smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

THE following sensible words
which we find in the Ashland Press
apply with quite as much force TO
Douglas as to Ashland county:


Chimes are dull on Lake Superior
just now People complain that
the era OF prosperity, which seems
to have set in in other parts of the
country, does not reach us.-This
in measure Is true. Other parts
of the country are blessed with
good harvests, which yield some
thing that brings into the Golfers of
the people the cure for all hard
times, VIZ. Money. If the soil of
Ashland county was under cultiva-
tion-if instead of forest of timber
there were broad farms reaching
out over the face of the country-if
instead of wolves and wild game
there were droves of fat cattle and
sheep-then we might wonder in
deed, that prosperity was tardy in
reaching our part of the State. To
us it is very simple question to
solve-these hard times. We must
develop tho country and do some
thing. When that is done there
will be true prosperity here and not
before. Our people can no longer
depend upon railroad building
or public work for living.
They must till the soil, cut and sell
the pines, and endsavor to make
the resources of the country yield
them their support. There is plenty
for all, but it will not come to our
people unless they work it out by
hard knocks. Providence has
placed here the soil, the tlinb and
the minerals but the man who would
avail himself Of them, must first
work them out into marketable
shape. Money will be plenty enough
in this country whenever this is
DONE"
Year: 1877

A BUSINESS MANS HABITs.-A
sacred regard'to the principles of
Justice forms the basis of every
transaction, and regulates the con
duct of the upright man of business.


He is strict in meeting his engage
ments.


Does nothing carelessly or in a
hurry.


Employs nobody to do what he
can easily do himself.


Keeps everything in its proper
place.


Leaves nothing undone that
ought to be done, and which cir
cumstances permit him to do.


Keeps his designs and business
from the view of others.


Is prompt and decisive in his
dealings, and does not overtrade his
capital.


Prefers short credits to long ones,
and cash to credit at all times,
either in buying or selling; and
small profits in cases with little risk,
to the chance of better gains with
more hazard.


He is clear and explicit in all his
bargains.


Leaves nothing of consequence to
memory which he can and ought to
commit to writing.


Keeps copies of his important
Year: 1877

Strikes are quite proper, only strike right
Strike to some purpose, but not for fight !.
Strike for your manhood, f, honor and fame;
Strike right and left, till you win good name;
Strike for your freedom, from all that Is vile;
Strike off companions that often beguile;
Strike with the hammer, the sledge and


the axe;


Strike off bad habits with burdensome tax;
Strike out unaidsd, depend on no other;
Strike without gloves, and your foolishness


smother;


Strike of the fetters Of fassai6n and pride;
Strike where tits best, but Jet wisdom decide;
Strike a good blow while the iron is hot;
Strike, keep striking, till you hit the right
Year: 1877

GENERAL DRAGIMIRoFr.-There is
something terrible in fght in wood.
YOU can see nothing save an occasional
fash of dark color among the sombre
foliage and the white clouds Of smoke
rising above itlike soap bubbles. Hoarse
cries come back to. you on the wind
from out the mysterious inferno: The
fire RACES still. The mad clamor of the
battle still surges up around into the Sc
rene blue heavens. Wounded men
come staggering ont from among the
sT arthy trunks and sit down in heap.
or crawl on to the ambulance men. ]
leave the edge Of the ridge soon after
eleven, and pick my way up toward the
kpesk, on the slere Of which The gene
fils aud staff are surveying the scene.
The bullets here are singing like nest
of angry wasps. One bullet strikes on
the left knee ofGeneral Dragim;roff he
has been standing calmly in the face Of
the fire, looking down upon the battle
One of the best generals in the Russian
ARMY il hors du combat. He is as brave
as he is skillful. lie never so much a,
takes his spectacles of, but quietly sit.
down, and, ripping up his trowsers leg
binds handkerchief around the wound
Surgeons gather around him; bit, like
the true soldier he is, he says he viii
take his turn when it comes. He i.
carried out Of the line Of fire some " hat
his boot removed and the limb bandaged
Then he Is placed on a stretcher and i.
borne away. The last words on the no
BILE soldiers lips are ferseht wish fol
good fortune to the arms Of the Gar
War cor. ". Y. Herald.
Year: 1877

The newspapers are now discus.
sing the questions growing out of


the great railroad strike. The


New York Evening Post says:


When the strikers shall cease to


be law-breakers it will be time e.


nough to consider the question


whether they are paid fair wages.


