smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

+" How shall a person who il sensitive to
cold, who takes cold whenever a door is
opened or window raised-how shall
such a person acquire that hardihood
which enables him to endure exposure
and avoid taking cold In thefrstp place
he should spend considerable portion
of each day out of doors. He should do
this all seasons of the year and in all
kinds of weather. Secondly, he should
watch, with the greatest care, the tenn
perature of the room in which he spends
the remainder Of his time-both the
living room and the dormitory. Thirdly,
he should each, day bathe his chest and
neck, and, if he can bear it, his whole
body in cold water, and follow this with
vigorous rubbing with q coarse towel.
What is called splash bath is perhaps
better than any other for this purpose.
1t consists simply in dashing water
against the body with the hand. This
causes a slight shock to the skin, which
brings the blood to the surface, while it
causes an involuntary deep inspiration
of air, which expands the lungs and in
creases the force of the circulation,
This all can be accomplished in q. few
minutes, and should be followed Jim
mediately by a little brisk exercise in 9
cold room or in the open air. OF course
a person unaccustomed to this should
not commence in cold weather, but, be
ginning in the summer, he will find, a.
the winter approaches, that his ability tt
endure the bath will increase with tht
falling of the thermometer. and that hi


susceptibility to change of Temperature


will be greatly diminished.
Year: 1878

A FEMALE Hercules is astonishing
London: One Of herrfeats, we are told,
is to Gift an anvil by the hair of her
head, and place it on her bosom, while
three smiths forge horse shoe on it
with their hammers while she is talking
and singing all the while" There is
nothing so very remarkable in this feat
There is woman in this country who
permits couple of blacksmiths to use
her back for an anvil, and forge horse
shoes for the championship. Then she
will seize each; smith by the hair with
her teeth, hold them out at arms length,
swing them four times around her head,
and all the while they are singing and
whistling, and working, on the horse
shoes. At the present writing seventy
five men are at work building an iron
steamship on her breast. When it
comes to feats of female strength the
effete monarchies Of Europe must take
back seat.-Norristown Herald.
Year: 1878

A late author very truthfully says:
"Gold cannot buy happiness. and the
parents who compel their daughters to
marry for station or money commit a
grievous sin against humanity and
God. And Il woman who marTieS a
churl for his wealth Will find that she
has made terrible bargain-that all
the gatherings of heartless grandeur
are phOsphOrescent gatherings of
cart-wretchedness; that her life will
be one of gilded misery, and her old
age will be like Il crag on the bleak
side of a mountain, where cold moon
beams sometimes glitter, but no birds
sing, but wild storms howl and hoarse
thunders roar, and through the sweep
ing storm shall beheard the stern voice
of the great God, saying: Your riches
are corrupted, your garments are
mOth-eaten, your gold and silver are
cankreed, and the rust of them shall
be a witness against you, and eat your
flesh as if it were fire. -
Year: 1878

The present political situation reminds
us more of the contest in 1876 over the
tariff act of that year than has any subse-
quent peroid. Then, as now, the money
ed power was arrayed against the peo-
pie, and business was languishing in all
the States. The opponents of the Tariff
Act, then before Congress, stormed and
raved, and some of the leaders OF the
Democratic party were loud in their op-
position. The high protective organs de-
clared that the bill would not yield
enough revenue TO carry on the govern
ment, and that at the end of the next
fiscal year we would find "SiY Robert
Walker" without dollar in his Golfers
But the Polk administrati on was firm.-
The act was passed, and when Congress
assembled year after, the high tariff
men We're astounded at the result, and
Sir Robert Walker was triumphant
Gen. Dix who was then at the head OF
the Subtreasury in New York telegraph
ed to the Speaker of the House that there
was a surplus balance of six millions OF
gold in the Treasury that he did moi
know what to do with it. ..
Year: 1878

