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Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

FEMALE DEvoTION.-An Arizona wife
begged the court not to punish her hus.
band for the crime of bigamy, of which he
was convicted.
" lie loved me once and was kind" she
said, with tears running down her face.
land when go away to my lonely home,
1t would be my only earthly comfort to
know that he was free to seek for han.
piness, if he can find it anywhere in the
world"
When the sentenced was pronounced.
the strikcn wife zaell upon her knees
before her husband, and placing her hands
upon his arms, asked him to forgive her if
she had done anything to chill his love for
her and to kiss her just as he would dead
wife whom he loved. The wretched man
seemed entirely overcome by these pitiful
appeals and his own fate, and grasping her
in his arms, kissed her over and over
again. When the officers drew him away.
she sank fainting to the floor.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

CENTENNIAL FIFE AND DRUM.-The Con.
tinental fife and drum corpse, numbering
% members, has been organized at ia
North Broad street, Philadelphia. They
play the old'fashioned tunes and dress in
Continental uniform. This is probably the
largest drum and fife corps ever organized
In America. They will have grand parade
in Philadelphia about the first of May, after
which they will take trip down the Della
ware as far as Wilmington, make parade
there, and return to Philadelphia the same
day. They will probably tender their ser.
vices to the Centennial Commission.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

DIsAGREEABLE oDoRs.-People who are
obliged to burn kerosene oil know how
disagreeable it is to enter room, after a
brisk evening walk, and find it filled with
the suffocating fumes of kerosene oil. In
the city, where gas, is universally used we
escape the misery; but in the country, it
is q common inhiction. The inmates of
the room may be unconscious of il, or have
become accustomed to the unwholesome
odor. The pernicious practice Of using
lamps filed with kerosene, and having the
wick turned down too low, is usually the
cause of suffocating fumes; the gas which
should be consumed by the flame passes
into the atmosphere. 1t is unnecessary to
say that using kerosene in this way is
most unhealthy practice. Only good oil
should be burned, and the wick should al
ways be raised to proper height
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19
out by the sheriff, every day, for these two

~ '"0 s"erilI, every day, for these tW
years past"
"Indeed p
Miss Leonard is very lovely girl"
Ihere's no gainsaying Adelaide's per
sonal attractions" replied the son: bu
II her father is in the condition you allege
that settles the matter as far as she is oor
cerned. | am glad you introduced tb,
subject, for | might have committed NV
self, and, when too late, have discovered
my error"
And sad error it would have beep
nenfy' In any future matter of this kind,
| nope you will be perfectly frank with me
l nave much more accurate KNOWLEDGE Of
the condition and standing of people than
you can possibly have"
The son promised to do what the fatbor
wished. From that time the visits to N;ss
Leonard were abated, and his attentions 70
ner when they met in society. became
cOioly formal. The sweet young girl
whose feelings had really been interested
ieit the change, and was for a time unbonnv
out IN few months she recovered barsaif
ana was again bright and cheerful os
usual. '"' DIS
Ohe day. about year after his timaI,,
caution to his son in regard to Miss Leonard
Baker happened to pass along . stroot
where he had not been for soma ,,o,+G.
just opposite large, new, and beantifnI
mousse to which the painters were giving
thelr last touches, he met friend As
they passed, Baker said:
That's an elegant house. 1t has been
built since | was in this neighborhood.
1es, it is very fine house, and I SIN.
pose dldn't cost less than twenty thousand
dollars ''''''S''i'"
"No, Should think not. Who built it9
Do you know?"
Yes. 1t was built by Leonard"
by whom?" Baker looked surnrisad
BY old Leonard. You know him.
impossible! He's not able TO bn;ld .
house like that
Oh, yes he is, and half dozen moro
like it, if necessary"
"Leonard?"
certainly. Why, he is worth at least .
hundred thousand dollars
You must be in error"
No. His daughter is to be mo,riod
next month to an excellent Young man
ana THIS house has been built. and is TO be
'U,iIisheo, as marriage present"
incredible! l thought he was poino
Or had gone, to the dogs long ago"
Leonard ?" The friend conId ro+ ho1.
aughlng aloud. ale go to the dogs. Oh.
no! There isn't a man in his trade who
loes SO good business, as little show as
ne makes. Good work, good prices and
are the cardinal virtues of his
establishment, and make all substantial
how in the world could you have taken
such a notion?"
/ don't know, but such has boor ,,,,,
impression for long time" replied Baker
VINO telt exceeding cut down on account Of
he mistake he had made, and particularly
% IN view of the elegant house and q Hmm.
lred thousand dollars, which might all
rave belonged to his son, in time. if he
lad not fallen into such an egrerious error
bout old Leonard.
90 the world moves on. People are prone
think that what they smile on lives. and
that they frown upon is blighted and must
ie
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19
mise eIIun e 0uS
Going to the Dogs.

