smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Here is receipt for making picnic
lemonade: First gel your barrel. Then
fill it with water. Don't be mean. put
in plenty of water. Now throw pound
of white sugar into the barrel. Squeeze
in large sized lemon. Don't be mean
about the lemon. either, bnt put the
whole vi it in the barrel. Stir with a
long pole and call the children up im~
mediately. AS fast as they drink, fill the
barrel with cold water. The beverage
thus made is cheap IF the lemon is
bought at wholcssle). and is quite
healthy. 1t contains no pain. and is
much sought after by indulgent mothers
and young lovers. Picnic lemonade
differs from the church fair article by
having the water little fresher.


The director the Berlin Acad-
emy of arts has been engaged to
paint q nictus.NreprSsen.in the re-
cent session of the International
Congress for the Municipal Council
Chamber. II is to be of immense
size end the price is $4,000.
Year: 1878

A physician writes the follow
ing sensible advice: My pro-
.ession has thrown me among
women Of all classes, and my eX-
perience teaches me that God
never gave man greater proof
Of His love than to place women
here with him. My advice is
Go, propose to the most sensible
girl you know. If she says yes,
tell her how much your income
is, from what source derived,
and tell her yen will divide the
last shilling with her, and love
her with all your heart in the
bargain. And then keep your
promise. My word for it, she
will live within your income,
and to your last hour you will
regret you did not marry sooner.
Don't worry about feminine cx-
traya gance and feminine untruth.
Just you be true. to her, love
her sincerely, and throw it up
to her frequently, and q more
fond, faithful, foolish slave you
will never meet anywhere. You
won't deserve her, | know, but
she will never see it. Now throw
aside pride and selhshness, and
see what will come Of it.
Year: 1878

an abode wall eight feet high
and TWO feet thick. In the corral
the herd was nightly secured.


He had a contract to feed and
guard four hundred beef cattle
belonging to the United States
fort, some thirty miles away.
More than one attempt had been
made by the Apaches to capture
the herd, while feeding two or
three miles from the block
house. But the vlgilant herds
man had driven the cattle at a
gallop into the corral, before the
Indians could stampede them.


One night there came a fear
ful storm, A solitary Apache,
unarmed, and with nothing but
a blanket to protect him from
the cold rain, climbed over the
corral's wall; crouching in the
corner, he waited for day.


Early IN the morning the
storm having passed away, eight
herdsmen, mounted and armed,
waited at the corral's gate for
the herd to be turned out.


The gate was opened. The
stock poured out and filled the
gateway. Suddenly up sprung
the Apache; vaultlng on the
nearest horse, he clutched its
mane with one hand, while with
the other he waved his red
blanket, and yelled like demon.


In an instant every hoof made
a rush; and the stampede began.
The horse, frightened, darted in
the midst of the flying cattle.


Asin frenzy they went through
The gateway, the Apache clasped
his arms around the horses
neck, and, throwing his body on
one side Of the maddened ami
NAL, disappeared from view.


A thousand men ranged in
column could not have stopped
that rush of the crazed herd
down the valley. The herdsmen
fire a voiley which wounds and
killed some OF the cattle.


Two bands OF Apaches, darting
out from opposite sides Of the
valley, closed up from behind
the herd. Four hundred head Of
cattle were thus captured and
run off by the daring and cum
ning Of one Apache.
Year: 1878

An instance of what an Apache
Indian will do in the way of cool
daring, when the prize is worth
the risk, once occurred on a
ranch in Arizona.


The owner Of the ranch was
an American. To guard against
the Apaches he had built a block
house, and, adjoining it, a court
yard, and corral, surrounded by
Year: 1878

There is a story that Il man
went into a New buryport liquor
store and called for two quarts
OF rum, protesting that it was
for the purpose OF soaking some
roots. After the delivery Of the
liquor the dealer inquired, What
roots?' The roots OF my tongue
said the man, but it was too late.


The pangs of death from prus
sic acid did not make James
Fitzgerald of Carlin, New, relax
his determination to take his
own life. He threatened to
shoot those who tried to force an
antidote down his throat, and
compelled them to let HIM die.


