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Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
The Civilized West.
JAMES B. SCOTT.

In the old days of the West, before
New York and New England had
made themselves felt in the develep-
ment of pioneer settlements, the pos
session of a fine house, and especially
the decoration of the interior, were
looked upon more as an evidence of
weakmindedness than as proof of the
westward march of the higher civiliza-
tiOn- With the steady growth of an
Eastern-bred population, the ruder
ideas of Western life were driven into
the inaccessible parts of the country,
and the Eastern traveller found little
difference between the towns and cit
les of the West and Northwest and
those of the East. In most Western
communities the dominating ideas of
society and home life have so far
changed that a coachman in livery is
no longer an object of derision or a
man In a silk hat an object for pistol
shot. 1t is not long time ago when
silk hats and coachmen were unknown
if not actually prohibited. Few per-
sons who have not seen the West since
the boisterous pioneer days would rec
Ognize it now, because all that made it
famous then has disappeared to return
no more, and in its place there have
grown up towns and cities as far ad-
vanced in the arts and usages of civili-
zation as any other places in the Uni
ted States. Where the rough living
pioneer disputed possession with the
Indians ten years ago, there now stands
a city of 10000 industrious inhabitants,
who have built for themselves homes
as comfortable and refined as the homes
of their brothers of the older East.
Three hundred years ago the advance
guarb of an ancient civilization over
ran the western and southwestern
part of America and subdued its half
savage inhabitants; in this generation
the rank and file of a new civilization
completed and made perfect the work
of conquest. There is nothing left for
the pioneer to do. The waste places
and the savage inhabitants have been
subdued, and in the Pacific Northwest,
at least, there is nothing left the pio-
neer, but complete assimilation with
the thrifty farmers of the Palouse
country, or the fortunate miners of the
C@ur d'Alene.-W. ". HOlCdrd IN Har-
Per's Weekly.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
and Barbar shop under one roof.

| anu barDar shop under one roof.
Bales of new cotton begin to come
in thanking in door ways barrels of
sugar cane stocks which every body
buys at nickle stick, and after SUBJ
mitting each link to peculiar process
OF peeling, cuts squares of the saccha-
rine cane and munches out the deli
cious syrup much the same as do COWS
in chewing the cud.
After a while the heavier things of
this world creep into the new town
buildings are projected, in themselves
marvels of artistic brickwork and plate
glass that soon become banks and
counting rooms of great iron works.
GuanO and cotton factories and such
like accommodations that seem to be
inseparable to the clever manipulation
of stock in great corporations not to
say aggregatiOns of capital.
Over in Alabama and up in Missis-
sippi valley and clear across the blue
grass region of Kentucky and the
stately reserves of Ohio until the pic
turesque valleys of Virginia are reach
ed rolls the sound of new awakening
in the south. Call it what you may
boom, BUSINESS activity. or the devel-
opments of the long neglected resour-
ces of a country, it assumes the head
where the only king heretofore ack-
knOwledged was--Cotton and Con-
tumacy.
The great manufacturers of the north
are crowded with orders for machines
of every description to be set up on
some newly created railroad town in
the South. Costly paper making ma
chlnery, goes along with grim and pow
ertul cotton congresses, weighing up
wards of twenty tons and capable of
doubling up a 500 hundred pound cot
ton bale in an instant to the size of a
dOughnut. Automatic machinery for
making shoes that are equal of the best
Lynn, Mass, make. Barrel factories
that can turn out hundreds of neat
looking barrels on the spot for every
use.
Ice machines, dear dear :! what an
upward reach the South is truly max
ing to circumvent the North its great
ally in the making of ice, jack frost.
Through a net work of pipes, water
aod ammonia is forced, and the out
come is great cubes Of purest and clear
est ice Obtainable this side OF Knicker- !
booker ice reserves. Iu every mater
ial resource that gives the least prom
Use of some return, is there at once off
cred abundant capital to develop that
single scheme. An encouraging want
of confidence that everybody evinces
in everybody else, helps along vastly
when so much depends upon mental en-
cOuragement.
And yet, above it all like a small |
speck in the blue sky, that alone dared
to obscure the splendid vista that seeks
to glOrify itself in harmony of color
rises the negro upon the economical
sky of the South. What shall be done |
with him? Do you know that you can
never while he differs from the white
man in that he can lay for hours with
his face upturned and uncovered to
the rays of the tOrrid sun,-capitalize
him. Make him the intelligent expo
nent, the master hand that guides these
wonderful machines to success. And
yet all mankind are divided from a
single pair, and shall we say that pair
were Adam and Eve?
JAMES B. SCOTT.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
A Trip to the Farming Sec
tions to the North of US.
Mr.. EDITOR

