smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Psychological dissection gives one little
real conception of ofcharacter. So it comes
about that many of our best DISORDERS Of
character have told us more of the impress
sions that men they wish us to understand
have made upon others than of the actual
qualities or sentiments of which they
were supposed to be possessed, and from
these reflected lights of emotion we gather
more knowledge and attain better in
sight into the disposition of the man than
we could arrive at by any analysis of his
mental faculties, or any enumeration of
his deeds. We know more of man after
we have heard him abused or praised by
one who his familiar with him than we
should if we had his whole chronological
development quantatively described. The
genuine sympathy that Thackeray has
with some men let us know more of their
characters than we could obtain from
hours of reading about their badness OF
goodness. There is not much of this in
direct light or contemporary criticism to
be thrown upon Machiaveli. We know
what he looked like. He was small and
slender. His eyes were always on the
alert in his small head. His hair was
dark, his lips thin and compressed, his
nose aquiline. A dapper man, with a
keen mind. That is our impression o1
him. He does not seem to have many
friends. He was not. the kind of man tc
make friendships, and from mere ac
quaintances we learn nothing.
Year: 1879

warmest, mellowest part Of the garden,
throw out all the soil to the depth of two
feet; then take half the soil thrown out,
and mix it with the same amount of
good compost, and for bed ten feet
long and six feet wide, mix in peck of
refuse salt, shovel the mixture back into
the bed, let it lay three or four days, and
then plant the seed. Sow in drills, eight
inches apart. When the plants are we'll
started, thin out to eight inches apart in
the rows. keep free from weeds during
the entire season. When the first frost
comes in the fall, cut the young plant
down to the ground, and cover the bed
with six inches of compost.


Next spring add a half peck of salt to
the compost, and work it into the bed,
care being taken not to injure the roots
of the young plants. Repeat this dress
ing Of compost and salt every year. An
occasional dressing of lime and ashes will
be beneficial. Do not gather any the first
year, and not only moderate quantity
the second year; the third year and after
wards you may cut until it begins to
spindle. Don not cut the young stalks un-
til they are six or seven inches out of the
ground, then cut with a slanting cut even
with, or just below the surface


FANNY FIELD.
Year: 1879

A merchant wishing to celebrate his
daughters wedding, collected a party of
her young companions. They circled
round her, wishing much happiness to
the youthful bride and her chosen one
The father gazed proudly on his favored
child, and hoped as bright prospects
might open for the rest of his children,
who was playing among the guests.


Passing through the hall of the base
ment he met servant who was CARRYING
a lighted candle in her hand without the
candlestick. He blamed her for such
conduct, and went into the kitchen to see
about the supper. The girl returned, but
without the candle. The merchant i'm
mediately recollected that several bar
rels of gunpowder had been placed in the
cellar during the day, and that one had
been opened.


"Where is your candle?' he inquired
in the utmost alarm.


81 couldn't bring it up with me, fol
my arms were full of wood,'' said the
girl.


"Where did you put it?''


"Well, I'd no candlestick, so stuck il
in some black sand that's in the sand bar.
rel;


Her master dashed down the stairs
the passage was long and dark; his knees
threatened to give way under him, his
breath was choked; his flesh seemed dry
and parched, as if he already felt the suf:
locating blast of death. At the end OF
the cellar, under the very room where hi
children and their friends were reveling
in felicity, he saw the open barrel o1
powder full to the top, the candle stuck
loosely in the grains, with long rec
snuff Of burnt wick. The sight seemed
to wither all his powers. The laughter
of the company. struck his ear like thu
knell of death. He stood a moment, un
able to move.


The music commenced above; the fee
of the dancers responded with vivacity
the floor shook, and the loose bottles in
the cellar jingled with the motion. HI
fancied the candle was moving-falling
With desperate energy he sprang forward
but how to remove it. The slightes
touch would cause the red-hot wick to fal
into the powder. With unequaled pres
ence of mind he placed hand on eacl
side Of the candle, pointed toward tn
object of care, which, as his hands met
was secured in the clasp of his finger
and safely moved away from his danger
Gus position. When he reached the heat
of the stairs he smiled at his previou
alarm; but the reaction was too powerful
and he fell in fits Of the most violen
laughter. He was conveyed to his be-
senseless, and many weeks elapsed ere hi
system recovered sufficient tone to allo1
him to resume his business.
Year: 1879

