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Smyrna times., 1880-06-16

LADIES LErTEus.-Of course anybody can write u
letter On scrap Of paper and do up III brown en-
VCl0lC. But there is great deal i'll having letters
written in good style and in such way to give
pleas both to sender and receiver TO this end
H"ail ourselves Of the good taste Of Iiay. Banks ~
B !lc oi Philadelphia and of the wealth and variety
Of giant things which they set before us in the
stationery line. The display OF choice pupcrs and
envelopes by this house comprises every tasteful
shade and every style desired by refined people The
new French and English papers just rcccivcc are
really exquisite and no lady who secs them viii be
able to do without them. Tie styles of visiting;
cards and wedding invitations may he found i'll cor
rect designs at this establishment. The engraving Of
address dies on writing paper now feature Of this
house.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-16

The oppression growing out of religious
moderation in the old countries are strongly
indicated in the following paragraph, and
cannot but strike an American with aston
ishment:
"RelCious work outside of the Catholic line has to
he done with some circumSpectiOn i'll Ireland.
tract distributor at Dublin has been fined twenty
shillings or fourteen days imprisonment for having
the temerity to offer Roman Catholic priest hand
hin inviting him to meeting for friendly discus
sion of religious questions The case was appealed to
the Court of Queens Bench but without favorable re-
suit the decision there being that the act OF Offering
might have led 10 a breach of the peace The Pro-
testant cause must be progressing i'll Ireland else the
Catholics could afford to be little more tolerant and
less tOuchVn
Smyrna times., 1880-06-16

"The New York World shrcwdly remarks Perhaps
it is not altogether strange that man who does not
believe in God should believe i'll lHaire. 'ColOnel
Bobs' faith seems to be not so much lacking as ms
placed This is not only witty thrust but the state
Culous as your inveerate skepc. Only he is credit
lous in one direction and skeptical in another.
Shelly VINO rejected the supernatural i'll religion was
a firm believer in ghosts. And who could be more
credulous than those modern scientists who a6Jurc
Christianity because it makes two great uelhalus on
their faith but accept materiastiC theory of evolu
ton not only without proof but III the teeth Oh acS
Smyrna times., 1880-06-16

The bountiful wheat harvest means cheap
bread.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-16
MARRIAGES.

RITCIIIE-COCNCILL.--In FELTON,, on the 1st inst
by Rev. J. : Willis. Charles Etche and Miss Sarah
NJ. COunCilI, all of Kent county. Del.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-16
Smyrna Price Current, Juno Is, 1880.
GRAIN, &c
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.

Flour............SU0nS71 500 Chickens, young. GGGIS
NhC0t............ l.lj,G - Turkeys,
Corn, white. 81 EggS.........,.,.. II
yellow. .3ltr - Print ButtCr........ .21in %
iog AZ y. y. .ChcCsc..... II
Smyrna times., 1880-06-16

WnEN people become "wise above what
is written" they lay themselve open to
taking in the greatest vaGaries, as the fol-
lowing paragraph indicates:
Smyrna times., 1880-06-16

WANAMAKER & BROWN,
OAK HALL,
Sixth and Market streets
Philadelphia, Pa.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-16

1,Ont has new machinery and is better
boat than she has over been.
THE OPENING NIGHT AT COLLINS Beach,
BY one of those inadvertancies that will
creep in, the types made US say last week
that Mr.. Greves, the proprietor, would
open Collins Beach on Thursday July 18th,
when it should have been juno the 17th-
tomorrow. The error was however too ap-
parent to deceive any one. In addition to
those from this vicinity, the friends of this
house and the proprietor at Chester have
| chartered the steamboat Mary Norman for
an excursion down on the opening night.
! THEFT.-A negro man named Charles
Bradley, whom Mr.. Horace Spruance had
engaged to work for him few days before,
on Saturday night while his other fellow
laborers were asleep, stole from them
money to the amount Of between $50 and
$25 and clothes to the value of $50, and
decamped. A writ was served out before
Esquire Budd for his arrest and Constable
Weldon went to Wilmington to put the
officers there in search of him. Nothing
was learned of him, however, but he is
supposed to be somewhere in Now Castle
CO. lie was formerly employed at q hotel
in Harrington, and has bad character.
WOODLAND BEACH.-The "Grand Open.
ing" of Woodland Beach takes place on
Wednesday evening next with a chop
and Mr.. Millington the proprietor has been
putting the place in complete state ol
preparedness for Summer visitors. The
changes made here give it an entirely new
appearance and present it as one of the
most attractive places on the Bayside
The proprietors have spent it is said about
$4,000 in the addition of new buildings
the erection of new wharves and railroad
tracks and the laying out of new ground.
and walks. The grove near the hotel il
spoken of as a beautiful place of resort
fitted up with an especial view to make il
J attractive to city visitors.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-16

NH'I.l ; UIIT1 UWTf, DI.,
Jtup >, l>-1.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Rules For Health.

