smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

A San Francisco photographer has
taken a picture Of OcCident at full
speed. 1.-The exposure" he writes,
was made while Occident was trOtting
past me at the rate Of 2:27, accurately
timed, or thirty-six feet in a second,
about forty feet distant, the exposure Of
the negative being less than the one
thOusandth part of a second. The
length of the exposure can be pretty
accurately determined by the fact that
the whip in the drivers hand did not
move the distance of lis diameter
Year: 1878

We pass through this world but once.
Any good thing, therefore, that we can
do, or any kindness we can show to our
felloW-beings, let us do it now. Let US
not defer or neglect it, for we shall not
pass this way again.
Year: 1878

Let us rejoice! The next census
will show Minnesota to possess u mill
lion inhabitants: million of the
most Industrious, energetic. progress
i've and. we trust, prosperous people
on the face of the earth. 1t is some
thing to have lived through the ter
ritorial days; TO have witnessed the
first thin line of settlements along the
west bank of the Mississippi; to have
seen great state erected: and now to
see the wave Of immigration washing
out the last fragments of government
land on the banks of the Red Biver OF
the North


Let us all work together To make
this Young hut giant commonwealth
preeminent IN all that commands the
respect of mankind: in education.
III Intelligence and in morality. We
have the people. the soil and the eli
mate to command success. Will each
do his'part'
Year: 1878

Now let the rest Of the GreenDack
programme be carried out.


Let the right to issue paper money,
with all the resulting profits and BEN
efits, be restored to the people, to
whom alone the property belongs.


Let contraction of the currency
cease.


Let the whole power of the nation
be bent to protect labor and restore
prosneritv to the afflicted industries
Of our great country.


Let Wall street cease to dictate the
policy Of the government.


.et men rule, not dollars.
Year: 1878

We have something yet to learn rs
to the true cause of heat and cold on
the careh. Last winter IN the united
States the temperature was like that
Of summer, while in China the wealth
er was intensely cold. We quote the
following item:


The past winter has been the cold
est experienced ia Shanghai sine,
lS6l-9. The profusion of Ice suggest
ed one fraud essentially Chinese. At
tracted by an unusual sputterlng after
putting Goals on the fire, \ gentleman
WAS led to examine one of the Inmps
and found it was ice, carefully black
loaded


There must be carth-cause> tol
these local diversitieS of climate, on ;
globe revolving in space once IN TWEEN
" four hours.
Year: 1878

which nearly sent a death-biow to Sll nope TO
the noble little brotherhood of Spartans hero
ically battling for the dear lives OF the strlck-
en- and deserted people in this hour OF deep
calamity, It is useless to attempt to describe
the state of affairs tonight. The trains pass
by us as though we we're convicts. Not a
new face have we seen for days, nor will we
hereafter I will be compelled to get my
death list from the grave dlggers, as we are
now so disorganized that information is un-
attainable.


The Secretary of War telegraphed the relief
committee that 200 tents had been sent here.
The question is, who will put them up? You
can't tlnd q man ti15tt ztasf5iEaess, end IN
short there are not twenty active men in
this town tonight. We are lost; there Is no
doubt of it. Who would dare enter this char
mel house? When the special train that was
sent in here to carry Gen. Smith to Memphis


left, 1t seemed all hope was gone, and tonight


the agony of the stricken, suffering for ice


water and attention., and calling for help, can
better be imagined than described.


There is one brave man about thirty miles
from here, who is doing immense service to
these afflicted people, and his name should be
handed down to posterty. It Is the special
reporter of the New York Herald, and he is
bold enough to date his specials from Gre
NADIA, and hourly annOyS our poor over
worked operators for news. Dispatches are
sent to him here inquiring OF his health, eto.


