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Smyrna times., 1900-08-01
On THURSDAY,
THE 10TH DAY OF AUGUST. A. D. 1870

THE 10TH DAY OF AUGUST. A. D. 1900
at o'clock P. M, the following described Real
Estate, to wit:
All that certain farm or tract of land and
premises situated formerly in buck Creek Hun
dred, but now KentOn Hundred in Kent County
and State of Delaware, bounded as follows,
namely: By lands late of James II Jones. now
OF William A. Stevens. on the east; lands late of
the heirs OF David Jones. deceased, now of Rob
ert Darrah, on the south; lands late of John
Griffin, now Of Mary j. Reynolds on the west;
and on the north by lands iate of the heirs OF
Hill, and the main road leading from Smyrna 10
Blackiston's Cross Roads. aud said TO contain
about Two Hundred and Thirty-fiye Acres Of
Land, be the same more or less. The improve
ments upon which are a two-stOry brick dwell.
Ing with two-stOry frame building and shed
kitchen attached, smOkehOuSe, barn, stable, hay
barrack, carriage-hOuse, cow stable wagon shed
and other small OutbuildingS and two one story
tenant houses; also, apple orchard and other
which Alexander Peterson and wife conveyed to
John Mustard by their indenture well executed
on the 4th day of November, A. d. 1868. and is
recorded in the Office for the recording of Deeds
at Dover i'll and for Kent County aforesaid in
BOOK q, vol 3. folio 293, as by reference thereto
will appear at large Together with all and
singular the buildings, fixtures. woods, waters,
ways, easements, Improvements. privileges and
appurtenances to the said lands and premises
ana TO every OF them belonging or in anywise
appertaining and every part and parcel thereof.
Seized and taken in execution as the property
OF JOHN MUSTARD and will be sold by
JOHN B. WHARTON. Sheriff
Sheriff s Office. Dover, Del July %, 1900
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WANT TO RETURN TO LEGISLATURE.
Nearly All the Members of the Last Ses-
sion Want to Go Back In January.

Although the members of the last
Legislature say there is no money in
being elected to that body, nearly all
of the old members want to go back
again in January. There must be
some attraction outside of their salar-
les that makes them so anxious to sue
ceed themselve.
We don't think being member of
the Legislature, says the Republican,
is calculated to improve mans NOR
ais. Frederick Pyle, who served one
term in the House, says that paper,
could not be hired to accept another
term. To him the session was reve-
lation, in ways that were dark and
tricks not always used in vain.
Some men when they get taste of
office never want to let go again of the
public teat. The life has a certain in
fatuation that is irresistible to them
and they appear to want to live the
balance of their life off the people.
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Howard s. Janney Dead.

Howard s. Januey, of the we'll
known firm of Janney & Andrews,
Philadelphia grocers, died at Asbury
Park, N. j., Saturday of Bright's dis
ease, in his 52nd year. He was we'll
and favorably known to the wholesale
grocery trade of this town.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01
spent A Good Farm Dootorinp,

Spent A Good Farm Doctoring.
Mr.. A. N. Noell, of Asherville, Kan
sas, says he spent good farm doctor
ing himself for chronic diarrhea but
got no relief and was afraid that he
must die. He chanced to get hold of
bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhea Remedy and was per-
mantly cured by it. For sale by Cliff
ton * Raymond, Smyrna, and t. L.
Mason, Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01
CLAYTON DEPAR 7 MENT,

Mr.. I. L. Mason is our authorized agent
at Clayton, Del, and will receive new sub
criptions and receives monies ON old. Al
news items left with him will receive proper
attention. Subscribe now; only $1.00 a
year in advance.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

"Since leaving Goldey College in
1898, l have never been out of employ
employment, writes Goldey College
graduate. Write to. day to II. s. Col
deey, Wilmington, Del, for new cata-
louge. See adv, this paper.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

Downs Chapel will hold festival
on the church yard next Saturday
night. The public is invited.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

A lawn lunch will be given on the
yard adioing Ewell's NJ. P. Church on
Saturday, Aug. 18th.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

A Methodist Protestant woodmeet-
ing will begin next Sunday near
Moore's Chapel, to continue over two
Sundays.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

There will be no service at Bethesda
NJ. P. Church next Sunday as Camden
Camp is close by.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

Salem NJ. P. Church will hold their
third annual festival at Thomas
Corner tomorrow, Friday and Satur-
day evenings.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01
CLAYTON.

items of Interest Cleaned From the Doings
Ia and About Town.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01
JAS, t, MULLIN & SONS.
Clothing, Sixth and
Hats, Market,
Shoes, Wilmington.
SHERIFFS SALE.

