smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

as she saw the engineer put his hand on
the throttle valve.


Il must, marm: We are getting out
OF water, and perhaps We can learn
something Of the runaway


The sudden arrival Of a solitary en-
CINE. containing two men and woman,
startled the station master. and he
came out to see what it meant. lie
seemed to guess at the truth, for he
said


After the runaway car "


Yes, yes,' said the woman. There
we're three children inside


oh, marm. I'm sorry for ye! 1t
went past here going twenty miles an
hour. 1t came down grade all the way
but the up grade begins about two miles
out. was inside when it passed, and
didn't see 1t till it had gone past the
door,


How long it took to I'll the tender!
The engine stood hot and smoking by
The water tank. and the water came out
in a slender stream, while the poor
mothe. stood looking on, fearful and
impatient.


Good bye!' said the station master
'I'l put up the pipe. Heaven help
ye!-the up grade


The rest was lost. for the engine shot
ahead on and on out over the open
prairle. The water tank seemed to
sink down into the earth, and the shin
inc rails stretched longer and longer out
behind. All! What was that? A cloud
of steam on the horizon lar ahead. The
eno,neer took cut his time book and
studied it carefully. Freight No. e,
bound west, stopping on the two mile
siding. How swiftly Freight No. e rose
above the grass and grew big along the
way! Listen! A whistle! The engn-
eer whls,led in reply and shut off steam.
The engine quickly slowed down, and
they could see men leaning cut from
the other engine, as If to speak to them.
'It's ten minutes back. Running slow
on the main line-road clear


Thank heaven y said the woman
The engineer said nothing ; but at that
instant the engine gave a great leap
and shot ahead at the rate of fifty miles
an hour up the easy grade. How long
the minutes seemed. and yet each meant
almost a mile! Ah! A speck-a black
dot on the horizon! The car! Yes. 1t
was the car. It grew bigger and big
GER. Now they could see it plainly
Rut the children. Where were they :
The fireman sprang out through the
forw ard window and ran along the en-
gine and down upon the COW catcher
The monster began TO slacken its terri
BILE pace. and in moment it struck the
car with a gentle jar and stopped. The
fireman thought himself lively man.
but The woman was before him and
sprang up into the car. There they
Law. safe and sound, in the corner OF the
car-Mary and Tommy fast asleep and





Kitty watching over them.


oh, mother! | knew you would
come. Mary and Tommy cried them
selves to sleep. and H.


Nobody said word. The fireman
| tired to rub his eyes, and only marked
his face with black streaks. The moth
or laughed and cried all at once. The
engineer picked up the little ores an'
quietly took them into tue cab OF the
engine.


There, now, my heartles, you have
had a risky ride but it's right. Come
We're more than thirty miles from
home, and it won't do to be late i(
dinner. Fire up. jack Aye aye
sir said Jack. .-NOrthwestern Chr'sttd'
Adrocdte.
Year: 1879

A young mother was giving TO her
son aged five years, touching descrip-
lion of the misery into which the prodi-
gal sou had fallen. Far away from
home and his kind father, obliged 10 take
care OF swine, with nothing to eat but
the husks ofcorn left by them etc.
Then, why didn't he cat the lig p WIS
the practical reply.
Year: 1879

Young people should marry late in
the fall. Cold weather approaches and
the momenious question, Who shall
get up first aud build the fire p presents
itself before the honeymoon ha. wahed
long enough 10 settle which Of the drm
is 10 be the boss.
Year: 1879

Last gear every female was crazy fer
a pair Of sixieen-button kid glores.-
This year all are satisfied with two
button kids if they can only have the
widest surcinsls ever worn by horse or
woman.
Year: 1879

dom to make it so. Still there are some
industries so national in their chaaacter and
results as to make proper the inquiry if they
may not be proftably assisted by national
contribution. Mr.. Blaine thinks iron ship
building is one of these, and certainly his
opinion is entitled to great weight, especially
as his view seems to be sustained by the
practice of other nations.
Year: 1879

