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Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
WHAT HELPED CAROLINE.

1t is much the same way in Caroline,
which within the recollection of mid
dle-aged men was considered a re-
proach to the Eastern Shore on account
of its poverty. Who would do so now
would be considered fool, to be an
swered according to his folly. Caroline
is not only prospering now, but it has
been prosperous all through the period
of depression felt so severely in other
Eastern Shore counties. Once people
outside pretended not to know there
was any good land in Caroline when
the fact is, there is but little not good.
The immigrants into Caroline from
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other
States have been of great service in the
development of the inherent wealth
there. Some brought capital; all
brought intelligence and habits OF
thrift and industry. Here again agri-
cultural prosperity has come not mainly
from the growth of cereals, though
there is some as fine wheat and corn
lands in Caroline as anywhere on the
shore, but in trucking.
Caroline farmers owe butlittle money
and that indebtedness is being cut
down every year. Lands in the best
sections bring good prices, better thar
in adjacent counties. Recently an ad
ministrator had several tracts of Caro-
line lands to sell to close an estate
The representative of Talbot news
paper applied for the advertisement
The reply was: Gland is so cheap il
Talbot people from that county are no
likely TO become bidders at my sale o
these better-priced Caroline lands"
Caroline is the one county on tb,
Eastern Shore which has no oyster in
terest, and but a very limited one il
the shad fisheries of the Choptank
Her wealth is developed from the sur
face. But it is a fact that more none,
is paid out in Caroline for picking Der
ries and such things than in Talbot Oh
Dorchester for shucking oysters. Some
times $50, 900 season is paid for pick
ing strawberries shipped from Ridgle,
alone.
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AWonderfuI DiaeOvery.

The last quarter of a century records
many wonderful discoveries in medicine,
but none that have accomplished more fer
humanity than that sterling old househoid
remedy Browns' Iron Bitters. II seems 70
contain the very elements Of good health,
and neither man, woman or child can take
II without deriving the greatest benefit.
Browns Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
wORCEsTER's sLowNEss.

Worcester is not advancing as it
should. Debts are increasing and
many farmers are getting further be-
hind every year. The county needs an
invasion of immigrants with capita, in
dustry and economy, and who have
the best knowledge of the best modes
of cultivation, to cooperate with the
Worcester people, who have the
knowledge of what crops can be most
proftably raised. But Worcester is no
worse off now than Kent, for instance,
was thirty years ago. 1t is only that
in agriculture and kindred pursuits the
the county is behind some of the
others. 1t has not had and has not now
the shipping facilities for distributing
the products of the soil most other
Eastern Shore counties have, and this
this goes great ways. A young man
who is crowded in any other Eastern
Shore county, if he has some capital
and knows his business, who is farm
er and not a sporting man, can buy
land in Worcester in which he can
make comfortable fortune in twenty
five years and live comfortably mean
while. Worcester is a county of great
agricultural opportunities.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
Carpets.

Our Fall Carpets are here
in the the newest and most
beautiful designs. We have
decided to close out last sea-
sons patterns at much reduced
prices. Some Of them might
suit you as we'll as the new
patterns.
$500 Wiltons for 81. 90.
$1.25 Administers for 85c.
$1.00 Velvets for 75c.
$1.35 Body Brussels for 95c.
Soc. Tapestry Brussels for 60c.
SIC. Tapestry Brussels for soc.
65c. Tapestry Brussels for 40c.
Remnants and short lengths
at even lower prices. Bring
your room measures.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
TALBOT's BETTER BASIS.

TALBOT's BETTER BASIS.
Talbot is probably on the upgrade
again. Her people owe more money
than do those of Wicomico and Caro-
line, but most of the creditors are
home people. A few years ago the
outlook in this county was very
gloomy. While there were no failures
OF trustees of any magnitude, there
were more CONNER cial failures in Eas-
ton in five years than in all the other
county towns on the Shore, and some
OF them were as bad, in the proportion
of assets to liabilities, as failures ever
become. The credit of the business
men in mercantile lines of course be-
came seriously affected, and they had
to draw in their lines of credit to farm
ers, but this, in the long run, was an
advantage to the farmers. And then
Talbot farmers cussed and grumbled
and complained and worried a long
time before they found out how to
raise wheat at profit when it brought
less than a dollar bushel, but they
grit their teeth, cut down their ex-
penses, increased their acreage and the
yield to the acre, when they found
they had to do it, for less than seventy
cents a bushel. Last year there was
a great improvement in all particulars.
Some old debts were paid and improve
ments made ON farms. Commercial
affairs are on a better basis. The mer-
chants now in business in Easton are
rated as well, as a whole, as those of
any other town, except Chestertown
and Salisbury. There have been very
few forced sales in Talbot. What
have been are mostly to satisfy debts
for fertilizer bills contracted. The
Talbot farmers who have been in debt
have been pretty well taken care of by
the financial institutions of Easton,
which are two national banks, build
ing association and a savings bank.
These institutions are all operated
by the same people, and Talbot man
says when a piece of paper is submit
to one it must be passed upon by all.
While this makes it harder to get a
discount, there being no competition
for the customer, if the debt becomes
delinquent in interest or in paying the
principle at maturity, he has four in
stitutiOns looking after him and try
ing to take care of him instead Of
one.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24

