smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Lie huu OF IH6 Ul6lua community
1t is said that the introduction of women's
fashions in Utah Territory has done more
to make polygamy unpopular there than
any other one thing. The head of a popu-
lar Mormon household very soon found out
that it was more than he could do to clothe
half dozen wives and their children in
the prevailing style, while if he did not so
clothe them he was perpetually in kettle
Of domestic hot water Thus fashion for
once was Of some social utility; it served to
deter long g-headed Mormons from taking
more than one wife.


| The new rule enumerated in the Oneida
| Community will have a similar effect, and
very possibly it will break up the entire
organization. Formerly the whole commu-
nifty formed one family. There were no
| husbands aud wives, and the childrt We're
held in common. Now, Mr.. Noyes substi
tutes for the pure communal system the
celibate system. These two are to he
maintained together in this sense, that the
married folk and single folk are to live in n
common household, to eat at common
table and to keep the children ina common
nursery. But the two systems are inconsis-
tent in their nature, and their forced union
will lead to an Interference with what the
married folk will instinctvely feel to be
their rights in n manner which at first will
seem to be meddling, than offensive, and
finally intolerable. The fathers and moth
ers will soon grow to know that they are
the rightful judges of what is best for thrir
children, and they will not yield in these
matters under the family system as they
have done under the pure communal
system. The communal system choked
these natural parental feelings at The
outset, so that they never gained strength
enough to assert themselves, the concession
of the right to live in part in the family
relation will give these feelings rooT
enough to exist and to exert their usual in
fluence.


The truth of the old saying thatno hous
is big enough for two families will be illus
trated again, and in the end we are conf
dent that in this instance, as has happened
before, there will be a struggle between tn
system of celibacy and the system of FAM
lies in which the family system will win til
day. 1t will not be at all surprising if tn
Oneida Community begins to decay fror
this time forward, although the process wi
doubtless be IL very slow one at first


Y. Post.
Year: 1879

Jacques has studied the effect produced
by the motion of the air in an auditor
i,im upon its acoustic qualities, using
for this purpose the Baltimore Academy
of Music. Having proved by direct ex-
pertinent that variations in density in
the air transmitting sound not. only de-
crease materially the intensity of the
sound, as Tyndall has experimentally
shown, but also actually modify its form,
and thus give rise to confusion and in
distinctness, it naturally followed that
in public halls where such currents of
air really exist in abundance there must
be much difficulty from this cause. In
the building above referred to the whole
supply of fresh air is admitted Mt the
back of the stage, is there warmed,
then crosses horizontally, passes through
the proscenium, diagonally upward to-
ward.the roof, across the auditorium, in
one large current, and goes out partly
through the roof, and partly through
registers in the gallery ceilings, into a
ventilation tower over the chandelier,
whose heat is the motive power. About
$4,000 cubic feet Of air per minute are
thus drawn through the house. The
acoustic qualities of the house, being e1-
ceptionalfy perfect, are ascribed largely
to the condition of the air within it. To
test the question, experiments were
made by stationing persons in various
parts of it during a performance, and
asking them simply to note the compara-
tive ease with which the performers
could be heard. At various intervals
the valves controlling the circulation of
air were reversed, so rs to produce cur
rents. Almost invariably the testimony
was that at times, which proved on COM
parison to agree with those ut which the
rreversals had taken place, the sound was
confused and indistinct, and people all
over the house were seen to make an effort
as if to listen.-Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1879

A stranger would imagine that hos
pital for consumptives had been estab-
lished at the Belmont Oil Works when
passing there on a fine day. Sickly-look-
ing men, more shadow than substance;
sparsely-built females, and mothers with
delicate little ones may be seen passing
up and down in front of the works. their
mouths continually open, as though they
desired to inhaie ali the by-no.means
fragrant vapors which proceed from the
stills. Such in fact is the. reason for
their presence in the neighhorhood. 1t
is the theory that the vapor gas from the
boiling oil is a sure cure for throat and
lung diseases, and numbers flock to the
spot day after day. The employees OF
the works are among the strongest advo-
Gates of the theory. About fifty men are
engaged at the refinery, and although
they are subjected to all the vicissitudes
Of the weather, and work in the open air
the winter through, pulmonary COM
plants are unknown among them. This
IS true also of the four hundred employed
at the Standard works at Point Breeze.
The people residing in the vicinity OF
both refneries also enjoy remarkably
good health. tits stated on good authority
that some years ago, when the small
pox was raging in the city, the neighbor-
hood adjacent to the refinery, which was
then situated at Hestonville, was exempt
from the contagion, and that no signs OF
it appeared along the streets under which
were the drains through which the re-
fuse of the stills passed. ,


