smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

A pastors wife thus relates how
she and her husband maEaged TO i'm
prove their minds together: "Much
of the time while am about my work
my husband reads aloud. In the
course OF the week a great deal of
reading is done, profitable alike to
each of us, and i'm this way learn
many things which certainly should
not il he did not read aloud. A pas
tor has his special duties. There are
times when it is necessary he should
be alone, but these hours are not so
many us some ministers would have
their wives think Much OF his study
is upon subjects in which she is inter
ested and is desirous of knowing, yet
has not the time TO read. How much
better, then, it is for him to read and
converse with her at all times when
he can. than to be alone with his work,
gaining knowledge that satisfies the
mind and feeds the intellect, while
she has charge OF that most monot-
onous OF all work rk--housework. feel
ing that her husband is surely and
steadily growing away from her, and
that the time is not distant when she
will cease To be a companion TO him
I'm tho trra copca


Not many men are at home during
the day, and hence they could not
render this service then; but in the
evening. after their business cares are
ended, they might as well initiate this
excellent example, and read to their
wives and other female relatives.
while the latter perform some light
work. as knitting or sewing, around
the family table.
Year: 1876

nearest neighbor's house, suffering
only frost bite on the nose by the
way.


THAT child" said the woman to
whose house he had gone, ais Jones;
seed 'em take her outen the wagon
day before Yesterday


Burton looked at Kitty a moment
in perplexity; then ne rolled her mp
again and started out, "traveling like
mad" the woman said as she watched
him.


When he reached Jones' he found
Jones and his wife sitting in utter
wretchedness by the fire. They were
both sick from grief. and unable to
move out of the house. Kitty they
had given up for buried under some
snow mound. They would find her
when spring should come and melt
the snow cover of.


When the exhausted Burton came
in with his bundle o. buffalo skins.
they looked at him with amazement.
But when he opened it and let out
little Kitty, and said:


Here Jones, is yer kitten!" Mrs.
Jones couldn't think Of anything bet.
ter than scream.


And Jones got up and took his old
partners hand and said, Burton, old
fellow!" and then choked up and sat
down and cried helplessly..


And Burton said. Jones. old fellow
you may have the forty acre patch.
1t came mighty nigh making me the
murderer Of that little Kitty's
father


NO you shall take it yourself,
cried Jones, "if l have to go to law
to make you"


And Jones actually decided his in
terest to Burton; but Burton trans
ferrcd it all to Kitty.


That is why this part of Newton is
called to-day "Kitty's forty"
Year: 1876

!. 1t doesn't do men any good to live
apart from women and children. L
never knew Il boys school in which
there was not tendency to rowdy-
ism. And lumbermen, sailors, fisher
men and other men are proverbially
half bear sort of people. From
tiersmen soften down when women
come-but forgot myself, it is the
story you want.


Burton and Jones lived in a shanty
by themselves. Jones was a married
man, but finding il hard to support "a
wife in a down-east village, he had
emiyrated to Northern Minnesota,
leaving his wife under her fatL er's
roof until he should be able "to make
"A start He and Burton had gone
into partnership and had pre- .empted
800 acres OF land


There were perhaps twenty fami-
lies scattered over this town site at
the time my story begins and ends,
for it ends in the same week in which
il begins.


The partners had disagreed. quar-
relied and divided their interest The
land was all shared between them ex-
cept one valuable forty acre piece.
Each of them claimed that piece OF
land. and the quarrel had grown SO
high between them that the neigh
bors expected them TO ~shoot al
sight" In fact, il was understood
that Burton was on the forty acre
piece, determined 10 shoot Jones il
he came, and Jones had sworn 10 go
out there and sh Dot Burton, when the
fight was postponed by the unex-
pected arrival OF Jones wife and
child


Jores' shanty was not finished, and
he was forced TO forgo the luxury OF
fighting his old partner. in his exer-
tions To make the wife and baby COM
Portable for the night, for the winter
sun was surrounded by "sun dogs -
instead of one sun there were four,
but one which always BODIES a terri
BILE storm.


