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Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
Marriage in Japan.


 Marriage in Japan is, and has always been, purely civil affair. Religion does not enter into it at all, nor, indeed can enter, since Buddhism does not recognize the mar riage state and Shintoo creed takes no note of such matters. There is more logic in this than in our own system, which joins man and wife in the most severe religious pledges, and then intrusts the care of their union to the law courts :. . Yet it cannot be denied that among the inferior classes of Japanese the permanence of the marriage state is reduced to mere question of prac- tical expediency. There have come under the writer's notice numerous instances of divorces, but not SO much as one instance of public. attempt on womans part to tain her position by her husbands side. It happens almost without exception that the wife recognizes the hopelessness and folly of such an attempt, and should she be suf ficiently infatuated to desire the perpetua- tion of an unhappy union, her relatives and friends do not fail to dissuade her. The re- suit is that incompatibility of temper, mutual cUldness, and too often the husbands ca price, are accepted as reasons for separation which the law alone would be powerless to enforce. The only source of difficulty is the husbands refusal to make full restitution of his wifes property. He is bound to give her back everything she brought with her, and of late years there has been steady in crease of appeals to the courts to enforce this obligation. It is understood that the whole question of the marriage law is under official consideration, and that important changes will soon be effected. Certainly in three respects reform is urgently called for; a husband should be subjected to the same rule of morality which he is entitled to ap- ,,11y 4o ifo ha clared illegal and in the event of separation owing to fault on the mans side, he should be compelled to provide for the woman's maintenance.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
A SKETCH OF HETTlE GREEN.
ssHer Boy Shall Re the Richest Youn
 IeaIa in

ssEaer Boy Shall He the Richest Young Man fin America.,'
 From Washington Letter to Cleveland Leader.
 Hettie Green is the sharpest woman on
 Wall street and the richest woman in New
 York. She is over forty years old and she numbers her fortune by as many millions as there are years in her life. Her mother was somewhat of an heiress and her father had increased the family pile to nine million dol lars at the time of his death This fortune Hettie, the only child, inherited, and she at once went to work to increase it. Much of her fortune was invested in ships, but these she considered dangerous and sold them and placed the proceeds in good inter est paying mortgages. She bought these mortgages in small towns all over England
 travelling about and investigating the securi- ties for herself. Shortly after her fathers death maiden aunt of hers died and left her four million dollars more. The thir- teen million dollars that Hettie Green thus inherited she had increased by careful speculation to about twenty million dollars at the time she married E. H. Green, of New York. Miss Hettie had an ante nuptial contract with him whereby he agreed to pay all of the household expen- ses and to leave her property of twenty million dollars and more in her own name After her wedding she kept up her busi- ness work and through her husband got into Wall street speculation. She did the speculating herself, however, and made while her husband lost She could buy large blocks of stock and would bull and bear the market as she thought best. She has made money right along and is now said to be worth forty odd millions She is very economical withal, and though her income must be several millions a year, her total household expenses are not over five thousand dollars. She rides down Broad way in a fve-cent bus, carrying perhaps one hundred thousand dollars in her reti- cule, and she used to walk to parties through the snow, pulling old woolen stockings over her shoes to keep her feet dry and save buying rubbers. When she got to the place of entertainment she would pull off her socks and hang them on the hat rack to dry. She kept her silver and securities at John Cisco's bank, and the bankers say she came periodically to the bank with box of whiting and pol ished her silver herself. When Cisco failed, not long ago, it took two cabs to carry away the plate, and the securities which Mrs. Green had on deposit were found to be over twenty-five million dol lars. Hettie Green has two children, . boy and girl. The girl is thirteen and the boy fourteen years old. The boy is an in- valid, but his mother says she intends to make him the richest man in America If she keeps on piling up money at her present rate she will probably succeed.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
VOL. LII.
9ry 0unds.
). N. ADAM & co.
FLANNELS.


 Some time ago we announced that we had been large buyers of Flannels at the great Auction Sale held in New York, and that in due season we would place them on sale. Could the manufacturers have foreseen the turn the market would take, we think there would have been no auction sale. Wool has ad- vanced, is advancingt and will still more advance. Flannels have advanced. But having said we would give our custom CTS the advantage of our pur- chase we mean to do 1t. This week, next week and all through September, we shall offer Elan nels at prices it would simply be impossible to make if we had to purchase now.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
DYSPEPSIA.
CONSTIPATION. SICK HEADACHE.
BILIOUSNESS.