Crude oil is also stated to be good
remedy for pulmonary complaints. For
merly large numbers of consumpti,yes
were in the habit of obtaining supplies
from the refneries, and some wonderful
stories are told of individuals on the
brink of the grave who have been
brought back to the vigor of manhood
by a close application Of the greasy, cof-
fee-colored iquid.-Philadelphia Record.
Year: 1879

This interesting bit OF literature has
been having q run through the news
papers, and its legitimate ambition is to
stir up the energy Of idle boys. One
man is said to have become a fine Latin
scholar by working away on Virgil
while his mistress was calling and shop
ping, and he was n coachman. Another
boy acquired q knowledge of Greek
while waiting to open a certain gate.
All these examples prove what may be
done if the right boy is selected to work
upon. Having been somewhat observ-
ing on the boy question, l have noticed
that they spend their leisure hours in a
variety of ways not at all improving to
the mind. Saturdays are red-letter days
in the lines of schoolboys, and the
amount of live experience that can be
crowded into spring Saturday is some
thing startling to think of. I know a
boy whose infant feet have pressed the
bosom ofsome seven summers, or there
abouts. who made four kites and flew
them with his mothers patent threac,
tore his pants zig-zag trying to nail a
pigeon-box to the woodshed, played
trapeze on the clothes-line, and came
down in the slop-barrel. These were
only casual incidents of an hour. He
coaxed strange rooster into the yard
and raised revolt in the hennery, upset
a pail of whitewash on the clean POI Oh,
and caused the hired girl to leave Wi h Ia
big ironing on hand dropped the sh' ars
into the cistern, and broke the small
blade of his knife, besides other and
minor things beyond number. 1t is one
of the impossibilities to regulate the
leisure hours of q boy.-A Mother.
Year: 1879

A correspondent says that he has fol-
lowed recommendation from lady to
evaporize a little carbolic acid daily in
the heaters as disinfectant and pre-
ventive against contagious diseases, an!
the results have been most satisfactory.
II have large school, and out of the
whole number only two pupils have been
sick with scarlet fever, and even these
cases were indirect ones. In my own
family, which consists of fourteen chill.
dren-fortunately not all my own.and
five adults, not one has been afflicted
with any malady, not even with n sore
throat, for longer than a day or two.
We certainly keep the house minutely
clean, ventilate it thoroughly every day,
and never heat the rooms above sixty..six
degrees Fahrenheit. During my thirty
years experience I have never seen the
like"


We think it probable that the use of a
small quantity of carbolic acid in the
manner above mentioned may in some
cases be beneficial. But if it were the
golden rule in every family to keep, the
house minutely clean, ventilate it thor
oughly every day, and never heat above
sixty-six degrees Fahrenheit, there
would probably be little need of carbolic
acid or any other drug.-Scsentifc Aner-
tcln.
Year: 1879

The recent election Of Judge j: I.
Thurmon to the mayoralty of Dallas,
Texas, calls to mind an incident which
happened to him in a mining district OF
Colorado in its early history. The judge,
then a hedgling attorney, procured a
through ticket from the railroad termi-
nus on the back of broncho-a cross
between civilized mule and wild ass
and journeyed toward his future home,
the suburbs of which he reached one
afternoon about sundown. Riding to
the center of the village he found group
of men surrounding a HORSEBACK, which
resembles a horizontal bar with pegs in
it, over which The bride rein is thrown
to hold the animal; over the HORSEBACK
was a rope, at one end of the rope a
moose, and filling the moose mans neck,
to which was attached the balance of
him. The command had just been given
by the leader to "h'ist away" when the
proceedings were interrupted by the
Judge, who asked of what crime the
prisoner had been convicted. He was
told that the man had been caught an
hour before with a couple Of horses not
his own, and he was known to be a
chronic horse.thief.


