smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

morning. At 6 o'clock to-day she was
back again alongside the wharf. What
an irrepressible little boat it is. You
cant keep itanywhere. it Her officers are
live gentleman agreeable and accommo-
dating. just the thing for this river.
Let the farming community take advan-
tage of her fiequent and regular trips,
and put in bigcrop next year and have
something to ship off to mi fket. The
Zephyr and Fanny Lake on the Seattle
and the Yakama on the Port Gamble
route, we have as good market rs any
farming community in the territory.
The logging interest here also is quite
a home market. All that is now needed
for us to entor upon and enjoy season
of prosperity is for husbandmen to put
their hands to the plow aud not look
back. \
Year: 1875

tY- Fruit is Kept in Russia by being
packed in creosotized lime. Tho lime
is slaked in water to which little creo-
sote has been dissolved, and is allowed
to fall to powder. The latter is spread
over the bottom of pine box, to about
one inch in thickness. A sheet of pa
per is laid above and then the fruit.
Over The fruit is another sheet of paper,
then more lime, and so on until the box
is full, when little finely powdered
charcoal is packed in the corners and
the lid tightly CLOSED. Fruit this er..
closed will, it is said, remain good for a
year.
Year: 1875

w Wilmington, N. G., reports q
sea serpent ninety feet long and as big
az n barrel in its vicinity. He ran on
one of the shoals and o party OF brave
men ran to attack him, but he raised
his head and opened his mouth wide
enough to swallow them one at time
and rotreated discreetly. The sea ser
pent is q diffusive reptile.
Year: 1875

HYATT SMITHS SERMON FOR HoT
SUNpAy.-Hyatt Smiths column in the
Baptist Union opens with this bit of au-
photography: 1t was summer Sabbath
morning. The mercury was high, up
among the nine:ies. My house was
well filled with warm friends. At the
close of the Introductory service, which
was unusually brief, 1 said to the suffer
ing assembly: "Dear brethren, do not
believe that tho Lord is pleased with
our attempt to obey one law of his Or
daining by the violation of another. 1t
seems to me- that the law written upon
the feshy tablet is as binding as that
which vas engraved upon the tablets OF
stone. will not preach this morning.
1 Recommend that you go to your house
and in the briefcst time possible take
your place in the bath room, and turn
on the cold water, sit down and quietly
mediate upon the goodness of God.
Receive the benediction. am conf
dent that never preached more pop
ular sermon. It was a moving dis"
course. There was no religion in their
suffering the word of exhortation."
Year: 1875

AN ANCIENT SNAKE.-A correspondent
of the Rural Press furnishes that paper
with the following interesting item: "In
one of your numbers of July mention is
made of bee of immense antiquity,
taken from fragment of millstono grit,
somewhere in Englend. Well, sir, we
are prepared to go you few thousand
years better on snake, recently taken
from the solid rock, sixty feet below the
surface, by couple of miners prospec-
ting o claim near John Kinds hot
springs, Douglass county. He was un-
doubtedly deposited there prior to the
carboniferous formation of the country.
There he was, still alive, and in appar-
ent good health; and in all the countless
ages which he had in which to"evolute"
and develop he had attained to nothing
more than an unprtt tending, common
place, everyday little snake, of about
ten inches in length and Of the size OF
ones little finger. He had the exact
color of the rock from which it was taken.
He was able to locomote with reasonable
facility, though, from the long nap
which he had INDUCED in, he was ma
BILE to open his eyes. and seemed to
have constant nervous twitching about
the lids of them, but they would not
como Opeu,
Year: 1875

LOUISVILLE, March a The attempt
TO as>assinate the State witness in Todd
county WAS not in open court as reported
yesterday, hut while the witness was
under guard in the court house for safe
keeping. His aSsalant was captured yes
terday
Year: 1875

This is not as it should be-. We are
OVERRIDING the business of testing chill
dren's information. Some years ago
examinations were neglected and so one
great educational force was allowed to
lie dormant; now the amount Of exam
ination especially written makes
school-work drudgery to the pupil and
the principal. Without claiming to he
a prophet, we predict that this practice
of written examination will be made so
irksome that judicious school boards
will prohibit it altogether, and instruct
principals of schools to watch daily pro-
gress of their several classes and pro-
mote pupils on the basis of such OBJ
servation.


