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Smyrna times., 1899-11-29
NOW CALL AT OUR
CROWDED WAREROOMS
AT
71O Market Street, Wilmington, DEL,
and feast your eyes on as fine
a stock of
Pianos and Organs

as was ever shown in any store, North,
South, East or West.
We have given special attention to both
tone. quality and design of cases in the Sc
lection of all these instruments, from the
product of the largest and most popular
makers, and
While prices are advancing in every line
of goods, we propose to keep on selling at
our usual moderate prices, and on the same
easy and accommodating terms of from
S5 to $40 per month. Our contracts were
made in time and we have the goods.
Whether you buy from us Knabe,
Ivers & Pond, Fischer, Grown, Behr
Bros, Raymore, Kroeger, Ellington,
Durand, Schubert, Kimball, Shaw,
Marshall & Wendell, Franklin, Wal
dorf or New England Piano you will get
it at the right price, which is always
the lowest, according to its grade and
quality.
And remember, the highest as well as the
lowest we SELL is warranted co give perfect
satisfaction.
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29

The Clayton Town Council have
taken the necessary preventative and
passed an ordinance at special meet
ing Monday night requiring all dogs
running at large to be muzzled and
authorizing the Baliff to kill any and
all dogs that do not come under the
requirements of said ordinance.
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29
sherifrs Office, Dover, Del, Nov. %,
rHERIFF's SALE

OHERIFFS SALE.
y By Virture of writ of Lsvari Facias to me
directed will be exposed to public sale, in front
of the Delaware House in the town of smyrna
Duck Creek hundred, Kent county aud State of
Delaware, on
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29

CHERIFF'S SALE.
- By virtue of a writ of Levar FaclaS to me
directed will be exposed to Public Sale, in front
of the Delaware House. Duck Creek hundred.
Kent County and state of Delaware, on
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29

The Ladies Aid Society of st. Paul
M. E. Church will hold supper and
festival in the old "Call Building" to-
morrow evening. Supper will be
served from o'clock on during the
evening. Price of supper % cents.
The ladies are hoping the affair to be a
success both socially and financially.
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29

Work on the new pulpit has been
slightly delayed at Trinity Church.
Carpenters began work this week, and
while the two arches will not have the
finishing touches for the services to-
morrow, Rev. Dexter Weeden is hav-
ing the church improvements pushed
along as rapidly as possible.
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29
CASTORIA

Bears the signature of CHAs. H. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind You Haze Al7Oays Bought.
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29

To bring out more prominently the
name of the station, the P. W. & B.
Railroad Company, have had the word
"Clayton" printed in large white let
ters on the front and two ends of the
CLAYTON station. The names of the
other stations along the Division are
likewise being prominently lettered.
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29
NHERIFF,S SALE

OHERIFFS SALE
- By virtue of writ of Levar Facias to me
directed, will be exposed to Public Sale, in front
of the Delaware House, in the town of Smyrna,
luck Creek hundred, Kent county and state of
Delaware, on
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29

A series of sermon on the "Prodigal
Son" will be an interesting feature of
evening services at st. Paul M. E.
Church, Sunday. They were inaug-
urated by pastor Rev. o. w. DeVenish
last Sunday. The subject of the next
lecture will be ''In Foreign Land. :"
In the morning he will deliver a SER
mon on Justification.
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29

Trinity Church will hold services
both morning and afternoon to-mor-
row. Besides Thanksgiving Day,
made so by civil appointment, it will
also be observed as St. Andrews Day.
Thanksgiving services will be held at
10 40 O'Clock in the morning. The
evening service at 7.30 o'clock will be
observed in honor of Saint Andrew.
Next Sunday is Advent Sunday, the
beginning of another ecclesiastical
Smyrna times., 1899-11-29

