smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

WITH pleasure we quote the legit-
innate Dragging of Highland cor
respondent "The fine new fence
around our school house adds much
to the appearance of the grounds.
Highland is able to boast Of the best
school building in Iowa county.
-Four teachers are employed this
year, being one more than formerly.
The attendance in all departments
is at present about l40."
Year: 1879

The Inter Ocean does not stop to eX
plain or attempt to explain the fact, but it
is fact, nevertheless, plain and palpable,
that an abundance of currency tends to
make prosperous times; and, while it is
extremely desirable that such currency be
sound, experience proves that plentitude
of it gives great activity to business
whether it is made up of gold, silver or
paper money. Of course if paper money
exist in great quantities, and an attempt
be made to reduce the volume to meet a
specie basis, a crash is inevitable and
much suffering must ensue; but when the
volume is equally large and consists of
gold, silver, or its equivalent, and high
prices may reign, and buyers may invest
freely without at least the double fear of
heavy fiuctuation in both the articles
bought aud the currency with which it is
purchased.


When Mr.. Forts resolution passed Con-
gress prohibiting the further retirement Of
greenbacks, the turning point in our finan-
cial depression seems to have been reach
ed The reconciliation ofsilver followed;
banking WIS free and all this was follow
ed by an unprecedented flow of gold into
this country from abroad. The result is
that money has been growing plentier
and plentier each month, until the volume
of available currency has become very
large.


Like any other commodity, money de-
pends for its value on the demand for it
We do not change the terms which desig-
nate its normal worth, and dollar is call
ed a dollar as it was during the war
| though its perchasing capacity may not
| be one half of what it formerly was, but
still its real value has been lessened. Il
we were selling gold and silver by thu
ounce we might weigh our $I.oS worth
now for bushel of wheat instead of 75c
worth, as little while ago, and still the
actual situation would be what it now is
| OF course, other causes enter in rise o.
any given commodity, as a failure of crops
or any exceptional demand for giver
manufacture; but a general rise of all spe
cies of property is largely attributable te
Year: 1879

In the era Of returning business pros
perity it is timely and appropriate to eau
ton farmers and Patrons against incurring
indebtedness. Be not beguiled into the
idea that because times are growing better
that you can incur risks by adopting a sys-
tenn of promise to pay" This is false
economy land if practicedto the least extent
will run you into shallow water and against
a snag The bitter lesson of the past should
warn us to incur no snch alarming risks.
On the contrary, farmers and Patrons
should strive to square up old accounts,
and start anew on the road to prosperity,
and having thus freed themselves from
the oppressive burden of mortgaged home
steads and casual Indebtedness, resolve
with themselves that henceforth they will
establish their hopes upon the firm and
safe business motto "Pay as you 60" BY
pursuing such wise and benefcent
course they materially aid the permanence
of good times in this free and united coun-
try,-F Farmers Friend.
Year: 1879

Speaking of cotton factory now in
operation in Georgia, the Atlanta Consti-
tuition says: The factory now in opera
ton at Westminster spins the cotton di-
rect from the seed by means of a machine
known as the Clement Attachment, and is
run by seven women and boy. Its ca .
pacity is between four and five hundred
pounds of seed cotton per day, and the
yarns manufactured sell in New York at
an average of sixteen and quarter cents.
The cotton is taken from the gin and brush
on a card and comes out in a roll, and
New York dealers say that threads made
by this process class a great deal higher
than threads made from compressed cot
ton Not particle of lint is left on the
seed, as in the ordinary gins. We are in
clined to believe that this method of pre-.
pairing the staple for market solves the
problem for the South. Wherever there
is a grist mill, planning mill. yarn factory
can be added without an increase of pow
er, and at very little increase of cost.
Year: 1879




