smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

govern. They are born to that po-
sition. hold it through life whether
competent or incompetent, and trans
nit it their children along with their
heirlooms and bloodhounds. They
may not be able to distinguish law
from passage Of the Koran or an cpl
taph, yet they are lawmakers by birth
and position, by legal right and title,
and ':by the grace Of God.''


These men are also born to enor-
nous fortunes, almost without exccp-
ton. And what is to hinder? Hav-
ing in their hands the source of all title
to property--the law making power, ,can
it be wondered that they use
it for their own aggrandizement? Being
born legislators, they are also born
public plunderers and cormorants.
They reap where they have not sown,
they gather the fruits of the labors and
tolls of others, and squandcr them too
in drunkenness and riotous living. They
claim that whatever the law gives them,
whatever they hold by legal right and
title is morally and in good conscience
theirs, notwithstanding the fact
that they themselves framed the
laws : for the very purpose
of reaching for, and possessing them
selves of the property that rightfully
belongs to others. They do not claim
to be more righteous than the law, but
they might have made the law more
righteous than it is.


Seeing and appreciating the great
wrong and injustice of this system of
legislation system that places all
wealth and property under the control
of a perpetual monopoly Of law makers,
our people. in attempting to avoid this
terrible evil have invited another of al
most equal magnitude, by swinging to
the opposite extreme. Instead of a
tenure Of office running from genera
tion to generation, and from century
to century, we elect for
thirty days! and then because
the inexperienced legislator does not in
that time prove himself thoroughly
competent to give just and wise laws to
the people-the most difficult thing
ever undertaken by mortal man-we
kick him ont at the end Of his thirty
days in the utmost disgust. Was there
ever such folly committed by.intclligent
beings!


Extremes arc always ,i;:5 "erous. and
in jumping from one extreme 20 its op-
positc, we rarely, if ever, bvttcr our
selves. There IS always a happy mean
f We could but find it. We do not
often find it sor the very :ea*on that We
do rot seek it. Wherever we find gre
vious wrong and injustice VIC fancy that
the further We can get away from them
the surer we will be to find right and
justice. This is a grieyous mistake and
most gricvously do we answer for it.


The hereditary tenure and the thirty
day term are to the extreme opposite
ends of the pole. This mischief and
injuries arising from the former,
do not probably arise from
the latter; but the latter is
productive of quite as serious wrongs,
which do not flow from the former. Let
us seek for that term that shall COM
bine the most of the advantages of the
extremes, and avoid the most of their
disadvantages.


We have already made this article
long enough and will defer the further
consideration Of this subject to another
occasion.
Year: 1874

scriped his stolen property TO them and its
position in the room: He has since tnrouea 81
Superintendent Wang offered 1000 for the recovery OF
tbe property and arrest of the thieves His money, nc
said kept in his room, because he had no
in banks. Ali men had some object IN Ire most n,on
worked hard TO get money for families he worked
get gold for himself few years ago ne made wa a
beuueathine money various friends ana then nau
added codic after codici until the paper was covered
and then wishing 20 put in another code, an4 IIs %
had recently thought OF willing his money for the


shment OF an old bachelors home. Now he would nave
10 abandon that plau man that had health ana Was
energetic even rs years old need not ask charity and
ought TO earn good livelihood.
Year: 1874

The benefit performance for the New Ork
Founding Asylum under the charge OF the Sisters Of
Charity Ia to take place the Academy of Music to-


morrow afternoon, when brilliantly varied ensertan


nent OF porteBtOus dimensions will be given under the
direction OF Mr.. Augustin Daily. great number OF
prominent members of the theatrical profession have
Year: 1874

INTERESTING STATISTICS REGARDING THE PUBLIC


LANDS FOR THE LAST FISCAL YEAR.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.-The records OF the
General Land Office exhibit the following interesting
statistics in regard to the public lands for the fiscal
Year: 1874

FLowERs.-The sole fashion which
should never change is the fashion set by
good taste. A fashion that is not so set
is the fashion of using artificial flowers
where natural ones can be substituted
On hats or bonnets the former are, Of
course, indispensable; but they should
never be worn in any other way upon the
person, or employed in the decoration Of
rooms.
Year: 1874

