smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Destructive FIRE AT CoLrAx-CoIfax was
visited, last Wednesday, by the fire fiend, which,
it seems from reports, licked up nearly the en-
tire business portion of the town, aud many
fine dwelling houses. The Grass Valley Union
speaks of the fire as follows Yesterday morn
ing at about half past o'clock fire broke out
in Colfax, and in 25 minutes the main business
part of the town and several family residences
were in ashes. The wind was blowing quite
strong at the time from the northeast, which
carried the flames rapidly from one house to an
other. The fire broke out in a barber shop
North of the railroad, and in the East part of
the town near the livery stable. All the build
ings on the North side of the railroad were
burned, up to Grass Valley street. The fire
extended up Grass Valley street to webster's
residence. The Pioneer House and large
blacksmith and wagon repair shop on Grass
Valley street were burned The railroad depot
buildings and sheds, and all South OF the rail-
road were saved. There are no water works in
Colfax. We understand that very little of the
property destroyed was insured. Many families
are left homeless by the fire, and very few re-
siding in the burnt district had time to save
even their clothing
Year: 1874

The School ELECrIoN.--One week from to-
day the election will be held, at the public
school-house in Auburn school district, to de-
eide the question, whether we shall, or shall
not levy tax on the property in the district,
for the purpose of enlarging our school-house
and increasing our school facilities, generally.
Good schools are the life-blood of a community,
that instill vim, energy, knowledge and anima-
ton into every branch of business. Educate
the children to high standard, and every
branch of society is elevated in the same pro-
portion. Nothing attracts population so much
as good schools, = nothing drives it away so
much as poor schools Our schools are as
good as they can be, under the circumstances,
but they are not good enough-they are not
what they ought to be- They are too crowded.
Between GO and 20 pupils to a teacher is too
many. We need more school room, more
teachers, and to have these, we must have
more money, and to get more money, we must
tax ourselves. Then let every man turn out
promptly on next Saturday and vote YES"
Year: 1874

He said he didn't care anything
about liquor, only the effects. lie
never liked the taste Of it, always
made him gag" to drink it ; and
he made up an awful face as he
took it down. But it was the effects
he was after. If it wasn't for the
effects be would never drink drop
Of liquor in his life. He was a
nice young man when We first
heard him say that. He had health,
god looks, properly and a respecta>
bic position in society. The only
perceptible effects of his potations
then were the heightened color in
his cheek, increased brilliancy Of
the eyes ana vivacity in conversa>
ton. lie was generous and liberal
with his money, too, and had a
host of friends. - Well, he kept
on drinking for the effects and he
got them, as every man will who
keeps at it long enough. The las.
time we saw him he was that pi:iful
object, a human wreck. Il5 was
standing at a bar pleading for
drink on time, his trembling fingers
being unable to find even a solita~
ry nickel in the pockets of his rag
ed apparel. He had kept on gag
ging over his whiskey and drinking
for the effects until he hadn't any
effects left, except those painfully
apparent cnes. poverty, disease,
privation and vanished respectable
ity. Verify, he got the effects.
Year: 1874

If it be too visionary to suppose
that newspaper comments are of
any use, or are meant to produce
any impression except that of i'm.
pudent smartness upon the part of
the writer, then Billingsgate
epithets may as we'll be considered
forcible as the finest passages in
literature, and Mr.. Pott is very
much superior to Milton or Adds
son. It is, nevertheless, a foolish
illusion to suppose that moderation
of phrase and courtesy Of tone are
signs Of weakness or taneness.
Junius is not most effective when
most vituperative, and Junius is
swiftly passing into oblivion. The
French at Fontenoy who politely
invited the enemy to fire were not
towards, nor did they spare their
own volleys. Even Sir Lucius
O1rigger does not come upon the
ground and denounce his adversary
as a malignant pismlre; but his aim
is not less sure because he lifts his
hat before he raises his weapon.
Many young writer for the press
is weak-that is, full of superlatives
and fury-because he IS afraid to
be strong-that is, moderate and
reasonable and one good way fo1
him to correct his style, and there
by to commond attention and in
fuenco, is to reflect as he writes
that his readers are quite as thou
ghtful and intelligent as he is, anc
that the public which most news
paper writer's seem to have in mind


does not really exist as "a newspa


per~reading public. Those per
sons, for instance, who think tina


their opponents in politics are al
knaves or fool; are not readers 0


newspapers; while those who ar


readers DO not need TO be told, t.


