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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

Mics Laura Smith, daughter of
Charles H. Smith of No 5N2 Shsarman
street, distinguished herself az fire
man Tuesday afternoon by extinguish-
ing fire in the house adjoining. An
overheated stove had set on fire the
woody ork in the Kitchen of the house
No. 504 Shsarman street, occupied by q
family named Taliaferro.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

The Delaware Corporation 90. is orguniz.
ing the Lost Gold Mines 90. with capital
stock of S25O,0O0. The incorporators are
j. Nj. Byram and Messrs. Snlly ana Patter
son of Philadelphia, and Mr.. Byram will be
the president of the company. Its holdings
are in Southern Californin and Neyada.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

There is talk around town that the
reorganized Levy Court will make a
reduction ir the tax rate for the tiscal
year beginning July ist from so cents
TO 90 cents, and further that the rate
will be dropped TO 80 cents for the next
year. IL this turns out 10 be true, it
Will be good news 10 the tax pay ers.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

Associated Press Dispatch by Special Wires.
Annapolis, Md, Jan. 10 Both
houses of the General Assembly met
in joint convention at nom today and
formally ratified the election to the
United States Senate of Arthur p.
German, in succession to George L.
Wellington.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

Stationmaster Benjamin of Yorklyn found
n quantity of paper on fire in waste basket,
Tuesday. The flames spread to the desk.
He seized the burning papers and thrust
them into bucket of water, extinguish;dg
the blazing fragments. On examining .ee
envelopes one of them was found to conta II
500 in greenbacks
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

1t IL reported that Philadelphia CAPT
taIists have putc chased 1876 acres of river
front land near Pigeon Point with a
view to erecting thereon a factory for
the manufacture of new explosive.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

Special Correspondence Of Gazette and Journal.
Dover, Jan. 10. The Oregon Placer
Mining Go. of New York. with a CAPT
of incorporation here yesterday. -. -,;.;
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

The directors of the Union National Bank
met and organized by electing Pres.
ton Lea president; John H. Dandy, cashier,
and Harlan g. Scott, secretary, All are re-
elections.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

Cornelius J, Horrigan, superintendent of
the Delaware Granite and Mining Go. has
rented his farm in Mill Greek hundred to
john NJ. Neimah.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

George X. Townsend of the real estate
firm OF George r. Townsend d Co., is seri-
ousiy ill at his residence, 5l2 West Eleventh
street.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16
DNRAD SUCCEEDS KNOWLES
Is Attorney of the New Castle
County Levy Court.
LANDING COMMITTEES NAMED
assignment of Districts to tho
Members.

" Court Puts Itself on Record for
Administration by Decid-
III Not TO Advertise the Location of tho
/ ssessment Lists Hung Up Yesterday.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

Associated Press Disratc by Special Wires.
Chicago ILL.,. Jan. 15.-The death here
yesterday of William Marshall Scribner,
widely known as the author of Penmanship
Copy Books, was announced today.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

Miss Nan Stark of Smyrna, is visiting
relatives In Chester.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16

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Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

ally give better satisfaction. In So
lecting breeding stock get young,
vigorous, healthy birds, bred by re-
sponsible and successful breeder.
If large flock is to be kept, do
not house too many in one place. Do
not make buildings too expensive.
Have them warm, light, weu-venti-
lated, and free from dampness. AL
low about five feet of floor space to
each bird. Have perches low down
and movable, so the droppings can
be removed easily Let perches be
fat, say about three inches broad. In
feeding fowls provide variety, no
matter what you want to produce.
Feed twice a day when fowls have
the range of the farm. Give soft
food of some kind mornings, and
grainevenings. Let soft feed be warm
but not hot nor SLOPPY; feed it in
troughs; scatter grain in litter on
the floor, so fowls will have to work
for it. Some meat and bone should
form part of the ration two or
three times a week Almost any OF
the vegetables used on the farmers
table will be relished by the fowls
and will be found conducive to health
and to the production Of eggs.-L. E
Kerr, in Epitomist.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
FORBIDDEN NEGATIVES.
Some Interesting Particulars Re-
garding the Taking of Pic
lures of Royalty,

