smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

During the interval thus gained An
derson, who in his crippled state had
every reason to shun hand-to-hand en-
counter, had not been idle, but fred an
other well ll-aimed shot which broke Nc
Cluskey's left shoulder. As if this was
not enough, he sent still another ball
after him, which, striking him in the
pit of the stomach, caused him to fall
forward heavily on his face. MeClus-
key was now mortally wounded and mo-
mentarially growing weaker from loss Of
blood. Tearing open his shirt in his
agony q crimson spot IN his left side IN
dicated the place where Anderson's first
shot had taken effect He still, how
ever, retained his grasp of his pistol,
and by an effort superhUman in it's cool
ness and delibeTation fired at his antag-
onist his third shot. The latter had
been closely Watching for this, and en-
deavored to ave himself by suddenly
dropping on the ground. Too late,
however. McCluskey's finger was al
ready on the trigger and his eye along
the sights, and when his adversary 5
body reached the earth it was heavier
by a Colts pistol ball. A scream of
pain followed and the spectators saw the
figure of man clutching wildly With
his hands at the grass and writhing and
twisting in horrible contortions. The
bullet had struck him fuii IN the abdo-
men and like his antagonist, Anderson
was now
Year: 1873

you feel that you are among friends, the
pretty girls seem your sisters, the ugly
ones, cousins-how far removed you
don't care. The rich old ladies are
your aunts.; you forgive the crusty mil
honaries who stump around on gouty
toes, grumbling at your cigar smoke,
for not being related to you, and would
let them consider you as one of the fam
lily if they choose, anything to oblige
them. Doing the society business be-
comes less irksome to you than it could
be under any other conditions. Here
are all your friends within a stones
throw; but as one doesn't want to
throw stones at ones friends, perhaps 1
had'better say that your enemies are
within that distance if you want to shy
rocks at them. Making calls is no
trouble at all, and you regret that
New-year's does not come off while
you're up here it would be so nice, too,
to go round drinking congress water in
stead of wine
Year: 1873

New York, January 1.-THE Journal
Of Commerce editorially calls the attention
Of the press Of the country to q covert at
tempt 10 again revive the patent straw
paper swindle in Congress, The dodge
now attempted is in proposed amend
ment TO the patent laws now before Con-
gress, in which is the following clause:


"Nndno extension granted prior to the
passage of this act shall be held invalid
by reason OF the fact that the certificate
OF extension was not annexed before the
expiration Of such patent" !.


The Journal Of Commerce says there Is
no other use to which this amendment
willappIy except to revive the old French
Miller patent straw paper swindle, de-
funct FIVE years ago. This amendment
has been read twice and in q few days
will be put on its passage. The effect ot
It's passage will be to add one cent to
every pound OF paper purchased by news
paper publishers. i.IEEp
Year: 1873

TaE Evangelical Alliance prayer meet.
IoS IN New York last Friday devoted its
IIne to praying for the purity Of the press.
A. IN view oIthe numerous Church scandals
'u'' have tFanSpired within the last year,
We suggest that the Alliance devote a
u'y'o praying Tor the purity OF the pulpit.
Year: 1873

y There may now and then be a
man who calls himself Democrat who would
strike blow at his country, in order to cor
rect some local abuse, or to take some satis-
faction on all obscure man, under the pretense
of reformation. Not so the true Democrat.
The true Democrat will not encourage or
support radicals when issues that affect the
whole country are involved, because there may
be men with whom they disagree ON local
matters.


SO says the HUntefdoR Democrat Calling
the candidates of the party "obscure" men
is pretty rough from their own party organ; but
we are most surprised at the wonderful reduc-
tion which the Democrat makes in the size of
its party As no +" true Democrat will ten
courage or support radicals, y" there may
now and then be a man who calls himself u
Democrat who will do this--and as several
hundred have voted for the Republican candi-
dates whor's call ''theniselycss Democrats but
who cannot be "trpe Democrats = according
to 1ie9aftS asgssn, what Snsahehddis e,rn-
over there must have been! We. imagine,
hdwe yer,l thai these democrats. viii not sub
NIT to being turned ont Of the party in this
rather summary manner.
Year: 1873




The DanbnSy Nescs says: It Is q
little singular how we'll pair Of
boots can be made to st at the store.
You may not be able to get your foot
only part way down the leg ak the
first trial, but that is because your
stocking Is sweaty, or sou havnt
started right, and the shoemaker
suggests that you will lgtart again AID
staud up to it, aud he throws IN q
little powder from pepper-box 10
aid you.


