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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-26

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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-26
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FAINIfR-' SUPPLIES
sold az che lowest figures W. are agelts tor
LoumAu 81 Attt.ueza aDs Ilgtely
PURE PREPARED PAINTS,
cons. eros by those who hafr u-ei them the
beet eAtdut. -euI fnr sample l..UfDI nlri.
BODEhER DhllHERS.
Wholesale Druggists,
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Smyrna times., 1889-07-03
NEW STYLE PLEASANT TASTE.
The Moss Perfect Medical Preparation
OF The Age.
The New styIe Vinegar Bittcrs

Is of clear dark reddish amber color. Il has
q delicious taste. 1t is a most iHvigoratng tonic.
1t is a gentle ard painless but thorough c8thar-
tic. IL contains no alcohol. 1t contains no
opium. IL contains no poison or hurtul drug of
any sort.
New style Vinegar Bitters purifes the blood,
beauties the complexion, strengthens the nerves.
muscles and brain, drives away malaria, and
Keeps the system strong as to enable il TO rebel
Infectious diseases and epi3emics generally.
The organs of the body most given TO shirking
their regular work are the stomach, bowels liver
and kidneys. A medicine that stimulates these
organs into healthy action without causing pain,
is invaluable.
New style Vinegar Buters does this, and it does
its work permanently Itncver rObs Peter to pay
Paul as ale hOic md other $50 called remedies
do. 1t is most grateful. healing medicine to all
who are troubled with piles, for it relieves at
once, and soon cures this most painful disorder.
1t aids digestion, cures constipation, headache,
bilious complaints, fevCrshnesS, neuralgia, ncr-
vous diseases of every sort, and every class of
skin disease known.
AS family medicine, for the use of ladies,
! children and men OF sedCntary habits, tie New
| Style Vinegar BittCrs has no equal in the world
1t is Invaluable for curing the ills that beSet child
| hood AID gently regulates the diseases to which
| women at every period Of life are subject.
Ladies, get bottle from your druggist and try
| it. If your druggist has not the New style Vim
egar Bitters. ask him to send for IL. If you once
| try it you viii never be without this priceless
/ remedy i'm the house.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03

a.-Stops 10 let or passengers from Philadel-
phia and Wilmington.
b.-Stops 10 take On passengers for Wilmington
and Philadelphia.
Nelo Castle Accommodation IrQins-Leaye Will
mingtOn 900 q. M. ana Z.aj D. IL. Leave New Castle
6.35 a. N. and 3.3J p. III.
H5-EXpTess tram leaving Harrington at $50
a. H., and arriving at d4i p II runs through
solid TO and from baltimore, ria POrter's and
Newark
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03
Dressing Monen.

I have always held that women dress
women better than the male creature
can, writes a celebrated woman of fash
ion from Paris. Men have no sense Of
the chiffon. They know how to outline
a fine figure. But there are so few
really statuesque beauties in the world!
Female dressmalkers understand best
how to amuse the eye, to draw it from
defects of face and figure, and they are
full Of tricks and stratagems which the
masculine brain is unable to evolve. A
dress made by a clever dressmaker well
up in her business is designed with a
view to manslaughter. The other even
ing was astonished at the fine art Of
which Nine. G., the milliner, gave
proof, explaining to me how best to hide
the invasion Of embonpoint," and to
seem slim when slimness is q thing OF
the past. The dress should be loose and
the draperies be kept as much as possible
in vertical folds, the straight line being
here and there departed from merely to
avoid monotony and stiffness. And the
sleeves ought to be Of exaggerated
length, not wide, and pushed up 80 as tc
wrinkle like the mousquetaire glove. Il
they are made to wrinkle all the way VI
to the shoulder, so much the better,
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03
A yvelrd r.ecend og tl,e potomao.

