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Smyrna times., 1901-09-18

The autopsy on the body of Presi-
dent Mckinley Saturday afternoon
disclosed the fact that death was the
result of gangrene that had set in.
Both holes were found to be perfectly
closed by the stitches, but the tissue
around each hole had become gangre-
nous. After passing through the stom-
ach the bullet lodged in the back walls
of the abdomen, hitting and tearing
the upper end of the kidney. This
portion of the bullet ira ok was also
gangrenous, the gangrene involving
the pancreas. The bullet was not
found. The heart walls were very
thin. There was no evidence of any
attempt to repair on the part of nature
and death resulted from the gangrener
which affected the stomach around the
bullet wounds, as well as the tissues
around the further course Of the bull
let. Death was unavoidable by any
surgical or medical treatment.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
FLOWER AND TREE.

Plants cannot live if deprived of their
leaves.
Tea plants at the age of years yield
700 pounds of tea to the acre.
The date palm requires hot, dry air,
but moisture about the roots and plenty
of it.
Palms never live more than go
years. Ivy has been known to live 450.
chestnut $50, oak 1,G0O and yew 1850.
An oak tree of average size, with
100000 leaves, lifts from the earth
about 123 tons of water during the five
months it is in leaf.
Jasmine is an Indian shrub. Its star
ry, wax white blossoms are indescriba-
bly, sweet. All the burning pain and
passion and pathOs and mystery of the
Hindoo race seem to rise up to you in
its breath.
There is a rose tree with a trunk
feet 8 inches in circumference in a Ven
tura garden in California. 1t is La
marque, has been growing n quarter of
a century and yielded over 21,OOC
blooms in 1895.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
Denthbed FInttery.

Almost every dying person is liable
to be allured by the solemn attitude Of
the company and the restrained or
flowing torrents of tears and emotions
to an alternating conscious and uncon-
scious comedy of conceitedness. The
seriousness with which every dying
person is treated has undoubtedly been
the very finest enjoyment of his life to
many n poor despised devil and sort
Of indemnification and partial payment
for much privatiOn.-Works of Metz
sche.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
New President Has Been In the Public Eye
For More Than Twenty Years.

New President Has Been In the Public Eye
For More Than Twenty Years.
Presidents die, bnt our Government
continues with unimpaired vitality.
Stocks fall, but values remain. The
Government of this Republic is based
on the bedrock of the Constitution,
and has in it, we fondly hope, the prin
ciple of Immortality. A stricken ma
tion weeps for it's beloved President,
William Mckinley, but its grief has in
it no element of serious doubt or ap-
prehension for the future. There is
no interregnum. Theodore Roosevelt
is President of the United States.
No man ever came to the President's
office so young as he, but for twenty
years he has been in the public eye.
He has had more political experience
and has been more in touch with pub
lie events than large number of our
Presidents previous to their inaugura-
tiOn. He has been all his life a student
of our history and of public questions.
He is man of high standards and
strong convictions and intense patriot
ism. His inpetuOus zeal and earnest
ness in whatever he undertakes has
been heretofore one of the main sources
of his strength and political success.
Tempered and sobeced by the grave
responsibilities of his new position,
these qualities wisely directed will
make his administration a power for
good, full of solid achievements that
makes for the peace and happiness OF
the people.
While, therefore, we mourn with un.
affected grief for our beloved and hon
Ored President, William Mckinley,
there is no cause for alarm or uneasi
hess for the future. In the Language
of President Mckinley, at his Founder
| Days speech ut the Union League O
this city last November, "The structure
of the father stands secure upon the
foundations on which they raised it
and is to-day, as it has been in the
| years past, and as it will be in tn,
years to come, the Government of tn,
people, by the people, for the people
Be not disturbed. There is no fea
for the Republic. ."-Phita. Press.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
Cents East and West.

"There is always a scarcity of pen
MES in the west" says an official Of
the Philadelphia mint, 'and a super
abundance of them in the east. Every
little while the banks out there set up
a hoot and cry for pennies, but our
banks here are ever glad to rid them
selves of their surplusage in these
coins. 1t is difficult to see why such a
state of things should be. I'm sure a
penny is just as dear to the eastern
er's heart as to the westerner's. One
would no more throw penny away
than would the other, yet here we al
ways have too many pennies. There
they never seem to have enough"
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
Ia MemOriam.

