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Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

The WAR.WAsTE OF LIFE-Since the erea-
ton of the world, fourteen thousand millions of
human beings have fallen in the battles which
man has waged against his fellow creature
msn. If this amazing number of men we're to
hold each other by the hand, at arms length,
they would extend over fourteen millions, five
hundrsd and eighty-thres thousand, .hree hun
dred and thirty-thrse miles of ground, and
would eneirele the globe on which We dwell six
hundred and eight timesl IF We allow the
weight of a man to be, on an average, one hun
dredweight, land that is below the mark we
shall come to the conclusion that six million
two hundred and Gfty thousand tons of human
flesh have been mangled, disfgured, gsshed,
aud trampled under foot The calculation will
appear more striking when we state that, if
ouiy the forefngers OF every one Of those four
teen thousand millions Of human beings we're
laid ina straight line, they would reach more
than six hundred Thousand miles beyond the
moon and that if person were to undertake
to count tue number-allowing nineteen hours
day, and seven days to a week-at the rate
of six thousand per hour, it would occupy thai
person three hundred and thirty-six years
And-awful is the consideration three hun
dred and fifty thousand pipes Of human blood
have bean split in battle
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10
A Passage from Jeanie Deans Pleading
for the Life of Her Sister, Efie, be-
fore Queen Caroline.

The reader of the Heart of Mid Lothian will
remember the apparently fatal mistakes made
by Jeanie in the presence of the Queen when
she pleaded for the life Of her sister, and the
anxiety of the Duke Of Argyle lest she should
say too much, or too little:
IF it like you madam said Jeanie,
would hae gaen to the end of the earth save
the life of John PorteOus, or any other un-
happy man in his condition; but | might law
fully doubt how far | am called upon to be the
avenger of his blood, though it may become the
civil magistrate to Go so. He is dead and game
to his place, and they that have slain him must
answer for their ain act. But my sister, my
puir sister, Efie, still lives, though her days
and hours are numbered She still lives, and
word of the King mouth might restore her
to a broksn-hearted auld man, that never IN
his daily and nightly exercise, forgot to pray
that his Majesty might be blessed with long
and prosperous reign, and that his throne,
and the throne of his posterity, might be
established in righteousness. o, madam, If
ever ye kend what it was to sorrow for and with
sinning and suffering creature, whose mind
is sac tossed that she can be neither ca d tit to
! live or die, have some compassion on our
misery? Save an honest house from dshonor
and an unhappy girl, not eighteen years o
age, from an early and dreadful death Alas
it is not when we sleep soft and wake merrily
ourselves that we think on other peoples suf
ferings. Our hearts are waxed light within u
then, and We are for righting our ain wrang
aud fighting our ain battles. But when tht
hour of trouble comes to the mind or to tn,
body and seldom may it visit your LeddyshiI
and when the hour of death comes, tina
comes to high and lOw-'ang and lats may it b,
yours oh, my i 'ddy, then it iSua what W,
hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dun
for others, that We think on maist pleasantly
And the thoughts that ys hae interviewed t
OF your mouth could hang the haill Porteou
mob at the tail of ae tow"
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

Mrs. Joseph r. Hawley writes to the Hart.
ford Times, correcting statement Of cores
pondsnt of that journal concerning the wife Of
President Grant. The correspondent charged
that Mrs. Grant had cold manners" and had
her friendly notes answered by secretary
Mrs. Hawley writes that Mrs Grant has suf.
fsred for years from a severe inflammation o.
the eyes, which affects her sight so much thai
she cannot recognize faces unless very near
indeed to the person, and this necessarily
affects her manner in public, as she Otter
cannot tell to whom she is speaking. Oh
course her notes of friendship must b.
answered by a secretary; for shs cannot see t
write even to her own children, when they are
separated from her. Is it not pity to give s,
wrong an immpression of kind and true
hearted woman, suffering under so great al
affiction Are there many OF US who, unde
such circumstances, would deserve the prais
which all unite in giving her, as a good house
keeper, good wife and mother"
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

