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Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1890-04-03

The ship carpenters em-<sSysa byr
Rise Brothers, are as bu.sy asthey can.
we'll be, as this firm hse plenty of en-
ployment tor Them. In addition the
many jobs of repairing they. have ops
hand, the firm IN, building tasn cUssser
schoontr Tor Capt Alfred MuIfcrL OF
| Cedarville, This boas is nearly eorp-
pieted and will probably be launc,n.rr
! some time next week. Just as soon as
TINS craft is hnish'ed, keel tor a
larger craft will ''e immediately laid for
BOAT Tor Capt. Smith, of Philadelphia
With the launching of the boat now
on the ways, this firm will have built !;
htty-seven vesslep, FIFTY three of which
were made in this city. A rather sim
eutar fact ia Batl every one of these,
BOATS are afioatt at. the present time.
After the fif'eeStfs of May the firm will
have scores on boats lying at their
Yards for repairs.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
What is the Matter With
Judge Houston

A Wilmington paper of last week
had the following from a Dover cores
pOndent in reference to Judge Hous-
ton: Temperance people here are an
noyed. Associate Judge Houston, has
within a week, fixed up Terence Car
vim, of Kenton, who has been refused
license at that place for three or four
successive courts. 1t will be remem-
bered that last year Colonel E. T.
Cooper engineered bill through the
Legislature which placed license to sell
liquor on a par with other property,
and permitted the transfer of it by ad-
ministratOrs, subject to the approval
of the resident associate Judge. Last
week, Judge Houston approved the
transfer of the license held by Harry
Jacobs, deceased at Leipsic, to Terence
Carvin, and this morning he granted a
fractional license to Levi Griffith of
Dover, who will Immediately open the
Kenton Hotel vacated by Carvin. In
addition he has granted fractional Ii
censes to both the hotels at Milton
in Sussex county which were turned
down by the last court.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
Big Tree For the Worlds
Fair.

Neal Girard Van Dornum of Cra-
mers, Tulare county, is making prepara-
tions to take out a section of big red
wood tree for the purpose of exhibit
tiOn at the Worlds Fair in 1892. This
will be the largest section of anv big
tree taken from California. The tree
measures 80 feet in circumference.
making diameter of SO feet. The sec
tiOn to be cut out will measure 9 feet in
height and so feet in circumference.
1t willube divided into three cuts.
The first cut will be one foot in height
by twenty in diameter. The next cut
will be seven feet in height by twenty
feet in diameter, and will be followed
out, leaving the bark and sap and
about four inches of the timber. The
last cut will be the same as the first,
allowing all the timber to remain and
only be splitting once. All three cuts
will set up on exhibition together.
Tne manner in which this tree will
be gotten ont will convince the most
sceptical ofpeople that this is not mis-
represented but the largest section of
any tree ever taken from California.
The Worlds Fair Big Tree is to be
taken from Mammoth Forest, Tulare
County, California, which is located
titty'two miles east Of Tulare City, at
an altitude of sixty-three hundred and
twenty-five feet above the level of the
sea.
The work of telling the tree has al
ready begun. Ten skilled workmen
have been engaged and are busy at
work. The saw to be used in getting
out the section is twenty-five feet in
length, and was made to order bv the
Pacific Saw Company of San Francisco.
1t is said to be the largest cross.cut
saw ever made of one piece of steel,
and is supposed to require eight men
to handle it. 1t will take ten men at
least two months to complete all the
work to be done. Considerable time
will be required for the timber to dry.
as the weight of green redwood is
very considerable.
Every thing will be in readiness long
before the proper time for shipment.
Three iat-cars will be necessary for
transportation as the total weight will |
not be less than 65,OOO pounds.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
No Cure. No Paw.

It's pretty severe test of any doc
tors skill when the payment of his fee
is made conditional upon his curing his
patent. Yet after having, for many
years, observed the thousand of mar
velous cures effected in liver, blood
and lung diseases, by DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, it's manu-
facturers feel warranted in selling it.
as they are now doing, through all
druggists, the world over, under GER
titicate of positive guarantee that it
will either benefit or cure in every
case Of disease for which they recon-
mend it, if taken in time and given a
fair trial, or money paid for it will be
promptly refunded. Torpid liver, or
"biiiOusness," ," impure blood, skin erup-
tiOns, scrofulOus sores or swellings,
consumption (which is scrofula of the
lungs, all yield to this wonderful med
icine. 1t is both tonic or strength-res-
tOring, and alternative or blood.cleans-
ing.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
Why They Want Free Coin
age.

