smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The faster and more gently COW is
MIXED, the greater will be the amount
given Slow mixers always gradually
dry up COW, and for the reason that It
the milk be not drawn about as fast as 1t
is given down, it viii subsequently be-
withheld, and that withheld is, as matter
of course, what is known as the strip
pings, in fact, the upper surface OF the
milk in the udder. Many mixers draw
the milk with strong downward pull, in
fact, with jerk This should never be
allowed; it irritates the COW, and often
Injuries the bag. Fill the teat, and with
IA firm pressure of the last three fingers
empty it, drawing slightly on the teat and
udder ut the same time; so proceed alter
nately with each hand until the milk sup
ply is exhausted. Many mixers get the
habit OF slow milking because steady,


firm. quick milking tires the fingers and
wrists, until by practice the muscles get
used to the work. Until this use comes
naturally the individual shonld only milk
such IA number as they can without severe
cramping of the hands, what are MIXED
should be milked fast, increasing the num-
ber until at last there is no tiring what
ever. Five minutes is about the limit that
should be allowed for milking II cow
There is another thing well worthy Of
being remembered. Cows should be milk
ed as nearly at a given hour morning and
evening rs possible, since undue distention
of the udder is always injurious. Prairie
EuT1Dpr
Year: 1879

Good humor is rightly reckoncd most
valuable aid to happy home life. An
equally good and useful faculty is sense
of humor, or the capacity to have little
fun along with the hIim-drum cares and
work of life. We all know how it bright
ems up things generally to have lively.
witty companion, who sees the ridiculous
points of things and who can turn an an
noyance into an occasion for laughter.
1t is great deal better to laugh over some
domestic mishaps than to cry or to scold
overthem. MANY homes are dull because
they are allowed to become too deeply inn
pressed with a sense of the cares and re-
sponsibilities of life to recognize its bright.
and especially its mirthful side. Into such
a household good but dull, the advent of
a witty, humorous friend is like sunshine
on Il cloudy day. Whilst it is always OPP
pressive to hear persons constantly striving
to say witty and funny things, it Is COM
Portable to see wha. brightener little
fun is-to make an effort to have some at
home. 1t is well to turn off an impatient
question sometimes, and to regard it from
Il humorous point of view instead OF be-
coming irritated about it. ''Wite. what
is the reason | can never hnd clean
shirt e' exclaimed a good but rather i'm
patient husband, aiterrumaging all through
the wrong drawers. His wife looked at
him steadily for n moment, half inclined
to be provoked, then with comical look,
she said: II never could guess conun-
drums | give it up" Then he laughed.
and they both laughed and she went and
got his shirt, and he felt ashamed of him.
self and kissed her. and then he felt hap
py; so, what might have been an occasion
for hard words and unkind feelings, be-
came just the contrary. all through the
little Vein of humor that cropped out to
the surface. Some children have pecu-
liar faculty for humorous turn to things
when they are reproved. 1t does just as
well oftentimes to laugh things off as to
scold them off. Laughter is better than
tears. Let us have a little more of it mt
home -Mauutucturer md Builder.
Year: 1879

Put two or more quarts of water in n
kettle, and one large seed pepper, or two
small ones, then put the kettle over the
fire. When the water boils, stir in Indian
meal until You have thick mush. Let it
cook an hour or so :; feed hot. Horse rad
ish chopped fine and stirred into mush as
prepared in the above directions, and for
results we are getting from five to ten
eggs per day, whereas previous to feeding
we had no eggs for long time. We hear
a good deal of complaint from other peo-.
Pile about getting eggs. To such we would
warmly recommend cooked food, fed hot.
Boiled apple skins, seasoned with red pep
per, or boiled potatoes seasoned with horse
radish, are good for feed; much better
than uncooked food. Corn, when fed 10
hens, by itself, has a tendency to fiitten
rather than produce the more profitable
egg laying. A spoonful of sulphur stirred
with their feed occasionally, will rid them
of vermin. and tone up their system. 1t
is especially good for young chickens or
turkeys. Out of flock of ten hatched last
November we have lost but one. They
have been fed cooked food mostly and are
growing finely.-Ohi0 Farmer.
Year: 1879

