smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Those who have had limited expert
ence in receiving revelations from the Al
mighty, will doubtless be interested in
Freeman, the Pocasset murderer's de-
scription of the manner in which the
Lord directed him to murder his daugh-
ter, Edith. Says Freeman


well, I had been feeling badly for
two weeks. Ny head was racked with
pains. I couldn't sleep. There was an
awful stiffness in the house; stiffness
that was painful. I studied the scrip
lures, and tried to understand why I was
so haunted by visions. Every day some
new phase of the matter would draw on
me. One night I lay awake, thinking of
the power of God and the coming of His
kingdom. Twas told that must sacri
fee member of my family, even as
Abraham was commanded to sacrifice the
child of his old age, in whom the prom
ise of salvation for Israel was to be full
filled. I told my wife about it, and we
discussed the matter. She asked which
one the Lord demanded, and said that
did not know. But I said that it would
yet come, and that if it should happen to
be herself, I told her to be prepared to
comply with the desires of the Almighty
One. She was very calm, and saw that
she, too, had faith in the coming of Gods
kingdom. Next day my head felt q little
better, and I knew that the load was
lifting. Each day thereafter I found new
light; some passage in the Bible which
I could not understand, came to me with
all the clearness of established convic-
tion. At last the day came. The house
Evening arrived, and as the darkness set
Cow cboot of 1iub&nir,r II, tho boou-
ems, such as had never seen before. It
illuminated the whole expanse of the
sky, and knew God was giving me q
sign. went to bed and tried to sleep,
but could not. In the dead of night the
word came. The victim was selected
it was Edith. I told my wife that the
hour had come and that must give our
darling to the Lord. You know the rest.
You know how I went into the room
where our little ones were sleeping the
sleep of innocence; how sent the oldest
child to it's mother; how I raised the
knife, expecting to have my knife
stayed, as was that of Abraham, and how
I pierced the infant breast of the victim
selected by God Himself. I then lay
down beside my dead child and slept
soundly. Next day my head felt better.
The pain had Fl gone, and knew that
my sacrifice was acceptable to the eyes
God. I called in the friends of Gods
new kingdom and impaired the glad
tidings to them. They approved my act
and gave glory and praise to God. That
night again saw the lightning in the
heavens. It was more brilliant than the
preceding evening. It was strange
light, and whether others saw it or not
care not To me it was a sure sign that
God was pleased, and I understood it at
once"


This revelation may be all very plain
to discerning person like Mr.. Free
man, but it seems just trife indefinite
to the average reader. If Freeman had
been wise he would have requested the
Lord to put His instructions to him in
writing, SO that there could be no mis-
take about It.
Year: 1879




Ii we were able to look into the great
world beyond, we might repine at being
obliged to remain here SO long. Just as God
has placed great CULTS of space between the
planets, so that the inhabitants OF each shall
only know the affairs of its own globe, He
has also placed gulf between this world and
the future life. Thus, He makes it our duty
to think, not of dying. but of living; not of
the hereafter, but of here; not of the world
to come, but of the world that Ii. Every day
we are to prepare, not for death, but for life;
for If we live well and wisely here we may
certasnly trust God rs to our hereafter.
This, however. 1 think we may say, that
death, when 1t comes. must be considered
not bad thing, but good thing. Since
the Almighty sends death to every one of
His creatures to whom He has given life,
SINCE death is as universal as life, death must
be q blessing as well as life. Some great
advantage must be connected with this event
which we call death. 1t is made fearful
when we look forward to il from a distance,
that we may not too rashly seek it,
before we have had enough of the discipline
of this world. But when it comes il usually
is welcome; it may be that when we look
back upon it from the other world, we shall
smile to think that we should ever have
been afraid of 1t. This also we know of the
other world: That it lie created by the same
Being who has made this world. it is another
mansion in the house of our Father. Con-
slider, then, what He has done for US here, if
you wish to know what He Will do for us
there. If there is infinite variety in this
world-day and night, sleep and waking
changing seasons, flowers and trees. lakes
and rivers, mountains and plains vast
fora and fauna-then there will, no doubt.
be an equal or greater variety there; for
surely the Creator has not exhausted Him
self in making this world. There as here.
there will be beauty for the eye and ear ;
problems for the intellect to investigate; /;
work to do, full of utility; society, inter
course, affection; the power of progress, the
sight OF goodness and greatness above us to
aspire to and reverence. There will bs
enough to ponder, enough to do, and enough
| to love.
Year: 1879

