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Smyrna times., 1895-06-05
I'm, B, SHARP
& CO.,
Fourth and Market StS.,
WILMINGTON, DEL.

JaCOnatS-One OF the
prettiest cOttOns for Sum-
mer dresses brought out
this season. At the greatly
reduced prices we are sell
ing these goods we have
had an immense sale. Sc
per yard here for regular
l23c goods. There's about
sixty styles in fine effects.
Percales in the best pat
terms and cOlorings Of the
season. Seventy-tive styles
in the best goods we ever
offered for the money
l2!c per yard.
Scotch Ginghams-An-
derson's best goods, regu-
lar % and 4Oc qualities,
early selection secures the
best.
Our White Goods Depart
ment has been enlarged by
many desirable things at bar
gain prices. English stripes
Just landed. made to sell for
35c-we took all there was
backward season, wet and
cold, gives them to you for
l5c per yard and the 25c
ones for l2ic per yard.
LinOn de Dacca, the best
finished sheer white lawn
in the world. We've sold
these goods for years and
can recommend them as be-
ing the best-l23c to SOC.
A very choice lot of La
dies Silk Plated Stockings
black with red, laven-
der and yellow tips-all
black, navy: dark brown,
ecru and slate. These ele-
giant goods we have always
before retailed at 75c per
We shall offer this lot fol
38c per pair, or 3 pair fol
81.
Our full lines of Summer
Underwear for children
ladies and getlemen are
now ready at much reduced
prices.
Children's India Gauze
sizes Is to 81, long or shOr
|, sleeves, l7c from 35c.
Children's ribbed, Low
neck and no sleeves-2,
cents.
Ladies' Swiss Ribbe,
, Vests, low neck and n
sleeves-124c each.
Ladies' Swiss and Riche
lieu Ribbed Vests in cOttO
or Isle thread-25c each
pure white or ecru.
Ladies' Gauze Vests, wit
high neck, long or ShOl
sleeves, regular 373c good
and splendid quality.
slight imperfectiOn reduce
the price to 25c.
Ladies Cream Whit
Silk Swiss Ribbed Vest, th
finest for the price we eve
Offered-50c.
Mems Gauze Shirts, Ion
or short sleeves, fine grad
-25c.
Mems Summer Shirts
brown mixed, long or shO
sleeves, with drawers
match, one of the most d.
sirable things in .underwei
for men-50c for the sui
Mems Jean Drawers
: pantaloon cut-the best y(
ever bought for the none
SOC.
al of o1Yr hlaplx Shaw
Smyrna times., 1895-06-05

1t is said that woman Of means
smyrna, has so cunning fashioD
canning whole tomatoes raw 70
Philadelphia concern has already
tracted with her for her whole o'
of this season, which will be fro9
600 to 10000 quart cans, woFsl
$500 to $1200.-DoUer index.
Smyrna times., 1895-06-05

BY oarelessneas in leaving a lot of
paint material around wagon by a
lormer tent, Mr.. James Morrow lost
six valuable COWS on his farm near
NewarF y 'el., 0y 90 rubbish
upon v Nthere N.hava
haan w
Smyrna times., 1895-06-05
Delaware College.
fkOGRAMAE OF THE ANNUAL COM.
MENCEMENT EXERCISES.

:" -"ENCLnENI E4ERCISES.
The commencement exercises of Del
aware College begin June 10th. The
program is
Sunday, June l6, 8 p. m.-Baccalau-
reate sermon, by Rev. George NJ.
Bond, Dover, Del.
Monday, June Il, p. m.-Class day
exercises.
Tuesday, June IS, II a. m.-Annual
meeting Of Board OF Trustees: SD. m..
anniversary exercises of Athenaan Lit.
erary Society
Wednesday, June 10, 1890 a. IN.
commencement exercises; ppm, Inject
ing OF Alumni; 4 p. M, exhibition drill:
8 P. M, anniversary exercises of Delta
Phi Literary Society.
The late Secretary of State, saws a
New York Press writer, was one of the
typical Western public men who care
nothing for appearances, or if they do.
assume an utter indifference to matters
OF dress and address. Mr.. Gresham
was too poor to make much of a show
IN Washington. His entire estate Is
worth less than $4,000. He lived uD
TO his income, and never could keep a
dollar in his pocket. He gave to every
one that asked and often his last cent
without considering the time and place
In this way he often embarrassed him
self. He liked to sit in his office coat
less and cOllarless, and Mrs. Gresham
was obliged to keep vigilant watch on
him to prevent him from slipping into
the par!or improperly dressed. 1t was
a part of her duty to see that he made
himself presentable on public occasions
to tie his cravat, button his cuffs, etc.
He was one of the best story.tellers in
Washington, and it is said that Mr..
Cleveland's regard for him was due to
his capabilities as an entertainer of the
President.
Smyrna times., 1895-06-05

