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Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

A JEWISH RARBIs Views ON THE WHIs-
KEY CRUsADE-Rabbi Prudential, Of Viii
Transport, Pa, having received letter from
the wOman's temperance organization of that
place urging him to appoint committee of
six Hebrew ladies to cooperate with it in a
crusade, the Rabbi replies very sharply that 1t
is impossible to fanatcise an lsraehte. He
says the latter cannot appreciate these crus9 des
because he drinks and is no drunkard. plays
and is no gambler, and lives well and is no
glutton. The second point made by the Rab-
bi is that the Jew is no hypocrte. I" If he
drinks wine or strong drink, or plays game of
cards, his wife and his children are not ex-
cluded from the same pleasure. Whatever is
not prohibited loses much of its charm. Those
young people who drink a glass of wine or
beer at their parents table become no drunk
ards and no temperance fanatics Third, the
Rabbi decides that "any Jewish lady would
consider it sacriege and blasphemy to abuse
prayer and benediction for purposes of public
demonstrations, in which the wires are laid and
drawn by politicians ON one hand, and men
who make money out of the affair on the
other" and that there were mo whiskey am.
azons in the tents of Israel."
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

THE HAPPY CLAM-The moral and intel
lectusl condition of the saltwater clam is of a
kind that cannot be considered as particularly
enviabls; and yet there are many reasons why
the Clam may be regarded as a particularly
fortunate individual. and why its lOwly lot
should be longed for by man. The clam never
sufferes from tight boots nor corns and it is
never worried because its pantaloOns do not
fit. Its placid temper is never disturbed by the
hired girl question, and it never endangers its
life by learning to skate. No clam, we believe,
ever yet skatcd. 1t never lives next door to
girl who practices four times a day on the
piano, and it never has any cats frolicking
around under its window to keep it awake at
night, 1t never has to blow its nose when it
has cold in its head, and it never suffers from
badness. Its nervous system is never un-
strung by political excitement, and it retains
its 6rmness when there is q financial panic. 1t
never has to maintain its mother-iu-law, and il
may refrain entirely from dancing when it goes
to party. 1t does not wash on Saturday
nights and nobody ever asks it to sing. 1t il
not prosecuted by life insurance agents, aud il
runs no risks Of receiving dog bites. 1t i;
never annoyed by wited shirt collars in ho
weather, and it never has to give wedding
presents to its wife's relations 1t never ha'
to pay when it rides on a railroad. 1t nevel
has to carry an umbrella; and nobody eve
sits on its coat-tail. SO, taking it all in all
the clam ought to be happy, no matter wha
the condition of the tide.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22
The Mother in Heaven.

In turning over some old papers in a country
attic, some time since, came across the fol
lowing sentiments, which, from some hints by
tho author accompanying, | think he intended
eventually to put into verse. They struck me,
even in prose, as expressing the cry from 80
many hearts, that | have ventured to copy
them and send them to you, hoping you might
think them healthy relief from the absorbing
political topics of the day, and give them a
corner in your valuable paper:
"When the heart is oppressed with anxious
cares-when the world looks cold and drear-
when black diSappointments hang heavy round
our neckS, and we hunger after a love that
seems ever to recede, whittier do our souls
turn for ccor?-to that mother in Heaven
who never failed US while here.
when our hearts ache to find ourselves
no longer needed to partAke in the pleasure of
our children scarcely welcome even to share
in their sorrOws-when cold duty takes the
place of the hearts offerings in sickness or
suffering to whom do we cast our eyes upward,
! thinking oh where she here, whom should
we find ever at our side?-our mother in
! Heaven.
"When those we love have gone astray,
and language fails to express the bitter shame
when the little feet whose tOttering steps We
have upheld, or watched through the frmeT
strides of youth and manhood, Eave turned
into devious pains, needless OF eDJTealy VI
prayer whittier do We turn, longing to rest
our weary heads on the bosom that aver ans
wered our cry for sympathy ?--the mother in
Heaven.
"When years have passed, and we are left
alone. children gone, some separated by seas
or mountains, others by the greater distance OF
coldness or fOrgetfuness, whose voice then
comes back to US with the loving tones We
vainly long to hear once more ?-the deal
mother in Heaven.
I" Is not the wish wrung from u.s. that once
again we were children to be clasped in tina
warm embrace? Do not the hitter tears come
as we remember how unmindful we were o
the rich motherly blessings while We haC
themP
t "Oh! ye who still have mothers to feel 70
your joys or your sorrows, remember, hOweve
your hearts may change, theirs never do; tht
mothers heart is the one thing that neve
grows old. Amid the trials that must be ou
; portion in this world, good Being has sent Il
all one blessing one love purer than all others
Happy are those who, with anguish and re
e morse, do not have to say, 1t is our mother i
2 Heaven I"-Baitimore Telegram.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

