smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

young woman down town imagined
That young man who had been very at
tentve to her tor six months, had deserted
her, and an old woman of her acquaintance
advised her what to do. "Take one Of his
letters, the very sweetest of all that he ever
sent you, and put lock of your hair in it
and then put it back in the envelope. Go to
the White Spot, and on your way up hunt
apiece of thin witch hazel wood" Here
the old woman gave full description of
this mysterious bush. "Then come back
and try to remember a place where he
kissed you standing on the ground. As
near as YOU can remember, bury the letter,
lock of hair, and witch hazel right on the
spot where he stood and kissed you and let
1t remain there three days"


The young woman followed the advice,
cut off lock of her hair, went and procured
the witch hazel, and then she set to think
Ing where she had last been kissed. She
could call to mind ho outside kiss that she
mad ever received from him, excepting one
mat he had gave her one night while they
We're walking down Canal street toward
Bingham, opposite the Eckert fire. brick
works. -Four nights ago she repaired thith-
er with a trowel that she borrowed, and she
quickly buried the articles. The third night
was last night, and she went to watch that
little grave. What she saw she afterward
related to the woman. She said she saw
sparks of fire shoot up from the ground
All right said the old conjurer; "hit
conscience 60 is burning and torturing him
hell come back in less than ten days. Bt
of good cheer. On the third night 20 ant
get your things out of the ground and bury
them under the caves of your house some
Wwhere, 80 that the rain drops will fall ovel
them:" And that is how the young woman
'ested the fidelity of her negligent lover.
Year: 1876

There is no more valuable tract of
land in Los Angeles county for health
or for profitable farming than Pomo-
ma. 1t is situated near the head of q
beautiful valley with magnificent
scenery, pure air and a soil that is un-
surpassed for fruit or grain culture.
AS health resort, Pomona may at no
distant day become famous as it lies
80 miles inland from Los Angeles and
on considerably higher level, the at
mosphere is drier and more rarilied
rendering it bracing and invigorating
to q remarkable degree. A considera-
BILE settlement has already been made
and permanent buildings erected
including rs comfortable and well
conducted hotel as can be found in
this section. The water supply and
entire system of irrigation is perfect.
TO those who contemplate purchasing
country property we suggest this To-
cality as one which possesses every
advantage that may be found IN Semi
Tropical California.
Year: 1876

Daring the last few months we have
heard many persons objecting to high
schools under public patronage. They
say the public school system never
was designed to confer anything more
ahan n common education, such as read
ing, writing, ,arithmetic,geograp and
grammar. And strange to say these
complaints against the high schools
have nearly all come from poor men.
We should not be surprised to hear
the wealthy men objectiDg to being
taxed to support high schools, for it
has always been the object of wealthy
people in every country to establish
classes, or grades in society, and there
are no means that will so effectually
do this as the establishment of grades
In education. And as the poor man
is not able to pay the way of his chill
dren through college his children must
stop where the public school instruc-
tion ends; while the rich are able to
send their children until they gradu-
ate In schools of the highest grade.
knowledge is power" and it is
knowledge that makes the poor man
equal and often superior to the rich.
Under this view Of the subject it is the
interest of the poor men to contend
for, and sustain public schools of the
highest grade. If either one, the high
schools or the common schools, had to
be abandoned, it would be better for
the poor to have the common schools
abandoned. For.if necessity compell-
ed it, there is hardly any family that
could not teach their children to read,
write or cypher at home, while the
higher branches Of education can only
be obtained at high school, and it is
these higher branches of education
that makes the poor mans son equal
to the rich mans son. The rich do not
care snap about your public high
schools, and II they can induce the
poor men to cry them down and out of
existence, then the rich mans chill
dren will be the only highly educated
children in all the land. l am plead
ing for the poor boys and girls.
Give them chance. Some of
the brightest talents that ever
adorned the world arose from poverty.
There are many things In our public
school system which we objectt to, and
which we think time and experience
will correct. These institutions are
only IN their infancy now and we can
not expect perfection at once, hence
we have avoided saying anything cal
culated to create discussion. But now
when we see the most important and
useful branch of the public schools
being quietly undermined we are con-
strained to speak out and warn the
people to hold on to all you have, and
gel more If you can. If these design
ing persons who have undertaken
q; to cry down our high schools can
accomplish their object, sectarian
institutions will rise up Immediately
to supply our wants. But the expense
will be so great that the poorwill be
cut off.
Year: 1876

