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Smyrna times., 1902-07-09

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. II also gives the
items of importance Of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland
RoBT. D. HOFFECKER,
Editor and Proprietor.
ROBT. D. HOFFECKER, JR.,
Associate Editor.
RMS-SUBsCRIPTION-s1.5 so per annum. II
paid strictly in advance S1.O0. No paper is
discontinued until all arrears are paid up
except at the option Of the publishers.
kDVERTISEMENTS-THE SMYRNA TINES is the
business medium not only for the town it rep
resents, but for the outlying district of which it
is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton
Kenton, Cheswold, Leipsie, &c. A rate of so
cents an inch for first insertion and 25 cents
for each subsequent insertion will be charged
or transient advertising. Locals and Reading
Notices, 10 cents per line per issue. A specia
reduction on all semi-annual and yearly acver
tisements
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09
Distant Neptune

The period Of mans whole history Is
not sufficient for an express train to
traverse half the distance to Neptune
from the earth. Thought wearies and
falls in seeking to grasp such dis
tances. 1t can scarcely comprehend
100000 miles, and here are thousands
OF them. When we stand on that. the
outermost of the planets. the very last
sentinel of the outposts of the King.
the very sun grows dim and small in
the distance.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09
The same old storu.

j. A. Kelley relates an experience
similar to that which has happened in
every neighborhood in the United
States aud has been told and re-told
by thousands of others. He saws:
Last summer / had an attack Of dys-
entery and purchased bottle Of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, which / used according. to
directions and with entirely satisfac-
tory results. The trouble was con-
trolled much quicker than former at
attacks when / used other remedies. 3"
Mr.. Kelley is a we'll known citizen Of
Henderson, n. @. For sale by Cliff
ton q Raymond, Smyrna
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09
When Women Were Extravnean,


Such hue and cry as is raised about
the extravaganza of the women of our
day, and yet at the court Of st. James.
in a dress of velvet embroidered with
gold, which is said to have cost no less
than $1,000. Marie de- Medicls had
gown sown with $4,000 pearls and
5000 diamonds. and her example was
followed by lesser personages. who
cheerfully expended more than their
incomes on gowns so laden with pre-
cious stones that their wearers could
scarcely move about in them. Nine
de Montespan, the beauty who reigned
at the court Of Louis XIV, wore at
one great court festival "a gown OF
gold on gold and over that gold frieze
stitched with a certain gold which
makes the most divine stuff that has
ever been imagined" according to the
panegyrics written by the pen Of Nine.
de Sevigne.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and HaryIand.

Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and naryIand.
The Moncur farm, just east of Dover
has been sold to DIR. Pursall, of
Chicago. The purchase price was
$4,000.
James II. Hughes, trustee, has sold
the Thomas Cook farm near Willow
Grove to Thomas G. Frame, Jr., for
1900.
Mrs. Jacob Killen, of Viola, who
was murderouly assaulted by her hus-
band, is recovering from her injuries.
The salary of Rev. G. S. Baker, pre-
siding elder of the Dover Methodist
Episcopal district, has been increased
to $500 year.
Oscar NJ. Purnell has sold his half
interest in the Democratic Messenger,
of Snow Hill, to Coriolanus V. White
for $500. Mr.. Clarence L. Vincent
is the owner of the other half.
T. Victor Clark has returned to
Dover for the summer. Mr.. Clark has
been employed in the western part of
Pennsylvania for nearly year and is
now expecting an engagement with
the Government Geographical Surve y
Commission.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09