| MR.. EDITOR
Having recently taken a stroll
through several counties of this State
and in Pennsylvania l propose to give
an account of my observations. Pas
sing through New Castle, Chester, Ian
cester, Dauhhin and Juniata Counties,
L had pretty fair opportunity to see
what way the condition and prospects
of quite a stretch of country.
Farmers are evidently not discour-
aged. In fact they were everywhere
pushing their work with as much en-
ergy and zeal as have seen at any
previous time. think they are en-
deavOring to make up for high taxes,
and reduced prices for produce, by en-
larging and extending their tillage,
giving better cultivation to crops, in
creasing the amount of fertilizers used,
and the variety of crops cultivated.
l saw numerous fields of tobacco,
and it was the most luxurient and uni
form growth that l have ever seen.
They were just gathering an enormous
yield. l do not know what the value
per acre Ofsucb crop is, but that Ijudge
at the present prices of grain it is a
much better paying crop. Why can
not we grow tobacco here in Della
ware? ? l think our lands are as well
adapted to the growth of weeds as
theirs.
The corn crop through that section
is unusually heavy. There has been
an advance on former years in pains
taking, throughout Lancaster, and
some other counties, with view to a
greatly increased yield per acre. The
preparations for seeding wheat are on
as extensive scale as any previous
year, and no lack of spirit or energy to
be seen anywhere.
tits one story everywhere about fruit,
being little, and that imperfect. A
fe% apple and pear trees near streams
of water had moderate share, but the
word plenty has place nowhere.
Throughout Juniata County they are
experimenting largely with peach
trees. Several orchards that | saw
have a very healthy and thrifty APP
pearance. The farmers appeared to
have faith that it would be a success.
and were planting out by the thousand.
l found them everywhere afraid OF
Delaware. They were planting mainly
only the late varieties that would come
in after the shipments from Delaware
would be pretty much over. told
them that 1 thought they had little to
fear from Delaware, as we were taken
with great fear ourselves. / wished
them abundant success. The grass
and hay crop were abundant every
where, but oats q failure. r.
September 10Th, 1890.
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OYSTER INTERESTS.
FOT the Smyrna Times.
The New South.
SOUTHERN RAILROADS, BOOMING TOWNS,
GREAT RESOURCES, NOTES ETC.

