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Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

The prevailing price of Wheat, as
everybody knows, is The lowest on
record, and while many theories have
been advanced as 10 the causes that
have produced The present condition, a
thoroughly satisfactory explanation is
not easy to find This years crop is
over 120. 600, 600 bushels less than last
years, and We are shipping it to Europe
at the rates of 100000 bushels per
week; the necessities of tue farmer
and the financial depression have
pushed the wheat on the market, and
Europe is taking advantage of our
extremity, and is buying our surplus at
her own price. 1t has been estimated
that there is no more wheat in the
country than will b. required for seed
and bread, and it is m IRE than probable,
that, ere another crop is grown We will
have 10 buy "ifeat at prices much in
advance of what we are selling it for.
In May,tliere was an attempt made
in Chicago to corner the market. The
price was forced up by speculators in
thai market above parity with other
markets, and at once every granary
within reach OF Chicago emptied its
contents into the elevators of that city
to the extent OF 23,00J,030 bushels.
This increased the available supply that
much. By the available supply is
meant that which the farmers have
sold and which is stored in eyators
and has no reference to the actual
amount in existence. Nevertheless,
the size of this available supply largely
influences the market. When it was
found that the corner was failure the
price of wheat suddenly Cropped in
Chicago lower than it should have brea
in comparison with other markets,
An effort was made to hold The great
supply III kiicago IN store; and THIS
was done una |.e financial depression
fosSed this whea ipon ille market, and
double ||o necessities Of farmers
lave hr ! great deal more on the
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26
A BETTER DAY COMING.

In.the past few days. the prospect for
the unconditional repeal of the silver
purchasing act, has become very much
brighter. This with gold again
coming into the country has somewhat
strengthened the hopes of business
men. At time like the present there
is one duty common to all, and that
duty is to hope for the best. and to
put the sign Of that hope in your face.
If you owe your neighbor a dollar and
have dollar to pay it with, go do it,
and don't hold on to it as thou b you
never expectedto see another. Don't
turn fool and take your money out of
the bank, bear in mind that the banks
Of Middletown and our sister town
Odessa. are not engaged in wild cat
speculation, but loan money to plain
honest people like yourself, whose note
Is endorsed by another who is just as
honest and perhaps richer than yonr-
self, and also bear in mind that each
stock holder is held by law indiyid-
ua!ly responsible to depositors in an
amount equal to the par value of their
shares toge.s.er wittas :he amount they
have invested therein. So you see
when you place your money on deposit
you have for your security such men as
Ex-Governor Cochran, Ex-Governor
Biggs Jacob Cazier. George F. Brady.
the Corbits of Odessa, Jas. M. Vande-
grift and host Of others, perhaps Of
smaller means, but just as good quality.
We don't need to say this in the in-
terest Of the banks, but we say it in
your interest. Put your money in tie
bank and leave it there till you need it
To pay your debts, and don't carry it
around with you or hide it away in
your house, for in the one event it may
be burned up; in the other some one
may knock you on the head and take it
from you, and you thus might loose
both life and money. Keep calm, in
Iure your wheat and hold it for bet
.er price IL you can.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26
TELL THE TRuTH.

