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Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1859-10-27
LITTLE THINGS GROW TO CREATE

LITTLE THINGS GROW TO GREAT!
Lille things operate 50 as 70 produce
great. III the history Of nations, how
fisany revoltions, how many redicai chan
pes have resulted from the most trifling
causes Where had been the Trojan
wars, but for the loves of Paris and He
len What had been the fate Of Eng
land, had the order never gone forth
which made Cromwell disemhark f 70
the ship ia which he would have sailed
10 America What would have been
the state of Europe had not the BASIN q
water been, spilled on Mrs. Mashani's
gown, which led 10 the removal Of Mall
borough, and SO 10 the pence ofUtrecht? !?
One Of the keenest students Of human
nature asks If there are not = little pass
ages Id everybody's life which seems %
be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of
the history J" II you tread on the equity
toes Of your venerable grandfather. and
that worthy but exasperated man SO al
ters his will that you lose q fortune Il
your military arder IS damped practical
" because you happen to be Eve feet
four instead Of six feet one; il a new coat
may contribute largely tosa mans suc-
cess in life, or new bonnet exert 9
considerable influence on young wo-
man : fortune if the accident of being
Eve minutes late Or early may control
one . whole future, surly Il may he be-
lived that little things are not wishouf
their influence ia the afiairs of lile.
Ii i 1 familiar story thai ! philosophic
wag once paused il the square beneath
81. Paul's Cathedral il London.. and
gazing intently upwards u the dome,
uttered, and continued meditatirely 10
utter, these two words & i lsans = Tie
consequence was presently N inmesse
concourse Of people. III gazing intently
al the vast dome above them, and Ill con-
tending eagerly whether i leaned or 40.
Snc.l IS the strange susceptibility of hu-
man nature % the, influence Of little
thing characteristic which IS fraught
Win son.squsnnsss n 'hs most various and
80 "A
Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1859-10-27

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Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1859-10-27
EDMUND BuRKE,s IDEA OF a PER Feet
g i sa4s8s e4t1 WIFE

She ID handsome, but - not beauty
arising from the features,. from coinplec-
'tiou, Or from shape. She has all three
in high degree, but il is not BY these
Ithat she touches the heart Iii is ali that
sweetness oftemper, beneyolence. inno-
cence II ID all that sensibility which !
face csn express, that forms her beauty.
She has face that just arouses atten-
ton at16rst sight i grows upon you
every moment, and you wonder i did
not more than raise attention II first.
Her eyes have. mild light, but they
awe when she pleases: they command
like man out ef Office, not By authori-
NY, but by virtue. HSt stature Is mo-,
tall; she i not madesto IN admiration of
every one. She has the frmness that
does not imply weakness. Her voice is
soft, low music, not formed to rule pub
Iic assemblies, bat 70 charm those who
distinguish 1 company from ! crowd; Il
has u ldtantag ~, you must come close
|to l5ear L. ,To describe her body, de-
scribS h0r miilll ono y the transcript
of tkss other. Her rstanding is not
shown ia tho vafisty Vi matters i exerts
itself upon, but the guodness of the
choicsfshe makes. Her politeness dows
|rathef f1omaa = naanral dispositiou to
Eoblike thanlany rssIss bn that subject,
and shsrsfors lisssif fails toistriks tisoss
who understand good, bEssdings and
thsss wh0ad0 mt Had af2t s43afsai @taf
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-16

CANADA WILL NOT SUPPORT
THRoNR.--Speaking Of the expected
visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada,
the Toronto Leader Significantly re-
marks
" His Royal Highness will receive all
the respect due to an heir to tho English
throne, and the son Of a constitutional
Sovereign, whose reign has been marked
by a series of practical reforms. On
his part, be visits the country with the
full knowledge that, from iis position, Il
nerer can support a throne FIR any of
his numerous family and lba, this 10y
al people will one day-it may be far
distant march quietly 10 national inde-
pendence. But even when that day
comes it will be matter of real salts.
faction and just pride to England tha
she has given her masculine language
her just laws and her free principles 1,
a second nation in the new world. AM
in that feeling Of pride and satisfaction
il will not be beneath a constitutions
sovereign to share"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-16

