smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Especial to the Democrat


WASHINGTON, May 17-Four days reflec-
tion and consultation since the last veto have
practically anticipated the work Of the eau
Gus, so that something like an Intelligent
guess OF what action will be taken next week
by the Democrats may be ventured at this
time. The disposition to get through and go
before their constituencies as soon as possible
has been growing among the Democrats In
both houses until 1t Is safe to say that a de-
cided majority OF the joint caucus will be
found favoring an early adjournment when
ever expression is had. There are still quite
number whose voice is for sitting It out to any
extreme, but they are In minority and will not
attempt to enforce their views outside OF the
caucus. The Idea OF passing the regular ap-
preparation bills, under dictation from the
White House, is not thought OF by any DEM
ocrat In either branch OF Congress; neither is
there any serious intention OF leaving the ex-
penses OF the government unprovided for.
Indeed, such an attempt would be futile
for Hayes would keep calling sessions Ii Con-
gress adjourned. Under these circumstances,
there is but one method Of procedure, and
that, In the opinion OF Senators Thurman,
Eaton, Maxey. Garland Cockrell. Mcdonald.
Speaker Randall, and In fact all the older
heads and more prominent leaders In both
houses will be formally determined on at the
caucus to be held next week. The
programme In view ID substantially as fol-
lows: Letting the vetoed army bill lie
where it is without further action; the
Legislative bill will be sent to Hayes early
next week. 1t will Of course be vetoed. Then
separate bill repeating the obnoxious cleo
ton laws will be passed. This will also be
vetoed, which will complete the record Of the
great parties on the question Of popular SOW
ereignty and free elections versus martial law
and Federal surveillance. In the meantime the
silver bill is expected to pass both houses
and be vetoed like the balance After all this
has been done, the army bill will be taken up
pro forma, and further consideration OF 1t
postponed until next December. The same
will be done with the legislative bill. Then
Joint resolutions will be offered extending the
current appropriations, to cover the interreg
mum and there seems to be no reason to doubt
that these will be passed. Whether Congress
will avail itself of the prerogatve Of present.
Ing an address to Hayes is not clear, but the
bulk Of Indications are that this will be done.
The above outlook Of probabilities is sum
mary Of the expressions Of at least forty lead
ing Democrats, In both branches, to your cor
respondent personally. 1t may be modified
In some minor details by events but 1t is per-
fectIy safe to proceed on the assumption that
1t will be carried out In subtance. The general
belief is that this programme can be got
through with BY. the middle Of June. There
is very little, II ANY chance, for general
legislation outside OF that involved In the
programme. The levee bill may be an excep-
ton through the energy with which 1t Is be-
ing pushed by our delegation.
Year: 1879

trial which ended to-day was before Justice
Strong. OF the United States Supreme Court,
and lasted five days. It may be taken to the
supreme Court OF the United States. Included
In the property involved in this DISPUTE Ia a
large part OF the Allegheny country and a
large amount OF valuable mill property.
Year: 1879

A Danburv grocery firm have taken the


agency for hammock One of ihe arti-
c|es they have hung at the front. in the
shade. of their porch. They hnng it


there as an advertisement, but numerons
people have got into it to see how II work


cd. I, hung so low that they contd easily
sit in it, and undoubtedly the motion was


