davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Bridgewater men who are mining sili- ca on J. R. Smiths land report fine outlook at their quarry, which has now 40-foot face and promises to yield an immense quantity. The stone is hauled to Hawleyville and Thomas Donovan is loading cars at Turner's siding, the two shipping four or five cars week when the weather favors.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

The infant daughter of Charles Ham burger, born Christmas day, died and was buried, Friday, at the village ceme- terY.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Misses Fannie and Ella Peek from Woodbridge spend the holidays with their sister, Mrs Minott Augur. Miss Elma Augur of Woodbridge has also wis tied her uncle
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

DON'T TFoRGETTnrs-Wh -Whitest Extra C. Sugar, 15 pounds for $1; Granulated, l2 l-2 pounds for Sl; New Buckwheat Flour, 15 pounds, 50c.; Choice Turkish Prunes, pounds 25c.; Best Lean Hams, ltc. pound; Best Lean Shoulders, Toe. pound; Fine New Tomatoes G pounds) and Corn, l0c. ;l-4 pound boxes New SurdInes, boxes z5c.; i-2 pound boxes atnle, boxes 25c.; Granulated Indian Meal, Q pounds 25c. at w. E. WILLS, ps State street, Bridgeport, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Mrs Short and Bennie of Bethel and Mrs Winton have been guests at the Blackman honse.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Miss Emma Lake is home from her South Britain school on vacation of four weeks and Miss Kittic was home from Southford for week.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

The first condition of success is an honest receptivity and willingness to abandon all preconceived notions, how ever cherished, if they be found to con tradict the truth. [TyndalI.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

E. J. Halls men have laid tin roof Il the Judson tenement in the Street.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Miss Jennie Roberts spent the holidays with her uncle, William F.. Ackley.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03
TASHUA.

Freddie Plumb of Nichols has visited his aunt, Mrs l.. N. Mallett.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03
Julia Wcnzcl has been sick.

A new IIousatonic time table is said to he nearly ready for publication, to go m- to effect January !.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Mrs Annie E. Platt spent the holidays with friends in Waterbury.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Harvey Chapman is home on holiday y vacation.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

John Bailey and family of Trumbull speat Christmas at the old homestead in Zoar.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Miss Mary F. Curtin of Bridgeport was home for Christmas.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Charles Husband made q flying visit home, Xmas.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03
SOUTHVILLE.

David N. Clark spent Christmas with his father.
 John Ford and family spent the day with their daughter, Mrs Horace Allen.
 Mrs Walter Bristol is with friends in Cornwall and Norfolk.
 Charles Minor and family were guests of Mrs E. ". Smith.
 large company assembled 1t the home of Mir and Mrs c. ". Northrop, Monday evening, the 10th anniversary of their marriage. They were agreeably entertained with music and games. Mrs NorEhrop presided at the organ and was accompanied by her son Henry and A. Wordin on the violin. MT and Mrs Wor- din .l sang select pieces that were enjoyed
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Lewis F. Todd of Berkshire spent a holiday vacation in Bridgeport and Nor walk.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Miss Lulu Orgelman of Brooklyn was home for the holidays.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Supervisor F. M. Cogill of the Housa- tonic was presented with Christmas gift of Il diamond ring by employees of the main line and Derby division.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

The BEE acknowledges the receipt of a fine branch of mistletoe from Rev C.. NJ. Wilkins. Yet why should this holy and festival mirth In the height of old Christmas only be
 toundI Hang up lovc's mistletoe over the earth And let us kiss under it all the year round.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Robert Goldsborough of Monroe, stu dent at Cheshire academy, has been with Harris NJ. Clark at Jeanvile.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

But the lapse of time has something in it delightful to me; time does not flow on emptily; i. brings, and takes, and leaves behind; through it, we become continu- ally richer, not exactly in enjoyment, but in something higher.- William von Humboldt.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03
MONROE.

