smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

TouING AND MoLING.-To those whose
lot it is to labor, there are few trials more
terrible than the loss, even partial, of mus
cular power Muscular power is the la
boring mans capital To lose this is to
lose his all In one sense, indeed, every
laboring man loses his strength. The very
act of laboring is simply the giving out of
strength. But where there is sound
health, there is a taking in of strength also {;
namely through food sound health i'm
plies Sufficient digestive power; and this
renders available the strength stored up
in food Without this, it cannot be made
available. That an industrious laborer is
not in want of food itself may be taken for
granted. The cause of his failing strength,
then, must be looked for in the want OF
sufficient digestive power. DIR. Gottlieh
Fisch' Bitters was compounded to remedy
this very short coming and experience
has pro7ed that it is just the thing to do it!


This subject continued next week under
Legitimate Stimulation
Year: 1873

The wife of Socrates was said to be
great scold. Had her husband furnished
her with Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil
to cure painful toothache and headache,
she would, no doubt, have been one of the
best women Of that age, and prevented him
from being homesick.
Year: 1873

A very touching case of mental alien
alton in charming young lady is de-
scribed by a careful observer Not long
ago her mother found her In her room
energetically darning stockings, and soon
after she appeared in the kitchen aud as
sisted that wondering dame IN making
and baking bread aud pastry. Alarmed
by these fearful signs of intellectual dis.
order, her fond parents Immediately sent
for skillful physician, who watched her
through key hole while she sewed but
tons on her fathers garments, and mend
ed thogeo her little brother. Much af-
fected, the venerable man remarked that
never during Il medical practice Of TWEEN
ty.fye years had he known any young
person to manifest such symptoms AZ
these. The most heart-rcnding phase of
all, however, was shown the other day,
when her kind father, with faint hope
of rousing her from her sad state, gave
her $500 and told her 10 buy new dress.
Alas twas useless, She instantly OBJ
served that she didn't want u new dress,
and if he would let her keep go to pay a
poor widows rent, she'd much rather ho
would take the rest Of the money for
himself For few moments that grief
stricken old gentleman gazcd upon bis
hapess child, then hiding his face, nut
tering between his sobs: Her mind IA
gone Her mind il gone!
Year: 1873

FARMING AS A BUsINRss.-The follow
ing is from the Farmer 1nd artisan: GA
man who is not smart enough to run store,
is not smart enough to run farm. Farmers are
not to be made of what is left after lawyers,
doctors, ministers, and merchants are picked
out and if man fails on farm it is not
likely he will succeed in store, for itrequires
more talent to be thriving farmer than to
be On average merchant. The one cause of
great value is the disproportion between a
mans farm and his capital. A farmar's capt.
tai is skill, labor, and his money. Ifhe has
little cash, he must have no more land than
he can thoroughly manage by his own person
al labor. Every acre beyond this is an en-
oumbrance; one acre we'll worked, is more
profitable than twenty acres skinned over.
1t is this greed of land by farmers that have
not the capital to keep it, that keeps 80 many
poor. Small farms are BETTER than large
ones, simply because they are better suited
to th. capital Of common farmers. Large
farmers with large capital, are better than
sm'll ones Farming is a good business for
al! mon who conduct il on proper principles,
aid have capital according to the size OF their
farms, and bad one for everybody else."
Year: 1873

conductor came around he found Beau lean.
ing out Of the window intantly. studying the
landscape.


He gave him push to acquaint him with
his presence, but the landscape held him en-
tranced. He gave him another, harder than
the first; when Beau came in so suddenly
as to knock bis new hat of. He then got
into an angry dispute with the conductor,
saying, otis new hat, just bought, and had
the ticket in the band" and demanded the
money for the hat, which the conductor
finally paid him, and thus Beau obtained his
dinner, ride to Baltimore and money enough
for new hat by that fast growing acquire
ment called "cheek."
Year: 1873

Thus did p,y laceratsd spirit cry out in
agony, even a Rachael weeped for her chill
dren But one ray Of light penetrated my
SOUL The undertaken took his pay in job
printing and the sexton owed me little ac-
count l should not have gotten in any other
way why should We pine at the mysterious
w.y of Providence and vicinity? (Not a
conttkdrum.)
Year: 1873

every reason to believe that though wine takes
the place of beer to considerable extent, and
that the saloons are rarely graced by the pres,
ence of gentry or nobility, the habit OF social
drinking is equally prevalent and here as IN
lower circles it is no shame to drink nor con
sidered in the least immoral. The report IS
current and generally believed that the sover.
eign herself is no exception to the rule LOT habl-
tual drinking of beer and it is well known
that the most popular of English Preachers,
and the one best known on this side the Allan
tic, is habitual drinker of "beer" (of course !;
our remarks apply almost entirely to this drink J
and grows corpulent, it is said, thereupOn.


