smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Among the guests who attracted my
notice was gentleman of the old school,
with whom, am sure, many OF your
readers would have been glad to have
held conversation. This was Baron
Heath, who was Lord Byron's school
fellow at Harrow, and who, being his
Junior, acted as his "fag." He told me
that Lord Byron wore a boot at that
time on his withered foot in which
plate of tin was inserted, in the hope
that it would remedy the deform1ty, but
that the foot ceased to grow at an early
period of his life, and simply shr1lnk up.
1t was not "club foot, " as ID common
" supposed. The foot was laced up IN
the middle. 81 remember it very well,
said Baron Heath, with a smile, "and
for a very good reason-I have very
often had to clean those same boots. =
To,16o11 LETTER.
Year: 1877

A golden hour on a summer morn,


When half the world was still,
The dew was fresh in the pew-mown hay,
And the bridal veil of the fair young day
Hung DER the purple hill.
The sheep bells tinkled across the slopes,
Sweet as an elfin chime;
Butterflies fitted athwart the down,
Bees went murmuring, busy and brown,
Over the fragrant thyme.
languid calm and dull content,


Silence instead of speech;
The wind sighed low, and the lark sang high,
But the golden hours of our lives went by,
And drifted out of reach
We both went to eager life;


But in its pause to-day
The dream of that golden hour returns,
And my jaded spirit frets and yearns


For one chance swept away.
The years creep on, the heart grows tired
Even of hopes fulfilled,
And turns away from the worlds strong wine,
With fevered lips, that must ever pine,


For that pure draught we spilled.
And yet, perchance, when our long day wanes
Gage hath its joys late born),
We shall meet again on the green hillside,
And find, in the solemn eventide


The hour we lost at morn.
Year: 1877

fresh buttermilk; lard as large as hens
egg, made hot enough to fly when
poured into the batter Bake quick.


IRoNING.-To iron smoothly purchase
few cents worth of beeswax and rub it
over the leaves of thin pamphlet, which
have been heated through with the flat
iron; keep it with the ironing sheet and
blanket, and when the fat-irons are to
be used rub them over the waxed sur
face: then wipe gently on a soft cloth.
Shirt bosoms can be easily ironed in this
manner.


HERE is good molasses cake, which
can be made before it is wanted: Two
eggs, one cup molasses, one cup brown
sugar, large spoonful Of lard or butter,
one teasrccnfnI o. aree 81 81 IA of
mixed cloves and spice, one and one
half pints buttermilk, and flour enough
to make a rather thick batter. Bake in
biscuit pan cut out in squares while
warm. This is quite a favorite with the
harvesters, especially when accompa-
MED by glass of cold, sweet milk.


REMEDY FOR WHooPING CoUGH.-Take
half an ounce each of spirits of harts-
horn and oil of amber; mix them well
together every night and morning
anoint well the palms of the hands, pit
of the stomach, soles of the feet, arm
pits and backbone. As long as the oint-
ment is being used do not allow the
parts anointed to be washed the back
of the hand may be washed, but not the
palm care must be taken afterward not
to take cold. This cannot injure the
smallest infant Keep the bottle well
Year: 1877

Our HOLIDAY STOCK will be
ready for inspection on and after
December s, and we cordially tn
vtte all Interested In CHRISTMAS
GIFTS to visit us. We have not
only an unusually largo, but also
an unusually varied and par
tioularly flno assortment Of HAND
SOME Goods. no finer line has
over beon exhibited in the West.
PRICES LOWER THAN EVER.


Tho following Is q SELECTED
LIST from our line Of Handsomely
Bound and Fully Illustrated
Year: 1877

ALL PREPARED. The blank applica-
tions for town lots are all prepared, and
claimants of lots will find the copies of
the map required by law to be attached
to the affidavit of the applicant filled out
and everything ready for signing. One
hundred and seventy three applications
have been filled thus far, covering about
that number Of lots. The time for max
ing applications will expire in about six
weeks, when ali lots upon which the as
sessments remain unpaid will be marked
delinquent and sold at public auction.
AS the law requires the entire business to
be closed up within one year from the
time the map is filed in the office of the
County Recorder, and each application
must run six months from the time it is
made before deed can be given, it
would be as well not to delay. The as
sessmcnts levied upon each lot is that
levied by the law itself, the County Judge
having estimated that no additional levy
would be required to meet the expenses
ofpurchase and survey etc.
Year: 1877

