smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The sand obtained from turnpikes, or
roads macadamized with any sort of gran
ite ,lhard blue stones, very difficult to break
and pulverize has a peculiar value. The
grinding of such rocks or stones under the
iron-rimmed wheels of wagons, the wear
of horse shoes, and the mixture of this
ground rock with the manure scattered
along the road produces a compound
which is found to be highly acceptable to
trees and plants. The granite rock, we
know, is rich in potash and silica; but it is
not these elements alone which give this
road sand its peculiar value. BY the pro-
cess of grinding and triturating inert sub
stances, such as oyster shells, charcoal,
quicksilver, we develop medicinal and other
virtues which these substances do not pos
sess in their crude form. And so it is sup
posed to be with road sand. By the con-
slant grinding and trivuratng of the iron
bound wheels and horse shoes, the com
mnuted granite become prepared for the
use of plants; and when this road sand is
mixed well with the compost heap and


saturated with liquid ,manures, it is found to
help the efficacy of the compost in a re-
markable manner. Under the influence of
the road sand of this kind alone, it is said
that when applied to lawns, white clover is
sure to spring up in the greatest abundance
and luxuriance where it had never been
seen before. TGardners' Monthly.
Year: 1873

In England they have a stringent law,
lately passed, against the adulteration of
any article Cf food or drink and it is being
rgidly enforced. A strict examination of
various articles of food which are com
monty kept in grocery stores and dealt out
to the people at retail, shows that the
bOasted commercial integrity of John Bull
has either been overrated or that it has
deteriorated. 1t is said that from some
dealers scarcely any article of food could
be obtained which was not more or less
adulterated. In some instances the ma
terials used for the purpose of aduteration
were not hurtful in themselves, being cheap
matter thrown in to increase the bulk and
enhance profits. In some cases matter de-
leteriouS to health had been deliberately in
troduced into the food Of the people. The ex-
posures made through the newspaper press
excited much comment and has given rise
to no little Indignation among the mass of
consumers. The law is said to be working
we'll, and it is to be hoped that the super
vision will be made so perfect as to insure
the protection of the people from the grasp
ing disposition of dishonest dealers.


The time may not be far distant when
such laws will be needed in this country.
The New York Board of Health EMPLOYS a
competent chemist who sometimes makes
a raid upon retail dealers in a quiet way,
subjecting articles purchased from them to
an analytical examination. He finds water
mingled in the milk which is sold in the
streets, but gives us the gratifying asSur
ance that neither chalk nor any other sub
stance of that kind is used to deceive buy
ers and injure those who use the lacteal
fluid. Water is an innocent beverage, but
the councils of New York have passed en-
actments against watering milk and parties
detected in the dishonest practice of open
ing hydrants into their milk cans are prop
erly punished. An examination of the
sugars sold at the small retail groceries of
New York came out better than could have
been expected. OF one hundred specimens
of "lump and brown" tifty-one were slightly
mixed with dirt, eight considerably so, anG
five very dirty. Thrty-six specimens were
all right. That showing is not by any
means appalling inasmuch as nothing abso


lutely Injurious was discovered in any o


the sugar examined. The saleratus turned
out free from noxious admixture, but the
cream of tarter examined was invariably
aduterated and some of the baking powders
were horrible mixtures. These reports OF
the chemist differ widely from the stories
related by some of the New York newspa-
pers, which professed to find poison in
almost every article Of food which was
offered for sale in the small groceries In


most things people can protect themselves
from imposition by proper care. We be-
leve in the right of government to protect


people who are too careless to protect them
selves, and shall freely insist upon rigi(
| inspection of articles of food whenever the
| health of the community shall seem to de-


mand it,
Year: 1873

Tn only Charcoal, the backsmith's dog,


Ugly and fast growing old;
Lying in sunshine the live-long day;


By the forge when the nights are cold.
l look across at the little house,


The door where used to wait
For a school-boy shout, merry lace


To meet me within the gate.
My master, the smith, remembers, too;


l see on his grimy cheek,
As lfe looks across at the cottage door,


A pitiful, tear-drawn streak,
He stopping, lays in a trembling way,


His hand on my lifted head;
| look and whine, but we understand


Each thanks of the school-boy dead.
Prince is the tawny and handsome hound


That comes with the hunting Squire,
Smooth and wel-fed, with stable-bed,


And place by the kitchen fire.
The Squire is going away he said;