Frank Beardsley is expecting to be- come patron of the creamery.
 Mrs Daniel A. Nichols has generously presented the Congregational Sunday school with $25 collection of choice books.
 The old officers of the Congregational Sunday school were reelected, Sunday :; E. G. Beardsley, superintendent; l.. B. Beardsley, assistant; William Curtiss, Jr, treasurer; Fred l.. Sears, librarian. The Congregational society will hold their annual meeting for the election of officers, supply of pulpit, etc., on Satur- day, 4th, m.
 The untruthful reports in State and New York papers regarding the particu- lars of the late fatal accident at Alden Seeley's place are but an illustration of the unreliablilty of much that usually goes the rounds of the press, the BEES report excepted, which was explicit and correct. Mir Edwards did not faint away nor lose consciousness, but was suddenly placed in very trying position to see his friend and helper so suddenly taken from Earth. It was very sad sight to behold and in such a way, while doing d neighborly kindness.
 c. N. Curtiss is said to be contemplat- ing moving back to occupy his house in lower Elm Street.
 Wilson Sherman is hauling wood to Stepney Depot for Bridgeport parties. Mr Brothwell is building an ice house for Solon B. Wales.
 Philo J. Burr is assisting his brother, Miles B., build an ice house and cream cry room combined.
 Minnie Howard spent Christmas in MiddletOWn
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Miss Mattie Baldwin of Bethel has wis. tied Miss Edie Peck of Sugar Street.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Miss Rose Bouscher of Bridgeport spent Sunday with l.. C. Harper.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03
HATTERT0WN.

.Chauncey McCarty, who has been sick with chills, is able to be about again.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03
THE SECULAR PULPIT.
Christmas Thoughts.

Where is he that is born King ofthc Jews. -[wiss Men.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03

Search for the truth is the noblest oc- cupation of man; it's publication duty
 Madame de Stael.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-03
HUNTINGTON.

Misses Shelton of Isinglass spent Christmas with their grandmother at Nichols.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
Hidden Power.

a business man from California late
ly visited the chief office of one of the
great railway systems of the Eastern
States. 81 came" he said, "to look
up an old school-mate, who I heard
was enc your most energetic officers
P was his name"
eyes," promptly replied the super
|intendcnt, "Mr. p was Il man o.
exceptional force in mind and body
He had charge OF a division, and was
one OF the NEST useful of our officers
but fe lost his leg in the service of the
company, and was crippled for life."
"And all his great ability is vast,
ell ~ exclaimed the stranger.
The superintendent smiled quietly.
"No, the company could not afford to
lose so much power as that. Look at
this"
He opened the door of a small room
in which Mr.. P sat alone. A
large board, on which was map fill He'd
with movable pegs, was before him.
He was bending over it, absorbed in
thought, changing from time to time
the position of a bit of wood.
After an interchange of greetings,
the superintendent said: "Mr. p
has control of every train on our roads,
vet he never sees one of them. This is
a map of the railway; these knobs and
pegs represent the stations and trains.
1T is his work to shift and arrange
them so that they shall move in order
and without collisions throughout the
year. There is no more important Of
ticpr than he on the rOad.n
The Californian said afterward :
"Whcn | think of the - Railway
now, it is not, Of huge engines or rush
ing trains, but of a little crippled fel-
low sitting alone in closet shifting
his pegs, while the safety of countless
lives hangs upon every motion"
In the great system of life, it is not
always the man who makes the loud
est bruit before the public, who fills the
most responsible place. Many noisy
politician occupies the public eye for
years, and may even go into history as
u great man, whose actual influence
upon his age is small while some
humble physician who goes about
checking cOntagion here and malaria
there, thrusting death back, and CIV
luS uSClul llhCo ~ WV "NAAe3
holds q Zeal control of events.
500 too does the unknown author,
who sends out to help mankind few
powerful words wrung from his own
experience; or the mother in her
home, who sends out not words, but
living souls, to make history hereafter.
Now, as in the days when Bunyan
dreamed his dream, there are mighty
principalitics and powers about us,
striving to make the earth Il quagmire
and heaven Il fog. Sham and vice and
doubt and slavery to money are some
of the dangers that beset the traveller !;
and in many an obscure home and
quiet chamber, are the men and wo-
men who are clearing the way for him,
and holding these modern dragons Ill
check.
Remember, too, that the humblest
Christian il. l.:5 closet, though he be
blind or crippled or dumb, has mis-
hand upon lever which will move not
the earth only, but heaven.
Youths COn7DuniOn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
Worldly Conformity.

