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Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Prominent People.

Queen Victoria is five feet high and
weighs 1913 pounds.
Death has claimed five members of
the Fifty-first Congress of New
York Burnes, of Missouri Gay, of
Louisiana; Townsend, of Illinois, and
Laird, of Nebraska.
Governor Foraker saws that he ex-
poets to have majority of3O,OOO. The
democrats do not have much hope of
electing their State ticket, but thew
are moving heaven and earth to carry
the Legislature, so as to save Pavneis
seat in the Senate.
Frank B. Carpenter, the artist has
Deen at Newburg all summer, hard at
work upon his new historical picture.
Arbitration" which he hopes will be
nnished IN the course of a couple of
months.
Prince George of Wales is the only
member of his royal family who speaks
the language of his country without a
foreign accent.
Jesse Grant, the Youngest of the three
sons of General Grant, is back from
Europe, with the aroma of a successful
etDohb MN Ou account OF q
report that he has succeed in selling a
Mexican silver mine to the BritisheTs.
ArchdeacOn Farrar's reason for send
ing his son to be educated as a civil en-
gineerin this country was that our
schools are progressive. The archdea-
con says that engineering in England
Is twenty-five years behind that of this
country.
jeff Davis is growing very infirm and
had to decline attending the meeting
OF the Confederate Veterans Associa-
ton, which will take place in Mississ-
ippi October Is.
Mr.. Gladstone told the Rev. Tbeo-
dore Cuyler when the latter visited
the Grand Old Man in England that he
considered plutocracy and loose di-
Vorce laws the worst evils of American
civilization.
At Deland, Fla, few days ago.
Amanda Worthy, colored, fired at a
coachwhip snake, which was chasing
one of her chicken, and shot the Meth
Odist preacher, who was sitting at his
wrlting-table three hundred wards
away. The reverend gentleman's
wound is serious and painful. but not
necessarily fatal. Amanda was fined
S5 and costs.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
For the Smyr7,u Times
Letter from Duluth.

Mr.. EDITOR: The citizens of the
zenith city have with interest been
reading the accounts of your great
storm at sea, the unusual tidal wave.
the great loss of life and property, and
the fact that New Jersey is and has for
years been sinking by inches, are
very stirring facts.
Perhaps your readers would be as
much interested in news from this
BurgO-land where Boreas is king and
holds high carnival when the summer
solstlce has passed, nor is it on that
strain that l wish to write, as though a
winter carnival was near, for this au-
Iumn mas been warm to as much as 6
degrees above the normal. The high
altitude OF prosperity and progress of
this city of the unsalted seas will be
my theme.
Duluth is remembered as the city of
lost fortunes in the depression of 1873
which spread all over the land and
that impression seems hard to remove
from the minds of people living at a
distance. So great has been the re-
operative energy Of the people of the
Northwest that they have caused the
advance Of property to retrieve the
lost fortune of Jay Cooke and make
him a millionaire again out of his fran
chise of the Northern Pacific railroad.
1t was not until 1884 that it became
apparent that the day of better things
had dawned; then we gave your readers
a statement of the facts as we were
able, which lapse of time has fully
made good.
The commercial man and the bank
ers require figures to show facts, and l
here submit partial statement made
public this fall.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
A People Never Conquered,
RAMBLER.

Morocco has on its Northern coast a
strip of mountains in sight of every
passing Mediterranean steamer whose
Southern slopes have never been ex-
plored. There is no other part of the
world so accessible in which the sensa-
tion of looking at unmapped noun
tains and unknown valleys can be so
easily enjoyed. The Riff mountaineers
who inhabit this range held Rome at
bay and have maintained their inde-
pendence through twenty centuries of
successive cOnquests about them.
They are as free of control by the Sui
tan of Morocco as by Spain and thew
carried on a rude piracy down tothirty
years ago. This ancient practice has
just been resumed on the crew of a
Spanish vessel, and Spain, which has
been waiting for a chance to bully its
neighbOr, has taken the usual course
OF ordering a feet to Tangiers. The
end will probably be that the Sultan
will manage to remove the prisoners.
pay heavy indemnity and, as he can
not subdue the Riff mOuntaineers
make one more effort to get some foot
hold on the coast below the mountains.
which will prevent piracy from being
resumed. 1t is possible, of course, that
Spain will endeavOr to add to Ceuta.
which she now holds by seizing another
port, but this is so certain to lead to
trouble with France that it is not likely
to be attempted Philadelphia Press.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Dots of the Day.
Mems coats are very hacgv.