FIFTY-sEvES BUSHELS OF WHEAT
TO TIE AcRE.-The Ontario Observer
is informed that farmer in Reach bad
field Of about 5 acres Of wheat, which
did not, whilst standing, appear to be un-
usually heavy but after lhreshing, be
was surprised and delighted to fnd it
yield 81 bushels to the acre Neither
Is this a solitary instance, says the Oh
ssrrsr, for We understand the average
yield Of Fall Wheat 10 this township will
be from 80 10 so bushels TO the acre
Usually the farming community are given
to grua,biiog. aud sre proverbial foriheir
diseonlerl, bat this fall they are mostly
- situated that il would be positively
sinful 10 murmur in The least degree
Never was there a more abundant sup
ply u the necessaries Of life; ProTid-
ence has indeed dealt bouItifuIly with Us.
and 10 return for 80 many aud varied
blessings we should not omit 70 return
oar Ainoere aud llesrl.lels thank TO the
/ giyero Of AL good thing.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-16

MUsIc.-There Is something very
wonderful in music. Morda are won
derful enough; but music Is even more
wonderful. IisPeaks not To our thoughts
as words dot speaks straight 80 Cur
hearts and spirits. to The very core and
root Of our souls. Music sooshes as,
stirs Us up; il melis u TO tears. We know
no. how it S language by itself, Just
as perfect Ia It's way IS speech, as wuEsls
just as divine. iss,as bleaad.--kiagaiss'
( .Ssraoas-
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-16

ST. Make a good use Of time, # thou
lowest eternity yesterday cannot be re-
called-to-morrow cannot be secured
to-day only is tbiuf. which, Il once lost. Is
lost forever.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-16

be thrown open, Hasneu across my nihu'
| ran to the platform. The captain was
there lying on his face beside the gun
which be had pointed with such deadly
effect. He still grasped the speaking
trumpet in his hand, and shuddered as
! beheld its mouth-piece covered with
blood.
The captains killed. | cried and
stopped TO raise him.
Il believe am, said he, take me TO
the cabin
A dozen ready hands were stretched
to receive him, and he was taken below,
and carefully laid on the sofa.
Ay,' he said, ! heard the crash my
ear knows too well the crash of shot
against plank to be mistaken, and my
eye has pointed to many guns to miss its
mark easily now. But, tell me, is any
one hurt?
No thank heaven | said; and |
hope you are not so badly hit.'
Bad enough. Cut open my waist
coat-'tis here
] A mouthful of blood stopped his ut.
terance, but he pointed to his right side
wiped his mouth, and cut off his waist
coat as gently as possible. There wai
!, no blood; but on his shirt, we discovered
about three inches on the right of the pi
of the stomach, discolored spot, abou
the size of half crown, darkening to
wards its centre, where there was small
wound. A musket ball had struck him
and from there being no outward bleed
ing, feared the worst.
I We dressed the wound as well as cir
cumstances would permit; but external
! ly it was trihing-the fatal wound wa
a within. The unfortunate sufferer mo
toned for all TO leave him but me; AM
j Gazing me 10 DIS SIDE,
: Il feel said he, that am dying, th
e leiter-promise me you will get it for
warded-'tis to my poor widow. We
/ I've tempted this deathof ten and escaped
i. It's hard to be struck by a villains hanC
4 But Gods will be done!'
= / promised that | would personally de
E liver the letter, for that | intended r,
= turning 20 1vew L orK from Curacoa.
e Thank you truly said the dying maj
V you will then see my Helen and m
J. child, and can tell them that their info
tunate husband and father died thnkin
1t of them. The ship and cargo are min
Is and will belong to my family. Strange
a, | was not always what j now seem.-
> But could not bear that the Yank,
st skipper should be known as he who on,
v - A sudden flow Of blood preventt
J. his finishing the sentence. | tried to r
le lieve him by change of his posture, b
lie in vain; he muttered some incohere
le sentences, by which his mind seemed
ID dwell upon former scenes Of battle
In the republic, and of undeseryed tres
ly ment. He rallied for one instant, an
es with blessing for his family, and t
til name of Helen on his lips, he ceased
ed breathe.
it The body Of our unfortunate capita
re was the next day committed 10 the way
N, amidst the tears of Us all. Our voya
al was prosecuted to an end without furth
re interruption. did not forget the wish
We of the dying man how faithfully / f
he filled them, and how have been rewal
he ed, or how satisfactory to me was /
d; previous history of the poor captain, ne
be not be told. Suffice it TO say, that
settled in Elm Cottage, Bloomingd,
lid and am The happiest son-in-law, husba
ain and father, in the United States.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-16

eG One af The vesy beat Of ali earth
y possess ipns S scif possession
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-16

eT IL Is better 10 encourage whA, is
right, than to punish ~hai Is wrong
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-16