SAN FRANCISCO, April H.-There is some
ground for the opinion that the tragedy at the
Balwin Hotel yesterday was murder. The
clothing of the deceased was not burnt where
the ball entered. A stranger inquired for
Bacon's room, and presumably went there
during the morning, since which nothing has
been seen of him. Bacon's business here was
to look after litigation behalf of patent
rights of the company he represented.
Year: 1879

CORRESPONDENT very naturally calls at
tention to the tho common practice INDUCED
in by residents of st. Paul,in sending abroad
for articles of use and consumption. People
who rely on st. Paul to support them are
very ready to take the money which they
make in St. Paul and spend it abroad. Not
because they save anything but because they
are snobbish enough to think it is tony. In
stead of being a matter of economy it is
generally matter of expense, for as a rule
these tony people pay more in Chicago and
New York than the price asked by st. Paul
dealers for exactly the same article. 1t is
time to inaugurate war of reprisals, and
the people who give st. Paul merchants and
manufacturers the cold shoulder and 60 east
for their purchases should be repudiated at
home, left without business and be told to 60
for their support to the cities where they
spend their money. Let them either mend
their ways or leave the community.
Year: 1879

BILL K1Na's Minneapolis paper (printed
in st. PauD is continually harping about the
mismanagement and bankruptcy of the
State Agricultural Society. The State
Society is not bankrupt, but without
pursuing that branch of the inquiry
We should like to have the st. Paul
traitors who are serving Bill King,
inform US how much better tho management
was in the hands Of Bill King and Charley
Clarke last year. The Minneapolis society
came out moro than twice as much in debt
as the State Fair at st. Paul, and the excuse
for holding any fair there at all tho present
year is to redeem the mortgaged land on
which the fair is located. If there was mis-
management at St. Paul there was downright
highway robbery at Minneapolis.
Year: 1879

What the Papers of the State are Saying


41bont Bilt Kings 3Atten.pt to Destroy the


State Society. .,
s.s a. LIE Sueur Sentinel.J a


It certainly looks strange that the discov-
cry should be made at this lato day, as stated
in the Pioneer Press of Monday, of the elm
possibility of holding successful State Fair
at st. Paul until hephysical difficulties aris
ing from the lack Of adequate railway trans
portation facilities are removed" We have
known successful State Fairs to be held
where there were no railway facilities at all.
Indeed, we remember that a very successful
Territorial Fair was held in Minnesota as
early as 1857. And it also seems strange
that il the State Agricultural Society
should decide to hold its next
fair at st. Paul with all the facts before
them. It looks very much like clean ''sell
OUT to Bill King by the PSone en- Press; and
We would suggest that if St.Paul is ready to
tamely submit to the browbeating of Bill
King Cfor the Minneapolis fair is nothing
more than private enterprise of Bill King
to make money for himself,) the people OF
the State should quietly decide to give both
fairs the go-by, and take rest until the
State society can be taken out of the clutches
of few selfish cormorants on the one hand
and coterie of cravens and towards on the
other hand. The people Of the State must
become thoroughly disgusted at this con-
tinual making our State fairs mere foot balls
foE st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Year: 1879

The more the Stacy filler is investigated
the greater the fraud on the farmer which is
developed. The only thing which is solialy
claimed for it is uniformity, That is, if it
swindles farmer out of good crop Of
wheat at one time, it will repeat the same
swindle, on the same wheat, as often as the
opportunity is offered. This is the blessing
of uniformity.


Mr.. Stacy is, naturally, interested in push
ing his filler, and, naturally again, insists
that it is reliable instrument. He cannot
and does not deny that it fills
the brass kettle lighter than i it
could be done by hand. This is the
case if the valves are opened wide. If the
valves are only partially opened, and the
grain allowed to run in still lighter, we are
not sure but two grades can be taken. At the
Year: 1879

PROPOSED EDITORIAL EXC URSION.


