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Middletown transcript., 1898-12-03
THE LoNGFIELD APPLE.
What Good Authorities Think Of Eta
Quality and Commercial yaIue.


Frequent reference In the horticul-
tural journals to the Longfeld apple as
exhibited at the New York state fair.
have suggested to Mr.. John Craig an
illustrated note in Gardening regarding
Its merits. He says:
On the matter of the relative value Of
varieties commercially considered the
dictum Of s. D. Willard, Of Geneva.
n. z, is usually accepted, and in the
light OF his own experience Mr.. Willard
has pronounced the Longfeld valuable
apple, and judging by the barrels of
this fruit being shipped to market the
other day, when the writer visited him,
ne was abundantly justified in passing
this Judgment.
The Longfeld is difficult to manage
IN the nursery, growing slowly and
having q marked predilection for pro-
ducing an ungainly top on . crooked
stem. In the orchard, partly on account
OF bearing very heavily, the tree aa-
sumes a more or less pendant form,
which, with its pubesosnt leaves, makes
II easily distinguishabIe from other va
rieties. y j. aafe % saz Ehat Il doas not
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TWo WAYS or coMPosTING,

Ohio Farmer. To avoid this, every time
manures are thrown out we take time
to spread evenly over "a larger space and
keep the composing heap in strata or
layers resembling the illustration in
Fig. 2. We occasionally sandwich with
coat of straw.
We appreciate this great fact that the
crops we raise upon the farm are in
feeding but slightly robbed of their
manurial elements and when properly
preserved after being fed are worth ten
fold all the labor it costs to preserve
and distribute them to the soil that cnce
gave them birth. 1t is the source from
which the soil must secure its future
ability to compensate the farmer.
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STRAW SHEDS FoR HOGS

The Farm Journal. Sheltered in field
and stack, as he is in many parts Of the
west, he does his best. Two or three
posts with crotches and poles stretched
across resting in them make rude
structure which, when covered deeply
with swale hay, rye straw, or even peat,
makes the most comfortable place imag-
Unable, keeping off rain, snow and wind.
The back side may rest upon the ground
or upon wall. :"
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Parsnips ana saIsifv.

Parsnips and satisfy may be left in
the ground if desired, as they are per-
feetly hardy. But as a writer in Ameri-
can Gardening suggests. a few inches
of leaves thrown over the surface of the
ground before the frcst has penetrated
to any great depth will greatly facili.
tate matters WHEN lifting is necessary
1t is advaL taeeous TO lift few more
than are required fer immediate use
and have them stored away in case of
emergepcv
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BROAD SIDE OF pLANK FRAME RARv


are 2 by 8, the joist beams by 10, and
the braces are of the lighter timbers.
This barn is 40 by so feet, with "a foot
posts. There is basement feet high
throughout the entire building, with a
10 foot driveway through the center the
short way.
II consider that I saved nearly 40
per cent in timber. I paid for saving
about 10000 feet of timber for this
frame, including roof sheathing and
NOW floors -
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saving Manure.

1t is too often the case that farmers
do not begin the work of composing
properly, but instead let their 1nanures
collect outside of barn in conical shape
that half dries out, ferments and wastes
the nitrogen. as we have endeavored to
show in Fig. l, says a writer in the
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BRANCH ROADS.

| DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA r. R.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
statlods lO.39 a m 6.57 p m week days Return.
ing train leaves Franklin City $50 a. m. and
I.57 p. N. week days.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (yia
steamer) LAB p. M, week days Returning.
leave Chincoteague Az a. m, weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown, LeWes
at 1898 a. m, 6.37 p. M, weekdays Returning
leave Lewes 6.45 a. m. and 900 D. m week.
days -
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 10 SO q. M. and
637 p. M week days. Returning Ieay Berliu
6.57 m and 2.40 p. m. week days.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT 2. R-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations 9 2I g. M, and
5 81 p. M. week days Returning leave Centre
vile 7.s6 a. M. and 237 p. M, weekdays.
DELAWARE & CHESAPEAKE R. R.-Leaye Clay.
ton for Oxford and way stations o38 g. n and
, a p M, week days Returning, leave Oxford
$40 a. m, and 40 p. M, week -daye.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAFoRp R. KALeave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations H. IA a
m and ]. Is p. m. week days, Returning. leave
CambridgeH.O0 and 2.30 y. m. weekdays
CoNNEcTIoN.-At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At Clayton
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore q Delaware Bay lfailroad 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. HUTCHINSON. General Manager.
J. R. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
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wILn ANp cHEcR r1oonIrn coMp1nrn

