smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

TnE other day / chSnced TO enter a
friends house. He did not know was in
the parlor, and overheard his converse
ton. He was very harsh In his dealing
with his child. He was "out Of sorts"
that morning. "The wind was east, and
the east wind blew into his lungs, and into
his soul, and soured his mind, and soured
his heart, and so, like base miscreant, rs
he was, he vented his bad temper on his
wife and children. 1t is a bad habit some
men have.


This man was talking in a hard, unchris-
tian manner talking as no father should
talk. lie had lost his temper. He was
saying what he would ne sorry for In
few moments And then the servant an.
nounced my presence. Mind you, the
man would have said, he could not help
it: "The boy teased me He did what
cannot endure, and on the impulse Of the
moment, l spoke my anger. / could not
control myself"


There was frown on his face but
when | was announced, being more or less
of a stranger, demanding of MIN certain
courtesies, he at once smoothed his face as
though nothing had happened-as though
the sun was shining brightly in the heavens,
and the wind was south, and not east He
Ctlnt lnbO lOOlu MuCIG L WAS, duu, Ill
the most cordial aud courteous way pos,
sible, gave me his hand, and smilingly
babe me welcome.


He could not control himself. simply
because he did not think enough of his
boy-because he did not sufficiently ap.
preciate his family; and because he
thought that his home was a den in which
he could roar with impunlty, and not the
great temple of God, where he should
walk rs priest and king.


And yet l, almost stranger, was strong
in my presence, to cause him at once &c
cool down into courtesy, into affability, in
to politeness.


tell you, that many and many man
and many and many woman in this
strange world of ours, in which many
things seem to go wrong, will be gentle
and kind, and charitable, and full o
smiles outside Of their houses, with stran
gers, for whose opinion they do not care
one iot, or one title, and in the hous,
where all the happiness of years depends
upon their sweetness Of soul, and wher,
they are constantly shedding influences
that will rlpen into the good or bad life of {


boy or girl, will yield to pettishness anC
peevishness, unworthy of them as men ant
women, and wholly unworthy Of them al
| Heptc0rH.
Year: 1869

1 know of nothing equal to cheerful con-
versation, for restoring tone of mind and
/ ody, when both have been overdone. Some
great and good men, on whom very heavy
cares and tolls have been laid, manifest a
constitutional tendency to relax into mirth
when their work is over. Narrow minds
denounce the incongruity: large hearts own
Gods goodness in the fact and rejoice in
the wise provision made for prolongng USE
full lives Mirth, after exhaustive toll, is
one of natures instructive efforts to heal the
part which has been racked or bruised. You
cannot too sternly reprobate frivolous life;
but if the life be earnest for God or man, with
here and there layer of mirthfulness pro-
truding, it becomes soft bedding to receive
heavy cares which otherwise would crush
the spirit To snarl against the sports of
mirth, may be the occupation of small
man, who cannot take in at one view the
whole circumference of large one.-Arnot's
Ills of Proverbs.
Year: 1869




A man blind from his birth, man of
much intellectual vigor aud with many en-
gaging social qualities, found woman who,
appreciating his worth, was willing to cast
in her lot with him and become his wife,
Several bright, beautiful children became
theirs, who tenderly and equally loved both
their parents. An eminent French surgeon
while in this country called upon them, and
examining the blind man with much inter-
est and care, said to him, "Your blindness
is wholly artificial; your eyes are naturally
good, and could have operated upon them
twenty years ago, | think could have given
you sight. 1t is barely possible that l. can
do it now, though it will cause you much
pain" 81 can bear that" was the reply;
$50 you but enable me to see." The sur
geon operated upon him, and was gradually
successful first there were faint glmmerings
of light, them more distinct vision. The
blind father was handed rose; he had smelt
one before, but had never seen one; then he
looked upon the face of his wife who had
been so true and faithful to him; and then
his children were brought, whom he had so
often fondled, and whose charming prattle
had so frequently fallen upon his ears, but
whose beaming countenances he had never
beheld. He then exclaimed, so, why have
[ seen these things before inquiring for the
man by whose skill / have been enabled to
hehold them! Show me the doctorr' and
when he was pointed out to him, he en-


braced him with tears of gratitude and joy.
So when we reach heaven, and with un


clouded eyes look upon its glories, we shall
not be content with view of these. No,
we shall say, Where is CHRIsT?-He to
whom l am indebted for what heaven is;
show me HIM, that with all my soul may
adore and praise Him through endless ages.
Year: 1869

