smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

SHALL WITNESSES BE PRoTRcrEpf-A correspondent in
the last Issue of the Chicago Ie asks the pertinent
Sns sh. 70 afiaeP sness a tepg expert and
To sander and abuse him in any way he chooses mat
suspicion Of that mans character Our correspondent


is alone 10 bis iuterrogatory. II Is being asked by
day some may it in a manner convincing to


those legal ruans who make practice Of insulting and
called as aver what i6ey copseenousiy believe


be the ruth In the recent Davis trial respectable
insanity had manness honesty TO state his
hon belief for doing which he grossly abused and
has right protection and il Is the duty of every
COur TO give him tha, protect on judge who sits idly
by and listens to such abuse without repOving the legal
sanderrr who utters it, hardly does his whole duty
Chicago Tribune.


We are glad this question is being agitated.
A witness is forced, against his wish, to go into
COnrt, and compelled, under oath, to tell what
he knows. Often it is woman or a girl who is
brought upon the stand, and is SO abashed and
confused that it is di fficult for her to remember
or say just what she wishes to. Then some le-
gal bully is turned loose upon them, to abuse
and browbeat them for telling the truth, and to
try to make them contradict themselves, and ac-
knowledge that they have lied In their argu-
ments, they are allowed to abuse and slander
witnesses, whose evidence was not impeached or
contradieted. and to call them all the vile names
in their vocabulary. They can do this brave act,
because the law does not permit any person to
hold them to an account for it. Judge who had
any back bone, would not permit lawyer to
browbeat a witness, or to abuse one in his pleBd-
ings whose testimony had not been impeached.
We hope to see the day when We shall have such
Judges-men who will silence a lawyer, or send
him to Jail for contempt, if he did not keep
within the rules of courtesy and decency.
Year: 1876

STRAY LAw.-The papers are making the an
uual demand for the repeal of the stray law,
which amounts simply to monopoly in favor of
the Kansas Farmer, at the expense of every Coun-
ty paper in the State. There never was any
good reason why stray notices should be required
By law to be published in one particular paper,
no matter where printed, who by, or for what
object The Kansas Farmer is that paper; and
no matter where it may locate, what hobby it
may undertake to ride, what its circulation, it
holds that monopoly by law. We were mem-
ber OF the Legislature when the law was passed,
IN 1866, and did all We could against it; but
bnneombe, combined with personal appeals for
charity, was too much for the few opponents OF
the fIaud. The Kansas Farmer was then new
enterprise, and a week one. An old minister
nam ed Brown, Gather of the present member OF
Congress from the Third District,) was publish
er, and the paper was located at Lawrence. He
personally solicited all the members to favor this
project, and it was carried. The paper was
afterwards removed to Leayenworth. and then to
Topeka, but it determined 10 cling to the str ay
notices. The law would have been repealed long
ago, had not some old long faced fellow, at the
solicitation of the publisher of the Farmer, al
ways been fouud to get up and protest against
the repeal, as q wrong upon the farming commu-
nifty. 1t is wrong upon the press of the State,
for the benefit of the Kansas Farmer. Stray no.
tices should be published in the Counties where
the strays occur. We hope the present Legisls-
ture will have the backbone to wipe out this
monopoly, and have the publications made in th e
Counties
Year: 1876

y The town Of Larned, in this State, was IL
Illuminated, and a salute of one hundred guns Was
fired, in honor of the election of Capt. Henry
Booth as Chief Clerk of the House of Represent
Year: 1876

u Gen. Beauregard has petitioned Congress
for the removal of his political disabilities, so
that he can hold an Office which has been ten
dered him. He is one of the men who were never
going to accept pardon from the tyrranicai Gov
ernment. But a smell Of Office will bring the
most hardened Democrat to terms
Year: 1876

HONEST MONEY."-Ihis uespatch cOnes IrOIh
Toledo, Ohio:


city viii print petition In the morning from the pr0m
nent wholesale and retail merchants and manufacturer
and FIVE hundred prominent citizens in favor of the
peal Of the specie resumption act Of the last Congress


Only last Fall, Ohio made notable campaign
in favor of " honest money" and against the rag
baby" Already the merchants and business men
in all parts of the State are crying out to save
the Greenback, and repal the ruinous resump.
ton law which President Grant forced upon the
party, and thereby arrest the bankruptcy and
rnin which threaten the business interests of the
country.
Year: 1876

By Senator Bridges Senate Bill No CO. compelling As
sessars to list property full Also
Joint Resolution No submitting tn the eectarJ of the
State the question of calling Constitutional Convention
Year: 1876

ABLE SPEECH OF SENATOR CoSKIING-A DFCTsION


CLAIMING JURISDICTION NOT NECESSARILY EVIL


DENCE OF FINAL CONVICTION.


IBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUSE.l


WASHINGTON, May II. - Senator Conkllng
held the floor during the entire day, and is said to nave
made speech of very great ability in the Beiknap case
The probabilities that the Senate VIII not decide
the question of Jurisdiction before Saturday There is
the decision will be that the Senate
has Jurisdiction, and that the trial Will proceed The
principal ground upon which Jurisdiction will be main
taned IL is understood, will be that the resignation
cannot he considered operative when made upon the
same day that impeachment is found Under the rules.


majority Of the Senate decide the question. The
fun Senate is 73, there being a vacancy in Louisiana.
Thirty-seven decide to proceed with the trial.


dccision 10 proceed with the trial need not ncces-
sarily followed by verdict OF guilty, II proofs
OF Belknaps guilt absolute This results from the
Senate rules and the Constitution. Belknap cannot be
mpeachcd except by two-thrds vote OF the Senate.
The Senate may decide by 81 that IL has jurisdic
tion. while the remaining 80 maintain contrary
opinion II Of this latter number when the vote Is taken
upon the question OF guilty. there are 20 who deny The
Jurisdiction, and who choose to vote Mt guilty on that
account Gen. Beknap will escape conviction The pres
ent Indications that Sona;e will decide that it has
jurisdiction, and that when the na vote Is reached In the
trial. there will be found % who have such legal and
sccntous scrupes to the jurisdiction of The Senate
that they will vote not guilty. so that, whatever the
evidence the probabi tiles that Beknap will not he
convicted The rules of the Senate will permit the 20
Senators who may vote not guilty to state that they do
this tne question Of jurisdiction irrespective OF the
merits of the case.
Year: 1876

am very thankful to the people OF Mar
shall county. for their patronage for the
past ten years. and hope you will all con-
tinue to come and see me at my New Store
when you want any Goods in my line.
such as
Year: 1876

Our lady readers probably have but
little idea of the process used in prepar-
ing the feather ornaments which are now
so commonly worn upon the bats of the
fair sex. If those who wear such orpa-
ments knew the tortures to which these
helpless little creatures are subjected,
and the heartless cruelty with which the
business is carried OH, they would shrink
from every indirect complicityin in it, or
course the impression prevails that all
birdsare killed Immediately when caught,
and prepared in the ordinary way by
taxidermists; but here is just where the
mistake is made. The birds are taken
alive, and while living the skin is skill
fully stripped from their quivering,
CHASTITY bodies. BY this process it Is
claimed the feathers retain frmer hold
upon the skin. Such is the method by
which all birds used in the decoration of
ladies are prepared. Think of the ex-
quisite humming bird, the blue bird, the
cardinal bird, the oriole, and numberless
others of beautiful plumage, struggling
beneath the knife Of the heartless opera
tor; think of this, tender.hearted ladies,
az your admiring gaze rests on the latest
novelties of fashion by which our city
bellies are crowned Hundreds of thou
sands of birds of the brightest plumage
are literally fayed alive every year, and
so long as our ladies will consent to wear
such ornaments, just so long will this
cruel business continue. The Baroness
Burdette- Coutts has placed herself at the
head of movementin England designed
to put an end to the brutal business, and
it is to be hoped that she will meet with
cordial encouragement and cooperation
on this side of the Atlantic.
Year: 1876

The Siamese, like most of the Orient
ais, are very fond of ornaments, es-
pecially of jewelry. This is worn prin.
cipally on the wrists and ankles. The
children of the wealthy are often 30
loaded down that, although good swim
mers, they sink if they fall into the
water with these on. knew nice lit
tie girl who was almost idolized by her
father, the evidence of which could be
seen in the heavy gold rings that span
ned her wrists and ankles. She could
swim like fish in her natural state; but
once, when in full dress, she fell from a
boat and at once sank into the deep
waters. Her body was never found.


