smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Commenting on the evidences of re-
renewed prosperity, which it thinks the
country does not more than half appre-
ciate, the New York Herald closes very
sensible article with the following con-
seryative advice:


Whoever has managed to lay by a
lit..le money has now the Opportunity to
fling it away in speculation. On every
hand citizens are invited to become sud
denly wealthy by putting their means in
mining and other speculative ventures.
We advise everybody to steer clear OF
sdch things. There is, no doubt money
to be made in mines, but it will be
pocketed not by the credoulous public,
but by the gentlemen who dispose OF
stock to A, B and @ as a special favor


The public never gets rich by gambl-
ing. The haste TO be rich brought sor-
row and suffering to hundreds OF thou--
sands in the past ten years, and plunged
the country into the dreary abyss out Of
which it is just now emerging. Another
such fever Of speculation would send us
to n yet lower deep, and leave us there
to founder.


"There is still an abundance Of legiti-
mate and safe securities in which
men can invest their means with GER
tainty Of moderate but constant re-
turn. There will presently be an IN
creasing number of legitimate pow enter
prises, many of which, resting for their
value on real services to the country,
will also be safe. There is land, farming
and city real estate, both new low in
price, and the last to feel the impetus of
q rise; iudicious and careful investments
in real estate at present prices are pretty
certain to bring handsome profits by and
by. All these are real things not fam
cies. They are property sure to rise in
value with the growth of the country,
and having a substantive value they are
safe for investors. But we counsel and
urpe everybody to avoid fancy and Wild
cat investments promising large divi-
dends and sudden fortunes. There ia
nothing in them but loss
Year: 1879

"Thomas is as determined as a rock
about one thing, that when he and
yeaggie are married they are going to
keep house by themselves. The first


Mars in married life is prccarou slime;
make the best of it; dreadful curious,
strange, preCariOus time; and il ever Il
woman wants free room for meditation
and prayer, it is then and, likewise, tho
same with the man. There never was
two persons 50 near alike but what they
was different, and had their different
ways and eccentricities. A woman may
think she knows man just as well as if
she had been through his head number
of times with a lantern; but let her
come to live with him from day to day,
from week to week, in sunshine and in
storm; when dinner is ready at noon
and when it is late; when his boot-iack
il on the nail, and when it is lost; when
stoyepipes are up and when they are
being put up; and in all other trials and
reyerses of life. ] tell you she will come
across little inpatient obstinate strcaks
in him she never laid eyes on before;
little selfish, oYerbearin' streaks. And
the same with her. He may have been
firm as q rock in the belief that he was
marrying an angel, but the very first
time he brings unexpected company
home on washin' day he'll find he hasn't.
They may be awful good principled, well
meaning folks, nevertheless, but there
are rocks they have got to sail around,
and they want strength, and they want
patience, and they want elbow room.
There is another moon, what
you may call the harvest moonof mar
ried life, that rises to light true married
lovers on their pilgrimage. It may not
be so brilliant and dazzling as the honey
moon, but its light is steady and calm,
and mellow as anything, and it shines all
the way down to the dark valley, and
throws its pure light clear across it to
the other side. X \ Then, if they
want to take in few infrm, or even
bed-ridden relations on his side or on
hers, let 'ern take 'em in; it would be
perfectly safe"
Year: 1879

The Rev. T. De Witt TaImage is print
ing some characteristic sketches of Eng
lish scenes and life. This shows how he
came out of a coal pit:


But we must say goodbye to these
underground workers. We get into the
cage" and prepare for ascent. The
guides warn us that as we near the top
and the speed of the cage" is slackened
the sensation will be somewhat distress
ing.


Sureienoughl We get aboard, throw
our arms over the iron bat with stout
hug; the signal Of GAN ready" being
given we fly upward. Coming near the
top at the slackening speed it seems as
if the rope must have broken and that
we are dropping to the bottom of the
mine. A few slight "OhsW and the de-
lusion passes, and we are in thesun-light
Bless God for this heavenly mixturel
There is nothing like it. No artifce can
successfully initiate it.


need to spend n few hours deep
Is Il English mine to appreciate


In the contrast it seems more mellow,
AiVit Bblbtllt HlbiC SHllNutlHH- IOu
take off your hat and bathe in it. You
feel that the world needs more of it.
Sunshine for the body. Sunshine for
the mind. Sunshine for the soul. Sun
shine of earth. Sunshine of heaven.


