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Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

The BEAUTY OF KANSAS INDIANs-I should
hate to leave the loveliest post in America
to go down where the Indians abide in all
their natural, rugged, unspoiled beauty. 1t
is very difficult thing to spoil the beauty
Of an Indian. The smallpox can't do it.
1t rather improves them to be run over by
freight train. They look better,natured
and kinder after they are struck by light
ming. 1t subducs the grotesquc ferocity o.
their expression to boil them in oil.
don't really know how you would go tC
work to spoil the beauty Of live Indian
-BwdeHe, in tic Ha,ckeye.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12
A DINNER AND A KISS.

/ have brought your dinner, father,
The blacksm:th's daughter said,
As she took from her arm the kettle.
And lifted its shining lid.
There is not any pie or pudding,
So l will give you this"
And upon his toil-worn forehead
She left the childish kiss.
The blacksmith took off his apron,
And dined in happy mood,
Wondering much at the SAVIOR
Hid in his humble food;
While all about him were visions
Full Of prophetic bliss;
But he never thought of magic
In his little daughters kiss.
While She with her kettle swinging,
Merrily trudged away,
Stopping at sight of a squirrel.
Catching some wild birds lay.
And thought how many shadow
OF life and fate we would miss,
If always our frugal dinners
Were seasoned with Il kiss.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

TO REACH MANS HEART-The people
Of San Francisco must be a vulgar race.
Read what the Ne,cs Letter says: "The way
to reach mans heart is to cater to his ap
petite. A girl who can claw a piano, and
agitate the atmosphere is a good parlor
ornament; but one that can grease a grid
die, and turn two pancakes at time is the
kind of female to tie to this time of the
year,
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

DEMAND roN WlyEs.-The superintendent
OF emigration at New York is overrun with
letters from the West asking him to secure
for them wives from among the emigrants
arriving at Castle Garden. One man, far
mer, writes from Iowa that marriageable
women in those parts are very scarce, and
he is anxious to marry this spring, and will
give the best reference. Another, St.
Louis baker, offers his heart and hand " to
the right person." and is ready to marry at
once.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

A CoLoRED NoTEE's ADVICE TO GRANT
After the arrival Of General Sherman in
this city on Thursday one of our colored
men visited him in the Larkin House par.
lor, and, extending his hand, opened fire
thusly: How yo is, General?"
" How are you; how are you? When d d
| first have the pleasure of your acquaint.
ance? replied the General, shaking hands.
"Oh, was wild yo' down dar at Shiloh
reckon yo' must hab seed me for was
dar"
"Who was your officer and what regi.
ment were you in?'
"Well, now, l don't zac'ly member dat
but | was dar, an was wild yo' up at Colum.
by, Souf Kaliny, too. BY de way, Genral
whar's Central Grant?"
Ah, he is in Egypt, and is about to visit
Eden = was the reply.
"Haw, haw, haw OATS too good, toe
good; but look here, Central Grants {
moughty smart man, and we gemmen o
de Souf would like to hab him for de three
term, but if he gwine to Edum he better
stay dar, for he mought nebber git d,
chance agn. Palatka Herald.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

A committee of the Maine Legislature,
having reported that the Maine liquor law
was by no means so well administered or
benefcent in its effects as the friends of
prohibition contend, Mr.. Neal Dow writes
that the committee was "picked in the in
terest of rum" and that its report was
"shameless and mendacious."
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

FOUND AT LAsT.-As a Mississippi river
steamboat came to a river landing, q tall,
unganly, gawkish looking fellow leaning
against a woodpile attracted the attention
OF the passengers, one of whom, a talkatiye
and conspicuous person, remarked TO his
friends that he was going to have some fun
out of that fellow. So he jumped ashore
when the boat landed, and with great
show Of fierceness approached the fellow.
Drawing a savage-looking bowie knife he
said
80, old fellow, I've found you at last
You're the man that stole dog of mine
and I've sworn to get square with you,
I've been looking for you a year"
The gawky lazily opened his eyes in won.
dering amazement at first as though he
| didn't understand it. Then catching sight
of tho laughing passengers looking on
from the deck he took in the situation.
By the time "Smarty" had finished telling
him how long he had been looking for him.
he had taken out Of his pocket fist like a
sledge hammer on the end of the arm of a
windmill. lie swung it once and knocked
the man who had been looking for him
plump into the river. Then resuming his
place against the woodpile he raised his
eyes to the deck and with a very lazy draw
inquired:
"Is there anybody else on this boat look
ing for me?''
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12
VOLUME XIV. NO. 35.
ALONG THE SHORE.
;, ~ W vessels great and small,

