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Smyrna times., 1889-05-22

The Chinese are queer people many
ways. The Northern China Ne,cs saws
that an English gentle was recently
riding on horseback near Pekin. when
he saw an excited crowd. Drawing
near he discovered a circle of people
quietly watching a man desperately
attempting to commit suicide bv dash
ing his head against a wall He dis
mounted, restrained the man, haran-
gued the bystanders, and learned that
this was coOlie, who claimed that his
payment for certain porter's lob was
short by ten cash-less than a penny
and as the employer refused TO paw
more he was proceeding to take re-
venge by killing himself on the SPOT
knowing that by so doing he would
get the other into considerable trouble
Smyrna times., 1889-05-22

$50 Washington St., New York
Smyrna times., 1889-05-22
A Woman's Disoov0rv

Another wonderful discovery has been modo
anu ena That TOO by lady in this county. Disesso
ltslened us clutches upon her and for seven
years she withstOOd It's severest tests bnt bor f
organs were undermined and death eeerncd i isal
lilent. llInent. FOR three months she coughed incess.
aaay elti anq could not sleep. She bought OF us a
yso.tie ss o. Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumn
soh ana was 90 much relieved on takIng drprt
pose Lnat she slept all night and with one bottie
4 iias ", Deen mlracnlously cured Her name Is Mira
Luther Luiz" Thus write W. o. Hamrict q ~
o. shelby, n. C-Get free trial bottle nj fsynoy
= noieckers eg Drug Store smyrna C. G. Har.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-22

If Nihilism is taking root in the Rus
sian army, Heaven help the Gar He
can only travel from St. Petersburg to
Moscow by having $4,000 soldiers line
the railway tracks and protect the I'm.
perial train from assaults by the revo-
lutlonary conspiratOrs. If the soldiers
themselves are not to be trusted, the
monarch will virtually be imprisoned
In his own palace and he will never
cease to be haunted by a suspicion that
his most familiar body servant NAV bo
Nihilists in masquerade.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-22
Clark's No. | Seed Potatoes.

Inc largest producers and finest eooLino
6otato now raised, as carly as the EariS
Rose, and will produce 500 busbols NJ. ~
acre with 1000 lbs Of Russcl Goes Poteto
~ hma1ure m properly applied per aero On moor
lehu Inc quality B clear Of grub marie
De, '99i 1,,,,,, sase rom r9' and true toname si
nave prompt attention.
Aessel Coo 5 high.grade Fertiizors con-
0Nintiy on hnnd, at reasonable prices
ea.o j II. WILSON Arf
smyrna. Del
Smyrna times., 1889-05-22
The Death of Minister Rice.

The sudden death Thursday of Mr..
Allan ThOrndyke Rice, minister to
Russia, when on the point of sailing to
occupy his post, is forcible reminder
OF the uncertainty of life and the fulfil
lty OF human expectations. Though a
person of bitter prejudices and strange
ly unfriendly to the South, with which
ne was some what identified by decent
he was yet a man of much force of
character, and by his energetic man
age ment of the North Amelican Rerie,o.
OF which he was editor and proprietor,
won the appointment with which Pres
ident Harrison honored him.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-22

