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Smyrna times., 1903-02-25
Nh snIe WINS Made.

A dealer in pet birds was visited by a
customer who suffered and wanted to
buy parrot which took his fancy.
The salesman was an lrishman who
had Just been employed by the dealer.
The customer said, "Du-du-does that
parrot ta-ta-talk gOOdY'
well" replied the Irish salesman,
'Tf he did not talk better than you
would wiring his neck OFF,
Smyrna times., 1903-02-25

When man quits smoking and goes
to chewing lac is not much of a hero
Atckison Globe.
Smyrna times., 1903-02-25
FOR RENT.

Fine Farm situated on the State
Road 81 miles from Smyrna. Excel
lent opportunity for the right man
with a small family. Seperate build
ing for tenant. For particulars apply
to
j. H. PRIMROSE,
Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1903-02-25
Cost of Construction.

"Do you know what this street rail
road cost per mile"
"No. But ! know what 1t cost PEI
aldermanw-Puck.
Smyrna times., 1903-02-25
GsS E@@ 7EUU ARD /!
- ~ ~ W FOR WOMEN
WHO CANNOT BE CURED.

WT1O CANINOI B6 NOREO.
Backed up by over a third of century
of remarkable and uniform cures, a record
such as no other remedy for the diseases
and weaknesses peculiar to women ever
attained. the proprttors ard makers of
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescriptio HOW feel
fully warranted in offering TO pay $500 in
legal money of the United States, FOR amy
case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness,
Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb which they
can not cure. All they ask is a fair and
reasonable trial of their means of cure.
Their financial responsibility is we'll
known to every newspaper publisher and
druggist in the United States. with most
of whom they have done business for over
a third of "A century. From this fact il will
readily be seen how uttet!y foolish it would
be for them to nIak,,-tie above unpreCe-
dented and remarkable offer if they were
not basing their offer on curative means
having an unparalleled record. No other
medicine than DIR. Pierces Favorite Pre-
scripton could possibly Twin out" as the
saying goes, on such a proposition. But
they know whereof they speak. They have
the most remarkable record of cures made
by this world famed remedy ever placed to
the credit of any preparation especially
designed for the cure of woman's peculiar
ailments. This wonderful remedy, there
fore, stands absolutely alone as the only
one possessed of such remarkable curative
properties as would warrant its makers in
publishing such a marvellous offer as is
above made in the utmost good faith.
al want to tell you of the great improvement
in my health since taking your Favorite Pre-
scription. " says Mrs. II. S. Jones, of Forest,
n G. UWhen I began its use | was a physical
wreck and had despaired of ever having any
health again. Could not sit up all day noted
a great improvement before the hrst bottle
was used Was suffering with almost every pain
that woman is subject to had Inflammation
Of ovaries, painful and suppressed periods. and
other symptoms of female disease. After taking
six bottles OF Favorite Prescription felt like
a new person Can ride horseback and take all
kinds of exercise and not feel tired"
If YOU are led to the purchase of "Favor-
ite Prescription because of its remarkable
cures. do not accept substitute which has
none of these cures to its credit.
If YOU are looking for perfect laxative
trv DR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL AssocI-
ALTON. Proprietors 663 Main Street, Buf-
falo, N. Y
Smyrna times., 1903-02-25

Very conservative in all matters are
the Turks, ard especially slow to adopt
modern improvements Of any kind
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26
CURIOUS WOLVES.

