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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-13

mind, a realizing sense Of the wrongfulness and
danger OF all sorts 81 dishonesty; but Its llbors
should be energotically backed up 10y the pulpit.
We must try to set every available agency at
work for the advancement Of public virtue.
Not few II the men VINO have fallen into hib-
is of stealing are church Roers or professors Of
religion who cilim to have been converted.
This shows how necessary t. Is that the Clergy
should preach frequently aud strongly on this
subject.
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17
Good Manners.

There are certain points Of good manners
in which women fail which yet seem to
have been guiltily overlooked by their cen
sors. The one woman who behaves badly
attracts more attention than the nine hun
dred and ninety-nine well-disposed; and
when one woman falls below the proper
standard, all women seem to be Inundated
thereby.
In connection with our schools there is
springing up growth of ungracefulness
and indelcacy, which goes far towards
neutralizing the intended good. Typical
American girls, pretty, gentle-iaced, in
telligent looking, well dressed, will fill a
car with idle,. vulgar, boisterous chatter.
They will compel, without scruple, and
bear without finching the eyes of all their
fellow passengers. One could sometimes
wish that our far-famed schools would
stop their algebra, stop their latin, stoI
their philosophers, and give their undivided
attention to teaching their pupils how t.
talk. 1t may not be possible to make then
talk sense, but surely they can be made t.
talk gracefully. Delicacy is not "a thini
which can be lost and found Familiarit.
without love, without confidence, withou
regard, is destructive to all that exalts ant
ennobles woman.
1t is the first duty of woman to be
lady. The woman who says that this
making much ado about nothing, is tn
woman who will accost you by name whel
YOU enter a car, in tone that Introduce
1 you to everybody in it, and makes you wis
that the part she occupies had run of
the last switch. She is the woman VIII
under pretext of conversing with one
two friends, informs the whole company
her views on woman's rights and h'
relations with her husband.
: Good breeding is good sense. lgnoran(
of etiquette is often the result OF circun
stances, but bad manners in woman is in
morality. Selfpossessed, aggressive coars
ness of demeanor merits that mild form
, restraint called imprisonment for life."
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17
SMYRNA DEL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MAY IT, 1876
Hard Times.

The Unitarian Revie,0 for January and
February, among other articles, has one on
the Business Situation" in which the
present stress of the times is ascribed to
over production-the gorging of the market
with more of those commodities which are
in general use than the market can bear.
This position of the writer is thus stated
1t is due simply to the introduction,
during the last twenty-five years, of such |
an enormous amount of machinery. There |
is nothing in our modern civilization which |
is more wonderful, more significant, more !
a new thing under the sun, and destined to
be more wide-reaching in its relations, than
this use of machinery. A single pegging
machine will turn out more boots and shoes
now than whole village of cobblers at
work in their little cubical shops fifty years
ago. The cloth woven in any of our large
mill towns is probably equal to half of what
all Indies used to produce by the slow hand
methods of the middleag ages. Steam engines
alone are doing work which without them
would give employment to ever one of the
multtudes of men and women who are
now lying idle in our country. California
few years ago was groaning over the in
PRODUCTION of so much "Chinese cheap
labor;" and yet, at that very time, most
inconsistently, was giving a welcome to
mowers and reapers and mining apparatus
which for cheapness and facility of use
| A., i L.,
when it is seen how these muscles and
nerves of iron and steel are employed in
every department of industry, from carving
into shape a shaft of iron weighing twenty
tons, down to the finishing of cambria
needle, and from the sewing of a button
hole to the sowing and reaping of whole
States, who can wonder that the market is
overstocked?
Of course this increase Of facilities for
doing work increased for a while the
amount of work to be done. But such 9
progress could not 60 on forever. There
was limit even to the number of stitches
!, which could be put into lady's dress, and
, to the amount of wheat which even al
American family could make way with
; And this point has last been reached
The occurrence of our civil war, with it
: enormous destruction of property, and it
withdrawal of energies into the battlefield
put off the day; but the end of the war
Q and their return again into the pursuits o
r peace, soon filed up the gap, and brough
= us to the point where it is hardly possibl
}, to consume half of what was being pre-
e duced-the point, therefore, where bus
e ness was obliged to stop.
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17
Experience in Battle.

