smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874




The important question of the rights of
pilots is one in which every citizen of New
York is deeply interested. In fact, the posses
sion of daring and skilful men, thoroughly
acquainted with the navigation of our harbor.
is necessary to our commercial supremacy
No one at all acquainted with the subject viii
think We exaggerate when we declare the
pilots to be one Of the most useful and efficient
bodies of public servants that we possess.
Every attack made on them, every attempt
made to diminish their efficiency is o blow
aimed at the prosperity and commercial inn
portance of our city. 1t is quite true that
small section of shipowners are desirous Of
doing away with compulsory pilotage. These
men, to save the fees, would risk the loss of
their ships and endanger the property and the
lives of the passengers intrusted to their keep
ing in order to secure few hundred dollars
additional profit. This at least, is the plea
put forward but as, unfortunately gambling
in sea risks is quite as unscrupulously fol-
lowed by avaricious men as gambling in
stocks, it is quite possible that other and less
worthy motives even may be the motive





to look to the interest of the community. and
it demands that the navigation of the harbor
shall be rendered as safe as possible and this
can only be done by encouraging bold and
skilful men to follow the arduous profession
Of pilots.


Any attempt that may be made to legislate
so useful class of public servants out Of the
means of earning honestly their bread shall
always meet with our most strenuous opposi-
ton. We defend the pilots from principle.
not from favor, because we consider them
useful public servants. We have received the
following letter from their counsel, which we
take great pleasure in publishing, because it
proves that our efforts in their behalf have
been appreciated:


NEW YORK, June 25 1874
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


AS counsel for the pilots IN the suits recentt
won in the Court of Common Pleas, permit me 70
thank you Tor the able and just editorial IN their
behalf in your issue OF to-day. Yours, &c; trNr


LIFE INSURANCE HUBBUD.-The Cali
fornia Legislature during it's last session
passed bill which has caused universal dis
satisfaction and commotion in life insurance
circles throughout the United States, as far as
that State is concerned. The cause of COM
plant is in obliging all outside companies,
doing business in California, to appoint each
resident agent of the State, whose actions
shall be binding on the companies. The latter
have consequently withdrawn their business,
on the sensible grounds that no company
could incur the risk Of committing its business
interests into the hands of single man, over
whom, according to the law in question, it
can exercise no control.


The CONFLICT BETWEEN CHURCH AND
STATE IN GERMANY is maintained with great
animation by the leaders of the opposing
forces from Berlin to Fulda and thence to
Munich and other centres of government and
political caucus. The churchmen are very
decisive in their expression, and the lay power
Year: 1874

The Ice MONOPOLY. Ice consumers in this
city are beginning already to raise the
cry of robbery and monopoly on the part
OF the companies that supply them with
the needed cooling element during the dog
days. The ice companies come for
ward with abundant specious arguments in
favor of the advance in prices which has
taken place. Thus the question stands and
the conflict goes on. There is no doubt that
ice companies like coal dealers, have an ir-
resistible tendency towards extortionate rates,
and they lay hold OF every excuse they can to
attain their object But it their customers
were to consult hygienic principles, rather
than pernicious habit in the one particular
branch of ice mption-excessive indul-
gence in ice water-a very large proportion of
their expenses would be removed. Many of
the most dangerous summer complaints are
engendered by this evil practice of drinking
ice water constantly, irrespective of the
heated condition of the system. Mod Grafton
in its use would tend to remove, not only the
complaints about monopoly, but what is
more important, disease and death from
what are now characterized as summer COM
plants.
Year: 1874

and Emperor Dom Pedro have exchanged
congratulatory messages. This enterprise in
the direction of annihilating distance fills the
mind with hope regarding the future. 1t
gives fair promise Of an era which shall know
no war. Let us hope that our bright pros
poets will all become reality
Year: 1874