" received your bill to-day, Mr.. Leon
ard, said customer, as he entered the
shop of a master mechanic.
We are sending out all our accounts at
this season." returned the mechanic. bow.
ing.
" want to pay you"
"Very well, Mr.. Baker, we are ALWAYS
glad to get money"
But you must throw off something. Let
me see and the customer drew ont the
bill" twenty-seven dollars and forty.six
cents Twenty-Five will do. There, receipt
the bill, and will pay YOU"
But Leonard shook his head
can't deduct cent from the bill. Mr..
Baker. Every article is charged at our
regular price"
Oh, yes, you can. Just make it twenty.
hVe dollars, even money. Here it is
And Baker counted out the cash.
am sorry, Mr.. Baker, cannot afford
to deduct anything. If you'd only owed
me twenty-five dollars, your bill would have
been just that amount would not have
added cent beyond what is due, nor can I
take anything less than my due"
"Then youwon't deduct the odd money?"
cannot, indeed"
"Very we'll. - The manner of the CHS.
toner was changed. He was evidently
offended. "The bill is too high by lust
the sum l asked to have stricken off. But.
no matter, can pay it."
"Then yon mean to insinuate," said the
mechanic, who was an Independent sort of
man, " that am cheating you out of two
dollars and forty-six cents?
al didn't say So"
But it is plain that you think so, or YOU
wouldn't have asked an abatement. If Won
consider my charges just, you wouldn't dis
pute them"
oh, never mind, never mind! we'll not
waste words aboutit. Here's your money"
said Mr.. Bakers and he added another five |
dollar bill to the sum he had lain down. |
The mechanic receipted the account and |
gave the change, both of which his custo-
mer thrust into his pocket with a petulant |
AIR, and then turned away and left the
shop without another word.
" It's the last bill he will ever have against
me" muttered Baker to himself, as he
walked away. " If that is his manner Of
treating his customers, he'll soon 90 to the
dogs. 1t was downright insulting, and no
gentleman will stand that from another,
much less from a vulgar mechanic. Mean
to insinuate Humphl Yes, did mean
to insinuate," and Mr.. Baker involuntarily
quickened his pace. He'll lose a good
customer" ," he continued to himself "rve
paid him great deal of money, but it's
the lastdollar of mine he ever handles
Baker was as good as his word. He with
drew his custom from the offending me.
chanic, and gave it to another.
I've got one of your old customers,
Leonard" said friend in the same busi-
ness to the mechanic, some six or eight
months afterwards.
"Ah who is it9n
Baker
Leonard shrugged his shoulders.
How came you to lose him ?''
III tell you how to keep him.
Well, how"
Ii your bill amounts to thirty dollars,
make it thifsy-tkree and few odd cents.
by increasing some Of the items. He win I
want the surplus knocked off, which you
can afford to do; then he will pay it and {
think you just the man for him.
You lost him, then, because. you i
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

