smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

FINDING A PRRsoN's NAArE.-The Aq-
ricWltariSt publishes the method of find
ing out persons name:


Let the person whose ABB no
name you wish to know oEIR
tell you in which of the ! EFFJ
upright columns the first K
letter of his name is found. IJIL
If it be found in but one KKMMU
column, it is the top letter; MNEN
if it occurs in more than o ow
one column, it is found by oRTx
adding the alphabetical svzY
numbers of the top letters wv "
of these columns, and the www
sum will be the number of z
the letter ought. Ry taking one letter
at a time in this way, the whole name
can be ascertained. For example, take
the word Jane. lis found in the two
columns commencing with B and n,
which are the second and eighth letters
down the alphabet; their sum is ten,
and the tenth letter down the alphabet
is J, the letter sought. The next letter,
a, appears in but one column, where it
stands at the top. Mis- seen in the col
umns headed B, D and II; these are the
second, fourth, and eighth letters Of
the alphabet, which added give the four
teenth or N, and so on. The use of
this table will excite no little curiosity
among those unacquainted with the
foregoing explanation.
Year: 1876

times and keep up q full force In the fac
tory at prices from 20 to 40 per cent. higher
than his competitors pay for the same class
of work in Louisville, Cincinnati, Rich
mond, etc., to say nothing of the East. II
every manufacturer in the city were COM
PEELED to do so, In little while we would
have no factories at all, ard the
present suffering among workingmen
would be augmented four-fold. 1t
is hard, very hard, and it does seem as
though there ought to be remedy some
where for the Ills to which labor is heir,
but II so, it has not yet been discovered.
Men must take for their labor just what it
Will bring, cruel as it may seem, or go
without work that other lsboring men
even more necess;tous than they may have
something to do. OF course there are in
dividusl exceptions to the rule. There are
enterprises which, notwithstanding the
timfs, ara paying large dividends and
which ought not to turn a deaf ear to so
reasonable an appeal as the one before us
So, too, there are many branches OF trade
requiring labor which, from their
NATURE, are DOI open 10 IOrelgn
competition; to them too, it ad
dresses itself with force; but beyond
these neither prayers nor praise nor pratt
tie can prop up prices. The true hope of
the workingmen OF the country after all
is in its general prosperity. That is largely
dependent upon an honest and economical
administration of the government whereby
labor and capital alike may bs relieved
from crushing taxation. The best work
to which laboriHg men can devote their
spare energies will be the securing of this
end by seeing to it that public plunderers
are ousted and that only men Of good
sound sense and principles are entrusted
with the making and the administration of
the laws.
Year: 1876

The Blaine investigation will be resumed July 10.


Bates College made young lady Bachelor of Arts
| ast week.


The Houton cheese factory is now in operation
and doing good business.


Speaker kerrs condition is much improved, but he
has little hope of recovery.


Half million cans of strawberries have been put
up i'll California this week.


The bears in the northern section of the State are
making sad havoc among the sheep.


Doing business without advertising is good deal
like trying to borrow Il flag on the Fourth Of july


Frederick Gardner of Dennysville, while on his
way to the store few days ago. attacked by
two large dogs, one taking him by the leg and the
other jumping for his throat BY considerable effort
and help coming along he finally succeeded in get
ing clear of them without much damage.
Year: 1876

The last Argus publishes the follow
ing card from Mr.. Grady, giving his rea
sons for deciding to withdraw from the
contest for the sheritf's office. The with
dral. however was not determined upon,
until Capt. Wintrey had given notice to
Mr.. Grady of a hundred illegal votes
that had been cast for him in the county.
Instead Of seven majority. as had been
declared, he would, we believe, have had
over hundred majority, If the contest
had gone on. Mr.. Grady's counsel knew
just as well as they know, to day, that
he could not sustain the contest, but they
thought they could scoop him for two or
three hundred, and they would encour-
age the thing along:


