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Middletown transcript., 1903-04-18
MARRIAGE OF THE FUTURE

One of the effects of the growing free
dom of women according to Carroll D.
Wright, will be to decrease, temporarily,
the number OF marriages and increase
divorces, but the ultimate result will be
more beautiful ideal of marriage than
the world has ever seen.
"Women of Independent MEANS" said
Mr.. Wright, in a lecture given recently,
"will not sell their freedom and their
souls in return for home and social posi-
tion, In this they are quite right, and l
am able to see no difference between the
woman who sells herself to a man per-
mantly and the one who does it for a
temporary period. When this necessity
is removed marriages will take place only
when companionship in the holiest sense
isint.nded, and the race will be recruited
from the highest rather than from the
lowest orders of society. Many iugubri-
ous predictions have been made regard
ing the disentegration of society that
must result from the increasing freedom
Of women, but believe that with more
power they will act still more wisely.
Their loveliness will be increased, and
their freedom will lead to happier and
purer social conditions. They will exert
an inauene, which We cannot now fully
comprehend. and il this leads to politi-
cal life we must not quarrel with it,"
Mr.. Wright began his lecture with
brief discussion OF the subjection of
women. 'It is difficult" he said, "to
explain how this originated, but it was
confirmed and given new lease of life
by religious superstition. Men found in
some misunderstood texts of Scripture a
warrant for their cowardly position; but
though the defrading doctrine of Paul
cannot be explained away, decline to
believe that any such teaching ever ema-
mated from the devout father or the gen.
lie Nazarene."
Up to the present time, Mr.. Wright |
thinks, the participation of women in in
iustrial life has done nothing but good.
They have improved intellectually; and,
70 far from the moral deterioragation
which was predicted from their ming
ing with men in the affairs of the world,
he morals of working women are on as
Ugh a plane as those Of any other class
t women, if not higher. Even that re-
pect which civilized society has always
ccorded to women, and which it was
cared might suffer under differentcondi-
ions, had been increased, rather than
Unfinished, by independence and proved
apacity.
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GOOD SEED

Too much attention cannot be given to
the purity and quality of seed for spring
sowing. So many of our spring seeds
are put into the ground while it is yet
cold that the wonder is any survive.
Under these unfavorable conditions for
delicate germinative life the vitolity of
the seed, if best crop results are expected,
must be considered, and it is the height
of unwise economy that jeopardizes a
crop by making the small saving in the
price between doubtful seed and the best
seed consideration.
Usually the main cost OF growing the
maximum crop is little more than that of
the minimum, and the profit lies not in
the latter nor the medium, but in the ex-
cess; and no amount of fertility or tiliage
will make the best crop from poor seed.
For instance, in the corn crop the usual
of seed used per acre is one
eighth of bushel, which is enough if
seed and ground be good. There are inn
proved seed corns that on given land will
produce from five to fifty per cent. more
than seed taken here and there at ram
1om. Such seed is entirely guiltless of
my effort ever having been made for its
and would be too expen-
i've to the business farmer as gift in
with selected, improved seed
It several dollars bushel.
The same showing applies to sill our
arm and garden seeds. The improve
nent of the farm seeds should be largely
lone on the farm so the fixation of type
8 made in accordance with local condi.
ions. In garden seeds we can well trust
ur reliable scotsman. Scrub seeds,
Grub stock, scrub farming and scrub far
aers are taxes too heavy for the business
o bear.-Iribtae Farmer.
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HERE'S A PUzzLER

When man and a widow marries and
the man dies, is she the widow of tie
hrst husband or of the second one or
oI Dotnf This was conundrum re-.
Gently before the pension authorities.
Inc widow OF federal soldier was draw.
ing pension as such widow. She mar.
n. r,eo again and the pension stopped
Then the second husband died and the
widow made application for re-instate.
ment as the widow OF the tirst husband
ana the claim was allowed. Conss.
quently under the ruling, the widow can
husband. WV .ei nfss
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LOCALORGANIZATIO
Volunteer Hose Company, meets drst Fri
day night Of each month In Hose House,
THE CHURCHES


