davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18
PULLING FODDER.

Bill ArP's Description Of Cheering and
Pleasant Country Scene.
Pulling fodder looks like a hard busi-
ness My tenants get to the field early
while the grass and the weeds and the
morning glory vines are all wet with
dew, and the ground is sticky with
moisture. They are soon wet up to
their knees, and their pants flop
around their ankles and the dewdrops
fall in their sleeves, but they don't
seem to mind it. By and by as the
sun mounts up over them the dew dis
appears, and the sultry heat comes
down and there is no chance for a
breeze in the low ground corn. but still
they pull away, and talk and laugh as
merry as if they We're having a frolic.
Then he has to tie it up and carry it
through long rows to the end of the
field, and the big pile of twenty or thir-
ty bundles is all over his head and
his shoulders, and he goes humping
along the cOrnstalKs and gets the trash
all down his neck and in his eyes, but
still he don't mind it, and brags how
MANY bundles he carried and never
dropped nary one.
There is something mighty cheerful
about willing labor, toll that is con-
tented-sweat that is no curse.
couldn't pull fodder if was willing.
but 1 am not willing. If had step
ladder and boy to tote it along from
stock to stock and there was no dew
and the sun was behind q cloud. l
might venture short row. Being
willing is the great thing about labor
Being willing is the secret of success
any thing. l heard an old man say
hat any man could quit drinking
whisky or chewing tobacco if he was
willing. He must get his own consent
the first thing. and then is is easy to
do.
\ 1t is a mans nature to work up ex-
actly to his tension. His task must he
done. Pulling fodder is disagreeable,
but the farmers mind has been worked
up to that for years and so it is all
right. 1t is part Of his business. We
all string up our nerves and our will
to the tension of our condition, our
necessities. 1t is like turning the
screw on a violin to get the strings up
to the chord. When they slacken they
won't play in harmony and we must
tighten the tension again. DR.. FELTON,
lives two miles from town, and 1 live
five, and my neighbor Weems lives ten.
The doctors road is just as long to
him as mine is to me. or as the ten
miles is to Neighhor Weems. We have
all got used to the task, the journey.
orI sov,oxu., Orr ~ 1IJa, M <<, that 49,,
sion. but would get awful tired if l
had to 60 as far as Weems, and DR..
FELTON, wouldn't live where l do for
any thing. The doctor is sorry for me.
and am sorry for Weems, and he il
sorry for somebody beyond him. but
our sympathy is wasted. There is lots
of sympathy wasted in this world, but
it shows good heart to have it As
the burden is, so the strength shall be-
Il iAi,ox i lssardei it is all isht.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18
SUNDAY IN AMERICA.
Its Power in Form ny National Charac-
ter.

HIS ROVER III Il OTln bSs Al NdtlOnal OnaFACs
ter.
Sunday has had more value in this
country than merely as day of rest.
1t has been a power in forming Amer
lean character. 1t has called a pause
TO men in whatever pursuit. 1t has
kept before men always the knowledge
of a great authority regulating theil
affairs. Those who were brought up
under the strict law of what is called
the Puritan Sunday, sometimes look
back from early manhood with intense
dislike to its iron restraints imposed on
the jubilant spirits of their youth. But
as they grow older and more thought
full, they recognize at least the price
less discipline of the day, its effect on
the formation of mind, its lessons
which hurt so much in entering that
they are never to be forgotten. No
wandering life prevails to lead then,
away from the effects of those days;
nor are there among the sons of men
in this world of labor and pain any
who look back with such intense
yearning for the home rest as those
men who out from the anxieties and
gonies and sins of mature life, how
sOever gilded its surroundings, send
longings of heart to the old fireside.
where the Bible was the only Sunday
book and the '.Pilgrim's Progress"
was almost the only weekday fiction.
Scorn it, as may those who never
knew what it was. the Puritan Sunday
made men. thinking men, strong men,
who in the world looked always to
something beyond the approval of
their fellows. felt always that there
was somewhere some one who knew
what they were in their hearts. /;
made large part of what is worthy
in our institutions and our men, in
New England and New York, in Vir.
ginia and the Carolinas, and through
out the growing Union.-W C. Prime,
IN NeU Princeton Rerie,c.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18
GIANT MOSQUITOES.

