smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

labor, and see that the merchant gives
us the worth Of our money, then We can
get along without those postal cards.
All men Me not in the hands Of the
merchants those who are out Of debt
can get their goods at reasonable prices.
But let me say to you who are out Of
debt, the hand of misfortune may yet be
laid on you, then you will cry out the
answer will be did you help your brother
in his time Of trouble ? If you do not
help how can you expect to get help ?'


Now we poor men do not ask you for
money, but help us by your influence to
get paid reasonable prices for our labor.


You may talk and read Of slaves but I
tell you-for I know by experience
there is no slave so loaded as the poor
debtor. Merchants and bankers burst
up worth from thirty to forty thousand
dollars, then set some of their clerks to
start store or bank in their name, then
go for the poor farmer the best they can,
the one poor but honest, the other rich
but rascal and still respected. Il L.
s,..,.aY our. obedient servant -.


POTATO BUG.
Year: 1873

vinced that the existence and perpetua-
ton OF a republican form Of government
depends npon9 9.thesgeneral intelligence
and morality Of the people.


6. It proposes to fight the hydra
headed monster MONOPOLY in what
ever shape, or form. or place it may be
found. No class privileges, no class
legislation. but equality before the law
in all respects is its motto


I. Finally, it proposes to-: work
faithfully and work increasingly for the
advancement and up-building of the or
der of the Patrons Of Husbandry, to use
every means at it's command to increase
the interest and zeal of every individu-.
al member, to furnish them with all the
latest news pertaining to the order
throughout the country, to give them
all the latest and best agricultural news,
to post them concerning every humbug
that we can discover in the land, to fur
nish them with new songs and music
appropriate for regular meetings, and in
short to be the livest. most energetic
and splciest agricultural paper publish!
Year: 1873

Everybody knows that tadpoles be-
come frogs nobody knows what be-
comes OF frogs. Sovlong as the creature
remains q tadpole we understand It {;
when It becomes frog 1t leaps beyond
our ken. How great a thing, then. 1t
would be for human knowledge II the
tadpole could be cherished and the
frog delayed-the known encouraged
and the unknown put away! Upon
this noble effort an industrious nat
uralist il at work. His theory Is that
the tadpole cannot change to frog
without going ashore and hopping
about. and so shaking of that part of
his frame which would be very in
convenient to the frog. and, indeed.
with which he would not be q frog.
TO demonstrate this theory, the pro-
fessor has tank with steep sides, and
In it he has number Of tadpoles,
which have already been compelled to
remain tadpoles for several years for
lack Of a landing. From day to day
he watches his charge, and still they
are themselves. Apparently the de-
monstration Is complete, and so long
as they live or he lives, they will be
tadpoles. II they never become frogs.
then our knowledge OF tadpoles will
not be quite what It was before, but
the uncomprehending frog will be dis
posed Of. Meanwhile these victims Of
the professor will wriggle along from
week to week. and he himself Ia tri


umphant. II he does not "hold the
eel Of science by the tail' he certain.
ly has somewhat such grip upon the
unlucky tadpole, aud it Is in the cause
Of science. Courdat.
Year: 1873

CHICAGO wants to have the next
worlds fair held there. ''In the.first
place." says the Boston Post, lit Is
not certain that the next world will
have fair. and in the second place
those who'd be likely to attend it will
prefer a more pious town In which to
celebrate"
Year: 1873

AS public career is race, love and
wife ale a great part of the training, the
encounter and the prize. Many q bril-


liant man, like Sammy Cox, marries a
lady of thoughtful encouragement, who
willingly surrenders her fortune to 'give
him career, and then submits to the
loss of much of his society and to the
acquaintance of many people of no con-
geniality, for the same purpose. Again
there are wom9n like Mrs, Sprague, who
seem created on purpose to diminish
their husbands, not by an unhappy ems
ulation, or by greatly superior attain
ments, which by that bouyancy of ad-
dress and spirits which in social cap


ital make their impressions SO easily,


while the more absorbed husband pass
es at half his worth, and the bright wife
at double her talent. Other women like
Mrs. Garfield, are too good, motheIly
and unconscious of self and social ar
roganca to change one hairs breadth
from the path Of domestic duty. and so
are lost to the giddy procession, which
viii never relax its hold upon scrvitor
but preys upon each new arrival for a
Winter, and plucks hsra as Winter pIucks
the sea fowl Some women drive their
husbands up to the breach of ashamed
ness, like q certain Cabinet officers
wife, of whom it is currently said ''She
is very prominent candidate for tbs
Chief Justiceship." Others die young
and fond, like Mrs. Belknap, who spent
some of her latest hours of pain and
consciaus dying telling her husband
what articles in his lodgings belonged
to him, and urging h1m to remember,
for the sake of that dear comfort she
wished to give him when he should be
lonely in his widower home WASH
ington Letter to the New York Graphic.
Year: 1873