Bethesda M. e. Church.-Rev. c. T. WYATT
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath al
1880 q. M, and 7.30 p. m. Sabbath School
every Sabbath at p. m, A. g. Coz, Superin.
tendent. Prayer meeting. Thursday sat 5.SO p
Friday night of each month. Women's Home
Missionary Society. first Thursday night M
each month. Ofieial Board meeting hrst
Friday evening of each month at 7.3O O'Clock.
Sunday morning class, $50, Louis Fennimore,
Wednesday night class, 30. A. g. Cox.
Forest Presbyterian Church.-Rev. r. 81,
Moore, Pastor. Services held every Sabbath
morning at i0.30 O'Clock, and every Sabbath
every Sabbath morning at 9.l5 O'Clock, j.
Fletcher Deakyne, Supt. Prayer meet
Ing every Wednesday evening. Young Peo-
peI's Society Christian EndeavOr meets every
sunday evening at 6.45 O'Clock. Junior So
eiety Christian Endeavor every Friday even-
ing at o'clock.
Services at Armstrong's Chapel the frst
Sabbath of each month AZ p. m.
ST. Anne,s Protestant Episcopal Church.
ION on the first Sunday in the month at IOSc
a. m. TN all other Sundays at 7.3O a. m nj.
vine services every Sunday at 1880 q. M, and
80 p. m. Morning Prayer and Litany every
Ing % Prayer on Wednesdsys At IL 10 D. % M Essn1 sns
0n Friday at $50 p. m. Curing summer
months at 8 80 p. m. On all Holy Days ser.
vice at $50 Q. in., Sunday School at 945 a.
N. Adult Bible Class at 7.45 p. m. on We'd
nesdays. The Guild meets every Thursday at
p. M, the Junior Auxiliary u saturday. a
D. m. and the Wuman's Auxiliary ON tie
second Friday 0t each month at a3O o, m.
The rector conducts service In adessa III the
Sundays or each mouth at four o'clock, and at
IT. Mary's Ghapcl, Townsend. on the second
and fourth Sundays Of the month at half past
three.
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MARIE C0RELLI
Writes for
THE PHILADELPHIA PREssn
Sunday, April 10, On
ssTHE B0nY sNATcurpev

A savage, unbridled attack on those
who have given and propose to give
memorials at The Home Of Shakespeare.
Miss Corelli is nothing if not sensational
when she champions a cause, and in
TINS vigorous appeal" she fays every.
body who hold opinions different from
hers on the subject and attacks generous
Americans, including the late George W.
Childs and Andrew Carnegie.
Read it in next Sundays "Philadel.
phia Press" April 10.
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sesl,sa ia reath

Eleanor Maddox met horrible death
at her home, near Laurel, early Tuesday
morning. TIE servant had prepared
tub of tcaIding water for the days wash
ing. Miss Maddox, who made her debut
in so, iety last Saturday evening, fell into
the vat and was scaldsd SO badly that she
died two hours later.
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SECRET SOCIETIES.

Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr. o. q. A. n,
Meets every Monday night In McWhorter's
Hail at O'Clock.
Union Lodge, No. s, A. r. & A. NJ. Meets
drst Tuesday OF each month in Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. Q, /. y. o. r.
Meets every Thursday night in McWhorter's
Hall at O'Clock.
Damon Lodge, No. IL, z. Of p. Meets every
Wednesday night In McWhorters Hall at
6o'clOck.
Welcome Conciave Heptasophs. Meets
every second and fourth Friday night In K
OF p. Hall.
Union Lodge, No. 6, A. o. U. W., meets every
ID and 4th Tuesday night in McWhorters
Hall.
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cest q coIlina, Mnrdsr Trisl

ssss " soAlAns RuroeF tf1ai
County orders to the amount Of 81, 200
have already been cashed at the bank,
given to witnesses and others in .
Inns murder trial, and the county treas.
urer OF Sussex County, says they have
not all been cashed yet. It is thought
the cost Of the trial will reach s., 900.
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Peoples National Bank.-President, Geo.
W. g. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National BaHk.-President, Joseph
Biggs; Cashier, John 8. Crouch; Teller, r.
Davis. Bank Building on South Broad
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r1iddletOwn Directory.
MUNICIPAL OFFICER
BANKS.

President, William r. Cochran; Secretary,
George 9. Rowe; Charles H. Howell, ]. +.
McWhorter.
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the SANE CUT PRICES which we maue ioui honio "so'
Come and get YOUR choice while you have such
prices higher butfor the time being Will continue
follows: .,o-o ~, 10 -.
up s225O "Atlas" "Cassic," "Nuban" and Jewel oak
Single Heaters No 10 No IT, at 50 80 to 900 90
sOtheo" Ranges Coal Wood No g. S23 5O; NO SaoUo
s'sunshine Range Coal or Wood No $780, No sS2 5o
.Iron King" Cook Coal Wood No $7oo; NO. O. S2loo
No. 9, $3.50. ~ cog a. NJ
Wyoming Dockash Range Coal or Wood No s5 w. No.
g. $780, THERMOMETER Pennsulap ar S'eel oven
Range No g. SIS. So same stove with Reservoir $40 oO
Steel Range "Premier" No. g. WITH HIGH-cLosET AND
RESERVOIR no better made $500 Steel Range Domestc
No g. with Closets Reservoirs at correspondngy low
prices All Cook Stoves and Ranges are OF the very
highest finest grade We have great variety OF otner
Cooks and Ranges coal or wood and coal Heans oooes @
much lower prices.
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THE u. S. SEPARATOR

