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Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
Mhnt Does "ster1inc,, n1eana ?

The Haberdasher, a monthly journal of the
mems furnishing trade, devotes prominent
space to the abuse which has steadily grown
till the word sterling which, when
stamped upon what purported to be a silver
handle for Il stick or umbrella, used to be a
guarantee Of coin metal, has now absolutely
no meaning whatever and is simply and
solely device to deceive the public when
that public tries to buy a massive silver knob
for Sl.G5, including a silk umbrella or a hand
some cane.
English law makes the use of the word
sterling" upon plated ware felony There
is no law in this country that covers the
ground. And it is not a creditable state of
mercantile morality under which men split
hairs so deXterously, as do certain manufact-
urers, in justifying their use of the stamp.
The average retail buyers undoubtedly be-
ieves the sterling" stamp to warrant the
metal coin silver. But the outside coating of
even a merely 'washed" handle is of course
silver, and on no better ground than this do
some manufacturers base their claim of fair
dealing and honesty. But while compara-
lively few of the heavy handles are made
wholly of coin metal, since few people will
buy so expensive umbrellas, yet the pur-
chaser has a right to expect that the silver
head which bears the word "sterlingn sbOuld
not consist of a mass of lead or other base
metal with merely thin varnish of silver.
But it is plain that it is no easy matter to
draw the line between honesty and fraud
If plate Sf silver, of even a quarter of an
inch in thickness, everything base metal can
properly be stamped Sterling at what de-
gree of thinneSs in the silver does the use of
the word become misleading and wrong?-
New York Sun.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
Who should Avoid rnhnooo.

A man may, it is true, smoke five or six
cigars, or as many pipes, each day, without
recognizing any harm in consequence; but
we make the statement, without hesitation,
that he could not indulge to that extent and
continue in perfect health. Men who live
sedentary lives must be more temperate than
those who are constantly in the open air.
There are certain complaints in which the
use of tobacco should be forbidden altogether.
Men who have weak lungs, with a tendency
to consumption, ought never to use tobacco,
and the same, as rule, holds good in chronic
bronchitis. In all constitutional diseases
characterized by general functional derange-
ment, impaired nutrition and impoverish-
ment of the blood, the poisonous effects of
tobacco are intensified. In fact, there is not
a condition of i'll health in which we should
feel justified in recommending the patient to
use tobacco. Let men in perfect health smoke
if they find that it adds much to the pleas.
ures of living. We cannot condemn the
habit SO long as it is held in restraint; but if
indulged to an excess, a certain measure Of
i'll health is the inevitable consequence
Boston Herald.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
THE sTRoNeYLocENTRoTus.
A New Edible for Commands that is
Yielded by the Sea.

Yielded by the Sea.
new delicacy Of marine origin, and sur
passing, in the opinion of many southern
gourmands, the finest oysters is about to be
introduced into this country. A supply of
the true Mediterranean sea urchins, in good
condition, is to be consigned to our market.
and English epicures will be asked to try the
eggs of the echinidean after the fashion of
Marseilles-that is, by eating them off the
shells, raw and uncooked. The sea urchin,
which scientific men with the playful simpli-
city characteristic of the kind have agreed
to designate the strongylocentrotus, is an
article Of food in many parts of the world,
as most people are probably aware Hence
one Of the common names it bears among
fisherfolk who have no reputation for learn
ing to keep up, and who call it the sea egg.
But all along the shores of the Mediterra-
mean the five celled rosette forming the inside
of the prickly creature is esteemed one of the
fastest mOrsels yielded by the sea. Strangers
visiting the Marseilles fish market will see
basket after basket there filed with these
brOwny green and violet colored hedgehogs
Of the deep. They are deftly opened by the
fishwives, the left hand being protected
against the sharp prickles by stout cloth
wrapped around it, the stomach sack is cut
out, and the fine orange colored eggs in the
center exposed and handed upon the shell to
the customers ever ready for the dainty
These eggs are only to be found in the urchin
between the months of October and Nav,
that is about the same time as the oyster is
in season. At other times the eggs are miss
ing and many worthy people have pro-
nounced the creature good for nothing be-
cause they happened to capture and open it
at the wrong season of the year.
The urchin fishery, owing to the great de
mand for the crustacean in southern Eu-
rope, Is one of the most important in the
Mediterranean. The creatures FREQUENT
rocky ground, and i'll the form of round.
prickly balls, they are found hundreds to-
gether, few feet below high water mark
III the shoals of the Spanish, French and
Italian coasts. They are captured by means
of a cleft stick, with which the fisher pokes
about their haunts, and often, too, by divers.
In the bay Of Naples nothing Is more anus
ing than to watch the urchin fishers at worl,
III search of their prey. Rowing to the spot
where they are carrying on operations one
may see some scores of heads bobbing about
in the water, and probably an equal number
OF pairs Of legs, all belonging to bodies that
are invisible. Suddenly head will 90 down
and pair of legs come up; then, as unex-
pectedly, one of the pair of legs will 90 down
and head bob up. "A puzzling spectacle" /"
says Mr.. Jones, who has well described the
fishery, ''and a constant vicissitude from
heels to heads and from heads to heels. ~
London Post
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
FIogrInc the Russian peasant