The routine of taking royal photo
graphs is something like this; The
photographer, in the first place, must
be a man of established reputation,
and as probably several are writing
at once each gets sitting in turn
The reply makes a regular appoint
ment, say at Marlborough house,
Sandringham or Windsor and on the
day appointed the artist attends with
his apparatus and one or two assist
ants says Parsons Weekly.
After a few minutes wait in an
outer room he is conducted into the
presence of the royal parsonage
whose personal attendants have seen
to it that everything is in readiness
for the taking of the photograph in
the room. Most royal personages,
particularly our king, are experience
ed sitters thanks to- the enormous
number of times they have been pho
tographed and the actual operation
is very quickly over. Next comes the
developing of the negative, the ''re-
touching" and when at last the proof
is ready it is taken to the palace by
the photographer for royal sanction.
You would be amazed if you knew
the number of condemned negatives,
for the slightest suspicion of lack of
dignity or frivolous appearance is
enough to condemn the negative to
the shelves of the studio for ever.
Very rarely, indeed is one of our
royal family photographed smiling
much less laughing though the we'll
known portrait of her late majesty
Queen Victoria, was very conspieu.
GUS exception to this rule. That
however, was snapshot taken by an
amateur. Someyears ago a photo
graph was taken of Princess Maud OF
Wales, who, just as the exposure was
being made, laughed heartily at some
remark her sister had made, and the
resulting picture was instantly con
demned by our present queen.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
HERE AND THERE.
nal.

The recent high price Of eggs
brought poultry breeders to the
quick realization that it pays to pro-
duce winter eggs.
Tomato rot is caused by fungus
growth. Since this fungus develops
best in thu presence of moisture,any-
thing that tends to keep the fruit is a
preventive.
There is a corn famine through
out most of the mountain counties of
Kentucky, and in places the cereal
can not be bought. The price is 81 a
bushel straight.
Though the guinea fowl can not
speak with brogue or rap for as
sistance with a club he has, neverthe-
less, all the qualifications of a police
man for the farmers flock of chick
ems.
When land is pastured and the
weeds are getting start, means
should be taken to keep the weeds in
check by cutting Run the knife
above the grass, and yet low enough
to take the weeds.
Nearly every successful farmer
owes a great deal to the thrifty wife
Whether he or the world gives heI
credit for it or not, it is nevertheless
true. The business young farmer
who is blest in his wife is bound to
succeed.
Some of the farmers of northern
Colorado have inaugurated a very
novel kind of telephone system. 1t il
a barbed wire system, by which mes
sages are transmitted from point K
point over the top wire of the neigh
borhood fences.
1t is no longer question tina
for the great majority of orchard
the best tillage consists of clean cul
tivation until about midsummer, ant
then the sowing of some cover Gro
which will assist in ripening tn
wood in the fall and protect the sol
: during the winter.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Farm Exneriments.

No farmer wants to be uncondition-
ally tied to the principle of never try
ing anything until it. has been proved
an undubitable success, nor, on the
other hand, should he be so bigoted
as never to credit the experience of
others, but regard his own trial as
the only conclusive one. The extent
to which a man may indulge in ex-
detrimental work should be deter
mined by his resources. If his cred
it's each year be only equal to his
debts he may well be conservative in
hazarding his income on uncertain
experiments; but if he be man of
means, the luxury of experimental
work on the farm seems justifable,
for without causing hardship to any
one he may save others less favorably
situated from future failure. But
whoever performs experiments let
him give his neighbors the benefit of
the trial; if success result, it usually
finds it's way to the public eye, but
failure not so often.-Geo. P. Will
Jams, in Epitomist.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
BIG EARS THAT GROW.
AuricuIar APPENDICES, Says science
Are Reliable Indicators of Their
Owners Age.

