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Middletown transcript., 1896-10-24

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets drst Ffi-
lay night Of each month in Hose House.
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UP STAIRS AND DOWN.

oil secretions drop into quart of watel
half teaspoonful of borax. Wash thl
scalp in this, and you will bring youl
locks to that state of flufiiness 30 de.
sirable in these days of ours and
crimps.
Tell your laundress to test the eff.
cacy Of borax as cleansing agent
when washing fannels. One teaspoon.
full of borax to pail Of water is q
good consistency.
She may also add to quart of starch
teaspoonful with excellent results.
Employing borax in place of soap
will save the goods from fading.
A weak solution OF borax and water
used as mouth rinser in the morning
will sweeten the breath and whiten the
teeth.
Give cook a box of powdered borax
for her sink shelf. She will find 1t
such help in keeping dish cloths and
towels sweet and she will at the same
time be able to to keep her hands in
good condition.
You cannot do without borax in the
bathroom. Used with. discretion it
adds very decidedly to any bath room
scheme You may have in hand. To
six gallons of I. water may be added
quarter of pound Of borax. This is an
excellent proportion. You will find
that your bath bags are not complete
until few pinches Of borax have been
allowed to mingls with oatmeal and
0rris root.
Borax is q necessity when fitting out
your travelling case with toilet articles.
KINDS OF KISSES.
Some one with plenty Of time on his
hands has conceived the idea Of hunt
ing through the works of all the we'll
known English and American novelists
for the purpose of gathering all the ad-
jectives with which they qualify the
word kiss.
The result Of his labor Is that kisses
can be as follows: Cold. warm, icy,
burning, chilly, cool, loving Indifferent.
balsamic, fragrant, blissful, passionate,
aromatic, with tears believed, long.
seft, hasty, intoxicating, assembling.
delicious, pious. tender, beguiling,
hearty, distracted, frantic, fresh a. the
breathing dre. divine, sa-
Eanic. glad, sad, superficial. .quiet, loud,
fond. heavenly, execrable. devouring,
pmineus. feverish, parching, nervous,
Iodllesa. akupefyinss alisht, careless,
nnxiouss paintnls sueof srefreshine, en-
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GIRLS rHE BEST BUrrER-MAKERs.
Denmark has les population and
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Stand by oar Courtsi

There is another thing that we propose
to do. We propose to stand by the courts
Of the United States They. have been
more than once our sheet anchor In time
Of trouble, the tribunal that has protected
the weak against the STRONG and that has
BEEN uninfiuenced by wealth and un-
swervcd BY passion. We propose, In o
word, to stand by our free institutions
grand, noble institutions they are, where
every young man hns chance In the race
Of Hfe-and we spurn the suggestion that
there are classes In the United Statea
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WEDDING sUPERsrIr1oNs

WEDDING sUPERSTITIONS.
If the wedding ring is lost, the cou-
pie will separate.
If an apple be thrown upon the roof
of the bridegroom's h,use it is sign
the bride will be happy.
The bride must not look in the glass
after performing her toilette unless
one hand is ungloved.
If bride tears her wedding dress it
is not good.
1t is unlucky for a bride to put her
bare feet on any bare floor on her we'd
ding night.
To change the name and not the let
ter is to change for worse and not the
better.
If the bride open an umbrella in the
house, bad luck will surely follow.
1t is unlucky for two brides to meet
in church.
1t is unlucky for the best man to
wear everything black at the cefemony.
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Economy, and a summary Of the News of
the Week. Its MARKET REPORTS are un-
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paid to the Prospects Of the Crops, as throw
ing light upon one of the most important Of
all questions When to Buy and When to Sell.
It is literally illustrated, and contains more
reading matter than ever before. The sub
scrption Price is 81 80 per year, but we offer
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MIDDLEToWN. DEL. OCT. "a, 1895.
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shopping is the latest fad. It is now
the correct thing for the prospective
bride and groom to 60 with their par
ents on appointed mornings and buy
broom, and carving knife and fork,
salt cellar, Bible, brass doorkn ecker
a candle stick and a pair or bellows. This
peculiar shopping party concludes with
q luncheon to the united families. It
is considered not quite refined to dis
play the wedding gifts on the day of
the wedding, but two or three days be-
fore, the mother of the bride invites
her friends to see the gifts. The last
days before the ceremony are busy ones
Of the bride elect, as it falls to her per-
sonally to write a note of thanks for
every gift she received. and good form
demands that she should also address
the invitations and seal each one with
white wax. She has made for her an
especial seal wreathed in orange blos-
SONS. This seal becomes little souve-
mir that is given to her mother, while
her white silk wedding stockings 60 to
her youngest sister. From her private
purse she sends fee to the cook who
bakes her wedding cake. Wedding
superstitions and customs seem to null
tiply and small wonder is that weeks
are required to properly marry Miss
Fin de Steele.
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q. L. TOWNSEND, Jr.
Bicycle Agency
-. ODESSA, DEL -.
~

