smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The following story is almost too
good to he true: A certain railway
company suspected that they were
being dcfrauded by passengers trav-
ling without tickets, so a detective
was sent to travel on the trains. One
day he heard passenger remark that
it was very easy to 90 from Dayton
to Moorfleld without a ticket The
detective watched his man closely.
and was surprised to find him hand .
proper ticket to the conductor.


Entering into conversation Sith the
passenger, the detective said:


Il should like to know your plan
for travelling without a ticket, as I
am a frequent traveller, and | don't
mind giving you dollar for the tip"


"Donel" said the man, and after he
pocketed the bill. he remarked quiet
ly, when 1 want to travel without
ticket, walk"
Year: 1879




Home religion is a thing Of the
heart-which Is the same as saying it
is a thing Of love. l. may exist in
connection with forms, and il may
exist in its sweetest unfolding, inde-
pendent of forms. 1t may say grace
at the table, and it may not say grace
at the table. 1t may be gifted to sus-
tain a family altar. and it may not
have the gift requisite. But il the
heart be right, there shall be grace
and prayerfulness, albeit forms be
lacking in the family. There is a
way of eating your food which thanks
God better than any grace-saying
that can be devised. There is way
of kissing the wife after the meal and
the. husband is leaving for Office which
covers the whole ground between
husband and wife intended to be COW
cred by the influence OF the family
altar. We have known a man to ask
for blessing on food which he him
self condemned in the very next
breath. To thank God for food. and
scoli your wife or the cook in the
next breath because the STEAK c over
done, or the cakes not Drowned TO
your suiting. or the tea too strong, is
something more, my friend, than i'm
piety 1t is indecency.


Home religion should be loving
first OF all, and last OF all it should be
loving. 1t should be very patient
too-especially on those days when
1t is hard to be patient, 1t should he
cheerful, especially when it takes wit
TO invent occasions OF mirthfulness
1t should be brave, not TO face the
troubles that are without, but the
troubles that are within. A kindly
word, pleasant speech. cheerful 0I
sympathetic look, a touch of the hand
in the old tender fashion OF the court.
ing days, a stroking of the cheek and
the soft movement OF the palm over
the hair-"Foolish tricks?" You are
a fool IL you say it, friend. You didn'
think they were foolish tricks once
and you were wiser then than you are
now tha; you have dropped them
little more courting in married life
would keep married life what court
ship was. The foollshness! OF love i
wiser than the wisdom II hate, and the
more foolish you are in these direc'
tions the happier will your homes be
and the sweeter will be your homes
Year: 1879

A distinction has been drawn by
the Rev. George Henslow between
the kind of intellect in brutes and
that in men. 1t Is given for what 1t
Is worth: "It has seemed to me that
brute reasoning Is always practical,
but never abstract. Brutes do won
derful things suggested by the OBJ
jective fact before them. but i think
never go beyond it. Thus, dog left
in room rang the bell TO fetch a
servant. Had not the dog been
taught to ring a bell (Which on In
quiry proved to have been the case),
this would have been abstract reason
ing, but 1t was only practical. The
Arctic fox, too wary to be shot like
the first who took bait tied to q
string which was attached to the
trigger OF gun-would dive under
the snow, and so pull the bait down
below the line OF fire. This is purely
practical reasoning: but had the fox
pulled the string first out OF the line
OF fire in order to discharge the gun
and then get the bait, that would
have been abstIact reasoning.
Brutes and boys are just alike, In that
nothing occurs to them beyond what
the immediate fact before them may
suggest. The one kind call purely
practical reasoning, which both have


the other abstract, which brutes new.
er acquire, but which the boy will as
] bis intelligence Develops
Year: 1879

