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Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
Mr.. Cleveland Suggests a Com
mission.

In his message to Congress Thursday
suggesting legislation to facilitate the
settlement of labor disputes President
Cleveland declares the relations at
present existing between labor and
capital in this country far from satisfac-
tory. The discontinued of the en-
plOyed is due" he thinks, Gin a large
degree to the grasping and needless
exactions of employers" On the utE-
er hand, " it must" he says, "be con-
ceded that labOring men are not always
causeless and unjustihable disturb
ance." Effort on the part of the feder-
al government to establish better ac-
cord between the conflicting interests
must be greatly limited by constitu-
tiOnal restrictions. There are MANY
grievances that Congress cannot redress.
Still something, the President thinks,
maybe done in the line Of supplying
facilities for voluntary arbitration. In
this view he suggests the creation by
Congress of a permanent commission
OF labor" consisting of three members,
who shall be Officers of the govern
ment, charged, among other duties,
with the consideration and settlement,
when possible, of all controversies be-
tween labor and capital" A perman-
ent body, nOn-partisan and expert
enced, would be able to arrive at de-
cisiOns that would command general
respect, and such a body would be
much preferable to the temporary com
mission appointed as directed by the
act recently passed by the House dur
ing the pendency of hot disputes. The
Legislatures and Executives of States
would, perhaps, at times desire its SER
vices, and in questions involving inter-
state commerce its aid could be offered
with the most perfect proprety. The
mere existence of such a commission,
he believes, would tend to lessen labor
troubles. Its lack of power to enforce
its decisions would not impair its use
fulness, the experience of railroad COM
missions, with advisory powers only,
having shown that such power is not
essential to the performance of very
important and valuable duties. In
July, 1884, Congress created a bureau
of labor, with a commissioner at its
head. "The commission which I sug-
gest," says the President, "could be en-
grated upon the bureau thus already
organized, by the addition of two more
commissioners and by supplementing
the duties now imposed upon it."-BdL-
timOre Sun.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
The Law Of Conspiracy.

The Knights of Labor appear to have
overlooked one rule of the common
law, says the Providence Journal,
which in popular phrase may be put
thus: If two or more men cOnspire to
injure the business of an individual or
q corporation; to prevent other men
from working for such person or COM
pany; or to prevent others from buy
ing or selling to such individual or cor
pOration-the persons so cOnspiring are
guilty of an offence at common law
for which, upon due proof, they will
by the courts be mulcted for damages.
The only practical difficulty is in the
matter of proof.
1t must be understood that this does
not at all trench upon the right of 10
or 900 men to refuse to work. That
is a matter Of contract there being no
continuing contract, there is the per-
feet legal and moral right to refuse or
quit work. But if 10 or 80 men stand
at the door of place of business, and
in concert, either by violent or other
supposedly effective means, endeavor
to prevent persons from going to work
in such place, they are in law conspira-
tors and subject to legal process for the
indemnifcation of the proprietor. Now,
the decree of the authorities of the
Knights of Labor is secretly issued ;
but the execution of the decree is open.
1t has happened that in obeying the
decree to strike the strikers have CO.
creed not only those of their member
ship, but those who did not belong to
the brotherhood
In view of what is taking place all
over the country, it is not probable
that this law, so exceptionally appealed
to, will fail to be brought into notice
and operation. The basis of the law is
that maxim so just and sensible as to
have received the assent of centuries,
that man must so use his own prop
erty or personal rights as not to in
fringe upon the equally sacred rights
of another. Blank has a mill in which
he employs 500 or 900 men. But Doe
and Roe refuse to work in the mill.
So far all is legally right. Doe and
Roe agree to prevent 10 or 100 men
from continuing in the mill so long as
they cOnfne themselves to argument
all is still, perhaps, legally right, but
the moment they resort to terrorism or
violence they are legally and morally
wrong. In every case of a strike, thus
far reported, the strikers have openly
violated the law and trampled upon
the rights of others.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
One Senator's Sad Life.

