smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

much regret. so 1t is the essence o.
rudeness to rot MAKE any apology
Titliebat litmause, when he book G
a glass dish. as ured his hostess
fiat he would replac, it with the
best in London. This is rather too
practical form Of showing his sim
cerity. The well bread youth
breaks his bread instead of cutting G
it, taking care rot to crumble it In
a s1ovenly way; he takes his wine
holding his glass by the stem, and
never drains it. He docs not take
Wine that he does not want because
he is too timid to refuse. nor does
he hesitate to pass any course OK
which he does not wish to partake.
instead OF playing with it, as a
writer on table etiquette advises.
He swallows hia food before he
leaves the table, and sees no occa-
sion for astonishment because eat
ing in the street is forbidden. All
the details of good breeding are as
familiar to him as his alphahet, and
he has been taught to know that at
tention to details in all things is
the true sign Of great mind, and
tha, he who can, in necessary, con-
slider the smallest can also CO." pass
the large subjocts.- Ex.
Year: 1879

Among the most trustworthy
tests of good home training is plac


ed that of the table manners and
no individual can hope to acquire
and keep them who knows any diff
ference in them when in the privacy
Of the family circle than when in
company. lhe. properly trained
youth does not annoy those next
to whom he sits by fidgeting in his
chair, moving his feet, playing with
his bread, or with any of the table
equipage Neither does he chew
bis food with his mouth open, talk
with it in his mouth, Or make any
of those noises in eating which are
the characteristics of vulgarity .
His food is net conveyed in too
large or small proportions to his
mouth: he neither HOLDS his head as
erect as il he had swallowed a ram
rod, nor docs he bury his face in his
plate. He handles his knife and
fork properly, and not overland
as a clown would he removes them
from the plate as soon as it is plac~
ed before him, aud he places them
side by side when he has finished,
and not before, as this is the 81 g.
nal which well-drilled butler
observes for removing the plate.
He does not leave his coffee spoon
or tea spoon in his cup. He avoids
using his handkerchief unncccssari


!y, or disgusting those who are
eating by trumpetlil;e performances
with it. He does not converse in
loud tones, nor indulge in uproar-
Gus laughter. If he breaks an ar
tic'e he is not proluse in his apol-
ogics. bnt shows his regret in his
face aud in his manner rather than
in words. Some writer has said:
"As it is i'll hammered to express too
Year: 1879

One OF the greatest mistakes
our farmers make is in tryin 9
to farm too much land. They
ought not TO at empt to work
a sing rod more land than
they can work we'll. Lay
that down as rule, and then
work to it, taking into the
calculations all the probabili~
ties of wet or dry weather. 1t
is far easier and certainly
more profitable to raise and
gather sixty bushels OF corn
from one acre Of ground, than
it is to raise ard gather fifty
bushels from two acres Aud
good farming is almost sure
to produce the first result,
while bad or half way farming
will certainly bring about the
other, Another mistake we
are disposed to think they
make, and that is in mannr-
lug lands; if they have but a
small quantity Of manure, they
usually spread it thin, with
the view Of making it go as
far as possible. Suppose you

try a new plan in that matter
also. Commence on one side
Of your field, and manure
heavy as far as it will 60
rext year you can extend it a
little further, and 80 on until
you have enriched the whole
field, and in the mean time,
you have made better crops
and with less work. The old
way Of raising five bales Of
cotton to twenty-five acres Of
land, has exploded, while the
new and better way is to raise
five bales to five acres. Try
it, and see if this is not the
easier and more profitable
lan.-Water Valley Courier.


LNOR SALE-FINE COTTON SEED.


Five hundred bushels of choice Simp-
son Cotton seed for sale: Apply to


2S,:3m, G.. BOCKEL, BAYOU Sara
Year: 1879

be blow at negro suffrage. Such
an objection should no: be spoken
out loud, because a very large mum
ber of people are averse to negro
suffrage and are not unf'iendly to
any method by which it can oe neu>
tra!ized. These persons are mainly
Republicans, who confess that Civ


ing the negro the ballot was
crime, as it forced a large number
OF persons into suffrage who were
unified for it ana who cannot be
ade fit for it. Other Republicans
see that negro suffrage is bound to
be loss 10 that party, and oppose
it on that account. The objection
to the repeal of the force bill that
it will end or nullify negro suffrage


is one which will make many
Republicans faver tho repeal. The
Democrats do not antagonize ne
gro suffrage, because they know
how to ase it. 1t increases the
representation, and does not inter
fere with the expression of the
South. Democrats ignore the
question of the competency of the
negro for the ballot, because they
can influence him TO vote with them,
and they can make him a force
against the very men who gave him
the ballot with the idea that he
would vote against the Democrats
forever.