THE Chairman of the late Greenback
State Convention says the editors of Chase's
Chronicle wanted to run the convention. If
so they made mistake in not applying to the
chairman. We haven't the slightest doubt
that Mr.. Rust would have given 5000 any
time during the afternoon to anybody to
take the lob off his hands,
Year: 1879

LEO MILLER, who was the chief Green
back orator in the State last year, said in a
recent speech at Lewiston that there were
only two financial systems-the hard-money
and the Greenback systems, and there was
no middle point between these Mr.. Miller
evidently doesn't like the half and half
platform of the Portland convention.
Year: 1879

IT looks as ifone of the prominent Green
back editors of the State would have about all
hewill be able to attend to this summer in the
deep concern to him than the currency
o,,act;np
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for pubea-
ton but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
journal
Year: 1879

BELFAST Journals comments ON the call
for the Democratic State Convention: The
resolution devoted to the money question is
somewhat equivocal-purposely so no doubt.
1t might as well have read national banks"
as to use the words privileged corpora
tions," and the declaration in favor of gov
ernment paper money ''to be kept at par
with gold and silver is simply the 'Ohio
idea," and an absurd idea at that. There is
no power available or even known, that can
keep paper money at par as proposed Should
the Ohio idea find expression in legislation
the first result would be the withdrawal of
gold and silver from circulation, and they
would once more become commodities, as in
the days of imitation through which we have
passed This resolution, or declaration, Or
whatever it may be called, goes too far
to suit hard money Democrats and not
far enough to please the Greenbackers, and
it certainly will not be responded to by co.
600 Democratic voters in this State, or even
one third of that number.
Year: 1879

THE EXCURSION TO OLD POINT NEXT SAT-
Il Number OF tickets nave
been SOLD for the Nonpareil excursion to
Old Point on Saturday morning next on
the Ariel. and the indications are that 1t will
be most enjoyable affair. Tickets may be
had at various points in the city, but they
cannot be bought on the boat.
Year: 1879

1t can no longer be said with truth, if it
ever could, that the questions which divide
the two great political parties of the coun-
try are trivial. The action of the Congress
sional majority this session, and the stand
taken by the minority, indicate the issue
upon which the next political campaign will
be fought. That issue is one that most of
us had supposed done away with forever.
1t was believed that the triumph of the Ma
tional authority in the war of the Rebellion
had given the death-blow to Calhounism.
But the old heresy of State Rights in its
broadest and most radical form is again as
serted. Upon that dogma the Democratic
party makes its stand. 1t has been for some
time avowedly in search of an issue. 1t has
found this one, and goes before the people
with it. The supremacy of State over Ma
tional authority is the doctrine it breaches.
This dogma of State sovereignty is confess
sedly the political doctrine on which the
Southern Confederacy was based, and by
which secession was excused or justified'
The South attempted to maintain the dog
ma by force of arms and in that attempt had
the sympathy-though rprudentialreaso
active support was withheld,-of a large
portion of the Northern Democracy. De-
feated on the battlefield the South carries
it's quarrel into the legislature. 1t is sure of
the support of its Northern allies there, for
they do not peril life in the fight,-only self
respect and reputation.


Well, the Republicans welcome the issue.
If the fight must be fought again, the sooner
battle is joined the better. Upon the ques-
ton whether the Federal or the Confederate
idea shall prevail in this government the
Republicans gladly go before the people,
confident that now, as in times past, the
country will sustain them.
Year: 1879

THE Boston Herald thinks that in the
contest between the Democratic Congress
and the Republican Pre- sident the advant-
age is with the Republicans, because the
jury to decide-the people of the North-do
not feel that there is a real grievance in the
use of the army, and, therefore, do feel that
the Democrats have unnecessarily raised
the issue. For this reason, though the
President might sign the last bill without
danger to the country, his refusal to sign it
will not make any political capital for the
Democrats in the North, where it is most
needed y
Year: 1879

