smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Nay, don't turn the key, not yet, not We five


nights haven't past and gone
Slnce we laid the green sods straight and meet to


wait for the cold gray stone:
See his pipe still lies on the mantel where the old


armchair is set
The knife is left in the half carved stick--don't


turn the door key yet
How it rains II must be dree an all where the


wet wind sweeps the brow,
And IT'S dry and warm by the hearthstone; don't


steek the Intel now!
fhng hr-log on the ingle; he was used to love


the light 80.
That shone haste thee" through the darkness.


when he was abroad at night.
Thieves nay, they scarce come ND our vay. and s


there's none much to steal
just the bread loaf in the cupboard, and the hank


on the spinning wheel;
And Id rather lose the all have, ave the burial


fee on the Shelf
Than think of him barred out from home ont in


the cold by himself.
Whsht was not yon footstep in the path out


there by the byre1
Whisht lssknow how boards can crack. | say


pile sticks on the fire.
The wind slghs over the upland. just like part


ing soul:
Get to bed with you all-Ill stay, and keep nv


watch by the gathering coal
For all he grew so wild and strange, my one son


loved his mother, a
Mayhap he'd come to me, when scarce he'd show


himself to another
When the drink was out he was always kind and


cen when he had drop A'
lie was mild to me. Dost turn the key


For seven nights here l stop.
bore him. kept him. and loved him; whatever


else might come,
lie knew, while his mother held the door, was


always his welcome home.
You may stare and laugh, an it please YOU; but


oh, CLINT of him
Were just sparkle of heaven to his eyes that are


waxing dim!
And know; should he meet his father up there


in the rest and joy,
lie say, "a couple Of nights are left thou'st


need to cheer her, my boy"
So, leave the key, and fetch the logs, till the


mourners week is done;
tell thee I'll watch, lest | miss in sleep last


smile frcm my son. as


All The Year Around
Year: 1877

Speaking of ''No License" in New Mil ford, the Gazette says, "last year we had eight licensed saloon keepers; this year we have none. yet instead of decrease in the consumption of intoxicating drink, we believe there has been an increase. l" The Danbury Globe tells the same story, which is very old one In any town in which public opinion and common prac- tice sanction the drinking of spiriiaous liquors. no amount of prohibitory legisla- tion will put stop to the liquor traffic.
Year: 1877

THE GoLDsauTH RANGE Sold by John
Briggs, q the most economical, heats up
tie room less and Is the equal at least eE
any other stove or Fange asss baker or for
any other purpose for which stove or
range is used. A full complement of tin
ware goes with each range. Call at John
Briggs store and see for yourself. 37
Year: 1877

THE rush from the grasshopper
infested counties of Minnesota and
Iowa up to the non-grasshopper
sections along the Northern Pa
clfic is greater this fall than ever
before. A colony of thirty families
from one neighborhood in Iowa are
now on their way to settle on the
timber and prairie lands near AID
rich. They bring their families and
effects in wagons aud drive their
stock the entire distance. These
people are leaving the prairie and
seeking the timber. We verify be-
lieve that if they were posted with
regard to this Lake Superior coun.
try, many of the grasshopper exiles
would come in this direction, and
settle on our rich timber lands.
Year: 1877

RAILROAD building and projuct-
ing in Northern Minnesota is the
order of the day. The grading on
the Brainerd Branch is nearly COM
pleted, and the iron is going for
ward this week from Duluth and
will be laid at once. 1t is expected
the cars will be running before the
end of September. Surveyors are
at work on the GIyndon Branch,
and it is promised that it, too, will
be graded and ironed this fall. A
company has just been organized to
build a railroad from Lake Park on
the Northern Pacific to the Red
River near the boundary line. Now
if the line from Crookston to Win.
nepeg was opened, the State Line
road from the Junction to Superior
built, and the gap of sixty miles be.
tween Superior and Ashland filled
up, our measure of happiness in the
way OF railroad blessings would be
nearly complete.
Year: 1877

PREREQUISITES OF SUCCESS In
tegrity of character and truth in the
inner man are the prerequisites OF
success in any calling, and espec-
tally so in that of the merchant.
These are attributes which never
fail to command respect and win
admiration. No one fails to appre-
ciate them, snd if they ''do not pay"
in the vulgar sense of the phrase,
they bring an amount of satisfaction
and peace to the owner that oil the
wealth of Cresus could not yield.


