smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

or If the wagon passes during or after q
prairie fire. We have known q fellow
traveller recognize in this manner the
tracks his wagon had made seren re0rs
betovs, the lines of charred stumps crushed
short down remaining to indicate the
passage of the wheels, though all other
impressions had been obliterated by the
rank annual growth of grass fully twelve
feet high" Sometimes the original soil
being disturbed, new vegetation will
spring up along the wagon track, and thus
mark out the road for miles.


Even on hard rock ! mans bare foot
will leave the dust caked together by per-
spiration, so that practiced eye will see
it; and even if there is no track, stone
will be disturbed here and there, the side
of pebble which has long lain next the
ground being turned up. If it is still
damp, the man or beast that turned it has
passed very recently. If shower of rain
has fallen, the track will tell whether it
was made before, during, or after the
shower; similar indications can be OBJ
tanned from the dew: and another indica-
tion of the time that has elapsed since o
man passed by is furnished by. the state
of the crushed grass, which will be more
or less withered as the time Is longer or
shorter. Other indications are drawn
from the direction in which the grass
lies; this tells the direction in which
the wind was blowing when the grass was
crushed; and by noting previous changes
of the wind, one learns the time at which
each part of tie track was made.


Much, too, can be learned from the form
of the footprints. Savages generally
turn their toes in in walking; white men
turn theirs out. A moccasin print with
the toes turned out would indicate that a
white man in Indian walking gear had
gone by; and almost every foot has print
of its own, which enables an experienced
tracker to follow q single track among q
dozen others. Similarly the character of
the print will tell whether the man who
made it walked freely or was led by 9TH
ers; whether he was in hurry or travel
ing slowly: whether he carried burden
and if he were sober or tipsy. A horse
track is equally well marked. 1t tells
when the horse galloped, where he walked,
when he stopped to feed or d.ink; and a
scattering of sand and gravel will tell
when he is startled by any strange sight.


In all this two things are needed
sharp sight and careful training. The
elephant often makes very curious
track as he walks. If he suspects dan
ger, he scents the ground with the tip of
his trunk, and this makes well-marked
serpentine line in the dust Elephants
have changed their tactics since rifle-pits
we're introduced. Formerly, when their
chief danger was pitfall, the leader of
the herd felt the ground inch by inch; and
if he detected the covering of a trap, tore
it off and left it open. Now they rely
much more on scent, anc in this way,
often from great distance, detect the
hunter lurking near the drinking places.
If so, they will sometimes travel fifty or
hundred miles to another stream or pool.
-HdfpeT's Wseklu.
Year: 1877

A PLEASANT DAY.-The Eureka Social
and Pleasure Club gave their first entertain
ment at the Pump-House Monday. The
day was pleasantly spent: The dancing ana
the dinner were especially enjoyed.
Year: 1877

By au order ut the Judge ofthc Coun-
~ Court, which we will publish, next
week, an election has been ordered the
first week in July, to decide whethert1
Court House shall be, built at Alma, an d
the county seat removed to that place.
We have been in favor OF an election
ever since the question has been agllatcd,
as the best aud most satisfactory man
ncr Of Getting this question. We do not
believe any very large number desire to
remove the county seat from Van Buren
to Alma The citizens of Van Buren,
should be awake to their interests Let s
have no division in this matter, but eve
ry one put his shoulder to the wheel.
We propose that q meeting be held soon,
and thorough organization had, that
every voter shall be able To cast his vote.
and do so intelligently
Year: 1877

DayThe declaration of war by the
Russian Car was read simultaneously
on board of the three vessals forming the
Russian squadron in port at New York,
and received with loud huzzas of the of.
fcers and crews, followed by singing and


prayer for the success of the Muscovite
Year: 1877

SPOTTED TAILS DAUGHTER. Spotted
Tail, who has rendered the government
such effective service in conducting peace
negotiations with the hostile Indians and
leading them back to the agencies, has
no reason to love the white man. He
had daughter who fell in love with o
young officer at Fort Laramie, but she
was deserted by him and eventually died
! of broken heart. Her influence over
| her father was so ovcrmastering that he
vowed on her death bed that he would
make peace with the whites. since it was
her wish, and would never again take up
arms against them. When the treaty
was made he asked to have the coffin con
tanning her remains brought into the
council in order that her spirit might
witness the fuliillment of the vow.
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or all things in the world that are
"better late than never going to bed
certainly ranks first.