He waited an hour to-day,
While my master carefully shod his mare


In his slow and old-fashioned way.
| heard him say. with an oath or two,


PUT an end to that sorry cur;
Better buy my Prince he's noble beast,'


| heard but | did not stir;
For knew | was only a worn out thing,


Not bright like the tawny hound,
And felt | would gladly go and die,


On short, new graveyard mound
swell, SQUIRE" the brawny arm rose and fell
The sparks from the anvil flew
81 s'pose the critter that's lying there


Is not much account to you;
But while live and can earn his keep,


Old Charcoal and | won't part;
For, Squire, | really think sometimes


That dog has human heart.
My little Jacky, he loved him so,


And Jacky he's gone you see;
And so it appears as if Charcoal knows


That he's more than folks to me-"
The Squire is gone with his horse and hound,
And master and | still wait
Together, and side by side go in


At night through the lonely gate.
But by-and-by one must go alone


One only be left of three
To pass the gate and the cottage door


Alas if it should be me!
Year: 1873

through his attorney, and on being
brought into Court, before Judge Brad
ford, for sentence he denied that his at
torney was authorized to make this plea.
He was sentenced. nevertheless, to i'm
prisonment in the Penitentiary for fifteen
years. After being in prison a few months
he was granted a new trial on this tech
nicality, and. on account of the removal
of essential witnesses and other reasons,
he was allowed to 90 scot free. He had
shot various others in this town, besides
these he succeeded in killing. After this
trial he left here and went to Arizona. He
got into a shooting scrape, it is said kill
ed soldier and had to leave. He had a
family in Stockton, and was on his way
there, he said, when he reached Visalia on
Tuesday.


THE MOB.


The mob who hung him were among
our best and influential citizens They
thought that there had been about enough
of wholesale, cold-blooded murder in this
community The law had failed to pro-
tect us. The county had time and again
been put to thousands of dollars of use
less expense in trials which amounted to
nothing. And they had Just seen man
convicted of co!d-blooded assassination
and the Judgment upon whom had been
affirmed in our Supreme Court, have his
sentence commuted to simple imprison-
ment by the Governor. In a couple of
years he may be pardoned out to kill
somebody else. No man was safe under
such circumstances. Human life has been
held too cheap here by desperadoes, and
the good name of our entire law-abiding g
community has suffered throughout the
land in consequence. But the worthy
element in our community has spoken,
(and taking our whole population into
consideration, there is none more peace
full and respectable), and we hope the
lesson given desperadoes in the hanging
of McCrory will have the effect to render
such a course entirely unnecessary in the
future. We are earnestly opposed to
mob law, but in the case we have chroni-
cled i was assuredly the quickest, cheap
est and best way of accomplishing the
desired end. But the closing act of Nc
Crory's career was short and striking He
arrived here Tuesday morning from Ari-
zona, after a long absence, murdered a
man in the afternoon, and was hung in
the evening.
Year: 1873

in every home there should be at least
one open CRATE, or some other arrangement
Tor burning wood or soft or hard coal.
nre when can be seen as we'll as felt-a
cheerful, bright, blazing fire, with shovel
ana tongs-and fender, too, If you please
which will attract the family by it's social
influences, is grand thing in a home


