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Smyrna times., 1876-09-06
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A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW,

The surging of human life forever onward rolls,
And the eternal shore its daily freight of souls
Though bravey sails our bark to-day pale death sits
at the PROV.
AMI few shall know we ever lived hundred years
from now.
mighty human brotherhood! why fercely war and
strive
While Gods great world has ample space for every
Broad felds uncultured and unclaimed, are waiting
for the plow
OF progress that shall make them bloom a hundred
years from now.
Why should try earnestly in life's short narrow
span,
ON golden stairs to climb high above our brother
man?
Why blindly at earthly shrine in slavish homage
bow?
gold will rust ourselves be dust hundred years
from now
Why prize sOmuch the world applause? Why dread
50 much its blame?
aecting echo is its voice of censere or of fame;
The praise that thrills the heart the scorn that dyes
with shame the brow.
VII, be as long-forgotten dreams a hundred years
from now.
oIaent hearts that mcekly bear your weary load of
wrong!
o earnest hearts, that bravely dare and striving
grow more strong!
Pns> ntill perfect peace is You'll never dream
ofhow
You struggled DER lies thOrny road hlndred years
from now.
Grand lofty souls who live and toll that freedom,
right and truth
Alone may rule the universe for you is endless youth
When mid the blest, with God you rest the grateful
lands shall bow
Above your clay in rev'rent love hundred years
from now.
Etrths empires rise and fall, Time like breakers
thy shore.
They rush upon thy rocks of doom, go down. and are
more.
Thcstarry wilderness ofwors that gem nights radiant
brow
WEI light the skies for other eyes hundred years
from now.
our Father to whose seeples eyes the past and future
stand
An open page, like babes VIC cling to thy protecting
hand.
Change sorrow, death are naught to us if we may
safely bow
Beneath the shadow of Thy throne a hundred years
from now.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

In 1869 John b. Whipple, a widower,
left his little daughter at neighbor's
house in Berlin, N. Y, promising to return
for her in two months, lie went to Troy.
and as soon as he was ready to give her
home returned to the village, but learned
to his amazement that she had disappeared
with woman named Keys. For seven
years he has been searching for the missing
pair, his second wife being as deeply in.
terested in solving the mystery as himself
Mrs. Whipple learned few weeks ago
that Mrs. Keys had sister in Williams
town, Mass. She went thither, and repre-.
senting that she was friend of the little
girl who was with Mrs. Keys, asked where
the child was. The woman, after some
hesitation, producad a letter from her sister
stating that the little girl was living with
her in Hampshire, Kane County, Ill. The
father is on his way West to recover his
long-lost daughter.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06
mise eIIUl1 e OUS.
For the Smyrna Times.
Miss Lottie Jerman'S Letter from
China.

Mr.. EDIToR;-In the sketch of Chinese
wedding which | sent you some months
ago, said something about writing a
second letter, descriptive of the last Of
most interesting of all but much longer
interval has elapsed than | intended, so
that the scene is less interesting as recall
II at this distance of time.
The day after the marriage, we were in
vlted to attend what would be called in
America the wedding reception, although
very different from our ideas of such
an entertainment. The invitations were
for 80 P. NJ, but it was 3 o'clock
when we arrived. The bride was
making the usual tour of inspection of her
new home, and issued from the kitchen as
We entered the hall, looking wearied and
llstless and utterly Indifferent to to gran
deur surrounding her. Poor girl Accord
ing to barbarous custom, prevalent, | was
glad to learn, only in Foo Chow, sho had
been interviewed the night before, by
nearly thousand of the residents of Foo
Chow, high and low. To refuse admission
to anyone, on the first night after marriage,
would be to violate cherished custom; so
the timid bride had to submit to the rude
gaze and ruder jests of the curious crowd
that thronged the halls till morning, com
menting freely on her person, dress and
ornaments; even insisting upon seeing her
small feet and her jeweled hands and arms.
During all this trying ordeal, the brides
role is that of perfect unruffied calm-to
weep, laugh, or grow angry, would augue
most unfavorably for her husbands happi-
ness.
But this is the reception day, and we
have hardly time for hasty survey of the
halls and their occupants, before the cere-
mOny begins. 1t is ladies' day and no
Chinese gentlemen, save the nearest friends
OF the bridegroom, are present, but num-
Der of foreigners are to be soen, among
them the American and French Consuls,
in official dress.
Red mats are placed on the floor in the
middle of the hall, before the "ancestial
tablet" inscribed, as the words would indi-
cate, with the names Of ancestors, and
greatly reverenced in Chinese households.
Thefatheran mother first prostrated them.
selves three times before this tablet, then
the bride and groom, and now the ball was
iairly opened. Two large crimson chairs
were placed just in front of the tablet, and
the relatives and friends, by two, seated
themselves, or rather were seated in them
and duly "worshipped by the newly
married pair. First came the bridegroom's
grandmother, thsn very old couple lthese
taking precedence, on account of age), then
the father and mother, afterward other re.
atlves and distinguished friends, until the
ualn seemed endless, although it did not
include single friend of the bride. The
'adies did not appear desirous Of being
"Ofshipped-in fact they showed com
mendabls modesty in the matter, and had
% % forcibly seated in the chair Of state
.n's apparent reluctance, however, Y
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06
SMYRNA DEL WEDNESDAY, AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER G. 1876

