smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

We are able to consider the relations OF


intermatter in worlds where gravity is
so small as it must be in the Maritian
moons. It has been said, by myself
among others, that building and all en-
gineering processes would be much cas-
Ter in world where gravity is very
small than in our own world. But II
less arduous, so far as mere labor Is con-
cerned, they would in some respects be
far more difficult. Much more skill
would be required to give adequate
stability to buildings, made even Of the
most solid materials, in world where
all weights are so much reduced. Sup
pose even platinum were available in
sufficient quantities for architectural
purposes, yet block of platinum Of
given size would press downward with
less force there than block Of deal
wood of about one-twentieth Of its size
on our earth. Whewen has well de-


scribed, in his Bridgewater treatise, the
effects of great deduction in the force
of gravity, though he is not there con-
sidering life in other worlds, but the i'm
portance (Which many are apt to over
look) of those portions of our earth's
frame which lie far below the. deepest
mines ever yet dug by men. the in
terror of our earth could be scooped out
and removed, we should, in fact, suffer
from precisely the same inconveniences
as would affect creatures like ourselves
living in the moons of Mars. We should
indeed find ourselves, like them, in
dread and terror. "Things," as Whewell
truly says, "would not Lie where we
placed them, but would slide away with
the slightest push. We should have a
difficulty in standing or walking,
something like that, we have on
slipboard, when the deck is inclined ;
and we should stagger helplessly
through an atmosphere thinner than that
which oppresses the respiration of the
traveller on the tops Of the highest
mountains" "It is hard, says the in
genious writer in the Spectator, "to


conceive one.storied house holding to-
gether," in the Marian moon world,


"against any serious lateral blows. 3"
Projectiles would be no less deadly
than in our own world !; but the range
which projectles such as ours would OBJ
tain in such world would render close
fighting impossible, on the one hand,
and efficient aiming impossible on the
other. A Krupp cannon, for instance,
whose greatest range on our earth is, let


1s sav. five miles. would on the Marian
moon fire projectile which would leave
the moon forever, and the recoil of the
cannon would probably carry it half a
dozen miles away from the firing point.
Much weaker projectile force would
have to be employed, and less mischief
would be done on this account, and also
because any living body struck by one
of these proiectiles would give away be.
fore it much more readily than similar
body similarly struck on our own earth.
a. Proctor, in Belgravia.
Year: 1878

Those who trample on the helpless are
disposed to cringe to the powerful.


We cannot walk side by side with peo-
pie of true nobility of character without
becoming ourselves elevated and en-
nobled


Tears at a funeral are sometimes a
mere disguise for Joy, just as laughter
and gayety amid social festivities may
mask broken heart.


Talents give man superiority far more
agreeable than that which proceeds from
riches, birth or employment, which are
all external. Talents constitute our very
essence.


Many true heart that would have
come back like the dove to the ark, after
the first transgression, has been fright
sned beyond recall by the angry look
and menacing taunt-the savage charity
of an unforgiving soul.


Compliments which wo think are de-
served, we accept only as debts, with
Indifference but those which conscience
informs us we do not merit, we receive
with the same gratitude that we do
favors given away.


The goodness which struggles and bat
ties and gees down deep and scars high,
is the stuff of which heroism is made,
by which the world is salted and kept
pure. It is the seed which bears fruit
in martyrs and makes men nobler than
their nature-and demi-gods and the
prophets of better time.


The man whose mind and hands are
busy finds no time to weep and wall. II
work is slack, spend the time in reading.
No man ever knew too much. The hard
est students in the world are the old
men who know the most.


Habits influence the character pretty
much as under-currents influence yes.
sci, and whether they speed us on the
way Of our wishes, or retafd our pro
gress, their effect is not the less impor.
| tant because imperceptible.
Year: 1878

nv heart ached when I shut the door il
your face, and sent you to do you
duty; but you never, never will be tn
wiser You have gone forever, ant
thinking, too, that Hilda was cruel ant
heartless. Oh, cruel Hilda! and NOR
cruel father I"


It made the old mans frame quive
like an aspen leaf to hear the bereavet
girl. He felt himself almost q murderer
as the low plaintive tones made their &C
cusation against him.


