smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

EDITORS CHRONICLE Perhaps it
IS not necessary that an expression
should be bad from the people, as to
whether they are ready and willing
that Congress should say. bv actual
law, that the white race and the col
ored are socially equal. but then
again it may be. In either case,
however. the good people of Grain
ger county are not willing to be ST.
lent spectators of the conflict so per
sistently urged upon them, not only
by the Legislators at the capital Of
the nation, but even by the coIored
conventions. which have called them,
selves together in some places in the
State


If the eolored people desire that
the colored children have the benefit
of public schools they would do we'll,
and more than well, to stop upon
the threshold of the great waste and
miserable ruin into which their vain
desire is about to lead them. Under
the school law as it stands upon the
statute books of Tennessee TODAY
the colored people have an equal
benefit with the white race; but
change that law, as the civil rights
men would do, and the necessary re-
suit would be, that no tax would be
levied, no schools would be in exist
ence, and more still would result.
An absolute bitterness would spring
up, bringing in its train all the evils
that a strife Of that nature could en-
gender. There is not n County
Court in the State, we are persuad-
ed, and we positively know that the
magistrates here would emphatically
refuse to levy tax for school pur-
poses, and the people without ex-
ception of party or color. would say
at the ballot box, ''well done" The
colored people here do not want
their children placed in the same
school house with the white children,
even though it could be done. They,
as the white people, demand separ-
ate schools. They feel that social
equality, as contemplated by some,
can never he. They know that if
they were to have the law for mixed
schools. that in rearching forth their
hands for that, they would grasp
nothing.


1t may sound well in theory, but
the thing won't harness. There is
no government power on earth that
can change the feeling of society, or
render void the law that nature has
seen proper to make. No power on
earth can cause the social equality
of the races to be recognized. And
whenever the barriers, that nature
has seen fit to build up, are attacked
by the puny power of man. nature
herself rises in her omnipotence and
stamps the impudent offender with
her seal OF crushing shame.


There are but two ways, and Con-
gress of course will select the one
that seems to suit its interest, per-
hdps, and the colored people may
elect. They can have the law or
they can have the school. One or
the other can not be.


We do not write as a politician,
nor yet as a private person, but we
write az the peoples officer, and ex-
pressing their open and declared in
tention. and we ask our representa-
tives not to disregard our wishes on
the floors of Congress.


j. N. GOLDMAN,


County Sup't. of Granger Co.
Year: 1874

Republican. will guard and advance
their interests, as we'll as protect
their right, they could not do bet
ter than to select Mr.. Butler.


Granger accuses him of the Of
fence of at one time having worn
the judicial ermine.'' He is no
doubt guilty, yet he has never been
accused of having trailed that robe
in the dirt. or bedabbling it in the
filthy pool of politics. Then where,
Bfr. Granger, is the crime?


He is also accused of having been
in Congress for several terms. That
may be a disgrace, but it seems that
some friend of Granger (who
knows but himself. is anxious to be
disgraced in that way. However the
only direct charge made by Gran
ger is "he was a Judge is a
member of Congress, is Repub-
lican,' IF these three offences are
sufficient to damn a man, Mr.. Butler
must plead guilty, and is therefore
damned.


Suppose your people send. in Mr..
Buffers place, Democrat that is an
G1tti-OdnainGstratio3t 1edn, what will
they gain? He would be in antago-
nism with the majority of Congress,
with the administration and Govern
ment officials. Now l want to put
this question to you: If your friend
and your enemy both ask favor of
you. to which would you grant it.?
Is not human nature the same ev-
erywhere?


You will not find in Congress a
dozen anti-administration. men who
will ask of the Government what
they call ''a favor If you call on
them to do anything for you. they
will reply as a rule. i am a demo-
crat, it is no use for me to ask any
thing the result is most apparent.
Their constituents lose many things
they might otherwise secure. l can
illustrate this point by fact.


A few years ago there was va
cant Internal Revenue Collectorship
in the 9th District of Tennessee.
There were in that District good
men, ana true, 1ully capable ana
qualified to discharge the duties of
the office. The member from that
District was a Democrat. He could
not recommend a Republican. The
President could not accept his rec
Omendation of a Democrat, even
though he was disposed to make one.
The result was, a gentleman from a
different section of the State was ap-
pointed on the recommendation of
member of Congress who did not
know single soul in that District,
and Collector transported nearly
the length of the State to take the
position.


might suggest that this is only
one of the few advantages P follow,
ing ''Granger's advice will bring
with it. Your ob't. sr'vt.


