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Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
SUGAR NOT INJURIOUS.
The Idea That 1t Destroys the Teeth I
RidicuIed.

The Idea That 1t Destroys the Teeth Is
Itidiculed.
A writer III the Contemporary Re
view devotes most Of an article on
champagne to the popular idea that
gort is produced by the sugar contained
in that drink The paper is mot a
medical paper, but the writer brings
forward considerable evidence to show
that champagne has nothing 10 do with
the production of gOut, and i'll an aside
speaks Of that ether popular notion that
sugar destroys the teeth. He says:
''In corn CboratioI of the fallacy of
the sugar and gout idea it may be men-
toned that tie still more reprehonsible
dogma, 1rtln sanitary point of view,
that sugar ruins the teeth is equally
false, Indeed, how the idea ever came
into existence is a mystery, seeing that
tie finest, whitest and strongest teeth are
found i'll the mouths of negroes brought
up On sugar plantations, who from the
earliest years upward consumed more
sugar than any other class of people
whatever. Those at all skeptical of the
value of this fact have only to look
alCund among their personal friends
aL& see whether the sugar eaters or the
sugar summers have the finest teeth,
and they will find, other things being
equal, that the sugar eaters, as a rule,
have the hCst teeth. The only possible
way for accounting for this libel against
sugar seems to be by supposing that it
originated i'll the brain Of one Of our
economically disposed groat.grandmoth-
ors 1T the time when sugar was shil-
lings a pound i'll order to prevent her
children gratifying their cravings for
sweets at the expense Ct the contents of
the sugar basin, -
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
BRANCH ROADS.

Leave Harrington for FrankliA Cfty, and way
stations, milford, GeorgetoWA, Berlin, Lewes &c
10 81 a. m and 6.2S p. "a. Tuesdays THURSDAYS
and Saturdays only, Returning train leaves
franklin City, 5.5t 3. m. week days, LA D. m
tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 0Gly.
Leave FrsAklR City fOE ChileOteague (via
steamer 4.43P. u. weekdays, Returning, leave
Chln9oseague a q, N. week days.
leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
al lO.31 a. m, 6.2S p. m. weekdays. Returning
leave LeWeS 6.45 a. m, 8 20 p. M. weekdays
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 1887 a. m week
days and 2S p. m. Tuesdays, THURSDAYS and
saturdays only. Returning, leave Berlin 81
m. and 2.4S p. IN. Tuesdays. Thursdays and
Saturdays only
Leave Townsend for Centreville at 92) a. m
and $50 p. m leave Centreville 73I a. m. and
go p. m, week days
Leave Clayton for oxford at 9SS a m and 54,
p. m; leave Oxford 6.55 a. n. and 40 D. IN
weekdays.
Leave Seaford for Cambridge at HIS a. m
week days, and on Tuesdays. Thursdays and
saturdays 1O) p. m; returning, leave Cambridge
az 3 70 q. M weekdays, and 247 p. m. Tuesdays
Thursdays and saturdays,
Train leaves Clayton for Chestertown lOl5a m
returning, leaves CheStertOwn. SO a. m
CONNECTIONS Porter with Newark K Della
ware City Railroad At Townsend, with Queer
Anne SO KentRailrOad AtClayton with Delaware
4 &Chesapeake Railroadand Baltimore IL Delaware
Bay Railroad. AT Harrington, with Delaware
Maryland Virginia Railroad. AtSeaford, with
Cambridge d SeafOrd Railroad. At Delmer with
New York, Philadelphia d Norfolk, Wicemico {
Poeomoke, and Peninsula Railroads.
sDaily except Sunday.
S. NJ. PROVOST, General Manager
}. K. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07