SHERIFFS SALE
- By virtue of writ of Levari Facias, to me
directed, will be exposed TO Public Sale at the
front door of the Delaware House in the town of
Smyrna, Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County and
State of Delaware,
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

In Ewell's M. P. Church next Sun
day, Rev. E. Shaw will be in charge of
the services at 1890 a. M, and $50
p. m. The pastor, Rev. J. E. Nichol
son, will be in attendance at Shiloh
NJ. P. Campmeeting in Dorchester
county, Md. Sunday School 2 p. m.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

A valuable horse belonging to E. W.
Mcdowell of Smyrna, became fright
ened here Saturday at the cars and ran
away. 1t came in contact with the
Stoeckle House and fell to the pave
ment, breaking his neck. The horse
was one of Mr.. McDowell's best driv-
ing horses.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

When in need of job work call at the
Times Office.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

}. B. Book, trainmaster of the Della
ware Railroad, who, since the incor-
poration of Clayton, has been a mem
her and president of the Town Coun-
ell, last meeting rendered his resigna-
tion on account of ill-health. r. Y.
Wallen was elected to succeed him.
According to the new town charter,
Mr.. Wallen serves the unexpired term
of Mr.. Book, which ends in 1908.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01

The Armour Refrigerator Company
are still busily engaged in fixing their
cars for the peach shipment. Formerly
all fruit shipped this way had to be in
covered baskets, but now the cars are
being fitted up with shelving similar
to the ordinary freight cars. From
present outlook the shipment by re-
frigerator cars will be quite heavy to
western points where the crop is al
most a total failure.
Smyrna times., 1900-08-01
$500
SUITS
BARGAINS

we mean to clean up; all
sizes, 33 to AZ. Among
them mized CassimereS
and Cheviots. Plain Chew
lots and mixed Worsteds
among them. Suits worth
none less than $3.50 up to
IS, SO and $12. The sooner
you come the better selec-
ton and quality you can
get. Our new Sc Serge
Suits are big bargains.
Fast color blue, Coats
made skeleton, no liGing.
A few all skies, 81 to AZ of
the SIS. Striped Flannel
Coats and Trousers in
stock.
Closed evenings except
SATURDAY.
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Quantity and Quality Seem Both to
Be Unknown.
OF VALUE IN COMMON COINS
Competition Between and Dis
honesty of MINIS the Cause.
THE DOLLAR" AND "SYCEE"

Written for The Evening Star.
The money of China is a curious admir-
ture of foreign and domestic coin. Facts
CLEANED from consular reports and from
information obtained through foreigners
who have resided there go to show that
very little is known about its quantity,
while its quality is more unstable than is
usual with the coin of other countries. No
accurate estimate of the amount of money
in circulation in the empire appears to have
been made, and no positive statement can
be set forth on a given date as to its value
a week from that time. The value of the
several coins fiuctuates with the market
price of silver upon which they are based.
and am an with a bag full of dollars" in
passing from one province to another may
have his wealth increased decreased, ac-
cording to the local standard called the
''tael."
The cash is the most common circulat-
ing coin OF China. 1t is a copper and zinc
piece about the size of the American quar-
ter of a dollar, with a square hole in the
center for convenience in stringing many OF
them together. The cash varies some
what in fineness and weight, but is worth
about one-tenth of a cent. 1t is the money
of the people of China. and is accepted in
all parts of the empire. For few years
there has been a tendency to hoard the
cash. and since 1895 these small coins
have appreciated quite good deal in value.
They are increasingly scarce, pointing to
the fact that they are being concealed by
the people and hidden away the most
valuable kind Of money in the country.
cash coins, when new, have Chinese
characters on each side giving the date and
place of minting, together with certain
hieroglyphics indlcative of the spendor OF
the reigning sovereign.
Owing to its low denomination. the
cash is suited on.y 20 small transactions.
For larger sums SILVER money is used and
1t Is measured by the weight called the
'taeL Silver money circuiates in two
forms, called the dollar and the "sycee"
The dollar was originally the Mexican dol
lar, which first came to the trading ports,
Being a snowy coin, it attracted the atten-
ton of the celestials, and some twenty-five
years ago was greatly priced by the Chi
nese, and soon was generally accepted as
currency. 1t was sought after to such an
extent that the government imported large
quantities of the coin from Mexico and
Europe. 1t was also eagerly accepted by
Chinese merchants at the seaportS, and
European vessels brought out large
amounts of the Mexican coin and ex-
changed them for goods
More recently minis for the coinage of
dollars purporting to be of the weight
and fneness of the Mexican dollars have
The establishment of these local minis APP
pears to have been by the authority of the
and not by that of the central
government. As a result the competition
between these mints the dishonesty of
the minters. or both combined, reduced the
weight and fneness of the dollars thus
giving another reason for their fluctuation
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A Famous Lighthouse.
From the Chautauauan.

