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Middletown transcript., 1895-07-27
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLE-
DEE.

DEE.
"'The Ideal Citizen, as pictured by
Rev. Joseph Brown Turner, from the
pulpit of Dover's Presbyterian Church
recently, is certainly most excellent
and timely sermon. The DelaaUdrean
of Saturday last published the discourse
in full, and the Democratic and inde-
pendent press of the State opposed to
the wholesale debauchery of elections
by purchase with money, are not slow
in giving it wide circulation. .''-Ne,c
Era.
There is an old saying that children
and fools tell the truth. The readers
Of the TRANSCRIPT, having read in
last weeks paper, the long extracts
from Rev. Mr.. Turner's sermon and
the editorial comments made by US,
will be able to guess at the meaning of
the above clipping. Since the TRAN
SCRIPT gave not only the "widest
circulation" but the most extended
clippings it may claim to be classed as
of the 'independent press" of the
State. And so it is. Independent to
strike a blow for the right and to
denounce the wrong whether in its own
party or in that of another. But what
is the Democratic opposition as told
by the the guileless Neso Era? 1t is
first to the WHOLESALE debauchery,"
and second "by purchase with money"
This was the sum and substance of
Mr.. Addicks' offending. The Demo
Gratis have bought votes in this State
for years but not by "wholesale, :"
perhaps, but they have bought them
and the excuses offered by the Demo-
cratic press of the State for their own
party, is the most discouraging sign of
the whole damnable practice. So loEg
as it is done by Democrats and not by
the ''wholesale" it is all right with
the Democratic press as the Neao Era
makes so plain in its guilelessness.
Such statement is shame but it is
the truth.
And then the second statement of
the Ne,o Era, so childlike in its truth
fulness: Opposition to bribery ''by
purchase with money" Whatother
methods of bribery are there? The
Ne,0 Era knows of the kind practiced
by Democrats for years-by purchase
with Office. To this it is not opposed,
at least such is the inference from its
statement. And then the bribery Of
especial constables," of which the
Ne,o Era is so very chary. If the evil
were not so enormous, if bribery were
not so deep rooted in the politics of
the State, the attitude of the Demo-
cratic press in denouncing Addicksism
and excusing their own crimes because
they are of such long standing,
would be extrmelY ridiculous.
But when the press of a party ignores
the stbeams" IN its own eyes and cries
aloud at the ''motes' in the eyes of its
opponents, especially when that party,
by right or wrong, governs and con-
trolls the whole Of the State machinery,
then the question is not one to make
light of, but it is serious. 1t is a
threatening evil and we would delight
to see the pulpits of the State turned
against it, not because it is Democratic,
not because it is Republican, but be-
cause it is an evil that needs The at
tention of all good men.
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Delight fu1One-Day Trips toRehoboth
Del, or Ocean City, Md.
On Thursdays, August 1, Is, and 20, a
special train will be rnn by the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
Company to Behoboth and Ocean City. A
full day at either of these popular resorts
will be allowed, and the lowest rates
charged.
This trip affords an excellent chance to
spend day in bathing, sailing, and fishing
with but small expenditure of money.
The trains will be run on the schedule
and tickets sold as follows:
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That it is larger, better, fuller and
cheaper than the same class of
goods can be found elsewhere.
Mems Fine Percale Shirts, Qaundered)
75c. and $1.00-worth every cent
of $1.00, $1.25 and 81. so each.
Mems Fine White Dress Shirts. 5Oc.
75c. and $1.00.
Mems Fancy Front, at $1.OO.
Mems Silk Scarfs, 25c. each-all silk.
Mems Plain and Fancy Wash Ties.
&C., 10c. and 15c.
Mems Cheviot Shirts, light colors,
Mems Striped Overalls, with apron
Mems Hickory Coats, soc.
Mems Sweaters, 25 and soc.
Men Straw Hats, 25c, 5Oc., reduced
from SOC. and $1.0O.
Mems Cashmere Ga Suitines. were
$1.5O, $2.00 and $500. Now S1.OO.
$1.5O and $500 the yard.
Mems Thin Coats, that were Soc.
Sl.OO, $3.50 and $2OO, now put
at Csc, 50c., 81 90 and ST .25.
mems Russet Shoes, were $1.5O, now
We only have few sizes of the Doug
last Shoes left, and it will not pay
you to let them go by. The So 90
kind are now placed at $2.25, the
$500 kind at $1,75, the $500 kind
at $500.
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8 cents