D. w. CLASSIC.
Year: 1874

Persons receiving the GAZETTE with RED X
MARX on it, notified that their subscription is
due for the current volume, and they respect
fully requested at once to remit the subscription
Year: 1874

Gossip and Gleanings.


There was man, John Morrissey,


And he was wondrous game,


He hit John Fox, and gently put


head upon the same


And when he saw the head was on,


With all his might and main


ne boldly ducked his knob and tried


To butt it off again.


may, we are told, is pet name for Mary.
IL mas an r in it therefore, and the right to eat
oysters until the first of Jure is vindicated.


new York paper considers that Bret
Harte is "more than the successor of Dick
ens." Our own opinion is reserved until we
find out who the successor of Dickens is.


San Francisco feels that she will have TO
get up. another Vigilance Committee. Chi
nanen are beginning to manifest an aversion
to being stoned to death.
The rumblings of the Commencement Day
Volcano are beginning to be heard and felt -
and soon the eruption viii burst forth, cover
ing the whole land with the burning lava of
virgin thought Richmond Enquirer.


1t is not generally known that you can send
postal card cavorting over Europe BY simply
attaching one-cent stamp to it. Hence, if
you wish to remind a customer of that little
account he or she went away and forgot all
about settling, why it costs little to do it,
and the result may be great success.


The Washington Chronicle proposes to
make a shot tower of the Washington Monu-
ment. This is practical and business-like.
We have long been of opinion that, unless it
was TUNED into shot-tower or a whiskey-
still, the American people would never be
willing to complete it.


We learn from the Detroit Free Press that
Michigan has more boys wearing their
fathers boots than any other state in the
Union. In Chicago, however, it's very diff
ferent. Boys there only use their fathers
boots under special stress of circumstances,
and then they hide away in them, and don't
oome out again until the danger is over.


There is more trouble. "The subjoined
poem-we do not know who wrote it"-says
the Pittsburg Telegraph, ''is one of the most
beautiful of its kind we have ever seen. We
do not envy the heart that does not thrill to
its wild and tender music" The poem is
entitled "Rock Me to Sleep" We believe
Nannette Emerson wlote it; but communi-
cations on the subject are declined in advance.
Year: 1874

The rumblings of the Commencement Day
volcano are beginning to be heard and felt =
and soon the eruption viii burst forth, cover
ing the whole land with the burning lava OF
virgin thought Richmond Enquirer.
Year: 1874

Not long ago, Punch figured that social
bore, the chronic fault finder, in the
guise of a complaining recruit. "Now
then, Pat" says the sergeant testify,
whats the matter now2' Sure, sor,"
"they chated me out of the thick of me
choffee, sor F.


At sight, no complaint could seem
more destitute of grounds" To the
average reader none could be more alb
surdly lHdicrous; for every one has
learned by bitter experience what it is
in the ordinary way not to be cheated of
the "thick of the coffee"


Yet, without becoming the champion
of cheap restaurants and boarding house
madams, it is possible to argue seriously
that Pat was the victim of a real wrong,
that in losing the substance of the coffee
berry he lost what would have been of
actual service to him. The chemistry of
the question is simple enough.


AS commonly made, the infusion of
coffee which we drink contains not more
than twenty per cent. of the substances
which compose the berry. Of the re-
manning eighty parts, which we throw
away as grounds" about thirty-four are
woody matter without nutritive value,
The rest, or forty-six parts out of the
hundred, contain in large proportions
nitrogenous matters, fats and mineral
salts, demonstrably useful for the nour-
ishment of nerves, muscles and bones.
In other words, by our mode of making
coffee we lose more than half its availa-
BILE and valuable constituents. Consider
ing the tuns of coffee imported every
year, this wholesale wastefulness be-
comes a matter OF considerable magni-
tude, this of course only the condition
that rejected matter can be used with
pleasure and profit That it can be so
used is shown by the practice of Turks,
who make coffee as we do chocolate
The coffee, finely powdered, is drunk
with the infusion. In this way all the
stimulating qualities of the infusion are
secured, with the full aroma and all the
nutritious elements of the berry. 1t is
perhaps needless to add that, for use in
this way, the coffee must be reduced to
an impalpable powder,


