smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Ofttimes in memory see the dear old
homestead Oh! how plainly in imag-
ination the old farmhouse comes up be-
fore my mind; and those uncultivated
and rock-crowned hills, the rude plain,
that old maple and apple orchard, in
fancy again see. The violet and for
get-me-not, the messy rocks, and laugh
ing rills, the crystal spring, all these
again I see, and the happy days of child
hood come floating back to me again.
1t seemed but yesterday, that father
smiled, and mother kissed her boy, in
the old homestead! Oh, those sunny
days of childhood, they were all too
bright to last, and as L sadly think Of
the dear ones passed away, mother,
father, sister, brother, all sleeping in
those orchard graves on the old home
stead, and of the thousand happy hours
spent by us together, it seems that death
has taken all my earthly treasures and I
am left alone at last. But voice softly
floating on the evening breeze, tells me
L am not alone, and in Imagination I
ramble over the old homestead, with the
cherished loved of long ago at my side.
And thus it is, the buds of spring, the
summer flowers come and go, with their
beauty teeming, but in memory never
dying. So with fondly cherished ones,
though in the grave we have their forms
so fair, they ever in memory dwell with
us. The days of childhood, the old
homestead, will never forgotten be, the
past to us, by mind and memory, will be
renewed, the trtneful birds with varied
songs, the little brooks that wind along
the stream rejecting a spotless sky, and
"crystal streams more fair" and the
wildwoods around the old homestead
where nature first her charms to me
displayed, eclipsing works of human art,
these to me are more precious in memory
than all the gems of earth and art, rude
though they be.
Year: 1875

Some mothers, writes a physician,
think when their children get beyond
two or three years of age the frequent
entire bath can be dispensed with. If
some of the main facts of physiology
were well known and understood, every
one would perceive that cleanliness Of
the skin is one of the conditions of good
health 1t happens when bathing is dis
regarded that the lungs, kidneys or bow
els have more than their apportionment
of work. If these are stronga and healthy,
they may bear the tax with little appar-
ent injury, but, in most cases, lower
ing of the vitality and tone of the system
ensues. Large bath tubs are pleasant
and convenient, but not indispensable to
the proper cleansing of the skin. A
speedy sponging of the body in pure wa
ter, followed by friction in pure air, isall
that is necessary.


When disinclined to use water find a
thorough application of the flesh brush
to the whole person an admirable substi-
tute especially on retiring, it relieves
nervousness, equalizes the circulation
and induces quiet sleep. Mothers, above
all, should see that their children are
well bathed. If their skins are kept ac-
tive and healthy there will not be half
the danger from fever, cold and eruptive
diseases. If your little one is cross Oh
troublesome, and finds no occupation
that pleases him, try the effect of bath
sometimes it is magical, and, if tired, he
will go to sleep and awaken bright,
cheerful and happy. Do not, though,
as 1 have seen some parents do, plunge
a child into water, when he screams and
shrinks from it, thinking you are doing
a good deed. Nature must be the guide
if your child has nervous constitution
a shock of this kind Is only exhausting
and injurious.
Year: 1875

The Western Rural gives the follow
ing directions for plowing, which are
as nearly perfect as language without
illustration can give:


There are three principal things neces-
sary to good plowing-tirst, the ability
to properly guide a team; second,
knowledge and tact to arrange the plow
to the work in hand; and, third, an IN
telligence in gauging the furrow slice
and properly turning the furrow. These
being learned, the rest is easy.


The greatest difficulty with plowmen
is in laying out and finishing the lands.
This being properly understood, the act
of plowing becomes simple enough.
Let us give one easy, efficient and ordl-
nary plan: Set line of light stakes
across the field gauge the reins so that,
when placed on the beam handle of the
plow, at the point where it is grasped by
the hand, the team being in motion,
they will just bear kindly on the bits OF
the horses. Place the team SO that the
line of vision will be over the mold
board of the plow and between the horses
to the stakes. Set the plow so that 1t
/ will turn furrow from one-halt to three
quarters the depth the land is to be
| plowed; grasp the lines with two fingers
of the left hand, at the near or left side
Of the handle so that when the rein IS
pulled straight back, there will be lever
age enough against the handle with the
off rein to draw both alike. Thus, pull
ing slightly to the left will swervo the
team to the right, and easing on the
rein will bring them to the lett. a
steady rein will keep them straight; and,
however fresh the team may be, if steady
no trouble will be experienced in keep
ing them in direct line to do good
work. There is no other plan that we
have ever tried by which a team is under
SO good control. Some practice is re-
qllired by the plowman to do good work,
but less than by any other plan, not even
excepting the Irish way of grasping a
rein in each hand while holding the
plow.


