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Smyrna times., 1886-01-27

SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINS.-LeaveS Snvrna
for Clayton 7.l9, 8.33, $50 and 11.O4 A. M IA 44O
and 743 P. NJ. Leave Clayton for Smyrna 7.SO.
844, l0.0i, and 1l.l6 A. 81. l54, $50 and 754 P NJ
NEW GORKPHILADELPHIA & NORFOLK RAILROAD
EXPREss-Leave Philadelphia 1O17 a. IN week
days and lilo p IN. daily. Leave Baltimore SO
a. m, 735 p m. Wilmington 1858 a. m, week -days
and ll.53 p m daily stopping at Dover and Del
mar regularly and at Middletown, Clayton,
Harrington, and SeafOrd to leave passengers from
Wilmington and points North or take on passen-
gers for points south Of Delmar.
The lO,l7 a. m. train also stops at Laurel and the
lilo p m. train at New Castle to leave passengers
from Wilmington and points North or take Das-
sengers for points south Of Delmar. II 10 D. m
train also stops at Laurel TO leave passengers from
Wilmington or points North.
NOrth-bOu trains leave Delmar .35 a. H.. daily
and 2.3S p m. weekdays. Dover 252 a. m and
S.57 p. m, regularly arriving at Wilmington 4O5
a. m, and $40 D. m. Baltimore G45 a. IN and 3 35
p. m, and Philadelphia 4.5O a. m and 553 n m
The 238 p m. train also stops at Harrington Tegu-
larly; and at Laurel, SeafOrd Clayton and Mid.
dletOWni 70 leave passengers from points south Of
DelmaT, or take passengers for Wilmington and
points North.
The l.35 a m. train also stops at seaford
Harrington, Clayton and MiddletOwn TO leave
passengers from points South Of Delmar' or lake
on passengers for Wilmington and points North
Net0 Castle Accommodation Trdtns-Leave VIII
mlngton at ESQ P. N. Leave New Castle at 335
p.
DELAWARE, MARYLAND q VIRGINIA BRANCH
TRAGSs-Leave Harrington for Lewes II O6 a m .
5.45 and S45 p. m. for Franklin and wav stations
llO6 a. m. Returning, trains leave Lewes for
Harrington 6.35, S45 a. m, and 300 p. M Leave
Franklin 6.5j and 500 a. m
CONNECTIONS. Porter. with Newark d Della
ware City Railroad At Townsend, with Queen
Anne's& KentRailroad. AtClaytOn with Delaware
q &Chesapeake Railroad and Baltimore & Delaware
Bay Railroad, AZ Harrington, with Delaware
Maryland & Virginia Railroad. AtSeaford, with
Cambridge SeafOrd Railroad. AT Delmar with
New YORK, Philadelphia 4 Norfolk, Wicomico n
POcOmOke, and Peninsula Railroad
CHAS. +. PUGH, General MANAGER
J. r. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
THE SPRINGS OF DAx.

The springs to which OAK owes its
corrupted Latin name are certainly very
curious and remarkable. They rise in
the centre of the town in q large basin
inclosed by ratings. Over the water is
a perpetual cloud of steam that COM
pletely obscures the view when the
weather is cold. At other times one
can see the holes in the ground from
which hot water and air bubbles are
eternally rising. SO great is the flow of
water that the municipality can only
employ a very small portion of it
for bathing and drinking purposes.
People are allowed to bring pitchers
and pals and tap it as they please for
household use. It's temperature is 1889
Fahrenheit These thermal springs
cause moist heat and that makes the
climate of Dax very enjoyable to mos
quitOes. Like all mineral waters put to
commercial purposes these are credited
with marvellous medicinal properties.
All the ills to which flesh is heir except
death, they are supposed to cure. The
ancient wall was almost perfect until
1858, when the intelligent Dacquois,
finding it greatly in the way of their
desire of expansion, proceeded to pull
it down. They would have completed
the task they set themselves had not
the Government interfered in time to
save just " enough of the past for the
future to grieve." To these people, in
whom the blood of their temporary
rulers-the Vandals-stiIl courses gavlv,
belongs the honor of nearly destroying
a work of unique interest. What re-
mains of the wall is marvellous piece
OF solid masonry. Although post
Roman, the construction is on the Rom
an model-a simple parapet, strength
ened with round towers. Planted with
trees in boulevard fashion, this frag.
ment of the ancient ramparts has
become the favOrite promenade of the
people OF OAK. The fourteenth century
castle on the left bank of the Adour is a
noticeable object, but it is not an i'm
posing specimen of a medieval strong
hold. From its position it could never
havo been worth much as fortress.
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
"GOING SHOCKS TOGETHER.