In the death of Mary Frances Stan
ley Pinder, wife of William Pinder,
Overseer at "Woodlawn" farm, which
occurred on September 9th, her hus-
band, family and friends have sus-
tanned an irreparable loss. Fannie
Pinder, as she was called by her init
mates, was a rarely fine woman, a
good Christian and sincere friend, de-
voted to her home and family. A
large concourse of friends attended
her funeral, her favorite hymns were
sung by the ladies of the choir of
Clayton NJ. p Church, with grand ef-
feet. Services by Rev. Vaughan s..
Collins. Burial at Odd Fellows Gem
etery. H. B. Nc.
Sept. 18th, 1901.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
TOOK Him LITERALLY.
That Was WHY His Signature Was
Rejected at the Bank.

''Bank clerks are so often called upon
for directions that they sometimes fall
into the habit of giving them in a hur-
ried and mechanical manner, conse-
quently they are frequently misunder-
Stood" remarked the clerk of saw
ings institution to n reporter the other
day. "For instance, the usual formula
when a stranger is called upon to sign
his name is, Sign here; pen and ink at
your left hand One morning last week
a stranger entered our bank and asked
me for certificate of deposit for a con-
siderable sum of money which he hand
ed over. counted the money and found
the amount to be as stated and hurried
ly said, Sign there. sir; pen and ink at
your left hand
"Wcll it took the stranger long
time to sign his name, but l thought
nothing more of it and issued the GER
titicate of deposit About a week later
the same man, whose face l had for
gotten, reappeared and presented the
certificate. He dashed off an ornate
signature, which / proceeded to COM
pare with the first signature. The two
were vastly different, as the first one
was apparently the labOred effort of an
old man.
81 can't pay you this money, SIR l
said.
"'Why not| asked the astOnished
stranger
"'Because it is not the signature of
the man to whom l issued the certifi-
cate Of deposit l replied
"Well said the stranger, when l
was here a week ago you told me to
write my name with my left hand, and
l did so. but l can't write very well
that way
"'Then will you Oblige me by writ
ing your maine with your left hand
again. asked as n light dawned upon
| me.
Certainly said the man, and after
much labor he produced facsimile OF
his first signature, and l apOlOgized
and paid him his oney."-Washing
| Star.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18

OWING to the death of President
Mckinley, extraordinary precautions
are being taken by the French author
tiles to protect the Czar during his
visit to France; anarchists and Euro
peon revolutionaires at Marseilles and
other cities were locked up, thereby
frustrating a plot to asassinate the
Czar.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18

Many sermons emphasizing the ma
tion's loss and the virtues of President
Mckinley were preached at Washing
ton. Services were held in the
churches in many cities and there
were eloquent tributes to President
Mckinley and strong denunciations of
his assassin.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18

Josh Westhafer, of Logootee, Ind,
is poor man, but he says he would
not be without Chamberlain Pain
Balm if it cost five dollars a bottle,
for it saved him being a cripple. No
external application is equal TO this
liniment for stiff and swollen joints,
contracted muscles, stiff neck, sprains
and rhematic and muscular pains. 1t
has also cured numerous cases of par
tial paralysis. 1t is for sale by Cliff
ton & Raymond, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
FLAGS DISPLAYED AT HALF MAST.
Proclamation of Governor Hum in Com.
memOratlOn of President Mckinley.

Governor John HUM has issued a
proclamation directing that beginning
on the 14th day of Septe mber and end
ing the day after the interment of the
distinguished head, the flags on all our
public school buildings within this
commonwealth be displayed and kept
at half mast in commemoration of the
life and character of one our greatest
Presidents.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18

These last words of President Nc
Kinley-his farewell to his wife, his
people and the nation-marked in
fitting manner the ending of the life
work of a good and great man.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
A Tart RetOrt.