In the words of the old philosopher,
"Stand out of my sunshincw Look
hereI Why do we want any more Of
these miners lamps! They might as
well be extinguished. Their faint
flicker is absurd in the face of the noon
day. They were useful to show us where
to tread among the seams of coal. They
were good to light up the genial faces Of
the miners while we talked to them about
their wages and their families.


lamps are valuable in mine. But
blow them out, now that we stand under
the chandelier which al twelve O'Clock
noon hangs pendent from the frescoed
dome Of these blue English heavens. SO
all the tallow dips of earthly joy will be
submerged when the Old Belfry of the
next world strikes twelve for celestial
noon,
Year: 1879




Don't Judge man by his clothes.
Can you tell what the circus is going to
be like by looking Mt the Italian sunset
pictures ON the fence. DO you value a
turkey for its plumage And isn't the
skin of the mink the most, and, indeed,
the only valuable part of him? There
be men, fair to look upon, who wander
up and down this country, and sit in the
coolest places on the hotel piazEas. who
are arrayed in fine linens and cardinal
socks, and who have to hold their hand
over their scarf pin when they want to
see the moonlight, who, unassisted and
unprompted, do not possess the disere-
tion to come in when it rains, and don't
know enough to punch hole in the
snow with an umbrella new, soft snow
at that; without any crust on it. Now
and then, son, before you are are as old
as Methuselah, you will meet man who
wears hat that is worth twice as much
as the head it covers. On the other
hand, don't fall into the error of believ-
ing that all the goodness, and honesty,
and intelligence in the world goes about
in shreds and patches. We have seen a
tramp dressed in more rags than you
could rake out of the family rag-bag, and
more dirt and hair on him than would
suffice to protect a horse, who would step
up to the front door and demand three
kinds Of cake, half a pie, and then steal
every movable thing in the yard, kill
the dog, choke up the pump with sand,
tramp on the pansy bed and girdle the
cherry trees because he couldn't carry
them away. Good clothes or bad are
never an infal1ible index to a man that
is in them.
Year: 1879

This is what Robert Ingersoll says OF
women: al tell you women are more
prudent than men. / tell you, as rule,
women are more faithful than men-ten
times as faithful as men. Inever saw q
man pursue his wife into the very ditch
and dust Of degradation and take her in
his arms. ] never saw man stand at
the shore where she had been morally
wrecked, waiting for the waves to bring
back even her corpse 10 his arms; but [
have seen woman, with her white arms,
lift man from the niire Of degradation,
and hold him to her bosom as though he
we're an angel
Year: 1879

The LEDGER is in favor of sewer
age provided it can be accomplished
without imposing too great burden
upon the people. For the present we
are committed to no particular plan.
This is a big question and should be
we'll considered in all its bearings
before we commit ourselves to any
general and costly plan of public
improvements. A mass meeting of
the citizens Of Memphis is to be held
next Saturday night to consider the
sanitary needs of Memphis, and for
the purpose Of securing a call for a
meeting of the legislature as speedy
as possible. At this meeting we may
expect free expression of opinion in
regard to sewerage and other matters.
When a tangible plan is agreed upon
at mass meeting or by any response
bic body of citizens, we will be ready
to investigate and discuss it upon its
merits. That something must be
done, and that speedily, all admit. 1t
will not do to wait until summer as
in former years and then begin to
scrape up heaps of filth and cart off
foul reeking garbage in roasting hot
sun AS we study the questions
which most deeply concern the people
Of Memphis and form opinions we
shall express them in a clear but
temperate way. But Of one thing our
readers may rest assured - the
LEDGER will be found taking sides
when the lines are drawn.
Year: 1879

THE high school question will come
up before the school board next
Saturday night. The board now has
an opportunity to receive itself by
abolishing this expensive ornamental
feature Of our public school system.
High school education at the expense
of the many for the benefit of fa-
vored few is contrary to the spirit OF
our institutions, There are the
strongest economic reasons why the
high school should be discontinued
and there are other and more patent
considerations which we have uFged
heretofore.
Year: 1879