These diseases constitute threefourths of the ail- nents of humanity.
 Ask your physician what diseases are most prev alent.
 Inquire of your acqaintances and they will tell you Dyspepsia, Constipation. Biousness and Sick Headache.
 They will coincide with us. Is there a positive cure? Yes
 BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS.
 Is the medicine injurious to the constitutions
 It is one of the best constitutional remedies in use
 The relief is and permanent Those of the most delicate constitution cannot suffer.
 It builds up and strengthens. And the fact is established that as specific for the diseases named it has NO EQUAL. The large list of testimonials from persons who have been cured AFTER SUFFERING FOR YEARS Will convince the most skeptcal. One bottle will convince you. DYSPEPSIA. CONSTIPATION, SICK HEAD ACHE and BILIOUSNESS cannot exist where it is used. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
HAVEN. CONN. THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER

sas, called the Future. Each number will
 predict the weather for the next thirty days,
 but he says that if the public will support his paper he will block out the weather for a year or two in advance. ''Indeed, /" he adds, eff there should be sufficient demand will undertake to calculate the general nature of the weather for the North American conti- nent for the next ten or twenty years, as I can calculate twenty years in advance as cas- fly as l can twenty years in the past, and i have repeatedly calculated backward for much more than twenty years. In these longtime calculations do not attempt to give the small details, and they are quite un- necessary for the distant future"
 This is a world of change, and some of the changes are very violent. A man died the other day at Montrouge, in France, after strange reverse of fortune. He was known in the humble society among which he ended his days as La Pere Fallais, but under the empire, less than twenty years ago, he lived in great luxury. He was the contractor who undertook the work for opening the Boule- yard St. Michael, in which millions passed through his hands. He afterward became utterly ruined in unfortunate speculations and lived for time on the charity of an old beggar woman, whom he had promised to re- munerate when he came into fortune he expected, but as the fortune did not come she lost patience and turned him into the streets, where he was found lying dead on a heap of rubbish.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
J. N. ADAM G co.
BLANKETS.

We also made large purchases of Blankets early in the season, and before the boom boomed, and these we shall be able to sell cheap. Some of the lots are now being delivered, and thrifty housekeepers will do we'll to look at some we shall show this week-Blankets that will be Blankets all the days of their life and not wash cloths the year after next.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10

Tea roses improve.
 Weed the garden paths.
 Asters are in their prime.
 Syringe camellias daily now.
 Rubber plants thrive in north windows.
 Double dahlias are too formal for present tastes.
 Excess as well as deficiency of water will cause geraniums to turn yellow.
 Willow twigs with the bark on make as fine an article of plant stakes as we care for.
 Castor oil plants so easily snapped off by heavy gust of wind that they should not now be trusted without stake
 In the spring you may bid cutting to grow in the autumn it must be coaxed, is the old saying. We find but little difference in the two seasons, provided attention is paid to always using cuttings from thrifty plants and seeing that they are not too soft.
 Autumn Sown Anpuals.-Too often all sowing of flower seeds is deferred until spring, when sowing near the end of the season would be better. This too is nature's season of sowing. The advantage of sowing now is that the young seedlings have the ben eft of cool weather in the fall and spring for making their early growth in. Such kinds stand the winter will flower better next winter for observing this course. Of suita- ble ones for sowing between the middle of August and the middle of September we would name the alyssum, bartonia. calandri- mia, candytuft, clarkia, erisymum, forget me not, gilias, godetias, nenlephilas, silenes, pansies, Virginia stocks. Try this sugges- tion
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
Thousands of persons in every trade, profession and calling
 have been cured by
DR. R. c. FLOWERS Scientific Remedies,
RIP VAN TWINKLE.
A Railroad Presidents Testf-
 m9ny.

Col. Thomas A. Scott, for years President of the great Pennsylvania Railroad, said just before his sudden death, in answer to a question: There is but one Dr. Flower and it will be century before there is another, and the one medicine for Liver and Stomach troubles, and tlls general system, is his Liver and Stomach Sanative.'
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24

Of America, says that while passenger from
New York on board a ship going around Cape
Horn, In the early days Of emigration to Cal
ifornia, he learned that ono Of the officers OF
the vessel had cured himself, during the Toy-
age, OF an obstinate disease BY the use Of
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24
The Laws Of Che Session.