The wealth OF the Vanderbilt family
has been variously estimated, and the
reticence of the commodore himself
has adnitted of little else than mere
conjecture on this point. There is a
general opinion, however, among those
who are in a position to Judge most cor
rectly that the wealth vested in Com
molore Vanderbilt exceeds one hun
ircd millions OF dollars, aud a promi-
nent member of the family recently
said that the "old man" was worth more
than that sum. This vast fortune was
acquired by Cornelius Vanderbilt
through his own efforts, starting early
in life without capital or influence, His
parents We're poor, and his first money
was earned in conveying people to aud
fro in a row-boat between New York
and Staten Island. He made a large
amount of money in steamboating, but
the great bulk Of his wealth has been
acquired in railroad combinations and
in the manipulation of railroad stocks.
He is aud has been all his life q very
remarkable man. His self reliance and
pluck are as natural with him as draw
ing breath, and his will and purpose in
domitable. A man of such tremendous
mental force has he been that he has
moved forward to the accomplishment
Of his objects with power as irresisti-
BILE as one of his steamboats,. His one
purpose in life has been the acquisition
of money. To this end he has trained
his mental and physical resources with
the greatest care. He has made OF
himself machine that has always
obeyed the requirements OF his intel
lect, and wherever he has struck it has
been with telling force and effect. He
has always drank moderately and lived
regularly, taking just the requisite
am unit of exercise always. Smoking
and whist-playing are the only indul-
gences which he has permitted him
self to any considerable degree. Every
day he is to be seen driving ON the road
with a stump of a cigar between his
teeth, and until within a year past be
has had every evening some of his Gro.
nies, in for a rubber at whist and to
talk horse, a subject at which he never
tires. Latterly, however, his evenings
have been passed very quietly. He has
always been strict man of business,
kept his own counsel, and admitted OF
known no partners. He never allows
the plea of affection or charity to in
terfere with his business matters. Ap.
peals to his sympathy have about as
much effect as straw forced under the
wheels of o locomotive. He has beer
well, active and in the harness all his
life, and has never tired or weakened


He will be 80 years of age in May, and
his 60 odd years of constant hard worh
show that he has had one of the strong
est physical constitutions ever given t
a man. .-NetU York Granhic.
Year: 1874

The Empress tf Austria, who recent
ly had a falling out with the Emperor
and left his bed and board, has returned
to the royal roof and now tie clerubim
of peace and happiness sits on the gable
end of that roof and smiles. =
Year: 1874

It's better for you to pass an even
ing once or twice a week in a lady's s
drawing-room, even though the con-
versation is slow, and you know the
girls song by heart, than in a club, a
tavern, or the pit of a theatre. All
amusements of youth, to which virtu-
Gus women are not admitted, rely on
it, are deleterious in their nature. All
men who avoid female society have
dull perceptions and are stupid, or
have gross tastes, and revolt at what is
pure. Your club swaggerers, who are
sucking the butts of billiard cues all
night, call female society insipid.
Poetry is uninspiring to yokel; beauty
has no charms for blind man; music
does not please poor beast who does
not kEow one tune from another; but
as pure epicure is hardly ever tired
of water, sancey, and brown bread
and butter, protest | can sit for a
whole night talking with well regu-
lated, kindly woman about her girl
Fanny or her boy Frank, and like the
evenings entertainment. One of the
great benefits man may derive from
woman's society. is that he is bound to
be respectful to her. The habit is OF
great good to your moral men, depend
upon it. Our education makes of us
the most eminently selfish men in the
world. We fight for ourselves, we push
for ourselves, we yawn for ourselves
We light our pipes, and we say We won'i
go out, We prefer ourselves and ouE
case; and the greatest good that comes
to man from woman's society is that
he has to think of somebody to whom
he is bound to be constantly attentive
and respectful.
Year: 1874

Make common events serve a holy
purpose. Of old times Michael An
gelo took his copies from the persons
in the streets, and wrought them out
on tho walls of the Vatican,
changing beggar into a giant, and an
ordinary woman who bore q basket OF
flowers on her arms into an angel, and
the beggar and the fower-girl stand
there now in their lustrous beauty,
speaking to eyes that wander from ev-
cry side of the great world. The rock
slumbered in the mountain, and he
reached his hands out and took it and
gathered the stones from the field
about him, and built them into that
awful pile which, covering acres on the
ground, reaches up its mighty dome
toward heaven, constraining the mob
of the city to bow their foreheads and
to vow great prayers to God. So, my
brothers and my sisters, out of the
common events Of life, out of the pas
sions put by God in your hearts you
may paint on the walls of your life the
fairest figures, angels and prophets
Out Of the common stones of your
daily work you may build yourself
temple which shall shelter your head
from all harm and bring down on you
the inspiration of God.-Theodore
Parker.
Year: 1874

1t is very critical time in a boys
history when he first begins to earn a
little money, and has the spending of
it in his own hands. The way in which
he invests his first shillings is a matter
of far greater importance than he ever
imagines. 1t may furnish the key to
all his future career. 1t is quite as
important an art to learn to spend
we'll as to learn to spare we'll" A
boy-miser is most contemplate,
hopeless character, but a frugal, econo-
mical boy, is laying the foundation of
substantial character, and most like
ly of successful business career.