Aud so you stand up, and pound
down your foot, aud partly trip your
self up, aud your eyes stick out ia
an Unpleasant manner, and every vein
in your body appears to be on the
point Of bursting, and all the while
that dealer stands around and eyes
the operation as intentiy as IL the
whole affair was perfectly new aud
novel to him. When your foot has
finally struck bottom there is u faint
impression on your mind that you
have stepped into an open stove, but
he removes it by solemnly observing
that he never saw . boot it quite as
good as that.


You may suggest that your toe
presses too lard against the front.
or that some OF the bones in the side
OF the foot are too much smashed
but be sdys this is always the way
with a new boot, and the trouble will
entirely disappear III a few days.
Then you take your old pair under
your arm aud start for home as ami
mated as q relic of 1912, all the
while feeling that the world will not
look bright and happy again until
you have Drained that shoemaker.
You limp down town the next day,
and smile all the while with your
mouth, while your eyes look as if you
we're walking over an oyster bed
barefoot.


When no one is looking you kick
against POST bt some other obstruc.
ton, aud Show d fOndness for stopping
and resting agai st something thai
will sustain your weight. When
you get home aE night you. go for
those old boots with an eRgerness
that canhot be described, aud the Ro-
marks that you make upon learning
that your wife has disposed of thepi
to widow woman iii the suburbs,
are calculated to immediately depop-
ulate the earth OF women aud shoe
makers generally.
Year: 1873

/ am very much afraid that too few
of our farmers rightly appreciate the
value of shelter and warmth for stock
during the cold weather of our long and
dreary winters The average tempera-
ture of the bodies of cattle is about one
hundred degrees Farenheit. This tenn
perature remains the same in summer
and winter but it must be evident that
more heat is taken off during the winter
than the summer Hence an increased
quantity is demanded, which must be
supplied either by comfortable warm
shelter, or an increase in the quantity,
or change in the quality of the food.


The maintenance of the perfect health
of man and beast depends upon the
keeping of the heat of the bodies up to
a comfortable point. A shivering beast
rarely thrives well. The supply of ami
NAL heat must be kept up in order to
the full and complete discharge Of all
the natural functions. Where stock is
not protected from cold, more and bet
ter food must be furnished. Warmth,
to certain extent, is an equivalent for
food; and on the other hand food is, to
certain extent, an equivalent for shell
ter This being the case, the course to
be pursued by the farmer is very
plain one. He has only to ask himself
whether, in order to maintanhis stock in
sound health, and in good condition, it
is cheaper to furnish them with an in
creased quantity of warmth-producing
food, or give them the shelter that will
secure the required amount of warmth


Correspondent Of The Journal Of tie Farm.
Year: 1873

A writer in the London FARMERS
CHRONICLE gives the following as his
experience of thick and thin sowing of
seed His experiment was made with
oats:


