smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

even without her box Of finery yet the good
will of your neighbors is exceeding pleasant.


Another thing Fanny excels in is the ac-
acknowledgement Of courtesy, which is itself as
great n courtesy as the performance of kind
ness. II she is invited to a lawn party or a
boating picnic, whether she accept or not, she
pays a visit to her hostess afterward and ex-
presses her pleasure or her regrets; and she
pays it with promptness and not with tardy
reluctance, as if il were a burden II she has
been making weeks visit away from home,
she notifies her hostess of her safe return and
her enjoyment of the visit, ms soon as she is
back again. If bouquet is sent her too in
formal for n note-she remembers TO speak
of it afterward. You never can remember
No; but Fanny does. That is why admire
her. IL she has borrowed book. she has an
appreciative word TO say when she returns il
and if she has dropped it in the mud, she does
not apologize and offer to replace it. She re-
places it first and apologies afterward, though
she has to sacrifice much needed pair of
four-button gloves to do it Indeed no per-
son has as little apologizing TO do MS Fanny.
because she does everything promptly and
you may notice that what we apologize for
chiefly is delay. We perform our little social
duties only not in good season, and so rob
them of half their grace. 1t takes no longer
to answer letter to-day than it Will take to-
morrow. But if the letter requires an an
swer instantly, and you put it off day after
day, your correspondent is vexed. and your
tardy answer will never be quite a reparation
Remember that no explanation. no apology,
is quite rs good as to have done the thing ex-
actly as it should be in the first place. - Gdil
HdmiltOH, 50. Nicholas fOr December.
Year: 1877

PRovIScETowN, Just inside the northern
hook of Cape Cod, on Massachusetts bay, and
as curious place as any in the state has very
little history, but what it has is unique and
precious. 1t was the first landing place of
the Pilgrims, whose Maytlower rode tranquil
ly in its spacious harbor while the famous
compact was signed in her cabin and while
Peregrine White was born, first native
New Englander. The Proyincetown annalists
are reasonably proud of these distinctions,
and it is odd that a move has not been made
before this to commemorate them in some
way What the Cape Cod association are now
proposing is to erect a lookout tower; this
would be very good, and conveniently afford
the summer visitor what he now has to do
some hard walking to get.-a magnificent
view of the Atlantic, the broad bay, the beau
tiful harbor and the singular desert dunes of
the Cape
Year: 1877

lures which were unusually popular at the
East, and several which were written and de-
livered in California, and which his Eastern
admirers never heard, but which they can now
have the pleasure of reading. A sad pleasure
it is, too, for the rare personal charm of delv-
cry is taken from them but those who re-
member Mr.. King can invest them with the
memory Of the writer, and imagine how he
would have spoken them.


Christmas is coming and already prepara-
tions for the festival are being made. | am
going to show you by and by some of the nov
elites of the season.


SALLIE JOY WHITE.
Year: 1877

The CHANGED SoUTHERNoR.-Mr Henry
Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal in lecture in New York, on Tues
day evening, said "A change has taken
place No more is the representative South
ern man taken to be a Dragging bully. In the
meridian of their prosperity Southerners were
an easy-going, pleasure-loving people. Men
living on great estates, with few cares or ex-
elements. are likely to grow indolent. The
ntleman of the South had plenty of time,
anI he thought he had plenty of money to
lose: and the lower orders initiated his ex-
ample. But the crash came and the pretty
fabric fell. The great and the small the good
and the evil, Were all engulfed in one wide
spread, overwhelming ruin. There is now
nothing of that gilded structure. 1t is no lon
ger fashionable or respectable to fritter time
away in idle, costly pleasure. The battle
Scared and time and care-worn South is most
unlike the South that was. The colored race
is Gods shadow on the dial of American prog
ress, whose cabalistic figures the wisest are
not able to read. l only know, and therein
am happy, that slavery is gone with the bag
and baggage of an obsolete past The South
of the past is gone. The wide veranda filed
with pleasure folk, the great estate,
the system which refused to recognize its re-
lations to progress and civilization, have pass
ed away The poor. weak person who lives
only to amuse himself is thought nothing of
in the South. If proselytsm be the supreme
JOY of mankind, New England must be pre-
eminently happy, for the ambition of the
South is to Yankee the Yankee"
Year: 1877

