smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

head was presumably given for personal use
And 20 one can have better guide to ha-
bitually follow than his ewn nose, provided
Il has never been put out Of joint


Take whatever course you may, you will
surely be censured by some who think they
know more Of your business than they prob
ably do Of their own. 1. may be safely ac-
credited rs the creed of an interfering world,
" You will and you won't, yeu can and you
can't, you may and you mayn't, you shall
and you shan't, you are blamed il you do,
and you are blamed if you don't"


II you choose to till the soil you may be
blamed because you are not doctor. IF
you engage in the devious ways Of the law,
you may be scorned because you don't carry
hod. Should you be a mechanic, many
will say you work at the wrong trade. II
you give your thoughts to paper, you will be
scOlded because you do not talk more. II
you remain at home, you will be rubbed be-
cause you do not travel. And if you roam
abroad, you will be regarded as lacking sta.
bility.


Go your own way, and you will be more
sure to meet success and receive the approval
of all who are worth needing than if you
followed in the wake of others you may be
counted obstinate, or foolish and crazy, by
those who are so themselves. You may not
have the support of those who ought to be
your friends, but remember that the most
reliant support is faith in heaven aud the
strength of your own back bone.


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Year: 1875

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This common fly "Musca domestica, )" hard
ly needs any introduction to your readers,
but still its habits are not so we'll known,
and l shall risk saying something about him,
hoping to gain attention. The examination
of the proboscis of the fly reveals wonder
ful adaptability Of the mouth parts of this
insect. The structure of the tongue is not
only curious, but we'll adapted to its various
uses. When the fly settles upon a lump of
sugar, or other substance on which it is to
feed, it unbends its tongue, extends it, and
the broad knoblike end divides into two fat
muscular leaves, which thus present a suck
er.like surface, with which the fly laps up its
food These two leaves are supported upon
a framework of tracheal tubes, being 80 modi-
fed as to end in hairs projecting externally.
Thus the inside Of this broad, Aeshy expan-
sion, Is rough like rasp, and is easily en-
plOyed in scraping up hard substances. 1t
is by means OF this curious structure that
the fly occasions much mischief, as for in
stance to the covers Of books, BY scraping of
the albumiDous polish, and leaving traces of
its deprejations in the soiIed and rough ap-
pearance which it leaves behind 1t is by
the means Of these also that it leases US in
the heat of summer, when it alights on the
hand or face, to sip the perspiratiOn as it
exudes from aud is condensed upon the
skin. Where the house fly comes from is a
question often asked, and seldom answered !;
as its habits have not been very generally
observed in this country. The barn and its
vicinity is usually its birth place, and about
such places may be seen in June, now and
then, stray flies, the remnant of the last years
brood that have in some sheltered crack or
crevice passed the winter in dormant state
The cxcrements Of the horse are most desira.
BILE on which to deposit its eggs, and yet they
may for want of that material deposit them
on other refuse Of the barn, and sometimes
even on sand or loan that is made rich by
the wash of buildings The eggs hatch al
most Immediately, producing a maggOt,
Aeshy, smooth, and shining, about one third
Of an inch in length, and yellowish white.
After feeding for some time it goes into its
puPa state, having 4 reddish brown case,
about the size of the maggOt, perhaps little
shorter and thicker. In this transition case
it remains from six to ten days, according to
the warmth of the weather, emerging there
from perfect, full grown fly. have fre-
queLtly called attention to the pupa case,
asking the farmer what it was. His almost
invariable answer was, that he supposed
them oats that passed through the horse
without digestion, and in several instances
they were dosing horses for indigestion, hav-
ing noticed as they supposed this sign of it.
From this inquiry have been led to believe
that most people notice those abundant pupa
cases, but do not understand what they are
l have never known the house fly to lay III
eggs upon meat, OF anything about the house
though they sometimes do about the sink
spout or other places where slopS are thrown
out. With little care on the part Of Ou
Year: 1875

Having resided over twenty years in Illi-
nois aud Michigan, sixteen on Long Island,
and having lived until sixteen years old in
Bennington County, VT, think l am capa-
bic of judging Of the comparative merits Of
the East and the West. The West is moro
Of a lottery. Farms located near large
towns or lumber or mining interests, furnish
ing q home market, are all well enough,
provided you have health, thing never
knew in the West. But on Long Island l
have not been sick day in sixteen years,
30 as to need doctor. Health 1 consider
Of the very first Importance. The West is
good place to raise stock, make pork and
beef for the Eastern markets, or in some sec.
tions butter and cheese.


