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Smyrna times., 1880-06-02
The Fair Sex.

Chicago bellies wear dressy ulsters faced
with cherry scarlet silk.
The "Society for Promoting Female We'll
fare" is a London charity.
Rev. Dr. Swing expects "the coming
ideal woman to be being infinitely sweet
and sweetly infinite"
AS soon as it becomes too warm for a
young lady to wear cloth hat, she begins
to think of wearing flannel dresses.
Boston young lady has trained her
Scotch terrier to come into the parlor at 10
o'clock on Sunday evening and bark at her
gentlemen friends.
Mrs. NJ. Pike is said to be the first woman
who ever started a daily paper in England.
She is the publisher and proprietor of the
Derby Daily Telegraph.
The word "dear" is one of the greatest
inventions in the English language. Every
married man can say, "my dear wife" and
no one can tell just exactly what he means.
A Boston mother makes her daughter walk
the room half an hour daily carrying a jar
of water on her head, SO as TO give as erect
and graceful carriage as eastern woman
have.
Mrs. Sallie Wilder, who reached her hun
dredth year in January last, entered with
zest into the mild enjoyment of a church
strawberry festival in Pittsfeld, Ohio, last
week.
A woman who has been seventeen years
a clerk in the Treasury Department writes
to q Cincinnati paper that women clerks in
Washington regularly do mems work for
half of mems pay.
A beautiful widow of Newport, R. l..
having let her chalet for the season, was
asked what induced her to desert such g
charming retreat. "Too much balcony
and too little Romeo" was her roply.
The Princess of the Asturias, the eldel
sister of the King of Spain, is a woman o
such strong character and executive forc'
that Alphonso is reported to be accustomed
to call her My brother in petticoats."
Among the late arrivals at the Bridge
port cutlery shops are three Swedish
women, who wear short dresses, stout boots
and do the regular blacksmith work, havin
been trained to that occupation in thsi
native country.
Mrs. Algernon Sartoris is now in Londol
and is looking extremely pretty. Her littl
girl has been named Vivian. A prettie
group can hardly be imagined than tina
formed by the fair and girlish mother an
her two charming children.
Lady Cowper, the wife of the new Lor
Lieutenant of Ireland, is described as al
: accomplished sportswoman, few men bein
! able to throw trout or salmon fly wit
more dexterity. And rifle in hand she ha
proved herself an excellent huntress.-
, TolkcrS Statesman.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02
Burdette on Commercial Travellers.

What would do without the "boys ?"
How often they have been my friends. |
90 to a new town. | don't know one hotel
from another. / don't know where to GO.
The man with the samples gets off at the
same station. | follow him without a word
or q tremor. He calls to the bus driver by
name and orders him to "get out of this
now," as soon as we are seated. And when
follow him | am inevitably certain to 60
to the best house there is in the place. He
shouts at the clerk by name, and fires
joke at the landlord as we 60 in. He looks
over my shoulder as l register after him,
and hands me his card with n shout of
recognition. lie peeps at the register
again, and watches the clerk assign me to
98. "Ninety nothing" he shouts, "who's
in 15?" The clerk says he is saving Is for
Judge Dryrsdust. "Well, he be blowed," !"
says my CHEEKY friend, "give him the attic
and put this gentleman in l5." And if the
clerk hesitates he seizes the pen and gives
me 10 himself, and then he calls the porter,
orders him to carry up my baggage and put
o fire in l5, and then, in the same breath,
adds: "What time will you be down to
supper, Mr.. Burdette?" and he waits for
me, and, seeing that am a stranger in the
| town, he sees that am cared for, and the
walters do not neglect me. He tells me
about the town, the people and the bust
ness; he is breezy, CHEEKY, sociable, full oI
new stories, always good.natured: he frisk'
with cigars and overflows with Thousand
mile tickets;" he knows all the best rooms
i'm all the hotels; he always has key fol
the car seats, turns scat for himself and
his friends without troubling the brake
man, but he will ride on the wood box oil
stand outside to accommodate n lady, or hC
will give his seat to an old man. | know
him pretty well. For three years / have
been travelling with him, from Colorado tC
Maine, and have seen the worst and tho
best of him, and known the best far out
weighs tho worst. could hardly get along
without him, and am glad he is numer
| nna.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

