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Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16
PROPOSED GAME PRESERVE

Talbot county directly, and other Sec
tions of the Eastern Shore indirectly, are
to be turned into an immense game pre-
serve if nothing should miscarrv about
the plans made by number of owners
of large farms on the Miles and Chon-
tank rivers. Ormond Hammond. who
has an interest in one thousand acres.
has been in communication with other
wealthy land owners of that section of
the country and they have decided to
import partridges from North Carolina
and Kansas for propagating purposes.
The last cunning season on the Eastern
Shore was the most unsatisfactory for a
number OF years, due not only to the
diminution in the supply of rabbits and
birds, but also due to the disaereeabla
weather that placed an embargo on field
shooting. The country offers excellent
cover, and it has been figured that with
the cooperation of the residents protect
ing the birds, in planting buckyheat and
seeing that the game laws are made ef-
fectual, the Eastern Shore would in a
few years become as good shooting
reserve as the English counties. where
the science of keeping up the supply of
game is understood
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WILMINGTON CONFERENCE

The Wilmington Conference dates from
1868. The membership amounts to a.
bout 10000 with nearly 250 ministers,
397 Sunday schools, 4,843 scholars and
1881 teachers and officers, 396 churches
worth 81 .590,1 ,120, and AS parsonages
valued at $26s, 75O.
The Conference is divided into four
districts Wilmington, Easton, Dover and
Salisbury, with Presiding Elder for each
district. The Presiding Elders are Rev.
Robert Watt, Rev. w. T. Corkran, Rev.
C. E. Baker and Rev. Thomas E. Martin
dale, These Elders are sub-bishops with
a general oversight of the work i'll their
respective districts.
Tie Methodist Episcopal church is the
largest branch of Methodism in the United
States; there are many other brancher,
he second and third in point of numbers
being the Methodist Episcopal church
South and the Methodist Protestant
church. The many branches of Methe-
dism in the United States and Great Brit
ain had their origin in difference of
church polity and not in differences of
doctrine.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
one hundred and twenty-four confer
enees, fifteen of which are in Europe,
Asia and Africa. There are also twenty
two mission conferences, some at home
and some in foreign fields. There are
seventeen Bishops and several missionary
Bishops, the episcopal functions of the
latter extending to their own special for
eign fields, while the Bishops at large ex-
ercise authority anywhere in the church.
The work of an annual conference is
varied, important and interesting Some
of it pertains to hearing reports of the
work in every station and circuit, the
examination of the young ministers in
the annual course of study; reports from
educational institutions such as Dickinson
College, Wilmington Conference Acad-
emy; reports concerning the publishing
houses and the Book Concern at New
York, the Bible Society, Tract Society,
the Missionary Societies and the Preach
er's Aid Society.
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nue. Reduction bill, and,there is a posi-
bility that 1t may result in the failure of
the bill at this session.
~
Senator Chandler declares that his reso-
luton providing for the meeting of the
Fifty-Seventh Congress on the second
Monday in March, 1901, and for the meet
ing of each future Congress on the second
Monday in the March following the elec-
ton of its representatives, was not in
tended as joke, but was meant very
seriously, and to meet state of affairs
which exists at the closing or short ses-
sion of every Congress. Mr.. Chandler
thinks it is wrong to try to crowd lot of
important general legislation besides the
regular appropriation bills, into a short
session, and that it would be much better
to always leave the general legislation for
the new Congress, provided the new Con-
gress assembled Immediately after the
close of the old.
M
Senator Lodge probably came very
near to voicing the opinion of President
Mckinley, when he said: Before the
United States can give its approval to any
Constitution, or its recognition to any
independent Cuban government, it must
be assured that there is no possibility of
any assumption of the Cuban debts incur
red by Spain. We also have the right to
ask for proper guarantees in regard to
relations of Cuba with other powers and
as to places for Naval stations necessary
to the United States" President McKin-
ley said to party of Senators: "Just as
soon as the Cubans are ready to attend to
their own affairs, we must turn their
government over to them"
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1LL-rREArED By MISSIONARIES

