smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

In the name of the tender Father,


We enter your presence to pray;
In the name of the gentle Jesus,


We would take your sin away.
Not with the Laws iron fingers,


Would we shatter your gods of clay,
But with loving words of compassion,


Would ask you to choose this day.
We know yOu are joined to those idols,
By q cumbering, clanking chain;
The links of that chain we would sever,
Giving you freedom again.
We would give you higher priesthood,
You have worshiped these gods too long,
Bound down 'gainst the will of your manhood,
By the CALLING bands of Wrong.
You have stood at these reeking altars,
You have gazed at the victim die,
In his terrible, maddening torture,


With the agonizing cry.
The quivering hearts of mothers,


Have been laid on that awful shrine,
Where the chords had been snapped asunder
By the demon-god of Wine,
In the flame of whose 5razen altar
The brain of q Nation is scared,
While the arm of Justice is weakened,
And falters ere it is reared.
But we come not with wild upbraiding,
To cry for revenge but to sue
A tender Fathers forgiveness,


For ye know not what ye do.
In the name of the great Jehovah,
In the Christ-like spirit of Love,
We would touch and loosen your shaclSles,
And point to that God above;
Who calls you to rise in your manhood,
And be freed from the blight of sin;
Who opens the gates of his temple
And bids you enter in.
Then strike, brothers, stand and be freemen!
Choosing whom ye will serve this day,
The spirit of Love and Heaven,


Or your gods of gold and clayI
Here's our hand for the Right, our brothers
o, take it, nor falter nor fall,
We will stand in the light Together,
With Gods mercy over all.
And you shall receive your baptism,
In the tears of joy that shall flow
From the eyes of grateful Nation,
That has wept so long in woe.
And a light shall break on your vision,
A light that you never have known,
And the music of Heaven shall greet you,
Instead of the drunkard's groan.
And living thus, grand in your manhood,
With higher and nobler ken,
The angels shall carry the tidings,
''THEY STAND FOR THE RIGHT LIKE MENw
Year: 1874

It will be seen that the above form
is well adapted for use in our coun-
try schools, as it comprises all the
branches generally taught in them,
and some that ore not. The latter
of course can be3eft blank by each
Teacher in making out the Report.


I hope every Teacher of our coun-
ty, who has not heretofore tried the
plan of making Monthly Reports,
will resolve to try it. once, and I
think few will abandonit after giving
it fair trial.
Year: 1874

Enigma.
am composed of II letters.
My first is in green, but not in red,
My second is in fold, but not in spread,
My third is in go, bat not in stay,
My fourth is in daily, also in day,
My fifth is in whole but not in part,
My sixth is in hand, also in heart,
My seventh is in ice, but not in snow,
My eighth is in sure, also in slow,
My ninth Is in kindle, but not in ignite,
My tenth is in quarrel, but not in fight,
Ny eleventh is in yes, also in yea,
My whole tippler will take every day.
Marshall, o. PEGGIE.
Year: 1874

He that does good to another man,
does also good to himself; not only
in the consequences, but in the very
act of doing it; for the conscience of
well doing is an ample reward.-Sen-
eca.
Year: 1874

4 u u nON GO L n IN w NJ n L =


A DITTY FOR THE TIMES.
There is one among the many,
Can you tell me where he stays7
He's aa odd, Old-fashioned party,
Called the honest man, who pays:
Yes-the honest man who pays


Every dollar he may owe,
Keeping up the good old ways


That so many scarcely know.
If he gives his word of promise
'Tis bond as good as gold;
II he hold post of honor,
Not trust is ever sold


By the honest man who pays


Every debt he may incur,
Yielding each just award,


And no grudging or demur.
And I'm told this rare old party
Lives-within his income, won
By the fairest, squarest dealing
We see beneath this sun.
And the honest man who pays


Always holds it good and right,
For the rich to help the needy


When the times are tough and tight.
Year: 1874

When Mr.. MiIlard Fillmore died the
other day, most of the notices which his
death occssioned mentioned the fact
that at the time when he began the study
of the law, at the age Of nineteen, he
had never seen a grammar or geo.
graphy. Yet Mr.. Fillmore, both in
writing and speech, used the English
language with about the usual propriety;
and like most of our respectable public
men, he never lapsed into very glaring
solecisms Of his geography, says the
Tribune, we are not so certain, but his
knowledge was probably sufficient for
all ordinary emergencies. 1t is the ac.
curacy with which 30 many of our half
educated or self-educated men write and
speak English which is surprising, and
there is nothing like it, we suspect, any
where else in the world. Yet his facility
does not come from the study of gram
mar. There are not ten men in the
House of Representatives who could
parse ten lines of Milton according to
the rules of Lindley Murray; yet these
gentlemen are never guilty of two mega
tives employed to strengthen the mega
tion, even when they are denying
charges of fraud or corruption.


