smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

friend. like your jokes very much,
dear "Fax." Indeed, you have di-
vine authority for them, as the
good Lord was evidently joking
when He made your face. The
Lord has evidently a good deal of
broad full in Him, though
there are some who, in their zeal to
"vindicatethe ways of God to man."
insist that your face was never made
at all-that it was only guessed at.
1t has been said of very ugly men
that their faces must hurt them, but
the trouble as to yours is that it
hurts other people. 1t has also been
said in reference to the men of
genius with unlucky faces that the
ugliness of the shell of an oyster is
sometimes compensated by thepearl
within; but although you GER
tainly have the pearl within, your
face is so much uglier than an oys-
ter shell that the illustration fails
in your case altogether.


l am credibly informed, dear
" Fax" that none but pretty chill
dren came into the world for fifteen
or twenty years after your birth (I
first saw the light during that
period), all the material in the
world for the making ugly faces
having been exhausted i'm your get |
ting up, and nature requiring that |
length of time for recuperation. BE |
all that as it may, l need not assure
you that / shall cherish your gift.
If you doubt this you must be a
jack-knife yourself-all but the
knife. l will keep the implement
as a valued mementO, and surely
there could not be more appropri-
ate remembrancer of the giver.
Never henceforth shall l see a jack
knife without thinking of you.


Ever your friend,


GEO. ID. PRENTICE.
Year: 1878

is no adequate remedy for bonds no


due.


If the Legislature should pass {
| general act that would extend the


remedy by receivers to debts no


due, upon proper showing as tC


the danger of irremediable loss, this


would be no violation of contract


If Congress, under its power to alter
and amend these railroad charters,


should pass the very bill here re-


commended in the interest of pri-
vate bondhOlders, who were about


to be swindled out of their money,


and had no adequate remedy, be-


cause their debts were not due, it


would be but an act of justice and
| good faith. The maxim that ''there
is no wrong without a remedy is
true in spirit, but not in fact and it


is the duty of the legislative branch


of every Government to see that


there shall be no wrong without a


remedy"


While Congress has the power to
alter and amend, as between itself
and the corporations, this charter
contract, should it see fit, fair con-
sideratiOn of this bill will show that
its provisions relate to more efficient
remedies for the enforcement of said
contract, and not to any fundamen-
tai alteration thereof.


The original act contemplates that
the road shall be repaired and kept
in good working order. If Congress
should have reason to apprehend
that the stockholders would waste
or misappropriate the funds of the
road and permit it to go to ruin, we
presume no one will doubt the
power of Congress SO to alter and
amend this act as to compel such
duty to be performed; and we can
see no good reason why any altera-
tionS and amendments should not
be made that may be necessary to
insure the discharge of every other |
duty imposed upon the corporations |
by this act, including the duty of |
for the payment of its
debts. These acts of 1862 |
and 1864 must be construed together |
as an entirety, and the power to
alter, amend, and repeal, extends to
each and every portion equally. |
The power to amend the contract of /
charter is admitted, but the power
to amend the contract of loan, en-
braced and set out in the same
chdrter-contract, is denied. This is
a refinement of dialectics too astute
for ordinary minds. 1t is maxim
in law that contract cannot exist
partly in parole and partly in writ
ing; and we think it equally incon-
sistent that written contract can
be binding in part and not in the
whole, or that it may be altered in
part but not in the whole.


The decisions which pronounced
l charter a contract did so when
here was no clause in it granting a
Oan of money, and such feature in
his railroad charter does not make
t any more or any less a contract,
lor render it any more or any less
to to the power of Con-
yress to "add to, alter, amend, or
'epeal'' it.


