smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

window stands tree, with the branches
SO placed that the leaves of some almost
sweep the pane. How much the sight
of twigs, buds and leaves. stirred by the
winds and fecked with the bright CLEANS
of the sun, can cheer the mind of one
who lies upon the pillow idly looking at
them. The central thought expressed
in a well constructed sick room is diver
sion. The object Of its construction and
location should be to give perfect accom-
modation and protection to the invalid,
while at the same time it suggests the
beauty and freedom of being unconfned
the life and animation of the great
outdoor world beyond.
Year: 1878

THE ENEMY OF THE LABoRING MAN.
Far and wide the "saloon" gains its
support from the wages of the laborer.
and returns him nothing but poverty
and wretchedness. Two laborers come
to blows and are dragged into police
court to be fined or imprisoned. 1t is
all very costly proceedings for them.
and the chances are hundred to one
that they would have remained at peace
and saved their money for Legitimate
expenses but for the "saloon." Nine
tenths of the pauperism and crime are
directly traceable to this agency, and
yet "labor" has not the wit to see it.
Practically the dispenser of liquid poi
son is held to be the best friend of work
ingmen, and is accorded more influence
than the most respectable employer,
however generous he may be. As Q
rule, if an aspiring politician wishes te
make use of large vote from the ranks
of labor he buys the influence of the sa.
looms. It is always for sale, as much
so as the goods passed over the counter
but the laborer goes on denouncing the
oppression of capital while contributing
to the support Of the saloon without 9
murmur and patiently following ths
lead of the man behind the bar.-Hart
| Ill Iao<
Year: 1878

SELF. EsrEEM-Don't rob your neigh
Dor of his good opinion of himself. Crush
woman's self-esteem. and you make
her cross grained and snappish. Do the
same with man. and you only make
him morose. You may mean to create
a sweet, humble creature. but you'll nev-
er do it. The people who think best of
themselves are apt to be best. Women
grow pretty in believing they are SO, and
fine qualities often crop out after one
has been told one has them. 1t only
gratifes a momentary spite to force your
own unfavorable opinion of him deep
into another's mind. 1t never, never
did any good. All if this world, full
of ugly people and awkward people. OF
silly people and vain people, knew their
own deficiencies, what a sitting in sack
cloth and ashes we should have The
greatest of all things that man can
possess is satisfactory identity. Ifthat
which he calls | pleases him, it is we'll
with him; otherwise, he is utterly
wretched. Let your fellow beings alone;
hold no truthful mirrors before their
eyes, unless with pure intention to up
root sin. So may mirror without a
flaw never be prepared for you.
Year: 1878

father Ryan, the author Of this exquisite poem, IL
ed the Poet-Priest of the South, and resides In
,ile Ala.


walk down the Valley of Silence,
Down the dim, voiceess valley alone,
And hear not the sound Of footstep
Around me, but Gods and my own;
And the hush Of my heart is as holy
As hovers where angels have flown.
Long ago was weary Of voices


Whose music my soul could not win;
Long ago was weary of noises
That fretted my soul with their din;
Long ago was weary Of places


Where met but the human and sin.
walked in the world with the worldly,
Yet / craved what the world never gave;
And said, in the world each ideal.
That shines like star ON life's wave,
Is toned on the shores Of the real,


And sleeps like dream in the grave.
And still did pine for the perfect.


And still found the false with the true;
I sought md the human of heaven,
And caught mere glimpse of its blue;
And sighed when the clouds of the mortal
Yelled even that glimpse from my view
And toiled on, heart-tired of the human,
And groaned mid the masses of men;
Till knelt long ago at an altar


And heard a voice call me. Since then
walked down the Valley of Silence
That lies far beyond human ken.
Do you ask what found in the Valley?
'Tis my trysting-place with the Divine;
And fell at the feet Of fthe Holy,


And around me voice said: "Be Mlnew
And then rose from the depth Of my soul
An echo, "My heart shall be Thine
Do you ask how live in the ValleyP
Iweep, and dream, and pray;
But my tears are as sweet as the dewdrops
That fall on the roses in May;
And my prayer, like perfume from censer,
Ascendeth to God, night and day.
In the hush of the Valley of Silence


hear all the songs that sing;
And the music floats down the dim Valley
Till each finds a word for wing;
That to men, like the doves of the deluge,
The message of peace they may bring.
But far on the deep there are billows


That never shall break on the beach,
And have heard songs in the silence


That never shall float into speech.
And have had dreams in the Valley


Too lofty for language to reach.
And have seen thoughts in the Valley
All, me how my spirit was stirred!-
They wear holy wells on their faces,


Their footsteps can scarcely be heard;
They pass down the Valley like virgins,


Too pure for the touch of a word.
Do you ask me the place of this Valley.


