smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

When get soul-and-body weary, says
Fanny Fern, I like to stroll into the
Parks, sit quietly down, and wstch the
children with their nurses. / think that
| can pick out every child there who has


sensible mother. She neither exposes


: little bare legs to the treaeherous
winds, nor puts out her baby's eyes with
dazzling white veil, or dresses her
child so fine that It cannot sit down on
one of the seats. If her child is hump
backed, or lame, she does not render the
poor little creatures misfortune more
conspicuous by q CANDY costume. Ifher
boy has grown big enough to be ashamed
Of long, girlish ringlets about his shoul-
ders, she does not insist upon sacrificing
his insipient manliness to her absurd
vanity. With these views, you may be
sure that my list Of children who are
blessed with sensible mothers Is rather
limited than otherwise. Still It comforts
me that it takes 9 long time for the
weakest mamma to spoil very little
child to transmute its naturalness into
artifciality, and graduate lip, eye, and
broY, in fashions school. So love to
watch them, encumbered as their grace
fulness often is with fine trappings. It
is an article in my creed that pretty
child looks prettiest when plainly
dressed, and that q plain one never can
be made pretty by fuss and feathers"
saw little girl, the other day, there,
Sl1aking her golden ringlets about under
a sensible hat, and toddling before me on
the gravel walk. / wanted to see the
face under that hat so stopped down
uncertain what reception should meet


land peeped under the brim. Not
droop Of the clear eyes; not q blush OF
shyness; but instead-two of the sweet
est parted lips in the world, put trust


ng1y up to kiss me. I'm not ashamed
to say that there was a big lump in my
throat, and q moisture about my eyes, as
I returned it, or that I looked after her
till she was out Of sight, and prayed
heaven she might never give q kiss
less purely, or where it would be less
valued. / have felt the dewy, fragrant
touch of those little lips often since,
though I don't know what mothers pet
blessed, nor does it matter.
Year: 1878

The French mode Of killing poultry
causing instant death, and perfect bleed
ing without Disagreement, is accom-
plished by opening the beak Of the fowl,
and with sharp pointed and narrow
bladed knife, making an incisiOn at the
hack Of the roof Of the mouth, which
will divide the Yertebre and cause i'm
mediate death, after which the fowls
are hung up by the legs till bled. Ihey
are then picked while warm, and, II
desired, without scalding. In tins way
the skin presents q more natural appear
anee than when scalded-
Year: 1878

"A young man of twenty recently
book to q Pennsylvania widow .of fifty,
the sole pFopFistFess of couple Of pays
ing petroleum wells Of him It may be
truly said that she loved not wisely, put
two Wells.n
Year: 1878

The best government is that which
teaches a man to govern himself tne
next best, that which teaches hlm now
to govern his family; the third, that
which teaches him how to govern
community.
Year: 1878

HONEST REPUBLICANs.-So of the
very best citizens, who are Republican
politicians spurnthe idea of Mr.. Hayes be-
ing permitted to remain the entire term
in the Presidential Office, if it should be
proved beyond doubt, that Tilden was
elected. They say they would never agree
that Tilden should have remained in, if
he had gotten it by the same means, and
it was proven he had not been elected land
their party was cheated out ofthe election
by perjury and such means as was used
in Louisiana and Florida, and they have
too much selt-respect to not say they
would spurn from their presence man
who would persist in an effort to hold the
Presidency, if it was fairly proved that
another had been elected.
Year: 1878

stability of their government, the faith
of public compacts, and the sanctity OF
enacted laws"


Now, what a scandalous doctrine that
is 1t is simply infamous. Noting can
weaken the faith of the people in the
constitution and the government so much
as to witness their government bartered
away by a pack of villainous lawyers
and military satraps in Washington.
Are the people to be taxed almost TO
death to pay so, 600 a year to an impos-
ter-a criminal? A criminal who by
swindling the whole people gets himself
into the Chief Magistracy, where he can
help his friends and co-laborers in his
crimes to defeat the aims of the people
in reducing the expenditures of the gov
ernment; veto the bills that go to serve
the interests of gold brokers, gamblers
and traders in bonds help his fellow
swindlers and comrades in crime rto
,laces of.power and profit and with an
army at his command threaten the very
existence of States and the government
itself if he is disturbed in his villainous
position? Will honest men stand by
and witness such an absurdity? Don't
talk of Tweed's crimes if this Is TO be
done in the light of day. If honest, In
telligent and brave men have sunk SO
low in all that is dishonorable as to adj
init that villainly and crime can preside
over and above their deliberations in
Washington, the people had better look
to it, or they will soon have no govern
ment in Washington worth preserving
1t will be given over to pack OF legal
gamblers, who would be cutthroats il
they were not cowards-who would turn
your halls of Congress into houses OF
Lords without the Commons, if they
dared TO stake their lives upon the cast
Don't call hard names down upon the
repudiators when the very government
for which all the great debt was created
is thus ruthlessly repudiated.