No bird is actually on the
wing. The wings are on the
bird.
Year: 1878

vt Nice q curious question has
arisen between the Jesuits and
the municipal authorities, in
which a considerable sum OF
money is involved. An Ameri-
can lady, a convert to Roman
Catholicism, left SG0.000 to the
church of Father Lavigne on
condition that she should be
buried within the precincts of
the edifce. The municipal au-
thorities opposed such q step as
beng against their health regula-
tions, but the ecclesiastical lega-
tees thought to get over the
difficulty TO barry the heart only
in the church. The family, how
ever, will not permit the body to
be cut. This is the present state
Of the problem, which is causing
great perturbation in the minds
OF the Jeouits.
Year: 1878

Il is really becoming a ques-
ton of Importance whether or
not we are much longer to have
any little girls in our midst. The
present high-pressure system of
education forces them into young
ladies while they ought to be in
the sheltered privacy Of the nur
sery and the school-room.
Year: 1878

The two lovers plunged gracefully
into each others arms across the gate, g,
splitting the top rail and breaking both
hinges in their frantic demonstrations
OF Joy, and the frail structure fell to TIE
ground, hopeless, chaotic wreck.
Year: 1878

Morally speaking Custom House is
nuisance, economically it is scandal.
In the former capacity it is the hot bed of
all political intrigues for overruling the
popular will. By means of the Custom
House and the Post Office national ad
wire-pullers. The positions at its dispos
ton are Intended solely for the general
good, yet they are dishonesty converted
into engines of party or of personal suprem-
acy The operation of this system is fire.
quently to subvert the real popular will.
It acts as an immense bribe, bribe the
influence of which is felt in every hamlet
of every State, forcing its benefciaries
into an activity that may be foreign to
their disposition and in favor of policy
which they secretly disapprove.


The mainspring of republican govern
ment is the popular vote; the popular will
is the only sovereign, and any tampering
with its full and fair expression is kind
of treason. Yet the Custom House is oper-
ated as a standing, flagrant, organized
treason of this sort.


But that is not all. The tariff is tax
on the poor. The labOrer pays more fol
his coffee, his sugar, his cotton and wool.
len clothing, his hats and shoes, his tools
and Implements of labor than he could
get them for If there were no Custom
House. It is true that the rich man mus
Year: 1878

also pay more for his fine wines, rich silks
and grand furniture, but the effects upon
the two classes are not parallel. The poor
man suffers by reason of his tax the rich
man does not. The former pays the increase
of price out of his necessities; the latter
out of his superabundance. The poor man
can, perhaps, barely support his family in
comfort when prices are at the lowest the
rich man never feels the pinching Of want
no matter to what figure prices may rise.


The Custom House is an inhospitable
reminder to other nations that they are
strangers, it is the remnant of an era of
non intercourse aud mutual jealousy, 1t is
an institution founded on barbaric notions
Of dominion, rather than on Christian prin-
ciples of universal brotherhood.


We are told that home industries must
be fostered until firmly rooted, and that
taxes must be raised in some way.


Home industries can be fostered as eff
ciently by the bounty system as by that
of the protective tariff and far more justly,
for the bounty would be paid by the Sec
tion to be profited, while the tariff lays its
tribute on sections not at all interested in
the industry to be fostered.


Taxes must be raised. True enough,
but why draw them from impoverished
sufferers while superabundance and luxury
overshadow the land with their pride 7
Why tax labor which suggests hardship,
while there is property which is proof OF
savings9 We hope to see the day when a
Democrstjc simDljcity in poverDment will
have abolished all impediments to COM
merce with their corrupt and corrupting
train of official parasites.
Year: 1878

The United States Senate after the 4th OF
March next, will be Democratic by majority
of from eight to twelve. The only hope the
Radicals have Of getting a hold in the Govern
ment thereafter, is by securing majority in the
next House of Representatives. What their
chances are may be judged of by the figures OF
the official canvass of the last election, which
show that the Democrats have three times as
many absolutely cafe districts as have the Re-
Duhljcana The figures are as follows:
Year: 1878

zone Of Gods Heroines" and "sayings and
Prayers by the Foundress of the Order Of
Mercy" are two little books sent us from the
Convent of Mercy in this city. They will be
duly noticed in our next issue.
Year: 1878

