smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

We should like to know whether tn


Methodists of this city are excommunicate'


from the general Wesleyan fold or ar


simply more bigoted than elsewhere. I


they can be considered as in any degre'


represented by the New Orleans Christa,


ASvoeate, they are not in very open sym


pathy with the Methodists Conference


lately held at Louisville. That body was


very pronounced on the subject of non.


religious education. The bishops in q


body made an address reprobating goddess
schools and favoring denon,inational ones.
Afterwards com mittee on that subject
reported just as strongly, and all these
proceedings were published in full in the
said Adrocate.


But the Adroeats is no advocate for any
such doctrine as that. 1t must think that
those bishops and parsons and laymen were
not posted; that they didn't know what
they were about. We infer this, not from
any positive enunciation to that effect,
but from the discreet silence Of that jour
nall 1t religiously abstains from mention
ing the subject at all.


SooCiNAAoS ed0 PVA SSdSO Va tAO NUCS0
ton, the novelty of the position taken by
the Conference, and the very determined
attitude of the bishops and the whole as
sembly, the Advocate cannot blink the
matter as one not demanding immediate
attention. There is an evident want of
cordial sympathy with the Conference on
that point by our neIghbor. 1t is not for
rs to accuse that neighbor of contumacy,
but we suspect it very strongly thereof.
And yet the Conference was not of the
N. E. Church North, as might be supposed,
but of the "South" branch of it. Why
does tho Adrocate recalcitrate2


Well, it must be hard on any paper to
come out and be right on question, when
it has been persistently wrong on it for SO
many years. This would be stretch of
humility that We cannot expect in the
premises. After all, it may not be bigo-
cry but, simply, pride.
Year: 1874

The United States Government seems to
be quite technical in it's construction of
this phrase. Lieut.. Woodruf, it will be
remembered, sacrificed his life most hero
ically at Shreveport. last summer, while
responding to what he considered the call
of duty. The pestilence came and hundreds
were falling before it. Lieut.. Woodruff
was stationed at that point, as headquar-
ters, while experimenting the removal of
the Red River raft. At time when he
was not strictly employed in personal
self unselfshly to ghtinG the scourge that
was sfflicting others. It was here that lie
fell.


From q private letter of his mother,
which has found its way into print, we
learn that che applied for pension on the
ground of his death in the service, and
that the prayer was rejected for the reason
that he did not die in tho line Of his duty.


The brave young officer was, it is true,
engaged in saving men instead Of killing
them, but so far as danger is concerned, 40
open aeld of battle could be so fatal in its
death rate as that silent, deadly strife
where, without the roll of drum, the rattle
of musketry and the roar of artillery, the
pestilence shot it's unseen, silent shafts. 1t
may have been his duty to run away and go
to the raft when he was not needed there,
but he could not zee it. He had differ
ent idea of the line of duty and we are in .
clined to believe that his views were accept
able at the great Headquarters where he
has since reported.


At any rate, whether Lieut.. Woodruff
was on duty for the United States Govern
ment or not, he certainly was on duty for
Louisiana. He was stranger, but he
proved to be brother he was a soldier,
but shove himself philanthropist; he was
q man, with rank and distinction and happi-
ness before him, and the tie of dependant
mother to bind him to life, but he was not
an ordinary man, he was hero, and cheer
fully laid it all down in following what he
considered the line of duty.


We think that Louisiana ought to grant
the pension refused at Washington. We
know that special pensions ought not to be
lightly given, but there is little fear Of
having too long roll of such men as Lieu
tenant Woodruff.
Year: 1874

Tho French have found man at last
with whom they cannot play. McMahon
considers that he has vested rights in the
Office that was conferred on him by solemn
compact fora number of years, most of them
yet to run. He holds that the French natien,
though its de Jaote government, has made
bargain with him which it has no right
to cancel, and thinks that he holds in his
own hands the power to enforce the con-
tract.


