smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

what To Teach our Boys.


Not to tease girls or boys smalle
than themselves.


When the play is over for tn,
day to wash their faces and hands
brush their hair and spend tn,
evening in the house.
| Not to take the easiest chair il
the room, and put it directly il
front of the fire, and forget to offel
it to their mother when she come.
in to set down.


To treat their mother as politely
as if she were a strange lady, who
did not spend her life in their SER
vice.


To be as kind and helpful tc
their sisters as they are to other
boys sisters.


Not to refuse when asked to do
some errand which must be done.
and which will otherwise take the
time of some one who has more to
do than themselves.


To make their friends among
good boys.


To take pride in having their
mothers and sisters for their best
friends.


To try and find amusement for
the evenings which all the family
can join in large and small.


To take pride in being gentle
men at home.


To cultivate o cheerful temper.


To learn to sew on their own
buttons.


If they do anything wrong, to
take their mothers into their con-
fidence, and above all, never lie
about anything they have done.


To make up their minds not to
learn to smoke, to chew, or to drink,
remembering that these things can
not be unlearned, and that they
are terrible drawbacks to good men
and necessities to bad ones.


To remember that there never
was vagabond without these bad
habits.


To learn to save there money
and invest it, from the first penny
they earn, and they are snre to be
rich men.


To observe all these rules and
they are sure to be gentlemen.
Year: 1875

A boy borrowed a tool from q


carpenter promising to return it


at night. Before evening he was


sent away on an errand and did


not return until late. Before go
ing he was told that his brother
should see that the article was re-
turned. After he had come home
he inquired and found that the tool
had not been sent to its owner.
He was much distressed to think
that his promise had not been kept,
but was persuaded to go to sleep
and rise early and carry it home
the next morning. By Daylight he
was up, and nowhere was the tool
to be found. After a long and
fruitless search, he set off to his
neighbours in great distress, to ac-
knowledge his fault. But how
great was his surprise to find the
tool on his neighbor's door stone I
And then it appeared from the
prints of his little bare feet In the
mud, that the lad had got up in
his sleep and carried the tool home
and gone to bed again without
knowing it. OF course a boy who
is prompt in his sleep was prompt
when awake. He lived respected
had the confidence of his neigh
bors, and was placed In many Of
fees of trust and profit. If all
grown folks felt as this boy did,
there would be good many tracks
of bare feet found some of these
bright mornings; and what piles
of books and tools would be found
at their owners doori
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the Cincin-
ati Gazette gives the following re-
cipe, which he says he has success
fully tried:


"Mix thoroughly one quart Of
fine salt with three pecks Of wood
ashes, and scatter the mixture over
and around the potato plants while
the dew is on in the morning or
just after q shower. Do the same
in o few days if the bugs should
reappear.


This application of salt and ashes
is equally effective in destroying
bugs and insects when applied in
the same way on rose bushes; or
on pumpkin, squash, melon and
cucumber vines; in fact, on cab
bage and plants Of all kinds.
Year: 1875

Sheep are undervalued by the
landholders as a means of keeping
up the fertility of the soil and put
ting money into the pockets of the
farmers. The moment one begins
to talk of sheep husbandry, the lis
tener or reader begins to look for
wool quotations, as if wool was all
that yields profit from sheep. One
might as well look for wheat quo
tations alone when there Is talk
about farming.


Sheep on farm yield both wool
and mutton. They multiply with
great rapidity. They are the best
of farm scavengers, "cleaning q
field" as no other class of amin al
will. They give back to the farm
more in proportion to what they
take from it than any other animal,
and distribute it better with view
to the future fertility of the soil.
Prove this I There is no need of
proof to those who have kept sheep,
and know their habits, and the
profits they yield. To prove it to
those who have not the experience
it is necessary they should try the
experiment or except the testimony
of an experienced shepherd.