offered no barrier to the camp and its en-
tertainment.
There are other reasons than donom-
national distinctions and differences that
circumscribe the field of vision of some
who may not die altogether in ignorance,
and who may know what manner of
Spirit they are of, having God and the
Bible and the Spirit on their side, to teach
and judge them into all truth.
From what has been said you may ques-
ton my ever having been at camp meet
ing, but not so, have preached as best
could to the gathered multitudes, and
shall do so again if invited. Perhaps l
shall have occasion to express at another
time more fully my views touching the
socialities of the Camp.
Yours, Z. l.. BONG.
FEDERALsDURG, Aug. 26, 1876.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

A novel swindling scheme was recently
broken up in Boston. Ono Samuel II.
Sanborn, with flaming advertisements of
"Veiled Beauty" had for several weeks
made reputation among people who
frequented the business streets, and was
apparently doing good business in his
ostensible efforts to restore an unfortunate
lady to the comforts of competence, all
of which she had LOST in the financial
disorders of the past few years. His shrewd
plan was this: The "Veiled Beauty " was
to be publicly weighed in Music Hall by
the city weigher so soon as 100000 tickets
should be sold at 81 each. The purchaser
of ticket was allowed the privilege of
making a guess of the lady's weight, and
the one of the 100000 purchasers who came
the nearest to the exact weight in pounds
and ounces was to receive $4,000 as his
prize. The remainder of the 100000
derived from the sale of tickets, after
paying the expenses, was to 60 to the lady
as her means of livelihood for life. When
the scheme was first advertised, the police
authorities of Boston suspected it was
swindle, and began an investigation which
finally resulted in the arrest of Sanborn and
the seizure of his papers and books, which
amounted to l,lSS photographs of the
" Beauty" circulars, envelopes, and other
papers. II did not appear that many
people had been allured into the enterprise,
as only about 225 receipts for cards given
to investors were found.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06
Simplicity and Long Life.

All PolSOHS WHO Hlbke BOOu claim 10 IN
telligence and balance of mind are dcsirous
of long life; but can it be said that the
larger portion of them live in such a man
ner that the object of their desire is pro-
NOTED? If one examine the records of the
hundred or more old men and women now
living in their ninety and odd, he will find
that their habits in early life were simple :;
that they were quite regular in the matters
of eating and sleeping, and were not given
to practices Of an exciting or b1ain-exhaus-
ting nature. That there arc some cases of
longevity whose youth or early manhood
was not remarkable for close observance
OF hygienic proprieties must be admitted,
but it will be found that the folly of such a
course was recognized ere it had mado very
serious inroads upon the constitutional
vigor.
Not long ago the writer received visit
from an elderly gentleman, whose age Dor.
dering on eighty, would not have been sur.
missed from his fresh appearance and active
manner. Allusion being made to the fact
that he was very young looking old man,
he stated that at thirty he was supposed to
be far gone in consumption, and, becoming
thoroughly dissatisfied with the treatment
received from physicians, broke away from
them, and set on foot line of practice
which had been suggested by reading some
magazine articles, and which he deemed
consistant with natural law. He went into
the country, worked according to his
strength, was out of doors a good part of
every day, ate the simplest food, avoiding
everything in the way of excitement as far
as he could, and found, in the course of a
few months, that his health was greatly i'm.
proved, the symptoms Of pulmonary con.
sumption becoming less and less marked
AS the result Of this experiment he changed
his business, which had been Of an indoor
character, for another which gave him out
of-door life, and continuance of SIMPLE
ity in his habit established him in robust
health: such bodily vigor, in fact, as he
had never realized before, and which had
remained his almost without intermission
An illustrious example of regularity and
simplicity, and of their effects in prolong
ing life, although it be surrounded Will
cares and responsibilities, is the present
Emperor of Germany. We are told that
his affairs, public and private, are regulated
with the utmost strictness; that his per
sonal habits are SO simple that they have
passed into proverb. "Many man ir
Berlin" says writer, "whO is not an EN-
peror, would look upon the two or three
slices of 'SchwarzbrOd (black breud) and Bit
OF cold meat as meager fare" And yet
such is his daily luncheon. Confne New
York business man upon such materials
for his lunch" and he would deem him
self hardly used. The Emperor is q really
hard-worked man. The cares of his great
estate are heavy, and he seeks to meet
and discharge them. He is, doubtless
often weary when the day is done, but he
does not 60 to downy, luxurious coach
but to hard military bed, which gives him
the healthful repose so much needed
Science Of Health.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

