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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-11-16

Husking bees and weddings are all the rage
now in this part o1Chrstendom.-E lgiH dd,ooIie
Well, we might attempt 10 husk wedding, but
il just strikes us that in the ease Of husking a
bee there is trfe too much ragc-ou the bees
part-his latest part.--i,TOrd NerS.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-11-16

Yes" said a Texas lawyer who was defend.
ing murderer, the prisoner at the bar will
prove an alibi. Gentlemen, we shall prove
that the murdered man wasn't there"
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16
4GTlcWIIatTuI.
Scarcity Of Peninsula Farms.

Considerable complaint is heard from the
various counties on this Peninsula of the
scarcity OF farms for rent. Not many years
past owners of farms found it q difficult
matter to obtain good tenants and the land
renter could have his choice of farms.
But since the influx of population from the
north, the cutting up and dividing of real
estate, much of our land has passed into
other hands. In word, there are more
land owners now than formerly, and hence
the scarcity of lands for rent. Not only
has the incoming population purchased
farms but many of our land renters, seeing
what was coming have purchased homes
also, leaving those of smaller means and
young men just engaging into the business,
| to look after their own interests as land
renters. Hence arises these complaints of
the scarcity of lands for rent. But rental
rates have increased also and this adds
additional burdens to the poor land renter.
| Every year our population is increasing,
| and if this state of things should continue
| Tor years to come. every tiller of the soil
must either become q land owner or settler
upon the cheap lands Of the West. True,
we have thousands Of acres of worn out
and abandoned lands that might be reclaim
ed, but it will require both capital and
labor to make it "bloom and blossom I"
with abundant crops. This has been done
in the past and may be done again. With
the soil and climate we possess our waste
lands may be made productive and yield a
profitable income. Our land rentersshould
purchase small farms and themselves be-
come the owners of the soil they cultivate.
1t will elevate the dignity Of true manhood
to know that they in common with the rest
of their fellow citizens have substantial
interest in the community in which they
live.-Dsnton Union.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16
Waking up New York Yankees.

The Delaware boys are waking up the
New York Yankee apple growers in way
that IS "caution to Crockett" Clarence
Hopkins opened the way " making con.
tract with apple growers in Tompkins CO.,
n. Y, to furnish him ten thousand bushels
of good, ripe, merchantable apples at II
cents a bushel. He then came home, took
down his two Alden fruit Evaporating ma
chimes, and trotted off as fast as steam could
carry him and them to Johannesburg,
Tompkins CO., where he put up his evapo-
rators, hired help and is now busy putting
his ten thousand bushels of apples through
the machines. The cost of the job will be
about as follows:
Curing and packing $500
Total cost. 500
f3Iue OF product..',....'. OOO1
Net
Since this contract was made by Mr.. Hop.
kins, P. P. Wynkoop and Frank Arnold
have taken two Automatic machines to
Palmyra in the same State and made a
similar contract, and VIM. R. Phillips has
done the same thing with two of the Viii.
iiams machines, and the prospect is good
that these live Milford fruit growing Yam.
KEGS will make $4,000 at least off their
slow New York contemporaries in this
business. We are informed by the parties
that no such machines have ever been seen
or even heard of up in that benighted
country, and that the old apple growers
open their eyes with astonishment not only
at the performance of the machines, but
also at the enterprise of the Delaware
| Yankees.-PeninSular Ne0S.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16
SMYRNA DEL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 16 1878.

