smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

his work 10 the stolen clothes Of respect
able man is net only entitled to the respect
of the person he intends to injure, as if
be were tho owner of the garments be has
assumed, but the protection Of the owner
himself as against his intended victim. It
is the Offering of a premium on disguise
It is like saying to highway robhel "rob
with your face exposed and you shall be
punished, but put on mask and you shall
not be molested." The Attorney General
IF the United States is the chief law Off
Ger Of the Administration. 1t is his duty
to advise the President, not as to what
would be popular, but us to what would
be just and lawful. The present Attor-
ney General is now before the people and
the Senate as candidate for an Office than
which there is none superior in dignity
and tho entire force Of the executive de-
partment is enlisted in the work of secur-
ing his confirmation. From his acts in
tho place he now holds. the public has
right to judge of his fitness for the more
exalted and difficult position to which he
aspires. He has not laid down the law
but, on the contrary, has pandored to the
flibustering spirit by which our claims to
the title of just and civilized naticn are
enfeebled. The United States cannot af-
ford to have its flag dishonered by making
it protection for any species Of dspreda-
ton upon powers with which it is at peace
Such law as that of the Attorney General
places us in position Of eutlawry with
the civilized nations of the world and if
this is specimen Of law which, as Chief
Justice, he will dispense, for the sake Of
the national honor we may we'll pray to be
delivered.


AS l write, the report comes that the
President, at the conference with the Re-
publican members Of the judiciary Com
mittse of the Senate yesterday, decided to
withdraw, to-dry. the nomination Of At
torney General Williams to be Chief JUS
ticc.


SENATOR PRATT,


of Indiana, took sensible ground yester-
day on tho salary bill. MIR. Pratt is
in favor of returning to the old
compensation. He truly said that Gen.
gressmen are better paid at 5000 year
than nine-tentbs Of the skilled labor in the
country; and he proposed to amend the
House salary bill by providing that such
reductions shall be made, hereafter, in
paying Senators and Representatives Of
the 43d Congress, as will reduce their en-
tire compensation from the beginning oi
this Congress to $4,000 year. A. f. B.
Year: 1874

IIf r.


The following is the closing paragraph of a
long letter written by Mr. Ton when he editor of
The independent and s dated NewYork Nov. 7, 1861:
III YOU think that my religions views unsound
that the public should he warned of them. certainly
ought to be warned of them myself Accordingly, bog
you TO proceed with your projected enterprise of ex-
posing my hereses Since you TO be in doubt as to
the Theodore Tton" take the liberty OF saying that
tie person that who is penning these lines is
very imperfect man, not half good he might be-
and with very little religion to boast of but who never
theess desires to do right 10 live manly and useful
life and TO walk humby before God and who these
endeavors toward a Christian character, finds more
moral spiritual help in good wife and three pretty
children than can gathered from all the theological
seminarles under the sun.
Year: 1874

months Of lake navigation left, and there ia on
hand in Chicago and Milwaukee nearly three


times a. much wheat as last year at
this time, being about si1 and q half
millions against two and 3 half millions.
Should the present decline continue some weeks,
and force large shipments upon the balance of
the season, gorge would follow, neceseitating
shipment By rail at high rates. It is perhaps
too early to speculate upon this, although the
indications are that wheat will rule low from the
lack Of foreign demand To tho farmer, how
ever, it will be more than an average
year Of prosperity, lnasmuch as the high
prices he is getting for corn aud
oats will more than onHet any deficit
On wheat. On the whole, there is steady aud
healthy increase in the general volume Of trade,
and the fact that people are still living econom-


cally, and buying only what they need, il by no
means discouraging sign. On the contrary, it
is sure indication t1at the recovery from the
September panic has begun, and, while this ro-
covery must bo allow, it will be steady and sure.
Year: 1874

The Trustees Of the University OF Chicago
have appealed in series Of revolutions,
which We published yesterday, to tho
people OF Chicago, to commemorate tho
Centennial Of the National Independence
by the creation OF a fund of $4,000 tn be
permanently invested for the assistance Of
worthy and needy students in the University.
They express the hope that such benevolent
and patriotic purpose will commend itself to the
judgment and lberality Of all. It is believed
TINT no more fitting and excellent object can be
accomplished in the way Of narionnl comme,n-
grafton than by this permanent endowment OF
the University BY 3 fund which will belong to
needy students. 70 whatever class, se1, or re-
hgion they may belong, and be used exclusively
to give higher education to those who may sock
It, and who have no other means Of obtaining it.