A LOVE ADvENTURE.-A colored man
living in Maeomb street having long admired a
colored widow living on the next block above,
but being afraid to cone boldly and declare
his passion, went to a white man Of his
acquaintance the other day and asked him to
write the lady letter asking her hand in mar
rieQe. The friend wrote, telling the woman in
a few brief lines that the size OF her feet was
the talk OF the neighbOrhood, and asking her
if she couldn't pare them down little. The
name of the cslored man was signed, and he
was to call on her Saturday night for an answer.
Yesterday the writer of the letter met the
negro limping along the street aud asked him
| what the widow said. The man showed him Q
bloodshot eye, and scratched nose, a lame leg
and spot on the scalp where a handful Of
wool had been violently jerked out and
answered in solemn tones: "she didn't say
muffin, an didn't stay NOR a mint"
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

One OF THE SORROWS OE LIFE-Many
volume has been written about the love of
parents, the love of mothers, its enthusiasms of
hope and fancy, its alterations of the unworthy,
its agony for the lost ; but do not remember
that any one has ventured to touch on a still
more terrible view of the subject, the disap
poin ment, for example, with which such a
woman as | have attempted to set before the
readcr-a woman full of high aspirations,
noble generositiOS, and, perhaps, an unwerran,
table personal pride, all intensified by the
homely circumstances Of life around her-some-
times looks upon the absolutely commonplace
people whom she has brought into the world
She, too, has had her dreams about them while
they we're children, and all things seemed pos
sibe-while they were youths, with still some
grace and freshness Of the morning yelling their
unheroic outlines. But a woman of seventy
can cherish no fond deluSions about her
middle e-aged sons and daughters, who are to all
intents and purposes, as old as she is. What
dismal sense of failure must come into such a
womans heart while she looks at them
Perhaps this is one reason why grandfather
and grandmothers throw themselves so eagerly
into the new generation, by means of which
human nature can go ON deceiving itself
Heavens What difference between the or
dinary man or woman of fifty and the idea
creature which he or she appeared to the
mothers eyes at fifteen? The old people gaze
and gaze to see our old features in US; and
who can express the bland OF that disappoint
ment, the cruel modification of those old hope
which never find expression in any words ?
| Mrs. Otiphdnt.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

INsULTs.-It is always better to pass a
dozen intended insults without recognition,
than to take offence at single unintentional
neglect or reflection. MISUNDERSTANDING are
fruitful of more unkiad feelings in society than
ever result from delibrate Immature. Hun
dreds Of friendships have been sundered by
that egotistical sensitiveness that is ever look
ing for offence. We can all point to certain
persons who are thus morbidly sensitive to a
painful degree. They are disagreeabe com-
panions We need not spend our prescious
time in pointing to them, however. We have
each something to guard in our own character.
We are each inclined to take offence too easily.
II we could remove this ever jealous watchful-
ness, society would gain a new charm, or
rather it would be relieved of a very disagree
able feature. Pass neglect, then, and personal
reflections, as gracefully as possible, instead of
taking the risk Of being offended when no
offence is intended.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

A COOP ONE-Parcon Brownlow tells a
good story Of an old Presbyterian bachelor
preacher, known almost as a woman hater until
he was nearly fifty years old, when he married
and settled somewere among the mountains of
North Carolina. The parson says: Our
bachelor friend was preaching On the sinners's
excuses. Il have bought piece of ground,
and wish to go and see it, said one Here is
want of inclination to attend to divine things,
said the precher. Another said, II have
bought five yoke of oxen, and must need 90
and prove them" This seems case of
necessity. A third said, II have married q
wife, and therefore cannot come" Here is q
case Of natural impoSSbaitg, from which we
may infer, continued our bachelor preacher,
that one woman will pull man further from
the Lord than ten steers"
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

A young lady 10 the East-end, who has just
returned from completing her education in
Boston, wanted to kiss her old lover recently,
and her mother objected. The daughter drew
up her queenly form to its full height, and sx.
claimed: Mother terrible. tragical, and sub.
timely retributivs will be the course pursued
alabastor lips to mine, aud enrapturs my i'm.
mortal soul by imprinting angelic sensations of
divine bliss upon the indispensable members
of my human physiognomy, and then kindly
allowing me to take q withdrawal from bis
bensfceut presence" The mother fssbly ad
mitted that her objections were Overruled.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10
WHOLE NO. 1903

JOSH BILLINGS ADVICE TO GIRL Who Is
FINISHED. -Gertrude-Yu tell me that you
have been two years to boardin skool, and have
just finished your educashun, and want to
know what yu shall do next
Listen, my gushing Gertrude, and l will tell
yu.
Git up in the morning in good season, 20
down into the kitchen, seize petato with one
hand and knife with the other, skin the
potato and dozen more Just like it.
In other words, go to work and make your
self useful, now that you have become orna-
mental, and if va hav eny time left, after the
beds are made, and the ducks haV been fed,
pitch into the pianna, and yu make the old
rattle box scream with musk.
Do this for one year, and sum likely young
fellow in the neighborhood will begin to hang
around you, and say sweeter things than wi
hey ever heard before, and finally will give yu
chance to keep house on yure own hook
Yu follow my advice, Gerty, and see if he
don't.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