There is no better stock i'm trade
than these principles; no capital
goes so far or pays SO well, or is so
exempt from bankruptcy and loss.
Let every young man, upon COM
mencing business, look well to those
indispensable elements of success,
and defend them as he would the
apple of his eye. If inattentlve and
Year: 1877

CoURAGE.-A great deal of talent
is lost in the world for want of a
little courage. Every day sends to
the grave a number of obscure men,
who have only remained in obscu-
rity because their timidity has pre-
vented them from making a first ef-
fort, and who, if they could have
been induced to begin, would in all
probability have gone great lengths
in fame. The fact is, to do anything
in the world worth doing, we must
not stand back shivering and think
ing of the cold and the danger, but
just jump in and scramble through
as well as we can. 1t will not do
to be perpetually calculating risks
and adjusting nice chances. 1t did
very we'll long before the flood,
where a man could support his
friends upon an intended publication
for hundred and fifty years, and
then live to see it's success after
ward. But at present man waits
and doubts, and hesitates and con-
suits his brother, and his uncle, and
his particular friends, until one day
he finds he is sixty years of age;
then he has lost so much time in
consulting his first cousin and par
ticular friends, that he has no time
to follow their advice.
Year: 1877

THE people oil Minnesota were
never before favored with such
weather for harvesting their grain.
Along the Northern Pacific the
wheat is about all cut and in the
shock or stack, and the threshers
are at work on many farms. The
yield is from 20 to 25 bushels to the
acre, Of rich, plump, heavy grain,
which will largely grade No. /. The
operators, railroad company, eleva-
tors and lake shippers have their
decks cleared for action, and the
advance guard of grain will take up
it's line of march eastward in a few
days, to be closely followed by
such an outpouring as was never
before witnessed in the Northwest
Year: 1877

JUDGE McKELvEY, ofthe seventh
district of Minnesota, decides that
an excessive or unequal assessment
or valuation does not render the tax
or subsequent proceeding void. I,
must be presumed an error of Judge
ment which can only be corrected
by the town or county board o.
equalization, and not by an appea
to the courts.
Year: 1877

THE decision of Judge Drum
mond on the land grant suit, is vir-
tually against the North Wisconsin
railroad company, although no final
decree has been entered. 1t is an
outrage on the interests of North.
west Wisconsin if this grant is to
be frittered away and divided up
among several bankrupt railroad
companies in the southern part OF
the state.
Year: 1877

reckless here, he will imperil every
thing. Bankruptcy in character is
seldom repaired in an ordinary life
time. A man may suffer in repu-
tation and recover; not so the man
who suffers in character.


Be lust and truthful. Let these
be the ruling and predominating
principles of your life and the re-
ward will be certain, either in the
happiness they bring to your own
bosom. or the success which will at
tend upon all your business opera
tons in life, or both.
Year: 1877

have never heard but one person say there was any misrepresenta- tion contained in it, and that per son was the attorney of Mir. All mutt and his party. We have however, heard, several persons who ought to be conver- sant with the whole affair, say that we hit the nail squarely on the head in our former article. Be this as it may, we feel entirely in nocent of having said anything from motives of personal ill-feel- ing toward. MT. Allnutt. We sad no more and no less concerning his conduct as it was represented to us, than we would have said concerning any one else who might have indulged in the same kind of conduct which was at tributed to him. We think there can be nothing ''base' in a pub lie journal condemning riotous, disorderly conduct. We shall al ways do so whenever It comes un, der our notice, and it will not be worth the while for anybody to try to bull -doze this paper.
Year: 1877

LEwIsBURG, Jan. 23, lS17. Editors Traveller:

 Allow me space to answer stricture published in the Russell .ville paper some two weeks ago. I was neither drunk, nor orieina- ted the Atkins affair. Neither gas I armed with a six shooter on that occasion. I do not deny that 1 hold a commission as United Etates deputy marshal, as hun Ddreds of other men who served in the confederate army have to find employment. The article is base personal and slanderous, and if the editor is a gentleman, he will make the necessary correction and ask his correspondent to cone out over his own signature as I have mine, and the question of veracity can then be settled between us in any manner to suit his convenince. Very truly yrs, J. P. ALLNUTT.