He has the confidence of the people and
the good will of the army. No one doubts
his honesty or his patriotism. If he re-
solutely holds on to the reins of power,
every one will believe that it is for no per.
sonal end but merely for the good of his
country. Fortunate it is for France that
80 pure man is in control at this time, for
the different factions into which its Par
Lament 10 broken have become so reckless
and impasaioned that they would soon pre-.
cipitate the nation into revolution. At
every moment they are on the verge Of an
appeal to arms.


We hope that it is the mission of Nc.
Mahon to give peaceful solution to the
question. He will not permit the mad-capS
to fight. He holds the lighting men in his
own hand, and has the nerve to deal sum-
marily with the disorderly. After while,
when the passions of the hour shall have
cooled down, when his menagerie of a
Congress shall have been tanned into we'll
behaved animals, when the lighting editors
aud quarrelsome lawyers and frantic poll.
ticians who compose the Assembly and now
swell with the impression that they are
the nation, shall have been properly snub.
bed and taught their place, then it may be
possible to como to a just knowledge Of
| what is the actual will of the French peo-
pie as to their form of Government.


That being clearly known, Mcmahon iu
not, so far as we can judge, the man to
stand in the way of it, whether his term
be expired or not.
Year: 1874

The white people of Louisiana made one


blunder, and fearful one, in the Warmoth


coalition it is to be hoped they will avoid


q similar faur pas In the matter Of Grant.


1t was thought that by Warmoth's strength


and finesse the whites could carry the
State at the last general election. Some
persons still think that we did carry it, but
with what resultf The fruit turned to
ashes in our hands. The alliance was an
improper one,-one which sacrificed dig
nifty and self-respect. though at the time it
was honestly thought that expediency re-
quired it. If we are to judge by results,
the reasoning was faulty, and a kind Prov
idence has taught us by bitter lesson to
avoid q wrong road.


Now it appears that similar temptation
is being prepared for us on a larger scale.
Grant wants third term and has no chance
of the regular Republican nomination. He
will bid for the leadership of the Demo-
cratic party, or of an independent party,
and it is thought that Southerners will
take him up as the only hope of getting
rid of bayonet rule.


But we must remember, first, that Grant
is certain to be beaten no matter by whom
nominated. The chief disgust of the peo-
pie with his party centers upon his own
Inscriptions and disreputable career as
President. Second, that it is wrong per
80, and beneath the dignity of freemen, to
affiliate with people whom they brand as
dishonest, and to cringe under the lash of
tyranny into an alliance with the tyrant.
And third, that such an alliance ought to,
and will, turn to bitterness and ruin in it's
fruit. sA


Grant cannot be elected because he is
the agent of the bondholders, and if he
were elected, his Sourthern supporters
would find nothing but disappointment as
the result. The bayonet rule would not
be raised, if he could help it, because
that would put an end to tyranny and
tyranny is the dearest instinct of a tyrant's !
heart. The hyena is not suddenly con-
verted into lamb, nor the vulture into o
dove. If Grant ceased to uphold robbery
and plunder at the South, it would be sim
ply because he had lost the power to have
his own way.
Year: 1874

It is we'll known already that Father
Duffy has nearly arrived at the 25th ami
versary Of his priesthood, and no one will
be surprised at the announcement elsewhere
made of an intention among his friends to
celebrate that event in becoming manner.


When we speak of his friends, however,
tho affair commences to assume formidable
proportions. We should like to see the
man who is not his friend. Everybody
knows him, and the acquaintance is, to q
considerable extent, mutual. But to know
people Is not all. Sometimes we know
folks that we would rather not know,
whereas everybody that knows Father
Duly 10 glad Of it. He is one of those
rare men that take q special interest in
everybody in particular. He is not only
an acquaintance but friend, and he is not
. friend in words only, but in actions.


