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The Sunday morning news., 1891-12-27


tells me that you have visited the Ufiizi
and Pitt galleries. May l not go with
you somewhere to morrow?-to La Ger
tose or San Miniato, for instance?
"Thank you," l replied; "we are SO
exhausted with sight seeing, Miss ST.
Clair and 1, that we shall stay in all day
tomorrow, and we.shall be happy to see
you once in the afternoon or e.ening, as
| NAV be most convenient to you"
did not like to be hard and cross to
the dear boy whom my heart yearned
over. but felt as much bound to 'make
an effort" as if / had been veritable
Dombey.
The call lasted afternoon and evening.
it was only the change of a particle. /
could not reproduce the innocent talk,
half gay, half sad, of this long interview,
but before he went away the count drew
me aside: "Will you give this to Miss
St. Clair when / am gone?
unfolded the package: it contained
photograph of himself and small
painting which he had executed Of the
Coliseum on the night of the illumina-
ton. eyes"
"And will you send me her photograph
from Paris? will have it copied by the
best miniature painter in Rome and put
in a locket set with diamonds" said the
boy enthusiastically.
81 cannot promise"
"Do you think l could be of any use
to her father? Not to win his favor, you
understand, but should be so happy to
do anything to serve her or her friends.
Can't you tell me now?"
ssNo. Mr.. St. Clair does not need as
sistance in any way that know"
In spite of the boys earnestness, the
idea of his offering patronage to the ma
ture and independent American struck
me as irresistibly ludicrous.
''But you will tell him all about me-"
eyes"
81 shall learn to speak English-I have
begun already--and in a year shall be
in America. \ VIII you write your adj
dress for me on this card"
/ did so.
eff you ever come to Spain, remem-
ber that my house and all that is in it
are yours"
81 shall never go to Spain"
perhaps you will one day see Miss
st. Clair" looking up in my face with
bright smile of inextinguishable hope.
''Good-by for a year.
A few more days in Florence, week
in Venice, day or two in Milan, and we
babe adieu to Italy. Land of beauty
and mystery! when I recall thy many
forms of loveliness, the glorious shapes
of gods and heroes, serene and passion
less in their white majesty of marble,
the blessed sweetness of saints and Ma
donnas shining down into my soul,
seem to have been once in heaven and
afterward shut out.
We were once more at home. Almost
the first news that came to us from
abroad was of the terrible war between
France and Germany. During the pro-
tracted siege Of Paris we were full Of
anxieties, but at its close we received
long letters from Nine. LIE Fort, giving
many details of the sufferings and pri-
The Sunday morning news., 1891-12-27


At Mime. lie rIsts next reception
there was a sudden influx of new guests
"a young Belgian baron of old historic
name, slim and stiff as poker; brisk
French viscount, who told me that he
had been connected with the embassy at
Washington, and had quite fallen in love
with our institutions; an Italian chevalier,
Russian prince.
Ugliness has,its compensations,t thought
l. Nobody makes such a fuss over a
pretty girl at home (they are not SO un-
common), and I will never bring one to
Paris again. Thank heaven! we are 60
ing to Italy soon.
The piercing Tramontane came down
upon us in the bay of Naples with SO
fierce blast that we doubted if we were
not in Iceland, and were glad to make
our escape to Rome, where we found an
asylum in the Hotel de Minerve, not far
from the Pantheon. Many of the old
palaces and converts Of Italy have been
transformed into hotels. This was the
ancient palace of the princes of Cont. l
was so captivated by the superb dining
room that the quality of the dinners
made but q faint impression. What!eat
in the presence of all those marble god
desses, looking down upon us, serene and
cold. as if from their thrones on the starry
olympus! Or if 1 turned my eyes reso-
lutely away from Juno, Ceres and Mi
nerva, they were sure to be shared by the
dancing girls of Pompeii stepping out
from the frescoed walls or inextricably
entangled in the lovely garlands of fruit
and flowers that wound their mazy way
along the borders.
One evening, while we were waiting
for one of the endless courses of a table
d'hote dinner, my wandering eyes were
caught by the most perfect human head
l had ever seen. 1t seemed that of the
youthful Lord Byron, SO well known in
busts and engravings-the small head
with high forehead and clustering dark
brown curls, the perfectly nodded chin,
the full, ripe beauty of the lips. The
eyes were a deep blue, but l thought
them black at first, they were so darkly
shaded by the thick black lashes. am
convinced that Byron must have had
Just such eyes, for some of his biographers
describe them as black and others as blue.
When he rose from the table | saw
slight, well knit figure of exquisite pro
portions, like the Greek god of love.
(Not Cupid with his vulgar arrows, but
the true heavenly Eros. | saw him
once in the museum at Naples and
again in the Vatican. Is it Love, or
Death, or Immortality? / queried,
and then I knew it was the three in
one.) I soon learned that the youth
whose ideal beauty had impressed me SO
strongly was the Count Francisco de AL
vala, of Toledo, in Spain. fancy that
his eyes We're as easily attracted to beauty
as mine; for the next day he was my Wis
avis at table; not for the sake of look
ing at me, was well aware, but on ac-
count of my beautiful neighbor. How
ever, he sought my acquaintance with
the grave courtesy becoming a grandee
of Spain, and naturally gained that of
Miss st. Clair also.
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18
The Legislature.