There is great deal of sanitary
talent in this city. 1t flashes on the
street corners; it corruscates by moon
light, and beams forth in the morning
and evening press. Like the rain it
falleth upon the just and unjust, and
there is enough for all. We only
hope that out OF multitude Of eoun-
selors there will be wisdom, and that
all this agitation will be brought to a


focus, and lead to practical measures
for the greatest good of the greatest
number. We are all in one ship, from
which few could escape withopI utter
Year: 1879

SECRETARY SHERMAN's expected
letter declining to be candidate for
the United States senate in Ohio has
appeared. He says that, as the gen
eral assembly of Ohio has three times
conferred upon him this high and
much-coyeted honor, he ought not to
stand in the way of others who may
fairly aspire to that position. But
there is nothing in tho letter indicat-
ing he will not accept the Office if his
friends in the legislature work the
matter up.
Year: 1879

financial ruin. There arc holes in the
ship, and rotten planks. These must
be patched up, Let us not press our
personal opinions to an extent that
would interfere with the work that
needs to be and can be done. 1t will
take pull all together to accomplish
anything.
Year: 1879

Hamilton Ward is the man ON the
Republican State ticket in New York
who runs ahead of his associates He
is also the man who went around the
state during the campaigns denounc-
ing the Hayes administration in pref
ty hot terms.
Year: 1879

CINCINNATI people are working to
secure the National Republican CON
Vention there next year. This is a
good business idea, and we see no OBJ
lection to the proposition. The place
is centrally located, the railroads are
able to pass the deadheads, and beer is
about as good and cheap there as in
any city in the Union.
Year: 1879

JOHN SHERMAN's letter declining
to be a candidate for senator, when it
is quite certain he could be elected, is
equivalent to announcing that he is a
candidate for the Presidency. He is
the only candidate discovered thus
far whose first choice is not Grant.
His frankness is decidedly in his
fnrnr
Year: 1879

CINCINNATIhas a coal famine There
is only few days supply in the city,
and the railroads do not haul enough
to keep UP the stock, The Ohio river
has gone almost dry and is not likely
to rise until it rains several days and
nights. We are sorry for Cincinnati,
but not in condition 10 offer much
hal,,
Year: 1879

ACCORDING to the New York Her
aid Mr.. Charles Foster is somewhat
discouraged about the result in Ohio
and told correspondent of that paper
that only by unceasing efforts can the
Republicans hope for success. The
old politicians of both parties, the
Herald adds, are counting on a close
vote. Republican bluster and brag is
about played out, and they begin to
see there is other work for them in
the canvass than claiming forty thou
sand majority and repeating the abb
surdity that the Democrats have given
up the State.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per annum aud
SOC per month fOrless than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at 500 per
month in advance, with the privilege of
changing postofioe,
Year: 1879

THE Pittsburg Post has donned a
handsome dress of new type, the oc-
casion being its thirty seventh ami
versary. The Post is one of the ablest
and best journals in the Union, and a
faithful sentinel on the watch tower
Dnmocracv
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish TO re-
new will do us a favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list Is very
large, and our force to do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

Don't live single hour OF your life
without doing exactly what is to be
done in il, and going strait to the end.
Work, play, study, whatever it is
take hold at once, and finish it up
squaily and cleanly; and then do the
next thing without letting any mo-
ments drop between. 1t is wonderful
TO see how many hours those prompt
people contrive 10 make of day: il
Is as If they picked up the moments
that the dawdlers lost. And IL ever
you flad yourself where you have so
many thugs pressing upon you that
you hardly know how To begir, let me
tell you a secret: take hold of the first
one that comes To hand. aud you will
find the rest all fall into file, and fol-
low after like company OF we'll
drilled soldiers; and though work may
be hard to meet when IL charges in a
squad, it is easily vanqui he'd il you
can bring it into line. You may have
often seen the anecdote OF the man
who was asked how lie had accom-
plished so much in his life. %My
father taught me" was the reply,
"when l had anything TO do, to go
aud do it," There is the secret-the
magic word, now.
Year: 1879