Some Real Experiences in the Maine
 Woods.
 Here" said I to me "what are fire flies doing in thirty below zero?''
 At once I investigated. The fire flies were wolves eyer. The wolves were escorting me home. <,
 Newspaper tales to the contrary not withstanding, our timber wolves are perfectly harmless, except when driven by famine, and this was good deep district. Their curiosity, however is always active, and no doubt curiosity alone held them to my company. So we progressed. ,.. 4,-...-. ..i -.
 Then my lantern fiiclsered out. I lit it, Again 1t went out. shook it, and dis covered that it was dry of oil. Then I considered. Ahead of me somewhere in the pitch darkness a single point in q one hundred mile, snow-choked wilder ness, lay Camp Thirty-seven--cha decidedly against that. Behind me, an other single point,s was Camp Forty. The thermometer stood about thirty be- low. If I blundered ahead I should all most certainly pass our camp, and find myself lost in the morning. If I waited for dawn where I was should probably freeze. .. :.
 Ut looks like walk around tree all night" said I, ''and Pm hoping newspa- per stories of wolves marvellous intelli- gence are false" Also, like a child wished vaguely for moons. However, before selecting my tree. I kicked off my snowshoes and began to feel for the trail with my moccasined feet. To my delight, discovered that by keeping every nerve on the stretch could just distinguish the difference in consistency between the virgin snow and that troddent by the snowshoes. The difference was faint, brt it existed. | With infinite caution I applied myself to the task of following the trail. A dozen times I stopped for five minutes to rest my nerves. Perhaps a dozen times more I wandered, but always managed to find my way back. It took me three hours to cover the remaining mile and a half; but I did 1t, and at last had the satisfaction of topping the lit- tie hill that lay above Camp Thirty seven. Five minutes later was in my bunk, and this unique Christmas day was over. IT,
 1 Next afternoon I went out to look at my trail; found that the wolves, seven l in number, had followed me to fairly within sight of the camp.~-Country Life In America.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26
PROPER PROTEST.

Some of those who ate poor, pale oys- ters yesterday will be ready to join in the protest made by Admiral Chadwick in the New York Sun. Said the dis gusted Admiral: beg leave to say a word against the maltreatment, so gen. eral on the part of our oystermen, of the American oyster, which is, for those who have any of the faculty of taste, ruined in order that it may have an un- natural pallor, which the oysterman ap- parently thinks makes it more salable. The process consists in placing the oys- ter in water fresh or nearly so until it is whitened and puffed out of all sem blance of true oyster nature. The result is total destruction of flavor and the forcing on the public of an unhealthy object, which must be unwholesome. Such treatment of one of our finest and most delicate foods is a barbarian found in no other country. It is impos- sible to believe that the public demands this pallid and tasteless product rather than the natural oyster of dark color and salty flavor, and steps should be taken by some of our more prominent dealers and more important restaurants to stop the iniquity.
 The public does not demand" the present oyster of commerce. It takes it because it is put before it, because it is the only kind it knows much about and because it is good-naturedly willing tc help fat up the oysterman's purse by relieving him of his fat oysters. There are a few who still know what the oys- ter ought to be, and occasionally man. age to get it>in it's proper condition.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

he transmits to us from Vesuvius. At the summit, when looked down into the crater, at the slippery, slimy sides, with their velvet bloom Of sulphur, I saw where the fathers of the church and the early painters, Fra Angelica among them. got their ideas of hell Marcus Aurelius, my guide, bibulus, muscular, with a grip of iron, found a point from which, when the wind lifted the veil of thick white smoke, I could, by leaning we'll over the crater, see the flood at the bottom surge, seethe, toss up from its depth, big, red-hot stones, which dropped back again while the mountain roared and scolded. It was an awesome day. Vesuvius has given me not only new understanding of the poetry and religion of Italy, but of the Italian character, which 1t has had a share in forming. On our way down we ran over a soldier, the front wheel of our carriage passing across his leg. We were three people; it must have hurt him, but he got up and walked off curs- ing us vehemently. I wish the Abys- sinians might find the Italian soldiers equally invincible in Afriea.-Maud Howe in Lppincott's.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

