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Middletown transcript., 1899-10-28
a m. a m. a m. p m. p m. p

Daily. aDaily except Sunday.
| "a" Stops to leave passengers from Whining
1 ton and points north. or take passengers fol
1 points south of Delmar.
~ Stops only on noticeto conductor or agent
"p' Stops to leave passengers from Middle.
| town and points south.
"p" Stops to leave passengers from points
south OF Delmar, or take passengers for VII.
ming and points north.
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINs.-Leave
Wilmington S.I3, ll.04, a. m, 2.35, AT, and
. 55, p. M. week davs Leave New Castle s.3l
946, H.04 a. m, 4.E and ~ M, week.
days.
Express trains leaving Harrington 500 a. M.
and arriving at 6.sS 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 1898 m 6.S7 p m week days. Return
ing train leaves Franklin City $40 a.. n. and
las p. m. week days.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
gteamer) LIB D. M, week days Returning,
leave Chincoteague 4.52 a. M, weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown, Lewes
at .S8 q. M, 6S p. M, week days. Returning,
leave Lewes 6.45 q. m. and 800 p. m.week-
days.
Leave Harrington for Rehoooth, IO.3S a. M,
6.37 p. m. weekdays. Returning, leave Reho-
both $50 a. m, 245 p. m. weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 1888 a. M and
6.S p. m. week days. Returning, leave Berlin
7.02 a m and 240 p. m. week days.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT p. R.-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations q a. M, and
5.3l p. M. week days Returning, leave Centre
vile 7.e6 a. M. and 2.S7 p. m, weekdays.
DELAWARE & CHESAPEAKE R. R-Leave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations 3.3S q. M. and
6.H p. M, week days. Returning, leave Oxford
645 a. M, and 40 p. M, weekdays.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAR ORD R. R.-Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations II. II a.
m. and I Is p. M week. days. Returning, leave
Cambridgel7.0 90 am. and 2.S0 p. m. weekdays
CoEEEcTIoN.-At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At Clayton
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore & Delaware Bay railroad. At Har-
rington, with Delaware. Maryland & Virginia
Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge & Seaford
Railroad. At Delmar, with New York, Philar
delphia q Norfolk, Wicomico Pocomoke. and
Peninsula Railroads.
]. B. HUTCHINSON, General Manager.
]. &. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
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BANKS.

Peoples National Bank.-President, q. w
w Naudain Cashier, Geo. ID. Kelley Teller
w. g. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank.-President, Joseph
Biggs; Cashier, John 8. Crouch; Teller, l.
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
Street.
Middletown transcript., 1899-10-28

Observation-Disclosures AND
Achievements OfAdmiral Dewey, ,"the worlds
greatest naval hero. By Murat Halstead, the
nIe,long friend and admirer of the natfons
idol. Biggest and best book: over 500 pages. 4
xI0 inches; nearly 100 pages haIftone fllustra-
tlons. Only $l.50. Enormous demand. Big
commissions. Outfit free. Chance of life
pany, 3rd Floor Caxton Bldg, Chicago
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fIiddletown Directory

MUNICIPAL OFFTOERs.
President, g. w. w. Naudain; Secretary,
George @. Rowe; Charles 81. Howell, Wms r.
Cochran, David /. Allen.
Middletown transcript., 1899-10-28
IT'S DIFFERENT
THE NORTH AMERICAN
PHILADELPHIA

ITS DIFFERENT. because its prints
all the news, and all the news II prints
Is true.
fIss DIFFERENT. because It's bright
and brisk, up-to-date and vigorous, but
not yellow.
IT'S DIFFERENT. because It's only
policy Is to tell the truth. = 1t has no
covert or personal interests to promote.
II serves no political ambition, no creed,
no class prejudice. no mere partisan
purpose.
IT'S DIFFERENT. because Il advocates
equal taxation and battles against the
existing system, which favors the rich
corporation at the expense of the
farmer, the merchant, the manufacturer
and the wage-earner.
IT'S DIFFERENT, because 1t stands
for Republican principles, and makes
war upon all who, under the stolen
name OF Republicanisrh. are disloyal
to those principles.
IT'S DIFFERENT, because IT believes
manhood and not money should rule.
Therefore 1t upholds the rights of all,
as against the aggressive power OF the
privileged few.
IT'S DIFFERENT. because no boss, no
corporation, can control one line of Its
space.
IT'S DIFFERENT, because It Is nom
sectarian and broad; every party, every
faith, every class, and the workingman
equally with the millionaire, gets fair
hearing in its columns.
IT'S DIFFERENT, be- -
cause 1t upholds faith in 0NE
humanity, and the pro- CENT
Eress Of mankind toward Everv-
higher ideals, larger ...na
hopes and better living. Mnere
IT'S DIEFERENT. Ii will continue to
0 be different. Watch The North Ameri-
- can and see It grow.
Middletown transcript., 1899-10-28