Please notify the world that we don't know
him, as he has never dared to enter our little
circle. Every well nose is familiar, and a
stranger would shirk us. We have the
and consequently admire the bravery, the
charity Of this sphynx, whose headquarters
are at Water Valley instead of being with the
sIlffnrinp
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-The Congressional
Labor Committee met to-day, Horace White,
OF the Chicago Tribune, who claimed to have
given much attention to the labor question,
testified that be thought that the present
commercial crisis is only a similar one to
such as has occurred the whole world over
for 200 years. He thought all such crises
have been preceded by enormous speculation.
of 1878 was speculations in railroad enter
prises and not real estate investments. The
nature Of the currency, in his opinion, has
little to do with the crisis. He didn't think
the introduction of machinery had very much
believe there was any faith IN a change in the
distribution OF wealth in this country by
legislation except through taxation.
Year: 1878

New YORK, Aug. 23.-A meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce. was held to-day,
President Babcock in the chair, to organize
measures for the relief Of yellow fever suf-
Of the New Orleans Chamber, made brief
address on the subject of the spread of the
disease in New Orleans, and made an earnest
appeal for aid for the afflicted.


On notion a committee was appointed to
solicit and receive subscriptions and dis
tribute the funds collected among the cities
and districts afflicted by the fever.


The meeting then adjourned.
Year: 1878

MONROE, La, Aug. 23.-Monroei is perfectly
healthy, but to preserve the same she has
been compelled to organize an armed and
mounted police for both day and night duty.
A meeting of the police jury sanctions this
and provides for q parish police.
Year: 1878

low fever patient who was removed to quar-
antine Wednesday, died last night He was
employed as a laborer at quarantine, and it is
supposed contracted the disease while un-
loading a cargo of log wood last Saturday.
Year: 1878


1t seems TO me now, since we met at the ball,
I have conquered the last thrill OF love in the
veln
But know that two kisses would ruin il all,
And set me on fire with the old love again.
1 have conquered the last thrill of love in the
VEN,
And there seemeth no charm in the lips that
were mine,
To set me on fire with the old love again.
Running swift through the blood like the
spirit Of wine.
There seemeth no charm in the lips that were
mine,
As look at them now AS clung TO them
then
Running swift through the blood like the spirit
Of wine
Twas sc sweet as the sweetest perfume OF
the glen.
AS look al them now-as l clung TO them then
Itwas hard to persist, bu: conquered it well
Twas as sweet as the sweetest perfume Of the
glen


TO dissolve in mist and TO forfeit the spell.
1t was hard TO persist, but 1 conquered it well,
And il seems TO me now. since we met at the
bail.
TO dissolve in mist and TO forfeit the spell
But know that two kisses would ruin it all


T. l.
Year: 1878

CALUMNY.
whisper broke the an
A soft, light tone and low,
YET barbed with shame and woe.
Ah me quick and eager ear
Caught up the little meaning sound;
Another voice had breathed IT clear,
And so it wandered round
From ear to lip, from lip to ear,
Until it reached gentle heart,
And that-it broke.


-Mrs. Osgood.
Year: 1878

digging for mice about decayed stump.
Between himself and the mouse hunter,
reclining upon the ground quietly chew
ing his cud, was T. D. Wilson's bull.
Cautiously advancing. our hero reached
the unsuspecting bovine dropping upon
his knees and carefully resting his gun
across the animals back he pulled the
trigger. The aim was true and sly Rey-
nard fell dead, but wasn't the bull as
tonished though? Springing to his feet
with roar he ran over Peter about for
ty times and rushed away snorting with
terror. The first thing our friend saw
on opening his eyes was the bulls tail
cleaving the air like meteor, about a
mile away. and the dead fox lying on the
ground hard by. The sight of the latter
reassured him and securing it he gath
cred up the fragments of his clothing,
consisting of a boot strap, and two vest
buttons, and limped homeward, resolved
that though great the tribulation he
would never use live bull for breast
work.
Year: 1878




"Christmas comes but once a ycar" -
more's the pity for it would be better
as we'll as more pleasurable for 1all if
such holiday season of good will and
good cheer could have more frequent
repitition. For, believe as much or as
little as we may of the generally accept
ed origin of the day and of the popular
explanation of what it commentaries, it
is certain that it has been accepted
throughout all Christendom as the time
when, whatever may be the case all the
rest of the year, peace and good will
must reign among men. There be those,
not few, who maintain that the feast
was held long before the church decreed
that it should hereafter commemorate
the birth in Bethlehem, of Judea and
yet. in SO decreeing, the church but
adopted a holiday which had become so
entwined with the ways of the people
that they could not be persuaded to give
it up. Perhaps this is true; but if so,
what matter is it? If generations of
heathens had celebrated it until it had
become so thoroughly part of their ma
lures that not even the church with all
its powers could remove it, surely it has
lost none of its power over men from its
eighteen centuries of association with
Christianity.


