smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Here is row of ordinary capital let
ters and figures:


SSSSSSSSXXXXXXX33333339S8SSSS


They are such as are made up Of two
ports Of equal shapes. Look carefully
at these, and you viii perceive that the
uppey halves Of the characters are a
very little smaller than the lower halves
so little that an ordinary eye VIII de-
clare item to hs Of equal size.


Now turn the page upside down, and,
without amy careful looking, You will
see that this difference in size is very
much exaggerated; that the real top
halfof the letter is very much smaller
than the bottom half 1t will be seen
from this that there IS tendency iE
the eye to enlarge the upper part OF
any object upon which it looks.
Year: 1873

From the Cincinnati Commercial,


WASHINGTON. Dee. 25.-The revela-
tions that have been made in the last
month with regard to the shameful
manner in which private luXuries have
been provided for by Government Of
ficials at public expense, have excited
great surprise and Indignation among
all classes. Members Of Congress who
have heretofore been most loyal 20 the
Administration and all the parts there
of. express themselves with great We
hemence on this point, and declare
their purpose to have the whole matter
thoroughly sifted. Behind the facts
which have been elected with regard to
the unlawful use made Of public funds
in supplying carriages, horses and SER
wants for officials OF sll grades, from
Cabi let ministers down to cheap and
arrogant clerks, are turning up other
facts. which it is proposed at an early
day to bring to light which will show
that these are not the only luxuIies
paid for by the public for private bene-
fit. Ii surface indications are to be re-
lied on it can be proven that by the re-
ceipt Of unlawful Perluisites official
salaries have been fairly doubled in a
great many eases. Customs, which
have the warrant Of years to sustain
them, but which have in all those years
grown and increased, now amount to a
most scandalous abuse.


With public officials in Washington
the rules Of fair dealing, which are ac-
knowledged in private life. do not seem
to obtain, and when public property
can be appropriated to private use with
ont mourning danger Of prosecution for
a criminal offense, it has been and is
50 appropriated, although there can be
no sort Of excuse for the pilfering save
that the tempting opportunity present
I'd itself. This applies to all officers OF
the Government, and the first-class
clerk in the department. or the commit
Tee clerk in the House or Senate enjoys
these perquisites III that proportion to
which his rank and pay entities him.
under a loose code that teaches that
cI1bbing from the Treasury is not only
permissible but advisable.


. Staunch supporters of the Admins
tration who have hitherto been aware
IF these things without, perhaps, full ly
approaching them. are now awakened
to a realization of the condition which
It must reach if the evil is not checked
soon. and the threatened investigation
into these petty pilferings viii certain,
Iy be as thorough and searchingas ever
was made into doubtful transactions
where Congressman have been implica'
ted. The developments Of such an IN
vestigation will 90 far to show how the
deterioration in morals is accomplished
through petty speculations under color
of law, but really and indofenslbly dis
honest IN spirit. There is nod doubt but
that the evil complained Of has greatly
increased nnder the Administration OF
Gen. Grant. for that Administration
has been more than anything else like
the managing of an army in the field
where the fancy and wishes Of the Gen
eral commanding. and his staff officers
is law. But these populations did not
Segin. Of them, with the present Ad
ministration. They viii, doubtless, be
shown to 90 back a great many years
Year: 1873

THE Gomte de Waldeck recently sent
a bouquet to the Empress Eugene on
her birthday, and wrote a little note to
say that he was one hundred and nine
years old, and was in the world before
the founder of the Napoleonie dynasty,
Yet H. de Waldeck is laying his plans
for taking the direction of new thea
tire. to be built near the Madeleine, and
which cannot be completed in less than
four or five years,
Year: 1873

EVERY dog has his day." and it is
reported that over LOO CANNES have
had theirs in Cleveland, Ohio, this year;
at least that number will turn up miss
ing" when the new year is celebrated,
An epidemic of that character would
be a welcome yisitant to this city.
Year: 1873