There are three big rocks in the Poto-
mac just above Georgetown called the
Three Sisters, after three mythical maid
ems who perished there in some romantic
way centuries ago. Strangely enough.
they mark the saddest part Of that beau
tiful stretch Of river, for It is at that
point that boats usually upset and swim
mers usually drown. But strangest Of
all Is the fact that on the night before
such a death the people living on the
shore hear the Three Sisters softly moan.
ing--a sound distinct from every other,
and never heard save on such occasions.
Wednesday night, for example, just al
the Georgetown college clock struck ~
the moaning sounds came floating ashore
from the Three Sisters, and on Thursday
noon a she'll capsized as it passed them
and its owner was drowned. --Philadol-
phia Record.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03
AN AUTUMN LYRIC.

High DER the forest the storm clouds are flying,
The little birds haste to the south and the sun;
Darling. the red leaves are dropping and dying
Darling. how soon is life over and donei
Hardly the hawthorn treo blossoms and bushes
Hardly has opened the first rose Of May
Scarce DER the heart love tumutuous rushes
Ere the rose petals falkland all passes away.
The love and the weeping-the rapture and sor-
row,
Are they but dreams that come never again?
What will be left when the day knows no omorrow?
Darling, we sigh but we question in vain
Though the perfumes be shed and the rose leaves
be blghted,
The new year must como and the new roses blow;
And lovers will kiss and their VOWS shall be
plighted
On the green Of our graves while we slumber be-
low
-Blacllwood's Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03
Nev YorI., PhiIadeIphin {. NorroIk r. h

Leave Philadelphia, O!d Point Express Il 20
p ln., daily, baltimore sos r. m. Wilmington
205 a. N, daily, stopping az Dover and Delmar
regularly and at New Castle, Kirkwood. Md
dletown, Clayton, Fcltou, harrington, Bridge
vile ami Seaiord 10 leave passengers from VIII
mington ahd points North or take on p8ssenl ers
for points south of Dcln8r,
The 20 p. IN, also stops ON signal at Laurel
NOrtb-JOWtd trains leave Dclmar LOS a. in daily,
Dover 2.i5 a. III. regularly; arriving at Whining
ton 4l5 a. M, Baltimore $50 a. "a. ana Philadei-
phia 30 a. nl.
The IDS u. ~. train also stops at Scaford
Brdgevli C. Harrington, FELTON,, Clayton and
MidIietoHn 10 leave passengers from points
South o! Delmar, or take on passengers for vii
miHgt"n and points North. Also stops on signal
q ILLINI.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03
JOHNS MOTHER.
She Wanted a Suitable Notice in the Paper
and the Editor Cave 1t.

She Wanted Suitable Notice in the Paper
and the Editor Gave 1t.
There was a t1mid knock at the door
of the country printing Office of The
Weekly Palladium. After the usual
"come in" there entered a faded and
bent old lady, whose dress Immediately
proclaimed her as a resident Of the far
back townships. She had frightened,
bewildered look, and her bombazine
dress was dusty and wrinkled with the
long ride she had taken over the Kansas
prairies in her trip to the country seat.
regretted having called out so rough
ly, and apologized. She did not notice
my apology, but asked in trembling
voice:
''Is this the printin' Officer"
"Yes," I replied. "What can 1 do for
your"
"I saw ye didn't have nothin' about
John in the paper"
1 did not know John from Adam, and
was about to tell her so, but was glad
moment after that did not.
81 told the undertaken" she went on,
"ter see that the paper knew about it,
but 1 s'pose he didn't"
'No, he never told me, 1 am sure"
''Ye see, we live out in Cheever town
ship, an ye probly didn't hear Of Johns
dyin'. Hooked fer it in the paper, but
didn't see nothin'."
Pm sorry, but if you will give me the
facts I'll see that it goes in next week."
was the only reply that I could make.
"John was an awful good boy" she
began. BE was good ter me, an that's
what counts. When we came west we had
kinder poor luck. My husban' died an
the other boys left me, an with debts on
the claim an no money ahead l don't
know what I'd done 'cept for John. He
worked night and day, plowin' an plant
in an sowin'. He never had a harsh
word for his mother-never."
She stopped to wipe her eyes and
found it convenient to look in another
direction.
She continued: ''He was 20 years old,
but he looked ten more-he worked
too hard. guess it killed him, but l
didn't know he was overdoin'. He never
complained. He wasn't sick long-just
a few days. done all could. I'd have
given my life for John if the Lord d have
let it be that way. You don't know how
lonesome the claim is now. Jest me alone
in the sod cabin; can't die, an it's only
sorrow to live. had John buried on the
prairie so I could go to him; I'll go to him
fer good pretty soon, hope"
She sobbed a little and then recovered
sufficiently to give me the full name, age,
etc., Of the dead youth, after which, her
errand accomplished, she left me to ride
home across the prairies to the lonely
cabin.
If l did not give John a suitable death
notice the next week, if l did not feel
ingiy portray the unselfsh heroism Of the
boy whose world was his mother and
whose ambition was to aid her in hel
necessities, it was not because I did moi
] try. 1 hope I succeeded in bringing lit
tie comfort to the heart of Johns mother
0 who may be yet waiting to join the noble
son buried beneath the carpet of soc
stretching away from her door.-Detroi
/ Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03
ffTfIEIEl ffnII.,-