The PRoPosED CHANGE IN THE POSTAL Law
Among other matters now before the Legislative
Assembly, is an Act 10 change the postal laws of
this Kingdom. 1t is proposed, we understand, by
this law, to change the postal charge on news
papers from abroad to twice the present rates. and
one cent on esch newspaper Published in this King


dom, when sent TO subscribers on these Islands.
II the Assembly shonld pass the Law spoken Of,
with this new aud unnecessary tax on newspapers,
1t viii be doing what is not done anywhere else
that we are aware Of In the United States for in
stance, newspapers are exempt from the payment
Of postage, when sent to subscribers from the office
of publication; although the Post Office Depart
ment of the United States, is far from being self
sustaining. II our lawmakers place this new bur-
den newspapers, il will have the effect Of dimlD-
ishing the number of Hawaiian readers. Perhaps
that is the reason why the Assembly wish to pass
the law with the obnoxious provision in II. We
think the honorable members might ind other
matters on which TO exercise their wisdom than
taxing newspapers, If they would half try. With
the example of the balance of Christendom against
this line Of legislation We mildly suggest TO our
legislators the proprieiy of not taking step back
wards II would look very bad in the newspapers,
and might proFoke unfAyorable criticism. Would
il not be as well to call 8 halt just here and now
on the postal question, especially the Post ONCE
department l. u self-sustaining institution:
Year: 1878

parties who might propose to construct and
equip the roads. With such precaution, the
government through the Minister Of the Inte-
rior, would have better opportunity of
guarding against any sharp practice on the
part of those who might undertake the work;
and we are convinced that the money thus ex-
pended by the government would lie well ex-
pended We make these suggestions for the
benefit of the members of the Assembly who
may take an interest in this railroad question,
but who from the nature of things are ignorant
Of many things that will necessarily enter into
q railroad contract We will merely add, that
the day that witnesses the first railroad fin
ished on these Islands, will be the date from
which prosperity will set in that will out
strip every other that was ever witnessed in
this Kingdom, and the King and Ministry,
under whom such work shall be accom-
plished, will have done more for his reign,
and for his people than has ever been accom-
plished by all his predecessors. To prove this
we have only to point to the history of rail-
roads in any country on the globe. II he who
causes one additional blade of grass to grow
where rone has grown before, is ranked among
the benefactors of mankind, how much lhore
that man, or set of men, who in any country
by their skill, judgment and courage, cause
to be furnished, such facilities as railroads
furnish for the extension of the trade and CON-
rnerce of a country And NAV we not say


that the same incentive is here, as elsewhere,
to stimulate our rulers to the glorious enter
prise of constructing railroads to develop the
magnificent resources of Hawaii, and lift hel
up from obscurity to a nOtOriety equal to those
resources.
Year: 1878

By our Eastern advices per steamer Will
mington, which arrived at this port on the
morning of the 23d inst, we have dates down
to the 18th inst.


Among the items of interest in the dis
patches we have the qualification to say, that
the deliberations of the Congress of the great
powers, at Berlin have come to a close. and
that the result is, treaty of peace, which is
apparently satisfactory to all parties. How
long this state of things will continue depends
we should be thankful that peace has supplan-
ted war, and that bloodshed and carnage, will
cease for season at least, in Europe. By the
telegraphic news which we clip from the Cali
fornia ala of the 18th inst, which will be
found in another column, our readers can see
the conclusion of the labors of the Congress.
The text of the treaty not havingibeen pub
lished when the steamer left, we are without
the details of that important document. The
treaty of Berlin, will be noted in diplomatic
history as the longest document of the kind
known in ancient or modern times This is
an i'll omen, we fear, for the reason, that where
there is so much diplomatic verbage, there is
just so much more room for disputation here
after, between the high contracting parties,
whenever or wherever interest, or cupidity,
prompts them to find flaw, or hang a doubt
We're the treaty one of those short, concise
and terse documents, expressed in such plain
straightforward terms, that there would be
but small room, if any, to hang doubt as to
its meaning, then there would be hope that
the peace secured by the Berlin treaty would
be lasting Time will tell whether our fore
bodings on this point, are sound or unsound.
Before dismissing this subject, there is one
point of marked interest which we will advert
to. By an article of the Berlin treaty the i'm
portant Island of Cyprus, has been placed
under the control of England. This large Is
land situated geographically, almost directly
opposite the mouth of the river Nile and also
of the entrance to the Suez Canal, makes the
acquisition of the Island of Cyprus, Of the ut
most Importance to the British government
because it makes more secure from foreign
Year: 1878

