smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1865

fNHE defendant, Joseph Pritchard being non
i resident Of the State Of Tennessee rs charged
in the bill 1t is ordered that publication be made
for four successive weeks in Brownlows Wing mo-
iyng said defendant to appear before the Chancery
Court at Rutledgc on the third Monday Of June
next then and there TO make his defense to the bill
or the same will be taken for confessed and set for
hearing eN parte.


A copy of the order.


q 4 SMIrII a. a Al
Year: 1865

DoN'r COMPLAIN Don't complain of your
birth, your training, your employment, your
hardships never fancy you could be some
thing ifyou only had different lot or sphere
assigned to you. God understands his own
plans, and knows what you want a great
deal better than you do The very things
that you most depreciate as fatal limitations
and obstructions are probably what you
most want. What you call hindrances and
discouragements, are probably Gods oppor-
tunities, and it is nothing new that the pa
tient should dislike his medicines, or any
certain proof that they are poisons: No.
truce to all such impatience Choke that
devilish envy which gnaws at your heart
because you are not in the same lot with
others bring down your soul, or rather
bring it up to receive Gods will, and do
his word, in your lot, in your sphere, under
your cloud of obscurity, againstyour tempt
ations and then you shall find that your
condition is never opposed to your own
good, but really consistant with it.
Year: 1865

WANT OF DECISION "A great deal of tai
ent is lost to the world for the want of a
little courage. Every day sends to their
graves a number of obscure men. who have
only remained in obscurity because their
timidity has prevented them from making
a first effort, and who, if they had only
been induced to begin, would in all proba-
bility have gone great lengths in the ca
reer of fame. The fact is, in doing any
thing in the world worth doing, we must
not stand shivering on the bank thinking
Of the cold and danger, but jump in and
scrabble through as we'll as you can. 1t
will not do to be perpetually calculating
risks and adjusting nice chances it did all
very well before the food, when man
could consult his friends upon an intended
publication for hundred and fifty years,
and live to see its success for six or seven
centuries afterwards, but at present a man
waits and doubts, and consults his broth
ers, and his uncles, and his particular
friends, till one day he finds that he is six
ty five years of age, that he has lost so
much time in consulting first cousins and
particular friends that he has no more time
to follow their advice. There is so little
time for over squeamishness at present,
that the opportunity slips away. The very
period of life at which man chooses to ven
ture, if ever is so confined that it is no bad
rule to preach up the necessity, in such in
stances, of a little violence done to the feel
ings, and efforts made in defiance of strict
and sober calculation.
Year: 1865

BY JOHN q. WHITTIER.
We see not, know not ; all our way
Is suight-with Thee alone is day.
From out the torrents troubled drift,
Above the storm our prayer We lift,


Thy will be done.
The flesh may fail the heart may faint.
But who are we to make complaint,
Or dare to plead in times like these
The weakness of our love Of ease?


Thy will be done.
We take with solemn thankfulness
Our burden up, nor ask it less,
And count it joy that even we,
May suffer, serve, or die for Thee.


Whose will be done
Though dim as yet in tint and line,
We trace Thy pictures wise design,
And thank Thee that our age supplies
The dark relief of sacrifice.


Thy will be done
And If, in our unwOrthlneSS,
Thy sacrifcial wine We press,
If from Thy ordears heated bars
Our feet are scanned with crimson sears,


Thy will be done
IT, Tor the age to come, this hour

Of trial hath vicarious power,
And blest by Thee, our present pain
BE Libertys eternal gain,


Thy will be done!
Strike, Thou the Master, we thy keys,
The anthem Of the destinies.
The minor of thy loftier strain,
Our hearts shall breathe the old refrain,