When the candy stores tempt you,
learn to pass on. IF necessary to brace
up your resolution. leave your wallet
at home. know boy, who has been
but year in his situation, who spent
every thing he could command last
season on expensive candies and ice
cream. There was no one to control
him; his friends were at a distance,
and he drew on them for funds to keep
his clothing respectable. They we're
busy people, who had a general i'm
preston that his salary was notenough
to support him--so they supplied his
wants from time to time. They have
but just discovered how the money
went, and you may be sure that they
were not well pleased to find their con-
fdence had been so abused. At one
time he had made himself quite i'll by
his excessive indulgence in confection-
cry, and his friends had felt great
anxiety about his hard work, !" which
was so oyertaxing him.


Don't indulge in Injuries in food,
clothing, or surroundings which you
can not afford. If you feel after
purchase, This was not right" be
sure you have made bad bargain. If
a sick mother or sister mad a moral
claim on you for the money, no bless
ing will attend a selfish expenditure
of it, The noble lesson of self-denial
is one you can not begin to learn too
early, because it is one your heavenly
Father enjoins upon you.


Think well over your expenditures,
and it will help you wonderfully to
make profitable investments. Good,
tidy clothing throughout is very val
uabe thing for any body, and is let
ter of recommendation wherever he
goes. 1t should correspond, however,
with his occupation, and the different
parts harmonize with each other, or
the good effect is lost. Neatness in
preference to showiness, is a sound
rule. A fashy necktie never shows
off well upon soiled linen, and it is
marked fact that they very often go
together. If you triAe away your dol
lars in boyhood, you will most likely
see the time when you will realize very
forcibly how many cents it takes to
make one. Better count the pennies
now, and you will stand far better
chance some day to have dollars to
count in your pocket-book.
Year: 1874

Let us not be too particular wheshel


We pray philosophically or not. 1 hav.


tried in opposition to the seepticism Of


the time, to find philosophical basi,


for prayer; but in the act of devotion


philosophy may be forgotten. Indeed


the language of devotion must be diff.
ferentfrom the language of philosophy
In the act of devotion, we crave a hu.
man sympathy and love responsive to
our own !; we want to feel the pulsa-


tions of loving heart; we want to see
the smile of affection beaming upon
US from eyes and lips that respond to
ours.


Poor babes that we are in our weak
ness, we may still be the children of
God. Let the child pray for toys and
ginger bread; he will grow to a condi-
ton In which he will want them no
longer. Let the farmer pray for rain
and sunshine he will come some time
where the twelve-fruited tree of life
needs no rain to water il, and no sun
shine to make it grow. Let the sailor
pray for favorable breezes; he will
come some time to a haven where no
stormy winds blow. Let the sick man
pray for recovery; he will come at last
to land where sickness is unknown.
Let anxious friends, watehin14 by the
bedside where life trembles in the bal
ance, pray for life, and they will come
to that life where the one great family
of God is never broken. Let us pray
then for things we seem to need but
let the undertone of Thy will be
done" run through all our prayers, till
that alone of all our earthly petitions
shall blend with the myriad-voiced
chorus of alteration in heaven. After
this manner, therefore, let us pray:
'Hallowed be Thy name. Thy king
dom come, Thy will be done. ."-Zon's
Herald.
Year: 1874

