smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879




Mlttens in garter-stitch are knit after q pa
per pattern. II You have an old mitten of the
size required, cut out the thumb carefully,
following the seam. Cut the mitten open on
the side next the thumb, and holding it
double cut open far enough over the finger so
that 1t will spread ont fat on the paper.
This will give you pattern with three
straight sides and a fourth having two points
or scollops. Get stitches On your needle to
correspond with the length of the thumb side
of the pattern; knit back and forth garter
stitch; widen at one end every time across
by making stitch until your work reaches
the tip of the point in your pattern; then be-
gin to narrow at the same end and continue
until you have the number of stitches that you
first put on. You will then have one side of
your mitten. Begin to widen as at first and
knit the second half just like the first; sew
the tips firmly together and the sides as far
as the thumb place; take the old thumb, cut
open and cut pattern and knit the shape of
the pattern; then sew together and sew in
its place, and sew the wrists together. EN-
brOider with worsted of contrasting color
on the back of the mitten a monogram or
straight lines, as preferred; crochet a cuff
same color as the mitten; crochet lining of
the cuff same color as the embroidery on the
back; run cord OF the worsted around the
wrist; make balls at the ends and tie on the
back of the wrist.-Corr. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1879

the PRESS will contain full MARKET REPORTS
and MARITIME NEWS. The growing importance
of Portland 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

he PRESS will be devoted as in the past to a dis
eliminating support OF the Republican Party and
will stand through thick and thin for an honest and
stable currency and the equal rights of all citizens
throughout the length and breadth Of the Republic.
1t will always speak out for education good morals
and Just laws, believing that the safety OF the nation
depends upon these things.


During the session of the
Year: 1879

From whence does it originate? Most physicians
treat every i'll or pain specifically, while they are
only cart Of gteat whole. proceeding or growing
Stomach; second, deraDged Liver. Regulate these
two, and you will cure nlneteen-twenlieths of all
"he ills flesh is heir tO' in this any her elm ate
Year: 1879




Upon information with regard to the
effect of coelie labor In Australia, the
London Pail Hall Gazette thus tersely
presents the cafe: Not only is the Chi
naman personally Objectionable, but he
is protectionist and an absentee of the
most virnlent type at one and the same
time. No one gets any" pull out Of
a Chinaman. He buys his clothes in
China, he buys his food from China, he
brings his opium from China, and he
deals exclusively through Cinnamon.
Thus, whether he is a gold digger or
working for wages, neither Americans
nor Europeans can make anything out
of him. When he has made as much
be thinks viii keep him in comfort in
China, off he goes with his savings, and
the State or the colony knows him no
more. But in his place there appears
another Chinaman equally industrious,
equally penurious, equally inclined to
take low wages, who goes through the
same process, then in like manner dis
appears. Thus these thrifty Asiatics,
by keeping entirely to their own rostes
Of trade and saving money, or digging
gold simply to take it out of the coun-
try, seem to the unsophisticated Amer
can and equally dull Australian to be
by no means so useful to the country
as less industrious, less penurious and
less homesick European, whatever eff
feet their wealth to the world at large.
This at any rate is the chief reason
men who are worth arguing with sup
port such movements as those Of the
labor party of California. and writer's
who wish to combat their arguments ef-
fectually will have to take aiwider view
of the subject than they take at pres
ent.
Year: 1879

MINERS VICTORIoUs.-In the Supreme
Court of California last Tuesday MORN
ing decision was rendered IN the cole-
bratt d Mining Debris Case of Keyes as.
Little York Gold Washing and Water
Company ct al. The Supreme Court
holds that there was n m i>joinder of par
ties defendant and the lower Court is in
structed to sustain the demurrer to the
complaint. This is virtual dismissal of
the suit and denial of the injunction ask
ed tor so far as this particular case is
concerned, but the decision does not touch
the great question at issue being rendered
solely upon technical law point, fatal
error being made in the manner Of bring
ing suit. As the matter now stands each
individual farmer must commence suit
against each individual miner, and the
multiplicity of actions thus forshadowed
borders closely upon the impossible and
would appear to be altogether mpractica-
bic. 1t is probable that Legislative action
will be invoked and that the Mining De-
bris question will demand considerable
attention at the approaching session OF the
Legislature. The decision rendered 0y
the Supreme Court has been received
with rejoicings by the miners, the farmers
being correspondingly despondent.
Year: 1879