Mr.. A. Petrie writes; an my own
family we had tabby cat who, when


turned out. would let herself in at
another door by climbing up some
list nailed round it, then pushing up
the click latch. pushing the door.
with herself hanging on it, away from
the post, so as to prevent the latch
falling back into its place, and then
dropping down and walking back TO
the fire. knew Skye terrier who,
bring told to carry fishing-rod,
carefully expeiimented along it's
length, to find its center OF gravity.
then carried it on till his master came
to narrow path through wood.
Here Skye considered. dlopped the
rod, took it by the end, and dragged
it under him lengthwise till the open
road was gained, when he took the
rod by the center OF gravity again
and went on. This could not be a
copy OF human actions, but the result
OF original reasoning" Mr.. Henry
Cecil gives the following on the au.
thority of the late Mr.. Dawes, the as


tronomer: Being busy in his gar
den. and having large bunch OF
keys in his hand, he gave it to a re-
triever to hold for him till be was at
liberty. Going into the house soon
af.er he forgot to reclaim the keys,
The remembrance Of what he had done
with them only returned to him when
he required to use them ir the eve-
ming. Hs then recalled that he had
given them to the dog. and forgotten
to take them again. Calling him, and
looking impressively in his face, he
said: my keysl fetch me my keys
The dog looked wistful and puzzled
I for moment, and then bounded of
to the garden. his master following


Hs went straight to the root of an
apple tree, scratched up the keys


aud brought them. Nay we not fair


lily put into words the dogs train oil
reasoning thus: MY master has
given me these keys to hold; he ha:
forgotten them: l cannot carry then


all day, bu. must put them in safety
where I can find them az ainl" Mr.. r



Howson seuds us the story OF tex


rier like dog of no particular breed
named Uglymug, who had poodle
for a companion. Whenever Ugly,
mug saw signs of a family meal be


ing laid out. he inveigled the poodl,
into labyrinthine shrubbery updel
pretence OF seeking for rats, aud
when the latter was fairly intent or
its game Uylymlg sneak ID back Il
enjoy, all by himself, what he coul,
get from the family table-Nature.
Year: 1879

Despite the fact that as rule the
people like the old and familiar in
music better than the new, the aver
age amateur will go a good ways to
find something new for a concert per-
Torrance. In order to sing or play
anything old. we lay ourselver liable
to greater severity OF criticism, for
what the people know they are also
judges. This is one OF the reasons
why amateurs pass by the best OF old
music wherewith they might be sure
to please their hearers, and select
some outlandish production that
causes the good people to wonder
whether they themselves are igno-
ramuses. or whether the conccrtist is
void OF taste,
Year: 1879

passengers having rushed the coach
all the way up one side OF the noun
tain and held it back all the way down
the other. In spite OF this there is a
rush for places on the stage daily, as
there has been for half century,
Ne,C York World
Year: 1879

TIE case OF deaf mute COW is re.
ported by Russian veterinary surgeon.
A COW twelve years old, Of Alsave breed.
belonging to Russian nobleman. never
showed signs Of hearing. nor beloved.
Seeing the other cattle below, she tried
to initiate them by stretching her neck
and head and opening her mouth. but
she could not produce any sound. The
sense OF vision OF this COW was found to
be unusually well developed.
Year: 1879

which is to bring about the success
full celebration of the centennial;
that the meeting heartily concur in
the recommendation and request
the appointment, by the Governor,
of delegates to attend the same.
Year: 1879

Washington, Oct. 24.-The treasury
department has transferred an addition
al ten million in gold Ito. the assay Office
at New York to facilitate foreign ex-
change, and the San Francisco mint is
coming small gold pieces to supply the
demand. The Philadelphia mint is at
work principally on silver dollars. 1t
is expected that the treasury depart
ment will soon be able to purchase suffi-
cient silver for delivery at the San
Francisco mint to enable that mint to
relieve the Philadelphia mint of its dol
lar coinage. Tile latter mint will then
work on small gold pieces.
Year: 1879

THE SCHooL-B Book JoB.-It seems to be utter,
ly impossible for a Kansas Legislature to meet
without designing persons manage to secure the
passage one or more laws containing big job.
The law oflast Winter, requiring District Boards
to adopt uniform series of text books, was one
of this class of laws. Already the State is
swarming with the agents of different school
book publishers, drumming for the adoption of
their book. Every District Board in the State is
besieged by them. As each Board has the selec-
tion of its own series, and the ideas of differ
ent Boards differ or as they are attracted by the
varied eloquence of the agents, or as their isno-
rance Of the merits of all school books is their
peculiar talent, the Kansas schools will have
every imaginable kind of textbooks. If there
are dozen different kinds represented by agents,
each County will have that many different kinds.
Adjoining Districts will have different kinds Of
books. As very many of the country people of
Eastern Kansas are renters of small means,
who may be compelled to change their residence
once every year, the hardship will be felt espe-
cally by them. They may procure set OF
books for their children for the next term OF
school. Next year they may move into Dis
trict that has adopted different series of text
books, when their books will become worthless,
and they will be under the necessity of laying
in new supply; and it may go on in this way
from one year to another. In the present ad-
vanced stage of educational science, some means
ought certainly to be devised to secure greater
uniformity, at less expense.
Year: 1879