The time of the Legislature seems to
be engaged mostly with routine work
or the passage of corporation or other
unimportant bills.
There are some very important bills
in the committee rooms, to be acted on
probably this week. There is the
Equalization of Taxation bill, tie Mill
tary bills, the Kent County Tax Col
lection bill and the Secret Ballot bills.
The Constitutional Convention bill,
the Five Commissioners bill and the
Sussex Hundred Division bills are
locked until Senator Williams return,
which is not likely to be this month.
J. Alexander Fulton. the farmer law
yer, who handles the legislative busi-
ness, of the grangers, has prepared a
bill, which, if passed and carried out,
will reYOlutioniZe ad'mending in Del
aware. The roads are to be divided
into sections not exceeding three miles,
the repairing let out to the lowest bid
der and the repaired place packed, lev
eled, graded, scraped and rolled.
Representative Ridgely gave notice
of bill which will require travelling
tooth pullers to pay fee of $25 and
pass an examination before plying their
vocation in Delaware.
Under the title of an act to prevent
foreign swindling co operations and
other kindred institutions from doing
business in Delaware, Representative
Ridgely will put in bill to prohibit
sO-called beneficial associations which
promise to return two or three dollars
for every dollar paid in by the credu-
| lOus.
The militia bill, prepared by the ma
tional guard board of officers, has been
completed and will be advocated this
evening. They ask for an annual ap
preparation of $l5 900.
The Senate failed to get r quorum
Monday, only four members putting in
an appearance.
1t is the sentiment generally tha
Representative Ridgely has struck the
right chord in his county tax collection
bill. Leading Democrats are in ear
nest, apparently, for it. II is estima
ted that it will save the county at leas
$4,000 a year. There is talk also O
amending it so as to knock the delin
quent list altogether and charge a man.
poll tax up against him, so that if he
neglects to pay, say for five or ten year
he will be compelled to pay up all bacl
taxes before being allowed to vote.
The Equalization of taxation bill viii
be up for discussion next week. There
danger chat this document will b,
swamped by the load of amendment
already proposed to it.
The peach yellOws bill prepared a
the instance of the leading peach grow
ers of the State, provides for two in
spectiOns of orchards between Apri
and September, and the immediate ex
tirpatiOn and destruction of every ire
condemned by the inspectors, three fo
each of the Hundreds" in the Stat
shall be made UP of members of differ
ent politics.
A bill providing for free textbook
in the public schools was also intro
duced.
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18

DEATH has been busy the past week
with the heroes of the late war, Ad-
miral Porter and General Sherman
having both died since our last issue.
Admiral Porter figured prominently in
our naval affairs, in fact in all the wars
of the country the name of Porter has
occupied conspicuous place in the
naval service.
In the death of OfGeneral Sherman the
nation loses a name but little less lus-
trous than that of Grant, and the last
of the great leader of armies that
fought in defence of the union. The
following tribute by Talmage is a
striking picture of a unique character
The century had no grander soul to
surrender into the eternities than the
one just passed away from us. Frank,
honest, gallant, brilliant, patriotic, Will
liam T. Sherman. I thank God that
l even knew that l felt the hearty
grasp of his right hand and had the
friendship Of his great, big heart.
Simple as a child, brave as a lion,
sympathetic as a woman, firm as O
rock, wrathful as a tempest when
aroused against a great wrong, lovely
as June morning among his friends.
General William T. Sherman died at
his residence in New York on Satur-
day at the age of II years. The fun
eral service will take place at the
house tomorrow and the remains will
be taken to St. Louis for interment.
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18
Chaswold.