Keeping the eye directly along the
stakes, seek to SO plow them down that
they shall fall sideways. Upon reaching
stake, do not stop, but continue to the
end of the furrow. Bringing the team
directly about, gauge the plow to cut the
full depth you wish to work. Turn the
next slice and the previous one into the
furrow already opened, stopping at each
stake to place tnom for the next land;
and thus proceed until you have reached
the starting point. Then go once more
about drawing two more frrrows An
ordinary plowman may then be trusted
to finish two-thirds or three-quarters OF
the land
Year: 1875

A practical joker has been brought to


his senses in Carlisle, Ontario. a very


intelligent and estimable young lady of
that place was sitting with an intimate
friend in her fathers parlor the other
evening, and while engaged in converse
tion leaned over and rested partly onher
companions lap. The joker entered
from behind, and suddenly pulled her
chair out from under her. In attempt
ing to save herself, the young lady in
jursd her spinal column so severely, that
she went into convulsions and the
family physician has given his opinion
that, even if her life is spared, her
mind will be deranged from the shock,
Year: 1875

In the beginning Of 1876, year
memorable in the history of table turning
and spirit-rapping, Angelique Coffin
was a girl Of fourteen, living in the vii
lage of Bouvigny, near La Perriere, de-
partment of Orne, France. She was of
low stature, but of robust frame, and
apathetic to an extraordinary degree
both in body and mind. On January Is
of the year named, while the girl was,
with three others, engaged in weaving
silk-thread gloves, the oaken table at
which they worked began to move and
change position. The workwomen were
alarmed; work was for a moment sus-
pended, but was soon resumed. But,
when Angelique again took her place,
the table began anew to move with great
violence; she felt herself attracted to it,
but, so soon as she touched it, it retreat.
ed before her, or was even upset. The
following morning similar phenomenf
were observed; and before long public
opinion was very decided in affirming
that Angelique Coffin was possessed of
devil, and that she should be brought be
fore the parish priest. But the cure was
man of too much common sense tt
heed their request for an exorcism, anc
resolved to see the facts for himself
The girl was brought to the cures house
and there the phenomena were repeated
though not with the same intensity II
before; the table retreated, but was no
overturned, while the chair on whicl
Angelique was seated moved in a con
trary direction, rocking the while, ant
giving Angelique great difficulty in keep
ing her seat. .....
Year: 1875

Three brothers, named Delafeld,
natives and residents of New York city,
all old men, died in the course of three
days: the first, aged eighty-tive, on
Friday; the second, aged eighty-one, on
Saturday; and the third, aged eighty
three, on Sunday. They all lay dead
together, in one room They had
played together in childhood; they had
grown up together; they had gone
through life together; they had died to-
gether Ono was lawyer; one doc
tor; and one merchant; and they were
all men of distinction.


There is something startling and im-
pressive in the almost simultaneous oc-
currence of these three deaths. 1t is
probably because it makes us realize
more forcibly, not our individual mortal
ity, but the transformers of universal
human life. We know that " friend
after friend departs, and that our turn
is to come; but it is not easy to feel that
a few years will make the change COM
plete and entire, and that not one who
is now living will remain.


In some respects, it seems. a kindness
and favor that friends should be per-
mitted to depart together, inasmuch as
all must go; not that they can benefit
each other in the great change, but be-
cause they are spared the great grief OF
a long separation here.