The Republican who votes against
his party ticket, State or County, this
fall, and then boasts of his Repub-
licanism, understands what he is do
ing just about as much AZ North
ern soldier would have done had he
fired blank cartridges at the rebels
when they were placing his life in
peril. Democrats are not guilty of
any such nonsense as this. If they
are not strong enough to win them
selves, they get up "sugar coated"
ticket label it Sthe Peoples grand
panacea for all political ills," and
then laugh at the way they deceive
those who honestly swallow their
medicine. If a ticket of this kind
is successful at time like the pre-
sent, when there is not the slightest
occasion for scratching any Repub-
lican candidate, it will afford the
Democrats an opportunity of rejoic-
ing that they have not had since the
war, when an occasional Union de-
feat filled their hearts with gladness
and Joy. But if YOU wish them to
have as long faces and as solemn
countenances as they had when they
read of the glorious victories at
Gettysburgh, Vicksburg and Ap-
pomattox Court House, stand fast by
the Republican colors and vote the
straight Republican ticket.
Year: 1879

Although we called the attention
of our readers several weeks ago to
the Constitutional amendment which
they are to vote for OF against this
election, we again refer to it. The
following are the exact words Of the
proposed amendment;


Section Is. The legislature shall
not authorize any county, township,
city or other municipal corporation
to issue bonds, or to become indebt-
ed in any manner, to aid in the con-
struction or equipment Of any or all
railroads to any amount that shall
exceed five (5) per centum of the
value of the taxable property within
such county, township, city or other
municipal corporation. The amount
of such taxable property to be ascer-
tanned and determined by the last
assessment of said property made,
for the purpose of state and county
taxation, previous to the mourning





of such Indebtedness"


At the bottom of all the Republi-
can tickets you will observe these
works in accordance with the direc-
tons of the Act of the Legislature;


Unconstitutional Amendment
Limitation of the taxing powers of
the Legislature"


If voter wishes the adoption of
the amendment, he will write Eyes, -
Immediately after the word Legisla-
ture; if he wishes to vote against the
amendment, he will write "No," in
the same place.
Year: 1879

From the above it will be seen that
one dollar to-day will purchase more
of the above articles of clothing and
food than could be bought for three
dollars IN what are now called the
s'aush times" of 1865.


Wages have not decreased in any,
thing like that proportion, but the
workingman can see that with every
dollar he now earns he can buy more
to supply the needs of himself and
family than could have been pur-
chased with three dollars earned in
lse5.-Bangor (M.) Wing.


We have made some changes re
ducing the prices Of 1870 as originally
published, but any one who will take
the trouble to inquire will find that
they have been corrected in accord
ancc with the rates prevailing at
Redwood Falls.
Year: 1879

The Democratic leaders are shrew-
dly supporting the Democratic State
candidates in connection with the
side show they have arranged for
the ''dear people," They cannot
succeed without the aid of Republi-
cans. Can they be so forgetful of
their duty to their party and their
countryas to lend them helping
hard2
Year: 1879

