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Dissolution Of Partnership.

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Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
INFLUENCE OF THE DIME
NOVEL.

Parents cannot be too careful as TO
the kind of reading that falls into the
hands of their children. The cOnse-
quence of reading cheap and 6ashy
novels was made apparent in the per-
son of Mormon Jones, a 12-year-old
boy, who attempted to wreck a train on
the Fitchburg Road, near Boston. He
was found near the scene of the at
tempted disaster, with hatchet in his
belt, and he told a wild story about
a strange man forcing him to put the
rocks on the track. and holding his
wrists while he was doing the mischief.
When a reporter called at the jail, the
young wrecker was brought into the
guard room and questioned about his
exploit. He repeated the story of the
strange man, but with so many varia-
tiOns and imprObabillies that its falsity
was perfectly apparent.
When asked if he had been reading
dime novels, he said he read them
when he could get them, and ex-
pressed great admiration for Jesse
James. 1t has been ascertained since,
that the boy has been a great reader of
bloOdthirsty stories, has run away from
home repeatedly, camped in the woods
and attempted to kill playmate whom
he regarded as his deadly foe." His
head is full of the pernicious stuff
which is printed in fash papers and
cheap novels, and he is imbued with
ambition to emulate the deeds of bold
burglars, train robbers, and the miscel.
laneOus miscreants who are held up as
heroes before young America.
He is a well-grOwn boy for his age
and very untruthful. His face, it is
said, indicates intelligence enough and
more than cunning enough, and he
appears to rather enjoy being regarded
as hard case. When locked up in
the Jail he told another prisoner that
he could get out if he had knife, and
proceeded to explain how the job
cold be done.
Those who are intimate with the
family say that naturally he was in
clined to a proper life but that his
mind became completely perverted by
flashy reading. Here is a solemn
warning for parents.
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
sPIRITUALISTIC TRICKS.

With regard to ghosts, nothing is more
simple than to deceive half-a-dOzen cred
ulous persons by making them believe
that they are in the presence of spirits.
1t is the easiest of easy tricks. 1t is done
either by the medium person1ting the
ghosts, or by means of confederate.
The medium requests his dupes to sit in
a circle, and one grasps his right hand
and another his left The medium then
writhes, and manages 10 slip away, leav-
ing tine two to hold each others hands,
which during Iii, cJuturtiOns he has
brought together. The rest, of course,
is not difficult.
The spirit-hand rick is performed in
this way the medium puts hand made
of astuffed glove up his leg, and attached
by an classic string to his waist. When
the dark seance com aanc ~, he gets the
hand down to the end OF his foot to the
opposite side of the table at which he is
sitting, and waves the stuffed glove
about. If little phosphorus is rubbed
on it, the effect is better. When the per-
form0nce has been gone through, all
that the medium has to do is to let the
hand spring,back underneath his trouser
The floating trick is performed by taking
off the boots and putting the hands in
them. The hands are then waved above
a persons head, who grasps the boots
and feels the arms of the coat, which he
takes for legs. OF course, so long as
people are prepared to pay money for
witnessing these ;OmfoOierieS, sknaves
will be found to practise them.
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF LENT.

