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Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
HOW ENGLAND DEALS WITH FAMINE.

The Indian famine is now so far aha
ted that it can properly be regarded as
thing of the past, and the measures
taken for relieving it and for prevent
ing its recurrence NAV be reviewed
such review begins properly with the
famine of 1877, for it was then that the
Government entered systematically
upon the work of Obviating the fam
ines which had hitherto periodically
scourged the country. The first things
to be done were to increase the food
supply by increasing the area and pro-
ductlveness of land under cultivation.
and to make it more secure against
disastrous droughts. These were effect
ed by an extension of the irrigation
system. These twenty years have
seen many thousands of miles of canals
constructed and put into use, with the
result that nearly 10000, 900 acres. or
nearly one-fOurth the entire cultivated
area, are now irrigated and thus Sc
cured at least against any ordinary
drought. The cost of this has aggre-
no less than 100000 rupees. The
next thing was to provide means for
the prompt and ready distribution of
food. 1t will be remembered that the
awful famine in Orissa was due chiefly
to the lack of such means. The rest of
India had plenty while Orissa was
starving. Since 1877 nearly $4,000
miles of railroads have been con-
structed, half the mileage being on lines
indicated by the Famine Commissioners G
and intended primarily to enable the
distribution of food in famine seasons.
The third task was the least SNOWY
but most difficult of all. 1t comprised |
the organization of an administrative
system under which relief could be
promptly provided whenever needed
IN small area or great, and could.
moreover, be applied in a manner
adopted to the special locality
or to the idiOsyncrasies of the people.
This had to be done in country half
as large as the Continent of Europe,
and far more populous, comprising a
dozen separate British Governments
and hundreds of separate States, with
races and creeds and castles innumer-
able and people abnormally sensitive
and jealous. Relief must be afforded
when necessary, without giving politi-
cal or social or religious offense. 1t
was a. formidable undertaking, but it
has been we'll achieved, and for the
first time in the history of India
great famine has this year been
brought under administrative control.
This has been done, too, without fric-
lion or annoyance, and the doing of it
deserves record as an unprecedented
performance and one not surpassed at
east in India, in practical beneficence
20 dependent race.
1t is safe to say that never has sue IA
IN emergency been so dealt with by
my government as this latest Indian
anime has been by the British Indian
Government.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
SUSSEX LEVY COURT.
THE DEMOCRATIC SCHEME TO CAPTURE
1T DEFEATED.

| oCAAAAaAE ~
1T DEFEATED.
Local Democrats are agitated over
the refusal of the Levy Court last
week to seat Willard H. Handy as a
member of the court from Seaford
hundred in place of John w. Green.
whose seat had been declared vacant.
Some time ago Green, who was cleo
ted to represent Seaford hundred, is
alleged to have moved into North
West Fork hundred. The Democrats
at once claimed that he had vacated his
seat because he had removed from the
hundred which he had been elected to
represent. Governor Tunnell was
finally prevailed upon to appoint sue
cessor to Green and he appointed
Handy.
The Republicans held that Green
had been elected from the county at
large, though he represented Seaford
hundred, and that he was eligible SO
long as he did not remove from the
county. When Handy appeared with
his certificate at the meeting of the
Levy Court Tuesday, that body,
which is Republican by a small major
ity, refused, by vote of Z to 5, to seat
Handy and retained Green in his
place.
OF course the Democrats were angry,
as the seating of Handy would have
reduced the Republican majority and
would also have made the Democrats
hold enough to attempt to declare the
seats of others Republican members
vacant and thus give the control of the
court to the Democrats. 1t is claimed
that plan was already on foot to de-
clare the seat of another Republican
vacant on the ground that he was not
a freeholder and appoint Democrat
to vacant place.
The Republicans say that the Demo
crates wish to get the Republican out
of control of the Levy Court because
they fear that the ship-shod manner in
which the Democrats have been trans
acting county business will be ex-
posed. The Democrats are threatning
to take legal proceeding to compel !.
the seating of Handy, but it is not be-
lieved that they will be successful in
their plan.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
A New Deal in Ohio.