The infant of a household was in it's
cradle. The head of the house was at
home, peevish and fault finding. At
length he became uncomfortable. "You
have done nothing but make mistakes
tonight" he growled.
"Yes," she answered meekly; 81 be.
gan by putting the wrong baby to bed. !"
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
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Protect your ideas; they may bring won wealth
Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO., Patent Attor
neys, Washington. d. C.. for their 4i 500 prize ofea
and list OF two hundred tnveEtionf wanted
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18

oFFICE:-Next Door 10 the Fruit Growers
National Bank.
Telephone, No. 10.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18

THE SMYRNA TIMES is published at Smyrna
Del, every Wednesday afternoon.
THE TIMES is an independent paper devoted to
the welfare of the town it represents and the
State of which it is a part. 1t also gives the
items of importance of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland.
ROBT. D. HOFFECKER.
Editor and Proprietor.
ROBT. D. HOFFECKER, JR.,
Associate Editor.
observation-disclosures 50 per annum. II
paid strictly in advance slOO. No paper is
discontinued until all arrears are paid up
except at the option nf the publishers.
ADVERTISEMENTS-TH SMYRNA TINES is the
business medium not only for the town it rep
resents but for the outlying district Of which il
is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton
Xent0n, Cheswold, Leipsic &c. A rate OF Sc
cents an inch for hrst insertion and % cents
for each subsequent insertion will be charged
or transient advertising. Locals and Reading
Notices, 10 cents per line per issue. specia
reduction on all semi-anDual and yearly &C vel
tisements.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18

This Mems and Boys Suits,
Mems and Boys Fall
Week Overcoats, Mems and
Boys Trousers, Fall
Starts Furnishings, H a 5,
Gloves and Piece Goods
Fall for Tailoring. You
will soon need them,
Trade. why not get them early
and have the advan-
tage of new styles of full stock
for selection and all season 5
wear. Our great range OF
styles of suits for young men
is at $40, $I2 and SIS. New
styles in Cheviots, dark Wor-
steds and black Thibets. Lat.
est style cut Coats, Vests and
Trousees, palmer styles and
more conservative cuts for
palmer men and quiet %ressers.
We will save you money by
selling you good goods.
Closed evenings at 6 O'Clock
except Saturdays.
Smyrna times., 1901-09-18
Smyrna, DEL,

AFTERNOON, SEPT. 18th, 1901
The National tribune., 1901-10-24
THE PRESIDENTS BOOKS.

The attention of our club-raisers p
specially called to the announcement Of
our offer of the Presidents books on an
other page.
Such an announcement is without precs-
dent. Never before in our history has
President figured as popular author dur
ing his term as Chief Executive. He is
today the most interesting man in the
country, and in no other way can he be
known so well as by reading his books.
Every patriotic American should read
them, and we are enabled by exclusive ar
engagements to give to every one the easy
to do this.
Let every one read the announcement
and act upon it at once. While our edi-
tion is large, it is not unlimited, and
when it is gone there will not be another
chance to secure these works upon such
favorable terms
The National tribune., 1901-10-24

regiment" they decided, though it's GO
ing 10 be ticklish work moving 'em out
right under them fellers' noses"
The old moon was now far down in the
west, throwing all her light directly on the
breastworks, while filing the other side
with shadows.
81 and Shorty looked the boats over
again in the moonlight
"Recollect how them fellers went acrost
the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg,
ShortyT
"Yes-in pontoons."
"Well, what's the matter with US try
ing the same thing with these! If they
did it we can"
"Sure. Them Army of the Potomac
fellers can't turn any trick that we can't
l believe that straw'll stop a bullet. It's
wet and heavy. We can keep it in front
of us, and trust to the artillery to keep
down their internal canister. Let's try
it,
There's no use starting from here
Let's take the boats up in front OF the
regiment, and let the whole company in
with us. 1 believe the boats'll carry all
Of Co. O."
81 guess So"
Pete" said 81, run back to the Colo
mel. and tell him that we're going to
bring the boats up, and ask to please stir
The National tribune., 1901-10-24
Loss OF 1 CITIZEN