In his endeavor to care for his wife
and child Jones was mollified a little,
and half regretted that he had been
so violent about the piece OF land,
but he was determined not to be
backed down, and would certainly
have to shoot Burton or be shot him
self.


When he thought OF the chance of
being killed by his old partner, the
prospect was not pleasant. He look
ed wist:ully at Kitty, his two-year
old child, and dreaded that she
should be left fatherless, but he
wouldn't be backed down; he would
shoot or be shot.


While the father was busy cutting
wood and the mother was busy 9TH
erwise, little Kitty managed to get
the shanty door open; there was no
latch as yet, and her prying little fin
gers easily swung it back A gust OF
cool air almost took her breath away
but she caught sight OF the brown
grass without and the new world
seemed so big that the little feet were
fain TO try and explore it.


She pushed out through the door
caught her breath again, and started
away down path bordered by sere
grass and the dead stalks Of the wild
| flowers.


How often she had longed to es.
cape restraint and paddle out into the
world alone. SO out into the world
she weni, rejoicing in her liberty. in
the blue sky above, and the rusty
Year: 1876

To REMOVE STAINS OF INK, FRUIT.
WINE, MILDEw, ETc.-First wash the
stain off as much as possible with
clear cold water, then apply the es-
calonnia. which consists OF one table
spoonful lemon juice, one tablespoon
ful pure cream of tartar, one tea
spoonful of oxalic acid, one half pint
rain water. Wipe off with clear wa
ter. For any article that cannot be
washed after using the mixture. a
tablespoonful Of the juice of whit,
currants is better than lemon juicc
when procurable. This may be USED
with safety upon most delicate fab.
rics, as it will not injure the color OF
material. Shake up when using it.
Year: 1876

These Indians believe in evil spir-
its who live in the water, and send
sickness and disease among the peo-
disasters caused by mussel, or fish
poisoning have doubtless given rise.
They hold communication with these
spirits through their sorcerers, but
do not worship them in any way or
try to propitiate them with offerings.
When a Kolosh dies his body is
burned. nd rude monument placed
where the ashes are buried. They
believe that the spirit lies there for
ever, but have no idea of any reward
for virtue or punishment for vice.
According TO their belief, strict dis
tinction of rank is preserved in the
other world, all the chiefs being in
one place. the common people in an
other, and the slaves in a corner by
themselves. Only when slaves are
killed at the funeral of their chief
their souls remain in eternal atten-
dance on their masters. This cruel
custom was said to be abolished un-
der the Russian rule, but it always
has existed and is kept up TO the
present day. though the ceremonies
are performed out OF the reach OF the
authorities. Several cases of this
kind have occurred since the trans
fer OF the territory, in spite OF the
vigilance OF the authorities, and no
wonder, as our government has done
nothing to suppress slavery where il
exists right under the very eyes OF
military rule. When a child is born
it is carried and nursed by the moth
er until it is able TO crawl and MUNICH
away on dried salmon; then the scan
~ clothing OF fur which il was COW
cred at first is removed, and to
strengthen its constitution, the child
is immersed in the river or sea every
morning; but as their own parents
would be likely to yield to the pite-
Gus cries of the little martys TO dis
cipline, this duty is generally in
trusted TO an uncle or some other
relative, who stops all weeping and
screaming with a liberal application
" the switch. The children implic-
lily obey their parents at all ages,
and great care is bestowed on the old
and disabled. Orphans are always
provided for by the community, and
fare as well as any of the other chill


dren. When young man wishes to
marry, he 6rst a asks the consent Of
his parents, ane when that is obtain
ed he goes to the village where his
Intended lives, and sends proposal
through some mutual friend, and il
the answer is favorable he repairs TO
the house at once with some presents
for the parents and relatives OF the
girl, and then takes Immediate pos


session OF his new chattel without
any further ceremonies. A short
time after this. the new Benedict
pays a visit to his wife's relatives in
company with her, and If she has
nothing to complain of then, presents
must be made TO him aud the bride,
exceeding in value those he made at
first. The Koloski only regard re-
lationship on the mothers side, and
the succession and Inheritance are
confined to the female line. Poly
gamy is the general custom, and ex-
lists even among the Christian Ken
aitze, where it is tolerated by the ma
tive and half breed priests in the
the families ofchiefs. The wives often
quarrel. and stabs with knives and
daggers are not of very rare occur
rence.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Year: 1876

