The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-06-17
Com M u CATION.
Our Homo Ciuab,.a

| Is n lSW WoSkb 5tnce MeTe was q Society
formed for evening conversations, near
little town hard by, where all manner Of
subjects we're agreed 10 be discussed, ,
and as ! was appointed Secretary, with
the understanding tha,I was to publish
our doings, Isendu them oyou, doping
that in your valuable paper they will find
| a place, and il you should discover thai
we do not quite keep 10 what is called
parliamentary rule, il is simply because
our club is the. hulsehoId home, and our
speeches made BY quiet men, who never
made O. speech in set terms in their
lives. Their Secretary, has generally
attended public meetings bu, as a specs
tator, and so may be excused, :fbis no.
tons should often fall behind what men
who make such ihings their study, think
required in such ,places.i But VIC are
MOTTO be deferred from u wholesome Iexs
ercise Of mind, because some censorious
men may laugh a, US, and ask what we
have 10 do, with the affairs Of the great
world, who hold so small q place in il,
OF tuther no place AT allg And SO, after
consulting the mcmbe RS, l have concluded
to report, and send you fom week 10
week, such. scraps Of our doings, as will,
I trust, fill part Of your pnpeE for they.
tell me editors are sadly bothered what
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Yours, &C., SIMON NrMAxwELL.
~ m 7o Wednesday, May 25th, 1853, n
MEETING AT TIE DuN ScHooI HousE,
I sParson Williams was called 10 the
Chair, and Simon Maxwell was agreed
on as the Secretary, "a 7a
Mr.. Salisbury proposed TO occupy the
evening with the discussion Of the COM
mon ibabil Of folks dwelling on the faults
oftheir neiehbors and attending to every
body's concerns and mistakes, in prefer.
ence 10 their own shortcomings
Z Mr.. johnson was Of opinion -.lIai as
this is asrepublican countrblit was once
in whilso necessary 10 canvass a little
the habits and acts Of neighbors. II
is decidedly useful. You know friends
il helps to make y wholesome opinion in
neighborlloods. How on earth, Deacon
Salisbury, would we get along, do you
imagine, with the Clarksons, with their
atisiocratic airs. and big feeling over poor
folks, if az .iimesswel did not just show
oqlsnchlthings as thcyare, iotbe very
mean and ioolisli-as you and every body
elee knows that money don't make the
man, and that o narrow-henried soul
with dollars, is not ms good us man who
does his duty TO his neighbor, and has
jus, what he can get along with. For
my part, though | don't tsay much openly,
because it hurts brsinessdo be talka,iye,
I'm inclined 10 believe 9tbdt very many
Of our neighbors are heldin check from
doing bod acis, and even made something
Ike generous, because they are afraid
,ha, they may otherwise become unpop,
nlar. Now, it's very well ,ha, people
talk. There's good deal the newspu
ners never tell us about the men thoi
wan. flee, that leaks out in the talks
about those who are most talked VI, and
10 does them good. lthelps in a good
many ways. A road is made and d
church now and then bull, BY il, that
night otherwise want for funds Il abs-
love i.'s rightin aafresl country. ssf'os
Air. Salisbury replied. II have no res.
pee, for HE prideful worth ofmere dol
lars, more .han friend Jphnson, and as
much as he, dislike all ,ba,iends omake
q man pass for more than he isroally
wonl-and that sometimesa check may,
and ought q be, placed On such feelings
and manifesta.ions,II do not deny; bu,
whatI proposed to,iske notice Of, wasibe
too common disposition, Of rich and poor,
TO think ,lie hardest thought, and say The
worst word, Of their neiglbors, they can,
Now, you know John Wilson, very well
II see he is not here tohight.-I think
John takes dtsmo sometimes but Jobf
Jackson told me to-day, that he never
drow sober breath-and whispered me
all in confidence, that il was no Won
ler, for John was not a very good omah
lhef although he pretended 10 be
and honest, and all that ,-TI
Now, 1 asked job how he knew all this,