Lewes is to have > es
engine, engine house AZ
legislature aHth
rAissioners tr
thase impEo
Smyrna times., 1895-06-05

The following is an extract from q
private letter to the editor from Mr..
Nicholas Watkins, the first foreman of
the TIMES. who resided in Smyrna six
or eight years just before the war, and
who has resided in Washington most
of the time since he left Smyrna, and
accumulated property there. He made
numerous warm friends here whom he
has not forgotten, and to whom in this
and other letters he has sent his re-
membranes. He says:
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 26, 1895.
447 II. Street, N. w.
Smyrna times., 1895-06-05
Tor Infants and ChlIdren.

CastOria Is 80 well adapted TO children that
trecommend II as superior to any prescription
known 20 me-" II. A. ARcHEH, N. D.,
III So. oxford st., brooklyn, N. Y.
Smyrna times., 1895-06-05

Some in embroidered from
the French nunniers and
some all plain. Only about
thirty in the lot,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
A Kansas Town Fades Away.

j. NJ. Davis, member of the Kansas
State Legislature from Klowa County,
gives II doleful account of his Sec
ton of Kansas, and especially of his
own town. Five years ago Green's
burg had $500 inhabitants; now
there are 1913. There is II bonded
debt on the municipality of $45, 900,
and practically no valuation to pay it
with. These bonds were issued
for water works, lighting and other
improvements demanded by the pro-
gressive people who were trying to
make city. The few people now there
decline to pay their taxes, and lots
and buildings are being sold by the
County Treasurer, or rather that Off
cial tries to sell them. Farmers come
into town and buy tax certificates for
comparatively nothing. These they
desire for the buildings, which they
remove, caring nothing for the lots.
Five years ago n Touring mill was
erected Mt cost of 81, 900, the city
giving $3, 600 in cash. Recently this
building was purchased for "A few dol
lars and removed to Colorado. Small
as Greensburg now is its population
may soon be indicated by two figures
and then possibly by one. In the
meantime the owners of $45, 600
worth of bonds will be looking for
some one to pay interest and princi-
pal when due. Chicago Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
Can't Telephone Through this Tunnel.

North Adams, Mass, continued to
be puzzled over queer crank ism OF
electricity in its vicinity. Although
when the great four and n hal mile
HoOSnc Tunnel was built on ores,
magnetic or otherwise, were encoumt-
tered, there was general expectation
that rich ore pockets would be found.
For an unexplained reason, not
an electrician has been discovered
who can send telegraph message
on wire running from portal to por-
tai of that tunnel, be such wire run
inside of an ocean cable through the
huge cavern or out of it. Such ines
sages have to be sent on wires strung
on poles over the top of the mountain
fully nine miles, and TINT is the way
ln-going and out-coming passenger
and freight trains IRE heralded to the
Keepers of the two tunnel approaches.
In order to maintain this overland
line, n swath OF woOdawn has to be
kept clear of trees and bushes directly
up the steep mountain side, and it re-
minds one Of modern dude with Il
welI-deiined central hair parting from
the forehead to the crown. Paper
Trade journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
SELECT SETTINGS.

