smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

could be expected. The Oranges
are now taking hold of business in
more thoughtful manner than ever.


All this seems healthy, and full of
promise for the country. The dan
ger from political and commercial
tricksters is evident enough, but the
order is admirabley adapted for the
repelling of maranders. and it is to
be hoped that the Patrons will be
able to correct mistakes as fast as
they become generally apparent.
Year: 1875

In the fury of the numberless disquisi-
tions on imitation and contraction created
by the canvass in Ohio and Pennsylvania,
people are in some danger of forgetting
the true issue before the country. This
issue is the arraignment of the present ad-
minlstration for unexampled proAigacy in
every department of public affairs; for the
exercise OF despotic powers over the
southern states; for the extraordinary
public frauds and crimes in the District of
Columbia; for the foolish and demagogie
treatment Of the currency question by the
last congress; for the attempt to foist Gen
eral Grant upon the country for third
term; for the scandalous prostitution of
the appointing power, and for the defense
and support of the most CONSPICUOUS public
knaves by the president himself.
Year: 1875

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE, IT WILL NOT
l Rust or crack and costs only a trihe more than
common iron pipe. Is positively TIRE BEST thing
for water service pipe have the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS.


Store in Star Block,
Year: 1875

S The intellectual and fashionable
young men of New York are generally
wearing "the shirt-pin squirt" This
beautiful work of art costs about 25
cents. 1t consists of hollow breast
pin connected by rubber-tube with a
small globe filled with water and con-
cealed in the pocket Of the wearer. The
pin is generally in some grotesque
shape. When the attention of any one
is attracted to it, and he leans over it to
examine it more closely-whizzl fzz! q
small stream of water proceeds from
the staring eyes or gaping mouth Of the
pin head straight into the face OF the
inquisitive person. Itisa noble amuse-
ment.
Year: 1875

In 1865 I had field of ten acres


that had been moved some ten years


in succession without a particle oil


dressing put upon it; the grass had


completely died out, and nothing was


to be seen but white weed and yellow


weed, or butter-cup and OK eyed daisy.
The soil was clayey loan canting a
little to the south and west, was in the
smoothest possible condition, without
stump or stone, or bordering upon
stream of water. In the spring of
the same year l put on this field of
ten acres f)rty one year old sheep
without lambs. These sheep kept
everything down as smooth as a barn
floor. The next year put on the
same number and kept them on until
time to come to the barn. They were
not taken from the field at any time
during the season. neither did they
have any grain of auy kind, but were
in splendid condition. They were
grade Merinos.


In the spring of 1867 | noticed
that the field looked green the last
of April and the first of May, SO much
so that I was induced to keep off from
it and let it come up to grass for the
scythe. The field in the meantime had
been sowed over with light dressing
of plaster, about one bushel to the acre,
and small quantity of grass seed,
timothy and red top. Nothing else
has been done to the field in any shape
up to the present time.


ow for the result The first year
after taking the sheep off I had the
greatest yield Of grass that ] ever had
from any of my fields under other treat
ment, and of the best quality, a mix
ture Of timothy, red top. white clover
and some grass that l cannot name
Hardly head of white weed was seen
on the field.


But what is the most remarkable to
me and my neighbors is, that the field
has continued to produce bountifully up
to the present time, which is eight
years since the sheep were taken of !;
and to-day august q the field is tent
ed thick with bunches of the very best
bay, averaging over one ton to the
acre. have since sold the field to
one of my friends, and asked him yes
terday if ho expected to get another
prop from the field without dressing
again. His reply was, ''Yes. l expect
10 get several more yet"
Year: 1875

II there is anything that will bring
tears to the eyes ofan Indian tobacco
sigh is to witness young lady under
going the trying ordeal Of endeavoring
to bring fallen clothesline, full OF
clothes, to realization of its solemn
duty. 1t55I.
Year: 1875

Two persons were once disputing SO
loudly on the subject Of religion, that
they awoke big dog which bad been
sleeping on the hearth before them, and
be forthwith barked most furiously. An
old divine present, who had been quiet
ly sipping his tea while the disputants
we're talking, gave the dog kick, and
exclaimed, Hold your tongue, you
silly brute! You know no more about
it than they do"
Year: 1875

SoME people are too trusting for this
world At recent trial the prisoner
entered a plea Of mot guilty." when
one Of the jurymen put on his hat and
started for the door. The judge called
him back and informed him that be
couldn't leave until that case was tried
Tried ?" queried the juror, "why be
acknowledged that he is not guilty.
Mlpexkee Sentinel.
Year: 1875

Sooner or later the storms will beat
Over my siumber from tIGat to f1tt,,


Sooner or later the winds will rave
In the long grass above my grave.
shall not heed them where lie;
Nothing their sound shall signify :.


