smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

- There would not be life lost in
starting fires with coal oil were the
principle of 80 doing thoroughly IN
derstoOd. There Is no danger in coal
oil when it is away from fire. There
would never have been an explosion
had there not been actual flames or
smOlderiug EN- bers in the aches of the
stoves into which the fluid was pour
ed. a mere spark or even the linger-
ing heat Of fire in the iron of stove
is what will cause the mischief
Central City Courier.


There is no mistake about the above
except the remark, There is no dan
ger in coal oil when L is away from
fire." We often hear ofIau1ps expIod-
ing; and We once saw a stationary
sidelamp explode when there wss no
person within twenty feet of it, and
there was no fire near it excepting
the blazing wick in the lamp. The
assertion that coal oil is only safe
when away from the fire" is true,
however, If taken in a sense differeI {
from that meant by the Courier. Keep
it away from fire, don't light the
lamp and thus only is it that there is
no danger in coal oil But what are
we going to do for light? Go back to
tallow dips and "stars?'' We can t
well do this, and so 60 on running the
risks of explosion.
Year: 1877

- Every family in Nemaha county
should take the old reliable ADvER-
TIsER. 1t is the paper for all who
want TO know what is going on in the
county. And. aside from its local
features, We labor assiduously to make
it one of the best of family papers.
It's columns always are full of matter.
amusing, instructive, and in various
ways interesting to wives, daughters
and the children. Two dollars could
not be better laid out than in a years
subscription 10 THE ADVERTISER. If
you feel friendly toward the paper,
and can recommend it 20 your friends
aud neighbors who do not take it, We
would take it as a great kindness for
you 10 do so. A small effort on the
part of some friend in each neigh bor-
hood would greatly increase our sub
scriptiOn list, and benefit US.
Year: 1877

We have printed cards contain
ing the official vote Of the county OF
the late election. They are for gratult-
Gus circulation. and any one wishing
one Of these cards will please call and
be supplied. They are convenient to
keep for reference.
Year: 1877

The undersigned desires TO notify
everybody that he has put in excel
lent repair the stock scales at the old
place across the street in front of his
blacksmith shop. If you want your
grain, hay, or stock, correctly and
promptly weighed, cali on


JAMES GIBSON.
Year: 1877

The Republicans have control Of
the Indiana House. In the Senate
the two parties stood at tie, and Ma
lors, elected as an independent, held
the key to unlock 1T. lie offered to
give his vote and the organization to
the Republicans If they would let
him name the Secretary Of the SEN
ate. Tie bribe was refused. lie
made n similar offer to the Demo-
Gratis. They consulted Hendricks.
lie advised them to accept, and they
accepted. Majors voted with them
on this sort Of a sell out. lie named
the editor Of his county paper, for
Secretary, and he was elected. The
drift OF public sentiment in the Hoo
sier State IL perhaps fairly indicated
by the fact that at special election
In one OF the counties last week 70
Year: 1877

discern any serious danger that a


few hot-headed Democrats could


precipitate formidable rebellion to
sustain Tilden usurpation. IfFebru-
ary or March should develop such a
danger, we shall trust our State COM
mittee to call council in time. But
in such an event non-partizan con-
vention to consider and advise for
the good of the nation and State,
would, in our opinion be more con-
ducive Of good than hasty party
Year: 1877

declared elected, because General
Grant was never more clearly or
honestly elected than Hayes now.
The Republicans have not had a fair
chance. We have gone rs far rs we
can go with our plan. There is
nothing left for US after this contest,
and If Hayes is declared elected this
time thousands of Us will fall in and
90 with this loyal current of the
country, and stop, or help stop this
blood letting from innocent colored
men in the South.
Year: 1877

Here is the Ottumwa Democrats
platform, which is kept standing
from year TO year at the head of its
editorial page: "This is govern
ment of white men, made by white
men, and for posterity forever"
Year: 1877

HE was prasing her beautiful hair, and
begging for one tiny curl, when heI lit
tie brother ,aid "Oh, my 'talnt nothin'
now. You just ought to see how long it
hangs down when she hangs it on the
side of the table to comb it," Then they
laughed, and she called her brother a
cute little angel. and when the young
man was going away and heard that boy
yelling, he though the lad WAS taken sud
denly and dangerously i'll,
Year: 1877

gence and the wealth of the country, the most
advanced thinkers and leaders in politics, and
a decided majority as we would say in Joint
session" of the Assembly Added to this the
Bonapartists are less opposed to them now
than in their favor, while the 0rleanists and
Legitimists are united in support of the oppo-
sition. The army may be said to be unit in
favor of MacMahon.


