smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

If you have been tempted to evil, fly
from it. 1t is not falling in the water,
but lying in it, that browns.


The more man knows, the less he is
apt to talk. Discretion allays his heat,
and makes him coolly deliberate what
and where to speak.


The tongue of youth and health.
speaking friendly sounds to the ear of
sickness and age. must be the last. the
brightest, the sweetest of all things
which can smooth the SOULS passage to
eternity.


There are few who know how to be
idle and innocent, and the very first
step out of business is usually into vice
and folly.


Human work. to be effectual, must
be the result of clear thinking. 1t is
true that much of the labor of life is
performed with comparatively little
thought, but it is not less the result of
thought.


Never back down. If you once put
your foot into a thing. face it out,
whether it be bad style of matrimony,
the collection of a long winded bill,
listening to woman's last word, or sit
ting under Rev. Mr.. Prosy's preaching.
Be hero, and you'll come out right
some of these days. Brave men and
good women always land in sunshine.
flowers, plenty to eat and wear, and all
those luxuries. Order peck and in
vestigate.
Year: 1878

The lessons taught through want are
not always ennobling. and there is
limit to poverty beyond which is dismay
and well-nigh utter despair. Dickens,
even after years and years of prosperity,
could never bear to recall the frighttul
privations he endured in boyhood, and
shrank as if mortally hurt when any al
lusion was made to certain "reminiscences
of the past, of which extreme poverty
was the central figure. There were an
niversaries and scenes which he could
never recall without shudder, and
some passages in his life which, to his
dying day, brought a sad, panied look to
his face. Constant deprivation makes
of any life curse, and forces many hu-
man beings to live mere automaton ex-
istences. They would, if they could,
all of them, perhaps, escape the evil,
but the weight is upon them, the mill
stone is about their necks. and there is
nothing left them but stole Indifference.
The blessings of savory food, sunny
homes, books, pictures, the opportunities
of doing good and Of making others hap
py are not to be too lightly estimated,
and cruel is the cause that shuts all of
them out. Life was not designed to
disappoint every aspiration, but to ena-
BILE it to expand, and any condition
which smothers aspiration or blights the
possibilities of ones nature is terrible
misfortune, should be accepted as moth
ing less, and should be manfully COM
batted. In accepting poverty as a mis-
fortune-yea, even as a curse-we ac-
quire power to compass it, and better,
far better is life of ceaseless combat
than the sickening sense of continued
deprivation. The honest accumulation
or acquiring of money is an inspiring
and elevated employment, and it is de-
signed that all should participate in the
general work which secures its blessings.
The can't of those who assert that the
possession of money is curse is to be
passed by in contempt. 1t is only such
when devoted to unworthy ends. and
none prove so much as then the need of
money in early life, that advantages
which broaden the soul may not be lost.
Rush lights are good enough for those
who want no better, but the world would
be far more beautiful place if astral
lamps were everywhere-if for every
man on earth there was home and
plenty. 1t must be that in ages to come
when the world has learned to appreci-
ate the hopelessness of progress through
want, that the poverty Of the people will
be lightened through combined effort,
and that all men thinking best of them
selves will lend wise aid to those who
must be set above its control. 1t is a
step far beyond us, so far that its reali-
zation is almost useless to predict, but it
will come; for until the curse is lifted
the children of men cannot pursue the
course marked out in the beginning.
There can be no fulfilling of the law OF
progress otherwise, for poverty. as Shell
ley tell US, shows that


