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Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
His Curious Experience In a House With
CrealEing Stairs.

"You know how the stairs puff up"
said the retired burglar, latter you stop
using 'em nights? You crowd 'em down
close together, solid, treading on 'em
all day long, and then when you let up
ON 'em the fibers of the wood lift up
again, and the stairs seem to swell.
You know how they creak sometimes
and snap little when you go down 'em
first in the morning and some Of the
steps yield a little under the tread?
That's them settling down into place
again.
II love to hear 'em in the morning.
1t seems kind of like the stairs waking
up and speaking to you as you go along
down. But don't like to hear EN- at
night And at the time 1 go about
they've had a chance to do considerable
putting, and no matter how velvet footed
man may be he can't lessen his
weight very well, and so learned ear
ly to tread near the wall or near the
banisters going up stairs, and not on
the bow in the middle. The creak, or
the little soft swapping, that sounds so
pleasant in the morning and that no
| body wouldn't notice then sounds
mighty loud at night, when everything
is still If anybody was awake, you know,
| you could hear it from one end of the
house to the other To be sure, it might
not alarm anybody, because there's 9TH
er sounds in house at night-sounds
that just make themselves, due, sup
pose, to changes i'll temperature. Boards
swell and shrink and shift little, and
you might hear little snap somewhere
in the house any time of night. But 1
always hated to hear the stairs creak
when l was going up 'em, all the same,
because l always thought that as likely
as not it would wake up somebody, and
that l should find somebody sitting up
in bed looking for me when looked
into the door Of q room, and, as mat
ter Of fact, that did sometimes happen.
II looked one night, after wresched
pair of stairs, into half lighted room
where l saw a man, sitting up in bed,
over ON the other side of the room, and
looking plumb at the door that was
standing in. AS told you, l was al
ways ON the lookout for just this thing,
but this man surprised me, for all that.
He sat there in bed all keyed up, and
looking square at me. 1 could see him
perfectly plain, and knew he could
see me just as plain, and expected ev
cry minute he'd find his voice and be-
gin to holler.
but instead Of that he threw tn,
clothes back off his legs and swung hi
legs around out of bed and stood up. H,
put his right hand out to locate a chail
that stood by the head of the bed, anC
then he started for the door, hands Ou
little on each side of him, and feelinl
out little ON both sides and sort o
ahead Of him as he came along
"Humph! Blind. He'd heard thu
noise AMI was going to look for it.
might have stood there and slugged hin
easy as he went by, but didn't wan
no rastle with blind man. just wen
} out and left him there looking. "-Ney
York Sun.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
HUMAN BRAINS.
How Science Views the Difference Between
Men and Women,


The weightier brain would seem also
to indicate, q priori, the greater intel |
Iectual power, and this, too, is borne
out by undoubted facts. Women, it has |
often been said, have yet to produce
their Newton, their Dante, their Aris-
totle, their Pascal, their Goethe. The \
assertion is very feebly met by the con-
tention that women's education has
been for centuries neglected
1t was not education which enabled
Pascal as a child to see his way through
problems which not one man in 1 900 can
understand after prolonged mental drill.
It was not education which gave the
race its great men poets. "They lisped
in numbers for the numbers came"
But where are their feminine equals?
We will, however, take an art in which
women have enjoyed far more training
than men-the art of music. There are
some excellent women pianists and vio-
linists, but where are the female Bachs,
BeethOvens, Mozarts and Wagners? Ma
ture only can explain the absence Of
great women composers as of the fem1-
nine compeers of Titan and Raphael,
the technique Of whose art seems pecuI-
iarly fitted to women
Nature tells us that she cannot form
the matrix out of which commanding
intellectual geniuses of the female sex
would proceed. Why this is so we may
partly guess, but cannot wholly know.
We see that nature has divided the
world into sexes for her own purposes,
and that to each sex peculiar functions
are assigned. We see that the physlO-
logical functions of woman necessitate
a different anatomy from that Of man,
and we infer that these functions and
this structure preclude, speaking gener-
ally, the kind of effort which we call
supreme genius, as also that kind OF
effort which we call sustained executive
power While women are not so far
differentiated from men that they can
not enter with pleasure into men s
works, and, often in great measure
share in their production, 1t remains a
fact that it is mans particular organ1-
zation which is alone capable either OF
the highest manifestations of genius or
the most sustained exhibition of energy.
Whether it will always be so we do not
know, for we cannot peer into the fu-
ture. 1t is sufficient that it not only Is
so now, but that it always has been SO,
and that science does give us some good
grounds for believing that the fact is
deeply rooted i'll the very structure Of
sex.-LOndOn Spectator
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THAcKERAY IN BOSTON.
His Comment ON the ''Good Society of
That City.

