smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

socks from my feet commenced my climbing way, often
reaching the hight of two hundred feet only to be
compelled to return to try some other way. At length
about four clock in the afternoon reached hight upon
the smooth canon wall Of about thousand feet Here my
further progress arrested by shelving ledge of rock
that juod ont from the side foot or more To
advance without hope return certain death Reach
ing upward grasped the rim of the ledge with one hand
and then with the other my foot slipped from the smooth
side of the anon and my body hung suspended the air


thousand feet above the roaring waters of the Arkansas


"At that moment looked downward TO measure the
distance | would have to fall when the strength of my
arms gave out stinging sensation crep through my
hair my eye caught the strong of cedar bush that
projected over the ledge little beyond my reach My
grasp upon the rim of the ledge fast yielding TO the
weight of my person. Then | dete, mined to make my
best effort 10 raise my body and throw sdewise toward
the root so as to bring within my grasp AT the mo-
ment of commencing the effort my mothers face as
she leaned out the ledge reaching her hand and
caught me by the hair. Stranger my mother died while
yet young woman when and my brother yet small
boys, but remember her face successful in max
ing the side leap of my when drew myself upon the
ledge and rested for time From here upward my climb
ing way aborious but less dangerous reached the
top of the just the sinking down beyond
the snowy range, and hasened camp the mouth
of the canon where found my brother all safe Charley
said he have you had your head in sack of hour? 1t
was then that discovered that my hair white
you il now.
Year: 1879

In Colorado j. field which is nor less


than suberanean lake covered with soil about eghte en-
inches deep On the soil is cultivated a field of co n
which produces thirty forty bushels 10 the acre If any
will take The trouble dig hole the depth of spade
handle he will find it to l with water, and by using
hook and line fish four five inches long be caught
The fish have neither scales eyes and perch in
shape, The ground is black mari in its nature and in
all probability at time open body of water ON
which accumulated vegetable matter which has been
increased from time to time until it has crust suf
hcenty strong and rich produce fine corn though il has
to be cultivated by hand it strong enough to bear
the weight of horse While harvesting the field hands
catch strings of fish by punching hole through the earth


person rising his heel and coming down suddenly can
see the growing shake all around him. ANY hay-
ing the strength drive rail through this crust Nf lind
releasing it that will disappear altogether 1 whole
section OF country surrounding this field gives evidence OF
marshness and the least rain produces abundance Of
mud But the question up, has this body an
outlet? Although brackish the water tastes as IL fresh
and evidently not sagnant Yet these fish eyeless
and scaeless--simiar to those found in caves
Year: 1879

How letter from soldier to his wife only few hun
dred miles away, than fifteen years ago never
reached its destination and by anybody until
last month"; is told by the Troy Times The soldier was
prisoner in Richmond and the letter. which he did not wish
to send OPEN the rules established for such correspond
required ncosed in of the brass buttons of
surgeon coat This surgeon, Dr. Ketchum alsoa
prisoner and apou be exchanged His other eleven coat
buttons contained eleven other letters This was writ
sheet of paper four and half inches long by three
inches wde and must have been written with great care
by skinl penman, to compass many words into so
small space The other letters all duly delivered
but IN some way this overlooked. Last month


little boy TO whom the button had been given having heard
his mother tell how the prisoners sometimes put letters in
military buttons to send them secretly asked his ia
ther to open his button and seei it had letter in it. The
button was opened and the letter found
Year: 1879

Charles May and his brother Robert, in the Spring of
1870 offered topass 60 railroad ties down the Arkansas
from the mountain source. He says


Gun offer was accepted when started into the upper
entrance OF the canon with sk provided with six days
provisions and 200 feet of rope with which, by taking
running turn around some firmly planted object We could
lower our boats hundred feet at time In this way at
the end OF three days having adrt many hundred ties
reached the entrance of the Royal George Here we
discovered that an attempt to ascend the rstwateral
two i'll boat certain destruction and return impos
sibe. Accordingly, determined 10 lower my brother
down the fall in the boat distance Of 300 feet give him
the rope and let him take the the canon ife
seemed more certain IN that direction,) while would risk
about 1000 feet high.