Ths University h Chicago institution, md
Year: 1874

such An endowment by the people OF this city
would be recognized By tho whole country as an
act OF patriotism and Of most benevolent and
which is not large one, will be held by Board
Of special Trustees Independent of the Trustees
Of the University. This Board cnn be composed
Of such men as Lyman Trumbull, Judge Drum
mond, ". +. Coolbaugh, and Others who wonld
protect it and see that it WAS applied to the epe
cial object Of the endowment We commend the
proposition, as an excellent and charitable one,
to the thoughtful aud liberal consideration OF
the citizens Of Chicago.
Year: 1874

Notwithstanding the present decline in wheat


and the setback it has given to business, there
is very generally a hopeful feeling among our
merchants, which is also strengthened by ad-
vices from New York that the fall trade will be
healthy and prosperous Since the panic Of
last year. the farmers have been getting high
prices for corn and wheat, nnu for ali their
other crops. Everything which they hara put
into the market has nude them C. re-
muneratire return At the came time. the
immediate influence Of the panic IVES to induce
tho practice of \ rigid economy. Tho result of
this is that the country people have plenty Of
money. but very small stocks Of goods Un-
doubtedly they will continue, AZ they ought to
practice economy but they must ill up their
stocks again, and will do it by buying what is
necessary. This will induce steady aud regular
denand,-in smaller way perhaps than usual,
but ont of this will como the advantage of
q cash business, or very short cred
its, equivalent to cash. Nearly Ill tho
lesding branches Of trade in the city
report favorably, and claim an increase in busi-


ness. Reports from New York show that, while
there is no probability Of large sales or OF any
general speculative business this fall, owing to
the caution OF buyers, yet, on the whole, trade is
satisfactory. Instead OF buying ahead and an-
ticipating another seasons business bY storing
away, they buy for the current demand and pay
cash. The New York Bulletin says: "Al
tllis is aggravating to the large distributors OF
goods, but afords no reason for jumping to
the conclusion that the aggregate bnsineas this
autumn ia no: to be good. Confidence is each
day strengthening. and, with tue good crops ne
are now assured Of, there is reason for hopeful
ness." The only cause for anxiety is tbs pref
ent decline in wheat and the possibility that 1t
NAY coutinna. Ws hara now hot tee sud half
Year: 1874

or else whole classes will pay more or less than
their just share Of the municipal expenses. The
way to stop tax-fehting is to stop that system
Of taxation. Under the indirect system, there
aro few temptations to perjury, because there
are few or no returns to be made. The ground
for appealing to the courts is nearly all cut
more on pound Of beefsteak in order to help
defrsy the licensc-fees Of his butcher cannot ap-
ply for an injunction to prevent the latter
charging the extra 2 OF mills.


The matter can be readily summed up. Taxes,
unless they are equal, and just, and inevitable,
will be resisted They can be made equal, and
just, and inevitable only by the adoption Of the
indirect system OF taxation.
Year: 1874

THE staid old Journal Of Commerce, Of
New York, which hasnever been known
to oadmit anything into its columns, which
was not Of a financial or commercial ma
ture, was recently guilty Of an indiscre-
tion. One can family imagine the con.
sternation of the bulls and bears at dis
covering in recent issue serious discus.
sion Of the question whether the rules of
etiquette determine that young couples,
male and female, because seen in broad
daylight promenading arm in arm, are
supposed to be engaged for marriage. The
publication Of the paragraph in question
must have been due to the fact that some
young and irlsky member Of the editorial
staff, tired Of price currents and market
quotations, surreptitiously smuggled 1t in
while the responsible editor was away. II
cannot be explained in any other way, un.
less there is some mysterious connection
between a young couple promenading
arm in arm and the condition Of the
finance market.
Year: 1874