been sunk in the ocean or gone up in
smoke. Of course, this smites a COM
munity. But Kent and Queen Anne's
are elementary rich and have energetic
and progressive people. In Kent there
is much sound, solid capital, which
should be used for the relief of these
two sister counties.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24

Everybody wishes to go on vaea-
ton, but when they get there they
wish they had staid at home, ''Home.
sweet home"
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
Handkerchiefs

An odd lot Ladies' Linen
Hemstitched and Embroidered
nc. aud 25c. Ladies' Emboid-
cred Handkerchiefs, trimmed
with lace and footing-5oc.
ones for 25c. andSI 90 ones
for soc.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
THE BANKS HELPFUL.

Let who may abuse banks, the Tai
bot merchant and the Talbot farmer
should not In times of depression
and almost of despair the banks have
been their friends. In Talbot there
has been a great increase in helastfew
years in the value of the salt water
products, while in Dorchester and
Somerset there has been a falling off,
but it is still of great value. "Tangier
sound has kept Somerset county from
bankruptcy, says one, and the Chop
tank rivers (Great and Little has
saved Dorchester.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
Dimity.

Our 25c. fine grade Dimity
will all be closed out for I2lc.
per yard.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
Muslins for Saturday are

One yard wide Hill bleached at SIC.
One yard wide Sheeting, brown at
4c.
Indigo Blue Prints at 4c.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
DORCHESTER SAILORS.

This is hardly fair statement. Dor
chester is a large county, containing
much land of the highest Eastern
Shore value and much also that is COM
paratively valueless. In the neck,
Church creek and Tayler's Island dis
tricts, the uplands have always been a
good price, and when there happens to
be a farm for sale 1t is bought by one
of the residents. This is one section
of the Eastern Shore into which the
emigrants from another State or from
the Western Shore of Maryland has
hardly penetrated. They are thrifty
clannish and most hospitable people.
The young men from this part of Dor
chester are all sailors. Many of them
become seamen, mates, masters and
owners of ships. The history of the
commercial marine of the United States
cannot be properly written without
mention being made of the Fraziers,
the Mitchells, the Travers, the Gator,
the James, the Cooks, the Speddens,
the Kirwans and other Dorchester
families, who, generation after, have
sent their sons to sail the seas over.
They come back with fortunes, OF
never come back, and settle down al
middle age ON Dorchester farms and
and spend their money there. Much
of the acreage of Dorchester is marsh
that has not been worth 80 cents an
acre, but now that there is a market
value for marsh grass for packing
wares, and the value of the muskrat
meat and hide is becoming better
known, people are fighting to find out
who owns the marshes. While Dor
chester, taking the whole Of the grea'
big county, is behind some other East
ern Shore counties it has great oppor
tunities and wide-awake people to tax,
advantage of them. Several large for
tunes have been accumulated in Dor
chester, but more by trading and spec
ulating than by pure and simpl
farming.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
PROSPERITY AT wIcOMICo.