DIR. James w. Alexander wrote to a
friend: LAS I grow older as a parent,
my views are changing fast, as to the
degree of conformity to the world
which we should allow to our children.
T am horror-struck to count up the pro-
fligate children Of pious persons, and
even ministers.
"rhe door at which those influences
enter which countervail parental
instruction and example, I am per-
suaded, is yielding to the ways of good
society. BY dress, books and onlatse-
n,ents, all atmosphere is formed which
is not that of Christianity. More than
ever do I feel that our families must
stand in kind but determined oppo-
sition to the fashions of the world,
breastiDg the waves like the Eddystone
lighthouse. And I have found moth
ing yet which requires more courage
and independence than to rise o. little,
but decidedly, above the par of the re-
ligious world arouLd us.
"Surely, the way in which we COM
monty 60 on is not the way of self-de-
NAL, and sacrifice, and cross-bearing,
which the New Testament talks of.
Then is the offence of the cross ceas-
ed.' Our slender influence on the cir
Gle of our friends is often to be traced
to our leaving 50 little difference be-
tween us and them,',
The (Boston) Christian.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12

4 Swedish servant maid, finding
that her mistress was troubled with
slecplcssness, told her of q practice OF
the people of her country who are SIM
ilary afflicted. 1t was to take nap
kin, dip it in ice-cold water, wringing
slightly, and lay it across her eyes.
The plan was followed, and it worked
like Il charm.
When pillowslips begin to show
signs Of wear, rip open the end seam
and fold so that the side seam will
come in the center of the pillow. Sew
up the end again, and your pi!lowslip
will wear rs long again, as the wear is
now upon that part that has had but
little wear heretofore.
The oldest Christian church is that
at Bethlehem, built in the year a. d.
32S, by the Empress Helena, mother OF
Constantine the Great. It is known
as the Church of the Nativity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
Tile Lords Table,

Some professedly Christian people
urge that they cannot come to the table
because there are certain persons there
who, in their judgment, should not be
allowed to come. Is the Lords table
to be q judgment-seat, whereat we are
to receive the verdict? 81 cannot"
said one to me, 'join church, because
| cannot find one that is perfect No,
I said, and if you do not join church
till you find perfect one, you must
wait till you get to heaven and, be-
sides. my dear friend, if you ever find
q perfect church they will not take you
in, for + am sure they would not be
perfect any longer if they did. One
sickly sheep would then have passed
into the fold. So IL is idle for you to
be looking out for perfection. But
there is person ut communion who
acted inconsistently." That is highly
probable, and he may be wearing your
coat, and looking out of your eyes. If
you know of any case of open sin, let
the elders of the church he informed
and it will be dealt with tenderly and
firmly. In so large q church as this
there may be cases of evil living not
known to the overseers of the flock, but
we invite the cooperation of all in
maintaining the purity of the entire
body, and wetrust that we have it. But
now, really what have you to do with
the faults of others when you are re-
membering Christ Jesus? Surely
this is the most unreasonable time for
harsh judgments, or, indeed, for any
judgments. know many a brother
with whom I could not agree in GER
tain points, but agree with him re-
membering the Lord Jesus. 1 could
not work with him in all things; but
if he wants to remember Jesus, [ am
sure will join in that. twill do him
good, and it will do me good, to think
of Jesus. That dear name is so sweet
to me that I will remember Jesus with
the poorest, meanest, and most imper-
feet of mortals.
Rev. e. II. Sp,uyeon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
WGilder0Yv Oh Young Preachers.