Nothing the headstone's fret of rain,
Nothing to me the dark days pain;
Sooner or later the sun shall shine
With tender warmth ON that mound of mine
Sooner or later, in summer air,


Glover and violet blossom there.
] shall not feel, in that deepliid rest,
The sheetcd light fall over my breast


Nor ever note in those hidden hours.
The wind d-blown breath of the tossing flowers
Sooner or later the stainless SHOWS
Shall add their hush to my mute repose;
Sooner or later shall slant and shift.
And heap my bed with their dazzling drift.
Chill tho that frozen pail nay seem,
It1 touch no colder can ma le the dream,
That rccks not of gloo sacred dread,
Shrouding the city of the dead.
Sooner or later the bce shall come,
And I'LL the noon with its golden hum;
Sooner or later on half-poi-ed wing,
The blue birds warble about me ring.
Ring and whistle and clrrup with g!ee-
Nothing their music shll m I'm To IN G.
None of these beautiful things shall know
How soundy their lover 81 ecps below.
Sooner or later, far ont in the night.
The stars shall over m wing the ir flight;
sonner or ter the darklin1 dews
Catch the white sparks in their silent oozc.
Never ray shall part the gloom
That wraps me around in the silent tomb;
Peace shall be perfect for lip and brow,
Sooner or later-oh why moi now?


II. f. PRESCOTT.
Year: 1875

The following extract is suggested for
use by teachers and pupils in schools as an
exercise test of pronunciation. 1t must be
read off Immediately without pause to con-
slider which is the proper way to pronounce
the words


/. A courier from st. Louis, an Italian
with italics, began an address or recitative
as to the mischievous national finances.


2. His dolorous progress was demon
strated by demonstration, and the preface
to his sacerdotal profile gave his opponents
an irreparable and lamentable wound.


8. He was deaf and isolated, and the
envelope ON the furniture at the depot was
covert for leisure and the reticence from
the first grasp of the Legislature of
France.


4. The dilation of the chasm, or trough,
made the servile satyr and virile optimist
vehemently penegyrize the lenient God.


5. He was an aspirant after the vagaries
of the exorcists and an inexorable coadjutor
of the irrefragible, yet exquisite. Farrago,
ON the subsistence of the despicable finale
and the recognition of the recognizance.
Year: 1875

From Advance Sheets of Bancroft's Native Races Vol


III. Mythology.


Not all animals, it would appear, were
produced in the general creation; the loon
and the crow had special origin, being
metamorphosed men. Two fishermen, being
out at sea in their canoes, fell to quarreling
the one ridiculing the other for his small
success in fishing. Finally the unsuccess-
full man became SO Infatuated by the taunts
of his companion that he knocked him on
the head, and stole his fish, cutting out his
tongue before he padded off, lest by any
chance the unfortunate should recover his
senses and gain the shore. The precaution
was well taken, for the mutilated man
reached the land and tried to denounce his
late companion. No sound however could
he utter but something resembling the cry
of a loon, upon which tine Great Spirit,
Quawteaht, became so indiscriminatingly
angry at the whole affair that he changed
the poor mute into loon, and his assailant
into q crow. So when the mournfnl voice
of the loon is heard from the silent lake or
river, it is still the poor fisherman that we
hear, trying to make himself understood
and to tell the hard story of his wrongs.
Year: 1875

Early in last December,a a series of scientific
experiments were made in Stockholm, and
it was found that the atmosphere of the
Arctic Zone is filled with floating particles
of metallic matter. The deposits in the
bottom of snow drifts in Iceland have been
long known to contain large quantities Of
magnetic iron which has fallen in the flakes.


