smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

ttle laEm Will always DS


ur good crops If butter


lciple product of the farm por.


question of fertility will more


oe settled, especially If sown


Or fodder is appreciated and grown


5rly and plentifully.


ne first TO suggest themselves to the


inner must be those most nearly like


m crops, and least perishable, and most
silly marketed. Early potatoes are
often very profitable and always paying.
They involve little risk, leave the ground
| for a second crop, and can be kept for a
late market il not sold earlier Late
potatoes, while less profitable, usually
pay.


Winter squash does not demand much
hand.work, and since it sells by the
wagon-loadisa very good one. Any poor
specimens, or unsold portions of the crop,
are worth more than the cost of produc-
ing for feed. Melons also sell in large
quantities, and are not exacting as to soil
or culture. So many are deferred from
growing them for fear of melon thieves,
that the price is good and demand ac-
tive.


Late cabbage is another crop that pays
well when grown properly. 1t delights
in a decaying sod and abundant culture.
This should not be grown largely until
the grower mas "got the knack" of it, so
to speak, nor until he understands the
markets. Its advantages are that it pro-
duces immensely to the acre, and is mark
eted in bulk, and all waste is serviceable
as feed. Cutting of clover can be taken
from the ground before setting out the
cvep, if the soil be rich enough to spare
it,


Turnips-the early fiat sorts-are
raised very easily, if soil and season be
favorable, and often can be sold at
round price if the market be watched.
They are worth twice their cost for feed.
The ruta bagas demand more labor, and
should not be undertaken till some ac-
quaintance with the business is acquired,
but they command better price, freer
demand, and will keep till June. Those
not sold serve an excellent use for the
stock of the farm just before grass
is abundant.


Perhaps more is said in agricultural
papers, and beginners more generally
look at once to the onion crop than any
other. 1t demands a better soil than
any before mentioned, and a considera-
BILE hand wedding, and no man should
enter upon it largely at once. On the
other hand, it yields enormously to the
acre, is always in demand, and is not se~
riously injured by slight freezings etc.
Many a handsome farm has been p>'I
Or, and many a snug compete
cured and maintained, by a 1os, ,,.
,nion bed, but it has been lttuf- 80
learned the busiiS
ng into it from small beg
r '~g = ,''t so much


Eet Ero
Year: 1877

this, and other boys, knowing moth
ing of the disappointments, and
trusting only the boys exaggerated
statements, manufactured to hide
his real feeling, follow in his foot.
steps.


Let the boys and girls, the young
men and young women remain in
the country, patiently and thank
fully. Let them disabuse their
minds of the false notions they
have formed Of city life and look
at facts.


A young man employed on a
farm has to work hard. He would
have to work harder in nearly any
occupation in the city. He has to
work in the hot sun and in the
rain and snow. it may be. In the
city he would work in the dirty,
smoky atmosphere of some manu-
factory, or would baexposed to Just
as inclement weather as on the
farm. A farm hasd getting ais
per month and his board is making
more money than he would in the
city at $40 per month. And yet,
while farm hands are scarce, la
borerS in the city are ever abund.
ant, and clamoring for work in
every department of business.


III addition to this influx from
rural districts, cities receive the
larger share of immigrants from
other countries. The poorer
classes cluster in squalid localities
where there is little comfort and
little to do, when outside of the
cities are broad farms where there
is much comfort and much to do,
or new lands inviting them to the
possibilities of ownership. While
every department of labor in the
city is oyerstocked, thousands ol
acres of public lands await owners
and occupants.


People have perversely looked in
one direction for employment.
They must adopt a different rule
and look in all directions. They
have expected to find employment
where laborers are most abundant;
they should look for it where la,
borers are scarcest.
Year: 1877

ana women In inc Country


Chicago Inter. Ocean


A mob of half-starved men is a
pitiful sight; mob of idle, vicious
men is a sad commentary on our
civilization, and in all our large
cities we are frequently called upon
to contemplate both pictures.