The New York World has recently
called on John Sherman, in an earnest
appeal, to come to the country's rescue
In this crisal hour when the people OF
whole nation are crying out for de-
liyerance from the sad and deplorable
condition which the business of the
country is now in, which, if not
speedily relieved threatens still greater
evils yet to come. The World uses
strong language in declaring the needs
of the hour, and says this is no time to
consider party affiliations or political
difference, but that the occasion calls
for lofty action, ,emanating from single
ness of purpose and patriotic desire
for the enactment Of legislation
that shall speedily restore such
confidence as will enable The plain
business men of the land to feel
that they can again pursue the ordinary
business plans of life without loss or
dread OF ruin. The World also points
to Mr.. Sherman's splendid record of
the past, and declares that the nations
councils need. he help of his unusual
acumen and training in the momentous
problems of finance, and bids him re-
member that The knowledge Of the fact
that bis experience and ability were
being brought to bear on the solution
of this problem, and the marking out
a way Of escape, would quiet The fears
of his country men. All of this is well
said, and we like to hear it, but we
note that while the World thus i'm
plores Nj. Sherman's help, i. also, like
many of its Democratic contemporaries
attempts to discredit him in the esti
nation Of its readers who are net sup
posed to know the whole truth as to
the proceedings in Congress leading up
to the enactment of what they delight
to call the Sherman law, by either
saying or insinuating that which the
Congressional Record shows to be abso-
1utely untrue.
Our Democratic friends are rightly
anxious that the Republican members
of Congress shall come to their rescue
ut this time, but in the same breath
while they call for patriotic self abro-
cation on the part of Republicans. they
seek partisan advantage by trying to
impress the not-wellinformed masses
that John Sherman is responsible for
all the woes Of the present hour. It.
natural 10 assume that the pretended
or real fears of some of these Demo-
cratic patriots that the help which
they know they must have, emanates
from the consciousness that they are
lyi ng about, and abusing the very men
to whom they now look for success.
The President has always been, and
now is for honest m oney. The Re-
publican rarty now is and always has
been an honest money party, and they
will stand by the President in his ef-
forts in that behalf. He is the first
Democrat who has had the courage to
declare The truth as to Why that which
10 called the Sherman Law was en-
acted, and he having SO declare in
bis patriotic last message to Congress,
It is now time for the Philadelphia
Record and others of the partisan press
TO stop lying.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

We believe it was L. Irving Handy.
chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee, who in the last
campaign SO bitterly denounced tile
negro in politics, etc. We wonder if
be now denouuces the negro in office.
Brother Handy, you the Chairman of
the White Mans Committee, what
think you of these apppintments2
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

THE Wisconsin Republicans who
voted for change last November, are
evidently disappointed in the results.
A former Delawarean living in that
state writes that when the farmers
slieared their sheep this year, they be-
gan at the tail, because owing 10 the
low price of wool, they were ashamed
to look sheep in the face.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

WE wonder if the men who voted f,r
a change last fall have as much change
in their pockets now as they had this
time last year. But they voted for a
change certainly they have gotten one
kind-it is a change that We are in
clined to think it is not the kind they
now really need as well as want.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26
no rnE WORLDS rA1R VIA B. . Q.
Going via Washington and Returning
via Niagara Falls.


Going via Washington and Returning
via Niagara Falls.
The baltimore and Ohio railroad has
placed on sale at its Offices throughout the
East, excursion tickets to Chicago, good
going via Washington and returning via
Niagara Falls, with the privilege of stop
over at each point. These tickets are valid
for return journey until November 18th,
and are not restricted TO certain trains, but
are good on all B. and O. trains and permit
holders to travel via Pittsburg via Grafton
By either route passengers cross the Allie
gheny mountains. 5000 feet above the sea
level, amid the most picturesque scenery in
in America. Sleeping car accommodations
may be reserved in advance upon applica-
ton to nearest B. ond o. ticket office.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

PEACH growers complain of the low
prices. Can they expect otherwise
when the people, thrown out of work
by the present financial and industrial.
have no money or very
little with which to buy the beautiful
fruit, and the natural consequence is
low prices.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

Every young woman who hasn't All Elton
jacket is locked concealed somewhere
from public view. An Eton jacket goes
with every dress. By little attention tothe
police reports you will see the girl who fell
off dock wore an Eton jacket; that a
woman arrested at the corner of Chipmunk
and Davis streets was attired in neat
fitting Eton jacket; that two ladies wearing
Eton jackets were last night locked up for
kicking off cab driver and policemen's hats
on upper Broadway; that the body of
woman having on an Eton jacket was found
floating in the East River yesterday morning
and is now at the morgue; that the woman
who admits having done the shooting wore
an Eton jacket; that the plaintiff in the
case as well as the correspondent wor
natty little Eton jackets.
This school boy arrangement, called the
Eton jacket. is worn outside of the sus.
penders and has an abbreviated appearance
like crab, being very voluminous in the
arms and very short in the tail. It betrays
disposition to hump itself and show
yawning chasm between the aforesaid tail
and the skirt below
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

