smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

How TO Do IT.-An experimenter
has taught a canary bird to sing
Home, Sweet Home,' in this way:
He placed the canary in room where
it could not hear the singing of the
other birds, suspended It's cage from
the ceiling, so that it could see its re-
Election in a mirror, and beneath the
glass placed a musical box that was
regulated to play no other tune but
Home, Sweet Home Hearing no
other sound but this, and believing
the music proceeded from the bird it
saw in the mirror, the young canary
soon began to catch the notes, and
finally got SO that it sings the song
perfectly.
Year: 1876

II a cat doth meet a cat on gar
den wall and IF 4 Cat doth greet a
cat, Oh, why need they both Squall !?
Every Tommy has his Tabby waiting
on the wall, and yet he welcomes her
approach by au unearthIy yawl. And
if kitten wish TO court upon the
garden wall, why don't he sit and
sweetly smile, and not 81; up the bawl
and lift his precious back up high and
show his teeth and moan, as if 'twere
collie more than love that made that
fellow grOan?
Year: 1876

g. Ours being peculiarly farmers institution we
cannot admit all 10 our ranks


Many are excluded by the nature Of our orpani-
Zaon, not because they professional men, or ar
tlsans, or laborers bnt because they have not suf
teent direct interest IN ting or pasturng the soil
or may have some interest conflict with our pur-
poses But We appeal to all good citizens for their
cordial cooperation to assist in our Efforts toward r
form that we may put down tyranny and corruption


We hail the general desire for frate.nal harmony,
equitable compromises and earnest cooperation AS an
omen Of our future success
Year: 1876

SAGAu-Y OF RArs.-Incredib!e as
the story may appear, of their remov-
lng hens eggs by one fellow lying on
his back and grasping tightly his
ovoii burden with his fore paws, whilst
lis comrades drag him away by the
tail, we have no reason 10 disbelieve,
knowing, as We DO, tnat they will
carry eggs from the bottom TO the
top of the house, lifting them from
STAIR TO stair, the first pushing them
up On lis hind LEGS and the second
lifting them with ils fore legs. They
will extract the cotton from flask OF
Florence oil, dipping in their long tails,
and repeating the ulsnGgyre until
they have consumed every drop We
have found Jumps Of sugar il deep
drawers at q distance OF thirty feet
from the place where the petty lar
ceny was committed and a friend
saw a rat mount q table on which q
drum Of iigs was placed, and straight
way tip = over, scattering lis con-
tents on the foor beneath, where a
score Of expeetsnt brethern sat watch
ing for the windfall.
Year: 1876

over ana over again,


No matter which way turn,
I Ialways fad in the Book os Life
Some lessons lave to learn
must take my turn at the nil.
must grind out the golden grain,
must work at my task with a resolute Will,
over and over again.
We cannot measure the need
OF even the tinuiest Eowtr,
Nor check the flow Of the golden sands
That run through a single hour.
But the morning dews must tall,
The sun ard the summer ram
Must 30 tEeir part sul perform Il al
Over and over again.
Over and over again


Tie brock through the meadow flows,
And Cv-r and over again


The ponderOus mill-Wheel goes,
Once dong viii not suffice,


Though doing be not IN vain,
AMI blessing failing Us once or twice
My come L we try agar
The path that has once been trod
Is never 50 rough 10 tie feet,
And the lesson We once have learned
Is never 50 nari to repeat.
Though sorrowful tears may f.ll.
And the heart to its depths Jeuven
By the sto.m and tempest, We need ;LeIn all
To ren Ter Us mete FOR heaven
Year: 1876

Two young ladies we're discussing
q preference expressed by one of them
for c!eau-slaven men, when the other
was heard to remark, Al don't object
to a man with a reasonable quantity
of hair on his face, but | wouldn't like
10 marry a buffalo robe"
Year: 1876

Hereafter no Legal Advertise.
ments will be inserted in the TINE
unless pay rhcnt is made when hand
cd IN. 1t requires money to carry
on our business and wo are com.
PEELED to adopt the cash principle,
This rule will not be dcviated from
in any case.
Year: 1876

the equivalent of the millions paid on ac-
count of claims. Here, therefore, is the ex-
hibition of the relations of jobbery to the
grievance. Upon this primary project of
robbery any additions might be grated by
other schemes and the effect was always the
same, TO discredit by associating with it-an
evidently fraudulent scheme-the legitimate
call of the Texas people for protection.
They do not say so much about indemnity
as about immediate and present security for
their lives and property, and it seems hard
that they should be denied this because un-
scrupulous men have endeavored to make
money out of their miseries.