To those unaccustomed to oriental cof-
fee, the limpid infusion may seem much
to be preferred, AS stimulating drink
it is undoubtedly preferable, but the
good qualities of coffee are not exhaust
ed with the infusion; and as u matter of
economy, it may be well to sacrifice linn
pidity for nutrition. Besides, as one be-
comes accustomed to the thick chocolate
and learns to like it more than the clear
infusion of the cocoa bean, so. it is
claimed the taste for cqfe Ia OrientaLe
may be u acquiEd, with q corresponding
improvement in the beverage.-,Scientifc
american.
Year: 1874

Have we not overdone the patriotism,
and have we not retarded the advance
ment of journalism, by this willingness
to scalp one another to crafty the mob,
which, after the operation, has, or ought
to have lower opinion of both actors
than it had before2 Personal journalism
never tends to exalt the profession, or
exalt the journal that indulges in it. 1t
is waste of time, labor and means for
one newspaper to devote its columns to
the annihilation of the personal char
acter of the gentlemen who publish
another paper Waste of time, labor
and means is, in these utilitarian
days, a crime. Newspapers are pub
lished for the pecuniary benefit of the
owners. There may be romantic notions
of another kind, that journalism has
higher aims than the accumulation of
pelf, but we know differently and like
sensible men, we may frankly state that
we print and publish our newspapers for
the purpose of making the most money
we can. The man who makes the best
paper, as general thing, makes the most
money; and the man who makes the
most money, as general thing can
make the best paper, if he knows how.
We are bidders for the public confidence
and the public trade, just as the lawyer,
the physicians or the merchants are.
We offer our services to the public just
as they do, and expect pay therefore, as
they do; and among the services we
offer them is a good newspaper, conducted
with due regard to public decency and
morality, and advocating such public
policy and measures as we may think
best for the public interest.
Year: 1874

On one of the southwark bound trains
of the Staten Island railroad on Wednes
day afternoon was young Pole of vii
famous cast of countenance. Just be-
fore entering the car he was seen moving
around among the people on the plat
form, exciting their sympathies by panto-
mimic gestures of appeal, and pocketing
the results of his experiment in the shape
of numerous nickles. When Conductor
Barton asked for his fare he was answered
by shake of the head and a look OF
child-like innocence.


"Give me your fare" said Barton.


The Pole pointed to his ear and then
to his closed lips. -ei,


Your fail" said Barton.


"Shamel" said a pretty blonde, under
her breath.


"The poor man is deaf and dumb"


"Give me your fare" said Barton for
the last time, as he pulled the check rope
and signalled the engineer to stop.


The train came to halt in the cut
about mile from Clifton, and as it stop
ped the conductor laid his hand gently
upon the travellers coat collar and lifted
him out of his seat into the aisle.


All at once the deaf mute recovered
his speech.


81 gif you dwancy cent? he yelled in
frightened tone, but Barton was inexor-
able He dropped the improbable pas
senger upon the road bed, and gave the
signal to move on.


The Pole turned towards the rapidly
departing train and shook his fist at the
smiling conductor. Then he screamed,
81 gif you dirty centl-N 7. Stua
Year: 1874

The practice of educating boys to the
professions, which are already over
stocked, or in the mercantile business, in
which statistics show that ninety-fVe in
a hundred fail of success, is fearfully on
the increase in this country. Americans
are annually becoming more and more
averse to manual labor; and to get a liv-
ing by ones wits, even at the cost of in
dependence and self-respect, and fear
full wear and tear of conscience, is the
ambition of large proportion of our
young men. The result is that the me-
chanical professions are becoming a mo-
nopoly of foreigners, and the ownership
of the finest farms, even in New Eng
land, is passing from Americans to Irish
men and Germans. Fifty years ago a
farmer was not afraid to put his children
to the plow or to a mechanical trade; but
now they are "too feeble" for bodily
labor one has pain in his side, another
slight cough, another a Every delicate
constitution" another is nervous; and
so Billy, Bobby, or Tommy is sent off to
the city to measure tape, weigh coffee, or
draw molasses.