ALBANY, GA, Sept, 18th 1890.
The Incompatible climate of the PEN
insula of Florida causes travellers from
the North to flow in that direction as
the year draws near the Melancholy
days" The favorite, or at least the
most patrOnized lines to reach Ponce
de-LeOn is by the Lawrance River
Route, Georgia, Southern & Florida
r. r. which is to Florida what the
Delaware r. R., is to the Md, and
Delaware Peninsula-its great trunk
line. At Macon, Ca, though tickets
are obtainable for all directions, East
West, North and South and to the
most distant points. The Savannah,
Americus and Montgomery R. R., taps
this Line at COrdele, Ga, aud feeds it
from the Coast Line on the East by
way of Savannah and various other
lines on the West and Southwest to
points North of Columbus, and as far
South as Mobile and New Orleans, La.
1t is astonishing with what celebrity
these woOd-burning locomotives whisk
trains over the Southern r. r. A
certain amount of reckless levity
seems to take possession of the train
hands the instant the train gets under
way. l saw at Tifton Ga, the conduc-
tor of the North bound passenger
train surrounded by bevy of friends
and all engaged in lively, animated
talk when the train pulled out and in
stantly got under full headway. The
conductor rushed to make the steps,
and the moment his hands grasped
the railing he was jerked away from
the ground with feet dangling in the
air the escape from being thrown un-
der the wheels becoming narrow one,
but on landing safely on the steps
again, communicated with his admir-
ing friends on the station platform by
a significant gesture with one hand to
the side of his nose. The negro brake
man and pOrters even executed greater
antics before an envious and grinning
audience of mingled blacks and whites.
Accidents, however, rarely happen on
these roads. l venture the assertion
that the fatal West Yard in Whining
ton Delaware, kills, mains and other
wise Injuries more men during the
course of a year and does it more
surely, than any continuous Railroad
in the South.
AS a seeming contradiction to this
the poor equipments of most of the
roads would seem to imply in the light
rails placed in the road beds and the
long distance covered by the divis-
ions that high speed were unattainable
without back jumping. Yet these
great uncouth locomotives will haul at
forty miles per hour trains that when
under full speed look like meteor of
sand suddenly shot from above and
and rebOunding along the surface of
the earth
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

Concerning Rudyard Kipling-a vol
ume of whose stories has just been pub
lished by Harper & Brothers-Andrew
Lang writes ITO myself he seems
one of two, three or four young men
and he is far the youngest-who fash
genius from some unexpected place,
who are not academic nor children of
the old literature of the world, but of
their own works. He is not in tune
with our modern civilization, whereof
many a heart is sick he is more at
home in an Afghan pass than in the
"Strand."
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
BOOMING TOWNS.

In about this way town booms into
existance. To day a cotton Geld,
presently tomorrow two railroads
creap up to each other through this
cottOn-feld and cross at right angles.
and 10, a town is born, that long before
it emerges from swaddling clothes as
pires to the dignity of a city. Streets
are squared from the road-bed of the
Railroads and are indicated by blazed
openings in the impurturable forests
that secure from bowling cyclones the
quickly rising habitations they wall in
on every side. The real estate agents
skin the cream from the pans of the
credulous; about the first $500 for a
lot 90 by 100 feet on the ground that
a few months previous would have.
changed hands at dollar per acre
Then follow quickly all the smaller in
dustries and those caIlings that are
not industries. Bottling establish
ments, Photographers, Restaurants
without number, General Merchandise
stores combining Millinery, Laundry
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

5. That to the soldiers and sailors bv
whom the life of the nation was pre-
served and the Union which our faith
ers established was prevented from for
chile dissolution, the republic owes a
debt of gratitude which cannot be
measured by pecuniary compensation,
but nevertheless, in recognition of the
obligation and as the only means by
which it can be partially though very
inadequately discharged, it is the abso-
Lutte duty of the Republican party, and
to the performance of which it
is pledged, to afford by liberal pen
siOns just relief to the survivors disa-
bled from obtaining comfortable sub
sistance and to care for the wives and
children of those who are dead accor-
ding to their need.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
CONVENTION.

6. That experience has clearly DEM
Onstrated that the organic law ofthisstate
is in many respects defective, and it
having been fully ascertained that re-
medal alterations of these and other
evils inhering in the consttion are i'm
possible to be obtained through the ac-
ton of the legislature, the calling of
convention, to be held in 1891, is i'm
peratively required, to the end that the
whole instrument may be reviewed
by the delegates of the people and
such changes made as they may deem
expedient.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

Md pleasures and palaces tho we may roam
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home
especially if blessed with wife whose
hours are not spent in misery caused
by those dragging down pains arising
from weaknesses peculiar to her sex.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription relieves
and cures these troubles and brings
sunshine TO many darkened homes.
Sold by druggists under a positive
guarantee from manufacturers of salts
faction Or money refunded. Read
guarantee on bottle wrapper.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
JUST TAX LAWS.