Never stand in the rain cistern all
night. 1t checks perspiration, and
spoils rainwater for washing purposes.
Never spank your children with a
handsaw, or box their ears with the
sharp edge of Ratchet, as it is apt to
effect the brain.
More than three pigs feet and half
a mince-pie eaten at midnight, will
not generally cause the consumer to
dream of hours paradise, accommo-
dating bankers, and other good things
at least they are not apt to do so.
To enlarge the mucles of the arms
and legs, climbing up and down the
chimney Especially if the house is a
four-storied one) three or four times
before breakfast, is a cheap exercise,
and gives voracious appetite.
Ear ache in children is common
and vexatious complaint. To cure it
at once, bore hole in the tympanum
with a gimlet and pour in oil and
things. If the child keeps on crying,
bore it all the way to the other ear.
Corns may be easily cured. The
most torturing corns can at once be
extirpated as follows: Take sharp
knife, and find the joint of the toe
whereupon the corn resides; insert the
knife in the articulation, cut off the
toe and throw it away. 1T will never
return again, unless your dog brings
it back to you in his mouth. Patent
applied for.)
The habit of drinking can be cured
by giving the drinkers all the liquor
they want to drink all the time. We
know of two in our own experience
who were cured in three weeks. One
jumped out of a fourth-story window
and ran curbstone into his head. The
other didn't get up one morning, and
now curbstone is growing over his
head in the graveyard.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Something for the New Year.

The world renowned success of Hostel
ter's Bitters. and their continued popular
ity for a quarter of century as stomachic.
is scarcely more wonderful than the wei,
come that greets the annual appearance OF
Hostetter's Almanac. This valuable med.
ical treatise is published by Hostetter &
Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa, under their own i'm.
mediate supervision, employing so hands in
that department. Ten cylinder printing
presses, folding machines, 5 Job presses
&c, are running about eleven months in
the year on this work, and the issue of same
for 1881 will not be less than eleven mil.
lions, printed in the English, German
French, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish, Hol-
land, Bohemian and Spanish languages
Refer to a copy of it for valuable and in
teresting reading concerning health, and
numerous testimonials as to the efficiency
of HOstetter's Bitters, amusement, varied
information, astronomical calculations and
chronological items, &c, which can be de.
pended on for correctness. The Almanac
for 1881 cansbe obtained free of cost, from
druggists and general dealers in all parts
of the country.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