The books all say, "Be perfectly nat
ural." Pretty good advice, doubtless,
but exceedingly hard TO keep. 1 find
that | am natural enough-at least, so
far as I know-until / begin to try to
be "pcrfcctly uatural," when straight
way / begin to put on, or feel like Pm
putting on. The fact Of the matter is,
my only security before all audience
lies in getting so full of my subject
that am oblivious to myself and to
persons before me. If I begin to think
about how I look, or act, or speak,
why, forsooth, take the cramp all
over, and everything goes wrong. If
1 begin to think any person or persons
in the congregation, straightway my
mouth gets as dry as chip, my ut
terance is hesitating, the fountain OF
thought dries up, my hands and feet
get in my way, my sermon, if I have
any, oozes out of me, 1 swallow big
Jumps of nothing, l rave and stamp
and yell and scream, and nearly kill
myself doing nothing but pumping
wind. This, Mr.. Editor, is an awful
predicament for one to be in. and I've
been in it often. l know just how it
is. When I start in ut this hole, all
the advice l ever read or heard is like
an idle tale TO me. Tie more / know
ought to stop, the more l can't find
stopping place. About twice in my
life pve had the moral courage to say,
"Well, brclhern, it won't come, and |
Just can't preach to you to-day" l
felt more like man and less like q
fool on those two occasions than OH
the one hundred and one other occa-
sions when 1 tried to 60 on. Mr.. Ed
itor, one thing / know with regard to
myself, and | want to say it because |
am confident it is as true of other
preachers as of me. / make it person.
al because it will fit without offending
any one. I fail oftener in the pulpit
from having succeeded at the table
than from any and all other causes
combined. With me a full stomach
means an empty head and cold
heart. | have to let the table terribly
alone on Sunday and on Saturday
night before. However, / AM dys-
rcptic and a moderate eater at all
times. I've gotten so / know when
public speakers are obfuscated from
over-eating, and this trouble is COM
mon enough to justify seperate lead
ing editorial from your pen. When a
preacher comes to help me III q meet
ing, L like to keep ut my house, where
the temptation to over-cating is not
great, and where l can put a knife to
his throat, and thus keep him in good
preaching trim. Nine out eff every
ten who get to feasting among my
flock are lame and halt and blind in
the pulpit. 1 tell you this is so.
Yours,
Gilaea'oy, in IuShpille christian
.dap0cNic.
Senatobia, Miss.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
Others faults and Our Own.

1t is often said that while we arr
keen-eyed to see the faults of others
we are blind to our own. But true as
this is, and sad because it is true, it is
not the worst of the matter. The
strange fact is, that we see most quick.
ly and criticise most severely in others
the very thing in which We are Often
est guilty ourselves. saw Il striking
illustration of this the other day. l
went Off over to a neighbours about
eleven o'clock I found his little daugh-
ter crying because in trying to help
her mother, she had stumbled and
broken Il platter. Before she could
gather up the fragments in came her
father. He began at once to scold and
storm. He never did see such care
less set. They are always breaking
something. They would break him
up if they kept on. l tried to put in
q word for the child, but it was useless,
The man had no pity for her, who, at
the worst, was only careless, and SEEM
ed almost angry enough to beat her.
But presently, as if he had forgotten
what he came in for, he said:
"Wife, hurry up the dinner. /
want to be off to town within fifteen
minutes"
"Why," she asked, "what is the
matter ?"
Nothing, only I ran against a
stump in the field, and broke my
plow."
"Didn't you see the stump % I
could not help asking.
"Yes | saw it, but thought that |
turned out enough to pass it, The
fact is, that I was a little careless, and
that's how it happened"
"And your poor little daughter,
whom you have been scolding 80 hard,
was only little careless. too; wasn't
she ?n
The man, not knowing what to say,
turned to the table, and asking me to
join him, began to eat his dinner as if
lie was in a tremendous hurry. AS
my errand was not with him, but to
buy some butter of his wife, declin-
ed his invitation and turned away.
If that mans child was care less,
she came honestly by 1T. He himself
is one of the most careless fellows in
the neighborhood. And yet he CAN
not endure in his family any imita-
ton Of his own example. How insid-
iously mean is our fallen human ma
tuGe! That mans breaking the pluw
was far more ineXcusaDle than his
child's breaking the dish, and the re-
pairing cost twice as much as new
dish, and yet just because he was fret
ted and angry with himself for what
he had done, he had no pity or charity
for the child. So it is the world over.
We do ourselves the very things
which we criticise or complain of in
others.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
Hear Henry W. Grady OH Bar-rOOms.