SPRING BoNNETs. new bOnnets are
enlarged sizes of last years shapes. A large
crown is the only feature common to all, as
there are bonnGts with coronets and without
them, and the vagaries of the brim are innu-
merablo Trimmings are arranged to give the
bonnet a most compact effect, dispensing with
flowing streamers behind and strings in front.
Bias twilled silk, or else grOsgrain in stripes
two or three inches wide, flushed on each
edge with rolled French hem, is very simply
folded or twisted around the crown and tied
behind in bow without ends. Upright loops
and perpendicular bows nestle against the
crown, and some have a modified Alsacian
bow or great rosette in 'front.' with peated
fan like bows turning up behind. There is
also much initiating soft silk crown on straw
bonnets, fluted silk fronts, and often there are
Normandy crowns of silk in straw hats.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22
WHOLE NO. 900

HAVE COURAGE. 1t conduces much to our
content if we pass by those things which hap
pen to our trouble, and consider what is pleas
ing and prosperous, so that, by the representa-.
ton OF the better, the worst may be botted
out. If | be overthrown in my suit at law,
yet home is left me still, and my land or
have virtlous, wife, hopeful children, kind
friends. and good hopes. If | have lost one
child, it may be have two or three still left
me; Enjoy the present, whatsoever it may be
and do not be over soiicitous for the future
for if you take your foot from the present
standing, and thrust it forward toward to NOR
rows event, you are in "A restless condition.
1t is like refusing to quench your present
thirst by fearing you shall want drink the next
day! If to morrow you should want, your sor-
row would come time enough, though you do
not hasten to meet it. Let your trouble tarry
till its own day comes. Enjoy the blessings OF
this day, it God send them, and the evils of it
bear patiently and sweety-tor this day ID
ours We are dead to yesterday, and not yet
| born to to morrow.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

He WANTED TO MARRY "A London letter
says Here is good story which has not
yet found its way into print, but for the truth
of which can vouch. Lord George Gordon,
young man of four and twenty, wishing to
marry a certain young lady, went quite recently
to ask the permission of his father, the Duke
Of Argyle. The Duke, pompous little man,
replied in effect, :" My son, since our house
has been honOred by being united with the
royal family have thought it right to delegate
a decision on all such matters to your elder
brother, the Marquis of Lorne. Go, there
fore, aud consult him." The Marquis of
Iornc on being applied to, said, My dear
brother, in case of importance like this
should think it right to ask the decision of the
Queen, the head Of the royal family, into
which have married. The Queen, on the
matter being laid before her, declared that
since her terrible bereavement she had been
in the habit of taking no steps without con-
sulting the Duke of SAKE. COburg, the brother
of her deceased husband. To the Duke, then
the case was referred, and from him letter
was received telling his dear sster,in-law that
recent political events have induced him to do
nothing even as to giving advice, withontthe
express concurrence of the Emperor William,
before whom he had laid the matter.
The Emperor William wrote a long letter,
declaring that though he was surrounded by
counsellors, there was only one who had on all
occasions proved himself correct, loyal and
faithful, and without whose advice he (the
Emperor) would have no decision Therefore
he had referred the matter to his faithful Min
lister, Prince Bismarck. And it is narrated thai
when Prince Bismarck was made acquainted
with the subject he roared out, "GOtt in Him
mel, what fuss about nothing Let the boy
marry whom he pleases SO long as she is young
and pretty"
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

