smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

THE fbres of the leaf which spread out
from the base are prolongations of the
vessels of the wood; and beneath these
hbres, and forming the covering of their
under surface, are similar prolongations of
the inner bark. The green exterior por-
tion of the leaf is a continuation of the
outer tissue of the bark in thin porus
form. The pores or mouths in the green
portions are an essential part of the struc-
ture. The leaf of the common lilac is said
to contain not less than 120, 600 pores to
the square inch. They are most numer-
Gus on the under surface. The leaves
spread out their broad surfaces to imbibe
gaseous food from the atmosphere. Under
the stimulus of light, they continually
absorb carbonic acid from the atmosphere.
In the vessels of the leaves this is decom-
posed into carbon and oxygen. The car
hon is retained and the oxygen thrown Oft
During the darkness, oxygen is absorbed,
and combining with the carbon in the ves-
sells, is thrown off IN the form of carbonic
acid, but much less is thrown off in the
night than in the day Hence in the
Arctic regions, where the sunlight is never
absent during the summer, and there is mo
darkness to interrupt the absorption of car
bon, we can understand how vegetation
pushes upward with almost miraculous
rapidity and in regions where the days
are very long and the nights comparative
ly short, we see why the wheat and corr
spring up and reach maturity in a few
weeks.


Twenty-Five hundred gallons of air con
tain about one gallon Of carbonicaci gas
! To find and absorb this small quantity o.
gas, the tree spreads out its thousands o.
| feet of leaves, which are constantly in mo
tion in the ever moving air, and thus the
ponderous trunks of the forest are bull
up, atom by atom, from the atmosphere


On single oak seven millions of leavel
have been counted. Now if each equar,
inch contains 10000 pores, and each lea
four square inches of surface, it may no
be difficult to show in figures the number 0
pores on the leaves of the oak, but whC
can grasp the idea, or form in his mint
any adequate conception of such mum
Der But this is but one of the trees ii
the forest that spread over the surface o
the earth at this moment, and which haV
sprung from it since the creation. Ant
every blade of grass and every grain ant
every shrub and weed is equally busy dur
ing its growing season, in drawing its sub
stance from the tleeting wind.-Nea0 Eng
land HdTTnSr .-. "a ..,, o.. f.- -.... o.
Year: 1868

Yet this enormous expenditure is entire.
ly useless. No one claims that he is the
better for the use Of tobacco in any form.
It is a mere habit, innocently formed, and
while at first pleasure has grown to be
q master and tyrant ....


Not only this, but 1t Is an offensive,
filthy habit finding place In the church,
in the parlor, the ladies' saloon, OF else
where, as high order Of society meets
and indulges in exercises which the higher
nature Graves,


Multitudes, using il, are ashamed of the
fruits Of II, and would be glad TO be rid OF
it, IL they knew how to break away from
the enchantment But this is not all, or
even the worst of it, II is injurious TO
health when taken to excess operStea As
Of a poisonous nature, weakening the sys.
TEN, and leading to premature death


Such evils, together with ito enormous
expenditure, ought to make sober, reflect
ing conscientious men consider whether II
can be right to continue such habit as
this-ought it not to be overcome at all haz-
ards, and thus promote health and clean.
illness, and save the funds thus uselessly
spent to provide for personal and family
wants aud build up the cause of truth and
Righteousness in the worldH- Brchdngs
Year: 1868

THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS REwARD.-This is the amount offered by E. A. Rollins, U. s Internal Revenue Commissioner, to any per son or persons who will give information that will lead to the forfeiture of any diaHleyy whose proprietor has not given the notice re- quired by law to the Assessor of his district, and which information shall also lead to the conviction of any person engaged in opera ting the said distillery. Here is chance for informers to make a small pile.
Year: 1868

