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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-01-29

ce:ved by certificate and four on pro-
baton during tie first quarter of Rev.
A. c. Stevens pastorage, and ten have
been dismissed by certificate. The
PASTORS salary was increased from $500
to 81 1000 per year. During the quarter
a parsonage was purchased by the
church and in her report Mrs. A. r.
Boggs as president of the, Ladies Aid
society, stated that they had paid 5000
on the purchase price of the parsonage,
which is evidence that the society is a
faithful adjunct to the church. In
membership the Mitchell church is the
third largest in the state, while the
Sunday School is classed as the largest
in that denomination in the state, hav-
ing an enrolment of $50 scholars, the
average attendance for the past quarter
being l8l Under the superintendency
of j. J. McDougall this branch of the
church has made great progress and as
he was reelected the same healthy
condition will undoubtedly prevail this
war
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-01-29
AN INCREASED ATTENDANCE.

In Spite of the Depressed Times MitcheiIs
University Has a Large attendance.
The really meritorious and excellent
work performed by the Mitchell Uni
versity in years past has commenced to
bear fruit anG while the attendance of
students has ut all times been very sat-
isfactory year in and year out the pres
ent number of students enrolled is
highly gratifying to the college man
agement. At present the number OF
students pursuing the regular course
of study is 1876, an attendance which
has not been approached in some time.
An effort is now being made to Or
ganize college band, Prof. Collette,
of the faculty, being an expertmusician
and good instructor in band work.
There are three young ladies at the
University who are pretty fair players
on the cornet and who will become
members of the organization. The
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-01-29
Married In Minnesota.

Married, at Adrian, Mimi, Jan. llth,
1897, Miss Selma Carlson, of this city,
to Mr.. o. M. Haislet. Miss Carlson is
the daughter of MIR. and Mrs. G. A.
Carlson, one OF the oldest settlers OF
Prosper township. She has grown to
womanhood among the young people
OF that township and has a large num-
Der of friends who wish her success and
happiness in her future home. Mr..
Haislet is editor of the Adrian Guar
dian and is an energetic business man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haislet have bright
future and will be at home to their
friends at Adrian, MINI.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-01-29
THAT TRlOSCOPE
Bad Weather and Its Inefficient Handling
Made the Trioscope Entertainment
Anything but Successful.
Our College on The Hill Seems to be En-
joying a High State Of Prosperity
Some Improvements.
SMALL FIRE TUESDAY
A Fire Originated in Allan LaddS Apart
mentS Tuesday but the Damage Did
Not Amount to Much.
EDISON's GREAT INVENTION.

The Telescope, the Wonder OF the Age
Was Exhibited Friday Evening.
A very good audience in size was
present at the Grand opera house Fri
day evening to see the trioscope, of
which so much has been said of late.
1t is indeed a wonderful machine and
shows movable objects and persons just
the same as in real life. The first
picture shown was that of fire depart
ment going to fire and so realistic
was the scene that it seemed as if the
horses would rush right down into the
audience, and involuntarily one would
move uneasily in his seat. This was
followed by other pictures. such as a
burning barn with the smoke rolling
out and the rescue OF horses and wag-
ons; the serpentine dance: the appear
ance OF the surf at Long Branch after
storm and many other scenes. Mr..
Carmody had considerable difficulty in
exhibiting the pictures, owing to the
unstable condition of the platform on
which the trioscope rested, which
caused the pictures to be wavery and
at times it was difficult to discern the
full import of the scene. Again the
electric current was not sufficiently
strong at times and the pictures did not
develop satisfactorily. During the
long waits which frequently occurred
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Nichols made the
time pass pleasantly by rendering some
very excellent music on the mandolin
aud piano.
The pictures were taken by instan-
taneous photography by successive
posures at the rate of forty-six per
second on 50-foot strip OF transparent
celluloid film, each picture being ir
size about by II inches. This film IL
unrolled by means of small windlasl
arrangement so that the pictures pass
a given point at the rate of forty-si,
per second. They are illuminated BY
passing in front Of powerful ar,
hlSh VIC AoJo Va VulSu oi . COACOu
trated to focus upon space just tn,
size of 3 single picture, and passing
through the picture the rays enter
series OF lenses which magnify then
and throw them from tho upper CALLER,
upon screen affixed to the drop cur
tain of the stage. AS the crank of tn
wiudlass is turned, the passage Of tn
pictures is SO swift that each successiv
impression upon the retina OF the ey
blends into those Immediately preced
ing and following it, thus producin
the effect ofsteady and constant motor
Owing to the storm not very larg
audience was in attendance at the mat
nee Saturday afternoon.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-01-29
THINKS 1T WILL PASS.

