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Smyrna times., 1903-08-26

THE CEDARS OF LEBANON.
Only a Few of These Historic Trees
Now Remain.

Only a Few of These Historic Trees
Now Remain.
There are only about 400 cedars of
Lebanon now remaining high up on the
rocky slopes. Hadrian sculptured his
imperial anathema against all who
should cut these sacred trees; the Marc
mite peasants almost worship them and
call them the "cedars of the Lord" and
@ recent governor of the Lebanon has
surrounded them by a great wall so
that the young shoots may not be in
jured by rowing animals. Yet, century
by century, their number grows less.
But if the cedars are few in number
these few are of royal blood. They
are not the largest of trees, though
some of the trunks measure over forty
feet around. Their beauty lies in the
wide spreading limbs, which often COW
er a circle 200 or 300 feet in circumfer-
ence. Some are tall and symmetrical,
with beautiful horizontal branches;
others are gnarled and knotted with
inviting seats in the great forks and
charming beds on the thick foliage of
the swinging bOughs.
The wood has a sweet OdOr, 5 very
hard and seldom decays. The vitality
of the cedar is remarkable. A dead
tree is never seen, except where light
ming or the ak has been at work. Of
ten a great bOugh of one tree has
grown into q neighbOr. and the two
are so bound together that it is impos-
sible to say which is the parent trunk.
Perhaps the unusual strength and vi
tality of the cedars are due to their
slow growth. When a little sprOut
hardly waist high is said to be ten or
fifteen or twenty years old one cannot
help asking, What must be the age of
the great patriarchs of the grove? 1t
is hard to tell exactly. By the aid OF
a microscope l have counted more than
700 rings on a bough only thirty inches
in diameter. Those who have studied
the matter more deeply think that some
of these trees must be more than q
thousand years old. Indeed, there is
nothing wildly improbable in the
thought that perhaps the Guardian, fol
instance, may have been a young tree
when Hiram began cutting for the TEN
pie at Jerusalem.-Lewis Castor Leary
In Scribners.
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26
CHURCH SERVICES.

AsBUR I METHODIST EPIsCOPAL-Sunday-P
ing at 1880 A. NJ and 7.30 P. M sunday School
2 P. NJ. EpwOrth League Prayer Meeting,
730P.M Prayer Meeting-Wednesdays at 7.30
P. NJ. Rev. Vaughan 5. Collins, pastor.
ST PETERS CHURCH Rev. G. Valerie Gilreath,
RectOT.-First Sunday, Holy Eucharist, 1890
a. m; Evening Prayer and Sermon at75 P. NJ.
second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays,
Holy Eucharist, ~ m; Morning Prayer and
Sermon, l0.l5 A. N. Evening Prayer and Ser
mon, ~ P NJ. Holy Days-HOly Eucharist,
IA A. NJ. Morning Prayer, 1917 A. NJ. Fridays,
Evening Prayer and Litany, ~ P NJ. Sunday
school, 215 P. NJ.
-Sunday-Preaching at 1917 A. M
and ~ P. M. Sunday SchOOl-1l15 A. NJ. Prayer
Meeting-Wednesdays at III P. M. Rev. J. i.
Estlin, pastor.
POLYcARP CATHOLIC CHURCH-Services every
other sunday, by Father WaldIOn. Sunday
School immediately after service.
'NYRNA DEMONSTRATING services, Friend
ship in the morning, SeversOns in the after
noon. Jerman's Chapel and Smyrna Land
ing alternate sunday nights at 7.S0. Rev. G.
L. Hardesty, pastor.
OENTENNIAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL (ColOred) =
Sunday-Preaching at II A. NJ. and 8 P. NJ.
sunday School, NJ Rev W. c. Dick
ersOn, Pastor
BETHEL I. NJ. e. CHURCH-SundL y-Preaching
? p. m. Christian EndeavOr, 6l2 p. m. Sun
day. Praise meeting at o'clock WedneS
day evening. Rev. d. W. Wsher, Pastor.
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26
SECRET SOCIETIES.

