Smyrna times., 1869-09-22

them, indeed if we look about us, in use as
long as fragments of leather will hold together,
and, even after that greVious hour, when patch
ing and sewing and mailing are alike ineffective,
we still see shreds and patches of them lying
about on dunghils and cinderheaps, decaying
until they become at last unrecOgnlZable, and
are old boots and shoes no longer.
What becomes of a great proportion OF the
produce with which nature supplies US so
liberaly2 What, to take an entirely madden
ing instance, becomes of cabbages? The num-
ber of cabbages which the earth brings forth,
in comparison to the number of which man is
able to take cognlsance in cooked state, Is
dispropOrtionate IN the extreme. 60 where
you will, (except in the paved streets of our
| towns,) you find cabbages growing. In the
country, in the suburbs in the dngy back re-
| gions where the town melts into the suburbs,
there are eabbages. The market gardens of
| every city and town seem to contain nothing
| but cabbages. In ameteur gardens, walled-in
acres or half acres lying outside the pleasure
garden, | observe the fruits of the earth to be
cabbages the markets seem to be organized
almost exclusively for the developement of the
cabbage trade But what becomes of the cab
bages? How rarely does one see a cabbage
either on ones own table, OR on the tables of
| friends! Once or twice in the course OF the |
spring, a cabbage may appear as an item in the |
bill of fare, but no ottener. 1t is said that cab
bages are largely consumed in the poorer neigh |
borhoOds; but to account for the number Of
cabbages produced, it would be necessary for
the inhabitants of all kinds of neighborhoOds,
rich and poor, not only to consume cabbages
largely, but to live upon cabbages
What a mass of matter must be furnished by
the uneatable portions Of the she'll fish which
appear on our tables! What legions of oys-
ter-shells must accumulate during the long pc
riod when there is an r in the month! The
, grottoes do not account for many and, besides
what becomes of the grottoes? At all times
of the year, both when there is an r in the
month and when there is not, there is steady
consumption of Holsters and crabs; yet the
! roads are not crimson with their uneatable re-
mains. They do not the multitudinous"
E fields incarnadine, making the green one
! red" May | ask what becomes of the shells
of the peas, of the egg shells, Of the potato
E parings, OF the asparaguS-of every head OF
I, which so little is eaten and SO much is left?
Q Seriously speaking, and all exaggeration
v apart, it seems as if the bulk of matter which
= all this accumulation of objects suggests, must
2 be something SO enormous as senslby to ln-
!, crease the mass of the earth. One would ex-
pect to find great hillocks Of all sorts of heter
4 ogeneous!y formed material obstructing our
e roadways, rising up 20 the first floors of our
,f houses, impeding our progress when we would
rs move, obliging us to force our way through
d with steam rams. Yet it is not so. | do not
At suppose that there is any material difference
% in the elevation of the SOIL caused by this ac-
If cumulation OF things, even III the now thlckly y
a populated neighborhoods. Yet l would ex
of pect TO find, added on the earth's crust, new
De modern stratum of the conglomerate sort made
IN up of pins, penny newspapers, old gloves, cab
IS bage stalks, orange-peel old tooth brushes
to worn out boots, steel pens, used lucifer match
We es, and all the other produce which goes OF
ee forever aceumulating around and about us
n and of the ultimate fate of which we knew lit
of tie or nothing. 1t is possible that such STRAIT
Sc um exists, but one hears nothing about it. |
h is not reported on by learned societies, no
NO recorded in scientific journals, nor, when cut
re tings are made through metropolitan soil, i
ell order to the construction of district railroads
=" do we see streaks OF soil made up of thes
1r- objects, exhibited in section. ...& all :.
a There certainly would appear to be some pre-
IN cess in nature, causing things to disappear. A
ed all events they do disappear. ] have seen
Bile road mended in the country, and that in som
,at district where there has been very little traffic
req with such extraordinary and anomalous matt
eel rials as broken bottles, brickbats, old SAUCE
,ed pans, battered hats, hObnailed shoes, and I'll
zen like, and have seen many of these objects ly
nm ing for weeks and months without bec0miH
ION incorporated with the main substance of whiC
hat the road was made. And yet at last they hay
of disappeared! For halfa year at least, the o
and boot or the battered sauce pan has been ther
avs drifting from place to place, occupying now Il
ard centre OF the lane, now the side, and by-and-
un- lurking Ia secret place under the hedgei s.
at there the thing has been, and [ have seen
not cause or just reason why it should not rema
yhy there in its integrity hundred years. But
- have left, for time, the part OF the count
Dur in which the e-pan-mended road wa
|, to and when / came back a year afterwards, til
ives battered vessel was gone. 1t is so again wi
den indoor rubbish, or with things not exactly co
the ing under that denomination which you ne'
4 of use and never want. The things dlsappe
the You do not consign them.to the dust hole,
if / put them in the fire; you merely cease to
liter them, or to take note of their existence
le or in the course of time, longer or shorter as
king case may be, they go. They dissolve, or eV
ledi. orate or in soma other way cease to exist,
one to our great relief, we sec them no more.
erred. One cf the last phases of all under VIII
the matter that has lost all dIStinctness and de
they ty, appears, is that most mysterious substa
old, which we call fue,. What strange institut
se in is that, requiring for its deyelopement moth
! old but neglect Passing decorator = shop
mot other day, 4 noticed, on q coat oI-arms v
old which he had embellished his wire blind,
, old motto, ''Nile sine lahore -" Nothing with
E old labor 1t struck me at the time as much
lends sweeping a statement; and now, pauslng 1
Tes Of moment to reflect on, hue, ! find q mean
confuting this reckless assertion. tlue IS =
!. A had without labor. Let tnlhgs al9ne, ano
,usto- is the result. Let your pedsteaa alone,
We Of see how the hue aceumulates underneatn
paper Let your chest Of drawers alone, and obs
Hin lhow the aue gathers behind that piece OF
axe q hiture, Let yourpockets alone, and note !!
other curious little pellet, composed Oh nue., :
81 and in the corners OF each OF those reeeptacies
ope have Just extracted such . pellet; from oF
rticui the pockets OF an old Walsecoat.l W9n1
'ought what 1t may be the remalns77Jpli.4s kse
till ID togaTTthe stqhngI OF the great Alsxau'
e, and saddle2i Both existed ones-- Eilas pe
world of Mem?li no4i sq9gHugnl ~ ~ goi a5!G
should -,tnJ .fZsT ~, ,r--ni-Ui AZ tGra.g
or, re- u A DEATH BED riiIs.J y 1its y
should died in Paterson,lN n. Jof on Dat13raay
sands ut,, before breathl9g Ter last caea her 4 4
he old at her bedside, and said that in all her ma
solu- life Of twenty five years, neither a. cross
= - -. - - Ia lonk had ever naSsed bet