Middletown transcript., 1898-08-06

The experiment of using oil as q dust
layer, is being tried on the Delaware Rail-
road. On Monday the roadbed was
sprinkled between Clayton and Wyoming.
requiring good many thousand gallons,
and if it is satisfactory as it is believed it
will be, an application will be made to
other parts of the road. The oil used is
crude petroleum.
The retail clothing statesmen of Will
mington held meeting Saturday night,
and organized in hopes of inducing the
houses to close early. The ladies of the
Dover New Century Club are making a
canvass of all their town merchants look
ing to early closing. In Smyrna it is be-
ing tried with gratifying success. Sunday
has become a new Gay to the clerks and the
customers are pleased with the arrange
ments. Will Middletown get in the pro-
cession?
BY the New Constitution any man who
is resident of this State has only to get
registered and he can vote on election day.
1t is true he must pay f. of one dollar,
but this is not as much as his poll tax has
heretofore amounted to. and which he was
compelled to pay before he could vote. His
poll tax was seventy-five cents each year
while now his Registration fee is only one
dollar every two years. or in fact twenty
five cents less each year than under the old
system, so that the voter is in reailty the
gamer. In the meantime we
have none of the difficulties of assessment
eighteen months before the election and do
not have to pay as much for the right to
vote as we used to. We still haye poll
tax, but its payment is no longer a requi-
site to vote. The new law is great i'm
proyement over the old and can only have
a good deffect.-Georgetown Republican.
WANTEED.-A furnished room for man
and wife, with the privilege ofa place to do
tight cooking. Address c. Transcript Office
-" Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher,
all is vanity" As it was in Solomons day
so is it now. A man not only well known
in this State but on this Peninsula had the
temerity to infict the following doggerel
upon an audience at an entertainment call
ing them patriotic lines" and he sends
them for publication with the assurance
that they received IAN overwhelming
encore" He will not see this notice, hence
we publish his vanity" as an 'awful'
to wouldbe rhymers:
What did Dewey de to them?
What did Dewey do?
He played Philippine with Montejo
And captured all his crew.
What did Hobson do to them?
What did Hobson do?
He bottled up Cervera's feet,
And Schley was as brave and true.
What did Sampson do to them?
What did Sampson do?
He unfurled Old Glory on Cuban soil
That flag of starry blue.
We think this month is the time to
put in your coal. And will be pleased to
AXE your orders till goth Aug. at $500 per
2240 lbs, delivered on your side walk,
strictly high grade coal, this lou price
means cash. G. E. RUKlLL.
We are again in the midst of camp meet
ngs. They form a connecting link that
holds US to past age with which we now
nave little in common. They exist now
'ather as pleasant landmarks that our ia
hers set up. Their practical value as aiGs
n the active propagation of religious truth
8 doubtful. The church does not require
his once potent agency. The camp meet
ngs, however, may still be valuable fac
or in society. The opportunity to enjoy
en- days of invigorating camp life under
roper moral discipline should not be light.
: valued. People who tent at these camps
vould not otherwise get away from home.
hey make fine healthy outing for over
'orked persons who need the change. The
amp meeting has become sort of church
icnic where good morals and religious
,eling prevail, Who has not enjoyed a
eek at camp meeting 2"
There will be two full moons in Au-
ust, one occurring on the first day and one
n the last. Full moons occur twice in the
ame month only once in about three years,
nd there will not be two full moons in one
lonth again until 1901.
When baby comes to the house real
appiness comes. The care and anxiety
punt for nothing against the clinging
'uch of the little hands and the SCUM of
le little voice. Especially "the sound of
title voice" comments the unsentimental
eighbor or growls the cranky boarder in
le next room in the public house.
Brutes did you say?
The twenty-frst annual premium list
the Delaware State Fair, which is to be
ED at Dover September IL, IA, Is and l6,
IS just been issued and is both interesting
I'd handsome. The cover page IL espe-
ally pretty, bearing the American flag in
'lors and lettering of guilt. The work was
one at the Smyrna Call Office. Any one
esiring copy of the premium list may
ave one by addressing A. N. Brown, Sec
'tary, Dover, Del.
Rev. Charles I. Stengle has sent his
ssignation to Presiding Elder c. s. Baker,
pastor OF the NJ. L. Church at LeipsiC
ithdrawing from the ministry and
embership of the church. He will secure !
pastorate at Berkeley, Virginia, in the NJ.
/. Conference South.
Rev. Harvey w. Ewing, pastor of Mt.
alem Methodist Episcopal Church, in
has been transferred to the
entucky Conference to become pastor Of
le Union Church at Covington, and Rev.
alph T. CoIsey of Harrison Street Church, t
'ilmington, has declined a call to Mt. 5
alem. 3
NEUROLOGY.