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Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
Was America Ever Discovered ?

At the time when Columbus started
in search of the New World, nearly
every man, woman and child in Europe
insisted that there was no New World
to discover. When he came back,
crowned with success, a large proper
tion of these good people adhered to
their theory; and if they were alive to
day many would doubtless insist and
give up anything in the world more
readily than pet theory. For exam
pie. look at the individuals who still
maintain that consumption is incur
able. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery has cured thousands upon
thousands of cases, and will cure thou.
sands more, but these people can't give
up their point. Nevertheless the ssDis-
covery'' will cure any case of consump-
tion, if taken in time.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
The Left Fielder.

1t is not generally known that jim
mie O'Rourke, New York's left fielder,
was the first base ball player that ever
received the sum of Sc, 900 fora sea-
sons WORK. This is, nevertheless, a
fact. In connection with Jim's big
salary is a story that not only does
credit to the big, honest fielder, but
goes to show that a few more like him
are wanted, The fact has also just
come out that Jim is the only player
since professional base ball began that
played with a club without SO much as
a straight line of ink to bind him.
Jim's word is his bond, A glance at
the record will show that he never was
reserved by the Buffalo club as other
players were, but at the end Of each
season he came to terms with the club
management and in the spring he sign
ed. When he was about to leave the
Buffalo club, President Day said to
him:
swell, Jim, 1 hear you are to leave
Buffalo P"
"Yes,' said Jim.
'sHow would you like to come to
New York ?''
II would like that very WE'LL"
"Well,' said Mr.. Day, 'syou are now
getting $4,000, come and I'll make it
So, ,5Oo.n
'That would be no inducement, "
was the reply. "You know what a
reputation have made in leading the
League in batting. I can get more
money than that
1t was finally agreed that Jim should
receive $4,000, and that was his first
seasons salary with the club. In COM
ing to an agreement all that bound
Jim to the club was his word. How
well he kept it was shown later when
several clubs tried to get him. The
Athletics even went so far as to offer
him 5000, but Jim refused to break
his word with the New York club.
He would have been willing to pay $500
if the New York club had let him 60,
but he considered his word as good as
a contract.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
THE DEAR LITTLE WIFE AT
HOME.

The dear little wife at home, John,
With ever so much to do,
Stitches to set, and babies to pet,
And so many thoughts of you
The beautiful household fairy,
Filling your heart with light;
Whatever you meet to-day, John,
Go cheerily home tonight.
For though you are worn and weary,
You needn't be cross or curt;
There are words like darts TO gentle hearts
There are looks that wound and hurt.
With the key in the latch at home, John,
Drop troubles out of sight;
To the dear little wife who is waiting,
Go cheerily home tonight.
You know she will come to meet you,
A smile on her sunny face;
And your wee little girl, as pure as pearl
Will be there iu her childish grace,
And the boy, his ia theirs pride, John,
With the eyes so brave and bright.
From the strife and the din, to the peace
John,
Go cheerily home to- night.
What though the tempter try you,
Through the shafts of adverse fate
May hustle near, and the sky be drear,
And the laggard fortune wait,
You are passing rich already;
Let the haunting fears take flight.
With the fate that wins success, John,
Go cheerily home tonight.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18

A quietly dressed man presented a
check at the baggage room in Danbury,
Conn.,, the other day, and in exchange
received a neatly painted box about
the size of an ordinary trunk. A dozen
express men at once desired his pat
ronage. He smiled kindly, unlocked
the box and took out a small wheel
and two long and two short sticks.
The long sticks he fitted into staples at
the upper and lower opposite corners
of the box. The short sticks then be-
came cross pieces connecting the long
ones, and the wheel found place be-
tween the lower ends of the long pieces.
Thus, quicker than.it takes to tell it.
the man had transformed his box into
a wheelbarrow, and trundled it away.
He returned in few hours, repacked
the wheel and stick, and quit the town
on west-bound train. He was said tn
be an agent for religious publication
house, and resorted to the wheelbarrow
ideyice to save carriage money.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
BY His own Bloodhounds.