agreeable and comforting. Bat lhe gro
GERS didn't fancy this performance, esprci


ally as the hammock sitters were tzot ham


mock buyers. So they removed The loop
at one end from the hook, and fastened j,
by bit of twine instead. Shortly after
man came in for two quarts of rno'asses
('reacIe). 1t was put up in his pal, aud
paper tied over the top AS he had tergotten
TO bring cover. When he passed ou, he
saw the hammock. His curiosity was
aroused at once. The g'ocers were busy
inside SO he thought he would Investigate
on his own account With tina, keen 10
tuition peculiar to New England man. he
saw at one glance that it was something
to get into. He knew it was nalhng to
wear and was equally sure it could not be
arranged for cooking. He sat down in it..
Then he swung forward, and lifted his feet
up. The twine fastening gave way. 1t
was dreadful affair. He had tire pail Of
treac|e sitting on his lap and there was q
dog sitting under the hammock. Neither
the dog nor the treacle expected ahything
any more than the man himself did. 1t
was terrible surprise to all Of them. The
man and the dog lost their presence of
mind, and even the pail lost its head. The
golden syrup" went into his Jap, ran
down his legs, and swashed up undcr his
vest, and insinuated itself so,ns way in be-
tween himselfand his clothes. Aad when
he went down he hit the dog withzhis heel
on The back, and the dog was so wild with
terror and amazement that it sent up
head splitting yell. and fled nadly down
the street having first taken the precaution
to bite him in the leg, aud to tip over the
tier Of wooden water pals. When the
pals went down lot of hoes wets carried
over with them, and that started p box Of
garden seeds, mounted on box, and they
in turn brought away pile Of peek meas
ures, whose summit was crowned with a
pyramid Of canned tomatoes. Il was
dreadful shock 70 the man, and nearly par
a|yzed him with its magnitude. But when
one article after another came avaEanching
atop Of him. be thought the evil one him
self had burst loose, and heejust screamed
rs loud as he con|d. The treacla was all
over him, and the garden seeds had adher
ed to the treacle, and he looked more like
a huge ginger bread stuck full Of ,saraways
than anything else. In this awful condi
ton he waddled home.-Danbury. News.
Year: 1879

CoNCENTRATE YOUR EFFORTS. When
Agsssiz was ake'l to give his opinion on a
question in chemistry, he pe'sistent|y de.
clined Il am no chemist" was his only
reply. The reso|ute concentration Of his
power in few we'll defined channels was
one of the secrets Of his eminence In this
age, when knowledge goes on adding
province after province to her vast empire,
one can hope to explore but little space.
There are no longer any universal con


querors. Goethe and Humboldt have left
no successors, and il they themselves were
to return, they could not possibly take the
positions they once held. Half the intel


lectual failures come from lack Of de6n


ite aim and an unf1iching devotion to
some special pursuit When so many in
teresting fields Of inquiry are open, it re-


quires Roman fortitude Of mind to pur


posely give up all save one or two. But
this is precisely what yon must do if you
mean to make your power tell in the
world. TO concentrate is to master some


thing eventually. while to dffuse your
time and energy is to acquire great mass
Of imperfect knowledge. and to hold su


perfcialy multitude of disconnected
facts. There isn't part of the human
body, or branch any science, upon which
one could not spend lifetime Of work,
and yet leave much untouched The
Greek scholar who died 'amenting that be
had not confined his work to the definite
article, instead Of taking up in addition
the indefinite. and so leaving both incom


pIete, is an example Of what is demanded
Of one who means to master any one thing.
Herbert Spencer is doing an immense
work in the way Of collecting facts that
have bearing upon each other in the va
rious departments Of science; but familiar
as he is with all these subjects, he cannot
do the work himself Human life would
not be long enough. Other brains and
hands must serve him. And even when a
scholar sets himself to do one thing. and
nothing else, he finds himself unable to
get everything at first hand. He is forced
to take something from other workers in
the same field. This is the experience Of
all life as we'll. You can 10 we'll only
few things, and the fewer they are the bet
ter you will do them. The Admirable
Crichton type Of man is very interesting
to read about, but in actual life he is like
y TO raise great hopes, be very entertain
ing, and die without doing anything.
The man who concentrates must often ad
nit bis ignorance, and he need not be
ashamed to do so, for he knows that on
his own ground be can accept the chal-
Ienge Of every comer.-Christian at Work
Year: 1879

Rainey. of South Carolina, DO given a position
under the Government in recognition Of his
Acknowledged ability and his faithfulress as
Representative. Mr. Rairey was defeated last Fall
by tissue ballots, and has concluded not to make
contest on account Of the pecuuiary expense and
the conviction that he would not be seated by
the next House, no matter how strong a case be
might make.
Year: 1879

THE meanest thing done of late has been
done by the editor of the Cincinnati Inquirer
A merchant wrote to him to complain of
loafers who congregate in front of his store.
"By their loud and ungentlemanly talk,' the
merchant said, ''they offend ladies who come
to examine my immense stock of calicoes
and ginghams, just received from the East
ern markets, which L am selling at prices
that defy competition" The editor published
the letter but maliciously suppressed the
name of its author. 1t wouldn't have cost
more than few cents to have printed the
signature. Printers are awful mean men.
Year: 1879