The Affections which have recently
been suffered by Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, have drawn to him the SYM
pathy of large circle of friends. His
home on Capitol Hill has been almost
entirely broken up, and he is still suf-
fering the greatest distress because of
the insanity of his daughter.
1t will be remembered that his son
was drowned in the Potomac last Fall,
and that Mrs. Morgan's death followed
shortly after the accident. These two
Affections, coming so closely together,
seem to have unsettled the mind of his
daughter, and she requires the most
constant care, and is the object of the
Senator's extreme solicitude.
He has not been in society at all this
winter, and declined ain invitation to
the state dinner, at the White House.
He keeps a messenger at his house
ready to summon him from the Senate
at any time his presence may be re-
quired, and will not trust himself to go
beyond the reach of this summons, day
or night.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
Crop Report of April.

The April crop report of the depart
ment of agriculture includes reports
from State agents on Winter grain.
The following is furnished from Mary
land: Though the season for sowing
Winter grain was good, preparation of
soil excellent, and weather prOpitious
to termination and making roots strong
before Winter proved hard on vegeta-
BILE and animal life. While snow this
year seems to have given wheat but lit
tie or no protection, yet in a few isOla-
ted localities it has proved beneficial.
Yet such has been the improvement in
wheat under the influence of the fine
days of the last of March, rs well as its
comparative freedom from all diseases,
Hessian fly, &c, and the fact that as
great an area was sOWn as in 1854, not
withstanding the low price of this grain,
we must conclude, if no unforeseen Oc-
currence takes place, Maryland will
yield as great crop of wheat this year
as she ever has done. While the dry
season of July and August prevented
many from following for this crop, such
was the favorable condition of soil and
weather at the time of seeding that
many an acre in corn and other cereals
were sown to wheat, and some fallOwed,
though their seeding was made thereby
later than usual.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
Wilmington, AprI 18th 1886
Eastern Shore Travel.

The passenger train between Balti-
more and the Eastern Shore put on
last week by the Pennsylvania Railroad
has proved both popular and effective.
The pleasant features of this new SER
vice is the avoidance of any change of
cars between Baltimore and the object
i've points on the Eastern Shore. Res
idents along the line of the Delaware
Railroad, from Easton, Lewes, George
town, Milford, Harrington, Dover, Gen.
treville, Chestertown, Clayton, Smyrna,
MiddletOwn, and from Dorchester,
Caroline, Talbot, Queen Anne's and
Counties of Maryland, and all of the
middle and lower portion of Delaware,
can now come Baltimore and shop and
return the same day.
Already many are availing them
selves of this privilege both from Ma
ryland and Delaware. The action of
the company in furnishing these facili-
ties to the section benefited by them is
a graceful acknowledgement of the
claims of the Baltimore merchants.
Neither the Baltimore merchants nor
the citizens of the Eastern Shore have
been slow to appreciate this action OF
the railrOad.-BdLtimOre Sun.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
" Bill Simpsons Darter."