The Laurel Gazette thus explains
the position of the Kent County Farm
ers' Institute and the Delaware Farm
and Home on free coinage and low
priced dollar
The reason why the Farm and Home
wants free coinage is that it wants for
the people "a great deal more money.
better prices, better opportunity to paw
OIL the mortgages upon their lands. 5"
Free coinage would undoubtedly send
up prices. 1t would initiate prices.
that is, we would have cheap money
which always means dear things. and
while we would possibly get more
money into our pockets, we would
nave to pay out more money for what
we bought. 1t would unsettle all
prices. The things we buy would
Jump up first. The wholesale dealers
who do business by daily bulletins,
would put up prices before the bill
had become law. What the farmers
sell would be the last to go up. This
is the rule, every fuctuation in prices
operates to put money into the poc!z-
cts of the dealers, of the men who are
accustomed to handle money and to
take money out of the hands of the
producers, such as mechanics, farmers
and laborers. Cheap money makes
good times for short time, but it is
invariably followed by bad times for
long time.
The government has been coming
silver at the rate of $24,OOO,OOO a wear
for the last twelve years. Millions
and millions of these dollars are lock-
ed up by the government and thew
have never felt the greedy clutch of
commerce. They are as so MANY med
ais struck off for a presidential inaup-
uration OR a Fourth of July celebra-
ton, and which have found no mar
ket. They are a useless encumbrance
and yet the Farm and Home and ifs
friends, the silver mine owners. would
add hundreds of millions more to this
lot of rubbish. 1t took us ten wears to
get into the depths of the crisis of 1873
and our money in those days cost very
little to make. We were not compel
led to pay 50 per cent. bonus to the
paper owners as the Senate bill pro-
vides to do by the silver bullion own
ers for our paper which entered into the
money" The times were never bet
ter for the farmer, than during the
perils of the civil war when many of
his neighbors had abandoned the field
of wheat for the field of carnage.
There was little competition any
where and the prices jumped to fabu-
lous elevations. Every such jump was
accompanied with a new grist of green
backs. "The war is a blessing said
many man to himself, for it is filling
my pockets" The blessing lasted
just ten years. In the meantime. men
instead Ofpaying off mortgages, bought
lands and houses, piling mortgages
mountain high, and all of it came down
together in common ruin in 1873.
Money had been made, but not by the
farmers and laborers, who are clam
mering for free coinage to-day. 1t had
been made by the shrewd, hard-fsted
soulless Wall street brokers and men
of their sodden type all over the coun
try.
We have had enough of fcheap money
we have had enough of imitation and
we honor our Senators for votes they
cast on the silver question.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
NJ. MEGARY 4 SON,
FURNITURE.
AND
CARPETS.
WALNUT CHAMBER USITS.

We offer to-day our entire line
of $50 and $55 Walnut Chamber
Suits for $40; complete suit of 8
pieces. This offer will last only
as long as we have this line of
suits, and is made to dispose of
the stock on hand; We are max
ing a change in our line of pat
terms for the Spring trade. The
suits we have must go in the
next week, before the new pat
terms are put on the floor. This
is indeed a chance to save a few
dollars rs-the fact is known that
we only advertise what we are
doing.
These suits are solid walnut
with marble top, large bevel edge
bureau, a good hanging towel
rack with glass, and three fine
cane-seat chairs and rocker, max
ing in all s pieces for $40.
Any of these suits that are
selected now, and not needed for
a few weeks, will be stored away
subject to the order Of the buyer.
We have just received an
other carload of our solid anti
que Oak Chamber Suits which
we have been selling for $25 and
$50. These suits are the very
best for sale to-day and cannot
be bought elsewhere in Whining
ton. See the suits and Judge for
yourself. They are not Of the
kind that pulls apart and falls
down, but they are well made
and smoothly finished suits that
we can guarantee.
Wen put our $50 Suits against
any in Wilmington that's sold
for $40. We have plenty of them
and more on the way.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
WHOLE NO. 1882.
The Federal Election or Force
Bill-Camden Camp.

