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MEMORABLE EVENTS.

Next Tuesday, January 18th, will be
memorable FOR two events; one of
which will be the Inauguration of the
first Republican Governor that Della
ware has had since the Civil War.
The other Till be the passing out of
office the man who has done little to
emulate, and much to disgrace the
high office to which the suffrage of the
people of Delaware elevated him, and
sigh of relief will come to every
decent man and woman in the state,
when the dEy comes around which
will retire Robert J. Reynolds to the
shades of '-Sockum," from which OBJ
scurity he should never have emerged.
His political associations, through
out, have been of the baser sort; and
his shameless prostitution of the az
pointing power, together with his
wholesale Jail deliveries, which have
marked bis administration from begin
ming to end, have wrought an injury
to the state of Delaware from which
she will not recover in twenty years.
Reynolds is the first product of his
kind in the executive annals of our
state, and God grant he may be the
last!
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JAY GOULD's FORTUNE.

Perhaps, after all, the newspaper
judgement as to the value of the rich
mems estates may not be so far out of
the way, Notwithstanding the popular
belief that the newspapers are prompt
to exaggerate in these matters. After
the death of Jay Gould the newspa-
pers kindly took hand at the business
of posting his books and striking a
balance for the benefit of their readers.
The result of this arithmetic was the
concurrent journalistic opinion that
Mr.. Gould had left about S72,000,00
and some odd cents. Now it appears
that the newspapers did not place too
large value on the estate, but, ac-
cording to the figures Of Appraiser
Mcclure, underestimated it by nearly
S9,00O,0 900, the actual value being
$50, ,934, ,5S0.79, instead of S72 1000, 900.
If you see it in the newspapers you
may set it down as careful statement
based on an investigation as to all the
ascertainable facts. Generally speak
ing, you might bet on it.-N. Y.
Advertiser.
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The Baltimore Weekly Sun

The Weekly Sun publishes all the news of
each week, giving complete accounts of all
events of interest throughout the world. As
an agricultural paper the Weekly Sun is un-
surpassed. 1t is edited by writers of practical
experience, who know what farming means
and what farmers want in an agricultural pa
per: 1t contains regular reports of the work
of the agricultural experiment stations
throughout the country, of the proceedings of
farmers clubs and institutes, and the discus
sion of new methods and ideas in agriculture
Its Market Reports, Poultry Department; and
Veterinary column are particularly valuable
to country readers. Every issue contains
Stories. Poems, Household and Puzzle Col
umns, a variety of interesting and instructive
selected matter and other features, which
make it a welcome visitor to city and coun-
try homes alike.
One dollar year. inducements to getters-
up of clubs for the Weekly Sun. Both the
Daily and Weekly Sun mailed free of postage
in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Payments invariably in advance. Address
A. S. ABELL Co.,
Publishers and Proprietors,
Baltimore, Md.
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THE latest news from the orient is
that Corea, "the Hermit Kingdom"
has declared itself independent of
China, to which country it has for
years paid a stipulated sum as tribute
money. 1t was because of Japan's
oppositian to this tributary payment
from Corea to China that the late war
was iustigated, and Japan has doubt
less compelled the Corean king to de-
clare his kingdom independent, and
will be apt to continue her friendly
interest in Corean affairs. Japan is
not only skilled in war, but crafty as
well.
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1t is much to the credit of Mr.. Hig-
gins that he has the opposition of the
Democratic press of this state. To
have the endorsement of some of our
'yapping'contemporaries would indeed
indicate weakness. We congratulate
our Senator upon his enemies, they
are much better as foes than friends.
This is also trle of some sc-called
Republican papers, who, won by the
alluring ducats of political jobbers,
are almost beside themselves in their
eagerness to have Money Bags instead
of Brains and Character in the SeDa-
forial chair.
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EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
Parkhurst and the Newspapers.
(FrOm the TrOy Budget

Parkhurst and the Newspapers.
(From the Troy Budget.)
DIR. Parkhurst has declared that the
newspapers of New York are rapidly
becoming public nuisances. This re-
mark shows neither discrimination nor
good taste. The newspapers referred
to may be making themselves obnoxious
to DR.. Parkhurst by differing with
some of his views, but as to their be-
coming public nuisance, that can
never be. If they were public nui-
sances the public would not patronize
them. The great reformer has reached
that stage where, like his prototype,
the prophet Elijah, he complains that
be is the only faithful man left, only
to find that he is only one of hundreds
who are fighting to maintain municipal
purity. The newspapers are the others,
and they do not yield in point of sin
cerity or efficiency to the Jealous Doc
tor himself.
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How TlliSt

