smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

INGENIOUS HONESTY OF HACKMAN.
The clerk Of n merchant at Osaka, Japan,
went to Kioto on business OF his employer
and received 1000 yen to carry back to
Osaka. Having been detained longer
than he expected, he missed the steam
boat, and being anxious to complete the
journey as quickly as possible, took jim
rikisha, intending to travel during the
night and reach Osaka before daylight.
On arriving at village few miles from
his destination, about o'clock in the
morning, man with drawn sword,
stopped the vehicle, aud demanded the
! | 1000 yen, stating that he had seen the
4 youth receive it at Kioto. After some
demur the latter took tho money from his
bosom, and was about to hand it TO the
robber, when the jinrikisha coolie snatch
ed the bag and made off with it, leaving
the vehicle, the clerk and tho robber in
the middle of the road, the latter as
speechless us the former. The knight OF
the road, finding himself foied, departed
in the direction opposite to that of Osaka,
to which city the youth FASTENED after
abandoning his first thoughts of jumping
into the river. On arriving at tho house
of an uncle, he acquainted that relative
with his adventure, and desired to die.
But he was spared, for it was discovered
that the coolie, instead Of running away
with the money, had taken it to the police
station. He was appropriately rewarded
with share OF the money he had so
cleverly saved.
Year: 1875

LINcoLN's BAKER SToRY.-Colonel Bak-
er, who was killed at Balls Bluff during
the late rebellion, was well known in
Springfield, Illinois, and 1t was of him Mr..
Lincoln used TO tell the following story;


Colonel Baker was very courteous to la
dies, always treating them with great po-
liteness and attention. He was starting on
journey at one time, when lady was
placed ia his care by an acquaintance.
Now the colonel knew nothing whatever
of this lady, but she proved to be a pleas
ant travelling companion, and he made her
as comfortable as possible in the old stage
coach. On the next morning they stopped
for break fast in Galena, aud while that
meal was being prepared they were shown
into the parlor on the second floor. Here
the lady seated herself by an open window
looking out on the street, while the colonel
paced the floor with his hands folded be-
hind him, as was his custom, for be always
seemed as restless as a Gagged bear when
confined in a room. Other passengers were
Year: 1875

The SIGNIFICANCE OF TRUE PRAYER
lies in the fact that we recognize by our
alteration one whom it is impossible for a
rational being not 10 regard with awe and
pleasure. Prayer proves that the suppli-
cant can appreciate what is exalted and no.
BILE, and shows his kinship with them.
We live in a divine atmosphere, but our
dull souls are too insensible 10 the fra
GRANGE that exhales like a perfume and a
balm from the Infinite source of sweetness
and health and lie. But prayer has more
than this symbolic worth. 1t lifts the soul
into living susceptibility 10 the divine in
fuence, which tones down its passion, en-
larges and purifies its vision, quickens its
best sentiments, and inspires its every vir-
tue. And its effect on the person who prays
constitutes its real use. II affects the soul,
and not its surroundings, and by changes
wrought in it ollen alters its lot. AS we
breathe out petitions 10 the invisible One,
we breathe in his Spirit, which purifies
and strengthens us for duty, and makes US
more hopeful and efficient workers in the
world. Prayer in expectation of an exter-
nal answer is but wasted breath. We pray
in vain FOR miraculous interposition in our
behalf. The way in which prayer helps us
is as comprehensive as anything of such a
nature can be. Heaven qualities its re-
spOnscs TO our condition. Prayer neither
alters nor contravenes nature. Striking
condolences are explicable on natural
grounds. All occurrences are links in q
chain of invariability which the widest
heart-cry cannot break. Effects follow
causes with rigid though sometimes in
trlcate regularity. Rain will not fall the
sooner or more plenleously, nor will seed
yield beyond the capacity of soil and eli
mate because we ask 1t in urgent tone on
bended knee. Our physical energies were
given 10 gain the physical objects that we
crave. But if by prayer we are made diff.
ferent, the world will wear a new face 10
our eyes and yield ampler satisfaction 10
our hearts.
Year: 1875