To 60 into one of the business shops
in any of the larger cities during the
business hours of any day at this season,
Is to see numbers of women intent upon
buying their clothes. Counters are
heaped with fabrics of rare cost and of
every color imaginable. Patient sales
men spend their days in taking down
and putting up goods, in rolling and un-
rolling, holding this piece at arms length
to display its richness, and decanting up
on the cheapness of that, while ladies
with all the world to choose from, choose
often, if we may judge from results, very
unwisely. Good taste is not sold over
the counter at SO much yard, and style
is not among the commodities which are
exchanged for value received. There are
two or three rules, however, which if
ladies would observe would help almost
every one to be beautiful. Thackery
ayssomewhere that every woman, with
out an absolute hump, may marry whom
she pleases." Now from this opinion we
beg leave to dissent, though we do not
underrate its compliment to our sex, and
we would like to formulate it rather in
this way " Any woman, whatever may
be her defects, may be as beautiful as
she pleases." Ii is only question of
taking trouble and exercising thought.


The first and most indispensable essen
tial to grace of toilet is purity. Soiled
things, however rich, are never beautiful.
A clean sixpenny calico is far more
beautiful, because far more womaply.
than soiled and spotted silk. OF all
denominations, good gown which has
fallen from its high estate of drawing.
room and carriage-wear, to the lowlier
uses OF the kitchen and garden, is the
worst. The traditions of its former
splendor hang around it like sad reminis-
censes. Its frayed fringes, faded breadths.
and patches of grease insult those who
see it as much as they detract from the
appearance of its wearer. Anything
about a gentlewoman that is not fault
lessly clean, proclaims by its presence
her lack of true gentiity. So the moth
er with her babies clinging to her, the
teacher in the school room and the seam
stress with her sewing, each needs some
thing to wear that can easily be renewed
and freshened by washing.


After cleanliness, the next essential
is that things should suit each other.
Point lace is not appropriate over muslin
de laine, nor velvet over calico. Cheap
finery is always dreadful. We say it in
the face of all the dressmakers and half
the dress -wearers in the land, that beads
and bugles are only fit for Indian squaws
or African bellies. Beaded sacques.
beaded pockets, and beaded parasols are
all of them barbaric in their tinsel and
glitter.


The last thing is that dress shall suit
your station in life and your means.
There is no wisdom in violating this, no
honesty, no respectability, and therefore
no beauty. A selfrespectipg woman will
not be tempted into extravaganza in
dress, nor will she cheat herself with the

notion that unpaid for magni6cence has
any inherent beauty Hearth d Home.


Hawthorne paid pretty compliment
when be said of Miss Bremen, that she
Year: 1874

now SLEEP THE BRAVE"
How sleep the brave. who sink to rest,
BY all their country's wishes blestl
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns TO deck their hallowed mould.
She there shall dress sweeter sod
Than fancy's feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands that knell is rung;
By forms unseen that dirge is sung;
There Honor comes a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there COLLINS.
Year: 1874

For many months a few papers in the
country have been predicting the death of
the Democratic party, and many an editor
has bothered his brain in writing Obituar-
les of that time-hOnOred organization.
But their predictions have demonstrated
but one thing, and that is that the true
spirit of prOphesy has died out in the land.
The Democratic party still lives, and will
live while the human race exists. De
mOcracy means freedom ave, tits the very
essence of that delicious boon. 1t cannot
die in the United States, for the reason
that it is synonymous with the principles
upon which the Governments based. The
objections that these wOuld-be prophets
have to the party is that its principles are
obsolete. Then the constitution of our
country has Outlived its usefulness. 1t is
one and the same thing with Democracy.
If the time has arrived for a change in the
form of our Government. a change in the
policy of the Democratic party may then
be advocated. But the time for such a
change has not arrived, nor can it ever
come while Democratic sentiments make
up the political creeds of the people. The
old party is stronger than ever, and the
people are moving in its interest all over
the land. In Missouri an activity is being
displayed that will certainly achieve sue
cess. 1t is the only opposition to Radical
ism, and the masses are rallying TO its ban
ners. Let all who desire to see Radical
ism Overthrown and honesty and purity
again occupying the high places of honor
and trust, exert themselves in behalf OF
the Democratic party and assist in render
ing its triumph complete. That it will
triumph there Is no doubt; but let all good
men contribute to the victOry.-haHsas
City Times.
Year: 1874