We offer One Hundred Dollars re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
net be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J.Cheney & Co., Toledo, O..
We the undersigned, have known f. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to car
ry out any obligations made by their
firm.
West & Trnax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, 0. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Whole. ale Druggists, Toledo, 0.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally acting directly upon the blood and
Of the system. Testi-
moniafs sent free. Price 75c, per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggist.
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A King With Aspirations,

King Humbert of Italy has an
nounced that were he not King he
would like to be a journalist. A
journalist like Waldorf Astor, yes;
that would be dignified and kingly,
but a journalist VINO goes on stormy
night to hear strong minded woman
call her short skirt and blouse waist a
dream of beauty and characterize
a group of handsome men as
"brutes" would make Humbert cry,
"Take me back to Magaretta!"-Ex.
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THE Royal Yacht Squadron and the
New York Yacht Club have at last
come to an agreement, and the contest
for the America Cup will take place
next september over the Sandy Hook
course. 1T will be the most important
contest In the history of yachting since
,51, and will not only be test of
yachts, their crews, their builders and
designers. but also test of patriotism
and good breeding. 1t is the contest
Of the only two nations in the world
who are equipped for 1t.
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1895. The Sun.
BALTIMORE, I'D.


The paper of the people. For the people
Honest in Motive. Fearless in Expression
Sound in principle. Unswerving in its ALE
glance to Right Theories and Right Practices.
The Sun publishes all the news all the time,
but it does not allow its columns to be de-
graded by unclean, immoral or purely sensa-
tional matter.
Editorially, The Sun is the consistent and
unchanging champion and defender of popu-
lar rights and interests against political ma
chimes and monopolies of every character.
independent in all things, extreme in none.
1t is for good laws good government and good
order.
By mail Fifty Cents a month, Six Dollars a
year.
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LITERARY NOTES.


The Reasons For Its Great Sue
The remarkable success of Sraony'S
Living Pictures, of which so much is
being said by the press and public, is
due. in our opinion, more 20 its high
character and its refined treatment of
wel!-chosen subjects than 10 It's novelty
and originality, though these Ii ter
are not to be considered lightly by any
means.
BY some suite uch the pictures
are made to carry at once an expression
of loveliness which appeals to our eE-
thusiastic admiration, and of delicacy
and refinement which cumpels our
profound respect. Then they are of
snch variety that no cultivated taste
can fail of finding in them something
almost magically fascinating. They
are interesting to all, young and old,
and it is little wonder they have been
and are still being so generously
praised.
An old-fashioned sea story full of
interest and adventure, with a strong
love motive, is begun by w. Clark
Russell in the January Cosmopolitan.
'Ouida" succeeds Froude, Gosse,
Lang, and other distinguished writers
with an instalment of the "Great Pas
sions of History series, which has
been appearing in the Cosmopolitan.
A discussion is aroused by Mr.. Ed
ward Bok'S article on "The Young
Man and The Church." which will
consume tons OF ink before ii j settled.
Just preceding the famous Charcot's
death he prepared an article for the
Cosmopolitan on Pasteur, TO be pub
lished after Pasteur's death. But Char
cot has died first, and so with the COL
sent of Charcot's executors, the article
is given now. The present Theatrical
Season in New York" is critically
considered by Mt. james S. Metcaffe,
editor of Life, and there are stories by
Tourgee, Howells, and the famous
French writer Francois Coppee.
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The date ON the label ON your
paper shows the time to which
your subscription Is paid.

