smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

bered with snow three feet deep.


We may fancy the sensations Of
the newly welded bride at the chill
appearance of the desolate land
scape as she passed along through
the snow; but she was a woman of
courage and good sense, and did
not care for inconvenience. 1t was
late when they arrived, and a
cheerless reception awaited them
or rather there was no reception at
all. The fires were all out, the ser
wants had gone to bed, and the
place was as dark as the silent
grave. Conducting his wife to the
little pavilion, which was the only
part Of the house habitable at the
time, Jefferson proceeded to kindle
a fire and do the honors. On a
shelf behind some books part of a
bottle of wine was discovered; and
this formed the supper of the
bridegroom and the bride. Far
from being annoyed or discounted
by their reception, however, it only
served for a topic of jest and laugh
ter. The young lady was as light
hearted as a bird, and sent her
clear voice ringing through the
dreary little pavilion as gayly as
she had ever done in the cheerful
drawing-room of "The Forest,
and thus the long hours Of the
winter night fled away like min


utes, winged with laughter, merri


ment and song.-JOhn Esten Cooke
Year: 1876

A gentleman who had been a sub
scriber to the Express for a year,
came up-a few weeks ago and or
dered his paper discontinued. He
said he could get Nashville paper
containing twice the amount Of
reading matter given in the Express
for the same money. We did not
insist on his continuing our paper
or try to show him the difference
between the value Of a home paper
and one published at q distance.
The gentleman, who is in good cir
cumstances, has been to our Office
several times since and asked to
look at our paper just q minute to
see some particular item. Last week
he came in and asked us to give him
a copy Of the paper to carry home
to his wife, who, he said, had under
stood there was a full report in it of
that romantic marriage which oc-
Cured in town the week before;
and that she wanted to see how the
sore throat disease was getting on
in Fayetteville; and that his daugh-
ter wanted to see who had married
during the past week; and he, him
self, having a little wheat and corn,
some bacon and a few potatoes still
OF hand, wanted to look over the
home market report; and he gave
several other little reasons for wish
ing to see a copy of the paper just
a minute.


Have you discontinued your
Nashville paper?' we carelessly in
quired, as we handled an extra copy
of the paper"


20, no., he replied, q get that
regularly, but you see, that don't
exactly tell me the particular things
I wish to find out. It's a splendid
paper; tells all about Tnden and
Hendricks and Reform, and about
the gubernatorial campaign, and
has lots of good reading about the
races, police troubles, and all that;
but you see my wife and daughter
don't care much about those things,
and I have to borrow a copy of
your paper once in a while to hu-
NOR them; and occasionally I want
to see an item or two about home
affairs, not that 1 am particularly
interested in anything particular,
but you see-in fact-I-weIl-"


well, f." echoed we, handing him
the paper we had been handling.


He studied a little while and then
ended the interview by handing US
fifty cents, with the remark, you
may send the paper Just TO please
the women folks, till January, then
I'll renew for another year"


Isn't this little incident familiar
episode in the experience of every
country publisher?
Year: 1876

If ever there shall come 3 millen
NAL day Of honesty and moral in
tegrity, a day in which it will not
be difficult TO hnd worthy men to
I'll positions Of trust, the last de
cade Of the first hundred years OF
our national existence viii be re-
menbered with shame. In politics
we look for dishonest men. The
civil service is under the control Of
politicians, whose tenure Of Office is
uncertain, and who, therefore, have
an incentive to make hay when the
sun shines" Men are placed IN Of
fee as q reward for services; for
what they have done, and for what
1t is thought they may do; and then
they are ousted, no matter how well
qualified to serve their country,
whenever ; new party is IN power
or when they cease to be Of use to
the party they have served. The
whole system is demoralizing ia the
extreme, and breeds a class Of bad
men.
Year: 1876

success IN TINS world depends
very much upon reputation. In
spite of all said, there is a good
deal in a name, and a good name
pays. When we want to buy an ar
ticle, we hunt for one that has
reputation for being good-that is,
for one made by a manufacturer
who has established a character for
making good articles-and when
we fnd it, pay more for it than we
would for a similar article which.
for augA- We know, may be Just as
good, but which was made by some
body we never heard Of The rea-
son for for this is obvious. We are
willing to pay for the assurance or
warranty which the trademark Of q
reputable maker gives, rather than
trust our own judgement, or the
chance of getting a good thing
from an unknown source. This is


