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Smyrna times., 1877-04-18
An Industry Worth Cultivating.

Mr. Clarence Cook, writing on house.
furnishing in the April number of ,H,1tJasr.
makes some suggestions in regard to Amer
can decoration of china. We quote the
paragraph entire:
Since writing about china in the January
number of Scrt6nr, it has occurred to me TO
say a word about the home decoration of
porcelain, which is at last getting started
alter having been for years discouraged by
the indifference or mild hostility of tile
dealers. 1t has long been plain that it was
IDLE to hope for help from the importers
ana decorators OF porcelain and earthen-
ware, because they could not be made to
see that their interest lay in getting to be
independent of the foreign workmen. The
decorative arts are in rathera despairingstat
IN this country because the dealers in wall.
papers, china, furniture, and printed and
woven stutfs, find it cheaper to Convey"
foreign designs than to employ men who
could invent fresh designs and patterns
The only way apparently in which these
arts can be given an American impulse is
10y people outside these decorative trades
making their own designs and getting
them executed. Perhaps the easiest OF
these arts to make a beginning with will
be the decoration of porcelain, and as one
OF the main difficulties, fhe getting it
baked namely, is now put out of the way,
there is no reason why everybody who has
any liking for dahbling in colors should not
buy few earthenware plates and some
colors and begin to decorate china. OF
course, many of those who make the OK.
pertinent will fail and give up trying, and
many of those who fail at first will up and
at it again, and will succeed at last. But
1t the occupation can be fairly set on foot,
and enough people can be induced to give
up working in worsteds and painting wall
notices, and to try their hands at deco.a.
ting china for their friends or for the
public, beginning may be made of waking
up the dealers to some interest in supplying
the home market with home work.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18
A Doctor on Remedies for Disease.

In the session of the Medical and
Chlrurgcal Faculty of Maryland, in Balti-
more last week, DIR. S. Weir Mitchell. of
Philadelphia, delivered the annual oration.
His theme was "Some Extremes in Their
apeutics," that is, in the discovery and ap-
pllcation of remedies for disease. He men.
toned number of these extremes. When
he first studied the therapeutics of snake
bite poisoning the opinion was general that
ratttle-snake bite was deadly. Then in
eighty cases thirty different remedies were
found, and the conclusion was reached
that almost anything would cure snake
bite, or else that it was far less fatal than
had been believed.
lie recalled the extremes of treatment
IN rheumatism. Once it was bled and
bllstered; now it is blistered again. Once
1t was treated with floods of alkalies then
opium was fashionable, and some one said
1t must have blankets and six weeks: and
propylamn had its day. and once cold
water applied to the joints would have been
thought to be death, but he could assure it
was comfort, if not a cure. Dr. Mitchell
concluded that there is no other way to
true therapeutics except by experiments on
patients, and there never will be any other
until the laboratory is able to teach us how
ana when to use drugs, and that is far
away hope yet,
Utter disbelief in the value of therapeu-
TIC means prevailed in Germany. Cont.
mental physicians have taken a refuge in
the credulity of people in the influence of
mineral springs. In this country like
belief has been fostered by variety of
causes, and waters of the value of that of
gettysburg, and some as inert, have won a
Widespread celebrity. In most cases
these springs are to be found in healthy
mountain regions, and it is the change ofair.
OF diet and of habits of life which deserve
to be considered rs curative, rather than
the waters. So vast is the use of such total
change that patients who 30 for treatment
from the country to the cities are often the
better merely for the change. and too
often the physician, as he well knew. gets
the credit for that relief which was in large
part owing to the vast Alternative Of chance
OF air and Of all the ordinary habits of
life. '''
Blood-lettIng was once as common as the
giving OF tonics is now, but what was then
aally IN practice is now looked upon as n
therapeutic measure of heroic character. as
a thing really dangerous. The subject of
extremes in the use Of rest and absolute
diet Is worthy of attention, but in this
country we are far more concerned with
the question of how to make people fat
than how to make them lean. There are
plenty OF healthy people who are thin, but
even Tor them there is standard of fat.
ness, and we feel anxious at once when anv
one IS losing fat at all rapidly. Probably
our whole active population loses weight
in summer
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18
Above Story.