a Dover correspondent of the Morn.
ing Ne~s has the following to saw
abont the Force Bill and Camden
Camp:
The politician is discussing the
Force Bill" with all his might. and if
Representative Lodge could hear the
oIood-curdling threats of what will be
done right here in Dover "if it is en-
forced" he would quake in his patent
feathers. In the first place there will
be "ber-Iood," and after the gore there
Will be states prison, especially for the
man or men who are instrumental in
bringing armed force into the state IN
back it up. Chapter 326 of the Re-
Vlsed Code is quoted, section l of the
Code making it a felony for anv one
hereafter to aid or abet, or advise the
bringing in the state of armed soldiers
Tor the purpose of interfering in cleo
tons or intimidating voters or who
Shall advise or abet the bringing or
sending into the state of any armed
soldiers to be present within five miles
otany voting place"
The penalty runs all the wav from
$1,000 to $4,000 and inflicts ANYTHING
up to five years imprisonment. This
act was passed in 1868.
The Democratic citizen here claims
that this act blocks the United States
armed force feature of the Federal
Election bill so far as Delaware is con-
cerned.
One hundred and thirty-eight tents
were contracted for at Camden Camp
grounds up to noon. This is far in ad
vance of anything known for years on
this ground and is a guarantee of a
mammoth camp. Nearly all the pro-
minent politicians of Kent have en-
gagged tents for the women folks. thew
say. The camp is to be run under the
auspices Of the National Camp Meet
ing Association. That's all right. but
dollar to a dime that Kent county
politicians control the ground outside
the circle.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
A Machine With Brains.
CENSUS RETURNS COUNTED WITH THE
AID OF ELECTRICITY.

Brains do not count for much at
present in the census Offices as the cleo
trIcal machines now used there for the
purpose of tabulating and counting the
return of population and pronounced a
success. An idea of the adoptability
of the machines can be obtained when
1t is stated that the average worker in
tie census Office can now count with
the aid of the machine, about 10000
names a day, while the clerks in the
office during the 1880 census could tab
ulate only 5000 or 1000 names a dav.
BETTER THAN A DEPARTMENT CLERK.
The counting machine, unlike the
average department clerk, never gets
tired, never has to lay off a few days
each month on account of alleged all
ments of the flesh, is just as ready to
work eighteen as sixteen hours a dav.
and above all it is impossible for it to
make a mistake.
Beginning on Monday the Census
Office will be tabulating the population
at the rate Of 2,5OO,OOO names a dav
This could only be done by regiment
OF clerks, in the absence of the count.
ing-machine, but it might not be as
accurate. The machine is the inven-
tlOn of H. HOllerith, who was emnlov-
ed on the last census, and who the be-
came impressed with the necessity of
having as much of the work as posi-
bic done by machinery.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

There is to be plenty of politics in
Michigan this year. The Patrons of
Industry, the Farmers Alliance, the
Union Labor party and the Prohibit
tionists will all hold separate conven-
tions for the nomination of state Off
GERS this month. If there be no misce-
genatiOn among these organizations
there will be six tickets in the field
after the Democratic and Republican
conventions shall have been held.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
HOW IT IS OPERATED.

The plan includes the use of blank
record cards of suitable size, divided
into small squares, to each of which is
assigned particular Significance. The
age, sex, color, married or single condi-
ton, and other information concerning
the subject of the inquiry, is first rec
orded on the card by punching holes
IN the proper squares. In tabulating
this Information the electrical count
ing machine is used. Each card is pas
sed under press containing a pin
Tor every space upon the card. These
pins are held lightly by springs in such
way that when the press descends
upon the card they pass through onlv
where the holes are already punched
much after the fashion of a Jackuard
loom harness.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

New York is going to make up for
the loss of the Worlds Fair by a stu.
pendOus naval review in New York
Bay, in 1892, as provided for in the
Columbus Fair bill which was passed
by Congress. There will be from eigh-
teen to twenty modern steel men-Of-
war in the review. The affair will be
under the general direction of the Sec
retary of the Navy.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

81 heard a practical farmer say
years ago that if had enough men he
could destroy every sassafras bush in
the county in three days. His plan
was simple and feasible. He would
cut the bushes off, commencing the
day before the moon fulls in August,
and closing his labors the day after the
moon fulls, giving him three days to
do the work. 1t will kill them effectu-
ally" said he, "and you will never be
troubled with sassafras sprouts again. 3"
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
EVERY FoINT REGISTERED.

