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Smyrna times., 1875-07-21
Speech by Fred. Douglass.

In speech at the Fourth of July cele-
bration at IIillsdale, near Washington,
Fred. Douglass gave the following sensible
advice to the colored race:
All we ask is a fair field to work in and
the white man to leave us alone We have
been injured more than we have been
helped by men who have professed to be
our friends. They are lawyers without
clients, broken down ministers without
churches, wandering teachers without
schools. They are great beggars. They
have the gift of begging down to a nicely.
They are great at getting out circulars
They scatter them broadcast over the land
as leaves before Autumnal gales. If you
are worth anything they will find out
where you live, and if you never got a
letter before you will get one now. Fellow
citizens we must stop these men from beg
ging for us. They misrepresent us and
cause the country to look upon us as a poor
and helpless people. They say, "Please
give something to help educate the poor
black people; but do, pray, pay it to me" J."
And, if it is 500, it is reduced to 100 cents
when it gets to the "poor black people.
| We do not want, We will not have these
second-rate men begging for us. We pro
test against it.
Referring to the Freedman's Savings
Bank, he said:
We have had frcedman's savings insti-
tute; but we don't want any more. Our
white friends told us that if we had cents
to bring them to them, and they would
take care of them: and if we had dollars
or hundreds or thousands, also to bring
them to them. They told us they had a
goose and golden egg. Yes, we put on
millions there. but where are they now
The men who went into that bank a few
years ago poor men are now domiciled il
beautiful homes, and drive their fine turn
outs. 1t makes me feel badly to think
how we have been robbed. just enough
honest men have been put into the banl
to insure its success. But while they pu
in two sound apples they slipped in five o
six spcckcd ones, and were seen to turn tn
speckS down.
He urged the colorcd people to stop beg
sing for themselves, and if they bull
churchc, not to ask the white people /
pay for them. If they had bank
colleges and papers, not to ask other pcopl
, to support them. but be independent. ]
concluding he said:
! We propose to cut loose from all inviC
+. lou, class institutions and to part compan
;. with all those wandering mcndicants VIII
f have followed US simply for raltry gail
p and we now bid an atiectionatc farewell
>. all these plunderer>, and in the future
!, we need a Moses we will find him in OIL
own tribes.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

PICTURE OF a TRAMP.-The scene is in
country court. The prisoner was barefooted
covered with dirt, hair full of hay and he
had only a little more clothing on than
Adam had when he wandered through the
Garden of Eden.
81 have seen some hard cases in this
room," continued the court, "but believe
you cap the Climax
81 hain't to blame for being poor and
sick, am p asked the old wookchuck.
"Sick! Man, you are rolling fat, and
you look as healthy as a cannibal!
"Don't know when I'm sick?'' growled
the man. at isn't fair to run on me that
way"
"You are useless to this world as an old
hoop-skirt in the alley. You are kite-tail
on a telegraph wire-a cocoanut she'll in
the gutter Send you up! Why the dri-
yer of Black Maria would resign at once,
and the old boots around the House OF
! Correction would feel insultedw
81 want to 60 homer replied the man.
$50 on-go anywhere-get out of here
Open the way there and let this prize-medal
old champion of SCOT and hay.seed have O
clear road !'-Detroh Free Press
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21
VOLUME XXI.---NO. s.
A CLOSE, HARD MAN.

\ hard, close man was solomon Ray,
Nothing of value he gave away;
He boarded and saved;
He pinched and shaved;
And the more he had the more he craved.
The hard-earned dollars he toiled to gain
Brought him little but care and pain;
For little he spent,
And all he lent
He made it bring him twenty per cent.
Such was the life of solomon Ray,
The years went by, and his hair grew gray;
His cheeks grew thin,
And his soul within
Grew hard as the dollars he worked to win.
But he died one day, as all men must,
For life is feeting and man but dust.
The hairs were gay
That laid him away,
And that was the end of solomon Ray.
They quarreled now, who had little cared
For Solomon Ray while his life was spared.
His lands were sold,
And his hard-earned gold
All went TO the lawyers. am told.
Yet men will cheat and pinch and save,
Nor carry their treasure beyond the grave.
All their gold some day
Will melt away
Like the selfish savings of solomon Ray.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21
Opium Eaters.

