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Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23
Asking.
"He stole from my bodice a rose.
My cheek was its color the white;

'He stole from my bodice rose.
My cheek was its color the white;
But. ah, The sly rogue, he well knows
Had he asked 1t. must have said no.
Yes, remember that occasion.
was young then. l am not old now. l
had not pi in or an ache. My blood
was pure and my cheeks showed their
crimson. | was happy and healthy.
But now, woe is me! do not see we'll
day, have these dragging down pains
this constant weakness, and l feel all
the time worn and weary. My hus-
band says, he hardly dares to ask me to
put red rose in my bodice now, its
color mocks my cheeks o, that /
might once again be well?" You can
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Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

The best Salve in the world for cuts,
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands.
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
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Price 25 cents per box. For sale at
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Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23
Copyright 1894, by Harry Coleman).

Copyright 1894, by Harry Coleman.
The second part of the laudable con-
test, the effort of which is to secure to
the United States genuine, home-spun
national anthem, has now commenced.
Composers are invited to send musical
settings Of the two poems, in competi-
tion for prize Of $4,000 for the best
setting of each poem. We would advise
any of our readers who contemplate
competing to send to The Dominant for
full particular.
We hope Middletown Mozart will
be found willing to enter the lists.
There are few local composers of no
mean ability. Why not one of them
try to win the prize.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

You don't know how much your
book has helped me, Mr.. Scribbs." Mr..
Scribbs-You tlatter me. Il mean
every word of it. Whenever l am
restless I 60 get your book and inside
of fifteen minutes III be asleep"
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

"Josiar," said Mrs. Corntosse, "this
industrial army business gifts me. " 1T
do me, too" he replied. EFF er feller
is doin' ter walk jis fur the sake of
walkin' an gettin' noWheres. he might
jes' ez we'll do it behind er plow ez apy
other way"
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

It's good thing people are not trea-
ted nowadays as Ananias was for lying.
Why?" "Why? Why, if we were,
Albert, nobody'd be left alive but you
and l, and you'd be paralyzed.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23
The Longest Word.

The longest word i'll the English Ian
guage is not Smiles" although there
is mile between its first and last let
ters, (s-mile-s). One of the. happiest
words, however, is health: real rugged
robust, rousing, red faced health.
there is neither boon nor blessing like
it. Yet thousands have lost it and it
stays lost. This need not be. Myraids
have regained their health by using DIR
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
An invaluable remedy for consumption
or lung scrofula, bronchitis, asthma,
cough, heart disease fever and ague,
intermittent fever, dropsy and many
other diseases.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

Palmistry assumes to tell what the lines in your
hand indicate. 1t will amuse you, il nothing more.
The above diagram almost explains ltself The
age sasi to " which 6 You YOU viii live Each BRkCELET
gives you thirty years. Well-marked LINE OF
HEAD denotes brain power clear LINE OF
success in life; but you must Keep up with modern
ideas to win it. You will find plenty of these in
Demorest's Family Magazine, so ettractively pre-
sented that every member Of the family is enter
tanned 1t is a dozen magazines in one. A CLEAR
LINE OF HEART bespeaks tenderness; straight
LINE OF FATE. peaceful @ @Iifs The the TsTerse % III Il
spares you doctors bills; so will the health hints
in Demorest's. No other magazine publishes so
many stories to interest the home circle You will
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marked; keep up your spirits by having Demorests
Magazine to read. BY subscribing TO It Tor 1894
Of great value, besides the superb premium picture,
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you posted on all the topics Of the day, and all the
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ton: VENUS, love Of pleasure; and MERCURY.
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Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

Grandma see that the locusts with
"W' on their wings are out again.
1t means war whenever they appear.
Miss Laura-Not this time, grandma.
1t means woman" This is the era
of her emancipation.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

Philadelphia Press.-These rare days
In June are trife overdone. St.
Louis.-There has been nothing rare
about the days in June so far. They
have been Drowned nearly to turn.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

Good natured rivalry in business is
all right, but it is carrying things a
trif1e too far when an undertaken starts
in with the avowed intention of laying
his competitors out.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23
B. & O. Railroad.
Schedule in effect May. 20, 1891.
TRAINS LEAVE DELAWARE AVENUE
" lIlN1NgtCn, De!aWdTe
DEPOT EAST BOUND.

