smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

A not unusual kind of bride is that
sangulne creature who believes that life
IS now to be all honey and butter, and
that never a cloud will cast it's shadow
over the sunny sky. All is so new-and
1t will never grow old2 Holiday time
has come in perpetuity, and there are to
be no more painful lessons of duty to
learn, and DO more disagreeable tasks of
self-suppression to fulfill. Tempers, dis
putes, peevlshness, anxieties, are buried
beneath the sugar and almond of the
wedding-cake, and life is to be fairy
tale, where "they live happily for ever
after'' finishes the picture. Ali the buttons
Will keep sewed to the shirts, and there
never will be pair of socks to darn. If
children come they will be born like so
many little doves, and give no more
uouble than covey of cherubs fitting
about the house. She looks forward to
halcyon sea which not the faintest rip-
pie is to disturb, and in her world blight
and storms are to be unknown. Her also
we pity, poor, self -deceiving creature
taking life as she does at such a false
angie, and looking at the dust and ashes
OF inevitable decay or sure disappoint-
ment through spectacles of such deluding
rose-color. She has not the faintest
Idea that her huband will ever cease to
be her lover, and she imagines that the


poetic exaltation of the courtship--- the
raptures of ho1eymoon---a to continue
far into old age. Of the sense of reality
she is absolutely destitute; and her
reasoning faculties are lost for the time
IN the rainbow LINED cloud Of hope and
exultation. Perhaps her marriage has
taken her from an uncongenial home, and
she is elated and full of hope in conse-
quence. Reality will waken her up soon
enough, poor soul! Meanwhile we, who
see the FOOLS paradise in which she is
Year: 1879

Let US not forget that the first great
glory of man in all ages and everywhere
Is the earnest fultilment OF those duties
which belong to bis earthly pilgrimage.
Even as the mighty oak is unfolded from
the simple germ contained in the acorn,
even so must the souls great heritage in
the future lite be developed from the
humble treasures of this present existence.
1t would be q great mistake to presume
that the riches of our higher life are to be
had for the asking; they Can only be had


by those who deserve them. It is here
ths. we must SOW good seed--Aere. upon


shis changing scene OF mortaity--here, in


the midst OF llfe's rude battles and trials
If we would reap a grand harvest from
the boundless fields of the Everlastino
Year: 1879

A Chicago dispatch reads as follows
With party of friends, including sever
al ladies', Gen. Ulysses S. Grant dined the
other evening in the public dining hall of
the Palmer House. OF course, when his
presence became known, the guests Of the
hotel made it point to dine at the same
hour. The room was full of fashionably
dressed men and women. Grants demean-
or at the table was watched with natural
curiosity, in order to ascertain how far his
manners had been improved by his trave
and intercourse with the upper circles of
European society. The table at which Gen.
eral Grant and his friends were seated was
remote from the entrance of the room.
When the ex President of the United States
had finished his dinner he tipped his chair
back, and without remark he drew'from his
pocket cigar case. He deliberately Sc
lected large Havana, bit off the end, called
to the astonished waiter for match, lighted
the cigar and sent clouds of smoke right and
left and upward toward the irescoed cei-
| ling. The guests at the other tables looked
upon this proceeding with undisguised
amazement. One lady arose and left the
room. The ladies of Grants party were
somewhat embarrassed, and hastily made
preparations to depart. Grant, however,
exhibited perfect unconcern. He got up
when his friends arose, and slowly walked
the length of the room, his cigar firmly
held at the sharp angle between his teeth
putting vigorously away. AS soon as the
ex-President's party disappeared and the
disgust had subsided, commercial traveller
who had been sitting not far from Grant,
drew a cigar from his pocket, lighted it and
ssuntered down the room, "this is free
country" he remarked, "snd one citizen ID


as good as another, here or any where else.
This occurrance was witnessed by more than