About ten o'clock in the morning shook hands with
my brother lowered him in the boat safely the foot of
the fall, gave him the rope, and him more Then


throwing aside my coat hat and boots and stripping the
Year: 1879

We have no means now of even ap-

 proximating the amount of sugar

 consumed by our people, but if the

 facts were definitely known, they

 would be simply surprising. It

 would be fonnd that it was one of

 the heaviest items in the cost of liy-

 ing. It is a trade also that is meas

 ureably a dead loss, because it is one

 in which there is very little profit to our merchants. All staple goods of that nature are sold at such small margin necessarily, that they hardly pay the dealer for the handling. Of all the importations that we find nee essary, goods of this class are the heaviest drain on the resources of our Territory. As we said some time since in an article on horticul- ture, the community which exports most and imports least is the one which becomes wealthy the quickest. fAo mC QCol1C OQt among our own people, we ought to produce everything that can be rais- ed at home for consumption, rather than depend on resources from abroad which drain our resources from within. From the standpoint of political economy, therefore, the production of sugar ought to enter into our industrial plans, as one of the very first importance. We should neglect nothing that would relieve us of dependence on our neighbors. Arizona comes nearer being a world l of resources within itself than any 1 other country we have ever known. And among its products there is none hat would be source of profit to he producer, or greater saving to he people at large than the produc- ion of this indispensable article of produce and consumption. In anoth- 1T article we shall consider the sub ect from 8 manufacturing stand point
Year: 1879

The New York HeralS which pro-

 fesses to be neither Republican or

 Democratic, as to politics, seems to

 be filled with 8 vague fear of the

 word at the head of this article, when GEN. GRANTS name is men, toned for the Presidency. Now we

 are not of those who believe GEN. GRANT is the only salvation of this country, and we are free to say that we prefer some other man even for 19SO But we do not share the feel ing of alarm, that seems to be enter tained by the Herald and others of GEN. GRANT or "any other man," be- coming to this Republic what Caesar was to Rome. In this country the people are the King A man may by his military or political services become great, but he can never be- come quite as big as the people The nation hold these men to be their servants instead of their masters, and the man who would assume to be- come dictator in any sense, would find himself pulled down from his

 throne in twenty-four hours. We

 have no fears of C9sarism on the one hand or communism on the other. The neon1e of this nation determine the questions ot interest, and mark cut the lines of policy to be followed by our so-called rulers, and when a man is asked as President to execute the will of the people, and dares to his own will, he finds very soon that there is a greater than Caesar behind the throne, and we are surprised that so able q paper as the New York Herald can be frightened by such a shadow.
Year: 1879

[Says the Burlington Hawkeye.l


my son, wear your old clothes. You will
not attract so much attention, but then the
wise man never goes to the festival to be seen
of men; or, that is to say, to be sought OF
women.


Be pleasant and smiling and cheerful.
When they offer you the seductive bowl OF
oyster SOUP. bend over it, affect to examine 1T
critically, smell it, then rise up, shake your
head sadly, and with a sweet, suggestive smile,
saw, "No, thank you, guess not" This adds
greatly to the happiness of the silver haired,
motherly old lady who made the soup.


Lie boldly to the first girl who wants you to
take chance in the parsonage cake. Tell her
you have already taken two chances This
will make it easier for the next lie. Then
when she looks over her list and says she can't
find your name, tell you bought your chances
OF the other young lady. Then when she says
she is the only person selling chances IN TINS
cake tell her then it must have been IN tne
other cake Then when she says this Is the
only cake they are rafting on, brace up, look
Year: 1879

GOVERNOR GARCELoN says II was en-
gagged in moving in Lewiston for week be-
fore this excitement about the counting-outl
began, and it so happened that didn't look
into a newspaper for whole week" Dur
ing that time he had seen no member OF his
Council Was that when the 'doctoring"
was going on? The Governor ought to read
the papers and profit by the reading and
learn to keep away from confidence men and
their like.
Year: 1879

II is many a weary week since we have
heard from Obadiah. The present condition
of the shot gun party calls loudly for an
opinion. Come out of your ancient tent
old fellow. Trot out your musfy documents
and like Jack Bunsby, give'an opinion as Is
an opiniOn,
Year: 1879