him and bound him, for he would not use
his great strength against them. They car
ried him before Dagnus, the king of Syria
but when he saw Offero he tainted. On re-
viving he cried Who art thou, oh, most
terrible giant2"
"My name was Ofero, the bearer; but
since l serve Christ and have borne him on
my shoulders, | am called Christ Offero"
(Christop phero), the captive answered.
Then the king sent him to prison, and
tried every means to seduce him from the
master he had chosen; but his soul was
as strong as his body, and Dagnus had
no power over it. He was very angry
at this, and put the mighty Christian to the
most cruel torture; but he remained un.
shaken in his allegiance to his master.
Finally he was led out to execution. Be-
fore he was beheaded, he kneeled down
and prayed fervently, asking that all Chris
tians who witnessed his martyrdom might
henceforth be safe from fire, tempest and
earthquake.
In his painting, Durer represents the
giant wading in the swollen, turbulent
| river, manfully struggling with the power
| tul current and breasting the fearful storm
that tosses his garments as if each gust Of
| wind would strip them from his body. The
mighty palm-tree is in his hand, and with
its resistance he keeps his uncertain foot
ing, and bears the mysterious weight of the
seemingly small burden that grows so
strangely heavier every moment. His
countenance IS brave, noble, determined,
full of gentleness and good humor, in
which there is an expression of wonder and
perplexity very natural under the circum-
stances. Serene, calm and smiling in the
Of IL, Il
sits upon his shoulder, his lovely face Just
seen above the giants bushy hair, on
which his little hand rests. In the back
ground, upon the shore, hermit holds a
lantern to light the way.
No description, however, can give a clear
idea Of this painting, which, seen with the
meaning of the legend in mind, is fnll oi
exquisite beauty and pathos. The numer
GUS representations of st. Christopher show
how strong a hold the legend has taken o.
the more ignorant and superstitious people
among whom it was long believed that, il
answer to his last prayer, the sight of hi
image would give courage to the timid anC
rest to the weary. For this reason colossa
pictures OF him were painted on the out
side OF buildings, sometimes extending from
the base to the very top, so as to be visible
from long distance, the sight being con
sidered good omen for those who 6ehel,
them. All through France, Germany AM
Italy, especially in the Venetian states
these gigantic images are to be seen, bot
on the exterior and interior of churche
and other public buildings. They are ofte
accompanied by this inscription "WhC
, soever shall behold the image of st. Chris
opher shall not faint or fall on that day.
Recently the representations have bee
7, found on some of the ancient Englis
churches, the whitewash that covere
7 them having been removed.-N. Y. O.
| serucr.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

A FEARFUL FAMINE.-A correspondent of
the New York Evening Post, writing from
Rio Janeiro, sends to that paper an ex-
tended account of terrible famine and
pestience which have been prevailing in
the Province of Pauhy, Ceara, Rio Grande
do Norte Parnahyba Pernambuco, Alagoas,
Sergipe, and part of the Province of Bahia.
This territory thus visited, which is equal
in extent to New England, the Middle At
lantc States, West Virginia, Ohio and
Indiana combined, has been without rain
since July, 1876. The brooks, springs and
wells long ago dried up. Even the river
beds have now become dusty channels.
The cattle, of which there were vast herds,
have died of thirst. The people perishing
for want of food and water, have fed from
their homes, many of them dying-some.
times whole families ogether-before reach
ing place of refuge. Those who escaped
have overcrowded the cities of refuge so
greatly as, in some cases, to multiply the
population by five, and they are now
bearded together in the open streets, living
like swine upon scanty rations issued by the
government and upon such refuse as they
can gather in the cutters.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

Actresses devise most ingenious plans to
secure free advertising. You never read of
an authoress falling down and breaking her
nose, or burying pet dog with grave oere.
monies, or carrying a horse shoe in her
pocket in memory of favorite horse, or
being run over by an omnibus, or travelling
with four cats, two dogs, q monkey and a
parrot, or narrowly escaping death by
drowning, or having ten thousand dollars
worth of diamonds stolen every six months
or so-you never hear Of an authoress, we
say, resorting to any of those dodges in
order to call attention to forthcoming
book -NorristOwn Herald
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16
For the Smyrna Times.
THE SOUTHERN PLAGUE.

What destitution and what woe,
Is dwelling in our Sourthern land;
Grim pestilence treads. that dreaded foe
And death stalks there with mighty hand
Four months ago the voice of mirth
Was heard in many Joyous home
Their comfort sounded DER the earth
All! who can tell of days to come?
Yes, many i'll those sweet days of June,
summers joys before them spread,
Ne'er thinking that the harvest moon
Would find them numbered with the dead
o! dreadful plague, my spirit shrinks
Thy many horrors to portray
OF hearts that now in sadness sink
OF bright hopes vanished in day.
Thy ruthless hand has plucked the flower
And filled with mourning many a home;
Has entered many a sunny bower
And chased the brightness with thy gloom.
The maiden sweet, whose beaming face,
Last eve shown bright with loves young dream
To-day is caught in thy embrace
And gliding down deaths darkened stream.
The aged too. with wrinkled brow
Have fell to thee an easy prey,
The strong man thou hast made to bow,
All! none can make thee go thy way.
The old and young the grave and gay,
Are caught within thy yellow grasp,
And falling hundreds in day
For mother earth their forms to clasp.
Heart-rendering is the mournful wall
That's sounded on the silent air,
And waited over hill and dale,
How terror's king is reigning there.
All day the gloomy sable hearse
Is running DER deserted streets,
Where timid footstepts fear to press,
The journey to the grave completes.
All night is heard the doleful sound,
Filling the fearful heart with dread,
OffOotsteps hurrying to the mound,
Or mausoleums of the dead.
Why dost thou thus afflict o God,
That portion of our loved land?
o, spare we pray thee spare thy rod,
And stop the judgments of thy hand.
o, stop, as by the threshing floor,
Thou stay'dst thine hand one day of old,
When David's sin the people bore
Thy glorious honor to uphold.
SMYRNA DEL, Oct. 11th, 1878. r. G. DERLTT.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