The Vice-President, who was, when a
boy, a shoemakers apprentice, denied
that he had never been a Know-Noth-
ing in respectable English. These are
facts which may well lead US to revise
our notions Of the necessity of studying
grammar as it is usually taught in our
schools. Our American accuracy does
AZ T. I
attributed to the general habit of read
ing. 1t is in this way that the majority
become tolerable grammarians by rote
and speak correctly simply because they
speak at all The verbs are made tC
agree with their nominative cases in
stinctively and as a matter of good breed
ing. Small mistakes are made, as they
are by the best writer's; but nobody
notices them except professional teach
ers, who in turn, make just as many.
Year: 1874

King Solomon has the credit of being
the wisest man that ever lived; and he
declared that he who is deceived by
wine, the mocker, and strong drink, the
raging, is not wise. The delusions of
drink are as old as drink itself, and are
as prevalent now as in Solomon's time.
There are men who honestly believe
that alcoholic drink is good for them;
vet there is not one of them who would
touch it except as prescribed medi-
cine il it were not for its pleasant taste.
The delusion touching its heslthfulness
grows out of the desire to justify an ap-
petite which may either be natural or
acquired. If a man likes whisky or
wine, he likes to think that it is good for
him, and he will take some pains to
prove that 1t is so, both to himself and
others.


Now, alcohol is pure stimulant.
There is not so much nutriment in it as
there is iH a chip. 1t never added any
thing to the permanent forces OF life,
and never can add anything. Its mo-
mentary intensi6cation of force is a
permanent abstraction Of force from the
drinkers capital stock. All artificial
excitants bring exhaustion. The physl-
clans know this, and the simplest man S
reason is quite capable of comprehend
ing it. If any man supposes that daily
drink, even in small quantities, is con-
ducive to his health, be is deluded. II
he possess sluggish temperament, he
may be able to carry his burden without
much apparent harm, but burden it is,
and burden it always will be.


After man has continued moderate
drinking long enough, then comes a
change-a demand for more drink. The
old quantity does not suffice. The pow
ers which have been insensibly under
mined clamor, under the pressure OF
business. for increased stimulation. 1t
is applied, and the machine starts OIL
grandly; the man feels strong, his form
grows portly, and he works under con-
slant pressure. Now he is in condi-
ton Of great danger, but the delusion is
upon him that he is in no danger at all.
At last, however. drink begins to take
the place of food. His appetite grows
feeble and ftful. He lives on his drink,
and, of course, there is but one end to
this viz: DEATH 1t may come sudden
ly, through paralysis, or it may come
slowly through atrophy and emaciation.
His friends see that he is killing himself
but he cannot see it at all. He walks in
a delusion from his early manhood to his
death.


A few weeks ago one Of our city physi
clans publicly read a paper on the drink
ing habits of women. 1t was a thought
fol paper, based on a competent knowl
edge OF facts. 1t ought to have been o.
great use to those women of the city who
are exposed to the dangers it portrayed
and especially to those who have ae
ouired the habits it condemned. SooT
afterward there appeared in the columns
of a daily paper protest from writel
who ought to be a geod deal more intel
lirent than he is, against the doctor
conclusions. The health and physique
of the beer drinking Englishwomen were
placed over against the health anS
physioue Of the water-drinking Ameri
can women. to the disadvantage ct th'
latter. The man is deluded Il is no
a year since Sir Henry Thompson, on'
Year: 1874

