smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The question now lie, whether our elec-
tive system, in its substance as we'll asits
form, is to be maintained. This is the
question of questions. Until it is finally
settled there can be no politics founded
on inferior questions Of administrative
policy. It involves the fundamental
right of the people. 1t involves the eleC-
tive principle. 1t involves the whole
system of popular government.


The people most signally condemn the
great wrong which has been done to them,
They must strip the example of every
thing that can attract imitators. They
must refuse a prosperous immunity to
crime. This is not all. The people will
not be able to trustauthors orbenefCiaries
of wrong to devise remedies, but when
those who condemn the wrong shall have
the power they must devise measures
which shall render a repetition of the
wrong forever impossible. II my voice
could reach throughout our country, and
be heard in its remotest hamlet, | would
say, be of good cheer The Republic
will live. The institutions ofour fathers
are not to expire in shame. The sOver-
eighty of the people shall be rescued from
this peril and re-established. Successful
wrong never appears 30 triumphant as on
the very eve of its fall, Seven years ago,
a corrupt dynasty eliminated in its pow
er over the millions of people who live
in the city of New York. 1t had con-
quered or bribed or fattered and won al
most everybody into acquiescence. 1t ap-
peared to be invincible, A year or two
later its memberg were in penitentiaries
or in exile. History abounds in similar ex-
amples. We must believe in the right and
in the future. A great and noble nation
will not sever its political from its moral
life. ps. u


Mr. Tildsn was shaken hands with by
several persans after he concluded aud by
none with more devotion than his
nephew Pelton. He took a place beside
the platform, rather back in the crowd,
and being small of stature was lost there
except when by some gap in the front
line his more pallid face and still pugnac-
ious under-lip was revealed in attractive
reflection.


The following was Mr.. Hendricks
speech;


I Speech Of the Vice President Elect.


GENTIEMEN-I thank you for the hon.
or you do me. appreciate it in part as
an expression of personal respect and
confidence, but more as a declaration and
assurance of your support of the princi-
Piles and policies which, in honorable as
sociation with your distinguished citizen,
Twas made a representative in the polit-
ical contest of last year. Ibeg to assure
you that appreciate the honor you show
me, more highly because of your devo.
tioa to the political principles which eX-
perienne has shown to be essential to the
preservation Of good and pure govern
Year: 1877

In fitting up a ship for voyage it 10
important to balance it well for fair sail
ing, and in case it should encounter
stormy blasts. 1t is dangerous to have
it careen or to get it scuttled. The polit-
ical ship sometimes requires little ju-
dicious attention. A word to the wise
may prove beneficial.
Year: 1877

A UNION of Church and State--a set of
religious opinions established by force of
law, and maintained by force Of arms, is
foreign to our system of government.
Under our Constitution no lettering of
the human mind is allowed.
Year: 1877

"What," asks an exchange, care
the causes of drunkenness? ?" Well,
we can't answer for all Of them, but
we believe whiskey causes a great deal
of it; whiskey sir, resolutely stuck to
will cause about as large drunk as
anything we know Of although judi
cious mixing up of various drinks will
accelerate matters if a man is in a
hurry.


A man who will order a fifteen-cent
drink, throw down a quarter and new.
er wait for the change, VIII get down
on his knees in a street car and claw
for over two miles and a half hunting
for cent he has dropped
Year: 1877

The assertion OF the greenbacke II
that the country needs more cur
rency as a relief from business depression
and hard times is contradicted by facts
If good times depend upon the amount oi
currency in the country, then it would
folloy that when the currency is in the
largest quantity business would be the
best, and when Ia the least quantity times
would be the hardest.