Thomas Smith, Jr., who keeps Sec
ondhand furniture store at 22O Center
street, has in his possession an old
newspaper which is a real curiosity. II
is 1876 years old and contains the first
cuts ever printed in a newspaper. He
bought it at the receivers sale of the
estate Of joseph Low Mason, who was
once police commissioner. The curl
osity is inclosed in an unassuminp
frame and covered by glass ON both
sides, so as to permit its being read
without handling. The heading is,
Boston Gazette and Country Journal.
Monday, March 10, 1870.
OF the two leading articles one treats
Of the Boston riots, and the other ID an
appeal to all patriotic citizens to with
hold from purchasing goods of English
manufacture, The former is illustrated
with five rudely drawn cotfins, which
are supposed to contain the bodies of the
first five heroes Of American iildepend-
ence.
The paper is extremely valuable as
relic, and it is said that the heirs OF
Mr.. Mason have offered to buy it fol
q large SUN, but Smith refuses to part
with it.-New York Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
SAND SUCKERS.
Old IIulks That Are Proftslbly Utilized
In New Industry.

Old IIuIks That Are Proftslbly Utilized
In a New Industry.
AS the steamers pass along st. Clair
flats, between Lake Huron and Detroit
river, the passengers see numbers of old
hulks anchored off in shallow water and
invariably ask the steward or one of the
deck boys what they are there for. The
answer always is given in q gruff and
contemptuOus tone, as if it were FOOLS
question:
They're sand suckers.
whats a sand sucker?"
cold tubs that suck up sand.
'HOw do they suck up sand?''
Then the oracle looks at you and
grins. He doesn't quite know whether
you're farmer yourself or are guying
him, and it takes a great deal more
questioning to find out the fact that a
new industry has been found to utilize
ancient and leaky hulks that are not fit
to go to sea.
The bottom of Lake st. Clair and the
fats that surround it are covered with
beautiful white sand, and these boats
go out every morning, anchor in a ia
vOrable place near the channel, and
drop overheard large hose pipes of can
vas or rubber, with iron tips, which
sink Of their own weight. Then they
set the pumps going and suck up the
sand, which brings good deal of water
with it, and is deposited in the bottom
Of the boat. The sand sinks, and the
water rises to the surface ard returns to
the river through holes pierced for its
accommodation. Thus, before sunset
the matches are filed with pure, clear
sand at a nominal cost, which is un-
loaded ON the docks at Detroit and sold
for building purposes.
In early days there was q community
of Frenchmen who made a business of
gathering this sand and hauling it to
the city, but they had to work very
hard because of their ignorance Of hy-
draulics and their lack of boats. They
poled and rowed up flatboats, which
they would fill by jumping overheard
i'll shallow water and shoveling in the
sand. They would work a month with
the water up to their waists and not get
as large cargo as a modern sand sucker,
operated by two men, can pick up i'll q
single day. Chicago Record.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
THE SMYRNA TIMES.
SmVawU, DEL,
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 7rh, 1896
CHURCH SERVICES.

AsPUR METHoDST T EPIsCoPAL.-Sunday-P
ing at 1O15 a. NJ and $50 p N. Sunday School
ppm. Prayer Meeting-Thursdaysa IA P N.
Rev. Adam Stenge Pastor
ST, PETERS PROTESTANT EPIsCoPAI-Sunday-
Preaching at 1917 A. NJ. and ~ p. N. Holy bay,
-9% A. NJ. Sunday School, P. NJ Prayer
Meeting Wednesdays, at 7%P. Rev. G. W.
Dame. Rector.
PREsBYTERIAN.- -Sunday-Preaching at lOl5 A. NJ.
and ~ p. NJ. Sunday SchoOl-1l% An Prayer
Meeting-Fridays at P N. Rev J. Estltn,
pastor.
ST. PoLYcARP CATHOLIC CHURcH-SeryiCese every
ether Sunday, by Father Connolly. Sunda
School Immediately after service.
SMYRNA misunderstanding services, Friend
ship in the morning. SeversOns in the after
noon. Jermans Chapel and Smyrna Land
ing alternate Sunday nights at 7.3O. Rev W.
K. MOwbray, pastor.
CENTENNIAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL ,COlOred) -
Sunday-Preaching at II A. NJ. and P. N.
Sunday School, P. NJ. Rev J, X. Adams,
Pastor.
A. NJ. E. -Sunday-Preaching at lO18
A.. NJ and 8 p. NJ Sunday SchOOl-2l5 P. NJ.
Rev E. Byrd, Pastor.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
EcRET ocIETIES.