REsUsCITATIoN OF PERSONS APPARENT
man Y drowned persons might be resusci-
tated, who are left TO perish for want of in
telligent and timely treatment. The rules
proper in such cases, which have been
tested by long experience, have been so Of
ten published that they ought to be gener-
ally known. by way of giving practical
illustration of them, we copy, substantial
ly, case mentioned by the writer of that
interesting little ork recently published
under the title of "The French at Home"
In his walk one morning he says he saw
a man pulled ont of the water, apparently
drowned. He was laid on the right side,
the face turned toward the ground, aud the
jaws gently opened TO facilitate the escape
Of water. Several times the head was
placed little lower than the rest of the
body for the same purpose, but only for a
few seconds at a time. In the meanwhile
there was regular manipulating process
to induce breathing, which consisted in
pressing the abdomen, stomach and sides
of the chest, but softly. The efforts were
without effect The man looked as if he
had seen the last of earth. Then the pros
trate figure was carried TO the nearest sta
ton for rescue of the drowned. Here the
man was stripped aud wiped dry, and he
was laid, turned on the side, between two
blankets on a straw mattress. The manip-
ulaling process was resumed, with inter-
walls of about a quarter of a minute be-
tween each pressure of the body, the pres
sure being repeated fifteen or twenty times,
followed by suspension of ten minutes.
Twenty minutes were passed in this way,
when physician employed on this kind
of service appeared and took charge of the
case. A warming pan filled with hot wa
ter was passed over the body outside OF the
blanket, particularly over the pit of the
stomach and the sides of the chest. This
was alternated with gentle friction of hot
woolen miltens and the naked hands, and
the soles of the feet and the palms of the
hands were vigorously rubbed. An oper-
ator breathed into the mouth of the man
by means of tube. These efforts also
proving in vain the physician had recourse
to the introduction of tobacco smoke into
the intestines. In about ten minutes the
ulan gave ieople sIsu Vi me- NheTeuPOn
all manipulation was discontinued lest 1t
should interfere with the natural move
ment. Soon he showed a desire to vomit,
which was assisted by feather introduced
in,o the throat. How long the whole proc
ess lasted Is not stated, but The reader will
see that it was lengthy. A few days aler
the writer attended ball, and among the
most lively dancers he saw the drowned
man.
Year: 1875

The coolness of some men In certain try
ing emergencies is beyond praise. He was
a cool man, if he was a poor carver, who,
having at dinner party deposited by his
unskillfulness the turkey on lady's lap,
courteously inquired, "Madam, may
trouble you for that turkeyH" But even
this exhibition of a temper which no mis-
hap could ruflle is ecllpsed by the coolness
of an English curate-we are indebted 10
the Christian Register for the incident-in
managing his sleepy congregation. Hav-
ing tried, without success, many plans to
keep alive the attention Of drowsy people,
he, on one hot summers afternoon, just as
the people had reused themselves at the
end of the sermon, quietly said, "Well,
my friends, that sermon doesn't seem TO
have interested You; am very sorry for
it but there is a remedy for all things,
and have another in my pocket which
you will perhaps like betterp To the dis
may of his wide awake floek he coolly
preached a second sermon through from
the text to the amen. That curate would
lead forlorn hope or oversee nitro
glycerino factory.
Year: 1875

Three hundred pages of the book have never before
seen the light OF day or the darkness OF print ana
among the sketches contained this new matter are
many far superior TO anything written by
Mr. Lewis In tho Free Press Among the amusing
sketches might bo mentioned the obituary verses Of
the who lost her little Ross and 'swih soma


lines onto him. which she wished to have published.
Then those anxious to their hopefuls the dow-
cry paths Of literature will Gnl ample instruction 10
that end In 'The Head wrtern sketch which
plains oil the preliminary steps necessary TO become
high dignary.


