smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869




81 have great failh,9' says correspond
eut of the Practical Farmer, ain the educa-
tiDa of animals. eE= EEe ..


''F believed in the efficacy Of tie gentle
touch long before I knew of Rarey's meth
Cd. His success has been but a conirma'
ton of my theory. II may be set down as
a fixed fact that whenever horse or COW
or an OK is timid or shy--will not allow
person to approach or handle, unless it is


so situated that it cannot escape--a wrong
system of treatment has been pursued. The
animals of the farmer are naturally disposed
to be docile and affectionate. They recog'
nize the hand and voice of a friend almost
as soon as a human being would, and man
ifest their affection in y variety of ways,


which none but the kind master or keeper
will observe. Have you. not seen teamsters


who could manage their teams By "a soft
word far better than Others could do by
blows or harsh words?- have. Have
/ YOU not seen a IniilSnaid approach a COW
with a bucket without the slightest evidence,
of disposition on the part of the animal to
eFade herr And have you, not seen the
| same cow make every effort TO escape from
! the next milkmaid who approaches her e
| l have, and the reason was, that the first
had always treated kindly and gently, while
,the other had pursued the opposite method.
| The kind, gentle and considerate master


will generally have kind, gentle animals,


while the rude, impetuous and cruel master


will rarely. fail to have animals whose dis
positions will mate with his own. think
so, God has given those poor brutes fol-


our use, they minister to our wants, are pa


tient and uncomplaining, and certainly de


serve such treatment at our hands as viii


show that we properly appreciate the kind
ness of the Almighty in giving them to u


for the purpose of adding to Our icomfort.'
Year: 1869

From the ImpeFialist, edited under the
auspices and at the cost of the Secretary of
the Navy, Mr.. Adolph Borie, we extract
the following: .....


can imperialism is now possible, which
shall still leave the people free, as well as
secure, and make nation happy and con-
tented, as well as respectable" t.t...


Shis journal takes for its motto the IA
nous exclamation of Napoleon, ''The EN-
pire is Peace" and for its model the imper-
ialism of France. "A great many very hon
est, short sighted people r.dicule the move
ment, but in the condition of the country
to day, anu with the temper of the public
mind, trained as 1t has been to submission
and acquisescence in every despOtic act, a
complete change in our whole system of
government might be effected in twenty
four hours without the slightest effort at re-
sistaRce. A people who have submitted to
so many outrages and usurpations are pre-.
pared to submit to q great many more
Human nature is the same sort of stuff now
thatit was two or five thousand years ago.
Selfshness Is the most prominent thread
that runs through the warp and woof of its
texture. The cunning and the aspiring
know how to promote their own selfish
views by enlisting in their cause the selfish
feelings of the multitude. Men, like fish,
provided the hook is concealed, greedny
swallow the bait This fact was proven by
the ease with which they were carried away
by the enthusiasm that precipited the coun-
try into a civil war, not forseeing the
dreadful consequences that were to be en-
tailed op themselves. The hook was adj
roitly concealed by the ingenuity of the
unprincipled demagogues who stirred up
the elements of strife that they might ride
into power, place and wealth, and now
laugh at the dupes who were so easily gulled.
So here with this movement in favor of
an imperialism, the great mass are to be de-
Iuded with the idea that employment and
comfortable subsistence can now only be
attained through the influence of a strong
| government; that republican form has
| failed to confer it, and therefore let some
/ other be tried. The fact that one of Grants
! Cabinet is prominent in the movement, and


willing to embark financially in the enter


prise of starting paper devoted to its ad.


Yancement is significant, to say the leasi


of it. The new paper was quite successful


on the first issue. Oyer ter. thousand cop


les were sold before the expiration of the


first week of its publication. Grant himself


has been distributing copies to hissfriends


These are, stfaws, but they are the straw


which show The way the wind blows 4
Year: 1869

Jas. .AIAAxwRE,L-died-i -ia-the-C City
few days aSoi fFona INJURIES received
on the railroad. SfheE night after his
burial the inmates Of the hospital say
the dead man came back and appear
ed in the lower room as plain and as
palpable as in life. He actually pull
the clothing off one bed. The man


gave the alarm to the inmaIes of the
hospital, up stairs. They all got up
and came down. Some of them saw


the ghost and others did not, but ali


the inmates left, preferring to start


all on their journey rather than kick
ing up q muss with a ghost. fl..
Year: 1869