1t has long been known that in political
parties, and in the estimation politicians
especially, the farmers of the country, the
producers of all the wealth of both State
and nation, occupy but very low posi-
ton, and hence they and their interests
receive but little consideration at the hands
of those who are elected to positions of
honor and trust by their votes. We do
not desire to misrepresent the language of
any one, or to place upon it construction
which is not entirely legitimate and prop
er but when most distinguished politi-
clan, and eloquent orator, and member of
Congress, such as is the Hon. John Goode,
of Norfolk, is reported to have defined the
Conservative party as being composed of
there different and distinct classes, to wit,
the bone and sinew, the intelligent, and
the capitalists, we would like to be inform
ed to which class the bone and snew be-
long-whether the farmer, the informed
men, or the men of capital. We all know
what bone and sinew means. 1t means
capacity for labor, toll, endurance; but the
most profound and learned anatomist, of
whom the world has ever heard, has new
er yet, nor even with the most powerful
microscope, discovered any brain in either
bone or sinew. With the important SUBJ
ject which is reported to have been under
consideration and discussion at the time
this classification was made, we in this non-
partizan journal have nothing to do, nor
anything to say, for we are fixed in our
| determination never to discuss a purely
| partizan question: which is likely to di-
vide our people. Our purpose, as before
! announced, is ''to elevate the standard of
the manhood of the agricultural Glass;" so
| they may receive that recognition in all
matters of public policy to which they are
entitled, bearing as they do, most of the
burdens of government, paying into the
treasury the larger proportion of the reve-
nue., casting nearly three fourths of the ball
lots, and receiving no more consideration
than to be called bone and SinezV. Farmers,
have we not good cause for an organization
| like the Grange, in which we may avail
ourselves of every legitimate and prop
er means to diffuse knowledge among our
our class, educate them so they may oc-
cupy higher plane, and remove the stig-
ma and the odium which must always at
tach to them so long as they are to be
regarded as nothing more than the "bOne
and sine7U' of the countrys Are you will
| ing to hold that position, and you and
your children to be the mere hewers of
wood and drawers of water, while the in
teHieeuce and capital of the country will
continue to forge and rivet the chains
of the most abject slavery upon
you? We do not believeit There is too
much honest pride; there is too much no.
BILE manhood; there is too much of the in
dependent spirit inherited from our faith
ers, still remaining with this, the noblest
of all classes, to permit the ariculturist to
patiently hear the position of ''m1nd-silks'
in all that affects the welfare of society,
the prosperity of the country, and the hap
piness of the people Virginia Granger.
Year: 1879

With a salary which was established in
the years of prosperity, the office holder,
with provisions produced almost with
pauper labor, is able to lay up more, and
buy more comforts and adornment during
the reign of this terrible money famine
which has reduced labor to beggary, than
he did when everybody else was well
paid and general prosperity pervaded our
happy land. Hence it is that all the sti-
pendiares in office and in the professions,
are arayed against the struggling people to
throw of, the expressions of the shylock.
C. r. Leader
Year: 1879

Farming should occupy its 1ightful
place in the public mind-as at the head
of all occupations. Without it, there can
be no life, no business, no civilization 1t
is the basis of all wealth; the life blood
that throbs along the arteries of trade and
commerce, furnishes the sinews of every
business enterprise. 1t would seem that
in country SO largely devoted to agricul-
tuial interests, SO directly the product of
the farmers toll and patriotism, legisla-
ton would be more in the interest of the
farm and development of the agricultural
resources of the nation. But it is not.
Beyond a few ''plums" doled out by
grudging demagogues, our national stat
utes are blank concerning these interests.
Those who ''corner" farm products, who
grow rich from robbing farmers of just
returns for their toll, ringsters, subsidists,
and almost every species of monopolist,
have received the fostering care of our
statesmen. Are farmers and other labor
interests always to submit to such dis
elimination against them? Is it wrong to
demand remedy? There is unrest through
out productive classes that will burst forth
into consuming fire and sweep away all
obstacles to fair play, justice and impair
tiality in legislation and emoluments of
government, unless those in authority take
the initiative toward justice to all. The
people are tired of injustice, of a
civilization that breeds hate and knaves,
and of leaders who lead unto anarchy and
ruin. And the people yet rule and will
have change.
Year: 1879

THE TRUE SEcRET-How many take
a wrong view of like, and waste their en-
ergies and destroy their nervous system in
endeavoring to accumulate wealth, with
out thinking of the present happiness they
are throwing away!


1t is not wealth or high station which
makes man happy. Many of the most
wretched beings on earth have both; but
it is a radiant, sunny spirit which knows
how to bear little trials and enjoy COM
fort, and thus extract happiness from ev-
cry incident in life.
Year: 1879

A great deal of Grange work can now
be accomplished, if the leaders will only
push things. The meetings should be
ton of the entire community, and to this
end all the members should bend their
energies. And the importance of extend
ing the circulation of sound Grange Jour
nails should never be lost sight of. II
would take little effort by some active
member after the morning session to Sc


cure a large club of subscribers. Try it
Year: 1879

For the first time, it is claimed, since
the creation of the world, woman has
delivered an address at an agricultural
show and cattle fair The place was Viii
mlngton, Mass, and the woman was Mrs


Francis B. Hitler From the short report
1t appears to have been good address
with not word in it of the abstract sort


1t had fair share of statistics about pork
and beef, butter and cheese, corn and
wheat. Mrs. Hitler advocated the libera


education of farmers sons, and thought


that they should be trained in such way
as to love the farm and delight to stay
upon it. u9 ri
Year: 1879