But where was the schooner! She
lay for few minutes after the destruction
of the boat, and whether alarmed at our
appearance, or horrifed at the loss of SO
many of her men, know not, but she
slipped her foresail and stood away as
close to the wind as possible. We saw
no more oe her.
The excitement Of the scene we bad
just passed through, prevented our miss.
ing the captain but as soon as the schoon.
er bore away, all naturally expected hi;
voice to give some order for getting agar
under weigh. But no order came
Where Was hef-Ihe muskei discharges
from the boat, with the unearihly yoicl
that conveyed the order for the ports &
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13
CANAL RAILROAD.

sta ~ SPRING ARRANGEMENT; commencing
Wednesday Mar 49, 1859 Trains will run daily, tsundays
excepted a. follows;
leave NEW HAVEN at NJ freight train with pas
senger attached TOR Northamp pton arriving at 1913 NJ
65l A. NJ freight train with passenger car attached for
Planyi,le.
New York. Connecting at Northampton with train
River arUad for Greenfield Bratteboro Bel
westhe from trains Western Railroad fom the East
and West
York ocnnecng az Painyi with tranOn Provi
dence and Fhkil R. r. going West and hestheid with
trains Western Railroad going East and West kecey-
ing ,ssengers Hartford Providence and Fishki Rail-
road p5inyiIe and from train Nesterp iaroad at
Westheld from Boston, Worcester aud springfeId.
LEAVE NORTHAMPTON AT
$50 A. NJ. for New Haven; connecting at estfeld win
railroad tor pitsed Alabany, lioJ am
tine Vest atNew with 95u A. Nj. train fo New iOrA
and Intermediate stations Passengers for the Hartford
Providence aud fshk road will take this train 70 Plain
Hos NJ in competition train Conn. River r. r.
from north Connecting at Westheid with trains on
train on II ,rfr Providence and Fishki railroad going
East New Haven with 0j NJ express train for New York
Itven, connectngat paiuvie with tram on Hartford
Providence and Fishkiil Raj road going West.
LEAVE PLAINVILLE AT
23P freight train, with passenger attached, fo
New Haven.
COLLINsvILLE BRANCH TRAINS.
Leave COLLINSyILI = at : o. and 90 NJ
Returning leave Planyil at II 80 NJ. and 5zJ p NJ
FREIGHT NOTICE.
Freight trains leave York daily SUNDAYS excepted
corner Franklin streets at bl5 NJ AID Hrriy
at Northampton 10 S0A Leave Northampton at Y y
p and arrive in New York at IL 80 A through with
Dty Lines OF stages run from Northampton Amhers
wiiamsburgh Hsy ydenyille, Ference and Iladey From
Colunsvil, New Hartford ana Wnsted. FROM Cheshr
to Waterbury. P DENNIS, Generai Agent
New Haven Mar l5, 1859
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13
Matrimonial Manners.