A complete list Of the laws passed ai the ses-
sion OF the Legislature, tha. as just adjourned,
was published by Ebey Ecsning on Saturday;
from it we CLEAN the following facts:
Seventsen acts were passed relating solely to
the city OF Wilmington. Eighiysix incorpora.
tion bills were passed. twenty OF which wero for
Red Men and other societies; one was railroad
act, and seven incorporated banks and Building
and Loan institutions.
SeyeniY.eight miscellaneous bills were passed;
including twelve strictly Of private interest
(mostly enabling parties to change their names)
and one Of real public value, viz: refunding The
State debt. Among these are The bills to collect
back tax on railroads; the bill increasing the sal
aries OF the Chancellor and Judiciary and the one
amending the uniform ballot law.
FOrty-seyen bills relating to the Public Schools
were passed. Of which seventeen were for chang
ingl stmightening, or otherwise altering the
l9dnds Of districts; one appropriating $500 to
Delaware College, and one appropriating $500
annually to delray the expenses of Teachers In
sttutes and fourteen were to enable school dis
trcts to borrow money 10 build or otherwise i'm
prove school property.
Foriy-three joint resolutions were passed, the
most Of which were formalities connected With
The business Of the session. appointng committees
etc. Seven we're OF more or less importance, viz;
Providing for the purchase OF a State flag; ap-
pointing a State Treasurer; appropriating 81 900
or the purpose Of markisg the places on the
Gettysburg battlefield occupied by the Delaware
roops; reimbursing the State Militia for expenses
incurred in attending the inauguration OF Presi-
lent Cleveland; appropriaiing $500 to the Della.
ware Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty 10
jhidren, in regard to heating the State House
y steam, and one increasing the salary Of tile
itaie Librarian.
Thrty-seven acts were passed relating to roads
nd highways, none Of which were Of any inter |
st outside Of the hundreds in which the roads
Tere located.
Thirty-two divorce bills were passed. The
Expense OF the session will be in the neignbor-
Ood OF $4,000. The above will give some idea
what the people got for their money.
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24
Ayers Sarsaparilla

for rheumatism, with entire success and,
after careful observation, declares that, in
his belief, there Is no medicine In the world
equal 10 it for tho cure Of Liver Disorders,
GOut, the effects Of high living, Salt
Rheum, sorcss Eruptions, and all the
various forms OF blood diseases.
We have Bir. LELAND's permission to invite
all who may desire further evidence in regard
TO the extraordinary curative powers Of
AYERS SARsAPARILLA to see him person.
ally either at his mammoth Ocean Hotel,
Long Branch, or at the popular Leland Hotel,
broadway, 9th and 2Sth Streets, New York.
Mr.. LELAND's extensive knowledge Of the
good done by this unequaIled eradieatOr OF
blood pOisons enables him 70 givo inquireFs
much valuable information.
PREPARED BY -
Dr. .J.c.Ayer& Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold BY all Druggists 81. sl1 bottles for s&
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Ayers SarSaparilla.

Since then Mr.. LELAND has recommended
AYERS SARsAPARILLA in many similar
eases, and he has never yet heard Of Its fall
ure to effect a radical cure.
Some years ago one Of Mr. LELAND's farm
iaborers bruised his leg. Owing to the bad
state Of his blood, an ugly sorofulous swelling
or lump appeared on the injured limb. Hor-
rible itching OF the skin, with burning and
darting pains through the lump, made life
almost intolerable. The leg became enor-
mously enlarged, and running ulcers formed,
diseharging great quantities Of extremely
offensive matter. No treatment was Of any
avail until the man, BY Mr.. LELASD's diree-
tion, was supplied with Ayers SARsAPA-
RTLLA, which allayed the pain and irritation,
healed the sores, removed the swelling, and
completely restored the limb TO use.
Mr.. LELAND has personally used
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24