al desire to state to the people Of
Crawford county, that upon investiga-
ton of the full facts in the election for
Sheriff of this county, l have ascertain
ed that many Of my friends, under a
misapprehension Of the law, voted in
townships other than their own. Such q
number did so that am satisfied that the
lose Of their votes would make it impos-
sible for me TO succeed in the proposed
contest before the county court. Upon
a representation of facts to my attorneys
they have advised me to abandon the
contest, which l have done. Thanking
my friends for the support given me, |
am respectfully,


at p GRADYU
Year: 1876

1~ 1t is evident, Notwithstanding all
the loud talk and Dragging of the bolt
crs, that the vote for Cravens, in this dis
trict, will result triumphantly for Judge
Stuart, the nominee Of the convention,
just about as it did two years ago, in the
Wiltshire and Thomason election. Dem.
ocrats should watch well, that they do
not get left with the struggling crew Of
nee, and you will sail to victory in the
old democratic ship. Put your trust in
the boiling crew, and you will drift Oft,
and there is no telling where you will
bring up-probably in the bosom Of
Judge Mcclure.
Year: 1876

By the following note from Palmer
Neal Esq, we learn OF the burning of his
Store and Goods, on the 18th inst. The
loss falls heavily upon very worthy
man.


On last evening about half an hour at
ter dark, the top Of my store in Cedar
vile was seen in a fame of fire. l wai
absent from the bnilding at the time
When some OF the citizens got the dool
opened it was all on fire inside. l saw
ed nothing. Loss estimated at $4,000
1t is supposed and believed that the store
was set on fire by some rogue. / will
give $50. for the recovery OF the theft.


p. NEAL.
Year: 1876

EI You smile, when you see child
trying to grasp Its own shadow but you
have been grasping shadows all Of your
life. aud you will continue to reach out
and grasp as long as breath and eyesight
Iasta
Year: 1876

The following illustration is given of
etiquette in the time of Louis XV.:-
In the Queens apartment there were
two chambers. One day the Queen
saw a speck Of dust on her bed, and
showed it to Madame de Luyness, the
maid of honor. The latter sent for the
rdlet de chdn,Jre, bed-maker to the Queen.
that he might show it to the uatet de
chambre, bed-maker to King. The latter
arrived at the end of an hour, but said
that the dust was none of his business,
because the bed-maker of the King
made up the common bed of the Queen,
but were forbidden to touch the state
bed. Consequently the dust must be re-
moved by the officers of the household.
The Queen gave orders that they shonld
be sent for, and every day for two
months she asked if the dust had been
brushed off, but they had not yet found
out whose duty it was to remove the
speck. Finally, the Queen took up
feather-duster and brushed 1t off. Great
was the scandal thereof, but no one
dreamed of blaming the absence of the
officers; they had only found that the
Queen had been wanting in etiquette.
Year: 1876

Yacob was the name of an Arab boy
in the Oriental city of Cairo. He was
poor, and, like most of the poor boys of
that city, bis chief ambition was to own
a donkey and hire him out to the trav-
elers to go to the pyramids and other
places of interest in the neighborhood
of Cairo. As it was, he was only the
driver of another mans donkey; that
is, when the animal was mounted by
the traveller, he ran behind, poking the
quadruped with sharp stick to keep
him in a brisk trot.


One day while Yacob was standing in
front of Shepherds Hotel in Cairo,
wishing he had donkey of his own, an
English traveller on the veranda beck
oned to him and asked him why he
looked so wistful, and Yacob answered
that he was unhappy because he had no
donkey.


And when the Englishman heard his
story, he called his servant and told
him to bring up Mafish, which was an
old sleepy donkey. Then he said to
Yacob:


"would you be happy if you owned
that donkey, my lad?"


"Oh, master, l would be happy with
any donkeyv' said Yacob.


"Then," said the Englishman, che
is yours-I make him present to you."



When he said this, the other travellers
gathered around, with smiles on their
faces, for it appeared that the English
man was a man much given to making
fun. He told Yacob to get on the dom
key and ride him up and down in front
of the hotel few times, to show his
gait. Yacob got astride of him, and
found that he was stiff in the legs and
moved slowly notwithstanding the
sharp pokes he gave h!m with his stick.


'I shall give the don key a name that
will draw custom for you," said the
Englishman as the lad rode up to the
veranda.