Measures of a severe nature have been
but have been quite unsuccessful. However
apathetic the Chinese may lie in respect to
most things, they will not submit to the
Withdrawal of their favorite narcotic. But
in case of SO dangerous a poison, some
restrictions are as much needed as they are
on the sale of spirituous liquors among our
selves for the effects of habitual excess
are not less deplorable than those of
habitual drunkenness. OF forty prisoners
confined in the HOnsc of Correction at
Singapore, thirty.five were found to use
opium; and of these, seventeen, who had
been in receipt of eighteen shillings month
as wages, spent twenty-four shillings on
opium, the difference being obtained by
! theft.
From a sanitary point of view the results
are equally sad. The confirmed opium
eater in the East seldom lives beyond the
age of forty, and may be recognized at {
glance by his trembling steps and curveC
spine, his sunken CLASSY eyes and sallov
withered features. The muscles, too, o
his neck and fingers often become con
tracted. Yet incurring even this penalt,
will enable him to indulge his vice only 70
certain length of time. Unlike tn
healthy enjoyment which we derive fror
our appetite of hunger, and which natur
herself renews periodically, the enjoymen
of the opium-eatcr gradually diminishes q
his system becomes habituated to the dru,
From time to time he must increase tn
quantity which he takes, but at length n
increase will produce any effect. Undt
dangerous eXpedient: he mikes sma
quantity of corrosive sublimate with til
opium, the influence of which is thus for
time renewed. Then these means also fai
; when the victim must bear his miserabI
condition until he sinks into the grave.
On the excitable temperament of til
Malays and Javanese a strong dose of opiul
causes state of frantic fury amOuntin
almost to madness, and this often ends
that homicidal mania which has bee
/ called "running amuck," in other word
. in the individual attacking with his crea!
e or dagger every one whom he meets,
5 that it becomes necessary to shoot hi
:. down with as little compunction as we do
h mad dog
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21
IN THE OLDEN TIME.

Would you talk of the love of the olden time,
When earth was frcer from wrong and crime,
When faith was simple and hearts were warm
To brave the tempest and face the storm;
When lovers met by the trysting tree,
Where summer breezes were blowing free,
And the chattering birds on the leafy boughs
Would stop to listen to lovers VOWS?
Do you think that the world was purcr then?
Was there more of truth in the hearts of men,
Less love of power and lust of gain,
And less of sin to wither and stain?
Were the tender VOWS that lovers spoke
Meath the lcafy shade of their trysting oak
In the olden time that is now long past,
More strong in purpose, more sure to last?
Though the world grows old with its load of crime
Though the simple faith of olden time
Its earnest purpose, and quiet ways,
Are lost in the tumult of later days,
Yet the glimpse of Eden love brings again
viii cheer and brighten the hearts of men;
And whether the times be new or Old,
The wonderful story will still be told.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

How WoULD IIAYEs's Turnout Look AT
SARATOGA Mr.. Geo. V. Massey of Dover
is now at Saratoga, and he thus writes to
the Sentinel about the turnouts there.
Another noticeble feature of Saratoga is
the character, number and variety of the
gay turn-outs and equipages which the
people of wealth and fashion bring here
with them. All sorts and kinds of vehicles
are to be seen from the heavy drag, (which
requires an ordinary "peach ladder" to
ascend to it, to the "rony phaeton,' which
| is so near the ground that one might almost
lie down and roll into it. Many of these
extraordinary vehicles do not seem to have
been constructed either with reference TO
the comfort of the rider, nor the relief OF
horsehesh. They seem to be as heavy, il
not heavier than an omnibus, and are
more wearing on horsefcsh than an endless
chain threshing machine. Occasionally
some one, whose father has made and left
him little more than his city neighbol
has, turns out with his four or six in hand
with liveried footmen and coach-men, wht
are generally dressed in English broad cloth
so scrupulously neat, that you have t.
speculate some time before you are able t
decide who is the proprietor of the establish
ment. /! saw an establishment this mornin
after the order of the Irish Jaunting Can
, drawn by tandem team, which attracte
good deal Of attention-so prone ar
I people in general to run after somethin
e new-and confess l could not avoid tn
| thought, that If a tandem team of steer
a which occasionally visits Dover from Haye!
$ Neck, could then have dropped down int
4 Saratogas Broadway, they would cart til
s Jaunting Car into the shade as to novelty
e and its owner would--for time-have I
y take back seat until the curious shoul
t. first have seen the steers " trot out.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21
A Vagabond Philosopher.