His Comment ON the "Good Society," of
That City.
Mr.. Thackeray brought from England
letter of introduction to an important
gentleman of Beacon street. By him he
was most Hospitality entertained and
passed from dinner party to dinner par
ty. But Thackeray interest in the cap
ital of New England did not end with
Beacon street dinner parties. He had
heard something of the eminent men of
the town and at that moment happened
to be particularly interested in Theo-
dore Parker. He wished very much to
hear this celebrated Unitarian preacher.
He mentioned this desire to his host.
The Beacon street gentleman seemed
much surprised, but without abating
any of his outward courtesy and MAX
ing some valid excuse took him to
Kings chapel on Sunday morning in
stead of to Music hall, where Parker
preached. At Kings chapel, the Bea-
con street gentleman said, people of the
best society might always he found.
Thackeray, it is needless to say, was
a mild hammered man, not fond of a
struggle to free himself from his enter
tainer's clutches. He saw that it was
impossible for him to get on Sunday to
Music hall. But during the week he
heard that Parker was to deliver a dis
course at the funeral of a rich and pub
lie spirited merchant. Thackeray went
alone to the funeral and was greatly in
terested and thrilled by the address.
He also saw many people who looked
as If they were more interesting than
any he had seen at the Beacon street
dinner parties. He went home that
morning to dinner and found that his
host had invited to meet him several
gentlemen of the best society, most Of
whom were bores. Thackeray could not
help telling about Parker and the fu-
neral and confessing how much he had
been impressed by the preacher and the
people. His host was visibly distressed
and presently managed to whisper in
his ear, 81 beg of you, Mr.. Thackeray,
to remember that Mr.. Parker does not
belong to our best society,"" This was
more than the Engismnan could stand,
and he replied, loud enough to be heard
by at least one at the table, Upon my
word, l begin to wish hadn't got into
good society when came to Boston. d
Nineteenth Century.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08

II every woman who expects to become
a mother would heed and read that great
book, The Peoples Common Sense Med
ical Adviser" by DIR. r. V. Pierce, chief
consulting physician to the Invalids' Ho-
tel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N Y,
there would be stronger mothers and
healthier, happier children in this world.
In this grand volume several hundred of
its thousand pages are devoted to teaching
women how to take care of themselves
during every trying and critical period of
their lives and especially at the time of
approaching motherhood.
The author of this remarkable work has
had a lifetime of practical experience in
treating the special diseases and weakness
es of women, and is recognized as one of
the foremost of living experts in this partic-
ular field of practice. His Favorite Pre-
scription is the most wonderful medicine
ever invented to restore natural organic
strength and power to the delicate femi-
nine structure which is most intimately
concerned in motherhood
Taken during the time of anticipation il
deprives this ordeal of all its accustomed
terrors and dangers makes the coming of
baby absolutely safe and comparatively
painless renders the mother strong and
cheerful, and helps TO endow the child
with strong, healthy constitution,
Mrs. Mabel Jordan, of swoiIord. Lewis Co.
Washingtonywrite Il took Dr. Pierce's Favor
ite Prescription until the very last day We now
have fihe, plump little girl over two weeks old.
Suffered less pain than with any Of the others,
this being the sixth child and she has good
health. got up ON the tenth day and dressed
nyself-something could not do with the other
batacs. Have been gaining in strength every oav
and feel well, all due 70 God and 10 Dr. Pierces
Favorite Prescription"
For the Medical Adviser, - send Fl one
cent stamps, to cover cost OF mailing only,
or LOT cloth covered copy 81 stamps, to
DR. r. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N X
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
Leather and Kerosene.

