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Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
The Landing Road.

The bottom just below "Whopping,"
on the Landing road which has been
such Il subject of loud and Just COM
plaint and has subjected the Town
Commissioners to innumerable CEN
sures, is still virtually unremedied.
though much improved from what it
was a week ago by the more fortunate
weather. The "helping hand" asked
for by the Transportation Company in
filling 1t up was not given in any ap-
preciable force. Such place subjects
what should be the progressive spirit
of the town to contempt, and to alleged
pusilanimity. The editor of the Record
after writing savagely about it as a
Slough of DespOnd," says he could
take three men and in one week have
it so thoroughly repaired that it would
never be bad again" The services of
a civil engineer have, so far as we
know, never been engaged to make an
estimate on the cost of filling in this
hole or slough, nor is it at all necessary
when we have one among us who can
figure so positively as the editor of the
Record, and if he can stop the COM
plant at such a meagre cost as would
be embraced in his proposition, it
would be very derelict in the Commis-
sioners not to close with him at once.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Health is as Important as Education

The larger boys of the Smyrna Pub
lie Schools have organized an Athletic
Association with the Principal of the
school as President; George Tavlor.
Vice President; Charles Stern, Secre-
tary, and Harry Tschudy, Treasurer.
1t IS purely voluntary organization
and all boys of the four higher depart
ments are eligible to membership.
The membership fee has been placed
at 70 cents year, and the association
mas made arrangements to pay the
fees of those who wish to ioin but
would be prevented by the expense.
1t is proposed to apply the money
thus raised to the purchase of simple
apparatus such as Indian clubs, dumb
bells, chest weights, ETC., which the
boys can use during the winter months.
Foot ball will occupy most of their
spare time out of doors, until snow
falls. The boys will be given a short
daily drill, and the systematic exercise
cannot fail to be beneficial.
Schools are coming to realize the
necessity of physical culture, and all
our best institutions have fully eouip-
ped gymnasiums and a special instruc-
TOT. IL is unfortunate that the whole
school cannot have the advantages of
the new plan, but the apparatus will
be the property of the association and
OF course it is proper that members
only should use it.
The girls have organized a similar
association with Miss K. L. Storm at
the head, Mary Fell, Secretary, and
Julia Griffith, Treasurer. Miss Storm.
while in attendance at the Chautauoua
Summer School, took a special course
in Physical Culture, and under her
competent instructions the girls will
be given the best of the Sargent
Delsarte and Swedish systems.
All the work will be done out of
school hours, and those who are awake
to the advantages of such training will
doubtless be gratiied to hear that this
work is in progress. The children will
be more free and graceful in movement.
healthier in body, and stronger in
mind. 1t is the conviction of all expert.
enced teachers that cultivation of body
and mind must go on at the same time.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
parts of Wisconsin diphtheria of the
most malignant type exists extensively.
The doctors trace the fevers mostly to
impure drinking water.

ONE of the important religious gath
erings of the year, the triennial General
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, will open its sessions in New
York next week. A large number of
important subjects will come before
the convention for discussion, if not for
final settlement. Among them are the
revision of the prayer book, the revision
of the hymnal and the question of
the Church. While these and other
matters are of commanding interest to
Episcopalians, the action taken upon
them will attract not a little attention
outside of that denomination.
The New York Tribune in speaking
of the coming convention says:
But the question which is expected
to arouse the most intense interest will
be that of changing the name of the
Church. This question has been press
ed with great skill and pertinacity for
a number of years by the extreme wing
of the High Church party; and at tie
last General Convention the resolution
to change the name of the Church did
not lack many votes of passing the
lower house. The question has been
discussed with a great deal of heat
during the last three years, specially
by those who are opposed to the
change The Catholics" have not
talked much, but it is pretty certain
that they have been working hard to
secure a large number of deputies to
this convention who will be in favor of
a change Of name. 1t is almost certain
that the question will be introduced
and if it is there will be a debate on
the whole question of Catholicism and
Professionalism that will be we'll worth
listening to.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Echoes from Dover.