Kansas City Price Current

han-as Olty Rrlce Current
There is, perhaps, no state in the I'm
ion whose general agriculture has ex-
pended more the past year than that of
Kansas. Despite the drouth, large
numbers of new corners have settled in
the state, and the acreage under cult
walton has been large. The last Quart
erly Report of the State Board of Ag-
riculture, for the quarter, ending Sept.
3Oth, makes most encouraging exhibit
of the states agricultural resources.
The report shows much labor and re-
search, and its author Hon. J. K. Hud-
son, secretary of the State Board of
Agriculture, has sent out a work that
must attract attention towards his
state and place its agriculture in its
true light before the public. Kansas,
in area is one of the largest states in
the west and has much diversity of
soil and climate. 1t has not been many
years since much of it was under the
domain of the buffalo and the Indians,
and farming had to be. prosecuted un-
der the most adverse circumstances.
Now how changed. The Indians and
the buffalo have been driven from its
borders, and railroads traverse all parts
of the state. It's population is 96,616,
and taxable land 23,386,435 acres, of
which $685., 1861 acres were under cul-
tiyation last year and 15,6SS,57 uncul-
tivated. Taxable wealth of the state
$50, 570,761. There was 1854, 1896
acres cultivated in corn this year,
against 2,995.070 in 1879-increase
559, 1876 acres. In winter wheat there
was this year 2,215,937 acres, and in
1879, l ,520,659 acres-increase 695, 278
acres. The area of spring wheat was
22S,4 acres this year, against 412, 139
last, a decrease of 1912 acres. The
rye crop was 81, 748 acres, against 1865
acres in 1879-increase of 1913 acres.
OF barley there was but little planted
this year, only IL, 121 acres, against A.
851 acres for 1873, (no report for 1879
There was also less oats planted this
year, there being Az, S27 acres report
ed, against 573,992 in 1879. In buck
wheat there was 2,671 acres this year.
Last year 2,812 acres. The Irish pota-
to crop reached &c, 238 acres this year,
against 62,601 acres last = increase
1862 acres. In sweet potatoes there
was 4,016 acres, and in 1879, 2,728-in-
crease 1,288 acres. OF sorghum there
were 81, 945 acres under cultivation this
year, compared with 23,664 last-in-
crease 9,281 acres. There was less
land in castor beans this year than last,
50,437 acres, last 68, 179 acres. Of flax
there were III, 1904 acres this year, last
90, 3S3-increase 59,421 acres. There
were 597 acres reported in hemp, 83S
acres in cotton, COZ acres in tobacco
The broom corn crop reached 24,191
acres, against 1923 acres in 1S79-in-
crease 1913 acres. There is an increase
in the area in millet and hungarian this
year, of 1886 acres; blue grass 2,09d
acres; clover meadow an increase OF
1868 acres; clover pasture, decrease
of 1,O8O acres; timothy pasture, de.
crease of 81 acres; timothy meadow, a
decrease of $3.50 acres; prairie mead
ow, an increase of LOG, $50 acres, and
prairie pasture, a decrease of 34,7O1
| acres
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Two Ways of Looking at Things.

New Haven Register
Two boys went to hunt grapes. One
was happy because they found grapes.
The other was unhappy because the
grapes had seeds in them.
Two men being convalescent were
asked how they were. One said, 81
am better to-day" Another: 81 was
worse yesterday"
When it rains one man says: "This
will make mud' Another: '"This
Will lay the dust"
Two children looking through colored
glasses; one said: 1.-THE world is blue, y
And the other said: at is bright"
Two boys eating their dinner; one
said, 81 would rather have something
other than this" The other said, "This
is better than nothing"
n servant thinks mans house is
principally kitchen. A guest, that it
is principally parlor.
81 am sorry that / live" says one
man. 81 am sorry that 1 must die, y
says another.
81 am glad" says one, ''that it is
no worse II am sorry," says another,
that it is no better"
One man counts everything that he
has gain. Another counts everything
else than he receives Il loss.
One man spoils good repast by
thinking of better repast of another
Another enjoys Il poor repast by con.
trusting it with none at all.
One man is thankful for his blessings
Anotheris morose for his misfortunes
One man thinks he is entitled to a
betterwOrld, and is dissatisfied because
he hasn't got it. Another thinks he is
not justly entitled to any, and is salts
fed with this.
One man makes up his accounts from
his wants. Another from his assets
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Pickle for Curing Meat.

y large amount of beef, pork, and
mutton is lost to farmers every season
by not being perfectly cured. Every
year large number of recipes are pub
lished in agricultural papers for curing
meat. some of which are valuable. Some
thirty years ago the Germantown Pa !
Telegraph published a recipe that was
tried by q large number of people and
highly commended. The next year il
was published with like results. where
upon the paper fell into the habit of
publishing it every season. and it claims
that no person has ever tried it for cur
ing feet, pork, mutton, tongues or hams
has ever afterward cured meat in anv
Sther manner satisfactory to himself.
Ihe following is reprint of the fam
Gus recipe:
To one gallon of Water take IL pounds
of salt, pound of sugar, ! ounce OF
saltpetre, ! ounce potash. Use only n
pure article of potash; if this cannot
be obtained, omit it altogether. In This
ratio the pickle can be increased TO any
quantity desired. Let these be boiled
together until all the dirt from the
sugar rises to the top and is skinned
of. Then throw it into atub to cool.
and when cold pour it over yoar beef
or pork. The meat must be well COW
cred with pickle. and should not be
put down for at least two DAYS after
killing, during which time it should be
slightly sprinkled with powdered salt.
petre, which removes all the surface
blood, etc. leaving the meat fresh and
clean. Some omit boiling the pickle
and find it to answer well, though the
operation of boiling purifies the pickle
by throwing off the dirt always to be
found IN saltand sugar. Ifthis recent
is strictly followed, it will require a
single trial to prove its superiority over
the common way, or most ways of put
tIng down meat, and will not soon he
abandoned for any other. The meat is
unsurpassed for sweetness. delicacy
and freshness of color.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