Young Clarence Chateaubriand Jones
loved pretty Miss Lulu De Smith. who
resided in Harlem with her father.
Clarence met Lulu's brother-in law,
Jake SnoOks, and questioned him about
her and the family.
Snooks said: g Old Deacon De Smith
is genius He is now running a broad
gauge church. 1t is simple enough.
He keeps n drug store, and any man
who wants to become member can pay
his dollar, sign lis name in the book
which lies open On :he counter and call
himself broad gauge member at once. :"
" Is that so ?" asked Clarence.
"Ah, my boy, it is too true, but it is
glorious, isn't it?"
"Did you join?" queried Clarence.
Eyes 1t made it easy to marry
Lulu's sister. The deacon thinks am
a trump"
Clarence dressed in his nea!est suit
and started up to Harlem, resolved to
join the broad-gauge church, and there
by get the deacon's consent to marry
Lulu. The deacon was behind the
counter dealing out chewing gum when
Clarence dropped in. Clarence looked
at the book.
"Want to join broad gauge, ELI? said
the deacon, eying him closely.
eyes"
"Come down with a dollar and it
will be done"
The dollar was paid, and Clarence was
invited into the rear of the drug store.
Two men seized him, and in a second
stripped him of his clothes. He was
then lugged into the deacon's small
garden and chucked into a little hole,
and the loose dirt shovelled over his
body, his face only being out. He
yelled to get out, but the attendants
told him he had to remain an hour.
Finally, the deacon clme out.
"HOw do you like broad-gauge earth
baths ?" he asked.
Earth baths :" he yelled. "Who is
taking earth baths?"
"Why, you paid dollar to take one"
"Who said did?"
81 say so. You signed your name in
the book. I am glad you have been
converted to broad-gauge earth baths.
The minerals in the earth will do vour
system good"
II joined your broad-gauge church,
deacon, not this internal punishment"
"YOur mind is affected. I have no
broad-gauge church 1 call these earth
baths broad-gauge, because it takes a
man with broad and liberal ideas to
consent to take one"
"SnoOks told me it was a broad-gaupe
church"
"Snooks is drumming for the new
system, said the deacon.
"Then I want to go Snooks with
your"
He did.
This is the origin of the term "going
snOoks together"
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
LEMONS AND THEIR USES.