Mems coats are very baggy.
Winter clOaks have thickly-padded
shoulders.
Moorish fret work is much used in
interior decorations.
Ladies shoes are made with leather
uppers to match the dress in color.
Soul-stirring music is being engaged
for sole string parties in prospect.
"Russet shoes dyed" is the sign dis
played by a shrewd bootblack near
Eighth and Walnut streets.
The man who invented smokeless
powder is at work on cigar to be op-
Grated on the same principle.
Bent and broken tacks that are usual
ly thrown away are better than any
newtangled patent for cleaning bottles.
Cloves are better than tobacco or
camphOr as a moth exterminator. but
they are never taken internally for
this purpose.
" l hope nom wont hear about that
said a messenger boy as he read the
heading ofa newspaper article: "Tan-
ming by Electricity"
think your stories were illustrated
with cuts" said an irate customer.
upon looking in the mirror after leav.
ing barber's chair.
Young girls vie with each other in
filling their left arms full ofsilver brac-
lets. Each bracelet represents a sum.
mer Irritation. One miss referred to
them irreverently as her "succors'
scalps."
The flannel shirt is in temporary re-
tirement.
Antelope brown is a new shade, war
rented fast color.
The newest things in ties for men are
great bulging puffs.
No one would guess from the taste
that the average oyster in market is
over five years old.
Dame Nature, ashamed of the dirtv
streets, has covered them with a carpet
of leaves.
Celluloid shirt fronts strike little or
no responsive chord in the breasts of
our chinese laundrymen.
One of the advantages of the new
design letter-bOx is that it can be OPEN
and the letter dropped with one hand.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
WHOLE NO. 1888.
The Changed Condition of
Things in Delaware.

An old gentleman remarked on
thursday that there had been a great
cnange IN wages in his day. Said he
In 1881 commenced to work for Jobn
Reed of Dover, building vessels.
was a boss carpenter, and I received
the hrst year so per day. the highest
wages paid in those days' Now am
paying d prick mason $3.50 per day."
now does living compare now with
what it cost then ?''
:. well, it does not cost any more to
llve now than it did then, provided"
SAID he, you live the same. Wheat
was scarce article then, hardly aDv
any OF 1t being raised in the county
and wheat bread was not induced in
except on state occasions. Two hun
ured acre farms then only produced 20
ana 70 bushels of wheat. II was in
the days before Peruvian guano. and
pnosphates were even dreamed of
whlle manure was about as scarce upon
the farms as wheat. Farm laborers
We're paid SO cents per day, and a davs
work was from daylight until dark
Inc ten hour system was noj Thought
OF. The clothing that the men wore
was mostly woven and made mn bv
the women folks. The produce Of the
Iarms made but a small item of what
was shipped from the county. Most
oil the tlllable land was unfenced and
coulu be bought for song. il being
very poor ana no way to improve il
ne Ilmoer was Ike Yaluble portion of
the county. This was worked nm into
snip timber, and either put into vessels
yards being upon every stream of anv
size IN the county; or it was sbinnad
away to Philadelphia, New York and
Boston to the large wards Delaworo
white oak in that dav had the sam
value 1t has to-day. Besides shin tim
Der OF al! descriptions, cord wood bv
thousands OF cords was cut and sent to
Ihe cities every year, as well as the
DARK. Inc trade in the latter commodity
was very heavy. Now all is changed
our timber IS gone and we have in its
place some OF the finest lands that the
sun ever shone upon. Land, which in
Ihat day was thought to be almost val
uejess and would not bring 50 per acre.
now produces corn and wheat and
grass IN abundance and the land
Where all these one and tWo-dollar Der
basket peaches were grown this wear.
then laid out untitled and unsaleable
People even did not travel over the
road, so heavy and sandy was it. Whv.
one farm now will produce, and does
every year more than 1000 acres did
IN those days. Delaware land has i'm
proved wonderfully in the So wears
but what will it do in the centurvP
Land will be land in Delaware before
the boys of to-day are as old as am.
See what the railroad has done for the
state. All this improvement has taken
place since the road has been buiIt
why they carry more passengers now
every day than they did when the road
was first built in three months. Then
look at the freight trains that 90 thun.
dering by loaded with all kinds of pro-
duce every few hours. IT is a reyela-
ton to me, and look at them and
wonder, even though have grown nm
with it all. The public schools of to-
day are colleges for our boys: we had
none then. What little learning a
poor boy got then he had to get at
home, or else by paying at some private
school. ."-SentineI.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Aspects of the Moon.
AN ALLEGED CHANGE IN ONE OF ITS
GREAT CRATERS.