sail on. ye vessels great and small,
Sal on' nd waves, and track the waters oer
cut ue .tss and ports. while we along the shore
fna pa'b pcb your course till distance sink you ALL
shall "1's ,, ,f mast and PROV and pictured sail
And mGne i'sod vision or speck in space
ATSl,rr an shall ye greet some other race
So napss pSs,ntrntrion push you with his gale,
Il 'u'S wv, Tavonius prosperous breezes blow.
OF r"I1 is bound-bound to the inccnstant deep;
You your 10 r1 the land, and waits the c"imer flow
our lr,',s ~ that brings us all unto one port
q ll1 ..fey anchored, sea and shore shall sleep,
Nhs.o,s '. s-o,s Of fortune or of fate the sport.
10 at L., in HUrpers Ad9a=iRe for March.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

The records in the document rooms at
Washington, show that while upwards Of
6000 bills were introduced in the House
and 1000 in the Senate, during the three
months Of the third session of the Forty.
fifth Congress, less than 100 have become
laws
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Our TRADE WITH CHINA.--The trade of
the United States with China has been
slowly developing under the provisions Of
the Burlingame treaty. Last year our peo,
pie sold the Celestials $2,800,000 worth Of
cotton goods, 100000 of grain and over
100000 Of other articles. Tho exporta-
ton to China has increased from $2,OO0,-
600 in 1871 to 100000 in 1878. Are we
to lose this trade on account of hasty
action of Congress. Should the imperial
government shut down on this trade as q
return for the demagogy of Congress, it
will not grieve the English, who have found
the Americans dangerous competitors in
the Chinese markets. England watches
our actions with eagerness, to gain that
which we will probably lose.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

William Bradshaw, member of the choir
of a Baptist church in Philadelphia, has
been dismissed because he accepted an en-
gagement to sing in the burlesque H. NJ.
S. Pinafore."
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Miss GULIoK NoN.SUIrRD. New Bruins
wick, n. j., short time ago, Miss Mary L..
Gulick, aged 80 years, obtained a verdict
for $1,000 against her blood relation, Peter
II. Gulick, aged T6, and very wealthy, for
breach of promise of marriage, but the
Supreme Court of New Jersey last week
non.suited Miss Gulck on the ground that
at the time the contract to marry was made
defendant was physically and mentally i'm
potent.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

English women, under certain restrictions,
now vote for school directors. In the United
States, we consider them quite competent
to act as school directors, but not to vote.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

SKILLED LABoR.-Atter all it don't so
much signify what You do as that you do it
well. The value Of a skilled labor is estima-
ted on democratic basis nowadays Pres
ident Eliot, Of Harvard University, the cook
in the Parker House restaurants, and Mary
L. Booth, editor of Harpsr's Ba=aar, each re,
ceive $4,000 per year.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

The Philadelphia Times reporters have
taken census of the attendance at forty
four places of worship, and the totals foot
up 45,645, the women exceeding the men
in number about 1000.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

HETERonoX.- mischievous scribbler
gave the following lines to bride, &C
companied with a broom:
This trihing gift accept of me:
Its use l would commend;
In sunshine use the brushy part
In storms the other end"
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Mr. Mchendree w. Jones, of New York,
while travelling in Syria about year ago,
cut from the banks Of the River Jordan
stick Of shittim wood, which he has made
into cane to be presented to United States
Senator Colonel R. f. Withers, of Virginia.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Dennis Kearney can boast Of the greatest
victory ever achieved by one mamie has
impelled Congress to pass bill, which the
people ofthirty.seven states denounced and
condemn.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