How did the Democratic town officers of
.Jonesboro learn there was defect in the
return from that town? And how was it
that Democratic lawyers in this city knew
four weeks ago of the defect in the Portland
return. and were asked whether or not it
was fatal? These questions are suggested by
the Pishon affidavit.
Year: 1879

We ask the Argus this question: Would
you be in favor of the disfranchisement OF
this city if the Republicans were in power
and the city Democratic under the same de-
feet in its returns that now appears?
Year: 1879

THE Great monumental barrel handler is
said to have a hand is the Maine steal. We
doubt it. True he tried it on Oregon, South
Carolina and Florida, but we don't believe
he has been whispering with our Council.
Year: 1879

THE GOODNESS which the Argus displays in
advocating the disfranchisement OF large
number of its patrons must endear that
sheet to them. What an interest that paper
takes in this city and Deeringi
Year: 1879

GRANGE REPORTER On the editO-
rial page of this number wi be found
a circular letter from that worthy gen
tleman, the Grand Master Of the State
Grange, a nOuncing the FARMER AND
MECHANIC as the official reporter for
the order in North arolina-the edi-
to S agreeing to publish all announce
ments, reports, items, and other infor-
nation the patrons may wish to have
made public. The paper Is not the
"Organ" OF the order, nor do we
wish it to become so for the editor
was never much Of an org in~grinder,
and does not desire 30 rammel his D n
in any direction. Nor do the Patrons
need an organ in the ordinary ac~
ceptation of the ter n. Experience
goess.to show that the least successful,
are those devoted to special interest.
Nearly one tn .usa1d Grange organs
have been established in various Sfates
within the past five years, and all NV
sleep the sleep that knows no waking.


The editors of the FARMER AND Me-
CHANIC are thoroughly in accord with
the principles of the Grange ia its
broadest platforms, and will be glad
to lend the influence of their paper in
any way to benefit the farmers for
when they prosper the land thrives =
D,t, II l.,
pointments on another page.
Year: 1879

II we notice closely we shall find that the
people who are most popular in social life
are those who understand not only how 10
talk themselves, but how TO make others talk
This is a very valuable gift. To be able 80
to direct conversation as not to display your
own knowledge, but 10 draw out the opin.
ions and quicken the thoughts of those with
whom you talk--this is an accomplishment
indeed. II makes each a contributor to the
enjoyment of all, and II leaves with each a
pleasant sense OF having said something
which others were glad to hear. This is
very different from the consciousness Of
having been bored or snubbed-or both,
which lesser folks often carry away from
the presence OF fluent and tyrannical
talker There is good deal of this sort of
conversational missionary work waiting 10
be done, and the time which we spend in
chatting about the weather might be very
profitably devoted to it. 1t should be borne
in mind that there is scarcely any one of
average intelligence who cannot, If he is
drawn out, talk Interestingly and instruc-
lively about at least one thing-the thing with
which he is practic,ssy most familiar, or
which is connected with his regular labor.
Is your companion in the car or on the
street machinist, a manufacturer an
artist, builder-lead the conversation
around to the one subject If there are no
others, in which he is sure to be interested.
The result will be that you will please him,
and will gain fresh knowledge yourself.
Whoever talks much thus with specialists
upon their chosen department of labor or
thought will get together fund of valuable
information, not to be learned from the
books-.Selectef
Year: 1879

The best of all rules for successful house
keeping and making both ends of the year
meet is "pay as you CO." Beyond all coun-
tries in the world, ours is the one in which
the credit system is the most used and
abused. Pass-books are the bane and pest
OF domestic economy, perpetual plague,
vexation and swindle. Abused by servants
at the store and the house, disputed con-
stantly by housekeepers and dealers, they
are temptations TO both parties to do wrong.
=" / never had that" We neglected to en-
ter this y " forgot to bring the book :"
Never mind. we'll make note of it !" and
so it goes. But the worst of it is that house
keepers are tempted to order what they have
not the means to pay for, and when the
month or quarter comes for settlement they
are straitened. A family can live respect
ably on very moderate income, if they al
ways take the cash in hand and buy where
they can buy to the best advantage. Then
they will be careful first to get what is
necessary. Extra comforts will be had as
they can afford them. But it is bad policy
to buy on credit. No wise dealer sells so
cheaply on credit as for cash. The table is
the place for economy. Good wholesome
food costs little compared with unwhole-
some luxuries. The dress of family is so
much matter of taste that it need hardly
be said it is just as easy to be respectable in
clothing that costs but little, as in that
which is expensive. To dress according to
ones means is the only respectable style.
One must have home, and in every place
there are dwellings suited to the ability of
the tenant or the purchaser. When the
rent, the food and the clothing are kept
within ones income, the margin for benevo-