As a health-giving fruit the lemon is
greatly undervalued. Its frequent use,
especially in the warm season, is pre-
ventive of the malaria, that compare
lively new and now fashionable disease.
The juice of two lemons taken in half
glass of water before each meal is
powerful remedy for rheumatism, and it
is also considered almost a specific for
intermittent fever. The juice of one
lemon taken three times day in cup
of clear, strong coffee, will often cure
chills and fever, when the disease is
stubborn and unyielding to all other
remedies. Lemon juice is cooling and
purifying to the blood and a valuable
regulator for many of the ailments
peculiar to spring. For its good medi-
cinal effects it should be taken without
sugar, but always somewhat diluted, as
clear its powerful acid has injurious
effect upon the coatings of the stomach
and the teeth. We know of a physician
who used lemon juice in a case of small
pox, the only liquid given, and no other
remedies. In thirty-six hours the dis
ease was under complete control, and in
one week was entirely cured.
Hot lemonade, with faXseed simmered
in it for half an hour then strained and
sweetened, is excellent for d cold, but,
as it produces perspiration, it should be
taken only upon retiring. The white of
an egg beaten to stiff froth and
whipped up with the juice of a lemon,
relieves hoarseness and soreness of the
chest at once, taken by the teaspoonful
half hourly.
The pulp of a lemon, bound ON for
for three successive nights, is said to
cure corns, and n few pearl shirt buttons
dissolved in the juice of one lemon,
forms a thick, cream ointment that will
almost surely cure them. SO we find
the medicinal properties of the lemon
are many and varied; their value in
culinary art is also great. The rind,
thinly pared of, is az agreeable flavor
ing for custards, creams and blanc
mango 1t should be cooked in the
milk and removed before the other
ingredients are added. The yellow rind
only is fit for use-the white part is
always bitter. The juice of lemon
added to an apple pie, when the apples
are not tart, or when they have become
insipid in spring, is great improve
men. The grated rind, also, imparts n
pleasant flavor, other favorings being
omitted. Used in cookery we find this
acid fruit makes many delicious desserts
and relishes, pies, puddings, iellies,
pickles, candies, etc
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
TOO CLEVER by FAR.

A crowd of exceedingly clever young
bloods about town were yesterday con-
gregated IN one of our popular beer
saloons, where they met Il iollv old
German who was out on a davis larl,
and whom they all knew to be comical
in his cups.
Hello, Kaiserlicher, have you heard
the news p said one
'Nein vas ish das?"
The water works are busted
"Vel, dots pad mid dem tembrance
peoples, don'd it, poys?" 0augh all
'rOund)
Yes, and the Atlas paper mills gone
up !" said another of the boys.
"Vell, chust don'd got skeered aboud
dat it's so heffy dot it COON down
again, eh?" "a grand peal of laughter
"And-and-the ice houses of the
city have all exploded, killing over n
hundred people !" cried the third.
Ish dot pozzible? Den dots bad
midout ZONE mistake, and it don'd rain
mltout it pours de vassar oud-der Atlas
mil ub-no more ize-und al you young
shackasses prolIe oud of de shtable lot
Dot makes me CRY!
And nobody thought it necessary to
laugh at this point except the associates
OF our Teutonic friend who were present.
Appleton Post.
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
PAT DOMAINS WILD SHREK.

AT a recent banquet, Pat Donan. in
his great speech says: "Earth's two
greatest oceans three thousand miles
apart, shall roll mp in laundering ora
torio their echo of the high and glad
refrain; the vastest CULTS and gTandest
lakes IN all creation shall join the chant;
river after river, huge rolling floods,
shall conspire to swell the giant pecan;
Superior's waves old Mississippi's tor
rents, Niagara's misty thunders shall
roar it far and wide; the hurricane.
crashing through ten thousand noun
tam gorges, from the Alleghanies to the
Cordilleras, from the Adirondacks to
the Sierras, shall chime it; the raging
blizzards, hurting six-inch hailstones on
sky-bounded and horizon-fenced Nebras-
kan plains, shall whistle and rattle IL:
the catamount shall shrek it, the prairie
wolf shall howl ii, the lone owIet hoot
IT, and the grizzly bear shall growl it;
and the burden of it all shall be
America for Americans! One countrv.
one flag, Ewei lager-from Greenland's
icy mountains to Darien's golden strandsl
II Pluribus Unuml Erin Go BraqhI
Now henceforth and forevermore. world
without end-amen. a-womenfp
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
" THE WELCOME"