hundred people and is still the talk of the


hotel.
Year: 1879

Two persons were born at the same place
and at the same moment of time. After an
age of fifty years they both died at the same
instant-yet one lived one-hundred days
more than the other How was this possible?
not to keep our friends in suspense, the SO.
luton turns on curious, but, with lit
tie reflection, very obvious point in cir
cumnavigstion. A person going around
the world to the west loses day, and to-
ward the east he gains one. Supposing,
then, two persons were together at the Cape
of Good Hope, whence voyage around the
world may be performed in year. If one
performs this constantly to thewest, in
fifty years he will be fifty days behind
the stationary inhabitants, and if the other
sails equally toward the cas-, he will be fifty
| days in advance Of them. One therefore =,
will have seen one hundred days more than
the other, though they were born and died
10 the same place, and at the same moment, ,
and even lived in the same latitude, and
reckoned time by the same calendar.
Year: 1879

cisco. Finding this not only expen-

 sive. but g great drawback to their

 ability to supply the increasing

 demand for their beer, they com

 menced the commodious malt house

 just finished. This malt hOuse, the

 largest and most complete in the Ter ritory, consists of fine malt cellar, the walls and floor of which are ce- mented, a malt floor and a malt kiln, the furnace, pipes, etc, of which were expressed from San Francisco at great expense and trouble With their present improvement, they will experience no trouble whatever in filling any demand which may be made on them, either for malt or beer, and from present indications their capacity will be fully tried in a short while, as orders have already been received from Gillettt and other places for malt,
Year: 1879

Having gone into other business, l now offer for sale first class we'll boring and rock drilling machine. The machine is almost new. It can be seen at the Ice factory. Good live stock or other first class property will be taken Tn exchange for it. Call on or address George Lount, Phoenix.
Year: 1879

No employee of this office, agent 9r other person is authorized to make purchases or contract debts for and on account of the HERALD No bills against the HERALD will be recognized except for purchases and con tracts made by the proprietors personally CT upon their write order.
Year: 1879

How TO SUccEED.-Long and close
observation has satisfied US that the real
obstacle in the way Of fading eFhploRE,
ment does not he in the fact that thE15s !
might be done TO a proft-but ia the
impossibility Of getting work done well.
And the reason work is not well done is
TO be found chiefly in the false notions
OF labor which prevail, and the antago-
nistic feelings which have been sedu-
lousiy cultivated between employers and
the employed.


A man who regards work as a hard
ship, an oppression--who looks upon
the time given TO his employer as n
species OF limited slavery. can never do
anything well. lie must take an in
terest in his work if he would excel.


The true rule for young msTis 10
make himself as useful as possible 10
his employer. He should never feel
satisfied with himself as. long as any
thing in his power 10 doso promote has
employers interest is left undone.


In this way his labor is rendered pro-
fitable. Promotion comes unsOught
and before il is expected. Hero lies
the secret OF suecess.-E Y Ledger.
Year: 1879

LEARNED BY ExPERIENcE.-If your
coal FIRE is low, throw on a table
spoonful of salt, and il will help it very
much. A little ginger put into sausage
meat improves the flavor. In icing
cakes, dip the knife frequently into cold
water. In boiling meat for soup, use
cold water 10 extract the juices. Ii the
meat is wanted for itself alone, plunge
in boiling water at once. You can get
bottle or barrel Of oil of any carpet or
wooden stuff by applying dry buckwheat
plentigully and faithfully. Never put
wSfer TO such grease spot, or liquid Of
any kind. Broil steak without sailing.
Salt draws the juices in cooking; il is
desirable to keep these in il possible
Cook over hot FIRE, turning frequent
|1y, soaring ON both sides. Place on a
platter; salt and pepper 10 taste. Beet
having tendency to be tough can be
made very palatable by stewing gently
ior two hours, with pepper and salt,
taking out about pint Of the liquor
when half done, and letting the rest
boil into the meat. Brown the meat IN
the pot. AfteK taking up. make q gra-
W Of the pint Of liquor saved. A small
piece Of charcoal in the pot win boiling
cabbage removes the smell. Clean oil
cloth with milk and water: brush and
soap will ruin them. TumbIers that
have had milk in them should never be
put in hos water. A spoonful Of stewed
tomatoes 10 the gravy OF either roasted
or fried meats is an Improvement. The
skin Of a boiled egg is the most efiica-
cious remedy tina. can be applied to q
boil Peel Il carefully, wet and apply II
to The part effected. Il viii draw Of the
matter and relieve the soreness in a
few hours.
Year: 1879

