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NoTICE is hereby given that the Commis-
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A Model sensat, on al Report.

Isaac BARACKMAN.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07
POef2.Y.
BE HAPPY AS YOU CAN.

This life is not all sunshine,
Nor yet is it all showers,
But storms and calmS alternate,
As thO-nS among the flowers.
And while we seek the roses.
The thOrns full oft we scan,
Still let us, though they wound us,
Be happy as We can.
This life has heavy crosses,
As well as joys to share,
And grief and diSappOintments
Which you and must bear.
Yet, if misfOrtune's lava,
EntOmbs Hopes dearest plan,
Let us, with what is left us,
BE happy as we can.
The sun of our enjoyment
Is made of little things.
As of the broadest rivers
Are formed from smallest springs.
By treasuring small waters
The rivers reach their span;
So we increase our pleasures
Enjoying what we can.
There may be burning deserts
Through which our feet must go.
But there are pleasant oases
Where pleasant palm trees grow.
And if we may not follow
The path our hearts would plan,
Let us make all around us
As happy as We can.
Perhaps We may not climb with
Ambition to its goal
still let us answer Present"
When duty calls the roll!
And whatever our appointment,
Be nothing less than Man,
And cheerful in submission.
Be happy aS You can.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07
mise eIIUW e OWS.
Age of the Sexes.

DR.. Lambert, of New York, gave an
interesting lecture on woman and her
nature, duties, needs and entitlements.
He, in a good-natured manner, spoke of
his peculiar treatment of the subject and
said it was new lecture and gave a little
sketch Of his own history. Coming directly
to the lecture itself, he discussed the ques-
ton Of the comparative length of the life of
American men and women, and between
people of this country and those of Europe.
He showed statistics to prove that, contrary
to the popular opinion the people Of New
York were longer lived than those of the
old world The English girls, so often
spoken of for blooming cheeks and robust
forms, owed these qualities to their native
island and their fondness for the national
beverage, beer. The fact was, the women
of this country were longer lived than the
English women. There probably was no
place in Europe where so many old people
could be found in proportion to the popula-
ton as in New Hampshire, and three out
of every four of the people who had
reached the age Of ninety years in New
Hampshire were women. The constitution
of women was substantially the same as
the constitution Of men, and the duration of
their earthly existence, as a general rule,
on the American continent, was the same.
Gliding into the peculiar marks and forma-
tiOns of the body as indications of long or
Sbort 1ifa fba 1acr,t~ar enid tIut &c lo5v
wore heavy caring, and the ear was
pulled down in consequence, this indicated
a short life to the owner of the weak men,
ber. On the contrary, should the ear re-
tain its natural position over heavy ring,
the strength of the gristle pointed to q
long life to the owner. And so with fingers.
If hand had very short fingers, that had
an indication of longevity, whereas long
fingers were indicative of a short span of
life. 1t was not found that the proper
tionate number Of men and women dying
at the different ages varied materially.
After reaching the age Of twenty girl was
liable to live to good ripe old age as a
man at the same period. AS a rule, female
beauty anu lOhSCNlty NtIc nOl COLI
those azure eyes and very fair faces that
carry off short-lived young men are not
long-lived. Another wonderful fact was
the constant change going on in the body.
The air of the hall was at that moment full
of particles of the brains and organizations
of those present. Every day, every hour,
aye, every moment, worked a change in
every living form. The speaker said that
he would like to see women withdraw from
the pOst-ofiices, countingrooms and other
positions of labor where they were half
paid, and young men put in and paid
double the amount paid women. Then
the men could support the women. Every
man had a woman beside him, and should
work for her instead Of having her earn heI
living outside of the household. The
young men, he thought, ought not to be
crowded out of the places and sent West
Men of long life usually had some great
and strong principle in their characters
some stamina which symbolized vigorous
and enduring vitality.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07

