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Middletown transcript., 1898-04-09
DAIRY AND cREAMERY.


Men who get over 300 pounds of but.
ter year from each COW feed the
animals grain or other food while they
are on pasture in the summer. From
four to six pounds of bran per day is
the ration one successful butter maker
gives to each COW when on pasture. In
the winter he gives his largest COWS
each per day mixture containing six
pounds Of bran, three pounds of barley,
three pounds of oats and ten pounds of
carrots, with all the hay they will eat.
1t will be observed that there is no men,
tion of either corn, cornmeal or ensil-
age. The hay used is alfalfa. The
reason for this is that the successful
butter maker in question lives in Wash
ington state, on the Pacific coast. In
the east the alfalfa would be replaced
by timothy or clover. the carrots by en-
silage and the barley by corn and corn
meal. But if a man in Washington
state can get 300 pounds of butter per
COW, why cannot men in the eastern
states do as we'll?
Stall fed cows milk ferments and
putreRes quicker than that of COWS on
pasture. The reason is that it con-
tains more acid. The pasture cows
milk contains more alkalies and is
much better for children. It is motor
ious that children fed on the milk of
cattle which live on still slops and are
kept in stalls die rapidly. The reason
is found above.
If one COW in herd is in feverish
condition, her milk will taint percepti-
blya vat containing as much as 660
gallons. Here is something for butter
and cheese makers to remember.
Professor Arnold says, 1--WE have
seen the milk of dairy of 80 COWS per-
ceptibly affected by the milk of a single
COW driven in haste by dog.n
The milk shows falling off in flavor
very quickly when cows do not have
enough water-pure water too.
A cheesemaker who suspects some
patron is send ing him tainted milk has
simply to take off the lid of each mans
can, one after the other, and smell the
milk. After milk has been shut up in
a can for an honr or SO it will be very
easy to detect by the smell where the
rottenness is. If the kcheesemaker has
not good nose for smells, let him call
in his wife or daughter to apply the
nose test. Women have quicker sense
of smell than men have.
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Deafness Cannot he Curad


by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion Of the ear. There i:
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness i
caused by an inAamed condition of the mu.
cous lining of the Eusthacian Tube.
When this tube is infamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is etirely closed, Deafness is the
result. and unless this inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to Its nor
NAL condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by
Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars; Free.
FL. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best
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a m. a m. a m. p m.
IDaily. 2paily except SUNDAY.

Daily. Daily except Sunday.
stops to leave passengers from Whining.
points south of Delmar.
n Stops only on notice to conductor or agent
or on signal.
''p" Stops to leave passer gers from points
south of Delmar, or take passengers for Wi.
ming and points north.
f' stops to leave passengers from Middle
''t' Stops to let off passengers from Har.
rington points south.
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRA1Ns-Teave
Wilmington BIB, ll04, a. m 25I, AT, and
. %, p. M. week-davs Leave New Castle S3I.
days.
Express trains leaving Harrington sos a. M.
and arriving at 6.53 p. M, weekdays, run
through solid to and from Baltimore, via Porter
and Newark.
DELAwARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA R. r.
Leave harrington for Franklin City and way
statlods 81; 1O3s am week days,6S7 p NJ Tuesday
thursdays and Saturdays. Returning train
BRANCH ROADS.
leaves Franklin City $50 a. H. week days and
I-4z tuesdays, Thurso al and Saturdays only.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
steamer LAB p. M, week days Returning,
leave Chincoteague 40 a. M, weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
al lO.og a. m, 6.S7 p. m. weekdays. Returning,
leave Lewes $40 a. m. 80 IL p. m. weekdays.
A Hl.
days and 6.37 p. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and
@aturdays Returning, leave Berlin 657 a. m.
week days and 2.43 p. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT r. R-Leave Townsend
!or Centreville and way stations 922 a. M, and
~ m. week days Returning, leave Centre
vile $50 a. M. and LII p. M, weekdays.
DELAWARE q CHESAPEAKE R. R.-Leave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations 9.3S a. M, and
a p M, week days. Returning, leave Oxford
$40 a. M, and 40 p. m, weekdays.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAP ORD R. k.-Leave Seaford
ior Cambridge and intermediate stations II IL a.
a. and I. IA p m. weekdays Returning, leave
-ambridge 10 and l0.55 p. m. weekdays
CoENEcTIoN.-At Porter, with Newark and
delaware City Railroad At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At CLAYTON
With Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
baltimore 4 Delaware Bay Railroad At Har.
ington, with Delaware Maryland & Virginia
abroad. At Seaford. with Cambridge & Seaford
Railroad: At Delmar, with New York, PhiIa-
ielphia Norfolk, Wicomico & Pocomoke. and
Peninsula Railroads.
j. B. HUTCHINSON. General Manager.
J. R. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
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OF Interest
to Farmers
PROFIT IN DAIRY PRODUCTS.