DEPOT EAST BOUND.
New York, week days. 5 OF. TIL, ts.4O,
tl035, III tl2.2i, T., 40, t5S5, t7.4, tll:oO, m
Sundays, 1908, t7i7, tO.35, u IN; f2.4s, 1885,
4'iPfHi PHfLxDRRLpHIA. fliVf I TWENTY FOURTH
AND CHESTNUT SITS; Week days tso3; 555
a is faiS, sss, 455, t5,sS, s.s1, tii
Sundays, 4s.os, t7.I7 IS, 100. 900 TO- So IL 40,
IN; p, t24s, 1925, ,4.55. 1885, 81, TIA, s.25
PHfLADELPHIA, TWELFTH ANDMAR-
KET STREETS, Week days, 1903, t7.17 ts.4O,
tsG ffIosf n f. saaaaEs' m tso tsos, 20
tlo;36, m; t249, TIA, tu;O0 m:
t7.53, 500 ts.40, $50. l000 tl0.36 ll.45 IN; lbs
t2493.25, i55. 1885, 6Sl. t744 s25, 1000, lloo p
Chester. Sundays, ts.os, t77, ss5, 500,
tlOe9, LAO m; l25 T. 49, 325, 4.55, 1885, 6.3l,
t7.4, 8 ., 1000, tll.0O d. m.
Atlantic City, week days, t753, IN; t2.49,
''' '' . w VEST Bound.
re ana b e week e !. DAYS g
ans mi tsis I sos tis isds is 81 81 SIS n
Baltimore und Way Stations, 7.O2 Il NJ! 3 03 y
m daily.
a m, tl2l6, s.O3, t434. t6.os. 7.s5, 1912, SIS
tl2,l6. 1903, t4.34, 731, fS.l2, 1888, lilo D m
Pittsburg, ts32, u n; Il "a p III daily.
Chicago. 1882, a m; t4.34, p IN daily.
Cincinnati and st. Louis, tl2l6 p IN daily,
S.5S, pm
New Orleans via Bristol and Chattanooga,
tsl2p m daily. Through sleeper to New
Orleans.
singerly accommodation, OF m 1903, 7.35,
and la.lO p IN, daily.
Landenburg accommodation, week days,
7.02, s.32 a m; 2.25 and 5.4S p m; Sundays,
$50 m; s3pm.
Trains leave Market street station:
For New York, week days, 1929 a m.
For Philadelphia, week days, $40, 1870 $50
1l.50 : m 2.55, 9.45 pm. Sundays, go
a m; LOO 2.55, g. A D IN.
For Pittsburg and Chicago, week days, s.2u
am
For Baltimore, week days, $50 $50 a m;
2 50 $40 p m Sunday 2.55 p m
For Landenberg and way stations, week
days, $50, 80 m; 2l5. 5.tO p m; sun days
9.25 IN; $40 p M
FOURTH AND CHESTNUrS STREETS FOR
WILMINGTON, week days, 1887, 800 721
$500 1000 ll.42 II IN; 200 noon: tbs, IL As
200, sis, 400, 4.3O, t5.00 t53l, 535, t6i0 $50
tbs, S.23, fl0.l0 and II. .35 IN.
sundays, 1887, GOO, IS 90, $50. 1000, tll.42
a am;l2 on mood; LBS, 200, 3l5 t4.0). 30, 6.3U
II 80, S.23, TO 10 and II 30 d m
LEAVE TIVE LFTH AND MARKET STS
t320 f7.40, fl1.26 m; t3.46, t5.lS, t7.22 D III
Sundays, 20, 7.40, IL .26, m 3.4S, T. 22pin,
Telephone 1875,
Rates TO Western points lower than via
any other line.
X. B. CAMPBELL. General Passenger Ag',
I. ODELL General Manager.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23
Throw Away Trusses.