Yacob was much pleased that his
benefactor should give the donkey a
name, for he had seen some of his COM
panions who hired their donkeys more
easily than others. on account of for.
tunate names given to them by travel
ers.


81 shall be much glad to call him
what my master pleases," said Yacob.


"Then his name shall be Lightning"
said the Englishman, and the other
travellers laughed.


Yacob did not know what Lightning
meant, and he continued to call his
donkey by that name after the English
man went away. He did not have
much difficulty in hiring his donkey;
but when the travellers started on their
journey, they told Yacob he was hum
bug, and that he had imposed on them
with his animal. So that they only
kept Kighting for a few minutes. and
the same people never hired him twice.


One day, as he led his old donkey
toward the hotel veranda, after being
called little humbug by an angry
traveller, who refused to pay him for
hire Of half an hour, he was spoken to !
by fat man In long black coat. who
Year: 1876

The gallinazo, or the black vulture
of the isthmus of Panama, is a bird
whose services as scavenger are highly
priced by the natives. In view of the
valuable services rendered by this bald
headed bird, the natives have framed
for it a legend to account for the entire
absence of feathers on its neck and
head. The story runs as follows, and
we commend it to the attention of those
naturalists who are at loss to know
the treason why" for this and kindred
phenomena: "After the Deluge, Noah
when he was opening the door of the
ark, thought it well 10 give word of
advice to the released animals. MY
children said he, when you see man
coming toward you. and STOPPING down
go away from him; he is getting
stone to throw at you.' very good,'
exclaimed the gallinazo; but what if
he have one already in his pocket?'
Noah was somewhat taken aback a: the
reply; but he decided that in future the
gallinazo should be born bald, In token
of its remarkable sagacity. ."-Appteton'
Journal.
Year: 1876

There is a general tendency to speak
slightingly OF those who save money,
and to extOl those who do not. 1t is not


easy to indicate the precise grounds


upon which this is done; but there ap-


pears to prevail an impression to the


effect that one class are meaD-souled,


sordid, and greedy, while the other are


full of generous impulses. This i'm


preston, however, does not seem to be


justified by the facts of the case. In


many cases, those who spend recklessly


are by no means philanthropic. They


throw about their money, it is true, but


they do so more in a spirit of bravado


than from charitable impulses Their


beneyOlence is, to say the best that can


be said of it, decidedly erratic, and un-


fortunate indeed is the being who is


dependent upon them. Because they


scatter their gold with an apparently


lavish hand wherever they 60, and


when the eyes Of the world are upon


them, it does not follow that they are


doing more than giving way 10 partic-


ular form Of self-indulgence. They


may treat their friends to costly enter
tainments, but there is little charity in


vol, ed in the proceeding where the en-
tertainments are given at the expense
Of creditors who are being defrauded of
their rights. OF course it may be held
that it is a rather clever thing to didle
ones creditors in order that one may be
generous to ones acquaintance but the
man who does this invariably fails to
stand the wear and tear of time. The
probability is that, sooner or later, he
attemps to diddle you with the same
skill that he has diddled his creditors;
and the chances are that you discover
ere long that his promises are not to be
relied upon, and that 1t is hopeless to
expect him to keep his engagements.
Nor Is this all. 1t will be found that,
Notwithstanding all his great show, he
is Indifferent who suffers so long as he
is not forced to deny himself. On the
other hand, the man who saves money
will generally be proved a man of his
word. Unlike the spendthrift, who
readily promises to do everything but
actually performs next to nothing, the
money saver is slow to promise, but
what he does engage to do he is quick
to accomplish. This arises from the
fact that when he does make an en-
gagement he carefully calculates how
far he will be able to fulfil it. He does
not say he will pay you a certain
on certain time on the strength
Of vague hope that something will
''turn up" 'twixt now and then, but
upon that of carefully-thought-out and
reliable calculations. He realizes his
so keenly that he is OCCASION
ally lie i, perhaps, to be unduly cautious.
At the same time, if you want man to
to do a real serviceable act of charity
you must go to him rather than a mag
nificent being who holds money in COLI
Tempt. 1t is not surprising that he
,omes to the front in social life, and
hat he is placed in positions OF power
md responsibility. Self-denial and in
egrity can never go unrewarded, their
influence is so powerful and enduring.
People may sneer at what they call
But providence is not
and the man who saves
money Is not necessarily a miser.-
Home Journal
Year: 1876

told him he ought to call his donkey
Slow-coach.