There will be a Union Thanksgiving
service in st. Paul Methodist Episco-
pal church tomorrow morning, at
which Rev. J. E. Nicholson of Ewell
Methodist Protestant church will de-
liver the sermon. In the evening,
Rev. o. w. DeVenish will hold his reg
ular prayermeeting service and will
take for the subject of his sermon,
"God Our Father"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
CHRlsTENED FOR DEWEY.
The Admira1 Pun. on the s... .. Hl

the Admtral Pune ON the Size OF Hlu
h sssSfsa&3 aEsi$ g. Hat. eSs ST 80 g r. u zs2
h A friend OF sDewcy's recently; Joined
the admiral ct Manila, and In the course
Of conversation made laughing allusion
to the many articles named ,fpr hin,
since May !. =, He writes that his recital
pleased Dewey and his bright eyes twin
kled as he replied: @'1 did not imagine
that little target practice before break
fast oh the list Of May would bring q
nov Adjective into the language, but
iook here, ! have a Dewey. watch-and
It's number one watch, too-with a
case made from the Maine" Then he
continued; "One Of the manufacturers
who had named a hat after me wished
10 SEND me- one, and wrote me asking
reply?" I asked. ooh. told him the
same size that l wore before May l."
IT Is not often the privilege Of n,ortals
70 pass informal conversation with a
your private life the ideal that YOU cher
ished. Dewey is the typical, geniaL
natural American. lie Is d MervuUs,
qutck-wfttCd man, who eschews publici.
ty, anu who puts Oh no side" to awe
and ovcrwhelm his ihfesiprs lii rank and
amportancc, One goes out Ut his pres
ence carrying the memory Of having
knowA man. the idol Of 10000. 900 Of
people, without having been made to feel
tae nslgnificance Of being but one of
those millions. He is an American Of
the AmericanS--not demi-god for one
70 nave boosted Of kissing the hem Of
MS EarmCntS.-WaShin pton Post
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
Thackeray's Philosophy of Life.

The concrete illustration of ideas in
character is what interests Thackeray
| and what he interests us with. But in
this his interest and his power of i'll
tcresting us are hardly to be measured.
When he is called "realist" something
more is-consciously or vaguely-meant
than that his novels are pictures of life
rather than classic or romantic com
positions. 1t is meant that his philoso-
ply is realistic-that is to say, based on
| the data furnished by the perceptive fac
ulties, faculties which in his case, it can
not be too often repeated, were Of amaz-
ing sharpness.
"There is life and death going on in
everything, truth and lies always ut bat
tie; Pleasure is always warning against
Iself-restraint; doubt is always crying
I 'Pshaw! and sneering. A man in life,
! humOrist in writing about life, sways
over to one principle or the other and
! laughs with the reverence for right and
the love of truth in his heart, or laughs
at these from the other side. 1
cannot help telling the truth as 1 view
it, and describing what 1 see. To de-
scribe it otherwise than it seems to me
would be falsehood to that calling in
which it has pleased heaven to pla ce
me, treason to that conscience which
says that men are weak, that truth must
be told, that fault must be owned, that
pardon. must be prayed for, and that
love reigns supreme over ALL"
That is Thackeray's philosophy in
small compass. There is Aothing very
new about it. 1t is as old,
Here ut St. Peters of Cornhill.
AS yonder on the Mount Of Hermon.
1t is simly the natural tt nth UNDERLYING
the dogma and informing the spirit Of
Christianity. The force that overthrow
the civiliza ton of the ancient world was
certainly an overwhelming movement of
spiritual feeling, and since then philoso-
ply has had to reckon, at all events.
with the soul as we'll as with the mind
w. c. Brownell in Scribner's.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
SPANS Only Chance.

SPANS need of regeneration has found
an echo in "Nord und Sud-" which states
that such regeneration can be secured
only by the enrichening of her impovcr-
ished blood through the marriage of
Spaniards with Saxons, Teutons and
slavs. "Nord und Sud- is perhaps In
error. That sort of thing has been go
ing on for some time past in South Amer
lea, the result being that apart from
Chill and Peru there are there precious
few pure Spaniards left. Then, too,
while in several of our sister republics
the girls are alarningly pretty, and while
on the peninsula there are plenty more
whom it is as we'll St. Anthony never
met, and while they are all charming to
with, yet, through dispensation of
Providence it may be, they are not fitted
to be the wives Of any save men of the
Latin race. 1t is the same thing with
their brothers. The latter exhibit in pub
lie the courtesy of Chesterfield, compli-
Gated, however, with the pleasantries of
Sykes at home. They are not suited,
either, to contract alliances abroad.
What is more, they rarely do. Spain's
regeneration will not come through any
change in their ways. Those ways axe
so narrow, and have been so continuous,
that the yigor Of nation has been
sapped. That which induced her rise
has caused her fall. In her apogee were
the elements of her decadence. That is
in the order of things, and in accord
cnce, too, with the philosophy of history
Her regeneration, should it be brought
about, must be preceded by the rupture
of all aneurism. There must be a fu-
sion, not of her people with others but
of her lands. This process the next Eu-
ropean war will, we assume, inaugurate.
Golfers Weekly,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
STATUES OF SNOW.
Combination of Thin Copper Pipes
and Liquefled Carbonic Acid.