PATENTS TO MiNiNG CLAiYs--It is some what singular that the citizens of Arizona, should be so long left without a show to ace quire patents to their mines. The Territory is now under charge of the Surveyor General of California, Mir Upson, and we believe that gentleman stands ready to commence busi- ness in this Territory as soon as 9 Register and Receiver are appointed. All over the Pacific coast, except here, we believe, offices are opened in all the mining districts, and miners are availpc themselves of the liberal provisions of the Congressional Mining Law, and acquiring titles to their lodGS There arc a grca, many lodges in this Territory upon which the necessary amount of labor has been performed, and the requisite sum of money expended and we know that our miners are ready and anxious to acquire Government title to their property. We hope our Dele gate in Congress will attend to this matter, and see that officers are appointed. People who go into the wilderness and risk their lives and property in it's development should

 we think, have every facility afforded them for securing the property which their energy perseverance and hard labor have acquired.
Year: 1868

We will notify our subscribers of the date Of expiration Of the time for which they shall have paid, and, should they not renew their suhscrp- tions, in a reasonable time, they need not expect to receive the paper.
Year: 1868

The individual who was acciden-
tally injured by the discharge OF
duty is still very low. *ta


Josh Billings says he don't care
how much a man talks if he will
only say it in few words.


If q burnt child breads the fire,
why does person who has been
singed by .Cupid's torch so often
have a lingering regard for the old
flame?


Happiness is not in greenbacks,
but in a spirit of contentm ent.-
Nevertheless money does not nee
essarily distress people. We rec
ollect having five dollars and a
half once upon a time, and were not
at all unhappy thereat. @s
Year: 1868

What makes those men who asso-
ciate habitually with women, superior
to others? What makes that woman,
who is accustomed to, and at ease in
the company OF men, superior to her
own sex in general Why are the
women of France so universally adj
mired and loved, for their colloquial
powers? Solely because they are in
the habit OF free, graceful and con-
tinual conversation with the other
sex. Women in this way lose their
frivOlity, their faculties awaken, their
delicacies and peculiarities unfold all
their beauty and captivation, in the
spirit of intellectual rivalry. And
the men lose their pedantic, rude, de.
clamatory, sullen manner. The coin
of the understanding and the heart
is interchanged continually. Their
aspirants are rubbed off their better
materials polished and frightened !;
and their riches like fine gold, is
wrought into finer workmanship by
the fingers of women, than it ever
could be by those of men. The iron
and steel of our characters are laid
aside, like the harshness of warrior
in time of peace and security.
Year: 1868

RATs--How to fix them.--Chlor
ide lime has frequently proved sure
thing to drive rats from any place
infected by them. An exchange
says: An ounce scattered in the
place where they come to feed, or
wrapped in muslin, and put in their
holes, where it acquires dampness,
produces gas that is not offensive
to man, but is to rats. If chloride Of
lime is moistoned with muriatic acid,
and placed in drain, vaultor cellar,
and closed from the air little while,
the rats will depart, because it will
be death to remain. This is also a
good disinfectant, and will, for time,
cure the eflluvia of a dead rat. One
application of chloride of lime to rat
holes has driven them away for a
year, when a renewal of it started
them again.
Year: 1868

Matte had been told that it was
naughty to chew gum. Next day she
came into the house, full of impor
'tance, saying that the cow was naugh-
ty, for she was chewing gum as hard
as she could.
Year: 1868

A boy at the age Of ten years was
sent to school for the first time. The
teacher to test his information asked
him J.:


"Who made you?"


The boy could not answer. The
teacher told him the proper answer,
and desired the boy to remember it.
Some hours after the teacher repeat
ed the question.


The boy rubbed his head in great
agony and at length answered.


81 swow--Tve forgot the gentle
mans name"
Year: 1868

not the actual damage TO Crawford-that is TO cay tho
profit OF the Office IL any the amount received by
Addison less the amount Crawford did receive for that
time in some other business or occupation 1t ~ also


urged that the udgmen. OF custer only determined that
Addison was not elected not that Crawford was elected
Year: 1868

vERDANT VALLEY, PoCAHoNTAs


Co., W. VA, January S, 1868.