MORNING STAR LODGE, Ne. 6, I. o. O F.-Meets
every Friday evening, at $50 o'clock
r-sCDoNNELL ENCAMPMENT, No ,, /. o. o. F.-Meets
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month. at $50 O'Clock.
SARMoNY LODGE, No. l3, A. F. A. M.-Meets First
and Third Thursday evenings of each month
az 730 O'Clock.
-.KYa'4 LODGE, No. 6, I. o. G. T-Meets every
Wednesday evening al 500 O'Clock.
SMYRNA CONCLAvE, No. As, ORDER OF HEPTAsOPHs
meets first and third Tuesday of each month
st 500 o'clock, at the Odd Fellows Hall.
UNION CASTLE No II, K. C. E-Meets every Mon
day evening in their nall in the Cooper Build
ing, at 50 o'clock
MIsPAH LODGE, No. l6, A. o. U. W.-Meets every
Monday evening at 500 O'Clock in odd Eel
lows Hall.
NIZPAH CONCLAvE, No. l615, ADHESIVE MoGUL-
LIANs.-Meets the last Monday evening of each
month, at 90 O'Clock, in Odd Fellows Hall.
GENERAL WINFIELD S. HANCOCK POsT, No. %
G. A. R.-Meets every Thursday night in the
Hall of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. L.
T. Davis Commander.
STARS AND STRIPES COUNCIL, No. 26, JR. 0. L. A.
M;-MeetS at 500 p m. every Thursday IN
Odd Fellows Hall.
FRANCES E. WILLARD Temple, No. S, X. of g. -
Meets every Tuesday evening at o'clock, al
the Golden Eagle Hall.
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26

Thomas A. Edison says that few
people can sing we'll without the sym
pathy of their audience. Even great
singers who have tried to sing into q
phonograph have failed because they
could not watch the faces of an audi
ence and so Judge of their own per-
formance.
Philadelphia is not slow after all.
That City has made it misdemeanor
to sell toy pistols and now the dealers
who sold the pistols which have caused
several cases of lock-jaw are to be
prosecuted and sued for damages as
we'll.
There are four secretaries of war
with whom General Miles had serious
disagreements, Lamont, Alger, Root
and ex-Secretary Jefferson Davis.
He got the better of the last named by
means of dungeon and handouts.
Naturally the Duchess of Marl-
borough is indignant at the publishe
report that she was arrested and taken
before an ordinary justice of the peace
for violating the automobile regula-
tions.
President Roosevelt may consent tc
call Congress in extraordinary session
before November, but he will not
yield precedence to the fncancial leg.
islation, in preference to the enabling
legislation for the Cuban treaty.
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26
NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSIONS.

LOw-RATE VACATION TRIPS VIA PENNsYL-
vANIA RAILROAD.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has selected the following dates for it's
popular ten-day excursions to Niagara
Falls from Philadelphia, Baltimore,
and Washington: July "a. August z
and 81, September and 18, and Octo.
ber 2 and 16.
The excursions from Philadelphia
will be run by two routes. Those on
July "a, August and 81, September 4
and Is, and October 16, going via Har-
risburg and the picturesque valley of
the Susquehanna, special train leaving
Philadelphia at SO a. m.; excursion
of October 2 running via Trenton,
Manunka Chunk, and the Delaware
Valley, leaving Philadelphia on special
train at SOC a. m.
Excursion tickets, good for return
passage on any regular train, exclusive
of limited express trains, within ten
uhJSy WIZ DO oOlu at p1U.UO lEOm L MIA
delphia and all points on the Della
ware Division; $11.25 from Atlantic
City; SO. go from Lancaster; and at pro-
portionate rates from other points, in
Guiding Trenton, Bordentown, Mt.
Holly. Cape May, Salem, Wilmington,
West Chester, Reading, and principal
intermediate stations. A stop-over
will be allowed at Buffalo within the
limit of ticket returning.
The special trains of Pullman parlor
cars and coaches will be run with each
excursion running through to Niagara
Falls. An extra charge will be made
for parlor-car seats.
An experienced tourist agent and
chaperon will accompany each excur.
sion.
For descriptive pamphlet, time Of
connecting trains and further informa.
tion apply to nearest ticket agent, OIL
address Geo. w. Boyd, General Pas.
senger Agent, Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26
COST OF TRAIN LUXURY.
The Reason That Railway Passenger
Rates Arc So High.

The Reason That Railway Passenger
Rates Arc So High.
1t may be asked why the railway To-
comotive does not pull passengers at
a lower rate. Because it gives pas
sengers so much room, comfort and
high speed that it has to carry a ton
Of dead weight for each passenger. A
locomotive weighing 100 tons pulls at
45 miles an hour u cars weighing 600
tons and containing 760 people weigh
ing 80 tons, assuming the passengers
to be men, women and children, but
chiefly men, and to average 131 pounds
each; 1,400 pounds of dead weight per
passenger when every seat is taken
But cars cannot average more than
seven-tenths full.
The railway carries free the pas
sengers $50 pound trunk and sends
with him toilet rooms, heating stoves
and fuel, smoking rooms, dining rooms
and bedrooms. These houses on wheels
and the locomotive which draws them
have to be made very heavy in order
to get the great strength made neces-
sary by high speed.
If the railway could dispense with
these comforts and luXuries and carry
passengers packed closely inside and
on top of low rooted, ramshackle, un-
heated vehicles like the old stage and
at slow speed it could pull passengers
at One-tenth to One-twentieth the price
of the old age.-Engineering Maga-
zine.
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26
A Very Close Call.