The most famous lighthouse on the Pacific
coast is that Of Tllamook Rock, seventy
miles south of the mouth of the Columbia
river, Oregon. The rock is nnety-two feet
above the sea, yet at the time Mr.. Lord
made one Of his photographs a wave was
breaking through a crevasse and hurting
its spray higher than the summit. On this
day 1t was too rough for the Columbine's
boat to make landing. Coal for the sta
ton had to be hoisted in net sings, and the
keeper had to be lowered in a cage or bas-
ket and, suspended in midair over the sea-
report on the condition Of himself and his
assistants. as they were short of provisions.
most Of the supply having been destroyed
during a storm.
From the side of the rock a heavy sea, at
the height Of this storm, tore off two pieces
averaging sixty-three pounds and hurled
them upon the roof of the keepers dwell
ing. With the weight of the water these
fragments made a hole twenty-six feet in
depth Of over five feet and washed out
two walls, throwing three rooms into one,
an Improvement" for which the keepers
were not especially grateful. Pieces of rock
punctured the iron roof in thirty-five
places Although the focal plane Of the
lantern Is 136 feet above the sea level.
eleven panes Of glass three feet long and
three-eighths Of an ich thick were knocked
in by pieces of rock, which went through
the lantern, and the water put out the light.
The building has now been raised six feet
and thick concrete roof has been laid on
heavy steel Orders.
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der those things they learn here and keep
them IN mind. and may they live in this
present world that their children and their
ch!ldren's children shall rise up and call
them blessed"
The Cathedral School is built in the Ital-
ian renaissance style. 1t has over IGO
rooms, besides magnificent assembly hall
Is absolutely freproof in construction
throughout and cost s2tD8t0 Its site a.
Is well known TO those familiar with the
rural section OF the national capital is one
OF the prett!est about Washington-almost
ideal. The cathedral tract Of some thirty
acres is wooded with fine old oaks and is
about 4S feet above the city proper. From
this eHnreEce in broad panorama lies the
full extent OF Washington. The eye takes
In at one sweep the heart and center of
the nation. The handsome stone edihcc is
at the northwestern corner OF the calhe-
dral site.
Board of Trustees.
The trustees OF the school are all men
of prominence and renown, the board i'll
Gliding the bishop of Washington, ex-of-
ficiO, Rev Randolph II. McKim, d. D., Rev
Alexander Mackay-Smith, ID. D., Former
Senator George F. Edmunds. Mr. Charles
Glover General John NJ. Wilson, u. S.
A General John G. Parke, L. S. A: Mr..
John A. KassOn, Mr.. George Truesdell Mr..
Henry f. PelIew, Rev. John H. Elliott,
ID. D.. Admiral George Dewey. L. s. N;
Mr.. Charles ]. Bell and Mr.. Thomas Hyde.
The principals are Miss Lois Adelaide
whom 1t is conceded have the character,
ability and experience to guide well the
destnies OF the school in its formative
years. Their success has beer attested in
their own academic school for girls which
has been conducted in New York. The
faculty which has been selected is said to
be an admirable one, and the subjects re-
Quired for admission to college will be
taught In all cases by college and univer-
sity graduates.
While college preparation is to be fea-
ture of the Cathedral School, the insttu-
ton will by no means confine itself to that
class OF work. II will give to those for
whom college course is not desirable a
thorough and symmetrical education, with
special attention paid TO the modern IAN
guages and science. literature and art
Literature and Character Building
Literature is TO be an important study it
being deemed one of the greater elements
that should enter into woman's education.
The school will open with a we'll selected
library Of some 1900 volumes. to which /,
n promised constant additions Of choice
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THE SCENT OF THE ONION.
BY Any Other Name 1t Would BE as
Far From Sweet.