A few dayes ago negro stole pail
of pants from John Norwood, salesman
for the Morris Mining Company al
Reading. Tuesday he came back tc
the store to exchange the pants for an.
other pair. Norwood recognized them
as being the stolen goods, and attempt
ed to hold the negro and have him ar
rested. The thief jumped from the
store and made for the woods, Nor.
wood snatched up his revolver and
gave chase just outside Of the yard
the storekeeper fired at the negro, but
the latter promptly returned the fire.
and for few minutes lively exchange
of bullets took place.
Norwood then sought safety by run
ming into patch of pokeberry bushes :
the red berries burst on his shirt caus-
ing his clothing to look very red.
When he discovered the berry stains,
thinking that he had been shot and
that the stain was the blood from his
own wounds he dropped his pistol and
began to yell Murder ~ "Murder %
at the top of his voice. When several
of his friends came they explained to
him that he was not hurt and that it
was only pokebeTy juice on his shirt
and not blood. Norwood became SO
enraged then that he determined to
catch the negro at almost any cost. He
returned to the store, and after secur-
ing three bloodhounds started in pur-
suit.
The dogs struck the trail, but after
a chase of nearly two hours the negro
back-tracked himself, running nearly
one-eighth of mile over where he had
first gone, and crossed his tracks. For
some cause or other the dogs were in
the rear Of Mr.. Norwood. A few
minutes later they got on Norwood's
track and soon overlook him. The
storekeeper saw that he was about to
be eaten by his own dogs, SO he ran for
the nearest tree. While climbing the
tree for dear life two of the hounds
came up and seized him by the pants,
which they soon succeeded in tearing
off their wearer.
When Norwood reached the top of
the tree he was badly broken up and
almost naked. The bloodhounds stood
at the foot of the tree and bayed the
prisoner from 5 O'Clock in the after
noon until 10 a. m. the following day,
a duration of seventeen hours. Nor
wood was found by his friends the
next day still in the tree, with the
dogs keeping him prisoner. He was
somewhat disfgured, and had little to
say about the matter except that he
was heard to remark: " Bloodhonnds
will not do to rely on in every case,
and if I find those that kept me in the
tree all night I'll Kill the last one of
them.'
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
THE SAVAGE WAY.
HOW THE INDIAN TREATS AN IN
JURY-oLD TIME METHODS.

The savage is emphatically the child
of nature. He lives close to nature,
his only education is gained in ma
ture's school.
When the Indian receives an injury,
he does not seek cure in mineral poi
sons, but binds on the simple leaf, adj
ministers the herbtal tea, and, with
natures aid, comes natural recovery.
Our rugged ancestors, who pierced
the wilderness, built their uncouth but
comfortable Log Cabins and started
the clearings in the woods, which
in time became the broad,
fertile fields of the modern farmer,
found in roots and herbs that lay
close at hand natures potent remedies
for all their common ailments.
It was only in very serious cases they
sent for old sssaddle- -bags'' with his
physic, which quite as often killed as
cured.
Later day society has wandered too
far away from nature, in every way,
for its own good. Our grsndfathers
and grandmothers lived wholesomer,
purer, better, healthier, more natural
lives than we do. Their minds were
not filled with noxious isms, nor their
bodies saturated with poisonous drugs.
Is it not time to make change, to
return to the simple vegetable prepara-
tions of our grand others. which con-
tanned the power and the potency of
nature as remedial agents, and in all
the ordinary ailments were eficacious,
or at least harmless?
The proprietors of Warmers Log
Cabin remedies have thought so, and
have put on the market a number of
these pure vegetable preparations,
made from formulas secured after
patient searching into the annals of
the past, SO that those who want them
need not be without them.
Among these Log Cabin remedies
will be found " Log Cabin sarsaparil-
la," for the blood =" Log Cabin hops
aud buchu remedy, " tonic and stom-
ach remedy !" Log Cabin cough and
consumption remedy,'' Log Cabin
hair tonic," for strengthening and
renewing the hair ssLog Cabin ex-
tract" for both external and internal
application :" Log Cabin liver pills -
!" Log Cabin rose cream" an old but
effective remedy for catarrh. and
" Log Cabin plasters. y All these
remedies are carefully prepared from
recipes which were found, after long
investigation, to have been those most
successfully used by our grandmothers
OF " ye olden time. y They are the
simple, vegetable. eficaeious remedies
of Log Cabin days.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18