To hearts that are narrowed by care?
1t lieth afar between mountains,


And God and His angels are there;
And one is the dark mount of sorrow,


And one the bright mountain Of prayer.
Year: 1878

The use of the cats whiskers in
state of nature is very important. They
are attached to bed Of glands under
the skin, and each of these long hairs is
connected with the nerves of the lip. The
slightest contact of these whiskers with
any surrounding object is thus felt most
distinctly by the animal, although the
hairs themselves are insensible- Whis-
kers are common appendage of the fe-
line family. They stand out on each
side of the lion as well as the common
cat SO that, from point to point. they
are equal to the width of the animals
body.
Year: 1878

The subscriber will keep JACK at his stable the
season OF 1878 for the benefit Of those who wish TO
raise mules This animal is eight years DID, Of large


size, kind and gentle.
Also. the well known horse
Year: 1878

Notice was given at the West church
yesterday that the Rev. Albert N.
Keigwin, the pastor elect, was expected
to occupy the pulpit next Sabbath. A
letter has been received from him to-
day, in which he states he expects to
arrive here on Thursday evening next.
The congregation propose to hold
social nesting on Friday evening next
in the lower rooms of the church, to
welcome him to his new field of labor.
The entire congregation should be pres
ent at the reception.
Year: 1878

THE Philadelphia North American sug-
gests some good advice to the Democrats
when it says: "If the Democrats of the
House want to deepen the impression that
the South Carolina investigation is likely to
pan out badly for their party, they have only
to place obstacles in the way Of the Teller
committee. The effect of verbal omission
in the appropriation bill is to leave the COM
mittee without funds to 60 on. And, if the
investigation is suffered to fail because of an
error easily corrected, the effect of that will
be to convince the public that the Democrats
fear investigation"
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

The mandamus proceedings brought against tho
Kings County Board Of Supervisors by Charity Com
missioner storms 70 compel ihem TO Day his back
salary at the Of t4 900 per year, up
brooklyn City Court yesterday before Judge McCue
A motion was made by the Boards counsel to have
the writ quasbed on the ground that the Court had
no jurisdiction IN tho matter Hts Honor denied he
MOTION and gave leave 70 nie q return by Monday
next
Year: 1878

II the lice are those found adhering to the
bark, in shape very similar to minute oysters,
and which are known as oyster-sheIl bark
lice, the easiest remedy is to make a lye with
wood ashes or concentrated potash or soda to
be procured in cans at the grocery stores and
boiling water; apply this to the bark, while
hot, now or before Spring. A common white
wash brush or a broom may be used,
Year: 1878

Ifcrops of green corn or buckwheat sufic-
lent TO plow under with benefit can be grown
upon soil, there would be no difficulty in
growing fair crop OF clover Summer fall
low is very costly and slow process of doing
what may be done more quickly and at less
cost by artificial fertilizing. For instance, to
Summer fallow effectively there should be
three plowings and harrowings, which would
cost $40 per acre, and the benefit would not
be equal to that from 100 pounds per acre of
good fertilizer costing less than So. We
would recommed the following: Plow the
ground and SOW with two bushels of oats per
acre, applying 2S0 pounds per acre of Mapes'
complete manure OF Peruvian guano, and
sowing peck of clover-seed. When the oats
have just headed out cut them green and
cure them green orhay, and dress the young
clover with lo0 pounds of gypsum per acre.
A good catch of clover may be looked for un-
less the season should be dry that Ecloyer
would not succeed anywhere.
Year: 1878