DELAWARE, MARYLAND az VIRGINIA r. R.
Leave harrington FOR Lcwes II.Oj a. IL and
547 p. m For franklin and way stations 1 O5
a. III. Returning ,raiu- caves Lcwes TOR Harring-
ton 6.50 a. n, and z43 p. lii. Leave Franklin
7O5 o. N.
For Beriiu, leaves Harrington 1l.05 a. m. Re
turning, leaves Berlin o,uI "a. m
QUEEN ANNE * KENT h. E.-Lcavc Townsend
for Centreril!e and way stations $50 a. III. and IA
D. IN, weekdays
DELAWARE * CHEsAPEAKE T.. H-Leaye Clayton
for oxford and way stations 1905 q. II. and 5ll
D. m week days.
CAMBRIDGE Il SEAF0RD Il. E.-Leave Seaford for
Cambridge and intermediate stations II .5Oa. m..
weekdays.
CONNECuoNs.-AtP Porter. with Newark d Della
ware City Railroad. AT townsend with Oueen
Anne &KentRailroad. ht layton with delaware
Il Chesapea kGilrCada ana Baltimore & Delaware
Bay Railroad. At Harriuatou with Delaware.
Maryland IL Virginia Railroad Atseaford. with
Cambridge d seaford Railroad. At Delmar with
New 1ofE' Fhil8dt!pha & Norfolk, WicomicO l.
Pocomoke. and Peninsula Railroad.
CHAS. f. PUGH, General Manager.
| J. R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03

Telephone connection with Dover. Wyol.iur
Camden, Townsend and Middle,owu.
A. E. JARDINE, sec'y and Tres'r
OFFTcE-s. No. ~ s. Delaware Avenue f,,;Ia.
and Smyrna. Del
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03

Freight rccejced IN Philodoyhlo oa Y,,,-
days, ThurSdays ond Notplla4s 4Dfl
ic0Cjqg timr
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03
aNrora ,ovster;ess
..rstariasr

