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Smyrna times., 1879-06-25
Decatur Williams Of streator. ILL., in fo,

Decatur Williams Of Streator, ILL.,, in for.
warding his petition for membership to the
Lime Kiln Club added that he was en-.
deavoring to ascertain the whereabouts of
certain white man calling himself "Ths
Healer from Asia" The "healer" halted
at Streator for few days last month, and
for a small pecuniary consideration he
agreed to tighten Decatur's complexion
from five to seven shades. He left town
before the ointment had fairly accomplish.
ed its work, or he might never have left at
all. If the victim was black before using
he could at least wash his face, but at pres
ent he is waiting for new skin to grow.
"Sarved him right" replied Brother Gard
ner, as he filed the letter on the book
"De color of mans face doan' count fol
shucks at grocery or woodward, an wen g
steamboat blows up, de niger an de white
man take eben chances in de comm down
De Guild man who signs to grow white oil
get the kinks out of his wool am a bigge
fool dan de dog wich drowned hisself 'co
he wasn't bon a wild turkey. De Heale
from Asia may be right in dis town for all
know, an he may take de hide off N hal
dozen mo- foolish niggsrs for all l car."-
Detroit Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25
The Mosquito.

The naturalists tell US that the above
named bird of pray is of the order Diptera,
and OF the family cuLcidG. 1t is unneces.
sary to state that it is a numerous family
particularly the mosquito branch of it,
Looking at the mosquito individually, we
should say she was no fool; and though
she may never arrive at the knowledge of
the TACT that latin name has been tackled
on to her, she knows when to present her
bill. We say she and her because natural
lists tell us that only the females are blood
suckers. The fair ones only kick out their
trails with the hind feet and march off on
toraglng expedition. The males stay at
home, look after the children, and keep
spiders out of the garden. They never
venture out, these hen-pecked males, and
they are just as harmless as any hen -pecked
man you ever saw. When a healthy mos
quito matron gets ready she lays about
three hundred eggs, bunches them up and
sets them at1oat on q pond of stagnant
water, generally kept for the purpose in the
vicinity of every well-regulated farm house
The eggs do not hatch mosquitoes, but "wig
glers," which wiggle up and down for a few
warm days, then pause on the bosom ot
the placid pond, and burst open like g
| baked peanut. Then out skips a festive
mosquito. She at once examines her back
hair, scratches her nose, rubs her bill on ar
adjacent stone and starts off in search of &
man with low.cut shoes. She may not fine
him, but she'll find one that will do lust a.
we'll. Then she'll carefully examine tn,
ground, look if there is any danger signal
in the shape of ar approaching hand
Finding everything serene, she'll unlimbe
her snout, cut hole with a Jig saw sh
carries for the purpose, enter her puml
and set back for a comfortable dinner
Then the patient man, who is to furnisl
the repast, has his attention attracted t.
the matter by peculiar sensation in tn
vicinity of the mosquitoes dining place
and casting a suspicious eye downward h
takes in the scene at glance. 'Tis thel
that the cunning of the human brain man
ifests itself. He quietly raises his hand
slowly taking deadly aim at the unsuspect
ing offender. His eye lights up with re
venge; his lips part, his hand descends-
"slap! d-!' and the mosquito sail
away. folds up her proboscis, retires to tn
seclusion of the baci; part of a pictur
frame, and proceeds to digest her Dime
-MiddletO'Cn Transcript.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

Neutrality-suspicious. have been made
in Michigan in cultvating wheat, and the
results are not only satisfactory but aston
ishing. committee was appointed to
oversee the experiments and make the re-
port. Sixty.eight pounds of seed per acre
were sown in drills, sixteen inches apart,
and ninety pounds were drilled in the
usual way. That in the sixteeninch drills
was cultivated with horse wheat hoe once
in the fall and twice in the spring; the
other course was not cultivated after SOW
ing. The report says that the sixteen-inch
did not. lodge or crinkle, while the eight.
inch lot did so badly. The average yield
was sixty.nine and one-half per cent
greater in the sixteen-inch drills than in
the eight-inch. 1t is further remarked: II
is as reasonable to believe that grain crops
should be benefited by cultivation as that
corn, potatoes, cabbages and other crops
should be. Hoeing wheat in Europe is no
an uncommon practice, and the farmers ir
this country have begun it with success
| 81. Louis Republican.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25
TO THE LILY-OF-THE VALLEY.
FOR THE SWEET SAKE OF HARRIET ROSS RIrrESHousE.