prevent them from transferrin!
their allegiance, that every thinl
which the other party does is bas


and corrupt, and that all its leader


are scounirels. And the same in


telligence which enables a reader t


retain his convictions, although h


knows that many honest and abl


men differ from him, also enable


him to perceive that fury is no


force Tor sheer bIackguardism vigol


Harper's Wagazine for October.
Year: 1874

LIEUT.. THEODORE SMITH arrived at Prescott on the 1st instant and assumed the formal superintendence of the govern ment telegraph. We will probably soon hear of any new regulations he may have found it necessary in his judgment to make,
Year: 1874

TERRIBLY SHAKEN.-A Baptist paper
in Ohio was sent for nine years to sub
scriber who never paid cent for it, The
other day the newspaper was returned to
the patient and ong-suffering publisher
with the affecting note on its margin,
"Gone to a better world" The editor is
a very pious man, but it is reported that
his faith is terribly shaken in regard to
the accuracy of the information.
Year: 1874

OWING TO THE DELAYS that have
" attended the printing and distribution
of the Reports Of the Commissioners on,
Mining jSt0ttSttcS, these carefully pre-
pared and otherwise useful publications,
have failed to keep the world duly posted
in regard to the condition and progress of
mining affairs on the Pacific Coast, the
information conveyed through this me-
dunn being already many months old by
the time it reaches the eye of the general
public. With view to furnishing fresh
intelligence on mining topics, and bring
ing the history of this great industry down
to the most recent date, the undersigned
will, on or about the first of February
next, issue a large octave volume, de-
voted to consideration Of mining mat
ters, rs they exist at the present time, in
the States of California and Nevada. In
the fulflment of this purpose the author
will at once visit every important district
and locality in these States that has not
already been lately examined or heard
from through reliable channels, to the
end that the information bodied in this
volume may be recent and authentic.
The great aim will be to fill the book with
live practical matter; wherefore, only
such properties as have been brought to n
productive condition, or rs have, through
developments made, established for them
selves a good degree of actual or pros
pective merit will receive attention nor
will any notice be bestowed on processes
or appliances other than such as have met
with approval after extended working
tests.


This work will be printed on the best
quality Of paper, and be elegantly and
substantially bound, the design being to
impart to it such mechanical excellence
as will reflect credit upon the book-mak-
ing art in California.


HENRY DEGROOT.


SAN ERANCISCn Nov 1S12
Year: 1874

I passed by an ancient house of prayer
The sill of the door seemed new,
As If very few had fingered there,
And over it gone few.
passed by a recent whsky-mill-


Which some of my friends can't do
l happened to look at the oaken sill,
And 10! it was worn clear through.
Year: 1874

THE ALDINE, while issued with all the
regularity, has none of the temporary or timely
interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals.
1t is an elegant miscellany of pure, light, and
graceful literature, and collection of pic
lures, the rarest specimens of artistic skill, in
black and white. Although each succeeding
number affords fresh pleasure to its friends,
the real value and beauty of The Aldine will
be most appreciated after it has been bound
up at the close of the year. While other pub
pared with rivals of a similar class, The Aldine
is unique and original conception-alone and
unapproached - absolutely without competi-
tion in price or character. The possessor of
the quantity of fine paper and engravings in
any other shape or number of volumes for ten
times its cost and then, there are the chro-
mos hesides 7
Year: 1874

A SPRING SIGN. The most infallible of
signs that the warmer days have come, says
the Tribune, is that in the evening you may
now see the sociable stoop of the boarding
house covered with its inmates. For half
year there has been nothing to maik the
clearinghouse except the blaze of light from
all its windows by night. But now the softer
evenings draw the tenants OF hall bedrooms
and two-pair backs down fromtheir hermitag-
es togossip and fresh air ON Ihe brown stone
steps. Jhe avenues are as yet little too
painfully conscious Of their dignity to allow
this but the side streets are full OF thse cheer
full groups of boarders who 'loaf and invite
their souls" They have their reward in the
crepuscular freshness, and in the intimate
expansion of confidence which comes to fel
low mortals in the twilight, when shyness
aid distrust fade away as their countenanccs
grow vaguer. The uproar of the busy day is
forgotten; its little miseries sink out of sight;
the obduracy of the steak, the maturity of
the egg, the self-assertion of the salad oil,
even the iteration of the hash, cease to ve1,
and the soul of the city grows peaceful as his
eyes grow heavy.
Year: 1874

