smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

A farmer in Wisconsin who has used
gypsum in his farming operations for a
long time, gives his experience to the
Farmers Club Of the New York Institute,
and here is 4 part of what he says:


have lived here twenty years and
used plaster, about seventy-fYe pounds
to the acre. I make at least one-third
more clover to the acre than can be got
without plaster. You can see the differ
ence in the growth as far as you can see
the clover. One application will do for
two years. Our land is burr oak open
ings; was new when came here, and
not considered good for grass, bnt spien-
did wheat land. There is no sand some
call it clay. I raise clover, keep 800
sh0 y, four COWS and eight horses and
colt all on a farm of 200 acres. I have
abb i sixty acres under the ploW, and
twenty-five of timber; make all the
manure can, and think my land richer
than when bought it. can raise more
grass than when it was new, and more
corn on a clover sod when I soWed plas-
ter on the clover than when it was new.
Perhaps it will ruin it in time, but as
long as can raise big crops of corn and
clover, and feed to stock and hogs, l
think will risk it. Last year raised
al bushels of wheat on nineteen acres,
and $50 bushels of wheat and oats
mixed, on twenty-three acres. The
latter will clean out about one-half
wheat, which will sell at No. 2, as a few
small oats will be left in it. On sixteen
acres of clover sod I had 800 bushels of
corn, of the yellow Dent variety stalks
left on the field. You will think this is
poor farming, but we think it will not
pay to cut them, because there is so
much to handle for SO little feed.
Year: 1879

The jealousies of friendship are IN
this more exhaustions than those Of
love; there are only phantoms to fight,
and the price Of peace is merely a
chimera.


A woman who takes woman to her
friend, introduces her into her life as
they do the bearer Of a flag Of truce into
the enemy's camp-unarmed and blind
FOLDED.


A Woman's fall is something like that
of a child. The first intimation the
child has that it has tumbled is conveyed
in the fact that it is being picked up.


Friendship is a picnic to which all
parties contribute, and therefore is some
thing women cannot understand. With
them one party or the other must stand
treat.


Some conjugal fdelities can be ex-
planned on the hypothesis that many a
woman is satisfied to be nothing in a
husbands heart so that she is everything
in his life.


Prudery is often the mantle chosen to
conceal triumphant vice. Where in
ward remorse prevails, there will always
be a corresponding absurdity in the
affectatiOn of genuine virtue.


At twenty a woman searches for trail
ing arbutus; at twenty-five she is after
hOrse-radish at thirty she digs roots
for her blood. Such is gentle spring in
the various stages of the feminine life.


Women who would hesitate about cry
ing before husband or a lover, have no
scTuple about shedding tears before an
audience. It is with their emotions as
with their shoulders-they are displayed
only in public.
Year: 1879

Speaking of snakes, Superintendent
Brown, of the Geological Garden, Phila,
delphia, said that he could tell a snake
story and not a second-hahded one
either. About a year ago one of the
large reptiles in the collection took sick
and seemed to be going into a decline
Nothing that they could give him ap-
peared to do him good, and from loss of
appetite and sleeplessness the snake be-
came a mere wreck of its former self.
A large blanket had been placed in the
serpent's cell for him to sleep upon.
One morning the keeper found that the
blanket had disappeared. Search was
made throughout the cage, but without
success. At the same time the snakes
body had sWelled to the thickness of a
good sized-sapling. He had swallowed
the blanket; but the blanket would not
digest, and the snake became sicker
than before. In this manner he lOlled
around like a wan dyspeptic for over
four weeks. Finally the blanket was
discharged by natural causes. Imme-
diately the snake began to improve.
The swelling in the body gradually
dwindled down, and he grew larger and
fatter than before, till the box became
too small to hold him. The keepers
then removed him to larger cage. He
ate like a gourmand, and at times found
room for two and three times the Gus
tomary quantity of food. The blanket
acted as q kind of medicine upon his
stomach, and cleaned him out entirely.
Now he is fifteen feet long, eight inches
in circumference and the healthiest boa
constructor in the lot, A change of
color was the only visible effect on the
blanket. Under the microscope itshowed
that it had become little worn by being
rubbed in the animals stomach. It
came out undigested, and was carefully
packed away in the SupeFintendent's
private Office,
Year: 1879