To people 5000 miles from the scene of
these French political troubles and with the
barren facilities which we possess for under
standing the true state of affairs, it is quite
impossible to predict the result of their cleo
tions, much less the future in case MacMahon
succeeds III carrying the people with him to-
wards the Conservative Republicanism'
which he champions, but which III reality is
but one degree removed from absolute monar-
chy, and that rather in name than principle.
1t is with this conception of the Marshal
short comings and the unconstitutional liber-
ties which he undoubtedly is taking with the
rights of the French people, that we look to
see the Republicans successful, if at all. With
their success the Republic is safe. Without
it constitutional liberty in France is short
lived and full of trouble.-Sdn Jose Mercury.
Year: 1877

although it may be in accordance with the
only Interpretation which can be put upon
the law, cannot fail of arousing serious op-
position. The present Executive is not of
course responsible for the law, its only duty
being to carry out its provisions as it finds
them, until the Courts have pronounced them
unconstitutional.


The same principle is involved in the case
of stock corporations The Minister of FL
nance has decided that under the meaning of
the new law, which in this particular is mere
" a re-enactment of section l446 of the Civil
Code, law which we believe has never been
enforced, the lands and buildings and all
| improvements, as well as personal property,
owned by corporations must be assessed at
their "full cash value" and that the stock
holders the owners of the estate-must also
pay taxes on their respective shares. We
have not heard whether such shares are to be
assessed at their par value or otherwise, but
we would suggest that it might be a good
point for the Minister to make, to rule that
the assessments should be made to include all
a ne-hundredth interest in plantation which
was started on capital of a hundred thou
sand dollars, but which has now risen il
value to half million, should pay taxes OIL
five thousand dollars. Thus would the Golfers
of the Exchequer be more speedily filed.
Year: 1877

Within the next few months may be said to
hang the destiny, at least of the present CEN
tury,. of the Republic of France The recent
vote of the Senate of $50 to I3O to sustain
President MacMahon in his demand for dis
solution of the same, places both the President
and the late member of the Chambers face to
face before the people for their ballots in the
election of the new Assembly. And it is no
small task the Republicans have on their
hands to defeat the Ultramontanes, for the
hest part the Legitinists and Orleanists, headed
by MacMahon and his Ministry, at the cleo
tions. The French people are not yet educa-
ted up to . full appreciation Of Republican in
stitutions. For the most part the peasantry,
who largely compose the voting classes, are
yet to be emancipated from the influences of
the church before they can be depended upon
to sustain the Republic Their present sym
pathy is controlled by the clergy in the favor
Of MacMahon. This, the willy Marshal knows,
is a strong dependence. 1t is for this vote that
he is laying his most subtle plans. On the
other hand, the Republicans have the intelli-
Year: 1877

A MEETING was held on Saturday last at
the Chamber of Commerce room, for the pur-
pose Of taking action for testing the constitu-
tionality of the act comprised in Chapter 62
of the laws of 1876, entitled "an Act to
amend Sections 483 and 46f of the Civil
Code" Like many of the laws of 1874
and 1876, this Act bears upon its face the
evidences of great carelessness in the drawing
up, or of neglect of careful and intelligent
consideration and discussion at the time of its
passage, or perhaps of both. 1t was intro
duced to the Assembly near the close of the
session; was not published or discussed in
the newspapers, and was crushed " through
the House without any adequate investigation
of its faults or merits by three quarters of the
members, and without any opportunity having
been given the public generally to learn of its
existence.


