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Middletown transcript., 1897-09-18
rhe surar Beet,

At the annual convention Of agricul-
tural colleges and experiment stations,
held in Minneapolis recently, Dr.. Wiley
of the department. Of agriculture, WASH
ington, read a paper ON beet sugar pro-
duction, in which he said:
Localities where the temperature ay-
erages 70 degrees or over during the
months Of Jnne, July and August are
those in which the beet can be most sue
cessfully grown
Upon tract of 1000, 900 acres it is
possible to produce all the sugar needed
in the United States.
Dr.. Wiley dwelt ON the chief difficulty
in beet sugar production in this country
namely, a knowledge of the proper
methods Of raising the beets. There is
no lack Of capital to engage in the
manufacture. It is simply a question Of
education.
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MIDDLETowN. DEL, SEP. Is, 1897.
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EARLY CELERY.

How to BIanch 1t With Boards During
Warm Weather.
A New York correspondent Of Amer
ican Gardening, who has found early
celery profitable, tells how he blanches it
during the hot weather. He writes: In
blanching celery during warm weather
care must be taken that no soil comes
in contact with it to rust 1t. It cannot,
therefore, be banked with earth. have
tried tying wrapping paper around the
punches and other methods, but have
found that could blanch the celery at
much less cost, and blanch 1t better,
too, with boards.
After much experimenting in plant
ing at different distances apart the plan
which ! have now adopted as giving
the best results is to plant double rows
two feet apart. g., plant two rows
10 or 10 inches apart and next leave a
space of two feet.
When the plants are about one foot
high, place the blanching boards on
both sides Of the double row, but be
sure to keep them well apart, for II the
leaves get wet between the boards and
the sun does not get in to dry them they
will rot and spoil the appearance Of the
celery, besides stopping its growth.
When the celery grows a few inches
above the boards, crowd the boards
closer together, and the blanching will
be completed In few days. The boards
use are from 10 to Is inches In width,
and with them blanch celery that grows
two feet high or more. hold them in
place with crosspieces notohed to set
over the tops Of the boards.
have never been successful in
growing good quality Of early celery
without irrigation, for when the plants
are SO close together large growth
cannot be had without it, and, moreover,
during hot, dry weather blanching goes
on too slowly, and the stalks often be-
come stringy or hollow. When the
boards are set up, run the water in the
vacant space between them, thus hasten
ing the blanching and improving the
quality of the celery.
When the celery is sufficiently
blanched, the boards are taken down
and removed to other rows. The celery
is cut little under the ground and
trimmed, leaving the refuse on the
ground. If the sun be shining, the Gel
cry is at once carried to cool cellar
near by, and if not at once packed for
market we stand it up in vat contain
ing one or two inches of cold water in
the bottom. This is all the water that
is allowed to come in contact with the
celery, for as there is no earth used in
banking it it needs no washing. Never
pack wet celery for shipment, as it is
liable to heat and spoil If it be neces-
sary to hold the celery few days after
it is cut and trimmed, it can be kept in
good condition by packing ice around
the vat in which it is stored and max
ing the cellar as cool as possible.
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Mammoth Glover.

Mammoth clover seems to me infe-
rior to medium red clover, both for hay
and fertilizing purposes. But when
meadow is desired and some clover is
wanted with the timothy the first year
to add fertility to the soil, the Nam
moth 'nicks in better with the timothy
than does the medium" The foregoing
is from the pen Of a writer in The Ma
tional Stockman. He adds:
The latter ripens too early, and one
hardly knows when to cut to get the
best results. The clover grows worse
and the timothy better for three weeks
after the former comes into bloom. The
Mammoth ripens later, and as it does
not lodge badly and damage when mix
ed with timothy makes more desira-
BILE mixed hay than the earlier clover.
There is not, however, the same valua-
BILE aftermath for the soil to form
mulch for the roots the next winter and
help insure good yield of timothy the
next year.
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BEANS AS A FARM cRoP.
Harvesting and Thrashing the Beams b.
Machinery-Bean Straw.