Reason about it as we may, it is a
good thing to know that there is no dan
ger of its being abolished or superseded,
for it has become too much part of cur
year; Its joys have been tasted by too
many generations of young. middle aged
and old, to be lightly flung away now.
And what joys they are How exactly
they suit us all To the old they exist
chiefly as memories, but sweet and joyful
memories. of days which shall not re-
turn, but which, nevertheless, help to
make brighter those which remain; the
middle aged find their joys in kindly
greetings. in buried hatreds; in bestow-
ing loving kindnessess and in the hap
piness they may bestow on children and
dependents while the children, bless
them have short and easy word to
express their joys, all the better that the
two words make a perfect rhyme. And
then how all ages and all classes revel
in the joys of good cheer, which the ar
tist has appropriately typifed by the
steaming plum pudding crowned with a
sprig of holly! 1t is not the young only
who like good feeding. though they can.
not, like their elders, look back on SC
many good dinners in the past.
Year: 1878




An exchange pertinently remarks:
Many young girls like nothing SO much
as what they call IAN adventure" " or, in
other words. attracting the attention of
some male specimen of the baser sort
whose admiration is an insult. The re-
preston of this spirit in young girls is
important, for it is almost disreputable
for woman to be insulted. Sober peo-
pie are inclined to feel that there must
have been some impudence, perhaps un-
consciously. on the lady's part, which
encouraged the bold step on the part of
the insulter. If a lady is quiet and not
inclined to make herself conspicuous in
public conveyances or elsewhere by talk
ing and laughing. we do not think she
need fear any rude familiarity at all
approaching an insult. She might travel
in safety from one end of the continent
to the other as free from molestation or
annoyance as in her fathers house. But
we have noticed with pain. very often,
the boisterous, unladylike manners
young girls, or young ladies, as they
doubtless term themselves indulge in
when travelling. If they take occasion
to entertain each other with iests and
recitals quite to near coarseness in pub
lie places 1t is not strange that persons
! of the baser sort should feel that they
were safe in taking liberties of speech
or look that they would not dream Of
were their department quiet and lady
like. Insults can be guarded against
if not entirely avoided. Let mothers
warn their daughters against courting
rudeness by bold, noisy and unladylike
behavior, both at home and abroad, but
most particularly when going to school
shopping, riding or going to places o
public worship, and they will escape al
molestation. When a woman forget.
her native delicacy and modosty of de
pertinent she challenges insult.


|


PoyERTY.-Poverty is no disgrace, til
true, but we may easily make it SO b.
continually whining and bemoaning ou
lot. When we reflect that many of th,
ablest men that this or any other natioI
has ever produced were as poor as church
mice, we see no reason why We shoult
not hold up our heads. Some may no
respect US because We are poor; but, a
a general thing, their respect, even 70
the rich, is not of such nature as woult
J cause them to make selfsacrifces for thei
Year: 1878

The earth has once more swung
round the vast circle marking her annu-
al revolution, and reached the starting
point of her course. The sun this day
touches his extreme limit of southern
declinatiop and the winter solstice of
1879 is safely inaugurated. The days
are of their midsummer length, nine
hours and three minutes, and the shadow
of night no longer encroaches upon the
light of day.


For little while, the sun seems to
stand still in his, career, his winter
path lies low in the heavens, the short
days hasten mournfully to their close,
and darkness falls over the earth like
sable pail. For seven days, from the
10Th to the 26th, the measure of sun
shine is at the minimum. After this
period has passed, mighty change oc-
ours. 1t is but minute added to the
shortest day, but that minute of sun
light is the precious harbinger of physi-
cal regeneration, the visible sign in the
heavens that the laws which sway the
universe will not fail, the first trophy
in the combat between light and dark
| ness.


Modern nations understand so we'll
the simple laws that rule the movements
of the worlds in space, that little heed
is paid to this great time-mark. But
the nations of the Old World delighted
to surround the period of the suns re-
turn with every manifestation of religi-
Gus observance and social enjoyment.
The Scandlnavians drew huge yule logs
from the forest, rekindled the yule fires
with the last years half burned logs,
and drowned the memory of feuds in
the wassail bowl. The Druids gathered
| the mistletoe from the sacred oak, and
! sacrificed hecatombs of human victims
to their sanguinary gods. The Romans
revelled in the orgies of the Saturnalia.
The Persians relighted their sacred fire.


