smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

No efforts will be spared to make the MAINE
STATE PRESS more acceptable to its patrons Indeed
the Publishers will not relax their efforts to make
the paper necessity to those who have been accus-
toned to read it. We pledge that during the year
1873 the Weekly PRESS shall be more NEWSPA-
PER than ever, so that the famil. that thoroughly
reads the paper win have all the cure rents ofthe
dnU
Year: 1873

Al this very hour thousands are suffer,
ing from fever and ague, or languishing in that
condition of debility which the variable weather
Of the season is apt to produce. espec ally if he
nervous system be particularly sensitive and the
physique delicate rather than robust. All these
sufferers however much they may deserve syrnpa-
thy are nevertheless the victims OF their own
want of forecast. A course of Hostetters Stomach
Bitters, commenced p month age, would have ex.
empted them from their present troubles Having
neglected prevention, let them at once adopt the
means Of cure. A wine egassful OF that genial veg.
etable tonic and Alternative taken twice or thrice
day Cor a week or two, VIII afford efie.tuaI relief
in any case of intermittent or relnttent fever


chronic indigestion. constipation. biliousness OF
nervous weakness. and perseverance in the use
of The restorative will prevent the possibility of
a relapse apo st cod W
Year: 1873

Mr. Oes'onde, the Secretary Of State. an.
nomces that after the eighteenth instant
the State Library will be open daily from
eight in the morning till six in the evening,
for the accommodation of the public
Year: 1873

QC'XR.-A 4 crutch and cane were found
Slthout claimant on the Canal street
'erry early yesterday morning. and it is
supposed the owner accidentally fell into
tie river. The things were Left At the
pll.ce station in Alslers.
Year: 1873

Too HIGH PRICED.-Vivian's troupe
gave entertainments on Monday and
Tuesday evenings. The first nights en-
tertainment was well patronized - the
second was not. No one found fault with
the performance, but the price of admis-
sion is too high for the times. Men with
families do not feel able to go to an enter
tainment, however good, where it costs a
dollar for each member of the family
above the age of twelve, and half that
sum for those younger. Most of the
travelling troupes raise the price of admis-
sion when they come here and lose mon
ey by doing it.
Year: 1873

JUsTICEs.-Two Justices of the Peace
are to be elected in each township at the
coming Judicial Election. We have thus
far heard no names mentioned in connec-
ton with this office in Weaverville town.
ship. The office of Justice will not pay
any one to accept it unless it can be car
ried on in connection with some other
business, which, we presume, accounts
for the lack of aspirants.
Year: 1873

To LITTLE BoYs.-"Little boys should
be seen and not heard" is an adage that
was often impressed on our youthful
mind. But little boys should not be seen
sitting in the chairs in front when an en-
tertainment is given at the theater those
chairs are placed there for the use of la
dies and their escorts. We saw one lit
tie boy sitting in chair while his mother
took a seat back on the benches. Which
looked very bad on the part of the little
how
Year: 1873

WHooPING CoUGH.-The whooping
cough has been so severe at Douglas City
that the school at that place was closed
during the past week. The children first
attacked by the disease are, We under
stand, getting on very well.
Year: 1873

MOUNTAIN fires were burning on the
peak between Democrat Gulch and Doug
las City. They presented beautiful ap-
pearance at night, while the air by day
was darkened by the cloud of smoke.
Year: 1873

Action brought in


the District Court OF
the Ninth J Judicial


District of the State


Of California, In and
for the said County Of
Trinity, and tho Com
plant filed In said
County of Trinity, In


the Office Of the Clerk
of said District Court.
Year: 1873

QUESTIONS ANSWERED.--A CORES
pondent from the Forks" writes Il,
know how to keep plows from rustinR


