smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

In the hut Of the Esquimaux we do not look
for the lace draperies of the Fifth avenue, nor
upon the ban ks OF the Thames or in the shadow
OF the Vatican can we expect to find buckwheat
cakes and baggage checks. 1t was very natu-
raj in the Englishman of the last century to be
so hot against popery aud wooden Shoes The
gambols of polly ywogs in a pool are entertain
ing to the superior observer The American
to-day contemplates with equiaamity the la
bells that are pasted on his trunks, for he re-
members Gulliver in Lillipur, and he neither
expects nor demands that the landscape, the
customs, the conveniences, the society, the
government, the religion or the people of other
countries shall be as perfect as those of his
native land. God has been graciously pleased
to make him an American, ,as be made Shakes
peare the greatest of poets the rose the queen
of flowers and the sun the source Of light and
heat. For His infinitely iuscrutabls purposes
He has also been pleased to make some other
extraordinary countries and peoples. But it
would be kind of mpiety to suppose that the
CHOSEN land and nation are to learn any thing
from the experience of such countries aud the
genius OF such people, How can people, for
instance, who have no baggage checks, and
whose ideas Of dessert does not go beyond
gooseberry tart, which also, they are not yet
civilized enough to call properly pie-how can
such people possibly instruct the proud den-
zens of free West in any detail of convent.
ence or of government, in any kind OF mechani- j.
Cal workmanship or scientific or political or
economical knowledge.


Let it be enough to condemn anything what.
ever that it is not American. 1t Is indeed
ridiculous in England to hold out against the
baggage check because it is American. But
despite the captiousness of unpatriotic snarlers
who are doubtless bribed with foreign gold, it
is the height of wisdom in America to hold out
against the laws of science as expounded by
Englishmen, and against the experience Of
every country in the world whose home is not
in the free West. These are evidently the
patriotic sentiments of one American states.
man, who, standing upon jocuud mountain
top, lately exclaimed


"Feow-citizens if we lack anything as nation, IL
is the spirit to rise to the magnificent hight of our DO
stion and our opportunities For this grand America
we must have a grand American policy which will.
not look to European bankers for theories of finance
or to Golden cubs for theories of industrial economy
At least should be the arbers and masters of our
own destiny, even ii we do not to,nsstLupons
barren, though rightful, preeminencein in the alirs
of the world"
Year: 1878

In 1857 Gen. Butler was trying to make
political capital out of the hard times just as
he is now, but his explanation of their cause
was very different then. In speech to
Democratic meeting in that year he attrib-
uted the financial crisis then existing to the
fact that the constitutional currency Of hard
money had been swept away and currency
of rags, shreds and patches substituted in its
place. His remedy then was the withdrawal
of paper and the substitution of specie.
Butler wasn't after Greenback nomination
for the Presidency in 1857. Buffers record
reminds one forcibly of that of our own
Sn1ou
Year: 1878

THE Swiss are determined not to be driven
out of the market by the American watch
makers. They have suffered severely from
American competition. With their character
istic good sense they have studied the causes
of the superior quality of American watches
and their own inferiority. They have also
applied machinery to the making of watches,
after the American fashion. Latterly they
have invented peculiar process by which
the figures on the dial-plate are rendered lu-
minous so that, if exposed once during the day
to the sunlight, they remain phosphorescent
and visible throughout the night.
Year: 1878

A PAIR of Iowa lovers recently determined
on suicide, and to save their surviving rela-
tives trouble, arranged themselves before
hand for the tomb. About the only thing
they forgot to do waste furnish supply of
handkerchiefs for the mourners to wipe their
weeping eyes with. Perhaps, however, they
thought there would be no mourners,
as there ought not to have been.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communI-
cations. The and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

UP to very recent date there had been
300 deaths in the South from yellow fever.
The suffering and want occasioned are vastly
out OF proportion to the mortality, for the
well are driven from their business and their
homes, and large part Of them compelled to
depend on charity for support.
Year: 1878

SPRINGFIELD gets up earlier Sunday morn
ings than it used to to read the Republican.
A paper that man is willing to sacrifice an
hour or two Of sleep for on the first day of
the week must be an extremely good one.
Year: 1878