Now, the professors of the Polytechnic
schools reasoned that if these particles came
down in a ordinary snow storm, space must
be pervaded with them. To test the mat
ter, they built large steam fan, and by
means of pipes, forced air into the bottom
of a tank filled with water. The result was
simply astonishing. The air escaped through
the water, but the metallic particles re-
remained at the bottom of the reservoir, the
same as gold does when the earth Is washed
in a sluice.


The capacity Of the blowing machine was
about sixteen thousand cubic feet of air
minute, which yielded from four to five
pounds of pure magnetic iron, with various
other substances, such as copper, tin and
the slightest trace of silver. Seven more
fans were added, and machinery put in for
collecting the product from the tank. On
the 1st Of January, two hundred and fifty
tons day We're obtained. The excitement
was SO great, and the process so valuable,
that the king appointed a royal commission
er and a staff of engineers to take charge
of the works in the name of the government.
But he did not forget the inventors. They
were decorated with medals of honor and
made confidential superintendents of the
enterprise.


The discovery, however, was not to be
controlled in that way Some private capi-
talists in Norway heard OF it, and at once
organized on a grand scale, and built exten-
sive works in Copenhagen, where they are
now turning out two thousand tons OF iron
IA week The ordinary Swedish iron has
been considered the best i'll tine world, but
it cannot compare with this terrestrial pro-
duct.


Several articles on this subject have ap
peared in the Paris journals, and the French
government proposes sending a corps of
scientific experts to Iceland to make further
experiments, with the permission Of the
King of Denmark, to whom the island be-
longs. 1t is thought these magnetic atoms
in the northern atmosphere have much to
do with the phenomenon of the magnetic
needle.
Year: 1875

l. Any who takes paper regularly from the Posi-
Office whether directed TO mis- or anothers. or
whether he has subscribed nots responsible for the
payment.


e If person orders his paper discontinued, he must
all arrearages the publisher will continue to send
1t until payment is made and collect the whole amount
whether tho paper is taken from the office or not.


g. The courts have decided that refusing to take the
newspapers periodicals from the Post-oice
ing and leaving them uncalled for pra ca evidence
of intentional fraud


Papers ordered to any address be changed to ano
er address at the option of the subscriber.


Remitances by draft check money order registered
letter. may be sent at our risk All Postmasters
quired to register letters application.
Year: 1875




I'm sorry that spelt the word


hate to go above you


Because n the brown eyes lower fell


Because, you see, love YOU


"Still memory to gray-haired man


That sweet child face is showing;


Dear girl, the grasses on her grave


Have forty years been growing


9 He lives to learn in ife's hard school


How few who pass above him


Lament the triumph and his loss


Like her-because they love him."
What blessing to household is mer-
~, cheerful woman-one whose spirits are
not affected by wet days, or little disap-
pointments, or whose milk of human kind
ness does not sour in the sunshine of pros
perity. Such woman in the darkest hours
brightens the house like a little piece of
sunshiny weather. The magnetism of her
smiles and electrical brightness of her looks
and movements infect every one. The
children 60 to school with sense of some
thing great to be achieved; her husband
goes INTO the world in conqueror's spirit.
No matter how people annoy and worry
him all day, far off her presence shines, and
he whispers to himself, At home I shall
find rest. = So day by day she literally re-
news his strength and energy, and if you
know man with beaming face, kind
heart and a prosperous business, in nine
cases out of ten you will find he has wife
of this kind.
Year: 1875

VICTOR HUGO has declared in favor of wo-
man suffrage. In letter addressed to the
French Society which has that interest in
view he says: ''Man has been the problem of
the eighteenth century, woman is the prob
lem of the nineteenth; and to say woman is
to say child, that is to say the future. The
question thus put appears in all its gravity.
1t is in its solution that lies the supreme So
cial appeasal Woman can do all for man
nothing for herself The laws are imprudent
to make her so feeble when she is so powerful.
Let us recognize that feebeness and protect
it /; let us recognize that power and direct it.
There lies the Guty of man; there lies also his
interest. I do rot tire of saying the problem
is put; it must be solved. Whoever bears a
part of the burden ought to have part of
the priv ileges. Half of the human race is
outside equality; it must be made to reenter.
1t will be one of the great glories of our great
country to give the rights of the woman as a
couuterbalance to the rights of man-that is
to say, to put the laws il equilibrium with the
customs"
Year: 1875