to regulate the prices of butter and
cheese, but they can regulate in
some measure the cost of producing
the milk. If farmers will still persist
in feeding their COWS ration border
ing on starvation, no wonder they find
that dairying does not pay. Let them
feed their cows in such manner that
they will not decrease their flow Of
milk after the month of June. Why
is it that COWS always give lots of milk
during June? Because they have plenty
of good succulent feed. Try, there
fore, to arrange your affairs to have
some green food to give them after
June has passed. Sow a small piece,
say half an acre for each FIVE cows you
are milking, of oats and vetches, and
IL vetcheS cannot be got SOW some field
peas in their place. This, if sown
early on good soil, should be ft to cut
about the first of July. Cows will not
eat much of it at first, but give them
all they will eat Of it night and morn
ing. Cut it twelve hours before using;
in other words, cut enough in the
morning to do them at night; then in
the evening cut sufficient for the morn
ing feed. There is nothing better than
clover. Clover can also be cut twice
and sometimes three times in season
if cut early. Then for September and
October he sure to have some corn.
This should be cut in the same manner
as before.
If fed in this way all summer, with
plenty of good pure water 10 drink at
all times and salt every day, COWS
should give lots of milk A cow is
mandatory. The more boots and
shoes you can turn out per day with
the same help the more profits there are
in the business. Tue cons are the same;
the more milk you can get them to give
the more profit you have for your labor.
A little grain given daily also will help
to swell your profits after the LIST of
August, as about that time we may ex-
pect both butter and cheese to sell at
better price. If you let your cows take
pot luck, the chances are your milk will
cost more than you will get for it. On
the other hand, if you feed literally of
green food, the chances are In your
favor of making 10 to 10 cents profit
per 100 pounds aud perhaps more.
Give the cow a fair chance. Weed
out the poor ones. III your flock. By
means Of The scales and Babcock tester
you can find out The drones. Keep only
those that give enough to pay their
board of miik-of good quality-tbat is,
rich in butter fat-for the day is not
far distant when all factories will he
obliged to pay for milk according to
quality.
Reduce the cast piice of milk to the
lowest limit, lake good care of it after
milking by thoroughly aerating it, and
your cheese or butter maker will be en-
ambled to make first class article and
command the highest market price.
This is were some of the profit comes
in. At the end of the season, if some
of the farmers will follow the advice
given above, they will, even with the
low prices for butter and cheese pre-
vailing, find out that diarying does pay
and pays better than most other ways
of farming.-Inspector Peter Macfar-
lane in Montreal Herald.
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FREEZING BUTTER DOES NOT HURT II
The old theory that freezing butter
injured its favor or keeping qualities
is no longer held by the best informed
We know of several large cold storage
concerns where the butter is put in
freezing rooms as soon as made in mid.
summer and at once frozen and held al
from 8 to 20 degrees above zero until
the following fall and winter. These
freezing rooms are constructed on q
patent plan and reduce the temperature
by the use of pounded salt and ice let
down from the ice storage room above
into long metal cylinders. If rightly
made from sweet, untainted milk, one
will hardly know that such butter has
been made week, and neither does it
readily pass off flavor.
This great fact should teach those
persons wh0 have been in the habit Of
packing their farm butter in summer
and storing it for sale late in the fall
that they cannot successfully compete
with the finer frozen grades which are
already filling the market.
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rakinp It All Back.

eff man has not the moral courage
to say Yes, was wrong, and I don't
believe what I said at some former
time,' he had better retire from busi-
ness and never try to make another
newspaper. 90. A. Dana in 1.-THE Art
Of Newspaper Making"
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SOME oRAN aE DAINrrEs.