rs We notice by the papers that one Of the fsa-
lures of the Fourth of July celebration at White
Cloud, will be dance by party of Major kent's
Indians. Every Indian who announces at this per
formsuce that he has scalpe white people, ought to
he Immediately taken out and hung. That would bc
attraction that would draw big crowd. We have
objections to the red relating in his dance
how fast he can run when pursued by soldiers, how
many times he has whipped his wife, how many dogs
he has eaten. how many different kinds of lice he
has about his person. but it looks like adding insult
to injury to allow them to boast in public ofthe long
haired scalps they have taken, and show how much
they would enjoy another favorable opportunity =
AfchisoR Globe.


Now, what have you to say Of the Southern
Rebels They are supposed TO be civilized, while
the poor Indians are not; they had not the one
milionth part as much reason to go into the
business Of murder that the Indians had yet
they were equally as savage in their warfare, aud
not day passes but they stand up and blow of
their exploits of murder, and refer to their tro-
phies in the war to destroy their Government.
Of the two, give us the "IDjuns."
Year: 1879

II The publisher of Sunday 4ftermoon, q
monthly periodical published at Springfield,
Mass, reminds US that the first poem on the first
page of our Decoration Day issue, of May 18th,
was not credited to that work, for which it was
especially written. We take pleasure in max
ing the correction, and begging pardon for the
oversight. So much Of the poetry now going
the rounds of The press is without the proper
credit, that it is frequently impossible to know
where to place the credit, when clipped second
hand.
Year: 1879

This Issue completes the 22d year of the pub
LEGATION of the Chief, and next week we shall en-
ter upon Volume %. We shall not indulge in
any review, at this time. We have tried to do
as well as we knew how, and of course have
failed to please all. The paper will be maAle a.
good in the future, the patronage will insti-
fy, and a little better. Again thanking our
many friends for their patronage, we wish them
all abundant success in the future, with profit
able business, large crops, good prices, and good
health of themselves and theirs. We hope, by
this time, they well enough acquainted with
MS to overlook failngs, aud give rs credit for
the good We may do. We hope, in the thirty or
forty years that we are yet to stay with them.
We may all have lots of fun.


We trust that it will not lie taken amiss. in
this connection, If ask all subscribers to look
at the labels on their papers, and see how they
stand on subscription. We will not take it
amiss If they send us as much of tie amount Of
arrearages as they cap spare Always remem-
ber that it takes good deal of money to run a
newspaper, and that printers never have glut
OF the commodity.
Year: 1879

~ 1t should be borne in mind that while the
ton into separate bills they should have done in
the first place, they determined to hold back the
appropriation bills until the President has passed
upon the other bills. This is the same unconstitu-
tional 1t is threat that unless these bills
are signed there shall be appropriations of the
money the people have paid in for the support Of the
Government. 1t Is the same revolutionary proceed
ing in n different form.-Hartord Ere~isg Post.
Year: 1879

ANOTHER CONFEDERATE MoxUNExr.-Memphis
forces Mt the time ofthe capture Of Fort Pillow and
the massacre Of portion Of the garrison. Wouldn't
it he in the line of prudence for the Memphans to
this money until they see whether the summer sea-
son brings them visitation of yellow fever or not
There a rather distressing lack Of funds there
much tax the memory -PkiLadeipAia Ledger
Year: 1879

u With Characteristic Southern thrift, the
people of the South are using the surplus money
that remained of the Northern contributions for
the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers, in build
ing monuments to dead Rebel bushwhackers.
Year: 1879

