smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

LABOR FOR A LIvlNG.-lnere are Voo
many people in the large cities who do
not understand how to make living by
competition labor. SoHe of this class no
doubt went to the cities during the peroid
of imitation six or eight years ago when
labor was plenty and wages had been in
isted by the issue Of bonds and green
backs so much that to labor in the coun-
try for living was thought to be an evil
denee Of ignorance or stubborn stupi-
dity. aa3


Circumstances have now changed
greatly. The government of course
ceased to pay out paper money as the ne
cessities of the war closed; and just as the
bonds and the paper, which was deprecia =
ted for years grew better; paper money
ceased to be circulated so freely, and the
consequence Of its enhancement in value
is the reduction in the price of real estate
and labor also.


Ihss now become evident that men
have again to "labor to live" and 10 live
on the product Of labor and within the
means they thus acquire. The unfetter-
ed or personal wealth of the country has
taken the shape of gold bonds.Like causes
produce like effects, The wars of Europe
were productive Of great debts, and as the
English consols represent war debt so
do our bonds.


10 national financial point Of view we
are now very poor; we are unable to pay
cur debts The government, like man
who owns large amount of real estate
that is mortgaged, could not find the
money 10 pay its debts if it were reeulr-
ed TO meet forclosures,an therefore, it is
poor while millions of our people are rich.
It's resolve to honor its pledges, places it
IN this position. The heavy taxes to
meet this necessity and the large sums
Squandered TO pay hundred thousand
othce-holders heavy salaries makes the
mass of the people poor alsJ.


Under these circumstances it is evil
dent that more people will have TO make
a living OFF of the soil-they will have to
take farms and live on what they can
produce. Farm to live, and live on the
prUducis. Hundreds of thousands Of
good men have done this before. Ger
tainly it is better to live contentedly on
farm, even if we are required to dispens,
with many of the luxmies we have beel
accustomed to.andput up with diet coars
but wholesome, than 10 be dependen
upon the hazard consequent upon seekin
employment, when it is so evident tina
there Is none to be had OF likely to be TO
years to come for many who have n,
trade, or for those even who are skillfu
at their trades. A man who labors on 4
farm and thus proves that il will weld q
living for family, will find that he has
IN his farm value more than he sup
posed, and the chances are that in twenty
years Of such productive labor. he will
pe aole 10 dispose Of il for large sum
And If he then seeks some OF his forme,
companions who lived upon the chance
OF getting days work, he will more thai
hkely hnd them still seeking day!
work, with nothing "laid BY for rain,
day. hThose wlo know how to faru
have now the best opportunity for Sc
curing good homes that has been Offered
ior half century; and they should i'm
prove it,
Year: 1877

One of the morals of the laies, SAVINGS
bank scandal is that upright business
men, with regulations 10 lake care Of
shonld not become officers or trustees o,
ndoclary Institutions unless they have
the time and the purpose to see to it fol
themselves that the business is carried
o. In an honest and business like way.
Year: 1877

And accordance with law and order of the Board Of
Trustees made and entered the 14th day of August A
D. 1877 many of such designated shares of stock be-
longing and standing in the of the shareholders
aforesaid shall and will be necessary to psy the
upon shares held and owned by such shareholders
standing in their upon the books OF the company
will be sold public auction at the office of said company
in the office of Trenmor Coffin in Carson City, Nevada
Year: 1877

DtNCaKE COAL ton


of principal place of business, Carson City, Nevada
Location of works Pancake Mountain. White Pine county,
Nevada Notice is hereby given that at meeting of the
Board of trustees of the Pancake Coal Company corpo
alton, held the 14th day OF August A d. 1871 an
o 81 of Fifty Cents per share levied upon


he capital stock of said Pancake Coal Company payable
Immediately la United States gold coin to the Secretary
he office Of the company with Trenmor Coffin, Carson
CITY Nevada Said assessment to be paid on or before the
Year: 1877

THE patronage which Democrats
get from a Republican President that
stole his office from a Democrat who
was really elected, will in the end, cost
them a great deal more than it will be
worth.
Year: 1877

n kentucky man who went to the
Black Hills, wrote back To n local pa
per, saying: Golfer n premium at
your coming fair for the biggest fool
in the country, and III try and get
there in time,n
Year: 1877

BY the Chicago State Savings Bank.