Thy will be done,
Year: 1865

The OCEAN CEMETERY sea is the
largest of cemeteries, and its slumberers
sleep without a monument. All other
graveyards, i'll all other lands, show some
symbol of distinction between the rich and
poor, but i'll the ocean cemetery the king
and the clown, the prince and the peasant,
are alike undistinguished. The same wave
rolls over all-the same requiem by the
minstrelsy of the ocean is sung to their
honor. Over their remains the same storm
beats, and the same sun shines, and there,
unmarked, the weak and powerful, the
plumed and the unhonored, will sleep on
until awakened by the same trump, when
the sea will give up its dead. | thought
of sailing over the slumbering but devoted
Cookman, who, after his brief but brilliant
career, perished in the President-over the
laughter-loving Power, who went down in
the same ill-fated vessel we may have pass
ed. In this cemetery sleeps the accom-
plished and pious Fisher but where he
and thousands of others of the noble spirits
Of the earth lie, no one but God knoweth
No marble rises to point out where their
ashes are gathered, or where the lover of
the good or wise can go and shed the tear
Of sympathy. Who can tell where lie the
tens Of thousands of Afraca's sons who
perished in the "middle passage ?" Yet
that cemetery hath ornaments of Jehovah.
Never can | forget my days and nights, as
passed over the noblest of cemeteries
without nument.-Giles.
Year: 1865

plaster he said he would not mind being
shot at again upon the same terms. AT er
some two hours delay, during which time
my aunt was examined mentally by three
local doctors, it was graciously decided
not to call in magisterial interference, on
the co ldition that | at once conveyed my
relative back to London, and pledged my
self to place her under proper medical con
troll.


| and the crushed lady accordingly re-
turned to town by the next up train, i'll a
state Of mind on her part which | shall not
attempt to describe. She has not paid the
visit into Lincolnshire, and | do not expect
she ever will Aunt Tab has never asked
for any explanation of how come to be so
opportunely at hand at Peterborough, but
most likely she learned it all from Mrs. Lee
son, with whom held a boisterous con-
versation immediately after she had recov-
cred the surprise Of my aunts unexpected
return.
Year: 1865

How FISH CHANGE Colon The change of
color in fish is most remarkable and takes
place with great rapidity. Put a living
trout from a black urn into white basin
of water, and it becomes within half an
hour of light color. Keep the fish living
i'll white jar several days, and it becomes
absolutely white ; but put it then into
dark colored or black vessel, and although
on first being placed there the white color
ed fish shows most conspicuously on the
black ground in a quarter of an hour it be-
comes as dark colored as the bottom of the
jar and consequently difficult to be seen
No doubt this facility Of adapting its color
to the bottom of the water in which it lives
is Of the greatest service to the fish in pro-
tecting it from its numerous enemies
All anglers must have observed that in
every stream the trout are very much the
same color as the gravel or sand. Wheth-
er this change of color is a voluntary or in
voluntary act on the part of the fish, is a
matter for scientific investigation and dis
cussion
Year: 1865

CooUETRY AMONG GIRLs.-I suppose that
coquetry, in its legitimate form, is among
womans charms, and that there is legit-
innate sphere for its employment, for, ex-
cept in rare natures, it is natural thing
with your SEX Nature has ordained that
man prise most that which shall cost an eff
fort, and while it has designed that you
shall at some time give your heart and
hand to worthy man, it has also provi-
ded way for making the prize he seeks
an apparently difficult one to win. 1t is
simple aud beautiful provision for enhanc-
ing your value in his eyes, 50 as to make
difficult thing of that which you know to
be unspeakably easy. If you hold your
self cheaply, and meet all advances with
open Willingness and gladness, the natural
result will be that your lover will tire of
you. To become a flirt is to metamorphose
into disgusting passion that which by
natural constitution is a harmless and use
full instinct This instinct of coquetry,
which makes woman thing to be won,
and which | suppose all woman are con-
scious of possessing in some degree, is not
thing to be cultivated or developed at
ALL


1t should be left to itself, unstimulated
and unperverted; and if, in the formative
stage of your womanhood, by initiating
them, or seeking to make impressions for
the sake of securing attentions which are
repaid by insult and negligence, you do vi
olence to your nature, you make yourself
woman whom your own sex despise, and
whom all sensible men who do not mean to
cheat you with insincerities as mean as
yours, are afraid of They will not love
you, and they will not trust you.--Dr. Hot-
iand ...
Year: 1865