STILL QUIEr.-The political waters of
this county are stIl quiet, although there
is slight ripple stirring up the county
committees. With the exception of Mr..
Taylor and Purdy there are no an
nounced candidates for any position,
though we believe there are some J." only
waiting" who will not refuse a good Of
Year: 1877

CoRREsPoNDENTs.-What has become
olall our correspondents. We had at
one time fine corps o! local contributors
one IN nearly every precinct, but at the
present time letter from the out side is
an unusual event. Mayhap the hot wealth
er makes them oblivious to all else, but
II so we beg them to wake up and post us
as to the doings in their vicinity.
Year: 1877

A R0BBERY.-Two or three days af-
ter the Fourth a young Chinaman was
stopped in the road near Davidson's by
some party who relieved him Of what
loose change and other valuables he had
with him. The heather came TO town
and informed the officers of the act,
saying it was done by a negro. That
however is Impossible, so it was con-
cluded that some one of the "sons of
the forest " who had been to town and
probably got cleaned out on the horse
race, mad taken this method of making
himself even. Or 1t may have been
done by a white man blackened and
otherwise disguised. That dodge was
played more than once in this county
in early days.
Year: 1877

plated under the new law. By it the
county proposes to give orders a more
certain and definite value, to bind itself
for the payment of every order as soon
as the treasurer can reach each one in
regular rotation.
Year: 1877


first day Of January, 1879, to make
specie the basis OF it's financial opera
tions. The wisest and safest advisors
of the government advocate this meas
ure. There are those, however, in the
country and their number is large, who
are in favor of inilation and the general
doctrine OF trying to pay their debts
by using the interest on their debts to
do it with. Fortunately for them and
the country, they have not been allowed
as yet to put their theories into prac-
tice. A conflict is waging between the
two factions, and it is national in its
character. No true lover of honest
money and fair dealing wants to see
the doctrines of imitation prevail.


In this county we have an issue up
on similar principle. Upon the one
side we have men who think the coun-
ty should issue its paper and then new
er provide any money in the treasury
to pay that paper. No matter if a county
warrant is tifteenyears old, they think
it should be worth no more than Il war
rant one year old. They would have
the county go on issuing warrants, but
never providing funds in the treasury
to pay them. They would compel every
man to 60 into the market with his
county order and sell it at discount
of twenty or twenty-five cents on the
dollar, or hold it forever waiting for
pavment On the other hand there are
those in the county, and we hope their
number will increase, who maintain
that the county should redeem its or
ders according to contract, 4 e., in or
der of number and date. SO that when
an order is issued the holder may have
some assurance that it will some day
be paid in money, and not that he shall
be compelled to sell it at a discount, or
wait an indefinite time to get what the
county owes him.


1t is the national fight on resump-
ton here in Clarke county on small
scale. And the general principle in
volved is this There is a right and
wrong way to Go everything The
right way to redeem county orders is
for the county to pay them off in money,
beginning with the Oldest order first,
and so on through the list The wrong
way is to let every tax payer 60 to re
deeming county orders by paying his
taxes with them, thereby putting all
orders on level and allowing the tax
payer to put twenty per cent. of his
county taxes in his pocket as his price
for helping to keep holders of prior or
ders out of their money, which they
have probably waited for five or ten
years.


An effort was made at the last Leg
islature in the right direction by pass
ing law to regulate the redemption of
county orders. Some people call 1t ''re-
pudiation;" but that can not be true,
because it provides the means whereby
county orders are TO be redeemed. 1t
proposes to put money in the county
treasury to be used to pay orders. Who
will call that "repudiationl' Is it not
the opposite of ''repudiationP 1t has
been remarked by one we know, who
is well acquainted with the financial af-
fairs of the county, that this new law
is laudable effort on the part of the
county, through her Representatives,
to be honest with her creditors.