The season of Lent which began Ash
Wednesday has become an important
social as well as ecclesiastical event.
observed by only two religious bodies;
and their recognition of it in localities
subjected them to unfavorable COM
ment. But public opinion has no
word of criticism for those who deem it
a duty to observe this season by acts of
self-denial; on the contrary, the OBJ
servance of Lent has become very pop
ular, even among those who do not
claim to be especially religious. By
common consent it now marks the
ending of the Winter social season /;
society closes its gay assembly rooms
and banqueting halls as the church
swings open her doors and bids the
weary and heavy laden enter. Com
ing as it does when society has grown
tired of its own gayeties, Lent is well
coined by the wording as we'll as by
the deVOtee, and occupies secure
place as one of the recognized institu-
tiOns of social life.
Whether this recognition is an adj
vantage or not is an open question. 1t
is probable that those who believe in
Lent as a season of repentance and self
denial will not welcome the compan-
iOnship of frivolous people who see in
| this season only a breathing space be-
tween two periods of fashionable dissi-
patton. They will deprecate the tickle
| patronage of society, and see no good
in the elegant self-denial of people
who, they think, have no sense of spir-
itual hunger, and no realization OF
! spiritual need. To such popularity
as this they would quite likely prefer
the rugged opposition of forty or fifty
years ago when people gave parties in
Lent expressly to show how little they
thought of that season.
But in reality the recognition of Lent
by society has not at all hurt it for the
purposes of religion. The men and
women of the world who observe LEM
by not going as often to the theatre,
and going q little oftener to church
are certainly doing no harm, although
they may be doing little good. 1t i.
quite the fashion to rail at the fTiVOlity
and heartlessness of society, but it is {
vicious fashion. Society is exactly
what the men and women of which i
is composed make it. And these mel
and women are at least nOminally
Christians. Frivolous many of then
doubtless may be, but they are neithe
deaf nor blind to earnest appeals t,
lead a higher and nobler life. Per
haps even the benighted people VIII,
look upon Lent merely as a social insti
tuition, may learn some of the lessons
which this season properly inculcates
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
THE KEY OF INDIA.

Herat, the bone of contention be-
tween England and Russia, is a dirty
Afghan town of $4,000 inhabitants, sit
uated in great plain $500 feet above
the level of the sea. Russia will go all
lengths to obtain possession of it, and
England will make every sacrifice to
maintain its independece for, in the
hands of the Russians it would be a
constant menace to her Indian empire.
Since the time of Peter the Great,
when for the first time Russian feet
sailed the Caspian, Herat has been the
objective point of the Russian advance
in Central Asia. The subjugation of
the TurcOman tribes by General Kauff-
man was the last long stride Eastward.
Herat is a signpOst on the road to con-
quest, and marks the line of march of
Alexander the Great, of Timour, and of
Nadir Shah. Its possession by Russia
would enable her to pour hundreds of
thousands of semi-civilized warriors
into the plains of Iudia. Its value as
strategic point may be estimated from
the fact that in 1840 and 184l the
AnglO-Indian Government did not
shrink from an annual expenditure of
army of occupation.
The tewn is strongly fortified, the cit
adel one of the finest works of the kind
in Asia. The natural advantages of
Afghanistan for defence are great.
The existence of an Independent state
between Russia and England in Cen
tral Asia is a guarantee of peace, since
the friction of two such great bodies in
close contact would inevitable produce
a spark of war. The whole history of
this mountain region, with its four or
five millions of warlike inhabitants, has
for the last ninety years, been but the
record of a succession of intrigues car
ried on by England, Russia and Persia,
in which the latter appears as the ally
first of England and then of Russia,
both seeking by force or fraud, to Sc
cure control of the Afghan country.
England, in defence of her interests,
found fiimsy pretext for declaring
war against DOst Mahammed, the
ablest of the Afghan rulers, in 1888.
The difficulty of carrying on a war
in such country may be realized from
the fact of its having taken 10000
British troops, with 10000 camp follow
erS, nearly seven months tOsubdue the
Afghans and penetrate to the sacred
city of CabOOl. England could con-
quer, but not keep Afghanistan, and
when, decimated by continual Afghan
instructions, the British attempted to
retreat to Jellalabad in 1842, their en-
tire army, $500 men with 10000 camp
followers, perished in the rocky defiles
under the fire of the hill tribes, in spite
of an agreement previously entered
into with the Afghan chiefs. Only one
man lived to tell the story of disaster,
an army surgeon by che name of
BrydOn, who brought the dreadful
news to Jellalabad. Such are the
Afghans, backed by their old enemies,
the English, whom the Russians are
now about to try conclusions with
! PhiLadeLDhiG Press.
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
TOO LATE-TOO LATEl