Personal dignity is something unknown in
Russian village If peasant cannot pay
his taxes he is iogged. If the elected com
munal and Volost authorities cannot collect
the amount for which they are assessed at
the district treasury office, they are forced to
call in the assistance of the police. There is
q good deal Of truth in the assertion that in
the neighborhood Of poor villages in Russia
the birch trees are bare of twigs, sacrificed to
the beating out of the poor peasants arrears
and taxes. The village and district police
not only fog, but they march off the poor
fellows to the estates of neighboring pro-
prietors and hire them out as laborers, on
the understanding that the wages shall be
paid to the treasury officials.
Once in a while the moujik gets impatient
and revolts. Then he destroys everything he
lays his hands on. Such was the case with
stanovoi-chief of the rural police-in the
province of Kazan, who, between 1s76-7S,
had caused 745 persons to be flogged. He
was besieged and killed by an angry crowd,
some of whom were forthwith tried and con-
demned as seditiOus rioters. The village
chronicles are full of such tragedies
Michael Malkoff in Chicago News.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
Better Cooks Than Woman.

Not perhaps for the same reason that great
chefs are men, but because one Of the most
striking phases Of the civilization Of today
develops itself in that direction, men are get
ting to be better cooks than women. They
have always been better gastronomers. But
the man about town, the luxurious idler who
breakfasts at Delmonico'S, lunches at the
Brunswick or at Savarin's and dimes at
Solari's, actually knows, as a rule, more
about the constituents Of the dishes on the
menu, and how they are put together and
heated to achieve desirable result, than any
woman he is ever likely to meet there or
elsewhere. There isn't one woman in a
hundred who can 60 into restaurant such
as those and order what man would call "a
decent meal" Women who have travelled,
seen much Of life ss their husbands and
brothers see it, owe a vast deal Of their popu-
larity to their acquired ability to know Just
what's what across a table a deux-New
York Press every Day Talk"
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
A slGNMAKER's LAMENT.'
Decay OF a Branch OF the Painting BusI-
ness-WOrlSs of Art.

ness-WOrlSs of Art.
ANY person anxious to know what has be-
come of the majority of the emblematic signs
which ten or fifteen years ago hung half q
dozen in every block should visit any large
signmakers workshop. The once familiar
wineseller's bunch of grapes, the glover's
hand, the locksmith's key, the carpenters
saw, the blacksmith's mighty arm, the
butchers boar's head, the hundred and one
figures that formerly stood in front of tobac-
copists shops inviting customers to enter,
are all on dusty shelves in the storerooms.
"They are all gone out" said signmaker,
ruefully looking over his collection. ''True,
the idea Of painting tobacconists' signs white
and making them look weird and ghost like
revived that particular sign for a time and
brought back same Of its old time effective
ness, but emblematic signs in general belong
to the past. About all we sell nowadays are
mortars, boots and clocks. Singularly
enough the demand for them is not from
country houses, but from the city. One
would think that city people in the hunt for
originality that business competition COM
Pels would reject sooner than countrymen
the Oldest merchants sign known to man.
Emblematic signs need pushing. They
ought to be still q good advertisement.
"hJS SOll4o VI Lu6Lu, particularly Uu9 llIo
figures, are works of art. There are wooden
and metallic Indians and beasts in stock that
pretentious sculptors would not be ashamed
Of. Look at that bulls head and at that
bust Of Gambrinusl Look at the care and
time it took to carve even so simple a thing
as gun and get it true to life. Emblematic
signs are carved no more Those that are
built are made Of iron, either cast or spun.
A use for which some Of them yet command
good price is as weather vanes and as the
tops of aagstaffs. There are numerous men
In town who have expensive emblematic
vanes on their stables. heard Of one man
who took his indoors at night. 1t was so
costly he was afraid it would tempt thieves.
"But business in other kinds Of signs is
brisk enough" he continued. ''We make
them Of wood, iron, glass, mirrors, porcelain,
copper, wire, silk, velvet and plush The
signs in this city, as a whole, are second in
artisticness only to those in New York, and
that city's signs are second to none. The
tendency is all toward display, with as much
gold and glitter as possible. wouldn't dare
guess how many hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars worth Of gold leaf the signmakers Of
the country use up in a year. Carved signs
are the most expensive. It's no uncommon
thing for merchant to plaster 81 800 to
$1,000 worth Of signs on the front of his
store."-Chicago Times
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
WHY the Row co.a xvroDo