"But, gentlemen" said the judge, ris-
ing in his stirrups and thinking his op-
portunity had arrived for making, a
favorable impression on the law-abid-
ing element" "this summary proceed
ing is not right. You would not hang
this man without giving him the benefit
of trial and the chance of O verdict by
a Jury of his countrymen--his peers!
No, gentlemen, I feel assured that an ap-
peal to your cooler judgment, and pro-
test, which, Il here earnestly enter, in the
name of Justice, will prevent the COM
mission of this barbarous outrage-this
crime, of which in the heat Of passion
you are about to be guilty. Yes, gentle
men, give the man the protection OF the
court; and if he stands in need Of legal
advice my services are at his command.
NV diploma" Stranger" said the
leader, quietly interrupting him, "shis
claim is registered; we've struck q lead.
an it's a going t. pan out 'cording t.
previous calc'lation. Stranger, you ken
hev wun hour tn prospect fer the su-
burbs Nv this ere camp"


The judge, to use his own expression,
tumbled" to the situation at once. and
grasping the reins he settled down in the
saddle and replied: "My dear sir, am
grateful for your generosity. You give
me an hour to get out of town, but if the
strings hold and this blamed mule don't
buck, all want is five minutes" and
clapping the enormous rowels into the
TANKS Of the beast the judge adjourned
inc die. '.r
Year: 1879

Two miners were seated on bowlder
alongside the road to Sutro, says the
Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle, discuss
ing the kicking powers of the mules. One
had Just returned from Sutro and the
other was on the way there, and having
met near the rock they sat down for. a
talk.


"Have you quit over there?" said the
one who was eastward bound.


"Yes."


"Why?"


"Mules."


"Fraid of 'em?"


"You bet. I saw one yesterday along
side an old boiler kickin' off the rivet-
heads one by one. Never missed one. /
was just going on shift, and when / saw
the mule and heard there was more of
EN- inside, threw up my job I've got
a wife and three children depending on
me, and I don't take no chances"


"The worst mule I ever saw" said
the other, "was in Phoebe some years
ago. 1t was one I owned. One day it
rubbed against some nails sticking out
of post, and it turned round and drove
those nails one by one, using single
blow of the hoof with the iron shoe on
for each nail. 1t never missed its kick,
and always drove 'em just into the head.
Then it saw few tacks on the post a
little lower down, which were only half
driven in, and it drove them in, too, with
light taps of the hoof, just as gentle and
easy rs could be. One day a man came
along and set out a can of nitro o-glycerine
and giant power. He wanted to get the
mule to kick it and get killed. I saw
him about the corral with the can. and
knew what was up: At first I was going
to stop him. hut then I thought if my
mule was any kind of a mule at all he
could take care of himself. Sol just
watched. Well, the mule saw the can
and, walking up, smelt of it, and then
squared himself for the kick. The man
was sneaking off. and just as the mule
was going to kick the can. he canght
sight of the fellow and changed his po-
sition so that his tail was toward the
man. He let fly his right hoof. The can
went flying through the air and hit the
man square between the shoulders just
rs he was gettin' over fence about a
hundred feet away. The thing exploded,
and never saw the man again. But next
morning Pat Holland came out in the
Record and said that the town had been
visited by shower of blood"
Year: 1879

Up and away like the dew OF the morning,
That scars from the eayth to its home in the


sun,
So let me steal away, gently and lovingly,
Only remembered by what have done.
Ny name, and my place, and my tomb all tor.


gotten,


The brief race of time well and patiently run
So let me pass away, peacefully, silently,
Only remembered by what have done.
Gladly away from this toll would hasten,
Up to the crown that for me has been won ;
Unthought Of by man in rewards or in praises,
Only remembered by what have done.
Up and away, like the odors OF sunset,
That sweeten the twilight as evening comes


on;
So he my iie-a thing felt but not noticed
And but remembered by what have done.
Yes, like the fragrance that wanders in fresh


ness


When the flowers that it came from are


closed up and gone,
So would I be to this worlds weary dwellers
Only remembered by what have done.
need not be missed, if my lite has been bearing
CAS- its summerand autumn move. silently on)
The bloom, and the truit and the seed OF its


season;


shall still be remembered by what have


done.
Needs there the praise OF the love-written re-
cord,


The name, and tho epitaph graved on the


stone?
The things we have lived ior-let them be our


story


We ourselves but remembered by what We


have done.
need not be missed it another succeed mo
To reap down the fields which in spring


have sown,
He who p!owed and who sowcd is not missed


by the reaper,


He is only remembered by what he has done
Not myself, but the truth that in lie have


spoken,


Not myself, but the seed that in life have


sown,
Shall pass on to ages-all about me forgotten
Save the truth have spoken, the things


have done.
So lot my living be-so be my dying;
So let my name lie, unblazoned, unknown
Unpraised ind unn,issed, shall still be re-


membered;


