smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

There k dismal monotony about
the reports Of defhulting cashiers Of
-scw!rrs hsHxs .an6 oilAg HiclSyeS n
stitctions OF iis5. = eA'eA
case the dispatch says he was . gentle
man who was prominent in such-and-
such church, superintendent in the
Sunday school, and well known for bis
piety--or words TO that effect II is


no new thing that men should wear
the livery Of the court Of Heaven TO
serve the devil In but surely II begins


TO bo time for business men TO look


closer into the conduct OF officials who


hold in trust tho money of others, and


that professions of piety should not


pass current TOR moro than their true
commercial value. While II Is certain
that sincere and God.fearing chris.
tian must be an honest man, Il by no
means follows that all honest men are
pious, or that oil who proclaim their
picty are honest. A melancholy fea.
ture of the trouble is that christian
communities are so slow TO believe that
professors Of religion are hypocrites,
and thus they rally around men who
have been guilty Of gross breaches OF
morality, and make common cause
with them, to the great scandal of the
church. In the besotted devotion which
Plymouth church showed for Henry


Ward Beecher, the fact that Schuyler
Colfax still goes around lecturing to
young mems christian associations, and
grading from these down to the low.
est hypocrites, there is always q sane.
tuary for sanctimonious fraud. In
recent synod of great christian
church there was learned discussion
OF the physical effects Of prayer"-a
question we have no intention 10 con-
slider. For how small are the inter-
ests which depend on its solution in
comparison with the spiritual and NOR.
al results of prayer; and how subtle
is the assault on even the spiritual ef-
fects ofprayer, when the jeering world
can look on and see men loudest in the
tabernacle on Sunday are swindlingin
the bank on Monday men who are
giving to the establishment of missions
to-day and robbing the widow and or.
phan of their savings tomorrow Far
be it from us to say that true religion
is not the ruling motive of many no.
bic and useful lives. On the contrary,
we know that IL elevates the moral
nature OF all those who live by 1t. But
in religion the great fact is the rela-
tion OF man to God: morality touches
only the relation of man 10 man. And
though these two 60 hand in hand, tits
natural that the first in the minds Of
many should overshadow the second.
That christian people should be ready
to forgive the sin Of an erring brother
may be very well, but they should not
be ready at the same time to condone
or shelter the crime; the offence
against God can be left to His justice
and mercy; the offense against the
fellow-m man should be punished with
inexorablo loseverity. Unless this is done
there will be conflict hereafter, CON-
pared with which that between relig.
ion and science will be insignificant:
it will be the conflict of religion and
neutrality-suspicious. Gazette.
Year: 1878

OPENING FOR BuslSEss.--Thc New
Orleans Mint which has been closed ever
since the war, is TO be rc.opened and
put in working order TO its full capaci-
ty. This may alarm those that arc
afraid that wo will have too much hard
money in this country in few years
Who alive now can refer to the period
or what historian relates fact Of that
kind We have frequently had toe
much money but II did not happen tc
be Of the right kind.
Year: 1878

1) The Man who Came Late had
no time to ask blessing on the service for
himself or his neighbors. He missed the
opening exercises. He disturbed others who
had come in time. He disturbed the minis
ter. He showed pretty plainly that he did
not consider as much respect due to Gods
house as to his own place of business. He
set bad example as to others. He missed
blessing for himself.


(2) The Man who Came Early.-He had
time to take lis seat quietly aud get com.
fortably warm or cool, as the case might be.
He had time for quiet and refreshing sea-
son Of prayer before the service began. He
disturbed nobody. He showed due respect
for the time and place, and for Him who has
promised always to meet those who gather il
His name. He was able to join in the whole
service, and to be in time for it. He set 6
good example to others. He won blessing
for himself.
Year: 1878

Adopt this rule: Let all who come to you
with stories about mutual acquaintance know
that you intend, as soon as your duties al
low, to wait upon the parties spoken of dis
paragingly and repeat just what was said,
and who said it. Still better, take out your
memorandum. book and ask the party to al.
low you to copy the words, so that you can
make no mistake.


You will have to do this probably not more
than three times. 1t will fly among your
acquaintaIces on the wings of the gossips,
and persons who come to talk against other
persons in your presence will begin to feel as
if they were testifying under oath.


