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TO FIRST VOTERS.

There is a constitutional pro.
vision which will become opera
tive before the next general cleo
ton is held, of which the general
public maynotbe aware, although
it has been published in connec-
ton with the Constitutional Con
vention. It is an educational
test. It is that no person who
becomes of age or who is natura-
lied after January 1st, 1900, shall
be permitted to vote who shall
not be able to read the Constitu-
tion in English, and be capable Of
writing his name"
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Our Present PeriIs.

They are many and varied and from
many causes. Never was the temptation
to expensive living SO great as now.
Our life is under high pressure. Our
machinery is speeded high and all our
social, industrial and political move
ments catch the motion. Haste to be
rich, to attain influential positions,
and to get all the enjoyment possible,
has infected us. Our church life feels
the impulse. Large membership lists,
elegant buildings, talented musicians,
eloquent orators for pulpit and plat
form, immense conventions-all make
for success. But under it all lies grave
peril. The danger is not in wealth or
In numbers, not in culture or elo-
quence, but it lies in the temptation to
make these the end and not merely the
aids to something better. It is not in
any Of these that success lies, but far
beyond them. Is the membership de-
voted to service of God and man3 If
not, then it were better it were smaller.
Does the music aid devotion, is the ora
tory powerful for righteousness If not,
then it were better the instruments
were without sound and the lips dumb.
Godliness is our need, worldly show our
peril
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR.

Topic For the Week Beginning July
2-C0mment by Rev. 8. H. Doyle
Top1o.-our country for Christ.-Ps. xxxiii,
1922 a Christian citizenship meeting.l
The nearness Of our national birthday
naturally suggests our topic And what
reasons for discussing it since July 4,
one year ago. Then was brought to Us
the news Of the destruction Of Cervera' q
fleet. Since that time Santiago has
fallen, the war with Spain successfully
ended, and peace declared. What more
fitting than that our nation, in deep
gratitude and thanksgiving, should con-
secrate itself to God in Christ, should
take great forward step in making
our country a Christian country, not
only in name, but in fact and in deed
/. Our country for Christ, for
Christ's sake. "For Christ's sake"
should be our supreme motive for every
action. For Christ's sake we should
strfvg to win our country for Christ.
To pay to Him tie debt our nation
owes to Him, to increase His honor and
to magnify His glory by our earnest
prayers, our unabated interest in home
missions, we should strive to make our
country Christ's country.
2. Our country for Christ, for our
country's sake. Christ does not need us
nearly SO much as we need Christ.
BLESSED is the nation whose God is the
Lord, and the people whom He hath
chosen for His inheritance. The Amer
ican nation never needed Christ and
Christianity so much as it needs them
today. Grave and farreaching problems
are before us, the solution Of which
will require the profoundest wisdom,
the broadest charity, the kindliest for
bearance, and what but Christianity
can furnish us with these qualifications ?
There are interal problems of gigantic
proportions before us, corruption in
high places, bossism in politics. the sa-
loon problem, socialistic problems, the
Sabbath question, and many others.
The solution Of most of these problems
is contained directly in Christianity.
and all of them are indirectly contained
in it. How, therefore, can they ever be
satisfactorily solved unless the nation
is Christian nationf
8. Our country for Christ for the
worlds sake A worldwide conflict is
on. Forces are at work which are des-
tined to determine the future character
of the whole world. In the providence
Of God our nation is undoubtedly des-
tined to have large part in determin-
ing the moral, religious and political
character of the world. The great re-
public of the west is more and more
looked to as a guide and an inspiration
by peoples fondly dreaming Of liberty
and Of freedom. The Christianization
Of America means long stride in the
Christianization of the world. We owe
it to the world to win our country for
Christ, so that it shall not only assist
in leading the nations of the world to
political and civil liberty, but also to
the liberty wherewith Christ makes
men free
Bible Readings. Ezra vi, $40; Neh
ii, 10; Ps. Ii, 1s; cxlvii, 30; Prov. xiv,
"a; Jer. xxx, z; Math. xvii, 24-27;
xxi, 1921; xiii, 81; Mark xii, 1917;
Luke xiii, "a; Rom. xiii. z; Tim. ii.
13; Heb xi, SIG.
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Bearer of Burdens.