No argument will be potentia!
in politics hereafter, which is based
upon the idea CT any effect of any
legislative policy for or against the
negro. The people are Indifferent
to the negro as policaI quantity.
They do not care whether he votes
at all. They are tired of the negro
as separate political matter. They
recognize that the passage of equal
laws puts the negro under the same
requirement to make them avaiIa~
bic for himself that the white man
is put under. If the negro with a
vote cannot commend himself to
politicians the same as any other
voter does, nobody means to stop
to take care of him. There is
nothing in the reason Of things why
a voter OF African descent should
be specially protected any more
than a voter Cf American, German
or Irish descent should be. The
latter classes have the intelligence
and courage to make themselves
valuable in politics. Such inte|li-
gencc and courage are the proof of
ability to deserve and use suffrage.
Wanting them, voters will 60 to
the wall, just as those who want
them to 60 the wall in business and
labor. Legislation can not supply
a man with competency to use his
own rights and opportunities. The
man must have the competency in
himself, or not having it he will lag
behind. 1t is just as impossible for
Congress to enact which horses
shall win at Saratoga, this summer,
az it is for Congress to make the
negro an effective factor in politics.
in lieu of his making himself one.


We repeat that any hue and cry
against the repeal of the force law.
on the ground that it initiates
against negro suffrage, would we'll
be abandoned. Men and women
do not care il it does. They feel
that the law ought to be repealed,
if its tendency is to prefer or to
take into account one class rather
than another. Moreover, negro
suffrage does not appeal to the
Judgment and moral appreciation
of the thoughtful and clean classes,
and thing that does not appeal to
them is fortul ate If it meets with
popular indifference rather than
popular hostility. If the worst
charges made by Radicals against
Year: 1879

The price of middling Orleans in Liv-
erpool has continued to recede, and is now
o-Io pence. The indications are that it
will go still lower.


1t is true, the worlds stock of cotton is
far below what it has been at this season
for many years. Looking only at this,
many have been led to hope that the ope-
ming prices this fall would be high. But
it must be considered, that though the
supply is light, the demand is yet lighter
Hundreds of cotton mills are closed in
Great Britain and on the Continent;
thousands of spindles and looms are stand
ing still. The growing poverty of the
masses all over the civilized world, has
largely checked the Consumption of cotton
fabrics.s Hoping for a revival of trade,
manufacturers availed themselves of the
low prices at which they were able to
purchase cotton last winter and early in
the spring, and converted nearly all ofsour
immense crop into fabrics. But there
game no revival of trade, but in it's stead
an increased depression. The people,
grown still poorer, were unable to take
and consume the fabrics manufactured,
and these went to stock an already over
stocked market India and China offered
but poor market for these fabrics, be-
cause the people of Europe were too pow
erty-stricken to take the luxuries they were
accustomed to send in exchange, and sill
yer, their chief currency, had been demon
etized in Europe With low prices and
slow sales for fabrics, manufacturers can
not, even with wages down to the starva-
ton point, run their mills except at loss
Fabrics manufactured from cotton that
cost 81 pence, cannot be sold to-day at
profit: what inducement is there to con-
vert into fabrics cotton that costs 81 pence?


There is not one CLEAN of light in the
near future for the eye of hope to rest up
on. The cold damp spring, and the storms
and floods of summer, have damaged the
food crops in Great Britain and on the
Continent to an extent unknown for years.
A large portion of what the people would
nave expended 1Or ra1ment. must be USED
for the purchase of food. The consump-
ton of textile fabrics will be largely dimin-
ished and prices go still lower. The price
of food will advance: operatives must be
paid higher wages, or they will starve.
The cost of converting the raw material
into fabrics will be so much enhanced.
Millions of commercial capital now en-
ployed id the cotton trade, will be diver
ted to the grain trade-employed in the
purchase and importation of the vast guam
titles of foreign grain necessary to supply
the deficit in the food crops. The higher
rates of interest that will result, will still
further diminish the profits of the manu-
facturers-or rather they will add still
more to their losses.