No, would not marry business or pre-
fessional woman of any kind. would mar
ry woman to whom / could take all the
odd, queer, stupid, absurd, heart-breaking
things that are constantly occurring in busi-
ness and professional life, who would sympa-
thize with me. laugh with me, and help me
to forget them.


would marry woman who could cul-
t'vate the leisure which business and pro-
iesslonal woman never knows, and impart
@ sne grace of it TO everyday life in flowers
and books and birds, in refined ways. In
q9let, thoughtful acts, in the tenderness
wnlch makes amend for so much of the
rouShness which falls to the lot of those who
tread the highway. / would have her read
and mark what i should read, and save the
book or journal so that it should not have to
tax my remnant of strength or time in look
ing for it, but give myself up to the enjay-
ment of the comfort her presence and labor
afforded me.


Iwould marry a woman who could wear
the pretty things which business or profess
siOnal woman cannot, who could rejoice in
delicate morning dresses, in white muslin in
summer, in white cashmere in winter, who
could show dainty ruffles and undersleeves,
and have time to puff her hair across her fore
head in the coquettsh fashion which is so
fanciful yet graceful, and almost universally
becoming.
Business and professional women are as
naturally and inevitably condemned as are


men to straight hair, felt hats, and plain
black suits, only, in addition, they must car
ry waterproof, overshoes, and umbrella.
These items undoubtedly constitute useful
but not an attractive costume. Business wo


men forget to be attractive. They are in too
great hurry; they learn to look at every
thing from business point of, view; they
may be pretty good as ''chums,'' but they are
not wives to their husbands. There is no in.
terdependence upon one another; and one


learns to be independent of the other. But
do not want my wife to be independent of


me in that sense, nor do want to be indie


pendent of her in any sense. / want her TO
make home for me, to see that it is bright


and clean and cheerful, to have food health
fully cooked and served with taste, to pre-
serve a social centre for our friends, and per-
| form those ac.s of good will which eudear us
as neighbors. In return i will gladly share
with her all have all can earn, all am
| likely to become possessed of; that is TO say,
| would il 1 were not already married-mar-
| ried to man, who stands as a perpetual bar
| rier between me and the hope of being some
day able to call such q woman as / have indi-
| Gated "my wife,"
Year: 1874

One little point escaped Murat Halstead in
his address on journalism, which is kindly
supplied by the Timely Topics man of the
Milwaukee Sentinel. He astutely discourses
as follows:


To the general public the classification of
genius about a newspaper Office is as strange
as silent barber. The editor-in-chief is the
frequent recipient Of complaint from sub
scriber that his paper was not delivered yes
terday morning, while the paper-cutter in
the job-room is often complimented on the
stand Of the paper in regard to the repeal OF
the law regulating the colonization OF grass
hoppers in Minnesota.
Year: 1874

Nothing.encourages the local press so much
as to see buz-saws introduced. The first and
last injunction of the local editor to the mill
owner is, like that of the patent medicine
man, "Send for circular
Year: 1874

The New York Erening Post, in view of
the large sized dog muzzles irequired by the
New York ordinance, after due consideration,
is inclined to believe that the simplest and
least Objectionable plan will be to enclose the
dog entirely in wire cage upon wheels, in
which he can be taken out for an airing ev-
cry day. anh
Year: 1874

Believing that the insurance business should be
conducted on sound principles-by seeking only de-
sirable risks at adequate ratssby looking carefully
to the moral hazard, and duly regarding the rights
and interests Of all parties concerned even in the
mnutest details.-we shall endeayor to conduct our
business on this PLATFORM and are confident that by
so doing we shall fully prove claim to the conf
dence Of the entire community.
Year: 1874

Detroit Free Press: 1t is said that whales
are far more nu merous this year than last.
This will be cheering news to such poor peo-
pie as couldn't lay in their winter whales last
fall
Year: 1874