When our new method is guaranteed
to permanently cure the worse cases Of
rupture without the use of a knife.
Send 10 cents in stamps for pamphlet
and references. Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, 663 Main street
Buffalo, n. Y.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

There was an intense silence around
Mrs. Hashem's S table while the chicken
was being served. 1t was broken by
the girl with fluffy white hair, who
whispered to the one with dark glasses:
-''Billy Bliven has paid his board bill
at last" "How do you know?" "He
got piece of white meat instead Of
the wing and neck, as usual.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

Pimples, boils and other humors of
Of the blood are liable to break out in
the warm weather. Prevent it by TAX
ing Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23
CORNER OF SMILES.

Sunday school teacher-What kind
of boys 60 to heaven? Small Boy
Dead ones.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

Three years. undisturbed possession
OF q setter dog will destroy the veracity
of the best man in America.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23
Up-to-Date-
....LOVe Stories
Pictures From Life at the End of the
Centurie.

)SY is the west" y"
quoted the young
man, with an a.
doring look at
the girl seated on
the bank and
or lelly crushing
the thick growth
Of wild honey
suckle behind
her.
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23
PATRIOTIC SONG CONTEST.

Prizes Awarded to ''sons of America
and "Old Glory.''
The patriotic song contest inaugu
rated by that enterprising mnsica
monthly, The Dominant, of Philadel
phia, has just closed, that is, so far Al
patriotic poetry is concerned. Th,
judges on the poems sent in were Colo
mel John A. Cockerill, editor of thu
New York Morning Advertiser; Ed
mund Clarence Stedman, the celebrated
poet and critic, and jerome Buck, Jr.
poet and prominent member of the
New York Worlds staff, three gentle
men whose fitness for the position nc
one Can question. These high author
tiles labored patiently with the several
hundred poems submitted, examining
each most critically, the result being a
unanimous verdict in favor of the two
poems we have here the pleasure of
presenting to our readers.
FIRST PRIZE OF $100.
SONS OF AMERICA.
By Osman G. Hooper.
Sons of America Heirs to the glory
God-guided patriots nobly have won;
Liberty stands O nour mountain-tops hoary.
Lighting her torch from the fires of the sun.
CHoRUs-Speed the message onward,
strivings deep and long
Here at last are bursting
In triumphant song.
Liberty and union.
Set 'twixt sea and sea
Blood-bought by our fathers,
Here shall ever be.
Liberty, dream of the Pilgrims devotion,
Here to statue heroic has crown;
Driving back foes that come over the ocean,
Crushing the enemies sprung from our own.
CHORUS.
Fearful the cost. but how priceless the treasure
Battlefelds were but the altars to God
War-clouds the incense and cannon the measure
Lives, the free sacrifice redd'ning the sod.
CHORUS.
Liberty, patron Of cot and Of palace,
May our devotion too thee never cease
Long may we drink from thy heavenly chalice,
Deep to contentment, and progress and peace
CHORUS
Banner all glorious, float o er us
Every star shining there steadfast and true ;
Holding the lesson of Union before US,
Written for aye in the Red, White and Blue
CHORUS
Copyright 1894, by Harry toleman,
-
SECOND PRIZE OF $50.
OLD GLORY.
By Thomas J. Duggan.
Old Glory! Flag of Liberty
In triumph wave DER land and sea,
The pride of millions yet 10 be
Meath Freedoms glorious sway,
We gaze upon each starry fold
In beauty to the skies unrolled,
And link with thee in pride untold
Our land, America.
CHoRUL-Unfurl thy grandeur to the stars
Dear flag of many battle scars,
Renowned in hallowed story
All hail to thee o emblem grand,
The guardian of our native land,
Old Glory
Old Glory founded by our sires
Amid the flame of battle fires,
Thy gleam the heart Of all inspires
With rapture, day by day;
The flag of The New World art thou,
T otyranny thou ne'er shalt bow
Forever wave about the brow
OF free America!-CHoRUs
Old Glory for thy honored past
Our hearts revere thee till the last
Our dearest hopes are on thee cast,
To never fade away;
Triumphant, noble, brave and free,
Still onward shall thy progress be,
For honor, peace and liberty,
And for America ,-CHoRUs
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23