The very wealth is at the root of it all
The boy is indulged in money and the dis
position Of his time. He plays billiards and
cards all night, smokes cigarettes immoder-
atoly, drinks whisky in proportion, indulges
in other pastimes and vices, and bribes the
servants to lie about his comings and goings
at home. The father, engrossed in large af-
fairs, frequently has a young drunlrard sit
ting opposite him at dinner without being
aware of the fact, and the mothers love is too
blind to observe. The boys health is dam
aged, his morals strangled, and his pocket
mortgaged. He gets into all sorts Of scrapes
that he is ashamed Of, until finally one
moro outrageous than usual, and perhaps
with a female attachment, drives him, with
a mind weakened by debauchery, to despair.
Then he shoots himself, and he's usually
drunk when he does it.-New York Letter.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
Diocesan House, 20 Lafayette Place.
NEW YORK. NAV 11Lh. 1888.

Diocesan House, 20 Lafayette Place.
NEW YORK, May 11th, 1888.
GENTLEMEN:
1 beg to acknowledge the Statement
and Report which you have this day
communicated to me, and beg you to
accept my hearty thanks for the faith
full and efficient service, in the interest
of Church work in Mexico, of which
it is the record.
cannot but remember that l had
not the slightest official claim upon
your services, that the task to which
you were hidden was both perplexing
and difficult, and that there was only
the most uncertain prospects of means
with which to undertake it, Under
these circumstances, the results Of
your labors are especially gratifying
and encouraging, aud they have earned
for you the thanks Of every friend Of
the important interest with which you
have been charged.
Tam especially glad that you have
so cordially recognized the wise and
efficient services Of the Rev. Mr.. Cor
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
WHOLE NO. l,7l6.

don, to whose wisdom, prudence, and
untiring energy we are all indebted.
and cannot doubt that the record of
what has been accomplished, under
his counsel and oversight, will awaken
increased interest in the work which
he and those associated with him have
in hand. A good beginning on order
ly and carefully-chOsen lines, has been
made, and it now belongs to us to 90
forward with increased energy and
and liberality.
am, gentlemen, your grately friend
and servant,
H. G. POTTER.
To the AdcisOry Committee on Church
Work in Merico.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
Modern sr.tem Of Advertising.

The honest system Of advertising should be
but a small announcement Of the offer Of
goods for the information Of those who desire
to purchase, in such q manner that those
who desire to purchase, may, by seeking,
find. But in advertising as it now exists,
exaggeration is piled on exaggeration, and
falsehood is added to falsehood. The world
is filed with monstrous lies, and they are
thrust upon attention by every possible
means. The mails are filed with them.
When man opens his mail in the morning,
the letter of his friend is buried among these
advertising monstrosities. They are thrust
under street doors, and they are offered you
as you walk the streets. When you read the
morning and evening papers, they are spread
before you with topographic display, they
are placed among the items you desire to
read, and they are given false headings,
and they begin with decoy headings. They
are posted upon walls, and on the fences,
and on the sidewalks, 6nd On bale
tin boards, and the barns and housetops
and the fences Of all the land are covered
with them, and they are nailed to the tree
and painted on rocks. Thus it is that the
whole civilized world is placarded with lies,
and the moral atmosphere Of the world
wreaks with the foul breath Of this monster
Of antagonistic competition.-Maj. ]. w.
Powell
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13

Here's hint for our rising young
orators and debatOrs. Senator Ingalls,
is said to haved obtained his command
of the language by close and perse-
vering study of the dictionary, and Col.
IngersOll's poetic imagery is the result
of a constant reading of Shakespeare.
Roscoe Conklin is said to have been
great reader of Macaulay, from which
his famboyant style of oratory was
obtained. The example of these noted
speakers is a good one, and worse types
might be selected.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13

A Woman's School of Journalism
has been opened in Detroit, wheregirls
are taught type-setting, shorthand,
prOOf-reading, revision of manuscript
and repOrting-so far as it can be
taught.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
A Strange Hsrsditarr peoullnr,tr.