OF nearly al the Southern cotton spinners,
and the entire ahsenee of any complaints from
European spinners, although millions OF bales
OF cotton have been consumed there covered
with tlax baggings The action OF Southern
markets is the more surprising, when 1t must
be clear to every one that II the jute bagging
manllfaeturers are successful in their unjust
and unreasonable war, they will be able to
dictate their own prices for bagging, and will
inevitably compel the cotton planters TO pay
them enormous profits, thus imposing an
other ,grievous burden In addition to those
tney nave now to contend with, and for
their protection we feel 1t to be the duty Of
Southern merchants to earnestly resist the
movement calculated TO establish q monopoly
In bagging that will be able force millions Of
dollars yearly from the already Impoverished
planters OF the South Ii the merchants are
not active In protecting their planting friends
they Will soon comprehend the situation. and,
moved by .self-interest and d sense OF wrong,
VIII resent It In way that will undoubtedly
recoil upon the Originators of the movement,
and, instead OF establishing monopoly, they
Will find less demand for their bagging, for
every planter In the South who understands
his own interests will rebuke this effort to force
from him ll exorbitant prices for jute bagging,
and will hereafter give preference to the flax
Dagglng. This course would not only be wise,
put patriotic, for in doing so they will assist in
sustaining O great industrial interest of our
country, which will keep bagging at q rea-
sonable price; but the success OF the jute bag
ging manufacturers will be the destruction Of
that interest, and the building up OF the jute
interest which is an article Of foreign growth.
And is it not extraordinary that the mer-
chants Of the South should set an example
which, II followed by English spinners would
build up British interests at the expense Of
Southern planters?


Hoping your market will soon cease to
make discrimination that will shut off the
business Of this section, and that we may
have the pleasure of mutually profitable
and satisfactory business, we are, respectfully
and very truly.


.IOIIN z WtIEI, ,Ies. & CO
Year: 1878

The people of the country have been ad-
vised that Senator Conkling, of New York


was preparing a great campaign speech, and


as In duty bound, have waited in breathless
expectancy until such time as it might please
him to fire it off. The occasion offered yes
terday and the man was ready. Surrounded
by friends and admirers In the Republican
onvention assembled at Saratoga, and being
In possession Of that body, he was naturally
i'm happy mood. The result is announced
by telegraph. The Senator struck the key
note, the public are informed, when he took
an advanced hard money position. This is
something to be thankful for at all events


And he struck the administration when he
captured the convention, which fact deserves
more thanks. The Democratic party was not
injured by the Senator's remarks. The
DEMOCRAT makes this statement without
reserve.
Year: 1878

Morey and Sypher have been heard from.
They are at Washington, trying to persuade
Gotham and Hale that they can handle $50,00O
of the Republican campaign fund to big ad-
vantage In the Louisiana congressional cleo
tions. At last accounts the managers Of the
Republican canvass were not disposed to look
favorably upon the investment We regret to
hear this, as Morey and Sypher are the very
two men of all we know Of who could put
$5O,000 of Republican campaign funds just
where 1t 1Uoutd do the most good.
Year: 1878

When John Sherman says that the stalwart
New York Times has been lying about him,
and the New York Times takes great trouble
in self-defense to prove that John Sherman
is not only liar, but sneak and an ass,
and when Blaine's organ up in Maine speaks
Of the secretary of the Republican National
Campaign Committee as Zone Gorham, 8
second class idiot" we may be allowed to
infer that all is not harmonious within the
Year: 1878

The nomination Of full State ticket by the
true Democracy of Massachusetts, meeting in
convention at Boston on Wednesday, was an
action that the Democrats Of the country will
heartily indorse 1t shows that the Butler
faction in no way represents Democratic SEN
timent in the Bay State and that the party
will not allow itself to be saddled with the
responsibility Of assisting that sample Radi-
cal statesman to beat even the regular Repub-
Iinop uaminna
Year: 1878

The governorship of New Mexico has failed
TO quiet Lew Wallace. He is out In a letter
since his appointment reiterating his charges
against Orth, and declaring that he cannot
and ought not to be elected to Congress from
she Ninth Indiana District. For once in his
life Lew Wallace Is about right. Probably
the governorshp of New Mexico does not full
fill his expectations We do not know how
else to account for his sudden attack of virtue.
Year: 1878

a CORRESPONDENT from Wash
ington City publishes a statement
purporting to come from General
Grant, in justification for receiving
an increase of salary, or what is
known as the "Salary grab" We
regret that the ex-President has
seen proper TO revive this SALARY
grab. business, as every congress
man and senator who did any thing
to secure this increase has felt, from
the people, whenever an opportuni-
ty occurred, the biting unpopularity
of the measure, and the loss, in
almost every case, of political pos
ition and place.
Year: 1878

The Hon. Frank Welch was in
good health OH the morning of the
4th inst, and drove from Norfolk to
Neigh in the morning and attended
to some business, and in the evening
about 8 30, while in conversation
with friends, fell back in his chair
and expired within twenty minutes
of apoplexy.