Writers on natural history describe a
hideOus reptile known as the fishing frog,
which angles for its game as eXpertly and
with as great success as the most adroit
fiy-fisher. He is a clumsy, awkward
swimmer, but Nature has compensated
him for his unwieldiness by furnishing
him with an equivalent for rod and line,
with bait always ready for use. Two
elongated tentacles spring from his nose,
which taper away like actual tishing-rOds.
To the end of them is attached by slen-
der filament, which serves the purpose OF
a line, bait in the form of a shiny bit Of
membrane. The hooks are set in the
mouth of the fisherman down below, and
in order TO induce the fish to venture with
in reach of them, the angler stirs up the
mud at the bottom with his fins and taIl.
This attracts the fish and conceals him from
their observation. He then plies his rod;
the glittering bait glows in the water Ike
living insect. The daZed fish are taken
in great numbers, perfectly circumyented
by the trick of the crafty angler.-GaIaTy-
Year: 1874

Our sensations are often very deceptive,
especially as to the temperature. We Of
ten feel chilly when the thermometer Is
high, and actually get warmer as the
mercury descends. Take piece of metal,
another of wood. and a third of woOlen
material. Lay them side by side on the
same table. There is really no difference
in their temperature. Yet If you place
your hands on them the metal feels cold,
the wood neither cold nor hot, and the
wool positively warm. If you hold snow
in your hand for any time you will suffer
a painful sensation. SO if you keep your
hand in ice-water, this will soon feel as If
it were bot and burning you. But If alco-
hol or glycerine are reduced TO precisely
the same temperature they will have ne
such effect. Ether, on the other hand,
seems to burn like ice-water. Brandy, at
thirty degrees below freezing point, may
be drank without inconvenience, If only a
wooden vessel is used. A glass one is al
together too cold to be put to the lips.
Rum, and cognac, and such liquids, be-
come thick and sirupy at thirty degrees
below freezing, and at fifty degrees below
they become solid. Brandy may thus be
swallowed in a lump out of a cup OF frozen
quicksilver. AtsiXty degrees below treeZ-
ing the solid brandy begins toproduce the
sensation of cold. To bring it to this tenn
perature, it is necessary TO use carbonic
acid gas. reduced by cold and pressure to a
liquid and then mixed with ether. This
has to be employed very carefully, for if il
touches the skin it produces blisters like q
red-hot iron. AT seventy degrees of cold


brandy, if taken with a wooden spoon
tastes simply like very hot soup. If 9
metal spoon were used, it would burn all
the skin off the lips. Kane, when in the
Arctic regions, burnt his hand with knife
he had been carrying in his pocket, anC
which might be supposed to have received
some little warmth from his body.
Year: 1874

This great apostle wrote upon many
subjects. Health was prominent among
them. He published a work under the
title Of. Primitive Physic; or, an Easy
and Natural Method of Curing Most Dis
eases" From his simple rules the follow
ing are selected:


Pure air is very important.


Tender people should have those who lie
with them, or are much about them, sound,
sweet and healthy.


All persons ambitious of good health
should be as clean as possible in their
houses, furniture and clothes.


The great rule in food is to suit the quail
ity and quantity to our digestion. All
picked, smoked and high-seasOned foods
mwhOlesOme.


Nothing conduces more to health than
abstinence and plain food, with due labor.
For studiOus persons, about eight ounces
of animal and twelve of vegetable food in
twenty-four hours is sufficient.


Water is the most wholesome of all
drinks, quickens the appetite and strength
ems the digestion. S.rOng, and more espe-
eially spirituous liquors, are a certain
though slow poison. Experience shows
there is no manner of danger in discOntin-
uing them at once.


Coffee and tea are extremely injurious to
persons with weak nerves.


Tender persons should eat only very
light supper, and that full two or three
hours before going to bed. Such persons
ought to retire to bed invariably by nine
O'Clock, and rise from four to five in the
morning.


Walking is the best exercise for those
who are aOle to bear it, and riding is the
best for those who are not able to bear
walking. We may strengthen any weak
part of the body by constant exercise.
Thus the lungs may be strengthened by
loud speaking or by walking up an ascent,
the digestion and nerves by riding, the
arms and hands by strongly rubbing them
daily.