Come and examine my stock Of Bicycles
before purchasing. Don't pay $4,000 for q
wheel until you have seen our famous
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The TRAnscRrrr 81 PEI yeari
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-
The just engaged girl was telling the
other girls all about ''it," or, more
properly, "him." EYES," she said,
"I'm very much in love, I know, but
not in the blind, silly illogical way
that most girls are. I'm not so far
gone but that can see that he. has de-
fects-0h, lots of them-both in looks
and in character. Pm able to regard
him, thank goodnessl from a perfect
ly impartial and dispassionate stand
point" After which the just engaged
girl proceeded to go into detail. Ac-
cording to her impartial, dispassionate"
statement, "heo was it seemed, hand
some and amiable and clever and cour-
ageous and charming, and-"Sse here,"
interrupted one of the other girls, isn't
this rather onesidedp How about those
many defects you said you saw so
plainlyp Please mention some of them?''
SWELL" said the just-engaged girl, he
roicslly, after minutes silence, Zone
of his front teeth is just q little
crooked,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11
MAN WHO sPURNs MONEY.
Says That Natures Gifts Are Enough fOl
Him.
From the San Francisco Call.


| Him.
From the San Francisco Call.
lie Sterling is living exemplication
of the theory that man can live without
money and not be tramp. There is no
disputing it, for he has done so. 1t
hardly seems credible, and yet Joe says
positively that he has not handled ISM
gle dollar in the last Is years, and at the
same time he has had all he wanted to
eat and good, comfortable place to
sleep, as well as necessary clothes.
How has he done it? Why? And
| where? are questions one would natural
| ly ask.
And it might be answered that Joe did
it simply by taking advantage of the
gifts of nature. The reason he did it
was because be was too old to work.
The place, or rather places, was along
the banks of the San Joaquin river.
Of course Joe has had all the advant-
ages of civilization, but at the same
time he has been free from the worries
incidental to living in civilized communi-
ties. He has lived as free as the air,
slept peacefully every night, and now at
70 years of age feels like boy.
According to his own story, there was
time when Joe Steele was we'll
known man in California. He took his
place in the mad race for gold, and at
times was in the lead. He dressed in
fine clothes and frequented the most ex-
pensive hotels and restaurants. But
his time came as we'll as many others,
AMI when he was only little over go
he was a penniless old man walking
up and down Montgomery street in the
hope that some friend would ask him to
dine.
Just exactly how the change came is
something Joe has almost forgotten, but
be does know that some friend gave him
job to take care of a small hunting
ark. On the friends death nobody came
to claim the ark, and Joe has simply re-
tanned possession of it ever since. Joe
travelled up and down the rivers for
years, hunting and fishing until the ark
became leaky and he had to tie it up.
In time the house on it fell down, and he
had to replace it with one of tule. His
present anchorage is few miles above
Antioch, and he is one of the happiest
men In all California. Joe says if he had
to live his life over he would live 1t as
he is living now, but in locality where
nature is more bountifu than in the San
10 quin marsh. AS it is, he never
wants. There are plenty of fish and
frogs in the river, and tons of vegetables
float down the river that have only to be
picked up, Some he trades for old
clothes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11
cE0RGiA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