Playful Florida Insects Which Throw
the Jersey Product in the Shade.
Many of the mosquitoes in the Indian
river regions of Florida would weigh q
pound, and if they no not get on trees
and bark they do other things. We
have been made to believe some of the
following yarns: One tourist tells Us
that three hundred of the creatures
would alight on the face at once. that
families burn a smoky fire at meal-time
in the direction that the wind may blow
the smoke over the table while they eat,
in order to drive the insects away; Il
person can not do any thing without
another stands over him and whips the
mosquitoes away. Another testifies that
in that region the annoyance from the
mosquitoes is so great that one can
scarcely live there. 1t is told of one OF
the crew of the steamer Rockledge,
that, after they got into the inlet, when
night came. he went to sleep in state
room. the window to which was pro.
tected BY q screen. He had scarcely
fallen asleep when he was awakened
by a sense of suffocation-the mosqui.
toes had thronged the screen and stuck
their heads into the meshes till they
had excluded every particle of air. He
frantically kicked out the screen. and
now he does not know whether he
would rather die of suffocation or mos.
quito bites. Another veracious state.
ment from below is that a young man
went to work for the first time on his
homestead. providing himself with
good sand-fy netting bar. The first
night he pitched tent, hung his net, and
went to bed. For three days and
nights he did not stir. The mosqui.
toes had so thickly covered his net on
the outside that it was perfectly dark
inside-he did not know when day.
light came. If this sleeper had level
head he could not have stayed abed so
long-or was It so because he preferred
to be where he could be eaten rather
than get up to something he could eati
Hartford Religious Herald
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

III . little -four is spfinkled over
meat that is to be- minced it will not
adhere loo closely to the chopping
knife. boston Post.
Keep the garden in good order
until the end of the season. Many
start well. but late in the summer their
garden looks unsightly.-Al6any Jour
nal.
"A farmer claims that cucumber
vines fastened to strong bushy stakes
like pea sticks thrive better than when
left on the ground in the usual way.
The latest thing in house decora-
tions is little slate with gilt frame
and flowers painted upon it hung up
in the hall BY q bright ribbon. Upon
this callers who are without cards in
scribe their names.-Chicago Tribune.
Hunt up the antique tin perforated
lantern of your grandfather. polish it
up in good style and hang it in your
parlOr for an illuminator, if you wish
something real fashionable in the way
of decoration. With a candle inclosed
it recalls the light of departed days
Springfield Union.
Cut down the garden to the small
est space consistent with the needs of
the family, then get it at once in the
highest possible state of cultivation
and it will pay far better and give you
more satisfaction in every way than a
much larger piece of ground imper-
fectly titled. Western Rural
Indian Pudding: One quart of boil
ing milk, one cup of meal. two table
spoonfuls of -four. one tablespoonful of
butter, one egg. One-half cup OF molass-
es and little salt. Mix the meal,
flour, butter and mOlasses together.
and then turn on the boiling milk.
Bake one hour.-Iadianapotis Sentinel
-Sulphuric acil will remove spots
from brass that will not yield to oxalic
acid. 1t may be applied with brush,
but great care should be taken that no
drop of the acid shall come in contact
with clothes or skin. as it is ruinous to
garments and cuticle. Bath brick or
rOtten-stone maybe used for polishing.
the latter being preferable for delicate
wOrk-Clereland Leader.
To pull wool well. remarks an ex-
sheep owner to know. Sprinkle the
wet skins on the flesh side with air.
slaked lime; lay the two skins together
on the flesh side and pile up the pelts
in a heap. In a few days the heap
will sweat quite freely, when the wool
parts from the skin easily and may be
stripped off very readily. The secret
is worth knowing and remembering.
The Scottish agricultural Gazette
notes the fact that the feet are the
most important part of horse; and
yet they are the soonest to fail, be-
cause the weaker part, and because we
interfere more with nature in the
treatment of the feet than is the treat
ment of any other member of the
horses body. Shoeing the feet of
horses is comparatively modern
practice, and not a universal one even
now.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18