Under the above head Dover CORE
spOndent thus writes to Wilmington
paper:
The Every latest" proclamation from
Delaware has again stirred up the
Democracy of Kent. So Thomas F.
Bayard wants Jim Williams nominated
for Governor, does he? And Uncle
Eli says amen to it, does he? Well, if
these two old stagers had the pull"
they once bad that would settle it, and
James Williams would come out of his
shell at KentOn to take the reins of
State for the next four years. But,
and the But has a very big B, they
have not got the pull" they have
lost their grip; tho boys have taken
the bit between their teeth, and the
old men can't drive them any more.
The whip may crack but it mas not
got the same sound as of yOre, at least
it is no longer effective.
The old chaps have had their dav-a
very long and profitable one all around
they and theirs; but their sun has
set and set for aye. The boys have
had to run the machine through the
last two campaigns, and they have
made arrangements to run it throuyh n
the next. They have all their plans
laid and nothing they swear it-shall
interfere. As it looks now. Bob
Reynolds of South MurderkilI will
carry the banner for one faction and
Wilson 7. Cavender of Duck Creek for
the other Why, everything's ar
ranged for the next four years by both
parties down to the next Justice of
the Peace at Dinah's Corner and up to
Secretary of State. It's no use; proc
lamations may issue from Delaware.
but the prOclaimer will never issue
again to take control of the Democratic
politics of Delaware. That's settled.
A correspondent further down the
county-Harrington-thus speaks of
the post Office fight there:
Belts" stock is now on the decline.
while Shaw and Downs are augment
ing with quick and uudisturbed ra-
pldlty, with Shaw in the lead. Either
OF these two men would suit the citi-
zens of our town. r. S. Downs is a
good worker for the party he repre-
sents. S. L. Shaw is a fair politician.
clever gentleman and good and tried
postmaster, having served the last six
years of the Republican reign. 1t is
certainly a seriOns time here among the
republicans but a jolly day for the
Democrats.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Reoeiving Lessons.

A man residing near i churcG Of
this county which shall be namelsss,
gives a graphic account of recent ser
vice. The popular pastor during the
morning service had occasion to ad-
dress the children, and very properly
endeavored to impress on them the i'm
portance of cultivating good tempers
and looking agreeable. Boys" he
says, "try to grow up good looking and
don't be like some men who look So"
and he screwed up his face until it was
anything but handsome and agreeable
in looks The boys enjoyed the pic
ture but some of the men who thought
he looked like them didn't, and took
exception to it. One man said he knew
he was ugly, but didn't like to be told
of it over the pulpit; and another who
was there for the first time was prob
ably scared away for the future. The
address to the females was much more
successful. He impressed the value Of
sweet disposition and cheerful looks,
and said there was no object more
beautiful to look at than a sweet look
ing, pretty woman clad in white. The
narrator said that at that service they
were variOusly clad in bronze, blue and
other colors, but when they came
together in the afternoon there were
not half dozen who were not clothed
in white and looking their sweetest.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
News Items.

The vintage on the Rine is the best
of the century.
The snow on Mount Washington is
eighteen inches deep.
There has been a great failure in the
mackeral catch this year.
A bar Harbor letter reports mot one
day of fog this summer"
A monument to the Republic was
unveiled at Paris Saturday.
Gladstone opposes Balfour's Irish
Catholic University scheme.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has ioined
the warfare against slavery,
A big fire is raging in the lumber dis
trict around Manistee, Mich,
Half the Wisconsin cranberries have
been frosted, and the growers feel tart.
Leader Burns, of London, has signed
a manifesto against masters combina.
tiOns.
Twelve hundred and eighty-fye
deaths from cholera have been reported
in Messopotamia.
VictorRyberg, Jersey City truck.
man, ran over pedestrian, was arres-
ted and died from worrying over the
affair.
Gardens, vineyards and buckwheat
fields in the Mohawk Valley, NY.
were badly damaged by frost Monday
morning.
!. It is said the republican national
committee has declined to honor the
acquisitions for liberal supply of cash
in Virginia election.
Secretary Blaine is expected at the
State Department next Monday. Ac-
tive preparations for the Three Ameri.
can Congress will then begin.
Frederick Douglass, Minister to Hay
ii, was at the Department of State on
Saturday and received his final instruc-
tions. He will sail on Saturday next.
The terrible land slide at Quebec
last week which buried houses aud
people to the number of nearly two
hundred beneath it, is one of the worst
catastrophes of the many Of the year.
Johnstown has thirty-six grocery
grocery stores and fifty-one liquor sa-
looms With its past experience We
should think that Johnstown would 90
In for the solids rather than the fluids
Some people never know when thew
have had enough.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
TAXPAYER.
Control Lost of an Electric Railway
One Man Killed and Many
Injured.