When we cay, therefore, that his friends
intend to commemorate the affair in suit
able manner, We mean that there will pro-
tably be good many persons interested in
tho movement, ard good deal Of warm
feeling exhibited
Year: 1874

It has been suggested to MS that as there arc


many hundreds Of unemployed laborers in the
city at present, it would be well for them to
salect come rendezvous near the business centres,
where they might be called on to perform the
thousand and one odd jobs that present them.
sGlyes daily. II merchant receives large
lot of goods, which must be stored Immediately,
h0 knows not where to find lsborers, while at
the same time these are auxiously walking the
streets in search of something to do. True, the
wages paid are small and the work is not
stcady, but the 81 that q man may make by 9
few hOars labor every day or so, would ut least
keep the wolf from his door.
Year: 1874

manner responsible for what had hap
pened, on account of the open gate, for
had they not assured her that this cir
cumstance did not alter the case? 1t
was useless 10 say that she had no right
to keep the cows in custody, for had
they not counselled her to 40 so? As
to going to law about it, would they
thus become the sport of the whole
town?


He that diggeth a pit, he himself
shall fall into it, said Miss Letitia, who
read what was passing in their minds
as well as if they had spoken, for the
light of Isaac's lantern fell full upon
their faces. However, on one condi-
tion viii free the cows aud forgive
you the debt s as.sss-ss - : s-s.a-s s...s.


What is that 2 Both thought the
question but did not ask it.
The condition is, tint you promise
to put good fence in the place Of the
old one that separates your estates, di-
viding the costs between you, and that
henceforth YOU will live together peace
ably so far as in you hes. Do you
promise =


Yes muttered both in a voice scarce
" audible.


Shake hands upon it, them said Miss
Letitia.


They did so.


Now let the cows out, Isaac; it's
time they were MIXED said she. And
the two men went away driving their
cows before them, with n shame-faced
air greatly in contrast to the look of
triumph with which they lad quit her
presence.


The fence was built, and the strife
ceased when the cause was removed,
but it was long before Miss Letitia's
part in the affair came to the public car,
for she herself maintained strict ST.
lence concerning it, and enjoined the
the same upon her man-servant, Isaac.
Year: 1874

II PRoroRTIcS-The whole human
figure should he six times the length Of
the feet. Whether the form be slender
or plump. the rule holds good; any de-
Walton from it is departure from the
highest beauty Of proportion. Tho
Greeks ale ell their statues according
t. ti.is rule The face. from the high
ct point of the forehead where the hair
begins. to THE chin. is one-tcnth of the
whole stature. The hand, from the
wrist 70 the middle finger is the same
From the top Of TIE chest TO the high
est part of the forehead is the seventh.
Ii tie face. from the roots of the hair
t. the chin. b. ii led into three egul
parts. the first division determines the
place where the eyebrows meet and tho
second the place Of the nostrils. Height
from the feet 70 the top Of the bead IL
TIE distance from the extremity Of the
fingers when the arms are extended.
Year: 1874

Es Never attempt to do anything
that Is not right. Just SO surely as YOU
do. You will set into trouble. Sin al.
ways brings sorrow sooner or later
II You even suspect that anything is
wicked, do it not until you are sure that
Your suspicious are greundless.
Year: 1874

E When YOU do attempt anything
that is right. go through with it. Be
NOT easily discouraged. Yield not to
sioth and sleep and ticklencss. Toresist
all these will not be easy. but You will
feel that you have done right when you
get through.
Year: 1874

and foolish it is to BE- selfish? You
ought always TO remember that all your
comforts and pleasures are given You
by Him who can. ut any moment, take
them away; and If You want to know
how became acquainted with this sto-


ry, look at the twenty-sixth chapter Of
the first book of Samuel. and you viii


find it all there, only in different words
Year: 1874

Whether children, carr
wolves, could be sucked and
in a den for any length Of Il
ly a question which students
history and even practical
might settle for US once for
the documentary evidence i
the existence of such wolf chil
exercise the ingenuity of q
cleverest lawyers. When
done their work, and NOT
the work of the comparativ
gist will begin / therefore
put together some Of the


ticated cases of wolf child


ioweYnR. x1nonmicn unne s.
Year: 1874

There wSs great compotiOn in Pater-
son when the discovery was made that the
convicted incendiary, Robert Parton had
escaped. From one end Of the village to
the other there was excitement and con-
fusion, and the morning had Just begun
when the entire surrounding country was
being secured by posse of officers and
volunteers, in search of the escaped pris-
oner


He had been aided in his escape, it was
evident, but by whom, the most thorough
search failed to show any connection with
it on the part Of the workingmen. Mr..
Amory was the most energetic of all in the
search, and he led band of men through
the mountain paths in look for the man
whom he 80 hated, and desired to capture.