From the San Francisco Chronicle.l


On Monday evening last A. Hemme,
who resides on the corner of California
street and Van Ness avenue, requested
his daughter to go to the kitchen for
some article which he needed. Soon
afterwards she returned with frightened
look on her face, saying that she had
smelled Chinaman in the kitchen.
This announcement caused her father
TO laugh heartily, but in consequence of
her earnestness he consented to 20 and
satisfy her of the absurdity Of her idea.
A rigid search Of the kitchen was made,
hut no hidden Celestial was found, and
the search was about TO be abandoned
when the daughter, who had been prying
about in the wash room, ran in with the
announcement that he was in there
Her assertion was Immediately proved
bv the searchers, who found the Celestial
who had propagated so extensive a
scent concealed behind an array OF
wash tubs. An officer was sent for, and
the culprit was taken to the city prison,
where q charge Of burglary was entered
against him. The examination yester-
dav in the Police Court educed the fore
going facts, aud resulted in the holding
of the fragrant heather to answer be-
fore thc Grand jury, With bail fixed Of
$4,000
Year: 1874

almost exclusively by their games and holiday
sports. Didactic instruction is like rivnle


that promises delusively and is lost in the


sands. Even the home examples fade out Of


the memory, for they are received, as it were,


under protest; but the lesson of the game
holds on, for it is taken in by all the power OF


intellectual absorption. with the mind IN its


highest condition of vital fervor.


In their influence educationally the college
regattas have two leading aspects of unequal
importance-the physical and the moral.
Their effect upon physical training is perhaps
exaggerated in the general opinion. We do
not believe they accomplish so much either
for good or for evil in this way as seems to
be generally thought They have been de-
cried for the cultivation Of tastes inconsistent
with the steady pursuit of college studies, and
for the over-exertion by training that leads to
sudden death or early decay. As occasional
accidental results these are, perhaps, evils Of
real occurrence, but they are not necessary
consequences of the sport If an idle fellow
relinquishes his studies because the boat club
gives an opportunity for the indulgence of
tastes for other pursuits, we may be sure that
some other reason, equally cogent, would have
been found for the same course if he had never
every sudden decline to be laid to too ener-
ergetic physical endeavor, though there is a
tendency to assume relation of cause and
effect here just as formerly the same early
death or decline was attributed to too intense
study. On the other hand, neither are
we TO expect that the habit Of rowing
in college races will in few gen.
erations make giants of all the young
fellows who so to college. Our physical type
of manhood which is result Of origin and
climate rather than of habits, will remain
over the whole country substantially what it
is despite the regattas. Some good will re-
suit in this direction in cultivating the best
possibility Of the type; but the habit of row.
not better people physically than the farm
ing and hunting and clearing away the will
derness made our fathers and grandfathers.
Let us hope it may make us strong enough to
keep the country as free as they left it,


But the moral aspects of sports like this are
the best and of results such as they seem
calculated to leave on the mind we have the
greatest need. In such a race all is pure
chivalry. An unfair advantage is disgrace,
and the attempt to take it has no other effect
than to cover the guilty ones with shame.
Honor, fair recognition of the conditions of
rivalry, rigid adherence to those conditions,
q generous recognition of the respective
merits-all this, wide as the poles apart from
the spirit that has crept into and poisoned the
lives Of the people, is what we want to culti-
vate and encourage. Happy is the country
whose sons are so instilled with the spirit of
sport like thus that they will not lose it. but
will govern their conduct in the battle of life
by the seltsame spirit.
Year: 1874

The INVESTIGATION into the Arkansas cleo
ion has commenced, and from the opening
proceedings it is evident that hard fight
will be made by both the Baxter and Brooks
parties Charges Of fraud are literally made,
and probably the fairest way to decide upon
them would be to admit the truth of all Of
them. The Convention has signifed its deter
mination to repudiate all fraudulently con-
tracted debts. But how are they to decide
what debts are fraudulent in such sense as
to deprive the bona Jide creditor Of his rights?
And will not the action of the Convention
take the form of reputation altogether?
Truly, the beauties of Reconstruction" grow
more and more striking as time progresses.
Year: 1874

