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Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

SYRUP OF FIGS, produced from the
laxative and nutritious iuice of Caiifor'
MA figs, combined with the medical
virtues of plants known to be most
oenehcIaI to the human system, acts
gently, on the kidneys, liver and bow
els, efiectually cleansing the system.
ulsPelIlng colds and headaches, and
curing habitual constipation.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12
J; ALEXANDER FULTON
H. RIDGELEY. ,
w. T. CASE.
A. N. BROWN
N. BROWN

=, II Is understood in Kansas Citv. Mo
that the Brotherhood of loIore3 NJ ~
Is working earnestly to direct the i'm
6m,lgration of the cOlored race toward
okiiahoma. oi with view of colonizing it
nIu erecting, therein a great State.
where the cOlOred man NAV rnle
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12
Boot and Shoe Making.

The subscriber offers his services TO the
citizens Of Snyrna as Maker of all kinds
Of Boots and Shoes. Work done neatly
and with Dispatch His shop has been
moved from Mount Vernon street to Com
merce, in q part Of the Rink Building oc-
cupied by B. b. Allen.
JAMES y. MORRIS.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

Mr. Gladstone is announced 20 begin
IN April a series of articles ON "Tba
OId Testament" in a popular maoae
zine, and expected to complete tba
greater part of his work upon them
before leaving Oxford. '"'1A
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

The European armies have become
SO great that they will either have To
ulsoand or go to war. The important
to unload? ""S
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

The Kansas State Executive Com.
e mlItee OF the WOman's Christian Tenn
perance Union has issued an address to
.ne @ local unions to support Republi.
can candidates in State elections
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

fennIsylvanian and other farmers are
actively working to induce the wavs
ana means Committee to recommend a
nlg9 Protective tariff on wool and farm
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12
To The Farmers Institute of
Kent County.

The undersigned committee appoiu
ted at your last meeting to investigat
the report to this meeting the condi
tion of the State and County finance
and especially how they effect the in
Gerests OF the farmers as class, bel
leave to submit the following:
REPORT.
They have carefully and assiduousl,
given their time and attention TO tbI
uutles imposed upon them and tn,
result OF their work will appear in the
Following tables, statements and sug
gestiOns. 10
Your committee has had but one
object in view, to get facts and present
them fairly and truly, just as they
exist, to the members of the Institute
ana the farmers of Kent County. This
Cney nave done so far as they had an
opportunity, time and ability, without
rear, favor or partiality. In the collec-
tloh and presentation of these facts
your committee simply sought the
trutn aud having found it, now pre-
sehCs IL Tor your consideration. Ifanv
one reels hurt or wounded, it is the
fault OF the facts, not of your commit
| tee.
Your committee beg leave to submit
some suggestions and to append some
resolutions looking to further action
ana more efficient remedies These
they have reserved for the close of this
report, as they can be then better uD.
ufrstood and more intelligently con-
sldered and acted upon.
Your committee is fully persuaded
that by careful, iudicious and eco.
nomical administration of the conntv
affairs the people can have better ser.
wees at SIo,OOO year less cost than they
pay now. And still farther, that
wnen the burden of taxation is prom
erly and fairly equalized and adjusted
tne farmers will not pay more than one
nall what they do now.
STATE FINANCEs-1859.
Total receipts by State Treasurer. AZ
per AUDITORS report. .....,... StOi OO1 IN
Dulailee on hand at end Of year......... 293sS "a
Actual expenses for State purposes 8 9I84I 0e
Out of this ssl ,S41 O6 was paid
Two Loans to the armers'
To DG1f na .,.,.'...... $4,000 90
Leaving for ordinary ex-
2BO4l 06 O, Qa1 ne
STATE FINANCES 1869
Total receipts by State Treasurer. as
n, per auditors reperl .... SI21 Oa7 IN |
l9taI payments or disbursements dur. ~
ing year......... ooo, r..
Take from this '''''''' -'o'SSA 90
i GM0ney paid Railroads. $4,000 90
: -''0ieS' cOupohS~-"'....... o6,6lO 90 s6,6lO 90
''''s ior oruinary expenses~.......... s 1881 Sc
STATE FINANCEs-l879.
Total receipts as shswn by Auditors
Total @xpen:as a: =, sl6s9S 9s
l66,9OI Il
5aianee in Treasurer'S hands applica.
VIC 70 o'A'e purposes................... 2,OSO 81
1ut OF gross expenses... eIe5 oo1 A.
,,nouio ,lIl De taken the following; =
fTOSs expenses ... etee ~, 4,
n paying interest and redemption of -
ll3,4IO 90
'eaying for ordinary expenses Of Gov
5S49l Al
STATE FINANCEs-1SS8
v6oIe sls6ls2 S4
" 'eAPehultures-........ q l2l, ,284 G6 !
aance in hands OF Treasurer SeIo,o -
otal expenditures as abOve sI0i S9I re |
P"iu LOaLs "............... 25 200 90 |
dTg dd iJS Ordinary expenses 96O34 &c
@'''e' 'or l'o''...''.'. 2O,j6S 81
luliHIy expenses BIG 6O9 60
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