Harvesting and Thrashing the Beams by
Machinery Bean Straw.
The shelled bean crop Of this country
is mainly produced in three or four lo-
calities where farmers have learned how
to grow the crop most cheaply. One Of
these places is found near Brockport. N.
Y, in towns of western Monroe and
eastern Genesee and Orleans counties.
That 90 to 80 years ago was the largest
bean market in the world. American
CuItivator says:
The bean grower usually also grows
winter wheat, the two crops naturally
supplementing each other. With wheat
the land can be clover seeded better
than with any other crop, and on
clover sod the bean crop can be grown
with certainty Of good yield and
without expense, unless for phosphate
Of lime, which it generally pays to use
on beans, however rich the soil may be.
The harvesting is now mostly accom-
plished by machines worked with
horses, which run sharp cutting knife
deep enough to grip the stout stems and
sever them below the surface The cut
beans stand up just as they did before
cutting, but if the work is done in the
forenoon the beans can be forked to-
gether SO as not to shell them in small
heaps, but always with the stem end
downward. This work is made easier
If the beans have been planted with the
bean planter in hills rather than if they
had been drilled in. Yet the latter plan
enables the driller to put phosphate
with the seed, and the individual bean
stalks, growing separately, are larger
and more prolific than if grown in
punches.
Thrashing beans is now done by ma
chimes made especially for this purpose,
though ordinarily grain thrashers will
do the work if half the spikes are re-
moved, so as not to tear the beans too
much and divide them. A good crop is
% bushels per acre, though with phos-
phate manures as much as 80 and even
So bushels have been obtained. The la
Dor Of asserting the beans is done most
easily and cheaply on a large scale.
Long inclined planes are prepared
down which the beans roll, while the
busy fingers Of men, women and chill
dren pick out every defective or colored
grain. Hundreds of bushels are thus
cleaned in a few hours. The refuse
beans make excellent sheep feed, as also
does the bean straw.
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American Butter IN Enrland.

The efforts Of Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Wilson to enlarge the English
market for the best American butter
have not yet been wholly successful The
market demands butter almost fresh or
but slightly salted and must have 1t put
up in cubical boxes instead of tubs, and
these must weigh 66 or 112 pounds
each. he finds our cousins little bit
cranky about butter, and il they take 1t
at the best prices it must be put up ex-
pressly for export says The Farm Jour
nal. which also calls attention to an
enlarged foreign outlet through the
usual channels of trade in recent months
owing to the unusually low prices at
home and the largely increased produc-
tion.
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CEMENT FLOORS.
I'm Horse Stables. In Coachhouses and In
Pigpens.

I'm Horse Stables I'm Coachhouses and In
Pigpens.
A contributor to The Rural New
Yorker who has worked among horses
for the past 30 years writes in favor Of
cement floors. He says:
had my first stable in Toronto, and
in all that time ] never had a horse lame
by standing on hard floor. Seven years
Of this time spent in a horse regiment
In the British army, and there is none
but cobblestones, granite blocks and ce-
ment floors. No litter is allowed in the
stables from a. m. to $50 p. m, and
each horse gets only eight pounds of
straw daily for bedding, SO you can
guess what a nice, soft bed that win
give him. Their labor is of the worst
kind, quick and hard for a short time
during drill, and then stand STILL In
all that time never knew horse lame
from standing in the stable, and /
never had one sprained by slipping on
the cement, and we have had all three
kinds Of floor in different stables at the
same place.
The last stable floor had in Stirling,
Scotland, was cement-stable, coach
house and court-and never had an
easier place to keep or more healthful
stables. Many private stables in Great
Britain have been slaid with glazed,
corrugated bricks. They make very
nice floor, but as soon as the surface is
worn of they soon wear into holes and
have to be replaced. I have worked on
farms where they were used in the COW
barn and were excellent for that pur-
pose. have had cement floor pigpens,
and when let the hogs out and put the
hose on the floor you could not tell by
the smell of the place there had been
hog in it for year.
A horse stable with cement floor gives
good, sweet air to breathe, and a wood
en- floor gives ammonia. A cement floor
is more easily cleaned, therefore likely
to be better cleaned. A cement feor
saves litter because it retains nc n-ais-
ture to be taken up by the stri..s. A
cement floor saves the urine ii-n he
"vet's" bills. A cement floor l. ;Jin
proof, so it also saves the corn crib. An
ammonia laden atmosphere and a newly
painted buggy make q coed pair. Try
them.
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Cost of Growing Corn.