A writer Of a decidedly philosophi


cal turn OF mind argued with good
deal OF force that il does not under
any circumstances pay TO quarrel In
the heat OF anger words are spoken
which had far better be left unsaid,
but which once spoken, cannot be re-
called or forgotten. A quarrel de.
grades "a man in his own eyes. dis
graces him In the eyes OF others. and,
what is worse, blunts his sensibilities
on the one hand, and increases the
passionate irritability OF the other.
The truth is, the more peacefully and
quietly We get along the better for
our neighbors and ourselves. La niue
casesOut OK ten the better course is
il man cheats you cease TO deal
with him; Ii he Is abusive, quit his
company; and IL he ISLANDERS you take
care to live so that nobody will be-
lieve him. No matter who he is. or
how he abuses you, the wisest way Is
TO let him alone, for there Is nothing
better than this cool. calm and quiet
way OF dealing with the wrongs we
meet with. Lies unchased will die,
fires Unframed will burn out and
quarrels neglected become AS dull as
the crater OF an extinct volcano.
Year: 1879

lbufingtoE dawkeyc-l


Take back the heart" as the man
said who drew one when he wanted q
diamond.


Gum gum away to thepearly foun.
tain," Was sung by the man who
dropped his store teeth into the creek


"a loan in the world" was given
with great effect by the man who had
to raise $500 by Saturday noon.


"AIl's SWELL" was composed and
sung by the man who sat down on an
oak stump, using navy blue wasp
for a cushion.


BE ware" was the national song oil
the honey merchants.


Down by the sea beat shore" was
the sal refrain OF man whose Sum.
mer hotel was eaten out by tramps.


Dream, baby, dream" was sung
and said very eDergetically by The
man who patroled the floor while the
collie patroled the baby.


Goodbye sweet tart" was chant
ed by the dyspeptlc man who couldn't
eat pi'.


Somebody is Waiting for Me-" was
walled out by the man who hard been
to the Lodge, lost his night key. and
could see the shadow OF his wife's
mothers night-capped head on the
curtain OF the sitting room.


''Larboard Watch" Is the favoritt
lay OF the recent idiot who wears two
watches.
Year: 1879

The New York Euening Post has o
private letter from gentleman in
Eastern Germany, who says there
has been no summer, but rain nearly
every day. The thermometer in my
room ranges 60 to Is deg. In some
places harvesting has begun, but un-
less we have some warm dry weather
soon much OF the grain must rot in
the fields. On our way recently to
and from the mountains 1.-TWO differ
ent routes) We observed that at least
half OF the wheat we passed was lying
fiat and tangled in the field, beaten
rown and broken by daily rain
storms. All will be difficult TO cut
and some must rot or spront before
1t can be secured. Adding to this the
immense amount OF grain and other
food crops destroyed by foundations
last month, and it looks as II America
would be called upon to feed Ger
many as we'll rs England and France
next winter. The accounts from Rus
sia are also not very encouraging. OF
rye the crop will be below the aver
age. In PodoIia and Volhynia the
yield OF rye will be very short. In
the government OF Pultowa. noted
for its usually large yield OF rye. the
prospect Is little better. Although
the harvest will not equal that of a
fairly good year, the outlook for
wheat is slightly better In some OF
the governments. but In Kieff there
are some fields that will scarcely re-
pay the labor OF barvestin :. In short
the entire yield OF breadstuffs will
fall considerably below that OF last
year.
Year: 1879

She had been in camp four days.
Where she came from, why she cau.e,
or who she was, no one could tell.
But that she was in camp, and bad
come to stay, there was no doubt, She
was quiet, modest, and simply clad =
three Qualities which commended her
to the residents of Mud Fiat as a
change from the ordinary run of fe-
males who from time to time invaded
the precincts Of that classic settle
ment.


Nor were these the only points
which had been noted by the boys. AS
ANDY McCorkle had gallantly han
ded her from the lower step of bis
mud be-spattered coach to the port'co
of the hotel, every. body saw that she
clung almost convulsively to the little
child whose arms were twlned about
her neck. They observed also that
her features were pale aud blo:d'ess
to an extent that was alaost pitlful.
By that delicate intuition which some
times exists under the toughest ex-
teriors, the sturdy miners of Mud
Flat understoo | that the strange lady
was suffering from mental as we'll as
physical illness. Their sympathy was
aroused in her behalf from that in
slant, and every man in the place i'm,
mediately constituted himself her
champion and fried.