But the live stock of farm
should not, necessarily, be sheep
exclusively. Cattle, horses, swine
have their respective places
in the farm economy. How many
each to keep is question that To-
cality, charater Of markets, adapta-
ton Of soil, predisposition, taste
and skill of the husbandman must
decide. But one thing ought not
to be forgotten, that the more stock
a man keeps on his farm, the more
grass and grain it ought to grow.
The rates of increase will CORES
pond with the business tact, tech
nical and practical knowledge, and
skill of the husbandman.-N. Y.
World.
Year: 1875

It is q realm Of darkness and
thick dust, and shroud-like cob
webs and dead things they wrap
in their grey folds. For a garnet
is like sea shore, where wrecks
are thrown and slowly torn to
peices. There is the old cradle
which the old man you just remem-
Der was rocked in; there is the
ruins of the bedsted he died on
that ugly slanting contrivance used
to be put under his pillow in the
days when his breath came hard /;
there is his old chair, both arms
are gone, symbol of the time when
he had nothing earthly to lean on !;
there is the large wooden reel
which the blear-eyed old deacon
sent the minister's lady who thank
ed him graciously, and twirled it
smilingly, and in fitting season
bowed it out decently to the limbo
of troublesome conveniences. And
there are old leather portmanteaus,
like stranded porpoises, their
mouths gasping in gaunt hunger
for food with which they used to
be gorged into bulging repletion !;
and old brass andirons, waiting
until some time shall revenge them
on their paltry substitutes, and
they shall have their own again,
and bring with them the fore-stick
and backlog Of ancient days and
the empty churn, with its idle
dasher, which the Nancys and
Phebes, who have left their COM
Portable places to the Bridget's
and Norahs, used to handle to
good purposes; and the brown
shaky old spinning-wheel, which
was running, 1t may be, in the days
when they were hanging the Salem
witches.
Year: 1875

A vine, which fourished, fair and tall,
By clinging to a friendly wall,
Grew proud to hold her head so high,
las claiming kindred with the sky),
And looking down with pitiful scorn
On humber pl ants beside her born,
Thus to thyme-plant rudely said:
""Tis strange you never leave your bed,
Norgrow foot above the earth;
Sure life must be Of little worth
To one who thus is always found
The merest groveler on the ground,
Where all the fragrance you may boast
On low society is lost;


Whereas, excuse me, Goody Thyme y
If you, like me, would only climb
Aloft, and take higher range,
You'd own it for charming changsr'
The other answered, every true,
I do not grow so tall as you;
And then, your ladyship must own,
Unlike yourself, grow alonei
For me, though but an humble thyme,
pity you, who cannot climb
A single inch without support;
And so, 20 fie y are fain TO court
An ugly wall to be your prop;
Take that away and down you dropl"


MORAL.
Whoever manages to rise
BY native strength, may we'll desplse
The man who owes:his loftier state
To fawning on the rich and great
Year: 1875

A bad little boy, upon being
promised Eve cents by his mother
If he would take o dose of castor
oil, obtained the money, and then
told his parent that she might
castor oil into the street. He
will make q humorous Newspaper
paragraphist one Of these days.
Year: 1875

Having on hand seasonabe collection Of Dry Goods in great
variety large line of Millinery Goods which
the desirable shapes of Hats and Fowes complete
Domestcs Shawl Hosiery Notions the IS White
asols
Year: 1875

It will not be a great while un- til the general assembly will con vene again, according to adjourn ment, and there is very impor- tant matter that we hope the news papers of the state generally will call the attention of members to, and that is the fee bill. We will not say anything about printers fees in this, as that matter has been partially provided for in the appointment of a committee by the press association to look after their interests, but, in the matter of officers fees, we wish to call es- pecial attention. For the life of us we cannot discover anything but kind of false economy in the reduction that has been made in the fees of sheriffs, clerks, justices and constables. Litigants pay the most of their fees. The result must be increased litigation and less capable officers. Wherein is the economy to the state? The state must lose by having incom- potent officers, and we cannot have competent and faithful officers iong without respectable compen- sation. It may be that some will answer, "Oh, but we never fail of a big crop of candidates about election time" That may be true, but will capable men want a poor office when they can do bet ter at something else? We judge not, for the most patriotic man you can find wants either pay or honor for his public services. The great amount of business be- fore the last legislature, the nee essary hurry, and the feeling that the most rigid economy was nec- essary to get out of the condition in which radical rule placed us, excuses somewhat the imperfec- tions of the law, and we doubt not that the legislature at it's next session will correct the mistakes that time has discovered.-Des Arc Citizen.
Year: 1875