There's a good many goods
just now that are on the tobog.
gan, and the slide is pretty
rapid.
The balance Of our China
Silks are now 374c. per yard.
All of our Shanghai Silks
are reduced from 7sc. to 44c.
These are the genuine goods
and it will be long before you
see them again at this price.
What are left of the fine
Wash Silks st 50 nd85cents
are now 40 and so cents.
We have had a magnificent
sale on our Pineapple Cloths,
which we reduced from 25 to
I6 cents, There's been many
limitations of these elegant
fabrics put On the market, but
non can compare in qurlity to
ours. Many styles are gone;
the lot shows signs of the
heavy buying, Yet still there
remains good patterns S, mostly
in pink and blue grounds,
with neat figures What are
left we shall sell for 9 cents
per yard. Think of it! 25-
cent fabrics for 9 cents,
nearly three dresses for one.
You had better ?oin the pro-
cession.
More reductions in Lawn
Waists-to 50 cents each.
White, edged with pink and
blue, ruffled neck, .Tarboe
front-$I.25 to soc.
All white, fine front ii 'ucks,
sailor collar, cuffs edged with
Hamburg, ST to soc.
Black Lawn, fine grade,
with plated front and back,
ruffies of same, SIPS to soc.
Figured Irish Lawn. with
Jarbo frcnt. plated ba ok,
pinks and blues, neat figures,
ST. to soc.
Balance of our Silk Waists
go to the limit, and not many
of them.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

TIE TRANSCRIPT is published every Sat
urday Morning. and delivered BY Carrier
TO subscribers residing in Middletown.
DvERTIsEMEN7s win be inserted q
as reasonable a rate as is compatibi
with high-class newspaper having a
larger circulation than any other weekly
paper published in the State.
s J ILLS must be paid monthly
CHECKS. money orders or postal notes
should be drawn to the order Of, and
Communications should be addressed To
TIE TRANSCRIPT,
MlDDIErowE. DEL.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26
The Summer Girl
And, the Swell Young Man-.What
They Wear and How They Do.
He term summerg girl

iE term summer girl
always brings be
fore the minds eye
a delightful pic
ture of feminine
loveliness, $, a
dreamy. entranc-
ing vision of soft
. fabrics enveloping
a beautifully
moulded form, a
fleeting glimpse of
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26
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PATRIOTISM NOT LACKING. e

YAIKFOTISM NOT IAChINts.
It is marvellous With what force and
eloquence tile Democratic leaders ire
implorine the aid Of the Republicans
BY declaring shat tllie is no time fef'
partisanship but for patriotic g. |1I||
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

1t is generally conceded that the women
dress to please the men. but who do the
men dress to please? The no lern young
man does not display very artistic taste
in his choice of summer costume. Most
of the swell young men wear duck trousers,
they look very cool and nice, but will
someone please tell me Why they insist on
buying them so long that the legs have to
be turned up five or six inches before they
escape the ground?
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

The French, who are supposed to know
something about cooking, never bfoil chops
or steak, but always fry them. 1t Is done
in such way that they are no greasier
han broiled meat. An iron pan or spider
$ put over quick fire and made, hot and
the meat laid in. If it has not sufficient
fat of its own to fry in they adl bit OF
butter.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

The date ON tine label ON your
paper shows the time to which
your subscriptin 10 paid %
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

cyF1cE-MAIs AND BROAD STREETS,
M1DDLETowE, DELAWARE.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26
.,.or,r .rrnae .oaa
MIDDIEIUWN hOu. -, 1870

i..lsrsa al ne Pos. once as .eeend-e'as. matte
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

Hopsin upper New York, when picking
begins next week, will average Only half
crop. It's been the same way ali summer
at the seashore hotels.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26
The Philadelphia Press,
DAILY, SUNDAY. WEEKLY.
Clean, Unsensational and Just the Paper
American Home.


