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planning of feeling i'll. His mother
gave him a bath and laid him in bed.
He went to sleep, ard when his father
came in lie went to see him. Said he
Harry, are You sick, dear?'
I" les, be some sick. ice Seavy's
gone to heaven, an I'm eoin' too
Nellie is too; she said SO.
You must not say such things, my
little boy"
"Oh, yes, Nellie an me is goin' up
to heaven; then we can sing and play
all we want to. papa?'
What is it, my SOM"
when you WAS little boy like ne,
didn't you play and talk p
Yes, my SON."
"Tken why is you so mad cause we
play?'
George, conscience-stricken did not
know what to say.
Papa p
"What DEAR"
When me AMI sister goes up to
heaven will you let Georgy and baby
play, and mamma and Elsie, too q
Oh, my dear boy, am not going
to let you and sister go to heaven now
You must wait until papa and mamma
60 first. l am going now to bring the
doctor. You must lie still and be good,
and the doctor will make you all WE'LL
The doctor came; shook his head
pronounced it case of scarlet fever
with very bad symptoms. He warned
the mother to keep the other children
away from him. She did so, but feared
for little Nellie, as they had been much
together, and were OF the same temper
ament. Harry grew delirious during
the night, and was never conscious
again until he died, on the night of the
fifth day. Just before he passed away he
called, Sc Nellie, sister, come = and laid
! down his little curly head to raise it no
more on earth. One more cherub was
added to the heavenly choir.
Two days before Harry died, Nellie
fell i'll with the same disease. AT first
the doctor had some hopes of her, but
they we're soon dissipated. She lived but
week longer than Harry. And the two
little blossoms were buried in one
grave, and Joined little Joe Seavy in
the heaven of celestial Joy and har-
money.
OOT ESSlllo UuIlCu uSr UClOFeu OuGS
out of sight like one without feeling;
her faculties seemed paralyzad. Her
husband seemed nearly distracted with
grief and regret-grief for the loss of
the little ones, and remorse for happi-
ness he had denied them. The next day
Nellie became i'll, and for many weeks
she lowered on the brink of the grave;
but through her husbands prayers and
kind attention, and naturally good
constitution, she began to recover, and
finally came back to take up the burthen
of life. Surely her husbands home
was quiet enough now for even him, for
it was long time before her merry
voice rang out in songs of joy and
praise.
George became changed man. His
words and actions were dictated by
kindness. He became gentle and low
ing with his wife and children. Since
then God has blessed them with other
children, but his heart yearns toward
the two little treasures that sleep to-
gether in the qaiet graveyard, whose
spirits are singing songs Of praise be-
fore the throne of the Lamb for ever
and ever.--[Selected.
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Capacity for Sleep.

Public men, subjected to severe
mental strain BY exhausting duties,
learn to sleep anywhere and at any
time. Napoleon once slept for an hour
in the middle Of a battle, with the roar
of artillery about him. Brougham
slept for twenty four hours at the close
of an exciting week in the court
room.
A story told of William Pitt, when
Prime Minister of England, exhibits
this facility.
A mutiny had broken out on a ship
of war, and the mutineers had i'm
prisoned Admiral Colpoice, and threat
ened him with death unless their
grievances were redressed. 1t was
feared that the example would become
contagious, and the mutiny become
general. !"
Several members of the Cabinet, led
by Lord Windham, went in dismay to
Pitts house for counsel. He was
asleep, but they forced their way to his
chamber and reused him.
The great statesman sat mp in bea
heard their exciting story. and wrote
calmly
/" II Admiral Colpoice is not given
up, fire upon the ship from the batteries
I'M til she is destroyed"
He then lay down on his pillow, and
was snoring before his surprised collesg-
ues hadleft the room. They could not
understand how sleep was possible
in such an emergency.
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A Winter Sunset.

lis sunset, and these winiry skies
Look soft and fair as those OF May:
4 rosy light along them lies,
The blush OF the fast-fad!ng day.
The portals Of the glowing west
Wear every hue tina; nature weaves,
To welcome our departing guest
Whom the glad earth in silence leaves.
And now the gray shadows drop adown
Tie sombra hills, the woods and streams
And silence falieth like crown
Cpon the days tumul.uous dreams.
There is no voice of bird, no sound
OF falling waters, rustling leaf,
But stiffness as II peace profound
Had banished toll and hushed each grief
oh, sunset hour, what memories throng,
To I'll thy presence brief and bright,
TIL all OF trial, pain and wrong,
Fade in thy gentle, healing light.
And other eyes aud far-otr skies,
And voices sweet a; angels song
Blend with the countless harmonies
Tha, 10 this hallowed time belong.
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I'unctuaIity.

