smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

A breed of animals in collection possess
ing certain distinctive characteristics which
are uniformly transmitted to to the offspring.
The fact that two animals are white or black
does not necessarily make them belong to the
same breed. The characteristic possessed In
common must be distinctive one. The fact
that two animals almost exactly resemble
each other in every respect, does rot prove
them Of the same breed. The resemblance
may be accidental, and the offspring NAV diff
fer widely. But when any one has in any
way secured a collection of animals all OF
which possess certain traits not found in
other animals of the kind, and transmitting
these with certainty he is entitled to call them
breed. f-.. ..t-t.ft r.-r


By careful selection in breeding this result
can be secured. Given a collection of cows
embracing one specimen of every known
breed, and it would be possible, without the
the offspring into uniformity in all important
respects. Such work would be tedious
and Improbable one. Practically it is better
for farmers to avail themselves of what has.
been done by Others, thus saving time and
money. s-E 1ll lcl ~ li


The work of establishing breed varies
greatly in the time required with different
classes. The more frequent the times of
breeding and the greater the number Of off
spring produced, the more easily and quickly
can the work be done. Thus no domestic
animal can have its characteristics more leasi-
ly changed than the pig. By use of we'll bred
males OF any breed and care in selecting the
females, in q very few years a stock poisess-
ing all the important characteristics Of the
chosen breed can be obtained. BY the Iexer-
else Of great care and skill new breed can
be established. A quarter of centurylas a
time in which to establish breed of hogs is
equal to a full century in which to do the
same work with horses.-Western FARMER.
Year: 1874

The Supreme Court Of the United States
has just decided against the legality ofthe
practice Of watering stocks by corporations
without the consent Of their members. If
the charter provides for such increase of
the capital. the stockholders vote in the
regular way is sufficient authority, but the
directors can only have such power by an
express act on the part of the members OF
the corporation. The issue Of additional
stock by part Of the stockholders would be
as illegal as the increase of the capital
stock Of firm without the consent of all
the partners.
Year: 1874

The cranberry crop is suffering from
the ravages Of an insect called the fire
worm, which is doing serious damage to
the fruit in dry marshes. On marshes
upon which water can be controlled,
there will be fair crop. On dry marshes
the crop will be light.
Year: 1874

CLEVELAND, o., May II, 1874


To the Editor Of the woRKSsNAN's ADVOCATE.


This week there is not much of general
interest in our mining affairs to chronicle
that know Of The Johnstown men are
still on the field endeavOring to establish
their right to the free exercise Of their
rights as citizens, special code of
laws prepared by the Cambria Coal and
Iron Company for the benefit Of their
workmen. The workmen continue to re-
ject and fail to see the good that is wrapped
up in those rules for them. They will not
have them, and stand firmly man to man
in their position of resistance. They are
in hopes that the contest will now be of
short duration, right and justice triumph
ing over tyranny and oppression. They are
fully persuaded victory is theirs in a few
more weeks at most. Let all who can send
them in assistance, that their claims be
completely established.


The men in the Hooking Valley have
fairly baffied the bosses and their hirelings
too in their nefarious attempts to incits
them to riot The troubles that for the
last few weeks created such excitement are
fairly quieted down, and the different com
panies prosecute and seize upon their en-
plOyes in legal way. The men deserve
the highest respect for the spirit of for
bearance exhibited under the pressure of
such provocation, and such pressure as that
to which they were exposed. TIE public
press that drew those pictures of murder
and arson, skulls and cross-bOnes, and hor-
rors of horrors committed by the lawless
mob, the Union Miners have thoroughly
silenced, and they are disappointed. 1
suppose they console themselves with the
belief that If the Miners were not now
guilty Of the crimes they were charged
with, some future day they will be, and
that il just an good.


The men have acted splendidly, and
merit the whole-souled sympathy of the
unprejudiced public, which those acquaint-
ed with their case accord to them. These
too, from letter received ts-day, sntsrtain
hopes that victory for them il near at hand.
May their expectations soon be realized.