One of the greatest trials of the news
paper profession is that its members are
compelled to see more Of the shams Of
the world than any other profession.
Through every newspaper office, day after
day, go all the weaknesses Of the world ;
all the vanities that want to be puffed all
the revenges that want to be reaped; all
the dull speakers who want to be thought
eloquent; all the meanness that wants to
get its wares noticed gratis in the editorial
columns, in order to save the tax of the
advertising columns; all the men who want
to be set right who were never right; all
the cracked-b Drained philosophers with
stories as long as their hair and as gloomy
as their fnger-nails in mourning because
bereft Of soap-all the bores who come to
s}ay five minutes, but talk five hours.


Through the editorial and reportorial
Year: 1879

The father who for great portion ofhis
life has struggled with poverty, is unwill
ing that his children should have sim
liar experience. So he denies himself in
dulgence in even the necessary things that
he may save and make for his family.
The mother, remembering how irksome
household tasks were to her in her girl
hood, permits her daughters to lead lives
of ease and Incidence, thinking that in SO
doing she makes the best manifestation in
her power of maternal love.


AS a natural consequence of this view
on the part of the parents, we see growing
up all around us young men and women
perfectly useless for all practical purposes
of life--unable to cope with misfortune.
Intellectual and moral fibre is inherent; it
must be built up from within, and is the
result of independent thought and action.
The sooner a boy can be made to wait
upon himself, the sooner will the germs OF
true manhood begin to develop within
him. Itls no Kindness to surround him
with such attention and care that he will
not be compelled to learn the lesson of self
reliance, of patient industry, of persisten
hope. The real crowns of this world are
the crowns of labor.
Year: 1879

At the age of "a, when her mind, ripen-
ing late like her beautiful person, was, in
spite of past sorrows, fresh and keen and
deep in its capacity for happiness, she
met Gilbert INLAY, an American of some
talent, and in course of time contracted
with him what she intended to be life
long union. Love had never before en-
tered into her tender and maidenly heart.
Her life had been as clean of thought as
a nuns life; and now her offense, though
a great and grave one, was, in part at
least, an intellectual offense; she set aside
the Divine institution of marriage, pre-
suming to think it unnecessary to real
and permanent tie. We must not be
misunderstood when we say that her Of
Tense was not against puriety. The hon
est woman who out-lives two husbands,
and marries third, is more easily criti-
cised on this head than she; and the ordi-
nary woman of the world, who, though
blameless in her own conduct, is
apathetic as to the profigacy of
brother and son, is, to our mind,
somewhat too indulgently credited
by public opinion with love of virtue.
No such arbitrary distinctions found
place in Mary Wollstonecroft's code of
morals. AS she expresses herself, ''The
obligation Ito check the passions) is the
duty of mankind, not sequal duty"
Taking the following sentences, gathered
almost at radon from her book, it is diff
fcult to think that the hand which wrote
them was yielded, except in dignity and
honor, and faith in the cleanness of
ifc hoe cfi
motives to incite her to preserve chastity


* for her body has been called
the temple Of the living God; of that God
who requires more than modesty of
mein. His eye searcheth the heart; and
let her remember that if she hoped to find
favor in the sight Of purity itself, her
chastity must be founded on modesty,
and not on worldly prudence, or, verify,
a good reputation will be her only re-
ward "My sisters, when
love, even innocent love, is the
whole employment Of your lives, your
hearts will be to soft to afford modesty
to dwell, in close union with humanity"
Still more strikingly she says, in one of
the letters to INLAY, that she prefers the
word affection to slove," because the
former implies temperance and habit.
The man whose wife Mary Woilstonecraft
considered herself (and any Scotchwoman
would be virtuously married with less
form than passed between them) seems
from glimpses in her letters, to have been
a free thinker who had reduced imortality
to principle of conduct. Although she
knew his love of change, Mary watched
the calming of his passion for her with q
noble equanimity, trusting to her OWE


worth to attach her lover forever to her


"You must esteem me!'' she exclaims


with dignity. The story of her desertion


need scarcely be told.
Year: 1879




You ought to have an asparagus bed in
your garden, and it is high time you set
about making it. Of course you like
asparagus; everybody does. 1t is delici-
Gus; it is healthy; rheumatic people are
said to derive great benefit from its free
use. am not going to tell you how to
cook it, that is not my business, but I
can tell you how to raise it. Haven't
we.a bed, ten feet long and six feet wide,
that furnishes all the asparagus we use
in a family of six, and some to give
away to the neighbors who think it too
much work to make asparagus beds in
their own gardens? 1t takes some work
to prepare the ground properly for
asparagus, but when the bed is once
made it will last twenty-five years.
Mark off bed of the desired size in the
Year: 1879

