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Middletown transcript., 1899-02-18
Line ana Plant Diseases.

The effect of lime in different forms
@as been tested at the Rhode Island sta
;tion. with not entirely conclusive re-
suits. on various diseases of plants, in
Gliding cranberry and sweet potato dis
eases and a root disease of alfalfa
Stacked lime was found to be effective
in reducing soil rot of sweet potatoes
and quicklime in checking or prevent
ing the root disease of alfalfa.
Middletown transcript., 1899-02-18

Practical experience has Taught the
growers OF early potatoes to have the
greater part OF the nitrogen in thei. ~
tato fertilizers in the form OF Z sr&. of
soda. depending upon its quick 4 600
to hasten the development Of sno cyts.
Middletown transcript., 1899-02-18

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets drst Fri
day night of each month in Hose House.
Middletown transcript., 1899-02-18
rIiddIetown Directory.
MnNIcIpAI. nFFIcERs.

/ 7a MUNICIPAL UFFICEEos
President, r. r. McWhorter; Secretary, j. A.
Suydam; CharlesH. Howell, George g. Rowe,
VIM. B. Cochran.
Middletown transcript., 1899-02-18
- ssEssss

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 notiflca-
ton.
Middletown transcript., 1899-02-18
BANKS.

Peoples National Bank.-President G. w,
w Naudain; Cashier, Geo. ID. Kelley; Teller.
w. G. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank.-President, Joserh
Biggs; Cashier, John 8. Crouch; Teller, q;
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
Street.
Middletown transcript., 1899-02-18
'ODSulIlDtiOR

~ AND ms cURE
TO THE EDITOR Fl have an absolute
remedy for Consumption. BY its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been already
oernanently cured. So proof-poSitive am
Of its power that consider it my duty to
xe,.d fgso bottles free to those of your readers
who have Consumption, Throat, Bronchial or
lung Trouble, if they will write me their
sxereSs and poStoffice address. Sincerely,
4. q. SLocUM, M. c., Is3 Pearl ST., New York.
pa- The Editorial and Business management oS
this Paper Guarantee this generous Propositions
Middletown transcript., 1899-02-18
Dime IabIt.

PhIa. Wiln. and Baltimore R. R
DELAWARE DIVISION
On and af5er NOV. fst 1855, trains viii
leave as follows:
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-09-07

Esa Conp0Va que OeCs GsegTadOs VeSas pvi
sC ds epecas qe Caas COmpaas SOOsdades Ian
bRGdO hGbRGH en- tOda Ia A#6icG d saber.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-09-07
Farmacia

So ofreca en- veuta ell aoreditado estable-
cimiento que posee en- San German don Jo-
s6 D. Carlo
Pars informes dlrigirse al duefi1, en- di-
chs elldad DAP o. ]. Monqgas en- Maya
gJss.
Jaiio 81 de 1899. S-m. alt.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-09-07
GRAN 0PORTuNIlAl PARA Los ENEtRMQS

Professor Ma hs gqsteto duraute vida cptndios in
fortuna y,h ado padr Cebre fco odos los
puebos del mundo Ha alba dez diomss.
E tambn ha heoho maaviosa Yk Chicago San
Francisco todoa los Estados de
Ha estado Meico, Centre Sar America Chile PerG Repu
ca Argentina Brazil Portugal L6ndreq
E e 6nioO que ha descubi9rto
Estos graDda maraviosos remedios
que los euveuenamentos mpurz de la sgre ebe
del GeTebrc pedd4 de memo buen tito
sDfaTmedad del oozon nfamsoion de- las rodas
del cupo oatsro fsrmedsde del hgao insomnia
nic' seUte oho horas Fuas Ecoua4 Ere.
metadss del pumon los rim ue do Il do los rvo npo.
sncil f erformei4dss de pe dolores los musoS
palpita ione ls fan dl dpspsa ou lie
Ia bue pa'aiss eliiad tronqajt hidrop pdd, del c.be
sodsra arInst' enfans Ia los s Il ,rsa las oadea
Reo neud 10 oveBes pisrn esperCz, puuden
ouradoa por prooedment msFavosp
Tsnemos graa existanoa botca.
No usamos pIdoras acdOa nj
Los mas rpputsdo m6d3os uropeos c9neadan
de gas para enfsrmeees oronioas.
Miles d. nlsa d. infounados qaa oufjoron rgns slo
purdos habend sd0 s'hnnja nHan n6dss
PARA LAS SENIOR AS SENO ITAS
Tnemos bunn esp4ctido para desapH Ia
arrugls erupsono voVienda CUTS color natural hacienda
spareoer veu peo los po3eimie massage
AsudH
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Pnos lio Is ds 1899
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-09-07
PRIYMEGIO CONTRA CADUCIDAD