1t seems never to occur to their foolish
parents that moderate manual labor in
the pure and bracing air of the country
is just what these puny, wasp-waisted





city is to send them to their graves. Let
them follow the plow, swing the sledge,
or shove the foreplane, and their pinehed
chests will be expanded, their sunken
cheeks pumped out, and their lungs,
now 'carbined, cribbed, and confined,
will have room to play. Their nerves
will be invigorated with their muscles;
and when they shall have cast off their
jackets, instead of being thin, pale,
vapid coxcombs, they shall have spread
out to the size and confguration of men.
A lawyers Office, a counting room, or a
grocery, is about the last place to which
a sickly youth should be sent. The ruin
of health is as sure there as in the mines
of England. Even of those men in the
city who have constitutions of iron, only
five per cent. succeeded, and and they
only by 'living like hermits, and work
ing like horses; the rest, after years OF
toll and anxiety, become bankrupt or
retire. And having meanwhile acquired
thorough disgust and unftness for
manual labor, bitterly bemoan the day
when they forsook the peaceful pursuits
of the country for the excitement, care,
and sharp competition of city life.-M.,
in What Neat
Year: 1874

A countryman sent to Pittsburg
dealer in photographs for picture of
his wife, who died forty-four years ago,
giving a general description of her. He
inclosed fifty cents to pay for the same.
A photograph was selected from large
assortment and proved entirely satisfac-
tory to the unsophisticated granger.
Year: 1874

The Tribune has the following foreign
note:-A young Englishman the other
evening determined to attend a masked
ball, and with general discrimination
chose to do it in the character of a
monkey. The night was fine, though
cold, and he was of frugal mind; SO in
stead of taking carriage, he set out to
walk in costume from his hotel to the
ball, two blocks distant. Cheerfully
walking along in the habit of his fore
fathers, he was suddenly deserted by
two immense dogs, which, not able
calmly to endure the sight of monster
of so frightful mien, immediatelyIbounced
after him. The poor young man scam
pered and with great presence of mind
frantically climbed a high board fence,
and there on the sharp edge of the same,
in the cool night air he reposed for two
hours while the big dogs beneath sat
serenading him and the moon, and the
dance went gaily on without him."
Year: 1874

A Danburian who was in New York
Saturday, cameup with the wild state
ment that he had seen hotel clerk with
side whiskers. That is more of lie
than one man should undertake to tell
Hair growing on the cheek of a hotel
clerk Scatl
Year: 1874

A lecturer on optics, in explaining the
mechanism of the organ of vision, re-
marked-"Let any man gaze closely into
his wife's eye, and he viii see himself
looking so exceedingly small that
Here the lecturers voice was drowned
by the shouts of laughter and applause
which greeted his scientific remark.
Year: 1874

Said an eminent person whose gift of
money-making seemed to his neighbors
to quite outstrip his gifts of money .
True don't give much; but if yon.
knew how it hurt when l give any you
would not wonder"
Year: 1874

short address and three or four ten
minute speeches before dinner, at which
it will b. expected to have the attention
Of all present. The dinner will be in
the shape Of Il basket picnic, and there
will be plenty provided for all who can
no, make it convenient to bring edibles
along. Let none hesitate to come be-
cause they cannot conveniently bring a
basketiul. The committee on speakers
have prepared ten or twelve toasts
which will b. responded to in five min
ute speeches. Each speaker will be
limited strictly to five minutes. These
exercises will be entirely informal, and
it will not BE- considered breach of
decorum for persons to absent them
selves frou the speaking and engage in
any other recreation or enjoyment pro.
yid,d it does not interfere with the
speaking.


Il would be we'll for persons to bring
aI'n= croquct sets, and in every way
possible prepare for an enjoyable ooca-
siof: Let no means calculated to en-
hancc the enjoyment Of the occasion be
"aittcd. Let every one make it his
business to contribute something toward
the SUCCESS Of this movement, and then
we shall have something of which we
may we'll be proud.
Year: 1874

