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Smyrna times., 1884-12-10
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ednesday Afternoon, Dec. 10, 1884.
CHURCH SERVICES.

AsBURY METHODIST Observation-Disclosures
ing at lO% \. NJ. and P. NJ. Sunday school
"a. NJ. and2 NJ. Prayer rMeeting-Thursdays at
JPN. Rev. j. B. Quigg, Pastor.
ST. PETERS PROTESTANT EPIsCOPAL-Sunday-
Preaching at lO15 AN. and ~ P. NJ. Holy Days
--9% A. NJ. Sunday School, p. N. Prayer
Meeting Wednesdays, at IA P. NJ. Rev. VIM.
b. Gordon, Rector.
-Sunday-Prcaching al 1917 A. NJ.
and ~ p. NJ Sunday School, r NJ PRAYER
Meeting-Fridays at ~ p. NJ Rev. j. I.
Umsted, Pastor.
ST. PoLYCARP CATHOLIC CHUBCH.-SecOnd and
Fourth sundays Of every month, at 10 A. Nj
and p. NJ. Rev. Geo. 5 Bradford, Pastor.
CENTENNIAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL (COloredi-
Sunday-Preaching ut l0;2 A. NJ and ~ =. NJ.
sunday school p. NJ. Rev. d. y. l{Iduut,
Pastor.
A. NJ. E. -Sunday-Prcaching at l0l.
A. NJ. and ~ +. NJ sunday SCHOOL,, NJ
Rev. Seth d ". smith, Pastor
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EXPRES S.
SOUTH.

NelC CaSle accommodation TrdiRs-Leave vii.
mington at 6.lj A. NJ. and 300 p. NJ. Leave New
Castle at ll.2j a. NJ. AMI 455 p. NJ
SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINS.-Leavc Smyrna
for Clayton 7.23, SIP, {. 80 and los A. M,14t 415
az and lI3 r. n. Leave Clayton for smyrna
7.3i, So 1908 and l11G A. NJ. l.55, 42G, 1 So and
7.j4 r. VI.
CONNEcTIoNs.-At Porter with Newark ~ Della
ware CITY Railroad At Townsend, with Queen
Anne sd Kent Railroad At tClaytOn, with Delaware
&CheSapeake Railroad and Baltimore Il Delaware
Bay Railroad. At Harrington, with Delaware,
Maryland Il Virginia Railroad. AtSeaford. with
cambridge Il SeafOrd Railroad. At Delmar with
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Wicomico &
PocomOke, and Peninsula Railroad.
CHAS. E. PUGH, General Manager
}. X. WOOD, General Passenger Agent
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SECRET SOCIETIES.

MORNING STAR LODGE. No. &. /. 0. q. F-Mcct.
every Friday evening, at O'clock.
MCDONNELL ENCAMPMENT, No. . J. q. c. F.--Mcet>
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings Of each
month at o'clock.
HARMONY LODGE, No. Is. A. +. a. M.-Aleet, First
and Third Thursday evenings OF each month
at ~ O'Clock
SMYRNA CoNCLAVE, No. 45, ORDER oF IlEl.rAsopus
-MeetSevery Wednesday evening at O'Clock
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

Secretary Teller's endorsement of
the principle of Federal aid to public
education is but straw, but it shows
clearly enough the way the intellectual
current is drifting in this country.
That the principle will be ultimately
put into operation is a good deal more
certain than almost any other feature
of national policy that we can see on
the horizon of the future.
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

was thought by many to be "just the
thing" but when the uncertainty of
the supply is considered depending en-
trely upon the rain fall, and the GER
tahty OF five or six huge tanks being
nursery for young mosquitoes, making
me lntolerable in warm weather, why
this means would be only jumping
from the frying pan into the fire, so its
died borning" We have now but
one remaining proposition to state after
which conclusions must be drawn.
The reservoir or
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

The official votes of States show that
Cleveland received 4,914,O58 ballots,
Blaine 4,S44, ,252, St. John 15O,134, and
Butler 134. .028.
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