Christ revealed God as the world q
burden bearer, full of an exquisite kind
ness and sympathy; that what He was
through three and thirty years God was
through all ths ages; that what He
was to publican and sinner in Bethle-
hem God was for all manned and
wrecked hearts in all worlds; that no
human tear falls but God feels it; that
no blow smites the suffering heart but
God shrinks and suffers; that with
wistful longing He follows the publican
and the prodigal. waiting for the hour
when He may recover the youth to his
integrity or to lead the man grown
gray in sin back to his Fathers house
Newell Dwight Hills
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Long since in sore distress heard one pray
Z Lord, who prevailest with resistless might,
Ever from war and strife keep me away:
My battles fight
! know not If l play the Pharisee
And il my brother, after all, is right,
But mine shall be the warriors plea to Thee
Strength for the fight
do not ask that Thou shalt front the fray
And drive the warning foemen from my sight.
only ask, o Lord, by night, by day,
Strength for the fight.
When foes upon me press let me not quail,
Nor think to turn me into coward flight.
only ask to make mine arms prevail,
Strength for the fight.
Still let mine eyes look ever on the foe,
Still let mine armor case me, strong and
bright,
And grant me as deal each righteous blow
Strength for the fight
And when at eventide the fray Is done
My soul to Deaths bedchamber do Thou light
And give me, be the field or lost or won
Rest from the fight.
Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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A Puritan's Resolve.

Here is noble resolve found in the
journal Of an old Puritan divine: ere
solved that, when | address a large
meeting, ! shall remember that God is
there, and that will make it small; re-
solved that, when | address small
meeting, shall remember that God is
there. and that will make it great.
The recollection of Gods presence, in
the first instance, prevents the minister
from being lifted up with pride and
conceit, and, in the second. from being
discouraged and cast down. At present
God is the needed vitalizer and quick
ener in all religious assemblies. Pres
byterian
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Carry our own Burden,

Let any man carry his own burden,
and he is doing much more than saving
himself. He is perhaps making the best
possible contribution to the strength Of
the common life. Let any man be lavish
OF his strength in serving others, and
he Is doing much more than helping
others He is reinforcing his own
strength to carry his own burden. =
Francis Greenwood Peabody. D. D.
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he Need Of Enthu.iasm II Relieio

We need to inject little heart into
the Geld intellectualism which sways
the minds of many Of our would be
philosophers of today. Feed the head
as much as you will, but do not starve
the heart, for if you let the heart lam
guish religion goes with it, The heart
is the vital organ of religion as certain
ly as it is the vital organ Of the human
body. When it ceases to throb, religion
ceases to exist. Come. brethren; give
us little more heart, a little more en-
thusiasm. Jewish Comment.
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SECRET SOCIETIES.

Middletown Council. No. 2, Jr. o. o. "A. M.
Meets every Monday night in McWhorter's
Hall at O'Clock.
Union Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. NJ. Meets
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 9, I. .. Q. T.
Meets every Thursday night in McWhorter's
Hall at s o'clock.
"wednesday night in McWhorter's Hall at
O'Clock.
Major John Jones Post, No. q, G. A. 4.
Meets every Friday night in Reynolds Build
ing at 7 O'Clock ,.z
Welcome Conclave Heptasophs. MeeLs
every second and fourth Friday night in K
of p. Hall.
Union Lodge, No. 8, A. Q. U. W. meets every
I'd and 4th Tuesday night in McWhortere
Hall
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets drst Fri
day night of each month In Hose House.
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ReIiwf0m I'm Arrears.

II duty be discharged diurnally, then
It win be impossible for us to fall into
arrears. Aye. there's the rubi Our re-
hgion Is in srrears; we have not bal
anced the accounts Joseph Parker, d.
u.
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Peoples National Bank.-Presiden t, g. W
w Naudain Cashier, Geo. d. Kelley; Tell er
w. g. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank.-President, Joseph
Biggs; Cashier, John 8. Crouch; Teller, -
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
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He-"I.ye bought q bicycle for two--s'
She Obi Jack, this is SO suddenf' He
continuing FOR two dollars less than
my last one cost. =
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Mann sohool chi1dren are sioklY.

Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Chill
dren, used by Mother Gray. nurse in Chill
drsn,s Home. New York. Break up Colds
in 24 hours cure Feyerishness. Headache.
Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, and
Destroy Worms At all druggists, 25e.
Sample mailed FREE. Address, Allen s.
0Imsted, Leroy, N. Y.
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Zone coed turn deserves another. !,
Those who have been cured by Hoods sar-
saparilla are glad d laIl others about ii
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A man may get the reputation for
learning by studying what other men
have learned. No one can become wise
but by understanding, the truth for
himself.
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The sporty girl likes TO appear ID winter
arrayed ID sealskin, and At the shore Id
Summer her fancy runs largely % bars skin.
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Courtesy is the outward shell Of
which friendship is the kernel It has
many grades, from the lowest and least
valuable fruit of hypocrisy to the rich
product Of Christly love.
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The way In ans, the wav ,ut.

4 sure way TO get into trouble and 1
poor way ia get ont ID to neglect aod
EpisconaI Recon .a.sir
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Timte Gable.
.Plila. Wiln. and Baltimore R. R
DELAWARE DIVISION

On and after June Sd, 1899, trains will
leave as follows:
SOUTHWARK.
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a m. a m. a m. p m,

Daily. Daily except Sunday.
"a" Stops to leave passengers from Whining.
ton and points north, or take passengers for
points south of Delmar.
or on signal.
''f' 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 Will
ming and points north.
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINs.-Leave
Wilmington 8l3, ll.04, a. m, 235, AT, and
So, p. M, weekdays Leave New Castle 83l
94h, ll.O4 a. M, AT and 81 D M, week
days.
Express trains leaving Harrington sos 4. M,
and arriving at 633 p. M, weekdays run
through solid to and from Baltimore. via Porter
and Newark.
BRANCH ROADS.
DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA R.R.-
Leave Harrington for franklin City and way
stations l03S a m 637 p m week days. Return
ing train leaves Franklin City 6U0 a. n and
] As p. N. week days.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
steamer) l.33 p. M, week days Returning
leave Chincoteague 4.52 a. M, weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown, Lewes
at iOS8 a. M, 6.37 p. M, week days. Returning
leave Lewes 6.45 a. m. and 800 p. m.week-
days.
Leave Harrington for Rehoooth, 1OSS a. m.,
6S7 p. m. weekdays. Returning, leave Reho-
both $50 a. m, 2 45 p. m. weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 1888 a. M and
6.37 p. m. week days. Returning, leave Berlin
7.02 a m and 2.40 p. m. week days.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT p. R-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations 9 q a. M, and
53l p. M. week days Returning. leave Centre
vile 7s6 a. M. and 237 p. M, weekdays.
DELAWARE & CHESAPEAKE r. R.-Leave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations 3.3S a. m, and
5E p. M, week days. Returning, leave Oxford
645 a. M. and 40 p. M, weekdays.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAFoRp r. R.-Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations H. II a.
m. and I Is ?. m. weekdays Returning, leave
Cambridge7.G go am. and 230 p. m. weekdays
CORRECTIONAL Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At Clayton
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore Il Delaware Bay Railroad 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.
j. B. HUTCHIsON. General Manager.
]. r. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
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MARBLE and GRANITE

We aim to, and do, give you
the best and most original de
signs. independent of all other
dealers, as it costs no more to
have the latest and best de-
signs, which is greatly to your
interest. Estimates furnished
on application and visits made
to the country upon notifica-
ton.
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rliddletown Directory.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
BANIKs.

President, ]. f. McWhorter; Secretary, ].
Suydam; CharlesH. Howell, George G.. Rove
VIM. r. Cochran.
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WATER ICES
SHERBETS and FROZEN FRUITS

This is just the handy little
book the handy little housewife
will find SO handy. Printed at
the TRANSCRIPT office and will
be given out only on the con-
ditions named.
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QUEEN ANNE & KENT r. R.-Leaye Townsend
for Centreville and way stations 9 q a. m, and
531 p. M. week days Returning, leave Centre
vile 7.26 a. M. and 237 D. M. week-dsys
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BRANCH ROADS.