8 cents
per yard, to enable those of
our customers who were dis
sappointed in not getting any
of the first lot.
Only fifty of those elegant
Corded Kaiki Wash Silk
Shirt Waists left. Reduced
from s. to S1.25, in the fol-
lowing sizes
II of size 81
~ of size 36
25 of size SO
9 of size 40
Count S yards of silk to
each waist and whatever you
will have to pay for making
and the result will certainly
induce you to get one of
these if you can find the size
to suit you.
Organdie Lawn Waists
with small herring-bone stripe
in sizes 90 to 40, and colors
blue, green, yellow, pink, law
ender and gray. The regular
price, all season, $3.50 ; the
whole line is now reduced to
81 each.
One more lot of Lawn
Waists in sizes 80, "a and SO,
and colors black and white,
blue and white, pink and
white are reduced from $1.25
to 7o cents.
Our sale of Summer Cot
ton Wash goods will again
commence on Wednesday
morning at 8 o'clock. We
shall continue this sale until
our present stock of goods is
entirely closed out. You will
also find among these reduced
cottons many splendid bar
gains, enough so to buy and |
lay aside for future wants. |
Note the following reduction, |
commencing with Imported |
Scotch Ginghams for 2oc per |
yard, same as you've bought |
tor IS and 4oc and
- Japonettes, 124c from 25c
Plisse, 1Oc from Csc
Crepons, 64c from 15c
Dimities, SC from I2Ic
Lawns, sc from 12Ic
Ginghams, sc from 12lc
Cheviots, 10c from 25c
We would be glad to have
you or any storekeepers get |
samples of these goods. It
will pay anybody.
Summer Gauze Under
wear, high necks, short and
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The store s0lW be closed every
e0enimg at6o'el0ek during July
and august.
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We are again offering a
splendid assortment of Scotch
Lawns at
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Female Weakness,

Many beautiful women die in the very prime
OF life. Others live to middle age, but are sci.
dom sound and healthy. Why Is this vo,,
ask? We answer Self Neglect, but your life
can be heightened and home made happy if
you commence at once. Try one package Of
Farks Vaginal Suppositories and you will
man of you and will absolutely cure all the
distressing forms of female weaknesses. No
experiment. No doctors examination.
positive cure LeucOrrhea OF whites are usn-
ally entirely cured by one or two applications
ticulars [sealedl &c.
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JNO. A. REYNOLDS.
MIDDhEIoWN, DELAWAER
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CURRENT EVENTS.

eturning, leave Rehoboth 5.4
IN City 500 P. NJ.
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GRIT FOR FOULS.

Grit is as essential to the health of
fowls as teeth are to the human being.
1t fills the same office for grinding up
the food and aiding digestion. If the
gizzard OF a perfectly healthy fowl be
examined, it will be found to contain a
liberal supply of grit or gravel, thereby
presenting a striking contrast to- the
gritless giZzard of a sick bird. A fail
ure to grind up the food properly is
responsible for indigestion, bowel
trouble and congested liver. The food
gets sour, clogs UP the passages, and,
if not relieved. death ensues. Keep
your birds literally supplied with grit
at all times.
To make "stone-meal," or grit, heat
the stones in the stove for half an
hour; if they are then thrown in wa
ter they become so friable that they
can be broken into small pieces by
the hands and may easily be pulver-
lied with a hammer.
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PROFIT IN DIVERSIFIED CROPS.

Frank P. Connell, who has a fine
farm a mile or more from Teoka, is
easily the most comfortably fixed
farmer IN North Whitman county,
Washington, and it is his boast that
during all his twenty years of farming,
he has never sold but one crop of
wheat, and he lost money on that.
During the early eighties, when his
neighbors were raising wheat, hauling
it TO Cheney and Spokane, and selling
it for 80 cents per bushel, Mr.. Connell
was feeding his wheat to hogs. He
cured the meat, hauled it to Spokane
and along the line of the Northern
Pacific, then being built, and sold it
for is and 20 cents per pound. He
says he could have paid so cents per
bushel for wheat for hog feed, and still
realized a handsome profit from his
pork.
During all the years since then, Mr..
Council has made his farm produce
almost everything that Palouse farm
will produce, and his farm has been a
success. He declares that though
twenty years old, his farm has re-
turned him a greater profit during the
past two years than at any other like
period since he took 1t up as raw land.
in the pioneer days. This seems like
a remarkable statement. in view of the
almost universal depression, but it IL
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Make your stock comfortable.

