smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

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An economic journal enters intoa Gu.


rious calculation as to the actual cost, in


dollars and cents, which man or wo-


man would be to the world and society


by the time he or she got old enough to
"pay expenses" or return back to the


country what thus far had been expend-


ed in rearing their population.


Every baby, it is fair to assume, when


properly brought up, costs its parents at


least fifty dollars year, an expense


which increases largely as food, clothing,
the shelter of warm home, education
and spending money are required for the
growing child. The actual cost up to
the fifteenth year, of each child in this


Republic, is certainly not less than
thousand dollars. At that age its labor
would be worth its subsistence. Not till
1t reaches the age of eighteen (and
great many not even them does it really
begin to be productive. For every 100,
600 children the nation has to produce
six or eight millions of dollars consumed
without adding at all to production. To
rear that number of children to a pro.
ductive age certainly costs hundred
millions of dollars, without any profit
whatever in return. Herein is the great
value Of immigration. This great Re
public receives into its broad and glori-
GUS bosom every day not less than one
thousand emigrants from the old world, |
Of course two thirds, perhaps seven
eights, are adults, ready grown for us by
Europe at her cost, up to the productive
point, when they come to our shores to
give us the benefit of their toll. Annu-
ally does Europe labor industriousIy to
produce and raise for our Republic, free
Of cost, more than 100000 persons, who
we could not have furnished ourselves at
an expense Of s3OO,0OO,0OO. No wonder
that we grow rich and prosperous, for the
loss of the old world is our gain, and all
countries are nursing mothers for ours.
Year: 1874

A FOR SALE. THE MOST STYLISH CITY MADE
IA. light side bar leather top Road Wagon in the city
must DO sold at very low figure cash. pole and
shafts also very line single and double Harness Call
at lH West Thirty fifth street between Broadway and
eventh aNenuei INQUIRE Tor QEORli.a.
Year: 1874

SAVE THE LEAVES. "Leayes have their
time to tall, y but they are only a nuisance
if lett in the yards and on the sidewalks; &;
but when gathered dry and stored in the
barn or shed, they add greatly to the value
Of the manure-pile in the spring. A litter
of leaves in the horse stalls, is more de-
sirable than one Of straw for it can be re-
newed without the necessity of cleaning
out the stalls more than twice or three
times week Besides, the leaves absorb
the ammonia more rapidly than straw
and can be more thoroughly worked over
and trodden into it; and they also make
the manure of much more value for flower
gardens, as they are particularly rich in
phosphoric acid, which is, next to ammo
MIA, the most highly treasured constituent
of plant growth. Apply a bed of leaves
plentifully around the roots OF your vines,
shrubs, roses and all Towering trees, then
throw a shovel of manure over them. and
next spring will show how beneficial is
their effect. Aside from the practical use
of leaves. q due regard to appearances
should prompt us to use them up from our
door-yards and lawns and put them in
some place where they viii not lie around
loosely Dame Nature ought to have an
attic in which to put away her cast-otf
clothing, and not let the autumn winds
scatter them broadcast; but she prefers
that we should do her house-cleaning for
her, and so we should attend to it directly
and reap the benefits of our labors in an
other season. Pile them in one corner of
the yard, if there is no cow OF horse to
use them Cover them with a layer of
earth, and turn all the house-slops upon
them; and another spring, you will have
good supply OF fertilizing material for
your flower garden. New England Farm
er.
Year: 1874

1t Is only glove, Ted, lady's glove:
=, II mas lam in the desk where I found it
for twenty long years, but the freshness of love
And the glory of youth cling around it,
les there comes. Ted whenever I see that


glove,
A vision of music and dancing.
AND again, i'll my mind, the eyes of dove
Into mine are tenderly glancing.
And | clasp once again in this hand of mine
nat glove and the soft hand within it
AND feel in the waltz, through the glare and


the shine,


That it throbs like newcaught lnnet.
| feel her ambrosial breath on my cheek,
Like the scent of the linden blossom;
And L know that she loves Though she does


not speak


by the rise and fall of her bosom.
Well, went TO the Indies in sixty Ted;
And-and-fush its the brandy-and water.
Nhy' when l came back she was dead-she


was dead


And-l married RobinSon's daughter
Just hand me light and fresh cigar;
1t Is foolish to keep such token,
W hen The girl who gave it is sleeping afar
In land where the rest is unbroken
Year: 1874

