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WHY CHUBB MoURNED. - When
Chubb's wife died we called in TO mourn
with him, and, if possible, to console
him in his affiiction. The old man sat
in the rocking-chairw with his eyes closed.
chewing a tooth-pick, and rocking to
and fro as he apparently unused over the
years he had spent so happily in COM
pany with his late partner. We gently
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departure. We assured him that we
sympathized with him in his deep af-
Fiction, and the more sincerely because
we well knew the estimable qualities of
his wife, and were familiar with the
virtues with which she adorned her
home.
"She was, indeed - We said, ''an excel
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Chubb stopped rocking and looked at
us nouTnfully. Then exclaimed:
Unaffected piety! That's just what's
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bringing his hand down emphatically
on the arm of the chair, "the way that
she would roasta sugar-cured ham would
bring tears to the eyes OF a craven
image"
Then we went and left him alone with
his sorrow. There are some kinds of
grief that are too sacred to be lightly in
truded upon.-EE.
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A SELL, NOT A SALE.-Amiahle shop
keepers deserve to be canonized. Here is
an illustration Of the trials to which
they are constantly subjected: One
midsummer day, when EOlus slept,
and the thermometer stood i'm the
nineties, lady entered store not a
! thousand miles off, and inquired for
parasols. The obliging proprietor spread
out before her samples of a large and
varied stock. "Have you any of this
shade a size larger?' asked the lady.
The size larger was produced. 81 think
on the whole prefer the size smaller"
The size smaller was presented. "Have
you any of this size lighter shade of
blue ?p The required shade was then
brought out. Haven't you any of this
kind with crooked handle 2" The
shade with the crooked handle ap-
peared. "Have you any with the
crooked handle not quite so heavy ?i'
said the lady, and so continued her in
quiries for every conceivable size, shade
and weight possible in the line of para
soils.
After nearly an hour had been thus
consumed the fair shopper gathered up
her handkerchief and gloves, and moved
for the door. Cant sell you a para
sol? inquired the exhausted proprietor.
'Oh dear, no ~ replied the lady, az
was merely inquiring the prices. i am
going into mourning myself, aud have
one for sale r'-Nel0 Bedford Mercury.
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II does more work, more kinds Of work
better work, and does IL easier than any other
Machine.
II there is a "FlOrenee" within thousand
miles of Portland not giving entire satisfac-
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without expense of any kind 10 its owner.
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READ BEFORE THE FIFTH ASSTvERsARY MEET
ING OF THE cALIFoRSIA STATE WOMAN SUI
FRAGE ASSOCIATION, APRIL. ., 1874
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
mise eIIUW e OUS
Delaware Fruit Crops.

THE PEACH AND BERRY TRADE-TRICKs ON
DEALERS.
A correspondent of the New York Times re-
Gently made trip through the fruit and berry
district of Delaware, and writes his observa-
tions to the above paper, from Dover. The
author, who is familiar with our State, being a
native thereof, assures US that his figures are
as near accurate as possible. We make the
following extracts:
The capital of Delaware cannot boast of
being very extensive city. On tho contrary,
il is but small town; yet it is the centre of
an opulent farming district, and as such the
centre OF active agricultural enterprises In
it resides United States Senator Salisbury,
and his brother Cove, the late Governor Of the
State. 1t contains good hotel, and, among
its various manufactures, is one of the largest
and best known fruit canneries in the country
A few miles south from here at Camden, an
other large cannery is in operation, and also
one at Fredcrca, few miles to the east
The fruits generally canned are peaches, pears,
Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries black
berries, whortleberres, tomatoes and ounces
All these are grown in great abundance in the
immediate neighborhood of the canneries.
Large quantities of peas, beans, corn and as
paragus are also canned.
The country surrounding Dover was largel y
pldulcu III pedCu tc0s Gcu Ut bWelVe years ago
and for several years large crops of that lus
cious fruit were shipped to Philadelphia and
| New York but for some unexplained cause,
the producing capacity of the orchards appear
to have been much less during the past few
years, and the peach crop around Dover, while
it has rarely ever failed, has been but moder
ate. More attention, however, has been d
rected to the small fruit culture here thar
anywhere on the peninsula. Large orchards
of pear trees are not an uncommon sight OF
ries, blackberries, raspberres and currants ar,
abundantly grown. l make an exhibit of tn,
amount of strawberries shipped from the va.
riOus roads during the past two seasons to bet
ter understand the character and magnitude
of the strawberry culture on the peninsula.
AMOUNT OF BERRIES, PRINCIPALLY STRAW
BERRIES SHIPPED FROM STATIONS ON TIL
MAIN RAILROAD OF THE PENINSULA IN
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