COLLISION ON THE ERIE RALwAy.-Another
railroad collision is reported, but it is at least
an eminently fortunate one in the compara-
lively inconsiderable injury done. For two Erie
express trains to collide while each is moving
at the rate of from fifteen to twenty miles an
hour, and for every passenger to escape with
life, even though some are badly hurt, is an
occurrence scarcely less than miraculous. One
baggage master is the only person killed,
though the engine of one train ploughed its
way through the engine, baggage car and
smoking Car of the other train. Ever since
the Erie Railway Company has been in
trouble with the conflict of the various parties
that claim the property, or that desire to con-
troll it, we have expected to see great dis
organization of its service result, and, as O
consequence, to hear of many collisions and
similar disasters But, on the contrary, it
has been very free from these calamities, and
we hope they are not to begin now. But q
collision like this indicates some defect in sig
mailing or in the time table that calls for ex-
PLANTATION.
Year: 1874

A COMMUNICATION TO THE MAYOR makes
the alarming statement that corrupt infu-
ences we're used in the Legislature to secure
the passage of the Warehouse BILL Ws sim
cerely trust that such a charge against the
representatives of the people may be dis
proved, as the spotless reputation of Albany is
at stake and an insult is offered 10 the self
sacrificing patriots we send there.
Year: 1874

JOHNNY BULL refuses to be bound altogether
by the decisions and DEGREES of the Peace Con-
ference. He reserves the right to sell projec-
tiles to all or any who may choose to buy.
Johnny will sign any treaty but such as may
affect his purse
Year: 1874

PAVING FIFTH AVENUE, although sadly
needed public Improvement, has been neg
lected 50 long that many of the property own
ers despair of seeing it accomplished under
the present regime. To those who called upon
him yesterday in reference to the subject
Mayor Havemeyer gave the highly encourag-
ing information that if the property owners
wanted the work done he would not oppose it,
and if an Aldermanic ukase to that effect was
passed he would not veto it.
Year: 1874

The Mennonites at Castle Carbon.


Among the emigrants now at Castle Garden
are about six hundred Mennonites. II these arc
fair sample Of those who are TO follow we NAV
expect the great body of emigrant Mennonites
about to come to the United States from Rus
sia to rival their brethren in PENNSYLVANIA and
Maryland and the States of the Northwest.
whose ancestors came here before the Revolu-
ton. Most readers will recall the SINGULAR
historical fact that even Franklin opposed thu
emigration of these people to the Province Of
Pennsylvania, and yet they are to-day the bono
and sinew OF that great Commonwealth The
so-called Scotch-Irish, though proverbiallya
thrifty race had no chance in contendin9
with the steady industry and economy of tho
German religionists, and to-day many of the
most magnificent farms in the State are owned
by the Mennonites. One fact as significant as
it is remarkable is that such thing as
poverty is, and always has been, unknown
among them. A poor Mennonite is harder to
find than rich gambler. The reason of this
is that they teach their children industry and
frugality as a religious duty, and lazi-





them, vices to be particularly avoided.
They are not what the Yankees call
''intelligent," neither are they ''cute,"
but they are extremely honest eminently
active in caring for their own interests, with
out detriment to those Of their neighbors, and
SO industrious that they not only enrich them
selves, but as they have increased in numbers
and wealth they have conferred incalculabla
blessings upon the whole country. They do
not believe in war, but if all men were like
them in developing the natural resources Of
the soil by honest toll the country would soon
become so rich that nobody could afford to
fight. They are a simple, modest, earnest,
industrious and frugal people, and, though
opposed to war and taking no part in politics,
there are no better or more useful citizens.
We have had five or six generations Of Men,
nonites born in this country, and the stock
has proved so satisfactory that we cannot but
receive the new supply with special and
hearty welcome.
Year: 1874

THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. s.-The old trouble
in the Sandwich Islands is, according to our
latest news, revived 1t was thought that the
election of King Kalakaua would give domes-
tic peace for some Years at least It has not,
however, proved to be so. A petition has for
some time been In circulation praying the
Legislature to set aside the election in virtue
of which the King occupies the throne. Great
Britain and Germany are both suspected One
of the suspicious movements of the moment
is an attempt to raise loan of one million
dollars; rata of interest, six per cent 1t will
be well for the government of the United
States to keep an eye on these movements


We cannot afford to allow either Great Britain
or Germany or both united, TO rob the King
dom of its independence. In any change
which may become q necessity the govern
ment of the United States must be consulted.