Called upon to quell negro riot, an
Alabama Sheriff overlook a darky lad
mounted on mule and carrying the mail
between Livingston and Demopolis, He
detained the boy long enough to prevent
his carrying ahead the news of the officials
approch Immediately the United States
Marshal telegraphed to the credulous At
torneg- General that mail train had been
stopped and searched by one hundred
armed men. It is difficult to keep pace
with the operations Of the outrage factory
In goes the NANCY cur of a rumor and out
comes sleek, sausage-!ike fact.
Year: 1874

Every morning is 4 sort of resurrection
At night we lay us down to sleep, strip
ped Of our garments, as our souls Will be
of their bodily array when we come 10
die; but the morning wakes us, and if it
be a Sabbath morning we do not put on
our work day clothes, but find our Sabbath
dress ready at hand; even thus shall we
be satisfied when we wake up in our
Masters likeness no more to put on the
soiled garment of earth, but to find it
transformed into a Sabbath robe, in which
we shall be beautiful and fair, even as
Jesus our Lord Himself [Spurgeon.
Year: 1874




We all remember that a thrill of an
guish ran up and down the spinal column
OF the American people when = certain
announcement was made soon after the
marriage OF Edinburg to the daughter of
the Gar We all know how the daugh-
ters OF Columbia arose as one man and in
dignantly cast back the toul allegation
into the teeth of the alligator whoever he
or she might be. Now, however we have
the pleasure to announce that it is all right
England is not absolutely starving Tor lack
of Royal family, but will probably be
inclined to welcome this Anglo-Cossack
little stranger. as Mrs. Edinburg's papa
is rich and careless and will be very like
ly to come down with something hand
some on the occasion. 1t is interesting to
know also that the cherub has been born,
if not with a silver spoon in its mouth, at
least with half a dozen in the cupboard,
and will not be absolutely destitute of Il
mug This is from reliable authority
Edinburg from this time will have to give
up his lodge-meetings and private smokes
in the club snuggery and conduct himself
as becometh the father of family and
the sire of a second hand Romanotf. The
Czarina is reported to be a great stickler
for the proprieties of lite, like Victoria,
and between them both the outlook for
Edinburg is not so festive as it might be-
However, there is one comfort, his mother
in-law can't stay with him forever, which
will at least take from him the temptation
to follow the Romanotf example and put
4 little cold pizen into the old ladv's tea
Year: 1874

In commenting upon the failure
newspaper manager, the St Louis Globe
tells plain truth in the following word
The business oi journalism will continue
to be an inviting field for experiments to
those who have large amont OF money,
and large amount OF egotism. A man
who having edited a newspaper until he
was forty, should suddenly announce him
self lawyer. would be regarded as a
tool by the legal profession and yet we
often hear OF lawyers of forty making sud-
den pretensions to journalism There is
an idea that the business OF editing re-
quirs no pprenticeship that editors come
forth from law offices and colleges fully
armed tor the profession, like Pallas from
the brow Of Jove 1t is a mistake; there
is notIin America to-day a single journalist
OF national reputation who has not de-
voted more time and more hard work to
his profess on than, with equal fitness and
application, would have made him great
lawyer or q good doctor. And yet ninety
out of every hundred men you meet on
the street will hesitate about carrying
hod or making a pair Of shoes, whereas
there will probably not be one in the hum
dred who can't, according to his own iudg-
ment, edit any newspaper in the country
better than it is edited, no matter in what
mann er or by whom
Year: 1874

The utmost we can hope for in the world,
is contentment; if we aim at anything
higher, we shall meet with nothing but
grief and disappointment. A man should
direct all his studies and endeavors to
making himself easy now and happy here
after
Year: 1874