lar do they represent Christi
anity. They would scof al
any one who should call them
Christians in any sense OF the
word. Here and there an instance oc-
ours of such men VINO profess some
form of Christianity. Now and then a
man prominent in really Christian
circles makes himself conspicuous as
rivaIing the dishonest or oppressive
courses of those who make no such
pretensions Occasionally some man
protesting Christianity. holding some
important financial position, and
trusted wholly just because he is be-
lieved to be a Christian, turns out to
have embezzled the funds placed in his
care; he has wasted them in specula-
ton. he has built them into splendid
residences or in lands and houses.
Detected at last he rusheS away to
some foreign country, leaving behind
him hundreds of poor people as vic
tins of his rascality. Did the laboring
man who takes occasion from this to
denounce all Christians. and religion
itself, and the Bible. never see black
SHecD III any HUN VI Wu'eC OACo.
1t is right. therefore, that we should
claim for the Bible the praise of a rec
ognition of all that. the laboring man
can in Justice ask When he asks more
than is his right, his cause becomes that
of the enemy of society, in whose dam
age he himself will be the first to suf-
fer loss. 1t is just also that the labor
ing man should be reminded how many
Christian people all over this land, and
in other lands, are showing themselves
pre-eminently his friends, IN measures
for the relief of distress, for reclaiming
the vicious that they may, in well-or-
dered lives, reap the rewards of virtue,
in building and endowing institutions
especially for the benefit of the poor;
and above all in seeking to SO influence
the general courses of business and
trade that the laboring man may have
a fair chance, and find in the result of
his life that after all there is no more
desirable capital than may be found
in honest ''labor. Chicago Standard.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18
GIRLS AT COLLEGE.
An Education Comprising Moral. Social
and Intellectual Training.

| an Education Comprising Moral, Social
and Intellectual Training.
College life is generally entered upon
Immediately after leaving school, and
occupies the two or three succeeding
years 1t is, therefore. taken up in one
of the most important periods of a
girls life-the period of domestic
training. This being so. let US sec
what it gives in place of home influ-
ence.
College education may be looked at
under three aspects, it is moral, an
intellectual and social training. Its
second side-the inteliectual-is gen.
orally brought forward so strongly AS
almost to hide the moral and social
sides; buE it seems to me that the last
two are quite as important, if not more
so than the literary side; and it is about
them wish to speak.
There is stronger moral influence
at work in girls college life. A girl is
taught three things: First. she learns to
think; secondly. she learns concentra-
ton of will and purpose: thirdly, she
my brothers keeper?"
AS to the first-the thinking. What
can be more important in these days
! believe that it is the want of time
for thinking that makes so many girls
lives failure now. We do not want
to bring the rita contemplated in place
of the rita aciira in this nineteenth
century: it was system that had its
day, and died natural death; but we
do want little more downright hard
thinking (not morbid self analysis)
about life and its realities. This college
life brings with it. A girl at school is
too young and too busy to have leisure
for thinking: and her ideas are gener-
ally reproductions of her parents at
home. AT college, or the other hand,
she is thrown on her own resources;
she has to form her own opinions on
all the social topics afloat at the time;
she hears questions discussed from all
sides and viewed in all lights: she is
called upon to speak her own views;
and thus she is made to think with
calm judgment and to act with cool
reason.
She is taught to think, too, of the
needs of society around her; of its
wants and miseries: Of the value and
use of money; finally, of herself and
her place in the world.
Secondly, as to the concentration of
will and purpose. The literary work
done at college affords moral training
in this respect.
A girl has certain study placed be-
fore her, on which she must concen-
trate all her energies. She has to plow
steadily through certain number of
books, and to work regularly for some
hours-not skipping here and there ac-
cording to fancy.
The literary concentration has an in-
evitable effect on girls moral
nature. 1t produces corresponding
unity of purpose and will; she can not
live in desultory way; there will be,
henceforth, some idea, at least, of the
beauty of life concentrated on one
high aim, and with one great ideal
in view. Is not the doing of this very
great work? And there is nothing, l
believe, so much as college life that
does implant this root of concentra-
ton. But spoke of third lesson in
morals that university training teaches
a girl. viz. the answering of the ques-
ton: "Am my brothers keeper?"
-CdsSelVs Fanny Magazine.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18