A Cincinnati paper suggests that the rea-
son the Chinese of the Pacific coast are not
as respectable as they might be is because
they are compelled to associate with Cali
fornia hoodlums.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Prince Napoleon, whose baptism of fire
on the heights of Saarbruck, was the great
jest of the Franco German war, has joined
the British expedition against the Zulus in
South Africa. lie seems determined to
win laurels and glory on the battle field.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

The people of Nevada have struck out In
a new path in dealing with their legisla-
tors. They give them the choice of voting
according to the proclaimed desires OF their
constituents or hanging. This is carrying
the doctrine of " instruction" as applied to
representative bodies, to its extreme limit.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Senator-elect Call, of Florida, is grand.
son of Colonel John Lee, a Revolutionary
soldier, and a member of the same family
to which General Robert E. Lee belonged
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Rev. DR.. Sanford Hunt, of Buffalo, was
elected on Monday agent of the Methodist
Book Concern, a position recently made
vacant by the death of the Rev. DR.. Reuben
Nelson, who had filled the Office for nearly
seven years.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12
On THE Sly

There is a man in our town,
And lie is wondrous wise,
He leaves his place, looks up and down
With careful, searching eyes
And then dcviou, course he'll take
Toward the rivers brink
The bridge he'll cross-thc bar he'll make
And then he'll take a drink.
This man believes he is very sly
Yet people laugh as he goes by.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Nothing demoralizes man so efectually
us to discover that he has married some
body braver and stronger than himself.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Years. like acOTnS from the branches
OF the giant oak Of Time,
Fill the earth with healthy seedlings
For a future more sublime.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Miss Mary Jane Wadleigh, of Sutton,
Mass, has one hundred pet cats, and when
one dies she has it buried and its grave
marked by neat monument.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

The Albany 1rylg gives some sad in.
telligence about the poet j. G. SAKE /:
says that reverscs have oyertaken him of
late years, and painful illness has befallen
hlm and members Of his family. lie denies
himself to his dearest friends His gloom
IS absolute and beyond relief. The tax
which good liyers pay on their constitution
has been paid by Mr.. Sake but it was hoped
that his health would come back under a
system to which hesubjected himself That
hope appears to be fallacious.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Toledo Commercial: "a pistol is not half
so dangerous when the owner is not load
ed"
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12
WHOLE NO. 1850.

A ROMANTIC EscApE.-At Nashville, Tenn,
last week, the wife of B. T. Pitt, who was
under arrest, charged with forgery, was ad-
mitted to the Jail to confer with her hus.
band, as IS the custom, and after the usual
lapse of time she, as was supposed, came
out deeply grieved and weeping, and de-
parted for her home. The surprise of the
Jallor can be better imagined than described
when he discovered, instead Of Benjamin
FIT as his prisoner, the wife of Pitt under
going imprisonment. The accused had
donned the apparel Of his wife and had
fled the scene.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

AMERICAN TEA.-Over fifty thousand tea
plants have been distributed lately in the
Middle and Southern States, by the Bureau
of Agriculture. In three or four years
these plants will be large enough to permit
full picking Of the leaves.
Experiments have been made with tea
leaves grown in the grounds of the depart.
ment and in the South, after Japan meth.
ods, the product being pronounced an ex,
cellant Oolong by dealers and experts.
The only present obstacle to the profitable
cultivation of tea in this country on large
scale is the amount of hand labor required
in curing the leaves. The Commissioner is
confident that American ingenuity can
produce machinery by means of which the
preparation of the leaves may be effected
better and cheaper than is possible even
with "Chinese cheap labor"
There is no good reason ia, anv family
having garden plat, in the southern por
tions of the United States, should not pro
duce with little trouble all the tea needed
for home consumption, without elaborate
machinery.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Thirty.fve years ago all carpets were
made by hand.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Mr.. Jefferson Davis is in excellent health
and is prospering. He has just bought
Mrs Dorsey's handsome residence, Beau.
voir,' near Mississippi City.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Greeley, Col, with a population of 5000
souls, requires no police or constables, has
no liquor stores, and has only spent 81 of
its poor fund in two years.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