He took her hand at last, and said:


"My poor girl, forgive me and hell
me to bear this bitter, bitter punish
ment. From this moment, be Cyri
alive or dead, I will make amends K
you for my unthinking cruelty both *
you and him. You shall be to me al
much my daughter as though you were
Cyril's wife. But as long as Cyril wal
not reported dead, there may be room
for hope. He may come back to III
yet"


Hilda caught eagerly at the ray o.
hope.


"Oh, tell me truly" she said clasp
ing her hands in her intense eagerness.
until the nails almost cut into the ten
der skin, "could It be possible that
there was mistake? Do they ever
put the wrong name DOWN."


"I have known of instances OF one OH
Ger being taken for another in the haste
and confusion of battle, and this tele'
gram was sent while the conflict was
still raging"


So they tried to hope-even while
every one else was thinking sorrowfully
that the kind, bright-faced young master
wes lying with his face to the stars, no
longer ignorant of their voiceless mys'
teries, in his solemn sleep.


Hilda remained at the manor. It was
comfort to the old man to make, as he
thought, this expiation for his fault.


In order that Hilda's position in the
household might be fully understood,
he announced her to be his sons be-
trothed wife, and invited Lady Hargrave,
his widowed sister, to come and lend the
sanction of her presence to the young
girls residence in his home.


The next telegram brought cheering
news. Cyril had lost an arm, but was
doing we'll, and as soon as he would be
able to bear the journey, to be sent
home, wearing on his breast a decoration
earned by his own bravery.


After this there was happy house
hold at Atherton manor. Lady Hargrave
was versed in all the womanly accom-
pishments, and she found Hilda an apt
pupil. :.


The squire could hardly show enough
fondness fogthe gentle girl who had been
so .patient%nd. tender in care of him
through his tedious illness. The sight
of her pretty face bending over her en-
broidery, or engaged in weaving some
delicate crochet pattern, seemed to him
like tangible promise that he was not
to be left lonely old man.


So the days wore on until the pale
young soldier came home. Then there
was quite wedding-the festivities con-
sequent upon the marriage of the heir OF
themanor being reserved until the re-
turn of the bridal pair from heightened
tour in Italy, when it was fondly hoped
that Cyril would be fully restored to
health and strength, 80 that the tenantry
could be made happy by his presence.
Year: 1878

until the legal fraternity itself can,
with difficulty, tell what is what
Lucky is the State that escapes two or
three investigating committees, one ap-
pointed to examine and report upon the
condition of the Snapdoodlc Trust
Co. another to look into the affairs of
the Stealall Canal Co.," and so on to
the end Of the chapter


Sinecure Offices are multiplied, os-
tensibly for the better execution of
the laws, but in reality to reward and
sustain party favorites Pampered pets
of political rings who, all their lives,
have sucked at the public breast, are
not permitted to remain long away if,
perchance, their hold be broken "Chris-
tian" statesmen and high-toned Gov
ernors rush to the rescue, and the party
pet has special Office created for his
use and sustentation. And SO the
merry dance goes on.


Laws enough have been made in
this country since its existence as q
republic to reach, if piled one upon
another, to the point towards which
the tower of Babel is supposed to have
been projected. Laws, too, that have
done no good. That have been fraught
rather with unmixed evil Laws that
have been made for the benefit of one
class at the expense of many other
classes. We have neither sympathy
nor words of commcndation for the
spirit or aims of communism, but we
are not astonished that that spirit is
rampant No wonder that labor is
dissatisfied No wonder that capital
can find no field for investment


The moral of the whole matter is
that we have too many laws and too
many fools and knaves to make them.
Year: 1878