There sat an old man on a rock,
An unceaSing bewailed him of fate,
That concern where we all must take stock,
Where our vote has no hearing or weight;
And the old man sang him All old, old song.
Never sang voice so clear and strong
That 1t could drown the old mans song,
For he sang the song Too late-tOo late"
When we want we have for our pains
The promise that if well but wait
Till the want has burned ont of our brains
Every means shall be present to slate.
When we wait for the napkin the soup gets cold ::
While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old
When we've matched our buttons the pattern is
sold,
And everything comes Too late-too late"
When strawberries seemed like red heavens
Terrapin stew wild dream,
When my brains were at skies and sevens,
II my mother had folks and ice cream,
When gaZed with n iquOriSh wonder
At the restaurant man and fruit mOnger
But, oh how l wished was younger
When the goodies all came in u stream.
I've a splendid blood horse and liver
That jars into torture to trOt
My row boats the gem of the river,
Gout makes every knuckle a knot;
! can buy bouudleSS credits on Paris and Rome,
But no palate for menus no eyes for dome.
Those belonged to the youth who must tarry at
home,
When no home but an attic he'd got.
How lOnged in that loneliest of garrets,
Where the tiles baked my brains all.July,
For ground to raise two pecks of carrots
Two pigs of my own in sty,
rose bush, littethatched cottage
Two spoons, love- a basin of puttage;
Now in freestone sit with my dotage
And a woman's chair empty close by.
All, now; though sit on rock
I've shared one seat with the great
I've sat knowing naught of the clock
On Loves high throne Of state:
But the lips that kissed and the arms that ca
reSSed
To a mouth grown stern with delay were
pressed,
And circled breast that their clasp had blessed
Had they only not come Too late-too late"
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
EL. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH IS, 1885.
PROFESSIONAL DIGNITY.

Doctors are fond of talking about the
dignity of the profession, and do their
best to uphold it. An eminent London
physician once told me, i'll conversation,
that he makes point of never thanking
his patients for his fee when he takes it,
but simply pockets it as matter of course
as his due. presume lie would similar.
ly disdain to ask for it should the patient
depart without Offering to pay. They
sometimes do this. A friend of the
writer, who was once treated thus by a
lady richly attired, stopped her just as
she was Imaking her exit and in the
blandest of terms begged to be allowed
to look at the prescription again for
moment. He looked at it q few seconds,
and then, tearing it across, threw it into
the fire. Ladies' in silks and satins," )"
he said, "can gener lily afford to pay"
and calmly rang his bell for his servant
to usher in the next patient Doctors
occasionally get the worst of it, though,
when they stand too much on their dig
nifty with patients. A local practitioner
in country town was one day sent to
visit a child in the family of one of his
patients. On arrival he found his little
patient had been ailng for some days,
and asked why he had not been called in
before. "Oh," said the mother, 1--WE
have been giving it bottle of Els
stuff" mentioning a patent medicine
prepared by q veterinary surgeon well
know in the country, and a bottle OF
which she had obtained at the chemists.
"Whatl" exclaimed the DOCTOR "expect
me to attend after horse doctor ?" and
he marched off i'll great Indignation.
The father of Che child was baker, and
supplied the doctors family with bread.
Next day no bread was delivered ut the
doctors house. The doctors wife put
on her bonnet and shawl and went out
to call on the baker respecting the
omission. On entering the shop she saw
the bakers better-half, and politely init
mated that she had called to say that no
bread had been left as usual, and she
would be glad to have some sent. ''Oh,
no, !" was the reply, "your husband won't
attend us as a doctor, so we sha'nt sup
ply him with bread, and they didn't.
The doctor was forced to deal with
another and inferior baker, as similarly
the baker had on the previous day been
forced to send for another doctor.
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
WHOLE NO. l,552.
WYOMING'S OLDEST CITIZEN
DEAD,