When q oensus.ta taker asks maiden lady's
age and she asks if he is the man who was
around ten years ago he should say eyes"
II is desirable that the records should be as
near correct as possible.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

Now is the season when the youth who
has written n good commencement essay
after four months hard work thinks him
self qualified to get up leading editorials of
the same length in three.quarters of an
hOur.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

AN AMERICAN VOLCANo.-Italy has its
vesuvius; America has its Colima. This
volcano is near the Pacific coast. and
directly West of the city of Mexico. 1t was
in active eruption in the fore part of May.
The eruption at night was full of spiIendor
and grandeur. Bright, lurid flames shot up ?
from the crater of the volcano, illuminating
the darkness for miles around. Ineandes'
cent stones were thrown up, together with
showers of ashes, which darkened the at
mosphere in daytime. The fire, smoke,
ashes, and stones were accompanied with
dreadful subterranean thunde1ings and
friehtful and unearthly noises under the
volcano, together with quakings of the
earth. Inhabitants of villages and towns
in the vicinity of the mountain were In
state of panic and wild terror. They are,
indeed in danger in case of flow OF lava;
Colima is $4,000 feet high, and forms the
southwestern extremity OF mountain cham
traversing Mexico from East to West. Pre-
yious to 1869 it was supposed to be extinct.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02
Splinters,
Another rise in dust

Another rise in dust.
Strawberries and creaml
This is the iceman's harvest
Our prettiest girls wear no wells.
Among the lore classes: Students.
Put not your trust in-speculation.
Man has science woman has taste.
Boarding school: A carpenter shop.
A man is known by the diary he keeps.
Coal stocks are tumbling; but coal is THAR
A cure for corns: Priest turned chiropo-
dist.
A red bonnet and a salmon featherl
Whew
Josh Billings got by "that strange spell,
q name"
The thermometer now has an uphill
time of it.
Sermon in stones must be of the hard
shell variety.
A young man in love is easily overcome
by lassietude.
In Leadville a man often has wealth in
his nine'seye.
The hall thief is polite man when he
Gifts the hat.
There must be q great many shoots in a
park of artillery.
What is there in lemon meringue pies to
make people sick?
"True worth, like the rose, will blush at
its own sweetness"
Of all the work that produces results,
nine.tenths of it is drudgery.
The sand lot hoodlums are best expressed
by leaving the out of sand.
An auctioneer can never have his own
way, he is compelled to as others bid.
Why can't the groves and fields be made
musical by the notes of English skylarks?
To dream of finding money betokens
that it is easier to dream than to work for
it.
"There is no fool like an old fool" says
an exchange, except the young fool who
marries him.
Self-respect is properly said to be the
first stage in all reformation-a fact never
~ oS AOSO olSAN VI ny I0lOIhSIs'
A man who is always behind not merely
incurs great disadvantages himself, but he
subjects others to inconvenience.
SEASIDE AND GLEN.-Delaware Water Gap
is open and receiving guests.
The bicycle riders will join in the Deco
ration Day procession at Newport.
1t is satisfactory to know just now that
snow is disappearing from the White Noun
tains.
The exodus to Europe will make many
changes as to cottagers at the various water
ing places.
The future prosperity of Niagara Falls
will, it is said, depend upon the Interna-
tional Park.
The largest private dwelling in Atlantic
City is the Disston villa, which has cost
about $4,000.
The Little Wanderers summer home
Cottage City, will be ready about the 1st of
July. 1t will afford shelter to about sixty.
Atlantantic City is to have a Board of
Health, its chief duty being to take charge
of the mosquitoes, of which few die and
mono resign.
The North Atlantic Improvement Com
pany is building twelve fine cottages at
Brigantine Beach, which is to be called
North Atlantic City.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

Robert N. Moore of Media, Pa, claims
that he can take the editorial page of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger and the advertis-
ing page following it, and in "a hours can
repeat il line for line without mistake.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

"Don't marry man if he drinks" un.
less you are an adept at taking in washing
and are sure that all your friends will pa
tronize you.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

Bicycle riding shouldIbe encouraged, for
it is conducive to temperance. A man may
travel in carriage or on horseback and
stop at every wayside inn, but no one ever
heard of q man coming home drunk on a
hinvcla
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