Rowland says he don't mind pulling
fodder at all if it don't get wet and
spoil in the curing. Contentment is
what we all want. and the poor man
can be as contented as the rich one if
his labor is rewarded-a reasonable re-
ward. Then it is willing lsha-. The
watchman goes on duty willingly at
midnight. The doctor hears the door
bell ring willingly when deep sleep
has possessed him on a cold and
stormy night. The night editor of the
daily paper is wiling slave tc the
lamp. Every true man will screw his
courage up to the sticking point if the
reward is in sight-Atlanta Cosastity-
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18
FOUR.FOOTED PESTS.

How Western and Pacific Slope Farmers
Fight Prairie-DOgs and Squirrels.
A correspondent writes from Wyom-
ing Territory relating the difficulty he
has met in combating the depredations
of prairie dogs upon his crops, and
asking for some remedy.
The same trouble is encountered In
some portions of Colorado. and
farmer who has experimental with
various remedies gives the following
as the one which has proved most sue
cessful with him: Dissolve one ounce
of crystallized strychnine in quart Of
alcohol or whisky. Fill a common
wooden pail half full of water and add
the dissolved poison. Put in as much
white oats as the liquid will cover, and
allow it to soak over night. In the
morning drain off the water, saving it
for another time, and allow the oats
to partially dry. Then mix quantity
of sugar with the grain in order to dis
guise the bitter taste of the poison. A
tablespoonful of the prepared oats put
IL 1IOut VI CdCu uOlc Will
suffice to remove all the occupants
thereof.
If the correspondent has irrigation
facilities it is good idea to turn
head of water into the dog village and
drown them out In this State the
ground squirrels, which are fully as
destructive as the prairie dogs. gener-
ally make their burrows in clusters,
and by running a furrow from the
nearest irrigating ditch and turning
the water into the burrows as many as
thirty or forty squirrels have been
drowned out ut a time
A favOrite and successful method of
dealing with the squirrels here is with
poisoned raisins. Take a goOd-sized
raisin, split it open with sharp knife
and put an almost infnitesimal guam
tity of strychnine therein. Then close
it up and put it inside the mouth of
the burrow as far as the hand can
reach. The animals are very fond of
raisins, and they will be swallowed so
quickly that there will be no time to
taste the poison. Doubtless this will
work well in getting rid of prairie dogs
as well as the squirrels.
A machine has been invented and is
in successful use in this State for smok-
ing out squirrels and gophers. and as
the habits of the former are in MANY
respects similar to those of the prairie
dog. it would be good idea to try it
on them.
Where the surrounding country Is
open and uncultivated the same trouble
will be experienced in depicting the
ranks of the prairie dogs that has been
met with here in keeping down the
rabbits and squirrels. The first thing
to do is to put up tight fence, and
the next thing is to kill all the pests in
side the inclosure. Whether the do2s
will burrow under the fence is not
known, but probably not. so that after
they have been once driven out there
will be comparative immunity from
their depredations. And even should
they occasionally make their way in
side. it win be = comparatively easy
task to keep them down. With the
combined agencies Of water, poison
and smoke, together with vermin-
proof fence. which can be erected az
comparatively small cost, the task il
not impossible Of aecomplishmeut-
S0S francisco Ch5onjcle.
Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18

The schools of Reading. Pa. havs
adopted shorthand - an opion&
study.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-13
FIGHT ABOUT BOUNDING FAWN
Lively Scene in Court Caused by an
Indian Maidcn's FlOpement.


