davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
Dirt and Bodily Heat.

The part which the skin plays in
the regulation of bodily heat is not
adequately estimated. The envelope
of complicated structure and vital
function which covers the body, and
which nature has destined to perform
a large share of the labor of health
preserving, is practically thrown out
of use by our habit Of loading it with
clothes. 1t is needless to complicate
matters by allowing it to be choked
and encountered with dirt. lie the
skin of an animal be coated with an
impervious varnish, death must ensue.
A covering of dirt is only less inimical
to life. We are not now speaking of
dirt such as ofends the sense Of de-
cency, but Of those accumulations of
exuded matter with which the skin
must become loaded if it is habitually
covered and not thoroughly cleansed.
The cold bath is not cleansing agent.
A man may bathe daily and use his
bath towel even roughly, but remain
as dirty to all practical intents as
though he eschewed cleanliness; in
deed the physical evil of dirt is more
likely to ensue, because if wholly neg
lected, the skin would cast off its ex-
crementitious matter by periodic per-
spirations with desquamation Of the
cuticle Nothing but a frequent
washing in water, Of at least equal
temperature with the skin, and soap
can insure free and healthy surface.
The feet require especial care, and it is
too much the practice to neglect
them. The omission of daily wash
ings with soap and the wearing of foot
coverings so tight as to compress the
bloodvessels and retard the circulation
of the blood through the extremities,
are the most common causes of cold
feet. The remedy is obvious: dress
loosely and wash frequently Lancet.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
HaZing.

Senator Voorhees,, in the discussion
on the outrage on Cadet Whitaker
makes some severe remarks on the ha-
zing brutality at West Point, of which
he appears to have known person
al instances which have arous-
ed his Indignation. He declared
that it should be broken up if the
academy had to be broken up to ac-
complish it. His remarks were Just,
but the brutality on Whitaker was
not case of hazing. In hazing the
older students maltreat the freshmen,
Whitaker had been at the academy
four years, and had passed all stages
of the hazing initiation. He was sub
jected to a treatment meaner than ha-
zing, and which prosecuted him
| throughout the academic term. He
was ostracized from all association
with the other cadets. No one was
allowed to speak to him save on duty,
under penalty of the same ostracism
This by boys educated and fed by the
Government toward one appointed by
the same Government. These cubs
assumed that they were the owners
and dispensers of the bounty they en-
joyed, and that it was their office to
keep it for a high caste.
The hazing brutality is another
thing. A robust manhood on the
part Of the faculty of any college
could put this down. It is encouraged
by an efeminate, feeble minded, sick
ly sentimental treatment. Boys who
have not reached the age of conscience
or manly feeling do these acts of bru-
tality on the younger, which are of
the same character as that torture of
animals which boys delight in, and
then are treated with distinguished
consideration. They are pleaded with
as young gentlemen. Perhaps some
of them are ''rusticated' if an extraor-
dinary effort is made to repress hazing.
They go home and come back as he
roes. A sound whipping would end
all this fooling, and this corporal pun
ishment is the only one that befts
acts of corporal brutality. The well
fogged hazer would be a hero no
more, nor would any one haze with
this retribution over him. A stout
porter, a frame to make spread eagle
of the hazing cub. and lashes well
laid on, would in one season extin-
guish this brutality in any college. It
exists in the face of feeble efforts
made to suppress it, because the fac
ulty deal with it as if they were old |
grannies and not men, Cincinnati
Gazette.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
A Prevalent POnuIar Error.