to issue large and attractive cards, and spend
three or four dollars per week in the "Price
Currents" which they send to some of the
small growers, whose Acquaintance they have
formed from cards or stencils on crates re-
celved by the regular commission houses. 1t
costs not more than 81 to send price current
for whole year to such grower, and when
ever that grower reciprocates that courtesy by
sending him some fruit to sell, he either con-
hscates 1t at once or makes extraordinarily large
returns, so as to induce further shipment, and
when the shark thinks he has got enough of
the victim s fruit to satisfy his pressing wants
he conhscates it, and either say nothing at all
about 1t or says some one to whom he sold it
did not pay for it. But most frequently he
alleges that it came in such bad order that it
did not bring the cost of freights. Another
plan Is to send decOy, and, by making uni
tormly large returns to him, induces others to
try, and when, in the height of the season, q
good sum of money is in the hands of the re-
ceiver, the victim has his eyes opened to the
fact that he is fish caught by cunning fish
erman. Sometimes firms, the names of whic /
appering on ther business cards are fictitious
receive thousands OF dollars worth of fruit anC
when, at the end of the season, the victim
comes to look up his commission firm he finds
to his surprise and disgust, that their i
neither number nor name where the card call
for. Most generally the victims are 80 poo
that they cannot look for the denquents, ant
all the sympathy they get from the unbitten is
ell l told you how it would he. i"
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

To the amount credited above to the year
1873 there should be added the amount Of
"a, $50 quarts received from tho Newton juno
ton Railroad from farmers which the previous
years we're shipped from Westover. This
would make q total of 5,542,094 quarts of
strawberries received from over the main line
of railway of the peninsula, against a, l23, 400
quarts shipped the year previous, an increase
Of twenty-five per cent.
To the amount shipped from stations on the
main line of railroad there must be added the
qantity shipped from the branch roads, or the
feeders of the Delaware Railroad:
Fom the Berlin and Snow Hill and POGO
mcks and WisO%ioo ,.d R.rOsds there were
berries. and 3,O46 buckets Of wild berries, and
in 1873 there were shipped OF cultivated Der,
ries 600, $50 quarts, aud 1900 buckets OF wild
Il will be seen that tho increase from tn. the
Snow Hill and Berlin and Pocomoke and WI
comico Railroads was over 200 per cent 10
T From the Delaware and Dorchester Railroad
there were shipped Of cultivated berries IL
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

WILD GOOSE SHoOTING.-The season for
wild goose shooting on Long Island has COM
menced. As the birds are very shy, it requires
a good deal of skill on the part Of the sports
man to come near enough for shot The
method generally employed is to obtain from
fifteen to twenty wild geese, by winging"
them on their passage north or south-ths
old. fashioned stoolers being regarded as
entirely behind the age. These are tanned, SO
that they can be e lined" to stakes, when they
are taken to the bars where the wild geese
usually stop to feed, and fastened to stakes
put down in the sand out of sight, while the
gunner cOnceals himself in box sunk in the
sand, and partially covered By sea weed or
meadow grass. When hocks of wild geese are
passing these partially tanned ones will call
them, and usually they will fly near by, or
alight, when the gunner rises and shoots.
Experts have killed as many as twenty-five at
a shot The focks of tame geese are regarded
as very valuable.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
Newspapers Domestically Considered.

loo low an estimate is apt to be set on the
domestic value OF newspapers. After reading
them, and putting ourselves, through their
agency, in mental correspondence with the
world, they are thrown aside and forgotten.
But to suppose their usefulness bounded by
their news columns and the waste-bag, is a
thriftless mistake.
In the first place, there are the household
recipes to be found in stray corners, often ex-
cellent and deserving refuge on the fly leaf
of the family cook book. Then come the pretty
verses, the strange and drell stories the brief
biographies and "reminiscences which, pasted
| in a scrap. book, are a soure Of never ending
pleasure, not only those who do not care for
richer intellectual food, but to those who have
only odd minutes for readiHg.
Notwithstanding the squibs jocular journal
| lists have penned on the use of newspapers for
bedclothing, we know from experience that
they are not to be despised. They may not be
as comfortable as your blankets, but certainly
they keep out the cold. Two thicknesses of
papers are better than pair of blankets; and
in the case of persons who dislike the weight
of many bedclothes they are invaluable A
spread made of double layer of papers be-
tween covering OF cOlicO or chntz, is desira-
bic in every household. The papers should be
tacked together with thread, and also basted
to the covering, to keep them from slipping.
rustling; but if soft papers be chosen the
! noise will not be annoying, especially should
. the spread be laid between blanket and the
counterpane.
AS protection to plants against cold, both
in and out of doors, nothing is better. If
z newspapers are pinned up over night at q
| window between pots and glass, the flower:
will not only not be frozen, but they will not
a even get chilled, as they are SO liable to be-
In the same way if taken to cover garden
Q beds on the frosty nights of early autumn, you
o may allow the plants to remain safely out
a doors some time later than is common.
/ One of the oldest services to put journals TO
# is the keeping of ice in summer. An ingeni
e Gus housekeeper recently discovered that he
is daily lump Of ice would last nearly twice a
! long when wrapped in newspapers and placed
= in any kind Of covered bsx, as when trusted
d solely to a refrigerator, This is very convent
\ ent, since it is possible to the best and cheap
e est refrigerator constantly at hand.
1t To polish all kinds of glass after washing
1t except table glass, no cloth or flannel is half 8
1t good as a newspaper; aud for baker dOzel
/. of other uses, quite foreign to its primal puI
l. pose, it is without rival.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