those black, grim, tartarean flues, filed
with the stale odors of cellar and hot air
chamber and seething water-tank, and
emitting clouds of pulverized ashes to cover
your furniture and stfle your lungs, are
among the greatest banes of family enjoy-
inent and comfort. 1t is well enouph to
nave ones dwelling warmed from ton to
bottom, and to have no Goals tn carry
beyond the furnace, but this heating svstem
has done immense mischief to the family
powers, scattering the members of it, all
over the house, and furnishing not one at
tractive spot in which the inmates will
gather, as by instinct they do, to enjoy the
CHEEKY comfort of the fireside. There is
no tireside in most of our modern houses.
There are only holes In the floor or in the
walls. And we are disposed to think that
the good ventilation of the open fire adds
not little to the unconscious blessings of
Its hospitable and domestic influence. The
sight OF the little folks, as they sit musing
ahu AMUSED Wnlie the WOOD nre burns, and
watching the fantastic flames and the glow
Ing Goals, is worth many times the cost of
that cord of hickory or oak at city prices 3;
ana wise household would rather part
with the furnace which that bright blaze
supplements and atones for than with the
ioW.down CRATE which makes the family
circle real thing. Try it, We who can. and
see if the moral, aesthetic, and domestic
power of this style of home comfort is
overestimated. fThe Science of Health.
Year: 1873

An Eastern man who wrote TO the editor
Of Nebraska paper inquirng what kind
of houses people lived in in that State, was
informed that the houses were all built
out of doors, and so low between the
joints that the chimneys stuck through the
roof.
Year: 1873

the love of the beautiful is stunted and crushed
and the children made to feel that of all un-
lovely, hard, prison like places, home is the
most so. There is a parlor, to be sure, grim
and funeral as hearse, and it is only used on
solemn occasions, as at christening, we'd
ding, or funeral. For Mary and Lucy to sit
there OF an afternoon with their sewing, or for
Charlie and Sam to take a lamp there in the
evenlngstO play checkers, would be an unliuard-
OF treason against the household economy. If
there be piano, and if it stands in the parlOr,
there is sure to be strip of stair carpet be.
tween 1t and the door and another strip of
stair carpet lii front of it, lest the necessary
going to and fro OF the girls to practice should
wear out the splendors of the best three-ply or
tapestry. The children desire to take paper
or magazine as their neighbors do, but it costs
So or 81 year, and father shakes his head.
There is to be course of lectures in the neigh
boring church by distinguished men and
women, and it would be pleasant to go, but
winter is coming and there is coal to get, and
Hour will be wanted, and mother says, " Bet
ter not mention the lecture to your father"


Now, when the choice is between Goals and
flour and music and lecture tickets, and there
Is honestly not enough money to afford all,
why the latter must 60 Cut your coat by your
cloth, OF course. But we are talking of cases
where their Is enough money to afford aesthetic
and intellectual enjoyment as we'll as food and
fire; to afford books and papers other than
school books, and to pat Row and then pic
ture on the wall and flower in the window
as well as to buy when needed chair and Q
table


Save for the children if you can, aud sc
much as you can, but remember it is spend
thrift economy that does it by saving from
them. The time when they need home full
of grace and beauty is in the forming period O
life. There are very few men, if they knew it
who can afford not to have the visits in the
family every week OF fresh, breezy, bright
instructive paper and there is very few VIII
times in the household while childhood lasts
| When the final interest is apportoned it vii
be those who have spent most wisely who vii
have the largest dividends. Hearth anc
Year: 1873

1t not unfrequently happens that the child
rem OF two families living near each other and
brought up under the same social and educa-
tlonal influences turn out very differently on
arriving at maturity The family that seems
to have bad the most careful training does less
credit to itself than the families whose childish
freedom of action shocked the critical Obser-
yer. We say seems to have had the most
careful training" tor it is often only in SEEM
ing alter all that the difference has consisted.
AS a rule it may be perdicted of wise family
government that it will be known, as tree is,


by its fruit. All government that is only from
the outside, and therefore despotic, fails neces-
sarily of reaching its end and all government
whose aim from first TO last is to teach It's sub
jects self-control must give them considerable
latitude. The latter sort, however, takes very
much more time and thought than the former,
and is compatible with certain things which
have come to be by many people accepted as
cardinal points in family policy. For instance,
| if father aud mother set out primarily with the
| idea that they must save for their children,
and so feeling, if they bend each year the
| strength OF their natures in united effort TO
add acres to the farm or to increase the money
in the savings bank, they will spend all their
force there. The father will work hard, late
and early, saving here, economiziug there,
growing stoop-shoudered and gray, but gain
ing his point, and thinking, complacently, of
the amount he is worth. The mother will
pinch and contrive, and patch and darn, prac-
ticihg thousand small economies that nobody
ever suspects, and losing even the memory of
the day when she was bonny, blithe hearted
girl whom her tired husband used to come
miles to see in oourting days. The children
who are first in the loyal, honest hearts that
love them, though they never have time to
show it 10 any sweet way, meanwhile grow up.
Maria wants 10 take music lessons, John wants
to go to college, but father and mother think
of the expense, count up the dollars il viii