GREEN TOMATO PICKLE.-Take bushel
of green tomatoes, chop fine, put in a
colander and drain dry, add one-quarter of
pound of white mustardseed, one,quartor
of whole allspice, six green peppers, chop.
ped fine, three tablespoonsful of ground all,
spice, two of ground cinnamon and ground
cloves, one tea-cup of salt; mix we'll and
put in a stone jar; add one gallon of
scalded vinegar hot, set away to cool, after
cold cover tight and it is ready for use.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06
How a Man Looks for Clean Clothing.

Dld you ever see q man try to find a
shirt or handkerchief or something in the
bureau drawer where his wife keeps her
clean linen? 1t mostly happens when he's
in hurry, when he has got his fireworks
temper on, and his wife has got the baby
on her lap or she is cup to her elbows" in
dough. IGefinds the white clothes arranged
in such symmetrical layers as only woman
after long practice can accomplish, and he
dives in good deal as he would fish for
nubs of kindling in barrel of shavinps,
pitching everything right or left on the
floor. Meanwhile, as he fails to get the re-
quired article, stewing and swearing and
Offering up selected expressions of relief to
his feelings in suppressed tone of voice,
and vowing, in way especially designed
to reach the ears of his wife, "that it
does beat thee old-what's name pa thing
can't be put where it can be found" About
this time his wife yells out from below that
the article sought is right at the top, when
he sarcastically wants to know if she SIN.
poses he has "got no eyes," then tears
around into that linen at more furious
rate than ever, swearing that the shirt amt
there, for he has got clear to the bottom.
And then he gathers everything up in a
bunch and rams them back anyhow, lust as
he can grab them, in savage handful, tear
ing around and jerking things all over with
nervous looseness. Then he sings ont in
sort of abstrscted way, as if addressing no
one in particular, that he can always tell
where to find anything he needs at his
place OF business in a moment, that he
keeps place for everything and everything
IN Its place. just about the time he has
worked himself into a red-hot worry of
boiling over impaticnce and got the whole
room into litter, his wife glides in and
lays her hand upon the missing article
right in the drawer where he ierked it out
and then rammed it back again-in that
quiet way woman has of maddening q
coloriic husband into a fit state for the
lunatic asylum.-&IpcnsJ,uy Nevs.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

The cIamor for patronage has never been
SO great, and ofIicc-sccIing never so cxtcn.
sive, as it will be if Gov Tilden is elected
We 90 not believe that Gov. Tilden with all
his firmness and strength could resist this
avalanche that would be thrown against
him. lie would have to yield or antaso
nlze the entire party, and that he could
not do without destroying his entire power.
lie would yield to what lie considered a
lesser evil, and all reform in civil service
would be over until the next campaign.-
LldiM.ap2E8 lh.Ll Nens.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

Corn SouP.-To each quart of young corn
cut from the cob allow three pints of water
Put the corn and water on to boil. When tho
grains are tender, have ready two ounces of
sweet butter, mixed smooth with one table.
spoonful of flour. Stir the butter into the
soup, and let it boil ten minutes longer
Just before taking out of the pot, beat up
an egg and stir into it, with salt and pepper
to your taste.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

