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Middletown transcript., 1897-10-30
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House Furnishings.

Little things but big helps store full of household
usefulness at small prices.
Willow Clothes Baskets. 4oc. No. Wash Boiler, 3oc
II qt Agate Coffee and Tea Pots, 1oc 2 ct Agate
Coffee and Tea Pots, 25c.
24 qt Tipped Handle Sauce Pans, 15c.
ct. Milk Pans I5c. qt Milk Pans, 1oc.
qt. Long Handle Stew Pans, 25c.
at. Tin Coffee and Tea Pots &c.
qt. Tin Coffee and Tea Pots, &c.
qt. Tin Coffee and Tea Pots, 1oc.
qt Tin Coffee and Tea Pots I2c
nuP Cups, cents
Butter Milk Soap, cakes in box &C.
Mrs Potts Sad Iron Handles Brooms. Ioc. Shoe
Brushes, Sc.
Large Vegetable Graters, &c. Egg Whips, &c.
Sixty feet of Clothes Wire SC. Clothes Pins doz.
Can Openers, &C, Stove Liters, &c.
Galvanized Coal Hods Ioc
Black Sheet Iron Coal Hods I5c.
Extra Heavy Stove Pipe, 45 and inch, Ioc joint.
81 and 6 inch, nc joint:
and Al inch Elbows &c each and 5a11 inch, &c each
333GGG
S. B. Messlck,
Cochran Block, rIddIetown, Del.
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WE SELL GOODS CHEAPER
THAN ANY OTHER
HOUSE !!

BECAUSE satisfied with small profit. Because
- we buy for CASH, we sell for cash. Because do
the largest business. These few why sell
goods cheaper; and success has shown that
efforts have been appreciated by the public Our standard
is Low Prices for Reliable Goodsl
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AA lane fortune comes to
theml
Blankets are higher in price.
Blankets are lowest in price here.
Blankets are lower in price here
now than they were when every
body's blanket prices were down.
Think those statements over.
We expected to greater blanket
selling than ever. early in Septem-
ber-planned for it and gathered
great lots of goods.
They were marked, as we bought,
cheaper than ever, in most lines.
Some lots are all gone. Their
duplicates will cost more.
Many other lots are still here
and as cheap as ever.
Each cool day will lessen the
chance of sharing these values be.
cause one by one the lots sell out.
Today these are in fair supply.
So a pair--Flufy white blankets, wool
filing, 72x84 in, 81 lbs.
S. apair-Soft white blankets with pretty
pink or blue borders, 78xs8 IN, lbs
$50 pair-Pure wool all-wooI blankets
from California, T8x86 In, lbs.
$3.50 3 pair-AII-wool silver gray blan-
kets, warm and durable, 70x50 IN
81 pair sWissahickon,' Scarlet Blar-
kets. pure wool, fast color, 7oxs2 in,
BIbs
John Wananlaker.
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GREATER OAK Hall GREATER OAK HALL
Tailor-Made Women's Suits.

We are getting along splendidy. Our tallors know
how 1t isn't the CLOTH isn't the of trimming that
makes taior-made suit fright a satisfaction.
It's the tailor work; taors trained they are
artists every who puts shears thread your suit in
Greater Oak Hall is artist Once yoS know tailor
work you'll want it and have it. We can wait.
Our Imported Capes-
There only many Special Wonderful city for
fancy prices deal with them Shoes good shoes;
with other clothes; sell low ing this shoe
Will you them derful for what you pay for
Fur CoIarettes $75 So Ladies hand sewed
Velour Capes, S. to $55 Ladies vioi kid for $l.o5
Kersey Jackets. 81 to $50 Mencaf and russell, $2o5.
Just Price List of Mems.
IS, $3.50 $40, $1a, SIS, $40 for Overcoats. Short,
stylish Covert Goats for sIS the other longer Over
coats for IS to $2o all through silk lined overcoat for $2
Mems Suts-$s to $3.50; that is Everyday Suit,
made in the good sure Oak Hall way Tor IS $2o Dress
Suits, $40 to $3.50.
You know clothing; we'd rather lose your money
than be mean.
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Just a Price List of Mems.
Wanamaker & Brown
Sixth and Market, Phila.