The cost of growing corn is the SUBJ
ject of series of articles in American
Agriculturist These contain many
points of interest In an investigation
made in eight corn growing states it
appears that more than two-thirds of
the labor necessary to the production of
the crop was performed by the owners
of the crop and their families. The pro-
portion, however, varies widely in the
different states. In Kentucky, for ex-
ample, 20 per cent of the labor was
hired, while in Indiana only 30 per
cent, and in Iowa only 13 per cent, was
hired, the remainder being prosecuted
by members of the families reporting
the tests. The average rate of monthly
wages paid laborers employed in the
eight states was 1891, including
board, and $22 without board. The diff
ference, Sc. 90, represents the estimated
monthly cost Of maintenance. The rate
of wages paid monthly, with board, was
reported, as follows: Kentucky ) 81 so;
Ohio, $15 40; Indiana, SIS; Illinois.
SIT. 60; Iowa, $18. rs; Missouri, $14. 80;
Kansas, $16.25; Nebraska, STA.
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when to Use Wood Ashes.

In our opinion, the very best way to
apply wood ashes is to broadcast them
after plowing and thoroughly harrow
them into the soil. We would do this
before planting. In case of meadows or
grain it is of course impossible to ap-
ply ashes in this way. In such case we
would broadcast the ashes in spring, If
possible before growth starts. The prao-
tice of applying ashes to young clover
after harvesting the grain is often fol-
lowed and gives good results on the
crop, but to obtain the greatest benefit
to the soil ashes or lime should be har-
rowed in. Ashes contain considerable
lime, therefore their action ON the soil
is much the same as that of lime
Rural New Yorker.
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insects In Stored Grain.

Methods Of controlling insects injuri-
ous to stored grain include preventive
and inseotioidal measures. Among the
first the United States department an
tomologist recommends early harvesting
and thrashing. AS remedy the bisul-
phide of carbon treatment Is stated to-
be the simplest, most effective and least
expensive remedy for ALL insects that
affect stored cereals
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BRANCH ROADS.

DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA r. R.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
stations 1898 m. week days, 6 81 pm Returning
train leaves Franklin City $50 a. NJ. La Tues
days, Thurs q sand Saturdays ONLY.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
steamer LSO p. M, week days Returning,
leave Ch1ncoteague 4. AZ a. M. weekdays.
:, Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
Rehoboth at IL. 39 a. M, 30 p. M, weekdays
Returning, leave Lewes 6.45 a.. m. III p. m,
weekdays. and Rehoboth 6.2S m and 2.54 p
m weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 10 SO a. m. wee
days and 6:32 p. M, Returning, leave Berlin 6.5T
a m week days.
QUEEN ANNE KENT R. R-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations 921 a. M, and
$50 p. M. week days Returning, leave Centre.
vile 736 a. M. and q p. m, weekdays.
DELAWARE q CHEsAPEAKE r. R-Leave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations 93s g. M, and
6.H p. M, week days. Returning, leave Oxford
6.45 q. M, and / 40 p. M, weekdays
CAMBRIDGE SEAFoRD r. h.-Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations II IL A.
.,week-d days, and on Tuesdays Thursdays and
aturdays 10 p m. Returning, leave Cambridge
90 a. m weekdays and 237 p. m. Tuesdays.
Thursdays and Saturdays
CoNNECTI0N.-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 Seaford
Railroad. At Delmar, with New York, Phila-
delphia & Norfolk, Wicomico & Pocomoke, and
Peninsula Railroads.
]. B. HUTCHISoN. General Manager.
J. R. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
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sowing Oats by Hand.