After that, Yacob called him Slow
coach, not knowing any more about
that name than he did about Lightning.
But this change of name. instesd of
mending matters, made them worse.
In short, no one would hire his donkey
any more on any condition, and Yacob
and Slow coach were a rueful pair, az
they stood Idly before the hotel.


One day, as he stood thus, the Prince
of Wales came out from the veranda
(the Prince was then on his way to the
East Indies), mounted Slow-coach, and
rode him two or three yards, and then
got off and took another donkey. There
upon Yaeob bemoaned his bad luck in
hearing of an American sitting on a
tilted chair on the verandah.


"Yacob," said the American, "your
donkey shall be hired as much as any
other, but hereafter his name must be
the Prince of Wales"


The American had a certificate drawn
up and sworn to before the American
Consul in Cairo, to show that the
Prince Of Wales, had, without any
doubt, mounted Yacob's donkey; and
when the lad wanted to hire the animal
to any man, woman or child from Eng
land, all he had to do was to show this
certificate. and they straightway en-
gagged him, Notwithstanding his mop
ing gait and stiff legs. They engaged
him for whole days, fondled him, and
begged Yacob not to poke him up too
sharp from behind. They fed him with
whatever he would eat, and the only
drawback to the donkey's pleasant life
was that his tail was plucked a good
deal for mementos.


Yacob said, and says still, that the
luckiest day of his lite was when he
was spoken to by the American gen.
tleman on tilted chair.
Year: 1876

1t is desirable to avoid, as far as posi-
bic, an annual expenditure for labor in
the management of our lands. We re-
quire a certain amount of forage for win
ter. Pulling fodder is one of the most
expensive and least profitable Of the
operations of the farm. Well cured tod
der is the most palatable forage which can
be given TO horses. So is champagne the
most agreeable of all artificial fluids for
man. But fodder is too expensive for
the farmers horse, and the champagne
too expensive for the farmer man. Just
think of farmer going into hundred
acre corn fie d with gang of hands and
handling every separate blade of every
corn stalk. Contrast this with mower
cutting down eight acres of grass day,
say sixteen tons, raked up by horse
rake, teddcred by horse power, loaded
into the wagon and thence into the barn
by a hay-liiter, untouched by human
hands in the whole process.


But there is cheaper process than
this. 1t is one which cannot be adopted
at the north, because the climate will not
allow it. This cheaper plan is to provide
winter pastures for our mules, horses,
colts, cattle and sheep, thereby enabling
them to NOW and save their own hay
without cost to us, either in the way OF
negroes, mowers, hay stacks or barns.


The way to obtain good winter pas
ture, is simple and not expensive. Take
piece of wood land, thin out the
worthless timber, leaving rail trees and
mast-beaiing trees. The exact distance
cannot be given, because trees differ very
much in the amount Of shade which they
produce. The Kentucky rule is t. thin
the timber, 50 that the ground shall get
sunlight at least portion of the day
otherwise the grass will be sour and re-
jected by live stock. The ground should
be well sprouted grubbing is not neces
sary, though it is best. The tree tops
and brush should be piled and burned
and the ashes scattered. Except for ap.
pearance, the logs need not be piled and
burned. The ground should not be
plowed grass seeds should be sown or
the unbroken ground, and then all the
available live stock of the farmer should
be turned upon it, to trample in the
seeds. Hogs are excellent for this pur
pose, feeding them shelled corn, scatter.
ing as widely as possible, and feeding IL
a different place every day.


The seed sown, should consist of or
chard, blue, herds and meadow oat
grass, if the latter can be obtained. One
bushel of this mixture to be sowed t,
the acre-one-half orchard grass and the
other half of the other seeds, in equa
proportions.
Year: 1876

IIarpei's Bazar.