The other day boy about seven years old
called at house at the Westend and asked
the lady for ten cent, saying he was the sole
support Of his mother. She reached after her
purse aud inquired.
"How old is your mother"
"5hs's seventy years old" promptly re-
piled the lad, aud he wondered what made the
lady hustle him out without giving him any
money.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

ARE You GoING.-"Are you going after
that sugar." called Marquette, Mich,
mother to her boy, who was in the street.
Am l going after that sugar2'' drawled the
youth in saucy and impudent tone but Just
then he happened to see his father coming up
behind him, and he said very respectfully and
lovingly why, of course | am, ma-I didn' {
know you needed it right away"
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

A COMFORTABLE SHOE-A Swiss philoso
pher has taken up subject that concerns
very closely the comfort of the human race,
aud especially the civilized portion of it,
They indeed suffer the most trem il-6tting
shoes The Indian is not oubled by his moe
casins, nor the Oriental by his sandal it is
the tight-6tting shoe of the European ami
American that claims a place among the instru-
made in the art of shoemaking, and prominent
among the improvements is one known as the
" box -toed' shoe, which relieves the toe from
the pressure of new pair of shoes. The
researches of the Swiss philosopher. DR..
Hermann Meper, OF Zurich suggest some
valuable considerations, well worthy the atten-
tion of the intelligent artiGcers who make boots
and shoes. He asserts that u shoemaker ought
not only to produce shoe that does not pinch,
but a shoe so constructed that it will give to a
foot distorted Iy the pinching it has borne
already fair chance OF return to its right
shape and full possession of its power as q
means of carrying the body onward. He says
that in measuring foot for shoe or a boot
| the first thing to be considered is the place o
the great toe. Upon this toe, in walking, the
weight of the whole body turns at every ster
in a natural foot; therefore it is in a straight
line with the heel A central straight lint
drawn from the point of the great toe to tht
middle of its root, if continued, would pas
very exactly to the middle of the heel. But
by the misftting boot usually worn, the poin
of the toe is pressed inward, the root outward
No last or mSdel Of foot already injured b,
wearing ill6tting boots or shoes should eve
be made Of the exact size of such a foot.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

Passing along the road the other day, we
thought we had found very beautiful knife.
On picking it up, We found it to be only
handle without a blade. So do we hear very
beautiful Sermons-well written and we'll read
but they are without blade. They cut cut
no cancers OF sin and carve out no models of
piety. Sermons must have blades.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10
POet2'V.
GRANDPA'S SOLILOQUY.

1t wasn't so when was young,
We used plain language then
We didn't speak Of them galOots,'
When m saT ing boys or men.
When speaking of the nice hand write,
OfJoe, or Tenn. or Bill;
Wsdid 1t plain-ws didn't say,
HE swings = nasty quill"
And when we seed girl we liked.
Who never failed to please,
We called her pretty, neat and good,
But not about the cheese.
Well. when we met good old friend
Wehsdnt lately seen,
We greeted him-but dIdr't say.
"HellOe, YOU old sardinel"
The boys sometimes got mad and fit;
We spoke Of kicks and blows;
But now they "whaeE him IN the snOOt,"
And paste him on the nOss."
Ones when a youth xas turned away
From her he loved nest dear.
He walked of on his fset-but now
He "crawls OIL on his ear
We used to dance when was young.
And used ts call 1t so;
But now they don't-they only "slinE
The light fantastic toe"
OF death We spoke in language plain,
That would no one perplex,
Bu, IN these days one doesn't die
He passed iu his checks"
We praised the man Of eommen sense;
HlsjudEnenlG good We said;
But now they say. Well that old plum
Has got level head
Its rather sad the children now
Are learning all such talk
They've learned TO chin instead OF chat.
And waltz instead OF walk.
To little Harry, yesterday
Ny Krandchild, aged two
said, you love Erandpa." said he.
You bet your boots do"
The children bswsd 10 strangers once
1t is rs longer So
The little girls, As well as boys,
Now greet you with Hello -
Oh, give me- back the EoSd old days,
When both the old and young
COnvsrsed in plain eid-tashionsd words,
Aud slang Wis never "sluuz."
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

