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The record-union., 1899-08-24

General Charles King is everywhere
recognized as a cultivated man, a fine
observer and a writer of special capac-
ity Long before the war he was well
known in literary circles as a man of
more than ordinary capacity. General
King has served in Luzon, and had
opportunities to take the measure Of
things accurately. To the American
Aguinaldoites who preach of the un-
healthfulness of the climate, of the ir-
capacity OF accommodation for our sol
diers, of the inhumanity of sending on
more men, of the loose conduct of our
officers and soldiers, General King has
this to say in "McClure's Magazine:
A sounder and healthier legion than
the Eighth Corps probably never took
the Held in the tropics when called upon
late last autumn to man the block
houses about Manila against possible
Filipino attack The stories of epi-
denies, of crowded hospitals, neglected
patients and dissolute doctors that
were so eagerly circulated by our
sensation-loying press had no founda-
tlon whatever in Manila or fact, and
were set afloat in every case by
frauds and freaks of both sexes who.
having secured free transportation to
the Philippines as volunteer nurses.
speedily developed their incapacity in
that line and a propensity for mischief
in others that led to their being invited
to return by the next steamer. Then
from Hongkong, Honolulu or San
francisco their calumnies were
launched.
The record-union., 1899-08-24
A Dangerous Calling.

When you see an animal trainer per-
forming with ferocious beasts you may
be quite right if you imagine the man
as a fearless master of them, but if you
think for an instant that there is no
danger, you are wholly wrong. A
trainer never confronts the beasts and
compels them to do his bidding without
literally taking his life in his hands.
he is SO used to the danger that he
does not think of it each time, and he
holds his mastery of them by a sort OF
power that becomes habit, second ma
ture, as it We're, just as he eats his
meals or performs other common en-
ployments. Or, to make the case more
plain, he forgets the dangers that sur
round him, just as men in any other
dangerous calling do; a painter. for in
stance, VINO stands upon a narrow plat
form hundreds of feet from the ground.
Nevertheless the danger is ever present
and all the more terrible because of
the uncertainty of it.
A trainer must inspire constant fear
in the brutes. What power for harm
there is in the elephant. for instance.
One swing of that powerful trunk. and
he could crush the life out of the man;
but ne is possessed of an ungovernable
fear.
Some animal trainers live to a good
age and never have an accident. They
are absolutely fearless in their work
and yet they may be no braver than
you or I when other animals are in
question
There was one trainer who gave
wonderful performance with a number
of animals in the one cage He would
take all manner of liberties with the
ferocious brutes, compelling them to do
his bidding, making them form pyra-
mids, and lying down on them When
you consider how a cat or dog will
sometimes turn upon you, if not han
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died just so, you must realize what a
tremendous power the trainer must ex-
ert oyer such huge, savage beasts.
There We're always a dozen other
keepers about when this performance
was being enacted. and they were
armed with pistols, hot irons and raw
hide whips. One of the lions turned
upon this trainer once and his arm was
badly lacerated before he could be res
cued
OF all animals, keepers say the tiger
is the worst and the most treacherous.
1t is necessary to keep the eye fixed
pretty constantly upon it, or it may re-
volt at any moment.-Pittsburg Dis
patch
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HE RECANTS.

Mr.. Bryan says that the Chicago
platform must be reaffirmed by the
Democracy, and he insists, especially
so in his latest speeches and letters.
that the silver declaration on the basis
Of 16 to / must be rejuvenated and ad-
hered to as of old.
But here comes Professor Ross of
Stanford University. who it will be re-
membered came out in 1896 for silver
and J6 to / red-hot. He 1ectured on
the subject, sent forth monographs up
on it. and was hailed along the Bryan
line as great acquisition to the silver
The record-union., 1899-08-24