Through the accidental activity of the
Italian police this country has lost a citi-
zen who might have displayed a very
strenuous part in our political. social. and
judicial systems, and caused us no end
of trouble and expense.
Sig. MusSolino was one of those gen
try, too numerous in every country. who
think that the world owes them living
without working for it. He chose brigan-
dage as his line of operations. and at
tanned success enough in it to have set
himself up as another Fra Diavolo. But
brigandage is going out of fashion, even
in Italy, and the Government made an
effort to show him this. He resented this
invasion of the time honored privileges of
every Sicilian who can buy, beg. borrow,
or steal gun, and proclaimed his in
alienable rights to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness in that particular
way by killing Judge and number of
other important officials. Even the Italian
Government was reused by such sharp
Soads as this, and it spent about $500 900
in trying to capture him. At least that is
the way the expenditure will appear in the
budget. From the known character of
Italian officials, one has to smile at the
lmprObability of even so much as $4,000
of this vast sum being actually expended
in serious attempt to apprehend the vii
lain. Ten thousand dollars would 90 n
long way toward bringing about the ar
rest of any man even in this high-priced
country. What could it not do in a land
where the lira-value 10 cents-gOes as
far as dollar does with US? Probably
the Italian officials obtained good many
little luxuries out Of the Mussolno fund.
Their excuse was that the inhabitants Of
the country helped him get away. But,
then, 100000 would have bought up.
body and soul, every man in the district
in which he operated At length a carbi-
neer, not really hunting for MussoIino but
merely patrolling through the country. saw
a man walk away with suspicious rapid
ity, and halted him Though MussoIino
was loaded down with two revolyers and
three daggers, and terrorized the meas
antry, he had a wholesome fear of a lev
eled gun, and surrendered without a word
That is the way with those terror striking
fellows. Only after he had been taken
to the station-house did the police learn
whom they had captured. 1t was then
discovered that Mussolino was getting
tired Of Italy, and had been making prep
arations for migration to this country.
We cannot be too grateful to that car
bIneer. He deserves some kind OF Il testi
monIal from us. If Mussoino had been
allowed TO carry ont his intention there is
every likelihood that he would have cost
Is, in one way or another, quite as much
as he did his native country. He might
have joined his fellow-r0bbers of Tam
many Hall, or he might have preferred to
continue to operate independently. and re
peat his exploits at home, until he had
provoked another New Orleans lynching
bee, with its Accomplishments of heavy
damages to Italy for the loss Of one of her
citizens. Anyway, he could not have
helped being an expensive addition to our
population, and the carbineer who acct
dentally discharged his duty in arrestipg
Tim has spared us very much.
The National tribune., 1901-10-24
PERSONAL.

Lieut-COl Isaac Arnold, Commandant
Of the Allegheny Arsenal, died suddenly
Oct Is, while hunting in East Deer
Township. Pa. At the time he was nc
companieG 1y his Orderly, Frederick Win
ter. Col. Arnold entered the Military
Academy in 1853. June, 1862, he was
appointed Second Lieutenant, I'd Art;
April 81. 1863. was transferred to the
Ordnance Department and promoted to
First Lieutenant. He was promoted Cap
tain in 1867; Major in 1879, and Lieu
tenant Colonel, Feb. %, 1897. He served
through the war in the Army of the Po-
tomac, and was engaged in all its prin-
cipal battles, being severely wounded at
Charlottesville. He is survived by a
widow. two sons and three daughters.
Capt. Jas. C. Niche, for many years
COmmissary of the Soldiers Home, Day
ton, o., died there, October 20, aged 60.
He was a brother of the late Gen Niche,
OF West Point. He enlisted in 1851, in
the 9th Ohio, and after being severely
wounded was given a commission in 1854,
and helped organize a regiment from the
rebel prisoners at Point Lookout, Nd, and
became a Captain. He resided for many
years in Covington, Ky, doing business
in Cincinnati, and was Past Commander
of the Department Of Kentucky, G. A. r.
Gen. Walter S. Payne, for many years
an active worker in the Sons of Vet
Grams. and at one time COMMANDMENTS
Chief. died in Chicago Oct. 10, from the
results of an operation.
Maj. Henry II. Twombly, formerly Sec
rotary of the Board of Education, and ae
one time Paymaster in the army, has
asked for divorce from his wife, whom he
married 81 years ago. The charge is in
tolerably cruelty. and one of the specifca-
tons is that she used to pinch him in
church
The National tribune., 1901-10-24
THE UNLoGIo OF AS,Kcuv