81 believe writes a veteran, "no two
soldiers widely disagree as to their sensa-
tions during a battle. l take it to be
piece of bravado in any man to assert that
he had no fear during the progress of
long and severe engagement. A battle is
a yeritable hell upon earth; not to be in
serious apprehension while it lasts is to be
either drunk, crazy or insensible. The
highest type of bravery is that of the man
who realizes the full extent of the peril,
but sticks resoIutely to his duty. 1t was
my experience, and that Of all those about
me. repeated a dozen times, that shell
firing is not ordinarily so demoralizing as
that of musketry. 1t is not often that
shells are thrown so that their fragments
scatter death and wounds, and their loud
humming over head does not cause that
nervous tingling which follows the sharp
zip of the rife bullet The peculiar cutting
of the,air made by half dozen of those al
once is apt to give the soldier the idea that
the whole air is filed with them, and thai
he is certain to be struck by one OF them
All. I believe, will agree as to the sensation
first caused by the impact of bullet. 1t il
a stunning, numbling feeling, which for
long time overpowers the local pain OF thu
wound. In my experience, single buck
shot near the hip knocked me Hat, and 10
two days after gave me such acute pain
ond such muscular disturbance from kne
10 shoulder that could not stand erect
Soldiers have frequently been prostrateo .
spent. balls. A curious effect OF shell "ouho
is that they do not bleed the hot iral
ment sears the torn blood vessels and stoI
the efusion. A Mimic ball extracted froi
the body presents remarkable sight.
: have seen them whore the resistance
! flesh had turned back the pointed end Q
, all sides with such regularity that the ba
0 resembles saucer or a flower"
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17
The Closing Scene.

The police courts abound in strange
for often there the curtain
falls upon the closing scene in some event
full drama which began with mirth, and
wine and pleasure, but which ends in an
guish. darkness and despair. A writer
gives the following sketch of such a scene
johnson, the officer says you were
drunk, and that you haven't drawn a sober
breath for week. How is that Johnson ?"
eyer honor" said johnson, as he drop
ped one arm over the rail, and leaned
back heavily on the policeman who sup
ported him by the shoulder, Eyer honor,
it's true; I've been drunk for a week, as
you say, an l haven't got a word to say
to defend myself. I've been in this ere
court, | guess, hundred times before,
an every time I've asked yer honor to let
me off light. But this time I don't have
no fear. You can send me up for ten days
or ten years; it's all one now"
As he spoke he brushed away a tear with
his hat, and when he paused he cOughed a
dry, racking cough, and drew his tattered
coat closer about his throat.
"When went BEFORE" he continued,
81 always counted the days an the hours
till I'd come off, This time I'll count the
blocks to the Potter's Field. I'm most
gone, Judge
lie paused again, and looked down upor
his almost shoeless feet.
"When l was little country boy, m,
mother used to say to me:
"Charley if you want to be a mai
never touch liquor;' an I'd answer: INC
mother, never will. If I'd kept tina
promise, you an me wouldn't have bee
so well acquainted, Judge. If | coul
only be boy again for half a day; if
could 90 into the old school-house jus
once more and see the boys and girls as
used to see them in the old days, coul
lie right down here and die happy. Bl
| it's too late. Send me up Judge. Nal
it for ten days or make it for life. 1t don
/ make no difference. One way would
as short as the other All l ask is to d
. alone. I've been in crowded tenemen
e for years. If can be a alone a little viii
. before 90, I'll die contented."
q The shoulder of the muddy coat fe
S from the policeman's hand, and the use
S up man fell in a heap to the floor. I
e was carried to the little room behind Il
e rail. His temples were bathed and /
|. wrists were chafed. But it was no II:
n Though his heart still beat, he was ia
v going The shutters were drawn--t
V door was closed. He might die contente
@ for he was left alone.
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17
Money One Hundred Years Ago.