How incomprehensible it is that man
should be endowed with such wonderful
/ faculties that he can calculate the
motions of the planets, and tell to
second in what part of their orbits they
will be years hence; and yet, that no IN
vention, no discovery can be made to
prolong his life in this world Just as
he has learnt how to live he is cut off
Shall we retain, in future state Of ex-
istence, the knowledge which we acquire
here


If we could live even as long as the
patriarchs of old it would be some salts
faction. Perhaps when like them, we'll
stricken in years, we should be content
to go; but life, in our day, is miserably
short. An elixir of life-something that
would give us few hundred years of
perpetual youth in health and spirits,
combined with the wisdom of mature
manhood-such is the discovery which
is the great demand of the present.
Year: 1875

WRIT1Na LEADS TO FoRGETFULNEss.- --
An old king of Thebes said that the in
yention of writing was a calamity to the
human. race, for it would weaken the
memory, and prove in the end the art of
forgetting. There doubtless some
truth in theremark, for the memory Of
the ancients was more tenacious than
that of the 7moderns. Many of the
Greeks carried in memory the whole Of
Homer's HAD and it has come down to
us from their retentive brains, and not
from the manuscript of the anthor,
Year: 1875

The people at railroad depot in
Boston were astonished by the sight of a
man getting off the cars with his mouth
wide open, and kept so distended to its
utmost capacity in what looked like
permanent yawn. He had while gaping
thrown his jaw out Of Joint, and was on
his way to a hospital to get it repaired
Year: 1875

We take pleasure in announcing to the
numerous friends of tho VlND1CTOR,
that We have perfected arrangements tol
the continuation Of its publication upon
firm basis, The public are well aw re
of the difficulties under which the Con-
servatiye press of Louisiana labor; the
infamous printing law passed bya parti-
san Legislature, solely to foster and up
hold, at the expense Of the taxpayers,
journals entirely antaSonistical to their
interest. and at war upon their lib rites.
and by forcing, under the forms Of law,
our citizens to advertise in these official
papers, to break down their power, the
Conservative and Democratic press; con-
sequently we are compelled to depend
for support upon the generous contrihu-
ton ota people already povcrty-stricken,
but We feel assured that they viii Not
fail to sustain their main power III the
war Of virtue against vice


The Fearless White Mans Press of


Louisiana.


The future tone of this paper can be
judged from its past. We will continue
to advocate to success, the rights Of the
TAXED. that honesty and capability,
ALONE, shall constitute grounds for po-
litical prefermcnt, and continued and
never ceasing war upon Kellogg and his
corrupt Notwithstanding them to be in
common with their Chief, both usurpers
and thieves.


We can assure the public that we will
not hesitate to attack the acts Of any po-
lit,cal organization, when wo believe
them to be antagonistic to public good.
We are the servant of no clique or party,
and intend solely to protect and defend
the rights and liberties, in our honest
way, Of the whole peop!e-believing that
we have done sufficient service in the
cause Of the PEOPLE in the past, we
confidently expect their support in the
future. "- ''
Year: 1875

A BAD little boy, upon being promis- ed five cents by his mother if he would take dose of castor oil, obtained the money, and then told his parent that she might cOstOr oil in the street
Year: 1875

The reverberated metal is placed in- to the teaching boxes, whose dimen- sions are according to the quantity of metal 10 be worked at a time. These tubs or boxes, which are generally made of pine wood, have Q double bot tom, and upon the upper bottom which is a wooden sieve, a coarse cloth of wool and cotton is placed which serves 10 retain the ore.

 After the ore is placed in these boxes, it is washed with hot water, which dis solves the sulphate and chlorides of copper and iron as well as the other soluble substances that the ore may contain. The faucet, with which the lower bottom is provided, is then open ed, and the water is allowed to run out into pans, where evapoEating, the salts are chrystalized or thrown away The operation of washing lasts from five to six hours. Then the ore is covered with the solution of hypOsulphite of lime, which is generally kept in de positOry placed higher than the box which contains the ore, it is left to di- gest for sometime; and then the faucet is opened, which conducts the liquid  with chloride of silver, to the box or depository in which the precip- itation of the silver is to take place, The filtration of the liquid lasts from one to two days, according to the kind
Year: 1875

