smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Within the next ten days the most of the
noninrtions for members of the lower House
of the Legislature will be made, and in the
majority Of CAGES, the Republican nominees
will undoubtedly be elected. We may say,
therefore, that ihe Legislature will be chosen
this week, and not on the 11th day of Septem


ber. Now is the time for those who are ap-
prehensve of the designs of monopoles and
corrupt political combinations to exercise
their utmost vigilance. After "a Legislature
representing these partial interests is chosen
it is of little avail to struggle against them.
Members who owe their election to a ring
will serve it in spite of the discussions of dis
interested parties. If Winans is elected in
Smithtown, it is useless to expect that he can


be transformed into pure minded patriot at


Augusta. The safe way is to keep him at


home. Hitherto our Maine Legislature has


been singularly free from even the suspicion
OF corrupt practices. Occasionally there has
been vague rumor of the use of money
or the improper exercise of personal in
nuence, but it has rarely appeared that
there was any foundation for such re-
ports. But unless especial care is taken
the tide of legislative corruption which
has invaded neighboring States will roll
in upon us also. Hitherto our clrcum-
stances have been singularly favorable for the
preservation of the ole purity of morals


But like Massachusetts, New York and Penn
sylvania, our own State begins to have great
monled corporations with large requirements
and ample means to reward friends and pun
ish enemies. Thus far they have never. to
our knowledge, shown the slightest disposi-
tion to use their power in an illegitimate way.
But the people should be on their guard
The Empire State has fallen into the hands
of the most unprincipled and dangerous pollti.
cal ring in the world, and Pennsylvania into
the power of gigantic railroad corporation.
We cannot be sure that it is always safe to
count On the forbearance of those who have
the power to seize the reins of government.
They may never stretch forth their hands and
lay hold on the temple of our liberties, but
they need to be watched. Every year more
care needs to by exercised i'm the selection of
good and true men to represent the several
towns and counties in the Legislature. II
the spirit af venality should once gain a firm
1oot-hold at Augusta it would be a long. sad
LABOR to eradicate it. Use is everything in
these matters, and once let the precedent OF
receiving tribes be established, and legislators
would soon go at as cheap price in Augusta
as in Albany, Let the people give little at
tentlon to this matter now and save them
selves untold sorrows in the future. We
nave no Flsks now, but they grow spontane-
ously in rotten soil.
Year: 1871

The following is said to be one OF
most brilliant articles ever written by
the lamented George D. Prentice


"But the fat of nature is inexotable.
There is no appeal for relief from the
great law which dIoms Us to dust. We
flourish and fade as the leaves Of the
forest, and the flowers that bloom and
wither in day have no Trailer hold on
life than the mightiest monarch that
ever shook the earth with his footsteps.
Generations of men will appear and
disappear as the grass and the countless
multitudes that throug the world to-day
will Tomorrow disappear as the foot
prints on the shore.


"Men seldom think of the great event
ofdeath until the shadow falls across
their own path, hiding from their eyes
the traces of loved ones, whose living
smiles we're the sunlight of their exist
euce. Death is the greatest antagonist
of life, and the cold thought of the tomb
is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not
want to 60 through the dark valley, al
though its passage may lead to Paradise;
and With Charles Lamb, we do not want
to lie down in the gravo, even with
princess for our bed.fellows.


"In the beautiful drama of Ion the
instincts of Immortality, 80 eloquently
uttered by the death of the devoted
Greek, find a deep response in every
thoughtful soul. When about to yield
his young existence o sacrifice to fate.
his beloved Clemantha asks if they shall
not meet again, to which he replies: Il
asked that dreadful question of hills
that seemed eternal-of tho clear
streams that flow forcver-of the stars,
among whose fields of azure my raised
spirit hath walked. As 1 look upon
thy living face, I feel that there is
something in thy love that cannot really
perish. We shall meet again, Cleman-
tha ,"
Year: 1871

BETWEEN here and Camp Grant, arc placer mines which prospect from two to ten cents per pan. Parties have been out this week examining the ground, and are only waiting for water to begin work.
Year: 1871