There is one use Of kerosene which Is
seldom mentioned. 1t often happens
that when a heavy shoe or boot has been
wet it hardens and draws SO that it
hurts the foot. If the shoe is put on
and the leather thoroughly wet with
kerosene, the stiffness will disappear
and the leather become pliable adapt
ing itself to the foot. If oiled while
wet, the leather retains its softness a
longer time. The kerosene does not in
lure the leather at all.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08

Santa Rosa, capital of Santa Rosa
county, Cal, has Baptist church,
which holds over 200 people. built en-
tirely from timber sawed out Of a single
redwood Timbers, weather boarding
and inner hLkng are all of wood. The
roofing, too, is Of shingles cut from the
1ame tree, and after it was all finished
there We're go. 600 shingles left.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
slaepv Onions.

The London Medical Press asserts
that some plants sleep through the rainy
season, others during periods of drought,
of heat or of cold. Farmers are rather
skeptical about weeds ever going to
sleep, and it is hard to realize that an
onion bed is nightly wrapped in balmy
slumber. Yet science in this matter is
too we'll fortified to be doubted. ST.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
And He CouIdn,t Have Rotb.

Stokeleigh-Why don't you get mar
'ied, old man?
Observation-Disclosures by custom.
Stokeleigh-How so?
Brokeleigh-Well, while it is per-
nissible for me to appear in public
Without wife it is not permissible for
ne to do so without clothes. Brooklyn
Life.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
A VIRTUE OF OLIVE OIL.
Man-of-war's Men Say That 1t VIII Pre-
vent Into1icatIon.

Man-Of-war's Men Say That 1t VIII Pre-
vent IntOxicatiOn.
The glasses were going round when
the man who had been in the navy
spoke: "Wait minute boys. We've
had several. Let me give you tip that
learned when 1 was on the China sta
tiOn. You are pretty good drinkers, you
Kentucky boys, and you can hold your
own with anybody, east, west or north,
who tries to put you under the table.
But unless you carry out my plan don't
you ever stack yourself up against an
Englishman, and especially an army or
naval officer. You could knock him
out on whisky, but he doesn't drink
it, except in the shape of smoky Scotch
and Irish denominations. But cham
pagne, burgundy, claret, ale, sherry,
madeira, port, pulque in Mexico, saki
in China, palm liquor in Africa, bam-
boos and shandygaff in India, steer clear
of them--that is, unless you have the
good luck to meet certain little, yel-
low faced, wizened creole from Louisi-
ana whose recipe is passed around the
mess table of United States men-of-war
to this day.
lit started in the old days when the
British officers always had the pleasure
of outstaying their American guests or
hosts whenever two ships met on for
eign stations. Then that little yellow
devil came along with his trick, and
the Englishman has never since come
out better than second i'll any drinking
bout. The secret? Olive oil. One wine
glassful before the fun begins, and, if
possible, another later ON, and you can
keep your wit and legs throughout the
dampest evening. 1 suppose one of two
things happens Either the oil coats the
stomach and keeps the alcohol from be-
ing absorbed by the system, or else it
floats on top and keeps the fumes from
rising to the brain. But you'll have to
ask the medicine men about that. All
know is its practical result, and that
has enabled us Yankee DOodles to &c
home cheerful and clear headed many
an evening when our foreign cousins
were speechless. louisville Courier
| Journal
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
THE SMYRNA TIMES.
.SMV2'n0, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, Dec. 8th, '97.
cerenI conee nrinI.ers REwARE!