There are many farmers who find it
an advantage to SOW other grains with
a drill, SO as to apply fertilizers with
the seed, who yet think the oat crop
comes surer sown on coarsely harrow
ed surface and dragged in. The reason
probably is, says American Cultivator,
that thus the grain is apt not to be COW
cred so deeply as it is by the drill. The
better fitting the seed bed has the deep
er the wheels sink. carrying the drill
tubes and the seed grain to greater
depths than is good for the grain crop.
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Baled Hay.

Much has been said heretofore about
the unproftableness Of baling hay be-
fore it is sufficiently cured to pack safe
ly, but it seems to no effect, for pro-
ducers and shippers still persist in plac-
ing such hay on the market notwith-
standing constant advices to the con-
trary. Hay baled without first going
through the sweat will inevitably get
out Of condition, according to The Hay
Trade Journal Western producers are
more inclined to this fault than are
Eastern farmers.
Remedy For All Kinds Of Lice.
Lice have been very troublesome on
trees as well as vegetables this year,
Judging from reports Of correspondents
and our own observations. For all kinds
of lice (aphides) strong tobacco tea or
kerosene emulsion is an effective REM
edy. As the insects work on the under
side Of the leaf, the liquid should be
thrown with considerable force from
beneath. Since the leaves curl up after
the pests have worked on them for some
time, the spraying is most effective IL
applied as soon as the lice are discoy-
cred. Farm Journal.
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New York, weekdays. 1918. *9.4O,t TIC. .25 a. m.
days, 1918, +9.4O sll.25, a. m.s8.2s, s522 a
Philadelphia, weekdays, 1918. 5.55, $40,
ti5Si isS taSs ssSs So tS2s go, 1s. si5 II
Is tia a. m, tsss,, $50 $50 t5ss e $50 80 .is, sisU
q Chester, Weekdays, tsIs. SOS $40. Ills.
tSSS, iSS So t5a $50 riS. SIS, Ill iii p pm M. Sun Sun
IS 2s,5SO, s q, 50, I 8. si5. tli.oO, p. m.
t2.2s, 1879 p M, Sundays, Ts5 q. m.tS.s Jam am
Cape May, weekdays, M, t7.l5 am, t2:26,
10 4s.4s III q. M, tl2 SO, 1901, S04 t46S l457
1915, tS u 1888 p m. Sundays, t4.I3, 7l0 1S.49
4 M, i12.5s, J&.7, f,O4, t4.57, f8i7 1858 p. IN
II ! g.. ilaS5 sos g. tz 'fS is 8 ass tsS I'll.
s sundays. ta13; 10, Is.4s a. m. 1855 a.O4,
Plttsburg, weekdays ts1e, p. m, Sundays
Chicago, daily, *i.57 M.
Chicago via Cincinnati and indianapolis
t8.49 m daily.
Cincinnati and st. Louis, daily t12.5o, and
Toledo and Detroit, ss.I7 m daily 10
ioleGo Ma rIa ana daley except sunday 70 Detroit
Chattanooga, 1917 pm. daily. Through Sleep
ers to Memphis and New Orleans.
Singerly accommodation, daily 7.I0, a. n
3.04, 7.35, l0.46 p. m: sundays, 7.10 m 3.04,
T.35 p M.
Landenburg accommodation, weekdays.
7le 1000. a. m, s.04 4.57, p. m. Sundays. 10i
Leave Market Street Station for
Philadelphia, weekdays, 8 so p No
Baltimore. weekdays, $50 m 2.55 d. IN.
Landenburg and way stations, week days
6.z5s s55 a. m, 255, 5'S0, p. m. Sundays, 9.55
q. M, 5.35 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street
Station for Wilmfngt ton, weekdays, 1880, $40
I.19 tSl5 90, TO 26 1l.30, q. M, f12.20,
l. ElSS 20 z09 = p 1SS0 fA2o 40 l5 t54l, 500 6SO
Sunday. tS.s0 fs,l5, 900, ll.so, a.ms
tI2ao, Z ~ n;s6, 400, tl2O, Is, 8 80, t7'40
Telephone, 1873.
Rates to Western pointst lower han via any
other line.
B. MARTIN, Manager of Passenger Traffic
W NJ GREENE. General Manager.
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when to Apply Lime.