Jewelry in the East Indies is much as
it is here; while the rich wear the pure
metal and fine diamonds, the poorer
classes try to ape them by the use of
cheap counterfeits. The metalists know
very we'll how To meet this demand.
They can alloy so as TO counterfeit al
most exactly, and they seem to have the
art of washing and plating to perfection,
Year: 1876

A lady, writing to the Arcadion, relates
the following regarding one of the oldest
pets that ever existed, and which belonged
to little girl of her acquaintance: A
visitor met this little girl at the gate last
summer with what she supposed was a
lunch box under her arm. TO the lady's
surprise snake-like head ran out a little
way from the lunch box, and the pet
Some one had brought the creature home
year or so before and let it loose in the
garden.


When the children began to play there,
out from its hole came the turtle, and
singing out this child gave evidence of
intelligence beyond belief.


The turtle was called Pedro, and the
little girl had but to call that name two
or three times at the back door to see the
old box waddling up from tho bottom of
the garden directly. Any one else
approaching or attempting familiarities,
the clumsy feet were drawn promptly in
and the wise old head retired within its
shell, and no sign of life would Pedro
give.


But let the child take it, the claws
closed round one of her fingers, and the
head, run out to its fullest extent of neck,
would be waggled against her with every
token of love turtle could give.


There came time during the summer
when the little mistress was sick. The
mother, while sitting in the dusk, thought
she saw dark object moving in the room,
and shortly after, hearing humping on
the stairs, went out and found it was
Pedro returning to his hole in the yard.


Each day for weeks, with the opening
of the outside door, in would walk Pedro.
The girl generally found him waiting on
the steps.


He would 60 to the stairs, stand up.
right in corner, and setting his little
feet into the stair above, pull himselfup.
This operation he would repeat until he
reached the landing. If the door into
the sick child's room was closed he
waited patiently to be allowed to enter.


When taken up and laid beside its
mistress it made no effort TO move, but
lay for hours with its solemn head wag-
ging from side to side.


At night it waddled of. to the stairs,
and then the racket commenced. AS II
fell off each step in clumsy fashion ii
sounded like that famous clock in the
Ingoldsby legends that went hopping after
Mr. Jonea
Year: 1876

Don't fret II the man in the forward pew
Is snoozing all the sermon through;
He isn't expected TO hear for you.
Or the preaching isn't the thing for him;
Or he knows the Rev. Mr.. Jim =
SO well he isn't afraid TO show II
BY shutting his eyes and let him 60 II.
Some way there's reason plain to be met:
So, don't-fret


Aud takes life as dream, while you
Struggle along with the toll OF two;
Nobody can slide


To worth, or learning, or truth, or pride,
On the money somebody left when he died
BY and by when his turn Is down
You'll be up on top and the crown
T'other OF folly Is somewhere set
So, don't-freti


Don't fret because your neighbor has wealth,
While you have nothing but hope and. health;
Perhaps he got his money by stealth,
Or his father did;


Though somewhere under coffin lid
Its curses may for time be hid
Be sure what fortune Is yours you earn
And honest dollars can never burn
And II you are free from disgrace and debt
Why, don't-fret.


Don't fret If fellow Of shallow stuff
Is always getting his post and pun,
While path that is humble, hard, and rough
Is made for you.


There is one that sees him through and through
And will show him up for the world to view
And then the sneakingest man to be found
Will be he that was courted, puffed and crowned
And hadn't the brains-a cast-off pet
SO, don't-fret.


Don't fret II things on the whole 60 hard
Out of the riches of glory barred
Out in the battle tired and SCARED;
For II isn't much
That one can win by sign or touch;
IT'S pain, and struggle, and toil-and such,
Upraised by the voices Of ease and pride,
That finds Its Joy on the other side,
No matter what others may give or get:
So, dont-fretl
Year: 1876

The Buffalo Express predicts that
the suspension bridge over the Niagara
River is going to fall one Of these days,
not from any defect in construction, but
simply because iron suspended, either
horizontally or vertically, ultimately be-
comes granulated and brittle, and, in
this state, breaks essily by vibration,
while to this change in structure is To be
added the inevitable weakening of the
iron by alternate contraction by cold at
a temperature Of twenty.four degrees
below zero, and the expansion by heat
of ninety degrees above zero.
Year: 1876

The subject of beer drinking has SO
often led to discussions, that we have
undertaken to set the question at rest by
giving the quantity made and the guam
tity drank by each individual in the
following countries, the figures being
principally derived from compilation
made by M. G. Noback, an eminent
scientist:
Year: 1876