back, and among them pair of robins, which nested in an apple tree in my garden. All went well until the young i birds were matched, when one day heard the angry vocies of the parent birds, and looked out to see what the trouble vas. The mother robin was seated on low branch, and, with low cred wings and tail, was screaming
 loudly at some object below her appear ently on the trunk of the tree. Present. ly she darted down, with her crest raised and her bill open and ready for business, and then I caught sight of the rascally red squirrel, who scurried round the trunk to aviod her. Round and round she chased him, until he seemed to lose his presence of mind and leaped to the ground. He started across the grass at full speed, but she was after him like fury, and he squeaked in abject terror as he fled across the road and into the woods, where the bird gave up the chase ana returned, ruffled, but triumphant.
 Had he profited by this experience. the red squirrel might have been living to- day, but one morning he wandered into the garden of a neighbor who was studying a pair of nesting redstarts. The squirrel found the nest, too and a moment afterwards he was seated near it, with one Of the eggs in his paws. But he never finished that egg, for my neighbor has a gun, and he values red starts higher than red squirrels.
 ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26
AEorHER THEORY ArrAckEp.

2ately the mosquito has been flying wearily along under a burden propor- tionately as heavy for it as the white mans burden is for him. It has been charged with being the sole agent in the transmission of yellow fever and some other diseases. Now doubt has been raised, another fine theory has been attacked. Dr. Edward Souchon, who is president of the Louisiana board of health, indicates that he is not a firm believer in the theory of the propagation of yellow fever by mos quitoes exclusively. He admits that the female of a certain species of the insect is active in the transmission of the disease, but holds that it is by no means certain that it Is the sole agent Of communication. He instances ex- perience at Laredo, where the most ef- fectual methods of exterminating the mosquito were tried, but the epidemic progressed, nevertheless, adding to its victims as though the slaughter of the insects counted for nothing. As for the cessation of yellow fever at Ha- vana, he holds that, while 1t was coin cident with the war on mosquitoes, it was not necessarily wholly on account Of it. He thinks that the superior methods of sanitation and quarantine put in force by the Americans were also an efficient means of prevention.
 Dr. Souchon is an eminent doctor, and those who started the theory that hs attacks are also eminent doctors. Eminent doctors will disagree, even about mosquitoes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26
A DAY ON yEsUVIUs.

Vesuvius dominates the whole land- scape. He finally got the better of us, drew us like a magnet; so, finding that the ascent can be made from Sorrento, as we'll as anywhere, we gave a day to it. The road, an ascending spiral, em- braces the great black mountain like the coils of a serpent. At first it leads through pleasant vineyards; when these are left behind the dreadful lava fields begin. The weird forms of the petrified rovers of lava, once red and molten, now grim and black. suggest human bodices writhing in the clutch of horrid mon- sters. Here @ huge trunk madly wrenches itself from the tolls, there a vast body lets supine and agonized, the last resistance passed. When we left our carriage at the foot of the funiculal railroad felt I had passed through sec. eral circles of the Inferno. Dante must have received many of the impressions
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26
Chriaimasea LpnR AEo.

The presents people give me now are beau tiful, l know, But those that meant the most to me lie back in Long Ago farmhouse brown and beaten with the winds and with the rains, It's little rattlinI windows filled with eight by -'leyen panes. The bare-limbed apple orchard where the poultry houses stood Beyond the clapboard lean-to where we stored the winter wood. Brown hills that rear to westward Eainst a cold, iiake-freighted sky, Where chestnut boughs sang weirdest songs whene'er the wind went by: The staked-and-ridered fences with the nropped-up gates and all- This was the quaint old picture ere the SHOWS began to fall. And then-a world that whitened meath the silent shroud that fell On roof, on trees, on fences, on the shelter o'er the well; The silence and the beauty and the never falling thrill
 ness still; The sound of some reverberate axe and a mile or so away, The lowing of a shiyering COW, hound delighted bay. While I. with sled and mittens, and heart brim-full of joy.
 