To what ssource can they look for a
compensation for all these losses? Only
to one, and that one is a lower price for
the raw material. The price of cotton
must fall, or English and Continental man
ufacturers must stop their spindles and
| looms.
Year: 1879

The cotton seed oil companies reap a
rich harvest from the hard toll of our
farmers. Every one connected with these
companies make money-the leading
stockholders and officials are amassing
immense wealth, and all this is SO much
taken from the farmer and from his fields.
These companies practice cooperation
wisely and well. they have their central
organizations, delegates to which from
each oil company in the cotton States
meet at the commencement of each sea-
son TO adopt measures to advance their
interests One of these measures is to
parcel out the cotton growing section,
giving toeach company its territory, and
the remainder bind themselves not to pur-
chase any seed in said territory. This
gives each company monopoly in its
respective section, and enables it to put
down and keep down the price of seed to
one-fifth of its value.


Will the farmers of the Cotton States,
remain passive spectators of the operations
of these companies, and not lift hand to
protect themselves? The system of cot
ton.seed buying, as established and prac-
ticed by these companies, is nothing more
nor less than downright robbery, and its
sucoo9s is. due simply to the Ignorance of
the farmers
Year: 1879

In about third of Mississippi-the
tier of counties bordering on Tennessee,
and double tier extending south through
the middle of the State, the whole form
ing letter THE corn crops are excel
lent. In the balance of the State the
crop will be very short, owing to the long
drouth which cut off all but the late corn,
which with abundant rains, is very prom
ising Cotton is good all over the State
Year: 1879

Half of the farms in the South ought to
be subdivided. They are too large for the
present system of labor. In few years
land owners will discover this fact, and
give the poorer classes chance to win
homes. 1t will be better for all when this
is done, adding alike to the prosperity of
both seller and buyer, and giving each
better chance in the battle of life.-Zoa
isgiIle ufactuyer.
Year: 1879

The attention of our readers is especi-
ally directed to the correspondence on our
third page. These letters are all exceed
ingly valuable and interesting to every
thinking farmer, and Grange Lecturers
could do no better service than by reading
them before their Oranges.
Year: 1879

Werejoice that at the primary election
in Oktibbeha county, Miss, last week, to
choose candidate for State Senator, a
farmer was selected-Mr. J. L. Crigler
received handsome majority over the
lawyer candidate. He will make a good
Senator, and we hope he will receive the
support of the farmers in Clay county,
which with Oktibbeha form the senatorial
district.


In every district that elects Senator
this year, the farmers should nominate and
elect farmer-not a planter There are
too many lawyers in the State Senate al
ready. Let other counties now follow the
good example set by Oktibbeha.
Year: 1879

In a private letter, Worthy Master
Lang, of the Texas State Grange, informs
us that there is great revival of interest
in the Order throughout that State. He
is now canvassing the State actively.
Year: 1879

to get your locks taken off this warm
weather is at Charles Smiths, No. 3 4.
Third street, who makes the hair dis
appear from your pate by the aid of one
OF those tickling clippers. He will soon
have your head ready for the flies to
roost upon when you go through his
hands. Call and consult him.
Year: 1879

that he would have TO leave town that day
on pressing business, which would keep
him away perhaps week. Instead of
leaving town he secreted himself until
about 10 o'clock in the evening, when he
quietly made his way to his lodging rooms,
knocked for admission, but receiving no re-
sponse, he smashed in the door and
entered the apartment, at the
same time drawing a knife.
When he entered the room Charles Stone
jumped from the bed, in partial deshabille,
and the two men grappled, one with the
strength of violated honor and the other
with strength born Of frenzy of despair. In
the meantime Mrs. Romhilt had been
screaming murder!