"More mysteriesi aiysteriesF'
and the people with intense eagerness
read: 'sThe Trow residence that was sup
posed to bo closed has an occupant. A
light seen there at midnight, but no an
swer when newspaper man rang the
door bell 1t is thought by some that the
abused wife may be locked into an inner
room to give the husband and the siren
who has ensnared him time to reach
foreign land and escape detection. 1t is
also whispered that citizens propose to
invade the promises for the purpose Of
ascertaining if such crime has been
committed"
The old man passed on till ne stood be-
fore the ''hitherto happy home of the
Trows." A crowd had gathered around
the house, and while no one had become
sufficiently audacious to burst open
door and enter, he cried louder and
shriller than before, "Lost! Lost"
The newsboys were shouting, "Have
an extrar "Have an extrai" "All the
particulars bout the 'lopement an possible
murderl' when from one direction came
a team and from another an unmanage-
able horse and rider, scattering the mob
right and left, but the old mans bell was
ringing and he took no heed. Lo! again
the poor skull received blow from a
horses hoof and the distorted body was
trampled on, till writhing in pain he was
tenderly lifted from the ground.
Mr.. and Mrs. Trow, with a cousin who
lived on a farm fifteen miles away, had
driven up Just in time to witness the
accident and attempt to rescue him.
Saturday evening, when somewhat to
their own surprise they accompanied the
man on his homeward drive, they i'm
agined themselves children just out Of
school, they said, and having given their
housemaid and man servant a weeks va
cation, were easily persuaded to stay till
the moment when it was expected Mr..
Trow would resume his duties at the
bank.
Fresh and vigorous after a week of
"life in the woods" they drove back tc
civilization q on Monday morning.
ga real vacation, not q telegram, not q
letter, not even paper" said Mr.. Trow.
"Cousin, we are indebted to you for a
new lease of life"
The old man was mortally wounded,
but he lifted the bell once more and as a
CLEAN of intelligence lighted the face
that had so long been vacant, with in
efable sadness, he gasped, "Lostl LostY
when apparently recognizing the face o.
friends and in reply to the Omnipresen
small boys "Say, what's lost?" he gath
cred up his last remnant Of strength anC
answered, in clarion tones. "Truth
truthl''
The spirit escaping from the cumber
some flesh, that like an old garment, it'
sometimes ones joy to leave, took it
fi"ht to the country where tangled web
qightened, while school bells calle,
lren to their accustomed places
Il and every teacher was foun,
Ned Gwen in Mancheste
Smyrna times., 1889-07-03
VINEGAR BITTERS.

The only Temperance Bittcrs known. Ii
stimulates the Brain and quiets the Nerves,
regulates the Bowels and renders "a perfect
blood circulation through the human veins,
which is sure 10 restore perfect health.
GEO. ". DAVIS. Of 100 Baroone ST. New Or
leans, La writes under date OF May Goth, 1855, as
follows: Il have been going to the Hot Springs
Ark, for fifteen years for an itching humor in my
blood. l have just used three bottles of Vinegar
Bitters, and it has done me more good than the
springs 1t is the best medicine made"
JOSEPH J. EAGAN, Of No. 70 West St, New
York. says: Have not been without Vinegar
Btters for the past twelve years, and consider it
whole medicine chest in our family"
MRS MATTE fURGUsON, Of Dryden. n Y +,
says, Vinegar Bitters is the best medicine I
ever tried; il saved my life
T. +. BAILEY, Of Humboldt Iowa, says Vim
egar Bitters cured me of paralysis ten years ago,
and recently it cured me of rheumatism"
MRS. WIN. a. DAVIS Of Camden, n. j., says
Il have suffered greatly from indigestion and
bowel troubles, ana Vinegar Bitters gave me
great relief"
JAMES II. DWYER, Of Webster Mass, writes
81 always use Vinegar Bitters as n spring med
icine, and have the best Of health"
/. COLEMAN, Il Montgomery St., New York
writes Il find your Vinegar Btters iirst-class
| tonic"
Thousands of other testimonials sent on appli-
cation, also ladies book free.
Address, R. H. MCDONALD DRUG co,
2 90
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
EXERCISE FOR CHILDREN.
Instructive Gymnastics the Best Adapted
to Regular Development.