We pay railroad fare purchases of reasonable
FREE. Cloak
tells of styles in CIoaks ladies'
Misses and Children. 1t will please and
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ponIinc and A FASHION-WRITER
CIP:e4 bemoanS the new
0ileViolS craze for poplins
because the goods never wear
out. Those who fear their long
wear may choose other plain fab
rics-it's only fair to tell of this
strange shorteoming of the good
quality poplins.
Plain goods must be considered
in every reckoning with Fashion
this season.
POPLINS-
One quality, 10 colorings, at 81.
Two qualities, Ia colorings, at S1.25
Two qualities, 10 eolorings, at $1.50.
French, and a third cheaper than
they'd be if replaced today.
CHEvIOTS-in many variations
If weave; in colors-
Crepe Cheviot, 81 Is a yard.
Armure Cheviot, 81 yard.
DAIna Cheviot, 81 yard.
Granite Cheviot, S5c yard.
Diagonal Serge Cheviot, S1.25 yard.
Super-Cr Cheviot, 81 yard.
RlorLa4. WHO cares by what
Middletown transcript., 1897-10-30

English Cravenettes-we're in
PRODUCING them at just half prices,
hence values are soc, 75c, 81, in
stead of 81, $1.5O and So.
The herald., 1897-11-07

1<ew York, Oct. 27.-It's a queer thing,
but in spite of oft repeated personal
statements by the street railroad mil
lionaire who has been backing Henry
George for mayor through the present
the papers call him Thomas
L. johnson more than half the time,
or else inclose the three letters SPELL
ing his first name in quotation marks.
Now, his first name is ToIn-T-o-m-
and he is proud of it. In fact, Tom
Loftin johnson selected his own Chris
tian name, as he once told me himself.
For some reason or other his family
had not agreed on what to call him,
and he was known by a diversity of
titles. the time honored "Bub" being
one of them, till he was nearly thirteen.
Then he was told that If he wanted
to have a name that he could call his
very own he must select it himself. He
chose Tom without the slightest hesita-
ton, declaring. however. that he want
ed it understood that he was not to be
called Thomas at any time or under
any circumstance. Loftin, which is a
name, was suggested to him,
and accepted, on condition that his
wishes be respected regarding Tom.
Tom Johnson must be worth a whole
lot of money, even from the viewpoint
The herald., 1897-11-07
GOSSIP OF THE GREATER GOTHAM.
How Tom johnson Got His Christian Name Anecdotes OF the
Late Charles A. Dana-Sncere but Singular Friendship
Between John SwintOn and His Chief

by no means q universally popular man.
but after he assumed charge of THE
Penny Sun" (as it used to be called
soon after the civil war. he was able
to maintain a rare and uniform spirit
of enthusiasm in the breasts of the men
making up the Suns staff. And his
bright young men," as he was wont
to call the reporters on the paper, have
invariably been proud to make personal
fads of things Mr. Dana seemed inter-
ested in.
Once when John L. Sullivan was at
his best and Mr.. Dana was attending
all the sparring matches that came
along, he asked Mr.. Lord, the \manag-
ing editor. to send in one of these
bright young men. The young man
went In. Mr.. Dana looked up pleasant
ly; then an expression of rurprise
crossed his face. and he merely said to
the reporter. THAT will do" The edi-
tor called for another bright young
man and sent him in. When he en-
tered the experience of the first was
duplicated, and so with the next.
Then Mr.. Dana went out to the desk
of Mr. Lord.
II notice. Mr.. Lord" said the chief.
chat all the young men you have sent
in have black eyes or cut noses or
The herald., 1897-11-07

of the modern millionaire. Once I asked
him how he began to build up his for
tune.
"Peddling newspapers when L was
eleven years old at Staunton, Va" he
replied, strengthening himself up with
pride. II had my share of schooling
for boy of my age down to that time.
but after that experience was my chief
teacher My tuition inside school-room
walls after ! reached my teens aggre-
gated only few weeks at most. 1
went to work as a clerk in Louisville
when l was fifteen. and I've been work.
ing a good share of the time ever
since"
How have you found time to culti-
vate your mind?"
We'll" he replied. II have been as
economical of my minutes as possible,
and that has carried with it systematic
arrangement of my work. Maybe l
wasn't as fond of the theater and other
hour-eating amusements when l was a
youngster as some of the rest. Then
again, | was guided and directed by one
of the most intelligent and most loving
mothers any man ever had
Why" said the stout, curly headed
victim of the inquisitor. his hair TAX
ingo on an extra curl and his ample sides
shaking as he chuckled over the ques-
ton, ''it was clear to me few years
ago that unless | did something besides
make money l should be sure to fall
into a most disgraceful rut ard be able
to do nothing but make money all my
life. Now that didn't Slit me bit,
and 1 went into politics. 1t isn't SO
The herald., 1897-11-07
RATS RUN RIOT
IN COSTA RIGA.
People of San Jose Almost
Driven From Their Homes
by Them.
STARTLING FACTS.
Sensational Reports Fully Con.
firmed by Consul DelgardO and
Scnor Felix Echeverria.