To nominate candidates for the following
Offices, viz:
- Governor


Lieutenant Governor;


One Judge Of the Supreme Court;


Treasurer of State;


Attorney General


One Member of the Board of Public
Works. -


The ratio of representation will be the
same as at previous Conventions, and as
follows: One delegate for each county,
and an additional delegate for every five
hundred votes cast for THoMAs-HUBBARD
Tor Secretary of State last year, and an
additional delegate for every fraction of
two hundred and fifty or more votes so
Year: 1869

A remarkable and rather fortunate Incl.
dent occurred during the severe storm which
swept over and deluged portions of Mchi.
gan on the 18th. Near Flint in thatstate is
b saw mill belonging to Hamilton d Cam.
eron. On the evening Of the commence
IN ent of the storm the men on quitting
work, left the slash.boards on the dam be.
tween their mill and an adjacent one Mr..
Hamilton was aroused from sleep about
midnight BY what he thought he recognized
as the sound of his own mill whistle. At
irst he deemed it impossible, knowing that
bis men had shut down and left the mill
several hours previously. The whistle con-
tnued to scream, however, until he became
satisfied of its identity, when be hurriedly
dressed himself and went TO the mill. There
he found that the cord attached to the valve
above the roof at one end, and to the engine
below at the other had become saturated by
the rain, and the tension thereby produced
had tightened the cord enough to open and
hold open the valve. There was steam suf
fcent left in the boilers to sound the whis.
tie of warning on the opening Of the valve,
just in time to bring to Mr. Hsmilton's
knowledge the Unprecedented rise il the
river, and the necessity to relieve the food
BY the immediate removal Of the slash
boards from the dam, which he speedily hsd
done.
Year: 1869

Brownlow says that if he desired tc
"bring the devil out Of his lair and secure
his active cooperation" with him in politics
he would proclaim himself Democrat
No more active cooperation of the devil
with the old vagabond can probably be Sc,
cured, but we hope for the sake oi the
country, the Democratic party and every
thing desirable in politics, ha will never de.
clare himself Democrat for while it is
utterly impossible for him to attain to such
degree of decency as to become in fact a
Democrat, the proclamation Of his adhesion
to the party would hurt it incalculably.
Year: 1869

Vice President Cofax has been looking
up the amount and character of our iudebt,
edness to Grant, and he finds that we owe
him for the safety of the nation from the
power Of the rebellion, and for its Salvation
from the conspiracy originated by Andrew
johnson to assume dictatorial power and
use the army to subiugate Congress and
America" When a man in Colfax's po-
sition driyels such nonsense as this around
the country, it is time the more discreet
members of his party should put him under
some restraints.
Year: 1869

The talents of the seal are nanifola,
from the agility which he displays IN
catching fish for his master, to the capacl-
ty he has shown in learning actually TO
speak. More than one seal has been taught
to utter distinctly the word Papa, and
several animals of tho kind are reported
to have gone even beyond, and to haye
pronounced several words at time. Nor
must their love of music be forgotten,
which is SO great that they will Use from
the water and remain nearly standing up
right as long as the instrument is played,
to which they will listen with unmstakabie
pleasure. 1t is not so very long since one
of this remaI kable race came every day for
six weeks from the waters of the Mediter-
ranean, to take her rest under che dlyan
of the custom house officer in Smyrna.
The latter had tanned her, and placed a few
rough planks at he distance of about three
feet from the waters edge under his couch
and on these boards the seal loved to rest
for several hours, giving vent to heI de-
light, oddly enough in a profusion efsighs
like those of suffering men. She ate read
lily the rice and the bread which were
offered her, though she seemed to have
some trouble in seftening the former
sufficiently to swallow it with ease. After b
an absence of several days, the atfeetionate b
creature re-appeared with young one
under her arm, but a month later she
plunged one day, frightened, into the
water, and was never seen again. an