Mr.. Elliot c. Cowden, of New York, |
lectured in Boston upon "Currency and |
its Relation to Business" He said two |
hundred years ago students at Harvard Col |
lege paid their tuition with live stock and
provisions. The currency Of the Pilgrims
was the first issue of paper money in this
country. During the war of Queen Anne,
a paper currency was established, known as
Queen Anne's war currency, which soon
became worthless. In 1855 Virginia issued
paper currency, previous to which the
clergy were paid in tobacco. In IT'S John
Coleman established bank in Massachu-
setts with land for capital, and began the
issue of loans. Other Colonies followed,
and the amount of loans by the Colonies
finally reached to millions, which the
mother country paid off at reduced rates to
save the credit of the Colonies. In 1775
Congress issued paper currency to the
amount of 100000 to be redeemed in coin
in three years. The Colonies of States also
issued paper money, and soon the whole
volume of State and National currency
amounted to $l20O0,0O0. This money was
taken without much question at first, and
those who refused it were stigmatized as
unpatriotic but in the following year il
began to decline, and in 1880 it was worth
almost nothing. A barber-shop in Phi.a
delphia was plastered all over with Cont
mental money, the dogs were tarred, stucl
over with the same shinplaster, and let on
to run the streets for the public amuse
ment. To Robert Morris is due the saliva
, ton of the Revolutionary army. He len
! private fortune and credit to the Govern
ment, and when all his money was gon
/. and his credit had been literally used
Washington said he must raise more none
to carry out the war measure, the perfeC
8 ton Of which only waited for the money
. Morris therefore issued his own notes fo
a s1,4O0O00, Washington gained the battle {
Yorktown and CORVALLIS surrendered
Every one of these Morris notes was sui
!. seauently redeemed. In 1882 the Bank {
! North America was established at Philade
! phia with a capital Of 100000. This WI
:, the first bank of the National Government
!. The date Of the first silver coinage WI
1894, and of the first gold coinage 1874.
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17
WHAT MY LOVER SAID.

By the merest chance in the twilight gloom,
In the orchard path he met me
In the tall, wet grass with its faint perfume
And tried to pass, but he made no room;
Oh, / tried, but he would not let me;
So stood and blushed till the grass grew red,
With my face bent down above it,
While he took my hand, as he whisp' bring said
aIow the clover lifted each pink, sweet head,
To listen to all that my lover said
OH the clover in blOOm-I love it,
In the high wet grass went the path to hide,
And the low, wet leaves hung ever;
But could not pass upon either side,
For found myself when vainly tried,
In the arms of my steadfast lover,
And he held me there, and he raised my head,
While he closed the path before me;
And he looked down into my eyes and said
How the leaves bent down from the bOughs Ger head
To listen to all that my lover said;
Oh, the leaves hanging lowly DER med
He moved aside little way
could surely then have passed him,
And would not have heard what he had to say
Could only aside have cast him.
II was almost dark and the moment sped,
And the searching night-wind found Us;
But he drew me nearer and softly said
How the pure sweet wind grew still instead,
To listen to all that my lover said;
oh. the whispering wind around usD
lam sure he knew when he held me fast
That must be all unwilling;
For 1 tried to go, and would have passed,
As the night was coming with its dew at last
And the sky with stars was filling.
But he clasped me close when would have ned
And he made me hear his story.
And his soul came out from his lips and said
How the stars crept out where the white moon led
To listen to all that my lover said;
Oh the moon and stars in gloryD
know that the grass and the leaves will not tell,
And am sure that the wind-preeiOus rover
Will carry his secret so safely and well
That no being shall ever discover
one word of the many that rapidly fell
From the eager lips of my lover
Shall never reveal what fairy-like spell
They wove round about us the night in the dell,
In the path through the dewladen clover;
Nor echo the whispers that made my heart swell
As they fell from the lips of my lover.
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17

REMEDY FOR SLEEPLEssNEss.-Man per-
sons, from nervousness, fatigue, or mental
excitement, are unable to sleep. Mr.. Frank
Buckland, an English naturalist, prescribes
very simple remedy for insomnia, or
sleeplessness. The fact that opiates, in any
form, leave traces of their influence the
next morning, induced him, he says, to
prescribe for himself, as he has also fire.
quently prescribed for other-onions
simply common raw onions. The well
known taste of onions is due to peculiar
essential oil contained in them, and this oil
has highly soporifc powers, which, in his
own case, Mr.. Buckland AYERS, never fails ;
if much pressed with work, and feeling an
inability to sleep, his practice is to eat two
or three small onions, the effect of which
is magical in producing the desired repose.
Such remedy has great advantage over
the supplying drugs COMMONLY resorted to
for this purnpse.
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17
The Scarlet Fever.