Why the famous race~horse
did not win the race a, Louisville
ls called Mollie Mccarthy, is
thus explained: Away up IN the
gold regions OF Nevada Captain
Winters had warm and devoted
freed IN the person of Colonel
Mccarthy, and he has daughter,
Miss Mollie, who is said to be the
most beautiful and accomplished
young lady IN all Nevada, and it
was in he nor of this belle that the
celebrated little mare was called.
And so human beng, beautiful
and a belle, gets little fame in
the newspapers from the fact that
horse was named alter her.
Year: 1878

Poetical license is about as
flexible as repentance IN time of
danger, but it does seem as #
i. was taking mean advantage
of TO make Ephesians ryme With
lower regions. as an ambitious
contributor persists IN doing.
Year: 1878

Mahy able minds pin their
faith TO the idea that the earth is
gradualls becoming cooler, and
some day freeze up solld and kill
all the house plants left out over
night; but the indications in this
quarter, just now, don't that way
not quite.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and commun,
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
Year: 1878

IT is said that the Maine election has
weakened the interest felt by the Indiana
Democracy in the success of the Greenback-
ers in that state. The prospect of being
swallowed up bodily is not altogether pleas
ino
Year: 1878

The Shoe and Leather Reporter is OF
the opinion that business will not regain its
normal vitality until all causes of social dis
quietude are satisfactorily disposed Of ''There
will,'' it says. ''be buying and selling of com.
modities as they are needed for ordinary
uses, and to an extent, perhaps, quite suffi
cient to keep pace with the progress which is
being made in the work of recuperaton. But
as soon as it becomes an established fact,
settled beyond peradventure and conceded on
all hands that there is to be no insecurity of
life and property, that tramps and vagabonds
are not to be made a privileged class, with
license to prey upon those who accumu-
late something by their industry, people will
breathe more freely and address themselves
to their various pursuits with renewed energy
and yigor,"
Year: 1878

The tone of the New York Republican
convention is altogether admirable. There
was manifest disposition to act in the spirit
OF the Injunction which teaches us the neces-
slty OF union upon things essential and the
federation OF differences of opinion upon mat
ters non essential. The convention recog-
nlzed the fact that the great question before
the country is the currency question. In


presence of the danger that menaces the
national honor and credit old feuds were for
gotten or ignored. The leaders of hostile
factions called truce, truce that will, it is
to be desired, become lasting peace. The
party OF the majority magnaDimously de-
clned to press its advantage, and the minority
prudentIy made no factious opposition. There
was no disposition to exult at past victories
or moan over old defeats. The convention
saw that the politics of the country have as
sumed novel phase, that many of the old
things have passed away or become new.


By recognizing the new and important
question before the country the New York
Republicans take no new position nor ig-
more nor abandon their former position. To-
day they hold the same opinion regarding the
currency they have always held. But they
clearly see that the relative Importance OF is.
sues has changed. Their action very clearly
indicates the action Of the party in the ma
ton. The course resolved upon, more as a
matter of principle than of policy, meets with
some opposition it is true, but will neverthe-
ess be carried out Those who are given
over to the soft-money delusion will go to
their own place. Those like Mr.. w. E.
Chandler, whose words and actions recall
Madame de StaePs famous epigram on Rienzi
as man who mistook souvenirs for hopes,
will sulk in their tents. But the organiza-
ticn is thoroughly committed to the resump-
tion of specie payments; and will take no
steps backward. Mr.. Chandler appears
to go in for shrinkage in the men,
bership of the party, though other forms
of contraction are distasteful to him. But
wiser men see that this is not the time to
close our recruiting offices and hang out
sign that no more volunteers are wanted.
Our platform must be made so broad that all
advocates of sound financial system can
stand upon it. We have need in this strug.
gle for the preservation of the national honor,
of the aid of all believers in wise monetary
system, and should gladly avail ourselves of
their services. And as the New York
Times wisely says, "the Republican incurs
grave responsibility who would lessen the
chances of affiliation with them" "To meet
them 1.-The issues that coufront usl with a
reasonable likelihood Of success, we should
not place any needless impediment in the
path of the honest-money Democrats whose
convictions will for the time render them val
liable auxiliaries." That much surely is
plain, and it is gratifying to observe that Re-
publicans generally appreciate the situation.
Year: 1878