MORNING STAR LODGE, No. 6, l. o. o F-Meets
every Friday evening, at O'clock
MCDONNELL ENcAMPMENT, No 2,LO. o. .F-Meets
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month. at o'clock.
HARMONY LODGE. No. Is, A. F. A. M.-Meets First
and Third Thursday evenings of each month,
at o'clock.
SMYRNA LODGE No. 5, !. o. G. T-Meets every
Wednesday evening, at o'clock
SMYRNA CoNcLAvE, No. As. ORDER OF HEPTAsOPHs
meets first and third Tuesday of each month.
UNION CASTLE No. II, K. G. E.--MIeets every Thurs
day evening in their hall in the Cooper Build
ing, att O'Clock.
Monday evening at s o'clock in Odd Fellows
Hall.
GENERAL WINFIELD :. HASC OK POST Ne. 90
G A. h.-Meets every Monday night in the
Hall Oft Knights of the Golden Eagle. John
Garner, Commander
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
Contradiction.

"The more the merrier." Not SO.
One hand is enough in a purse. Moth
ing hurts the stomach more than surfeit-
ing" Yes, lack of meat Nothing but
what has an end" Not so. A ring has
none, for it is round. money is a great
comfort " Not when it brings a thief
to the gallows. ''The world is long
journey" Not so. The sun goes over it
every day. 1T is a great way to the
bottom Of the sea. Not so. It is but a
stones cast. "A friend is best found in
adversely" Not so, for then there is
none to be found. "The pride Of the
rich mikes the labor of the poor. Not
SO. re labor Of the poor makes the
priJ the rich. New York Ledger.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
Forrorics In Collections

The question Of forgeries which dis.
figure our national collections cannot
pass unnOticed. do not assert that the
South Kensington museum contains
more Of them than are to be found in
similar institutions on the continent,
though it probably does, for with such
exquisite and beautiful skill are these
objects nowadays forged or ''faked" that
the most practical expert may now and
again be victimized by them almost
without disgrace. So perfect has the art
of the forger become and so fine an art.
ist the forger, so elaborate his plots and
conspiracies to catch even the wariest of
directors and collectors, that often the
only safety lies nowadays in written
guarantee and proved proveniance from
one reputable collection to another.
need not refer to any even of the most
notorious torgeries in South Kensington
museum, for that is obviously the duty
Of a properly appointed committee of
experts, which should at the earliest
possible moment be constituted. do
not agree with Sir j. O. Robinson's first
proposal, that such frauds should be de-
stroyed out of all existence.
/ believe that a far better purpose
would be served by branding them in
delibly as forgeries and bringing them
together in u single room, to form an
edifying forgery exhibition by them
selves, with all particulars as to the
dealers from whom they were obtained
and the price which was paid for them.
The educational value of such a collec-
tion would be considerable and as an
object lesson instructive in distinct
ways to collector, student, forger and
director, and only little moral courage
would be required to net on the sugges-
tion. Moreover, the fino artists who
made them might be thus discovered
and encouraged in more honorable
work. At the Same time the revision of
the museum labels should bo proceeded
with and the numerous errors which at
present misload the public remedied. -
contemporary Review
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
Refore IlIack stockincs Were Worn

81 saw u little girl in striped red and
white stockings the other day, said the
woman, f'and it made me think of the
time when was a little girl myself.
There was no thought of black stockings
then. The small legs of all the small
girls looked like sticks of variegated
candy. The child who had the gayest
combination of stripes was the happiest
and if the color scheme happened to be
displeasing to our youthful tastes there
was such feeling of utter woe as l
know 1 seldom feel now that l am
grown up. New York Times.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07