No matter how hard and ugly the
Truth Is, it is more pleasing than the
atiectatiOn of what is not real. Expo
sure is certain to follow people who
try to go through life behind a mask of
false pretenses. We have little svmpa-
thy for people like "Bill Simpsons Oar
ter" A gentleman travelling from Buff
falO to New York CITY tells the story:
At Albany two ladies dressed in the
extreme fashion, entered the car. Their
manners indicated great afIectatiOn and
consequent shallOwness.
The only unoccupied seat in the car
was directly behind a quiet looking
lady, evidently from the country. Her
dress was of calico, her bonnet
of cotton. She could not, however,
have looked neater, and she had good
honest face.
As the fashionable ladies adjusted
their draperies in the unOccupied seat,
one of them said TO the other:
Don't you think it too bad that
there are such poor accommodations
on railway trains nOw?"
"HOw-in what way ?" asked her
companion.
"Why, here we are crowded up with
all classes of people, some of them so
common. Look at that person in front
of us.''
'Horlid, isn't she?"
Perfectly dreadful"
Looks like common laborer."
How annoying to have to come in
contact with such people?'
Belongs to some ordinary family.
If one could only exclude ones self
! from such persons when travelling
even short distances! l suppose it is
hOrrid in me to say it, but | have all
my life had repugnance to common
labOring people"
The lady in the calicO-dress must
have heard part of this conversation,
but her face was perfectly composed.
At this moment an elderly man in
the hOme-spun homemade garments
of a farmer came down the aisle. He
stopped before the ladies of fashion,
closely scrutiniZed the features of one
having ''such repugnance to common
people" and just as the train stopped
at the station, cried out loud enough to
be heard by every person in the car:
"LOokee var, hain't you old Bill
Simpsons darter? But l know you air
'thOut askin'. HOw-de do, anyhow ?
You don't change a speck. Got the
same nose you had when you was a
little gal o'twelve or fifteen years, trot-
tim b'afoot around my Ole farm in Po-
dunk county"
"Yer mind how yOust to give yer
two bits day an your dinner fer
helpin' my young uns dig tatcrs! Ho
no ho!'
The young lady had dropped her
beaded veil and was nervOusly biting
at her fan, but the old farmer went on
heedlessly:
"Thcy's ben mighty changes sence
then. Your pap went out to ColOrady
and mad a big fOrtin thor, an l hear
you lived in great style. But Bill
Simpson amt the man to forgit old
frens, end you tell him that you've
saw old Jack Billings. what yOust tC
give him many a days work when he
was so pore his family had to wait till
the hens laid fore they could have any
breakfast You kin remember thai
yerself, 1 reckon"
An there want nobody gladdel
nor me when her pap did get so rich Sc
suddint for he was a mighty hard
wOrkin' blacksmith, and always pore
cause of bad luck.'
My wife sez she lost an awful gooC
washerwoman when yer ma moved
AM git off here Goodbye! Good
. bye :"
The meckcst, most suhdued persol
on that train during the rest of thai
trip was bill Simpsons darlcr."
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
An Ancient Delawarean.

The Cincinnati Enquirer of recent
date contains a likeness of Mary Ben
enman, who it is claimed, is the oldest
woman in the United States if not in
the world. She lives at Kokomo, Ind,
and was born in Sussex county, Della
ware, on April q, ,1769,so that on Tues
day last, she was III years old. She
is the daughter of Captain Christopher
r. Perry, an officer in the Revolution
ary war, and was married about the
year 1900 to William Coulter, and her
first child, Peter is still living. Her
husband dying, Mrs. Coulter afterward
married John Benenman, who has been
dead for many years. Her first expe-
rience on a railroad train occurred
about year ago, and the old lady was
so scared at the sparks from the loco
motive that she thought the cars would
catch fire. She said she preferred the
old way of riding. George Washing
ton was a friend of her father, and she
remembers having seen him upon sew
eral occasions.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
Some Timely Hints.

Mortar and paint may be removed
from windOw-glass with hot, sharp vim
egar.
Remove flower-pOt stains from win
dOw-sills by rubbing with fine wood
ashes and rinse with clean water
Strong brine may be used to advan-
tage in washing bedsteads. Hot alum
water is also good for the purpose.
Drain pipes and places that are sour
or impure may be cleansed with lime
water or carbOlc acid or chloride of
lime.
Hellebore sprinkled on the floor at
night destroys cockrOaches. They cat
it and are poisoned. 1t should be
swept up each morning.
Plush goods and all articles dyed
with aniline colOrs, faded from expo
sure to light, will look as bright as ev-
er after sponging with chloroform.
Carpets should be thoroughly beaten
on wrong side first and then on the
right side, after which spots may be re-
moved by the use oX-gall or ammonia
and water.
TO clean marble the following is rec
commended Common soda, two pounds
powdered pumice-stone and finely
powdered, one pound each. Pass
through fine sieve and mix to a thin
paste with water. Rub it we'll all over
the marble and the stains will be re-
moved, then wash the marble over and
it will be as clean as it was at first.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
Detection of Counterfeit Butter.

No work conducted by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington, has
given so much evidence of real impor-
tance to the farming interests of the
country as the discoveries and investi-
cations of DR.. Thomas Taylor relating
to the purity, adulteration and counter
feits of butter.
Many so-called scientists have en-
deavOred to dispute the statements of
DR.. Taylor, but in no instance have
they been able to overthrow them.
Prof Webber, of Ohio, has made an eff
fort of this character, but he has shown
a wOful ignorance of the subject, and
his experiments add nothing but cOnfu-
sion to the matter.
The instrument used by DR.. Taylor
is the microscope, by which he is able,
with the use of the pOlariscope, to dis
tinguish pure butter from its substi-
tutes found in commerce; an achieve
ment heretofore considered impossible
by the leading chemists of Europe and
the United States.
The whole farming interests of the
country are largely indebted to the
thOrOughness and merit of the Doctors
investigations.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
How Senators Dress.
TIE TOILET OF "THE GRAVE AND REV
EREND sEIGNORs" AT WASHINGTON.