There are ten suicides a day in
Paris.
Austria will try the experiment of
taxing cats.
The great temple of the sun at
Cuzco, in Peru, was attended by 1000
priests.
A man in Nevada, Mo. has been
cured of Indigestion by receiving q
stroke of lightning
A suit has been brought in Indiana
against physician for refusing to at
tend case of smallpox.
Lieutenant House, OF the Fourteenth
Regiment, National Guard, State Of
Ohio, is six feet eight in height.
Southwest City, Mo-, claims the
champion fat baby Of the country
eight months, sixty.six pounds.
Town originally signifed farm or
farm house. 1t is used in Wyclitfe in
this sense, "and they went their ways,
one to his town, another to his mer-
chandise. "
A young woman teacher at Mount
Sterling, Ky, has been notified by the
Board of Education that she has been
dismissed, as the Board meant to
"higher mail teacher"
Joseph Dudley, of Waterford, Me-,
seventy years ago built big clock
over the entrance of his house. Neither
rain nor snow has affected 1t and it
still keeps excellent time.
Familiarity breeds contempt" is q
proverb found i'll one form or another
in every European or Asiatic language
having u literature. Its earliest form
is believed to be the Sanskrit.
General de ST. Mars, of the French
Twelfth Army Corps, suggests that
competent men be trained and as
signed to the different battalions to
lead in singing National airs as the
soldiers march.
While cutting a ditch on the farm
of Charles +. Weems, three miles
south of Vincennes, Ind. the remains
of mastodon were found five feet be.
low the surface. Among the many
bones secured IS portion of one tusk,
four feet in length, and one-half OF
the lower jaw bone.
If, when in Paris, valet de place
is anxious to have you visit one of the
minor theatres, and you go with him
and pay the admission for both, it is
well to know that afterward tho valet
not only receives back the money you
gave for his ticket, but also per.
centage upon every dollar you spend
in the house.
Not few people in Maine make at
least an honest living by gold mining.
Gold is found in many parts of the
State, but in small quantities or under
such circumstances rs make systematic
mining Improbable. A "miner" lv-
ing near Byron brought into Lewiston
few days ago nugget of gold weigh.
ing over All ounce. He makes two or
three dollars day gold mining.
At Nogales, Arizona, an enterpris.
ing New Highlander has q general
store, the merchandise department of
which is in the United States, while
his cigar stand is on the outside, Just
across the Mexican boundary line. A
customer can buy his cigars in the
United States, and reach over into
Mexico, where the cigar case stands,
and select his weed. Thus are the
duties evaded.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
YIN PATTY.

The breeze Is abroad with the daisies,
Like playmate that never tires,
And they nutter in pale pulsatIons,
They are stirred as by dim desires.
Do they dream of the poor wan children
In the slums of the sitting towns,
Who would love so to romp through their
blossoms
And to wreathe them in holiday crowns?
Edgar Fawcett, in Youths Companion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
NEWSY ClEANINCS.
Japan has ordered American flour.
The States contain 800, 900 Swedes.

Japan has ordered American -four.
The States contain 800, 900 Swedes.
Kentucky is first in tobacco output.
Tahiti, in the South Seas, is now lighted
BY electric lamps.
There is an increase Of brigandage in Sic
lily and Sardinia, OWNS to the poverty ofthe
people.
The subscription for William Grace, the
great cricketer OF England, now reaches
$l25,OOO.
Boil worms are ravaging Southern cotton
fields. Cotton has advanced recently more
than cent pound.
1t has been decided to lay telegraphi,
cable 400 miles upthe bed OF the Am ZION as
cheaper to build and maintain than Il shore
line.
The National Hay Fever Association,
which boasts membership of nearly 10. 00),
held convention recently at Bay View
Mich.
William Ludlam White, of jamaica, n. Y,
who will be fifteen years old in October Is
six feet three inches tall and weighs 2Gl
pounds.
President Diaz, of Mexico, proposes to oc-
cupy luratan with astrong force of troops,
and put down the predatory Indians there
with II strong hand.
A Lola ote,mshi, ,o, hos, ,.,,
Chicago which has room in its hold for 6OOJ
tons OF freight, thus approaching the capac-
ity OF many of the big ocean liners.
NH "L bn," ~ ", ooneSo glrls ut Hillsdaie,
snr,n rt w ~Ven etrliins money curing the
ng As waters in n snmmer hntaI ~ ~ 1 ittIa
Traverse RAY '0''' TT i''''0
Thoro +, ,,roo, ,,,,,.. mt,
IN the irtorin. ' s'" LILY OF an KINDS OF ioot
, ~ ,dr ,'e th y. uualemala. People are
Poat Is " Iuo uo,st 10 avola starvation.
I'm on an, diseased cattle sells at
sc'ehty-hVe cents pound.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
TEN efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 80
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
san FRANCISCO, on.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. NEW YORK, M
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