State School Commissioner Glenn's
report to the legislature is one that de-
serves the most careful consideration.
There is no question that will come
up for discussion before that body that
will be of more Importance to the pub
lie at large than that of giving a gen.
erous support to the country schools,
The hope of our future lies in the ad-
vancement of the cause of education.
1t must be apparent to every intelli-
gent citizen that if Georgia is to keep
abreast of the other states of the union
her children must have all the advant-
ages of a school system that is as good
as the best. The public schools Of the
state are far from being what they
should be. In some counties their con-
dition has been vastly improved, but
in the majority of them the old slip
shod methods of poor school houses,
low grade teachers and an INSULT
cheney of text books still prevail.
Commissioner Glenn proposes that
each county shall levy local tax for
the support of the schools, and he be-
lieves that the great majority of the
people are in favor of such law. The
counties which have the best schools
maintain them in this manner, and a
small pro rata tax added to the money
j.
would be sufficient to support the
schools for at least six months in the
year.
We hope the legislature will give
this school question very thoughtful
consideration, because there is no 9TH
err one thing that would contribute as
much to the upbuilding of the state as
good public schools.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11
How to Ward Off An Attack of Group

In speaking of this much dreaded dis
ase, Mr.. c. M. Dixon, of Pleasant
Ridge, Pa, said: 81 have little girl
who is troubled frequently during the
winter months with croupy affections.
Whenever the first symptoms occar my
wife gives her Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, and the result is always prompt
and satisfactory" This remedy is used
by thousands of mothers throughout the
United States, and in many foreign coun-
tries, and always with perfect success.
1t is only necessary to give it freely
when the child becomes hoarse or as
soon as the croupy cough appears and
all symptoms of Group will disappear.
For sale at 25 and so cents per bottle by
Farrar & Farrar, druggists.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11
By THE PEOPLE.

Representative Nevlns, of Floyd, yes
terday introduced in the house reso-
luton favoring the election of United
States senator by the people.
We do not need to look further than
the present to find ample reason for the
proposed change. Indeed, Represent
alive Nevins' resolution is altogether
timely, and is given additional force
by existing political conditions in Geor-
gia.
Here we have a body of legislators,
for the most part little politicians and
office traders--rather than wise and
able lawmakers, as the founders of our
commonwealth intended--nOw about
to defeat the will of an overwhelming
majority of their constituents and
send to the senate man who has been
most emphatically repudiated by his
people and who is in no sense accepta-
BILE to them.
We do not think that any further
evidence of the merits of the resOlu
tion in question are needed, but, if so
let the scenes which have been enacted
in and around the states capitol for ;
week or more past bear witness to tn,
iniquity of the present system 1t too
far removes from the people the RICH
to rule themselves, that chIefest o
American privileges, hence the oppor
tunity for improper practices, and TIT
possibility of having men forced upol
us, through process of political mach
nations, who are not acceptable.
The Georgia legislature canno
change the law regulating the election
of.United States senators, that being
federal provision, but it can, at least
reflect some credit on itself by giviny
this needed reform it's hearty endorse
ment.-Macon News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11
WILLIAM TO WILLIAM.
The TwOIPresidential Candidates Exchange
COurtesies,

N0uTGeslest
Upon the receipt OF a telegram from
Chairman Jones that Mckinley was
elected beyond doubt, Mr.. Bryan sent
the following telegram to William Nc
Kinley:
LINCOLN, NEB., Nov. Hon. William
Mckinley. Canton, Ohio: Senator Jones
bias just informed me that the returns
indicate your election and l hasten to
extend my congratulations. We have
submitted the issres to the people and
their will is law. W. j. BRYAN.
At noon the following day Major Nc
Kinley sent this telegram:
CANTON, O., November 6, 1896.-Hon.
William j. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.: I &C
knowledge the receipt of your courteous
message of congratulations with thanks
and beg you will receive my best wishes
for your health and happiness.
civilian MCKINLEY"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11
TO THE ASYLUM.
A Brilliant Newspaper Man the Victim of
OVerwOrk.
district,