BOODLER'S CLAIM vs.. CHARACTER.
OF all brazen effrontery that we re-
member to have observed, the follow
ing argument surpasses all, to wit:
'Because a man furnishes Doodle with
which a few ignorant and degraded
men were bought to vote the Republi-
can ticket, therefore the aforesaid
Boodier must have have a seat in the United
States Senate, no matter if he has not
the first qualification, because foresooth
the aforesaid two or three hundred rag
tag and bobtails only vote our way for
such consideration, and without them
we could not win." But that is the
kind of argument we hear in Kent
county, from high and low, in pew and
pulpit.
But it wont work brethren. We are
not prepared to admit that your two or
three hundred bummers and suckers
are of more Importance than all the
mnuy tuouodIuo Va uUIol ouu lutCIli-
gent men who belong to the Republi-
can party. We do not agree that
brf ins and character count for nothing,
and the power to control a few de-
graded men stands for all thingsneedful
The day in which the Republican
party is given over to that sort of in
fiuence, in that same day it falls into
the grave of its own digging, and there
to remain till the morn in which Ga
briel shall blow his trumpet. The vast
proportion of men who vote the Re-
publican ticket, do so because they be-
lieve in the Curious principles for
which thatparty stands as an exponent;
and when the party has a leadership
that is true and tried. they will follow,
but not otherwise. And any man or
any set of men who seek to pay debt
of political debauchery with the price
less gift Of peoples trust, will wear
the mark of Cain the balance of their
days. Republicans of Delaware are
not ready for this sort of thing, and
before another week is gone, it will be
proven that the honor of Delaware is
fully safe in the hands of those men
who now sit in the Legislative halls.
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THE Baltimore Sun is very justly
recognized as the leading paper of
Maryland. Its news columns areskep:
free from sensational matter that many
of the metropolitan papers indulge. in
SO freely, and its editorials are always
timely, well written and instructive.
While we do not agree wish the Sun
in politics, it is one of the most wei.
come and carefully perused exchanges
that grace our table.
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Preacher-Every man must some
day settle his account with his maker.
Tailor wish you could impress Mr..
Palmer with that idea. He hasn't set
tied ith me in about two years.
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"My DEAR" said the man who had
been waiting for his wife t. get ready
for the theatre, 81 am inclined to be
lieve that if you had been born man
you would have been professional
pugilist." "Why?" "Because it
takes you so long t, put on a pair of
gloves"
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Ringing Noises

In the ears, sometimes roaring, bu z
zing sound, are caused by catarrh, that
exceedingly disagreeable and very COM
mon disease, Loss of smell or hearing
also result from catarrh. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, the great blood purifier, is pc
culiarly successful remedy for this dis
ease, which it cures by purifying the
blood.
Hoods Pills are the best after dinner
pills, assist digestion, prevent constips-
sion.
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Jerry Simpson says that he will leave
Congress bankrupt; that he has even
mortgaged his home to pay his ex-
penses in public life on $1,000 a year.
Ii the Pupulists had had their way
they would have left the country a
bankrupt.-Ex.
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SENATOR HIGGINS has served his
state and nation worthily and well.
No other nan in DelaN are has better
or stronger claims upon
his party, and it will be to the lasting
honor of the state to return him to
the u. S. Senate.
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AS further proof that we are enjoy
ing the blessings of revenue" tariff,
the administration is preparing to pass
around the hat again in the loan mar
ket and Congress is proposing seriously
to increase the tax on beer.-N. y.
Advertiser.
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Mrs. Highup (wearily)-"Woman's 8
work is never done" Mrs. Wayupp
(drearily)-"Too true. A man may get
rich and retire from business, but a
woman must go on making and reeeiv-
ing calls to the day of her death.'
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THE men who voted for the Republi-
can members of our Legislature on
November 9Th, also voted for Anthony
Higgins for Senator. Let the Legisla-
ture remember this when they make
their nomination.
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He-You said before you were mar
ried that | could sit around with my
coat off and smoked when l pleased.
She-Yes; out you don't please when
you sit around with your coat off and
smoke.
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George-Do you take after your
father or your mother? Mary-I don't
know as l take after either of them,
but they H both take after yyeH IL IL they
see you here.
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Dfscouraging Statistics.