With these views we concur in
he wisdom of this bill, and recon-
mend its passage.
Year: 1878

When the daily occupation Is
mOnotonousand unengrossing, a full
supply Of excitement for the leisure
hours may be desirable; but where
the mental powers have been taxed
to their utmost through the hours
of labor, il Is absolutely necessary
to health and happiness that they
be entirely released for at least
portion of the time that Is left. IL
is not enough that the usual amount
Of time be spent in the absolute rest
of sleep, H. every waking hour be
filled to tho brim with eager, serious
occupation. IL Is not enough that
certain hours be secured, free from
absolute work, if they are still per-
meated with energetic thought, in
tense feeling or exciting pleasures.
The mind needs rest from effort In
its waking hours, a time when IL
may rightly lay aside it, activity
and enjoy being acted upon by calm
and gentle influences.
Year: 1878

of legal construction. The loan of
money without interest was the
foundatiOn-stone of this work, and
the power to alter and amend was
the main security reserved by the
Government to insure its proper
completion.


Let us suppose that the act of 1862
had remained unchanged that the
Government was the first mortgage,
and that private capitalists held the
second mortgage bonds, and that
they were here now appealing to
Congress for such general legislation
as would protect them against the
threatened destruction of their secu-
rity.


Law is a progressive science, and
it is the object of successive legisla-
lures so to amend the laws as to
meet the ever-varying wants OF so.
ciety. When debtors were found
disposed to make way with their
property with a view to defeat their
creditors, the remedy by attachment
was given. When it was found
that this remedy was insufficient,
because it applied only to past-due
contracts, it was extended by statute
to apply to debts not due, and the
law. when made, was applicable to
past as well as future contracts.
And vet this additional remedy was
no violation of the obligations of the
contracts.


Remedies in chancery have been
extended by statute in the same
way and in the State of Mississippi
a writ of sequestFation may issue to
prevent the removal of crops from
the State until the laboFeF's claims
for unfinished services are satisfied.
Receivers in chaneery may now be
appointed to take possession of rail-
roads for the benefit of mortgages,
when the bonds are due; but there
Year: 1878

"I am at your service" said n
young clerk the other evening to a
handsome young lady, In answer to
her inquiry for bow. ~ am,
replied she, "much obliged 10 YOU
but j want a buff, and not a green
one" He sank into his shoes, and
she went out"
Year: 1878

The London Mining Journal points
out that, aside from its other advan-
tages, the success of the electric light
would solve almost important problem
affecting the lives Of many persons now


working in mines "There appears to
be no reason" says the Journal, "why
electricity should not be made applica-
BILE for mining instead of lamps, and
this would affect what our mining engi-
neers and foremost chemists have long
been looking for 1t would give the
men light such as they have never
dreamed Of, enabling them to get a much
larger quantity of coai@ in given time
than it is possible for them to bring
down by the light of the lamp, which
barely suffces to make the blackness of
the working places visible. 1t would
also benefit both masters and men, and
greater safety would be insured, for ex-
| plosions would be all but impossible,
| whilst the miners would be better able
to guard against falls of roofs and coal
Year: 1878

not o line In them that does not move the
heart or brighten the inteiiect or inflame
the will to good and great decide. They
contain. indeed, tho key to the history OF
the world since the coming Of Christ; nay,
they are the real history Of the world.


The enemies of Christianity have been
forever striving to mutilate and blacken
and defle those pages; to show that the
hand of God is not in them, that they arc
full of evil and falsehood. The Christian
demons, or as fools, or as imposters the
great Christian doctors as cunning and
designing men, lovers aud followers Of
dark cess and superstition. Psges are even
interpolated that do not belong to 1t facts
are distorted lies are set in their place.
there has always been a vast conspiracy
against the whole truth Of Christian his
tory, and that conspiracy exists to-day, as
strong and aggressive az it ever was.
Christ himself is denied and derided ae a
myth or a weak enthusiast.