Says the Philadelphia Times. Thinos
nave taken a new turn in Ohio. as
Ioodles would say, and it seems to he
a fortunate one for Senator Hanna.
Inc Democrats started out with a
great flourish of trumpets, got down
on their marrow bones to cultivate tho
cheap money and Populist element.
ana assumed that they had accom-
pushed complete fusion of all the
raS-tag and bobtail political forces to
make common cause against the Re-
publlcans. With such a union tbe
chances for the Democrats to carry the
State would be quite even, with possi.
bic odds in their favor, but brilliant as
John r. Mclean is in political man.
agement, Marcus A. Hanna can heat
HIM and give him points in the game.
The POpulists have just held their
state Convention in Ohio, and the
Mclean layout was to have them fuse
with the Democrats, as the Democrats
mad offered them everything thew
wanted and were willing to give them
more. Hanna knows we'll the COM
merclal character of cheap money and
Popullstic elements in political con-
tests, and he went at them squarelv in
a business fashion, spent money freely
to procure the attendance of the right
sort of delegates, and when the Pom
ullst convention met it proved to be a
Populist-Hanna body instead of a
POpulist-McLean gathering. Instead
OF fusing with the Democrats. under
the purse and whip and spur of Hanna
they cut loose from the Democracy
that had sacrificed every vital princi-
pie of Democratic faith to win their
favor, and decided to go it alone with
COxey as their candidate for Governor.
This puts an entirely new phase
upon the contest in Ohio, and appa-
rently gives Hanna a chance to win
both State officers and Legislature
hands down. He has the Republican
party tolerably well united; he has the
advantage of ninety-cent wheat for the
armers, and forty-three cent silver
lollars to disgust even the free silver
tes OF average intelligence; he has a
'isible revival in commerce, industry
md trades, and in addition to running
lis own party he proposes to plow deep
urrows with the Mclean Populist
leifer.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
BRITISH POWER on THE NILE.

The news of the arrival Of S;dor
Altchener, with the forces of the An
Slo-Egyptian expedition, at Abu Hamed
ana OF the capture of that place from
the Dervishes, is matter of sunroma
interest not only to the British and
Egyptian Governments, but To tba
whole world. The deliberate but an
parently irresistible advance of the av-
pedltlOnary force is more than mere
march OF conquest; its object is not the
restoration to the Khedive of his Su-
uanese provinces, but the reclamation
OF Northeastern Africa from the bar
Oarlsm which has scared it with fire
and held it in subsection by the sword
and the return of the suppressed inbob.
ltants OF the region to community with
civilization. The march of Sirdar
NlIchener army has apparently been
SLOW; but when the difficulties which
hao to be overcome are taken into the
account, the progress made will be
seen to Lave been as rapid as was com
pahble with the security of the force
Between Wadai Halfa, the startino
point of the expedition, and Abu Hamed
lies the trackless and waterless Nubian
Desert.
The subterfuge of qualifying the
BRITISH occupation of the Nile Valley
oy the term "Anglo-Egyptian, " how
ever, might as well be abandoned t.
Is incredible that the efforts of ''Tommv
Atkins" under the broiling Nubian sun
should be directed to the end of restor-
ing the glory and power of the Kbedive
and the firm establishment of British
power on the Upper Nile by the expe-
dltlon under the command of Sirdar
kitchener, may be taken as the eouiva-
lent OF notice to the world that Brit- |
lsh domination at Cairo will also he |
permanent, and that the Nile, from it's
mouths to Victoria Nyanza, is here
after to be regarded as a British river
From the point obtained by the expe-
dltlonary forces the advance to Khar-
tum, and beyond will be comparativelv
easy. The river is navigable from Abu j
Hamed to its sources in the great Cen
tral African Lakes, and it may not be
long before line of British cantoments
Shall be established which will extend
IN an unbrOken chain from Alexandria
TO Mombasa. Nor would this achieve
ment give cause for anything but graf
lhcatlOn to the well-wisbers of the
human race.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

Mr.. A. @. Wolfe, of Dundee. Mo.
travels for Mansur & Tibbetts, Imple-
ment Co., of st. Louis, gives travelling
men and travellers in general, some
good advice. ''Being Knight of the
Grip" he says, 81 have for the past
three years, made it rule TO keep nv
self supplied with Chamberlain s Collie,
Cholera and Diarrea Remedy, and
have found numerous occasions to test
its merits, not only on myself, but on
others as well. / can truly say that /
never, in single instant, have known
1t to fail. | consider it one of the best
remedies travellers can carry and could
relate many instances where / have
used the remedy on skeptics, much to
their surprise and relief. / hope every
travelling man in the u. s. will carry a
bottle Of this remedy in his grip" For
sale by Clifton & Raymond, Smyrna,
Del.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
DR.. Evelyn Says lie Can Work Wonders
with the Use of Horse Blood.
w. J. L..