That such a condition of affairs
exists is not the fault of the cities
or Of the public at large. There
are more people in the cities than
can find employment, and these
people are in Chicago and other
cities by their own choice. The
facts that came to the surface last
week as to the number of people
out of employment were appalling,
but will they prevent one young
man from the country from carry
ing out his pet scheme of coming
to the city? Will one farmers
boy, with a good home and plenty
to do, read of the great masses who
have bad homes, little to eat, and
nothing to do, and be deferred
from coming to the city? Not one.
The rush will continue, and our
cities will continue to be burdened
with more people than can find
employment in their borders.


Boys and girls raised in the coun-
try have an insane desire to live in
towns. They dwell on the bright
side of city life so much that
their own life in the country
seems dull and prosy, and city life
always charming and bright. They
magnify the drawbacks on one side
and exaggerate the pleasures on the
othor. They drone over the dull
ness of country life, and decline to
see the dark side of city life at all.
In this way they encourage dis
like for what is in their possession,
and cultivate an insatiate longing
fer what they fancy makes existence
in the city.


A boy hesitates to round out his
life on the farm. 1t is in some way
beneath him, and he goes to the
city to realize his ambitious schemes
and becomes a clerk in a dry goods
store, or a laborer in some manu-
factory, or a driver Of street car,
or a brakeman on Il railroad. He
comes from a home where he was,
in a certain sense, master of his
own movements, and enters busi-
ness where he works harder, where
he lives less comfortably, and where
he is always in a subordinate posi-
ton. He comes from the farm,
where his living is assured, and
enters a field where a position, ever
so humble, is difficult to secure and
hard to retain; where he takes
great chances Of being thrown out
Of employment under most embar-
RAISING and distressing circum-
stances. He comes from a locality
where there are no beggars, no
poverty-stricken people, no men
presuming to dictate as to when he
shall labor, and where and how,
and enters callings in which he
ceases to be master Of his own ac-
ton.


The boy that does this sort of
thing is indefinitely multiplied, and
he keeps doing it all the time. In
nine cases out of ten he is disap.
pointed, but he never acknowledges
Year: 1877

A French military paper con-
menting on a circular recently
issued by the minister of war, con.
tanning instructions concerning the
amount of hair which the French
soldier may allow to grew upon


his face, pleads for permission for
every man in the army to wear full
beard and whiskers. The existing
regulations which, however, do not
appear to be very rigidly adhered
to in certain points, arc very pre-
else. The beard is not to be grown
at all; but an imperial iS allowed on
Year: 1877

Washington National Republican,


G. S. Bell, indicted for murder
in the State Of Texas, having fled
from that State, was arrested in
this city by James F. Cunningham
by virtue Of a requisition from the
governor of Texas. While in the
custody of the representative of the
State he was brought before Justice
Humphreys, of this district, in an
irregular and unlawful manner, no
writ Of habeas corpus having been
issued, and the prisoner was then,
in violation of law and decency,
discharged. Nor did the shameful
and disgraceful conduct of the
judge end here, but he proceeded
to exhaust the vocabulary of bill
lingsgate in the abuse of the officer
who had arrested Bell. In plain
English, the Judge was drunk. The
public are tired Of his repeated out
RACES. The case, however, seems to
be without remedy, for his intellect
being constantly clouded by the
fumes of liquor there is no appeal
from Philip drunk to Philip sober.
Year: 1877

PUBLICATION.
Western Methodist


24th Year.
lHE WESTERN METHODIST Is TIE
official organ of Six Annual Conferences Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, viz /:
Memphis, North Mississippi, Arkansas. Little
Rock, White River and Indian Mission.


Memphis is the commercial and geographic
cal center Of the section over which this paper
circulates. An average of
Five Thousand Copies


Are read by at least
Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for tho coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tisingi for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisement in paper. especially their
church paper, take it as a guarantee of ro
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not be
abused when it can be helped. We want.
therefore,


The Advertising Patronage
of such business men and firms as we can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising tho character of the
paper.


Our Terms shall be In Harmony


WITH the Business Outlook.


Send In Your FavOrs.
Year: 1877

Regular Secretion Essential to Health.


