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Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

never had case of recovery, nor of one
who has given any signs of life."
Have you heard of any cases in other
places?"
1t is said that one was saved in Erfurt
but it is only report may be true or may
be not"
This Is the testimony that comes uni.
tormly from all the books and all the
countries where the subject receives careful
attention. While it goes to show that in.
stances of premature burial are exceedingly
rare, 1t does not show that such cases
are impossible. In times of prevailing
epidemic, when bodies are carried off by
authority as rapidly as possible, to retard
the progress of pestilence, it would not be
strange if mistakes were made. Asiastic
cholera sometimes brings the victim to a
state OF apparent death, from which he
may recover, under careful and perseverinc
treatment. But in the common course of
human experience, the approach and
advent OF death are so clearly defined, and
certainly is so easily had, that premature
burial can be possible only from great care
lessness or indecent haste. The ordinary
tests of the breathing may fail, but the ac-
ton of the heart can be detected bv the
ear, even when the most delicate hand fails
to discover by the sense of feeling. In
newborn infants, it is difficult to detect
the motion for some minutes together, but
IN the case of others, the interval between
pulsations of the heart does not exceed six
or eight seconds. And if this examination
Is made twenty-four hours after death is
supposed to have taken place, the fact is
made certain one way or the other. There
are other tests which may be readily ap.
Piled, but they are not needed in tho case
OF persons dying under ordinary circum.
stances. The customs of civilization. tho
dictates of natural affection, and the
most rational judgment, require such an
interval of time between death and burial,
as to make the case palpable to the senses.
so that no possible doubt can exist. II is
not likely that one case of doubt occurs in
each million of persons buried, and the
one case of doubt would prove to be a
certain death in nine cases out ten. From
all which | infer that the nervous appre-
hension some people have that they will be
buried alive, is just us unreasonable as it
would be for man to expect to be taken
up to heaven in a chariot of fire. Such an
event has occurred, and it is not impos
sible that it may again. But it is not
probable"
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

FIGHTING FOR llOME.-A woodpecller's
hole is such q very convenient place for a
nest, that many other birds are glad to find
one unOccupied. Sometimes pair of wrens
will watch the motions of the woodpeckers
while they are at work, until an unfinished
hole is left unguarded, when they will take
possession of it. As soon as the lawful
owners return, the thieves are driven off,
but they are so persistent and troublesome
that, although a woodpecker is larger and
stronger than twenty wrens, the owners
sometimes abandon the place, and mako
new nest. Still, the wrens are not always
allowed to keep the house they have stolen,
for the blue-birds are equally covetous of it,
and sometimes fight fiercely with the wrens
i'll their attempts to gain possession of it.
Occasionally, both wrens and bluebirds are
driven away by the martins, for these birds
also prize woOdpeckers' holes very highly.
Tho fierce battle between these various
birds over an abandoned hole are very
amusing, and often last several days; for
they all are very obstinate birds, and as
each one is determined not to give up, the
matter is not very easily settled.-Prot. W.
IL. Brooks, 81. Nicholas for june
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23
The Blessedness Of Hunger.

The satisfaction of appetite is usually
considered the supreme happiness, but the
highest authority has pronounced tho
blessedness to be rather in hunger than in
its satisfaction. If we examine the subject
| closely abundant reasons will appear to
sustain the truth of this view. Hunger is
the best sauce for dinner" is a saying
familiar to us all. The poor man who
| brigns to his plain meal of meat and pota.
toes, or pork and beans, sharp appetite,
whetted by vigorous toll, gets manifold
more enjoyment from it than the luxurious
epicure who must be tempted with dainties.
The laborer feels the reinforcement of food
in every muscle, in every drop Of his blood :;
the epicure gratifes in a languid way
| merely his sense of taste, while from his
fastidiousness he suffers thousand an.
| noyances the other with his healthful
craving for food and moral enjoyment of
it knows nothing about.
The dominant thought in the minds of
those who hunger for food, for dress, for
riches, for knowledge, for fame for power,
is that the satisfaction of this hunger will
bring happiness. 1t certainly does bring
happiness, but only in so far as the appe-
tite grows by what it feeds on. When a
man has ceased to hunger he says with Sol.
omon, "All is vanity and vexation of
spirit" When "desire fails" man goeth
to his long home and mourners 20 aboat
| the streets.
There is no topic so interesting to sue.
cessful middle-aged and old men as the
struggle of their early life, when hunger
consumed them. This is true of artists, of
orators, Of journalists, of business men in
every department of life. Their Joy is not
so much in presentsuccsss, in dissatisfaction
of hunger, as in having overcome all obsta-
cles that might be satisfied. In our acade-
mics and colleges there is always class of
poor, struggling students, who are willing
70 wear shabby clothes, live within bare
walls and on rugged fare, teach during
vacation, do any kind of work to keep
themselves along, SO that their hunger for
knowledge and for the careful training OF
their faculties may be satisfied. With
what astonishment do these earnest souls
look on the indifference and Incidence oi
those who go to school and college merely
because they are sent there, who takes a
liberal education as they would take a
course Of physic-something to be got
through with; to whose unthirsting lips
the chalice of knowledge is tasteless and
uninviting. "Oh, if had only his chance,
her chance" sighs many famished soul,
wouldn't l improve it ~ Perhaps you
would, but only so long as appetite re.
mained. "The full soul loatheth the
honeycomb." There are cases where
hunger too much has cramped and dwarfed
aspiring men and women. But the deaths
by over-feeding are far more numerous
than those by starvation. 1t is we'll in
every sense to keep ones appetite sharp,
for food, for knowledge, for whatever good
thing life may have for us. Can any but
! the hungry soul be filed?
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