A correspondent of an exchange paper
states that he fed his horses skinned milk
and he has known cases where it was of
great benefit and was an economy. He
says that pail of it three times day will
keep work horse in better condition than
will four quarts of oats. OF course this sort
of ration would render less water necessary.
Three pals of ten quarts each would give
twenty.four quarts of water, as milk has of
solid matter 20 per cent. only (one-ffth),
and so per cent. (four-ifths) of water. So
thirty quarts of milk would give you twenty
four quarts of water.-Kenttcky Live Stock
| Record
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16
A Dog of Remarkable Instinct.

The books are full of remark able in
stincts in men, birds, beasts and fishes.
Instincts for discovery; instincts for pre-
servation; instincts for themselves and
others; instincts in their natural states and
instincts cultivated.
The writer had case which is equal to
any described in the books. 1t was in this
wise. In the early days of his ministry
and on his first circuit, on the "first round
of his appointments" A cold drizzling
afternoon, late in October, found the
preacher weary, and with his faith ther-
mometer but few degrees removed from
the freezing point, entering the yard of a
kind brother, a steward, whose name was
in "the PLAN" When he had alighted
from his faithful "helper," his horse, with
plethoric saddle.bags on arm, he approached
the dwelling. As usual, the young African
servants, suspecting that he was preacher,
came round the house, in haste, to take his
saddle-bags, and conduct them and him
into "misses ROOM"
AT that moment the good steward came
from the door to give the preacher q
hearty welcome. Immediately in the real
of his master was little white dog with 8
very extravagant curl of his surplus tail
When the dog came near the preacher
and looked at him for minute, he dashed
off at full speed, made raid among the
chickens, and came, very soon, with one il
his mouth. The good steward, who loved
little fun as we'll as the preacher, laugheC
heartily, and said: "Thatwa the smartes
dog in the State; for he not only knew thu
preachers on sight, but knew that the yer,
next thing they wanted was chicken fo
SUPPER The chicken, unhurt but mucl
scared, was still held in the mouth of tn,
dog, who stood patiently waiting for SOM
one to relieve him of the inevitable clerica
poultry.
The young preacher, rather nonpluse,
at the turn of things on this, his first visit
went into the house, and in due time tool
advantage of the farseeing sagacity of tn
dog. As long as he staid on that circuit h
never heard the last of that little dog an
the chicken.
He became used to the joke and did nc
suffer himself to become Indifferent to tina
species of poultry, whether stewed, bake
or fried.
That breed of dogs ought religiously t
have been preserved, for his acutene.
Of perception of ministerial charater an
wants, and his facility in providing fC
them.-C Central t. (Ev.) Methodist.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

Root crops attain their full growth after
the light frosts come. The cool weather
seems to affect them so that they become
solid and compact, and form sugar, under
its influences. So do not fear the effects of
frost on the turnips and mangels, but rath-
er welcome it, and do not harvest till just
before the ground freezes. Potatoes, how
ever, should be dug as soon as the tops
wither, as they gain nothing thereafter,
and are apt to rot under the action of the
fall rains after ripening.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

A careful estimate of the yearly gold and
silver production of the United States
shows that it does not average less than
eighty millions of dollars per annum.
Five years production would pay off every
greenback in existence, and put solid
wealth in place of paper promises. Would
it not be better that the four per cent in
debtedness of the nation were increased to
this extent, if by that means the medium
of exchange that goes from hand to hand
day by day in thousands and millions of
transactions could be of universal accept
ance and as little liable to fuctuation in
value as any human device can beP The
cost of maintaining an irredeemable paper
currency is fourfold greater than the in
terest on like amount of bonded indebt-
edness, and the tax falls upon those least
able to pay it.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