Time was, not very long ago, when
Somerset investors had the farm lands
of WicomicO pretty we'll covered with
liens. This is all changed now. Most of
these mortgages have been paid off and
Wicomoco money has gone to the re-
lief of Somerset farmers. COmforta-
BILE fortunes for this section have been
made by farmers who started business
on the poorest lands in the cOlnty.
Of course, the development of the lum-
Der interest, the conversion of the pine
forests into merchantable stuffs, for
which a great demand arose, was very
helpful. And the Wicomoco farmer
generally had sense enough to put the
money he got for his pine trees into
the improvement of his arabic acres.
This has told. A section drained by a
narrow but navigable stream was so
poor some years ago that the stream
was named Barren creek district Now
the conditions are so changed in re-
spect of fertility and value OF she lands
that the name is changed to Baron
Greek.
Wheat and corn are subsidiary crops
in Wicomico. The late Gen. VIM. Nc
Kenney, of Queen Anne's, grew more
wheat each year than the whole of Wi
comicO, but nearly as much money is
paid out every year in Wicomico fo1
picking berries, peas and such things
as the whole wheat crop of Queen
Anne's brings into that county. These
things and melons are the paying pro
ductivities.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
Organdies,

the 25c. grade, fine imported
quality, fot Ioc. per yard.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
Belts.

Colored Leather Belts, 25c.
ones for Ioc. and soc. ones
25c.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
Table Linens.

All pure linen German Dam
ask Table Cloth-hemstitched
all around and in very hand
some patterns-sPecial prices
for SATURDAY. will be
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24
PENINSULAR RESOURCES.
MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT ON THE
EASTERN SHORE OF
MARYLAND.
Review of Their Business and Industrial
Progress.

A correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun thus wrote last week:
ga number of gentleman from sew
eral Eastern Shore counties were
grouped together at RehobOth hotel
watching the downpour of the rain and
the mist-covered ocean before them.
Naturally, the conversation drifted
around toward and about local matters
until our part of Maryland became the
topic. And it was not the political sit
uation of the Eastern Shore that ac-
centuated the talk, but the material
and business present condition and
future outlook of these counties. With
out going into the details of what each
one said or quoting his language, the
substance of the talk, in so far as the
same conclusions were arrived at by
all, may make an interesting story.
"Wicomoco and Caroline, it is be-
lieved, are at present the thriftiest
ON the shore in SO far as agricultural
pursuits are concerned. The land is
less encumbered, and the farmers are
not very rapidly at all times, but surely
paying off their debts. In these cOun-
ties there are very few chattel mortga-
ges, which is good sign, as the per-
sonal property mortgage or bill of sale
is the last straw at which the drowning
debtor grasps.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24

and climate, for trucking. Spring
stuffs can be shipped ten days or two
weeks earlier than from Kent county,
Delaware, or Queen Anne's county,
Maryland.
Smyrna times., 1898-08-24

81 .3S for size 69x62 inches.
$1.85 for size S6x82 inches.
S2.20 for size 104x62 inches.
The times., 1898-11-10
NEW cHRYsANTHEMUMs.
They Have Up-to-Date Names and
Are Beautiful.
CFrom the Brooklyn Eagle.)

From the Brooklyn Eagle-)
1t is the acknowledged right of the
chrysanthemum to lay claim to a variety
of striking titles every Autumn. The
geranium is always the geranfum and a
rose year in and year out. but the shaggy
Fall flower annually receives batch OF
names. which keep it abreast with the
latest developments of the times The
Cornell experiment station at Ithaca has
produced new varieties OF chrysanthe-
NUNS this year, which will be introduced
to Horticulture as Admiral Dewey, Lieut..
Hobson, Clara Barton, Theodore Roose-
yelt Justice Van Wyck, and DR..
Charles H. Parkhurst. They range
in appearance from delicate white
to deep yellow. crimson and
maroon. The red and pink are the most
difficult to cultivate. The blossom which
bears the name of the noted New York
divine is said to be the finest of the new
chrysanthemums for 1895 In writing Of
the flower Wilhelm Mills Of the Cornell
experiment station describes 1t as rich,
warm white and states that in the variety
test of the plants at Ithaca the Park
hurst chrysanthemum had four great
white flowers, each eight -by four inches.
that kept the cultivators facinated and
delighted by their daily changes for over
a month The variety Is especially rec
commended for window gardening as its
lasting powers are exceptional
The times., 1898-11-10
A Great Victory for auay.