SPARE Hm.-"Any:hing 10 beat
Grant, has long been a Democratic mot
to and the latest effort appears to be
studied one which will in the end have


no effect. Late Eastern dispatches say


that the New York daily papers contain


opinions of numerous prominent South


erners on the political situation which has
developed since the recent Northern eec.
tions. Singularly enough the outcome
Of these opinions is that Grant is the
coming man whom the people of the
South adore and would rejoice to again
see him in the Presidential Chair. One
dispatch says that Representative men Of
ihe State Of Georgia heartily favor the
project, ard are already casting about for
some well known Southern Democrat for
Vice President on the ticket with Grant"
Presuming the possibility Of such an
improbable action as the Democracy nom
mating U. S. Grant to the Presidency,
with "a we'll known Southern Democrat
for Vice President" who would want to
insure Grants life during a four-year
term We opine that in the light OF
not very remote history it would be, to
say the least, a very doubtful investment.
There is no danger, however, Of the De-
mocracy taking up Grant as their Presi-
der tial nominee, or Of his accepting their


Endorsement if rendered him. The truth
is that Democrats North as well as South,
fear his nomination and election by the
Republicans and have taken this question
able method of undermining his popular
ity with the party to which he owes al
his renown. The effort is decidedly thin
and easily seen through. Try again.
Year: 1879

The death rae at Bode seems rather
on the increase than otherwise. The pa
pcrs at that place inform US that there is
"A funeral there nearly every hour in the
day. The Virginia Chronicle men tions
the return to ,hat place Of a young man
who, in company with five others went
to Bodie about a month ago. -Four Of the
number are in the graveyard at Bodie,
and he wos suffering from severe attack
of pneumonia when he returned.
Year: 1879

SMALL particles OF metal have recently
been found on the South fork of the Yuba
river in Sierra county which prove upon
analysis to be native Lrass or an alloy oil
copper, zinc, antmony and IRON, a metal
ic composition seldom or never before,
found in native association. The find is
more interesting than valuable.
Year: 1879

"NEvER leave what you undertake
until you can reach your arms around it
and clench your hands on the oth ar side"
says recently published book for young
men. Very good advice; but what if
she should scream?
Year: 1879

A Mr.. Anderson of Dutch Fiat, pick
ed up rock the other day to throw at
COW. The weight of it attracted his at
tention, and on examination it was found
to contain over hundred dollars in gold.
Year: 1879

The commission which has been inyesti
eating the books aud papers connected with
the State Department of Oregon, find
funds to the amount Of $4,000 either unac-
counted for or paid out without authority of
law. The report is very severe in It's con-
demnation of the late Governor, now Senator,
Grover. 1t lays on him large part of the
blame for loose and corrupt administration.
The report is particularly severe in relation
to the conduct of the board of the school land
and school fund commissioners, of which
Grover was the head. 1t charges that the
States educational fund has been squandered
until it is not worth fifty cents on the dollar
and it is shown by the committee that Grover
himself took large sums from the fund on
very trifing and inadequate security, and
used the money for his own purposes; also,
that he loaned large sums out of the fund to
others in such ways that the money came
back to his own pocket, taking for money, in
the name of the State, almost worthless Sc
curity, in consequence of which there is gre at
loss to the fund. Grover, by virtue OF his
Office as governor, had the loaning and man
agement of municipal funds. The committee
says that to the sin of obtaining money dis
honestly is added that of the violation of an
oath-bound trust-that of guarding the fraud
secretly. The committee adds that many OF
the transactions of the board were concealed
from the public by failing to report the same
to the legislature, and that such statements
as were made were false. Many of the losses
are OF character which cannot be well est-
mated, and will probably never be ascer-
tanned.
Year: 1879

beginning of the year seemed so strong as to


be unconquerable. Despite the vaticina-
tions Of the prophets of evil who predicted


that resumption was impossible, or even if
possible would inevitably result In the ruin of
our business and the ,mpoverishment of our
people, we have reached the goal and to-day
our currency is on stable basis and the
world is afforded new evidence of the honesty
and integrity of the great American nation.
The seasons have favored the husbandman
and the gran aries of the West were never so
full before. Business is slowly but health
fully reviving, our people are returning TO the
frugal and industrious ways of their fathers,


speculation is on the decliDe and the nation


has learned from hard experience that labor


is the only sure foundation OF wealth. But
there is a dark side to the picture. For
months that terrible scourge, the yellow fe-
yer, desoated a large section of our country,
turning prosperous cities and towns into
charnel houses and making the work of bury
ing the dead and nursing the sick the chief
occupation of what little time before had
been thriving communities. Death, which
Is no respecter OF persons, striking with its
shafts the high and and gifted as well as the
lowly and ignobe, has draped the nation in
mourning for three men whose names are
familiar to US all. Journalism lost one of its
brightest ornaments in Samuel Bowles, and
the world of letters laments the death of Will
liam Cullen Bryant and Bayard Taylor. Our
sea coast has again and again been swept
by the pitiless sea and those who 60 down
to the sea in ships have met with unusual
disaster.