1t is only necessary in order TO prove
the incorreclness of this proposition to
test it by facts as they are found to exist
since the commencement of the rebellion,
or since greenbacks were first issued by
the government. The amount OF cur
rency in the country from 1862 to 1876 in
elusive, as it is found in official statements
was for each wear AS follows:
Year: 1877

In his speech in Marietta, Ohio, Judge West
said with peace inevitably came decline in
prices. What theni our opponents say we should
have had more greenbacks; we should have paid
the national debt with greenbacks, then paid the
greenbscks with national bonds, and so on, Jug
Cling till they wore each other out. And whence
came the nationsl debt, What makes it so large
Had it not been for those '2000 900 democrats
which the South was so confidently promised
would bar the way Of the Union troops to the
Ohio, all men know the debt would not have been
half as large. gentleman who stood in Colum-
bus the other night and mourned for the poor,
whose head became fountain of tears by reason
of his sympathy for the unemployed-our excel
lent friend Mr.. Pendleton-he in the darkest
hour of the war denounced the only currency
the government had. OF could have, AS going forth
with the brand OF Cam; he then urgeo that II
should never have been issued in contrayention of
the fundamental law, when he knew that without
it the Government could do nothing. lie de
nounced the financial policy Of the Government
then as he does now, aud result of that aud
other causes the Government paper went down,
down down while prices went up until. az the close
of the war we had values inflated two or three
times above the real figures. 1t was impossible
they should remain so high. Prices came down,
down. until the crash came Could it have been
avoided tell you, my fellow-citzens, no Wis
dom ever did or could avert such consequences.


call history to witness that no such struggle ev-
er occurred without financial revulson after II.
Year: 1877

government to pay the number of dollars
indicated upon their face, and were only
issued as a war measure under the stress
of the rebellion, and the government was
morally and legally bound to redeem
them as soon as it could after the ter min
alton of the great struggle for existence.


Tde currency which the republican par
ty is striving after is decrihed 10y Secre-
tary Sherman rs follows


A currency of United States notes
based upon the public credit. always con-
verlible into coin and so limited in amount
and supported by reserves that its con-
yor.ibiiity cannot be endang gered, and sup
piemtnted by bank currency free and
open to all alike. based upon public secur-
lilies, so that in any event the note hold
er is safe from loss, always reieemable
in coin or United States notes, unlimited
iu amount except by the wants OF busi-
ne,s-th> Is the Kind Of paper money that
will start again the wheels OF industry,
give sails 10 our commerce, labor TO
our artisans This. indeed would be the
best paper currency in the world. Let
this currency be supported by ii public
credit against which a whisper or doubt
cannot be uttered. and your public debt
will be reduced to its lowest possible bur
dcu OF interest, and will become the
great depository OF the savings OF labor.
the Trustee OF the widow and orphan, the
safe rest OF capital not employed in act
i've industries"
Year: 1877

ence felt. Food was passed along tube
to the imprisoned men; but the tube did
not work well, and it was eventually
found that they had not received the
much-desired refreshment. At the last
moment, when the hole had been made
and the compressed air was let out, a
rush of gas took place which put out all
the lamps and compelled the workers TO
return to the "bank' What must have
been the horror of that moment to those
poor fellows within the mine when they
heard the retreating footsteps of their
anxiously awaited deliverers


Gloomy indeed the prospect at
this critical moment, for it had now be-
come question of life and death to Ell
ther party !; but were the men who had
been rescued thus far to be left after all
to the death which seemed to hunger for
them Perish the thought and perish
rather every Englishman who stood at
the pits mouth than that no attempt
should be made to complete and crown
the splendid story of those past eight
days. The danger of carrying lights in
the gas charged mine being too great to
be ignored, brave men came forward and
volunteered to go down a0ithout lamps
to the rescue of the five miners whom it
was now known were the only ones who
had survived that fearful time. Down
they went into the black pit, carrying
food with them, and on making another
hole gallant collier went into the mine
ard fed the poor fellows. All honor to
him 1t was greater deed than the
capture of an enemy's colors on the bat
tie field.


The rescued men and the boy were
brought to the surface, and placed under
the care of experienced doctors, who
pronounced favorably on their condition.
For ten long, weary days they had lam
guished in the darkness of what seemed
to them a living tomb, yet they MUIR
INJURED not, but lifted up their united
voices in prayer to the great Creator of
all.


The Queen hastened at once to give
expression to the national feeling of ad-
miration of these brave men. by extend
ing the institution of the Albert Medal
for saving life at sea to similar acts per-
formed on land, and giving directions
that these humble Welsh miners should
be the first recipients of the honor.