In letter to his mother who resides in
Wilmington, George T. Smith, soldier
in the Philippines, condemns the action
of some missionaries in China. He took
part in the battle of Pekin, and says that
one time, after march of eighty miles,
they were looked upon by some women
missionaries, who said they were the
dirtiest crowd they had ever seen. At
another time they were guarding house
where missionaries were stationed, and
these missionaries gave dainties to the
Chinese coolies instead of the American
soldiers. Smith remarks that if ever he
gets home he will knock down the person
who asks him to osubscribe to foreign mis-
sions.
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ADDICKs' COMPANY SUED

The suit of Samuel L. Kent, of Phila-
delphia, against the Bay State Gas Com
pany Of Delaware, went Monday before
Federal Judge Dallas, of Philadelphia,
in the United States Circuit Court at Will
mington. Alexander farrell, of Red Lion
hundred, is the foreman Of the jury
which is to decide whether or not Mr..
Kent is to receive the 81, 5000 which
he claims for alleged violation of con-
tract. Kent is represented by James H.
Hoffecker and Leonard E. Wales, of Will
mington and Silas W. Petit and H. G..
Gill, of Philadelphia, and the Bay State
Gas Company by Herbert H. Ward, of
this city, and John G. johnson, of Phil
adelphia, j.. Edward Addicks, president
of the Bay State Gas Company, and Par
ker G. Chandler, of Boston, who has
been counsel for the company in other IL
tigation, were present.
According to Mr.. Kent he acquired
patent rights of the Electro Gas Company
of West Virginia and the United States
Company of New York,
which gave him control of the acetylene
gas rights of the cities of Boston and
Brookline, Mass, and he entered into an
agreement with the Bay State Gas Com
pany to deliver certain rights for Boston
and Brookline, in return for which he
was to receive $1,5OO,OOO of Bay State
Gas stock and $500, 900 in cash. He
further alleges that neither the money nor
the stock has been delivered. William
H. Miller, secretary and treasurer of the
Bay State Gas Company, was on the
stand all day, and his examination had
mostly to do with proof of the legal ex-
istence of the gas company and some re-
ference to the alleged Kent contract.
Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16
TRUCK FARMING

The following article clipped from the
Baltimore San applies equally as well to
Delaware farmers:
Observing and practical farmers on the
Eastern Shore are considering the adj
visibility of embarking more extensively
into the growing of vegetables and fruits
for home consumption. While, in many
places, the farmers are complaining that
trucking does pay and that the exorbi-
tant railroad charges for transportant eat
largely into their profits on produce,
people in the towns and many of the
farmers themselves are paying high
prices for vegetables which could just as
well be grown here instead of being
brought from distant States to be retailed
at the grocery and general stores.
White potatoes are in steady demand in
all the towns of the shore and the mer-
chants are supplying them from Canada,
New York and elsewhere. Cabbage is
another article that the Eastern Shore is
now dependent upon outside States for.
In Cambridge, Easton, Salisbury and
lesser towns carloads of apples are sold
daily and these come from Virginia and
the north. Few growers in the section
have made an attempt to produce them
for home consumption, although the
profit would be large A Ridgely grower
is readily selling them at 40 to so cents
basket The hay that is grown in the
eastern counties is but very small per-
centage of that used and nearly every
freight train and steamboat that come
into this part Of Maryland brings con-
signments of this staple and necessary
article. Dealers in Caroline county are
buying hay in large quantities from the
west and are selling it as fast as it is re-
ceived at about $18 ton.
The greater part of all these products
could be raised on the Eastern Shore,
where soil, climate and everything need
full for their production is favorable. The
bulk OF the farmers, however, stick to
the old staple of wheat and corn, despite
the fact that the production per acre with
all the labor and fertilizer demanded, is
vastly less than in the great grain areas
OF the west, where all that is needful In
raising wheat is to turn up the soil with
a steam plow, SOW the grain and harvest
it with steam machinery and where corn
is grown almost with corresponding little
expense. Moreover, the grain can be
shipped to the Eastern Seaboard-to Bal
timore, to New York and Philadelphia
as cheaply; it has been said, from the
Dakotas as from the Peninsula to the
same points.
In speaking of this subject once, former
Commissioner of Immigration Littleton
T. Dryden said that from his own county
of Somerset, which possesses some OF the
finest trucking land on the Atlantic Sea-
board, large sums were yearly sent to-
Michigan for apples, potatoes, celery
cabbage, etc., that could just as well
raised at home. If we send money Il
Michigan for furniture, in the manutact
ure of which that State stands so proml
neEtly, we have the furniture in ou
hauses to show for the expenditure. B
when we buy their food for our table
which our own gardens and fields oue
to produce, the money is gone and
have nothing to show for the exper
ture.
Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16
WOMEN OF NO ACCOUNT IN CHINA