Mr.. Hoyt kept seven sheep, grade Cots
wolds, and raised thirteen lambs. He sold
his wool for thirty cents pound, and his
sheep averaged six pounds each; this
makes an average income from each sheep
of s.. 80, or total of $5SlO from the flock,
rating the lambs at the market price, $3.50
each. The seven sheep can be kept on the
same feed as one COW, and with ever so
much less trouble they will afford a greater
yield. Where there is good market for
lambs farmers ought to keep more sheep.
-RuraL Neao Yorker.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16
DIR, I. G.. TERRY,
sMY DEL.

q Regular Graduate Of Medicine and Surgery,
PRIVATE MEDICAL OFFICE AND DRUG STORE,
No. 4ls N. EIGHTH St., above NOBLE, Philadelphia.
me Doctor invites all suffering from diseases Of the
hIl hl Dotches, pimples, discolorations, itching or
on any part Of the body, ulcers serofua dis
N; ,e OI esomach liver kidneys bladder PROSTATE,
bary organs, nervous debility. palpitatiOn OF the
EsafI, Dreams dimness of vision distress of mind,
oS seminal weakness, unnatural discharges, dis
tSo tsSIges displacements and bearing pains IN
Oaek and hips, nervous prOstration, etc. Special
Suaseases, whether of recent or long standing, no
ier inseer II inherited or acquired, what organ OF
snd OF the body is involved, they can be speedily
anu anu permanently cured Those who cannot pay the
,ygnar fee will be treated daily from A. II. tn A
N and only charged for the medicines.
negular Office hours from IL A. NJ TO p. NJ, and !
tol0PM N. Consultations free and strictly private
eaeh patient in person. july 10-1y
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

The railroads will now bring barrel of
-four from Chicago to New York for twenty
cents, but the down-trodden laborer charges
twenty-five cents 10 take the barrel from
the depot to the consumer. But the down.
trodden aforesaid makes it all right with
his "effete" customer by throwing in a
speech on the necessity of putting down
the railroad monopoly SO that the poor can
live
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16
A Child Marvel.
sCRIPTURAL LECTURES BY FOUR YEAR-oLD NE
GRDsS.

There is now in Louisville negress who
is a perfect child-wonder. She is a scrip
tural marvel. She does not even know her
letters, yet she can quote accurately al
most any passage in the Bible. At the age
of nine months she could talk, and would
frequently tell her mother what her idea of
heaven was. As she grew older she would
sit for hours and expatiate on the beauties
and glories of the other world. The old
colored folks would listen to her sayings for
hours.
At the age of three years she began to
lecture on heaven, its wonders, or God and
His omnipotent power. She has lectured
in many places, and has created fltrore in
every place she has yet visited. The
prodigy lectured at the York street colored
church yesterday afternoon, and at night
spoke to large crowd at the Green street
colored church. Her speech was good and
her delivery impressive.
A reporter of the Courier interrogated her
last night.
What is your name, little girlP'
"Alice Conaty."
How old are you?"
Use just four years and twenty-eight
days old tonight"
Where were you born 2"
IL was born IN Liverpool, England
cross de Atlantic"
Chow long since you felt the power
within you?'
81 don't know; Ise always felt the power
Of God"
"What do you talk about when you
| speak to a crowdY p
81 talk about Jesus, about heavenly
things, about how Jesus died and was
crucitied how he rose again in three days
and sitteth on the right hand of God"
"Can you spell2'
No, sir; don't know my A, B, Cs yet
She then went on in a rapturous strain
about things biblical and spiritual, com
pletely nonplussing the reporter.
She was accompanied by two coloreC
men. They talked in an enthusiastic man
ner about her. She said in her converse
ton that she believed in two kinds O
baptisms. She spoke of the diferen
modes of salvation; how to reach Para
disc; how to be converted from bad MAJ
to a good one, etc. Her sayings were en-
tirely original, and were not spoken in
hesitating voice, but in quick, keen an
forcible manner. AS young as she is,
negress, without education in the prime
pies she sets forth, her power partake
strongly ofthe marvelous.-LouisviAe Courie
| Journal
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16
Chowder.
Planets increase
The air is frosty.