AS TO prices. The Janu-
airy prices are still kept up in
every sort Of carpet but
ingrain-there are many
hundreds carpets to choose
from; but the new are
higher, not so high as before.
Look over the whole stock
in a twinkling:
Best hve-frame Brussels,
81, $I.I5, $I.25, and SI.35 ;;
81, for old, all the other
prices for new all nearly
alike in quality. The best
American makes of Brussels
are here, and few besides the
best. English, no better
very likely SI.5o.)
Tapestry, so, 90, Is and
90 cents, the best i'll the
country at 90.
Velvet % cents, 81, and
sI.25.
Moquette, SI.25 and $3.50.
Wilton, $3.50, Sr.75, 81,
and S2.25.
Administer sr.75 and
s2.5o.
Art squares those sizes
the same, a fftl off; other
sizes nothing of. Same as
before. Felt druggets as
usual.
Ingram on the market
level, lower than before the
tumble, but not cxtraordi
narily down We have
ingram from 25 cents to Is.
hemp from 20 10 40, ray
from 25 to IS, three-pIy 90
cents and ST, Smyrna Sis.
and damask for halls AMI
stairs as usual.
China mattings are extra
ordinary just as they have
been here for several weeks
but more: fancy I2I1 to O.
cents; white and check Is
to 60; damask 90; and o
them al the grades at 50 ard
over are jointless.
Oil-cloths for table, stai
and floor. Lignum. Limo
leum. Cocoa and other
mats.
Hassocks and ottomans.
Rugs from IS cents.
The prices decidedly be
low the market are for Brus-
sells, Tapestry, Velvet, Mo
quette, Wilton, Art Squares,
Mattings; the difference
about a fifth or a quarter.
Our carpet stock was never
SO easy to see, never so
large, never SO satisfactory.
And this is the shortest
statement we can make of
why we are doing the carpet
trade of the city and region,
Why those who want carpets
lad better corle a hundred
niles or two to see, and why
hotels and steamers had
.7ttfsE5c come even further.
4'safr-ssta ati,s.
oIIN WANAMAKER. =
,stnut, Thirteenth and Market streets, Z
City-hall square.
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24
ToUTH's COMPANION.

A cARD-Mr. Joseph A. Hudson has
accepted the position of Manager and
Buyer for the ladies' ready-made cloak
department, with Messrs. Marks Bros,
sth & Arch Streets, Philadelphia.
His old friends will always receive a
welcome, either by letter or a personal
visit, and may safely eutrust any or
der to his Judgement; for he guaran-
tees satisfaction and prompt attention.
Respectfully yours,
4-3-3m JOS. A. HUDSON.
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24

Imperial power
rests with the Farmer.
The great freight cor
porations seek him
that they may take
toll upon his ample
stores. We traders
seek him to take CIR
stuff. HIS staples are
down, his face long
but why? No reason,
while his dollar will
buy so much. The
Oak Hall stock
proves this. Our
story for this spring
is a tale of cheapness.
Note these examples
in Mems Suits:
Blue Flannel Suits,
So so, $1,000, $I2.oO,
$500. They are all,
except the lowest,
all-wool and all full
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24
TIred ana LanguId women.

How many women there are ofwhom these words
are true: "They feel languid and tired hardly able
to bear their weight on their feet the bloom an
gone from their cheeks irritable aud cross without
meaning to be.nerves all upset. worried with the
children, iretted over little things, a harden 70
themselves. and yet with no acute diseasen What
q pity il is. But q few bottles OF Parker's Tonic
viii drive al this away, and relieve the troubles
ecuiiar 70 their sex, 4-s-mo
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24

WE find that we were premature
in announcing last week that the bill
appropriating an increase of 81 600
to the colored schools had passed; it
was killed in the Senate. Our edi-
torial expresses what right-minded
people would have thought of the
Senate if it had done the fair thing.
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24
HIacksnnifhino.

JOHN W. HAYES, at the old stand on Carlisle
Street, is prepared to do all kinds Of Blacksmith.
ing HoRsEsHOING A SPECIALITY. All
work guaranteed.
FOR RENT.-He also has for rent good
room adjoining his blacksmith shop, suitable foi
a wheewright shop. l-l8-tf
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24
GGlanamaker's.
PHILADELPHIA, April %. 1855.

