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Middletown transcript., 1895-10-12
PEOPLE LEAVING THE FARMS.

PEOPLE LEAVING THE FARMS.
A living question, and one which
has received vast deal of attention
and excited more or less intelligent
discussion, is the concentration of peo-
pie into the cities.
The San Francisco Examiner says:
What do we mean by saying that too
many people are leaving the farms?
Not that there are not enought left to
raise the farm products which the
world needs. 1t will hardly b. main
tanned that We are suffering from a
lack of Whea,-growers. or that we are
in the throes of a fruit famine because
so few people are willing to engage in
horticulture. Prices are the best in
dex of the effectiveness with. which
the worlds requirements are met, and
judged by prices tue demand for agri-
culture products was never more COM
pletely supplied than it is to-day.
''If the cities offer better opportu-
mites for making living and for en-
joying it when made, than the country
does, it is safe to predict that the drift
to cities will continue in spite of the
moialists. When the country can Of
fer greater attractions than tae cities
the tide will turn of itself, without the
need for sermons.
"But while We are talking about
the subject the problem bids fair to
settle itself by the disappearance of
the distinction between city and cOun-
try. Electric cars, bicycles, asphalt
streets and macadamized roads are
merging the two into one. The great
city of the future will contain thous-
and square miles. Every part of that
area will be in easy communication,
by wheel, trolly and telephone, with
every other. A million people can
live within those limits at the rate of
one family to every two or three acres.
Sixteen story office buildings, with
tightening elevators, will enable the
bulk Of the business of the city to be
transacted within space mile square
and that will he the extent of the
clostly built portion. The rest of the
town will be Occupied by dwellings,
each surrounded by its own grounds
varying from fifiy-foot lots at The edge |
of the business districts 10 fve-acre |
villa tracts. set out with lawns, trees,
flowers aud vegetable gardens, In the
outskirts. Around each city will be y
belt Of farming land, sufficient to sup
ply itwith food, and then will E6msI
lhe territories Of another metropolis.
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Renewing Queens In Autumn.

A correspondent writes as follows In
The Canadian Bee Journal:
Igo around just after the honey har-
vest is over and hunt up all the colonies
containing old queens, or colonies that
did not winter we'll or do but little for
me through the season. All such queens
kill as soon as can after the flow,
before the drones are all destroyed I
just let those hives start and rear cells.
About eight days after I go through and
destroy all cells where I do not wish
any queens reared. Then I go to some
hive where killed an old queen that
had previously done we'll and take out
cells and distribute them in the other
hives where I had destroyed all cells.
They will all accept them, and in few
days will have young queens and from
good stock. Such queens are almost
sure to do we'll for one season, provid-
ing they are properly wintered. If
wish to change the blood in few Of my
colonies, I would send to some reliable
dealer and get queens and have them
ready to put right in when the other
ones were killed. My experience In su-
perseding in this way, and at the above
time, is this: 1t prevents the colonies
from using up lot of stores in rearing
young bees only to die off and help to
clog up the entrance in the winter.
Where there is fall flow, it would
probably be better to have young laying
queens to replace the old ones.
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tomatoes For winter roro,nr.