With all due respect tor ST. Paul
in pronouncing cleanliness next
thing to godliness, l believe ex-
treme cleanliness. that requires the
lie service of a human being, to be
not only next to sinfulncss, but
actually it. What l co indorse is
a sense Of general wholesomeness
IL and about n house. clean crock
cry, clean dish-cloths, a clean table
cloth and bright China and silver
as essentials. That there are mud
tracks on the floor, fly spccks on
the window panes, dust on the top
of picture frames, finger marks on
the t"ors, or a carpet that has not
had thorough sweeping for
month-sucIl things are Of minor
Importance and ought not to dis
turb the happiness OF airy woman
who desires to use her time for bet


ter work. 1t is plain that a house
keeper must put limit somewhere
to her labors or else give herself up
to hopeless drudgery.


What good health and absolute
comfort demand should be carefully
attended; but beyond that the
work becomes in large part un-
profitable drudgory. 1t makes
nobody happier or bettcr-otten
the rcveise-w while the best that can
be said of It is that it gratifies in
small way the vanity OF the woman,
who does it. She likes to see things
Look clcaa So do all of us And
she is spurrcd on 10y some secret
impulse to clean and polish, and
sweep and brush, and scrub and
sconr, as if by snch work eternal
life wclc to be Won. The force Of
habit finally becomes such that she
can't lie down for nap and get
wink OF sleep if she knows TINT tho
mantle-piecc has not been dnstcd,
or that there is II bit of thread or
scrap of paper lying On the car
pet. l doubt if any woman so
hainpcred with care Tor small |
things can rise TO large and inst
conception of life, and understand
in its trne senee that life is more
than meat, and the body more than
raimert. ! believe in giving some
good food 70 the mind every dav of
ones life, though the kitchen floor
has not been scrubbed for a fort
night, or the parlor windows rub
bed for a month.-RuraE Nesc
Yorker.
Year: 1879

THE LOUISIANA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
have adopted an amendment TO the state debt
ordinance fixing the rate OF interest on consol.
idated bonds at two per cent. for flve years,
three for ten years and four thereafter. An ef-
fort Will be made to allow holders OF the con.
soils to convert them into small currency bonds,
bearing three or four per cent interest.
Year: 1879



 The subject selected last Sunday by Mir. Matheny was most suitable for the present time, "Early Picty" and 'How to train Children" was happily treated by this earnest preacher and zealous Christian man. He counseled the chil- dren to obey their parents, as the be- ginning of piety. Glove thy Creator in the days of thy youth," and love your parents also, with filial love-not with servile love which is beastly.

 Since I have introduced this subject l would like to produce an extract, which was written hundred and twenty-five years ago by John Wesley's mother.

 ''In order to form the minds of chill dren, the first thing to be done is to conquer their will, and bring them to an obedient temper. To inform the understanding is a work of time, and must, with children, proceed by slow degrees, as they are able to bear it; but the subjeeting the will is thing which must be done at once, and the sooner the better for by neglecuing timely correction, or control, they will contract stubbornness and obstinacy which are hardly ever after conquered, and never without using such sever ity as would be as painful to me as to the child. In the eyes of the world they pass for kind and indulgent, whom I call cruel parents, who permit their children to get habits which they know must be afterward broken. Nay, some are so stupidly fond, as in sport to teach their children to do things which, in awhile after they have severely beaten them for doing.

 When child is corrected it must be conquered; and this will be no hard matter to do if it be not grown head strong by too much indulgence. And when the will of child is totally sub dued, and it is brought to revere and stand in awe of the parents, then a great many childish follies and inad- vertencies may be passed by. Some should be overlooked and taken no mo- tice or, and others mildly reproved; |; but no willful transgression ought ever to be forgiven children, without such chastisement as the nature and eircum- stances of the case may require. in- sist upon conquering the will of chill dren betimes, because this is the only strong and radical foundation ofa re-
Year: 1879

Apart from the debauching and bru- talizing influence of slavery still op- erative, the chief difference between Southerners and Northerncrs is that the former drink to excess and carry weapons, and the latter as a rule, do neither. The Southeraers are, as a class besottedly blind to their worst faults. They wonder that they are regarded abroad not less than in the North as scmi-civilized; and yet they are continually guilty of conduct which disgraces both civilization and humanity.--New York Times.

