smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Reformed drunkards often experience
the most poipnant panrs while fighting
AGAINST their desire for H1uor. The follow,
ing is given as a means of getting rid of this
sensation His laboratory need only contain
a small nnantitv of cave1ne pepper. a not of
concentrated extract of beef, and a few
Grains of bromide of potassium. When the
desire for drink returns. make tea from
the cavenne pepper. as strong as can be
taken With any degree of comfort. sweeten
It with milk and sugar, and drink. The tea
will supply the place of glass of liuuor, and
will leave no iniurious effects behind. Re.
Year: 1878

In one of his addresses Mr.. Cough relates
the following incident as illustrative of the
power of PRAYER in the hour of temptation.
lie said "lf you will reform, exercise all
the power that you have left, all the energy
that you have, and trust in God, and Il is a
sure Ming sure. In Ohio went into a car,
and there was only one vacant seat, and
asked a gentleman if | could occupy it he
said, Yes Mr.. Cough, will be very glad
to have you.' Thank you, sir, for your
courtesy lie said, heard you speak last
night, and went home to my wife and told
her | would never drink any more liquor.
never made promise like that before.
| am man of my word, and she knew
meant it, and suppose she would be tickled
about it and pleased, but instead of that she
looked at me in a half wild sort of a way,
and burst out crying, and then went down
on her knees. | am not one of that sort !;
don't believe have been on my knees since
was eight years old as for church, don't
know what the inside of it looks like. When


saw her down on her knees ! didn't like it,
and said, What in thunder are you on
your knees for; cannot you hear 2 | went
to bed sulky, and when | got up in the
morning | wanted whskey and nothing
else | tried to eat some breakfast, the more
! chewed 1t the bigger III grew, could not
swallow it, nothing could | take but whis-
key; | must have some whiskey. | am a
man of some property, and am going now
to see piece of property which bought
when | was drunk. | am going among
friends and among temptation, and | would
rather be carried home dead tonight than
carried home drunk | am man of my
word and | never broke my word to man or
woman and ! am proud of the fact We
went on a little while and his eyes began to
fill with tears. He said Mr.. Cough, you
may think it very strange of me, but have
been on my knees myself this morning for
over an hour Have you?' yes, | have,
the first time in my life that | can remem-
ber since | was little boy | said, MY
friend, keep there and you will go home
sober tonight | tell you they may make
as much sport of prayer as they please, and
say that it is abominabe nonsense to talk
about prayer-gauges and such stuff, but do
you believe that man ever drank glass of
liquor while he was praying God to keep
him from it? No, Then there is a phioso-
ply in prayer if nothing else. Let a man
keep in the attitude of prayer and then he
is in the attitude of resistance to drink"
Year: 1878

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always love to see a big boy hanging
around his mother. To-day, while calling
on friend, her two boys came home from
school; sturdy, blackeyed little fellows,
whom any mother might be proud to own.
They came Immediately into the mothers
room, and gliding to her chair, one gently
laid his hand upon her shoulder, and whis-
pered only Mother. She turned her face to
him, with a loving smile, but he wanted
nothing, only to see her, and hear her speak (;
and so stood gazing at her, smlingly, trying
to think what he could ask. What story
such a little scene told me of devoted mother
love, and protecting presence, such as chill
dren trust in. 1t told of beautiful conf
dence between mother and boys, such as
will hold them back from vice in wrong do
ing, and will comfort and bless the mother
as long as she lives, and when those bright
eyed boys are bearded men, they will love to
remember how they used TO hang around
mothers chair.


o ye mothers, never send away the little.
bothering, trusting boys when they come to
you with their wants, and their little fingers
meddle with your things. Better let them
spin tops and make kites in your best rooms
than send them away to find companionship



and it is the mother who must contrive to
keep them busy. A very small boy will
learn to use hammer, and a small saw, and
hatchet, and find no end of employment for
them if provided with them.


| know boy who spent many penny
for nails, rather than candy. lie would go
to the store and ask very gravely to see all
the nails, and from each kind he would select
few and have them mixed, and Uncle b.,
the old man of blessed memory, who was
always boy, never took more than penny
for them-and would not had there been a
pound.


1t is also the mothers privilege to turn
even play into some good. She can insist
that one piece of work must be finished be-
fore another is commenced, and by iudicious
praise win the small artisan to the habit of
doing his work as well as he possibly can,
aud thus be forming habits of thoroughness
and decision at very early age. Boys like
gardening, and their digging and hoeing can
be turned to good use among the mothers
plants and shrubs, and her approval is suf-
fcient reward.


Let the little boys never go to rest at night
without giving them little time and atten.
ton. Listen to their complaints, and their
stories of success, and if they have been
naughty, have all confessed, and forgiven
that they may feel at peace with all the
world 1t will be blessed memory in af
ter years.


Boys feel their fathers restraint aud pro
lection, but it is the mother who leads them
Year: 1878

Christians are to "rejoice all the day."
Each day brings its own trials, its own dan
gers, its own necessities, its own tempta-
tions; and there must be a daily feeding
upon Christ if we would daily rejoice in him.
The food we ate yesterday is not the food of
to-day. And so the grace given yesterday is
not the grace for to-day We need daily
supply of spiritual strength for our souls, as
we do food for our bodies, therefore the
prayer, Give us this day our daily bread,
applies to both. And we may depend upon
it God will give strength for the day. If we
are called to suffer, he will give us suffering
grace if we are called TO die, he will give
us dying grace. lie will give us grace when
it is needed why should he give it before
Have we not found it so in our past expert
ence The trials we most feared have come
upon u.s. and yet we have been sustained
we have been wonder to ourselves. AnC
while we pass the days OF our soiurning her,
in this fear, we shall see enough of Godi
goodness to cause us to rejoice evermore.
Canon BedrdSiey
Year: 1878

have a bad pulse--feeble, fitful or feverish
The other style of Christian character Is de
scribed best by that clause of the text which
is under consideration, "Looking unto
Jesus" Self is surrendered; Christ is rec
ognized as the only hope, the only help, the
only motive, the only end the source of
comfort, of light, of Joy, of peace. The soul
turns its gaze away from itself TO behold the
beauty of the Lord st. Paul wrote to the
Colossians these very significant words,
" As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk ye in him" Brethren,
you received Christ Jesus the Lord by look
ing away from self, and beholding him as
"the Lamb of God which taketh away the
sin of the world" then why not " so walk in
him ?" In despair of self-help, you looked
away from self to look unto him; therefore,
the only true method of Christian living for
you is that outliving of your soul which is
thus expressed Looking unto Jesus" The
continuance of the Christian life must cor
respond thus with its beginning. This is
the only consistency, and this is the only
gospel method. Self surrendered and Christ
supreme, Christ filling the horizon of the
soul, that is true evangelical piety.-T. S.
Hastings, u. ID.
Year: 1878

in the Mississippi bottom there are thou
sands of acres of virgin growth awaiting the
stroke of the hardy axe-man, and thousands
of tillable land that need only the work of
the sturdy plowman to yield its treasures,
richer far than the mines of the Black
Hills and yet you say you don't know what
to do Go to work--go to the woods-go
TO the feds-and make an honest living (;
for we have in our minds eye numbers of
you whose talents are better suited to pick
ing cotton than measuring calico to cut
ting cordwood than weighing sugar; to
keeping up fences than keeping books, and
to mauling rails than dshing out whiskey
by the drink and we can assure you that
the occupations you are better adapted for
are much more honorable in the eyes of
persons whose respect is worth having
SeIocgs4
Year: 1878

A few days ago, while passing the door of
a saloon, we saw hanging over the counter,
in large and elegant frame, the following
sign printed in green and gold "No Drunk
ard wanted here" Indeed Where then is
he wanted Z" The authorities do not want
him on the street His employer does not
want him in the shop. His family do not
want him at home unless it is to shut him
up from sight or hearing. II is sad but
true statement that the drunkdd is not
wanted anywhere, nor by any person ON
earth, nor in heaven. But while this is
true, the last man in the universe to warn
the drunkard off his premises is the saloon
keeper or whiskey dealer, without whom
there would be no drunkard TO obtrude his
unwelcome presence. Facts however, war
rant US in saying that he is the FIRST to close
his door to the inebriate ii Iilched OF his last
penny. On the other hand, those who want
none OF his money and care only for his soul
give him room and sympathy and in every
possible way help him back to respectable
manhood at the first trace of repentance.
Year: 1878

simple method is said to be used in Ger
many A mixture of two parts OF wei
bruised common squills and three parts OF
finely chopped bacon is made into a stiff
mass, with as much meal as may be re
quired, and then baked into small cakes
which are put down for the rats TO eat
Several correspondents OF the German Agri
cultural Gd,eHe write TO announce the com
plete extirpation of rats and mice from theil
cow-stalls and piggeries since the adoption
of this simple plan.
Year: 1878

Where are You going fast, young MANI


Where are you going so fast
with cup In your hand q flush on your brow?
Though pleasure and mrth may accompany you now,
II tells of a sorrow to come by-and-by;
II tells Of pang that is sealed with q sigh;
II tells of a shame at last. young man


whitening shame that will last.
Where are You going fast, young MANI


Where are you going so fast2
The flush Of that wine there Is only bait.
curse lies beneath that you'll find when too latei
A serpent sleeps down in the depths Of that cup
A monster is there that viii swallow youup;
A sorrow you'll find at last young man


In wine there is sorrow at last.
There's n reckoning day to come, young mani


A reckoning day to come;
4 life yet to live, and death yet TO die,
4 sad, parting tear, and parting sigh,
A journey TO take, and q famishng heart,
A sharp pnng to feel from deaths chilling dart,
A curse IT you drink that rum, young man


The hitierest curse In that rum.
Year: 1878

SrRIr us, o Lord, of every proud thought
fill us with patient tenderness for others,
before thee and make us ready TO help,
and quick TO forgive, And then fix every
grace, compose every fear, by steady trust
in thine eternal realities, behind the changes
OF time and the delusions of men, Thou


art our rock we rest ON thee-Mdrtineau.
Year: 1878

How strangely joy and sorrow are inter
woven in this world, Pain chases pleasure
like champion pedestrian, and the sweet
tears shed by the maple tree in spring time,
crystalized into sugar, will give an infant
the stomach ache equal to doctors bill of
nine dollars Trenton Gdsette.
Year: 1878

the people. was very nearly so. Thi


great national SIN and crime agains


the debtor class the Democratic par


ty is not guilty of.


The work done at Washington i


cold blood in the way of contracting


the currency, under the fraudulen


pretext to make a sound currency


but in reality to enlarge all contract


in favor of the creditor and agains


the debtor, is alone the work of the
Republican party.


Looking back over the past, st: nd
ing in the present and making up 6
judgment of the future, | believe We
can a. the next National Convention
of the Democratic party bring it to
stand for the people and against max
ing the rich richer by acts of Con-
gress.


1t is not to be denied that some
New York and New England Demo-
Gratis have acted with the Republican
party in fastening upon the country a
policy, whose leading feature is a
money monopoly created by law.


To undo what has thus been fas-
tened upon the country, and repeal
the enactments which have changed
all the peoples contracts. and pay
the public debt according to the
terms Of the contract, is the great
work before US, and 10 succeed is to
regain lost liberties. Looking at the
question in this light, as the most
fearful and alarming one that has
hung over & great nation since the
time of Charles H., you will pardon
me when l tell you that with me
there is no party pride or party am
bition 10 the question is is a ques-
tion of relief. l say to you of the
Greenback party. that would be
with you snd help you fight your bat
ties if | could see relief. But the
fight 10 upon ss-the Republican
party has taken the job of pros
tecting the rings aha money mOnopo-
lies-of perpstuating the National
banking system-of denying to the
people OF the States the right to lend
each other crcdit-of destroying
their property for crime, and attep>
aoards trying them to see if they are
guilty. The Republican party has,
therefore, made up a set of issues,
which, if decided in their favor in
1880. by the free use of money, puts
an end to constitutional gOSeFnment.
A stronger government will then be
formed - constitutional limitations
will be at an end. and the great ma
tional debt, in its changed fOrm,-
payable in goodwill become per-
petual mortgage on the peuple's
lands and houses, horses and cattle,
and more than all, az it is in England,
a mortgage upon the muscle of all
the coming generations
Year: 1878

just previous to the election at


Nashville Col. A. s. Colyar made
speech which we think too good


to be lost. 1t is pregnant with
good sense, and will be fully as
much in point now that the cleo
ton is over. He speaks our Senti-
ments concerning the utter hope
lessness of endeavoring to win any
reforms otherwise than through
the Democratic party. Oppression
has only come by the defeat Of
Democracy and relief can be ex-
pected only by its triumphant res-
tcration to power. Ed NEWS.


COL. CoLYAR's SPEECH.


The question for all who are ear
nestly seeking relief from the terrible
effects of the Republican financial
policy, is not one of party pride or
party success. but with whom can we
accomplish in the life and death
struggle which is to be upon US in
1880? When give you the reason
why | am acting with the Democratic
party, | give you the only arguments
| can present. With me it is not as
it is with many of my friends-a
question of party attachment. l tell
you here tonight, that [ would unite
with any party which might be as
sured would bring relief The nj >ey
policy of the Republican party
simply death, and to get relief,
would 60 any where. join any party
or sever all the party ties ever form
ed. With the kindest feelings to-
wards those who have separated from
the Democratic party. and with many
convictions on the money question in
common with them, | still believe,
looking to the question of relief, that
it is better to act with the Democrat
ic party. | am not insensible to the
wide difference between the Eastern
and Western Democrats on the money
question. prefer to meet it rather
than deny it. But what is known as
the greenback question is progressive
progressive in the Democratic par
ty as well as in the Greenback party
and judging from the growth of
this sentiment in the Democratic par
ty recently, l believe, by standing
firm and holding up the hands of
Vorhees and Tom Ewing, of Hen
bricks and Pendleton, of Bill Allen
and Doolittle, we can engraft upon
the party at the next national con-
vention the Ohio idea. Is there more
promise by standing by these cham
pions of the peoples rights, or in
going with new organization? This
is the practical question which comes
home to me.


Every man in Tennessee may turn
away from the Democratic party, and
the party will still put forward a
candidate for President in 1880. A
party that has both houses of Cons
gress, as the Democratic party will
have after the 4th of March, and has
Is or 20 States that can be relied on
in the vote for President if the elec-
tiOu were to get in the Honse cannot
be expected to disband.


Looking back over the measures of
Congress that have so nearly enslaved
US, the worst of all vas the act OF
1869, which though done by Congress,
was equal in its effect to a forgery,
enlarging all the contracts then made,
public and private, so as to give the
creditor twice as much as the debtor
agreed to pay.


And upon this, the Democratic
vote in Congress, if not unanimous
in favor of honesty and the rights of :
Year: 1878

The latest invention we have seen
in this line is "Watt's Telephone :"
It was put in operation Oh the Elm
street Inclined Plane on Saturday,
between the lower and the upper sta
tions, and was used instead of the
electric bells. 1t beats Edison's out
of sight. The sound is carried so
loud and distinct that it can be heard
further than in ordinary conversation.
1t not only conveys sound, but multi
plies it. Orders given from the top
of the plane could be heard as the
sound of loud voice by persons
seated in the cars. The orders are
given, too. in an ordinary tone.


This is by far the greatest achieve
ment in the telephone line that has
yet been exhibited The wire is
carried betm cen the tracks, and yet
the noise of the cars in motion does
not affect it.


The inventor, citizen cf Louis
Vile. has named his instrument the
'Improved Speaking Telephone.
and has applied for a patent. The
distinctive features of the invention
are its effectiveness and simplicity.
A small copper wire is all that is used
to connect the speaking boxes
These are exactly alike. Each box
is of wood, perhaps eight inches iE
length and width, by three inches in
depth. The square cover of the box
has circular opening five inches in
diameter. All that appears within
this opening is vellum head or "di-
aphragm, which is stretched as
tightly as drum head The outer
edges of the vellum are fastened at
the front of the box. At the centre
it is drawn and fastened to the back
by means of small bolt and nut. =
This gives to the whole diaphragm
the shape of conCave mirror, with
this difference that the concavity
lessons gradually toward the RIM
the inventor claims that the vellum,
without reference to its shape, assists
materially in gathering and transmit
ing sound. The concavity, in his
opinion, is also of assistance. Be-
hind the diaphragm is a series of
small copper wires. extending from
the centre out to the sides of the
box. With the connecting wire, the
Year: 1878

things above mentioned constitute
the machine. Articulated words are.


as has been said, transmitted with
great accuracy. The sounds of a
musical Instrument are repeated at
the opposite end with scarcely dimin
ished force. and with the utmost dis
tinctness. Words properly spoken
at the top of the hill can easily be
heard in any part of the lower depot.
The necessity of a bell signal to ca u
attention to the telephone is obviated
by the fact that a light tap Oh the
button or bolt in the centre of the
box can be heard distinctly at the
other extremity. At the EIm>street
Inclined Plane the connecting line is
| 900 feet in length, but the inventor
says he has tested his instrument sue
cessfuIly with line two miles in
length.
Year: 1878

Special to the Star.


NEW York, Oct. 1.-THE following is
just given to press:


CARD FROM MR.. TILDEN.


I have read the publications in the
Tribune of the Sth instant, purporting to
be translations of cipher kilograms
relating to the canvass of votes
in Florida at the Presidential cleo
ton of 1876, and have looked over those
printed in the Tribune this morning re-
lating to the canvass in South Carolina. |
have no knowledge of the existence of these
kilograms, nor any information about them
except what has been derived from or since
publications of the Tribune. So much for
these kilograms generally. l shall speak
yet more specifically as to some ofthem.


First-Those which relate to an offer pur-
porting to have been made in behalf of
some members of the State Board of Cam
vassers of Florida, to give for pecunary
compensation the certificates to the Demo-
cratic electors who had been actually
chosen, none of those kilograms,
nor any telegram communicating
such an offer or answering
such offer or relating to such an offer was
tents of it in any manner made known to
me. | had no knowledge of the existence
or purport of any telegram relating to that
subject, nor did l learn the fact that such
offer of the Florida certificates had been
made until long after the 9th of December
at which time the certificates were deliv-
cred and the Electoral votes cast. And
when the information casually reached me,
as of a past event, it was accompanied by
the statement that the offer had been re-
jected.


Secondly-As to the publications in The
Tribune of this morning, purporting to be
translations of cipher kilograms relating to
the canvass of votes in South Carolina in
1876, which l have seen since
wrote the foregoing, I can speak of
them no less definitely and positively.
No one of such kilograms, either in
cipher or translated, was even shown to or
its contents made known to me. No offer
or negotiation in behalf of the State can
vassers of South Carolina or any of them or
any dealing with any of them in respect to
certificates to the Electors was
ever authorized or sanctioned
in any manner by me directly or
through any other person. l will add that
no offer to give certificate of any Returning
Board or State Canvassers of any State to
the Democratic Electors, in consideration of
promises of Office, or money, or property,
tn pauotiatio ion Of any Sl1ch man, har or IN
influence the action OF any Elector of Presi-
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


CHICAGO, Oct. 17.-Gen. Cyrus Berssy,
President of the New Orleans Board of
Trade, addressed the business men last
evening at the Grand Pacific Hotel on the
subject of American commerce as related
to the extension of our trade with the out
side world, and in reference to holding a
national and international convention in
Chicago at an early day to consider and act
upon the topic of the address


Lesser Friedberg, the pawnbroker in front
of whose place Officer Race was murdered,
was before Judge McAlister on petition for
habeas corpus. The Court found he was
not implicated in the murder, but he was
held in $500 bail for completely in the bur-
glary.
Year: 1878

The Hinesville (Ga) Gazette tells this
story; At a camp meeting, when penitents
were called up to be prayed for, an old rep
rebate "half-se IS over" went TO tie altar.
He was not satisfied with that, but request
ed the minister afterward 70 put up q
special prayer in his behalf. He did SO,
and begged the Almighty to have mercy Oh
Mr. White, as he well knew what a torn
down sinner he was; that he would get
drunk and swear, and in fact break all the
commandments; but as he was pentent, to
forgive him. The old sinner did not like
to be so exposed in public and on return
ing to his seat met with young lawyer,
who observed to him that the preacher had
ruined his character, and that he ought to
sue him for defamation OF character, and
that he would undertake the case for half
of what he recovered. 1t was carried
to court and the preacher was fined 500.