An exchange says that Michigan man
dreamed recently that his aunt was dead. The
dream proved true He tried the same dream
on his mother-in law, but it didn't work.
A pack Of wolves in Sherboume County,
Minnesota, chased couple of lawyers five
miles, and the New Orleans Republican thinks
it showed lack of professional courtesy.
During a revival at Green Bay, citizen is
reported to have arisen and asked to be for
given for having been subscriber to the Chi
cago Times for nineteen years
When Maryland doctor speAs'it Il aaSScufor-
tus," is it any wonder that patients die on his
hands? Another doctor spells corrosive sub
Innate "coros Of sublimate.
."Gracious mel exclaimed lady in the
witness box, "how should | know anything
about anything don't know anything abb ut?9
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

Some students fixed up ghost and placed
the other night and then retired and awaited
developments. One of the editors came along
and didn't get frightened. He disrobed it,
and now wears fifteen dollar pair of panta-
looms, ten dollar vest, seven.dollar pair of
boots and an eight-dollar hat, while one of the
students goes about without vest, and another
roams around through the least trequented
streets wearing very ancient pair of mex
nressibes.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

Boswell once asked johnson if there was
no possible circumstance under which suicide
would be justifable.
Mo- said Johnson
"Well said Boswell, suppose a man had
been guilty of fraud, and that he was certain
to be found out p
"Why, then, was the reply, in that case
let him 60 to some county where he is not
known, and not to the devil, where he is
known ~
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

A man in Haverkill, n. H., who had re-
Gently buried his wife, on hearing of the sud
den death of his nearest neighbor's better half,
hastened over to his house TO console him.
After he beheId the iteless remains of the
lady, he remarked oval, we have both lost
our women, and all We hev gut to do is to find
two more"
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

The Madisopyille Times prints this sensible
paragraph: Correspondents will Oblige US
very materially if, in their articles, they will
confne themselves to the use of either we or
II Php indiscriminate use of both is Vexa-
tous Neither is it necessary TO quote every
other word and italicise the rest.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

The following is rather an alluring patent
medicine advertisement: "Would you prefer
an abiding faith in the tortureS unspeakable,
in horrors inexpressible-destroy your dges-
ton? Would you live in the body forever
keep your digestion at full vigOr and, although
the end of the world may come, your end will
not come; you will have to go after it. Old
age is but the failure of nutrition. Nutrition
is life non. nutrition is death.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

No women are hereafter as heretofore to be
permitted to preach, pray, or exhort in
in Brooklyn, the Preshytery of that city hav-
ing so resolved in re,affrinaton of "deliv-
eranee' Of the denomination adopted in 1892
The case which has evoked this decision is the
famous one of Miss Smiley, who made an ad-
dress some time ago in DIR. Cuylers church.
The result Of the controversy, which is of long
standing, and has attracted much attention,
will be a disappointment to very large class
Of people. Clearly, if women have no right
to preach, pray, or exhort and to teach the
word Of God, they have no right to be present
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

The persistent, and up to this time fruitless,
ballOtings in Massachusetts for a United States
Senator, revive the fact that when Charles
Sumner was first chosen it was only on the
one hundred and twentieth ballot and his
election was the result of combination be-
tween the Free Soilers and the Democrats. A
similar coalition made Boutwell, Governor of
Massachusetts, and Chase Senator in Congress
from Ohio. Another curious circumstance was
the election of Thomas Francis Bayard, of
Delaware, to the United States Senate to sue
ceed his own father in 1869 The grand father
of the present Senator sat in the same body
from 1904 until I8l3-PhHtdelphta Press.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

The Siamese twins were Baptists. But, :"
says the Presbyterian, suppose one had been
a disbeliever, how could the other have been
immersed? ? But another saws they were not
Baptists-they were United Brethren.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

A model husband from the land of felton,
" He admired his wife SO much, that he used
to light the candle three times every night to
look at her and he became a very celebrated
bankrupt two or three times.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

