personal attack on