smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

The attention of the Board of Health and
the street committee is called to the condition
of portion OF Broad street. where. for the
distance of an entire block, after nearly every
rain. The whole street becomes lake Of stan
ming water. Having no outlet, it is taken up
by evaporation, and sinks into the earth, and
keeps it IN moist condition. which, In warm
weather. Is prolific source of chlls and con-
gestions. The embankmcnt thrown across ST.
Johns street has caused deposit across
Broad street, which Is from eight to twelve
inches higher than the bed ofthc street in the
center between st. Johns and Queen. thus
making n depth of water in the street Of
twelve inches. which is serious detrment to
travel, as it makes pond and mud hole OF
that part Of the street. This cannot be reme-
died too soon, TRAVELLER
Year: 1875

.I5- II there l. one virtue more commend
able than another it is that of energy. 1t is
the opposite Of ,loth. and is aS salutary and
beneficial in its nature, the latter is dcmor-
alizing. Now, our young men are terribly
lacking in this matter. In tue first place it Is
hard to get them to enlist in any cntcrpr sc /:
and even after this is accomplished, they sell
dom remain connected with it long enough
to accomplish the end intended at the start.
And this must work i'll. should they allow it
to cling to them in the business transactions of
life. To avoid the train Of evils which
must necessarily follow in the path of sl",l',
two things are absolutely necessary. first the
untring and unabatng effort Of your physi-
cal and mental natures in whatever you un-
dcrtake, and second, determined and persist
ent perseverance, regardless OF t .e obstacles
which may obstruct the way We say, in all
kindness that in these two characteristics our
young men are lamentably lacking Let Us
practically illustrate this. We have in our
town, brass band organization which. for the
excellence of the music made, cannot be
eclipsed in the state; and yet they play only



to practice Boys, why is this? 1t is be-
cause you lack cnergy-becausc you are slug
gish. You cannot have good brass band
unless you practice, and you will not have
practice unless you have sufficient energy
to meet and go through the routine. This is
not the only instance where you manifest


lack of this necessary quality. They carry


it into all the business of life. Their every
movement indicates its absence. Boys this
ought not so to be. 1t will not do. This feel
In. will grow with your growth and strength
en- with your strength; it will wind itself
around your nature, and envelop you in its
scrpcntinc folds, and it will be beyond any
effort that You may make to eXtricatc your
selves from the dreadful dilemma. win you
not strive to overcome this defect? Whatcv-
cr your hands find to do, do it with all the
power at your command-providcd, always
that it is right. Never enlist in any enterprise
In which there Is not, at least. a probability Of
success; aud when you are once started. de-
tcrmne never to abandon your efforts until
the successful cvcntuation Of your purposes.
Do not connect yourselves with any associa-
ton till you understand thoroughly Its object
and then remain with 1t till a set Sc Of duty
makes It necessary for you to Withdraw. 1t
is necessary, in order that you make your
mark upon the huge chart OF human exist
encc, that you should continually add to your
stock of perseverance, and If you do this, you
will never lack that sure precursor OF success
ENERGY.
Year: 1875

We believe that Van Buren, and Fort
Smith are about even. Some time since the
latter place made extraordinary efforts to es-
tablish new mail route, via. Dutch Mill
road, in order, that by so doing, they might
deprive Van Buren, of her mail facilities.
Perhaps Brothers Wheeler and Sparks NAV
be able to inform us as to how much money
the citizens of their town spent upon the
above mentioned route, that they might in
jure Van Buren,. Two or three trips were
made on the new route. and it was then aban-
doned, the old route being resumed. Our
neghbors had the pleasure of paving out a
large sum of money, and getting nothing in
return. Now the people of Fort Smith con-
triyed this whole scheme to cripple the bust
ness men Of our town, and make IL necessary
for them to 90 to Fort Smith to get their
mail 1t was mean, dcspicable and contemp-
tible, and is an ample eXemplifcation of the
hostility which exists among Fort Smithites,
toward our town. But curses. like chickens
often come home to roost" The tables are
turned, and our friends way down south"
have little taste of the luxury of coming
here for their mail. and are thus enabled to
appreciate the feelings Of our people, when
they were forced to 20 to Fort Smith to get
theirs. the northern mail makes its south