-Four miners sat one night in June,
1858, Ill tent at an Australian digging.
discussing their future plans and de-
ploring their ill-fortune. For weary
months they had worked the mine with
out getting more than bare living
At length they decided to leave the
spot, though not without regret Three
OF them were in the mine taking last
look round, when ore said to his mates.
"Good=by, I'll give you a farewell blow, :
and with that his pick sent the splinters
OF quartz in all quarters. His trained
eye spied a glitter on one of the hits
that landed at his feet. He picked it mn.
examined it and found it TO be cold
He at once proceeded to work with n
Will His ehums saw that something
out OF common had happened and thew.
too piled their picks vigorously. With
silent resolve they worked on until thew
unearthed big nugget. Then n fierce
glad yell Of Joy reached the ears Of the
fourth man at the Rindlass at the mine
top. Whats amiss? ?" he sbouted
down. Wind up, was the reply, and
when he did so, the lump of pure cold
met his gaze. They called it "The
Welcome and obtained $50. 600 for r.
The claim where the nugget was pot is
now covered with the fine streets Of the
thriving town of Ballarot.
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
THE wOODcOCK's wOoING.

WoOdcocks have certain peculiarities
which endear them to sportsmen as well
as make them interesting study to men
OF science. Their love-maBing is essen
TALLY their own. Early in the spring.
the male bird, seeking mate, repairs
to some well-known covert where the
females most do cOngregate. 1t is lust
at sunset. All day long he has been
filling himself full Of long, luscious
worms, and as niShtfall comes his bird
thoughts turn to affairs more sentimen-
tai When hereaches the parade ground
he looks anxiously around, and, if no
suspicious noise jars on his sensitive
ear, he begins with low Introductory
culver. Then lie grows impatient and
utters loud, cultural bleatings, chuck
ing just before each one. Then he
struts up and down the messy bank. as
If his performance gave him intense
satisfaction. Then he considers himself
fairly introduced, and taking wind, rises
in the air, flying up in spiral circles.
each growing smaller as he descends.
During his fight he utters a low,
sweet, cooling note. After sailing about
he swoOps down to the spot of his start
ing For hours he fools about, display
ing his wing performances, until the
female can no longer resist his antics,
and throwing coquetry, as Macbeth did
physic, 10 the dogs, she approaches with
ruffied feathers and dishevaled plumage.
The two meet and caress each other with
every evidence of affection and all the
by-play Of love thrown in, and locking
their long bills in each others grasp, as
if too happy for earth, they rise straight
in the air and fly out of sight in the
darkness,
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
ART, why IT HAS DECLINED.

Art has sunk lower in standard in
proportion as it is more widely diffused;
being spread over a broader surface it
becomes shallower. Patrons of art in
like manner, as they multiply, degener-
ate in place of the educated few rise
the ignorant many. Artists no longer
paint up to cultured connoisseurs, but
down to the common people; and this
democracy among patrons and painters
has vulgarized art. Art has changed
for the worse its mental aspects; it is
less serious and more frivolous, less
studentlike and more superficial and
snowy, less the issue of the higher facul-
ties and more the offspring of the
senses. Art, accordingly, seldom deals
with the imagination and the reason ; it
is no longer creative; it has forsaken the
walks of the ideal, and thus hold but
distant fellowship with minds of caibre
and culture. Art in reverse ratio has
grown naturalistic and real something
to be measured and weighed, as any
other commercial commodity. Hence
the union of the ideal with the real,
the perfection of Greek art, is an end
beyond the aim of modern art The
study Of nature, including man, is given
to character, accident, and outward
material, rather than to generic forms,
governing laws, and indwelling life.
Hence modern art, as distinguished
from ancient, falls short of natures alb
stract and ideal types, and is content to
realize creation in the concrete. And
the prevailing traits of figure subjects
pass into landscape art Thus, historic
and poetic landscapes give place to
prosaic transcripts, without imaginative
outlook beyond the actual and the
present. Accordingly the pictorial arts
of the day are barren and stationary
compared with the advance in science
and the fecundity of poetry and
romance. In short the fine arts have
fallen below the standard and require
ment of cultured minds, and fail to
respond to the mobiles phases of civiliza-
fiOD
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
A CHINESE FARM.