When a son is born to a young couple
in China there is great rejoicing IN the
family, writes traveller. Congratulations
are heard on all sides, presents OF cakes
and sweetmeats arrive in shoals, and the
proud father exhibits his new born son to
an admiring crowd of ofrelatives and trends.
He has now male descendant to per-
petuate the family name, to offer incense
at the ancestral shrine, and to be the sup
port and comfort of his declining years.
The advent of daughter is, on the
contrary, looked upon rather as mis-
fortune than blessing. The poor young
mother is considered to have, in meas
ure, disgraced herself, at all events, griey-
ously disappointed her husband and
kinsfolk.
'Tt is only girl" says everybody, and
because it does not happen to be boy,
the little newcomer is not wanted or
welcomed by anyone. She is not consid-
cred worth educating, the possession OF
soul is even denied her, and though she
is taught some domestic duties, and the
art of making her tiny shoes, aud cover
ing them and her bright hued silk or
cotton garments with lovely embroidery,
her mind is left uncultivated. She can
seldom either read or write, her intelli-
gence being nearly as cramped as her
poor little feet, and if, as among the
higher classes, she has no mental labor
with which to occupy her mind, she
spends it chiefly before her mirror, daub-
ing her face with glaring red and white
paint, or dressing her hair in wonderful
fashions and adorning it with artificial
flowers or gold or silver ornaments.
Sometimes she learns to play on kind
of mandolin, but she must suffer much
ennui, and one can hardly be surprised |
if she sometimes seeks to solaee herself |
with the fumes of the opium pipe. She
has no healthy outdoor pursuits as
young lady in China is only allowed to
take an airing in curtained sedan chair
or in covered cart with tiny window
at the side.
When she reaches marriable age, she
is disposed of like a bale of goods.
A professional "go-between" is requisi-
Toned by her parents, and this person
engages to find suitable "parti'' for the
hapless damsel, though sometimes her
parents fix upon her future husband,
when she is quite child, and she does
not (or at all events, is not supposed toy
latch glimpse of him until the we'd
ling day.
Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16
Firemen skate to Fire

Dover firemen went to confagration
on skates Saturday. This was necessita-
ted by the fact that it was sleeting, and a
thick coating of ice covered the sidewalks
and streets, when about II o'clock an
alarm called out the department. The
fire, though very threatening one, in
the heart of the town, was subdued. 1t
originated in frame house occupied by
Enoch David.
Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16
Every Day wiz be Sunday

There are two families in the eastern
part of Sussex county named Day and
Sunday, who are neighbors. Day Is the
father of seven daughters, and Sunday
has an equal number of sons. FIVE of
the Days have married Sundays, another
is engaged, so that it now appears "every
Day will be Sunday bye and bye"
Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16