MONTREAL, Oct. 4.-Edward b. Ran
kin, who yesterday acted as judge for
Courtney, publishes letter, in which he
says ~ venture the judgment now that
Courtney is the better and more endu-
ring sculler of the two ; that despite the
roughness Of the water lie succeeded,
whenever he made the effort, in closing
with Hanlan, and that at the finish he
rowed the Toronto man and lost the race
by ceasing to pull at the critical moment
when nearing the goal. Had he continued
rowing and hauled out into the course
instead of resting on his oars, the race
was his own. 1t seems incredible that a
man of Courtney's intelligence should be
so far lost to pride and the interests of
friends as to lose the race Intentionally,
and until something definite inthe nature
of fairness is developed, it is only just to
hope and believe that the race was lost
through an error Of Judgment"
Year: 1878

We have stood by this class of officers, in all
good faith and for sound reasons, in the late
crusade of the Commissioner against them, be-
cause we believed that gross injustice was done
them.


As a rule the United States have been well
and faithfully served by the local surgeons and
both justice to them and the convenience of
the pensioners demand that they should be re-
tained.


The same rule of justice demands that they
should be decently paid for the work done, so
that no excuse can be given for sighting their
duty.


We have the qualification of knowing that
almost all of the local examiners have appre-
ciated and approved our course, and we know
of none who have disapproyed it, unless it be
some one or two, who vainly imagined that
they were to be of the select sixty"


They did not know the capacities of Wash
ington, which can easily furnish, and was ex-
pected to furnish, about the whole body of these
personages.
Year: 1878

We have faithfully eschewed all political bias
in conducting our paper, but we have not hesi-
tated to give credit where credit is due for val.
liable public service.


The present Committee on Pensions is excep-
tional in its thorough business capacity and
faithfulness to duty.


There have been before it ZOO bills for con
sideration. OF these, more than 600 have been
studied, considered, and reported, with full
and clear statement in each case of the grounds
of action.


In looking over the reports we find that there
has been uniform hberality, careful attention,
and an honorable sympathy.


Every session of the committee has been at
tended by a quorum, aud the thanks of the
country are due to those who have thus given
their time and attention to the discharge of
public duty.


In this case, as in most others, the character
of the committee is marked by that of its
chairman, and we should be short of our duty
as public journalists if we did not call the at
tenton of all persons interested to Gen A. V.
Rice, of Ohio.


LIZ hetc bCOi q SolhlCl liHlsells anu Il gOOU
one and he knows what soldiers want He
has been severely wounded in the cause of the
country and he sympathizes with his comrades
in like condition


General Rice entered the Union Army early
in the struggle and worked his way up by hon
est service, from a subatern in the line to field
officer and brigadiergeneral In each station
where he was cast, he earned promotion by de-
veloping the qualities which ought to insure it.


He has served with reputation in Congress for
two terms, and his last has been his best. for
certainly no better record has been made by any
chairman of the Committee on Pensions. He
deserves in the fullest extent the confidence and
support of the soldiers and the friends of the
soldiers, and is so thoroughly trained in his
high duties that it would be great mistake to
to put any new man in his place


We do not agree with General Rice in many
matters of political division, but it is not pos
sibe for his party to send back to Congress any
better man for the duties which he has been
called on to perform.


We want to give him all the honor he has
earned by the conscientious discharge of his
delicate and important duties, and for such dis
charge we commend him to the people who
sent him here.
Year: 1878

1t will be seen by all who read this paper
that we are making fearless war upon all meas
ures that in our judgment tend to delay, dim
inish, or defeat the speedy and fair settlement
of just claims for pensions.