young Jonathan once courted tbc
daughter Of an old man who lived "down
east" who professed to be deficient in hear.
ing, but, torsooth, was more captious than
limited in hearing as the sequel will show.
1t was stormy night in the ides of
March, II | mistake not, when lightning
and loud peals of thunder answered thun9
der, that Jonathan sat by the old mans
hreslde, discussing with the old lady (his
intended mother-in-law) on the expediency
OF asking the old mans permission to
marry "Sal"
Jonathan resolved to "pop it, to the old
man the next day. Night passed, and by
the dawn OF another day the old man was
found IN his barnlot feeding his pigs. and
he resolved to ask him for Sal.
Scarce minute elapsed after Jonathan
made ms resolution ere he bid the old man
good morning" Now Jonathan's heart
oeat; now he scratched his head, and ever
ana anon gave birth to a pensive yawn.
Jonathan declared that he had as lief take
thirty-nne stripes as to ask him. "Bnt"
SAID he aloud to himself, "howcycr. hero
go's it, faint heart never won a fair a;rI .,
and addressed the old man thus:
81 say, old man, | want to marry yorIr
daughter"
Old Man-''You want to borrow my
halter. | would lone it to you Jonathan.
but my son has taken it and gone off to the
MILL"
Jonathan-putting his mouth TO the old
mans car, and speaking in a deafening
tone-"l have five hundred pounds Of
money!
Old thanksgiving back, as if greatly
alarmed, and eXclaiming in voice of sur
price" You have got five hundred pounds
OF honey, Jonathan? Why, it is more
than the whole neighborhood has use for"
Jonathan-not yet the victim of despair.
and putting his mouth to theol mans ear,
bawled out" I've got gold"
Old Man-"So have Jonathan. and it's
the worst cold ever had in all nv life
SO saying, he sneezed "wash up"
by this time the old lady came up and
having observed Jonathans unfortunate
luck, she put her mouth to the old mans
ear, and screamed like a wounded Yahoo
" Daddy, | say, daddy, you don't under
stand. lie wants to marry our daughter"
Old Man." told him our calEhalter was
gone"
Old Lady-"Why daddy. YOU don't nm.
derstand; he's got gold-hes rich"
Old Man" He's got cold and the itch.
Oh ! What is he doing here with the itch,
ell 2" ''O'''
So saying, the old man aimed blow n
Jonathan head with his cane-but harpily
Tor Jonathan-he lodged it. Nor did the
rage OF the old man stop at this, but with
angry countenance he made after Jonathon.
who took to his heels.
Poor Sal she died a run.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18
The Multiplication Of Industries.

In an article on the above subject in
'ScrtJner for April, DR.. Holland saws:
We formerly imported all our watches
now we make as good watches as ANYBODY,
and make them by the use of machinery
that nobody else has dreamed of before.
The Italian sewing-silk, which formerly
stood at the head of the markets of the
world, is now superseded in quality and
cheapness Of production by the American
article. There is really nothing that we
have touched in earnest that we have not
succeeded in accomplishing, and we are
beginning upon silk fabrics with the Ger.
tainty Of success. All this has been done
within a few years, and the time is not far
Oft when we shall make all our own silks,
with China and Japan at our back-d doors
to raise our cOcoons for us, and reel them.
and build all our own watches.
What has been done and is doing in
these branches of production is quite
practicable, and in every way necessary to
be done, i'll other fields. We can make all
our own pottery and decorate it, lust as well
as to depend upon other countries for it.
We can make all our own cutlery, quite as
well as they make it in Sheffield. i've can
make our own wooden cloths and carnets
as well as they can be made in France and
Germany and England, There is no good
reason why the finer grades of leather NAV
not be produced here as we'll as in France.
Already, England is losing her prestige in
printing. Our modes are surprising hers.
1t Is not two months since an INTELLIGENT
gentleman in London informed us that
Scn6ncr'S Monthly is revolutionizing wood
cut printing in England 1t is not u year
since London printer sent here for ream
OF the paper on which the 81. Nicholas is
printed, having found that his printers
could not produce the results which he
saw effected In that periodical 1t is not a
month since awell-known British publisher
sent to his agent here for the machine bv
which the paper Of this magazine is polished
after printing, when no such machine
exists, and the only secret is in the mode of
manipulation
There is nothing that we use which we
cannot make. Gloves we make already in
enormous quantities. Artificial flowers,
bronzes, every sort of ornament, are ms
easily producibIe here as anywhere. The
flax industry has hardly been touched here
an industry on which Ireland and Saxony
almost live at our expense. There is no
good reason why we should import ward
OF linen. We have land--an almost H.
limitable acreage Of it--that will raise good
flax, and plenty OF men and women to
grow and fabricate it. We can not only
make our own cordage, but produce the
raw material for it.
Out into these fields the capitalist must
reach or find no profitable employment for
his money. Into these fields labor must
60, or lie idle and decend into pauperism.
1t Is not matter of choice with US; it is a
matter OF necessity. OF course it will take
good many years to accomplish the
results we seek. There must be costly ex-
perlments; there must be processes Of cdu.
cation OF head and hand; there must be
time Tor capital to move itself; but the
change must come, and toward these fields
the public attention should be Immediately
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