We do not propose any course to b'
pursued. We do not accuse Mr.. Haye'
of being a pdrticepS crioenis. We don
propose any punishment for him shoulC
he be proven guilty. But in such a con
tengency we should hope to see him taxi
his leave of the White House and som'
one fill his place who is not a public
criminal; and we should be glad to see ;
movement for his removal enamate from


his own party. Surely the great men o
the Republican party are not sunk 81
deep in crime as TO sanction it in thu
Presidential office.
Year: 1878

The condition of the New York Herald
is very sad. 1t has been outraged, trified
with and deceived by John Sherman. A
short time ago John made robust and
sweeping declaration to representative
of the Herald, to the effect that he had
never written letter of any kind to any
of the political rascals of Louisiana
Accepting Johns denial as the true thing
the Herald came Ii obly up to his support
Since his halting, shutfiing, hesitating
testimony before the Potter committee
last Saturday, the Herald has come to
the conclusion that John is a slippery fel-
low and thereupon it says:


Our faith is shaken by the failure of
Mr.. Sherman to report before the com
mlttee what he had said with such sweep
ing breadth of statement to our cores
pondent. If 1t be true That he never wrote
any letter at all and that the pretended
letter is malignant forgery, why did he
not swear 1t before the committee with
the same emmphaSis that he asserted il
10 our correspondent? Was he afraid tha
he might be confronted and confoundet
with the original? As if laying the foun
dation for different line OF defense, Mr.
sherman swears that there are things il
the alleged letters which he would hav,
been warranted in writing. If the lette
is forgery, if lie ne never wrote any
litter at all, what interest has he in de:
tending or justifying It's conents?


The Herald has probably learned
good lesson in its old age, 1t will not b.
IN hurry hereafter To accept the pro
testatlon OF innocence made by peopl
accused of crime.
Year: 1878

Milt Reynolds, of the Parsons Sun, Is aGi.
taied TO a high state of mind over the faiidrC
OF Daniel Il. Anthony 10 rise and explain who
lie is supporting for Governor. We can't say
our feelings are worked up TO very high
tension on the subject, but TO tell you The
honest truth, Colonel, We, like Mill, would
like TO know how you stand on this Import
ant question. You have been very courteous
in making favorable mention Of every candi-
date that has been brought out except your
cousin, Geo. T., but have neglected all along TO
state which Of them you favored the
most, or which, II either, was
your choice. Ii your candidate has not been
brought TO the front yet, time is precious and
the convention is not far distant, and II you
expect him to win you cannot very well al
ford 10 hold him in reserve any longer. You
have done us the kindness to copy our edito-
rial on the claims OF Col. st. John, and in re-
ferring TO IL in an editorial of your own paid
that gentleman a nice compliment. We be-
licve you are friendly TO Col. st. John, but
what We want to know is, can you lay on
your coat and go In and leg for him little


Now, Colonel, If you want TO relieve the
mnch distressed mind of Milt Reynolds, rise
and speak, and we will all know then where
10 locate you and what 10 depend upon
Come, Colonel.-OIaiEe Progress.


As concerns the Gubernatorial question
70 which the Progress refers, we ere OF the
opinion that careful reader of TaE TINES
might infer, at least, that We are not in IA
yor OF the reelection of the present incum-
bent; and in regard to his opponent-Col
Martin, Col. ST. John, Col Snoddy and
Judge Kelso or any other honest man--wc
are for him, and when nominated will give
him a hearty support
Year: 1878

The Kinsley Leader says that Col. ID. Il. An
thony is favorably spoken of as a candidate
for Congress from the First District. Col. An
thony is a very strong man and would make
an able representative, bul the First District
should act wisely and place their best men
where they will do the most good. Keep Col.
Philips in Congress and Col. Anthony in tAe
TINES office.-Linn County Clarion, 2.