''THE Board of Pardons last Tues
day, says the Milford Chronicle, had
a petition signed by about twelve hun
dred people and fifty personal letters
including the iury-praying for the
pardon of the men convicted of assault
and battery in the ''fox hunting case"
of that district Their attorney in
supplementing the presentation of
papers very forcibly set forth the fact
that all had been accomplished that a
conviction and punishment by i'm
prisonment could be gained for the
majesty of the law. The men have
their own signatures to the victim Of
their passionate outbreak, confessed
their wrong and made apology for
their brutal assault; all the good to
the law-abiding public that is pOssi-
bic has been accomplished, and fo--
the sake of the aged mother, the wives
and the children affected, mercy s.the
hands of the Board of Pardons, would
do much to smooth over the heart
burnings in Milford Neck. The court
that sentenced these men could not
act otherwise than it 6ld. The law
does not contemplate SEASONS, or the
hardships its victim must suffer by
being deprived o: their liberty; it
must follow fixed. channels for certain
offences"
"The BOar1fOf Pardons has greater
latitude in us action and matters to be
taken under consideration. The Con-
stitutionprovided this Board for an
especisT purpose-and that to review
caus%s that preceded and results OBJ
tanned by conviction. Where the ends
of justice have been fully met, and no
harm can follow q pardon, then the
Board certainly has the power and
should exercise that power ION the side
of mercy"
Unfortunately yellow journalism
wss permitted to inject itself into this
matter few weeks ago, and the at
tempt was made to create democratic
party advantage and republican dis
cord in regard to pardon for these
men; but it failed, and we believe that
that attempt was one Of the main rea-
sons for the Board Of Pardon's not
taking action. The Board is com
posed of Chancellor Nicholson-a Dem
Ocrat; State Treasurer M. B. Burris-
a Regular" State Auditor P. B. Nor
mana Regular" Lieutenant Gov
ernOr Cannon-who is claimed by
both Republican factions, and the
Secretary of State Caleb r. Layton
about whose Union Republicanism
there never has been any question"
"With men Of these various politi-
cal affiliations, the effort made to
bring Republicans into disrepute and
claim honor for any party or faction,
was a crazy scheme concocted by
those who should have known better,
and those who have always pulled
down and never built up anything
they have undertaken. We firmly be-
heve that these men should be par
dOned-because the ends Of justice
have been accomplished and no fur
ther good can come Of their imprison-
mont They are needed at home, and
the county can gain nothing by main
tanning them in Jail. Pardon them
but for the love of those near and dear
to them, keep their pardon free from
the taint of politics.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09

''The way to gain a good reputation
is to endeavor to be what Won desire
to appear" That is precisely the man
ner in which Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy has gained It's reputation as a
cure for coughs, colds, croup and
Iwhooping cough. Every bottle that
has ever been put out by the manu-
facturers has been fully up to the high
standard Of excellence claimed for II
People have found that it can always
be depended upon for the relief and
cure OF these ailments and that it is
easy and pleasant to take. For sale
by Clifton & Raymond, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09
A stern Chase.

The Youth-Yes. I'm in business for
myself, but l don't seem to be able to
meet with any success.
The Sage-Nobody ever meets with
business, young man. He must over
lake it.-Philadelphia Press.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09

The Lewes fisheries will soon be
placed in operation for the season.
when 400 men will De given employ
ment. 1t is said that during the sea-
son s02, 900 is paid ont every month to
the employees, and as this goes to the
laboring class, is rapidly placed in
circulation, much Of which being
placed in that vicinity, thus greatly in
creasing business there.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09
Disturbed the Peace.

"she disturbed my peace Of mind"
"HowT
Gave me a piece of hers."-Detroit
Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09
The Lacking stroke.

do you think It would improve my
styleY inquired the varsity man who
had got into the crew through favor
ltism, III We're to acquire a faster
Stroke2"
IT would improve the crew." replied
Che candid trainer, III you got a para
iytic trokev-TitB Bits.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09

oFFICE;-Next Door to the Fruit Growers
National Bank.
Telephone, No. 10.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09

Blackening the nose, the cheeks and
the forehead has been found an effec-
tual preventive OF snow blindness.
Smyrna times., 1902-07-09

Summer We had the greatest
spring business of
Closing our history. Now
we want to clean up
Sale and get ready for
fall. A big lot Of
Now broken sizes, Sample
Suits and small lots
On. in all sizes at one
half price. Mems
Suits 81. so to $3.50, that
were S. to SIS. Boys Long
Pants Suits $3.50 to S.,
that were S. to $40. Little
Boys Suits $3.50 to s.. so,
that were So to S.. 10 per
cent off regular stock except
Serges, Thin Goods and
Black Clays. About 200
pairs of finest Russet Shoes
at one price 81. so to So, for
our So. $3.50, 81, S. and SO
Shoes Great bargains i'll
Furnishings and Straw Hats.
1t will pay you to come
right away and make good
selections.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
NO ROOM FOR SUSPICION.

