smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

MEssRs. EDITORS: Il would wish,
through your colums, to place before the
minds of your readers the subject of Or
anthology and Cology, or, more popular
ly speaking, of birds and eggs. Very few
species of the animal kingdom present
themselves to our view more forcibly
than do the winged songsters, which flil
our woods, gardens and door-yards
with the gladdening influence of their
presence, and their ever delightful vol
llmes of song. 1t behooves us, then, to
become IS familiar with them and their
habits as possible, that we NAV, by
knowing, the better appreciate them.
To this eud l would invite the attention
and cooperation of all lovers of nature
and the beautiful, in carefully studying
the birds Of your locality, and rendering
the result Of your observations to some
scientific magazine which makes this
branch specially, or by giving your
remarks to the n arest magazine or
journal, which will, in most Instances,
gladly publish them for you.


If you arc no scientist yourself, pro-
euro some good book at once and study
up the subject; for it will not take much
time, and will amply repay you in the
end. There are many excellent books
which will start you on your way, and
give you q clue to what you want to find.
AS 10 birds, there is no better book in
the English language than "Coues' Kew
to North American Birds" The subject
of nests and eggs is not so we'll worked
up, and here is the place we need helm
from you. Understand me, l do not
urge or countenance wholesale slauph-
ter of birds, or destruction of nests and
eggs, to accomplish this object. Most
of you who read this article are men of
sense, and can judge for yourselves what
is best to be done; but | do urge all
young men, particularly farmers aud
their sons, to learn something about the
subject at once, and go to work this
spring. There are plenty who will lend
YOU this assistance, and aid you all that
they arc able.


Find out what birds are in your local
ity, then when they appear in the spring
when they build their nests, how many
eggs they lay, if they remain with you
all summer. if beneficial to the crops
find out their relative abundance or rar-
ity and where they most abound, then
when they leave in the fall or if they re-
main all winter. Learn all about them
and their habits that you can, keep q
memorandum Of all items of interest
that you can think of. for others NAV
not know what you take to be of little
or no account, and at the end of the sea.
SON submit it TO some scientific friend OF
party or publish it as it is. If you live
on the seacoast, so,much the better. We
want all the knowledge of our water
bird that we can get, the more the bet.
ter, you cannot give us too much of it:
| would urge this branch particularly
Do anything and everything to assist
honest. careful research, and you will
benefit yourselves, your neighbors, and
confer real and lasting favor upon sci.
cncc. Respectfully yours,


w. A. STEARNs,


Amherst, Mass, Feb, 1877.
Year: 1877

A bluff country farmer meeting the
parson of tho parish in by-lsne, and
not giving him the way as readily as he
expected, tho parson, with an erect
chest, told him that she was better fed
than taught" "Very true, indeed, SIR
said the farmer, "for you teach me, and
/ feed myself"
Year: 1877

An old divine, cautioning the clergy
against engaging in violent controversy
uses the following happy simile; "If we
will be contending, let us contend like
the olive and the vine, who shall pro
duce the most and the best fruit; not
like the aspen and the elm, which shall
make the most noise In the wind"
Year: 1877

The old story of man who listened
to very pathetic discourse from a
strange pulpit one day, but was the only
person in the house unaffected, is pat
to many things of these times. Upon
being inquired of by some one how he
could refrain, he answered with char.
scteristic aridity, ooh, sir, l belong tc
another church."
Year: 1877

Each man is created q sociable being, and we find him today, (with- out stopping to inquire into the why and wherefore of said creation an atom of a vast social system. As such he has his duties and responsi- bilities. They are multiplex and varied, and upon the manner in which he discharges them depends his own happiness, the happiness oi those closely related to him, and, to some extent, the peace and comfort ot society in general. In this won derful social compact, it would like wise seem that one pipe or reed or key of the grand organs which make melody in our churches from week to week might be spared, with out the loss being felt, and yet their disarrangement would have most serious effect upon the desired har- monies. l. is thus in the life of men. A single person can create social discord, whether he has an admitted influence to some degree, and while this is the case there is no use of attempting to escape responsi- biity; to, avoid our moral obli- gations; our duties to our fellow man.
Year: 1877