Some one defines punctuaIity 70 lie
! " fifteen minutes before tie time. At
any rate, i. is not one minute after TIE
time.
must tell you ar &nccdote Of the
first marquis OF Abercorn IL invited
number Of friends to dinner. The
| hour for dinner was five, and all those
invited knew it, OF course. Well, the
hour arrived and but ore of the guests
had come. Down sat the marquis aud
this one guest TO the table. The mar
quis was panctual, if only one Of the
others was. BY and by another guest
dropped in, and was very much morti-
fed to find dinner being eaten. And
one by one the rest came, and were
likewise mortified. But the marquis
had taught them all e good lesson, and
l venture 70 say that the next time they
were invited none of thcal got in to the
coffee only, bat were on hand for soup.
General Washington waa so very pune
tual that on one occasion, some friends
who were expecting him at certain
hour on finding that he had not arrived,
all concluded that their watches must
have got wrong; and sure enough they
had, for Washington soon came, and
was not minute late. No doubt his
habits OF punctUality helped to make
him the great man that he was. knew
a clergyman who once threw himself
into the Mississippi river aNd swan
eighteen miles down stream to keep an
appointment for afternoon services. I
Travelled through the upper Mississippi
region shortly after, and for hundreds
of miles from tue place where he lived,
out toward the border, heard of his
great feat. The border men respected
such man, aud called him 4" the min
lister who made the big SWIM"
Nor is any one too young to begin the
cultivation of punctuality. The boy
who is on time at school, on time in
class, on time when sent on an crraud,
and SO on, is apt to be the punctual
business or professional man. The
habit of prompiness is likely to cling
all through life.
Some persons, on the contrary, go all
through life in a slip-shod, down at the
heel way. and never prosper. They get
to wedding as people are coming oil.
They are late at church; don't meet
their notes, 60 10 protest, and are in
trouble generally.
Washington's way was the best. Tho
Marquis of Abercorn was il the right.
That Mississippi Clergyman did nobly.
And these three are good examples for
our boys and girls to follow. Never be
behind time, ana if you can, oe little
ahead Of it, and you will never repent
of the habit Of ruuctual;ty. - Golden
DAYS,
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The Persian Shah.

In . recent lecture delivered in New
York, by Mr.. Forbes. the famous war
correspondent of the London NelcS, the
Sunh ut Persia vas thus spoken Of:
THO sh.bbiost mi5crcant that ever
imposed on the European pulpit, the
gaudie5t fraud IL this century of gaudy
frauds, was the Shah OF Persia. He
Was sent 10 Europe as an advertise neEt
to assist III raising money.
He vas we'll treated in st. Peters
burg, given y cold welcome in i ,rlin,
because he spAt upon the Emperor
Augustus dress. and he Was raved
about ia E'glauJ. lI9 had diamond,
pearl, ruby, amethyst ana emerald
coats, and the gems were all shams
quietly made in Paris u year before his
arrival.
lie offered rewards for mystical gems
lost from his horses tails. He and his
suite befouled Buckingham Palace SO
that it is hardly wholesome yet.
He patroni2al tue Princess Of Wales
and Czirina of Russia, keeping them
waiting in Covert Garden. Visiting u
Manchester cotton-mill, five hundred
girls sang hymn OF welcom", ana he
wanted to buy of the proprietor al his
female live stock.
His saloon carriage travelled free On
most railroads, bat when payment was
demanded on one, tho Shah was found
short of money, and he pal in Jewels,
afterwards found bogus. lie dairauded
London and Paris jewellers, aad ESQ.,
900 were expended in welcoming him
in England.
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Scientific Miscellany.