The improved condition in the business
affairs of the country will doubtless bene-
fit the farmers. Cotton is advancing in
price, and it is possible that it will keep
pace with other products in the upward
tendency. The members of the Order
should take advantage of this returning
prosperity to strengthen their organiza-
ton and push forward the great work of
cooperation in business and industrial
affairs in which they are engaged or have
in contemplation. Let the farmers now
step to the front, and take position
abreast with other classes. They have held
back too long already
Year: 1879

Surely there can now be no excuse for
any member of the Order not to become
a subscriber to THE PATRON. The sub
Scription is so low, that in the general re-
vival in business, every Patron can easily
afford it. If the friends of the paper will
now work for it, ten thousand subscribers
could be easily procured in blief time
VIII not each one go to work in earnest:
Year: 1879

Republicans and democrats say that the
people ought to pay as they go-that this
is the secret of finance. Admit it. Then
apply the same rule to the government
and pay off the bonds Immediately. Ifit
is right to pay debt at all, it ought to be
paid whenever the debtor is able. The
government is able to discharge all her
Obligations. Let her do SO and stop the
terrible drain of ofinterest.-Nats0naI.S Stan
dayd. las
Year: 1879

We would be glad to have our Grange
friends in this section call to see us before
they dispose of their cotton and purchase
their supplies. We can secure highly ad-
vantageous arrangements for them that
will enable them to avoid the middlemen.
Year: 1879

Many leading Patrons appreciate our
efforts to arouse the farmers upon the
question of selling cotton seed. We have
yet to meet with an intelligent, successful
farmer who approves of selling cotton
seed to the oil companies.
Year: 1879

AS the young men of the farm grow up
they will continually find places of trust
awaiting them, and their neighbors will
not be slow IN discovering the full meas
1re of their trustworthiness.
Year: 1879

The leading men of the Order in Miss


issippi should adopt measures at once to
give permanent shape to the improved


condition in the affairs of the Order in
the State We would suggest that the
State Grange could adopt no measure
that would prove SO efficient in building
up the Orper as to secure the active SER
vice. of Worthy Master Darden in the
field for the next twelve months. We
do not know that he could devote SO
much of his time to the cause, but we feel
sure that he would be willing to make
any reasonable sacrifice to promote the in
terest of the Grange. A canvass of the
State, such as he is capable of making


would draw tens of thousands of farmers
10 our standard, and give direction tc
the thoughts and actions of the toiline
masses that would soon bring them to the
front as the governing class in public as
well as in business and industrial affairs
Year: 1879

DEAD AND ALIyE.-Sonutor Gordon
was very much shot at and hurt man
during the rebailon. a writer in the
Atlanta Constitution says he was wound
ed five times when fighting as a colonel
in the battle OF Shaipsburg. The fifth
ball, entering his check, brought him to
the ground, and as he began to recover
his senses this is the half dream and half
soIiloquy that he carried on ." have
been struck in the head with a six pound
solid shot. 1t has carried away my head.
On the left side there is a little piece Of
skull left. But the brain is gone entire
ly. Therefore | am dead. And yet l
am thinking. How can man think
with his head shot eff And II i am
thinking, cannot be dead. And yet no
man can live after his head is shot off. l
may have consciousness while dead, but
not motion. III can lit my leg, then |
am alive. / will try that. Can /?
Yes, there 1t is-lilted up I'm all
right I" The general says that every
stage of this solioquy is iudeljbly stamp
ed upon his mind, nudthat in his ex-
haUsled state tho reasoning WAS carried
on as logically as ever man reasoned st
his desk.
Year: 1879

simple, the American people have
often = remarkable knack Of voting
right. They will exemplify this
happy aptitude to q notable degree
In the ensuing election. We might
emulate the Chronicle In making a
fool of ourself with election ia.
bles; and, If we were to claim as
much margin ofthe imagination as
the "liven paper does, we should
put the majority against the new
Constitution at fifty thousand.
But, as we are desirous of having
our figures before the election cor
respond exactly to what we shall
be compelled to announce after 1t,
we shall content ourselves with
saying that the new Constitution
fanatics will be beaten by ten
thousand majority. The result will
not vary thousand from this fig
ure. If we were to allow ourself
the latitude Of the legal phrase
smors or less," we should say it
will be beaten by more than ten
thousand.
Year: 1879