THE Indians are fast becoming the
most expensive and unsatisfactory wards
that the government has hanging to its
skirts. For the year ending June SOth,
1873, they cost round bill of $S,613, ,0O4,
and the committee report deficiencies and
future needs which will add q million
more to the general appropriation for
Indian purposes. The question naturally
occurs whether it will not bc timely and
proper, now that all government ex-
penses are being squeezed down to the
utmost, to make the red brother take his
share Of the curtailment with the rest. A
little less fixed ammunition and carbines
for killing the pale face, fewer govern
ment blankets and biscuits, and more
buffalo robes and jerked meat might make
the tawny aborigine more winning as a
poetical being and less burthepsome as a
poor relation.
Year: 1874

WHEN Congress is not in session comes
the heydsy of rumor. Fifty.six young
and talented men sent To Washington for
the express purpose of sending home
news, are not likely to sit and chew the
ends Of their pencils for two long weeks
without writing something, One Of them
records that "a rumor prevailed and is
generally credited, that Secretary Rich
srdson is to be appointed United States
Minister at the Court Of ST. James, in
place Of General schenck, who will re-
turn home, and on his arrival be placed at
the head OF the Treasury Department"
We do not assume Of course that this is
not true. Itmsy be, or itmsy pet but the
tact that it simply prevailed" as a rumor
in Newspaper Row oae night is no re-
liable indication one way or anothev.
Year: 1874

The Chicago Advan~ says that the city
"ls about to be the headquarters Of a new
religion" Something like this has been
Tor long time anticipated by Intelligent
persons in all quarters Of the globe. The
Church, as It exists at the present day, Is
far from satisfying the thirst Of the
average Chicagoan.
Year: 1874

We hope the Farmers especially will
attend the meeting on Saturday for Sc.
lecting Delegates to 60 to Little Rock. 1t
is important that they. as well as all 9th.
ers, be represented by good men-that a
ticket may be put out that will command
the support OF all good men Of the State.
The farmers can, if they will, exert an in.
fluence tor good on the Convention, and
designate in large degree the character
Of the material that will 90 to make up
the general Democratic Conservative
State ticket.
Year: 1874

tB- The Fayetteville Democrat does not
approve Of the suggestion that Members of
the Constitutional Convention represent their
Counties in the Democratic Conservative
Convention at Little Rock tor nominating Il
State ticket. OF course each county would
have to instruct such delegate to act In the
new capacity. and If they have not corIid-
ence In the members of the constitutional
convention to perform the duty they can APP
point others, and even, If they have contia-
cnce In them. We should like to see Con-
vention, while we have full confidence in the
majority OF the convention already assembled,
fresh from the people. But il there are coun-
ties that wish their present delegates to rep
resent them, we see no impropriety in their
doing so.
Year: 1874

H 1t is the general impression tina,
the Convention will order the election al
an early day-say the lst Monday in Sep.
tember. And it is therefore important
that our people were casting about them
for The best material to represent them
in the Legislature and to ill the County
offices. There are many men well capa
BILE of filling the Offices that are not in
any sense Of the term aspirants. Such
are the men-let the Offices, for once at
least, seek the men-not the men the
otf3ces
Year: 1874

~ Messrs Sayler and Ward, two OF
the Congressional Investigating Commit
tee. have left Little Rock and gone home,
but will return in October, with the full
committee for further investigations.
Year: 1874

Most men and women mustkeep in the
traces and keep pulling, the year round.
All the more, therefore, is it their duty
to take things easier as the hot weather
comes on. Take longer rests at noon.
Put on less steam when you are at
work. Snatch Sunday now and then
from the middle of the week. You
can't? You can. People find time to
be sick and die. They can Just as easily
find time to rest and keep well. Every
thing does not depend on finishing that
dress or fencing that field or putting
up" so much fruit or catching so many
customers. Better that the children
should wear old clothes than that their
mother should be laid aside by a fever.
Better that the corn crop be a little
lighter than that there be no one to
harvest it. Let us have shorter SER
mons and fewer of them on Sunday I;
longer recesses for the children at
school on week days. Put up the store
shutters earlier at night prepare
palmer meals IN the kitchen. Take a
noon-daynap yourself, and give your
employers chance to 60 fishingof an
afternoon now and then. That only is
duty which the Lord lays upon us and
he is not so hard master as we some
times suppose.
Year: 1874