A national subscription was also open.
ed by the Lord Mayor, and large sum
collected for the rescued and rescuers
sufficient to place them beyond the reach
OF poverty, ana snow Inc wvll1 Ill.,
England will not willingly let die the
remembrance of as noble and heroic q
deed as ever graced the annals of {
Christian people Chambers Journal.
Year: 1877

Around the cradle that thy childhood bare


Came Gods own angels, with their plying eyes,
And gazed upon thee in still surprise
To see beyond heavens portal aught so fair.
They brought thee precious gifts One gave to thee
The gift of beauty for thy bodys grace,


Deep-smillng eyes to light dreamy face,
Ana perfect limbs as young Apolo's be.
One set the crown Of genius on thy head


And one bestowed heart like w0man's own,
Strong the sea. and trembling at a breath.
Last. veiled figure bent above the bed


And said, II give thee every thing in one.
In heaven l am named Love; men call me Death.
80 shalt thou never tread the weary ways


That lead men up the dusty slopes Of life,
Nor feel the herceness Of the MONDAY strife,
Knowing alone the morning of Ghy days
Ror thee the dew shall linger on the flower;


The light that never was on land or


Shall have momentary CLEAN for thee,
But brighten into loves immortal hour.
Thy beauty's grace shall never know decay.
Nor sorrow lay her hand upon thy heart;
Neither shall chill mistrust thy spirit slay.
But like star thy life shall pass away,
Its light still shining though itself depart.
Until all stars are lost in one eternal day."


Kate Hiildrd. in Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1877

Strikes are quite proper, only strike right;
Strike To some purpose, but not for hght
Strike for your manhood, for honor and fame;
Strike right and left till you win good name;
Strike for your freedom, nom all that is vile;
Strike of companions who often beguile;
Strike with the hammer, the sledge and the ak;
Strike of bad habits with burdensome tax;
Strike out unaided. depend on no other;
Strike without gloves. and your oolishness smother
Strike of the fetters Of fashion and PRIDE;
Strike where 'tis BEST but let Wisdom decide;
Strike good blow while the iron is hot
Strike keep striking till you hit the right spot
Year: 1877

Alone walked on the ocean strand.
pearly she'll was in my hand;
I stoop'd and wrote upon the sand


My name, the year, the day.
As onward from the spot pass'd
One lingering look behind cast,
A wave came rolling high and fast,


And washed my lines away.
And so metbought twill quickly be
With every mark on earth with me;
A wave Of dark oblivious sea


VIII sweep across the place
Where have trod the sandy shore
or time. and seen by me no more;
or me. my day. the name / bore.


To leave no track or trace.
And yet with Him who counts the sands,
And holds the waters in His hands,
know a lasting record stands


Inscribed against my name;
or all this mortal part has wrought
or all this thinking soul has thought,
And froIn these feeung moments caught,


For glory or for shame.
Year: 1877

To -STop NOSE BLEEDING.-For bleed
ing at the nose the best remedy, as given
by DIR. Gleason, is vigorous motion of
the jaws, as in the act of mastication.
In the case of child, wad of paper
placed in the mouth and the child in
structed to chew it hard. 1t is the
motion of the jaws that stops the flow of
blood. This remedy is so very simple
that many will feel inclined to laugh at
it, but it has never been know to fail
in single instance even in very severe
cases.
Year: 1877