The regular secretion and flow of the
gastric juices. and of the bile which the
use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters pro-
notes, are effects which conduce materially
to the restoration of health. when the
system is disordere6. Food is not digested
in the dyspeptic stomach because the
gastric fluid is deficient. superabundant
or vitiated; the liver becomes coDgest-
ed and the bowels eonstipated because the
supply of bile is inadequate or misdi-
rected, The Bitters reetifes all this, and
removes every i'll consequence of non
Year: 1877

Untold Wealth Disclosed by IL Luelty


Fall.


Perhaps richer specimens, but GER
tainly no more beautiful ones have
ever been taken from any mine than
are now being obtained from a recent
ly discovered lode in Jimtown. The
story runs that for months the miners
in going to and from their daily labor,
have Travelled along a certain path,
wearing the earth away to iock. A
vein was thus brought to light which
presented no attraction to the pros
pector, and was trod upon as of no
account. A lab0rer, two weeks ago,
swung sledge upon his shoulders
and started early in the morning for
his accustomed toll upon the mountain
side. Reaching the vein he carelessly
allowed the heavy stone breaker to
fall upon projecting point, and
thereby detached several pieces of the
vein matter. The white character of
the rock aid its glittering particles
disclosed to HIM one of the richest
mines in the world. Literally full
were the white specimens with bright
particles of almost pure gold and al
though shaft has been sunk to the
depth of nine feet, the rock increases
In richness, and at the bottom very
thin strips of wire gold seem to
to hold together the fragmentary
parts of the vein matter Untold
wealth is the sure possession Of the
men. Vir,len and Griffin, who own
this treasure vault of the hills--Dea-
ter Ne,rs.
Year: 1877

One of our citizens, acting on the noble impulse of improving the beauty of the street, by laying low the grass and weeds, arose one morning last week, bright and early, and wended his way down to his office, bearing an ancient scythe. After reaching the office he began to mark out, with his minds eye, his share of the office front, in which he felt most interested, confident that he would do what was right, and no more than what was right, he moved upon the common enemy llhe weeds)and slsshed away until his share was cut down. Completing his task he returned home. The newly moved spot attracted attention, and with it comes the start ling revelation that our good friend and citizen had actually cut beyond the line and moved down grass in front of his nelghbor's yard. A surveying party tired hard to ascertain how it was that such Q mistake could have been made. All are agreed AS to the jadge's good in tention and sympathlse with him, tor it leaves the Juuge, by his own reckoning a strip of grass and weeds to now down. When his peighbor on the left cuts down the weeds left for his share. The judge will find that the line which he drew with his minds eye looks like 8 fish hook.
Year: 1877

We take this occasion to return to our friends that have so kindly noticed us in several of our exchanges, our sin cerest thanks. Our aim will ever be to make the BEE a welcome visitor, and thus continue to retain the heartfelt wishes of it's many friends.
Year: 1877

We speak of ''hard times" when it
becomes necessary to forego some
luxury, to deny ourselves some IA
miliar pleasure, and to reduce our
general standard of expenditure. We
complain when pinched to keep up
appearances, and repine at the hard
ship which invades our comfort. In
and around the coal fields of an ad-
joining state. however, are tens of
thousands of workingmen who, with
their families, are on the virge of
starvation. A large proportion are
unemployed; those that have work
are paid SO scantly that what they
earn barely keeps body and soul to-
gether. The picture of squalor and
wretchedness. of hunger and naked
ness, is shocking enough to touch the
hardest heart. It is made more pain
full by the fact that some of the COM
panies add to the miseries of their
people by the enforcement of the
truck system. There may be reasons
for suspending work in some cases,
Year: 1877