Keep your eye on your neighbors
Take care OF them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They may do
something wrong. il you do. To be
sure, you never knew them to do any,
thing very bad. but it may be on your
account they have not Perhaps II it
had not been for your kind care they
might have disgraced themselves
long time ago. Therefore, do not re-
lax any effort to keep them where
, ti,ss .s.,i.1 AZ Ss- Scscs nsind yotr
own business that will take care OF
itself, If you find any symptoms cf
any one passing out of the path OF
duty. tell every one else what you
set and be particular to see great
many 1t is good way to circulate
such things, though it may not bene-
fit yourself or any one else particular
Iy. Do keeo something going
silence is dreadful thing; thoagh IL
was said there was silence In heaven
for the space of half an hour. do not
let any such thing occur on earth-it
would be too much for this mundane
syhere.


IL, after all your watchful care, you
cannot see anything out of the way
in any one. you may be sure il is not
because they have not done anything
bad perhaps in an unguarded moment
you lost sight of them-throw out
hints that they are no better than
they should be, that you should not
wonder il the people found out what
hey were after little while, then
they may not hold their heads so
nigh. Keep it going. and some one
-lse may take the hint. and begin to
help you along, after while; then


here will be music. and everything
will work like q charm. 6s.f-ft - .
Year: 1876

am very thankful to the people Of liar
shall county. for their patronage for the
past ten years. and hope you viii all con-
tnue TO come and see me at my New Store
when you want any Goods in my line.
such
Year: 1876




To tie Editor Of the Journal:


As the time for holding the Cincinnati Conven-
ton draws near, various estimates are being made
ss to the probable action of the delegates of that
body. Many people have had a vague idea that
the great unknown was to be the favorite candi-
date. This idea is now exploded and it is regard
ed a certainty that the nominee at Cincinnati will
be one of the following gentlemen Mr. Blaine,
Senators Conkling and Morton, Gov. Hayes or
Secretary Bristow. The convention will not go
outside of this list Who will be the winning
man Every indication points to the contest as
coming between Mr.. Blaine and Senator Conkling.
Secretary Bristow is out of the fight; SO far as
delegates concerned he has no strength and will
not have any when the convention meets He can
only carry the solid delegation of his own State.
Yet while he will not be strong before the conven-
ton as candidate for President. he will be very
strong as a candidate for Vice President. He is
everywhere honored for his bold, vigorous and
successful campaign against the corrupt and pow
erful whiskey ring, but the lack of experience in
public life makes many hesitate to support him for
the high Office of Chief Magistrate. Senator Nor
ton is not developing the strength in the South
that was generally conceded to him, and Senator
Conking will possess more strength in the conven
ton than have ever seen awarded to him. No
one of the candidates however will start with
the strength of Ex.Spcaker Blaine, and the opin-
ion is now generally held that he will on the Sec
ond ballot receive the nomination. l do not in
tend to give your readers any reasons why Mr..
Blaine should receive the nomination, for he is
personally known to nearly every one of them.


md rtv fwn doll hava al
ready been elected. One hundred and thirty eight
are for Mr. Blaine, ninety-four for Senator Conk-
ling, seventy four for Senator Morton. fifty eight
for Gov. Hartranft, forty-four for Gov. Hayes,
fourteen for Secretary Bristow and twelve for
Gov. Jewell. Igive you carefully prepared sum-
mary of the delegates already elected:
Year: 1876