The most Objectionable feature of the
amended law is that part enforcing double
taxation, which is most clearly in violation of
article IA of the Constitution, wherein is
guaranteed protection to each member of So
ciety, in the enjoyment of life, liberty and
property, in consideration of which che shall
be obliged to contribute his proportional share
to the expense of this protection" That is,
man shall be taxed pro rata for the protection
given his property. He who owns ten thou
sand dollars worth of property shall pay
taxes on it, according to the present law,
Al


sand dollars worth shall pay $3.50. But if
the man who buys piece of land for ten
thousand dollars, and pays FIVE thousand
dollars down, and gives his note for five
thousand secured by mortgage on the pro-
perty, is compelled to pay an annual tax of
S75 or it, he does not pay pro rata. He does
not pay "his proportional share" of the ex-
pense of protection, but he pays just twice as
much as his neigtbor with an unencumbered
estate pays. The half of the land which he
pays for, and of which he is therefore the
owner, instead of being "subject to an annual
tax of three-quarters of one per cent. upon the
full cash valuation thereof as provided by
this same law, is compelled to pay a tax of
one and half per cent, which is directly in
opposition to that part of the law above
quoted. There can probably be no object
ion to the assessment of real property in
the district where situated irrespective of
any mortgage" in the name of the nominal
owner of said property, as it would always
be possible for mortgagor and mortgage to
come to q mutual understanding in regard
to the payment of taxes but the present in
tention of the Finance Department to collect
tax of three-quarters of one per cent upon
all real property, mortgaged or unmort-
gagged, and also tax Of the same per cent.
on all moneys loaned, which may be secured
by mortgage on real estate already taxed,
Year: 1877

Last Saturdays mail brought to the
editor of the TRIBUNE very neatly
printed invitation, with ticket of all
mission, from the Louisiana State Lottery
company, soliciting ''the honor of the
presence of himself and ladies at the eX-
traOrdinary distributions" which was ALI
nounced to take place last Tuesday in


the city of New Orleans, ut noon, at
which time lover half of million OF
dollars" was to have been distributed,
''under the entire personal supervision
and management OF G. T. Beauregard


and j.. A. Early, commissioners OIL behalf
of the state of Louisiana and the people,


We regret that the limited time left us
after receiving the invitation was not
sufficient to enable us to get our papef


collar box packed and reach the city of
New Orleans in time TO be present ut the
distribution. 1t would have pleased us
of dollars disposed of; that is some.
what larger sum than we are, at present,
personally familiar with, although We


haye great faith i'm the future-when


Cheboygan shall have become city of


hundreds of thousands inhabitants, and


from the mammoth printing establish


ment OF the TRIBUNE there shall go forth


an immense daily edition.
Year: 1877

Miss: A word in your ear. The next
fine afternoon you saunter out buy box
of GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP. That adj
mirable purifier will remove every one OF
those plmples which detract.so much
from your beauty. Sold by all druggists
There is Youth in every bottle of HILLS
HAIR DYE, 23Mt
Year: 1877

The sovereignty of West Virginia
received blow in the recent strike
which it will be slow to recover from.
In arguments for the increase of the
national army, this State is held up
by the press as a striking example of
the need of larger army; as for in
stance the Philadelphia Press re-
marks: Five or six Governors were
suddenly compelled by unexpected
events to call upon the President for
armed assistance, and even in some
portions ofourOwn peaceful common
wealth the national troops rendered


invaluable aid in upholding the arm
of civil authority, while in some of
the other States, and notably in West
Virginia, all the local authorities
were powerless as antagonists of riot
and insurrection." The Press con-
cludes that the experiences of the
year plainly prove that troops may
be suddenly needed for purposes of
vital Importance to millions of citi-
zens, and it is scarcely conceivable
that Congress will fail to provide for
the palpable and pressing contingies
that have been forced upon the atten-
tion of the country by painful events.
Year: 1877

The absurdity and Injustice of our
present double system of taxation,
according to which we first tax prop
erty and then tax the title to it, or
what has been borrowed on it, was
perspicously set forth at the recent
Social Science gathering at Saratoga.
The Shipping List remarks that tho
time has been when we could well
afford to be quite Indifferent to our
taxes, they being, comparatively,
very light. But those days are pass
ed away, and we have entered on a
new era of larger conceptions, larger
desires, and Of course, larger expend-
itures. Settlement day has come,
and we are constrained by our heavy
burdens to stop and consider if we
cannot devise d ulster way of taxing
ourselves, and thereby gain relief
while compelling economy. The
fact which we have got to face is sim
ply one of economy as nation we
must husband our resources and save
our strength. AS we have been
wasting, 80 we must begin to accu-
mulate again in order to replace our
loss. In short, we shall soon find, if
we have not done so already, that the
day of small things is come back
again, and that idea the people are
from this time forth to keep sound
ing in the ears ofour Legislators, both
State and national.
Year: 1877

