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Smyrna times., 1890-11-26
The following is the time table fol
the steamer Ella for December.

The Smyrna Choral Society have
| secured Prof +. NJ. Zimmerman, of
Philadelphia, as their instructor, and
the class will meet in the Cooper
building on next Friday night 28th
inst at o'clock for the first lesson.
Mr.. Zimmerman ranks very high in
the circle of professional singers of
Philadelphia and this will be a rare
| opportunity for any who are musically
inclined and it is hoped that all such
will avail themselves of the privilege
and encourage the musical drift of the
town. Terms are 3d. per quarter
of thirteen weeks payable in advance.
HELP your own town. Talk about it.
Write about it. Beautify it, Be friendly
to strangers and everybody in general
Nominate and elect good men to offices.
Sell all you can and buy all you want
at home. If you are rich, invest in
something and employ home labOrers.
Be generous and courteous to stran.
gers that come among you, so that they
will go away with good impressions.
Always cheer on the men who go in
for improvements. Your portion of
the cost will be nothing more than
what is just. Do not run down anv
new improvement because you think
1t will raise your taxes a few cents or
that it will blow a whistle that will
arouse you from your morning sleep.
or that you will not be benefited by it.
Always help home enterprise. U.
TOMORROW, Thursday 9th is the
day set apart by national and State au-
thority as a day of thanksgiving for
the many blessings which have been
shOwered upon US by an all-wise Prov.
idence. During the present year no
great national calamities have befallen
US to mar the happiness of our people.
On the other hand we have many
things that we ought to be thank
full for. BOuntiful harvests have
been gathered in many sections while
no part of our common country has
suffered seriously from the failure of
the soil to produce its usual return for
honest labor. At home we are blessed
by the knowledge that we are coming
out of a season of unparalleled de-
preston better fitted to appreciate the
good things of life and the duties which
we owe to our fellows. We can give
hearty thanks for what we now enjoy
and appreciate the blessings which have
been our portion,
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26
A Pleasant Evening

The Young Peoples Society of the
Presbyterian church held its musioale
on Wednesday evening at the resi-.
dence of F. F. Evans. The following
program was rendered
PART l.
instrumental SOlo..................M Miss Steve ms
Gypsy Dance"
InstruIhehtHi Solo, .;.;:............ Miss GOOtee
instrumental Duet. Misses Stevens 4 Gootee
"Qui Vive Galop"
Vocal Sole. ..................Mr }. +. HOffecker
20, have Sighed to Rest Me-"
Instrumental SOlO...................Mrs. Evans
"Cupid's Greeting"
O0"i oOlO'','y''' '',.,',''r..','t,,lu Miss Cooper
I'm Old Madrid"
lnssIrHmental SOLO; ;;....... :;."... Miss Stevens
=, When the Swallows Homeward Fly"
vocal Solo ..................M J. Il. HOffecker
i will be True to Thee"
instrumental SOlO...................M Miss GOotee
"Danse Ecossaise"
'ocal l0;...........;:.:... Miss Cooper
by Normandie's Blue Hills
PART II,
instrumental Solo, ,.;.,, The Humaniphope
Annie Rooney"
PART III.
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THE DWELLING HOUrSE Ov
MAIN STREET, NOW IN TENURE
OF MRS. DOUGHTEN. Possession
March lst, 1891. Inquire of
MRS. IL. r. CARROW
SmyrnA Del
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26
Quick Sales,
Small Profits,
AND
Satisfaction
TO
Every Customer.

We are fully pre-
pared to meet your
demands this season
in Overcoats, Cloth
lng' Underwear, Fur
niShing Goods and
Hats for Men, Boys
and Children. Our
aSsOrtmentwas never
larger; the quality
never better; the
price never lower;
the make up, style,
1T never as perfect
and we were never
more anxious for
your trade.
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26


JOHN F. sAuLsAURY, Secretary of State.
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26

WE hope all our readers will be able
to give thanks in way most pleasing
to them. OF course with the prOvisO,
that their way is a proper way. We
all have something TO be thankful for,
but the cup of the Democrats has been
filed to the brim. The Republicans
are thankful for the hopeful feeling
that they will knock the enemy into
smithereens in 1872.
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26

THE TINES and Philadelpbia WeaLI,
FresS, ten page family paper, can
both be had one year for $500. No
other paper in the county can give YOU
the Press so cheap.
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26

