smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

We learn from citizen of Wolf River Town
ship, that Mr. Harpster has expressed himself IN
favor of number of changes in the manner OF
conducting the County Court, which he will urge
upon the new Board. As number of these
changes are designed to bring the proceedings of
the County Board mp to the standard of civilized
Counties, we trust that the other members will
look favorabiy upon them, and give them at least
a sufneieDt trial to ascertain whether business
cannot be transacted more rapidly, orderly and
satisfactorily than under the present system.


He is in favor, first, of holding County Court
in the Court Room mp stairs, where the members
OF the Board can sit apart from the crowd, and
consult together without dozen or two noses
being run into their faces by persons eager To
hear their private conferences; and when they
cannot be jostled, button-holed, and pulled
around by every man who has road grievance,
or a bill for giving a pauper a crust of bread or
a cold potato.


He is in favor of having the busines CLASSIFIED,
and of having every matter that is to come be-
fore the Board docketed in its order, and IN its
proper class. Each matter shall then be taken
mp in its regular ORDER as it appears on the dock
ct, aud disposed of before any other business is
taken mp.


Every person who has anything to say to the
Board, on any business pending before it, shall
address his remarks TO the Court, without inter
rnption from others, and shall then give others
the same chance. M jabbering, dispnting, or
confused talking to be permitted, retarding bus
iness, aud making it impossible to know what
any one is suggesting


All business to be done at the fine and in the
manner prescribed by law. Not decision at one
session, and reversal at the next, contrary to
law, and perhaps to the detriment of absent par
ties.


Some definite and systematic rule with regard
to the support of paupers, instead of every eiti-
zen keeping poor-house of bis own, and collect
ing his bills off of the County. In this item,
alone, it is expected that an immense saving can
be made.


These are the principal points that our inform
ant called to mind. They are good ideas, aud
should be carried ont The people confidently
look to the incoming Board to bring order ont of
the chaos into which the County business has
fallen, and to retrieve the desperate state into
which the County insnces have been brought by
mismanagement and incompetency.
Year: 1875

y That exceedingly moral and upright young
man that second Horace Greeley, who displays
his brilliancy in the columns of the Wathena
Reporter, after an unprovoked assault upon
workman in our Office, sneaks out Of it by say
ing he did not mean that person, but another
one. That person is not employed in our office,
and has not been for more than year and half
The editor of the Reporter sent his cub up to spy
around and find out whether he was, and he did
find ont That person was last employed upon
the Reporter and the editor of that sheet prom
ised him a job, when he removed the Reporter to
Troy, and got the County printing under the
new dispensstion Pardon us, but we had to
put an exclamation point there.
Year: 1875

Colonel Martin does Us infinitely too mnch
honor IN speaking of the present superintendent
At that time We represented different portion
of the State entirely. He must have been think
ing OF the Congressional apportion ment. We
Miller, then Senator the rural districts owe,
more than to any one else, what they did get
Hichita Eagle.
Year: 1875

Is@ friend advises that we must change
our tactics or we will get the worst of the fight
with the Reporter. He says the most approved
plan is to conduct the fight one week editorially,
and the Hext week correspondence or "Cards,"
and thus alternate it, for variety
Year: 1875

n Greeley tells what dreadful conversation
is carried on in the Chief Office. He is behind
the times. Most of our hands graduated at the
Reporter office, and went on NEST scandalously
for long time. But after perseverins for two
or three years, We succeeded in breaking them
Of it, and now everything is lovely. If we can
only keep them away from the Reporter office,
we have hopes that the reformation is complet.
Year: 1875

E1@ When II. G. H. undertook that labored ex-
PLANTATION about our railroad excursion, We won
der if he wasn't thinking of the place he tumbled
into one night, in making hurried exit from a
house where he was consoling helpless woman.
Year: 1875




Eighteen hundred and seventysix il the Centennial
year IL is also the year in which Opposition House
OF Representatives, the first since the will in
power at Washington and the the twenty third
election Of President of the United States All Of these
events to be of great intere. and
especially the latter: and all them and everybips
connected with them will be fully and freshly rroDrri
and expOunded in The sun


The Opposition House of Representatives taking mn
the line Of inquiry opened years ago by The san will
sternly and diligently investigate the corrdptons and
hOped lay the foundation for and better period
our national history OF all this The IN will contain
complete and accurate accounts furnishing its readers
with early and trustworthy information upon these alb
sorhng topics


The twentyhird Presidential election with the prepa
ratOns for it, will he as deciding uDon Grants
aspirations for third Of power and pinnier and
still more deciding who shall be candidate Of the
party OF krfnrm. and as electing that candidate. Con-
cernng all these subjects those who read The will
formed.