WE call attention to the card of the
Pomona excursion in our "New to
Day." Here is an opportunity to take
q pleasure excursion combined with
business. The country along the whole
line is as lovely as garden, and at
and around Pomona is inspiring to
look at. There are hundreds of citi-
zens in this city that have no idea of
the beauty of that section. Go and
see ii.
Year: 1876

At great outlay of time and mon
ey a wagon road has been completed
from the highway passing through
the Delaware Water Gap to the sum-
nit of Mount Minsi, the peak forming
the Pennsylvania wall of the gap.
The mountain is 1000 feet high. A
suspension bridge is to be built from
the summit of this mountain to that
of Mount Tammany, on the New Jer-
sey side of the river. This will be the
highest bridge in the world. 1t Will
be over half a mile long. The cost of
the structure will be about 100000.
Year: 1876

Piper's Opera House Company of
Virginia City will leave Caliente on
Wednesday morning for this city.
The troupe comprises fifteen people,
and with their baggage will require
two large coaches which have been
placed at their disposal by the Over
land Stage Company. They will open
at the Merced Theatre in this city
Friday evening.
Year: 1876

We are informed that on Satur-
day afternoon as four cyprians Were
coming into the city on south Main
street, full of fighting whisky, they
made an outrageous attack on the
house of Mrs. Jane Starkey who lives
on Main street near Washington Gar
den, smashing the doors and windows
in the most approved style, and COM
pelling the old lady to flee for life. AS
yet no arrests have been made.
Year: 1876

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more than double the cir
culation Of any other paper published
in Southern California. Business men
recognize it accordingly as the best
advertising medium South Of San
Francisco.
Year: 1876

My beautiful new watch had run
eighteen months without losing or gain
ing, and without breaking any part OF It's
machinery or stopping. / had come TO
believe it intsllible in its judgments about
The time of day. End to consider its con-
stitution and anatomy imperishable. But
at last, one night, let it run down. l
grieved about it as il it were recognized
messenger and iorerunner Of calamity.
But by and-by cheered up, set the watch
by guess, and commanded my bodipg
and superstilions 10 depart. Next day l
stepped into the chief jewelers. to set it
by the exact time, and the head OF the
establishment took it out Of my hand and
proceeded 10 set it fol me. Then he said,
..she is lour minutes slow regulator
wants pushing up" tried to stop him
tried 10 make him understand that the
watch kept perfect time. But MOI all
this human cabbage could see. was that
the watch was four minutes slow, and
the regulator must be pushed up little
and so while danced around him in
ANGUISH. aud beseeched him 10 let the
watch alone, he calmly and cruelty did
the shameful deed. My watch began 10
gain. Il gained faster and faster day by
day. Within the week it sickened to q
raging fever, and it's pulse went up TO 8
hundred and fifty in The shade.


AT the end OF two months it had left
all The timepieces Of the town lar in The
rear. and was fraction ever thirteen
days ahead of the almanac. TWAS away
into November enjoying the snow, while
the Octobcr leaves were still turning. Ii
Year: 1876

German Lore Song.
Thou art the rest, the languor sweet
Thou my desired thou my retreat
| conseerate my heart 10 thee,
Thy home through all eternity
Come in to me, and shut the door
so fast tnat none can enter more;
FIJI all my soul with dear delight
Oh, tarry with me day and night