When the Breton mariner puts out t.
sea, his prayer is: Keep me, my God
my boat is so small. and thy ocean &C
wide" Does not this beautiful praye
truly express the condition of each OF US


Why Is n candle like tombstone
Because it is often set for "late hus
band"
Year: 1877

while ti,> MAINE.


nocent and ~,


Who would suspecs


thing erosser than the u


But those beautiful waving n
call them. have use besides lookinsr
They have to provide for large. oper.
mouth. which Is hidden down deep among
them-so hidden that one can scarcely fhd
it. Well do they perform their duty, for
the instant foolish little fish touches one
of the rosy tips he is struck with poison as
fatal to him as lightning. He Immediately
becomes numb, and in moment stops
struggling, and then the other arms wrap
themselves around him, and he is drawn
into the huge. greedy mouth, and is seen
no more. Then the lovely arms unclose
and wave again In the water Catholic
Standard.
Year: 1877

IT you have something to attend to, go
about 1t coolly and thoughtfully, and dc it
Just as well as you can. Do it as thou.
il were the only thing you had ever TO do
in your life, and as ii everything depended
upon it. Then your work will be well
done and it will afford you genuine salts
faction. Often much more does depend
upon the manner in which things, seem
ingly trivial, are performed than one would
suppose, or than it is possible to foresee.
Do everything well, and you will find it
conducive to your happiness, aud that of
those with whom you come in contact
E1.
Year: 1877

LOOK ON THE CHEERFUL SIDE.-It is a
great misfortune to have fretful disposi
ton 1t takes the fragrance out of ones
life. and leaves only weeds where a cheer
ful disposition would cause flowers TO
bloom. The habit of fretting is one that
grows rapidly unless it be sternly re-
pressed; and the best way to overcome it
is to try always to look on the cheerful
side of things.-Er.
Year: 1877

1t is in the minute circumstances of
mans conduct that we are to inquire for
his real character. In these he is under
the influence of his natural disposition. and
acts from himself; while in his more open
and important actions he may be drawn bv
public opinion, and many other extern
motives from that bias which his dispC
ton would have taken.-EI.
Year: 1877

CIGCUMvENTING THE NOBILITY with
evident relish the Boston Traveller re-
lates the following: "Short-armed Tom
Perkins Was scion of the best and
bluest stock of Boston. He took fancy
to visit England; his reputation had
been well established here, and he WAS
cordially entertained by those to whom
be bad letters of introduction. No man
in the states could handle team better
than be could. whether a tandem Of three


in line, four-in-hand or coach and
eight. One day the question came up
at club where Perkins wss an invited
guest. He made bet that he would
drive any team of eight through and
around Hyde park at q given pace. The
bet was taken; but one man, who had
not so far succumbed to the generous
fluid which had circulated so freely re-
marked: You cannot drive eight-in-
hand; that is allowed only to royalty.
'All the same, said Perkins; 1 will do
it, and evade the law of the kingdom
and offer no insult to royalty The
next morning coach was drawn up be-
fore the Royal George hotel with seven
horses and one mule. As might be sup
posed, there was crowd from all the
clubs, with whom the bold Yankee had
made many friends. Perkins bowed
very politely as he pointed to the num-
ber Of animals, assuring his friends that
even the prerogative of royalty could
not make eight horses out OF his team.
He drove off. made his PAGES and won
his bet
Year: 1877