CULTURE is another attribute of the
best society. 1t does not depend on a
college diploma, for there are many
Bachelors of Art and Maids of Art who
are iosuferable idiots. The question
is not what you have studied, but what
you have learned. Some claim they
have finished their education-the new
ly fledged boarding school miss OF soci-
ETY., the student Of theology or medicine;
and with most of them, it is true they
have literally finished their education,
for they will never learn anything more.
Mental growth is not limited by physical
growth. There is majestic complete
ness about Humbolt, who kept on grow
ing mentally until he was four score.
People who think there is nothing to
be learned are not wanted in the best
society. Courage is also virtue Of the
best society; large part of Sin is cow
ardice; of virtue, courage. The best
society stands on the basis of good will,
and is to be elevated by competition
and cooperation.
Year: 1875

Certain students Of the prophecies
regard the mixture Of miry clay with
iron in the feet and toes Of the symbol
ical image seen in Nebuchadnezzar' =
vision as meaning the mixture of the
popular element in the government of
States. All hero worshipers, such as
Carlyle, execrate universal suffrage, OF
any considerable approach TO it, as the
intruding of a weak and unreliable ele-
ment into the government Of nation.
This view is singularly strengthened by
the insane enthusiasm of the masses in
Britain for that disgusting imposter,
Year: 1875

We Gull from the Zumbrota Mde-
bendenf the following ideas as hav-
ing been brought out by the persons
named:


Mrs. Sargent said: :-reacahers
should be careful to be neat in per-
son, clear and concise in question
ing; being very careful not to con-
vey any idea Of the answer. They
should be careful to adapt the ques-
ton to the ability of the child. Pu-
pills should be taught to be cleanly
in person; to sit or stand in cor
rect position They should give
undivided attention to recitat1ons :;
should criticise each other, and give
clear, concise and correct answers.


Rev. Mr.. Rork spoke of what
teachers ought to do for themselves;
there were Dut few who possessed a
natural fitness for the work. and
they were probably the only ones
who would ever become frst-class
teachers. These teachers should
strive to become thoroughly fitted
for their work, and, he thought,
ought to keep at it as long as they
lived, and deserved a pension.
Teachers should study their own
abilities, and how to govern them
selves, that being the first and best
help towards having good govern
ment in schools.


Supt. Hancock said that the ques-
ton to be decided was not educa-
ton or no education, but what kind
of education! Education was but
a natural growth of the mind, and if
the child did not get an education
in school he would get one on the
streets. He made the statement
that it cost less to educate twelve
children, than to care for and pun
lsh one criminal.


~ Rev. Mr.. Groser said teaching
was holy trust, and must be ans
< wered for at the Judgment Day.
that morality was based upon the
word Of God: that an educated bad
man was worse than an uneducated
bad man; therefore, the heart
should be educated as we'll as the
mind. He stated that knowledge
Religion and Morality were all nee
essary to good government: that
society always had been, and always
would be ruled by the predominant.
ing character Of the people; that the
Bible should be used in school. bu
not as a textbook.
Year: 1875

W. E. Poe, asks:-Is any person
who is Ineligible to vote in any
election in this State suitable per-
son to hold the Office of trustee in
any school district? Would their
proceedings be legal?


We have submitted the above to
the Attorney General, and his opin-
ion is, that while such person can
not hold the office Of trustee, yet il
elected, the acts and doings of such
person while acting as such trustee
if otherwise regular would be held
as binding upon the district.
Year: 1875

If we knew the woe and heart-ache,


Waiting for US down the road,
IF our lips could taste the wOrmwOOd,
If our backs could feel the load,
Would we waste one day in wishing


For time that ne'er can beT
Would we wait with such impatience
For our ships to come from sea
If we knew the baby fingers


Pressed against the windOW-pane
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow
Never trouble US again
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frOwn upon our brow
Would the print Of rosy fingers


Vex US then as they do now?
Ah these little ice-cold fingers,


How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions


Strewu along our backward track.
How these little hands remind Us,


AS in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns-bUt roses
For our rsspiug by and by.
Strange, we never prize the music