first, one of the most enterprising
fine stock men in our country. it not
in the west, passed under the wheels
lately. Our grange factory was sold
out last week-cause, interest and
mortgage. A fine cheese factory in
this neighborhOod ditto, debt only
$3.50, mortgage. This system is de-
strOying all confidence manufacturing
is stopped and business is at a stand
. A furious hurricane and hail storm
passed over this section lately but
the county supervisors raised the
taxes on this township 25 per cent.
Many Of the farmers have no crop
left. One sold the chances Of an 80
acre lot of wheat for SO. How can
these men pay such taxes! They must
pass under the wheel. Merchants sit
by their doors waiting for customeDe
that don't come because they bNe
nothing left to purchase with. They
read those lying journals that are all
the time heralding the approach OF
better times, that never come, and sit
there till the wheel crushes them.
Call their attention to the depression
of business, they will tell you money
is plenty enough-all that is required
is a good crop to circulate it amongst
the people. Poor deluded fools CAM t
they perceive that Shylock has claims
that must be satisfied before theirs


and those claims will absorb more


than the best crop can bring!''
Year: 1877

and for reducing wages in others; but
the greed which prompts employers
Of labor to squeeze out of it a beggar-
ly pittance through the agency Of
store-pay admits of no excuse. 1t is
an infamy which the law in other
countries has suppresed.-New York
Times.


There seems to be no limit to
"man's inhumanity to man. The
miners are not only the victims, with
the rest of the community, of the
hard times, caused by human selfish
ness, but they are ground down by
combinations among their employers
to raise the price of coal by decreas-
ing production; and then it seems that
when they are paid they are to be
cheated through the agency of store
pay.


What is a republican form of gov
ernment good for if it does not arrest
these shameful, cruel beggarly prac-
ticeS!
Year: 1877

More and more it becomes evident
that when the ANTI-MONoPOLIsT
opened the war against monopolies it
was on the right path. That able
journal, the Minneapolis Lumberman
and Manufacturer, says:


'sThe land is filled with monopolies,
not only in the matter of transporta-
ton, but in every other direction.
Everything we eat, drink or wear,
make or consume, has to pass through
the hands of shrewd and unscrupulous
men who are entrenched behind pat
ent monopolies, (Which tax all indus
try and render no equivalent. The
household is filed with patents, from
the foundation stone, cut with patent
machinery, laid in patent cement
with patent trowels, up to the point
of the patent lightning rod. From
patent cradles, when we are rocked to
sleep in infancy, all the way to the
patent cotfins, where we take our final
sleep, everything we see, touch or
need is overburdened with a load of
profits. put there under the protection
of national or state special legislation,
and kept there under the plea of re-
ward to inventors dead years ago
The lumber trade is laden down with
these evils. Our streams are covered
with chartered dam, boom and driving
companies, each of which takes 9
slice from the loaf, All parts of the
machinery of the mill are covered
with patents which double the ex
pense of erection and repair. They
are run by chartered companies, who
in turn are at the mercy of chartered
railroad and steamboat monopolies fol
a means of getting their lumber tt
market. Every branch of the trade
from the cutting of the logs with pa
tent axes to the finishing and shaping
of the lumber for it's place in th'
buildings and fences, pays the inferna
tributes which are unknown to ever,
generation save this and to most o
civilized countries
Year: 1877

= One of the leading agricultural pa
pers of our country, The Husband
man, says:


When the announcement was made
that the one place in the general gov
ernment devoted to the promotion of
agriculture was filled by the appoint
ment of General VIM. G. LeDuc, of
Minnesota. we had a strong desire to
know something of the man selected
to represent the greatest industry of
the country. The telegraph brought
the news that he had been quarter
master in the army, a railway con-
tractor, and persistent seeker for
office; none Of these biographical hints
being very assuring to farmers who
have long waited to have the agricul-
tural bureau at Washington transmit
ted into something which it's name
implies; or abolished. With the de-
sire to learn if the appointee really
had any qualifications for the place,
we addressed letters to several gentle
men in Minnesota asking for informa-
tion. The replies are before us and it
gives pleasure to record this one fact,
"Gen. LeDuc is gentleman" We
make this statement without reserve,
for it is supported by the concurrent
testimony of the letters received. We
know the writer's personally and we
are pleased to add they are gentlemen.
We shall be quite satisfied now if con-
gress will change the name Of Gen.
LeDuc's bureau. so that his title
shall be commissioner of gentlemen.