If you have been deceived and tried one
of the cheap bran substitutes now on the
market, claiming to be the original and to
have great food value, and you got a pound
of poorly roasted bran bran for your 25c and a
pect from bran), don't be discouraged but
try GRAIN-O. 1t is made from solid grain,
nicely Drowned and two pounds for 25c,
Grain-o takes the place of coffee at 4 the
price. Get package of your grocer to-day.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08

At the beginning Of this century a
most peculiar cholera remedy was in
use in Persia. 1t consisted in wadding
up a leaf from the Koran and forcing it
down the patients throat.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08

CURE, GROUP CURE, CHOLERA MokBUS CURE,
CONSTIPATION CURE, WORM CURE, FACE AND
SKIN OINTMENT, MUNYON'S BALM AND NUN
YON's PLASTERs Do not wait for the full de-
veiopment of any disease, but begin treatment
in accordance with directions on the appear
ance of the first symptoms
Mrs. Thomas Sangine, I,o4I Fourteenth ave-
nue., Detroit, Mich, says PLEASE accept my
most grateful thanks for the miraculous re-
covery of our eight-months-od baby girl. She
was taken with Cholera Infantum early in the
summer, and although we had the best medi-
cal attention, we fully expected to lose her.
She wasted away to a shadow, and it was i'm
possible to get any kind of infant food that
would be retained by the stomach, and nothing
seemed to check the diarrhea. After the doc
tor gave up the case as hopeless we tried Nun
yOn's Remedies, and to our delight found that
the first bottle was sufficient to check the
dia~rhoea and enable the stomach to retain
food. A second bottle brought our little one
back to perfect health. My husband has also
taken Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure with wonder
fully curative effects"
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
A Story of Thackernx.

Dean Farrar gives the following rem
iniscence of Thackeray in The Inde-
pendent; Dining with him at the
house of DR.. Butler 1 remember that
he spoke of many things, but the only
remark that l specially recall was one
about himself. He said that he had re-
gently sat at a dinner next to an emil
nent tragedienne, now dead, and that
she had Overpowered him with ecstatic
compliments. A few days afterward he
had sat next Jenny Lind, and the great
singer, with frankness which delight
ed him, said that she had not read a
line of one of his writings and knew
nothing about them. OF the two ladies,
he greatly preferred Jenny Lind and
enjoyed her frank indifference much
more than the fulsome adulation."
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
Herring Help the Brain.

A medical authority ON the virtues Of
various kinds of food declares that the
herring gives the muscles elasticity, the
body strength and the brain vigor and
is not flesh forming.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08

The medical department Of the queen s
household costs 60, 700 yearly and COM
2rises "a persons.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08
PRIZE BABIES.
The Kind of Children Every
Mother Wants TO Have.

Every mother should know that when the
tiny hands are hot, the head throbbing, and
the little heart pumping hard, there is danger
to the child. A few doses
3f 8riatRggS MaagSa ataPs aPa the the Sasads aaISd
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.
become cool,
the restless
ness passes
away, and
the danger Is
over. What
a relief for
the mother
as we'll as the
child! Ifyou .
are without
VI u n y on S
T e m e die S
p T o C Il r e
them with
out delay. In
that direc-
tiOn is safety.
Every moth
er Sh Ould
X ep sup
pile d W ith
NJ UN ON IS
COLD CURE,
COUGH CURI
SORE THROA
CURE, FEVE
CURE, DIARRE
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CLOTHING

that can be found in this or any other
city, consisting of Overcoatings and
Suitings Kersevs, Diagonals, Friezes.
Cheyiots. Tricots, etc. All of the lat
est patterns at prices so low as to defy
all competition.
As a special offering we will sell
800 Mems Overcoats at $500. worth SO
500 =" 500 Is
500 1000. 20
500 Mems Suits at $500, sold elsewhere AZ
SO.
500 Mems Suits at $500. sold elsewhere at
S12.
500 Mems Suits at $1,000, sold elsewhere at
SIG.
$50 BOYS Overcoats at $500, worth II.
200 Boys Reefers and Suits at -, worth
$500.
CUSTOM DEPARTMENT a spe-
| cialty. Samples sent on applica-
ton and estimates cheerfully
given.
Smyrna times., 1897-12-08

