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Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
ISOLATION OF ACTORS.
Conditions Which Lake the Profess
sion a World by Itself.

Conditions Which Lake the Profess
sion World by Itself.
This condition. which from some i'm
portant points of view is fortunate.
from others unfortunate and from near
ly all inevitable. is unique indeed
Here we have the only large class of
workers which keeps the world at
arms length. ClerSymen, physicians.
lawyers. architects. merchants, trades.
men and laborers of all sorts. by the
very terms of their toll are brought
into constant personal contact with
parishiOners. patients. clients or Gus
toners. Even painters and sculptors
must needs be in touch with their pa
irons.
But that thin, impossible row of
Gazing lamps which rims the front of
the stage accOmpliShes what the great
wall of China was built to accomplish.
Behind them is the sole profession"
- front of them the barbarOus laity.
# the player desired to break down
the partition. he would scarcely be
able to do so.
From the more important social gath
erings which take place in the evening
both actress and actor are necessarily
absent. The actor may vote if he can
acquire a residence and contrive to he
in his own city on election day. but
it is impossible that he should take
any active part in politics or partici-
pate in preliminary meetings. caucus
IS and rallies which are held at night.
and as to attendance at church. the
player encounters, in the first place,
the difficulty. inseparable from his
wandering life, of making a connection
Win a parish and besides. in recent
years, is almost constantly required to
travel on Sunday. passing from a Sat
urday evenings performance in one
town to a Monday mornings rehearsal
in anOther.-Atlantic Monthly.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
PRESIDENT JOHN LYNN IN PRISON.
New Castle Levy Court President Sentenced
to One Year Imprisonment and Fined $1,000.

NOSNNNN
President John Lynn spent Christ
mas Day in the workhouse, and for
year will be under the rules and regu'
lations of that penal institution. To
the surprise of all, Walter H. Hayes,
counsel for Lynn withdrew the motion
for arrest of the judgement Tuesday
afternoon and Lynn was sentenced to
pay a fine $1,000 and be imprisoned for
one year in the wOrkhouse, ending the
23d day of December, 1902, and that
he pay the costs of this prosecution.
He was committed to the custody OF
the trustees of the New Castle
county wOrkhouse until the SEN
tence is carried out. After penning
a farewell note to his family in
the office of the clerk of the peace
Lynn started for the wOrkhouse
in custody of Warden Meserve. The
railway line passes by Lynn's house
at Elsmere and when the car arrived in
front of his residence he was permitted
to go to his house and bid farewell to
his family.
John Lynn has agreed to all the con-
ditions imposed under the sentence of
the court He is to resign as presi-
dent of the Levy Court, the fine will be
paid and there will be no appeal. Thi s
closes one of the most interesting cases
ever tried before the court and will
doubtless lead to a complete reforma-
tion of the county affairs. The other
counts against Lynn will be dropped,
he paying the costs in each case.
John Lynn has signed his resigna-
tion as a member of the Levy Court
1t is said that tits in the hand of Walter
Fl. Hayes, one of Mr.. Lynn's attor-
neys, and it is expected that it will 90
to the Levy Court at its meeting next
Tuesday.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01

1t is announced authoritively, that
Governor Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa, will
be appointed Secretary of the Treas
ury, TO succeed Secretary Lyman j.
Gage. There will be no change in the
Office of Secretary of Agriculture, Sec
retary Wilson, also of Iowa, continu-
ing to retain that portfolio.
President Roosevelt, while recogniz-
ing geographical lines in making up
his cabinet, does not feel called upon,
to recognize state lines. The two new
men who are to become members of
the cabinet are from the west, and
they peculiarly represent the western
sentiment, which Secretary Gage did
not. Governor Shaw is the Presi-
dents own choice for Secretary of the
Treasury. No one made the sugges-
tion that he invite Shaw into his cabi-
net. But he knew the popularity OF
Shaw in his own state and the west.
and he knew that his financial views
we're in perfect accord with the Repub
iican platform.
1t is supposed, however, that Cover
nor Shaw will be inducted into his new
Office, some time in January. 1t ha
been known for two or three days tina
Governor Shaw was slated for appoint
ment to succeed Secretary Gage, bu
it was not until late Thursday, tha
Che Iowa executive accepted the tende
made to him.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
Providing For a wayward Son.