cost, and decide that common school educa


ton is good enough for their children as it wa.
for them. This only sometimes and seldom
where the parents are Americans, horn to the
idea that the son may be President one day,
and that, as we wrote in our copy y-books


" Education is the life OF liberty" Oftene


the music lessons and the college course ar,
allowed, however, and the home economies ar,
doubled, while it is in countless little ways tina
Year: 1873

A lady of Croton who had some trouble with
her husband determined to punish him. She
had read IN the papers of the revenge of a
Pennsylvania woman whose husband had struck
her, and she determined to initiate that fe-
males action. When the Pennsylvania wo-
man was struck she threw herself into tragic
attitude and exclaimed: "Villain nothing
but death can wipe away the stain of your
blow ~ Then she rushed out of the house,
ran to the canal, and throwing her hat and
shawl on the bank flung in a big stone, which
made a loud splash. She then hid in the
bushes and watched with demonicism for her
husband and party of friends graphing for
her body. When she thought she had suffi
clently punished her lord she made her ap
pearance, and was received by him with de-
monstrations of joy, and he begged her forgive
ness, took her home, and promised to be kind
and loving to her forever.


The other day the Croton woman had bat
tie royal with her husband He didnt strike
her, he was too mani y for that-but he said
such irritating things that she was driven TO
madness. " lnhuman mOnster!" she shrieked
L will never again rest beneath this root
The river bed shall be my tOmb-its waters my
winding sheet. Out she rushed to the river,
which ran quarter OF mile from the house,
threw her handkerchief on the bank-she had
neither hat nor shawl on-and then she flung
| into the clear water large stone This done,
she hid in some trees and awaited the coming
OF the remOrse stricken husband She con,
| tinued to wait tor about eight hours but the
remOrsetul man didn come. Horrible thoughts
began to agitate her mind Perhaps he had
killed the children and then committed suicide.
She couldinot bear the suspense any longer. 1t
was dark now, and she quietly stole to the
house. There were lights in it, and everything
looked as cherry and pleasant as usual She
crept to the window and looked in. There sat
the remorse-stricken husband with his arms
around young lady neighbor, and he was say.
ing: Jennie, the old woman got her back up
! to day, and she went off and drowned herself.
Now, you see, don't want to break up house
keeping and if you'll get hitched in two
weeks. What do you say?"


She shan't do anything of the sort and
neither will you, you miserable unfeeling,
heartless wretch" came from the wife as she
dashed into the room. For few minutes Jen,
ME was tossed and tumbled about by the un.
drowned woman in the most hOrrid manner,
and when Jennie retired from the house she
looked as though she had been through card.
ing machine.


The Croton womon doesn't intend trying
any more sensational experiments on her hus-
band, but will hereafter do all her fighting in
the old-fashioned way. 1t need hardly be
mentioned that her husband is not living in a
state of perfect and unallOyed beattitude at
presently Y. Dispatch.
Year: 1873

A nice question of taste: Jeweller-Wh hat
kind of chain would you like? Yourg Man
Well, don't know, hardly. What kind of
chain would you think ought to have that
is. what style would you think would be the


most becoming for young man that carries
groceries to some of the best families in town
Year: 1873

A country paper says that. in reply to
question from the lecture committee of the
chief town of the district as to the subiec; of a
lecture to be given at the institution, the lee
turer telegraphed, "A Taste of Naples and
A Taste Of Apples and Rum
Year: 1873

That was good advice which an old mau
gave to his sons: Boys, don't you ever spec
erate or wait for something 10 turn up. You
might just as well go sit down on stone in
the middle Of a medder with pail 'twixt your
legs aad wait for COW to back up to yOu to be
MIXED"
Year: 1873