Orange Fritters. For these peel two
oranges, carefully removing all the
white skin. Then slice, and dip each
piece separately in batter made with
one pint Of milk. thfee eggs, and suth-
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Peoples National Bank.-President, g. w,
w Naudain; Cashier, Geo. d. Kelley Teller.
w. g. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National ank.-President, Joseph
Biggs; Cashier, John 8. Cronch Teller, u.
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
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fIiddletown Directory.
MIINICIpAL OFFTcERs
BANKS.

N1U1ttO1I 80 OI E1tr4Kl&5s
President, j. #. New h0rter; Secretary, J. A.
Suydam; CharlesH. Howell; George g. Rowe,
Vim. r.. Cochran.
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was well and strong. am giving her
Hoods sarsaparilla now for eczema and
the trouble Is fast disappearing" MRS.
CLINTON B. Hope, Buckingham Valley, Pa.
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Our Wonan's
.....CoIur1n
EASTER BoNNErs.

ASTER bonnets
AS ever, the Eas.
ter bonnet for the
year is a thing Of
beauty. T b er
re brig hte l
colors on it than
for some years
past, a n d slto-
gether it 8 a
dainty piece of
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FARMERS.
Delaware College

Offers Winter Course of instruction in
topics pertaining to Agriculture and Horti-
culture, beginning Tuesday, January 4th !.
Tuition Free. Circulars describing the
Course sent free to every one applying to
orsW. n BlsHop.
Newark. Del. ss = s' ''sA''s''
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sMrRET SncuETIEs

SECRET SOCIETIES.
Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr. o. u. A. M.
Meets every. Monday uight in McWhorter'E
Hall at O'Clock.
Union Lodge, No. 5, A. #. q A. M. Meets
first Tuesday Of each month in Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 8, I. 0. o. f.
Meets every Thursday night in McWhorter's
Hall at s o'clock.
Wednesday night in McWhor9er's Hall at
8 So'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 K.
of P. Hall.
I'd and 4th tuesday night in McWhorter's
Hall.
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets drst FRI
10 r,ic NJ nocla u, In Hose Hnr1sa
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MIDDLETowN. DEL. APR. O., 1898
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Authorize to Act as

TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR, ADMINIsTRA-
TOR, GUARDIAN, ASSIGNEE, RE-
CEIVER, REGISTRAR AND AGENT
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Rents Boxes

In its New BURGLAR and Fire-prco
Vaults, Makes ample provision in ITS
Store Room and Vaults for.the safe keer.
ing of Securities and Valuable package
placed in its cussody
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Transacts a
Attends to the

Management Of Real Estate and to the
Collection and Remittance of Rents. In
terest on Securities ara Dividends
Stocks
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All the time and could not get rested at
night, being tired in the morning as
when went to bed. I did not feel like
doing my work. fingered along in this
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-11
Antics Of a Tam. wiid Cat.

4 tame wildcat from the northern
Minnesota woods has been sent to Mr..
Mthison of III Randolph street, Chi
ca 20. The cat, which is as large as a
go 1d-sized bulldog, and, according to
tn, claims Of its proud owner, could
lip an even dozen of those IRON
jaged beasts in az many minutes, is
as docile as little kitten. :
The thing was captured, when SO
small. its eyes had hardly opened, by
Tiapper James Wilson, whose log cab
in is situated in the wllds of the Min
NJ sofa woods surrounding Sturgeon
Lake, and he trained it for thirteen
months, feeding it ON cooked beef,
nj llk and bread, and to-day, in its new
Chicago home, it plays about the office
in amusing gentleness, stands gravely
in The window gazing with wondering
eyes out upon the street, with its null
titude of horses and wagons, or starts
IN its brisker moods on a wild career
Of leaping about the office. A jump OF
seven-foot partition is not quite the
limit of its endeavors, and spring
of ten or eleven feet from the TOD of
a desk to distant stack of boxes.
landing without causing the pile to
topple over. is one of its feats. ~
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-11