Till the sweet-yOiced bird has flown;
Strange. that we should slight The viOlsts
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange, that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem half so fair
as when winters snowy piniOns


Shake their white down in the air
Lips, from which the seal Of silence
None but God can roll away
Never blOssOmed in such beauty


AS adOrns the mouth of day:
And sweet words that freight our memory
With their beautiful perfume,
Come to us in sweeter accents


Through the portals Of the tomb.
Let us gather mp the sUnbeams


Lying all around orr path
Let us keep the wheat and roses,


Casting out the thOrns and chah:
Let Us find our sweetest comfort


In the blessings of to-day,
With patient hand removing


All the brisrs from our way.
Year: 1875

TIE senatorial excursion to Mexico
IS abandoned. Advices from Washing.
ton are that fear of the yellow fever
and the illness of Mrs. Morton are
among the causes alleged for the change
of front.
Year: 1875

a GEOLOGICAL expedition to the Black
Hills has been ordered by the govern
ment IN order to determine whether
gold exists there or not. The authori-
ties not only desire to settle that dis
puted point for the benefit of gold.
hunters, but in order to find the real
value of the territory. The Indians
are reported to be favorable to the oh
jects of the expedition, and will aid it.
Year: 1875

In the month of June another Eng
hsh polar expedition will attempt to
unVail the mystery of the Arctic regions.
Three vessels, one of them fitted out.
IN part, by the indefatigable Lady
franklin, will constitute the fleet.
They will proceed as far as possible be-
fore winter and next year the party will
leave on sledges for the pole.
Year: 1875

The present season has been, and in
all likelihood will continue TO be, q
very unfayorable one for horses. In
fluenza, that destructive pest to the
equine race, both endemic and cpl
demic, is prevalent in greater or less
extent throughput the country. In
view of this fact, the following hints
will be found useful: A horse will en-
dure severe cold weather Without much
inconvenience, so long as he is furnish
ed with IA dry stable. But require
him to stand ON "a wet and foul floor,
and his health will soon begin to fail.
Horses oftener suffer from cold feet
and legs. A great many stables have
damp and wet floors. Few men who
handle horses give proper attention to
the feet and legs. Especially is this
the case on farms, Much time is
spent of morning in rubbing, brush
ing and smoothing the hair on the
sides and hips, but at no time are the
feet examined and properly cared for.
Now be it known that tho feet of
horse require more care than the body.
They need ten times as much, for in
one respect they are almost the entire
horse. AL the grooming that can be
done won't avail anything if the horse
is forced to stand where his feet will
be filthy. In this case, the feet will
become disordered, and then the legs
will get badly out OF fix; and with bad
feet and bad legs there is not much
else of the horse fit for anything.
Stable prisons generally are very Sc
we're on the legs and feet of horses, and
unless these buildings can afford dry
room where the horse can walk around
lie down or roll over, they are not half
so healthy or comfortable to the horse
as the pasture, and should be avoided
by all good hostlers in the country.
Nothing induces colds and coughs so
much as cold and wet feet in lily kept
stables. All ordinary cold is the step
ping stone to influenza, distemper,
pneumonia, rheumatism, and NUN
Der of other diseases which follow in
their train. Keep your stables clean,
give your horses plenty of fresh air,
keep their feet warm in cold weather,
and you may defy the thousand and
one disorders that equine flesh is heir
to.-7Ur1, Field and Farm.
Year: 1875

Samuel Houghton, author of a work
on "Animal Mechanics" writes to
Nature of the relative strength of the
lion and tiger: II have proved that
the strength of the lion in the fore
limbs is only SO 0 per cent of that of
the tiger, and that the strength of the
hind limbs is only 60.5 per cent of
that of the tiger. / may add that five
men can easily hold down lion while
it requires nine men to control tiger.
Martial also states that the tigers
always killed the lions in the amphi-
theatre. The lion Is in truth, preten-
tious humbug, and owes his reputation
to his imposing name, and he will run
away Ikea whipped cur under circum-
stances in which the tiger will bodily
attack and kill
Year: 1875