A PLUcKY WITNESS. c. Corckran
of Ripley county, Mo, is an important wit
ness in some cases against 'Moonshiners


and Ku-Klux in that part of the State. He
has been threatened with assassination several
times and attempts have actually been made
upon his life. At one time he joined the Ku-
klux in order to obtain evidence, and his
character happened to be discovered by the
fellows. who determined upon revenge. Ac-
cordingly his house was visited one night by
an armed band who demanded him to come
out and surrender. He warned them away,
threatening to fire on them. but they replied
with "A volley of buck-shot. He replied Wig
orously killing one and wounding two others.
For some time thereafter he was let alone. In
October last he was in Doniphan, the county
seat, and while ON the street saw the sheriff
attempting to arrest desperate fellow who
had fred on and wounded two citizens who
were giving aid to the officer. The latter
calling upon Corckran to help him, he fired
on the fellow, wounding him over the left eye
and bringing him TO a stand. The arrest was
shortly followed by the release of the prison.
er under bonds. and he swore to be revenged
upon Corckran few days later the two
met, the rufian espying Corckran going up
the Court House steps. EXclaiming Now,
I've got you" he drew his revolver but
Corckan was too quick for him, turning alb
ruptly about and shooting him dead. 1t is
exciting to have such good fortune i'll the
midst of so many dangers, but it can hardly
be comfortable to have many enemies.
Year: 1877

A competent judge declares that Prot
Pasteur has saved enough to France 10y
MS discoveries to pay the entire idcmnl-
" to Germany. He is great chemist,
and one OF the most skiIl!uI experiment..
crs in the world For many years he
uus been sujecting the theory of spon
Utneaus generation to the most severe
scientific tests, and is positive IN his con,
vlction that all life, SO lar us We know it,
springs from living seed or germs. The
experience of the best dealers in wine
has been battled in seeking remedy for
Il difficulty. Professor Pastcur puI
some OF the spoilt wine under the micro.
scope and soon discovered the cause OF
the trouble. Minute organisms were
found in the wine in every instance, and
the change Of quality was dnc to their
presence and glowth. OF course they
grew from germs, and if the germs-could
be destroyed the mischief would be aver =
ed.


Judging from experiments in other
liquors that heat would be fatal to the
germs, he subjected the wines to a de
gree of heat which they could bear with.
injury, aud found that all the germs
were destroyed. The wine makers profit
by the science of the chemist, and saved
millions OF dollars formerly lost by' the
spelling OF the wines.


Having been successful in making wines
unaterable, he turned his attention to
vinegar This was subject to change
which made it putrid and worthless. He
detected another kind of organism in
vinegar, and taught the dealers how to
destroy 1t in germ and keep the vinegar,
unharmed. He next attempted to find
the cause of "a disease which was running
the silk husbandry OF France. Silk
worms ceased to spin they lived and
fed as usual, but produced no silk.


CuItivators were puzzled to under
stand the matter and after vain efforts
to read the riddle, were inclined to give
up slIk-raisiDg as II practical failure.
But Pastenr with his microscope saw
what the sharp eyes Of the growers could
not discover. He found that the disease.
called pebriG, was due to u minute para
site in the intestines of the silk worm.
which spread through the body and fill
ed up the sack where the silk ought to
form. The poor insect attempted to
spin, but there was nothing to spin from,
and its usefulness was ended. Pasteur
followed up the inquiry by watching the
grow,o OF the parasitethrough all its
changes, till lie found the stages where it
could be destroyed without injury to the
insect. He thus made the foudations Of
silk husbandry secure and prominent,
and saved one Of the most valuable in.
dustrics Of France from utter ruin.
Year: 1877