Sobre este lamamos muy parCuarmene Ia atenCi6n del pd
cO pOr dnCa COmpa1a del COnnente Americana que
onCede semelsnts Prvieglo.
81 dopuss VICENTE dOao ps pmlO
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interim PclEa ygn el tornado Rnsstd La COa
so Vndosy StadOs LA CoMPANAs naoa dsvsngado
yaquitaVo,
snsd asegradO
Esto SO llama proCsder equdad ygE los ntereses de
az aseQuyados en- blen de sus tamias.
RKSRAukAk P0hlzAs KGTEERkEENgR ABAND0NA
JAS Va tuHva De husua PAGE
~ davsngados.
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pUsasl
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MOS Eg kgU aaeguradas sOnpao
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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-09-07
Ventaia@

La gant GobemO del Cansd speco en- OporAoOnsa
r. LA m6n de POLKA tenna snegada sonte
pagO quedsndO interim lega Ia deGnitva.
laema6n P6lzas restriction
CA 0CUPAC0N Wales DESAFTOs REV0LUCiONRS GUERRAs
solo SUICIDE aegrado Por
de gO PAGAND0 T0D0 sSTRO CUALQUERA SEA
CAUSA.
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edene mbio
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gandos snoPeOlnisntos snps1uieo Dc los asegurados
PE1Vu9R1O6
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-09-07
egad a vuestros hijos

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foIzo D6nde
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ando Wdas de mse aquados de peennes doenc Aseges
as caas decadas cebre Cheadde Lond
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ef El @ de hgado de aao ddoa gasa los ube
s6lida e blndae contra las Intermediates
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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-09-07

sogurAdo puods d ou'quo ps mundOy dsdo
ulaH osupSO6n pagan prlma extra
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
LOBBYING IN THE SENATE.
Two Representatives of the Standard
Oil Company Begin Work.

The representatives of the Standard
Oil company-A. Maier of Kansas City
and f. G. COnkling of ST. Joe-have ar
rived in Topeka and have tablished a
censorship over the senate to prevent
the passage of the bill providing for the
inspection of gasoline.
This corporation is desirous of pre-
venting all legislation against its in
terests, but the present system of oil
inspection, which interferes in no way
with the plans Of the company and is
an absolute farce is not regarded with
seriousness, and the lobby which is now
here VIII make a special effort to de-
feat the bill providing for the inspection
of gasoline. If it can't defeat it, it will
pay members of the legislature to so
amend the bill to make it ineffective
Watch the men who introduce amend
mentsI
This bill originated with State Audi
tor Cole and has been introduced in the
legislature
There is now on sale in Topeka a new
lamp which burns gasoline. The agent
or these lamps says he can not use the
gasoline sold here. but is compelled to
send to states where the product is in
spected to procure gasoline of sufficient
purity to use in these lamps
This is but an indication that gasoline
should be inspected, but the Standard
Oil company doesn't want this done and
its representatives are here to lobby
against it.
If this bill dies in the senate the uues-
tion will be:
What killed it ?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
NO PRIVATE
POSTOFFICE
Or Letter Boxes Will BE Fur
ther Tolerated
If the Recommendation to Con-
gress Are Adopted.
CORNISH POISONING
Has Called Attention to the
Importance
Of PrOhibitive Measures i'm Such
Cases.

