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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26
THE CAUSE OF CRIME.
A Sensible View of a Matter that Con-
Germs Every Young Man.

Germs Every Young Man.
ATLANTA constitutional
Various correspondents are taking one
of our Nashville exchanges TO task for
questioning the statement that the great
bulk of the crime committed in this
country may be traced to alcohol. But
our Nashville contemporary has prison
statistics on its side, as. the Constitution,
took occasion to show some time ago. 1t
is true that there is nothing more debas-
ing, and nothing more generally hurtful
to the best interests of society than alco-
hOl but it is not true that it is the cause
of most of the crimes that are COM
mitted.
The greatest cause of crime is neither
alcohol nor the ignorance that implies a
lack of the knowledge of reading and
writing. 1t is the enforced idleneSs that
is the result of a false system of educa-
ton, and the false system of education is
the result of false notions in regard to
the propriety of teaching boys and girls
how to use their hands as well as their
brains. A young man with nothing but
a common school education, or even
with college education, is ill-titted to
grapple with the problems of life.
The lack of practical knowledge is a
serious lack; it is fatal lack, indeed, in
those who are compelled to depend on
their own resources. The great major
ity of the young men of this country
cannot afford to go into the crowded pro-
fessions Their education renders them
sensitive, and there is no worse moral
wreck than that of a sensitive man out
of whom hard circumstances have ground
all self-respect. Every boy should be
taught to use his hands, and to employ
those faculties that will be called out in
the practical affairs of life
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26

dressed man and woman with two girls
alight from an omnibus. The man
looked about him for moment. and
then led the way towards my house. l
heard the door-bell ring and the party
entered.
Give me your hand, doctor; hope
you're well" exclaimed the stranger.
Ihesitated.
II thought as much, F" he resumed, with
a laugh. You've forgot the ghosts of
Myrtle Grove, doctor"
Myrtle Grove? No, haven't. Are
you the father--?"
Il am" he interrupted, grasping both
my hands, land these are my dear wife
and children, and we've come to pay
your bill, doctor, though l shall never
be able to get out of your debt, for all
that"
"Well, well, my friend, you needn't be
in such hurry about it. | hope you've
had better luck since you removed"
'The best bit of luck ever had, doc
tor, was when you made me feel that a
poor man has duties to perform and a
soul to save as well as a rich one"
He is now prosperous tradesman and
no longer resides in Death Alley.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26
A YARN OF THE WEST.
A Clever Piece of Luck on the Jim River
In Dakota.

Preston, Mimi, Letter to Chicago Tribune
A red-faced, raw-looling youth, whose
ready-made clothingdid not fit him well,
and whose haring red necktie would have
driven a bull into adelirium, sat in a
hotel in this place the other day nervous
ly tossing what appeared to be very
broad and well-worn silver coin from
hand to hand. With a touch OF numis-
matte curiosity your correspondent asked
to see it, and found himself unable to
make out what device it had originally
borne beyond family outlined hand APP
parently grasping pair OF balances. The
youth who owned the coin was as Curl
Gus as any one to find out what manner
of money it was, and on being questioned
as to where be got it said he found the
money with heap more in the Jim Riv-
er out in Dakota.
"You see," he continued, "our folks
moved out into that country three years
ago next spring, intending to make it our
home One day went to the river, five
miles from home, to fish. | didn't catch
anything but what l thought was snag,
and giving my line a right smart
yank to get it loose, fetched up little
strip of something that wouldn't let 90 OF
the hook very easy. l loosened it with
my fingers, and was going to throw the
piece away when noticed it was strip
of copper with something like rotten
leather or cloth hangin' TO it. Then |
thought maybe had better look into
the thing a little. got down the bank
and where it had caved lately | could see
about four feet above the water, print
the shape of herring-box, showing that
something about that size had been
buried there, and had been tumbled into
the water when the cave happened. 1t
only took minute or two OF kicking
around in the sand to find what was
looking for. Whether it was an old grip
sack, a leather trunk, or an animals skin
folded up, couldn't make out. 1t was
too rotten. But it had been chuck full OF
valuables was plain enough. Halt
a dozen comical looking old watches, lots
of rings and bracelets were lying around.
Besides there was about peck of money
gold and silver. loaded all my peck
cts, hid the balance of the stuff and went
all the way home on dead run, yelling
like an Indian as soon as got in sight OF
the hole in the ground We lived in-sod-
house, you know. Dad and l hitched
up the team as soon as | could get breath
to tell him what had happened, and
we drove down and got all the stiff we
could find"
"How much did it all amount TOP"
BLAMED if can tell We, stranger. Dad
never would tell me; said it might make
me too proud and rich. He said it would
buy a good improved farm back in Gods
country Missouri-and he intended to
get back there as soon as he sold his
claim"
"Where is your father now?"
"In Missouri with the rest of the folks
/ came here because my gals folks-they
had claim next TO ours-came here tC
visit relatives till the spring. want bel
to marry me right off and go down where
my folks live and reckon she will.
The youth would not submit to further
questioning evidently suspecting the
guileless scribe of a scheme to erect s
claim TO his treasure-troye.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26
A New Customer.
TBrooklvn Eagle.l