SMALL MEANs.-We think that the power of money is on the whole over estimated. The greatest things which were done for the world have not been accomplished by rich men, or by subscription lists, but by men generally of small pecuniary means, The greatest thinkers, discoverers, inventors and artists have been men of moderate means, many of them little raised above the condition ot manual laborers in point of worldly circumstances. And it will always be so. Riches are oftener an imped- iment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much misfortune as a blessing. The youth who inherits wealth is apt to have made life too easy for him, and so grows sated with it, be- cause he has nothing left to desire. Having no special object to struggle for, he finds time too heavily on his hands, remains mentally and moral ly asleep, and his position in society is often no higher than that of a polypsus over which the tide floats.
Year: 1877

STARTING IN THE WoRLD.-Many an unwise parent labors hard and lives sparingly all his life, for the purpose of leaving enough to give his children start in the world, as it is called. Setting a young man ahoat with money left him by his relatives is like tying bladders un- ner the arms of one who cannot swim; ten chances to one he will lose his bladders and go to the bot tom. Teach him to swim and he will never need the bladders. Give your child sound education, and you have done enough for him. See to it that his morals arc pure, his mlnd cultivated, and his whole na- turc made subservient to laws which govern man, and you have what will be more value than the wealth of the Indies.
Year: 1877

Milk and lime water are now ire quently prescribed by physicians in cases of dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach. Often when the func- tions of digestion and assimilation have been seriously impaired, a diet of bread, milk and llme. water has an excellent effect. The way to make lime water is simply to procure few Jumps of unslacked lime, put the lime in stone jar, and water until the lime is slacked and of about the consistency of thin cream; the lime settles, leaving the pure and clear limew water at the top. Three or four tablespoonfuls of it may be added to a goblet of milk.
Year: 1877

The Internal Revenue Department has made q decision on the subject of leaf tobacco in the hands of farm CTS that illustrates the inexcusable and unnecessary harshness of one part of the tobacco tax. It decides that it twill not mold farder liable to the special tax as a retail dealer leaf tobacco who should furnish such laborers as he employs and during the time he employs them with leaf tobacco for their own con- sumption, as q matter of convenience to them and not of profit to himseif.' This is graciously allowing farmer to give chew of the twist of his own raising to a friend without be- ing prosecuted for the crime. The privilege, however, must be accepted with restrictions. It is limited to the laborcrs in the farmers employ and to the time they are ill his em- ploy. It is not to extend to the farmers neighbors, nor to the labor CT in the employ of those neighbors, nor even to the laborers who have been, but are no longer, in his own service. If he furnishes single twist of his own crop to the farm hand who has been with him year, and helped to raise his tobacco crop, one day after the hand shall have left his employ, it IS a violation of the revenue act, for which the offend- ing farmer will be liable to be ar rested, carried a hundred miles to United States Commissioner, and required to give bail to appear be- fore United States Court for prose- cution. It is pretended that this vigorous provision IS for the protec- tion of the manufacturers of tobacco, who live in towns and cities, against competition from farmers who might do trihing business in the way of retailing their crop; but it is as un- just as it would be to prohibit farm CTS to retail a few bushels of wheat or potatoes on the plea that it would interfere with the business of pro- duce dealers in cities.-Missouri Republican.
Year: 1877

CoUGH REMEDY.-A tablespoonful of slippery elm. and a tablespoonful of raisins. Cut into very small par ticles each ingredient. Add a pint of water, let them slowly simmer, or keep near the boiling point, until the strength of each is extracted. When ready for use, there should be half pint in quantity, as water, may have to be added while sleeping. Be very particular in selecting the material, that they be of the very best especially the licorice, winch should be so moist that the outside looks dark, and the wood bright and yellow. The raisons also should be moist and cut into small pieces, but the seeds must not be taken out. This has been known to entirely cure cough after months continu- ance, as the slippery elm removed the inflammation, the raisins strengthen, and the hcorice heals as fast as the inflammation is allayed. A thorough trial will convince the most skeptical. Dose "a teaspoon full every time one coughs or tickling sensation is experienced.
Year: 1877