A gentleman of this city who has been
taking look among the old abandoned
mines Of Truckee district made a critical
examination OF the musical mountain of
which good deal was heard some years
ago when the mines we're first discovered.
Some of the early miners pitched their
tents at the foot of the mountain, and
were not little surprised and puzzled
at hearing, during the quiet hours of the
night, tinkling sounds that seemed to
pervade the whole atmosphere, coming
from they could not tell whittier. The
sounds were not unlike those of small
music box. At times they supposed that
the musical sounds were caused by the
wind playing among the twigs on the
side OF the mountain, but they found
that this solution OF the mystery would
not answer, as the same bushes were
found everywhere, while the musical
sounds were heard nowhere else than on
the side OF the mountain at the foot of
which they were camped. They spent
much time 10 scouting about and listen
ing Of nights aud quiet hours during the
day, and ut last tracked the strange
sounds to a great bed of small pieces OF
rock that covered the slope OF the noun
tain. These bits of rock were found to
be quite sonorous. and the miners con-
cluded that the sounds they emitted were
caused by the action of the wind among
them, The gentleman who recently
visited the mountain says he went to it
expecting TO find it a good deal Of hum
bug, out found it much more of curl
osity than he had anticipated; the min
gled tinklings much resembling the
sounds of an aolian harp and frequently
attaining startling degree of loudness
and dstinctness. The sounds seem to
rise and fall, approach and recede, as
though governed by the wind On o
close examination it was found that the
small flakes OF rock covering the face of
the mountain contain large per cent.
Of iron. This iron is supposed to be
magnetic. and there appears to be con-
stant motion among the chips of it,
which appear to cover the ground to tho
depth OF several feet in many places


The whole drift Of broken rock seems TO
be moving down the slope OF the noun
tain with the slow, creeping motion of a
glacier and the slipping over each other
OF the fragments composing the mass is
thought to cause the ticking and tink-
ling sounds, which are so numerous as
to mingle and rise into strong musical
murmur.-[ Virginia Enterprise.
Year: 1877

GENERAL GRANT went to the top
of Nesuvius, and looked down the
crater 1t is the only time that he
ever took part IN the investigation.
and it was because he knew there
was ''nothing in it, The crater i:
a large ring, but there is emo money
in it,
Year: 1877

PROVIDENCE, March S.-The Republican
state Convention to-day nominated by acclamation Gen
Van Zand of Newport for Governor and Albert c. How
ard Of East Providence for Lieutenant Governor The
present ncumbents renomnated for Secretary OF
State Attorney General and Treasurer Gen Van Zandt
is OF high character ana great ability lie has
been Speaker and Lieutenant Governor.
Year: 1877

Among the frightened ones was young
woman who was carried Of the church by friends IN
taintjng condition On being brought consciousness
il became evident that she suffering from temporary
insanity, resulting from fright and excitement She was
taken home, but became violent that 1t was found
necessary 20 bind her bed and administer strong
Year: 1877

The RACE IN THE SENATE.-The
correspondent of the World says with all
the ':ties" and "with Sharon in his seat
and Patterson and Conover voting with
the Democrats they can carry their points,
Should Conover, under the party whip,
go back on the pledges he has made, the
Senate will be tie, and the Vice Presi-
dent will cast the deciding vote with the
Republicans" He also says that ConOv-
er stated last night: at may be that L
have made mistake in voting with the
Democrats. If that is so l will continue
in my mistake. fl have done right l
shall continue the good work. l know
what l ann about. am not going over
to the Democratic side. am Repub-
lican, and am acting as a Republican in
what l believe to be right. 1 called on
the President to-day, told him what !
had done, my reasons for doing it and
what my action would be in The future
The President was satisfied with my ex
plantation"


AS matters now stand it is extremely
doubtful which party will control the
Senate next week.
Year: 1877

The republican press howls dismally
over the perfidy of Senator Patterson
and Conover, and yet:nobody is able to
show that they are not voting in accord
ance with due sense of the obligation
laid upon them hy their. oath of offices
Tho republican Senators are trying by
mean and disgraceful trickery to prevent
the immediatel seating Of democrat.
whose rights they know to be incontesh
BILE, and whom they know must eventu-
ally be admitted.
Year: 1877

The ship Constantine, which arrived At New York
from London yesterday morning, brought the remains
OF her captain, James h. Creevey who died IN mid
ocean tho 18Th OF August Few OF tho merchant
captains who sail from this port better known
more highly esteemed Ho skiul and in
trepid seaman ana gentleman OF Information and
culture unaffected geniaty and warm henrtedness
He had been seaman since boyhood and bore many
testimonials to his courage ana humanity.
Year: 1877