Washington, Feb. 16.-The report of
the committee on the codifcation of the
United States criminal and penal laws
is about completed and the portion of it
covering offenses against the postal
laws has been submitted as a special
report to congress. The postmaster
general has communicated with both
houses of congress asking for immed-
late enactment of the entire report on
this subject, pointing out its urgent
needs. The commission pays special
tribute to acting Assistant Attorney
partment, for the benefit of his advice
during its Iabors. The laws revised
embrace all up to and including the first
session of the F'ifty-fifth congress.
The report in brief follows:
In numerous instances where penal
ties have been recovered by civil process
in the nature of actions for debt, pro-
visions for criminal prosecutions have
been substituted as more efficaciOus.
Other charges are reported having in
view a more proportionate adjustment
fenses respectively defined in which the
present laws having been adopted from
time to time are faulty. Occasional
emendations have been made in the
verbiage of the present laws designed to
secure precision and succinctness in the
definitions of offenSes. A provision has
been inserted inhibiting the mainten-
ance of private pOstof1ceS and letter
boxes.
This is in conformity the commits
sion says, with the general policy of
this government and it is further recon-
mended by considerations of great
weight, it being found in the larger
cities these institutions remained the
instrumentalities of practices partaking
of fraud and immortality. In a recent
instance at New York they were en-
plOyed as the means by which human
lives were sacrificed under circum-
stances of grave criminality''
Another section forbids the unlawful
exercise of the office of postmaster or
other employment in the postal service
to prevent a practice more or less COM
mon.
Section 3478, revised statutes. has been
amended to meet the question whether
United States protection can be EXTEND
ed over depredations and offenses
against other property by reason of a
poStOffice location in the same building
the provision added, being with intent
to commit therein any offense defined
in this title or to steal or purIoin any
money or other property of the United
States
Sections 3S9O-91-92, 5467, 5468-69 and
5470 deal with a large but substantially
the same class of mail depredations and
have been embraced in one section an
added provision gazing a liberal eIas-
ticity to the penalties. Punishment for
depredators on the mails in transit who
frequently heretofore have found i'm
1nunity through difficulty of procuring
evidence as to the particular district in
which the offenSe was committed, is
provided for in two new sections, max
ing it an offense for an employe to fail
to deliver the mail any part of it to
the required person and to carry into
any district any letter or contents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
AT THE HUB.
President Mckinley and Five
Members
Of His Cabinet Are in Boston
Today.
TO EAT THEIR DINNER
At the Expense of the Home
Market Club.
Gen. Charles III. GrOsvenor is
Also OF the Party.

Boston, Feb. 16.-President Mckinley
four members of his cabinet and other
associates arrived in Boston at 1902
o'clock today. They came as the guests
of the Home Market club, a national
organization of Republicans. The mem
bers of the cabinet who came with the
president were John d. Long, secretary
of the navy; General r. A. Alger, sec
retary of war; Cornelius N. Bliss, Sec
retary of the interior and Postmaster
General Charles Emory Smith.
In the party also are Congressman c.
H. Grosvenor; Secretary Porter and
Private Secretary CorteIyou; Major
Hopkins, Secretary Alger's aide, and
Mr.. Webster, the presidents stenogra-
pher. Lyman J. Gage, secretary of the
treasury, met the party on their arrival
here, having come direct from Chicago
last night.
Hospitality of the Home Market club
is to be extended to the distinguished
gentlemen who have accepted their in
vitatfon, chiefly in the form of the
largest dinner ever given in this coun-
try, in the Mechanics building here to-
night.
The stay of the visitors will be brief,
lasting until tomorrow afternoon, but
1t promises to be memorable one In
the history of the club, and for the cit
izens of Boston in general.
A reception will precede the banquet
at Mechanics hall this evening. To-
morrow forenoon the visitors will visit
the legislature where the president pro-
badly will deliver a short address and
at 10 o'clock they will breakfast at the
Algonquin club house as the guests Of
the Commercial club, the membership
of which includes many of the promi-
nent business and professional men OF
the city.
Immediately after the breakfast the
party will leave for Washington.
WHOLE CITY TURNED OUT.
1t seemed as if all Boston had turned
out to bid the president and his eabi-
net welcome. Great crowds filled the
cold train shed and pushed and jos
tied each other in an effort to get a
view of the president while the iron
rafters rang with their cheers. Still
larger was the throng which filled the
streets around the station where the
carriages which were to bear the party
to the Hotel Touraine were stationed.
Governor Wolcott and his military staff
were at the station to meet the presi-
dent and as soon as the introduction
and greetings were concluded the car
riages were entered and under escort of
the first battalion of cavalry the visi-
itors started for the hotel.
AS the procession passed, cheer upon
cheer was given by the crowd and upon
all sides there were manifestations or
cordial welcome.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
THE TOPEKAIS SAFE.
And So Is the Sterling-Both Will Go
To Boston.