THE CHINESE DEFIANT.-It is
believed at Hong Kong that China will
resist France to the bitter end. When
the Tien-Tsin treaty was written the
Chinese were willing to give up AMMAN
and throw in Tonquin for good measure,
but recent events dispose them to
refuse whata fewmonths ago they were
perfectly willing to concede. That
agreement having lapsed, they are un-
willing to frame another that does not
recognize Chinese suzerainty over
AMMAN and the right to maintain
Chinese garrisons at the strategic points
in that country. The French hold
FOrmosa, and might be content to do
without the indemnity, the payment of
which they are unable to compel, but
for the fact that China is able to give
them no end of trouble in Tonquin.
Unless M. Ferry can make up his mind
to march on Pekin, he will find it cheap
est to make peace on the best terms he
can.
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

how often do we hear Of the sudden fatal ter.
ninaton OF case of Group, when Young life
nlsls Hs. nave neen saved by the prompt use of
Ayers Cherry PectOTal Be wise i'm time. and
keep bottle oft on hand, ready for instant use.
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10
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Mutual Insurance ca
DOVER. DI:I.
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Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

One county in Australia has this
year paid the bounty on 25,S4O dozen
OF captured sparrOws' eggs.
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

Dairymen and stock raisers all buy DAYS
Horse and Cattle Powder For dislemper hide
bound loss Of appetite, and general debility il Is
without peer in the market Price twenty five
cents per package Of one pound, full weight.
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

Is the outcome of the most advanced
scientific effort in large or small cities
to insure a full supply Of water for all
purposes. Elaborate and costly ma
chlnery Is more a matter of taste in a
greater degree than of principle, but
there is no mistake possible when bulk
either solid or liquid is in position to
transport itself within the square of its
distance by its own gravity. This sim
pie hydrostatic law needs only to refer
to the pump which alone forces water
by the presence of a column of air
equal to no greater height than SO feet.
and there rests, and to the still further
useless position of surface cisterns
winch cannot transport the water only
under pressure. But with reservoirs
or stand pipes, with conduits and plugs
at convenient distances, all that then
IS needed to stay the havoc of fires is
intelligent direction.
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

The farmers Of the Susquehanna Val
ley and the northern tier are showing a
deep interestin the theory of Colonel J.
A.Price, president Ofthe Scranton Board
OF Trade, that culm or other coal waste
can be made valuable rs fertilizer. its
blackness attracting heat and its impart
ing the same quality to the soil. Coal
being u plant formation, Mr.. Price thinks
1t ought to contain the substances Which
enter into the composition of plants.
Champion and Stevenson experimental
with powdered coal as fuel nearly
twenty years ago and the anthracite
trade, which invents a smaller size of
coal every year, seems inclined to utilize
the waste in the same way as the large
sizes. But the finer the powder the
more useful it is as fertlizing material,
50 the point of fineness at which coal
waste ceases to be of value as fuel will
doubtless be the beginning of co-opera-
ton between the coal producers and
farmers.
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

Choice Mackeral, at J. B. cooper's.
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Abstract Of Statement. tsse

Receipts for ti.c l,..
Losses and ENucus,.~ f.. ... ......
dividends Iau
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Boilers of Various Sizes
kept Onthand or made
at Short Notice,
49,
The WREN PATENT
Crate Bar.

We claim the fellow
ing for this bar:
lst.-A saving of fuel
over the ordinary bar.
2nd.-Such construc-
ton as will cqualizc all
strains resulting from ex-
pansion and contraction,
thus avoiding war; ing and
thereby insuriug long ser
vice.
3rd.-Thorousi com
6ustion Of fuel, owing to the
large air spaces exposed.
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10

Cooper's. ~ . D.
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Freight received IN Philadelphia on Tues.
days, Thursdays and Saturdays until
tearing time
Smyrna times., 1884-12-10
THE STEAMER
" JOHN E. TYGERT,"
NOVEMRTrR

Smyrna (ROthwell's Landing) and Pier 9.
Race Street Wharves, Philadelphia,
as fOlloNve
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27

antiseytic fluid, and is therefore entirely
safe from change, excepting so far as
this may occur internally from within
by the natural process called ripenine,
and which is due to the change of the
milk sugar Qactose) in the butter into
milk Qactic) acid, and this into butyric
acid by MISUNDERSTOOD chemical
transformation of the elements. But
this change goes on so slowly that the
butter merely acquires high and agree
able flavor, and no strong scent or
taste is developed which would APP
proach rancidity
This manner of packing butter has
long been in use in some districts of
England, and the supplies furnished to
the large universities of Oxford and
Cambridge have been put up in SINH
lar way for many years. The butter is
made in long rolls about two inches in
diameter, and these are wrapped in
muslin and the edge secured by some
stitches, the ends being tied. This form
of roll is well known as college but
ter" and is found very convenient for
use by cutting off thin slices, each of
which is a single ration for a student.
1t might be found very useful here for
the use of hotels and caterers, who
would berelieved of the trouble of mold
ing their own cakes, which to some ex-
tent Injuries the quality of the butter.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27
Editor Webb's "BfiiG."
'erley Poore in Boston Budget.

