smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

"a remark or two on eating or drink
ing in hot weather will be in season.
Green vegetables, properly cooked, are
certainly healthful in warm weather
but it is a mistake to think that meat
should be excluded from summer diet.
The hotter the weather the more the sys-
TEN wastes, and therefore, the more we
must supply.


'1n order to keep the body in a health
ful condition, meat should be eaten at
least once a day in summer time. 1t
would be well to vary this programme
by taking one meal of fish on every
other day. Fat should be disused us
much as possible. A very little good
butter with your fresh radishes at break
fast, is as much fat as necessary.


"When weary, or cold, or warm, or
exhausted, we drink in preference to eat
ing, because we feel the effect instanta-
neously; while after eating the most sub
stantial food, we do not feel the effect for
some time.


When exhausted, and when immedi-
ate relief is necessary, the best drinks
are broth, chocolate, milk, or water
sweetened with sugar. 1t is more than
a mistake TO drink wines or liquor at
such time, it is really committing slow
suicide.


"When only thirsty, without exhaust
ion, we ought to drink cold water with
teaspoon. When thirsty and heated,
the best thing to do is to dip the hands
in cold water, deep enough to cover the
wrists; then dip a towel in the water,
and lay it on the forehead, and then
drink cold water with a teaspoon. A
few drops Of vinegar or lemon juice may
be added to the water. If exceedingly
hot keep your hands in the water and a
towel on your forehead for at least mo-
ment after drinking"
Year: 1873

The Maysville Eagle gives the follow
ing excellent advice to the farmers in
that vicinity Eve repeat our advice to
farmers to sell their wheat at the pre-
vailing market price as soon as they can
get it ready. There may be exceptions,
but as a general rule year after year,
this is the best and safest policy, and
brings more money than to hold it for
higher figures. Especially those farmers
who are in debt cannot afford 10 specu-
late on their own crops. and to hold them
is doing this. Our wheat in Kentucky
is ready sooner than the Northwestern
wheat, aud should be sold before the lat
ter comes into competition with il. Sell
it, gentlemen, and pay your bills to mer-
chants and take up your notes in bank.
Never hold it while you are paying in
terest at the rate Of ten per cent. Sell
and niake money plenty in your own
pockets and in those of your neighbors."
Year: 1873




The surfeiting we all undergo during


this season of fruit brings into action the


family pill-box. 1t is little singular


how much hunting has to be done to find


that box. The party who last needed


its services doesn't know where he left it,
and doesn't care to think of it at all,
while he whose turn now occurs isn't ex-
actly tortured to death by anxiety. We
are not quite sure but that there is a
faint hope down somewhere in his breast
that it may not be found at all. He
feels Jumps forming in his throat as he
peers among the bottles and boxes which
constitute the pharmacy at his house,
and when the box finally appears, and he
feels it in his hand, there is sensation
at the pit of the stomach as If somebody
was trying to turn that organ over with
an old brass candlestick. Some people
swallow a dose of pills without a qualm,
and afterwards go round looking as proud
and overbelring as a boy whose father
plays in a band, but the most Of us are
more delicately constituted, and counting
out dose of pills while some one else
gets the water. and observes that he
doesn't sec how any QUE eau swallow the
awful ihings, is about as serious an uR-
dertakirs as can be found on record.
There is something too awfully solemn
about il TO describe. And it Is a little
singular that while a man can swallow
whole whortleserries. cherry pits, and
even buckshot without any uneasiness at
all, yet single pill will catch in his
throat, at particularly ticklish spot, and
hang there four hours, and make faces at
his stomach. And man in a fix like
that is not exactly the party we would
select 10 concoct notices for festival.
Year: 1873