New HAVEN submitted the question
whether or not there should be devotional
exercises in the public schools to a popular
vote, and the people by majority of 1900
have replied IN the affirmative.
Year: 1878

The night watchman of one of our factories
was arrested the other night for shooting the
cats Of families residing in the vicinity. When
asked for an explanation he said the cats made
such q noise that he couldn't sleep more than
haf the night. haadelphid Chronicle Herald
Year: 1878

The elections in the United States of Colum-
bia have just closed peacefully, and the regular
revolution is being organized without any
alarm or trouble. rhe new president will be
shot tomorrow and tranquility will be restored.
The people of Santander have adopted resolu-
tions expressing their esteem for and confidence
in the old president, whom they shot yesterday
There is no interruption TO business.-SDecial
despatch to Burlington Ha,ckeye.
Year: 1878

The child has right to his individuality,
to be himself aud other; to maintain
against the world the Divine fact for which
he stands. Aud before this fact father,
mother, instructor, should stand reverently,
seeking rather to understand and interpret
its significance than to wrest it from it's orig
inal purpose. 1t is not necessarily to be in
scribed with tho family name, nor written
over with the family traditions. Nature de-
lights in surprises, and will not guarantee
that the children Of her poets shall sing, nor
that every Quaker baby shall take kindly to
drab color, or have an inherent longing for
broad brimmed hat. In the naming of a
child his Individuality should be recognized.
He should not be invested with the castof
cognomen of some dead ancestor or historical
celebrity, name musty as the grave cloths
of the original wearcr-a ghostly index finger
forever pointing to the past. Let it be some
thing fresh a new name standing for a new
fact, the suggestion Of history yet to be
writteh, prophecy to be fulfilled. The ass
was we'll enough clothed in his own russell,
but when ho put on the skin of the lion every
attribute became contemplate. Common
place people slip easily through the world !;
but when we fnd them heralded by great
names We present the incongruity, and insist
upon making them lees than they are
George Washington selling peanuts, Julius
Cesar as bootblack, and Virgil vender of
old clothes, make but sorry figures. Leave
to the dead kings their purple and ermiDe, to
the poets their laurels, and to the heroes of
the earth sole possession of the names they
have rendered immortal Let the child have
a name that does not mean too much at the
outset, but which he can fll with his indivi-
duality, and make by aud By TO stand for e1<
actly the fact that he is.


TCoiio6e Hearth.
Year: 1878

To ons vho makes a study of children,
the different ways in which they ind content
are very interesting. One child will hHd ID
a single toy amusement for a long time, whilo
another demands constant succession OF
playthiuss and then is restless and uusatis-
fed.


We have been told many times that d
chiid's mind is like piece of blank whito
paper, but any observing mother can readily
trace in her child the prevailing tone and
character of her cwn moral, intellectual aud
physical condition previous to its birth aud
this we'll known fact can but furnish food for
careful reflection to every prospective mother
The love which every child brings with it,
is in itself the strongest indication of tho
needs of the child. Love is like sunshine
without it there can be no harmonious growth
or development. As we'll expect fruit tree,
to bear delicious fruit in cellar, as expect
\ child to grow up into symmetrical manhood
or womanhood without love. As invariably
we appropriate the sunuiest nook in the gar
den to the nursery, so must the warmest and
sunniest apartments of the heart be given to
the little ones. Nurtured in an atmosphere
of love, their various powers expand in un-
conscious but harmonious beauty.


Love hath its seat IN reason aud is judi



our vines and our roses we pinch of the ex-
cess of buds on our floral pets, having in
view all the time the highest development
of the plant to lot it have its own luxurisnt
way would often be to cultivate lis rutu.
Aud in the same way wo watch children,
checking propensity here that may lead to
vice, killing in the bud trait that may de-
velop bitter fruit by aud by; cutting of
branches that mar the symmetry of the whole,
and watching continually to keep the thing
straight. till il is firmly rooted in the soil,
and can bear the east winds without bending.
And yet it is folly to shnt children away
from the knowledge that sin and death with
all their train of woes. arc in the world.
This knowledge can bo kept from them but
little while at longest. As it comes 10
them in the natural course of things, such
nutidotes can be given with it shall pres
vent any unsuward effect. a pure child, like
a ray of sunshine, can go anywhere without
contracting taint. Though choice of nsso-
Citations is essential to wholesome develop
ment, yet n normal and hcalthful child may
come in contact with great deal of rouGh-
ness and vice without being injured by il:
This can only be, however, when tho child
carries with IL continually the atmosphere Of
a pure, elevated, Christian home. The in
tuitions of a child thus nurtured will shrink
from the tnint Of vice and keep it pure.
Year: 1878