Ben Perley POore in Boston Budget.
| Hon. James Watson Webb, who was
for many years editor of the New York
| Courier and Enquirer. was the last
avowed duelist at the north. His last
meeting was at Wilmington, Del,
with Tom Marshall, of Kentucky. He
but on his return to New York he was
tried and sentenced to two years hard
labor in the penitentiary. Governor
Seward pardoned him, and he re-
! nounced duelling; but when he was at
Washington, at the time of the assault
on Sumner, he was challenged again,
as he thus told the story:
81 was at Washington at the time of
Brooks assault on Sumner The Cour
ier and Enquirer came out denOuncing
Brooks as coward General Quit
man, a northern man and an old and
intimate friend, waited on me and said:
General, L am sorry to see you L
knew what it meant and handed him
chair. Il have a message for you, he
continued, 'and | am ashamed to bear
it, but if | refused couldn't live in the
south About the Courier-Enquirer
Il GtShcu Is. Hc SAUL
Well said !, Just keep it in your
pocket till tonight. That paragraph
was written in the office. am respon-
sible for it, and will fight for it, but /
prefer to fight for what | have written
myself. | sent letter two days ago,
published in the paper this morning. 1t
will be here tonight. 1t is four times
as severe as that paragraphs; but when
that gets here you can take your choice.
and we will fight tomorrow afternoon
at > o'clock" | added to Ouitman:
4 am now a church communicate, and
have changed my views on duelling. /
would not now fight personal duelEa
duel for personal affront Moreover. /
had no personal quarrel with Brooks.
He and / dined together at Governor
Atkin only three days ago. But twill
fight for my country and its institutions
and principles in private combat the
same as armies do, and ask the bless
ing of God upon the issue. will FIGHT
Brooks tomorrow. Come to me in the
morning My offensive letter arrived.
Next morning General Quitman waited
on me and said the South Carolinian.
after two hours session over nv let
ter, had withdrawn the challanGe T
never was so astonished in NV life"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27
| W hat h
me fOr?''
i "Kase yo
A OUIKER WEDDING.
The Marriage Ceremony decorating to the
Orthodox Friend Quaker Prescription.
PittShl1ror DiSnatch

Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Quaker wedding is not the uncouth
affair which the description given would
lead the reader to suppose, but is, on
the contrary, a solemn and impressive
ceremony decorous and orderly in the
extreme. The prospective bride and
groom pass meeting three or four
weeks before the day set for mar
riage. That is, they appear in the
meeting to which the bride belongs,
and declaration of their intention is
publicly made. If no obstacle appears
between the "passing" and the we'd
ding day, the clerk of the meeting pre-
pares the marriage certificate, large
enough always to contain many sigma
lures. When the wedding day arrives
the house are reserved for the wedding.
1t is not necessarily on fifth day, as
stated, but upon whatever day of the
week, except the first day, the regular
meeting for worship is held in that dis
trict. After the meetings. ''settled into
Stiffness" the wedding party enters,
the bride leaning on the arm of the
bridegroom; they take seats together,
not on opposite sides of the house, I'M
der the minister's gallery, Con the
mems side, of course,) facing the con-
gregation, not with their backs to it.
The bridesmaids and groomsmen. rang
ing in number from four to eight, fol-
low the bride and groom and take the
front seats. Then the parents of the
contracting parties, and other relatives
and friends arrive and occupy the re-
mainder of the reserved space. After
all are seated there is half an hour or
more of silence, or sometimes PRAYER
or short sermon, then the ceremony
takes place. The groom rises and gives |
his hand to the bride who rises by his |
side, he still retaining her hand. He |
says nothing about his worldly goods
as stated. but repeats gravely these
words: ''In the presence of the Lord and |
this assembly, take Mary Penn to be
my wife, promising, by divine assist
ance, to be unto her faithful and loving
husband until death shall separate u.s."
She repeats corresponding formula,
and they sit down. A table is then
placed before the pair. upon which is
spread the marriage certificate. They
sign it. the relatives and friends sign it,
and after another interval of silence,
or elder rises in the gallery and
saws quietly: s'The wedding company
may now retire" The newly married
man gives his arm to his wife and they
pass out, as they have entered, togeth-
er. The bridesmaids and groomsmen
follow in pairs, the rest of the company
follow them, and not until the last car
rage is driven away does the minister
at the head of the gallery shake hands
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27
PROPOSING IN TEXAS.
The EmJIish Idea of Lore Making in Brother
JOadthdn's Domain.