For early fall, mantels of black cash
mere will be worn with Dolman back and
mantilla fronts. They will be lined with
silk. The trimming will be many rows
OF braid on the back and as border,
with moss trimming and fringe on the
edge.


great many rick black silk wraps
are shown, but very few velvet garments
are imported. 1t is said that fine cloth
cloaks are to be the fashionable for dressy
wear again, just as last season fine wooden
stuffs were restored TO favor for rich cos
tunes.


The new Dolmans are what are called
three-quarters long, and are ample
enough to reach halfway down the skirts
of ladies of average height. They are
not especially long on the Sides as they
formerly were, but are of the same
length all around, unless the fronts are
extended in square long martila shape.


The dressy cloaks of black Antwerp or
cathedral silk, made in the shapes just
described, and warmly wadded. The
braiding on these cloaks is exceedingly
handsome. Some have set figures of
braiding extending down each form from
top to bottom, making three pyramidal
figures behind, two in front, and one up
each sleeve.


Opera shawls are the new evening
wraps tnat are to cover the head and
shoulders, and by their bright color
brighten the dark silk or fur cloaks that
will be worn in the carriage. They are
squares of India cashmere with each
corner rounded, and are edged with the
Chinese fringe made of row upon row of
tassels Of wool.


There is no great display of buttons
and button-holes even on double breasted
garments, as fly fronts with concealed
buttons are very much used. The
sleeves are ample coat shape, large
enough to slip off and on easily.
The cuffs are usually made by the trim
ming. Collars are bands, standing in
rounded and in English shape, or are
turned down in Byron fashion, or else
the neck is finished with a band of fur,
or, it may be, regular boa,


Long sacques of cloth are in the grace
ful French shape, single breasted with
partly fitted backs. They do not differ,
materially from those of last winter ex-
cept in their added length and in the
preference for those that are straight
around instead of having long fronts and
short backs. Thirty inches, it is said,
will be the average length of sacques for
ladies of medium height. Garments of
last winter will be heightened by adding
a border of fur and trimming.
Year: 1876

Though canned fruit can be bought at
any grocery at reasonable figures, there is
really nothing in the market like the
fruit canned at home every one knows
that. Most Of the canned fruit in
market is in tin, and some of it is very
good, though not so good as one can pre-
pare herself, for whatever is done by the
wholesale is usually poorly done. II a
can is perfectly air.tight, it cannot by
any possible means impart metallic
flavor to the fruit. Some people will
open tin can, pour out part of the
fruit, and leave the rest in of course,
that remaining exposed, as it is, to the
action of the atmosphere, will soon &C.
is opened pour all the fruit out and keep
it in the earthen or glass dish until
eaten, no, in tin. Always can tomatoes,
gooseberriess and Strawberries in tin.
If tomatoes are canned in glass the &C
tion of the light upon them will form
crystals of citric acid, which makes them
30 sour that nothing can sweeten them;
they will keep nicely and without the
least trouble if canned in tin so will
strawberries and gooseberries. Cherries
are better if put in glass cans raspber-
ries, peaches, plums, huckleberries,
blackberries and currants may be put in
either, and no one would know what
they were canned in unless told.


Now for the process. Cleanse the cans
thoroughly, and test them to ascertain
if they leak or are cracked. If any of
the tin cans leak, repair or send them to
the timer for repairs. If glass cans are
defective do not use them for canning,
but keep them for storing things in the
pantry. When the cans have been
eleansed, put warm water in them in a
dish pan; just before canning have ready
another pan Of water quite hot, and put
in two or three cans that have already
been warmed in water; take out as you
are ready to fill with fruit and stand
them upon hot platter while filling
them; the platter keeps the jars from
coming in contact with a cold surface
like the table. and catches what fruit
may drop in filling. fI8


Look over the kuit carefully, and if it
has pits remove them, leaving only
a few to highten the flavor; for a
can of cherries leave In about a
dozen pits; for peaches one or two.
Use porcelain kettle for cooking
the fruit and only sugar enough to render
it palatable. Iffruit Is made very sweet it
is unhealthy, indigestible and expensive;
1t Is the pleasant, natural acid of the fruit
which our systems require, and sugar
spoils II all.


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