The atom of charcoal which foated in tho
corrupt atmosphere Of the old volcanic ages
was absorbed into the leaf of a fern when
valleys became green and lJxurieDt and
there, in its proper place, it received the sun
light and the dew, aiding to fling back to
heaven a reflection Of heavens gold, aud st
the same time to build the tough Eber Of tho
plant. The atom was consigned to the tomb
when waters submerged the jangicd valley.
II had lain three thousand years and month
since was brought into the light again, iru-
bedded in q block of coal. 1t shall be cons
sumed to warm our dwellings, cook our food,
and make more ruddy and cheerful tho
hearth whereon our children play 1t shall
combine with a portion Of the invisible at
mosphere; ascend upward as a curling
wreath TO reyel in mhzy dance high up III
the blue ether, shall reach the earth sgaIn.
aud be entrspped into the embrace ola
flower; shall live in velvet beauty on the
cheek of the apricot shall pass into the hu-
man body, giving enjoyment TO the psIste'
health to the blood /; shall circulate in the
delicate tissues Of the brain; and aid, by
entering into some new combination, IN
reducing the thoughts which are now being
uttered By the pen. 1t is but an atom of
charcoal It may dwell one moment in stag
nant ditch, and the mex. be flushing the
lip of beauty it may be a component OF
limestone rock, and next M ingredient in q
field of potatoes it may slumber for thOus-
and years without undergoing siugio
change, and the next hour pass through
thousand, and, after all, it is only an atom OF
charcoal, aud occupied only its own p!acs
wherever it may be.


Hewitt predicts four candidates in the
Year: 1878

So Soon FoRGoTTEN.-The unveiling
of the monument raised at Chicago in
memory of Stephen A. Douglas brings
to mind the fact of how suddenly and
completely the name and fame of the
"Little Giant" have disappeared. To
the generation that is now entering po-
litical life he is only known as a former
presidential candidate, who figured in
ante bellom days, and whose influence OF
thought and action of the present time
is no more than that of statesmen who
lived during the early days of the cen
tury. The war brought in its train new
political issues, and made obsolete, NOR,
than fifty years of peaceful existence
would have done, the men and measures
that went before it.
Year: 1878

SENATOR THURMAN will open the
Ohio campaign with speech atHamilton,
August 1. Senator Thurman and ex-
Governor Hendricks are going to have a
very interesting preliminary race for the
Presidency this year, although it is some
time in advance of the real contest
Neither can afford to let his State be
carried by the Republicans, and thus
they have everything to loose as well as
everything to gain.
Year: 1878

THERE SEEMS TO BE an uncommonly
square issue Of fact between the noble
Lords Derby and Salisbury, and their lib
eral use of pointed and anything but par.
hamentary language recalls vivldly the
lively discussion over the trial of Queen
Caroline or the first Reform Bill. Fifty
years ago the noble Lords would have
settled their little difficulty-after the
House had adjourned-comfortably ant
Quietly in an out-of-the-way corner o
the Park. But customs have changed
good deal as the century has grown Older
The noble Lords did not tight-they apol
ogized.
Year: 1878

The CONTEST for the Republican
Mayoralty nomination wakes warm, and
not even the scorehing sun can suppress
the ardor of the adherents of the three
candidates. Anything to beat Gallagher
is the cry of the Fraim and Patterson
clans, but they will not unite their for
ces TO accomplish this end. VIII the Cap
tain win?
Year: 1878

PENNY PAPERS, as a rule, accurately
represent the sentiment of the people
among whom they circulate, while in
circulation and influence they are far in
advance Of. the larger and more boastful
publications.
Year: 1878