An old man OF rather acute physiOgnOmy,
answering to the name of Jacob Wilmat,
was brought to the police court. His
clothes looked as if they might have been
bought secondhand in his youthful prime,
for they had suffered more from the rubs
of the world than the proprietor himself
"What business ?" said the judge.
Nonc-Im a traveller"
Vagabond, perhaps?''
4" You are not far wrong. Travellers and
vagabonds are about the same thing. The
difference is that the latter travels without
money and the formerwithout brains"
"Where have you traveled?"
"All over the Continent
For what purpose?"
Observation
What have you observed?"
"a little to commend, much to censure
and great deal to laugh att
What do you commend?'
"a handsome woman that will stay home
an eloquent preacher who will preach short
sermons a good writer that will not write
too much, and fool that has sense enough
to hold his tongue"
What do you censure?'
"a man that marries a girl for her fine
clothing; a youth who studies medicine
while he has the use of his hands, and the
people who would elect bad men to office.
"What do you laugh at?"
" ! laugh at man who expects his posi-
ton to command that respect which hi
personal qualities do not merit
He was dismissed
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

The fiddler of a minstrel company ran
away the other day in debt to the manager,
at which the manager facetiously declared
that he had engaged the fellow for a
fiddler, but he had taken the part of a base
violinist
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

On street car the other day boy made
o sudden grab among the straw, caught
something, and, as he straightened up, he
inquired, "Who's lost fifty cents piece y
Seven men held out their hands to him,
and four wanted to, but felt afraid. There
was painful pause, and then the boy un'
clasped his hands and exhibited a pants
button. Seven men suddenly sank back tc
mediate, and the other four indulged in
winks.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

An eccentric old fellow, who lives along
side of graveyard, was asked if it was not
an unpleasant location. "No," said he, =
never jined places in my life with set Of
neighbors that minded their own business
so stiddy as they do
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

An old lady, on hearing that young
friend had lost his place on account Of
misdemeanor, exclaimed: Miss Demeanor:
Lost his place on account of Miss Demea-
nor? Well, WE'LL I'm afeared it's too true
that there's allus woman at the bottom
of mans difficulties =
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
tried to "converse with Gov. Hendricks
the other day about the Democratic party in
Ohio, and found to his amazement that the
Governor did not know that Convention
had been held, and an imitation platform
adopted. 1t takes long time for news to
mount the fence the Governor is sitting on
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

The only people in these parts whose
habitations have marble fronts, are those
who are the least given to boasting andvai
display. They occupy the cemetery grounds.
-B10S0icker.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21
Itnever pays to fret and growl

1t never pays 70 fret and growl
When fortune seems our foe;
The better bred will push ahead
And strike the braver blow.
For luck is work
And those who Shirk
Should not lament their doom.
But yield the play
And clear the way,
That better men have room.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

Baseball has demoralized Hartford. The
careful Clemens has bought seat in the
grand stand; the clergy have season
tickets; and, worse than all, one enthu>ia>-
tic family has removed the cushions from it.
church pews and applied them to allevia,
ting the agony of a ten-inning game
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

At circus, while the rope-walker was
going through his performance, a boy
about twelve years old turned to an acquain-
tance of the same age and remarked
Tom, don't you wish you could do that p
"Yes, do, sadly replied Tom, "but my
folks make me go to school and are deter
mined that l shan't never be nobody :"
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

A bad little boy, upon being promised
FIVE cents by his mother if he would take
a dose of castor oil, obtained the money.
and then told his parent that she might
castor oil in the street.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

Very stern parent indeed-Come here,
sir! What is this complaint the shoolmaster
has made against you?" Much injured
youth" It's just nothing at all. You see.
Jenny Hughes bent pin. and only just
left it on the teachers chair for him TO look
at, and he came in without his specs and
sat right down on the pin, and now lie
wants to blame me for it,"
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