Ifthere Is any one subject upon which


we feel perfectly at home 1t B tlK


treatment Of plows. 1t Is a matter to


which we have devoted the best year


Of our lite, and our agricultural friend
has just struck the right source Of iD-
formation. In the fall of the year,
after you have got through fooIins
around with your plow, 1t shoald BE-
crrefully taken apart and the pieces
numbered so that it can be put to-
gether at a moments notice In case Of
fire. The thillsand side-boarls should
be carefully oiled over with cod liver
oil and put away In dry place where
the moths will not trouble them. The
hemmer and tucker should be put In .
secure wooden cask and covered with
strong lye. This win keep the roots
moist and prevents shrinkage. A too
common fault Is to expose to the air,
and thus prevent from coming to ina-
tnrity as rapidly as they otherwise
would. Take the other portion Oh the
plcw, rub thoroughly In good suds.
wiring ont and place upon the line
until entirely dry. Then put up In
till or cut glass cans and place 10
cool, dry cellar, and in the spring they
will be found possessing body, aroma
and sparkle, and free from the slight
est tendency to sour.
Year: 1873

SEVEN thousand Yankee clocks were
recently shipped to Japan, and now
every Daimio In the country that can
raise the stamps, wears one OF these
neat and reliable, but not gaudy, time
pieces strapped on his breast, and
when the clock strikes, he draws n
larger crowd around him than mon
key at q circus.
Year: 1873

As men are unconscious of how much
harm they do, and OF how much unhap-
piness they unwitin " cause, so they
may do great deal more good than
they think they may do great deal.
intending it; but ne man ever works
boldly and strongly and whole-hearted-
Is. but what, think, he does more
without knowing it than he does know
ing it. It is not what you say to your
class, teacher, that measures the infiu-
ence that you are exerting upon them.
If you be faithful, If your heart is in
your work, it is not that of which you
can make statistics in the social circle
that measures your influence there.
Far more influence comes with activity
than is shown by the immediate fruit of
that activity. The shadow of Peter
worked just as much as Peters body
itself worked and genuine men snd
women work both by substance and by
shadow-by purpose and by unconscious
influence. There be many who mourn
the wont of opportunity, and yet en-
deavor to conform to the disposition of
their Master, and to carry themselves
through life wisely and well, who viii
wake up by and by, when they stand in
the presence of the all-revealing eye,
with sweet surprise and. adorning graft
tude, to see how much more, after all.
their life meant than they themselves
thought. In your boyhood, as you viii
very we'll remember, you used to write
with invisible ink and there was moth
ing for the recipient to do but to take
the paper and hold it to the fire, and
straightway out came the message.
There is much writing with invisible ink
in this world There is great deal Of
trumpeting activity. There is also
great deal of activity which does not
report itself to the senses, but which is
powerfully nfiuential-namely, n godly
life patient continuance in well-doing'
attainment in humility, fidelity, truth
standing faithful to the end in the place
where God has put you You cannot
tell what You are doing. No man can
tell it 60 you. You are writing with i'm
visible letters on Thousands of children's
hearts on the hearts of passers-by on
the hearts of friends and neighbors ON
the hearts of those whom you meet in
every circle where you move. There
are a thousand influences radiating from
you in your lifetime which viii bring
forth their seeds abundantly in the
kingdom of Gods glory.-H "
Beecher.
Year: 1873

'I think it must be jolly thing to be
a young widow" !" I heard this remark
the other day, in group Of laughing
girls. 1 think remember saying such
a thing myself in my girlish times. Do
you know, girls, what is to be widow ?
It is to be ten times more open 20 COM
ment and criticism than any demoiselle
could possibly be. 1t is to have men
gaze as you pass, first st your black
dress and then at your widows caps
until your sensitive nerves quiver under
the infiiction. Il is to have one i'll
natured person say, "I wonder how
long she will wait before she marries
again P" and another answer, ''Until
she gets a good chance, I suppose. It
is now and then to meet the glance of
sympathy, generally from the poorest
and humblest woman you meet, and
feel your eyes fill at the token. 50 rare
that It is, alas, unlocked for. It is to
have your dear fashionable friends
console you after the following fashion 4:
''Oh, we'll it is q dreadful loss. We
knew you'd feel it. dear" And in the
next breath, "You will be sure to marry
again, and your widows cap is very
becoming to you"


But it is more than this to be widow.
It is to miss the strong arm you have
leaned upon, the true faith that you
knew could never fail you, though all
the world might forsake you. 1t is to


miss the dear voice that uttered your
name with a tenderness that none other
could give it 1t is to hear no more the
weIl-known footsteps that you flew once
so gladly to meet. To see no more the
face that to your adorning eyes seemed
as the face of the angels of God to feel
no more the twining arms that folded
You so lovingly; the dear eyes that
looking into your own, said plainly,
whatever il might seem to others, yours
was the faircst face earth held for him.
It is to fight with a mighty sorrow as n
man fights with the waves that over
whelm him, and to hold it at arms
length for awhile, only to have-in the
hours of loneliness and weakness-the
torrent roll over you, while-poOr
tor m-driven dove-you see no haven.
Year: 1873