Inns eApose and the previous puDIIcaIlOn
of the creditors of this firm have created
very lively interest in this city. A very
large number Of persons named are resi-
dents or public men who are well known
here. The entry in the case Of Gen. Bah
cock attracts attention, from the fact that
this Maryland FreeStone Company is sup
posed to be the same one as the Seneca
Sandstone concern, which has been supply
ing the public buildings with material OF
very doubtful value for such purposes.
Year: 1873

4 GENTLEMAN at a dance remarked
TO his partner, a witty young lady, that
the room was too close-he must go
out and get some air. . After an abb
sence of half an hour he returned,
when she asked him "if he had not
been to the graveyard, as his breath
smelt Of the beer. -
Year: 1873

y WORD To FATHERS.-We have read


n story Of 4 little boy, who, when he


wanted a suit of clothes, begged his


mother to ask his father if he might


have it. The mother suggested that the


boy might ask for himself ~ would, -


said the boy, "but 1 don't feel well


enough acquainted with him. There


is sharp reproof to his father in the


reply of his son. Many a father keeps


his children so at q distance from him
that they never feel confidentially
acquainted with him. They feel that
he is sort of monarch in the family.
They feel no familiarity with him.
They fear him and respect him, and
even love him some, and children can
not help loving some everybody around
them; but they seldom get near enough
to him to feel intimate with him. They
seldom go TO him with their little wants
and trials; they approach him through
the mother. They have a highway to
her heart on which they go in and out
with perfect freedom. In this keeping
off plan fathers are to blame. Children
should not be held Off Let them come
near. Let them be as intimate with the
father as with the mother. Let their
little hearts be freely opened. 1t is
wicked To freeze up the love fountains
in the little ones hearts-fathers do
them an injury by living with them as
strangers. This drives many a child
away from home for the sympathy his
heart Graves, and often into improper
society. 1t nurses discomfort and mis-
trust, which many n child does not out
grow in lifetime. Open your hearts
and your arms, oh, fathers; be free with
your children; ask for their wants and
trials; play with them; be fathers to
them truly, and they will not need a
mediator between themselves and YOU.
Year: 1873

WOODEN PAPER.-When was a lit


tie girl used to read in Webster's EIe-
mentary Spelling Book, f'The best paper
is made Of linen rags That may be
just as true now as it was then, but a
great deal of paper is made without


linen rags, and in way that the spell


ing book man never dreamed of. So


much more paper is used now than was


fifteen years ago that unless some ma
terial could be used in its manufacture,
the stock could never equal the demand.
can't tell you who first found out that
paper could be made out of wood and
straw, but / have Just seen how they do
it. First the wood, which is poplar, is
sawn into sticks about nine inches long,
and the sticks are smOOthed down until
only the white, smooth part is left with
all the knots and dark colored snots
taken out. Then the pieces are fastened
in an iron box over the top of n great
in such a way that they are
held close down upon the stones, and as
il revOlves the wood is worn off in fine
dust. The dust would fly off from the
stone, or probably takes fire from fric-
tiOn, only that a small stream of water
all the time drops on the stone, washing
the powered wood in a trough below,
where it makes a milky pulp. From
this trough it runs upon a long wooden
belt, like a blanket, which revOlves over
cylinders and as the water goes through
the belt, the pulp is left on top, and is
pressed first between coldcylinders and
then hot ones, from which it comes out
in n firm fibrous sheet of tough, thick
paper. 1t is not ready for use, though.
\ man stands by, and as it is pressed
through he tears it off in pieces and
packs it in barrels. These barrels go to
paper mills, and the wooden paper is
mixed with the pulp made from rags,
in the proportion of six parts of Tags to
four of wood. This makes very nice
paper; such as books are printed on;
but newspaper, a great deal of it, is
made wholly of wood, and coarse wrap
ping paper of straw.
Year: 1873

nabsent-minded gentleman, writing
letter at the breakfast table, dipped his
pen in his coffee and continued his letter.
Noticing his mistake, he put lump OF
sugar in the ink, and then nnding his
second blunder, poured the contents OF
his ink-stand into the coffee-pot to set it
right.
Year: 1873

The London Times makes some sharp COM
mehts on the impuDity of crime in the United States
After stating the case not altogether fairly perhaps
The Times concludes as follows:


There can be doubt that England, being the most
hosptable country the Old WOrld-mOre hospitable


in fact than her sister races III these lses-as ald
to her account many crimes done against her population
rather than by them May 1t not be SO IN the United
States also We answer-TO some extent But what we
look to is the public opinion of country, the feeling or
society and that which has the TO assert and
defend itself. In this country public opinion often
comes in 10 supply the default Of law, and to
pronounce a censuTe that will be ratified only by
the general assent of respectable men. There is
still here a very great difference between what Is
strictly legal, and what is honorable and worthy OF
good No doubt man in this country may steer
course very close to the law and escape not only M pen
alties but its formal judgments but he VIII nave
to encounter another tribunal that OF his fe0wczens
bound to no letter. and not slow to say what IT THINKS
cupable or mean. Such tribunal there should De III
the United States at least in the older Statesi ana IL
ought to be strong enough resist the deterioration as
cTibed to the continual addition OF miscellaneous
crowd OF strangers. Do the citizens OF the United
States govern themselves, they governed Dy the
human stream yearly flowing into their ctesf III the
latter, then where is the boasDgf III the former theh
why does not that mighty commonwealth DO more 10
vIndicate her law, her morality, and ner gOod nane
Ii ia only on the proof of results that we can ADMIT tue
superiority she claims for her Institutions and laws
Year: 1873

o INC Edtfor or The Trtoune.


SIR: | have just read the editorial of THE
TRIBUNE OF the 18th inst under the above caption. Is
there then cry from the heart OF the great republic
loud enough TO be heard After Investigation whati Is
there not heart great enough those whose good
names have been hurt TO grasp the awfuness Of tho
houri For the good OF Rome Brutus sacrificed his son.
Had his own head required it he would have as.ready
let the AK fall there Has the forude and greatness OF
this primitive civilization example in the present
Have we no heroism, characteri Oh. American
Representatives! Let the Christ speak in you What
you and your good names Absolutely nothing !
Nothing bat the good you aud these may give to your
God and your country An odlnm is already attached
10 your from which there is escape You have
deceived the people If you have done nothing else
YOn have dgged Congress down and so dragged
down yor conntry's greatness. Does not the Spirit OF
prophecy enrer OF e0r hearts and teach you
the monentOusness OF the hOuri Where is the man
Let him speak for his country let him be the voice OF
the people, let him arise IN his majesty and might and
confess all his wrong; let HIM move his own expulsion;
let him condemn for his countrys honor. his own name
10 everlasting nfamv Where IS the lan REPUBLIC.


CANTON, " Y, Feb. 10, 1878.
Year: 1873

enough 70 countenance the scheme Congress
mems salaries The trick 10 be too transparent
To abolish the rankng privilege and then divide among
COnressmen the amount claimed 70 be saved reekOned
as very poor sort Of economy. The Boston Go6e says
on this subject:


Tue proposition for these gentlemen TO advance their
pay proper from 5000 up to 5000 When IL Is considered


that the proposed increase TO be made for work already
done and paid for under the existing law the scheme
involves OF the most barefaced attempts punder
The public treasury which VI s possible 10 conceive Of
II Is worse than the Credit MObiier scandal and would
Justly with infamy every who should vote for
It, II nothing nor less than for Congress to vote
itself bounty out Of the public treasury after having
received the fun and agreed compensation for Its
vices One advocate OF the scheme talks about the
1ranking privilege having been abolished, and makes
that one excuse for advancing the idea. This perfectly
hdle for admitting that there any force such
suggestion which there s not, the amount OF postage
honestly sOcrung Members under any circumstances
u but trS, and the iraDkng privilege VIII teBA IL
Year: 1873

To The Editor Of The Tribune.