In two or three works in District No. 1,
Indiana, the Union men and their leaders
are having bitter time. Every means the
bosses are masters Of are rssorted to TO
break up the principles Of union among
the men, and TO degrade the leaders. Vsin
effort Those men have not studied much
the HISTORY Of nAAipns nor cha book hnman
nature, which u svsr open, else would they
know that such nm effort In as futile a. n
they tried 10 stay the wind on its onward
Year: 1874

4. j. CAswELL-Deor Sir: With rega'd
to cremation all have to say Oh the subject
is:


First. That am far more interested in
people being well born than in the method of
their burial, and entertain the opinion that
all organized efforts she ulo be to the physical,
mental and moral well being of the race. and
hence any agitation for a change in the dis
posal of the remains seems to me to be waste
ful.


Second. The method of disposing of the
dead depends very largely upon the religious
faith of the people. So long as the Iesurrec-
ton OF the body is cardinal doctrine ol the
Christian religion it will be idle to attempt
any movement for a return to the pagan
method. No matter what sentimental. sani-
tary, or scientific reasons could be urged, they
will weigh as nothing against a custom found
ed upon a religious creed and what is to us
in memorial habit.


Third; II it were possible, however. gen.
orally to change the method of disposing Of
human remains, / should oppose cremation
as being waste of material which might be


utilized by SO disposing of the corpse as to
odd tl,r fcrrifity of sOii.
Fnn rih. In WOW OF the sparseness of our
population do not see how there can be any
embarrassment in finding cemeteries and
graveyards enough for all who are likely to
die in this country within the next ten CEN
turtles. Yours very truly, d. G. CRoLY.


162 East Thirty-eighth St., March 81.
Year: 1874

Iron WOrks-Thc General Prospects Of


the Business-The Spring Works Re-


sumo Operation.


From the Troy Tmesl


The rumOrs relative to the iron works are
usually untrustwOrthy In most cases none OF the
workmen not even the foremen know what the
proprietOrs will or will not 40. The latter often
change their minds at the latest hour. New plans
are substituted Tor Old ones, while much depends
upon the question OF orders. Burdens steam
works suspended the Sd OF July. Whether they
will start up again this summer or next fall the
proprietors themselves do not know 1t Is their
intention to start four horse shoe machines, all
the punching machines and some OF the rlvet
machines at the water works the lorepart Of this
week; TINS will restore zoo or 800 men
Many OF the 1000 men lett without WORK Dy the
stopping OF the steam works are working among
the farmers or doing small jobs about tue city. II
is the practice Of the Burdens stop, ii at all.
during the summer, when suffering thereirom Is
least Se TO ensTe naey 90 mot resume wors
any faster or the prospects have improved. II
anything, the general prostration OF the iron busi-
ings are running some Of their mills but liable
to suspend any week. The utmost uncertainty
prevails in relation to this branch OF industry.
The Rensselaer, works and the Bessemer steel
works are doing nothing, and We are informed
they are taking in no stock OF any kind.
What the year may bring forth no one
can prophesy. The probabilities, however,
are against any favorable change. The five great
coal companies which supply the Middle and Fast
ern markets combined early this year, setting
their price high and raising 1t fifteen cents per ton
each successive MONTH The price OF coal will con-
sequently be much higher toward the end Of the
year. The two iron ore companies IN the northern
part OF the state early fixed their prices, and In
Tend to MAINTAIN them. Labor is DEAR and the
whole cost OF production far exceeds the sale. No
is going to start his mills with the sure pros
pect of business suicide before him.


The spring works OF Hannibal Green started up
this morning, alter suspension OF about SIX
weeks. with full complement Of hands. A busy
fall and winter Is anticipated.
Year: 1874

A YOUNG LADY, EMPLOYED DURING THE DAY,
"A would like Board in private family, or where lew
bOarders aken comfortable pleasant home desred
within five minutes of City Hall perhaps three would
take large together ii desirable place found Ad
dress lNDUSTRY. Herald BROOKLYN Branch office.
Year: 1874

The latest precocious saying is by an infant
on the. Pacific coast. She had torn one of
her nails to the quick, and going to her moth
er, while the pain filled her eyes with tears,
said, holding up her wounded finger, 'Mam-
ma, 1 dess shall have TO 60 up to heaven
and dit anozzer put on.''
Year: 1874

A young lady in Gloucester is charged with
keeping her light burning in the parlor unit
very late on Sunday night, in order to har-
row the sensitive feelings of an envious neigh
Dor into the belief that she has really got
beau.
Year: 1874