The NECESSITY OF PRAYER-God has so
made man, and so established his govern
ment, that prayer, like every other exercise
of the soul, has its own peculiar blessings,
which can come through no other means.
We have all need, yea, more fear, than
we appreciate have we need of constant
sense of the presence of our Heavenly Fa.
ther-of deep and heartfelt submission to
His will-of satisfaction with His govern
ment-of reconciliation to the allotments OF
His Providence-of forgiving spirit and
sense of sins forgiven--of increasing and
ever growing desires for the good of others
of reliance upon God for strength, in the
hour if temptation, of hope for deliverance
from all evil-and Of cheerful reliance upon
that sleepless care of God, that from day
to day, supplies our every want And
these blessings, so rich and valuble come
upon the soul, only through the prayer of
faith. How soon does little child forget
his father,if he never sees him or speaks to
him! So soon, does the man forget God,
and his duty to him, who neglects to COM
mune with him in prayer. Well, then,
might the Savior teach his disciples to pray,
and well might the Apostle exhort us to
pray without ceasing"
Year: 1865

A PARTICULAR IRIsHMAN.-One of the city
colporteurs of Cincinnati some time ago,
when engaged in distributing tracts among
the poor benighted ones about the town,
met with an amusing incident. Coming to
an insulated building of humble pretensions,
he opened the door without the ceremony
of knocking, saying -


Will you accept a tract of the Holy
Land 7" meaning the four pages of the letter
press he had in his hand. The man of the
house instantly replied


eyes, be jabers whole section, if you
give good title; but I'd like to know if
there be much fever'n ague there to bother
a poor divil?"


The colporteur retreated.
Year: 1865

One of the worst of bad habits which
bad boys indulge in is calling their com
panions or other people nicknames This
when done on purpose, is very wrong, and
often very cruel for they mostly indulge
their wicked wit on those who have some
bodily infrmity which they cannot help.
We wish to caution the boys who read this
against such conduct; for many boys who
do not wish to be unkind or cruel may be
tempted to do so before they are aware
Just because there is some fun In it.


al shall never forget" says one, IAN in
cident of my boyhood, by which | was
taught to be careful not to wound the feel
ings of the unfortunate. A number OF us
school boys were playing by the roadside
one Saturday afternoon, when the stage
coach drove up to neighbOring inn, and
the passengers alighted AS usual we
gathered around to observe them. Among
the number was an elderly man. who got
ont with much difficulty, and when on the
grouud he walked with his feet turned one
way and his knees another, in very aWk-
ward manner | thoughtlessly shouted
'look at old rattlebonesw The poor old
man turned his head with an expression OF
pain which | can never forget


Gust then, to my surprise and horror,
my father came round the corner, and I'M
medatcly stepping up to the stranger,
shook his hand warmly, and assisted hlm
to walk to our house. which was but lit
tie way off could enjoy no more play
that afternoon, and when the time came
would gladly have hid myself, but knew
it would be in vain, and so tremblingly
went into the sittingroom. To my great
Joy and relief the stranger did not seem to
know me again, but remarked pleasantly
to my father as he introduced me-'Such
fine boy was surely worth saving"


How the words cut me to the heart
My father had often told me Of friend who
plunged into the river to save me as | was
drowning when child, and who, in conse-
quence Of cold then taken, had been made
a cripple by rheumatism and this was
the man had made laughing stock Tor
my companions.


a. tell you, boys and girls, would give
a great deal to have the memory OF that
event taken away. If fever you are tempt
ed as | was, remember that while no good
can come of sport, whereby the feelings Of
others are wounded you may be laying up
for yourselves painful recOllections that
will not leave you for lifetime.
Year: 1865

LIFE AND DEATH.-How brief the distance
between life and death Life is but the
vestibule Of death, and our pilgrimage on
earth is but journey to the grave. The
pulse that denotes our ife-stay beats our
dead march; the blood which circulates
through our bodies, while it flows with the
tide of life, floats them onward to the deeps
of death. 0, how closely allied is death to
life. Trees do but grow that they may be
felled. Empires rise and flourish but to
decay they rise to fall. Death is the
black servant who rides behind the chariot
of life. Death reaches far throughout this
world, and has stamped all terrestrial things
with the broad arrow of the grave But
bless sed be God there is place where death
is not life's equal, following hard its track,
as evening shades the suns meridian, nor
life's companion like brother striking fast
and cleaving close. There life reigrs alone;
there death knells are never tolled Bless
ed land above the skies To reach it we
must die but if after death we obtain
glorious Immortality, then "to die is gain"
C H. SpWyeOn.
Year: 1865

