smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

In writing the following letter, / have
expressed only my own feelings; but it
seems as if many Republicans must have
the same, although | have seen no ex-
preston of them. The hope Of Civ ing
word to some of these views is my only
excuse for asking to appear in your col
umns.


At the close of the rebellion, twelve
years ago, few men were disfranchised
for a short time 1t was the only pun
ishment the victors offered for rebellion
that cost millions in money, and in lives
what no money can express.


The males OF a population OF four mill
ion Negroes Of legal age were given the
franchise, and then the North was ready
to extend her old friendship to her
Southern sister again and say: Let by
cones be by cones.


Ready2 Yes, very ready. Some peo-
pie tried to explain that the reason why
the assassination Of Lincoln was permit
ted WAS because an all-wise Providence
foresaw that he would not be sufficiently
kind and conciliatory in his attitude TO
the South, and that he was, therefore, re-
moved, to make way for a vice-president
who could do it better.


The South had difficult problems to
deal with. No one disputes that. There
were these four millions of not half civ
ilized and very little enlightened blacks; /;
there were her worn-out plantations,
worn out by the system of slave labor ;
there were her vacant wharves and emp
ty harbors, a discouraged merchant class.
and the depression which follows the ex-
element OF war, deepened by the sense
of defeat.


How would a nation of Yankees have
acted under similar circumstances The
tone in which it accepted the situation
would perhaps have had that nasal twang
to which the enemy Of the Yankee ob.
iects: but it would have expressed that
wholesome common sense which takes
in the whole of a situation, and then
promptly sets about making the best OF
it, Ii he used the dialect attributed to
him, he would have said: We've got
these ere niggers on our hands; and. II
we can't lick EN- into being decent any
longer, we must eddicate EN-. We must
look out that they get their best men for
leaders, or their wust ones will do it.
We will say glad to see you to every i'm
migrant who will take hold OF these
worn out lands and work 'em in better
way, we must build up our trade; and
more'n everything else, we must not ex
ert the weight OF moral force TO crush
any class of men.


| Did the South do this Not at all
Never has the South taken hold OF the
Year: 1877

The longest life is made up Of simple
days.-few or many; but the days grow
into years. and give the measure Of our
lives at the last.


The life is at the last what the days
have been. Let the children therefore,
look after the days--one day At q time
and put into each one something that
will last-something worth doing, some
thing worth remembering something
worth initiating By those who follow Us.


l. Every day little knowledge One
fact ia a day. How small a thing is one
factl Only onel Ten year, pass by
Three thousand six hundred and fifty
facts are not a small thing


?. Every day little self denial. The
thing that is difficult TO do TO day will BE-
an easy thing to three hundred and
sixty five days hence IL zach day IL shall
have been repeated What power OF
seli-mastery shall he enjoy who looking
TO God for His grace. seeks every day 10
practice the grace be prays for


3. Every day little bopeiulness. We
live for the good OF others. II our living
be in any sense true living IL l. not IN
the great deeds OF philanthropy that the
only blessing Is found In


Little deeds Of Kindness"


repeated every day. we find true happi
ness. Al home. at school, in the street
in the neighbors house. on the play
ground-we shall find opportunity every
day Tor usefulness


4 Every day little look into the Bi.
BILE One chapter day. What a treas
ure OF Bible knowledge one may acquire
in ten years. Every day verse com
mitted to memory. What a volume IN
the mind, az the end Of twenty five years


The man who does nothing don't
amount 10 much. IL makes but little
difference whether be il a millionaire or
pauper. lie is only a stagnant pool. with
out energy enough to start a ripple. tie
drffuses a moral hissma over everything
around him. Do something; don't stand
on the corner gaping, with your hands IN
your pockets, like an idiot The world
was made TO work m. and IL you I'LL your
hearts with good angels, the bad spirit.
will keep out, because there Is no room
for them.
Year: 1877