In Brittany there is said to prevail
curious matrimonial custom. On certain
tete days the young ladies appear in red
petticoats, with white or yellow borders
around them The number denotes the
portion the father is willing to give his
daughter Each white band, representing
silver, betokens one hundred francs Of
rent; and each yellow band denotes gold,
and stands for thousand francs year
Thus, a young farmer, who sees face
that pleases him, has only to glance at the
trimmings OF the petticoats to learn in an
instant what amount accompanies the
Wearer
Year: 1874

We clip the following from the Chicago
Times:


A little incident like the following will
tend more toward bringing about ahealthy
feeling of kindness between the North and
the South than all the formal reconcilia-
tions that oficious and ingenious minds
can devise. 4 New Y ork lady noticing
that Major Jones, Of Montgomery, Ala,
in pronouncing an Grafton over the Con
tederate dead, had none but kindly words
tor those who fell on the other side, and
expressed himself eloquently and feeling
iy IN favor of reconciliation, commission
ell iewelry firm to send him a silver
cup, suitably engraved, as expressive Of
her appreciation of the sentiments he eX-
pressed and the regard for him which they
gave rise to. Her name was withheld at her
desire, bat her letter to the ieweler was
forwarded with the testimonial In it she
said, The war widowed me and took
away my two sons. For long time | felt
as if | could never forgive those who slew
the defenders of the Stars and Stripes,
but when | think of the warwidowed
mothers of the South, and see such Ian
guage as this it makes me tenderer and
]uster to the South | feel that men like
this Major Jones must be noble and true
in heart, and fought and died because
they thought it was right. want them
to feel that such sentiments echo in the
Northern heart, and in truth tend to draw
the whole country together for it sealing.n ~
The cup, as received 10y the major, was
Inscribed as follows:


MAJOR THOMAS G. JONES


The Orator on Confederate Memorial Day,


April, 1874;


from


A Northern woman, widowed and bereft


of her two sons by the War,


As token Of her appreciation Of the


Soderly words, spoken in kindness of


The Northern Dead.
Year: 1874

ninety -one millions in specie and bullion were
exported from United States ports, in excess
of the imports, although the price of gold,
which ranged in January 1854, from l5ii to
100, fluctuated i'm December from 2ll to PA,
and averaged over 200 throughout the year
In 1855 the average rate Of discount
at the Bank of England again reached
seven per cent. and sixty-two millions
of specie and bullion were exported from the
United States in excess of the imports, Of
which the net amount of foriy-seven millions
went in the single quarter ended with june,
1865, in which quarter the Bank of England
discount rate averaged eight and Onc-hali per
cent, and the price of gold at NcwYOrk rose
from 125 to 1871, in spite of the scores OF mil
lions which were emptied by Secretary McCul-
loch from the United States Treasury into
Wall Street. Under such circumstances the
value of United States five per cent bonds,
and consequently that Of the currency, must
sink below par What financial fact, indeed, Is
more notorious than that when the Bank OF En-
gland raises it's rate of discount stocks fall and
gold flows to England, unless Il be that other
fact, that when the proportion of paper In q
mixed currency constantly increases and the
proportion of specie constantly diminishes, the
inevitable consequence, sooner or later, IL loss
of confidence in that currency, and suspension
of specie payments, attended by panic and
disaster?


The value of Government bonds may DO
greatly changed by variety OF circum-
stances of which we need here mention but
one-the quantity in the market. Upon the
outbreak of war, the supply Of bonds, both
actual and prospective, becomes very great.
As necessary consequence their value
sinks. English Consols have been below fifty.
The securities of France and Germany almost
instantly fell twenty or thirty per cent upon
the outbreak of the late war between those
countries. This circumstance alone is serious
objection to our National bank currency, and
would be fatal one to any convertible bond
scheme. The mere apprehension OF difficulty
with Great Britain, France, or Germany under
such financial system would rulnously
depreciatc at once the Governments
credit and the currency resting upon It, "A
United States one hundred dollar bond and
about five and half ounces of gold are dit
ferent things. The bond may be worth the
gold to-day and nothing tomorrow. But the
gold will always have a purchasing power
nearly uniform throughout the world. Hence
Government credit is not suitable substitute
for gold as standard of value.
Year: 1874

the views The TRIBUNE has so frequently cx-
pressed. ftIf.t 49, -.