The Chinese farm house is a curious
looking abode. Usually it is sheltered
with groves of feathery bamboo and
thick spreading banyans. The walls
are of clay or wood, and the interior of
the house consists of one main room, ex-
tending from the floor to the tiled roof,
with clOset-lOoking apartments in the
corners for sleeping-rOoms. There is a
sliding window in the roof, made of
cut oyster shells arranged in rows,
while the side windows are mere wooden
shutters. The floor is the bare earth,
where ut nightfall there often gather
together n miscellaneous family of dirty
children, fowls, ducks, pigeons and a
litter of pigs, all living together in
delightful harmony. In some districts
infested by marauding bands, houses
are strongly fortified by high walls,
containing apertures for firearms, and
protected by moat crossed by rude
drawbridge.
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
1885.
Harper's Magazine.
II4LUSTRATED

me december number will begin the Seventy.
second Volume Of Hdrpers AfaOas{ne. Miss Wool
sons novel, " East Angels" and Mr. Howell's
b :. indian Summer "-holding the foremost place
-. SuIIeht serial hetl0n-yil run through several
numbers, and will be followed BY serial stories
from X ID, Baekmore and Mrs d. NJ Craik
new editorial department, discussing topics sug-
kested oy me current Literature Of America and
Europe, will be contributed bv w. ID Uoweiis
LDeslhnlng with she January number. The great
llserary event Of the year will be the publication
VI VI ssIles on papers-taktng the shape Of a story
sOellety as seen at our leading pleasure resorts
written BY Charles Dudley Warner and illustra-
@ seu w T.. ~ keinhart. The Magazine will give
especial attention 70 American Subjects frested
~ ~ ne pest American writer's, and illustrated by
leading American artists -
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
GBe Smgrra Gimes,
SMYRNA, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, Jan. %, 1885.
CHURCH SERVICES.

AsBURY METHODIST overwhelmingly Preach
9AM and2P.M. Prayer Meeting at
71SP.M Rev. J. B. Quigg, Pastor.
ST. PETERS PROTESTANT EPIsCOPAL.-Sunday-
Preaching atl01z AN. and ~ P. NJ. Holy Days
~ A. NJ Sunday SCHOOL, P. NJ. Prayer
Meeting, Wednesdays, at ~ P. N. Rev. VIM.
B. Gordon, Rector.
-Sunday-Preaching at 101% A. NJ.
and IA P. NJ. Sunday School, P. NJ. Prayer
Meeting-Fridays at IA P. N. Rev. J. T.
Umsted Pastor.
ST. POLYCARP CATHOLIC CHURCH.-Mass on First
and Third Sundays, at 7.30 A. NJ, and on the
Second and Fourth Sundays, at 1880 A. NJ.
Catechism Glasses taught every Sunday after
Mass. Rev. Dennis J. Flynn, Pastor.
CENTENNIAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL (COlored).-
Sunday-PTeaching at 1917 A. NJ. and ~ P. NJ
Sunday School, P. NJ. Rev. d. A. RidOut
Pastor.
A. NJ. E. CHURCH.-Sunday-Pr Preaching at 1015
A. NJ. and ~ P NJ Sunday SchoOl-215 P NJ
Rev. Seth D. W. Smith, Pastor.
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
SEcRET SocJETIES