Thomas w. Jakes, Esq, in his Seth
year, died at the residence of his son
John I. Jakes, in Wyoming, Del, on
Tuesday evening, March 3rd, at six
o'clock. His death resulted from gem
eral debility attendant upon old age.
He was born in Kent county. Del. and
had lived there all his life with the ex-
ceptlon OF about two years spent in
Virginia after the close of the war.
where he was appointed member of
the magistrates court, and sat as pre-
siding officer in Surry county. He held
several offices of trust in his own
county but never took any particular
ly active part in public affairs, and only
when called upon to participate, firmly
believing that offices would call men to
I'LL them in politics. He was an old line
Whig, and cast his first ballot for Gen.
Jackson for President in 1924, and
voted at each Presidential election
since, casting his last ballot for James
G. Blaine. He led a very quiet, unob-
trusive life, was very conscientious in
all his dealings, which made bim many
warm and firm friends, of which he
leaves large circle to mourn his loss.
AAC nCNCA DAGoSCu d A1du lOE uAOuGN uuo
him and was never sued during his life.
Would never allow himself to owe
money. He was one of four children,
William, Thomas, James and Mary.
He survived them all except his sister,
Mrs. Mary Matthews, living at Cam
den, Del, who is six years his senior.
Around his death bed stood his son,
grandson and great-grandsOn, making
four generations, something that is
rarely seen at this day. The funeral
took place on Friday, March 7th, at
l.3O P. NJ, from the residence of his
son. After reading the 1st Psalm and
prayer by Rev. w. NJ. Warner at the
house, the remains were taken to the
NJ. +. Church for the purpose of allow
ing all persons an opportunity OF view
ing the same. The services there
were of very impressive character.
After the singing of his favOrite hymn,
by the congregation, " l would not
live always, l ask not to stay" many
appropriate and feeling addresses were
delivered by Rev. VIM. NJ. Warner,
Rev. VIM. r. CahOon, DIR. Ezekiel
Dawson, VIM. H. Ridgeway and Hon.
! Judge Fisher. The church would not
accommodate the large assemblage. The
funeral cOrtege was unusually long,
the carriages reaching nearly from the
church in Wyoming to the Friends
Burial Ground in Camden, the place of
interment. His three grandsOns, VIM.
II. Jakes, DIR. C. Russell Jakes and
Thomas w. Jakes, assisted by Carroll
S. Fisher, acted as pall-beareTs perfor-
ming the last service that could be
rendered him on earth. Thus ends the
life of a noble man, who has been laid
away to rest from his labors, and
whose active life in the community and
his timely admOnition and valuable
counsels will be so much missed by his
many relatives, friends and admirers
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
WHY SHE WAS LOVED.

It is related of Nine. De Circourt, at
one time a reigning belle in Paris
society, that her mother once said to her:
my poor child, you are too ugly for
any one ever to fall in love with you"
From this time Nine De Circourt began
to be very kind to the pauper children
of the village, the servants of the house
hold, and even the birds that hopped
about the garden walks. She was al-
ways distressed if she happened to be
unable to render a service. This good
viii toward everybody made her the idol
of the city. Though her complexion
was sallow, her gray eyes small and
sunken, yet she held in devotion to her
the greatest men of her time. Her un.
falling interest in others made her, it il
said, perfectly irresistible.
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
BURIED ALIVE.

The writer of a paper recently read
before the French Academy of Medicine
expresses the opinion that one in every
5000 persons is buried alive, while of
ficial statistics show that the mortality
among isailors from shipwreck averages
one in every 1000. THE question has Of
late been much discussed by the medical
body just mentioned. and it seems to be
settled that none of the accepted indi-
cations Of death, with the single excep-
ton of the unmistakable decomposition
of the body, are to be regarded as per-
fectly conclusive. 1t is certain that the
possibility of such a frightful death
weighs on the minds of many of the
French, as, according to q recent decla-
ration of the President of the Chamber
of lNotaries, express instructions are
given in onewill out of every ten to have
the testator's heart pierced by a qualified
surgeon before the coffin is screwed
down.
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
HOW THE BRAZILIAN EATS ORANGES.