"Who is that new man that opened a
wood yard or something on Second street
and bought bill of goods of US last sat
urday?" asked Old Hyson; give lost his
card and forgotten his name"
II don't know" replied the Office boy
"Well, said the old man 81 hate TO
ask him. Run down to the corner and
see what is on his sign; that'n give it.
Presently the boy came back.
Lime and COAL he said.
And Old Hyson calmly charged the bill
up to Lyman Cole. 4... 49,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26
Romance of Everyday Life.
detroit Free Press.l

Detroit free Press.
The public ear has become weary with
being told that truth is stranger than
felton," it is doubtful whether one in a
hundred of the habitual ovelreaders has
any neutrality-suspicious. as to the mean
ing of the saying.
They understand, ina vague general
way, that things occasionally happen in
the actual affairs of life which are as sem
satiOnal and thrilling as any of the events
envolved from the lurid imagination of
the romancer and spread upon the pages
of a novel;
But they do not understand, at least
the vast majority does not, that daily life
is full of just such occurrences, and that
the faithful chronicle of current events in
the newspapers contains more romance
every day in the year than all the novels
OF all the professional nOvelists.
1t was from the daily papers, indeed,
that Charles Reade confessedly drew his
most startling and sensational stories;
and if other novelists were as frank as he
was they would probably have to admit
that what their readers regard as vivid
imagination on their part is nothing but
an ingenious adaptation of facts from the
source to which Reade acknowledged his
indebtedness.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26

A few weeks ago, while standing at my
surgery window. l observed q we'll
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
ORIGIN OF WHIST.

The origin and date of the first plav
ing OF whist have of late been mueb dis.
cussed, particularly in England, where
the game receives Il degree a d study
well nigh religious. Edmund Hovle.
the earliest writer of any note on whist.
commonly called the father of the game.
published his first ''Short Treaties &"
about 1742, in his seventieth vear
Though educated for the law. he loved
cards passionately, and was so skillful a
player that he used to receive n ruinea
a lesson for teaching different games
lie spent his days and nights at the
card table, which SO agreed with him
that he lived to be ninety-seven. Whist
IS supposed to be a development of
trump or triumph, played in England
at least as early as the reigu as Henry
VIII. Trump is mentioned in n ser.
mon by Latimer, the Sunday before
Christmas Q529 and by Shakespeare
punning on the word triumph, in can
tony and Cleopatra" Whist is not
named by any writer of the Elizabethan
a. The earliest reference to whist is
IN 1921, in the poems of John Taylor,
the water poet In the first edition of
Cotton's Complete Gamester Q672).
no allusiOn is made to whist, but in the
second edition, issued six years later, it
IS mentioned as game commonly
known in England" Cotton's saying
that the game gets its name from the
silence observed in playing it, although
generally accepted, is by many regarded
as incorrect The proper name is proba
bly, whisk.
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
WAVING A BANNER IN IOWA.

One night a young doctor of Newton
Center, Iowa, escorted the daughter of n
prominent and wealthy citizen to churcb
The father of the girl hal forbidden her
to accompany the young man. When
church was out the father lay in wait
behind a tree for his daughters com,
panion and jumped ont upon him as ba
passed. He seized the young man nv
the throat and tore his collar Off and the
bosom out of his shirt The old gen.
tleman then ran away. The doctor
went on home with the young lady as
though nothing had happened. When
she entered the house her father tool,
her to the parlOr, and pointing to the
doctors shirt bosom, which he had
tackled to the wall, said: Il intend to
have it framed" On Monday the doctor
saw the old gentleman passing his office.
The story of the shirt bosom was already
known about the village The young
man rushed out, dragged his Sunday
night assailant into his office, and COM
pelled him to take off his white shirt
Attaching to it this placard: "a con.
trlhu'ion for coward, he fa tened the
Gic ment to pole aud hing i: out of his
cill"o wind wv Since then the father n
the young lady has apologized TO fba
doctor AID invited him to call on lis
"ughter as often as he pleases.
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CABINET OBJECTIONS.