The first year we got the best sample
we could of black oats of forty pounds
weight, and sowed them to the extent
of a sack -four bushels) an acre; and
the result of this first trial was about
thirty bushels to the acre, weighing
thirty-eight pounds to the bushel. of
course, the grain was thin, and there
was also an increase of that limited
hairiness at the base of many OF the
cones which points to retrogression
from the characters of the plumper seed.
Our next trials were with white oats Of
the weight of forty-seven pounds per
bushel; seeded sack to the acre. The
results in this case were forty bushels
to the acre of q good even seed, but
weighing only forty-fve pounds per
bushel, that is, two pounds less than
the sample sown. The next year our
oat experiments were considerably mod
flied, for we had determined to sow but
two bushels to the acre; and casting
about to get the heaviest seed in the
market, we procured sample weighing
somewhere about forty-eight pounds per
busheI. These were sown at the rate
of two bushels to the acre, and resulted
in crop of nearly forty bushels to the
acre, weighing as much as the sample
shown. Now, it is worthy of remark
that a neighbor's oat crop of the same
year was not only Of the nature of an
experiment, but it was also lesson on
the subject of thick seeding, which we
shall not soon forget This crop, like
our own, was the white Canadian oat,
sown in field of the same kind of soil,
but if anything the land was Of better
quality On seeing the field while the
crop was being cut, the first remark was:
You have seeded too thick" and sure
enough, upon the mistaken principle
that "if you don't put it in, you can't
expect to get it out" more than sack
an acre had been sown; and thus, while
in our own case the straws were remark
ably regular, both in height and size,
the average of the latter being that of
a good-sized goose-quill, surmounted by
panicle of from 100 to 800 grains of
oats, the majority of the eulms of the
thick-sown crop, growing beneath few
of the taller and larger growth, might
be compared to crow quilts, their seeds
numbering from five to twenty. These
facts, then, tend to show that if poor,
starved seed is used it may only make
matters worse to SOW too thickly, as
many are apt to do; and the result of
last years oat growth is convincing
proof that it is not large number of
stems which make up a good crop, but
a comparatively small number Of fully
developed ones.
Year: 1873

There are but few duties performed
bv town or municipal authorities which
are more important than making and
keeping in repair the common highways.
1t is duty, we are sorry to say, sadly
neglected in many parts of the country;
and in some localities the matter of
road making is regarded as OF no i'm
portance whatever, and the working
out of highway taxes, by the residents
of the towns or districts, is simply a
farce and fraud Every good citizen
should feel an interest in good roads, as
they contribute immensely to the COM
fort of travelling, and save much in the
wear and tear of carriages. 1t is true,
we must not expect in the rural districts
the well-cared for, solid roads of subur-
ban towns around cities; but there is no
excuse for the rocky, neglected paths
which are often found, and over which
it is positively dangerous to travel If
towns would attend to one point con-
nected with their highways, that is,
carefully remove, once in two weeks,
during the Summer, every stone which
is brought to the surface by rains or
drought, it would render even bad roads
very comfortable. These loose stones
are not only cause Of great discomfort
to travellers, but also of intense anxiety
They put in peril life and limb, as Lorses
are very liable to stumble in passing over
Them and carriages are often broken.
TRY an experiment Ride over neg
lected road in the country of mile in
extent, if yon have the courage; then
stop at farmhouse and give the far
mer couple of dollars to pick out the
stones; ride back over the pathway
again, and notice how great is the
change. Upon your return you can
trot briskly along, with a sense of COM
fort and security; whereas, in passing
over it previous to the removal of the
loose stones, you proceeded slowly and
in misery. This illustrates how cheap
ly and expedtionsly bad roads can be
improved. If every town in those sec
tions, where land is full of small bould
ers, would provide simply for the remov-
al of them from the pathway as often
as once in two weeks during warm
weather, the roads would be more COM
Portable than if ten times the cost was
expended in dumping on loads of sand,
or ploughing up roadside soil and piling
it on the driveway We hope these
hints will not be lost upon those who
have our common highways in charge


Journal Of Chemistry.
Year: 1873

Farmers mi ght accomplish much by
an association something like board
of trade, common in large cities, ifthcre
would be tolerance and forbearancc and
a Witness on the part of each one to
learn the best mode of attaining an OBJ
ject.


There might be country, state and a
national association of farmers. These
might effect the same results as the
Patrons without the objection of secrc-
cy against them.


We want monopoly held in check;
we want to select reliable men from the
ranks of farmers, professional and busi-
ness men for Office; we want farmers
drove yard in every principal city man
aged by farmers as directors, Many
reforms are needed but we have not
time or space to enumerate them.
Every farmer sorelv feels his wants and
no want more keenly than some bank
ing system by which he can obtain
money on grain or land security. We
hope the late panic in stock will check
this kind of high per cent speculation
and turn little over, at the legal rate
to some hard working neighbor.


Let every farmer put his shoulder to
the wheel; join the Patrons of Husband
ry, or form county and state reform
associations if he objects to secrecy.
Here are two paths, both leading to
effective service. Why hesitate?