(t'rom the Phiiad -lphia Ledger.l
1t is not so much Mr.. Stones as Mr.. Qny's
.riumph; it IS not so much 1t. Swallows or Mr..
Jcnks's defeat it is rie peoples
We should all be fair to Senator Quay. and
frankly eoncede to him every leaf oi the LAUREL
in his wreath of victory. The most respectable
and public spirited newspapers in the State op-
posed him and his candidates; Dr. swallow and
Mr.. jerks. and. more powerful than either or
both, Mr.. Wanamaker, swept through the cont
monwealth, making earnest. impissionsd protests
against Quay and Quayism. To overthrow such
formidable forces TO win notable triumph,
and Mr. Quay did it.. Let him have full credit
for again conqucring the patriotism, intelligence
and integrity of the commonwealth
He was helped to do it by the power OF
organization, by his control of the machinery OF
the elections. by the counting and returning Of
his henchmen, by the fraudulent votes cast for
his candidates. but by more than any or all thess
things was he helped and given the victory By the
people of Pennsylvania, who deliberately went
to the polls and voted to maintain Senator Quay
and Quayism in control OF the government 1t
is to the people that he owes his triumph: they
wanted such a ruler to rule over them. TO make
and administer their laws. and they declared
at the polls. 1t was their right to do it. and
they exercised it as tsolishly as did the Frogs
that elected King Stork to rule over and devour
them.
The times., 1898-11-10
Mark Twain and the Kaiser.
From the Ladies' Home JOurnal.)

Hon William Walter Phelps. who was the
American minister to Germany when Mark Twain
first met William ii, said that the incident was
a striking one. THE Kaiser" said Mr. Phelps
''was then speaking terms with but one
American author. Fenimore Cooper. Now royal
personages usually have series OF set speeches
ready for emergencies. But William opened the
conversation with reference to The Last of the
Mohcans.' its author. thoroughly we'll
drilled man of the world would have listened to
his majesty's remarks with the gravity bes oming
an apostle of well-bred boredom. and in that case
throughout the evening. Not so Mark Twain
copy OF The Pathfinder quite recently, and that
And then he went on to speak of the moccasined
person treading into the tracks of the moccasined
enemy and thus hiding his own trail. and the
master OF woodcraN who had always a p-ofusion
of dry twigs ready on which somebody stepped,
thereby alarming all the reds and whites for
several hundred miles around. He led his majes-
ty in the track of cannon ball across the plain
through dense fog and invited him to try
and steer his yacht Hohenzoern in a gale for
q particular spot shore where he knew of an
undertow that would hold her back against the
gale and save her, as one Of Cooper's shippers
professed to have DONE Then his majesty for
got all about his fine set phrases and his desire
to impress Mr. Clemens, and gave himself up to
the enjoyment of American humor, its extrava-
gance. its daring. Kaiser and humorist talked
together the whole evening" concluded Mr..
Phelps .'and the rest Of the company received
very little attention from either of them
The times., 1898-11-10
The ARCTIC CIRCLE.
The First Practical Purpose to De-
vciop Its Resources.
CFrom Ltslies' weekly.)


The close of the century d!scioses for
the first time in the worlds history a
practical purpose to develop the re-
sources of the Arctic Circle. The dis
coyery of gold in the klondike has sent
a flood of immigrants into a territory
which was supposed to be almost unin-
habitable. And now scientists OF Great
Britain are making a careful investiga-
ton OF enormous deposits of iron ore.
some distance from Stockholm. Sweden.
within the area included In the Arctic
Circle. These new ore-felds are ap-
parently of limitless extent, and of the
greatest possible value to the iron in
dustry of Great Britain, which is rap
idly finding itself unable to compete
with the cheap products Of American
ore. These Swedish deposits are said to
be among the most valuable ever dis
covered on either continent.
Following the discovery of gold in
Alaska, this may be taken as an in
dication that the mineral wealth of the
Arctic Circle may ultimately lead to
the establishment of a large population
in those parts of the world nearest the
North Pole. which have hitherto been
little explored, because of their inhos-
pitable climate. An ingenious philoso-
pher has outlined the theory that the
precious metals of the world will BE-
found in greatest abundance in the Arc
tic regions. because. when the world
was a molten mass. revolving on its
axis. the tendency Of all metals was.
naturally. toward the axis of the poles.
and that when the plastic mass solidi-
fed, the gold and silver were conceu-
trated near the poles.
The times., 1898-11-10