have received numerous letters within
the past theee years from Western families,
since began writing about cheap lands on
Long Island. They say it is all very we'll to
see large crops grow, but they want to see
some money from them as we'll. Three.
fourths Of their farms are mortgaged. They
are paying ten to twenty per cent interest.
Very many Of them say they want to get
nearer the "Hub," as soon as they can sell
out. advise them if they have health and
have good farm paid for and can keep it,
to stay there. Too much is spent in travel
ing around by poor folks. A rolling stone
gathers no moss. The West is a good coun-
try; can't go back on the West. Still il
had known the fact that good, level, heavy
loan soil could be bought within ten or If
teen miles Of New York for $40 per acre,
as it could have been when went West,
should never have passed it by. Even sixteen
years ago. when came to Long Island,
could have bought at that price fifteen or
twenty miles from New York, close to a
railroad. New we have to back up Gfty or
sixty miles, as Brooklyn and suburbs extend
out over ten miles, and it is all villages all
along three lines of railroads, and it is only
a question of time when this island will be
needed for gardening. Already large tracts
are bought aud leased for garden trucking
aHd for berries and fruit, on the east end oi
the island, for Boston market; and there
are more farmers on the east end Of the
island that have money in savings banks
and mortgages, according to the num-
Der, than in any other part Of the state OF
any other state And still they are fifty
years behind the times. They are an old
fogy SET As their fathers and grandfather
did, so do their children. For instance yOU
can't make them believe that clover is wortl
more to pillow into the ground than to sell
Immense quantities of Timothy hay and
straw are baled up every year and sent Il
the city. OF course they have to buy artl
fetal manures. This is all wrong, to sell ha.
from upland. owned three bottom lan'
farms 10 Michigan within three miles o
Grand Rapids. The overflow every sprinI
left about an inch of sediment. Ga such


fara man eau sell hay with impunity
But to return to Long Island:


Our practical farmers say they can rails,
corn on our lightest sandy lands, one yea
with another, for 40 to so cents bushel
That is about what it costs to transport
Year: 1875

In an old book of wise sayings occurs the
passage, In multitude Of counsel there is
wisdom" IL is indOrsed in modern times by
the phrase Two heads are better than one.
All OF this is very we'll if the counsellor or
other head do not consider themselves infal-
lible authority to those whom they advise.


After all sources Of advice have been con-
suited, it remains for one to exercise his own
Judgment in selecting the course 10 pursue.
II were the height Of folly to give hand as
well as ear to every adviser and thus be
drawn in every direction at onCe. Ones
Year: 1875

wish to ask what is meant by well rOtted
manure, as | have ofton heard the phrase
quoted. l know of but two ways to have it
well rotted, One is to let 1t lie in tho yard
or pile until 1t is hall gone, the other is to get
it out on the land, spread it well, work 1t in
well with drag or cultivatOr, and then put in
the crop, whatever 1t Is, and then let II rot.
Is manure any better by lying, or Is it not
better when first made and got on the land
where you wish TO have II. My practice is
to get IL out in the winter, all that can, IN
big piles, and have it ready in tho spring 20
put on where it is wanted. We have some
times let it lie in the she'd until fall, but II
did not rot any, and do not think 1t would
for years unless u was wet.


FdirfaI, FEB. -. l. I. PARIS.


1t is generally agreed that when green
manure is put upon the ground and we'll
worked in there is no perceptible loss of its
value, as the volatile properties are held by
the soil and the non-vOlatile properties are
taken up by plants as fast as they are rem
dered Assimilable. But to get the greatest
benefit the soonest possible after use, as is
desired in gardening, &C., the manure should
have FIRST been rotted, pulverized in deOom.
position, before being applied. This is
brought about by a thorough compost, under
cover, probably better than in any other
way, the muck or other material used in the
compost taking up the gas which would
otherwise escape and the protection from the
weather preventing the washing away of any
portion. Mr.. Parris's question opens an
important subject and we trust our cores
pOudeuts will take it up and give it thor
ough discussion.
Year: 1875

win you tell me through the FARMER
what will cure my cattle. They have what
looks like the barn itch. The hair will come
of in spots as large rs your hand around the
eyes and on their sides. Whether fat or
poor it Is ell the same. IL.