The Weekly Sun, which has attained circulation Of
over eighteen thousand copies already has its readers
every State and Territory and that the year
s16 will see their numbers doubled Il will to
oe thorough newspaper All the general news Of the
day will be found in IT, condensed when unimp0rtant at
fn length when Of moments and always ,rnst treat
ed IN clear, interesting and instructive m INNER


Ii Is aim to make the Weekly San the best family
newspaper in the world, and shall
It's columns, large amount Of miscellaneous reading
agricultural information. for which are not able to
make room in daily editnn The agricultural De.
fashions are also regularly reported in its columns AMI
80 are the markets Of every kind


The Weekly Sun, eight pages with hftysix broad col
nnns is only 81 20 year postage prepaid As this pEies
barely the of the paper discount cAa De
made nom this rate TO clubs agents POstmzsters any
one.


The Daily sun a large four page newspaper of sweDty
eight colnmns, gives all the cents n copy
Subscrpton postage prepaid IS month or $3.50
d SsAr S1lnday edition extra clio per year We have


THE SUN New York City.
Year: 1875

Y The editor of the Reporter (Which is p NJ
is nrglecting his duty. He has not sent his cub
to Troy, this week, TO fiHl out what hands are
working in our Office, so that he can abuse them
Year: 1875

The corOncr's jury in The case Of The
South Side Railroad disaster rendered a
verdict to-day, whereby they severely
Censure the railroad company In not em'
ploying good and competent persons OF
q sufficient number to operate the road
safely; also in not having improved brakes
attached to the cars, and in altering their
time table on n public holiday also In
putting as generalmanager over the road
an inexperienced man, with power to d.
rect and control Superintendent Barton
and Train.master Barr, and we exonerate
Superintendent Barton and Train-maSter
Barr from all blame.
Year: 1875

WHY WOMEN CANNOT ENTER
MASONIC LoDGEs.-When King Sol
omon was still a young man he had
married his seventh wife. She was
beautiful young Ammonitess, with
locks as black as the ravens wing
and eyes as bright as the eagles. l
was believed that she was the favor
ed fair one among all the sultanas of
the Great King; for his affections
we're not divided then as they after
wards became. She knew her pow
er, and used it unsparingly. In ad-
dition to her other qualities, she was
inquisitive as ever was a woman on
this earth.


One evening King Solomon atten-
ded lodge on some grand occasion
and stayed outsomewhat late. When
he returned home he found the fair
Ammonitess in the dumps and pOut-
ing just like the dear wives of Ma
sons do sometimes now when their
lords stay out too late at the Lodge.
She upbraided him with neglecting
her, insinuated that he hadn't been
to the Lodge as he pretended, and
insisted that in future he should
give proof that he went thsre by
having herself initiated, so that she
might go their and watch him.


Daughter of Ammon," replied
the King, "thou hast behaved thyselt
as one oe the foolish women, in pre-
suming to question thy lord and mas
ter. Thou art not SO angry with me
as thou pretendest to be; for the true
reason ofthis behavior is thy insat-
liable curiosity, in which thou excel
lest Eve herself Know then that l
here ordain that neither thou, nor
Year: 1875

Nor GUILTT.-Some years ago an
Irishman was Knocked down and
robbed. He accused a man of hav-
ing committed the robbery; in due
time the case came up for trial. The
Irishman being called upon the stand
was cross examined, after having
sworn positively to the guilt Of the
prisoner, by one of our keenest law.
yers. and something like the follow
ing was the result Ysw


"You say that the prisoner At the
bar was the man who assaulted and
robbed your


sYis.'


Was it moonlight when the &C.
currence took placer"


Not bit Nv it.


WAS it starlightr


Not a whit; it was so dark that
you could not have seen your han-l
before you


Was there any light shining from
any house near byg


Not bit av house was there
anywhere about


We'll, then, if there was no moon
no starlight, no light from any h'''se
and so dark that you couldn't soc
even your hand before you, how afo
Won able TO swear that the prisoner
is the man. Did you see him."