While in Rochester I met Mr.. Heb
bard, an old resident of Genessee coun-
ty, who saw Sam Patch make his famous
Jump off Genessee Falls, thirty or forty
years ago He says that jump day was
a great day in Rochester. The people
gathered for miles around to see this
intermittent American jumper, as he
performed his last feat


Sam Patch had previously jumped
over Niagara. Then, saying "some
things can be done as well as others,
he slashed around like Sergeant. Bates
through the Western part of the State
to back up his proverb. Before his last
jump he bought big black bear of a
curious man, and led him over the turn
pike to Rochester.


The morning of the day came. Sam
had arrived in town with the black bear,
and the crowd rushed into Rochester
from miles around. Twelve o'clock was
the hour to iump-to jump a hundred
feet downtown the terrible fall into
the boiling cauldron below. A staging
had been built out over the water, and
Sam appeared ON the staging dressed in
a sailors fancy jacket. His friends now
took up a collection on shore, while
Sam swung his hat and said, after jump
ing himself, he would return and throw
the bear over. Then, amid death-like
stiffness, he ran few steps and gave
one leap into the air and fell, cutting
the mist, like a lead-sinker, two hun
dred feet into the seething whirlpool.
As he left 5fle staging his body assumed
an oblique position, his head foremost,
but above his feet. As he struck the
water there was a dreadful silence, while
the populace awaited with choking
breath his reappearance. One minute,
two minutes, three minutes, and no
signs of the daring jumper. Then the
people set up loud wail-a long muir
muir of SORROW.


This was the end of Sam Patch.


They say he had been drinking during
the morning, and failed to keep his feet
together and his body perpendicular, as
on previous occasions. So when he
struck the water the breath left his
body, and he was knocked senseless. A
month or so afterward they found his
body away down below Rochester, drift
ed upon the rocks.
Year: 1873

No STORY of heather mythology, says
a writer In AppIeton's Journal, which
tesls of the transformation of human or
celestial beings into plants or trees is
50 beautiful as that one in which the
North American Indians give the erigln
of their maize, which is, in substance,
that beautiful girl, pursued by river
god, took refuge among the reeds, twin
ing them about her to hide herself,
upon which her slender form was chang
ed into graceful stalk, her teeth into
milk white kernels, and her lovely float
ing hair into silk; and in place of reeds
and maiden there stood only tall,
bending stalk OF Indian corn; 50 that
ever after in the rustic of q waving corn
field the red man csuld hear the stirring
Of a compsny Of timid girls.
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested 20 ray mp at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
We are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course. and renew yerr subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


rE We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1873

NOTHING is more amiable than true
modesty, and nothing more contempti-
BILE than that which is false; the one
guards virtue, the other betrSys it. True
modesty is ashamed to do anything that
is repugnant to right reason; false mo-
desty is ashamed to do anything that is
opposite to the humor of those with
whom the party eonverses. True mo-
desty avoids everything that is criminal; +;
false modesty everything that is I'M
fashionable The latter is only a gen
eral, undetermined instinct the for
mer is that instinct limited and sircum-
scribed by the rules of prudence.


The propriety of knowing whom one
marri0s is verified in the case of an aged
couple IN Iowa, who as widow and wid-
over married, and who, il was afterwartl
proved. were brother and sister. sepa-
rated in childhood.
Year: 1873

nrG y. BRIGHAM.
Among The Northern ellis the grea, winds blow.
And up and down the wales Geld drifts the snow
Loud wall the pines, the air is thick with frost
Aud who can ride this night and not be lost
4 summons comes as now the clock tolls ten,
By farmer bred In the line Of Saxon men,
\ bridge Of Ice built white across bis nosc
for the doctor TO haste his pace The bcst he knows,
To a nmlly poor and SICK out on tho hill,
mile from Hayes MIL 'tis four 70 the mill
Dubious the look all up the valley long
Where roars hurryng winds Of the tempest strong
And the awful-oavornod pipes Of hooded peaks


ahrleks.