SEwING MAcHINEs.-From the large number
of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES called "woman's
friend (which have been sold In this city within
tho past few years. one might suppose that there
not family in the whole country round which Is
unsupplied. But such seems not to be The case


The number Of sales, Instead of diminishing, seems
to be ever on the increase. AS an instance we note
the fact that at the Office of the HOWE MACHINE
COMPANY In this city, sOe Broad street, there has
been received within the past ten days over ONE
THOUSAND MACHINES OF the various styles manu-
factured by this company. This Is probably the
largest shipment of sewing-machincs ever received
by one house tn this city. Tile large number on
exhibition in their salcs-rooms, with the many use
full aud ornamental styles exhibited, presents sight
well worth seeing. rEt rat
Year: 1873

THE DOLLAR sToRE is always receiving new
goods and # will be to your Interest to ca and ex-
anime their stock before pufchasfng elsewhere
Don't forget the place-corTer of Ninth and Mair
Year: 1873

CouNTRYMEHcHAsTs WILL FIND AT p. WEST
GER Co'sa splendid line OF hats to select from
and as the goods have been bought for cash they car
offer great Inducements to the trade. n tr.5f5ssf
Year: 1873

Fort A. LINCOLN, Aug. IL.


A party of Siouxs in the employ Of the
government, at Fort Rice, came up to
visit the Rees last week and made one
night at least thideous with their whoop-
ing and dancing. They informed the
Indians here that the Sioux in council
at the Grand River Agency determined
to offer no further obstruction to the
settlement Of the country; that their
game was gone and they must now rely
upon the whites for subsistence; and de-
termined to adopt their customs as
rapidly as possible. Small Back, SER
geant Of the company of scouts, thinks
they are honest in this but would not
advise any one to venture into their
country without arms.
Year: 1873

Last week challenge was published
from the Lincoln Nine for game Of
base ball to be played in the vicinity of
Bismarck. 1t was promptly accepted
by the Bismarck Nine and the game
came off at Bismarck on the tenth inst.
with the result as below:
Year: 1873

The County Commissioners are in a
dilemma. The Dakota Liquor Law re-
quires bonds to be given in the sum Of
three thousand dollars when a license is
issued, but the LICENCES are out and no
bonds have been given. and what is
more there is not man who can give
the bonds required as there are no free
holders in the county yet. The idea of
holding the newly appointed County
Attorney responsible for this blunder
on the part of the. Commissioners, and
the Judge of Probate responsible for
the low appraisement Of property as
was undertaken was laughahle to say
the least. ..
Year: 1873

THE Herald jumps to very nasty
conclusions relative to the success of
the Fair. This may be fair, but 1t is
scarcely in keeping with the many
protestations Of that journal relative
to its support of Los Angeles interests;
We fear the editors Of the Herald
have allowed their personal feeling
toward a contemporary to overcome
their better judgment.-l Express.


The HERALD has jumped to the
same conclusion, be it hasty or not,
that every one engaged in agricultu-
raj interests has formed-and it has
jumped to q correct conclusion--as
time will demonstrate. The HERALD
was not established to support every
thing, good or bad, located in Los An
geles. 1t hopes always to support the
good. Does the Express mean to say
that it Is our city's interest to have
poor rather than a good Fair; and that
therefore the HERALD should support
it? The editors of the HERALD be-
lieve that the Fair was not what it
might have been made; that it was
mismanaged; that the $4,000 given by
the State to the association was for
some other purpose than for purse
race or series of races; that 1t pre-
supposed AN agricultural display; a
mechanical display; display OF the
fine arts far superior to that which was
exhibited. The HERALD also believes
that the protest which has already
gone up from the farmers in council
was a just protest, and that the oppo-
sition now forming to oppose subsidy
for the future will be successful unless
the public see some pledge, some secu-
rity that the present faults shall be
remedied in the future. The HERALD
desires to prevent this, If possible; but
it must admit that the objections to
the present style of mismanagement
are too we'll founded. The interest of
Los Angeles county is the interest of
the HERALD; where mistakes are
made and mismanagements occur, it
must and will try to correct them.
On this 1t must rise or fall.