QUARRELING.-If anything in the
world will make man feel badly,
except pinching his fingers in the
crack of door, it is unquestionably
a quarrel. No man ever fails to think
less of himself after it than. before.
1t degrades him in the eyes Of others,
and, what Is worse, blunts bis sensi-
bilities on the one hand and increases
the power of passionate irritability on
the other. The truth is, the more
peaceably we get on the better for
our neighbors. In nine cases out of
ten the better course is, if a man
cheats you, cease to deal with him
if he is abusive, quit his company,
and if he ISLANDERS you, take care to
live SO that no one will believe him.
No matter who he is or how he
misuses you, the wisest way is to let
him alone, for there is nothing better
than this cool, calm and quiet way OF
dealing with the wrongs we meet.
Year: 1874

A BOYS COMPOSITION ON GIRLs.-
Girls are the most unaccountable
things in the world-except women.
Like the wicked feas, when you
have them they amt there. I can
cipher clear over to improper frac-
tions, and the teacher says I do it
frst-rate; but I can't cipher out a
girl, proper or improper, and you
can't either. The only rule in
arithmetic that hits their case is the
double rule of two. They are as full
of Old Nick as their skins can hold,
and they would die if they couldn't
torment somebody. When they try
to be mean they are as mean as
parsley, though they amt as mean
as they let on to be, except some
times, and then they are great deal
meaner. The only way to get along
with a girl when she comes with her
nonsense is to give her tit for tat,
and that will fummux her; and
when you get girl fummuxod she
IS as nice us new pie. A girl can
SOW more wild oats in a day than a
boy can in a year, but girls'get their
wild oats sowed after while, which
boys never do, and then they settle
down as calm and placid as mud
puddle. But I like girls frst-rate,
and guess all the boys do. / don't
care how many tricks they play on
me-and they don't care either.
The hoity-toitiest girl in the world
can't always boil over like a glass of
soda. By and by they will get into
the traces with somebody they like,
and pull as steady as an old stage
horse. That is the beauty Of them.
So let them wave, 1 say; they will
pay for it some day, sewing on but
tons and trying to make a decent
man of the fellow they have spliced
on to; and ten chances to one if they
don't get the worst of it.
Year: 1874

Every farmer, should have % COM
plete map of his farm, with each
field, pasture and wood lot, together
with all the fences, roads and bitches,
plainly drawn, and either numbered
or named, SO they can be readily des-
ignated. Few farmers can appreci-
ate the full value Of one until they
have tried the experiment, for with
q map before you, you can direct
your workmen to any part Of it with
out the possibility Of their making a
mistake. You can plan improve
ments and estimate their cost ct your
leisure, instead Of spending half o
days valuable time in surveying the
land itself. Any person with q, little
ingenuity and patience can draw q
map of his farm. II should.be about
two feet square, or larger if desired,
and drawn upon thick cardboard to
prevent its being torn or defaced.
Let our farmers try the experiment
and they will soon learn its value
farmers Union
Year: 1874

IT is surprising to see how readily
men who ought to know better, fall in
to the Radical trap and use the word
nation" instead of Federal Govern
ment" This mistake has a tendency
to reconcile, by habit, the people to the
contemplation of the Government as
centralized, rather than as a fedcrative
Union of sovereign States. The ag-
gregation implied by the term "Coun-
try" is definite enough, without en-
dorsing the theory of the Radicals
by calling it nation, when it is not
yet kingdom, but republic in all its
forms.-CLqrksriNe Chronicle.
Year: 1874

A GLIMPSE of probable Democratic
policy in the next Congress was given
Friday. A proposition to increase the
clerical force of the Bureau of Educa-
tion was under debate. Mr.. Cox, in
opposing it, declared himself against
the whole system of bureaus at Wash
ington, and said that all of them which
had no warrant in the Constitution
would be abolished by the next House.
When this takes place the capital Will
compare with this city in the number
of people out of employment.-Nei0
York Tribune.
Year: 1874

THE mild weather has produced a second
growth OF strawberries in some Southern
localities, and at Baltimore strawberries
have been offered ard sold in the market
which were grown in the open air from
plants which produced good crop last
cprinn
Year: 1874

The Secretary of the Navy was
sharply criticised during the debate in
the House of Representatives yester-
day. 1t is evident that he knows how
to put men where they viii do most
good IN the voting line.
Year: 1874

This evening Manager CanOnge will in
augurate the opera season by the produc'
ton of verdis grand opera lie Trouvere.'
Much has been promised us in the way OF
superior artistic ability and excellence OF
voice. but the New Orleans dilettanti are
severely and correctly critical, they with
hold their praises till proof is furnished,
but once assured true worth exists NO public
is 60 generous as the sssemblage that
throngs the Opera House.