The favOrite dress of the Senator of
to-day is black brOadcloth. double
breasted frOCk coat, high standing col
lar open at the neck and boots. Still
business suits are fast creeping in, and
fully One-third of the Senators wear
cutaway coats.
The only man in the Senate to-day
who wears a swallOwtail coat at all
times is Senator COnger, and he is per-
haps the most Democratic in manners
of that body. Warner Miller has on
clothes which would not be out of
place were he at the head of a grocery
store. They are business clothes of
rough brown goods, and Mr.. Miller's
collar IS tied with soft polka dot
necktie. Senators Morgan and Butler
are both well dressed southern men ::
still their coats are black diagonal cut
aways, buttoned high at the front by a
single button, and neither of them
showing an atom of shirt. Stanford,
the millionaire from California, is
dressed in a business suit which could
be duplicated for $40, and his eyes are
covered by glasses with rubber rims.
John A. Logan wears u turnover
collar and black clothes. His raven
black hair kisses the collar of n black
brOadclOth, dOuble-breasted frock coat,
the skirts of which are very full and
the buttons seldom fastened. Walt
hall, Lamar's successor, dresses like a
business man. He is tall and thin, and
his blue and white necktie is not tied.
but is fastened by gold rim, through
which it is drawn. Like the most of
the southern men he wears boots, and
as rule, you will find these only used
at present by statesmen from the South
and West.
The dandy of the Senate is Matt Ran
som. He is always dressed in black
diagonal, and wears his coat closely
buttoned, as he moves about the cham
ber with stately strides, pulling down
his white cuffs so that at least three
inches of them may be seen below his
coat sleeves. Senator Ingalls, is one of
the best dressed men in the Senate.
He wears good clothes and has Broad
way tailor. John Sherman wears "A
blue-blacll broadcloth, with a rather
high standing collar open at the front.
This collar is bound with a wide black
necktie, and the vest is cut rather low,
so as to show the whitest and finest of
linen. Senator Teller dresses in black,
and comes his hair without part, a Ia
pOmpddOur. Cullom wears business
clothes and boots. Don Cameron af
fects dark coat and light pantaloOns,
and Wade Hampton has rough suit oi
clothes. Senator Vance wears a derby
hat, COckrell slOuch and Evarts q
plug. Carp" in Cleveland Leader.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
Quite Able To Take Care Of Them
selves.

Miss Jennie CorsOn, who is known
throughout the country as the "Shep-
erdess of the West" went to Montana
some years ago, and took up a sheep
ranch in Meagher county. She did it
all alone and unaided. After while
she sent for her lazy brother from Chi
cago, and made him Overseer of her
hOcks.
Matters went we'll with her, and she
had fine band of sheep and as valuable
a ranch property as there is in Mon
tana. She took up some land under
one and another of the Government
acts, proved up on time, and became
a landed proprietor.
Now, it happened that the next claim
to her own was taken up by an enter
prising young man, named Severance,
who, like his fair neighbOr, first started
a sheep ranch and then got hold of
the soil. They tended flocks in COM
pany for some time, aud then Sever
ance proposed marriage. He was ac-
cepted, and the two united their for
tunes and have been doing better and
better ever since.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
WHOLE NO. 1905.
A Lesson In Morals.
WHEREIN NEW CASTLE CAN LEARN
FROM KENT AND SUSSEX COUN-
TIES.