Son OF GEORGE WAsHINGToN.-May n
man live to the age of one hundred and
three, claim to be the son of the great
American truth-teller and cherry-tree.chop.
per, be a member in good standing of the
Presbyterian Church and yet be a most un.
mitigated fraud and humbug? This is Il
serious question. But we do not see how
we can help putting it, when Mr.. Mul,
haitian, of Washington, Pa, writes to us.
not on the lst but on the Sd of April, to
assure us that there is living in that town n
true and lawful "son of George Washing,
ton, aged one hundred and three wears :"
For Mr.. Mulhattan informs us that this
interesting centenarian is the son of the
Father of his Country by lady whom he
married ain the summer of I773,' at Fort
Duquesne, and upon the very spot "where
the freight depot of the Pennsylvania Rail.
road now stands" And yet veracious his
tory tells us that George Washington had
been already married on the 18th of
January 1859, to Mrs. Martha Custis. We
decline to indict the founder of therepublic
for bigamy in this Centennial year.-N. y.
World
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

SOME New TITLEs.-Modern institutions
OF learning are emulous of the honorary
degrees which have a long time been con.
ferred on distinguished scholars by old
universities and colleges, and they are
ticketing their female as well as their male
graduates with new cabalistic badges show.
ing the value of their scholastic attain
ments. The inscriptions on some of these
new badges are so abstruse that the general
public is entitled to a traslation of them :
l.. b. indicates Bachelor of Letters: Sc.
B., Bachelor of Science; B. Ayr, Bachelor
Of Agriculture; B. NJ. f., Bachelor of Min.
ing Engineering; d. f., Dynamic Engineer;
b. Arch, Bachelor of Architecture; Mus.
b., Bachelor of Music; PHI. G., Graduate in
Pharmacy; b. L. A., Graduate in Liberal
Arts; b. L., Graduate in Letters; MIA.
Mistress of Liberal Arts; M. L. L., Mistress
Of English Literature; i. c., Laureate of
Letters; NJ. p. L., Mistress of Polite Litera.
ture; Mis-. Mus, Mistress of Music; B. &c..
Graduate in Science. Such titles do no
harm, probably, except to their bearers
but they are apt to induce a thinking pub.
lie to lose some respect for the ancient
LII. ID. and other essentially honorable and
properly bestowed diplomas, which hereto.
fore carried with them distinction and
deserved eminence in literature, art and
science.-Bah Sun.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

Edward Everett had an exceedingly good
opinion of himself. Nevertheless, he used
to tell this story Travelling in crowded
Massachusetts, stage one day. before the
time Of railroads, Il schoolgirl came out of
a house and wished to get in. They made
room for her, Mr.. Everett offering his knee
for her to sit upon. She had sat some
time, when Mr.. f. thought she might like
to know on whose distinguished knee she
had the honor of sitting, and asked if she
would. "Yes, Sir" she replied. He said,
" My name is Edward Everett" "Du tellr
she replied, BE You a sailor man ?n
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

An ARTICLE BY MRS Sr"NEwAII Jackson.
The widow OF General Ston,wall jackson
has agreed to contrihu'" IL Ia" Phtladcl-
phla Weekly I""cS a series Of palr-ro ON j.ri
husbands domestic life, for which she is to
receive 800 per column. Mr.. Jack<on
says, IN an Interview with reporter or the
Atlanta Constitution, " Il is partly that |
may put his true character before the world
that | have determined to write a sketch
Of him for the TmrS am now at work
on it, and it will be ready in very short
time. can give certain facts that can he
obtained from no other source; shall give
them in plain and simple manner"
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18
POetrY.
" NAUGHTY, BUT IT'S NICE"