Some growers use the seed plants,
while others propagate the tops of the
seed plants, and perhaps this is the bet
ter plan of the two. Whichever plan Is
adopted the plants should receive great
care, to prevent them from suffering in
any way, which they are very apt to do
If not looked after, because in order to
keep the plants stocky they need to be
grown in exposed positions and not al
lowed very much pot room till they are
put into their fruiting pots, which
should be about 10 inches in diameter.
According to American Gardening, pots
are better than benches for early crops,
but for later spring purposes, or sue
cessiom crop, shallow benches with about
eight inches Of soil answer very well.
Three Of the best varieties are Essex,
L0rillard and Early Ruby, and some
advocate Dwarf Champion, but IL cer-
tainly win not produce frnit 20 early as
oither " the others; laof ~ u so freot
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1t is remarkable how blind the aver.
age woman is to her children's faults.
In her eyes they are perfection and no
time or place is exempt from her de.
scriptivs praise of their accomplish
ments. 1t is hard TO have TO tell an
enthusiastic young mother that there
are topics other than "ihe baby''
which might interest tile caller. To
her his every breath is of vital import
ance and she does not see why his
teething and talking should not be of
| the greatest interest to those who are
not blesst d with SO preciousa possess
ion. As he grows older she cannot see
his naughtness and regales more know
Ing ones with SORES of his perfection,
while they, alas! are too well aware of
his faults.
We suppose iL's very good thing
for us that our mothers do feel that
way, but isn't it hard to sis still and
hear the virtues Of these youngsters
described when one knows they are
just the qualities thar aren't to be
fUuhd2
Johnhie's mamma is very ford of
talking about her boy, and it is odd
that she CAN'T see the expression on
her listeners faces and profit accord
ingly.
Johnnie is such tender-hearted
child" she is apt to say: actually he
fairly cries if l scold his nurse or find
fault with anything that she may do.
And lie is SO good to animals, too.
hope he won't be so very tender-hearted
when he grows up, or he'll not get
along in this world"
And the people that know johnnie
and have seen him nearly kill the
nursemaid with his taDirums and drag
homeless cat about by the tail have 10
sit and listen and look as Though
it is all true. Inwardly they are GER
tain that Johnnie will take care of |
himself, despite his so-called "tender-
heart"
In the same fashion Mrs., whose !
daughter is famous yarner aud can
never be depended upon for the truth,
is always declaring that "Laura has
never told me a lie In all her life.n
while those who know the young wo-
man are certain she seldom told the
truth.
Thus it goes on. and even when
some more outrageous action than the
rest actually forces the mother eyes
open to recogniti ION of stubborn facts
she will still staunchiIy declare that
her child must have been 1ed.astray by
others, for there never was u natural
depraved instinct in his organization.
Dear, tender-hearled mothers, loyal to
the last, would that their children al
ways we're all that tllink them.
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a m. a m. a m. p m. p m. p

daily. Daily except Sunday.
"a" Stops to leave passengers from Whining
ton and points north. or take passengers for
points south of Delmar.
'f' Stops only on notice to conductor Or agent
or on signal.
Il" Stops to leave passengers from Middle
town and points south.
"t'' Stops to let off passengers from points
south of Harrington.
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINs-Leave
Wilmington q al LILO q. m: and DBL M. daily,
days: Leave New Castle 30 a. M. and 10 l9p
M. daily. S3l, 9.45, 11O7 a. M, LIS 5 SO, 40,
LIZ p. M, weekdays
Express trains leaving Harrington sos A. M,
and arriving at GO p. M, week days, run
through solid to and from Baltimore via Porter
and Newark.
BRANCH ROADS.
DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA R. r.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
stations lO.46 a m. 6.25 pm.week days Returning
train leaves Franklin City 552 and $50 a. m,
weekdays
Leave, Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
steamer) 20l p. M, weekdays Returning,
leave Chincoteague Az a. m. weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
at l0.46 a. m. 6 . p m weekdays Returning,
leave Lewes7.35 a. M. 07 p. m. weekdays.
For Berlin, leave Harrington 1916 a. M, and
6.25 p. m, weekdays Returning, leave Berlin
$50 and Ii "a M. week days
QUEEN ANNE & KENT r. R.-Leaye Townsend
for Centreyille and way stations 9.25 a. M, and
525 M. week days: Returning, leave Centre
vile 7.4l a.. M. and g. 30 p. M, weekdays.
DELAWARE & CHESAPEAKE r. R.-Leaye Claw
ton for Oxford and way stations 9.45 a. m and
$40 p. M, week days Returning, leave Oxford
500 a. M, and 43 p. M, weekdays.
CAMBRIDGE & STAFFORD R. k.-Leave seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations II. % a.
M, week days, and on Tuesdays Thursdays and
Saturdays 7.O0p. m. Returning, leave Cambridge
70 a. M weekday and on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays z. 42 p. m.
CoNNECTIoE.-At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At Clayton
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore & DelaYaEe-Eay- X H abroad. Har.
rington, wqttRR-Delaware. Maryland & VirginiS>
Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge & Seaford
Railroad: at Delmar, with New York, Ptila-
delphia & Norfolk. Wicomico & Pocomoke. and
Peninsula Railroads.
8. M. PROVOST, General Manager.
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FLORIDA ORANGES.