home was called by the envious "ar
Italianate Englishman, fiend incar.
nate"
Before his time, Francis of France
and Henry the Eighth of connubial
fame were glorious fops. That scene
of the Field of the Cloth of Gold will
be told as long as the history of other
things than war is interesting to men.
Later on, after Cromwell and his sullen
followers had passed away from the
scene in England, the real era of mod
ern dandyism began.
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, was
its leader in England. Charles the
Second was on the throne-the mer-
riest of England's Soyereigns-and
his courtiers gladly seized the
opportunity for avenging them
selves upon the enforced sobriety
of the commonwealth. Barbara
Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland, Louise
de Querouaille MADAME Carwell, the
rude English called herr, Duchess of
Portsmouth, and other frail beauties
set the fashion for their sex. Buck
ingham, Buckhurst, and Dorset were
the noble dandies of the court, of which
Sir Charles Sedley, Shadwell, and Dry
den, best of them all, were the literary
ornaments. Across the channel, gay
France was beginning to lose her
gayety, for Louis the Magnificent had
turned to pious consultations, and insis-
ted upon being followed by the Liam
courts and Montmorencys, who had
been the companions of his reprehensi-
BILE joys. And so, for the nonce, Eng
land held the supremacy of frivolity.
During the next half century Lord
Hervey and his friends enlivened the
courts of the first two Georges, bnt
their fame has been eclipsed by the
exploits of the dandies who made the
last half century the Wildcats period
Of English history. Paris and London
were centres of frivolity. Selwyn and
Horace Walpole amused society with
bon-mots. Charles James Fox danced
about the streets in gay jackets and
red-heeled shoes by day, earned fame
as a debater in Parliament, and at
night wasted at the gaming-tahle for
tunes beyond the dreams Of all save
plutocrats. Rigby, the placeman,
showed the world that drinking may
be an endless round of enjoyment, an
amusement in which he was Joined by
Lord Weymouth and many other noble
gentlemen, whose descendants are even
now paying the penalties for ances-
trail indulgences.
Bucks, beaux, macaronis, fops, and
dandies fourfshed like the "green bay
trees'' of the Psalmist in the days of
T" Gentleman George" the fourth King
of the house of Brunswick. Lord Al
valney, Sheridan, and Count do rsay
were the intellectual leaders of the gay
crowd of fine gentlemen who wasted
their best hours at the toilette-table
and their paternal fortunes at the
gaming board, but Brummel was chief
among them all. Even the King bow
ed before the man to whom the tying
of cravat was work of art, and who
had invented starch.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18

In the hearing at Washington on
Wednesday of the case Of the grange
against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company before the Inter state Com
mission, the testimony of several rail-
road officials was taken who testified
as to the superior service, etc. David
S. Cummins, William G. Hill, both of
Smyrna, and Governor B. T. Biggs
were examined at some length on the
matter of the marketing of peaches.
Others examined were DR.. Hugh Mar
tin of Seaford, Samuel Armstrong of
Wyoming, J. w. Causey of Milford,
and G. S. Jackson of Wyoming.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
Won't Be Bottled.

TO THE G.. o.P. COMMITTEE.
Gents
I understand you want to
Put muzzle on
Mel
Gents,
Does the fly brush the
Elephant
OFF the fly,
Or does the elephant
Brush the fly off the elephant
That's the question:
You know my size
See
Did Jonah swallow the whale,
Or vice versa :?
You seem to be off your base
When the polywog in
The pond
Tried to swell up as big as the
Bull on the bank
He busted his diaphragm.
See ?
Gents,
Be careful of your diaphragm
There is only one of me,
And good many of you;
And SO also are there many shippers
In one cheesel
See
have spoken !
And, gents,
l will speak again Washington
Critic.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18

A BLACK FRIDAY.-That day,
when person is first seriously attack
ed with rheumatism, may well be
termed black one !; but if he uses
Salvation Oil in time, he will soon be
able to speak of a Good Friday.n It
is the greatest cure on earth for pain.
The butcher does have some funny
expressions he told his assistant the
other day to break the bones in Mr..
Williams chops, and put Mr.. Smiths
ribs in the basket for him, and tell
Mrs. Black to take DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup for her cold.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
g We Point with Priden

To the "Good name at home," won by
Hoods Sarsaparilla. In Lowell,
Mass. where it is prepared, there is
more of Hoods Sarsaparilla sold than
of all other medicines, and it has CIV
en- the best of satisfaction since its in
PRODUCTION ten years ago.. This could
not be if the medicine did not possess
merit. If you suffer from impure
blood. try Hoods Sarsaparilla and
realize its peculiar curative power.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18

The woman who wades into the
ocean with her two-year-old child in
her arms, and then ducks the scream
ing unfortunate into the water until it
becomes wild with fright, is still with
us. She is one of the things that
never die. The Society for the Pre-.
vention of Cruelty to Children should
have an agent on the beach to arrest
all such unnatural fools.-Martha's
Vineyard Herald.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18