The $50 expires ran into a man walk
ing the track about three hundred
yards from Cheswold last Friday morn
ing killing him instantly. The train
stopped as soon as possible backed to
the unfortunate man the trainman put
him in baggage car and went on. The
man slept in T, II. Georges stable at
Cheswold that night and begged his
breakfast before starting off to New
York as he said, from Crisfleld, where
he had been on an oyster boat. His
appearance was that of sailor; said
he was German by birth, aud had
lived in this country five years only.
Those who talked with him at Ches-
void did not discover any defect in his
hearing and it is mystery why he
should let the train run up on him.
After the ooFonQr's inquest at Clayton
the remains were inferred into the Odd
Fellows cemetery, Smyrna.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Miss Allepa Bishop, daughter
Of John H. Bishop to Walter B. Knots
on Wednesday evening February 25th
at the residence Of her father near
Cheswold,
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18
For an Improved Ballot.

We are indebted to John w. Ora.
ham. Jr., for a copy of the Australian
Ballot bill" now before the Legislature
It is virtually the same bill which his
brother the late Thos l.. Graham, pre-
pared and whicl was presented by rep
resentative David w. Clark, for adop.
ton at the last session Of the I.eqisla.
ture. The present Mr.. Graham has
made some changes and projected the
bill in several particulars.
There are two bills for ballot reform
now before the Legislature. The other
Is that for the adoption Of the Myer's
machine which dispenses with tickets al,
together. The chief thing 10 the wav of
the Myers machine Is that the consti.
tuition prescribes that the ehoiee for
officers shall be by casting a ballot
while in this machine it Is pushing .
button, no paper being used, tho resuIi
however, being the same.
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18
Smyrna, a Third of a Century AGO


The copy of the SMYRNA TIMES
which Mrs. Douglass handed US two
weeks ago is antedated by six years by
one produced by John B. Cooper bear
ing date of February 18th 1874
years ago. 1t, too, has its points of
historic interest in its reach back a
third of a century. Smyrna had
reached, and was enjoying it's high
grade distinction as the leading com.
mercial town below Wilmington. The
railroad had been extended to Kent
County the year before, and its ter
minus at this time was at Seaford-one
train up in the morning and the other
down at night. The schedule time
was slow, 40 minutes being allowed for
the time between Smyrna and Dover.
and from Smyrna to Philadelphia three
hours and twenty-five minutes, The
change effected in this and other com
munities was gradually felt from this
Gate on.
This issue of the TIMES has six COM
municated articles, one a poem, the
second a novelette, entitled, MARRY
a Blue Stocking" written by Miss
Martha Haines Butt, of Virginia, a
brilliant young literary lady who cap
tivated nearly all the men here she came
in contact with; the third was a severe
attack by Genuine Democracy" on
property as a qualification for voting at
our town elections, non-property hold
ers having hitherto been denied this
privilege; the fourth, an account of the
senatorial supper given by Senators
Bayard and Bates, Geo. W. Cummins,
as Speaker Of the House proposing the
health of Hon. Jas. A. Bayard. who
made the speech of the evening; the
fifth, one of "Spy's Caustic take offs of
the feminine follies of the day--hOOps
and crinoline-and sixth defense by
'Theophilus" with the usual query of
the time, "who is Spy ?"
The above was q question that both
cred and tantalized the young and the
sensitive ladies for weeks and months,
80 adroit was the matter managed be-
tween the writer and the printers.
There was literary merit in the arti'
cles, and the piquancy and at tImes
caustic treatment of these extremes of
fashion, though often more than half
complimentary, irritated some while
others were "most dying" just to know
who the author was, Every effort was
baffied, and in a state Of desperation
they had about given up ever finding
out the name of the writer, when Zao
Roberts, himself a contributor who
wrote poetry that blistsFed, got on a
feint trail that eventually denned the
sly fox.
The writer was John r. Cooper. then
teaching school at No. 4 on the State
Road, afterward coming 10 this Town
where he taught as the princinal m tbe
lower district three years before ha
went into the mercantile business
A newspaper was very different In
that day from what It IS now Tban y
was a vehiele for literary and aaa,;e 49, =
thought and diseussions--edltoria anJ
: contributed-and the rroductions -
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18