The Boston Post says selfmade men have
generally great deal to say in praise of
their architects. Well, haven't they a
right to.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

York Stock Exchange and spent part OF a
day in a boiler factory, and have been on
one or two Sunday school excursions for
children, but never knew what noise was
till heard a lot of army mules bray.
One of the dead certainties about a mule
is that he is sure.footed, especially with his
hind feet. He never misplaces them. If
he advertises that his feet will be at a GER
tain spot at a certain time, with sample Of
mule shoes, to which he would call your at
tention, you will always find them there at
the appointed time. lie is as reliable as
the day of judgment, and he never cancels
an engagement. Every man now living
who drove a mule team during the war
draws a pension.
| never owned mule. l came near
buying one once. He was fne-looking
animal; his ears stood up like the side
spires on an Episcopal church. His tail
was trimmed down SO that it looked like a
tar brush leaning up against him. He was
striped off like the American flag, and
Raphael's cherubs never looked more an
gelic than did that mule. He looked all
innocence, though he was so in no sense.
The owner sat in the wagon, with his chin
resting on his hand and his elbow resting
on his knee. In the other hand he held a
stick with brad on the end of it. | eX-
amined the mule and asked the man few
question, and, out of mere form, inquired
if the mule was kind, or if he kicked.
Kind? kick p said the man, and these
were the last words he ever uttered. He
reached his stick over the front Of the
wagon, and struck the brad into the mule
1t was awful to see man snuffed out as
he was. 1t almost took my breath he
went so suddenly. l never saw the thread
Of life snap so abruptly as it did on that oc
casion. He didn't have time to leave
message for his family. That mule simply
ducked his head, and then pair of heel
few out behind there was crash, fyin;
Of splinters, and that was all and the mex
moment that mule and myself stood alone
my face covered with astonshment tw,
feet deep, and his covered with part of al
old bride. The next day read an ac
count in the telegraphic news Of Shove
of flesh in Kentucky. l was the only ma,
that could explain that phenomena, ard
did not dare to lest should be ;mplicate
in the affair with the other mule.
have seen death in many form
but don't recollect of ever seeing funeri
gotten up with less pomp and display tha
> on that occasion. If had my choice t
either work in nitro-glycerine factory {
: take care of mule, should 60 for tn
factory, as in case Of an explosion thel
would be more possibility Of my frienC
finding some mementoes of me with whic
to assuage their grief. A very small piet
" Of me would tighten a very big sorrow.
| will hunt around and if find Al
: other facts that belong to the mule, l vi
send them to you by express, G. 0. D.
Bait. .S,o,.
Smyrna times., 1879-03-12

Annie was a slow young miss.
Until it was so fated,
She fell in love with Eddie Bliss,
And at once was Annie-made-Ed.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-16
Che Semtxuel.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16.
A1L over the country, where parents. are

ALL over the country, where parents. are
capable of compromising the question
there is very general Indignation on &C
count of the severe tssks which school
children are compelled to accomplish. This
feeling of Indignation is just, and If
were more pronounced than II
a7 . we should be disposed
to approve it. Considered from either
standpoint, education or discipline, neither
justifies the misunderstanding tasks to which
school children are subjected. Modern
educators have gone wild in the methods
devised for training children. The school
room is set aside as place for rotations
while home is designated as the place
for study, and thus it happens that the chill
dren have no time at all for physical recrea-
ton, no hours for the overtasked brain to
rest. The latest development of the educa-
tional system is TO make the school a sort of
show for mental requirements
obtained outside of the school
room, where the examining business
at long range is carried forward. As con-
sequence, education becomes distasteful,
mind and body lose their elasticity, the
glow of health departs from the youthful
cheek and the sparkle from the eye; and,
instead of school rooms filed with
youth in vigorous health, we find
too often a mass of youthful humanity
in various stages of decay. A Moses should
arise and lead the school children out OF this
worse than Egyptian bondage. As the case
now stands, parents have to choose between
grammar and curved spine, algebra and an
infamed brain, and SO on through all the
studies of the schools, and all the ills to
which youthful flesh is heir. Under such
circumstances, something ought to be done
to change the programme. Certainly six
hours day tor study and recitation are
enough. More than this is fraught with the
most serious danger.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-16
Advice to Young Ladies.