And airy dome and castle steep loud moan,
And the long aisles shake aud rock the turret. Of


stone.


And list the heavy bass, a volume vast
Aiar on the plain whore marshal the egions fast
Through the icemsts dark stocds Of spectral name
Whose white hoos beat In the fall Of the snowy rain.
And What winds. and what of the driving snow
What the doctor hears is the wall Of human woe
And he rclns his stout-hut mare Of chestnut brown
INTO the roud and scorns his couch OF down
Worth bound he knts his brow to The cutting sleet
A. worries along bis trusty morran's feet
Ever and anon creeps irorn his buffalo
And ifeads before through the drned heaps Of snow
In the town full half the lights ere he LETT were
And nov the siok-bed taper burns dim alone
Perhaps mother watches, and lists TO the storm,
And hopes none are turned tonight from aroslde


warm.
Tie twelve o'clock when up 20 the hovel there
On the rough old hillside bleak In the Northern air,
The doctor reins his frosted aud iaded mare.
While down from his mufed beard the icclcs glare.
fost-hlte here and there hath touched his skin,
For spite his great strong heart his mail was too
But out oi the Jaws Of death he snaichos n child.
Aud at two O'Clock he looks and the skies have smilo
The storm King out Of the North has slackcnod h's


rein,


But the hoofs Of his charging squadrons have tram


pied the plain
The sheeted earth lies fodcd in whitencss and white
The spectral tents far spread n the wasteof night
With morn along the blocked highways turn out
The farmers who with hoisterous laugh and shout
Mine through tho hillocks white, with spade and
And lines Of slcds, and steers, late from the NOV.
An the forenoon are shouts of hurly men
Who worry from the town, till thro' the glen
And DER The weary hill the strong blockade Is raise
And what the village people most amazed
Was, tha, the doctor heading all the farmers stout
Which the hill-ncighhorhoud could rally out.
Appeared In the suu as with blazing shields coming


down


With the great blockade broken nigh half to the


town.
Year: 1873

To resist temptation once is not suf-
iieient proof of honesty. If servant, in
deed, were to resist the continued temptation
Of silver lying in a window, as some people
let it lie, when he is sure his master does
not know how much there is of it, he would
give a strong proof Of honesty. But this is
a proof to which you have no right to put
man. You know, humanely speaking,
there is certain degree of temptation which
will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far
as you approach temptation to man you
do him an injury, and if he is overcome,
you share his guilt.-JoInson.
Year: 1873

Among the early Christian legends a
story is related of colloquy which took
place between a father Of the second cen.
tury and an evil spirit in a Christian, whom
he was seeking in vain to eject. Upon the
fathers inquiry how he had dared to enter
a Christian, the demon replied II went
not to church after him, but he came to the
playhouse after me, and finding him upon
my own ground, i have sought to secure
him for myself" Whatever we make Of
the legend, let us take heed that we do not
lose the precious moral that lies beneath it.


To be amended by little cross, afraid
of a little sin, and affected by little mercy
is good evidence Of grace in the SOUL
Leigh Richmond.
Year: 1873

Asthma in the OH Regions.


The Tilusville Herald says
that asthma is of very rare oc
currence in the oil regions and
that the cause of such exemp
ton is found IN the fact that
the atmosphere there Is strong
ly impregDated with the va
pors of petroleum, which act
almost as a specific for the re
lief of asthma, and at the same
time as a preventive of con-
sumption. 1t adds:


Let any one who Is afflicted
with asthma, and feels par
ticular difficult spell of breath
ing coming on, 60 in the vicln-
ity OF a producing we'll where
petroleum vapor hovers in the
nelghborhood, and he will find
great relief and continued pres
ence in such a neighborhood
will be The best means of per
manent cure. We look forward
to the time when physicians all
over the United States will re-
commend TO their asthmalic
patients a journey to the oil re.
gions, and we hope some suit
able preparation will be made
for their entertainment and di-
version. The prospect of an
lnfrmary for such subjects has
been seriously discussed by
many of our citizens, but has
nov yet taken definite shape.
Year: 1873

A good violin player can bring a
good sound out of almost anything, but
he feels the difference. \ good whip
can drive almost any horse somehow,
and Get along But there are endear-
ing qualities in the fare old violins that
cannot be described. They answer to
your lishtest touch i; they can be rid
den without saddle, and driven with
out bit or bride; they seem to vibrate
in advance, and anticipate your most
delicate shades Of emotion. The coarse
fiddlcs You never can get to understand
you, the medium is too gross you can
thrash the sound out of them, and
others who know not what you want to
get and experience are satisfied; but
you are not. You find in the Cremona
an echo Of the human soul itself.