: CarPet-selling time, they
E say, hasn't begun yet. Not
! so. 1t began in the middle
, of January a,o, o,,,,.---'-,'lnusg7'
saE ' - a NCI ''.--- 1dI
time to begin.
They say also, we have
spoiled the trade. Don't be-
Iieve a word of it. Carpets
dropped a quarter. That's
true. They haven't got
back to where they dropped
from. That's true too. But
trade isn't going to stop; not
here anyhow. And if it has
stopped elsewhere we
couldn't help that. We don't
manage elsewhere.
Spring carpets are here;
and naturally you want to
know about them. AS to
fashions you shall see when
you come, if you look long
enough. There are no
fashions to speak of and
yet you may see a differ
ence perhaps between old
and new-for we have plenty
of old as well as plenty of
new. >
AS to qualities-iust the J
same. There are makers ?
and makers. Some make /
their carpets as pretty and
rood as they can, and A
rave their names on the
back. Some make perhaps
as well and leave their names NJ
otf-have to; because a good 81
many merchants don't dare =
TO sell carpets with non-cele-
1rated names on, no matter
1ow good the carpets are.
Some make their carpets as a
mean and pretentious as 6
possible. OF course Meir IA
lanes are off. Nobody
wants them on. There are
merchants for every grade of
.arpets; for there are as
many grades of merchants
IS Of carpets. 1t is the ]
BUSINESS Of a proper mer- !
hant to do for you what you \
ant do for yourself to grade 8
is carpets according to :
alue, and let the grade be =
nown by the price. ia
But now, beginning the
sual carpet-season, newness
style affects the market
alue. 1t ought to affect the
rice. 1t does here. 1t may an
r may not affect your esti-
ate Of a carpet. That de- !.
ends on you-not on the
-rpet or the market. We cur
II a carpet of an old pattern
.cording to its age. You eve
~ according toyour desire. !
ne difference between here
ID elsewhere is that here ROl
u know what is what; and
you may or may r
It know what is what. ! )
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24

indigo color. AlI-wooI Black Chevi0t Suits, $3.50
and $1,000. Black Corkscrew and Diagonal Worsted
$2S.Oo $4,000. Brown, Wine, Blue and Dahlia
Worsted Suits, $780, $4,000 $a2.5o $4,000, $28.oo.
Just through all the stock, the three great L E
Elegance, Excellence, Economy, prevail
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24
LITERARY NOTES.
HARrER's MONTHLY.

The May number OF ''Harper's" promises TO be
very strong in its stOries Mss WOOlsOn's story Of
East Angels" grows in Its strength Of It's study Of
characters well as in interest as It proceeds; and
''At the Red Glove" the anonymous story illus
tlated from sketches made at Berne, the scene OF
the story, by Mr. Reiuhaft draws 10 its close The
short ssories include Constance Royal. strongly
dramatic story, told in three pages BY Jeanc Spring
Peet; humorous love story set forth in Pas
sages from the Diary OF a Hong Kong Merchant -
by F. j. StimsoR c'J. S. OF Dale''l; and a charm
ing story by Lucy G. Lille, with full-page illns
tration by Z. d, Weldon.
BABYHooD.
Babyhood, the only periodical in the world de-
! voted wholly TO the care OF yOuHg children has
succeeded in securing the services OF eminent spec
iaists IN every subject with which it deals do.
nestle Disinfeeuon, George NJ Sternberg. major
and surgeon. U. $. A., publishes ssme OF the re-
suits OF the recent Government Investigation into
I the properties Of the best disinfecants Among
@ te M II aFllcles Is an especially enter
talning ana practical one, by an anonymous ledy
writer entitled, Nurses Day OUT Marion Haf-
lana "rIlng is as attractive as usual, and the
"Baby's Wardrobe" Nursery Problems" and
other departments contain the accustomed variety
OF nsefui hints. - cents number; Sl.5O year
Is Spruce street, New York.
THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
The editions of the Century Magizine are now |
80 large that il has become necessary either 10 90
10 press at an earlier date to postpone the day Of
issue. The latter alternative has been accepted /
Ihe April number, the edition Of which was 225
goo WAS delayed until the 18th Of March, The |
May numher-edti0n, go 0O00-will be issued on The
urst day of-MaY, tins naugurating with the first
number OF the tniriieih volume change which has
lOig bten considered desirable by the publishers
anu Wnlci y Is believed will BE- heartily Commended
by the public. Future numbers or a5rhe Csentnrv /
Magazine will be issued on the first dav Of fh,,
month Of which each bears date
ToUTH's COMPANION
Every family that desires to provide for ifs Young
people wholesome and instructive reading mater
should send for specimen copies Of the sFYOnth'e
Companion of Boston, It is The brightest and best
OF papers for young people. Its colums give more
than two hundred stories yearly by the most noted
authors slncludingJ.F IT. TrOwbridge, William Black
phant and many Others besides scientific articles by
eminent specialists, tales Of adventure BY noted
travellers, papers Of encouragement and advice by |
men and women Of ability and experience and
"reminiscences and anecdofes Of famous peoDle
W ith circulation rapidly approaching $50 900 cop
es week,the youths Companion can well ar
Iord To- spread such treat before its patrons; aud
spreading such feast, Il Is no wonder it has such
! tremendous circulation
Milford chronicle., 1885-04-24
WARREN LELAND,
Largest Hotel Enterprises

whom everybody knows as the successful
manager Of the