The following record will show the changes IN the
temperature Tor the past iwcntyfour hours In CON-
parison with the corresponding date OF last Year as IN
dicalcd by the thermometer at Hudnul's pharmacy
Year: 1877

Editor Exchange:


/ desire to call your attention to
the numbers of wretched little impris-
oned mOcking birds in our town, and
to enlist your sympathies (and pen)
in their behalf. They can be seen in
their miserable little wooden cages i'll
front of almost every negro house III
town. | hear that one man "a white
mani In town has forty or fifty of
these poor little creatures. am sure
that something can be done to stop
this wholesale destruction of our song
birds /; few more summers Of such
sweeping robberies of our woods and
gardens will leave us without our
songsters. Isn't there a state law to
protect these birds? Could not the
City Fathers" do something to pre-
vent the shipping north of song-birds? !?
If the man who has the forty or fifty
could be arrested, fined and imprls-
oned, should be happy to say moth
ing of the happiness of the poor birds
and the good effect such thing would
have upon the other bird-nest robbers;
but | presume the man will not be ar
rested Immediately, Notwithstanding
these three very good reasons for his
arrest and punishment. | feel quite
desperate when | think that nothing
is done for the protection of our song,
birds: hence my feeble attempt to
win them friend who can aid them.
If they could secure you as a friend
and champion, their cause would be
won, | know. | do not desire to make
any suggestions as to your campaign,
but know that with your weapon
you car do great execution among
the city authorities. I am afraid you
cannot reach the offenders themselves


A good swordsman would do better
for them; but policeman with hi:
club will suffice. The birds depend
upon you to set the club to work
The pen Is mightier than the sword


isn't it! Inever before so fully re
allied that truth. \.
Year: 1877

The editor of the Herald has been
I" doing" the st. Louis Exposition.


Those plank walks in Humboldt
have not yet been repaired, and the
Herald keeps on talking about it.


The Herald came TO US last week
enlarged and improved in its appear
anee. 1t is now the size of the Ex-
CHANGE. we congratulate the pub
Usher on this evidence of his prosper
ity, and hope that good fortune may
continue to smile on him. The Her
aid is a good paper, and the people IN
and around Humboldt can make 1t
better if they will.


From the Humboldt journal.


DIED-In thus place, on Sunday
Year: 1877

On the margin of your paper indi-
Gates that your time is out, or will ex-
pire with the next paper. Remember
our rule-CAsH ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
If not renewed We take it for granted
you do not want the paper any longer,
and your name will be dropped from
our list. We intend to publish the
best paper in West Tennessee, and
the more subscribers We get, the bet
ter we can make the paper. Let ev-
ery one renew and bring another with
him.
Year: 1877

June g a curious shower of sand and mud
coming from the south fell in Rome, which
seems to be regarded as due to sand brought in
dust-storm from the great desert in Africa,
being mixed with the pollen of some vegetable,
and held in solution BY the cloud which carried
Year: 1877

It is curious, when one stops to con- sider, how great many discontented spirits sgrow solely, not out of any tan gible hardship in our own lot, but out of some comparison of ourselves with neighbora. If another mans wife is handsomer, another mans children cleverer, or his business more prosper ous, it really seems to affect us in g most unreasonable way. The truth is that his gains are not our losses, and if all that he was were swept away from him tomorrow, it would add nothing to our store and yet we in- dulge in an illogical envy which make our own fate seem hundred times harder by it's contrast with his, as the onyx behind it brings out clear the lines of some cameo.
Year: 1877

It is an old trick of despots, and a good one, to employ their subjects. Why2 To keep them out of mischief, Employed men are not contented. There is no conspiracy. Men do not sit down and coolly proceed to concoct iniquity so long as there is plenty of pleasant and profitable employment for body and mind. Work drives off dis content, provided there is compensa- tion in proportion to the amount of labor performed. There must be a stimulant. God never intended man should sweat without eating of the fruits of his labor-reaping a reward more than he intended the idle man should revel in plenty and grow gouty on luxuries. Industry is great peace
Year: 1877