The husband should never cease TO be
I0rer. or fail in any of those delicate atten-
tions and tender expressions of affectionate
solctude which marked his intercourse be-
fore marriage with his hearts queen. All
the respectful Difference, every courteous
observance, all the self-sacriicing devotion
that can be claimed BY a mistress is GER
tainly due to a wife, and he is no true hus-
band and no true gentleman who withholds
them. 1t is not enough that you honor,
respect, and love your wife. You must
put this honor respect. and love into the
form Of speech and action. Let no unkind
word, no seeming indifference, no lack of
the little attentions due her, remind her
sadly of the sweet days of courtship and
the honeymoon. Surely the love you
thought would have been cheaply pur-
chased at the price of world is worth all
your care TO preserve. Is not the wife
more, and better, and dearer than the
sweetheart? We venture 10 hint that it is
probably your own fault if she is nor.
And has the wife no duties? Have the
courteous observances, the tender watchful-
ness, the pleasant words, the never firing
devotion, which won your smiles, your
spoken thanks, your kisses, your very
self, in days gone by, now lost their
value? Does not the husband rightly
claim as much, at least, as the lover ? If
you find lin less observant of the little
courtesies due you, may this not be be-
cause you sometimes fail to reward him
with the same sweet thanks and sweeter
smiles Ask your own heart.
Have the comfort and happiness of your
husband always in view, and let him see
and feel hat you still look up to him with
trust and affertion-that the love of other
days has not grown cold. Dress for his
eyes more scrupulously than for all the rest
of the world make yourself and your
home beautiful for his sake; play and sing
(if you CAM TO please him; Try TO beguie
him from his cares retain his affections
in the same way you won them. and--be
polite even to your husband.-Hoac to Be-
lure.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13

SENATOR SEwARD.-We see a short,
delcately made man, with a singular look
ing, wrinkled face, and Roman nose;
head calculated to puzzle Spurzheim, COW
cred with coarse, short, gray hair, not very
tidily brushed bushy, gray eyebrows,
oyerhanging eyes, most remarkable for
their brilancy of expression; clothed in at
tire neat to precision, but negligently worn.
We hear him speak, and his voice is poor
evidently injured by the long and prodigal
use of snuff; his delivery careless even to
slouchiness, leaning against his desk, with
his hands in his pockets, his only gesture
made with his head which rolls about al
most Independently of his body, thus delib-
erately, and more in the tone of conversa-
ton than that of debate, he pours out the
most beauiiful specimens of rhetoric, the
clearest logic in language Of Saxon pnriety,
the proiondest axioms. prophesies that nev-
er fail, legal aphorisms, true as the statutes,
ilustratrations drawn from every scource
which literature has reached--all clothed
in language; not one word of which need
be bloited out
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13
part. if that be Lord, | never desire to
see any other Lord but the Lord Jehovah"
The Water-Spout.

The most violent storms are in and near
the tropics; because the temperature there
is very high, and the cold currents of air
rushing toward the equator from the poles,
cause great atmospheric disturbance. The
magnetic state Of the earth, and the elec-
trical state OF the atmosphere, also materi-
ally influence the phenomena of storms.
Some persons think that storms result
from various winds rushing into center in
which the atmosphere has become ex-
tremely dense. According to this theory,
storm is great whirlwind. In 1880, a
violent hurricane destroyed Lord Rodney's
feet, and Il vast number of merchant ships.
1t is said to have killed 5000 persons in
Martinique, and 5000 in ST. Lucia
Whlrlwinds are produced by violent and
contrary currents meeting and striking up
on each other causing a circular motion.
They generally occur after long calms, at
tended by much heat.
When whirlwinds occur at sea, or over
large surface Of water, sometimes The wa
ter is set in motion; and, as the wind rises
upward, it lifts with it whirling mass of
water, producing acater-spom.-LJs IL
iustrated.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13

and viii eat the fruit forty years. 1t
came into bearing in five years, and the
hero lived near a hundred, and sat under
his own vine and fig tree-told the story
OF the dangers of the first settlement Of
New Hampshire in his defiant manner,
and feaSted with his friends and neighhors
on the rich viands for more than half a
century.
One of this race of men, man of indus
try and benevolence, established and en-
dowcd one of the hest literary institutions
this side Of the atlantic.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13
A TRuru ArrLY PRrsENrEp.-whel

A 1RUTH APTLY EsENTED.-When
we were at the water-cure, a man who had
been pining for years, and nobody could
tell what allied him, was put into the cold
packing case, and very soon an eruption Of
measles came out all over him. 1t turned
out that the man had the measles years be-
fore, and the doctor drugged it out Of sight,
and ever since it had been tormenting him
inwardly. Even so the grief of childhood
may be violently fogged out Of sight. in
stead of being drawn TO the suface by more
gentle methods, and the result may be
sorry temper that never knows the relief of
tears, bat always sulks and whines.--Month-
III Rehqious Ma1aztne.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13

band passed out unsuspected, and escaped
from the enemies of his life.
They did meet again; the wife and hus-
band; but only as the dead may meet--in
the awful communions of another world.
Affection had born up her exhausted spirit,
until the last great purpose of her exer-
tions were accomplished in the salty of her
husband = and when the bell tolled on the
morrow, and the prisoners cell was open
ed, the gurads found, wrapped up in the
habiliments of their destined victim, the
pale but beautiful cropse Of the devoted
mifn
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13