The Press has the best possible organiza-
tion to secure news from the most import
ant sources, and with nearly AGO corresponds
ents in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Della
ware, the State and near-at home news is
covered with routine caretulness and at
tention to detail not even attempted by any
other paper.
The P'ess has also the best OF correspond
ents in all the great cities of the United
States, as well as financial and railroads ex-
perts in Chicago and the West, who keep the
paper more than abrest with events.
The columns of the Sunday Press are en-
riched by contributions from those whose
names are written high in our lists OF great
authors, novelirts, essayists, as well as from
men of high IanK in public life. The best
authors know that their bet audiences are
the readers OF the Daily, Weekly and Sunday
Press.
In politics 2he Press knows no other
master than the people, and the past year
has seen, AZ has been seen before. the marked
tact that it is subservient tO no political boss.
1t has no political ambitions To foster, but
looks after the Interests OF It's readers, and
delivers itself upon tn" issues OF the day in
u manner both frank and feerless, letting
the facts speak for themselves and eVadlng
no issues, but meeting them all on the basis
OF fair play TO all men ut all times. Its pages
know no distinctions and the rights OF one
class over anotner are neither recognized
Lor supported.
Advertisements OF Help Wanted may be
inserted in The Press tor One Cent Word.
Advertisements of Situations Wanted u
Cent WORD. Special Gays Iof aoVeftlse-
ments: Sunday Wednesday. Saturday.
TERMS OF THE PRESS.
By mail, postage free in the United States,
Canada and Mexico.
Daily Except Sunday year, 5000
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(including Sunday, 4 year, 700
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Sunday year. 400
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Drafts, Checks and other R..mittances
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Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

Girls at the summer resorts have made
popular the tedious game of Chess
it is played with men.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

The Literary Girl.
Girl in hammock,
Reading book;
Man comes by and
Takes o look.
Girl Is an xious
That the man
Thinks she's built on
Bookish pla I.
He's from BostoI,..
And the gal
Thinks he's intel.
Lectual.
Man steps up; ad-
Mires her gown;I
Sees the book is
Upside down.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

sailor hat pink flesh and bright eyes.
There is nothing more attractive about
the summer girl-provided always that they
are nice ones-than her shoes.
On q hotel porch the other morning i " 9 }
noticeable fact that only three women out
of a dozen wore shoes that were all that
they should be. A Southern matron whose
trailing silken robes are the envy of her
numerous feminine admirers showed a
pair of disreputable purpleish kid boots,
minus several buttons and decidedly run
down at the heels.
Everywhere there were reprehensib.e bits
of footwear that ought to have been dis
carded or else attended to before coming
out into the glaring light of public criti-
cisn. 1t is such simple matter to keep but
tons on, to rub up tan leather with the in
side of banana skin. to polish rusty black
boots or pipe clay the white ones that it is
a wonder that every woman does not at
least wear tidy looking foot coverings even
though they are not the most stylish or
high priced in the market
Remember this, girls-a man may not
know the material of your gown or the
shape of your hat, but he is never mis-
taken about the looks of your feet, and to
win masculine favor one great stroke in
that direction is always 10 wear good fit
ting and well-regulated shoes.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

The unconditional repealers now
claim safe majority in both House
and Senate, but their elaip of 45 vores
in the Senate includes several men
whose votes are very doubtful and who
are counted by the silver men in every
estimate they make. The trouble
about getting at what the result will
be in the Senate arises largely from
there being number of Senators who
II they have made up their minds how
thsy will vote have taken nobody into
their confidence.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

The speech Of Representative j. G.
Sibley, of Pa, was the most conspicu-
Gus for several reasons in the House
during the past week. Mr.. Sibley is a
Democrat, Bible reader, a million
aire, and 2 free silver man-the only
one in Congress from the East, and his
speech was at times highly sensational.
He was not quite as open in his attack
upon President Cleveland as Senator
Vest was. but the attack was there all
the same.
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26
RATE.

Arrive Chicago next day 40 P. NJ.
Remember The dates: September I'd, 9Th
Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26
WEBSTER,S
NTERNA TIONAL,

Eafiysiy kezr.
H6rensf f1fhe 7s'sses
Il GraRI Eaaczsor.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-06-08
Channel Islanders Prefer French.