eru terminus at this point. The Ft. Smith
mail remains at our post Office from II o'clock
p. m. till noon the following day. Our neigh
bors are very wroth about 1t; they delighted
to see us squirm under like circumstances.
but whew! how sick they become when they
have to swallow the pill which they had mix
ed with their own hands. Now, what we de-
sired, more particularly, in writing this arti-
ticlo was to show how much more magnani-
nous we are than our neighbors. They did
all they could to keep the mails from coming
here, as we have shown above The contrary
is the case with our people; we have never,
at any time, desired to deprive our TT. Smith
friends of the receipt of their mails at the ear
liest possible hour. Our people have no mon
ey to spend for such LITTLE purposes. The
change was as sudden and unexpected to our
people as it was to our neighb0rs and we feel
safe in solemnly affirming that the matter
was not dreamed Of by a resident of our town,
out tnat on tnc contrary, OoI, lockHaTl, our
postmaster, assures us that he knew nothing
Of the change until he received notice from
the Postmaster General. Therefore our peo-
pie deny all completely in the matter. They
are as far above such petty mcanncss aS the
heavens are above the earth. our people do
not stoop to such things. eh, old man?' So
far as we are concerned, we hope that the
Fort smith people, after the present" pen
ance' has been sufficiently protractsd to atone
for breaking the command thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself" will have the old
mail arrangements resumed. Wewould sug
gest, however, that the Independent and Her
aid put at the head of each one of their coll
umns, for the moral information Of their rca-
ders, these blessed words WHATSOEVER YE
WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE
EVEN SO TO THEM ch brother Eds.
Year: 1875

nothing for the hint. But that morning,
widc-awakc paper takes the leading posi-
ton as family paper in the United
States for the next half century, which
will cover up the walls with placards, and
advertise in all the columns of the other
papers that hencefortiI it will abstain en-
tirely from the publication of this scan
dal, giving the end Of the trial only,


THE VERDICT IN THE CASE.


All the christian families, not only Of
Brooklyn, but Of the United States.
would cry out, "give us that paper"
and if it has not forty thousand new and
permanent subscribers in the first month
thereafter, | know nothing of God or
human nature. Applause The land
cries to be delivered from this awful
scourge. Where is the publisher, the
editor and the stockholder, who will take
the bold and -honoring position
But if the papers refuse to stop this out
flow of bcastliness, where is your society
for the suppression of obscene literature
Why spend the time in the suppression
of books and pictorials that have to play
hide and seek with the law, and allow
this daily AMI universal newspaper dc.
bauch q? Men Of might and means to the
front! God said that ten righteous men
could save Sodom. Peradvcnture there
be ten men in New YORK AMI Brooklyn
of the right means and pluck, they could
in the strength Of God beat back these
surgcs Of iniquity. Where is Anthony
Comstock, the glorious foe of unclean
literature? Has the honorable Judge
Nelson, known as the warm friend of
everything good, no power to stay this,
saying what shall and what shall not he
published 7 Where is Ged, that he comes
not out from his hiding place for the de.
fense and salvation of this great metrop
, oils? Grid on Thy sword, oh. Most
Mighty, and strike once for the over.
throw of this ghastly horror Waiting
for no other man TO do his duty, let US do
ours.


KICK THE INTERNAL STUFF
out Of your house, Applause Young
man, young woman, pollute not your
hand nor your eye by touching these
things which are taking down 50 many,
Brooklyn may be prayed out of the
slush and filth. We come here to night
to do our part toward praying it out.
God, who planted the city in these pleas
ant places, and to whose glory all these
churches have been reared, can extricate
us. Oh, that one revival wave might
sweep across our streets, carrying out to
sea the last vestigc of this great shame
Let us rise up and take the city for God
and Heaven We raise the standard to-
night About 650 converted souls have
stepped into this church regiment since
this present work of grace began in our
midst Would to God that tonight we
might make up full regiment ola thou.
sand. beat the