The workingmen were puzzled at the
escape of the man who had been their
leader. and speculated upon the way in
which he had escaped from his prison cell
They were surprised, but were not able to
Understand how he had been rescued, and
while they were very much grsCified at the
escape, they did not canvass the situation,
bu sincerely hoped that he would not be
resaptured.


The developments of that afternoon
seemed to render their wishes a surety, for
tie prisoner could not be ferreted out, and
Id trace was discovered Of him. The
searching parties began to come in, and re-
ported an entire failure to find Robert
Parton, and that evening the following no
tice was sent throughout the entire coun-
try
Year: 1874

A country paper gives the following ad-
vice to correspondent: "We slal have
to decline your article on The Decline Of
Aristocracy.' We have left out several of
our own articles this week, aud yours il
worse than any Of them. Take our advice
aud write very few short pieces write
only on one aide Of the sheet write plain
ly, and then take your pieces and burn
them MP in the Kitchen stove"
Year: 1874

In the promotion of health and lon
oevity, too much stress cannot be at
tached to the importance of preserving
this harmony or balance of Organiza-
ton. In some respects, the human
body may be compared to a perfect
machine, made up of many complicated
parts. How different the working or
running of such a machine from that of
one imperfectly constructed and I'M
equally balanced in all it's parts The
one, seldom needs repairs, the other fire.
quently. The one will last as it were
for an age the other becomes almost
useless in short time. It is SO in ref
erence to the human system. When
ever a certain organ or class of organs
becomes relatively too large or too
small, causing a want of balance or har-
mony in their action, there must be in
the very nature of the case far greater
liability to disease. Accordingly, it is
in persons possessing this imperfect, i'll
balanced organization that we find not
only the greatest amount of sickness,
but that which is most obstinate and
fatal. How often it happens that some
light arrangement or trifling weakness
operates as the entering wedge to the
most serious diseases 1t is the weak
spot caused by inheritance, or developed
by exposure, where disease finds its
germ or starting point, though all other
parts of the system are in perfectly
sound condition; and not unfrequently
life is terminated by single organ, or
even some part of it, giving out, when
all the other organs might have per-
formed their healthy functions for many
wears
Year: 1874

"Leaves have their time to fall, ;"
but they are only a nuisance if left in
the yards and on the sidewalks but
when gathered dry, and stored in the
barn or shed, they add greatly to the
manure pile in the spring. A litter of
leaves in the horse stalls is more desira-
bic than one of straw, for it can be re
newed without the necessity of cleaning
out the stall more than twice or thrice
a 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 ammonia, the most highly treasured
constituent of plant growth. Apply
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,
a due regard to appearance should
prompt us to gather them up from our
door-yards and lawns, and put them in
some place where they will not lie
around loosely. Dame nature ought to
have an attic in which to put away her
cast-off clothing, and not let the au-
tumn winds scatter them broadcast
but she prefers that we should do her
household cleaning for her, and so We
should attend to it directly and reap the
enefts of our labors in another sense.
Pile them in one corner of the yard, if
there is no COW or 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.
Year: 1874

Observations regarding the rate of
growth in man have determined the
following interesting facts The most


rapid growth takes place Immediately
after birth, the growth of an infant dur
ing the first year of its existence being
about eight inches. The ratio of in
crease gradually decreases until the age
of three years is reached, at which time
the size attained is half that which it is
to become when full grown. After five
years the succeeding increase is very
regular till the sixteenth year, being at
the rate for the average man of two
inches a year. Beyond sixteen, the
growth is feeble, being for the following
two years about six-tenths of an inch
a year while from eighteen to twenty
the increase in height is seldom over
one inch. at the age of twenty-five the
growth ceases, save in few exceptional
Year: 1874

Bailey. of tho Danbury News writes !:
The chief weeds with which the Eng
lish farmer has to contend are thistles
and poppies. THERE'S nothing remarka-
BILE about thistles unless you are bare
footed, but the idea of poppy being a
weed is striking enough. You know
how choice we are of them in our gar
dens at home, and what an addition to
a plot are a half.dozen of these bril-
liantly Towering plant. Try, then, to con-
jure up thousands of them in one enclos-
ure. They are called 'red weed" in Eng
land. They flourish principally in the
grain fields, where their deep red con-
trasts magnifcently with the dark green
of the wheat and barley and oats. I have
seen fields so abounding with poppies
that they looked as though they were
spotted with blood. have seen great
beds of them springing from newly turned
earth along the railway, and their beauty
never saw equaled in nature. Surely
Solomon in all his glory was not ar
rayed like unto these-nor smelt like
them, hope.


Rearing their scarlet heads among the
dark green grain they present picture
that must touch every heart-although
differently. have seen two men stand
at fence on opposite sides of field,
and gaze for half hour at the wonder
full blending of color. The one was
speechless, his eyes glistening with the
most exquisite delight. He was tour
ist. The other was speechless also.
But his eyes did not glisten. He was
the owner of the field.
Year: 1874

Says writer at Key West, Florida {:
On Couzmel island are yet to be seen
the walls of the first church ever built
on the continent of North America.
Cortez, before the conquest of Mexico
say about three hundred years ago
built his first place of worship on this
beautiful island. The foundation and
walls are yet partially preserved each
side has an elevation of some ten feet.
Tho altar is covered with an almost i'm
penetrable growth of chaparral, and all
about and even inside these ruins are
ancient and modern tombs, where pa
triarchs rest. The wild flowers bloom
over them in great profusion, and the
birds carol sweet songs morning and
evening. A paved walk extends several
hundred yards westward, but it is now
almost buried from sight in the sod.
Excavations are seen, where searchers
for hidden treasures have delved.
There is fine field there for the curl


GUS to explore. But the natives of the
locality allow it to rest so quietly that
the dense strawberries almost cover it.
Year: 1874

Think how the abstraction of Sunday
would enslave the working classes, with
whom we are identified. Think of labor
thus going on in one monotonous and
eternal rack, fingers forever straining,
the brow forever dropping, and the loins
forever aching, the restless mind for
ever scheming. Think Of the beauty it
would efface, the merry-heartedness it
would extinguish, the giant strength it
would tame, the resources of nature it
would crush, the sickness it would
bring, of the projects it would wreck,
the groans it would extort, the lives it
would immediate, and the cheerless
graves it would prematurely dig. See
them toiling and fretting, and grinding
and hewing, and weaving and spinning,
sowing and gathering, moving and
reaping, raising and building, digging
and planting, and striving and strug-
Cling, in the garden and in the field, in
the granary and in the barn, in the fac.
tory and in the mill, in the warehouse
and in the shop, in the mountain and
in the ditch, on the roadside and in the
country, out at sea and on shore, in the
day of brightness and of gloom What
picture this world would present il
we had no Sabbath
Year: 1874

The only limit to the number of revo-
lutions which wheel may be made to
make in given timeis the tensil strength
of the material of which the wheel is
made, and its consequent power to re-
sist the centrifugal forces which tend to
render it asunder. Savart. in his ex-
periments on sound, made wheels to re
volve from one thousand to two thou
sand times per minute but this has
been surpassed by Foucalt, who invented
an apparatus for measuring the velocity
of light, to which small wheel with a
mirror attached, which might have been
made to rcvolve six hundred, eight hun
dred, and one thousand times per sec
ond, or sixty thou and times per min
ute. At these velocities the ordinary
amalgam was completely stripped from
the glass to which it was attached, and
it was found necessary to use mirrors
either of glass coated with pure silver
or made entirely of metal. These are
the most rapid revolutions thus lar OBJ
tained, probably, but there is not the
slightest reas n why even this should
not be surpassed. 1t is evident that for
such great velocities cog wheels are out
of the question. Only bands or strings
can be used.