And in the face of all this what are Cath
olics, even CathOlics who esteem themselves
as intelligent, doing Do nine-tenths Of
them ever open-nnce year the history of
their church, Would they ever lay down
vile aud lying newspaper to take up that
history, or tn inquire into some point OF 1t
which they hear discussed OF about which
they may have some doubt arising from
lack of kDowledgef We fear to give the
answer, Men say that such questions are
hard ard dry, aud the works that discuss
them dear aud tiresome nonsense. Catho-
lie books are cheap, brilliantly written and
full OF interest. Our Catholic magazines
the Catholic World and Catholic american
Quarterly for instances-that take up such
questions from month to month-are an-
equalled for power, literary grace, and
general interest by any magazines publish
ed. The same ia true of many of our
papers, and the fault lies altogether with
the supine Catholics wi o for lack of a lit
tie easy intelligence and honest earnestness
will 60 about the world all their lives
Catholics indeed in name and by baptism,
and let US hope by frequenting the sacra-
ments, bnt of little use to their fellow men.


The catechism and Church history are
within the reach of all. 1t is a duty to take
them up, stndy them, and. be able to i'm
part to others the knowledge that they
contain.
Year: 1878

The shocking practice of selling intoxi- eating liquor to Indians still continues here, and will continue until another such example is made as was made in Judge Porter'S Court, a few years ago, of the mercantile firm of Nissei1 & Nufiez That broke up the practice for a while, and broke that firm up also. It is not from merchants that the Indians are now get ting their liquor. It is from parties whose position least exposes them to suspicion, or from others on whom 1t is difficult to fasten proof. Lawyers and editors are the last men likely to be accused of the in- famous practice. Yet we have read ex- cellent censure of the crime in a news paper whose proprietor, eight or ten years boat by a detachment of soldiers from the Colorado River Indian Reservation. They fired upon him, but he got into the brush on the California side and made good his escape However, those Reser- vation Indians got no Intoxicating liquor for while. Some four or five years ago the sal1e individual started a dead fall '" saloon few miles below Fort Yuma, and ran it until a detachment was sent down to break it up. As the Yuma Indians could get no liquor there after that and as this all occurred on the California side of the river, at the eastern edge of San Diego County, and about 200 miles from the office of its Prosecuting Attorney, no legal measures were enforced against the vendor.

 The practice of law may make amends for its previous infringement denouncing a crime in print may atone for former practice of it; but we do not think so. A bad example has been set; high Chow high ? positions are attained by means of money gained in selling liquor to Indians. While such offenders go unpunished the nefarious traffic will continue.
Year: 1878

We have long noticed tendency on
the part Of the American people to 9
sort Of undiscriminating specialism.-
The current notion is that the man ol
serious mental processes must neccssa'
rily be on owl, and, conversely, that
the person of humorous proclivitics
must be incapable Of solemn thought
But, bless your good soul, it is the
easiest thing in the world to be pro-
found. Gravity is the normal express
sion Of the human countenance. and the
symbol of solcmnity is the animal that
has the longest ears. We sec no reason
why an argument should lose force be-
cause it happens to be garnished with
an Illustration that appeals to the risi-
blitics. And we cannot comprehend
why thesis should be judged prefer
able to an epigram where bo,h tend to
the same conclusion, or each leads to
the same conviction in the mind Of the
reader. For example, why should we
say, The energies Of the Republican
party have been exhausted in an effort
to elevate the negro race to position
that nature never intended it to occu-
py," when botk the humor Of the sub
ject and the logic of the sentiment would
be more aptly fitted by the. observation
that kadicnlism had tired itself out in
the arduous task of holding the niger
up by the tail as it were? In either
case the impression produced upon the
E,ind Of the reader is that The elevation
OF the negro was forced, unnatufa! and
cruel alike 10 all PARTIES concerned But
the sol mnly sonorous style wOnld i'm
ply that there was nothing ridiculous
in the attitude occupied by the negro
in politics; whereas in fact you may ran
sack he annals Of the human race in
vain for such another travesty upon the
science oil government as it has afforded.