We'have great sympathy for clergy man who oficiates at the funeral of a wealthy man who is little ''off color. 5 Not to tell the truth is cowardly and to tell it is ruinous. There is some reason in the sheer of wit who said, 'Every rich man goes to heaven, if you can judge by what is said at his funeral.' .'' We can hardly conceive of a more ridic- ulous or embarrassing situation than this. An elegant drawing-room, filled with the relatives of the departed, and building ir-eastles on the strength ot his will, the afflicted family in the iron chamber, and the minister standing halfway up stairs, staring at a white wall, and expected to speak so that all in the house, up and down stairs, car hear, about the dead man as one of the saints of the earth, when everybody knows that he just missed being every. thing that was bad.. Poor ministers they do not get money enough for tht hard work they have to do.
Year: 1877

SPICED SHOULDER OF MUTToN.-Bone the joint, and rub it, if large, with four ounces Of granulated sugar, well mixed with a dessert-spoonful of ground cloves, half that quantity of pepper and mace, and a fourth part as much ginger. The following day add four ounces of salt; keep the mutton turned, and rub occasionally with the pickle, tight, bind it with twine, and stew if gently for four hours in pint and a half of broth, or put into the stew pan with it a pound and a half of neck of beef, quart of water, one large onion, two carrots, two turnips, and large faggot of herbs. When the mutton is perfectly tender serve it with some of it's own gravy.
Year: 1877

BREAKFAST FRICANDEAU.-Take all the beef or mutton left from yesterday $ dinner-any kind of meat will answer chop fine; soak slice ofbread in boiled milk, and beat it up with the meat break in two eggs, and add a cup of boiled milk, little chopped parsley, and a little mace, salt, and pepper make it into a loaf, and place in your baking pan when nicely formed; pour gravy round it, and let it stand in the oven till nicely brown-say twenty minutes; slip it on your dish, pour the gravy round it, and send to the table. If you fill partly dish of hot water large enough to hold the one containing the loaf of meat, it will slip out without breaking it at all.
Year: 1877

AN EMINENT English physician says he has found sulphur almost specific for scarlet fever. He anoints the patient twice daily with sulphur ointment, gives from five to ten grains of sulphur in little jam three times day, and burns sulphur in the room of the patient twice daily. He says he has given this treatment extended trial for over two years, and that under it not one of his patients was more than eight days in making complete recovery, although the cases were we'll marked, the surface skin on the arms coming away like the skin of snake.
Year: 1877

AN OVER REACHING horse, one whose hind feet is frequently hitting the for ward shoes, should wear heavy shoes forward and light ones behind. The theory is that the heavier hoof will be thrown little further ahead than the lighter one.
Year: 1877

They sat at peace in the sunshine

 Till the day was almost done, And then at it's close all angel

 Stole over the threshold stone. He folded their hands together,

 He touched their eyelids with balm, And their last breath fioated outward, Like the close of solemn psalm. Like bridal pair they traversed

 The unseen. mystical road That leads to the beautiful city

 Whose builder and maker is God,
Year: 1877

WERE one- half of the application, in telligence and interest which citizens are in the habit of bestowing upon other vacations, given to farming what grand results would ensue! No farm will run itself any more than any manufacturing business will do so,
Year: 1877

A ENUMERATED clergyman asked a convict how he came to be in jail. The fellow said with tears in his eyes that he was coming home from prayer meet ing, and sat down to rest, fell asleep, and while he was asleep there the county built the jail around him, and when he awoke the jailer refused to let him out.
Year: 1877

A CHICAGO MAN who attended a crowded revival meeting there lately, feels confident that he would have laid hold on salvation if his washerwoman hadn't put so much starch in the collar band of his shirt.
Year: 1877

A MOST excellent ointment for hands that are scratched, burned or sore, is thus prepared: Take three drams of camphor gum, three of white beeswax, three of spermaceti, two ounces of olive oil-put them together in cup on the stove, where they will melt slowly and form white ointment in few min utes. If the hands be affected, anoint them on going to bed and put on pair of gloves. A day or two will suffice to heal them
Year: 1877