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets drst Fri
day night Of each month In Hose House.
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The Man Of the Hour
A Magnificent
Portrait of
gdn)haIDEWEY.
. in Ten Colors
(SiZe I4X2I inches

will be published by US shortly.
It is now being printed for US on
hnavv nIafa nanor IN form emit
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Dime TabIe.
Plla. Win. and Baltimore R. R
DELAWARE DIVISION
SOUTHWARK.

On and af.er June Sd, 1890. trains viii
leave as follows:
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J.R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
RECENT INVENTIONS.


Coins can be securely held in packages
by an improved holder, which is formed
of strip of tin rolled into cylinder, with
scalloped ends, which arr bent against the
end coins after the package is filed
Water can be distilled for household use
by means OF an Ohio mans device, In
| which Kettle is placed on the iire 70 gen5
crate steam, which passes through a pipe
/ III the lid to receptacle below, condensing
before il leaves the pipe.
Bottles and other glassware can be safe
" packed for shipping in new crate,
which has spring pressed partitions ad-
justablv placed inside the walls to press
against the sides OF the fragile articles and
prevent the reception Of sudden shocks.
For use IN examining the mouth and
throat new mirror has the frame hinged
on a handle, with i screw running through
the handle and engaging the ring frame
to lock it in any desired position, making
one giass do the work Of all the glasses
wits fixed angle frames
The arm, chest and back muscles can be
developed BY a new exercise, composed Of
two pieces Of spring y ire formed into q
straight central portion, with coils at each
end, the wires being then extended III a
straight line and ending IL handles at the
outer ends. which are grasped to bend the
coils.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
The white Nan In the Tropics

The attempt to acclimatize the white
man in the tropics must be recognized
to be blunder Of the first magnitude.
All experiments based upon the idea are
mere idle and empty enterprises fore
doomed to failure Excepting only the
deportation of the African races under
the situation of slavery, probably no
other idea which has held the mind of
our civilization during the last 300
years has led to SO much physical and
moral suffering and degradation or has
strewn the world with the wrecks of so
many gigantic enterprises. In the tropics
a white man lives and works only as a
diver lives and works under water.
Alike in moral, in an ethical and in
political sense, the atmosphere he
breathes must be that of another region,
that which produced him, and to which
he belongs. Neither physically, morally,
nor politically can he be acclimatized
in the tropics = Benjamin S. Kidd.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
The DOCTOR IN WAR.
Stands the Test of Courage when
ever Under Fire.

Stands the Test of Courage When
ever Under Fire.
The London Lancet has an article
about the bravery of surgeons under
fire. The Lancet s article is about Brit
ish surgeons. 1t applies in 50 far as its
anecdotes go to them, but in its general
terms and its comments 1t applies to
all. We have never read Of surgeon
quailing under FIRE or deserting his post
in a panic, and what is a great deal
more we have never heard of sur
geon quailing before a hospital or de-
serting bis post, though yellow fever,
smallpox, typhus or cholera threatened
his life and surrounded him with its
borrors. There are many well autben-
ticated stories of the courage and deyo-
tion Of our army doctors in the field and
hospital The latter is the much more
trying to courage and fidelity
The excitement of battle goes far to
keep a man at his work. even should he
be disinclined for it. The long dreary
watches of the hospital, the hard and
thankless round OF duty. the hourly
scenes of horror and possibly the dis
eouraging absence Of proper assistance
and support from the administration Of
the army are what try a DOCTORS nerve
and test his fortitude and patriotism
We do not know why they stand the
test SO well--better apparently, on an
average, than those whose trade il Is
supposed to be to face death and danger.
But the fact remains that they do, all
honor to them l--San Francisco Report
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
NUMBER %
A MILLION MILLION.
How Long. Think You. Would 1t Take
You to Count Its