Harper for october.
Year: 1876

The things that man most needs ia this
world, are food, WORK and sleep. lie
doesn't need riches, houors, nor Office, 10
live. lie needs society because he IS
made for i. lie must love aud be loved
his life and happiness are promoted by
companion,hip; mutual dependence and
counsel enlarge hope aud stimulate
courage. Yet after all, he lives it his
friends die. There is 10 grief, no form
OF bereavement, but has It's consolation.
The best preserver OF q mans lie il con-
tentmeLt. Nor is work destructive of
strength. Men LOOK forward to life Of
rest, to q life OF ease, which TO them
means cessation from tolls and from the
care of business. They mistake the
cause Of weariness. Il is not WORK it
is care, it is over-eXertion, it is ambition
and desire after gain that bring worn and
weary feelings All we possess we pos
sess IN lile. The sooner we get through
with lite the sooner We relinquish our
possessions. The faster a man lives the
quicker he reaches the end OF life. There
are three ends TO lie, and death is the
last and least desirable Of them. One
end is 10 live. That j. why we were
created to live. and live as long and As
well as we can. Some 20 murmuring
and groaning on their way, IS though
life was burden, and that il is piety to
put low estimate on it, The opposite
is true. A man should seek TO live out
all hi. days, and he cannot accomplish il
in better wa than by using every
means to promote lite Among these
means are the three things mentioned at
the head OF this article. When a man
denies himself sleep, food, and the exer-
else work gives, brain and body work,
he robs his lite of lis lull term. Let him
be cheerful also. He is ike an engine,i
will run well and long, if it is well oiled.
Contentment and cheerluness are the
oil. which keep the nerves from wearing
out. Busy men aud women think that
time taken from toll, Tor sleep and recrea-
ton, is time lost. 1t is really the cement
put in to ill up the joints, to keep out the
weather, and preserve the building.
Year: 1876

claim to have carried d Solid South"
for .'Tilden and Reform" No one


witnessing their terrible dilemma could
have told their pity for these men,


many of them hrmane and honorable
Year: 1876




President Grant has done a great
many unwise things, for which we have
freely criticised him, yet it is question
whether these are not more fhs<p count
erbalanced by his admirable conduct
in great emergencies, such as the pres
ent. He seems at such times less the
head of the party Il an the pilot-or,
regarding him in another light, the
balance wheel-of the nation. While
he is more conservative than the rest
of the Cabinet, and more disposed
than the generality of his party to act
dispassionately and fairly by the Dem
ocrats, yet if the latter attempts to
overstep the metes and bounds that
have been fixed for the country g safety
he checks them at once. His patriot
ism is unquestioned, and the Cesarism
bugaboo notwithstanding, he will
soon relapse into the capacity of a
private American citizen. Let US then
remembering is many invaluable
services ''be to his faults little blind.
and to his virtues very kind" In the
dead calm Of ordinary times it is easy
to pick and point out the haws of his
character, but in the hour of the eoun-
try's greatest difficulty the qualities
that made him great Ienew their Iustre.
and he again becomes the man we were
once all go proud of. Who is not less
apprehensive of danger from the re
memberance that Grant is at the helm :
Year: 1876

Heretofore Wood county has been
principally noted for heavy voting, big
bitches, mud and county seat wars;
but the latest sensation is the discovery
of large cave near Millgrove. The
following u the description given by
one of party who recently attempted
to explor it:


I'VE took two candles, shovels and
and a dog, and arriving went to work,
the ladies taking an active interest in
the proceedings. We cleared away
the rubbish from the opening and to
our surprise found ten or twelve steps
hewn out of the solid rock leading
down full as many feet to the first ems
trance. We showed the dog in and
Lighting our candles followed. We
found ourselves in a room about 10I12
feet.