The studious ought to have stated times
for exercise, at least two or three times a
day, one half before dinner, the other
before going TO bed. Those who read or
write much should learn to do it stand
ing, otherwise it will impair their health.


The fewer clothes any one uses by day
or night (prOvided he is kept warm), the
harder he will be.


Exercise should never be taken on a
full stomach. it should never be contin-
ued to exhaustion, and when we are done,
we should be careful not to cool off too sud-
denly.


The flesh-brush is highly beneficial, es-
pecially in stimulatinga part which is cool
and inactive. Cold bathing is of great adj
vantage to health. 1t prevents many dis
eases, promotes perspiratiOn, accelerates
the circulation of the blood, and secures
against colds.


All violent and sudden passions dispose
people to acute diseases. Slow and lasting
passions, such as grief and hopeless love,
bring on chronic diseases.
Year: 1874

There are hundreds of young men that
should be married who are not married.
To marry early is discreet and wise. And
when men and women are of a marria9ea-
BILE age, it is wholesome for them to be


married. 1t is not necessary that they
should remain single because they stand
i'm poverty, for two can live cheaper than
one, if they live with discretion, if they
live with cooperative zeal, if they live as
they ought to live. If the young man Is
willing to seem poor when he is poor; if
the young woman, being poor, is willing
to live poorly; if they are willing to plant
their lives together like two seeds, and


wait for their growth, and look for their
abundance by and by, when they have
fairly earned it, then it is good thing
for them to come early into this partner
ship. For characters adapt themselves to
each other in early periods of life far more
easily than they do afterward. They who


marry early are like vines grOwingtogeth-
er. and twining round and round each
other; whereas multitudes of those who


marry late stand side by side like two iron
columns, which, being separated at the be-
! ginning. never come nearer to each other.
| There is no school which God ever opened,
or permitted to be opened, which young
people can so i'll afford to lose as the school


of care and responsibility and labor in the


household and young man and young


woman marrying, no matter from what


source they come together, no matter how
| high their fathers have stood, one of the


most wholesome things they can do, hav-
| ing married for love, and with discretion,


is to be willing to begin at the bottom,
and bear the burdens of household life, so
that tbey shall have its education.
Year: 1874

No one feels the death of child rs the
mother feels it. The father cannot realize
it thus. True, there is vacancy in his
home, and heaviness in his heart. There
is a chain of association that at set times
comes round with its broken link; there
are memories of endearment, a keen sense
of loss, a weeping over crushed hopes. and
a pain of wounded affection over them all.
But the mother feels that one has been
taken away who was still closer to her
heart. Hers has been the office of constant
ministratiOn. Every graduation of feature
developed before her eyes-she detected
every new CLEAN of infant intelligence
she heard the first utterance OF every st1m-
mering word: she was the refuge OF It's
fears, the supplier of its wants; and every
task of affection wOve new link, and
made dearer to her its object. And when
her child dies, portion of her own life, as
it were, dies with it. How can she give
her darling up, with all these loving MEM
Ories. these fond associations? limid
hands that have so often taken hers in
trust and love, how can she fold them on
its sinIess breast, and surrender them 10
the cold grasp of death? The feet whose
wanderings she had watched so narrowly
how can she bear to see them straight
ened to 90 down into the dark valley! ]!
The head that she has pressed to her lips
and bosom, that she has watched in peace
full slumber. and in burning, heart-sadden-
ing sickness. a hair of which she could not
see harmed-hOw can she cOnsign it to the
darkness of the grave? 1t was a CLEAN of
sunshine, and q voice of perpetual glad
ness in her home; she had learned from 1t
blessed lessons of simplicity, sincerity,
purity and faith; it had unsealed within
her a gushing, a never-ebbing tide of at-
fiction: when suddenly it was taken away,
and the home is left dark and silent; and
to the vain and heart-rending aspiration,
Shall that dear child never return? there
breaks in response the cold grave silence
nevermOre. The heart is like torsaken
mansion, and those words go echoing
through its silent chambers.
Year: 1874


ascertained that Cheney, the gatekeeper,
reached Spellman's factory five minutes
before the water came down. Cheney's
lack of decision in telling the story in
clined Spellman TO believe that it was not
more than half true. He detained Cheney
with questioning until the laundering of
the water told its own story, and then sent
him on his errand of alarm too late to be of
service.