bank of Riddle fattened off of the peculiar privileges granted to it by the government, and our pres ent national banks are contrivan- ccs by which the government an- thorizes favored class to pluck the government goose, except the pin feathers, which are left for the people. But who has right to say that we are not a hard money party to-day? What IS there Tn our recent record to con trovert that idea? There is not a democrat in the land who will op

 pose the resumption of specie payment when it can be brought about without paralizing indus tries and impoverishing and dis dressing the people. But we do not make such an idol of metallic coin as to be willing to breed com munistic revolts and fill our lands with paupers to force resumption. We fully reallze that with ten thousand millions of indebtedness public and private, and the vast volume of business represented by it, that speedy resumption is ab- solutely impossible, without bringing immense distress and disaster to every class of our pop ulation except the bond holder and the money changer. The many congressional pledges of resumption in 1879 hang like q pail over the business of the coun- try. Prudent men have been following the example of retract- ion set by the government. They have been drawing their means out of active business, and secu- ring it in real property; they are closing up their manufacturies; they refuse to go into new enter

 prises, and the result IS that the panic of 1874, which should only have had temporary duration, has settled down into 8 season of bus mess prostration, which will con tinue until the policy of the gov

 ernment has changed, the contin- ued tampering with the currency checked, and the active men of the country can have faith to re- sume operations without fear of being oyertaken by ruin through government interference. If re- sumption is reached in 1879, a steady contraction and deprecia

 tion in values must continue; and what sane man will invest his means in business under such cir cumstances? Let us reach specie payment as speedily as possible, but let the laws of business and circumstance under which we are placed govern the matter, and not the special interest of the banker and bondholdcr.
Year: 1875

The following is an extract from the speech of Gov. Allen, recently made in Ohio. There IS no doubt but that he will be elected this fall; and we can see no dan ger to the successs of the Democ- racy in the presidential contest next year that his election would bring; although some papers which pretend to be farseeing, contend that hls election, on the Ohio platform, would mean defeat to the national democracy next year.

 Here is the extract from the speech:

 We hear it said by all the news papers in that interest and the most of them in this state are con ducted by postmasters; we hear it said that the democratic party at Columbus, at it's State conven- tion hoisted the flag of "rag mon- ey." Did they? What is rag money? Who made it? What ever the currency is in quality and volume, it is republican work not ours. Not one dollar of paper money in the United States was manufactured by Democrats. Democrats are opposed to repudiation. Credit has q politi- cal virgin quality. It will not do to cali it's purity in question. When it is once blighted it is gone, forever. x To call the greenback a worthless and irredeemable currency is to i'm pugn the honor and credit of the United States. Upon the face of each note is printed, "The United States will pay the bearer-- dollars" It does not say when it will pay it, as it does in it's inter est bearing bonds, but it never the less solemnly promises to pay the amount. The matter of the payment of either of the series of the interest bearing bonds rests entirely upon the honor of the government. There is no power under heaven to compel the pay ment of any of our bonds if the government declines to do SO. Therefore what right have the republicans to say that the govern ment will pay one class of it's honestly c ,ntracted indebtedness and refuse to pay another? The obligations of this government will all be paid. The people will not allow repudiation in any shape. Their moral sense revolts at the idea. We have always been an anti irrational bank party. In Jackson's time we op- posed a single national bank be- cause it was detrimental to the interests of the American people. Now that we have two thousand national banks draining the life blood of the people, why should we not raise our voices against them? The old national
Year: 1875