She stood beside my high-backed chair,
Her curlS against my face,
And turning round to see me fair,
My very thoughts to trace.
She put her dimpled hand in mine
To hide it in trice,
And blushing just little, said,
q really think you're nice"
Such words heart of ice would touch
And melt away in bliss;
In fact think said as much,
And limited at a kiss.
The winsome maid began to pOut,
To seem trifie sad
" That's very naughty, sir" she said,
And now l think you're bad ~
told her while / claSped her waist,
Where long, dark tresses curled,
would not have her love displaced,
No, not for all the world;
And kiss without her sweet consent.
never. never would
I'm tell you when you may" she said,
And now think you're good"
She stood beside my high-backed chair,
Her curls against my face,
And turning round to see me fair,
My very thoughts to trace,
took her dimpled hands in mine,
Like cunning little mice,
And kissed her-when the maiden said,
ITS naughty, but it's nice ~
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

ANY WAT TO SUIT.-"Now then. state
your case," said Detroit lawyer the other
day, as no put the five.dollar bill away in
his vest pocket.
"Well." began his client, suppose the
man living next door wants to put barn
right up against my line, coming within
two feet of my house?''
thing" replied the lawyer.
But ! want to put nv barn riebt mn
against his line" remarked the client
"Oh-ah-yes, see. Well sir. 90 right
ahead and put your barn there. All the
law in the case is on your side.n
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

a scheme has been devised in Oregon for
the suppression of drunkenness, which re.
qulres every person buying liquor for his
own or another persons consumption to
take out an annual license, costing not less
than five dollars. Every six months the
names OF those having licenses are to be
published, and no saloon keeper is to be
permitted to sell drink to a man unless
he can produce the all-important document,
properly certified and bearing the seal Of
the county court. The proposed law GER
tainly has merit. In Philadelphia, for in.
stance, it would bring a million and half
or two millions of dollars revenue into the
pubic treasury every year. And then the
publication of the names of the licensed
drinkers every six months would help to
keep some OF our starving contemporaries
alive, who, by trading type and printing
three or four hundred supplements which
never reach their subscribers, now reap
such rich harvest from the delinouent
tax and mercantile appraisers lists. The
solitary drinker, fortified by the possession
OF his license in his pocket, need have no
fear OF exposure, except when found drunk
with no license, when the proposed Oregon
law would insist upon his Imprisonment in
the House Of Correction for at least six
months. The idle vagabond having no
money to procure a license would have no
whisky, and thus drunkenness would be
banished from the land and the good time
for which Brother Murphy is praying would
dawn upon people emancipated from the
vice of the age
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

Man." says Adam Smith ais an animal
that makes bargains. No other animal
does this--no dog exchanges bones with
another. Not unless the large dog happens
to have the smaller bone.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

When you see young man sitting in a
parlor, with the ugliest six year old boy
that ever frightened himself in the mirror,
clambering over his knees, set mussing his
white vest, feeling in all his pockets for
nickels, while the unresisting victim smiles
all the time like the cover of a comic
almanac, you may safely bet, although
there isn't the sign of girl apparent in a
radius OF 10000 miles, you can bet your
bottom dollar that that bowling boy has
a sister who is primping in room not
twenty feet away, and that the young man
doesn't come there just for the fun of play
ing with her brother.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

Says the New York Telegram: "a village
congregation in Vermont was disturbed the
other Sunday, during the momentary still.
ness following the opening prayer, by
voice from the adjoining dwelling exclaim-
ing, Mary, where's the nails ?" Soon the
answer came, ain the coffee poi, you fool p
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18
A Toast Drunk in a Slipper.