While statuary finds a compliment
tary environment in parks, it is mis-
take to consider these breathing spots
Of great cities rs the proper place for
the erection of monumental works.
There Is an artistic incongruity in the
scheme and it is time something was
done to check the absurdity which
has crowded Central Park with busts
and statues of all sorts and descrip
tons. The protest recently uttered by
Mr.. Frederick Law Olmstead should
be needed. In the case of the Mary
land soldiers monument in Prospect
Park there is a historical point in
volved, which makes the site proper
one, but the same justification does
not apply to them any pieces of sculpt-
urud art which meet one at every step
in Central Park. Parks should be
bits of nature rural spots from which
convention and artiticiality should be
banished. KNICKERBoCKER.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

Don't Tobacco Spit or SMOKE Your Life
Away
Is the truthful, startling title OF book
about No To-Bac, the harmless, guaranteed
tobacco habit cure that braces NJ nicotini7ed
nerves, eliminates the nicotine poison, makes
weak men gain strength vigor aud man
mood You run no physical or financial
risk, as No-To-Bac Is sold by druggists
everywhere, under a guarantees to cure or
money refunded, Book free. Adj Sterling
Remedy Co., New York or Chicago.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

In the coming campaign in this
state one question will be voted on
which is entirely outside the domain
of politics. 1t is question of bust
ness-namely, the improvement of the
canals-and in its decisions are in.
volvcd to very great extent the prog
ress and commercial supremacy of the
metropolis. In this whirling period,
when men, as rule, pay very little
attention to anything that does not
Immediately concern them, there are
tens of thousands of New Workers who
have only a vague idea OF canal i'm
provement, or even of the part the
canals play in the world of business.
The Erie, the Champlain and the Os-
wego are the three great canals of the
state. The proposition is to deepen
them 80 that they can carry a larger
volume OF commerce than they are at
present able to accommodate. Since
1862 no improvement of any impor-
lance has been made in the canals.
Some of the locks of the Erie were
then increased to twice their original
length, but the other portions of it
and the other waterways have been
permitted to fill up with all manner of
accommodations, so that the Erie and
the Oswego are now not more than six
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

The Bohemian Club of Pittsburg
wants to crecta monument to Stephen
Il. Foster, who composed the popular
old songs, ooh, Susannah," cold
Folks at Home" and cold Kentucky
Home"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
NEW YORK LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. |

II was only II few years ago that old
Father Knickerbocke nwoke to the
fact that in the matter of Transports
ti0n his town was as far behind other
cities rs one of his 5000 street-car
horses would be in trial with Flu.
turity winner, Then came the cable
companies, with n system successfully
used III San Francisco for years. The
Improvement was very marked, OF
course, but the car horses remained on
the croSs-town and side lines to excite
ridicule from residents OF mushroom
Western towns, where the opera
houses and electric lines are built
while the people live in tents. Now an
official announcement from the Met
ropolitan Traction Company may
rightly cause the old settler to rub his
eyes in wonder. The simple state
ment from John ID. Crimmins, author.
lied to speak for his company, is that
within five years ull of the roads of
the oompany's system will be oper-
ated by electricity. More than this,
the people Of New York will be fur
nished with means of pleasure from
sources which they have hitherto re-
garded as the equipment of transport
tation. The Traction Company is
planning not only revolution in
transportation, but a vast scheme of
popular amusement. When it is all
finished the poor as well US the rich
will enjoy life on unique lines.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