In marrying make your own match; do
not marry man to get rid of him; or to
oblige him, or to save him. The man who
would 60 to destruction without you will
quite as likely go with you, and perhaps
drag you along. Do not marry in haste lest
you repent at leisure. Do not marry for q
home and living. Do not let aunts,
fathers or mothers sell you for money or
position into bondage, tears and lifelong
misery. which you must endure. Place not
yourself hsbitually in the hands of any
sutton until you have decided the question
of marriage; human wills are weak, and
people often become bewildered and do not
know their error until 1t is too late. Get
away from their influence, settle your head,
and make up your mind alone. Do not
trust your happiness in the keeping OF one
who has no heart. no head, no health. Shun
the man. who ever gets intoxicated. Do not
rush thoughtlessly, hastily into welded life,
contrary to the counsel OF friends. Love
can wait
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-16
ORPHANs' BENEFIT.
Complete List Of the Prizes Drawn at
Evansville.
Ticket No. 20 600 Takes Rose Hill Farm
No. 4, Valued at $4,000.
Certificate of the Committee and Comments
of the Local Press.

As heretofore announced, the drawing of
prizes IN the Orphans Benefit lottery took
place at Evansville Thursday. The
drawing was conducted in secret,
because of threatened interference by the
State authorities, but 1t is affirmed and be-
lieyed that there is no reason to DOUBT that
it was fairly and honestly made. The
names of the fortunate winners Of the prin-
cipal prizes have not yet been made public;
indeed, up to late hour last night the COM
mittee themselves claimed not to have any
information on the subject. As will be seen,
the principal prize, Rose Hill Farm No. : !.
comprising 100 acres, and valued at SIS on
was drawn by ticket No. $4,000, VIII a he
principal cash prize of $1,000 fell 90 ticket
No. 1850. 1t is stated that T. "a tlrnhans'
Asylum at Evansville will croft by the
benefit to the exte--.r of securing
two valuable lots in Eyansviile and
a number of cash prizes. FOLLOWING
is correct copy Of the list of prizes and prize
numbers, as certified to 3 the citizens com.
mittee. under whose immediate personal
supervision the DRAWN & was conducted:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-16
The Training of Girls.
lAmerican Traveller. |

Perhaps one of the most lamentable err
rors of the present day is the manner in
which our girls are trained. While proud
and happy parents are DESTROYS that their
daughters be accomplished in music, draw
ing, painting and the languages, they seem
totally to ignore the more necessary arts OF
housekeeping and home-making, or to
imagine the knowledge OF such to be degrad-
ing. We know of no more pitiable object
than young wife placed at the head OF the
husbands home, utterly ignorant OF her
duties as its mistress. Trials, well calcu-
lated to make her life miserable await her,
and many of the unhappy marriages Of
which we know and hear, have their origin
in just such causes; for while men are loving
and indulgent, they are selfish and but few
have sufficient self-denial to bear patiently
the mistakes that enter 20 materially into
their comforts.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-16
The Nerves.
tAppleton's Journal

lAppletOuS JouIudil
Nervousness in the sense OF feebleness, or
lack of stability of the nervous system as
distinguished from the rest of the body. is a
word of modern origin; neither the ancients
nor the mediRvals used this term in mod
ern Specification; it is pre-eminently an
American term, since the state or tendency
of the constitution suggested by it abounds
In the Northern and Eastern parts of the
United States more than in any other part
of the world. The number of those in the
middle or higher classes of American society
who, without being ever actually SICK,
never know what full, rejoicing health really
Is; who live constantly in lower plane of
being than is normal in man; who are weak
all over, though not specially and constantly
weak in any one organ, and who, though
they may never experience piercing and
grinding pain, yet suffer at times, il not
always, that profound exhaustion which in
many respects is far worse than paints
very large, and is or has been apparently
increasing
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-16
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