II. That the present system of taxa
ton is inequitable and unjust in that it
limits the burdens thereof to certain
species of property, while others are
exempt therefrom. And that this in
justice and inequality ought to be
promptly corrected by the enactment
of such statute as will render mon
eyed securities subject to general taxa
ton for public purposes, and require
the holders thereof to contribute fair
proportion toward the expenses of gov
ernment which affords them, as well
at others, protection in their property,
and thereby correspondingly relieve
real estate from the undue proportion
of the public burden which it has hith-
ertO borne.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
APPROVAL OF ADMINISTRATION.

II. That we reafirm our unfaltering
allegiance to and our abiding faith in
the cardinal principles of the Republi-
can party, through whose efforts and
agency such glorious results have been
achieved, not only in preservation of
the unity of the Republic, but as well
in everything tending to the fuller de-
velopment of it's manifold resources
and varied industries, and to the pros
perity, happiness, freedom and intel
lectual growth of its common citizen
ship, whence all it's just powers ena-
mate. And we do most heartily en-
dOrse and approve the administration
of President Harrison and his coadiu-
tors in the several departments of the
government. And we do sin
cerely congratulate the Republican
party of the state and of the country at
large upon the election to the Senate
of the United States of a capable and
Republican, as the
first Republican representative from
Delaware IN that body.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

ElderlyLady-'I like these goods
very much, but am afraid the color is
only suitable for younger ladies'"
Gallant Clerk-"Why madam you
ain,t half as old as you look. ."-Chica-
90 Inter Ocean.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
WHOLE NO. 1.84l.

James G. Blaine is the most promi-
nent mae in America to-day, and all
his doiugs and sayings are chronicled
in the papers and read with interest by
all who want to keep posted on the
current topics of the hour. His latest
break from what has been called Pro-
lection, has set the people to thinking
that perhaps they have been too strin-
gent in their vi9ws on this subject, aud
that Mr.. Blaine may be right in his
ideas of reciprocity with the Sonth
American countries. Mr.. Blaine's
Waterville speech has started the
newspapers and public men to discus
sing the merits and dement's OF the
question, and good cannot help but
come out of it. There is a large class
in this country who are in favor of
treer trade with foreign countries than
we have ever had, and if they can be
indcueG to buy from US our overprod-
ucts, we haven't doubt but that Re-
ciprocity will become a popular theme
of our people, and that both North and
South America will be better for it.
To admit free of duty whatever we
cannot ourselves produce, is a better
form of protection to American indus
tries than if we imposed a tax on it.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

If uncle Sam keeps on the legal hol-
idays will outnumber the working days.
Labor day was enacted as a kind of
catch vote, but those for whom it was
institutep have idle days enough in the
course of the year.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

Near the Broad Street Station First
buncO steerer-"Pipe his nibs, Zeke.
Here's farmer sure. Got genooine
hay seed in his hair, Second bunco
steerer-'Ah, say, chase yourself.
Dat amt no farmer. OATS candidate
been working decounty fairs"
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

Now my dear, all the deatils for the
wedding have been arranged
excepting the minister. Whom
shall we have?" Oh do let's have DR..
Highprice; he is so successful with his
couples; never had divorce or a scan
dal, he says"
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

Mrs. Broughne; George, dear, why
is the ocean so blue?" Mr.. Broughne {:
Because it has to embrace so many
Objectionable people"
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

A man has his horse, his dog, his gun
his boat-all those things which give
decision, tirmness and poise to charac-
ter. Let woman have her horse if
she can, waiting before or after the
hours Of needlework or study or house
keeping or study to give her freedom
from sadness or morbidness ofthought
to bring exhiliration and new life, and
companionship with the green fields of
spring, autumn roadways overreached
with crimson-tiDped, naples, and the
glistening snow sweeps of winter 1t
will place her clear eyed and erect, and
in line with life, from twelve to sixty
NINA Mofat Tsng, in Harper's Weekly.
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Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