Diphtheria is disease which springs
from the growth of real fungus on some
of the mucous surfaces of the system.
more generally of the throat. 1t may be
spread by contagion of the mucous sur
face of diseased with those of heal
thy person, as in kissing, and is to
limited degree epidemic From the local
parts affected it spreads to the whole
body, affecting the muscular and nervous
systems, vitiating the lymph and nutri-
ent fluids, and producing paralysis. AS
soon as the vacterium or fungus appears
in white patches on the throat, it should
no more be neglected than a bleeding
cash or broken arm, and there is al
most as little need of fatal termination
of one incident as of the other. 1t has
been found by actual experiment, both
in and out of the human system, that
this vacterium is killed by several drugs.
the safest and most certain of which is
chlorine water, diluted with the addition
of from two to four times the volume of
water. This wash is harmless, even
when swallowed, and is pretty certain
to arrest the disease. A well-known
physician in this city. who has pursued
this treatment for fifteen years, has found
it effective almost without exception,
and has in that period often broken up
the disease in localities where it had
ragged violently and defed treatment.
Prior to its use, he lost three cases out
of six, but has since used it with scarce
ly failure during the above mentioned
period. The recent great cyclopedia Of
Ziemssen on the practice of medicine,
gives the highest place to this method
of treatment. To keep the patient we'll
housed and warm, with additional fan
mel clothing, if necessary, and to keep
the system we'll nourished and the bow
els open, are matters Of nursing often
neglected, but, with care in these re-
spects, and early application of the rem
edies above suggested, there is no need
of the disease proceeding to fatal ter
mination or even to the debilitating i'll
ness and painful cauterization which go
together in its later stages.
Year: 1877

KEEP YoUR Own CoUNsEL.-It is a
most excellent rule in life, for those
who would keep out of trouble, and
keep themselves too out of the reach OF
injurious busy bodies, to have their eyes
and ears wide open, and their mouth
shut. They may see all that is to be
seen, and hear all that is to be heard,
but they need not tell to others all that
hey may wish to hear. These are
scheming times. People are not what
they were twenty years ago. The strug-
gle for life and wealth has become 50
fierce and intense, as TO have broken
down many of the scruples that once
governed it. Matters spoken OF in con-
fidence, or words dropped incautiously
in chance conversation, are not always
accorded the privacy they are entitled
to. They are too often used without
remorse, wherever they can be used to
the advantage Of one, or to the detri-
ment OF another; and in this wav a man
who has honest schemes of business in
hand, or who may have the misfortune
to have unhappy secrets in his house
hold, or in his personal circle, frequent
" finds the world cognizant of them all
without scarcely knowing how it OBJ
tanned the information. An upright.
lust, aud honorable person, who chances
to come into possession of knowledge
of his neighbor's private affairs, will
lock his l,ps upon it, and suffer no one
else 10 obtain it from h.m. But all men
do not possess this high regard for 9TH
ers, and the only safe rule in dealing
with such persons, aud indeed with all
persons, is to keep your own counsel
convcrs" freely and genially on ordinary
subjects, but on grave personal matters
cultivate careful reticence. If YOU
have important business projects in
hand, keep them TO yourself. or, at most,
limit the knowledge of them to the few
trusty friends on whose discretion YOU
can rely. and whose advice and assis-
tance ycu NAV need. There are few
successful business men who do not
make this an inflexible rule in their OPP
erations. 1t saves them infinite trou-
Bile, and is one OF the secrets Of their
success.
Year: 1877

Smoky STovEs-There is a very
simple way of avoiding the di>agreeablc
smoke and gas which always pours into
the room when fire is lit in a stove.
heater or fireplace on damp day. Put
in the wood and coal as usual, hnt be-
fore lighting them ignite a handful Of
paper or shasings placed on top of the
coal. This produces a current of hot
air in the chimney, which draws up
the smoke and gas at once.
Year: 1877

WISE PRovERBS.-The harder the


wood the higher the polish. One man
cries: There's well" another one


quietly puts pump in it. Prayers and
provender never hinder any man ;
journey. Experience and wisdom are
the two best iortune-teliers. The COW
etous man makes a half-penny out
of tarthing; liberal man makes six
pence of il. Look upon battle and a
picture at good distance. Vain glory
Is flower which never comes to fruit.
II folly were pain, we should have
great crying in every house. Your
looking glass will tell You what friends
never will. The man that speaks plain
truth is Il clevcrcr fellow than he. is
generally taken for. The snail looks
around his house. and thinks it is the
whole world. Those who walk the
highway. arc always throwing stones
at those who walk or the beaten track.
Year: 1877