AN old Scotchman was taking his
grist to mill in sacks thrown across the
back of his horse, when the horse
stumbled, and the grain fell to the
ground. He had not strength to raise
it, he being an aged man, but he saw
horseman riding along, and thought
he would appeal TO him for help.
But the horseman proved TO be the
nobleman who lived in the castle hard
by, and the farmer could not muster
courage to ask a favor of him. But
the nobleman was a gentleman also,
and, not waiting to be asked, he quick
ly dismounted, and between them they
lifted the grain to the horses back.
John-for he was gentleman too
lifted his Kilmarnock bonnet and
said, My lord, how shall ever thank
you for your kindness?' p Very easily,
John" replied the nobleman. when
ever you see another man in the same
plight as you were in just now, help
him, and that will be thanking me-"
Year: 1874

GET to the roots of things. The gold
mines of Scripture are not in the top
soil; you must open a shaft; the pre-
cious diamonds of experience are not
picked up in the roadway; their secret
places are far down. Get down into
the vitality, the solidity. the veracity,
the divinity of the Word of God, and
seek to possess all the inward work Of
the blessed Spirit.-Spurgeon.
Year: 1874

In article eleven, section twelve, of
the constitution of the State ofTennes-
see, will be found the following, in re-
gard to mixed schools No school,
established or aided under this section,
shall allow white and colored children
to be received as scholars together in
the same school" The congress of the
United States has no power to override
the provisions of the state constitution,
so long as that instrument gives a Re-
publican form of government to the
state. Thus it will be seen that the
insertion Of the mixed school clause
in the Civil Rights bill, was trick TO
get the colored people agitated and ex-
cited upon a subject, over which con-
gress has no control in Tennessee
Memphis Register.
Year: 1874

AT the conclusion of the afternoon
performance, while the people in at.
tendance were looking at the manage.
rie. some boys annoyed the elephant
by giving him sticks, tobacco, etc.,
which made him so angry that he
reached out his trunk for the youths
nearest to him, and partially encircled
three of them: Two managed to get
away, bat one, aged about 70 years,
son OH. Luhrs, of the Sazerac saloon.
was caught by the elephants trunk.
turned around two or three times, and
then raised to the beasts mouth, the
animal seeming to have the intention
OF biting him. In fact his head was
raised SO high and with such
force that the boys felt hat had hole
broken in its top by collision with one
of the elephants tusks. A number of
men sprang forward to cause the ami
NAL to release his hold upon. the boy,
which he did, throwing him aside with
such violence that his right forearm was
broken. The animal was much excited
for about ten minutes, and prevented
the boys hat being obtained during
that time. The elephants keeper was
not present at the time, and no precau-
tions had been taken to keep children
and other persons at proper distance
from him. The boy who was injured
had his left arm broken by an accident
about a year ago.-Sacramento Union.
Year: 1874

1T0''' H'''0'' in my lusJ WrOte
you few OF tho many suppositions in re>
gard to mysterious Rockwall. Since
then we have the following from tho &C.
illogical Survey, taken from the Rockwall
Banner From the examination made
We hnd the Wall nearly plum, extending
in northwest, and southeast direction,
between and inches in thickness, with
longitudinal perpendicular fractures. 1t
lies beneath the earth, tho top of the wall
alone coming TO the surface while wells
have been dug by the side to the depth of
80 or 40 feet without reaching the bot
tom. The Wall is hard igncous rock
varying in color from light green to gray.
The adjacent foundation is hard blue
and belongs to the s'cretaceous period"
1t is what is known in geology as Dixie,
the earth Laving been cracked open by
some internal conyulsion of nature during
the "Crstaceous period" Those igueo us
rocks were probably injected from below in
melted state, and cooled. This is
shown by the stratum of rock cutting the
layers ofthe clay,


About miles south of your town at
different points, we examined three other
Dikes, running in different direction from
each other and from the one described
which proves almost conclusive, their e.
neous origin. These bikes are of interest
to science, and arc, believe, the only
formation Of the kind discovered in Texas
The supposition of some that it is the work
of man, has no foundation, man seldom
builds without purpose. The height Of
the wall, the different character of the
rock from any in the vicinity, its extreme
narrowDess, aud the fact of its being
beneath the surface all 60 to disprove
such an origin. As it is SO extremely hot
we pass this speculation by, the Their.
mometer is now l07 in the shade.


Wehavs'nt had a rain Tor several weeks,
the ground is dry and hard, water is got.
ting scarce, so much SO that stock ct a
distance from the Lake or River rely
solely on being watered from wells. which
is great inconvenience. Corn is good
Cotton is needing rain very badly, and
will be q light yield uplsss it rains soon.