| onward stain,


Foul selfcontempt, which browns in sneers
Year: 1878

FLESH WoUNDs.-Every person should
know how to treat fesh-wound, be-
cause one is liable to be placed in cir
cumstances away from surgical and
veterinary aid, where he may save his
own life, the life of friend or of
beast, simply by the aid of little COM
nonsense. In the irst place, close the
lips of the wound with the hands and
then hold them firmly together to check
the flow of blood until several stitches
can be taken and bandage applied.
Then bathe the wound for a long time
in cold water. "Should it be painful" !"
correspondent says. stake a painful of
burning Goals and sprinkle them upon
common brown sugar, and hold the
wounded part in the smoke. In min
ute or two the pain will be allayed, and
recovery proceeds rapidly. In my case
rusty nail had made bad wound in
my foot. The pain and nervous irrita-
tion were severe. This was all remov-
ed by holding it in smoke fifteen min
utes, and l was able to resume my read
ing in comfort. We have often recon-
mended it to others with like result.
Last week one of my men had fin
ger-nail torn out by pair of ice-tongs.
1t became very painful, as was to be ex-
peeted. Held in sugar-smoke twenty
minutes. the pain ceased. and promised
speedy recovery"
Year: 1878

"We need more money" is the constant
cry of the infationists. Most of those
who start this cry, and many who join
in it, would never have any money were
it never SO plenty. Though labor be
ever SO plenty and its price ever SO high.
some people will never have cent, or if
they do once IN while it is very soon
gone. The race of the idle and thrift
less-those who do not diligently earn
and do not saye what they do earn-never
dies out. Money, on the other hand, is
never idle if it can help it. When mon
ey is idle its idleness Is enforced. Mon
ey hates idleness. Yet there is more
than 100000, 900 in the country to- day
lying idle. There is more idle money
than idle men in the country. There is
more money than men seeking employ
ment to-day. Why is this money idle? !?


There is not $10O, or $1,000, or
@1UO,OOU, VI p U1,OOO,OOOs VI duJ OluOA
sum lying idle in the country to-day that
would not 60 to work if it could. There
is no demand for it; that is the reason
why it is idle. Why don't these men who
clamor for imitation, who demand two
fold issue of currency, take this idle
money and put it to work? Why don't
they borrow it and give it employment ?
Clearly the business needs of the country
do not yet require it. There is no de-
mand for it. Legitimate business has
no use for it. Any of those men who
are clamoring for more money could bor-
row this $2OO,OOO,OO of idle money, or
any part of it, if they would put up the
collaterals, and it would be only too glad
to get into their hands and get to work.
If there were $2,0O0,oO0,O0o in the
country they could not get a dollar of it
without earning it or giving security for
its return in as good and healthy con-
dition as that in which it was received.
Year: 1878

DR.. J. G. Holland, talking to the as
sembled boatman of Alexandria Bay
the other day, said /: 81 neither drink
wine nor give it to my guests. Strong
drink is the curse of the country and
the age. Sixty thousand men in Amer
lea every year lie down in the grave Of
the drunkard. Drink has murdered my
best friends, and l hate it. 1t burdens
me with taxes. and denounee it as a
nuisance. on which every honest man
should put his heel. | do not ask you
to put your heel on the drunkard, but
to make the spirit of your guild so strict
and pure that no man of your number
will dare to trife with your opinion and
sentiments on the subjects
Year: 1878

A SHAVING SoAP.-A nice shaving
soap can be made by taking four and
a half pounds of white bar soap, one
quart of rain-water, one gill beef's gall
and one gill spirits of turpentine. Cut
the soap thin, and boil FIVE minutes:
stir while boiling, and cover with half
on ounce of vermillion. Perfume it
with oil of rose or almond. 1t is very
nice.
Year: 1878

want mine fixed that way if l was gray
and dead


The barber dyed the dead mans hair
in the highest style of the art, and the
widow remarked, when all was over,
that she was the loveliest corpse she had
ever buried on the,continent.- Virginia
(Nev) Chronicle.
Year: 1878

ASSOCIRItU W DIHE


ST. LOUIS, March THE execution Of
Richard Green occurred this morning in
Kansas City at 1910 o'clock. The hanging
was witnessed by an immense crowd. He
walked firmly from the cell to the scaffold
and when his arms were pinioned said


II have no fear Of death, and die trust
ing in the Lord"


On the gallows he bore himself with cour-
age. He placed the moose around his neck
with his own hands. He said to the crowd 4:
II die in the faith Of the Lord and trusting
in Jesus"


The cope worked smoothly. His death
was painless, and there was no drawing up
of the limbs.


