smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

There is no remedy and assistant so easily
and cheaply obtained, SO harmless to the
fowls, or so satisfactory in Its results as sui
phur 1t being in the system of animals to
a small degree, there is a greater affinity for
administered to the fowls by having it in a
small box, so that they can help themselves,
or by mixing it with their food once week,
or as often as there are indications of YER
min, Penetrating, as it does, to every part
of the system, all parasites are quickly and
surely destroyed. Also, gapes are said to be
prevented in chickens Fowls need it more
than most animals, their feathers containing
between four and five per cent. of sulphur.
Their eggs, also, have small quantity, which


is noticed by the discoloring of silver spoon
when it comes in contact with boiled egg.
Applied externally to the fowls when on the
nest, to the nest itself, or mixed with the
SOL in the dustng box, It'll equally efficaeious
in destroying vermin. To be used as a fumi-
gator of buildings, it is necessary to re-
move the fowls, close the loom or house,
mix little .saltpeter with the sulphur in an
iron vessel, and sapply match to the mix
ture. This should be done in the morning,
and the doors and windows opened in the
afternoon for thorough ventilation. Lard
mixed with sulphur in proper proportions
and applied as often as is necessary to the
feathers on the neck and back of young and
old turkeys, is very good safeguard against
the ravages of foxes. For our own profit
and the comfort of the fowls, let us then use
sulphur or remedies OF like nature.-Poultyy
WOrd.
Year: 1874

THE AwlRD OF THE STATE COMMISSION SEVERELY


CRITICIsED-INTTNIIoNs OF THE fRAMhhs w


THB LAw-PEoBADLg ACTION OF TuE LEdisLA-


TURH.


(FRoM THE GULAR CORRESPONDENT oFTHE rRIDUNRI


ALBANY, Feb. 20.-The action of the Commission
on steam navigation the canals IN shrking their
duty in the matter of awarding the prize is very
sharply criticised here Unoss the Legislature shall
promptly perform the duty which the Committee
has failed to perform the State of Newfork VIII be
placed in the position of petty swlndlor ana cnea'
in having enticcd honest men to spend their time
and money and talents in improving the navigation
of her great artery of commerce, and then meanV
sncaked ont of her obligation TO pay them he prom
ised reward for their services 1t is true nav
the law under which tho Commission acted
very technical, stringent and somewhat ambig-
nous, and was purposely so drawn, but the Commits
son had right, they advised by the Attor
nvCensrl. TO look at the general scope and intent
of tbo law and av,d justice under it regardless of
technicalities


In conversation to-day. Mr.. Alvord, who was
member of the Assembly when the law passed,
and had as much as any one to do with Its
phraseology. admitted that he did all he
could to make the law so stringent that it
would be difficult for the Commission to make any
award under it, He said that at that time he bad
no idea whatever that anything practicable in the
way of steam navigation of the canals would be
demonstrated before the Commission, and he wished
to guard against the State being tricked out OF
hundred thousand dollars through favoritism or
other means under pretense of fostering what he
regarded as impractcablc. But the trial before the
Commission had fully convinced him that steam
navigation of the canals entirely practicable and
profitable and he should insist so far as his lnii'l-
eDce would GO upon the States doing full justice to
the man or men whose inventive genius and labor
had demonstrated its pracicability and utility He
will favor the bill recommended in the report of the
Commission, perhaps more liberal one, and there
is very little doubt that it will pass the Legislature
without serious opposition. The report of the Com
mission was sent to the Legislature this morning
and ordered printed
Year: 1874

The most singular fact connected
with the proper motions of the stars,
is that one or two stars are flying
through space with such enormous
rapidity that the combined attraction
of all the stars visible with the teles-
cope could never stop them. This
seems to he especially the case with
small star, invisible to the naked
eye, designated in astronomical litera


ture as "GrOombridge, $780," from
the name of the astronomer who first
recorded it's position. The rate of
motion of this star is about seven


seconds per year = the greatest


known. 1t was hence concluded that


it must be very near us, and a num-


ber of astronomers have sought to de
termine its parallaX. but have found it
to be only about a tenth of second.
its apparent motion in a year being
seventy times its parallax, it moves
at least seventy times the distance
from the earth to the sun in year,
or eighteen millions of miles every
day, and more than 200 miles every
second. From what we know of the
distribution, masses, and number Of
stars, it seems probable that the at
traction of all the bodies in the uni
verse can never stop the headlong
speed nor bring this star into any or
bit, and that consequently it will pass
through our universe, and leave 1t
entirely in its passage through inf
mite space. If we had accurate OBJ
seryations of the stars's position
three or four thousand years ago, we
could speak with more certainty Of
its destiny. We may expect that our
posterity of a few thousand years
hence will by the aid of the observa-
tions and tables we shall transmit to
them, be able to come to a definite
respecting theage and the
structure of the uniVerse.-Pr5.
Simon NeUc0nb. IN HGTper's -hdgd-
zine for N0Eember. -r -EH
Year: 1874