Nearly about the sarne time, another
seal appeared suddenly in the very midst
of the port of Constantinople, undisturbed
by the number of caiques dashlng to and
fro, and the noise of thousand vessels
and their crews and their passengers. One
day the boat of the French legation was
crossing over to Pera, loaded with wine
for the ambassador. A drunken sailor was
sitting astride on the cask, and singing
boisterously when all of q sudden the seal
raised himself out of the water, seized the
sailor with his left arm, and threw him
self with his prey back into the waves.
He re-appeared at some distance, still
holding the man under his fn as if wish
ing to d splay his agility, and then sank
once more, leaving the frightened, obered
sailor, to make his way back to the boat
Surely, nothing more than one such oc-a
currence was needed to give rise to the
many romances of former ages; it the same
had happened in earlier days, the seal
would have been beautiful Nereid, who,
having conceived passion for the hapless
sailor, had risen to take him down to her
palace under the wayes.-~tmt'sana's dag.
n-1ne F -..- -..r.-.---sr
Year: 1869

A sketch writer in California deliver
ed Sunday School address, which is
better than anything Mark Twain can do,
and of which the following is an exam
pie: "You boys ous ht to be very kind to
your little sisters. l once knew a bad boy
who struck his sister blow over the eye.
Although she didn't fade and die IN the
summer time, when the June roses we're
blowing, with sweet words Of forgiveness
on her pallid lips, she rose up and hls
him over the head with a rolling pin, SO
that he couldn't go to Sunday School
for more than month, on account of not
being able to put on his beat hat."
Year: 1869

Goethe tells the following story, which amusingly
illustrates the capacity for drink of the Rhneland
ers:


The Bishop of Mayence once delivered sermon
against drunkenness and after painting in strongest
cOlors the over indulgence concludes as follows


But the abuse of wines does not exclude its use,
for it is written that wine reoees the heart of
Probably there is no one in my congregation who
can not drink four bottles of wine without feeling
any disturbances of his senses but If any man at
the seventh eighth bottle forgets himself as to
abuse and strike his wife and children and treat his
best friends as eneniea let him look into his own
conscience and in future always stop at the sixth
bottle. Yet, i; after drinking eight, even ten or
twelve bottles he still take his Christian neigh
Dor lovingly by the hand and obey the order of his
spiritual and temporal superiors let him thankfully
drink his modest draught. He must be careful,
however as TO taking any more for is seldom that
Providence gives any one the special grace to drink
sixteen bottles at sitting, it has me, its unwor-
thy servant, TO do without either negectlng my du-
ties or losing my temper"
Year: 1869

CATCHING WHALES BY ELECTRICITY


The Engineer says Ii. j. Rogers La, 81 :
-mtted proposal fjr this to the Society #
Civil and Mechanical Engineers. Practical
whaemen seem. it is said. to think tavorab-
ly of it. a galvanic battery is placed in


the whaling boat with powerful induction


coil communications From the terminals of
the battery two insulated wires pass as Goa
ductors, throu- n line Of the size ord nari-
ly used to the harpoon, which is made with
two heads, separated from each other. each
insulated wire passing through the harpoon
to the points where they terminate The
handle OF the harpoon is OF course insulated.
In this harpoon the circuit would be com
plete when it struck the wha,e. According
to another plan, one insulated wire passes
from one terminal through the rope to the
end of "a harpoon having one point only the
other insulated w.re hanging in the water,
and acting as a means for the return current.
/ The experiments have been tried on eels
and other small fish without perforating the
skin. The two wires from the poles of the
batters being simply directed in close prox


unity to each other towards the f h, or one
wire at the head and the other at the tail,
and the effect has been to produce rigility
and complete temporary para ysis the eel
and other fish appearing perfectly lifeless
during, and even after the period OF contact.
Year: 1869

E. A. Poll I'd, in letter to the New
York Sun, on the Virginia election. saws.


Paradoxical as it may appear, it is never.
theess actually true that an intelligent
party in the South regard the Virginia
election as unfavorable to the interests IF
their section, for the very reason that the
best men in the South. have been called
into office, and assumed the exercise of
power 1t is the very respectability of the
successful candidate that since the war has
fingered in the South, of pres rying some.
thing of the political school anI public
sentiments, distinctively Southern. 1t
means the dislntegration of anything like
peculiar Southern civilization, and the
abandonment, at least BY the intelligence
and responsibility of the South, of the hope
of rescuin anything considerable from the
ruins of its old institutions, and of ooposi-
tlon to the course of reconstruction.