WILD AND CHECK FLOODING COMBINED.
-omizing on the use of water A hillsid
planted to orchard, grain or pasture
may be irrigated by wild flooding and
the cultivated area lying directly below
be supplied with moisture from the
waste water of the upper field.
The foregoing illustrated descriptions
Of irrigation methods, from The Farm
and Fireside, conclude with the assur-
anoe by the author, Joel Shoemaker, that
all systems Of irrigation are good for the
eastern states.
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The PLANK FRAME BARN.

II Said to Take Less Timber Than
the Old Style.
The plan Of Mr.. John Shawver Of
Ohio for building barns with a plank
frame is attracting much notice. One
Of these barns was not long ago built at
the Pennsylvania State college by Mr.. ].
A Woodward, who sent to The Rural
New Yorker photographs, all taken on
the same day, showing the different
parts of the barn and how the planks
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The harlequin Cabbage bugs.

Those troublesome little fellows, cab.
bage bugs, have made their presence
felt in a number Of sections Of late
years, and precautionary measures are
wise in order to keep their numbers
within as narrow bounds as possible.
Professor Webster of Ohio has sug-
gested placing old cabbage stumps and
leaves in piles about the fields in tho
lall to induce the bugs to come in out Of
the cold and wet, and when they are
safely in to add little kerosene and
make bonfire Of it. He also suggests
planting out early number Of cabbage
stumps to make young growth to at
tract the bugs and then kill them.
Other methods are fall plowing, plac-
ing boards and rubbish around as shell
ters anddestroying the insects thus har-
bored, burning infested cabbages, plant
ing tnrnips and mustard for trap crops
and then spraying them with kerosene.
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Success comes to those who preserve. Il
you take Hoods sarsapaiilla faithfally and
persistently, you win surely be benefited.
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Agricultural Brevities.

1t is told that the Pennsylvania chest.
nut crop is great but wormy. Trees
growing singly are thought to be less
subject to the worms than when stand
ing together in numbers.
The New Jersey station has found
from carefully conducted experiments
that given amount of dry matter in a
silage ration will produce 12. per cent
more milk and 1914 per cent more but
ter fat than the same amount in field
cured corn.
1t is said that in digging ginseng in
Sullivan county, N. Y, this fall, men
walked from 10 to 25 miles day, and
a fair days find Of green roots was two
pounds. 1t takes three pounds of the
green roots to make one pound of the
dry product, the latter bringing about
81 pound.
!. Greiner says in Farm and Fireside
that tobacco dust is bis reliance for
subduing the green cabbage worm. A
teaspoonful scattered over the plant has
never failed in his experience to drive
away the flea beetle, the cabbage aphis
and the several worms which infest the
cabbage.
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a m. q m. a m. p m. .
IDaily. aDaily except Sunday.

daily. Daily except Sunday.
"a" Stops to leave passengers from Whining.
ton and points north. or take passengers for
points south Of DeImar -
OF on signal. -e-'
'i' Stops to leave passengers from Middle
town and points south.
'P" Stops to leave passer gers from points
south OF Delmar, or take passengers for VII.
ming and points north.
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAIHs-Leaye
Wilmington S.l3, ll.04,. q. m, 35, 4N and
. %, p: m, week-da' Leave New Castle 88l,
days.
Express trains leaving Harrington SOS D. M,
ana arriving at 6.a3 p. M, weekdays, run
through solid to and from Baltimore. via Porter
and Newark. =
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Corn In the siln.

In regard to corn silage an Ohio
Farmer correspondent says: Zone will
naturally make a comparison of harvest
ing the corn crop in this way with that
of shocking and husking it. The way
figure it, an acre Of corn can be put in
the silo for the same that the corn can
be cribbed and the stover put in the
stack. Then in order to come anywhere
near the silage in feeding availability
and value, the corn must be ground and
the stcver cut, which will materially
increase the expense. Even then il is
considerably short in feeding value to
the dairyman.
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Killing Quack Grass.

have had 80 years. experience with
this pest. The easiest way to get rid of
1t is to plow quite late in the fall and
allow the frost to kill the roots. If the
grass is very plentiful and the winter
open, the dead roots will sometimes clog
the harrow. In this case I would rake
them into windows and burn. Some rec.
ommend frequent narrowing in dry
weather.. but this does not prove entire
~ satisfactory.-Exchange.
THE GONGEIEI6 AbpIe
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rIiddletown Directory.
MtINICTPAL OFFICERs.

MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
President, j. F. Nc Whorter; Secretary, j. A.
Suydam; CharlesH. Howell, George g.. Rowe,
VIM. r. Cochran.
BANKS.
Peoples National Bank.-President, g. w,
w Naudain; Cashier, Geo. d. Kelley Tell or.
W. G. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank.-President, Joseph
Biggs; Cashier, John s. Crouch; Teller, -.
Darlington. Bank Building ON South Broad
Street.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr. o. u. A. M.
Meets every Monday night in McWhorter's
Hall at O'Clock.
Union Lodge, No. s, A. f. & A. NJ. Meets
first Tuesday of each month in Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 8, I. .. o. F.
Meets every Thursday night in McWhorter's'
Hall'a O'Clock.
Damon Lodge, No. IL, K. of p. Meets every
Wednesday night in McWhorter's Hall at
8 O'Clock.
Major John Jones Post, No. q, g. A. R.
Meets every Friday night in Reynolds Build
ing at o'clock
Welcome Conclave Heptasophs. Meets
every second and fourth Friday night in Z
Union Lodge, No. 6, A.o.U.w., meetsevery
I'd and 4th Tuesday night in McWhorter's
Hall
APPROXIMATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets 6rst Fri
day night of each month in Hose House.
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Western Hog shelter.

"The hog born and bred in the ex-
pensive, painted house is not always the
most healthy and profitable, remarks.
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BLANKETS { ROBES.

AS the seasons come and go SO
does an immense stock of season
able goods in our line. Summer
as it fades from sight leaves
memory of a great season with
US.
Our immense stock of sheets
and busters have disappeared
and again the space is taken up
with winter goods.
We come before you today
with onr fall epening-You will
find in our stock room BLAN-
KETS and ROBES all sizes,
grades and patterns. Before
you make a selection call and see
US. We will appreciate your call
and will take pleasure in showing
you through our immense stock.
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The more that is known about the
apple crop the greater the shortage ap-
pears Thirty million barrels compared
70 something over $1,000, 900 barrels
last year i The American Agrioultnr-
lists figures
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THE TrANscRIPE, 8. 90 psr ysar.
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Ladies' Clothing Cleaned and Dyed
at Reasonable Prices.
suits Altered am Repaired. Velvet Collars
put ON Overcoats. Coats and Vests Refined,
lew Binding Oh Coats and Vests and new
Buttons put oD all Clothing. The Hartford
lyeing and Scouiiug Works Wiz Cl ease and
oress Pants free of charge, once week, for
|! gentlemen who patroniZe Thep with their
work.
H5-Goods sent by Express a0itt be promptly
tine and delivered in four days.
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]. c. Parker ( Son,
rIIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE.
Che Reason We Can
Work So Cheap

Is because we have our own
Factory and do not have to
pay anyone a commission
for doing work.
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MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
President, j. F. Nc Whorter; Secretary, j. A
Suydam; CharlesH. Howell, George g. Rove
VIM. r. Cochran.
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Attends to the
Rents Boxes

In its New BURGLAR and Fire-proc +
Vaults, Makes ample provision in lis
Store Room and Vaults for the safe keeT
ing of Securities and Valuable package
placed in its custody.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-09-07