Yes, but remembered by what have done.
-Horatio Bonar.
Year: 1879

The wOrthlessneSS or waste OF money
to those who misunderstood its use is
witnessed often enough in the case of
many who should know better. An eN-
ample of real ignorance-and Il
singularly forcible one-is the following,
related by an officer of the Bank of
England to London correspondent:


4 poor little Hungarian widow, living
in Il garnet at Limehouse with her deaf
and dumb son, was Overtaken by the
hard times, and fell ill. This was ut
the end of the year. The neighbors
wanted to fetch the relieving officer and
the parish doctor, but the old creature,
who hardly knew word of English,
made it known that she wanted no aid
of any kind. At last she became in
sensible, and then the other dodgers and
the landlord entered her room. They
found it wretchedly furnished, but plas-
tered all over with colored prints and
engravings. Looking over these, one of
the intruders saw hundred-pound note
posted between cut from the London
Illustrated NeCs and business card.
Doubling his eyes, he drew the attention
of others TO it, and the doctor, who had
been sent for, coming in ut the time, the
fact was made known to all. An at
tempt was made TO detach the precious
engraving from the wainscot, but to no
purpose, and by direction of the medi-
cal man, the piece of panel was cut out,
taken to the Bank of England, and
cashed on the nail, when the doctor eX-
planned that the proceeds would be lodg
ed to the credit of the old lady, who, with
her son, was made more comfortable
than she had ever been. 1t seems she
picked up the note two years ago, and
seeing in it only picture, fixed it
on the wall of her room, where it re-
manned an unsuspected treasure until
| discovered,
Year: 1879

DEPTH TO Sow WHEAT. A great
deal has been said first and last rs to the
depth ut which to SOW wheat, remarks
the Prairie Farmer. Experiments have
shown that upon ordinarily compact and
moist soil, wheat terminates most
promptly and produces the strongest
plant when sown ut Il depth not exceed
ing one inch; from thence up to six inches
it came more and more feebly.
Year: 1879

The members of the Battle Row" gang who havo
sgnalized themselves Of late by various atrocities
the rampage on Thursday night. They
completely cleared the streets about Forty-second
street and Tenth avenue, and them held high
carnival till morning. They still in the neigh
borhood when John stroebe of No. 1872 West Thirty
ninth street. appeared. He is the driver OF one of
Andrew Fink 4 Co.'s beer wagons. and had just
brought his vehicle to standstill by the curbstone
when the party sighted him. With a wild hurrah
they started for him. and ho reached tho walk
three of them seized him from behind and flung him
upon the ground. Then with sticks and fists they
fell to be.aboring, him, while three Of their com
panons slipped up to his wagon and began carrying
off kegs of beer which they flung In tho cellars
about. woman brought word to Officer Smith
of the Thirty seventh street police station that
being murdered. and he hurried to
Stroebeis assistance. None too either for the
man was losing consciousness when he arrived The
gang turned upon the new conner ut once and threw
him down. Smith fought pluckly though. and kept
his hold with hand while he piled his club with
the other The struggle was still in progress when
Officers finnerty and Delaney arrived Four Of tho
gang took to their heels then, but Smith cung to
of his hand fully to the bone. The captives
handcuf1ed and taken to the station house, but they
fought desperately on the way. They there proved
to be James Stuart alias Smith, and McGce Cassidy
both hard characters well known to the police. At
the Jefferson Market Police Court, where they were
arraigned, they were committed by Justice Bixby
yesterday in default Of 81 900 bail each.
Year: 1879

the bat and at luncheon time it stood six men for
seven runs. After luncheon the slaughter continued.
the Canadians appearing to lose all confidence.