A De Lacy Wood, the secretary of the Mime
sofa Editorial association, has been agitating
the matter of an editorial excursion to Lake
Superior the present summer. Mr.. Chamber
lin, of the Jackson Republic, the president of
the association, makes the following comment
ON the matter: 4.|a rzss


We have been mum on this proposed editorial
excursion, for on general principles we rather
oppose this wholesale dead-heading upon any
community. It would be very pleasant to take
the trip proposed, and if the excursion can be
made unattended with any pomp and ceremony
-unaccompanied by banquets or any feting
and free feeding-every member paying his ex-
penses along the route (perhaps free transporta-
tion excepted) then we are in for the excursion
aud will do the part naturally expected of US
in perfecting the arrangements. Do you ac-
cept the terms, boys? If so, say the word and
we are with you. --- ~.


This is a decidedly sensible programme and
we believe will meet theapproval of the major
ity of the editors of this State. Minnesota ed
itors have never brought disrepute upon them
selves by dead head, free lunch excursions and
we do not believe they ever will. As matter
of fact there is no business where so much is
expected gratuitously as frsm an editor. Peo-
pie argue that he is printing his paper any way
and hence he can insert this or that item with
out any charge. They never stop to think that
every inch of space costs the editor
certain amount and every inch which
he gives away is cash contribution. It is
because editors too often allow themselves to
be imposed on in this manner that they look
for reciprocity and the moment they accept
favors they ore criticised as mendicants. The
way to change this is to follow the plan pro-
posed by Mr.. Chamberlin and cultivate the
sentiment that the editor is entitled to full
compensation for the use of his columns and
nothing as matter of charity.


The GLOBE votes for the excursion on the
Chamberlin platform.
Year: 1879

To the Editor of the Globe.


There is far more at stake in the right ad-
justment of this than many suspect. The
cityis fairly committed to the project; the
public have most decidedly approved of it,
and it was to meet q confessed public
necessity the plan of rebuilding was taken
up. Now, after tho occupants of the old
house have been warned out, and at some
expense and inconvenience made arrange
ments for temporary quarters, after part of
the building has been torn down, and mat
ters put in readiness for immediate rebuild
ing, the whole project is brought to a stand
still. It is another of those instances where
the lack of public spirit and harmony on the
part of our leading men shows itself. Else
where the united voice of our merchants and
those identified with the good name of their
city, would have been heard, urging prompt
ness and liberality in rebuilding. But the
supreme selfshness of a few, thu jealousies
of others, and the lack of pronounced ad-
vocacy by those who should lead in this mat
ter, has brought to disgraceful dead lock
the market house project. 1t has been
demonstrated by men disinterested and pub
lie spirited, that it will not entail any debt on
the city, that it will pay for ITSELF that it can
not be built for the first named sum- Yet in
spite of their time and labor devoted to Sc
curing this public improvement, the thing
is opposed and the good faith and enterprise
of St.. Paul compromised. The men whose
own interests the community has generously
aided, are those who now turn against this,
opposing what is for its welfare. AS pub
lie improvement the market house is as of
much moment to the commu-
nifty as some other projects which have
received a large bonus. Mere than this, it
will inure to the benefit of the general pub
lie. Our mechanics and laboring men will
receive the money spent in building it, and
whatever helps them, helps all the interests
of the city. Meanwhile we are deprived Of
the benefits of public market, and onr
market men unjustly treated by this delay.
Instead of efforts to defeat what has been
practically begun, it would be far more hon
orable to St. Paul business men, more sati,
isfactory to our citizens, more just to those
whose trade has been interfered with, if
there was prompt agreement upon ways
and means to go on with the rebuilding of
the market. E...t .gglj 45:,4 8


We trust some way out of the present in
action will be devised, and that by the dis
play of some civic pride, and of more har-
monious and liberal spirit on the part of
our property owners, the market house plans
will be at once carried out.
Year: 1879

TIE STATE FAIR 1T ST. PAUL.