A facetious editor says: You can
always tell whether buzz saw Is
going or not by simply feeling Of it.
but it generally takes about Us long
to find the ends of your fingers as it
would to have gone and asked the
foreman of the shop if the thing was
i'm motion.
Year: 1877

the fiddle. AS a consequence of
this report it is said that every man
and boy in a certain section that
could strike a tune on the fiddle
got one, went to the woods, and all
the day long could be seen perched
upon high stumps and upon the
lower branches of the trees, playing
the fiddle as if for dear life, in the
hope of attracting and catching
this panther.
Year: 1877




and by this means she succeeded in
stopping a great deal of the :" fire
talk"


But even this array of trials does
not exhaust the list. At Indian
apolis her agents engaged the Opera
house, and on the following day the
owner of the building doubled his
insurance on it, and to make assur-
ance doubly sure, had the whole
fire department kept under orders,
prepared for any emergency that
might arise. Just a few days before
her return her rooms were broken
into by thieves, who ransacked all
her luggage, but did not succeed
In getting any plumber.


During the whole of her tour,
Miss Claxton says, she was in one
continual fever of dread that the
newspapers would say something
that would injure her business. Far
from regarding the extraordinary
publicity she has had as a cheap
theatrical advertising dodge, she
declares it has done her more harm
than good, and is especially sensi-
tive lest any one should consider
her a party to it. For days, she
says, she did not dare to look at
newspaper for fear of finding "some
cruel and vulgar squib about fires"
But acquaintance all over the
country have been at the trouble of
industriously sending her papers
containing all sorts of references,
which, however, after a time, she
did not even open. She has also
received fire-escapes without num-
Der, and now has large trunk full
Of them Of every shape and variety,
These, she says, were very useful
for ballast, as, after the st. Louis
fire, she travelled with very little
clothing, and it was difficult to
pack her trunks well. One enter
prising fire-escape agent wrote to
her, offering liberal compensation
if she would allow him to advertise
his machine as "The Claxton fire.
escape" an offer which she peremp-
| torily declined. She has been piled
with life-insurance pamphlets and
| circulars which would make the
fortune of a waste-paper dealer.
In one western city it was seriously
proposed to name a new insurance
company "The Claxton Fire and
Life Insurance Company" and this
would have been done, but she re-
fused her consent, Notwithstanding
q liberal tender of stock. Insur.
ance agents have waited upon her
aud solicited her to take out poll.
cy, but in vain. Worst of all, on
her arrival here few days ago the
local fire department wanted to
name their engine after her, and
were with difficulty disSuaded from
SO doing,


After a friendly chat with the
writer in which she recounted her
experiences, Miss Olaxton said 81
have never returned from a tour
) with such a feeling of relief as
experience now. | have been very
successful, and of course | ought to
be and am very much gratifed
but the mental torture that have
gone through, and the annoyance
| have suffered at being regarded
everywhere as sort of female Jo-
nah or dramatic fire-fend are sim.
ply fearful. l only hope it is over
now, and that in future | may be
allowed to rely for my fame upon
my professional merits and not
upon the misfortunes of Others"
Year: 1877

THE Republican position that Congress has
no power to revise the certificates Of states, is
in harmony with the state rights doctrines OF
Jefferson, and those Democrats who like
Thurman and Bayard, insisted that Congress
could 60 behind the returns, have taken a
longer step towards Capitalization and the
destruction Of state rights than has ever yet
been taken by any party. There is no doubt
that the New York Euening Post is correct in
sa3ing that "when the passions of the hour
have cooled and when contemporary interests
are forgotten, we believe that many, even of
those persons who are now dissatisfied with
the decision, will rejoice at it. Whether an
inquiry into the election in Florida and Lou
isiana and review of the proceedings of 10.
cal officers in those states would have result
ed in the election of Hayes or Tilden is a
doubtful question; but there is no doubt that
it would have gone far to change the nature
OF our government. Before the war nobody
ever hinted at such an invasion of state rights
as would have been involved in decision diff
ferent from that which has just been rem
dered. The measures of the war itself which
were most stoutly opposed were those which
seemed to be federal encroachment upon
state jurisdiction. Whatever excuse for such
encroachment existed in time Of war does not
hold good in time of peace. We believe that
Democrats like Thurman and Bayard will yet
rejoice that the country has escaped a great
danger"