A day later, when she bad rented
a cabin near the outskirts Of the town,
without disclosing 10 any one her IN
tentions for the future or her story of
Year: 1879

The manufacture Of thImDleS is very
simple, but singularly interesting. Coin
silver is mostly used, and is obtained by
purchasing coin dollars. Hence it hap
pens that the profits Of the business are
affected instantaneOusly by all the varia-
tiOns in the nations greenbaCk promise
to pay. The first operation strikes a
novice as almost wicked, for it is nothing
else than putting a lot Of bright silver
dollars, fresh from the mint, into dirty
cruCibles, and melting them up into
solid ingOts. These are rolled out into
the required thickness, and cut by
stamp into circular pieces of any re-
quired size. A solid metal bareOf the
size of the inside of the intended
thimble, moved by powerful machinery
ND and down in q bOttOmless mold of
the outside Of the same thimbles, bends


he circular disks into the thimble shane
rs fast as they can be placed under the
descending bar. Once in shape, the work
of frightening, polishing and decorating
is done upon a lathe. First, the blank
form is fitted with a rapidly revolving
rod. A slight touch of a sharp chisel
takes a thin shaving from the end,
another does the same on the side, and
the third rounds off the rim. A round
steel rod, dipped in oil, and pressed upon
the surface, gives it a lustrOus polish.
Then a little revolving steel wheel, whose
edge is a raised ornament, held against
the revolving blank, prints that orna-
ment, Just outside the rim. A second
wheel prints a different ornament around
the center, while q third wheel, with
sharp points, makes the fluctuations on
the lower half and end of the thimble.
The inside is frightened and polished
in a similar way, the thimble being held
in revolving mold. All that remains
to be done is to boil the completed
thimbIes in soapsuds, to remove the oil,
brush them up, and pack them for the
trade.
Year: 1879

a southern aspect is best for sleeping
rooms, and the sun should be freely ad-
mitted for st least three hours each day.
have q strong prejudice iP favor Of
the head of tile bed being toward the
north, ant have known sOmt physicians
who decidedly favored tl.2 practice 81
bsiJ they would not commit themselves
positively to what might be after all an
old WOman's Whim. Bare floors, with
here and there a rug for convenience
sake, are far preferable to carpets IN
sleeping rooms. But If carpets are used,
let them be light; so lig- # that their fre-
quent taking ~ and shaking vii not be
heavy task. Never use y CarVet con
tanning much green cOlOring matter
never buy paper in which 1t is a prOml-
nent color; repeated experiments have
proved them UnWhOlesOme. White
washed walls are the most cleanly and
safe, especially in a room which is apt to
gather dampness.


Windows should be made to open
both at the top and bottom, and never,
except during a storm, should be entire
" closed. Even the most delicate per
son can bear az little fresh air, if only
through an aperture half an inch in
width, and that little may have vital Ell.
caCy. lately saw a statement made up
on what seemed good authority, that
muddy water is a more healthy drink
than pure water but so far as ] know,
foul air has not been recommended as
more wholesome fer inhslati01 than pure.
arr. -'7--


Use such kind and amount Of bedding
as produces the most perfect feeling oa
comfort. Do not lie on a hard bed if ii
causes YOU to rise next morning with
aching bones or sore flesh yet a mOder-
ately hard mattress, especially If 1t have
springs beneath It, is undoubtedly less
debiitating for weak and nervous per-
sons than q more yielding one.


Use thick COmfOrtables and blankets
in winter; thin bed-quilts in summer,
which can be put through tub Of cold
water and a Wringer two or three times
during the season. EsCheW the aWk-
ward, square pillows which u2any house
keepers consider essential to offer their
company, There is no greater nuisance
about a bed than a pair Of these pillows
stuffed full and hard as a bag Of bran.
a white cOUnteTpane on the bed gives it.
and indeed the whole room, cheerful
look. False sheet tops turned over the
outside, and pillow covers, with initials
wrought in pink or white, makes a very
pretty appearance. They can be taken
off at night and so kept nice for a long


time.