THE BLOODY WORK of the savages goes
bravely on in the West Colonel Carpenter,
of the Sixth cavalry, wounded and six men
killed in an engagement west of Fort Sill. A
stage keeper killed and horribly mutilated in
presence of his wife and the woman reserved
for fate worse than death. A party of
woodchoppers all killed collision with
the rcd men in Texas, with two
white men killed and several wounded.
Depredations and murders in Wyoming Terri
tory The Cheyennes and Arapahoes out on
the warpath- The Sioux attacking a mining
camp; two Of the whites killed; the rest cor
ralled, and Captain Vessels troop of the
Third cavalry gons TO their rescue. This
is the interesting batch of news we
receive to-day, the precursor, no doubt,
of yet gnver intelligence of massacres
and outrages committed by the savages who,
in six months time, we shall be feeding, pray.
ing with and converting, until the summer
again arrives and tomahawks and scalpine
Anivas once more take the place of ration'
and Bibles. When will the people learn tho
esll value of Shermans Indian pohcyS
Year: 1874

Ax Augusta hen-peeksd husband
closed his testimony in his action for
divorce from his wife. as follows: II
don't want to say anything agin the
woman. Judge, bat wish you could
live with her n little while, you'd think
I lad told the truth" The earnest SIN
cerity OF this appeal won the poor man
the decree he desired.
Year: 1874

A correspondent writing to the Glasgow Mat,
says:-The other morning was taking walk In
one or the graveyards on the south side, when my
attention was attracted to two men digging o
grave. walked up to them and was asked If I
would like 10 see dead body. therefore looked
into the grave and saw u corpse, which appar-
emily had just been uncovered. Alter had looked
at 1t for minute the man In the grave divided the
body into pieces 10 enable him to throw 1t up to
the surface. The BODY was about eight feet from
the surface. The man at the top OF the grave
gathered the parts together and put them In o
barrow beside another mutilared corpse but Tor
wnat purpose know not, as turned away in dis
gust and lett the ground. gentleman came up
Just as | was leaving the grave. How long the
body had lain IN the grave cannot say; but this
Fnow, that the man who cut 1t up had some difi-
Guilty in doing SO. II this Is what goes on In our
graveyards cremation Is greatly 10 be preferred
Year: 1874

From the Ashtabula (0hto) sentinei.l


No doubt our young readers would like to see
the performances OF dog in this village. In the
family in which the dog lived the old cat had
four Kittens. The dog became greatly attached
to the kittens, and put in most OF his time playing
with them, and sometimes was little rough. but
not Intentionally 80. The cat and kittens were
sent to nelghb0r's, so as to get them away from
the dOg. In short time doggy was missing; very
soon he returned with kitten in his mOuh h..
Then he went back for the others and brought
them all home. He was very careful not to hurt
the Kittens ana would roll them over and over so
as to get good hold on them. There Ia no moral
connected with this story.
Year: 1874

So here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it


Slip useless away?
Out of Eternity


This new day is born;
Into Eternity,


At night will return.
Behold it aforetime


No eye ever did;
So soon it forever


From all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away? CarlyIe.
Year: 1874

The nearest thing TO an indication that
the brain has been working rather more
than is good for 1t, is the persistence Ia
the mind, during the period Of rest, Of
the thoughts which have engaged IL du.
ring its period Of activity. After good
spell of hard work, the BRAN worker Is
often tormented by finding it difficult,
all at once, to turn off the steam. His
work day thoughts will intrude theul-
selves in spite Of every effort TO keep
them out Each worker has usually a
way Of bis own Of endeavoring TO get
quit of the unwclcome guests. Thack
cray generally succeeded in exercising
the creatures whom he had been calling
into existence by the simple cxpedient Of
turning over the leaves Of dictionary.


A great lawyer was in the habit IN simi-
lar circumstances, OF plunging into a cold
bath, and averred that person never
takes out Of cold water the same ideas
that be took into It. Perhaps the best
/ lutulal tOIGtCtiNB VI iil5 CohuilloH ~ 10
employ the mind for a short time IN
direction most contrasted TO that In which
/ it has been overworked In this way a
mathematician might find advantage in
unbending his mind on page or two Of
a novel, while novelist conld chase away


the phantoms which haunt him by Dip
ping into a discussion on the Quantitica-
I ton of the predicate. The cure, IN faet,


must be sought for on a principle the


iery opposite to that Of the famous ho-
/ mmpalhic doctrine Of snnilars,