tnafnbers Journal.
1t is interesting to make inquiry into the
cause of this unfortunate quality of the
onion. 1t is simply due to the presence in
some quantity of another mineral matter
in the bulb-sulphur II is this sulphur that
gives the onion it's germ killing property
and makes the bulb so very useful me-
dicinal agent at all times. but especially in
the spring, which used to be-and still is
in many places-the season for taking brim-
stone and treacle In old-fashioned houses
before sulphur tablets came into vogue.
Now, sulphur, when united to hydrogen,
one Of the gases Of water, forms sulphu-
retted hydrogen and then becomes foul
smelling, well nigh fetd, compound. The
onion. being SO juicy, has a very large per-
centage of water in its tissues, and this.
combining with the sulphur, forms the
strongly scented and offensive substance
called suphuret of allyle, which is found
in all the albums. This sulphuret of allyle
mngles more especially with the volatile
aromatic oil Of the onion; 1t is Identical
with the malodorant principle found in
asafoetida, which is almost the symbol OF
all smells that are nasty. The horse radish
SO much liked with roast beef for its keen
and biting property, and the ordinary mus
tard of our tables both owe their strongly
stimulative properties to this same sui
phuret of ally!e, which gives them heat
and acridity, but not an offensive smell,
owing to the different arrangements of the
atoms in their volatile oils.
This brings us to a most curious fact in
nature, that most strangely, yet most GER
tainly constructs all vegetable volatile oils
in exactly the same way-composes them
ali, whether they the aromatic essences
of cloves, oranges, lemons, cinnamon,
thyme rose, verbena. turpentine or onion
of exactly the same proportions, which are
S1% of carbon to 11S of hydrogen and OBJ
tainS all the vast seeming diversities that
our nostrils detect in their scent simply by
different arrangement of the atoms in
each vegetable OIL Oxygen alters some of
the hydrocarbons; sulphur others.
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works Will be made. The girls will be
urged TO indulge themselves in good lltera-
tlire and TO carefully digest what they pc
ruse. As Bishop Satterlee aptiy expressed
il, the chief aim of the Cathedral School is
to build up character by developing equally
the spiritual, normal. intellectual and phys-
cal life of it's pupils: by deepening the
sense Of Christian responsibility and per-
sonal loyalty to Christ: by aiming for the
highest intellectual standards of modern
education and cultivating trained habits of
study: by giving special attention to phys-
cal health, out-of-door study and exercise;
by surrounding the scholars with elevatng
social influences and he refined atmosphere
of cultivated home life. Miss Bangs has
stated her aim to be to make of the girls
who attend women who would be able to
cope intellectually with their fellows, and
al the same time to go out into the world
equipped with ali the armor of purity that
belongs to women who are as their mothers
would have them"
Music is to receive unusual attention.
thirteen rooms having been set apart for
devotion to this department. some of them
single piano rooms for individual practice;
but there is also a larger room for the
teaching Of harmony.
Health and Comfort.
The arrangements for the health and
comfort of the students are most thorough
and thoughtful. The architect has shown
appreciative attention to every side of the
young students life. The rooms are grace
fully designed, and will be a pleasure to
the users A covered playground is pro-
Eided for use in bad weather. ample gym
naslum facilities are afforded and there Is
besides all this the opportunity for outdoor
exercise the vast ground will always offer
A specially trained teacher will have charge
or the out-of-dOor play, and system of in
door exercise will be used which has been
found by experience to aid in forming hab-
Its of attention and self-control. A novel
feature Is to be the systematic instruction
to be given in how to study. The classes
will be over in the morning. but day pupils
may have a hot luncheon at the school, so
that they can stay in the afternoon and
prepare their work under the supervision
of a teacher who is adept in teaching
that difficult subject how to learn a les
SON"
Inc school year opens October l. and II
is believed there will be at that time a
large matricu!ation of pupils An effort Will
be made to have the children placed in the
institution at early an age as possible
mat they may reap the full benefit of the
careful training.
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Her average rate Of speed is ten miles an
hour.
The total distance OF the voyage is Ii, 294
miles and the sailing time is 81 days and Il
hours. She will coal several times on the
trip. as her capacity admits of steaming
only about 1900 miles without replenishing
her bunkers fr-.
She is in command Of Captain K. ]. Hamp-
ton. United States army. quartermaster's
department, and has sailing master and
navigator. Captain Hampton was recently
appointed from Kentucky and is well known
in Washington where he has resided sew
eral winters. He will direct the move
ments of the SlOcum. but. of course will
have nothing to say about the details of
navigation. which will be left to the proper
officers selected for that purpose.
The Slocum Is constructed of steel through
out. Her length is 1872 feet beam 20 feet
and depth Of hold 10 feet. and her draught
is from ID to Is feet. She has two steel
boilers and triple expansion engines with
1.200 estimated horse power She Is cleo
trio Lighted and has steam steering gear
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and steam windlass. Her gross tonnage is
Thumped by the Mayor.