The foregoing paragraph expresses our
sentiments upon the Congressional question
exactly. The good old adage of "every
man to his trade" applies in this case. Col.
Phillips has demonstrated by five years of
honest and industrious service that he is
able to do more good for his district and
State than any new man that could be
chosen in his place, and We are convinced
that the public will not regard it as an ex-
aggeraiion of the truth if We say that the
other gentleman referred to has demon
strated his ability TO conduct the leading
newspaper in Kansas with very gratifying
Year: 1878

Before Mr.. Baker can consistently he pre-
sented to the convention at Manhattan as
the choice OF the people OF this county, he
must make known his position upon the
question Of finance. That Is thc vital ques-
tion before the American people. Who
knows what Mr. Bakers views are upon the
issues which to-day are moulded into Prin-
ciples, and these are principles OF the Re-
publican party? The labor question Is fast
reaching point when it will become a
principle in the Republican party. How
does Mr.. Baker stand on this question
All these things must be known before his
presentation to that Republican Ccnyen-
ton, else it will become burlesque, and
Leavenworth will be laughed at for present
ing man as their choice who has no views
or does not know what he does think. lie
never has expressed an opinion upon any
Of these questions as yet.
Year: 1878

Try it; keep trying it. and try it again
We say this because We believe that the
health, happiness and prosperity of the
people depend upon the proyer use of these
medicines which have proved 20 successful
in eradicating disease and defeating death.
The medicine 60 effective in its cure of dis.
eases is the nreat Southern remedy, Sim.
mons Liver Regulator. Try it We believe
that the first trisl will be satisfaction,
Year: 1878

Last year q great cyclone swept
over the land which threatened de.
struction to law, order, property,
government-everything. But the
storm disappeared as suddenly and
mysterlously as 1t arose. The gov
ernment survived the shook, but it
was left faint and trembling, and
In state to inspire little hope of
its future stability. If confidence
is to be placed in the telegram we
print elsewhere, the country is now
to 60 through the throes of another
series of strikes and riots, not to
say anarchy or hint at the stern
possibility of revolution. With
this condition of things staring us
in the face, We may we'll stop aud
ask, "What is the cause of 1t alp"
There must be something radically
wrong in country where there is
such general discomfort that such
disorders as the above are con-
slant night t-mare of dread. Are
the reasons to be found in the nat
ural and unavoidable contingencies
of over-population AS pictured by
Malthus and Macauly. or is the
present situation the result Of the
governmental misrule which has
afflicted this nation so long, under
the Radical regime, and which q
wise policy would have prevented.
We think the latter.
Year: 1878

The Herald Steam Printing House is
not surpassed By any Job Printing office
on the Pacific Coast. outside of San Fran
cisco, In facilities for doing job work.
Low prices, good work and expedition
nay be relied upon at this oflice
Year: 1878

SnoasuOp iuVoIuntarlIy re-
treated step backwards


i mean what ! say insisted the
young man; and If yon doubt the truth
OF my words l have some friends near
at hand ready to prove i, to you.
The bewildered prelate, still more
angry at being made the duUp of such
. trick, than st the loss Of his money,
and alarmed at the mention of OF her
thieves lurking near. drew out his
pocket-book and handed the sum lie.
nanded to the rogue, adding to it an
additional note for 100 guineas, with
the remark: Here take your winnings,
and this too. that You may see how
generous God is. in always giving more
than he proniies.'


The transaction ended, the arch
bishop drove home at full speed; and
never again did he pass through that
wood without an adequate escort, for
in spite of all his piety he did not feel
inclined to act as paymaster a second
time.