The differentiation of development as
serts itself even in devouring oranges.
In the region of the Rio Amazonas it is
one way, and in the region of the Rio
Query it is another. Here the eater be-
gins by trOnsfxing with fork the vege-
table globe in the neighborhoOd of the
south pole. Then, with sharp case
knife (Which is not a cheese knife, as
(might be inferred by the etymologist) he
makes through the rind a circular cut,
which may be hkened to the anarctio
circle Next he slices off the whole of
the artic zone. Then, cutting from
north to south, he slices of the rind in
meridians from one polar circle to the
other. The rind having thus been re-
moved, and the luscious sphere being
still transfxed and held in his left hand
before him, the eater, with the knife in
the right, slices of the tropical regions
and puts the pieces in his mouth on the
fat side or pierced with the point of the
cutting instrument. In which operation
a sixth of the substance of the fruit is
wasted in removing the rind and another
sixth in cutting away the core; but with
the best of oranges by retail at less than
a cent apiece, no matter.
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18

RICHEST GROOM IN PHILADELPHIA.
The richest young married man in
Philadelphia is James p Scott, son of
the late Thomas A. Scott, President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Nobody knows, however, what he is
worth, because, according to the re-
quest of his father, no inventory of his
fathOr's estate has been filed. His
father was believed, however, by those
who were acquainted with his affairs, to
be worth about $16,OOO,OOO. James P.
married the daughter of Hugh Davids,
a member of an old Philadelphia fam
lily. He has bestowed upon her the
finest diamonds in Pennsylvania,
among them a necklace of three
strands, worth 100000. His house is
regarded, next to Vanderbilt's, as the
finest in the United States. 1t is val
ued, with its contents, at 81, 100000.
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
DIR. PRIMES WORDS OF WIS
DOM.

Rev. DIR. Prime, the venerable editor
of the New York Observer, has now
a naturally acute judgement ripened
by long years of observation, study
and intellectual work. What he says
is always worth listening to. Recently
he wrote upon the life of children at
school, and concluded his article with
these observations
" A few simple rules for the regula-
ton of child's life while at school, if
faithfully followed, would train up a
generation with sOunder minds in
sounder bodies than their fathers and
their mothers have. l. Let six hours
a day be the limit of school hours and
study. 2. Allow no study in the even
ing. 3. Make lively exercise and play
in the open air to be required as regu-
larly as the school. 4. While the
school education is in progress let the
child, whether boy or girl, be restrained
from evening parties and public
amusements that excite and keep
them up late and awake when they
ought to Sleep"
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18

As a matter of fact, and in spite of its
having carried MahOmet in four leaps
from Jerusalem to Mecca seven miles
an hour is the cameps pace nor can it
maintain this rate over two hours. Its
usual speed is about five miles an hour
aslow pace, beyond which tits dangerous
to urge them, lest, as Asiatics say, they
might break their hearts and die literally
on the spot When camel is pressed
beyond this speed, and is spent, it kneels
down, and not all the wolves in Asia will
make it bulge again. The camel re-
mains where it kneels, and where il
kneels it dies. A Gre under il nose is
useless.
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18
Trusting Yet.

Heart Of mine, beat not so wildly
Ger the hopes Of future wears.
For the morrOw's sun may find ms
Weeping dissppointment's tears.
Have the lessons long and dreary
All been given thee in vain
Has the same delusive whisper
Won thy trust complete again?
Thou hast known of woe and sorrow
All that human heart could know:
Yet thou wouldst through love, forgettinS
Cling to those who struck each bloS
And thou still art bravely beating
Measured tones Of trust, and hops
For happy, bright tomorrow
That for thee may never hope.
But, o heart, beat ever bravely,
Bear me on through veal and woe.
Let no one except thy Maker
OF thy burthen ever know,
Smyrna times., 1885-03-18

Cork is now made into bricks for
coating steam-bOilers and ice cellars.
The cork is first broken up into very
small particles, and, after the addition
of a small quantity of cement, is press
ed into bricks, which are first dried in
the air and afterwards by means Of
artificial heat. They are hard and not
liable TO decomposition and keep off
moisture, heat, cold and sound.