Instructive Gymnastics the Best Adapted
to Regular Development.
Instructive gymnastics is. from the
hygienic point of view, the best adapt
ed to the regular development of the
child. 1t is not liable to any of the OBJ
jections we have brought against gym
nastics with apparatus. 1t can not de-
form the body, for it is made up of
spontaneous movements, and con-
formed to the natural Office of each
limb. 1t does not localize the work in
a particular region of the body, for all
the limbs are instinctively invited to
take their quota of exercise; and it
does not seduce the child into efforts
touching upon the limits of its
strength. Instinct also invites him
to the kind of work which is best
adapted to his particular aptitudes for
resisting fatigue. He has a natural
disposition to perform light but fre-
quently recurring acts, quick motions,
which put him out of breath, while
exercises with apparatus rather exact
slow and intense efforts that bring on
local fatigue. Now, all observers have
noticed the wonderful facility with
which child recovers his breath, and
his impatience of local fatigue. FL
nally, natural exercise, being the sat
isfaction of want, is by that very
fact pleasures; and JOY shines in the
face of the child who is playing freely.
M. Fernan Lagrange, in Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
NUTRITIOUS FRUITS.
The Banana and Plantain Staple Article
of Diet in the Tropics.

The Banana and Plantain Staple Articles
of Diet in the Tropics.
The banana is much softer and more
delicately favored than the plantain.
The fruit when ripe contains seventy
four per cent. of water; of the twenty
six remaining parts, twenty are sugar
and two gluten Or flesh-forming SUBJ
stance. Like rice, it is not by itself a
perfect food, but requiring the addition
of some more nitrogenous material as
pulse or lean meat. When dried and
converted into meal, it is less
nutritious than the meal of the
grain mentioned. In tropical coun-
tries it is, nevertheless, a most val
liable food, and is SO extensively con-
sumed as to take the place of cereal
grains as the ordinary articles of diet.
About six and half pounds of the
fruit, or two pounds of the dry meal
with one-quarter pound of salt meat or
fish, form in tropical America the
daily allowance for the laborer. The
pulp of the plantain is squeezed
through fine sieve and formed into
loaves which, when dried, will keep a
long time. The unripe fruit often be-
comes the staff of life; it is dried in the
oven and is eaten in this State, and will
keep such a length of time that natives
carry it with them when proceed
ing on journeys. While unripe
the fruit is filled with starch,
and when dried has a resem-
blance to bread both in taste and COM
position. The loaves made by the
ripened pulp are saccharine and not
farinaceous. There are many in
stances of men subsisting entirely upon
bananas, who have been deserters
from ships in tropical climes. Mr..
Stanley. in his book "Across the Dark
Continent" frequently mentions ba-
nanas as one of the principal articles of
food for his party, and as one of the
most important crops of the natives.
He states that "villages and banana
fields were always found together"
Also, that in the dwarf lands bananas
as long as his arm and plantains as
long as the dwarfs Gust one yard)
were sufficient food for man one day.
American ANALYST.
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
PROPER VENTILATION.
Scientific Notes on. the Admission of Air
TO Living Rooms.

Scientific Notes on. the Admission of Air
to Living Rooms.
Air should be introduced and re-
moved at those parts of the room
where it would not cause a sensible
draught. Air flowing against the body
at, or even somewhat above, the tenn
cause an inconvenient draught, from
the fact.that, as it removes the moist
ure of the body, it causes evaporation
or sensation of cold. Air should
never, as a rule, be introduced at or
close to the floor level. The openings
would be liable to be fouled with
sweepings and dirt. The air, unless
very much above the temperature OF
the air of the room, would produce a
sensation of cold to the feet. 1t may
be regarded as an axiom in ventilating
and warming that the feet should be
kept warm and the head be kept cool
The orifices at which air is admitted
should be above the level of the heads
of persons occupying the room. The
current of infowing air should be di-
rected toward the ceiling, and should
either be as much subdlvlded as pOSSl-
BILE by means of numerous orifices, or
be admitted through conical openings,
with the smaller openings toward the
outer air and the larger openings to-
ward the room, by which means the
air of the entering current is very
rapidly dispersed. Air admitted near
the ceiling very soon ceases to exist as
a distinct current, and will be found at
a very short distance from the inlet to
have mingled with the general mass
OF the air, and to have attained the
temperature of the room, partly owing
to the larger mass of air in the room
with which the infowing current min
giles, partly to the action of gravity in
cases where the infowing air is colder
than the air in the room.-D. Galton
in Architect.
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
watch-chain you stole from Lieutenant No