BY REV. WILLIAM A. SCOTT, D. D,


1t is remarkable how many distinguished
and even great men have been afflicted with
some physical weakness, or some misfortune.
1t was Esther, the Hebrew orphan, who be,
came the Queen of Persia. God seems to
delight in taking particular care of orphans.
Indeed Providence seems to have been care
full to make widows sons distinguished
And if it had not been for Zaccheus' little
ness of stature, it may fairly be questioned
whether he would ever have been honored
with Jesus as guest in his house. Sir Isaac
NeVton is said to have been so small and
feeble when born, that he could have been
squeezed into quart cup without using
much force. Klrke White and Coleridge
were sickly. Sir Walter Scott and Lord
Byron were lame or club. footed. Robert
Hall lived martyrs death. Time would
fail to give the details showing that the best
poets, cleverest thinkers, most ingenious in
ventors, and noblest writer's have been much
indebted in some way, and at some period of
their lives to sickness or some physical de.
feet This may be owing in part to the
fact, that feeble health turns the mind in
upon itself, and thus aids reflection and in
part also to the fact, that sickness sharpens
the intellect by nerving the mind to endu-
rance and to hope through intense suffering.
Actual sickness is q great WEAKNESS, and
wastes the physical substance, but on recov-
ering, or even partially recovering, it some
times gives US a permanent elevation of
thought and a wider horizon. Whatever
may be the explanation or the natural phil
osophy of the connection between the mind
and the body that produces such result, it
is a matter of experience as we'll as of his
tory. 1t is under suferings or amid atlic-
tions and trials, that the highest works of
human genius have been produced. "We
can call to mind, says a pleasing writer
whose name is unknown, "some member of
family always ailing, always sick, and yet
the most exemplary and influential member
of that circle. In the backwoods such a
child will grow up with tastes so pure and
simple, habits so neat and refined, and afec-
tions so elevated, as to give all the highest
results of most finished education, with,
out going through any of the fashionable
forms of city instruction. She may be the
weakest of the whole, and yet her words o.
love and gentleness light up the whole fami


ly circle, and rule, and regulate, and refine
Year: 1869

Beyond the stars that shine in golden glory,
Beyond the calm, sweet moon,
Up the bright ladder saints have trod before thee
Soul, thou shalt venture soon,
Secure with Him who sees thy heart sick yearning
Safe in His arms of love,
Thou shalt exchange the midnight for the morning
And thy fair home above.
Oh it is sweet 10 watch the worlds night wearing
The Sabbath morn come on
And sweet it were the vineyard labor sharing
Sweeter the labor done.
All 6nishedl all the conflict and the sorrow,
Earth's dream of anguish o'er;
Deathless there dawns for thee nightless morrow,
On Edens blissful shore
Pstiencel then, patieuce soon the pang of dying
Shall ali forgotten be,
And thou, through rolling spheres rejoicing, flying
Beyond the waveless sea,
Shalt know hereafter where thy Lord doth lead thee,
His darkest dealing trace;
And by those fountains where His love will feed thee,
Behold him face to face


Christian World.
Year: 1869


forward, and enlarge its outline. 1t ought
to be horizon, ever in advance of the eager
traveller, and ever widening, the faster he
moves, and the higher he ascends.


