smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Not only did these words fill his own
weary hands with renewed vigor, but
they also seemed to fire the hearts of
those with him to such degree that
the deacon would often he astonished
that the work was going forward so
rapidly. 1t is the sour and cherries
heart that drags all things behind it.
The cheerful. courageous one will push
everything ahead of it,-and having
got it in good motion, the heaviest part
of the task is accomplished.


So, when one year had rolled over
Matthews services upon the farm of
Deacon Rowland, the latter re-engaged
him for an indefinite length of time at
full. experienced wages. SO aptly did
the late novice assume the duties after
his second bargain with his employer,
the deacon actually found that much of
the supervision of the estate was wholly
useless because of Matthew's foresight
and tact i'll arranging the labor of the
men. This Unborn ability created con-
tidence. which brought the same quality
i'll return.


Everything prospered during the sec
ond year, and nothing Jagged with sthe
third. hy hich time Matthew was pro-
nonnced by the neighbors all about as
the most practical and sensible among
them all-little reckoning they what the
mental toll the slender boy mastered
BY night and through the long winters
Matthew's mind was intent upon moth
ing except devising new methods of
Year: 1873

BEECHER ON THE CRow.-Mr. Beecher
makes the following witty remarks about
the crow:


aside from the special question of profit
aud loss, we have warm side toward the
crow, he is so much like one of ourselves
He is lazy, and that is human. He is Gun
ming, and that is human. He takes advant-
age of those weaker than himself, and that
Is so man-like! He is sly, and hides for
tomorrow what he can't eat to-day, show
ing real human providence. He learns
tricks much faster than he does useful
things, showing a true boy nature. He
thinks his own color the best, and loves to
hear his own voice, which are eminently
human traits. He will never work when
he can get another to work for him-a gen.
uIne human trait. He eats whatever he
can lay his claws upon, and is less mis-
chievous with a full stomach than when
hungry, and that is like man. He is at
war with all living things except his own
kind, and with them when he has nothing
else to do. No wonder men despise crows
They are too much like men. Take of
their wings, and put them in brooches, and
crows would make fair average men. Give
men wings, and reduce their smartness q
little, and many Of them would be almost
good enough to be crows"
Year: 1873

PROFESSOR AGASsIZ ON THE NEGRO.--
In recent lecture Agassiz remarkel: ~
have pointed out over a hundred specific
differences between the bonal and nervous
systems of the white man and the negro.
fndeed, their frames are alike in no partic-
ular. There is no bone In the negro's body
which is relatively the same shape, size, ar
ticuiation, or chemically of the stme COM
position as that of the white man. The ne
gro's bones contain far greater proportion
of calcrBeous salts than those of the white
man. Even the negro's blood is chemical
ly very different fluid from that which
courses in the veins of the white man.
The whole physical organization of the ne
gro differs quite as much from the white
mans as it does from that of the Chin
panZee-that is in his bones, muscles, nerves
and fibres, the chimpanzee has not much
farther to progress to become a white man.
This fact science inexorably demonstrates.


"Cimate has no more to do with the diff
ference between the white man and the ne
gro than it has with that between the negro
and the chimpanzee, or ii has between the
horse and the ass, or the eagle and the owl.
Each is a distinct and separate creation.
The negro and the white man were created
as specifically different as the owl and the
eagle. They were designed to fill different
places in the system of nature. The negro
is no more a negro by accident or misfor-
tune, than the owl is the kind of a bird he
is by accident or misfortune. The negro Is
no more the white mans brother than the
owl is the sister of the eagle, or the ass the
brother of the horse. How stupendous, and
yet how simple, is the doctrine that the
Almighty maker of the universe has Great
ed different species of men, just as he has
different species of the lower animals, tC
machinery of nature"
Year: 1873

PORTABLE DRY INK.-At a recent meet
ing of the Polytechnic Association, Profes-
sor Boettger exhibited novel kind OF ink,
which Is admirably adapted to take on
journeys aud exploring expeditions. White
blotting paper is saturated with aniline
black and several sheets are pasted to form
a thin pad. When wanted for use, small
piece is torn of and covered with a little
water. The black liquid which dissolves
out is good writing ink. A square inch
Of the paper will give enough ink to last
for considerable writing, and few pads
would be all that an exploring party need
carry with them. AS wa or is always a.
vailable, the ink Is readily made.
Year: 1873

In spite of the suspense, he put the safe
on one side until we had lowered Dabble
into its place. which he exactly fitted, and
filed In the grave. Then we took our dis
covery home, and wrenched the lid off.
There wasthe parchment safe enough, con
siderpbly discolored but quite legible.