1t transpires that only twenty five
prize fighters have been killed in the
ring in the last hundred years. This
is very discouraging.
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Smythe-"I intend Harry for the
bar; would you advise his beginning on
such old works as Coke and Black
stone?" TompkiDs-"No; would be-
gin by grounding him even further
back" Smythe-''Indeedl In what ?'
Tompkins-''The The Ten Command
ments."
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Our WOnan'S
.....Column

lie women who are
engaged in ranch
ing in California
are said to be in
variably success
full, more so than
men in many in
stances, which is
accounted for by
the fact that if a
woman has busi-
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WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7st, 1885,
Anything, SO it is a currency bill, is
now the cry of the administration to
the House. Just why Mr.. Cleveland
should be so anxiousthe for House pass
a currency bill of some SOFT, when he
must know, as everybody else does,
that no currency bill that can be put
through the House will stand even a
ghost of show to get through the
Senate, is not apparent; but the fact
remains that he is. 1t was this anx-
iety that caused him to make friends
with Senator Hill, who is now using
his influence with Democrats of the
House to get a bill passed, going so
far as to tell the silver members tha!
the Senate will pass the bill and return
it to the House with an amendment
providing for the coinage of seignor-
age on the silver bullion now in the
Treasury. The Democratic House
caucus this afternoon settled nothing,
because it was agreed beforehand that
it should take no action that would be
binding upon anybody, but it begins to
look as though the House would pass
a bill. No man is in position, how
ever, to say exactly what its nature
will be, or whs ther it will be the Car
Isle bill or one the several substitutes
that will be offered in the House.
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"Uncle Joe" Cannon, of ILL.,, has a
way of stating things in a nutshell
that has always made his opinion val
liable to his colleagues in the House.
He said of the present financial situa-
tion: "Al this talk about gold disap-
peareance is merely cover for the
fact that the revenues of The govern
ment are not sufficient to meet the ex-
penditures. If Congress will provide
sufficient revenue there will be no
trouble about the currency"
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The administration is beginning to
realize what serious mistake Sec.
Gresham made when he wrote that Off
cial letter saying that the differential
duty imposed on sugar fIom countries
paying an export bounty on sugar, was
treaty violation. The representa-
tives of all the continental European
nations are using that letter as basis
for their protests and threats of retail
iation, and there is no hope for Con-
gTess.
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s. M. REYNOLDS s. Co.
LOW PRICES REIGN!
Great
Sale
Now On!

Dress GoOds.-About 10 pieces Dress Goods have been
1oc 5c, &c., all now per yard Others have been 5oc
81 1-2c, now 37c, 25c.
All Caicoes, sc. Yard.-Fruit of Loom and Hill Mus
Inns 1-2c, from Utica c-4 Sheeting 25c Lockwood
1914 Sheetlng 22c. A Bleached Muslin was &C. now &C.
Canton Flannes, Ioc, 1-2c &C. now &c. 1oc nc
&C. Canton &C.
Notions Pins, paper, Best Spool Ceons and Silk
I-2c spool, Whalebones sc. Dozen DeLong Hooks and
Eyes &C. card. Other Hooks and Ewes, &c card Other
Spool Cottons Smiths Needless &C. Childrens Hose
&C. pair Ladies Fancy Hose &C. pair Infants Plush Caps
25c, were soc.
Coats and Wraps.-Ladies old style Coats were s4
S and So now $3.50 Just the thing for riding md out of
door uses Chlldrens Goats, s. 81, S. now ST.
Misses Coats reduced two-thirds
Mems Clothing.-SI3 all wool Suits now s1o all wool
S1o now IS. 81 Suit S. Boys piece Suits were
SI25 s., S., now S5c, S14o S2.25
All Wool Blankets-Were $3.50, s1.75 Other
Blankets, were SIPS, SI.75, 95c and sr.35 Heavy
Comforts, the SI.25 kind now o5c
Gum Boots.-Bes makes only. The s. grade, now
$780, The $3.50 grade S. Ladies Pebble Boots were
S2.2 now S175. Misses Pebble Boots were ST. now s15o
Chl!drens Pebble Boots, 81 so s1.2s
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OPFIoE-MAIF AND BROAD STREETS, )
MlDDLETowN. DEEAwARE.'
MARY r. BURRIs, EDITOR.
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Bucklen,s Arnica SaIva