We know of no piece of advice with which to fill this space which will, if needed and followed, bene fit our readers and our country more than the above. If we are not badly mistaken there has been fewer debts contracted this year than is commonly done. We have been blessed with q good crop year for wheat, oats, grass, corn and fruit; the prospect is good for cotton, and most everybody can pay out this fall. Do so, and make a resolve to go in debt no more, unless some unforeseen ca lamity should befall you. Now is your chance to do this; you can do It just as well as not, and if you will in five years you will be worth more than you will in if teen if you keep on going in debt. We know of some men, who at the surrender had nothing; now they own nice little farms worth from $500 to $2OO0-all made by their own cxer.ion. We know of others who started in the same way and who are yet in the same coRdition-got nothing, live hard, and are in debt. The first belong to class who did not go in debt; they WOULD NOT go in debt. They worked hard and lived any way to keep free from debt; now they have got plenty and can buy and pay for anything they want. The others belong to class who, although they worked, they al ways got in somebody's debt and spent the proceeds of their labor before they got it. THEY will al ways keep poor as long as they live thus.

 Begln the next year by paying up what you owe, and making a resalyc to live within your means.
Year: 1875

The Indian question, on account of the immense fraud charged against the Indian ring, and tue miserable management used in our Indian system is attracting q large share of public attention. Strong denunciations go up against the administration of President Grant on account of his support of the present Indian Ring.

 The New York Herald has sent special correspondent into the Northwest and employed inter- preters at its own expense, in or der to get at the true facts in this matter. The Herald says that the results of the investigation prove that "the whole Indian system of the Northwest is as corrupt as was Tammany Hall un- der the old ring. It is even more disgraceful in it's corruption. The Tammany ring grew rich by rob- ping the city treasury. The In dian ring grows rich not merely by robbing the national treasury but by plundering poor helpless Indians"

 The Herald proceeds to review the system and show up the vi ciousness of the system as con ducted with Orville l.. Grant, the Presidents brother, acting a prominent part and amassing large gains; and with full in sight into the workings of the system the Herald says that the whole Indian system has become "a dishonor to our government and our civilization"

 The Herald goes on to say "the only reform that we can have is the removal of MT. Delano and Mir. Smith and the withdrawal of Mr. Grant from a position which, however advantageous to himself, is a scandal to good government and . dishonor to his illustrious brother" And "The country will say and not without cause, that any failure on the part of the President to summarily stamp out these frauds will show that he cares more for the pecuniary ad- vantage of his brother than the honor of the nation."

 And the administration which is sustaining this rotten system, whose fraud and corruption sur passes all Tammany, is that which the country is asked to accept for a third term. But the country is little likely to do it.
Year: 1875

Some people act very much as though they supposed it cost nothing to furnish the country with a good newspaper, Roweps Directory shows that during the past year one thousand journals have failed and $S,000,0O0 been lost by newspaper proprietors. Think of this and send us $l.50 for the DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1875

The St. Albans (Vermont) Duly
AdUertaser. in speaking of our lsae
Senatorial election, after giving SON
of the particulars, last ballot, &t-,
makes the following compl mentaiy
reference to Senator Carpenter


i he defeat of Senator Carpenter is
great loss to the country He is one
of the very ablest debaers On the Re
publican side in Congress. big brain-
ed big hearted, generous man H.
has experience, tact, knowledge Ct
affairs, and an ability to use his re-
sources.