Logan made only briliisnt hit of the day driving
the ball into the ladies' gallery and considerably in
turing lady. The Canadians rull score As
The latter at went III for their second inning,
which was, If anything. worse exhibition than the
first. When the stumps were drawn. at six O'Clock,
the score stood eleven men out to twenty-five
Year: 1879

the Rocky Mountains and over the
golden sands of the Pacific aud be
echoed back agala as distinctly and
truthfully as when first uttered.


The reception was in every sense a
success and gratifying realization OF
the fact that in our great and free coun-
try honor and vittue will never fail to
reap its reward. How diligently and
carefully then should we labor to pre-
serve all of its most liberal blessings.
Year: 1879

BUTLER has delivered heavy blow
at the Republicans of Massachusetts.
They fret and fume over it and evince
evident symptoms of madness; but
there is no help for them. The truth of
what Butler says in regard to the dis
franchisement of poor men in the cold
Bay State cannot be successfully con-
tradicted; and whatever sins Butler
may have to answer for so long permit
ting this injustice to be practised, we
hope he may be able to rid himself of
by securing suffrage for the poor of
Massachusetts in the near future.
Year: 1879

WE desire to return thanks to Mr.. Mike O'Brlen,
the popular proprietor OF the Capitol Street Beer
Saloon" for a large pitcher of excellent ale We
of course enjoyed it. Mr. O'Brien keeps one of the
neatest and most inviting establishments in 'he
city, and deserves liberal patronage.


Hi, vi, Colonel have you gone back on the Muir
phys so soon? II we remember rightly we read
quite an entertaining temperance lecture delivered
by yourself at Jackson during the flush days of
Murphyism. But let us hope you only enjoyed
seeing others drink that ale.-Pasaagoula Star
Democrat.


Now, don't You go to getting excited
about that pitcher of ale. Ye local man of
The COMET does all the drinking, all tile
fighting, and stands all the abuse of the
establishment. If anybody has the indis-
cretion to fall out with THE COMET, the
local is ready for him, and he's sumner.
If anybody wants any more ale drank, he is
ready for an encounter of that sort, also,
and enjoys an average capacity for the
concealment of the beverage.
Year: 1879

Richard Thomas. colored, came before
Mayor Cunning the first part of the last
week and made affidavit that crowd of
fifteen or twenty men went to his house
the night before, and beat him. He swore
that he recognized four of the number as
as follows: Richard, John and Toney
Tarver and Jesse Rollius. Thomas says
that about nine o'clock in the morning his
wife woke up him up, and said the house
was surrounded by men. As he was gettir 6
from his bed he was struck with a stick,
whrenpon he commenced following. Three
or four others then rushed in. They in
some way got him from the house, beating
and knocking him all the time. He asked
them what they had against him and for
what purpose they were beating him.
They told him, he had been notified to
leave the county, and he had not done SO,
and they intended if he would not leave
peaceably, TO make him do so. He told them
some of his family had been sick and that it
had been impossible for him to leave.
They then told him they would give him
ten days in which to leave, and if he did
not do 20, they would pay him another visit
soon. Thomas condition indicated that
some cne had given him severe beating.
He was bruised and beat in fIightful
manner.


The Mayor sent an officer for the four
men above named. They we're brought 10
town, and tried, and bound over in bond
of five hundred dollars each to appear at
the next term of Circuit Court. They gave
the bond.


There have been numbers of houses
burned and in some cases they we're the
property Of good law abiding citizens, sew
sral negroes have been whipped, and other
lavless acts have been done.
Year: 1879

Coll O. R. SINGLETON is always at his pos Al
ways at work for his constituents He makes a
grand old Rel resentative in Congress--knows all
the ropes, and has one eye open always for the
main chance. BY his efforts his constituency in
the lately afflicted districts have received consider
able sums from the foreign relief fund distributed
by Secretary Evarts.-CoMET


We fully indorse everything said in praise OF Col
onel Singleton by our contemporary. y.-Yazpo Herald.


We fully and cordially indorse all OF the above,
and take the liberty modesy to suggest that Colo
mel Singleton woud'be a fit man to succeed Bruce
in the United States Senate. We are one of the old
warriors ardent admirers, and regard him as solid
as tho rock of Gibraltar on Southern Democracy
Paulding Herald.


We presume Colonel Singleton, when he
reads the Herald's paragraph, will be will
ing to say in the language of our old friend
Colonel Doase, of Jasper Now Herald,
YOU are talkin'"