Love and logging in a winter frontier camp
Louisa, left with her ailing father and a quarrelled fiancé, faces loneliness as Ben and Uncle Simon join a logging expedition. When illness strikes, Louisa journeys sixty miles to fetch help. In the timber camp, hunger and fear rise, but a dramatic reunion over broth and resolve ends the siege.
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Ben
Mr. Bruce
Shepton
Simon
Jemme
Dunn
Loussa Ben
Grandma
Old Boon
Maverick
Randma
Tim
Susette
Uncle Simon
Thor
Heaven
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Father
Miscellany Reflections on Time and Self Introduction
A short miscellany noticing time’s quiet touch on the heart and the challenge of self-knowledge. It muses on the difficulty of truly introducing oneself and how a misstep in self-awareness can sour friendship.
Gratitude as a Pleasing Mental Exercise
Gratitude is described as the most pleasing mental exercise. The inward satisfaction it brings rewards the duty without external incentives or future recompense. A generous mind would practice gratitude for the natural gratification it provides.
Discovery of a new economical fuel draws crowd to Garratt foundry
A San Francisco Alta report describes Dr. Ireland's patent fuel tested at W. T. Garratt’s Fremont street foundry. A crude petroleum jet ignites with steam driven oxygen to produce an oxy hydrogen like flame that can melt hardest metals. The inventor claims low cost furnaces, $2 oil per day, and the ability to smelt a ton of ore every 30 minutes for $5 daily.
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W. T. Garratt
Fremont Street
Dr. Ireland
Watsonville
Panama
Pacific Coast
San Francisco Alta
Young America Wonders About Questions of Pasts
A child longs to know why adults hide misdeeds and punish lies as he recalls stories from his father about hiding a master's rattan and fleeing a schoolmistress, while reflecting on his mother's silence and a missed supper. He laments wishing to be a man.
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America
Papa
Betsey
Mamma
Bridget
Tommy Day
Buddhist Priest Locked in Cage to Raise Temple Fund
An extraordinary feat reported by The China News Hong Kong describes a Buddhist priest in Soochow who locked himself in a wooden cage for seven days to solicit donations. Standing upright in a nail studded box with limited food and sleep, he endured the ordeal while crowds tested its genuineness and subscriptions rose after his release.
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China News
Hong Kong
Soochow
Alessroom
Hoopeh Road
Riches Let the Rich Give Advice to the Poor
A pithy reflection on wealth as a luxury that frees the rich to dispense advice while the poor seldom reply with similar counsel. The remark notes the imbalance in social dialogue between classes.
Carlist Chief Santa Cruz Described By Spanish Reporter
A XIXth century Spanish correspondent portrays Carlist chief Santa Cruz near Mondragon. The 35 year old leader is depicted as pale, nervous and repulsive, with a brutal reputation. He guards his quarters with forty men, fears poisoning, and has recently ordered the execution of a Liberal woman.
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Santa Cruz
Xixme Siecle
Mondragon
Liberal Party
Treating the Sick Room with Repositioning Beds
Dio Lewis in Today argues for two narrow iron bedsteads in a sickroom to move a patient among shaded corners and windows, claiming frequent relocation of beds and airing of mattresses shortens illness and speeds convalescence. He notes fever and skin emanations foul the bed and urges airing and thorough airing of bedding after four to six hours.
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Dio Lewis
Arresting decay in potatoes with sulphate of lime
Agricultural chemist Prof Church of Circhester reports that sulphate of lime greatly slows potato decay caused by the potato disease. In tests dusting salt on partially decayed tubers during storage halted further injury, while powdered lime was much less effective as noted by Rural New Yorker.
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Church
Circhester
England
New Yorker
Mink hunts eel by brook with young at barn
A mink prowls along a sunny path by a brook stowing an eel she struggles to pull from the water. She returns to a hillside barn to feed her brood as they grow, using fish for nourishment.
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Minx Hovns Ekeeri Inc
California Joe’s Return to the Lava Beds Adventure
A San Francisco Alta report recalls California Joe Berdan’s sharpshooter fame. The 50-year-old veteran, now living quietly in California, declares he will head to the lava beds to face Modocs again. He jokes about collecting Modoc hair and seeks one last rifle challenge.
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California
Joe
Berdan
Oakland
Californy
North
San Francisco Alta
The Irishman’s Iowa Venture for Board and Plough
A Portland Transcript snippet recounts an Irish suitor’s tale of arriving in Iowa with hopes of farming. He finds big fields but poor board and rising pratees, provoking a clash over meals as he laments rising costs and the farmer’s stingy provisions. The humor centers on cultural misfit and frugal meals.
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Iowa
Tipperary
A Ghostly Cow Chase in Halifax Cabbage Patch
A Halifax wakeful man, seeing cows foraging in his cabbage garden at midnight, dressed in white against rain and wind, chased the herd. Two sentries nearby witnessed a spectral figure and summoned guards. The guard found the man frightened and returned home soaked. The cows appeared to prevail.
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Halifax
Lord Chesterfield and Voltaire Exchange Witty Barbs in France and England
In a Goop Report style tale, Lord Chesterfield and Voltaire cross paths at a French ball with a brilliant circle of ladies. Voltaire asks Chesterfield which ladies are finer, English or French. Chesterfield quips he is no connoisseur of paintings. Later in London a painted lady courts Voltaire, prompting Chesterfield to warn him not to be captivated. Voltaire retorts he will not be taken by an English vessel under French colors.
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Europe
Chesterfield
France
Voltaire
London
Lord Chesterfield
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