A letter from Thompson to the Duluth
Herald Of Wednesday says that five build
ings were burned at the n, Z. r. r. juno
ton on Christmas day, including the Post
Office and Brady's large hotel, the Forest
Home The hotel did not burn very fast
on account of the snow Oh the roof, and
everything portable was saved. The letter
says "a great majority of those about the
place were too drunk to do anything, or
probably the building might have been
saved" But for the snow on the roof it
would have been difficult to SAKE the depot.
Year: 1871

You came to Superior to better your
prospects. You have no doubt that this
important site, especially since securing It's
railroad, is yet to prosper so greatly that
you will enjoy your full share of that abun-
dant prosperity. Bat you know that towns
do not grow by accident. People do not
pull up stakes in New Y York, or Illinois, and
come up here to the head of Lake Superior
without having heard of this region, OF
knowing why they came. And you do not
expect town here without people. 1t is
plain then that your idea of the prosperity
of this city is based on the fact that y0at
expect people to hear Of 1t in some way, and
to hear oft so constantly and impressively,
as to lead them to come here, and start
farms and manufactures, and aid in the
development of so favored region. That
is just your idea and hope.


Now let US put few common sense
questions How is the country at large
going to hear Of your city and prospects
Do YOU expect the Duluth papers to do the
work? Do YOU expect the st. Louis papers
to do it? Do you expect any paper out.
side of this town to make known our great
advantages and inducements to new corners
and immigrants? Do you honestly believe
there are any appreciabIe influences what
ever, bearing upon the press and people O
the country in favor Of Superior except the
paper published in this town, the superior
TINES? Ofcourse you do not


One statement in type is worth all thC
Year: 1871

letters you can write for a year, and one
number of well-conducted newspaper adj
vocating your interests is worth more than
a dozen travelling lecturers. The modern
world is ruled by what it sees in print.
And Superior can only be advanced, as it
has been advanced, by giving its plans,
progress and prospects, printed voice,
But that voice must come before the
people. To be sure. the TIMES has, all
circumstances considered, been wonderfully
successful and influential 1t is perfectly
safe assertion that no paper has excelled
its influence, or been more widely, and
constantly copied, and reached more read
ers IN proportion to ats means and adUaa-
tages for publications than has the TINES.


But it ought to reach ten papers and q
hundred persons where now it reaches one
paper or one person. Do the papers of
your native town ever see it? DO the
farmers and manufacturers you are init
mately acquainted with ever see it?


We cannot afford to give it to them, nor
to give it to all the press Of the land for
nothing. 1t would richly repay the outlay
if every citizen Of Superior, sent away reg
ularly from three to ten or twenty copies
of the TINES? You may say you cannot
afford it. But can you afford to dawdle
along here, spending your life waiting for
somebody, you don't know who, to come
along and buy you rich? But that waiting
must be the result if you cripple your only
printed voice, and keep it away from the
people Give us the subscribers to talk to,
and we'll talk to them etfectualy. " e
mean to make the paper tell. 1t will
abound in interesting facts and arguments
in favor of Superior. 1t is now fayorite
with its readers, and has a power over
them, as we could easily prove by scores
Of cases, But it ought to be daily now
to benefit you Alright. Still, if you will be
wise enough to set apart $40 or $50 to
help your own prosperity by helping the
TIMES, we will do the work with the week
ly as it is. SEND IN TUE NAMES!
Year: 1871

The year about to close has had an
eventful history for Superior. 1t has
proved indeed, what it has been so often
called in these columns, the "year Of tran
sition." Nobly have the citizeus Of this
place stood by each other, and the best
interests of Superior. And those property
owners also who are nonresident, have,
with marked faithfulness to the common
welfare, put their shoulders to the wheel,
and helped move the car of our prosperity
onward.


A most notable sstransition" has been
made in this year 1871, from mastery IN
activity to telling action; from proverbial
division in our counsels, to absolute una
nimity; from traditional uncertainty, to
the most timely, and assured success, from
indefinite plans extending over three or five
years, to a summer campaign short, sharp,
and decisive, that has turned the scale in
our favor for all time.