A wine merchant in the MOntmar-
tire { Paris quarter began to open his
shop one morning and was taking the
shutters into the cellar, when the
barking of his dog attracted his at
tention. He went back quickly, but
saw no one; but the intelligent ami
NAL sprang upon the counter and be
gan to scratch above the till. On
opening it, while the dog continued
to sniff and smell about it, growing
at times, it was found empty. The
dog seemed to strike the scent, fol
lowing it to the door, paused to in
vite his master to come on. He did
so, and after going short distance,
as if upon the scent of hare, the
animal led up to two small individ-
uals and began to bark loudly.


"These must be the thieves"
thought the merchant. PIN. ...+


He went toward them, calling a
man near by to help him, and this
individual happened to be an agent
OIL police III cibiLcH tTOSc' CCCiHS
that they were pursued, the two men
fed. The dog kept swapping at their
heels, and, thanks to his aid, one of
them was caught. The other disap-
peared at the Rue Montorgueil.


Seek" cried the master. urging
ON the dog, and the animal at once
took mn the scent.


While the master, assisted by per-
son called in for the minute, held the
thief, the agent followed the dog, and
came up to him, barking at the door
Of house. The agent went up
stairs, guided by the dog, and found
the second thief hidden behind the
door of room on the second story.
A portion of the money taken from
the till was found upon the man thus
curiously caught by the aid Of an in
telligent dog. so
Year: 1874

cept for the aid of Divine Providence


upon which at all times he relied.
feel that | can not succeed without
the same Divine blessing which sus-
tanned him, and on the same AL
mighty being place my reliance for
support, and | know you, my friends,
will all pray, that l may receive that
Divine assistance, without which |
can not succeed, but with which sue
cess is certain. Again I bid you all
an afectionate farewell"


FROM HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS.


II hold that in contemplation of
universal law, and of the Constitu-
ton, the union of the States is per-
petual. | therefore consider that.
in view of the Constitution, the Union
is unbroken, and to the extent of nv
ability | shall take care that the laws
of the Union be faithfully executed
in all the States. In doing this there
need be no blOodshed, nor violence,
unless it be forced upon the national
authority. In your Hands. NV dis
satisfied fellow-countrymen. and not
in mine, are the momentous issues of
the civil war. The Government will
not assail you-yOu can have no con
fict without being yourselves the
aggressors. You have no oath reg
istered in heaven to destroy the Gov
ernment, while / shall have the most
solemn one to preserve, protect, and
detend 1t. am 10th to close. We
are not enemies, hut rrionds. We
must not be enemies. Though pas
sion may have strained, it must not
break our bond of affection. The
mystic chords of memory, stretching
from every battlefield and patriot
grave to every living heart and hearth.
stone all over this broad land, will
vet swell the chorus of the Union
when again touched, as surely they
will he. by the better angels of our
nature"
Year: 1874

Who shall measure the usefulness
of the life of such a man, and who
shall hope to do his memory justice:
In the long range and course of time,
come what may--whether republic,
grounded on the immOvable fOunda-
ton of justice and freedom, approved
after long experience, and ages of hu-
man happiness as the best form of
human government, still standing;
or whether republic, torn into fac
tions, and rent by the mad ambition
of men, in ruins-this monument, an
enduring testimonial to the humble
life, the glorious deeds, and the shin
ing example of the great citizen and
martyr, will stand for the illumina-
tion of all men of every cline, ma
tionality, and condition, who in search
Of the highest aims and loftiest pur
poses of life shall come to this foun-
tain for inspiration and hope. Here
the humble may take new courage,
the proud learn humility, the ambi-
tious that the true way to greatness
lies through industry, integrity and
patriotism, and all men that only the
truly good can be truly great. In no
other country under the sun could
the obscure boy have found his way
through the long succession of mys-
terious and grave events to such EN-
inence and power; and where, and in
what land can one he found who
welded power with such grace, hu-
manity, and wisdom? The living as
sign him his proper place in the af-
fections of all men. POsterity, pro-
foundly moved by the simplicity of
his private life, elevated and enlight-
ened by the purity and splendOr of
his administration and public serv-
ices, can not fail to fix his place
among those who shall rank highest
in their yeneration. He has gone to
the armament of Washington, and
new light shines down upon his be
loved countrymen from the Ameri-
can constellation.
Year: 1874

all the civilized nations of Europe,
and applauded them as the noblest of


human utterances.