MARK TwAIN's REpoRT OF AN ACCIDENT.
Mark Twain recently tried his hand at
writing up a distressing accident for
Boston local paper, and this is how he did
it, Last evening about o'clock as Wm.
Schuyler, an old and respected citizen of
Hyde Park, was leaving his residence to
60 down town, as has been his custom for
many years, with the exception of only one
short interval in the Spring of 1850, during
which he was confined to his bed by
injuries received in attempting to stop a
runaway horse by thoughtlessly throwing
up his hands and shouting, which, even,
If he had done SO a single moment sooner,
would inevitably have frightened the
animal still more instead of checking its
speed, although disastrous enough to him
self as it was, rendered more melancholilv
distressing by reason Of the presence of his
wlie's mother, who was there and saw the
occurrence, Notwithstanding it is at least
likely, though not necessarily 50, that she
should be accommodating in another direc
tion when incidents occur, not being viva.
clous and on the lookout, as general
thing, but even iii the reverse, as her
mother is said to have stated, who is no
more, but who died in the full hope of
blessed resurrection upward of three years
ago. aged sc, being a Christian woman
without guile, as it were, in property, in
consequence Of a fire in lS49, which
destroyed every solitary thing she had in
the world But such is life. Let us all
take warning by this solemn occurrence,
and let us endcavor SO to live that when
we come to die we can do it. Let Us place
our hands upon our hearts and say with
eGrnestness and sincerity that, from this
day forth, we will beware Of the intoxica.
ting bowl"
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07
Labor Saving Machines.
ARE THEY RESPONSIBLE, IN ANY DEGREE, FOR
THE DULL TIMES.

Political economists tell us that labor
saving machines open up increased avenues
of industry, instead of tending to make en-
ployment scarce. But Chicago contem-
porary seems to think otherwise. 1t thus
speaks:
There are dozens Of men in every COM
munity who learned trades that are no
longer available for procuring livelihood.
These persons have adopted other callings,
or are seeking employment as unskilled
laborcrs. Since the formation of our gov.
ernment more than half the trades that
then gave employment to large numbers of
persons have become obsolete, or rather the
kind OF manuel labor they represented is
now performed by machines A machine
does the work of more than hundred men
in working nails, screws, paper, tacks, cor
dage, wooden ware, stove pipe, bricks, and
a thousand and one of other articles.
At present, a cooper has nothing to do
except to set up the slaves of casks and
barrels. The blacksmith buys the shoes
and nails that he puts on the feet of horses
Nineteen out of every twenty pairs of boots
and shoes used in this country are made by
machinery. AS rule, the shoemaker has
become cobbler. The carpenter has,
now, little to do except to hang the doors
and windows, and to lay down the floors
that are bought ready made. Every year
thousands Of ready made houses are sent
out to the western praries, the only labor
required OH the place where they are to be
erected being to set them up according to
printed directions. Fences and chimneys
are also made in large manufactures and
sent in cars where they are wanted.
For time persons who were discharged
from trades i'll consequence of the use of
machines found employment in farming,
but gradually labor saving-machines began
to revolutionize farm operations. At pres
ent nearly all the grass and grain are cut
by machines, and the latter is threshcd in
the same way. On all large farms corn is
dropped and covered by machine. while
on nearly all farms grain is sown, hay is
raked and pitched, and water is raised by
machinery. Last year, potatoes were plan
ted, cultivated, dug, sorted, and put in bags
by the aid of machinery.
Very promising experiments have beer
made in binding grain, shearng sheep, and
milking COWS by machinery, and it seem,
evident that all these things will be accom-
plishcd within five years Most people
think that the success of the steam plow i.
only a question of time. When all these
things shall be accomplished in addition tc
those now done by machinery, it is plar
that but small amount Of manuel labol
will be needed to carry on farming opera
tions as compared with what was required
only few years ago.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07