Why, You honor, when the spaT-
peen struck me the fire few out in
me eye so bright that you might hive
seen TO pick up a pin; you could he
jAbbersr


The court, jury, counsel and spec
tatOrs exploded at this quaint idea,
and the prisoner was declared not
guilty.
Year: 1875

out in the daily life Of those whom
it was their privilege to servel How
many parents are there whose chill
dren have risen up and called them
blessed How many . brother and
sister have owed their conversion,
under God, to each otherl How
many Christian servants have been
the first to introduce religion into 9
Ithoughtless and worldly family,
choosing the time Of sickness or sor-
row when the heart was softend
and subdued, and asking Gods bless
ing Hpoa their humble endeayoprsl
How many D. little child has been
permitted to speak word for Jesus
Those writes Miss Catherine Sin
clair, "whO neglect to promote the
happiness, or to seek the salvation
of any with whom! tie providence
of an all-wise Creator has connected
them by the most sacred ties, betray
one of their chief trusts, and lose one
of the greatest felicities which the
world can afford.n


The influence of a dear young
friend, whose home conduct was
beautiful illustration of the taith that
worketh by love, is thus described
by an eyewitness: "She moved about
the house like sunbeam. 1 heard
her singing as she passed to and fro,
and her mother heard her too, and
said with a fond smile, It is Mary.
She is always the same, always hap
py. l do not know what i should
do without her. i do not know
what any of us would do without
Mary repeated her eldest daughter,
and the rest echoed her words.


"Her youngest brother is OF a vio-
lent temper, ard is always quarrel
ing with somebody; but he never
quarrels with Mary, because she will
not quarrel with him, but strives to
turn aside his anger by gentle words.
Even her presence has an influence
over him. So it has ON all her broth
ers; and to please her they have left
off taking in the Sunday newspaper,
and go to church, or read good
books at home. They none OF them
think as seriously as she does about
sacred things, but they avoid making
jest of them when she is present.
or saying or doing anything to hunt
her feelings. And some day, Mary
hopes that what they now abstain
from for her sake, will be abstained
from out of love for God: and for
fear of grieving the Holy Spirit.


ITO be conti7stted.l
Year: 1875

FIDELITY-Never forsake = friend


When enemies gather around, when
sickness falls upon the heart, when


the world is dark and eheerless. is
the time to try true friendship. The
heart that has been touched with
true gold will redouble its efforts
when the friend Is sad snd in trOub.
le. Adversely tries true friendship,
They who run from the scenes oi
distress betrsy their hypocrisy, and
prove that interest only moves them,
If you have = friend who loves yOu,
who has studied your interest and
happiness, be sure to sustain him In
adversity. Let him feel thst his for.
NOR kindness IS appreciated, and thai
his love was not thrown away. Real
fidelity may be rare, but it exists in
the heart. Who has not seen and
felt its powers They who deny its
worth and power have never loved
a friend or never lsbOred to make .
friend happy. The good and the
kind, the affeetionSte and the virtn.
Ouss see and feel the heavenly Prin-
eiple- They would sSerifcs wealth
and all but honor to promote the
happiness of Othsrss and in return
they would be rewarded for their
love by sympathizing hearts and
double favors when they have been
brought low By disease or adversity.
Year: 1875

Some of the agricultural papers mako


their columns lively with advice to all good


husbandmcn to engage in various enter.


prlses with millions in them" and thou.


sands OF farmers, one after another. are


acting or the suggestions. The strawberry


speculation is perhaps widest spread. and


stacks OF plants are set each year without


ever bearing fruit enough to pay for the
cost. Fancy poultry is tempting. and HIGH.


priced eggs are bought, and may be a few


chickens are hatched but in the end il is


discovered that no hen will lay two eggs a
day. The bees are recommended, especially