Lord Chesterfield gave advice to his
son in sundry letters, which might or
might not be followed, but in his will
he took good care that my godson.
Philip StanhOpe," should have strong
inducement to follow his advice on at
least one point. All the bequests are
subject to the condition that if Philip
should keep race horses or hounds or
stay one night at Newmarket. that in
famous seminary of iniquity and i'll
manners" during the course of the
races there. or should lose on any one
day by betting or gaming as much as
$500. then in such case he shall forfeit
$4,000 to the dean and chapter of
Westminster for every such offense.-
All the Year Round.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
Grand Jury.

Seaford hundred, Frank Achy;
Christiana, James Cranston. John w.
r. Kilgore; st. Georges, J. Cowgirl
AlstOn; Broad Greek, Luther H. Slif-
ton, John NJ. Collins, John E. James;
MispilliOn, Joseph A. Galloway; Will
mington, James M. Bryan, Archibald
S. Reed, James Megary, G.. Parke
Postles, Alvan r. Morrison, Frank T.
Clymer, Mark NJ. Clever, Thomas G.
Doud; Duck Greek, William E. Hall,
Willard G.. Pierce; North West Fork,
John Todd; Red Lion, John J. Mes
sig, Daniel B. Stewart; Georgetown,
w. T. Torbert; Broadkiln, David Con-
well.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
BEAVER TAIL SOUP.
A MICHIGAN Lumber Camp Deiicnc,

A Michigan Lu'nber Camp Dciicacy
That -..--,.@cG S.aryIander.
".A!tEo1~. am Marylaadar and an
EASTER shore one at that said an cpl
cure from that state, land consequent
" know what good things to eat are.
want TO tell you that I'll lave to take
off my hat to the lumber camp cook of
the upper Michigan peninsula as the
Gis"Overer, laEricdtor and dispenser of
Il dish that Eno"l.S the Eastern Shore
cuisine silly. md that rare lumber
camp dish is beaver tail soup.
Il was with Colonel Park of CoIuIn-
bus, O., deer i.unting in the Rainy lake
region Of Michigan one fall. We lived
at lumber cailp boarding shanty.
'"rhcrp we're signs Of beaver at the
upper end of tie lake and trapper
succeeded in trapping one of the willy
dam builders
when the beaver was brought into
camp, the camp cook went nearly Wild
and so did the lumbermen when they
heard the news. all because they had
been trying to trap Il beaver fer weeks
not for it's fur, but for its tail, as they
were pining. they said. for beaver tail
soup.
THE cook took that broad appendage
of the beaver, mailed like an armadillo.
took from it the underlying bone and
meat, and from it made such a soup as
never came from any other stock at the
beck of the most expert and scientific
aInf
I'VE could do the same thing and
perhaps better ON the Eastern Shore,
but we lack one thing. We haven't got
the beavers to yield us their tails. -
New York Sun.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01

The reform movement going on IN
New Castle county as a result of the
recent "shake up" in the Levy Court
has been exciting the interest of the
whole State of Delaware. John Lynn,
the president of the court, was found
guilty of obtaining money under false
pretences and must pay the penalty of
one year in the New Castle County
Workhouse and pay fine of $4,000 and
the costs of the suits. He is the first
official in that county found guilty of
malfeasance in Office to pay the penalty
by prisonment, while there is natur-
ally a sympathetic feeling for one of
his prominence, yet none deny the
fact that justice should be meted out
to him, and make him an example be-
fore the whole State. The reform
movement is not done yet. Attorney
General Ward has other cases i'll hand,
aud before they are ended more
prominent men will be brought to the
bar of Justice.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
Good Advice.