IT IS noticeable that the cat who mounts the ridge-pole of the woodhouse and sits apart at the concert, and is wrapped in thoughtful abstracted silence until the programme is about half through, opens out, when he does come in, with vail that curdles the blood in a frozen beet and rouses all the other members of the troupe to an agony of frenzied emulation.
Year: 1877

WORKING LAND ON SHAREs.-Working ness for both parties. It is to the in terest of the tenant to spend as little for extra labor as possible, because the owner of the land gets half the benefit without bearing any of the expense. When the country was new and the land rich, a man could, perhaps, afford to give half the products, as he could get fair crops with little labor; but now that the land is more or less run down, and it is necessary to build it up with manure and good culture, it is impossi- ble for a man to expend the necessary labor and give half the produce for rent. It may be done for year or two on land in high condition; but the farm must invariably deteriorate under the system. A man might afford to rent grass farm on shares, but not an arabic farm. It is difficult to take one of our ordinary run down farms and raise enough from lit, for the first few years, to pay the cost of labor and support the teams. It would be cheaper, so far as immediate profit is concerned, to pay one hundred dollars an acre for farm in high condition, with good buildings and fences, than to accept as gift one of these rundown farms. It is time this matter was under stood, so that those uneasy mOrtals who are always expecting to sell, and conse- quently make no efforts to keep up and improve the land, should be compelled to turn over new leaf, or else dispose of their farms at low figure.
Year: 1877

A Coop AND CHEAP ICE-HoUsE.-The following plan for good and cheap ice house, erected by MT. Joshua M. Dean, we find in the Vermont Farmer: ''My ice-house is constructed as follows Fourteen feet in length, ten wide, and eight on the sides, with steep roof !; four feet are partitioned off as bin to hold sawdust when it is not needed around the ice, which leaves a space ten feet square for packing the ice. It is balloon frame, no plates, the rafters being nailed to the tops of the stud dings; rough-boarded on the outside though we intend to clap-board it some- time-roof shingled, space left in north end for a door when we go to it; near the top of each gable end there is board or two left oil so as to secure ventilation ; but it must be banked tight about the bottom and about a foot of sawdust on top, so as to keep the air out, and good drainage provided to let off the water. In Winter we pack the ice as compactly as possible six or seven feet high, leav- ing space of about one foot between the ice and the sides of the bailding, which is filled with sawdust packed down as closely as possible. The great secret of preserving ice, is in keeping g the sawdust packed closely about the sides; as soon as the weather begins to get warm in the Spring, pack down the sawdust again about the sides of the ice, and repeat the process once week all Sumner" Two families and dairy of 30 COWS are supplied from this little affair. Of course sawdust is not every where attainable, but the clippings from blaming mills answer very well. And when neither is at hand, long straw, oi equal thickness, is good non-conduc- tor and will answer every purpose.
Year: 1877

BITTER CREAM.-Cream becomes bitter by keeping it too long before it is churned. A butter-maker says: "In Summer there is little bitter milk or cream, because the cream is churned sooner than in Winter, seldom reaching the third day. Sometimes, where there is single COW kept, l have known the bitter to show on account of the small quantity of cream accommodating. The Summer practice is reversed in the Winter. There being too little milk to require frequent churning then-say one, and sometimes two churnings a week-we account readily for the evils complained of. The fore part of the season, when milk is in greater quan- tity, necessitating more frequent churn- ing, hear but little complaint. It mat ters not how good the feed is-if the tenderest hay and roots are added, mak- ing an approach to summer feed; nor how clean the milk is kept, the most perfect milk if set beyond three days will be hurt. The writer of this has filled the vessel, leaving barely space enough for a cloth to be stretched over without touching the milk and snug lid put on, keeping the air out, but all to no purpose. So, in the purest air, in all temperatures, it is the same."
Year: 1877