SAN Francisco, Aug. 5.-Dr. Fred
W. d. Evelyn, head of st. Luke's
Hospital in this city, has just made
public the results of fifteen years. ex-
periments, by which he claims to have
found certain cure, by incubation of
horse blood, for drunkenness, as we'll
as for the transmission of HEREDITARY
faint of alcoholism. DIR. Evelyn began
his Investigations while a surgeon in
the British army in Zululand, and he
selected a horse as a clean animal with
plenty of blood.
His cure is ON the same lines as the
vaccination remedy, and he asserts
that it not only kills the craving for
drink, but also relieves the children of
a drunkard from hereditary taint. The
substance which he gains by injecting
alcohol into the blood of a horse he
calls equisine, and he thus introduces
it into the human system.
The doctor init oduces alcohol into
the horse and then draws off the blood
into sterilized vessel, where it is
mixed with chloral to influence the
clot. After settling twenty-four hours
it is subjected to freezing process.
and then shaken for half an hour and
decanted.
The result is a slightly sticky, straw
colored fluid, which he calls equisine.
What vaccine is to smallpox, he says,
equisine will be to hereditary or ac-
quired alcoholism. Equisine is pre-
pared in small plaques made by satur-
ating paper with fluids and then bak-
ing them in a hot air chamber. The
skin of the arm or leg of the patient is
scarifed and plague applied, moist
ened with boiled water. Twelve hours
later the plague is again moistened
and applied and worn for five days. In
adult cases of alcoholism, a plague is
applied for eight or nine weeks. The
doctor declares he has been successful
in all cases where sedatives or narcot-
les were not used.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
NEWS FROM THE NORTH.
Reported By Our Esteemed Contemporary,
the KlOndike KlariOn.

Mr.. Bill Muggins, that prince OF
good fellows, residing on Yaller ave
nue., is putting a handsome 1Sk. gold
leaf roof on his new barn.
We are pleased to announce that the
First Presbyterian Church will give 8
boiled dog supper at it's parlors Thurs.
DAY evening at 7.3O o'clock. Admis-
sion 81. Children half fare.
Col. Frankfort of the Bang Up Res
taurant, meals served at all hours. has
the editors thanks for a Juicy Joint of
roast mule as fine as he ever stuck a
a tooth into. Come again, Colonel.
Now is the time to subscribe to the
KtariOn-$24 per annum, invariably in
advance. Good, clean nuggets taken
on subscription.
Our leading dentist, DIR. Jim Mofitt,
believes in fostering home industries
He uses Klondike gold in plugging
teeth. DIR. Jim is also a jolly ierker.
Call on him when in town.
Reward. -Ninety-nine dollars reward
will be paid for information leading to
to the arrest and conviction of the low
Hung scOundrel who stole our office
eaton Tuesday night last. That cat cost
us money, and he was getting fat
enough to make us look forward to
Thanksgiving dinner with more than
ordinary feelings of gustatory delight.
Don't throw away the boots YOU
have been working in all summer. We
can assure newcomers to our vicinity
that while turkey is a good thing
for a Christmas dinner, a pair of we'll
boiled and seasoned boots, heavy
leather preferred, are great deal bet
ter than no dinner. We have been
here before.
Little Johnnie, the bright and intel
hgent three year old son of our es-
teemed tOwnsman, c. H. Jinkins, who
was seriously choked on a nugget of
gold the hired girl carlessly left lying
on the kitchen floor, where the child
was playing, is, we are glad to say, i'm
proving.
Mr.. K. j. Herman's spirited team of
relndeers ran away yesterday afternoon
on Yukon Avenue, extended, while
bringing a load of gold dust to town.
and scattered the yellow sediment
around the landscape to such an extent
that several residents of the States liv-
ing out that way grew quite homesick.
1t was so remindful to them of the goI- |
denrod, which is their national flower.
At q recent reception in this city of |
our etjtest set, the lion of the evening
was G. Washington Wellington of the
United States, and he was thus hon
Ored and liOnized because he was the
only man present who was not mil
lionaire. Society always delights in
novelties.
At the bridal breakfast after the
Bing- Bang wedding on Dollar Boule-
Yard yesterday, full report of which
vas KtoriOn exclusive, the piece de
was a fillet of bay horse
served on plates of solid gold half an
nch thick. A washtubful of gold was
'howered down on the happy pair as
hey walked down the front steps of
he brides home to their reindeer
ledge.
We have the nugget some bad boy
brew through our window last night,
'reaking a pane of glass, and we shall
'e glad to give it to him for new
'ane. The nugget weighs four ounces
nd the size Of the pane was Sx1O.
my person wishing to exchange a pane
+ glass that size for the nugget will
lease call at this office before the ar
lval of the cold wave. Z
w. J. L. f
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