ence, for luxury and for pleasure may be
measured and used. In these, as in other
matters, "Pay as you CO." Keep out of
debt as you would keep out of prison. Try
this plan through the year 1879, and see
how well it has worked when you review the
| subject in the beginning Of lSS0.-Selected.
Year: 1879

Ny voice seemed in every way unfit for
public speaking. 1t was weak and the pitch
was high. By close application to study |
had become stopped. My lungs were weak
and was troubled with a cough ] wore
plasters for years, and many of my friends
feared that | was going into consumption.
spoke because felt that must speak. At
the end of my first year my physician urged
me to desist from preaching. | was jun
ior preacher on acircuit, in which preached
twenty-eight times to the round. took up
also six additional appointments, making
thirty-four One of these appointments was
in small village, and was in the sitting
room of a house belonging to a humble
widow. 1t would not seat more than twenty
people. On my second and last visit to that
place, I was informed that a physician
there, who was an infidel, desired to see inc,
as he thought he might be of some service
by directing me as to my health. | called,
and he said he had heard that was in feeble
health, and gave me some simple sugges-
tions | was pleased with his general ad-
vice, and at the close of the interview ]
asked him in regard to my continuing to
preach He answered that as to the re-
ligious question he had nothing to say; but
simply as physician he would recommend
me to ride eight or ten miles and preach
once every day. The suggestion harmo-
nized with my own feelings, and resolved
to follow it; and the only request ever
made for any appointment was that on ac-
count of my weak lungs, might be placed
where | could ride eight or ten miles and
preach once every day. My presiding elder
promised me his full concurrence and heart
lest support ! but ! was sent to the city of
Pittsburgh, with its smoke and dust, right
in the midst of the time when the Asiatic
cholera was prevailing there. My friends
were alarmed at my going there but went.
My health was preserved by careful atten-
tion to food and exercise, aud by keeping
regular hours. My voice gradually strength
ened, and, though never musical acquired
the power to address the largest audiences.
My conviction to-day is that if had not
continued to preach l should, in all prob
ability, have fallen an early victim to bron-
chial or pulmonary disease. Often, when
called to face danger, that passage has
seemed to ring in my ears Z" He that will
save his life shall lose it, and he that will lose
his life for my sake, the same shall save it,"
Year: 1879

They are not always preached in words,
these lay sermons. Sometimes they are
acted rather than spoken by their uncon-
scious authors; sometimes they are deliv-
cred to an audience of one or two only but
they are none the less efficacious. We have
all heard such sermons at some time in our
lives and we have all been the better for
such hearing, even though no church walls
enclosed us. Very often, too, these sermons
are put forth by some obscure and humble
soul who knows nothing of their power.
But we, looking ON at the quiet life dedi-
Gated to duty, find such lessons in its serene
faith and loving obedience as shall make us


better Christians forevermore. Even the
most eloquent periods of the preacher are
ampliied and emphasized by the placid
trust or enthusiastic hope shining in the
faces of some of his hearers, and thus Civ
ing us new sermon.-ChriSiian InteHigencer.
Year: 1879