The most miserable beings in the
world are those suffering from Dyspep-
sia and Liver Complaint. More than
seventy-five per cent. of the people in
the United States are afflicted with
these two diseases and their affects
such as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache,
Habitual Costiveness, Palpitation of
the Heart, Heartburn, Water-brash,
Gnawing and Burning Pains at the pit
of the Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated
Tongue and Disagreeable Taste in the
Mouth, Coming up of Food after Eat
ing, Low Spirits, & etc Go to your
Druggist and get bottle of Au gust
Flower for 75 cents. Two doses will
relieve you. Try it, Get Green's
Prize Almanac.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
The TIMES wishes its readers a bright
and happy New Year.

THE year just begun promises to be
one of the most crucial in the politics
Of the State of Delaware and soon
campaign will be waged between the
two leading parties as to who shall re-
cover the two vacant seats in the
United States Senate
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01

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.
TERMS-SUBsCRIPTIoN-s so per annum. II
paid strictly in advance Sl.00. No paper is
discontinued until all arrears are paid up
except at the option of the publishers.
ADVERTISEMENTS 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
Senton, CheswOld, Leipsic, &c. A rate o. 50
cents an inch for hrSt insertion and 25 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-annnsl and yearly sC yer
tiSemPnts
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01

The scientific world is much inter
ested at present in the development
Of Marconi's wireless telegraphy be-
tween the two hemispheres and Edi
sons storage battery, both of which
promise to revolutionize the systems
of communication, transportation and
navigation.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
Petit Jury.

Little Greek, Menelaus Ellis, Elijah
John Ellis; Wilmington. John F.
DOlan, Joseph Bancroft, Frederic
Pyle, Henry B. Thompson, Frederick
Kienle, Harry F. Robelen, j. Smith
Brennan, E. Frank Sharpley, Charles
McIntlre; Georgetown, Nathaniel F.
Wilson, Eli Pepper, H. E. Lynch. J.
L. Thompson; Lewes and Rehoboth,
Robert Arnell, William D. Wilson;
White Clay Greek, Arthur T. Neale,
Walter Curtis; Cedar Greek, Frank G.
Shaw; Mispillion, John Anderson;
Duck Greek. Ephraim Lower, Clarence
Prettyman, Walter O. Hoffecker; Sea-
ford, Elijah H. Spicer, Thomas N.
Rawlins; Brandywine, Winfield S.
Orr, James M. G. Prince; Kenton,
William P. Wright; Red Lion, Peter
J. Mulligan, James A. Mulligan;
Christiana, William Armor; Northwest
Fork. Enos Wright; East Dover, d.
NJ. Wilson: st. Georges, Merritt N.
Willis.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01

81 was chosen out of four applicants,
being given the preference because 1
was a Goldey graduate, writes Chas.
Truitt. Get the free catalogue of
Goldey College, Wilmin gton. See
adv. this paper
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
JURORS FOR DUCK CREEK HUNDRED.
Grand and Petit Jurors FCr the Uaited
States District Court.

+ In the United States Court yester-
day the grand and petit iuries for the
January term were drawn as follows:
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01

OFFICE:--Next Door TO the Fruit Growers
National Bank.
Telephone, No. 10.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
ESTABLISHED
PUBLIC LEDGER
PHILADELPHIA.
Prints All the News That is Fit to Print.
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The PUBLIC LEDGER Newspaper man
and also for all members of his family The important
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but along with this complete classified
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London by Arnold White English
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The Saturday issue magazine great compendium
every phase life reading
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
THE MARKETS
GRAIN
FOR RENT.

Two Residences on Market Street, one on
South Street and Store Property on Com
merce Street. Possession LIST of March.
1902. For particulars apply to
J. G.. BRINTON.
244 Smyrna, Del
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sons rew cut and make up.
There will be plenty of cold
weather and we have big
stock and good assortment of
all stvle OF OvercOats. Long
Full Box Medium Length and
and Regular Length. Regu-
lar Cut coats S. to $50; long
coats $40 to S25; Ulster and
Storm coats S. to $25; Refers
s. so to $40; Boys Overcoats
IS to SIS; Little Boys over
coats 81 to $40. Latest style
Black Cheviots and Thibets
Sack Suits for yonng men $40,
SI2 and SIS.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
Special Offer to Ledger Readers