SAYING DISAGREEABLE THINGS-No class
of people can inflct such martyrdom on
their associates as those who are given to
the habit Of reminding others of their
tallings or peculiarities. You are never
safe with such person. When you have
done your very best to please, and are
feeling kindly and pleasantly, out will pop
some bitter speech, some underhand stab
which you alone comprehend--a sneer
which is masked, but too well aimed TO be
misunderstood. Only half a dozen words,
spoken merely because he is afraid YOU
are too happy or too conccited, and ought
to be 3" taken down a peg" Yet they arc
worse than so many blows How many
slecpless nights have such mean attempts
caused tender-hearted idiots? How, after
them, one awakes with aching eyes and
head, to remember that speech before any
thing else-that bright, sharp, well aimed
needle of q speech, that probed the very
centre of your soul. There is only one
comfort to be taken. The repetition of
such attacks soon wean your heart from
the attacker; and this once done, nothing
he can say will ever pain you any more
While, as for him, one friendship after
another, mortally stung by his sarcasm,
dies, and he finds himself at last alone and
friendless-as he deserves to be. Setting
aside the unkindness of the habit, and
looking at it in an entirely worldly point of
view, it does not pay to say disagreeable
things to those who love us, as our ill-nature
will in the end recoil upon ourselves.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07

TROUBLED BRIDEGRoOM.--A couple
IN Kingston, says the National Bopta.
who undertook to get married some
time since, went, accompanied by the
bridesmaid and groomsman, to a church.
and were ushered into the sacred edificc
and escorted to the altar by the sexton.
who, however, got the parties rather mixed
up, stationing the bridesmaid next to the
bridegroom, and the bride and groomsman
in ncorresponding wrong places. The clergy,
man, not noticing the mistake, went on
with the ceremony, and began marrying
the bridesmaid to the bridegroom, when
the bride served an Injunction on him BY
eXclaiming that she was the marrying
party. The mistake being remedied, the
clergyman made another attempt, and the
performance went smoothly along until it
came for the bridegroom to produce the
ring, which was essential to the completion
of the ceremony. But when that gentle
man felt in his vest pocket, it wasn't there :;
in the other, not there; in the trowsers
pocket, not there; and then he felt to the
bottom of the remaining pocket, and finally
exclaimed: well, sure, there is a hole in
my pocket, and the ring slipped down into
my boot" And the only way to finish the
ceremony was for the bridegroom to sit
down, pull off his boot, take out tho ring,
pull on his boot, and put the ring where it
ought to have gone and walk out with
his bride, which he did
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07
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1t will be seen that the sum of each line,
each column, and each diagonal, is-34
The four corner fgures-34. The corner
figures of any square of four figures (of
which there are four in the larger square)
"a. The four figures of the central
square-34. The four figures of each corner
of the whole square-34; making altogether
twenty different ways in which "a may be
reckoned. The other sums of "a may be
obtained by taking the figure which stands
next to the corner figure, going round from
left to right, thus, 3, s, IA, 9-34. Then
take the figures which stand to the left of
the corner figures, going the other way
round, 2, 5, Is, 1874.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07


The late Alexander Z. Stewart, in a
letter to his wife, which accompanied his
will, directed that donations should be
given to every employee who had been in
his service for periods respectively of ten
or twenty year. The investigations neces-
sary for making up the list have been going
on ever since the funeral of Mr.. Stewart,
and now the whole list has been made pub
lie, there being several special gifts in cases
which were considered of particular merit.
There ire about three hundred persons who
are the recipients of these gifts, and their
aggregate amount is $685. besides $780,
600 additional of special legacies provided
for in Mr.. Stewards will The donations
vary from $500 to $50O0 The longest term
of service announced in the list is that of
James w. Ferris, who has been in the EN-.
ployment of the house for thirty wears.
When one considers the uncertainties of
of mercantile life in New York, thirty
years is very long period to remain with
the same establishment. In 1S46, when
Mr.. Ferris began his career in "Stewart's
Store," neither his employer nor himself
would probably have dreamed of the enor.
nous growth their business was destined
to have.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07

A petition is generally signed in Texas
asking the Legislature to pass law punish.
ing horse thieves with whipping at the post
for the first offence, with whipping and
branding for the second offence, and with
hanging for the third offence.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07