MAKING ALLOwANCEs.-We were struck
the other day by the reply of musician to
friend who had asked him to play on a
piano which was out of tune. Some one
was present who had not before heard the
pianist Do play for us" said the musi
clans friend, Mr. Blank will make allow
ances for the condition of the piano"
" Make allowances p replied the pianist.
" have heard that all my life, and it never
was and never will be true. Nobody
makes allowances If pianist plays on
bad piano, or a tenor sings when he has a
sore throat, or an orator gets out of his
deathbed to make a speech,-the audience
is disappointed because he does not do his
best work, and it carries away an impres.
sion OF the performance which is likely to
last for lifetime. It's the same in house
Keeping, and dressing, and business, and
everything else. People expect the best
under all circumstances. There is no such
thing as making allowances. .'"-,StriJncr for
Jimc.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23
VOLUME XXII.--NO. 81.
l AM HERS.

We are married! am hers,
As she frequently AYERS;
But the worst is, must own,
While my spirit makes its moan,
While my smOthered anger stirS,
Own that everything is hers!
Hers the land, and hers the house,
Every rat and every mouse,
Everything on the estate;
Every cup and every plate;
Every coat and every shoe;
And she makes one feel 1t too!
Ay! her money buys the meat,
And the very bread 1 cat,
The clothes wear that look so CAV,
Tickets, too, to ball or play,
Yet all that she can but do
For her money bought me too.
What have for manhood lost?
Pride debascd and true love crossed?
Conscience scared and hope deferred?
Truth insulted, hate incurred?
Shame of friends, and butt of foes?
What, ah, what but board and clothes?
Spite of wealth. It's cen too true
I'm no richer, not Il sou
Law has made her cash her own,
And her heart is hard us stone:
Young man, you've been warned I'm sure,
Wed the girl you love, though poor.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

BRINE THAT WILL PRESERVE BgTTER A
YEAR.-TO three gallons of brine strong
enough to bear an egg, add quarter of a
pound of nice white sugar and one table.
spoonful of saltpetre. Boil the brine, and
when it is cold strain carefully. Make
your butter into rolls, and wrap each
separately in a clean white muslin cloth,
tying up with string. Pack large jar
full, weigh the butter down, and pour the
brine until it is submerged. This will keep
really good butter perfectly sweet and fresh
for whole year. Be careful not to put
upon ice butter that you wish to keep for
any length of time. In summer when the
heat will not admit the butter made into
rolls, pack closely in small jars, and using
the same brine, allow it to cover the butter
to depth of at least four inches. This
excludes the air, and answers very nearly
as well as the first method suggested.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

The gentleman who wrote the verses
called Betsey and are Out" "The New
Church Organ" &c, reverses the usual fate
of "the literary man." He has made so
much money from tho sale of his poems
that 1t is gravely stated that abe is now
recognized as one of the leading capitalists
in this section of the country" This re-
glon is Hillsdale, Michigan, where Mr..
Carleton, who is bachelor, lives in beauti.
full little cottage.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

End OF THE KENTUCKY LOTTERY BUSINESS.
The attorney general of Kentucky has
decided that all the Kentucky lottery
grants have expired by limitation, and that
no valid grant now exists in that State.
This includes the Frankfort, Paducah,
Henry Academy and Shelby College grants.
The managers have appealed, with no ex.
pectation of success, however, but to gain
time to wind up their business.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

Anthony Allison, Confederate soldier,
who lost track of his family during the war
while he was confined in northern prison,
and has been looking for them ever since
found them the other day at Rising Fawn,
Tenn.,---and his wife hadn't married
another man,
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