HAOh LONG, uhB1k OHs " o uAu rake
You to Count Jts
Professor Wagstaff. whose very name
suggests a pleasing first cousinsnip to
Shakespeare, has lately been amusing
himself and his audience at Gresham
college by speculations as to what might
have happened if the father Of cur hu-
man race had given up delying and
taken to figures. Let as suppose that
Adam had set himself TO count a mil
lion million. or, in figures, 1, 600. 900,
600, 600. We ewill imagine that be could
count three in q second, which, though
not exactly rapid ciphering, will be
found ample, if taken continuously
Now, if 6,000 years have elapsed since
the gracious amenities of Eden formed
the cradle of humanity, Adam would
have been working for 1875, ,215, 900. 600
seconds and have reached a total Of
SGT, 648, 600, 900 figures In other words,
his task of counting million million
would still have been unaceomplished
by over four hundred thousand millions
digits.
All of which goes to prove whatg
There are many possible conclusions.
The first is. Of course that Professor
Wagstaf is very ingenious and by no
means melancholy mathematician, but
that hardly needed proof A second de-
duction, which we advance with all
humility, is that If Adam had only had
habitual recourse to harmless Ciissipa-
tion of this arithmetical kind, instead
Of betraying marital weakness and
fondness for fruit, his descendants
would have been very much better off
morally and spiritually, though not
perhaps in material comforts And a
third conclusion, eminently gratifying
to those who rsfuse to believe that there
is any serious discord between religion
and science, is that Professor Wagstaff.
No doubt man of distinction in scien-
tifc attainments, accepts without any
demur Bishop USHER 5 chronology.
According to the divine, the world
was created in 1904 B. O., and that
added to the 1898 years which have
elapsed since the Christian era makes
in round numb bers the 6, 600 years on
which the whole calculation depends
Some wayward "sclentlsts' have dog
matically affirmed that the world has
been wagging along good many more
centuries than Ussher supposed, al
though there is a serious difference, it
is true, in this matter between the as
tronomers and the geologists. So, after
all, perhaps if Adam had been reason
ably industrious, be would have had
time to accomplish his task. unless his
brain had given way under the strain.
Most of us have such vague ideas as to
the meaning Of large figures that it is
as well to be reminded by so happy an
illustration how many units go TO the
making of million The only other
conceivable fashion in which such in
struction could be acquired is to become
a South African boss" of mines and
diamonds, and that process, much as
we may desire it. is, fortunately or un-
fortunately, not open to the majority Of
us.-London Telegraph.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
tunes are made in the

skuAlSS Glb 1Hdtl6 tu0
district, but they cost what they are
worth. The hugest of the Klondike
lies have been told concerning the case
with which gold is picked up in
Dawson and the size of the success
ful miners pile. One thousand dollars
at Dawson is $40, 600 when it reaches
Seattle. and if a steamer leaves st. Mi
chael's with $1,000, 900 of treasure
aboard the amount becomes 81, 900, 900
by the time it is telegraphed to the
newspapers
The original prospector of the Klon-
dixie geldfeIds was the cold hunks" Of
the mining world. Wandering from
place to place has become habit.
These are the sad eyed, stiff old fellows
who get scurvy, seldom take bath and
never learn anything new. They are
the ones who make the rich finds that
others usually enter into aud enjoy.
Very different are the miners of the
new type. These are the ones who have
made Dawson. They were men, young
and old, of intelligence and refinement,
who chafed under the poverty of their
lot at home. They resolved to brave the
arctic winter and at one bold stroke to
become independent or die
have met hundreds of these amateur
miners-doetors lawyers, students and
even ministers. Ineyer saw men to be re-
spected more. In the future some of
them will WELD no small influence over
the destinies of our republic. Some of
them We're clerks or newspaper CORE
spondents, who had never handled any
tool heavier than a pen. They set their
teeth together, shouldered their packs
and marched off over the trail to shovel
gravel. cook their own sour dough-
bread and wash their own flannel shirts
and red cotton handkerchiefs on Sun.
days. These set at naught all the tradi-
tions of the cold hunks miner. Some
of them were we'll on in years when
they started in, but in the achievement
of the purpose for which they trailed it
to the frozen north they were all lusty,
brave young fellows.
The ''old hunks" miner said 10 gold
could be found in this or that given
spot Tho tenderfoot marched IN and
oftentimes stumbled on rich pay in that
very spot, TIE "oid hunks miner used
to lie by six or eight months in the cold
season, housed up like an animal in a
hole in the ground. Mining could not
be carried On in winter, he said. The
new man came and showed him that
winter was exactly the best time for
mining. The newman isproying, more
over, that in nearly all localities in both
Alaska and the Northwest Territories
mining may be profitably pursued the
year round. The ''old hunks" miner
too often spent his earnings in gam
bling and drinking Sometimes he set
up housekeeping with squaw at the
head OF his establishment. She waited
on him and itdid not cost much to keep
her
The new man turned his back in
grand scorn of such goings on and pre-
served his self respect while he kept a
cool head, saved his money, invested it
shrewdly aud made the most of it.
These new men are those who have con-
strueted telephones and an electric light
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
WHEN i WAS A BOY.


