Smyrna times., 1877-10-17
A Sentence Extraordinary.

The following extract is taken from a
sentence recently pronounced by Judge
Reading, of Chicago, upon the liquor
dealers who had violated the law by selling
1t to minors. 1t will pay careful perusal
" BY the law you may sell it to men and
women if they will buy. You have given
your bond and paid your license to sell to
them and no one has q right to modest you
in your legal business. No matter what
the consequence may be; no matter what
poverty and destitution are produced by
your selling according to law, you have
paid your money for the privilege and
you are licensed to pursue your calling
no matter what families are distracted and
rendered miserable; no matter what wives
are treated with violence, what children
starve or mourn over the degradation of a
parent, your business is legalized and no
one may interfere with you for it; no
matter what mother may agOnize over the
loss Of q son, or sister blush at the shame of
brother, you have a right to disregard
them all and pursue your legal calling.
You are licensed You may fit up your
lawful place of business in the most entic-
ing and captivating form; you may furnish
1t with the most costly and elegant equip
ments for your own lawful trade; YOU NAV
Till 1t with the alurements of amusements ;
you may use all arts to allure visitors; you
may sklIltully arrange and expose to view
your choice wines and captivating bever-
ages; you may induce thirst by all contri-
vances; produce raging appetite for
drink and then you may supply that ap
petite to the full; because it is lawful.
You have paid for it; you have license ::
you may allow boys and children to fire..
quent your saloon; they may witness the
apparent satisfaction with which their
seniors quaif the sparkling glass; you may
be schooling and training them for the
period of twenty-one when they, too. can
participate; for all this is lawful You
may hold the cup to their lips, but you
must not let them drink; that is unlawful:
for while you have all these privileges for
the money you pay, this poor privilege of
selling to children is denied you Here
parents have the right to say: Leave my
son to ME until the law gives you right
to destroy him. Do not anticipate that
terrible moment when | can assert him no
further rights of protection. That will be
soon enough for me; for his sister; for his
mother; for his friends; for the com.
munity to see him take the road to death
give him to US in his childhood at least: let
us have few hours of his youth in which
we can enjoy his innocence, to repay us in
some small degree for the care and love we
have lavished upon him.
"This is something which YOU who now
stand as prisoners at the bar have not paid
for; this is not embraced in your license
For this offence the Court sentences you
to ten days imprisonment in the county
Jail, and that you pay a fine of $75 and costs,
and that you stand committed until the
line and cost of this prosecution are paid"
Among the many health promoting ath-
lctiC exercises we find that walking is
beginning to hold a conspicuous position,
and it would be well if others than athletes
would indulge in every-d day pedestrianism,
and particularly the ladies. Perhaps no
other women in the world do so little walk
ing as the ladies of large American cities.
the cramp-toed Chinese women, of course.
We have so many conveniences
for riding. and the cost is so trihing, that it
IS rarely the case that lady will walk half
dozen squares on a fine day, if it is posi-.
ble to ride.
Now this is very far from being the case
with the English women. They delight in
long rambles, and the good effects are
shown in their robust forms and ruddy
cheeks. They not only walk on their bust
ness errands but generally a good long
tramp constitutes part and parcel of each
lay exercise. ShOd with good substan-
tial shoes, and not encumbered with useless
toggery, they think nothing Of overcoming
4 distance OF six or eight miles of a morn.
ing. Sir Edward Thornton, the British
= minister, has several daughters, all of them
laules OF great refinement, whose daily
walks have long been the subject of admir-
ing newspaper comment.
When an English girl asks you to take a
walk, be assured she means business. Its
not stroll Tor square or two, but real
ooha-hde walk that may take you several
hours to accomplish. And it is Just that
KIND OF pedestrian exercise that the ma.
Dorlty OF American woman need. They
should avoid the cars or their carriages
whenever it is possible, and if this were
thelr daily practice, we should have fewer
lnvalids and fewer doctors bills TO pay, and
we should have women physically better
htted Tor the, discharge of the duties Of
their spheres.-Phila. Star.
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To DESTROY CARPET MoTHs.-Get two or !
three pounds of powdered borax; if neces. |
sary untack the carpet around the edges, |
sprinkle plenty of borax all around the |
outer edges of the carpet, and with a |
feather or brush try to shove as much as |
possible under the surbase. Let the borax |
remain there; it will not injure the carpet. |
Make line of borax all around the surbase |
and on the carpet.-iSacramen Record
Union.