DRUM OF RECRUIT


No one but the omnipotent spirit Of
God can wipe out the analogy between
Sodom and Brooklyn. "Oh, revive Thy
work-in the midst Of the years made
known in wrath. remember mercy. A
voice, Amen IT there ever WAS
time when the Christian people Of Brook
lyn should 90 down on their knees be-
fore God and cry for His mercy this is
the time.
Year: 1875

w b. Mooney has received large amount
OF assorted lumber. and has more on the way
Having entirely recovered his health. he Is
now prepared to execute all work In his line
iriccs to suit the times.
Year: 1875

prophcsy eventual bankruptcy. or do


mestic ruin, or discontinue in the world
to come, or all three. God will be even
with you in some way. Money made by
the publication of these perpetual pcstit-
erous indeceucies viii, in the end, be not
only death to those who read, but death
to those who print them. 1t will not he
the last. Money that you get by making
society worse you cannot keep. God
will get it away from YOU it he has to
chase you to hell for it! Can you imag-
inc the hurricane of Divine indignation
that must whclm forever those who, for
the sake of money making, have poisoned
the minds. diseased the bodies, and
damned the immortali:s souls of the me.
tropol's? But there is a large fortune 20
bc made by some newspaper. charge
Year: 1875

The Times says there is reason to believe
that the disabled French steamer Ameriquo has been
seen off the sciy Islands. Government tugboat was
sent out for her on Sunday from Devonport but Is not
yet known whether sho succeeded in finding her.
Year: 1875

PROSPECT of acquiring territory from Mex
leo is very poor, if members of the visiting
party just returned are to be believed. They
say that the bitterness over the treaty by
which cession was made after the late war
still rankles, and that no territory can, for
long years at least, be acquired from Mexico
by the United States except in case of war.
1t is just as well.
Year: 1875

HARVARD COLLEGE has been wrestling
with the important question whether crimson
or magenta is the proper Harvard color. A
mass meeting of students was held Thursday
evening, at which oral and documentary evil
dence was produced to- show. that crimson
was the only genuine thing and that the prac-
tice in vogue during the last eight years of
wearing magenta arose from misapprehen-
sion. After considerable discussion return
to the old color was voted by reclamation. So
hereafter it will be the blue against the Grim
Year: 1875

IT appears that the whiskey ring isn't to be
smashed after all. The hopes of the revenue
officers have been rudely dissipated. 1t ap-
pears from the special correspondence OF the
Boston Advertiser that a man came last Feb
ruary from st. Louis and represented to Sec
retary Bristow that he had valuable informa-
ton in regard to whiskey frauds in st. Louis,
and that if he was commissioned as special
agent 80 that he could act by authority, he
would insure the breaking up Of this ring.
His statements were so specific that it was
deemed best to employ him. He returned to
St. Louis and pretended to begin work.
About week since he appeared in Washing
ton and made verbal report. He had writ
ten nothing, he had collected no evidence or
information of any value, and his course and
his associations while in Washington were
such as to cause the officers of the depart
ment to suspect that he had from fhe first
been acting as the agent Of some ring, and
that his real business was to ascertain, if pos
slble, whether the government was contem-
plating any move upon the whskey rings of
the country. When this verbal report was
made the necessity of employing him further
did not appear, and his appointment was re-
yoked. The department was much disap-
pointed by his utter failure, as it had hoped
that at last it would be able TO lay its hands
upon ring whose existence it has beer led
to suspect.
Year: 1875

In speaking Of Professor A. S. Packard's
pamphlet entitled "The Population Of an APP
pie Tree," published in the Half-Hour Series,
a French work which deals in an easy, con-
versational style with the insects that inhabit
a fruit tree" Here is new suggestion for
the agriculturist, harassed by the depreda-
tions of his small but vigorous foe. At first,
the theory of moral suasion, as appliedto the
aggressive cankerworm, seems impractical,
Quixotic. In ancient story, indeed, we read
how the sooihsayer Melampus overheard the
low voiced talk of the wood-worms; but it ap-
pears quite improbable that the busy annel-
ides of to-day would listen, in return, to the
remarks of mankind. A worm who is carv-
ing the winding galleries of his house under
the bark of tree, or arranging the pink and
white upholstery of his apple-blossom salon,
can hardly be expected to take note of out
side conversation. Moreover, he comes of
vigorous kind; the lawful prey of men and
birds, he thrives; he rather likes kerosene,
and the SAVIOR of sulphur smoke is to him as
sweetness; trodden upon, he turns. and
comes up good as new. Eloquence without
tarred paper, language unaided by printers
ink-how shall these avail?