Will those of our readers who have had
experience in such cases answer the query Of
."H.3" We have given sulphur once or
twice week in similar cases, also CREASED
Year: 1875

Tho falling OF IN The cxporsa q wheat and Hour


from New York th!a year Il partially compensated by


Increase Of about t,o0Ho5 bu i'll the export from
other ports On tho Atlantic seaboatd.
Year: 1875

Most American parents resolve to
give their children good education,
but the popular idea of what this
means is very vague one. An ed.
ucation Is supposed TO be superior
knowledge of books, which will in
some way enable the possessor of i,
to take prominent position before
the public. To be educated is look
ed upon as the prerogative of the few,
the result of fsvorable' opportunities
or exceptional talent, the lack OF
which is in no way fault, but mis-.
fortune.


If parents and teachers understood
better just what was included in a
good education they are endeavoring
IT, give the children under Their
charge, the result of our public school
system would be more satisfactory
than it now is. Ruskin says a man
is well educs,ed when he always tells
the truth, when he keeps himself
clean, when he is kind, and when he
is able to take good care of himself
and his family.


Edward Everett said: To read the
English language well, to write with
dispatch neat legible hand, and he
master OF the FIRST four rules in ariih-
metic, SO as to dispose of at once,
with accuracy, every question OF fig-
ures which comes up in practice, l
call this good education. And if
you add the ability to write pure
grammatical English, regard it as
an excellent education.


These definitions include qualities
and aitainments very desirable for
all citizens to possess. To tell the
truth, to keep clean, to be kind, to
take care of ones self and family, to
dispose Of with accuracy all questions
of figures which come up in practice,
and ability 10 read and write well
Let US not forget these things while
giving attention to Hydrastics,
Acoustics, Pyronomics, etc.-Seiect-
Year: 1875

The Country Gentleman says the
pig is one Of the most tidy of all ami
mails, naturally, and will take more
pains to keep its bed clean than any
other farm animal. Nothing is more
false than its proverbial dirtiness;
this imputation properly belongs to
its owner, in not making suitable pro-
visions and furnishing clean and
pure apartments.
Year: 1875

MYSTERIOUS BURNING OF THE HIGH SCHOOL OF


SAND DoLLARs-ATTENPTs TO BURN PRIVATE


HOUSES.


WooNsocKEr R. L. Oct 16, 1875.


About halfpast two O'Clock this morning the High
School house, situated School Hil was discovered
to be in flames Apoliceman being almost the first
the ground found the flames issuing from the
story extending into the second story. They soon
communicated with the ventiators which extended
through the different the attic and in almost
an incredibly short space of time the flames shot alo
from the befry the north end of the building The
Fire Department promptly hand, but
owing to the difficulty in getting water the
flames had complete mastery before any streams could
be put upon them and the structure Is entire ruin,


few blackened walls only being left to denote its site
The house built some twenty years ago. of
wood, forty by eighty two stories and base
ment containing three schoolrooms and seated some
$50 scholars.


The loss on the buildings is nearly SIS oo0 on chemi-
cal and philosophical apparatus and library 81, 900 more,
and on the pianos 81 600 There was large geological
and mineral cabinet accumuating since the erection Of
the building, of which estimate be made In
figures The teachers lose largely in books, &c.


The jantor locked the schoohouse last evening at
six o'clock, and left but very little fire in the furnace


The insurance is as tollows:-&4,00 ia the Provi-
dence Mutual 81, 900 Pawtucket Mutual


The Town Council held a special meeting this
morning to take action upon the natter and will
offer reward for the arrest and conviction of any
person guilty of being instrumental in causing any
of the recent incend!ary fires They voted also to in
the night police force to the extent of
short time before the breaking out Of the fire
ncendary attempt made 20 fire the residence of
Mr.. G. g. Balou one Of the leading citizens Of the
place. Some one had entered the kitchen and after
saturatng the woodbox set fire 10 IT, The flames, how
ever extinguished before much damage had been
done and the family, who had retired TO rest, were
saved from horrible death This with the burning Of
the High School and other buildings OF late has caused
some little excitement.
Year: 1875

DECISION OF JUDGE BOND AS TO THE APPOINT


MENT OF GENERAL wIcKHAM AS RECEIVER


HE REFUSES TO REMOVE MR. TYSON


RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 10, 1875


The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad case again came
before Judge Bond to-day upon the application of
sci representing large numbers OF hondholders,
both here and in New York. and counsel OF the CON-
pany, asking tho appointment of General William G.
wickham, the Vice President Of the road receiver
the place of Henry Tyson, of Baltimore the present
receiver.