Governor Rice was asked to pardon
one ODonell, of Milbury, from Charles
town, and a gentleman who recently
visited the state prison thus tells his
story: Gentlemen" said the warden,
l want to bring before you one of the
most remarkable cases we have in prison.
We call him the man who never smiles
and l wish before he comes in to tell
you his story. He seems to be man of
more than ordinary ability, one of the
better class of substantial, frugal Irish
citizens, who owned small place in
manufacturing village, where he re-
sided with his family of grown up sons
and daughters, all permanently en-
ployed and in comfortable circumstances.
The old man had a fine garden on which
he bestowed his leisure hours, in part
of WHICH was a fine lot of cabbages. II
seems that the boys in the neighborhood
had habit of trespassing on the old
mans garden, until he had determined
of getting rid of them by firing his gun
to frighten them away. One night hear
ing some one in his garden, he took
down his gun, and, getting behind the
hedge, fred into the garden, as he
claims, without aim, or seeing anyone
10 aim at, but the report of the gun
alarmed the neighbors, who, on rush
ing into the garden, found the lifeless
body of & young girl shot through the
heart. The old man, when told what
he had done was struck dumb. He was
arrested and sentenced to imprison-
ment for life. He has now been here
for ten years, and his face has become
as marble; there is no hope; nothing
but the remembrance of that dreadful
night. In Ireland they have a supersti-
ton among the young girls that VINO
ever on Halloween shall place cab
bage over the door will marry the first
young man that enters the door after
wards. And this, it was proved, was the
errand of the young girl in the old mans
garden. But instead of wedding she
found q grave"
Year: 1879

A successful business man said there
were two things which he learned when
he was eighteen, which were ever after
wards of great use to him, namely:
aNever to lose anything, and never to
forget anything" An old lawyer sent
him with an important paper, with IN
structions what to do with it. "But," "
INQUIRED the young man suppose l lose
r. what shall I do then P The answer
was with the utmost emphasis, "YOu


nBst not lose it." 'I don't mean to,
said the young man, "but suppose I
should happen to-; shall make no pro-
vision for any such occurrence; you must
not lose It'll" This put new train Of
thought into the young mans mind, and
he found that if he was determined to
do a thing he could do 1t. He made
such provision against every contingency
that he never lost anything. He found
this equally true about forgetting. If a
certain matter of importance was to be
remembered he pinned 1t down on his
mind, fastened it there, and made 1t stay.
When q man tells me that he forgot to
do something, I tell him he might as
well have said, 81 did not care enough
about your business to take the trouble
to think about it again" once had an
intelligent young man in my employ
ment, who deemed it sufficient excuse
for neglecting any important task to say,
'sI forgot it." I told him that would not
answer. Ifhe was sufficiently interested,
he would be careful to remember. 1t
was because he did not care enough that
he forgot. 1 drilled him with the truth.
He worked for me three years, and dur
ING the last of the three utterly changed
in this repect. He did not forget athing.
His forgetting, he found, was 8 lazy,
careless habit Of the mind, which he
cured.
Year: 1879

Those who may be anxious to pre-
serve old and decaying trees may be
glad to try the following method which
is recommended by the Gardeners ChToll-
icLe. in preference TO plugging them with
concrete: However much care may be
bestowed upon it, 1t is impossible to
make cement adhere 10 living tree,
and before long the water, percolating
along the bark, will find its way slowly
but efoctually into the hole and pursue
its work The only effective way of
curing such a disease is TO make plug
of oak or other hard wood, smear it with
tar. and hammer it tight in the hole
until its outer surface Is on the same
level with the hole If there is any re-
cupcrative power lett in the tree the
bark will soon grow over the plug and
tho wound be perfectly healed, which
will never happen with the concrete
process"
Year: 1879