If, however, experience prove "the easy
conversational method of determination to
be successful, an economy of force at present
worse than wasted, will be the fortunate re-
suit. Thus far in the worlds history no sat-
isfactory use has been found for the conVer-
sationalist in season and out of season; him
of the tremendous leverage power upon the
reluctant buttonhole, and upon whom all
signs of impatience Or haste are lost; whose
variations are long past endurance, and far
too diaphanous for the credence Of this
work-a-day world; whose puns are selected
from the mouldering dust of embalmed iests
of which the origin is lost in the early twi-
light of the ages; whose conundrums would
have been derided as trite by the victims of
the Sphinx; and whose epigrams must origi-
nally have appeared as loaded cuneiform
matter in the Assyrian Court Gazette in
the days of good King Minus; he who
lies in wait on 'change or in the post
Office, and, descending upon an uncon-
scious group, presently uncoils his fearsome
length of unpleasant argument until the old
time horror of LAGOON is come again-inten-
sified in the degree in which mental suffer-
ing exceeds physical.


This sinister being, the bore, must have his
place, his work in the universe. Power so per-
sistent, so inexorable, must be directed and
utilized. Let the endless enuncator sit and
muse aloud under his own apple-tree. Let
the country folk hire him to walk through
orchard ways white with the fallen blossoms
of the pear Above all let his fellow citizens
subsidize him to silence in the streets and
among men, that SO his "winged Words may
more effectually chase the moth, and bore
the borer, and by rendering the life of the
caterpillar burden resign it to the still and
dusky death of its cocoon.
Year: 1875

If the youthful editor of the Biddetord
Times would give little more time to his
exchanges and give less rein to his fancy, he
would not have told his readers that Sour
ex- state liquor agent is on trial for embez-
element" 1t was the liquor agent of
Year: 1875

WE wonder what certain young Demo-
cratic editor in this state thinks he is accom-
pllshing for his party by speaking of
brilliant and patriotic soldier as "Banditti
Sheridan?" Does he expect to crafty the
Bourbon element of his party? There are
now and then Democrats who served with
Gen. Sheridan, who won't be enamored OF
such talk. It is true that sort Of puppyism
won't do any harm, but it makes the beard
less youth appear extremely ridiculous.
Year: 1875

WE see that the people of the State of Nevada intend to put up a complete quartz null in Philadelphia, and have it in practical operation during the Centen- nial Exhibition. To the great mass of visitors there, this will be novel, instruct i've and most attractive feature
Year: 1875

Is always supplied with an ample variety of well-cooked food. No eXaggeration in this. Stage passengers and travellers by there understand It, and to them all un- acquainted with the fact are respectfully raferred for Inflammation.
Year: 1875

The enterprising people of Arizona should particularly note what Director General Goshorn says in the following correspondence. Arizona can and un- doubtedly will, to d reasonable extent, supply the very articles for exhibition which it is feared will not be sufficiently rpnraSppte1.
Year: 1875

The State Grange of Mississippi has issued
a circular inviting immigration from the North
and West, offering cheap and desirable homes
to actual settlers and pledging them their
protection and hearty welcome.
Year: 1875

The manufacturers who have dealt exelu-
sively with the Order this season are better
pleased, they themselves say, than with any
arrangement or trade they ever had before
wonderful revolution the Grange has wrought
in their trade.
Year: 1875

The clerk of merchant at Osaka,
Japan, went to Kioto on business of his
employer, and received one thousand
yen to carry back to Osaka. Having
been detained longer than he expected,
he missed the steamboat, and being
anxious to complete his journey as
quickly as possible, took jinrikisha, in
tending to travel through the night and
reach Osaka before daylight. On ar
irving at a village few miles from his
destination, about three a. M, man
with drawn sword stopped the vehicle
and demanded the one thousand yen,
stating that he had seen the youth re-
ceive il at Kioto. After some demur
the clerk took the money from his bosom,
and was about to hand it to the robber,
when the jinrikisha coolie snatched the
bag and made of, leaving the vehicle,
the clerk and the robber in the middle
of the road, the two latter as speechless
as the former. .