Exposure to sudden climate change
produces cold in the head and catarrh is
apt to follow. Provided with Ely's Cream
Balm you are armed against Nasal Ca.
tarrh. Price so cents at Druggists, OF
Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New
York, will mail it. The Balm cures with
out pain, does not irritate or cause sneez-
ing. It spreads itself over an irritated
and angry surface, relieving Immediately
the painful inflammation, cleanses and
cures. Cream Balm quickly cures the
cold.
Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16

Towne-Pm surprised at you trying
to borrow dollar from that fellow
Harduppe. You're surely not in such
awful need of money.
Browne-No, but felt sure sEardupT Q
was, and merely anticipated him.
Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16

Mrs Casey treading war news)-Wan
soldier wor morthal wounded, an his
lasht words wor; Gimme whisky
Mrs. Dolan (whose husband is at the
front )-Hivin hip me fatherless childer:
thot wor Pat.
Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16

Jaegles-That young poet has become
fad and gets dollar head from people
to hear him read his poems. That's an
easy way to make money.
Waggles -Easy2 sayl I guess you
never tried to read that fellows poetry.
Middletown transcript., 1901-02-16
Free Prizes For Bright People.
If 800 Cats Can Kill 900 Rats I'm 800
Days, How Many Cats VIII 1t Take
to XIII 100 Rat. In 100 Dayss

Can you solve this pr blem? If so, you Will
win prize DO not send any money with
your answer. b 1t send name and correct ad-
will be sent free. As on Object in giving
away these premiuafs is to atiract attention
to, and increas- the circulation If our D puIar
Magazine, we request you when you receive
your pr ze show ii TO inry fritn.ts as eos
sibie. We want large Isis tf readt RS in every
neighborhoCd, and are going TO offer III nv
handsome prizes to y, cure them. Aiming the
prizes we are offering is 5000 in cash. and
many articles of siverware. tul partlc-
ulars Of the awarding of these pfiz viii be
above problem. Address. with stamp Tor re-
plv,
CHICAGO FOUSEBOLD GUEST.
CHICAGO, ILL.
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Senator Thurston has again stated that
under no circumstances will he allow his
name to be used to break the deadlock in
the Nebraska legislature. He says it is
absolutely necessary for him to resume
his law practice and make some money,
and that he could not be induced to re-
main in tie Senate six years longer.
There is quite a tangle in the House
over the Senate amendments to the Reve-
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-30
WATERVILLE DAILY TALK

Court Welch. F. of A.. will hold their regular Saturday night seciable III, Carter's hall tonight
 A very pretty home wedding oc- cured at the home of Mir and Mrs Ed ward E. Bacon of George street oll Thanksgiving afternoon at 5:30, when their daughter, Miss Eleanor Matiida Bacon. and Arthur C. Northrop, q pop T1lar Waterbury young man, were mar ried by Rev F. D. Buckley. rector of Trinity church. The bride is one of the most popular young ladies in this place Edmund E. Peck was best man, while Miss Irene Bacon was maid of honor. The costumes of the bride and bridesmaid We're marvels of tue dfessmaker's art. The house decora- tions were neat and tasteful. while the wedding gifts were many and most beautiful
 The services in the various churches will take place at the usual hours on Sunday. At St Paul's Episcopal church Rev MT Buck of Northfield will occu- py the pulpit. At the Grace NJ. E. church the following special Thanks giving program. which was postponed from last Sunday, will take place at the end of the lesson at the Sunday
  sponsive reading. Psalm TOT, the Rev l. I. Moffitt and school; reading, ''Th1 Story of Thanksgiving Day." Miss Afelanie Mofi1tt; presidents proclama- tion. Superintendent F.. w. Randall: governors proclamation. Assistant Su- perintendent c. \. Sherman: recita- tfon, Story of the Pilgrims" Edna Van Alstyne; solo. Miss Henrietta Dy- son; reading. Thanksgiving at Pearly Gate Miss Lillian Sears: recitation. Thanksgiving" Miss Amelia French: chorus, Bringing in tie Sheaves.' school; benediction, the Rev J. J. Moi iitt
 MT Fisher sustained injuries more serious than they were first thought when he was knocked down and tram- pied on in a football scrimmage ill front Of the postotfice one night in tie early part of the week. The condition of Mir Fisher is rather critical. His injuries are the more serious owing to his age and feebleness. To-day he was removed to the Waterbury hos pital. One side is said to be paralyZ.d and there is q clot of blood on his brain. Dr Holyrod has been attending him. The question naturally arises. what will be the outcome Of this sad affair if Mir Fishers injuries should prove fatal? Tie young men who are the cause of the injuries have no excuse to offer They had no right to be playing football on the streets. They had been repeatedly warned 10 desist from this practice. which Was distasteful to all respecta- bIe residents Of this village They took no heed of these warnings, but .continued the practice until they knocked down peaceable citizen who was attempting to cross the street and trampled on him with the above re suit. All persons hope. however. that Mfr Fisher. will soon recover from the effects of the unfortunate accident
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-30
A Stroke of Diplomacy *
By JOHN K. LExs