Tor women, and great deal of studying is
done, but the honey season is not abundant


and year after year the complaint is made
that "this is the worst season for bees wn
ever had" Some undertake to raise mush.
rooms, without knowing a mushroom when
they see it; others reading that ducks arc
sent to London market by the ton, get
eggs and go to Matching, while others still.
plant grapevines by the acre, or dwarf
pears by the thousand, and in most cases
the conclusion reached is that corn is n
good crop, that potatoes always sell, and
nothing is much better than a few three
year old steers to turn off in the spring.
unless it be the value of the same in wool
The continued disappointments are due
almost wholly to want of knowledge in
regard to details, and to acquire this is to
acquire what may almost be called trade.
Nothing would seem more simple than to
raise Strawberries, and yet the majority
fail, generally for want Of prepared ground
and the necessary cultivation, and it is
probably true that it will take q man five
or six years before he can find out what is
the matter. And so it is in regard to all
other pursuits and enterprises. 1t would
be "splended," as the girls say, if one
could be born with hereditary experience,
so as to take up the thread where the old
folks left off, and many an aged and
broken man knows that if he could have
had this inheritance, with all the checks
and safeguards that it brings, he would
now be rich and happy, instead of poor
and acquainted with grief The next best |
thing, in the absence of such hereditary |
gift, is to feel our way and look before |
leaping.-N Y Tribune.
Year: 1875

The Boston Globe of recent date gives
this vivid picture of the manners and
customs of our ancestors a century since:


"The apparel, as has been said, oft
proclaims the man. and we NAV add
woman, and certainly the costume of the
days of the Revolution had picturesque
ness which is wanting to our more exten-
sive luxury. The wigs and gowns and
bands of the clergy gave them notable
appearance in the pulpit, and the cooked
hats which they wore in the street distin-
guished them from their brethren of TODAY.
whose white cravats sometimes make it
difficult to discriminate between them and
hotel walters or ordinary diners-out. The
gentleman in those days wore when he
went out, wig, white stock, white satin
embroidered waistcoat, black and satin
small clothes, with white silk stockings
and fine broadcloth or velvet coat. At
home, instead of his wig, he had on velvet
cap, and sometimes fine linen one under
it, and his coat gave place to gown, fire.
quently Of cOlored damask lined with silk.
while fancy colored leather slippers covered
his feet. Ladies wore those elegant silk
and brocade dresses which are still so much
admired, and their hair, dressed with
powder and pomatum, was elevated much
higher above their heads than the most
soaring and ambitious locks of their fair
descendants of to-day.


d" In those days gentlmans snuffbox
was as indispensable as the cigar is now,
and courtesy was shown in taking the weed
in this form with friend. The houses. in
those days, with their spacious halls and
ample freplaces and stairways, were very
suggestive of solid comfort Bright brass
andirons, the use of which has lately been
revived, were common in Revolutionary
times; and as long ago as Governor Endi-
colts day, they were features of luxurious
household. The punch-bowl was also a
notable article in families of substantial
means, and its contents were customary
treat for company. Rings were given as
presents at funerals to pall-bearers and par
ticular friends, and the Rev. Andrew Elliot,
of Boston, who died in 177s, left mug
full of these articles which had been pre-
sented to him on such occasions. Hotels
on the scale of our caravansaries were un.
known; but there were taverns and coffee
houses where good deal of solid comfort
could be secured. Such are some of the
manners and customs of our Revolutionary
ancestors, whose stately courtesy and dignity
covered so much of genuine nobility and
worth that we cannot but feel interested in
whatever distinguished them from their
descendants of to-day"
Year: 1875

IT. when you hear certain ladys name,


You feel your pulses give a sudden start,
Or blush as if some secret sense of shame


Had stirred just then the currents of your heart
And if that name-to put it rather strong


In euphOny seems very much above
All other names-I think can't be wrong


To venture the opinion, you're in love
If, when at last. by some auspicious chance,


You met the lady at a ball or play,
You shrink abashed before her modest glance,


And quite forget the words you meant to say;
And if, moreover, gazing at her hand,


You wish upon that hand you were glove,
1t isn't very hard to understand


(See Romeo and juliet" y you're in love!
If with two ladies, on a summers day,


You sit alone at luncheon or at tea
And think, if one of them were but away


CA mile or sO,) how happy you would be;
Yet find your wits in such giddy whirl,


You scarcely speak to her you're thinking of
But prattle gayly with the other girl


There's reasons for suppOsing you're in love!
IT. all at once your amatory pen


(Which ne'er before attempted lyric lines
Iaritd mWsd-bane of gods and mend


To fervid song and madrigal inclines,
Wherein you rashly rhyme of youth and truth"
And call yOursubject darling" duck" or dove
Or sadly beg some cruel ladys ruth