IT is officially stated that the hoard
of gold and silver in the National Treas
ury has exceeded 100000, 900 and is
steadily increasing, the receipts of spe-
Gle for customs duties being very large,
while the balance of trade for the fiscal
year is $685., 100000 in our favor, SO
that the demand for specie for exports
is limited Unless the Secretary shall
adopt measures to bring gold to par, so
as to commence redeeming the paper
obligations of the country in coin, it
seems to be certain that the Treasury
hoard will reach S300,000,0O0 bv the
time Congress reassembles The French
hoard in the Bank of France for re-
sumption was over $400,000,000, all
firmly held in the face of the powerful
bullion movements of England and Ger
many, solely by the fixed purpose of
France to adhere to the protection of
her own interests and to maintain a
favorable balance of trade. The enor-
nous war indemnity paid to Germany
all went back to France in the course
of trade under the operation of this
policy. In our case drain of 81 ,l00,-
100000 in coin in ten years of adverse
commerce has been arrested and our
enormous foreign debt returned to US
at the rate of $3.50, 100000 a year sol,lv
by the force of the balance of trade.
If the present policy shall be firmly
adhered to the whole foreign debt will
be rapidly extinguished, and the native
production of gold will cause a large
accumulation for currency purposes.
All that is necessary to ensure this is
to leave our protective tariff undis-
turbed, avoid a new imitation of the
currency by paper issues, resume spe-
Gle payments and push ahead the ex-
port trade on the grandest possible
scale.
Year: 1878

WE publish cheerfully, in another
column, letter from Mr. Alexander
McGill, in defence of his brother Now
that both surviving brothers have made
their statements, we hope the distress
ing circumstance may pass from public
attention. Its discussion can accom-
plish no possible good, while probable
evil might result in keeping alive the
active recollection of real or imaginary
family wrongs. Whatever McGill's
errors, he has paid their penalty with
his life. Let the mantle of charity
cover them all, and the dreadful episode
be forgotten.
Year: 1878

LIVER Is kING.-The Liver is the i'm
perial organ of the whole human system
as it controls the life, health and happi.
ness of man. When it is disturbed in its
proper action, all kinds of ailments are the
the natural result. The digestion of food,
the movements of the heart and blood, the
action of the brain and nervous system, are
all Immediately connected with the work
ings of the Liver. 1t has been successfully
proved that Green's August Flower is un-
equalled in curing all persons afflicted with
Dyspepsia or Liver Complaint, and all the
numerous symptoms that result from an
unhealthy condition of the Liver and
Stomach. Sample bottles to try, 10 cents
Positively sold in all towns on the Western
Continent. Three doses will prove that it
is just what you want.
Year: 1878

CONGRESSMAN HARRISON Of Illinois,
ran up and down the aisles of the House
q good deal during the debate on the
Potter resolution, and was in state of
mind generally about fraud" Mr..
Harrison has chance now to prove
his faith by his works 1t is discov-
cred that he was never elected, and he
can resign a place which he could only
continue to hold by real fraud.
Year: 1878

In the midst of the mass of lies with
which the country has been deluged
and nauseated for weeks past, it is re-
freshing to read the testimony of Sec
retary Sherman 1t has the ring of
honesty about it and will go far toward
convincing unprejudiced people of the
truth of the story he tells.
Year: 1878

In the Island of Rio there are wild


men who live in trees, and have no


language but cries; and, in Sumatra,


the residents of Palembang said there


were men who lived in the forests,


with whom not only the Europeans


but the Malays could have no inter-
course. He himself had never seen
one. Yet strange to say they have
a petty traffic medium of speech.
Their home is in the woods and they


live by the chase. They hunt tigers,
not with the gun but with arrows,
which they blow out of tube with
such force, and which are so keen of
point and touched with such deadly
poison that wound is almost imme-
diately fatal These tiger skins or
elephant tnsks they bring for barter,
not for sale. They never sell anything,
as money is about the most useless
thing they can have. They cannot
eat it, or drink it, or wear it. But as
they have wants they exchange, yet
they themselves are never seen. They
bring to the edge of the forest what
they have anil leave it there, and the
Malays come anil place what they
have to dispose of and retire. If
the offer is satisfactory they find
when they return that what they
brought has gone, and take what is
left and depart. If not they add a
few more tritles to tempt the eyes OF
these wild men of the woods, and SO
at last tho exchange iseffected, yet all
tho while the sellers keep themselves
Year: 1878

its demonstration TO s decrease IN yaue
g. II there LAS been such an increased pr0duction
is It reasonable suppose that its reconciliation
would increase its valve to the old price


respectfully yours, JAS y. MILLER
Sac city, Iora, Dec. t. 1877.


lAnsra.-l. Slightly moro than gold dollar.