Up in the attic where slept
When ! was a boy, little boy,
In through the lattice the moonlight crept,
Bringing tide of dreams that swept
Over low, red frundle bed,
Bathing the tangled curly head,
While the moonbeams played at hide and seek
With the dimples ON the sun Drowned cheek
Wnen ! was boy, little boyi
And, oh, the d1eams-the dreams dreamed
When / was a boy, q little boyl
For the grace that through the lattice streamed
Over my folded cyelids seemed
To have the gift Of prophecy
And to bring the glimpses of time to be
When manhood IS clarion seemed to call
All, that was the sweetest dream of all
When I was boy little boy!
I'd like to sleep where used to sleep
When ! was a boy, a little boy
For in at the lattice the moon would peep,
Bringing her tide of dreams to sweep
The crosses and griefs of the years away
From the heart that is weary and faint today,
And those dreams should give me back again
A peace have never known since then
When was boy, q little boy
Eugene Field
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
A. Eve For the Near Future.

A woman summoned TO see her dying
husband who had met with a street ac-
eident showed every sign Of grief She
threw herself on the floor aud howled
at the top of her voice as the man died.
Three days afterward she arrived in the
ward arrayed in the deepest widows
weeds
Please. I've come for pore Walter 5
clothes. The Lord took i'm, but 'ope,
please God, as I'll find another Corn
hill Magazine
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

Sin the suburbs Of Sedalia. Mo-, "
says tho Kansas City Times, there lives
a scholarly gentleman who was awarded
the Order Of Christina by the Queen of
Spain for his Jealous care of her two
grandsons, Raymondo Guell Borbon
and Fernando Alfonso, who afterward
became the King of Spain, and was the
father Of little Alfonso, the present king
This gentleman is Colonel Van b.
Wisker, whom nearly all Missourians
with state acquaintance know.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

successful Klondiker was a youth Of 18.
One evening be wanted his father 8
horses to go to singing school His
request was refused. Then he left his
fathers bouse and never returned to
live there any more. He would not have
been an American lad if he lad not felt
the need of more education so he, too,
first applied his own strong hands and
brain to the task of earning money to
send himself to school. After a com
mereial course of instruction he, too,
plunged into the Klondike in search of
gold. On the way thither and before he
started he used to see himself in dreams
counting and holding handfuls of gold
and money. Sometimes when he was
alone and quiet was about him the same
visions would fash across his waking
consciousness. Here is a fact for the
psychic research people. don t know
how much Of the gold of his visions the
young man carried out with him, but
his wealth counts up into the hundreds
of thousands. He has made it all him.
self, and he is only 28 years old
And yet these boys have paid the
price. One of them had a physicians S
and nurses bill of S5, 600 in the Klon-
dixie. Gray hairs have gathered around
the temples of them both They have
put away their youth. They have the
serious manner of men Of 40 who carry
grave responsibilities. The manner is
not unbecoming to them, however, and
they have won more than they lost.
Of this type are the Americans who
bring money away from the golden
KIondike. There are others who get it,
but never bring any away. One night
on the Bonanza trail we stopped for
shelter in a miners empty cabin. His
friend who gave us the Invitation to oe-
cupy the cabin told us that Billy was
in Dawson and it was uncertain when
he would return. Later we found out
why Billy was absent. This doubled
and twisted fool had dug and shoveled
and washed gold faithfully all through
last winter. His share of the clean mp
was nearly $4,000. 1t represented a
year S toll, hardship and self denial.
One of Billy's friends was coming
home Billy said to him: ] want you
to take out witn-you 50, 900 to my wife.
The rest l shall keep to invest here.
I'm going to Dawson for couple Of
days. /"
The friend was more than willing
and rejoiced that Mrs. Billy would
share her husbands prosperity Billy
did not return in couple Of days, how
ever. At the end of week his friend
went to Dawson to get the wife's share
of the gold. 1t was gone; all gone. In
one week Billy had spent his fortune
and had not a dollar left. He had gone
directly into the haunts Of the saloon
keepers, gamblers and dancehouse wo-
men. those wretched little feas on the
body Of the majestic earth, and they bad
drained him to the last drop. When |
left Dawson. the people who had shared
his money were making him the subject
Of alleged funny jokes on the variety
stage. ELIZA ARCHABD CONNER
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