Any one capable of emulating the
rat-hypnotizing feat of the Pied Piper
of Hamelin would be q welcome guest,
just now, to the municipality OF San
Jose, the capital city of the island of
Costa Rica, for the countless hordes of
destructive rodents which infeSt the
town are rapidly assuming the charac-
ter of q plague that almost threatens
TO drive the people from their homes.
Rat catchers, who know their business
thoroughly, would find veritable
Klondike in that pest ridden city, as
the municipal authorities. finding them
selves unable to abate the evil by or
dinary methods, are paying ten cents
for every rat killed.
The houses in San Jose are built en-
tirely on the surface, there being no
cellars, and the ground beneath is liter
ally honeycombed with the burrowins
places of these rats, whose number can
only be approximately placed among
the hundreds OF thousands. Some idea
may be obtained from the fact that,
within two weeks after the bounty of
ten cents was offered. the city treas
urer paid out over 400, showing that
at least l4,000 rodents had perished
during that period.-and without any
appreciable diminution of the nuisance.
In all cases there has to be n corpus
delicti produced before any money is
paid. as this bounty scheme has proved
a serious drain on the treasury OF a
city that has only 10000 inhabitants
The rat which has caused all this
trouble is not a species native to the
island, but is an imported article, that
arrived several years ago, IS a stow
away. The rats are big. gray fellows,
avera ging a couple of pounds each in
weight. and as their number increased,
gradually wiped out OF existence the
native rodent,-a small, brown rat of
conservative temperament, which the
San Jose house-cats had been able to
keep within bounds. But in a short
time the cats themselves were put to
fight by the new comers. after a series
of pitched battles for the supremacy.
The shopkeepers and other residents
of the city then found themselves at
the mercy of these big rats, which
fairly oVerran the town, eating their
way through everything except stone,
or metal. 1t proved almost impossible
to keep anything in the way of prOvi-
sions out of their reach. Food could
only be preserved in wire cages, and
these occasionally proved ineffective.
Clothing too, was rendered worthless
by the sharp teeth of the hungry de-
stroyers, and many shop keepers suf-
The herald., 1897-11-07

heat which could be exactly regulated
was used.
THE QUESTION OF ECONOMY.
Prof Jackson, in his address to the
Institute OF Electric Engineers on this
subject. stated that a small flat-iron of
TWO or three amperes-Which may be
attached to the ordinary lighting fix
ture in a dressing room-an electric
tea kettle, and electric curling tongs
are conveniences likely to be appre-
cated in the average home consider
ably sooner than the use of electricity
for general purposes. For use in brew
ing afternoon tea, electric heat would
displace not cheap but an expensive
fuel, as alcohol lamps are at present
much used for this purpose.
Electric heaters are already used in
many new York houses for light cook
ing. for heating the popular chafins
dish upon which the deadly Welsh
rarebit is prepared, and for heating
plate warmers.
In cases where economy of time and
economy Of space are considered of the
first Importance, electricity is increas-
ing in use. In such cases it Is un-
questionably the fuel Of the future.
ELECTRICITY COMPARED WITH
ALCOHOL.
That the cheapest fuel is not always
preferred where time and space are Of
account. is shown by the prevalent use
Of the alcohol lamp for heating baby's
milk and for the chatting dish. Prof.
James 5. Stevens and Mr.. Burton S.
Lanphear have tested the relative cost
of heating by alcohol and by electricity
in the University of Maine. Testing the
two methods with the calorimeter they
The herald., 1897-11-07