There is an old darkey in Maryland who
lately voted for local option, as he understood
it, but not as the public generally understood
it. The story "a true one) runs thus: At a
recent election friend asked the old man how
he was going to vote. oh" he replied the
Republican ticket. always vote that tic ket. !"
" But how are you going to vote on local Op-
tion 2" The darkey, looking up, asked,
What's dat?' Why local option is put
ting down liquor" was the reply. . Lors a
massey II said the darkey, " Of course vote
for local option | votes to put down liquor to
the old price, fib penny bit pint.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
P0etrY.
MRS MoFLIMSEY'S LETTER.

Dear Friend: I've receive the letter
In which you have asked me to aid
Ihe glorious Temperance msVsment
by joining the praying crusade"
1wOuld really like to helpyeu
In the work SO well begun;
But my daughter is going to marry
A retired distiller's son
Frank holds an established position
In Soeiety's highest grade;
30 we need not inquire too closely
How his fathers money was made.
And. since one must be consistent,
You will understand, my dear,
Why cannot indorss the movement
My meaning, I'm sure, is clear.
That hope you may be successful
You certainly will not doubt;
But Expediency is my motto,
And my aid yOu must do without.
Have you heard Mrs. Stanton Iatelyf
Do you know think she would say
That you wage your temperance warsfare
In somewhat roundabout wayi
Yet. whether saloon or Senate
Is the field OF action, 1 fear
The eynies will surely condemn YOU
For having stepped out OF your sphere.
Yo know that the ideal Woman
Has nothing to do but wait,
With white hands meekly folded,
For whatever may be her fate.
For weary years she HAS waited,
Crushed by the weight OF wrong;
For years has the cry ascended:
How long. oh. Lord how lsngf"
Drunkards would hide from the daylight.
II half Of the stories were known
OF the wives and m8thers and daughters
Who have suffered, IN silence. alone.
But. dear me what an elegant strain
hRvestrAyed intS unawares;
must really close my letter
For my dressmakers waiting down stairs!
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

THE WORD "CANARD. The origin of
the word "canard," French for duck, "
when employed to signify some untOunded
story, is not generally known. The following
are the terms in which NJ. Quetelet relates, in
the Annudrie de I academic, the manner in
which the word became used in its new sense {:
"To give sky lift at the ridiculous pieces
of intelligence which the journals are i'll the
habit of publishing every morning, COrnells
son stated that an interesting experiment had
just been made calculated to prove the extra
ordinay voracity Of ducks. Twenty Of these
animals had been placed together, and one of
them having been killed and cut up into the
smallest possible pieces, feathers and all, and
thrown to the other nineteen, had been glut
tOnousIy gobblsd up in an exceedingly brief
space of time. Another was taken from the
nineteen, and, being chopped small like its
predecessor, was served up 20 the eighteen,
and was at once devoursd like the other and
so on to the last, who was thus placed in the
position of having eaten his nineteen COM
panions in a wonderfully short time. All this,
most PLEASANTLY narrated, obtained success
which the writer was far from anticipating
for the story ran tho rounds of oil the journals
in Europe 1t then became almost forgotten
for about q scorO OF years, when it came back
from America with ampli6catiOn which it did
not boast of at the commencement, and with q
regular certificate of the autopsy of the body
of the survivin animal, whose esophagus was
declared to have been found seriously injured.
Every one loughsd at the history of the canard
thus brought up again; but the word retains
its novel sgni6cation.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

A sermonzer made these remarks on the
following soul.saving question: My brethren,
a man cannot afford to lose his soul. He's got
but one, and he cant get another. If a man
loses his horse he can get another; if he loses
his wife he can get another; if he loses his
child he can get another; but if he loses his
QUILTS good by, John"
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

A Nebraska journal invitingly says: who
says farmers cannot get rich in this State
Fifteen years ago young man came to this
State without a dollar in the world. Last
week he went out of the State, carrying with
him the sum of one dollar and thirty eight
cents, the savings Of fifteen years Of frugal
life. Come West, young man, come West.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
IHExERAL NAruRE-No. is.l

