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Smyrna times., 1905-03-29
SECRET SOCIETIES.

MORNING STAR LODGE, Ne. 6, 1. o. O F.-Meets
every Friday evening, at 75O o'clock.
Mcdonnell ENCAMPMENT, No 81. D. o. .F.-Meets
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month. at $50 o'clock.
aARMONY LODGE, No. I3, A. F. A. M-Meets First
and Third Thursday evenings of each month,
at 7.30 O'Clock.
SMYRNA CONCLAvE, No. 45, ORDER OF HEPTAsoPHs
meets first and third Tuesday of each month
at 500 o'clock, at the Odd Fellows Hall.
Union CASTLE No. II, X. G. .E--Meets every Mon.
day evening in their hall in the Cooper Build
ing, at 7.30 o'clock.
AIsPAH LODGE, No. I6, A. o. U. W.-Meets every
Monday evening at 500 O'Clock in Odd Fell
lows Hall.
AGzPAH CONCLAvE, No. I6%, ADHESIVE MoGUL-
.IANs.-Meets the last Monday evening of each
month, at LOO O'Clock in Odd Fellows Hall.
SEHERAL WINFIELD S. HANCOCK POsT, No. 90
6. A. R.-Meets every Thursday night in the
Hall of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. L.
7. Davis, Commander.
STARS AND STRIPES CoUNCIL. No. 26, JR. o. U. A.
M-Meets at 500 p. m. every Thursday in
Odd Fellows Hall.
FRANCES E. WILLARD Temple, No s. K. of g. F.
Meets every Tuesday evening at O'CLOCK, at
the Golden Eagle Hall.
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TOMATO VINE TRAINED TO ONE STEM.
price II cents per pound. Thus the re-
turns have been more than 20 cents per
square foot of bench space.
Raised benches have the advantage
over ground beds in earlier ripening of
fruit.
Subirrigation or mulching is essential
to success in tomato forcing, and it is
advantageous to combine both meth
DDS.
Ordinarily the tomato plants were
set two feet apart each way and trained
to two stems, but recent tests seem to
Indicate that plants set one foot apar.
each way and trained to one stem Will
give higher yield and ripen earlier.
For a spring and early Summer crop
the seed should be s6wn in flats about
tne3st OF December. The plants may
be pricked off into pots OF flats, flats
being more economical. The second
and third shifts should be made into
pots.
Under ordinary care plants from seed
sOwn Dec. 1 will be ready to set in the
permanent beds about the middle of
March, and the fruit will begin to ripen
from the 1st to the middle of June.
Stiff wire, with a hook at the upper
end and made into the form of a cork
screw at the lower end and screwed
into the soil near the plant, is a very
satisfactory device to which to attach
the lower end of fha fvvino that corvoo
as a support to the vines.
Strong twine running from the hook
on the corkscrew wire to a wire
stretched directly over the row Of
plants and fastened to the rafters is a
more satisfactory support than stakes.
In training plants to one stem all
side branches should be kept pinched
off. When training to two stems the
lowest strong branch, which is usually
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BASKET AND CRATES.

the one just below the first fruit clus-
ter, should be left for the secondary
stem. All other branches or suckers
should be kept pinched off,
Tomatoes when forced under glass
are more inclined to grow irregular
than when grown In the field; hence in
selecting varieties for forcing it is i'm
portant that they be such as naturally
grow smooth.
The Beauty and Stone are very salts
factory varieties for forcing. The
Beauty is of better appearance than
the Stone, but the Stone IS more pro.
life and because Of greater frmness is
better for long distance shipments. The
Magnus, because of open foliage, is a
good variety to force in ground beds.
Frogmore's Selected Forcing, Earliest
OF All and Combination are promising
sorts, but need further trial to prove
taeir true value.
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TOMATO FORGING.
An Early Summer Crop Easily Sold
and Very Remunerative.