RUSSIA AND CHINA.-War between Russia
and China has begun since April to put on
an air of reality. 1t was at first predicted
in England and Germany that Russia would
act on the defensive, and content herself
with simply maintaining armed possession
of Kuldja, repelling any attempt by the
Chinese to retake it. General Skobeleff,
whom dispatches name as the probable
commander.in.chiefo on the frontier, is not
likely to be selected to carry out defen-
sive policy. The ships of war which were
built for Russia last year in Philadelphia
are ordered to the Chinese shores.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

When man drops an orange or banana
psel on the sidewalk the natural supposi-
ton is that he expects his mother.in.law
along that way shortly.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

Some ladies in Charleston, S. c., still
wear mourRing for the lost cause. They
drive out in close carriages, and seldom
walk the streets for fear of meeting "Those
horrid Yankees"
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

Some families who boast of having bibles
from fifty to one hundred years old will
wear out novel in six months.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

With William Black, the novelist, the
writing Of stories is business. He is
shrewd, practical and quick. He has a
second wife. At Brighton he has a beauti-
full house, which overlooks the ocean. He
makes about $685. 900 year from his writ
ings. lie does not depend upon pub
Usher for percentage; he gives one to a
publisher.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

Prince Leopold arrived in this country ON
Sunday and is now visiting his sister, Prin,
cess Louise.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

Water sells for s cents gallon in Can.
delaria, Nevada. When it gets up to cts.
q glass some of the people will probably
become interested enough to taste it.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

The streets Of Philadelphia are to be
swept by conviots.
Smyrna times., 1880-06-02

Dramatic success is rule that works
Booth ways.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-07
A RUIN OR LOSS.

A loss Of bodily tissue, greatly in excess
Of the natural daily waste which taxes
place in the heallhiest physical and mental
structure, and but for which waste life and
youth might be indefinitely prolonged, is
entailed upon those whose vital powers are
weak and nervous eys' em fragile. To arrest
,hia ,uinons los and brace the system. .
course Of Hos,e,iers Stomach Bitte,s il the
proper agent. Tone to the nerves. vigor
and regularity to the diges,ive organ, a, d
liver are among the boons conferred upon
the dehili,ated aud sick Of both sexes by
this ineatimabls medicine, which more than
any known tonic tends 10 check the pro
gr~as Of unnatural aud premature decay,
Sleep. renewed rcli.h for food, are both oh
,aincd BY the nervous and dy-,sp pic
Though in n.e. which ia alec the means %
inusiae the syssen 10 encounter safeiv NAL
arious atmospheric influence.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12
THE FOLLIES OF ORGANS

From the North American, Rep.
Republicans are very foolish who
try to make capital for their party by
assailing the character of General Han
cock. They do more hahn than good
all the time. They are friends of the
bird from whom intelligent Republ:-
cans will pray to be saved. A goo
many foolish things have been said
about General Hancock's letter to
General Shermanin the winter of 1876.
Now that the full text of that letter
has been published, exactly how foolish
those things were is made apparent.
jealous but discreet adherents of Gar
held and Arthur cannot be impressed
too strongly with the fact that General
Hancock's record is simply unassaila-
BILE. They waste powder and shot
when they train their battries against
it. Attack should be directed against
the weak points of an enemy's defens-
es, not against those which are invul
nerable.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12

from that. Again, the young men are
largely coming to us, | mean those
who will cast their first vote this fall.
Clubs are rapidly forming IN large num-
bers, We have, present company ex-
cepted, the best possible State ticket.
Judge Trumbull will have the united
democratic support. He has the pro-
found resp ect of all men for his great
abilities and spotless character. Many
Greeley republicans who went back to
the republican party, as we'll as many
other republicans will support him.
All of the ticket is very popular. We
rely greatly upon alarg er vote than we
cast in '76. Our voting population
then was scarcely less than Ohio, yet
we cast 110,000 less than THAT state.
In 80 Hayes had less than 1000 over
all. And about 10000 only over Til
den. Cooper's vote was about l7,0C0;
two thirds of that is likely to come to
us. We think we can get out many
more than the republicans Of the vote
got out in '76.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12
The Ofaceholders' STRUGGLES.