A subject which was before the
railroad conference at New York last
week, and which still remains unset
tied, is the position of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad with repect to the
other trunk lines as regards thejustice
ofits claims to any portion ofthe New
York business. 1t is claimed by the
Baltimore and Ohio, that, if allowed
to work Independently, it could se-
cure fully one.hfth of the business
from New York to the West, and, in
view of the fact, its allowance of nine
per cent. is manifestly too low. For
a time the company insisted upon an
increase Of its percentage, but at the
Year: 1877

From all sections of the land comes
the cry of distress. Men canrfind moth
ing to do. Women are III despair. Chill
dren wonder at their insufficient food.
So long as hard times were confined
chiefly to the South, people at the North,
although naturally sympathetic, bore
the infliction philosophically-the boil
being on the other mans neck. But
now THAT the whole country is in part
nership of distress, the more thoughtful
publicists perceive a danger, the very
idea of which is calculated to stir the
most sluggish blood. Now men steal
who never stole before, and women are
forced into the byways of dishonor to
seek the crust of shame and the shelter
of infamy. What will be the develop
meuts of this winter, which begins so
seasonably, Heaven only knows. The
Scriptures tell us that "The Lord tenn
pers the wind to the shorn lamb" but
practical observation shows that if a
shorn lamb exposes his fieeced hide to
the bitter piercing of a cold east-wind,
the Lord interpOses neither blanket nor
ulster, but permits the natural law to
work its will. So here we are taught to
| believe that Heaven protects the weak
and cares for the poor, but unhappy ex-
! perIence cOnvinces US that the strong
4 man misuses his delicate Deighbor, and
! the poor suffer now as they never did
before. All the preaching in Christen-
dom won't fill one human stomach. All
the prayers of all the faithful won't
give a single quilted petticoat to the
child of sorrow, nor provide the over
coat of comfort to the back of trouble.


Hard times are here.


There is no question of the fact, anC
there is no remedy. The nation is un


prepared for the strain. Individual!
are crushed. Communities are disabled


We fail to see that legislation can be o
any practical aid, and the single avenue
at present apparent is actual pecuniarN


relief, to be furnished by civil officers il


behalf of towns and cities. We mus


come to it sooner or later, and the sOone


the easier. Otherwise there'll be


saturnalia of riot all over the country


An ounce of prevention is better than


grape-shot.-Er.
Year: 1877

SELF F-DEGRADATION.-N Othing hurts
man more than to seem ignOble in his
own eyes. 1t is the enslayish feeling
that degrades the enslaved A base
ambition makes the man that cherishes
it, base. No one can debase you tut
yourself Slander, satire, falsehood, in
iustice-these things can never rob you
of your manhood. Men may lie about
you, they may denOuuce you, they may
make your failings the target of their
wit or cruelty; never be alarmed; never
swerve an inch from the line your judg
ment and conscience have marked out
for you.


They cannot by all their efforts take
away your knowledge of yourself, the
purity of your motives, the integrity of
your character, and the generosity of
your nature. While these are left, you
are, in point Of fact, uuharmed. Moth
ing outside yourself can ever make you
smaller shan you are to-day. If you
shall lose what makes you an ornament
to that rank and order of intelligence to
which you were bOrn:the loss will be
a self-inflicted one. Self-degradation is
the only degradation man can know
| Golden Rule.
Year: 1877

PURITY FOR PURITY.-Girls! listen to
this, and with virtuOus resolve demand,
as your right, a pure love:


Young men of bad habits and fast
tendencies never like to marry a girl of
their own sort, but demand wife above
suspicion. So pure, sweet women, kept
from the touch of evil through girlhoOd,
give themselves with all their costly
dover of womanhood into the keeping
of men who, in base associations, have
learned to, undervalue all that belongs
to them, and then find no repentance in
the sad after years.