av be little higher price than some
other Separators, but those who use it lind
after q short tine in use that it is the
CHE CHEAPEST, E BECAUSE IT GETS ALL
THE CREAM, and the longer it is used,
the ps cheaper it will be; for the difference in
the onantitv of cream saved will soon pay
for for the d Separator W-Get U. S; SEP, q ;,
ARATOR and "DAVIS SWING"
CHURN, and you will never regret it.
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seThe price of COAL is down'-not
as low as it should be-but it is down. And
the price Of Stoves advanced ten per cent;
since 1st January, 1913, on COOKS and
LIE ATERS but we will continue selling al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-19
KANSAS news.
A NeOshO County Farmer Has a
Sad Experience.
Places Too Much Trust in an
Erring NeighbOr.
ENDORSES HIS NOTE
Obtained Several Hundred Dol
lars by Confidence Game.
Now the Farmer Will Sell Prop
erty to Pay the Debt.

Parsons. Kas., March ia farmer
named Hornaday. who lives a few miles
northwest of Parsons in Neosho coun-
~, is the victim of over confidence in a
neighbor who has proven to be rather
tricky
Several months ago Hornaday in
dorsed the fellows note for S175 and
thought no more of the matter until
the neighbor appeared with new note
made out for the same amount and
stated that it was the renewal of the
first note. Hornaday indorsed this new
note and supposed the first one had been
destroyed. Instead of being destroyed,
the first note as well as the second and
several others obtained by a repetition
of the trick. were discounted by bank
in Par sons.
The tricky neighbor also came to town
and built house on credit and sold
the property as soon as 1t was finished.
leaving the purchaser to hold the bag
and pay the lumberman who has hen
on the property.
Hornaday came to Parsons Saturday
and while in town learned for the first
time that he was indebted to the bank
by having Endorsed several different
notes for the fellow to the sum of $I30.
The fellow who worked the trick on
Bornaday has left Parsons, though his
family is still in the city. Hornaday
VIII have TO pay the notes. and as he
cannot raise the money otherwise. and
beng az honest man. VIII have to sell
his farm to do So. He viii try and take
legal steps to apprehend the man who
tricked him
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Story of a Patient Life.

Andrew Olson, a Swede who is so
years of age, lost his way last night in
attempting to go to his home in Park
Place. He started south on Fifth street,
which was the right direction, but turn
ed westward on the railroad tracks. IN
stead of continuing south on Fifth
street. He became bewildered on the
White Clay creek railroad bridge near
the gas house, and walked over the
bridge, falling Is feet to the bed of the
creek. He was found an hour after
ward. and taken to the police station.
His wounds. consisting of bruises about
the legs and body, were dressed and he
was able to walk a little this morning.
Olson is a carpet weaver, and he lives
alone In a little house in Spring Gar
den. He has never been married. and
all his brothers and sisters are dead, and
he has no one to take care of him. ''Ay
bein weave, and weave. and weave for
so year now he said to a reporter.
and ay bein glad when ay lay me down
and die. and don't hat to weave an
more. Ay bein here too long, and some
time ay fear the Good Man bein too
busy and forget call for me. Ay wore
out so mana looms in saxty year, a Y say
to my loom what ay got now, 'Plees let
ma wear out before you wear out, be-
cause ay so much more tired as you
are And ay listen. and ma loom say
Work. work. work., and ay wipe ma
eyes for that is what all ma other
looms bein say. Ma loom bein ma only
companion for saxty year, and ay lay
ma head down on her and say would
she say something ay want to hear, but
she bein silent But some day ay will
hear her say rest. rest rest and ay
will bid her good bye" Olson may be
sent TO the poor farm, as, in spite of his
desire to stay at his loom, he is too fee
BILE to take care of himself.-Atchison
Globe.
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GERMANS RAP OUR NAVY.
e" A slouchy, Undrilled Lot" Express
es the Teutonic Idea.