AN accident occurred Friday on the
electric railroad running from the foot
10 the top of Mission Ridge, at Chatta-
nooga, Tennessee. A car had nearly
reached the top on the very steen trocir
when the electric current failed ami
the car started down the mountain at
great speed. The motor man tried 10
stop. the car with the brakes. .but nii
ing IN this, the conductor shouted to
Che passengers to jump from the car.
Inc car contained fifty people. al;
OF whom We're visitors to the reunion oi
the Army of the Cumberland. one. hall
oIthe party being ladies. There was n
scene OF wild excitement. and. n manic
seizlng all on board, they began lean
ing from the rapidly moving ear down
the mountan-side. Five or six per-
sons remained on the car with the con.
uuctor and motor man, and all were
uninJured, as when the load was mar
tlaiIy removed from the car il was
stopped before reaching the foot of the
Mrs. Mary Adams, of Casey. III. in
jumping from the car, struck one of the
poles carrying the electric wires and
was thrown in front of the car. strnck
on the head, and was thrown I'm the
sue OF tne track, suffering injuries
rom which she died. William Mum.
i4rd, OF Casey, ILL.,, in jumping from
the car struck in a mass of barbed wire
ana was badly cut, one eye being it
orally torn out. Several others were
very seriously injured.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
FUT the smyrna Times.
Letter from Kenton.
KENToN, DEL, Sept. "a, 1889.

KENTON, DEL, Sept. "a, 1889.
MIR. EDITOR =
Permit me to make use of your col
umns to give a few facts relative to our
high school, and a hurried sketch of
the peculiar system of instruction in
vogue, hoping that less favored com
munltIes may receive some sugges-
tlons. We have a tWO-story brick
school house handsomely located and
well furnished which was built about
four years ago by tax levied not on
the rental value, as is the custom, but
on the real value of property, thus
making the burden light on the poor.
We have at presenta principal whose
experience with the world must be
vast Ii experience increases with aye +:
and who ought to be qualified to be
active in the school room now for he
has rested from school teaching for
about twenty years. In the school all
system Is signOred, as though it curtailed
the liberties of teacher and children in
this llberty-lOVing Republic, and the
school is conducted on a 90 as-vou-
please style. To illustrate: one dav
when the attendance was smaIl-less
than a dozen being present-seven
children were out at the same time
during school hours. The teacher
looking up, and seeing only two or
three pupils present inquired for the
rest; and on being told they were out
OF doors stepped to the door and called
them in. Again there is no routine
for hearing the recitations. ANY study
Is as apt to be heard in the morning as
the atternOon-just as it is thought of ::
and frequently when a class is called
TO reclte IN one subject, say grammar.
and Ii the pupils should say that thev
preferred to recite another subject, sav
spelling, spelling would be heard. 1t
Is unusual for the teacher to assign
any lesson for the next recitation. The
children are left to take what thew
please. Sometimes they suggest to the
teacher that they take such or such a
lesson and their suggestion is sadopted.
AT times the boys form a sort of torches
ira and make humming noise which
is deafening. There are pupils about
10 years old who have gone to school
almost every day since the first term
began September 1st-and who have
not recited a lesson in either arithme-
tic, spelling, or reading.
We desist from further illustrations
to prove that schools as we'll as walk
ing matches can be run on a go-as-vou
please style. These are facts, and if
any of your readers doubt their truth
tulness just give them the name of the
writer if requested, and he will fur
nlsh proof for every assertion; or what
may be equally as convenient. Mr.
Reader, just stop the next school child
you meet on our streets and put your
queries to him or her.
Mr.. Editor, this letter is not written
IN bitterness of thought; we are on
good terms with the teacher in charge.
and have great respect for him as n
citizen, but being a taxpayer and inter.
ested in children who attend the school
we tearlessly say what we have heard
many timidly admit, that school is
Kept here more for the benefit of the
Intlrm teacher than for any benefit the
children receive.
TAXPAYER.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Business Locals.