great deal of dissatisfaction exists among the i'm
porters concerning order recently issued by the
Collector that all goods not removed within twenty
four hours after they have been examined will be
the General Order Warehouse and held for storage.
This action of the Collector is looked upon by the
merchants hardship. it entails additional cx-
pense upon them. At the same time It is annoying
We'll In many cases an entry is made i'll the Gus
tom House OF shipment of goods consisting of
four Ave invoices. Usually of each in
voice is ordered into the Public Store .or examna-
ton. IL there should happen to be different of
duties to pay on the various invoices the cases
go different divisions At present the Third or
silk division, is completely janmed up with goods,
the examiners being engaged until late at night
passing the merchandise. 1t often happens that it
takes three four days before such invoice
reaches its turn. The probability also exists that
other divisions complete their examinations before
the Third DIVISION it Is rule not to deliver any
of those ordered for examination into the store
an entire entry until all have been passed upon.
Several casds go to the bonded warehouse under
fault OF his. except that the government has not
sufficient room to accommodate the goods coming
into port When the Appraisers Department was
removed from New Church street to its present
location Washington, West, Hubert and Laight
streets it considered too vast edince
for s purpose, especially as the fabulous rent of
SS5.000 per annum paid for the hrst five years.
besides outlay of $1,000 spent by the govern
ment to alter the building, which was sugar house
nine small stories high. by making floor out of
two. The importers claim that they are compelled
to pay the highest rates of duty only the cost
OF the goods. but on cases and packing. shipping
charges from the places CT purchase to the seaboard
besides adding from two and half to Ave per cent
com mission on the goods upon which the full duty
is exacted. in addition to being mucted for general
order storage after the goods are examined and
pas sod correct.


The Collector defends his action on the ground
that such vast amount OF goods are received IN the
store that the only left him is to clear the
premises rs soon as possible.
Year: 1879

complaint received few days since by the
Health Board that No. loo Broone street. crow wded
tenement house. in unsafe condition and the
matter referred to Assistant Sanitary Inspector
Murtha. who reported to the Health Commissioners
at their meeting yesterday. He suggested that as
the complaint involves the Inability OF the building
to fall the matter be referred the Department. of
Buildings which accordingly DONE The rear
wall of the building referred to buges out So the
complaint says. that the lives of the inmates in
danger from its falling
Year: 1879

Another member Of the interesting association
known to the police "The Border Gang" whose
performances in the Thirteenth ward have often
been recounted, arraigned yesterday in the
Court of General Sessions. the charge being that Of
felonious assault On the night Of the 18th ut the
accused, who gave the name OF James Moore stroled
into the saloon OF Hermann Borsch, at No ii Eliza
beth street. He had some words with John Moore.
the barkeeper, and promised he would get square


with him. He was faithful to his pledge. and, re-
turning shortly after drew revolver and fired two
shots at the barkeeper He sent to the State
Prison for three years.
Year: 1879


What shall do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere see thy FACET
How shall charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time Of


grace2


Shall in slumber steep each weary sense,
Weary with longing? Shall flee away
Into past days, and with some fond pretence
Cheat myself to forget the present dayP
Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin
Ofcnsting from my Gods Areat gift oftlme7
Shall these mists of memory locked within,
Leave and forget LIES purposes sublime2 ?
Oh how or by what means may contrlve
To bring the hour that brings thee back


more near?


How may teach my dropping hope live
Until that blessed time aud thou art here ?
I'll tell thee; for thy sake will lay hold
Ofall good aims and consecratetO thee,
In worthy deeps, each moment that is told,
While thou, belov'd one art afdr from me.
For thee will arouse my thoughts to try
All heavenward flights, all high and holy


strains;


For thy dear sake will walk patiently
Through hese long hOars, nor call their


minutes pains.
I Will this dreary blank of absence mako
A noble task-time; and will therein strive
To follow absence, and to o'ertake
More good than have won, since yet l live.
So may this doomed time build up in me
a thousand graces, which shall thus be


thine:


So may my love and longing hallowed be,
And thy dear thought an influence divine.
Year: 1879

THEIRS AND BIsMARCK-A Contrast-M
Theirs was profoundly convinced that the
modern state could not exist without the full
support Of life and OF initiative which he found
in the middle and enlightened class OF the pop.
ulation. The great statesman who controls the
destlnieS OF Germany seems to be OF an opposite
opinion. He appears to believe that in order to
consolidate the state it Is necessary to diminish
as much as possible the political Importance OF
this part OF the population.-[B Berlin National
Year: 1879