An enthusiastic angler writes that
some of the hot springs of the Yellow


tone region are situated SO near to the
margin of the Yellowstone lake, that a
person might stand ON the rim of the
spring, extend his fishing-rod into the
the lake, catch trout weighing from one
to two pounds, and cook them in the
boiling springs without removing the
fish from the hook.
Year: 1873

rTOn inc OHdIJdnoOsd INES.


The true theory of taxation is to obtain
the greatest amount of revenue with the
least expense and the greatest certainty of
collection. The clause in the Constitution
Of Tennessee providing that taxation shall
be uniform on all species of property is an
dd cGptdnduma pOpldlm humbug. Taxa
ton can never be Uniform On real and per-
sonal property because personal property
will always get cut of the reach of the as
SCISSOR and collector, while the real as,.ate
being fixed has TO pay for all. j. would be
much simpler, more honest and decidedly
better policy TO levy nc taxes upon any
thing but l&HI. The buildings and i'm
proVements should not be taxed, for thav
are perishable. Let the land pay tue tax,
and then the land owner, if a farmer, will
add his tax 10 the price of his products, in
stead of having it deducted at the sale
as it Is now, through the taxation on
merchants aud money. If the real
estate is in cities, the merchant paws his tax
once for all in his rent, knows exactly what
hs has to pay, and is at no further trouble.
Money being free will not hide itself as it
now does from oppressive taxation. but will
be employed in commerce and manufae-
1uIOo' IAOACOFOI SuSu q system VI laAaClOu
will raise The standard of mercantile honor
by doing away With the temptstion to equiv.
cation aud even perjury that besets every
merchant under the present inquisitoriaI
Law, which compels him TO disclose the
secrets of his business as basis for taxa
ton. Let the law tax nothing that can get
out ofsight, that is to say nothing but land.
Let tax titles be made perfect. Let money,
commerce, manufactures and mining be as
free as farming, aud Tennessee will out
strip every old togy State in the Union
which does not adopt a similar policy. Gi
Year: 1873

Cincinnati is building huge sausage for
the!Vienna exhibition, that will require the
Great Eastern TO tow it across the ocean,
after it has been foated down the Ohio and
Mississippi to the Gulf. 1t was made in
sections in a railroad tunnel, the hogs be-
ing drove in by the hundred, and then sub
jected to hydraulic pressure. Each liak
will be provided with captain and crew,
aud if the action of salt water during its
passage should spoil its flavor, is will be en-
tered under the name of Ohio tapeworm or
sea serpent, as the exhibitors may decide.
Year: 1873

Girls are the most unaccountablest things
in the world-except woman. Like the
wicked flea, when you have them they amt
there. can cipher clean over the improp-
er fractions, and the teacher says L do it
first-rate; but can't cipher out girl, prop
er or improper, and you can't either. The
only rule in Arithmetic that hits their case
is The double rule of two. They are as full
of old Nick as their skin can hold, and
they would die if they couldn't torment
somebody. When they try to be mean
they are as mean as pusley, though they
amt as they let on, except sometimes, and
they are good deal meaner. The only
way to get along with a girl when she comes
to you with her nonsenses, is to give her
tit for tat, and that will fummux her, and
when you get girl fummuxed she is as
nice as new pin. A girl can SOW more
wild oats in a day than boy can SOW in
q year, but girls get their wild oats sowed
after while, which boys never do, and
then they settle down as calm and placid as
mud-puddle. But like girls first rate,
and guess the boys all do. | don't care
how many tricks hey play on me-and
they don't care either. The hoitYtoityest
girls in the world can always boil over like
glass of soda. By aud by they will get
into the traces with somebody they like,
and pull as steady as an old stage horse.
wave, l say; they viii pay for it some day,
sewing on buttons and trying to make a
decent man of the fellow they have
spliced on to, and ten chances to one if they
don't get the worst of it.
Year: 1873

CHILD BURNED TO A cRIsP-A TERRIBLE WARN


ING TO CARELESS MOTHERS.