1t is reported that league has been
formed by the Young Liberals of
Montre@l Ito bring abOst the indenen-
dence of Canada by 1892"
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

When woman has nothing more
70 say she will keep a man an bonr
from his work so she can saw it.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

he led the German and his dudisb
dress was the admiration of the assem-
bled fair, but his stout partner sjinna5
on his favOrite corn. Sensation Soi-
again
Nothing is more provoking than a
troublesome cough. Cure il with DR.
Bulls Cough Syrup. 25c.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

Edison is working on a startling in
Ventlon now. 1t is an electric alarm
bell that awake the hired girl in the :,
morning. 'l0
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12
Money to Loan.

IN First Mortgage on Real Estate, for term Of
years The following sums now In hand to loan /:
txoVy szOuO sl50O, 81 900, $780, and smaller sums
on Judgment Bonds with approved secsritv
CONVEYANCING,
WIN write Deeds, Mortgages. Bonds. Ieasa, ana
other instruments OF writing. ianS \.
VIM p sMITHERa. Smyrna. pel
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12
''''D OA'''i &c '''''''''.'....... S'Se,ls2 81
summary oE ExpENnIr1nr. 1000
TABLE OF ORDINARY STATE ExPENsFs
AT FOUR DIFFERENT PERIoDs

TABLE OF ORDINARY STATE EXPENSES
AT FOUR DIFFERENT PERIODS.
1859 1850 ,o,o
s 2SOil Os $40 3s4 rs s,a "a; 4, 1883
Increase each decade thus. sAiO'OOo oS
From 1859 till 1863. 10 wears ,Ao,o 20
From 1869 till 1879 10 wears ~ '|dS 20 ~ %
From 1879 till 1888 years ' fa'1y9 'iy9 90 90
Note l. Our State expenses have
more than double in 9 nine years.
Note 2. They are more than four
times what they were 80 years ago
Note 3 They are about two and
a. haif times as much as in 1869. after
the war closed, and when everything
was high. '"'"s
TABLE SHOWING SALARIES oF srArv
OFFICERS AT FOUR DIFFER
ENT PERIoDs
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

Governor Albeit has persuaded the
New Jersey farmers that they are NOT
suffering, after all. The farmers, there
fore, will go on raising hay, and Albeit
will raise something else.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12
TAuu FeeB
SOME ALLOWANCES MADE THR IFaTa.
LATURE AT DIFFERENT TIMES
NOT COMPLETE.

i. That clerks of the General Assem-.
bly, cost more than half as much as All
the members of both Houses of the
General Assembly for their daily pav
and mileage.
2. More than half the State officers
leaving out the Governor and Judges
q. That the printing cost nearly as
much es the pay Of both Houses OF the
General Assembly.
Note /. We note that the clerks of
the IS ate and House for 1887 were
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