There is q great difference Of opinion
as to the beet time to apply air slaked
lime to meadow lands. It may be used
at any time convenient. but in most
cases it will be found most advantage
Gus to apply it in the fall. It must be
borne in mind that lime does mot direct
" furnish food to the crops, but, as
American Agriculturist explains, its
principal value consists In changing the
physical and chemical conditions Of the
soil and making available matter other
wise inert.
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SECRET SOCIETIES.

HECFtE1 SOOAGAAnA9s
Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr. o. q. A.. NJ.
Meets every Monday night in McWhorter's
Hau at O'Clock. 80.
Union Lodge, No. 5, A. F. q A. NJ. Meets
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 9, i. o. O. +.
Meets every Thursday night in Now Whorters
Hall at o'clock.
Damon Lodge, No. IL x. of r. Meets every
Wednesday night In McWhoFler's Hall at
Major John Jones Post, No. q, G. A. =.
Meets every Friday night In Reynolds Build
Welcome ConcIave Heptasophs. Meets
every second and fourth Friday night In Il.
of P. Hall.
I'd and 4th tuesday night in McWhorter's
Hall.
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IN. a m. q m. D n

Daily. Daily except Sunday.
"a" Stops to leave passengers from Whining.
ton and points north, or take passengers for
points south of Delmar
OF on signal.
"Pn Stops to leave passengers from points
ming and points north
n stops to leave passengers from Middle
t,' Stops to let of passengers from points
New CASTLE AccoMMoDATroE TRA1ss-Leave
Wilmington l2.l0 a. m. and 9.5I D. M, daily
BIB, Lib, a. m, 25l, 40 6l5, sos, p. M, week
days: Leave New Castle 6.3O a. m. and 10 10 p
M, daily. S.3l, 9.46, 1I.02 a. M, LI6 S SO. 7.22
p. M, weekdays.
Express trains leaving Harrington s05 a. M.
ana arriving at 626 p. m, weekdays, run
through solid to and from Baltimore, via Porter
and Newark.
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pliddlefOWD Hardware House! !
5 LARGEST STOCK !! LOWEST PRICES +! s

HARVESTING GOODS.-Hay Forks, Luhrcati- Oils,
Rope for Hay Forks Moving Scythes and Swath &c
&C., &C.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS.-Tubs Buckets, Clothes Bas
ket Ironing Boards Sad Irons MRS Potts. and the old style
Brooms, Brushes, Mops &c.
SEASONABLE GOODS.-Lawn Mowers, Hedge Knives,
Ice Cream Freezers Hammock Coquet Sets Rubber Hose
and Reels Milk Pans Cream Kettle-7he best and laOest
price and gallon Nak Cans, and Styainer Pals ever
seen here Preserving Ke es Mason's Fruit Jars Fruit
Cans Wire Cloth Window Screens and Screen Doors Oand
Gasoline Stoves in great variety from ST so to S16.5O
The Famous Missouri Steam Washer recommended by
best housekeepe and washerwoman afford to be
without it. Gasoline and Coal OIL Agate Ware and Tin Ware
in large assortments
Ranges and Cook Stoves, for coal Wood, large
variety and Lowest prices known here Ready
Paints of the best manufactures White Lead Lnseed Oil
Varnishes and Coors.
See our No 7, fve-hole Range, at $500
And our .'New Flag Range, No. s, at $16 90
We have the stock and will sxcange the Goods for Dollars
at prices that will surprise you.
it'll We allow DISCOUNT Of TEN PER CENT
SPOT CASH on all our RANGES and COOK STOVES.
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Remedy For An Kinds Of Lice.
chenieals For 5 wheat crop.