Well, Musgrave had no other way OF
raising money for the re-opening ofthe big
suits so he sold the ruin and the orchard.
The case was clear enough now the miss
ing link was supplied; and he established
his claim to the property which had been
so long in dispute without much trouble or
delay. He married his Mary; did not cut
me when the increasing value of his free
holds made him very rich, and was always
grateful to Dabble, who had brought him
rabbits when living, and fortune when
dead Chambers Journal.
Year: 1873

Morally, mentally, physically, premature
marriage is mistake among women and
yet every day we see this mistake sanctioned
by the offices Of religion, blessed by the con.
sent Of friends and entered into with all the
eclat which should be reserved for triumph
rather than trial


Morally" it is mistake, because few
women are fit, at an age when they should
be "under authority to rule household
prudcntly since no atmosphere is so dan
gerous for an undeveloped soul as that of
the almost absolute power which is generally
delegated to the young wife, She may now
do whatever is pleasing in her own eyes.
She has been freed from parental restraint,
and any other has a circumference so unde-
fined that it is narrowed and enlarged ac-
cording to the will and moral sense of her
who draws it. Angels might fear to walk
in such broad freedom as is given by love
and sufferance to the majority of our young
married women-women by courtesy, child
ren in the regard of both law and wisdom.


Mentally" it is a mistake, because with
marriage all mental growth is suspended in
the large majority Of women Education,
being regarded as simply means toward an
end, is abandoned as soon as the end is OBJ.
tanned. 1t may be argued that all education
from such motive is mistake to begin
with. True, but then it is the one which
keeps the culprit in the society of wisdom,
and it is just possible the mind under such
influence, might arrive at juster concep-
tion Of its worth and value.


Physically" it is mistake, because at
the early age at which many marriages are
made, the human form has not arrived at
perfected strength and duties and response
bilities are laid upon it for which nature has
made no adequate provision. Vitality is
destroyed quicker than it is generated, and
early and rapid decay of both mind and body
are the results Then the woman is said to
die by the visitation Of God" though in
nine cases out Of ten it is only the simple
and inevitable result Of the laws of nature
pitilessly and persisteptly broken,-RrGi
Home.
Year: 1873

ately loses her reason, and dashes to the op-
poste end Of the yard The man straight
way dashes after her She comes back again
with her head down, her wings out, and fol-
lowed by an assortment Of stove wood, fruit
cans, and coal clinkers, with a much putting
and very mad man in the rear. Then she


skins up on the stoop, and under the barn,
aud over a fence or two, and around the
house, and back again into the coop, oil the
while talking as only an excited hen can talk,
aud all the while followed by things con-


yenient for handling, and by man whose
coat is on the sawbuck, and whose hat is on
the ground, and whose perspiration and pro.
family appeal to have no limit. BY this time
the other hens have come out to take hand
in the debate, and help dodge the missiles
and the man says every hen on the place
shall be sold in the morning, and puts on his
things and goes down street, aud the woman
dons her hoops, and has every one of those
hens housed and contented in two minutes,
and the only sound heard on the premises is
the hammering by the oldest boy, as he
mends the broken pickets.-DanJury News.
Year: 1873

