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How,s Thiss

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. ].
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST q TRuAx. Wholesale Druggists. To-
ledo. O. WALDING, KTNNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
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more hurried and unmethodical than
ever. Some Of the patches are hoed
and some are not; and still all he time
he is bemoaning his fate in not having
more land. If he could have put in
another field Of potatoes, or corn, OF
something else, he thinks he would
have been satisfied. If his farming,
does not prosper it is always for the
same reason; his farm is too small.
The long, hot summer days shrivel
the crops on the hillsides, and many of
them are, not even harvested. The un-
manured land does little better; but
one way and another, bit here and
there and bit over yonder, and he man
ages to get enough to carry his family
and stock through the winter.
He keeps no account, and does not
know how much farming costs him,
but has general idea that he is a
shrewd buyer and economical manager.
His main crop seeds are usually pur-
chased at the cheapest place, and he
has an Unsuitable desire to invest in tie
novelties alluringly set forth in each
seasons catalogue He does not believe,
in the agricultural papers, written, as
be says. by city men, and his theories
of farming are time-narrowed ones
handed down by his ancestors. His
manure may generally be seen in long,
struggling piles outside the stable doors
where he has thrown it, and where it
will it be washed and weakened by the
winter SHOWS and rains, and his wagons
and farm tools are usually scattered in
discriminatory weather about the yard
subjects to whatsoever may descend
upon them.
And yet the unmethodical farmers
farm may be good one, and conven-
lent to market. If he would c'ncrn-
trate his work, and watch the leakaees
as zealously as he does the outsn and
the income; if he would buy good seeds,
and only plant such land as he could
properly fertilize, be would have much
less cause for dissatisfaction. The saw
ing in seeds ard work in itself would
be good profit and il he would follow
this up with keen examination of the
other leakages, the tide Of profit and
loss would soon flow in another direc-
tion. Buy the best and use it econom-
ically, and only be satisfied with such
results as come from thorough prepara-
tion, is as good motto for farmers as
for others.
There is no fancy sketch. Every
town in New England has such farmers,
and even more plentifully are they scat
tered through the South and Southwest.
I have been on farms VIII. re even the
farmers themselves could scarce have
told how many patches of corn and
potatoes they had on their places; but
they were satisfied with their method
or want Of method-and it would have
been useless to try to convince them
that one half the cost of cul ivation
could have been saved by concentrat-
ing in one or two big fields. After all
stoo much bother" is about as popu-
lar motto as one can frame.
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IF stilI Alive.