In tenement house in an obscure court, in
the rear of No, 1872 st. John street Philadelphia
resides German mechanic named Joseph So
kele, aud his family, consisting of wife and
two small children. Yesterday, at noon the
mother left the house to go to market, leaving
the two children, an interesting little girl 81
years DID, and baby boy, alone.


In the room was large cook stove, in which
fire was burning brightly, and the mother neg
lected to close the doors in front. When she
returned an hour and half after, a horrible
spectacle confronted her. About three yards
from the stove. upon the floor, laid simmering
the charred remains of the little girl with every
shred of clothing burned from the body and the
flesh all burned from the lower limbs. The bo-
dy was blackened and dsdgured and life had
fed


In corner of the room the other youngster
was found, gazing intently upon the lifeless body
of his sister, and he was striving to get as far
ont OF the reach of it as possible Upon the
stone hearth was discovered pieces of charred
brown paper.


1t is supposed that the child had been playing
with the fire, and the clothing caught from a
piece Of lighted paper. Underneath where il
lay the fire burned large hole in the floor.
The neighbors heard no noise during the abb
sence of the mother, and it is believed that the
child did not utter cry while being consumed
Year: 1873

For the relief of mothers suffering from sore or
cracked nipples. Worn on the nipples these
shields are found soothing and healing, They keep
the nipples soft and moist and prevent the cloth nI
from chahng the innamed surface. Prepared and
sold wholesale and retail by


E BRINGHURST b CO.,


Wholesale and Retail Druggtstg


Corner Sixth and Market streets.
Year: 1873

Through the kindness of the superin-
tendent, Mr.. Weldon, Twas permitted
to witness the mode of transmitting aud
receiving messages through the cable,
and initiated into the secret. An opera
tor sits at a table IN a room very slight
ly darkened by curtains. On his left
hand stands little instrument named
the g rejecting galvanometer, the in
vention of Sir William Thompson,
without which Atlantic telegraphy
would be a slow process, not exceeding
two or three words per minute, instead
of eighteen or twenty, the present rate.
This delicate instrument consists of a
tiny magnet and small mirror swing
ing on silk thread, the two together
weighing but few grains. The electric
current, passing along the cable from
Valencia, defects the magnet to and fro.
The mirror reflects a spot of-light on TO
q scale in a box placed on the operators
right hand, where, by its oscillations,
the spot of light indicates the slight
movements of the magnet, which are
too small to be directly seen The hit
tie swinging magnet follows every
change in the received current and
every change, great or small, produces
a corresponding oscillation of the spot
OF light on the scale. A code of sig
nails is arranged by which the move
ments of the spot of light are made to
indicate the letters of the alphabet.
When receiving a message from Valen-
cia, the operator watches the movement
of the little light speck which keeps
dancing about over the scale on his
right. To his practiced eye each move
ment of the spot of light represents a
letter of the alphabet, and its seeming
" fantastic motions are spelling out the
intelligence which the pulsing of the
electric current are transmitting be-,
tween the two hemispheres. 1t is truly
marvellous to note how rapidly the ex-
perienced operator disentangles these
irregular oscillations of the little speck
of light into the letters and words
which they represent.
Year: 1873

Hilo is one of the very few places on
these islands where you can see a truly
royal sport-the surf f-board. It requires
a rough day and heavy surf, but with
a good day it is one of the finest sights
in the world.


The surf-board is a tough plank about
two feet wide and from six to twenty
feet long, usually made of the bread
fruit tree. Armed with these, a party
of tall, muscular natives swim out to
the first line of breakers, and, watching
their chance to duck under this, make
their way finally, by the help of the
under-tow, into the smooth water far
off beyond ali the surf Here they bob
up and down on the swell like so many
ducks, watching their opportunity.
What they seek is a very high swell,
before which they place themselves, ly-
ing or kneeling on the surf-board. The
rgeat wave dashes onward, but as It's
bottom strikes the ground, the top, un-
retarded in its speed and force, breaks
| into huge comber, and directly before
this the surf-board swimmer is propelled
with a speed which we timed and found
to exceed forty miles per hour. In fact,
he goes like lightning, always just
ahead of the breaker, and apparently
down hill, propelled by the vehement
/ impulse of the roaring wave behind
him, yet seeming to have a speed and
motion of his own.


