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The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
Hawkins & Co.,
REAL ESTATE DEPART MENT.
GRATIS.

We offer our services and the
benefit Of our extended expert
ence as Real Estate Agents,
without ch0rSe, to all intend
ing purchasers Of Real Estate,
and promise to use. our earnest
endeavors to procure the most
reasonable prices and best terms
for any property located in the
city Of Wilmington.
Having been long established
in the business, we are thorough
ly acquainted with the values of
all kinds of City Property, and to
a considerable extent with the
owners also. We therefore have
superior advantages TOR negotiat-
ing purchases, and oftentimes
valuable information at hand,
which would be most useful to
those desiring to buy.
You cannot afford to dispense
with our services, as We can al
most invariably secure better
terms for our customers, for any
piece of property, than they can
obtain personally..from the owners
themselves or through any other
agencies.
We will attend promptly to
necessary details, make all ar
rangements with owners and draw
the legal contract Of purchase and
sale without 'eXpenseto the buyer.
All business will be considered
strictly confidential,
We will take pleasure at all
times in submitting any reasona-
Bile offer to owners, and believe
purchasers will save money be-
sides trouble and annoyance, by
engaging our services
HAWKINS & CO.,
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16

nTTDSEA WONDERS exist in thousand of
ULLi farms, but ate surpassed by the mar.
wells of invention. Those who are in need of
profitable work that can be done while living
at home should at once send their address to
Hallet & Co., Portland Maine, and receive
free, full information how either sex, OF al
ageg, cas- earn from $5to$2j per day and up
wards wherever they live. You are started
free. Capital not required. Some have
made over $50 in single day at this work
All succeed.
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
A word 90 tha rg,ze.

MHver cross bridge tn you come to It,"
E&p grandmother used 70 Bay,
Wnk4 means, little folks, THAT we mustn't fret
Oyer tPubaes that may thefuture beset,
Hwe've done what we can today.
Yop remember the time worn fable
OF the farmers eight day clock
How the pendulum counted, with trembling and
fear,
The number Of times II must tick In O year,
And then stood as still as a stock,
I'LL aided by friendly counsel,
II decided 1t would not shirk
The duty that plainly before II lay,
Because at SOME very distant day
1t might be too tired to work.
B1. little folks, live In the present;
Daily strive to be useful and glad,
For when you are old you will find this out,
That many trouble you've worried about
Is one you have never had.
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
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The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
The Sun as n Fire Extinguisher

The dear little School Maam in ST.
Nicholas tells the children that as soon as
the wintry cold begins to wane and tho sun
light grows warmer, house fires are apt to
get low and dull, and for this reason persons
say ''the sun has put the fire out" Naturally
the children ask her TO explain this queer con-
duct on the part Of the sun, and then she
tells them something like this:
During the sunniest part of the day we are
apt to neglect our fires and to cease supplying
fresh fuel. Meantime the suns rays warm
the air and rarity it until 1t is as warm and
thin as the air in the chimney that has been
heated by the fire. Then the draught ceases
and the fire gets lower and lower.
But the little School Ma'am opens door or
q window and the fresh, cool air sends the
warm cir in the room up the chimney in a
hurry and the fire brightens. And the little
lady reminds them of another fact: if the
sunshine falls directly upon the fire it Is
at least a rival light, and not SO well cal
oulated to show the glow Of the Goals as a
fiuttering shadow would be.
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
That Celebrated "Cook Book"

NEW AND REVISED EDITION ISSUED BY THE
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILWAY.
A choice selection of valuable recipes,
with much other useful information pertain
ing to the culinary art, including many for
mulas contributed by noted cooks and cat
erers.
An elegant volume of 1876 pages in illus
trated cover, .one department Cos pages)
devoted to the cooking of meats, fish, oys-
ters, entrees, vegetables, baking, frying,
roasting etc., another to medical prescrip-
tions and chapter to laundry work. House.
keepers are delighted with it and find it in
dispensible for frequent household reference.
copies sent at ten cent s(for postfg to any
applicant Address L. A. HoLf fRooK, Gen
eral Ticketand Passenger AgeSt, Chicago
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
Ben putier and the Page.