ABOUT GLASS BoTTLEs.-If the glass stopple of a bottle becomes so firmly fixed that it can not be removed, soak a string in turpentine and tie it around the neck of the bottle, and then set fire to the string and it will break in good shape.
Year: 1877

GREASE SPoTs.-An excellent recipe for removing paint or grease spots from garments, may be had by mixing four teaspoonsful of alcohol with a table spoonful of salt. Shake the whole well together, and apply with brush or sponge.
Year: 1877

HAM ToAsT.-Mix with one table, spoonful of finely-chopped or grated ham, the beaten up yolk of an egg and a little cream and pepper; heat over the fire, and then spread the mixture either on hot buttered toast or on slices of bread fried quite crisp in butter !; serve very hot.
Year: 1877

FLAxsEED PoULTICE.-Take of flax seed meal a sufficient quantity, and pour on it, little by little, enough cold water to make of suitable thickness. Then heat the entire mass. A small piece of lard is sometimes added to keep it from adharin0 to the nart.
Year: 1877

MANAGEMENT OF MUCK LAND.-John Swift, of Wayne County, Michigan, writes to the Practical F'drnaer upon the above topic and advises first of all that if the muck land to be managed is very spongy to use it for cranberries and not think of farming on it, for it will cost more than it will will come to. But in case muck land can be drained he sug- gests as the first thing to do the ar engagement of ditches so that the water will easily be taken off. Regarding this he says:

 "Of course the outlet should pass through the lowest part of the marsh where practicable, and then smaller drains, either tile or surface, which last is much preferred about here, as they let the water off soon after freshet. They should be made through the lowest parts of the ground at right angles with the main drain and parallel with each other, if at all practicable; with very slOping banks, so that the team, when blowing, may walk down to the bottom, and thus open the furrow at the sides of each land directly into these ditches This of course contemplates blowing parallel with the main drain, and from one to another of these secondary out lets, the dead furrows, which should not be more than ten paces apart, better not more than six, forming the third and last system of ditches, care being taken to open them well at each end after blowing or dragging, especially the last time in the season, or when about to seed the land to grass"

 He advocates fall blowing for the first time and then not cropping until the | following spring, thus giving the frost l .l %I,r,

 He gives some practical suggestions regarding the rigging of blow for this purpose which are worthy of thought. Use a wide bottom blow that will cut nearly out, and keep it as sharp as a knife, thus turninga a good wide furrow, which should be laid down as fast as possible for the first few plowings, to keep the grass from sprouting up, as it is very likely to do. Any good black smith can make quite an improvement upon the ordinary cast point by break ing off piece from the front end of a worn point and substituting one made of an old horse rasp, letting it run uE well under the cutter, and riveting it tC the cast part, after making good shaped point with shoulder exactly fitting the broken end. Next take wide spring car spring is the best-draw it out thin on the edges, cut the front end beveline to get the point first made on the mould board side, then rivet it upon the upper side of the share, letting the lower edge pass two or more inches down beyond the old worn edge of the share, and the back end about as much behind it. Now with the coulter fitting down closely you have blow that will take the place of any ''sharp rigged" breaking-uI one-quarter as much as lock share anC coulter, as usually made, and costing ter dollars or more.
Year: 1877

ON ONE occasion when Henri Monnier was acting in the provinces a terrible storm came up just before the hour an- nounced for the performance to begin, and when the curtain rose the audience was found to consist of one solitary man. Nowise disconcerted, Monnier advanced to the footlights and addressed the public; "Excuse me, sir, but would you mind coming up here and sittin g on the stage? It will fatigue my voice less if you are close beside me, and you can see just as well. Or what do you say to our closing the theatre and going to the cafe next door to play dominoes ?''
Year: 1877

Leather belts when new are not quite of the heaviness of water-s say about 60 lbs. per cubic foot; but after having been for some time in use, they become thinner and denser by compression, and are then about as heavy as water. The weight of single belting may be approximately estimated at O'069 lbs. per foot length and inch breadth 1 RnnEine