Washington. Feb. 16.-The collier
Sterling is safe at the Delaware break
water, but the following telegram re-
ceived at the navy department from
Capt. Selfridge of the Sterling, dated at
the breakwater at 7:35 last night, shows
she had a rough time:
Departure delayed. Hurricane sig
nails hoisted after message was sent
yesterday afternoon. Ship drifted down
on Henlopen, Notwithstanding both
anchors and full steam on, in a terrific,
binding snowStorn, with force of
twelve and heavy ice. Drifted over the
sixteen-foot shoaI near the beam. Ship
wreck was avoided by shift of wind
to the westward. Arrived in port to-
night. Hole on bow. Officers and many
of the crew exhausted and frost bitten.
Shall 1 continue to Boston or seek To-
peka ?''
Unknown to Capt. Selfridge the To-
peka had already arrived safely at
Newport and will continue on her way
to Boston when the weather conditions
are fit. The Sterling will be directed to
go straight to Boston.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
PURSUING Mr.. FREY.
Somebody Bent on Making Him
Receiver of Something
or Other.

The following appeared in last even
ing's Pittsburg QAan) Tribune:
Conductor Frank Marsh, who has
a damage suit of s25, 900 against the P.
G. railroad, mention of which is made
in another column of this paper, re-
ceived a message at noon from his at
torneys in Kansas City announcing that
the Pittsburg & Gulf railroad had gone
into the hands of a receiver and that
J. J. Frey of the Santa Fe had been
appointed to the receivership by the
court
This was something entirely new. A
rumor current recently associated Mr..
Frey's name with the receivership of
the M. K. & T. road but it was never
associated with the Pittsburg & Gulf
line. When shown the article this
morning Mr.. Frey denied it outright.
There is absolutely no truth in it,
said he. ''I never heard OF such a
thing up to this moment, and if I have
been appointed receiver of the Pittsburg
&, Gulf road the court has forgotten to
notify me. There is nothing in it at
ALL
This receivership story seems to be
in a fair way to chase Mr.. Frey into a
state of mind. 1t keeps bObbing up in
all sorts of amusing phases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
ONE MORE LOBBY
Wearisome Struggle of the PeO-
pie Against the Trusts
Has a New Factor Added at the
State House Today.
THIS NEW OIL BILL
Providing For the Inspection
of Gasoline
Brings the Standard Oil Lobby
Here to Prevent Its Passage.
THIS is JUST WHAT
The s'Grafters'' Want, and
They Are Ready
teTO Do Business" With the
TOhhv at Once.
Providing For the Inspection
of Gasoline
Brings the Standard Oil Lobby
Here to Prevent Its Passage.
THIS is JUST WHAT
The EsGrafters" Want, and
They Are Ready
EsTo Do Business" With the
Lobby at Once.

State Auditor Cole, who framed the
new oil inspection bill which was intro
duced into the house by Representative
WheatIey a few days ago, has unwit-
tingIy given the grafters another excel
lent opportunity for exercising their
talents in the grating line.
The main object of the bill, as Mr..
Cole proposed it, is to compel the state
oil inspector to turn in to the state all
The fees he collects, and to give the
state auditor an opportunity to keep
tab on him to see that he does as the
law provides. Under the present law no
one knows how much oil the inspector
1nspects nor how much he collects in
fees, so that he can turn in just as
anuch as he wants to and keep the rest
himself.
While Mr.. Cole was getting up his law
he came across another provision which
he thought he might as well regulate
while he was in the business, and that
was with regard to the inspection of
gasoline There has never been law
on the Kansas statutes providing that
gasoline shall be inspected. The Stand
ard Oil company does not want any
such law in Kansas. As present the
Standard Oil company poles off on to
Kansas all the poor gasoline that it
cannot dispose of in other states. 1t
gets a good price for 1t and does not
have to pay any inspection fees. Kan
sas uses almost as much gasoline as it
does OIL that the trust more than
plays even on what it has to pay out
for fees for oil inspection and for giving
the state good oiI-When it cannot
dodge the Inspector
But with a gasoline inspection law
and an inspector who will inspect it
honestly, the Standard Oil company
would not only have to give the state
good gasoline but would have to pay
out many thousands of dollars annually
for inspection fees, which would go df-
rect into the state treasury-if the law
can be remedied so as to make the in
spector pay them in. That is the rea-
son that Mr. Coles bill is a good thing
for the grafters.
The Standard Oil lobby arrived in
Topeka yesterday to fight this particu-
lar feature of the bill. 1t does not care
for the rest of the bill, because that is
simply intended to make the inspector
disgorge, and there is nothing in the
bill to prevent the company from per
suading" the inspector to pass poor oil
If it can do so, but this "persuading''
process costs extra.
1t is said that the lobby is ready and
willing to put up literally if it can de-
feat the gasoline inspection provision,
and it IS already at work among the
members. 1t will now be interesting to
observe if any one has the nerve to try
to kill the gasoline provision of the
bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
LAMB THOUGHT 1T LOST.
Senators Put up Joke While Passing
q Bill.