As new illustration of the old odoco
that " tbs an i'll wind that blows nobody anv
good" 1t turns out that even tramps have
an eXtenuating use. Though they do not
support themselves, they provide for the
Overseers of the Poor who are set to provide
ior them. By the existing laws of New
ork State it appears that the Poormasters
are PAID certain sum per head for all
poor whom they relieve, and thus it hap-
pens that the more tramps they care for the
greater the profit to themselves. As most
OF the Poormasters are about as worthless
members of society as the tramps them.
selves, it is not surprising to learn. as we
DO from report of the State Aid Charities
Association, that they have been encour
aging the tramps to make tours of the
whole State. In some instances, it is stated
that Poormasters employed runners on the
roads to guide tramps to the poorhouses.
These are Poormasters indeed, beside
whom the British beadle, with his cry of
" You can't die in my parish" is a model
OF Official propriety. Naturally the Char.
tiles Association has sought remedy for
this, and it has been presented to the Leg.
lslature in form of bill making Oyerseer
of the Poor an appointed, not an elective
Office, with long term to serve on a fixed
salary.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

a man enters barber shop out West to
get shaved, when a huge dog comes and
stations itself before him, cycling him with
strange fixidity.
What's the matter with the creature?,
asked the customer somewhat disturbed.
"lH tell you," replied the barber, sitting
his razor: " sometimes happen to cut off
one OF my customers ears. When dol
give it to the doglo
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19
MatrimOny and Suicide.

Albert Rhodes contributes paper to the
GaIaay on Suicide" which presents so
many classified facts, that the reader is
almostpersuaded to believewith Buckle, that
the data of race, religion, climate and hab.
its being given, we can decide the suicidal
probabilities with scientific certainty. The
vlcissItudes of matrimony provide the fol.
lowing inductions: 1t hasbeen found that
in million of husbands M8bout cbiIdror
there were 40 suicides, and in the same
number with children, there were only
2Oo. In million of wives there were l57
without children and As with children.
Asslmllative results were discovered in the
case OF widowers and widows; in a million
OF widowers without children there were
l,OO4 suicides; with children, 526; among
the widows there were 23S without chill.
dren, and 104 with. These figures are
eloquent pleaders in favor of family ties as
conservators of life. They show that man
must love in order to live; that life is only
complete with the mother and child; and
that in spite of all the care with which the
ordinary bachelor surrounds himself. and
the absence of solcitude and care for
others, he does not succeed in rendering his
existence as agreeable as that of the mar.
ried mans
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19
John B. Cough Discusses Wine.

was invited to dine with a CLERGYMAN
who Is now Bishop of Carlisle, and we had
a discussion for about two hours. A titled
lady was present, and she helped him.
was alone, and had to bear the whole brunt
OF the battle in the scriptural argument.
"Thc Bible permits the use of wine.
said he.
Very we'll, said I, "supposc it does?''
The Bible sanctions the use of wine"
Very well, suppose it does?''
Our Saviour made wine.''
81 know he did"
"Why, we thought you were prepared to
deny this"
Il do not deny it. | can read:
Wine is spoken Of in the Bible as a
blessing"
\ replied. "There are two kinds of wine
spoken of in the Bible"
"Prove it,
II do not know that can, but will tell
you what it is, the wine that is spol<en of
as a blessing is not the same wi me that
Is 'mocker and the Wine that is TO ba
drunk in the kingdom of heaven cannot bo
the w-l-n-e Of the wrath of God. So that
although | cannot prove it learnedly, |
Know 1t IS so. Now, there are others who
go further than l can go; but YOU will
please let me go just so far as | can under.
stand 1t, and if l cannot 90 anv furtbar
don't lind fault with me- | hold that the
Bible permits total abstinance; and
would rather search the Bible for permis.
sion to give up lawful qualification for tho
sake OF my weak-headed brother, who Stun
Dles over my example into sin, than to see
now lar can follow my own propensities
without committing sin, and bringing con.
oemhatlon upon any ones soul"
Another gentleman who came to me for
long talk, said, II have conscientious
objection to teetotalism, and it is tbis. O,r
saviour made wine at the marriage of Cana
in Galilee."
~ know he did
lie made it because they wanted it."
So the Bible tells us
" lie made it of water"
Eyes"
"Well, he performed miracle to make
that wine"
"Yes."
Then he honored and sanctifed wine
by performing miracle tomake it. There.
fore" said he, " I feel that if should Give
up the use OF wine l should be guilty of
mgratitude, and should be roproachine nv
Master
Sir" said l, .'I can understand how
you should feel so; but is there NOTHING
else that you put by, which our Saviour has
honored?"
NO, don't know that there is
" DO you eat barley bread?"
No." and then began to laugh.
"And why?"
" Because l don't like it."
Very well, SIR said I, "our Saviour
barley bread just as much as he
ever did wine. lie fed five thousand neo.
pie on barley loaves manufactured bv
miracle You put away barley bread from
he low motive of not liking it. ask Won
o put away wine from the higher motive
II bearing the infrmity of your weaker
'rother, and so fulfilling the law of Christ,
wish to say that that man signed the
Hedge three days afterward.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