Hon. Frank Welch was Nebras-
ka's congressman, and had just
entered upon the political canvass to
obtain the nomination for a second
term, with a fair prospect of being
his own successor; but he has been
suddenly cut down, giving an other
strong proof of the truthfulness OF
the saying that ain the midst Of life
we are in DEATH" Peace to his
memory.
Year: 1878

GEN. JOHN G. Fremont, wife, son
and daughter, were at Chicago on
the 9th inst, en- route to Arizona,
where the General will at once enter
upon the duties of Governor of the
Territory, to which he was recently
appointed by President Hayes and
confirmed by the unanimous vote of
the Senate. No act of President
Hayes and no vote of the Senate
confirming any nomination gave US
more pleasure than this small trib-
ute to the acknowledged worth and
services of General Fremont, after
so long a time of neglect by the po-
litical friends. We hope that still
higher honors await him from his
true friends, as he goes TO Arizona
with the expressed intention of do
ing all he can for the development
Of the country, as he knows it has
great resources and a varied climate
suitable for stock raising, and agri-
culture ;besides this its mines are re-
nowued the world over and will be
Year: 1878

THE question of rebuilding the
Grand Central Hotel is already
being discussed in Omaha. Every
citizen of Omaha we should think
would feel a personal interest in
having in their city hotel of the
class of the Grand Central, bnt
it would appear that the company
who own the property are fully
able 10 rebuild without any aid
from the citizens. Considering the
great interest that the citizens of
Omaha would feel i'm such an enter
prise, having felt in the past its
benefits, they would not hesitate,
but voluntarily GO forward and
assist in rebuilding so desirable
and Improvement TO their city.
Year: 1878

UNDER the prevalent system of
making nominations it is all-import-
ant for voters to make known their
sovereign wills at the primaries.
Don't allow professional politi-
clans" TO taint the political fountains.
BY professional politicians" we
mean those whose main thoughts are
how TO get Office, and whose ambi-
ton is to be known as political
powers in the land. The influence
which merit and force of character
always have is worthy of all praise
and emulation, but the sordid desire
for political pelf is despicable and de-
serving only the execration of right
minded men. Attend the primaries
and select good men. These re-
marks are peculiarly applicable to
our Democratic friends. but neither
will the reading of them hurt Re-
publicans.
Year: 1878

VERY liberal contributions are
still being made throughout the
northern states TO aid the suffering
in the yellow fever districts. Hurry
up the donations, for accordingi to
the latest account the numbers of
the sufferers are daily increasing.
Ons of the most startling features of
the distress is the want of help to
properly care for and nurse the
sick
Year: 1878

its great wealth. Already the busi-
ness eve of the General has taken in
the situation and suggests COM
mercial treaty with Mexico, and
thinks it is much better to trade
with them and great deal more
profitable than to go to war with
Them
Year: 1878

Bishop Huntington, of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, has word to say to
sections from which they may profit:
"A great deal may be done for quiet
ness in churches by the sexton. The
most quiet sexton l ever saw was an
apostle of silence. His eye, and ear,
and hand were everywhere, and his
genius for forestalling and suppressing
confusion was wonderful. Before service
he always changed his boots for slippers.
He glided about the aisles as noiselesly
as a ghost. He made bookkeeping a
fine art Doors and windows were fixed
50 that they would never be heard. He
took care that no sound should come
from the furnace or gas fixtures after
the service began. The fact was that
this was not mere instinct of propriety
or crafty measure of success in his Of
fee; it was constant answer of his be-
lieving and humble heart to the solemn
sentence, The Lord is in His holy
temple What contrast to the clumsy,
fussy, .heavy-shod brother, in charge OF
the stoves in rural sanctuary 1 remem.
ber, who was sure to start up two OF
three times in the midst of prayers