 There is 8 proposition before the Illinois Legislature looking to q Constitution amendment providing that sessions of the Legislature for law making purposes shall be held but once in six years, but that bien nial sessions shall still be held for the purpose of appropriations and tax levies. It is beginning to dawn on the public mind that the country is being legislated to death.-L. K. Democrat.
Year: 1879

MR. EDITOR: It does seem to me that there are too many men buying corn and meat this year. 1 do think that people ought to look to their own interests better than to arrange their crops so as they have to buy what they can raise at home. That will break any man that tries to farm and depends on some merchant to furnish him what he eats and wears. Farmers be careful that you don't let the price of cotton run you crazy: as it is advancing a little plant plenty of corn to do you and little to sell, and the balance in cotton, and be sure that you do not plant more than you can gather with your own force, for that is what gets away with all the profits; when man rents land and hires his cotton picked he is sure to come out worse than he was when he first begun his crop. If we want our country to prosper we must depend on our own labor and a little brain work with it; then we would be more able to take our county paper; some men will complain about the DEMOCRAT being no accounts; If everybody would take 1t and encourage it, and some farmer from every town ship or locality would write something to the DEMOCRAT, then 1 think our county paper would be much better. One or two men cannot make paper interesting. l thlnk that every man that takes an interest in keeping him. self posted in county matters should take the DEMOCRAT.

 Now, Mir. Editor, everything is going on right side up with care in the Valley. I hear some of our farmers say they are going to plant cotton this week, but owing to the cool weather it is full early. Respectfully,

 SUBSCRIBER.
Year: 1879

The above Is fair specimen of the articles which appear in Radical pa- pers oi the North, yet they are sur prlsed that the South is Democratic. They are hardly pursuing the pro- per course however, to humanize and civilize us poor devils down here. Thank God, the party that nurtures such men as wrote the above arti- cle has lost it's prestige and like the old lady whose baby was so small she couldn't find any place to spank it when it cried, we don't feel disposed Co strike at what IS left of the rotton concern. Courier.
Year: 1879

Senator Bruce, by the courtesy of the democratic Senators, was made chairman of special committee to investigate the Freedman's Savings bank frauds, and also permitted to name all the other members of the committee. With a keen sense of business sagacity, he named three democrats and one republican besides himself, and the committee was so made up. Garland, Gordon and La mar were the three bulldozers he he seleced to help him make the investigation.
Year: 1879

EDITOR JOURNAL -" A Subscri-
ber," in your issue of Jan. 1st, 1879,
asks the solution of an example. /
have looked the example over and
find it an impossible one for the
reason that the person who may at
tempt the solution must assume that
the candle is the light which causes
the shadow and he does not state, if
the candle is the cause, how high
the fame Of the candle rises above
the top of the same.


There must be more definite terms
given to enable any one to solve his
shadow problem. A READER.
Year: 1879

The hop at the Opera House
on Wednesday night was a success
financially, and moth hwithstanding
the extreme cold and the two stoves
inadequ,e to warm up the large hall
to a comfortable temperature a
short distance from them, still, such
was the harmonious social relations
of the participants and the facina-
ations of the dance, that all appeared
to enjov themselves. A little better
order on the part of some would
have conduccd more to the pleasure
of all and to the credit of the man
agement. The Sons of Temperance
realized some thirty dollars clear o:
expenses.
Year: 1879

AN ENORMOUS SUBSCRIPTION. - A
Washington dispatch to the Herald dated
April II, says the enormous solitary sub
scription of sl0O, 1000 900 by the First Ma.
tional Bank Of New York 70 the new
four per cent loan is subject Of much
pleasure to the Secretary of the Treas
ury, by whom the news was received un-
officially this evening. MT. .-She' man
says that until the certificate of deposit,
the reception of which by him is the first
preliminary to entertaining any offer to
subscribe to the bonds. is before him he
is precluded from making known his de-
cision as to accepting the offer. AS the
certificate is doubtless in the mail to-
night and will be before him on his desk
In the morning, 1t is safe to say that the
offer will be officia lily accepted before
noon tomorrow. What a pity Della.
ware did not convert her war bonds into
AVS.