MORNING STAR LODGE, No. 6. l. 0. o. F.-Meets
every Friday evening, at 715Oclock.
MCDONNELL ENCAMPMENT No. 2LO.O. F.-Meets
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month, at 715 o'clock
HARMONY LODGE, No. Is. A. F. A. M.-Meets First
and Third Thursday evenings of each month,
at ~ o'clock.
SMYRNA CoNCLAyE, No. As, ORDER OF HEPTAsOPHs.
-Meetsevery "Wednesday evening at u O'CLOCK.
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AGENTS:
JAMES H. IODD, General Agent Dover
G GeO. " WWtamS Nelpdrk T. W. Wllen BridgcuiUe
Ge9i q 9, d. money Det city, LemueI w Wdples LetOes
r. D. 4us0Hey, IOaCnSend John w. WOOtte7 Laurel
y. 4, , JeIH.ah, smyrna; Henry w. Baker Seqtord
a. SuCkSqt. Jr. Cdnaden H. I. DOwniRg George
y: d. 'A"deISOn F1edeTtcd. tOIUH.
ReyRedr Williams MiLfDrd James Po1der Million
". NJ SteUeRsOR FELTON, n r UGG0gnog E Io,,o
C.JHdrrin0ton Farming SUISSE ~ 'O'''
ton.
JeremtGh b. Fletcher, Preston Md. ''''' -''''
=, - James Cannon. SALISBURY Nd
f. +. HduOlOdy Berlin, Nd
WHH. g. Dickinson, POcOmoke city, Nd.
All bus ness communications should be addressed
to
WIN. DENNEY, Sec'y,
March 4. 1888 DOVER MI
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27

IT IS said that in no part of the world
Is drinking ralrrd on to such an extent
as m Wall street. Whiskcy is the only
hing m Wall street that isn't watered
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27

Nnm5 ~ volumes sl Of the Magazine begin with the
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lE47. KENT COUNTY 1885.
Mutual Insurance Co.
DOVER, DEL.
DOVER, DEL.

Insures against loss by fire. issuing mutual noli
cies only under which payments are made an.
nually in advance during membership. and on
ceasing 70 be members whatever remains unex.
dends is returned, thereby furnishing Insurance
at cost '4iO0
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
NOTICE.

rro.,- SMYRNA, DEL November 4. 1885
d,ats llatslak y nnished my engagement with Messrs
~ affe,1d ~, ~ ior the present, am now prepared
: ana % call an kinds of pfl4I ~
= y 9l Personal Property and Resf f-tais
4, atse e5ns at short notice. AN orders
JOHN IA. BOYIi
nov 4-sm Veterinary Surgeon and Aueaoneo-
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27

nFAEMEHN its cause and cure. by one who
M UEOO was deaf twenty eight years.
ire9ted by most Of the noted specialists of the
- gay with no benefit CHrtd himself in three
months ana since then hundreds Of Others by the
same process A plain, simple and successful
nome ION treatment. Address 4. S. PAGE l3s Fast
26th st., New York CITY. i'm lS4w
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27

DIRECTORS:
GEORGE w. CUMMINS, President.
. DIR. HENRY RIDGELY, Vice President
VIM. W. Ischudy, John ID. Burton
John II. HOfiecker, John W Causev
George B. Money. - Ex-Gov. James Ponder
Jacob Williams of Seaford.
VIM. DENNEY, Secretary and Treasurer.
Smyrna times., 1886-01-27

me ideal young peoples Magazine. It holds
te m Irst place among periodicals of its class -B0s-
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DlSFEPSlA.-lts Nature, Cause Preventionan and
~ cure. by JOHN II. MCALvIN, Lowell. Mass.
II years Tax Collector. Sent fr, To any address
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CONSuMP MPTI0N,

nave positive romedy for tho above disease byits
so thousands OF cases Of the Kind and OF hong
Standlng nave been cured. Indeed ,ostrung myfaih
IA US ehcacy, that wi send TWO BOTTLES FREE,
ttusetner with afALUABLETREATIsE V on this seas0
W any ppgeners Give express aud = q. nddr
Wy. Y. A, sLoCuM, ISL Pearl St. New York.
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HARPER'S PERIODICALS.
Per Yenr:

CdRdda O'O''Oe'S " He Ohtied States