"Fondly do we hope, fervently do
we pray, that this mighty scourge of
war may speedily pass away; yet if
God will that it continue until all the
wealth piled by the bondsman's two
hundred and fifty years of unrequit-
edtoil shall be sunk, and until every
drop of blood drawn with the lash
shall be paid by another drawn with
the sword, as was said three thou
sand years ago, so still it must be
said, the judgments of the Lord are
true and righteous altogether With
malice towards none, with charity
fOrall, with firmness in the right as
God gives us to see the right, let us
strive on to finish the work we are in;
to lind up the nations wounds; to
care for him who shall have borne the
battle, and for his widow and his or
phans; to do all which may cherish
a inst and lasting peace among our
selves and with all nations


LINcoLN's DEATH.


have no heart, even at this late
day, to speak of the sad event.
America is blackened with the crime
of assassination. Abraham Lincoln
is the martyr. Badges of mourning
covered the whole land; the very air
was heavy with sighs, aud nature
seemed to hang her head in sorrow.
Grief-deep, bitter grief--filed the
whole land, and malice at last, with
its victim before it, closed its re-
pentant lips and skulked away dis
armed and discomfitted forever. The
sad news of his death filed the
world with CONSERVATION. Condo
lence poured in upon our people from
every land and tongue. Distinctions
of nationality and all forms of
power forgetting animosities, oblitera-
ting all lines of separation, came to-
gether at the bier of Lincoln. Beau
tiful in life, comely in death, he was
amounted with the tears of all ma
tions.


His people took up his body, and a
funeral procession l.000 miles long
followed his remains to his old home.
Here his body lies under the trees
and amid the people who knew him
in poverty and hOnored him in OBJ
security, and here it will lie as long as
dust shall mark the spot where man
has fallen. The friends of his youth
ful manhood, and the children of
those who knew and loved him when
he was yet unknown to the world,
will stand, one generation after an
other, sentinels over his body. His
fame, breaking through the bounda-
ries of his State and nation, has gone
abroad over a boundless world and
will descend with the march of time
dowiffhe illimitable ages of the here
after.
Year: 1874

Calm, selfpossessed, contempla-
tive by nature, his mind capable of
the deepest penetration, able to grasp
any proposition and to analyze every
element it contained; cautious, ia
king no position until every step
leading to it had been tested, meas
ured, and planted in its appro-
pirate place, but one resolved upon
not to be driven from it by open de-
nunciation or specious exposition; by
no means dogmatic, but exceedingly
tenacious of a conviction; shrewd in
discovering the weak parts Of an ar
gument, and capable of unraveling
the most complex sophistry; clear in
statement, powerful in argument, for
chile in illustration, bringing home to
the learned and the unlearned alike,
by reasoning the simplest and purest,
clear understanding of the subject
in debate; rich in rallery, prolific in
anecdote, fond of apothegm; in his
presence the pretender finding no
quarter and the pretense no mercy;
seeking no advantage, but hoping to
make the right appear to all men as
the right, by addressing himself to
the reason; the people who listened
lifted up and made to feel by his ap
peals to their understanding and
higher nature that they were part of
the country and rightfully RESPONSE
BILE for its laws and morals; with
humanity that included all raees and
nations; an honesty that extracted
praises from his adversary; touched
by the conviction that great wrong
was about being done, or moved by
the consciousness of impending evil
to his country, he ranked high above
the standard of ordinary debate, and
at times was truly eloquent.


He was man of great personal
courage, and so moulded by nature
as to endure any amount of physical
labor. His habits were unexception
ably good; he indulged IN none of
the vices of society, sometimes car
ried to extremes in public men. He
had no tastes that were not simple
and pure; he was born and lived
among the common people; he was of
them, and in deep sympathy with
them; he had no wishes, no ambi-
tions, to lead him away from or make
him forget their best interests; he
had seen nothing of the world out
side of his native land, and as he had
prospered, and grown into distinction
under its benign institutions, he
loved his country intensely, and
wished to see it strengthened and per-
petuated. Wholly unsuspecting, and
most indulgent of views and senti-
ments opposed to his own, he was
slow to believe that men could Sc
riously combine, and deliberately con-
spire by force of arms to destroy the
Union. With the greatest humility
and self-abnegation, he set out from
his home in February, 1861, to enter
upon the great work to which he had
been dedicated. His own parting
words will best express his feelings at
that moment:


"My friends, no one not in my po-
sition can realize the sadness 1 feel
at this parting. To this people I
owe all that am. Here I have lived
more than quarter of century,
here my children were born, and here
one of them lies buried. / know not
how soon shall see you again. go
to assume task more difficult than
that which has devolved upon any
man since the days of Washington
He never could have succeeded ex-
Year: 1874