As to our neighbors the Dominion on the
north ofus rejoices in princess of the blood,
a new ministry and an enormous price for
fish. The only agitation there is social
one, springing from the attempt to trans
plant the manners and customs OF the Court
OF st. James to the uncongenial soil of Can
ada. To the south of us Mexico and Cuba
have enjoyed year of comparative peace
and quiet. The usual number of revolutions
have occurred in Hayti and San Domingo.
Peru has bean killing off its ex.presidents and
neglect or ignorance OF the discovery of Jen-
ner has been decimating the inh abitants of
soma portions of Brazil.


The cruise for the Pole has been continued
with the usual success, and the interior of
Afica has been made almost as familiar to
US as the interior of Maine. Edison has
overcome the perversity of material things
and made them laugh and cry, aud say
their prayers with as much sincerity as many
humans, and is now threatening to ruin the
gas companies with his electric light. Miss
Hosmer challenges steam to contest with
her electro-magnet and somebody is re-
ported to have blundered upon the secret
of the transmutation OF metals. But
this is not dictionary of the worlds
progress. 1t was simply designed to
recall some of the leading features of the
years history. The searcher after details is
referred to the files of the PRE- IS.
Year: 1879

IT is pretty evident from the proceedings
of the Teller committee Mo nday that the
Democrats have resolved to cripple the inves-
tigation by delaying it if possible so that the
present Congress shall expire before it is
completed. Anyone would suppose that
they would hurry it as fast as possible so as
to have chance to expose that outrageous
intimidation In Massachusetts,.
Year: 1879

YAKooB KHAN, though the son of Shere
Ali, has never manifested that filial devotion
which dutiiul son should. He is bitter
enemy Of Russia, and was obliged to give up
his territory of Khasgar to General Kauf-
man. he has been suspected of desire to
ascend his fathers throne even before his
father dies, and doubtless is ready to ally
himself to the English or any other nation
that has the will and the power to place him
on the throne of Afgha nistan
Year: 1879

IT is to be hoped that the yellow fever
commission will not spend too much time in
establishing the fact that that disease pre-
vailed in the South last Summer. Congress
sional Committees are so accustomed to dis
agree that the force OF habit may lead to a
difference of opinion even on this point.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters ana commun,
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return OF preserve com.
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

A CORRESPONDENT sends US an article on
school ventilation. The discussion of this
topic had better be postponed until the Green
back legislature gets to work. 1t is not i'm
possible that then it may become as useless
as inquiry as to who wrote the letters of
Junios. A closed up school house doesn't
need ventilation,
Year: 1879

THE silver men are gathering their forces
to press through Congress law to compel
the Government to redeem trade dollars at
par and Iecoin them into standard silver dol
lars. Its advocates threaten to attach the
measure to one of the appropriation bills if
they cannot get it through in any other way.
Year: 1879

ALSO FhNOrnbIo 10 a Hcpeni OF the


Test Oath Act, hut Not 20 Change in tho


Election Laws-A Rush to the white House


WASHINGTON, May 6.-The bill forbdding
the presence of troops at the polls having pass
ed the House. was taken 70 the Senate late this
afternoon. and it will be considered there to-
morrow. The present intention Of the Demo-
Gratis is to take part in the debate but to give
the Republicans a chance to advocate the use OF
the army at the polls. II is probable that vote
will be taken on the bill tomorrow before the
Senate adjourns.


Hayes said tonight that he should approve
the bill. The Republicans have little cause to
congratulate themselves on united party and
Executive. The action Of the Republican eau
Gus last night appears to have had no appre-
ciable influence upon Hayes. The stalwnrts
have been hocking 10 the White House to-day
in troops. They have wrestled manfully with
the man whom they put into the White
House. but ho gave them littlo satisfac-
ton. He tells his friends that 1t is useless
for the party in Congress to fight the bill. In
conversation tonight, Hayes said that he did
not regard the bill as OF especial importance
one way or another. and therefore should
approve II. There was no reason why hc
should oppose It, He also defined his position
on the other political legislation pending in
Congress. saying that he would sign separate
bill providing for u repeal OF the Jurors Test
Oath law. but he would unhesitatingly veto any
election laws. Hayes thinks that there are
many. Objectionable features in the election
laws. but he would not consent that these laws
should DO wiped out in the manner
proposed by the Democrats, leaving
to be conducted without any Federal
regulations. Hayes. in n most nonchalant
manner. expressed his complete Indifference to
the attitude Of the Republican party on the
question Of using troops at the polls. He said
that the course Of the Republicans in Con-
or tho other in the slightest. The Army
Appropriation bill will be passed again unen-
cumbered with riders. A separate bill will be
introduced to repeal the test oath laws and the
appropriations for the Department of Justice
in the Legislative, Executive. and Judicial APP
preparation bill will be SO itemized and speci-
He'd that not dollar can lawfully he used for
the payment Of marshnls and supervisors OF
election. II is believed that Congress viii be
ready to adjourn by the 10th OF June.
Year: 1879