2. Yes; the great production of silver in the
United States has begun since that time. The dis
covery of the bonanzas the new methods OF ex-
tracing silver, etc., have combined to increase the
production enormously. while the near opening OF
the Suro tunnel and the new mines in Peru, are
certain to food the market with still greater
supplies Of silver bullion.


3. We believe that the increased production is
too great to warrant the reconciliation of silver at
the old value. If restored at ALL it should be only
on the basis of its present value in the markets OF
the world. The action of the United States in re-
monetizng it might then have sufficient influence
to hold it at that point in spite of the tendency of
the increased production to cause still greater de-
preciation.-Ed1
Year: 1878

The San Francisco Examiner says:
A man deposited 5000 with the Hiber-
MIA Bank in 1864, and was not heard
of for IA years. 1t was considered GER
tain that he was peacefully at rest IN
his grave for at least ten years; but, to
the surprise Of every body, and without
a trace of smile on his face, he walked
into the bank last month, threw
grimy-looking deposit-book on the
counter and asked how much his pile
now amounted to. 1t was found, on
balancing his book, that he had nearly
50, 700 to his credit. This depositor's
head was clear on the subject of inter-
est. He evidently put the $500 away
as nest egg only to be looked at or re-
sorted to when it had grown very much.
He was not one of the sort Of depoSltors
who keep running every month to draw
money for a new suit of clothes or to IN
dulge in any kind Of extravaganza. lie
did not mind the harangues Of loaters,
either, at any time, about our savings
banks being unsafe, but he let his S9Oo
lie until it had grown to very respect
able and useful dimensions. lie was
looked on as something of a curiosity at
the bank, the reason of which he dld
not understand. We have not learned
where this depositor kept himself
whether he has been quietly at work
here all the time or whether he has been
an exile in Alaska, at the North Pole or
in Africa, or whether he was Shipwreck-
ed on a reef or had been making pro-
longed stay at Salt River. One thing
is certain, however-he knows how to
save. He could teach the most of us
lesson on that now nearly lost art. If
the crowds who are daily eating from
the charity Of church lunch-tables had
little of our long-lost friends sense,
they would not need to descend to free
meals or to work for a dollar day.


A YOUNG woman in MOrristown,
Mimi, who had an attack Of spinal men
ingitis three years ago, since which she
has been in poor health, apparently died
recently from neuralgia in the head, and
ARRANGEMENTS were made for her funer-
al. As the hour for the funeral ap-
preached, it was thought that the body
showed signs cf life in the coffin, but the
services were nevertheless held, the min
lister announcing at their conclusion
that the corpse would not be buried un-
til the absence of life was positively YER
flied. At last accounts the burial had
not occurred.
Year: 1878

settlers to our State can avail them
selves of the low passage.


Second. To provide for suitable
lodgings, at the lowest possible prices
in those cities where the Office of an
assistant commissioner of emigration
may be located, to see the emigrant
guarded against any imposition.


Third. To provide for a large Sc
lection Of farming and mining land at
the lowest possible price and on the
best terms to guard them against i'm
perfect titles; or where working on
shares to see them protected from be-
ing defrauded out of their earnings.
In fact, let the emigrant on arrival in
our State feel that he is at home. and
with confidence trust to the guiding
advice given by the officer in charge
of the emigrant office.


Fourth. To provide printed circu-
lars in English and German as a guide
for emigrants to Tennessee, in which
all the facilities and advantages of the
farming and mining interests of our
State are explained.


Fifth. Whereas most of the foreign
emigants have not the means to buy
lands and pay the cash down, | viii
show that | can induce landowners to
offer part of their land entirely on
time, payable in yearly installments,
and in such amounts as will be within
the reach of the earnings of the crop
raised by the purchaser ON the land
bought.


An owner ofland who has thus dis
posed of, say fifty acres of tract of
five hundred, at $40 per acre, could
surely get from the next settler SIS,
and so upward. Landowners in the
several States aforementioned have
adopted that system, and it has proved
to them a steady increase in value of
their lands, and thus benefited them
selves and their State generally.