The position of woman in relation to this habit
awakened as much astonishment in our minds
as did the universally thereof. No imputation
of lewdness is necessarily connected with the
presence of woman in these drinking places,
whether as buyer or seller. OF these latter,
the English ''bar maid, known to us as an
existent being by newspaper report, we saw an
astonishing number, they seeming to form a
part of the stock in trade of every well-ordered
establishment. Indeed, if we may trust our
own observation, the large portion of the
persons engaged in the sale OF liquor by the
dram, are females.


And of the vast number of customes patron
izing these places we should judge that at least
| two-fifths were women-of various ages from
the girl of IA to the aged woman-marred and
single, meeting in mirth and for an evening
enjoyment at the saloon We are led to
believe tha. the proportion of female tipplers


in the higher circles of life is very nearly as
great. 1t seems to our mind that there can be
little hope for the reformation of the nation
while its wives and mothers not only counte
nance, but grant the force of their example
and thus actually endorse this system o
universal tippling. And now as to its effects


Drunkenness-at least manifest british
drunkenness-is according to carefully prepared
statistics, less prevalent in proportion to the
population in London than New York. AnC
our own observation would lead us to affirm
that even in the worst parts of the United
Kingdoms liverpool, Glasgow and Southerr
Ireland) while the proportion of drunken me,
to the number of drinkers is less than in oul
own country, yet the number of drunkards visi
ole on the streets is far greater; and the pro
portion of drunken women to drunken men is
we believe, fully as one to three.


People in Britain drink and get drunk.
Year: 1873

A recent writer on French manners observes:
at Is one Of the highest merits of the system
that tacitly lays down the principle that oil
persons meeting in the same house know each
other without the formality of an introduction.
Any man may ask q girl to dance, or may
speak to anybody at private party. Another
merit of French manners is the general absence
Of maMvaise honte. Ifa boy drops his book at
church, he picks it up without blushiinE. A
ges her hair before glass in railway waiting
room. without the thought of the prssecen OF
bystsnders. In her eyes all such things are SO
natural, so much matter Of course, that il
never occurs to her to make any fuss about
them.
Year: 1873

A mistake happened some time ago at f,,-
neral The clergyman had gone on with the
service, until he came to that part which saws.
" Our deceased brother or sister" without
knowing whether the deceased was male or
female; He turned to one of the mourners


ana asked whether it was brother or sister.
The man very innocently replied. "No TeIa.
tion at all Sir, only an ACQUAINTANCE
Year: 1873

They have some very smart business men in


New Jersey. Last week a young man was
struck by lightning in field near Trenton. and
when the people began to flock tothe spot IA
look at the victim, they found man standing
6y the corpse trying to sell lightning rods to
Year: 1873

A man who wanted to be q minister said he
believed he had been called Ito labor in the
Lords vineyard" His brother, who was less
noted for his piety, said that he had mistaken
the word barnyard" for vineyard. .-
Year: 1873

Mr.. Smith is bound to have his joke His
wife walked nearly ia front of a railroad train


the other day, and he said that if she had gone


q step farther his children would have had
| STEP mother.
Year: 1873

A Pekin, I'LL, coroners jury rendered YER
dict that a man, whose body was found in the
river, came to his death by blow on the head.


which was given either before or after drown
ing"
Year: 1873

The daughter Of a millincr who
was attending fashionable school
annoyed her mother by teasing
for money to by "Watts on the
Mind" saying it was of great
Importance to a young lady to
have it, AWAITS on the Mind"
may be Of great Importance to a
young lady," said the mother,
holding up fashionable bonnet as
she spoke,, "but watts on her
head is a good deal more impor-
tant.'
Year: 1873