By the burning of a Chinese wash
house in San Francisco a short time
since, eleven of the occupants who
were asleep in bed lost their lives.
The account published in the newspa-
pers described them as exhibiting, by
the positions in which the their bod
les were found, the agony they suffer-
ed from the fire. AS editors and re-
porters are considered to possess more
than an average amount of intelli-
gence and information, it appears sim
gular that they should propagate or
perpetuate such an error. 1t may be
safely asserted as general rule that
persons who lose their lives while
sleeping in burning buildings, are suffo-
Gated and die painlessly without wax
ing, and before the flames had reached
their bodies. The merest tyro knows
what would be the effect of going to
bed with pan of burning charcoal in
the room, or the effect of blowing out
the gas instead of turning it off. An
individual going to sleep under such
circumstances inhales the impure air,
which acts as an anasthetic and rap
idly converts the natural sleep into
stupor and coma, from which there is
no waking. Persons sleeping in
house which takes fire are smothered
in this way by the carboniferous gas
long before the fire reaches them.
Their bodies or remains are found
not in the halls or stairways where
they would have been had they awak-
ened and attempted to escape-but in
bed, or in the spot which the bed had
occupied, and in the very position in
which they had been lying asleep.
The exceptions are mostly noticeable,
as when persons are seen to make at
tempts to escape. There is something
so horrible in the idea of being burn
ed to death that it were well for the
community not to suffer needlessly
from sympathy for the victims. To
the relatives of persons who los their
lives in burning houses, particularly
to parents whose children may die in
this way, it may save a lifetime of
grief to know that death entered the
cF amber quietly and performed his
task without so much as disturbing
the slumbers of his victim,- Pacific
Med. and Surg. Journal.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
[Pacific Christian Advocated
Christian living.

Of all the false notions concerning
Christian life none are worse than
that it is to carry something along
with us as passport, and which is
still independent of us. Not a few
people who profess to love God have
never learned that change from
death unto life is change which af-
fects our spirits and tempers, and that
too in such way that this change
will be seen everywhere. To pray at
the prayer-meeting and shout in the
class if genuine service, will not allow
scolding at home and fretfulness an
hour afterward. Growth in grace is
real only when it increases our Chris
tian tactes, refnes our tempers, and
makes US more patient. The true test
therefore is in the world, in business,
in company, where trials come and
obligations meet us. 1t is one of the
unsolved mysteries how people can be
self-deceived in these things. If our
communion with God does not tend to
perfect US in these particulars what
can it do for us? lie we do not grow
more patient, more cheerful under trial,
more long-suffering and forgiying,
more gentle and loving, where is there
any evidence of Christian growth?
A real Christian cannot be disa-
greeable person. 1t is only the lack
of Christian graces which makes one
disagreeable. There is not an element
in Christianity which is not lovable,
and Christian life must harmonic
with every other lovable thing in the
world. Sin crops out in our tempers,
Grace likewise. Sin makes us revenge
full, proud and arrogant; Grace re-
moves these hateful things. How
then can Christian continue to pos
sess them? He cannot; and to pro-
fess Christ and possess these fruits of
iniquity still, is to be deceived. Chris
tianity is not blind spirit Of exulta-
ton which overlooks moral rectitude.
1t is not blind trust. 1t is not hap
piness. 1t is divine life within US
working itself out in spirit, temper,
and action. Feeding is not necessari-
ly growing into physical health and
power Feeding on church services
and saying prayers are not necessarily
developing Christian character Phys
ical food must be taken up into the
system, navigate the blood vessels and
repair the waste of tissue before it is
of value. When it becomes bone and
muscle and brain it has done its work
and is of use. Christianity is new
bone and brain and muscle to the mo-
raj man, but man may live on church
services and private devotions all his
lifelong and still be skeleton blown
about by every wind of doctrine and
trampled upon by every temptation.
When we can see ourselves changing
the self which deals with the world
and handles the things of this life
learning every day little more of the
meaning of bearing all things hop
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
(Scientific Americana
Presence of Mind.