Chicago, Sept. 1.-The deeper the in
vestigators go into the accounts of the
State Savings Institution the more
patent does it become that its officers
have Systematically plundered the fif-
teen thousand depositors and left them,
instead of three million Of dollars, less
than million, and that sum not readi-
ly convertible into cash. Neither
Spencer, Guild nor Bulkley have been
heard from, but rumor comes from
New York, apparently well authenti-
Gated, that Spencer sailed from New
York on the steamship Wisconsin, of
the Guion line, for Liverpool, on the
same Tuesday that the bank passed
into the hands of the assignee. Spen-
GERS transactions are worthy Of brief
record: He formerly held stock in the
Cook County National bank and was
connected with it before its failure; he
got out of that bank, borrowed money,
and gave in lieu thereof his note to the
bank, and with the proceeds bought
enough shares in the State Savings to
become the principal stockholder; he
then borrowed nearly half mil
lion dollars from the State
Savings bank to liquidate his matured
notes at the Cook County bank, and
gave his note to the State bank and
enough shares of stock to liquidate his
matured note to that institution, and
called himself square with the world


The books are full Of crooked trans
actions, and there is hardly day wher
the assistant cashier did not force 6
balance to indicate that the bank hat
more money than it really had; yet II
all dealings the forms of law seem tt
have been observed, and it is doubtful
if the offense is an extraditable crime


All of the other banks are doinI
about the usual amount of business to
day.
Year: 1877

CONDENSED beer is the latest discov-
cry in the drinking line. The process
mas been patentd in England. The beer
Is evaporated in vacuum until a large
part of the water and alcohol is dis
titled away. Beer, it is said, may thus
oe reduced to one-eighth its original
oulk. To restore the beer it is only
necessary to add the bulk of water dis
tiiied off, with small quantity Of
yeast or other ferment. Thus will the
nriton who loves his drop Of good beer
We enabled to carry his nose-painter
with him wherever he goes.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON is becoming alarmed
at the approaches of the Potomac River.


Marshes are yearly increasing from
Georgetown to the eastern branch, and
the local papers are urging the building
Of a river wall, and the filling in Of the
intermediate spaces. A grand boule-
ward along the bank of the river would
certainly add to the splendor of this
now most beautiful of American cities.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, according to the Trib-
une, "is encompassed on all sides by
stenches, and gradually shutting her
self out from all the rest of the world
by line of garbage-hedge." 1t is i'm
possible to approach the city from any
quarter without encountering those
offensive defences; it will soon be i'm
possible to find spot within two hours
journey Of the metropolis where one
can draw a breath of pure air.
Year: 1877

WIDOW VAN CoTT makes very Sc
rious charge against her brethren in the
Church. They will not attend her
camp meetings, and she is so piqued
that she will not appear in one again.
This is not only wrong morally, but it
is ungallant. The clergyman who is
unwilling to be saved by the charming
Widow ought to be lost.
Year: 1877

ADvIcEs from New York indicate
that the Tilden wing of the Democracy
in that State will be beaten in the COM
ing convention, in its efforts to secure
the denomination of John Bigelow and
other state officers.
Year: 1877

WHY cannot the other nationalities
follow the excellent example of the
Hungarians and send their needy coun-
trymen to settle on western landsp
Money sufficient to equip a dozen col
onies is wasted every year in senseless
parades and professions and in perpet-
uating rivalries and animosities which
had better be forgotten.
Year: 1877

GERMANY seems to be spelling for u
fight. Her threat to send fleet and
army to blow up Nicaragua unless the
offended dignity of one of her consuls
receives heavy pecuniary salve is
well, Just like her.
Year: 1877

The Pittsburg rioters tried to burn
up three carloads of silver, under the
impression that it was lead. The cars
were burned and the silver ran down
in the cutters, where the mint officers
found it three days afterward, only a
little worse for the melting.
Year: 1877

AT meeting of the Protective La
Dor Party, in Philadelphia, on Satur-
day evening, it was decided to lay aside
the name already adopted, and effect a
combination with the United Labor
Society.
Year: 1877

Washington, Sept. Public senti-
ment in favor of more liberal provi-
sion for the regular army is being won
derfully quickened by the fact that
Sitting Bulls fighting force outnumbers
all that the government can put in the
field against him and Joseph, if the
expected junction of these savage chiefs
shall be effected. This spectacle and
the lesson of the strikers riots have
stimulated the propositions for an army
increase of fifty per cent. and the re-
posal in the President of discretionary
power to temporarily increase the force
when necessary.