After hearing arguments both sides, and after an
examination of all tho papers filed in the case
Judge Bond delivered important opinion,
recng history of the case already reported in the
HERALD. He refused TO Mr. Tyson, the present
receiver, upon the ground that his appointment
only temporary and because the hearing OF the prayer
for injunction and the appointment OF receiver
set for the 22d inst Tho opinion, however goes
state that II now tho Court were to acquiescc in tho
petition of the creditors here before H. and, constituting
IL ask for the appointment Of temporary receiver
merely were TO appoint MIR. Wckham, as they do not
represent all the mortgage creditors nor
majority of them, there Is no certainty that other
creditors for larger amount, might not
tomorrow ask that for the few remaining Gays
person OF their choice might hold the position Of tempo
rary Such would create great confu
sion among all persons who have dealings with the road
and would give great uncertainty to the proceedings Of
the Court there but few days remaining before
the regular hearing OF the motion for permanent re-
ceiver. am OF opinion tho Court ought TO give all
the bondhoders of like interest and indeed all per-
having any interest in the subject matters OF the
proceeding and in the preservation OF the property
pledged, an equal cpance to DO heard meantime the
Court has hesitation in saying TO the petitioners that
Mr. Wickham is not at all Objectionable to the Court
but the contrary, Is SO far the Court Judge
both from these proceedings and from personal ac.
quantance very proper person TO be put in charge OF
the road and that the stands the hearing on
the road as II is presented 70 tho Court to-day It win
give the Court pleasure to comply with the request Of
the creditors for his appointment receiver.
Year: 1875

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE PARTLY Ac-


COUNTED FoR-rHREE PROMINENT NEW


ENGLAND POLITICIANS MssINo-RUNSNG
AWAY FROM FINANCIAL COMPLICATIONS.


BOSTON, oct. l6 1875.


The members OF the Massachusetts, Legislature and
the prominent republican politicians Of the State are
getting very badly demoralized II turns out now that
State Senator l. W. Pond, OF Worcester who disap-
peared myserously while route from Fall River
to New York, did not commit suicide, and was not
assassnated, robbed or thrown overheard Thomas II.
Dodge of Worcester, who was with Mr. Pond on his
way TO New York. and who has in connection with the
officers Of the boat all that he could to unravel the
mystery has come TO the conclusion in common with
others that the missing is still living What has been
learned leads TO the belief that Mr. Pond, anticipating
great crisis in his pecunary affairs in the week after he
left homo, and not being in condition Of mind to stay
and meet it, left Boston with the deliberate intention Of
not returning home present The facts learned ndi
cate that Mr. Pond took extra suit Of clothing with
him. which he put before quitting the boat SO that
he might not be recognized leaving the other garments
in his room to confuse inquiry, and let the boat with
the crowd and disappeared 1t the belief of Mr. Dodge
that he did not go beyond reach of the regular news
from Worcester by OF the newspapers and that
he would return II his creditors should kindly express
desire to have him return.


Ponds financial affairs have proved to havo been in
bad way and II is not likely that he will return homo
at present


Another unfortunate politician is lawyer Thomas
Judd, OF Lee Representative in the last Legislature
and prominent in connection with the Lee aud New
haven Railroad enterprise, who has been arrested TO-
day by the Mahaiwe National Bank Great Darlington
for forgery and still another H. NJ Burlegh ofAthol
lawyer and politician also who has just collected large
sum OF money for his clients and left for parts unknown
Besides weeping creditors wife and family mourn
his loss All these events have followed in rapid sue
ccsson since the discovery Of the denquencies OF Mr.
besL the legislative member from Stoneham
Year: 1875