AS to our relations with the Mexican gov
ernment arising from these troubles the case
is not peculiarly difficult. Mexico either
pretends to govern the country nominally
within her limits or she relinquishes such
pretence. She is under the same obligation
to MS, if she pretends to govern that coun-
try, that England is to us with regard to the
northern border or that we are to England.
Every nation must prevent at its own peril
and at its own expense every use of its ter
ritory as base of hostile operations against
its neighbor /; and if it fails to prevent the
operations of criminals it must surrender or
punish them and pay indemnity for the
damage they have inflicted. If it fails to do
this if it neglects or is unable to fulfil
these obligations of friendly nation after its
attention is repeatedly called to grievances
like those before us; if year follows year and
the depredations continue, then a state of
wnr exists; and whether this exists because
the nation whose citizens are the offenders
is indifferent to it's duty or unable to perform
it makes but little difference to the govern
ment whose people are the victims. 1t is
the duty of that government to recognize
the state of war forced upon its people and
act accordingly in their defence For our
government to hesitate to pursue Mexican
marauders upon Mexican soil out of regard
to international right, when that govern
ment has so little regard for such right as to
permit the repetition of these outrages for
ten years, is to make respect for law the op-
preston of the people, and is, in fact, to
put the law in such a position as to make
every man its enemy. Our government must
protect the Texas people, and it must operate
on the Mexican soil as much as is necessary to
do this. If Mexico does not like this she must
take the consequences, and is responsible as
the cause of it; but we are inclined to believe
that Mexico would be thoroughly well
pleased, on proper representation, to turn
over to our charge on our side of the river or
her side all the bandits of Tamaulipas.
Year: 1876

Those who believe in the dictum that ''the
child is father to the man" do not often
bring to its support the fact that diseases
contracted in youth spread their hurtful in
luence over the remainder of life. Injury
to the system through the respiratory or
gans of children often entails a manhood of
suffering, and hence we are glad to see that
one of our contemporaries has taken up the
overcrowding practised in our public
schools in thorough and practical man
ner. Superintendent Riddle, in his last an
nual report, called attention to this subject ;
but it seems that a strong public opinion
must be created before any reform is attain
able. While providing healthy instruction
to the young we must take care that the DIR
through which it reaches their ears is not so
vitiated as to be absolutely dangerous to
their bodies. The manner in which in some
of the schools children arc packed in unven-
tilated and badly lit class rooms is shocking
and parents, when made aware of 1t, will has
ten to join tho press in having this disgrace
full state of things altered. In oil schools
the danger of epidemic diseases being intro
duced and afterward spread among the
pupils requires constant vigilance, but when
the same air must be breathed over and over
again for hours disease once present can
scarcely be prevented from claim
ing fresh victims. This, although a
terrible danger, is not by any means
blood from breathing impure air goes on

constantly in such schools, making holes, as
it were, in the system for host of diseases
to fasten their hooks in. To children with
delicate lungs it is almost certain death, and
when, after months Of attendance, such a
child sickens and is taken from school, the
fault is often laid on the child's recklessness
out of doors, when the frolics in the fresh
air have been the only things that allowed it
to endure the sitting process so long. We
are informed that many of the teachers en-
deavor to rectify the ventilation in the most
crowded schools by opening the windows for
a few minutes; but in mid-winter this is
scarcely less dangerous than the hot, i'm
pure air, for the sudden influx of an
icy current of air ON the uncovered
heads of the little ones must produce the
most violent colds and catarrhs. Now, it
becomes imperative that all our day schools
should be roomy we'll ventilated and sunlit.
Our Board of Health has failed to act in this
matter, and, indeed, seems as little able to
formulate as desirous to enforce a proper
system of hygiene. 1t, therefore, lies be-
tween the press and the public to raise such
a cry about this smothering of the innocents
that the matter shall be remedied without
delay. Every paper if the metropolis
should do its utmost to help bring about
this needed change. However people may
be divided about keeping the Bible in the
opinion respecting the necessity of expelling
impure air.
Year: 1876