Passengers to the Pacific by rail breakfast
in Sierras with twenty feet of snow around
them; four hours later they find. wheat four
inches high, and the next day see pear and
peach trees in blossom.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

A mans hypocrisy is often detected by the
largeness of his religious profession, even as
bogus fvecent nickels are discovered by the
fact that the motto :" In God we trust" is lar
ger in the counterfeit than in the genuine.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

Humboldt County, Iowa, has produced thir.
teen pairs of twins within as many weeks, and
many prudent lovers have broken off their en-
gagements in consequence.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

They were going to put man out of San
Francisco theater for creating disturbance.
when voice cried, He's all right, he's killed
a Chinaman y and they let the man alone.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-22

A Chicago paper chronicled the election of
officers of the st. Louis Board of Trade under
the head Of Miscellaneous Grimes"
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and South had passed away, and there no
longer remained any cause for continued
arrangement between these two sections of
our common country. Are there not many of
us who believe the same thing? Is not that
the common sentiment--or if not ought it not
to be-of the great mass of our people, North
and South? Bound to each other by COM
mon constitution, destined to live together
under common government, forming unitedly
but a single member of the great family of
nations, shall we not now, at last, endeavor to
grow toward each other once more in heart, as
we are already indissolubly linked to each
other in fortunes? Shall we not, while honor
ing the memory of this great champion of
human liberty, this feeling sympathizer of hu
man sorrow, this earnest pleader for the exer-
else of human tenderness and heavenly charity,
lay aside the concealments which serve only
to perpetuate misunderstanding, and distrust,
and frankly confess that on both sides we most
earnestly desire to be one-one not merely in
political organization, one not merely IN iden-
tity of institutions one not merely in commu-
nifty of language and literature and traditions
and country, but more and better than all that
ono also in feeling and in heart? Am l
mistaken in this? Do the concealments of
which I speak still cover animosities which
neither time nor reflection, nor the march of
events have yet sufficed to subdue? / cannot
believe it. Since have been here l have
scrutinized your sentiments, as expressed not
merely in public debate, but in the abandon of
personal confidence 1 know well the senti-
ments of these, my Southern friends, whose
hearts are so embodied that the feeling of each
is the feeling of all and I see on both sides
only the seeming of constraint which each
apparently hesitates to dismiss. The South,
PROSTATE, exhausted, drained of her life blood
as we'll as of her material resources, yet still
honorable and true, accepts the bitter award of
the bloody arbitrament without reservation,
resolutsly determined to abide the result with
chivalrous fidelity yet, as if struck dumb by
the magnitude of her reverses she suffers on
in silence The North, exutant in her tri-
umph and elated by success, still cherishes, as
we are assured, heart full of magnanimous
emotions toward her disarmcd and discounted
antagonist; and yet as if under some myster-
Gus spell, her words and acts are words and
acts of suspicion and distrust. Would that
the spirit of the illustrious dead whom we la
ment to-day could speak from the grave to
both parties in this deporable discord, in tones
which should reach each and every heart
throughout this broad territory! Ny country
nen, know one another, and you will love one
another.
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THE SOUTH AND WEsT.-Ever since the
Republican party came into power, it has been
almost absolutely controlled. and through it the
Government also, by New England; the tariff,
the public debt the national banking system,
the internal revenue system and the reconstruc-
ton of the South have all been in measure,
agencies for the consolidation of power and
wealth in the hand S of the Northeast. The
disintecration going on i'll the Republican
party during the last two years, however, has
deprived that section of the instrument by
which it secured the docile obedience of the
West, and left both the West and South to
form new associations. 1t is not surprising
that they should come together in a voluntary
alliance, nor that they should be startled by
the power which this alliance exhibits. 1t
would rather be surprising if, having discovered
the power of this new sectional union, they
shall not further compact it for future occasions.
Indeed, the consolidation of the West and South
into the governing authority of the country
appears to be the probable product of this vote
on the currency bill. The monstrous official
corruptions that have been developed at the
East. the growing divisions in New England,
and the lamentable decay of public spirit in
Massachusetts, as exhibited in the recent his
tory of many of her public men, conspire
with the growing habit of independent think
ine in the West to make an opportunity for
this transfer of power The very fact that the
East is anxious only to preserve things just as
they are, and that the other two sections are
becoming violently and aggressively clamorous
for something better than the present condition
of things is, of itself, an indication of the
drift of events in this direction.-S. Louis
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Vor1NG FOR PRESIDENTIAL change in the
mode of electing the President and Vice -Presi-
dent has been for some time under consideration
by the Senate Committee of Privileges and
Elections. 1t is understood that that commit
tee have agreed upon their report, which is is
substantially the plan suggested by senator or
Morton. The proposition is to divide eacn e! n
State into Electoral districts, corresponding
with the Congressional districts, The People P; ;3 t
will vote direct for President, and the candidate M
ina district having the highest number OF popu-
lar votes will be given ono vote for that district
Each State is to have two votes lat la large"
which are to be given to the canddate haying f
these Votes are to be counted at Washington,
and the candidate having a majority will be
elected President. A similar course is proposed
for the choice of the Vicc-Presidcnt, and
tribunal is created for the decision of call ques1
tions arising out of an election for the office OF
President and Vicc-President." The reform
chiefly secured by the proposed change is the
abolition of the Electoral Colleges" III the
separate States.
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No THANKS TO RADICAL RULE!-The
Columbia Union is confident that "the upper
and middle counties of the State arc on the
high road to prosperity" and this pleasant pros.
pect is attributed to the beneticent influence of
Soutb Carolina Radicaism. With decent and
frugal State government the up-country could
he far better Off than it is : for whatever meas
ure Of prosperity has been attained is the result
ofhard work and the extension ofthe cotton area,
made possible by the general use of commercial
fertilizers. The counties in which the outlook
is brightest arc those in which Ralicallism IS
weakest. They have made Roadway in spite OF
the oppressive taxation and general mlsgov-
ernment of the Rings of which the OAlo" IS $
the centre. That's fact which can't be denied
or explained away.-Ntps and Courier.
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Touching Incident of Memorial Day in
Mobiles