Combination Of Thin Copper Pipes
and Liquefied Carbonic Acid.
A Paris sculptor, with an appreciation
for and the power to satisfy the demand
Of the minute has hit upon the novel
scheme of turning out "snow statues"
for such of his patrons as lean to the
unique in art. Statues of any required
shape IRE made and add greatly to the
appearance of drawing rooms in the
French capital. To all intents and p,lr-
poses these statues are carved out of the
compactly welded fleece. AS a matter
of fact, they are only coated with snow.
pipes, thin and light.
The discovery, which has resulted in 4
mass of orders reaching the sculptor and
a consequent substantial Increase in his
revenues-for he charges "top story
prices for his products-came in the nat
ure of an accident. 1t was while the art
list was being shown the method of ice
making by machinery that the plan pre-
scented itself to him. The lique6ed gases,
he noticed, in their trip through the cop
per pipes produced on the outside an 50.
pearance Enthusiastically that of snow.
This had been caused by the deposition
of the water vapor of the atmosphere on
the metal and the freezing of it by the
action of the acid.
This system, reasoned the sculptor,
might be applied to statuary. And he
applied it. A statue of thin copper was
quickly constructed and box of liQue.
fed car bonic acid placed in the base.
When this gas evaporated the effect OF
freezing was produced, the moisture in
the air was attracted to the copper sides
and quickly frozen into the semblance of
snow. Many beautiful designs have
been turned out in pursuance of this
principle, and the sculptor is said to be
reaping a golden reward for his snow
discovers
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
The Quality of Mamie San.

After the present cold spell of weather
is over it is reasonable to hope that we
shall have weather mild enough for ma
pie sap to run. There is a wide differ
ence in the sweetness of sap from differ
ent trees that are yet of the same va
riety. OF course, the hard or upland ma
pie PRODUCES a much sweeter sap than
the soft maple which grows mostly in
low, wet places. But when hard ma
pie seed starts to grow n tree in low,
wet ground, the sap from it is apt to be
more abundant, but of poorer quality,
than that. from a hard maple growing on
upland. A tree in a dense forest with
small top gives sap less rich than one that
grows in the open with branches widely
spread to catch all the sunlight. Many
years ago We owned maple tree that
stood by itself, and which gave much
more and sweeter sap than any other in
the sugar bush. 1t was, indeed, fe6ced
out of the, woods in the edge of field
that was often cultivated, and when In
grass was: always pastured by, sheep
through the summer, as the lot was a
rather rough one. Under this tree the
sheep used to lie during the heated sum
mer days and the surface soil was black
with their: excrement. The tree had q
most magnificent top, and we have often
thought that this extra growth Of foil
age, and also the extra amount and
probably also the sweetness of its sap,
were in some way the result Of the large
amount of sheep manure with which It
was fertilized.s z.t ~ -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
WRONG GUEST; RIGHT MAN.
mbarrassinE Situation Ends in 4,
Romantic Marriage. #a "a

Nm 00frasslng Situation Enus In q
h Romantic Marriage.
Facts are sometimes more interesting
"a we'll Do stranger than fiction. A mod
ert Boston marriage recently resulted
from q combination Of romantic circufti.
stances that make the ordinary society
novel dull. stale and improbable. ~.
It is hot often real romance Is at
tached to the modern marriage, but there
can be such remarkable combination,
for it has occurred in all places of the
worid-in this very town. Less than a
! year ago a swell young bachelor, break
Tasting at his club, began reading his
ately brought in with his first course.
Among various invitations was one for
dinner party in fashionable suburb,
put the hostess name was utterly un-
known to the recipient. Who could this
lady be? Had he ever seen her? No, he
thought not, yet the note was en- regle
and the address all right, so. fearing to
make blunder, the young gentleman
fend someone whom he had probably met
IN his various wanderlngs and lie would
60. The night of the diniier lie there
fore presented himself DIT the house des-
ignated, but only to find Ills hosts utter
strangers and they equally surprised to
see a gentleman who had not been invit-
ed. A few explanations followed, to the
mutual amusement Of guest and host,
for it seems the note Of acceptance had
puzzled the latter quite as much as the
invitation had the guest. But, as it
pleasantly turned out, both were soon
in possession Of those clues to common
acquaintances by which the elect of Bos-
ton society hang together, and the
wrong" guest was cordially given the
prettiest girl in the party and who hap
pened to be the hostess niece, to take out
to dinner. The acquaintance thus be-
gun in an anti-Bostonese fashion was
continued through the summer and when
took place With this young man and
young lady for chief actors, the conven-
ton and unwritten Brahminical rules of
Boston society received a shock that did
them heap of good. Fate sometimes
resorts to devious ways to bring true
hearts together and, in spite Of it being e
HOurisheS in it,
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HOw..to Milk n Cow.