Ir is pretty we'll established that if
there is any bug especially disgusting
the turkey will look out for it. In the
California region last year the best fields
were saved from complete destruction
by caterpillars by these birds, and now
it has been found out over in Rhode
Island that the potato-bue is the favorite
food of the turkey, and a nourishment
upon which it fattens literally. No
doubt if there should come along any
other pest to rival caterpillars and beetles
the turkey would also devour that. Ger
tainly the bird has earned place at our
Thanksgiving tables, even If these inter-
esting developments create wonder re-
garding the peculiar sweetness OF its
flesh.
Year: 1876

Four pounds Of leaf tobacco and one
pound Of -four Of sulphur in twenty
gallons of water, brought 10 n tempera-
ture of one hundred and twenty degrees,
is the best decoction into which to dip
sheep to rid them of ticks. The mixture
should be kept stirred during the dipping
to prevent the sulphur from subsiding.
Year: 1876

Do not imagine that the appearance OF
sadness indicates sanctity; 1t may mean
hypocrisy. To conceal ones own griefs
for the sake of cheering others betokens
a selfdenying sympathy which is the
highest kind of Christianity. Let us
present the sacrifice of praise in what
ever company we may ever be.
Year: 1876

"THANK heaven" said the San Fran
cisco Ne,os Letter on the morning OF the
Fourth, "there is no enc in our city 20
moor and humble but that he can help
hold down n Chinaman while a cannon
cracker Is set off in his mouth"
Year: 1876

VIII know the real me.


TRIBULATION may come as flood in
to the church we may be disappointed
even in the brethren; but those who have
the eye fixed on Christ "hold on their
way" the word which they have heard
and which they keep is a strong link
binding them to Him, which is more
than all else to them.


BROWN, the Mind-reader, is said to be
driving a dray in Detroit. Owing to his
peculiar faculty, he is able to look
three squares ahead and pick out tho
man who wants load hauled. Mind
reading is a great success. The man
who wants dray generally has pensive
eye and bulging brow, and the mind
reader never fails to nail him.


DO labor as earnestly and habitually
to obtain food for my un n1ying soul as l
do to provide for the wants of my perish
ing body? Do hunger and thirst after
righteousness Do love to feed upon
the word of God Is it my great desire
that may be holy? By life of holy
obedience do l find for myself, and give
to others, the evidence that l am an heir
of heaven?


THIS anecdote is told of DR.. Samuel
johnson and his wife previous to their
marriage: He said to her that he very
much wished to marry her, but there
were three obstacles: First, he was of very
humble origin; second, he had no
money; third, he had an uncle who was
hanged. In reply, she said she honored
no man more or less because of
his parentage; second, she had no money
herself; and third, although she had had
no relatives hanged, she had twenty who
deserved to be, and she wished they
were.


The following is from the Boston
Transcript: A boy at the West End had
had birthday party. A six-year-old
guest thus described it to his mother:
First, we all had some bread and but
ter. Then we had some lemonade cold
enough to freeze you. Then we all had
piece of birthday cake. Then we all
had lot of ice cream and then all the
little boys had the stomach ache. The
big girls told us to go into the house and
lie down on the floor, and they made us
drink peppermint and water till we felt
better. Then we all went out to play"
Year: 1876

NOBODY is ever so unhappy as he i'm
agines.


OUR passions are the only orators who
are certain to persuade us.
WHEN our vices quit us, we fatter our
selves that we quit our vices.
IT is a kind of happiness to know up
to what point we can be happy.
CHOOSE always the way that seems
best, how rough soever it may be. Gus
tom will render it easy and agreeable.
In deciding questions of truth and
duty remember that the wrong side has
a crafty and powerful advocate in your
own heart.


A SMILE costs the giver nothing; yet
it is beyond erring and repenting, the
sad and cheerless, the lost and forsaken.
1t disarms malice, subdues temper, turns
emnity to love, revenge to kindness, and
paves the darkest paths with gems of
sunlight.