Washington Post.
Year: 1878

GONG - w - I.
know quiet country town,


BY which river falls and flows:
And in the dell and on The down,


The yellow sunlight glints and glows.
know square gray house of stone,
never think OF hut sigh.
Beyond whose garden, smoothly mown,
The rushing engines shrek and fly.
l know n chosen chamber there,


A fairy figure used to grace;
know an eastern window, where
Was wont to watch fairy face.
l thread the narrow winding street,
linger in the lonely lane,
Which once were trod by fairy feet,
That will not tread their path again.
love that quiet country town;


1t is to me u sacred place;
And as wander up and down.


Those vanished steps seem to trace.
And still the hours sercnely pasr,
And still the busy river flows;
And still among the shining grass
The yellow sunlight glin;s and glows
And there the house is, square and gray,
And there the new mown meadows lie
She used to gaze on day by day,


In faith, and dreamy reverie.
Yes, all is there-except the face,
That little window gapes forlorn;
And on me, as haunt the place,
The morning sunshiles in scorn.
Year: 1878

Tn France the unfortunate criminals
under sentence of death never know the
time fixed for their execution until the
,noment arrives; indeed, as a prisoner
capirally condemned usually appeals as
n matter of course TO the Cour dc Cas-
sa,ion against his sentence, they must
often be uncertain to the last whether
tho sentence will be carried out. The
order for the execution is only sent to
the prison the evening before it Is to
take place, and the criminal Is not In
formed of it till the fatal morning ar
rives. At the time Of our visit to this
prison, correspondent writes, there
happened to be two unfortunate inmates
of the condemned cells. The next eYe-
ming but one,a order came down from
the ministry of the interior re'pltlrg the
one and directing the execution OF the
other. At daybreak on the following
morning the wretched man was reused
from sleep and informed that his appeal
had been rejected, and lie Iunst prepare
for death. and in eighteen minutes, as
we were informed, from the moment he
awoke his head had fallen beneath the
guillotine.
Year: 1878

Montgomery Advertiser: We have
on several occasions made favora-
BILE allusion to this Virginia devise
for raising revenue. We have not
hesitated to declare our belief that
in the enactment of this law lies the
relief which a reduction of our
rate of taxation would afford.


In Virginia, where it originated,
it has worked well and is still full
filing all that it promised in its in
cipiency. 1t yields, as we are cred
IDLY informed, a very large revenue,
and this without imposing any bur
den upon the people.


At it's last session the Louisiana
Legislature adopted it, and last
winter the Legislatures of both
New York and Massachusetts, took
some favorable action in regard to
1t, though whether or not it is now
the law in those States we are not
informed. In the House of Repre-
sentatiyes In Georgia the committee
on finance, has made a favorable
report upon it. And, indeed, in
almost every State there has been
some movement looking TO its adop-
ton. We doubt not that it is des-
tined to be a universal law. 1t was
only last week the City Council OF
Atlanta took some action favoring
its adoption.


We trust our own legislature will
give the matter speedy and most
earnest attention. If there is q
sound argument against it we have
not yet seen or heard of 1t. The
entire argument, so far as we have
been able to see, lies on the side OF
the law. Col. Taylor's report to
the Legislature Of Virginia:


"My estimate has been that the
revenue derived from the sale OF
liquor under the "Mofett law
would reach the sum of $500, 00,and
have so stated in former reports.
From the results as shown in the
foregoing statements, mainly con
jectural, it is true. l have every
confidence that the law will yield TO
the State an annual revenue of at
least 100000"