The first operation which the ore has to undergo, is pulverizatiOn, which takes place in mortars, in the same manner as if the ores were to be work ed in the patio-pan-Or barrel process. The machinery used for pulverizing purposes have been and arc continual lv modified in m advantageous man. ner. When speaking of the establish ments that 1 know, I shall then extend more in detail upon this matter, which cannot but be important At present l shall pass to the second operation, which is that of roasting.
Year: 1875

COMPACT EXPRESSION OF WISDOM from the Milwaukee News: "The biggest fool was girl in New York who poisoned herself for dry-goods clerk who parted his hair in the mid dle and wore an oroide watch and chain"
Year: 1875

MR.. sMUH's RED CLOUD COMMISSION


TO GIVE THE SECRETARY A "CHARAC-


TER"


Special to .ie ". Y. Erening Post.


WASHINGTON, September 20.-The
report of the Indian Investigating
Commission is in preparation and will
be ready to be laid before the Presi-
dent within the next ten days, Mem
bers of tho Commission say that on
the question on the innonence of Sec
rotary Delano and Commissioner
Smith on the charge Of being person.
ally cognizant ofimproper proceedings
OF the contractors and agents in regard
to supplies, the Commission is unani-
nous and will give both officers a
"clean bill" In regard to some Of the
subordinate officers, there is ground
for believing that the report will take
different ground and maintain that
their conduct has been such as to JUS
tify and demand the severest censurc.
Immediately upon the presentation of
this report Secretary Delano will lay
his resignation before the President
satisfied that he can retire from the
Interior Department with no stain
upon his integrity.
Year: 1875

A valuable lesson may be drawn from
the following editorial remarks in the Pen
insula Farmer. a journal published at Sails


bury, Nd. To adapt the remarks to this
section Of the State. only slight modii-
cation is necessary. The advice given in
the closing paragraph, though hard to
practice. would undoubtedly cure many
of the evils attributed to hard times"


Although one of the most serious problem:
Of life has always been. How shall We live
yet at this juncture in this locality i, assume:
a graver significance than in times of ordinary
activity and business prosperity. No longer
as II is sometimes when uttered-is il an idl,
jest with the great body of the farming and
laboring classes. Hard times No money -
comes from every hand, and is on almost every
tongue. And il is no false cry of "W off
Wolff when there is no wolf The times ar,
actually hard. Money isactually scarce The
people but utter what they feel and know
We do not have 10 look far for the causes OF
this state Of depression aud hard times. for il i:
not altogether due TO the financial condition O
the country For many years the people o.
this county have been largely engaged in III,


manufacture of lumber. They said farming
didn't pay, but the making of lumber would
And even if farming would pay in the end, III,





were far too slow and required them to wait
too long, whereas by the latter money could


much more rapidly be obtained. With III,


mania for becoming suddenly rich the whole
country was filled with steam-mlls and was
soon expected TO he metamorphoscd into an FL
Dorado. The scrried forests of pine were nc
longer allowed to cumbcr the earth, but ere


moved down right and left. But the mill.
cost money, and the facilities for transporting
| I,,l, q ,I,r, 1,,,,,
the increase of money! kind of in trdRsifu in.
creaSe-was an increase of wants The lumber
was made the money received for it. but
it was spent as soon made to live upon and
to purchase luxuries not hitherto attainable.
We can't be excelled by our neighbors, nc
matter how rich they are! Such is the Ameri.
can-republican-ide of life. So the money


went. And the lands were far poorer than
when the manufacture of lumber on large
scale began.


And now what? The timber is gone, the
money spent and hard times upon us? What 5
to be done?


We can see but one way out of it. 1t is a
slow one, but it is the only sure one Let the
people throw away their pride and 90 back to
the plain primitive style of living of their
fathers and grandfathers. They must live
within their incomes. Buy less than they sell
Save! Retrench Economize! Let them teach
their wives and daughters to do the same. II
need be- let them go back to the homespun


Let them raise as nearly all they eat as possi-
BILE. Let them manufacture as nearly ali they
wear as possible. Let them remember they


must look to the Soil only for permanent sup
port, and with this view spare no effort to i'm


prove it and bring it up to II high state of cul.


tivation. By this means they will lay the


basis for sure and lasting prosperity, such as


no sudden panic or ftful stringencv In the


money market can long impair.
Year: 1875

1st year.-ln corn. Apply not less
than 20 bushels of lime per acre, and
manure extensively as practicable.-
At the last working of the corn, or af.
ter its removal, SOW rye one or two
bushels per acre.