The basis of the Anarchist beIief is
that there is no moral law, natural or re-
Yealed, but that every individual is n law
unto himself. He denies that there 10 i.
bod, and consequently no Being capobIa
OF imposing a law upon human beings.
ms shows Anarchy to be a product of
Europe, where all civil authority is in
some way supposed to be derived from
God. But the American view is wholly
different. 1t starts with the assertion that
no matter now free a man may be in the
state Of nature, and when he is entirely
alone, he ceases to be entirely free when
he comes INTO company with another per
son. Then his freedom is circumscribed
by the natural rights of that other person.
lie must so conduct himself as not TO in
fringe upon the rights Of others. What
those rights are are defined by the ma
jority of the people in the community.
take the form Of laws passed from time
to time, and these laws must be enforced
upon all the members of the community.
! This is the essence of the celebrated
| formula in the preamble TO the Declara-
ton Of Independence, which preached a
new doctrine OF authority to the world:
We hold these truths 10 be seIf-evi-
! dent: that all men are created equal; that
| they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights; that among
| these are life. liberty, and the pursuit of
| happiness. That to secure these rights
/ Governments are instituted among men,
! deriving their just powers from the con-
scIt of the governed"
Probably no Anarchist has ever read the
! Declaration of Independence or if he has,
has not studied what it meant.
The National tribune., 1901-10-24
I'VE PENSION QUESTION.

| = he press has contained all manner OF
misleading statements in regard to the
recent visit of the Commander-in-C Chief to
the President. These have been inspired
and supplied from a source with which we
nave become painfully familiar during the
rast four years. The following, from the
Chicago Rccord-Herald, is an exception to
the general run, and comes nearer being q
fair statement than any other:
WILL PROBE CHARGES.
President Requests Gen. Torrance to In
vpStigate Pension AffairS.-BOth With
out Prejudice.
Commissioner Evans Likely TO Be Dropped
If Accusations Are Found to BE True.
Washington. Oct. 1S-President Roose-
Welt has asked Gen. Ell Torrance, Com
mandcr-in-C Chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic, to investigate the charges which
have been from time TO time made against
Commissioner of Pensions Evans. and
upon his recommendation the President
will act. Both the President and Gen.
Torrance arewi;hout prejudice in the mat
ter. Neither has i'll any way committed
himself in the controversy that has wagcd
for several years, and both only want the
facts. The fight against Commissioner
Evans is based in almost every instance
upon an OiItl1i act. ana 10 determine the
justice of the COMPLAINT the records will
he searched. II Gen. Torrance can APP
prove the position taken by Commissioner
Evans. that official will not be disturbed
If, on the other hand. Gen. Torrance re-
ports that his administration of the Pen
sion Office is open TO censrre. and that the
laws have not been administered properly.
the President will find an opportunity at
an early date to appoint Il new Commits
sioner of Pensions.
Commander-in-C Chief Torrance is a law
yer of distinguished ability. He is zeal
Gus comrade, was Il four years soldier
and is in fullest sympathy in every way
with his comrades who crushed the rebel
lion. He is very anxious that they should
receive full and exact justice, and that
all the power and influence with which he
has been clothed shall be exerted in that
direction. He is making a careful study
of the pension situation: he is selecting
his Pension Committee with the utmost
care, and he is gathering all the facts that
will assist him to proper presentation of
the subject to the President and the pub
lie.
This will require a little time to do it
just right, and we all want it done right.
The National tribune., 1901-10-24

hungry to get at en-
His shrswdnsss did noe fail him In his
eagsrnsss. He studied the ground. or
rather water, in front, and began eau
tiously moving the fallen bush-tops to
increase the area Of curtain. BE was
careful not to move any piece quickly
enough to attract attention, nor to sud
denly change the outlines Of the ciump,
which they were no doubt sharply watch
ing. He kept the shape and hight Of the
dark mass the same, but slowly extended
1t each way.
He heard splash in the water behind
him, and looking around saw Shorty SHOW
ing a small log over to him. He caught
the end, lifted it, and placed it firmly on
the roots on his side
Good enough he whispered back.
Rush them along, and We'll have bridge
in no time"
The clock in the steeple struck 8.
The Adjutant had luckily found grove
of cyprus saplings, tall, slender and
straight, and from three to six inches
thick. and had these cut into 12-foot
lengths. A strong man could carry two
of these, and 81 soon had enough to make
a bridge on which four men could march
abreast. He sent back word for a grape
vine, with which he and Shorty bound