Leave Harrington for Rehoooth, 1OSS a. m.
6.37 p. m. weekdays. Returning, leave Reho
both $50 a. M, 2.45 p. m. weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 1898 a. m. and
6.3 p. m. week days. Returning, leave Berlir
7.02 a m and 2.40 p. m. week days.
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CAMBRIDGE & SEAFoRp r. R.-Leave Seafor
for Cambridge and intermediate stations Ii IL
m. and ]. Is p M weekdays, Returning, leav
Cambridgel7 60 am. and 2.30 p. M weekday
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Text of the Lesson, Hos. xiv, 1-0.
Memory Verses, 4-7-Go1den Text,
Hos. vi, documentary Prepared
hv xF,e Rev n MI Stearns
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TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR, ADMINIsTRA-
TOR, GUARDIAN, ASSIGNEE, RE-
CEIvER, REGISTRAR AND AGENT
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NO SITE FOR GUILLOTINE.
Famous Machine In Paris May Have
to He Erected Outside the
City Limits.

The guillotine at Paris is just now
homeless. Some months ago the mu-
nicipal council in obedience to the pow
erful influences of property owners, de-
creed that public executions should no
longer take place in the famous Square
de la Roquette, but the choice of an
other place was postponed for time.
1t is now stated that the authorities
have on their hands an accumulation
of criminals awaiting execution.
The aldermen are at a loss to know
where the CHASTITY machine may be
erected. So far every proposal of a new
place has met such fierce opposition
from the inhabitants of the neighbor-
hood that they had to be abandoned.
Finally the municipal council, whose
majority is against capital punishment
anyhow, notified the state in the per-
son of the present project of police, thai
the municipality was not called upon
to furnish u suitable spot for the bar
barous practice. This may raise an in
teresting conflict.
Deibler, Jr., hereafter will probably
be compelled to operate on some empty
lot just outside the city limits.
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THE NEGRO IN HOT WEATHER.
lie Likes the Heat on His Head, Hut
He Tries to Keep His Heels
Cool.

1t has often been said that the capac-
ity of the negro race for enduring heat
has never been fully tested. An acct
dent related by dairyman living on
the outskirts of the city seems to bear
out this assertion. He has a young
negro boy who looks after the cattle
and does chores around the place. The
only effect that the heat produces in his
case is a desire to slumber. The dairy
man had a young calf in the barnyard,
and as the sun was pouring in on the
poor animal his wife sent "Carlina" out
seek a shady spot. After waiting an
hour for his return the housewife went
TO the barnyard to investigate. There
she found both boy and calf curled up
in the hot and sitting barnyard- The
calf was dead from the effects of the
sun, but the boy was slumbering peace
fully by its side, says the Jacksonville
(Fla.) Times-Union.
While negro can stand any amount
of heat on his head, he loves to cool his
heels. 1t is common sight in the win
ter to see a negro boy on frosty morn
ing with his head bundled up to keep
out the cold, and at the same time walk
ing unconcernedly along the frosty
ground in his bare feet. One of the hot
test places in the city on hot day is at
the lumber wharves of the Florida Cen
trial and Peninsula railroad. When the
men knock off for noon they frequently
take nap with their faces upturned to
the rays of the blazing sun; at the same
time they get their feet under the shad-
ow of some friendly lumber pile.
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teach. With almost certain war be-
fore Der for several months before the
actual outbreak of hostilities, she ar
ranged for but meager requirements
for her garrisons in South Africa.
True, the law of diplomacy may have
prevented Der heavily reinforcing her
ga,risons in Africa, but there was
roth,Hg to prevent her arranging FIR
the dispatch of requirements with
IN few hours after hostilities had
begun. As it is her little garrisous
have had tc defend themselves and the
territory which they represent against
overwhelming odds
While The English Tommy has been
immortalizing himself by his heroic
Sighting in Africa his friends at home
have been bewailing the loss of brave
soldiers and gallant officers lament
ing the defeats that were sure TO
come, and arranging slowly for tardy
reenforcements. But has all this
taught England the needed lesson?
DANIEL CLEVERToN.
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MIDDLE PART DYING OUT.
Fashion DEGREES That Men Must Re-
turn TO the Side Division
of the Hair.