THE people of Granville, Mississippi, have
got together and absolyed themselves
from allegiance to the party in control of
the State government, and demanded that
bulldozing should cease; that the rights of
everybody be respected without regard to race
or color; that the administration of justice be
impartial; and that laws be enacted to pro-
tectthe laborer in the enjoyment of the fruits
OF his toll. The fear of losing negro labor
has driven them to resolving to do just
thinps
Year: 1879

OUR adopted sons who are given to grum-
bling at the people that offered them shelter
will wisely heed this remark of the Boston
Herald: ''If we hated the Yankees half as
bad as the Pilot man appears to, we would
UP and move"
Year: 1879

THE Nation and the World are having a
courteous discussion over the army bill, and
the latest rejoinder by the Nation is as wit
ty as it is sensible. The weekly paper says:


The World undertakes to show us that we
are mistaken in our position about the army
bill, first, in saying that the Federal Govern
meht needs the army for police force, aid
secondly, in saying that because the army is
small it cannot be dangerous. The marshals
and the deputy -marshals, and the surrounding
males over fifteen years of age, it says, consti-
tute the proper and only police force of the
United States, and the smallest army may be
made large enough to be mischievous. But
the trouble is, esteemed contemporary, that in
many parts of the country the males over fif-
teen who might happen to be around the polls
ON election day would often be unable to aid
the marshalS and deputy-marShalS in keeping
the peace, owing to their being already en-
gagged in making disturbance. No man can
act as policeman and rioter at the same time.
This may be an unpleasant and uncharitable
thing to say, but esteemed contemporary, you
know it is true We admit freely that the
army may be made large enough to be danger
GUS to our liberties, and threaten us with coup
detdt at the bidding of a wicked commander.
We also admit that the police force of New
York City might be SO enlarged and command
ed as to overawe the citizens and compel them
to pay blackmall to protect themselves against
clubbing; but inasmuch as this is not probable,
we view the present size of the force with per-
feet tranquility. In like manner we think it
so unlikely that the present Army will become
large enough to threaten our liberties that we
should witness its employment anywhere in
saving life or property with a curious absence
of anxiety. We will now ask our esteemed
contemporary, in all sincerity to lay its hand
OH its heart, or thereabouts, and say wheth.
| er it does not believe that the whole move


ment to modify the Army Bill was not got
up because it was the only subject on which
| the party could be got to unite; whether, il
| short, this gallant attempt to protect the peo
| pie from the "iron heel'' had not the same ig


noble origin as Bill Chandler's love of the
| ''bloody Shirt?
Year: 1879

THE Afghan tribes heretofore favorable to
the British are discontented because the In
dian army insists on holding the mountain
passes. They ought not to have let the
camel put his nose into the tent.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
ton but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

Baltimore Gazette: Two Chinese gods have
been seized for non-payment of duty at the
New York Custom House. Bob Ingersoll
should see that the tariff ON gods is removed
We must have free trade in this article if our
country is to be Paganized.
Year: 1879

no famine In the country; there Is moth.
Ing In the shape Of scarcity Of food. On
the contrary, It may be asserted that the
masses Of the people In this country never
before lived so well as now, and never had
their tables supplied with asgreRt a variety
Of good, wholesome food, and It may be
added that the country has not been as
prosperous any time In the last eighteen
years as II Is this day.
Year: 1879

THE true interests of the city of Wheel.
ing will be promoted by tho selection Of
the best men for Council andthe executive
offices, irrespective OF all party issues. The
only issue should be the right man for the
right place. This will be good year for
the independent voter to make pick and
and choice among the numerous candi,
dates now being hatched,
Year: 1879

" Thurman could go back to August
and open the Ohio campaign again, would
he make such speech rs he did? Not by
good deal. Like all men who play fast
and loose with moral principle he has
come out loser. He forfeited his own
respect and that OF the country, and lost
his chance for the Presidency.
Year: 1879