A most discouraging fact for people
with big ears, or, in fact, for people
with any ears at all, has been discoY-
cred by the systematic examination OF
over 10000 pairs of ears in England
and France. 1t has been discovered
that the ear never stops growing while
its owner is alive. So people with big
ears in youth may expect to have reg
ular "fappers" in old age, and the
dainty miss with the seashell appen-
dages on either side of her head may
expect the ears to which her lovers
now write sonnets to become large
and prominent when she is grand
mother. But she won't care so much
then, which is one consolation; all her
lovers will be dead or married, and
there will be only the children to re-
mark "what big ears granny has got!'
Granny, who used to have the little
pink seashells.
The ear, it has been discovered,
grows even in the later decades of life.
We get old and shriveled up and de-
crease in stature, but the ear still
grows. A woman with small ears at
20 probably win have medium-sized
ears at 40, and large ears at so. Again,
II is stated, as the result of the ex-
animation of the 10000 pairs of ears
that probably no person in the world
has ears perfectly matched. In most
people the two ears differ perceptibly
not only in shape, but in size. Ere
quently they are not placed on the
head at exactly the came angle or al
the same height.
1t is declared by those who have
devoted their time and abilities to the
study of ears that the age of person
can be judged by them with great ac
curacy by an expert. After youth Il
past ten ears assume an increased
form and gives the clew to the age 0.
the owner Of the ears, If one is able t
read the signs correctly, which, for
tunately. few people are. Nordeau
Lomhroso and that crowd lay grea
stress upon the ear as an indication o
character: yet some Of the best mel
we meet have outrageous ears, whil'
almost everybody can recall some bold
bad nan of his Acquaintance who hai
SINAI well formed and well place.
sars.-Louisville couTier-Journal
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
POULTRY ON THE FARM.
BY the Farmer Who Raises
Poultry.

There are three classes of poultry
men; fancy, commercial and farm.
The fancy poultryman is born so. He
is in the business because he likes it.
He follows the bent of his inclina-
tons as to selection, and is original
in his management. He is usually
a success, for if he foots up short in
money receipts he balances the ac-
count with the item of satisfaction,
and runs along in a contented, happy
groove, an object of envy and bene-
factor to his race.
The commercial poultryman is in
the business for the money. He is
usually a specialist; or if he is en-
gagged in anything else it is subordi-
nate to poultry. His location is near
good market, or convenient ship
ping point. He usually has private
customers for his output, and thus
realizes the very highest prices. He
studies breeds and breeding, feeds
and feeding, considering his fowls as
machines which are to work up raw
products into the finished article for
the market. He, too, is generally sue
cessful, for he goes about his bust
ness systematically, accurately count
ing costs and profits. His business
methods are to be commended, and
his example emulated.
The bulk of the poultry output
comes from the farm, where it re-
ceives the least attention and yields
the smallest profit. With cheap land,
and cheap feed and cheap labor, it is
possible to realize the very largest
returns here. There is no stock on
the farm that brings in as large
profits in proportion to the amount
of money invested as poultry, with all
it's mismanagement; and nothing will
respond so literally to good care and
systematic treatment. There should
be some definite aim in view if larger
flocks are kept than are sufficient fol
home demand. If there is a good mar
ket near, work for eggs and fries fol
private customers; if not, raise fowl:
for the winter market. Hens, geese
and turkeys may be grown in large
numbers to good advantage. One va
riety is usually enough on the farm
Study circumstances and surround
ings, then select a suitable breed. !
pure breed always has its distin
gushing points more prominently de
Veloped than any cross, and will usp
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