Leave Philadelphia, Ola Point EXPRESS. II ~
p H. GARY, Baltimore gO8 %. NJ Wilmiugt0n
ry2 a, d.. daiy stepping at Dover and Denar
diet5Wn, Clayton Feltou, Harrington Rri,5.,,-
Vl.4e ana Seltord 60 leave passenger, from, W;I
mn SION ana points North or take ON tusea,, .I.
Tor points south OF Delmar 'sO'
me ll.20 p. IN. also stGus on eippol at or,o1
A1ttboaRd trains leave DeImarI.n5a.n m daiI,
DoNvi -" a. IN. regularly. arriving al Viin,ir,,,
TON Al2 a. NJ, EGltiuoroG.l a. m. and I5biia4ai
pniu '.in g. III. '''''''S'
., Iae I95 d.. m. train also stops al sr,f,r1
-. ''tNii g. harrington, FUitou, Clsyi.u ~ II
" 4-''-'ee VA 10 leave passengers from J,of,tls
o,'n '- ~, mar, OF tlEc Oh pgsseugc-e for VII
Il. Lon. ,oA amt points Month Also stops on signal
BRAECiI ROADS.
,'i4AN 5tE, MARYLAND ~ VIRGINIA r.. p
'-r'+F- harrington for icWes II .Oj n m and
o''' D. ih. +Cr franklin ana way stations n c5
a. I'D. i-s'lu'IH8 tia.l's leaves LcWcs for Hurriug-
~, ~ o.. De H. ana 345 =. N. Leave franklin
,.. ~. oe:..n, leaves Huntington llo5n. u Re-
lu!Hlii- leaves Berlin 697 "a. m
g. ,ttN'.N 0SsE a. KENT K. R.-Leavc Townsend
~ '',.lof '.s ana way stations $50 a. m ahd III
DahA|AEE N cHEsAFEAKE r. R.-Ieave CLAYTON
I"' oNI"i4 and way stations 1905 a. ma. ana y II
p. Ii., weekdays. '''' ''ii
CAMBRIDGE G SEAFoRD Il R Il onro ,,e.-, s. -
weekdays. 'i'' d. Ill.,
CoNEEcrIoEs.- Porter. with Newer], q. neIa.
ware Clty Railroad. At Townsend with Oi,oo,
a. a,o 90 G goaI Al layton with Delaware
Peake liailrOld0ud Baltimore x Dql y.are
Do! isallr00G. At harrington. with Delaware
HNt% ianG AZ virginia RaiirOaG Atscef.rd Win
NNtlnb!ldge G$caIorJ Hailr0ad AZ D.Irlsr ,Uitb
D o. ~ Loth' Thiiadc.phio a Norfolk, Wicomico q
A'0'i'oh"'@a3 PENINSULA Railroad.
CHAS. E. PCGU GcneE,,I ,rs,ooo-
d H. WOOD General Passenger Agent.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-22
Philadelphia Wilmington z Baltimore Railroad,
SaGLAsgAasE DIVISION.

on and after December 10Th, 1883 (sundays ex-
ccpteo - trains willleAve as follows:
Smyrna times., 1889-05-22

In the next war armies will have to
be employed chiefly in keeping out of
the range Of each others guns, or they
Will be annihilated. In addition 20
the repeating rides, Calling guns, dy-
namite guns and the like, the Govern
ment has been experimenting with a
six-pounder that fires nineteen times a
minute or sixty times in four minutes
and twenty seconds. There will be
no charges like that Of Pickett's men
at Gettysburg against such weapons.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
Additional State News.

The barns OF Frank Harff in Bloomfield
township, Oakland county, were destroyed
by fire the other night, entailing "A loss OF
$1,000 with $1,000 insurance They were
the largest barns in Oakland county, and
contained 600 bushels OF wheat, 800 bush.
els of oats, and large quantity OF hay.
His best cattle We're on exhibition at the
fair, and the other amin Is left at home
broke out and escaped roasting.
A meeting OF the Michigan board of
pharm icy, for the purpose of examining
candidates for registration, Will be held
at Lansing Wednesday and Thursday,
November > and Is. The examination of
both registered pharmacists and assist
ants Will commence on Wednesday, at 9
o clock Il. m, at Representative hall. The
examination for registration for all can
didates Will occupy two days. No special
rates of fare could be obtained, owing to
the rumpus kicked up by the railways
over the two cents per mile law.
The careless handling of "a target gun
caused the death of a 4-years- old boy
named Roberts at Lake Odessa, the other
day.
The Cincinnati, Jackson * Mackinaw
railroad company will extend its line
from Addison in Lenawee county to Jack
son, and greatly improve existing lines.
George l.. Gilkey was robbed of $500
watch at the Burdick house at Kalamazoo,
the other night
George Nj. Davis who has served two
terms in state prison for horse stealing,
and was released few months ago, drove
TO the residence of his father, James
Davis, in Nit. Morris the other night and
exchanged stolen horse which he had
over driven for "a gray one OF his father $,
and left a note in the barn stating who had
taken the beast. 1t has since been learned
that the black horse was stolen from Ian
sing. Young Davis recently escaped from
the jackson police, who had arrested him
for some misdemeanor The police are
searching in every direction for the thief.
0 Nathaniel Kent, an old veteran of Van
Buren, county, who has eked out an exist
ence by saving wood since the war, has
been granted -, 900 back pension, and Sl2 a
month.
over 100000 feet OF logs and large
amount OF dock property belonging to II.
k. Lyon of Ludington, barned on the 9th
inst, at a loss of 81, 900; no insurance.
a. J. Dean. Battle Creek street car
driver has been arrested charged with out
raging his daughter.
J. Gunner q Son of Cadillac have pur.
chased $1,000 acres of heavily tmbered
land near Gainesville, Florida. These gen
tlemen are also the heaviest stcokh oders
in the st. Tammlny Land x Lumber COM
pany, which has over billion feet of
standing pine near New Orleans purchased
in the spring of lssS.
BENJAMIN Hall, farmer living six miles
from Ludiugton. was found lying dead in
his buggy between that village and his
home the other day.
Samuel George of Paw Paw was driving
fractions horse when the animal reared
and fell backward upon George, fatally
iniuring him.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
Electric Car Brakes.