The day before the indianapolis election
the New York World took occasion to say
that the contest in the city of Indianapolis
was especially important. That Indiana
being democratic State and the city par
TALLY, but preponderatingly in the hands
of the democrats, any republican gain
would tell adversely upon the democratic
cause, not only in Indiana, in November,
but throughout the country. Aud with a
candor as charming as unusual, it declared
that the effect of republican gain would
be 50 much the more telling. because the
democratic city government of Indanap-
oils had just now gerrymandered the city
in the interest of the democrats. The city
having gone republican by 1000 majority,
the Worlds language before the election
will be worth remembering as the cam.
palgn goes forward.
Year: 1876

bleness of such farming, but an immediate
remedy would be sought. For no person
could resist evidence of this kind if it were
once brought plainly home to him. If store
keepers, merchants, or manufacturers, kept
no accounts, they could not possibly carry
on their business, and it is only because the
farmers business is one of the most safe that
ne can still go on working in the dark, and
throwing away opportunities of bettering
his condition and increasing his profits.
Year: 1876

There Is probably not one farmer in ten
thousand who keeps set of accounts from
which he can at any moment learn the cost
of anything he may have produced, or even
the cost of his real property. A very few
farmers who have been brought up to busi-
ness habits keeps such accounts, and are
able to tell how their affairs progress, what
each crop, each kind Of stock, or each ami
NAL has cost, and what each produces


Knowing these points a farmer can, to a
very great extent, properly decide what
crops he will grow, and wha5 kind of stock
he will keep. He will thus be able to apply
his labor and money where it will do the
most good. He can weed out his stock and
retain only such animals as may be kept
with profit, For the want of such knowl-
edge, farmers continue, year after year, to
feed COWS that are improbable, and fire.
quently sell for less than her value one that
is the best of the herd, because she is not
known to be any better than the rest. Feed
is also wasted upon ill-bred stock, the keep
of which cost three or four times that of
well-bred animals, which, has been proved
NY uICS CIIdt CitlllOU Dc ullSUdkCl, pay u
large profit on their keeping. For want Of
knowing what they cost, poor crops are
raised year by year at and actual loss, provi-
ded the farmer'slabor, at the rates current for
common labor, were charged against them.
10 learn that he has beenworking for fifty
cents day, during number Of years, while
he has been paying his help twice as much,
would open the eyes of many farmer who
has actually been doing this, and it would
convince him that there is some value in fig
ures and book accounts. It is not generally


understood that q man who raises twenty
bushels ofwheat per acre, pays twice as much
for his plowing and narrowing, twice as
much for labor, and twice as great interest,
upon the cost of his farm, as aneighbor who
raises forty bushels per acre. Nor is it un-
derstood that when he raises pig that
makes $50 pounds of pork in year, that his
pork cost him twice as much, or the corn
he feeds brings but halfas much as his neigh
Dor, whose pig weighs 300 pounds at year
old. If all these things were clearly set
down in figures upon page in an account
book, and We're studied, there would be not
only a sudden awakening to the unprofita-
Year: 1876

The following by correspondent to the
Rural Neao Yorker, though not entirely ap-
plicable to this country, contains many inn
portant facts which are worthy of consulta-
ton by our mountain farmers.


Farmers do not generally realize the ad-
vantage, the profit, of a good garden, be-
cause they do not sell what is raised in it,
nor buy vegetables if they do not raise them,
and yet if they do not raise them they have
to buy other things to use instead, or use up
what they might otherwise sell. There is
no better way to estimate the value of gar
den produce than by its price in the market.
Men who raise vegetables to sell get from
two to five hundred dollars per acre, at
wholesale prices, and the consumer pays
much more. Now if the laborer and me-
chanic in the city (where bread and meat are
nearly as cheap as in the country find it
economical to buy vegetables at prices that
would pay the gardener from four hundred
to one thousand dollars per acre. the garden
is surely worth half as much to the farmer
A good garden is worth more money, saves
more money, than ten times the amount Of
land will yield in ordinary field crops, and
every man who neglects it loses his best op-
portunity to make money. But poor gar
den is disgrace to a farm, and time and
money thrown away-poor soil, planted too
late, and covered with Weeds-this is it's his
tory, and failure is the result.