Changing style has decreed that the
fashion of parting the hair in the mid
die, which has prevailed so long among
men, must go. The young man about
to make an appearance lin society"
hereafter need not stand before the
mirror dividing his smoothlybrushed
locks exactly in sthe middle, thereby
setting off his face in symmetrical
frame of glossy hair, and his elderly,
baldheaded rival is soon to be denied
the pleasure of making disdainful COM
ment upon parting ones brains in the
middle"
by far the great majority of my
parted on the side" said Il Washington
street barber the ether day. The part
in the middle is going out of style. 1t
never was popular with elderly people,
as so many of them are bald, but it's
been the rage within the last ten years.
all right. remember when man who
had his hair plastered down each side
of his face was called a 'chappie.'
when Lord Chumley' was first
played in this country lots of theater-
goers were greatly amused because he
appeared with his hair parted in the
middle. Probably the style was import
ed from England, 1t spread just after
the pompadour went out Lots of peo-
pie could not wear the pompadours.
which did not stand stiffiy unless the
hair was bristly. so they adopted the
part in the middle. You never see a
man with pompadour to-day, and |
venture TO say that in n couple Of years
every one will he back to the old style
of parting the hair on the side"
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ARE A SUCCESS.
rhe Double Turrets on the New Bat
tIeship Kentucky Are Tested
In Rough Weather.

Naval contractors are elated over the
report which has reached Washington
from Newport News Of the admirable
performance of the new battleship Ken
lucky, the sister ship of the Kearsarge.
Capt. Chester, the commanding officer,
writes that the ship was particularly
steady, rolling only slightly. The
weather was such as to test the ability
of a large ship, and the results are the
more gratifying to the designers be-
cause there has been some question as
to the effect of the great weights rep
resented by the double turrets on the
deck.
1t became a great problem whether
the two-storied turrets, containing four
heavy guns each, would not seriously
affect the stability of the ship. The
calculation was SO well worked oit that
even under most adverse conditions
the battleship showed itself one of the
most steady of naval vessels. The con-
tinuance of the doubledecked turrets
on the Kentucky and Kearsarge, there
fore, is question Of a purely military
nature. If they be deemed a great quail
ity from the strategist's point of view
they will be kept on the vessels. Ex-
perience alone will show the value of
the feature.
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CHILD CARRIED OFF BY EAGLE
Shepherd Near Nice Sees the big BIRD
Swoup Down and Fly on
with n Baby.

The little hamlet of House. situated in
a wild spot 20 miles from Nice, at an al
titude of 500 yards, has been thrown in
to CONSERVATION because a baby has
been carried Off by an eagle.
The parents of the baby had placed it
in cradle under the shelter of shed
before going 10 work in the fields. The
eagle had been observed lowering over
the village for some days. and last week
carried off small pig from the same
farm yard.
y shepherd saw the bird swoop down
and rise again with the child in its
claws, but he was too far off to Interfere
The rocks near House, where il is sup
posed the eagle had its eyrie, have been
thoroughly searched. but no trace oil
the body has been found.
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CANAL MODELS FINISHED.
Chicago sanitary Channel I'm Nina
ture to Go to the Paris
Exposition.

Edwin f. Howell, proprietor of the
Microcosm, of Washington, has Just
finished and is preparing for shipment
to Paris two models showing as many
sections of the Chicago drainage canal.
These models are being sent at the ex-
pense of the corporation that has the
work of the canal in hand, and will be
placed on exhibition at the Paris eX-
position. One model shows the con-
trolling works of the canal at Lockport,
with the big automatic dams and sluice
gates.
Another model shows section near
Willow Springs, including the swing
bridge that crosses the canal at that
point. On one side Of the bridge is the
dirt bottom of the canal, while on the
other side is the solid rock bottom.
The waste of rock and earth taken from
the canal, which is piled up on either
side, appears in the miniature produc-
ton. The material used in the model
is exactly the same as that taken. from
the canal. \ third model, which viii
not be completed for several weeks,
will show the canal in its entire length.