The Public Ledger offers its readers
20 weeks subscription and the additional
of the Ledger Unrivaed Atlas of the World This
been specially prepared for the Public Ledger by Rand McNay
Co., New York and Chicago and is of the best of
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The unvaed Atlas of the World contains $40 pages elegantly
printed fine Caendered mabed edges bound English
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Smyrna times., 1902-01-01

Tuesday, December 81, 1901.
Specials from last week contin-
ued.
Plum Pudding, Mince Meat Etc.
Everything seasonable. Choice
new assorted nuts, I6c lb., S lb
box 75c We are not surprised at
the sales of our Java and Mocha
Blend Coffee. Quality does it.
Try pound, $50.
Tomorrow being New Years
Day we close at noon.
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01

We were sold out
of Long OverCOats
at $40; rather than
buy more we have
reduced ; lots of
our $I2 Coats to
$40. Black Chev-
lot, Black Frit ze
and Oxford Grey
T%rieya oil +b;S Sao
Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
Smyrna, DeI.,

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. JAN. LIST. 1902
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-27

Now comes the season of the year when
men get that intense desire to drop all
work, to get out of doors and let the
sun shine on them. If you have these
symptoms you are just catching spring
fever that disease Of body and mind
which many diagnose as laziness. 1t is
nothing of the sort, however, as it usu-
ally comes to persons who are fullest
of vim and vigor-those who, except at
this period of the year, would never be
accused of tendencies toward Incidence.
Why always at this time of the year
when the birds begin to sing and the
flowers to blossom-this condition should
come as kind of epidemic is a deep
question on which even physicians differ.
Perhaps there is a bacillus which comes
out of its hiding place just as the win
ter SHOWS give way to green grass and
budding trees. But, whatever the cause,
the disease must be needed and taken
care of, or serious results are likely to
ensue. In many cases the man who in
SlSLS under spring lever symptoms on
remaining at his desk or in his shop will
become actually quite i'll. His liver may
hap will refuse to work and become
torpid Following will come loss of ap-
petite, dyspepsia and recurrent head
aches. Then the blood will deteriorate
and the climax will come in great depres-
sion of mind. Here is the actual danger
point. The man who refuses to listen to
the call of nature now is putting his life
in jeopardy. Statistics show that dozens
of suicides have resulted from the las
situde and low vitality produced by
spring fever
Happily there is a remedy, an actual,
delightful cure 1t can in ninety-nine of
every one hundred cases be found in
fresh air, sunlight and outdoor exercise,
awheel, on horse or afoot. Dozens of st.
Paul people are already getting their an
nua1 warning. Let them heed it or rue
the day.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-27
ILL-PAID PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Under the recent order Of President
Roosevelt, employees Of the general gov
eminent are forbidden to try to influence
The action Of congress in any manner af-
fecting their own personal or official in
terests.
The rule thus laid is a perfectly just
one within certain limits. AS those
public employees who are included in the
classified service come within the rule
that they shall not concern themselves
actively in party political contests, so,
also, is it entirely proper that they should
as a body be prohibited from engaging
in influencing legislation through their
combined action, at least in any direc-
ton or in any manner which is not ap-
proved by their superiors in office
The rule thus invoked operates as a
burdensome, if not positively unjust
requirement with reference to certain
federal employees. This is notably the
case in regard to certain classes Of post
Office employees. 1t is especially burden
some on postal Clerks, who as a class
are VIGOROUSLY underpaid and overwork
ed 1t operates, too, rather severely on
mail carriers.
The compensation of postoffice clerks
does not seem to be based on any prin-
ciple of uniformity. The men are as a
rule worked seven days in the week.
1t may be said that their working hours
embrace their entire time out of bed.
They come and go at such hours that
they are in no sense in control of any
reasonable proportion of their time dur
ing either day or night. Such thing as
continuous work for a stated period is
practically unknown among them.
Beginning as low as $500 a year. thew
may work till they are gray without
reaching beyond the princely income Of
$500. They must be men of high intelli-
gence. Their work is in the highest de-
gree combining. 1t requires careful train
ing and study to become familiar with
it. Their compensation in one Office diff
fers essentially from that prevailing in
another. The matter or increase of pay
is at present entirely within the control
Of the postof1ce bureaucracy at Washing
ton.
The rule which prevents these en-
ployes from interfering in politics also
operates to deprive them of the tn11u-
ence which would enable their legitimate
demands to be urged on the attention of
their superiors in office. They ask moth
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-27
WEATHER FOR TODAY.