THESE POLICIES ARE EASILY DEFINED
THEY ARE -forfetabe
THEY ARE-Protected bv T;vilaDdo
THEY E-Unresrcted as 70 reoi3on No 81 -, -
IhEH AXE lncOntestabe by their terms
Ihhf AKE-Secured by Invested Reserve.
THEY ARE-Soidlv backed bv Ron1a 90 NTo-. go,
Real Estate O ~
IhEY ARE-Safer than Railroad Securities
THEY ARE-NOt affected by the Stock Market
4hEf AXE Better paying investments than Bonds
IhEf AKE-Less Expensive than Assessment Certificates
THEY ARE-More Liberal than tho lou, ro;
THEY ARE-Defnte Contracts
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

When a young clergyman marr;es,
~ cannot be much of compliment to
MIN to call his wife bis better half
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

The undersigned committee appoin-
Ied at your last meeting to investigate
Che report to this meeting the condi-
ton OF the State and County finances
and especially how they effect the in.
iterests of the farmers as a class. beg
leave to submit the following:
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

allowed 5000 by the last Legislature
ior purchasing and distributing sta
tlonery. Was this necessary And if
necessary, was the compensation fair? {?
2 That the Militia appropriation
was Sl1, ,l87 70. That of this the Sec
0nd Annual Encampment at Camp
DuPont cost $S.787 79-more than ali
the members of the General Assembly:
more than all the State officers, except-
ing the Governor and Judges: and
more more than two-thirds as much as the
Governor and all the Judges for their
entire years service.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

s 1859 IS 1889 is 1879 S 1890
valuation 6OS6, 1856 Is 449 O9s 357 s55 sS7 5,s
Tax. ........ 3l,S9O $3.50 40 S9Il es' SO
Rate on OO'ol<
p.s SlOO % cts IS cts 40 cts IS cts
-e-GS 30 O.JOO Il,Uo6 l2357I 1887
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12
KENT CoUNTY-186a.

The following statements embrace
four decads, beginning with 1859, and
closing with 1889, and covering a space
of thirty years.
l. A short statement, embracing the
principal items of receipts and expend.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

;AVeIsge annual expenses prior to Nav. 1889 as
siESn Eyn Oy one ofthe late Commissioners, $3.50,
May lSt; 1889 to February % 1S9o ss Sjyo, l'I b,
que OF the present Commissioners. 81 n58 M =!
Smyrna times., 1890-03-12

l. The Levy Court Commissioners
received $3.50 per day. The highest
return was nineteen days; they also
.o2S:; 2; The Clerk of the Peace received
8, Total valuation S6,OS6, 1856 Real
ana personal are not separated.
4. County tax AT goo ~,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-18

PEARS Soap is the pureat and best soap
ever made.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-06
PRICE 5 CENTS.
THE SEVEN STAGES.

Only baby.
Kissed and caressed,
Gently held to mothers breast.
Only a child,
Toddling alone,
Frightening now its happy home.
Only boy,
Trudging to school,
Governed now by sterner rule.
Only youth,
Living in dreams.
Full of promise life now seems.
Only man,
Battling with life,
Shared in now by a loving wife.
Only father,
Burdened with care,
Silver threads in dark-brown hair.
Only graybeard,
Toddling again,
Growing old and full of pain.
Only mound,
O'ergrown with grass,
Dreams unrealized-rest at last.
boston Traveller.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-06
WATER POWER AND ELECTRIC
MOTORS.