: was an unlikely
place for a ro-
nance that dingy
office. There was
absolutely moth
iny to suggest
loves yOung G
dream unless it
was the conspicu-
GUS absence Of all
things connected
Middletown transcript., 1894-06-23
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Company,
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notice per cent ON deposits payable after
80 days notice. Special rates for large sums
to remain for IL year OF longer,
SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the accounts OF
Ladies, also to those of Executors, Admins
traitors, Trustees, Guardians and Receivers.
The Company acts by authority of law as
Executor, Administrator, Guardian Re-
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every description.
Correspondence solicited and full informa-
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the COmpanys business. Satisfaction guar
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-12


Fair visitor, how much are you maligned,
Compared to March. Xantippe should be
sdinted
If you the winter-weary soul should find
AS rude as you are popularity painted.
In dread we waited for bitter sway,
Like scolded children, tremulous and wary.
Argry at heart. yet helpless in dismay
Beneath the icy rule of February.
You came. We shrank in terror. And you
smiled
No doubt the smile was sweeter, unex-
pected.
And all the world to pleasure is beguiled
With light and laughter from yourself re-
Elected.
Perhaps your mood will change, and anger
set
Her mark upon the face which smiled SO
dearly;
Zen then, your sweetness we shall not for
get
We still. good March. will cherish you sin
cerely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-12

Chicago is having trouble with the ire
mendous crowds that daily struggle for the
privilege of walking upon that citys great
thoroughfares in the business center and
all sorts of suggestions are being made to
relieve the congestion. The latest PROPOSE
ton will be readily understood by those
who were at the Worlds Fair. A company
has offered to construct system of NOV
able sidewalks, each supported on a single
line of columns and elevated about four
teen feet above the streets. The scheme Is
being favorably considered. 1t involves one
fixed and two moving platforms, the latter
having speeds OF three and six miles per
hour respectively. Six miles an hour is
not very rapid motion for Chicago people,
most of whom are accustomed to travelling
almost as fast as that on foot when they
have 4 clear right Of way, but 1t must be
remembered that the rate of travel on the
six-mile sidewalk can be increased by walk
ing along it instead of standing; so that a
Gix-mile-an-hour pedestrian would with
the assistance of the sidewalk, move at
the rate of twelve miles an hour The rows
of pillars would, of course. be more or less
obstructive, but in city like Chicago con-
siderations of that sort are not very
weighty. The experiment, If it is made
will be watched with a good deal Of inter-
est.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-12

from the throat OF every spokesman in
tHe Lahd comes protest against a common
sense and thoroughly honest proposition to
protect from the assaults Of the var,i-noli
tclah government employees who have on
teIed the service in accordance with the civ
service rules and regulations. Friends of
sOou government join heartily with Com
missioner Roosevelt in insisting that rbara
Il need for the adoption Of a rule ..,-bict
snail provide for the filing of detailed
charges whenever clerk is removed tn,
Clerk TO be allowed 70 see these charges and
nave them published. II he 50 desires while
the commission should be given ample au-
thorlIy to investigate and report if. in its
opinion. the removal is made for political
reasons, whether or not it purports ON its
face 10 be for different cause" The prin-
eiple thus laid down is abhorrent 10 those
who regard public office only as Il reward
- 10 be siveu those who serve faithfully. with
out being prescriptions, the party temper
arily. in power There is nothing either
novel or startling in the constituencies
outcry- When il was first announced that
an eltCrt wOIld be made to have appoint
ments 50 only to those who We're mentally
and physically capable. a roar of indigna-
ton issued from spoilsmen's Iungs Ind
there was much wear and tear Of ty-pe in
efforts to show how such legislation must
interfere seriously with the workings OF the
departments. But the idea was c:ystaIIiZa1
into a bill and the bill became a law. and
the civil service system was established
without bringing to pass any Of the dis
astrOUs happenings fOreshadCwed by those
who had always regarded the government
- their particular prey. So well has the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-12