ATLANTA, Nov. 6.-Mr, G. A. Niles,
who was for years the Atlanta &C RES
pOndent of the Macon Telegraph, and
later became managing editor of the Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun, is the victim of
overwork. His nervous system is shat
tered by the long strain and he was yes
terday committed to the asylum at the
instance of his mother and sisters, who
acted on the advice of DR.. Crawford.
Mr.. Niles represented the Telegraph
in Atlanta when Albert Lamar was its
editor. Six years ago he went to Colum.
bus to work on the Enquirer-Sun while
Colonel Richardson was owner of that
paper. Mr.. Niles was next to him in the
management.
Mr.. Niles disease took peculiar turn,
He imagnined he was going on a journey
and was continually packing his trunk.
He often wandered about the streets and
sometimes did not come home till near
daylight. This seems to be tne result oil
the long habit of working till o'clock in
tie morning.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

THERE is both comedy and tragedy
in the reports that are coming in about
the payment of election bets. In the
former class is the sacrifice by Secreta-
ry of the Interior Francis of four hairs
from his moustache in payment of a
wager. In the latter is a story from
ing near Little Rock, bet his farm, his
crops md everything else on earth that
he possessed, with his neighbor, J. II.
Hayes, that Bryan would be elected.
On Thursday he conceded that he had
lost, and accompanied Hayes to Little
Rock to have tranfer of the property
legally made, The payment of the
debt leaves Gray pauper.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11
Hen Matches Fish

The hens in China, when not engaged
in Matching out brood of their own
kind, are put to the additional task OF
Matching fish eggs. The spawn of the
fish are collected from the waters edge,
placed in an empty shell, Theoretically
sealed with wax, and placed under the
unsuspecting hen. After some days the
egg she'll is removed and the spawn,
warmed into life, is emptied into shall.
low pool well warmed by the sun.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

ALREADY the presldent-elect is being
reached out after by interested parties.
1t is said that two Washington church.
es have each sent him an invitation to
accept the use of pew during his term
as president, The church that becomes
known as the presidents church" dur.
ing an administration is pretty certain
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

Two men are reported to have started
an extensive hog farm near Mobile, Ala.
The animals are fed On refuse bananas,
coc0aputs and corn. The green bananas
are boiled, and the hogs like them much
better t1an the ripe fruit. They will
refuse I'm any time when they can ge.
bananas.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

to have full congregations, hence the
solicitude of the various churches to
secure.the attendance of the new pres
ident. Major Mckinley is Methodist.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

DEMocRACY's leader, the peerless
Bryan, is as great in defeat as he was
in the fierce political battle just
brought to close. After convincing
himself that his opponent had been
elected he Immediately sent him tele-
gram of congratulation. In nothing
has the mans true character, his
greatness, shone more brightly than in
his graceful acceptance of the peoples
will. "Their will is law" he says.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

MARX HANNA owns home in Thorn
asville, this state. 1t is reported that
the president-elect will be the guest of
his political manager at his home the
coming winter. 1t will be remember
ed that the Mckinley boom was practi-
cally launched in brownsville during
his visit there last winter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

LIKE Artemus Wards monkeys, Pal
mer and Buckner are "am9onsin' kuss-
es." We wonder if the museums know
they're at large,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

CONGREssMAN-ELECTiG RIGGs should
be much gratifed at the splendid ma
jority given him by the voters of this
district.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

The deadly tenacles of the corporate
octopus draw more closely about the
form of down trodden labor. Four
more years of oppression, and then?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

ENCOURAGE our home enterprises
by buying from them first, last and all
the time. You thus keep your money
at home, give employment to your
home people, and make better times at
home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

Hon. JOHN A. SIBLEY, late populist
candidate for congress, has published
card in which he returns thanks to
the democratic press of the district for
their kindness to him during the can
vass. Mr.. Sibley made hundreds of
personal friends during the campaign.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-11-11