Bv card before us. We perceive that
The colored citizens Of Kansas have is
sued call for a grand rally Of them
selves and their friends At Leaven worth
City. on Wednesday. October 4.b. at
10 o'clock. A. N. The primary object
Of The convention will be to amend the
State constitution by striking out the
word 'sch;te.' and thus securing TO COL
ored citizens equality before the law"


The secondary object is to do some
thing to cid in the Reconstruction Of
the late rebellious States. to the end
that the sacrifice Of 60 much blood and
treasure may not have been in vain. but
tha. the cause Of liberty and justice
may secure gains in proportion to the
magnitude Of the conflict"


Each county is entitled to - many
delegates in the convention Is it is has
representatives. in the lower house OF
the legislature; and the committee Of
arrangements make an urgent appeal TO
all the friends Of the cause 70 bestir
themselves and eco that the necessary
work 10 done to secure the desired ends
10 be attained.
Year: 1865

Such story Of human crime comes to rs from


Boston as, both for the horror and the pity oil IL
must stir to fever the blood Of every man worthy
of the name.


Two children, brother and sister, the only


children of their mother, and she widow, work
ing hard to maintain herself and them, wander
off into the woods TO breathe the blessed air oil
the early summer, and TO delight themselves in
the Rreenness and glory OF nature. They fal 10


return. search is instituted Tor them In various
directions, but in vain; and after week Two
gentlemen, wandering also in the woods ior tnelr
pleasure, come upon the CHASTITY spectacle oil Two
Young bodies hacked horribly to pieces. Inc
sister has been worse than murdered Inc hlte
brother has been slaughtered for her sake.
No circumstance wi ich can melt al once and


fire the heart is lacking. Hard Dy tne gashed ana
mutllated corpses of the innocent nl.e ramDiers
lie the wreaths of wild ana OF leaves
which, in the glee of their young hearts and the
gladness of COPS fair world about them, they
were weaving, when out oil the forest something
more hideous than the satyr OF pagan antiquity,
something foul ss the demons or medieval my
tholo0y, emerged and fell upon them, and tram
nled ont all that sweet young life in loathly
nire of lust and blood.


The mystery of the universe Is in nothing more
MYSTERIOUS than In the possibility of such deeds
| as this To what end of wisdom or of goodness
such things can be permitted it may well try, ana


sternly try the most enlightened faith In an over
ruling Providence to divine.


The monster by whom this thing was perpe'
| trated may be captuIed-must be captured, II the
civilization OF New England Is net 10 wear
J branding stigma, but what expiation eouid h''
Year: 1865

death, though In such torments as French 10y.
atty imagined for Damiens, make Of his crime,
by which the sheer blank horror OF the possibility
OF such tspe OF man, and Of such an act, shalt
be rellevedl .. ~.


This thing was done almost within sight OF the
roofs of Boston; 1t was done not In any desolate,
rude and unfrequented wilderness; in woods such
as the author OF Titus Andronlcus imagines for q
deed OF fancy not more hideous than this fearful
fact, woods


Ruthless, dreadful deaf and dull"


but on the estate Of a gentleman of character
and wealth. All around these helpless children
stretched the system of our boasted civilization
over them hung the vaunted, invisible, but most
potent protection of law, In State which pro-
gress. Yet upon them came such doom, In the
broad light of fair June day, that nothing
worse could have befal!en them in the depth Of
the deserts Of Atrics.-Ne9 York World.
Year: 1865

It's a sacred duty at this time especially,
to foster a recollection of the origin of the
Republic, and keep alive in the memory of
the rising generation, a love and venera-
tion for our revolutionary Statesmen and
patriots. Hence, it is a duty to observe
our great national anniversary by appro-
pirate ceremonies and observances, as in
former times. We ought to have good,
old fashioned Fourth of July Celebration
in Ottumwa, and we suggest to our citizens
to take early measures to that end.


1t is proposed in some counties to invite
all the returned soldiers in the county to
partake Of a free dinner. The idea is q
good one. We should like to have this
done in Wapello county.
Year: 1865

1t has generally been argued that war is SO
great a dcmOralizer, and camp life so vicious,
that the diSbanding of our armies would add
to idleness and disorder, especially in our great
cities. Experience does not justify or sustain
these predictions. The majority of the men
who went to war were industrious, temperate
and respectable young men. The discipline
habits they have learned, through four years
of war have but confirmed those habits, and
makes their homes the more dear to Them
We see the soldier of yesterday, in the work
shop or counting house to-day, as busy absorb
ed in his duties as if he had been years devo-
ted to them. Through all the walks and en-
ployments of life there is healthy and sober
Year: 1865

AT the late Annual Session of our Conference
the following resolutions were adopted:


p" Resolved, That while We rejoice in the
good accomplished by the Sunday School in
stitution, it becomes us to inquire what can be
done to render our Schools more efficient as an
agency for saving souls, and building up the
Church.