The sentence to be passed on Robert L.
Case, the ex-president of the Security Life
Insurance Company has been postponed
until Tuesday next and it is reported
that earnest efforts are meanwhile to be
made to secure new trial, to obtain
delay of sentence until an appeal for new
trial can be argued and decided, or to in
duce the Court to infict so light punish
ment as to be almost nominal, considering
the character of the offence. The punish
ment for perjury committed "where an
oath or affirmation is required by law"
which is the prisoners offence, is impris-
onment in a State prison mot ex-
ceeding ten years." This does not fix
a minimum term, but it is provided
(section 12, chapter l, part 4, title 7, volume
3, Revised Statutes Of New York;, that mo
person shall in any case be sentenced to i'm
prisonment in a State prison for any term
less than one year" The prisoner might
therefore be sentenced to single years i'm
prisonment. Would such punishment be
adequate to the offence? No person should
seek to CRAFTY a vindictive feeling against
the prisoner, and there are probably few
people in New York who do not sympathize
with him i'll his fall, and especially with his
family. But the crime OF which Mr.. Case
has been convicted has become too general
and has been productive of too much misery
to justify on almost nominal punishment
when the rare event of a conviction occurs.
The prisoner should not be considered in
this case. The example Of severe penalty is
required for the public good to cbecka dan
perous and cruel crime.
Year: 1877

In the form of report OF directors
meeting of the Direct Cable Company is
given sort OF stump speech by Mr.. John
Pendcr, the purport Of which is to show
that no cable company can ever be truly in
dependent save when 1t is dependent, nor
thoroughly prosperous until it has been
sold out and sacrificed to the interests Of
another company. 1t is well known that
the Anglo-American Company have reached
q point at which the opposition of the Direct
Company, by injury to the receipts, was
likely to prove destructive to its inflated
values and thus to make the fortune of its
own shareholders and benefit the public.


But desperate policy was rcsorted
to to capture this opposition and
save the nearly bankrupt concerns.


To attempt to show, as Mr.. Pender does,
how beneficial this has been to the interests
of the company absorbed, is like proving by
the opinions Of oil the VOLTS friends how
much better it is for lamb that he should
serve as o VOLTS dinner rather than fool
Year: 1877

There is law of the State which pun
ishes On attempt to incite n riot. If we
had statute to punish m attempt to incite
bad temper, envy, jealousy, dissatisfaction,
denunciation and general sense of out
rage and injustice among very impor-
tant section of our people-the mothers of
the cty---it ought certainly to be put in
force against the originators of the proposed
baby show which is to take place on the
Goth inst. 1t is appalling to reflect on the
scene that will be witnessed when the
prizes which are offered as an inducement
for the display Of the innocents ere awarded.
Some reports say that the decisions are to
be left in tho hands Of q committee of ply
sicians and Others that they are to be
made by limited number of persons
selected from the spectators. We should
be sorry to DO one of the medical
gentlemen or unit of the limited number.
Imagine tho risk that judges features
would stand if compelled to deliver his
opinion in the midst of hundred or more
disappointed mothers, every one Of whom
would bo profoundly impressed with a
sense of the injustice of the decision and of
the insult offered to her own overlooked
darling! The danger would be imminent
enough if the merits Of the competing
babies alono were to be decided But when
it is considered that the judges have also to
award premium to the handsomest mother
the unenviable and perilous position they
must occupy may be readily conceived.
Tongues might be held silent by an in
tensity Of indignation, but the withering
contempt that would be darted from angry
eyes on the unfortunate umpire would be
an infiction to remember during q life
@;uoo
Year: 1877

Reslgma tiOn or Mac MA hons Cabinet.


The pressure of events in France has at
length had its effect, and the Cabinet pre-
sided over by De Broglie has rendered its
resignation to the Marshal President. So
far this is reassuring event, but under
certain conditions the retreat of the Ministers
may only render the situation more strained |;
for although France may vote for republic
and the anti-republican Ministry may be
wise enough to recognize the national voice,
the unwavering egotism and obstinacy OF
President MacMahon seem to be sufficient
barrier to settlement. His power to coerce
the Assembly by threats of dissolution is,
however, ut an end, for the moderate or
Orleanist group in the Senate, whose votes
can turn the scale to either side. refuse to
consent to another appeal to France. They
counsel tho Marshal to make q COM
promise with the moderate men of
the Left and so arrange the diff
ficulty. Will he do this, or will
he rather prolong the irritation by
choosing now Cabinet, composed OF
individuals obnoxious to the majority and
the country? We hope not; but we fear
that influences prejudicial to the peace of
France will not be absen. from the councils
of the President. He has now an oppor-
tunity Of recovering mucn of his popularity
by trusting France and the mon she has
selected to represent her.
Year: 1877

The finances were the subject of discus
sion almost exclusively in the two branches
OF Congress yesterday. In the Senate Mr..