He had done the country great ser
vice in the Senate, and has been pur
sued with most unrelenting hate by
the New York Tribune, whose scan
da about him was mass of unsup-
ported insinuations and improved as
sertions. which the United States Sen
ate answered by re .electing b i'm to
preside over their deliberations and
this mark of approval from SO distin-
gulshed body Was justified by the
Republican press. Harper's Weekly
at the time approved the act, and re-
marked that unless the Senate is ut
terly degraded, it could not have elect
ed him its chiet officer had it not been
convinced of the falsity of the charge.
for the action Of the Senate, as agains.
the unsustaiued allegation of per-
son who confesses a sinister motive.
must be re arded as conclusive vim
dication. Doubtless his manly frank
ness and honesty in refusing to mouth
like cheap demagogue about the "sal.
ary grab, ;" when as a lawyer, he knew
the act in question was exactly in &C.
cordapce with all legislative precedent
since 1896 in its retroactive feature.
and was not exorbitant in the compen-
sation fixed by it, helped his petty
souled enemies, who could not answer
bis argument, in their tireless warfare
against him; but be can better afford
to lose Senatorship than to stand in,
a narrow politicians niche in history,
as an Ignorant or time serving salary
shreker." Senator Carpenter will be
sorsly missed by the Republican party
in the Senate, and what is a far high
or tribute to his worth he will be
mourned by many poor, unfortunate
and sorrow stricken persons of both
sexes to whom Matt. Carpenter has al.
ways seea the man Of the open hand.
the open heart and the open door.
A U. s. Senator that can always list
on kindly and respectfully to even a
poor Irish woman's appeal for employ
meat aud go to the treasury aud keep
going until the place was obtained, has
got inside Of him some better human.
ity than is found in the Tribune's pic
ture Of him as fellow whose heart is
a sealed book to anybody but pretty
woman. Senator Carpenter We know
from personal hearing has been very
kindly, generous and untiring friend
to all lowly and unfortunate that have
ever asked bis aid, and beauty never
moved any mans sympathies quicker
than old age. misfortune or infrmity
did his feelings. Those who knew
him best Will agree with the verd ct of
the Y. Times that in the approach
Ing contest with the Democratic party
We need all our forces. and to be de-
prIved of Matt Carpenter can only be
regarded as grcrt misfortune.
Year: 1875

eo-The Cincinnati Enquirer, in answer to a
question by its neighbor, the Times, as to what
the Republican party must do to be saved, SOL
EMMY says sell all you have stolen and give it
to the poor"
Year: 1875

= The Administration stands upon


great deal of ceremony when asked TO


send more troops to protect the Texas
border. Scruples suddenly arise which
prevent the Federal Government from


doing anything until the State authori-


ties have more earnestly tried to repel


the Mexican invaders and have failed.
| 1t is pity that so nice construction


of the rights and duties of the Federal
power had not ruled at other times


in the Southern States. When there is


political end to gain, the Administra-
tion finds no difficulty in the way of
dispatching troops to any part of the


South at its own good pleasure, and


holding them ready for action with


guns loaded and bayonets set With


regard to Texas it may be said that


her people are strong enough to defend


themselves. This is true. If suffi-


cicnt number of her citizens should


give up business for an indefinite time


and arm and range themselves along


the frontier. they could keep it clear


of marauders. But, on all accounts,


it is far better that this work should


be done by the regular troops. A re-
giment or two of them could he spared


from Louisiana, to the great advantage
of that State. They are under liberal
pay, and could be doing something to
earn their money in Texas instead of


idling time away and endangering the


public peace in Louisiana. BY per-


forming military service in Texas they


would leave her able-bodied men free


to work in redeeming and building up


the State. But this is not the most
serious consideration. In matter so
delicate and difficult as border skirm-
ishing, it is very important to have
cool, disciplined troops, commanded
by experienced officers, on our side of !
the line. The laws and properties of /
civilized warfare should be carefully |
observed. RetallatiOns and reprisals, |
such as raw militia are apt to practice I
when they have the opportunity should
be scrupulously avoided. While the
invaders are repclled with all the loss
that can he inflicted on them, care
should be taken not to pursue them too !
revengefully and too far into Mexican
territory, There should be so much .
defense of the border that the two
countries should not become involved .
in war; and if that should unfortunate
ly follow, then we desire to have it APP
pear plainly that this government is not
in the wrong. These are some of the
reasons why the General Government
ought to assume at once the protection
of the Texas border against the Mexi-
can horde of murders and thieves. N.
Y. Journal Of Commerce.