The next legislature will beyond doubt break up that system, (the borrowing system root and branch, and either provide for sufficient greenback levy to pay the expenses of the government, or make all sala- ries payable in scrip. The people have become sufficiently acquainted with the modus operandi of borrow ing money, and sufficiently disgust ed with Wall street money lenders, to keep clear out of all such compli- cations in the future.-Daily Tele- graph.
Year: 1877

SUcooTAsH.--For succotash, lima beans are best. The agricultural stand second on the list, but any good variety of bush beans which come earlier than these makes an article that is by no means inferior. Shell the green beans and boil them slowly in plenty of water for or ? hours, being careful to keep them covered with water while boiling. Cut we'll grown corn from the cob and place in a pan to steam over the beans; add little water to the corn, and stir it occasionally. Steam from 20 to 30 minutes; then add the corn to the beans, and simmer for half an hour. Stir often and watch care fully that it does not burn. Season to suit the taste.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Dec. %, 1877
THE RIO GRANDE RAIDS AND HOW THEY


HAVE BEEN EXAGGERATED.


1t begins to be more and more plain
that all the recent outcry about Mexi-
can outrages and robberies in Texas was
the merest sham and pretense, intended
to open the way for a war aga inst Mexico,
which would have been public scandal
and a crime. The testimony of a num-
Der Of military officers before the House
Military Committee shows most positive
ly that for at least year or eighteen
months past there has been no trouble
on the settled parts of the frontier; there
have been no raids by Mexicans into
Texas and there has not been the least
excuse for threatening war with Mexico.
1t was reported the other day mere that
an officer serving on the border had said
that not hoof of cattle had been seen
stolen from Texas since the beginning of
the present administration, and General
Sheridan's testimony, literally bears out
this assertion,
Year: 1877

THOSE who have suffered from the various and


complicated forms of disease assumed by
Catarrh, and have tried many physicians and
remedies without relief or cure, await the answer
10 this question with considerable anxiety. And
well they may; for disease that can be men
toned Is so universally prevalent and destrnct


We to health as Catarrh. Bronchitis, Asthma,
Coughs and serious and frequently fatal affec ions
Of the lungs follow, in many cases,a of simple
but neglected Catarrh Other sympathetic affect
ions, such as Deafness impaired eye-sIght and loss
of sense of smell, may be referred to MINOR but
nevertheless serious results of neglected G Catarrh
bad enough in themselves, but nothing com
pared with the dangerous affections rof the throat
and lungs likely TO follow
Year: 1877

the Mexican authorities along the Texan
border of the great desire of the president
to unite with them in efforts to suppress
this long continued lawlessness, At the
same time he will inform those authorities,
when in pursuit of marauders and when
his troops are either in sight of them or
upon fresh trail, to follow them across
the Rio Grande and to overtake and punish
them. as we'll as retake the stolen property
t ken from our citizens and found in their
hands on the Mexican side of the line. [
have the honor to be, very respectfully,


GEORGE w. MCCREARY,


Secretary of War,
Year: 1877

As q grand curative and restorative agent is not
eQualled by Sny element medicine in the his
tory of the healing art Unless the vital spark has


fed the body, restoration by Of electricity s
possible 1t is the last resort of ali physicians and
surgeons, and has rescued thousands, apparently
dead from an untimely grave, when no other
human agency could have succeeded, This is the
leading curative element in this Plaster.
Year: 1877

drunkenness are admitted by all, and
yet the act, made legal, to make
drunkarGs. Why is it some OF the
greatest evils in the land must be
treated as moral questions, and the
law must not touch them, while
smaller oferses must receive the pen
atty oflaw. Certainly if greater evils
can be controlled by moral acts, why
not less ones.