THE president may keep this country
from recognizing the Cubans as a ma
tion but all the navy Of this country
seems powerless to keep little tugs
from carrying aid to them. The lat
ter is what they most need, anyway.
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KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.
The Grove Meeting at Table Rock, \

The Grove Meeting at Table Rock, Neb.
The days august 14-16) proved very
trying on account of excessive heat and
threatening storm clouds that appeared
each evening. By some means the people
of the neighborhood were led to believe
that the meetings we're exclusively for
Universalists, so the attendance was
quite small.
Some changes were made in the pro-
gram and the address on 1.-THE Develop
ment Of Religious Thought" by Mr..
B. G. True, was placed at IL A. NJ. Sun
day. This was very instructive address
leading to the thought of an intelligence
above man and nature.
Mr.. Stacey, of Lombard Divinity
School, preached on Unity" urging CO.
operation on common grounds for the
common good Of humanity.
Rev. Martha Jones preached on the
subject paul Universalist" and at the
close of the afternoon service a consid-
cradle number of UNIvERsALIsTs and
other UNCONVENTIONAL papers we're die
tr buted.
The Saturday afternoon meeting de-.
served larger attendance to hear the
papers by Miss Ada. Lester and Miss
Ruth Holmes, of Tecumseh. and Mr.. W.
A. Wells, and Miss Lucy Greenwood, of
Seneca, Kan.
The conference meeting on Saturday
evening was of unusual interest, many
taking part freely in the service.
Everyone reports an enjoyable and
profitable meeting, regretting that we
did not have better general hearing at
the services.
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supplied for Rev. J. e. Reyes at that
point. Sunday, August %. He is to sup
ply at Mt. Pleasant, August 80, and at
Mitchellville, September 6.
The writer received letter from
Father Jay Bishop, after the Conven-
ton at Waterloo had closed, but which
should have been received before the
Convention began. Had il been in
hands it would have been read at the
Convention and would have interested
many. The old veteran is now at Del.
phos, Kan, but spent years OF activity
in Iowa in the early days. He says he
would like to meet again some of the old
pioneers with whom he enjoyed spiritual
communion in the long ago. He in
quires for a number Of our people by
name and especially mentions one Ben
jamin Parsons who was his schoolmate
in Vermont and played the bass viol in
the first parish he Bishop organized.
Mr.. Parsons in now living near Water
loo. Father Bishop would be pleased to
have word from his old Iowa friends.
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pose this year than we did last, and we
are trusting you all along the line to do
your duty and make your promises good,
as we have no doubt you will.
But we beseech you, one and all, to
remember this is the season to lay plans
for the year that is at hand; and there
must be no falteriDg or looking back
ward. One of the easiest ways to bring
about the good time for our Zion for
which we are all longing and praying is.
to double our membership through each
member of a Mission Circle bringing in
one new member. No matter if she is
not pronounced Universalist. That is
the open gateway through which to
make converts. Nothing is so convinc-
ing as life on the higher plane. Let them
see your good works that they too may
be led "to glorify your Father which is
in heaven"
PERSONAL.
There is still one member of the Ex-
ecutive Board absent from her post
Mrs. Ara Cushman of Auburn, Maine.
who is still in Europe with her husband.
Mrs. M. M. Dean. who spent her hol-
iday with Mr.. and Mrs. Yantis. her
children, in Brooklyn, N. Y, has return
ed, and SO has the Corresponding Score.
tary. These last two are now ready to
take up the dropped stitches in the web
of W. @. A. work where they left off two
months ago. The President, Mrs. G. A.
Quinby, begins her liveliest campaign.
She expects to attend the Vermont,
Massachusetts and New Hampshire Con-
ventions, beside two Associations in New
Hampshire. Indeed, she has made en-
gagements that will keep her busy on
this business until near the Christmas
holidays. And never was there a time
when hard work was more needed in be-
half OF our church interests than now.
Each one OF us should be about "Our
Fathers business" and 90 our indiyid.
ual duty. Then every brick will be in
its place, and the monuments built in
the name of our faith complete.
EMILY L. SHERWOOD,
Corresponding Secretary,
r. o. Box 90, ANACosTIA, D. G.