watch~chain you stole from Lieutenant No
KenzieP' ---~
81 did not mean to take it for good - Platt
whined, "indeed didn't. only meant to
borrow it for awhile and put it back where
found it before he missed it.''
"Where IS it now!'
u do not know, sir-that is to say, think
gave 1t 10 man named-Jackson'
"9ou lying scoundrel," Harry thundered.
you nave destroyed it. The night you
murdered Frank Barclay
''Oh, lord. 1 never murdered Frank
Barclay! Why, I'm that tender-hearted
wouldn't Intentionally hurt a fly. Do I look
like murderer?'
Harry was fain to confess that he did not.
Murder was hardly the role of such a cring-
ing, cowardly, contemplate specimen of
degraded humanity.
''The man who committed the atrocious
crime wore that watch chain, and, since you
will not say what you have done with it, the
odlum must rest on you. I give you one
last chance to make a clean breast of it.
Speak, or in ten minutes you shall be in
prison CELL Now, sir"
II dare not tell. The whole gang would
be down on me. 1t would be as much as my
life is worth.n
''Your life is not worth much if you are
silent. But, If you prefer to go before
jury"
''No, no! will confess all; but couldn't
my testimony be kept dark? Surely there
IS no necessity to drag poor innocent fel-
low into trouble-besides, Pm going to re-
form and JOIN church and be a model
young man."
eff in five minutes you have not given me
the whole history of that watch-chain,'
said Harry, ominously glancing at clock
on the mantel-piece, ''off you go to Jail"
Beads of perspiration stood on Platt's
brow. He was evidently weighing in his
mind whether it would be safer to risk a
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
JUDGING A HORSE.
How to Secure an Animal That Is Sound
in Every Respect.

How to Secure an Animal That Is Sound
in Every Respect.
Supposing that you have found a
horse which you think will suit your
fancy, your next step will be to deter
mine his soundness or whether he is as
represented to you. If you are sufti-
ciently familiar with the ailments OF a
horse, I have but one word of advice to
give you and that is that you should
be systematic in the method of your
examinations. But if you are not
thoroughly SO familiar, you had better
employ some one who is and in whom
you have implicit confidence.
Beginning with the mouth you pro-
ceed in order to the examination of the
the nostrils, the face, eye and ear,
thence downward over the neck to the
shoulders, forelimb and foot. Then
the body, the coupling Group, tail,
hind leg and foot. Then the opposite
side should be inspected in like man.
ner.
Having completed your examina-
ton of the animal in detail, would
suggest you have him hitched for the
purpose of testing wind and other
qualities. Start at once at a brisk
pace. and keeping your ear alert for
sounds of whistling, roaring and other
indications of distress, you should at
the same time be observing the gait,
whether he stumbles or interferes or
forges, whether he moves out bold and
fearlessly or whether he cripples when
bit of hard road is reached. Allow
no high checking, as this is often done
to facilitate an animals breathing.
Neither allow any urging beyond what
is necessary to keep up the pace which
it is advisable to continue until he be-
gins to perspire, as some forms of vice
(such as kicking and switching of the
tally are often not shown until the ami
NAL is heated.
Having satisfied yourself upon these
qualities let him be stripped of his
harness and placed in his stall and
here observe his actions. Evidence
of cribbing, weaving or rubbing and
stall-rolling should be noted. Allow
ing an interval of three Or four hours,
have him led out to the halter, as some
forms of lameness, such as incipient
SPAWN, are better detected in this
way.-Dr. j. E. Gardner, in Farm and
Homo