But, you ask, "Will it not be mean to 60
off and detail conversations 2" Not at all
when your interlocutor understands that he
must not talk against an absent person in
your presence without expecting you to con-
vey the words to the absent person, and the
name of the speaker. Moreover, what right
has any man or woman TO approach you and
bind you to secrecy, and then poison your
mind against another? If there be any diff
ference in your obligations, are you not
bound more to the man who is absent than
the man who is present? If you can thus
help to kill gossip it will not matter if you
lose friend or two; such friends as these,
who talk against others to you, are the very
persons to talk against you to them.


Try your rule. We know it to be good.
We use it. 1t is known 10 the church of
which we are pastor, that if any one speaks
to us disparagingly of an absent member, we
hold it our duty to 60 to that absent member
Immediately and report the conversation and
the names; or, still better, to make the party
disparaging, face the party disparaged. We
have almost none of this to do. Amid the
many annoyances which necessarily come to
the pastor of large church, and still larger
congregation, we think that we are as free
from the annoyance of gossips as it is posi-
bic for man to be who lives amongst his
fellow-men.


Try our rule, try it faithfully, with meek
ness and charity, and if it does not work well
let us know.-Dr. Deems IN Sunday Maga.
zine.
Year: 1878

The people in their long and toilsome cap
tivity, scattered among their conquerors,
and ground down by taskwork, had forgotten
their past, had become ignorant of their sa-
cred books, and had even lost the capacity
of grasping and retaining the long and COM
plicated account of their former history
which had been familiar to their ancestors
Ga their return to Palestine they were band
ofemancipatei slaves, ignorant, illiterate, in
capable of much thought, childish, and re-
quiring, like children, very simple elementary
teaching.


Again, they were multitude rather than
people; in their long continued oppression
and isolation they had lost the sentiment Of
nationality, the very idea of patriotism;
they had forgotten their tribal distinctions
and relationships; and though they had not
fallen away from the worship of Jehovah,
they had come to have very dim and faint
notion of what that worship in reality was,
as established by the greatest of their mon
archs, David aud Solomon. To restore the
national life, to re,unite the present with the
past, to re-awaken the sumbering spirit of
patriotism, to recall the glOries of old times,
and set them before the nation as the stan
dard which they should aim at reaching in
the future, was the hard but grand task
which the leaders of the Jewish people set
themselves at this time, and which none did
more to accomplish than the writer of Chron-
icles. Instead of throwing the people back
upon their old histories, written on too large
a scale for their present needs, and in Ian.
guage of more or less archaic type, he
composed for their use condensed narrative,
written in the idiom of the day, with fire.
quent illusions to recent events and brought
down to his own times, which was far more
calculated to affect them strongly and deeply
than the ancient larger compositions. At
the same time, having to deal with persons
in q childish and undaveloped state, he
adopted tone not elsewhere found in the
Year: 1878

Life, how hard it is faithfully to portray
it. The alterations of bright anticipatiOns
and disappointed hopes, of brightest joy and
BLACKLIST sorrow are so rapid, and the effects
so blended, that to contemplate them is but
to render the thoughts chaotic mass. Yet
if we avoid conclusions, and allow memory to
linger in the sweet past, the long lest past,
the glorious childhood of the past, it opens
to us the reflected rays of the glowing light
that then surrounded and frightened our in
nocent hearts, reminding US that as life ad-
vances the brightness of childhood recedes,
that, step by step, life's dark shadows gather
yet more thickly around US but buoyed up
by infinite grace, impelled by faith in an ON
nipOtent God, We press on, sometimes to pen
citrate the thickest gloom; and yet how often
to see these shadows dissipated by joys noon
tide sun.


As We discard childhoOd's innocence and
simplicity, how sanguinely We define ife's
course, how certainly we forecast destiny,
glorious destiny Yet each experience is
but mOckery of the ideal. The goal to
which all our designs and actions tend may
be reached, yet through what different agen-
cies and under what different circumstances
from those that We point out.


The maiden's noble aspirations to all Of
those accomplishments and graces which
gives to her such charm, and which enables
her to exercise such powerful influence for
good over the sterner sex, and over the less
fortunate of her own, are often attained by
circumstances, often-timeS thrOugh affections,
the wisdom of which she cannot see, and
which, had she fOreseeu would have appalled,
and chilled her very soul.