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped hands,
Chilblains, ,Corns, and all skin Eruptions
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25cents per box. For sale at DIR.
Vaughan's Pharmacy.
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The first woman publisher was Char
lotte Flower Wells, who went into bus
mess with her two brothers in 1914.
She is still in business in New York
and declares she never has time to
realize that she is growing old.
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fHE TRANSCRIPT is published every Sat-
urday Morning, and delivered by Carrier
10 subscribers residing in Middletown.
ADvERT1sEME EMS will be inserted at
as reasonable a rate as Is compatible
with high-class newspaper having
large and constantly increasing cir
culation.
ADVERTISING RATES-For Display Ads,
SOC per inch for first insertion, 25c per inch
:or every succeeding insertion.
Yearly ads lOc per inch.
LOCAL ADS-Under "Briefs,"5c SC per line,
Pure Reading Notices with heading, 1Oc per
line.
BILLS must be paid monthly.
CHECKS, money orders or postal Inotes
should be drawn to the order OF, and
Communications should be addressed to
THE TRANSCRIPT,
MIDDLETowN, DEL.
ATNO communications published unless
accompanied by full name OF the writer
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Overtures have been made by friends
of the Administrator to Republican
Senators, t. ascertain how much SUP
port can be obtained OH the kepubli
can side of the Senate for the attempt
to kill the income tax by Withholding
the appropriation to put it into effect.
Nearly all the Republican Senators
would vote to repeal the income tax,
but unless there is great change,
very few of them will vote to with
hold the appropriation. 1t is believed
that their mutual opposition to the
income tax was one of the factors
which brought about the recent recon-
ciliation between Mr.. Cleveland and
Senator Hill.
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D,44;L W.T.

Patti has Weakness for dogs. Mex
ican spaniels are her special favorites,
and to see small spaniel with her.
Wherever she goes she carries one
with her. half hidden in a silk shawl.
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MIDDLETOWN, DEL, JAN. 19, 1896.

/ ,tered at the Post Office as second-class matter
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Jacob Reeds Sons,
CHESTNUT ST, 9l6-9ls-92o-a22. pIIILA

Excellent Clothing for Men
and Boys at Thoroughly Fair
Prices. Mems Suits and Over
coats from $40 up. Especially
strong lines at sI2 and SIS.
Boys all-wool Suits S.. Boys
all-wool Cape Overcoats S..
Furnishings, Hats. Shoes, Etc.
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1t is said that when Mrs. Oscar Wilde
asked Browning to write in her auto :
graph album, in which many famous
people had written, he responded with
pleasure and wrote: "From a poet to
a poem"
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Complaints against the postage
stamps turned out by the bureau of
Engraving and Printing continue to
pour into the post office Department.
These complaints are now mostly
against the stamps of higher denomi-
nation than two cents, and include i'm
perfect perforation, poor finish and in
ferior designs. Millions of the two
cent stamps had to be destroyed be-
cause of inferior cumming befose that
denomination became even fairly salts
factory. Whether any of the stamps
Of higher denomination, against which
the present complaints are directed
will have to be destroyed, is question
not yet decided by the Department.
The promotion of Hon. J. e. Bur-
rows to the Senate by the Republican
legislature of Michigan, gave his
friends in Congress much personal
pleaure, but when viewed from the
strictly party point of view, the gap
his departure from the House will
leave in the front rank of the heaviest
fighters, is not specially pleasing to
Republicans, although there are plenty
of men more than ,nxious to take his
place.
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The retirement of Representative
Burrows from the House will leave the
contest for the craftsmanship of the
ways and means committee between
the great States of New York and
Pennsylvania. 1t is customary but
not obligat tory, for the Speaker of the
House to name as the chairman OF
that important committee, the senior
member of his party on that commit
tee. The custom was ignored by the
present Speaker who jumped Mr.. Will
son, over the head of Mr.. Springer and
made him chairman. IfSpeaker Reed
follows the custom Representative
Payne, of New York, will be chairman
of the committee, if he desires to be;
but somehow the impression is strong
among Republicans in the House that
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsylva-
MIA, who is next to Mr.. Payne on the
committee, stands as good, if not bet
ter chances to become its chairman.
1t would be highly imp oper for either
of these gentlemen t, attempt to in
fuence the choice of the Speaker, but
their colleagues are free TO do what
they can in that direction, and the
good-natured rivalry between the
States to secure the craftsmanship pro-
misses to be interesting to everybody,
except Mr.. Reed, who will have to de-
eide.
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Does everv one know that the wife
of Robert Louis Stevenson was a
grandmother when her romantic
marriage with the author occurredf
Mrs. Stevenson's first husband was
Samuel Osborne and at the time Of
her second marriage her daughter,
who had married Joseph Strong, the
San Francisco artist, was a mother.