Madame Octavia lie Vert, who has lust
dled, spoke every modern language, was
an ncorrigible flirt in her youth, and coun.
ted her offers by the hundreds. Spaniards.
Italians, Frenchmen, Germans, English.
men, Brazllians and-worst of all-Ameri-
cans by the score sighed in vain at her
shrine. She would tell them in the harsh
or musical accents of their individual coun.
tries that she loved them, but not with a
love like theirs, and this so prettily that
they would leave her presence, declaring
IL letter to be refused by her than ac.
cepted by another. Her foot was one of
the greatest attractions; it was so tiny, so
delicate, that her little straw slippers were
eagerly sought for, and happy he who could
OBTAIN one as gage damitie from pretty
OctaVla. On one occasion sloop. ofwar
was to sail from Pensacola, homeward
bound. Every single officer, from CAPTAIN
to middle, had laid his heart before her.
ana every one had been obliged to take
back his protiered gift, so, as q balm to
hurt affection they gave her the most
superb ball they could devise. OF course
she danced from ten till four, and then. as
they were to sail at day break, her health
was proposed as a compliment. The can
tam was talking eagerly to her, when his
juniors came to propose the toast, and as
they reached him he thrust tiny satin
slipper into his breast, which she had lust
drawn from her pocket (belles then always
carried an extra pair) and given him, and
1t was from this bit of a shoe that he drank
the toast, "The prettiest, wittiest, sweetest
and dearest girl in America" She married
IN 1886 DR.. Henri lie Vert, gifted phys.
elan OF Mobile and son of Rochambeau's
heet surgeon. Among her friends she
counted such men as Washington Irving
and Lamartine, and it was at the urgent
entreaty of the latter she published her
"Souvenirs of Travel" At the close of the
war-which she bitterly deplored, and did
all that women could do to avert-she
found herself reduced from affiuence to
poverty, and it was then she began the
readings that have supported her and
educated her younger children up to the
present time. She was sixty-eight wears
old when she died, but retained to the
very last the manner that made the name
of Octavia lie Vert known and admired
from Maine to Mexico.-C Cincinnati CONNER.
ciaL.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

With every exerton, the best man can
do only n moderate amount of good; but
it seems in the power of the most con.
temptible individual to do incalculable
mischief Washington IRVING
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

When three good little boys get together
of an afterpoon, the chances are that there
will either be a fight, window broken,
or a stray dog will have pan TIED to his
tail.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18
WHOLE NO. 1,l5G.
Who was Gains Wife.

The Rev. c. p. MCarty, who breaches
/ every sunday in the University Buildinp
Washington Square, New York, as nastGr
OF what IS called the American Free CLurch
endeavored to answer the question of nXVho
was Gains Wife?" on SUNDAY ovan;n,
November Goth. He took his text from
the +th chapter Of Genesis, and the 0-tII
verse. The preacher said that he had
selected the peculiar subject announced at
the request of several members of the con.
gregatIon. Maintaining that the old theories
as 10 the meaning Of the Bible stories had
ceased to be a tenable because of the in.
creased hight Of science. he said that tbn
theory held by many az to Gains wife
| should also have to be abandoned. "Tba
orthodox answer to this question:" said he
IS perhaps CAIN married his sister.
w eli, don't think he did Now. | am
not going to shirk the answering of this
question; have theory OF our race
Whlch others do not believe in. Nine out of
ten believe that the human race came from
one pair. | don't believe il. DO Won saw
that Is herctlcal? Pcrhap, il iS. but this is
not question to hc answered bv those who
cling to the old theories. The old theory
can never answer it. liz the first place Cain
could not have married his sister when he
departed to the land Of Nod. because he
had no sister. When Seth was born Adam
was only one hundred and thirty wears old
very young man for those days, and Seth
was his third child. There is no mention
OF daughter. In the second place Cain
departed to a country where there were.
people, and he feared these people would
slay him because of his crime. and the
Lord recognized the reality Of this dancer
and set mark on him that he might be
saved. The Bible nowhere states that
there were only two people originally Gre
ated. Adam was the generic name for the
human race, and male and female created
lie them. Do you believe that nerroes
and Chinese are the defendants Of the same
progenitors with ourselves? | don't. Cain
went over to the land of Nod. and there
became the chief Of race which he found
there. lie built . city He couldn't have
done this alone. This. then. must be my
answer to the question there were races of
people upon the earth at the time Cain was
driven out vagabond. and from this race
Cain took his WIFE
The preacher lwvlt at considerable length
on the lesson to be drawn from the life of
Cain, and eXhort"l all TO avoid the little
sins, for even Cain did not become mur
derer all at once, but was lead up to that
great crime by envy and jealous feelings.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

A lady, who is an enthusiastic Republi.
can named her canary bird Jim Blaine.
lie did not sing much, but she loved him
tenderly until last Saturday she discovered
that Jim Blaine had laid an egg. Now she
declares that no dependence can be placed
on politician.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

Those who gain an excellence commonly
spend life in one common pursuit; for ex-
cellence is not often gained upon easy
terms.-.JohnSon.
Smyrna times., 1877-04-18

- Daio'headod men are so numerous in
onlcago that an audience in that city is
sara 70 look when viewed from above, like