REV. DIR. LEONARD, one of the Mis-
siOnary secretaries, will preach at the
NJ. L. church, this town. on Sunday
week. He will preach on each of the
districts of this conference and hold
what is called Missionary Conferences.
He holds a high place as q preacher.
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26

REV. w. NJ. WARNER is having a
good prOtracted meeting at Friendship
church, ThOrOughtare Neck.
Seven united with the church on Sun
day, and eight were at the altar that
night. Rev. r. K. Stephenson COM
menced revival services at Severson's
church last night.
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26

THURSDAY it rained, showed, hailed
and blowed, and the day closed with
a clear and beautiful sunset 1t looked
like winter for short time and felt
like it on Saturday.
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26

FRIDAY, coming after Thanksgiving.
was considered a lost day, floating out
without cable attachment, and hence
5he 5i teachers and the children have a
little vacation, which will be no hurt
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26
FOR RENT.

J. i. FAIRIES.
Smyrna times., 1890-11-26

The jOlli6cation ofthe Kenton Dem
ocrats though 1t came late, was up to
their full idea of success. Most all the
houses Of the town were illuminated,
there were about 200 hOrsemen and
speeches were made by GOv.-elect Rey-
nolds, J. i. WalcOtt and z. 4. Cooper.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15
The HORSE,
Some Points That Should BE Possessed
by "the Farmers Horse"

Some Points That Should BE Possessed
by "the Farmers Horse"
The profitable horse for the farm
must combine good degree of adapta-
ton to the required farm work, with
qualities that demand recognition in
the best markets. A small proportion
OF the horses produced on the farm are
required for continued farm labor, but
it is fortunate fact that the best and
most reliable markets call for such
horses as may be produced from a class
of mares best adapted to the diversified
wants of the farmer. No clear-sighted
breeder will be contented to raise the
animal that in common parlance is de-
nominated the general purpose horse.
He is compromise between the two
types that are required to furnish three
fourths of the market requirements and
fails to give in any considerable degree
the distinctive merits of either.
The idea that the horse that at ma
turity will weigh from 1000 to 1900
pounds, possessing semi-draft, semi
roadster formation, but wanting the
weight of the former and the style and
action of the latter, is a typical horse
for the farmer to breed, is delusion
and snare. This idea has sacrificed
the best available blood in the country,
ignored the demands of the best mar
kets, and filled the land with unstable,
because undesirable, stock.
The combination of speed, style and
weight, so often found in the roadster
stallion of the present, gives US an
animal entitled to the careful con-
sideration of class of our farmers. A
standardized roadster stallion of supe-
rior style and finish, and weighing in
proper condition 1,200 pounds, or up
ward, is a grand acquisition to a COM
munity of discriminating farmers.
from such sire and well-bred, clean
limbed, good-styled roadster mares
weighing LOO pounds or more, a class
Of colts should be produced that will
always be in demand for carriage work
in our cities, as we'll as adapted, to
certain extent, to the wants of a class
Of our American farmers.
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are singin' the doxology now. an !
reckon she will soon be busted"
The plowboy goes home with his
divinity - Uncle Johns daughter.
Reckon Jim will be at homer" he asks,
as they ride along.
"He mout be. Air you awful anxious
to see him?"
"Not SO powerful. Jest lowed I'd
ask. know who's yo' sweetheart" he
says, after pause.
"Bet you don't"
"Bet do"
"Who is 1t, then, Mr.. Smarty?"
"Aleck Jones'"
"Who, himp Think I'd have that
freckle-face thing?"
"Wall, IL he amt I know who is"
"Bet you couldn't think Of his name
in a hundred years"
"You mout think can't, but can"
''Wall, who, then, since you are SO
smart?"
sMorg Atcherson."
"Ho, wouldn't speak to him If was
TO meet him in the road"
"But you'd speak to some people IL
you was to meet them in the road,
wouldn't you2"
"Yss, of course would"
''Who would you speak TOP"
"Oh, lots of folks. Did you see that
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15