 In glancing over one of our ex- changes, the Arkansas Traveller, oureye accidentally lit on the aboye card. and although we feel under no obligations to notice the writer's bullying defence, which is not addressed to us, we will give It the benefit of our circula ton In order to show that Vt have no desire in the world to do him the slightest injustice. We know nothing of the author of the above card, never even heard of him prlor to the occurrence of the Atkins affair, so we cannot have any desire to do him Q personal injustice.

 Had he addressed card to this paper vindicating himself against any mis- statements which we may have been led into concern ing the Atkins affair, we would chcerfully have published It, for, never if we know it., shall any body have any injustice cone te him through this paper.

 In regard to our former article wd have only this to say: We alone are responsible for it; we wrote it from the best informa tion we could get at the time, ane 1 from that time until the card .o Mr. Alinutt came to our notice WI
Year: 1877

state. The greatest wisdom and fairness should, of course, be ex- ercised in determining the justice and validity of the various items of the States indebtedness, but after this has been determined once, the legislature should stand firm against assuming any unjust claims.

 The people of the State are watching this matter closely, and ifany attempt is made to saddle unjust and unlawful debts on the state, the men who attempt it may as we'll bid 9 long and final adieu to any future place in the confidence or esteem of their fel- low citizens in this state.

 We shall try to keep our read CTS posted on this matter.
Year: 1877

The House Committee on Ways and Means, on the Doth inst, re- ported that, in their opinion, con siderable reduction could be made in taxation without detriment to the revenues of the State. The very lightest taxation that can be imposed on the tax payers of Arkansas now, consistent with the public interests and the eff cient working of the State Gov ,ernment, is what the people want :; and if the present General As semblyfind upon fair inquirythat a reduction can be made in the taxes, they will receive the thanks of the people of the State for pro viding the relief While we favor retrenchment in all public expen- 0ltuIeo, we thiu h Vautiou ohouii be used in order that the cfficien- cy of the public service may not be impaired by an injudicious parsimoniou3ness We have not unfrequently seen the public ln- terests of our own county suffer for want of a small appropriation, which through misguided view of economy had been refused, Give us retrenchment, gentlemen of the legislature, but not such as that which will impair the pubic part,inn
Year: 1877

have plenty of god citizens who will cheerfully attend the conyen- tion, but they wisl the people to show that they ar in hearty CO operation with all means of devel- oping, more thickly peopling, and building up our ountry. We suggest that there be meeting held at this place on Saturday next for the purpos of choosing delegates to the Stat Convention. Let us see how many of the live progressive men of our county will attend.
Year: 1877

ranks are clOSeU up JnaG IEe uSHt against ignorance is successful.

 For this reason. if no other, we should be willing and anxious, too, for immigration and near lneighbors. The sooner the range and scrub stock are surrendered

 for pastures, improved stock and school houses the better. If ev- cry acre of land in the state, not reserved for timber, were used for pastures or for cultivation, all would be near neighbors, and the establishment and support of pub

 lie and private schools would be easy. As it is, it is difficult in many portions of the state, and in some parts entirely impracti

 cable. For these and many other good and sufficient reasons, we welcome to our state immigration from every state and every cllme. State Grange.

 The editor of the Grange gets at the very gist of she question of popular education in the above we'll digested remarks, and has sounded the key note from which our legislators who are trying to do something for the common school system may get some profit able ideas. There can be no free public schools where there is no children, and no system which can be devised will be success where it takes scope of territory often times from five to eight miles square to supply twenty five or thirty school children. To make an efficient system of free public schools there are these two things essential and ablso- lutely indispensable, to-wit: an ample school fund, and a suffi ciently dense population to fill up schools within a radius of a convenient distance from the pub lie school buildings. Where there are but few taxpayers, and they owning only property and lands enough to make but small tax lists, it is impossible to create a school fund of any worth without making taxes onerous and op- pressive. We must have more values and more taxpayers. Then we can have have a school fund.