1st. To think that the more man
eats the fatter and stronger he will be-
come.


3D. To believe that the more houra
children study at school the faster they
learn.


Sd. To conclude that, if exercise is
healthful, the more violent or exhaustive
it is the more good is done.
4th To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained.


9th. To act on the presumion that the
smallest room in the house IS large
enough to sleep in.
9th. To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel Immediately better La
"good for'' the system without regard to
more ulterior effects.
7th. To commit an act which is felt
in itself to be prejudicial, hoping that
somehow or other it may be done in your
case with impunity.
9Th. To advise another to take rem
edy which you have tried on yourself,
without making special inquiry whether
the conditions are alike.
9th To eat without an appetite, OF to
|
fed, merely to crafty the taste.


10th. To eat hearty for the pleasure
Experienced during the brief time it is
passing down the throat, at the expense
of whole night of disturbed sleep, and a
weary waking in the morning.


nth To remove portion of the
covering Immediately after exercise,


when the most stupid drayman in New
| York knows that if he does not put
cover on his horse the moment he ceases


to work in winter, he will lose him in


few days by pneumonia.


18th. To contend that because the


dirtiest children in the street or highway


are hearty or healthy, therefore it is


healthy to be dirty; forgetting that con-


tinuous daily exposure to the pure out


door air in joyous, unrestrained activities,


is such powerful agency for health that
those who live thus are we'll in spite OF


rags and filth.


18th. To presume to repeat, later in


life, without injury, the indiscretions, ex-
posures and intemperance which in the
flush of youth we're practiced with impu-
!, nifty.


14th. To believe that warm air ia
necessarily impure, or that pure cold air
is necessarily more healthy than the con-
fined air of crowded vehicle. The lat
ter at most can only cause nausea, while
entering a conveyance after walking
brikly and lowering window will, by
t exposing to a draft, give cold infal
!: libby, or an attack of pleurisy o.
pneumonia, which will cause weeks and
r months of suffering, if not actual deatl
q within four days.
e 18th To remember the Sabbath day
' by working harder and later ON Saturday
e than any other day in the week, with :
e view of sleeping late next morning ane
: staying at home e all day to rest, conscience
e being quieted by the plea of not feeling
8 very well.-HaU
Year: 1879

Stanley's men had no less than thirty
two battles with hostile native tribes on
the river Congo, good many of their
men being killed first and last. And
they also lost considerable number by
drowning, as the river has great num-
Der Of rapids and whirpools, and is a
dangerous one to navigate. In one in
stance no less than nine men were drowned
in single afternoon. 1t was sometimes
necessary to haul their boat and canoes
for long distance round these rapids, a
Year: 1879

task which was very slow and difficult.
frequently it was necessary to cover a
road all the distance with limbs and brush
from the trees, and even then all their
strength was needed to haul the heavy
loads. Nobody can read Stanleys ac-
count of his travels, without feeling 1t to
a wonder that he lived to go through SO
many perils.
Year: 1879

have spoken them you cannot recall them.
Help the sick, especially when they are
poor, for poverty and illness are indeed 9
heavy burden. Perform all acts of loving
charity which fall day by day in your
path, remembering Who it has said, aye
shall in no wise lose your reward
Year: 1879

ressnss.Nl the follies and shams of the
world ~ seen day after day, and the
temptation is to believe in neither God,
man nor woman. 1t is no surprise to me
that in this profession there are some
skeptical men. l only wonder that jour
nalists believe anything. De Wit Tai
mace.
Year: 1879