G.. III. BECKER.
Year: 1878

EDITOR LEDGER-Having been re-
uuested by several of our best citizens
to make known through the press my
plan by which emigration can be eff
fectively induced, | take the liberty to
lay before you my plan, with the re-
quest to publish the same. Knowing
the LEDGER, for years, to be an ardent
advocate of emigration, ] trust you
will give this correspondence a place
in your valuable paper


Emigration from the East and West
to the State Of Tennessee connot be
successfully carried out by individual
enterprise nor influence. This fact
has proved itself by the failure of sew
eral competent business men who made
the attempt. For several reasons


First. Individual undertaking must
and does look for too large remuner-
alton to defray his or their expenses
and pay for labor. Individual enter
prise is looked upon by every one, es-
peeially by foreigner Just arrived in
this country, as an institution for in
dividual interest; hence is laigtrusted
and his representations are doubted.
and unless Ben can show his Gre
dentials as an officer of the State for
which he solicits emigration he can
not induce any worthy family TO go
South and settle Emigration to c
State cannot be induced by advertis-
ing only, 1t requires personal solici-
tation abroad, without which AL at
tempts even Of a State commissioner
to induce emigration will be failure.
Although expensive at first, yet the
benefit the State derives from the in
hux Of emigration or new settlers has
proved itself in every State where the
legislature appropriated literally for
emigration purposes TO have been a
thousand fold.


Lands in the State of Michigan
which were worth 81 to $40 twelve
years ago, are now worth from SO to
$1,000, thus | call attention to the
States Of Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and
Indiana where land has gained still
higher value. Having had connection
with an active emigration bureau, and
always entertaining large interest ia
behalf of emigration, ! have made
it special study to devise modes by
which to induce emigration, which |
take pleasure in laying before the
public.


First. To provide and contract for
low railroad and steamboat passage
from all points East and West to our
State, by inaugTating a regular pass
system, by which only actual intended
Year: 1878

WHAT'sin in the wind now? All sorts of
diseases are in the wind, and they fasten
on to allwhoare weakened and debilitated,
and they do not let go again until they are
made to. The air is loaded with malaria
and if you don't want to get it you had
better purify your blood and recuperate
your system by the use of Reeds Gilt
Edge Tonic. 1t restores the appetite, puri-
fes the blood and tones up the whole
system.
Year: 1878

On the subject of readiusting the
State debt the Nashville Banner says


A pretty careful perusal of our State
|exchanges-and we presume they pretty
correctly represent public sentiment-in-
|duces us to believe that the proposition of
The Tennessee bondholders recently pub
|lished in several newspapers viii not be
acceptable TO the people of the State, and
|will not be accepted by the coming legis-
|lature. We dislike the idea of forced,
|arbitrary settlement, and so we trust the
|bondholders will make the necessary con-
|cessions so that the compromise, if it shall
be brought about, win be one in fact as
Pin name, where 10th parties can agree to
the final adjustment. 1t is no use in talk
ling about reputation. 1t is oneof ability
TO pay a debt, the validity of portion Of
which is seriously called in question.
This is the only proper light in which
the question can be viewed and the bond
holders might as well recognize the fact
first as last.
Year: 1878

The London Economist says that,
with the exception of the potato (and
it might have added the cabbage) the
British working classes may be said to
have just made beginning in the use
of vegetables.
Year: 1878

A Paris physician has devised
soporifc for the benefit of travellers
through unipteresting scenery Or who
are troubled with insomnia, 1t is
quite harmless, agreeable to the taste
and has the singular virtue Of being
limitable in the duration of its effects
at the pleasure OF the person using it.
The time during which a given dose
will operate can be calculated to with
in ten minutes Of the ACTUAL Asgre,
Year: 1878

The Congressional Record, thanks
% the courtesy Of Representative
Young, has begun to come to hand.
q is document of much value in
lewspaper Office, and we are obliged
b Colonel Young for his thoughtful
ness in sending it to the LEDGER
,ffice
Year: 1878

THE question so often answered be-


orehand, arewe to have hard win
ler?' remains unsettled. Numerous
predictions have been made that we
would have a hard winter, but there
IS no sign of it yet A hard winter is
what we want, otherwise next summer
will be unhealthy and the crops short.