A great political party is in supremest peril
il not absolutely in the article of death. Its
leaders some of them men of brains and fore
sight and sagacity, but many of them stOlid,
and blind to events and their meaning, and
only capable of the pettiest of partisanship in
their action, sit looking in each others faces
and twirling their thumbs while they wait for
something to happen, some official report"
or fuller Details" or "the other side Of the
"story," or something or other, they know
not what. The party founders about; the
people throughout the country are rising up
with fierce denunciations Of its infamous
policy and the destructive tendency Of its
acts; the sullen roar of people who have
not been used to sit quiet under usurpation
and aggression may be heard by the men
in power the stubborn Silent Man in the
White House sets his teeth and announces his
purpose to sustain his military favorite and
support the scOundrels who have used the
Federal army to keep down the State they
have throttled and robbed, and there sits
Congress. Not leading statesman of them
has so far dared lift up so much as a wall of
regret at the high-handed outrage upon q
sovereign State. The country waits, the
misses of the Republican party wait for a
Man, for some one to step out in front Of
the party in power, and on behalf of hundreds
of thousands of honest Republicans to say in
clear ringing phrase, "This is not Republican
"ism; but Grantism. The President is not
"the Party"


| And no one stirs. James G. Blaine. from
| the Speakers chair looks only through the
| Avenue to the mansion at the end. He has
seen his party wrestling heavily with signs Of
weakness; seen it go down in the dusty
struggle and its adversary uppermost. He
knows that President Grant has put such bur-
dens on the party that it cannot stagger un-
der, and he knows-none better--that this
crowning outrage upon an oppressed and
plundered State has reused tide of public
indignation that no party can withstand. And
he must know that in this state of things the
Avenue lengthens to bis gaze, and the White
House tskes Qn 1e misty shape Of q half
Year: 1875

ger in tho House of Representatives. Boyd
received e4,5OO. and Hersey Oil, 900. Here,was
q snug fortune gwen to two men holding
mental positions in the House. They both
swore the money was given to themselves as
"a gratuity that they did not divide with
any one else. The only service they claimed
to render for their enormous wages was to SOC
"whom Col. Bee talked TO-" petty bit of
espionage for which they would have been
richly paid with dollar or two.


This ia clear case of contempt, but we DO
not quite see what the Committee can do
about 1t. OF course these men are insulting
Congress with transparent lies. But If they
hold firmly together and persist in their fic-
tons, grotesque and ridiculous as they are,
they may be able to shield their principals
entirely. The thumb-sc screw has been abol-
ished with advancing civilization. and there
are no means left TO make rogue tell the
truth. But il the investigation should pause
here, it would be useful in showing how COM
pact and well-knit is that Washington lobby
whose existence has been 30 recently denied,
and what urgent necessity there is for thor
ough cleansing of House of Representatives
whose members go into partnership with their
doorkeepers and messengers in the business OF
theft and perjury. ..p
Year: 1875

issued. with restrictions and qualifications too
one-sided to strike the average American fa-
yorably, it is not likely to be removed as its
payments fall due. There was great
significance in the indorsement which an
old Quaker scored upon a fire insurance
policy. He had been reading its long list Of
exceptions--of instances in which the company
would not be bound by its provisiOns-and no
concluded to return it. He wrote: John, L
"haye read thy document Thee may as wea
keep it. 1t insures thee against loss bcsto'
"than me-" No combination which the com
panies can effect among themselves will re-
lieye them from the need Of popularity and
the desire to do business. There is therefore
no occasion to raise hue and cry about their
attempt at combination and monopoly At
worst, the people who already hold life in
surances will have no reason to complain, il
new safeguards against fraud are thrown
around their money which the companies ho.d.
The attempt to introduce these new forms Of
application and policy will soon develop ther
practical value. IL they are unpopular, tho
wisdom of the Chamber will soon go by tho
board, ...... ..
Year: 1875