Congressman Gamble Believes the Free
Homestead Bill win Become a Law.
Under date of Jan. 20, The REPUB-
L1CAN received copy of the free home-
stead bill, now before the house, from
Congressman Gamble, accompanied by
the following letter and believing it
will be OF interest to the public it is
published, inasmuch as it gives some
information copcering the bill probably
not known:
Mr.. G. w. Downey, Mitchell, SID.
DEAR SIR:-In compliance with your
request l forward to you copy of the
| free homestead bill passed by the
senate, You will observe that the
original measure as it passed the house
had reference only to Oklohoma. AT
that time we had pending the general
bill in the house, but it was thought
wise by Speaker Reed to test the judg-
ment of the house and pass the Okla
homa bill rather than the general bill.
1t passed the house without any parti-
cular opposition. For my part l did
not care to have Oklahoma receive the
benefits of legislation and have South
LohOlo Sob Ouo, 1u0 WCAu USlOio ,tuS
committee on public lands in the senate
and urged that South Dakota be in
cluded with that of Oklahoma. The
result was, the bill was made general
in its application 80 as to apply to all
reservations and in this form passed
the senate. The senate appointed q
committee on conference, but Speaker
Reed held under the rules the bill
would have to be referred to the com.
mittee on public lands in the house.
BY 80 doing, it lost its privileged
character. On Monday we had hear
ing before the committee on public
lands in the house and secured fav-
orable recommendation for the passage
of the senate bill, although the chair
man of the committee, Mr.. Lacey Of
Iowa, insists that proviso shall be en-
bodied limiting its application to reser-
vations that have been fully paid for
by the government. This would
not affect the Sisseton and Yankton
t reservations, but would eliminate
+. the lands in the Great Sioux Reser-
, vation from the operations of the act.
:. The house committee refused to en-
| body the proviso. We will use our
: best endeavors to get the bill up for
: consideration, but we may meet with
9 considerable obstacles, as there are
those in the house who oppose it's pas
: sage. Rest assured we will do every
I thing we can to have the bill passed,
9 and believe we can succeed.
, Yours very truly,
ROBERT J. GAMBLE.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-01-29

athletic association are pushing their
scheme for erecting and maintaining q
gymnasium which they hope to have
finished and ready for use before spring.
With the gymnasium the athletic
aspirants can better fit themselves for
the annual sports in June.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-01-29
THE QUARTERLY CONFERENCE

The Methodists Held Their Usual Quar-
terly Meeting on Monday Evening.
Presiding Elder Boggs listened to
the quarterly report of the Methodist
church OF this city Monday evening
and the statistics set forth were OF an
encouraging nature in spite OF the de-
pressed times. The present member
ship of the church is placed at 26O.
Fifteen new members have been re.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-01-29

lii the winter season a new moon &C.
curing between 10 a. III. and 10 m.
means colder weather, with possibly
high winds from the north.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-01-29

Francois Of France was designated
Father of Letters on account of the en-
couragenent he gave to the arts and lit
eratUre.
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24
now to Get Found In no.ton.

A stranger has no excuse for being
lost in Boston, although our streets are
q trifle crooked. If the visitor who has
lost his bearings viii only strike out at
random, he will soon find himself on
Boston Common. lisa sure rule.--Bos-
ton Record.
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24
wARNINe.EoRlscHooLMAsAM
A Fond Mother Viewed the Acquaintance
with Snna 9nsnicinr

A Fond Mother Viewed the Acquaintance
With Some Suspicion.
Theecourse of a teacher in some rural
schools is not unmarked by pitfalls.
One young lady thus engaged tells an
amusing story Of the anxiety her con-
duct unwittingly caused the mother of
e.of her pupils. The pupil in ques-
tion was an Overgrown and stupid but
well behaved boy Of 10, named Tobias
Hodge. He was older by several years,
and far bigger than any other pupil in
the school, but he was not SO well ad-
vanced in his studies as some Of tho
younger ones. He seemed SO anxious
to learn that the teacher often got him
to remain after school for the purpose
of assisting him in his studies.
Their homeward way lay over the
same road, and they would walk home
together after the hard places in the les
sons had been made easy for Tobias.
Often in the morning, when she left
home to go to the schoclhOuse, the
teacher would find the boy waiting for
her, and she tactfully gave aim several
lessons in politeness, such AZ lifting his
hat to her and other ladie-. and assist
ing her over bad places - the road.
She was beginning to Iecl that she
might really make something out Of To
bias, when her efforts on mis- behalf re-
ceived q sudden check by the receipt OF
the following note from lis widowed
mother:
MADDUM-I just want to say hat 1 have
heerd how you are carryin on with my sor
Tobe, an all 1 got to say is that he amt OF
marryin age an 1 am his gardeen. A word t.
the wise ought to be suffishent.
London Telegraph
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24