81 stuck to my engine, although
every joint ached and every nerve was
racked with pain, p" writes G. W. Bel
lamy, locomotive fireman, of Bur-
lington, Iowa. 81 was weak and pale,
without any appetite and all run down.
AS 1 was about to give up, got bot
tie of Electric Bitters, and after taking
it, 1 felt as well as I ever did in my
life." Weak, sickly, run down peopl e
always gain new life, strength and
vigor from their use. Try them. Sat
isfaction guaranteed by Benton N.
Weldon. Price 90 cents.
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26

son Saturd ays arrives at Ocean City at $50 pm
Daily. zDaily except sunday.
&C. Regular stop TO receive passengers.
r. Stops on signal or notice to Agent or Con.
ductOr to receive or discharge passengers
g Connects at Delmar with New York Phila5
delphia & Norfolk r. r.
IN" Stops to let off passengers from points north
of Wilmington and from points on MARYLAND
Division via Porter
ii" Connects at Harrington for and from sta
tions on Del. Md. Il Vir K. X.
81" Stops on notice to agent or on signal. tC
receive passengers for Cape Charles and points
beyond
"k" Stops to leave passengers from Whining
ton and points north, and to take on passengers
for Delmar and points south.
app Connects at Townsend for and from sta.
tions on Baltimore & Delaware Bay r. R.
m Connects at Porter for Delaware City.
IN" Connects at Porter with Newark and Della.
ware City Railroad.
90" Connects at Harrington for stations on D
NJ. Il V. R.R.
"p" stops TO leave passengers from Middletowr
and points south.
~ Stops to leave passengers from New York
Division.
"t' Connects at seafJrd for and from all sta.
tiOns on Cambridge & Seaford r. r.
u connects at townsend for and from all
stations on the Queen Anne & Kent Railroad.
~" Connects at Harrington from stations be.
tween Lewes and Harrington.
"X' Connects at Clayton for and from all sta.
tiOns on Delaware & Chesapeake Ry.
wv" Connects at Delmar with New York Phil.
adelphia q Norfolk Railroad to and from al
points between Delmar and POcOmoke.
BRANCH ROADS.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City. and wa,
stations, 10 S6 a. m. and 6.1O p. M. week days
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26

On Mondays only train will be run
from Rehoboth. leaving there at 7.22
a. m, Lewes, 7.34 a. m, connecting at
Georgetown with train leaving at S.O6
a. m., and Harrington with train leav-
ing at 9.OS a. m.
On Saturdays an additional train
will leave Rehoboth at 1890 p. M, ar
riVing Harrington 1901 a. m.
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26

Return ing, train leaves Fran kiln City 6 90 g.
n. ana ll.5S a. m. week days.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague via
ing, leave Chincoteague lO45 a. m and $50 p. m.
week kdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and RehO-
both at 1876 q. m, $40 p. week days; $40 m.
Saturdays only. Returning leave RehOboth 6.3S
a m, and LIS p. m. weekdays; TO- o p IN. oatur-
days only.
Leave Harrington for Berlin 1896 a N. and
610 p. m. weekdays. Returning leave Berlin
600 a. m. and IL 5S D. m. week days.
Leave Massey for CheStertOwn and way sta
tons 959 a. m. and 5.S3 p m. week days Re
turning leave CheStertOwn us a. IN. and 20
p. IN. week days.
Leave Townsend for Cenreville and way sta
at $50 q. m and 5O4 p. m. weekdays. Re
turning, leave Centreville TAG a m. and 2.SS p.
m, week days.
Leave Clayton for Oxford and way stations at
943 m. and 517 p. m. Returning, leave Ok
/ ford $50 a. M. ana 1.49 p. m. week days.
Leave Seaford for Cambridge and interme'
d1ate stations at 1.13 a. m. and 46 p m. week
days. Returning, leave Cambridge at 90 a. m.
and 232 p. m. week days,
CoNNECTIONs-AtP Porter, with Newark & Della
ware City Railroad. At Townsend, with Queen
Anne's& Ken tRailroad AtClAytOn, with Delaware
4 &Chesapeske Railroad and Baltimore Delaware
Bay Railroad. At Harrington, with Delaware
Maryland & Virginia Railroad. AtSesford win
Cambridge & Seaford Railroad. Al Delmar: WIN
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk, Wicomleo "
Pocomoke, and Peninsula Railroads.
gDsily except Sunday.
W. W. ATTERBURY, General Manager.
J. r. WOOD, Pass'r Traffic Manager.
GEO. W. BOYD, General Passenger agent
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26
SMYRNA DIRECTORY.