The Presidents New England Visit.


Washington, Sept. President
Hayes visit to New England continues
to show its result in marked change
in Republican sentiment in his favor.
The conviction is becoming general
there that his southern policy presented
the only course open to him with any
prospect of success. The President is
credited with having promptly con-
verted some Democrats to his support
recently by saying of the Republicans
who disagree with him on civil service:


These people do not comprehend
that mean just what say. 1t is my
business to take care of the admins
tration of the government. The people
will take care of politics. If the civil
service is thoroughly purified in New
York there will be no trouble in the
rest of the country"


The Wood Paper Patent Extended.


Washington, Sept. 1.-The extension
of the Vollters wood pulp reducing
patent disappoints the fall of two cents
per pound on printing paper, which was
expected to result soon from the expir-
alton of this patent.
Year: 1877

No wonder if half the world knows
how pleasant it is to take an after din
ner nap, and what a relief it is TO the
brain-or stomach. We
used to know lawyer who took his
nap every day after dinner on three
chairs, and that lawyer, if he continues
the practice, will die an old man. If
there is any one time when man Is
forced to exert himself, whether in
muscular or brain labor, TO work, it is
after the MONDAY meal. If all men
could only rest, not one hour but two
hours, and put the extra time on the
closing hours of the day, what an i'm
proyement would be made in their
health. Whether he be farmer or
mechanic, or professional man, a good
rest after dinner leaves the man in
better condition for hard labor than
even in the morning. We once worked
for a farmer in harvest, who always
made an agreement with his workmen
to work ten hours day, and from
twelve O'Clock to two no work was TO
be done unless in case of emergency, a
threatened rain or something that re-
Quired extra exertion. Didn't we
have glorious times sleeping under
trees after dinner. We always used up
three quarters of an hour at the table
and then slept one hour and quarter
during the heat of the day. The result
was the men were never overworked,
and the farmer got more labor from his
men than any of his neighbers, though
their men often worked twelve bours a
day. When two o'clock came the hands


were all in good trim, completely rested
out, and they could do double the work


with more ease than if they had COM
menced work at one o'clock. a single


hours rest at the proper time worked


wonders with them.
Year: 1877

Vestris l.. the famous dancer, re-
mains on history as the most coloss-
ally, comicalIy vain of artists. 1ntoxi-
Gated with applause, he considered
himself the greatest genius OF his
time. There are but three truly great
men in Europe" he would say. my
self, VI. de Voltaire, and King Freder-
ick.r To his infinite egotism, his son
and successor Vestris H., added an
immense capacity for rebellion against
authority. Twice he was sent to pri-
son, the second time at the personal
desire of Marie Antoinnette. This is
how it happened. In his efforts to dis
play the height of his genius to the
people of England. he injured one of
the tendons of his right foot. The ac-
cident, though it did not betray itself
in his walk, was sufficient TO prevent
him from dancing with the grace. the
vigor and the perfection which placed
him so far above all his rivals. On his
return to France he found that the
king of Sweden was the guest of Marie
ht HttCh -" 40
desirous of exhibiting TO her visitor the
rlost distinguished of her artists. Ac-
cordingly she sent a message to young
Vestris, begging him to dance before
the king of Sweden as well as he could
-shc was aware of his aceident-if it
were only few pas. The young artist
returned reply that he could not af-
ford to venture his professional repu-
tation by appearing when he was not
at his best. The queen had seen him
at the opera and observed that he
walked with perfect ease, so she sent
him another orders third, to each of
which a similar reply was returned.
The upshot of it was that young Yes
iris was sent to the prison of La Force
and kept there till he had completely
recovered the use of his foot. The
news was announced to his father.
ala - said Vestris l.; "then our house
and the house of Bourbon are at last
face to face ! 1t shall be war :"
Year: 1877