fusal of the Government at Washing
ton to interfere as intolerable and Its
consequences most dire. Warned every
week for the past three months that
unless some active measures We're
taken to restrain the offensive Span
iards we should find our future tenn
porary administration beset by appall
ing difficulties. the Administration has
been as needless as a child. If the
President really wanted to meet with
insuperable obstacles in the way of our
peaceful and early occupation and ad-
ministration of Cuba, he could not have
planned better than to allow Blanco the
absolute sway he has exercised.
Another public nuisance that may be
abated without loss of any kind is the
scattered Aiger Relief Commission. An
innocent contemporary that formerly
insisted there was nothing to investi-
gate. now suggests that the truth may
be revealed without fear. the elections
being over. 1t was not for the purpose
of revealing things that the COmmis-
sion was appointed. and it will do MOTH
ing of the kind. The paid secretary
may. if he will. fix up a bucket Of
whitewash. but it has been apparent
for a fortnight past that the members
are, and prefer to keep out of the public
sight until something happens to draw
attention away from them.
The times., 1898-11-10
FRENCH MONARCHY.
Weakness of the Principal Claim
ants TO 1t,
(From the New YORK Tribune.)

tFToin tne New ! ora irlhune.I
The chief source of English misconcep-
tion respecting French affairs is the de-
lusion that the restoration of the mon
archy is possible. This ought to b. dis
PEELED by the practical knowledge of the
characterof the pretenders. The Duke of
Orleans. when not in Brussels lives in
England He is not recluse, but is n
stantly seen in social life and never has
impressed anyone as having the resourc =
OF character requisite for regaining the
crown. He is bright-eyed. rosy-faced
cGllow youth, amiable and harmless
Ey eryone who has met him smiles at tn q
idea of his ever making serious at
tempt to overthrow the re. ublic. his .unc
tions are exhausted in putting his sigma
ture to manifestos at a safe distaEce. A
well-informed social leader in London
sums up the matter thus:
THE women in the Orleans family have
all the brains and talents; the men nave
no force and are of no account"
Prince Victor Napoleon lives in Rrus-
sells and is equally incapable Of rising
above the level OF smail-beer intrigue.
The only prince now in sight who is quail
fled by soldierly qualities and RECKLESS
courage for a campaign against the re-
publican order is his brother. P.ince
Louis Napoleon. who is popular with
the officers of the Russian army. He
lacks training in public affairs. and is
suspected of being a staggering brag-
CART. The republic is highly favored in
having no really formidable royalist or
imperialist conspirator against 1t.
The times., 1898-11-10
LIEUT.. HossoN's QUEST.
He Sails on the Vulcan to Seek and.
II Found. Raise the Teresn.

Norfolk. Va. Nov. 9.--Lieut. Richmond
Pearson Hobson left the Norfolk navy
yard this morning aboard the naval re-
pair ship Vulcan to search for and, If
found, attempt to float, for the second
time. the former Spanish cruiser Infanta
Maria Teresa. reported aground on Cat
Island. Bahamas.
He takes with him wreckers. divers and
abundant apparatus to accomplish the
result. The Vulcan received her sailing
orders last evening. as soon as the Navy
Department satisfied itself that there was
strong probability that the two-fun-
neled steamer corresponding so closely to
the description of the Maria Teresa was
really the abandoned Spaniard, but she
was held at this yard to await the arrival
of an expert wrecking crow from New
York and of Lieut.. Hobson, to whom the
Government looks to save the Teresa for
the second time.
The Vulcan was manned by a picked
crew of volunteers from the receiving
ship Franklin. She passed out the Vir-
ginia Capes at O'Clock and should reach
Cat Island in forty-eight hours. Lieut.
Hobson had not much to say concerning
his mission. -t-s".'9
''of course, we shall use every endeavor
to save the Teresa" he said, but of our
| chances of success, l cannot speak before
seeing her position
The times., 1898-11-10
BRINGING HOME THE DEAD.
Transport Berlin En- Route From
Cubn With n Sacred Cargo.

The War Department plans for bring
ing to this country the bodies of Amer
lean soldiers who fell while fighting un-
der the flag or died of disease in Cuba.
Porto Rico. or the Philippines, are being
carried out. First, the transport Panama
brought over a sacred cargo of all that
remained of a number of boys in blue
several days ago. and they were turned
over to relatives or friends.
cablegram was received at the War
Department yesterday afternoon an
nouncng that more of the dead were en-
route to this country. The message was
from Gen. Wood, at Santiago, Cuba, and
read:
Transport Berlin sailed Sunday from
Santiago with the following remains:
Lieut.. John A. Gurney. Twenty-fourth U.
S. Infantry: Priyates Eugene A Hussey.
Company A; Herman W. Goetz Company
F, Ernest w. Baltzell, Company G, and
James Edgar. Company l, all of the First
Illinois Volunteers"