The Fresno Republican" asks:
suppose one of the parties next year
should come out squarely against ex-
pansion and it's ticket should win on
that issue-what would happen?'' Our
contemporary answers it's own inquiry
by saying that we should keep on ex-
panding just the same. mo Admin
istration would dare withdraw our
troops from the Philippines defeated. .
Which is sound reasoning. Woe to the
party or the man who retires American
troops in dishonor.
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forces. For Professor Ross is at the
head of the department of economics
in the university, and is recognized as
strong reasoner.
Professor Ross is just back from Eu-
rope, where he has been studying some
matters relating to an economic mono
graph he is about to issue. Interviewed
upon the silver question, the Professor
declares that he has changed his views,
but insists that he has effected no
change in principles. He says frankly
that silver as a political issue is dead.
that 1t is folly to attempt to put vital
ity into the 16 to 1 proposition. which
was only an expression of a means OF
carrying out a principle of stability in
the value of money
When asked for his reasons for this
declaration, Professor Ross said: First.
the output of gold has risen from
$200,000,000 to S300,000,000, which is
something that no one could foresee.
and is an astonishing fact. 1t relieves
the monetary famine and wipes out
the annual appreciation of gold. Sec
ondly, in the last few years business
has based itself upon gold and it cam
not be disturbed, while the old debts
incurred under the bimetallic standard
have in the last two or three years been
wiped out. Finally, the hope that adop-
ton of the silver standard by the Unit
ed States would induce other great
Powers to join with us in that policy
has now passed away, and interna-
tional bimetallism is therefore now out
of the question.
Professor Ross recantation is sigfini-
cant. The 16 to 1 people who swore by
Ross argument in 1896 must be con-
founded by his position in 1899 One
of these positions, it will be observed,
is confession of the fallability of silver
prophets. Another is frank concession
of the fact that prosperity has come,
and that the caIamityites have no more
texts upon which to sermonize over
the inability of the West to discharge
its Indebtedness without the adoption
of the 16 to / standard
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A REMARKABLE MAN.

It may not be generally known that
Fernand Gustave CASTOR Labori, the
attorney of Captain Dreyfus, entered
his cause without promise of fee or re-
ward or expectation Of receiving any
recompense Just in the same way he
espoused the cause of Zola when that
literary light was hailed before a Grim
inal tribunal Of France for speaking
the plain truth.
With Labori it was a matter Of love of
justice. He became impressed with the
innocence of Dreyfus, and he has never
faltered in that belief. 1t was not a mat
ter of fee with him though doubtless
the family of Dreyfus will handsomely
reward him. But there are some things
rewards cannot replace. Labori was a
cyclopedia of French Laws was a
standard reference in the courts before
he took up the Dreyfus case. Now no
French lawyer cftes it as an authority
for fear of prejudicing his case with
the Courts.
He was editor and publisher of the
Revue de Palais," a law magazine;
but his subscribers have fallen away
and his advertising pages are no longer
taken, the fear of disfavor operating
to make his old customers refuse sup
port to his journal. He had a splendid
law practice, but it has dwindled to a
h oIs hi,
to take the risk of prejudice against
him among the French people, simply
because he espoused the causes of
Dreyfus and Zola.
He was a very prominent figure in so
ciety and a general favorite, since he
is brilliant, learned, handsome, witty,
graceful and polished in his manners,
and comes of a fighting family. his
father being a soldier who won high
honors in the Franco-P -Prussian war.
But Labori has lost his place in So
ciety and gets the cold shoulder where
he was once sought for as a guest He
was condemned to death for bomb
throwing and was executed, his con-
tention being that as the man had
killed no one it was unjust to take his
life. and he wrote a pamphlet in de-
tense Of that position. This lost him
much favor. of course, but has no re-
lation to his championship Of Dreyfus,
TO which he is moved by strong con-
viction
Happily for Labori he is a man of
considerable means or he could not
have weathered the storm of disfavor
with which he is visited in his native
land. That a man so cordially hated
should be shot down, and later be the
recipient of internal machines intend
ed TO blow him out of life is not sur
prising. In his connection with the
Dreyfus case he has been but once paid
we believe; he was given fee by the
family for his presentation of the case
before the United Court Of Cassation
but it was not bargained for in ad-
vance.
Before he went to Rennes Labori re-
ceiyed threatening letters and was ad-
vised not to take his family with him,
but his courageous wife vetoed that
proposition and has stood by him in
every peril. His pluck, fearlessness
Eit, brilliancy and legal acumen, de-
spite the bitter enmities he has en-
hndled, still command for him respect
and admiration. Even his bitterest
foes express respect for his courage,
and his refusal to desert an unpopular
cause and for his contemptuous regard
for society that has turned its back
upon him. He is altogether a remark
able figure
The record-union., 1899-08-24
Down on the Sands.