A stranger who was eating piece of pie in
a restaurant, Saturday, struck his teeth against
something hard, and presently held up a two
cent piece and exclaimed: Here, you-here's
two cents which found iu this piel" "Well,
I'm sorry it isn't ffteen," replied the waiter,
but the fact is. times are SO hard We cant do
any better just now"
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

An industrious citizen of San Juan arose a
few mornings ago, while the festive lark was
still snoring, and with tin bucket under his
arm went TO the barn to milk the family COW.
It was dark and rainy, and in fumbling about
for old Brindle he got into the wrong pew and
began to pail the off mule of his wagon team.
He can't remember now which side of the roof
he went out at, but his recollection of alighting
on the picket fence is very vivid. He expects
| the bucket down in few days.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

Constant success shows US but one side TIE
world for as it surrounds us with friends, who
will tell US only our merits, SO it silenees those
enemies from whom alone we can learn our de-
fects
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

When Dubuque landlord turns sick widow
out OF doors for nonpayment of rent crowd
wait upon him and escort him down to the
shores of lovely pond and insist upon his
taking a swim.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

Life would be a perpetual fea-huu if q
man were obliged to run down all the innuen-
dos, inVeracities, insinuationS, and suspicious
which are uttered against him. "-Beecher
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

Mrs. Dale, of Detroit, held hot buckwheat
cake over her husbands countsnance for
several minutes because he expressed his disap.
proval of free.love doctrines. This family
must be run on an unsectaIian basis" said
Mrs. D.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

An honest farmer being asked why he did
not subscribe for newspaper explained !:
Because my father, when hs DIED. died. let. me s :
good many newspapers, and have not read
them through yet.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

WHAT KILLED DAD.-Two strangers, walk
ing up and down in the Detroit and Milwaukee
depot to pass the time away, were attracted to
a locomotive standing on the rails and as they
walked around it one of them remarked
1T was one of these fellers that killed my,
old dad!"
rs that so ?" replied the other.
Eyes busted him into nine or ten pieces
L never think of it without the tears coming.
lie sighed heavily, and then went on:
Dad was a-walking on the track when she
busted him. This engineer said he reimbursed
his lever, blOde the whistle, aad did all he could
to save the old man, who was trOtting along
with his head down; but nothing could warn
him. This ere COW catcher picked him up, tcs 'ed
him forty feet high, and he turned over seven
times and came down In a cornfsd y
And was he dead?' asked the other.
Dead Well, should say he was Every
rib was broken, the vertebrey was shlvered, his
skull was stove, one leg gone, and he was the
wOrst-looking old man you ever saw! | shall
never forget the day they brought the piece,
back into the house There was mother
a weeping in the corner, sister Julia up stairs
jim on the bed, and had to run the funeral
business, though | was that near gone that my
head Swum, and | couldn' keep nothing on m!
srOmach but Injun porridge !"
ut was sad thing indeed y responded tn
other
You bet it was ~ continued the son. can,
the worst of it was, the newspapers came ou
and said that dad was blamed old fool 70
walking on the track Them were the yer
words"
"They were p
Yes! them were the words And | tell yo
they stuck US bad Dad might have bee
reckless, but he was no fool. He had a goo
heart, and was powerful on poetry an
figures" !"
He wiped his eyes with the palm of hi
hand and he and his companion moved away
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

Milk mill is the latest name for COW.
Smyrna times., 1875-02-10

A hint to clergymen whose congregations are
sensitive: IF you don't mend your ways, my
hearerSyou will finally bring up where every
body belongs to fire company"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-17

The principal demand ut present is for
horses for street railway use inCincinnati,
hamilton and elsewhere; these bring
from 30 20 Sll5 per head. Sales of all
classes in the Fifth street auctions last
week, footed up 325 head, against $50
for the preceding week, and l,3l7 for
the last month. OF last weeks sales
there was Shipment Of driving horses
to Philadelphia ut prices ranging from
1870 to S225 per head, and one car load
Tor Dayton, Ohio, ranging. from soto $50.
General prices unchanged, rs follows:
Plugs S2OmI0, common work SjOG 80,
common drivers SGjln 90, me-
dunn drivers $9Oml20, street car $S1Ca
ITO, Boston chunks $sjml20, good har-
ness horses for home use $l2OG $50,
extra harness horses SljO@ 200, heavy
draft $50, 200 and $500. In the mule
market prices are as follows: Fourteen
hands $1,000. fifteen hands $llO@l55
sixteen hands $l5UHl1j.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-17
The Human C0untenance.