SIR: l want to say word in behalf of the
stagedrvers. In such this their work is ono
Of great hardship They must endure, in an exposed
position the utmost severity OF weather that cOmpes
the most OF seek shelter and warmth indoors.


little forethought the part OF the public would con-
sidcraby alleviate their trials. II every who rides
would provide the exact change for fare 1t would save
them much labor and annoyance. They have as much
as they can we'll do TO manage their horses, four
and look ont for passengers When, In addition to this,
they have make change for scrip OF all denominations
up to el0 bill slowly picking out the pieces with tho
numb fingers Of their disengaged hand the process Is
trial that would irrltae more patient men. They are a
useful and hard-working class Of public seryanis Let
remember them. fIAfOR.


hCt0 York, Feb. IA, 1873.
Year: 1873

we slip the following from the


Portland Argusf.,a sg yT0Cag


a young Maine man, who is en-
gagged la ii commercial travelling"
business for a Chicago house, was


travelling out in the far Yves, when


ne was taken possession of by two


men, who simply informed him that
they were officers and wanted him.


lie expostulated, explained, demand.


ed explanations &c, but all in vain.


No one on the train knew him, au,i


there were those on the train who


did know the officers. All that he


could get out OF them was that he


was the man they wanted. In this


way he was taken some ninety miles
tn,o the interior. Upon arrival hs
mad no longer TO rem ain in ignorance
OF Liz supposed offense, the whole


village being out to welcome him


with such cries as "Here's the id
horse thief, caught at last. Let's
string him up" "UIo.97sa 10 e.
ihe officers made some show of
resistance, but the excited mob took
possession of their victim and march
ed him into town, near the center of
which moose was already turned
over the limb of q tree. Our friend
thought is was all up with him sure.
Expostulation was received with de-
rislon. Everybody recognized him
as the notorious horse thief, whose
depredations had been continued
and extensive. A horse thief in that
section is looked upon as something
worse than an average murderer.
There was not plying eye in the
crowd, and the universal howl was,
Lynch him ~ lie tried to pray,
but the commercial travelling bust.
ness had ruined him for praying.
While waiting under the moose a
happy thought struck him His Ma
sonry! He was Royal Arch Ma
SON 9r.4nv f Esmrs sTa ggo


In all that crowd there must be
some Masons. He gave the grand
hailing signal of distress. We are
not at liberty to tell how it was done,
for several reasons, the chief of
which is, we don't know. But he
gave it, and in an instant one of the
foremost citizens of the town sprang
to his side and made more Masonic
signals, and the prisoner was quick
ly surrounded by twenty or thirty
determined men, who held the crowd
at bay with drawn pistols. Our
friend explained to the leading men
who he was. They organized COM
mittee of investigation, telegraphed
to Cairo, and verifyed all his state
ments, and the brutal mob skunk
away heartily ashamed. Our friend
was made as comfortable as possible
by his Masonic friends, but he says
he never experienced such intense
anxiety as he did when he stood un-
der the nOose. .-....--
Year: 1873

q A desire TO become thoroughly
posted, both how to grow q bush ell
Of graInor pound OF cheese at the
least cost, and also how to sell that
product, for the most oneys at the
least expense, is one great cause of
this aggregation into Clubs, which
we see. Let us remark that here,
we believe, is the greatest lever of
all. a


Y When the farmers, as q class, shall
become thoroughly versed in the
grand possibilities OF good farming,
and moreover, good business men
who understand how to adapt their
products to all markets, and know
all the tacks and turns between the
producer and consumer, then will
cease half the unreasonable exactions
which now burden them. ~ Jefferson
90. Rec.
Year: 1873

THEY had what they call an awk-
ward man on jury down in Maine
the other day. 1t seems the case i'll
yolyed claim for money for building
n cellar, and the number Of perehes OF
stone used were specified. But this
awkward man, as 1t CHANGED, knew
something by experience about build
Ing. stone walls, and this little item
was not quite clear to him. So when
the jury went out he took his pencil
and quietly ciphered little while ut
the table, and then. in the most mat
ter of fact way. told his fellow jurors
that. as he made 1t, there was enough
stone put Into those cellar walls to fill
the cellar completely up aud have
some three or four perch of stone left.
and he was puzzled to know where
they put their potatoes aud garden
sass. 4.
Year: 1873