Daily. 2Daily except Sunday.
"a stops TO leave passengers from Wilmington
and points north, or take passengers for points
south OF Delmar
r. Stops only Oh notice 10 conductor OF agent,
on signal.
N. Stops to leave passengers from Wilmington
or points north
"i' Stops 10 leave passengers from Mdiletown
and points south.
It" Stops 10 let off passengers from points south
OfHarringsOn.
NelO CoStte accommodation CTainS.-LeaVe Will
mingtOn 1910 a. m and 95l D. m. daily, and
s. l3 II. is a. m. $50 40, 6l5 and So D. m
weekdays Leave New Castle 80 a. m. ard
lOl9 p. m. daily, S.Sl, 94j, II .O2 a. m. LIS 536
644 and 7.22 p. m. weekday
ASExpress trains leaving Harrington sos =
m, and arriving at 6.24 p. m, week days, run
through solid to and from Baltimore, Uia POr-
ter's and Newark.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
To Glenn soiled nonts

Ink stains may be removed from q
book by applying with a camel's hair
pencil a small qualify of oxillic arid
diluted with water and then using
blotting paper. Two applications will
remove all traces Of the ink. I'd remove
grease spots, lay powered pipe clay each
side Of the spot and press with an iron
as hot as the paper will bear without
scorching. Sometimes grease sIots may
be removed from paper OF cloth by lay
ing a piece Of blotting paper cn them
and then pressing the blotting paper
with hot iron. The heat nIelts the
grease and the blotting paper absorbs it.
Writer.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
SnSfaininr Fnnd-

Raisins, dates and chocolate tablets
are all good sustainers for days tramp
or days run on wheels. A country
physician who finds himself obliged
often to be- oblivious to mealtimes says
that he finds the compressed chocolate
cakes, easily carried and easily nibbled,
his food salvation over and over again
in the course of the year. New York
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07

Philippe of France did not deserve
the title Of the amorous any more than
most other French kings, but i'll spite of
this fact it was bestowed upon him on
account of his numerous intrigues with
the ladies uf his court.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
A snob.

Thackeray designGtes a snob as a being
Oh ladder who is quite as ready to
kiss the feet Of him who is above him
as to kick the head of him who is be-.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
Baltimore & Ohio r. R.
Schedule in effect July l9, 1876.
TRAINS LEAVE DELAWARE AVE. DEPOT
WILMINGTON, EAST BOUND.
zEXpRESS TRAINS

TRAINS LEAyE DELAWARE AVE. DEPOT
WILMINGTON, EAST BOUND.
siEXPRESS TRAINS.
All trains illuminated with Pintsch Light.
New York, week days, - OS, - 10. ~ 81, y 4S
SO 25 IN, *l2 IL - g. IS 2e - 81 - 49, %l2 D. m
Philadelphia. Twenty fourth and Chestnut SITS,
week days, 50 0S, S. 40. @7l5, $780, @Sl5 sS55
"9 81, 40 25 II 20, m *12 p, y 40, - % = So
So, %5 -, 80, Il SO. p, 10, *ll p, IN.
Atlantic City, weekdays, *7.15,a. m; %l2 81 pm.
Cape May. week days, 81 Is a. n, - %. p. IN
Sundays, 30 a. In.
WEST BOUND.
Baltimore and Washington, II %. 7O1. IS 4s
III 05 ain *l2 90, y o., 54 81 oS "A 5S, Sc 13 @S
% u D. n. week days.
Baltimore and way stations, : % a. II. and 81
Newark, Del, 81 90, : o. Rs4S. *l1 o5am. 80 S..
- 81, a 0S "A 5s, O5 rs, z9 10, al y m week
Pitlsburg, week days S618 p. N; Sundays,
- 5S p. IN.
! Chicago "A 5S p m, daily.
Cincinnati and St. Louis, Sl2 So, p NJ, and 70 Is
p. m. daily.
New Orleans via Bristol and Chattanooga, IS. 90
/ p m. daily. Through sleepers Washington to
| Memphis and New Orleans.
| TRAINS LEAVE MARKET STREET STATION
For New York, week days, 26 SO am
FOR Philadelphia week days, 90 a. m: 2.35
! TMENTI-FOURTH and CHESTNUT STREETS,
Week days, 3 49, 6, 6 25, : Ia IS l5 9 80 40 80
IL 30 IN. <l2 20. u SO, Il So 2 as % 80 y 90
a 50 IS u, IS Al, 6, 80 Y D. IS 4O 10 TO- IL S5 p
m.
Telephone, No. l92
other line. c. o. SCULL GenI Pass Agent.
W. u. GREENE, General Manager.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
A Newspnner Curlositx.