l wish to give you a few hints on milk
ing cows. The farmland. who knows
how to milk properly: is more valuable to
the careful dairyman than any other
help. To milk COW requires time and
patience. The milk should he drawn
slowlxasand steadily. Some cows have
very tender teats, and If you want d
good-disposed COW be gentle In your
treatment toward her, az she Is natural
" impatient and does not like rough
handling: With constant irritation she
will fail In quantity Of milk. As the I'D
der becomes filled with milk she is anx-
ious to be relieved of it's contents, aud
will seldom offer resistance without a
cause. When patient COW becomes
fractions we can always: trace it to the
mixer. Note this: We should not al
low then1to stand long time waiting to
be MIXED. When cows give large
quantity of milk it is very painful when
the udder has filled to the utmost, there
fore causing them to become very nerv-
GUS and restless. To delay milking at
the proper time will do more to cause a
COW to go dry before her period than
anything else. She should also be MIXED
to the last drop, if possible, for the last
part of milk is said to be the richest
G. B. Dillon in New York Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
She Kept Her Secret,

A day or two later Anne went up to
the mountains to convey letters to he,
mother. She found Emmett and the
Others sitting on the hillside in thci,
uniforms, for they had no other clothes
w men she was returning, Emmett, III
spite Of the prOtestations Of his friends
ana followers, returned to Dublin with
ODDS Cross and took up his abode there
From there Anne carried letter from
him to his love, Sarah Curran.
A day or two later q troop Of women
accompanied by magistrate, came and
searched the house i'll Rutterfield lane
Anne Devlin was seized furiously on
their arrival, and while the search pro
ceeded she was surrounded by yeonnen
who kept the points Of their bayonets
actually touching her body.
When the others returned she was ex
amined, as to Emmet's doings and
whereabouts. She protested she wa,
only poor servant maid and knew ab
solutely nothing about 1.-The gentlemen >
Threats and persuasion alike havina
failed, the magistrate ordered her to be
hanged, says writer in Donahoe's
Magazine.
In the yard was cart, which theS
tilted up and swung rope to It by j
band of leather. While they made
these preparations, others OF the yeo
| men pushed the giriagainst the wall, and
while they: prodded her with their bay
oncts till the blood ran down In streams
| they kept asking her: "Will you tell u.
where Mr.. Ellis Is now?" Her constant
| answer was: II will tell nothing.
have nothing to tell"
They asked her again when the moose
| was about her neck. Her answer was
You may murder me, you villains, but
| not one word about him will you evel
Tst from raan1a Then no as she 3ss ered Lprt
up.
She was, however, only half-hung
! they hoped yet to reduce this magnificent
contumacy of hers, and so her life was
saved. After she had been suspended
for three minutes, she was cut down
and on recovering was sent into town tt
Mai SIR
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
tsearls in Northern Michtpan

Beautiful and valuable pearls have
been found along the Menominee river,
the fact of their discovery having just
been made known by the discoverer,
John Pererlfy, who told a friend of it
and showed him some of the gems. Mr..
beverley is a: well-known logging fore
man. Late last fall he concluded to do
q little exploring along the river and
found mound of fresh-water clam
shells. The clans had evidently been
eaten by muskrats and the shells left
piled in heap. Mr.. beverley picked up
the shells and found a half dozen fine
pearls. Two. Of them looked to him like
valuable ones, one having pinkish tint,
while the other was of variegated colors.
He selected one, of them and sent it to
manufacturing jeweler in Chicago to sell
check for $95 for the jewel. Mr.. Pever-
ley estimates the value of the pearls
found in this one pile of shells at $3.50.
Three years ago he explored little on
the Paint river for pearls and found
three, but they were not of as much val
ne as the ones found by him last fall. In
the early spring he intends to make ex-
tensive explorations all along the Me-
nominee river and it's tributaries and ex-
poets big results. He will not divulge
the exact place where he found the
pearls, Of course, but he says that it is
not very fur from Iron Mountain.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
OUGHT to Know.