Some twenty years later, the same
archbishop Of Canterbury, whilst on q
journey. found himself forced to accept,
for night. the hospitality Of village
magistrate. During the evening he
played game Of chess with his host,
and won. The latter immediately pre-
sented him with purse containing
1000 guineas as his winnings, remind
ing him at the same time of the Incl
dent recorded above. and acknowledge
ing himselfto be the identical chess
player who had on that occasion play
ed chess for stake OF 1000 guineas.
That crime had. he stated, been his
first and Also his last transgression; in
subsequent years he had. by course of
careful industry, smsssed considerable
property, aud cstld now restore his un-
justly acquired gains. The archbishop
would not, however, accept the money,
but on his departure lett it 40 present
for the children Of his entertainer
Year: 1878

in his office, I" "and finding him altogether
unskiled in the law they discarded the
said John Sloan from ever practicing in
this court any more"


The reasons given by some Of the appli-
cants for admission to the bar are quaint
and curious. One of them states in his
petition to the court that ne had procured
several law books and spent much time
during the last year in studying them.
Another aspirant for admission to the bar
bases his claims upon the opportunities of
his friends, who had besought him to take
charge of their cases. And Able Van Bur
kaloo, who was ex-sheriff at the time,
bases his claim upon his inability to secure
the services of a competent attorney to at
tend to the business he had before the
court and thought if he was admitted he
might transact his own business and in
time be employed by Others The court
admitted him with the understanding that
he would qualify himself. How thankful
we should be that the practice of the court
cious pettifoger that thinks himself as wise
as Solon or Lycurgus cannot now be ad-
mitted to the bar and study his profession
afterwards.


In 1920, the General Assembly passed an
act empowering the county courts to make
such rules and regulations for the govern
ment of the officers of the court and those
having business to transact before it as
they should think requisite, and under such
sums as they should think fit, not exceed
ing one hundred pounds of tobacco. BY
virtue of the authority contained in this
Year: 1878

HOW THE EXHIBITION LooKs-THE GREAT


ARTIFICIAL FLOWER sHow-PARIs MAR


KET woMEN-DREssEs AND CoRsETs-


FINE ARTS AND ANATOMY.


Order is coming out of chaos; gradually
the debris and ruin is disappearing from
sight, and the Exposition is becoming that
which the poet hath declared "s joy
forever" The western end of the Grand
Hall beyond the Prince of Wales colec-
ton is still in state of incompleteness.
India has an exhibition of shawls, iewelry
stuffs; but inasmuch as these goods are
immeasurably eclpsed by the exhibition
in the French department of goods of the
same character, there is little about them
to call for more than a passing mention
At the extreme end of the Grand Hall,
Canada is rearing mighty tower, it's OBJ
ject being yet mystery to the outside
world, but in good time, when she gets
ready to disclose her secrets, Canada will
be heard from with no uncertain sound.
In fact it would seem as if the colonies
were wrestling with the mother land for
supremacy, and the old lady must look to
her laurels or some of these stalwart chill
dren on the other side Of the globe will not
only be found disputing for gold medals
with Sheffield and Manchester and Birming-
ham, but the gentlemen of the Royal Acad-
emy had better keep an eye on them or
they may be startled some fine morning by
the report of the School of Fine Arts at
Ballarat, or the Independent Royal Acad-
emy of Duneden. These colonial exhibits
are full of tremendous possibilities more
startling than the finished certainties of
the grand old mother land But do not
intend to go into that matter this week.,
for in little while the exhibits of England
and her colonies will come in for a fair
share of attention; but desire to wait till
every thing is finished, to see what is most
worthy of report. There are many things
in tEis exhibition which, in a review of this
kind, can be brought under no general
classification, and yet to the general reader
are matters of surprising interest-one of
the most beautiful being the artificial flower
show near the end of the south wing
France has long been famous in this exqui-
site branch of art, and yet in this delight
full exhibition she seems to have surpassed
Year: 1878

comparatively solt biiumouous and lig-
mite coal into the hard and brittle an
,hraci,e, with Il. CLASSY surfaee, metallic
Appearance anil crystalline structure, with
almost every trace Of it's vegetable origin
etfaced.


This is why anthracite is usually
found in the oldes, and deepest OF the
coal deposits. Il is the one that has for
the longest time been snhircI to The heat
found deep down in the earth.


Tae snly place where il has been
found around the Sound is near the
summit Of the Cowli,z pass on the south
eastern surface OF Mount Rainier, where
rucks OF very ancient date are upheay
ed 10y that grand old mourtain peak.


As further confirming this view, coal
is frequently found in level countries;
but when 81 found, the coal bearing
strata is nearly always tilted up one side,
showing that they have been elevated
from below. Coal veins are most often
found on the side of deep fayine where
water has done its work Of erosion, and
thereby exposed them to view.