 The same reasoning holds good when it comes to the question of good public highways. We can never have good highways until our country is settled up. No road law that can be framed will accomplish it. Good high ways and good schools will be found in Arkansas when we get a larger population and more val ues. Values will come with i'm migration, and immigration will create values. Wise legislation and generous appropriations in the interests of immigration will go further toward giving us good schools and good highways, than all the road and school laws that can be enacted. If we can get the population and have the lat ent values of our State developed, there will be 10 trouble about good schools and good highways.

 Will our General Assembly study this phase of the matterp
Year: 1877

Public schools will never be a complete success until there is a larger and denser population. It IS impossible to make effective any system of public schools in a very thinly populated district, and all the attempts of lesislators [ to establish schools in such places
Year: 1877

The policy laid down Tn Gov ernor Milier's inaugural address, in regard to the colored element of our population, meets with the appreciation of the democracy of this state. We have a striking confirmation of this fact in the manner in which the house of representatives have dealt with the contested election case be- tween Patrick L. Price, a colored republican, and Mir. Wood, dem ocrat from Lee county.

 Although there might have been pretty fair grounds under the constitution for deciding Mir. Price ineligible to a seat in the house, this technlcality was over | looked and the matter was taken In its broadest sense and decided for Mir. Price, on the very just principle that as he was the choice of the people of his county he should have the seat.

 The twaddle of republican ora tors and scribblers about the un- willingness of the democrats to do the colored men in our State equal and even justice has here received a check which must con vince all intelligent colored men that such assertions are utterly devid oc truth.

 The action o: a majority of the colored members of the lcgisla ture in casting their votes for Hon. A. Fl. Garland for United States Senator, and the action of the democratic house in awarding a seat to a colored republican over a democratic contestant, is a most healthful indication of re. turning era of confidence and good will between the two races in our State. The misrepresen- tations of political schemers will be unavailing to keep up discord, or to blind the colored man to his true interests any longer. With peaceandgoodfeelingbetwee and the democrats, who will be the dominant party in this State from now henceforth, the colored man will be an important element in the development of our State, for when he sees that it is unneces- sary, as it always has been, for him to waste his time in attend ing political meetings, midnight sessions of the Unlon League, and in doing the bidding of his radical masters, he will declare his disgust at their rascally mis- representations, quit their service as political tools and go to work to make an honest living and acquire a home of his own. This is what every colored man should do, and he can now do so with the full assurance that demo cratic regime will protect him in every right, and accord to him their best wishes and earnest en- deavors for the speedy elevation of the race. Every good citizen halls with delight the new era of good feeling between the whites and blacks of Arkansas.
Year: 1877

by Ielegrapn 10 Inc Gazette.


New YORK, July 16.


Tomorrow the first of four competi-
tions for place on the team to represent
America in the international long range
match for the Centennial trophy, will
take place at Creedmoor.


q The match will practically be con-
test for the championship between Great
Britain and this country, as no other
country has accepted the challenge ofthe
National association this year.


1t is probable that the personnel of
the American team will differ some
what from last year. The old riflemen
who have hitherto denied all comesr at
long range shooting have been dis
tranced in nearly every match this sea
son and some of them nc. doubt will be
left out Of the team this.year.
Year: 1877

The report that a great battle was pro-
crossing in Bulgaria is groundless. The
Russians are closing in upon Rustchuk
no doubt, but no general engagement has
yet occurred-The Russian general found
so infected with the etfluvia of dead
bodies that it was impossible to remain
in the place.
Year: 1877

COL. GRAY, Chief Engineer 0 the Southern Pacific has been re- ported at Los Angeles en route for Yuma direct from Indian Wells. He is coming to select the exact location of the R: R. bridge, which we fear will be a little too much on the edge of town, and defect the line through our new house.
Year: 1877

COMPLIMENTARY We note iD our exchanges many fattering notices of the SENTINEL. We are not vain enough to attribute them to anything but editorial courtesy and desire to encourage us. We feel grateful all the same.
Year: 1877

DEPARTURE Judge Wm. J. Berry left us this week, as he said, for good ; but we look for his robust form among us again in less than six months. Old time associations here will be too strong for him.
Year: 1877

LESSNESS, JAUNDICE AND NAUSEA.