The crime for which he suffered death
was the shooting Of Marshal Henry Hughes
while the latter w. trying to arrest him.
Year: 1878

As will be seen elsewhere, Judge
l.. l.. Mack, Is a candidate for r..
election TO the position OF Circuit
Judge of the End. Judicial District
1t is hardly necessary tor us TO add
u single wori of cncomium TO h {
announcement. HIS acts are before
tho people; his record as Judge is
known throughout the district his
interests are SO closely interw oven
with that of the people, that they
are inseparablc. In morals, char
acter, dignity, sound judgment
and high sense OF devotion to duty
cmlnen,ly qualities him to be his
own successor.
Year: 1878

Those who have never lived on stormy
coast, nor been to sea, can form no adequate
idea of the effect that can be produced by the
impact of succession of waves, or of single
wave. What has happened at Wick, on the
extreme northern coast of Scotland, where
breakwater has been building for some years
past, may give an idea of what is meant by
wave power. 1t was found that stones Of ton
tons weight were as pebbles to the waves,
which have been measured to be here forty
TWO feet from crest to the bottom ofthe trough.
The outer end of the breakwater, where the
storms beat most violently, was built of three
courses of ono hundred ton stones laid on the
rubble foundations; next above these were
three courses Of large, fiat stones, and upon
this mass of concrete, built on the spot, o!
cement and rubble. The end Of the break
water was thought to be as immovable as the
natural rock; yet tho resident engineer saw it
slowly yield to the force of tho waves and
swing round into the less troubled water inside
the pier. 1t gave way not in fragments but id
one mass, as if it was monolith. The dis
placed mass is estimated to weight about | ,35e
tons.
Year: 1878

"A powerful bar magnet, in connection
with Grove battery, has been successfully
used in London in extracting a chip OF steel
from the eye Of a mechanic. When the mag.
net was four inches from the eye, the chip OF
steel sprang from tho lens where it had lodged
to the inner service of the cornea, whence it
was removed without much difficulty.
Year: 1878

VEaEr1NE.-Whent tho blood becomes lifeless
and stagnant either from change of weather or
of climate want of exercise. irregular diet
new the blood, carry of the putrid humors.
cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels, and
impart tone of vigor to the whole body.
Year: 1878

Procure at the druggists or apothe-
cary's store half a pound or pound of
gum shellac, according to the quantity
desired break the scales fine, and put
them into a jug or bottle add good al
cohol sufficient to cover the gum cork
tightly, and place the Jug where it will
be kept warm. In about two days, if
the bottle or jug is shaken frequently,
the gum will be dissolved and ready for
use. If the liquid appears as thick as
thin molasses, add more alcohol. To one
quart of varnish add one ounce of good
lampblack, and an ounce of gum cam
phor. Such varnish will not render
leather hard but it will keep the har-
ness from being soaked with water, and
it will keep the surface clean and neat
for long time. A coat of such varnish
will etfectually prevent the oil in the
leather from spelling ones hands. Moth
ing is better to render farmers boots
waterproof than an occasional cont of
this leather varnish.
Year: 1878