For them the epoch was an annual
miracle. around which clustered their
hold on life and the blessings that sur
rounded their heartless homes. In the





strange blending of Christmas and Pa
gan ceremonies that resulted in our
Christmas and New Years festivities,
it is doubtful if civilization has made
great advance upon the sincerity and
heartiness which found expression in
the simple faith of the races of ancient
times, who lived near to nature, and
acted according to the light they pos
sessed. They had the advantage of US
in celebrating great physical epoch as
their season of good cheer, while Christ
mas is of doubtful chronology, and New
Years is both arbitrary and artificial
Providence Journal.
Year: 1878

There is no greater fallacy than the
opinion Of many, particularly the young
and strong and vigorous, that winter
especially sharp, frosty one, with plen-
ty of snow-is the most healthy season Of
the year. Very few persons seem to
realize the fact that cold is the condition
of death. and that in both warm and
cold climates it is our unconscious effort
to maintain our bodily heat at a tenn
perature Of ninety-eight degrees that
wears us out To this temperature
called "blood heat every cubit inch Of
oxygen that serves to vitallze our blood
must be raised by our own bodily heat,
or life ceases Since in cold weather the
maintenance Of sufficiently elevated
bodily temperature becomes very often
difficulty TOO great for our strength,
the advent of severe winter is really
more to be dreaded than visitation Of
! pestilence. The saying. "Heat is life
cold is DEATH" has striking illus
tration and confirmation in the reports
now regularly submitted by DR.. Russell
to the Glasgow Sanitary Committee.
The death rate rises and falls with the
regularity of the thermometer. So many
degrees less heat, so many more deaths
and vice versa. In one of his fort
nightly reports DIR. Russell says, 1.-The
death rate was twenty one, and in the
second week twenty FIVE. The mean
temperature in the former week was 40 s
degrees Fahrenheit, in the later 3O5 de-
grees." He attributes the low rate of
the first week to the high mean temper
ature of the preceding fortnight, which
was 47.O3 degrees, and adds: "This is
a good illustration of law which we
frequently observe in these reports of
temperature and death rates-that a
week of low temperature produces rise
in mortality the week following" In
our climate it would probably be difficult
to find a more frequent cause of serious
ailments than taking cold. Whatever
weak place We have, whatever constitu-
tional disorder we are subject to, cold
will surely discover. We take colds be-
cause our vitality is too low to ward of
the effects of the reduced temperature
around us. AS matter of first impor-
tance. then, to resist cold and the vari-
Gus arrangements of the system conse-
quent it is necessary by proper nutri-
tion to maintain our animal heat ; Sec
ond, to retain this heat by sufficient
quantity of clothing; third. to regulate
with care the temperature of the air We
breathe. to the opinion cur.
rent among lovers of cold weather, a fire
In bedroom in the winter is cheaper
and better than doctors bill for ow-
ing to our inactive condition during sleeE
the circulation of the vitalizing blood il
both slow and imperfect, and hence The
danger of taking cold by breathing colo
air is greatly increased. A cold Is the
beginning of everything that is bad. /
should never be forgotten that "heat il
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life-cold is death. ''-.Scientifc Amer
Year: 1878

friends One tried friend in poverty is
worth thousand when fortune smiles.
The old adage has in, "that it is very
lnconvenient to the poor" and SO it is ];
but, then, there is one advantage the
poor have over the rich, viz z: they are
not subjected to many of the ills, and
not half the annoyance of their more
prosperous fellow-crcatures. 1t does not
follow that ''poor people must have poor
ways for the beggar in his rags may
show some evidence of thrift. Poverty
should not. therefore, beget habits of in
dolence and filth. but, on the other
hand, economy. and an honest. faithful
effort to accomplish something and be
something in the world.
Year: 1878

At the battle of Shiloh in April,
1862. A. D. Macarthur of the Texas
Rangers, in the confederate army. was
shot in the left shoulder, the ball passed
through the upper portion of the left
lung lodging in the right side. From
that time until few days ago its ex-
act location was mystery. He finally
drifted west to California, and few days
ago felt stinging sensation under his
right shoulder blade. A doctor was
called in, who could plainly feel the
ball, and with the aid of instruments
extracted it from the place where it had
been concealed for sixteen years.
Year: 1878

The natural history of boyhood is
very interesting study. 1t is hard for
the old folks to look at things from his
standpoint. because their memories are
short. However, he will grow old soon
enough, and the era of mud pies and
marbles will fade only too quickly.