"Do you rectify mistakes here,?" asked a
gentleman, as he stepped into drug store.
Eyes sir, we do, if the patient is still aliye.''
replied the urbane clerk. Never was a drug
gist called upon to answer sucha question,
after sellinga bottle of DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. Do not be hopeless al
though you are thin and pale. In spite of a
dry hacking cough, night sweats and splitting
OF blood, you need not fill consumptive's 9
grave. Take the "Discovery" and you will
soon be rid OF the troubles which harass you.
But do not delay. Delay may mean death
and that mistake you cannot rectify. Sold
by druggists more largely than any other
medicine.
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According to celebrated Bnatomist there
are upwards of 100000 little glands in the
human stomach. These glands pour out
the digestive juices which dissolve or di-
gest the food. Indigestion is want of juice,
weakness of glands, need of help to restore
the health of these organs. The best and
most natural help is that given by Shaker
Digestive Cordial. Natural, because it
supplies the materials needed by the glands
to prepare the digestive juices. Because it
strengthens and invigorates the glands and
the stomach, until they are able to do
their work alone. Shaker Digestive Cor
dial cures indigestion certainly and per-
manently. 1t does so by natural means,
and therein lies the secret of its wonderful
and UNMARRIED success.
At druggists, price 10 cents to $1.0O per
bottle.
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The Iowa experiment station is test
ing the government cure for hog chol.
era.
Pasture is cheap food for swine
and should be provided whenever prac-
ticable.
Sheep dress about one-balf Of theiI
live weight, the remainder being pelt
and offal.
1t requires more careful feeding to
fatten a growing animal than it does a
matured one.
The best and strongest chicks come
from two-y ear old hens mated with a
good strong cockerel.
Cows kept on dry food require much
more water than those given succulent
feed or running on pasture.
Half peck of cut green cabbage
sprinked with sweet bran, is an excel
lent m discriminating food for the
ewes.
Fowls like turnips either boiled or
raw, and the wise poultryman will
lay in store of them to form the basis
of the daily winter mash.
Do not attempt the rearing of the
English breeds Of sheep unless at the
same time you acquaint yourself with
English methods Of feeding and adopt
them.
The growing pullet should be fed
with view tn developing the frame
and reproducing organs; for this pur-
pose tie food that is best for laying
hens is best for her.
The sale of horse meat in the poorer
districts of Paris and its suburbs has
become so large that the French
butchers have petitioned the Govern
ment to tax horse meat as beef.
As the result Of two seasons expert
ments with turkeys the Rhode Island
stations sport that for general pur-
poses it is not advisable 10 use more
than one-fourth lid blood in breeding
bird.
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Doctor (who has been sent for at 2
A. M. MADAM, send at once for
the clergyman, and, if you want to
make your will, also for the lawyer. +"
"Good gracious, is it so dangerous, doc
tor?" mot bit of it; but l don't
want to be the only one who has been
disturbed in his sleep for nothing"
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Adolphus paused outside the door
Tointerview the scraper;
Within those walls her father sat
Intent on Sunnay's paper.
Six times before he'd sought that door
On this same mission bent;
His courage failed-but tonight
He'll ask papa's consent.
RESPECTED sir, I've come to tell
To ask my fate-oh, seal:
Oh, since the early spring time came
I've felt-I mean feel"
Adolphus paused, with pallid cheek,
"Why boy-don't lood morose!
Its biliousness! I've had 1t! here
"Pierce's Pellets" take doseI'
The "Pellets" cure constipation, biliousness
indigestion, piles, and all arrangements OF
stomach, liver and bowels.
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dule In effect Mar. Is, 1896.

Scne0ule In enect Mar. 10, 1896.
TRAINS LEAVE DELAWARE AVENUE,
WILMINGTON DEPOT EAST BOUND. Z.
I Express trains.
All trains Illuminated with Pintsch L ight.
New York, week days. 1905, 17.I5,. 1881,
til p. m New York Sundays, 1905, fsaS. IS
til 25 a; M, 1928, t5.s2, t7.as, 1il.6O p m.
philadslphia TweHtyFeqrth 4s e
iS1S fsa. ts5O, l55 t5.s2, ESQ, t7.ss, s25.
1000, tll.O0 p. m.
snndfys %, s @ lsSS 3 as9 4s sSo s t'ss &c. t1ss Is
6 SSsstei, g s @ @ yssh1sSays, 4 y 1905 SIS, SO, tzls
fg s'l5 tsas @ ssa iss a1 ill ?. sa0 No. S'
slsS ]: & j Z % sso IS Il Is, IT, ss so
< 2tiantie @ city City, y Paeek-days m t7l5, a. M, t1aa
2.2s, p. M, Sundays, y 30 a. m.
Cape May, weekdays, M, s7l5 m, t2::29,
WEST BOUND.
], BALTIMORE It n and Washington, weekdays, T. 50
= M, li2.55, I267, 2,54, tz.5S, tsoo . is p. IN m
Baltimore and way stations, daily. 7.O2, a. IN
:, Newark, & Del ysekdsys ,42a 7Ss q
ilS Il 3 s Fl 5s 5sspanSsys a iso 5s is51 sa n.y. lss m
Pittsburg, weekdays, t8.4S, a. M, s6 Is p, m
Sundays g 48 a M, Il 58 p m.
Chicago; daily t8.48, d. M, t4.58, p. M.
- Cincinnati y apd st. Louis, daily il2.s6, and
New Orleans and Memphis via BRISTOL and <
Chattanooga 800 p. m. daily. Through
sleepers Washington to Memphis and New
. Singefly accom- mt modation, week days 7.O2,
q. m. 254, zu5and 1l.12, p. m:
Sundays, T.02 m; 2.54, 7.05 pm.
Landenburg accommodation, weekdays
7.02, 1877 a. M, 2.4 ASS, p. m. Sundays.
10 90, 9. M, 4.58, p. m.
: Leave Market Street Station
New York, weekdays, t6 so o m.
Philadelphia, week days, " 50. M, IS pm
Baltimore, weekdays, $50, a. M, ESQ p m.
Landenburg and way stations, week days,
$50. 10 2O a. M, so, $40, p. m. Sundays, 955,
Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut streets
Station for Wilmington, week-da Us, 33.40, 6,
625 1910, 8.l5 Q 80, ITO 33, $780, a. M, tl22O
Il so 245 g 30 40, s4.30, 1915, 15zl, 500
$50, t7:25, t8.4 40, 10.l0, II. IS, p. m.
su1dsays, tSao, 1875, 400 M.s0 g.
Telephone, 1888.
Rates to Western points lower than via any
Q. SCULL. General Passenger Agent.
W. N. GREENE, General Manager.
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THE REQUIREMENTS OF GOOD
SOCIETY.