One of tho pages in the house of repre-.
sentatiges had a faculty for drawing, His
sketches Of the members were fairly good
caricatures The easiest mark for his pencil
was the statesman from Massachusetts, and
the caricatures of Ben began to float around
the house pretty promiscuously. The matter
coming to the attention of Mr.. Butler, com
plant was made to the doorkeeper, who had
charge of the pages. The offending boy was
kept after adjournment to be reprimanded.
Ae was taken before the statesman, who had
waited to hold court on the little criminal
$50 you are the boy that has been making
these picturesT'
eyes, sir.n
"Huml How old are your
"Twelve, SIR"
swell, go to the cloak room and get M
hat.n
The boy scampered OFF on the errand, glad
oven for the momenuary respite, but evolv-
ing in his mind the possible character Of the
impending punishment, which was such that
the judge needed his hat before going to the
place Of execution. When the youngster had
returned and tremblingly yielded up the tile,
the general, who has an enormous head,
threw the hat like candle snuffer down over
the tow head and flaming face of the boy.
1t covered him like a second mortgage.
"My son." said the hero Of New Orleans,
"when you can fill that hat you may carica-
ture Benjamin F. Butler Now go.n-Chi-
c1go Herald.
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
To Make Brandy Float on Water.

To perform this seeming impossibility take
a tumbler half full of water, and placing a
piece of thin muslin over the top of the same,
gently strain the brandy or wine through
the muslin, and 1t will romain on top Of tho
xyatar
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
SpecfaI Mention.

The attention of our readers is called to the
advertisement of E. L. Barton, No. 81 f. 7th
street, he is practical mechanic in his line
and h ha an experience in this city that
should command him a good trad"--.gire
him a call,
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
MATTERS THAT NOT ONLY INTER-
EST BUT INSTRUCT READERS.

the Wonderful Falls of TernI, Whose
solemn Grandeur Was Described by
Lord Byron and Whose Beauties We're
Admired by Bonaparte.
1t has been said of the falls of Terni that
they are worth all the falls and torrents in
Bwitzerland; and yet, grand and beautiful
as they are, and ranking among the finest
European cascades, they are only artificial.
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16

One of the more humane ways to got rid Of
rats Is to run coal tar into the holes now. and
then. The rats are exceedingly particular
about their fur coats and do not enjoy COM
ing in contact with the tar.
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-16
Trains leave Delaware Avenue Depot
EASTBOUND:

wESTBOUNDs
sngerly accommodations daily......,,, 1880 a. m
Baltimore accommodation daily except
SUNDAY. ..'''.....'s.....'.....- -............645a
Chicago and Pittsburg express, daily. .z3s m
Chicago and St. Louis Express, daily, -. IL Ss m
Baltimore accommodation, daily. ..........245p pm
Pittsburg, Chicago and st. Louis express
',,'''''''i'.tt''''i'''''. a4Op ~
Singerly Accommodation. daily. Z 80 m
FOR LANDENBERG, s.IO a. m. Sunday only
daily.
IL 90 m except Sunday, 245 $50 and 40 pm
daily.
Trains leave Market Street Station: .
For Philadelphia ABS p m. daily except Sunday
For Baltimore 2 85 p m daily,
For Landenberg $50, lI.00 m DALI except Sun
day; 10 a m on Sunday onlyi 2-35 and $50 p. m.
daily.
Pittsburg Chicago and st. Louis express daily;
$50 m
Trains for Wilmington-Leave Philadelphia
Daily, 7.0O 1000, sll,Oo, M, IL 90, noon, As 500
4SO, IS 90, $50, $50, $40, 1910 II 80 p. m.
Daily except sunday $50 and 7.3Oa. M, "a.
$50 p. m.
Sunday only, loa.m.
Express train Telephone No. I93
Rates to Western points Lowell than via any oths
line.
U. .. sCULL, W. M. CLEMENTS. =
Gen'l Pass Agti General Manssa
Telephone No. 1893.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21