FIRST INNINGS SCORED FOR TURKEY.-Thc
first serious battle in the Turco- Russian war
Is reported in cable dispatches as having
been won by the Turks at Batoum, where
they are said to have worsted the Russians
to the amount of four thousand killed and
wounded. If this statement be true it is
cumulative evidence that Turkey is not the
very "sick man" Russia has been growing
over, and that there is fight and pluck in
the so long decried effeminacy of the
worshippers of Mahomet and his houris
And there may be some reason in the
recent suggestion that the baggy- -brecched
Ottoman is fully the peer of the bear
breeched Russian-although the immense
territory and population of the bear seems
to be sufficient to swoop away the Turk
without any difficulty. In whatever event,
however, the fight is a notable one, and is
attracting the attention of all civilized
nations.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23
The Peninsula as a Market.

The Philadelphia Bulletin gives somo in
teresting data in regard to fruit growing on
this Peninsula.
The peach growers are making efforts to
have their country converted into market,
and claim that it will be much more adj
vantagcOus to purchasers. In the first
place extra handling of the fruit will be
avoided. Then the peaches will not have
to go through three or four hands before
reaching the consumer. The great ad
vantage, however, will be the fact that the
purchaserwill be on the ground himself and
can select and ship his own stock. There
has been much complaint, through several
years, that inferior fruit was sent to market
This trouble would entirely cease if tho
plan Of the growers is adopted, as reputa-
ton and pocket book could prevent a
dealer from buying inferior fruit when he
had such a good opportunity of selecting
first class stock direct from the orchards
The profits on the investment would also
be increased, as the services of the "middle
men " would be done away with. In 1875
a party who shipped peaches to Chicago
made a clear profit of $3.50 out of one car
load. He selected the peaches at the
orchard, getting the best, and, of course.
on arrival in Chicago, the fruit was in first
class condition and brought good prices.
Tho price paid was 81 per crate, to which
"a cents freight is to be added, and the
sum realized, 1918 per crate. We relate
this one instance to show that the business
is very profitable when the purchases are
made direct from the producer.
The cultivation of small fruit, such as
Strawberries, blackberrcs and raspberries.
on the Peninsula is rapidly growing, and
the increase in their production for the
last few years has been enormous. The
berry production in the southern section
OF the Peninsula excel those in the north
crn part. While peach growingis gradually
extending north of the Nantcokc river,
the production of berries is going south.
Laurel, 90 miles from Wilmington, is tho
heaviest shipping point for berries. The
largest crop was in 1871, and as high as
10000 quarts of strawberries were loaded
at Laurel in one day. Wcstover, l2l miles
from Wilmington, is the next highest
shipping point for berries. In this neigh
borhood is a cluster Of estates. Westover
contains $50 acres and the ncighboring
estates are Arlington, G3G acres, and Work.
ington, 3l3 acres. Arlington has 81 acres
devoted to strawberries, 33 acres to black
berries, 1000 cherry trees, 10000 peach
trees, and 1000 pear and apple trees. The
other estates are simply divided. The
shipments of berries from the Peninsula
from 1870 to 1874, inclusive, were >, 80. car
loads. The heaviest shipments were in
1871, amounting to IA cars, carving
5,7l2,OOO quarts. The crops in 1875 and
1876 were not large, but this years crop
bids fair to compare favorably with that of
1871. The shipments have been made as
far north as Buffalo, and east to Boston to
the latter place as many as 20 car loads per
day being sent. The berry season opens
about the 18th of May, reaches its height
about the 2Sth and ends June 18th.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23
Houses and Things.