The diary of Mr.. Adams shows that.
While he never complained to his Cabinet
that they had deserted him, he felt bit.
terly disappointed that he was not the
choice OF the politicians and of the
people for reelection. He would not.
however, even write few pleasant
words of thanks (when asked to do sol
to an editor who supported him; neither
would he appoint to OF remove from
Office any one because of an individual
preference for or against himself Dis
tmGulshed politicians from different Sec
tons OF the country, who would call on
hlm while sOjourning at Washington,
would be treated with glacial frigidity.
and perhaps be unceremouiously dis.
missed, that he might take a solitary
walk OF ride on horseback. Gen. jack
son was meanwhile being brought before
the public, under the direction of Aaron
Burr, Martin Van Buren and Edward
Livingston, us n "mau of the people. :"
They had persuaded him to resign his
seat in the Senate of the United States,
where he might have nltie political mis-
takes, and retire to his farm in Tennes-
Sc, while they flooded tine country with
accounts of his military exploits and his
social good qualities Daniel Webster
told Samuel Breck, as The latter records
IN his diary, that lie knew more than
fifty members Of Congress who had ex-
pended anu pledged all they were worth
IN setting up presses and employing
other means to forward J..clsOn's cleo
ton
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
C0WCUAIIiER.

Although it may be doubted whether
fifty years ago the fashionable pronun.
cation of the word was col0cumber." vet
the statement that it ''was ever written
otherwise than cucumber, at least bv
persons Of any education, was certainly
III error. In old dictionaries, as a rule.
the latter is the word used; in Barrett's
"Alvearie" Q5sO it appears as ga GU
cumber." The colO-pretix is deemed
Vulgansm at the present day, and was
considered SO even in the seventeenth
century by some for we read in West
macots Scripture Herbal" Q696 "Cu-
cumbers, OF cowcumbers as the vulgar
style them, " (p 11O Notwithstanding
tins assertion, the vulgar" term found
general acceptance i'll a large section of
the community, if we may Judge from
the following extracts from works of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Wltbal's Little Dictionarie for Child
ren" Q6O9) contains "a garden of cow
cumbers." We find cowcumber in tbe
"Gozophlacium Anglicanum," QG80.
and cowcumber or cucumber in "a New
English Dictionary, by J. K(ersey,)
Q7O3) In ''Praxis Medicine" u632
and 16S9, written by the famous and
worthy physician, Walter Bruel, 1 have
counted IA examples of the word cow
cumber, but have not found one of
cucumber. The former have met with
III other medical works of the same
period At page AZ of Westmacot's
work in the line "Cucumbers or mutton
cumbers.
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
SHAVING HATS.

One Of the hardest posts in n hat
tactoty " said boss hat maker, "is that
OF a shaver. Few people know that
there IS such person in hat factory.
but there Is, and his work is as importont
as 1t is difficult. He is armed with a thin
narrow-bladed knife, twelve inches LONG.
and as sharp as steel can possibly be
made, in which condition it must be kent
at all times. The hat body comes to the
shaver III its raw condition. 1t is in the
shape OF V, and is covered with short
line hair, and perfectly dry. The hat
body IS placed over the knee cap of the
man, who is to shave it with the point
up. The knife is then taken in the riobt
hand, and, with the edge from the BODY.
IS drawn back and forward with sucb
quickness that you would wonder tbot
an arm could be moved so fast. In the
mean time, great care must be taken as
the least pressure of the edge of the
knife cuts the hat, and it is spoiled.
In the factories where nothing but
tirst-class goods are made these cut hats
are thrown on the hands of the workman
but IN others the workmen lose onlv
about One-half of the value of the hat
and the firm sells it to some second.class
manufacturer. The only difference is
that smaller-sized hat is made. the
body being first worked over, SO that
the top point is drawn away from the
cut until the latter is about midway he
tween the top and the outer edge. after
which the hat is made up in the usual
way. Hats made III this way from bodies
which have been intended for the high
est priced hats can be sold for about half
price, and also be of the best material
A number of retail houses who sell low
priced goods deal in these hats.
when the knives are worn down bv
constant sharpening, the workman takes
them home for use in his kitchen and
they are without doubt the finest knife
ever made for such use. The blade be.
ing so thin, its own weight will almost
take slice from q loaf of bread and
tie thinness of a slice of roast beef
which it shaves off would make vonr
mouth water. The only trouble is that
whenever the edge touches a bone. or
other hard substance, it is dented or
bent The edge of one of these knives
would make BARRIERS razor blush"
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I&4sn ,,i.'.@r3