The Virginia election is the first instance
IN which the best men IN the South came
toward at last to participate in reconstruc-
tlon 1t means acceptance of the situation
IN u sense much broader than acquiescence
to the demand Of any mere political party.
Counting all its moral effects on the South,
1t is an event in history; the date of IA new
Department the whole moral, social and
political organization of the South.
Year: 1869

PRESIDENT LINCoLN's GETTYsBuRG
GRAFTON, Nov. 10, 1863.-Foursc IRE
and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth upon this continent a nsw ration;
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal
Now we are engaged in great civil war,
testing whether that nation; or any other
nation; so conceived and so dedicated can
lopg endure. We are met on great bat
tle- field of that war We have come to de-
dicate portion of that field as a final res
tinc-place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live. 1t is
altogether fitting and proper that we should
do this. But in larger sense we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow this ground. The world will little
note nor long remember what We say here,
but it can never be forgot what they did
here. 1t is for US, the living, rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work
which thev who fought here have thus far
so nobly advanced. 1t is rather for US to
be here dedicated to the great task remain
inc before us, that from these honored dead
we take increased devotions to that cause
for which they gave the last full measure
| of devotion; that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died in vain;
that this nation under God shall have a
new birth of freedom; and that Govern
ment of the people by tho people shall not
| perish from the earth
Year: 1869

WEARING MouRNINa.-We long for
the day when this custom shall be obsolete.


1t is unbecoming the truly afflicted one.
The wearcr says, BY the black garments, Il
have lost a near friend ! am in deep
sorrow But true grief does not wish to
parade itself before the eye Of tbe stranger
much less does it assert its extent. The
stricken one naturally goes apart from the
world to pour out the tears Real afiiction
seeks privacy. 1t is no respect to the de
parte d friend to say that We are in sorrow.
Ii we have real grief it will be discovered


When God has entered household in
the awful chastisement Of death, it is time
for religious mediation and COMMUNICATION
with God On the part of the survivors,
How sadly out of place, then, are the
miIliner and dressing maker, the trying on
OF dresses and the trimming Of bonnets. =
There is something profdne in exciting The
van ty of a young girl by fl ting the waist
or trying Oh hat, when the corpse OF d
father is laying in an adjoining rom 1t
is a sacrllege to drag the widow for from
her grief, to be fitted for gown, or tc
select veil.


1t is often terrible oppressive to the poor
The widow left desolate with half dozen
little children. the family means already
reduced by the long sickness Of the father
must dlaw On her scanty purse to buy d
new wardrobe Throughout Tor herself and
for her children, throwing away the good
stock OF garments already prepared, when
she knows not where she is to get bread
for those little ones. Truly may fashion
be called tyrant, when it robs the widow
of her last dollar


Surely your sorrow will notb questioned,
even if you should not call in the milluer
to help You to display it Do not in your
affl help to uphold Gu tom which
will turn the affections of your poorer
ne ghbor to deeper poverty as well as sor-
row. Central Baptist.
Year: 1869

waited till the twilight.


And yet he did not come (;
stayed along the beach side


Aud slowly wandered home:
When who shonld come behind me
But him | would have bid
He said he came to find me


Do you really think he did!
He sail that since we parted


He'd though OF naught 30 sweet
AS OF the very momcnt.


Tue moment We should meet,
He showed me where. half shaded,
A cottage home lay hid
He said Tor me 'c made it


Do you really think he did ?
He said when first he saw me


Lite seemed AT once divine,
Each hight be dreamed OF angels,
.Aad every lace WAS mine.
Sometimes voice. when sleeping,
Would all his hope forbid.
Aud then b. walked up weeping
DO you really think he did ?
Year: 1869

Are two of the most common and virulent dis
orders prevalent on this continent, to these the
Ointment is especially antagonistic its modus Op-
e'o"di is first to eradicate the venom and then
complete the cure.
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and efectual
for preserving tho
hair. Faded or gray
hair as soon restored
to ats original color
p'M the gloss and
freshness Of youth.


Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

At the request of freud we copy the
following from the Enquirer. Our opinions
are known in couection With the "New
Movement, but We have thorght it best to
say but little ultl our people can have
more light. We desire that Virginia shall
be true alike to her ancient dignity aud heg
present peril
Year: 1869

To the Editor Of the Press:


1 notice in your issue OF the inst, an ar
ticle on the subject of Commercial Manures.
While agree in the main as to the fact that
there should be an investigation of the value
of the commercial manures now offered for
sale in the country in order that protection
may be afforded to the farmer, yet think
the article unjust, and calculated to injure
the interests of the farmer and the State.
While there is no doubt there are parties en-
gagged in manufacturing who are making
themselves rich by selling worthless article,
yet does it no more argue that there are no
good articles of Super Phosphate, more than
to say, because money is counterfeited, all
money is spurious. The experience of prac-
tical men, is swishout manure good farming
is impossible" and the increasing demand
for commercial manures is proof enough that
It pays to use them, and with the testimony
of men of science, sustained by practical
farmers, the trade is Increasing each year,
notwithstanding the croakings of some would
be-considered wise, geniuses, who have little
knowledge, of the matter they have under
taken to handle, and less sense of propriety
or good manners.


In reference to this investigation, 1 say let
us have it, and let it be through, but while
we have it let us have it done fairly-let it be
from men of standing in practical as well as
chemical knowledge-not from men who are
interested in the manufacture of any brands,
not from any hand sample, but upon basis
something like the following: Let this State
select and call a meeting at the expense of
the State of the leading chemists from the
various States, let them examine the various
fertilizers, let the manufacturers be under
oath that the article is what they are now
selling-and at the same time let samples De
brought from places where they are for sale,
or procured by persons selected BY the cnenl
lists. If then the manufacturers make o"'n
to what is false let it be made known.


My opinion is, no article OF Supr' Fnos-
nbate should he purchased unless the farmer
i satisfied upon the following points: 1st,
orc the manufacturers reliable as to means
moral worth, what is their standing at home,
and have they control Of the material in order
that uniform article should be made each
year? Do they have the assistance and ad-
vice ola chemist who is thoroughly reliable
theoretically and practically-and win he
guarantee the whole article to be fully up to
the standard? would then demand of such
manufacturers whose word is as good as theiE
bond and their bond good for their guarantee
that they shall each year guarantee their ar,
ticle to be as good as the previous year. ano
If proven by uncontroverted evidence tnas -
is false, then the remedy,is before the 'Ai


ut vould seem from the foregoing commu-


,,aat;on that somebody has been hit by our
recent article on commercial manuies' les mnen \


we charge our gun we never su purpose to fire ar


= of unless we see some game; but we die
Year: 1869

The STATE AS MURDERER.-H. NJ Bovee,
Of Wisconsin, to whom the abolition of capital
punishment in that State is due, in an elo-
quent appeal to Gov. Geary of Pennsylvania
to commute the sentence of a murderer to inn


prisonment for life, says:


The criminal, who finds himself confronted


with the gallows, is rarely able to understand
the distinction between his own crime and the
crime which the State proposes to commit in
strangling him to death. To us there is great
moral difference, and that difference is not in
favor of the State; for while the criminal may
attempt to justify or excuse his crime by vari-
Gus pleas, however puerile or specious they
may appear, the State can offer none in justi-


ication of her brutal act The criminal may
plead drunkenness in extenuation of his crime,


but the State, in hanging him, can make no
such excuse, for the State never "gets drunk. T"
The criminal may plead loue Of money in pal
liation of his guilt, but the State can make no


such plea, for the State is rich. He may plead
weakness in extenuation OF his conduct, but
the State can offer no such excuse, for the
State is strong. He may plead ignorance as a
mitigating circumstance of his crime, but the


State can make no such plea, for the State has
pisdoDs and knowledge. The criminal may
plead the inability of his moral power to con-
troll, for the time being. the baser propensities
of his nature, hence his crime. VIII the State
of Pennsylvania admit that her sense of moral
right is eUer overborne by the passion of re-
| venre?