THE YAzOo CITY MuRDER-Cdpt. Di1on's
Dying Statement.-The Memphis AraLanche con-
ta'ns private letter, In which the dying decla-
ration OF Henry NJ. Dixon is given as follows:
~ was walking down the street near House.
mans saloon, and the first thing l knew was
that was shot. Wheeling round saw guns
pointing at me from every direction, and /
turned and ran up stairway, when Jim Barks-
dale shot me In the back having already broken
my wrist. reached the stairs and fell. / then
drew my pistol and with one hand holding to
the steps fired my pistol with the hand thathad
the broken wrist and broken finger. The attack
was entirely unprovoked on my part. Idenounce
as base lie that / had plotted the assassination
OF Barksdale. / wish Jim BarksdaIe was here
to see how brave man can die"


A Yazoo correspondent OF the same paper
states that Dixon was shot five times 10 the
back, but not bullet struck him In the front.
There were shotgun bullet holes In the back OF
his coat. Dixon lived from Q O'Clock In the
morning until 4:3O In the evening. He leaves a
wife and six helpless children. II he had had
fair chance he would have left his mark, but
his enemies feared this and did not wish him
to live until the meeting Of the Independents
next day. The democrats openly boast that
Barksdale will be acquitted from any blame in
the shooting OF Dixon. A plot was made to kill
Flanagan the night previous, but he circum-
vented 1t by going home by different route
than that usually taken by him.
Year: 1879

THE House RULEs.-Mr. Henry II. Smith,
clerk OF the House committee on rules, which
recently held sessions at Long Branch to revise
the rules OF the House, In letter written to a
friend In this city, says that all the published
reports concerning the action Of the committee
are premature and inaccurate. He admits,
though, that the committee decided upon
sweeping changes, and will meet again Ia this
city In November to further perfect their work
Year: 1879




would be met by the revOlvers of the police and
the r1fes and gatling guns of the military and
that the game was not worth the shedding Of
the DlOOd or one honest man. He abjured them
by their regard for their reputation throughout
the country, the eyes OF which were upon them,
to DO no Violence, but disperse quietly to their
bowling for the blood OF the De Youngs they
yielded implicitly to his advice and When he
dismissed them surged away in various direc.
tions evidently prepared to follow his advice
to the letter.


WHAT THE DE YOUNGs SAY


A reporter OF the Alta California had an inter-
view with the De Young brothers. Charles de-
cnned to make any statement except that the
reports already published were In the main cor
rect. Nj. ii. De Young, in answer to q remark
OF the reporter that it was bad state OF affairs
replied that 1t might have been expected "Mr.
could not go On public platform and traduce
our motheT and family without stern and BIT
ter retribntaon following close upon the heels
reach the matter" He knew that he took his
Ire IN his hands when he spoke as he did.
But" said the reporter, "the worhngmen,
that he was justified in thus abusing your
family after the Chronicle had rolled back the
curtain from his fathers HISTORIAN old man
replied De Young, "was objectionable, but l
WIN say, in Justice to my brother and to myself,
that that statement came as dispatch from
Boston. 1t arrived about halr-past1 o'clock in
were aWay-he at political conference and
elsewhere. Even our news editor scarcely read
determined to stand by 1t without retractton.
No matter how excited the public Is now they
will take calmer view OF the matter when they
come to reflect that my brother did what anY
man would do who had spark of manhood
about him." In answer as to whether his bother
desired to be removed, he said he did not for
the present.


WHAT TIE SAN FRANCISCO PAPERS SAY


"a I'LL hot n 06 Pfo1
whole course OF the Chronicle toward Kalloch
as SO gross that many who are not bad Citizens
Year: 1879

B,yAxAs.-Few people who see bananas
hanging in fruit-dealers' shops think of them
as more than tropical luxury, In fact,
they are staple article OF food in some parts
OF the ~orld and, according to Humboldt.
an acre Of bananas will produce as much
food for man as twenty-five acres OF wheat.
1t is the ease with which bananas ere grown
that is the great obstacle TO civilization IN
some tropical countries. 1t IS SO easy to get
a living without work that no effort will be
made, and the men become lazy and intol-
erably sh.fticss All that is needed IS to
stick cutting into the ground. 1t Will n
pen its fruit in twelve or thirteen months
without further care, each plant having from
seventy-ave to one hundred and twenty-five
bananas and when that dies down. alter
fruiting, new shoots spring up to take ITS
place In regions where frosts never reach,
bananas are found in all stages of growth,
ripening their fruit every day and every
month IN the year.
Year: 1879