Some experiments have recently been
made by Exner to determine the reac-
ton time of the sensorium, that is to
say, the time required to convey an
impression along the nerves to the
brain, and to convey an order from the
brain to any portion of the body, to-
gether with the interval required by the
brain to deliberate and act. Exner's
method of observation consisted in
stimulating some portion of the body,
and requiring the person Immediately
to make a signal by pressing a tele-
graphic key with the right hand.
Marks were produced on a blackened
cylinder both at stimulation and at sig
mailing, and the interval was noted by
the ordinary methods of the chrono-
graph. The reaction time ranged be-
tween thirteen and thirty-six hun
dredths of a second, and seems inde-
pendent of age, being shortest in those
who have the habit of concentration.
The tables also show it to have been
the shortest when the stimulation was
applied to the eye by means of an elec-
tric shock, and then follow in order an
electric shock given to the finger of the
left hand, sudden sound, an electric
shock to the forehead, shock to the
right-hand finger, the sight of an cleo
trio spark, and lastly shock commu-
nicated to the toes of the left foot.
Year: 1874

But what is fashion? 1t is simply
the common way OF doing things.
Things must be done. We all agree to
that. The human animal was not sent
furred or hairy into the world. 1t must
dress itself. In this climate it must
dress itself a good deal. The bear and
the beaver have no opportunity of set
ting or following the fashions. They
go in a foreordained groove. The
ducks neck and the peacock's tail are
wonderful specimens OF splendor in
attire, but neither duck nor peacock
has any hand in the matter. To man
alone is given the high art of using
taste. Judgment and genius in his
clothes. And high art it is. in spite Of
all our denuncistions. Man and his
Maker are the formers of all the fashions
of the world. Man devises his own
dress. The Creator devises the dress
of all the beasts of the field, the birds
of the air, the fish Of the sea. If we
are to be taught by example, there
need be inherently no limit to variety
and splendor of costume. So far as
usefulness is concerned, all the birds
might Just as well be gray. Does fish
taste any better because his scales
simmer like opal in the sunshine ?
Man may waste himself on invention,
but ne can never hope to surpass the
splendor of the beetle and the butter
hy.-Why is the cut of coat. the tint
of gown, unworthy of the human
mind, when the Creator has so clothed
the grass of the field which to-day is
and tomorrow is cast into the oven {? A
woman trims her hat, but God made
the feather.
Year: 1874

The dome of st. Paul's is the origi-
nal of our dome at Washington but ex-
ternaIly think ours is the more grace
full of the two, though the effect inside
is tame and fiat in comparison. This
is owing partly to the lesser size and
height, and partly to our hard, trans
parent atmosphere, which lends no
charm or illusion, but mainly to the
stupid, unimaginative plan of it: Our
dome shuts down like an inverted iron
pot there is no vista, no outlook, no
relation, and hence no proportion.
You open a door and are in a circular
pen, and can look in only one direction
up. If the iron pot were slashed
through here and there, or if it rested
on q row of tall colums, or piers, and
was shown to be legitimate part OF
the building, it would not appear the
exhausted receiver it does now.


The dome of st. Panl's is the culml-
nation of the whole interior of the build
ing. Rising over the central area, 1t
seems to gather up the power and ma
jesty of the nave, the aisles, the tran
septs, the choir, and give them express
sion and expansion in its lofty firma-
ment.-Scri6ners's for September.
Year: 1874

In this dull world we cheat ourselves


and one another of innocent pleasures


by the score, through very carelessness


and apathy /; courted day after day by


happy memories, we rudely brush them


of with this indiscriminating besom,


the stern material present invited to


help in rendering joyful many a patient


heart, We neglect the little word that


might have done it, and continually


defraud creation of its share of kind


ness from US. The child is made mer-


rier by your interest in its toy the old


domestic fiattered by our seeing him


look so well the poor better helped by
your blessing than your penny (though


give the penny too); the laborer
cheered on his toll by timely word of


praise the humble friend encouraged


by your frankness equals made to love
you by the expression of your love; and


superiors gratified by attention and re-
spect, and looking out to benefit the


kindly-how many pleasures here for


one hand to gather how many bless
ings for any heart to give Instead of
these. what have we rife about the
world .? frigid compliment-for warmth