Only boy with its noise and fun,


The yeriest mystery under the sun;


As brimful of mischief and wit and glee,


As ever a human frame can be,


And as hard to manage as-ahl ha mel


'Tis hard to tell,
Yet we love him well.


We can't see why it should be fun for
him to put piece of orange peel on the
sidewalk and then watch until the un-
wary traveller lies on his back, sputter-
ing all the oaths which the living and
dead languages afford or to tic string
from the floor to the lamp post just high
enough to knock off every rybody's hat who
hurries along. or to slip out the tail
board of lemon cart and then start the
horse on run, while the dismayed ven-
der gnashes his teeth and expresses the
wish that cholera would come quickly
and make short work of the little ras-
Gals. No, we can't see the sport in all
that, but twenty years ago we did. We
can't remember that we ever stopped
the chimney up and filled the house with
smoke. or put eight particles of gun
powder in the middle of the old gentle.
mans cigar, and watch for the explosion
looking SO meek and absorbed in oul
geography lesson that the victim of oul
mischief thought there must be mis-.
take somewhere, and that if he thrashed
us he would do an injustice to an limo
cent student. Well that is probably
what we did, nevertheless, and that il
just what other boys are doing nova
days.


Only boy who will be man


1fnature goes on with her first great plan


If water. or fire. or some fatal snare.


Conspires not to rob US of this our heir,


Our blessing. our trouble our rest our care,


Our torment, our joy.


"Only boy"
Year: 1878

The country will be greatly relieved
to learn that the committee on ways and
means has decided not to tinker with
the tariff this session. Manufacturers
and merchants can now go on making
arrangements for the future, without
fear of the marring interference of the
alleged statesmen of the lower house.
Year: 1878

They are beginning to suspect at
Washington what has been PLAIN enough
elsewhere, that the clamor for making
trade dollars legal tender comes from
spectators who want to get one hundred
cents for coin whose bullion value Is
only eighty five cents.
Year: 1878

The Northern Pacific railway is look
ing up once more. The directors have
just accepted bid for building one
hundred miles of the Missouri division
and have ordered revision of the sur
veys of the second hundred miles to
Yellowstone, preparatory to letting out
the work on that
Year: 1878




Misunderstanding is SO often the
result of circumstances which throw two
people together; of no consideration of
the fitness of things; of momenttary i'm
pulses, .or of cool deliberation-tha
that which should be the happiest state,
is often the unappiest. And people
speak of a wedding as they would Of a
lottery. where there are more blanks than
prizes.


The only true matches are made by
love, and when two people have really
loved-really. from the depths of their
very hearts-nothing can ever part them
again.


do not say this of those who have
only been called, or called themselves,
lovers. A couple may be engaged. or |
doubt not, even married, and yet that
wonderful tie of great love may never
have existed between them. When it
does once exist all the waters cannot
quench it, nor the seas cover it. For
ever and forever-at least in the forever
of llfe-those two are more to each 9TH
er than any two who have not loved can
be.


Sometimes happy fate actually unites
two love thus, and they live long life
together. and their children rise up and
call them blessed.-M. X. u.
Year: 1878

GOVERNMENT MONEY MAKING.-But some
gentlemen say that Congress has the power to
make money, and ! want to ask them one
question; 1 want YOU to think about it: If
this government has the power to make money
why should it collect taxes from us: Why
don't they make it and let us alone? II this
government can make a dollar or thousand
dollar bill just that quick [slapping his hands
and night and make us pay taxes to support
them? Ii the government can make money
let them make it and let US alone. But, in
stead OF that, this great government comes
and compels you to pay takes. 1t IS like the
ocean trotting around to. borrow a little salt
water, or like the sun trying to get the loan of
candle from some poor devil that has worked
weeks to make that candle. So say to them
II they can do it let them do it, C5ioneL
"B0b' IngerSON'S Speech at NdlO7le. ~. Y