The Eureka Rat Trap is calculated 10 cure melan-
chola at rst sight and excite laugh from the MOST
cynical The book abounds in good hits and WILL no
doubt, have immense sale, so famous have old
BJah and the "Pics Man" become. Iii neatly bound
and becoming companion on the shelf to many more
prsssntious and less amusing work1
Year: 1875

Says Farmer correspondent IL Is
useless folly and idle vanity in a Vlrs'nlau to
move anywhere, hoping to find some place
where he can live aud thrive without work.
If he will zealousy go to work, and honestly
and faithfully press on, there is no place on
the globe better adapted to every want OF man
than this, our dear old native land of Virginia.
Istead Of thinning out, let US all go to work
and thicken up. Give us money aud labor
and Virginia will soon be Virginia again. A
few cool crops Of tobacco with few acres IN
grass. and few sheep TO each farmer land a
resolve to kill or tas every idle dogl. with
bees and poultry, cheese and butter from the
hands of wives and daughters, and the cur
rent of money viii begin to glide amongst us
all. This Of itself will do more to attract
good men from everywhere than all the i'm
migration societies our befuddled politicians
can ever create or manage"
Year: 1875

The american Farmer says The key note


TO success in this is thorough preparation OF
the land and plenty Of manure. Perfect pull


verization before planting is much more SER
yiceable than workings after and to obtain


the best returns from the land you must put
the material on il, if is not already present.
The crop loves rich msnares and will stand
any quantity of them, none perhaps being
superior for the field than those from the barn
ward or well rot,od composts, whilst for the
hill some more concentrated material is better
suited. as super phosphate, bone dust, ashes,
or a mixture Of hen manure, plasief and
salt. The mode Of planting depends on the
character Of the seed, the nature Of the soil,
&C.. and the customs of the section; but as
rule. land rich or heavily manured. will, OF
course, bear closer planting than poorer soils.
Year: 1875

In all probability no work Of equal magnitude
can be pointed to- either In this city or any other
city, which has been executed with better finish
and in less time than that just completed by Mr.


. UIeason, contractor. In about one week Iao
gentleman named has graded s street, and re-
laid the sidewalks from Eleventh street to the
Boundary, in some places having to cut to the
extent Of three feet. 1t Is now to be earnestly
hoped that the contractors for concretng (Messrs.
Murdoch & co., may fulfill their portion OF the
work with equal ability and promptness and by
so doing they will call forth the thanks Of the
citizens In this section Of the city. L.
Year: 1875


There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter OF the fold
But one was out on the hills away
Far OF from the gates OF gold
Away on the mountains wild and bare.
Away from the tender Shepherds care.
Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and


nine;
Are they not enough for Thee :"
But the Shepherd made answer This Of


mine
Has wandered away from NE
And although the road be rough and steep,
l go to the desert to find my sheep
But none Of the ranSomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed
Nor how dark vas the night that The Lord


passed through.
Ere He found His sheep that was lost.
Out in the desert He heard its cry,
Sick and helpless, and ready to die.
Lord, whence are those blood tracks all


the way
That marx out the mountains track 2
"They were shed for one who had gone


astray
Ere the Shepherd could bring him back. -
Lord, whence are Thy hands 50 rent and


torn
They are pierced tonight BY many a


thorn
And all thro' the mountains. thunder


riven,
And up from the rocky steep,
rose a cry to the gate Of heaven,
Rejoice have found my sheep"
And the angels echoed around the throne,
..Rejoice Tor the Lord brings back His


own -


Moody and sankey's Hymn.
Year: 1875

4 great deal Of feeling is being
manifested in certain quarters in re-
gard - this article. II seems that
an oily substance 50 exactly like the
natural elements Of the best milk, can
be had from fat, and so mixed with
.pocr skinned milk, as 70 produce an
article Of cheese, equal, and some
tblnk superior, to the best article in
the market. This IS the opinion Of
one Of the leading daily authorities
Of the country-X \. Willard
There Is the danger that unprincipled
persons may not be particular as TO
the kind Of fat they employ, and
fears are entertained that Europeans
will have a suspicion Of all American
cheese when they learn that it can
be manufactured in this way. Is


would indeed be unfortunate for this
branch Of American industry, If such
should be the result. IL is said that
fourteen and half millions Of dol
lars represent the American cheese
exported last year 1t is too much
10 lose. That we should lose this
trade depends, however, on the rel
merits Of the article, independent Of
how it is made. Those who supply
the English market know that their
success has been on account Of the
superiority Of our cheese. They
have q reputation to sustain. IL IS
hardly likely they will risk It