Editor EUery EUeninq: During nv
visit of inspection down the State I
made it a point to inquire of those who
were in a position to know, what was
the probable increase in population of
Kent and Sussex counties since the
census of 1880. was informed that
Sussex county was now estimated at
over 10000, and Kent at IS, 900, making
the two counties have a population Of
l8,OOO. The census gives them as fol-
lows: Kent, 1884; Sussex, 36,O18.
In 1880, Kent and Sussex counties had
four towns with over 1000 population:
Dover, 1855 Lewes, 2,132; Milford,
1850; Smyrna, 2,49O; and Camden,
l,50; Harrington, 1,0l1; Milton,
1925; SeafOrd, 1910; Laurel, 1903
Georgetown, 1,123. These towns have
increased very much within five years,
and many smaller towns have almost
doubled. believe the estimate of 49,
600 or $4,000 to be within bounds.
Now found in Sussex county, with
population of 10000 inhabitants, but
five persons, in prison for crime, and
all for petty crimes. These persons
were all negroes. l suggested to those
"uOlH udu COuNefS6u Win ABOUT JllS
excellent state of morals, that if they
could send a few missionaries to New
Castle County, and learn our people
how to live honest, sober and indus
triOus lives, and teach us how to obey
both human and divine laws, it would
be great saving in taxes, and great
deal of lying would be stopped about
their neighbOrs. Kent county has but
l9 prisoners in Jail for crime. This is
also an excellent showing for law and
good morals. New Castle county, with
at least 10000 population, has over 100
in Jail all the time, and on. an average
nine persons are sent to Jail for each
day in the year. The police arrests in
1888 We're 2,609, and, in 1884, 2,037 for
1885, l do not know the number, as nv
report is in the hands of the printing
committee. The people of New Castle
county need but go to the two lower
counties to learn economy and take a
lesson in morals and good behavior /;
good schools for both white and color
ed are numerous in Kent and Sussex
counties. was introduced to several
cOlOred teachers, and found them above
the average and we'll fitted to teach.
E. B. FRAZER.
! illumination, ADri 18th 1886.
Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
Pasteur and HYdrophobia.

While all Europe is deeply interested
in Professors Pasteur's theory of hy-
drOphobia treatment, the feeling is ev-
identity growing, and especially among
scientific men, that he has failed to de-
mOnstrate its efficiency. The evidence
brought forward to show that the dogs
who bit many of his patients were re-
ally mad has proved singularly defect
i've. In fact, in the majority of the
cases there is no evidence worthy of ac-
ceptance. The death of three patients
after incubation has also weakened
confidence in the treatment, while it
has suggested to some minds q doubt
whether there may not be as much
danger from the process as from the
virus from a mad dog. Considering
the opportunities that have been af-
fOrded to test the treatment, the cOllec-
ton of scientific facts regarding and il
lustrating it has been inexplicably slow
and imperfect, 1t might almost be
thought that NJ. Pasteur avoided the
kind of testimony which alone can set
tie the question one way or the other.
At the same time a rival process has
been recalled to public attention. Fifty
years ago a French physician, DIR. Bu-
issOn, made u communication to the
Academy Of Arts and Sciences of Paris
on his observation and experience in
the treatment of hydrOphobia. His
method was to order Russian baths,
either vapor or heat, from forty-two to
fOrty-eight degrees Reaumer, seven
baths in seven days. The wound was
washed with liquid ammonia, and the
patient was to drink large quantities OF
hot bOrage daily to promota perspira-
ton. He prescribed mucn exercise,
and fresh pOultices of linseed meal for
the wound, to be applied every three
hours. If the disease had already de-
clared itself, he kept the patient in the
bath until a cure was effected. He
said:
Experience has proved to me that
hydrOphObia may last three days. The
cure is sure, following my system, the
firstday uncertain the second day
impossible the third" He asserted
that he had cured himself by this
method, and that afterward he effected
the complete cure of nearly one hun.
! dred persons who had been bitten by
rabid dogs. Whether the proof the
madness of the dogs in these cases was
better than in those of DR.. Pasteur we
do not know, but there are extant ma
ny excellent testimonials to the effect
iveness of DR.. Buisson's method.
In connection with the general sub
ject, the advice of a naval surgeon who
writes to The Pail Mall Budget is time
ly. He suggests, as a means of pre-
venting hydrophobia, that the owners
of dogs should treat them with a lit
tie more judgement in the matter o
water, food, exercise and cleanliness,
and he denOunces the accursed cruelty
that keeps a dog forever on the chain
-NelU York Tribune.