Ex-Governor fhrockmorton seems to
be the choice for Congress, although he
will not receive the universal support Of
the Grangers from the fact of his being
interested in The Texas Pacific Railroad
his fine abilities and integrity as a poll
tician will secure his election beyond a
peradventure.


The Grangers are well organized here
and continue to increase. They profess
to adhere to no political order, but will
support honest men who will legislate
with an eye single to the good of the
country, aui prosperity of the people"
instead $1,000 per ennum to say nothing
of the bribery from monoplies, railroad
rings, which has been the ruling
object Of forty second and forty third con,
gress.


DAVT RCC
Year: 1874

The San Francisco Bulletin says that
recent discoveries of the precious met
als have disproved the theory of GER
tain geologists, that the country west
of the Rocky Mountains is divided by
nature into various metalliferous and
mineral bearing belts or zones, to each
of which is assigned particular class
Of deposits, none of which can be ex-
pected to occur largely outside the
specific belt to which it was supposed
to belong. Thus the system of noun
tains that make up the coast range,
was considered the peculiar realm OF
asphaltum, petroleum, coal, and quick
silver; the western declivity Of the
Sierra Nevada was set apart for gold, a
narrow band of cup;ferous ores having
been permitted to traverse it's base !:
while the easterly side Of these noun
tains was made the special home OF
silver, this metal alternating with
gold, lead and copper. bearing belts in
the desert regions beyond.
Year: 1874

Try this. l have tried it with success,
and l have found no hungry person who
did not praise the little pies. You can see
for yourself when you read the recipe.
that they cannot come under the censure
which intelligent people bestow upon Or
danary pies.


They seem rediculously simple, but If
well mixed and thoroughly baked. they
are delicious. Take good juicy. applesauce
but first about the cooking Of that sance.
Either soak the dried apples over night,
and then cook them slowly in the same
water the next morning, or let them heat
up slowly on the back of the stove, with
plenty of water to soak them out fully, and
keep them from burning while cooking,
and add the necessary sugar while the
fruit is still boiling. Let the sauce be
thoroughly soft, or well done.-Then stir
into pint. or any quantity of it, enough
graham flower 10 make q stiff batter. Dip
a spoonful Of this into dry graham -four.
and, taking it into your foury hands. and
mould it into round fattish biscuit. Fill
your baking pans with these, and put them
into hot oven. Bake thoroughly-upon
the clean oven CRATE, if you prefer it to
the tins. The process of moulding the
pies suggests the proper stiffness of the
dough. but do not get it to stifC-that
would make the pies Cor apple cakes y too
hard. Any other sauce can be used in the
same way-fresh:apples, stewed peaches,
stewed prunes, huckleberries- anything
that is simple and juicy. Let the baking
be done in hot oven. and thoroughly
done without burning. Let the chileren
have these to carry 10 school for the noon
lunch. The graham -four gives the
proper nourishment for their bodies, and
the apples make it more palatable. and in
the most convenient shape for their use,
unless they can have raw apples and gra-
ham crackers.
Year: 1874

Special Notice-Judiciary Committee.


An adjourned hearing upon the question Of capt.
cal punishment, will be had before the Committee
on the Judiciary on Tuesdaytafternoon JAM q, and
the General Railroad Bill before same Committee
Year: 1874

Why He DIDN'r MARRY.-It is said
that Sir Walter Campbell. who was
lately in mercantile firm in New York,
wished to marry an American young
lady, Of good position, in the Empire
State. Upon his applying to the young
lady's father, the parent stated that he
always referred all those questions to
his wife. The mother, in her turn,
stated that she must refer to the Duke
Of Argyll The Duke pleaded that.
considering his connection with royalty,
he must consult his eldest son. The
marquis could do nothing without the
queens consent. Her majesty felt that
the issue must be referred to the Duke
of SAKE Cobourg-G Gotha. as head of the
family. The Duke rejoined that. since
tho recent change in Germany, he
looked upon the Emperor William as
his sovereign. and must bow to his ad-
vice. The emperor said that he could
do nothing without Prince Bismark's
opinion; and Prince Bismark declared
he had no opinion at all. one way or
the other; and SO the question-to
marry or not to marry-was brought
to a deadlock.