Planets increase
The air is frosty.
Trees are gorgeous.
Fern hunters are on the hunt.
Japan supplies London with lead pencils.
Evening service in the churches now be-
gins at 7.30
The railroads in Georgia are crowded
with business.
The Russians have made Sofia the new
capital of Bulgaria.
Brown still remains the favorite color for
children's clothing.
Little children are our angels, and the
aged are our apostles.
Completeness of contentment is not to
be found in human things.
A bee has to visit 100000 clover bios.
SONS to extract pound of honey.
A firm in Sheffield, England, ordered
100000 American hay rakes this season.
Many colored people are leaving the
Blue Grass country in Kentucky for Kansas.
A lady describing an ill natured man,
says he never smiles but he feels ashamed
| of it.
Keep your own books, and know con-
stantly what you are earning, and just where
you stand.
1t is easy to pick holes in other peoples
work, but it is far more profitable to dc
better work yourself.
Fur Innings can be bought for circular
cloaks for $50; and that sum will also buy
good suit of clothes.
If, as it is said, life is measured by deeds
and not by days, we Of to-day are much
longer lived than men of the past.
The time will come when it will be fount
that the hammer and the pen, instead O
being second cousins, are twin brothers.
The telegraph and press, those quicken
ing influences Of our civilization, bring I.
our very doors the gossip of the world.
A few bright dreams, some sunny an
some cloudy, ever changing castle in tn
air, and the span Of human life is over.
"Shall not ring fire bell in night ?
(Manton Marble, Florida despatch.) Ye
Moses; get right up and ring. Ring hare
too.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

Dean Stanley is quoted as saying that the
new State Department building, in Wash
ington, is one of the grandest buildings in
the world. The Dean, it is reported, in
tends to write book about America.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

A stock exchange bear is described as a
person who sells what he has not got; a
bull as a man who buys what he cannot pay
for; and "financiering" as "buying shares
by man who doesn't want them from one
who has none to sell"
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

A lady asked her minister whether
person might not be fond of dress and
ornament without being proud. Madam"
said the minister, 'when you see fox's tail
peeping out of the hole, you may be sure
the fox is within"
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

Gen. Gideon ]. Pillow, of Mexican war
notoriety, and brigadier general in the Con-
federate service, died Tuesday morning, of
congestion, at his place at the mouth of ST..
Frances river, Arkansas.
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

"What is the best remedy" asked a
preacher of a shrewd observer, "for en- in
attentive audience?" "Give them some
thing to attend to-" was the significant
reply, "hungry sheep will look up to the
rack if there is any hay in it.n
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

The late George Robbins, well-known
auctioneer, said in one of his advertise
ments of an estate that he had for sale :
"In that favored region the moon is always
at the full"
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

"Who made youp' was asked of small
girl. "She replied: "God made me that
length" indicating with her two hands the
ordinary size of o newborn infant; "and |
growed the rest myself"
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

A butcher let sailor have a shoulder of
mutton on trust, but finding in day or
two after that he had gone to foreign
land, said: "My word but if had known
he never intended paying, ] would have
charged him penny a pound more for itr'
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

HAY BURNER STovE.-Messrs. Collins e.
Burgis, stove manufacturers Of Chicago,
H., have in the Kansas Farmer, a cut and
full description of their celebrated hay
burning stove. The reason it is called
ebay burner" is because it is heated with
hay or straw instead of coal. The idea of
stove burning hay no doubt sounds very
strangely to many of our readers, and for
their information we clip from the article
in the Farmer the following paragraph which
will give some idea how it works:
"If coal is used the year round in an
ordinary No. cook stove, it will consume
300 bushels, and probable more than this
amount. At 16 cents bushel, which is the
cost in Topeka, the sum in cash required
to keep a stove in fuel for that length of
time will be, we'll say $50 The interest on
that sum will be S., or Sc. Every farmer
can determine more satisfactorily than we
can, whether the interest on his outlay for
coal would not cover the cost of providing
years supply Of hay or straw fuel to take
the place of coal, while the quality of the
fire made by hay or straw being a purely
charcoal flame, is infinitely superior for
cooking purposes to that from coal. No
smoke, dust or gas is emitted from the hay.
A coal stove burns out in three or four
years at most, while the hay stove will last
twenty years"
Smyrna times., 1878-10-16

Five Wesleyan missionaries were recently
murdered and eaten by the Bush natives
near the Malicola cost, New Zealand.
Eighty of the tribe were killed by the
traders and coast natives in retaliation.