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
iOc' DC II G c. G. fail, druggists refund money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-13

Ruling Prices in Produce at the Sea-
hon rd,s Comm erciaI MetrODOIis.


NEW YORK. Nov. 2.-Flour-Receipts,
1894 brls; exports, 14797 brls. Market
steady and moderately active without
change in price. Rye flour steady. Buck
wheat flour steady. Buckwheat dull. Corn
meal dull Rye quiet; No. 2 Western, soc.
Barley steady. Barley malt quiet; Western,
55@6Oc.
Wheat-Receipts, 1925 blu; exports, 1872 S73
bu. Spot steady; No. red, 99%4c. Options
opened weak under disappointing cables and
foreign selling, rallied on covering and was
quiet but very steady all day. closing 80
1Ac net lower; No. red, November, closed
at 96c; December, 96 3-16Q97c, closed at 96$lc.
Corn-Receipts, 14625 blu; exports, 3S,419
blu. Spot firm; No. 2 sac Options opened
bles and expert demand, closing unchanged
to ,kc net higher; November closed at 32asc;
December, S2QS2Ac; closed d at 3214c.
Oats-Receipts, 100000 bu; exports, 1894
Blu. Spot steady; No. 2, 25@251ac. Options
dull but firmer at sc net advance; Decem-
Der closed at 251sc.
Hay quiet and easy; good to choice, 500
zoe. Hops steady. Hides steady Leather
steady. Wool quiet
Beef steady Cut meats firm. Lard dull;
Western steam, $3.50; refined quiet Pork
easy; mess, $S.25Q9; short clear, $l0Q12.25;
family, 11.10Q12
Taliow quiet Cotton seed oil dull
Coffee-OptiOns opened steady at 5G10
points advance, European and Brazilian ca
bles being better than expected and United
States warehouse deliveries continuing
large, causing covering, and some increase
in speculative demand following, call prices
further advanced 5Q10 points and closed
steady at net advance of 5Q10 points.
Sales, 5000 bags, including: December,
550c; March, 5.75G5.S5c. Spot coffee-Rio
quiet; No Z invoice Gao: No. Z jobbing,
CSC. Mild dull: Cordova, S12014c. Sales. 500
bags Maracaibo. 100 bags Savanilla, 200 bags
Central American. Rio-Receipts. 10000
bags cleared for the United States, 10000
bags cleared for Europe. 1000 bags; stock,
437 900 bags. Total warehouse deliveries
from the United States. 20.5i6 bags, includ-
ing 1878 bags from New York New York
stock to-day. 513.979 bags: United States
stocks 632 $50 bags; afioat for the United
States 800 900 bags; total visible for the
United States. 952.4 5O bags, against $685. 1872
bags last year and $50 bags in 1895.
Sugar-RaW and refined firm.
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OPTICIANS.