Two dogs in Lexington, Missouri, have
achieved fame by finding child lost in the
woods, making for him a bed of leaves, and
anticipating the demand Of his appetite by
killing rabbit, and serving it up al nQtureI.
The story is good so tar as it goes, but why,
oh, why, did not those dogs set their wits to
word and roast that rabbit Sagacity like
that would greatly improve the tale.
Year: 1875

KING Kalakaua is coming again, and the
funny men are revamping the old jokes. His
Majesty has heard that the Americans wish
for the presence Of a crowned head at the
Philadelphia centennial, and declares in a bit
of beautiful slang which he acquired during
his stay in Chicago that is the kind of hairpin
he Is
Year: 1875

THE crop of centennial poetry has not
opened very promisingly. The verses OF Mr..
Whittier and Mrs. Howe are certainly not up
to the high mark we had right to expect,
and the prospect of trash from the pens OF
lesser rhymsters is calculated to make man
hate his country. We hope, for the interests
of patriotism and good taste, that the remain
der of the centennial jabilations will be done
into prose,
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used
Year: 1875

Mrs. Kent Mason is ecturing to large audi.
ences in st. John with great effect.


Halifax roughs amuse themselves by snow
balling funeral PROFESSIONS The police are
frequently called upon for protection.


Eleven vessels are now building at Shelburne,
Nova Scotia, four of which measure over 1000
tons.


President Potter of the Grand Trunk is op.
posing the petition of the Moth Shore Railway
Co. for aid from the Quebec legislature, prin-
cipally on the ground that the funds to build
that road were obtained on q guarantee that
the Grand Trunk Railway should have no
rival


Twelve hundred miners in Cape Breton are
IN need Of assistance and many will starve If
the Nova Scotia government does not offer
prompt assistance. large meeting of the
citizens os that section passed resolve asking
tie government to take prompt measures for
the relief of the suffering.


The manhood suffrage bill, measure giving
the ballot to every citizen 21 years of age, has
been thrown out of the Ontario legislature by a
large majority.


Exclusive Of large quantities sold for home
consumption aud that sent away by rail the
Year: 1875

Gov. TILDEN's lawyer, who has charge of
the canal suits, has had the case of Mr.. Davis
transferred from the head of the calendar,
where it would secure an early trial, to the
foot, where it will not be brought to trial for
a long time, if ever. The canal commission
found that one Mr.. Denison was guilty of
cheating the state out of tens of thousands.
Yet bis Attorney General has not entered an
action against him to recover the money or
bring him to punishment. Mr.. Tilden has
made quite parade of his virtues as a re-
former, but it begins to look as if like show
bill his performance of that part will not
come up to the plaudits of the evertisement.
What howl there would be in the DEM
ocratic press of all grades should Presi-
dent Grant or Secretary Bristow delay the
prosecution of the whiskey ring as Governor
Tilden and his legal representative have that
of the canal thieves.
Year: 1875

IT appears that the attempts to de-
stroy the Mosel is not the first instance of
the kind in the history of steamers which
have sailed from Bremerhaven. In 1856
there were discovered on the Vanderbilt
steamer Ariel, just after she set sail, two
cases marked silks and containing combusti-
bles with clock-work arrangement to ignite
them when the vessel was at sea. The men
who planned the crime were father and
son, land their object was to collect insurance.
They were arrested and convicted. The
father committed suicide and the son is still
in prison.
Year: 1875

A farmers lad was crossing a field
where very wild and ferocious bull
was allowed to run at large. When the
boy about reached the middle of the
field, he suddenly v saw the bull, with
head lowered, rushing furiously at him
Being accustomed to manage cattle, ht
was in no way disconnected, but ran tc
a tree near by and commenced running
around it with the bull after him pres
emily he caught the bull by the tail and
commenced helaboring him numerically
with club. The bull, finding that the
"tail' was turned, started off at run
the boy swinging on to him, but the
faster he ran, the more the boy bola
bored him, until finally he commences
believing. ooh" says the boy, "yo,
may below, but I'd like to know who
started this"


This is a coed lesson in courage, bu
we wouldn't advise all boys to talk
bulls by the tail. Sometimes a hul
might not be coward
Year: 1875

campfire, and we counted thirteen heads
as they carefully rose over the bank,
creeping for our blankets They were
within ten or fifteen feet of them, and
within good pistol range of US, when
Rachot, squirting over the barrels OF his
gun, whispered:


"Let them have it as fire, and then
60 in with knife and pistol. Not one
must get away or we'll lose our horses y


The next instant his terrible charge
from both barrels went into the gang, as
they were bending their bows to their
work at our campfire.