The association of water-power
with electric motors has developed
source of force that is destined to
be of eminent service in industrial
life. The distribution of this new
energy by means of wires and mo-
tors over areas tributary to our
water courses will add new chap
ter to the story of industrial de-
velopment. 1t has been computed
on the best data obtainable that the
rivers and streams of this country
averaged throughout the year over
200, 100000 horse. power. The cleo
trio utilization of this power opens
field of magnificent opportunities.
The Niagara project is in CORE
spondence with the possibilities of
this new energy in motive powes.
In Rochester, Kearney and Spokane
Falls we have practical examples
of its use. The lower falls of the
Genesee river are utilized by the
Rochester Brush Electric Light
Company, and it has 500 motors
already in active service. 1t fur
nishes power to 1913 tailor shops,
charging at the rate of $l8 per an
mum for one-eighth horsepower.
Fan motors are kept in continual
motion from June LIST to October
| Ia Gov SJE Eor o. noptc N dou N
small manufacturer or storekeeper
has l horsepower at his service,
with no trouble or care of his own,
Its work is steady and continuous,
and its easy command in small
units at a nominal cost will make
it's use general, and, probably, work
some important changes in our M
dustrial facilities. The rate for two
horsepower is sl20 per annum;
$3.50 for five; $500 for six; $500 for
eight; s475 for ten, and 500 for
fifteen. The power applied at these
rates is economical and steady, and
involves no attention beyond the
closing of a switch, and that the
work of second. 1t can be carried
any distance in large or small guam
titles. The Ordnance Department
of the national government is con-
structing a dam at Rock Island, ILL.,,
in which some forty one wheels,
connected with dynomos, will carry
the electric current of motors, dis
tributed in its various departments.
The Des Moines Rapids at Keokuk
will furnish $4,000 horsepower
with the necessary machinery and
appliances. There is practically no
computable limit to the possibilities
of this motive power, and its de-
velopment will in time change
many of the old and cumbersome
conditions of our varied industries
Age of Steel.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-24
Nine Women 70 One Man.

All travellers who go to Paraguay.
speak of the remarkable p~reponderance,
of women over men, writes a CORE
spondent OF the New York Tribune
The estimates differ greatly. some writ
ers making the ratio nine women to one
man, and others four or five to one; but
the country is inhabited mainly by
women, three-fourths OF the men bav-
ing been killed in the recent disastrous
war. Women are the workers in Il Q
ield-the common laborers. Every
peasant woman raises the maize and
mandioca required for feeding her fam
ily. Men cut wood. tend cattle. drive
to market and smoke cigarettes:
but the bulk of the farm work is
done by women. The tea and tc-
bacco Industries are aluot wholly
carried on by the IN Paraguay
is a paradise for lazy men, for they are
lords Of creation there. and women not
only wait upon them submissiyely, bit
labor ardaously under a tropical sun for
their maintenance and support Immi-
grafton is ardently desired in order to
effect . restoration of the normal pro-
portions of tho sexes. A progressive
railway policy, il is assumed in Asun-
cion, will involve the speedy Settlement
of the country, and will open the way
for an era OF prosperity. Certainly un-
happy Paraguay deserves, after all its
m~isfortunes. brighter prospects in the
future. The pathos of its history
touches every sympathetic heart 1t
has been the unhappiest of countries.
Unless ell signs fail, 1t will have peace
and prosperity hereafter.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-24

MASSACRED BY SAvACeS,
The Fate OF Thirty shipwfecked SAILOR
on a New Hebridea Island.