AN ACT establish bonded warehouses for the storing AND
cleansing ~ rics intended for expOrtation. .
BE enacted By the Senate and House OF
OF the United stss Of America In ConRess assemse That
from aad after the OF this act mperts bonded
houses be and cleansing OF
ee intended sportaon 10 countries may ne
shsd pert OF the United States under suen
rules and rssaatons the Secretary Of the Treasury may
prescribe.
Approved. March fs 1874.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

"Well, neighbor what is the most Chris
tian news this morning?' said gentleman to
a friend. u have just bought barrel of
-four for poor woman Just like you
Who is it you have made happy with your
charity this time" My wife.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

At Brooklyn wedding, among the presents
ostentatiousy displayed, was one-hundred-
dollar bill, u present from the doting father to
the darling daughter. After the guests had
departed, the old man coolly rolled up the bill
and put it in his vest pocket, and that was the
end of it
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

A citizen of Delta. Iowa, writes to the Post
master. G Genersl: "If you don't send some one
to run this'ere post-Ofus purity soon it'll be
hrowd in the river. for I'm gong OIL en-
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
Approved, March -. 1874.
GENERAL NATURE-No. I'LL

AN ACT the act entitled AN act TO prsvestths
determination Of for bearing animals In Alaska approved
July first eighteen hundred and seventy.
Be the Senate and House OF
Of the United States Of America in Congress Asssm6sd That
prsvent the determination OF tuF
bsarnR auimas in Alaska approved July hrs eighteen hun
dred seventy hereby Smended 20 "a 10 aahorIs ne
kserstary OF and he H hereby authorzsd TO
the menths which urseas he taken tor their
skins islands OF SAINT Paul and Saint George IN AAska
the waters adjacent thereto and the Humber to Dc
taken or each island respectively.
ad March "a.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

Seine men never lose their presence of mind.
In Milwaukee last week a man threw his
mother-in law out of window in the fifth
story of burning building, and carried a
feather bed down stairs in his arms.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

Farewell, Susan-you have driven me to
the grave" wrote John Larch, of Alabama.
four years ago, and left the note on the river
bank. lie was arrested the other day in Gin
cinnati, living with another woman.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

The pupils of girls school in Pittsburgh.
out for their daily promenade, were recently
mistaken for an approaching band OF temper
ance reformers, and thsir appearance was the
signal for general closing of the saloons.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

It is pleasant to see young creature come
into a horse. car, seat herself tor admiration,
look happy for five minutes, and then wake up
to the dismal consciousness that there Is rip
in the middle finger of her right glove.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

A burglar who was found under mans bed
in Pbiladelphia excused himself on the ground
that he was looking for his dog.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
fGKxRnAL rArrRR-No. Isl

AZ ACT amend the stesnth approved
eighteen handrrd and entitled
consolidate and amend the statutes relating
the Pest Oaice Department.
Be- it enacted and House OF Representatives
Of the United America Congress assembled That
Ito revise, consolidate and amend the
statutes relating the Post Office Department, approved
eighteen hundred and EsVentytwO be amended
o lead IS follow:
That before entering 9sOn the duties and before
they shall salary the Postmaster General and all
employed in the postal service. shall respectively take
ana subscribe before magistrate other esmpsent
authorized to admIner Oaths BY the 0 the United
States Of State or Territory the following eAh or
Amrmati0n.
IL A. do soemniy Cor ali vn. the be,l
viii faithfully all the duties required of and
everything forbidden by the laws in relation TO
the estabhment oces and roads within the
and that will honestly and truly account for
belonging the said United States
which may come possession control; and also
Iurther COR arml that will support the Constitution
OF the Cuitai States. SO hello God.
this oath Armaten may be taken before any Office
holding under the United SAte
and such oesr hereby authorized TO administer and certify
such oath Afh rmatOR.
AoDro ST.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
STORE FOR RENT,

DRY GOODS FOR SALE. Cause IN health.
One Of the best stands in the city Of Wilmington.
Refer TO N. L. Query.
Marsh 4.-2m Wilmington, Del,
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29

Fifty million dollars are invested in journal
ism in the city OF New York. So says some
chap who knows nothing about it.
Smyrna times., 1874-04-29
GENERAL NAruRR-No. al
An ACT creating add9na in the Territory

An ACT creating addllOna land district In the Territory
OF New Mexico.
Re enacted BY the and House
the United States OF America Congress assembled
iii that OF the Terri New Mexico ynR
the principal base line OF said Territory shalt constitute
sspArsts district 10 be called the La Messa land
the Office which shall be Gated place
tust President Of ths U1Sd States which
NAV changed from time to time the public interest may
rsquire. ~
That the President shall appoint by and with the
the Senate. sgiser and
lie moneys district and sad aears shall
place where located they
perform he duties and receive the
be prescribed by in relation
land Offices the United states in other Territories.
ed March =