1t is as unnecessary for a child to die o.
scarlet fever, says Good Health, as it is
that it should be blind with cataract.
Let us see: At any time before the body |
has finished it's Intellectual struggle we are
able to help it, not by wonderful medicines,
but by the knowledge of anatomy and the
application of common sense. We consult |
the mpathetic~nerve, and do what it
commands us to do. We must give this
child salt when it wants it; we must give it
acid when it has fever-not vinegar, but
lemon juice, because the first coagulates
albumen, and the latter does not, on
account of the surplus of oxygen which it
contains. TO initiate the soothing mucous
in theintestines, which is now wanting, and
to give some respiratory food at the same
time we add some gum arabic. To restore
and relieve the injured we apply more
warmth. In practice we can fulfill all this
with the following simple manipulations
Undress the. child and bring it to bed at
the very first sign of sickness. Give it, if
it has already fever, nothing but warm
sourish lemonade, with some gum arabic
in it. Then cover its abdomen with some
dry flannel. Take well folded bed sheet
and put in boiling hot water; wiring out
dry by means of dry towels, and put this
over the flannel on the childs abdomen.
Then cover the whole and wait The hot
cloths will, perhaps, require repeated
: heat.
According to the severity Of the case
l and its stage of progress, perspiratiOn vii
t utes to two hours. The child then il
n saved; it soon falls to sleep. Soon afte
L the child awaEes it shows slight symptom
l of returning inclination for food help it
It bowels, if necessary, with injections Q
| oil, soap and water, and its recovery vii
d be as steady as the growth of greenhous
1t plant, if well treated. OF course, if tn
e child was already dying, nothing coul
Il save it, or if it has effusions in the linin
,e of the heart or brain, it is much bette
ie that it should die. But if the above is al
is piled in due time, under the eyes and d
Ie rection of competent physician, 1 wi
guarantee that not one in hundred CHI
L. dren will ever die of scarlet fever. l kno
d. this will startle some of my readers, esp
Ie fcially those who have children alread!
he but I shall go still further. mainta
is that a child will never get scarlet fever
e. properly treated. If a child has correct
st mixed blood, it will not catch the disord
le if put in bed with sick child. This
d, still more startling, but nothing is easier
proof.
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17

SECRETARY BRIsTows LETTER.-A private
letter from Secretary Bristow to a citizen of
Massachusetts,, who wrote him a compl-
mentary letter, has been published in the
Springfield Republican. In it Mr.. Bristow
says: "I have not sought, nor can l con-
sent to seek by any means, my own ad-
vancement; nor am l willing to do any
act, or take any step, to place myself
before the public as a candidate for once.
am quite content to discharge as well as
1 can the duties of the office which 1 now
hold. Of course, I cannot be insensible
to the support given me by earnest and
honest men in my humble efforts to en-
force the law and collect the revenues
levied by law. Expressions of confidence
and support from citizens of Massachusetts,
are peculiarly grateful to me, because they
come from an enlightened and patriotic
community upon which have no claims,
personal or official"
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17

VALUE OF MAN.-Every man is precisely
what he is-no better and no worse. He
is worth precisely what he will bring. The
only just measure of his ability is his per-
formance. If he drinks whisky, his in
temperance is part of him. If he is idle,
his Incidence is as much his as his head or
his hand is. He is entitled to credit only
for the net result, whatever it may happen
to be. Possibly he might be great man if
he were not drunkard; but he is a
drunkard and hence it is quiet as absurd to
talk about his possibilities of this sort as it
would be to say of an idiot that he might be
distinguished writer if he only had the
necessary intellect. 1t is poor sort of a
reputation that hangs on an "if," no man
is entitled to it, and to very many of its
possessors it is an unfxed evil.
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17

LETTERs.-People may be surprised to
hear that more letters pass amongst the
people of Switzerland than of any other
country. In year they carry on a cor
respondence Of twenty-three letters for
each inhabitant. England comes next,
with 2O.5, then the United States with
nineteen. France holds the ninth rank as
a letter-writing people. In telegraphy,
also, the Swiss beat us easily. They for
ward eighty-one dispatches for each hun.
dred souls, monstrous advance over our
fifty-four 1 should conceive, however,
that two-thirds of the telegraphic business
in such country would be between
foreigners. Holland sends fifty-one dispat'
ches for one hundred souls. Belgium forty
seven, the United States thirty-two, and
Germany thirty-one. France again comes
in low. She holds tenth place among thir
teen quoted. Russia is last with one dis
patch per one hundred inhabitants.
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17
The First Temperance Story.