An elephant got in the way Of rail-
way train in India. The brute turned
and fled on seeing the engine, but was
speedily caught. The buffer beams Of
the engine being very low, the beasts
hind legs were taken from under
him, and he was forced to sit down, as
il we're, with his bind quarters against
the smoke-house door, which was red
hot. The poor beast managed TO keep
his fore feet going, though hustled
along faster than ever he had gone in
his life before, and in a few minutes
the train came 10 a stand-still, aud he
got away. He moved OF the line st
double, uprooted a clump OF bamboo,
then wreaked vengeance on tree, ana
was last seen rushing through the jun
gle, tearing and swathing everything
in his path. He was sadly cut and
burned in his headquarters. and will
probably never be of use again.
Year: 1878

There are Indications at the City Hall that the
Mobile Railroad will come to the conclusion of
extending Its rails In the Third District as far
as the cotton presses, in anticipation of the in
crease In the cotton trade from Alabama and
Georgia next season. OF which mention has
already been made more than once In the Dem
oCRAT, Yesterday the special committee on
railroad of the City Council were on n visit of
inspection in the Old Third. probably con-
nected with the subject


MAYOR PIIaRUBy's


ttme was principally occupied Mt Grunewald
Hall in his capacity Of judge of tho baby show
We hope enough Of the executive ofTicer Of tho
city will be loft to- day In order that he may give
us his experience with tho disappointed papas
the prizes at the show.
Year: 1878

Tho acta approved by Gov. Nichols Yesterday
will be found i'll another column of this paper.
The apportlonment bill occupied the Senate's
attention three hours yesterday. but was finally
passed.


Some OF the members are Of the opinion that
legislation can be Weund up by tomorrow
night


The office OF the Sergeant at Arms of the
House is flooded with Congressional documents
from the Louisiana delegation.
Ono Of the Republican members OF the Senate
said yesterday that his side would have had 1t
their own way. even with a minority. in the
lively night session which lasted until nearly
o clock yesterday morning. had it not been for
the fact that the President OF the Senate was In
the chair up to the adjournment His side. he
said. could mix things in the way of snarly
questions with any ordinary presiding officer.
but they. as he said. couldn't confuse Gov
Witt worth cent"
Year: 1878

WashingtOn's birthday, with all other ami
versarles and all moral lessons thereon, has come
to be regarded by the most of us as bore.
We have enough to do, we think, to meet the
hard times, and fight the fraud and corruption
about us, without sitting down once year to
consider the bearings of any historical epoch.


But this anniversary has something to do
with the fraud and darkness of the present
time, and the part which each OF us elects to
play in it. The man who lives in it, lived be-
yond his fellows, because he was more honest
and unsefsh than they. We have had gen.
erals who won greater victories, statesmen
who were more profound. leaders who. like
CLAY or Calhoun, attracted more by power
full personal magnetism. Waslington's virtues,
even at this late day, have rcpeant chill about
them. We crack our feeble Jokes about immacu-
late George, and are secretly convinced that
we should have found such n mass of merit
unbearable at near view. Yet we give HIM
place as the first American. and it Is probable
each succeeding generation will do the same.


William Welsh n just man and good,
who died in Philadelphia the other day, was
wont 10 say, "Nothing endures but character"
He verified his own maxim Men with twice





and the sole public record of them would be
an abstract of their will, that their fellow citi-
zens might know where such and such proper
ties would belong in future. But when this
man died the whole city stood at his grave as
a mourncr 1t was the simple abiding quality
of goodness that commanded its homage.


There is not a little village or farming dis
trct where THE TRIBUNE is read in which
this lesson is not preached yearly. The neigh
Dor whose life il remembered, when he is gone,
whose name continues n household word
long after his grave is green, is not the miserly
banker, whose heirs are ilinging about his
hoards, nor the sharp lawyer whose fame went
I'D to the higher courts Ii is the sober old
Truepeuny, the honest farmer or squire or
clergyman, whose integrity and stern sense of
Justice had made him referee in all the dis
putes of the county. We have known such a
reputation, belonging to a man who was poor
from his birth to his grave, shine for gencr
ations in quiet neiglborhood, a noble legacy
for his descendants, making all honesty and
fair dealing and high living easier to those
who came after him.