Nails driven into fruit trees, as near the
ground as possible, are said to have the
effect to make such trees more healthy.
vigorous and excellent fruit bearers than
those into which no tenpenny nails have
been driven. The reason why the nails in
the tree are so beneficial in fruit bearninc
is thus explained: The reason why the
worm will not attack the tree is because
the oxydation or rusting of the iron by the
sap involves ammonia, which, as the san
arises, will, of course, impregnate every
party OF the foliage, and prove too drastic
a dose for the sects. The salt or iron
afforded by the nails is extremely offensive
to the worms, while it is not only harmless
but beneficial to the foliage and fruit of the
tree.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

The Democratic journals are not enthu.
slastie over the proposition to make Judge
Davis their candidate for the Presidency.
They claim that they have a plenty of good
men in their own ranks without again try.
ing the doubtful experiment of going out.
side the party for candidate. Neverthe.
less, the leaders are against them, and
Judge Davis clearly has to-day the inside
track-whatever he may have three months
hence.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

A BRIDEGROOM AND BRIDE KILLED.-AAt
Huntington, W. Va, last week, Anderson
Grafton, an employee of the Ensign Manu-
featuring Company, eloped with Miranda
Thomas, from the house of her guardian.
D. W. Williams. They were married at
Ashland and returned to Williams's house,
when Williams drew his revolver and shot
them both, killing Grafton instantly and
seriously wounding Mrs. Grafton. Williams
is now in Jail. All colored.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

An old farmer says of his boys "From
sixteen to twenty, they knew more than
dld; at twenty-five, they knew as much ::
at thirty, they were willing to hear what |
had to say; at thirty-fve, they asked my
advice, and L think when they get to be
forty, they will acknowledge that the old
man knows something"
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

When man buys a little bit of a basket
of strawberries no bigger than a pint he
carries it around ostentatiously as if it made
him tired but he has two pounds Of liver
put up in thin paper like lace shawl.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

"Don't you think" said husband :,
mlld form of rebuke to his wife, that
women are possessed by the devil ?n aYe. ;,
was the answer, Gas soon as thew are
married"
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

A father fearing an earthquake in the
region of his home, sent his two boys to a
distant friends until the peril should be
over. A few weeks after the farmer re-
ceived this letter from his friend: "Please
take your boys home and send us down the
earthquake"
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19
POetrV.
MY SCHOOL DAYS,
BY JOHN C. WHITTIER.

Still sits the sehool-house by the road,
A ragged beggar summing;
Around it still the sumach grows.
And blackberry vines are running.
Within the masters desk is seen,
Deep SCARED by raps official
The warping floor, the battered seats,
The jack knife's carved initial.
The charcoal frescoes on its walls;
Its doors worn still betraying
The feet, that creeping slow to school,
Went storming out to playing.
Long years ago winters sun
Shone over all at setting;
Lit up its western window panes.
And low caves icy fretting.
1t touched the tangled golden curls.
And brown eyes full of grieving,
or one who still her steps DELAYED
When all the school We're leaving.
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled.
His cap was pulled down on his face.
Where pride and shame were mingled.
Pushing with restless feet the snow
To right and left, he fingered.
And restleSsly her tiny hands.
The blue check apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
The soft hands light earessing.
And heard the trembling of her voice.
As if a fault confessing.
" I'm sorry that spelt the word:
hate 70 go above you,
Because the brown eyes lower fell
Because. you see, love YOU"
Still memory to the gray haired man
That sweet child face in showing:
Dear girl the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing!
He lives to learn in lifes hard school.
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph and his loss
Like her-because they love him.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

a young gentleman meeting handsome
mllk-maid in the country, said:
What will you take for yourself and
your milk, my dear?" The girl Instantly
replied: "Your hand and gold ring sin y
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