Thumpe0 ny the Mayor.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mayor Gray of Minneapolis gave a mash
err thrashing today In the presence of a.
large crowd on one of the principal down.
town streets The mayor was waiting for g.
car when he saw a fashionably dressed
woman retreating before a heavy-set, mid
dle-aged man. The mayor first thought It
a row between husband and wife, but soon
discovered the man was trying to impose
his attentions on the, woman. The next
moment the stranger had caught the wo-
mans arm
"Tn call an officer" she cried in great
alarm.
What are you trying to do?" inquired
the mayor, advancing on the fellow.
was the reply. M
'.Waiv.ng the fact that it cuts no figure
in the case" said the mayor, getting a little
closer, my name is Gray. / have two or
three hundred policemen working for me
but 1 don't see any Of them now"
please have that man arrested; he has
been following me- cried the woman.
The mayor caught hold of the fellow who
jerked away "She lies; you mind your
business!" he shouted.
rough combat followed, the mayor rain
ing blow after blow on the Washers head.
knocking him into the gutter
Just then a woman issued from a nearby
building, screaming, and said the man was
her husband. She wanted to know the
cause of the trouble. The mayor said:
We'll, madam. / am In politics: / was
trying to induce this man to sign my peti-
ly.' Then he whispered in the Washers
ear: Clear out, now, or I'll have you
locked up
No second invitation was needed.
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would disclose the little vessel that is shown
in the accompanying half-tone cut.
The United States flag is floating proudly
from her gaff, for she is in the service of
the government and a Yankee crew is at
the stations. This little steamer mere
tugboat, is bound from New York to San
Francisco via the Straits Of Magellan. 1t
is daring Journey, but unless unusual mis-
fortune should attend the enterprising
Americans aboard OF her will bring her
safely through and anchor her inside the
Golden Gate in due time.
This is the tug Slocum, the property of
the quartermaster's department Of the
United States army. 1t was found neces-
sary to have a tugboat in San Francisco
harbor, and the only thing the department
could do was to send one around from New
York The Siocum. which was bought by
the government in 1893, was selected and
was put into drydock for repairs for the
long and peri,ous journey. She Is the larg-
est tugboat ever built on the Delaware
and was launched in 1898 at Hillmans
shipyard
After her purchase by the government
she was on duty in the waters of Porto
Rico.for nearly two years and encountered
AS she was built to stand pretty severe
handling she has come through thus far
without Disaster The present journey,
however, will test the qualities of the
stanch little craft to the utmost, and her
log will be read with interest by seafaring
men when she makes port.
The hardest part of the trip will proba-
bly, come when the tug reaches the vicinity
Of the entrance to the straits and after she
passes through and energies In the Pacific
on the other side of the continen.-of South
America. Heavy seas are the rule In this
part of the world, and sometimes steamers
Of the largest size find difficulty In making
Roadway. Even the great battle ship Ore
gon had to run to shelter on her trip east
Ward when she struck the entrance to
Magellan.
The Slocum left New York July Il last.
Six days later she was reported at st.
Thomas, West Indies, and August IL was
stt Buenos Ayres. She Will make stops at
Callao and Acapulco, On thu west COAST
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BOUND FOR SAN FRANCISCO
TUG sLOCUM NOW WELL. AWAY ON
HER LONG JOURNEY.
From New York to the Golden Gate
via Magellan Straits-Her Ton
mage and Crew.

Somewhere in the lonely wastes OF the
South Atlantic ocean there is today little
speck on the surface of the waters mere
dot that rises and falls on the broad surges
sweeping around Cape Horn and up the
coast. closer inspection of this atom,
infinitessmal by comparison with the mag
nitude of the element which surrounds it,