The DmEcT CAB1T.-It is to be hoped that
ihe Direct Cable Company will hold out
against oil efforts to absorb il in the rival or
yanization. The news with which we are
;his morning favored respecting the present
apparent failure of the amalgamators
IS encouraging, but we are sorry to
say does not seem final. The story
that comes from on board the repairing
steamer Faraday respecting the break OF
last January is gravely suggestive. The
description Of the condition of the cable at
.he break seems TO leave no doubt that the
severance was designedly Effected by human
means, and if this can only be established
beyond cavil both the American and English
governments should unite in endeavoring
to- track out and punish the criminals. Men
capable Of inspiring or committing such a
crime are enemies of the human race, and
differing from Thomassen, tho dynamite
assassin, only in degree, not in kind.
Year: 1876

other cause than the one above referred to.
Apart from the distressing consequences of
these great inundations they present
highly interesting subject for scientific in
quiry, and prove the necessity that exists for
the accurate system of intercontinental
weather observations which the HERALD has
SO often demanded.
Year: 1876

That LITTLE ALFoNso should bring his
mother back to Spain on top of the wave of
triumph rolling down from the Pyrenees is
very creditable to his filial affection, but not
to his prudence When that innocent youth
set ont at the beginning of the year 1876
from Paris for his future kingdom it was one
of the stipulations that Isabella should re-
main behind Now the young King feels
strong enough to have his own way, but it is
not improbable that he will shortly find the
less dead weight he carries the better and,
with all respect to Her -Majesty's liyelincss,
she is q very dead weight
Year: 1876

EGYPT backing out of Central Africa is the
news from Alexandria. This is not good
news for those who hope for the civilization
of the wild tribes by conquest from the
North. The path for the Gospel is, how
ever, still open from all sides, and what the
tianity do for souls
Year: 1876

The SHADOW OVER BELKNAP does not seem
to have any silver lining for the honest sup
porters of the administration, whatever
metallic lustre it may have had for parties at
present unnamed.
Year: 1876

No BUSINESS AND MONEY FAMINE is the
revolution in st. Domingo. If it were not
that the Dominicans dislike work and have
little need of money their condition would
be pitiable. AS it is they must be very
happv
Year: 1876

The letter of Mr.. John Jay, which, although
written some time ago, We are only able to
make room for this morning, abounds in
practical and timely suggestions. As the
date for the opening of the Centennial
Exhibition draws near, multitude of minor
but still important points present them
selves for careful consideration, and the
counsel Of an American citizen who has
had such unusual experience of exhibitions
abroad, seeing just wherein we were lacking,
wherein Others oxccllcd, and where there is most
danger of annoying and discreditable disputes
becomes of especial value. Mr.. Jay is quite
right in saying that Congress will naturally de-
sire TO provide against a recurrence of the IT.
regularities which compelled change in our
management at the exhibition in Vienna
That is the most important matter for Con-
gress now to consider, and we trust it may be
taken up without unnecessary delay.


The plain and sharp words which Mr.. Jay
uses in speaking of transactions which most of
lis would be glad to forget will perhaps pro-
woke quarrel but no matter for that. The
Vienna scandal never was properly settled, and
we must expect it to return to plague us at
least until we have demonstrated, by the char
acter of our official representation Mt Philadel-
phia, that we bear some better tribute to the
civilization of the age than "American drinks
"and American corruption"
Year: 1876

Gen. Banks made "a strong speech" on the
Centennial bill the other day.. and the Wash
ington correspondents tell us that he reused
the galleries, and his address was punctuated
with applause. lie urged the appropriation Of
money for the Centennial on many grounds
with which we do not intend to quarrel; but
when he undertook to prove that under the
treaty making clause of the Constitution Con-
gress not only possessed the right but had
incurred the obligation to provide money for
the show, he needlessly laid himself open to
attack We have invited all the States of the
world, said the General, to come and visit
us, and shall We not pay the expenses of their
entertainment Congress has power to make
a treaty. Well, what is treatyf 1t is "a
compact for accommodation between sov-
Year: 1876