Those who imagine that the Pres
idential election will not be tremend'
Gus struggle on the Republican side are
entirely mistaken.
No doubt the Republican party is
greatly broken TIE discords in it,,
ancient and modern, the quarrels
among leaders, and the prevailing dis
satisfaction toward the candidates, are
fragrant and notorious. Nevertheless,
in November the party will make a
supreme effort to retain the possession
of power.
What will chiefly give vitality and
energy to this effort Is the desire of the
oflicehelders to keep their places. There
are a hundred thousand OK them, ut
least, and every one is heartily unwil-
ling to be deprived of public employ
ment and public pay.
Inanyrepublican system, thestrength
of the ofTiceholders is apt to be such as
to make it difficult to defeat the party
in power and change the adminstra-
ton; and yet the people ought to be
sufficient for such difficulty.
This time it is a square contest be-
tween the people and the offlcehold
ers.-N. Y. Stm.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12
LOdge & Society Directory.

Millheim Lodge, No. 955, I. O. O. f. meets In
heir hall, Penn Street, every saturday evening
Rebecca Degree Meeting every Thursday on
or before the full moon ef each month. =
A a DFINTNGER Sec II. q. DEININGER, n. q
Providence Grange, No. 2l7 p. of H., meetSin
Alexander's block ON the second saturday OF
each month at 6lS. r. NJ, ana on the fourth Sa-
turlay of each month mt IL 2. VI.
d T. sZEREY. Sec. A. q. Deininger, Master,
The Millheim Il. & l.. Association meets IN
the Penn sfreet school house on the evening OF
the second Monday of each month.
a WAITER. Sec, ID. O. DEENfE6ER, PreSt.
The Millheim Cornet Band meets in the
Town Hall on Monday and Thursday evenings.
i. =. OTTo, Sec. D. r HAKFEK' freS l.
Mnlheim Escort of Co. r., 5th Kegt, n. G..
old their drill meeting on the second story OF
Alexander's Block, every Tuesday and Friday
evening.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12

Washington d. G. August 7th 1880.
I have been looking for some of the
improvements In civil service alleged
TO haye been made by this administra-
tion, and do not find them. 1t is easy
to see, however, that, even if a few of
the changes made by Mr.. Hayes and
his Cabinet officers are good ones, the
succession by General Garfield and his
Cabinet would restore all that was evil
under Grant and inaugnrate new in
iquities. 1t has been and is believed
that the Interior Department was the
price paid tY Mr.. Hayes for the support
of Schu rz in 1916, ard that some hun
ireds of people with bad reputation
were rewarded with Office for their par
ticipation in the Louisiana and Florida
frauds. But Mr.. Hayes, prior 10 the
November election of 1876, did not os-
tentatiouslY put himself in personal
communication with the disgranted
politicians Of his party. Mr.. Schurz
was compelled to seek Mr.. Hayes at
the latter's home in Ohio, and although
old Simon Cameron says that Hayes
came to Senator Don Cameron, "whin-
ing and impecunious, and received a
scheck for $4,000, very few believe it.
AT any rate, Mr.. Hayes did not travel
~ Nor, Nrorly 20 vnaat ono hundred
principal capitalists, who had pledged
themselves to contribute the campaign
funds. No, the course OF Hayes as a
candidate was more decent. than that
of Garfield has been so far. III were
toiudge what we should have an all
ministration under the latter, should
say it would combine the kind of high
way robbery that flourished under
Grant. Jack Chandler, and the rest,
and the hypocricy which everybody
knows has characterized official author
ity for the three years and a half, last
past. Happily the indications are
that no; Mr.. Garfield, nor the purchas
ed politicians, nor the one hundred
capitalists will have the direction o
affairs for the four years from Marcl
next.
1t is to be hoped no Mexican will be
alarmed at the reported ''invasion o.
Mexico" by General Dalrymple's for
ces. The General like the old fashion
ed army musket, is more dangerous to
the person behind it than to the one in
front. lie has no more practical sense
than Secretary Schmz, nor for tha
matter, any more skill in military af
fairs.
To-day, the first stone of the new
work on the Washington Monument
will be laid. The work will then pro
ceed regularly until the Monument i:
completed, according to the oligina
design. The necessary money is insur.
ed.
CARROLL.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12

1t costs money to represent the hon
est republican farmers of Lancaster
county in congress. The republican
county committee has assessed the
Hon. A. Herr Smith 81, 200 for his
share of the campaign expenses. If he
does not pay up the committee have
power to take his name from the ticket.
In district that gives republican
majority of five or six thousand it
might be supposed that republican
candidate for congress could be elected
without being subjected to so heavy
an assessment.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12