The members of the Baltimore
Society of Amateur Astronomers have
received a dispatch from Professor
Rltchie, at the Harvard Observatory.
announcing a change in the crater
Pliny of the moon. This remnant of a
volcano is one of the many crags and
peaks distinguishable through an opera
glass, field glass, or telescope. The
entire surface of the moon is broken
up by walled plains, in the centre of
each of which rises a straight mound.
Crater Pliny is one of the best known
of these, and is in the northwestern
quadrant of the moon. A Baltimore
astronomer said that he thought that
a mistake had been made in regard to
the discovery, as the satellite is beliey-
ed to be dead, and no change can take
place on its surface. He said that il is
possible that the professor, who
thought he had made a discovery. had
been misled by the different promi-
nences on the surface being illuminated
at different angles and thus present.
ing n different appearance. By the
most powerful telescopes the moon can
be brought within $50 to 200 miles of
the earth, and everything" said the
astronomer, appears dead. Nothing
but the widest desolation prevails.
Circular caverns and pits have their
floors strewn with huge blocks and
sides stretching upward a thousand
feet. Some of the mountains inclOse
areas of 40 to 120 miles in diameter,
while the peaks themselves rise often
to 1000 feet, and in one instance
10000 feet in altitude"
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

The saloon must have boys, or it
must shut up shop. Can't you furnish
it one? 1t is great factory, and un-
less it can get two million boys from
each generation for raw material, some
of these factories must close out, and
its operatives thrown out on a cold
world the pulic revenue will
0windle. "Wanted-2,O 10000 bows"
is the notice. One family out of every
five must contribute boy to keep up
the supply. Will you help? Which of
your boys will it be? The minotaur of
Crete had to have a trireme full of fair
maidens each year, the minotaur of
America demands a city full of boys
each yer. Hare you a father9 Have
you given your share to keep up the
supply for this great institution that is
helping to pay yor taxes and kindly
electing public officials for you? Have
you contributed boy? II not, some
other family has had to give more
than its share. Are you selfshly vot.
ing to keen the saloons open to
grind up boys, and then doing nothing
to keep up the supply P-LeaUenwOrth
Times.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Excursion to Washington.

The Triennial Conclave of the
knights Templar will be held in Wash
ington, d. c., October Sth to I1th,
1889 and will be the largest gathering
of its kind ever held in this country.
Excursion tickets will be sold to
Washington from all stations on the
B. & o. r. r. for all trains October 8.
6, 7 and s, at rate of one fare for the
round trip, valid for the return Jour
ney until October 31st, inclusive.
October is one of the pleasantest
months in the year to visit Washing
ton and inspect the magnificent public
buildings, museums and monuments.
During the period of the conclave
popular excursions will run by the B.
4 0. from Washington to Gettysburg,
Harper's Ferry, Luray Caverns and
other points of interest.
Passengers are landed in Washing
ton at the B. & o. station, one block
from the Capital. Guide books to
Washington will be furnished upon
application by all B. & o. agents.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
DON'T