sometimes when the preacher was doinl
his best to get or hold the attention o,


his hearers, march around from his sea


to the fire, swing open stridulous stow


door, punch the sticks with poker, ant


toss in an additional supply of fuel, Civ


ing US another shrill screech from tn


hinges as o finale"
Year: 1878

A dispute not unfrequently arises and
a crowd gathers about the irate traders;
but no blows are struck in the East. A
quarrel is accompanied by a series of
highly exasperated expectorations, re-
minding the observers of nocturnal
feline combat. One of the soi-distant
combatants spits upon the pavement in
what he conceives to be an intensely
malignant and daring way; his antago-
mist Immediately follows suit and spits
upon his side of the street in what he
imagines to be more desperate and
blood-curdling style, and if the contro-
versy is a very deadly one, the partiei-
pants keep up bombardment OF the
Unfortunate sidewalk until their lips
are so dry that they rattle in vain to at
tempt to expend more ammunition.
When this point is reached the dis
putants generally walk off in different
directions, turning back every two min
utes for the first two miles to shake
their fists in the direction they suppose
their antagonist to have taken.
Year: 1878

A CERTAIN gentleman of La Grange,
Ohio, whose residence is near his place
of business, to save the time and trouble
of going to the door, raised window
from the outside and requested his wife
to hand him $40 bill. While she was
gone after it he was called away Mean
time passing tramp saw something in
side of the window which he thoug int it
possible to take, raised the window, put
his hand cautiously in, and must have
been astonished to have bill thrust in
it. Of course, he accepted it and i'm
mediately left. Then the gentleman
returned. Tableau. Cleveland Herald,
Year: 1878

A CURIOUS case affecting the legal
definition of cruelty to animals" has
Just been decided in the English Exche-
quer at the Sittings in Banco. The
Magistrates of Upper Geneur-Glynn, in
Cardigan, had decided that it was not
cruelty not to shoot mare which was
in foal, and kept for the sake of her ex-
pected suffering from hopeless
injury to the leg, which caused her
great torture whenever she moved
about, and this decision the Court of
Exchequer confirmed. But the Magis-
trates had not remitted for appeal the
point which both the Chief Baron and
Baron Cleasby regarded as the one
really at issue-namely, whether it was
not cruelty to place the poor animal in a
field where she could only feed herself
by inhicting great torture On herself
through constant motion, instead of
feeding her in stall, where she need
not have used the injured leg to any
thing like the same extent.
Year: 1878

A SPANISH lady was brought into
Court in London the other day for re-
fusing to pay for blue silk night gown
she had ordered. She declared the gar
ment misft, and offered to prove the
fact by trying it on before jury of
matrons. There was not a jury of mat
rons. and the Judge finally decided that
she must pay the bill with costs. This
inflamed her Andalusian blood, and her
proud answer to the desrot and tyrant
was to hurl the garment in question at
the solicitors head, and afterwards to
tear it up to ribbons before the Judges
face. The remnants are now in possession
of one of the officers of the Court.
Year: 1878

If the Prince of Wales should die his
eldest son would succeed Queen Victoria
1t is immaterial whether or not Wales
had mounted the throne, and had he
died before his son was born the right
of that son to the succession would not
be prejudiced. The English law of in
heritance is little peculiar, in that the
Oldest son of the monarch inherits to
the exclusion of elder daughters, but a
daughter will inherit against collateral
heirs Wales will take the crown at
his mothers death, although his sister,
the crown princess of Germany, is a
year older than he. The father of Queen
Victoria, the Duke of Kent, was never
on the throne. He died before his next
older brother, William " (who died
childless), and left only one child, the
present queen, but three or four younger
brothers survived him, none of whom
or their descendants could inherit the
throne while he had issue.
Year: 1878

A YOUNG woman in Newburg, Wis,
severely thrashed her father because he
would not raise five hundred dollars to
give her as dowry, in order to marry a
man who wanted his wife to have that
sum,
Year: 1878

The new "silver dollar of the
daddies " so nearly resembles the trade
dollar as to be scarcely distinguishable
from it either in size or weight. The
diverse has the head of Liberty with
her cap, and on the reverse is the spread
aaola