bird almost nls me. SHE suoaen., e1-
claims.
81 reckon he lowed you was a flow.
err"
"oh, he didn't, no such of a thing.
You ought to be ashamed of yo'sef to
make fun Of me thater way"
81 want maxim fun of you. Ho, IL I
was ter ketch anybody maxim fun Of
you it wouldn't be good for him."
what would you do?"
"Td whale him."
"You air awful brave, amt your"
"Never mind whut am; l know that
IL any man was to make fun of you he'd
have me to whup."
A number of people have stopped at
Uncle Johns house. They sit in the
large passageway running between the
two sections of the log building, and
the men, who have not heard the SER
mon, discuss it with the women who
were compelled to hear it from hating
start to excited finish. The sun is bIaz-
ing out in the fields and the June-bugs
are buzzing in the yard. It is indeed a
day of rest for the young and old, but is
it a restful time for the housewifeP
Does that woman, with flushed face,
running from the kitchen to the dining
room and then to the spring-house for
the crock jar of milk, appear to be rest
ing? Do the young men and women
that are lolling in the passage realize
that they are making slave of her2
Probably not, for she assures them that
it is not bit of trouble, yet when night
comes-when the company is gone-she
sinks down, almost afraid to wish that
Sunday might never come again, yet
knowing that it is the day of her heavy
bondage. Old labor has been soothed
and young love has been encouraged,
but her trials and anxieties have been
more than doubled.
tits night and the boy sits in the door,
taking off his shoes. Tomorrow he
must go into the hot field, but he does
not think OF that. His soul is full of
buoyant love-buoyant, for the girl with
the gaudy ribbon has promised to be his
wife.-Opie P. Read, in Arkansaw Trav-
alar
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15
BATTERY LIGHTING.
Il VIII Some Day BE success-A French
Inventors Plan.


Electric lighting by means Of bat
teries is, says the Electrical Engineer,
an Notwithstanding subject for inventors,
and the pet scheme Is to he able to sell
the waste products, and so have the
light for next to nothing. There is
another OF these schemes, this time
hailing from France, which has the
claim of certain amount of originality.
This is single-duid battery introduced
by NJ. Pollak. 1t has no porous pot, apd
contains a plate OF zinc as negative
electrode, and plate Of lead as positive.
with a solution Of sulphate Of copper as
exciting liquid. The zinc Is dissolved
and the copper is deposited on the lead,
the latter remaining inactive. The
electrodes Of the standard types are
made to last for a fortnight, but the
maker takes them back in exchange for
new ones, the copper paying for the
zinc, so that the sulphate of copper is
the only expense.
Every day few crystals of sulphate
are placed in q trough above the battery,
and the water is regulated so that the
overflow runs into an automatic circuit
breaker. A suitable number Of accu-
mulators are connected with this cir
cult breaker separately. This appa-
ratus is composed of movable recep-
tacle, turning on a horizontal axis,
which turns over when full of water. A
system of movable contacts puts the
battery successfully into communica-
ton with one of the accumulators at
each movement of the circuit breaker.
The lamps are supplied directly from
the accumulators, which the battery is
constantly charging. A Pollak battery
of seven elements and eight small accu-
mulators corresponds to fifteen lamp
hours of s C. p, and the cost of main
tenance is given at about O.2d. per can
die hour.
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claim: What can a man give in ex-
change for his own soul2" But he is
not thinking of souls, or of an exist
ehce beyond the horizon of this life; his
mind is on the girl with gaudy ribbon,
and he is asking his heart if she loves
him. The shadows are now shorter and
hungry men cast glances at the SUE, but
the preacher, shouting in broken &C
cents, appears not to have reached the
first milestone of his text, and it is evil
dent that he started out with the inten-
ton of going Sabbath days journey"
One young fellow places his straw hat
over his face and tries to sleep, but
some one tickles him with a spear of
grass. An old man who has stood il as
long as he could in the house, and who
has come out and lain down, gets up,
stretches himself. brushes a clinging
leaf OF his gray jeans trousers and de-
clares: "a lite to eat would hit me
harder than sermon writ on a rock
Don't see why man wants to talk all
day"
Thought you was mighty fond of
preachin', Uncle john" some one re-
marks. f
Am, but ! don't want q man to go
over an over what he has already dun
said. If my folks want in thar I'd
mosey of home an git suthin' to eat"
Good book says q man don't live by
bread alone, Uncle John"
"Yas, but it don't say that he liyes by
orsachin' alone. nuther. Hor on! ttey
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15
QUICK WORK.
A Machine That Converts Cream IntS
Butter INSTANTLY,