Two casses of people seem not to understand the spirit of the duoa'iona
the South.
and thu Southern people is 50 dense hat they 10 harm whene'e they speak or
write. They are represented by such papers as the Philadelphia Times, which
recently said that the efforts which a number OF Northern men, are putting oth
in behal of ne intellectual regeneration of the South Will soon BRING forth
fruit 1t goes On to say that the poor whites of the South will be benefited
~ the efforts of our orhern missionaries"
9 Those in the South who. pay attention to such ignorant uterances BY
men III are not in touch With the spirit that ctuates men at the head of the
National Educational Board. They ought not to let such Offensive tatements
born of ignorance, affect them any more thar the waving OF an anarchist flag
by an ignorant new m at Patterson. New Jersey
The South would prefer to 20 along slowly in its educational work. rather
thar be patronzed or msrepresented. This paper has been at ONE pains to
study the aim and purposes of the men h compose the Board nd it is our
belief that they are actuated ~ n selfish, sctarian or political purpose, that
instead of patronizing The South they are honestly DESTROYS of helping the
educational leaders along lines hat are approved by Southern leaders
md Southern educators. We prefer to believe that those gentlemen honestly
stated their purpose in a statemen made by one of them at Athens. Hes said:
you understand your w people ad your W problems as We do not.
hi work is therefore, yours Take it ad do it, In so far as We can help you,
We are a. your service. We have no desire to NEEDLE or interfere. II you will
take tn helm We will stand by yu not as ortherners but as fellow citizens
of q Common country
We welcome the co operation of the men no COM in this spirit ad % not
question their sincerity or honesty. The Southern men wo are closely $50
with Messrs. Ogden, Baldwin. Peabody, Page ad Others in this work is
laramie sufficient to US that they are DESTROYS to help advance Southern pub
lie schools without any Interior purpose. The few Southern men N the South
en Board, to whom We pin our faith, are Dr. Curry, Charles d McIver, Edwin A
Alderman, nd Charles Dabney. These gentlemen are incapable Of any
hing that would reflect upon he best Southern ointment or the truestS Southern
ASPIRATIONS A long as they nd men Ike them are OF the Southern Board,
there will be 10 room for suspicion tina there is any attempt to patronize or
paupelie the South.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
ANEW SORT OF SANCTIFICATION.

In a town in Eastern North Carolina
ness meeting and professed to have
been sanctified. Afterwards when he was
guilty of moral lapse, a friend said to
him: THAT proves you were mistaken
his surprise, the man replied: mo, it
does not prove that at all. If l had
done the thing you speak of before | was
sanctifed, it would have been sin to me,
is sinful
That seems to be the spirit that con-
trolls the so-called Reform administra-
ton in New York city. When Tammany
not enforce the Sunday liquor law, they
charged that Tammany was corrupt and
in league with the worst element of the
city. A few Sundays ago Mayor Low
issued an order s~uspending the execution
of the law by granting dissolution to vio-
lators CT the Sunday law during the Pass
over observances on the lower East side.
Now the Germans demand a like favor
to then: so that they can have their beer
on the day preceding PfingSt Monday. If
a Tammany mayor had thu violated his
cath by ~suspending the operations of the
law, there wouldn't have been rough
enough language to employ to denounce
him. But Mayor Low can do it without
the criticism of the element that claims
a monopoly of obeying the law and up
holding morality. Perhaps they think
he has been sanctified and can break the
laws he has sworn to obey without being
guilty o. wrong.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
WAKE COUNTY AND TIE POLL.
TAX,

There are over 5000 Democratic voters
in Wake county-and in all the State
there cannot be found a better type Of
the 'tunIerrified."
The result of the p~oll-tax requirement
will not injure the Democratic party per-
ceptibly in Wake county, for nearly all
the Democrats liable for poll-taX have
paid it. Outside Of the city of Raleigh
there are only about fifty to sixty Demo-
Gratis who will lose their votes for non
payment of po]i-tax, and in the city
the number is not much larger.
The work done by leading Democrats
and Democratic officials to bring the mat
ter to the attention of every voter in
the county cannot be too highly COM
Inendcd. The voters owe them a debt OF
thanks. AS a result the Wake county
Democracy will enter the campaign con-
fdent that it's unterrified cohorts have
qualified themselves to win a magnificent
victory in November.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
RIDING ON PASSES.