Professor Matter Smith, Of Massachu-
sets. recently delivered an interesting
lecture Oh the Human Cuuntenance.
. In beginning his remarks, the Professor
said that, lin attempting to show how
character can be di>ccrncd by the face,
he had no dogmatic disposition TO assert
that in the science OF physiogaomy, noble
ms il i, all truth Is contained. A mans
whole character can not be judged from
any one expression. PhysiOgnomy has
been carried 10 excess. Yet it has
great deal that is interesting and useful
IN lis study; and there is no science
winch cannot be carried by its votarirs
t. al extreme The face OF every man
Is Il history written by his ioretatherS
and himself; ii j, an open page, from
which you may read, ii you will. The
I couutynancg, remember, exists only when
/ Illuminated by the soul, which shines
! through the eyes Us light through the
window. Having briefly showed the
relationship and comparative importance
of an ideal standard Of beauty, the lee
turer dwolt upon the way in which they
aie handed down in the peculiarlte> OF
race ana nation. In spite of the inHu-
rilcrs winch tend toward the aSsimlla-
! lion of races. one Inny still see OCCASION
. ally the purest type of the Norscmcn
ut the Saxon, showing that nature has a
tendency 10 return 10 original types.
Pn-.iu. to consider individual vuriltions
Of features, etc, and how they have u
bearing on character, Professor Smith
showed By drawing the ideal head and
face, in which all the parts bear II hpr
nhniuus relation. or all the features
the mouth is the most express vc OF char.
artcr. since 1t Is most Of all under man
control; but the nose has also great deal
" do with character. The lecturer ar
"Ucl that all great generals had Roman
noses. and most artists and poets the
Greek nose; and told IN pica>an: way
via. he conceived TO be the character
revealed by The ne. r'trou,>s and the
nose contclnpIatiyc The eye Was not
considered IL very importnn: element in
determining character, and the Professor
-hoWcd. by an ingenious series Of draw
iug>. that the expression Of the mouth
and nose can greatly change the aspect
~ the same couutcnance. The effects oi
sorrow and ,in in changing man visage
were shown in u very interesting way.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-17
Pittsburgh Live STOCK VI .rkct.
TUESDAY, September II

l tSI'N ''' 't' 'i'''' =
The lun of cattle up to last evening,
five days, Wa. 3O1 cars, against 4sG ears
for the same days Of the preceding week.
The supply of hogs was l25! car., against
100 ears for the same days last week
and this, and the sheep foot up 81,
against u. Hence it will he seen that
the receipts of cattle up to lat evening
were - ears less; hogs 10 cars less, and
sheep ~ cars greater.
AthoUgh,thr run of cattle was less
than last week, it docs not sccrt To- affect
prices in the lcn,t Prime fat HOO to
1900 lbs bring 50 OOm6 - and from
that down to - 75M3 80 Hogs We're
fetching 50 SOFAS O0a9 80. Choice 80
to llj III. sheep sold up to last week :
prices. > 0OMj 81. 1t will be seen that
prices do not differ materially from those
of last week
There was good number of Eastern
BUYERS in the market and more will mr.
rive tonight, and lively times may be
looked for tomorrow, The through cars
were 1ll: ward 80
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-17

it there, which hit Mr.. Hall exactly.
Mr.. Sard requested the auctioneer to go
to the store and identify the man, and he
pointed out Mr. Hall. A policeman was
then called in, and Mr.. Hall seeing the
turn matters were taking, went directly
10 Mr.. Sard and made full confession.
HIS thieving began about two weeks
ago. He would write an order for stove
to be delivered at some customer, take it
to an express wagon and deliver it at
an auction store. He would make an en-
try of it on the order book and check it,
rs though it had been charged up, but
failed TO make the charge. In this way
he eluded discovery He took in this
manner thirteen stoves, the entire value
of which WAS about $500, four of which
We're recovered, and the balance sold.
They were lett with VIM. A. Buffers and
Rockwell X Co., auctoncers.
Mr.. Sard feels great sympathy for the
young man, but as they have twice before
pardoned men for similar offences, the
firm concluded to punish the next, and
Mr.. Hall was that unfortunate.