Down on the sands in the summer time
Watching the wide blue sea
Sending it's waves from far and near,
Tumbling so merrily
Over each other, in foaming haste
To reach the sands so white
Ho for vacation time again,
When, armed with shovel and hoe,
Down to dig and to build in the sand
The happy little folks go.
Many have forts and towers of sand
The waves will wash away,
But the health and strength and the kind
good will
OF the little playmates, 7 know,
Will prove too strong for the waves OF
time
To scatter and overflow.
And the summer days will be happy ones,
If the children will but begin
To hold fast to the Golden Rule
And gather the sunbeams in.
Mary D. Brine in The Sunbeam.
The record-union., 1899-08-24
The
Weekly


Is a t2-pagc family and business
newspaper issued every Friday
morning. Thus, for the very small
sum of ST its subscribers receive no
less than ga pages of choice read
ing and news matter IN a year.
This reduction has been made
that we may afford the people IN
these times of stringency the fullest
opportunity to have the Weekly
The record-union., 1899-08-24

The art OF starching linen wa
brought into England in 1903 by {
Flemish woman.
The record-union., 1899-08-24
STILL INCREASINGl, W 2

been obliged to buy still another washing
machine to keep up with our growing bus
mess. Our patrons and the public at
large will understand this to mean that
our laundry work is giving perfect satis-
Iactlon in every respect. UNION
'phones
The record-union., 1899-08-24
WOOD AND COAL. MEG

have been awarded the contract to supply
the public schools of the city for one
year, being the lowest bidders. 1t will be
10 your interest to see them about your
winters wood or coal Office SIS L street.
Cap. phone 53S
The record-union., 1899-08-24
SAC'TO COFFEE HOUSE

is the best place in town to go to: every
thing hrst-class. Remember the num-
Der, 5l5 K street. S. NIELSEN, Prop.
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Weather EorecaRr.

For Northern CaliforniaAFair Thurs
day; fresh northwest wind.
The record-union., 1899-08-24

CusIlIoHS, lOPs, lazy backs, etc, made to
order. Repairing promptly done. Satis-
1act1on guaranteed, ]. b. HEISLER. 1875
j street. -'-'
The record-union., 1899-08-24
CAMPAIGN CAPITAL.

Los Angeles Express: Nothing that
President Mckinley might, could,
would or should do would have the
slightest effect on the people engaged
in attempting to manufacture capital
for the next campaign. When General
Otis quells the revolt in the Philippines,
and the Filipinos are blessed with a
good and stable government such as we
will undoubtedly give them, these kick
ers will still be railing at the Govern
ment, and objecting to the way it was
all hrO1Ioht al hOIrt
The record-union., 1899-08-24
CHAS. STUDARIIS. Dealer in

coal of all kinds, coke and charcoal, hay
ana grain. Fifteenth and X streets. Both
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06
CHESWOLD.
RumOr of Business Chauges.-PubIic Schools
Opened Thrown From a Wagon.
Personal Mention.


Special Correspondence to the Times.
CHEswOLD, Sept. 4th.-From current
rumor a very important business
change is to take place in Cheswold in
which one of our leading business men
is to step out of a certain business.
another man steps into it and his place
to be filled by another. The whole ar
rangement being yet in the embryo
state, further mention might be out of
place.
Miss Sarah Moore last week in going
out of her door by a misstep sprained
her wrist which is very painful and
giving her much trouble.
The order of Odd Fellows (colored)
of this town last Thursday, gave a Gel
ebration in which they paraded through
town headed by brass band followed
by a number of speeches in the even
ing, winding up with cake walk.
James P. Bolts has sold his farm
formerly the David Boggs place. to a
Mr.. Kahn of Pennsylvania, giving i'm
mediate possession. The price is not
stated.
Our Public School opened last Mon
day with Mr.. James NJ Saterfeld as
principal and Miss Annie Learned in
charge of the primary department.
Miss Mary Learned continues as
teacher at No. 10 East, Miss Cora
Moore at No. III East, and Miss Car
rie Andrews at No. 4 North of Ches-
void. Miss Efie Ross also starts on
her third year as teacher of the colored
school near Cheswold.
Rev. Edwin Gardner gave short
sermon on Sunday evening on the
subject of congregational singing in
our churches. He classed the singing
as a most ESSENTIAL element in church
worship, and thought the whole con-
gregation should enter into it with
spirit and understanding and that a
leader should have his soul filled with
the sentiment of his hymn.
Mr.. John d. Thompson of Dover,
while visiting Mr.. d. F. Loose near
Cheswold, while standing in wagon
the horse started throwing him back
ward on his head from which he has
since been in almost helpless con-
dition.
DIR. Corkran will hold Quarterly
meeting at Bethel next Saturday at 10
o'clock a. M, and preach there Sun
day afternoon.
Personalities Mary Taylor and
Miss Effie Crouch of Baltimore, who
have been guests at the home of W. F.
Collins, have returned home.-Miss
Annie Hickey of Delaware City, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Anderson
and other friends. Miss Grace Moore
has returned from visit to DIR. Geo.
W. Pleasonton, Milford. and Mrs.
w. s. Hardcastle are taking in the
Grand Army festivities as is also John
w. Dyer.-Miss Venia Turner of
Smyrna, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Jos. H. Thompson. Miss Nina
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06
Pay Up and Get Farm Jour-
nal for Five Years