The ambitious youth who aspires to fame,
and to deeds noble and good, would often
yield in pure dependency, could he but fore
see the frey Ordeals through which, under
the providence of God, he would have tC


pass, in order to fit him to accomplish these





noble aims.


Let those who have not contemplated it
not think that hfe's course is smooth and un


encountered with difficulties and obstacles
most formidable; neither let him think it al
existence wholly of shadows and Sorrows
But rather let him know that in this state W.
enjoy the sunny smiles of benign proVi
dence, and often feel the effects of his dark
ened brow.


Let those who have marked out what SEEM
to them a course for usefulness and for good
if they encounter obstacles seemingly inSur
mountable, not despOnd. Or, if defeated en-
tirely, remember that all things are Ordere'
r by God s unerring will. Let them remembe
; that that this life is only preparatory for on
, brighter and more glorious; and if not in thi
o life, in the one to come We will reap the re
e ward of an honest, earnest prOtracted efor
j for good.
Year: 1878

historical Scriptures-a didactic tone of ex-
treme directness and simplicity plan of
pointing the moral in every case, of openly
ascribing all the events of the history to the
Divine agency, and referring in the plainest
language every great calamity or deliverance
to the good or evil deeds of the monarch or
the nation, to whom they were sent as re-
wards or judgments.-Camon Rawlins0n, an


The Biblical Educator.
Year: 1878

cottage as much as in the palace, the school
of manners; and the saying that he who be-
comes true Christian becomes true gen.
tleman is no rhetorical boast, but solid his
tnric fact.
Year: 1878

I treasure it, because when look at it, it
it seems type of great host of women
who watch and wait, tied fast to their fate,
while the tide creeps up about them, but who
rise as the waves rise, and on the crest of the
last and loftiest are borne into the quiet ha.
ven, and hear the "Well done Robert
C0llyer.
Year: 1878

I treasure small drawing by Millias. 1t
is the figure of woman bound fast to pill
lar far within tide.mark. The sea is curling
its tides about her feet; ship is passing in
full sail, but not needing her or her doom ;
birds of prey are lowering about her, but she
heeds not the birds, or the ship, or the sea
her eyes look right on, and. her feet stand
firm, and you see that she is looking directly
into heaven, and telling her soul how the
suferings Of this present time are not worthy
to be compared with the glory that shall be
revealed; and under the picture is this le-
gend, copied from the stone set up to her
memory in an old Scottish kirkyard:
Year: 1878

Now that the Mineral Resources of Arizona are being rapidly developed, agricultural products will be in great demand and the Farmer will quickly find himself King, and while enjoying home comforts will reap largely of the golden harvest of the hardy minor. Prospectors who are searching the noun tains for hidden treasures it may be poor as Jobs turkey-will. in q moment ind themselves Bonanza Kings and be able to revel in luxury the rest of their days; but all men cannot become owners of rich minesl All men cannot become wealthy farmers! To the great mass of man. kind the price of pork and beans will still be an object.
Year: 1878

E. I R TN E k c o Being aware of this fact, propose to sell the best quality of goods at reason- able prices. They keep in the little store nearest the Touring mill, with the sign over the door
Year: 1878

"Manv of our personal friends have been cured
by the PERUVIAN SYRUP, but we have one proof
more powerful than all these, and that is--OUR
Own Personal ENPERIkNCEi No authority
can put this down no argument can contradict 1t
and no good word shall be spared on our part un-
til a knowledge ofthts blessing shall be spread
broadcast among the people"
Year: 1878

The contest between the p. W. & B. Railroad Co.,
and the Old Dominion Steamship line for the carry
trade of the lower part of the Peninsula says the Mil
ford Nclus still continues The former company, how
ever instead of competing for the Lewes and Reho-
both trade by the construction of the branch road
from Dover down the east side of the Peninsula to
Rehoboh via Frederica Milford and Miltonis prepar
ing to strike big lick in another place This time 1t
IS lower down the Peninsula, and for the oyster and
the potato trade of the lower counties of Maryland
and Virginia.