In an article, with tho above title, in
Hcr'Cner Tor June, DR.. Holland writes as fol.
lows:
The mistake of this era in the history Of
"house-hOld art and homo decoration -
lies, 1t seems to us, in the attempt to do too
much with furniture. Ruskin. in ono of
his books, distinguishes between BUILDING
and architecture. There are certain struct.
ures in which architecture should never be
attempted. a grain-elevator, astorc.house.
barn,-theso are buildings, and architec.
ture IS out Of place in them. There is no
more reason why they should be beautiful
than there is why mealsacIz should he
beautiful, or wheclbarrow, or a coal.cart.
50 1t seems to us that there may be. and
that there are, certain items Of furniture
which we may legitimatcly excuse from the
duty OF picturesqucncss. If our carpetsafo
less beautiful than rugs upon bare floors, if
furnaces are less interesting than open fires,
II the old-tashioned wash bowl and pitcher
are more picturesque than the plumbers
substitute, what of it? In which direction
shall we make our sacrifices? Toward
comfort and convenience, or toward the
plcturesqucsncss of ruder times and smaller
means? We advocate comfort and convc.
nience, and leave others to do as tbcv
choose. The modern advocacy ofbeauty. in
connection with all articles of furniture and
household convenience, reminds one of the
child who insists on making play of every
thing,-who cannot take q mouthful of
food, or do any act of service. without
making it in some way a source of amuse.
ment.
TO come to the practical point. home
may be interesting without being more
than moderately beautiful, and may be
more than moderately beautiful without
being interesting at all. If we rely entirely
upon furniture for the interest of n house.
If we mako furniture picturesque at the
price of comfort and convenience, our
homes may be made interesting in a
moderate way, provided we follow out our
individual ideas, and do not fall back upon
the conventionalism of the manufacturers.
But the most interesting things in a house
should never be its furniture. Giving con,
venient furniture, that shall be picturesque
when convenient, the question whether a
home shall be greatly interesting relates
mainly to other things-to books, pictures,
objects of art, bric-ab brac, and treasures of
various sorts, in fact or in association. We
can point to homes whose furniture attracts
no attention whatever, but which are alb
sorbingly interesting through the artistic
products of its members. The more the
culture and taste of cultured and tasteful
people are expressed in their homes,
through various modes and forms of art.
the more interesting those homes will be:
and the more guest is compelled to forget
furniture, except as it answers to the higher
harmonies of the house the better. The
best things Of an interesting home are
never bought of furniture dealer, though
tho most beautiful may be.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

Mrs. Brooks, the artist in butter, is now
modelling, in Boston, in the presence of
visitors, life-size bust. She will remain
there but few days longer.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

The man with big feet resides in Tennes.
see. If he gets them wet in December he
doesn't have cold in his head until late
in February.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

Stick a ginger snap on the end of a
knitting needle, and you have the latest
style of parasol.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

Judge Kelley hit the bullseye when he
said of the Presidents course that "the
people like it, but tho politicians don't"
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

Bustles amt worn any more, and man
stands some chance of finding tho morning
paper after nine o'clock.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

At the "earnest request" of several
young men, a Missouri paper publishes the
following bit of information: "There is
nothing so tends to shorten tho lives of old
people and to injure their health as the
practice of sitting up late, especially summer
evenings y
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

We may as well expect to grow stronger
by constant eating as wiser by constant
reading.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-23

At Oregon, Holt county, Missouri, last
week, Miss Kingsbury, teacher in a select
school, attempted to punish pupil named
VIM. Payne, aged Is. lie resisted and
struck her several blows with his fist in the
breast, when she Immediately fell over and
expired. A post-mortem examination re.
vealed the fact that her lungs were dis
eased, and the heart was so badly involved
that death might have been caused at any
time by over excitement.
, 1877-01-24

StlVER-MjNtNG,

cu,c,on Inn nawnf .i,v., mi ,,,ta .,,,,,,o
n n"'.,n A'' 49,, ",,4 so'a ''l't4'
on ."o 'as'ue slops ,sc lo''nrs ~ .ne n'ose ,n''
Of nj, nc. as miuel being realized fru,n tie silver
,ulura. And what Ia .tlyrr.u,,fnrj II ts accn
% nnJ sxtm,.tr, m wn,1rrrround m worI,,rs crau, r,Uh
mud mud u,rsats subtsrFsn,an eraa rum
the maeA!Acgy saI appliances nccle,1 to sae,!-
tate sa!e jnrrcss auA cgrrsa fron, The works
md removui of canp,,a nn,1 orc n III, smr,
r's. "..s, =. ..s.'t.,a a,. a.. W ~ '"o hu'
'a.e' ahu ~ co'"PsIhehas 'ne aoatcmen1 ot
natural obstacles, snti us Aardncss assl soitness
of rock, displacement OF vxlp, foul a!s, ard
wntcg. VIII, this definition uf sllycr,nlrIn,r M
l,,Iimot,. ri,ha rf, l,,o,n,. tntcl,,,t,,f, Tn,sa
,s, na ,a., 'l:"1 tnr "r' W., uu ~ ~, '., se
'Ahst DC 'ookcu tor' mol III thc ellance u indtig
paying Gro deposits, rs most prppic sup.
po1e, ut n. tac task Of uneoyerlng
Ctah to say Motllimg 81 tho other sllycr-ulntug
reElonsl are lltesHlly tul of SILVER urc, ant ii
every tsstence lase thu slGer-nlfncs lii that Ter
Tlsoty yielded extensive paving ora arpos.s,
fret, with corresponding levels. ctc. Among
out ~ csvvtiu, sls WI sainai,'s .hs1as ossar ",t
i2 a'. y. NJ" o. te l'a, flaga.aI; and Prince Of
M rat!STy'a lask; t4e Miller, N American Fork;
tno WhnAsl!ick, Jordan, at!tl spa1lsl, III West
aionnsa'M; :.sta,'' tno a"Fro IN NY canyon; re-
a1SaSie ~ dsat',s .. ssisst-ing n nta,s has
snriare. say from ~ to l3o feet, the Hnst note
worthy at This elias" vi 1si!ncs being the Horn
Silver, III san ff!.tcIseo District. This tuluc
lev Ieet lc!ow tiG surface dtbclolcu solid
tuf VI eaeUulakgti-lcad siIFgr.ore, u tnore than
average gfaar, WHICH, Wien Inst examined II,
nstasu:ca aboSe 1W feet a tcneth
AMI lnst{ ieet IN Will. fho deep
est.Wofke!t stlsel-sn'sles, anu most oi thesg.
however, arc loaAd tn Atfa1a. Wtl!clI Is the old.
ut 1'lSes.;nhin'. country, prominent among
wh'yh is tho "ofHa-fshowheh E.Hnstock yen,
, 1877-01-24