The belief i'll IL ,,cg1 aid stroa.
and the happy parse :~r,t good luck is
always on the w";ch lot to lose it, for
nothing is easier than, lnconsoi3uslv. to
make over to some oD, else the benefits
of it. The luck of ii whole. household
may be lost by careless housewife who
lends anything OH Monday morning.
Some mothers even IL use their married
children Il turf to light the fire with on
the first morning of tile week, and care
fully place a new turf on the fire for each
lighted one lent on other days. 10 give
away milk without fits putting in it a
pinch OF salt is fa,al To the prosperity of
a dairy, and to part with homeless dog
or any animal that has sought protection
also gives away luck Ole odd belief is,
that though some people are unfortu-
nate III all their own 1nN9rns. tbnv have
the power of benef ing everyone they
come III contact with; th,y are described
as 'sOnsy;' the pig thlt IS fattened in
order to pay the rent duo to them always
pro pers, the wages pal by them go
lar, their slightest gil. IS galuable. whilst
those OF grud5er Oa'y }ring disaster;
and there is something Eastern in the
Importance attached to lifts aud their
glvers III this way. III; pelsantry can
"t once recognize anyone with the price
less blessing of lack b, an open and
cheerful expression, and, in fact, good
hea goes with eo)d luck
L, IS common Tor one person to put
spells upon auot ier, and to Influence
those at great distance tIuS, if any Of
the friends or children be travelling on
Friday, the Irish mother DOS not brush
or comb her hair on that law, or else
they would surely wander IN lose their
way. Some people do nos wash on
FRIDAY as cure for tJo,hache. and
many wear little bits Of folded paper
sewn III theig cOthes as charms against
the same affection. There are spells and
charms for other illnesses, aud half the
U!d women wear blessed rings Of brass to
preserve them from rhpu.ua:isn.
luumerable are the means employed
by young girls to pierce the darkness of
Ter future as to marriage, but no
Efforts toward meeting their fate appear
to be made by men. L. ought to be re-
IN 'rked that pious paoplo speak very
'ternly against these rites, rs many of
them-sueh as the one " ere girls throw
4 ball OF wool down an I'd quarry and
wait till it is held in the dJrkness-dis-
tinctly raise the EVIL One.
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
SNORING IN THE wu.rn HOUSE.

$50 the White Iioasa is to hive
another smoker, said nm 81 a:taahs of
that establishment to Wdshiugton cor
respondent, as he carefully nursed a
fragrant Havana and watched the rings
of smoke ascend toward the frescoed
ceiling. "I see that Mr.. Cleveland is n
smoker. Well, there has been pretty
constant smoking here since Grant came
in. There was an iuterreguum, so to
speak, under Hayes, who did not smoke
nor did any of his boys but with that
exception the Presidents since Lincoln
have all been smokers. Mr.. Lincoln
did not smoke nor chew. Johnson did.
so did Grant, SO did Garfield, 50 does
Arthur and so will, Cleveland. There
were great times amoug the smokers
when Grant came in. 1t seemed as
though everybody here smoked then. I
remember up in the Presidents room at
the Capitol, when he used to COUP there
to sign bills on the closing days of the
session, the smoke was so thick that Won
could cut it with knife, as the saving
IS. No, Hayes did not smoke, but not
because of any objection on the part of
his wife, for I think she rather enioyed
the odor of good cigar. I remember
that she turned the cottage at the
Soldiers Home upside down one dav
looking for a cigar for me, after 1 had
taken dinner with the family there.
She had seen me smoking at my desk,
and set out to find some cigars there, in
sisting that I should not be deprived of
my after-dinner smoke, but failed, for
somebody had captured all of them"
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
WHAT Is THE nKAIN2

After ALL what is the brain Int n
scrap-boOk? II, when we are asleep
some one could peep in there, what
would he find? Lines from favorite
poets, stray bits of tunes and snatebes
from songs, melodies from operas, SEN
tences from books, strange, meaningless
dates, recollections of childhood, va.,ue
and gradually growing faint moments Of
perfect happiness, hours of despair and
misery. The first kiss of childhood
lovers, the first parting ofbosom friends
the word of praise or the word of blame
OF fond mother. pictures of men and
women, hopes and dreams, that came To
nothing, unrequited Kindness, graft
tude for favors, quarrels and reconeilia.
tions, old jokes, and through them all
the thread of one deep and enduring
passion for some one man or woman that
may have been a misery or a delight
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
I347 KENT COUNTY
Mutual Insurance. Co
DOVER, DEL.