But the profits is not the only advan tage
of good garden. 1t is a healthful luxury
If farmers would eat more vegetables and
less pig and pastry in summer, they would
be healthier and suffer less from heat and
thirst, and consequently drink less cold wa
ter, which everyone knows is very injuri-
Gus.


As farm gardens are usually small, it costs
but little more to make it a good garden
than to make 1t a failure. The first neces-
sity is to have it thoroughly drained so that
1t can be worked very early in the spring.
Then a good share of the garden work can
be done before time to begin the general
work. Many persons do not think it worth
their while to do anything in the garden un-
til the whole can be planted. The conse-
quence is that some things are planted too
late, and some too early, the farm work
crowds, the garden is neglected, and a few
sickly vegetables and a great many luxuri-
ant weeds is the result.


The next thing after draining, is thorough
manuring, and this should be done at the
rate of from twenty-five to forty two horse
loads of manure per acre every year. It is
better to use different kinds of manure than
to use the same kind constantly. tits with
this as it is with farm crops-the best results
are produced by rotation or variety. No sim
gle kind of manure contains all the materi-
ais needed to enrich a garden, and when the
same kind is used all the time it seems to
lose its power to feed growing crops. Hen
manure and ashes, used in connection with
Year: 1876

We arc tempted, says The New York
Tribune, to givca sketch of a woman
still living, because hers is 80 common
u character and history that any vii.
lage or inland town may claim half Il
dozen originals OF both there will
certainly be no danger Of recognition.
On one of the earlier days of this
month the woman of whom we speak
went to Philadelphia to lay in stock !;
she keeps Il small dry goods and trim
ming store in a thriving town. She
went out to look ut the Centennial
buildings, ut the department for wom-
ems work, for which women alone has
paid she saw, too, some of the execu-
tive committee of her own sex at
work. Noticing her wistful face, one
of the busy ladies said: ''Can you,
not do something for us in your town
Women of intelligence and patriotism
ought TO- come to the front now to
help their country" 81 can do moth.
ing" replied the visitor. l am not /,
woman who can come to the front.
My daughter is ut work for you, how.
ever she added with a slight glow of
pride. She went home with 4 bitter
sense of humiliation. She was born,
she thought, a generation too soon.
If she were young girl now, what ca.
reers were open for 4 woman of abil.
ity-and she knew she had ability;
There were chances now on every side
Year: 1876

develop oneself, and to help others.
But it was too late for her.


She must die us she had lived-noth-
ing and nobody. There is plenty of
such mObid mallndering among women
nowadays.


Mrs. White let us say there are hum
dreds of her class among the Whites
and Blacks and all the other colOrs),
went home to her village and her shop.
1t was shop where she sold the plain
est of warcs-she had neither money to
buy the pictures or bric-a-brac for
which her soul lOnged in the cities, nor
the customers to whom she could sell.
The village was I'll isolated one, where
the crops and gossip supplied subjects
for all mental exercise. Some day
perhaps facts apd thoughts from the
wider outer wo{ Id would penetrate it's
foul atmosphere but not while she
lived, she had too nearly run her
course for that. The history of the
woman was this: She had great bea,,-
ty when II girl; not mere prettiness,
but face OF absolute beauty. She had
also IL nimble receptive intellect, of
quite us good calibre rs those of the
women who have made themselves pub
lie names and position; in short
she began life with a good
capital. But opportunity was
wanting to use it. Her beauty
made her the belle of the country.
She married a well-to-lO farmer who
lost his property by mismanagement,
died and left her with house full of
healthy, headstrong boys and girls to
feed, clOthe, educate, and bring up
nationally and piously. She did not
sit down to sew the needle was too
small a tool for such a weighty work.
She opened a dairy, a laundry, vege.
table garden. As one staff broke down
she tried another, finally settling down
in the shop which she now owns,
which is the largest in the county.


In the meantime she had 4 tougl,
struggle to pull the children along and
up, for she was resolved that they
should rise above her own standing.
ground. There was one son, whom
she sent to college, and who began to
drink us soon rs she had him 1T work
attending the lectures at Philadelphia,