q The address of Mr. Evarts at the meeting
on Monday night was q noble effort from any
point of view. It was calm. dignified.
philosophical, and frank. It told the exact
and simple truth Tightening none of the
narrative portions for effect, offending neither
historical accuracy nor severe good taste by
any rhetorical exaggerations. bat setting forth
the situation exactly as it is. In nothing
however was it more remarkable than
in its practical good sense. Mr.. Evarts
reminded his hearers at the start that
the Republican party was not to
be held responsible for the misdeeds
of the Administration at New-Orleans until it
had an opportunity to approve or condemn
them. No party capital can be made out OF
this affair until it has the tacit or express
sanction of the Republicans who placed Gen.
Grant in Office; and even the amazing cow


ardice or imbeciliy of the Presidents sup
porters in Congress will do no great harm to
the party unless these Congressman are to
some extent sustained by their constituents.
On the contrary. there is in this critical oc-
currence not only an opportunity for the
Democrats, but superb opportunity
for reformed and rejuvenated Re-
publicanism. lf only some leader would
arise with the sagacity to comprehend
the situation, the personal magnetism
to capture the public attention, the talent to
unite and organize men, we might see sud
den revival of that great historical party
which brought us out OF the darkness OF
Slavery and through the horrors Of war; To
those who regard the machinery of adminis-
tratiOn. to quote the language of Senator
Schurz, as "a mere instrument of Ring rule,
"a tool to manufacture majorties and to or
"ganize plumber" this uprising of the people
against the abuse of power presents itself as
a revolt which has to be faced with bold
front and punished with the whip. But
statesmen, like Mr.. Evarts, perceive that it is
the indignant protest OF an honest people
against the msdeeds of their servants; and
the question is whether the servants shall be
discharged or the masters shall be ruined.


However that point may be settled, tho
events of the past few days have demonstrated
that the men now at the head of affairs have
lost control of their own party. 1t may be
simple matter enough to patch up squabble
in the Cabinet, and suppress the first intima-
tiOns of independence on the Republican side
of the Senate. Even the majority in the
House, which has much keener sense of
public opinion than the gentlemen at the
other end of the Capitol, may be forced into
submission. But all Washington, even with
the aid of post-offices, and custom-houses,
and deputy marshals, cannot drive the
Republican party. The voters have taken
the lead. and the politician who refuses to
follow is sure to be thrown. Everybody can
see how things are going except the narrow


minded and dull-witted persons at the seat of
Government who dream that they have ac-
quired prescriptive right to be supported at
the public expense. They will all get their
eyes open some day but when that comes to
pass they will find that the Republican party
exists no longer, or else that it has been re-
constructed and they are left outside.
Year: 1875

1t is announced chat the President rslents.
Happy for him if his relenting comes not too
late. But, admitting that all we now hear as
to tha tone of his forthcoming message is
true. how is the situation in New-0rleans i'm
provedi The President will not retract
he viii merely fail to reaf1rm-his approval
of the course of his lieutenant fin Louisiana.
The Legislature has been dispersed, the
people threatened with summary trial by
military commission as banditti, the usurp-


ing State Government has received new en-
Year: 1875

The Congressional investigation OF the sto-
ries of outrages in Alabama promises no con-
siderable addition to the information laid be-
fore the public long ago by an impartial
correspondent of THE TRIBUNE who visited
the scene of each outrage and carefully sifted
the stories of both parties The majority OF
the Committee seem to have pursued one line
of investigation and the minority another.
and. we may say, better one; and the
result viii be two reports. each from parti-
san point of view. This is not the way TO
get at the truth. a..tI ....' a.i.. ID q.
Year: 1875

So far from subsiding, the storm of popular
indignation against the interposition of Fed
eral troops in the organization of the LOuisi-
ana Legislature gathers strength each day.
The whole subject of Federal and State
rights is concisely but ably treated in
the annual message of Gov. Joel Par
ker to the Legislature Of New-Jersey, and
the Governor denounces the NewOrleans out
rage in fitting terms. The Pennsylvania House
of Representatives adopted "a dignifed but
emphatic protest by strict party vote, the
Republicans in that body as in the Senate of
New-YOr not having the courage to array
themselves against the Administration even on
an issue of such vital importance. Gov.
Hardin of Missouri alludes to the subject
in his inaugural address, declaring that
the outrage has given to republican institu-
tions the most alarming shock they have ever
received. The Boston indignation meeting is
to be held on Friday night. and the call there
for is receiving the signatures of influential
ReDublicans