For constipation, I" liver complaint, !"
or biliousness, sick headache. and all
diseases arising from disordered con-
dition of the liver and stomach, take
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pei
let's gentle laxative or active cathar-
tic, according to size or dose.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18

Every day is a little life and our
whole life is but a day repeated. 'Tis
not best to suffer pain for even one
little day, when one application of
Warmers Log Cabin Extract will
drive it quickly away. Nothing better
for external or internal application.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18

The Pilot, Democratic paper edited
by two colored men of this city, ap-
peared to-day. 1t declares not less
than 1900 negro votes will be cast in
this State for Cleveland and Thurman.
New York Sun.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
cNliAtellantous Adrertisutefs
W. Il. MOORE co,
Diagonals, CorkscreVs,
CaSSimereS |!

We have just received a large stock
of Cassimeres and Cheviots for Trou.
sers and suitings in plain and Fancy
patterns. Our patrons all know what
the reputation of our house has been
in the past, for these goods, but our
present stock excel them all in style,
quality and prices (real free trade
prices.)
Call early and make your selection,
that you may have great many
styles to select from and haYe them
made before the rush comes.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
For Rent /!

The large and commodious store room in
the Middletown Hall now occupied by Mr.
j. C. Stuart also the room now occupied by
Mr.. d. L. Dunning, formerly occupied as
the pOst-office. Possession on the 10Th OF
next March, 1885, Application can be made
to j. b. DEAKYNE, or
5jan-tt SAMUEL PENNINGTON.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
10TH ING!

We invite you to call and see ou
large and attractive stock of Mems
Boys and Childrens' clothing. The
styles are verv pretty this fall and
prices low.
Call early before the stock is too
much broken. Early buyers always
get the cream Of the styles.
Middletown transcript., 1888-10-18
To Assist Nature

To Assist Nature
In restoring diseased Or wasted tissue is
all that any medicine can do. In pull
monary affections, such as Colds, Bron-
chitis, and Consumption, tho mucous
membrane first becomes infamed, then
accumulations form in the air-cells OF
the lungs, followed by tubercles, and,
finally, destruction of the tissue. 1t is
plain, therefore, that, until the hacking
cough is. relieved, the bronchial tubes
can have no opportunity to heal.
Ayers Cherry Pectoral
Soothes and Heals
the infamed membrane, arrests the
wasting process, and leaves no injurious
results. This is why it is more highly
estemeed than any other pulmonary
specific.
L. D. Bixby, of Bartonsvil1e, Vt,
writes: "Four years ago I took Sc
we're cold, which was followed by a
terrible cough. I was very sick, and
confined to my bed about four months.
My physician finally said was in con-
sumption, and that he could not help
me. One of my -neighbors advised me
to try Ayers Cherry Pectoral. did so,
and before I had taken half bottle was
able to go out. By the time I had
finished the bottle I was well, and have
remained so ever SINCE"
Alonzo P. Daggett, of Smyrna Mills,
Me-, writes: " Six years ago, Twas trat- E.
cling salesman, and at that time was
suffering with
Milford chronicle., 1888-01-20
Personals.

T. E. Heathers is in Philadelphia
FOR the purpose of having surgical
operation performed on one Of his feet.
Jay FOulk and sister returned from
Paradise, Penn, this week.
Charles Il. Fleming's health is but
little changed, and is yet a source Of
anxiety to his family and friends.
Johh H. Denning, one of our old
citizens, is in a precarious condition,
and his recovery is not looked for.
D. S. Collins started on his return
to Dakota Tuesday.
Mr.. Lester WaterhOuse returned to
Burlington College, last Monday.
Miss Mary Lofiand, granddaughter
of the late Col. Fiddeman, has just ell
tered St. Mary's Hall in Burling-
ton, N. j., for a three-year-cours
Milford chronicle., 1888-01-20

In orderto afford the opportunity of a pleas
ant trip to Florida to every one who has the
leisure to go, the Pennsylvania Railroad
company has arranged for two personally COIL
Quoted pleasure tours to that sunny land.
The dates Of the tours are fixed for Jan
uary goth and February 9th. The tourists
will be carried through to Jacksonville via
Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Viii
mington, Charleston, and Savannah, by
special train of day coaches and Pullman
buffet sleeping cars, running on a fast sched-
ule. The tourist agent of the company, as
sisted by chaperon, who will have spe-
ial care to the ladies unescorted, will direct
The party. Round-trip tickets including
sleeping car accommodations and meals
en- route in both directions, good for the re-
turn trip for fifteen days, will be sold at
rate Of about s42.so from Philadelphia and
S45.oo from New York. The party in each
case will be limited to $50 persons. Names
may be entered on the lists at any time in
advance.
Detailed information as. to the tours will
be published within few days.
Milford chronicle., 1888-01-20