With them, then, we withhold our plsu.
djte until more 10 known.
Year: 1874

A lady wanted a trusty little maid to
come and help her to take charge of a
baby. Nobody could recommend one,
and she hardly knew where to look for
the right kind of girl. One day she
was passing through by-lane and saw
little girl with clean apron holding a
baby in the doorway of a small house.
"That is the maid for me-" said the
lady. She stopped and asked for her
mother. "Mother has gone out to
work" answered the girl. "Father is
dead, and now mother has to do every
thing" "Should you not like to come
and live with me ?" asked the lady.
1 should like to help mother some.
how" said the little maid. The Iady.
more pleased than ever with the tidy
looks of the little girl, went to see her
mother after she came home, and the
end of it was that the lady took the
maid to live with her, and she found
what, indeed, she expected to find
that the neat appearance of her person
showed the neat and orderly bent of
her mind. She had no careless habits,
she was no friend to dirt but eyery.
thing she had to do with was folded M
and put away, and kept carefully. The
lady finds great comfort in her. and
helps her mother, whose lot is not now
so hard as it was. She smiles when
she says, "Sally's recommendation
was her clean apron ;" and who will
say that 1t was not good one?
Year: 1874

SENATOR SHERMAN Is doing all he can
to liberalize the Bankrupt law now pend
Ing before the Senate, but does not carry
that body with him. His amendment
making 5000 the lowest figure for which
bankruptcy may be declared has been re,
leeted' and the same fate has belallen hia
motion to extend the time for which a
person may suspend payment without be.
coming bankrupt from forty days to
ninety.
Year: 1874

IT Will be seen BY the report Of the rail,
road meeting At WsllaburG yesterday tha,
the people OF Brooke county are still de-
tsFninsd to have a road along the east
bank Of the Ohio Il possible.
Year: 1874

THE LAsr.-The present, or past,
rather, term of Cedar county District
Court is the last appearance of WIN.
G. Thompson as District Attorney
The Major has been so long in this
position that the Court will hardly
seem like Court without him. And
as he is leaving his official station, we
will but echo common sentiment
when We say that he has been Wig
orous and efficient prosecutor, and
= genial gentleman who has all this
time only added to his hosts Of warm
personal friends with every oppor
tunity to extenl his acquaintance.
Year: 1874

WANT AND WRETcHEpNE>s. =
When we hear Of the grasshoppers in
the west, the lack of work and hard
times in the cities, the hurricane in
another place, the pestilence in an.
other and the famine somewhere else,
with the suffering consequent upon
each, we in this part of Iowa are
prone to feel, if We do not express, q
sense of thankfulness, ifnot of pride,
that such destitution and misery are
unknown here. Listen, then:


A few days ago some citizen Of
Cass township made the usual affida-
Wit concerning the supposed insanity
Of one Mrs. Clara Neiman, living at
Cedar Bluffs. In pursuance Of law,
Deputy Sheriff Maynard and Consta-
BILE Langham were on Tuesday dis
patched to bring the party before the
proper authorities. Arriving at the
Bluffs, they took with them the town
ship trustees, and proceeded to the
house. miserable shanty standing
in the brush on the bank Of the river
below the ferry road. The door was
found locked, and no attention being
paid to repeated summons, it was
finally broken in, when a scene was
presented that a cellar in city's low
est slums might produce and the pen
of Dickens portray. There was no
bedstead, table or chairs. An old
army blanket with few other rags,
on the floor in one corner, represent
ed the bed, and on stool, beside a
poor FIRE in an old cracked stove, sat
the mother, doubled up with rheuma-
tism and holding in her arms six
teen months old baby, while two girls
aged respectively fourteen and eleven
years, clung to her sides. All Of them
were barefooted, and not one, from
the mother down. was more than half
covered by the rigs which passed for
clothes. Sullen silence seemed to be
their first intention, but upon under
standing that the mother must go
with the officers the second girl broke
out in a volley of profanity and
abuse which would have startled a
raftsman. Something like an under
standing having been finally estab-
lished, the mother agreed to go, but
asked time to eat her dinner Break
ing up batter cake, baked on the
top Of the stove, the meal was made
between that and kernels of corn
picked from some ears which were
simmering in kettle. This done,
what few additional rags could be
found in the den were huddled upon
the mother and the two oldest girls,
and they were taken to the poor farm,
leaving the baby with . neighbor
until yesterday, when, the weather
permitting,it was brought to the same
place happy change, we should
think, for them all.
Year: 1874