Have you young daughter just at the
age when young girls most need mothers
loving carer Is she physically strong and
well or does she suffer from any weakness
OF the delicate organism which most init
mately concerns her womanhood
If So you understand her suffering better
than anyone else can. You know that such
troubles, unless remedied. mean a life of
incapacity and wretchedness for her. You
appreciate her reluctance to undergo physi-
clans examinations " and treatments;' -
and you will be glad of assurance from the
most eminent medical authorities in this
country that in nineteen cases out of
twenty these mortifying methods are alb
solutely unnecessary.
Any mother who will write about her
daughters case, to Dr. 4. V. Pierce, chief
consulting physician of the Invalids' Ho-
tel and Surgical Institute of Buffalo, NY,
will receive free of cost the best profess
sional advice Obtainable, and instructions
whereby complete cure may in nearly
every instance, be effected by simple, COM
nonsense home methods.
No living physician has wider practical
experience or a higher reputation in the
treatment of diseases peculiar to women
than DR.. Pierce. His Favorite Prescrip-
tion is the only proprietary remedy ever
designed by an educated authorized physi-
clan specifically to cure women's diseases.
His great Iooo-page illustrated book, The
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser "
IS of priceless value to every mother. It
will be sent absolutely free on receipt of
2I one.cent stamps, to pay the cost of mail
ing only. Address, Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, n. Y. or.
send 81 stamps for heavy, cloth bound
copy.
The unfailing, never gripping cuye for
constipation-Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24
BRANCH ROADS.

Leave harrington for Franklin City and way
stations, milford, Georgetown. Berlin Lewes ,1cI
~ ~ a. N. week days and 6.34 o. IueSday s.
Thursdays and Saturdays. Returning train
leaves franklin CiIy, 55U, a N weekdays
ana l42 D. N. TUESDAYS Thursday, and -atur-
days only.
Leave Franklin City for Ch.ucoteague via
steamer l.3Op N. weekdays. returning. leave
Chlncoteague AZ a. IN. week days
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
at 1889 a. N. 632 p. N. weekdays. Returning
leave Lewes 6.45 a. m, 81 , % week days.
Leave Harrington for Berlin I. 80 a. N week
days. and 81 p. m. Tuesdays Thursdays ana
saturdays. Returning leave Berlin 6.j7 a ~
weekdays and 2.43 D. N. Tuesdays Thursdays
and Saturdays.
Leave Townsend for Centreyile at g.2l a. N
and go p. m weekdays, leave Ceutreville So
a. m. ana 2.21 p. m, week days
Leave Clayton for Oxford az g IS a u and A.
p. m; leave Oxford 6.45 a. L.. ana / 30 .. N
week days.
Leave Sesford for Cambridge az llI7 a. II.
week days, and on Tuesdays Thursdays and
saturdays 40 p. m; returning leave Cambridge
az 80 & m, week days, and 257 p II. Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
Train leaves Clayton for CheSter-Own q. Is N,
returning, leaves ChesertOwn. g 5C u N
CoNNECTIONs-AtP Porter with Newark & Della.
Anne's& KentRailToad AtClayton with Delsware
q &Chesapeake Railroad and Baltimore x Delaware
Bay Railroad. Al Harrington, with Delaware,
Maryland Virginia Railroad AtSeafOrd, with
cambridge & SesfOrd Railroad. At Delmar, with
New York, Philadelphia Il Norfolk, WiCsmicO s
PocomOke, and Peninsula Railroads.
sDaily except Sunday
J. B. HUTCHINSON, General Manager
j. K. WOOD, General Passenger Agent
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24
SECRET SOCIETIES.