There is something therefore worth noting for
the BOYS and for their fathers in this birthday
which we keep this morning: and it is not the
fact of battles with the British, or American
Indepcndence-but the truth of how long and
how far Shines the good deed in a naughty
"vorldu
Year: 1878

We NAV as well call the performance of
Wednesday in the House another "Great De-
"bate" Not that it was great in the sense
that any of the turbulent disputants made
elaborate speeches upon some topic OF National
interest and importance, which shall be treas
ured up as specimens of American elOquence,
or illustrations of clear and convincing state
ment and logical power. But it was great in
the sense that it ought to be remembered by
every thoughtful citizen. 1t Will be unfortu-
nate for the country if the circumstances
of il. and the lesson it conveys, are
allowed to be overlooked and forgotten


For this is the full flower of the Democratic
Renaissance. We have had nothing to com
rare with it since the bOisterOus times from
1854 to 1861, when the same Democratic
party was slowly lOosing its grasp upon the
Government. The pages of The Congressional
Record upon which Wednesdays debate ap-
pears. bring to mind the old files OF The GLOBE,
which record in broken lines and multitudes
of exclamation points, and with all the pecu-
liar features of the printed page which make
such debates vivid and striking to the eye,
the encounters between the Democratic states
men of that period and their Republican
opponents. There is no need to repeat now
and here the epthets exchanged, the coarfe
and brutal assaults, the filings and insnua-
tions and taunts, the bullying and bravado,
which ill the pages of that record. They are
shameful and disgraceful. The men who were
engaged in the dispute, or some of them, are,
no doubt, ashamed to-day, of their part in it.
But because it is all shameful and disgrace
full is no reason why it should be covered up
or passed lightly over The thing is to avoid
repetition Of them; to put the responsibility
for this riot in the House where it belongs,
and then say whether, upon the whole, we
Year: 1878

shall continue to take the chances for thelr
spasmOdic recurrence.


1t will not escape notice-indeed IL Is the
salient feature of the whole atfair-that the
men who were most violent in their language,
who used the most opprobrious epithets, and
banded the most offensive personal charges
and accusations, are the same that in the Pc
riod before the rebellion, when they had full
swing in the Government, legisated in the
same arrogant and ogerbearng spirit, and
carried on what were called debates Ill the
same general style, bringing to the hoor OF
Congress the manners of the plantation ana
the vocabulary of the pot-hOuse. Nor should
If be forgotten that the subject under discus
sion touched very nearly the points of differ
ence between these gentlemen and-let us not
put too fine a point upon 1.-THE Government
that punished them for cOntumacy and rebel
lion. For this whole outbreak grew from an
effort on the part of certain gentlemen, who
have had good cause for their opposition, to
break down the Military Academy at West
Point. There arc two or three facts III this
matter that have logical and historical
sequence, that may be stated very briefly.
Let us arrange them. During the seven
or eight years prior to 1861. there were fire.
ouent scenes of disorder in Congress, caused
by violent Southern Democrats who could not
tolerate the idea of the Governments passing
out of their control They eliminated in re-
belliOn. The rebellion was crushed by the
military arm of the Government, of which
the West Point Academy was the main sup
port and resource. The States and people in


II f,oa a1yf
same States send now to Congress, men
of the same old party, and upon an
ordinary appropriation for the West Point
Academy, this same old truculent spirit ap-
pears and the same scenes are renewed. There
has been no change in disposition or purpose !;
no humiliation from defeat-whch history will
attest has not been sought-n0r any mitigation
of hostility on account of magnanimous treat
ment-whch the North had the right to ex-
pect.


And if there be these things in the green
leaf, what may we not expect i'll the dry =?
We have been let into a glimpse of
the real spirit of the Southern Democ-
racy. No kindness wins them, no mag
nanimity tames the ferceness of their desire
for revenge No concession abates or quail
fies their arrogant demand for absolute con-
troll. And the question simply is whether the
North-for since those Southern statesmen
persistently make and force the issue, we
shall not shrink from inviting the North to
meet it squarely-is ready to return to the old
regime, and give these men the power they
demand. If it must be the old fight-because
these men will not have it otherwise--then
the least we can do is to meet it in the old
way-and, please God, with the old result.