Help soun came and the combatants
were separated, Stone disappearing down a
back stairway and Romhilt being taken TO
the Surgical Institute, he having in the
struggle severely cut himself. Mrs. Rom
hilt was found on the floor in a faint, the
excitement having completely prostrated
her, and she has not as yet recovered. So
far there have been no arrests, but it is very
probable there will be suit for divorce.
Year: 1879

GOOD TILL THE MIDDLE OF JUNE.
Special TO the Star


WASHINGTON, May 23.-The indication as
to the sentiment among Senate Democrats
concerning adjournment appears from in
quiries just made by Senator Plumb. He
desires to be absent for two weeks, and con-
suited several gentlemen on the Democratic
side thereupon. They concurred in the
opinion that he would be entirely safe in
calculating it would last at least to the
middle of June,
Year: 1879

TIE Republican politicians are n'w
ustitIoninp the City Council to make
many costly Improvements and to IN
crease the police force, while many other
Rspublicsns are urging economy and
thssetening the Councilmen with the
vengeance Of the law If they attempt to
bosros money to pay for the work when
IL y done. And, should the Council
incur these expenses, next year when
the election comes around, all the he
publican. together will set up howl
over the tremendous extravaganza Of the
Democratic Council. Now, it would be
q COED policy for the Council to adopt
since 1t is trying to get the lien books
fixed up, TO refuse to have any more
liens accumulated, and only do such
work a those petitioning for it are viii
ling TO pay for u once. In this way the
Council could have the lien book cleared
or 20 far reduced as possible. In iact
all these liens ought to be collected. 1t
ID not fair to make one class Of citizens
pay tor curbing and paving, and let an
other class of without paying. That is
the effect OF the policy which we find
has bssn pursued BY the Council for the
past ten or fifteen years.
Year: 1879

HARD ON THE SALOON KEEPERS
The Republican is very hard on the sa-
loon keepers. Not satisfied with de-
nouncing their business, it pursues them
when they abandon it, as in the case Of
policeman Dolan, who is regarded by
all who know him as being one of the
best officers on the police force. 1t is
no matter to that paper. A man is only
to be Democrat to be denounced. 1t
will advocate the election of the most


extensive Of saloon keepers il he be a
Republican, while at the same time il
denounces q Democratic office holder
holding up the fact that he had been a
saloon keeper as damaging stigma
This is the kind of consistency, how.
ever, for which that paper is notorious
Year: 1879

WHENEVER Republican orator or
newspaper anywhere in the United
States makes any allusion to the cor
ruption of Tammany we invite the
nearest Democrat to call his attention
to two little facts. The New York De-
mocracy have kicked Tammany out of
doors, and tho New York Republicans
have made = compact with it agreeing
to help it upstairs again and give it the
combination of the public safe If il
will aid to defeat Governor Robinson


World.
Year: 1879

STIFFNESS OF THE MONEY MAR
kEr.-A few weeks ago money was
plenty In Wall street, on call at 2 to 4
per cent. Now it is 4 10 9 per cent
Inns Is remarkable while the banks are
known to be flush and anxious to Io.n
Year: 1879

The latest i'm regard TO Gen. Grant
is from Portland, Oregon, where he is
reported as saying that when he leaves
the Pacific coast he will go direct to
Galena, and remain there a short time
before attending the reunion of the
Army of the Tennessee at Chicago, and
would i'm all probability make Galena
his future home.
Year: 1879

The only trace thus far of the lost
balloonisis is apackage of papers which
was found on the Indiana shore of
Lake Michigan, and which bore the
intelligence that they had been thrown
from the balloon " Pathfinder"
Year: 1879

WALL STREET, /


TUESDAY, Feb. 4-G 2. NJ


There were more lowering clouds than CLEANS of
sunshine in the early morning market. for prices
weak, bulls disconsolate and matters generally
the of encouraging 1t is at last being real
lied that advance movement no matter how well
founded. cannot be relied upon to progress without
occasional set backs any more than that the coming
spring can be expected arrive without the accom-
paniment of frequent showers and intmdating thun-
der pea 1t is old notion that the latter clear the
air, and it is by no means new one that reactions
in the stock market impart health to speculation.
1t would appear that the truth of this PROPOSE
ton is making its way in operative circles.
for cheerfulness is again the rule. detection the
exec ption. and pretty solid faith in new
advance the religion Of the majority This was
pretty clearly manifested after meridian, when the
prevailing sluggish market woke up to activity and
struck out after such lively fashion that the space
between low prices and high prices covered in
no time. With quotations marking an advance Of
from to ~ per cent and recording the best figures
of the day in final dealings. the market closed and
the bulls went home with hornW exalted. The chief
business as well the chief Improvement. centred
in Lake Shore and the granger stocks The class OF
buyers pointed to q return to the market OF the
previous successful operators upon the bull slde
who apparently see in the situation many
promising elements of fresh upward turn
Among these may be cited the largo earn
ings Of the Northwestern property-the increase
over last year for the first day of tho month
being 81 2OO-and the prospects of an extensive grain
trade which are promised by the embargo upon COM
merce and the quarantining of Black Sea ports, rem
dered necessary by the prevalence Of the plague in
Eastern Europe. Almost the only black eye in the
market was exhibited by Mr.. Goulds pet. Union
Pacific which went into mourning to the tune of two
per cent 1t is said that Mr. Keene had struck out from
the shoulder through the medium Of sales of long
stock and with buyers to stop the blow but Gould
himself the result was noted. Closing prices for
active stocks the best Of the day, and the
kct ended with much animation and with undeniable
strength.