SOMEBODY has been writing that the
White House is an unhealthy place, unfit
to live in for sanitary reasons, being near
nOisome pools, but the noble American
who wouldn't shoulder his jug of car
bOlic acid and march in and risk his
health for his country's good died long
ago.


oOMETIME-s0


The heart will be read,


Not here-but there


The truth shall be said


Away from all care,


In true sympathy,


Some eOne-SOmewhere-
Year: 1876

Both the Democrats and Republican,
of South Idaho have conceded to North
Idaho the candidates for Delegate in
Congress. What remarkable change
has come over the .spirit Of their
dream that they should at this time
make this concession to the north. Do
they fear our annexation to Washington?
The balm of reconciliation comes atE
late day, and the purposes Of its aA/hr
cation now, are too apparent to be/mis-
apprehended. Yet we of the north
ought not TO complain Of the flate as
Year: 1876

We do not feel any personal effects
from the rapid motion Of the earth
in its revolution from west to east,
but there is little doubt that some
such effects exist. Everything on the
earth is dragged, SO to speak, after it,
and curious result of this is observ-
ed upon railway lines running north
and south. On such railways the
eastern line wears out faster than the
western, while the western ''creeps"
orfmoves slighly to the south faster
than its fellow. This can only be due
to the greater weight of n train upon
the eastern lines of rails, thus wearing
them out and preventing their "creep-
ing" The wheels running on the
eastern line also wear out faster, and
this arises probably from the same
cause. New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Year: 1876

There is every indication that the meeting
which opens at Jerome Park to-day will be
the most successful in the annals Of the
bracing breeze to make the cheeks of beauty
wear brighter glow an extra wrap or two
may not be out Of place around shapely
shoulders in q carriage drive but this adds
all tho more zest to the trip out and home.
There are five events on the card to-day,
and all of them will be interesting. The
three-quarter mile dash, with maiden allow
ances, always makes pretty race. Soon
over, it treats the eye to a flash Of brilliant
color, just stirs the blood and awakes the
interest enough to put every one in good
humor for the solid running in the
race TO follow. This is the Jerome
Stakes, over two miles, for three-year-
olds, which always brings fine
field of horses to the post. Following
this comes the Nursery Stakes for two-year-
olds, form in which the silken-coatod
young beauties are wisely not asked to test
their powers beyond mile. It is q race
that has always the added piquancy of fore
casting the great horses of future years. The
Manhattan Handicap, over one mile and a
quarter, will bring number of stanch
horses before the starters flag, and as the
performances of most of the animals are
known to all the patrons of this exciting
sport the race will be watched keenly until
the numbers go up at the judges stand.
The Selling Race which closes the day, will
give room for much speculation. Over a
course mile and an eighth the apimals can
show their speed. The races commence
promptly at halfpast one o'clock, SO those
who take the road or the rail must be out
we'll before noon. We wish the meeting
every SUCCESS.
Year: 1876

with neglect of the will of Islam. The one
sin Of a sultan now is to offend the fanatical
element: his one virtue is to fight the inf
dels, however desperate the conflict; and the
Sultan may prefer to lose several provinces
and all his armies in what is regarded in
Islam as holy war rather than to lose his
own life by an unholy peace. 1t may be seen
how desr crate is the Sultan's strait in this
particular when the influence of England at
Constantinople seems to be entirely without
effect in inducing the Porte to assent to the
terms proposed. England sees menaced
now that integrity of Turkish territory
which she has done SO much to maintain,
and menaced solely through the conse-
quences that must follow the Sultan's re-
fusal to make peace. Yet she cannot induce
him to accept the terms. England is morally
powerful at Oonstantinople when she sup
ports the Turks in what they wish to do. In
opposition to their impulses she has no
weight whatever.


That Russia threatens an invasion of Turk
ish territory if the terms laid down are not
accepted may very well be premature re-
port Russia would scarcely act except by
concert with the other Powers. It Is not
clear what the Powers may decide to do in
tho event of the rejection Of the propositions
they have been asked to prepare, but nations
suoh as are involved in this case are not apt
to permit other nations to trife with them.
War, therefore, or rather on occupation Of
Turkish territory by Russian and Austrian
saving the Sultan's dignity" The Sultan
would never recover the territory occu-
pied. The event would be welcome to the
world as shelving for time the agitations
of the Eastern question. and especially well
come to US as producers of wheat and other
army supplies.
Year: 1876

Nothing at all; yet oil that is I see.'
Planets as well las white man, it APPEAR can
be mighty onsartin, and this particular one
is the worst of the lot not even excepting
the earth. Vulcan is the William NJ. Tweed
OF the solar universe, and there is no assur-
ance that we shall ever catch him till we
have an extradition treaty with the sun.