The negroes took the corpse of Hilery
Dooley, colored, the fIst victim of the
cholera, to the I'otters-feld, where it was
LEFT unburied and unattended all night
Some Of the young gentlemen Of the
town went ont this morning aud buried
It. The negroes are shamefully neglect.
ing their sick.
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, September 1.-THE mem


bers Of the board of trade were startled


and shocked on gathering in their
chamber this morning by the announce


ment that Captain Dennie Chapman,
one OF their members, had committed
suicide in the washing-room Of the
chamber by shooting himself through
the head. It appe~rs that about ten
| O'clock, en- hour before that fixed for
the regular meeting Of the board, Cap
tain Chapman came into the chamber,


and, after chatting pleasantly with one
or two acquaintance among the few
people on the board, went into the
wash-rOOm, and a moment afterward
the report Of pistol was heard. On
entering the room he was found lying
on the floor with revolver in his hand
and a bullet-wound just over his right
eye. He lived about two hours IN an


unconscious state. His friends can give


no reason for the rash act. Though he


was somewhat embarrassed, he showed


no signs of depression of spirit, and his


family relations are s4id to have been of


a most pleasant character. The board


adjourned until twelve o'clock upon the


announcement of the tragic act
Year: 1873

The announcement was made in New
York yesterday morning that the New
York and Oswego Midland railway was
financially embarrassed, and had the ef-
feet to weaken stock In the market.
Year: 1873

Fifty letters were received from forty
eight counties. The general character
of the weather is favorable since last re-
port, most complaints coming from
counties bordering the gulf. We have
much complaint Of damage by the army
and boil worms. But little damage
from rot or rust. Picking is reported
fully three weeks later than last year,
and is not expected to begin generally
before September 18th. With frost at
usual time, the yield will probably be
as great or greater than last season.
Year: 1873

in the hay depot Of the Chicago, Bur
lingtOn and Quincy railroad, corner of
Newbury avenue and the railroad track,
in the west division, and is burning in q
northeast direction, having already
passed diagonally across some four blocks
about mile and a half distant, in a
straight line, from the courthouse, or
the center of the business portion of the
city. The locality where 1t originated is
built up almost entirely with wooden
buildings, mainly dwellings Of the small
Ter class, and the fire must have already
inflicted 3 great amount Of damage up
on the families living in that quarter,
many of whom are of
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, September 1.-THE fire
broke out about three o'clock in the
lumber district near the corner of Sew
enth and Halstead streets, and has been
burning ever since with the greatest
fury, having spread over at this hour q
distance Of nearly mile. The wind is
blowing a gale from the southwest and
carrying burning brands long distance
in advance of the fire. The entire fire
department is on the ground and doing
everything possible to stay the advance
of the flames. There is considerable ex-
citement among the people.
Year: 1873

We have fifty-two letters from forty
counties. All hut three complain Of
excessive rains causing the plant to shed.
The weather in this State is generally
warm and dry, and its effects are
represented as rather favorable. Neith-
er worms nor rot nor rust are complained
of, the only cause OF dissatisfaction be-
ing the shedding of young bolls and
forms, reducing the prospects for a top
crop. Picking has commenced and
will be general about the twentieth in
slant. The yield will be about equal to
last yearl with frost at the usual time.
Year: 1873

There is continued excitement among
all classes of people in the locality Of
the fire, and this with the direction of
wind, present nearly the same condi-
tions as those of the great fire of two
years since, Many people living in the
line of the fire are packing up their
household possessions and moving TO
place Of greater safety, The point where
the fire started is about half a mile, and
nearly due south, from the point where
the great fire Of October 1871 originated.
Year: 1873

Mr. SteadmaD, Of Detroit, went out TO


. farmers house to buy a span Of horses


and found that the farmer was working


with a neighbor mile away. A near


way across the lots to the neiRhbor's


house was shown him, and he was warn.


ed that one Of them contained q very


combative bull. BE prospected this LOT


and saw in It some stumps and logs and a


strip Of bushes, but nothing to prevent a


man from crosSingit He started across,


thinking only Of how he was going to get


that span Of horses for $50 Iess than their


value. When about ten rods from the


bushes he heard q sound Of distant thun.
der and look around to see from which
way the shower was coming. The sub.
sequeDt proceedings are thus detailed by
the Detroit Free Pres:


About thirty rods away he beheld the
old bovine coming for him, head down,
back up and eyes blazing. SteadmRn was
satiShed that he was the man who wanted
to be making the gravel fly, and he went
Tor the bushes. BE thought the bull
would stop and run around the strip, and
was startled when the old fellow dashed
through them on bis trail, uttering deep
"bOom r every instant. Steadman lodged
this way and that, but the old bovine tore
along after him, smashing bushes and
leaping logs, and 1t was getting 10 be a
red hot affair when the man spled the
open end Of large hollow log. Tho bull
was not over forty feet behind, and into
the log went Steadman, finding an orifce
about twelve feet long and large enough
to be roomy. The bovine had seen the
and stopped at the log and rip.
ped of bushel Of bark at the first dash,
Then putting his horns under 1t he
gave It roll, and Steadman spun
around like a dried pea in a
policeman's whistle. The log was
large, but old and tender, and every time
the bull hauled back and jumped for 1t he
covered himself with glory and clouds OF
bark and wood. Sometimes he Whirled
one end, and then he gave the centre q
heave; and then he knocked a foot of the
other end. Steadman swore, shrleked
and pleaded, his eyes full OF bark and his
mouth stopped up, and every act Of his
life passed before him like a vision.
"W.o.o.hi whoopp beloved the bo-
vine as he slammed away at the log, and
every moment Steadman expected 10 SEQ
the roof cave in on him. he was In dc.
spair, when he heard the barking Of dogs
and the shouts Of men, and after a few
minutes the farmers succeeded IN releas.
ing him, but 1t took q good hour to get
the kinks out Of his back and the rotten
wood from his ears and eyes.
Year: 1873

The New York Nation does not think
II is a thing TO make q iuss about that
Iowa farmers are sometimes forced TO
throw their corn worth G5 cents bushel
at New York, into the fire and burn Il.
It says:


"If we are now asked whether VIC mean
to say that there Is nothing In The West.
cru farmers complaint that a third Of
their crop Is consumed in getting II 10
market, we answer that there Is some.
thing 10 It, but apparently not what they
imagine. II we were asked, further,
whether 1t Is not horrible thing that
corn should be used as fuel In Iowa when
80 many millions Of people all over the
world are short Of food, we reply also
that we do not sec anything particularly
horrible aboutit. Distance is one Of the
facts Of nature TO be accepted and dealt
with like other facts Of nature-rstional'
ly. Ifa man chooses 10 go out into the
wilderness without roads, wagons, or any
other means Of reaching market and
plant ten times as much corn as he and
bis family can consume, and then In the
fall begins 10 wall and lament because he
cannot find q purchaser for It, nobody
pays any attention to him"
Year: 1873

BURLINGTON, August 2O-President
Grant and party arrived here early this
morning from the White Mountains and
was received BY o committe OF citizens
with Mayor Dodge at the head. Alter
breakfast OF the AVN hotel the President
visited various points Of interest, and sub.
sequently received people in the parlor at
the hotel. At half past ten the President
and party were escorted to the railroad
depot by the first regiment Of the Yer
mont National Guard, and while the nat
ional salute was firing departed for Lake
George.
Year: 1873




bUY Hay KNIFE.-A correspon.
Gent ne OF the Ohio farmer writes -
mere are reasons why every tanner


nou.a nave a good hay knife, and
ss; use u too If farmers have large
oodies OF hay to fed, either in the
oarn, or stacks, by cutting, a much
less surface Is exposed to the action
Of cold wind storm causing it to lose
much of its natural richness and
nutritious qualities, than if fed from
the surface ofthe whole mass daily.
Experience has taught me that a
NOW of hay containing fifteen tons of
nay bed to fifteen or twenty head Of
cattle, II cut into three or four equal
parts, will go as far and furnish as
much nutrltlve matter as sixteen
tons not cut at all-which this year
wouid pay $l5 for cutting. Again,
there is more or less hay at the bot
tom OF every NOW, or stack, some.
what damaged. By cutting but a
small quantity of this damaged hay
mas TO De ted al any one time brine
this, and cattle will eat one or two
feeds with equal relish to that of bet
ter quality.
Year: 1873

By MRS. HELEN GRANT.


When the baby died,


On every side
White lilies and blue violets were strewn;
Unreasoning the mothers heart made moan;
Who counted all these flowers that have grown


Unnindered in the blooms


Was there not room,
O. Earth o, God, couldst thou not care
For mine q little longer? Fair
Thy way, o, Earth All life, all death
To me ceased with my baby's breath;
All Heaven forget or doubt,


Within; without,
Is idle chance, more pitiless than lawl"
And that was all the mother saw.