ST. LOUIS, May 8.-The platform OF
the Woman Suffragists presented to the
convention this morning, declares the
right of self-government, through the
elective franchise, as the birth.rlght oi
the native citizen and the ac-
quired right OF the adopted
citizen, the exercise OF which may
be regulated but not destroyed by leg
islation; demands an amendment to
the Federal Constitution, defining the
rights of citizenship and suffrage so clear
ly that even the Supreme Court cannot
misunderstood them; asserts that since,
under the decision of the United States
Supreme Court, the male African is the
only United States citizen who
holds a ballot in every State in the
Union under the Constitution OF the
United States, the white men should
make a common cause with the women
OF the country in securing national
protection in the right to vote; to de.
clare it the duty of Congress to adopt a
sixteenth amendment to the Constltu-
tion giving women the right to vote;
also that all the State legislatures
should request Congress to submit such
an amendment to them; calls on the
lower House of Congress to pass reso-
luton reported by the Committee on
Rules authorizing the appointment OF
committee on the rights OF women citi-
zens; affirms that the admission by
several States, of the right OF women to
vote on the school question is practl-
cal admission Of her right to vote on all
questions; requests all Vice Presidents
of the Women's National Suffrage AS
sociatiOn to arrange State, county and
town associations, and have sent from
every postOffice in the country petition
to Congress praying for a constitutional
amendment granting women the right oil
suffrage; declares it the duty of every
woman to demand registration as voter
and present ballot at elections, and to
sue every official who refuses them the
citizens right to vote; asserts that while
women are not permitted to vote the
legislation of the country is defrauded of
one-half OF the intelligence, virtue
and practical wisdom OF the nation;
requests, in view Of the errors and
absurdties in previous census returns
regarding WOnen anu CulluIcHj tudI
Congress will provide for the appoint
ment of a fair proportion of intelligent
women to gather the vital statistics con-
cerning women and children for the next
census; declares that the labOring men
should demand ballot for the unpaid
laborer of the whole world that she
may with it compel reform and in
dustrial schools to be opened, the out
cast redeemed, the dramshop closed, the
savage civilized, and make honest work
and fair wages for women; that every
child born upon our soil has the right
to mental, moral and industrial training
at public expense; and, ifneedful, such
training should be enforced in our pub
lie schools, that there may be no neces-
sity of enforcing it in our prisons.
Year: 1879

SAN FRANCISCO, May S.-The returns
of the election, as far as the count has
progressed, is a complete surprise. The
city, instead of giving ten thousand
against the new constitution, gives a
majority of less than two thousand. Re-
turns from the country are incomplete,
but indicate that while Alamada. Sacra-
mento and most of the mining counties
have gone against, nearly all the other
agricultural counties have gone heavily
for it. As far as heard from now the
vote stands $500 in favor of adoption,
with the chance of that majority being
materially increased. A disturbance
was feared in the city early in the even
ing, but soon quieted down. The work
ingmen are jubilant over what they con-
slider their own particular victory.


SAN Francisco, May S.-The official
returns Of the vote in the city, yester-
day, give a majority against the new
constitution of ,2l5. Returns from the
interior confirm the previous advices
and the instrument is adopted by ma
jority of from 5000 TO 10000. The
farmers seem to have voted almost solid
ly for it. The result has caused much
bitterness of feeling in bust
ness circles, where it is looked
upon to a considerable extent
as an attack upon the city interests by
the interior. There is evidently de-
termination, however, to make the best
of what is believed to be an unfOrtu-
nate issue of an important question.
The press of the city counsel quiet
acquiescence in the inevitable and sus-
tanned endeavor to ward off any i'll
effects expected to follow so radical a
change in the organic law by careful
choice of officers and president and a
conservative construction of its pro-
visions.
Year: 1879

CHICAGO, May S.-About 1870 last
night, as the elevator in the fremont
house was leaving the second floor and
descending Mrs. Henry Lightner, of
Peoria, who had just left it by some un-
accountable means slipped and fell and
her head coming between the floor and
the descending arch of the elevator,
was crushed so terribly that the lady
died in few minutes. The proprietors
OF the house were very reticent and
the facts could only be learned this
morning and the whole truth will
probably come out for the first time be-
fore the coroner's jury. Mr.. Lightner
was with his wife at the time, but un-
able to do anything, 50 quickly was the
accident over.


The coroners' jury rendered a verdict
in accordance with the above facts, and
stated, while the cause of the descent OF
the elevator could not be determined,
they behevedifthe conductor had not left
his post the accident would not have
occurred.
Year: 1879

LITTLE Rock, May S.-ThiS morning,
going to work, the workmen on the
Catholic cathedral, a new and imposing
structure of native granite, the walls Of
which are more than twO-thirds up,
discovered that thieves had cut and ear
ried off several hundred feet of the guy
ropes 10 the derricks, endangering the
whole structure as they Swayed in the
wind. Fortunately all was made safe
without an accident The ropes were
discovered in a second hand junk shop.
The proprietor was arrested but refused
10 tell how he got them.
Year: 1879