"a few days before the decease of Mrs Rittenhouse
wife of Rev. DR.. A. RittenhouSe a boquet composed
If the beautiful lily of the valley was handed her
ID again and again to her bosom remarking. "how
beautiful" The touching incident suggested the fol-
owing beautiful tribute from one whose name is
amiliar to most of our readers
flower rarely fair. long time to me
Type and embodiment of purity,
She thy twin human heaven-born sister knew
The secret hidden, yet not concealed in you!
Daintily delicate as thy white bells:
Thy tender grace her own; thy fragrant wells
Less lavish of their store, than her deep heart
OF love- Like thee dear flower. she had no part
In Haunting show As thy leaves shelter thee,
So hid she her sweet self in modesty.
AS fairer thou dost bloom for summer rain
So perfected her loveliness, in pain.
Die happy. little flower upon her breast!
Babe never Graded was to safer rest
Than should be thine; where conscience never slept
Where holy thoughts most faithful vigils kept.
Rest safely, sweetly, proudly, knowing this
She, dying, best and crowned thee with kiss!
Rest well content, thy life is rounded here:
Thou hast thy all of Heaven-upon her bier.
She lies upon the God-heart, nor knows death,
Her earthly record sweet as lily-breath
Her whiteneSS and her fairness ten-fold grown
In the all-searching brightness of the Throne
God knows His Lilies; when He gathers them
His tender fingers do not bruise their stem.
Their fragrant lives are His delight. and He
Bends DER their upturned faces lovingly.
Upon us be thy charm of rarest worth,
Thou Lily of this valley-land of earth
Our such tranSplanting Ours the after bloom
Where falls no shadow from the cruel tomb.
MAY 81, 1879.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

PLAIN TALK.-A large majority of the
young men growing up are of no account.
They are relying upon "fathers" to take
care Of them. They would starve if cast
out into the world and compelled TO take
care of themselves. They are lacking in
selfreliance, in pluck and perseverance
to labor at anything to make an honest
living. The trouble is they feel above
laboring for livelihood-=and just as long
as they have such notions there is no hope
for them. Any trade or calling is better
than idleness. for idleness produces worth
lessnesss. 1t is better to be q shoemaker,
a blacksmith, a carpenter, a laborer on the
farm, than it is to be loafer. Some OF
our best and worthiest and greatest men
have risen to their distinguished positions
from these humble callings. Everybody
respects the man who is not afraid of work
People will trust him and honor him, and
do all they can to help him. 1t may b.
starting on the lower round of the ladder
but a higher and still higher round can b.
reached by those possessing energy, plucl
and industry.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

The eyes of Frenchman who was born
blind and who has remained in darkness
for forty-one years, have been opened in
Syracuse. Sixteen years ago an unsuccess-
full operation was performed upon one of
his eyes. Within few months the eye that
was not previously tampered with has been
treated by a skilful eye-surgeon with most
remarkable success. The patient was en-.
abled to distinguish colors for the first time
in his life. A few days ago a second opera
ton was performed by which the pupil wa,
enlarged, and a steady improvement ir
sight is now noticeable
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

LOUISIANA WITNEssEs.-For the common
good, and especially for the good of the
State of Louisiana, if the government can
possibly find penitentiary room for them,
it is sincerely to be hoped that board and
lodgings will be provided for several of the
witnesses who have lately been swearing
so magnifcently in the senatorial case of
Spofford vs.. Kellogg 1t is pity that the
laws delay prevents such scoundrels when
found out of going so olongunwhipt ofjustiCe
They should be punished as promptly and as
severely as possible, in order to convince the
rest of them down there in Louisiana that
congressional committees do not offer stand
ing premiums for champion liars.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

To find out whether garden has been
planted or not, an exchange gives the fol.
lowing rule: "If one fOrgets whether beds
are planted or not, good way to tell is to
turn a stray cat into the garden. If the
beds are planted, the cat will proceed tc
race around and dig into them and act as i
it had relative in China it was anxious tC
get at, while if they are not, it will sit dowr
calmly in the path and seem to be medita
ting on the progress of missionary work il
Africa. A cats instinct seldom deceives il
| this matter"
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