Workingmen are always entitled


to consideration. They are en-.
titled to great deal of considera-
ton just now, The times are
hard, business is suffering from a
long depression, aud thousands of
men who are willing to work find
no work to do. They deserve
sympathy. They ought to re.
member, however,, that they are
not the only sufferers from hard
times. Rich men have been ruin.
ed and are scarcely able to get
bread for their families. Millions
of money have been lost in prom.
islng enterprises which have prov.
ed Improbable. The managers
OF business of all kinds have been
obliged to reduce expenses in or
der to keep the business golng at
all. The distress from which
the workingmen are suffering is
largely distress common to all
classes of people. While we can
not decide what wages the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company
ought to pay, it seems to us to be
utter folly tor workingmen any
where to throw away the pay
which they can get for the reason
that they want to get more, or to
expect to better their condition in
working for small pay by refusing
to work at all. For them to re
sort to violent measures in carry
ing out this foolish plan is mad
ness and crime.
Year: 1877

Can any one tell why it is that
the soul of q young and pretty
woman is more dear to the aver
age deacon than that of squint-
eyed woman with a wart on her
nose? When we have seen q
young and pretty woman go up to
the altar, we have noticed half a
dozen deacuns knock their heads
together in their eagerness to whis-
per consolation to her bruised spir.
it. Bat when the squint-eyed
woman knelt down only one dea.
con went near her, and he merely
touched her on the shoulder and
said "Pray fervently, sister, and all
will be we'll"
Year: 1877

III sentencing three dealers in


Chicago for selling whiskey to


minors, Judge Reading said:


by the law you may sell to


men and women ifthey will buy.


You have given your bond and


paid for your license to sell


to them, and no one has a
right to modest you in your le-
| gal business. No matter what


the consequences may be, no


matter if poverty and destitu-


tion are produced by your sell


ing according to law, you have


paid your money for this privi-
lege, and your are licensed to


pursue your calling. No matter


what families are distracted and
rendered miserable; no matter


what wives are treated with vio-


lcnce, what children mourn ever


the degradation of a parent,
your business is legal;zed, and
no one may interfere with you
in 1t. No matter what mother
may agonize over the loss of a
son, or sister blush at the shame
of a brother, you have a right
to disregard them all and pur-
sue your legal calling-you are
licensed. You may fit up your
legal place of business in the
most enticing and captivating
form: you may furnish it with
the most costly and elegant G.
quipments for your lawful trade,
you may fill it with the allure
ments of amusements; you may
use all of your arts to induce
visitors; you may skillfulIy ar
range and expose to view your
choicest wines and most capti-
waiting beverages: you may
then induce thirst by all contri-
vances to produce a raging APP
petite for drink, and then you
may supply that appetite to the
full because it is lawful; you
have paid for it-you have a Ii
cense.


You may allow boys, almost
children, to frequent your sa-
loon; they may witness the APP
parent satisfaction with which
their seniors quaff the sparkling
glass; you may be schooling
and training them for the period |
of Fl, when they, too, can par
ticipate, Cor all this is lawful
You may hold the cup to their
very lips, but you must not let
them drink-that is unlawful.
But while you have all these
privileges for money you pay,
this poor privilege of selling to
children is denied you. Here
parents have the right to say, |
"Leave my son to me until the
law gives you a right to destroy
him." Do not anticipate that
terrible moment when | can as
sert for him no further rights of
protection. That will be soon
enough for me, his mother, for
his sister, for bis friends and for
the community to see him take
his road to death. Give him to
us in his childhood at least.
Let us have a few years Of his
youth in which to enjoy his in
nocence, to repay us in some
small degree for the care and
.ove we have lavished upon him.
This is something you who now
stand prisoners at the bar have
not paid for; this is not embrace
ed in your license.