"Have you met Mr.. Woolly, the West
ern millionaire?' asked the sharp-faced
young lady,,
"Oh, yes!' replied the plump one; che
took me in to dinner at Mrs. Hytone's
last night. He was quite gallant, and
remarked upon my birdlike appetite
Indeed, dear! Well, he's good
judge. You know he runs an ostrich
farm in California. "-Catholic Standard
and Times
The celebrated preacher had just fin
ished his sermon, when the reporter rose
from his seat at the back and started
down the nisle.
An, brother spoke the minister in a
YOU come to. be sdved?''
mo, sit; I've come for a copy Of your
sermon" -Pittsburg Chronicle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
Catarrh and Nervousness.

nervous person nearly always has
catarrh Catarrh is one of the ways in
which depressed condition Of the nervous
system shows itself. Catarrhal people are
soon made nervous. The relation between
chronic catarrh and nervous debility is most
intimate.
Catarrh Is chronic congestion of some
mucous membrane. The nerves, which
should guard the mucous membrane against
congestion, are depressed and their func-
should control the circulation in the mucous
membrane are called the vasa-motor system
Of nerves. Depression OF the general ner-
vous system soon leads to depression of the
vasa-motor system. Depression Of the yasa-
motor system Of nerves at once causes
chronic catarrh.
Any remedy tc effect radical cure of
chronic catarrh must operate directly
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
Official Kisses.

masculine prerogative. There are times
when court etiquette demands that WON.
en-, too, shall kiss. On the occasion OF
the Crown Prince of Greece's wedding
the bride, Princess Sophie of Prussia,
the Kaiser's sister, was obliged to be-
stow no fewer than $50 kisses. The
King of Greece received three kisses, sc
did his Queen, so did the Empress Fred
erick and the King and Queen of Den
mark and Kaiser William and the EN-
press, while all the princes and prin.
cesses present received one kiss apiece.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10
Are Girjs Growtn, Too T.ll ,

= Has the athletic girl to pay the pen.
atty of her fohdness for outdoor sports
by growing so fast and SO much US to
end in the long run by overlapping her
brothers and Ssweethearts by head? >.
This disparity in height has been no
ticed particularly ut some recent we'd
dings, and q wall comes to us from the
young girls :. still attending dancing
schools that they, as a rule, are all tall,
while the boys are all short, and the
consequent awkwardness resulting has
been very UNPLEASANT.
It was certainly with no thought of
adding to her stature that, in spite of
opposition, the girl took to the wheel
and to other forms Of outdoor activity.
The fun of the thing tempted her, and
in addition to what she sought she now
finds herself .:taller and larger, .overtop-
ping not only her mother and her aunts,
but her sometimes competitor, some.
times colleague-man-as well. Accord
ing to social philosopher the remedy
lies with man. who is hidden to regard
the toweringgirl as q warning to him.
New York HERALD. ..z5= sSs :. 800. 81
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SWISS Crea n, Cheeae.

Swiss cream cheese is made as follows:
Bring one gallon Of sweet cream to. a
temperature Of 45 degrees, and put in
enough renpetsto thicken it in twenty
four hours Let the rennet be care
fully tested beforehand, and the right
quantity diluted in half a small glass of
water before it is added to the cream.
The cream m,.st be stirred few min
utes to have it all mixed in well, and
then kept ut about Is degrees. After
twenty-four hours it should be like clot-
ted cream in consistency. Now hang it
up IN u cloth bag to drain for twelve
hours, breaking it apart gently, occ,-
sionally. that the whey may escape well.
Next the bag lis placed between two
boards under light compress, when the
cheese is fit to be nodded and sold or
used. An excellent article may be made
OF whole milk. on the plan of the fore
going recipe for Swiss cream cheese, or
one,third cream may he added to the
milk. All must be perfectly sweet and
free from faint; and he put on the mar
ket in the most delicate condition and
packing to get the prices it deserves.