so with machinery, tools, clothing,
and nearly everything else that we
buy, including the products of the
farm. There are farmers who have
sold their butter in Manchester. the
past summer, for fifty cents per
pound, contracting it in advance.
Others have very likely sold Just as
good butter for thirty-five cents,
and the difference has been owing
TO the fact that the former had
reputation and the latter none.
When our citizens bought the but
ter of the first class, they felt GER
tam that they would get a gilt
edged article. When the 9TH
er butter was put into the market,
it had to be sold with the risk of
its not being No. L ; and the same
is true of cheese, milk, cider, vine
gar, pork, and in fact, of all that is
bot and sold in this city. Itis easy,
then, to see how important it is for
farmer to establish a reputation
to get the name of raising and sell
ing the best. When he has done
this, his produce will not only sell
readily, but at almost his own pri-
ees. But q reputation is "a plant
of slow growth" It takes not on
ly time, but a constant, vigilant
care. To get a reputation for the
butter of a certain farm, for in
stance, it must not only produce a
fine article, but it must do it all the
time; there must be no break in the
chain; for a reputation, like many
other things, is only as strong as
its weakest part, and a single
poor article viii neutralize the
effect of fifty good ones. When
a man buys a thing upon the repu-
tation of the maker, he wants to
4 feel that there is absolute certainty
Of his getting a good thing. If he
can have this, be is willing to pay
for it on top Of the market price,
but he viii not pay extra for a mere
probability. We ask our farmer
friends to remember this, and to
build up for themselves a reputa


ton. When a thing is sold as a
good thing let it be good, without
any ifs, or butts, and if, perchanee, n
poor thing must be got rid of, let it


be sold as poor. When you put an
article upon the market, let 1t be


understood beyond doubt or ques-
ton that it is all you Recommend.


This is not only honesty, but as we


have shown, money in your pocket.
Mirror and Farmer.
Year: 1876

Give the hog a tablespoonful Of
soda IN some meal, every morning
until relieved. I have known some
very remarkable results from this
simple treatment. I viii give you
an instance. After relieving my
hogs with it, a friend. whose hogs
we're dying very fast, aud had lost
seventeen out Of thirty -6Te, tried is
and did not lose another hog, al
though some Of them we're very
bad.-A. a Bradfo.d
Year: 1876

What effect viii a European war
have upon our markets? We pub
lish some speculations upon this
subject elsewhere. Our own opin


ion is that breadstuffs viii com
mand extremely high prices, and
that more money viii be realized
from their production than from
cotton It is a good opportunity
for farmers 70 abandon cotton to
a large extent. Sow all the wheat
you can possibly plow in this fall,
and next spring plant the remain
der Of yonr land in corn We be
lieve this will be the trump card
Year: 1876

Bernstein's Five Senses Of Man.


For this experiment two persons
are required, one of whom tests the
sense Of touch of the other. For
this purpose a pair of compasses is
taken, whose points, somewhat
b.unted, are placed at a certain dis
tance from each other on a part of
the skin Of the other person. The
latter must then say, with closed
eyes, whether he feels the contact
of two separate points, or whether
both seem to be merged into one.
The result of this experiment upon
the less sensitive parts of the skin
is very surprising. II the points
are placed on the forearm in the di-
rection Of its length at the distance
of LIS inch the sensation is a dou


bic one, but 50 soon as the distance
is reduced to LIS inch the contact is
felt as a single point, and the per


son experimental on feels consider
able surprised on opening his eyes
when he sees that two points have
been touched instead of one. The
tip of the tongue is found to be the
most sensitive, the two points being
extiuguished when only 1894 of an
inch apart If the points of the
compass be placed on the cheek
near the ear, so that both can be
clearly distinguished, and then be
brought slowly over the skin to the
ips, a sensation is experienced as
though the points we're being sepa