Editor Of the Register:


/ promised some time in the early
part of last fall to tell you how We were
getting along with our free schools, un-
der Radical management. Well, We are
getting along swinmingly. We have
had, on ON average, one month of school
each year since our admirable free
school system came into operation.
Now that is doing we'll, is it not,
when we are only paying sixty cents
tax on the one hundred dollars worth
of property' We are getting school
houses built, too. Twill tell you how
we do it. We have done away with the
credit system altogether, and are now
going in on q safe plan. IOu know
She law authorizes the Board OF
Education to borrow money for
building purposes. but they think that
the safest plan would be to only invest
what money they have on hand, which
is about one hundred and eighty dollars
TO each school district. Each contractor
in bidding for a job has to say that he
will do 50 much toward building house
for one hundred and eighty dollars, the
same contractors put nPsa frame for q
house and others little more, and some
little less. TIE traveller through this
country can see number Of such jobs
all waiting for moro mohsy to finish
them. Probably at that rate they will be
finished In tive or six years, but there is
no contractor but what would have
rather finished house and taken town
ship bond for the balance of his money
Year: 1868

The Jackson (Ohio) Standard, in an
article on leap year, and the liberty
which it is supposed to give woman to
make offers Of love, says: If woman
loves a man, let her tell him SO, in a
prudent, delicate manner, and if he is a
man of sense (and no other kind of a
man deserves the love of woman) he will
reply in becoming manner. If the ef-
fort is too great, write out the propo-
sal and send it to him. l believe in
writing. You can weigh your own
words and consider their probable effect.
Try it, girls, especially leap year. Many
q worthy man is too diffident to propose
marriage, who, if some sensible woman
(and only such address, should make
proposal, would accept. Let yonr COM
munications be strictly confidential,
and no honorable man will betray that
confidence. But let not the men leave
all to the women during leap year. Go
on with your part of the contract, as u.s.
ual. believe that marriage, as q gen.
eral rule, is best for both men and wo-
men. Of course there are exceptions.
Year: 1868

1 Congress has admitted that it never
had any fixed policy af reconstruction
It's last proposition upon this subject,
admits that all its past measures for re-
storing the South were inadequate to
the end and that il was incompetent for
the task.


The latest deliverances point to the in
vestmeut of GRANT with dictatorial pow
ers and to the abolition of the Supreme
Court. Then, if GRANT succeeds in At
ricanizing aud Radicalizing the South,
Congress will appropriate the glory.
Should he fail, the burden of the
failure will he his and Congress will
dodge the responsibility.


The great question Of reconstruction
is now farther from settlement by the
Radicals than at any time since the
close Of the war. Every step taken by
Congress is admitted TO be blunder,
and the additional confession is made
that the Executive aud Judicial branch
es Of the Government mpst be wiped out
to the end that tbs earnest" purposes of
."luyalty" may be effected
Year: 1868

GERS Rob the Revenue OF the Tax on


Whisky.


The Senate has under consideration
the whisky tax robberies. Mr.. Schenck,
chairman of the whisky revenue CON-
mittee in the House, shows that while
the Government was entitled to receive
hundred millions of dollars tax on
whisky, not more than thirty millions
were paid-showing that seventy per
cent. was divided between the Abolition
revenue officers and the proprietors of
the whisky. A pretty good per centum
for collecting-pretty we'll up to the
Jay Cooke ring.


A plan is under consideration for as
certaining the whisky-producing capac-
ity of all kinds of grain, with view to
tax the grain to the extent of what
hisky it ought to yield, before sub:
jecting it to the process of distillation,
in the hope of increasing thereby the
whisky revenue We venture the pre-
diction that before this Congress can
prevent its friends in the revenue SER
vice from pocketing the chief part Of
the taxes assessed, it will have TO as
certain the eOrn-prOducing capacity of
all the cultivable laud in the country,
in view of taxing it for what grain it
ought to yield.


PAYMENT OF FEDERAL BONDS IN GREEN


BACKS TO BECOME THE REPUBLICAN


PLATFORM.