The Fate OF Thirty ~shipwfecked sailors
on a New Hebrides Island.
The news comes from Sydney that O
vessel recently ran aground at Mal!icolo,
the second largest island in the New
Hebrides group, and that thirty men
who struggled ashore from the wreck
were massacred 10 a man by the natives.
This little island, containing about
1000 square miles, was only " or
three years age occupied by a French
garrison, whose purpose was to protect
traders from the hostility Of the natives.
But these savage Papuans cannot forget
their old wrongs, and they have i'm
proved their first opportunity to wreak
vengeance upon helpless sailors who
were cast upon their shores.
Mr. Kerby-Nicholls and other travel
ers among these islands have testified
that the natives of New Hebrides are
friendly and hospitable when well
treated. But those sayages have suffered
outrageously from the crimes OF labor
recruiting ships, BY which, in the days
before the great evil was suppressed
with a stern hand, they were torn
from their homes by hundreds 10
toll as slaves on the plantations
Of other islands or in Queensland.
it is only a few years since the captain
of the schooner Venus landed on the
very island where the recent tragedy
occurred and enticed ninety natives into
the hold of his vessel on the p~retense
that he wished them 70 move an iron
tank. When he got them below the
matches were simply clamped on them,
and the captain sailed away. On another
occasion nine men who had been dragged
away from this island and taken TO a
plantation in another part OF the group
stole q boat and rowed eighty miles on
the open sea back 20 their homes.
Guided apparently by the sun. they
reached their native island in safety.
The world will not Judge these island
ere % harshly. for their wrongs have
been great, and that they are capable of
attaining some measure of civilization
Is shown by the fact that among the
islands of the group, where missionaries
have long been stationed, about 1900
natives have protested Christianity,
while 90, 900 of these former cannibals
have given up the grosser practices Of
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-24

questions we're certainly comprehensive
enough. but the mode Of taking the
census was slow, curnbrous and unsatis-
factory. 1t was two years and SIX
months after the beginning of the work
when the compilation known as the
'Compefidiutn" vas seut 70 congress.
In the introduction 10 this compendium
General Walker, superintendent Of the
census, says: There is no reason, how
ever, why, with such notifications Of
existing laws as would insure that the
material should come originally to the
census Office in proper shape for tabula-
ton, the entire compilation should not
be concluded within a year from the
date OF the first receipt Of returns. 1t
Is not possible for one who has had such,
painful occasion as the present superin-
tendent to observe the workings OF the
census law OF 1850 TO characterize IL
otherwise than clumsy, ~antiquated and
barbarous. The machinery it provides
10 unEt Tor use in the census Of the
United States, In this day OF advanced
statistical science, as the smooth-bore
Misunderstanding Queens arm Of the revo-
luton would be for service against the
repeating rife Of the present tine. II
ought not TO be possible that another
census should be taken under this law;
such d thing ought not TO be seriously
proposed. The country has suffered
more than enough already of discredit
and OF loss on account of the wretched
insuficiency and appropriateness of
the provisions OF this demonstrated
and outgrown statute"
THE ELEVENTH ESsUs.
The act providing for the taking Of
the eleventh census was approved by
President Cleveland March l.; 1889! ~
provides that the census shall be taken
June /, 1890.
For We purpose OF the enumeration
the whole country is divided into IT'S
districts, for each of which the presi-
dent appoints a supervisor. The super
visor will appoint a sufficient number Of
enumerators in their districts who will
be paid Q cents for each name recorded.
and the same for each birth and death
reported, IL cents for each farm, 20 cents
for each industrial establishment and
5 cents for each surviving soldier or
sailor Of the late war. IL is estimated
that the number of enumeraters will be
81 10000. The enumeration shall
begin June / and must be
finished within fifteen days in
the city and within thirty days
in the country precincts. The result Of
the eleventh census will be printed in
thirteen volumes. The frst volume
will give al the data as to population
by states, counties and towns, nativity
color, ETC.; volume ., health, vital and
morality statistics; volume 3, public
schools, il%literacy, psuperism, crime,
churches and religious denominations;
volume 4, trades and professions; vol
ume 5, survivors OF rebellion; volume 6,
wealth, taxation, public Indebtedness,
etc. volume :. indebtedness of corpora
tions and Individuals; volume 6, agri-
cultural statistics; volume Q, manu-
features; volume 10, mines and mining;
volume ii, fish and fisheries; volume 10,
transportation, railways, telegraphs and
telephones; volume -, insurance.
The superintendent Of census is Rob-
ert =. Porter, OF New York. He has an
annual salary Of : $4,000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-24
The ORIGIN OF The BOWIE KNIFE
The First Model of the Famous Weapon
whitfield Out of a Single.