ID year-About the 18th of May
plow under the rye, apply 10 bushels
Of lime and 10 bushels of ashes, or its
equivalent of some potash manure,
and SOW to ? bushels per acre of In
dian peas, narrowing them in. When
the peas are well in leaf, dress them
with l bushel per acre of a mixture of
| plaster I and of common salt t, and
when they come into bloom plow them
under and SOW wheat, applying 100 to
200 pounds per acre of super-phos-
phate of lime.


Sd year.-In February or March
SOW clover seed l gallon per acre, and
when sufficiently grown dress it with
one bushel per acre of the mixture OF
plaster and salt, and when the wheat
is taken off, scrupulously protect the
field from hoof or tooth.


4th year.-In March or April again
dress the clover with the plaster and
salt mixture, cut the first growth for
hay and then pasture the field pru-
IDENTIFY.


The distinctive feature of poor land,
whether 80 naturally or become so
from improvident tillage, is lack of
soil, and this it must accumulate or
continue unfertile. Soils mainly con-
sist of vegetable mould, sand, clay ;
the mould being more or less rich ac-
cording to the kind of vegetation
whose decay forms it. The sand and
clay more or less abounding in inor-
ganic plant food according to the
character of the rocks whence, by dis
integration, they have come. This
condition, necessary to make poor land
fertile, is believed to be provided for
in the foregoing plan for its renova-
ton, which if adopted and fairly pur-
sued, must, it is thought. result in sat
isflctory improvement.


Bear in mind there can be no per-
manent improvement of lands without
giving it mould, and there is no rea-
dier or cheaper way of doing it than
by growing and turning under peas,
aided by dressing, if needed, i'll organ
ic mannres.


Employment for Farmers in Cold Wea-
ther.


Successful tillers of the soil always
plan their farming operations months,
and sometimes years in advance. The
farmer who has adopted "a paying pro-
gressive system of management will
have his land so divided into fields or
plots, that he can tell in a moment
what sort of crops will be cultivated
on every plot for several years to come.
During the winter months, such far
mers draw a map of their farms on a
large sheet CT paper, or on wide
Year: 1875

The DAMAGE AT WEsToN.-We had a
pleasant call from Judge Edwards, Oi
Weston, last evening, and were glad to
learn from him that the damage sustain
ed by the FIRE to the Lunatic Asylum was
not serious, no part Of the main building
being involved. The laundry and engine
house were burned. They were build
ings Of temporary character, and it was
designed as soon as practicable to put up
a permanent building,


By judiciOuS action on the part Of the
Superintendent and his assistants there
was no alarm or excitement among the
inmates Of the asylum. In fact they
rather enjoyed the brilliant effects Of the
unintentional illumination.
Year: 1875

New YORK, November 2S.-At meet
ing Of the Produce Exchange to-day the
following resolution was adopted:


ResOlrcd, That the seller Of property
has a right to demand payment for that
property on the delivery Of tho title to
the buyer.
Year: 1875

OUR people possess happy faculty
for getting UP difficulties with Indians
just at the right time to make few
months hostilities pecuniarily profita-
BILE to the parties who were most in
strumental in provoking the outbreak.
We have for some time anticipated
trouble with the Sioux Indians. The
notifications issued from time to time
to the restless public to avoid the
Black Hills were just so many invi-
tations to invade that region. 1t was
well known to the government that
miners would flock there and it was
almost equally well known that their
appearance would be the signal for
the commencement of trouble. 1t is
now almost certain that an Indian
war will be inaugurated; few whites
will be killed; a good many Indians
will die and few gentlemen on the
inside will realize handsome fortunes
at the expense of the government. A
we'll managed Indian war is money
business.