Jonathan's Domain.
Chambers Journal.
They manage things differently in
Texas. This is how fond couple come
to an understanding, according to one
who pretends to know. He sits on one
side of the room in big white rocking
chair; she on the other side in a little
white oak rocking chair. A long cared
deerhound is by his side, a basket of
sewing by hers. Both the young peo-
pie rock necessarily. He sig CHS heavily
myrtle tree; she signs lightly and gazes
out of the east window at the turnip
patch. At last he remarks:
''This is mighty good weather for
cotton picking?'
"'Tis that" the lady responds, eff
we only had any to pick"
The rocking continues.
'What's your dogs namep" asks she.
"Cooney!' Another sigh-broken
stiffness.
"What's he good for?''
whats he good for?" says he, alb
stractedly.
~ our dog. CoOney."
"For ketching 'possums.
Silence for half an hour
"Whop"
"Coorey."
''He is, but he's sort IF bellowsed, an
gettin' old an slow, an he amt no
count on cold trail"
In the quiet ten minutes that ensues
Sbo 70 Zoe truo ctitoboc, ~, ho,. 4,
gorgeous affair. made after the pattern
called '.Rose of Sharon
''Your ma rising many chickens?"
''Forty odd"
Then come the rocking, and somehow
the big rocking chair and the little
rocking chair are damned side by side,
and rocking is impossible.
MAXIM quilts?" he observes.
EYES," she replies, Frightening up,
for she is great on quilts. "Ive just
finished a gorgeous Eagle of Brazil
Setting Sun and Nations Pride
Have you ever saw the yellow Rose of
the Prairie"
ssNo.n
More silence. Then he says:
"Do you love cabbage?'
81 do that
Presently his hand is accidentally
placed on hers, of which she does not
seem to be all aware. Then he sud-
denly says:
use a great mind to bite you
''What have youa great mind to bite
me for?''
'Kase you won't have me-
SsK Won ain'f ,,o
''Well, now, AK you
''Then, now, has vou."
Cooney dreams he hears sound of
kissing, and next day the young man
goes after a marriage license.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Gladstone, Tennyson, PROFESSOR
Blackie. Charles Darwin, Mrs. Brown
inc and DIR. o. w. Holmes were all born
in the year 1909.
Miss Emma Larson and her young
sister who rode on horseback from their
home in Wisconsin to San Francisco,
made the journey in safety without
being molested.
Mrs. Hillas, of Elgin, ILL.,, has copy
of the poem, "Oh, why should the spirit
of mortal be proudp" in the handwrlt-
inc of Abraham Lincoln, who presented
it to her himself.
Mr.. Henry M. Stanley intends coming
to this country shortly, for the purpose
of lecturing on the Dark Continent IN
general and his experiences in the Con-
go region in particular.
..Thank God and be content" was
the advice Sir Moses Montofiere received
from his wife when, in 1925, he asked
her whether he should retire from money
making or continue in business. He
followed it.
The stone sarcophagus for the tomb
of John C.. Calhoun, the South Carolina
statesman who died over quarter OF
century ago, has been finished, and will
at once set in place in st. Philips
church, Charleston, S. G.
Mrs. w. S. Hoyt, daughter of the late
Chief Justice Chase, has successfully
established an industrial school at Pei
ham Manor, where furniture carving,
clay and plaster modelling, tapestry
work, ETC., are taught to girls and boys.
General Joe Johnston, who is n
years old, does not look over 60. He is
straight as an arrow, and the only sign
of age is seen in his silky gray hair,
which flows in silvery curls almost to
his shoulders, and in his full gray
beard.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27

lowing weekly allowance: Forty-two
pounds of oats, twenty-eight pounds
maize, twenty-five pounds beans,
twenty-one pounds hay cut into chat,
seventy pounds long hay. Total, 1856
pounds of food per week per horse.
Upon this food the horses have done
admirably while in constant work.
The most common diseases of fowls
are catarrh and Group, and the
diseases are nearly the same. In
simple catarrh there is discharge
of watery mucous from the nos
trils, the eyelids and face become
swollen and foul odor is emitted.
Remove the sick fowls to warm. dry
location, wash the nostrils with dialuted
copperas water and feed stimulating
food.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27
FARM NOTES.