10 ssk how TO cure these Ms. While these
Two ailments are serious enough, they aIs
BY ne means the worst known 70 sneep,
provided the dook has been we'll fed ano
kept In good health They can be cured
by any one who will take the time and
give the attention and 60 to the trifing e1.
pense. No one ought to buy scabby
or foot-rot flock at prices Of sound sheep.
Such focks are not held at such good
prices, either. They are often sacrificed
on account of their diseased condition.
Had such flock, they should be cured,
and not discounted one cent. Were l
buying, though, it would be another thing
altogether, then experience and skill
should be worth something to me; these
were bought and paid for years ago, whom
young in the business. A careless man
who would allow his flock to become thus
diseased, deserves to be the loser. And
the man who proposes to give time and
pains to fitting up diseased flock ought
to make some money by it.
just here, be it remarked, we need Sc
we're laws on the subject in every State.
Australia has law on scab that is model.
Southern latitudes need such law more
than Northern, but there is needed Q
statute on this everywhere. Foot-rot de-
ponds upon soils good deal. Rocky and
aIkali soils will cure foot-rot. Yet in YER
mont many focks have foot-rot, and it is
q shame to their owners, for there ought to
be none there. It is due to carelessness
there and eyerywhere.-R. n. Bell in
Wool Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
THE VETERINARIAN.
scab and Foot rob IN Sheep.


Somebody has said, Nothing succeeds
like success" So long as there are good
results, men work with energy and good
judgment; but when trials come and there
are no profits to encourage effort, they be-
come indifferent and neglectful.'
In sheep raising this is as true as in any
thing else. When sheep are profitable it is
easy to take good care of them. They
seem to eat less, die less, and make nicer
money and in less time than any other
stock on the farm. At such times there is
real JOY and enthusiasm in sheep; sheep.
men seem never tired of attending to and
talking about their sheep; they carry wool
in their pockets to show to each other, and
Il is pleasantly limited that they have awool
in their teeth" But when the depress sion
comes sheep men are mum on sheep and
wool topics. And if you go to their sheen
barns you will find they have gotten care
less and the sheep are doing badly. The
owners viii declare TO- you that he cannot
see why his sheep are looking so badly; he
will declare he feeds them the same as he
used to, but all to no purpose: he CAM
understand what ais them. The sheer
cannot tell, and only an old sheep mar
knows that they have not been paying. and
consequently have been neglected.
Ecab and foot-rot always follow depres.
sions in the prices OF wool. AZ soon q,
6eicss begin 70 come mp somebody begins
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
IN INGENIOUS ~FIREMAN.

A writer in the Firenaan's Herald
tells how an ingenious Virginia fireman
made nice-looking hall lamp out of q
tin can, such as are found in any
grocery store, used to put up all kinds
of spices. They are made very nice,
and just the right size, 12x7. Where
the cover comes off he made band Of
tin about two inches wide and cut out
hicks.
A tinsmith made door in one side,
for 80 cents, and then cut out each side
and put in glass plates such as are
used for butter or sauce plates. He
then painted it in imitation of stained
glass, and the effect was very beautiful.
With round awl he punched little
holes all around in fancy design, and
hung glass pendants on the bottom,
and then bronzed the can, aid no one
would think that he paid less than $12
for the lamp. ALI the lamp cost was
81. SO and few hours work evenings
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
THE FORESTER.
Whdt Is FOrestry?