CALIFORNIA FRUITS IN lS76.-There will
probably be no part of the great American
display next year that will attract more
attention from foreigners than full exhibit
Of the wonderful fruit products of California,
especially if they are exhibited in a build
ing constructed of the beautiful woods Of
that State in their natural colors-the
sequoia, redwood, madrona, manzanita and
laurel. In this building should be shown
the fruits and wines of California, as well as
her wheat, her barley, her wool, her gold
and silver and quicksilver. The fruits
especially would meet ready and profitable
sale, kept up during the whole season by
the use of refrigerator cars and rapid transit
Thus our visitors from abroad as well az
our own people, could partake of fruits OF
the shores of the Atlantic which only
week previously were fourishing on th'
trees on the shores of the Pacific in Cali
fornia, at distance of 5000 miles. A recen
arrival of about nine tons Of that deliciou
vet delicate fruit, the apricot, shipped t
Philadelphia by Samuel c. Piper, of Sacrc
mento, came through in good condition j
seven days, and this shows what can b
J done with all fruits.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

What's the difference between the lower
part of the leg, and the late comet? Ones
shin and bone, and the others been and
shone.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

Ornitho-logic. If all birds that sing are
songsters, then all birds that roost are
roosters hence all hens are roosters.-Coa3.
mercial AdUertiSer.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

The Wisconsin farmer who left candle
burning in the barn so as to scare thieves
away has no barn to watch now.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

A little wart-backed hop,toad will break
up croquet party quicker than the darkest
thunder cloud that ever gathered.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

" Are there any fools in this city?' asked
stranger of newsboy. "No; do you
feel lonesome 2" was the reply.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

Peru has long relied upon the deposits
of her guano islands as a basis for negotiating
foreign loans. Whenever money is wanted
the guano is pledged as security, and as it
is sold the loans are reimbursed, and the
Government is now about to sell 100000
tons of guano III the United States. The
merchants who have heretofore had the
monopoly of the guano trade with North
America have from time to time advanced
the Peruvian Government about three
millions six hundred thousand dollars, and
they are to reimburse themselves by this
additional expectation of guano, which, it
is thought, will yield at least double the
debt, so that the balance when realized will
put about three and one-half millions more
into the Peruvian treasury. The style Of
financiering required is to avoid overstock
ing the market. The merchants are i'm
mediately to place five hundred thousand
dollars in the Peruvian treasury as security
for the guano consigned. This guano vii
come to our Atlantic seaports, and will Civ
additional employment to tonnage seeking
cargoes in the Pacific. Fifty thousand tons
have already been offered for sale at Lima
-PhHadclph;a Ledger.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21
A Monster Farm.

The following are some of the figures of
the monster farm Of Illinois. We believe
there is no like farm in the world for size
or production. Three years ago it excited
the admiration of an English company, who
offered $l,500,000 for the land and i'm
provements, which was then declined. The
hard times have since thrown it into the
hands Of II. w. Sage, of n. Y. who has an
interest in it of about 100000. 1t cost $685.
600 to put in this years crops:
The Sullivan farm in Ford county, Illinois,
about 100 miles from Chicago, is now in
possession of Hon. Hiram Sibley, of Ro-
chester, and is the largest farm in the
country, if not in the world. OF these 40
600 acres, $4,000 acres are planted in corn,
5000 in oats, flax and other crops, all the
rest being in grass lands, say 1000 acres.
There are POO miles in hedge. The farm
has land equal to 64 miles in lenghth by
one mile in width. The land is divided
into sections, and covers square miles
with bouleyards running along each two
miles, so that there is but one mile of road
way to the boulevard. The railroad passes
| through If miles of the land. There arc
now $4,000 acres in crops, and the rest of
the the land, except 60 acres in groves, is
all in timothy. TO take the corn from the
cribs to the corn sheller, requires l3 wagons.
| There are coal lands near at hand, and the
coal costs but 50 ton. The working stock
| &c 4 oc+ u, y !
divisions is divided into s subordinate tli-
| visions, so that the men and beasts are all
fed within one mile of each other. and no
one has to 90 over one mile from the field
to find food or rest. There is Il large cen
tral Office where reports are sent daily OF
all the work done. Each of the corn-cribs
holds 5000 bushels; 1000 bushels of corn
are shclled each hour and put in cars ready
for movement. The corn Sheller, necessary
for the work, cost $4,000, and is not
worked by steam. The work is all done by
mules, and 10000 bushels of corn are
shclled each day.
Mr.. Siblcy also has the largest farm il
New York, which covers 1000 acres o
, land. The statistics on the Illinois farm
are simply immense, and almost incompre
/ hensible. 1t is not yet settled that sucl
farming will pay, though it is reported tha
the famous Alexander farm of 100
t acres has paid well at times. Taking int
< consideration uncertain weather and crol
! and wages. and markets, the work
t greater than most men would like t
0 handle. The elephant is often too big t
manage.
v As an incident OF the times. we regret t
l. learn that in many parts of the countr
great and small farms are being foreclose,
r Capitalists have made large advances upo
o them. and been obliged to foreclose. OF
Y insurance companies are full of evidence
It these sad disasters, and they are the resu
9 of unwisc investments, living beyond one
r means, and expecting too much. AgricJ
ture will pay like other professions in GOO
r, hands, but it is also attended with IL
re chances and risks which belong to traC
h and commerce. Farmers, like other peopl
ly have their good and bad years, and wi
them, rs with others, mistakes alike
as management and expectation, yield the
N natural losses.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