Help your wives in every way
you can trivial though iC may seem
to you. For instance, keep an ex.
ira pair of shoes or slippers in the
bali or entry, and always rcmem-
Der to change your dirty boots be-
fore entering her clean rooms.
Then you may be sure of smile Of
welcome, rs no dirt wnl be left
after you for her to clean up. In
the evening, comb your hair as
carefully as ever you did in your
counting days, put on n clean coat
or dressing gown, and when you
take your paper to read to yourself
and leave her to lonesome thoughts
while sewing Or mending, but re-
member that she too has been
working hard all day, and is still
working. Read to her whatever
interests you, so that her interest
and opinions may grow with yours,
and that she may comprehend
something besides 1--we stories, of
which too many have read more
than they should. You will both
be happier, and being q farmers
or merchants wife will not be
such dreadful tiresome and
lonely life as many girls have every
reason now to think it is.-,Science
Of Health.
Year: 1874

Il L y


The man who wrote Home,
Sweet Home, never had a home
Exchange.


No, OF course not. All his folks
at home say he didn't. Nobody
who ever writes about anything ever
had it. If a man is ou5 Of any>
thing he Immediately goes and
writes aboutit. No man writes 50
many headings as the man who is
out of his head.


Certainly he didn't have any
home. The man who wrote the
Old Arm Chair never had an arm
chair in all his life. The best he
had was an old split bottom without
any back to it.


The author of Take Ne Back to
Switzerland never was in Switzcr-
land. The nearest he came to it
was sitting in the William Tell sa>
loon eating Switzer kase; kase why?
that was the best he could do.


Mother, I've come Home to Die
has not spoken to the old woman
for years, and wouldn't go near the
house. Besides, he is Of that class
of spiritualists who don't believe
they will ever die. His health was
never better. His mother is moths
ing but mother-in law, and she is
dead now, anyhow.


There is the author Of Odd Oak
en- Bucket, too. There wasn't a
bucket on the old farm, water being
drawn with q tin pail and cistern-
pole.


III Had but a Thousand a
Year stated privately to his best
friends that he would be contented
with half that sum, as he was doing
chores for his board and three
months schooling in the winter,


The author of champagne Char
ley never drank anything but 10
cent WhlSkey.


The man who wrote Mary Had
Little Lamb knew very we'll it
was nothing but little lamb fry.


Shells of Ocean is a humbug
The very plaintive poet, who repre-
sents himself as wandering, one
summer eve, with seabeat thought.
on pensive shore, was raised il
the interior of Pennsylvania, and
never was ten miles from home il
all his life. Gathered she'll, die
he? All his shells that he eve
gathered were some egg-sheIls bacl
of his mothers kitchen.


'Hark | hear the Angels Sing
spent all his evenings in beer sa
loon. Angels indeed.


The man who wrote the Song 0
the Shirt hadn't a shirt to his back
wearing wampus for the most part


oft in the Silly Night used t
get on spree and make Silly nigh
Year: 1874

howl till daylight.


The author Of we Met by
Chance knew very we'll it was ar
ranged before hand. He had been
a week contriving it-anl she a."
mired his contriyancc.


The author of i Know Bank,
&C., didn't know one where he could
get his note discounted The only
check he ever had was a white check
on faro bank. He never hel1 a
red check in all his life.
'What are the Wild Waves Say
ing?' knew very well they were re-
preaching him for running away
from Long Branch without paying
his hotel Till.


who will Care for Mother now?
Who, indeed? You took the Ole
woman to the poor house just be-
fore writing the song, and there is
nobody but the poor>master to care
for her now.


Hear me, Norma was deaf and
dumb. lie couldn't make his p;
hear, nor ma.


My Mother, Dear used t'
thrash the old woman within al
inch Of her life,


The author of Rain on the Roof
always slept in the basement, ex
cept when he slept out cf doors.


Let Me Kiss Him for Mother
got mad because his mothc
wouldn't lave him, and whippe
her little boy within al inch Of hi
life.