APROPOs of interesting relies; we
were shown by Mr. E. GeiIinger a
well preserved copy of newspaper
published at Kingston, n. Y. in Janu-
ary, 1900. The copy is ofspecial inter
est as being the first issue of that pa
per published after the sad news ofe
President George Washington's
death. bad reached Kingston. 1t
seems incredible to us who live in so
favored an age, that news of so prom
inent mans death should require
three weeks for transmission over so
short distance us from Mt. Vernon
to Kingston; but study of the times
and facilities for news transmission
and probable condition of routes at
that season, must all be considered,
and then we are the more able to ap-
preciate our favored position. The let
ter press of the paper is remarkably
clear and correct. The rules, which
were all inverted were Of wood and
nearly ! inch wide giving the sheet
the appearance of a striped banner
rather than news sheet. The adver-
tising contained notices Of slaves to be
sold aL auction in Rochester; giving
Milford chronicle., 1888-01-20
A CURIOUS DISCOVERY.
THE SENSATION CREATED BY A JAPANESE
PEASANT WOMAN.

PEASANT WOMAN.
! A young japanese peasant woman has ere
ated a genuine sensation in the medical
circles of the East with a new theory and
cure of rheumatism.
Her theory is that it is caused by small
insect under the skin, that guaws and bites
the muscles and thus causes the twinges of
pain and the untold misery of that ailment
A grizzled and skeptical sea captain placed
himself under her care and, after foot baths
of bran and hot rice brandy, she nipped
from the knees small white insects by the
dozenl
The regular practitioners were skeptical
about this new theory, and put one of the
insects under a microscope. They decided
that by its organism it never could have
lived under the surface Of the skin.
The Captain insists however, that the
japanese woman has taken the insects from
his knees and ankles by the hundreds, in his
sight and killed them, and that he grows
better after each treatment!
This theory, absurd as it seems, is really
not much more so than the theories formerly
held by the medical fraternity. 1t used to
be thought a trouble of the joints, aid was
treated as such until it was demonstrated
that the treatment brought no lasting re-
suits
Then, as the muscles were effected it was
set down as a muscular disease but the same
unsatisfactory results followed. Now it is !
acknowledged to be a fiery con-
dition of the blood caused by the presence |
of tiric acid in the system"
To cure it the acid must be driven out of
the blood, which is done by putting the
in a healthy condition with Warmers
safe cure, and putting out the fire in the
blood" By Warmers safe rheumatic cure,
These remedies, taken in alienation, as
they should be, drive out the uric acid
already in the blood, and prevent further
James Wight, of 81 +. 10Th
St. New York, was for many years victim
Of rheumatism, and tried various remedies
and cures without avail. Sept 8, 1887, he
writes in praise of the remedies named, and
says. 81 am now free from the arrow stings
IF the dreaded infammatory rheumatism I
nave and always will recommend Warmers
-heumatic remedies to all sufferers of the
disease"
The japanese peasant woman's theory will
lot be likely to stand the test of time and
scientific investigation, but the thousands of
,ures made by the remedies mentioned
lbove prove their merit beyond all question.
Milford chronicle., 1888-01-20
Obituary


Another Of our old citizens was
called away Oh Thursday morning last
at 8 o'clock, by the death Of Mrs. Jane
Dempster, whose age was 7s years. 8
months aud 20 days She was born
Sept. %, 1909. in county MiddIesex,
near London, England. where her
child aud early girlhood were passed
and where she was married. Forty
three years ago they came with their
daughter to America and settled in
Philadelphia but city life was not
cougenial, and three years after their
arrival they came to Milford, where
they have resided aud been In active
business ever since. Mrs. Dempster
was well known and universally liked.
Her nature was one of those large and
motherly kind that not only makes
their own life full of sunshine, but
scatters brightness on whom and
where ever it came i'm contact. For
seven months her last illness has kept
her in bed, and all her Affections were
borne without a murmur aud with
Her funeral will take
place next Sunday afternoon, and her
will be laid TO rest In the Odd
Fellows Cemetery.