The expression. electric brake, is
now often heard, and requires word
Of explanation There are various
forms OF so called electric brakes which
are practicable, and even efficient
working devices. In none of them,
however. does electricity furnish the
power by which the brakes are applied;
it merely puts in operation some other
power In one type of electric brake
the active braking force is taken from
an axle of each car A small friction
drum is made fast to the axle. An
other friction drum hung from the body
OF the car swings near the axle. II.
when the car is in motion, these drums
are brought in contact. that one which
hangs from the car takes motion from
the other, and may be IN de to wind
chain on its shaft. Winding in this
chain pulls on the brake levers pre-
cisely as if it had been wound on the
shaft of the hand brake. The sole
function of electricity in this form Of
brake is TO bring the friction drums
together. In French brake which
has been used experimentally for some
years with much success an electric
current, controlled by the engine driver,
energies an electric magnet which
forms part of the swinging frame, in
which the loose friction pulley is
carried. This electro magnet being
vitalized, is attracted toward the axle,
thus bringing the friction drums in
contact In an American brake lately
exhibited on "a long freight train a
smaller electro magnet is used, but the
same end is accomplished by multiply
ing the power by the Intervention of a
lever and wheel. The either type of
so called electric brake is that in which
the motive power is compressed air,
and the function of the electric device
is simply to manipulate the valves
under each car, by which the air is let
into the brake cylinder or allowed to
escape, thus putting on or releasing
the brakes. All of these devices have
this advantage, that whatever the
length of the train. the application of
the brakes is simultaneous on all the
wheels, and stops can be made from
high speed with little shock. III. G..
Prout in Scribner's Magazine.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
FOREIGN.

The island Of Sardinia was swept by O
hurricane on the 9TH inst. One hundred
persons were buried beneath the debris OF
shattered buildings and 80 persons were
killed
The Province of Cagliari was ravaged by
fearful storm Oct Il, in which 240 houses
were destroyed, Ii persons killed and hun
dreds injured.
The scaiYolding about the steeple Of a
church being erected at Altenbrouch, in
Handover, gave way the other morning,
and the seven men at work on it were
thrown 10 the ground, a distance Of 100
feet, and instantly killed.
The legal costs on the Irish side Of the
Parnell commission, including the expenses
for witnesses and reporters, are fully COW
cred by the indemnity fund. Sir Charles
Russell received II 900 for preparing the
briefs, in addition 10 $50 daily. Messrs.
Reid " Lockwood each received one half
of those amounts. The expenses of the
Times largely exceed those of the Irish
side.
Several thousand Hebrews who have
been expelled from Russia, will go as colo
nists TO the Argentine Republic.
Canadian officials are trying to prevent
the wholesale smuggling of horses, whisky
and cattle into Manitoba
Fifty persons were killed and injured by
collision in a tunnel between Naples aud
Foggia, Oct l.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
THE STATE
WON'T Hold Wafer.

An error has been discovered in the
new liquor law which went into effect the
LIST inst. All of the newly found defects
are In section 1.-The most vital section of
the bill, because 1t prescribes the amount
tiat the saloon keepers aud the wholesale
houses shall pay in liquor taxes.
The act as approved by the Governor
and printed fixes the Wholesale tax on spir-
itIous liquors at $500 instead of $500 as
recommended by the conference com
mittee aud agreed To by both branches of
the legislature. The license for selling
spirituous and malt liquors T. both whole
sale and retail has also been changed, and
now appears as IL 900 instead of 81, 100 AS
passed While the Damon bill was being
tossed back and forth between the two
houses the senate adopted a provis-
ion allowing wholesalers OF spirituous
liquors TO also wholesale malt liquors
without paying an additional tax. The
conference committee struck this out, yet
il is retained in the law Owing TO this
blunder dealers can wholesale spirituous
and malt liquors on payment of only 500
tax, while the ct as re lily passed by the
legislature required 5000 for spirituous and
$500 for malt liquors, or 81 100 in all.
IL is the general belief at the capitol
that the liquor men will now have no
trouble in Kidding the law in the courts IA
they please, so many blunders having been
made that the act is practically worthless.
II is not altogether probable that the su-
preme court will throw out the entire law,
but it is claimed that it will be compelled
TO reject all of section /, and tins action
would defeat the legislative intent to raise
the retail tax from 90 10 5000 as that
clause is also contained in the mutilated
action.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Narrowing wheat.