An unknown thief in Chesterfield sent
a letter to the man whose poultry house
he had depleted, saying: "Mr. Britt i
must not forget to tell you that the
Black Hen was very tough We could
neither roast nor boil it it was disap-
pointment as I had asked friend to
come to dinner and with pulling at the
old Black hen he Loosened all his Front
teeth the cock was very good and ten
DER Sheffield Telegraph.
Year: 1879

A man named Thompson, but known
as "Old Sockem," resident of Plumas
county. California, for quarter of a
century, was fatally hurt by the fall of o
rock in mining camp at Dutch Hill last
week. He has always been very dis
sipated man, but would now and then
have several hundred dollars that no one
could account for. After he was hurt,
the National says, he made a confession
that when younger man he was rail
road engineer and was hired to throw a
train from the track, and succeeded so
we'll that be killed several people and
was himself badly injured. He received
81, 900 for the job, and ever since when
in need of money the Eastern parties
have forwarded it to him.
Year: 1879

the PRESS will contain full MARKET REPORTS
and MARITIME NEWS. The growing Importance
of Portland as distributing center for Maine and its
fast increasing wholesale trade make daily paper
at this point Of special Importance to every merchant
and business man in the State who proposes to keep
up with the times.


In a LITERARY and SCIENTIFIC WAY the
PRESS stands high and its general news and infor-
nation are abundant and accurate.
Year: 1879

To SET CoLoRs In BLUE CAMBRIc.-Dip
it into solution of saltpetre, using two or
three cents worth to a pailful of water.
Salt will injure the fabric.


To CLEAN FURNTTURE.-As shovelful of
hot Goals held over vanished furniture will
take out spots and stains. Rub the place
while 1t is warm with clean bit of flannel.
The effect Is instantaneous.


FROSTY WINDows.-Salt ia water will
clean glass windows of frost though it should
be thoroughly washed or wiped off. A little
ammonia in water will accomplish the same
object, but it is bad for the hands unless 1t Is
washed off Immediately with soap.


To ExPEL MoTHs.-In Russia, where the
ravages of the moth commit such extensive
mischief, it becomes subject of Importance
to find some counteracting agency. The
furs, which are there SO universally WORD,
are one of the principal causes which en-
gender this destructive insect. It is found
by experience in that country that nothing Is
80 eficacious as preventive as very strong
tobacco, known by the name of Mahorka.
A portion of this placed on any article proves
the most effectual antidote that can be used.
Year: 1879

Some six or seven years ago saw beans
recommended for garget in cows by a gentle
man who had cow so badly affected that
she was nearly spoiled, but she got to stack
of beans and ate what she wanted. The re-
suit was she was cured. Since then J have
used nothing else, and it b as never failed to
cure as yet. Beans We ali know, will do no
barn, aud it is medicine that farmers have
on hand or ought to have. At first soaked
pint to feed, and mixed them with meal
to make the cows eat them but now I keep
ground beans, as think the meal is the best.
This fall had very promising two-year old
heifer become SO bad in one teat that could
scarcely milk it, and the milk was very
chunky and bloody. gave her one pint of
the meal mixed with the other meal, for four
days, when she was as well as ever, and has
remained so. think that if cows were TO be
fed with bean meal two or three times year
they would not be troubled with garget.-
Cor. Neao England Farmer.
Year: 1879

DOMESTIC NEWS.
Further News Regarding the indian


Outbreak.
Payns's Command to Have Been
Relieved Yesterday.
A Fatal Balloon Ascension In San


francisco.
The Walking Match Contest In New


York.
Grants Boom for the Presidency on
the Pacific Coast.
Year: 1879

A long time after this brave de-
tense, farmer living near the fort,
started one morning to NOW. As
was usual in those days, he carried
his musket with him. He had "a
special reason for being on his
guard, for a certain Indian had be-
come his personal enemy.


Ga arriving at the hay field, he
leaned his gun against tree, threw
off his coat, sharpened his scythe and
began moving. As. swinging his
scythe he drew near the lower end
OF the field, he saw an Indian crouch.
ing behind row of bushes. The
farmer was cool man, and swung
his scythe as if he had seen nothing.


Looking again. he saw that the
Indian was his enemy. In one hand
he held a tomahawk, while a. scalp
ing knife was stuck ia his belt. The
farmer knew that if he attempted 10
run for his gun the swift footed In
dian would be upon him before he
had gone 100 feet. Self possession
was his protection.