SCIENTIFIC AND BlDLI'AL Ihc IN


Prof. Tayler Lewis, in a letter which we
publish to-day, continue his argument to
prove that there is "pOar opposition
between modern theories of science and
the truths of the Bible. The greater
part of his letter discusses the ques-
ton whether the evolution theory is
compatible with belief in personal God
whose actual will at present controls all things.
Prof. Lewis insists that a God who simply set
the machine of the universe in motion or called
it into being ready to move itself, and then ana
there left it forever to work out its destiny
according to the laws impressed upon it, is not
at all the God of the Bible and belief
in such far-off deity is barely one
remove from atheism. In this branch OF the
argument Prof Lewis is strong. But it proceeds
on the assumption that such n deity is the
God of the cvolutionist; and while this may
be the fact in some instances, it is not true of
all or nearly all the believers in the modern
theories of science.


To the second branch OF what Prof. Lewis
calls the "polar opposition he has given COM
paratiyey few words, but they are remarkable.
He fatty refuses the concession TO sci
ence that the first man, the Adam OF
our race, was the result of anything
but a special CREATION was made by
ANYTHING less than separate act of God. On
this point he declares that Christianity must
stand or fall. On it a large proportion of the
leaders of modern scientific thought will take
direct issue with him.
Year: 1876

makes point on the severity of the weather
encountered by the explorers. Before, however,
this could be made strong argument against
settlement of the country in and near inc
Black Hills, it would be needful that the
average weather of several years in that
locality should be compared. That there are
belts of fertility between the Tooth meridian
and the Sierra Nevada Mountains can scarcely
I've doubted, and the condemnation OF the
whole region by Gen. Hazen will seem to
MANY too sweeping.
Year: 1876

rule requiring all persons In court to rise as mark
OF respect the entrance Of the Justices on taking
the bench. 1t will be act of decorum which vii.
add to the dignity of the court, and tend in some
measure at least, to restrain lawyers from indul.
gence in the coarse and insulting language too COM
mon in the highest tribunals of the State.
Year: 1876

Judging from the altered tone of The Lon
don Times, Great Britain may now regard ap-
provingly a part of senator Sherman's scheme
for placing the British and American gold coins
in simple ratio. But the British are not dis
posed to vary their standard, holding that it
will be easier for us to alter our coinage since
gold is not now in general circulation here.
Year: 1876

We find space this morning for another series
OF letters on the school question. The emphasis
with which our correspondents demand the
abolition of the Sta.e school system or the re-
tention of the Bible on the school-desl is sig
nifcant. If so much heat is evolved in a
newspaper discussion, what firebrand the
issue would be in the hands of demagogues on
the stumpi
Year: 1876

Our relations with Spain are again brought


into prominence by the publication of the cor
respOndence of the State Department on the
subject, including an abstract of the circular
note asking the moral support of other Euro
pean Powers. In these documents will be
seen the basis upon which the part of the
Presidents message relating to Spanish at
fairs was based Our grievances and
the abnormal position of Spain in its
Cuban war are very fully detailed, and
the need for measures to change the situation
is forcibly set forth. A statement comes in
our cable dispatches that the Anti-Slavery
Society have assured Earl Derby of their in
formation that Spain is willing to put Cuba on
the same footing as Canada has toward En-
gland, provided slavery can be retained. If
true, this may point path to the solution OF
some of the difficulties of the Cuban question.
Year: 1876

Gen. Hazen returns to the attack on the


barren lands west of the Tooth meridian. His
present letter equals his previous efforts In


force and distinctness of statement, and is
free from personalities Some of his citations
are from the views of recent travellers and eI-
plorers, and they are quite. as much to the
point as the older authorities, in showing that
there Is large region in the Northwest
that offers few if any advantages TO the settler.
One of these writer's. however, suggests the
possibility that the introduction of railroads
may bring more rain to the barren region; and
absurd as this notion seems. it is theory
widely believed at the West. In handling
the report of Prof. Jenney, Gen. Hazen
Year: 1876

The British are beginning to regard the
American overland route to Australia with
exceptional favor. Instead of going to that
continent by way Of the Suez Canal, it
e deemed pleasanter and healthier to
cross the Atlantic to this port, and
20 hence by railroad to San Fran
Year: 1876

In his letter to The Boston Journal and his
speech before Plymouth Church, Mr.. Beecher
puts in clear light some evidence making
Mrs. Moulton and her counsel responsible
for the failure of the Mutual Council
The reverend gentleman does not mince his
words, and talks about the "perversion of
"tuth on the other side with heartiness
that makes entertaining reading. A contro-
versy usually nears its last stage when one
aide accuses the other of falsehood.
Year: 1876

upon it. For a little time his frame
shook as though tempest-riyen.
Then he braced himself, and spoke
in an entreating manner:


"Will you tell me who left this
here ?"