In doing this we know that we are likely to
provoke hostility that men cannot and will
not understand that it is our right and duty to
do what we have done and intend to do


We want prompt response from the country
We need the sense of support in the sympathy
of thousands of the men scattered everywhere
whose battles we are fighting We need to feel
that there is a host behind us cheering us on.
cooperating with our efforts We want to be
able to say to members of Congress, to these
officials, that we express the views, wishes and
feelings of hundreds of thousands of the
voters of the country There is where the
power comes in; there is the ultimate tribunal
In free government that controls all things


Express then, at once and promptly this
sense OF the goodness of the cause and the good
ness of our work, by adding your names to the
long columns of our subscription list and we
shall know that we speak By authority on the
great questions we are handling.


Don't forget this, friends of the cause, and do
it at once.
Year: 1878

As the Methodist clergyman who
was elected to Congress from In
diana, and who is known in Con-
gressional classification as a green.
backer, is lifelong Democrat, we
have no fears of him in the event
of the next Presidential election
going to the House of Representa-
tives. AS to the claim that q Re-
publican has been elected from
Florida that is entirely too thin.
Returning Board precedents are too
fresh for that poor fellow to hope to
count out good Democrat in that
State. We rather think we can
rely upon the House voting by
States even if California should go
Republican next September; while,
if she should go for the working
men, our party has straight
chute.
Year: 1878

THE remarks of Col. Ayels,
which we reproduce elsewh ere, will
excite responsive chord in the
breasts of all who are devoted to
the liberty of the press. In pro-
portion to our contempt for the
polluted sheets which exist simply
for the purpose of personal defama'
ton is our devotion to the liberty
of the press. Give every man not
only the benefit of a trial by his
peers but by the peers of his vicin.
age
Year: 1878

The latest swindle in the rural
districts IS for two oily-tongued
fellows to call upon farmer osten-


sibly to obtain statistics for the ag-
ricultural bureau. They remain for
dinner, or over night, and insist on


paying for the accommodation fur
nished them, when they pass a
counterfeit bill upon their host and
receive good money in exchange.
Year: 1878

A chilly-looking mosquito, with
generally discouraged air hang
ing about him, came slowly in and
inquired feebly where he could
find the man who had charge of
the scientific society's specimens.
Then he wiped the frost off the
end of his bill, remarking that his
season was about over now, and he
thought he would like to be
stuffed; and went wearily down the
stairway coughing hollowly and
whipping his front legs for warmth
rs he went up Fairfield avenue III
search of the curator.
Year: 1878

last evening, at Col. Younger's
ranch, about mile north of this
city, between two boys, each
about fifteen years of age-Elton
Moody and Harry Younger. The
first named is the son of G. Moody,
of Moody's flour mills. in
this city,the latter the youngest son
of Col. Younger. The Moody boy
had gone to the ranch to shoot
ducks by moonlight and there met
Harry Younger hunting. Younger
ordered Moody of the premises and
hot words ensued. Younger at
tempted to raise his gun when
Moody discharged his weapon and
the load entered Younger's breast
The Moody boy gave himself w
Immediately after the shooting ant
is now in the county jail. The af
fair has thrown gloom over tht
entire community in which the
lads are known. The wounded
boy died this evening at six
o'clock.
Year: 1878