MORNING STAR LODGE No. 6, 1. o. 0 F.-Meets
every Friday evening, at 7.S0 o'clock.
MCDONNELL ENCAMPMENT, No 2, l. U. q. F.-Meets
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month. at 7.30 o'clock.
HARMONY LODGE, No. lS, A. F. A. M.-Meets First
and Third Thursday evenings of each month
at 730 o'clock.
SMYRNA LODGE, No. 5, I. o. G. T-Meets every
Wednesday evening, at 730 o'clock.
SMYRNA CONCLAvE, No. 45, ORDER OF HEPTAsoPHs
meets first and third Tuesday of each month
at 7.3O o'clock at the Odd Fellows Hall.
UNION CASTLE No II, X. G. .E.--Meets every Thurs
day evening in their hall in the Cooper Build.
ing, at 7,30 o'clock.
MIsPAH LODGE, No. I6, A. o. L. W.-Meets every
Monday evening at 7.90 o'clock in Odd Eel
lows Hall.
MIzPAH CONCLAvE No. 1871 ADHESIVE MoGUL
LIANs-Meets the first Monday evening OF each
month, at 7.30 O'Clock, in odd Fellows Hall
GENERAL WINFIELD s. HANCOCK Posi-, No. %
q. A. k.-Meets every Monday night in tht
Hall Of the Knights Of the Golden Eagle. John
Garner, COnmauoer.
STARS AND STRIPES COUNCIL. No, 26 JR. 0. U. A
N Meets at 1.30 p. m, second. and fourth
Thursdays of each month, IN Odd Fellows
Hall.
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24
GREATNESS UNDERVALUED.
Shakespeare, Scott and Mrs. siddons Were
Not Wonders Once.

Shakespeare, Scott and Mrs. Siddons Were
Not Wonders Once.
In these modern days, when the most
extravagant laudations are paid by lit
tie cliques to little poets and mediocre
actors, and the language of eulogy is
exhausted on what seems very small
prOvocation, it is difficult to picture a
time when not only the minor bard and
the second class actors were severely
dealt with, but even the best and great
est were exposed to trreverent criticism.
Robert Greene, who, however, was in
the same line of business (''wrote him
self'O, declared his contemporary
Shakespeare to be IAN upstart crow,
who, in his own conceit, was the only
shakescene in the country" Dryden
wrote of the bard Of Avon: "He writes
in many places below the dullest writ
ers Of our or any preceding age. Never
did any author precipitate himself from
such heights of thoughts to such low
expressions. He is the Janus of poets,
and you have scarcely time to admire
one face ere you despise the other.
Coming nearer to our own times, it
is generally, but quite enormously, sup
posed that the Waverly novels were re-
ceived with universal accord Of ac-
claim on their first appearance, but this
is by no means the case. In many of
the contemporary organs of criticism
they were damned with faint praise, "
and in some even without it.
Mrs. Siddons, again-a statue to
whom was uncovered in Paddington by
Sir Henry Irving-is supposed to have
taken the town by storm and to have
been at once acknowledged the queen Of
her profession. Yet Horace Walpole,
admitting her great talents, by no
means expressed himself with such en-
thusiasm. "She pleased me beyond my
expectation, but not up to the admira-
tion Of the ton, two or three whom were
in the same box with me. 49, Mr.
Crawford asked me if 1 did not think
her the best actress ever saw. 1 said {:
BY no means. We old folks are apt to
be prejudiced in favor of our first i'm
pressions. , She is a good figure, hand
some enough, though neither nose nor
chin according to the Greek standard,
beyond which both advance a good deal.
Her hair is either red or she has no OBJ
lection to its being thought so and had
used red powder. Her voice is clear and
good, but thought she did not vary its
modulations enough, nor ever approach
enough TO the familiar, but this may
come wenh more habituated to the awe
of the audience of the capital. Her ac-
tion is proper, but with little variety.
When without motion, her arms are not
| genteel.
"Thus, you see, all my objections are
very trihing, but what really wanted
but did not find was originality, which
announces genius, and without both
which l am never intrinsically pleased.
All Mrs. SiddOns did good sense or good
instructions might give. dare to say
that were 1 one and twenty 1 should
have thought her marvellous, but, alas
1 remember Mrs. Porter and the Dunes
nil and remember every accent of the
former in the very same part illus
trated London News.
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24
ABSINTH IN FRANCE.
Taking Glass of the Liquor Is Whole
Evenings Work.