1t is q mean. covardly business
for q man TO say be will withhold pat
ronage from a tradesman if he will
not work for the license law. Such
men should be marked, and patronage
be withheld from them, until some
spark of humanity may be developed
IN them. The county commissioners
ought not TO have right to a grant IL
eense for rum selling, nor use the
right II they have it. They, as any
one else who grants a license, should
be accountable for the consequences.
Year: 1877

The next term of the State Nor
NAL School, says the Peru Herald,
promises TO be very prosperous one.
The two Normal Courses are now
clearly defined and hereafter exclus-
i've attention will be given to the edu-
cation and training of teachers. At
the fall term, large class OF students
belonging to the A grade will be
formed with view to graduation ia
the Elementary course next Decem-
ber; and, st the same time, another
class will be formed to ograduate at the
end of the school year. Students
found competent 10 join the classes,
Will thus obtain complete outline re-
views and thorough drills in all the
branches OF the Elementary course.
These will be close classes, however,
and hence no one will be allowed to
join them after the opening of the
term"
Year: 1877

Prof. J. NJ. Mckenzie, ex-State
Superintendent of Public instruction,
has been engaged as the principal Of
our city schools for the ensuing year
This announcement will be q source
OF qualification 20 the people of this
city, for among the educators Of this
state there is no one more efficient or
better known than Prof. Mckenzie.
The school board is deserving of the
thanks of the patrons of the school
for this wise choice.


We understand that Prof. NcKen-
zie will remove to this city during the
year and the society and social enter-
prises of the city viii thus receive a
valuable acquisition.


The teachers for the next year have
now all been employed. bliss Jessie
Balm will be the High School assist
ant. Misses Tucker, Hit, Cox and
Smith have been retained and will
occupy the positions held by them
respectively during the last year.


The school will begin probably on
the first Monday in September. With
this corps of teachers we feel conf
dant that the success OF the school in
the ensuing year viii come up to that
OF any preceding year, and perhaps
make al advance.
Year: 1877

- If the weather is auspicious on
Thursday morning of this week, 1t is
arranged that the Brownville Cornet
Band, Peru Band and Dyes Band.
with their families, will meet at the
rural residence of Maj Ford, q few
miles west of this city, and in some
convenient grove enjoy picnic feast
and social time. We are requested to
say through our columns that all who
feel disposed TO join the Bandso on that
occasion ore cordially invited to do
SO, and to come with hampers of good
things to eat. A very pleasant time
is expected for all.
Year: 1877

- DIR. Richey is in the city. at the
Union House, busily engaged at his
professional business as a dentist. We
believe the doctor does not advertise
anything he cannot do. He has had
some severe cases already in which he
administered 10 the patient his laugh
ing gas, and teeth were extracted and
teeth filled without pain. DR.. Richey
is certainly skilled in his profession
Year: 1877

- State Supt. Thompson sends US
the following, with q copy of the
law:


The new edition of the school law
has been printed, and enough copies
to supply each school board with one
have been sent TO the several county
superintendents. In this edition all
the late amendments have been In
serted, except the one to declare the
true intent and meaning of the term
school district, which, together with
the general land law, though ordered
inserted, were omitted by mistake of
the printer. The provisions of the
new constitution in relation to educa-
tion have been inserted and, also, to
facilitate the transaction of school dis
trict business, brief foot notes have
been appended to some sections of the
law, and on page four will be found q
convenient school district business
calendar.
Year: 1877

We had a few days and nights
last week of unusually cool weather
for July. On Thursday and Friday
nights IL was nearly cold enough for
frost. Not very good, we should
think. for corn. Yet farmers tell Us
their corn is growing nicely.
Year: 1877

- The question of Township Or
ganization" under the law of the last
Legislature, is to be submitted to the
voters eff Seward county. The law
requires the county commissioners to
order a vote on the question in any
county on the petition of fifty voters.
Our readers will perhaps remember
that we published the lengthy bill
Immediately after the adjournment of
the legislature.
Year: 1877

- The many friends of a, D. Marsh
think he is convalescent, and have
great hopes of his speedy recovery,
but Marsh insists that be is dyeing,
and doing it in the highest style of
the art.
Year: 1877