Don't be mistaken in the word, gen
tlemen. 1t is Resumption, and
not "Repudiation,' that is contem-
Year: 1877

Mrs. NJ. Anna Jackson, the widow of
the great confederate general, says that
she did not express to newspaper person
lately the belief that if General Jackson
had lived, or if his policy had been Wig
orously pursued, the war might have had
a different ending. And then she goes
on to say: No man was ever more free
from petty jealousy and detractiOn of
his fellow officers or more submissive to
superior authority than General Jackson
was; and even a shadow of an imputa-
tion of this kind would be great injustice
to his unselfish, patriotic spirit, and con-
sistant Christian character, and certainly
l would be the last person to make such
an impression. or draw an unfavorable
comparison between him and our noble
generals, Lee and Johnston, or any other
brave confederate officer. The discus
sion in the article of my private affairs
reveals an indelicacy that is tso painful
for me to dwell upon; but / would fain
throw the veil of charity over the pole
publication, believing the reporter zeal
carried him beyond his own discretion,
and even betrayed him to publish, with
out my knowledge or consent, letter 70
my young daughter, which was shown
him simply as specimen of the imPer-
tinence of the kind to which we had
been subjected"
Year: 1877

ct. H." writes; d" l am boiling over
with indignation while reading the ac-
count of the fearful bastinadoing of the
unfortunate Ali Nasmi, narrated in your
Pera correspondence. few days ago
was reading an account Of this punish
ment inflicted many years since on an
unfortunate Engl shman. As many of
your readers may not be fully aware of
the horrible nature OF this punishment,
l give the account in the victims own


words. l am led to ask how it is posi-
BILE in our day such bdrbarous cruelty
can be perpetrated for so small an offense
as the poor student was guilty of, and
which he SO magnanimously owned
The writer say The victim was
thrown fiat on his face and his leg bent
up, so that the soles of his feet were
horizontal; the feet were held in this
position by long staff and chain. At
first the blows were moderately dealt,
then they were laid on more roughly,
and every stroke felt like th application
a red-hot poker At first the pain was
excruciating, but the feelings in time
became numb, aad it wss like beating
bag of wool 1t was six weeks before he
could walk, even with erutches, and for
more than three years his feet and anslo
Year: 1877

The following is the text of the Carlyle
letters:


To the editor of the Times Sir: A
rumor everywhere prevails that our mi
raculous premier, in spite of his queens
proclamation of neutrality, intends un-
der cover of care for British interests to
send the English feet to the Baltic, or
to some other feat which shall compel
Russia to declare war against England.
Later the rumor has shifted FROM the
Baltic and become still more sinister OH
the eastern side of the scene, where a
feat is contemplated that will force not
Russia only but all Europe to declare
war against US. This latter have come
to know as an indisputable fact in our
present affairs, and the outlook is surely
a grave one as to British interests.
There is none visible or conceivable to
me, except taking strict charge of our
route to India by Suez and Egypt, and
for the rest resolutely steering altogether
clear OF any copartnery with the Turks
in regard to this or any other British
interest whatever. 1t should be felt by
England as real ignominy to be con-
nected with such Turk at all. Nay, if
we still had, as in fact all ought to have,
a hand to save him from Perdition and
annihilation, in Gods kingdom, in the
future for him that has any hope in it,
that of even now being conquered by
the Russians and gradually drilled into
the peaceable attempt at learning him
self to be governed. The newspaper out
cry against Russia, is no more respecta-
BILE to- than the bowling of bedlam,
proceeding as it does from the deepest
ignorance, egotism, paltry hate and
jealousy. These things l write not on
hearsay, but on acute knowledge, and to
all friends OF their country / will recon-
mend immediate attention to them while
there is yet time, lest in few weeks the
maddest and most original thing that a
British government could do, should be
done, and all Europe kindle into the
flames of war. am, etc,


L. CARLYLE,


) Cheyne Row, Chelsea, May 4.
Year: 1877

Why are men of genius so often bach
elors? To this reply thatsuch instances
are not owing to anything like a want
of appreciation of woman's value, but
most generally to unfavorable circum-
stances. Most of eur celebrated authors
have been in love, but found that its
course did not run smooth. Irving, for
instance, was engaged to maiden whom
he lost by death Charles Lamb re
mained unmarried that he might devote
himself TO his lunatic sister, Mary, whom
he kept as an inmate of his house until
her death. Lord Macauley never mar
ried, but it is probable that this was due
to some youthful disappointment. He
might have had


a love that had an early root,


And early had doom;


Like trees that never come to fruit,


Bat perish in their bloom"


Goldsmith was deeply in love with the
charming Miss Horneck, whom he styled
d" the Jessamine BRIDE" and even Pope,
though lifelong invalid, expressed his
admiration of Martha Blountl but neither
of these men married. The one was pre-
vented by poverty, the other by i'll health.