Many railroad accidents are pre-
vented by a presence of mind on the
part of engineers. The Car Builder
relates the following as among the re-
cent evidences of presence Of mind on
the part of locomotive engineers:
A passenger train on the C. B. & O..
road was rounding a sharp curve, just
under a piece of tall timber. The
watchful engineer saw tree lying
across the track 80 feet ahead of the
locomotive The train was running
at rate'of 35 miles an hour, and to
check its momentum before reaching
the obstruction was out of the ques-
ton. The engineer took in the situa-
ton at glance. He threw the throt-
tie wide open, the engine shot ahead
with the velocity of an arrow, and
with such tremendous force that the
tree was picked up by the cow-catcher
and flung from the track as if it had
been willow withe. A man with
not so cool head would have made
the best possible use of those 60 feet
in the way of checking the speed of
the train. That would have caused a
disaster. Bradford, an engineer, was
bringing an express train over the
Kankakee line fr I'M indianapolis. As
the engine shot out from the deep cut
and struck short piece Of straight
track leading to a bridge, a herd Of
colts was discovered running down the
road. The distance to the river was
only 100 feet. Bradford knew he
could not stop the train, and also knew
that if the colts beat the locomotive
to the bridge they would fall between
the timbers, and the obstruction would
throw the train off, and probably re-
suit in frightful loss of life. 1t took
him only half a second to think of all
this. The other half was utilized in
giving his engine such quantity of
steam that it covered that 100 feet of
track in about the same time that a
bolt of lightning would travel from
the tip of lightning rod to the
ground The colts were struck and
hurled down the embankment Just as
they were entering the bridge.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
The Threat That Sherman Delegates
Shall be transferred to Grant.

We have before cautioned the peo-
pie of Ohio that every voter for Sher-
man was, in effect, an aid to the nom
ination Of Grant; that if the anti
third term men desire to succeed at
Chicago they must concentrate on
that anti-third term man who has the
largest and most enthusiastic follow
ing; that if we divide up our strength
on Sherman, Edmunds, Washburne
and other favorite sons, Grant will
lead so largely on the first ballot that
there will be a stampede to him of
those who are always anxious to stand
we'll with the winning man; that the
only hope of defeating the Cameron
Conkling combination was in imme-
diate concentration, and that good
Judgment would dictate that the con-
centration should be on the strongest,
not the weakest candidate.
Secretary Sherman's agents started
out upon the theory that he owned
Ohio, and that her people were his
loyal subjects and obedient servants,
who, upon the announcement Of his
candidacy, would either throw up
their hats for him or remain as dumb
as oysters, but they have discovered
that the people have more independ-
ence than they supposed, and that
they do not propose to allow any
man either to disfranchise them, or
prevent a free expression of their
preferences. This independence on
the part Of the people of Ohio has
angered the lordly Sherman, and now
comes his first liegeman and brother
in-law, the great Col. Moulton, with
a threat that if Senator Blaine's
strength should develop to such an
extent as ''to render Mr.. Sherman's
withdrawal from the contest ne
cessity, the entire Sherman strength
in the (Ohio) delegation will be
thrown for Grant.
Who are the miserable puppets in
Ohio who belong to Secretary Sher-
man so entirely that he can throw
them where he pleases? Are they SC
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
Newark Americana
Presidential Preferences.

Elsewhere in this paper we prin
an address to the Republicans of Lick
ing County, signed by a number Of
gentlemen who desire to express theil
preferences on the Presidential ques.
ton. 1t is entirely proper, not only
that these gentlemen should entertain
a preference for Secretary Sherman
but that they should give public ex.
preston thereto. 1t is our pride and
boast that this country belongs to the
people, and not exclusively to Secre-
tary Sherman, Senator Blaine, or any
other one Of the estimable gentlemen
whose names have been mentioned in
connection with the Presidency. 1t
is fitting that in all legitimate ways
the masses in the Republican party
should make known their wishes, and
that these should be regarded in the
selection of the man to carry our ban
ner in the coming Presidential con-
test.
Unlike these gentlemen, however,
we believe that very large majority
of the Republicans Of Ohio, and of the
Republican States and strongholds
generally, earnestly desire the nomi-
nation Of James G.. Blaine. He re-
ceived more votes from Republican
States four years ago in the Cincinna-
tt Convention than any other man,
and he will receive more votes in the
Chicago Convention than any other.
Our Judgment is that it is safest to
nominate the man whom the greatest
number of Republicans want nomina-
ted, rather than one whom the small
est number prefer. We are so much
of Republican that we never did
like the Democratic idea of State DOM
ination, whether manifesting itself in
the secession of States or the nomina-
tion Of Presidential candidates.
Since the days of Abraham Lincoln
the fact that man is known to have
a heart as well as head has not been
regarded as disqualifying him for the
Office of President; and we Judge the
masses in the Republican party will
hardly be persuaded to turn their backs
on Senator Blaine on account of re-
puted personal magnetism which
attracts large numbers of friends, be-
cause some stern-visaged chap whose
face was never yet lit up with smile
may not be able to comprehend it.
A head full Of knowledge and
heart warm with love for humanity
are not bad qualities in President.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
[Cincinnati GaZette.l
Cadet Whitaker and West Point Hnnl