bruised cheeks. What is the matter?"
why, Mr.. Dana" said the manag-
ing editor, "ever since the Sun has
been so interested in the manly art OF
self-defense it's bright young men have
been sparrng with each other when
ever they could get chance"
"Oh," said Mr.. Dana. We'll. send In
any one of them you like"
There never was newspaper stan
made up wholly of men whose opinions
were in absolute accord with its polit-
ical course and there never was man
whose views differed more radically
from those of his editor-in-chief than
John Swinton, for so many years Mr..
Dana's best man. Swinton, more than
any other member of the staff, was
able to write almost exactly as Mr..
Dana would have written upon any and
all topics. This was especially true
with regard to economic subjects and
trade union matters. although these
were the questions upon which the two
men were most at odds. Apropos of
this, it is related that on one occasion,
after Swinton had addressed a labor
meeting early in the evening, he went
| to the Sun Office and wrote an editorial
directly and bitterly combating the
views put forward in hrs speech.
When he was asked why he had done
this, Mr.. Swinton said:
THAT is what Mr.. Dana would have
said, and when I am in this office I am
his man. 1t is not John Swinton who
is writing when l sit down to pen q
Sun editorial; it is Charles A. Dana.
1t was some time after this that
Swinton left the Sun to start John
Swinton's paper" Dana tried to pre-
vent him from going, alike out Of re-
gard to Swinton and for the Sun. for
the chief editor thought very highly Of
his assistant both personally and pro-
fessionally. But Swinton would not be
restrained. John Swinton's Paper"
was failure, as Dana had said it
would be- but Swnton's Scotch blood
| was reused and he continued publica-
| ton until all the money he had saved
| from the liberal salary the Sun had
for so many years paid him was gone.
Then Dana sent for his old friend and
! subordinate and told him he must
again take q place in the Sun office and
again have his name on the SUMS pay
roll.
But before you begin work, said
| the chief, you must go pack TO SCOT
land, where your boyhood was spent.
and stay till you have regained your
strength" For Swinton was badly
broken in health as well as finances.
.'Then, when you are well again, you
shall come back and help me as you
used to-"
| Few Of Swinton's acquaintance ex-
pected ever to see him in anything like
good health again, and probably Mr..
Dana least of all; but the air of his ma
tive heath and the knowledge that he
would not be again obliged to worry
about money matters We're wonderful
restoratives to John, and in time he re-
turned almost as vigorous as Of yore,
and quite as gruff and ruddy. He is
| Just as ready as ever to say cynical
things, but he never speaks i'll of Mr.
Dana, and he never fails to rend and
tear. with his most vitriolic English,
any one who has word to say in criti-
cism Of his late friend and chief.
OSBORN SPENCER.
Copyright. 1897, by Bacheller Syndicate.
The herald., 1897-11-07

faster than wood alcohol but was not
quite so quick in results as the more
expensive alcohol. Electricity is cheap
er and quicker than either sort.
MI. Tesla summed up the case for me,
as far as an experiment has been car
ried. in a few words For general use
in heating and cooking, he said, elec-
The herald., 1897-11-07

producing and transmitting power
Niagara's electricity is much cheaper
than steam in Buffalo.
But Prof. Jackson says that all his
computations of cost are based upon a
price of 10 cents per kilowatt hour, the
usual price for residence electrical
supply in a nearby town" Nothing is
The herald., 1897-11-07

means to rid the place of this alarming
visitation, but without success; so as a
final resort the bounty of ten cents
each for every dead rat was offered
During the past year steamships rum
ming to Costa Rica have brought traps
of all kinds and sizes. and other con-
trivances supposed to be deadly to
rats: but after a few We're caught the
traps became useless, as the cunning
The herald., 1897-11-07

coal can be brought below 10 cents. but
the possibility of further reductions by
the use of natural power is a fruitful
field for conjecture. OF what can be
done in this way, Niagara remains the
best example,: but along the seaboard
tide-power will yet be utilized tc fur
nish cheap electricity.
The herald., 1897-11-07
COOKING BY ELECTRICITY.

more likely than that largely in
creased use of electricity would bring
its cost so far below that figure as to
make electric heating and lighting
feasible, considering convenience,
cleanliness and the economy of time.
The price of electricity produced by
The herald., 1897-11-07

1t seems almost certain many years
will pass before the smut of coal ham
ding is banished from the house, and
the pallid miner whose periodic at
tempts to get living wages for his dam
gerous and unwholesome work will be
set at some better job above ground.
The herald., 1897-11-07

that hunger is making them bolder and
fiercer, day by day. Young chicken and
other small live stock have to be care
fully watched. or they will be carried
off. There are also well-attested in
stances where infants and other small
children have had bits of flesh nipped
from their limbs while asleep in bed.
The city officials and the residents
generally have used every possible
The herald., 1897-11-07
IiOWatt nOufS, o;jt, cost. SOB cents.
THE ESTION OF COST.