The people of the 5arious counties in
North Carolina, in the Democratic county
conventions that are soon to be held will
be wise if they refuse to pass a reso-
luton making ANY Democrat who may
attend a delegate" That is a very
good plan, perhaps, in some counties
some years. But it is always dangerous
and puts it in the power of the free
pass brigade" to gain an undue influence
in the convention by a distribution Of
passes to their favorites, thereby some
times having a county represented by
men who could not be elected to a town.
ship convention.
Writing of passes, the following poem
by tho new Commissioners of Pensions is
an original productions:
"A father said unto his hopeful son:
Who was LeOnidas, my cherished one?'
The boy replied, with words of ardent
nature:
He was a member Of the Legislature.
How? asked the parent; then the
youngSter saith:
He got a pass and held her like grim
death
Whose pass? What pass the anxious
father cried:
Twas th'r monopoly the boy replied.
In Difference to the public, we must state
That boy has been an orphan since that
date"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
PREACHER DESTROYS D1sTILLERIEs.
A Pennsylvania Divine and His Members De-
molish Three of Them.

A North Carolina prclchar is reported
as doing active work in destroying dis
tillerieS in Pennsylvania county.
The Greenville, S. c., News says that
Revenue Collector Aiken has just reach
ed there from Pennsylvania county, and
he says that local officers of the revenue
serN ice reported to him that Rev. j. =.
Jordan, pastor of a we'll known country
church in Pennsylvania county, in COM
pany with some of the best people of the
community, had recently destroyed three
Illicit distilleries.
Mr.. Aiken did not know it to be a
positive fact, but says it was a thor
ougIly reliable party who reported the
occurrence to him.
1t has been suggested that it would
be we'll for the pastors of the Dark Cor
ner section of this State to follow the
example of their Tar Heel brothers.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
Died in Washington.

News has come from Washington of
the death of Mr.. George w. Poe at the
Emergency Hospital on Monday morning.
Mr.. Poe was a native of Chatham and
for many years lived in Raleigh. He
moved from here and engaged in real
estate projects in several Virginia cities.
The death of his only child proved a
crushing blow to Mrs. Poe. She has
since died and is buried in Washington.
Mr.. Pee was in the real estate business
in Washington, but his health has been
very bad for several years. His death
resulted from a fall some ten days since.
He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Clegg, of
FranklintOn, and Mrs. John Womble. of
Durham. Mr.. Poe has a little adopted
daughter in Washington, and carried
So, 900 insurance for her.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
BIC FIRE AT NORFOLK
Block Threatened With Des-
truCtion. Loss $S3, 900.
Insured.
lBY the Associated Press.l

Norfolk, Va, May 1.-Norfolk was visi-
ted by another conflagration this morning
when 4 fire started in the building of the
Virginia Candy Company on Commercial
Place and gained such Roadway that at
one time it was thought that the entire
block, bounded by Commercial Place and
Water street and Roanoke avenue, would
be destroyed.
The loss will aggregate $50, 900 but it
is fully covered by insurance. The es-
timated damage is. as follows:
Virginia Candy Company. 500, 900; r.
w. Macdonald, $4,000; NJ. Hofheimer &,
Co, $500; L. p. Roberts & Co., 5000;
Dispatch Printing Co., 81. 900; Old Domin-
ion Paper Co., 1900; other firms, 50, 900.
Damage to buildings, $44 900.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
WILL ADD TO SCHOOL FUND.