FLarrERIxG reports continue to arrive fron
the Snake river mines We again advise
people to 90 slow or they will be bitten as
badly as we have been IL tunes past. There
are few good plaeers there, but the idea Is
as preposterous as it is ridiculous that the
whole river VIII pay. Yet that is what they
are trying to make men believe tits worthy
of notice that the old settlers ara taking up
ground for speculative purposes, but do not
work themselves.
Year: 1879

To their series, English Men Of Letters" Harper
& Brothers have just added 'Oiver Goldsmith"
which appears to have been written to order by the
author of "The Princess of Thule" 1t is evident
enough after reading Of this small volume that Mr.
Black is out of his element a writer of biography
The novelists pen seems to have lost its cunning
when applied to the serious task of biograph-
ical writing and it is probable enough that he
hampered by the limitations Of epitomizng such
history that of Goldsmith and his works that he
did not feel himself in attempting his irksome task
1t was hardly worth Mr. Blacks while to spend time
making book like this. the purpose of which is
simply lead the reader to the better appreciation of
Goldsmiths writings and to his qualities as q man
The best thing in the book is the epogue the book
proper, in which, very briefly, but forcibly, the
young novelist gives his estimate of his subject
After graceful panegyric upon the genuine pathos.
quaint delicate humor and the choiceness of die
ton that belong to his subject. he adds:-


Still less necessary. perhaps is it TO review the
facts and circumstances of Goldsmiths life and TO
make OF them an example, warming or
ton. This has been too often done. His name has
been used to glorify sham Bohemianism--a Bo-
hemanisn that hnds it easy to 1--we in taverns, but
does not find it easy, far sees, to write
poems like the Deserted Village" His experi-
ences author have been brought forward to
swell the cry about neglected genius-that is. by
writers who esnme their genius in order to prove
the neglect. The misery that occasionally befell
uuIluB HIS way Wafu carrier Has Decn ulaue the
basis of accusation against society," the English
constitution, Christianty-Heaven knows whati 1t


IL time to have done with all this nonsense. Gold
smith resorted to the hack work Of literature when
everything else had failed him, and he was fai ry
paid tor il. When he did better work, when
he struck for honest fame, the nation gave
him all the honor lie could have desired.
In plain truth Goldsmith himself would have been
the last to put forward pleas humating alike TO
himself and to his calling Instead of besocching the
state to look after authors instead of impioring
society to grant them recognition; instead OF saying
OF himself, he wrote and paid the penalty lie would
frankly have admitted that he chose to live his life
his own way, and therefore paid the penalty. This
is not written with any desire of upbradlng Gold
smith. He did choose to live his life his own
way. and we now have the splendid aud beautiful re-
suits of his work. and the world, looking at these with
"a constant admiration and with great and lcnient
love for their author is not anxious to what he
did with his guneas whether tho mkman was
paid.
Year: 1879

When we took up the salmon colorcd duodecimo
that bears the above tle with the addition Of the
startling subtitle, among the Various Sexes. Sccts
and Sets of Chartville Community" felt deeply
moved by serious anxiety as to whether the book
would prove elaborate exposition of free love"
theories prize essay by some right smart"
Sunday school pupil who could not refrain from en-
bamng his lucubrations in the permanent casket of
print But after the discussion of its sixteen chap
ters It is found that the effort is intended
tribution to American fiction. We were not quite
sure of 1t until reached the concluding pages.
but at that point light shone from out of the dark
ness. and another "goody y-goody' story was dis
closed as the result The lucidity and depth of tho
authors style may bo derived from the following
suggestive extract which is not without certain in
forest of kind probably not designed by the
writer:--


In early life two persons Of the same sex often
love each other passionaely, with love far greater
than IL IN possible for either to experience later in
life; but when they reach maturity the struggle for
existence almost always forces such these apart.
IL no. NO. into places where they grow suspicious of
each other, II not acknowledged rivals. H. then,