HOWEVER Indifferent the people OF
Dover were before, or if there was a
a strong leaning as is believed in favor
of a public execution ofthe criminals on
Friday because of that certain stir and
movement that would be given to
things in general, they ought to be
after what was seen and heard on that
day, in favor of private execu-
tions hereafter. A citizen of that town
drea@ing the degrading effect it would
have on those low in intelligence and
morals offered to board in the place oi
execution for $26, but FIVE of the mem
bers of the Levy Court voted against
it and another, it is stated, offered to
do it for nothing, but the undertow oi
morbid curiosity could not be stemmed
1t is said by those familiar with Dover
that they never saw so many drunken
people and such an exhibition of bru.
tai instincts in the town as on thai
day,
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18

CLEvELAND's decided declaration
against unlimited silver coinage last
week was bomb in the Democratic
camp, he being generally settled upon
as the next standard bearer for the
Presidency and the mass of the party
being in favor of the especial feature
he opposes. 1t shows that Mr.. Cleve-
land is a man of convictions, and that
he has the courage to express them.
There is no quality of craftsmanship
more attractive than the courage
which disdains to consider expediency
when matters of principle are at stake.
When this silver question shall have
been adequately discussed, or when
the experiment now in progress shall
have been fully tried, the mass of the
people will come around to the Cleve-
land idea that the legislation in favor
of unlimited free coinage is danger
Gus and reckless experiment"
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18

The figures and statements of our
contributor are very cleverly put in a
line of thought that would favor free
silver coinage. There is another side
to the question however, as stated by a
tinancier, as follows:
The one argument relied upon to de-
ceive the unthiuking is the constantly
reiterated assertion that the peoDie
need more currency with which to
transact their business. There was
no apparent lack of currency in 1870.
Every department of business was
nourishing at that time But treasury
statistics show that the amount Of
money In actual circulation among the
people in 1870 was 1887 per capi.a.
Now we have great outcry from the
mine owners that there is not sufficient
currency. But the actual per capita
circulation has increased to over S24
per capita.
Since 1870 there has been a net in
crease of $75O,OOO, 900 in the amount of
money in actual circulation among the
people-a per capita increase of So.
In the last ten years the aggregate in
crease has been $476, 6,O39,O ,O24. The
average monthly increase for the same
period was 1896, ,99l, and the per can.
ita increase $3.50. In other words
there Is $3.50 more in circulation now
Tor every man, woman and child in the
United States than there was ten wears
ago. But the increase is going on at a
much more rapid rate at the Dresent
time than ever before.
But now, after an unprecedented in
crease IN the amount of money in cir
cnlatlon, which is much larger now
than ever before in the history of the
nation, and increasing at the average
rate OF over 100000 a month. the
cry goes up that panacea for all the
evils OF short crops or overproduction
and so on, is to increase the currency
% 70 an unlimited amount by paying the
LOT their silver, and to exchange our
gold Ior the silver now piled up in
The fact that France has more money
per capita, than the United States IS
Kept constantly to the front by the
mine owners. According to statistics
furnished by director of the mint
Leech, the amount of money in circulo-
GlOh III France Is grossly exaggerated.
Excluding the metallic reserves held
for the redemption of Outstanding
notes, the per capita circulation i'm
France is $44.55. But a considerable
part of that money is not in circnIo-
ton. Moreover, the people of France
do not use checks and other suhs,i
tntes Tor money in the same way a.
the people of the United States om5
the workman does not deposit hi! saw
ings in the bank, as in this country
mat makes a vast difference. In FnS.
land, excluding the metallic reserves
Ior the redemption of notes. the per
capita Circulation is $500; in Ger.
maIny'$lS.O2; wilhelm the United States
under the same method the per canita
circulation is $24.4S. ''@
Inere is no lack of currency in the
United States, If prosperity Is to he
brought about by an increase in the
currency, then the country should he
~ per cent. more prosperous now than
twenty years ago, because of the ner
capita increase in circulation.
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18