TOWN OFFICIALS.
President of Council-James c. Robinson.
etary of Council-Henry S. Anthony.
wn Treasu.er-Ezekial V. Cooper
rk of Council-Samuel J. Reynolds.
Alderman-Eugcne Grow.
Chief of Police-B. W. Turner.
Councilmen: 1st ward, Dr. T. c. Moore 2nd
Ward. Samuel ]. Reynolds; 3rd Ward Harry B.
Grieves; 4th Ward, Jos. II. Wright; 9TH Ward,
g. Marriott Fowler; 9th Ward, James c. Robinson
and Henry S. Anthony.
Council meets the second and fourth Fridays
n each month.
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26

Before we bring happiness to others
we must first be happy ourselves. nor
will happiness abide within US unless
we confer it on others.-Maeterlin
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26
REHOBOTH SPECIAL.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington Rairoad) announces that
beginning Saturday, July 4th. it will
run the Rehoboth Special on Satur-
spen days and Mondays, between Whining
....-.-.,.77s=Sn and 2.1Sshoboth, as follows:
Smyrna times., 1903-08-26
GEO. w. TILGHMAN,
Justice Of the Peace and Notary Public

2I6 COMMERCE ST., SMYRNA, DELE
Conveyancing, Collecting, &c. Particular
attention given TO Pension Applications
and Vouchers, and any other busl-
ness pertaining to the office.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-26
WILL MAKE II
WORTHY OF HIM
Saints Fiftieth Birthday CeIe.
bration Will Be Observed i'm
Elaborate Style.

Friday work preliminary to the cele-
bration of the fftieth anniversary OF
the birth of ST Paul as a city will be
commenced in earnest. The general
committee of the Commercial club will
then organize and take under consid-
Grafton permanent plans.
President Theodore F. Smith, of the
Commercial club, announced the ap-
pointment of the following anniversary
celebration committeeman: H. T.
Black, Theodore l.. Schurmeier, DR..
Herbert Davis, H. c. McNair, Jesse A.
Gregg, J. C. Michael, H. M. Temple, G.
B. Bowlby, DIR. Rudolph Schiffmann,
NJ Doran Jr., J. w. L. Corning.
This committee, after organizing,
will ask for the appointment and CO.
operation of a committee from the
council and at once enter into the pre-
linainary work for a celebration intend
ed to eclipse anything in the history
of st. Paul.
The announcement week ago of the
clubs intention to secure the fitting
celebration Of the semi an
niversary Of the city aroused unex-
pected popular interest and offers of
assistance which assure the club COM
mitteemen Of almost unlimited re-
sources.
The anniversary of the city's birth
falls on March H. but ON account of the
usual weather conditions prevailing.
in March. the celebration will prob
ably not be held until May, or even in
midsummer, when week will -prob5
ably be devoted to a festival invwhich
the entire Northwest will be invited to
participate. s1o3s9 =
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-26
Fl. SMELLING POST
SCHOOL OPENS NOV.1
Enrolment of at Least SO En-.
listed Men Is Expected
This Winter.

The post school for enlisted men at
Fort Smelling will be opened Nov. l.
with an enlistment enrolment of fifty.
The post school has becoIne a regu-
lar and valuable adjunct o the army,
and it's value is by no mea as confined
to the men who directly reap it's ad-
vantages. It's beneficial effects have
been felt throughout the army.
Last year the school at Smelling had
an enrolment of sixty enlisted men,
and an average daily attendance of
twenty. The school was in charge of
the post chaplain and was conducted
by detail of four non commissioned
officers. The Discrepancy between the
total enrolment and the average at
tendance is accounted for by the fact
that men on regular duty details do
not attend school during that duty
tour.
school are the elementary branches,
including arithmetic, reading, spelling.
penmanship, geography and United
States history. The soldier students
are, for the most part, men certified by
company commanders as in need of
elementary instruction, who, thanks to
the care exercised by the recruiting
officers, are yearly becoming few in
number.
Men studying for commissions sell
dom attend the post schools. The ele-
mentary character of the instruction
is not suited to their needs, and, as a
rule, they follow their studies with the
advice of interested officers or under
the guidance Of private tutors.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-26