For this oflense, the court
you to ten days inn
prisonment in the county Jail,
and that yon pay fine of S75
and costs; and you stand com
until ;hc fine and costs
Of this prosecution are paid.
Year: 1877

II our courts would fine every
man to the full extent of the law
for carrying a pistol, and
then pop him in Jail until the
fine and costs were paid or well
secured, it might break up the
habit. One thing is evident, it
would not worst the matter.
They do the thing up brown down
in Georgia--there they fine a
man 500 and if it is not paid,
he is put in the chain-gang and
made to work it out upon the
public roads. And we ought to
have just such law in Tennes
see. Men who bid defiance to
the laws of great commonwealth
should be made to feel the force
of it.
Year: 1877

The banks of the Thames are
lined with mosquitoes, which have
been brought to London in cargoes
of foreign grain. One of the things
upon which Londoners have al
ways prided themselves has been
that this annoying insect was not
to be found in their city.
Year: 1877

1t warns the charitable heart
to see the smile Of peaceful sat
isfaction that creeps over the
face of the man who finds in
these hard times n few days
more of wear in a pair Of dis
carded boots.
Year: 1877

BY The laws of Florida no
man who has lost an arm or leg,
no matter how or when, or from
what cause, can be taxed for
any business he may enter into,
always excepting the liquor bu-
siness.
Year: 1877

Her husband had been playing
base ball, and when the doctor
came she explained: "POOr A.
dolphu-! lie got pitcher in his
center field, and he can't walk"
The doctor thought it more likely
that he had been playing short
stop to a jug.
Year: 1877

Greene, being unaccustomed to
field service, contracted sickness
from the cause stated in the letter
above quoted, and has criticised
the sanitary condition of Russian
headquarters in a manner that. has
given ofense. 1t is generally ad-
mitted here that the secretary Of
war made mistake in detailing so
young an officer as Lieutenant
Greene for Russia. The lieutenant
was acting as private secretary to
the secretary of war when detailed
for this service.
Year: 1877

AiO apoolH VI du EuSllSlL sup
just arrived in port relates a singu-
lar story which is worth adding to
the already extensive budget of
marvellous tales of the ocean. The
names of captain and ship are not
given, as sailors are proverbially
sensitive about their veracity and
there is strong flavor of romance
in the shippers anecdote.


The official log contains this en-
try: august 15, latitude =,
longitude =, James Cotton, stow
away, fell from the fore-top-gallant
yard to the deck and was instantly
killed.


"August 16, latitude =, longi-
tude -, William Bean, an ordinary
seaman, while the funeral service
was being read over the body of
Cotton, jumped from the top-gal-
liant rail and sank Immediately.
Ship hove to at the time. A boat
was lowered but no traces of the
man was discerned."


"That," said the captain, sis an
entry that gives the key to the yarn
I'll spin you," as Mail reporter
sat in his cabin yesterday afternoon
after the monday meal.


=" / shipped Bean in Liverpool.
He was tall good looking young
fellow, and did not appear to be
much Of a seafaring man by his
appearance, but he had couple of
good discharges and | took him.
After he went forward among the
men | did not notice him again un.
til the second day out. The mate
came aft lugging along a little bit
Of a fellow, with short curly hair
and a round face, whom he had
found slowed away under the fore
hatch. A lot of the men got around
to see what | was going to say
about it,"


"What the blazes made you hide
away in my ship?" l said. He
didn't answer word, and seemed
scared to death. Then Bean stepped
ont and said:


81 know that young man, Cap
tain; he is an old chum of mine.
He wanted to get passage to Cali
lornia and had no money"


81 swore some at them both and
sent Cotton off in charge of the third
mate, who soon got him to work
on a broom. He handled the
broom pretty well, and took sort of
to polishing up the brass work and
seemed so inclined to be industrious
that | took him ont Of the mates
watch and gave him odd jobs
about the cabin, lending the stew
ard d hand, and so on. He had
all night in and better grub than
they got in the forecastle, but he
used to always slip some of it for
ward to Bean. Those two were a
good deal together on Beams watch,
and Cotton would sometimes stay
up all night with him. Then he
got to like going aloft, and used to
hand the royals as well as any ordi-
nary seaman ON board. One day
the mate said to me "I heard
those two men, Bean and Cotton,
talking together last night, sir, and
there was something queer about
it. Bean was telling him that his
mother and brothers would never
forgive him and the best thing to
do when he got to San Francisco
would be to write to some friend at
home, but not to let his people
know where he was. Cotton was
crying and seemed to feel very bad.
Then they saw me aud shut up.
/ think Bean has made that boy
Year: 1877

Twenty Thousand People
old and young, every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tising; for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisement in paper. especially thsir
church paper, take it as guarantee Of 70.
sponsibility. Such confidence should not be
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,


The Advertising Patronage
of such business men and firms as we can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising the character of the
paper.