Resolved, That in the prosecution of this
inquiry we recommend the holding of District
Sunday School Conventions, each p Elder be-
ing ex-ofIicio the President with authority to
call and fix the time and place of holding the
first, the Convention when met to determine
when and where the next shall be held and
every $. School under the patronage of our
church, within the District, being entitled to
send as many delegates as it pleases. y


Pursuant to this recommendation cOnven-
ton of this District was held in Smyrna ON the
14th and 18th Of last month. The undersign-
ed were appointed a committee to prepare an
address to the Church within our bounds.


Allow us first OF all to say, that more than
twenty questions were discussed; and though
only one resolution was adopted embOdying in
general terms the conclusion reached, the com
mittee were repeatedly instructed to give spe-
cial prominence in their address to certain views
advanced.


AS the Methodists were the first, both in Eu-
rope and in this country, to establish Sunday
Schools-(see Stevens History of Methodism
Vol. 2, PIP. II, and 483 and Life of Asburv
by Dr. Stricklandl they ought to be the last to
abate in zeal to promote them. Other denomi-
nations are wisely viewing them as vitality i'm
pOrtant to success in winning souls to Christ.
Though we are greatly Indebted to revival
meetings for our unprecedented growth in the
century now closing, we dare not ignore the
Year: 1865

THE WHITE MnLERs-A cheap and useful
toy can readily be furnished to little boys and
girls by presenting to them a small conical
bag of muslin or mosquito netting, or other
light stuff upon the end Of stick about a yard
in length it will afford q pleasant pastime to
the youngters, and answer useful purpose in
catching the white millers and butterflies,
which are to lay the eggs destined to furnish
next years crop of "nasty worms" Now,
boys, to work,
Year: 1865

AN IDEA OF ETERNITY. In regard to COM
parsons that may give us some idea of the inl-
measurable duration of eternity. there is none
that has struck us SO much as the following.
by constant rubbing, earth, stone and even
IRON, Is at last worn away but what time it
would take to wear away rock an entire
mountain, by rubbing it merely with the fin
ger. Vel! ! if damned soul were told.


God IS going to change into steel the earth
with ali that c0mposcs it, such as stones. trees.
rocks. mountains, &c; He Will afterwards
permit an amt to come once every hundred
years ON that enormous globe Of polished steel,
and when that little animal shall have succeed
cd in wearing it all away, merely by passing
over it, eternity shall be ended can YOU
even Imagine the millions Of ages it would take
+hat ant to wear away even the thickness Of a
kmie-blade? And what is knite-blade to the
thickness Of a mountain? to the whole earth?
v ell my dear children, if one said to dam
ned soul: When that incredible task shall
have been finished by the ant, your eternity
shall be ended, it would be a mistake: its
eternity would be only commencing All
well might the Holy Ghost say: Think Of
thy last end and thou shalt never sin. '-itye
CrOtSct Christian Year.
Year: 1865

A young man named Drolct. son Of farmer
at ST. Damase, near St Ilyacinthe, Canada,
has, in a fit Of insanity, killed his mother, by
inhctng upon her three blows with an axe. :
For some time previous he had been in a state
of great religious excitement lie had Just per-
ton in the church, and two days before the
murder, had received the holy sacrament.-
Previous to the insane deed he was known to
be inoffensive and of mild disposition.
Year: 1865

The Std0tS Zeitung of New York which has
the largest circulation of any German paper in
the United States, in its number oi' Tuesday
takes decided ground in favor of negro suffrage,
1t wishes the question left to the decision of
every State; it regards a period Ofapprentice-
ship as necessary for giving to the freedmen
pcrfidy'' to demand that men who are free be
forever excluded from the right Of suffrage,
inasmuch as the Constitution Of the United
States does not say word of color or race be-
ing a reason for denying the right of suffrage,