When the baby died,


On every side
Were strangers voices, hard and harsh and loud;
The baby wa not wrapped in any shroud,
The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed


That mems eyes might not see


Her misery;
But in her bitter heart she said,
All me tits well that he is dead,
My boy for whom there was no food.
If there were God, and God were good,
ALI human hearts at least might keep


The right to weep
Their dead There is no God, hut cruel law"
ARd that was all the mother saw.
Year: 1873

the DemOcratlc party reviews IL.


When the Union army met the rebel
hosts at Gettysburg they did not ask
for declaration of their Intentions
Their previous history and declara-
ton, their banners and uniforms,
showed What they meant. And so
when we meet the Democratic party
in battle array, with their ancient BAN
ners flying, we know what is meant
without asking any questions. Their
present declarations or equivocationS
are wholly unimportant.


DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.


The maintenance of the Democratic
party means devotion to its principles,
its record, and IT'S traditions, and its
traditions, and its friends will not dare
say that it means anything else. The
men who control the Democratic party
throughout the United States to-day
were educated in the belief that the
Government is a compact or alliance
between sovereign and independent
States; that slavery was the normal
condition of the colored race; that the
Government had no constitutional
power to prevent the secession of the
Southern States or to suppress the re-
bellion.


In their hearts they mourn the abo-
lition of slavery; they do not believe in
the natural rights or capacity of the
colored race; they abhor the 18th, 14th
and 18th Amendments as eXcrescences
upon the Constitution. 1t is because
of this education and this belief that
they love the Democratic party, for it
means to them all these things. Nor
do question their sincerity and devo-
tion to the record and principles of the
Democratic party; and it is precisely
because of that sincerity and devotion
that the party is dangerous tc the fu-
ture peace of the nation. These men
look upon the changes and events of
the last ten years as the old party in
Japan look upon Christianity and the
civilization of Western Europe. They
want none of it.


These opinions crop out constantly
in their speeches, State papers, conven-
tions, and newspapers.


DIPLOMATIC GOVERNOR.


Governor Hendricks, of Indiana,
one of the representative men Of the
Democratic party, in his inaugural ad
dress last winter, at the end of a pass
/ age in which he complains OF Federal
aggressions upon State sovereignty,
said:


MY conduct upon all questions that
touch the relations between the State,
and the United States shall be govern
ed by an earnest desire to preserve the
legitimate authority of both, and to
maintain the most sincere harmony.


by the prompt and full discharge
of every duty and the exercise CT fra
ternal comfy l will labor to promote a
cordial and enduring friendship be-
| tween Indiana and other States"


The purpose here expressed is patri-
otic, but when the Governor of State
talks about maintaining friendly rela-
tions with the Government of the
United States and exercising fraternal
comfy to the other States, he is clearly
laboring under the impression that he
is the Chief Magistrate of sovereign
and independent State, the member of
a compact, and that the relations of the
State 10 the Government and to the
other States are of delicate and dip
lomatic character, which must be care
fully guarded to prevent collision-all
of which is the derry spirit of the Reso-
lutions of '9S.
Year: 1873

supplemented by ms habits Of noessant exercise IN col
ege and incessant work in the gymnasium and on the
river since the crews commenced 20 train.


There remains to be described another man most TO
markable IN respects Of all This is the stroke, hr
Paul lie Will certainly remind casual observer OF
Abraham Lincoln in his appearance and in the char
acter of his build and strength. He is OF six feet
two inches and lank as a greyhound but he has deep
chest and broad back His muscles small but they
are hard ana tough. They small for a OF his
size and power II he, we're furnished with the usual
Kind OF muscle he would not fail below 100 pounds
weight and It with this singular eloseness Of Der,
he weighs 1888 pounds aud VIII at 40 pounds AZ the
very lowest The starting of his broad
back the long reach OF his muscular give the
impression az seen from behind OF almost unlimited
power. Mr. Paul a senior of p years. one OF the most
respected In College and the best mathematician
in ms class Mr. Rider is the appropriate first sub
sttute Of this standing feet inches hs
stockings and rejoicing in the possession of l5ineh
biceps muscle.


DARTNoUTH's PROSPECTS,.