 BAD BREATH!

 Nothing is go unpleasant. nothing go common az bad breath aud in nearly every case it comes from he stomach ana can be easily cor! ected if you will ake SINMoNs' LIVER REGULATOR. Do not neglect sure remedy for this repulsive disorder. It will also improve your appetite, complexion, and general health.

 PILES!

 How many suffer torture day after day, mak. ing life burden and robbing existence Of all plearure owing to the secret suffering from Piles. Yet relief is ready to the hand of almost any one who will use sy systematically the remedy that has permanently cured thousands. SIMMoN.' LIVER REGULATOR IS drastic violent purge, but gen. tle assistant to nature.
Year: 1877

The ball given on Saturday evening at the
Opera House by the French Benevolent Assooia-
tion was o splendid affair, and most enjoyable.
~ usual. Our French residents deserve praise
for the successful manner In which they combine
charity and pleasure, for the profits derived
from these balls devoted to tho relief OF their
sick and destitute conpatriots.


At Grunewald Hall the Pike Benevolent Assoc
citation gave charming fancy dress soires. The
affair was their first complimentary entertain-
rsut and WAS decided success,
Year: 1877

Nothing is more easy than to grow
rich. 1t is only to trust nobody--to
befriend none-to get all you can, anu
save all you get-to stint yourself and
everybody belonging to you--to be
the friend of Lo man, and have no
man for your friend-to heap interest
upon interest, cent upon cent-to De
mean, miserable and desplsed tor
some twenty Or thirty ysars-and
riches will come as sure as disease
and disappointment. And when
pretty nearly enough of wealth is
collected, by a disregard OF all the
charities of the human heart, and at
the expense OF every enjoyment, death
comes to finish the work the body is
buried in hole, the heirs dance over
it, and the spirit goes where !
rNew York Commercial Advertiser.
Year: 1877

The French are great bread eaters,
writes Lucy Hooper, and it Is an
amusing sight to watch the baker ar
ranging, in high basket, the great
clubs or sticks in which the common
est kinds OF bread are baked. These
clubs are thick enough and hard
enough to serve for offensive or de-
fensive weapons on occasion, | should
think.


At the commoner and cheaper clas-
ses of French boarding houses the
palates of American boarders are often
painfully impressed by seeing the daily
bread in this guise stood up i'll cor
ner with the umbrella, while an un-
kempt waiter is engaged IN sweeping
out the dining room. Or else one
sees stout old women going along
With their stick of bread tucked light
ly and compactly under one arm
which in this hot weather is not al
together an appetizing sight. Gen
orally, however, the purchaser OF 4
single stick carries i. over his or her
shoulder, like cane or an umbrella.
Year: 1877

-Itmatters to us IN life not so much
what part we play, as it does to play
our part well. In drama it is not so
much question who played the king
or the peasant as who played the part
best.
Year: 1877

If you orI


To-day should die,
The birds would sing as sweet tomorrow
The vernal spring


Her flowers would bring
And few would think of us with sorrow.
Yes, ho is dead


Would then be said
The corn would floss, the grass yield hay,
The cattle low,


The summer 60,
And few would heed us pass away.


How soon we pass


How few alas
Remember those who turn to mould
Whose faces fade


With autumn shade,
Beneath the sodden church yard shade.
Yes, it is So


We come, we go
They hail our BIRTH they mourn our death :
day or more,


The winter DER
Another takes our place instead.
Year: 1877

= The Young man feels the keen
wind of autumn whistiug through his
striped suit, and he feels that the year
is passing with rapid steps into the
cavernous tomb of the ages. But he
smiles as he calls on the maiden OF his
choice, for he krows that the ice, cream
cart IS put up and the proprietor has
gone iuto other business tor the
winter