The first gold pens were made by
hand in 1910 i'll the city of New York.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
What is
Castoria.

Castoria cures Collie, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoa, Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di-
gestion,
without injurious medication.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07

"For several years have recommended
'Castoria,' and shall always continue to do
SO, as it has invariably produced beneficial
reSults.'
EDWIN F. PARDEE, NJ. D.,
125th Street and eth Ave-, New York City.
oMPANY, n MURRAY STREET, New York CITY.
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07

: "The use Of 'Castoria' is 50 universal and
its merits so well known that it seems e work
Of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
Intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
Wkhin easy reach"
CARLOS MARTIN, D. D.,
New York City.
THE CFNrTAt-R
Smyrna times., 1896-10-07
Castoria.

''CastOria isso well adapted to children that
1recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, y. Y.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-09-12
DECISIVE WORLD-WAR TO COME.
One More Great Struggle of Physical
Force Before the Era of Peace.

One More Great Struggle of Physical
Force Before the Era of Peace.
Many have been tempted to say, in
view of the vain rumors of wars of the
last few months which have affected
four continents, that we have seen the
last great war. It might be so if all
nations were on the same level of civil
ization, writes George B. Adams in
Atlantic Monthly. But with the great
races of the world, those which will
ine7 itably be the leading actors in the
coming drama, still in such different
stages of advancement, who will dare to
predict that we have yet entered upon a
millennium of perpetual peace? The
odds are altogether in favor of one more
great struggle of physical force, COM
pared with which, very likely, the great
est struggles of the past will seem but
child's play, before we enter upon the
era of the peaceful competition of ideas
and institutions and radical types which
will introduce the real millennium
when it comes. If such a conflict Of
force should come there is only one
place for us. We must be on the side of
OR own ideas and institutions aud race,
and we cannot afford in the meantime
to be training ourselves to consider our
natural allies our natural enemies, or
to weaken the sum of our resources by
any civil strife that can be honnrably
avoided.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-09-12
"a PLEAsuRE-LovlNG PEOPLE.
And Yet the hungarian Peasants Make
KY 30 ts Good Soldiers.

And Yet the Hungarian Peasants Make
X Good Soldiers.
Writing of 'Hungary's Picturesque
Peasantry'' in the Ladies' Home Com
panion, DR.. Edward A. Steiner says:
= ''"They are all pleasure-loving peo-
pie, and the rowing gypsy, if he can
weld bow, finds a welcome in every
hut. The csarda Gnn) is filled every
night with villagers and shepherds
from the pusztas (plains). The wives,
babies and sweethearts come, too, and
over glass of palenka (whisky) OF
soer (wine) the evening is spent, never
ending without a dance or fight; and
good fighters they are, these Hun
gsrians. They fought for their iber-
ty, and retained it, as did no other of
the Austrian provinces; and if Austria
lost her battles with foreign foes, It
was due to no lack of bravery on the
part of Hungarian soldiers. Though
hating the German tongue, which is
used in the army, when the call 'vor-
waerts' came, they unquestioningly
obeyed, and shed their blood upon the
battle fields of sunny Italy and in the
forests of Bohemia. .~
''The Austrian empire, once the holy
Roman empire, has lost her place in the
front rank of nations because of her
decaying aristocracy, which yielded only
towards and weaklings for the captains
of her host, and because of her narrow
ing conservatism which kept alive the
spirit of persecution, and which him
dered any real progress. But Hungary,
though under Austrian rule, has stead
lily been gaining, and her progress, as I
have said, is due largely to her brave,
industrious and iberal-minded peas
:rtry'
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-09-12
Rich Discoveries Of Gold.