GLENs FALLS, n. Y, Aug. S.-The big
gest sensation ever know in this wild re-
gion occurred here yesterday. District
Attorney Patterson so eXasperated 81. A .
Howard that the latter struck him more
than once in the face. The quarrel arose
out of the elopement of a beautiful Indian
maiden, who resided with her parents at
the Pawnee village at Lake George. In
the twilight on Thursday Ida Arma Bene-
dict, known in her tribe as Bounding
Fawn, stole away from her fathers tent
to meet her dusky lover. She then pro-
ceeded in his company to the residence of
Justice Irmie, at Lake George. He gave
his name as Henry Renvills, and hls age
as n. The maiden claimed that she was
II, and the Justice married them. The
married couple then went to the abode of
the groom's brother. Atmidnight the old
Indian father Of the girl broke into the
bridal chamber, interrupted the nuptial
dream, pulled his daughter from the side
of her husband and carried her off in
triumph. On Friday morning the hus-
band engaged District Attorney Patters on
to bring his wife in court on writ Of
habeas corpus. The parties appeared be-
fore County Judge Cherltree, II. A. How
ard advocating the cause of the
parents, and District Attorney Patterson
that of the husband. Mr.. Howard sug-
gested, when the case was called, that the
District Attorney was not the proper per-
son Tn appear, as the girl was under IS,
and the law made 1t a crime to marry a
girl under that age. He also stated that
papers were then being made out for the
groom's arrest and for abduction, under
sec. 2S2 of the penal code. The District
Attorney then turned the case over to
| Lawyer Macarthur, who argued that the
bride should be handed over to her hus-
band. The court refused this demand, and
decided that she should go to her parents.
Counsellor Howard then asked that all
papers in the case be turned into the
County Clerks office, as he wanted to
prosecute the husband crIminally. He
said the position the District Attorney
had taken would justify people outside in
saying he was abetting the criminal.
The District Attorney called Howard an
''infernal liar'' and coward" several
times, until Howard took up the Judges
cane and struck the District Attorney
across the face with it. The air was blue
with curses for several minutes, and then
Patterson rushed at Howard, who. in re-
Spouse, struck him on the nose, sending
blood all over his face.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-13
VANITY OF OFFICEits
Politicians Who Seek Fame as
Soldiers.

In an article in the Philadelphia Press,
IN answer to an article Of Gen. Sickles
relative to the battle Of Gettysburg, Gen.
Lafayette McLaws says:
have known Confederate officers who
appeared to be running for Congress"
all the time they were serving in the
army. They were always trying to do
something to get their "names in the pa
pers," connected with some brilliant
affair of their own "bringing on" and
they never cared whether, or seemed
not to care or think, that their
rashness, or as Gen. Scott desig-
mated it thus: 'Pruriency for military
fame not yet acquired" might draw their
divisions, at least, into serious engage
ments in order 10 eXtricate this politician
from desperate strait. These officers,
while brave and daring and contributing
to keep up the high and venturesome
spirit of those about them, yet were al
ways sources of anxiety, as there was no
telling what they would do 80 as to be
kept before the public, and, in conse-
quence, some responsible staff officer had
to be constantly keeping watch and ward
over their movements.
Instances abound on both sides during
the war where subordinates have assumed
to be commanders-in-ch to be indie
pendent, and seemed to think they could
obey or disobey the orders of their chiefs
as they chose and have claimed that the
faults they committed in exercising their
own judgments, although contrary to
orders, were not faults. but really were
beneficial to the rest of the army VINO
We're engaged in obeying orders, and
thus they claim credit for their
sins of commission and omission,
which cannot be corrected unless we can
have authentic records of the reports OF
commanders and of orders issued on both
sides OF both armies, because when
these false claims are made public they
can. be corrected, can b. discussed, and
the coming defenders of our country can
learn from these reports and the discus
sion of them the art of war ana the
acts of commanders. 1t will be
great injustice TO many should
the publication Of these papers
be suspended and will lead to the suspi-
cion that there are some things which in
terested parties do not wish to see the
light at present nor until those who can
comment will be out Of the way. For in
stance, how can the true history of the
battle of Gettysburg be written unless the
historian of the future can have access to
all the documents pertaining thereto,
written by officers who know what they
are writing about, IN both armies? Let
us hope that the discussions brought
out in your paper and others
will so influence our law makers as
to bring forth an appropriation for the
purpose. In the records now published
have read reports which are very incor-
rect, and must have been made so from
false information or purposeIy to advance
the ambitious schemes OF the writer by
self-laudation, or were written to depre-
ciate the services of some other and bet
ter soldier. Let us pray for a continue,
ton of the records.