smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The earth of this continent shows us


that before the Indians there has been


a people whom we call the Mound


builders-that is, mounds were thrown


up here by men whose bones we find in


them, lying among rough tools and
( utensils, and after the mounds we name
the race, who perhaps. were not diff
ferent people from the Indians.


But for these mounds we would not
I know of the men who built them. They
are mentioned in no history, human or
divine. What was there before the
Mound builder! | would speak of
what must nave been long before his
time = of early, though perhaps not
earliest man in North America. We
must know tEis early man by our ex-
perience of his traces. New Observa-
tions OF fact and the ideas they have
awakened in myself are put forward,
so that you may judge of the reason
ableness of the conclusions. And here
any boy will afford a competent Illus
tration of the evidence. Almost the
I first thing that our boys do is to throw
stones. 1t is one of their ways of say
No. There is more than one parallel
between savages and our boys to be
maintained. just as the state of mind
of the adult savage is paralleled by
/ that of our children, so we must expect
that so common a weapon as a stone is
to our boys must he extensively used
by sayages. And this, in fact, is what
we do find. There was also time
when this stone throwing was the oc-
cupation of grown men of our own
race Stones were used in the warfare
of the Celt and the Roman. We re-
member that David, Semites, used a
pebble from the brook. And we shall
| find that men of other races, and before
David, resorted to the same weapon for
all the purposes which in David's time,
ard with his race, were partly served
by metals. There is, then not only a
parallel to be drawn between our boys
and savages in certain ways, but there
exists one between these boys of the
present and our men of the past. Just
as, when cutting into the crust OF the
earth, we find the remains of animals
and plants which once inhabited its
| former surfaces, the simpler forms be-
low, the more complex above, so We
| find the remains of mans tools and i'm
plements in the clays and graveis of the
last geological period of the globe, and
with like sequence in their character.
The oldest and lowest forms of tools
are simplest; the newer and nearer to
| the present surface, the more varied
and complex. We have seen the SIM
plest weapon man could use would be
stone. Even now a wagner with
broken cart looks around naturally for
stone to pound with. and SO mend his
ways. He picks up stone on occasion
as his ancestors did on most occasions.
For the moment he is in the Stone age.
And he uses what the earliest man
must have undoubtedly used, stone
Just as it is. There must have been a
time when men picked up such stones
as came in their way at the moment
with which to throw at animals, to
break their food, to iDjure their fellow
men. Such stones, unaltered by use,
can no longer be indentitied.-Poputdr
Science Monthly. -0
Year: 1877

An exchange tells a story Of a gentle
man who, on going to bed, lost collar
button, which on coming detached
rolled to distant corner of the room. He
searched for it about ten minutes, and
then gave it up for lost. In the night
he dreamed that he found it under the
washstand, and on walking up found it
in that spot. This isn't half so odd ss
the case of man who lost valuable
horse, and before going to bed ate a
Welsh rarebit. He dreamed his horse
was in a village church fifteen miles
away, and was quietly consuming the
hair in the pew-cushions, having left
the buggy on the pulpit steps. When
he awoke the next morning he found
that in reality neighbor's boy had
found the horse and vehicle and had
put it up in q livery stable until he
could claim a reward.
Year: 1877

neither washed nor wiped after. Less
disagreeable TO the touch than these
but more disastrous TO the pOssessor
are those dry and burning hands which
leave on yours the impression OF fire.
and are indeed signs of the fever,
whether of mind or body, sure to be
consuming those who possess them.
And then there are hands neither wet
nor burning; neither Geld nor hot, but
just what healthy living flesh should
be-warm, elastic, fresh, and which
give you real pleasure to touch, as any
thing perfect of its kind always does.


Extremes meeting the North Ameri-
can Indian brave and our modern fine
ladies stand side by side in their desire
TO possess small, white, unworked
hands. The brave reserying all his
strength for hunting buffalo and TAX
ing scalps, disdains TO harden his hands
with other work. If wood is to be
hewed, tents pitched, skin dressed, and
what not, the squaw, whose hands are
only useful, not refined, must run the
risk of abrasiOns and callOsities, while
her warrior husband lounges idly by,
keeping his hands white and soft as
gentleman should. So in our drawing
rooms. Our pretty women, those use
less marvels of creation, would hold
serviceable hands as a stain on their
gentlehood. They, and the Indian
braves, and the pickpockets, all have
tC keep their fingers tine aud theis
hands unused to work, else the sign of
their condition would be gone with the
first two, and with the third the possi-
bilities of his profession. 1t is not the
only odd connection brought about by
false refinement and an affected repu-
diation of natural uses. No hand can
be really beautiful which carries with
it the look of incspacIty.
Year: 1877

All deep personal feeling, such as a
stands in close relation to some univer-
sal truth. What the poet experiences in
his own heart must have a validity go
ing beyond himself; and in particular
the religious conviction that animates
the Hebrew hymns has as its necessary
source and counterpart body of gen.
eral religious truth. The worthless
modern suojectivity which separates
the religious sentiment from all persua-
sion of objective realities is remote from
the spirit of the Old Testament: but,
conversely the general truths of the re-
ligion of Israel except in so far as they
are embodied in ritual, precept or his
toric narrative, are always spoken to
the heart as well as to the intellect.
The Israelite never thought of framing
system of theology. His interest in
religious truth was not scientific but
personal. The deepest truths of the dis
pensation were not reasoned out scien-
tifically, but felt as personal necessities.
The doctrine of Immortality, for exam
pie. to which Socrates attained by ar
gument on the constitution of mans
nature, is grasped by the Israellte in
personal-assurance that death itself can
not part him from God his Redeemer.
Truths reached by such process-by
reasoning of the heart, not of the head
necessarily assume poetic form,
which insensibly merges into pure
lyric. If the hymns of the Old Testa-
ment express personal emotion en-
bodying and resting on general truth,
the corresponding didactic poetry ex-
presses general truth in the tone Of per-
sonal enthusiastic conviction.
Year: 1877

pulled one Of the knives out; then from
his left ear he drew the other one. The
keeper crossed himself in terror. and
shrank trembling away. But we fiu-
ished our wine, and having paid for it,
turned to go.


"Here," said Joe, 81 haven't paid
for the use of the yard yet" And as he
spoke he threw down a piece of silver
upon the counter. -


"No! no! no." shrieked the poor
fellow. go, criesl don't leave your
money here, don'tl"


Joe picked it up and went away
laughing. When We were alone he ex-
planned to me the secret of his pistols.
They were pair he had used in his
legerdemain performances, and such as
all wizards use TO perform tricks of
catching balls, etc. The main barrel of
the pistol had no connection whatever
with the nipple for the cap; but what
appeared to be a socket for the rammer
was, in fact, second barrel-to be sure,
smaller than the other, but yet as large
as the bore of any rifle-pistol-and with
this secret barrel the printing tube con-
nected. So the apparent barrel of the
weapon might be filed with powder
and ball and no harm could be done.


When Joe returned with his pistols,
of course he had both these secret bores
loaded with blank charges, and then the
other load was nothing but effect in ap-
pearance. At the second loading Joe
had charged the secret barrel of his own
pistol, while the Spaniard had been fill
ing up the main barrel of his. Then, of
course, it became necessary TO make an
exchange, else BiZar never would have
got his weapon off. As soon as Joe got
the other pistol into his possession, and
made the exchange which we spoke of
at the time, he had only TO press
smartly upon secret spring on the side
of the stock, and he had the whole
charge which the other had put in,
emptied into his hand. So he had the
marked ball to dispose of as he chose.


Ever after that, while he remained
in Mahon, Joe Lattit was an object of
both curiosity and dread on shore, for
an account, all colored to suit the ex-
aggerated conceptions of the cafe-keep-
er, had been spread over the city, and
the pious Catholics there wanted moth
ing to do with such man, only to be
sure and keep on his good-humored
side.
Year: 1877

The trouble is, we are apt to like those
people whom our judgment tells us we
should not even tolerate. For instance,
there's a certain style of young ladies
that like, but of which heartily dis
approve. They are pretty, fashionable,
elegant and accomplished. But know
how full of ill-humor and vanity they
may be, teasing and tormenting each
other without sincerity or reverence.
know that dress, amusement and flirta-
scope and object of human life. l know
how worthless such an existence must
really be. How is it, then, that like
such girls-nay, more, that l once lost
my heart to one of the species? There
was nothing in the world that / would
not dare or attempt for her sake. /


would, at her bidding, pluck her glove
out of a den of wild beasts, and, if she
liked, she might slap my face with it
afterward, instead of my slapping hers,
as Schiller's hero did. OF course she
Tilted me. 1 fancy she took the high
pecuniary ground and thought there
was q better speculation in man next
door, who was in the process of drink
ing himself to death. l always think
that there is peculiar Nemesis for
jilts. i have seen great many of them
in my time, and they have never turned
out well. AT all events my jilt did not.
Twenty years after my love-dream |
met the object ofmy passion, and found,
to my surprise, that she was still un-
married. We chatted and laughed con-
siderably; still l think one mutually
took stock of the other. l am grizzly
bear myself, and allow that the Object
retained her symmetry of form and
taste in dress. But the silly ten min
utes' talk showed a vulgarity of life and
thought. Instead of the yielding soft
ness of youth, there was fierceness of
eye, an acridity of speech, characters
tic of the most odious type of old maid.
The poor jilt, after the manner of her
kind, had run to seed. l was not sur
prised to hear that her keen, acid
tongue made her the terror of her dis
trict. Alas, poor jilt! The Object, an
imaginary being, fell forever from her
pedestal. That ague of the mind, the
hot and cold fits that had been on and
off for years, was totally cured, my
judgment had never approved of her;
but now even liking became extinct.
Year: 1877

They sit in the winter cleaning.


And the fire burns bright between;
One has passed seventy summers,


The other just seventeen.
They sit in happy silence.


AS the shadows deepen fast -
One lives in coming future,


And one in long. long past
Each dreams Of rush of music,


And question whispered low;
One will hear it this evening,


One heard it long ago
Zach dreams OF loving husband.


Whose brave heart is hers alone;
For one the joy is coming,


For one the joy has flown
Each dreams Of life Of gladness


Spent under the sunny skies;
And both the hope and the memory,
Shine in the happy eyes.
Who knows which dream is the brightest
And who knows which is the best.
The sorrow and joy sre mingled.
Bat the only end is rest
Year: 1877

FIGHTING TIE PEA BEETLE. III.
Comac recommends that, to destroy the
pea beetle, the peas intended for sowing
be plunged, after being shelled, into
boiling water and Immediately with
drawn.


THE GooSEBERRY CATERPILLAR = To
save gooseberry plants from destruction
from the gooseberry caterpillar pick off
the leaves on which the deposits of its
eggs have been made, then dust the bush
with powder of white hellebore.
EARLY VEGETABLES Melons and GU
cumbers can be planted in square pieces
of thick sod, and placed i'll some warm
place in the window or by the stove, and
thus get a good start by the time there is
no danger of frost. Then the sod can
be set in the ground, and the sod rotting
will give the plants good start.


ARTIcHoKEs AS TooD.-The report of
the Department of Agriculture for 1865
contains q table of the various roots fed
to stock, with their relative standing III
the matter of the formation of flesh and
fat. It is as follows:
Year: 1877

When Won Moltke returned to Hol-
stein, after reorgauizing the Turkish
army, he found living there with his sis
ter-who had married Mr.. Butte, an En-
glishman-; young girl between 10 and
Is, daughter of Mr.. Bute's first mar
riaGe. The pretty girl loved already,
before seeing him, the soldier who had
sent from the Orient such interesting let
ters to his sister. AS for Won Moltlle,
he had until then seen in Il woman only
Il being constantly interfering with the
mcthodicaI life of a worker. But when
a man more than 20 years old is loved 10y
a bewitciiing girl of Is, he ends by re-
turning her affection. From that time
there was but one woman III the world to
him, as there was but one work. He
married sweet Mary Butte, and when she
died in '6S the great Field Marshal could
say that his life as social being was also
ended only the soldier remained. The
Countess was buried in his beautiful
park In Silesia, and on the marble above
her is written, '.Love is the fulfilling oI
the law Mary Won Moltke was very
bright. very charming, very merry, and
it is told as a pathetic truth that since
her death the Field Marshal has not beer
seen to laugh.
Year: 1877

Maetulay once bet ard lost copy OF
q Paradise Lost to Jeffrey on the cor
rect rendering of line IN the poem. lie
then offered to bet another copy that
Jeffrey could not catch him again ON any
line, and he won the bet, although the
latter had the book open before him.
Sir Robert Peel once said to Macaulay
that he had never forgotten anything he
wanted Ia rem, moer, to which Macaulay
retorted that he had never forgotten any
thinn
Year: 1877

tions. II these fail to induce abortion,
they still injure the mare and impair the
ienee of disease be escaped, the mare
suffers so much in condition from the
enforced idleness that her strength proves
unequal to the task of parturition, and
physical exhaustion follows, with pro-
tracted injury to herself and to the foal
she is still called to support.
Year: 1877

RED CLOUD Is Il LETT Err WRITER.


Red Cloud is fine fellow in many re-
spects, but as master of English COM
Burke or Macaulay. His last epistolary
effort, directed to United States officer,
is the following a Pril 10th 1877 Sir
road and there say the indians on bear
lodge creek on 10th april and I thought
let you know it. And [ think VIII let
you know better after I get to the camp
so L sent the young man with this letter
he have been sent to the camp before his
name is arme blown of RED CLOUD.
Year: 1877

THE TRIBUNE Office is the only one in the City
run by steam power, and has the largest and
best appointed Job Printing Department.. Par
tlcular attention paid to orders for fine work
Year: 1877




Il must be admitted that what he BRAD
lew says about his method Of arriving at
conclusion on the Florida question is
virtual confession Of his weakness as man
aud incapacity as a Judge. He says he
wrote and reWrote the considerations ou
both sides as they occurred TO me.
sometimes being Inclined to one view Of
the case and sometimes to the other"
Tut he does not explain how it came about
that he voted with the democrats TO hear
evidence on the eligibility of Elector Hum
phreys, whose eligibility was never really
doubted, and refused to hear it 10 the case
of the Louisiana electors, whose ineEgibil-
ity was abundantly capable of proof.
Here was an inconsistency which the vacil-
lation to which he says he was subject does
not at all explain, for it is impossible that
he could have honestly believed that the
principle of law was not the same in both
cases. since both were identical. Mr.
Bradley sitting on the supreme bench,
would never dare to commit such an
a:surdity.


The truth of the matter is that, what
ever his secret relations to the republican
conspirators may have been, Mr.. Bradley
displayed from the first, not desire to get
at the truth, but to discover some plausible
pretext for shutting it out; and it was the
difficulty OF doing this which gave him so
| much anxiety. 1t was because he found
the arguments of the democrats so terribly
straight to the mark that he wavered-
that he wrote and rewrote the cousidera-
tions. This was not the yacillation OF
! ignorance. but the adroitness of partisan.
ship. and it was this phase oS Mr. Brad,
leys action which aroused the indignation
of Judge Black. aud which he denounced
with such withering scoru. 1t is this, too
which the country refuses to forget, and
will never forgive.
Year: 1877

The Latter-Day Saints have just found
out that the waters of the Great Salt lake
are sure cure for hay fever, and they no
longer doubt now that the pastor of Ply
mouth will respond to the call to come on
and take Brigbam's place.
Year: 1877

LAS worked revolution in the treatment of Ca
u tarrh. 1t has demonstrated beyond all doubt
that this disease, in its FORMS is cure
able ana that comfort and happiness may be made
persistent use of it. The method of treatment or
igin6ted by DR. Sanford. the local and consti-
tutional by remedy prepared by distillation, is
the only one ever offered TO the public that will
bear the test of time.
Year: 1877

WaVerly HaJcuIndn, marcn 10


Track laying on the Narrow Gauge
is progressing finely, from half to
three-quarters of mile day being
laid. On Thursday of last week
little over seven miles of track was
down and it was thought by the mid
die of the present week Beaverstown,
which is ten miles from Jackson, viii
be reached by the track layers. It
is the intention of President Emmitt
to have the work progress as rapidly
as possible, and by the latter part
of the present month, should the
weather prove favorable, theroad will
be completed to Waverly. We un-
derstand that it is the intention to
have a grand jollifcation on the arri-
vial of the first train at Waverly,
which will be about the first of April.
1t will be an event in the history of
Pike county and Waverly worthy of
celebrating with great pomp. Let
Us make it an occasion long 10 be re-
membered.
Year: 1877

The Columbus correspondent oi
New York Tribune draws this pic
ture of President Hayes:


Now that it is so well determined
that Governor Hayes will be the next
President of the United States, ]
will briefly relate what manner of
man he is, from my knowledge OF
him during twenty-five years, as we'll
as from what I saw this morning.
Born in 1922, in Delaware County,
Ohio, Governor Hayes is ffty-five
years of age, but casual observer
would take him to be at least ten
years younger. There is not YES
tige of gray in his abundant auburn
hair and the full beard he has always
worn ever since 1 have known him.
Alert, youthful as he was twenty five
years ago, he is forcible example
of the value of an abstemious life.
He was never in a bar-room, it is
said, in all his years he is an utter
stranger to tobacco in all its forms.
Nobody ever saw him take drink
of liquor, or smoke a cigar, or chew
tobacco. These may be negative
virtues in the estimation of optimists,
but, to satisfy them, it can be added
that nobody ever knew him to sac
rifce truth to gain any political or
personal end. Living in full public
gaze for twenty years, and coming out
Of the most exciting Presidential
contest in American history, Cover
nor Hayes is absolutely without
blemish. There are doubtless many
other Americans for whom so much
can be said, but it is something to
be able to say so much for Presi-
dent elect. It can also be said OF
him that the public welfare as he
sees il, has always been his guide. For
nearly six years he has been Cover
nor of Ohio, and during that time
in no case, it is said, has personal
friendship dictated his action. About
a year ago there was vacancy in the
Police Board of Cincinnati which he
was required to fill. A gentleman of
high character was earnestly urged
for the place by nearly all the prom
inent Republicans Of the city, but
Governor Hayes steadfastly refused
to appoint him, and only for the
reason that the proposed nominee
was an intimate personal friend for
many years. During his term the
White House will not be a sealed
book. No more Democratic man
using that word in its general, rot
partisan sense-than Rutherford B.
Hayes, ever lived.
Year: 1877

We commend the following para
graph from the New York Tribune,
to the attention of the editor of the
Gazette. It fits his case very neatly !:


"Now, Mr.. Jones" said his sympa


thetic wife, "there is no use of kick
ing around and wearing out the
sheet if you ARE dying" and this
gentle rebuke is extended to those
turbulent Democrats who refuse to
compose themselves for temperate
and tranquil departure. 1t is no
proof that man dies game because
he kicks around and wears out things.
Year: 1877

THE indianapolis Journal warns President
HAYES that if he declines to advise freely
with Republicans he may wake up some
fine morning and find himself without Or
ganizcd support in Congress. The Journal
says the President is good Republican, but
he is neither good enough nor great enough
to be able to administer this Government
without party.
Year: 1877

WALKING adyertisements-every man. woman
aud child who has once tried DR.. Bulls Cough
syrup cannot say enough In Its praise. and this is
tho reason why Its sale Is constantly increasing.
Year: 1877

free from serious objections, yet palatable even
inviting to the sensitive palate, which will ere ate
no morbid appetite for itself, and operate as an
ass istant to dges ton, well as perform the unc


tons OF a st,mulhnt. Such we confidently believe
is to be found inI
Year: 1877

We publish the new road law as
it was finally amended and passed.
If our people will patiently put it
to the teste of trial they will find
it vast improvement on the old
system, which was no system at ell.
No people who have ever tried this
system have been known to aban-
don it. If it should be found to
need amendment in any particular,
it can be done At ,any session of the
Legislature. Good roads always
mako a prosperous people.
Year: 1877

Do not rack it with violent purgatives.o or
permanently impair its tone with indiges-
tibe drugs Of any kind; but, if your di-
gestion is impaired. your liver out of order
your frame debilitated, or nervous system
unstrung, use that wholesome and agree
able Alternative and tonic, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, which will certainly
afford you the desired relief None of
the oficinal remedies can compare with it
in restorative efficacy, and as medicinal
srimulant it is by far the most desirable rs
the essential principle of sound rye, is the
best possible agent for Fastening the
action of the botanic ingredients which il
holds in solution, and those ingredients are
the most effcacious which chemistry ex
tracts from the vegetable kingdom, and
medical science applies to the cure of dis
ease.
Year: 1877

We are requested to announce that
f. Swander's name will be
presented as a candidate for probate
Judge. Moline will lose in having
Magistrate Swander transferred to
Rock Island, but knowing that Moline's
loss will be the county's gain we feel like
surreudering him. The county could not
elect better man than Esquire Swander,
and we hope his friends will see to it that
he is nominated aud elected.