In commenting on the State fair matter
the Jackson Republic says:


1t strikes us one fair is sufficient, and we i'm
agine most of those who attended those NAM
moth shows will agree with us. The people
care little which society furnishes the enter
tainment, but we say let the whole State COM
bine on one grand show and let that be a big
one


The Republic should bear in mind that
there is to be but one State fair, and that is
to be held at St. Paul. The Minneapolis
matter is private show, confined to that
city, and is gotten up to enable Bill King to
raise money to lift a mortgage from piece
of land. That is all there is to it, It is not
the fault of St. Paul that there are two ex-
hibitions. st. Paul was ready to
unite with Minneapolis in hold
ing State fair, and would have
even gone to Minneapolis as compromise
instead of locating it midway; but Bill King
desired to make his a Minneapolis fair and a
private speculation purely. Minneapolis
would not listen to the proposition for a
State Fair in any shape. On the contrary,
her committee deliberately asked st. Paul to
refuse to allow the State Fair to be hold in
this oity. .. :s-4


The State has no interest in the Bill King
affair at Minneapolis whatever. We do not
suppose Bill King will accept articles for OK
hibition outside of Hennepin county, or if he
does allow articles to come in from
the State, they will be excluded from
competing for premiums. It is a
purely private Minneapolis speculation. st
Paul does not expect to hold a Fair in COM
petition with that or any other Fair. In fact
St. Paul does not expect to hold Fair at all
The State society have asked the use of the
St. Paul grounds for State Fair in this
city. These have been furnished and St
Paul expects to cooperate with the people
of tho State in making the Fair splendid
success. There will not be as many outside
attractions as last year, but as purely ag
ricultural and mechanical exhibition we pre-
dict even greater success than last year
"Let the whole State combine on one grant
shoW'
Year: 1879

fCrookston Polk county, Journal.


Some days since, q number of men were
engaged at Martin Hooye's saw mill hauling
out the old engine by means of rope attached
to the main shaft, and Wellington Marshall,
young man aged about 1S years, was
attending to the rope at the. shaft, TAX
ing in the slack. Ha sat upon a box within
two feet or less of the shaft, and had sue
cessfully performed his duties all day until
the engine had been drawn out, when, just
as the mill engine had ceased working his
foot caught in the.rope and he was drawn
on to the shaft, which was still running,
and literally crushed to pieces. He gave one
shrek and that was all. When help arrived
he was dead. He was wound round the shaft,
and when taken out it was discovered that
onel leg was crushed, his back and neck were
broken, and he had received severe contu-
sions of the face and back part Of his head.
His death must have been instantaneous.
Year: 1879

The Grand Trunk Buys Ano her Railroad.


DETROIT, June 21.-The division Of the
Chicago and Lake Huron railroad east, run
ding from Port Huron to Flint,and formerly
known as the Port Huron and Lake Michi-
gan railroad, was sold at noon to-day for
$500, 1000, to committee said to represent
eastern bondholders of the Grand Trunk
railroad. The purchasing committee as
sumo the receivers Indebtedness, which it
is said will foot up over half a million. The
committee say the road will be reorganized
in the interest of the Crank Trunk without
unnecessary delay.
Year: 1879

very best it is like filling the tester with 3
table spoon and it can be made to fill as
lightly as though . teaspoon was used.


The Stacy filler is accepted by the wheat
buyers of course. It was their law. It was
gotten up to prevent the farmers from se-
curing any legislation which would relieve
them. The farmers should rise up in rebell-
ion against that or any other device which
is calculated to swindle them. When they
combine they will be respected.
Year: 1879

II the st. Paul merchants determine to
have Zig fair they will do it and everybody
will want to see it. If they will only man
age the transportation to accommodate the
crowd the crowd will go. They will 60 any
where to big show, and MIR. Judson is con-
fdent that with the spirit now manifest the
fair will be one that not even the King can
eclipse. It is bound to go anyway. But if
st. Paul wants the support of the people she
must make ample arrangements for their
accommodation. That is all.
Year: 1879

The only question: Tor the State Agflc0I-
tural society to consider is whether it will
60 on and give an annual fair this season, or
whether it will quit the business and yield
the field exclusively to a single individual?
The people outside of st. Paul and Mime
apolis have little interest in the perpetual
squabbles existing between the citizens of
the two places, but majority of them will
stand by the State society.
Year: 1879