Th9 Snyder county Democratic Con.
vention assembled in the Court House
on Monday, at 2 P. NJ. and put i'll NOM
nation The following ticket.
Congress Edward Bassler,
Senate-Hon. S. II. Wolverton,
AssembIY-Azariah Krooser,
Co. Surveyor-William III. Meyer.
Chairman of Committee, William IL,
Snyder, Esq. of Penn.
Mr.. 3assler is the friend of Hon. Il.
Milton Speer. and the naming of Bas'
sler will result in the nomination OF
Mr.. Speer In the 18th district.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12

"A DNiiNlS lRAlORS SALE The under
N signed administrator of the estate of
Peggy Bright, late of AaronSburg, Sdeceased,
Will sell at public sale on the premises, on Mon
day. August 10th, 1850, all the interest of deced-
ehtin the following real estate, viz:
ACERTArN LOT or GROUND WITH HOUSE
Thereon, situate I'm said Aaronsburg, adjoining
land of \. a. Confer, Lutheran graveyard,
public road and alley, containing about one
fourth acre.
Also, A PIECE or LAND at AarOns burg, nd
joining lands OF Israel Weaver, George Bright
and James p. Coburn, containing about three
and a half acres
Sale to commence at one o'clock of said day
when terms will be made known by
GEORGE BRIGHT,
Administrator.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12

One of the most urgent demands of
our timeis system ofeducatian which
shall train the young to apply their
school learning. At the Pennsylvania
State College practical instruction in
Agriculture, Horticulture. Botany 10.
olOgy, Mechauist, Chemistry, etc; is
given, and thus theory in The class room
is applied aud enforced by experience
in the field and laboratory. Spring SEES
sion opens April 9th. For catalogue
and full information address the Bust
ness Manager, State College, Centre
Co., Pa. If
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12
The Prospect in Indiana.

Senatar Mcdonald, of Indiana, who
was in New York on Tuesday, said to
World reporter, that the campaign is
not yet fo. mally opened in Indiana,
but that very large nuuber of Han
cock clubs have sprnng up sponUane-
ously throughout the state. The for
NAL opening of the campaign will be on
August ii, on which day meetiegs will
be held iu every county in the state.
EX Governor Hendricks will speak at
Fort Wayne, Senator VOORHEES, at
Bowling Green, Senator Mcdonald at
Mount Vernon in the morning and at
Evansville in the evening, and Judge
Claypole at Richmond; Joseph Pulitzer
will also speak at Indianapolis in reply
to Carl Schurz. After this universal
opening of the canvass throughout che
state, the speakers will go frem place
to place. and there will be meetings al
most daily in every county in the state.
The Senator expresses absolute conn
dence in a democratic victory in Indi
ana. He says the organization is per-
feet in the party in the state, and that
Mr.. English is personally directing
the canvass with great industry and
ability. The majority in October will
be, he says, at least equal to Tilden's,
$500, and he hopes it will be double
shat. When asked his opinion of Gen.
Hancock's letter to Sherman Senator
Mcdonald replied:
ST was an inspiration. So entirely
free from any personal or partisan in-
tluence or design, it cannot fail to have
a very great influence.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12
Cheering Prospects in Illinois

Lewis B. Parson, Of Illinois, who,
with other state candidates, is visiting
all sections of the state, writes from
Joliet on the Goth of July that:
We have now been in eight congr5s
sional districts and have seen repres-
entatiye men from over fifty counties.
We find the universal tone better than
we expected or ventured to hope for.
Never since 40 have we seen the like
of it, and then it was on the other
side. Everywhere there is hope, en-
tnusiasm and determination. No one
seems to doubt our ability to carry the
national ticket, and the feeling is grow
ing general that we can elect our state
ticket, and wi.lefght for it. The green :
back democrats are falling into line
largely, while the republican greenback.
ers h)ld on to the greenback party.
Iu southern Illinois we shall not suffer
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-08-12

In Erie county the democrats have
nominated fol state senator Colonel
John w. Walker, son of the Hon.
John II. Walker, deceased, who was
president of the late constitutional
convention and distinguished repub-
lican of the state. Colonel Walker
served with galIdntry in the Union ar
my and enjoys great personal popular
1ty in Erie county.