The pins which pass through the
holes connect electric circuits and
register on a row of dials the data
which the holes in the card are in
tended to indicate. In this way everv-
thing recorded upon the card can he
read by the machine and transferred
to the dial by a single stroke.
The apparatus can be adjusted TO
take from the cards any single rec
orded item or any desired grouping or
combination of statistics, or ANYTHING
upon the card may be tabulated with
equal speed and facility. AS the count.
ing IS done by the machine there is no
( opportunity for error, nor is there anv
chance of error in transcribing the
records through illegible hand-writ.
ing.
The health statistics of New York
city are recorded by this method. and
the same system is in use in the Office
OF the Surgeon Feneral of the United
States Army, for compiling the health
statistics of the army month by month.
WILL HASTEN REPORTS.
Census Superintendent Robert p
Porter is gratiIied at the success TINS
far attained by the machines. They
will enable him to get the population
tabulated and counted many months
in advance of that OF tne returns of the
1880 census. The time saved in tbis
way will be of great advantage in has
ten'ng the preparation and classi6ca-
tlon OF the reports of the special agents
who are engaged in securing statistics
OF various branches of business. This
VIII be the most tedious and difficult
part OF the entire census, but Mr.. Por.
ter has made many promises that the
work will be done more quickly than
it was ten years ago.
CENSUS METHODS FIFTY YEARS AGO.
In comparison with the present sys-
tematic manner in which the census is
being taken was the way the census
was taken fifty years ago. There
was no superintendent of the census at
that time properly speaking, the work
being committed to the Marshals of
the several districts of the United
States. The enumeration commenced
on June l, 1910, and the law provided
that it should be completed and clas-
sed within ten calender months there
alter" The compensation for assis.
tant marshal was 50 for everv 100 per-
sons up to 5000, and 50 for everv 800
over that number but extra allow
ance was stipulated in cases where
territory was sparsely inhabited, at the
discretion of the Marshals. The sched-
ules were more formidable in the mum.
ber and variety of questions than those
OF the present day, but there was no
provision for taking names of individ-
uals, except in the case of heads of
heads of families and Revolutionary
pensioners. A considerable part of
the printed schedule was Occupied
with the department headed "Slaves"
and another, Free Colored Persons"
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

The most dreary, desolate and un-
happy looking men in New York are
those who live in hotels and at this
time of the year seek in vain for their
hotel friends who have fed to cooler
climesland clearer air. They are dis
gusted apparently with summer life.
But there are good many of their
friends fretting and fuming at water
ing places and mountain resorts who
would willingly exchange places with
their city brothers in New York.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

The use Of the phonograph for COM
mercial correspondence is extending.
The possibility of it being harnessed to
the telephone, so as to make perma-
nent record of conversation passing
over the wire, is being discussed,
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

An even dozen of the young ladies
OF Milford have rented the cottage be-
Ionginging to Reynolds, at Slaughter
Beach and on Monday took possession
for oAe week. The ladies composing
the party are Miss Maggie Pratt, Miss
Lilhe Causey, Miss Matte Prettyman,
Miss Anna Causey, Miss Virdie eau
sey, Miss Ella Prettyman, the Misses
Hall, Miss Maria Causey, the Misses
Marlett, Miss Adkins, Miss Owens,
Miass Warfeld and Miss Sallie Adkins
as chaperon.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

Pound keeper Finn, of New York,
estimates the dog population of that
city at from $4,000 to $4,000. During
the past year the dog catchers caught
746S dogs, 800 of which were redeemed
by their owners paying So fine, the
remainder being asphyxiated.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

There are $50 authorized guides in
the Alps, One hundred and ninety
four of them have taken a regular
course in the profession and have re-
ceived diplomas. Thirty-fve of them
are between 60 and 20 years of age,
and six are over 20.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
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Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

The most densely populated square
mile in the world is in the city of New
York. It's inhabited by 10000 peo-
pie, the larger part of whom are Ital.
ians, who speak only their native Ian
guage.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

"Were you ever in love before Ed
win? ?"
"Great Caesar" he cried in anguish,
''am l never to be free from that awful
question:"
"And what is there strange aboutit. i"
"All the girls that ever loved have
asked it, and when 1 answer 'em yes,
they answer that they wouldn't have
thought it from the way 1 acted. And
now here you are laying wires to ring
in the same old cOnundrum San
Francisco Wasp.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

If all the persons, whose names are
in the new government blue book,
were to form a line four abreast, it
would take the procession ten hours
to pass the White House.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

The "Hayseeds" who don't know
enough to go in out of the rain, 60 to the
city and meet the bunco men, and are
then taken in.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

Ten years ago there were 100000
commercial travellers in the United
States. The census this year will pro-
badly show 100000.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

'Is your cook French ?"
mo; American. Sort of Pan-Amer-
ican. ."-Haper's Bazaar.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16
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Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

There's nothing half so sad in life,
This sultry summer weather,
AS is the the look bootblack casts.
AT shoes of yellow leather.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

Chicago philanthrophists propose to
pension school teachers after twenty
years Ofservice.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

Pressly Ennis has been awarded the
contract to carry the mail between
Dover and Cowgill's Corner, at $75 per
anuum.
Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

Chronic Nasal Catarrh positively
cured by DR.. Sage's Remedy. so cents
by druggists.