There is but one way out of this, and
that is for you to require in associations
and marriage, purity for purity, sobriety
! for sobriety, honor for honor.
There is no reason why the young
men of this land should not be just rs
virtuOus as its young women, and if the
loss of your society he the price they are
forced to pay for vice, they will not
pay it.


This is plain, sensible talk, and just
such as ought to be needed by all oul
| boys and girls, till the much needed
reformation is fully established. Toe
much of the happiness or misery of Oul
children depends on this for it to pass
without producing deep reflection anC
action in the right direction.
Year: 1877

die for principle, than for any other
boon that could be given to the world" !"


"There are plenty of such women, sir,
plenty of them," said Edna.


'T confess have not found them"


because, sir, excuse me, you have
not tried. You consider gold the most
precious of metals. 1t is precious only
because it is so hard to find. If it were
as easy to procure as the powders on
yonder mountain, would you strive to
possess it as you do ?"


The stranger had not thought of that.


"Now," continued Edna, "you say
you are satisfied that you possessed your
lady loves affections; yet it seems by
your own confession, that when an OBJ
stacles came in the way, you helplessly
abandoned the field. Suppose, after you
have bored and blasted and striven as
well as you know how to find your pay
ing quartz you come suddenly to great
obstruction, previously unlocked for.
Do you abandon the enterprise, or do
you not, all the more earnestly work
and wait?


"Of course, madam, I should be COM
pelled to remove the obstruction"


"But it seems that, when an obstruc-
tion came in your matrimonial way,
you yielded the field, like a coward, to a
rival who had no moral right in the
premises, and then went your way, be-
moaning the fickleness of woman. Why
did you not say to her that if her heart
was yours her hand was also, and no
other claimant had prior right? You
didn't give her a chance to be true. You
recognized her fathers prior claim, and
consoled yourself by finding fault with
her. Sir, women will do more, and suffer
more, and sacrifice more for principle,
thousand to one, than men will ever
think of submitting to. know whereof
[ speak"


AS Edna spoke, the thought of what
she was now enduring for principle
although that principle began to look
to her awakening enlightenment as q
false one, came before herin its horror
And, as if to fill her cup of bitterness tC
overliowiug, her husband came stagger'
ing in from the grOggery hard by, a:
maudlin and silly as chain-lightning
! elixir could make him.


az was not aware that was protract
ing my visit so much, good ladies; pray
excuse me-" said the stranger, as ht
placed the change for his lunch in Aun
Judy's hand and departed.


TO be continued
Year: 1877

A PECULIAR MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
On the wedding-day in BorneO the
bride aud bridegroom are brought from
opposite ends of the village to the spot
where the ceremony is to be performed.
They are made to sit on two bars of
iron, that blessings as lasting, and health
as vigorous may attend the pair. A
cigar and betel leaf, prepared with the
areca nut, are next put in the hands OF
the bride and bridegroom. One of the
priests then waves two fowls over the
heads of the couple, and, in long ad-
dress to the Supreme Being, calls down
blessings upon the pair, and implores
that peace and happiness may attend
the union. After the heads of the affi-
ances have been knocked against each
other three or four times, the bride
groom puts the prepared sirl leaf ane
cigar into the mouth of the bride, while
she does the same to him whom SHE
thus acknowledges as her husband
! Philadelphia Ledger.
Year: 1877

The poorest girls in the world are
those who have never been taught to
work. There are thousands of them.
Rich parents have petted them; they
have been taught TO despise labor and
depend upon others for a living, and are
perfectly helpless. The most forlOrn
woman on earth belongs to this class.
1t belongs to parents to protect their
daughters from this deplorable cOndi-
tiun. They do them Il great wrong if
they neglect it. Every daughter should
be taught to earn her own living. The
rich as well as the poor require this
training. The wheel of fortune rolls
swiftly around-the rich are likely to
become poor aud the poor rich. Skill
TO labor is no disadvantage to the rich,
and Indispensable to the poor. Well
to-do parents must educate their daught-
ers to work; no reform is more impera-
tive than this.