Grady closed his celebrated speech
against bar-rooms with the following
eloquent peroration 81 assume to keep
no mans conscience; | assume to
Judge for no man; l do not assume
that / am better than any man, but
that / am weaker. But say this to
you, have boy as dear to me as the
ruddy drops that gather about this
heart. 1 find my hopes already CEN
tering in his little body, and L look to
him tonight TO take TO himself the
work that, strive as may, must fall
unfinished at last from my hands.
Now, know they say it is proper to
educate boy at home; that if he Is
taught at home he will not go wrong.
That is'a lie to begin with, but that
don't matter. l have seen sons OF
some as good people rs ever lived turn
out badly. accept my responsibility
as Il father. The boy may fall from
the right path rs things now exist. Ii
he does, i shall bear that sorrow with
such resignation as | may but l tell
YOU, if were to vote to recall bar-rooms
to this city, when know it has pros
pered in their absence, and that boy
Should fall through their agency, l tell
you-and this conviction has come to
me in the still watches of the night
could not, wearing the crowning sorrow
of his disgrace. and looking into the
ewes of her whose heart he had broken,
/ could not, if l had voted to recall
these bar-rooms, find answer for my
conscience or support for my remorse.
TApplause. | don't know how any
other father feels, but that is the way
feel, if God permits HE to utter the
TRUTH"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
SirRpRIsED. The Mahometal

SURPRISED. The Mahometans'
scorn of women is the logical outcome
of his religion, which refuses to rec
oglIize their claim as human beings de-
serving of respect. AS they are of
use to man, they are worth food and
shelter, but they are not in the least
entitled to standing ground at his side.
The Countess Cowper, in IA Month
in Palestine" gives an instance, far
more telling than any sermon, of this
dreadful slate of things.
| was told by a Christian in Cairo,
that he was once walking with we'll
to-do Mahometan, with whom he was
intimate, and who had often discussed
with him the differing position of
women in their respective sects. AS
they passed an old, veiled figure in the
street, who shrank on one side of their
way, the follower of the prophet deliv-
cred q passing, but well-directed kick
ut her.
"There," said the Christian, "that is
what complain of you kick WON.
an as we should not kick even dog,'
"That, said his companion with a
look of genuine establishment, "why
that is only my mother
TO develop self-respect in child
without cultivating his conceit is a del
icate but important task of every par,
ent and teacher. A profound respect
for self without undue self-esteem Is
one mark of the highest culture.
Despise not your situation in it you
must act, suffer, and conquer. From
every point on earth, we are equally
near to heaven and to the Infinite.
Go where duty calls, but turn in and
help when you get there. Don't
stand around with your hands in your
pockets.
Nothing causes young man greater
surprise than to find out that some one
has fallen in love with his sister.
AtchisOn Globe.
Men who wait for dead mems shoes
generally find them worn out when
they get them.
God never promised to save by mira
cles those that would not save them
selves by means.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
Love Is Light.
BY z. G. CHEYERToN.
"At eventide 1t shall be light"

"At eventide 1t shall be light"
My little girl, so brave by day,
Grows timid as the shadows fall.
/ cannot charm her fears away;
My reasons have no force a. all.
She pleads, with all her childish might,
That she may have light
I calm her fears and stroke her hair;
tell her OF the angels near
OF God, whose love Is everywhere, q.
And Christ, TO whom each child is dear.
She hears, but only clasps me tight,
And begs me for light.
But when say 1t cannot be, ..
And strive to make her understand
Just why. she makes another plea
That will stay and hold her hand.
She whispers, as we kiss goodnight,
'That's better than light"
And thus, content, she falls asleep,
My clasp grows closer on her hand;
Musing: God doth his wisdom keep
In childish lips. understand, .a
That in that other. darker night,
TITS love that makes 1t light.
I, too, have shrunk in childish dread
From that dumb dark ness that doth creep
And thicken round the dying-bed,
And, fearful felt could not sleep
Without light. understand,
'Tis light TO hold Loves hand.
8. s. Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
S. S. Times.

A question of duty is to be settled in
accordance with the standard of abso-
lutte right, not in accordance with the
sweep of public sentiment. 1t is often
the case that man ought to do that
which "everybody" thinks he is un-
wise to do, and that he ought not to do
that which Everybody" thinks is the
very thing for him to do. A man can
never be depended OH for right doing,
unless he is ready to do right all by
himself, in spite of the example and
the entreaties of everybody else to the
contrary.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12

The average watch is composed OF
175 different pieces, comprising upward
OF 2400 separate and distinct operations
in its manufacture, The balance
wheel whirls 355S4 miles in one year.
Being pcrpleXed, say,
Lord, make it right!
Night Is as day to Thee,
Darkness is light
am afraid to touch
Things that Involve so much:
My trembling hand may shake,
My skillless hand may break:
Thine can make no mistake.