What is forestry? It is the same thing
as agriculture-a business. The difference
is only in the kind of crop and in the
manner of treating the crop. 1t is the
production of a wood crop we are after.
This is the crop which grows, or can be
made to grow, on those parts of the farm
which are useless for all other crops. It
is slow-growing crop, to be sure, but it
grows while you are asleep, and you need
put it into the ground but once, where it
will thrive without further care for many
years; and, if properly started, it needs no
hoeing, no cultivating, no worrying about
the weather. And when you come to reap
it it will prove to yield profit from ground
that would otherwise have been left not
only unproductive, but unsightly in addi-
ton.
If only for the looks of it, piece of
young timber thriftily growing enhances
the value of the farm. Therefore, plant
the unsightly waste places in trees, re-
move those ugly spots from your farm
which spoil its good looks. 1t costs but
little more than an occasional day of en-
joyable work.
Don't figure on the profit of the sticks
that you are going to cut; there is profit
indirectly on your surroundings accruing
from such planting, which defes all strict
financial calculation, besides your own
satisfaction, which will surely reflect from
such work beyond any direct money gain,
though this will not be lacking either, in
proper time. 1t has been proved over and
over again that good wood-lot will sell
the farm-if sold it must beat a better
price than it would have brought with
out it.
And you who are
wood-lot, treat it as the goose that lays the
golden eggs; the eggs will soon be high in,
price, the goose is worth caring for! IF
you cut, don't cut the good trees only, and
leave the bad ones to spoil the looks of the
lot and to injure the young growth that
would be better off if the gnarly old fellow
overhead did not stand in its sway with
shade and drip. Always give some light
and room to the young folks!
Forestry means more than tree planting;
it is the art Of managing a wood crop so
that il will reproduce itself spontaneously
by the seed from the old trees, and after.
ward helping the young growth to make
the best timber In the shortest time.
Nature will reproduce the forest and grow
timber without care il allowed by man,
but she takes time, and time is money-at
least to q careful man and manager.
Then use your odd moments in improv-
ing your crop; the axe, TOO, II . oultivator
jim judicious hands.-B. e. Fernop,
Chief of Forestry Division, United States
Department of Agriculture.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
About Pet Family Jokes.

What is your pet joke? Everybody
has pet story and it is generally the
most stupid one in the world when you
hear it. People are mostly polite about
that. They laugh just to save the teller
of story from humiliation. It is not
fair because it simply encourages the
man to go and tell somebody else. OF
course I have no sense of honor myself.
I know that most people who tell one
stories 90 about and kick and say Ispoil
the point of them when I put them IL
this column. But somehow they keep
telling me them. / have made several
deadly enemies. They have told me
stories and I haven't printed them.
They have been pet family jokes, too,
and some of them I have had too much
respect for to expose them in their old
age to q heartless world. But / never
met anybody who had not pet joke
which he would tell with the most pro-
found enjoyment as often as he could
get a chance. remember once st .
big mess in the far East . new man came
along and when he got hold Of bottle
of beer he said sententiously:
"Beer fills many bottle, and bottle
fills many bier"
They laughed, and he used to get
this thing off before every stranger who
came to the table. It got tiresome
One evening there was crowd at din;
ner, and just as he was getting ready -
fire it off the gentleman at the head 0f
the table rose up, with glass OF bear
in his hand, and said solemnly:
~
49,
The gentleman at the foot Of the table
rose after him and said equally
solemnly:
"And the bottle fills many bier.
This ceremony they kept up foxI
awhile every evening to break the jokee.
Then force OF habit stepped IN and IN
years that ceremony was gone thrcu(4
at the mess table every night until 81
became kind of religious one, handr1
down from each head Of the me1o q
his successor.-San Fra,scisco C1o1e>
iclG { {
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21

A BENEVOLENT Philadelphia con-
ceived the idea of selling chickens by
the quarter, in order that poor per-
sons who were directed by physicians
to use chicken broth In case OF illness
might be able to buy chickens. A GER
tain dealer sells them that way, charg-
ing Is cents for q fore quartet and III
cents for hind quarter. It is not .
profitable business, and the loss on
sales for . year has been $500, but the
benevolent man makes up the loss 70
the dealer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
RURAL TOPICS.
Some Practical Suggestions for
the Husbandman and tho
Housewife.
Information for the Farmer, Stock
Breeder, Poulterer, Nurseryman,
and HOusekeeper.
FARMR.
a Fruitful Day.