John Brown jr.. is going to Kansas
to help the eolored refugees just as
soon. he says, as he can get his crops
in aud in shape that he can reasonably
hope to keep the wolf from his own
door while he is absent working for
others. He will visit different parts
Of Kansas. and perhaps Colorado, TO
examine that region with reference TO
settlement.
Year: 1879

HIS A,Os1tlchl s'ScCOnO Night" In
. Texas. .s.........
In quoting heretofore from the o.


bove named correspondent Of the New


York Tribune, we expressed the opin.


ion that part OF his mission in Texas


was to try to crente political capital


for the Republican cause. TO show


that we were correct. and his style Of


procedure, we copy his supposed 20.
litical discoveries in this State. lie


starts out with fearful head line, as


10 lows: ...... ..t ..-.r...


AN INToLERANT REBEL DEMO.
1have purposely refrained from any


extended reference in these letters


to the politics of Texas until could


become somewhat acquainted with


the feeling 10 different portions of the


State. Now, after having visited


Southern, Western, Central and North


ern Texas, a few general comments on


this subject would seem not out of place


There is an idea in the North that the


heavy Northern immigration here is


rapidly leavening the hard lump of Tex


as Democracy, and that eventually this
will be Republican State, flauking


the old South and strengthening the


North in case of future sectional con-
troversies. am sorry to say that
there is no ground for this pleasing no
ton. Nowhere is the Southern Dem


ocracy more extreme, intolerent and
ambitious than in this State. Except
in half dozen northern counties the
Northern settlers have made no i'm
Impression. Elsewhere they are swal-
lowed up in tie mass, and find i. COM
Portable to lay aside their opinions
aud 60 with the majority, or to refrain
entirely from political action. Then,
for every immigrant who has come
from the North during the past few
years at least three have come from
the old Slave States, bringing with
them the hatred Of the republican par
ty they imbibed at home, and the de.
termination to make the South power.
full in National politics by its unity.
The great wave Of Southern immiera.
ton which has been flowing into Tex.
as ever since the war closed is made
up of two elements-young men of
good families who come TO seek their
fortunes, and who engage in trade, the
professions and plan ting; and poor
white trash" attracted here by tales Of
the ease with which a living can be
made from the soil. The young men
of education and good family are inten
&c Democrats. They came to manhood
in their old homes during the recon-


traction period, when hatred of the
Republican party was at fever heat,
and when to be anything but Demo
crat was to be looked on as a traitor TO
family friends. society aud to the South
which they were taught to regard as
still a political entity to which their
devotion was due. They have e1trav
agant ideas of the future Of Texas.
They believe the South is destined
again to rule the country, and that
Year: 1879

As an indication of very fair times in Ph9nix we would say that in con versation with our merchants they all report business as extraordinarily good for this season Of the year. Herald.
Year: 1879




A butcher, in provincial town, called
the other day upon his friend, the lawyer,
% consult him upon the following points:
A lady had just been in his shop buying
choice bit Of beef for her worthy husbands
dinner. Her pet dog which accompanied
her forgetting his good manners in the
shop, had, either in snuffing at or tasting
nice roast, tumhled it among the saw
dust wherewith the floor was strewn, and
soiIeG it. His question to the lawyer
was :


''Is this lady bound to pay me for and
receive the said roast and if SO, how
may payment be enforced ?"


The lawyer inquired if the lady was
good customer and being answered in
the affirmative. he said


my advice to you, as friend, would
be not to enforce payment Of the 81 75
(for that was the fall value Of the roast,
because, il you do, you will most likely
lose the family's custom, and that ofsone
of their friends. But, when the lady's
/


] husband looks in, you may take an OPP
portunity of mentioning the circumstance
to i'm, in MS gentle end polite way as
you can and very probably he will pay it
once"


II dare say you're right I'll just fol-
low your advice. and take the liberty Of
telling you the lady was your own wife,"
The lawyer gave good naturtd laugh,
put his hand in his pocket and paid. the
81 IS. The butcher went away in great
glee for he was proud in his shrewdness
in doing" the lawyer. In his exultation
he hurried to his neighbors. the confec-
timer, the grocer and the apothecary, to
tell them Of the capita joke and great
was the chuckling of these cronies over it.
The butchers dreams that night were
pleasant, and on the morrow his temper
was placid and serene he mused Of
spending the half crowns in treating the
grocer, confectioner, and apothecsry.
While in this delighted mood, the post
man handed him a note. 1t was from his
friend the lawyer, and contained an ac-
count.