NhuOo w anu w CcO lAOllUl
The so-called investigation of the
outrage upon Cadet Whitaker at
West Point has thus far been an in
QUESTION to convict him of commit
ting it upon himself This theory
was telegraphed with the first report
Of the villainy with suspicious Of
ficiousness. Gen. Schofeld, the Su-
perintendent of the academy, who ap-
pears to have never thought worthy
Of his notice a conduct of the school
toward Cadet Whitaker which was a
continual outrage, stepped promptly
up to this work by accusing Whitta-
ker of having done this to himself.
The pretended inquiry has been an in
quisition upon Cadet Whitaker to
support this theory; protracted ques-
tioning and cross questioning to find
something to destroy his credibility so
as to convict him. 1t has been an in
quiry organized and conducted to con-
vict the victim.
No circumstances have been alleged
to give color to the theory of self
abuse, save the assertion that Cadet
Whitaker was deficient IN his lessons,
and would fail to pass the examina-
ton. This itself is an assumption.
But if he were to fail, the only oonse-
quence would be to set him back a
year, or to fail to enter the army.
Neither of these could be prevented
by putting this upon himself Is it
not incredible on its face that young
man who had intelligence and pluck
enough to go through the hardships
of this cadets life at West Point, treat
ed as leper by all other cadets, and
insulted IN every honr of his life by
their treatment, would practice this
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
Floating Island.

Among the many natural curiosi-
ties of Tuolumne county it is not gen.
orally known that there is a floating
island" Up in the "Siskiyous," ly-
ing like a pearl in the great mountain
chain, is Sduaw lake, beautiful sheet
of water, now utilized by mining
company as a reservoir. For many
years the lake has been favorite and
delightful resort for fishing parties,
and contained nearly i'll its center an
island, comprising about an acre of
ground, covered with luxuriant grass
and growth Of willow and alder. 1t
was never dreamed that the pretty
little island was not terra frma, but
when the bulkhead across the outlet
of the lake damned up its waters, the
island rose slowly until it had been
elevated fully 16 feet above its origi-
nal level. It would be a question for
the naturalist rather than the geolo-
gist to determine the age of this float
ing island, as it is evidently made up
entirely of decayed vegetation. Per-
haps at some remote period the roots
of tree, uptorn by the mountain
storm, drifting out in the lake, formed
the nucleus from which the island has
grown, but it seems singular that it
should have remained anchored and
Interchangeable in its position. The
locality is much frequented by pleas
ure seekers who will hereafter notice
the increased elevation Jackson
vile Sentinel.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22
nIiterate COlIegians.

Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner says,
in the Christian Union, that he was
told not long ago, by a professor in
one Of our leading colleges, that a
freshman came to him, after he had
been recommending certain books in
the literature class, and said he had
never read a book in his life. This
was literally true. Except his text
books, he had never read book; he
had passed fair examination, but of
reading he knew no more than a
Kafir. Another professor in another
college, also one of the highest in the
country (both of these are Eastern
colleges, in the center of the best cul-
ture in America) told Mr. Warner
more recently that sophomore, who
stood well in his class, came to ask
him where he obtained certain facts
which he referred to in the class room.
1t came out that the young man never
had read book, didn't know what
the sensation was, or how to act
about it, and had not the faintest con-
ception of literature. He had no notion
Of the pleasure or profit to be got
from reading, the world of books was
absolutely beyond his imagination,
and he could not conceive what peo-
pie found in it. The professor at
length induced him to read one of
Scott's novels, but the boy found it
very tedious and uninteresting occu-
patton.
These two instances Mr.. Warner
thinks extreme only in degree, and
insists that it is common thing for
undergraduates to be ignorant of
everything but their textbooks.
There is a popular prejudice that
young men who have been graduated
at college are ''iberally educated"
and that no one else can aspire to that
honorable title. Yet it is common
thing for untaught mechanics, used to
reading good books and a paper like
the Scientific American, to have vast
ly more real learning, and that of a
more useful kind, than the average
collegian carries away from college.
i Scientific American.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22

SOME two or three years ago, a dance
took place at Charley Hansel's near
Massieville, which was attended by a
lot of young roughs from Chillicothe,
among whom was VIM. Hellman.
During the progress of the dance, the
Chillicothe roughs kicked up row
with some of the young men, of the
neighborhood, who were in attendance.
For time the fight ragged with con-
siderable fury, the roughs using their
knives and billies with bloody effect.
A young man named Henry Noltz,
who resided a few miles north of this
place, was pretty badly cut up during
the fight by knife in the hands of
Hellman. 1t was several weeks before
Noltz recovered, but he finally came
out all right, resolved in his own mind
to get even with Hellman if he ever
met him on even footing. This op-
portunity was never afforded Noltz
until week ago last Sunday after
noon. Hellman and another young
man had been to Waverly that day
and was returning home on foot in
the afternoon and on arriving at Mas
sieville, they met Noltz, face to face,
whereupon Noltz fell foul of He'll
man and pounded him to his hearts
content. Hellman's companion did
not attempt to render him any assist
ance, as he saw that it wouldn't be
healthy for him to do so, and he quiet
ly stood aside at let Hellman take his
medicine Waverly Watchman.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-04-22

|
| 'Tis dozen of years ago,
9 iee ,r in the west s tho
BY the name of Deborah Lee.
And loved as warmly as other folks,
with ana ne6oran oee 4at lee t6 Of oos,erdo
Coveted her and me.
BIT 9@ea1T he asash MaRgRf ISRg ago.
That a chill March morning gave the shakes
And the grim steam doctor Chang him . came
The docfor eS5r and @:f Deafod S partners they
In the aguish countree.
The hs,,a1 angels gels wanted her, her pp n in HE Heaven
And that is the reason rather guess,
In the aguish West countree,
Took off my Deborah Lee
My beautiful Deborah Lee
From the warm sunshine and the opening flowers
That they took her away from me.
Our love was as strong as six-hOrse team,
Or the love Of folks older than we,
But DEATH With the aid Of the doctor and steam,
He closed the peepers and siienced the breath
ofmy sweetheart, Deborah Lee,
Silent and cOld-ah, me!
The foot of the hunter shall press her grave
And the prairie's sweet wild flowers
In their gdorpqs oTS us beauty around it wave
The still, bright summer hours;
With his dreamy hum on his gauze wings pass
She wakes no more to
All! T.! never more to me.
Though the wild birds sing and the wild flowers
spring,
She wakes no more to me!
Yet oft, in the hush of the dim, still night,
A vision of beauty see
Gliding soft by my side-a phantom of light
Dear, beautiful Deborah Lee
My bride that was to be,
And wake, to mourn that the doctor and-Death
And the cold March wind should stop the breath
OF my darling Deborah Lee
Adorable Deborah Lee;
That the angels should want her up in Heaven
Before they wanted mel