IN the report Of the Ohio bureau OF sta.
tistics,just made, the Commissioner gives,
as coming from a correspondent in Union
county, the following schedule Of prices rs
aspecimen Of the way laboring mon are
liable to be imposed upon by what are
known as company stores, out OF which
employees arc forced to take at least a part
Of their earnings:
Year: 1879

We sincerely hope for the credit of
West Virginia craftsmanship that Col.
Ben Wilson will not rise in his place in
Congress and charge that the present se-
vcrityof the weather is owing to the re-
sumption Of specie payments.
Year: 1879

TtE following remark is from the Colum,
bus Journal of yesterday;


Perhaps those Belmont county people
who are determined to nominate General
Tom Young for Governor had better III.
teryiew him before they expend their sub
stance"
Year: 1879

ALL nature deals III compensations
The wheel of fortune turns around often
slowly but always surely. The great
Arbiter of destiny i. turning the great
wheel now' and they that are up will be
down by'end'"y, and they that are lowly
now will bave the highest seats hereafter.
Tins is Eternal Justice.
Year: 1879

IHE labor question Is occupying the
serious attention Of men Of intelligence
and reelection over the whole earth. For
centuries this most important subject has
been overlooked and pushed to the wall by
encroachments of pretentlon and discrimi
nations of law, but the agitation of the
present is compelling the enlightmcnt of
the people and ithe examination of this
great subject
Year: 1879

SIX columns and a half devoted to Bill
Kings fair at Minneapolis, and column
and half given to the State fair at st.
Paul. That is the way Bill Kings morning
paper, which he prints in st. Paul, does the
business and is about the relative proportion
of the usual policy adopted. That paper
has become SO intensely Minpeapolitan that
it omits the proceedings of the st. Paul
chamber of commerce, and yesterday morn
ing gave no hint or allusion to an important
and regular meeting of the city council of
St. Paul the previous evening. This is the
kind of paper and supporter which the busi-
ness men of st. Paul are making rich by
| their patronage.
Year: 1879

If there is any man on the Republican
ticket deserving defeat it is Charles Kittle.
son. Not SO much on his own account, as
because he obtained the nomination by q
shameful nationality trade which ought to
be rebuked. When man claims the right
to handle millions of dollars belonging to
the people of Minnesota because he was born
IN Norway, he ought to be incontinently de.
faatad.
Year: 1879

The nomination of Pillsbury for Governor
gives the Democrats an opportunity for VIC
tory which should be improved. If Wake


field or Hubbard or almost any other Of the
candidates had been selected, q campaign
would be hopeless. Now, the situation ia
different Pillsbury has bought and forced
himself upon the party for the third term.
He is the tool of the millers and wheat buy
ers' ring, and personally participates in
making the regulations to swindle the farm
ers on their products. There is every reason
why he should be defeated, and not one Why
he should succeed. In spite of the fact that
Minnesota is Republican, he can be defeated.
Year: 1879

work of the politicians pure and simple, and
the worst GLASS Of politicians at that. Th
liberal use of money, in addition to the poll
ticians, was necessary to force him on the
people. He will be repud lated at the polls
because his nomination was triumph of
the basest of politicians over the people.
Year: 1879

The Minneapolis Tribune has no word of
rebuke for the Republican rascalities in
Stearns county, but it devotes half column
to lamenting the fact that they were made
public in the convention. The Tribune
thinks 1t ought to have been kept secret.
Year: 1879

Arrival of the Steamer Bachelor with a
Large Passenger Trip of Distinguished
PersOnages-Great Wind, Rain and Hail
Storm at Miles City-A Number of Build.
ings Blown Down and One Man Killed
Father and Son Badly Injured by Kicks
OF a Horse.
Year: 1879