evening, for il was uncanny night and
the rain descended and the floods came and
the winds blew and beat upon that house.
But what had the curfew law to do with il?
Miss Willard is comparatively young
womap-all ladies are comparatively
young-but she is old enough TO rise SUI
perior to any curfew law, and we have tina
unimpeachable word of Mr.. Stow that when
the law was passed Miss Wizards honored
name was not even brought into question
1t is not for us TO dictate to Miss Willard
her hours of seclusion or periods of wan
dering, and yet we must respectfully assert
that she was wrong in shutting herself up
at time when she might be rescuing ADAM
doned little boys and girls from the awful
perilS of the streets and byways of Heavens
that no police officer would have placed
Miss Willard under arrest for violation OF
the curfew law, or would have aisrespect-
fully lugged her to her home with the inn
PEI tinent question, Does your mother
know you're out?' IL is at once evident to
us from perusal OF Miss Wizards observa-
lions that she does not exactly grasp the
intent of Mr.. Slows merciful provision for
the welfare of the young, but has absorbed
tho idea that unmarried women of any age.
whether co-eds or alumnae. are responsible
to police regulations after s D. m. 1t seems
to us necessary to dsabuse her mind OF
this error and to remind her that she Is at
perfect liberty to venture ont after dark
whether on pleasure bent or in pursuance
of duty. The spectacle of Miss Willard
her home at the warning sound OF the cur
few would be most unjust construction
of Mr. Slows innocent and laudable pur-
poses
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LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
Trade Active and Prices. Rule,
StrOnger-SuGar Firm.

On the wholesale streets and Commission
row but little complaint of quiet business
is heard this week and in several lines
doubtless this week will surpass any form
er week of the present year and in excess
of that Of November, 1896. Prices carry
a strong tone in nearly all lines. Sugar is
stin advancing and the coffee market has
braced up and i'm nearly all staple groceries
a hardening OF prices is the feature. Dry
goods men had rood trade yesterday and
prices ruled so firm that wholesale mer-
chants. unless or broken stocks. are in
cined to ask full prices. The provision and
hide markets are both getting in better
shape. both being more active and prices
firmer Produce men are very busy. Eggs
are firm. shippers paying Is cents and deal.
ars Is cents a dozen for fresh stock. On
Commission row there are no new fea-
lures. Prices on most vegetables are weak
and on fruits strong
The local grain market is more active
Receipts are increasing but fall far short
of what they should be TO create an active
business Track bids as reported by the
secretary of the Board of Trade yesterday
ruled as follows:
Wheat-No red s2lse No. 3 red SSIl6ISsISc:
November, 92i-c; wagon wheat s2e.
corn-No I white, g6c. No white 26c: No
white, 26c; No, white. 2sc; No. 2 white
mixed. .2iMc; No 2 vckew. 2fzc: No. yellow,
24Ase; NO Z elbow. 2i11c 10. u mixed. 24lsc; No
mixed. z4'se; No. mixed 2lsxc; ear corn. 22c:
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new No. white. 2ec; new No. yellow 2'zc;
new No. 3 mixed, 2i4c
mixed 20l4c: No, mixed. 194c -
Hay-No. timothy. $1@t4.25; Nc timothy. ~
0G.sO.
Inspections Wheat-No. red. 3 cars; No. red.
car: rejected, cars; total, cars. Corn--No.
white. cars; No 3 yellow, car; No. mixed,
3 cars; total, 13 cars. Oats-No. white car;
No. mixed, cars; rejected, car total, cars.
Poultry and other Produce.
prices paid by shipDers.)
Poultry-Hens, 5lzc springs, SIC; cocks, &c; hen
turkeys. 7c toms &C; young turkeys, lHlyc;
ducks. e.; geese. 40c for full feathered; soc for
plUcked.
Butter-Country, choice. 1OG12c; mixed, 6qSc.
as ls-StTlCtly fresh, l5c.
Feathers-PTime geese. soc per Id; prime duck.
100tI7c PEI Id.
Beeswax-SOc for yellow, Csc for dark.
Hcney-i2A15c per ID.
Wool Medium, unwashed. 15c; fine merno. I'M
washed 10d11c; tub-washed, goa 25c; bury and
understandable, &C less.
HIDES. TALLOW. ETC.
Green-salted Hides-No. /, &c; No. O. 7%c;
No. calf, 10c: No. 2 calf. S12c
Grease-Whte. &c; yellow. zl2c; brown. 2Ac.
TallOw-No. l. &c: No. 2, 212c.
Bones-Dry, S12413 Der ton.