 sn0w-StOrm brings boy. At on Christmas morning I would wake and dress in haste, Scarce looking out the window at tue ghoStly snowy waste, And scamper down the stairway from the attic cold and bare To where the huge old fireplace yawned, and reconnoiter there. A w60llen sock that mGther'd knit hung up beside the iamb- I'd hoped fo find it bulging just as tight as it could cram; But from it's deoths I drew alone some candy and book To-day Pm poorer than the boy who sought that chimney nook. You ask me why: My cup of joy was shall lower then than now; I'd never seen q Christmas tree with gay, gift-laden bough; ,, I'd never seen the windows with thelr stock Of wondrous things To show me what old Santa Claus to wealthier children brings: I'd had no germ of diseontent implanted ID And in my life foul envy played no notice able part, ,. .s And, best I thought the patron saint or Christmas tide had come And brought the wondr0us presents to our humble little home. The world groWs sweet and sweeter as It older grows, I know, . But happiness was purer in the days or
 Baltimore American.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26
4 WELCOME SGE.

The Chicago strikers have graciously consented to "Iet the hearses run" here after, and funerals can be held in Chi cago without fights. So tomorrow will not be as lively a day in that city as last Sunday was. Some of the incidents reported in the Chicago papers indicate how lively it was. As the body of 8 young woman was being placed in a hearse and the mourners were taking their places in carriages union pickets interfered and ordered the hearse driv- CT from his seat. He was union man who objected to carrying the strike pro- ceedings to the breaking up of funerals, but he obeyed the order, and the under taker took his place. The driver of an ambulance carrying sick man through the streets was assaulted by pickets who threw chunks of ice that cut, his face, struck the sides of the vehicle and stung the horses so that runaway was barely averted. The friends of a man who had died two or three days previ- ously attended the funeral heavily armed, and twenty policemen in addi- tion guarded the house. Still, with all these precautions, the carriages used were there in the guise of private con- veyances, although in fact they were livery teams with non-union drivers. The relatives of dead woman who had been prominent in the work of neigh boring church wanted the funeral to be held there, but were compelled to hold it in her home for fear of trouble in the streets The relatives of another dead woman were forced to have the casket borne through the streets to the rail- road station on the shoulders of six men. Only an ordinary undertaker's s ''black wagon" could be had to carry the coffined body of 9. man to the ceme- tery, and only one carriage was obtain able for the mourners, all of whom, save the widow and her children, were compelled to stay behind. Another case is cited where the pallbearers were armed. The undertaken in another case, driving "black wagon" himsslf, was armed with shotgun.
 And so forth and so on. No wonder Chicago feels that she has had enough of "labor troubles
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26
DR ESSING.

He-Really, hardly know what to order.
 she-Yes. that's the way sometimes. A menu merely reminds you of num- Der of things you don't want to eat.-- Puck.
 He's homely dog," said Mrs.. Vray, "but he has a wonderful pedigree. His mother, his grandmother, his great grandmother, and bis great-great- grandmother all lived in Methodist fam files. "-Newark News.
 Elsie-There's a man at the door, pa. who says he wants to ''see the boss of the house."
 Father--Tell your mother.
 Mother Calling down stairs)-Tell ridget.-Philadelphi Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

The London Chamber O. Commerce is promoting the study of foreign lan- guages from commercial point of view. Glasses in Spanish, French, Ital- ian, German, Dutch and Russian are already in f1ourisiing condition, and Instruction in other languages is pro- vided as soon as students present them- selves. Three pupils have entered for a course in Chinese, and classes in Japan csc, Hansa, Hindustani and Portuguese are in prospect.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

Because he failed to show disapproval while gypsy band was playing revo- lutionary hymn in a cafe at stuhl Weissenburg (Hungary), an army of- ficcr has been condemned to loss of rank. The charge against him is the common one of ''unbecoming behavior in public place."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

A girl who was visiting near Lansing, Kansas. expressed anxiety because of the savage way the COW regarded her. Her uncle allowed that 1t must be be- cause of the red shirt waist she had on. Dear me-" she exclaimed, "of course it's out of fashion but had no idea country COW would notice it"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each in- serti3n; Five Gents a Word for full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch. one in, cents; one week, s. 20: one month, SIC; one
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