But these statements by no means imply
that the citizens of Superior have been cui-
pably inactive, divided, hesitating and in
definite in plan and action previous to 1871.
On the other hand it can easily be shown
(as it will be when the history Of this place
is written in fulD, that the people of Supe-
rior have hitherto been held inactive by a
combination of causes beyond their control
have been divided by pardonable differen-
ces of Judgment at times when no pressing
reasons, and practical opportunities for
united and effective action were presented f;
and that they have hesitated IN plan and
action at any time only from the conviction
that our interests were too important to be
made the sport Of any uncertain enterprise,
or premature occasion.


The present year however gave unmis-
taxable signs that the time for action had
come, and by singularIy favorable con
juncture Of events, the people Of Superior
were called upon to act for themselves with
the utmost freedom, and have done so with
the utmost promptitude, vigor, unanimity,
and just appreciation Of important meas
ures, and the signs Of the times.


Superior during 1871 has not only acted
effectively on the defensive, and laid the
foundation of ultimate triumph over unjust
and oppressive opposition, but taken deci-
sive steps for her positive welfare by work
ing up to her railroad plans, from the first
effort at negotiation on the subject, up
through the successive stages OF the condi-
tiona agreement, the unanimous ratifica-
ton thereof at the polls on Nov. 9th, and
the closing of the actual construction con-
tract on the 2lst of the present month.


1t will 90 into our history that the first
year which found us entirely free to act,
saw us take in swift succession within that
year, each step toward securing the most
important railroad that can terminate at
the head Of Lake Superior; and the coming
years will Justify the wisdom and energy
of community which struck the mark at
the proper time--n0t year too soon or too
late-and resolved in the transition year,
the crisis time, to build an outlet for the
Northern Pacific that will ensure the com
mercial supremacy of Superior in the new
Northwest.


1t was a good work for the year 1871.


TO OUR HOME SUBSCRIBERS.
Year: 1871

are friendly, and will bonus. Iron can
easily be procured after grading. Road
will be a fact in a year or so.


And now, ST. Cloud, your road to Supe-
rior is next in order, and you become a
railroad centre. Shall the main question
be now put?
Year: 1871




In point Of natural advantages Superior has few
equals in the State. 1t early considered point
which would become of great commercial Importance,
and capital was largely invested there. The CONNER
cia depression of 1851 put stop to its growth and
since then every energy of Minnesota capitalists has
been directed to crush and ignore SUPERIOR and build
uD a rival-a rival without any natural advantages
whatever-in the limits of that State.


In its struggle for existence Superior has, until re-
GENTLY practically been without any sympathy aid
from this State. Wisconsin, at best has been but a
mothcr-in-law to her Northern towns, and a very
churlish one at that Now the increased facilities for
reaching the Lake have made politicians and busi
ness men better acquainted with the resources needs
and prospects of that section and confident
that every intelligent citizen Of this State will heartily
endorse the memorial which we publish to-day


Thank you, gentlemen, for this manifest,
alton of your interest in Superior; but the
Star 81 Times will permit US, while recog-
nizing its good intentions, and the kindly
spirit of its remarks, to suggest, that its
ideas about the " decay" of Superior, pro-
badly have their origin in the constant
harping on that term by partsans of Du-
luth interested against us. Not that time
and the elements, do not and have not
wrought the same effects upon the works
of man here that they do and have else
where; but this kind Of talk about the " de-
cay'' of this place has been overdone, and
strangely misdirected, and has led to erro-
neous conceptions of the situation here. 1t
is spoken of, as if Superior had once been
established as fourishing town and then
had gone into a decline; as if an expert
ment in city-building had been tried and
had failed from some inherent defect in the
conditions.