Make your stock comfortable
In Iowa barb wire fences are being
used for conveying telephone messages.
Weeds in the orchard should not be
allowed, nor should the crust be permit
ted to bake.
nourishment and proper exercise, are the
pathways to success.
Competition between eastern and west
ern farmers is yearly growing less. In
vantage OF Il nearby market.
The time is at hand when farmers. If
they would succeed in their business.
must pay more attention TO saving and
producing fertilizers tor their land
Only people in fairly good circumstances
can afford to buy all the berries that Il
large family would use If they had them :;
but even poor man, ii he has a little
land, can easily raise this full supply.
If your horse is not eating his feed we'll
have his teeth examined before dosing
him with medicine 10 increase his appe-
tlte. A man with an aching tooth is not
horse.
As you take ore crop off the garden
put another on. DO not allow the weeds
to take possession. AS i'll every depart
ment or lie, so in the garden: they con-
sumo more vitality than the cultivated
crops.
Survival of the fittest is the law of
business and trade, remarks Colmans
II Poor
farmers will be squeezed to death. There
is no way to prevent ii. The poor mer-
chant goes down, and the shiftless me
chanic never gets ahead; the same rule
must work with the tiller of the soil
The majority of farmers should denend
upon raising their own dairy stock. This
should be done more cheaply than COWS
could be bought, especially at the pres
ent time And the advantage is that the
helferS can be raised in a proper man.
her and adapted to the farm, which could
not come from frequent changes in ow-
nership.
mer crop. 1t grows on poor land, but
yields more largely if the land is rich.
1t IS considered a profitable crop for
blowing under in the fall, being used for
renovating poor land Its blossoms afford
excellent forage for bees at a time when
they can find but few. honey producing
plants on which to work
Lakeport Lake county, supports a
creamery. The managers of the enter
prise pay so much a pound for the butter
fat in the milk, as tested by an approved
TO the people from whom they buy. The
rate paid enables the rancher to realize
about So per month per coW.-Iapa Reg
lister.
pure sire of the new breed and follow
that up with another and another. If
you chance to get what You admire in the
preferred breed get the strongest strain
OF blood in that breed and keep it. In
four crosses you will have substantially
what you want, but continue with pure
sires or atavism will overturn all your
work when you use anything else.
There are many cld pastures which can
be much improved by narrowing with a
forty-tooth drag that will cut into The
surface soil. This will admit air to places
covered by moss, ard enable the grass to
grow more vigorously OF course some
of the roots of the grass will be DESTROY
ed but the stirring of the soil will make
more grow in their places. If there is
much moss on the surface it will require
under draining to rnmeve surplus water
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BETTER CULTIVATION.

Better cultivation than is usual
should be given to all our crops, at any
rate. The average cultivation is not
half thorough enough. 1t should be
doubled and trebled even in an or
binary season, writes T. Griener in
the Farm and Fireside. 1t is especially
needle now, when the clouds refuse to
furnish the ordinary amount of water
The soil is pretty dry already. Constant
stirring of the surface will preserve
moisture. Whether it does this by the
prevention of evaporation, or by con-
densation from the atmosphere, makes
very little difference in practice. Let
scientists have their dispute over this
question. We are satisfied to know
that constant tillage keeps our crops
fresh and growing, while the crops on
carelessly titled land suffer from star
alton, for the good effect of thorough
tillage is not alone in the preservation
of the moisture. 1t also provides food
by furnishing the best possible chances
for chemical actions and changes in
the soil. In short, better cultivation is
needed in any year, and irrespective
of the prices we are likely to realize
for our products. Better cultivation
may pay us better, however, when the
crops that receive it sell for an es-
pecially good figure. L am keeping
cultivators and hoes in almost constant
use this season.
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POULTRY IN THE COUNTRY.