lives. One was from the east, tie other
from the west. both strong and hand
some six footers. They were both farm
lads too. One had always been attract
ed to mines. AS preparation for his
business he took a course in mineraIogy
at college. Then the stories Of Alaskan
wealth began TO be heard in the land
and drew the yo1ng dreamer and en-
thusiast to the northwest. He came out
with bagfuls of gold, and the first use
he meant to make of it was to send his
younger brothers and sisters to college.
Infnitesimal incidents change one g
whole destiny sometimes. The other
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
The annual convention of the United
Daughters Of the Confederaoy of Vir-
ginia was held recently at Petersburg.
1t is claimed that the women of no
city in the world are so devoted to atss'
letics as Chicago women.


We all know from actual experience
that good sneeze is a wonderful loosen
er of nasal bronchial muous. Sir Dyee
Duckworth comes forward in The Prao-
titioner with the suggestion that the
induction of sDeezing be resorted to for
the purpose of raising bronchial mucus.
The idea is good one and worthy of
being placed in practical operation. Is
has been explained how vomiting causes
an expulsion of mucus or membrane
from the respiratory passages, but
sneezing appears to be quite efficient in
doing this. Ordinary snuff or any of
the many simple nasal irritants suffices
and may be blown into the nose of even
a child without any danger.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

By system of numeral type invent
ed by Rev W. Fl Murray Of Peking,
originally Scotch workman. the blind
people of China are now taught to read
and write in less than three months.
and this in spite of the fact that there
are 408 distinct sounds in the Chinese
language. BY special adaptation of
this system the blind are now actually
teaching sighted pupils to read
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

The name California, derived from
the two Spanish words caIienie formal
Ii, j. e., hot furnace, was gwen by
Cortes in the year 1885 TO the peninsula
now known as Lower California, OF
which he was the edisooyerer, on account
Of its hot climate
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

Mrs. Clinton Locke of Chicago is
probably the most noted of American
cat fanoiers. Mrs. Locke has a large
number of high bred cats, and she takes
a great interest in breeding them. She
is 4 member Of the National Cat Club
Of England and of the Ladies Kennel
Association of London.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05

ing system at Dawson and who are row
draining its streets, who have worried
Washington till United States soldiers
and civil officers have been sent tn the
Yukon to maintain order and worried
Ottawa till the Rip Van Wiukle au-
thorities there begin to wake up 70 the
difficulty Of their problem aud the mag
nificence cf their opportunity in the
northwest. These new men are the ones
who will tarn Alaska and the North.
west Territories into a civilized region,
capable Of sustaining a population OF
millions.
But the new kIondike miner does not
always succeed Sometimes he dies.
Typhoid fever and pneumonia 10 not
respect even his splendid pluck. Even
then, WHAT It be dies, he will not need
the gold. Il lie lives he will never go
home without it.
OF men who go to the. Klondike those
who fail, bling about ten to one of the
whole numher, vow no money can be
made there by anybody at mining or
anything else. Those who succeed affirm
with equal emphasis that anybody, man
or woman. having health and common
sense, who goes there and sticks 70 y
and waits aud watches for opportunities
is bound to get wealth, for there y
more gold to be had in this northwest
region than anywhere else on the globe
so far as heard from.
Two young men came home from she
Kiondike this fail who may be taken as
3 type Of the best class Of Anlt flcan
miners. Ii happened that each was as
years old and each had been there four
wears. and both these grand youHg fel
lows were coming out With moray
enough and to SPARE fnr the - st Of tt-.ir