This is a great mistake, but one that in
telligent persons, who are familiar with this
point and its history would scarcely fall
into. Settlers were originally attracted to
this place on account of the geographical
necessity that marked 1t as the site Of a ttt-
tire emporium of much Importance. An
inevitable condition of its proper develop
ment was the construction of a railroad
that should connect it with the interior
railroad system of the country. Precisely
because it was so obvious that prosperity
and growth would come with the railroad,
and that the latter in due time must reach
Us, this location was early and eagerly APP
propriated by enterprising men, who ec-
pectea a season of waiting, of stagnation, il
you please, until the shrek of the locomo-
tive should wake the echoes of these shores.
The same geographical necessity remains.
Fifteen years of waiting have told on the
Year: 1871

purchasers do not make their appearance.


The policy of Oregon is favoraby con-
trasted with this, which by wise, liberal,
and generous course is attracting popula-
ton from all quarters with great success.
There will be large city at the head of
Lake Superior as soon as people come here
to buy and live. And they will come here
to buy and live if we continue to pursue
the Oregon, and not the California policy
Year: 1871

an article on Superior, from the La Crosse
Leader, says


No place in the State, perhaps, has better loca-
ton, for the building up large town, and yet no
place in the State has gone so completely to decay,
owing its naccessibity, and to the opposition it
has met from Duluth and hostile railroad interests.
We have faith believe that Superior is soon to see
better DAYS
Year: 1871




The following extracts from the Clncin-
natl Commercial show in what high esteem
rs an artist as we'll as friend the lamented
Miss Mann was held by those who knew
her best. We may add that this lady left
some proofs of her artistic skill in Superior,
among which may be mentioned fine por-
trait Of the little daughter Of 2. E.. Brad
shaw, Esq:


To the Commercial:


The teacher and pupils of the McMicken School of
Design desire to express through your columns their
deep regret for the loss by death of of their
Der. Miss Mary X. Mann, who drowned the
steamer Coburn, Lake Huron, the 18th of Octo-
Der last, member of this school two years and
six months, and had in that time made such astonsh-
ing progress in her studies, to win the warmest adj
miration, and the confidence of every that she
had before her brilliant artistic In every
way she was dear to Her unremtting industry
day after day, and all the day closely work at her
easel, example Of patience and devotion which
animated while she lived and will be legacy to
now that she is gone. And will be her graceful
manners, her gentle temper, and all her beautiful wo
manly qualities.


The death of Miss Manu. to US of the School of De-
slgn is bereavement second only to that which af-
ficts her sorrowng mother and sisters.


t. S. NOBLE,


And the pupils of the McMicken School of Design
The death of this estmabe young lady, who was
lost on the atcd steamer Coburn off Saginaw Bay,
has caused sensation of profound regret in cir
ces, where her talents were well known and apprecia-
ted 1t is now some three years since she commenced
the study OF art first pupil in the Mechanics In
sttue School of Design and subsequently in the Nc
Mcken, where she remained until the close of the re-
cent session. She at the time of her death re-
turning from visit to the Superior country whittier
she had been for the purpose Of renewing her physical
energies which had been exhausted by too close at
tention to her studies. Miss Mann was in herself
remarkable instance of the results which are attaina
bic when natural abilities Oh higii order are combined
with untirng industry Her progress in the artistic
field simply wonderful, and astonished more
than her teachers and fellow pupils who the
daily witnesses of her labors Dsdaining all efforts
for display this slender girl toed patiently on,
often for months on single subject, with tenacty
Of purpose rarely seen seeking acquire knowledge
of art which should be fundamental How well she
succeeded the exhibitions of the McMicken have al
ready shown. In the opinions of artists and others
capable Judging, she stood foremost in its ranks
and deserved though she did receive its highest
honorS Modest as she beautiful and accomplish
~ and known only to be esteemed, her death leaves
a vacancy IN many hearts which cannot be filed
Editor Commercial
Year: 1871

TIE DEcrs'oS.-A party OF gentlemen in
q saloon, dispu;iug over tho question whether
tho American styIG Of treating or the Europe
IN systCr Of not treating, was preferable,
couldn't settle the matter by talking, SO they
went TO work testing it by practice. First,
each man took drink by himself. Then
each man invited friend to drink After
that each single friend returned tho compli-
mcnt. And finally each man in the party.
there were six Of them asked all the rest to
drink. When ell that was accomplished, not
soul IN tho room could tell where tho dis,
cussiou originated or what it was about.
Year: 1871