Oxford Farmers Club.
Year: 1873

more, and Prof Kerr, of this city. At
the trial the evidence of the planter and
the analysis of both of these gentlemen
were produced, and the fact was estab-
lished that the article contained sixty
eight per cent of sand. The fact was
established by Prof Liebig that the ar-
ticle was of no value whatever as ma
nure. And in spite of the evidence the
Court and jury decided the guano must
he maid for"
Year: 1873

ADULTERATIoN OF BoNE-DUsT-It
has been ascertained that the powder
Of the vegetable ivory-nut is used very
largely for the adulteration OF bone-dust,
being so similar as to be very difficult
of distinction. Even the microscope
scarcely furnishes satisfactory means
of determining the facts in the case, es-
pecially if the external envelope of the
fruit has been carefully removed The
best method, however, short of chemical
analysis, is said to consist in throwing
the suspected substance upon hot GOALS
If vegetable ivory be present, pleasant
odor, like that of roasted coffee, will be
Immediately diffused, while bone-dust
yields disagrceable animal odor. The
precise proportion of the two substances
can only be determined by chemical
analysis
Year: 1873

IMPORTANT DECISION CONCERNING TAXA TIoN.-The Supreme court of California has decided that the taxation of mort: gage on land, or the money secured there by, and the taxation of the land, Is double taxation, and therefore unconstitutional. The court in Summing up the opinion, says: -'-' 'i'-s

 "I conclude, therefore, that a tax on loans made in the usual course of busi- ness is paid by the borrower, and if the debts be secured by mortgage he also pays 8 tax on the mortgaged property.

 He Is twice taxed-once on the property and once on the debt which the property represents-and yet no new valne has been created by the transaction He is no richer, and has no more property than he had before; and if the money which he received from the lender remained in his hands it is also taxed. If the money has passed into the possession of another taxpayer it is taxed in his hands; so that the property and the money are each sep arately taxed; and if the mere promise or obligation of the borrower to repay the money Is also taxed and the tax is paid by him, as 1t must be, 1t is clear that he has been twice taxed on the same value of subiect-matter. This is violation of that clause of the constitution which re- suires that taxation shall be equal and uniform, and that property, shall be taxed in proportion to it's value. When the mortgaged property has once paid it's tax it has discharged its full obligation to the state, and the owner of 1t cannot and in justice ought not to be subjected to an- other tax, merely because he has borrow ed @ sum of money for which the proper ty is pledged as a security. a2se es. s.
Year: 1873

A Washington dispatch says:-"There will be considerable increase in the pub lie debt this month, which is to be mainly attributed to the heavy falling off in GUS tom receipts. About four and one-half million dollars will be paid out of the treasury the last of this week to pension agents to meet the quarterly payment of pensions. The legal tender reserves will be drawn upon to the extent of about eight millions additional to meet demands on the treasury, and the total amount of reserves outstanding at the end ot this month is expected to be about twenty millions. s L
Year: 1873

Somebody once said that the women Of
to-day are so extravagant in dress, and so
helpless IN other respects, that none but
rich men can afford to marry. and fool
lsh people have been saying the same
thing or something very like it ever since.
Every time a man fails in business. peO-
pie take mental inventory of his wife's
wardrobe, and cry out, "Poor fellow, he
was ruined by her extravagance!r' No
account is taken of his club expenses, or
his unnecessary restaurant bills, or his fast
horses, or the vanity that prompted him
to buy bigger and finer house than he
needed. Nothing is said of his dress
coats made by some Monsieur Snip, who
charges extra prices because he calls him.
self an ''artist tailor" The man may
have gambled his money away or lost it in
reckless stock speculation, for all anybody
knows to the contrary. while his wife, be-
lleving him to be rich, has dressed and
lived only as his circumstances warranted,
doing it too only for his sake, that he
might not be ashamed to introduce her as
his wife. Or if she has been as extraya-
giant as he, the fault is usually his, SO long
as the fact remains that any proper man
can lovingly control the course of any
proper wife.