Davis, of West Virginia, introduced an old
subject in regard to tho accuracy of the
Treasury accounts and reports, which he
maintains are very far from being correct.
At the last session of Congress the matter
was investigated by committee, but
the report and explanations then made
were not satisfactory to him and he
has again been gratified by the appointment
Of another committee for the same purpose.
In the House the debate on the Anti-Re-
sumption bill ran on oil day and was con-
unued ut ON evening session. The speeches
Year: 1877

Our news from San Antonio is Of interest
in view of the effort of the people Of Texas
to secure, by provision in the Army bill,
that certain defined force shall always be
kept on duty in their State This provision
has been rejected by the Senate as an inter-
ference with the constitutional function OF
the President as Chief, and
tits, of course, very justly rejected from the
view Of constitutional law. Yet the anxiety
Of the Texans on this subject is natural, and
it is not difficult to understand their desire
to have some such guarantee as the law would
give if it were within the function of Con-
gress to order the disposition of troops. Here,
for instance, is before us case in which
only the insufliciency Of the force on
the frontier could possibly prevent the in
fiction upon the raiders of blow that
might keep their fraternity on the other
side the river for many day. 1t is known
beforehand that large number of Indians
have crossed, that they are advancing in
dispersed bodies of nearly thirty each to fall
on the settlements at any point where they
might find murder and plunder feasible and
not too dangerous. With this knowledge
and with troops these bodies might be ami
hilated; but the knowledge alone is not
enough and the troops are not there; for
though General Ord has fifteen hundred
men this is thin line for long frontier,
and must necessarily leave many points un-
guarded. 1t is to be hoped, however, that
the raiders will get hurt as it is
Year: 1877

As soon as the facts of the Rosebud mas
sacre were known-as soon as it became
possible to construct from the excited
stories Of participants and witnesses con-
nected and logical chronicle Of that bloody


ight-it was seen that the conduct of Major
Reno called for explanation. Observations
were made at the time in the HERALD and
elsewhere upon the circumstance that this
officer, appointed to cooperate in q COM
bined advance upon the Indian position,
did not do his whole duty under his orders;
and not only thnt, but discontinued his ad-
vance altogether on encountering some re-
sistance. permitted himself to be very easily
whipped and withdrew his force to n
comparatively safe place, and ''saved
his men" within sound of the fire
that annihilated the force with which he
was to cooperate. No official inquiry was
made at the time, as our army administra-
tion seems unable to move in such n matter
except ut the instance OF the inculpated
officer, who is supposed to be concerned for
his honor, or upon charges of those ag-
grieved. All the aggrieved ones were
slaughtered In the fight, and the imputa-
tions as to the honor Of him who had left
them to their fate seemed not to fall upon a
sensitive surface. There would no doubt
have been some difficulty as to testimony
also. for many elements of the story rested
on the facts detailed by scouts and
friendly Indians, which made out the case
clear enough morally, but might not
have done SO legally. Another important
testimony of the same nature is now
added to those in Sitting Bulls own ac-
count of the battle as told to q HERALD
correspondent. This gloomy savage tells
q story of the battle which implies that
Major Reno had SO completely withdrawn
from the fight before Custer even got into
it that the Indians thought there was only
one column, which had withdrawn from a
first point only to advance at another. It
was under the sense of encouragement
given them by Reno's flight that the In
dams assailed Clusters command with such
unusual vigor, and having destroyed it
they would have destroyed Reno's also with
equal thoroughness but for Terry's arrival.
This new light on the battle, confirming SO
absolutely what was before thought, will
give new OCCASION for regret that Major
Reno is still an officer of the army, under
q too lenient remission Of his sentence for
another offence.
Year: 1877

ing so much as foreign markets. Their in
terests have accordingly become identical
with those Of tho cotton growers Of the
South and the grain growers of the West.
The same causes which exclude foreign cot
ton and foreign grain from the American
market would also exclude oil those kinds of
manufactures in which we have reached an
equality or got the start as compared with
other countries. Our capacity to produce
more cotton than we want and more grain
than we want is now equalled by our ability
to produce more manufactured goods than
we want; but to sell either cotton or grain
or manufactured goods we must buy an
equivalent amount Of the products of other
countries. We trust our tariff is to be re-
constructed by the present Congress in ac-
cordance with this plain principle.
Year: 1877

away his time frisking in the meadow. Not
word is said on the subject of the notice
given by the United States governments that
the course taken in the absorption of the
Direct Company would be violation OF the
conditions on which it was permitted to
land its cable on our shores. Has that no.
tice been reconsidered by the government
or Withdrawn, or only forgotten?
Year: 1877