young writers and others were read
and discussed as to their merits, logic
sc. Now, the mass of people take
time only to hurry over the squibbs
and items of personal mention, and
much that would have been discarded
then as in bad taste, is the chief re-
quisite with large class to-day.
In the items of news is half column
in regard to public meeting to secure
stock for the Maryland and Delaware
now the Delaware and Chesapeake
railroad-Wm. Denney chairman, H.
G. Douglass, secretary, $4,000 being sub
scribed. A local notes a "heavy run
in job work." with the statement that
''in the next ten days there will be
twenty public sales in Smyrna and vi
cinity. This about double the number
in this year of grace, 1891, nOtwith-
standing the cry that farming does not
pay. The cry then was tight times" "
Notice is also given in this paper of
the circulation of petition to ask the
Legislature for a Charter for a Gas
Company"
The ladies of the Presbyterian
Church gave notice of festival to be
held in the Delaware House, vacated
by T. L. CahOon.
Wheat was, red, S14O; white, $3.50
corn, 60 cts, butter 81, eggs 20, aud
fowls, 800 per dozen. In the adver-
tisements James Taylor gives notice
that he had associated with him his son,
CIV. Taylor in his iron foundry and ag.
ricultural machine works; D. T. Rick.
ards and Thomas Rash, auctiOneers
VIM. G. Spruance at New Castle and
Alex. G. Cummins, Philadelphia, cards
as Attorney at Law: DR.. Edward d
Daley, removal to Main Street, two
doors above the four corners; Eber
Lurty, line of wagons and hacks be
tween Smyrna and railroad depot Ca
hOOn & Carrow, carriage builders Jos
Q. Griffith, real estate agent; Pratt &
Davis, plOws and castings; VIM, H
Start, the great pain exterminatOr
Ruben T. Stewart, painting and pape
hanging, &c.
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18
AdVertisAmants

?. L. COOPER, JR., supt. of Public
schools, gives notice of examination
for third grade certificates.
Shirt. "'''u A1lneTy
-, E. G. Crow & Co., 124 Dock street
Philadelphia, Produce Commission
~ ooleren9snts-specialities: berries, peach
James Williams, sale of farm stook
~ A, lee Cummips, sale of personal
o. a, q, y W. P. Cummins, Registers
goods. "o'' uress
hay. ''' anu ''mothy
a. n. McGaw, for white girl
McGaw & Bro, tomato confracts oDd
fertilizers. '' 'OO"'r"o's ahd
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18
A1nt- nf Coin III Fnrnne 926l7 am n0n


Or about the relative proportion of
gold and silver as now in the United
States. OF the whole amount of Silver
coin in EurOpe.S1 100, ,OOO, 900 is in full
legal tender. same as geld, leaving
$3.50, 100000 as limited tender only,
England being the only nation in
which no part of the silver coin in fully
legal tender.
England and Germany il will be noe
ticed have the smallest approximate
amount of silver, while France, the
richest Of them all; has more coin than
both England and Germany, and near
ly one half the silver coin OF Europe.
AS compared with the United States.
France with only two thirds the popu-
latiOn, has $40O, 100000 more coin. or
about $3.50 to one of population. Had
the United States the same relative
amount OF coin per capita, our gold and
silver would aggregate 81, $4,000, ,OOO
or about double the present amount.
The 25 nations of the world embra-
| ced in the report of Director LeeCh
shows the aggregate amount of gold
coin to be 1927, ,O18,OOO and the ag-
! gregate ofsilver coin to be $3,82O.517,-
900, or nearly 100000, 900 more silver
than gold circulating as money
throughout the world. OF those 2f
nations, four - India, China, the
Straits and Central America have sill
yer coin only, but no nation uses gold
coin exclusively, Cuba and Hayti com
ing nearest, they having 500, ,O0O,O o,
gold to $2,000,OOO of silver. India ha.
the largest amount ofslver coin-$9OO
100000 while China and France have
the next greatest being cash 100000,
600. Whatever obligations may ht
urged against the coinage of silver, il
IS evident that "silver, not being uni
versally recognized money" is not ont
OF them. Neither can it Le said tha
gold has an older aud therefore a su
perlor claim to recognition. As faI
back as the time when Abraham
bought of the sons of Heth a field anC
case in which to bury his dead Sarah
it is recorded that the purchase money
vas paid in silver, and on and VI
through the ages of the world-in al
times and in all countries-silver hal
ever had recognized value as money
FARMER.
Smyrna times., 1891-02-18

THERE is an evident wish on the
part of the leaders in Congress to
avoid an extra session. Republican
Senators and Representatives who
were spoken to on the subject express
confidence that all of the general ap-
preparation bills will be passed during
the fourteen working days of the pres
ent session still remaining. A number
of measures now on the senatorial eau
Gus programme will probably have to
be abandoned, as it is almost impOssi-
BILE for them to receive consideration.