Minnesota and Iowa-Fair and warmer
Sunday; Monday fair; fresh southwest
winds.
Upper Michigan-Fair Sunday and Mon
DAY; warmer; diminishing northwest
winds.
Wisconsin-Fair Sunday and Monday:
warmer Sunday; fresh northwest Winds
becoming variable.
North Dakota and South Dakota-Fair
Sunday; warmer in east portion; Mon
Say increasing clOudiness, probably show
Crs and cooler in west portion; variable
winds.
Montana - Generally fair Sunday and
Monday, except probably showers In
north portion; west winds.
ST. Paul - Yesterdays observations.
taken by the United States weather bu-
relu, ST. Paul, p. f. Lyons, observer, for
the twenty -four hours ended at o'clock
last night-BarOmeter corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
AZURE. 80; lowest temperature, 80; average
temperature, "A; daily range %; barome-
ter, 23.7S; humidity. 81; precipitation, / "a;
Z p. m, temperature, 81; p. M, wind.
northwest; weather, partly cloudy.
Yesterdays lRmDeratur
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-27

the church have resisted the concessions
which now seem to be inevitable.
Methodist general conference is a con-
servative body, it's membership contain
ing a large number of wen who would be
called "mossbacks" in a secular gather
ing. These men have opposed the few
changes wrought in the Methodist scheme
Of government and discipline the last half
the itinerary law permitting the reten-
ton of a satisfactory pastor longer than
three years. They opposed the eligibility
of women to the general conference, OPP
posed women as preachers of the COS
pei, opposed every form Of amusement
that some one a hundred years ago
thought the agency of the devil-not con-
ceding that time may have effected a
change Of opinion in the minds of the
wise and good men of the present time.
Whatever cause, whether it BODIES evil
churches are losing the allegiance of the
men. Women, the better half of men, are
apparently loyal to the outward forms
Of religion, and the children still go to
Sunday school-but the men neither go to
church nor maintain even membership
in the proportion Of former generations.
The reason for this state of affairs is
far to seek, and T h e G o b e does not
care to go into it at this time. But it
is fact that the men who are in the
churches have been there since child
hood; few indeed profess religion and join
the church after reaching mans estate.
Therefore, it is a matter Of the utmost
Importance for the church to retain those
brought into the fold as children. The
Methodists are awaking to the fact that
the young are getting away from them,
and some of their great thinkers attribute
it to the severity of the discipline in the
matter of amusements. Hence the effort
70 relax the rules.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-27

Minneapolis Tribune calls the Hon. Fred
erick Won Baumbach, f. Won Bamcb
These mile-a-minute railroad trains ara
slight competition in speed for some
Americans. A Wisconsin man met a efrI
IN Chicago Sunday, married her Monday
they parted Tuesday, and he applied fo.
a divorce on Wednesday.
The contest for the honor Of being
known as the wickedest city IN America
IS on. Detroit, which is now averaging
1our murders a week wins in a walk.
Eastern newspapers are getting busy
printing pictures of young women in bath
ing suits. AT the same time those young
women are wearing heavy winter under
wear and furs.
This is a sort Of an opon-aad-shut
spring.
Fashion Note-Horses' hats are little
more elaborate this year than last and
will be Worn slightly tipped toward the
oats bin.
Champ Clark is going back to con-
gress. That indicates that the next ses-
sion will not suffer from staguation.
The Minnesota vegetable doesn't protest
the water cure, but the Minnesota veget-
able isn't built like a Filipino.
Minneapolis pays nearly 100000 a year
for milk and what does it get?
University Of indianapolis debaters
have decided that American pie is more
deadly than ice cream. lit is worse tlan
that; it is more deadly than bullets.