4 Dreamed | Dwelt in Marbl
Halls used tie cheat at marble
when boy, and his dream was
horrid nightmare, brought on b
: the remorse at the recollection {
fraudulent marble hands.
, I'm Saddest when | Sing We
: tickled almost to death if invited t,


Happy Be Thy Dreams sol
benzine wEiskey. You can fame
| what kind Of dream were produce
Year: 1874

Though talent may be transmitted hereditari-
iy, and special bent often appears in family
generation, the children of great geniuses are
notable breaks in the chain OF inherited intelIi-
gence, and rarely attain even the full average
which might be expected of them. The SON Of
Robert and Elizabeth Browning will perhaps be
the exception which proves the rule, though not
IN the direct line Of his parents genius. His
Dent is toward painting, and he is SAID to give
much promise of future distinction in that art
Best of all and least to be expected in the
child of such parents, is the fact that he was
distinguished at the University not for scholar
ship, but for muscular development and skill in
athletic sports. The son of Englands best-be-
loved poetess is in some sort the kin of all of
the same race and tongue, and what concerns
him interests the world.
Year: 1874

The shocking disaster in Western Massachu-
setts, caused by the bursting of the reservoirs
on Mill River, should call general attention tv
the many similar works Of engineering, through
out the country. The vital question is, are
they secure Manufacturing, in thu
country, within the last twenty years, hat
increased to such an enormous extent that the
details are lost sight of, or at least The know
ledge OF them is confined to their own localities.
Comparatively few people who read of the grea
inundation of Saturday morning had ever hearo
of the busy little valley which was the scene OF
the disaster, yet now we know that trifing wa
ter power which man could almost leap across,
was tho motive force of scores OF important III
dustria works, and gave subsistence to several
thousands Of people. The reservoir which burs,
had been constructed to economize the waterh
Of Mill creek, or River, and an agency which
years before New England had become crowded
and competition had grown so strong, was mo-.
regarded as practical power, in latter days be-
came very valuable property.


And so it ls all over the Middle and Northern
States, and 80 it is gradually becoming all
3. through the West. Very many of these improve
, ments are scarcely known outside of their own
county, except by dealers who have business
with the mills No fair-running stream of a
! yard in width but is made to do service in the
work OF clothing the world, and the reservoir
or dam is an indspe nsable adjunct of the un-
dertaking. That is part OF the case the Other
part is, unhappily, not 80 clear. What is the
general condition of these industrial breakwat-
ers? If one is shown to have been improperl,
constructed at the start, and afterwards to have
been loosely inspected, how shall we be able to
say there are not others awaiting the fatal NOM
ent, and from like causes to fall into ruin I
Perhaps those to which any reasonable doubt
might attach are few, relative to the entire
manufacturing interest," but we are all agreed,
to-day, that one is too many. There can be NO
question, in view of the frightful example
just set us, but that works oil
the kind everywhere should have al
immediate, thorough, and intelligent revision.
and that this should be the work of skilled en-
gineers. Only on Friday night, we are told, the
superintendent and gate keeper of the Williams.
burg reservoir examined it and found it, in theii
Judgment, secure. This shows what superficial
or ''matter of course" knowledge on such sub.
jects is worth. Such investigation is worse thar


useless
Year: 1874




In the Island OF San Domingo were the FIRST to In
troduce the use OF BalsaIn Copahia. Never has
nauseatlng drug done more injury, for It not only
changes the nature of the disease to a more dread
full state than the original but 1t ruins the tone Of
the stomach and brings on dyspepsia in Its worst
forms, having horrid taste and disgusting smell.
10 avoid this drug and Its effects the Samaritans
Gift Is within the reach of ALL remedy purely veg
etabe, and positive cure every time in from two
To four days, without exposure or trouble. Male
packages, 81; female Sa.


For scrofula and all disease of impure blood the
Samaritans Root and Herb Juices is the remedy to
be used.


KEEP THE BLOOD IN HEALTHY CONDITION.
.'The blood is the life of the human body.n There
s no bone, nor muscle nor tissue, nor membrane of
any sort which is not Kept In healthy state, by the
unceasng action of the heart pumping out, night
and day, forty-three hundred and twenty times an
hour, this wonderful current OF life In disease the
heart works faster, the supplies are hurried up TO
the railing organism, and nature ever true to herself
makes every effort 10 expe disease and preserve
life. Hence we have eruptlons and sores because
nature has succeeded In throwing the poison to the
surface. shall we then stand and look on that he
roc effort of nature trying to free herself from the
deadly enemy, or shall we come to the rescue with
few bottle OF the samartans Root and Herb juice
and Danish from the system that foul faint that has
been slowly but surely eating away the very foun-
tain of life7


BOLD by h. Bringhurst d Co., Sixth and Market :
G. McIna, Second and Market, Wilmington, DEL,
and by druggists generally. je1T-iy