The opening. highest lowest and closing prices
of stocks at the New York Stock Exchange to-day
Year: 1879

The banks OF the Rio Fuerte are lined
with stately bignonIa trees; and here /
saw for the first time the singular rep
tile which the Spanlards call igudnd and
the Portuguese eaynadn do mOtto-i. 6.
'tree-alligator.' The latter name may
have been suggested by the formidable
appearance of an animal which atttains
length of seven feet and q weight of
sixty-five pounds, and jumps from tree
to tree with the Impetus OF a tiger-cat; /;
but there is no doubt that the iguana is
the most harmless creature of that size
which ever jumped or flew or swan on
this planet of ours-the most harmless
creature of its size, we might say, for
the little goldfish and the robin red
breast are beasts of prey compared with
the tree-alligator: they will hurt fly,
but the iguana is a strict vegetarian,
and like an orthodox Hindoo endeavors
to prolong his life without shortening
that of a fellow-creature. Still, with
its saurian beak, its preposterOus claws
and the row of bristles along it's back
bone, this giant lizard is a scandalous
phenomenon.
Year: 1879

that was the last time she was seen alive.
Her bonnet was lying beside her when we
found her dead, all bloody and crumpled.
Poor young lady 1t was terrible sight to
see her lying there, her eyes wide open and
filled with All expression of fright and
agony. think, sir, that it would have
been better if she could have forgiven those
who did her the great wrong but she said
there was not one atom of forgiveness in
her heart, that she would rather die than to
say the word forgive to her father and her
husband"


The sun had fairly gone down behind
the hills when the old sexton finished his
story. The shadows enveloped the old
school-house in dusky dimness; we quietly
arose and walked out, glad to leave behind
a place haunted with such sad memories
No doubt as the old sexton said, it would
have been better to have been forgiving
for forgiveness, like charity, covers a null
titude of sins.
Year: 1879

Hill dies before she is of age. Mr.. Hill
did not draw up this paper until his will
was signed and sealed, and he was remind
ed that he had made no stipulation for the
reversion of his estate.


Reminded by yeuG" was the bitter re-
joinder.


"Reminded 10y me! He was shown the
danger that you might become suitor to
the young heiress, l."


"Well, that danger is over. have been
sincere suitor to the heiress, and she has
refused the honor of an alliance.


"Hum!"


$50, having lost that stake, am pre-
pared to accept the conditions, take the ten
thousand dollars, and turn my back upon
Bellows Falls for life"


Ii was with sense of great relief from
very urgent fear, that Alice Hill heard
from her lawyer of the demand upon the
estate, that made her poorer by ten thou
sand dollars, and removed Godfrey Hill
from her path for life.


She told no one of the walk in the gloam-
ing that had revealed to her the black
treachery of the man who wOoed her so
gently, and had SO nearly won the treasure
of her young heart.


1t made her shy of suitors for a long
time, fearing her money was the magnet
that drew them TO her side; but there
came n true lover at last-one she trusted
and loved, and who won her for his tender,
faithful wife.


And Godfrey Hill left his old home never
to return.


There was no thought of revenge in
Alice Hills heart when she heard of the
death of her cousin, nearly three years after
his departure from Bellows Falls; but she
could not restrain a fervent thought of
thanksgiving, when she realized that there
was no murderous thought hanging upon
her possible death.


Aud to her relief she told her husband
for the first time of that involuntary mas
querade that saved her from the power of
a villain.


cit was at this hour, Will, " she whispered
"and this is the first time since that day
that l have been able to sit, without
shudder, in the cleaning"