Our Terms shall be In Harmon


with the Business. OutIOOh.


Sand In your r,,,o..
Year: 1877

Tue VALUE OF THE APPLE-Ata recent
meeting Of the New York Farmers' Club
member said that OF all the fruits grown III
the Northern States The apple is the most
easily raised. the cheapest aud most durable,
and gave the following rotation in the culture
Of orchards ss one that has been successfully
practiced The fret year ploW, manure and
plant potatoes; the second year plow, manure
and SOW oats and clover, and NOW the oats for
fodder the third year take off the clover
crop and plow in the fall, preparatory to the
potato crop. which is to follow. Thus the
land Hill be mapured two years ont Of the
thres. good crop of oats and clover taken
of and = tolorable crop of potatoes, without
apparent injury to the trees. In selecting
trees, varieties such as come into use at diff
ferent seasons should be introduced. SO as to
secure . supply for the whole year. Ihe
COMMON error of setting the trees too near


each ether was referred to and cautioned
sg.inst by this member, who thought that
thirty feet apart is much better than nearer.


as apples require both sun and air. No fruit
unless il be the grape. is more dependent on


the sun for its favor and color than the apple
Year: 1877

A WELL BEHAVED SECTION The New
York Jourmutof Commerce bestows deserved
praise upon the orderly and law-obeying con-
due, of the Southern workingmen during the
recent strikes. Ii says: alt Is true that the
cities of the South are not as crowded as
those of the North with men who csnnot get
work. or tramps or dissatisfied labOrers But
the real reason for the quiet Of the South
when all the other parts of the country were
overrun by mubs was the peaceful disposition
of her people. If the poorer whites of the
South had felt quarrelsome either toward the
rich railroad companies or individuals, or
toward the colored race, they would not have
failed to show their teeth during The late
riots. That they went through all that week
of crisis and kept The peace in Richmond.
Charleston, Savannah. Mobile. New Orleans.
and other large cities of the South. where
there were few regular or volunteer soldiers
on hand to keep order, is q tes, proof of their
willingness TO obey the laws, to work for =
living, and to dwell in smIiy with all men,"
Year: 1877

When a man with a rubber overcoat
on comes in ont of the rain and backs
up to the stove 10 warm himself, every
body in the room stops talking politics
and begins to look around for something
to throw.
Year: 1877

HORSE THROWS A TRAIN FROM THE TRACK.


PROVIDENCE, r. l., Sept 13. 1877.


Shore Line train bouud New York this alter
room was struck near Richmond switch by q runaway
horse which da she'd under the smoking car, knock
ing out pair of trucks throwing the train from
the track and breaking the air brake so as 10 hinder
Efforts to stop the train. Fortunately 10 one was
hurt although ali wero IN extreme peril, the
ran over a small bridge on the tnlbers. Inward and
outward bound trans were delayed about an hour.
Year: 1877

A duty assigned to the police was to
watch all strangers that came into the
city, and whittle every suspicious person
out of town. This whiting process was
peculiar. Some ten or fifteen Mormons
would get around the man they wanted
to drive away, each with a keen ground
butcher-knife and piece of soft wood in
bis hands. They would crowd close uE
to him and commence whialing, all cut
ting toward him, but no one apparently
paying the least attention to the stran


ger. Surrounded and threatened thus


the poor man was compelled to retrea


from the town. On his return ne was
surrounded by whittlers whiting, whit


tling, some of them making skittish lun


ges toward mis- breast and arms. II h'
was foolish enough to resist or threaten
he was very likely to be put out of th'
way.-Supplemental Confession Of Joh'
| d. Lee. hrs
Year: 1877

Virginia Nev.] Chronlcie.)