DoN'r Do IT.-Don't linger where your
love lies dreaming. Wake her up and tell
her to get up and get breakfast.
Don't insult a poor man. His muscles
may be well developed.
Don't ask your pastor to preach without
notes. How else could he pay his provision
bill.
Don't put on airs in your new suit
Remember that your tailor is suffering
Don't stand still and point the way to
heaven. Spiritual guide boards save but
few sinners
Don't fret. The world will move on as
usual after you are gone.
Don't write such long obituaries. Save
some of your kind words for the living.
Don't depend wholly on Spalding's pre-
pared glue. 1t will not mend a broken
promise
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

The way for desolate old batchelor 10
secure better quarters is to take "better.
half
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

Messrs. Lands and Carruth of Nineland
have come, it is said, to an amicablo under
standing of their difficulties, and have
agreed to forgive and forget. Mr.. lands
has agreed to pay all of the expenses grow
ing out Of the shooting, and Mr.. Carruth
has promised to bring no suit against him.
1t is intimated that the State will not let
so serious matter drop so quietly, and
will bring the case into court. Mr.. Lands
is said, however, TO have taken his de.
parture from Yineland, and nothing can be
done till he is found.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

At camp-meeting last summer.
venerable sister began the hymn
My soul be on thy guard
Ten thousand foes arise"
She began in shrill quaverS, but it wa,
pitched too high Ten thousand-Ten
thousand, she screeched, and stopped.
= Start her at $1,000" cried a converted
stock broker present.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

"GRAss WIDOW. Judge Turpie has been
reading paper to the " Fiat Lux" society
on the origin of the phrase, "grass widow"
or rather "grace widow, for the first has
no foundation in fact, and is simply bar
barism or fungus which has attached itself
to the English language. "Grace widow"
is the term of one who becomes widow by
grace or favor, not of necessity, as by death,
and originated in the early ages of European
civilization, when divorces were granted
but seldom, and wholly by authority of the
Catholic Church. When such decree was
granted to a woman the papal receipts
dated "Niduca lie gratia,' which inter
preted is. widow of grace" In the law
Of the French it would read "Venuve dc
Irace, which in English gives Z" Widow O.
grace, or grace widow" we've" being
translated as widow In this novel anC
exceedingly interesting paper Judge Tur
pie also makes public two important his
torical facts: !. That the whole moderl
system of law in relation to marriage anC
divorce originated in the Roman Church
,. That French was the official Language
and court vCmlacular, not only of England
but Of Western Europe during the periot
of ecclesiastical asccndency.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

For music lovers-a Patti on a Grist plate.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21
WHOLE NO. 1856.

SCENE IN WISCONSIN, COURT" Smash
ing Misunderstanding the children-rai.-
ing neighborhood ow-drunkenness-
grouped together under the one general
head of disturbing the peace, remarked
the court as Charles Derritt stood at the
bar.
"Please, sir, was out af my head re,
piled the prisoner.
"That's your defense. is it?''
eyes, sir"
"And you have no arguments?''
"No, sir
"Wcll, sir, if you were charged with
murder, and set up the defense that you
were out of your head, it would clear you
as slick as orange peel floors fat woman,
but it is no defense in this court when ii
comes to mere misdemeanors, and the
sentence is sixty days.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-21

A pair of tights-two drunkards.