"a slo11chv undrilIed lott" That in
plain English expresses the heart-t 10
heart view which German officer gives
his colleagues of the Wardroom when
he returns from visit to an American
ship For the shadow of a landsman IS
athwart the deck of every German man
of-war The supreme influence IN the
kaiser's navy is that of Won MOltke,
who built up the machine that won the
wars with Austria and France
If the German navy is the most stlf1iy
military, ours is the least so. Ihe
American Seaman's nimbleneSS, his
acuteness and his energy DO not make
up to the Teutons way OF thinking
his deficiency in automatic knocking to-
gether of heels and ramrod statutes,
writes Frederick Palmer the famous
war correspondent, to Golfers Weekly.
Our Jackie looks as if he We're at home
abrOadship in the free sense of the
word The German seaman to the
American eye appears to be a soldler
afHOat under Orders-an unthlnklng unit
moved by mechanical impulse. The
German officer. forever drilling, takes
what he chooses to call our Slouchl-
ness and democratic sWagger as sure
indication of the absence of discipline
So the average German officer still
thinks that the bulk of our men are
renegade foreigners. With this inhar-
monious lot in the forecastle, he OBJ
serves disdainfully that we man a snip
with fewer officers than any other navy
in the world. In other words, we de-
pend more upon the men and upon men
who are not really Americans. Against
the Spaniards this was all very WE'LL
against a real enemy the German thinks
our crews will be panicky.
If the Germans are also proud of their
man behind the gun it is with the
/ qualification that an officer shall be at
his elbow. The man who thinks for
himself is regarded as much out OF
place as q driving wheel or any other
part of a machine with a mind of its
own. Why should he think for him
/ self? Can he think as we'll as the officer
who is trained to do his thinking for
/ him.
even as far as the Rhine. Where tbs
German sees his superiority here IS no
in his school but in the material from
/ which we draw our officers. With u;
/ the eandlestickmaker's as well as tns
! senator's son may one day raise an al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-19
PLAYERS WANTED TOO MUCH.
Consequence Is That sedalia Has
Signed Almost Entirely New Team.

Sedalia Mo- March 19-The manage
ment of the Sedalia ball club in the Mis-
soCri Valley league is having trouble III
signing a majority of the 1902 players
reserved for 1903. Almost without ex-
ception they demand considerably more
money than was paid them last year.
Increases have been granted in every
instance. but still several refuse to sign
contracts. Not to be left. the local
mana cement has signed almost an en-
tirely new team and the contracts of the
following players have been forwarded
to President Shively at Kansas City for
approval:
Charles E. Lantz. ChaDmansvilIe. W.
Va, first base: Arthur Smith, Winfield.
Kas. pitcher: c. E. Jones, McCook.
Neb. pitcher: 2 F. Grant. Ohiowa.
Neb third base; Ray Leech. Oxford.
Neb. fielder: r. NJ. Lawson. South
Bend Ind, pitcher; H. J. Gross, Spring
field. Mo. second base; Frank Burson,
Topeka. Kas.. fielder: Ed Brandon.
Murphysboro, Ill, pitcher; r. Guy Reed.
Humboldt Neb.. catcher: w. H Day.
Joplin, Mo, center fielder; F. L. Miller,
Warrensburg, No, short stop.
Eldred N. Harrison, the new president
of the Sedalia club, is an old-time bail
player, having been successful
pitcher for several years, and is willing
to pay fair salaries, but objects to pay
! ing eXOrbitant ones.
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GOING TO SIBERIA.
An Atchison Klondiker Will Try a
Trip North Again.