to that end time and again. Commissioner
Waller said be had called u pom the Supe1intend-
ent OF Bridges on the subject, and instructed
him to see that lamps were put on the bridges
in the future, etc. He said be also intended to
request the Fire-Marshal to order his men to
slacken speed in approaching bridges, whether
open or not, as precautionary measure.
Year: 1879

Some years ago Horace Mann de-
livered an address at the opening OF
some reformatory institution for boys,
during which he remarked that if on
~ one boy was saved from ruin, il
would pay for all the cost and care
and labor of establishing such an In
stitution as that. After the exercises
had closed, in private conversation,
a gentleman rallied Mr.. Mann upon
his statement, and said to him: ''Did
you not color that little, when you
said that all expense and labor would
be repaid if it only saved one boy?"


"Not if it was my boy" was the
convincing, reply.


There is a wonderful value about
"my boy" Other boys may be rude
and rough, other boys may be reck-
less and wild; other boys may seem
to require more pains and labor than
they ever will repay other boys may
be left to drift uncared for, to the
ruin which is so near at hand; but
"my boy, 1T were worth the toll ol
lifetime, and the lavish wealth of q
world to save him from the temporal
and eternal ruin. We would go the
world round to save HIM from peril,
and would bless every hand that was
stretched out to give him help Or well
come. Every poor, wandering, out
cast, homeless man, Is one whom
some fond mother called ''my boy
And yet how many parents are there
who give their time to the considera-
ton of what things ''my boy should
| lenru2
Year: 1879

Chapter :, Cultivate love for the
farmers profession. Failing in this,
quit-and try something else.


Chapter 2. Learn what your land
is best suited tor, and do not try to
gather figs from thistles. Study the
nature and wants Of the plants you
wish to grow, and use your best en-
deavors to supply them.


Chapter 3. Be skillful, If possible,
with the plow and other tools used
on the farm. Ii you can't use them
to gooC advantage, bid adieu to
Eden and study law.


ChapUer 5. Love your domestic
sniioals, and treat them in way
that they will always welcome your
approach and not run from you. If
your horse won't meet you in the
middle of the pasture on fair terms,
write yourself down sinner, and
never write anything else. If your
,aog won't come to you in the mead
ow aud beg to be scratched on tho
back. it is proof that yoa have not
been friendly with her. And when
the old sheep is not willing for you
to assist the little lamb in getting It's
first dram ofmilk, the evidence is
strong that you are not good ahep-
herd Or if the hen fights you and
will not rise gently to her feet when
you examine for the first chicks, it is
proof positive that you are bal egg,
and no good for raising poultry.
Chapter 6. Do your own work,
and quit trying to speculate on the
labor OF another. Men who are will
ing to profit their employer "won't
hire" but will work for themselves
and be their own bosses.


Chapter Z. Study your business.
Keep your mind always on what YOU
are trying to do, and not be thinking
of bathrooms, picnics, lawyers and
polite. 'ans when making the line fur,
row across the field. Read the pa
pers and study the literature of your
profession, aid give no thought to
the criminal caIendars called news
papers. Nothing is in them that will
pay you ~ Ol
financial and other measures of pub
lie policy are more ably and fairly
discussed in the monthly and quar-
terly reviews than in the partisan
journals. Farmers should think of
these things when they have opportu-
nifty, and he sure when election day
comes to vote square out in direct
opposition to the wishes of the party
candidates of both sides. You will
then be sure of serving the best in
terests Of your country.


The above chapters / have given
as a sort of cooler for the dog days,
when snakes play blindfolded and the
ice is most all gone. l think l have
been profited while practicing the
doctrine thus briefly limited at
Year: 1879

and the rainfall is said to be the
heaviest ever known here. The
lightning struck several places with
out any serious result. The dam
age to crops in the surrounding
county from the heavy rain and
wind is reported to be very serious,
and will effect heavy losses upon
farmers. 8#5s
Year: 1879

is by far the most successful Scmi-Weelly in the
country, having fOnr times the circulation Of any
other in New York 1t is especially adapted to the
large class of intelligent, professional or business
readers too far from New York to depend on our
papers for the daily news, who nevertheless want
tifc matter lectures literary misccaney, etc for
which The Tribune is famous. Like The Weekly
it contains sixteen pages, and is in convenient form
for 1ndinp