Two murderous young villains in Cbicooo
are now in prison awaiting trial for borribI,,
toTturing man whom they found in n
drunken stupor in a saloon Saturday night
WIKI White-hot poker they burned off his
eyebrows. SCARED his face horribly mutt
lated MS wrists and his body in MANY
places and then destroyed flesh and muscle
en- the front of both legs from knees to
ankles rendering him cripple for life
Mlthln little while the sccundrels were in
tAe hands OF the police. and they will doubt
less be punished to the laws fullest ex-
tent Ihey have no excuse to offer for
'heir act They were not highly intelligent
young men, students il some great eIuca-
tiohaI institution. intent on Indulgence in
,he mentally elevating amusement OF baz-
ing' they We're just common brutes. ana
Will be treated as such.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-12

Today Mr.. Walter Wellman and the
WashingtOnians who have associated them
selves with him for the purpose OF Journey
ing as near as possible To the north pole
and back again leave the city for New
York, whence on Wednesday the start fer
Europe will be made. Mr.. WelI.nau's plans
have been made plain to the rea Iers OF
The Star. and in The Star will Je published
the valuable information which lir. Well
man reasonably expects to accumulate in
the course Of his effort to solve n great
mystery The people OF Washington VIII
be especially interested in the expedition.
and there is hearty concord Of expression
In favor Of all the success for which MIR
Wellman hopes Washington joins with
the rest Of the United States in wishing,
the Wellman expedition Godsueed. May il
De the privilege of the daring leader 20
wave the stars and stripes in the heart Of
that region toward which the needle of the
mariners compass always points. and NAV
ne and his comrades return in safaty 10 tell
the story Of an exploit to the consr,mms-
ton of which some of eartn's most
determined men have laid down their lives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-12

new order of things worked and so many are
the benefits springing therefrom that the
only contention now made against the ex-
tension of power asked for by the civil SER
vice commission is the one that the heads
of departments would be stripped of all
power and yet be compelled to bear the
heavy burden of responsibility. There
could not be a more ridiculous pretense.
Under civil service rules a thoroughly COM
petent force can easily be secured and IL
President Cleveland will only do the right
thing. may be retained and made more USE
full and more valuable to the government
every day. Surely the heads of depart
ments have enough to do without being
called upon to act as offce-brokers. The
broad administration Of public affairs will
more than occupy the time of every men,
Der of the cabinet If the various depart
mental heads would give their attention
exclusively to the national welfare. But
when they are compelled to give the great
er proportion of their hours to the decapita-
ton or reduction of clerks who differ in po-
litical views from the party in power, and
the promotion of those employees who are
alleged to have voted on the right" side,
many momentous matters necessarily are
being neglected. No person should be ap-
pointed to a government position who is
not qualified to fill the place into which he
or she may be put, and he or she should be
retained so long the public business is
not neglected. Reduction in rank or dis
missal should come only when there is in
ability, idleness or gross misconduct. And
when such a condition prevails it will be
possible for the heads of departments to
watch carefully the public interests of
great Importance that are now neglected
because of the pressure exerted by office
seekers whose only claim for preferment
is based upon services rendered, not to the
people but to a party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-12

Drummond's Addresses series OF seven ad-
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by of the best known writer's of the day. 20c.
limitation of Christ. devotional work of
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The Old Story.

Dear me-" said Miss Columbia, as she
surveyed the plate in her currency closet
Il don't see what you want to present me
with this seigniorage set for. 1 really have
more than l know what to do with. And
silver is SO common now"
Il know it" replied the statesman sadly.
but 1t is largely case of sentiment. We
expect you to cherish it, not because of its
Intrinsic value. but for the sake of its for
mer associations"