/ a machine That Converts Cream Int
Butter Instantly.
Yet another invention relating tC
dairying is about to be introduced te
the British public, says the London Ag'
ricultural Gazette. 1t is the work Of
DIR. De Laval, of Sweden, whose sep
arators are so well known all over the
world. The latest outcome of his in
ventive brain is called the Instantan
eous Butter Maker, and will be ex-
hibited in the working dairy at the
Plymouth meeting of the Royal Agrl
cultural Society. For some time past
rumors have been circulated of this
machine, and comments on it have ap-
peared in the agricultural press, but
its introduction to the English public
has wisely been delayed by the makers
and their English agents, the Dairy
Supply Company, Limited, Museum
street, London, until it could be put to
the test. We have been furnished with
the following descriptions:
Dairymen are acquainted with the
well-known form of the Laval Steam
Turbine Separator, which was awarded
the gold medals of the British Dairy
Farmers Association and the Royal
Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural
Society. To this separator the new
churn is attached. 1t consists of CYL
inder about twelve inches long and four
inches in diameter within which a
dasher revolves at about three thousand
revolutions per minute, being driven
hJra hn1 of he L., nd Sc
used to drive power separator
from the separator spindle. The
cream, on leaving the separator in
the usual way, passes over an ingen-
iously contrived refrigerator of new de-
sign which is admirably calculated to
reduce the temperature as low as posi-
BILE with very small consumption of
cold water; it then enters at one end of
the cylinder, in the course of its passage
through which the cream is churned
into butter, and energies at the other
end in a granular form. Dairymen who
have had their butter-milk analyzed
from time to time know that there is
great loss in the present system of
churning large quantities of cream, as
IL 10 pOSSluiO W tuSuTc lHdG eNtTg
butter globuie shall receive the same
amout of conclusion; and hence the but
ter-milk often contains large percent
age of butter.
This is avoided with DIR. De Laval's
new invention, as, the cream must pass
equally through the cylinder, receiving
a regular and rapid conclusion from
the revolving dasher. The cylinder is
inclosed in water casing so that the
temperature is kept very low and the
butter is consequently firm. 1t is very
free from buttermilk, and therefore
keeps well. The churn is fixed to the
separate frame and can be attached to
any of the Laval machines. AS shown
on the turbine the whole process of sep
arating the milk and churning the but
ter is performed by jet of steam direct
from the boiler without the interven.
ton of shafting. betting, or an engine
of any kind. The churn has no COM
pick arrangements about it, and moth
ing could be more simple than the way
in which it can be taken to pieces and
cleaned. The process is entirely auto
matte, requiring very little power and
attention while in use.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15
Strawberry Leaf-Biight.

1t is known that this disease usually
causes the greatest injury by attack ling
the new growth which appears directly
after the new fruit is harvested. At
this period the old leaves contain in.
Vulnerable spores, and it is these that
infect the young leaves To prevent
this the practice of burning over the
plants just after the fruit is gathered
has been followed with success, the
young plants usually starting up and
growing thriftily after the treatment
The complete destruction of the old
leaves is usually effected by first now
ing the plants, allowing the foliage to
dry for day or two and then burning.
Last year an experiment was made by
Colonel Pearson, with a view to deter
mine the effect of spraying the foliage
with strong solution of sulphuric acid.
Several rows of strawberry plants, bad
ly infested with Headlight were
sprayed with a solution made by mixing
one pint of sulphuric acid with six gal
Ions of water, the application being
made soon after the fruit was harvested.
As result of this spraying the old
leaves were as effectually destroyed as
If they had been burnt with fire, and
two weeks later the plants had started
up fresh and green. On the 10th of
September the difference between the
treated and untreated points was quite
striking. The sprayed rows were fresh
and green. while adjoining unsprayed
plants left for control were badly
blighted. Where one has suitable
spraying pump it would doubtless be
economy to adopt this method of de-
stroying the old plants rather than the
plan of moving and burning with fire.
Western Rural.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15
Manuring Bearing Orchards.