THE Sun thinks the Democrats will be
beaten if they pass the appropriation bills
and the World thinks they will be beaten
if they cont. The only thing left for the
Democracy to do is to take to the woods.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and eommuni-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubea-
tion but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1879

Turner's Falls Reporter 1t is now said by a
scientific authority, that sleep commences in
the feet and extends to the head. Possibly the
custom of sitting with the feet towards the
pulpit may have something to do with it.
Year: 1879

Ex. After an enthusiastic lover spends two
hours hard labor over letter to his girl, and
then mars its beauty by spilling drop of ink
on it, he first swears in very scientific man.
ner for few moments and then draws circle
around the blot and tells her it is kiss.
Year: 1879

Ex-CoNGREssMAN HALE has been inter-


viewed by New York reporter and hurried
ly said ''Sorry have no time to talk with
you, but 1 have only five minutes to spare if
/ catch the train. One thing l would like
to say, though. l have been at home and
on the wing for the past two months, and
have seen enough to convince me that upon
the issues which the Democrats are making
the Republican party is getting into better
fighting trim than it has been in for years.
The Presidents veto of the army bill was
welcomed by every Republican with whom 1
have talked, and the fact that the party in
the executive and Observation-Disclosures was
pulling together has made a heartier feeling
than l have known since 1872. My judgment
is that the under-current is much stronger
than is generally believed. There will be
deal of hard fighting to do, but am a bad
guesser if the end of the year does not see us
dominant in all contested States in which
elections are to be held in 1879" Mr.. Hale
packed good deal of sense into few words.
Year: 1879

Louisville Courier-Bournal; The old gentle
man who threw the paper down the other
morning with the ejaculation, "Oh, there's
nothing in it!' and went out to look at his
garden, was the same one, who, coming back
half an hour later and discovering that his
wife had cut up the paper into pat
terms, thereupon ripped around like a yellow
jacket, broke an important commandment and
a window pane by kicking a cat through it
turned over carpet and the baby, and finally
departed with slam of the door that clattered
the crockery to the uttermost parts of the
house, and with withering malediction on
these gawl-busted women, anyhowp'
Year: 1879

How Detroit NeiRhbors Help a Man


In Distress.


Detroit Free Press.


Just as the rays of the setting sun were
gliding the church spires and whitewashlng
the back kitchens of Detroit the other after
noon, a. man and barrel were discovered
at stairway on Monroe avenue. He was
small man and it was big barrel, and
pedestrians who saw him looking up the
stairs and back at the barrel inferred that
it was his intention to elevate it to the third
story. But how?


"Pd rig tackle and pulley in that third
story window" said the first man who halt
ed. "Thats your easiest way, and there's
no danger Of accident"


He leaned on lamp-post to calculate on
the length of a rope and the lifting power
required, and along came second man who
took in the situation at glance and said
"Go and get some scantling fourteen feet
long and lay 'em on the stairs. Then two
men can roll that barrel up there as slick
as grease"


The little man looked around in help.
less sort of a way, and third man came
clustering up and called out


"Want TO get that barrel up stairs, eh
! Well, now. fasten your pulley at the head o
the stairs and ten men down here can snak,
the barrel up in no time. Where's you
tackle


By this time the crowd had increased t.
twenty, and was pretty evenly divided be
tween dead lift through one of the from
windows and a pulley at the top of the stairs
but the man who suggested the skids had ;
very lond voice, and was determined to car
ry his point; taking off his coat, he said:


81 know what Pm talking about. and
say that can skid that barrel up ther'
alone. You just wait a minute.


He crossed the street to an untinishe,
building and returned with couple of tw
by four scantlings and laid them on tn
stairs, and the crowd now numbered fifty.


You want this barrel on the third floor
do you? ?" he asked the little man.


"Yes-but-but-"


"But what?"