The cheaper made cheese will soon
show itself in cheaper prices; and
all those who desire it will learn 10
avoid it if they want 70, just as ia
other things people learn 70 suspect
the quality of that which i5 cheap
At any rate, what are the regular
cheese makers going to do about il,
All they can suggest now is thss
those who make cheese on this plan
should be compelled to avow it. 1,
should be sold as oleomargarine
cheese and nothing else. This IS all
very well 1t ought not to stop with
this kind Of cheese, however, but
with all doctored and prepared srti-
cles, and maybe the time viii come
when we shall know Just what we
Year: 1875

Quite number of OUT readers have asked us to warn the people against congregations about our mining pros poets and developments, as the real truth is exciting enough, and will do much better service than any fancy re reports. THE CITIZEN will endeaTor at all times to be within bounds in this respect We have seen the evil inf1u- ences exerted among poor and rich by too rosy tales about mines, and in cas- es, too, as here now, wherein the plain truth would have brought steady and permanent advantages We are very anxious to publish in the most con splcuous manner an account of ALL the big chunks of silver found-b11t no more; of ALL the rich and large quartz lodes of silver and gold, but no more. The facts we are sure, are enough to excite anybody to come here, whois in any manner disposed to come, or to 20 anywhere tlD mine or operate in mines. Arizona will astonish the world with her productions of the precious met als, but fhere is just a possibility that the enthusiasm of her people may at times induce them to send out too highly colured reports, and tend to re tard progress
Year: 1875

Everything in this line looks bright enough. Any attempt at exaggeration would be useless and in the end dam aging. We can well afford to go on cheerfully on the known merits of our mines

 Our Santa Rita letter gives good and plenty of news from the placers. Elk citing reports continue to come from the Pinal mines. Here is telegram that tells it's own story, and we believe MT, Maloney knows what he reports to be true:

 FLORENCE, August 5.-John Was son: Just returned from Silver King mine. In the drift a body of nearly pure silver has been struck. The wild est excitement exists in the district.

 MART MALONEY.

 The 10-stamp mill has been running smoothly for over a week on Ostrich ore but no report has been received rom there since It got fairly under way.

 The furnaces in Fully & Ochoa's cor ral are kept busy prospecting ore. A. c. Benedict has recently brought in for testing, fifteen hundred pounds of al most pure metal from a mine near hls upper ranch-Say sixty miles south of Tucson. This ore appears to contain some ruby silver. It is surely seventy five per cent metal and seems to be rich in silver. It comes from a very fair sized vein of the solid ore he has brought in. He will soon have it tested
Year: 1875

DESPATCH of yesterday evening from Florence, states that further strike of silver had been made in the King; that three new lodges had been discovered within a week, the ore from which as SAYS from S4OO to 5000.
Year: 1875

A COMMUNICATION has been received at the Department of State in Washing ton from our Minister to China, stating that that country will be represented at the Centennial Exhibition in a most interesting and creditable manner.
Year: 1875

Has made the most Astonishing Cures :.
so quick, so rapid are the changes the
body undergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
Every Day an Increase In Flesh and Weight


Is Seen and Felt.


The Great Blood Purifier.
Year: 1875

from the Ontey IH. IInaeS.


10 the fury Of the numberless disquisi-
tions on imitation and contraction created
by the canvass in Ohio and Pennsylvania,
people are in some danger of forgetting
the true issue before the country. This
issue is the arraignment of the present ad-
minlstration for unexampled prohigacy in
every department of public affairs; for the
exercise of despotic powers over the
southern states; for the extraordinary
public frauds and crimes in the District of
Columbia; for the foolish and demagog .
treatment of the currency question by the
last congress; for the attempt to foist Gen
eral Grant upon the country for third
term; for the scandalous prostitution of
the appointing power, and for the defense
and support of the most CONSPICUOUS public
knaves by the president himself.
Year: 1875

CHICAGO, Oct. PA man named John
Galena was fatally stabbed late last night
in drunken row in a saloon on the West
Lake street. The murderer. who is un-
known, escaped together with companion.
Galena ran into the street after the af
fray and was soon found dead in the vicin-
Year: 1875

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE, IT WILL NOT
] Rust or crack and costs only trihe more than
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. have the exclusive agency
for Rock Island FRED HASS.