"Sat exactly. hui ! advised him fa go and taIs Joe matter over Hiih you. say. Polly. yau two ought Io muse up. You taka mF ndFlee." sold IoHrgzy.
 Then Ia8rzsy NUaf aue way and Polly Weuf Inc other each one busy Wita many lhaughfs
 That evening Ms 1nnessg asked h,f husband how mHny fa7 fhe neW ofIice had brought AIur
 '~fhis - Che arsf 1Hy. you knew,@ he smlld nlauy Il hasr Jusf been =.t. tIns fhe wheels h moilnn tn.day, mud tbe feys wiii eame In after awhile.
 -YI~. when Joe Pelarmnu uud Polly May gct married % she said laughlns
 JonrsHy hnd accomplished something that day He had set Joe and Polly thinking ubout each other does bong. lantern laWei fnee. usually sober and solemn hHd relaxed Into smiles several times uud once he had actually caught himself humming an old soug that had laiu forgotten for years wlthln hlm. On thc other hand polly's round and rosy face, that was supposed Ia wear Il smile e11n in sleep was very thoughtful and sad. And while bending above the steam from the fragrant teapot, at the supper table, her eyes seemed filled with unshed tears.
 Poor Joe" she sighed. as she sat down 10 her lonely meal. .I thought surr that he would get over it and mar ry some one else, but It seems that he doesn't care any more than I do for anybody and both of Us just persist in being wrong, when only a word from either of us would make things so diff ferent"
 Just then eat came in at the open door, and when Polly saw that 1t limped slightly on one leg she sprang up from the table and caught 1t In her nrins.
 Poor Kitty" she murmured. "1 won- der who hurt you? You can't tell. can youY"
 4I can" said manly voice in the doorway and Il moment later Joe en- tered the room. "Jonessy told me to- day that you intended to sue me for throwing q brickbat Ut your cat" he said.
 Polly eyed her visitor closely for moment, and seeing that his eyes were upon her supper table instead of upon herself, the hard lines that had come around her lips relaxed into a smile.
 Come in. Joe" she sah. gently. "Will you take cup of tea with meY'
 Then you ain't mad because crip- pied your cat?"
 Joe" she cried, trying to book se-
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in the town. The entire population de bends on rain water caught on the flat roofs of the buildings and conducted to the cistern, which occupies the greater part of the courtyard that Is an es- sential part of Spanish houses the world over, but that in San Juan, on account of the crowded conditions, Is small. There Is DO sewerage, except for surface water and sinks, and the risk of contaminating the water Is great, and in dry seasons the supply Is entire ly exhausted Epidemics are frequent, and the town Is alive with vermin, mos- quitoes, and dogs.
 The streets are wider than in the old CT part of Havana and will admit two carriages atreast. The sidewalks are narrow, and in places will accommo- date only one person. The pavements are of Q composition manufactured in England fRUm slaa, easily broken and unfit for heavy trittbc. The streets are swept once day by haml and are kept eery cban. Prom irs torograph- tcal situation the bUwn should be healthy, but 1t Is not. The snil under the city Is clay mixed with lime. so hard as to be almost like rock. It Is consequently imperviuus to water and furnishes a good natural drainage. The trade wind bhws strong and fresh, and tfHUulgh the haTbor runs 0 stream of sea water at speed not less than three miIes an hour. With these con- dittons Do contagious diseases, if prop arly taken care of. could exist; without them the place would be a veritable plagOs spot
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-09-07
Rear that Saves ldfe.

Residents of Apalachtn, \. T., had a bad scare recently, when the 4-year- old child of Henry Rathburn started out alone to look for trailing arbutus. It was half an hour before she was missed, relates the New York Press, and then all trace of the little one was kost. Her distracted father and his neighhors joined In the search.
 While passing through rayfne they shamhling toward them some distance up the road carrying bundle In Its mouth. Closer inspection proved to the terrified searchers that the object was bear and the bundle a child. It is many years since bear was seen in armed. prepared to give battle, one of their number going back for help. But the bear trotted toward them as though totally unconcerned. and when a few yards away carefully laid down the child 1t was carrying by its dress
 When the men approached and took up the little one the bear did not show fight, and closer investigation proved he had ring In his nose. Later 1t was found the bear belonged to an Italian who was camping In a nearby barn, making a tour of the country. He had purchased the animal when a cub and reared him in a New York tenement, where he was allowed to play with the children, and 1t was there he had learned the trick of carrying the little
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-09-07
Composing Music,

Sir Arthur Sullivan discourses in- terestfngly to an interviewer about his methods of work. It appears that there Is a vast deal of drudgery and manual labor In the work of musical composition which cannot be avoided or delegated to another-much more than in the case of literary compost tfon. But the two are alike In this, says Sir Arthur, that 1t Is as vain in the one as in the other to wait for an inspiration" This seems to him very like "a miner seated on the top of a shaft and waiting for the coal to come bubbling up."-New York Evening Post
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-09-07