The dividends from sheep come
Oftener than from other classes of stock
except dairy COWS, the fleece, lambs anC
mutton reaching market at different
periods.
An open Shed, facing the south, is ar
excellent arrangement for all classes Of
stock, as the open air is preferred by
them at some periods instead of the
stables.
1t is stated by those whose pens have
been visited by hog cholera that when
the carcasses Of the hogs are not burned
the bLzzards, which feed upon them,
carry the disease to remote points.
An experienced dairyman says the
grain of butter may be spoiled in
churning where great haste is used. A
slow, regular stroke is absolutely neces-
sary and indispensable in manufacture
ing first-class article.
A cattle-raiser of Illinois has so far
changed his system of feeding that he
now feeds corn every day all summer
to his steers in pasture. He has exper-
imented until he is convinced that this
W"y VI AoOUiiS pays pooU.
A spring colt should be weaned lit
tie before winter in order that it may
become used to the change of food
while the weather is warm and while
plenty of succulent food can be had.
Ensilage is an excellent feed for main
tanning growth of colts and other young
stock.
The best way to rid horses ears of
warts is to rub them well with a coarse
cloth and then touch them well with a
little nitric acid every alternate day I'M
til you have administered three applica-
tons. A single drop is sufficient for
the smaller ones.
Mr.. John S. Thompson, an expert
enced sheep breeder of Arcona, Ind, is
of the opinion that cross of Shropshire
and Merico sheep is all that can be de-
sired. the lambs being vigorous and
healthy, and if the tlocks are well kept
may consist of 500 or 1000 head.
Samuel Keyer, a cattle man wintered
$50 cattle on sorghum last winter, los
ing only one, and that by accident. He
fed all the sorghum the stock wanted.
His crop was cut and stacked before
October rains and frosts came last fall,
and the cane was sweet and well cured.
He planted $50 acres last spring for
stock feed.
A western farmer advises stringing
seed corn by tying the ears together with
husks in some place where the grain
can be saturated with coal smoke. The
odor, he says, repels squirrels and
worms from eating the seed. The seed
comes up quicker, the plants grow more
and ripen several days ear
lier than from seed not so treated.
All manures deposited by nature are
left on or near the surface. The whole
tendency of manure is to 60 down into
the soil rather than rise from it.
There is probably very little.
# any, unless it is put in piles so as to
;erment, Rains and dews return to the
soil as much ammonia in year as is
carried off in the atmosphere.
An English farmer says: "For two
winters I placed six horses upon he TO
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27
The OLD HOMESTEAD.

Twas when the sunset Pushes
Gilded the dear old home,
When twilights solemn bushes
Babe holy memories come.
We fingered, fondly turning
Toward the spot we loved SO well,
With sud and tender yearninR,
To say our last farewell.
No more for us the garden
And love wreathed rooms to roam,
The stranger there. is warden.
No, no, tbs not his home.
1t hath no memories bringing,
For him Joy kin to pain,
For him no echoes ringing
Shall bringthe loyed again.
Sweet home. dear home, o'erfiowing
With precious memories,
Not life In all its going
Shall bring more blest than these.
A dear, bright picture ever,
As then, when sunset fell,
Youth gilded. thou forever
Wen love: sweet home, farewell.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27

The knowledge of courtesy and good
manners is very necessary duty. 1t
is, like grace and beauty, that which
begets liking and an inclination to love
one another at the first sight, and in the
beginning of an acquaintance famili-
arity; and consequently, that which
first opens the door, and introduces us
to better ourselves by the examples of
others, if there be anything in the soci-
ETY. worth taking notice of.-Montaigme.
A splinter of a deer's hoof, with
powerful microscopes and polarized
light, is as wonderful to see as rain
bow.