Tn the practical application of the principles
arrived at, however, the two committees difier
very widely. The Committee on Railways and
Canals proposes to cheaper the actual cost OF
TRANSFORMATION by building railway ex-
clusively for freight, and then to keep down
the tolls by direct legislation. The Trans
portation Committee recommends the con-
struction of four great national free water
routes from the Mississippi to the sea, leaving
the rates to be settled by competition. In
the case of freight railway the charges
would be reasonable just SO long as Congress
kept itself above railroad influence, and not q
day longer But free water routes, owned by
the nation and open to every man who chose
to put q boat upon them, would he per-
petual competitors with the railways and
could not be made partesi to any
combination. The four routes proposed
would give relief to almost every sec
ton of the country. The first is the Missis-
sipp route, TO be opened by an extensive
series Of Improvements of the great river, the
most costly of which would be at its mouth.
The second is the Northern route, by way of
the Fox, Wisconsin, aud Illinois rivers, the
great lakes, and an enlargement of the New
York canals. The third is the Central route.
by the Ohio aud Kanawha rivers to tide
water in Virginia. The fourth is the Southern
route, by the Tennessee River and canal to
some convenient port on the Atlantic. The
aggregate cost of the four series OF improve
ments is estimated at $l55,0O0000.


1t is one of the misfortunes of Our political
condition that no great scheme of this kind
can be suggested without frightening the
whole country at the prospect of jobbery and
swindling. If the honest value of the work is
s155,OOO,OOO the nation would doubtless be
compelled to pay for it at least $6OO,ooo,oOo
the typical adventures of Washington would
amass enormous fortunes; and-worst OF ALL
| perhaps-the politics of every State In the
| Union would be debauched for years by the
expenditure of q corruption fund unparalleled
! for magnitude in the history Of any free
| country. Indeed there would be practically
no limit to it. Vast as these extensive works
arc they seem to be perfectly feasible, and
they are not greater than the internal improve
mcnts to which other nations have lent theiI
credit and their revenues. But we have moi
an honest Administration, and it is serious
question whether the four great water routes
would not cost us, in money and demoralza-
ton, more than they would be worth. Before
we can think of any such stupendous under
| takings we must at least reform our methods
OF transactng public business. Then We may
find it desirable to take up again for fresi
consideration the old question Of Government


management of internal improvements.
Year: 1874

If the present Legislature is to be known as
in any way less corrupt than its recent pre-
decessors the strikers and jobbers must be
fought this week at every turn. The Legisla-
trlre has done little or nothing toward second
ing Gov. Dixs admirable suggestions for an
early and considerate dispatch of the work in
which the jobbers find the best placers. We
are about as badly off now, in this respect,
as at any previous session. Within the next
three days bills by the score will be read
by title and rushed through at railroad speed :;
and he will be an unusually intelligent and
attentive member who knows half the time
what subject is before the House, or On which
side he is voting. The last days of each ses-
sion for years past have been a burlesque on
legislation, and carnival for the representa-
tives of every corrupt interest.


There is one safe rule for honest legislators
in the midst of the Inevitable hury burly.
"No" is likely to be, in nine out of ten of
the bills which have been purposely or other
wise delayed to this stage of the session, a
safer vote than "Yea." When in doubt, do MT
take the trick.
Year: 1874

The final passage of the Consolidation bill
(the full text of which may be found on
page q makes an end Of an abuse which
had nothing but its age to excuse
its continuance. There was no possible
reason why the City of New-York and
tho County of New-York, which are ex-
Rctly the same thing in territory, should be
totally different things in government. except
Ing that more salaries were thus attainable
There can be no doubt of prompt approval
by the Governor.
Year: 1874

One thing about rapid transit legislation
seems reasonably certain. If as many
different projects get charters as now
appears probable, the charters may
not be the very best for the
purpose of securing early rapid transit, but
they will be the very worst ever passed at
Albany for the purpose of selling out. Charters,
in fact, will be drug in the market.
Year: 1874