The simplest wheat fertilizer you can
make. according to Rural New Yorker,
is mixture of three partsAne ground
bone and one part muriate of potash.
Use this when sowing the wheat a.
heavily as you can afford, and the fol.
lowing spring use 900 pounds or more
Of nitrate Of soda per acre. These chem-
icals may be bought Of the fertilizer
firms. The cost viii depend upon the
quantity bought and the ability to pay
,e1,
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Spring and
SunmerC Clothing

Is the largest in the city and is comprised
of the products of the best mills in the
United States and abroad and in order to
move things lively we have put the knife
into our goods and have made deep cut.
As our special offering for the next 80
days we propose to furnish you with better
clothing than ever, and this, too, in the
face Of very decided advances in the cost
of material and labor. Just look at our
prices
500 Mems Suits, at $500, sold elsewhere
at $1,000
500 Mems Suits at $1,000, sold elsewhere
at $1,000.
500 Mems Suits at $1,000, sold elsewhere
at $1,000.
500 Mems Suits at $500, sold elsewhere
at $4,000.
800 Boys Suits at $3.50, sold elsewhere
at $500.
300 Boys Suits at $500, sold elsewhere
at $500.
$50 Children's Suits at S1.50 to $500, sold
elsewhere at double prices.
1000 Pair of Pants at $1.00 to $500.
Samples sent on application and esti-
mates cheerfully given.
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It Pays to
ADVERTISE,

When there is something to
tell and back of it some.
thing to sell.
as that Gard engraved
or printed?" asked a good
judge Of stationery sometime
since. The questioner did
not know the work was done
in the TRANSCRIPT office and
was printed from some of our
new job type-the
Five Fonts of New Script.
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rIiddletown Directory.
BANKS.

w Naudain Cashier, Geo. ID. Kelley; Teller.
w. G. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank.-Presid lent Joseph
Biggs: Cashier, John 8. Crouch; Teller, Il.
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
Street
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Should use printed Enve-
lopes and Letter Paper. In
case of misdirected address
the letter is returned and the
reason is given. The TRAM
SCRIPT furnishes them neatly
printed almost as cheap as
you can buy them imprinted
elsewhere.
Does the TRANSCRIPT
furnish printed stationery 2
was asked this week by a
business man here. Certainly
we do" we resolved then and
there to advertise the fact.
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vvoTEan's voqE

Is never done, and it is especially wearing
and wearisome to those whose blood is
impure and unfit properly to tone, sus-
tain, and renew the wasting OF nerve,
muscle and tissue. It is more because Of
this condition Of the blood that women
are run down,
Tired, Weak, Nervous,
Than because Of the work itself. Every
physician says SO, and that the only rem-
edy Is in building up By taking good
nerve tonic, blood purifier and vitalizer
like Hoods SarsapariIIa. For the troubles
Peculiar to Women at change of season,
climate or life; or resulting from hard
work, nervousness, and impure blood,
thousands have found relief and cure in
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We Still Have Left
$25o,ooo Worth
CLOTHING!.

Now is your opportunity-embrace it.
Clothing will never be cheaper than at
present, and we are offering to-day greater
bargains than any other house in the city.
Call and be convinced.
Onr Stock of
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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meetE drst Fri
day night Of each month in Hose House.
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The cohdence ofthe people in Hoods
j. due to its unequalled record
Of wonderful cures.
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Giure Gable.

Plila. Win. and Baltimore K. R.
DELAWARE DIVISION
On and after May 18th 1897, t,sir.
will leave as follows:
SOUTHWARK.