On my orchard of bearing trees, saws
writer in Farm and Fireside, haul
out as many as forty wagon-loads of
manure to the acre every year and
spread it over the ground. mulch my
trees thoroughly. 1 think it is an i'm
possibility for a tree to bear fruit and
live any length of time, making a thrifty
growth, unless the ground is properly
MANFRED. If it requires all the vitality
there is in a tree to ripen and mature
its fruit without making any growth, it
will not last long. have observed that
from experience. If we can keep the
ground rich enough to make tree have
considerable growth, besides maturing
its fruit, then there is prospect of it's
living number of years.
/ have trees in my orchard that have
now stood there twenty-eight years, and
to-day they are just as healthy as they
were twenty years ago; at least, sold
more than four tons of apples from an
an orchard of Duchess of Oldenburg,
seven by nine rods in size, this past sea-
SON The trees bear every year; but
this result is only accomplished by
means of heavy manuring and mulch
ing. Ihave other trees likewise that
treat in the same manner. find as they
grow older they require more mulching.
The vitality in tree must be kept up.
1t appears TO me there is similarity in
animal and vegetable life. We must
feed tree, because it is very exhaust
i've for it to produce its fruit each and
every year. The results with me from
mulching have been very satisfactory.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15
Chicks on the Farm.

Poultry reared with free range of or
chard and meadow are the largest and
also the finest in plumage and symme-
try. They have a prouder carriage and
look of thrift and health not often
seen in chicks reared within the limits
of town lots. If the breeder must OF
necessity limit the range. he must pro-
vide artificially the advantage which the
country naturally supplies. Insects he
must replace with chopped meat, and
lacking grass range, he must cut grass
and clover daily. Shade must be pro-
vided during the summer, otherwise
failure is sure.
Your birds need shade as well as sun.
Set out few plums trees in the yard,
and the hens will destroy the erubs
and enrich the soil, so that with a little
trouble and expense you can raise some
of the most delicious fruit With GER
tain poaltrymen this plan worked well
and paid handsomely. Try the plan
this spring and see if you are not salts.
ied.-The Poultryman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15
THE RAccoON'S HUG.

How the Smallest Representative Of the
Bear Family Defends Himself
That the raccoen Is the smallest rep
resentative Of the bear family Is fact
very we'll known 10 naturalists and
generally set forth in dictionaries, but
the average hunter refuses to acknow1-
edge the Relationship. Silas Barnes, Of
Newburg, who for twenty years has
earned his living by selling small furs
and rattlesnake oil, after half life
time Of doubt, was finally convinced at
dawn the other day that the coon Is q
true ursa minor and his eighteen-pe pound
bull-terrier learned the lesson at tbs
same time bat too late to profit by It
The hunter and his dog passed the
night in the woods at the foot Of Storm
King mountain, on the Cornwall side,
and at daybrea Barnes ''treed" a coon
in tall pine. He never carries a gun
because he says it frightens the game
he wants TO catch-and, besides, he
hasn't one. He climbed the tree and
drove the coon down, noticing as it
passed him that it seemed to be consid-
erably more bulky than his dog. Then
he sat upon bough about thirty feet
above the ground to watch the sport
He saw the terrier seize the coon by
the throat The shaggy animal nade
desperate effort to release itself Fall
ing in this it stood upon Its hind feet
and throwing its strong fore legs around
its enemy's body it gave him deadly
hug The dogs eyes bulged, and so
did those of the hunter, for never be-
fore through long experience as a
uoodsman had he seen any thing like
this. He went so rapidly to the rescue
that he fell the last ten feet but he was
too late The coon was gone and the
terrier was gaspiag his life away. The
blood that welfed from some ruptured
organ filed his mouth, his back vas
badly laceratea, and in few minutes
he was dead
The squeeze of the little bear had
been more than even his seasoned frame
could stand.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15
English Teaching in GERMANY.

Prof. Goldburgman Herr Kann-
stnicht, you viii the declensions give in
the sentence: II have gold mine"
Herr Kannstnicht Il have a gold
mine; thou hast gold thine; he has q
gold his; we. you. they have gold ours,
yours or theirs, as the case may be.
Prof. Goldburgman-You right are;
up head proceed. Should what a time
pleasant have, if all Herr Kannstnicht
like were!-Light.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15
A HANDY TOOL

inches through at the butt, and through
this thick end bore two-inch hole.
Drive into the hole = small crotched
stick. Next throw down two blocks
upon which to rest the ends of the rail
to be sharpened. The rail must lie at
right angles to the device for holding
it. With one hand the holder can DO
raised and lowered upon the rail- hold
Ing it until sharpened. A stake may DO
driven into the ground on which to
catch the holder when putting the new
rail on the blocks.