The farmers wife who wishes to
produce an article of butter that will
sell in competition with the dairy
product must adopt the dairy meth.
DDS and appliances as far as possible
One of these is that cleanliness must
be observed and the milk preserved
from contamination from the time 1t
is taken from the COW until the but
ter is packed and delivered to the
customer. How often in the ordinary
farm dairy have we seen the cows
driven into a filthy, muddy yard, COW
cred with manure, with the udder
and teats probable covered with the
accumulated filth of the day and
MIXED by the hired man without re-
gard to the conditions of his hands.
The strainer is relied upon to remove
the dirt, but there is filth that be-
comes incorporated and dissolved in
the milk which only distillation can
remove. On the farms where model
butter is made, which has a local
reputation and sells at a premium,
the COW is brought from the pasture,
cleaned and brushed, and her uddeT
and teats well washed before she is
taken into a clean shed or stall,where
she is MIXED. The milk is then care
fully handled, kept cool in clear
crooks, or pans, in sanitary surround
ings, churned at the right tempera'
ture, and the product is as good as
the best creamery.-Cor. Drovers
| Journal.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Cnnrtenv Rewarded.

Not many months-ago $1,000 was willed
to a conductor of The Chicago & Alton Rail
way for being attentive and courteous. A
somewhat similar circumstance has reoc-
Cured. Mr. II. j. Titus, steward on one
of the "Alton's" dining-ears, recently had
for guest a gentleman to whom he uncon-
sciousIy gave such polite attention as to at.
tract his patrons notice. Upon arrival of
the train in Chicago, this passenger, who
was a high official Of the Mobile 4 Ohio
The Chicago & Alton Railway, and being
assured of Mr.. Titus's ability, promptly APP
pointed the latter Superintendent Commits
sary of the Mobile & Ohio Railway. Mr..
Titus assumes his new duties August 18th,
with headquarters in Jackson, Tenn. He
will be the youngest railway superintendent
of dining-cars in the United States, his age
being but twenty-four.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
DRIVEN TO DESPERATION.
sea,sick Maiden Gives Up Every
thing, Including Her Love for
Her Lover.

The maiden was suffering with seasick-
ness. In fact, she was, "at the time when
the incidents Of this story open, a verltable
NAL de mermaid. Her lover. whose heart
ached at her most unromantic gaspings over
the rail and her agitated and strenuous
effort to lamp the hole in the bottom OF the
sea, approached her tenderlys relates the
Los Angeles Herald.
at is too bad" he said, idiotically.
Isis it," she asked, satirically, as she
again made Pelee-oid demonstrations.
"Too bad you had to give up" ne ,ccontln-
ued, with the same beautiful intelligence
that characterizes all persons who try to
render first aid to the seasick.
EYES," she said, with exasperated savage
ness, as she wiped the tears from her red
dening lids. Il have given up everything
but my love for you; and now"-she made a
wild reach for the rail once more, and, after
few moments, she completed her sentence
-"there, that's gone, too"
But they made up again when she was
better
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
CONVENIENCE For TRAvE1ERs.
IL La Found in the interchangeable
Mileage Ticket.

The interchangeable mileage ticket is
sued by the New York Central is good over
more than 5000 miles of railway east Of
Buffalo, including the New York Central u
Hudson River and branches; Rome, Water
town 0gdensburg and branches; Carthage
& Adirondack; Mohawk & Malone; st.
Lawrence & Adirondack; New York 4
Putnam; New York & Harlem; Pennsyl-
vania Division of the New York Central;
West Shore Railroad, including its Chenan-
70 and Waikiki Valley branches; and the
Boston & Albany Railroad
Over all of the above roads the tickets are
good in the hands of the bearer for one per
son or dozen, and good until used, there
being no limit to the ticket. They are also
accepted for passage, subject to the local
rules and regulations, on the following lines:
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway
Central Railroad of Pennsylvania; Pitts
burg, Johnstown, EbensbuTg & Eastern
Railroad; Philadelphia & Reading Railway
and Atlantic City Railroad
These tickets are sold at the fiat rate OIL
two cents per mile, and that they are {
great convenience to the public is proven
by the fact that thousands Of them are il
the hands of not only regular travellers, bu
of many families that travel only occasion
ally, as they are always ready. for use an(
enable their holders to travel on all thu
New York Central lines east Of Buffalo a
| two cents per mile without waiting for re
bates or proof of ownership.-From tn
| Albany Argus.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
What the Union Pacific is doing in