An Early Summer Crop Easily sold
and Very Remunerative.
Tomatoes have been forced as an
early summer crop at the Ohio expert
ment station for about twelve years
with uniformly good results, and the
product has been sold at remunerative
prices.
While the prices in the eastern mar
kets are sufficiently high to warrant
the midwinter forcing of tomatoes in
that section, the prices received here at
that season of the year are not sufi-
cient to cover the cost of production.
At the station tomatoes forced in
spring and early summer have not only
sold readily, but the cost of production
is so much less at that season than in
midwinter that they have proved a
very profitable vegetable for forcing.
Greenhouse tomatoes, because of SUI
perior quality, sell more readily and at
much higher prices than the southern
grown product on the same market.
At the station tomatoes grown in the
spring have been much more profitable
than either lettuce or cucumbers grown
at the same season.
The average yield has been over two
pounds per square foot and the average
Smyrna times., 1905-03-29
EDISON'S TRIUMPH.
An Incident In the Great Inventors
Start In Life.

an AhcAuthN IN the treat Inventors
Start In Life.
DIR. NOrvin Green, for many years
president of the Western Union Tele-
graph company, once said that but
for the dullness of himself and his as
s1stants Thomas A. Edison might new
er have obtained the confidence and
support of the great corporation. Ed
ison had been trying for months to in
duce the officials@to take up some of
his inventions until they began to re-
gard him as bore
~ he Went to the main office one day
and was greeted by DIR. Norvin Green
and the other officials with sneering
smiles. DR.. Green said "AIr. Edison,
we are unable to get into communica-
ton with Albany, and a large amount
Of important business is in peril. l
suppose that since you know more
about telegraphy than all of the rest
Of us combined you can locate the diff
ficulty."
Whether Edison noticed the sneering
tone or not, he quietly answered, 81
can locate it inside Of two or three
hours, sir"
Or. Green and the others laughed out
right, one of them saying, Edison, you
have now fully demonstrated that you
are a crank"
Edison never smiled or addressed
word to the speaker but looked at DIR.
Green and said, IF l locate this diff
Guilty in two or three hours, will you
take up my inventions and give them
honest considerations
''Yes, 1 WILL" said DIR. Green, "and
will do 1t if you succeed in two days"
1t was a very simple thing, and yet
Edison was the only one who had the
comprehensive mind to think of it in
stantly. He did not tell them for many
years afterward how he accomplished
the feat, but he did it inside of one
hour.
Edison went to the main Offices.
where he was known as an expert op-
orator, and called up Pittsburg. He
asked for the best operator there, nam
ing him, and then told the Pittsburg
man to call up the best man at Albany
and direct him to telegraph down the
line toward New York as far as he
could and report back to Edison as soon
as possible. Inside of an hour Edison
had this telegram:
Il can telegraph all right down to
within two miles of Poughkeepsie, and
there is trouble with the wire there"
Edison nt-back to the Office Of the
president and grayely announced that
If train should be sent to Poughkeep-
sic with materials for the work they
would find break in the line just two
miles on the other side Of Poughkeep-
sic and could repair it that afternoon.
They begged him to tell how he had
found it out, and he replied:
by knowing more about telegraph
ing than ali Of you put together, as DR.
Green has said"
They located the break, repaired it,
and DR.. Green took up Edison's inven.
lions, and that was Edison's great start
in life.-Youth's Companion.
Smyrna times., 1905-03-29
SMYRNA DIRECTORY.

SMYRNA DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICIALS.
President OF Council-James C. Robinson.
etary of Council-Henry S. Anthony.
wn TreasuTer-Ezekial V. Cooper.
rk of Council-Samuel J. Reynolds.
Alderman-Eugcne Crow.
Chiefof Police-B. W. Turner.
Couneilmen: 1st ward, DR.. T. C. Moore; 2nd
Ward Samuel ]. Reynolds; 3rd Ward, Harry B.
Srieves; 4th Ward, Jos. H. Wright; 9TH Wardi
5. Marriott Fowler; 9th Ward, James C. Robinson
and Henry S. Anthony.
Council meets the seer nd and fourth Fridays
n each month.
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Doan's Kidney
Pills 1 ached in
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live. l felt a
change for the
better within a
Smyrna times., 1905-03-29