1t is said that the people of the
United States are more wasteful of
good food than any other people in the
world, and that our extravaganza in
this line is a source of wonder and
amazement to foreigners. The state
ment has been made that in New York
City alone enough good food is wasted
daily to feed $4,000 or 10000 people.
Nor is this waste confined to hotels and
restaurants. On the contrary, it is
most pronounced among those living
at home, the large apartment houses
sometimes showing a reckless extent of
throwing good, sound food into the
garbage receptacles that is positively
appalling.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

The Republican State Convention of
Kentucky, which met at Louisville on
last week, disappointed general expec-
tation by failing to break up in fac
tional row, the many elements having
been kept together on a platform of
which the expressive plank was de-
mand "that the civil service be so mod
fled as to limit the terms of service
to four years, with the privilege of re-
appointment or promotion, subject to
each restrictions as will secure compe-
tent officials and to every section Of the
country its proper portion of them"
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

Don't bolt your food, it irritates your
stomach: Choose digestible food and chew
it. Indigestion is a dangerous sickness.
Proper care prevents it. Shaker Digestive
Cordial cures it. That is fhe long and short
of Indigestion. Now the question: Have
or discomfort after eating, headache. dizzi-
ness, nausea, offensive breath, heartburn,
langour, weakness. fever, jaundice, fatu-
lence, loss of appetite, irritability, constipa-
ton, etc. Yes, you have indigestion. To
cure it, take Shaker Digestive Cordial. The
medicinal herbs and plants of which Shaker
Digestive Cordial is composed, help to die.
the food In your stomach; help to strens7N<
your stomach. When your stomach is sIst
care will keep it so. Shaker Digestive c.
cial is for sale by druggists, price 10 cents
to 800 per bottle.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

CoL. WATsON's WILL.-Col. Curtis
S. Watson, who died recently at Mil
ford, bequeathed 800 to the Metho-
dists, $500 to the Avenue Church, Mil
ford; $500 to the Missionary society of
the Methodist Episcopal Church and
$500 to the claimants fund of the Will
mington Conference.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
SEASON OF 1897.
WOODLAND BEACH !

- The season at Woodland Beach will open June
20th This is one of the most nonniar onS ~,
traetve bayside resorts in the cOuntr,. posseSs
ing the finest payiliOns. handsOmest grounds.
win c0nYeniences aud facilities for the accom-,
m0datlon of guests. on the bay
Inc Hotel has recently been enlarged thor.
ohghly renovated, papered and painted and
inrnlShed throughout ma king it the most com.
the peninsula ''
lhc cuisine" is ui surpassed, the table lib.
orally supplied with ihe choicest viands of The
city and country markets.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

japan is preparing to adopt a gold
basis, and the fuctuating price of sill
yer is seriously disturbing business in
China. These are not encouraging
signs for the people who are trying to
make the world adopt silver as the
partner Of gold at fixed ratio.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

The movement in favor of Seth Low
for the first mayor of Greater New
York does not lag. and over 10000
names have been secured to petitions
in his favor. 1t is doubtful if all the
political bosses combined can now de-
feat him.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

They don't make men fuss about it."
We are speaking of DeWitt's Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for cOnstipa-
ton, billiOusness and all stomach and liver
troubles. They never grippe. Clifton q
Raymond, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

non'l TObacrO SEit and Smoke Your life Away.
- Quit tobacco easily and forever. be mag
netic. full OF lie. nerve and yigor, take No-To-
Dae- the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran.
tccd booklet und sample free. Address
Sterling itemedy Co, Chicago or New York
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

It heals everything except broken heart
may be said of De Wits Witch Hazeli
Salve. Piles and Rectal diseases, cuts,
burns, bruises, letter, eczema and all skin
troubles may be cured by it quickly and
Darmanflv
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
WHAT To M