Women are often cxtravagant. The
fact can not be denied. But that they are
more so than men is by no means true
AS rule every woman wishes to live
within her husbands income, and in nine
| eases out of ten all the econemizing done
at all is done by the wife.


| This constant iteration of the charge
against women, has secured kind Of pas
sive acceptance for the theory, and nothing
is more common now than for young men
with salaries of two or three thousand
dollars year to lament their inability to
marry, because women are so extravagant.
One of these has recently told the public
through the newspapers how it takes his
income of two thousand dollars to support
him as a single man, and after looking
over his bills of items and finding that it
takes fifty-two dollars worth of perfumery
every year to keep him sweet, we quite
agree with him that he should not marry
woman weak enough to wed such
youth would probably give him trouble
even with much larger income than his
to draw upon.


The trouble is. men want to live in
more costly style than their incomes will
allow. They hire houses they cannot af-
ford, and buy furniture beyond their
means, and ''put on style" generally which
they cannot maintain. Their wives know
ing less than they of the purse-depths at
their command, accept the husbands esti-
mate of their ability to live, and they dress
as their lords clearly wish them to do.
And so the crash comes, and ''poor Char
ley" is commiserated, while his little wife's
shoulders are saddled with the blame
Hearth and Home
Year: 1873

A term which has been taken with 6
great deal OF allowance when applied


to any disaster in the human family
has now an accepted place in the voca-
bulaIy of those who indulge in "hors


talk. King Richard says; "They say
women's hearts are easily broken-I
find them tough enough On the turf
horses heart is said to be broken when
he is excelled by another horse while
doing his level best, if that horse, so
excelled, does not make powerful and
continued effort to turn the scales again.


For instance, they say, if "Occident
has leading race he does well enough,
and therefore Brown Dick was not
allowed to pass him in his great trial ;
but if Brown Dick or any other horse
should pass the California champion
while extending himself to his utmost,
it would "break his heart" and he
would cease to make the necessary ex-
ertion to keep up the same rate OF speed.
To this k owledge of the weakness Of
other horses the little Goldsmith
Maid " owed the most of her triumphs
for it is now generally understood
that she drives herself with as much in
telligence as any human who can sit
behind her. Mr.. Collins, thorough
admirer of good horses, followed the
little "Maid" through one campaign
| in the eastern cities, and there disoov.
cred that the mare allowed her compe-
titor to have leading race until after
passing the three-quarter pole, and then
she went forward with her tremendous
burst of speed, held in reserve for this
emergency, and by so easily excelline
that competitor produced that sensation
which turimen cau breaking th,
heart. She, herself, had to undergo
these trials till she learned the trick


and now ahe playa Il on the othara. :
Year: 1873

In a recent lecture on marriage, "
Mr. Chas. G.. Ames compressed much
truth and common sense in the follow
ing terms " In class Of cases sepa.
ration is right and necessary. It ia too
loose and vague to say that incompati
bility" is sufficient ground for divorce.
There are all degrees OF incompatibility,
and nearly every union is marred
by some degree Of it, But where this
iucompatibility is deep-seated, radical
and incurable, SO that neither can be to
the other more than n dog is to a cat or
bird to q beast where one party
proves hopelessly lost in loathsome per
sonal vices, where one party is persis
tently faithless to all that is meant by
marriage; where all means of com.
ing into kindly relations have been
thoroughly tried and have thor
ougliy failed and where the yoke
is chronic agony and disqual tication
for all life; in such cases / think it is
an awful crime not TO separate. But
this will not often happen, unless one
party or the other has fallen very low.
Not for light reasons, not in haste, even
for reasons, should law, public opinion,
or private practice, consent to the de-
struction of a household once formed.
The talk Of divorce whenever there
is difficulty, is like sending for
the graye-digger whenever there is
sickness. We do not give up even
when the doctor says no hope We
send for the other doctors, we fan the
last spark and when all is over, we
place a hand on the still heart and ask
if its warmth must forever depart.
Nor do We then hasten to bury till the
dead threatens pestilonce to the living.
In this spirit We must treat the disor-
iers to which the married state is al
ways liable; grudging no pains by
which harmony might be restored !;
welcoming every symptom of conyales-
c nee saying or doing nothing to ag-
gravate or irritate hoping against hope
to the last never 80 much as alluding
toa fatal termination till the last throb
of mutual interest has ceased, and the
moral health of household and c0mmu-
nifty command to bury the dead mar.
riagc out OF sight"