The boy and myself poured in our
fire, and the next instant We were on
the run after two reds, all that were left
from the ball and buckshot of Old RAJ
chot's "howilzer" and our rifles.


They made half. dozen jumps and
then stopped. They had more lead
than they could carry.


Finishing q couple who kicked yet
we went for our horses. We found
them hobbled couple of rifle shots
away, and with them thirteen more
good ponies.


We came back, lifted the scalos O
those who had caught us mapping ant
been caught in return, and then we pu
for the ranch.


We had been out long enough. W.
knew that the Utes we had taken care
of were most likely only scout from ;
larger war party, and we did not wan
10 make their acquaintance.
! We met the Red Dog, Sioux chief
made him present of the scalps, ant
told him he might find fun if he tool
our back trail.


We got hack to Cache Creek anC
didn't hunt any more elk in the Blacl
Hills that season. We didn't think i
would be healthy to do it.
Year: 1875

A man died recently at Suter Creek
who had never adhered to any particu-
lar belief in any specified system of re-
lieion, but who bore the reputation of
being a liberal, kind-hearted man and
a good citizen A minister was reques-
ted to conduct the funeral service, and
the good man during his discourse said
in effect that the deceased had not the
least chance of salvation, but had made
a bee line for the hot place. Those who
heard this were very indignant, and that
evening party of men went to the
minister's house, dragged him out OF
bed, put rope around his neck, declar-
ing they would hang him. He begged
hard for life, and finally retraeted the
aspersions he had cast upon the decess
ed, and promised to leave the place at
once. He was then released, and next
day he packed up his effects and left
Alta California
Year: 1875

There Is evidence which is perfectly
satisfactory to competent judges, that
we have already learned the actual his
toricsl process by which one existing
species-tbe horse-came into existence
during the Tertiary epoch, The evi-
dence, based on the analogy of known
developmental facts, that three toed
Hipperion form, which lived in the Mic.
Gene epoch, gave rise, by suppression Of
the phalanges Of its rudimensal toes and
some other slight notifications, to the
apparently onetoed later Tertiary horse,
is as satisfactory to my mind as the
evidence, based on the analogy of known
structural facts, which leads me to have
no doubt that the said extinct Hipparion
had simple stomach and
certain kind of heart. If those
socalled Baconian principles" which
everybody talks about and nobody
dreams Of putting into practice, forbid
us to draw the one conclusion, they
forbid us to draw the other The alter.
native hypothesis are two: either the
Deity manifested his power on this earth,
in the course of the Miocene epoch, by


making the two primitive ancestors of
all the horses out of inorganic matter,
or something more unlike horse than


Hipparion changed into one. The latter
hypothesis is gratuitous and absurd.
The former is not in itself absurd out,
unless the early chapters of Genesis
mean something contrary to what they
appear to mean land one never knows
what exegelic ingenuity may make of
the original Hebrew it is shockingly
heretical and hasten to disown it, lest,
by some such secret connection as bound
Goodwin Sands with Tenterden steeple,
it should land me in the cruelties of Cali
gula, aud lead meto violate the precepts OF
the sagest Of physicians; by indulging in
Heliogabalian gluttony. But, If the
horse really has arisen in this way, what
imaginable ground can there be for the
enormous and, in that case, highly "un.
Baconian" assumption that the deer and
the OK and the pig have arisen in any
other way2 And if there is--not per-
haps the complete evidence thatwe hap
pen to possess in the case Of the horse
but still much better evidence than there
is for for the authenticity and genuine,
ness Of the books called BY the name Of
Moses, that these animals have been
produced by similar method, why may
not the hypothesis that they have so
Year: 1875

arisen take its rank among the pro-
bable conclusions of science2 Even
though it must, in candor, be admitted
that, as we cannot live back into the
Tertiary epoch aud see what went on at
that time, the hypothesis must always
remain, in the strictest sense of the word,
unveri6able. = Professor Hurley, in
Popular Science Monthly for March.