XConnections to and from Baltimore and
Washington made via Porter
Daily. sDaily except Sunday.
Cd Stops to discharge passengers.
"e' Stops on signal to receive passengers for
Maryland Division via Porter or for Wilmington
and beyond
''f' Stops on signal or notice to Agent or Con.
ductor to receive or discharge passengers.
'h" Stops to let off passengers from points north
of Wilmington and from points on MARYLAND
Division via Porter
'j' Stops on notice to agent, or on signal, TO
receive passengers for Cape Charles and points
beyond.
''p" Stops to leave passengers from Middletown
and points south.
''r" Stops to leave passengers from New York
Division.
BRANCH R9ADS.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City, and way
stations 10 So a m and $50 p. m. week days.
Return ing, train leaves Fran kiln City 6 90
m, and ll.57 p. m. week k-daSS.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
steamer) l96 and S.45 p. m. weekdays. Return
ing, leave ChincOteague 10 43 a. m and $50 D. m.
weekdays
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes at
lG SS a m. and $50 p. m. week days. Returning
leave Lewes 6.45 a. m. and 1.S6 p. m. week days.
Leave Harrington for Rehoboth 1913 a. m.
Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays. Returning
leave Rehoboth LA p. m. Tuesdays: Thursdays
and Saturdays.
Smyrna times., 1905-03-29
Mutually RenencinI.

will you keep my daughter in the
style to which she has been accustom-
ed?'
No, sir; I'll keep her in style to
which she has not been accustomed
can right, my boy. Take her and be
happy. Now her mother and myself
will be able to put on a little style to
which we have not been accustomed" "
Houston Post.
Smyrna times., 1905-03-29
The Glasses In England.

In England the upper class CANDLES,
but does not drink; the middle class
drinks, but does not gamble. and the
lower class both drinks and gambles.
It is characteristic circumstance that
the upper class makes laws to prevent
the lower class from gambling and that
the lower class Is in favor of legisla-
ton to prevent the upper class from
drinking.
Smyrna times., 1905-03-29

Leave Harrington for Berlin. IOSSa. m and
9.9O p m. weekdays. Returning leave Berlin
6.06 a. m. and 1883 D. m. week days.
Leave Porter for Delaware City $50 m 199-
3.Sl, Abs and 6.24 p. m. weekdays Retrrnins
leave Delaware City 7.55, 92O and iO.2S a. m. snS
SI5 and S.56 p m. week days.
Leave Massey for Chestertown and wav s,s.
tlons $50 a. m. and $40 p. m. week days Re
turning leave ChestertOwn 7O3 a. m. and 80
p. m. weekdays. -0-
Leave Townsend for Centreville and wsv st..
at s.29 a. m and 443 p. m. weekday Pc
turning, leave Centreville 741 a. m. and 28O n
m. week days. p
Leave Clayton for Oxford and way stations At
g43 m. and 4.5S p. m. Returning, leave or.
IOro 6.4S a. n. ana 1.47 p. m. week days
Leave sesford for Cambridge and ipterme.
diate stations at lily a. m. and 624 D. m. weeF.
days Returning, leave Cambridge at OO q m
and 2.32 p. m. week days,
Porter with Newark g. Dels.
ware City Railroad At Townsend, with Oueen
Anne e's& KentRailroad AtClayton with Delswsre
&Chesapeake Railroad and Baltimore & Delawsrs
Bay Railroad. At Harrington, with Delaware
Maryland & Virginia Railroad. AtSeaford with
cambridge Seaford Railroad. At Delmsr with
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk, WicOmieO &
Pocomoke, and Peninsula Railroads.
W. W. ATTERBURY, General Manager.
J. r. WOOD, Pass'r Traffic Manager
GEO. w. BOYD, General Passenger Agent
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AeHED IN EVERY BONE.
chicago Society Woman Who Was So
Sick She Could Not Sleep or Eat,
Cured by DOan's Kidney Pills.

When a woman's kidneys go wrong,
aer back gives out and every little task
becomes a burden. She is tired, nervous,
Jleepless, run down-suffers daily from
3ackache, headaches, dizzy spells, and
bearing-down pains.
Don't worry over imagined "femaIe
troubles" Cure the kidneys and yo1 will
be well. Read how to find the cure.
Marion knight, of 33 N. Ashland Ave-,
Chicago, Ill, member of the Chicago
Federation of Musicians and weIl-known
club woman, says: "This winter when
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week. The second week 1 began eating
heartily. 1 began to improve generally,
and before seven weeks had passed
was well. had spent hundreds of dol
lars for medicine that did not help me,
but Sc worth of Doan's Kidney Pills re-
stored me to perfect health"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Miss Knight will
be mailed on application to any part of
the United States. Address Foster-MiI-
burn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. Sold by all
lealers; price, fifty cents per box.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT.
Civil Service Examinations for Posi- lions In Canal Engineering Work.