get into the habit of taking medicine for every
niue imaginary trouble. Nature often reminds
US Dy slight shocks that we have transgressed
the laws of hygiene, and that our conduct i'm this
respect needs correction. In such cases prophv-
iactlcs are more efficacious than therepeutics
bqt tnere are physical antagOnisms which it is
!!Olly 10 neglect. Clearly defined diseases requr-
ing prompt and specific treatment-of these
lntermlttentS, chills aud fever-are the most
common, and of the remedies proposed some are
50 nauseOuS as TO be unfit for weak stOmachs
while others diSastrousy affect the head and
nervous system. From such heroic remedies the
1lSeusted sufferer turns to LOwber's Brazilian
HegeldDIe FlllS (e eganty sugar coated and finds
LnlLleuiate IeleI without any physical disturb
anee whatever from the action If the medicine
Inns Is the secret of the immense popularity of
"One Pill usually cures me of headache IN
WhlGn am subiect"-A. W. SMALL Lincoln Del
,,Lthey cause natural evacuation of the bowels
WllnOut any OF the disagreeable effects common
TO other medicines. use them for cOStiyeness"
4 KNIGHT, 5O9 Commerce street, PHILADELPHIA.
nj, ISter Smlth, Esq formerly manufacturer in
fhllaueiphla, now residing on his farm near
Hazettville, Del, furnishes us a strong testimo.
He says: -0N''
Dear Sir-I was aft ctel with fever and ague
from august, 1887, to February of this year QSSS)
tired all sorts of chill cures without avail and
grew SO emaciated and weak that | could not
get upstairs. In February I began the nse of
your Brazilian Pills, and before had taken hsIf
the box was so far recovered thst | cOnId use
tne MAIL and Wedges l am now (April 3O) i'm
,ifP ,iitfP'toP P condition have had dyspepsia all my
III , put since taking these pills every symptom
mas disappeared, my mind and memory in svm.
paIhy with the body is clearer and more active
PETER SMITH" 0's "O'i'e'
90 Pills in box (sugar-coated) so cents. For
sale by Druggists and Dealers.
LOwber's Worm LOzenges,
Fl9eaSant 9.t to the taste, cordial to the stomach
IellaDle Worm destroyer excellent for billions
and dealers. DiussLSS
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
In Fly-Time.

There is no house, however watched and tended
But hies roam here and there
NO place, hover so well by screens defended,
These insects do not share
Inc air is filled with humming, buzzing, hying-
If they were only dead
me heart of housewife for deliverance crying
Would then be cOmforted
Let US be patient! These fly.time afflictions
For brief space arise,
10 disappear amid the maledictions
we care not to disguise.
where 90 flies go? To climes where other mortals
Their hy-papers spread out
ana quickly set wide all the hy-tray portals,
The enemy TO rOut?
Perhaps they dO,-but there's no diminution;
Next season finds us still
fOor victims in the usual distribution
Against our wish or will
And though at times, all wearied with vain
shifting
And with our lips compressed
We've sworn to give up this useless fighting
And give the flies a rest
We VIII take courage and dismiss this feeling
increasingly wage war:
A lifelong battle with the enemy now SEALING
Our hatred evermOre
Good Housekeeping
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
She Would not Wed an Infdel,
A WOMAN WHO WAITED TWELVE YEARS
TO MARRY A CHRISTIAN.

Twelve years ago Emily F. Owens,
of Baltimore, and Samuel Garner, now
a professor of languages at the United
States Naval Academy, were engaged
to be married, but the wedding never
took place, because she was devout
Christian and he was an infdel, and
she had declared that she would never
marry a man without religious belief.
The gentleman could not then accept the
doctrines of Christianity, and, seeing
that his suit for the hand of Miss
Owens was hopeless, he determined to
try to forget her. With this end in
view he went to the far West. There
after a while he quite accidentally
became a boarder in the house of a
minister of the Gospel,
Garner soon noticed in what perfect
harmony the minister and his wife
lived together, and began to realize
that perhaps it was better for man
and wife to be Christians than for them
to hold widely different opinions on
religion. All hope of wedding his first
love had long died out. To him she
was nothing but memory. His dis
cussion of religious topics with the
clergyman, however, finally led him to
embracing Christianity.
Later on Garner learned that Miss
Owens was still unmarried, and be re-
newed his suit, writing her that the
barrier of inddelity could no longer
separate them. A happy wedding at
An Saints Episcopal Church in Balti-
more Friday was the result.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
Ten Thousand Killed.
FEARFUL Loss OF LIFE BY FLOODS IN
JAPAN.

japanese papers received by the
steamship Gaelic place the total mum.
Der OF persons drowned in the floods of
August in the city of Wakayamo and
in the districts of Minami Muro. Big
azhl- MurO, Nishi-Muro and Hidaka st
10000 and the number of persons re-
ceiving relief at 2O,424.
The river Kinokuni swelled from
thirteen to eighteen feet above its nor
NAL level and the establishments at the
village of Iwahashi were washed awav
On the morning of August 10 an enOr-
nous mass of earth fell from the noun.
tain near the village of Tennokawa.
stopping the course of the river of the
same name, and which, being already
swollen greatly, submerged the village
and drowned nearly all the inhabi-
tants. A number of the villagers took
refuge in their temple, which was ON
high ground, but when the landslide
occurred about fifty persons were
buried alive.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