Bills are still being presented ill Congress for land donations to corpo- ations of one or another kind, and if is gratifying to know that they arc received with disfavor. Three great railway lines across the continent have been literally and we believe justly subsidized with lands. After the first one was aided, the original arguments for such wholesale gifts of lands were exhausted, but the giving propensity was so strongly developed that reasons were easily found why a northern road should be richly endowed and they prevailed. Thereafter the de- mand for gifts of land to a southern one could not with either justice or propriety be refused. While unoccu- pied land is so abundant, only the best results will be apparent from these liberal gifts, and we think the good they will accomplish will always be equal to if not greater than any Gre sultant' evil, but the time has come when no more gifts of lands should be made by the nation. There is a grow ing disposition to enact a law to ever afterwards prohibit sales of public lands to any but actual occupants and then in tracts no larger than 160 acres. This policy would no doubt be, look ing to future generations, very wise, especially if confined to grazing and agricultural lands. No more lands to interpretations should at once become fixed policy of our government. If great enterprises deserve government aid, let it be given in credit and cash, but no more in lands.
Year: 1871

The first child Of parents who are earn
est and conscientious in their purpose OF
bringing him up right, is apt to be excess


lively governed. The first cl lid OF easy


going, affectionatc parents is apt to be ex


ccssively indulged. But as the children
belong to different families, it is hard to
make an average. Which is nearer rightF
Both Neither! Too much government
and too little government come TO about,
the same thing. However, it is great
mistake TO suppose that the simple mat
ter of government can be taken out OF the
whole routine of family life. as il it were
thing by itself. Government is but a
name for the sum of all influences brought
to bear upon the children. 1t is not sim
Year: 1871

An exchange makes the following cor
rect observation which VIC reproduce:


The Democratic party is a good party
the best party ever established and the
most sincere in its attachments to its
principlcs-but it has yet to learn the
great necessity Of thorough and widely
circulated press, The era OF permanent
Democratic triumphs will never come un
til Democratic professional and business
men. and others, who have patronage IN
their control realize the Importance OF
placing their party press on as strong a
footing as that OF their political enemies,


And it might be added, when the prin-
ciples Of the party are at home, when
mothers understand them, and Party
Committees send out Newspapers in
stead Of Speeches which few read and
fewer care for.


We believe with Jefferson 4" the perma-
nency Of our Republican institutions de
pends upon the intelligence of the peo-
pie. Pine Bluff Press.
Year: 1871

morning. I'm all right now Here s
your health. You're brick. /" And
over he fell, fast asleep.


Oh, why do men think so much OF
money making2 Is not health better
than anything else


or course, as he had laid down in his
hat, took that off first. And ! managed
to divest him of his coat. But when 1t
came to his boots-dearest aunt, did you
ever take off gentleman's boots prob
ably not, as you are single lady-what
a task! How do they ever get 'em on
/ pulled and pulled, and shook and wrig-
gled, and gave itup. But 1t would not
do to leave them on all night; so went
at it again, and at last ono came OIL so
suddenly; and over went on the floor,
and into his hat, which l had put down
there for minute | could have cried.
And the other came off in the same way,
Just AS bard and just as sudden at last
Then put a soft blanket over Orlando
and sat in my sewing chair all night On
how heavily he breathed And ] had, as
YOU may fancy. the most dreadful fears
He might have killed himselfh his over
application to business, for all that l
knew. The perfect ones 80 first, 1t is
said


Oh. how differently should ! have felt
had anything happened to my beloved
Orlando. He has has not had so ex
hsusting day since, and think sees the
folly of overwork; though if courts will
keep open SO late, what can poor lawyers
dol think it is very inconsiderate OF
the Judge | wonder whether he has n
wife--the mean old thing
Year: 1871

Faith is . good thing, but We can
not live by faith alone. We have o
large amount due us on job work aud
subscription, and We must have it.
Our collector. will be after our pa
irons shortly, and, when he calls, we
hope they will either pay or give
their notes, that we may be able Ito
close our old books.