Few men of discretion, observes The
Hwsbandman, fail to appreciate the adj
vantage of regular rest day, one in seven.
The farmer values it for himself and for
his work animals. The reasons for it,
aside from religious considerations. are
many and weighty. This respite for one
day in seven gives an elasticity and vigor
that produces better results in work than
Genes from the slavish drag and drudgery
of the life that is born down by Q constant,
uninterrupted burden.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
An Emergency worth Attention.

Domestic Please, nam, your pug
dog got under the street-car and got
killed.
Young Wife-Indeed!
eyes, nam; an the new girl has
ruined your best dress lettin' it fall
into the grease kettle"
"How careless"
aAnd thieves has got in an run
off with your diamonds"
"We must keep the front door locked
in the future"
can please, mann, man says your
husbands fine property down town is
burning"
clark. What's that?"
II didn't hear anything"
any gracious! The baby's crying;
run to him, quick. "-OmGha World
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
Fine sand for Bedding Animals.


Many an intelligent tiller of the soil has
laughed at me, heartily, when I suggested
that fine sand was excellent bedding for
ers may indulge in side-shaking ha! ha!
ha! and suggest that I am fairly in my
dotage, for thinking that sand may be en-
ployed for bedding! aWhy, who ever head
of such ultraism?" said one farmer. ~
would as soon bed with mud!" "WeI, let
us reason together" Many years ago,
used it for bedding the cows and horses, in
preference to straw, sawdust, dry tan bark
or any other material, for the reason that q
he'd of fine sand would absorb the liquids of
the stalls sooner and keep the animals
cleaner than other bedding. There was the
fact in the case. That is all there is about
it. A few days since was at the stable of
farmer who works large farm, and keeps
several teams and large herd of neat cat
tie, who told me that he prefers fine sand
for bedding to any other material. He
had more than 1000 bushels Il judged) of
dry, fine sand, stored for bedding in the
winter. No other bedding will prevent the
manurial accumu1ations from adherin to
the hair of domestic animals so effectually
as clean sand. In many localities one can
not obtain sand, except ct an exorbitant
price per wagon load, while in some Sec
tions of the country fine and clean sand
will cost nothing besides the expense Incl
dent to hauling it. In many places on
can collect several wagon loads in the pub
lie streets, which has been carried down to
the foot of a hill during shower of rain.
A peck of fine sand will readily absorb and
retain half peck of liquid manure. Then,
here is another important consideration
greatly in favor of sand, namely, the IA
cility with which the manurial accumula-
tons of any stable may be handled and
stored without loss from heating and Sire
fanging," as stable manure will do, when
the bedding consists of straw or haulm of
any sort. Doubling and incredulous per-
sons can satisfy themselves by an mex
pensive trial of sand for bedding. In case
sand is coarse and full of gravel, it should
be screened, as gravel stones would render
the bed of heavy animal somewhat un-
comfortable. Cor. Country Gentleman. (.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
THE HoUsEKEEPER.

Few housskeepsrs, even those OF limited
means, but have an ambition to posses,
6ne china and glass for the sdornmsnt Of
their tables; and II IL very natural desire.
showing, O. IL does, reHnsmant and ele-
gance Of taste. Yet few realize that the
possession Of these luxusies = ~ add
donal source Of anxiety and labo9 - -
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21

Col. GEO. s. PERKINS, of Norwich,
Conn, is said to be the oldest railway
official in the United States. He was
100 years old in August, and is treas
urer of the Norwich and Worcester Rail-
road, . position which he has held from
the organization of the company, and
in which he performs all the duties per-
tanning to the Office, just as he would if
he were only half as old. He uses no
tobacco and no liquor stronger than a
light wine. His habits are methodical
and he walks to his Office, half mile,
and is careful to take regular rest at
night He has s wife so years of age,
and daughter and son. He is con-
sidered the best accountant IN Norwich,
and his handwriting looks like copper
~late.