II the advice given in Mrs. Oakoy's From Attic to
Cellar" q. p. Putnam's sons) was followed by nll
tho housekccpers in the land. American homes would
DO much moro attractive than they Tako the
length and breadth of this city, for example, and al


though there many model homes to be found in
it. the majority are far from being attractive. Tho
domestic arrangements are slipshod and the houses
comfortless the consequence is that tho members
OF the family seek their pleasure outside. There Ia
no gathering of the family and friends after dinner
in the drawing room. but when the evening meal is
or party. while the husband and brothers seek
amusement at the theatre or club. Home should bc
made tho peasantcst place in the world and to this
end the mother should be good housckccpcr. Not


however, o woman vino merely understands tho
management Of servants and how to cater, but one
who combines that knowledge with general intolli-
ccnceg Because she knows how to boil potatoes
with the Jackets she need not be ignorant OF what
is going on in the world of art and letters. When
woman reduces herself to the level OF mere house
keeper she is companion for her children II they
have any intelligence. Their mother should be able
to talk to them about books and pictures we'll
dress and cooking. Yet every girl should be taught
to cook and to sew. that she may not stand in gno


rance before her servants. Wo know OF young
married lady who. left unexpectedly without
want was obliged to make the coffee for her own and
her husbands breakfast She had no more idea how
TO go to work to accomplish this difficult task than
child OF three years old 30 she emptied whole
pound IN the cofronot aud covered Il With water.
Year: 1879

then put 1t on the stovc TO boil When she thought
1t was done she took it of and poured II into cup
To her amazement it wouldn't pour through the
spout it was so thick. The husband suggested
straining, so these two grown up children emptied
the contents of the coffepot into napkin and
squeezed cupfull Of black stuff through the
porous linen. They drank little of it. just to keep
their spirits up, but it was a bitter dose.


Mrs. Oakley has been the head Of family for forty
years, and, while she has not neglected her social
duties. having been prominent figure in society
both here and abroad. and while her accomplish
ments are varied she has been model housekeeper
She is not one Of those who with their house
upside down and their children let to run Wild
write glowing advice to mothers the of home
and the training of children. What she advises she
has practised. Men choose their professions and
give them their attention. When woman marries
she chooses the head OF household for her profess
sion. Let her not enter upon it lightly.


"It is" says Mrs. Oakley, cher bounden duty to
see that her home is clean. airy, cheerful happy
and all it's various economies attended to. She
no more neglect it with impunity than doctor his
patients lawyer his clients a merchant his Gus
toners She must DO the mistress of her own house,
hold She may nave as many servants OF high and low
degree as her homo and income may require. hut she
must be superintendent. She must require obed-
ence to her orders and strict performance OF duty
but she must understand what those duties how
they should be performed and what time they. re-
qure or her orders are of no value and she cannot
judge of their performance. mistress should 20
through her house every morning, praise where
praise is due. and quietly find fault with any care
lcssness or OMISSION thinking nothing beneath her
notice. but with gentle authority which admits OF
no question: never placing herself in
position to any member Of her household. Where
there is decision it prevents all uncertainty IA most
painful conditon and is very much for the good OF
all" a +t.ts


This volume is divided into chapters which treat
of ''The Choice and Arrangement of Home"
"Daily Habits" .'Dutes OF Servants. &c.. and it
should be put in the hands of every young woman
and girl III the land not only that they may read it
but that they may profit by it. The advice is very
simple. and the reader will be surprised to see how
easy 1t is to follow. Mrs. Oakcys excellent literary
style is displayed every page of this little book.
Year: 1879

art and Tint 1t has done much to remove very seri


Gus blot from English literature. He however. the


author thinks has left much to be done the lat


ter hopes that the present work will help little in
clearing away longsanding errors, and reducing
known facts to something like order. He proceeds
to very thoroughly set forth tho disagreeable.
secretive character Of the man. which he does not
attribute to his somewhat unfortunate home infiu-
but to mis- nature He says that he has strven
to accomplish the difficult task of keeping as close
together possible. the histories of Turner as Z
member of the community and painter. In his
work eve feel that in the presence
of mind sensitive Keats, as tender
as Goldsmith's and rs penetrativs as Shelley 1. q
while in his life 1--WE only think OF hedgehog"
y y ''He thus lived In two woflds-one the pic
toria sight world in which he was profound
scholar and poet the other. the articulate moral,
social word world, in which he was Ounce and un.
the charm OF home he never painted home
scenes. and hence Mr. Monkhouse draws the
conclusion that this is of the principal reasons
why his art has been truly popular in home
through his early days. in his wanderings in
England and tho Continent and finally to his death.
bed The illustrations of pictures numerous and
excellent, and chiefly from the blocks 40
those which some time ago accompanied IN artiols
in Ha'per's Magazine on the painter.