The following telegraphic dispatch from Mo-
bile relates to the world. touching incident
between the boys in blue aud the boys in gray,
which does credit to each. The noble conduct
of Colonel Wickersham, and the officers of the
garrison at Mount Vernon barracks, are worthy
of the emulation and the admiration Of all who
wish peace, prosperity and brotherly Loves
The memorial exercises here to-day were
witnessed by the entire community and vicinity.
beautiful statue was unveiled. Rev. b. NJ.
Palmer, of New Orleans. the orator of the day,
delivered beautiful and appropriate address;
Just as Admiral Semmes was about to unveil
the statue, Colonel Wickerson, our popular
postmaster who was Federal soldier during
the war, stepped forward and presented the
Admiral with beautiful wreath of flowers in
the shape of circle and cross, accompanied by
the following touching and appropriate note
'This floral offering is rendered with the kindly
and sympathetic greetings of the survivors OF
the Federal soldiers, resident in Mobile, who
honor the brave and heroic dead of the late
war, aud desire your acceptance OF the same as
an humble tribute to valor and unselfish devo-
ton to cause held dearer than life. Fresh be
the memory of those under the sod -,t
"And the dead, awaiting the judgment day,
Under the one the blue, under the other the
gray"
Admiral Semmes accepted the floral offering
in neat and appropriate address, and at the
completion the statue was unveiled, amid peas
of artillery from guns kindly loaned by the Fed
erals for the purpose. Another pleasant Incl
dent of the occasion was the following touching
and acceptable Offering: "April q, 1874.
From the officers of the United States army,
stationed at Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama,
to the Mobile Cadets, as q mark of respect to
the memory of their gallant dead, and in recog-
milton of their manly and generous actions in
contributing to the decoration ofthe gravesin the
National Cemetry at Mobile, Alabama, on the
3Oth of June, 1873" Everything passed off
delightfully."-, all the military companies, fire
companies and societies participating.