"Why, l was waiting for my wife to ge
the clothes horse out of the upper hall
She's all ready now, and I'll take it up"


And the little man shouldered the barre
and trotted briskly up stairs between tn
skids. 1t was empty.
Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this occasion
the people of Yankton particularly, and to his
friends throughout Dakota and Nebraska for the generous
patronage which has been bestowed upon the late firm OF
DUDLEY & HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and he now
desires call the attention Of these friends and that of
the people generally the enlarged facilities eten
roo1ns which the late
firm had provided and which the of Dudley
& Hawey possesses.


In the line of the trade
Of Tn Copper and Sheet Iron Ware claims
tabshment equal in all anything the north



In the future by constant application business he hopes
the Hardware trade Of the which naturally
utar to to this point here shall spare
make it for the interest Of the people within this
chase their Hardware Tinware Copper ware
Stoves, and all other articles in this line


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWLEY.


Union Block, Third ST.
Year: 1879

minister, member of the Society Of
Friends desires to have general notice
given that she expects to attend the
NEE ting on West street, between Fourth
and Fifth, on First day morning at ~
o'clock,
Year: 1879

PlfkeFbuTg Journal.


There has been considerable discussion
INDUCED in Of late as to when the people
can vote on the question Of the county Is
suing bonds in aid oil the railroad enter
prise whether at special or at the gen
eral election. We have taken the pain,
to huntup the law iu the case and find thai
it must be done at the general election oil
State and county officers. THIS will ne
cCssitate the postponement bi action BY
those counties Interested in the matter
until next October. But as q large amount
ot preliminary work must be done before
that point In the enterprise Is reached, w
presume that the intervening time will b.
probably occupied.
Year: 1879

The Committee on Grain of the Produce Exchange
established yesterday grades of corn and barley.
The grades of corn the same those estab-
lished last year. but the committee have ordered
that the arriving on or after October 8.
1873. grading No. or higher. shall have the word
"new prcaxed to the grade until Jsrsiary 1. 1880.
and that there shall be distinction between old
and in the grades below No. 2. There are
only two changes in the grades Of barley. The hrst
provides that No. state barley. two rowed. shall be
Of bright natural color. plump, sound and well
cleaned. and weighing not less than forty nine in
stead OF forty-eight, pounds to the measured
bushc; and the second states that No. state bar
ley two-rowcd, shalt be sound. reasonably clean,
but in color not good enough for No. l and weigh
ing not less than instead of forty soven
pounds TO the measured bushel Chairman derrick
after the first call advised the grain trade to drop
the grade OF No. amber wheat from the CALL in
view of the lack of interest in it, and the same was
agreed to- subject to the approval of the Floor Com
.ff.n
Year: 1879

New YORK, Nov. %. 1879.
TO THE EDITOR THE HERALD


Iwouid like to have you publish these few lines
in response to Charles d. Lakey. In regard to the
use OF alum it is fact that a great many English
and Irish. well American. bakers use it. but
will wager Mr.. Lakey that he cannot find in New
York city ten German bakers that use it
or would do In regard to short
weights, I am positive that every right
minded man i'll the baking business would hail
with delight law compelling uniform weight and
price. which would place every baker on an equal
footing with his neishbor and insure better quail
ity Of bread throughout the city. AS 1t is at pres
ent certain company is cutting the business so
that a man using good -four cannot compete with it.
am convinced that some bakers alum in order
to bring their bread up to the requisite color Of
other bakers who use q much better class OF -four.
l am also positive that bakers, as o rule are more
cleanly than tcnths Of all the cooks and house
wives in existence Cleanliness is the most i'm
portant part of the business, and no baker have
good bread who is not particular III this respect