rated from each other. The skin
Of the back has the dullest sense of
touch, since when the points are at
a distance Of 2.36 they are still per
ceived as single touch. 1t is quite
astonishing how greatly the dis
tance between the two points must
/ be increased on the back before we
are clearly conscious of a double
impression. Weber explains these
facts by assuming that the termi-
nal limits Of a nerve fibre are much
smaller than sensory circles, so that
the latter always contain a great
number of Isolated nerve fbres. II
two terminal limits are excited, and
! if a certain number of isolated fibres
unexcited lie between them, the i'm
preston is only a single one. A
/ curious illusion of touch Is seen


when the first and second fingers are
crossed and a pea is picked up be
/ tween them in this unnatural posi-


ton. The impression is particularly
/ strong tha. the hand is holding tive
! peas, aud the illusion IS especially


powerful when the pea is rolled


back and forth between the fingers
Year: 1876

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thUsl mean thai your sub
seriPtion is ont OF unpaid, and thar you
are requested TO pay ap At once. We
would take great pleasure IN extending
credit 70 our friends and patrons. but
cash alone wiz Yay our expenses, and
We are forced to adhere 70 n strict cash
rule We hope yen win comprehend
AID appreeiate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit yOur favor.


y We enter no new names On our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1876

Make paper bags for all seed you
design to make crops from the next
year. When practicable let the
seed ripen and dry in their pods,
and then write the name and date
Of gathering. You can scarcely be
too particular in saving the best
seed in the best possible manner.
Year: 1876

Do mt be discouraged. Slow
growth is often sure growth. Some
minds are like Norwegian pines.
They are slow in growth, but they
are striking their roots deep. Some
Of the greatest men have been dull
boys. Dryden and Swift were duh
as boys. So was Goldsmith. So
was Gibbon. So was Sir Walter
Scott. Napoleon at school had so
much difficulty in learning his Latin
that the master said it would need
a gimlet to get a word into his head.
Douglas Jerrold was so backward
in his boyhood that at nine he was
scarcely able to read.


Isaac Barrow, one of the greatest
divines the Church of England has
ever produced, was so impenetrably
stupid in his early years that his
father more than once said that if
God took away any of his children,
he hoped it would be Isaac, as he
feared he would never be fit for any
thing in the world. Yet that boy
was the genius of the family.





A bale Of seed cotton has been
shipped to Liverpool from New Or
leans. 1t weighs nine hundred and
ffty-five pounds, but is pressed to
the size of an ordinary bale 1t was
put up at Natchez, and the Demo
crat of that place presumes that the
object of the experiment is to OBJ
tain for the shipper the advantage
of the great difference in the market
value of the seed in England and
here. If the experiment proves TO
be profitable, we may expect to see
a large increase in the tonnage from
/ New Orleans, and, as planters will
persist in selling their seed instead
/ of using it at home, their profits on
this part of the crop viii probably
/ be considerably increased" j."
Year: 1876

quiet ard agreeable an inmate OF the


household AS was his counterfeit present


ment. Even though a conscience some


what sensitive might accuse me Of having
failed to respect Uncle Timothy-as. for
instance, in my impatience when his
gentle hand upon my arm warned me oil
the danger OF losing my watch on the
street, at the same time avsrting the
possibility Of such misfortune by fur
lively appropriating the article himself; /;
or even more markedly when |. pointing
pistal at his venerable head, commended
him TO the not too tender mercies Of the
police of1icer-I have not in spite OF all
this lost my faith in the worth of first
impressions. And let it be written in my
favor that 1 had even too sedulously
respected the profound slumbers OF Uncle
Timothy. No measured breathing was
indeed TO be heard from his room, when
he was perhaps mile away. pursuing
his midnight meter of burglar. His
sanity dreams were felonious realities.
| might have shouted. beaten his door
it would not have disturbed an absent
occupant.


| sometimes go to the Tombs to take
notes for thrilling description OF this or
that villain; and on these occasions |
always call on Uncle Timothy, who,
behind iron bars, seems not unlike the
tigers of his recitals. Actor. romancist,
journslist-any profession that requires
powers of perception. imag ination and
language, he might have graced. He
chose to be thief.