The candidacy of Senator IIamlin of Maine
for reelection has brought on very free dis
cussion of that gentleman's merits and de-
merits, as well as of the qualifications and
general character which the emergencies of
to-day demand in a Senator Of the United
States incidentally comes up in course OF
the debate the question-which in communi-
ties where the currents of public opinion are
a little more active has already been thought
fully weighed as an important factor in the
existing political conditioD-as to the binding
effect of the action of the party caucus upon
the individual judgment and conscience. Dis
cussions of this sort, into which considerations
of morality and duty. of the relations OF indi-
viduals to parties, and of the sphere OF con-
science and the scope OF private judgment in
politics largely enter, are interesting and
profitable in 80 far as they throw light upon
the general subject and indicate the direction
and tendency of public sentiment with regard
to the powers and the responsibility of polit-
ical parties. The emergence of the country
from one political period or epoch, and its
entry upon another aud new one, are always
accompanied by those signs on the one hand
of revolt from the dictation of the caucus, and
on the other of tightening its bands and
enforcing the strictest party allegiance. This
thing indicates as clearly as can be the set
tlement of old questions, the fading away of
dividing lines, and the coming of new crystal
lzations.


Additional interest is given to this discus
sion in Maine by the participation in it of the
Hon. Mr. Blaine, who, as Speaker of the
House of Representatives and prominent, per-
haps the most prominent, candidate for the
Republican nomination for President, may be
supposed to speak in some sense for the party
and to declare the opinions which govern it.
Mr. Blaine steps into the controversy in q
letter to The Portland Press, ostensibly writ
ten to correct paragraph in that paper init
mating that he was in some way attempting
to obtain the SenatOrsiip. A few words suf-
fee for this correction. The remainder of the
communication rs devoted to glowing eulOgy
of Senator Hamlns life and character and
public services, to which he adds an express
sion of his conviction of the falsity of the
prevailing impression that The Press in its
opposition to Mr. Hlmlin, is ready to coun-
sci an aba.idg gunltnl Of the time -h0lOyed
Year: 1874

ALWAYS abhOrs q vacuum, and the one she
most abhOrs is that of wOrkmen where work
men are needed in hard times. Where one
man steps out IN pet, two are ready TO step
in to do the work he rejects and to earn the
bread he wants.


Another phase of the question must be faced
unflinchingly The men who will not work for
the wages which are offered must not be sur
fered to interfere with those who VIII. Inc
whole power of organized society is pledged 10
the protection Of honest citizens who Wish 10
earn their living by willing service. Inc
strikers in this point of view have no rights
whatever either iii law or equity. A great
deal is said of the advantages OF arDtratloh'
In cases where employers have locked out theii
w0rkmen, or in cases where work Is brought
to q stand-still by a refusal of labOrers to ac-
cent the terms offered, arbitration may be re-
sorted to with excellent effect. But there Is
no place for it in case like this, where the
employer says 81 cannot pay moro thah 80
"much,r the workman says VI VIII not worh
"for that,n and Secoh1 Workman says
81 will" The whole power OF the
community in such a case is pledged TO the
protection of the willing workman, and equally
pledged TO the punishment of any one VINO
iniures him in the performance of the duty nc
has assumed. 1t may be hard for the striker
to see another man doing the work he has re-
fused at a less price. But he has absolutely
no shadow of right to complain. The striker
who is lounging about the piers, waiting for
a chance to throw brick at some one VINO Is
doing his work, has no cause OF quarrei "i'h
ANYBODY but himself first, and then the mar
row and passionate leaders of his Union VINO
in their blind and dishonest ignorance imagine
that by q simple order they can change the
laws of nature and the laws Of trade to their
own advantage.
Year: 1874

The elections held in Italy on the 9Th of
this month have resulted in a sufficiently
sweeping victory for the Government. Full
details have not yet been received, but it is
known that the Government will have large
working majority in the Parliament. All the
members of the Ministry who were candidates
for seats in the legislative body were success
full, and as the districts whose suifrages they
solicited are pretty evenly distributed over the
country their elections may be taken as an
indication of general popular approval of
their course. OF course there will be
q strong opposition in the next Par,;As
ment, and this is not to be regretted. The
Italians have shown of late years so much
moderation and power of self-restraint in
their political contests, that there is no longer
any great apprehension Of serious results
from ardent parliamentary discussion. Carl


baldi has been elected, it is said, from at
least two districts by the Radicals, and if he
should choose to take a more active part in
the debates of the Chamber than he has lately
cared to do, the coming session will not be
wanting in interest or excitement. But the
Government of Victor Emanuel doubtless
regard the elections as complete Justification
of their policy. aud naturally look forward to
the legislative campaign OF the Winter as to
a field which may indeed require the exercise
of watchfulness and energy, but where the
victory is already won.


in the nomenclature Of parties ii rarely hap