A strange dispute has recently
ragged in the Channel islands with re-
gard to the national tongue Of those
ancient dependencies Of the crown.
The language is patois French, the
same, we believe, that was spoken by
the Conqueror and his NCRsnan sub
jects. 1t is to this day used in the
local legislatures and courts and by
the peasants Of the different islands.
But an attempt to change to English
has been signally defeated. The peo-
pie of Jersey will not give up their
mother tongue, though it is an ana
ckronism, announcement in every re-
s. ect and scarcely understood by the
higher classes.
In Canada, too, the French Ian
guage is dying hard, and a compro-
mise is made in one or two of the
provinces, whereby official proceed
ings are published in parallel columns
of English and French. It is about
time that these little vagaries, with
their inconvenience, were eliminated
from the British possessions. West
minister Gazette.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-06-08
A Trick of the Eve,

By cutting three strips of white pa
per of the same length exactly, with
one of them half as wide as the 9th
ers, one of the neatest tricks of optical
illusion can be produced. If those of
the same width are laid crosswise,
the narrow strip placed in the center,
it will invariably seem as if the broad
strips were considerably shorter than
the narrow one. The illusion is en-
HANGED by laying the pieces of paper
on black surface. By placing the
three strips in the form of an invert-
ed IN" and using the narrow strip
for the diagonal line the latter in
turn will appear much shorter than
the other two. To an Impractical
eye the illusion will seem very re-
markable indeed when it is demon
strated that all the strips are of the
same length.-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-06-08
How Climate Affects Animals.

Meteoric conditions have their in
fluence, thus animals Of the same
species OF related ones are fiercer in
the torrid zone than in the less
warm regions of America (Rousse).
The lions in the Atlas mountains are
much less formidable than those in
the desert. Cattle have been known
during the warm season, and es-
pecially at the approach of storm,
to be taken with an attack of fury
and rush against persons and trees
until the storm bursts and the rain
Gains them Theft is a common vice
among animals. In stealing to sat-
isfy hunger the passion is generally
irresistible. -Current Literature.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-06-08
plensantries Of Clersxmen.

1t was at a hate quarterly meeting
of Seventh Day Baptist churches in
Wisconsin that two clergymen were
topresent papers on the same day, and
the question of precedence having
arisen, Mr.. A. sprang to his feet and
said: II think Brother B. ought to
have the best place on the pro-
gramme. He is an older man than
am, and besides is full of his sub
ject." When the audience remem-
bered that Brother BIS subject was
The Devil, a cheerful smile seemed
to beam around the church. The
brethren do so enjoy these little
things Baptist Herald.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-06-08
Woman and Her Age.

A rather impertinent scientist has
discovered that the only instances in
which he finds correct dates given by
women in regard to their ages is
when they are under 20 or over IS.
At these periods Of life, according to
this Frenchman, they may be trust
ed. He is a court officer, and his
evidence is deduced from his expe-
rience with female prisoners. Such,
he asserts, invariably give their
ages as 20, 80, 40 or SO, and on
these premises he works out the con-
clusion that a woman wants to keep
in the decade behind her actual age
period, but through lingering sense
of honesty keeps as near the line as
she can.-New York Times.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-06-08
AN OLD BALLAD.

There was an old man lived in the green woods,
AS you may plainly see;
He vowed he could do more work in one day
Than his wife could do in three.
WELL says the old woman, 'if this be true,
And that you may try your vow,
You shall do the Homework today,
While go follow the plow.
You must milk old QuinGie, the COW,
For fear she will 90 dry
AND fou must feed the little pig
Asleep within the sty.
you must watch the speckled hen
For fear she'll lay away,
AnGyou must reel the spool of yarn
That spun yesterday"
The old woman took her staff in her hand
And went to follow the pillow:
The old man took the pail in his hand
To milk old Quinnie, the COW.
Quinnie she kicked, and Quinnie she friskcd,
And Quinnie she stuck up her nose.
With frisk of her tail tipped over the pail
And spattered the old mans clothes.
49, Quinnie Ho, Quinnie!
My good old cow. stand still!
If ever milk this beast again,
Twill be much against my will"
He went to feeding the little pig
Asleep within the sty. z
He ran his nose into a stake
Which made the blood fly high.
He went to watch the speckled hen
For fear she'd lay away,
And he forgot to reel the spool of .aYn
His wife spun yesterday
The old woman had an easy time
In following after the plow,
And returned to find the old man tired out
In keeping his foolish vow.
Il swear" said he, by the moon, and the stars,
And the green leaves under the tree,
If my wife never does another days work,
She shan't be blamed by me-