According to Mr.. Alexander Buchan,
thunder has been heard in Iceland in
only twenty-three hours during the last
fourteen years.
Prof. TAFT of Eidnburg, estimates
that the energy developed in the form
of heat by fall of only one.tenth of
an inch of rain over the whole of Great
Britain is equivalent to the work of a
million millions of horses for half an
hour.
Investigations by A. Muller show
that the fresh leaves of sugar.bses con-
tain four Fer cent of oxalic acid, one
third in soluble form. When it is
considered how great are the quantities
of these leaves eaten by cattle where
the beet sugar is made, farmers should
be on their guard, as the acid induces
Inflammation of the stomach.
An observatory, with fourteen tele-
scopes, is opened in Paris for the free
use of the public. It has room for
the microscopical observations during
the daytime.
A cloth for polishing metal is manu-.
featured in France under the name of
ser0iette nagique. 1t consists of small
pieces of wooden cloth saturated with
soap and tripoli colored with fuchsion.
Medical Investigation shows that
some OF the occupations for children at
kindergarten schools are injurious to
the sight. Among these are the prick
ing OF holes over tracing on paper,
braiding bright colored bands of paper,
and sewing fine silk upon tracings.
Edison now thinks he has struck it.
He is putting up hundreds of electric
lamp posts all over Menlo Park, and
means to test his light on a gigantic
scale. His company has mapped out
New York city into circuits, and the in
PRODUCTION of the Edison light will be
rapidly carried forward as soon as his
experimental lights are in sure opera
ton. He now uses bamboo fibre for
his incandescent arc, which will last
Eonths, when new lamp will take the
place OF the used.up one at cost Of
~ cts. The present form OF his
lamp Is more awkard than the former,
It being s inches long by in diane.
ter at its sulging middle. The light
will not bc appreciably cheaper than
gas.
An old monkey, Jesi,, ning to teach
his sons the advantage of unity.
brought them a number OF sticks and
desired them to see how easily they
might be broken one at time. SO
each young monkey took stick and
broke it. Now" said the father,
" I'll teach you lesson" And he be-
gan to gather the sticks in bundle.
But the young monkeys, thinking he
was about to beat them, set upon him
altogether and disabled him. There"
said the aged sufferer, behold the adj
vantage of unity! If you had assailea
me one at time. would have killed
every mothers sou of you."
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Political Bosses.

America has produced nothing more
peculiar than the political Boss We
are heating so much lately Of his
strange product Of our soil and il >titu.
tons. that it is ti,Ee lie WAS taken
into consideration by Al! our readers.
young and old.
L is chiefly il large cities that the
political Boss has tiouriShci hitherto.
aul, above all, in the city Of New York.
The writer Of these paragraphs is well.
acquainted with the Boss as he Exists
and tarivcs in Gotham, whore .here
are Bosses il every ward, as w1il AS
one :lprcme Boss over al.
Ia New York there are Bosses, sub.
losses, rivgl-Bos5e3, OK Hoesoa, Demo.
cratic losses. Republican Bosses; also.
;tcrc are Bosses aprectlining % each
wing ot each party. Each nation.
atty too, has its own series ci losses.
OF the twelve hundred thousand
people who live il New York, not quite
onc-tlirl are natives Of the city. and
more than hal. were born iii foreign
ianls. AZ the present moment, there
arc nearly 10000 Irish people in New
YORK., which is more than the entire
population Of Dublin. There are
nearly 100000 Germans; abou: 10 600
French; about 5000 Italians; 5000
Poles; more than 1900 Swies; about
1900 Dutch, ana several Luulreds
from each Of the cthc, smaller States
OF Europe. Even Cuba contributes
Iuot2 OF fourteen or fifteen hUNirel to
the population.
IL i natural and usual that these
several nA;!onaiti3s should A5To each
us quarter; and, thus, IL New York, is
N Lohdon, there - portion Oh the
city almost exclusively i3iab:.el by
Itench people.
OIr Nv LlglAui friend " 20 50 10
New work by the Sound steA..ets often
Work ;EClr alow &LU tedious Way up
town by lie hon Gears tAot iuA up
Green street, whole mile oi winch is
acarly As EreLcU - g. street IN Paris.
.Acio is also Spanish, ~ Italian and
4 N"i-a quarter, smaller ~ extent, but
plainly marked.
rs .or the Germa?s, 'hFy lave nearly
mouOpoiizcd the retail trades Of the
Eowory AMI Third Avenue, ciaAv miles
long,
70 show the origin q the Loss sys.
.cm, VIC invite the reader into The Ital.
ian Quarter, though It is not pleasant
either 10 the eye o" lie noee The ear
f,.es little letter; for mere live men of
the hand Cys,G, with :heir monkeys;
and here nay be found the boys with
white mice GLd wAitcr teeth, who per-
ya!e the city at some seasons of the
year Dat OF the ) 900 Italian in the
city, there sill perhaps be tive hunGred
men Who ar", or legally can soon be,
voters.
o! thoe- I've hundred, ii is safe to
cay tina. four hundred understand little
If An.li ic4n politics.
Bat tuoro are five hundred Italian
votes y candidate wants them; party
wants them; two parties want them;
various wings OF parties want them;
and thus is created the opportunity for
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Remove ink stains from carpets with
milk, and afterwards wash viii line
SOAP, Il clean brush and warm water.
Fol grease spots use powdered mag
nosia, fulier's earth O. huckwheat.
Sprinkle on the spot and let lie uatil
the grease is absorbed; renew the
earth, magnosia or bucA wheat until all
the grease is removed, Time and
patience VIII in this way remove the
worst o. graasn spots,
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Wise Words.