Have You taken a trip into the
country lately? And did you notice
the fiocks of poultry on nearly every
farm? What a mixture you saw;
Plymouth Rock, Wyandotte, Lang
shan. Cochin, Drama, etc. that have
been bred in end in so long that they
are reduced to the size of the Leghorn.
And their vitality reduced to the low
est point. Such birds, even if properly
housed and cared for. will produce only
a very limited number of eggs. No
wonder we hear the cry that poultry
does not pay when such a course of
breeding is adopted; but, occasionally,
we run across a farmer who has ap-
piled the new system to breeding of
poultry, that he has in breeding horses,
cattle, hogs and sheep, and here we
find an altogether different looking lot
of birds. uniform in size, and making
healthy, vigorous and good layers.
and their owner is proud of them, ana
is very emphatic in The statement
that there is a good profit in poultry.
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nevertheless true. 1t is due altogether
to Mr.. Connelrs practical methods.
Last fall Mr.. Cornell had several
thousand bushels of wheat. He bought
5000 bushels more, at 10 cents per
bushel. This grain he fed to hogs.
Yesterday his teams arrived in Spo-
kane with 5000 pounds of cured meat,
all of which he sold, with little or
no difficulty, at a handsome figure.
But Mr.. Council does not give his
entire attention to raising hogs. His
farm turns off everything that is sal
able.
There is a lesson in this for every
farmer, and while many have already
taken it home, some there are yet who
may profit
When the farmer gives up wheat
raising as a business, and turns his
attention to diversified farming, then
will begin his prosperity; then will
he be able to wink at the mortgage
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GOOD ROADS
FOR THE CYCLIST.
join with the Farmer for State
Legislation.
ODD FACTS BY A WHEELER
typical ROADS IN FRANCE AND
BELGIUM.
Several Good Systems Described by
Which the Roads of European
Nations Are Kent in Perfect Con-
ditinE-HintS For Home People.

When the bicyclists Of that ordinarily
quiet city of Brooklyn arose in their
wrath and demanded a section Of the
great Ocean boulevard running in a
straight line from Prospect Park to 1 =
ney Island, seven miles away, it was a
great victory for the cycling world. 1t is
seldom that the rest of the nation hears
anything at all from the one million and
more units of humanity comprising the
population of Brooklyn, but the city has
now established a record for itself that
other towns stricken with the cycling fe-
Yer may do well to copy
There are some fine bicycle roads in
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roads of all classes. The best roads of
Belgium are in the provinces of Namur,
Liege and Luxembourg, and permanent
employees are kept on the roads under
province, for the purpose of inSuring the
observance of the regulations and look
ing after the constant repair of the high
Way,I.
In Baden the main roads are under
the supervision of the state authorities,
and are cared for with d studious regard
for the requirements of the farmer and
inland traveller. Under the law relating
to roads in Baden the duty of main
tanning the roads falls as follows: One
quarter each upon the town and county
in which the road is situated, the remain
ing one-half upon the state treasury
In HesSe-DarmStadt the roads are divi-
ded into two classes, called state roads
and district roads, of which the former
are a direct. care and charge upon the
general government, and when the dis
trict roads become so important as to re-
quire the attention of the state officers,
they can, under the direction of the dis
trict assembly, be declared state roads.
Every district is bound to appoint the ne
cessary officials connected with the dis
trict roads. These officials consist of a
skilled person who must be capable of
filling the Office of district overseer and a
proper force of laborers requisite for the
work in hand.
In Italy, Austria and England, partic-
ularly the latter, the roads are magnifi-
cent. OF course these countries are much
smaller in area than the United States.
but each individual state could at least
partially accomplish what the foreign ma
tons, as d whole, do so well. In all of
the countries named cycling is a pleasure
second to nothing. Here it often 1avors
too strongly of hard work, particularly
when some unknown country district is
ventured into.
But coming back to the original adj
vice, let the cyclers and farmers put
their joint shoulders to the wheel and
keep turning until good roads are ex-
tracted from the lottery of legislation.
A SCORCHER
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arc in such frightful condition during
one-thiTd of the year that the farmers
are unable TO make use of their draught
stock for weeks at a time. When horses
are unable to draw q lightly laden wa
con along road in the meanest seasons
OF tt-s> year, there is mighty little pleas
ure for the cycler in pedal,ing his wheel
along thai road in the best of times
What is true in New York is true, to
more or less degree, in all her sister
states. with the possible exception of New
Jersey, where there are many fine roads.
Unite With the Farmers.
1t may be a new idea to a great many
lovers of the wheel 10 be told that they
and the farmers have a strong oand of
sympathy bis wnen the question is ex-
smined into this will be found to be the
case
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THE OLD CHURN.