lhsureS against l,'s IS H:,. tl.,r.l,,...
clcS only under winch iu. r"ir- aI. l..,.5,. i..
nualIy lH advance during u,uhcI>lir. any, d.! ..!
ceasing 10 be mcmnei, whatever remains 5r.e,
uends is returned, thereby turul>nii.. i.,,r, ','
AT cost. 'i@AcD
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
Boilers of Various Sizes
kept on hand or made
at Short Notice.
TIE WREN PATENT
Crate Bar.


ingssfor this bar:
1st.-A saving of fuel
over the ordinary bar.
2nd.-Such construc.
ton as will equalize all
strains resulting from ex-
pansion and contraction
thus avoiding warping, and
thereby insuring long SER
vice.
3rd.-Thorough com
bustion offuel, owing to the
large air spaces exposed.
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
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All buS ness communications should D, addressed
To
WM. DEXNEY. Hec'y,
March 4, 1883 Dpvrp nrr
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
GBc Smgtna Gimcs.
SMYRNA, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, April 1, 1855
cHuRcH SERVICES.

AsBURY METHOD DIST Observation-Disclosures Preach
ing at l0% A. NJ. and p. NJ. Sunday School
9A.M and2P. NJ. Prayer Meeting-ThurSdays al
7P. NJ. Rev. J. B. Quigg, Pastor
ST. PETERS PROTESTANT EPIsCOPAL.-Sunday-
Preaching atlO17 An. and ~ P. NJ. Holy Days
-9% A. NJ. Sunday School, p. ~ Prayer
Meeting Wednesdays, at ~ P NJ. Rev. Vim.
b. Gordon, Rector.
PREsBYTERIAN.- -Sunday-Preaching at 1917 A. NJ.
and ~ P. NJ. Sunday School, p. NJ. Prayer
Meeting-Fridays at ~ P. NJ. Rev J. T.
Umsted, Pastor.
ST. POLYCARP CATHOLIC CHURCH-Secnnd and
Fourth Sundays Of every month at 10 A. NJ.
and P. NJ. Rev. Geo. 5. Bradford, Pastor.
CENTENNIAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL (COlored)-
Sunday-Preaching at lG;5 A. NJ and ~ p. n.
Pastor.
A. NJ. f. -Sunday-Preaching at l015
A. NJ. and ~ ?. NJ. Sunday SchOOl-2I5 p NJ.
Rev. Seth W. Smith, Pastor.
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01

Until every good man is brave we
must expect to find many good woman
timid.
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01
Abstract Of Statement. ,ss.

Receipts fol the Year .ss.. .
Dividends PaId -.--
Paid Members o. WitndIawal.........
Amouhtto treditot Member, De, 3l l,~.. ,,'..
Smyrna times., 1885-04-01

S9Hth bo"Rd-ENprcSS leaving PHILADELPHIA NJ
u 10 +. NJ runs daily, and stops at New castle
iZUS A; VI Middlctown l2.37 A. NJ. Clayton - 81
a. NJ harrington l.3S A. NJ. Seaford . 10 NJ N
leave passengers from Wilmington and noipt,
North, and to take on passengers for south Of
Nonh-bo nd.-Express leaving Delmar ot > NJ
4; NJ, runs daily and stops at Seaford 297 n
harrington POI A. NJ, Clayton 357 A. NJ Middle
town 56 A. NJ, and New Castle - A NJ 10 Iesv,o
passengers from Dclmar and points south thereof
Neo CuSue accommodation 7raiRS-leave vii
mlngton at els A. NJ. and $50 Pm. Leave New
Castle at ll.25 A. NJ and / 80 r. NJ 'N"
SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINS eavc C,,,.r,,,
ior clayton 723, sI2, $50 and Hos A.M,l4iii5
81 81 anu anu a4S P NJ. Leave Clayton for Smyrna
7.54 NJ. ' ''''' 49, do ana
CoNNECTIoNs.-AtP Porter. with Newark g Dolo.
ware City Railroad. At Townsend with O,,Ca
anne % So Kent Railroad. AtClayton with DelSwara
&CheSapeake " Railroad and Baltimore 4 DelSwS
bay Railroad At Harrington. with Delowero
MMaryIand Virginia Railroad. AtScaford win
Nal NNaunpSrldge q SGaford Railroad. At Delmnr win
New York Philadelphia Il Norfolk. Wicomico q.
fOcOmoke, and Peninsula Railroad -
CHAS. Z. PUGH. General Mapooor
J, X. WOoD, General Passenger Agent.