ss..s SOCIETY.
A lady writer in the Northtielt
(Minn.) NeDs expresses her eminent.
in the following:
"The art of expressing ones thought
in clear, elegant, and plain English, is
the first art to be attained by one who
would enter good society. Were Civ.
ing code of rules formed by myself,
should place, first
BE natural, and be sincere.
ITO be natural in society you must
be dressed so that You can forget your
self. That is, you must feel that you
are w>ll, but not overdressed. Your
manners must be worn so long that you
feel at home in them, aud to do the
right thing always at the right time
causes no thought on your part. In
good society it is not always what we
do, but what we omit doing, that gives
the distinction of well hammered
lady or gentleman.
*.&
The nineteenth century woman is q
most agreeable creature. Dead Ian.
guage and higher mathmatics have dis.
ciplined her mind, general culture EN-.
bellished 1t. She is ver.atile, brilliant.
witty and fascinating, a stimulus and
q recreation 10 man; but he must at
times, / think, sigh for the old type of
gentle. reposeful femininity, she who
worshipped without criticism, adored
with blind loyalty, and WAS the
happier for her delusion. interrupted
Mrs. <. Ny dear you needu'r tell me
that my grandmother, with her four.
teen children, few social advantages
and burden Of homework, hadn,t an
easier time in one sense than We rest.
less modern women, though we have
generally but chick or two apiece, 4
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sWhat is conscience?n asked the
youngest of the grocery loafers.
s'Conscience," said the Cummins-
vile sage, "Is that which makes a
man get his drinks at drug store in
stead of saloon.o
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Pure, rich blood is the true cure for
nervousness, and Hoods Sarsaparilla is
the One True Blood Purifier and nerve
tonic.
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now TIE WORLD MOVES

A woman has been elected secretary
of the Utah State Senate ard another
woman has ANNOUNCED her candidacy
for the governorship of Wyoming.
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GRAIN.
OF Interest
To Farmers
POULTRY CHAT.

POULTRY CHAT.
The color of a chicken has little to
do with the laying qualities, although
there are some who will say that white
fowls lay more eggs than colored, and
vice versa. I am inclined to believe
that if there is any great difference it
would be in favor of colored fowls. In
Cochins, White, Black and Partridge
are considered better layers than Buff.
In the Leghorn class the Buff seems to
lead both the White and Brown; but
we doubt whether this has been thor
oughly tested. Soms of the finest egg
producers ever saw were White faced
Black S. anish and also Houdans both
of which are extensively kept for egg
production as well as their general
good points as fancy fowls. Even the
beautiful Light Brabma fowls have
wonderful records. One can soon dis
cover by actual comparison what breed
he prefers.
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a m. a m. a m. p m. p m. d