"a. debtor to D-To consultation,
IS 25."-Phit. Times.
Year: 1879

Buffalo Bill in his autobiography tells
the following story Of his official career in
the far West:


lone morning a man came -ushing up
to my house and said he wanted writ
of replevin to recover possession of n
horse which stranger was taking out Of
the country. ! had no blank forms, and
had not yet received the statutes of Ne
braska TO copy from, so / asked The
man:


"Where is the man who has got your
horse?"


''He is going up the road and is about
two miles away" he replied.


Every well, said L, Il will get the writ
ready in minute or two"


II saddled up my horse, and taking up
my old reliable rife. Lucretia, said to
the man: 'Thar's the best writ of reple-
win that can think of; come along, and
Wen get that horse or know the reason
Why"


We soon overlook the stranger, who
was driving a herd Of horses, and as we
came up to him l said:


'Halio. sir; am an officer and have
an attachment for that hUrse," and at the
same time pointed out the animal.


"Well, sir, what are you going to do
about it?" he inquired.


II propose to take you and the horse
back to post" said l.


You can take the horse, bGt haven Y
the time to return with you"


"You will have to take time, or pay
costs here and now," said /.


"How much are the costs?"


"Twenty dollars"


"Here's the money" said he, as he
handed me the green backs.


l then gave b i'm little friendly advice
and tod him that he was released from
custody. He went on his way, a wiser
and poorer man. while the owner of the
horse and myself returned TO the fort. l
pocketed the twenty dollars, of course,
Some peopIe1night think it was not a
square way of doing business, but 1
didn't know any better just then. l had
several little cases of this kind, and / be-
came better posted on Jaw in the course
of time.
Year: 1879

BURN KEROSENE THE RIGHT Way
A correspondent of the New York S,t,t
calls attention to all consumers OF kero
sene oil to the pernicious and unhealthy
practice of using lamps filed with that
article with the wicks turned down. The
gas which should be consumed by the
flames is by this means left heavily in
the air, while the cost Of the oil thus
saved at present prices would scarce be
one dollar year for the lamps OF II house


hold. His attention was called particu


larly to this custom by boarding in the
country where kerosene was the only
available light. A large family of chill


dren living in the same house were taken
i'll one night, and on going to the nurse-
ry. the mother found the room nearly
sutfocating, with amp turned down
whereupon the physician forbade the use
of lamp at night, unless turned at full
head. He says he could quote many
cases, one of a young girl subject to fits of
faintness, which if not induced, were
greatly increased by sleeping in a room
with the lamps almost turned out. Be
sides the damage of health, it spoils the
paper and curtains, soils the mirrors ard
windows, and gives the whole house an
untidy air ar IN unwhoesome odor.
Year: 1879

A PAINTER of celebrity in Paris, when
his first wife-he has now married another
was sick unto death, was informed by
her OF her great fear of being buried
alive, and thereupon promised to make an
incision in her neck when he thought her
dead. He. however, failed torecolect it.
friend and paying court to the lady he
wished to make successor to the deceased
one. Out OF brown study, he suddenly
exclaimed by Jove, l forgot to cut
my wite's throat" 1t needed long ex-
plantations before the other took him -
Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1879

A LIVE frog was found in the center Of
a solid stone, quarried out at the State
prison last week in Carson. He was in
a little round cavity inches in diameter.
He was II good sized frog and was little
lighter than the natural color. When
his cell was broken into he blnked and
shut his eyes, lying fiat on his belly as if
stunned. Afterwards he reused up and
jumped about little but died in few
minutes. This is the truth, as can be
substsntiated by reliable witnesses. Reno
Gazette.
Year: 1879

i
The custom is now everywhere
for pedestrians to take the


right side Of the walk. The practice
avoids.much confusion, particularly
on frequented walks. The rule has


been 50 thoroughly established that
any person foundlviolating il is set
down as an ignoramus. People now
take the right side as regularly as


they do when they are driving on the


road. This being SO, common sense
suggests that ladies should walk
at the right side Of gentlemen


when they are going in couples. If
they do that, ladies will never be
jostled when meeting other persons
the gentleman being thus always
on the side of contact with people
coming from opposite direction
Gentlemen should abandon the hab-


il Of walking half around them at
every turn of the corner. The old
custom of giving the lady the inside
of the walk, when walking with her,


has.no redeeming feature. Thelady's
comfort and protection.is best insur-
cd by walking at the gentlemen2s
.rightside at all times.
Year: 1879