When Chicago woman is taken before
a PoliceJustice on charge of drunken.
ness, she ascribes her staggering to. the
tightness of her "pullbaolx y
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

Livery married woman is personally ac,
quainted with a man who will sit right
alongside of the stove and let the fire 90
out.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

The office of the United States Express
Company, at Akron, Ohio, was robbed of
about $4,000 on Friday night.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

A little girl who wanted to be very good
during Lent proposed to give up going to
school.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

4 WARNING TO BRIDEGRooMs.-Th in.
significant nonentity, the bridegroom. is, of
course, OF no account whatever during the
wedding ceremoney. Nobody looks at him.
nobody thinks of him. There are no tears
Tor his immolation, no smelling-bottles for
MS agitation. He is for the time a black
coated background to a picture of radiant
beauty What is he that he should inter.
fupt with his foolish nervousness the even
course OF the ceremony which fixes his fate
forever? No censure, therefore. can he too
marsh Tor that wretched man who. beino
married the other day, put the wedding.
ring INTO his month when the service
began, that he might find it at the proner
moment. The moment arrived. The min.
ister motioned for the ring. The trembling
bridegroom gave an obedient start. a sud.
dem gulp, and the ring had disappeared
down his unluclly throat!
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

Dandies and nanny.goats never fail n
pride themselves upon their kids.
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19
WHOLE NO. 1895.
What They're Made Of.

IL may be interesting to thirsty mortaIs
'C, TO know something of what they drink.
mere IS no sarsaparilla in . sarsapariIIo =,
'nefe IS no ginger in "gingcr ale; there is
nothing OF mineral character in . mirorol
water; and scltzer has nothing annorto;,,
ing to the real settler, or Settlers water in
us composltlon-eXcept water. Ottawa
peer IS usually made with sugar. snako.root
ana aromatics which will acetify soon after
the beer is manufactured. II sbonId bo
maze fresh every day; but it is not. The
cafoonlc acid gas will disguise the bad tas+o
OF stale Ottawa beer until YOU have swaI-
lowed 1t. Fresh Ottawa beer is rotbor .
nice drink, and kept freshly on tan is vor,-
P'Puidr III summer time. \ first class
ofug store wiA sometimes sell forty gallons
dally III the sultry season. Pure sorso,,o
rilla has no flavor at all, and the aoroeoblo
naVor OF the socalled " extract NJ eorso,,,,
fllia IS produced by dccoction of winter.
green and sassafras. The sarsanarillo "
SOLD III saloons has nothing of winteroroon
OF saSsairas, not to say sarsaparilla. in ifs
composition. 1t is simple carbonated
water, colored with caramel or burnt e7co,.
ana sWeetened with common syrun and
ournt molasses. Druggists who sell sodo
..1I, ]II- 7"ee'eaeo with sarsaparilla gen
er"lly manufacture better article from
cleaf sugar and liquoric extract. and those
VINO have large soda water trado will
sometimes use the real decoction of wir+o,
green, oil of lemon, caramel. and sossof.o.
Mineral water " is aerated water. Aovorod
WIN lemon syrup Of poor quality, or with
artlhclal sugar or gluscose, manufactured
from potato starch. "Ginger ale Is onro-
tea tee water, sweetened with sugar and
tiavored with Cayenne pepper CAYENNE
pepper in small quantities is rather bonaf.
claI than otherwise, and this is really .
healthy and refreshing beverage comparod
with Others. Good ginger ale-like the
imported Belfast ginger ale-should bc
maze with lemons, ginger sugar, and tar.
tarlc acid. "Seltzer water" is carbo,o+od
water tiavored with salts-eenorolIv oo,,.
mon salts, sometimes EPSON and medicinal
S"I'S' Ihls Is not a beverage very pleas.
ant to the palate, but it certainly has y sna.
enc influence on the bowels, and is quite
effective in Strengthening fellow out
"hen he has been muddled up over night
IN crooked whiskey investigation. In
TACT, none OF the above drinks are iniurious
rather the opposite, provided their bases
have been made in wholesome fountains
Smyrna times., 1876-04-19

Ought to be allowed to sit down-A mar,
chant OF forty years. standing.