By special arrangement made with
the publishers of the Farm Journal,
we are enabled to offer a five year sub
scription to that paper, to every new
subscriber who pays for the SMYRNA
ZINES one year ahead; and the same
offer is made to every old subscriber
who will pay all back dues and one
year in advance-both papers for the
price of ours only.
In order to get the Farm Journal
as premium for advance payment it
will be necessary to walk right up to
the captains office, for we have only a
limited number of fve-year subscrip
tlons to dispose of. The Farm Jour-
nat is on a solid foundation and per
fectly trustworthy.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

Thompson has returned to her home
Camden, N. J.-Mr. Will Harper has
left Cheswold to take the school at Bay
View for the second year. r.-Messrs.
Walter Hynson and Gilbert FAIRIES
were in CheswOld last Sunday and at
tended our morning church services. -
Rev. and Mrs. Edwin Gardner returned
from Royal Oak much pleased and in
vigorated by their visit among that
genial and hOspitable people. Mrs. L.
M. Barnard has returned to her home,
Middletown.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

PersOnal.-Mrs. T. I. Horn and Miss
Edna Tunls are visiting in Whining
ton.-Mr. Frank Tunis has returned
from visit from Philadelphia. Miss
Cleaver of Middletown, is the guest of
Miss Fannie Hearn. Miss Lizzie
Hayes of Dover, has returned from a
visit to Miss Lizzie Wright. Rev.
John A. Wright of Vienna, Nd, has
been a guest in town the past week. -
Mrs. E. r. Sipple left yesterday morn
ing for visit to Elmira, N.Y.-Mr.
William Harris has returned to Phila-
delphia after visit home. Miss Ray
Cats of near town, is visiting in Phila-
delphia. a.-POstmaster Deakyne is en-
jOying a few days in Philadelphia dur
ing the G. A. r. Encampment there. =
Miss Maie Harris has returned from a
visit to Wilmington. n.-Mlss Lottie
Hawkins has returned from visit to
Oxford, Pa.-Mrs. I. r. Hubbard of
Chestertown, Md, and Mrs. Annie
Watts of Westminster, Nd, were Wis
itors of the NJ. P. Parsonage the past
week. Mrs. l.. NJ. Barnard of Middle
town, has returned from a visit to her
brother, Mr.. w. F. Clements. Miss
Nellie Steele, Newark; Mr.. Edward
Davis, Philadelphia, and Mr.. Frank
Welsh, Washington, D. c., have been
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Davis
the past week.-Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Muhlhausen and Miss Margaret Ben
son of Wilmington, are guests of Mrs.
H. F. Smith. Master Jas. Roland
and Miss Mable Stephenson of Clay
ton, are visiting their uncle, John Van
Winkle of Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06
NOW CALL AT OUR
CROWDED WAREROOMS
AT
7tO 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
50 to $40 per month. Our contracts were
made In time and we have the goods.
Whether you buy from us a Knabe,
Ivers & Pond, Fischer, Crown, Behr
Bros, Raymore, Kroeger, Ellington,
Durand, Schubert, Kimball, Shaw,
Marshall & Wendell, Franklin, Wal
dorf or New England Piano you will get
1t 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 to give perfect
satisfaction.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06
NTOTICE.