nEy. SEPTINfUS D'OYLEY was K without any special advantages of birth, fortune or intellectual abili- ty; yet discerning person might have predicted with safety that he would rise in the world. He had a good ad- dress, plenty of assurance (decently veiled), and the outward appearance of a gentleman. But, more than this, he was man of resource, as this story will show.
 Very early in his clerical career MT. D'Oyley had recognized the fact that the estimation in which curate Is held largely depends on the fact of his being unmarried. Married curates, he observed, were invariably "huff'd an cuffd an disrespeckit' the most they got newly-created parishes, with a large working-class population. and an endowment of f200 per annum. And independently of this considera- ton, Mir. D'Oyley knew his own value in the marriage market too we'll to dispose of himself in 3 hurry.
 After he had been some years in the diocese of Brampton, Rev. Septimus D'Oyley threw up pleasant and we'll paid curacy in order to obtain a less conspicuous and less lucrative post in the sleepy old town of Market Ded- ham. This looked like a retrograde movement. But Mfr. D'Oyley knew very we'll what he was about. The bishop of Brampton, now quite an old man, was dozing away the last years of his life at Bishops Hilton, only a few miles from Dedham. It could not be long, so argued Mir. D'Oyley. before Bishop Dewlap resigned, or was gath cred to his fathers; and if an ener- getic, middle-aged man came into his room, the clergy at Market Dedham would be we'll within the sphere of his cognizance.
 What the curate had expected actu- ally took place. Dr. Dewlap departed this life; and Rev. Gregory Smiles reigned in his stead. The new bishop of Brampton was married man; and
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-30
0AKYILLE HAPPENINGS.
Electric Light on Pin Shop Road Not
 Very Satisfactory.

Electric Light on Pin Shop Road Not
 Very Satisfactory.
 It would be well for those in author ity to look after the electric light hy the lower pin factory. It has not been lighted for some time. It is very dangerous spot for travellers. being on the edge of the river. There is no fence or any other protection to pre- vent a person who did not know the road. from walking or driving off into the river. A great many people have complained abouI il and think it is more necessary than any other light On the road.
 Mrs Jane Richards and her daughter Pauline have returned from q visit to her son, William Main of Ansonia
 Miss Florence Main returned from a visit to Bristol yesterday.
 Mrs Dews and her daughters, the Misses Hattie and Grace. and son. Frank Dews, spent Thanksgiving day in Bristol
 NIT and Mrs Henry Dews returned from visit to Bristol yesterday.
 Mass will be celebrated in St Mary Nfagdalene church tomorrow at 10:30 am.
 Services In All Saints church. morn ing prayer at 10:30: evening services ats7 Sunday school and Bible class at 12.a- m.
 Services in the Union church at 1O:45 a. m- Junior Christian EndeayOr at I D.