What the Union Pacific is doing in en-
Rineerinq improvements is commended to
other companies that operate in parts of
the country where no such difficulties are
encountered as in the West. Straight roads
are economic roads, and they invite traffic.
The wild yanks and alarming rolls to. which
passengers are subject on some of them
cause train sickness, which is form of
sea sickness, and headache, and they cause
a rapid deterioration Of cars and engines.
Those railroads make the best bid for
patronage that promise not merely speed,
but comfort, and steadiness is the more
comfortable, because it indicates security.
We have been eager to extend the mileage
Of this country. Now we might show some
expedition in reducing it by following the
example of the Union Pacific in straighten-
ing needless turns and lowering or raising
needless Enthusiastically Eagle.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
MInat nn GooGO-Never,

When you ask for well known meritor.
lous medicine like Cascarets, see that you
get it, If something else is offered Just as
good" it is done to sneak few cents extra
profit. CASCARETS have a larger sale
than any medicine of the kind in the world.
Over ten million boxes last year. The gen
never sold in bulk or jars. You can buy
them at any drug store at lOc, 25c, and Doc
per box.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Shelter For the HOgs,

Prepare now to build a hog-house
for shelter next winter; no farmer
who raises hogs extensively can af-
ford to be without shelter for his
animals. Prof. w. A. Henry, in Feeds
and Feeding" says that the Kansas
Experiment Station tested the value
of shelter during the winter months,
when the Thermometer ranged from
12 degrees below to degrees above
zero, with the resulttthat the pigs
kept in the barn consumed 2,S7S
pounds of feed and made total gain
of GOA pounds, which means that for
100 pounds of gain 476 pounds of feed
were required. The pigs kept in the
open yard consumed 1854 pounds of
feed and made a total gain of 479
pounds, requiring 503 pounds of feed
for each 100 pounds of gain. 1t will
be seen, therefore, that there is a
considerable difference in favor of
the shelter.-Farmer's Home Jour
| nal
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

'What is the original idea in this novel
of yours" asked the publisher. my hero
and heroine hate each other so heartily"
said the long-hared and wistful-eyed young
author, "that they marry for revenge and
make each other miserable for life."-In-
dianapolis News.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

Mrs. Noozie-What are you going to
name the baby, Mrs. Reeder?
Mrs Reeder-O! found lovely name
for her out of novel was reading
"What is it"
"It's Eyetalian, I think, I'm going to call
her Femme de Chambre Reeder. detroit
Free Press.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
PerrectIy willing.

Jerrold-Going to the shore, ehi
Well, if you see Dolly Litedd there just
say a good word for me, will you?
Harold-Certainly, old chap-I'll act
as your press agentI-Pgck.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
Ladies' Can Wear shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. A certain cure for swollen, sweating,
hot, aching feet. At all Druggists, 25c. 40
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09
True, Too True.

1T was to come on the stage stealthily
and say 'Hist!'" explained the fedgling
actor.
"And-"
"And I said it--and l was" he mourn
fully concluded .-Stray Stories.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

First Fan-That rightfelder is mighty
light on his feet Look how he went into
the air for that fly.
Second Fan-Well, he ought to be. He's
jumped eight contracts so far this season.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

When one reflects how popular modest
men are, it seems strange that cyclists CON
tinue to increase and MULTIPLICATION
ho
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

Paid in Full.-Mendicant- Boss, de
world owes me Twin, and" Grimshaw
-"Well, you're living, aren't ?"-Town
Topics.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

When man has not good reason for
doing thing, he has one good reason for
letting it alone.-Scott
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

Weak faith makes weak men.-Baxen-
dale.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos
Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, n. z,
Feb IL. 1900.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

Stops the Cough
and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo
Quinine Tablets. Price % cents.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

You may think you are good man, but
the point is to get others 70 think So
Atchison Globe.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-09

1t takes money to talk through Panama
hat.-Puck.