NJ
IN Notice is hereby given that I. James p
Hofecker. OF the town of Smyrna, Kent
County, and State of Delaware. intend to make
application to the Court of General Sessions of
the State of Delaware in and for Kent COUNTY
on Monday, October 23d, 1899, then 10 he
held at Dover. for license to sell intOxiestjnS
liquors as druggist in quantities not greater
than one quart, upon the written order or
prescription OF regular practicinR phv.
sician, at my storehouse, located on the west
slde OF Main street, in said town of SMYRNA
adjoining lands of the National Bank of
Smyrna" and lands of others and within the
limits OF United School District in said county,
aeslgnated as Smyrna Public Schools The
names OF the respectable citizens lat least ONE
naiI Of whom are substantial freeholders), recon-
mending my said application are:
John H. Hoffecker, Thos. c. Moore Mn
David 7. Smithers w A. FAIRIES ~
John Van Gasken, John r. Coonar
". We n. nan, W. H. Janney
E. s. DwightMD., WI. Ba9gs
JAMES P. HOFFECKER.
Smyrna. Del, Sept. 6. 1899
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06
CLAYTON DEPARTMENT

Mr.. I. L. Mason is our authorized aoan+
at Clayton, Del, and will receive new snb-
scrlptlons and receives monies on old. Al
news items left with him will receive proper
attention: Subscribe now; only ST 90 a
year in advance.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

Face Badly SCalded.-Mrs. f. B.
Stats was canning tomatoes at her
home on Saturday evening, and being
somewhat in hurry to get through
her work, she thought she could hasten
matters by assisting the wax to seal
the caps on the cans. AS an expert
ment she put can on the stove, con-
tanning this wax. While she was lean
ing over to see how the wax was melt
ing, as suddenly as it takes to tell it.
the can exploded, and she received the
contents in her face. As conse-
quence her face was badly burned and
it was necessary for her to summon
medical attention. DIR. Cobb dressed
the wound.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

While working with threshing
machine on the ''Pratt Farm" near
town the past week, Sewell Guy caught
his hand in the machinery, and lascer-
ated it so badly, that DIR. J. S. Cobb
had to take eight stitches in the wound
before it would heal.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

Dayid Boggs of near town, has five
peach trees in full bearing from wich
he expects to secure 10 baskets. This
lucious fruit is very rare in this vicin-
ity and Mr.. Boggs is envied by many
peach growers.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

Camp Sexton, in attendance at the an
nual encampment. Forty men of Cen
eral A I. A. TOrbert Post, left Dover.
There were some 600 from the State.
about 400 going from Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

The Quarterly Conference of Clayton
Circuit, NJ. P. Church, will be held in
Downs Chapel, next Sunday at 4 p. m.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

Blanco A. NJ. E. Church Camp will
begin next Sunday and continue two
weeks. Meeting two nights in the
week, Tuesday and Thursday. Rev.
J. H. Holden, Rev. p. Daker, and Rev.
J. E. Cook, of Smyrna, will assist in
the Sunday and week night services.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

The Blackbird Methodist Episcopal
Church will be dedicated on Sunday
the 18th inst, with appropriate exer-
cises.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

The Quarterly Conference of st Paul
M. E. Church will meet Monday night.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

State Veterans for Philadelphia Every
train going up the peninsula Monday
bore veterans of tie Civil War, wear
ers of blue, and the members of the
Grand Army of the Repulic, bound for
Philadelphia to spend the week at
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

There will be preaching at Downs
Chapel next Sunday at p. m, by the
pastor, Rev. J. E. Nicholson, COM
muniOn; Sunday School pm.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

The pulpit of St. Paul NJ. E.
Church was filled last Sunday night
by Presiding Elder W. F. Corkran.
His sermon is highly spoken of by
members of the congregation who
heard him.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

W. F. Il J. r. Clements are we'll
pleased with the favor with which the
Buckye Drill is taking with the farm
ers, and they are selling them, with the
prospect of many more sales before the
season is over. Read the opinion of
those who have used them, in their ad-
vertisement elsewhere.
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06
CASTORIA

CASTORIA
Bears the signature of CHAs H. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind You Haze Alwa1s Bought
Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

Fall Ripe and ready;
nothing new but
SuitS, the goods and
the styles; the
Hats, same way of
selling them; the
Furnishings same way of ap-
preciating our
customers and
their friends. One Low Price,
with satisfaction guaranteed.
Stylish new Sack Suits for
business and evening wear;
Cutaway and Prince Albert
Suits for dress-up use, full
drees and Tuxedo Suits for
full dress wear. Nothing
paid for that you do not get;
every article sold must be
worth the money.
New Fall shapes in Hats,
led by ''Dunlap's," best in the
world. Silk Hats, stiff Hats,
soft Hats, Fedora's, Crush
ers and Pocket Hats. Hats
and Caps of all kinds for
Boys. New Fall Furnish
ings, Neckwear, big stock 25
and soc grades. Underwear,
heavy and medium weight
Shirts, white and fancy.
fancy bosoms and ail-overs.
with separate cuffs.
Open Tuesday and Satur-
day evenings.