On the cultivation of the mild of
woman depends the wisdom Of men,
SHERIDAN.
These six--the peevish, the niggard,
the dissatisfied, the passionate, TIE sus-
picious, and those who live upoa others
means are forever unhappy.
Reason is progressive, instinct Sta
tionary. Five thousand years have
added no improvement to the hiva Of
the bee nor to the house Of the beaver
-CoLToN.
We try to create civilization By Law.
Law is of no value or service, except rs
it represents moral sentiment and n oral
conviction behind and beneath it.--R
s SToEEs.
What raro gift is that Of manners.
How difficult to define, how much more
diticu to in par: !! Better for man to
posses them than wealth, beauty or
talent; they will more than supply all.
-BULwER LYTToN.
Service takes its value frog. char
acter. The dime, as we'll as the eagle,
takes hoNor from the State whose i'm
print it bears. Our fragmentary service
is the "small change" ard equally
honorable with the large coin Of more
conspicuous deeds. Few lives round
out in large unity, or rise in toll sym
metry.-M. Il. VINCENT.
CAPITAL PUN1sHNENr.-The Swiss
cantons are gradually re-estabiishing
capital punishment, sitter having tried
the lenient policy of imprisoning muir
derers for life. Within the past few
weeks several crimes of peculiar
atrocity have been committed. Thus
in one of the cantons bordering on
Germany a man set fire to farm
house and caused the death OF five per.
sons; in the canton Of LucerHo a Chilli
only eight years old was murdered by
some tramps; and at Berne lock
smith shot u young man who was guilty
of no worse otfense than that Of fishing
on his land without leave. The colonel
Of regiment was murdered il the can
ton Of Ticino by man with whom hc
had demonstrated in g cafe for using
bad language; and though the crime
was committed in the presence 0!
several ~ onlo, the assassin was al
- ,; g., ."-p II ta""' e.;.-4 g
,o,. .'a te.y strong + i'a
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Everything Within Reach.

A distinguished scholar happening to
talk with an English gardener, found
him well-informed on many literary
matters. Surprised at his knowledge,
other inquiries were pushed, till it ap
peared he was also at home in the
higher mathematics. The scholar ex-
claimed in wonder:
"My dear sir. how did you pick up
all this knowledge as gardener? The
reply was simple and modest.
"What can't a man learn when he
knows how to read?" La our day, with
books SO cheap, little is impossible to n
young man who has energy of will
Mr.. Everett once said, ITO read the
English language we'll, to- write neat,
legible hand, and to be master Of the
four rules of arithmetic, call this a
good education. And if you add the
ability to write pure, grammatical Eng
lish, l regard it as an excellent educa-
tion."
Mr.. Everett was right. If one has
such an education, there is nothing
beyond his reach, provided he is ambi-
tious to acquire, tenacious to retain,
and is industrious in the use OF the
treasures at his command. President
Garfield is good model of persever-
ance in study for young Americans.
From friendless canal driver, he has
become an accomplished scholar, and
one of the foremost statesmen OF the
country.
PLEASE. =" Human nature" says
a writer for young women, "resents the
imperative mood Think of this, girls.
If you ask child to wait on you, say
" Please" Be polite to servants and
interiors. Be courteous even to the
cat. Why push her roughly aside, or
invite her claws? II kind good-nature
and gentleness ruled in every home,
what sunlight would home enjoy! \
great deal depends upon the girls-the
sisters, the daughters.
Smyrna times., 1881-09-14
FSr f5e S,r,,,.p6 T+!,,c.