Upon looking about rs We discover
ed an opening to our right, through
which draft of wind came sufficient
ly strong to blow out our candles when
we approached It. We were anxious
to go in but none of us had the ''sandrr
to crawl through the hole; so We gen
erously showed Coaly, the dog, through.
and if he came out all right we'd fol-
low. We coaxed him to the aperture,
but farther than just to it we cou dn't
get him. He resisted our combined
efforts and howled dismally at our
treatment of him. We crawled to the
hole and hollered; the echo came back
as from a distance. We got pebbles
and threw in. Several seconds would
elapse till we heard them ring on
rocky floor below. After several bours
spent in discussing the difficulties end
dangers of seach We gave the eIpidi
ton up and went hone Who knows.
maybe hidden treasurers are concealed
in this natural vault. Everything
about it bears the impress Of its habi-
tation at some time. This is no fancy
sketch. The trees above the ravine
are of light growth, and the solid rock
is above the surface at places In the
vicinity"
Year: 1876

THE time is now at hand when it
would be we'll for the teachers of dis
trict schools in, the country to be
prompt and early at school in tine
mornings, in order to avoid the "pen-
ming out" that the boys have been con-
cocting for some time past.
Year: 1876

Why dp We heap huge mounds OF years
Before us and behind,
And scorn the little days that pass
Like angels on the wind:
Each, turning raund small, sweet face
As sbeauliful us near,
Because il is so small u face


We will not see it clear.
AID so it turns from us, and goes
Away in sad disdain;
Though We could give our lives for it,
1t never comes again,
Year: 1876

What after all is at the foundation OF the
present public anxiety, if it be not an honest de-
sire for the equitable enforcement of the law
This is feeling which has always been natu-
rally strong with the American people. vi
course in a poll of millions, there is always an
opportunity for frauds, which is not allowed to
pass unimproved but there are 10 offenses ol
which our people are less tolerant than those
which are designed to hinder fair expression
of the popular will. There is no accusation
which one party can make against another,
which is considered more serious or which Is
more Indignantly repudiated than that OF
stufling ballOt-boXes, OF securing the votes OF
the unqualified, of falsifying returns. 1t is
charge which almost always is followed by in
vestIgation to which the side which Is impli-
Gated quietly submits. We may have sharp
practice. but it is never respectable, and the
seats of members who have swindled their
way into any of our representative assemblies
are rarely secure and never pleasant ones.


To-day the people of the United States, of
both political compilations, we entirely be-
licve, are anxious only for n fair. legal, and
honorable arrangement of all existing cOmpli-
cations. We are not speaking OF political
leaders, of willy dcmagOgues, and OF
partisan adventurers of the naked who
yearn to be clothed, of the hungry
anxious to be fed at the public expense
we are thinking and writing of the great
American People OF the largest political con-
stItuency upon the face of the earth of the
Seven Millions of Freemen who only the other
day distinctly and tangibly expressed their
will. OF this enormous mass we can only
81. 10 moi
and dement's of human nature, and to the
average conscientousness of the race; ; and
unless we are ready to take refuge in vicious
misanthrOpy, the aggregate vote from Maine to
Louisiana must be regarded as the exponent
of whatever is nOblest and most honorable in
our people. 1t will be well for those who talk
to serve the purposes, paltry or pusillanimous,
of the hour, of counting in y and OF throw
"ing out,u TO remember that the people are
greater than parties, and that there is safety,
happiness prosperity, progress, only IN a
thorough recognition of the sanctity OF the
suffrage. To preserve this from violation IN
ordinary times, the people must act through
their agents; and to-day, conscious of the
greatness of the emergency, the people are
watching these agents with warmer desire
for the simple honesty of the result than for
the success of this candidate or the failure of
the other. Those who for the sake of tempo
rary success are tempted to chcanery or to
Justification in any form, should remember
how sharp are the tools which they are inclined
to play with. The upshot of the election may
be doubtful, but there is nothing doubtful
about the retrbution which would follow the
treatment of our present trouble according to
the usual practices of caucus quackery.
Year: 1876