Yesterday the streets of NewYorll were full
of dramatic hints of the home life of the
people, and one of the most significant and
pathetic was the number Of shabby women
and laborers going home from their work
who crowded in the evening into the shops,
wistfully lingering some pretty toy or bic of
finery for the baby at home. They could not
afford to buy it-that was plain enough on their
faces; but they always bought it, and went
home the happier. Baby is King In the cellars
and tenement houses. See him when he is
taken out from them to walk. On Sunday
afternoon. no matter how worn and patched
is his fathers coat or mothers gown, he wears
a feather or scrap of lace. 1t is the remem-
brance of his little red face that gives his
mother strength through the long, hungry week,
aud keeps his ignorant, british father steady
at his work and out of the dram-shop. He
is the one CLEAN of innocence, of hope, of
pure ambition in their sOrdid lives. 1t is
for him that they deny themselves, or try TO
struggle ND out OF the level of the slough in
which they were born.


Take the town at different levels and you
will find the same story a million times redu-
plicated There is little morsel of flesh
swathed in costly lace, around whose cradle a
worldly fashionable family gather to-day and
grow human and tender and forget money and
fashion. 1t is for his boy that old gray haired
Cr9sus tolls over his ledger or gambles in
stocks. 1t is to give "the childr a better
chance than they have ever had for happiness
and fortune that hundreds and thousands of
oyer-worked middle-cass men are drudgng
to-day, and VIII 20 on dradging to the end and
die with the harness on. Go where You will il
is the same, in Iceland huts and imperial pail
aces The fond, half-divine folly repeats
itself in every copdtion and i'll every age.
What do our worout lives matter after all
we say-our youthful ambitions and plans
that faded out before middle agei II is our
child that will be happy and famous. II is lie
for whom plans are needed; he is the tlane
that may be King hereafter. On each Of these
little ones falls the reflected light from the
Divine Babe who WAS born IN the maDger
The coarsest man approaches child with the
feeling that ii is a something pure, fresh from
Gods hand. He must make himself clean aud
honest for its sake.


Hence the story of the Mother and Child in
Year: 1879

the Stable comes home to the most irrch-
cious of us with human pathos ana iorcc
ont of our own experience, which can never
he argued or sneered away. Hence the ng-
ni6cant fact that for nearly nineteen ceniu-
ries there has been one day in each year SET
apart as sacred to that Divine Child, anu
through Him to all children. He loved; there
fore. they must be made happy. 1t IL the only
anniversary which has been kept by Inherent
nations unbroken through time. The woria
perpetually gives itself up 10 one
bruit or blaze of splendor after another.
Now it is this imperial conqueror who is to live
forever, now that. Now it is revolution III
dynasties or in science which is to work
permanent change in all things. Yet, one by
one, each drops into its proper place and be-
comes insignificant, but the immortal Babe an
its manger lives on and the Kings from the
East bring their offerings to Him, and the
poor Hebrew herders are sent from their dreary
watch on the hillside to find heaven in bis
face; and as age follows age the world goes
with them to worship at His feet, and there
find rest and comfort.


This picture of the Mother and Child, so
dear TO us all. is no poetic fancy. There is a
reality in the life and death of Jesus broad
and solid enough to undeslie the present civil


ization of the world and the needs of each


individual man. But it is His childhood TO
which wo do homage to-day. And we,
busy modern New Workers, bow to it
ms did the Kings of Chaldea and
Tarshisb. because we recognize that in
the birth of that Infant in the stable
was the birth into the world of a human cour-
age, truth, and selfsacriice unknown before.
The kings and the poor Hebrews knew that
they needed these things; they gave their gifts
of gold and myrrh, in acknowledgment OF
their need SO do we know it. When we go
about to-day with our hearts full, giving our
little signs of love to each other, trying to
make some hungry woman or little child hap
pier because Christmas has come, we are only
in our poor way trying to show our recognition
and our need of that Divine Love and unset
fishness which c:me to us with the Child In
the Stable eighteen centuries ago.
Year: 1879

The cattle disease is reported to be spread
ing in Westchester County. and fears are en-
tertained of an epidemic 1t should be one of
the first acts of the LEGISLATURE to repair
the omission of last year, and strengthen the
bands OF the State Inspectors. 1t is late to
take action, but not too late to prevent much
greater damage than has already been done.