In writing articles for publication do it in
the iewcst words that will make your mean
ing plain. When you have done this, STOP
You may perhaps find something in it that
you might condemn, perhaps to alter possi-
bly, something to add. Never let incorrect
spelling or bad grammar deter you from
writing, if you have important facts to COM
municate or what you consider such The
editor is always ready and willing to correct
errors for the sake of the facts; but mere
literary efforts will generally be consigned to
the waste basket, if they require very much
correction, unless they contain original ideas
also. An editor must Judge ol what will be
of interest and value to his readers it is his
business to know that which he has spent
years in studying. Ideas should be express
ed in as short, terse and comprehensive Ian.
guage as possible and are always valuable,
as being the result OF practical experience.
All farmers know how to conduct the ordina.
ry operations Of the farm All however do
not accomplish these processes alike, or in
the most economical manner. 1t is this diff
ference which make the successful and un.
successful farmer. Facts relating to these
operations are never too much trouble for an
editor to correct,
Year: 1873

Is hard ground the best for corn? As
far as my experience goes, it is, A number
Of times since have iarmed it have had
occasion to pillow up some road across the
farm where il was trod so hard that it could
hardly be plowed three inches deep, and
would always get the best corn there. The
past season plowed up lot of some over
an acre, walled in, that had not been plowed
for fifteen years. plowed with side hill
plow, las always do,) and plowed the head
lands first, so as to set my plow in better in
plowing the rest The turning around on it
in blowing aud narrowing made it very hard
but | got the best corn on the two headlands
that | had on the piece; it stood some eight
feet high. On another piece on the upper
side of the barn, that had not been plowed
for twelve years, no richer than the rest Of
the field, and trod so hard by travelling over
it that it could hardly be plowed | got the
best corn, some Of it growing ten feet tall.
plow in some thirty loads Of manure to the
acre, and put small shoyeltul in the hill.
don't want it understood that | AIN an ad-
vOcate of hard ground for corn, for it is too
hard work to hoe it, but write to see if
others have had the same experience, and to
have some one tell me why it is so, if it can
be done. G. +. LINCOLN.


Woodstock, VI.
Year: 1873

Every farmer should keep book in which
to paste agricultural scraps. Every one, in
reading paper, will see number of things
which he will wish to remember. He will
perhaps see suggestions the value of which
he will desire to test, or hints which he will
want to be governed by in future operations.
And yetafter reading the paper he will throw
it down, and will probably never sec it again.
In such case all valuable articles will be
lost To prevent such loss, every reader
should clip from the papers such articles as he
desires to preserve and remember, and paste
them in scrap book. Such book at the
end ofa year or two, will be very interest
ing and vauable.
Year: 1873

Sheep.are badly managed by many of US
farmers. They should not be allowed to
lie out in cold storms after the first OF Sep
tember, but with many Of us they are allow.
ed to lie out just as long as they have
strength to paw through the snow and reach
the old dry stubble, which is good for moth
ing. This is the time they need to be in the
barn and have II little grain. 1t will DO
them more good from the middle Of Octo-
Der to the first Of December than it will in
the same length of time any other time in
the year II they are allowed to shift for
themselves at this season of the year, they
get poor and when April comes those farmers
that allow their sheep to take care of them
selves are generally complaining " My lambs
are dying" If the ewes have plenty Of
milk they generally take care of their young.
Instinct has taught them this, and it tney
are strong aud healthy they will do it. They
want few roots to keep them healthy and
a variety Of food is what they crave. They
should have salt which they can lick at any
time


There j, not a farmer on earth that can
keep his sheep in good condition aud have
them lame halt Of the time. The best reme-
dy is good, sharp knilo and skliul hand.
The medicine is four pounds blue vitriol, one
pound tobacco, four ounces oil Of spike, one
gallon water This will cure. have not
had lame sheep for two years.


Well, says one, what kind Of sheep
shall We kecp?" Good sheep, say, Blood
will tell My sheep are pure Atwood, We
do not want those little greasy, wrinkled,
short woood ones that have in years past
been popular. They are good for nothing.
Manufacturers have been imposed upon long
enough with this kind Of wool. 1t stands
us in hand to raise long fine wool The
more libers on Il square inch the better.
They should be wooled on the forehead and
well up around the face, aud down to the
toes The more wool the better. 1t costs
no more to keep sheep that will shear ten
pounds than one that shears five pounds,
though the sheep that shears ten pounds is
worth twice as much as the other. The
shape has great deal to do with a good
sheep, In the first place they must have a
heavy neck, full, round chest, be broad
across the back, with short. bony leg, deep
in the flank shoulders well set apart