Ill-natured people in South Germany
used to say that in North Germany, under
its Prussian constitution, all the law and
several of the gospels were summed up in
these precepts: -"Hold your tongue; pay
taxes;' be soldier" Time has not
lightened the burden put upon the people
in any one of the particulars thus designated;
but rather the habit of oil these exactlons
has grown with its exercise and has be-
come more specific and intolerab.e as ex-
perience has taught it how fact common
in the history of bureaucratic. government.
Ali the agitation in Germany, SO far as it has
in any degree the sympathy Of the well
disposed masses Of the people, is related
to protest against the pressure exercised
under some one of the points of this old
epigram. Taxes that have made food dear
and wages small, and have thus sapped
the foundations Of popular prosperity, COM
fort and content; the military spirit that
sacrifices the welfare of the people to tbe
pride of q caste and o court-these were
hard enough to endure; but now the people
are asked 10 endure under the third head
liberty of speech an even severer re-
preston than was ever put upon
them in the past, and their represent
atives in the Reichstag are called
upon to legalize this repression. AS
originally drawn that clause in the
bill against socialistic agitation which gave
the government the right to put the press
of the country, and its speech ns well, abso-
lutely in the hands Of the police, would in
practical operation have made it crime for
any man 10 open his mouth except to fill it
with beer, and crime, also, to print n
single paragraph. Those who printed and
those who spoke would have been, in fact
thereby put upon their defence, and been
compelled to prove that what was written
or spoken had no secret relation to some
socialistic purpose. That clause was voted
down on Friday, but ON amendment has
been agreed upon in committee whichis far
less extravngant. BY this amendment con-
cord between classes or the public peace
must be endangered before even socialistic
writing can be suppressed 1t is doubtful
IL the difference is tangible, because all
turns on the Interpretation of the effect OF
any writing, and they who make the inter
probation are subject mainly to government
| inspiration.
Year: 1878

men Of means the best use one can
make of penny is to hug it. and
so this important work OF extending
the older of the elevated roads along
the already populated bank of the river has
been delayed. and the money which might
have been earned, but has not, would pre-
sent al interest account more terrible than
that of the extra half million which Mr..
Field supposes the Metropolitan road to
have expended A reference TO our news
columns will disclose the nature of the
difficulty under which the company has
labored. It is one which sergeant OF en-
gineers with detail of men would over
come in fortnight. But such man would
be enterprising thorough and have some
professional pride-qualities which appar-
emily are extremely unpopular among the
managers of the New York Elevated Rail-
road Company
Year: 1878

Imperial Cesar, dead and turned to clay,
might stop hole to keep the wind away,
and be far more useful in such capacity
than he sometimes was when alive, and it
is not unlikely that his Asian prototype,
the elder Cyrus, is at present held in higher
esteem in Central Europe than he was
twenty-five centuries ago, when he roamed
about in the neighborhood of what is now
Austrian Poland with u host of soldiers,
running the crops and making things un-
comfortable for every one but undertakers.
A peasant woman in Galicia has exhumed
large quantity of gold, in value about fifty
thousand dollars, md as some of the utensils
and insignia found are such as only kings
affect, and rs history informs us that Cyrus
met in that particular neighborhood the con-
queror of all kings not now living, it is
reasonably safe to assume that those archm-
ologists are correct who declare that these
articles are relics of the founder of the
Persian Empire. Cyrus living would have
been indictable as nuisance by any grand
jury among the original inhabitants Of Gal
icia, but Cyrus dead will be tenderly re-
membered by at least one person as the
man who was wise enough to travel with
considerable valuable luggage and thought
full enough to put it where in time it would
do the most good. 1t is possible that not
every one will agree with the lucky finder
OF the treasure in considering the Persian
monarch man of singular financial wis.,
dom. For instance, there is an American
namesake Of Cyrus-a gentleman who
thinks the energy Of the west side elevated
railroad cost it an extra half million,
though he neglects to estimate the cost TO
the public and the road of lack of energy
on the east side. This gentleman will prob
ably shudder at the thought OF what twenty
five centuries of interest on Cyrus fifty
thousand dollars worth of gold would
have amounted 10. But Persian Cyrus Is
dead, and his golden ornaments and uten'
sils will probably be of more and better


use to their peasant finder than they eve'


were TO their royal owner.
Year: 1878

The people of the Hudson River edge of
the west side of Manhattan Island are to be
congratulated. The New York Elevated
Railroad Company is at last going to look alta
report suggesting routes to and through the
upper western portions of the city. Working
according to any but the pennywise system,
the directors would long ago have extended
their road and secured q large body OF
patrons before the opposition line could
have laid a rail anywhere But to some