Store in Star Block
Year: 1875

The most powerful fog-signal whistle now in use is an American invention. The whistle is produced by means of 8 disk, with twelve radial slits, being made to rotate in front of fixed disk exactly similar. The moving disk revolves 2, 800 times minute, and in each revo- lution there is, of course, twelve coinci- dences between the two disks; through the openings thus made steam or air at high pressure is allowed to pass, so that there are actually twelve times 2,800 Cor 33, 60O puffs of steam or compressed air every minute. This causes a sound of very great power, which the cast-iron trumpet, twenty feet in length, com presses to certain extent; and the blast goes out as a sort of sound beam in the direction required.

 This instrument has been set up at va rious points along our own coast, where danger to shipping is imminent during the prevalence of foggy weather, and its superiority to every other form of fog signal was immediately so apparent that the English naval authorities sent for a specimen to be tried with English inven- tions at some recent experiments on the coast. It was found to be vastly more effective than anything with which itwas put in competition, and large number of these instruments were at once order ed for the purpose of establishing 8 complete chain of sound-signals round the English coast, to be used in foggy weather. 1r
Year: 1875

Since the introduction of postal cards,

 says the New York, Times, the uses to which they are applied have been steadi-

 ly increasing in number and rarity. That the amount of convenience thus

 furnished the public is very great cannot be denied. At the same time there are,

 not subsequently, certain annoyances

 connected with the injudicious employ ment of postal cards in epistolary writ ing. Of this class of annoyances, per haps the most common is that which oc- CUTS from receiving one of these missives when the person to whom it is sent would greatly prefer the privacy which would be afforded by sealed letter. ,s r.,.i

 A gentleman or lady in large city, who writes a postal card and puts it into the box with her own hands, or sends it by a messenger not supposed to gossip, is ordinarily in little danger of having what he has written made the subject of conversation among his own neighbors, Nobody near the, sender has 8, chance to peruse 1t exceptthe government officialss and they are not likely to read it, and perhaps would not know enough about the writer to understand it if they did. But when the cards gets to the other end of the route, the case may be very diff ferent. The numerous individuals who in country village sometimes assume the duties of, deputy postmasters on the arrivalIof the daily or tri-weekly mail, are not always too busy to spend little time in the acquisition of interesting in formation, or too delicate to take any means that may be convenient of D, ac- quainting themselves with their neigh bors' affairs. We do not wish to be understood as intimating that this is the case with all country post-ofices, or the majority of them. On the contrary, there are great many more of them than is generally supposed where the postmaster is very careful to have no gossip provided by means of his office. But leaving out of view the post offices, a postal card is often liable to be seen by a good many pairs of eyes before it comes within the scope of those for which it is intended and nobody who. sends one has, unless he is well acquainted with the circumstances of the party to whom it is sent. right to presume that it will not be subjected to the inspection of in- dividuals who will not hestitate. to tell all the news It contains, and perhaps a good dealamore. ;di N"fta i'.f5. i '9I99
Year: 1875

The following are few curious Chi nese proverbs: The ripest fruit grows on the toughest wall. It is the small wheels of a wagon that come in first.

 The man who holds the ladder at the bottom is frequently of more service than the one who is stationed at the top of it. The turtle, though brought in at the back gate, takes the head at the ta- ble. Better be cat in philanthropist' s family than mutton pie at kings banquet. The learned pig did not learn it's letters in day. True merit. like the pearl inside an oyster, is content to re- main quiet until it finds an opening.

 The top strawberries are eaten first. He who leaves early gets the best hat.

 Pride sleeps in a gilded crown, content ment in cotton nightcap.. rr as9E.
Year: 1875

dot, and, above all, in order to escape

 having one of the viceroys's slaves forced upon him. But as men may have as many wives as their fortune will allow in this country. even this may not save him, E'