Without a single exception, so far as we have
observed, the newspapers throughout the country
which note the purchase by the city OF the Park
property, compliment Wilmington for its enter
prise aud public spirit. Macy of them are pub
lished in cities which have extensive and elegant
ly-improved public pleasure grounds, and all such
testify to the great value of city Parks. They
will now have to be told unfortunately, that Will
mington has not yet succeeded in getting her
Public Park-thanks to the ill advised conserva
tism Of some of her own citizens.
Year: 1873

ago, going into the blacksmith shop to see
how they shod horses in Vermont! He ex-
amlned the whole process, told how he had
his horse shod, took up the horses foot and
explained his way IF doing it, aud drew from
the smith his idea and manner of doing the
same work. Pleased with the information
he had obtained, he bought some shoes to
take home with him and offered to friend
Harroun liberal pay he would 20 to his
farm in Connecticut and show his man how
he shod horses.


One such man as Mr.. Murray is doing
more to elevate and honor honest labor than
an army Of your kid.goved gentry who when
they 20 to market for pound of tea expect
the market man to send team to take il
home. We see some men who are not
ashamed to be seen on the street carrying
home their lighter purchases. As farmer
| bow with respect to this class for the ex-
ample they set to the coming generation.


My friend W. is profuse in his encomiums
OF the farmers for which | highly respect
him. Let him be equally jealous in elevat.
ing aud dignifying labor, and he will rank as
one Of the beneiactors of the race, an honor
to himself and his country. SECRETARY.


Pasampsic, March l.
Year: 1873

In regard to mineral potash, which so
many teldspathic soils contain, it is well
known that very few plants will grow and
take it up well. They are amongst the
poorest of soils, Yet stable manure added
to them tells better on the crops than the
same amount OF vegetable matter would on
soil which had not this native potash element
in it. The dead vegetable seems to act on
the preparation of the element for other
plant food as living matter would.


There are, however, many plants which
can make admirable use Of the elements in
these rocks, and thuslprepare them for other
crops, On these barren feldspar soils the
common mulein grows to an enormous size
Even on the refuse Of rock from an old quar-.
ry, we have seen it with leaves two aud
half feet long and eight inches wide, with
flower stems three inches thick aud four TO
five feet in height. In such soils as this there
could be no better plant for green manurlng ;
on this, indeed, clover would not do at all.
1t is thus seen that the whole subject of ths
best plant for this purpose is open to an in.
leresting investigation. Gardeners Month.
In
Year: 1873

Its Patrons ever welcoming


All honest members to It's throng.
How sad indeed II was 10 waken
Out nom such pleasant dream,
And find fate's book, like many others,
That prove to be not what they seem.
But there may be a better future
Than either dream or prophets vision,
Though things agree not with their seeming
We II right them up by our decision.
The noble precepts Of your order
Shall our sons and daughters train
Rightly to improve their talents,
Teach they were not made in vain.
For the world Is loudly calling
To tho young Of every class;
Men Of rank and note are falling
And the sad professions pass.
Now amid the foaming breakers
Rolls our good old ship Of state,
She has need Of sturdy sailors
To direct her future fate.
Every high and low position,
In our own and other lands
Every station, each profession,
Honest, upright men demands.
In the path OF life so drsAry,
Let our star Of hope shine bright,
Let our love Of truth ne'er weary
While contending for the right
Sure the times are now demanding
Women Of undaunted will
Who with grace, respect commanding
Wider spheres Of life shall fll
1t is useless now dsdaining


Woman as the weaker power,
Just as useless to be claiming
This the question Of the hour
For such social questions viewing
Ne'er shall veI the liberal mind,
That, no shadowy future waiting
Well improves the present time.
Then let every earnest Patron,
Triaing time no more away,
Work to 1T himself for duties
Growing clearer every day.
For the car of progress ever
With steady motion rolls,
Though the wrong may seem triumphant,
Yet the right It e'er upholds
Year: 1873

A very pretty chair tidy, is made Of red
and white alpaca braid interaced. Cut off the
strips half yard in length and pin them to
a cloth stretched smoothly over board ar
range them checker board fashion, leaving a
fingers length at the end of each strip to be
raveled out for fringe. Wnen, with drawing
needle they are all perfectly adjusted and
even, with needle and thread run around the
outside edge where the two colors interlace.
Take out the pins, ravel out the ends, trim
off the fringe evenly, and the tidy is done.


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