Brass and paper shells, loaded and
empty, reloading sets, caps, powder
TASKS, shot pouches, cheap at William
B. Collins.
Window Shades and Spring Fixtures
at J. B. COOpers. Loops and Fringes
Wm. P. SmitheIs has to loan $4,000
in sums of 81 ,00G each: and also $1,000
on mortgage on farm land.
Rupture cure guaranteed. Ease atonce. No op-
Grafton or business delay. Thousands cured For
circular, Or. } B. Mayer, s2l Arch ST.. Phila IT
Keystone Hotel, Heading, Pa. % Sat. of each month
For the BEST Lemons in Smyrna, 20
to Geo. NJ. StevensOn's, Main Street.
Table and Pocket Cutlery at J.B.
CoOper's.
A few Carpets and Mattings left at
J. B. Cooper's will be sold at very low
figures.
Pulpit and Family Bibles, at J. 3.
COoper's.
.r-o Use Use MaFyelous VA Csis Cough syrup:
chial or throat objections of any kind.
States, Pencils, Pens, Ink. Tablets
Erasers. Blank Books, Cravon. and ali
other School Stationery, and all the
School Books, at J. B. Cooper's Book
Store.
Devoe Brilliant Oil, the best and saf-
est oil made, at J. r. Cooper's.
Blank. Books, all Styles, Sizes and
Qualities, at J. B. COoper's.
Granite and Porcelain Tea and
Chamber Sets, plain and decorated, at
!. B. Co0per's.
Order any Book you want, at J. ] .
Cooper's.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Signs of the Coming Winter.

we are going TO have an early fall
and q long, cold, hard winter" re-
NAKED Samuel Lovelapce, an old
Jersey farmer, to several friends at the
New Washington Market.
How do you figure that out ?"
asked one of the marketmen.
I'm the first place." the Jerseyman
replied, Just try the skin of any of
your fruit. You will find your apples
and peaches and grapes, and all YOUR
fruit, for that matter, which is home
grown, with a thicker and tougher skin
than you have seen for several years.
That is one of the indications. That
Is the way nature takes care of her
products. Last winter, apples and
other fruits were so thin skinned and
tender that it was hard to gather them
without bruisinS them, if YOU will re-
member, and we had an extraordi-
narily mild winter. Corn is another of
natures sign boards. The ears this
year are protected by thicker and
stronger husks than have seen before
for years, and talking with farmers up
IN Pennsylvania find it is the same
way. Wheat and rye straw are
tougher, hay is wirier. and the seed
pods are better protected than usual.
These are old farmers signs, and they
are good ones because they don't come
from any moon planting superstition
but from actual observation year after
year by class of men whose interests
lie in keeping close watch of all of
natures moods. ."-NelU York Star.
Like all meteoFic wisdom from sim
liar sources, the above is the sheerest
bosh. The apples left to nature would
fall and rot Before winter set in and
their thick skins would afford no pro.
lection to the seed whatever. Corn
husks, wheat straw and all vegetable
growth is very rank this season sim
ply because there has been an abund-
ance of wet weather, while the grain
part Of the product is correspondingly
small.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
PhMndelnhin-
Personal.

Capt. John COsden is up from Sud.
lersville, Md, spending a few days
with his Smyrna friends.
Miss Ethel Cooper returned yester-
day to Wilson College, Chambersburg.
Pa, to enter her senior year.
Miss Lizzie Hall is visiting friends
in Wilmington.
Miss Ida Stillman, of PHILADELPHIA is
the guest of Miss Minnie Clement and
Mrs. Carey, of the same city, is visiting
her sister, Mrs. w. F. Clement.
Miss Rena Williams, who went to
Altoona, Pa, in August, is en- route
home, spendinga few days in Will
mington.
Miss Name Young was given a sur
prise masquerade on Monday evening
by some thirty of her young friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. G. Walls commemo.
rate their first wedding anniversary by
supper this evening at which their
relatives and near friends will be
guests,
Ralph Hofeckep returns tomorrow
to school in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer z. TAYLOR have
this week permanently located in
Philadelphia. Miss Susie Wright will
go with her sister to reside in the citv.
Joseph Wright and son of the same
name, will remain in Mr.. Wrigbt's
house and board with Mrs. n. II.
Mackey, who takes possession oft.
Mrs. Bennett, of MillVille, N. j., is
visiting Samuel Bennett at Green
Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Baggs and Mr..
and Mrs. w. o. Hoffecker took an
early start on Sunday morning for
ChestertOwn, reaching there in time
for the services at the M. p. Church.
the object of the visit being to hear the
new organ in that church.
Miss Laura Bell is visiting a former
school friend in Pennsylvania near
Mrs. DIR. J. w. Clifton and Mrs.
Laura L. Temple left on Monday for
months visit to Mrs. Clifton's sister
Mrs. Alice Bailey, Fairbury, Nebraska.
Miss Elva Wilson has returned to
Salem, N. j., and Miss Estelle Smith to
Wanamaker's in Philadelphia.
Miss Beulah Jefferson IS visiting rel.
atives in Cecilton.
Mr.. and Mrs. g. B. Taylor, who had
2 cottage at Ocean Grove for the sum-
meE, returned home last week.
Geo. Stewart came from Seaford last
week to take charge ofC. Prettyman's
clothing store.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