A good many farmers have not the
nerve TO harrow their wheat in the
spring any more than tn ely have to run
"a harrow broadcast over the corn-feld
after the crop is up Next spring is a
good time for those who are timid on
this point to gain some wisdom by
personal experience. If you have
never tried narrowing your wheat,
try some of it next spring and insti-
tute a comparison by comparing re-
the 9th err.
With hardly an exception in the
whole line of agricultural products, uni
versal experience has proven that Gull
tivation is essential to the best possible
results. General analogy would be
sufficient of itself 10 suggest the bcne-
fetal results OF tillage applied to
wheat, but the matter has not been
left to analogical inference. Many ex-
periments have been made by thor
oughly cultivating the crop, when SO
planted, rs to make it possible and
with wonderful results as to increase
of product; but in addition 70 that,
the practice of giving wheat thor
ough narrowing in the spring has
come to be quite general in many
localities. The best narrowing for
the purpose will probably be n
smoothing" one, but any harrow not
having too large teeth will answer.
OF course a few plants will be
jerked out by the roots, but the SIN IL
ness Of the number of such will be re-
markable. The loss by this will not
begin TO Offset the gain made by loosen
ing the soil, so as TO give the roots a
chance 10 penetrate the greatest possi-
BILE distance. Then, too, the benefit
from preserving moisture in the soil,
by this loosening of the surface, may
be great in case OF drouth about the
time the grain begins to fill. The
packing process by the continual fall
OF rains for seven months makes the
wheat field q pretty solid surface by
the time the plant begins fairly to
grow in the spring. In addition TO
the good il does the wheat this har-
rowing also very greatly aids in get
ting good catch of clover or grass
seed. Where the fields are seeded
down narrowing for this purpose alone
more than pays for the trouble. 1t is
always best, if possible to time the har-
rowing just before rain, and the
ground should be just right when it is
done.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
Various Matters.

Two miners were instantly killed and
one fatally injured by a fall of earth in a
colliery at Hazleton, Pa.
Mrs. VIM. Alspach, an aged widow. was
struck by freight engine near Lima, o.,
and instantly killed.
In freight wreck near Hazleton, Ohio,
Brakeman John Fitzgerald was killed and
Conductor Miner badly injured.
Stratford. Conn, celebrated Thursday
the 250th anniversary of the settlement Of
the town. Thousands OF strangers poured
Into the city.
Officer Maher found two burglars, Chas.
Golden and Edward Duffy, at work in st.
Louis Thursday, and, being resisted, shot
Duffy dead.
La duel on the streets of Llano, Texas,
w. l.. Beeson was killed and Harry Rob
erts fatally injured. 1t is feared feud
will result.
Mrs. Kate NJ. Nye jumped from third
story window in Louisville Wednesday
night, and was instantly killed. Marital
unhappiness was the cause.
The senate committee on irrigation has
closed its investigation and disbanded. A
vast amount of information was gathered
during the journey OF 1900 miles.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
Farm Notes.

No succulent food is more greedily
eaten by pigs at any age than beets.
They may be fed any time from the
! first Trimmings during the growing
season TO the fully grown roots in
winter. They are especially valuable
as part of the winter food for breed
ing sows, and some beets should always
be saved for that purpose.
a scythe will pull the buckwheat to-
gether ia bundles that will need no
binding except slight twist of straw
around the head, setting each bundle
by itself on its butt. When dried by
cold weather, the fail on smooth
floor will take out the grain better.
cheaper and nearly as quickly as it
can be done by thrashing machines.
/ This is the old-fashioned way, and it
is as good as any.
We do not understand why cheese is
not more generally used as food by all
classes. In England il largely takes
the place of meat, which ii supercedes.
not only because Of its cheapness. but
its superiority. The poor quality of
much cheese offered in market is prob
| ably the reason for the popular preju-
dice against it. We eat more meet in
this country than any people in Europe,
and cheese ought largely to take its
place.
Sometimes when very heavy grain
crop has been grown the field is more
easily prepared for wheat seeding by
burning over the stubble A few fur
rows should be plowed next the fences,
to prevent the fire spreading where not
wanted Dat stubble, however large,
does not burn as easily as that of
wheat Its stalk is not so firm. In
burning wheat stubble many Hassian
| flies will usually be destroyed, thu 5
making it safer TO SOW wheat after
wheat.
Sometimes after threshing COWS
turned into the barnyard at night,
with access TO fresh straw stack. will
pick at the chat and eat enough to di-
minish their milk flow. 1t Is this Of
| ten, rather than the diminished past
ure, that lessons the milk yield at this
season. We have known farmers to
put fence around the stack, so as to
keep their cows from iniuring them
selves at il, as simple minded person
Is said once to have put "A fence around
a very poor lot to keep his stock from
J grazing on it.-American Cultivator.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
Animal Life in the Gulf Stream.