The senate this forenoon passed the
bill which has passed the house, giving
residents of the suburban districts of
lola not in the corporate limits the
right to lay gas pipes to their resi-
denceS.
In the passage of this bill there was
an amusing incident in which Mr..
Lamb, who had charge of the bill, was
the victim of a joke. The roll call pro-
ceeded, and the senators with great
unanimity voted against the bill. Mr..
Lamb was badly scared, as a big ma
jority appeared against the measure.
When he saw that the bill was defeated
he suggested a call of the absentees.
Senators Farrelly, Hanna, thinner,
Johnson, King, Titus, Hessin, Forney,
Ward, Lupfer, Stocks, Ryan, Jumper,
and Cooke arose and in a chorus, at
signal from F'arrelly, exclaimed:
Mr.. President, L desire to change my
vote from no to aye
A smile of relief broke over Mr..
Lambs face, but it was some time be-
fore order was restored.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
REAL PICKANINNY.
Novel Valentine Presented an Opera
Singer Undraped at Dinner.

New York, Feb. 16.-An undraped
pickaninny, reposing on a silver salver,
was a valentine offered at Mrs. Emma
Eames Storey's Valentine day party
Tuesday night.
The dusky little fellow was presented
to Mrs. Storey at the dinner table. The
waiter who deposited the sleeping infant
before the surprised woman did not
state who the sender was.
The guests, who included Jean De
Reszke and several other grand opera
singers, stared in mute aStoniShment
for a moment, but Mrs. Storey relieved
their doubts by plucking a small Ameri-
can flag from a pastry and placing it
in the pickaninny's hand. AT this the
little fellow awOke and clutched the flag
like a true patriot.
When the baby cried later Jean De
Reszke had him in his arms and sang
him to sleep to the admiration of the
guests.
The novel valentine was admitted to
be the crOwning feature of the party.
Mrs. Storey's husband, the sculptor, will
produce the living Cupid in marble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16

thereof unlawfu1ly distracted from the
mail in any other district, knowing it
to have been so abstracted.
Sections 3922-25 inclusive and amen
datory acts prohibiting removal and re-
use of stamps have been consolidated
into a single section with a maximum
penalty. Postmasters selling stamps to
persons outside of their respective jur-
isdiction to increase their compensation
are to be subject to penal punishment.
To meet supreme court rulings in con-
struct;ng the act of September 26, 1888,
amendatory of section 1894. as to OBJ
scenity, etc, these have been revised
with an addition of the words 'inde-
cent, filthy or vulgar"
The postal transmission Of poisonous
infectious and explosive matter also is
prohibited in new section, with q, cer-
tain discretion as to the admissibility
vested in the postmaster general. The
language of section 4053 r. s., respect
ing misrepresentation of postal funds or
property is so amplified that it's protec-
ton may be extended to money or pro-
perty which shall have come into the
possession, or under the control of any
officer or enploye of the postoff1ce de-
partment in execution of such office or
employment or under color or claim of
authority as such.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
NO FURTHER ADVANCE
Is Now Being Made by the Americans
at Manila.

Manila, Feb. 16.-Since the American
line reached the natural defenses of
Manila, they have made no further ad-
vance, and the troops are now encamp-
ed along the line. Many places have
been entrenched.
Occasional brushes with small bodies
of the enemy, by scouting parties, have
been the only cause of excitement.
Troops K and I of the Fourth cavalry
encountered the enemy's scouts yester-
day near Paranaque and exchanged a
few volIeys with them. During the fir
ing Trooper Wittnerk was wounded in
the right arm.
The cruiser Buffalo fired four small
shells at a, party of the enemy which the