It is very surprising sight to see
three or four men thus dashed for near
/ " a mile toward the shore at the speed
/ of an express train, every moment about
/ to be overwhelmed by n roaring breaker
/ whose white crest was reared high above
and Just behind them, but always es
| Gaping this engulfment, and propelled
/ before it. They look, kneeling or ly
ing ON their long surf-boards, more like
some curious and swift-swimming fish
like dolphins racing IS it seemed ~tc
/ me, than like men Once in q while
/ by some mischance the cause of whici
I could not understand, the swimmeI
was overwhelmed; the great combeI
overlook him; he was flung over and
over like piece Of wreck, bat instantly
dived, and re-appeared beyond and out
side of the wave, ready 10 take advan
tage of the next. A successful sho
launched them quite high and dry ol
the beach far beyond where we stood L
watch Occasionally a man woui'
f.S.,.a a,-s.s -,,,..,. HE IN = 1,rurH fsafau
cling himself in the boiling water with
out apparent difficulty.


The surf-board play is one Of the an
cient sports Of Hawaii. i am told tha
few of the younger generation are ca
pable of It, and that IT II thought TO Re


quire great nerve and coolneas eve


among these admirable swimmers, an


TO be not without danger. Hei51Der


Magazine.
Year: 1873

PEOPLE have generally three epOchs
in their confidence in man. In the first
they believe him to be everything that
is good, and they are lavish with their
friendship and confidence. In the next
they have had experience, which has
-smitten down that confidence, and they
then have to he careful not TO mistrust
every one, and to put the worst con-
struction upon everything. Laterinlife,
they learn that the greater number OF
men have much more Of good in them
than bad, and that even when there is
cause to blame, there is more reason to
pity than to condemn and then g
spirit of confidence again awakens
within them.-Afiss Bremer.
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
scriptiOr is out or unpaid, and that
You are requested to pay 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 toa strict cash
rule. We hope you VII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such q
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


g We enter. no new names on our
hooks without tbe money IN adv1s'ce-
Year: 1873

move any portion of his body save his
right arm, With this he raised his
knife aloft, and as McClnskey craWled
up to within reach dealt him a terrible
blow in the neck, cutting muscles and
tendons and veins, and half severing
the head from the body.


A& THR LAST EXPORT. "a ~


But the effort was too much for him.
and leaving the weapon sticking in the
wound, he pitched heavily forward on
,his face, Every one supposed that this
blow would have Instantly killed Me
Cluskey, but, strange to say, It did not,
for 50 great was his vitality that before
falling he twice plunged his own knife
into the body of Anderson. The tale is
soon told. McCluskey lived a minute
longer than his antagonist The dead
bodies firmly locked in each others
embrace, were taken to the house Of
Harding and laid out side by side on
the gaming table. "A crimson trail
marked the path of those who carried
them indoors, and pools of block indi-
Gated the scene of the late conflict.


There was no gaming that night
the hunters and Indians appeared to
find excitement enough in talking over
the events of the day without having to
resort to their usual pastime. About
IL o'clock the moon rose, and the bod
les were taken out for burial. There
were no funeral ceremonies, but Job
Harding remarked as the muff1ed forms
were lowered into the grave, "There
go two as brave men as ever lived. "
They were buried deep to keep the
wolves and coyotes from digging them
up, and the earth was heaped up in a
little mound to mark where they slept.
Year: 1873