1t is a marked lecture of social life
in England, and certainly one of its es-
peciaI charms, that mothers and
daughters are so uniformly seen to-
gether at their own home. NOt only is
the mother the first lady to whom you
are introduced at the house where you
visit, but mistress of the ceremonies
throughout not only does she preside
at the dinner table, but in the evening
party she sits as queen. Whatever
may be your first impression of such
an arrangement-if it happens that
your sympathies are with the younger
ladies-you will very 5000 learn to
think that the mothers absence would
be very sincerely regretted by the
daughters. AS a picture all must ad-
nit the arrangement to be perfect.
The portly form and matronly dignity
of the mother are an exquisite foil to
the Youthful beauty and maiden coy
ness of the daughters. And yOu Will
find nothing to mar, but everything
to enhance the interest of the picture.
The mothers presence never seems to
operate as an unwelcome restraint.
Between her and the daughters you
will mark the most joyous, playful.
loving freedom, without the sacrifices
of a little parental dignity and author
ity on the one hand. or of sweet grace
full tilial duty on the other. 1t may be
said of English families generally,
that these two things are eminently
characteristic, to wit, uniform parental
authority, and the most charming free
dom of intercourse between parents
and their children. . .-
Year: 1877

CObwebs have been applied to various
telescopes OF surveying instruments are
fine webs taken from spiders of species
that are specially selected for their pro-
duction of an excellent quality of this
material. The spider, when caught, is
made to spin his thread by tossing him
from hand to hand, in case he is indis-
posed to furnish the article. The end
is attached to piece of wire which is
doubled into parellel lengths, the dis
tance apart exceeding little the diam
eter of the instrument. As the spider
hangs and deseends from this, the web
is wound upon 1t by turning the wire
around. The coils are then gummed to
the wire and kept for use As required.
About a century ago, ROs of Langue-
doc, succeeded in making pair Of
stockings from the thread of a spider.
They were very strong, and OF a beau
tiful gray color. Other attempts of the
same kind have been made; but Reau-
mur has stated that the web of the spi-
der was not equal to that of the silk
worm, either in strength or lustre. The
cocoons of the latter weigh from three
or four grains, so that 2,04 worms pro-
duce pound of silk; but the bags of
the spider, when cleaned, do not weigh
above the part of a grain.
Year: 1877

An old friend of mine, an enthusias-
tic philO-apiarian, told ME that being at
a friends house one dry summer, when
all the field flowers were nearly scorched
up, he saw thousands of bees busy in a
field of clover then in bloom.


al wish my bees were here" said my
friend.


"Probably they are" replied the gen.
tleman.


"What, at forty miles distance" ?"


Eyes" said his friend. son your
return home dredge the backs of your
bees with -four as they issue from the
hives in the morning, and we shall see.


This was done, and his friend wrote
him directly: There are plenty of
your white jacket bees here in the clo-
yer,'


But whatever is the fact with bees,
ants follow their noses much more than
their eyes. In my garden | saw train
of ants ascending an apple tree; go up
by one track, and descend by another.
As in ascending they passed between
two small shoots that sprung from the
hole, l stopped their passage with a
piece of bark. The ants did not see this
obstruction with their eyes, but ran
bump against it, and stood still, aston
ished. Soon crowd of them had thus
been suddenly stopped, and were anx-
ionsly searching about for passage.
By various successive starts forward
they eventually got around the obstruc'
tion and reached the track on the other
side. The line of scent was renewed
and thencefOrward, on arriving at the
barricade they went without a moment:
hesitation, by the circular track. | ther
took my penknife and pared away {
piece of the outer bark on the open hol'
where the ants were descending. The
effect was the same. The scent beins
taken away, the ants came to dead
stand, and there was the same con
founded crowd, and the same spasmodi'
attempts to regain the road, which beinS
effected i'm the same away, the scent wa
carried over the shaven part of the bark
and the train ran on as freely as before
t-St. NichOlds.
Year: 1877

Making a fool of ones self is with
many people part Of their education
al experience in life. Once brought to
the experimental realization of the
fact, one is apt to be wiser ever after.


A man generally makes a fool of
himself by wasting his money, or be-
lieving in mines and companies, that
are but traps for the unwary, or by
losing his temper at critical moment.