Hume seems almost the only leading
writer who was formed for celibacy. He
was naturally cold and apathetic, and,
indeed, any one who could defend suicide
by such ingenious sOphistry was unfit for
social life Gibbon, when a student,
was in love with Mile. Curchod, the
daughter of 4 poor clergyman. His
father opposed the union, and the love-
lorn student resigned his hopes of matri
monial bliss. The girl was talented and
became teacher, and afterward married
the richest man in France and was the
mother of Nine. De Stael. She enter
tanned her former lover at her place
twenty years after the match had been
broken. To return to American authors
i am reminded that Percival proposed
but was refused. Indeed he was unfit
for married life by reason of his peculi-
arities. Halleck became deaf and re-
L
frmed bachelors are rare among the
editors, physicians, lawyers and clergy Of
this city, and it has always been so.


Almost all the great authors of the
British empire were married men, though
some had conjugal trouble. Among
these were Milton, Byron, Shelley, Bull
wer and Dickens. Walter Scott was re-
jected by his first love. who was above
him in rank, but she lived to see him the
greatest author of his age. He after
ward married an heiress of French birth,
Miss Carpenter, but would no doubt
have done better to have allied himself
with Scottish blood. His life was en-
tirely separate from the domestic circle,
and his wife never knew till the Banna-
tynes failed that her husband had for
fifteen years been a silent partner in an
Edinburgh printing house. Cor. CiRcia-
natl Gazette.
Year: 1877

The Shakers, though unquestionabiy a
very earnest people, are not 50 austere in
their conversation and manners as many
suppose. On the contrary, they seemed
to us to be quite as fond of banter and
by-play OF a genial, innocent kind, as
people generally. They are ready to
laugh at joke. When our lady com
panion possessed herself of the quaint
Shakeress cap and confined Der curls un-
der it, they seemed as gleeful as we were
over her sudden Occurrences. As the
Shakers are no5 so austere in their man
ners, neither are they so ascetic in their
life as many might imagine. Without
being luxurious, they live very comfort
ably. Their members travel occasionally,
and in summer little parties OF them
sometimes go a distance of fifty miles to
recrt ate on the sea-shore.


The Shakers have not given so much
attention to regulating their diet as have
some communities, but still they may be
said to be quite fairly hygienic. Graham
and Indian breads are constantly on their
tables, and they eat some sruit and but
little meat. If we might be allowed to
make suggestion to them in regard to
their table, We should perhaps say that
they ate too much pie. May be they
don't know that some foreigner has said
that "all Americans die OF pie" We
could not help wishing further that they
would let the Turkish bath into the
noble new building into which steam has
pushed its way; but, doubtless, they
will open their doors to it some time.
" Cleanliness next to godliness."


As we were walking between the
various buildings, over the neat stone
walks, we stopped with a sudden start on
perceiving that we were about to put
our foot down on what appeared to be a
grave. There il the walk was a plain fat
stone, bearing the age and other rude
memorials of a departed soul.


why" We exclaimed with sudden
awe, q some one seems to be buried here"


Our Shaker companions explained that
in remodeling their cemetery they re-
moved all the old stones and put marble
slabs in their places. The stones had been
used for repairing their walks, and we
soon got quite accustomed to them. We
afterward visited the Shaker cemetery.
1t was situated ON a high and pleasant
knoll and was surrounded with a low
and open iron fence, the heavy pests of
which were sunk into stone foundation.
The marble tombstones were all of the
same size, and were placed in straight
rows, giving an appearance of perfect
uniformity. a Shaker burying-ground is
an interesting place to visit, on account
OF the uniformly great age to which its
memorials bear witness. They prove the
tslth of Nordhoh's assertion that Z: Com
munists are long-lived."
Year: 1877

The case is that Of Henry c. Ersh-


man, residing near the boundry of


the country, near Sweetwood, who is


a large owner of iron ore lands, and


the possessor Of considerable property.