A great many farmers have got rid Of
their sheep within few years because they
said they did not pay, Good sheep have
paid right along, 1t is fault with many Of
us farmers that we sell our sheep when they
are clear down to the foot Of the hill. That
is pretty good time to buy; can't lose if
we buy then


Sheep must have their ups and downs as
well as anything else. Spanish merinos are
worth to-day from $40 to S25 per head,
Two years ago they were not worth 50.
There are instances where bucks are sold for
from 500 to $500, There have been ship
ped from Middlebury the past season br the
West and California, about 40 carloads Of
sheep v M. HUBBARD.


Rochester, Vermont,
Year: 1873

that which have seen a neighbor make land
that with heaters and everything desirable
to do with,) simply because he let his sap
stand too long in the buckets before gather
ing | should give up in disgust what is now
the most inviting part of the farmers labor
to me.


l hope the sugai-makers OF Vermont
will collect all the information possible in
relation to inter- and forward them to Prof
Collier, in accordance with bis request in the
FARMER of March 2S. w. H. W.


81. JohRsbOry, april 4,
Year: 1873

selected and bred expressly for this kind Of
work. and would ercel all Others"


But some will say, would rather have the
Morgaus as they were in their best day than
anything you can produce from the thorough
bred Aye, but it was Thoroughbred,
True Brton, that gave us Justin Morgan
1t was imported Messenger Thoroughbred
horse, that gave us the flambletonians and
Mambrnoes. But there is a vast difference
in thoroughbred horses. To improve our road
and carriage horse, he should not only be
game, stout horse, Of large size and symmet-
rica form, but descended from family free
from all physical defects. For instance, Lex.
ington is the best running horse ever bred in
America, yet | would not advise any farmer
to breed from him, or any Of his descendants,
simply on account Of his sightless eyes, which
he inherited from Boston, and transmits to
his progeny How far the defect will be
carried time alone will reveal,


Some good horse-men have a vague idea
in regard to the blood horse, or thorough
bred Not long since, while talking horse
with friend who derided the Thoroughbred
he called me in to see a fine, high-bred stall
lion Of his; he called to my notice the wiry
form, clean limbs, fine head and neck, with a
game.cock throttle, the sickness Of the name
and tail, and how plainly could he seen the
network Of the veins. All these points which
he so much admired were inherited directly
and only from the thoroughbred horse, which
he called good for nothing" ED.


Charleston, March 20.
Year: 1873

Another of the Tammauy ring frauds has
just been brought to light at New York, by
which the occupants Of markets have been
cheated out of several hundred thousand
dollars, the past few years. The particular
ring which worked this rich mine was under
the immediate auspices of Controller Dick
Connolly
Year: 1873

The Swiss are turning their eyes toward
America in greater numbers than ever be-
fore, this season, and the people of one can.
ton propose that their government shall pur-
chase an extensive tract of land in America
for sale in portions to omigrants, and the
question is soon to be submitted to popular
vote.
Year: 1873

Cut small and core an equal weight of
tart apples and ounces. Put the ounces
in a preserving kettle, with water to cover
them, and boil till soft; add the apples, still
keeping water to cover them, and boil till
the whole is nearly pulp. Put the whole
into jelly bag, aud strain without pressing.
Year: 1873

A ScANDAL-From the time when it became
positively known that the Governor had determ-
ined to appoint Senator, he was literally be-
sieged and dogged, day and night, by herd Of
hungry aspirants and their friends, from every
section of the State, who poured down upon him,
to urge their peculiar fitness and claims to the
place. Men scarcely ever before beard of; men
whom nc one could have supposed to possess SO
much cheek and presumption; men scarcely
qualified to fill the Office of Constable; men who
would have cut about the same figure in the Sem
ate as a frog in a church pew; men whose faces
would have insured their rejection for nights
lodging at country tavern-such as these hound
ed and importuned the Governor for the appoint
ment of Senator, until they literally drove him,
in sslf-defence, to abandon the Capital. And
when he sought repose in Leavenworth, there
again he found himself beset By influential men,
by committees, and by delegations. And now
that he has rejected them all, and made credit
able appointment, We expect to hear the bowling
hounds raise clamor against him, for ignoring
true merit and the rights of sections!
Year: 1873