Those five minutes would have been am
pie to have had every resident of the valley
in place of safety. As it was, the opera
tives of Skinnerville had time to escape,
with three exceptions, and comparatively
few were exposed to the flood below that
point, showing that all might as well have
been got out of danger. The people are
clamOriDg for an inquest, which they hope
will fix the responsibility of the catastrophe
where il BELONGS
Year: 1874

When planting don't dig hole like a
bowl cistern, but dig it just as deep as the
soil is, and no deeper; make the bottom of
it One-third larger round than the top, and
loosen up the very bottom. Then as the
tree is planted. throw in first an inch of
real, good fresh, rich soil; set the tree,
holding il with one hand while on your
knees you spread its roots carefully with
the other; let the assistant drop the dirt in
upon the roots as he would if he had a
seive, and, as it is dropped in, do you who
hold the tree upon your bended knees,
work every root carefully out straight on
a level line with the point or junction of it
with the main stems, use the fingers out
spread in mingling the fine dirt with the
roots, and be careful that not an air space
is left at the bottoms, and also that the
earth upon the lower roots is packed the
hardest or tighteSt of any.


As you reach the upper roots only see
that each root is Surely surrounded with
earth, and then let the last four inches OF
earth be sprinkled on with spade or shovel,
without pressure of foot or anything else,
don't even fiat it with the shovel, and be
sure to keep your own. and Paddy's feet
off: for every pressure will destroy the ma
tural position of the root below.-F. r.
Elliott, IN Cerel0nd Herald.
Year: 1874

A LUCKLEss undergraduate on being ex-
amined for his degree, and failing in every
subject upon which he was tried, COM
planned that he had not been questioned on
the things he knew. The examiner tore
off about an inch of paper. and pushing it
toward him desired him to write upon it
all he knew.
Year: 1874

GRAHAM GEMs.-1 egg well beaten, l
Large cOffeecup of sweet milk, u teacups-
full Of Graham flour, cup Of sSperiine
flour, and little salt; the batter should be
of the consistency of wheat griddle-cakes.
Warm the pan on the top of the stove and
grease each compartment well; then fili
with the batter to within a quarter of an
inch of the top, and bake in quick oven,
about half an hour.
Year: 1874

In his death-hour he talked incoherently
of his early disappointment and desired
that small painting on ivory, supposed
to be likeness of his early charmer, be
buried with him. 1t was done, and so
faded from the world his romance and his
lifa
Year: 1874

IT is curious to observe how modes OF
discipline vary in different parts of the
country among wise instructors of youth.
4 Virginia teacher finding that two OF
his pupils. about the same age, had got
into a difficulty, attentively heard the
story of each boy. He had no other evil
dence, and each boy declared himself to be
in the right. He took them into room
by themselves. and recommended square
fight upon the spot. Permanent peace
was speedily restored" says the record,
''and they will probably never disagree
again"
Year: 1874

1t is one of the most prcmi-
.nent characteristics of the great
old Demcratic party never to
despair Ct success, and after ey-
cry failure 10 try again.
Though the clouds may lower
and the enemy appear flushed
with past victory, still the Dem
ocracy Of the country stand to
their arms and never think Of
surTendering, though the enc
my arc always predicting it.
This confidence and firmness
spring chiefly from an abiding,
deep-seated consciousness of
the justice and correctness of
their cause, from the conviction
that although their principles
may be temporarily oyershad-
owed by the mist Of delusion,
and their sacred tenets crushed
to the earth by the accidental
triumph of Federalism - for
modern Republicanism is moth
ing more or less than Federalism
in disguise = they will never
theless rise, Phoenix-like, from
their ashes, the brighter and
purer for having passed through
the fiery ordeal. Such, precise
ly, are the feelings which AMI
mate Us on the very outset OF
the political campaign, and such
should be the faith of every
true-hearted Democrat. We
should, one and all, from the
very threshold of the contest,
carry hearts for the conflict, but
not for despair. All looks fair
and serene, but the rallying cry
Of the Democratic party should
be: "Every man to his post" j"
and never to desert it until the
heat and smoke Of the battle
shall have passed away and VIC


tory shall again perch upon our


banners.