A light dawned upon me. The
man had interested me with some
thing more than his grand beauty.
There was something in his face
familiar to me-something in its
classic outlines, and in its Inca
ments Of character, like the face of
the woman who had been my sis
ter's nurse. And while the broker
hesitated, | answered him:


ga lady left it here, and her
name is Warland."


He looked at me quickly and
eagerly.


"Has she a husband ?" he asked.


"No," l said. "Her husband
died in New York several years
since, and she has returned to the
land of her childhood, a widow"


A moments pause, and then l
added:


"Mr. Langford has told you that
the watch had not been really
pawned. The poor woman said
that it was not hers. 1t had been
left with her by her first husband
"a dying gift for their boy-a boy
whom she had not seen for many
years"


The man reached over and took
my hand.


''Can you take me to her?" he
said.


told him / could, for she lived
very near to my home.


He wanted to take the watch ;
but the broker objected, and he did
not urge it.


And he went with me out into
the street. His heart was full, and
/ did not disturb him with idle
questions. On board the ferry-boat
he paced up and down the gangway
alone, and when we had landed
upon the island side he took my
arm as though fearful that he might
lose me. We reached the door of
Mrs. Warland's dwelling, and were
ushered into small, scantily fur
nished sitting-room by sthe little
daughter, who had recognized me.


"Mamma has just come in" she
said. 81 will call her."


l would have left, but the man
detained me.


Presently Mrs. Warland entered.
The walk in the cool, bracing all
had given color to her usually pale
cheeks, and when she saw me she
smiled a welcome. And then, fol-
lowing my glance, she turned to
the stranger, who was gazing upon
her with the whole of his heart and
soul in his lustrous eyes. She start
ed, and tottered.


Mother! Do you know me 2"


And she stretched out her arms
with wild cry-she called him
"Jackp and with sobs of rapture
she clung to him and was held tC
his bosom. l felt my presence to
be a PROCLAMATION, and crept away


But l called on the following day
and found the mother and son hap.
py and jubilant. And then Jack
Bishop told me how he had heard
of his mother last in New York;
how he had looked for her; and
how he had been told that she was
dead. He was in command of q
ship just returned from India, and
was making arrangements for an.
other voyage; and but for the watch
at the pawnbroker's he should have
gone away without knowing that
his mother lived.


And so the widow had come
from darkness to light; and that
sacrifice which had seemed to hel
as the rending Of her very heart
strings had proved an offering upon
the altar Of fate which had brought
back Joy and blessing. Is it a
wonder that in the mysticinAuence
of the pawned watch she traces the
finger of a Divine Providence? For,
so feeling, to God she gives the
praise of her thankful heart.
|
Year: 1876

Correspondence OF the Chicago PostI


If there be a woman in Chicago
who feels that she is hopelessly, ir-
remediably plain; that all the. cos
metics in the world could not make
her beautiful; that even a st. Louis
or Louisville woman is lovely be-
side her, let her come to Boston
and walk once down Warrington
street some August afternoon; hav-
ing done that she will go home and
feel satisfied with her face forever
more, for lie matter how long or
how patiently she may paoe the
brick sidewalks of that most crook
ed of streets, she will not see a
good looking woman.


''Some gaed east, some gaed west,


And some gaed to the corbie's nest,


weeks ago, and those who are left
are SO PLAIN that if they had gone
into the rural districts they would
have been blots on the face Of ma
ture. These ugly women hide
away somewhere during the winter,
but in summer they take possession
of the streets and the shops, and
fairly scare all the good-looking
men out of the city in panic Of
fear lest some one Of these gaunt
sisters capture and keep him for
ever. This would be good time
for Professor Huxley to make a
flying visit to Boston; he would
acquire some idea on deterioration
of types, if he compared the per
sons whom he encountered with
the Copley and Stuart portraits Of
their ancestors.