The arrangements for the celebration
at Bailey's Grove, in the town of Good
hue, on the Fourth Of July next, are
progressing very satisfactorily. This
will undoubtedly be the grandest cele-
bration ever held in Goodhue County,
There will probably be the largest con-
course of people ever assembled together
in this county. We think it was very
wise provision on the part of the Cen.
tral committee to prohibit the use of
powder in any manner whatever
upon or near the grounds. 1t is about
time we should stop blowing people to
pieces on the Fourth Of July. Never a
year passes but we hear Of persons be-
ing wounded, mangled and killed by
the use of powder on this day. Any
old rusty cannon that can be obtained
is supposed to be good enough for such
an occasion, and the result is it frequent
y bursts and causes more terrible exc
cutioh than an ordinary cannon would
if fired directly at the crowd at medium
range. Then again horses are frighten-
ed and teams run away and strew tho
ground with the wreck Of wagons and
human bodies. There will be none of
this at the Goodhue County celebration
Persons who have teams will not be
kept in perpetualsuspense for fear their
horses have taken fright at the last
boom of rusty old piece Of iron, or an'
vii, and broken loose ~.. -~


Every one should aim to be on the
ground by ten o'clock There will be q
Year: 1874

Times are hard money scarce ; re-
trenchment necessity; and where will
we begin? Not at tobacco. Oh, no
couldn't exist without that. Must have
something to ruminate upon in this cud-
chewing world, and what is more delec-
table to the taste than tobacco, whisky
and cigars ? Well, yes; those are for
times Of recreation when we get away
froul work; couldn't retrench on them.
They are necessary to the wear and tear
of every day life; * little satis6ers" "
that don't cost much and afford so much
comfort. No, We must look in some
other direction. We might throw up
the races and the club dances; but
then one must have some place of rem
dervous where he can see old chums and
have good time. What is the use of
passing through this life and ignoring
pleasure altogether? "All work and
no play makes Jack dull boy" Hold
on! I have just struck the trail there
is my paper. I can easily dispense with
that-that costs me dollar and half
a year by club. Stop my paper; ex-
travagances must be dispensed with.
Year: 1874

Small is the sum that is required to
patronize newspaper, and amply re-
warded is the patron. I care not how
humble and unpretending the gazette
which he takes. It is next to impossi-
bic to fill sheet with printed matter
without putting into it something that
is worth the subscription price. Every
parent whose son is away from home at
school should supply him with a news
paper. I we'll remember what marked
difference there was between my school.
mates vino had, and those who had not
access to newspapers. Other things be-
ing equal, the first were always decided
ly superior to the last in debate, compo-
sition and general intelligence.


DANIEL WEBSTER.
Year: 1874

The Waseca Neacs in its last issue,
addressing itself to The GRANGE AD,
VANCE, says: "The horns Of your di-
lemma are knove or .f'ol. You Can
choose between them. Now truth and
candor compel us to say that in our in,
tercourse with the editor of that paper,
we have no such choice, for in him we
have both on our hands.


Oranges, take notice {! The County
Council at it's last session at Cannon
Falls requested each Grange to furnish
some vocal music for the celebration on
the Fourth. Let this request be heartily
and earnestly responded to. Each
Grange should practice one or more
pieces thoroughly, until they can sing
them with the spirit and the understand
ing also. In this way VIC can at very
little expense have large amount Of
frst-class vocal music.
Year: 1874

All Goods bearing the above Trade Mark are invar-
iably ALL WOOL, and are unsurpassed in point Of
durability. 1t is not economy to buy Goods largely
composed of Cotton and shoddy, because they are
cheap. Such goods invariably the most expensive
in the end


IF YOU WANT ALL WOOL GOODS,
Year: 1874

HOMER, W1NoNA Co., MINI.
Editor Grange Advance:


AS you have not heard from down
this way for 'some time I thought I
would send you up few lines. The
farmers are waiting with not very much
patience for spring to open, so they can
commence their spring work. As a
general thing they have very little fall
plowing done. Some of them are hur-
ryiug up spriug anyhow by seeding be-
fore the frost. is out Of the ground.
There has been a Methodist revival g.
ing on down here, ten or twelve
conversions, mostly young people.
Our Grange is doing we'll, we pave
about sixty members and more,coming.
We meet once week and hf7e>e gen.
eral good time initiating meAber3 dis
cussing the best interests of the Change
and Of the people, and almoat every.
thing else: We have four members
Of our Grange that are in favor Of COM
bination from the way they acted few
days ago. two ladies and two gentlemen,
they had TO- get minister to do the
business for them. May our best wish
es go with them. We all are in favor
Of that kind Of combination, but don't
take any stock In the plow combination
business or any other Of that kind. I
don't think chat is it right for Grange
to accept an application marked carpen-
ter and initiate the applicant; what is
your opinion, MIR. Editor?


NORTH WEsT's BROTHER.