A woman manages to do the same
thing through the means of her tongue
OF her heaI,. She talks herself into
tribulation. or she gives her love to
some worthless creature who becomes
the bane of her life.


1t is over an empty purse that man
generally stands and clenches his
hands and mutters, I've made a fool
of myself" 1t is over her empty heart
that woman usually walls forth the
same words ....l
Year: 1877

meeting of hands and meeting Of voices.
A touch and tone where two spirits are one;
chord that, dear heart, still rings and rejoices'
And makes you my own by the life thus be


gun EEs
meeting Of souls, where meeting were mad


ness


II JOY were net equal, and love lived alone /;
When We clssped-did we not Pin the arms


of our gladness,
To wonder and wake with the joys that We


own.
Then speak. with that voice which. so musi-


Cal mated


Has welded its soul to the garment Of song,
And linser, o love, till With spirit elated,
listen and live with life growing long.
And tell me that waiting shall never divide us,
That want shall no, waste and death shall


not dim
The affection that glows, and the trust that


has .ried us
The life that Iesps up Of the darkness SO


grim.
Else silence. o silence I dare not invoke it
in stiffness TO die, If your dumbness would


Kill:
To wait in despair, while no gladness can


choke it


And cry unto you with want never still
1t is heart unto heart, is it not, o my Treas


ure?


It's life lost in life, is it not-ten me true !?
Or have l but found TO have lost without


measure


Ny faith and NV fortune, my heaven in you?
Then why did you smile from the eloquent


dreaming


OF eyes lost afar in reluctant reply;
And why did you whisper one word Of sweet


seeming,


To linser in hope and but linger to die!
No, no : TIL you speak am bound to dissem-


BILE,


And say to my heart it's glory but hid;
To wait on your words with trust that will


tremble


Sustaining me still TIL your answer forbid.
Year: 1877

date. A woman must be very near. in
deed, akin to an angel, who, after her
husband or some other near male rela-
tive has for years laughed to scorn her
complaints of agonizing neuralgia-tei-
ling her it sis all fancy, "''only nerves
could it be anything worse? p, that she
would never have it if she did not think
about il, t,or if she took more exercise, or
if she did something, or other totally out
of her power todo-does not, sorry as she
may be that he should suffer, feel GER
tain satisfaction when the enemy seizes
upon him, and he is made to feel what
she has endured --....


The absurdity of mems utterances
never seems to strike them when they
gravely affirm that no one can possibly
gauge their sufierings from an ordinary
cold in the head. There is no offence
so great as to try and persuade man
that, disagreeable as it may be, it is but
a temporary inconvenience, which in
a very short space of time will pass
away, leaving not trace behind; he
regards this simple exposition of fact as
most unfeeling, and bemoans himself
piaintively that no one cares whether
he is ill or not. He believes firmly that
he is model of fimness under suffering.
The women about him will be wise if
they abstain from irritating him by any
refutation of this preposterous fallacy.
1t may be admitted that il is difficult for
them to hold their peace when they see
him deliberately making himself ill by
eating or drinking what he knows from
experience will disagree with him. 1t
is not easy to be compassionate to the
fit of gout brought on by drinking sweet
champagne, or to manifest sympathy
with headache produced by over-in-
diligence in picked salmon or lobster
salad. But the victim will never allow
that imprudence has anything to do
with the matter, and persists in regard
ing himself as the martyr of cruel fate
Il London World.
Year: 1877

The movement for the abolition of
capital punishment in Italy has already
been partially successful. In France a
movement in the same direction has
been initiated. Some forty odd promi-
nent Deputies, including Louis Blanc,
have submitted bill, in which they
give the following reasons for abolish
ing the guiIlotine: "That the right TO
infiict an irreparable punishment i'm
plies an infallible judge; that to infliet
death is bad way on the part of society
of intoxicating respect for life, and, con-
sequently, of arresting the arm of the
murderer; that the spectacle of the
blood shed by the executioner hardens
perverse hearts, and is an obstacle 10
that refinement of manners which
should be the result and is the sign of
an advanced civilization; that the pun
ishment of death has been condemned
by the greatest criminal lawyers; that
the countries where it is abolished have
only had to congratulate themselves on
its abolition; that the punishment of
death, in word. produces effects in
every way contrary to those expected
by it, partisans. D..