Up to within several weeks ago he


was hale and hearty, and, notwith.
standing his abundance Of this worlds
goods. he generally wore one suit Of
clothes during the week and on Sun
day. Several weeks ago he was start.
led because he imagined that very
foul smell either came from his ears
or mouth, or the pores of his skin.


lie was greatly alarmed, and imagined
he was sinking into galloping con-
sumption, and was gradually decay
ing lie vas unable to sleep, became
haggard and emaciated, and even his
friends began to imagine that his end
was near at hand. lie dressed him
self regularly, and was determined to
keep on his feet. He went into the
fields and into the woods, determined
to fight down the disease, but wher
ever he went the same dreadful stencil
and feeling came over him. Finally,
an old wood chopper met him in the
woods one day. The woodsman had
q long talk with him, and he stood
quite close to examine him, when the
woodsman asked the sick man for his
coat. 1t was examined The woods
man carried it away 20 yards, and it
was discovered that the stencil fol-
lowed. The coat was then thorough
ly examined and q dead mouse was
found in the lining. The mouse had
by some means gotten into the lining
of his coat and died there, and its de
caying remains caused the unpleasant
effluvia. When this was made known
the sufferer gained courage, and as he
slowly realized what imagination had
done, he rallied ard was soon on
favorable road to health again.-Reaa-
ing (Pa.) Eagle.
Year: 1877

1t is good sign when man is
proud OF his work or calling. Yet
nothing Is more common than 10 hear
men finding fault constantly with
their particular business, and deemln 6
themselves unfortunate because fastcu-
ed to il by the necessity of gaining
| livelihood. In this men fret, and la.
bori ,usly destroy all their comfort
in the work or they change their
business, and 60 on mlserably, SHIFT
ing from one thing to another till the
grave or poor house gives them fast
grip. But while occasionally a man
tails in lite because he is not III the
place fitted to his peculiar talent, it
happens ten times ottener that failure
results trom neglect and even con-
tempt of an honest business.


A man should put his heart into
everything that he does There is no
profession that has not its peculiar
cares and vexations. No man will
escape annoyance by changing his
business. No mechanical business IL
altogether agreeable. Commerce, in
all its varities, is affected. like all other
pursuits, with trials, unwelcome du-
ties, spirit firing necessities. 1t is the
very wantonness of folly for a man 10
search out the trets and burdens of
his calling and give his mind every
day to consideration of them. They
are inevitable.


Brooding over them only gives
them strength. On the other hand a
man has power given bim to shed
beauty and pleasure on the homliest
thing, if he is only wise. Let a man
adopt his business and identify with
it pleasant associations tor Heaven
has given us imagination, not only to
make us poets, but to enable all men
to beaulity homely things. Heart
varnish will cover up innumerable
evils and defects. Look at the good
things. Accept your 10; as man
does piece!ot rough ground, and be-
gin to get out the rocks and roots, to
deepen and mellow the soil, to enrich
and plant it. There is something in
the forbidding avocation around which
a man may twine pleasant fancies, out
of which be may develop an honest
pride.
Year: 1877

The ideal perfect life that men
imagine is always one in which pain
forms no part, yet curiously, i'll all the
life we know, pain is forever the pen
atty paid tor superiority. The higher
the organism in the scale OF being,
the greater its capacity for pain this
is the universal rule. Mutllation,
such as an insect bears without ap-
parent Inconvenience, will kill Il rep
tile. A fish Or reptile dlslegards
injuries that would be quick ly fatal to
mammal through hervous shock.
A savage laughs at wounds that would
rack the system Of civilized man
with acutest agony. Thus in every
instant capacity for pain is the meas
ure of development. Evolution being
attended by an everincreasing COM
plexity and dellcacy OF ner' Gus organ
il ton, it is inevitable that increasing
liability to nervous arrangement must
mark every upward movement III the
scale OF being Will the price OF ele-
vation ever rise 80 high as to put an
eud to progress in this direction
There would certainly seem to be a
possibility Of such a result, when We
consider the tate of those most admi-
rable persons who are, as We say, too
finely strdug for this rude world. The
acuteness and delicacy OF their seusi-
bilities make them at once the highest
moral and intellectual types ofhuman
ity, and physically the most unfortuu-
ate And they rarely y or never leave
behind them a vigorous family.-Sci-
entifc american.