Let me present the same thought objec-
lively. Endeavor to make your church a
model church. have longed often to be a
member, or an elder in model church. l
have desired very much to see one, and have
frequently asked ministers if they knew
where one could be found. have never
received satisfactory answer. l fear
shall die without the sight. How happy l
shall be if | live long enough to see model
church in yours. do not mean a perfect
church. l do not call on you to show us
what Solomon said had come to an end as
long ago as his day. But model church,
that might be called such, as we speak of
model farm, or factory, or house; some
thing of true principle, solid material, and
beautiful structure, and whose working re-
suits would be as near perfection as a reason
able abatement for human weakness would
allow. A model farm need not be by any
means the largest In the neighborhood, nor
one that yields the greatest gross returns, or
even the best crops by the acre; for it may
not be capable of this. But if it is a model
farm, it will show itself to be such to the
eye of every judge. The tillage will be
judicious and honest, the fences will be
good, the houses in repair, and the stock in
good order, the laborers contented and in.
dustrious, the household well ordered, the
wife and children happy, and the master Sc
rene. The people of the neighborhood will
quote this farm, and the visitor when he
leaves the hospitable roof will say to him
self and to others too, swell, l believe l
have seen no such farm in the county as
Foxwood." So your model church need not
stand first on the Assembly's Minutes for
number Of communicants for the congre-
CATION may not be large. Yet if it is
model church, the proportion of non- COM
municants will be small. Nor need it be
first, perhaps not among the first, in the
amount given for benevolent purposes; yet
the average for each member must be above
any thing yet in our statistical tables, if it
is a model church. And there will be a
steady ingathering, there will be universal
working life,-the bees of hive. Brother
ly love will abound, and there will be much
spiritual joy. When your brother minister
cores to preach for you, he will recognize
the delightful influence as soon as he rises
in the pulpit, and feel its genial warmth as
he visits from house to house; and will love
to talk of his visit, and of your people, and
of you.


Now do seem to make any over-strained
demand in my sketch of model church
Might not any church be this, and more +?
And why not yours? May the Lord say
unto you, as he said unto Solomon when he
appeared unto him the second time: 81
have heard thy prayer and thy supplcation
that thou hast made before me; have hal
lowed this house, which thou hast built, to
put my name there forever; and mine eyes
and mine heart shall be there perpetually."


S. L. G.
Year: 1869

First. 1t reduces to a system the entire
benevolent operations of the congregation.
AS we have adopted the voluntary principle
in helping to support other churches through
out the Synod, there is no propriety nor
consistency in refusing to adopt the same
principle for the support of our own church.
If any valid objection can be brought against
the plan as it relates to contributions made
to this particular church, it surely applies
with equal force to contributions made to
other churches.


Second. 1t suggests the easiest method of
meeting our ordinary expenses Accord
ing to the old plan the trustees were COM
PEELED to employ collecting agent who in
many instances called, again and again,
without being able to find the members of
the congregation, or who called at inoppor-
Year: 1869

BosToN, May 19.-The American Baptist
Homo Missionary Society held its 37th annual public
meeting to-day, in fremont Temple the Rev. Dr. Jefry
Of Ohio presiding The report Of the Executive Board
was read showing that while six years ago less than
$4,000 constituted the total annual receipts OF the so
cety during the past year more than $4,000 has been
pad into the treasury The number OF missionaries then
employed was &C. now there 276, onethrd OF whom
are employed at the South After speaking OF the very
encouraging results thus far the report says There are
demands for increased effort in the Northwest along the
line OF the Pacific Railway on the Pacific coat among
the Southern freedmen and in the Republic OF Mexico;
ana the Board Is profoundly impressed with the import
ance that every lawful aud possible agency should
be employed to draw forth larger offerings rom the
friends OF the good work The Rev DIT Mason presented


report from the Committee appointed last year on te
education OF freedmen and OF coored preachers accom-
panied by these resolutions;


esolred That recommend the SOT 70 Organize special
elect Secretary for tie prosecution OF
elected shall transact ne business


e depsnen the ia NewiOk and devote an bis TINE And
under the direction Of tue board


0ro hereafter elecirg snenheB Of the Boar tree
Boston vicinity With spa


service standing committee Of Eve he appointed by TIE Board
aud that oen as they deem necessary A
three months all measures ha re-
late TO the working Of this departnenti


The resolutions were UNANIMOUSLY adopted
Year: 1869

O4ACAnOztb4 4L1ACS-ONE4SAb-I


The price of pork is now an alb
sorbing subject with those who deal
in the article, as well as those who
produce it. The ideas of farmers are
generally in favor of high prices
much above what packers deem safe
so that with such a diversity of
opinions, it is clear that packing will
be late. The advices from the agri-
cultural districts report feeding back
ward, and that the receipts of hogs
cannot be large until far in December,
as regards all the sections of country
tributary to this city.