The duke of Simonetta, an Italian noble.
man, who is making a name as a musical
composer, is the descendant of long line
OF dukes who have a strange peculiarity.
They have jet black hair, and Just above
the forehead a white tuft. This they had
for long series of years, until the father
OF the present duke was born some sixty
years ago. He had thick, curly head Of
brown hair, without a particle of white,
and with him it was supposed there was
an end Of the special mark. But his son
IS tall, handsome man, with head of
black hair, and he has exactly the same
white tuft.-New Orleans Tines Demo.
Crat
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
SUNSET.

Shadows are falling on a glorious day,
AS shadows fall at length on all things fair
The chirping sparrow to its nest has flown
And life seems like one sweet and silent praver
The western sky is but one mass of gold,
With streaks of red that soften with the gray.
1t IS that gate of heaven open thrown,
10 welcome souls, whose tears have ceased this
day.
The golden light is what our crowns shall be;
The red, the blood that gaineC us entrance
there;
The gray, the sorrows that are left without,
Now quickly fading in the golden glare.
The music that steals softly o'cr the soul.
Soothing the troubled, agitated breast,
Is but the echo Of the heavenly choir
Welcoming at eventide the souls at rest
Eleanor H. Abbott
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
Not neaoossflela.s FavorIte.

1t is said. that the primrose was not
Lord Beaconsfeld's favorite flower at all,
and that the story that it was arose from
the fact that the queen sent to grace his
coffin wreath Of those flowers with a
card bearing the inscription, In her own
handwriting; His favorite TOWER" But
she meant the favorite Of her own hus-
band, Prince Albert, not of Lord Beacons.
field.-New York Sun.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
Two sYstems of Lnnohine.

Stranger Gin Omahal-How much is this
lunch2
MISUNDERSTANDING. That is a free
lunch. sir We do not charge for 1t.
You owe 20 cents for drinks, though.
'EhI You charge for the drinks and
throw the lunch imp
yes.
That's a new idea to me. Down in
Kansas they charge for the lunch and
throw the drinks in. Omaha World.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13

Miss Helen Blanchard, now a resi-
dent Of Philadelphia, is a Maine girl,
who has made fortune through the
invention ofthe simple 'over-and-over"
attachment for sewing machines.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
Most Northern Electric Light.

American enterprise is felt at Herno.
sand, Sweden, which has just been pro.
vided with the most northern electric
light station in the world. The lamps
there are lighted at 2.30 o'clock in the
afternoon and put out at 1915 o'clock a.
s.ts'l-A- Claieeon Uora1d
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
WoudarFuI Curas

W. D. HOyt q Co., Wholesale and Retail Drug
gtsts of Rome, Ga, says: We have been selling
Dr. Kings New Discovery, Electric Bitters and
Bucklen's Arnica Salve for two years. Have
never handled remedies that sell as we'll or give
such universal satisfaction. There have been
some wonderful cures effected by these medicines
in this city. Several cases of pronounced Con-
sumption have been entirely cured by use of
few bottles of DR.. Kings New Discovery, taken in
connection with Electric Bitters. We guarantee
them always. Sold by Jas. P. HOffecker
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
COLLECTION Of nrent nr.n.. r,,n,...

A collection Of great mems chairs re.
Gently sold in London was interesting.
The plainest Of all was a little, stiff arm
chair OF oak. said to be that In which
Shakespeare wrote. John Gay had an
elaborate chair, with broad. we'll stuffed
arms and seat, and provided with branches
Tor candles at the elbows, flap for desk
and drawer In the seat for pens. ink and
paper Walter Savage Landor had huge
curule Of rough oak. with stout arms.
Byrons chair was handsome Louis XIV
chair, well stuffed and covered with red
Utrecht velvet. et.-Chicago Herald
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
PilIne II ON.

