Smyrna times., 1885-10-14

PARENTS are apt TO let their chill
dren read whatever their fancy die
tates, and the children fancy much
that is perniciOus. Those who would
escape the "heart scald /" that comes
of disObedient and viciOusly inclined
children, ought to watch closely what
those children, are reading. As the
long evenings are coming on, when
reading becomes a resort with almost
everybody, this watchfulness is spec
tally timely.
The Young Ladies Missionary So
ciety of the Smyrna NJ. E. Church, pro-
pose to have japanese Tea Drinking
and Apron Bazaar" on Friday evening,
the sixth of November, in the Town
Hall. This society has engaged to
educate young orphan girl in India,
who has taken the name of Lille Nav
Smithers. In this way the names of
two former members who are now safe
in the good Shepherds fold, are per-
petuated by those who were their asso-
ciates and friends. The patronage of
the pubic is solicited and would be
greatly appreciated.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Farm and
Fireside, Springfield, o., gives the fol-
lowing as remedy for both hog and
chicken cholera, claiming it as one of
the best used: Madder, l pound, resin,
l pound saltpetre, l pound; sulphur,
l pound; black antimOny, } pound (;
copperas, u pounds; as9feitida, ]
pound arsenic, 2 Ounses. As n pre-
ventive of disease gives one tablespoon
full of this mixture to five hogs twice
a week. If sick give three tablespoon
fuls day. Pulverize all the ingre-
dients well, and give with soft food.
For fowls give a tablespoonful, mixed
with bran, for twenty fowls, each
morning.
THOSE who want to have few bloom
ing flowers during the Winter should
prepare for it now Many, no doubt,
have already potted few geraniums,
fuschias, begonias and Oxalis, and
have them we'll under way by this
time, ready to set in a sunny window
as soon as the first hard, destructive
frOsts come, but these at the best afford
but a sparse bloom. Coal gas in rooms
is injurious to flowers, but still, in the
face of these difficulties, there are many
persons who make out to have a very
pretty bloom of flowers during the
cOldest Winter, for almost any bloom
of flowers may be considered pretty in
Winter, when everything without is
gloomy and dreary.
THE Fall of the year is the best of all
times to plant trees. They don't do
much growing before the Spring, but
the earth has had time 20 settle about
their roots, and the roots themselves
have time to acquire a home feeling
which the new position would not 9TH
erwise have, and besides, the trans
planted life needs but to start when the
days of sunny sky and balmy airs come.
Neither IS attention paid to the kind of
trees planted thrown away. Many of
the nut-bearing and hardwood trees
are as valuable for shade and ornament
as less useful varieties, and besides
these, in the country fruit trees admi-
rably serve the double purpose of yield
ing a harvest and casting grateful
shadows.
The family and young friends of
Edgar Z. Spencer were shocked to learn
yesterday evening, about the time of
the setting sun, of his untimely death,
but II few months after passing his
twenty-first year. He contracted a
cold last Fall which did not yield to the
heat of the summer, terminating finally,
two weeks ago, in q violent hemor-
rhage, from which he grew weaker,
battling all remedies, dying as stated
above, yesterday. Young Spencer had
been engaged at the depot as assistant
agent and was popular with his associ-
ates everywhere. The death falls es-
pecially heavy on his mother, who a
little less than year ago was called to
pass through a similar but deeper afIlic-
tion in the death of his father, Samuel
Spencer. She has the sympathy of the
community.