When you are carrying several arti-
cles and one of them slips, it is best
not to try to recover it. An Essex
street man named Roberts was helping
his wife prepare the dinner table on
Sunday, as one of the deacons was to
of steak in one hand and the coffee-pot
in the other, and had a dish of peas on
the arm with the steak. The wind
blew the dining-room door partly to as
he approached 1t, and putting out his
foot to push it back, the arm with the
peas moved out of plumb, and the dish
commenced to slide. A cold streak
few up Roberts spine, and his hair be-
gan to raise, and he felt a sudden sick
ness at the stomach, but he lodged
ahead to save the peas, partly caught
them, made wrong move, lost them
again, jabbed at them with the coffee
pot, upset the steak dish, and in spring
ing back to avoid the gravy stepped on
the cat that belonged to the family
down stairs, and came to the floor in n
heap, with the steak and peas and n
terribly mad cat under him, and an
overhowing pot of scalding coffee on top
Of him. Then he bounded up, and
stamped on the steak dish, and picked
up the other dish and threw it out Of
the window, and finished that perform
anee in time to hurl the eoffee-pot and
the remaining contents after the eat,
which was making the very best time
down the front stairway. The deacon
didn't stay to dinner. Roberts retired
to the bedroom with bottle of sweet
oil and a roll of cotton batting, and
Mrs. Roberts went over to Ter moth
er's 70 cry.-Da''b'''y Neses.


Nj. CoL1S says that after experiment
ing upon some thirty animals, he has
determined very clearly that the idea
that l1ltthisis pal,pe'salis can be trans
Initted through using the flesh of ami
mails affected with tubercular diseases
Is erroneous. Such maladies are never
inoealable through the digestive or
gans,- and hence the employment Of the
meat of phthisie animals does not offer
the danger generally supposed.


THE real wants Of nature are the mea-
sure of enjoyments, as the foot is the
measure of the shoe. We can call only
the want Of what Is necessary. poverty.
/ ST. Clement


TIE year Of jubilee Tor frogs-LeaE
year.
Year: 1873

THE points of drills, etc, used by
watchmakers to use upon ordinary steel
are tempered by heating them 70 3
white heat and inserting them into hard
ceiling-wax, allowing them to remain
but a second, and then pushing them
into another part Of the wax and again
quickly Withdrawing, to repeat the OPP
Grafton in a fresh spot until they are too
cool 70 penetrate the wax The tool is
TO be moistened with turDentine when
used
Year: 1873

BY the terms agreed upon between
Richards and Harding the antagonists
were to fight with revOlvers and bowie
knives, to be placed back to back at an
interval of twentypaces, to wheel and fire
at given signal, and after the first inter
change of shots to conduct the fight as
each one should deem it best to his ad-
vantage. The spot selected for the en-
counter was in the open prairie. The
grass had been closely cropped by the
cattle, leaving the turf firm, yet elastic,
and Just the thing for rough and tum-
BILE business. The men met long after
sunset in the presence of a crowd of
hunters, trappers, railroad surveyors,
gamblers and Indians. The combatants
were duly placed, and the crowd
awaited with breathless interest the
result.


The giving of the signal had fallen by
lot to Harding. Stating to the princi-
pals, who by this time had began to
show signs of impatience, that this
would be the report cf pistol, he drew
his own weapon and discharged it, fist
skiing the question and receiving the
usual answer that both were ready.
Year: 1873

McCluskey was the first to fire, wheel
ing as he did so, though the smoke had
scarcely curled mp from his pistol be-
fore the report of Anderson's weapon
followed. A mOmentary pause ensued,
each of the antagonists closely scanning
the other to note the effect of the shot.
Across Andersons cheek deep furrow,
from which the blood slowly began to
tricl1le down, told the work of his antago-
mist, while McClusl1ey remained standing
in his original posture, to all appear
anccs unharmed. But this was not the
face. Those nearest to him fancied
they saw sudden spasm, as of pain,
pass through ms frame, and his face
certainly blanehed to a death-like pal-
loP, but Just where the ball had taken
effect they could not tell. At the Sc
cond fire McCluskey again anticipated his
opponent, and taking a more deliber-
ate aim succeeded in breaking his left
arm. Anderson uttered a sharp cry
and sank on one knee, but quickly re-
covering himself returned the fire, and
this time with horrible effect. The ball
passing through McCluskey's mouth
carried away with it several of the
clenched teeth and portion of the
tongue, finally lodging in the base of the
skull. McCluskey staggered forward
wildly few steps, and made desperate
efforts to steady himself. The blood
poured in torrents from the wound,
and stained his hunting shirt and drip
ped from the muzzle of his pistol; but
with heroic courage he continued to adj
vance, splitting out mouthfuls of blood
and teeth at every step.