THE OLDEST AND THE BEsT.-These are the
bold claims which the publishers of the New
York Observer make for their paper. And yet
the facts of history bear them out in the first
while undertaking course in sending out a
large, full, fresh, readable family newspaper,
gives them at least a right to lay claim to the
second. In the great multitude of papers that
are published the Observer holds its own position,
and an enviable position it is. No paper reaches
us that we can recommend more heartily. 1t is
published at 50 year, and the premium picture
and chrome humbugs are left for those who have
nothing better to offer. S. /. Prime & Co., 81
Park Row, New York.
Year: 1873

GET OrT.-A country exchange makes this
heart-rending appeal:


why don't a lot of you fellows who are hang
ing around the street corners aud gin mills,
without cent IN your pocket, or a decent coat
on your back, get out and husk corn a few daysi
1t viii do you good; and then you will have the
satisfaction of knowing that you have earned an
honest dollar in the memory of man. You are
already largely indebted to the world for what
you have had You have been drone in the
hive of industry long enough. Get ont and do
something; and don't be very long about it; you
haven't got any time to waste. Go to work.
Year: 1873

The result of the election in New York was
not much of Democratic victory after all.
bo,h branches Of the Legislature arc Republican.
and the official returns, as far as received. indi
cate the election of the Republican candidates
for Comptroller and State Prison Inspector
Even the Democratic candidate for Secretary of
state, for whom a majority of 5000 to 10000
majority of only about s,OOo0.
Year: 1873

u They are Dragging about the manufacture
of artificial butter in San Francisco. We thought
all butter was artificial At least, we have never
seen any natural butter, except an old ram.
Year: 1873

" Auditor Wilder is getting his annual Re-
port ready. 1t is whispered that he will not in
corporate any white-wash into the document, bnt
will make the fur fly from certain officials.
Year: 1873

struck Coyn, and from the testimony
the writer has heard he thinks they are
right.


The mother of the injured man ar
rived in town last evening from Port
Henry, where she and her husband re-
side She states that her son has been
three years in Rome, having left Port
Henry to better himself He was on
his way home when this accident hap
pened to him.


1t is a comment on the error or ma
liciousness OF, the Globe that it should
have chosen to have stated yesterday
morning that Coyn fell down the Bates
House stairs, instead of giving anything
like a truthful version of the affair. If
the statement was an error, it is mex
cusable in a respectable modern journal
ist if it were malicious and premeditat-
ed, it is only on a par with other con-
duct of the same paper toward the same
establishment The only part the Bates
House had in the affair was to afford
shelter to the injured man and to place
its resources at the disposal of the doc
tor. 1t would have been better journal
ism if the writer of the Globe paragraph
had taken the pains to ascertain the facts
before he made an assertion like to in
lure the character of the house.
Year: 1873

of the East River. But why not deal
squarely with Stokes Punish him for
firing the pistol, and pension him for
hitting the person who happened. 10
stand in the way of the bullet. = Were
the town polled tomorrow, he would
be voted something of bore but more
of benefactor.


Stokes, we are promptly informed by
telegraph, will be.given some light EN-
ployment in the cigar mandatory al
Sing Sing, and if he behaves himself
will be able to get out of prison by com
mutation in three years and six months.
Which, it may be remarked, is a great
deal better than hanging, after all 2 81


AS the hard work of Stokes ought TO
correspond with the severity OF his pun
ishment, (for only killing NAM please
suggest in your valuablespaper the pro
curing of few ounces of worsted and
a crochet.needle,to occupy his time an
hour or so day.


However, we have probably heard the
last of Stokes for some years. While
Mr.. Fisk can by no possibility recover
from the unhappy accident which
caused his death, let US hope that Mr..
Stokes will not find his imprisonment
for four years Improbable.