Taking Glass of the Liquor Is Whole
Evenings Work.
Although absinth is to q Frenchman
what whisky is to an American, he
never dreams Of running behind a screen
and swallowing a glassful i'll one ire
mendOus effort. There is something al
most poetic i'll the way Frenchman
prepares and partakes Of his beverage.
1t always takes two walters to serve
a glass Of absinth. Waiter No. l brings
the tray, upon which are a carafe frap-
pc (ice water that has been frozen in
the carafe) a tall glass, a tiny tray
piled up with small blocks Of sugar and
queer fiat, perforated spoon. Waiter
No. 2, who has remained discreetly in
the rear, advances with the bottle of the
popular stimulant said to be the de-
structiOn Of 50 many French minds and
bodies. After saluting monsieur, the
garcon carefully pours the desired guam
tity into the glass and goes on to serve
some one else.
Then for the first time the French
man shows some signs of interest in the
udUl6I. nc TGllLJ ulSuCS HIS nOlQ OH his
cane, but one hand only; the other
never deserts the cane. He carefully
places the perforated spoon across the
top Of the glass. On the spoon he bal
ances, with careful nicely, a block of
sugar and gently pours a small quantity
Of ice water over the sugar into the
glass This done, he once more grasps
his cane with both hands and apparent
ly forgets all about the beverage before
him. The sugar slowly melts, drop by
drop, into the glass, through the per-
fOrations OF the spoon. Quite awhile
afterward, sometimes a half an hour,
the drinker again shows an interest in
his beverage. He looks to see if the
sugar has all melted; then he removes
the spoon and raises the glass for SIP
of the cOncoctiOn-onlya a sip, however
for it is sip by sip that Frenchmar
consumes his absinth, and a glass of it,
including the time passed in the prepa
ration, takes an entire evening g-Chi
cago Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24
Chinese Money.

= kind of Chinese money which is
largely manufactured and sold is worthy
Of mention, although the traveller need
not trouble himself with it except as
curiosity. This is prepared for the spe-
cial purpose Of burning at the graves Of
deceased relatives as an Offering to the
dead The denizens of the other world
are supposed to require and to be capa-
BILE Of receiving money in this way, but
the Chinaman is far too practical a per-
son to part in such fashion with the
currency of the empire. Instead he buys
for a few cash large supply of sill
vered and gilded pieces Of paper or Of
imitation coins blocked out Of cardboard.
Although these have no purchasing
power ON earth, they are supposed to
count for much in the transactions Of
the spirit world. BY this practice one is
reminded Of an old story of a miser who
left his belongings to his son ON condi-
tion that o certain sum of money should
be buried in the coffin with him. The
son was, however, a chip of the old
block and carried out his father wishes
by placing in the coffin a crossed check
for the required amount, assured that it
had little chance of being presented at
his bankers chambers Journal.
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24
The SMYRNA TIMES.
SnaVr'm0, DeI.,
Afternoon, Nov. gath, '97-
CHURCH SERVICES.

AsPUR METHoDET overwhelmingly Preach
ing at 1O% A. NJ and 7.5O P. NJ. Sunday School
ppm. Prayer Meeting-Thursdaysa ~ P. NJ.
Rev. Adam Stengle, Pastor.
ST, PETERS PROTESTANT EPIsCoPAL.-Sunday-
Preaching at 1OlS a. NJ. and ~ P. NJ. Holy Day
-915 A. NJ. Sunday School, P Prayer
Meeting-Wednesdays, at ~ P. Rev. G. w
Dame. Rector.
-Sunday-Preaching at 1917 A. NJ
and ~ P. NJ Sunday SchOol-1l19 AN. Prayer
Meeting-Fridays at P. NJ. Rev. J. l. Estlin
pastor
ST. POLYcARP CATHOLIC CHURCH-Seryicese every
other Sunday, by Father Connolly. Sunds
school Immediately after service.
SMYRNA CIRCUT.-PreaChing services, Friend
ship in the morning, SeversOn in the after
noon Jerman's Chapel and Smyrna Land.
ing alternate Sunday nights at 7.30. Rev. L.
W Layfeld pastor
CENTENNIAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL (Colored) -
Sunday--Preaching at IL A. NJ. and p NJ
Sunday School, P. NJ. Rev. J. H. Mason
Pastor.
A. NJ. E. CHURCH-SundL y-Preaching at II a
m, p. m. and p. III. Christian Endeavor
6% p. m, Sunday. Praise meeting at s O'Clock
Wednesday evening. Rev. Frank Bradley
pastor.
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24

There are II quinine factories in the
world, and 6 of these are in Germany,
Smyrna times., 1897-11-24
Not Impressed.

THAT tenor Of ours has a marvellous
voice. He can hold one of his notes for
half a minute.
"Faughl I've held one of his notes
for two years. "-Cleveland Plain Deal
er.