HENRY UNGRICH Jr.
Year: 1879

A man cannot afford to be unfnithful
under any circumstances; cannot afford
to be mean at any time; cannot afford to
do less than his best st all times and
under all circumstances. No matter
how wrongfully you are placed. and no
matter how unjustly you are treated,
you cannot for your own sake afford to
use anything but your best self, nor to
render anything but your best service;
you cannot afford to lie to q liar; you
cannot afford to do other than deal up
rightly with any man, no matter what
exigencies may exist between him and
you. No man can afford to be anything
but true man, living in his highest ma
ture, and acting from the highest consid-
Grafton.
Year: 1879

If you pay half dollar admission
to a concert or any other entertainment,
you have right to the undisturbed en-
joyment of that which you pay for ; and
persons who come tramping into the
room while the entertainment is in pro-
gress, or 90 tramping out before it is
concluded, or who by hustle or whisper
ing prevent you from hearing what you
came to hear, are robbing you of what
belongs to you. These persons, of
course, would not steal half a dollar out
of your pocket book but if they will
fully spoil that which costs you half
dollar, their act is essential larceny.
Well-bred persons never do any Of these
things, because well.bred persons are
always careful to respect the rights of
others.


If you pay for one seat in railway
car you are entitled to that one seat
but if You occupy two seats, while any
decent person who has paid for one seat
has no seat at all, you are simply
robbing that person of what belongs to
him. The writer of this not long ago
saw well dressed lady sit for an hour
and look in the face Of an equally well
dressed gentleman who stood all that
time and held young child in his arms
because there was no vacant seat in the
car save one in which the lady had put
some small parcels Of hers, and which
she did not offer to relinquish. The
man had paid for the seat, and it did
not belong to her She would have
been greatly insulted if she had been
called robber but what was shedoingf
In some way she ought to have been
delicately admonished that to take what
does not belong to her is not one of the
rights of women, and that it is evidence
OF a lack of good breeding.


You secure, by the payment of good
sum, berth in sleeping car. That
should entitle you to immunity from
disturbance by your fellow passengers.
Unhappily it does not alwayg. Not
long ago o train stopped at midnight in
large town at the West, where it was
to remain for twenty minutes Into the
sleeping car of that train came three
passengers, two males and female. 1t
appeared that they had just met in the
station, and on entering the car were ex-
changing loud greetings. They sat
down in one of the sections and went on
with their conversation without any
lowering of their tones. The porter Of
the car was absent while the train
waited in the station, and after no re-
turned he seemed TO be too timid to re-
buke the takers, so they kept on for the
best part of an hour, talking and laugh.
ing much louder after the train started
than before. The fact that there were
q dozen other passengers in that car, all
of whom were in their berths, and all of
whom had purchased u right to sleep in
the car, was fact Of which they were
utterly oblivious Yet these persons
evidently belonged to what is called
good society. Their language was gram
matical, their dress was faultless, and
one Of the males was clergyman. Ed
itors Table, Good Company. .' .''


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Be Faithful.
Year: 1879

Watering Horses. Horses watered
three times day-morning. noon and
night-will be in far better condition for
work of any kind than if watered half
dozen times, as some people driving al
low their horses to be. They will sweat
less and be more lively, and we believe
Will be in better health. Once day or
twice day even is not sufficient; horses
can get along with it, as can cattle, but
1t IS not advisable or humane. In fields
where there are full watering-troughs,
cattle will be found to 60 to them about
three times day and horses the same.
Sponging out the mouths Of hores at stop.
ping places we never allow. In the first
pace we do not consider it of any bene-
ut; and in the second it may convey dis
ease from one animal to another.
Year: 1879

pint Of cold water, dissolving in it one
pound OF white sugar. When the syrup
comes to boil add the berries; stir them
to keep them under the syrup and also to
prevent burning at the bottom. Let
them 6o1 twenty minutes and have your
moulds previously wet with cold water
before pouring in the jelly.
Year: 1879

Notice is hereby given that under and by vir-
tue of judgment entered on the Sd day of
February. lS79 in the District Court. second
Judicial district, Ramsey county, State of Mime
sota against the hereinafter described real estate
situate, lying and being in said city and county,
on an assessment warrant for