The knight of the road, finding himself
foiled, departed in the direction opposite
to that Of Osaka, to which city the youth
hastened, after abandoning his first
thoughts of jumping into the river. On
arriving at the house of an uncle he ac-
quainted that relative with his adven-
ture, and expressed desire to die. But
he was spared, for 1t was discovered that
the coolie, instead of running away with
the money, had taken il to the police
station. He was appropriately rewarded
with share of the money he had so clev-
erly saved.
Year: 1875

A very common mistake is made and
much fuel wasted in the manner of re-
plenishing coal fires, both in furnaces
and CRATES. They should be fed with a
little coal at time, and often; but serv-
ants, to save time and trouble, put on n
great deal at once, the first result being
that almost all the heat is absorbed by
the newly put on coal, which does not
give out heat until it has itself become
red hot. Hence, for awhile the room is
cold, but when it becomes fairly aglow
the heat is insufferable.


The time to replenish a coal fire is as
soon as the Goals begin to show ashes on
their surface, then put on merely enough
to show layer of black coal covering the
red. This will soon kindle, and as there
is not much of it an excess of heat will
not be given out.


Many also put out the fire by stirring
the crate as soon as fresh coal is put on,
thus leaving all the heat in the ashes
when it should be sent to the new supply
of coal. The time to stir the fire is just
when the new coal laid on is pretty we'll
kindled. This method of managing a
coal fire is troublesome, but it saves
fuel, gives more uniform heat, and pre-
vents the discomfort of alterations of
heat and cold above referred to.-Hdps
Journal of Health.
Year: 1875

A correspondent says: I found the
following interesting facts in the biog-
raphy OF Professor Mitchell, given in
"Mitchels Astronomy of the Bible"
Professor Mitchell, when director of the
Cincinnati Observatory, wished to make
the astronomical clock record its beats
automatically. A small cross of delicate
wire was so arranged that IL would rise
and fall as the pendulum swung back
ward and forward, provided it could be
in some way attached to the pendulum.
The amount of power required Of the
pendulum to give motion to the delicate
wire across was almost imperceptible.
The difficulty was to procure fiber suf-
ficiently minute and elastic to constitute
the physical union between the top stem
of the cross and the pendulum. Various
materials were tried, among others hu-
man hair, the very finest that could be
obtained, but this was too coarse and
stiff. Finally an appeal was made to the
spider, and his web, perfectly elastic and
pliable, proved to be exactly the thing
required. One single spiders web ful-
filed the duty of lifting the wire cross
every second of time for three years |!
How much longer IL might have faithfully
performed the same service we do not
know, for IL became necessary to break
this admirable bond to make some
changes in the clock.
Year: 1875

lFHFis correspondents OF. Louis ulODe.


The wedding was to take place on
Christmas Day. Three weeks before
that date the aflianced husband sought
out Minnie, and told her he had deceived
himself; that he could not and would
not abandon her; that he loved her ten
times more than he ever could love the
other woman. Minnie was happy, and
yet she was wretched. She declared she
ought not to keep him. Finally he told
her that he did not believe his betrOthed
really loved him. This shook her reso-
luton. She said no more. She de-
termined, however, to see and judge for
herself. She had learned where the fair
Bostonian was residing, and making
some ingenious excuse gained an inter
view without revealing her true charac.
ter. She found the American lovely
that she was we'll nigh heartbroken at the
neglect of her lover; that she knew he
had had mistress; that she suspected
he was still bound by his old attachment; !;
that she was the barrier between her and
happiness. The grisette went away. She
saw the artist no more, but she wrote him
a long letter, telling him how much he
had wronged the beautiful girl he was
engaged to; that she worshiped him
and would make him happy. The next
day Minnie was dead in her lodgings,
asphyxiated by charcoal. She had de-
liberately destroyed herself to insure the
happiness of another woman, and that
woman her rival.