The law certainly is not oppres-
sive. 1t does not meddle with the
necessities of life. Nobody could
be hurt by it, while the entire State
would be benefited.
Year: 1878

circumstances and trumpet-tongued
with glittering promises of relief,
yet to a brief but noisy existence
of little more than two years, it
fails utterly and goes to pieces be-
tween the upper and neither mill
stones. The reasons of its failure
are not difficult to point out. In
the first place it rushed madly
into extremes. threatened the es.
tablishment of precedents that
would have destroyed all respect
for established laws and made itself
the refuge and hope of communas
tic and agrarian aspirations through
out the land. In the second place
1t was led by chronic office-seekers,
noisy, impracticable, political fail
ures, and men whose only recon
mendation to front seats was their
assurance of their hates. In the
third place, all that was practicable
in their one idea, all that could be
accomplished in the way of finan-
cial relief without peril to society
and organic laws, all that was bene-
fetal and necessary in their econo-
my, was represented in and through
the Western and Southern Democ-
racy, and that powerful organiza-
tion offered to cool and reasoning
minds the only hope of sub
stantial and desirable relief. Hence
the utter failure of the new party,
and we hope the lesson of Its over
throw will convince the masses of
the party of their folly and prove
the end of the madness.
Year: 1878

jackson Tribune and Sun: One
fact is clealy established by tde
elections on Tuesday. 1t is that
the National, or greenback party is
utterly powerless except as a clog
and hindrance here and there
to the Democratic party. In cleo
tions this fall throughout the
Union, it has not carried a single
State. or elected a single State Off
cIal, or gained control Of a single
legislative body, or elected even a
corporars guard OF congressman.
All men, whatever their convictions
or hopes, must admit that as a new
party movement il is the most
complete failure within the political
history Of the country. Starting
under circumstances that favored a
ne9 party, when the country was
staggering under the weight OF
financial disaster and oppression


when the rule of unscrupulous mo
nopolists had driven the people into
the widest Indignation, and when
men everywhere and of every party
were ready TO catch at the first
straw Of relief,-starting under such
Year: 1878

All the elections are over, and we
are now to have a breashing spell;
but before the smoke of the battle
has cleared away, and while the
contest is still fresh in our minds,
1t is not out of place for US to make
a few pertinent and pointed re-
marks as to how elections have
been conducted recently. In the
outset, we can truthfully say, that
we have no desire to wound the
feelings of any one, but the duties
of a journalist are somewhat simi-
lar to those of the surgeon, and it
is our duty to probe for the disease
in society, and to tell, without any
fear, what that disease is, otherwise
we would be derelict in our duty,
and would forfeit the confidence of
our readers. Elections, aye even
the exercising of that great boon,
elective franchise, in this country,
has become a curse, instead of be-
ing the safety-valve to the republic,
as it was originally intended; it has
become the cancer, which is contin-
ually gnawing at our liberties, and
promises to destroy the peace and
prosperity of society, that is, unless
some stringent means are resorted
to. in order TO preserve the ballot
in all its pristine purity. The de
moralization caused by the recent
elections in this country has been
felt by every class. The sacred
Priest in his pulpit has not escaped,
nor the Judge in has gown upon
the bench; it may not have been
perceptible, but society is too much
like the human system, whatever
affects one part, affects the whole,
Year: 1878

the scriptures represented as lmml
nent, and may occur at any mo.
ment; yet the precise day and hour
thereof is unknown to man, and
Known only To God.


Fourth.-The scriptures nowhere
teach that the whole world will be
converted to God, and that there
will be reign of universal right
eOusness and peace before the re-
turn of our blessed Lord, but that
only and by His coming in power
and glory will the prophecies con-
corning the progress of evil and the
development of antichrist, the times
of the Gentiles and the ingathering
of Israel, the resurrection of the dead
in Christ, and the TRANSPORTATION
of his living saints receive their full
fillment; and the period of millen-
nial blessedness its Inauguration.


Fifth.-The duty of the church
during the absence of the Bride
groom is to watch and pray, to
work and wait, to go into the world
and preach the gospel to every
creature, and thus hasten the com
ing of the day of God; and to dis
latest promise, Surely l come
quickly;" to respond in joyous
hope, "Even SO, come Lord Jesus"


The resolutions were adopted
unanimously.


Thanking the reverend gentle
man for his courtesy, the reporter
took his leave, regretting that the
the want of time and space fobid
the use of all the valuable and in
teresting matter, relative to the
conference, which the doctor put in
his possession.