Johnny Lamb, under sentence of death
for the murder of officer Race at Chicago,
rejoices in the discovery of evidence point
ing out Sheeny George as the murderer. A
reporter recently ferretted out . woman,
Mary Thompson, who saw the whole affair.
Her description Of the man who fred the
fatal shot pointed closely to sheeny George
and on the I'd inst. she was taken to the Jail
and selected him at once from out dozen
prisoners as the murderer. "That is the
man" she said, "only he is little thinner
than he was then" Her character il said
to be beyond question, and her main reason
for not coming forward heretofore was fear
of the laws detention and imprisonment as
q witness, which she had once experienced
in New York.
Year: 1879

THERE is a religious movement against
tobacco in the Oneida community, where
the weed has been freely used. The re-
formers do not take . pledge, nor abstain
whenever they desire to smoke or chew,
but pray for God to remove the appe-
tits for tobacco, and many declare that
they have thus been entirely cured.
Year: 1879

In the progress of a debate in the
house of lords recently, it was asserted
that the proportionate fire loss in the
course of year was three times larger
in London than in Manchester and other
large towns, and that though London
had about the same number of inhabi-
tants az the whole of Scotland, her fre
department was inferior in size and
equipment to that of the city of Glas-
gov.
Year: 1879

TWELVE sets of telephones have been
sent out to Sir Garnet Wolseley for use
at the seat of war in South Africa. The
great advantage of the telephone owe,
the telegraph is that the general can
carry on confidential talk with the off.
Ger at the district station, or . soldier
can creep out towards the enemy's lines
and whisper back the information as to
position. A fine wire, the thinner the
better, is all that is needed. This the
soldier carries in reel upon his back, q
mile, weighing only few pounds. Thia
will be the FIRST time the telephone has
been used asan instrument of warfare.
Year: 1879

The toilet of the Town of Paris costs
more than that of any other city in the
world, but, on the other hand, there is no
waste. The blossoms of the orange trees
in the different public gardens, and the
grass around the water reservoirs and on
other communal property, are all sold
Year: 1879

AT DERBY (England) last month a man ana
woman were arrested for furious driving, The
claiming "We win have no more OF this,r firod
thrice with pistol wounding one policeman
and killing another. He gave the name OF Jene.
mlan Jerusalem, but proved to be Gerald Main
family. Originally intended for the church ho
fell into dissolute habits Eight hundred
rounds OF pistol ammunition were In the wagon
pated wife OF another man
Year: 1879

IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS, last night
after protracted debate, the vote of a credit OF
ca, 600 600 for the Zulu war was agreed to with
that the thanks of the House be given to Lord
LyttoD, viceroy OF India, and the officers AMI
men OF the Afghan expedition. The Marquis OF
Harrington and others supported that part OF
opposed the vote OF thanks to Lord Lytton.
After party debate Sir Stafford Northcote's
motion was adopted without a division
Year: 1879

ATTEMPT TO SHOOT THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS
IN NEW ORLEANs.-AbOut half past 10 O'clock
yesterday morning, as Gen. Badger was ascend
ing one OF the side entrance stairways from the
lower floor to the main offices OF the New Or
leans custom house. he was suddenly met by
VIM. Brown, an ex-metropolitan policeman,
who, with the remark. "I'ye got you now,"
drew revolver and fired at the head OF the
collector. Seeing the mans movement, COllec-
tor Badger caught his arm and diverted the
shot over his shoulder, and then took the pistol
away from Brown and threw 1t below. Brown
lost leg on the 14th OF September, 1874, under
Badger, and was among Badgers first appoln-
tees as postmaster. Becoming collector Badger
left Brown In the post Office, where he failed to
remain. The collector thinks Brown was craZed
by poverty, and seems unwilling to prosecute
him. Brown evidently thinks General Badger
should have given him place in the custom
house.
Year: 1879