The nights are growing longer and
the excuse put up by some that they have
no time to read will no longer hold good
if it ever did. For only two dollars n
year you can keep posted in all The local
matters of town and county and get II
comprehensive compilation Of the general
current news of the week. Try il.
HVRIANGLE BRAND OF SUGAR CURL


Hams-at


aug24 JOHN WITT NG'S.
Tickle the public. aud make it grin
The more you tickle the more you Il win 2
Butteach the public-you 4 never grow


rich


But live like a beggar and die in a ditch
Year: 1877

In South Carolina, Gov. Chamber
lads friends propose to retain him in
Office, on the ground that if neither he
nor Hampton we're properly inaugura-
ted, then Chamberlain under the
clause in the Constitution of South
Carolina which provides that all Off
GERS shall continue to dis charge their
duties until their successors are elec-
ted and qualified. Chamberlain claims
that the Legislature must meet. if at
all, under his call, and order new
election or do whatever needs to be
done in the case. It is evident that
the Withdrawal of that score Of U. S.
troops from the State House does not
necessarily make Hampton Governor.
Hampton has pledged himself not to
use force but % proceed legally.
Year: 1877

Spring is a trying season. Indications OF sick
ness should at once be attended to- Fatal diseases
may be caused by allowing the bowels to become
constipated and the system to remain in dlsor-
Gered condition, ntil the disorder has time to de-
veloD ilself. An ounce of prevention is worth
pound of cure, is an old and truthful saying.
Therefore, we advise all who troubled with the
complaints now very prevalent headache, indiges-
tion disordered liver want of appetite, nausea or
feverish skin, to take, without delay Schenck's
Mandrake Pills We know of no remedy so harm
less and decisive in its action. 1t at once strikes
at the root of the disease and produces healthy
tone to the system. People never need suffer from
any disease arising from disordered condition OF
the liver if they would take this excellant medicine


when they feel the first indications OF the malady


Families leaving home for the summer months
should take three four boxes Of these pills with
them They have an almost instaneous effect
They will relieve the patient of headache in one OF
tive hours, and will rapidly cleanse the liver OF
surrounding bile and will effectually prevent q
| bilious attack. They are sold by all Druggist.
Year: 1877

LaSalle, in which section they are known
as desperate characters. One of them had
on former occasion broken Jail at Ottawa.
An examination of Cox's house revealed
the goods stolen at Earl, whereupon Cox
and his wife were arrested as being acces-
sories to the thievery. On Friday they
had an examination and on Saturday last
they were all lodged in the Ottawa jail
Year: 1877

From ga Village of Wild Beasts in
ST. Nicholas for August we Gull the fol.
lowing pen picture:


Near the Lion House is smaller
building, which is appropriated entirely
to monkeys, and is therefore favorlte
resort for children, many of whom learn
a lot of curious tricks by watching these
fun animals. Here are monkeys OF all
colors, and all sizes, and all kinds.
There are about fifty of them in great
high cage in the middle of the room, and
here you may see them climbing mp
swinging ladders, hanging from ropes,
dropping down on each others heads,
pulling each others tails, and doing
everything that they can think OF to
tease and bother each other-all skip
ping and jumping and tumbling and
chattering as if they had been in school
all day, and had just got out for a little
play. Some of these monkeys look like
old men, with gray hair and boards, and
YOU mis- ght suppose that they were much
too grave and reverend to ever think OF
cutting up monkey-shines. But If you
watch one OF these little old fellows, who
is sitting, looking wisely and thought
fully at you, as if he were just about to
explain the reason why the sun gives lis
less heat in winter, when it is really much
nearer to us than it is in summer, you
will see him suddenly get up, and instead
of taking a piece of chalk to show you
on blackboard the relative positions of
the sun and the earth at the different
seasons, he will make tremendous
Jump, and selling some other monkey
by the tail, will jerk him off swinging
ladder quicker than you could say
pterodactyl.
Year: 1877

Fortune is the rod of the weak and the
staff of the brave.


Death is friend of ours, and he that
is not ready to entertain him is not at
home.