The cane and corn crops begin
to suffer materially for want Of
rain. The low price obtained for
rice last year has reduced the
culture Of that staple at least one
half aii ii NGb t n
Year: 1877

THE WEAruEE-We find it extremely hazardous to risk ones reputation as q prophet on weather contingencies lester- day the indication, were that protracted storm was brewing in fact had already set in, and to-day the weather is beautiful the sky clear and n" more appearances of rain or snow than If such phcomenon were un- night-fall dense fog, which is most unusual in this mountain region. settled down upon the earth, and although, when it began to show itself, the sky was completely over cast, it was not long before stars began to glimmer through the gloom, indicating that the hope of a storm was past, and when the hour arrived for the sun to rise this morning he opened his eye upon a sky without a cloud
Year: 1877

4 note from BiCelow & Darroche. who have established mining plant on the sum ner location of the micscious iron. or stove blacking lode, on the west side of the East iassayampa, short distance north of the Crook mill, informs us that tho snow is II inches deep at their place, and that they arc taking out good ore and plenty of it, when they work
Year: 1877

The Nohave mail will hereafter, until further notice. leave the Prescott Postotiicc on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, which will enable our Williamson Valley subscribers to receive the WEEKLY MINER on the day of publication and those at Walnut Creek early next morning. This change should increase our circulation in those ncighborhoods.
Year: 1877

The people of Salt River valley are farm ing very extensively this season. The Salt River valley IS one of the best farming sec tions on the Pacific Coast and farms will soon be worth a great deal of money there
Year: 1877

Wilson S Haskell have the contract for making the doors and windows for the new Post buildings at Camp Mohave. and their factory k now turning them out as fast as machinery and mechanics can do the work.
Year: 1877

The Fort Whipple Theatrical Troupe are to give their second performance tomorrow evening al their new building. Every per sen who can should embrace this opnrtuni- ~ of attending the entertainment as il is to be a way up affair
Year: 1877

The ARMY RlNG had scarcely succeed
ed in inducing Congress to vote an in
crease of 5000 enlisted men to the ranks
and consequently tho expenditure of ten
or fifteen millions of dollars, when the
reasons urged (the Mexican raids) for
this waste ofmoney is pronounced wholly
without foundation. We thus find the
Democrats who were induced to abandon
their party and vote with the party of
scallawags and peculators for supplies to
keep up the political agitation of the
bloody shirt, looking like boys who had
been frightened at shadows, or animals
with ears longer than those of the more
nobler breed.


But what was our ''General" about?
And how was it that our "Lieut. General
could not get the state of facts about
Mexico and these So called raids until
the army ring had succeeded in its tricks
The truth is that the one is "fosil''
that ought to be let live and grow fat or
the retired list upon much diminished
salary; and the title of the other ought
to be dispensed with entirely and mai
of less greatness and more usefulness
put in the position who cares less for poll
tics and more for duty and his country
These gentlemen seem to think more o
keeping up large army lilly prepare,
than keeping a small army in the mos
complete condition known to the art o
war.
Year: 1877

GEN. BBN BUTLER SAYs.-I believe
further that it will have q beneficial ef-
feet upon the country. Tho grain housse
Of the West are bursting with grain; the
warehouses of the East are filed with
manufactured goods, the railroads are
anxious to bring the grain from the
West to put into our mouths and to car
ry the goods from the East to put upoI
the backs of the West. The passage o
the bill will tend to bring about that re
suit, because it will show to the people
that we have reached that position popu
larly designated as "hard pan," tina
contraction bas ceased, that we are no
going any further in that direction. Th
public confidence will be restored, bust.
ness will be revived and we shall ente
upon new career of prosperity.
Year: 1877

SILVER is a product of the country,
and it is a most remarkable thing to find
the Congress of the United States legis
lating to destroy the value of a product
The high tariff acts destroyed the market
indirectly for wheat and corn and othei
farm products but this is the first time
that legislation has taken the value oui
of product psrposely to henefi any
cartain class of investors.