The white ribbon man as well as the
topper, objects to having a luminous
key-hole SHE'D on the door.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

Mrs. James K. Polk, the widow Of
President Polk, completed her s7th
year last Thursday.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

One kisses the misses and the other
misses the kisses. The question to
this answer can be construed to suit.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

They're getting to be so fashiona-
BILE, I think I'll have to go on strike
myself" said the unused baseball bat.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

Oscar Wilde says: "There is only
one thing in the world which is worse
than being talked about and that is
not being talked about"
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

The importance of purifying the blood can
not be OVerestimated, for without pure blood
you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs a
good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich
the blood, and we ask you to try Hoods
DaNIIIior Sarsaparilla. Itstrengthens
OSuIIctl and builds up the system,
creates an appetite, and tones the digestion,
while it eradicates disease. The peculiar
combination, proportion, and preparation
of the vegetable remedies used give to
hp0cs iaG Snr55Js sPTs'PoTn PaTeps p'cT Ta To Itself
Othermedicine has, ssuch arecOrd of wonderful
cures. If you have made up your mind to
buy Hoods Sarsaparilla do not be induced to
take any other instead. 1t is a Peculiar
Medicine, and is worthy your confidence.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by c. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
NEARLY PROVED FATAL.

The sequel was astonishing. John
stone instantly rushed down to the
carriage and drove blindfolded to the
Grand Pacific, avoiding cable cars and
thousands of vehicles ou the way !:
rushed to the register, turned the
leaves rapidly, found the name and re-
peated it, gave the number of the page
and the date of the month. The Grand
Pacific Hotel and the adjacent streets
were so packed with people that all
traffic was suspended. Johnstone on
his way home was taken with a severe
chill, which threw him into fit. Ply
sicians at first pronounced him dead,
but after working over him for two
hours, life was again perceptible.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
Wonderful Performance of a
Chicago Mind Reader.

r. Alexander Johnstone, the mind
reader, whose peculiar powers have so
mystifed and astonished people In Chi
cago performer feat Wednesday which
totally eClipsed all similar records, at
least in that city. When Bishop, the
mind reader who met with such trag-
ic fate in New York not long ago, was
there before large audience, he aston
ished every one by finding a needle
which a committee had secreted.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

Instead of "hey ?" it is now the style
to say ''your pardon" when you dida't
catch the remark.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17
TARIFF.

3. That in raising revenue by the
imposition of the duties upon imports,
it is the right of each nation to regu-
late its own levies withOut3 regard to
the wishes or interests of other coun-
tries, and by means of determinations
to foster its own industrial pursuits ac-
cOrding to its own views of prOprietv,
and in this respect it has always been
the cherished policy of the Republ.
can party so to adjust those duties.
with view to the protection of its own
citizens, as to diversity the employ
ments of our own people-to develope
new branches of industry-to stimu-
late domestic pettion-to render
them Independent of the control of
foreign labOr-and, as far as possible,
to provide and maintain market at
home for the various products of all
occupations, SO as to promote the gen.
eral good,
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

After the fruit failure it will be a
ghastly mockery to heap imitation
fruit on the fall bonnets.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

"New York man in Boston Street
car: won't you have this seat, mad
am. "Thank you, 1 only care to occu-
py it.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

History is made up of scraps. Lies
cut from the whole clOsh.-NeD Orleans
PicayEne.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

A pill manufacturer advertises on
the label: "You take the pills, we do
the rest.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

The cleansing, antiseptic and healing
qualities of DR.. Sege's Catarrh Remedy
are unequaled.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

when we came to this town" writes
a Georgia editor, sit was little more
than water tank, but now the very
best whiskey in the country is sold
here and there are ten moonlight stills
in active operation in the county. A
newspaper is a power for good in any
community.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

Know thyself and keep the inforna-
ton to thy self. This is good advice.
Smyrna times., 1890-09-17

1t is easier 30 live within your in.
come than to live without one,