The cheap grotesquely figured fans now
in use here are made in japanese homes, all
the members of families working on them.
The pictures are drawn on thin paper,
pasted ON a slab of wood, and then en-
grsved, separate block being used for
printing each color. Children do the
splitting of the bamboo and the pasting of
the paper. In Japan that kind of fan is
used by woman, and the men carry the
handsome folding article. 1t is customary
there to exchange fans, as we do photo
graphs, and to inscribe them with auto.
graphs and sentiments.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

A SoPRANo's SUIcGDE.-Angeline Paol-
lagga, beautiful girl, 10 years old, soprano
singer at st. Columbia's Roman Catholic
church, New York, last Sunday committed
suicide by taking oil of almonds. She and
Joseph Haus, tenor of the same choir, were
lovers, but her mother forbade his visits.
The usual clandestine meetings ensued,
and last Saturday the mother learned that
an elopement had been planned, and when
her daughter went to bed that night re-
fused to give her the usual good night kiss,
and she remained awake all night, weeping.
Her mother, upon rising next morning,
found her daughter dead in the bed. The
father OF the young lady was an officer in
the French government in Algiers, and
afterward consul at st. Thomas. Her
musical talent was so great as to give prom
ises that she would be a great singer.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

1t is high time that the American people
should pay little more attention to the
pronunciation Of their geographical names.
they VIII otherwise soon be on par with
the English, and will have no right to laugh
at Holm Chvo.ly as vocal expressions of
Ilolborn and Cholmondelcv. writer in
LPpmcot's Mqga-0c points out various con.
fractions which result simply from in
dolence or convenience of Inference: but
the vice is of much wider oxtont. DR..
Holmes discovered, some years ago. that
CINCINNATI Is almost invariably pronounced
C"Sa'"aftah; and he might have added
that the citizens of our neighboring Cen
tennial capital generally say PhIaclphv.
In fact all towns with names ending in :,
are liable to have that letter shortened
INTO p---as Aurory, Peory, &c. But a worse
tendency, which is fast spreading over the
whole land, is to give the fiat instead of the
broad sound of to all our paturalizAd
Spanish names. 1t is becoming altogether
too common to hear people talking of
o'lorGyto, Ncroydt, or Hontay.a, Why not
as well say Alabayma, or call the euphon.
lous Maine river, Sayco? But in the older
States the fine, sonorous vowel sounds seem
to be secured against the possibility of
change; probably because the Indian
nomenclature was first learned orally,
while the Spanish is generally read before
being heard, There is nothing finer in any
language than the two broad sounds of the
vowel a aud it is to be regretted that our
American habit goes further than that of the
English, in dropping them. In England
the tomato is still ripesounding vegetable
while here it has become green and insipid
as tomayto. The only reason for the
change is that our ancestors made potato
out of the original Lat4a, In few instan-
ces, we reverse the ordinary process, and
broaden instead of flatten. On the Now
York Central road, the conductor ALWAYS
announces one station as: Gylyc ~ and
he is very apt to say .Sigh-racuse." Cases
have even been known where Democrat.
in the rural districts, denounced by name
" The Sem-eye Weekly Try-bune /" Cannot
the schoolmasters do something to stop
these habits?
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

An Alabama sheriff took his negro pris.
oner to Jail, went out and became drunk,
was arrested and locked up in the same
cell with the negro, slept in the same bed
with him at night, was tried in the morn.
ing, fined ten dollars for drunkenness, and
then brought up the negro for his trial as
if he himself were circumspect and staicl
officer of the law.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06
WHOLE NO. LIS,

a STRONG OnJFcTIoS.-' Are YOU satisfied
with the jury, gentlemcn?" said Judge
Noonan, after the jury had been cmpan.
nclled.
We are said the lawyers in a chorus
a TALL gaunt figure rose up solcmnIy in
the jury box and said, ilnprcssiycIy. " But
I'm not"
What's your objection, Mr.. Snooks: -
inquired his honor blandIy.
hls young man on my right has been
eating onions, your honor"
"oPjection oyerrulcd-go on with tho
case, observed Judge Noonan, and the tall
man sat down resignedly, and held white
handkerchief to his nose as a kind of signal
of distress.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

Down IN FRONT P-During the recent
occultation " of Saturn by the moon, or
in other words, when the moon passed
between Saturn and the earth. several
astronomers, who were watching the
phenomenon with particularly strong
telescopes, say they distinctly heard the
people of Saturn yelling, Down in front n
to the man in the moon.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