A MARKED change in the mad
dog editorials is noticeable this
summer. The belief is gaining
ground that the canine lunacy is
extremely rare, and instead Of
frantic appeals for muzzles and
indiscrimiuate fusilade by the po-
lice, the press frankly confess that
midsummer madness or hydror-
hobia has been moro prevalent
with men than with dogs. ,u
Year: 1873

A GIRL in Macoupin County
Ill.,, told her lover she would mar
~ him it he could milk three
cows clean while she was milking
two. He failed and at last ac-
counts was practising on all the
cows he could see with the hope
of getting another trial.
Year: 1873

fruit tree never suffers from too much
manure, if the roots are healthy. II tree
seems to suffer after a heavy manurng, it
is only that it was in bad way before this.
OF course, if one were to empty cesspool,
a cart load of fresh lime, or some other in
ordinate mass OF food under tree, it would
suffer; but our meaning IS that no amount
of manure that would be found of benefit
to any regular garden will be otherwise
than beneficial to fruit tree, if the roots
be healthy. Many trees suffer from the
scale insects, AS we'll as from many other
minute animal forms, some of which take
up their winter quarters i'm some form or
other in the crevceS of the bark, or in the
crOtches of the trees. There is nothing
which pays" better than to have these
trees washed in the winter with a com
pound of sulphur and whitewash, cOlored
with ANYTHING which may be desirable, so
to make Il shade agreeable to the eye.
Many small twigs in a badly infested tree
may be cut away, so as the better to cover
with the mixture the parts which are left.
IN regard to pruning, many recommend to
defer it to spring, in order to see what may
be killed in the winter before cutting away
much. Many trees are pruned which do
not need any cutting; but where it is
ceSsary, we should operate as soon as pos
sihle after the fall of the leaf There is
less danger of any part of the tree dying in
the winter when it is pruned in autumn or
early winter This is particularly the case
with the grape vine, unless the plant has
been mildewed during the growing season,
in which case the wood does no. mature.
There is no better way to save from winter
killing than vigorous fall pruning. Gar
deners Monthly.
Year: 1873

Are YOU watching for me, darling
On the sands down by the sea,
Where the music of its surges


Wakes rare melody for me.
Do you hear the fishers stories


As they glide far out the bay,
While you listen for my coming


At the purple close of day?
Are you watching in the moonlight
Meath the silver CLEAN of stars
As the scarlet flush of evening


Softly fades to violet bars
And the sky with all its splendor,
Looking down on you and me
Where the shadows kiss the waters
And the gold lies on the sea?
l can see your amber tresses


Family touched with magic light.
| can hear the songs you sing me


In that stilly summer night,
And the music comes like dreaming
OF that far off golden time
With its tender dream Of sweetness
And its soft delicious cline.
List, the bells are DER with Ginning
Out upon the evening air,
And the west is full of crimson


And the stars are more than fair.
Ar you watching for me darling,


soon my footsteps you will hear,
For the sands will sing my coming
And the sea VII say I'm near,
Year: 1873

Ihe journal Of Chemistry saws From
ascertalned facts we shonld infer that plast-
er must prove highly Servceable to moist
messy hills, and also to meadows not too
Wet, and this has proved correct so far as
puT observations extend. Often we have
ioand that the north side of a hill will be
greatly benefited by plaster, while upon
the southern exposure it has no perceptible
elect. This is due to the fact that the
Apfthern slope Is cooler, or often in shade
anu has more moisture, and larger amount
oi partially decayed vegetation, to aid in
The promotion of those chemical changes to
which we have alluded. 1t is certain that
II does not matter sn much what may be the
nature OF the soil to which we apply plaster,
a external agencies are principally CON
cerned IN lifting 1t for plant food.


Nhile the question as to how plaster acts
ia all cases as a fertilizer cannot be regard
ed as fXedly settled, vet we have certain
iacts to guide us IN its application which
are OF the highest Importance With what
We know, it would be absurd for a farmer
10 apply the agent to dry silicous plane
OF To hot, impoverished hill and also it
would be nnwise to SOW it upon a meadow
which Is covered by water six months in
the year. 1t must also he ohserved that
the season has much to do with the effect
oi plaster During the past three or four
seasons OF extreme drought, its application
has notably failed upon almost all fields. hnt
as soon as we have continued moisture
through the summer months, it will mani
fest its influence upon vegetation.