The surface waters in the Gulf
Stream TEEN with minute life of all
kinds. There the young of larger an
imals exist microscopic in size. and
adult animals which never grow large
enough to be plainly visible to the
naked eye occur in immense quantities.
BY dragging fine silk net behind the
vessel, these minute forms are easily
taken, and when placed in glass dishes
millions uncounted are seen winning
backward and forward. When looked
at through a microscope We SEQ young
jelly fishes, the young OF barnacles,
crabs and shrimps, beside the adult
microscopic species. which are very
abundant. The toothtess whale finds
in these his only food. Rushing
through the water, with mouth wide
open, by means of his whalebope
strainers the minute forms are sepa-
rated from the water. Swallowing
those obtained after short period of
straining, he repeats the operation.
The abundance of this kind of life can
be judged from the fact that nearly all
kinds of whales exist exclusively upon
these animals, most of them so small
that they are not noticed on the sur
face. Ralph S Tarr. in Popular Sci.
ence Monthly.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11

The commission selected to find suita-
BILE site for new navy yard on the Pa
cIfic coast reports In favor OF Port Orchard,
Is miles from Seattle, w. II,
The smokeless powder, about which so
much has been SAID, is not "A success. Aus
trian troops have been asphyxiated by the
powder. There is little hope that science
can remedy this fault without detracting
from the effectiveness of the explosive
which was TO revolutionize warfare
Twenty two OF the business places in
Cresco, Iowa, were destroyed by ire Sept
~.
A boiler used in quarry at Wrights-
vile, Pa, exploded the other morning.
Mrs. Lemuel Barnes was killed instantly,
her head being blown from her body. Mr..
Barnes was so badly injured that he died
few hours later.
w. Il. Dale, commissioner of Indian
affairs under President Lincoln, died in
Washington on the LIST inst.
Oyster Bay, J.. l., is torn up over a scan
dial in a church choir, in which there was "a
shade of Immortality that will ruin several
regulations.
Gre Il destruction of property has been
caused by floods in Mexico in the past few
days.
Seth Twombley, engineer, and Henry lie
Cloche, fireman, have been held RESPONSE
bic for the railroad accident in Chicago, by
which six persons were killed
An incendiary fire at Caledonia, MINI,
the other day destroyed 100000 worth Of
property.
Several business blocks in Butte City,
Mont, were burned Sept. -, causing a
loss of $4,000. Three fireman were in
jured it is thought, fatally, by falling walls.
Gen. Samuel ID. Sturgis, L. S. A., died
in Minneapolis sept. 30, aged 81. Gen.
Sturgis entered the army in 1916.
Harry Flaun, teller of the Marine Ma
tional bank of Pittsburg, has been convict
ed of embezzling $50, 0O0 and sentenced TO
five years in the penitpntiarv
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
Improving the Farm.

The best and shortest way to i'm
prove a farm is to reduce the stock,
pillow your fallows in winter so that
the soil will be warm and dry and the
subsoil decomposed early in the
spring. Harrow well and then SOW
ten or twelve quarts of grass seed to
the acre when you put in your oats.
If all take. your chance is good for
obtaining from five to ten acres of
oats and a field seeded down TO grass.
Then prepare as many acres for rye
sowing, provided your | md Is not
good enough for wheat and the two
crops will give you all the straw you
need and the corn-tield with usual
good luck, will produce enough TO fat
stock. At the end of the season you
will have the produce from fifteen or
twenty acres Of land, represented in
oats, corn and potatoes and as many
acres sown with rye and wheat
Keep just stock enough to eat up the
produce in grain and hay, and after
gathering your next years crops of
hay and grain, covering say fifty acres
of your farm OF 100 acres, you may
think of adding as many head of cattle
as your farm will sustain without pur-
chasing very heavily of foreign sup
plies. BY the end of the fourth year
you are ready to put In crop of
wheat and save blowing up your bot
tom meadow, you have re-seeded the
whole farm and are now ready to en-
large your dairy-and at the expira-
ton of ten years your land ought to be
III condition to double your crops
and the number of your cattle. This
is rotation. Practical Farmer.