In the Cincinnati Commercial, lead
ing Republican journal, Of the 10th, we
find the following:


at is not impossible that, by the
time the great National Conventions
meet, the greenback and bond policy of
the Republicans and Democrats will be
substantially the same, and that, if an
issue is to be made on that question, the
latter will have to take the course
which it has been predicted it would,
and frankly declare itself in favor of
fat reputation"


Too late in your suggestions. The
Democratic position is already taken.
The only earthly chance for the CONNER
ciarS party is to take the advance posi-
tien of reputation that it speaks of, for
itself We have little doubt that any
honest party, any party less obnoxious
to the country than that led on by
thieves and robbers that has controlled
and ruined the Government for the past
seven years, would beat greenbacks on
the doctrine of reputation of all debts
incurred exclusively to rob the tax pay
ers, merely to enrich shoddy thieves;
and if the Abolition party is continued
in power it will come 70 this at last
Crisis.
Year: 1868

VkEENBRlEh IpJNlls w. ~


January 1868. !
Editor of the Register;


The State Conservative Convention
will, | presume, convene in Wheeling
to-day. Every one in the State oppos-
ed to Radicalism will look with intense
interest to its proceedings.


1t is to be hoped that q plan of organ
ization will be perfected and adopted,
that will develop the entire Conserva-
tive power Of the State at the next cleo
ton. This is all that is needed to re.
deem the State from Radical misrule.
Organize the virtue and intelligence of
the State into pelltcal power and they
will soon hurl from office those who
have disgraced the positions they have
occupied. We have too long needed
the counsels OF the time-serving and
timid. We must beard the Lion Of Rad
icalism in his den, if we expect to de-
stroy him. Because some Of us may
have participated in, or sympathized
with the late rebellion, we should by no
means flatter ourselves that we have no
part to perform in the great work of
redeeming the State. Every man op-
posed to tyranny and oppression, and
who is in favor of Republican form Of
government, should realize that he has
something to do.


Participation in the rebellion is noev-
idence that one is now opposed to the
Government of the United States or
that of West Virginia. am satisfied
that with but very few exceptions,
those who were actively engaged in hos
tilities against the Government during
the late war, are now much more loyal
to it than many who claim to have had
an exuberanco of patriotism during the
DAYS of the rebellion, and since the
close of the war. The loyalty
of the dominant power consists,
in a great degree, of a total disregard OF
the rights of others, and an unsuitable
hdnkering after the "loayes and fishes
The loyalty of most of the faithful and
honored in this portion of the State is
the legitimate offspring of an iuvincible
fear of bullets. Many of our most bril-
liant lights in the Radical ranks, were in
the commencement of the war, Jealous
advocates and defenders of the Southern
Cause, but as the contest waxed hot
they seemed to realize the truth that


He who fought and ran away,


Might live to fight another day.


These are tho men who seek to deprive
their superiors of every right of citizen
ship, and who will make them "hewers
of wood and drawers of water" for them
in alltlme to come, if test osths can be
retained as the only evidence of loyalty.


Let every man in the State | care not
what may have heve been his political
status heretofore, ifhe disapprove the ne
fsrious acts of the Radical party, enlist
at once in the Conservatives ranks, and
contribute all in his power to its over
throw. OCCASIONAL.
Year: 1868

than to do the way they are doing.
Perhaps the Boards of Education will
see. their folly and give the next con-
tractor the whole job, and give then
township bond for what money they
have not on hand. ...


There are plenty of houses that could
be used for schools, but we have no
teachers. Those who can take the oath
cannot pass an examination, and those
who can pass an examination will not
take the oath. Persons who can take
the oath and pass an examination could
get employment in this county. That
there will be some change in the pres
ent state of affairs, so that We can have
some schools in this county, is my earn
est wish. NOBODY.
Year: 1868

trho had serred in the Southern armies,
seeing the error of their ,cays, hare been
enrolled as "Rddicdl roters." THIS ras
from their oun choice. II the balance ct


the disfranchised riH see the error OF fhear


Gays, and bring forth fruit meet for re-
peataace, they ,riH be enrolled.
A palmer defiance Of public sentiment
could hardly be imagined. ID is. not
only admitted that the Registration
Law has been "a partisan engine" in the
past, but that for the future it will be
used to enroll all men of whatever an
tecedents, who will become Radical
voters.