AtchisOn, March BED Bowen, Atch-
lson's KlOndiker, expects to go to ST.
IBERIA in June with William n. Arm
strong. who is now at the Byram hotel.
Bowen says he was with Armstrong al
Dawson City nearly three years. and
that Armstrong took care of him when
he was nearly all in. Since leaving
Alaska Armstrong has been in Russia
and Siberia, and will go back to the
latter place during the coming summer
with party of 100 American miners.
Armstrong is largely interested IN the
Northwestern Commercial company, a
Seattle concern which has been consoli-
dated with the Northeastern Siberian
company. Valuable mining concessions
have been secured from Russia 1t may
occur to you that Bowen is going a
much greater distance than before. but
he isn't. You can reach Siberia by trav-
cling 40 miles across the strait from
Nome Armstrong is a hero in the eyes
of Bowen: the greatest traveller he ever
knew. They have slept together in snow
banks. and once walked 80 miles at a
stretch across the frozen country It's
all in knowing how to dress, says Bow
en-, and Armstrong knows"
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miraIs pennant, provided he shows him
self worthy according TO our practices
This is obnoxious to any monarchical
system-a bove all, to the German. Only
a Gentlemans son, to their way of
thinking, has the proper caste to make
4 good superior. The fact that our off,
GERS do not bow from the hip or all cue
the beard the same way is further evil
Gence to the Teutonic mind that they
lack the side" which a national pref
udice may consider as being all neces-
sary to accurate shooting
How can you have system" without
ramrOd salutes2 It is system that tine
Germans pride themselves upon. Sys-
TEN made the foremost army of Europe;
mistress of the sea. The expenditure
of appropriations for the kaiser's navy
has been entirely IN the hands Of eX-
perts. Ours have been subject to con-
gressional revision. We are continually
changing our programme, says the Ger
man. we go in for submarines one year
and for battleships the next. The build
erS take their time to construct OlIt
Dartment are the Bosses of the sifua~
ton. We have neither enough officers
nor men to keep our ships in commits
sion In case OF war we should have
to put ships to sea with unframed
creWs-an unframed crew being quite
as had as none at all in German esti-
nation And here is claimed the great
est advantage for the system. The
Germe ms whipped the French, as al
the world knows. because they prepared
for q war with France in as business
like . way as st. Louis is now orepar-
| ing to hold an exposition With the ex-
ample oe great standing army before
them, they have made a navy which IS
equally ready. they say. They point not
/ only to the British navy. where this
weakness is certainly more apparent.
/ but also to ours. as wasting men and
money on ships that would be of small
service for actual conflict. Our success
ia 1898 they count for little because
Spain is regarded as a negligible guam
tity. They forget, however, that in 1887
they thought that Spain had a chance
of winning
Such, on the whole. is the opinion Of
German officers and Germans generally
The answers to their objections are too
palpable to be reiterated to an American
reader The German who has the high
est opinion of our navy is no doubt the
clever emperor himself Tt was the
works Of an American naval officer.
Captain Mahan, which he ordered for
the library Of every one of his men-of-
war. In a conspicuous place aboard his
yacht, the Hohenzollern. is q picture OF
Admiral Farra2ut dashed to the rigging
Of the Hartford at Mobile.
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SPORTING NEWS.
Young COrbett Has a Middle
weight in Camp.
MOxey Kane Will Box With
Champion Sparingly.
ALL HARD AT WORK.
McGOyern Says He VIII Be Sat
isfied With Draw.
Still Insists He Will Fight in
Careful Manner.
ALL HARD AT WORK.

San Francisco, March 19-Young Cor
bett has picked out a big one to box
with. Moxey Kane, who defeated all
middle weights at Manila, and who
came back from the islands recently,
has joined the champions training
corps and viii box with him whenever
his services are desired. An aspiring
champion by the name of Young Sheri-
dan dropped in to knock Corbett's block
off today. In less than round Sheri-
dan was satisfied. 1t was not even a
mild warm-up for Corbett. who then
called on Billy Otis to work with him.
These two have some red hot rallies,
and it is worth going a long way to see
them slug.
McGovern's condition. as shown In his
bouts with Eddie Cain, Joe Angel and
others who have crossed the bay to
Crolls, has impressed a great many
good judges of form. Billy DeCourcey,
who had arranged match with Abe
Attel has seen him work since he came
here, and he told the writer he was sur
prised a Terry's quick shifts, lightning
delivery and fine guards.
When he hits hard he is a hard man
to beat, I tell YOU; and I don't know
whether to pick him for a winner or
stick to Corbett," said Bill.
Both men have fine points. Each is
a hard hitter and a decisive punisher.
AlcGoVern is more impulsive, while Cor
bett has the cooler head.
The battle is the most difficult one
in which to pick d winner that I have
ever considered. If it comes to a rush
in which science is thrown to the winds
the victor viii turn up in the man who
makes the first hard punch; but if the
contest settles down to a scientific ex-
change L will let somebody name the
winner"
No names have been suggested for
reference but it would not be surpris-
ing if Ed lie Graney officiated
Terry McGOvern is snugly quartered
at Crolrs Garden, Oakland, where he
is fast getting into shape.
Terry says he scales 129 pounds and
viii have no trouble in getting down to
127 pounds al o'clock on the day Of
the battle. i can do 1922 Terry fur
Their said, and am willing to make a
match at that weight"
Yes. and we VIII bet $4,000 on the
side that he can get to the figure, -
broke in Humphreys.
Humphreys was asked if Terry would
fight Johnny Britt in the event of his
beating "Corbett-'
He will ignore all challenges until
+ the contest with COrbett is over. After
f that be will be ready to talk Of the
/ fight to others. Terry is satisfied to
/ fight Corbett to a draw if he can do ne
better, for he appreciates that he viii
be gaining great laurels if he makes a
stand-off with the champion. He will
not be in too great a hurry to force the
battle. but viii fight in a style that is
best becoming the game at hand. "