A ycar--it was only n wear ago
Here by the old stile where i stand
Here we met I'm the autumn glow,
Walked In the warm fields hand i'm hand.
There are the trees we passed between
All, God how easy IL Is TO recall!
How weary Il Is to feel the keen,
Calm truth that a.year ago has changed
II all!
Here Is the meadow we went across:
Here Is the hedge we pushed AWAY:
Even the golden buttercups toss,
rs N ~ had been but yesterday,
This Is the lime we sat beneath,
Shading, / think, the self-same heather
Inc flowers he pulled to bind me a wreath,
There, rs we rested close together.
know that your heart was mine then,
Roland, and you were as happy as
When we fingered here I'm the glen
fingered till stars came out i'm the sky.
Are you as happy now, Roland?
Are you as happy wherever you bel
only year-and you are wed,
And am alone by the green lime-trce.
Long ago, IL seems TO me now
. Far away was that tender time;
Roland, YOU have forgotten the vow
Which then y0u swOre TO me under the
lime
10u were crushing the seeded grass,
Crushing IL in your hand a. we sat;
only year agO-alasl
is 10, indeed, not more than that?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Utah Ahead of Us for Once.


bSnNef iflOuIc.
1t is hard to Guido Texas and New
Mexico on centipede stories, but for
once Utah has taken the lead. There
were several Mexicans in camp i'm the
southern part of that territory the 9TH
er day, and were lying about the fire,
when one of them, TeleStoro Crucase,
saw a large centipede, fully nine inches
long. travelling slowly over his leg.
knowing that the least motion would
make it sink its deadly claws into his
skin, without moving his leg he got his
revolver and waited until the beast had
almost reached his knee, when, slow
ly putting the mouth of the pistol to
Its head, he pulled and the centipede
was gomez But a centipede's claws are
quicker than gunpowder, and Crucase
began to have cramps in few min
utes. The track of the reptile along
his leg turned brOwnish yellow, and
the place. where it was killed swelled
He rapidly grew worse,
and in little over four hours died in
great agony. The most singular part
of the story is that the bullet from
Crucase's pistol cut small nick in the
foreleg of mule that was tethered
near by, and ut daylight next morning
the mule was also dead, with its leg SO
swollen that the skin had burst in sew
eral places.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Ague conqueror win Cure.

There is no disease or affection more
easily cured than the ordinary Fever and
Ague Of this country, and yet it is one OF
the most dreaded. In fact, in some per-
sens, Fever and Ague, Intermittirg, Re
uniting and kindred Fevers, if continued
bring on other diseases, which eventually
prove very difficult to cure, and sometimes
result in death. The Ague Conqueror,
although vegetable preparation, contain
ing no poison, has never failed to cure any
case of Ague within eur knowledge, and
the chills do not return during that season.
Price so cents and $1.0O per bottle. To
it will require a S1.O0 bottle to cleanse the
system and leave the Liver and other
organs in healthy condition., so that the
chills will not return. Sold by all drug
gists and dealers everywhere.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Piiesl Pilesl Piiesl--A Sure Cure Found
at Iast--No One Need Suffer.

4 sure cure for the Blind, Bleeding, Itch
ing and liberated Piles has been discovered
by DIR. Williams Gan Indian remedy,
called DIR. Williams Ointment. A single
box has cured the worst chronic cases of
% and 80 years standing. No one need
suffer five minutes after applying this
wonderful soothing medicine. Lotions,
instruments and Electuaries do more harm
than good. Williams Ointment absorbs
1particniariy at night after getting warm
in bed), act as a poultice, gives instant and
painless relief, and is prepared only for
Piles, itching Of the private parts, and
nothing else
Read what the Hon. J. M. Coffinberry, of
Cleveland, says about DR.. Williams In
dian Pile Ointment: have used scores of
pile cures, and it affords me pleasure to
say that | have never found anything
which gave such immediate and permanent
relief as DIR. Williams Indian Pile Oint-
ment. For sale by all druggists, or mailed
DAVIES, Props, CLEVELAND, o.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

Kidney-Wort is remedy which re-
moves foul humors from the blood, and
creates healthy action in every organ.
Torpid kidneys and liver lead to gravel,
diabetes, constipation, piles and rheuma-
tism. Kidney-Wort is the surest and
safest remedy to use.-Rocky Most,,-
tain NelOS.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
One Experience from MANY.