Garry the radiance Of your sun in
your face; let the world have the ben
eft Of it. Let your cheerfu1ness be
felt for good, wherever you are; and
let your smiles be scattered like sun
beams-"on the just as well as the
unjust" Such q disposition will
yield you a rich. reward, for its hap
py effects will come home to you and
brighten your moments of thought.
Smiles are the higher and better re-
sponses of nature to the emotions of
the soul. Let the children have the
benefit of them, those little.ones who
need the sunshine of the heart to ed
ucate them, and would find d level
for their buoyant natures in the
cheerful loving faces of those who
lead them. Let them not be kept
from the middle aged who need the
encouragement they bring. Give
your smiles also to the aged. They
come to them like the quiet rain Of
summer making fresh and verdant
the long, weary path Of life Be gen
tie and indulgent to all Ylevethe true,
the beautiful, the just, the holy,


Before marriage-Toh, my darling
your voice isas musical to me as a
tvesper bell whose tones fall softly on
the perfumed evening air.. Speak
again, and say those words, my be-
loved, for 1 could listen to your voice
until the stars are distinguished in
everlasting nightF' After marriage
-@Ive had just enough Of your
clappcr old woman, and if you don't
let up Ill leave the house" sii


Conceit is generally proporsionate
with high station, and the greatest
geniuses have not been entirely free
from IL What indeed, is.anbitiop,
but. immediate love. .of praise?
Year: 1879

historians will be slow TO believe that
there was any basis on which TO rest
such an inquiry in the Congress OF the
United States, during the latter part OF
the Nineteenth century. Why then
should not the law of 1855 Be
altered in the manner proposed by this
bill2 1t is said that President Lincoln
signed it, and the inference is that it
would reflect on is memory to change
il. To say the Seast this is a pretty
strong presumption from such q predi-
cate. No man los ed Mr.. Lincoln better,
or honors his meslory more than do,
nor had any one greater opportunity to
learn the constitution of his mind and
character and hiss habits Of thought.
He was large-heagted, wiser than those
rathy for struggling humanity,
without malice, with charity
for erring men, loving his whole
country with deep devotion and intens-
ity, anxious to save it. Believing, as do,
that he was raised up by Providence for
the great crisis of the war of the rebel
lion, l have equal belief that had he
lived we would have been spared much
of the strife of these latter days, and
that we would be on the high-road to
prosperity. Such a man, hating all
forms of oppression and deeply imbued
with the principle that induced the men
of l776 TO resist the stamp tax, would
never have willingly entrusted the
power 10 any one, unless war was ia
grant, TO send troops to oversee an cleo
ton.


/ should have preferred TO vote on the
proposition as an independent bill, be-
cause the practice of both parties Of leg
islating on appropriation bills is more
to be honored in breach than in observ-
ance. II this course had been pursued
it is probable that the whole debate
would have been less acrimonious and
the excitement which has followed it
could never have been worked up to 80
high pitch.


After an executive session the Senate
adjourned.
Year: 1879

armor; and the catastrophe on board the


Thunderer seems to indicate the direction


in which the limit is TO be found. The iron
founders art does not keep progress with
tho need for increased power in can
non, since castings beyond a certain
size cannot be certainly made without
flaws; and however these great guns
are built up the basis is always casting.
Armor can be put on ships as heavily as it
can be foated, and it does not lose in quail
ity by addition. Guns lose in quality in
proportion to the addition of weight. It is
easier to increase the resistance to the di-
rect operation of force than to increase the
power of on implement in which scarcely
calculable forces are to be developed. How
many OF the big guns in the world to-day
are as worthless as the one on the Thun-


derer? Since the mania for this sort OF ar
tillery seized upon governments these cam
non have never been brought into actual
use in any war, and when they are they
may prove worse for the many in the tur-
rets than for anybody. outside. Perhaps on
attempt to lombard positions on the Bos-
phorus would have been absolutely fatal to
several British first rates.