We notice that in some counties where
the sheriff has been getting credit for
/ 900 to 1920 delinquent poll taxes. they
have gotten it down as low as $50 to 200.
What an invincible argument in favor
OF this new poll tax law, and what a
great help it will be for the poor chill
dren who need an Observation-Disclosures
Chronicle.
The school fund will be greatly aug
mented by the law requiring the payment
Of poll-taX as a prerequisite for voting.
Too many men, able to pay their poll
tax. have heretofore been able to escape
paying it and as a result the school fund
has suffered.
The requirement for the m of
poll-taX before voting will add greatly
to the educational facilities of the State.
When the taxes are all returned it will
be interesting to note the poll-tax in
crease for which the new constitutional
amendment is responsible.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
A TERRIBLE
Carter's Story That Mrs. Lawson hired Him
to Kill Her Husband.

Especial to the News and ObserverD
kinston. N. c., April 3O.-It is given
out here on good authority that the man
Carter in jail at Kenansville charged
with being accessory to the murder of
Pete Lawson, of Duplin county about a
month ago has mode a confession i'm
plicating Mrs. Lawson to the extent
that she hired i'm the prisoner. to
commit the crime.
1t will be recalled that Lawson was
shot sitting in his room while his wife
and some visitors We're in an adjoining
room making music. A place had been
torn in the window shade to give a
view Gf the room.
IT is said that Mrs. Lawson will be
arrested at once.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
e Sort of Doctor
washington Messenycr.

DR.. John q. Elount had quite q novel
experience in disposing of the body Of
the negro who died of smallpox in the
pest house. Being unable to hire any
one VINO would take the contract to
bury him. tn doctor off with his coat
and assisted by his driver performed
the last sad rite. and then treated his
driver to a bath OF chloride of mercury.
Not a negro in town would go zeal him,
yet 1t is impossible to tell how many
would have gone had the negro not tcen
strictly Q~uarantined.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
BODY FOUND RIDDLE
The Man Had Been Accuse o.
Bloekaders.

Especial to News and ..
Winston-Salem, y.
colored man named H"l.a...
q few days ago on Dan i.
from the town Of N4'
bullet holes through his ...
that he had been accuses
some Illicit distilleTIe5 "a. -.
Government, and it is taa--..
may be the reason fol
taking off.
Thomas Moore died near il.
ingham county, a few days .
burning off a new sro-l-
neighbors assisting him. a-- 49,.
lenged one of them to "I-- ....
he was thrown and appa'-.
rallied and went hone
next day.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06
CA1AWBA IN The "A
School Board Redis,,.
the Whole County,.
Consolidation is the SIogar ami
UndismaYed by a H4r1 Y.~
Give lbersav.

an article for vour ra,
,
co"h's'
/ urged in that article .
a rclistricting Of tia. ...
e.5s mo
- - P"'i0 mat y a.a.
a County Board ot Eilo...
| backbone and courau. fl,
This Roar, j. r.f...
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on :" F'"49 ago.
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and Wha' ire results VIII H" .-
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OF the pld'eS NheFe ne" Ha.'.a-
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any 'iiie Wl'hih the Inehlo'y '
our cIGeSl people.
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more IMAM one-lourth OF a cT"0 # ~
anu YET tncSe peol'!e are ".
s,lussle LOT the cause OF ht'".
'ioh ana 20 INTO lhelr ai"".
purses TO help build some of IN.
houses.
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tion has taken their entire .#
hand to redistrict and lccat. '.r
oil the entire county We DO net .
OF 1t.
some nave been rlannI"@ .#
with q view to getting th" #'... .
IN shape. but we do not En.. #
where the Board has undertakes F..
districting Of the whole count. IL
We therefore call on u Dsu.t. .
that has done so % spcaE ola.
claim the bonor of pairu fa.
CataWba.
1t is very gratifying to tre nr
see going into effect that u....# #..
and lahoraa for 5,,rino tl.
wear ~ bis ofGcia5 ura n. ....
cchoo1 ,.ou
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-06

Fayetteville, N. c., May 2.-Malcom
McNeill, q negro who. with several
others escaped from the county Jail
about two years ago. was captured in
Rockfsh township, Wednesday by United
States Deputy Marshal Averitt. The
others who escaped were captured soon
after breaking Jail.