Nan-Do you like Miss CouponH
Phyllis--No. can't say that do. She
puts on too many airs.
Nan--Airsi Well, should say she did.
Why, she just piles cyclones on top Of
tornadoes. s.-Philadelphia Call.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
rnnlnr It nnmn a Ii,t1o-

x was paying attention to a rich widow.
''Madam," he said, as he offered her
bouquet; ''you grow more and more beauti-
ful every day"
"You exaggerate, my dear sirI" exclaimed
the lady, very much flattered
"Well, then let us say-avery other day
Judge
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
Japan,s DeveioDmon,

The recent development Of Industrial
and commercial enterprise In Japan has
been very great. Since January. 1887,
S5l companies have been started. New
York Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13

Don't ornament truth. It doesn't need
It, and, besides, establishment gives It
much the appearance Of lie.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13

The Prince of Wales is said to have
received $500, 900 clear from his Duchy
of Cornwall last year.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13

The bloom stalk Of a century plant at Q
Florida exposition grows at the rate OF
six inches q day.
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13

as matter Of fact New York is seldom
provisioned beyond forty-eight houra
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
WA. FAIRIES & Bro,
Furnishing UldGPtakHTS,
AND DEALERS IN
FURNITURE,
gAIN STREET, opposite Tho Smyrna House
Furniture of all kinds.

Parlor and Chamber Suits. Bureaus Bedsteads,
Chairs Lounges, Tables Stands. Mattresses. Spring
Beds and every thing in the Furniture Line guar
anteed at OF less than City prices for the same
quality of goods. jan D If
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13

sleep 8 BE pagentheals n a0rowla talel
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13

A live oak tree in Mississippi measures five
and one-half feet in diameter breast high
from the ground, and spreads its branches
eighty-two feet
Smyrna times., 1888-06-13
LONDON LODGINGS.
PLACES WHERE MANY OF THE GREAT
CITYs POOR FIND SHELTER.

The Common Lodging House of Today
Clean and Fairly Comfortable The
Various Glasses of PatrOns-View of an
InteriOr-A Valet.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
EUROPEAN JOTTlNGS.

The working day in Paris has been reduced
.om eleven hours 10 ten.
There are AIN newspapers published in the
United Kingdom, +54 OF which are in London
An elephant in the funeral procession to t
recent Hindoo cremation wore q silver collar
worth $500.
The London firencn are TO follow theii
French colleagues in being dressed in as
bestoS cloth.
The apes on the Rock OF Gibraltar have in
creased in such numbers that they are to b.
partially suppressed
Frenchmen are beginning to talk abou
orbidding the employment OF children il
lrcuses and theatres.
The Italian laborer is making considerable
,ouble for the French laborer in France
here are said to ba not less than 250, %
llians Mt work there now.
Three physicians have left Paris TO
-lstralia, taking with them germs OF chicke
olera. The Australians are about TO ador
.iS1eur's plan of destroy ing their rabbits, i
tc face of very strong opposition
There is a newspaper museum at Aix-l.
hapelle containing files or specimens Z,
ore than than 1900 newspapers, half Il
Ill press of the world, Among them is I.
.nrty-sixth number of The Texas Democra
.ubliShed at Houston in lS54 ON wall pape.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
What to Do with Crimina ais.

But what should we do with the thugs,
sluggers, assassins--men who revel In
blood and wounds and DEATH
This.
Let the United States government, in
conjunction with the state governments,
buy an island in the Pacific ocean, guard
it with gunboats, and thereto send the
great host of murderous scoundrels who
have been condemned to the scaffold, who
have been sentenced for life to the peni
Tertiary for bloodshed, who Turk and lie
in wait in our cess pools and slime pits
with revolver and dagger; all who art
known to the police rs dangerous char
acters.
Let all rape devils be sent there, and
all who spit upon and trample the eternal
laws OF God and man under foot.
''They will kill each other" you may
protest.
Let them kill!
You. nor |, nor any of US will be re-
sponsible for that. Our government will
not be responsible for our blood.
The better element that is in all men
will assert itself in the felon community,
and in time they will attain state of
civilization equal to their own.
In mercy, let us do this, remembering
that the environments and ancestry of
these scoundrcls were not the same as
ours, and their responsibility is many de-
greeS less than orr own.