The monument unveiled in Pros
pect Park commentaries q heroic
incident in the Revolutionary strug-
gle. 1t is a simple shaft surmounted
by bronze cannon-bal The pedes-
tai, which has the proper relation of
size, is ornamented with patriotic
texts. The very simplicity of the
monument emphasizes its purpose and
its Significance. AS history records
SO does art imortalize the actions OF
brave men pro patria. A small band
of Maryland soldiers sacrificed their
lives that their brothers-in-arms might
be saved for the country's good. 1t
was simple deed and yet one of high
heroism. The names of the gallant
three hundred are inscribed on the
marble, but the lesson the white shaft
teaches Is conveyed in Washington
exclamation: "The tribute which con-
socrates the memorial"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
THE HORSE THIEF

[ was a cold, dark
winter night. The
wind swept over
the broad valley
and through the
great orchard be-
side the barn, rat
ting the dry, leaf
less limbs; it
moaned through
the tall pines that
protected the old
brick farm house,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14

vehicle which had crashed forward
over them, and was fast disappearing
into the thick laurels which lined the
road at the entrance to the mountain.
In moment the pursuers Olsen
numbered their own exhausted ami
mas, one wounded in the shoulder,
made them fast to the fence and hur-
ried to where the stolen horses lay
snorting and struggling, their hind
legs pinned fast in the debris of the
old buggy.
"Too bad, father" criel the young
err Of the two, as he busted himself at
the work of freeing the PROSTATE ami
mails, "that the fellow escaped,
and"
A low moan came to their ears,
"Sam, Sam, You done ii |" cried the
old man. others another under the
buggy top"
Hurrielly they tore aside the cover,
and their eyes fell upon the form of
the wounded man, who lay face down
ward, cramped in the bottom of the
vehicle. They lifted him gently out
and placed him upon blanket spread
upon the roadside. The injured man
had covered his face with his hands
The old man seized his wrists and
firmly drew them away.
"Billl"
"Father!"
The father fell back, pale and trem.
bling.
"Sam, Sam !" he cried. "It's Bill
our BillW
81 didn't know they wuz yours
really /"
The thiePs voice failed him. and he
clasped his hands over his face and lay
silent.
"Our Bill horse thief!" the old
man groaned, rocking to and fro in
his grief. He seized his wounded
sons wrists again and dragged the
hands from his face. "How could
your"
The clenched hand opened and
white paper huttered to the ground.
He saw 1t and seized it.
"Bill-Bill!" he screamed, as he
scanned the address on the soiled,
crumpled envelope, "when did you
get thls?"
Gust now-under the buggy seat"
The eyes closed and the wounded
man sank back into welcome uncon.
seriousness. But his fathers arms were
around him and his brothers hands
were deity binding the injured
shoulder and stanching the flow OF
blood.
Two mongrel dogs scurried around
the old brick farm house. They dashed
across the yard and gained the road
through hole in the fence. At the
summit of the hill, commanding
view of the long, sloping road until it
disappeared into the gully, they halt
ed, and with ears pricked, gazed in
tently ahead. Clearer and clearer
came the sound of falling hoofs Then
a buggy hove into sight. The dogs
started toward the approaching We
hicle, joyfully bounding and barking.
She was comely old woman who
stood leaning on the gate as the buggy
ratified up the road. 1t drew nearer
and nearer until she could see the IA
miliar form of her husband, and then
that of young man with white face
and one arm in sling, who was lean
ing back beside him. 1t came to
stop in front of the gate and the old
nan jumped out, but she did not no.
lice him. She seized the loose corners
If her apron and threw up her hands
n establishment.
"B-i-i-ll!"
"It's Bill come back !" said her hus-
)and, nervously. "He caught the
lorses and the thief got away. "He's
lurt, but not bad"
She rushed fearlessly between the
wheels and raised herself on tiptoe.
Her arms were about his neck, and she
,ried:
"Bill Bill! my brave Bill!"-New
York Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-14
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To
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Every Week.

The New York Ledger has had so many APP
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the country wanting to sell the Ledger by
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country.
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Every one wants the New York Ledger as
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