Mr. ERtroR-Dem sir In Fottr issue
OF Sept. 18th there appears in one of the
columns of the TIMES a statement reflect
ing upon the A. M. f. Church of Smyrna.
The statement referred to was that 1.-THE
Bethelites, as seems to be the custom. -
got up, camp in opposition to the Cen
tennial Church Camp. The facts are
these: The so called Bethelites' of this
town never get up anything in opposition
to any other church, and notices of this
camp were made, if not published more
than one month previous to the time of
holding the camp. Hoping you will cor
rect through your columns the very false
impression that may be made, am re-
spectfully yours, JACOB WILKsHELM,
Pastor A. NJ. f. Church.
SMYRNA, Sept 18th, 1881.
Smyrna times., 1881-09-14
DOVER.
DOVER Sent

DOVER, Sept. 18th, 1881.
MR.. EDITOR Since the rain the spirits
Of our citizens have been wonderfully
revived. During the hot days of last
week, business was almost suspended on
account Of having nothing to do. while
the labOrer, in many cases, had to stOp
work. The animal suffering was intense.
and as they went through our streets
drawing heavy loads after them, they
looked as if they were ready to drop to
the ground; but thanks to kind PrOvi-
dence, those days are looked upon by us
as days of the past and not of the present.
The rain | fear came too late to do corn
any good, but the grass has grown amaZ-
ingly under its influence and the cattle
upon the hills have felt its refreshing
effects
Since Governor Hall has issued his
proclamation, setting Tuesday apart as a
day of prayer for the restoration to health
OF President Garfield, our citizens have
begun to make preparation for that
day. The proclamation so far as | have
been able to learn, meets with hearty ap-
prOval by every one. All party preiudices
have been laid aside and ever since his
atfliction, the prayers of the Democrats
have assembled heaVenWard for his speedy
recovery. Whether the day will be OBJ
served as Il holiday, do not know but /
think | can say with truth, that between
the hours of ten and twelve every knee
will bow and every tongue will cry. God
save the President.
Last Saturday afternoon, the colored
people of this town and vicinity, held a
grand celebration at their school house on
KirkwoOd street. The band paraded the
streets followed by molly crowd of men.
women and children, who kept time to
the music by dancing. Late in the after
noon sumptuous dinner was served after
which the party separated. The fete was
gotten up for the colored voters of East
Dover Hundred 1t was one of the many
political schems devised by the white
leaders to secure the solid darky vote.
As this is busy season with them it is
natural to suppose they have plenty of
money, Taking this fact into considera-
ton, the leaders decoyed them here
under the plea of grand dinner, but in
reality only to get them to procure their
tax receipts.
Smyrna times., 1881-09-14


THE DAY OF PRAYER-In obedience to
the Proclamation of Gov. Hall for the
people to assemble yesterday for prayer
and humiliation before God for the pres
Grafton of the life of our Chief Executive.
services were held by the pastors of the
M. E. and p. f. Churches, the pastor of
the Presbyterian Church being absent.
AT the former nearly one hundred per-
sons assembled. The opening prayer was
by Rev. r. ii. Adams of Millngton,
strong. direct, earnest appeal for the life
of the President. Earnest prayers were
also offered by Revs. J. A. Brindle, ]. V.
Smith and VIM. w. Nelson interspersed
with appropriate hymns. In being called
OH for Il short address Rev. T. T. Martin
dale responded by saying that this was
rather the time for prayer, a talk with God
than talk to the people. He said that
the people needed to come as Gov Hall
expressed it in his proclamation "humble
themselves before Cod" and He would
hear their prayer. God had been with
this nation, it had been the creature of His
providence from the time the Pilgrim
Fathers had sought its shores for " Faiths
pure shrine;" He had brought it out of
every difficulty and would be true to it
now as His far reaching wisdom saw best
! to materialism, secularizatiOn of the Sab
bath, &c. he thought the great need of
the American people was humility and re-
| pentance and their prayer would be an
swered. Rev. Mr.. Rigg before the closing
prayer also made brief but well timed
address. Whether the ultimate object of
our prayer for the restoration of Presi-
dent Garfield to complete health were
| granted, or denied if Divine wisdom saw
best, our prayers had been answered in
preserving his life thus far and in this he
had given us more than we had asked. If
he had died suddenly and the Vice-Presi-
! dent had succeeded to the chief magistracy
in the midst of the distrust of him, fac
tiOnal spirit and bitter feeling that then
prevailed, the result might have been very
different from what it would in the chas-
tened feeling of to-day. Sectional and
factional bitterness has disappeared before
the more ennObling sentiment of love of
! the Republic and obedience to law, and in
this a great thing had been accomplished.
The exercises throughout showed hearth
ness of purpose and feeling.
! At the Episcopal Church Rev. G., B.
| Gordon held services including two or
three prayers, the I4ltany and an interest
ing address in harmony with the occasion
forwhich they had met, remarking that in
his observation there had never been a
time in the history of the Nation of such
good feeling and unity in a single purpose
as in the preservation of the life of Presi-
| dent Garfield.
Services were also held at Bethel and
Centennial Churches (colored) with pray
ers and singing and addresses by the
| pastors of each.