KILLING OF THE FRENCH PRINCE IMPERIAL.-The
dream Of glory Of Prince Louis Napoleon has been
prematurely quenched He did not even die upon the
field of battle, He was speared in the BUSH by the
alert enemy, while out upon small accommodating
expedition, and perished without chance for glory
There was no occasion for him to join the expedi-
ton against the Zulus. He has perished in conse-
quence of his rash haste to make figure in the great
world which had no place for him, and perished
without any of that distinction for which he painted
Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph e. Prince Loo
loo" he called in the faubourgs Of Paris) was
born in the purple. at the Tuleries March 16, 1856
the only son of the Emperor Napoleon III and his
wife Eugenie Marie de Montjo. He received a care
full education and grew up an amiable YOUTH with
rather feeble body and mind not supposed to be
very brilliant He accompanied his father 10 Metz
| the outbreak of the Franco Prussian war, and al
Saarbruck according 10 the Emperors lurid dispatch
received his baptism Of fire." After the French de
/ feats he sent TO Belgium. and when his fathel
/ and mother took up their abode at Chiselhurst wa
sent to receive Instructions at the British militar!
/ school at Woolwieh where he graduated with credi
/ not long since Whom the English forces were ex
terminated ct Isandula he volunteered to Join tn
reinforeements and his arrival the front re
ceived volunteers staff appointment in connection
4 with Col. Woods command, and was on duty in thi
capacity when he fell. The Bonapartes' hopes of
| restoration of the empire pretty much perish wit
him as the next I'm the succession, Prince Napoleon
is pronounced republican.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25
Tea in America.

Commissioner of Agriculture Le Due has
has had good many detractors and some
defenders in respect to his American tea
raising experiment, but both have over
looked the vital point of his folly which
was we'll expressed by Mr.. David A. Wells
at the Free Dinner last Thursday night.
Suppose it to be a fact that our soil is as
we'll adapted for tea culture as that of China
or Japan, it would not even then follow
that it would pay us to go to raising tea,
and in fact it might be very improbable.
Take the case as it stands. It is authori-
tatively estimated that it requires fifteen
wards of cotton cloth to clothe native of
China each year and that it would take the
labor of Chinaman for thirty days, work
ing with his old-fashioned loom, to make
the cloth. But we hear in this country
can produce the same cloth with one days
labor-a third of that labor used in plant
| ing and growing the cotton, a third in
cleaning it and getting it to market, and a
third in making the thread and fabric. Il
follows therefore, that in purchasing
Chinese tea with American cotton, we enjoy
an advantage of thirty to one, merely as
suming that the Chinaman is no better as
| tea raiser than an American. The arrant
| folly of this experiment of Mr.. LIE Due
| therefore, consists in its attempt to ignore
| this vast relative efficiency which we enjoy
in certain industries and turning our labor
into an artificial, chimerical and unprotit-
able struggle with the Chinaman at the
very point where he is strongest and where
the American is weakest. If we want tea,
or silk, or olives, or ivory or any other pro-
duct indigenous to certain countries of the
old world the sensible way is to buy them
with our cotton cloth, our wheat, our cattle
and like commodities thatwe produce easiest
and cheapest; and to that end we need to
} cultivate our export trade unrestricted by
the tariff laws which keep us from selling
J Just so long and so surely as they keep
foreigners from selling to us.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

HE'D STARvE TO DEATH.-A Silver City
young lady who had a passion for pretty
babies said to little four-year-old angel
who has bran new sister:
81 say, bub, won't you give me your baby
sister2 l love little babies"
Young hopeful" No, tan't."
Young lady (winking at her young many
-"Why, sonny, why won't you give your
baby to me?"
Hopeful Indignantly Fly, he'd 'tarve
to death; your dress opens behine."
Painful silence for the next fifteen
minutes.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

During a severe thunderstorm, man, q
book agent and a mule took refuge from
the angry elements beneath q. shed. After
the storm had ceased the man was found
dead, with his scalp completely removed.
After holding an inquest the jury were
unable to decide whether the man had been
talked to death by the book agent, kicked
TO death by the mule or struck by lightning.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

FASHIONABLE PREACHING.-As he was as
cending the pulpit steps one of the elders
buttonholed him to whisper an additional
caution:
"Ths liquor dealer has just come into
church, and he gives us lift sometimes.
I wish you would be particular not to allude
to the whisky business or the temperance
question"
The young minister, getting frightened
to see the moral ground thus steadily mar
rowing before him, inquired:
"Whom OF what shall I preach against
then ?"
The elders reply came like an air oi
triumph:
"Prsach against the Mormons: they
haven't got friend in town. ."-,Ste,eJenviM
| Gazette.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