City Comptroller Betz's statement of
a possible deficit as result of the late
carnival inSfeaSE Of a profit, as eX-
pected, brought the. executive commit
tee Of the Association together in
hurry last night and vigorous perusal
of the bills and claims was made.
Every bill and claim presented was
critically examined, and while no pos
tive action was taken it was the gen
eral feeling that the claimants, if they
have any consideration at all for the
object for which SO many gave their
I time and money, they should at least
scale their claims a trif1e.
1t was figured if all would cut their
claims and tender the same as dona-
ton there would be showing for the
baths. possibly s. not a big one, but
enough to showiIthat the carnival was
appreciated.
The bills range from a sum as small
as rs cents for a bucket of paste to
81, 500 for construction, but the major
ity do not amount to over $25 each.
These include livery hire for the va
rious parades, decorating goods used
on the floats, and the hundred and one
little items absolutely necessary for
the conduct of the carnival but which
were never anticipated.
The general impression seems to be
that the lumber used in the construc-
ton t0f0 fences and booths was the
property of the association, but. this
the, members say is not SO. The asso-
ciation simply paid for the erection
and rental Of the lumber. used in the
booths and, fences and stipulated that
when the carnival u was over they
should be removed by the contractor.
Where such: booths and fences cost the
Minneapolis Carnival association s1.65
running foot st. Paul got them for
SO cents. The same reduction was OBJ
tanned in respect to the arch. st. Paul
only invested $3.50 in its arch, while
the arch at Minneapolis cost about
81, 700.
The, members Of the association say
there Is nothing official in the figures
given out SO far with the exception Of
the, receipts. The expense list con-
tains many items that never will be
considered, and when these are Topped
off the real expenses will be known.
In many respects they are only ap-
proximatea9i1 The job . Of compiling
them is a. big one, and as the associa-
ton has no saIaried assistants the
members of the official finance COM
mittee can only give the work atten-
ton when freedom from their other
duties will permit.
One of the big expenses was the
care of the grounds. Almost daily it
rained during the carnival, and a big
crew of men and many tons of saw
dust were required to make the dirt
streets and the baseball park pasable.
This was an expense not anticipated
and the members say it is only
one Of number of other items that
were never figured on in considering
the enterprise.
Meetings of the executive committee
of the association will be held daily
| until the carnival accounts have been
fully settled and the whole thing has
been cleaned pp.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-26

Politics may yet lose st. Anthony Park
and the territory adjacent the $3.50 900
sewer system that the business men and
residents of that section have been so
long striving for.
The Republican members of the two
council bodies, it is said, have combined
on the scheme and will endeavor to hold
up the work until the next budget is COM
piled when, under the guise of economy
an appropriation of 100000 now in the
treasury for the improvement will be di-
yerted to other sources
For the past five years the owners of
property in st. Anthony Park have been
striving for connection with the city sew
erage system and, last year, through the
efforts of Aid Dobner and other Demo-
cratic members of the two council bodies,
secured an appropriation of 500 000 This
with about 5000, 900 that would fall direct
en- the property benefited it was thought.
would ABOUT complete the improvement.
Three months ago a preliminary order
!of the main sewer and many laterals was
introduced in the council and sent to the
board of public works, but because of
changes made later that body has not been
able to call hearing and send the order
back to the council in the shape of a final
order.
Last week the rumor became current
that the Republicans would use every eff
Tort to have the improvement held over
until next year, and as that would call for
the reappropriation of the $50, 900 granted,
the board has been besieged with requests
from business men and property owners
to hurry the work along. Postmaster
McGiH headed one delegation bent on
this errand, and since that time there
have been several other delegations.
Business men of st. Anthony Park say
the system is absolutely necessary for the
advancement of the park, and that it must
be built now.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-26
MINNESOTA CREAMERIES
ARE WELL CONDUCTED
Annual t1speetion Shows Them in
Good Sanitary Condition.


Theareport of the annual inspection
of creameries,. skimming stations and
cheese factories has just been made by
the state dairy and food commission.
The report includes three counties
Mower, Dodge and Olmsted. The in
spections show the institutions in these
counties to be clean and we'll managed.
The following figures show the i'm
mensity of the dairy business in these
three counties: e 81.
e Mower County-Thirteen creameries,
2 cheese factories, 1 skimming station;
1927 patrons: daily milk supply, 155,200
pounds; number of COWS contributing,
S,S75.
Dodge County-Seven creameries, IS
cheese factories, L ,099 patrons; daily
milk supply, 144.469 pounds; number of
COWS, 1929. ,,-rey- F3
Olmsted, County--Fifteen creamer-
les, cheese factory, 1,573 patrons;
20S, 500 pounds of milk daily, 1855
cows, 5000 pounds Of butter daily. 275
pounds of chees daily.