When Balzac tells us of a man who
had imprisoned the soul Of his mother
in a violin, he was nearer a certain


truth than some Of his readers fancy.
The soul that is imprisoned in your
violin is not your mothers, it is you
own soul, seeking and finding through
the most sensive of all musical instru-
ments an utterance such az the human
voice alone can equal, but not excel


It almost seems that the more genius,
the more time, the more love, the more
absorption, the more experience have
gone to the making Of a violin, the
more it has become assimilated to
the soul of man. We are evermore
taking out Of these noble old violins
the great inexhaustible souls that Strad


iuarius and the Amatis spent their lives
like the earth itself, You can only get
out of it so much of agricultural wealth
as hae been pusintc It'll Il Arz"ss*
Year: 1873

There is no outward sign ofpolite-
ness which has not deep moral reason.
True education teaches both the sign
and the reason. Behavior is mirror
in which every one shows his own i'm
age. There is politeness of the heart
akin to love, from which sprlras the
easiest politeness of outward behavior.
Year: 1873

Marriage is of course, the high
est object of every young woman, but
the chances for this are greater where
there is solid education. It is luxu-
rious habits which especially prevent
marriage among both men and women
A sensible man is not the less Fikcly to
marry woman if he knows she is able
to support herself in time of difficult
ty.-N Y. Times
Year: 1873

Oh earth we can know but in part:
Yet here. our feet nfay take hold on
the shining ways that lead through cter-
nifty. On winters night, moonless
and clear, we look towards the heavens
the great calm--planets, the glitter
ing stars, the calm nebnla. We send
out our imagination towards them and
its wings fail ere the journey is we'll be-
gun. We are lost in the i;nnensity,
yet we are but on the margin What
if we could rightly behold I'll that lies
before us; if we could take into our
sight and thought all those suns and
systems if we could see the various
beauty filing each sphere as full as our
own earth is full Of lovely and majestic
shapes; if we could comprehend the
inner forces that control all, and the
harmony in which every part combines
to form the perfect whole


So in our highest moments we seem
to look into the Divine heart. We gaze
upon u glory Of love that fills our hearts
with adoriny awe Yet then we stand
bat on the outer margin. To see the
whole to fully understand the Divine
nature, transcending the physical uni
verse which outwardly clothes it--as
the human heart transcends the body


what eternity shall be long enough
for that ? -Christtan Union.
Year: 1873

At the last when We die we have
the good angles for our escort on the
way. They who can grasp the whole
world in their hands can surely also
guard our souls, that tLsy make that
last journey safely--L,aher.
Year: 1873

Thanks to the printing press, We
live after the sexton has done with us
has patted our sodded roof with his
affectionate spade and has gone home
to-smoke. Let us tell things how
they are. Without the mundane I'M
mortality of ink our hold upon this
earth is as feeble as fy's upon WIN
dow pane a little fire; or little Wa
ter. or little time can HEX this globe
as clean of human vestige as a poor
mans platter. Most men make their
wills, but wills are ANNALS They
wear out and follow their makers in
shout a year. Dead wills like dead
leaves, make melancholy autumns.-
B. +. Taylor.
Year: 1873

The world is not nrade up to the
eye of figures. that is only half it is
also made Of color How that elenfant
washes the universe with its cnchating
waves. The sculptor had ended HIS
work, and behold new world of dream
like glory. 'Tis the last stroke of na-
ture beyond color she can not go.
In like manner life is urale up, not of
knowledge only but of love also If
thought is form, sentiment is color
1t cloahes the skeleton world with space,
variety, and glow. The hres of sunset
make life great SO the affections make
SOME little web Of cottage aud ireside
populous, important and filing he
main space In our history:-R. w. Eat-
crsoa