THE ORDER OF TIE AMERICAN UNION was too
good and pure to last. Its principal object
seems TO have been to get Office for its managers,
but they have fallen out, and interesting develop
mcnts are promised.
Year: 1877

THE EEGAL CONTEST between the stock
holders Of the Quicksilver Mining Company has
again broken out The whole trouble is in refer
encc to the disposition of million dollars of
undivided profits
Year: 1877

TIE RETURNS Of the late city election arc SO
erroneous and irregular as to suggest n wilful
determination on the part Of the inspectors to
evadc the laws. What does the District Attor-
ucy think about it
Year: 1877

Mr.. WENDELL PHILLIPS, who seems willing to
have the last word, appears IN our columns with
reply to the recent letter Of Mr.. Fish. We do
not sec that hc adds anything material to the
facts OF the case, and controversies Of this kind
become fruitlcss when the facts relating to them
nre exhausted In the difference between Mr.
Sumner and the late administration there was
no doubt some loss of temper on both sides,
and, such is the infirnity of human nature, men
arc seldom quite reasonable when they act from
passion or prejudice mans general character
never suffers much in public estimation by hasty
or extravagant expressions he may have used in
the course of a quarrel.
Year: 1877

WHO are the working men? This is an
important inquiry just now. Are the
workingmen not the eight millions of men
who are toilmg diligently every day at very
low wages to keep their families? Or are
the workingmen the half million of men
who are said to be out of EN- mployment &?
Just now the half million seem TO think
they are at liberty to dictate to the whole
10000, 10 OF people who shall labor and who
shall not labor as to how long a man may
labor Tor days worK, and how much he
shall demand for sucn lab Dor. In fact the
half million idlers seem to assume that
they are the bosses of the shops, the rail-
roads and the factories. They even pro-
pose to take them and run them, whether
the owners like 1t or not. These gentlemen
seem TO give no credit TO business man for
his labor: They seem to imagine that en-
ployers are moi. .laborers in the great vine.
yard, and don't care a - whether they
have anything left to keep up the family
or not. They ignore the fact entirely that
the business men of the country have suf.
fered as terribly as any other class, often
running their factories and shops when
they were losing every day. This Is mat
ter that is worthy of some recognition by
those who assume TO die, ate.


We are in favor of giving the men who
labor on the railroads high wages of in
creasing the fares and freight sufficiently to
do this but we do not think they should
nave the right to dictate what they shall
receive and prohibit other men from la
boring for less This is monopolizing la
Dor and assuming at once the right to
tyranize over their fellows. 1t is matter
in which the eight millions OF men who
are working daily should have the right to
differ upon at least.
Year: 1877

DR.. Hall has removed and improved
his drug store, and, anticipating the
use of flying machines, has painted a
large sign on the roof. He had just
commenced the sale of soda water for
the season on the day Of our visit, and
we partook Of his "opening treat


Our: stay was so brief that we could
not make calls upon our friends in the
village, but we heard from them and
they were reported as thriving. We
hope to be with them soon again, By
the way, why is it that with a stage
route from Red Wing to Rochester,
there is no connection at Zumbrota :?
On the line from Red Wing, the stage
leaves Zumb1 ota at seven in the morn
ing and turns there at six in the eve.
ming; and for Rochester, the stage
caves Zumbrota at one in the afternoon,
arriving in Rochester at six. s...


Under this arrangement through pas
sengers are compelled to lie over at
Zumbrota eighteen hours, and conse-
quently there is little through travel on
this route. AS it is never entirely safe
to count on getting from Red Wing to
Rochester, or back, by cars, without a
delay Of several hours ut Minnesota city
Or Winona and night ride when com
ing this way, the travel across the coun-
try by stage would be a considerable
item if the stages were run SO as to ar