Agriculture will not suffer by the
change, and gentlemen will be much
gratitied by such recognition. It will
tend to obliterate class distinction and
reduce gentlemen to common level.
We shall have done with such desig.
nations as military. railroad and agri.
cultural, to show the different kind of
gentlemen. We should meet on the
level and part on the square gentle.
men all. As chief of the bureau OF
course gentlemen LeDuc will be chief
gentleman.


We learn that the General having
Year: 1877

OF MINNESOTA.


lst. The powers of government shall not
be used to enrich the few and impoverish the
many, but to arrest the aggressions and cum
ming Of the few.


End. We are in favor ofsuch wise policy as
will ensure employment to labor, prosperity
to the whole people, and the crushing out Of
class legislation.


3rd. We are in favor of the re-monetiza
ton of silver and return to the silver dollars
Of our fathers


paper currency by the government and the
establishment Of the greenback as = permanent
currency.


6th. We are opposed to and deny the
charge, that Minnesota is rcpudiating State,
we arcin favor Of paying every dollar Of the
State debt, but that debt must be what the
State is bound in honor topay and when that
Year: 1877

wur is II that none Of the cuts OF the
&" magnificent dining cars p" ON the great
railway lines represent man pouring q
cup Of hot coffee down his shirt front.
while the lady opposite him pours pint
Of milk into her nsighbors lap The
artist appears to miss all the 'hr'iiins
incidents.
Year: 1877

LoNa BRANCH, January 7.-The Tran
Atlantic steamer Amerique, bound from
Havre for New York, came ashore at
Seabright, about four miles north Of here,
at 8 o'clock this morning. There were
cabin, 81 second aud foGrth.class passen-
gers and 1862 officers and crew on board,
all OF whom, with the exception Of three
Of the crew were saved. Soon utter the
ship struck the Captain ordered 4 small
boat with crew composed Of officer Bril-.
lanin and eleven men TO convey Informs.
ton ashore and obtain assistance; the
steamship was then only seventy yards
from the beach. The boat struck the
beach, but the under tow and floating ice
together, there being much Of the
latter, upset her, and three Of the
crew were lost. The crews from the life
saving stations we're on hand and sue
ceeded soon afterward In throwing u line
to the ship, and by the aid Of the crew Of
the Amerique the life car was soon drawn
on board. The passengers were at first
afraid to enter the car, but Cornell Jewett
and his wife, who were passengers on
board, entered and were safely drawn
ashore, after which all OF the passengers
aud mOdt OF the crew were landed, FIVE or
six in the car at time. The Captain
still remains aboard looking after the
vessel. All Of the mails and specie were
safely landed. The vessel lies we'll upon
the beach, and it is thought she will be
high and dry at low tide.


Mr.. and Mrs. Cornell Jewett and a
Spanish lady, the only cabin passengers
are at the hotel at Seabright, while sec.
ond and fourth class passengers and a
large part OF the crew are about the hotel
here. The ship was in charge Of the pilot
that was taken on board yesterday. The
weather was very thick. The conduct OF
the crews Of the life saving stations was
OF the most efficient nature. They we're
promptly on hand, and by their exer.
tions saved every one who was on board
after they arrived. Had not the boat
left the ship all would have been saved.
Year: 1877

CoEREcrIoS.-An error in an editorial
paragraph on our second page this morn
ing, make. ns to speak OF the debt Of the
city Of Wheeling as being only one.
thirteentl Of that Of Cincinnati instead
oionly one. .thirtielh as much.
Year: 1877

the complaint be made openly thro' the paper, and not in that round about way which is calculated te iniure us. We are always ready to hear complaints and to make correc- tions where an injustice has been done.

 Young men and ladies of Pope county who wish to make their mark in this world should remember that there are three vacant scholarships in the benficiary department and four in the normal department of the A. I. U., which can be secured by applying to Judge Thach. A good education is worth more than for. tune.

 To THE PUBLIc.-Mr. Chas. Ash. ford, practical watchmaker of Oar danelle, has opened branch shop at this place, and any work in his line left at the postoflice will receive prompt and personal attention. Mir. Ashford will be in attendance at his office in Russellyille every other week.

 We are needing money; come up and pay what you owe us, please!