The result Of the elections in France
Sunday, says the Baltimore Sun, can
hardly be satisfactory to the friends of
France, if, as seems likely, the outcome
IS to be the continuance of the unsettled
situation of the last few years. The
Republicans have triumphed, but the
situation has not been improved. They
will retain control of ths Chamber of
Deputies, but with a diminished ma
jority. Of the 567 members constitut-
ing that body the Republican have
about 365, figure which gives them a
handsome margin, though not as large
a one as they had expected. The num-
Der of Boulangists is small, but it is
notably greater than it was in the last
Chamber. Upon the whole the net
result, it must be confessed, is a slight
strengthening of the hands of the party
Of change.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

THE easy way of getting rid of trou-
bles and disappointments by suicide is
a noticeable feature of these later days
that had developed into something like
a fashion and is a marked feature of
this sceptical age. The papers last
week record the fact that three New
Hampshire young women, school-fel-
lows and intimate friends committed
suicide one after the other and in the
same way. This tendency to jump
into eternity to get out of trouble here
is feature of agnostic life that is likely
to develop with the next few years.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

The strike of the London workmen.
which after being uaeed for several
weeks, was ended Dy compromise in
their favor, has, says a New York
paper, kindled spreading prairie fire
OF speculation regarding the {. ture Of
English labor and the stability OF En-
glish institutions. The working classes
have learned their strength, it is said
and have been brought into close rela-
tions with the socialistic societies which
led them in the struggle. Presently
will come some contests of deeper
import and on a broader scale ia which
the socialistic antagonism to rights OF
property will be more plainly shown,
and then Throne, Peerage and Estab.
lished Church may totter. In short
current comment upon the London
struggle largely echoes the thought Of
Tennyson twenty years:
Slowly comes an hungry people, as lion, draw
ing higher
Glares at one that mods and Winks behind a
slowly dying fire."
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

Bishop Fowler, who has recently re-
turned from q tour around the globe in
the interest of Methodist missions,
made some remarks at ministers
meeting in Chicago last week that
attracted a great deal of attention from
the secular press. In a subsequent talk
to reporter who called on him he
said:
want to correct an impression that
has gone abroad. I did not say at the
ministers meeting in Chicago that we
would have war with China in less than
ten years. The substance of what I
said was this, that when any country
goes back on its own paper such action
is dastardly; that when this country
allows man to 60 back to his own
country, with tho assurance that he
can return, and then passes a law in
his absence preventing his return, it is
not right. As to war, do not say
there will be war.
II know not what the future holds
out. Let me tell you this, the most
extensive military preparations are
now under way in China. Prince Lii,
the prime minister, or, to be more
exact, the vieerOy, is ordering the
manufacture Of rifed cannons and war
ships and improved hand arms, and is
recognizing the whole army. The
Chinese move slowly, and Prince Ii
says that in ten years he will have
things where he wants them. And then
well, then, 1 know not what will
come, but let me tell you the Chinese
are great peOple-a great people, sir;
and more than all that, they are a
people of great courage. I think that
Prince Ii, the viceroy of China, is one
of the greatest statesmen the world has
ever produced.
Speaking of war, just look at this
The Chinese people number 400, 900, 900:
they could put 100000 men in San
Francisco easier than the United States
could put 100000 there.