The average of a number OF meals
was 1871 cents, which was raised to 1875
cents by the cost of heating water to
wash the dishes.
Pies could be baked at cost of POS
cents each. Ironing was done for the
family at a cost Of 22.7 cents
The cost of these operations b, use
of coal was, for cooking. 3.15 cents per
meal, and for one ironing, 1925 cents.
Coal was only about 20 per cent. as
expensive as electricity for cooking. but
it was more than haf as costly for
ironing. The reason for This dlscrep-
ancy is that in the latter operation
electric heat is conveyed directly to the
irons, none being wasted; while much
of the coal is wasted, and worse than
wasted, when q whole stove is kept hot
for ironing.
The day has passed when a WCman's
time was worth nothing. The time of
ironing. in Prof. Jackson's experiment.
was reduced from five hours to four, by
electric heating, and he leclons the
hour saved as fully worth the 10 cents
difference in the cost Of fuel. There
was also a noticeable saving Of time in
cooking by the otherwise more expen-
sive method. The ironing was done
more easily and the cooking was more
scientifically accurate when a kind Of
The herald., 1897-11-07

fered severe losses to their stock. The
very foundations of the houses are un-
dermined by these pests. so that many
of them have been rendered unsafe.
This has been particularly the case in
the poorer quarters. where the lower
classes live in adobe huts.
The rapidly increasing number Of
these rats has made it difficult for them
to obtain sufficient food, with the result
The herald., 1897-11-07
reached this result:

Cost per million calorics cleo
ilrlty .+..., ......................0l.2 cents
Cost per million calOTics wood
alcOIol ...... ..................t1. cents
Cost per million calorics, 90 per
cent. alcohol .....................751 cents
The electric heat worked slightly
The herald., 1897-11-07

easy to win every time in that field,
Mr.. johnson added significantly, "as 1t
is in the money-making field; that IS
the easiest thing there is-for me"
The death of Charles A. Dana has
brought out any number of anecdotes
about the veteran journalist He was
The herald., 1897-11-07

tricity must be made cheaper than 1t
is now. Eut already it is useful and
even economical in light housekeeping
or when a quick fire" is wanted in hot
weather.
Even the obstacle of cost is likely to
be swept away by better methods or
The herald., 1897-11-07

Every Friday, a little after noon, a
group of distinguished men gather in
q pretty room in a great sky scrapins
building on Duane street, New York.
Here they talk over the details of q
vast business, while they discuss the
items Of a perfectly cooked and we'll
appointed lunch.
1t is the council of the Edison Elec-
tric company. and every article Oh the
bill of fare is cooked by electricity, not
for display OF notoriety-I do not think
the fact has ever before been printed
but because electricity does the work
neatly, quickly, and extremely well.
We are now nearer electrical heating,
and especially electrical cooking in the
ordinary home, than most people real
ize who have not followed the recent
Developments of invention.
The expense of using electricity for
cooking is even now not nearly 50 great
as has been supposed. Prof. John Price
jackson has conducted some interest
ing experiments to show exactly what
it does cost. His results were as fol
lows:
Evening star., 1897-06-15
NO PRAYERS FOR VICTORIA
Bishops Refused to. Pray for Englands
81. z.s>a ~ ,. queen. n :

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June B-Phillip E.
Burrongh. British VICE consul here, is ex=
erting. himself to DT0zaots q, psal ceIehra-
tion in honor of Queen Victoria. He has
organized the KANSAS CRY vieIot1a, Dia-
mond Jubilee Associat tion, composed Of nu-
merous subjects and sex-subjects Of Great
Britain, and this asspclation has collected
"a substantial memorial charity fund to be
distributed on jubilee day. Other features
of the celebration. as proposed. will be the
offering Of prayers for the queen In seme
of the local churches and big public
meeting at Fairmount Park.
1t was desired to- secure the participation
of the Catholic clergy I'M these exercises.
and with this end in view Consul Burrough
and Rev. w. p. George of Westminster
Presbyterian Church, called upon Bishop
Hogan and his coad1utor, Bishop Glennon,
to request their participation. Moreover,
when this request was made the Catholic
clergymen were given to understand that
$500 of the memorial CLARITY fund would be
given to the local Catholic hospital.
But the plan fell through. The bishops
declined to attend the mass meeting and
they declined to offer prayers for Eng
lands queen in their churches. Bishop
Glennon said to his fhtervlewers: Il shall
order no prayers for Englands queen in
our churches. More, shall, II necessary.
expressly prohibit such prayers in all
churches in this diocese. Our people have
no occasion to invoke special blessings on
Queen Victoria. AS 2 good woman. we ad-
to offer for her."