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.
''i' 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 1210 a. M and 95l M, daily
s,i3, HE. a. m, 90 4 10 6l5, 6 50, p. M, week
M. daily. s.3l, 9.45. ll.O2 a. M. LIS. 5 36, A,
7H p. M, weekdays
Express trains leaving Harrington sos a. M.
and arriving at 6o4 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 1877 m. week days, 6.2S p m Tuesdays,
train leaves Franklin City 50 a m. week days,
As m Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
only.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
leave Chincoteague Az a. m. weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
at l03 a. m ,62S p m weekdays Returning
leave Lewes6 40 a. M. 8 20 p. M. weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 1887 a. m week.
Saturdays only. Returning, leave S Berlin aS SIS
q m and "a, pm Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturday only.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT r. R.-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations 20 a. M, and
O. ~ m week days. Returning. leave Centre
Vile 7.3l a. m.. and 80 p. m, weekdays.
DELAWARE & CHESAPEAKE R. R.-Leave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations 93S m. and
545 p. M, week days Returning, leave Oxford
655 a. M, and 40 p. M, weekdays.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAFoRD r. k.-Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations Ills g. :
M, week days. and on Tuesdays Thursdays ard
Saturdays .O5 p. m. Returning, leave Cambridge
62O a. m. weekdays and 2g p. m. Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays
CoNNEcTIpN-At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's Kent Railroad. At Clayton.
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore & Delaware Bay kailroad At Har-
rington, with Delaware Maryland & Virginia
Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge 4 Seaford
Railroad. At Delmar, with New York, Phila-
delphia Norfolk. Wicomico & Pocomoke and
Peninsula Railroads.
s. M. PROVOST, General Manager.
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BANKS.

Peoples National Bank.-President, G. W,
w Naudain; Cashier, Geo. D. Kelley; Teller.
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank.-President, Joseph
Biggs; Cashier, John 8. Crouch; Teller, II
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
Street.
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niddletoWn Directory.
MUNICIPAL oFFIcERs.

President-G. w. w. Naudain; Secretary
w. S. Letherbury; 8. 8. Holten, Charles n
Howell, Geo. v. Peverley.
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man, who was cane-seating chairs at
house where she had asked for work.
Her tongue was as nimble as her fingers
but her views on all topics were so
CHEEKY and hopeful, notwithstanding
her manifest poverty, that her garrulity
did not become tiresome. Her opin-
ions on marriage, coming as they did
from a woman to whom marriage had
brought poverty and unceasing labor
for an invalid husband, were refresh
ing, and had Che ring of true heart.
"Yes,n she said. folks that marries
for but one thing makes a dreadful
mistake. 1 often think to myself,
sWhat if had married for any thing in
the world but love-real genuine, sure
enough Lowell What a fix I'D be in to-
dayl You see my husbands been an
invalid for pine years. He went into
slow consumption four years after we
were married, and he ain'L worked six
weeks since; and I'ye had all the SUI
port of him and our three children for
nine years, and I've done it by trailih'
round from house, to house cane seat
i'm chairs: and all the feeliD' I've had
about it has been one of thankfulness
that / was able and willin' to do it.
ssS'posin' hadn't married for love?
S'posin' I'D married for riches, and
they'd taken wings and flew away?
',osia' I'd married for beauty, and
sickness and mis'ry had robbed my
husband of his good looks2 Wouldn't
I be in nice fix? But l didn't marry
for thing on earth but respect and
love for good man, and l amt re-
gretted it, and amt a bit unhappy or
discOntented, exceptil' in the sorrow
that comes from the certainty that l
amt goin' to have my husband with
me much longer.
HES failin' fast now, poor dear! /
amt never looked on him as burden.
/ amt throWed it upto him that l've
had The livin' to make. l amt fretted
nor complained, nor done any of the
things 1 would surely have done if I'D
made the dreadful mistake of marryin'
for anything but real affection. Folks
that marries for anything else has got
lot of unhappiness before 'em that l
don't know anything about"
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Our WOman's
....Colurnn

7 makes all the diff
ference in tho
world what a per-
son marries for.
Pm so thankful
that L d didn't
make any mis-
lake, said a small
shabbily dressed
firafi.lOokinp Wo-
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Flowery Fields-Lord, Bill t-talk
about yer n-narrer escapes! jes' bin
ch-chased six miles.
Weary Wiiliam-Dng or bull?
Flowery Fields-Old maid-le-leap
yearl (Faints).
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SECRET SOCIETIES.


Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr. Q. y. A. M.
Meets every Monday night In McWhorters 8
Hall at O'Clock.
Union Lodge, No. 5, A. F. q A. M. Meets
first Tuesday OF each month in Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 8, /. Q. Q. F.
Meets every Thursday night in New horter's
Hall at o'clock.
Damon Lodge, No. u, K. of P. Meets every
Wednesday night in McWhor@er's Hall at
Major John Jones Post, No. "a, G. A. R.
Meets every Friday night in Reynolds Build
ing at o'clock
every second and fourth Friday night in X.
Union Lodge, No. 6, A. o. U. W., meets every
I'd and 4th Tuesday night in McWhorter's
Hall.
Lord Delaware Circle, No. 16, Brotherhood
of the Union. Meets lst and Sd Friday, Nc
Whorter's Hall at p. m.
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BELnONT, price $55

BELL lONl price 155
The Belmont is standard wheel and just as
good as any $4,000 wheel on the market.
Equipped with all modern Improvements,
wooden handle bars, barrel hubs, pneumatic
saddle, any tire you wish and any color of
enamel you wish, All wheels made to order
and delivery guaranteed within six days of
order. I am agents also for the Rambler,
Cleveland, Robin Hood. Maid Marian, etc. /. If
you want good wheel at the right price,
come and see the Belmont. also keep on
hand q supply of good secondhand wheels
ranging in price from $500 to $500, Lessons
in riding cheerfully given to purchasers. All
wheels purchased of me will be kept in repair
for one year. Call and examine price lists of
great bargains in secondhand wheels. office
next door to F. B.::Watkins' store on Main
Street.
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More

Medicinal value in bottle of Hoods Sarsa-
parilla than in any other preparation.
More skill is required, more care taken, more
expense incurred in its manufacture.
1t costs the proprietor and the dealer
More but it costs the consumer less as he
gets more doses for his money.
More curative power is secured its peculiar
combination, proportion and process,
which make it peculiar to itself.
More people are employed and more space oc-
cupied in its Laboratory than any other.
More wonderful cures effected and more tes-
timonials received than by any other.
More sales ana more @ s,sass increase year by year
More people ar taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
today than any other, and more are
taking today than ever before.
More and STILL MORE reasons might be
given why you should take
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The woman who rests every day is
the woman who keeps young and fresh.
If she is woman. of leisure, she may
indulge in an afternoon nap, after
which she will rival her daughter in
usefulness. If she is busy housewife,
she should snatch at least half an hour
day for lying still in darkened room.
If she is business woman, she must
break into the afternoon with the only
sort of rest she can command-sitting
still for ten or Fl cen minutes, with eyes
closed, thoughts b nished aud muscles
relaxed. Which ADVICE" some old
bachelor remark, mot one woman in
five hundred would thi,ik Of doing. nor
could if she would"
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MIDDLETowN. DEL, MAY %. 1896
M1DDLETOwN MARKETS.
PRODUCE.

Creamery Butter. lb. 22c
Country Butter, lb. .l5@lSc
Lard, lb. ;. :. ..... 7@9c
White Potatoes, basket. -. 10@l5c
Spring chikehs ........ Ac
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The old-fashio Led stern discipline a.
rule of families by fear is not attrac
tive in our day, and thoroughgoing
companionsbip of elders and children is
much preferred. But certainly the
sternest of rules was preferable to the
Indifference that leave children to
educate themse Ives. So left, they are
pretty sure 10 educate themselves in
crime. The world they have to en-
counter is bad enough at the best, but
here there is developed special SER
vice of the devil for the Contamination
of youth. The doings of the immoral,
the exploits of the criminal. and every
thing morbid and horrible that can be
imagined or discovered are specially
prepared by sensational publications
for infaming young passions and de-
bauching young souls.
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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 a
wheel until YOU have seen our fa nous
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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets first Fri
day night of each month In Hose House.
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B. & Q. Railroad,

]. r. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.