President Grants income as a farmer is
nothing wonderful It is reported that his
farm has required a yearly outgo of $IO,-
900 beyond receipts. 1t is now rented to
two different persons for $500 a year.
The net income, however, is only 81 500,
Tor the taxes amount to $500.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

. am, indeed, very much afraid
lightning" murmured pretty girl during
storm. "And well you may be-" said
her despairing lover, for your heart is
made of steel"
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

GREEN ToNATo SAucE.-Tako FULL grown
green tomatoes, take out the stems and
stew them till soft; rub them through a
sieve put the pulp on the fire, seasoned
with pepper, salt, and spices; add somo
garlic and stew all together till thick. It
keeps well, and is excellent for seasoning
gravies.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

BRowN BREAD PrDDING.-IIalf a pound
OF stale brown bread grated, half pound
OF currants, quarter pound of shrewd suet,
two ounces Of sugar; mix well with three
eggs and half gill cream or milk: boil
1t IN a cloth or basin that exactly holds it,
from three to four hours. Serve with
sauce.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

A hundred years ago when You called on
a girl she kissed you goodby. Now if you
suggest anything of the sort her father calls
you into the library and asks you what you
are worth. Are we nation? And is this
progress ?-Nor1cich BuNchn.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press says:
The sight of hearse driven through ono
OF our streets yesterday with half bushel
OF cucumbers on top was painfully sugges-
tive. 1t is seldom that so striking an ex.
ample Of cause and effect is seen.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

There has just been formed at Zanes-
VILE, o., an organization known as The
knights of lvanhoe," for the purpose Of
reyiving the tourncment of medieval DAYS.
Let these young men so to work in the
corn and earn legitimatcly the title of - I've
an-hoe."
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

Wasn't it rough on Ella, just as sho was
telling Frederick, at lunch, how ethereal
her appetite was, to have the cook bawl
out, "Say, will ye have yer pork and green's
now, or wait till yer feller's gomez"
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

At wedding in Baltimore last week tho
services were said to have been very sugges-
tive. Among the hymns sung at the
ceremony were Z" Blcst Be the Tie that
Binds" and "What Shall the Harvest
BeY
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

The engineer who said that his locomo-
tive ran over and killed 279 rabbits in
Nevada was at once elected president of
liars club, q
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

Old mon delight in uttering good pro
cepts-to console themselves for being no
longer in condition to set bad examples.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

TO FAsTES LABELS TO TIN CAxs.-Put a
teaspoonful Of brown sugar into quart of
paste, and it will fasten labels as securely TO
tin cans as to wood. lIousokcepers may
save themselves much an annoyance in the
loss of labels from their own fruit by re
membering this.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

Papa, "Oh, don't talk about it How on
earth your uncle could have been such a
damned (Stops-ths words were out
before he noticed the child). Master
Tommy: sOh don't mind me, pa It's an
expression often make use of myself"
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

Mrs. Carr, of Quebec, hanged herself with
her false hair last week. The coroner's
verdict was that the Carr was demolished
by misplaced Switch"
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

Ten years for stealing a saddle, five year
for killing your wife, is New York State
law. Gentlemen, if time is any object, let
saddles alone.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

This is the way citizen of Denver adj
vertises for lost calf Rund away Rcd
and ylte cat. His tu be hint leg was placll
he vas she calf. Enipotti vat prings him
pack pals tollars. Jacob zuddering.
Clear Creek, three miles pehind the pridgc.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

" You have lost your little hatchet," is
the polite way of telling man what he is
when he is one.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

Thousands of base deceivers are hung
every night--on the backs of chairs.
Smyrna times., 1876-09-06

Talk about the diversity of American in
dustry. A young lady in Kingston, y. Y,
has set up as house painter; two boys
are hunting for a diamond ring in the
sand at Charlotte, y. Y; man near
Baltimore is raising millions of leeches :;
the srortsmen at Oshkosh, Wis, arc fishing
Tor a sea-lion; man in Troy is at work
upon a patent emery sieve; the Connect
cut farmers are fattening turkeys on
potato-bugs: the Black Hills miners have
introduced new game of cards with eight
knaves to suit; q Nevada husband has
discovered subtle poison for the cxtormi-
nation Of a mother-in-law a book agent is
peddIng complete political lotter writer
at Albany, and two hundred thousand
young women in all parts of the country
are writing poetry Alexander Hamilton ;
dream of the diyersifcation of human labor
has come to pass.-N y. Tribune.