Once there was young man who married q
young woman, and sue was rich and be was
poor, and it made him sad to think Of it. One
day she told him damaging stories about some
Of their ncighbors that she had heard at tea-
fight, and he listened and thought, and very
soon he saw way out Of his poverty, for his
vile believed the ta!c she had heard at the ten
fight. After she had finished the stories. he
said: II will go you five to twenty that there
is not one word of truth in that yon baye just
told me,'-for. lie did not know how sure his
game was. 50 lie wanted odds. And she, pity
iny his folly, said, "1t's whack," aud they
investigated the stories and found them false,
SO he won. Aud they continued in this sinful
practice of betting on the truth or falstty OF
town gossip, in tltc same order in which they
started out, ana four years had not turned
the corner ere he had all her wealth, and she
some valuable experience.
Year: 1879

A MANS THROAT CUT AND HIS sIsrER-IN-LAw


PUT IN AN IRON CAGE.


The Waco (Texas) Telephone gives full account of
domestic butchery which occurred ten miles north
of Waco on February 8. About an hour after mid
night Mr.. Rayburn's children and his sstcr.in-law.
Mrs. Victoria Wright. were aroused by an unusual
noise in Mr.. Rayburns sleeping room. Rushing in
there they found him up and bleeding profuscly
from o cut In his neck, extending from
the left nearly around 20 the windpipe.
He weakened rapidly and could tell nothing of
what had befallen him. Two hired men who roomcd
near the house sent for the Doctor, who re-
spended promptly and dressed the wound. Early in
the morning MIR. Rayburn was able to state that he
had no knowledge who attacked him or how tho
sault made. He was sleeping soundy, and all
he remembered was a sudden. horrid sensation that
something terrible was being done to him. then
that he did not see his assaiant. and did not know
with what kind of an instrument, whether a knife
not the cut WAS made. Later In the day the victims
sisternlaw Mrs. Victoria Wright, was arrested and
flung in Jail. subsequently Mr. Rayburn said he
knew that IL she who tried TO kill him. She
presented pitiable appearance in the iron cage of
the JAIL and between her sobs she said that she knew
nothing of the crime beyond hearing the outcry on
the morning of the murder. She is forty five years
old. The Waco Telephone says s:-'Therc is another
female inmate OF the same room. degraded negro
that there should be separate room In the jail for
female prisoicrs. Here Is white woman. arrested
mere suspicion. who has had no trial, who may
prove her innocence, and yet she is thrust in the
same cell with one Of the viest negro street walkers
in Waco"
Year: 1879

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ISSUES WRIT OF


THE MINORITY REPRESENTATION IN THE COM


MON COUNCIL.


The Attorney General of the State issued yesterday


writ of quo warranto in action to try the legality
Of the minority representation in the New York Com
mon Council. The writ was issued in the name of
the State upon the relation of Daniel Crimmins and
two Others, who claim to have been elected Aldermen
in the Eighth Senatorial District under the majority
system which prevailed prior to the charter 1870
and the defendants Terence Herman and his two
associates who now exercise the functions of the
Office in that district Although the present proceed
ing is between the Aldermen holding Office from that
particular district the question involved affects the
position of every member of the Common Council
except Jordan l.. Mott. who was elected in the
nexed district upon single ballot This question
of the right of minority representation has been fire.
quently discussed and considerably doubted by and
among those acquainted with constitutional and
legislative powers. and last summer the HERALD
published interview with the Attorney General.
in which he freely expressed the opinion that the
government-national, State and municipal
was founded upon the theory that public Office
emanated from the people. and that no man could
hold an elective Office for whom the people had not
the liberty of voting. The minority system against
which this proceeding seems to be directed provides
for the election of six Aldermen at large county
ticket, while the electors of the county only
allowed to vote for four. 1t also provides for the
election of three Aldermen from the various Sena-
torial districts, while the electors thereof only
permitted to vote for two. While the constitution,
If amended might allow of minority representation
done in the of the Judges of the
Court of Appeals, it has been very seriously
doubted whether the Legislature effect great
a change in the fundamental principle of govern
ment The suit of the Attorney General is. there
fore regarded as test case and as it in effect reaches
the office of all the incumbents. except Mr. Mott it
may be doubted whether any of the city fathers.
with this exception. will receive their salary
until the question involved is settled AT all events
it necessarily creates quite breeze, and causes much
anxiety among those whose positions thus ques-