Mr.. Porter, editor of the Florida
Agriculturists, after tour of observa
tion through the orange belt, has come
to the conclusion that the industry,
while badly injured, is by no means
dead. He says that fully 80 per cent.
of the groves that have been tempor-
arily abandoned consists of young
tress that had not commenced bearing
and that those that produced fruit in
the past will bear again in the future.
Oranges in South Florida that will
soon be ready for market are III, great
demand and will command excellent
prices. A grower in Manatee closed
con tract last week with a Memphis
firm for 5000 boxes on the trees
Jacksonville Citizen.
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Electric mOterS for manufacturing
will eliminate the atmosphere dark
with smoke and red olrnt tfthe fumes
of The gutter which the Providence
journal thinks an essential feature of
city life.
Tie cattle feeders say that cotton
seed meal at $12 per ton is equal to
corn at 15c to 18c per bushel, fatten-
ing much faster Than corn. They
claim that no better ration exists for
quick fattening and hard finishing
than cracked corn and cottonseed meal.
Cattle will go into feed lots 10 or 20
days earlier than usual this year.
There II less depression in the Louis
lana sugar beltsince prices have tended
to Improvement and reports of re-
duced beet root crop in Europe have
prevailed. There never has been such
overproduction of sugar as of late. or
low prices.
Farmers in Baltimore county, Md,
who planted large crops of potatoes
last spring, with the hope of making
more than was possible by raising
wheat, have been disappointed. So
many potatoes have been raised that
the price is very low. Some have sold
for 25 cents bushel by the car load.
The man who own lemon grove in
Southern California has a bonanza
this year. The crop in all the south
ern counties was large, and, with i'm
proved methods of curing the fruit,
the product compares favoribly with
the best imported lemons. At So a
box there is fortune in lemon grove,
as ten-year-old tress will produce
from ten to twelve boxes each. AS
there are 120 trees to the acre, the pro-
ft will run up to 81, 900 an acre if the
present price is maintained the whole
season.
THIS BLESSED YEAR.
L Cotton at 8 cents a pound and the
greatest corn crop on record would
alone make this year memorable as
the bearer of blessings after period
of depression, but the farmers have
other things to be thankful for. The
rice crop is enormous. Reliable esti-
mates indicate that it will reach at
least 175 900, 900 pounds, which is over
40 per cent. more than the crop of last
year. We do not produce all the rice
we consume, but will come nearer to
that mark this year than ever before.
Our annual consumption of rice is
about 200'000,000 pounds, and this
year we will have only about 25,000,-
600 pounds to import. The change in
the prospects of the masses of the peo-
pie that has occurred in the last six
months in phenominal. All our in
dustries are flourishing, more men and
women are at work, wages are better,
the seasons have been propitious and
crops are great. The year in which
we live has brought us many blessings,
and its goodly store is not yet ex-
hausted.-Atlanta Journal. M
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B. & O. Railroad.
Schedule in effect May r. 1895.
TRAINS LEAVE DELAWARE AVENUE