81 hear you children talk great deal
about Temperance" said our old grandma.
" Would you like to hear the first temper
anse story that have heard? "Oh ! yes"
we all exclaimed, always ready for one of
grandma's stories. So she told us this
story:
"When [ was a little girl, we lived
among the hills of Scotland, where my
father had large sheep farm. "Temper-
ance" was never heard of then, and every
day for dinner, we had homemade beer,
and all drank as much as they wanted
and no friend ever came in without being
asked to have some old whisky. On
market and fair-days | have seen men come
home sick, as the little folks were told
and all the remark that would be made
about it was, Folks must have little fun
sometimes | used to think that getting
sick was queer fun but as grew to un-
derstand that it was the whisky that made
them sick, l would wonder why people
would take so much trouble TO brew any
thing that made them sick and cross for a
long time after they had drank it.
"One day l shall never forget; we were
in the kitched with our mother, who was
speaking kindly to poor crazy woman,
who had stopped to rest and beg cup of
milk. Mother felt so sorry for the old
woman that she brought glass of hot
whisky and offered it to her. In an instant
| glass; sand whisky were hurled to the back
of the fire. How her eyes sparkled! She
screamed out: How dare you give me q
drink of fire-fre, 1 say? We did not
know what to think, and clung to mother
who tried to quiet the old woman, but il
was of no use. L want to warn you anC
your pretty little ones, never to taste the
stuff that has burned up my husband anc
child, and left me to wander without {
home. was married to as fine lad al
ever walked, and we had a sweet little bab'
and cozy home. My husband and alway
kept the jug in the corner of the cupboard
After while thought it had to be fillec
great deal oftener. than when we wer
first married, and not only that, but 10
(my husband) would stay too long whe
out with friend and ! would mix som
hot drink to put me to sleep, and some
times would drink so much could scarcel
! remember even to 60 TO bed afterward
So you see was getting fond of it too.
"One night left the baby in Joe's cal
/ and set the jug and glass on the table fC
E company while l stayed with sick neigl
e Dor. Before morning, we heard a nois
/ and on going out, found it was my hOu'
/ in flames; by the time we got there, II
/. roof had fallen in on Joe and the bab
f They never would have been burnt up
O he had not had the jug for company. I
!. must have drunk himself stupid, and
n the candle or his pipe fall into the cradl
q learned to hate it too late; but | wa
O you to hate it as much as do"
IS "My dear children" said our gran
"a mother, when she had finished the stol
,r "that was our first lesson in Temperate
le and it was good one. Not one of us W
or heard the old beggar-woman ever wou
Il drink after that. We did not have Ban
" of Hope in those days; but am thank
n we have now, and bless God that my dC
er little grandchildren belong to one"
Smyrna times., 1876-05-17
WHOLE NO. 1899.

THE MINISTER'S WIFE.-Under the head
of "The Minister'S Wife," the London
Baptist Magazine has the following bit of
pleasant satire:
"The minister's wife ought to be selected
by committee of the church. She should
be warranted never to have headache or
neuralgia; she should have nerves of wire
and sinews Of iron; she should never be
tired nor sleepy, and should be everybody's
cheerful drudge; she should be cheerful,
intellectual, pious and domesticated; she
should be able to keep her husbands house,
darn his stockings, make his shirts, cook
his dinner, light his fire, and copy his
sermons; she should keep up the style of
a lady on the wages of day laborer, and
be always at leisure for good work. and
ready to receive morning calls; she should
be secretary to the Band of Hope, the
Dorcas Society, and tho Home Mission !;
she should conduct Bible classes and
mothers meetings should make clothing for
the poor and cruel for the sick; and,
finally, she should be pleased with every
body and everything, and never desire any
reward beyond the satisfaction of having
done her own duty and other peoples too u