A despatch in the st. Louis Globe.
Democrat says that few instance.
have been recalled where men of ma.
ture age were forced to learn how te
talk, read and write after securing d.
plomas and honors for proficiency il
all three.
Ellis county, Texas, has man thai
has learned to talk, read and write
twice in his life, and he is just turning
the point known as the prime" OF
manhood. This man is Dr. o. P. Hus.
ton, of Nash. A little over year age
+ Dr.. Huston received a heavy blow or
the head, crushing in portion of the
skull. For time 1t was thought he
would die. Physicians attended the
sufferer, and several months later two
or three large pieces of bone were
successfully removed from the
wound. He began to improve, and
finally got so he could walk
around He found It. necessary to
write, talk and read, but the blow on
the head had paralyzed that portien Of
the brain controlling speech. A score
or more of simple words were learned
and after time a very good vocabula.
ry was brought into use, Then the
copybook movements were put into
use, and the old handwriting returned
to him. The student was ambitious;
he succeeded.
I Before the sad accident to the talent
ed doctor, young lady had given him
her heart, and while he was suffering
for months and months, trying to over
come what most people thought death,
she clung to him. She had other suit
ors, an1 during the time the second
schooling was in progress they tried
| to impressl her with their ability tc
take care of pretty wife. She re.
fused all offers. Sunday, November Z,
at Forreston, in the Presbyterian
|, church, DR.. Huston led to the altar
| Miss Inez Strickland, the daughter of
well-to-do farmer. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Mr.. Ken
non. The bride has long been admired
for, her beauty and intelligence, and
while her marriage was surprise to
some the majority Of her friends
thought she followed out the prompt-
ings of her heart and blessed her for
her selection. 1t seems almost impos-
siple for DR., Huston to be what he was
before the accident, but there is one
| thing that he can always count on.
and that is the love of a devoted wife.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-11
Horn with n History.

There is an old battered tin horn ip
the possession of an ancient colored
man at Dalton, Ca, around which are
associated mem.9ries Of many deeds OF
violence. t.,
). In ante-belhlm days the horn was the
property of Colonel1sBen." Longhridge,
a wealthy planter of Murray county.
1t was originally used to summon his
many slaves to work ahd tb meals, and
it's welcome note at sunset was the sig.
nal for them to rest from the days la
bors.
After the war the horn became sepa-
rated from the Longhridge family, and
from that time until few months age
was the period of it's stirring history.
Murray county. has for years been, a
stronghold of the "moonshiners. Z"
Time after time the revenue officers
made desperate raids on the illicit dis
tillers, killing and being. killed, vet
never entirely subduing the stubborn
mountaineers. The mellow note of
the old tin 1horn would always Warm
the whisky rebels of'the approach of
their enemies, and many good mans
death has4t presaged.
The moonshiners would station a
lusty lunged sentinel on some promi-
nent mountain rock, which command.
ed view of the valley below, and the
slightest suspicious symptom in the
IL yer aaflts was sufficient to send the
bass esboes Of the old horn flying, and
the moonshiners themselves scurrying
to their impr9yised fortresses, armed
to the teeth and ready to take and risk
life for what they considered their
rights and in the. defense of their
hearthstones. To the revenues" it al
ways bore the dismal information that
from the next crag or bramble they
might expect Staying volley from
their hidden, foes.
The venerable horn Is special re-
minder of a notorious gang which ter
rorized the county up to within year
ago. 1t was used to rally the forces of
this gang and was often the preface to
bloody conflict. between them and the
laws representatives.
When the gang was finally disposed
Of the horn passed into the possession
Of old Uncle" Isaac, a typical "befo'
de war" colored man and the old man
! often brings it out and recounts its in
teresting history.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-11
HIGGINS CHARGED. ALONE.

|II4. = a
On Confedcrate- Testimony He Has Been
Given Medal of Honor.
1.-THE Secretary of War granted
medal of honor few days ago to
federal soldier on the affidavit of
confederate" said Charles = Evans OF
Texas, a candidate for office, who oc-
casionally visits the White House, "and
IT. lis probably the first instance on
record of this kind. The federal sold
Ter who received the medal was Thom-
as l. Higgins, now of Hannibal, MO.
During the war he was the color bear
er, Of the 99th Illinois Regiment. and
was holding that position at the siege
ofiVicksburg. In an assault on the 2Eu
Of, May, 1868. the Goth Illinois was
ordered to charge and not to look
back. was member of the I'd Texas
Regiment, and we confronted the
charging Illinoisians. We repulsed the
Illinois regiment. a short distance from
the breastworks and sent 1t back in
confusion. Higgins. however, was lit
orally oheying the orders. He never
looked back. He never noticed the re-
treat or his regiment, but came bound
ing forward, his colors flying as pret-
tily as soldier ever saw. When
within forty yards of our works word
was passed along the line not to shoot
the brave soldier, and all firing ceased.
When Higgins saw his predicament he
started to retreat with his colors, but
we told him to come on or we would
have to shoot him. Several men ran
out and brought him within the breast
works. We kept him several days.
during which time we learned to like
and admire him. He was then par
oiled. I was one of the men who wit
messed his heroic deed and made an af-
fdayit to that effect. Several of my
companions who remembered Higgins
/ and his charge also made affidavits, On
these the Secretary Of War granted a
medal. Higgins could have been
vouched for by members OF his own
regiment, but the novelty Of recon-
mendation by his former foes led to
that COURSE" tl
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-11
SLAVES
To CZar Reed are the Re.
publicans in the House.
SILVER CONFERENCES
Are Held Looking 10 the Uniting of
the Great Silver Forces.