Horse traders were surprised In tn s
city a couple OF days ago because horse
which they refused to buy at twenty-five
dollars, trotted under $50 and made two
hundred dollars for his impecunious
looking owner. Graves andsa few others
were standing out at the corner Of Third
street when rustic appearing CHAP
drove up in a rickety rig, pstched up
harness and banged wagon; two horses
were hitched in, one Of them seemed
about ready to lay down under load of
years and short grass. This horse the
fellow tried to sell. He was very hard
up and wanted to dispose Of him the
worst way. In his recommending he
did not forget that the old horse had
''go' in him. But the lockers on didn't
think that plug could go and some of
them were rash enough to bet he couldn't
go a mile in four nSinutes. They put up
money on it and Kept betting on time
clear down to so. The owner then
wanted to bet FIVE hundred dollars his
2:25 The exceedingly wiley horsemen in
the crowd got scared about his time and
refused to invest any more money, pre-
ferring to see how the old nag could go.
They all adjourned TO the fair grounds
where rusticus, hitched to an old sulky,
drove around few times to timber up,
aud then got the word ''go!'
Away he went like the wind, in cloud
Of dust by the stand AMI down the first
quarter; past the half mile III l :22, and
never skipping as he came down the
home stretch and passed under the wire in
$3.50. The boys haven't got so much
money as they had, but they found out
omething.--Des Moines Register.
Year: 1879

tation. The Queen, forgetting her digni-
ty and her royal state, started from her
throne end stretched out both her hands
to help him. This little action, against
all rules of court etiquette, called down
thunder of applause"


In another letter to Miss Sedgwick we
read OF the young Queen:


"she seems to be really right hearted,
thoroughly good little creature. Spring
Rice told friend Of mine that he once
carried her some papers to sign, and said
something about managing so as to give
her Majesty less trouble. She looked up
from her paper, and said quietly: Pray
never let ne hear those words again:
never mention the word trouble. Only
tell me how the thing is to be done. and
to be done rightly, and will do it if can
90 not know whether these little anec-
dotes will interest you, bur surely, though
you are so democratical, you will feel for
this poor little woman, placed in such an
awful position in such awful times


Mrs. Jameson was living at Windsor at
the time, and appears to have been en-
chanted with the memories Of the place,
and not less with the younger Queen in
the castle. Writing in August, 1888, to
Miss sedgwick, she said


Among the visions to which, childlike,
solnimcs yield up ny fancy when
alone | look up to those vast towers OF
our Kings, is one especially, Of having
you here at Windsor. To come down as
strangers CO. to take hasty dinner and
see over the state rooms and pictures, is
not to be thought Of. Windsor is like
nothing but itself IN the world And
though you are Democrat the gods have
made YOU pcetical. Imagine our pretty
young Queen, with all her couvtly suite,
pouring out Of the great gates Of the
castle on most beautiful horses, and
sweeping through the avenues and glaoes
Of the forest here, the Windsor Forest,
which is the classic ground OF our ShaEz-
spare as we'll as Of our Edwards and
Henrys. It sounds well, does it not?
And really it is a most spledid sight As
to tlle Queen, she really plays the part to
admiration, 'poor little girl as Carlyle
calls her. never look a: her but with
an interest in which some pity is blended.
She IS after all but a pageant, an anoma-
": and with 50 much kindness of heart
and sensibility, what is to become Other?
4 great many anecdotes OF her 5nter5eur.
which reach me privately, give me the
highest idea Of her heart and sense"
Year: 1879

Resistance was useless, as he and his soldiers
hac left their arms in the house. A surrender
was the only alternative, and this the major
accepted with many oaths


At the request of Dora and Diana, the Young
officer, Captain Harley, who had been SO kind
to them, was allowed to go free. After the
war was over, h.5 returned to America to WOO
and win the golden-haired Dora.


Diana became the wife OF a general in the
American army, and with her wit and beauty
was one Of the chief ornaments Of the circle
by which President and Lady Washington
were surrounded
Year: 1879

Among the insect enemies of the fruit
grower 1t is singular that no one has re-
fcrrcd much to the spider. 1t Is small
enemy to be sure, but one by no means to
be sure, but one by no means to bc dcspiscd.


1t makes up by its immense number for it's
diminutive appearance. They appear lar
ger than those we find In greenhouses on
roses, fuchsias, and other tender plants |;


but whether or not they are different spe-


cies from these, are natives to the soil, or arc
introductions from some other parts, arc
questions which may perhaps interest the
entomologist, but will hardly aid in tho de-
struction Of the foe. We suppose on large
trees the labor would be too great to attempt
any means for their eradication, but for
young trees which are easily reached, 1t
might be well worth while to keep them
down. The popular receipt In garden books
'is to mix flour of sulphur in greasy water
and then syringe with H., of course keeping
the mouth of the syringe near the surface
of the water while drawing up tile liquid,


as the oily and sulphufy water floats only
on top, and Is drawn into the syringe only
in that way. This greasy liquid causes the
sulphur to adhere to tho leaves, and 1t Is
said the red spider abandons these leaves In
disgust. The hot dry atmosphere" Of our
country Is peculiarly favorable to the exis-
tence of the red spider; and whenwe know
how great q pest 1t is 10 the fruit-growers
under glass, 1t seems to us well worth look
Ing after him, when heundertakes to fast
en- on our fruit trees iu the open air. So