changes IN III. sity I. remarkable. and send ron
ny reficnhtt0n with Tho greater reluctance from
this fact am afraid tho frequent citanges Of Rec.
torshlpe which tho church FcRAra Tor life. arc not
conducive to tho stability or tn the real prosperity
q ths Church Among tho thirteen Itettets noy IN
mvsets .Tntr fnct, witch seem. 70 atasslng. and
which Indicate. thai there u fomchin7 ralically
wrong In The church. j. one reason why send yoil
my rtt'gna'ton with no iIel1o reluctance, !
have. grown M between mr. md my
psrth!oncfr, especially rInco feel that few clcr
tymen have had kinder or nOsr consi,lcratc pco.
pc than hasr. The necessity Of II, ering ties ~
dear ID OF the scycrest trials the clergy hns 10
bcnr.
Hut. though rrErct lcavsnrn ncoptc to whom
mnc. attached. the tfnr secns 10 hare come
when z becon'c. my dnty 10 cnn.u'n1natc that
plutca. therefore tcrcby rcrien The Rcetorshin
Of It. Marks Church. to takc effect on EattcF
next.
and my the God Of ncaer. who brought again
from the dead 0nr Lord Irsus Christ, tic urrat
slephcr.! Of the sheep, through Tho hlt'od Of the
everlasting cosena9t, n'nks % you rcrlect IN etsry
which IL veil p'cat,ng In mi Eight, through esns
Christ, to wh1n, bc glory forever and cysr. Amen.
u. +. WAH3kEN.
, 1877-01-24
A a1rltACI1I.tl1JS I'OaftnE.


4 lady Of 20, plump and Jolly brunette, secs
with some anxiety 4 dark, downy IIne pcncsling
itself Oh her superior lt1. She docs not care tu
compete with the bearded wo,slan, ull consults
the advertisements, She finds iust what size
wants-a dcplatorY polnatlr, warranted to re-
N>nye tho 1nost obnoxious m1lstacl1c woman ever
hal IN live applications. She oLtaI,,s llox vt
prteee of 10 lraues, aud follows The drcctiups On
The label With cars. Tho musiarhc thrlycs on
tho depllatory, nnt after q willie Madame yields
TO tho inevitable, aud eonholrs herself by Fr-
6cctiug that 1t might be worst.
.fhFvc or four years roll by, and she sres with
alarm that her hair Is beginning to THU. 4 triic
Of iaustAcllc tau br oofnc, but bald hcaA never,
aud again shc has recourse to tic advertise.
nentA. ehG tinas tho article she uccds-a mirat~
ulous pun,a1e-to fncrtase thr Thickness aud
beauty Of the hair, On visiting thr shop she Is
eturctcd. 1t Is tho san,c shop, The zane Ut
leldant, tho sumo bottle At the sanIu price, the
salnu Foniadt, 50 far u she ca!l jltlEr trnn sp-
peata'stes. Only tho label has been changed.
the mcreltaut, on being severely examined,
tumtts That 1t IL tbc satlt pomatlc 1t filled 81
utterly to rrMoye iair that liz turned 1t Into y
halr tnv!gorator. Wi'h treat ,loy t!u, customer
buys pot aud applies II, -uul her lals Roca pp
falling cut fastef t4uu eytri