A Western editor met well-educated
farmer recently, and informed him that he
would like to have something from his pen.
The farmer sent him pig and charged
him 1915 for it.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07


The Prairie Farmer publishes the follow.
ing article on the subject of driving horses
to excess The most vicious and enexcu.
sable style of driving is the manner which
so many drivers adopt, to wit: Wrapping
the lines around their hands and pulling
the horse backward with all their might
and main, so that the horse, in point of
fact, feels the weight back of him, with his
mouth, and not with his breast and shoul-
ders. This they do under the impression
that such dead pull is needed in order
to steady the horse. The fact is, with
rare exceptions, there should never be any
pull upon the horse at all. A steady pres
sure is allowable, probably advisable; but
anything beyond this has no justification
in nature or reason. For nature suggests
the utmost freedom of the action of the
head, body and limbs, in order that the
animal may attain the highest rate of
speed. In speeding horse the lines need
seldom be grasped in both hands when the
road is straight and free from distractions.
The true way to drive is to let the horse
drive himself, the driver doing little but
directing him and giving him that conf.
dence which horse gets in himself only
when he feels that a guide and friend is
back of him.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07

A THOUGHTFUL TAILOR.-A young man
from one of the suburban districts was in
one of our tailor-shops getting measured
for vest the other afternoon. Married
or unmarried?' queried the merchant
after taking down the number. " I'm
married." said the young man with a
blush. Inside pocket on the left hand
side, them" observed the tailor, as to him.
self, taking a memorandum to that effect
After a moments pause the young man
from the suburbs was prompted to ask ::
"What difference does my being married
or unmarried make with the inside pocket
of the vest?" "Ahl my dear sir" OBJ
served the tailor with bland smile, call
the difference possible, as you must see.
Being unmarried, you want the pocket on
the left side so as to bring the young lady's
picture next to tho heart" "But don't
the married man also want his wife's picture
next to his hearty" querie6 the anxious
youth. " Possibly there is an instance of
that kind" said the tailor arehing his eye.
brows, but never heard of it."
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07

Social WHIMsICALITIEs.-W is a
lady dress like an unfortunate bull-fghter?
When it is gored. And when is it like
partisan When it is baised. And when is
it like a topper? When it is full. And
when is it like the sails of ship? When it
is trimmed. When is it like a season of
the year2 When it is lent. When is it no
longer fit for use? After she has once worn
it out.
We lately met an old negro trudging
along, with heavy side of bacon that he
had bought swinging over his shoulder.
We noticed that he was miserably clad,
and we felt sorry for him, for a cold wind
was blowing. We demonstrated with him.
" Why do you spend your money for meat {?
You'd better buy a coat" The old man
stopped, looked us full in the face for a
few moments and said in the most solemn
tones: Massa, when | ak my back for
credit it gibs it; when / speak to dis
(laying his hand upon his stomach it calls
for de cash.
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07

From London Fan ION the hat and cloak
fashions): Shocked and astonished verger
=" You bad and wicked boy, why don't
you take off your hat in church?" Bad and
wicked boy (overcome with guilt =" If you
please, sir, I'm little girl"
Smyrna times., 1876-06-07

INOPPORTUNE KIssEs.-The Memphis
(Tenn.) Acala,che has the following account
of novel case taken before Justice in
that city, it being prosecution for malicious
kissing, designated on the warrant as
Il breach of the peace: "The party causing
the arrest was negro named Charles
Glosson, and the malicious kisser was Ella
Daily, who is also colored. The prosecutor
has wife, and he stated that Elias malice
did not consist in the mere act of kissing
him, which ordinarily he did not object to.
but in persisting in kissing him in the
presence Of his wife, which had tendency
to make things unpleasant at home, and
was expensive when the broken croclSery
ard frying-pans that had to bo replaced
were taken into the account. ESQUIRE
Miller, after patiently hearing the case,
suspended judgment during the good
behavior of Ella, who left the Office, re-
marking that she would hit dat niger
wild brick for having her arrested"