Vocal The sweetest voice
ever heard," said the bishop, "was a
woman's. 1t was soft and low, but penetra-
ting; musical and measured in its accents,
but not precise. We were on a steamer and
she murmu:ed some commonplace words
about the scenery. l do not remember
what she said, but l can never forget the
exquisitely tender, musical voice."
The sweetest voice l ever heard, replied
the professor, was mans. l had been
out fishing nearly all day and got back tc
the hotel about three o'clock. The man
came out on the front stoop, opened his
mouth like sea cavern and roared Din
NURIr till it soured the milk in the cellar
l have heard other voices since then but
never"
But the bishop, with a look of intense
disgust all over his face, had already walked
away out of hearing, and was lighting {
fresh cigar by himself.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25
WHOLE NO. 1850.
GOOD MORNING, SUMMER.

Tell me, Q Summerl where did you fold
Your garments of beauty in Winters stern cold?
Who fashioned the form and hem of your robe
In the cold crystal halls of his icy abode?
All nestled and hushed and tucked in your bed
Who ratified the key TO lift up your head
And whisper arise! The sun with great care
Has brushed the cold gems from out your soft hair
And stirs you to seed the tissue and thread
1Ou held i'll your shuttle when blossoms were dead
And bids you 10 gild the fibre and floss
With bright, happy smiles, and gleeful head toss
10 roll up your WUOfs in pillows OF light
And fit through the warp with sunbeamS so bright
Then soften the light with sweet falling dew
And gleam on it all the rainbows full hue
How modestly summer gives back her REPLIES
With many banner unfurled from the skies
Wrought in and without in ruby and gold,
In letters so plain you read in each fold
while the earth standeth in beauty and peace
Sunshine and harvest shall neverm0re cease"
--SpriRqheld Republican,.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

An elephant-keeper went to breakfast in
Ellsworth, Kansas, one morning last week,
after giving his charge plenty of hay and
oats: but while he was away, the elephant,
not fancying the feed. broke loose, tossed a
camel into the air, rolled over a cage filled
with hyenas, plunged through the circus
canvas, overturned farmers wagon, and
sought recreation in various ways until he
was chased into a corner and subjected to
discinlina
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

The 1,020 Cinnamon who have just
reached San Francisco could hardly have
had the fear of the new Constitution before
their eyes when they oade adieu to the
Flowery Kingdom.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

Having heard Of Cyrus W. Fields intention to erect
a monument TO Major Andre, the Bridgeport Conn,
ST. Georges Society all Englshmen. have subscribed
$50 toward q monument for Nathan Hale, the young
American who was hanged by the British during the
Revolutionary war.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

When baby stuffs his toe into his mouth,
he realizes how hard it will be for him in
later years to make both ends meet.-Ne1O
Haven Register.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

A gill of raw (unboiled) linseed oil given
to a sow, just before and after farrowing,
will prevent the disposition to eat her of
spring. Perfect quiet and isolation are con-
siderations which should not be neglected.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

IsAlRNA BRANCH TRAINS.-Additional TO those
4tove, leave Smyrna for Clayton 22f and 745 P. N.
Lave Clayton for Smyrna 7l25 and 11.O0 A. NJ. 240
ahd 55 p. ~ 70 make connection with trains North
ana south) from Clayton.
HF KENNEY, sup't.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

If you are over-anxious to know why the
elephant wears a trunk, irritate him suffi-
ciently and you will discover that he carries
his choler in it.-NesO Haven Register.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

The most treacherous memory in tn
world belongs to young man with neV
watch.-Meriden Recorder.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

The faster man is the quicker he can
run througe fortune,-NesO Orleans Plea
y.sne.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

For attaching labels to glass or porce-
lain, gum tragacanth is generally employ
ed.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25

The Philadelphia Times says some Legis-
lators will take anything except advice.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 25, 1879.
DRIFTWOOD.

THE VIOLET.
London Society.
Lonely and sweet q violet grew
The meadow weeds among,
One morn a rosy shepherd maid,
With careless heart and idle tread,
Came by,
Came by,
The meadow lads and sung
All" said the violet. would were
Some stately garden howeri
That might gathered be and pressed
One little hour to her sweet breast
All, me!
All, me!
Only one little hour"
On came the rosy shepherd lass,
With heart that idle beat
And crushed the violet in the grass,
1t only said: How sweetw
How sweet" it said with fainting moan
." If must die, TO die alone
Forher,
For her
To die at her dear feet"
Smyrna times., 1879-06-25
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DELAWARE DIVISION.
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