Plaster may be applied with confidence
10 pastures and fields which are strong
enough to sustain good growth of decid-
uous trees. Pine lands are not usually
benefited by it. A hill side where moss
VIII grow so as to crowd out good grasses
is usually promptly benefited by plaster,
and the white clover comes in at once.
These suggestions we think may serve to
throw light on the use of plaster as an i'm
portant fertiliZing agent to our fields, and
also serve to show that we are not entirely
u me dark respecting one of the most OBJ
sCufe problems connected with husbapdry.


Room FOR MORE SHEEP. Statistics show
mat 1here were in 1871 about 80. 900. 900
sheep in the United States, Welding an
average of four pounds of wool each. or I2s
100000 pounds in the aggregate In add
ton, the annual Importation wool amounts to
about 10000, 900 pounds, at cost of nearly
$4,000 0c0. Then we import wooden goods
10 the amount of nearly S44 100000 per an
num- There is room, therefore, for an in
crease of 100000 more sheep in the
country to supply the home demand for
wool, and for about l., 900 900 to displace
the importation Of wooden goods.
Year: 1873

that the frll of her nightcap was just a
little too wide. So saying, he passed on
"What did he mean?" Joe asked


Nothing, only that he was crazy"
answered quickly but my face was as red
as blaze
Year: 1873

Dr. N B. Shurtletf ex-Mayor OF Boston,
was, in the early pat of his life a printer
Far from ignoring his old profession he
still retains an unusual affection and en-
thusiasm for it. and manifests lively in
terest in all that pertains to it. He is a
constant visitor to his favorite printing
offices. and never fails to recognize all who
have ever been associated with him in the
business, of which he retains his happest
recollections. One who had been BOY in
the office where the Doctor mad charge of
the printing of the cold Colony Records -
met him some years afterwards and said
Il suppose you do not know me, sir" ad-
dressing the Doctor, "God bless you, my
old friend" said he. chow do you do?
Know you,'' he continued, II never forget
the face OF an old friend in the craft" OF
such stuff is the ex-Mayor Of Boston made


Troubles are like babies, that only grow
larger by NURSING
Year: 1873

Kate Stanton in her lecture on The
Loves of Great Men" assets that the plan
cts revolve around the sun by the influence
of love like child revolves about its
parent When the writer was a boy be
used to revolve around his parent good
deal, and may have hecn melted thereto
by love, but an unprejudiced observer
thought it looked powerfully like trunk
strap
Year: 1873

two hours from the time he came into the
store, he started home with $4S9.63 worth
of goods for himself, and good supply for
some of his neighbors. The last thing he


aid when starting home, was this I shall
always come to
Year: 1873

If every family in this town know the
value of Reune's Magic Oil, and would
keep bottle of it on hand, to use in case
of accident, we should be a happier if not
handsomer people Try this Oil
Year: 1873

In time, no doubt, all Of them except
few VINO may elect to make their
home among white people, will be col
lected there as a preparatory step tor
this .consummation. am now salts
fled that a Territorial form of govern
ment shouldbe given them which will
secure the treaty rights of the original
settlers and protect their homesteads
from alienation. i
Year: 1873

ONE of the wants of our city is
good clearinghouse, where plain, but
comfortable board can be had at rea-
sonable price. Hundreds of people are
coming here every week, either to
spend the winter for their health, or
to look around and examine the re-
sources of the country; and the ques-
tion Of temporary home within their
means is an important one. We know
ofone eastern family, that after stop
ping here few days returned to San
Francisco, and there are doubtless very
many others who would stop, and be-
come permanent citizens here, If they
did not experience SO much difficulty
in finding place to stay.
Year: 1873

The New York Times of November
7th, makes the annexed honest confess
sion, In commenting upon the result
Of the late election in that State:


In the State the Democrats have not
materially increased their strength--it
is our own strength that has declined.
This means, to tell the plain truth, that
party and administration are both un-
der . cloud. We hope that none of the
Republican leaders will deny this; be-
cause If they do, it may prevent them
applying themselves to the discovery
OF those remedies for the present evil
which can alone prevent the over
throw Of their party.
Year: 1873

Our contemporaries are wild at the
course pursued by the HERALD, con-
cerning the Fair. 1t is so unusual for
them to find in their midst journal
advocating that which it believes, that
they are amazed, and the morning
papers amazement is only exceeded
by its vituperation.