The eighty one years Of this saint,s life


were modelled on the Passion of Jesus


Christ. In his childhood, when praying in


cbaTc6, a heavy bench fell on his foot, but


the boy took no notice of the bleeding


wound, and spoke of it as "a rose sent tr9m re q


God" A few years later, the vislon t OF q
sssnred him that bis thirst for penance
would be- satisfied. In the hope of dying
for the Faith, he enlisted in q crusade
against the Turks but voice from tne
tabernacle warned him that he was to serve
| Christ alone, and that he should found
| congregation in HisS honor. AT the com
Year: 1878

San Francisco, Feb. 5.-Recent
heavy rains have raised the water in
the Sacramento river to about twenty
five feet above low water mark. This
morning the levee broke about mile
and half below Sacramento city and
the water at once began spreading
over the low country, extending to the
base of the r street levee, which pro-
tects the city on the south. y large
force of men were at once employed to
fill the openings in the r street levee,
where the streets pass through, and the
city is considered secure, as the only
danger is from the backwater. Some
water has made it's way through cul-
vert near Sixth street, but will do no
damage worth mentioning. Below the
city considerable damage and incon-
venience must have been suffered, but
details are not yet at hand.


San Francisco, Feb. 5.--The latest
from Sacramento is to the effect that
no danger whatever is to be apprehend-
ed within the limits of the city levees.
The outlying portion of the city south
of r street levee is Hooded, water stand
ing in some houses to the depth of two
feet. The principal damage falls upon
farmers below the city, and is estimat-
ee at S1,0O0,000.
Year: 1878

AN Inter Ocean special says: The
vote on the Silver bill will scarcely be
had this week, as many speeches have
yet to be made. The anti-silver men
are depending upon veto, while the
friends of the bill hope for approval or
else that the President will let it lie ten
days ard thus become law. Although
amendments are daily offered, only one
is probable-that of giving the profits
of coinage to the government.
Year: 1878

Washington, Feb. 1.-The majority
for the income tax resolution, yesterday,
though not large enough to suspend the
rules, was so emphatic an expression of
the will of the House on this subject,
that it practically insures the re-impo-
sition of the tax so far as the House is
concerned, and will doubtless be accept
ed by the Ways and Means committee,
as instruction to report the tax bill ac-
cordingly. Six of the thirteen mem-
bers of the committee are already
known to be in favor of such action.
Year: 1878

THE report is current at Vienna that
an important decision is pending by
Austria which is greatly dependent on
the result of the debate in the British
Parliament, and on which the fate of
England and Austria depends.
Year: 1878

ABOUT 125 survivors of the wrecked
Metropolis arrived in Philadelphia from
Norfolk yesterday. The majority of
them are willing to sail for Brazil in
the next steamer and will be permitted
to do so.
Year: 1878

THE father of Charley R oss arrived
in Baltimore on Tuesday and met the
Demarara boy, who warmed not the
paternal heart into single sign of
recognition. The feast of the fatted
calf is again deferred, and the youth
and bovine still roam the range.
Year: 1878

A Portsmouth man was going
East with his wife last week, and
the train started off very sud
denly while he was talking with
his friends. He grabbed hold of
a woman, chucked her on the
train, jumped after her, and
away they went fifty miles an
hour, with his wife shrieklng
and tearing her hair on the plat
form, and woman he never saw
before going into high pressure
Mysteries in the car, calling him
a monster and yelling, "Save
mel" By a terrible mistake he
had got hold of the wrong wo-
man, and the conductor, refusing
to listen to his explanations,
kicked him out Of the car, the
brakeman chuckd him into a
ditch, the Sheriff met him before
he was half way back to town
and put handouts on him, and
when at last he got home he saw
his business partner holding his
wife on his lap and telling her
that there were men in the world
who loved her much better than
her faithless husband ever did.
He says the next time he trav-
els he will walk.
Year: 1878