Il had been sick and miserable so long
and had caused my husband so much tron.
BILE and expense, and no one seemed to
ly disheartened and discouraged. In this
frame of mind l got bottle of Hop Bit
tiers and used them unknown to my fam
lily. l soon began to improve, and gained
so fast thatmy husband and family thought
it strange and unnatural, but when told
them what had helped me they said "Hurrall
for Hop Bitters long may they prosper, for
py.'-The MOther.-HOme Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
A Big Crane.

The largest crane in the world is
nearing completion at Woolwich arse
nal Two Thousand tons of iron were
employed In its construction, and it
covers a quarter of an acre. Four
years have been consumed In its manu-
facture. 1t win lift Standardization
guns. and one man can oparate it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

Women that have been pronounced in
durable by the best physicians in the coun-
try, have been completely cured of female
weakness by the use of LYDIA Z. PINK
HAMS VEGETABLE COMPOUND. )Send to
Mrs. Lydia Z. Pinkham. 233 Western Ave
nue, Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

What sweet recollections mingle with
that sound. Home, the sanctuary of
the soul, the altar around which are
the sweetest affections, flowing from
hearts all unused to selfishness; the
nursery of heaven-born friendship. the
harbor to which we fly when the storms
Oh adversely arise, and the mad waves
Oh iste's ocean, dashed to fury, threaten
to ingulf our frail bark.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

swine is mocker, and strong drink is
raging. Take PRICKLY ASH BITTERs. II
is not a beverage, but a~remedy for all i'll
effects of an excess of Intoxicating stimu.
lants. Don't take drink before breakfast
lust to wake You up" because you feel sc
stupid and languid. You arc sure to feel
worse as soon as the effect wears off. Take
half a wine glass of PRICKLY ASH BIT.
TIERS. 1t will brighten you up for the
whole day.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Mrs. GeneraI Sherman

Says: 81 have frequently purchased Du-
rang's Rheumatic Remedy, for friends suf-
fering with rheumatism, and in every in
stance it worked like magic" 1t will cure
4O-page pamphlet to r. K. Helpbenstine
Druggist, Washington, d. c.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Conover Brothers.

No. 613 Main street, Kansas City, will
offer this month the best bargains in their
new patent upright pianos; also, Steinway,
Gabler, Kranich 81 Bach, and Fischer, and
the Burdett and Conover Bros organs,
music books, music boxes, all kinds of
small instruments ever offered in the mar
ket. Before purchasing send for their
SPECIAL PRICES.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

LADY, IF you WISH TO RENDER your
skin as white and soft as that of Diana of
Poicticrs IS said to have been, use GLENN's
SULPHUR SOAP, which is healthful beau
tifier and not perniciOuS cosmetic.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

A book to be advertised next week as a
free gift entitled Medical Common Sense, >
by DIR. n. Il. Wolfe, of Cincinnati, is work
that will interest all afflicted with Con-
sumption, Asthma and Catarrah.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

have no more doubt of the beneficial eff
fects of Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure than have that the Genesee river
empties into Lake OntariO.-ReU. j. f..
Rankin. ID. d., JVdShin1tOn, ID. c.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16
Terrible Loss of Life.

Millions oferatS, mice, cats, bed-bugs,
reaches, lose their lives by collision with
Trough on Rats Sold by Druggists. 15c
boxes
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

Uncle Sans Harness Oil fills and closes
the pores of leather, thus effectuallv pre-
venting the entrance of dampness, duss, &c,
and rendering the harness soft and pliable.
at the same time increasing its durability,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

Ward off Agle, Bilious fever and many
other ills, by taxing few doses of Eilertis
Daylight Liver Pills. Have you no rest,
mind i'll at ease, body seldom free from pain,
these sugar coated pills viii bring relief and
make you well again.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

Walking made very easy with Lyons
Heel Stite2ers ttAhe es keep your boots and
! SHOES straight.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1880-12-16

Peevish children have worms. DIR. Jaque's
Germany mCakes will destroy the worms
and make the children happv.