There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy
tultils every wish in relieving pain in
the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and
every part of the urinary passages. IT
corrects inability to hold urine and
scaldlng pain in passing it or bad eff
iiects following use of liquor, wine or
beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to get up
many m, times during the night to urinate.
Inc mild and the extraordinary effect
OF Swamp-ROOt is soon realized. IL
stands the highest for its wonderful
cures OF the most distressing cases. If
you need a medicine you should have
the best. Sold by druggists. price so
cents and one dollar. You NAV have
sample bottle and pamphlet both sent
1ree by mail. Mention the SMYRNA
TINES and send your address to DIR.
Kllmer & c., Binghamton, N. Y. The
Proprietors of this paper guarantee the
of this offer.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

Bombay Hook Island, upon which Woodland
Beach is situated, has long been noted for its
good cunning grounds, and is still keeping mn
is reputation; woodc ok and snipe having been
secured in abundance the past season. Good
plOver shooting during July, August and Sep
TEMPER In the Fall and Spring the best place
on the bay for duck shooting.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

Burning, itching skin diseases instantly
relieved by DeWiit's Witch HAZEL Saive,
unequalled for cuts and bruises, burns. 1t
heals without leaving a scar. Clifton d.
Raymond
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

If silver keeps on going down this
way plumbers will be using it for
water pipes before long. -hadianapo-
us NeVs.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
HOW TO FIND OUT.

Fill a bottle or common glass with
urine and let it stand twenty-four
hours; sediment or settling indicates
an unhealthy condition of the kidneys.
When urine stains linen it is positive
evidence OF kidney trouble. Too fire.
quent desire to urinate or pain in the
PACK, is also convincing proof that the
kidneys and bladder are out of order.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
MUSIC.

A hrst-elass Orchestra under the leadership of
William ]. Oglesby, of Chester, Pa, will furnish
music in the Grand Pavilion every day and at
the weekly Wednesday evening hops.
TERMS, VERY REASONABLE.
For further particulars, address
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. I0c or 25c
II 9. Q. G. fail TO cure, druggists refund money
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
GRABBING.
CUNNING.

Crabs caught by the quantities at the landing
without the trouble or expense of boat Boats
70 hire at reasonable rates. Free to guests of
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
FISHING.

Boats can be secured at all times fur Fishing
OF which hne sport there is always plenty when
the weather is at all favorable Without doubt
the best point on the Bay for this sport.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
j. B.COOPER.

Staple Goods in all usual
lines, Groceries, Provisions,
Fruits, Cedarware, Baskets,
CrOckery, Glass, China,
Lamps, Blank Books, Sta
tiOnery, Albums, Bibles,
Hy ymna ais, Miscellaneous
Books, Cutlery, Brushes,
Musical Sundries, Twines,
Ropes, Shoe Findings, Am
munitiOn, Tinware, Wire
Goods, Oil Cloths, Dry
Goods, Notions, Pocketbooks,
Fishing Seines and Twines.
Cigars, Tobacco, Housekeep-
ing Sundries, Seeds, Country
Produce, all at right prices
and in guaranteed condition.
Stocks come and go and
styles therefore change,
but general lines remain
about the same.
]. B. COOPER.
Smyrna times., 1897-08-18
NEW CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.

York Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30

Wadsworth. She was a pretty girl
with plenty Of admirers, but of them
all she favored but one, and that was
William Mckinley. The energetic lad
wooed like Napoleon, but he met his
Waterloo at the hands of the old peo-
pie. AS soon as they discovered that
the young couple were contemplating
matrimony they interfered. Mckinley
was poor, and to the shrewd eye OF
John Wadsworth he did not appear like
n man calculated to get on in the world,
and for this reason he denied him the
hand of his fair daughter. The usual
result followed. Clandestine meetings
and surreptitious correspondence was
resorted to. Whispers of a possible
ears. They resolved upon stern meas
ures and the romance was at an end.
There was In Poland young man
named McMong. who had persistently
wOoed the fair Lydia. Her parents ia
vored his suit and declared that she
must marry him. There was stormy
scene and the girl vowed that she
would have the man Of her choice or
none, but in the end she yielded. She
married McAIong, who has been to her
all that her parents anticipated. To
day she is living in Big Rapids with her
husband and two pretty daughters.
Their home is coy and comfortable,
and they have the respect of the COM
munity and a substantial part in its
social life.