Although it was known a week
ago that the advocates of the single
gold standard were defeated, it was
not supposed that they were pre-
pared to make such an absolute
acknowledgements of defeat to the
country as to abandon all attempts
to get gold standard legislation
through the House, which is en-
tirely dominated by Car Reed,
who is one Of the boldest of the
gold advocates Such is the fact,
however. Mr.. Reed has decided
that no financial Legislation shall
be put through the House at this
session, and that all of his power
shall be used to keep appropria-
lions down and to bring about an
early adjournment. That any bill
supported by Mr.. Reed could have
been jammed through the House
Is certain, and only last week Nc
Kinley intimated in his New YORK
speech that a financial bill would
be passed by the House. From the
beginning of the session that has
been generally understood TO be
the republican programme. Now
it has heen abandoned, Why ?
Because there are many Congress
sional districts In which the re-
publicans are afraid to make a
campaign in favor of the goli
standard, and they do not dare to
commit the party any further. in
that direction than the defeat OF
the Teller resolution by Car Reeds
slaves did. However, that is clear
enough for those who do not wish
to be deceived AS Representa-
tive Dockery, of Mo-, remarked (:
"This clears away all the fog in the
atmosphere and makes the issue
for 1898 and 1900 purely financial
one, NepubllcanS VIII be unable
henceforth to separate themselves
from the cause of the single gold
standard. They are absolutely
committed to 1t, and from it next
fall there can be no escape"
There have been a number oi
important conferences of represen-
tatives Of the three parties that
supported Bryan and silver in he
last campaign held in Washington
during the past few days, but it is
not deemed advisable to make pub
lie what object IS in view, further
than to say 1t looks to a complete
cooperation OF all The silver foi ces
In this years Congressional cam
paign. To go into detail might put
the other side In possession Of mo Q
than II would be advisable for them
to know.
Representative Allen, of Miss,
("Frivate John Allen, Of Tul elo y
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-11

CZAR REED corralled his slaves,
issued his orders and the Teller re-
solution was promptly voted down
in the House. There has never
be en- such an exhibition of one man
power, since Sampson destroyed
the temple at GAIA. Sampson Kill.
ed himself and all enemies. Reed
has killed himself and his party.
There were 1872 Republican mem
bers present Monday at O'Clock p.
m, and l80 voted as directed by the
Great Boss-one MIR. Linney, Of
North Carolina, voted on the other
side, and one White, of North Caro-
lima, did not vote. There were 1873
Democratic, Populist. and free sill.
yer Republican votes in favor Of
the resolution and twenty pairs,
making the total vote 900 Republi
cans with 2 Democrats, McAleer,of
Philadelphia and Elliott, Of Sputh
Carolina, against the bill- Ole
hundred and fifty-three Democrats,
Populists and Free Silver Republi.
cans, all there is In the House, an
| Republican, Linnev, Of North
''arolin', in favor of the resolution,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-11

FURTHER evidence of Mckinley
prosperity are accumulating. Here
is one, the Wheeling West Virginia
Steel plant has given notice of IA re-
duction of % per cent, In the wages
of all its mployes, to take place on
February 2lSt. This will be the
second reduction this year. In
Iorgantown, West Virginia, the
si,ss works made reduction in
wtges lust week of 20 per cent, on
top of previous one of % per cent.
Mckinley prosperity is a great
thing for the mill owners of all
kinds, but comes hard on the wage
earner5.