The First Model of the Famous Weapon
whitfield Out of a Single.
John Sewell, the grandfather Of the
writer, says the Galveston News, came
TO Texas with De Wits colony, and
being a gunsmith and blacksmith, set
up a shop at Gonzales and vas operating
there in 1880. At this time James
Bowie was in Texas prospecting for gold
and silver in the mountains west and
northwest Of San Antonio, and often
had desperate encounters with the
hostile Indians who infested those
regions. In one Of these conflicts Bowie
stabbed an Indian, and the knife blade
CHANGING against q rib Bowie's hand
slipped forward, INJECTING q wound
upon himself in tie hand. This acciD
dent, ] have been told, suggested the
idea OF a guard TO keep the hand from
slipping forward upon the blade in max
ing a hard thrust. There were a great
many cy press trees along the margin OF
the Guadalupe river, and the pioneers
in the colonies often established single
camps along the river to work this tim
Der up.
On one occasion, as Bowie and his
men were returning from a trip, they
stopped at one Of these single camps TO
rest and recruit their horses, and while
SO doing, Bowie whitfield from a single
a pattern Of the knife now in question.
1t is amusing at this day and time TO
see some Of the things now called
Bowie knives. On arriving at Con
zales he went TO my grandfather's shor,
the only place then in west Texas
where iron and steel were worked. and
asked him if he could make one like it
out of steel. The blacksmith at once
went to work and Dol produced an ex-
act counterpart Of the pattern, which
was in every way satisfactory n Colonel
Bowie. On presenting the knife my
grandfather asked Bowie II he might
give it q name, as il was a peculiar
knife. Being answered In the afirma-
tive, he said: well, l will call it the
Bowie knife"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-24
Famous Lovers of Cats.

Pussy has been the pet and favorite
OF some Of the greatest personages. Mo-
hamed chose rather TO cut OF the sleeve
Of his robe rather than TO disturb a cat
lying asleep upon it and his followers,
who have no more obiurgatory term
than dog for the christians. admit it
into their mosques. Dante and Petrarch
each had q fondness for them, the great
Richelieu had = pet cat and Cardinal
Wolsey placed his near him on . chair
while exercising his judicial capacicy;
the learned Sir Isaac Newton had q pet
cat and kitten. and the worthy philoso-
pher for their convenience had two
holes cut in the door, the larger n for
the cat. the other for the kitten. Nom
taige, too, WAS not too witty nor too
cynical but the frolics OF : cat would
amuse him. To come o.wn to later
DAYS, Ellen Terry loves 10 disport her
self with her cats and To amuse herself
with their mad capers. La BELLE Stew
art. satirixed by Pope in the line, die
and endow . college or . cat was Q
famous beauty OF the reign OF Charles
IT,, who left annuttiss 10 several OF her
friends ON coalition OF maintaining snd
cAtlng tor her cath
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-24
The xoiceful Waves.


The voiceful waves! I love at night 20
stand
Mad with strange yearnings on the shelly
sand,
To watch the foam flowers fade beneath
my feet,
And guess what words the lisping combs
repeat.
Then, il a ships spars, like . ~full-spread
hand,
Within the round red moon are framed
complete,
l seem 10 fly to tropic islands sweet,
Where dusky creatures list upon the strand
The v~oiceful waves.
At morning, too. when sea gulls, white and
feet,
Swim through the mists with measured
pihion beat,
! almost hear In forests old and grand
The unseen winds / hate this gold cursed
land,
And they ave told me Of some safe re
treat,
The voiceful waves
George Horton.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-24
Sion q

Could safely be offered for any case OF
Liver, Kidney or Urinary trouble which
California Kidney lea will not perma-
nently cure. All druggists sell this well
known remedy at u uniform price Of 81
cents per package. II you are a sufferer
from any of these ailments, give II a till.
A sing e package may give you good health,
a most precious boon. If your druggist is
out apply to CALIFo2NIA KIDNEY TEA Co.,
Fairfield, la.