Why do not farmers in general pay
more attention to the garden? Some
we know do appreciate the luxury of a
good garden, but the most do not.
They think they have no time to attend
to it. The corn and wheat and rye
fields must not be neglected, they say,
"Let the women attend to the cabbage
patch" Now this wrong. Why should
farmer deprive himself of vegetable
luXuries such as city people and those
living in the vicinity of cities indulge
in? 1t is not to the country we would
go if our appetites were craving early
vegetables. These will first be found
in the markets of the city, the prOduc-
tions of gardeners who live within a
few miles of the market. We venture
to say it would rebound more to the
health, happiness and profits of many a
farmer if he would cultivate half q
dozen acres less of corn, and devote the
time to the management of a two acre
garden than to pursue the course he
does. Try it. Select two acres conve
nient to the house. Lay it off so that
the walks will run in one direction only
from end to end. One central walk
may be enough. This will enable you
to plOw from end to end without stop
ping, and to soon break up the whole
area. Then lay three-fOurths of it off
in rows three feet apart as your judg
ment may dictate. Before the ground
is touched however, it ought to be
manured just as heavy as your stock OF
manure will admit of. Had the spot
been selected last fall, and had it been
well bestrewed with leaves, ashes, black
mud from sWampy places, chip manure,
barnyard manure, vegetable mold from
the woods, or other matter of the kind,
it would have been far better. How
ever, it is too late now. Next fall recol
lect the idea and work upon it.


In the rows wide apart put potatoes,
early corn, early peas, beans, Okra, eel
cry, pepper, tomatoes, cabbage, etc.
i'll others, beets, carrots, early turnlps,
lettuce, onions, parsnips, radlshes, sal
sify, strawberries, etc.


But one point we must not forget.
There ought to be strip six feet wide
selected, running through the garden
and parallel with the rows. Let a
ridge be plowed up in the middle Of
of this for the reception of cucumber,
melon, pumpkin and squash seeds. 1t
may be best to have two or more of
these wide strips.


Be sure to have everything arranged
so that you can plOW between the rows
from end to end. If you are near a
market you can, with good management
and plenty of manure, make more off
these two acres than you can off any
six acres in your fields, besides having
plenty to eat and q good variety.


TRural Sun.
Year: 1874

Il searching after the truth side by side
say, my growing friend, do you know
anything this side of Heaven more rest
full, more to be desired2


Such couples are not as rare, perhaps
as you fancy, but do not search the
police records for them. l believe
speak for many. And, in the name OF
young men and women settling in life
will not some one else testify? Won't
some brother speak?


Ny dear Mr.. Editor, here is conun-
drum no one but al editor can solve
Cannot our papers be made profitable
unless they are filled with all the sick
ening details Of these exceptional sor-
rows, and the record Of crimes which
decent people do not mention, and OF
which yonng people should be totally
ignorant? A CONTENTED WIFE.
Year: 1874

The precious lad who invented tho
following conundrum has had Ice on
his head for some days, and it is thought
he will recover if kept quiet week or
so.


why is an elephant unlike @ treeg


Because a tree leaves in the spring,
and the elephant leaves when the men
agerie does"
Year: 1874

SoUsE.-=Sorape and clean some hogs
feet and soak them for night in meal
bran and water, which whitens them.
Boil them till all the bones drop out, then
season with salt, pepper, little pound
ed cloves and pnlYerized ginger. Work
the seasoning In thoroughly with the
hands, then form the meat into a large
cake and put plate over it and set a
heavy weight ON the plate, Let 1T re-
main in press till cold and stiff, when ii
can be sliced for table use. Tt may be
kept all winter by dropping in jar and
pouring on sufficient cold vinegar to coy
er it, (Southern Cultivator.
Year: 1874

A loyer once wrote to a lady who re.
Jeected him, saying that he intended to re-
tire to some secluded spot and breathe
away his life in sighs. To which the
lady replied by inquiring whether they
were to be medium or large size. The
man has not since been heard from,