A jest's prosperity lies in the ear OF
him that hears it, never in the tongue OF
him that makes it.


Friendship is the medicine for all mis-
fortunes; but ingratitude dries up the
fountain of all goodness.


Laughter is, indeed, akin to weeping,
and true humor is as closely allied to
pity as it is abhorrent to derision.


As the touchstone which tries gold,
but is not itself tried by the gold; such
is he that has the standard of Judgment


In the affairs of life activity is to be
preferred to dignity, ,and practical energy
and dispatch to premeditated composure
and reserve.


Many Judge rashly only fo- the pleas
ure they take to discourse, and make
coniectures of other mems manners by
way of exercising their wits.


To doubt is an injury; to suspect a
friend is breach of friendship; jealousy
is seed sown but in vicious minds;
prone to distrust, because apt to de-
ceive.


Judges ought to be more learned than
witty, more reverent than plausible, and
more advised than confident. Above all
things integrity is their portion and
proper virtue.


"There is nothing" said Plato, $50
delightful as the hearing or speaking OF
truth" For this reason, there is no con-
versation so agreeable as that OF q man OF
integrity, who hears without any inten-
ton to betray, and speaks without any
intention to deceive.
Year: 1877

A PRAcr1oAh MINING CIAss.-Thirty
students of the Columbia College school
of mines are to have practical instruction
in mining coal this summer IN the mines
at Drifton, Pennsylvania. A rough
frame bonse has been leased as a sleep
ing place, and a New York COOK engaged
to accompany them and PROVIDE mem
with food. The students Will De dlviaeI
into parties of four each, ana s pHT In IN
charge of miner, whose duty 1t Will De
to instruct them in the method OF e4-
tracing the coal. The coal mined ny
them will be subjected to the same &C.
we're examination as that dug by the
miners, credit being given for clean coal
and no credit for impurities, like slate.
The parties will work for four hours
every dsy With pick sad shovel.
Year: 1877

To a SeamstresS.
Oh what bosom but must yield,
When, like Pallas, You advance,
With thimble for a shield,
And your needle for lance?
Fairsst of the stitching train,
Ease my passion by your art;
And in pity for my pain,


Mend the hole that's in my heart.
Year: 1877

1t 10 said that a new party is to be OF.
ganized, TO be called the National Union
party. It's birthplace is to be New York,
its members conservative and moderate
men Of both parties. No flames are yet
given in connection with the leadership Il
this movement. As both the old parties
have now mounted the conservative and
moderate platform, there is but narrow
margin on which new party can operate
in the future. For some time rumor has
p,inted to mixed party in the South. Blu
that field is yet unoccnpied by such an or.
ganization. The wedge would not ente
party timbers and rend them asunder. Ant
the same difficulties will face the politica
midwives Of the North, when they come 4
handle the case at New York. They vii
b, far more likely to kill the patient tha


bring forth lively subject.
Year: 1877

crevice to SEQ what it meant.


The oak was riven into O thousand
fragments, and it's trunk was on fire.
Scattered among tho debries lay the
mangled forms of the savages. The
same blow that had blasted the oak
had deprived them all of life.


In after days Reuben and Ruth
told their grand children how it was
that they were saved by lightntng.
Year: 1877

You say am your darling


And your fondly cherished pride;
Like me there is none other
In all the world beside.
You bring me fresh. born daisies,


And place them in my hair,
While you whisper, Love. together


Lifc's journey let Us share"
And oh! how strangely tender


Those words fall on my heart;
For have loved you ever


OF my life you seem n part.
But thought that's stealing Ger mo


Cast n shadow DER my brow
Should our JOY be turned to sadness,
Would you love me then as now?
When my eye hos lost its lustre,
And the bloom hns left my cheek,
And my firm, elastic footstep
Has become slow and weak
When on my care-worn forehead
Silver threads entwine the gold
Will you call me still your treasure
ID With the same sweet love Of old?
II in yonder lonely churchyard


I shall be the first to sleep,
Will you place the mossy rosebud
- On1Hay grave, SO dark and deep'
Will you love mo there as fondly


AS when I became your bride?
Hoping We may be united


On the happy other sidef