dreamlng he found himself suddenly face To faee with a woman carrying a huge basket on her arm.
 How do you do. IudgeY she cried cheerily. letting her basket down Co the ground "' was rrNl glad to hear that yUu was elected"
 Thank you. Polly. was just think said Jonessy Have just been over to s,e your neighhor. Joe peterman. and WIS on my way home with my thoughts full of both of you"
 Polly fruwnel
 Joe Isn't going 10 have me 4o. court. k hey she asked.
 Cant say. Polly. reckon that de- bends IS much on you as on him"
 Well. he had no business coming in through the window like he did." Polly cried. "lt scrv,d him only right that the window fell down on him like 1t did and caught him hy the leg, Of course, when I grabbed him by the throat to keep him from squalltng and he cut me on the wrist I was mad enough tO Kill him But kept my tenn per. and didn't hurt him any moro than | could help" she protestel
 But Joe didn't JoneSSy began
 ~Of course Joe didn't Joe nevcr would listen to reason" cried Polly.
 But, Polly. Joo-7 Joneesy began again,
 'sThat's all right .rfm .JonaSSv: you have Joe's side of the story, and am
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-09-07

going to tell mine," cried Polly. After got him loose bothered with him all day, and doctored him. and that night after dark, I carried him in my arms to the fence and set him down on the other side"
 "Goodness, Polly, you don't mean to tell me that you carried him in your ar1nsT' Jonessy exclaimed.
 Well, l just did. and I'll swear to It before Joe or anybody sv
 "I wouldn't do 1t If was you" satd Jonessy, earnestly. Why, there Isn't soul in Pinevflle would believe you could do 1t"
 .'Oould do whatT
 "Why, carry Joe Peterman in your arms of course"
 "Jim Jonessy, you are a foolr she cried, very red in the face. "It is Joe's old Dominick rooster have been talk ing about"
 "Why, yes, of course,' stamrnered Jonessy, in confusion, trying to smile. "I was just teasing you, Polly, know ing that you and Joe were such old friends"
 ~But did Joe say he was going to take me to courtr she asked.
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tald him all about ii myself" sald Poi. b. smiling
 "t remember now. that if wag fhe same wIfh me and the cat said Iee. T know Wanffd fo fail xau how sorry I waa. and II Wus all l could thInk of when Jaurazy came to see me"
 "t am safry. faa Joe sald Polly. "und ! hurr fnu won't fhlHk Ibat [ done it on rntpnTe.a
 Somehow fhe sumWer duak gathered aroum Them. and neither seemed fo uotlee IT. as th.y talked on and nn ucruss thr table between them. After awhile, however Polly raer and went ta the open daar, Wherv Joe followed her.
 "Suy, Polly" he snid, taking hsr mn resisting hand, "l have been sorry for everything all these years; won't you say thnt you forgive mef3
 Polly looked ID Into his fare.
 "I have been sorry, too. Joe. Oh. so sorry"
 Just then Polly's cat. purring snfty, rubbed herself against J0e's leg, and at the same moment old Dominiek crowed lustily on his own side of the fence.
 Now, in pineyllle. a good many things nre dated from the time when Joe Peterman and Polly May got married" St Louis Globe Democrat.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-09-07
THRIFTY INDIAN GIRL.
Marrying Her Was n Most Excellent
 Investment.

In 1892 the "Seger" school was built lin Oklahona Territory, among col ony of Cheyennes and Arapahoes, con- sidered among the widest. most back ward and nonprOgressfve of all h. dians, says the Omaha Bee. Forum ately the superintendent of fhe new school, Mrs. John Seger, had already gained their confidence In another cfs- pacity, so that when they were asked to put their children in school they said that they would, as soon as they were weancd. And they carried this out literally.
 One of the girl pupils, who entered the school when 1t was opened, has had quite remarkable record. Having no previous education and leaving her really savage home for the first time, she has demonstrated what education Is doing and will do for the red man. There Is Il system in nearly all the gov ernment Indian schools by which those pupils who are both industrious and frugal may earn money Tn the sewing room, on the farm or in some one of the schools other industrial de partnfents. Of course, this must he outside of their regular work. This young girl, after taking q regular course as a scholar, was judged cap's- hle of filling -salaried position. In the course of q short time she filled not one but several, and worked in the sewing room besides. Out of her say ings she bought a wagon, harness, team, organ, bedroom set and a sew ing machine, all in view of her pros pective marriage to young Indian to whom she was engaged. and when they were married she took enough savings with her to build a neat home. All thls was accomplished in three years ffma