The present terminus of the Old Dominion Com
pany's line is at Franklin. on Chincoteague Sound,
and this gives to them the immense oyster trade OF
that locality. Of this trade the p w. b. is deter
mined to have her share at least and with this view
it is now at work to extend its lines from Pocomoke
City on the Pocomoke River to the Sound and
thence down the Peninsula to Cherry Stone, fifty miles
below The two lines now run down the Peninsula
nearly parallel and are only about twenty miles
apart at the farthest places not more than six
teen miles apart and if this enterprise is carried
out the two lines will together at Chncoteague
| The p W. & b. Co. is now at work. through its
agents to bring about the immediate construction OF
this work from POcomoke City to the Sound, dis


ance of only twelve miles and this is to be done this
if possible, that the Philadelphia company
can share the oyster trade of the next winter.


RR- For additional County and STATE HenIs, second
| page.
Year: 1878

THE EFFECT OF SCANDAL-MoNGERING on
CHHDREN.-One of the greatest defects Of
this age is the fastness Of our boys and
girls. And every bit of it is traceable back
to the homes, where idle news-carrers drop
in continually, and are permitted to unfold
their budget Of gossip and scandal. Chill
dren hear more than is ever believed, and
the winks, mods and hints that they catch
at intervals excite their curiosity, and to
satisfy this chances are not wanting But
to prevent betraying what they hear, they
also learn to be very sly, so that, in time,
they are able to build block houses, make
kites, or even to pretend to study their
lesson, and yet hear every world that is
said. 1t is q wonder that, by the time the
reserve and purity Of the mothers mind is
worn out, the daughter Is in just the same
condition, with this difference that, while
the mother has family ties that serve as
check, and has the judgment of maturer
years, the daughter is hampered by none
Of these, so that, as she stands on the thres-
hold of life, she is like a boat tossed out
upon the sea without pilot, save her own
desire, and the crew, instead of being all
good influences Of the past, are just the re-
verse. 1t will be a miracle if she sails
through safely, and if she should sink we
must accept the penalty, and know that it
is the work of our own hands. Can't we,
from this day, shut out all gossip's scandal
and low stories from our homes? Do not
tolerate it, and if any one insists upon en-.
tertaining you on these subjects, do what
you would do were they offering you poison
-Chtcago Tribune.
Year: 1878

The SCISSORS GRINDER.--A scissors grin.
der in London, who had led a very sinful
life, was induced to attend Messrs Moody
and Sankey's meetings. The singing had
a great attraction for the man, but when
re heard Mr.. Moody pleading with sim
ners to be reconciled to God by faith in
our Lord Jesus Christ, the power of the
truth melted the man into deep contrition
for sin. He became changed man. His
life gave clear evidence of this. He now
felt anxious for the spiritual welfare of all
around him. To the boys and girls who
often came and watched him grinding a
knife or scissors, he always had kind
word ready. The good man lately had a
little box placed at the side of the wheel,
in which he keeps supply of tracts.
When men and women come round him
he usually gives them some good whole
some advice and ends by politely asking
their acceptance of one of the silent mon
tors. God bless all such earnest and self
denying workers amongst the industrial
classes. May their number be increased
| They are needed.
Year: 1878

The Seaford Iader gives this advice to people,
which in these hard times is excellent: Let every
one assist by keeping bright and strong i'll his own
and others hearts the spirit of trust and confidence
and look forward with hope to the day when the
bright sun of heaven shall again look down upon a
country rejoicing in peace prosperity and plenty in
happy faces, fruitful farms and fields of waving
grain and let us hope that nation will again pre-
sent the spectacle of great republic, whose citizens
can live in the peaceful enjoyment of their natural
and inalienable rights and whose first law is Eternal
Justice"
Year: 1878

The United States Senate, last Wednesday without
division, attached an amendment to the river and
harbor appropriation bill providing for survey
across the Peninsula of Delaware and Maryland with


view to the construction Of a ship canal to connect
with the waters of the Delaware and Chesapeake bays
as proposed, with view to shortening the route
between the port of Baltimore and Northern and
European ports.
Year: 1878