The present price of pork offers
strong inducements to feeders; it Is
clear that no more profitable disposi-
ton can be made of corn than By
feeding it to hogs; this is so obvious
~ the case that any argument to prove
it is utterly unnecessary. The ad-
vices from the district of country west
Of the Mississippi, report q large in
crease In the number of hogs being
fed, and there is no section of the
great pork-producing region in the
Ohio and Mississippi Valley, where it
is not more profitable to feed corn to
hogs than to sell it at the current
rrionG
Year: 1869

A REPORT has been in circulation
that the new State building at Indi-
annapolis had proven defective in its
construction. AS it was the work of
an Evansville builder, the story will
doubtless be published by some of
our neighboring cotempo aries. The
Indianapolis Journal of yesterday,
however, says:


The weakness of the new State
building turned out to be more of an
optical deiusion than anything else.
The weight of the law library caused
the floor to settle some, but the plum,
the square and the level prove that
the wall, which to ell affrighted eyes
appeared so crooked, is really straight.
Year: 1869




A Chinese wedding came off at
Grass Valley, few weeks since. The
Union thus describes the couple mar
ried: Tin III made his appearance
at the Church first and alone. 1t is
heightened among the Chinese for the
bride and groom to be present to-
gether at the marriage ceremony. He
was dressed IN a dove-eolored blouse,
knee breeches, blue stockings, fancy
shoes, and embroidered skull cap.
Tin III, having departed from the
Church, the bride came up In gor-
geous toggery, having her hair set up
IN ridge across the middle Of her
head, from front to back, with paste
and large gilded pins, some six
inches high, ale same rooster s
head" as an irreverent China
man spectator remarked. Below
her head she wore a frock, which
hung loosely from her shoulders, and
made of fine silk. This was looped
up under her left arm to one dollar
worth Of gold buttons. The bottom
of this rig was about goot from the
ground, and below it were white
stockings and fancy shoes, with soles
three inches thick. 1t was manifest
to witness that she was agitated, and
| that her nerves were anything but
steady. One American present thought
she was agitated because it might not
agree with her health to be an honest
woman so suddenly. Another said
she was as pretty as a spotted pup,
in her difidence. She was, in spite
of all remarks, put through in proper
shape. according to the notion Mr..
Wan Kee and the Josses have of the
marriage ceremony, and then she was
turned loose to find the balance OF
| herself
Year: 1869

than that he is trNe gentleman
Democrats believe in gentlemen.
Democrats know that o real gentle
man is the best friend Of every honest
kind of people, and especially Of the
laboring men. They that Oppress peo-
pie are your sordid men-not gentle
men, but put into positions they are
not fit to fill.
Year: 1869

We have heretofore noticed the
fact that in the Articles Of Associa-
ton the Southern terminus Of the
Railroad projected by DR.. PIERCE, Of
indianapolis, is fixed at Rockport,
yet it appears that the enterprise
meets with no favor with the people
of that place and Spencer County,
We find the following official card in
the Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1869

A Louisville correspondent Of the Cincin-
nat Commercial gives the following pen pic
turc OF Hon. Millard Fillmore, as he appeared
at the Commercial Convention:


"Millard Fillmore is as flultlcss an old gen
tleman as there is in the world. His gar
ments of black broadcloth, immaculate linen
and standing collar black satin stock and
neat glossy boots are spotlessly perfect, and
fit without u single wrinkle too much. He is
tall well proportioned, and inclnes to III
embonpont that is just right to a penny
weight. His foot is small and we'll turned
instep archcd and is encased IN number siS
boot


Mr.. Fillmore is q blonde who, on the verge
of seventy, retains his original clearness OF
complexion. Extreme nicely, in large
sense, overspreads him. His rather small
steel-blue ewes are still clear and alert, his
teeth white and even, his hair moderately
plentiful, almost snowy in hue, and carefully
cut to a standard, neither long nor short
Only at the crown is there partial thinning
out His ample double chin and large, oval,
pink tiorid cheeks are firm and fair in texture,
and have none OF the purplish tints Of high
living. Mr.. Fillmore is evidently q generous
liver. serupulously temperate in diet and
scrupulously nice in dress. He looks like an


immaculate distinguished man. produced by
a republic, whose aim as public officer is
to be always absolutely constitutional and
correct, and as a gentleman, to be blndly
courteous and solidly respectable.