is vulgar reserve of tongue-for it's
folly to be talkative composure never
at fault-for feelings are dangerous
things gravity-for that looks wise :;
coolness-for other men are cold ; sell
tishness-for every one is struggling
for his own. This is all false, all bad
the slavery chain of custom, riveted by
the foolishness of fashion because
there is ever band of men and women
who have nothing to recommend them
but eIternals-their looks are their
dresses, their ranks are their wealth
and in order to exalt the honor of these
they agree to set a compact seal of
silence in the heart and on the mind
lest the flood of humber mems affec-
tions, or of wise mems intelligence,
should pale their tinsel-praise and the
warm and the wise too softly acquiesce
in this injury done to heartiness,
shamed by the effrontery of cold, calm
fools, and the shallow dignity of an
empty presence. Turn the table on
them, We truer gentry, truer nobility,
truer royalty of the heart and of the
mind speak freely, love warmly, laugh
cheerfully, explain frankly, exhort
zealously, admire literally, advise earn
estly-be not ashamed to show you
have heart and If some cold-blooded
simpleton greets your social efforts
with a sneer, repay him (for you can
well afford richer gift than his whole
treasury pOssesses) with kind, good
humored smile.
Year: 1874

If we are inflicted by nature with
crooked noses and irregular features,
it is because of irregularities in our an
cestors' features or habits, and we can
not rid ourselves of them but we can
so live that our children and grandchil-
dren can be handsome. Rules of health
must be observed. Keep clean-wash
freely and universally with cold water.
All the skin wants leave to act freely,
and it will take care of itself. Its thou
sands of air holes must not be plugged
up. Eat regularly and simply. The
stomach can no more work all the time.
night and day than horse; it must
have regular work and regular rest.
Good teeth are essential to good looks,
especially if people live so much on the
surface that they are continually talk
ing or laughing. Brush them with a
soft brush, especially at night. Go to
bed with the teeth clean. Of course,
to have white teeth it is needful to let
tobacco alone. Every woman knows
that. And any powder or wash for the
teeth should be very simple. Acids
may whiten the teeth, but they take OFF
the enamel or inIure it. Look well to
the ventilation OF your rooms, especialiy
your sleeping rooms. No one can have
a clear skin VINO breathes bad air
But, more than all, in order to look
well, wake up the mind and the soul.
When the mind is awake, the dull,
sleepy look passes away from the eyes.
Keep thinking pleasant noble thoughts,
and read not trashy novels, but books
that have something in them. Talk
with people who know something hear
lectures and learn by them. This is
one good of preaching. A man thinks,
and works, and tells US the result. But
if we listen, and heed, and understand,
the mind and soul are walked up. If
the spiritual nature is aroused, SO much
the better. We have seen a plain face
really glerified with the love of God
and men which shone through it. Let
us grow handsome.
Year: 1874

And this is the end of it all , it rounds the


years completeness;
Only walk to the stile, through fields afoam


with sweetness;
Only the sunset-hght, purple and red on the


river;
And a hngeringI.low goodnight, that means


goodbye forever.
So be it and God be with you, 1t had been,


perhaps, more kind
Had you sooner (pardon the world been sure Of


knowing your mind.
We can bear so much in youth-who cares for


swift sharp pain7
And the two-edged sword of truth cuts deep,


but it leaves no stain!
| shall just go back to my work-to my little


household cares,
That never make any show. By time perhaps,


in my prayers;
may think Of you! For the rest on this way


we've trodden together,
My foot shall fall as lightly as if my heart


were feather,
And no: a womans heart, strong to have and


to keep
Patient when children CRY, soft to lull them to


sleep,
Hiding its secrets close glad when another's


hand
Finds for itself gem where hers found only


sand.
Goodbye, The year has been bright As oft


as the blossoms come,
The peach with its waxen pink, the waving


snow of the plum,
shall think how used to watch, so happy to


see you pass
l could almost kiss the print of your foot on


the dewy grass
l am not ashamed of my love! Yet l would


not have yours now,
Though you laid it down at my feet / could


not stoop so low.
a love is but half love that contents itself


with less
Than loves utmost faith and truth and un-


wavering tenderness
Only this walk to the stile; this parting word


by the river
That flows so quiet and cold, ebbing and flow


ing forever.
''Good-bye," :" Let me wait to hear the last, last


sound of his feet
All me but i think in this life of ours the


bitter outweighs the sweet.
The ArgoSy.