Smyrna times., 1881-02-02

the women who could make good, sweet,
wholesome bread, and thought that poor, |
sour, unpalatable bread was the cause of |
mere quarrels and divorces than any thing
else that disturbed the married life. The |
road then to female bliss, is by the way of
the kneading.trough.
In the "reminiscense of Smyrna so years
ago." in eur last issue, in speaking of the
"early and prominent Methodists the name
Of VIM. Spearman was used when it should
have been Daniel Mcdowell. Our people
have followed these articles with great
deal of pleasure and our older citizens es-
pecially, have revived the fires of early
days and lived over again for the time, the
incidents and circumstances as in the
buoyancy of youth. Our correspondent this
week, however, got off into by.road and
will have to be excused on the ground as
every one has experienced, that this is a
very slippery winter. Even West Pointer
with all his precision of drill could not
! keep in direct line on such slippery way
/ PERsoNAL.-Miss NJ. Anna Offley, of Phil
adelphia arrived in town yesterday and
proceeded to Camden today to fill read
ing engagement this evening.
Miss NJ. C. Bell is on visit to Baltimore
and Miss Sallie Stephenson to Washington.
/ Mr.. John c. Hall, merchant of Milford,
and wife, are visiting his brother VIM. E.
Hall.
Mr.. w. w. Crocker, who has been spend
4 ing the past six months in this town, has
returned to WiliamIport, Pa.
William A. C. Hardcastle and James w.
4 Spruance have gone to Texas to inspect
ponies.
Mrs. A. B. Roe and daughter Blanch of
Greensborough, have been visiting Smyrna
this week.
Our virtuous Dover contemporaries ex.
press the opinion that Smyrna has hard
set of fellows, as per their deeds that VIC
have recorded. The difference between us
and other towns perhaps is this, that with
us it may be concentrated in very few
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good may. Our most notorious character
Mary Polk, (whose deeds were in part thu
occasion Of the remark) is an exotic WAITED
to Us by breeze from our neighbour;
! State, South. 1t affords us genuine pleas
use to know that she is spending the win
ter so near those smart climbs of the law
who should see that she is we'll supplieC
with chicken and turkey which from lon,
use has become a constitutional necessity
With less delicate food she might pin,
away and die and then they would lose
valuable training client. That's business
LECTURE.-Rev. j. S. Willis was greete,
by large audience at the Town Hall OIL
] Monday night to hear his lecture Of
Things in General and Some Things il
Particular" The subject as announced wa
very indefinite: Ecce Homo would hav
been more appropriate, for the discours
held up MAN in his physical, mental ant
moral attributes for the observation of tn
hour. The speaker was in fine condition
aud as he dissected and laid his subjeC
before his audience, s1ashing here, sui
. jecting TO minute inspection there, gracin
his oratory with striking poetical quot,
ton from Bobby" Burnes or a simils
:, pungent versifer, or in the use of an illH
tratlve anecdOte or incident, be cngag
and held the undivided attention of tn
audience for the seventy minutes that h
# spoke. He had ne notes, not even h"nC
80 card-a circumstance that gives any spehk t
thus Appearing the vantage ground.
m We cannot undertake to give the varioI
points touched upon while a lstitudin
70 rinR he dealt with the practical phases
the every day, business, religious and poll
IN ical life, and the excrescences were loppe
off with the keenest Of blades. He starts
,a out with life itself which he denominate
u tragedy rather than comedy-an afts
H. noon gathering Of pleasure. He said tn
life was a struggle from beginning to enc
the great struggle was for bread. tt
of body was the great care and to the hung
ty and impoverished, bread was more il
lis portant for the body than food for Il
se sJul. 1t was important for the latter til
"a. the former should be in a sound conditio
On and this carried him largely into a disc.
ed sion Of hygiene, special Importance bel
as laid on good bread and other wholesor
el- cooking. Education was given prom
II. nent place in the development of the !,
lb turer's ideal man and woman, and he s.
m. castically carricatuIsd the restrictions
ry the "old.time religion" in the use of mus
fiction in literature, suPpressing the d
matte element in our nature, &c.
ew showed how Christ used allegeries, pa
on bles, &C., and how beautiful was the
Try corded imagery used in his addresses
'ks the multitudes. He held up the Deac
'xt who thanked God that he was thus and
OF while the poor all around were suffer-
sse for the comforts Of life, and maintain
b. that men of practical piety felt the kin
ing brotherhood and would be moved to b,
I'm out the hand Of relief. The shyloc
'rS' stingy, grasping, unfeeling, deceptive
stl' dividuals were held up to scorn as
lew antipOdes of the we'll developed man phi
ore ically, mentally and morally. The mo-
of perfect man was Christ. Even Ing
soil admitted his greatness, in his simple
W" and unsslfish efforts 10 raise the PEG
'"u from their thraldrom of sin, as did a
's Renan, Strauss, and other leading athei
!" Next to good life the greatest bless
"sS was death. 1t had been presented a
o'1 cross bones and skull-a disgusting pictr
ave La :, -, -,;-r