A young man on South B street few
nights ago was informed by the matron
of the house that her daughter was put
ting the children to bed, but would be in
presently, and she left the young man
alone in the parlor. Just then three lit
tie things came rushing into the room
clad in the costume generally noticeable
in the cherubs and cupids that dance
along the corners of valentines and mar
riage certificates They rushed right in
and began climbing upon the young
mans knees. They had evidently just
come from the bath, and their white skins
were slippery with soap suds.


"Ob, Charley Did 90 tum to see sis
ter Lucy ?"


"Say, tant we stay up and watch you
play tards and dominoes f''
While these damp divinities of the nur-
sery were drying themselves on his Law.
.ender pants sister Lucy came in, and the
way she snatched those young ones into
the adjoining room and laid the house
hold law down with the back of a hair
brush made the young mans blood run
cold.
Year: 1877

There were two Of them hanging over
the front gate the other night. She was
standing within the yard and he on the
sidewalk outside, both leaning on the top
rail,and apparently as happy as two pigs
in cornfield. He was saying, "Now,
my own little darling, sweet idol of my
soul, whose image is ever on my heart
when he saw the old man coming
down the front walk, and continued in a
different strain, "The potato bugs have
mt destroyed our crops so much since
we purchased Paris green, and you will
find also that cabbage can be raised bet


ter on richer SOIL" The old gentleman
heard it and turned back, saying as he
entered the house, "These young people
take more interest in agricultural affairs
than people generally suppose"
Year: 1877

bed OF rank grass and dry weeds quar-
ter OF a mile away they saw the shadow
reckoning them to come forward. The
shadow seemed to be mana gaunt
long-haired human being, dressed in
rags, which had once been an army uni
form. 1t held up in the air and shook
at them carbine and saber, and when
they galloped away it sent leaden bal
whistlihg past their heads.
Year: 1877

Beautiful Peace, thou that wanderest long,
Hail we thy presence with jubilant voice;
May thy white wings watt our worshipful song
Far to the eastward, where men have made


choice


Blind to the grace of thee-choice that is


wrong!


Oh, may they hail thy return with delight
Grateful and sweet as the joys of our song;
Beam with thy eye in that kingdom Of night
' -,rl HARVEY HOWARD.
Year: 1877

last of evils. 1t is nevertheless true
that there is a large number of peo-
pie here who would welcome it as
an agreeable substitute for the pre-
vailing torpor and stagnatiOn. 1t
would set the currents of life in
motion, and many could find means
Of existence that are now wanting
to them. And yet its demoralizing
effects are visible on every side.
The prolonged absence of men from
their homes materially changes
their moral tone and habits. They
fall into reckless ways Of life, and
waste time and energy in drinking
and smoking and idle pastimes
Vicious women multiply, and de-
prayity of all kinds increases. AT
this day there is more dissolutenes'
and wickedness Of a certain kind in


Berlin than in any other European
capital.
Year: 1877

Here's the story of an unfortu-
nate young Paris lawyer. This
unlucky wight was head over heels
in love with beautiful girl and
was about to be married to her.
On the eve of the wedding day he
was called in to defend an awful
miscreant-a man of thirty, who
had poisoned his mother and father.
The case seemed a lost enc, and


when the prosecution had closed,
the young lawyer was just about
giving up the struggle without an
effort Suddenly he perceiyes in
the extremity of the courtroom his
beloved and her parents, who had
come to see what kind of stuff he
was made of. The presence of the
one he worships changes his train
of thought. He feels that he must
Year: 1877

IT seems we were mistaken in
supposing that Plattevillc would put
no obstacles in the way Of the mar
row gauge extension toward Wing
vile. On the contrary, says the
Witness, there is very strong feel
ing on the part of the people there
to 'leave no stone unturned to pre-
vent the narrow gauge officers from
violating their contract with the
town Of Platteville.' A meeting Of
the citizens is called for on the Goth,
to determine what line of attack
against the railroad shall be pur-
sued by the officers of the town.
This looks like determined opposi-
ton to the extension.
Year: 1877

BUSINESS WITH PLEAsURE.-The
pastor of a church in this county
advertises in the Democrat for some
enterprising man to open grocery
and dry goods store adjoining his
sanctuary and as a special induce
ment says: "On Sundays, the farm
ers coming to church could after
service get their mail etc, at the
store" For further particulars apply
at the Democrat office.