THE NOMINATING CONVENTION AND THEIR
cANDrDATEs-A DEMOCRAT SELECTED FOR
SHERIFF


vIcKsBURG, Oct II, 1875


The Republican County Nominating Convention
finished the selection Of candidates to-day
They indorsed tho democratic nominee Tor
sheriff and other democrats. There
the utmost harmony between blacks and
whites and earnest hope OF better era There will
be better prospect OF honesty and competency in the
county officials regardless Of politics, than before.
Judge Hill, warm supporter OF Governor Amos and
exAttorney General Morris, urged the ticket that Is
chosen. All TO feel that better day Is dawning
and that tnara will be less trouble in the future
Year: 1875

Tho following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past hours in compar


son with the corresponding date of last year indi-
Gated by the thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
IIupA In llir,r
Year: 1875

On the 26th of August the Pandora
steamed away from Beechy Island for Peel
Strait, and then ensued the most critical
period Of the entire voyage, for the steamer
encountered vast fields Of pack ice. which
Year: 1875

One of the most interesting discoveries
made by the Pandora officers was that the
headboards over the graves of Sir John
Franklins men who were lying buried there
we're still standing upright and in good
preservation.
Year: 1875

we shall pay from year to year what our city
costs. Let US have thorough system OF
drainage, so that we may stamp out dlph-
liberia and typhoid and those malarial dis
eases which come mainly from misgovern-
ment, and which have given New York such
an i'll name. This is the future that we hope
TO see in our politics, for which we labor
and pray. 1t is for this that we urge that the
elections be held in the spring. 1t is tor this
that we impress upon the democrats them
selves the necessity of freeing themselves
from the domination of Tammany Hall.
That done, and we trust it will be done
without delay at the meeting Of the Legisla-
ture, and there is no reason why New York,
lifting herself out of the misgovernment
and folly into which her affairs have fallen,
should not 60 on in o new career of pros
perity and splendor
Year: 1875

some societies have destroyed their con-
demned criminals with poison. And Of that
method the case of Socrates was memora-
Dle instance This method apparently came
IRON the East, where deadly poticns have
always played conspicuous part in human
history. With the primitive people in other
parts of the world the obvious club has
always been the handy servant of Justice.
John Smiths head on stone and the stall
wart subject of Powhatan armed with sap
ling are the types of the victim and the ex-
ecutioner that have prevailed and still pre-
vail in the preference of the dark skinned
races. Even the murder of the jew pedler
by the three negroes was done like an African
execution, with knotted sticks. Steel and
hemp come in the history of judicial homi-
eide as compromises between the poisonous
juices of trees and the trunk Of the tree
itself, or branch made into q club.
Poison strikes at life through the stomach !;
the club addresses itself to the head as the
most evidently vulnerable point but the
sharp steel moves to the practical separation
of head and body while the rope works an
equally effective functional separation with
out mutilation of the body. Steel as an in
strument of the law has several forms, and
has been found susceptible of improvement


The rope remains brutally what it probably
was in its origin-a mere lasso or longer
bowstring. Both the sword and the axe
have found favor; and there are as many
fables of the skill with which the former has
been employed as there are instances of
bungling butchery done with the other


Our modern form of the axe is
the guillotine, which is simply an
axe, moved by wooden arms that
do not become unsteady at the critical
moment, because their nerve never fails


Spain has supplied Characteristic mod
ifcation of the executioners steel in the
garotte, which is, in fact, the dagger


framed as the French have framed the
axe 1t is a Characteristic national prod
uct, and it is one of the strange contradic-
tions which constantly turn up in human
history that the cruellest race of people treat
their murderers most mercifully of all. 1t is


perhaps, sympathy. But the garotte is an
ideal instrument for expeditions and infal-
lible execution. 1t pierces the spine at the
base of the brain, the essentially vital point


Clumsy and uninventiye in this partic-
ular the English and ourselves adhere
to the rope, which, in the hands into
which it usually falls, is an instrument of
torture. 1t does not shed blood, and in the
times when it was thought salutary to exc
cute in public it was effective for this and
for the reason that it is an execution all of
whose processes Immediately address the eye
of the beholder. 1t is calculated to impress
the multitude with terror. But since the
theory of executions before the multitude is
relinquished the clumsy rope should be re-
linquished also Our murderers should be
killed hv the nnlvanic hnttnru