The United States civil service com- mission announces examinations as fol- lows:
 January 30 for assistant civil engineer. instrument man, transit man, level man. rodman,, chain man and helper for the Panama canal service. The salaries range from $50 to $200 per month,
 Each applicant will be required to sub init to the examiner on the day he Is examined. photograph of himself, taken within three years, which will be filed with his examination papers, as means of Identification in case he receives an appointment. An unmounted photograph Is preferred Ths date, place and kine of examination, the examination number. the competitors name, and the year in which the photograph was taken should be indicated on the photograph. Applicants for the position of assistant civil engineer, instrument man, transit man, level man or rodman may apply for one or more of these positions on the same application and on taking the ex- animation will be given a separate rating for each of the designations for which he has applied. It will be noted that the essential differences are in the subject of experience and the relative weights of the subjects of the examination.
 Applicants for the position of chain man or helper may apply for one or both of these positions on the same application, and on taking the examination will be given rating for each of the designa- tlons for which he has applied. It will be noted that the only differences are in the subject of experience and the relative weights of the subjects.
 February l5 for hydrologic aid, geolog- ical survey. at salaries of sl000 and sl2Oo per annum. The age limit is 20 years or over. Applicants should ask for form No 1872.
 February 15 and 16. for civil engineer in the Philippine service. There are four vacancies, two paying s12Oo per annum and two s1400 per annum. The age limit is IS to 40 years. Applicants should ask for forms Nos. and S75.
 Full information with reference to these examinations will be furnished upon ap- plication to s. D. Harris. secretary of the local examining board. He Is at the postoffice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
FIRE DEPARTMENT
 BUSY YESTERDAY
HOUSE OCCUPIED BY JACK BATES IN NORTH BIRMINGHAM IS ,BuRNED-THE FURlTURE WAS sAvED-Loss ABOUT $2ooo.

The fire department had three runs yesterday. one of them to North Blr- mingham where the volunteer department oA that suburb was assisted in preventing flames from spreading after they had destroyed one residence.
 The residence burned was occupied by Jack Bates. and was known as the old Henry Cole property. It was a one story frame, and the loss was about 5000, partially covered by insurance. All the furnitures was saved.
 The fire originated in the rear of the building, supposedly from a defective flue, and spread rapidly. The North Bir- mingham hose was about two sections short, and the North Highlands wagon of the Birmingham department supplied the missing links. Adjoining property was probably saved.
 A dwelling on Twentieth street be- tween D and E was slightly damaged yesterday afternoon by fire, which orlgi- mated from a spark on the roof The loss was not over $10 or s15.
 A small fire damaged a room in the building at 210S1s becond avenue yester- day afternoon. Tho damage amounted to only a few dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
TRAVELLING EVANGELISTS.
MT. and Mrs. Wicks of Waycross, Ga.,
 Will Hold Meeting Today.

MT. and Mrs. Wicks, travelling evangel- ists, of Waycross, Ga., are in Birming- ham and will conduct open air meetings here just as soon as the cold snap is past.
 Mrs. Wicks is very well known in the south She was formerly Mrs. R. E. Baker, and she and her late husband the Rev. R. E. Baker, held meetings in many towns. She has been a regular ordained minister of the Congregational Methodist church for about eighteen years, and has held meetings in all parts of the United States. She is at present interested in the building of an industrial school for poor white children. She has donated a tract of twenty-five acres of land, which is located about five miles from Way cross. upon which the school Is to be constructed, and 1t Is her hope that it will be in operation by January l, 1906. Among the donations which have been received are sash, doors and many other things which are necessary to put into the construction of such a building as is contemplated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
RESCUE HOME TO BE OPENED FEB. 19
SHORT ADDRESSES WILL HE MADE BY MAYOR DRENNEN, JUDGE FEAGlN AND OTHERS. CAPTAIN BERRIMAN HERE.