"DIAMoND Cur DIAMOND" -Krouser
and Van Tagen were to respectable citizens
of Amsterdam, the former of whom had
marriageable daughter, and the latter son
who had an ardent wish to be her husband.
But old krouser said that the son of his
friend was not rich enough TO enter his
family, and old Van Tagen was mad the
reat when the report was brought him by
an oflicious friend
Save me from Butzen y exclaimed he.
'if do not steal march on my old friend,
krouser"
He concealed his wrath, and went and
called on Krouser, whom he engaged to
furnish within thirty days one million Zuy-
der Zee herrings. He then went and
bought all the herrings the city and sub
urbs contained, and twenty days thereafter
he received letter from Krouser, who
vas in the widest despair announcing that
he never should be able to keep his agree
ment. as he could not find a herring for
sale, and offering fifty thousand gullders to
be released from his contract.
81 have him !" said Van Taeen, and he
wrote his acceptance of the offer.
A few days after Van Tagen was in
greater despire than ever Krouser had ever
been. He couldn't obtain a single barrel
in which TO pack his million herring. On
making full investigation of these circum-
stance, he found that Krouser had purchas-
ed all the barrels, and realised that it was
a case of diamond cut diamond" He soon
went TO see his fellow merchant
You gave me fifty thousand guilders,"
he said, ito rlease you from your contract.
I'll now give you the fifty thousand guild
ers back again in the shape of an advance
on your barrels and we will call ourselves
quits"
This was accordingly done. and the affair
had strengthened the mutual admiration of
the twain to such point that they were both
eager for the marriage of the young people,
whose happiness ensured that of their pa
rents.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13

BRITIsH ANECDOTES OF AMERIcANs.-
One of the officers in Burgoyne's army
named Anbury, after his return to Europe,
in 1889, published his travels in two vol
umes. We make these extracts from the
copy Of the work owned by the Massachu-
sets Historical Society:
after the capture of Burgoyne's force,
the Americans thronged together to see the
prisoners. 1t. McNeill said to an old wo-
man, who appeared to be near an hundred,
$50. you old fool, you must come and see
the lions" but with great arehnes she re-
piled, Lions lions declare now, think
you look more like lambs
Speaking of the impertineut cusiosity Of
the New Englanders, he says that four wo-
mn got into the room of house where
Lord Napier was quartered, with other Of
ficers, when one-of them, with twang pc
culiar to the New Englander, said, II hear
you have got a Lord among you-pray,
now. which may he be = His Lordship,
who, by the BY, was all over mire, and
scarcely dry from the heavy rain that had
fallen during the days march, entered into
the Joke. After his title had been duly
read of, and he had been pointed out, the
women cot up. and one Of them lifting up
her hands and eyes TO Heaven, with great
astonishment exclaimed. "Well, for my
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13

ENGAGEp.-A young lady who was tor
mented by the visits OF disagreeable
young man, requested the fellow to give
her his daguerreotype. Overjoyed at the
request, he had his picture taken and pre-
sented to the young lady. She gave it to
the servant and asked
Would you know that gentleman if he
should call z"
The servant replies in the affirmative.
"Well, when he comes, tell him that ]
am engaged
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-05-13
OUR COUNTRY

Greatest country brayest people
Finest churches-tallestS Stteple;
Fastest horses-fa fairest women;
Biggest lakes that fishes swim in
Most Of railroads longest rivers
Beats creation " all to shiyers;
Never iinching- never fiunking
Some Of one thing-mostly pumpkins
Jumps the highest squats the lowest !
Runs the fastest-Walks the slowest
More iisasters-more delusions
More eonfessions-moree COMMISSIONS
Who can beat us who outdo us 4!
Biggest country bigger to be-
Now they talk of adding Cuba.