The present surface is oitentines no
guide to the changes tnht have taken



place ages ago. 1t is certain that the
changes are of such magnitude, and the
urface has been worn away TO such an
extent that few would believe the ac-
count that could be given in regard to
the region between the Sound and the
Cascade mountains.
Year: 1878

1t is curious fact that the bituminous
coal fields of the Puyallup and the Skag-
it should be set at right angles in dip
and strike OF the viens to the Ignite coal
fields of Bellingham Bay, Renton, New
castle. etc. Thus Gerlogists suppose
that all coal was formed from vegetable
matter deposited in marshy places and
preserved from decay, until time and the
pressure of rocks formed above it should
have reduced 1T to a uniform carbonifer.-
Gus substance. The differences in age
and the circumstances surrounding each
deposit accounting for the differences In
the coal Supposing this to be the cor
rect theory, no coal would be found on
the surface were it not for the volcano or
the earthquake to lift it up; because since
the era of the coal deposits, rocks have
been formed in many portions OF the
earth miles in thickness above the coal
formation.


At greatdeptbs in the earth, the heat is
so great that men find it oflentimes most
mpossbleto work in the deep est mines.
this cause alone may compel the aban
dOnment of some Of the richest quartz OF
the COmstock lode in Nevadr. Tie great
heat of these lower regions converts
limestone into marble, sandstone into
rock Of a crystalline structure, and it is
supposed to bo the cause Of changing the
Year: 1878

The dip of o vein is the line crossing
the folding oil the strata aud following
or conforming to its changing surface.


Usually the folds are broken, one end
or edge is exposed, this is frequently
worn off for an indefinite distance, COW
cred by fresh strata, and all signs OF
convulsiou hid frem the eye of every one
but the practical miner and geologist.


When this is the case, the vein dips
towards the centre of the earth at Ger
tain angle from the horizontal 90 de-
grees would be perpendicular SO de
grces north would be that thcsStrata, or
veins of coal inclined downwards 80 de-
grees as you proceeded from the south
towards the north.


The strike or run of the vien is at
right angles usually to the dip, thus the
Seattle mines at Newcastle, dips 38 de-
grees north, and Its strike or run is only
two degrees south of due east from New
castle. In the Skagit and the Puyallup
coal the strike is nearly due north and
sonth, while the dip is all the way from
perpendicular, to 60 degrees west on one
side of the axis of each mountain where
thrown up, to 60 degrees east, on the
other side.


That these two kinds of coal should be
found at right angles to each other is
certainly quite strange.


When the lifting of the veins and
strata are slow and gradual, accomplish
ed only by perhaps changes of level,
possibly such as would not be noticed
were anyone witness of them, there
will be no faults or breaks III the strata.
When sudden earth quakes or the terrific
volcanoes do their work of ruin, the
strata is so broken. bent. twisted and
separted, that oitentimcs it is impossible
to work given vein, b ecause its strata
cannot he followed


THE TUNNELS OF THE SEATTLE MINE.


The main gangwaY or tunnel of coal
mine is usually nearly horizontal, in the
the strike, The cheapest mines to work
are those where the coal is 50 elevated
in the mountains where found, that q
tunnel can be run into the side of tle
mountain, somewhere between 80 and
100 feet ab0ye the level Of the roadway
where the coal Is to be loaded into cars.
This highth is necessary for tile bunkers
n stOwiug and screening the coal. Such
a gangway drains itself. and the slight
incline necessary for drainage, also causes
tue loaded cars Of coal to be pulled out,
Year: 1878

SAN FRANCIsCo, Jan. l6.-A Virgin
ia City dispatch says owing to the re.
cent imbrOglio between the Acta and
Justice mines, a number Of hired fight
ing men have been sent down to the
level on which connection between the
mines Is momentsrily expected to be
made. Trouble is expected when the
drifts meet.
Year: 1878

In this dAy of the world competition
is active in the extreme But in the
long run il's the best which wins the
prize OF public preference in spit" Of all
the decei,s used to bolster up weak ar
riclcs. Fjr this reason DOOLEY's YEAST
POWDER il recognized as the highest
possible achievement In baking po owder.
Year: 1878

MlyIsTER WELsH's speeches ST Liver
pool show him to be possessed OF good
common sense, and the impression he
made was very favorable. He is evi
IDENTITY a man Of very different stamp
from S:herck and pierrepont,