offer him tobacco he meekly accepts
it, and never fails to ask about the children
whom he seems really to have loved.
Who shall say there is no good in him ;or
how much of tits existence being
granted-is due to the innocent presence
OF Johns children. while he lived under
the same root with them the moral?"
you ask. Thank you for kindly remind
ing me of it. Perhaps there is none-at
all events it does not occur TO me at the
moment,
Year: 1876

to be any great difference between the,
Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans---a
general characteristic being that the
bottom OF each was tolerably level
expanse, with slight undulations. In
the temperature of these great depths
we took great interest, for we ex-
pected that by determining the tenn.
perature at the bottom we would be
able to trace the direction in which
the water was moving in any particu-
lar way, because water is an extreme
ly bad conductor, and 1t maintains,
for great length of time, unless there
is some special reason for its mixing
with other water, the temperature of
its source. We usually, at most of the
stations mentioned, determined cor
rectly the bottom temperature, and
then that of the various strata from
the bottom up to the surface, and we


were inclined to come to the conclu-
sion that the great mass of the water
found in the troughs OF the Atlantic
and Pacific is derived from the SOUTH
ern sea. OF course the idea was
prevalent that there are no animals at
those great depths, but the conclusion


we have arrived at now is that there
are animals at all depths, though un-
doubtedly they decrease in number as


the depth increases. In, regard
to what these animals are, a


large proportion of them is yet in


describable. The collection we have


brought home, nevertheless. may be


reckoned by thousands. The whole
| region which we have been eXamin-
ing has been hitherto totally unknown


aud consequently. all the animals we
have got over this immense number


of square miles are totally unknown


also. The deep-sea fauna we found


to be very generally diflused, SO that
the animals we found in one region
are practically very much the same,
and though differing certainly insome


respects in the various localities, still
there is general resemblance in the
form of the whole" ltau uattlla issl
Year: 1876

A printer sat in his Office chair his
boots patched and his coat thread bare,
while his face looked weary and worn
with care, while sadly thinking of
business debt, old Morpheus slowly
around him crept, before he knew it
he soundly slept: and sleeping he
dreamed that lie was dead; from
trouble and toll his spirit had fled and
not even COW bell tolled, for the
peaceful rest Of his COW hide sole. AS
he wandered among the shades that
smoke and. seorch in lower Hades, he
shortly observed an iron door, that
creakingly swung on hinges ajar, but
the entrance was closed b3 a red hot
bar, satan himself stood opeeping out
and watching for travellers there about,
and with growing voice the echoes
woke. stCome in my dear, it shall cost
You nothing and never fear ;this the
place where l. cook the ones, who
never pay their subscription sums, for
though in life they may escape, they





show you the place where melt them
thin, with red hot chains and scraps
Of tin, and also where I comb their
heads with broken glass and melted
lead, and if of refreshment they only
think, there's boiling water for them
to drink, there's the red, hot grind
stone to grind his nose; and red hot
rings to wear on his toes, anagifl they
mention they don't like fire, I'H sew
up their mouths with red hot wire
and then dear sir you should see them
squirm, while roll them over TO cook
to u turn" With these words the
printer awoke and thought it all a
practical joke; but still at times 80
real did it seem that he cannot believe
it all was dream aud often he thinks
with chuckie and grin, of the fate OF
those who save their tin, and meyer
pay the printer. .-....-....' s.s
Year: 1876

BILE paper. Let US have all the money
in the world to redeem in and not
barely half of it. Gold and silver are
the money of the Constitution. Give
us both and resumption is made easy
and safe. With gold alone it will be
difficult and slow, even if it be possi-
BILE. Silver has become cheap because
it is no longer money. Make it mon-
ey again and it will be dug out of the
mountains by the ton, and help us to
pay our debts and revive our business.
1t will gradually rise in value. and in
justice be done to no one. This be-
ing accomplished, we can then settle
on a stable basis a currency of gold,
silver and paper, constantly supple
menting each other and constantly in
terconvertible. DURBIN WARD.


N. b. It may be said IT we coin sill
yer again, as it is cheaper than gold,
gold will be exported to foreign coun-
tries and tighten the money market.
Not SO unless it be more profitable to
ship it than other articles, and it will
| flow back again as soon as business
needs it. The two metals are team
that will pull well together if you gear
them, together and make the harness
fit each. D: w.
l. ..-. ss---------


A CAMPAIGN CUsIOSITY.