II the Agricultural theory that the secret OF rowing
is 70 pull be correct there would seem very little
question who will be the winners OF the July regatta
But hard pulling Is not quite all that necessary The
not always 70 the strong. Skill is necessary. and
light often beat heavy 1t be distinctly
understood however notwithstanding all this, that the
Dartmouth crew s unworthy adversary for the best
that Will enter the regatta They sat in their boat
second rate and light shell-as they came down the
river this morning. and pulled altogether better than
the crews chat have seen, except the Amherst and
Agricultural crews. one single Mr. Gates dropped
his hands a little too low on the recover With
tnat exception II good After the row, the
crew stripped and took a swim, throwing each other
from The raft. diving for their aud gam0ong ike
young giants play. Who is that short fellow :"
asked as three Of them came down the quiet path from
the boat-house for plunge. That short fellow said
a gentleman next me, "is Just feet a half inch
hign" He was between Paul and Gates, and look cd
quite diminutive


The Dartmouth boys are now rowing three times
day and leave immediately for Springfield 10 commence
active training They have been under trainers care
since last September. Their practice in gymnasium mas
been systematic than that Of any other crew
far known, and they have commenced earlier with
their trainer They VIII have new and fine boat by
Elliott, OF an approved pattern. And they have ten
splendid Northern and mountain-o0untTy men ready
trained 20 pick oarsmen from In case Of accident.
What their position in the Will be one can tel
But with such crews these stout counymen OF Dart
mouth. Amherst BOwdOin and Williams pitted against
the flower OF our city and town youth from Yale Harvard
MiddetOwn. Trinity and Columbia. we certainly may
expect magnificent struggle fOf the palm OF superiority
Year: 1873




Down 10 this time, so tar from failing or being
bled, the interest aud feeling IN Centennial
have been moR greater than 70 De expected. The
preliminary obstacles, such insepaFaba 70 all
such enterprises surmounted. We can now begin
our work with Will. We have referred 20 the lesson
may be well fOr us 20 learn AZ Vienna. There duty
too 90 be performed. In order utilize what Is now
doing abroad. Is clearly our Interest may
De put the Centennial OF 1876 at before the world
az a matter in winch the whole industrial world is con
cerued. It iu this view look forward with special
interest at what is 20 De done here on the com
anniversary Of Iudependence-only a fort
nisht Distant II must have national air.
We observe that the President OF The United
states win attend and though with his known nature,
NOT 10 be changed, we Imagine, hardly expect
him 10 say much or anything feel and the outside
world will feel, The value aud Importance or his pres
euce A few earnest. .emrhrttc words from his lips
would nave a wonderful effect But his presence viii
suffice rue city OF Philadelphia formally transfers 70
naional qs.oeiati0n the ground Which this great
memorial monument 80 Oe built, aud tie Chief Mags-
trate of the nation the voluntary witness the deed
T-he next step will Of course and naturally be the
proclaation which the act OF Congress contepiates
OF u and the certain elect We shau hereafter nave an
ealuest word 10 say.
Year: 1873

r The few lines received Oh the death of


several individuals, in the past week, are re-
spectfully declined. We don't like this kind
of poetry. We receive great deal of it, but
We don't seem to harden under it. Now, if
the authors of these affecting stanzas would
only try to control their feelings and not give
way to the bitterness of their grief, it would
be much better for them and those depending
upon them. They would find the world to-
be brighter; they would grow purer and
nobler themselves, and might in time, and
we don't think itistoo much to expect might
learn to spell. .4oiJssap tGf1 34. =
Year: 1873

discovered many years ago, that wood
could be made to last longer than iron in the
ground, but thought the process so simple
and inexpensive that it was not worth while
making any stir about it. I would as soon
have poplar, Eastwood or quakingasp as any
other kinds of timber for fence posts. I
have taken out Eastwood posts after having
been set seven years, that were as sound
when taken up as when they were first put in
the ground. Time and weather seemed to
have no effect on them. The posts can
be prepared for less than two cents apiece.


For the benefit of others, will give the
recipe: "Take boiled linseed oil and stir it
IN pulverized charcoal to the consistency of
paint. Put coat of this over the timber,
and there is not a man that will live to see it
rotten. Cor. Western Rural s., 4.g 7D
Year: 1873

UNCLE SAM has bees enough to give US all
a sting! There are two million bee hives in
the United States. Every hive yields on an
average little over twenty-five pounds of
honey. Y The average price at which honey
is sold is twenty-five cents pound. So that,
after paying for their own board, our bees
present us with revenue of over So, 800, 900.