Sand, anlike clay and muck, has no
pores for holding water. In sand the
water is held between the particles in
clay and muck it is held both between
and within. This is why muck and clay
shrink by drying, while sand does not.
A soil to be in the best condition for re-
ceiving and holding the proper quantity
of water for plants should be naturally
compact, but light at the surface, and
firm beneath. The old custom, taught
by early writers, of stirring the surface
soil in dry weather to make it take IN
water from the atmosphere, is all wrong,
for soils do not absorb water from the
atmosphere except in the form of dew.
When q crust is formed upon soil by
rains, it should be broken up to prevent
evaporation, which is very active
through such q crust. But the soil
should be stirred very shallow at such
times stirring deeply and often with
cultivator in dry weather tends to dry
the soil by exposing large portions of it
to the drying influences of the atmos-
phere, but a shallow stirring after a
crust is formed is like cutting lamp
wick just above the oil. The connection
is broken in both cases. The best soil
for conserving moisture is that made of
materials which within themselves fine
tubes from the top to the bottom,
through which the moisture low down
can be carried for the use Of plants. The
poorest soil for holding moisture is that
with fine surface, capable of great
evaporation, everything a loose, coarse
sand, incapable of carrying up water to
the surface soil though such sell can
not dry quite as rapidly after rains as if
the bottom soil had a greater capacity for
sucking down capillary moisture. Soils
need blowing and cultivating to keep
these capillary tubes active and in order.
A dormant soil, like that of an old now
ing field or pasture, is acted upon by
every rain, like mason work under the
mason's trowel. The chinks in the soil
are constantly filling. We should plow
to break up this mason work, and to
multiply these water tubes. Professor
s. W. johnson.


Live and Dressed Weight of Fowls.


In marketing fowls the question some.
times comes up as to the most profitable
mode for selling them-whether alive OF
dead. In order to test this to my own
satisfaction ] have at different times,
through several years, ascertained anC
recorded the facts bearing on this point
The table below gives the result:
Year: 1878

Postal cards are very handy to use
and withal a great convenience, but the
chances that one of them will fail to
reach its destination are much greater
than in the case of letter. This is
not because of any fault On the part of
the Department but the result of care
lessness ON the part Of the. sender.
There being no privacy to the cards, and
the messages they hear being generally
of minor Importance, leads the post-office
officials to treat them with little con-
sideration when once they go astray
Bushels of them are burnt every
month in this city," said a clerk in the
Boston post office, recently. "We
make no effort to return them to send
ers, but simply throw them aside. "
The slips which will consign a postal
card to the limbo of the unredeemed
are many. Anything Except a stamp
stuck to either side; failure to put the
address on the side designated for it,
and the writing of anything except the
address on the stamped side, are among
them. A good plan is to first address
the card and then write the message.
Large numbers of cards are daily re.
ceived at the various offices with NO
written or printed address in the proper
place.
Year: 1878

These fowls were all of the light
Brahma variety, and most OF them young
cocks. The loss in dressing for market
was probably somewhat greater than is
usually the case, as the heads were cut
off in order to avoid the barbarous mode
of throat sticking, and the wing and tail
feathers were also stripped off. At six
teen cents per pound alive they would
have brought $S.43. To bring this sum
dressed, they should sell for 18 56 cents
per pound, with nothing for the work of
picking. And dressed, drawn, etc., they
should bring a very small fraction over
twenty-five cents a pound, also without
pay for the extra work. These figures
will be useful to some persons who do
not raise their own poultry for the table,
as they can, by their light, make pretty
close estimate whether it is cheaper to
buy chickens "on the hoof" for their
tables, or buy of the market men dressed
that is, with heads, tails, entrails and
wing feathers all thrown in. Dressed in
this way, which is the fashionable way,
the loss in preparing them for cooking
will be more than have figured it-say
at least thirty per centum instead of
about twenty-eight and one half, and it
may even reach thirty three or thirty
four.-Letter to Country Gentleman.


Household Hints.


FINGER MARKs.-Finger marks may
be removed from vanished furniture by
the use of little sweet oil upon soft
rag Patient rubbing with chloroform
will remove paint from black silk or any
other material.


To REMOVE SPoTs OF BLACKING FROM
CARPET. Spots of blacking may be
taken from carpets with mixture of one
ounce of powered borax, dissolved in
one quart of boiling water and small
piece of soap, about the size of a walnut,
cut fine and dissolved with the borax
bottle this up, and use to take spots
from carpets or clothes.