The rescue home of the sothern divi- sion of the Salvation army which has been established in Birmingham will be opened Thursday afternoon, February 3. The institution is for the rescue of fallen women.
 Col. and Mrs. R. E. Holz of Cleveland and Staff Capt. J. M. Berrlman of At lanta will be among the out-of-town Sal vatlon army officers who will be present at the opening. No programme has yet been made out. but it is probable that short addresses will be made by Mayor Drennen. Judge N. B. Feagin and salva- ton army workers.
 Captain Berriman arrived in Birming- ham yesterday from Atlanta and he will spend the week here arranging for the opening of the home. About 1.oOO is needed to pay off the indebtedness of the home, and the stan captain expects to raise this amount with but little trouble. The home Is located on Thirty second street and Avenue H.
 Provisions will be made at the opening for fifteen women. A laundry has been installed and other Improvements made. All of the furniture has been purchased for the home by the army officers.
 Commander Eva Booth will be in Att lanta next month to attend the annual council of southern officers. She will go from there to Atlanta. The new com mander will probably visit Birmingham In April.
 Captain Berriman will spend the even- ings this week at Bessemer, where he will conduct meetings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
HENRY MAY REAPPEARS.
In Eclipse Since Friday Night, He
 Calls On Sheriff Burgin.

Henry May, who was with Tom Shelton when Shelton is supposed to have shot and killed a woman of the town In house at 113 Twenty-third street north, Friday night, and who has been missing since the night of the tragedy walked into the sheriff's office yesterday morning and surrendered himself to the officers of the law. Deputy Sheriff Stratford promptly turned May over to Coroner Paris.
 It is understood that May is wanted only for the purpose of answering as witness in case his testimony is needed. It was explained that May had not sought to elude arrest and the moment he learn ed he was wanted he gave himself up. The police think Mays testimony will be Illuminating.
 The search for Shc.ton continues, but without success. Latest reports state that he is in Blount county, where live many os his kinspeople and friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-18
MOTTLED PRESSED BRICK ID BE USED High School Walls to be Faced
 With Fine Brick EDUCATION BOARD ACTS Brick Similar to Those In Guarantee Building Will Be Used on Three
 Sides t' the New High
 School Building.
EDUCATION BOARD ACTS

Three sides of the new Birmingham High school are to be faced with pressed brick, instead of common red brick, as the contract called for. This was de- cided upon at special meeting of the Board of Education held yesterday at noon in its rooms at the city hall. In- stead of paying s75O per thousand for common brick, the board will pay $50 per thousand for the pressed brick. Some thing over one hundred thousand pressed brick will be used.
 The brick selected are similar to those used in the Title Guarantee building, be- ing a buff mottled color. They are man. ufactured in Ohio. and Shook & Fletcher are the local sales agents.
 Mayor Drennen presided at the meeting yesterday, Eli P. Smith, James J. Smith, B. A. Thompson and Henry B. Gray be- ing the other members present. After stating the object of the meeting the board went into executive session. After discussing the matter for some time the doors were opened. MT. Gray moved that the Slidell brick be used at $1S.5O per thousand. As 8 substitute, Mr. Thomp- son moved that the buff mottled Ohio eded, MT. Gray voting in the negative. MT. Gray moved that the trimmings be of Indiana limestone, which was adopted. Several applications for the position of inspector of the work of building the high school were received and ordered filed. They will be considered later.
 Mir. Gray moved that the secretary be instructed to advertise for bids for the construction of two grammar schools, the cost not to exceed $20OOO each. This mo- tion was later withdrawn.
 B. A. Thompson. James J. Smith and President Drennen were appointed com mittee to select site for the Barker school in the Fourth ward, and Eli P. Smith, James J. Smith and Henry B. Gray were appointed committee to select the exact site for the grammar school to be erected in Drennen Park a: Five Points. The committees will meet Friday morning at 1 o'clock at the Ma yor's office and will then make the selections.
 A delegation of negro citizens, consist inC of pr. U. G. Mason, Dr. A. M. Brown, Dr. l.. U. Coin. E. A. Brown, James Phillips and W. W. Hadnutt ad- dressed a communication to the board asking that Thomas school which was burned several years ago. be rebuilt This was a negro school and the board not very long ago acquired lot on the corner of Third avenue and Twenty-ffth street as a site for the school, but 1t has never been rebuilt. The communication will be considered at a later date.