The famous landaulet of the AttOrney-General has
turned out to be the most carriage that
q man ever rode in. How much may have had to do
with Mr. Williamss failure to reach the Chief-Jus-
ticeship it would perhaps be hard to say but surely
no Member of the Cabinet ever had worse joltIng
through Congress than Mr.. Williams got In that his
torical vehicle last Saturday. The end OF spirited
debate the subject the striking out oil an ap


preparation of 81 900 for the stable expenses Oh tho
Department Of Justice, and so the Attorney-Gen-
eral is left without so much as box-wagon, unless
he chooses to pay for one himself. This Is spas
m6aai;t saiort Of reform which will do no good. MI.
Williams has only adopted an abuse that hourished
before his time and in other branches Oh the puDho
service and it is not fair that the fault should DO
visited upon him alone. The various departments
ought to be treated alike, and IL secretaries ana
bureau officers can neither walk nor use the puplio
conveyances common to other citizens, systematlc
scheme for their relief ought to be deyiss before the
administrative machine comes to full stop for
lack of locomotive power Perhaps the suggestion
of Mr. Nesmth of Oregon is best after alto mount
Cabinet officers on tifty-dollar mules.


A LIVERPOOL cotton-broker has recently been cast
in $4,000 damages for breach of promise OF mar
riage In o rather unpleasant interview with
the father Of the young lady no seems to have
been subjected to rigorous examination as to
his reasons for breaking the engagement He bad
nothing to alege against the girls character dis
position. She had given him no cause for jealousy.
He was not entausled with anybody else. But thers
was one grave objection to the matohs IL have
discovered" said he. that she does not take suf-
fciently lively interest in cricket Certainly this
was worry unfortunate dissimiarity Of tastes. yet
IL does not seem to US essential to the happiness Of
married life that the two hearts should beat as ono
even at tho sight Of the bat Croquet Of course
would be different thing but the strictly masca-
line games like cricket and drawpokss. hardly de-
maud tho active coin GRAFTON e& wa{o. T,fi b.
Year: 1874

tested. The bill now in the hands OF the
Governor authorizes an experiment to be made
outside of the city; if it's successful operation
is certified by several specified engineers. it
may be erected inside the city, provided q
route is found for it. This cOntrivance is an
endless platform, moved along an elevated
track. and passing up one side of the city and
down the other. There are not few careful
business men who believe that the scheme
il entirely feasible
Year: 1874

Are the most beautiful in style and perfect in
tone ever made The Concerto Stop is tie best
ever placed in any Organ. II is produced by an
extra set Of reeds peculiarly voiced, the effect of
which is most charming aud sou-strring, while
It's imitation of the human voice is superb
Terms liheral
Year: 1874

Ulysses the great, stands before the
Louisiana people in the attitude of big
boy with q chip on his head daring a little
urchin to knock it off, The old fellow
came in at the tail end of great war,
where he had nothing to do but walk over
the track, and now he thinks he can whip
all creation. He is especially anxious to
fight Louisiana. Won't somebody knock
the chip off his hat


We think not. If Grant himself would
come down here at the head Of II reason
able number of the most distinguished ra
dical knaves of congressional and official
circles, he could perhaps get accommoda-
ted. But unfortunately in the attitude which
he maintains he represents the United
States, and our people have neither the
intention nor the inclination to fight the
general government. Mr.. Grant may as
we'll abandon all hope Of inveiglipg this
State into 80 transparent an absurdity as a
o collision with the Federal troops.
No wonder, however, that he keeps up
the effort with kind of desperation, for
it is his only hope of retaining power. A
war in Louisiana Who can tell what OPP
portuuities it would bring him what a new
lease, and perhaps a permanent one, of
power ,it would confer3 Therefore the
army stays here; therefore he talks in
sultingly and menacingly of what he will
do therefore he decrees in advance that a
proud and independent people must pre-
pare to submit to partizan Returning
Board, no matter how flagrantly it may
disregard the real verdict of the polls.


Well, we will show him that spirited
people can be also a prudent people. We
will submit to the irresistible force of
q. S. bayonets if arrayed against us. As
bad as the times are, as fearful as the op
preston is, as hard as taxation and poverty
and decay bear upon us all, we will know
how to wait. Patience is not incompatible
with honor. To the patient man belongs
the victory.