Back in a corner among the refuse
Stands an old cfurn. long years out OF
use.
Its ribs are of cedar with hickory dash,
And this is its song with many q plash-
''E'lpity flop, oh, isn't it fun
will not stop till the butter is done"
IL
Many's the tale this churn could tell,
How Brother Tom and Sister Nell
Have been called in to take their turn
To drive the dasher in the churn,
And by this industry to learn.
And fiipity. flop, when once they begun
They could not stop till the butter was
done.
My mothers hands. now still and cold.
Have grasped the handle worn and old.
All now | see her as she stood
And worked to feed her little brood.
While the old churn sang as it ever would
''Flipity flop, Oh. isn't it fun
1 will not stop till the butter Is DONE"
A maiden fair with eyes so bland,
With tender heart. and soft white hand.
Has churned away like '-alI possessed''
To please the one whom she loved best,
And would not stop to talk or rest
Flipity flop. you bet that was finn,
And she forgot TO stop when the butter
was done.
And. oh, we liked to see Il, too
This dairy crop OF the saffron hue;
At breakfast, supper or at dine
We blessed our friends the churn and
kline,
For it made the bickwheat cakes so fine
F'lipity flop. say II was fun
When 1t did not stop till the butter was
done.
VI.
Now scattered all from east to west,
Some living yet. some gone to rest;
My brother Tom has gone to sea.
My sister Nell has children three.
And here are left the churn and me.
Flipity flop, it is no more fun,
The churn is stopped, the butter is done.
VII.
Who reads this tale of churn and rhyme
Must know he can but serve his time
In idleness or industry.
In health and wealth or misery:
Or IL perchance it yet should be
Flipity flop from sun to sun,
You must not stop till the butter is done.
Cam Moonra, in Farm and Home.
tn dry a ma re- tf, f, her. milk feed bar.
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Average
'otals. SO, 393, SSS LIZ. SIS, 79s


To simplify matters a little, there are
nearly 5000 200, 600 invested in motive
power OF perlShable, uncertain and eX-
penslVe kind. Busy or idle. these ami
mails must be fed and cared for every
day. They are boarders that can't be
gotten rid of when the busy season is
over, and to keep them at work is part of
a farmers economy. Two thousand mil
lion of dollars make large sum Invest
ed at . per cent interest it would pro-
duce nearly 100000 per week. Then
there are more than sixteen million of
horses ana mules alone, and to feed and
care Tor these it costs the modest sum of
Si,O0,O00 per day. A little while ago d
very clever and intelligent citizen of In
diana estimated that bad roads cost the
FARMER $I5 per year for each horse and
mule in his service. This means a loss
IN the aggregate Ofnearly $3.50, GEO. GEO per
year. Add wear and tear of wagons and
harnesses, $lO0, 00O. 900; deprecated value of
farm lands 81 600 600, 600: total 81 $50 600. 900
Making the utmost allowance in favor
of the farmer and granting the necessity
Tor the liberal use of horsepower in the
maintenance of agricultural traffic, it IS
easily certain that the farmers of this
country are keeping at least two millions
OF horses more than would be necessary
to do all the hauling between farm and
market, If only the principal roads were
brought to good condition. Assume
that each of these horses is fed the or
binary army ration of hay and oats, it
requires 1900 tons of hay TO fodder and
10000 bushels of oats per day to feed
these unnecessary animals, winch them
selves have a money value of $40 900, 600.
The value of nay and oats fed to these
horses per day is about 100000, or some
thing like $114,O00,000 per year.
Foreign Systems of the Roads.
If the road question of this country
were placed in the hands of government
al officials and they were sent to the Eu-
ropean countries to study up the matter,
a good deal could be learned. France
is a nation of fine roads. These roads
are not built by farmers, who work OUT
their highway taxes in the manner fol-
lowed largely in this country, nor by the
infantile implements employed here. The
government manages the whole affair
by a system as careful as the rules which
regulate our mint. There is a chief Off
cial who is responsible for the main roads
of the French republic, and through his
SubordinateS is kept constantly informed
of the conditions of all the roads. The
work is subdivided among hundreds of
superintendent and assistants and their
assistants before the actual workmen
are reached.
In Belgium also the principal roads
are built and maintained by the general
government, and in 1880 in the nine pro-
vinces of Belgium over 70 per cent. of the
high roads were of this class, the entire
length of high-class roads being Alb
English miles, out of a total Of 5,2S6 of