THERE are some Democratic
newspapers whose editors would re-
joice at the failure of resumption,
but the Baltimore San is not one
of them. 1t says:


Tainly the Treasury has con-
Quoted its successive steps towards
resumption so ssgaciOusly, so suCces g.
fully, that it is entitled TO The conf
dence which il asks from the public
in its ability TO complete the difficult
process and set Us entirely free from
the curse OF irTedeems bic paper
money. Upon this point there have
been few wiser aud more honest ut
terances than what Senator BayRr1
said in his Harvest Home speech, Sc
long ego ss last August, when re-
sumption YVES nothing like so near
being an accomplished fact as it
now is:


"'It is argued by many that 1t is
impossible for the treasury of tn
United States to resume specie pay
meat on the lst OF January next. TIE
Secretary of the Treasury says he can
do so l am not here to say whether
he can or not. / think he is in post
OF great respOnslOlllIyi anu am us
posed to aid him. He is not there by
my voice, but he is now the custodian
of your treasury and mine, and it is
madness and folly for US to undertake
act in q manner hostile, unfair or
hurtfuI to his efforts to serve US. But
our competition with other nations is
close. and growing closer; we must
buckle down to our work and
neglect nothing. We have honest
weights and measures fixed by law
let US insist upOn the restoration OF
the great measure of measures, an
honest money. This / consider the
prime essential for tho restoration or
that certainty and confidence which
will revive enterprise, and with 1t
prosperity.


Let every one who agrees with the
Senator in regard to the Importance OF
specie payments accord TO the Secre-
tary of the Treasury that confidence
which his generous political opponent,
even in the midst OF an excited can
Tass would not withhold from him."


The Sun is Democratic, but fair
and honorable.
Year: 1878

SAMUEL TILDEN having been laid
on the shelf, Samuel Randall is row
spoken of as an available candidate for
President on the Democratic ticket.
He must be a Northern Democrat, or
the great Wade Hampton might come
Year: 1878

The Judiciary Committee of the
California Assembly have under
consideration bill providing that
silver to the extent of fifty dollars
may be used in the payment of tax
es, gold being now the only legal
tender for State and municipal taxes
in California. The bill was intend
ed to relieve persons Of limited
means from the burden incident to
the purchase of gold when paying
their taxes. Should it pass, the ef-
feet would be seriously felt IN San
Francisco. where one. half of, the as:
sessments do not pay more than $50
each in taxes.
Year: 1878

What a beautiful example of simplicity is shown some of the followers of fashion by that domestic animal the cat, which rises in the morning, washes its face with it's right hand. gives it's tail three jerks, and is ready dressed for the day! 4sezv sa
Year: 1878

Any one reading the sentence of some
notorious criminal to a term of years in
Sing Sing or Auburn will naturally feel
pity for the evil-doer. But if it was known
that man or woman consigned to well
kept prison is actually benefited in point
of health, we would not lament their lot
to such degree. In point of fact the
records of the best English penitentiaries
show that persons chance of life are
nearly double what they would be in a
state Of freedom. Notwithstanding that
two-thirds Of the inmates enter such insti-
tutions with diseases upon them, often in
in advanced stages, yet as q result of pure
air, cleanliness and q well regulated diet,
prisons are made seats of health. In those
of Scotland, which are models of good
management, the death rate is only in
1000. Contrast this with the death rate of
II per 1000 in the British army or with
the average rate of 20 per 1000 in other
occupations, and it will beseen what mar
velous results may be obtained by proper
sanitary regulation. A high medical au-
thority declares that the Perth Prison, in
Scotland, is apparently the healthiest place
IN the world. The government inspector,
who visited it six times annually for thir-
teen years, rarely found more than two
among 75O inmates in the infrmary, while
once or twice there was no one Epidemics
rage around such institutions but do not
enter them, and we can well understand
the expression of surgeons regarding pa
tients in their private practice, "If I could
only have that case in prison could save
the life" ."-Sanitary Enquirer. .