His front face is open and dignifled, and
his profile with its convex aquiline nose and
smooth-shaved ample double chin is decided
ly patrician. For a man who has seen so
much of political life, Mr.. Fillmore is re-
markably modest. When introduced by Gov.
Stevenson yesterday, he blushed deeply, once
or twice indefinitely stammered over uttering
the wrong word. On subsequently taking
his seat on a small dias surrounded by grow


ing shrubbery, on the stage the rear legs OF
his chair slipped off the back of the platform,
and the ex-Presdent was saved from a most
unseemly fall only by the upright cedars. He
was assisted to rise by the gentlemen nearest
on the platform, and as the convention laugh
ed rather broadly over the incident his face
turned as deep crimson as ever mantlcd the
| face of girl.
Year: 1869

Not money banking-tUr many of these burst VI
and fail, bat house banking which never fails il
rightly done. For simple thing as this is there


are ways, or rather materials, far better than others


Now the sole of this is not TO prevent the eX.


ternal cold passing into the cellar-or cold is only


the absence Of heat-but to hinder the internal


warmth of the cellar passing out. And to do this
ali depends Oh whether the cellar walls are made


heat; if good conductors, like iron or any metals
cold; if bad, it remains and the cellar is warm


Henc the best banking turns on what materials are


the poorest conductors Of heat.


Now it has been found by experimenting with


various things that common air is one of the very
worst conductors; so that banking with air is the
| very best and cheapest thing; but rs air will moi
sta, tnerC it is necessary o use some solid sub


stance porous to hold large amount of air
In mass of saWtlust, gravel or coarse sand, the


spaces between each grain is Il cell to hold air, and
is therefore a bad conductor of heat and gooJ
banking while all compact substances as solld


earth, clay, whatever holds water-for this freezing
add greatly to its soidity-having but little room
for air are a good conductor and poor banking. As


good holders of air, leaves and straw if they would
keep dry so as not TO become compact, would make
excellent banking; and, because holding air sc
well, dry snow is the very best if it would last
They all show the principle of things-lnaterials
which hold large amount Of air. These will keel
Il cellar warm and an ice house cool better than
four times the amount of solid substances.


The same principles apply to several other mat


ters of household economy; as clothing, construc-
ton of buildings and furnaces, protection of wood
work from heated fiues, Sc, some of which may
he alluded to hereafter.
Year: 1869

A .'WoMAN WHO DARED The Hoosici
girls are smart IS will be seen by the follow


ing incident related by the Bureau County
(Ill.) Republicans


''Some time ago young country lass htd
a lover, as most young country girls do; and
she made up her mind that she would capture
linn, if such thing was possible. On GER
tain Sunday evening, she gradually drew
out Of him Il confession that he liked her,
and before he was hardly aware of himself,
promise Of marriage. When Henry return
ed home, he meditated over the matter u little,
and wondered how foolish he had been.
With his well known opposition to hasty mar
riages and promises, how could he explain
his conduct to his fond parents" 1t was in
deed dilemma, and one that perplexed him
to solve Some days after the incident above
noted, the lady, whom we will call Mary, had
d party. and Henry was one of the invited
guests In the evening, Mary informed him
there was to be q wedding there, and showed
him the license. Imagine his surprise on
seeing his name mentioned in the document
Now, Henry, you are going to fulfil your
engagement she said, gently stroking him
under the chin. He tried to excuse himself
on the ground of not being ready, and wish
ing little time to arrange his worldly affairs !;
but it was no 90. She told him to put on a
bold face, and Just finish the affair up at once,
and be done with it. At this juncture, the
Squire made his appearance. and the two
We're joined together in matrimony.'