It is time to stop talking about the
remarkable performances of the
cruiser baltimore on her trial trip. The
time is at hand when the performances
Of an Americas warship will be re-
garded as remarkable only when they
are poorer than those Of the Baltimore.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

Money to build handsome churches
IS collected by the great patience, per-
severance and persuasion, and then
heating appliances are so clumsily and
unscientifcally put underneath them
as to inevitably burn them down.
From The Churchman, August 81, we
learn that there were burned last
year lS2 churches in this country, and
all but twelve took fire from their own
furnaces. "-Philadelphia Record.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

Chicago advices indicate pretty
clearly that when the trial of the al
legged murderers Of DIR. Cronin is once
under way it is going to be character
lied by some of the tallest swearing
ever heard in a court of justice. The
development of perjury as a fine art
seems to have reached its most ad-
vanced stage in the windy metropolis.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

The list went on to show the number
OF clearlngs by lake navigation and the
amount of coal brought here which
Will approximate one million of tons
for this year. One very important
item was getting a freight rate from
the East at the same price as Chicago.
and being three or four hundred miles
further West and nearer those new
states just coming in, and whose grow
ing trade will amount to a great deal
especially post that has two methods
OF shipping, either by water or rail, the
latter either via Canadian roads, or bv
the well known trunk lines. The
above fact has so affected the elevator
business of neighboring cities that thew
are transferring their business to this
place.
The same is true of merchant mill
ing: The time will soon come when it
will equal Minneapolis in its produc.
tion of flour, because their product
now comes to Duluth for shipment to
all points East as their cheapest line.
The hard coal for St. Paul and her
sister city comes through the Duluth
coaling station. The wholesale mer-
chants in every department say they
md all they can do to take care of
their growing trade. A most encour-
aging announcement. Time fails to
detail the new hotels and churches.
electric street car lines and rolling
mills or increase required in the force
at the post Office.
Yours, RAMBLER.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

President Harrison informed certain
young ladies at Deer Park recently
that Baby Mckee's name is "Benia-
min" He had been annoyed because
the girls called the youngster Benny"
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25

The man who has lost his ''pile" in
Wall street looks upon that locality as
the dearest spot on earth to him.
Smyrna times., 1889-09-25
for Infants and Children.

oessoriaia 50 weIl adapted 70 children that
.,Sol',ilend It as superior to any prescription
IVA % me- H A. Archer, ND,
III 30. Oxford St., Brooklyn, ny.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-18
PITH AND POINT.

The greatest of faults is to be con-
scious Of aone.-Carlyle.
Some men are so lazy they
wouldn't help unload if their ship
should come in.
IL none but those without fault
threw stones nobody would be hit. -
Galveston News.
No blindness or lack of opportuni-
ty to do great things deprives any of
the right to be a good man.
The lighter the individual the
easier to float in the social swim
Washington Critic.
"A daughter is little white lamb
in the household to teach men to be
gentlemen.
What you leave at your death. let
it be without controversy. else the
lawyers will be your heirs.-F. Os-
born.
Many voyager has made ship
wreck on the sea of matrimony because
he didn't choose the right mate
Ocean.
"A man must be excessively stupid.
as well as uncharitable. who believes
there is no virtue but on his own side
Addison.
There are three things in speech
that ought TO be considered before some
things are spoken, the manner. the
place and the time.
Wearing diamond pin is not al
ways "A sign of great wealth. Many
man carries his pocketbook on his
shirt front. Jewellers Weekly.
1t makes difference about mans
value, whether you take him as his
own estimation or that of his wife,
SOmerville Journal.
The looking-glass is the only truth
teller that is universally popular. But
this is because we interpret its refec-
tions to suit ourselves, and not literal
ly.-Puck.
1t was very proper answer to him
who asked why any man should be de-
lighted with beauty, that it was a
question which none but blind man
should ask.
Many arts and sciences are more
easily acquired late in life than a good
manner. If people are to behave well,
they must be taught early so to be-
have-a practice that demands unceas-
ing sacrifice of minute personal lik-
ing to the general pleasure and con-
venience. Once a Week.
In conversation. the medium is
neither to affect silence or eloquence;
not to value our appreciation; and to
endeavor to excel us who are of your
company, are equal injuries. The
great enemies therefore to good COM
pany, and those who transgress most
against the laws of equality, which is
the life of it, are the clown, thu wit
and the pedant.-Sir r. Steele. -