Since the failure of the Continental Life In
suraDce Company, a series OF suits against
other companies has been instituted, and just
at present there seems to he a charge all along
the lines. For several years past there has
been more or less dissatisfaction among pol
icy-holders. This may not have grown, but it
is evidently rpenng. Unquestionably the
hard times have had most to do with its
present aspect. On the one hand a very
large number OF policy have within
two or three years found the usual
payment of premiums an exceedingly heavy
burden. Struggling for relief, they have
sought to compromise their policies, 80 that
their annual payments should either be re-
duced or cease altogether. Upon applying to
have such changes made, they have usually
been surprised at discovering how small a
value could be returned to them where they
had invested so much. To the large numbers
of this class there has been added the CON
siderable percentage of n far more unhappy
crowd-the holders of policies in COM
panies that have been sold out and ANAL
gamated. Put by such process without any
voice in the matter on the list of the insured
III n company whose very name may have been
before unknown to them; their policies with
the reserved value thus beng transferred to the
keeping of strangers, it is no wonder that such
policy holders are discOntented. The majority
of them may content themselves with the
thought that perhaps the transfer makes the
best of a bad bargain. A minority is naturally
angry enough to join in crusade against the
companies.


On the other hand it is not to be denied
that the companies themselves have been
more or less hurt by the hard times, and that
several of them are less able to meet assault
than they were few years ago. 1t used to
be said that our life insurance system did not
permit such sudden attacks as may be made
on other corporations. A run such as can be
made on a bank, or sweeping loss such as
may fall on fire underwriters, is improbable if
not impossible in the case of life insurance
companies; hence, it was argued, investment
with the last-named concerns is comparatively
secure. All this is now changed-at least to
some extent. Those who organize attacks
upon life insurance have improved their
methods. In the COntinentals case they have
been shockingly successful 1t is perhaps too
soon to say that similar assaults may not de-
yelop similar weakness elsewhere. Much Of
Year: 1876

the dOubt that hangs over these cases arises
from the uncertainties of the law. III some
one of our judges, for instance, should exhibit
n willingness to lend an ear to such COM
plaiuts. there is little doubt that plenty OF the
discontented would seek his court. Ii de-
cision should be made that the transfer OF
nolicics by the process of amalgamation with
ont the consent of their owners Is illegal,
there would be terrible shaking among many
of the companies that have swallowed their
weaker brethren.


II is very evident that an enormous amount
of damage may follow such attacks; 1t is not
at all clear that much good will result. The
companies have been and are doing everything
in their power to retrieve. There has never
been time when from the highest to the
lowest there was such an effort on the part OF
life insurance managers to guard their invest
ments, to cut down expenses, and, III short 10
put their houses in order The holders OF pol
icies in a company stand in the relation OF
partners with it if they try hard they may per-
haps break up the concern; but in so doing they
will simply destroy their own property. IL Is
whispered that in several cases these assaults are
to be warded off by the payment OF blackmali.
Certainly no honest man is likely to profit by
widespread damage to life insurance compa-
nies, except, perhaps, the lawyers. In this
country majority should rule; if majority
of policy holders in a company are contented
with its condition and way of doing business,
they should have some power to continue 1T.
That small and factious minority should
have the power through legal processes to
drag down to the dust the majority of owners
in a corporation, seems like an injustice.
Year: 1876

prosperity, and honor of the nation
would not have been safe if four millions OF
emancipated citizens had been denied all share
in the Government The result is reward
and a new lesson. Hereafter it should be the
aim of the ruling party to guard more sacredly
than ever the free participation of all citizens
in that Government which all help to main
tain.


The meanest crime of the Democratic
party was not its defense of slavery, for
that system came down to us from the
founders of the Republic. 1t was not the par
tial sympathy with rebellion, for half century
of devotion to Democratic heresies had made
it hard for men of that faith to understand
that States had no right to "snap the
"tier and to "repel INVASION" 1t was the
encouragement which that party has
constantly given to those who have tried
to deprive colored citizens of their freedom
of suffrage by threats, by violence, assassna-
ton, and massacre. 1t has its reward. Because
colored men have been hunted by Democrats
only, wherever they are free enough from
peril to vote as they please they vote against
Democracy. Eighty thousand Democratic ma
jority in Georgia is avenged. Fifty thousand
Democratic majority in NewYork is wiped
out as one cleans slate with wet sponge.
Three millions of Democratic voters sit down
in defeat, because some of their leaders toll
Grated the assassination of fellow citizens as
a means of political success.