He moved up to the bushes, and
then turned, swinging his scythe as
IL anxious to reach the end OF his
swath.


Waiting until the mower had de-
parted two or three rods from the
bushes, the Indian moved noislessly
through the bushes and crept after
the farmer.


But with every swing OF the scythe,
the farmer. glancing cautiously over
his left shoulder. had taken in the
position OF his cat like enemy.
Nearer crept the stealthy savage.
One step more, and he would be up
on the mower. Raising his toma-
hawk, he braced himself for the
spring, and-fel on the ground,
dead.


The farmer. with all his strength,
had swung his scyth IS with its point
inclined up. completely around. 1t
wounded the Indian 50 that he fell
dead.-Pncifc Methodist.
Year: 1879

The founders of our Government had
a salutary dread of the bankers influence
making itself felt in shaping the national
legislation. They anticipated the evils that
we have seen in our days to result from
allowing the banking interest to become
dominant in the halls of Congress. We
find, therefore, the Third Congress of the
United States passing the following reso-
luton on the 23d of December I7o3:-


"Any person holding any office or any
stock in any institution in the nature of a
bank for issuing or discounting bills OF
notes payable to bearer or order, cannot
be a member of the House whilst he holds
such office or stock"


The resolution was signed by President
George Washington.


This was eighty-six years ago. AT the
time there were only three banks in the
whole country. Yet at that time Con-
gress thought that the bank influence
was such standing danger to the main
tenance of legislative purity that it deem
ed it necessary to provide against it by
special legislation.


rhe three banks of 1898 have grown to
over two thousand in 1879, and the bank.
ing interest has come to be so powerful
as to be represented IN the last congress
by one hundred and thirty bankers, the
largest representation that any class had
in national legislation, the next larges
being the legal profession, which wa:
represented by ninety nine ofits members


The result of the large preponderanct
of bankers in Congress it is hardly neces
sary to point out 1t is seen in the whole
tenor of Congressional legislation fo
years. The interests of the industria
classes have been constantly and system
atically sacrificed.


If something be not done to revive th'
law of 1898 the Government will sool
come to be openly, as it is already secret
ly, Bankers Government.


Or has that law ever been repealed? l
not, will not some of the few honest me
in Congress see that it is put into effect
Irish World.
Year: 1879

We have been opposed to negro suf-
trage; we look upon it as great evil; but
there is one thing practiced at elections in
some counties in this State that greatly ag-
gravates the evil. 1t is this: for candi-
dates for office to arm negroes up to the
polls and allow them to vote if they vote
for them, but 'bulldoze" those that desire
to vote for the opposition candidates. The
people that tamely submit to the rule OF
such politicians, will soon find their rights
and liberties gone
Year: 1879

Fine carriages horses which command
at the present time a higher price rela-
lively than any other, are produced by
crossing stanch thoroughbreds upon large
handsome mares. The average farm horse
is undersized, and good carriage horses,
always in demand, are scarce.


All young stock pays for looking after
now, and not being allowed to stop grow
ing for day. This is especially true of
calves, colts and lambs. Keep them all
warm, and allow feed sufficient not only
to go towards supporting the natural
waste, but enough to develop frame, mus.
Gle and flesh. No farmer finds profit in
starving stock in winter.


Charcoal in feed will produce greater
amount of flesh and fat in poultry than
they same amount of feed without it.


A fowl killed while digestion is going
on will not be fit for market purposes, as
it will keep only a short time; therefore,
let the birds fast for at least twelve hours.
Poultry should not be plucked too soon
after killing. When feathers are pulled
while the blood is still fluid, the vescicle
at the root of each feather becomes gorged
and the skin spotted.


There is an opportunity for big profit in
raising the grade of common dairy stock
by keeping the calves of good mixers.
Every farm yard boasts of one or two
cows that are remarkable for their yield
of milk or butter, and these good traits
may be perpetuated by careful selection
of their young, whether heifers or bulls.
Considerable loss is sustained in the
dairy by failing to sufficiently protect cows
in the winter Bear in mind that every
draught of cold air and drink of ice cold
water will perceptibly check the flow Of
milk in cow. Let the chill be taken of
the water and see that there is plenty o.
it, especially after relish of salt has beer
| given.