1t is the season of review. Business men
look over their books and their stock; Chris
tian men should do the same. How have
you lived What is there on hand of
strength, purpose or grace ? How can you
manage your conduct, your character, your
work, so as to prosper more in the things of
eternity? There is much to regret, much to
amend; little to be cheerful over in retro
spect, great deal to be glad about in hope.
For the days are evil" and must be while
sin is in the world. But YOU may redeem
the time" because Christ is also in the
world. Some sadness must come with men,
ory. Our failures, nay, our sins, find us out
in this quiet hour between two years. 1t is
good for us to be warned of our faults by
recollection. BE not afraid to review the
year. 1t will do You good to look back.
But remember, even in the keenest pain of
memory, that immortal hope is your por-
tion. Wherein you have failed by careful
ness you may succeed in the new year.
Look little, but only little, at your sue
cess. 1t is not best to fondle your good
work. Let it alone if you need it not to
save you from despair. Even then there is
better stay. Above all, look at this hour
to the exhaustless riches of Christ our
Saviour. All you need he has, all you can
use he will supply. You may redeem the
time, because he will help you according to
your hearts desire. Begin the new year in
better purpose and serener hope. He has
brought you thus far; he will bring you
home. Begin the new year in holy purpose
to be better, to do more, to go faster, to fight
more valiantly. Do not fail in good resolu.
tions. Those who make them may fail, but
those who do not make them have failed al
ready And keep your VOWS. Let them be
upon your conscience, daily burden-made
light by your prompt obedience. Let them
lift you up to see the end, to overlook the
meaner things in the valleys while your
eyes salute the hills of God. 1t is good to
look far and high-to send our arrow at the
sun. Braver, higher, truer, sweeter-that is


what you ought to be.-.Selected
Year: 1879

to the God Of all grace. Some little time
after that, the sheriff was passing by the
condemned mans cell, and he said Who
was that man that talked with me so kindly,
and prayed with me 2" The sheriff an
swered: That was Governor Pollock The
condemned man turned deadly pale, and
lifting up both hands, he said "Oh, sheriff,
was that Governor Pollock 2 Why didn't
you tell meY Oh, If had known it would
have fallen at his feet and cried mercy /
would have asked him TO save me. Why
didn't you tell me that was the Governor 2"
He wept and swung his hands in agony to
think that the Governor had been right in
his cell, and the sheriff did not tell him it
was the Governor. Sinners, ] bring you
good news tonight. There is one greater
than any Governor. He is here tonight,
and he is for a purpose. He is here to save
sinners lie is here to pardon you, he does
not want you TO perish and be lost. He came
to give you a pardon. Do you want a par
don 2 Take it. II is for every one.-D.
L. HoodU
Year: 1879

There are days of darkness, of discourage
ment and gloom in every human life. In
some they are more numerous than in others !;
but they occur to all-days when all things
assume hue of sadness, and feeling of in
difference assumes sway over us. Labor
reasons why we should cultivate industry as
nature with as IL our tasks are left en-
tirely 70 Impulse, much may be accomplished
successive days. 1t is not safe to leave the
great labors Of life to the changing feelings
of the hour. The essential tasks should be
performed with the regularity of the sun.
Thus weshall be sure to escape one SORROW
the remorse of neglected duty.-Selected.
Year: 1879

When Mr. Pollock was Governor of Penn
sylvania, there was a man whose death war
rant he had signed. He felt that he could
not let him die, being Christian man him
self without going down to tell him of a
Sayiour's love. lie went TO the prison where
the man was that was TO be hung, few
days before the time fixed for the execution.
lie said to the sheriff 81 wish you would
take me TO his cell; do not tell him who
am" lie went in, and talked and prayed
with the man. lie told him of Christ and
heaven how God had sent his Son into the
world TO save sinners. He read him some
portions of the Word of God, and got down
and prayed with him, and commended him
Year: 1879

pleasure; in fact, something like a piano
stool, only il should have three or four legs
and cross-pieces for the feet to rest upon.
Such a stool is especially convenient in
cleaning and polishing windows. The rea.
son why very many tired women do not sit
more at their kitchen work is because the
ordinary chair is too low, and 1t is impracti.
cable to bring tables and shelves down TO the
level of chairs. But the high stool and the
adjustable stool make the thing pleasant
and practicable.-RuraiN Ney Yorker.
Year: 1879

SAYS the Norristown Herald; The world
is growing better, sure enough. Ten years
ago you could find a dozen authors of Beau
tiful Snow, without going West. Now
you may travel all over the Union and not
collide with person sufficiently abandoned
and lost to all sense of shame as to confess
that he wrote those anonymous lines"