\ It may be old, but the story told by the Hopkins (NIissouri) Journal is still good. A Hopkins man who hauled cord- wood used rawhide harness on his team. Rawfide expands when wet and contracts on drying out. We'll, this man was hauling an exceptionally big load one day, when thunder storm overlook him just as he reached a long hill leading to his home. He was walk ing beside his team that he might pay close attention to them, and did not no- tice what the rain was doing for his rawhide harness until the top of the long hill was reached, when, to his ut- ter amazement, the wagon stood at the bottom of the hill, the rawhide tugs be- ing fairly stretched into fiddle strings. He was puzzled for moment, but just then the sun came out and a happy idea found lodgment in his fertile brain. He unhitched the team, fastened the tugs securely around a big tree and went in to dinner. When he returned the sun had caused the rawhide to con- tract sufficiently to bring the wagon up that steep hill with a momentum that smashed both front wheels when it came in contact with the tree around which the tugs had been fastened.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

Emperor Franz Josef, now in his seventy-third year, has just shot his two hundredth chamois.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

Say, pa, what's 'multum in par yo?'
 Those three dumplings you have Just eaten.H Chicago Record-Herald.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

T regard such use of Faneuil Hall as illegitimate and substantially profan- ation, writes Mayor Collins, of Boston, in vetoing an order, passed by the Board of Aldermen, permitting the use of the hall for an exhibition of poultry by the New England Light Brahma Club. ''The hall is a resort of all pa- triotic visitors who come to Boston," " continued the mayor, land it's use for a poultry exhibition or any kindred show ridicules and contemns it's sacred mem ories." Right you are, MT. Mayor. ..
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

Were your remarks extemporane- eus?" said the constituent.
 ''They was worse," answered the lo- cal statesman. ''They was almost pro- fane." ."-Washingto Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

Conan Doyle does not care to have ! the ''sir' put before his name on the title pages of his books and he espe- cially forbids it in the case of works published in this country. When he was arranging with an American firm for the issue Of late book he express " stipulated that the handle to his name should not be used in any way. On being asked for reason, he replied: 'When the American people like me 1as I am why should thrust a title in their democratic faces?" The publisher agreed reluctantly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

The Engineering News prints a Searching report on the typhoid fever epidemic at Butler, Pennsylvania, which is made by Dr. George A. Soper, who visited the locality for th> pur- pose. Pollution of the city water sup ply is admittedly the cause, and the local board of health and the Butler water company come in for severe handling as the responsible powers. Of the two, the private water company is called the chief offender, but the board of health was so negligent as to have kept only an indifferent record of ty- phoid cases, and thus made easier the contamination of the water. There was lax sanitary administration all around, with such terrible consequences as the record shows to date.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26
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Furs, Scarfs and
 MuHs
Rain-Coats

100 Genuine crapenette Rain-Coats. exclusive designs and styles, including the new Military Coat. A much-favor- ed gif. for Christmas to men and women.
The Van Buren press., 1903-12-05
Found Dead In Be d.

The lifeless body Of R b Sanders, who
has been conducting small shoe repair
ing shop near the East Hotel for some
time, was found in bed in the shop last
Thursday morning by his son Carl
Carl who worked with his father had
been with him mp to 5 o clock the previ.
ous evening and then had gone home.
Returning next morning about 0 clock
he found the door locked and on open.
ing it found his father in bed IN natur.
al position, ~ though asleep, 1t being
an unusual hour for the old man to be
in bed, his sou tried to awaken him and
then discovered he WAS dead.
Dr. Lucas WAS summoned and pro.
nounced his death due to heart failure
A coronors jury WAS empanneled by
Justice Ferguson and they brought in a
verdict in accordance with this.
The deceased WAS 81 years old and
had been q resident Of the county Il
years. He leaves wife and four child.
rem, who with the exception of Carl,
are residing at Hartshorn, |. T.