For PREPARING LARD TO KEEP THROUGH
THE SUMNER. one gallon of lard put
one ounce of sal soda, dissolved in gill
of water. Do not fill your kettles more
than half full, for it will foam and perhaps
boil over. No other water is required


han what the soda is dissolved in.
When it is done it will be very clear,
and will keep two years. Strain through
a coarse cloth and set away.


Dissolve three pounds sal-soda
in two gallons Of water slack in frkin
three pounds of good quick-lime add
to it the soda solution stir the whole
thoroughly with stick, and add two
gallons of boiling water stir again and
let it settle pour off the clean liquor in
clean iron boiler placed on the fire,
and stir into it six pounds of clarified
grease and one pound of powered borax;
let it boil slowly until it gets ropy,
(about ten minutes boiling) and pour it
into tub or tight box this makes a
good hard soap for family use after
drying a month or so in dry room, and
cut into bars, it is fit for use.
Year: 1878

others having taken an active interest In
public affairs. Indeed, it would be very
great misfortune to the city if so 'ntelll-
gent, able and high toned body of men as
may be found in the medical profession OF
New York should take no interest in public
questions, but turn up their noses at poll
tics as mere '1eather and prunella.


DR.. Crosby, in few happy remarks In
reply to the Mayor, contended that the
chief magistrate et city like New York had
to exercise all the care of the best physician
and OF the most skilful surgeon, since he
had to deal with the moral sickness and
disease of the community, and he ex-
pressed sly satisfaction at the discovery
that Mayor Ely, like an honest doctor, when
he found one kind of treatment did not
succeed was wiling to change the remedy.
This allusion to the recent sickness and
sudden recovery of the Police Board was re-
ceived with relish by the audience. But.
the convivial doctors no doubt laughed IN
their sleeves at the idea of n surgeon, who
had thoroughly made up his mind that
chronic disease demanded the amputation
of limb, suddenly making the discovery
that his patient could be more effectually
cured by sugar-coated pill.
Year: 1878

class of the money lords. 1t was still war
made in the interests of classes as opposed
to the general interests of the nation, but it
was not the old class also. 1t was aided by
another that has taken its place in dominant
and domineering influence in the councils
of the nation a class which believes there
are no relations in the world but COM
mercial relations, and which believes that
the best way with rival in trade is to
knock him on the head.


There is, therefore, the plain evidence OF
English history tor the fact that England
has always been carried into Continental
wars by he interests and the power
of the aristocracy or by the power OF
a class having in the national councils an
influence almost as great as that formerly
welded by the aristocracy in its great
days. The feudal aristocracy and kind
of pseudo commercial aristocracy make mp
the war parties in England as in oil other
countries, save where wars are simply those
Of national defence Of are in determine
ton OF some irrepressible national con-
fiict. But the English aristocracy by itself
alone will never make another war, simply
because by the growth OF the people 1t has
lost that power in the nation that once
enabled it to enforce any policy satisfactory
to it's views. Since the last of the dynastic
wars the English people, in political
sense has come into existence, and Eng
land to-day is governed in great degree In
accordance with its real interests by the
force of popular opinion. Before its treas
ure and its blood can be squandered in
any war the nation must be satisfied that it
has some substantial grievance to redress
or that in some evident and tangible way it
will be the better for war and the worse for
peace. Nations may be blinded and preju-
diced, and so deceived; but, while they see
clearly, theories and sentiments and "Asatic
IN mysteries" and moonshine Of that sort
are not valued as good reasons for great na-
tional sacrifices. And this is the secret of
the hesitations and divisions, the difficult
ties and uncertainties of English policy
in the present crisis. The popular voice,
so far as it is intelligent, is for peace; the
aristocracy and the flunky part of the people
are for war. The sentiment of the money
lords is for war also, but not very earnestly,
for the taste Of Turkish bonds is not pleas
ant under the financial tongue Thus there
is enough division for each to nullify the
other; none can have its will, and the nation
is equally filled with the roar for war and
the cry for peace.