This charge has frequently been made,
and the evidences are in existence to
substantiate it. But that such odious
purposes should be openly avowed, and
public opinion impudently defed,
could scarcely have been expected even
from the most shameless Radicalism.


We accept the admission as it is made.
A Radical law, ostsnsibly designed to
register men without reference to their
politics is confessed to be used, as far as
possible, for the enrolment only of
Radical voters. 1t is not the disfran-
chisement of rebels that is sought
Men may have been stepped i'll treason
t. the lips, but if they will only act
with the Radical party, then their sins
be forgiven them, their new faith hath
made them whole.


Such being the case, let the people
reflect upon the monstrous character of
the Radical proscriptive system. The
only ground upon which it was ever
iustified-to wit: that rebellion forfeits
political rights-is now abandoned, and
the villainous proposition is maintained
that Radicalism alone must be the test
of suffrage. Has such proposition any
element of justice'


We oppose the Registration law and
the general prescription system be-
cause they are wrong in themselves.
We now set up the additional and ac-
knowledged objection that they are
used to compel the adoption of the po-
litical views of the Radical party and
for no other purpose. That admission of
the Times is not now discussed for the
last time.
Year: 1868

4 Loyal meeting in the interest OF
. renegade Democrat, now wanting
to be City Sergeant, was held lastnight
In the Fonrth Ward. The object OF the
meeting was to induce the only Radi-
cal candidate in the field to back out,
anl give his lately reconstructed friend
an open field as against the Democratic
nominee. We did not learn the-result.
Settle il among yourselves, gentlemen,
and when you decide upon the particu-
lar victim, the Democracy will offer him
up with becoming ceremony.
Year: 1868




Or CoURsE.-Col Forney, the Sec
retary of the United States Senate,
and editor of the Press and Chronicle
says that the Radicals will disregard
the Supreme Court should it decide
the Reconstruction Acts unconstitu-
tional. These men talk as if there
was no Constitution, and seem bent
on nothing but changing the whole
form of government. There is a deep
political depravity in the course OF
certain Radicals tha: should make ev-
cry good citizen tremble tor the fu-
ture of our country. When the de-
cisions of the Supreme Court are no
longer to be regarded as law, but as
the mere ipse DIRT of z" old grannics, -
all may as well make up their minds
that the liberties of the people are
gone. We may prate as we please
about this being "tho best govern
ment the world ever saw" it viii not
be long before il will be the worst.
Year: 1868

The Atlanta correspondent of a
Georgia paper tells of chap who
came down from one of the upper
counties and encountered man with
a hand organ covered with green
cloth. The man began TO turn and
the countryman put down a quarter,
which the other Immediately took up.


Down went another, which shared
the same fate, aud another. Tho
stranger, finding his pile getting low,
turned to a bystandcr and asked ;
"Mister, what sort of a game is this,
anyhoww
Year: 1868

RATHER SEvERE-Senator Bayard,
Of Delaware, at the close of his re-
marks in the Senate in opposition TO
administering the oath to Ben Wade,
said: al hope, however, that we
shall be relieved of the necessity of
any decision in a case like this as we
can be relieved by the action of the
honorable Senator from Ohio. lie
must, of course, decide that question
for himsclfin the first instance; but
for my own part, if | stood in the same
position, the wealth Of worlds could
not tempt me for an instant to think
of sitting as judge in case where
my interests were so directly in
volved."
Year: 1868

Tho Chicago Journal says reports
from Southern and Central Illinois
are almost without exception that
the. winter wheat passed through the
cold weather successfully and promis-
es an unprecedented harvest. Faro
crs all over the West are taking ad-
vantage of the unusually early open
ing Of the season to SOW their grain.
II the summer will be anything like
as favorable for farmers as tho spring
is, the Northwest will astonish the
world with the extent Of its crops
this venr
Year: 1868

they settle the next Vice Presidency
among the score of aspirants for that
post Of honor on the ticket with Gen,
Grant. With the whiskey interest
under his control, however, Presi-
dent Wade viii doubtless be able to
manage the Chicago Convention.
Cotton was king, but whisky, under
the Internal Revenue laws, has taken
his place.