The symptom is unfailing-youre in love!
If of her sex no other you can find


One half so bright or beautiful as she;
lftO her failing you are wholly blind


THE faults, mean, that other people see);
If in her pug you see a Grecian nOse,'
And never doubt the angel bands above
Are silent when she sings-yOu may suppose,
Beyond the slightest question, you're i'll love!
Year: 1875

A SHoEMAKER's SoPHIsTRY.-You can't
get an old shoemaker to bIunder. The
other day when a weighty woman sailed
INTO Detroit shoe store and selected pair
OF No. Is and sat down to have them tried
on the shoemaker saw that she wanted Is
But he didn't tell her so, and start her ont
OF the shop on gallop. lie smiled and
softly said:


" Madam, all the aristocratic ladies oro
now wearing shoes three sizes too large fog
'hcir feet, in order to have cool extremitics
and OF course you want to follow the
stylc?"


She smiled like duck in reply to his
smile, and replied;


ou arc in position to know best, and
leave everything to your judgment"


When she went out she said she never
had such an easy fitting shoe on in her
whole life
Year: 1875

LIMIT Your WANTs.-From the nature OF
things, the income of most of the inhabi.
tants of the earth must be limited and
indeed within very narrow bounds. The
product of labor throughout the world, if
equally divided, would not make the share
of each individual large. 1t is impossible
that every one should be what is called
rich. But it is by no means impossible to
be independent. And what is the way to
compass this "glorious privilege? ?" It
consists in one rule: Limit your wants.
Make them few and inexpensive. To do
this would interfere but little with vour
real habit. You require more, or you are
satisfied with less, just as you have accus.
toned yourself to the one or the other
Young men, think of this. After having
made your money, spend it as you choose
honestly: but be sure you make it first.
Year: 1875

A rich widower in Melbourne advertised
under an assumed name for wife, and
being particularly pleased with the style
and chirography of one of the many
answers, sought further correspondence,
pursuant to which an interview was ar
ranged. Imagine the experimenting gen.
tleman's surprise at meeting in the parlor
OF the designated hotel his own daughter,
whom he supposed TO be carefully guarded
in distant boarding school. Probably no
two persons ever met under more embar.
RAISING circumstances; but the young lady
Immediately graduated from school to the
position of houselzeeper for her lonely
father, who will not advertise for a wife
again until the damsel is settled in life.
Year: 1875

A BIG MAN." The carpet" said dealer
to an old farmer the other day, "that car
pet is one dollar and thirty-fve per yard
but, seeing it's you, you can have it for one
dollar twenty"


While he was cutting it off the farmer
proudly said to his wife:


never met him before, but you see
he takes me for some big man. Now, then
Marier, see what il is, to have husband
who looks smartish %
Year: 1875

When playful lad is sliding down a
sandbank, with heart full of careless iov
and pair of summer pantaloons, nothing
more quickly turns the current of his
thoughts than to slide on a brier.
Year: 1875

a lady living near Troy has a piece of
soap supposed to be hundred wears old
Ism t 1t astonishing how long some people
can keep soap in the house and never feel
the slightest temptation to use it.
Year: 1875

\ foolish young man out West, in Q
newspaper office, desires to know why tho
ponce are not turned out in New York and
the thieves put in. That is exactly what
has been DONE Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1875

KEEP Orr OF DEBT.-IIalf the rcrplexitv.
annoyance and trouble that men have in
'hiS world Is IN consequence of getting into
debt. 1t seems to be natural for somo
people to buy and incur obligations without
measure, so long as they can avoid paving
away ready cash. Give one of this sort a
chance to buy on credit, and the questions Of
payment are matters that he cares but little
about But what a crop of trouble springs
up from the seed of debt How many grey
hairs 1t brings, and how often it shortens
life; sometimes leading men to commit
suicide or murder. And yet how easy it is
to keep clear of this terrible monster. Paw
no attention to the "rare chances" " snlen.
did opportunities" "bargains," and the
like. Such are only traps set to catch
victims. If you see anything that Won
would like to accept, look first at your
money pile, and make the answer depend
on that. Always pay as you 90. If YOU
arc short of money, gauge your demands
accordingly.
Year: 1875

A South Boston lady was recently inter.
rogated by Benedict as to why she did
not get married. She replied: ~ prefer
to be an old maid" He said he did not
believe it, as he felt sure she envied his
wife. "Oh, no! that would be breaking
the commandment-Thou shalt not covct
thy neighbor's ass" The subject dropped