The Result Predicted by an Indiana POlit-
icaI Figurer.-Good News for Tildsn.
| From the Indianapolis sentinel.


A young political aruspex who has
evidently penetrated the hidden mys-
teries of futurity by the special favor
of the heather diyinities and led by
the unerring guidance of figures has
reached the result of the election that
is to be. AS shown below, the sums
of the ordinal numbers of the alpha
bet corresponding to the letters of the
names of the candidates are identical
with the sums of the electoral votes
which those candidates will receive,
giving to each the States as they have
been revealed to the wise soothsayer.
Both results give Tilden and Hem
bricks l9 majority. There can be no
doubt of the genuineness of the rev.
elation. This settles the question and
stops all the betting at one stroke.
Year: 1876

He used to cramp his feet up in little
boots, and limp painfully to her residence
avery Sunday evening; But the morn
ing after his marriage he went to shoe
makers, drew a chalk mark around his
foot, and about an inch from it on both
sides and at the heel aud toe, and order
cd the man to make him pair of boots
after that pattern. Oh there's sweet
liberty. there's balmy, boundless free
d IN in the marriage state, of which sore
heolcd and distorted ba helors have nc
Coi.cpDtion.
Year: 1876

MAKE A NOTE HERE.-A claim agent
writes that he called on Southern gen.
tlema1 who was said to have made out a
heavy claim against the Government,
and that the following was the result of
the interview; Il asked him TO let me
take his papers with me and put them in
proc IS OF collection. lie replied that he
had been too disloyal, and the claim
would be rejected, but that be would
wait until the Democracy got into power
when all such items would be paid, ad-
ding that he knew numbers of just such
eases waiting the same day."
Year: 1876

THIS note from Chicago girl to her
lover was made public through a lawsuit:
dear Samie, Pap's watermilIors is
ripe. Come and bring some poetry like
you brought afore. My love for you will
ever flow like water running down a later
row. Bring piece as long as your arm,
and have heap more about them ray
ing rngets and other sweet things
Come next Sunday and don't fulc me-"
Year: 1876

IF the South will pay for the war her
leaders brought on, if the South will rA-
store the husband to the widow, the
brother to the brother, the son to his par
ent-, the Government will consider its
claim for 81, SOB, ,622 1856. But never will
the Republican party allow the disband
el Confederate Congress TO come TO
Washington and draw the amount of
these unjust claims from the United
States Treasury.
Year: 1876

81 THANK you for your sympathy"
said widow when a friend said good
things Of her late husband. at was a
great loss but that is not the worst of it.
Any woman knows what kind OF hus-
band she had, but who can tell the kind
she will get -
Year: 1876

TILDEN's VERACITY.-Down goes the
national debt. The Republican Admin
isiration persist in paying it off. Since
Grant was inaugurated over six hundred
millions have been liquidated. In the
face of this fact Tilden said the Govern
ment did not live within its income. 1t
certainly would not have done so had all
taxpayers been as dishonest as the great
railroad wrecker.
Year: 1876

THIS is not only an exciting but very
interesting political campaign. Women
us we'll as men have a duty to perform to
their country, and they should not shrink
from it. They cannot vote or appear in
professions, but they can cut the wood
II ID bring up the coal, and thus leave the
men more timo to talk up matters
Dan bHl'U NcuS.
Year: 1876

The Acting Governor Of Louisiana, In
his recent bitterly partisan letter to the
Chairman Of the Democratic Conserva-
tive State Central Committee. uses the
following language:


frankly say to you. as the representative OF
the Democratic party Of this State that in my
opinion. the principal obstacle now existing to 1,
fair expression Of the will OF the people at the
next election consists in the system of terrorism
which members OF your party. not forming, I
admit, the nio6f numerous or the most res pect-
able class have established, unrebuked by you
In some OF the parishes OF the State. where black
men are nightly whiI ped and shot at. or even
killed; where they are prevented from holding
political meetings. and are deprived OF all free-
dom of political action.


In this paragraph Antoine and the
leaders OF the Radical party (for
Antoine's letter is simply the manifesto
of the partyt charge that q system Of
prevails in this State; that
negroes are nightly whipped. shot at
and killed and that coIored men are
deprived Of all freedom Of political
action. These are indeed grave and