The Germantown Telegraph says I'VE would advise
our readers TO eat any Delaware catfish this sum
mer as they are effected with disease from which
large numbers have died. People i'll the habit of
taking them for market, say that they are unusually
scarce in the river while along the shore large num-
bers of dead fish are seen Although this is one of the
hardest species SO far rs surviving for length of
time out of its native clement it to be more
liable to become diseased than any other and many
are thus destroyed nearly every spring"
Year: 1878

WORTH LIVING FoR.-Some men move
through life rs a band of music moves down
the street, tiinging pleasure on every side
through the air to every one, far and near,
that can listen. Some men fill the air
with their presence and sweetness, as
orchards in October days fill the air with
perfume of ripe fruit. Some women cling
to their own houses, like the honPysucllle
over the door, yet, like it, swecten all the
region with the subtle fragrance of their
goodness. They are trees Of righteousness
which are ever dropping precious fruit
around them. There are lives that shine
like starbeams or charms to charm the
heart like songs sung upon holy day.
How great bounty and blessing it is to
hold the royal gifts of the soul, so that they
shall be music to some and fragrance to
others, and life to all 1t would be no un-
worthy thing to live for, to make the
power which we have within US the breath
of other mems joy; to scatter sunshine
where only clouds and shadows reign fill
the atmosphere where earth's weary toilers
must stand, with a brightness which they
cannot create for themselves, and which
they long for, enjoy and appreciate


EVery Day Sermon.
Year: 1878

"LoRD, IT'S DAD PA laughable incident
occurred at Perry recently, which caused
much sport, and the circumstances of
which are as follows An old gentleman
who had two handsome daughters was so
cautious of his charge that he would not
permit them to keep the company of young
men. However, they adopted the follow
ing expedlent to enjoy the company of
their lovers After the old man had retired
to rest, the girls would hang a sheet out of
the second-story window, and Jim and John


would seize hold of il, and with the as
sistance of the girls would thus gain en-


trance. 1t so happened last Sunday eve
ming the girls hung out the sheet ladder
too early, for the old man, by some i'll wind


was accidentally out of doors, and happen
ing to come around the corner of the
house and spying the sheet dangling from
| the window could not conjecture the mean
| ing of its being there. So he caught hold
and endeavored to bring it down, the
! girls above supposing it 10 be the boys,
began to hoist and did not discover the
mistake until the old mans bald head was


level with the sill, when one of them ex-


claimed, Lord, it's dad !" and let 90 her
hold, which frightened her sister, and she
| let 90 the sheet, and down came the old


man on the stone walk, breaking his wrist


and tearing his unmentonables. His cries


brought out the household and several


neighbors, and they removed him into the


house. He is now busy cogitatng whether


to let the girls have their beaux in the
parlor or sue the young men for damages.
The boys have not been around to offer any


sympathy and probably won't until the old
gent feels easer.-N. y. Com. Ad0.
Year: 1878

Complaints concerning hard times are
still freely heard, but there must be less
cause for them than those who make them
are willing to concede. The appearance of
the ladies at our churches or places of amuse-
ment certainly does not indicate pinching
poverty. The costly styles of dress,
especially of hats, are almost more promi.
nent than ever before. 1t is also worthy of
remark that large numbers of our people
are leaving home for visits, some going to
Europe and others to various points OF
attraction within the limits Of their own
country. Many other evidences are given
to show that there is more money in the
country than is required to keep body and
soul together by its possessors.
Year: 1878

State Treasurer Giles will be at the Philadelphia
National Bank the first three days in July for the pur
pose Of paying off all bonds from No 131 to $780, of the
denomination 900 each, bearing date of January
l. 1862 and that from and after that date the interest
thereon will be stopped
Year: 1878

The Southern editor ventures to hope
that the President will not yield to the
great efforts which the Radicals are making
"to prejudice his mind against the Southern
people," 1t looks as if the South had
already furnished material for all the preju-
dice necessary.
Year: 1878

A young girl was struck blind in Cleve-
land Sunday night. She went to bed with
strong eyes, and in excellent health. Dur.
ing the night she felt "a sort of pricking'
for a second or two about her eyes, and
then a snap, as if something had broken.
These sensations were accompanied by no
pain, and after they had passed away there
was no uncomfortable feeling about the
eyes. In the morning she was stone.blind