1t is with no spirit of caviling that
the cudgel has been taken up against
what we deem the mismanagement
in the Fair. To every editor, and es-
pecially to those of the HERALD, it is
pleasanter to approve than to con-
demn. Especially is this the case
concerning an institution, which num-
bers among its stockholders our best
friends and the best citizens of Los
Angeles. We are actuated by no
animosity, and no personality shall be
forced into the columns of the HER
AID. Our record is honorable; we
shall not blush If it be published from
the house tops.


We have said the directors of the
Fair number some of our best friends,
and the most worthy citizens of Los
Angeles. But they are not Irresponsible
for the faults that exist; they decry
them but feel powerless to remedy
them. A large majority of the stock
holders, to-day, would prefer to see it
managed in manner laulcally differ
ent from the present. Some of the
many letters we have published, some
that have wakened the fiercest oppo-
sition, have been from the brains Of
stockholders.


The editors of the HERALD have no
antipathy to horse racing. 1t matters
little to them if the citizens of Los
Angeles choose to spend few hours
or days in trying the mettle of the
racers, and if perchance they shall de-
velop remarkable feetness, the
HERALD will rejoice with them, just
as when fine building is erected or a
public park laid out. But it may not
be amiss to state that anything above
2:5O, or perhaps 2:4O, is not good speed.
Perhaps, though, our ignorance of the
turf has led US into error. But what
is demanded now is an agricultural
fair, an industrial fair; fair that will
exhibit the products and industries of
Southern California. With a series of
races we have no fight; let those who
enjoy them have all they want. But
we do think an agricultural fair, one
that will educate and stimulate the
farmer, will be of untold more value
to the community than all the races
which can be run. Let not the associa-
tion or its self-appointed managers
usurp the place, and the resources, and
the name of an agricultural fair, and
then give us nothing but races. Let
them not go before the Legislature
with plea of assisting industry in
their mouths, and devote the proceeds
which generous State bestows upon
them, in pursuits which do not benefit
the people, directly.


We hear that the society meets to-
day. Whether the advice and the
course of the HERALD be approved by
them, We know not; but we do feel
assured, from the depth of our con-
viction, that they will weigh well the
complaints which have been made.
That the demands of the industrious
classes will be considered and their
complaints adjusted, we have every
reason to hope. If this be not done,
Los Angeles and the association will
be the losers.
Year: 1873

Considerable excitement ana some alarm
prevailed yesterday and ON Saturday afternoon in
TJdridge-st and its vicinity account Of the report
that case of yellow fever had been brought 20 the city


and that the patient had lodged at No. Eldrdce-st,
where he subsequently died. SO carefully, however,
had The case been concealed that only the physicians
Themselves seem TO have obtained any knowledge Of 1t
until all danger of the spread Of the disease was past
More an two weeks ago f. W. Bacon, waiter on board
the steamer YazoO, from NewOrleans TO Philadelphia,
arrived IN New-York from Philadelphia by rail While
On the tourney he was suddenly taken SICK and reach


ing this city was removed TO the house OF some friends of
a companion with whom he making the journey.
Physicians were summoned Immediately, aud the dis
ease was pronounced be malignant jaundice and he
was treated accordingly The patient grew rapidly
worse his case was reported 10 the Board Of Health
and inspectors were sent TO the house. They
pronounced the disease TO be yellow fever, and
took every possible precauton. The patient died and
was buried In the Poters Field The premises to which
he had been conveyed most thoroughly dsnfected
his clothing was burned and in all probability tho spread
of the disease was checked. Tho companion or the
victim was taken 70 the West Bank Hospital, Dut AS
there symptoms of the plague hc after ward
dismissed. The lapse OF time has now probably Doen
sufficient 70 remove all grounds OF alarm, and 1t Is
probably safe say that there is yellow fever III the
harbor OF in the city -Four persons recovering from
this disease have been confined at West Bank Hospital
since beginning OF the season. Two have been dls
missed and two are nearly well One OF ship fever
was brought TO light last week and the patient was
taken directly TO the hospital al Wards Island.
Year: 1873

The inroads making upon the health OF
our community by this most terrible Of all
epidemic diseases should awaken our people
to the necessity Of taking every precaution
to avert it.


We give statement of the number of
cases on record in this city during the latter
half of the past year: