smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Where one has plants of their own to set,
matters little whether done III dry or wet
weather, providing it is done rightly. For
heavy, stiff soil, however, we prefer to set
Them out when the surface is dry, for If
worked when wet, the soil around the plants
becomes hard and checks plant growth.


One of the main requisites OF setting
strawberries in dry weather, is to spread the
roots out well when set. and water the same;
aud the best way to spread the roots is to
have them rinsed free from soil, and with
lrowe dig out hole. and III this place the
root, and then pour in water enough to part
ly NIL the hole or SO that the roots will be
covered, and on this draw earth quickly.
The roots will float around, and the earth
being thrown in, they settle down we'll
spread out. Then. all that is necessary. If
lle weather be hot and dry, is to shade tor
Two or three days with paper Or leaves It
~'ln this way, and shaded, they should not
Oe watercd. More newly set plants are ru'
iled by too much water and shade than in
aay other way. The covering retains the
hlesture at surface and that Is all that is
Needed Ii watered when shaded. they
''damp OFF," Plants received by mail or ex-
press should be unpacked at once. and
spread out in cool cellar, if not ready to
Set out.


VI course ''pot plants" that have lump
VI ulrt adhering, can be set out ut once, by
merely soaking the earth with water.
Stirring the soil around newly set plants
'''4h Is very advantageous.


Alter shading two or three days they may
w uncovered, and then, if the surface gets
water with wash water, or night slops
%''ss reducing so as to have three parts rain


sS'er'-Fruit Recorder.
Year: 1878

OUR Sunday cotemporaries are unani-
nous in deserved praises Of Congressman
BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, for his effective
interference in behalf of our public schools
in the House last week. 1t is true that Mr..
BLACKBURS's course rescued his party
from the infamous responsibility of closing
the doors OF those institutions of learning at
the Capital Of the nation but it would
have come with better grace from him il
he had acted with more promptness-ior
example, before the public spirited teachers
had agreed to keep the schools open with
out pay, and regardless Of the Democratic
neglect to make appropriations for their
support
Year: 1878

SINCE The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
rendered to the Democrats plane of inves-
tgation broad enough to develop all the
frauds, intimidations and outrages incident
to the election of 1916, they have become
more careful and docile in their expressions
ofopinion regarding this topic. They dare
not enter the field that we have indicated
and hazard the consequences of u full,
sweeping, and thorough investigation
Some of them have hushed their cries OF
fraud " and "fraudulency," and are rapidly
taking to their holes and drawing Their
-holes in after them" If we do not secure
m investigation We shall silence much
Democratic noise.
Year: 1878

MAJOR J. b. COLLINS, late of the Fourth
United States Infantry, is an applicant for
reinstatement In the army. His record ap-
pears to be of the best, and he probably de-
serves favorable consideration Of his ap-
plication But his methods are devious-so
much so that THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
in its news columns last week inadvertedly
alluded to the bill now pending for his re-
lief as an improper measure. The bill, as
we have it reported, is to authorize the
President to reinstate officers of the army
I" who have served more than twenty years
continuously, and served also during the
late rebellion" We submit that thin
round-a-about way of doing things is, tt
say the least, suspicious. If Major COLLIN
had made a blunt, outspoken demand fo
his restoration he would have had no rea
son to complain Of the characterizations o
his bill that follow from a natural miscon
eeption of its evasive title. On the con
trary, he would undoubtedly have received
earnest support and commentator.
Year: 1878

EVERY CLOUD has its silver lining, and
bad as the times are and have been, there is
one good that will result from them. The
protracted depression has had the effect to
bring to light crooked business transactions
and expose crooked business men, who
might otherwise have escaped detection
When trade revives business circles will
have been freed in q great measure of this
dangerous class Of operators.
Year: 1878

RIDICULE is an effective agent in political
warfa re-a fact never so clearly illustrated
as in the manufacture, or rather the repres-
sion, of public opinion, through use Of it in
opposing the enlargement" of the Agricul-
tural Bureau to be an Executive Depart
ment, presided over by Cabinet Minister.
The cry of granger" and "hay-seed," and
even less sensible epithets, are hurled at the
advocates Of this measure, while its real
merits are ignored and the substantial rea-
sons for and against il are lost sight of in
noisy derision Of thoughtless scribblers or
babblers, whose only aim in life seems to be
to create reputation for wit, even at the
Bile extent this remark applies with equal
force TO the criticisms of Commissioner LIE
Dues administration of this much-abused
bureau but that has nothing to do, as we
have said before, with the real question at
issue Let the farmers, the planters, and
every citizen interested in agriculture, and
their representatives in either house of Con-
gress, rise above the influence of these
puerile assaults and demand u proper and
serious consideration of the subject. If the
proposition is rejected, let 1t be done for
good and Substantial reasons. Mr.. SAN
Cox has been called upon for display of
his abilities, in the line OF 6ippant derision


in an attempt TO kill this bill. Who among
the numerous members of the House from
the agricultural districts will essay the easy
task of answering his light-witted ridicule
Year: 1878

New YORK. Jan. 2.-This afternoon o young
man entered the office Of James H. Young
broker and merchant. 40 Nassau street, and
told him that a lame gentleman. who was IN
Young walked down stairs, leaving the young
man In the office. aud when he returned he
found that he had been robbed OF money and
police at the Central office were notified. and
several of the most experienced detectives were
detailed to look for the thief.
Year: 1878

The Indianapolis journal has this: A Re-
publican Senator from Western State said
the other day: Il have been three times to
see the President since | came here in Octo-
ber; twice Gordon was there before me, and
all three times Ben Hill came in before left.
They were evidently on better footing there
than l, and l found it impossible to secure
any conversation with the President on polit-
ical matters In my State, SO came away un-
satisfied. 1t is little things like this which
make Republicans feel that the conciliation
business is being somewhat overdone."
Year: 1878

A young woman during the first week
of her married life entertains vague sus.
picions that the statements OF older
wives that the way to mans heart is
through his mouth are true. Her
Charles, who is always if not quite ex-
empt from human tailings, has already
manifested profound admiration for
veal pies, and has openly expressed his
detestation to overdone mutton. She
accordingly builds up with her fortress
of resolution in which to guard that
sacred treasure of a husbands affection.
In her girlhood this young woman had
spent much time in cutivating her
musical taste, in reading Emerson and
Carlyle; she had been fond of pretty
landscapes, and could use her pencil with
effect, and she had been heard to declare
with pride that when she married she
would give mp none of these things.


Let us visit her now, at the end of ten
years OF matrimony, and we will find
that she has broken her vow and thrown
it to the winds. We find tiresome
sort of person, whose whole intellect is
absorbed in attending to the cares of
housekeeping, and getting stylish dresses
for her children. Her conversation rises
seldom above the level of infant gossip
and servants, and the only ideas develop
ed by time and experience are expressed
in her conviction that men are the most
unreasonable and selfish creatures, and
women the most abused and selfsacrifc-
ing.


There is a great evil somewhere, but
what is it? The husband acknowledged
to himself that he is disappointed in the
wife he has chosen, and yet he finds
difficulty in pointing out his mistake,
and hardly finds cause to blame her,
for she is not a faithful wife, a devoted
mother and a most frugal manager &?
The mistake is a national charac-
teristic. So passionate and intense
is the American mind in pursuit of its
temporary interests, the men will suffer
the chains Of business to bind them down
and throttle them, while their wives
bend beneath a similar yoke of duty at
home.


What is lacking is the power to rise
above the petty annoyances Of daily life /;
we need to learn 10 distinguish trihes
from affairs Of moment, to know that
every mole-hill is not mountain. We
need not forsake the upper strata of
sentiment, thought and ideaity-the
atmosphere of the soul-because we know
that there is a lower one of routine and
small vexations in which our feet are
told to tread 10 breathe in the one is
to receive strength and reireshment for
exertion in the other. 1t is a good plan
to pick up needles and pins from the
floor, but picking pins ought not to be
made the chief object OF existence for if
we move along with our heads constantly
downward, we most assuredly will see
nothing better than pins and needles to
the end Of our days. Philadelphia Bul-
| letin.
Year: 1878

1t don't seem much of story to tell,
though it was tough one to live You
see, it was more than twenty years ago
that my twin brother and / sold out our
homestead in New York, and went to
California to seek our fortunes. All the
rest of the family were dead, aud we two
were the more attached to each other
for that.


Well we tried mining, and we tried
everything we could think of, but moth
ing seemed to prosper with us; we only
grew poorer and poorer.


Finally, we thought of the idea of sep
arating, 30 as to work two fields at once,
before the last of our capital was gone.
There was great talk just then of some
new gold region, and we agreed that one
of us should go there and try his luck,
while the other stayed in San Francisco,
and carried on a little business we had
started there.


OF course, everything was in partner
ship. I never thought of an interest
separate from his, and he, know, ;elt
the same.


Well, the question arose, which of Us
should 20. Il wasn't very tempting, the
! mining life, and neither of us was anxious
Year: 1878

ney. There is not an act of his administra-
tion Of either Office that will not bear the
strictest scrutiny. His nomination for City
Judge was concession by Tammany to
the popular demand for an independent
judiciary. He is not known as a political
partisan. but he is widely and favorably
known from his eight years Of service on the
bench in the position for which he is again
a candidate. The fact that his opponents
have been unable to assail q single judicial
act performed by him during eight years of
service tells the more strongly in the cam
didate's favor, inasmuch as the personal
abuse INDUCED in by his enemies proves
how willingly they would attack his official
record if the opportunity offered If any of
the opposition journals know of corrupt or
improper decision having been rendered
by Judge Bedford on the bench, or Of any
act committed by him in his judicial ca
pacity which deserves public condemna-
ton, they should at once make the fact
known. Judge Bedford's experience on
tho bench and his spotless judicial record
prove him to be the right man for City
Judge, especially as his opponent. however
respectable, is untried and inexperienced.
Year: 1878

The results of the recent municipal
elections in seventeen thousand out Of
the thirty-six thousand communes Of
France make it certain that on the 18th of
January next, when the two Chambers
meet. the republicans will for the first time
have clear majority in both Senate and
Assembly. Since the failure Of the De
Broglie Ministry in October, 1877,
to alter the political complexion Of
the Assembly, after exhausting all
the forms of intimidation against repub-
lcans and all the pressure it could exert in
favor Of official candidates, whose only
point of cohesion was hatred of the Re
public, this result has been ioreseen. OF
the three hundred and sixty-three seats
held by the republicans on the dissolution
in June, 1877, three hundred and twenty
FIVE wero reoccupied by them, leaving
them still the enormous majority OF one
hundred and eighteen. In the Senate, how
ever, the conservatives of oil shades had q
majority of nearly thirty. Although the
subsequent refusal Of the Orleanists Of the
Right Centre TO aid the President in bring
ing about fresh dissolution and SO pro-
longing the crisis made republican Min
istry possible, the country cannot be said
to be free from the desperation OF
what NJ Theirs in n famous manifesto
termed 'an incorrigible minority" The
prudence and vigilance Of the republican
leaders have so far kept these reactionaries
in wholesome check. Before the republi-
can maiorities In both houses the rovnl-
Year: 1878

1t is to be hoped that every preacher in
New York, no matter what his creed may
be, has read, or at least caught the spirit
of Dean Stanleys noble sermon on the
unity of Christendom, which was delivered
in old Trinity on All Saints Day. 1t was
not SO much the accuracy Of the gifted
preachers definitions of the great divi-
sions of the Christian Church that made the
sermon remarkable as the clear perception
of the adaptability to human peculiarities
of the several forms in which the same
faith is presented and believed, and the
reverent affection with which the speaker
consequently regarded these great aids to
and conservators of moral and spiritual
progress. Beside the noble catholicity of
such religious teacher how small and
mean seem the special sectarian pleadings
which are SO often imposed upon church.
goers who need an d long for, not the formal
expression Of belief, but the elevation of
character, the strength, the consolation and
oil else for which, according to all creeds,
the Christian system was instituted Cath
Ollie and Calvinist no longer burn dissenters,



without parallel in our own, in which
faiths multiply more rapidly than virtue
increases. and the manner Of belief is in
many churches of far more importance than
the manner Of life. To oil priests and lay
men by whom the churches are being mis-
taken for ends instead of means the
philosophical, human and thoroughly
Christian catholicity of Dean STAN
ley's utterances Of Friday morning
appeal both as critic and teacher,
and fortunate for himself and others is the
man who can receive them. The Church,
like the Sabbath, was made for man, and
whatever creed stimulates man to strive
for higher life here and hereafter deserves,
in spite Of any seeming weaknesses, the
hearty respect Of good men Of every faith.
When other preachers say this as emphati-
cally and fearlessly as Dean Stanley has
done one of the worst of the demons which
assail Christianity will be exercised, and
from the body of the Church itself
Year: 1878

TIE WEATHER low pressure has passed
from the lake region to the st. Lawrence Valley
and Lower Canada, attended by light rains and
moderating and warmer winds. In the West
Northwest and South the barometer is high, but
decreasing in the latter section. fall OF tenn
pcraturc will probably follow the movement
eastward of the low barometer now Ia Canada
The change may bc expected with nortlwesteriy
winds in New York during to-day. The weather
In New York aud it's vicinity to-day will be warm


with decreasing temperature, partly cloudy or
hazy. and possibly with occasional light rains
Tomorrow IL will be partly cloudy and colder
Year: 1878

1t is reported in our commercial news by
cable that the whole Continent Of Europe is
in tribulation over "glutted markets and
low prices" and the reason for all this
trouble with trade is believed to be 'snot
overproduction, but political uncertainty"
In Germany, France. Austria, Switzerland,
Belgium and Holland cotton industries are
not prosperous, and the only exception to
their bad condition is in Russia. Well,
there is political uncertainty enough in
any one of these countries, certainly, but at
what time for ten years past has there
been less? It is difficult to point out a
year within that period when it might not
have been cogently argued that for one
reason or another the government and po-
litical system of every one of them was at
the verge of grand collapse. But uncer-
tainty did not paralyze trade through all
those years. and why should it now? France
has not at any period in modern times
possessed a government SO firmly and
safely based in the consent of the nation as
the present republican organization and
though there is terrible murmuring in
Germany there is no uncertainty. If the
Hohenzollerns cannot govern through the
law they can and will with the army. The
reporter is in error. The cause of stagna-
ton is the great and indescribable poverty
of the people oppressed by the taxation
needful for the maintenance of the earned
peace"
Year: 1878

In Western Virginia they have strangely
extended epidemic of this dangerous NAL
ady For distance of forty miles on the
line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad il
is said there is scarcely house in which it
may not be found. II there be no exaggera-
ton in this report it is evident that there
is field in that district in which the
services of q sanitary police would be
of great public advantage. It is recog-
nized that an important part Of the func.
tion Of government in cities has relation to
the enforcement of sanitary service; but it
is not recognized, though it is true, that
this sort of service is even mere necessary
in the rural districts than in the cities. In
most cities water is supplied to the people
by machinery which delivers it pure
into their houses, and at its source
care is taken to provide against it's contami-
nation. Sewerage systems, moreover. carry
away in all large cities all substances that
might contaminate the air of houses and
streets. If these are not properly con-
structed the dangerous sewer gas proves, OF
course, great evil. But these two great
guarantees Of the health Of cities are not
possessed in the country, and all
care on these points is left to the
average ignorance, stupidity and in.
difference Of the country people. They
draw their water from streams which re.
ceive the sewage Of thousands Of farms, OF
from wells poisoned by the sewage of their
own places, and the notion of keeping their
houses or cellars or outdoor premises free
from even the vilest kinds Of filth does not
occur to them. They cultivate diseases like
diphtheria that are produced by emana-
tions from decaying organic matters.
Hence such ravages of disease as that re-
ported from Virginia.
Year: 1878

The United States has never known Q
more sensible and astonishing report than
that which the War Department received
from the West Point Board Of Visitors.
The Boards officers, consisting of a noted
political economist, soldier OF high rank and
college professor of national reputation,
bluntly inform the department and the
country that Congress does not desire
information from such sources, and
that "the mere nod or whim of a
secretary Of war or general-in-
chief has more influence than the
combined opinions of all the boards that
have ever been appointed" They there
fore suggest model for report, which
model is as sensible as it is sarcastic;
higher praise than this could hardly
be expressed All that the report
proper lacks of ideal completeness is a
recommendation that no visiting boards
shall be appointed hereafter, but that tho
Inspector General and his assistants shall
discharge the duties which have heretofore
devolved upon the "visitors." We commend
the Boards report to other boards, commits
sions, &C., whose only satisfaction for the
work they accomplish consists of the CON-
pensation they receive, and whose self.
respect is offended by the persistent neglect
of Congress to make any use Of the infor-
nation gathered at considerable expense in
time and money.
Year: 1878

lists and Bonapartists will stand still fur
ther cut off from chance of mischief
in the Parliament, but it is not to
be expected of French political human
nature that the spirit of resistance will end
there. Nearly two years will remain before
the expiration Of MacMahon's term for the
evil elements to conspire in. Rendered
desperate by the fact that on JOINT
ballot they are already outnumbered
by hundred votes we may expect
to hear Of intrigues and conspiracies
for the regaining of the power they have
lost. In this it is not improbable that Of
forts will be made to make use OF the
extreme radicals. who have already
begun their war upon Gambetta, as
agents for disintegrating the republi-
can party or rendering it odious in
the sight Of the country. In this they will
tail. if the vigilance and prudence of the
republican leaders are still equal to the
emergency; but it is nevertheless true that
until the republican successor of MacMahon
takes his place the Bonapartists and royal
lists will not be muzzled forever.
Year: 1878

''In a world where no two we'll informed
people think alike on any subject" says
the London Daily Telegraph, ''why should
the fact that Lord Salisbury and Secretary
Evarts are unable to take quite the same
view of this Newfoundland trouble create q
profound sensation - 1t is wicked world
and it is hard enough for people to agree
in it on any topic-but we hope the
Ddily Telegraph does not class the
differences on the case Of the fishery rights
with differences on such abstruse topics as
tho Interpretation of the cuneiform in
scriptions. It is not case of that nature |:
it is not case in which, between we'll in
formed men, honest differences of opinion
are possible, and it is precisely because it
is case of this character and that despite
this differences have yet arisen that the
case has attracted peculiar attention on this
side the Atlantic. An honest or rational
difference in points Of Interpretation does
not excite us more than il does our
cousins on the other side, but a
difference that is either dishonest or
that must be the result of an ignornnce
which seems to MS incredible is of another
nature and may excite anybody. BY a
treaty with England we obtained certain
rights in waters within her dominions


England now tells us that those rights are
subject to limitations Of which not one
word is said in the treaty. That is not an
abstruse issue which results from disposi-
tion to chop logic on either side. II puts
our rights on precarious ground, where
we cannot for moment assent that they
should stand. 1t denies that the treaty
has any validity in the part that might
prove beneficial to MS, and it naturally
startlcs us for the English government to
take position that implies denial of our
rights when it seems to us impossible that
this can be merely the result of ignorance.