At Cripple Greek, Colo, and else.
where, are being made daily. and the.
production for 1896 will be the largest
ever known, estimated at Two Hundred
Million Dollars. Cripple Greek alone is
producing over One Million Dollars a
month, and steadily incresicg. Mininp
Stocks are advancing in price more rag
idly than any other Stocks, and mayn
pay dividends of IS to SO per cent. They
offer the best opportunity to make a
large profit on small investment.
JOHN I. TALLMAN & CO., IA Pacific
Ave., Chicago, III. are financial agents for
the Prudential Gold Mining Co., and
others in the famous Cripple Creek dis
trict. They will send you free, interest
ing particulars of the Mining Companies
they represent also their book on spec
ulation in Stocks, Grain and Cotton
containing many new and important
features.
Send for these books at once if you
are interested in any form of speculation
or investments. They may prove profit
able to you
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-09-12
FIGHT BETWEEN ELKS.
How the Patriarch of the Drove Demon
strated HIS PrOwess.

How the Patriarch of the Drove Demon
strated HIS Prowess.
A writer in the last issue of the Amer
lean Field had very interesting paper
on Hunting Big Game in the Rockies -
in which he depicts a combat between
the chief of band of elks and a num-
Der of valorous but indiscreet young
bulls Of the same family.
After leaving camp and hunting the
mountains for distance of four or five
miles he came in sight of a fresh sign,
followed it up, and soon found band
of perhaps a hundred ellSs, cows, CALVES
and bulls, going to the windward. They
soon crept up within so to IS yards of
them. There was one old bull among
them who seemed to be chief of the
harem. He came out into an open park
and challenged the other bulls to com.
bat. Pop and Van were lying fiat in
the timber taking in the circus. The
old patriarch would whistle, and soon a
young bull would answer him and trot
out ready to take up the challenge, and
fight for some favorite. They would
spar around for some little time, for
points, then back off and rush together
like two battering rams, below and tear
up the earth. One such round would
usually end the fight, and the young
ster would take to the timber, fully sat-
isfied. Another challenge from the old
patriarch and another young bull
would appear on the ground to take
up the gauntlet, only to get an awful
drubbing and be sent back to the timber
cowed. This challenge was given and
accepted by four different bulls, and
all we're beaten back to their corners
and over the line. After two hours of
hard fighting he called time on the old
bull and shot him.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-09-12
HER WEDDING PRESENTS.
The Princess Maud Now Possesses Forty
Eight Wheels.

The Princess Maud Now Possesses Forty
Eight Wheels.
It is evident that Princess Ma:1d,
who married Prince, Carl of Denmark,
will not lack for means of locomotion,
says the London Letter. The parents of
the bride and the aristoeracy having
presented their gifts to the young
bridal couple, they are now being iol-
lowed by the numerous towns, counties,
shires and guilds. Among the presents
received there are not less than 4S ladies'
bicycles, for it is known that Princess
Maud is an enthusiastic wheelwoman.
There are wheels of almost every class,
make and of the most varied construc-
lions and executions, some adorned
with engravings and others with in
scriptions. Besides the wheels the
princess is the recipient of sew
eral dozen motor carriages, some
driven by steam, others by petroleum
motors, compressed air and electricity.
Since the exhibition of wedding pres
ents is still fashionable in aristocratic
England, the show of Princess Maud's
wedding gifts looks very much like a
cycle show or an exhibition of motor
carriages. ,-@<