TRAINS LEAVE DELAWARE AVENUE.
WILMINGTON DEPOT EAST BOUND.
or Express trains,
All trains illuminated with Pintsch light
no IS 9; m tl22l, tl.5s, t3Oe, 1852 t7s2 flip m.
a. m, 1906 t5a2. ia, o. 4lsGl M t''' %
Philadelphia, Twenty-Fourth and Chestnut
Streets, weekdays, ts65 555, 6.27, t7so, 7.55,
fSS9, fs0o 20 f9dO, tl0S5, 3 lilo, tll45 g. M
$40, 1000, til.O0 p m '' -''' 4'''-' ''''' 4''''
Sundays, 3 tsoS, e:I, 1880 z;e5. $50, ts4e tl1.s5
s 20, 1000, tll.OO, p. m. - 80
| Philadelphia,- Twelfth and Market Streets,
Weekdays, 1905, $780, 1880, tlO.S5, a. m, t7S2
Ph1lsaelRhia, 4 IS l}R Sundays 1906 $780, tla5 g.
@ sh@sstsr @ s Sssfsgf sSg s fsoS slsy e. s ss. 49,
1906, s2 155 1884, $50, t7sa Sio, til p IN.
HRssss 5snsfys sss So g. a55 s s5ss sss.
Atlantic City, weekdays, 1880, a. M, t22l
l59 t3 O6 p. M, Sundays, 81 80, *7.55 q. m, Is 90
Cape May, weekdays, t6:27, a. M, tl:5e. 10 90
WEST BOUND.
Baltimore and Washington, weekdays. f4n,.
q 7o2 ls 3 4 III g S5 m 1928 t2o s
M, l12.55, t207 $685. taos, t525, tS2Os8 IS D. m,
Baltimore and way stations, 7.02, a. M, sos, p.
:, Newark, Del. weekdays. t49o, zoe. 1917,
lilo p. M. Sundays, tad, 7.02, 1871 q. m.
ll2S5 S;s sos, t525 t7s5, ls.2o 1858, Hop m.
Sundays *S A a M, IS 25 m.
Chicago, t8.G, a. M, t5.25, p. M, daily.
Cincinnati and st. Louis, HISS, p. M, 1858,
New Orleans via Bristol and Chattanooea.
1877, p m. daily. Through sleeper to New
Orleans.
singerly accommodation, 7.o2, a. M, s0s zs5
and L. 10, p. M, daily.
Landen6urg accommodation, weekdays,
7.o2, 1870 a. m, l.52 and SIS, p. m. Sundays,
$50, a. M, SIS, p. m.
Trains leave Market street station:
Eor Eor New eS,,Y York, week days. t5l5, p; m.
q; M, 90, tails, 9.45, p. m. Sundays, 6l6 am.
LOO, s5.l5, 9.45, p. m.
For Pittsburg and Chicago, daily 1916
p. m.
For Baltimore. weekdays, $50 a. M. aoo
I5l5 p m. Sunday, 800, t5l5, p. m.
,a, r0r ! si1aandenburg e and way stations, week
9daoys, s;So 70 20, a. m, Sis p. m. Sundays
Leave Phiiadeiphia, Twenty-Fourth and
Chestnut streets for Wilmington, weekdays.
Es1 "a aiS Sd as,S e q Sso lo g so tl2
'-SS, ss,DS, O%, i7.4Ss tS.2a Il loJoand ll35, Z; m;
oaSaSs s s M A ssa sa5, sss ssls ,l- g e, 3,
Leave Y6iladeiphia. an TweiitR well f an and Market
I Iss' Tsskssasd ne saSsdays, W a 5as M es a. m, a. t1a r.
B. m. > ''-'' $''
Telephone, 1873.
Rates to Western points lower than via any
,ther line.
o. sCULL, General Passenger Agent.
E. B. CAMPBELL, General Manager.
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"Pills, pills, pills!
There's nothing like pills
When you are bilious

IOCTy IUT pIIIS!,
The poet is right; and he might truthfully
added, that of all pills, DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets are the safest and best. They are
sugar-coated, small, and easy to take, and
produce no gripping or nausea, but do their
appointed work quietly, pleasantly, and
thoroughly. The only sure cure for habituaI
constipation,
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Our Wonan's
.....Colunn

lie u IS hlutl. Il
moral in he
uolld is the W.
man ho fI-
cies that much
is gafned by
scolding or whin-
ing or complain
ing: She may
seem TO gain l.er
ends for awhile
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Acting through the blood, Hoods Sar-
saparilla not only cures scrofnla, salt
rlseums etc. but gives health and vigor 10
the.whole body.
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These Oats are said TO be as hardy as
wheat, and will stand as much cold
when well established. Sown during
August and September they will make
good growth before winter sets in
and will furnish excellent grazing, dur
ing late fall, early spring and open
spells in winter, without injury to the
grain crop afterwards. Will yield on
2ood ground 20 to 100 bushels per acre
oats weighing 35 t., 40 pounds per
bushel.
75c per bushel
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BANKS.

President-G. w. W. Naudain; Secretary,
w. s. Letherbury; s. s. Holten, Charles ID.
Howell, Geo. v. Peveriey.
BANKS.
Peoples National Bank.-President, DR.. J..
V. Crawford Cashier, Geo. ID. Kelley; Teller,
w. G. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens, National Bank.-President, Henry
Clayton; Cashier, John 8. Crouch; Teller IL
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
Street.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
Middletown Council, No 2, Jr. o. U. A. M.
Meets every Monday night in McWhorter's
Hall at O'Clock.
Union Lodge, No. s. A. F. & A. M. Meets
first Tuesday of each month In Town Hah.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. Q, /. Q. o. F.
Meets every Thursday night in McWhorters
Hall at 8 O'Clock.
Damon Lodge, No. IL, X. Of P. Meets every
Wednesday night In McWhoraer's Hall at
s O'Clock.
Major John Jones Post, No. Q, g; A.. r:
Meets every Friday night in Town Hall at
o'clock.
every second and fourth Friday night In K.
OF p. Hall.
Union Lodge, No. 6, A. o. U. W., meets every
ID and 4th Tuesday night in McWhorters
Hall.
Lord Delaware Circle, No. 16, Brotherhood
of the Union. Meets 1st and Sd Friday, Nc
Whorters Hall at 8p. m.
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets first Fri
day night of each month in Hose House.
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The school children need some extra
clothing on cold, wet day. See that
it is ready before it is needed. Many 9
bad cold is taken by going ,hinly clad
and often wet footed to school, where
as yet, i'll many cases, there is no fire.
The worst earache> l ever had was
caused by wearing too light clothing
on wet, cold morning this summer.
Keep a good supply cf stockings on
hand, and as soon as The weather gets
chilly don wollen ones.
Another point-if need be, light 8
fire in the sitting room. The most for.
lorn house eyer-was in Was one where
there WAS no fire or no means of max.
ing it lin that room at least) ON a frosty
night in September. Have warm fires
and plenty of light wherever there is
any need, and put on some fannels be-
fore November. Now steal march
on time and have them ready.
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r1iddletown Directory.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS

President-G. w. w. Naudain; Secretary,
w. s. Letherbury; s. s. Holten, Charles ID.
Howell. Geo. v. Peverley.
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POTENT-PRicELESS.
Fosters
German
Army and Navy
CURE
For ALL SKIN DISEASES
Prompt
AND
Unfailing.

Will permanently heal Eczema, Salt
Rheum, letter, Poison Oak, Ring
Worm, Pimples, Dandruff, Itch,
Itching Piles and every kind of
eruption. 1t softens the skin and
effectually removes all blemishes.
Eminently superior in restoring and
beautifying the complexion. It
has been tested ia innumerable
cases with unvarying success.
Sold by all druggists, or sent by
mail on receipt of price, 50 cents.
FOSTER MEDICINE COMPANY.
BALTIMORE. ND.
M< FOSTERS GERMAN ARMY AND
NAVY BLOOD BITTERS will cleanse
the system and drive out all impuri.
ties. It is both purifier and an In.
vigorator. Pleasant to the taste.
Effect immediate. In large bottles.
sI.oc, at all druggists.
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M1DDLETowN, DEL, OCT. 12. 1895
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flor at first sight one will do most any
thing to avoid swallowing bitter dose),
but if she stops to consider, she would
soon discover that every day she has
greater.cause for scolding or whining or
complaining, whichever methods she
adopts, and that as the months roll by
an ever increasing amount is required
to accomplish the same result.
The scolding woman never has
things her own way without vast ex-
penditure Of nervous strength-much
more than the object to be gained is
worth. Why cannot she realize that,
and adopt some plea santer method?
In direct contrast to the scolding
woman, know one who is never obliged
to ask twice when she wants anything.
She isn't one of the meek women who
never dare to have an original opinion
or to indOrse one unless her husbal d
has first Endorsed it. She says what
she thinks, but even If it is criticism,
it is given with such good nature that
no one can take offense. Very often
things do not go to suit her, but she
has the good sense to realize that scold-
ing or complaining or whining will not
help matters.
If she is 10 angry too laugh, she keeps
still until she can control herself. If
very angry she shuts herself up in her
room, alone, for few moments. She
says that an angry woman seems TO her
to be so repulsive an object that she
cannot bear to have those whom she
loves best to see her in any such char
aeter. She never seems to command,
and her husband imagines that he al
ways has his own way. She never dis
putes the point, yet-tbose who know
her best know that there are few ques-
tions that are not settled to her entire
satisfaction.
She will appear ynang when the
scolding women of her age are con-
sidered old, and she will always have
an influence for good where they have
no influence at all.
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Electric moters for manufacturing
will eliminate the atmosphere dark
with smoke and redolrnt tfthe fumes
of The gutter which the Providence
Journal thinks an essential feature of
city life.
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Extraordinary
Offering

IUUU BUSINESS OuICS aC S4.0 0U, SOIu else
where at $1,000.
1000 Boys Suits at $500, sold else
where at $500.
500 Children's Suits, at $3.50 to $500.
1000 Overcoats, Kerseys, Blue, Blacks,
Browns. from $40 to SIS each.
500 Special Jobs at $500. sold else
where at $1,000.
Pataloons at ST. to $500.
Prices cut to make trade lively. Call
or send for samples.
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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets first Fri
day night of each month in Hose House.
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Peoples National Bank.-President, DR.. j
v, Crawford Cashier, Geo. ID. Kelley; Teller,
w. G. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street
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Citizens, National Bank.-President, Henry
Clayton; Cashier, John 8. Crouch; Teller Il.
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
Street.